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Men and Women 
 OF America If 
 
 A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARIES 
 
 L. R. HAMERSLY & COMPANY 
 
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 1910 
 
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PREFACE 
 
 When, two years ago, the publishers of this present volume brought out " Men 
 of America " as a one-volume biographical dictionary of American contempora- 
 ries, it was in contemplation to issue a companion volume under the title of 
 " Women of America," and some considerable work of a tentative character was 
 done along that line. It soon developed, however, that the outlook for the 
 success of such a volume was at least quite doubtful. Some had found fault 
 with " Men of America " because it excluded women ; still more expressed dis- 
 approval of the idea of putting the Women of America off in a biographical 
 reservation by themselves. 
 
 As a result " Men and Women of America " has been made. It is a diction- 
 ary dealing with the life histories of the men and women who in many and 
 divers avenues of activity and usefulness have attained prominence or leader- 
 ship, and are representative of the progress and development of the age. It 
 is not claimed that all who deserve to be included in such a volume are among 
 those whose sketches are contained in this one. There are many who would 
 have been included if data for a proper sketch could have been obtained in 
 time, and there are probably some few sketches included which might better 
 have been left out. Errors of judgment, where the selection involves thou- 
 sands of names, are inevitable. 
 
 It is believed, however, that taken as a whole, " Men and Women of Amer- 
 ica " may claim with confidence to be the best one-volume biographical diction- 
 ary of living Americans. It is, in effect, a second edition of " Men of Amer- 
 ica," although about half of the biographies in the present volume are entirely 
 new, and as to the other half there has been such revision and recasting as 
 make them practically original sketches. The biographies of women, included 
 in the present publication, add a feature of great interest to the book. 
 
 Another feature which enhances the value of the book is the inclusion of 
 full-page portraits to accompany some of the most interesting biographical 
 sketches. Nothing can surpass a portrait in the amount of interest which it, 
 as a human document, inspires, and it is believed that those included in this 
 volume will be appreciated by its readers. 
 
 A large proportion of those whose sketches are included in " Men and Women 
 of America " are people about whom it would be difficult to find satisfactory 
 notice elsewhere, and even of those who are included in other publications it 
 may be confidently claimed that the data have been brought up to date, and 
 that the sketches are later and fuller than those of any other biographical 
 dictionary of living Americans covering the National field. It is a reference 
 book full of interesting and valuable personal data about eminent American 
 
PREFACE 
 
 men niid woinoii wlinsc careers ai'O of interest as illustrating and explaining the 
 r('inar]<al)le national clevelojnnent of our coiinli'v along every line of material 
 and intellectual endeavor. 
 
 'J'liis is a book of the living, except in the case of a few individuals who have 
 died while the book was l)eing printed. Rut the publishers, believing that a 
 book, along similar lines but dealing wholly with the illustrious dead, would 
 meet with approval, have begun the preparation of such a volume. It will in- 
 clude biographical sketches of those not now living, who by their lives have, 
 from. .the founding of the Nation to the present er^, contributed to its progress 
 and welfare. 
 
 Doubtless many of those who own or use the present volume have some re- 
 lationship or connection with deceased persons whose biographies should be 
 included in this projected volume. Suggestions of names and data for that 
 purpose will be gladly welcomed. 
 
MEN AND WOMEN OF AMERICA 
 
 ABBATT, William: 
 
 Editor and publisher ; born in New 
 York City, Nov. 16, 1851; son of Williapi 
 D. and Agnes Alice (Dean) Abbatt. He 
 was educated in the Harrington Academy 
 at West Chester, N. Y. Mr. Abbatt was 
 formerly editor of the Inter-State, New 
 York City, and assistant editor of the 
 New York News Letter, and is now editor 
 of the Magazine of History, with Notes 
 and Queries. He is author of The Crisis 
 of the Revolution and of The Battle of 
 Pell's Point; and is editor of: Memoirs of 
 General William Heath; Sargent's Life of 
 Major Andre; Codman's Arnold's Expedi- 
 tion to Quebec; Winfield's Blockhouse by 
 Bull's Ferry, and Johnson's Traditions of 
 the Revolution. Residence: West Chester. 
 N. Y. Office: 141 East 25th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 ABBE. Cleveland: 
 
 Meteorologist ; born in New York City, 
 Dec. 3, 1838 ; son of George Waldo and 
 Charlotte (Colgate) Abbe. He was grad- 
 uated from the College of the City of New 
 York, A.B., 1857, and A.M., 1860, studied 
 in the University of Michigan, 1858-1859, 
 and Harvard University, 1860-1864, receiv- 
 ing from the latter the degree of B.S. " as 
 of 1864." He also received the degree of 
 LL.D. from the University of Michigan. 
 1886, and from the University of Glasgow 
 on the occasion of the Kelvin Jubilee, 1896. 
 He was assistant to Dr. B. A. Gould, of 
 the U. S. Coast Survey, 1860-64, engaged 
 in the computation of longitudes, star cata- 
 logues, etc.; was assistant at the Imperial 
 Central Astronomical Observatory at Poul, 
 
 kova, near St. Petersburg, Russia, 1864- 
 1866, assistant at the U. S. Naval Observa- 
 tory 1867-1868. and director of the Cin- 
 cinnati Observatory, 1868-1873. There he 
 inaugurated a system of daily weather 
 maps of the United States, with a forecast 
 of the weather for Cincinnati. This was 
 soon followed by the establishment of daily 
 weather service by the Government, and 
 since 1871 he has been professor of meteor- 
 ology, first in the U. S. Signal Service, and 
 since 1891 in the Weather Bureau of the 
 U. S. Department of Agriculture. In 1875 
 he inaugurated the system of Standard 
 Time Meridians, subsequently perfected by 
 W. F. Allen for the use of American rail 
 roads and the general public. He has 
 served as representative of the U. S. 
 Weather Bureau in various national and 
 international conferences and on astro- 
 nomical expeditions ; is a member of the 
 National Academy of Science, a fellow of 
 the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science and of other scien- 
 tific societies in the United States, and is 
 also a member of the meteorological so- 
 cieties of London, Paris, Berlin, and 
 Vienna, of the Astronomical Societies of 
 England and Germany, tlie Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society and the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. 
 He has made many contributions to the 
 literature of technical meteorology. Dr. 
 Abbe married in Cincinnati, INIay 10. 1870, 
 Frances Martha Neal, who died July 24, 
 1908; and has three children. Address: U. 
 S. Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C. 
 
 ABBEY, Edwin Austin: 
 
 Artist; born in Philadelphia, April 1, 
 1852. He was educated at the Academy of 
 Fine Arts of Philadelphia, is an honorary 
 I 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 -M.A. of Vale and LL.n. of the University 
 of Pennsylvania, honorary associate of the 
 Royal Society of British Architects and 
 fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of 
 London. In 1871 he was engaged by 
 Harper Brothers, and in 1878 went for 
 them to England, where he now resides. 
 He soon made au international reputation 
 as an illustrator of Shakespeare and the 
 ohl comedies, to be followed by equally 
 international fame as an artist. His first 
 picture. A May-Day Morning, was exhib- 
 ited at the Royal Academj' in 1890, and 
 many other notable pictures have followed 
 and have given Mr. Abbey a distinguished 
 place among the chief artists of Britain 
 and America. In 1901 he painted the offi- 
 cial picture of the Coronation Scene. In 
 1895 he painted the frieze, The Quest of 
 the Holy Grail, for the Boston Public 
 Library ; painted, in 1906, a reredos for the 
 American Church of the Holy Trinity, in 
 Paris, and in 1907 he painted eight paint- 
 ings for the dome of the Pennsylvania 
 Capitol at Harrisburgh. Mr. Abbey is a 
 Royal Academician of England, a National 
 Academician of the National Academy of 
 Design, New York, member of the Royal Ba- 
 varian Academy, American Water Color 
 Society. Society of Mural Painters of New 
 York, associate of the Royal Water Colour 
 Society. London. Socifite des Beaux Arts, 
 Paris, chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur 
 of France, president of the Bath and West 
 of England Society of Artists, honorary 
 member of the Madrid Society of Artists, 
 and corresponding member of the Insti- 
 lut de I'rance. He has, since its forma- 
 tion, been presideift of the Artists' Cricket 
 Club of London, and he is a member of 
 the leading chibs of London and New York. 
 Mr. .\libey married, in 1890, Mary Gertrude 
 Mead, of New York. Addresses: Morgan 
 ifall, Fairford. Gloucestershire, England, 
 and Chelsea Lodge, Tite Street, London, S. 
 W.. Englaii.l. 
 
 ABBOT. Charles Greeley: 
 
 Director of tiie Sniilhsonian Astrophysi- 
 cal Observatory since March 1, 1907; born 
 iit Wilton. Hi"lM)orn County. N. IL, May 
 
 31. 1872; .son of Harris Abbot and Caro- 
 line (Greeley) Abbot. He was prepared 
 at Wilton High School and Phillips Acad- 
 emy, Andover, Mass., and was graduated 
 from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
 nology as B.S. in 1894 and M.S. in 189.5. 
 Immediately following his graduation he 
 became an assistant in the Smithsonian 
 Astrophysical Obesrvatory until 1896, then 
 was an aid, acting in charge, until 1906; 
 acting director in 1906. and in 1907 until 
 his promotion to director. Mr. Abbot is a 
 fellow of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, of the American 
 Astronomical and Astrophysical Society, 
 and of the Washington Philosophical So- 
 ciety, is especially distinguished for re- 
 searches on the infra-red solar spectrum, 
 the sensitive galvanometer, and osmotic 
 pressure, and is a writer of numerous pa- 
 pers on solar physics. Address: 36 Q 
 Street, Washington, D. C. 
 
 ABBOT, Edwin Hale: 
 
 La^\n,'er and railway official; born in 
 Beverly, Mass., Jan. 26, 1834. son of 
 Joseph Hale and Frances Ellingwood 
 (Larcom) Abbot. He was graduated from 
 Harvard in 1855 and from Harvard Law 
 School in 1862, and afterward practised 
 law in Boston and also for some years had 
 an office in Milwaukee. Wis. Mr. Abbot 
 has been actively identified with corpora- 
 tion matters, especially with affairs relat- 
 ing to the finances of railroads. He was 
 trustee of the Wisconsin Central Railroad 
 and is especially knowTi as the author of 
 the Wisconsin Central plan of 1879, of cor- 
 porate organization, by which the control 
 of the corporation was vested in the bond- 
 holders through the reservation to them of 
 the voting power on the stock. This was 
 the first and original scheme out of which 
 various forms of trust administration for 
 the benefit of the holders of securities were 
 evolved. Mr. Abbot has been a frequent 
 contributor to law journals. He married 
 Martha T. Abbot, of Portland. Me., Sept. 
 19, 188.6. Residence: 1 Follen Street, Cam- 
 bridge, :Mass. Office: 14 Beacon Street, 
 Boston. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ABBOT. Henry Larcom: 
 
 Retired engineer officer. U. S. Army; , 
 born in Beverly, Mass., Aug. 13. 1831; 
 son of Joseph Hale and Frances Ellingwood 
 
 (Lareoni) Abbot: was educated at the 
 Boston Latin School and graduated from i 
 West Point in 1854, subsequently receiving ' 
 the degree of LL.D. from Harvard. Pro- 
 fessor of hydraulic engineering. Oeorge | 
 \N'ashington University, Faculty of Gradu- 
 ate Studies, since May, 1905. He served 
 in the Corps of Engineers of the United 
 States in all grades to colonel, inclusive, 
 retiring in 1895. and was promoted to the 
 rank of brigadier-general U. S. A., retired, 
 April 23. 1904. He rendered distinguished 
 service in the Civil War as colonel of the 
 1st Connecticut Artillery from Jan., 1863, 
 and commanded the Siege Artillery Bri- 
 gade, serving the siege train of both 
 armies under General Grant until the end 
 of the War, and accompanying General 
 Terry as his chief of artillery at the tak- 
 ing of Fort Fisher. He received five reg- 
 ular and two volunteer brevets for gallant 
 services, including brevet brigadier-general 
 U. S. A. and major-general U. S. V. Gen- 
 eral Abbot designed the system of sub- 
 marine defenses and vigorously advocated 
 that of the mortar batteries now adopted 
 by the United States, and has been a mem- 
 ber of the board of judges on military 
 exhibits at several expositions. He was 
 president of the board of consulting en- 
 gineers of the ship canal projected from 
 Pittsburgh to Lake Erie in 1896. and was 
 also a member of the technical committee 
 and consulting engineer of the New Pan- 
 ama Canal Company from 1897 to 1904, 
 and of the board of consulting engineers 
 to plan the American Panama Canal. He 
 is a member of the National Academy of 
 Sciences, of the American Philosophical 
 Society and of other scientific societies, of 
 the ]Military Order of the Loyal Legion and 
 of the Society of Cincinnati in the State of 
 Connecticut ( representing Nathan Hale ) . 
 General Abbot has written many Avorks on 
 military and civil engineering, including 
 articles for encyclopsedias and magazine 
 articles. He married in Cambridge. Mass., 
 
 April 2, 1856, Mary Susan Everett, and 
 
 they have had four children. Address: 23 
 Berkeley Street, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 ABBOTT. Alexander Graver: 
 
 Physician and hygienist; born in Balti- 
 more, Md., Feb. 26, 1860; son of Alexander 
 and Elizabeth (Beatty) Abbott. He was 
 educated in the Baltimore City College and 
 in the Medical Department of the Univer- 
 sity of ]\Iaryland. where he received his 
 medical degree in 1884, after which he 
 pursued post-graduate studies in Johns 
 Ho])kins University and in the Universities 
 of ]\Iunich and Berlin. He engaged in 
 medical practice in Philadelphia and has 
 attained much prominence as a hygienist, 
 now being chief of the Bureau of Health 
 and president of the Board of Health of 
 Philadelphia, and also professor of hygiene 
 and director of the Laboratory of Hygiene 
 in University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Abbott 
 is author of two text-books : The Prin- 
 ciples of Bacteriology and The Hygiene of 
 Transmissible Diseases, both of high au- 
 thority in the profession, and is a member 
 of the most important medical and several 
 scientific societies. He married Aug. 30, 
 1892. Georgina Pieton Osier, daughter of 
 Hon. Justice Osier, of the Court of Ap- 
 peals of Ontario. Address: 4229 Balti- 
 more Ave.. Philadelphia. 
 
 ABBOTT, Augustus L.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Weymouth, ilass.. Aug. 
 6, 1858; son of Rev. L.A. Abbott, D.D. and 
 Mary A. (Preston) Abbott. He was edu- 
 cated in Brown Univer?>ity, from which he 
 was graduated as A.B. in 1880. and re- 
 ceived the degree of A.M. in 1883. He was 
 instructor in mathematics at Shurtleff Col- 
 lege. Upper Alton, 111.. 1881-1884, mean- 
 while studying law, and he was admitted 
 to the Missouri bar in 1884, and was grad- 
 uated from the Law Department of Wash- 
 ington University as LL.B. in 1885. He 
 has been engaged in the practice of law in 
 St. Louis since 1884. and since 1902 has 
 been senior member of the law firm of 
 Abbott, Edwards & Wilson. Mr. Abbott is 
 a member of the American Bar Association, 
 and of the Missouri and St. Louis Bar As- 
 sociations. He married at Alton. 111., in 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1887, Annette Blair, and tlioy have tliree 
 cliiltlivn. Rosidcnci' : r)44fl ]\Iapli' Avenue. 
 Ollife: OOO-ili:. TiMic-; I'.uildiiii;. St. Louis. 
 
 ABBOTT, Charles Conrad: 
 
 AulliDi-. naturalist and arclueolofiist. 
 writer of hooks on familiar animal life; 
 born in Trenton. N. .].. June 4. 184:i; son 
 of Tiniotliy and Susan (Conrad i Abbott. 
 He was <iiaduated with the degree of ^I.D. 
 from the Iniversity of Pennsylvania in 
 ISO."), anil made a large a rchiieo logical col- 
 lection which is now in the Peabody 
 Museum at Cambridge. Mass.. and later 
 one of the Delaware Valley exclusively, now 
 at Princeton University. He was assistant 
 in the Peabody ]klnseuni from 1876 to 1889. 
 and from 188!) to 1904 was professor of 
 American prehistoric archseology in the 
 University of Pennsylvania. Besides nu- 
 merous books relating to nature. Dr. Ab- 
 bott has written several novels and three 
 exhaustive treatises on the archfeology of 
 the Valley of the Delaware, the last, 
 Archa^ologia Nova Ca^.sarea, in three num- 
 bers. 1907, 1908 and 1909, summing up the 
 various objections that have been raised 
 to his view of the one-time existence of 
 man in that valley when glacial conditions 
 prevailed. He married at Princeton, N. J.. 
 Feb. 13. 1S()7. Julia Boggs Olden, and has 
 three children. Address: " Three Beeches." 
 Trenton. X. J. 
 
 ABBOTT, Edville Gerhardt: 
 
 Pliysician. l)orn in Hancock, Maine. Nov. 
 6, 1871: son of Alonzo and ^Maria B. 
 (Mercer) Abbott. He was graduated from 
 Bowdoin College with the degrees of A.B. 
 and A.M. pro merito. and from the Elaine 
 Medical School as M.D., 1898. He served 
 one year as house physician at the Maine 
 General Hospital, studied six months in 
 Boston hosjjitals and six months in New 
 York hospitals, then went to Europe for a 
 year, attending the Friedrich Wilhelm 
 Universitiit at Berlin, 1900-1901. and de- 
 voting the entire year to the study of or- 
 thopedic surgeiy under the most eminent 
 men in this specialty. Since then he has 
 given his entire attention to the practice of 
 orthopedic surgery, at Portland, Maine, and 
 
 lie has contributed frequently to the lead- 
 ing medical journals on subjects connected 
 with his s])ecialty. He is surgeon-in-chief 
 to the Children's Hospital, orthojjedic sur- 
 geon to the Maine General Hospital, visit- 
 ing surgeon to St. Barnabas Hospital, con- 
 sulting surgeon to the Sisters' Hospital, 
 consulting surgeon to the Webber Hospital, 
 consultant to the ]Maine State Sanitoiiniu 
 and surgeon to the ^laLiie Central Rail- 
 road; and lie is instructor in orthopedic 
 surgery in Bowdoin ^Medical College. He 
 is a member of the American Medical Asso- 
 ciation, Maine Medical Association, Cum- 
 berland County Medical Society, Patholog- 
 ical Club, the Maine Natural History 
 Society, and the Psi Upsilon and Phi Clii 
 fraternities. Dr. Abbott is a director in the 
 Fidelity Trust Co.. is a member of the Port- 
 land Board of Trade and of the Cumber- 
 land, Country, Fraternity and Athletit 
 Clubs of Portland ; "and he is chairman of 
 the Republican City Committee. He mar- 
 ried in Bucksport, Maine, in ^larch. 1892. 
 Sara Sargent, of Prospect Harbor. j\Iaine. 
 Residence: 14 Dearing Street. Office: Y. 
 M. C. A. Building. Portland. Elaine. 
 
 ABBOTT, Howard Strickland: 
 
 Lawyer: horn, in Farmington. Minn.. 
 Sept. 1.'). 1864; son of Abiel Howard 
 and Mary Ellen (Strickland) Abbott. He 
 was graduated from the University of Min- 
 nesota. B.L.. 1885, and was admitted to 
 the bar upon oral examination by the Su- 
 preme Court of Minnesota in 1887. He 
 was assistant general counsel of the Min- 
 neapolis and St. Louis Railway and " Soo " 
 Railway. 1887-1889; attorney for the Atchi- 
 son. Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, 
 1889-1897: s])eeial master in chancery in 
 the L'nion Pacific Railroad receivership, 
 1897-1901; ma.ster in chancery of the 
 United States Circuit Court for the District 
 of Alinnesota since 1897. IMr. Abbott has 
 been lecturer on public and private corpora- 
 tions since 1898. and is also lecturer on 
 civil law and mortgages in the Law College 
 of the University of Minnesota. He wa-s 
 secretary of the Wisconsin. Minnesota and 
 Pacific Railway Company, 1887-1889, and 
 since 1904 has been a director of the Min- 
 
-MEN 01' AMI' RICA. 
 
 ii('M|Milis Tnisl ('()ni|);iiiv. lie is aiitlior of: 
 Alilintl oil Muiiicip;il Cnrponit inns ( :! vol- 
 umes). T.IOT ; Abbott on Public Corpora- 
 tious, 1!)()S; also ( asc books on both 
 I'rivato ami Public Corporations, and Ab- 
 bott's Notes. Authorities and Deductions 
 on Coiporatioiis. 1!M)1. :\Ir. Abbott is a 
 ineiubcr of tile Auieriran liar Association, 
 the State Bar Association of Minnesota. 
 Delta Kapi)a Epsilon fraternity, and hon- 
 orary niondx'r of the Phi Delta Phi (law) j 
 fraternity. He is a vestryman of St. 
 INlark's E])iscopal Church, JMinneapolis, and 
 since l!)0o has been a trustee of the Dio- 
 cese of ^Minnesota. He married in Racine, 
 Wis., -Tune 29, 1898, Mary Louise Johnson, 
 and they have two children. Residenc?: 
 9t)0 Sixth Street, S. K. Otiice: 402 Fed- 
 eral Buihlim^. ^[iiuiea])olis. Minn. 
 
 ABBOTT. Jo: 
 
 Lawyer; born nc ir Decatur. Ala.. .Ian. 
 lo, 1840. son of \\illiam and Mary Abbott. 
 He served in tlie Army of the Confederate 
 States during tlie entire Civil War. becom- 
 ing a iirst lieutenant in the Pith Texas 
 Cavalry Hcginient, and after the war was 
 admitted to the bar and entered upon suc- 
 cessful law practice. He was a member of 
 the Legislature of Texas, 1860-1871, judge 
 of the 28th Judicial District of Texas, 1879- 
 1884, and in 1880 was elected as a Demo- 
 crat to tlie Fiftieth Congress, and was four 
 times reelected, his service expiring in 1897. 
 Address: Hillslxno. Texas. 
 
 ABBOTT, Lyman: 
 
 Clcrgynian. author, editor of The Out- 
 look: born in Roxbury, Mass.. D?c. 18, 
 18:1."); son of Jacob and Harriet (Vaughan) 
 Abbott. Ho was grnduitt'd from New 
 York University in IS.'i:!. ard in after years 
 received from that university the degree? 
 of D.D. and LL.D., D.D. from Harvard, 
 and LL.D. from Western Reserve Univer- 
 sity. He was ordained to the Congrega- 
 tional ministry v\ 18(ii). was past(n- at 
 Terre Haute, Ind.. from ISOO to ISU.j, of 
 the New England (lunch in New York 
 ( 'ity from ISO.) to 1809. ami succeeded 
 Henry Ward l^eecher as ])astor of Ply- 
 mouth Church, Brooklyn, from INIay, 1888, 
 
 until lie ri'sign:d in November. ISilS. He 
 was secretary of the Amciican I nion Com- 
 mission (Freedman's) from 180') to 1808. 
 He edited (lie " Literary Record" of Harp- 
 er's Magazine, was associate editor of the 
 Christian I'nion, with Henry Ward Beecher. 
 He is a meml)er of the New York Bar 
 Association, tlie New York State Historical 
 Association. Indian Rights Association, 
 Amercian Forestry Association, Rainabai 
 Association, New York Association for the 
 Blind, Association for Hiiproving the Con- 
 dition of the Poor, National Conference of 
 Charities and Correction, Aldine Associa- 
 tion, New York University Alumni, Amer- 
 ican Peace Society, ?ilaiiie Society, The 
 Religious Education Association, The 
 Armstrong Association, New York Child 
 Labor Committee, National Child Labor 
 Committee, the American Board of Com- 
 missioners for Foreign IMissions. American 
 Institute of Sacred Literature, New Y^ork 
 State Conference of Religion, L^niversal 
 Peace L^nion, and The National Civil Serv- 
 ice Reform League. Dr. Abbott believes 
 the ])robIem of political economy is to seek 
 a more equitable distribution of wealth 
 rather than to promote a larger accumula- 
 tion of wealth ; and that social reform calls 
 for a recognition of partnership relations 
 between labor and capital and the exten- 
 sion of the industrial function of govern- 
 ment; and holds that the principles and the 
 spirit of .Tesus Christ applied to social 
 problems would furnish their solution. Dr. 
 Abbott is author of Jesus of Nazareth ; 
 Old Testament Shadows of New Testament 
 Truth; A Layman's Story; How to Study 
 the Bible; Illustrated Commentary on the 
 New Testament, 187.5; Dictionary of Reli- 
 gious Knowledge (with late T. ,.T. Conant), 
 1876; A Studv in Human Nature, 188.=); 
 In Aid of Faith, 1891; Life of Christ, 
 1894; Evolution of Christianity, 1890; 
 The Theology of an Evolutionist, 1897; 
 Christianity and Social Prftblems, 1807; 
 Life and Letters of Paul, 1898; The Life 
 that Really Is. 1899; Problems of Life. 
 1900; Life and Literature of the Ancient 
 Hebrews. 1900; The Rights of Man. 1901; 
 Henry \Yard Beecher, 1903; The Other 
 Rooni, 1904; The Christian Ministry, 1905; 
 
6 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Till' CJreat Companion. lOOo; Personality 
 of God, 1005; Jndustriiil Problems, 1905; 
 Christ's Secret of Happiness, 1907; Im- 
 pressions of a Careless Traveller, 1907 ; The 
 Ilonic Guilder. 190S. as well as articles in 
 The Outlook and ullirr niagazines which 
 cover many subjects, nlijiious, theological, 
 social and historical. He married in Bos- 
 ton. October 14, ]8r>7, Abby F. Hamlin, 
 dauirhter of Hannibal Hamlin (vice-presi- 
 dent of the United States from 1801 to 
 1805). and they have five children. Ad- 
 dress: The Outldok, 287 Fourth Avenue. 
 New York ('i1>. 
 
 ABBOTT, Nathan: 
 
 Professor of law; born in Norridgewoek, 
 Ale., July 11, 1854; son of Abiel and Sarah 
 S. Abbott. He was educated in Phillips 
 Andover Academy, Yale College, A.B., 1877, 
 and I'oston University Law School, LL.B., 
 1892. .Mr. Abbott was Tappan professor of 
 law in the University of Alichigan, 1891- 
 1S!)2: professor of law in Northwestern 
 University, 1892-1895; in Leland Stanford 
 I'niversity, 1895-1907, and since 1907 pro- 
 fessor of law in Columbia University. He 
 married in 1884, Frances Field. Address: 
 Cohnubia College Law School, New Y'ork 
 City. 
 
 ABERCROMBIE, John William: 
 
 President of the L'niversity of Alabama 
 since 1902; born at Kelly's Creek, Ala.-, Aluy 
 17, 1800; son of Henry M. and Sarah A. 
 (Kendrick) Abcn roniliie. He was gradu- 
 ated from Oxford Collegv, Ala.. ISSO. and 
 has received degrees of LL.D. from the 
 University of Alabama and tiic South Caro 
 lina College. Since 1880 he lias ii: cii en 
 gaged in educational work, having bein 
 jjresident of Ashland College, Ala., |iri:i- 
 cii)al of Cleburne Institute, Ala., presi- 
 dent l?owdon College, Ga.. suiieiintendent 
 of city schools of Anniston, .\la.. president 
 of Southern Female Seminary ( n<iw Annis- 
 ton College for Young Ladies), nnd for 
 four years State suiterintendiiit ol cilu 
 catn)n of Alabama, before he bccanie pres- 
 ident of the University of Ahil)ini. From 
 1890 to 1899 he was a mciiilMi- of tlie 
 Alabama State Senate and lia> been a 
 
 leadei- in promoting the educational legisla- 
 tion of the State. ?le is a member of the 
 National JMlucational Association and a 
 prominent mendier of the Knights of Pyth- 
 ias. I'or several years he has been chair- 
 man of till' committee on legislation of the 
 Alabama Ivlueat ional Association, and was 
 formerly president of the Southern Edu- 
 cational .\ssociat ion. Dr. Abercrombie is 
 the autiioi- of seNcral |)amphlets on educa- 
 tional subjects. lie mariied at Edwards- 
 ville. Ala.,' Jan. 8. 1S91, Rose Merrill. Ad- 
 dress: University, Ala. 
 
 ABERCROMBIE-MILLER, Frederick Au- 
 
 gustiii: : 
 
 Commander, Ihiited States Navy,' retired; 
 born at Elkton, Cecil County, Maryland, 
 June 12, 1842; son of Frederick Augustus 
 Aluhlenberg and Alartha Mason (Al)ercrom- 
 bie) Miller. He was educated in the Epis- 
 copal -Ae.ulemy in Philadelphia, Thompson's 
 Military Academy and Trinity College. 
 Hartford. Conn. He entered the Navy as a 
 volunteer in 1801, declining an appointment 
 to the U. S. Naval Academy, and was trans- 
 ferred to the Regular Navy, at the close of 
 the Civil Wai', having been rt'connnended 
 for promotion three times by F. A. Parker, 
 executive of the \Vashinglon Xa\ y 'Sard, 
 1. A. M. Craven, eonnnanding the Tns- 
 eiirora, and M. P>. WOolsrs'. commanding 
 the Princess Uoyal. lU' served on Aarie;! 
 duties and stations, as a Naval ollieer u|) 
 to and including the rank of lic'itcnint- 
 comuiamler. with which rank he ictireil. 
 Nov. 'AO, 1SS5. for ineapicity requiting from 
 incidents of >,('r\ice. On ■h{\y 22. l'.HI5. :i 
 !i:i(l f;ill caused paralysis, and the cDiuidcte 
 withdiawai fi'om all work, and .lunc 29, 
 lllOli, he was advanced in rank to (om- 
 II amier. Conunander Miller has been twice 
 I :;roniid the world, cruising for twenty odd 
 I yeais. and traveled in luirope. lie was a 
 j director of the American Security and Trust 
 I Company. Washington, I). ('.. and of the 
 ! Sanitary Housing Company of Washington 
 until his recent resignation because of 
 I physical disability. Connnandcr .Miller was 
 I also until nciiitiy treasurer of St. .lohn's 
 i Hospital, president of the Children's Aid 
 1 Association, and vice president of the 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Emergency Hospital. He is a member of 
 tlio Military Order of the Loyal Legion of 
 the United States, tiie Society of American 
 Wars, the Cosmos, JMetropolitan and Chevy 
 Chase Clubs of Washington, and the Corin- 
 thian Yaclit Club of Philadelphia. He mar- 
 ried in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 18, 1882, Alice 
 Tovvnsend, and they have three children. 
 Address : 2201 Massachusetts Avenue, 
 Washington. D. C. 
 
 ACHESON, Edward Goodrich: 
 
 Inventor, manufacturer; born at Wash- 
 ington. Pennsylvania, March 9, 185G; son 
 of William Acheson and Sarah D. (Ruple) 
 Acheson. He was educated in the public 
 schools, and for one year attended the 
 Bellefonte Academy, Pennsylvania, and he 
 received the degree of Sc.D. from the Uni- 
 versity of Pittsburgh in February, 1909, 
 He was assistant to Thomas A. Edison, from 
 ISSO to 1883, and he is the inventor of car- 
 borundum, Egyptinized elay, Acheson graph- 
 ite, siloxicon and deflocculated graphite. 
 He is president of the International Ache- 
 son Graphite Company and of the Acheson 
 Company; director of The Acheson Oildag 
 Company, and the Carborundum Company. 
 He is a fellow of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science and member 
 of the American Institute of Electrical En- 
 gineers, the Franklin Institute of Philadel- 
 phia, the Soeietj^ of Arts of London, Eng- 
 hind. and president of the American Electro- 
 Chemical Society. Mr. Acheson married in 
 Brooklyn, X. Y., Margaret Maher, and they 
 have five boys and four girls. Residence: 
 Grafilla, Lundy's Lane, Niagara Falls, On- 
 tario. Business address: Niagara Falls, 
 N. Y. 
 
 ACHESON, Ernest Francis: 
 
 Congressman and editor; born in Wash- 
 ington, Pa., Sept. 19, 1885; son of Alexan- 
 der Wilson and Jane (Wishart) Acheson. 
 He was graduated from Washington and 
 Jefferson College, as A.B. in 1875, and was 
 admitted to the bar of Pennsylvania in 1877. 
 In 1879 he became editor of the Observer, 
 of Washington, Pa., Avith which he has ever 
 since been connected. iNIr. Acheson has al- 
 
 ways been an active Republican, and was 
 for ten years a member of the State Repub- 
 lican Committee of Pennsylvania. Ho was 
 a delegate to the National Republican Con- 
 vention at Chicago in 1884 and at St. 
 Louis in lS!J(j. He was elected to the Fifty- 
 fourth Congr(;ss in 1894, and was six times 
 reelected, serving until March ',i, 1909. He 
 was elected president of the Pennsylvania 
 Editorial Association in January, 1893, and 
 recording secretary of the National Edi- 
 torial Association in June, 1893. Mr. Ache- 
 son is author of : The Congressional Party 
 in Hawaii, 1907. He married at Washing- 
 ton, Pa., Nov. 22, 1882, Janine B. Stewart. 
 Address: ^^'ashington, Pa. 
 
 ACKER. Charles Ernest: 
 
 Manufacturer and inventor; burn at Bour- 
 bon, Ind., March 19, 1868; son of William 
 James Acker, a manufacturer. Mr. Acker 
 was educated at 'Wabash College and Cornell 
 University, from which he was graduated 
 as Ph.B." in 1888. He developed the first 
 electrolytic process for the manufacture of 
 caustic soda by electrolysis of molti-n salt, 
 known as the Acker process; and the Elliott- 
 Cresson gold medal of the Franklin Insti- 
 tute of Philadelphia and several other med- 
 als were conferred upon him for his inven 
 tion. He built the works of the Acker 
 Process Company at Niagara Falls, which 
 utilizes 4.000 electrical horse-power; origi- 
 nated proc'sscs for tetrachloride of tin, 
 carbon tetrachloride, etc., which are also in 
 use at Niagara Falls, and was the first to 
 manufacture carbon tetrachloride in Amer- 
 ica. My. Acker is a director of the Niagara 
 Falls Trust Company and The Tin Products 
 Company of New York. He is a director of 
 the American Electrochemical Society; a 
 member of the Society of Arts (London), 
 the Faradny Society (London), the Society 
 of Chemical Industry (London), the Ameri- 
 can Electrocliemical Society, the American 
 Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the 
 AmericMi Chemical Society. :Mr. Acker 
 married, in 1892, Alice Reynolds, daughter 
 of ^^■illiam U. Beal, of New York, and they 
 have four ciiildren. Address: Niagara 
 Falls, N. V. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ADAIR. John A. M.; 
 
 C'onjjrcssniaii. l)aiikiM-; Imrn nii a farm in 
 .lay County, Indiana, Doc. 2J. IHd.'J; son of 
 .Fanie.s Ci. ami Sarah (Hudson) Adair, and 
 since 1880 he has been a resident of Port- 
 land, Ind., county seat of his native county, 
 in the hijrh scliool of which city he received 
 his education. He was elected city clerk of 
 Portland, clerk of Jay County in 1890, and 
 while in tliat otliee studied law. He was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 18!)5 and practised law 
 until he was elected president of tlie First 
 Xuti«)nal Bank of Portland, since which time 
 he has devoted his attention to the banking 
 business. In 1002 he was elected to the 
 (Jeneral Assembly of Indiana, and was made 
 chairman of the Democratic Caucus in the 
 session of 1903. In 1906 he was elected to 
 the Sixtieth Congress, and in 1908 he was 
 reelected to the Sixty-first Congress from 
 tlie Eighth Indiana District. :\Ir. Adair 
 married, in 1890, Cirace R. Johnson, and has 
 one son. Address: Portland. Ind. 
 
 ADAM, James Noble: 
 
 .M.iynr nf J^.ull'alo, X. Y. : born in l\'el)les, 
 Scotland, Marcli 1, 1842; son of Rev. 
 Thomas and Isabella (Borthwick) Adam. 
 He was educated in the Edinburgh parochial 
 schools until 1854, when he was apprenticed 
 to tile dry goods business with Thomas 
 Cooper and Company, of Edinburgh, and in 
 that employ he rose from bundle-boy to 
 clerk, remaining with that house ten years. 
 He was then in business for himself in Edin- 
 burgh for seven years. In 1872, upon the 
 advice of iiis brother, tlie late Robert Borth- 
 wick Adam, wlio had already established 
 liimself in the dry goods business in Buffalo, 
 lie came to the United States and started a 
 store in New Haven, Conn., l)ut in ISSl he 
 <dose<l out his business there and founded at 
 Buffalo the linn of J. N. Adam and Com- 
 pany, which in a few years became tlie lead- 
 ing (le|)artment store of that city, and which 
 he conducted with gn-at success until 1906. 
 when he retired from business. Mr. Adam 
 is a Demoeral, and in 1895 he wa-> eltcted 
 to till- City Council of UuM'alo. In 1905 he 
 was elected mayor of Buffalo for a four- 
 ve.-ir term. He reformed the police depart- 
 
 ment and put all <it tlie departments on a 
 business basis, lie is a member of the 
 Fine Arts Academy, the JUilValo Historical 
 Society, the Chamber of Commerce and the 
 Buffalo and Saturn Clubs, and is also a 
 member of the Advisory Board of the Chil- 
 dren's Hospital. ^Ir. Adam married, in 
 Edinburgh. Scotland, in 1872, ^Margaret L. 
 Patersoii (now deceased). Address: 60 
 Oakland Plaee. r.iiiralo, N. Y. 
 
 ADAMS, Alva: 
 
 Merchant and ex-governor of Colorado; 
 born in Iowa County, Wis., May 14, 1850; 
 son of a Kentuckian, who was a farmer. 
 He attended the. common country schools; 
 W'ent to Colorado in 1871 and first engaged 
 in hauling ties, but from that developed into 
 a successful merchant, tirst at Colorado 
 .Springs, and afterward at Pueblo. He was 
 a member of the first State Legislature of 
 Colorado in 1876. was elected governor of 
 Colorado as a Democrat in 1886 and 1896, 
 serving two two-year terms; was again the 
 Democratic candidate for governor in 1904 
 and was declared elected and inaugurated 
 three months later; but, though elected by 
 over ten thousand majority, he was ousted 
 by a hostile Legislature, and the lieutenant- 
 governor became governor. He has been 
 president of the Pueblo Savings Bank since 
 1891. Address: Pueblo, Colo. 
 
 ADAMS. Arthur Lincoln: 
 
 Consulting hydraulic engineer; born near 
 Greensburg. Ind., Sejit. 15, 1864; son of Ja- 
 cob Clendemie and Nancy (Hamilton) Ad- 
 ams. He was graduated from Kansas State 
 University, B.S., 1886, with membership 
 in the Sigma Xi honor society. From 1886 
 to 1890 he was engaged on railroad con- 
 struction in Xebra.ska,, Oregon and ^Vashing- 
 ton. and from 1890 to 1896 in the design 
 and con.struction of various water works 
 for municipalities, irrigation and other hy- 
 draulic projects in the Western States; since 
 189(i he has been iiraclising as a consulting 
 hydraulic engineer, as chief engineer of largi' 
 undertakings and nuiniciiial water-supplies, 
 and as manager of water works ])roperties 
 in the Western States. Mr. Adams is a 
 
MEN OF AMF.RTCA. 
 
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 iiicitilicr ami diicctor of (he Aiuciic in Soci- 
 dy of Civil Eiifiineers ; iuoiiiIkt of the 
 {''iniiklin Institulo of I'liihulclpliia. Tech 
 iiolofjficiU Society of lln- I'acitic Coast, Amer- 
 ican Academy of Political and Social Science' 
 and the National (}poji;rai)liic Society, lie 
 is a trustee of the First Presbyterian Cluucli 
 and of the Yonnji; Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion of Oakland. California ; ])resident of 
 the San Francisco Association of Members 
 of the American Society of Civil Knj<inpers. 
 In 18!>7 he was awarded the Tliomas Fitch 
 Rowland prize of tlie American Society of 
 Civil Engineers. He is author of numerous 
 professional papers and discussions con- 
 tributed to the Transactions of that society, 
 and to the technical press.. He married at 
 Topeka, Kan., Dec. li), 18S!), :\Iary Young 
 Geninell. and they have four children. Res- 
 idence: D'yi) Oakland Avenue. Ollic: 1014 
 Broadway. Oakland, Calif. 
 
 ADAMS, Brooks: 
 
 Lawyer and author ; born in Quincy. 
 Mass., June 24, 1848; son of the late CharL-s 
 Francis Adams. He was educated in va- 
 rious schools in this country and abioad and 
 was graduated from Harvard College in 
 1870. He was secretary to his father when 
 the latter was one of the arbitrators of the 
 Alabama claims at Geneva, and took a ])er- 
 sonal part in other historic events. He was 
 admitted to the bar and practised law until 
 1881, when he retired, giving his time to 
 travel and study for several years, but later 
 resuming practice. He is author of: The 
 Emancipation of Mas.sachusetts ; The Law of 
 Civilization and Decay; America's Economic 
 Supremacy; The New Empire; Centraliza- 
 tion and the Law. He married, in 1880, 
 Evelyn, daughter of Rear Admiral C. H. 
 Davis, U. S. N. Residence: Quincy, Mass. 
 Oflice: 84 State Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 ADAMS, Charles Francis: 
 
 Historical writer and publicist ; born in 
 Boston' Mass., May 27, 1835; son of Charles 
 Francis Adams, diplomat. He was gradu- 
 ated from Harvard as A.B. in 1856, was 
 admitted to the bar in 1858; served in the 
 Union Army through Civil War from first 
 lieutenant to lieutenant-colonel of Massa- 
 chusetts Cavalrv and was brevetted briga- 
 
 dier-general, lie was appointed a member 
 of the Board of Itailway Commissioners of 
 .Massaclinsctts in ISOO, and declined reap- 
 poinliiicnl in 1S7(). lucanie president of the 
 I'nidii Pacilic Railway in 1SS4 ami resigned, 
 ISi)0. He served as ])resident of the Massa- 
 chusetts Historical Society in 1895. Mr. 
 Adams is author of: Chapters on Erie and 
 Other Essays; Railroads, their Origin and 
 Problems; Notes on Railway Accidents; 
 Massachusetts, Its Historians and Its His- 
 tory; Three Episodes of Massachu.setts His- 
 tory; Life of Charles Francis Adams; 
 Richard Harry Dana, a Biography; Lee at 
 Apjiomattox, and Other Papers; Three Phi 
 Beta Kappa Addresses; Lee's Centennial, 
 1007. Mr. Adams received from Harvard 
 the <legree of LL.D. in 1805. He married. 
 Nov. 8, IStJo, Mary Ogden. Address: 23 
 Court Street. Boston. 
 
 ADAMS, Charles Josiah: 
 
 Clergyman, autlior; born at New Lisbon, 
 Ohio, Oct. 31, 1850; son of Rev. Josiah and 
 Sarah A. (Ford) Adams. He was gradu- 
 ated from [Mount Union College, Alliance. 
 Ohio as A.B. in 1871; studied at Yale 
 in 1873, and Boston University, in 1874. 
 He was ordained priest in the Episcopal 
 Church in 1875, was canon of St. John's 
 Cathedral.. Denver, Colo., 1882 to 1885; 
 dean of Wichita, Kansas, 1885 to 1888; 
 rector of St. Luke's Church, Chicago, 1888 
 to 1891; rector of the Church of the Holy 
 Spirit, Rondout-on-Hudson, N. ¥., 1891 to 
 180G. and since May 1, 1896, he has been 
 rector of St. Luke's Church, Rossville, 
 Staten Island, N. Y. He received the de- 
 gree of D.D. from :\Iount Union College. 
 Mr. Adams was the organizer and is the 
 manager and lecturer for the Church Think- 
 ing Bureau and The Bureau of Biophilism. 
 or Animal Psychology-. He is author of: 
 Where is My Dog? or, Is Man alone Im- 
 mortal?; The [Matterhorn Head and Otlier 
 Poems; How Baldy Won the County Seat, 
 etc. He Avas formerly chaplain of the New- 
 York Press Club. Dr. Adams married, 
 March 22. 1876, Jennie E. HoUoway, and 
 has a son. Residence: Rossville, Staten 
 Island, N. Y. Address: 29 Lafayette Place, 
 New Y'ork (it v. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ADAMS, Cyrus Hall: 
 
 IJetired merchant; born at Kerr's Creek. 
 Rockbridge County. Va., Feb. 21, 1849; son 
 of Hugh and Amanda (^IcCormick) Adams. 
 His motlier was a daughter of Robert Mc- 
 Cormick of Virginia. The family having 
 removed to Cliicago. young Adams reciivrd 
 his education in the public school.s of that 
 city and at the old University of Chica'jo. 
 He entered the employ of Cyrus H. AlcCor- 
 mick & Co.. grain merchants. 1807; became 
 partner. 1871. in the reorganized firm of Mc- 
 Cormick. Adams & Co.. and in 1883 became 
 head of the firm of Cyrus H. Adams & Co.. 
 which ])Osition he held until 1889, when he 
 retired on account of ill health. During the 
 period from 1871 to 1889 he w-as a member 
 of the Arbitration Committee, a member of 
 the Appeals Committee and a director of the 
 Chicago Board of Trade. He was also a 
 director of the National Bank of America. 
 Among the positions of trust he has held 
 are those of trustee of the INIcCormick Theo- 
 logical Seminary, member of the Board of 
 Governors of the Presbyterian Hospital, 
 and governing member of the Art Insti- 
 tute of Chicago ; member of Union League, 
 Onwentsia, and Saddle and Cycle Clubs of 
 Chicago. Mr. Adams is an Independent 
 Democrat in politics and a member of the 
 Presbyterian Church. He marrifd in Chi- 
 cago, Sept. 2C, 1878, Emma J., daughter of 
 Lyman Blair, and has one soii, Cyrus H. 
 Adams, Jr. Address: loo Rush Street, Chi- 
 cago, 111. 
 
 ADAMS, Edward Dean: 
 
 Baidcer: born in Boston. April 9. 1840; 
 .son of Adoniram Judson and Harriet Lin- 
 coln (Norton) Adams. He was educated 
 in Norwich University, Northfield, Vt., re- 
 ceiving from it the degree of B.S. in 1864, 
 and later those of M.S., LL.D. and M.A. 
 He was a bookkeeper, 1866 to 1870, and 
 from 1870 to 1878 a member of tlie banking 
 firm of Richardson, Hill & Co., of Boston; 
 was of the banking firm of Winslow, Lanier 
 & Co. from 1878 to 1893, and since then has 
 been the American representative of the 
 Deutsche Bank of Berlin. Mr. Adams has 
 been actively connected with the oiganiza- 
 tion and reorganization of railway and in- 
 
 dustrial corpoiations. and is president and 
 director of the I'ullock Electric and ]\Ian- 
 ufacturing Co. and of the Cataract Con- 
 struction Co.. is a director and chairman 
 of tiu' executive committee of the Em- 
 pire Engineering Corporation; director and 
 member of the executive committee of the 
 Cataract Power and Conduit Co.. of Buf- 
 falo, Niagara Development Co., Niagara 
 Junction Railway Co. and Niagara Falls 
 Power Co.; director of the Allis-Chal- 
 mers Co.. Allis-Chalmers-BuUock. Limited, 
 of ^lontreal, American Cotton Oil Co., East 
 Jersey Water ( o. ( president ) , Guatemala 
 Railway Co. of New Jersey, General Se- 
 curity Co.. Tonawanda Cataract Power Co.; 
 president of the llumson (N. J.) Im- 
 provement Company (water company). 
 Mr. Adams is chairman of the medal com- 
 mittee of the American Numismatic So- 
 ciety, trustee of the American Scenic and 
 Historic Preservation Society, vice-president 
 of the Germanistic Society of Ameiica. 
 trustee and chairman of the fin:iuee com- 
 mittee of the ^Metropolitan iluseum of 
 Art; trustee of Norwich University. Mili- 
 tary College of Vermont; trustee and vice- 
 president of the School of Musical Art of 
 New York City, life member of the Ameri- 
 can Geographical Society, fellow of the 
 American Society of Civil Engineers, fellow 
 in perpetuity of the National Academy of 
 Design and member of many scientific, ar- 
 tistic and ])atriotic societies, national and 
 local, of the Oesterreichische Gesellseliaft 
 fvir Medaillenkunst, the Societe des Ami de 
 la Medialle Francaise, and of many leading 
 clubs in New York City and elsewhere. He 
 is vestryman and treasurer of St. George's 
 Episcopal Church of Rumson Hills, N. J., 
 and a member of St. Thomas' Episcopal 
 Church of New York. Mr. Adams married 
 in 1872, Frances Amelia Gutterson. and they 
 have one daugliter. Residence: 445 Madison 
 Avenue. Address: 71 Broadway, New York 
 City. 
 
 ADAMS, Edward LeGrand: 
 
 Consul-general; liorn at Clarence, Erie 
 County, N. Y., Jan. 3. 1851; son of Benja- 
 min T. and Janet (Gibson) Adams. He was 
 educated at the Clarence Academy, the State 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Normal Scliool at Brotkpoit, N. V. and the 
 University of llochestcr. lie eiio;agecl in 
 newspaper work on the editorial slatV of the 
 Rochester Denioerat and Clironiele for seven 
 years, and was an oil ])rothu;;'r at Bradford, 
 Pa., 1880-188.3; and was editor of tlic El- 
 niira Daily Advertiser, 1883-1898. Mr. Ad- 
 ams was an assistant in the literary bureau 
 at the National Republican headquarters at 
 New York in I lie campaigns of 18!)t) and 
 1900. He lias lilled various important of- 
 ficial positions, having been dei)uty collector 
 of United States Internal Revenue for the 
 28th New York District from 1890 to 1894, 
 and a member of the New York State Tax 
 Commission from 189.5 to 1898. In June. 
 1902, he was appointed secretary of the 
 American Legation and consul-general at 
 Stockholm. Sweden, was charge d'aflfaires 
 for four months in 1902-190.3, and is now 
 consul-general of the United States at Stock- 
 holm. ]\lr. Adams married at Elmira, in 
 1879, Kate L. Atwater, daughter of Dwight 
 Atwater. Address: American Consulate- 
 fleneral, Stockholm. Sweden. 
 
 ADAMS, Elmer Bragg: 
 
 United States circuit judge; born at Pom- 
 fret, Vermont, Oct. 27, 1842; son of .Tarvis 
 Adams and Eunice (Mitchell) Adams. He 
 was graduated from Y^ale College as B.A. 
 in 1865. and soon after went to Georgia as 
 the representative of the American Union 
 Commission, and there inaugurated at At- 
 lanta and Milledgeville a system of free 
 schools for white children. He returned to 
 Vermont in 1866, began the study of law, 
 and afterwards attended Harvard Law 
 School and in 1868 he was admitted to the 
 Vermont Bar. He removed to St. Louis, 
 Mo., in the same year and established in 
 general law practice until elected judge of 
 the State circuit court for a term of six 
 years. At the end of his term in 1885 
 he declined reelection and resinned prac- 
 tice in which he continued until appointed 
 by President Cleveland in 1895 United 
 States district judge for the Eastern Dis- 
 trict of jNIissouri in which otfice he served 
 until May, 1905, when lie was nominated 
 by President Roosevelt and confirmed br 
 tiie Senate as United States Circuit Judge 
 
 for the lOiglitii .lnclici:il Circuit. .Judge 
 Adams has had liic dcgii I' LL.D. con- 
 ferred upon iiiin iiy liic I iiiversity of 
 i\Iissouri and liy \\ asliinglon University, 
 St. Louis, lie is a iiiemiier of the Sons of 
 the Revolution ami of tiie New England 
 Society of St. Louis. Residence: 25 West- 
 moreland Phic'. St. l.oiiis. Official ad- 
 dress: Cuslom House liiiiMing, St. Louis. 
 Mo. 
 
 ADAMS, George Bethiine: 
 
 Judge of tile U. S. District Court; born 
 in Philadel])liia. .\pril :!. 1S45: son of An- 
 drew \V. and -Mary A. .\(lanis. He was 
 educated in pulilic and jirivate schools in 
 Philadelphia. He served in the Civil War 
 from May to August. 1861, and again dur- 
 ing Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania in 1863. 
 and in the Quartermaster's Department of 
 the Regular Army. 1864-1871. He was ad- 
 mitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1878; 
 removed to New York City in 1883. and 
 practised law, cliielly in admiralty cases, 
 until he \\as apiiointed by President jNIc- 
 Kinley to be district judge for the Southern 
 District of New York, in August, 1901. He 
 was reappointed by President Roosevelt and 
 contirmed in December. 1901, and since then 
 has continued in that office. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Association of the Bar of the 
 City of New York, and of the Union League 
 and Ardsley Clubs. He married, July 12. 
 1904, Helen J. Balfour. Address; 27 West 
 Street. New "^'ork City. 
 
 ADAMS, George Everett: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Keene. N. IL, June, 
 1840, son of P>enjamin Franklin and Louise 
 (Ruth) Adams. He removed with his fam- 
 ily to Chicago in 1853, was prepared for 
 college at Phillii)s Exeter Academy, and was 
 graduated from Harvard University. B.A. 
 hi 1860, and LL.B. in 1865. Returning to 
 Chicago, he was admitted to the bar and 
 began" to practise his profession, in which 
 he still continues. Mr. Adams is a Republi- 
 can in politics and as such was elected to 
 the Illinois State Senate in 1880. continuing 
 from 1881 until 1883 when he resigned to 
 take the seat in Congress to wliich he had 
 been elected. Here lie served four terms, 
 
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 MEN OK AMERICA. 
 
 bi'iii<» iiu'IiiIkt of tlie Fuity-ciifhtli, Forty- 
 ninth, Fifliitli ;ui(l rifty-lirst Congresses. 
 He was formerly one of the overseers of 
 Harvard College, is a trustee of the New- 
 berry Library ami of the Field Columbian 
 Museum and u member of the Chicago, 
 Union League, I'niversity, Onwentsia and 
 Harvard Clubs. .Mr. Adams married in 
 Chicago, in 1871, Adele Foster, and they 
 have two daughters. IJesidenee: 530 Bidden 
 Avenue. Address: (ill The Temple, Chi- 
 cago, HI. 
 
 ADAMS. Henry: 
 
 Author; born in Boston, ]Mass., Feb. Ki, 
 1838; son of Charles Francis Adams, the 
 diplomat. He was giaduated from Harvard, 
 1858, and was ])rivate secretary to his 
 father while the later was American minis- 
 ter to Ix)ndon, 18G1-18U8. At the exjjiration 
 of his father's service at the Court qf St. 
 James, ^Ir. Adams became assistant profes- 
 sor of history at Harvard University, serv- 
 ing from 1870 to 1877 in that position. 
 During si.x years of this period he was edi- 
 tor of the North American Review. Mr. 
 Adams' chief fame rests upon his History 
 of the United States in nine volumes, but he 
 is also author of a large number of histori- 
 cal essays; Essays on Anglo-Saxon Law, 
 and his compilation of Documents Relating 
 to New Kngland Federalism is a standard 
 on that topic. He has also wiitten several 
 volumes of biography and is among the 
 leaders in American lii'^tnrical researcli and 
 writing. Address: Kid:! 11 Street. \\:i-li 
 inglon. I). C. 
 
 ADAMS, Henry Carter: 
 
 Political economist, statistician and cilu- 
 cator; l>orn at Da\'enport. Iowa, 1S51; son 
 of Kpliiaim and Klizabetli S, A. (Douglass) 
 Adams. He was educated at Di'umark 
 (Iowa) Academy aii<l Iowa ('(dlege, from 
 whicli he was graduated as A. IS. in 1874. 
 He afterwards tftok post-graduate work at 
 Johns Hopkins Uni\eisity, from which he 
 received the degree of IMi.D. in 1878. after 
 v\hieli lie continued his -ijiccial studies in 
 Heidell)erg. I'erlin ami Paris. Iowa Collegi' 
 co!iferred u|ii)ii liiin the degree of LL.D. in 
 1808, and the 1 iiixcrsily of Wisconsin con- 
 
 ferred the same in 1003. He was a lecturer 
 on economic subjects at Cornell University, 
 the Johns Ho|)kins University and the Uni- 
 versity of ^liehigan iKmi 1880 to 1887, and 
 since 1887 has tilled his })resent cliair as 
 profes.sor of j>olitieal eCDnomy and finance 
 in the University of Michigan. Dr. Ad- 
 ams was statistician of the Interstate Com- 
 merce Commission from 1887 to lOOG, and 
 is now exjx'rt in charge of statistics and ac- 
 counts, in the employ of the commission and 
 engaged in formulating a system of stamlard 
 accounts for railways of the I'nited Stales. 
 He was director of the Division of Transpor- 
 tation for the Eleventh Census. Since 1006 
 he has worked out a uniform system of rail- 
 way accounting for the railways of the 
 United States, as also for the express com- 
 jjanies, electric railways, and sleeping-car 
 com])anies for j)ronuilgation by the Inter- 
 state Commerce Commission. He has writ- 
 ten extensively upon his special suhjects, 
 and is author of: Outline of Lectures on Po- 
 litical Kconomy. 1881 (second edition. 
 1880) ; The State in Relation to Industrial 
 Action, 1887: Taxation in the United States 
 from 1787 to IS 10, 1884; Public Debts, 
 1887: The Science of Finance (both books 
 translated into Japanese), 1888; Statistics 
 of Railways from 1888 to 1906; Economics 
 and Juris|)ru(U'nce, 1807; Conunercial Valu- 
 ation of Railways (whicli appcari'd as Bul- 
 letin 21 of the Census in 1004), and lie was 
 joint editoi of the Oigest of Senate Com- 
 mittee lleaiiiiL:^ on itegulation of Railway 
 Kali--. \'.)U:>. Dr. Adams married, in 1800. 
 I Bcrllia [J. Wriglit. of j'ort llunm. Midi. 
 A(hlre-s: .\iiii Aibnr, .Midi. 
 
 I ADAMS, Herbert: 
 
 Sculidm; Imiiii ill Concord, VI., 1858; son 
 of Samuel .M. and Xaiiey .\. I Powers) Ad- 
 ams. He was educated in the jiublic schools 
 of Filehhurg, .Mass.. at 11. e Institute of 
 Technology. Worcester. Mass.. at the Mass. 
 Normal Art School. 15o-toii. ami at art 
 schools ill Paris, wliere he was a pupil of 
 Meicie ami others. lie rcceixcd awards 
 from the World's Coluinbian I'^xposit inn. 
 180;; : Paris i;\positioii. 10(10: and llie 
 i.oiiisiaiia rurdiase Kxpositii>n. He is 
 ])residcnt of the National Sculpture Soci- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 t'fy, \ ic(-i)rc'si(U'iit of (he Natioiud Academy 
 of Do.si<>ii, iuid first vic('-))rosidi'nt of tlic 
 Anu'iicnn l'"c(lci;il ion of Arts; is a iiioiiil)or 
 of the Art ( '(iiiiini>si(iii of the City of Now 
 "i'ork. till' Ai-c!iil('ctiir;il rjcat-iic of Xcw 
 Y()ri<. and tlic Ci'iittiiy and IMaycrs Clubs. 
 Anion.u' his worlds arc: 'i"hc Fitchlmij^ 
 fountain. l'"itchhurii-; statue of Win. Elicry 
 Clianninii'. l^>oston; .stattu- of .Jerome Whee- 
 lock, (irafton; Jonathan iMlwards ]Mcnior- 
 ial. Mortiiampton ; Wihh ^Memorial. Au- 
 burn; bronze doors and marble tympanum, 
 St. Bartholomew's church. New York: 
 Hoyt ^lemorial, Jiidson Memorial church. 
 Now York: Pratt ilemorial, Emanuel Bap- 
 ti.st cluirch, l^rooklyn ; statue of Joseph 
 Smith and :\Iatthias Baldwin. Pliiladel- 
 ])hia : statiu» of Joseph Henry and numer- 
 ous other sculptures, Library of Congress, 
 Washinuton ; statue of Gen. Iliunphreys, 
 Fredericksburji'; the Tevis ^Memorial, San 
 Francisco: besides numerous busts and re- 
 liefs. Address: 131 \Yest lltlt St., New 
 York City. 
 
 ADAMS, Maude: 
 
 Actress; born in Salt Lake City. Utah, 
 Nov. 11, 187:2; daiiohter of James and An- 
 nie (Adams) Kiskadden. Iler father was a 
 business man and her mother an actress, 
 playing under her maiden name of Annie 
 Adams, and engaged as leading woman in 
 the stock company of the Salt Lake Theatre. 
 During her early childhood in San Francisco 
 she appeared several times on the stage in 
 children's parts, but from the ages of six 
 to sixteen ajjplied herself to her studies, and 
 then, in 1888. entered upon her career as an 
 actress in the part of a schoolmistress in 
 Hoyfs A Midnight Bell at the Madison 
 Square Theatre in New Y'ork. About a year 
 later in the part of a crippled girl in The 
 Lost Paradise her talents aroused the in- 
 terest of the critics and the public. Several 
 other successes followed, and from 1892 to 
 1897 she was leading woman with John 
 Drew, and since 1898 has been starring as 
 " Babbie " in The Little Minister, as " Ju- 
 liet " in Romeo and Juliet, in L'Aiglon, 
 Quality Street, The Pretty Sister of Jose, 
 Hop o' :\Iy Thumb, Peter Pan, and, more 
 
 recently, in What Every Woman Knows. 
 Address: (il West 3<Jth St., New York City. 
 
 ADAMS, Milton Butler: 
 
 OHicer Corps of Engineers, United States 
 Army: born at iJeaver Falls, Pa., April 11, 
 1845; son of Samuel P. Adams and Ellen 
 (Barker) Adams. He was educated at the 
 Calvin Moor Seminary, Salem, Ohio, and the 
 United States Military Academy, in which 
 he was an honor man in the class of 1SG5. 
 He has been an olficcr of the Corps of En- 
 gineers, U. S. Army, continuously since 
 June, 1865; being commissioned fir.st lieu- 
 tenant of engineers, June 23, 1865; captain, 
 Jan. 6, 1870; major, July 3, 1883; lieuten- 
 ant colonel, July 5, 1898, and colonel in the 
 Corps of Engineers, April 23, 1904. Colo- 
 nel Adams is a member of the Military Or- 
 der of the Loyal Legion and of the Sons of 
 the American Picvolution. Residence: 154 
 Washington Street. Office: U. S. Engineer 
 Otiice, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
 
 ADAMS, Oscar Fay: 
 
 Author and lecturer; born Woicester, 
 Mass., graduate of the New Jersey State 
 Normal School, ilr. Adams is the Ameri- 
 can editor of the Henry Irving Shakespeare 
 and he has produced a considerable number 
 of original works together with many lit- 
 erary compilations, including a Dictionary 
 of Amefican authors (now in its sixth 
 edition) and selections from the poets. He 
 is a well-known and a popular lecturer upon 
 literature and arcliitecture. i\Ir. Adams is 
 secretary of the Boston Authors' Club. Ad- 
 dress: The Heiniitage, Willow St., Boston. 
 
 ADAMS, Samuel Hopkins: 
 
 Journalist and authoi':- born at Dunkirk. 
 New York, Jan. 20, 1871 : son of Myron 
 and Hester Rose (Hopkins) Adams. He 
 received his education at the Rochester 
 Free Academy, from which he was grad- 
 uated in 1887, and at Hamilton College, 
 graduating as A.B. in 1891. He was a re- 
 porter and s])ecial writer on the New Y'ork 
 Sun from 1891 to 1!)00; managing editor of 
 McClure's Syndicate. 1900 to 1902: adver- 
 tising manager for ^McClure, Phillips & Co., 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 imblishers, 1!)02 to 1904; on tlio cclitorial 
 stafl' of McClure's Ma<];aziiic in l!l()4 and 
 l!i().'); oonoral magazine wiilfi- on public 
 licaltli and otluT topics from 190o. Mr. 
 Adams was autlior of the Great American 
 Fraud series (patent medicines), in Col- 
 lier's Weekly, jiuljlished in collected form 
 i)y tlie American ]\Iedical Association; au- 
 thor of The Flying Death (fiction), 1908; 
 joint author, with Stewart Edward White, 
 of The Mystery (fiction), 1907, and is au- 
 thor of short stories in McClure's, Every- 
 body's, Collier's, etc. Mr. Adams is a trus- 
 tee of Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., 
 and in political views is a moderate Social- 
 ist. He is a member of the Alpha Delta 
 Phi fraternity, lie married at Charleston, 
 West Viri;inia, October 19, 1898, Elizabetli 
 Rufl'ner Noyes and they have two children. 
 He has his summer home at Ensenore, N. 
 V. Address: :12 Cliedell Place, Auburn, 
 X. Y. 
 
 ADAMS, Washington Irving' Lincoln: 
 
 One of the leading writers of the United 
 States on subjects connected with photogra- 
 ])hy; born in New York City, Feb. 22, 1865; 
 son of Washington Irving, and Marion L. 
 (Priggs) Adams. lie lias been pi-ominently 
 connected witli the development of modern 
 photography. ha\»ing been ])resident of the 
 Scovill and Adams Co. for three years, and 
 editor of the Photograpliic Times over ten 
 years. He was for several years editor of 
 the American Annual of Pliotography and 
 was one of the leaders in the development 
 of the scientific and artistic ])ossibilities of 
 ])hotograpliy. He is a life member of the 
 .American Institute and honorary member 
 of a large number of ])liotographic societies 
 and camera clul)s. Mr. Adams is a member 
 of tlie Sons of the American Revolution, 
 Muguenot Society, the Society of Colonial 
 Wars, and the I'^ounders and Patriots of 
 America. He lias written several works on 
 photograpliy. He is the president of Styles 
 and Cash, stationers and printers, the Pho- 
 tograjthic Times Publishing .Association and 
 (lie ^lolltclair Trust Co.. and ollicer and di- 
 li'ctor in other corporations. He married 
 al .Moiitclair. \. .1.. Nov. 21, 1889, Grac« 
 Wilson, and tliev have five children. Resi- 
 
 dences: ]\lontclair. N. J., and Littleton, N. 
 H. Ollicc: l:;.-) Wot 14tli Street. N. Y. 
 City. 
 
 ADAMS, William Forbes: 
 
 l^ishop of Iviston. Maiylaiul; born in 
 Ireland, Jan. 2, 183.'], and came to the 
 United States in 1841. After completing 
 an academic education lie engaged in sec- 
 ular pursuits for a time, then studied law 
 and was admitted to the bar in Mississippi 
 in 1858; and entering upon the study of 
 theoolg>' was ordered deacon. Dec. 27, 1859, 
 and ordained priest July, 1860, in Jackson, 
 Miss. He began his ministry in Mississippi, 
 and was afterward for nearly ten years 
 rector of parishes in New Orleans until 
 his consecration in 1875 as bishoji of New 
 Mexico and Arizona. Ill health led to his 
 resignation of his sees in the following 
 year, and he reentered parochial work as 
 rector for eleven years of Holy Trinity 
 Church, A'^icksburg, ]\Iiss., until 1887. when 
 he returned to episcopal labors on his elec- 
 tion to the see of Easton, Md., of which 
 diocese he has since been bishop. The de- 
 grees of D.D. and D.C.L. and LL.D. have 
 been conferred upon Bishop Adams by the 
 University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., 
 St. Johns, Annapolis and Washington Col- 
 lege, INId. Address: Easton, ]\Id. 
 
 ADAMSON, William Charles: 
 
 Congressman; born at I'owdoii. (icorgia. 
 Aug. I."3. 1S."')4. He spent liis youth alter- 
 nately in wni-king un the farm and in haul- 
 ing goods and cothni between Atlanta and 
 Bowdon ; took the collegiate course at 
 Bowdoii College, graduating with the de- 
 gree of A.H. in 1874. the degree of A.M. 
 being conferred a few ye:\rs Inter by the 
 same institution. He read law in (he olliee 
 of Hon. Sampson W. Ilnriis : -wms iuliiiitted 
 to llie bar October. 1S7(1, iiiid has lived at 
 CaiTollton. (icorgia, ever since, practising 
 law in the circuit and su])reme courts of 
 the State, and the Federal courts. Me was 
 judge of the city court of Carrtdlton from 
 1885 to 18Sn. was attorney for I he eily of 
 Carrolltoii lor several year>; w;i- n presi- 
 dential elector in 1892.; was elected to the 
 Fftv-fifth Congress in 1896, has since been 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 bicniially rceloctod. and is ndw serving in 
 the Sixty-first Congress from Ihe Fourth 
 Georgia District. He was representative 
 from the Georgia Annual Conference of the 
 Methodist Protestant Church, to the Gen- 
 eral Conference at Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 
 vania, in 1880, at Atlantic City in 1900, and 
 at Washington, D. ('., in 1904. He was 
 elected by the General Conference at At- 
 lantic City in 1900 as one of the represen- 
 tatives of that Church to the Ecumenical 
 Council, at London, but did not attend. He 
 was one of the commissioners of Methodist 
 Protestant Church to confer Avith commis- 
 sions from other churches with a view to 
 organic union. Address: Carrollton, Ga. 
 
 ADDAMS, Jane: 
 
 Social economist, author; born at Cedar- 
 ville, 111., Sept. 6, 1860; daughter of Hon. 
 John H. Addams. She was graduated 
 from Rockford College in 1881, and 
 after post-graduate study in Europe and 
 the United States she became active 
 in social reform work. She inaugurated 
 in 1889, at Chicago, the establishment 
 known as Hull House, which is a develop- 
 ment of the social settlement idea to the 
 conditions as Miss Addams found them in 
 the section of Chicago in which Hull House 
 is situated, and has been, with increasing 
 effectiAeness, the leading factor in social 
 betterment in that city. Miss Addams in 
 order to help the neighborhood, acted as 
 street-cleauing inspector in the Hull House 
 district, with most gratifying results, and 
 through lectures all over the United States 
 and elsewhere, and by her writings, has in- 
 fluenced modern thought along the lines of 
 social betterment. She is author of: De- 
 mocracy and Soci.ll Ethics (Macmillan). 
 and Newer Ideals of Peace (^lacmillan) ; 
 monographs on the Objective and Subjec- 
 tive Value of Social Settlements, the Sub- 
 jective Necessity for Social Settlements, and 
 papers on the improvement of the condi- 
 tion of the poor in great cities. Her 
 executive ability has brought her member- 
 ship in the managing boards of national 
 and local societies of philanthropic pur- 
 pose, and of organizations for municipal 
 reform, and she is also one of the leading 
 
 members of the Woman's Club of Chicago. 
 Address: 335 South Halsted Street, Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 ADE, George: 
 
 Humorist and playwright; born at Kent- 
 land, Indiana, February 9, 1866. He was 
 graduated from Purdue University in 1887 
 and began in newspaper work in Lafayette, 
 Indiana," from 1887 to 1890, thence going 
 to Chicago, where he was on the staff of 
 the Chicago Record from 1890 to 1900. 
 Since 1900 his attention has been chiefly 
 devoted to work as author and playwright. 
 He first attracted attention by his " Fables 
 in Slang," and similar writings in the ver- 
 nacular, among which were those describ- 
 ing the " Artie " type of modern young man, 
 and his early success in writing the li- 
 bretto of a comic opera led to the produc- 
 tion of a number of plays, several of which 
 have been very successful. His best known 
 books are the Artie and Fables in Slang 
 series and his most successful operas and 
 plays are: The Sultan of Sulu, Peggy 
 from Paris, The County Chairman, The 
 Sho-Gun, The College Widow, Father and 
 the Boys, Just Out of College, and The Fair 
 Co-Ed. Address : Hazelden Farm, Brook, 
 Ind. 
 
 ADEE, Alvey Augustus: 
 
 Second assistant secretary of State; born 
 at Astoria, N. Y., Nov. 27, 1842; son of 
 Augustus A. Adee, fleet surgeon in the 
 LTnited States Navy. He was privately 
 educated. He entered the diplomatic serv- 
 ice as secretary of legation at Madrid, 
 September 9, 1870, and was at difi"erent 
 times charge d'aff'aires there. He was trans- 
 ferred from Madrid to the Department of 
 State in July. 1877; and he became chief 
 of the Diplomatic Bureau July 11, 1878; 
 third assistant secretary of State July 18, 
 1882, and second assistant secretary of 
 State since August 3, 1896. He was secre- 
 tary of State ad interim in September. 1898, 
 and acting secretary of State for a time 
 during the Chinese troubles of 1900. Sec- 
 retary Adee is the leading expert in diplo- 
 matic precedents and usages in the United 
 States as well as a verv high authoritv on 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 all inatlois of Goveniiiunlal it iiiiu'ttc 
 :Mr. Alice is practially a peniiaiu'iit uii- 
 (U'r-.seeretary of State and fonmilali'ri a 
 large proportion of tlic iliplomatic and 
 state papers of tlic Initcd Stat(>s. Ecsi- 
 deiK-e: 101!) l'"i flci'iit h Street. N. W. Of- 
 lice: Department uf Slate, Washington. 
 D. C. 
 
 ABLER, Cyrus: 
 
 President of Dropsie Colle.iic for Hebrew 
 and Cognate Learning. l'hihuleli)liia ; born 
 at Van iiiiren, Ark.. Sept. 1:5. 18(i:5; son of 
 Sannud .\dler and Sarah (Sulzberger) 
 Adler. He was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1883, A.^NI., 
 1886.' He was scholar, fellow, instructor 
 and associate in Semitic languages in Johns 
 Hopkins University, 1S84-1SU;3, receiving 
 the degree of Ph.D. in 1887. He was libra- 
 rian and later assistant secretary of the 
 Smitiisonian Institution to October, 1908, 
 and curator of the Collection of Historic 
 Archaology and Historic Religions in the 
 United States National iluseum. He is 
 ])resident of the American Jewish Histor- 
 ical Society; trustee of the Jewish Theo- 
 logical Seminary at New York and of 
 the Gratz College at Philadelphia and 
 chairman of the Board of Editors of a new- 
 translation of the I'dble. Dr. Adler is a 
 nuMuber of the .\merican Philosophical 
 Society; the Arcliueological Institute of 
 America; Washington Academy of Sci- 
 ences; American Oriental Society, and 
 others. He is autlior of numerous pai)ers 
 on Oriental, philological and arcluecdogieal 
 subjects, ami American Jcwi-li history. 
 Dr. Adler married Racie iMJedenwahl. 
 Address: 2041 N. Broad St.. Pliiladeli)liia. 
 
 ADLER. Felix: 
 
 Educator, lecturer; l)orn at .M/.ey. Cer- 
 niany. August 13, 18.)1 ; son of Sanuul ami 
 Henrietta (Frankfurter) Adler. He re- 
 ceived his ])re])aratoiy education at the Co- 
 lumbia (irauunar Scluxd of New >'ork City, 
 was graduated from Cohnn!>ia College as 
 A.l'.. Willi Phi lieta Kajjpa honors in 1870, 
 and at the Cni versify of Heidelberg as 
 I'll. I), in 1873. He was professor of Sem- 
 itic languages and literature at Cornell Uni- 
 
 versity from 1S7:{ to lS7(i; has been profes- 
 sor of social and political ethics at Cohun- 
 liia University since 1902, and he founded 
 in 1871). and has since been lea<ler of the 
 Society for I'^thical Culture. lie has been 
 director and a trustee of the Ethical Cul- 
 ture School, since 1880. He foiuided ths 
 I'Uhical Society in Berlin, (Germany, in 
 IStll: founded the United Relief Works, 
 and lirst introduced trained nurses for the 
 \K,^)V in 1877 ; and he was at the head of 
 the Cooperative Colonization Society from 
 1878 to 1885. He served as Roosevelt pro- 
 fessor at the University of Berlin in 1908- 
 1909. He has been chairman of the Na- 
 tional Child Labor Committee since 1906; 
 nu'mber of the Tenement House Commis- 
 sion. 1885; organized the Tenement House 
 Building Company, 1880; introduced fren 
 Kindergartens in 1870 ; organized the first 
 Society for Teaching of Crippled, 1887 ; and 
 he was politically active as a member of the 
 Committee of 15 in 1902. Dr. Adler is au- 
 thor of: Creed and Deed; The Moral In- 
 struction of Children; Life and De.stiny; 
 Marriage and Divorce; The Religion of 
 Dutv: Essentials of Spirituality. He mar- 
 ried' in P.rooklyn, N. Y., May. 24, 1880, 
 Helen (ioldmark. Address: 33 Central 
 I'aik West. New York City. 
 
 AGASSIZ, Alexander: 
 
 Naturalist; born in Neufchatel, Switzer- 
 land. Dec. 17. 1835; son of Professor Louis 
 Agassiz. He canu" to the United States in 
 lS4(i. was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 
 1855. and from the Lawrence Scientific 
 School of the same institution. B.S., 1857. 
 lie was an assistant on the U. S. Coast 
 Suivcy in 1859. and superintendent of the 
 I Calumet and Hecla Copper ]\Iines on Lake 
 i S\iperior, 1800-1809. He surveyed Lake 
 Titicaca. Peril, in 1875. .-md was afterward 
 curator and director, and is now director 
 emeritus of the Museum of Comparative 
 Zoidogy at Harvard L^nivcrsity. He was 
 assistant on the I'nited States i'ish Commis- 
 sion ill 1891; assisted Sir Wyville Thoni])- 
 son in the examination and classilication of 
 the collections of The Challenger expedi- 
 tion: took pait in three dredging exjiedi- 
 tioiis of the st.'anuT I'.lake, of Hie U. S. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 17 
 
 C (lasl Siiixcv, 1S77-1S,S(); the (•\[)l()r;il ions 
 of tlic coral roof of the Uawaiiiin Islands, 
 1890; i\w (ircat r.arrior Itccf of Australia. 
 18118; ('xiKHlilioii in llic sti-anicrs Croyilon 
 and Varalla in tiic l-'lji Islands, 1S!»7; drvp 
 sea ('\|ilorations (,d' the I'ananiic U(\^ion 
 on the Albati'oss to the troiiical Pacific in 
 1!)(H): (he Eastern Pacitic, li)04-190r); ex- 
 plorations of the Florida Reef, 187(), 1882 
 and 18!)(i; of the Bahamas in 18!):5; the i 
 IJernuidas in 1894; Cuba, Jamaica and 
 other West Indian Islands, 1876 and 189(>. 
 He received the degrees of LL.D. from Har- 
 vard in 1885, and from Saint Andrew's Uni- 
 versity. Edinburgh, in 1901, and the honor- 
 ary degree of S.D. from the University of 
 Cambridge in 1887, and from the University 
 of Pologiia in 1888. He is president of 
 the Xalional Academy of Sciences at Wa.sh- 
 ington ; foreign memlaer of the Royal So- 
 cieties of London and Edinburgh; foreign 
 associate of the Institut de France, Paris ; 
 officier de la Legion d'Honneur; knight of 
 the Prussian Order of A^erit; foreign and 
 corresponding member of the Academies at 
 Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm, Copenhagen, 
 Munich and Rome and all the leading 
 zoological societies. Prof. Agassiz is recog- 
 nized as the pioneer of modern biological 
 work in this country. The biological sta- 
 tions at ^Yoods Hole, Mass., and other 
 points owe their existence to his enthusiasm 
 in biological research and his name has for 
 years been the foremost in America in this 
 form of scientific investigation. Address : 
 Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 AGNEW, George B.: 
 
 State senator; born in New A'ork City, 
 18(58; son of A. G. Agnew. He was gradu- 
 ated from Princeton University, A.B., 1891, 
 and since then has been engaged in business 
 in New York City. He has always been ac- 
 tive in politics as a Republican, was elected 
 for four terms as representative from the 
 Twenty-seventh Assembly District of New 
 York County, and in 190G was elected to the 
 State Senate from the new Seventeenth 
 Senate District of New Y'ork Couidy, and in 
 1908 was reelected from the same district. 
 He was in 1905 appointed a member of the 
 Special Committee of the Legislature, to 
 2 
 
 iiiNcst igate the gas anil elect lie situation in 
 Ihc City of New ^'ork. Senator .\giicw is 
 a member of the licpublican County Coin- 
 millee of New \'ork County, lie has iieen 
 a uieniher of the Nationil (iuaid of ih- 
 State of New \ovk foi- the past fifteen 
 years, most of the tinu; bsdiig a member of 
 Squadron A; served as aide-de-camp on 
 Governor INlorton's stalT. .Address: lU Wil- 
 liam Street, N\'w ^'o^k City. 
 
 AGNUS, Felix: 
 
 Editor and publisher of the ItalliniorH 
 American; l)orn in Lyons. 1'' ranee. .Inly 4. 
 1839. He received a collegiate educition 
 in France, and spent four years in travel 
 around the world; served in the war of 
 Napoleon 111 with Au.stria ; came to the 
 United States in 1800, and became a mem- 
 ber of the Fifth New Y^ork Zouuxcs in 
 1861; was promoted second lieutenant for 
 bravery in saving the life of General Jml- 
 son Kilpatrick at Big Bethel. He distin- 
 guished himself in the Peninsular cam- 
 paign, and afterward in Louisiana ; was 
 wounded at Gaines' Mills and at the siege 
 of Port Hudson; he afterward was pro- 
 moted to major and colonel, serving under 
 Sheridan; was brevetted brigadier-general 
 of Volunteers and honorably mustered out 
 Aug. 22, 1865. He became connected soon 
 after the war with the Baltimore American 
 as business manager, and for years has 
 been its editor and publisher. He mar- 
 ried Dec. 13, 1864, Aliss Fulton, of Balti- 
 more. Address: The Baltimore American.' 
 Baltimore. 
 
 AIKEN, Wyatt: 
 
 Congressman and farmer: boin in Abbe 
 ville County, S. C.,. Dec. 14, 186:5; son of 
 Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken (member of Con- 
 gress) and Virginia Caroline Aiken. He 
 was reared on a farm in Abbeville County 
 (in that section now embraced in Green- 
 wood County) ; received a common school 
 education at Cokesbury, S. C, and Wash- 
 ington. 1). C, while there with his father. 
 Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken, who was reiH-;'senta- 
 tive from the Third South Carolina District 
 for ten years. While at Washington he ac- 
 (luired the art of writing shorthand, and in 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 .Jan., 1884. was appointed an ollicial court 
 stenograplicr in South Carolina, and held 
 llic position for nineteen years. He 
 takes a keen interest in cverytliing pertain 
 in<r to a<:riciiltnre. Durinjf the war with 
 S|);iin lie was a soldier in C'onijiany A 
 ( Althevillt' NOlunteers), First South Caro- 
 lina Refiinient of Infantrj'. He never held 
 a political ollice before his election to Con- 
 fjfress, but has been a delegate to several 
 Democratic State Conventions. He was 
 elected from tlie Third South Carolina Dis- 
 trict to the Ffty-eighth Congress, in 1902, 
 and reelected in'in04. 1906 and 1908 to the 
 Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Si.xty-first Con- 
 gresses. Address: Abbeville, S. C. 
 
 AIIES, Milton Everett: 
 
 Financier : horn in Shelby County, Ohio, 
 .\ug. 19. lS(i7. He was graduated from the 
 National University Law Scool at Wash- 
 ington, D. C, and was admitted to the 
 bar of the District of Columbia in 1890. 
 Receiving an appointment to a minor posi- 
 tion in the Treasury Department in 1887, 
 lie served through the grades of the 
 classified service, and in 1897 he was 
 appointed private secretary to the secre- 
 tary of the Treasury. In 1901 he was 
 ap])ointcd assistant secretary of the Treas- 
 ury. ])erforniing a large portion of the 
 work relative to the finances of the coun- 
 tr}' which comes under the immediate 
 charge of the secretary of the Treasury. 
 In April, 1903, he resigned this position 
 in order to become vice-president of the 
 Riggs National Bank, the leading financial 
 institution of the National Capital. Mr. 
 Ailes is a fine example of the opportunities 
 open to young men who enter tlie Govern- 
 ment service and seek to imjirove them- 
 selves by means of the educational facil- 
 ities afToi-ded for the benefit of Govern- 
 ment clerks in llieir spare time by the 
 educational institutions of Washington. 
 By liis industry, thrift, and far-siglited- 
 ness he has become one of llie leading 
 financiers of Washington ami is an admit - 
 ted authority on banking law and practice, 
 on which he has written several maga- 
 zine articles, lie married, in Washington, 
 
 Nov. 25, 1891. ;Mary E. Gowans. Address: 
 Riggs National Bank, Washington. D. C. 
 
 AILSHIE, James Franklin: 
 
 .Tiuist; lioru in (ireen County Tcnn.. 
 June 19. 18(18. son of George ^^■. and 
 Martha (Kniglit) Ailshie. Judge Ailshie 
 was reared on a farm and was educated 
 in the public schools of the vicinity of 
 his birth until he was nineteenth years of 
 age. when he went to Oregon, teaching 
 in tlie j)ul)lic schools and taking a colle- 
 giate and law course at Willamette Uni- 
 versity, at Salem, Ore. He was admit-, 
 tod to the Oregon bar in 1891, and re- 
 moved to Idalm, wliere he was admitted 
 to the bar of the Supreme Court of that 
 State in 1892. He afterward practised law 
 in Idaho until Jan. 1903, when he be- 
 came associate justice of the Supreme 
 Court of that State. Judge Ailshie is re- 
 garded as one of the leading of the 
 younger jurists of the West, and has been 
 strongly urged for appointment to a Fed- 
 eral judgeship on several occasions. He is 
 a prominent member of the Republican 
 party and has been a delegate to the Re- 
 pid)lican National Convention. He is presi- 
 dent of several financial institutions and 
 l)ublic service corporations in his own city. 
 He married at Spokane, Wash., June 19, 
 1894, Lucie Bundren. Residence: Grango- 
 ville, Idaho. OfTlce: Boise City, Idaho. 
 
 AINSWORTH, Fred Crayton: 
 
 -Major-general L". S. Army; born at 
 Woodstock, Vt., Sept. 11, 1852. He was 
 educated in the schools of Vermont, nad 
 afterward entered the Medical Department 
 of the University of New York, from which 
 he was graduated as M.D. in 1874. He 
 was appointed from Vermont as first lieu- 
 tenant and assistant surgeon, U. S. Ainiy. 
 Nov. 10, 1874. promoted to major ami sur- 
 geon, Feb. 27, 18!)1; colonel and chief of 
 tlu' Record and Pension Ollice, ?»Iay 27, 
 1892, to brigadier-general ami chief of the 
 Itecord and Pension Ollice. March 2. 1899, 
 anil niajor-geneial and the military secre- 
 tary of the Army. April 23. 1904. He 
 devised and introdncrd many itnpi'oved 
 
MEN OF AM]^:K1CA. 
 
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 records of husiiicss, iiwlmliiiLT tlic iiulcx- 
 icc'oid card system, by wliicli upwards of 
 .")(),()()(), 000 index record curds have been 
 |in'|i:n((l and placed on file. His excellent 
 wink ill (liis department efVected a valuable 
 savin<,', by makinj^ the full record of every 
 soldier immediately available, and it is esti-' 
 mated tiiat the (Government makes a i)er- 
 maiicnt saving of not less than half a mil- 
 lion dollars by having adopted the system. 
 Since tlie date above given, by a legislative 
 leorganization, Mr. Ainsworth has been 
 made adjutant-general of the Army and as 
 such, in addition to his former duties, has 
 charge of all the business previously trans- 
 acted in the Adjutant-General's office, in 
 eluding tiie issuance of orders to the Army, 
 and all other matters relating to the record- 
 ing, authenticating and distributing of offi- 
 cial jiapers. Address: War DeiJartment, 
 \^■as]|illgton, D. C. 
 
 AITKEN. Robert Grant: 
 
 Astronomer; born in Jackson, Calif., 
 Dec. :n. 1864; son of Robert and Wilhel- 
 mina (Depinau) Aitken. He was graduated 
 from Williams College, A.B., 1887, A.M., 
 1S92, and received the degree of Sc.D. from 
 the University of the Pacific, 1903. He 
 was instructor in mathematics at Liver- 
 more College, Calif., 1888-1891; professor 
 of mathematics and astronomy, University 
 of the Pacific, 1891-1895; assistant astron- 
 omer at Lick Observatory, 1895-1907, and 
 became astronomer at Lick Observatory 
 in 1907. He has published numerous arti- 
 cles in American and German astronom- 
 ical journals, relating to comets, satellites, 
 double stars,, etc., and he has discovered 
 2000 new double stars. He represented 
 Lick Observatory at the Congress of Arts 
 and Sciences at Saint Louis in Sept. 1904. 
 He was editor of the Publications of the 
 Astronomical Society of the Pacific from 
 1897 to 1908. He' is a member of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science; Astronomical and Astrophysical 
 Society of Ameiica ; Astronomical Society 
 of the Pacific; American Geographical So- 
 ciety, and is honorary member of the Mex- 
 ican Astronomical Society, and is a mem- 
 lier of the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi 
 
 honor societies. He received the Lalande 
 Medal of tiie French .\eademy of Sciences 
 in 19()() for double star discoveries. He 
 married at Oakland, Calif., June 19, 1S88, 
 Jessie L. Thomas, and has four children. 
 .\ddress: Lick Observatory, Mount llaiii- 
 ilton, Calif. 
 
 AITKEN. Robert Ingersoll: 
 
 Sculptor; born in }iiin Francisco. Calif., 
 May 8, 1878; son of Charles II. and Kath- 
 arine (Higgins) Aitken. lie entered the 
 IMark Hopkins Institute of Art in 189G, 
 and at the end of the first year received 
 a medal for modelling and was given hon- 
 orable mention for drawing. Mr. Aitken 
 was the sculptor of a number of the chief 
 monuments on the Pacific Coast, including 
 the McKinley monument at Golden Gate 
 Park, San Francisco and the Bret Harte 
 monument at San Francisco, and has made 
 a large number of busts of prominent per- 
 sons. He has been professor of sculpture 
 at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art con- 
 nected with the University of California, 
 and is a member of the National Sculpture 
 Society and of other art associations. Ad- 
 dress: 798 Van Ness Avenue, San Fran- 
 cisco, Calif. 
 
 AKED, Charles Frederic: 
 
 Clergyman; born at Nottingham. Eng- 
 land, Aug, 27, 1864; son of Charles Aked 
 of Nottingham. He was educated in Mr. 
 Lee's Commercial School, the Midland Bap- 
 tist College and in the University of Not- 
 tingham and later received the degree of 
 D.D. He was articled to a firm of auc- 
 tioneers at Nottingham and was afterward 
 auctioneer to the sherifT of Derbyshire imtil 
 he entered Midland College. He began his 
 ministry as pastor of a Baptist Church at 
 Syston in Leicestershire, England, in 1886. 
 While minister of one of the leading Bap- 
 tist churches of Liverpool. Eng., he was 
 called to the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church 
 of New York City, upon which jjastorate he 
 entered in April, 1907. lie has made fre- 
 quent fii])s to the United States, preaching 
 and lecturing since 189:1. In Kngland he 
 attained a position of much distinction in 
 his denomination and in public affairs. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 lie has Itet-n an exli'iisivo lonliibiitor (n 
 till' litoraturo of sociology and rcliffion, lu'- 
 ing author of: Chanpinfj Cict'ds and Social 
 SlruL;-glt's: The Courage of the C'owaiil : did 
 l']vi'nts and Modern ^loaniii^s, and also of 
 many |iuldished sermons and ])ani]dilrls. 
 Dr. AUed married in 1880, Annie, danjihtei 
 of James llithersay, of Ilkeston. Derhy- 
 shiro, En<rland. Residence: Central Park 
 View, 2 West SOth 'St. Address: I'lftli 
 Avenue Haptist ("hiireli, (i West 4Gth St.. 
 New Niirk ( ity. 
 
 I 
 AKINS, Thomas Jasper: 
 
 Assistant treasurer of the United States: 
 born in Cedar County, JNlissouri. Au,;. 14. 
 1852: .sou of John and jMary J. (Tlalbprt) 
 Akins. He was educated in |)nl)iie and ])ri- 
 valc schools in his native Stale, then taught 
 in country schools until 1872. when he li? 
 ixan his l)usiness life. Tie has ever sinc.^ 
 been identilied with merchandising and 
 banking in lluniar villc. Mo., as head of 
 the T. J. Akins & ; on ^Mercantile Co., and 
 as director of the Bank of Ilumansville, of 
 which he was presidciil from 1892-189!). 
 Mr. Akins has always l)aen an active Repub 
 lican, was for several chairman of the 
 IMissouri Re])ublican State Committee and 
 member of the Republican National Com- 
 mittee. In Jan., 1904. he was appointed by 
 President Roosevelt to his pre.seiit odice of 
 assistant treasurer of the United States a1 
 St. Louis, and was reappointed in Dc. 
 1908. He married in Human-'ville. ]\Io.. 
 Nov. 2.3, 1871, Sarah Elizabeth tliccn. and 
 they have three children. Residence: 41 Hi 
 Westminster Place. Office: 21(1 (u^lom 
 lluuM^. St. Louis. 
 
 ALBRO, Addis: 
 
 Clergyman, educator. Iccluicr: bom in 
 .Middleliurg. Seh(diarie County. N. ^ .. I"eb. 
 IS. IS.')."); son of William Pdiss and Ann l-'Jiz 
 abeth (Wood) Albro. He was educated at 
 Fort Edward (New York) Collegiate lii-li 
 tute; Lawrence University (1880) R.S. and 
 M.S. (1H82): and Union University, LL.l'... 
 ISSn. lie pursued several post-graduate 
 courses of study and he received the degree 
 of n.l). fiom (irani University. He tanglil 
 i„ III,- |.ul,lic' -ch.Kils of New ^•ork State 
 
 i- 
 
 for several years and in iustitut ions of 
 higher grade in Indiana. ?i!io<le Island and 
 Missouri. lie was a college jaresident and 
 |irotes>or from IS7'.) to ISSti; pastor of the 
 l'"ir>l .\le11iodi>.l l':pi-co|)al Chureh. .M(dine, 
 Illinois, and I'irst Metliodist Kpiscniial 
 Chureh. Utica. N. \'.. from 1887 to 1890. 
 lie was an honorary and < orresponding 
 member of the World's Congress Auxiliary 
 of the World's Columbia lO.xposition of 189;}. 
 He was held secretary of the New York 
 State Sabbath As.sociation from ls!)4 to 
 1898. and has been general secretaiy of the 
 American Reform Association since 1898. 
 Dr. Albro was chaplain of the Senate of New 
 \ork in 1893. and chaplain of the ^lichigan 
 Military Academy from l!it)l to 190:}. He 
 is edit(n- of the Keform Magazine, and au- 
 thor of: Ilistoiy of Our Country's Flag: 
 (lenealogy of llu' Albro I'amily: ;'nd on the 
 I'aiitoriil Stall of United Editors" Ency- 
 (dojx'dia. He was a delegate to the Na- 
 tional Republiein Conventions of 1880 and 
 1900. lie is a Mason, Scottish Rite, 33d- 
 degree, and a Knight Templar; a member 
 of the Baronial Order of Runnemede; the 
 Society of Colonial Wars; Sons of the Amer- 
 ican Revolution; Founders and Patriots of 
 Aineriea; ^Mayflower Descendants; Descend- 
 ants of Colonial (iovcrnors; and a member 
 of the ?ilichigan Club of Detroit. He mar- 
 ried at ;chohai-ie. New Voik. Feb. 19. 1878, 
 Mai-y Alice Seri])ner (born April 0. IS.'iO, 
 and 'died Aug. 12. I'.KI.")). Of that union 
 there were live children: .\ddis Bliss Albro, 
 (d' New \i>vk City, li.un March 22. 1879; 
 Iva I)ell Albro. born April 20. 1881. (dird 
 May 24, 1883) ; Anu'S Scribner .\lbi-o, bnm 
 Oct. 7, 1882; Ruth Albro. born Ai)ril 20. 
 ■• 1888, and Ward Sloan Albro. born Sept. 27. 
 1889. :\Iarried seeoiul al Ketllands, (\ilif., 
 Nov. 7. 1907, Miss Jane Ev(dyn Harrison, of 
 haliana. Issue: Ursula, born Jan. 31. 1909. 
 .Missionary to New j\lexico. a])poiided by the 
 l)e1r(dt Conference of (he Methodist tlpisco 
 pal Church. Address; C(dumbus. N. Mex. 
 
 ALDEN, Henry Mills: 
 
 l'",dilor, ;nithor; hoiii al Mo\nil Tabor. 
 near Danby. Vt., Nov. 11. ls;!0: <(m of 
 Ira and Elizabeth Packard iMoi.re) Mden. 
 His earl\- eilucation was obtained in the 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 sclnuils ,,r lloosick l'':ills. N. Y., aflcr which 
 he {'1i1;t((1 W'illiiniis ('dllcyc. t'voni wiiicli lie 
 was i;ra(lii:il('(l A.l!.. ISf)?. and icciiNcd tlie 
 il.-Kcs of A.M., IS(il), 1..11.1)., 1S!)0, and 
 I.L.l).. liiOT. He was graduated from Ihc 
 \iido\('r 'rhcohi^ical Scniiiiary in ISliO, but 
 ncvfi- took oidcis. Mr. .Mdeu was a l.ow(dl 
 Institute iet'tuicr, lS(i:M8(!4, on the subject 
 of Tile Strueture of Pai^anisni. lie was edi- 
 tor of Miu])er's Weekly. 18G3-lSfi!), and has 
 been editor of Harper's .Mauazine since 18(i!1. 
 .Mr. .\iden is auHior of Ood and His World, 
 1S!)(); .\ Study of Deatii, 1S!)5; iMagazinc 
 Writing and the New Literature, 1908: 
 and TIari)er's Pictorial History of the Great 
 Rebellion (witli A. H. Guernsey). He has 
 iieen twice married, first in 1861 to Susan 
 Krye Foster, of North Andover. jNIass., by 
 which marriage he has three daughters, and 
 second in 1000 to Ada Fo-*ter Murray, of 
 Norfolk. Va. Address: Care Harper & 
 Brothers, Franklin S(|uare, New York. 
 
 ALDERMAN, Edwin Anderson: 
 
 President of the University of Virginia; 
 born in Wilmington. N. C., May 15, 1861; 
 son of dames and Susan J. Alderman. He 
 was graduated from the University of North 
 Carolina as Ph.B. in 1S8'2; was superintend- 
 ent of the (loldsboro City schools from 1884 
 to 1887. assistant State superintendent ol 
 North Carolina from 1889 to 1892; profes- 
 sor of English in the State Normal College in 
 1S92, and in tlie same year professor of edu- 
 cation in the University of North Carolina, 
 of whicli he liccame ])resident in 1890. He 
 was ))residcnt of the Tulane University of 
 Louisiana fium April. 1900, until he was 
 called in 1904 to tiie presidency of the 
 University of Virginia. He received in 1898 
 the degrees of D.C.L. from the University of 
 the South and of LL.D. from Tulme Uni- 
 versity of Louisiana, Johns Hopkins Uni- 
 versity. 1902, Yale and Columbia, 1905, the 
 Uni\;'rsity of North Carolina. 1900 and 
 Williams' College. 1908. Dr. Alderman is 
 a memlicr of the Southern Education Board 
 and the General Education Board; and is 
 legarded as one of the leading authorities 
 on pedagogical questions. He is vice-presi- 
 dent of the National Civil Service Poform 
 League, and a member of the Virginia State 
 (icolosiical Conuuission, the National Ciuni- 
 
 iMJ for Industrial iMlui'ation and thi' ( 'oun- 
 I'il of International ( 'onciliat imi. He is 
 uullior of a Scliool History of .\(nlii ('aro- 
 lina ; and of a volume of liiography of Wil- 
 liam lloo|)('i-. signer of the l)e(d nation of 
 Independeiu-e ; and lie is well known as a 
 sjH'aker and lecturer on professional and 
 historical snl)jcets. .Vddress: Charlottes- 
 ville, \a. 
 
 ALDRICH. Edgar: 
 
 -Jurist : born at Pittsburg, X. IL, in 184S. 
 He was educated at Colebrook Aculensy, 
 was graduated froiu the University of 
 Michigan as LL.H. in 1868 and was ad- 
 mitted to the New Hampshire Bar in Aug., 
 1868. He practised law at C!olobrook, N. 
 H., until 1881, and then at Littleton, N. H., 
 until 1891, was solicitor of Coos County, N. 
 H., 1872-1874, and 187G-1879, and was a 
 mend)er and speaker of the New Hampshire 
 Legislature in 1885. In 1891 he was ap- 
 pointed to his present position as U. S. 
 judge for the District of New Hampshire, 
 fudge Aldrich was a member of the New 
 Hampshire Constitutional Convention in 
 1902. He received the degrees of A.^I. in 
 1891 and of LL.D. from Dartmouth College, 
 1901. and the University of ^Michigan 1907. 
 He mairied in 1872, Louise M. Kemick. Ad- 
 Iress: Littleton, N. H. 
 
 ALDRICH, Nelson Wilmarth: 
 
 United States .senator; born at Foster, B. 
 I., Nov. 6, 1841. He received an academic 
 education, and is engaged in mercantile pur- 
 suits, being the head of a large firm of 
 wholesale grocers. lie has been an active 
 Uepublieaii from his first vote; was presi- 
 dent of the rrovidence Common Council. 
 1871-187;': was a niend)er of the Pvhode Is- 
 land Legislature. 1875-1876, and its speaker 
 in 187(). lie was (dected a member of Con- 
 gress in 1878. and reelected in 1S80, but re- 
 signed from the I'^orty -seventh Congress, 
 having been elected Oct. 5, 1881, United 
 States Senator from Bhode Island. He was 
 reelectecl in ISSS. in 1892, in 1898 and 
 1905, and his prevent teini will expire 
 March ;]. 1011. He is chairman of Com- 
 mittee on Linance, and the Bepublioan 
 leader in the Senate, .\ddress: Providence, 
 
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MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ALDRICH, Orlando Wesley: 
 
 Lawyer; iKirn in Clanneo. X. Y., March 
 ;?0. 18'4(); sou of Rev. Sydney and Lydia 
 Ann ( York ) Aldrich. Ilo was educated in 
 the Clarence Academy, ji;radnattd from Ili- 
 noi.^ We.sleyan Univer.-;ity, B.A., and after- 
 ward received from it the degrees of M.A., 
 Ph.D., and D.C.L.. and from Toronto Uni- 
 versity the degree of LL.D. He served in 
 the Civil War in Company D, 14th New 
 York Infantry. Mr. Aldrich has been ad- 
 mitted to the bars of Illinois. Ohio, West 
 Virginia, District of Columbia, and the 
 Supreme Court of the United States, and 
 served as chairman of committee of ex- 
 amination for the bar of the Supreme 
 Court of Illinois, and the Supreme Court 
 of Ohio. He was professor of law in Illi- 
 nois Wcsleyaii University, 1876-1881, and 
 ill Ohio Slate University 1891-18!)0, and 
 was editor of tile Weekly Jurist. Bloom- 
 ington, 111.. 1S78-1S81. He lias been 
 president of the Columbus and Clinton- 
 ville Electric Railway Company. Worth- 
 ington. Clintonville and Columbus Street 
 Railway Company; secretary of the Co- 
 lumbus, Delaware and Marion Electric 
 Railway Com])any, and an officer in other 
 corporations. Mr. Aldrich is a member of 
 tlie Royal Society of Arts, London, fellow, 
 Xortli l^ritish Academy, American Institute 
 of Civics, National Ceographic Society and 
 the American Political Science Association, 
 is a 32-degree Mason. Knight Templar and 
 member of the Mystic Shrine; post com- 
 mander and department judge-advocate. 
 (iiaiid Army of the Republic: member of 
 the liiion Veteran Legion; pa,st pre.sident 
 of the Ohio Society Sons of the Revolution, 
 and president of the Ohio Society of the 
 War of 1812. He edited the First American 
 edition of Anson on Contracts; compih'd 
 the Supplemental Volume of the Ohio Stat- 
 utes, and wrote the article on Elections in 
 the first edition of tlie American and Eng- 
 lish Encycioi)edia of Law. He married first 
 at Hudson. 111., Nov. 25, 1863. Roselia C. 
 .lewell. and second, at ^It. Vernon, Ohio. 
 •Tuly 25, 1878, Sarah A. Taylor, n^. Coulter, 
 and has two living sons. Residence: Ma- 
 |)h'hurst. Station B, R. F. D.. Columbus, 
 Odice: Weslev Block, Columbus, Ohio. 
 
 ALDRICH, Richard: 
 
 Journalist ; Ikhii in I'rovidence, R. 1.. 
 July 31. 18()3; son of Elisha Smith and 
 Anna Elizabeth (Gladding) Aldrich, He 
 was educated in the Providence High School 
 and Harvard College, being graduated A,B,, 
 1885, He became connected with the Provi- 
 dence Journal in Aug., 1885, and was suc- 
 cessively reporter, musical and dramatic 
 editor and editorial writer until 1889 ; pri- 
 vate secretary to U, S. Senator Dixon, 1880- 
 18!)1. He joined the stafl' of the New Y'^ork 
 Tribune as reporter, ISUl, and was succes- 
 sively telegra])li editor, assistant day editor 
 and assistant literary editor of that paper 
 until entering in Oct.. l!K)i. upon his pres- 
 ent position as musical editor of the New 
 York Times. Mr. Aldrich translated into 
 English the honk of Mine. Lilli Lehmann. 
 How to Sing: and he is autlior of: A Guide 
 to Parsifal. 1!)()4: A Guide to the Nil)elung s 
 Ring, 1905; also articles in various ir.aga- 
 zines on musical subjects. Address; care 
 The New York rimes. New York City. 
 
 ALDRICH, William Sleeper: 
 
 Educator and engineer; born in Philadel- 
 phia, March 3, 1863; son of (ieorge Wells 
 and Sallie Edith (Sleeper) Aldrich. He 
 was graduated from the L^, S. Naval Aead- 
 I emy in 1883, and from tlie Stevens Insti- 
 ! tute of Technology as M.E. in 1SS4. and 
 t afterward engaged in teaeliing and engi- 
 neering practice. He tauglit drawing and 
 mechanical engineering in Johns Hoi)kin< 
 University, 1889-1892. w:is juofessov of nie- 
 I chanical engineering in the University of 
 j West Virginia. 1892-1899; professor of elec- 
 j trical engineering in the University of llli- 
 i nois from 1899-1901. and in the litter year 
 became director of the Thomas S. CI irkson 
 Memorial School of Technology at Potsdam. 
 X. Y., wliere he has l)uilt up an institution 
 of technical education which is of higli re- 
 ])ute and efficiency. During the Spanish- 
 American War he served as passed assistant 
 engineer (with tlie relative rank of lieuten- 
 ant) in the U. S. Navy, being attached to 
 ' the U. S. S. Vulcan, with .Vdmiral Sam]i- 
 i son's fleet in Cuban waters. He is a fellow 
 of the American .\ssociat inn for the .\il- 
 1 vancement of Science; nieinlier of the Amer- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 23 
 
 icaii Socicly of Mcchaiiifal Kn-jiiiecrs, Anier- 
 ienii I list it lite uf Electrical Eiiiiinecrs and 
 Society tor the Pioiiiotion of Engiiieeriiii,' 
 iMliicatioii. Mr. Aldricii married in Phila- 
 delpliia. .luly 1. ISSli. Mary Lavinia Purdy. 
 and lias four children. Address: Pots- 
 dam, X. V. 
 
 ALERDING, Herman Joseph: 
 
 Koman Catholic bishop of Fort Wayne; 
 i.orn in Newport. Ky.. April V.i, 1845. He 
 was eihuatfd at ^'incennes, Ind., St. Thomas, 
 Ky., and in St. Meinrad's Abbey, Spencer 
 County, Ind. lie was ordained as priest, 
 Sept. -ll. 18()S, and was consecrated as 
 l.isho]) of Fort Wayne, Ind., Nov. 30. 1900, 
 in the cathedral at Fort Wayne. Besides 
 his distinjiuished services to the church, 
 liishoj) Alerding is the author of several 
 historical works inclndin<^ the comparison 
 entitled, " Plymouth Rock and Maryland," 
 a history of the Catholic church in the dio- 
 cese of Vincennes, published in 1883, and a 
 history uf the diocese of Fort Wayne, Ind., 
 l)ulilished in 1907. Address: Fort Wayne, 
 Ind. 
 
 ALESHIRE, James Buchanan: 
 
 guartermaster general, U. S. x\rmy; 
 born in Gallipolis, Ohio, Oct. 31, 1856; son 
 of Reuben and INIargaret (Shepard) Ale- 
 shire. He was graduated from the U. S. 
 Military Academy, in 1880, and was as- 
 signed to duty with the Cavalry arm. In 
 1895 he was transferred to the quartermas- 
 ter's department, and in the Spanish-Amer- 
 ican War was chief quartermaster of volun- 
 teers as major and lieutenant-colonel. He 
 was discharged from the volunteer service 
 May 1, 1901, and reached his majority in 
 the quartermaster de])artment of the regu- 
 lar service Feb. 2, 1901. In 1907, upon the 
 retirement of Quartermaster-General Hum- 
 phrej' he was appointed quartermaster-gen- 
 eral of the army with the rank of brigadier- 
 general. General Aleshire has had a bril- 
 liant career in active service, having served 
 against the Apache Indians, 1881-1882; in 
 the Crow or " Swordbearer " Campaign, 
 1887; in the operations in Cuba and on the 
 China Relief Expedition. He also served 
 two years and six months in the Philippines. 
 
 lie iiianied in Dubuque, Iowa. Nov. :i, lS8(i, 
 lianict A. Dana. Residence: 1719 18tli 
 Mrccl. N. W., Wasliington. 1). C. 
 
 ALEXANDER. Charles Beatty: 
 
 Lawyer: born in Xcw York City, Dec. 0, 
 1849; son of llcnry Martyn and Susan 
 Mary (Brown) Alexander. After prepara- 
 tion in the collegiate school of M. W. Eyoii 
 and by private instruction, he entered 
 Princeton University, whence he was gradu- 
 ated A.B., 1870, then attended the law school 
 of Cohunbia University and was graduated 
 LL.B., 1872. He received the degrees of 
 A.]M., 1873 and LL.D., 1895 from Princeton 
 University, and LL.D. from W'ashington and 
 Jefferson College. 1902. He was admitted 
 : to the bar in New York City, June 17. 1872, 
 to the California Bar, Dec. 19, 1888, and to 
 . the bar of the Supreme Court of the L'nited 
 States Nov. 5, 1884, and since his admission 
 I to the bar has been continuously in practit.- 
 as a member of the firm of Alexander and 
 Green. He is also a director of the Equit- 
 able Life Assurance Society of the United 
 States, the Equitable Trust Company, the 
 Hocking Valley Railroad and the Mount 
 Morris Bank, Mr. Alexander is author of a 
 legal treatise on the New York Law of Life 
 Insurance. He is a hereditary member of 
 the Society of the Cincinnati in Pennsyl- 
 vania, the Association of the Bar of the City 
 of New Y'ork, and the Union. University. 
 Riding, Tuxedo, Metropolitan, Army and 
 Navy, New York Yacht and Princeton Clubs 
 of New York. ^Ir. .\lexander married in 
 San Francisco, Calif.. April 26, 1887, Har- 
 riet, daughter of Charles Crocker of Cali- 
 fornia, and they have three daughters. Har- 
 riet, Janette and Mary Crocker. Residences: 
 Tuxedo Park, N. Y. and 4 West 58th Street. 
 Office: 120 I'.roadway. New York City. 
 
 ALEXANDER, De Alva Stanwood: 
 
 Congressman, lawyer; born at Richmond. 
 Maine, July 17, 1846; son of Stanwooil 
 Alexander and Priscilla (Brown) Alexan- 
 ' der. He entered the L'nioii Army at the 
 age of fifteen, serving as a private soldier. 
 1862-1865. He was prepared for college at 
 Edward Ivittle Institute, Auburn, Maine; 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 was <;i-aduaU'd from Bowdoiii College as A. 
 B.. in 1870, and A.M. in 1873. and received 
 fioni 11h" same college the lionoravy dpgre.^ 
 of 1.1.. I). He located at Indianapolis, Ind., 
 wht-re he engaged in law practice. He was 
 a tlelegatc to the National Republican Con- 
 vention in 1S7'2; sicvetavy of the Indiana 
 Repnhliean Stale Committee.. 1874-1878; 
 and was appointed, in ISSl, fifth auditor of 
 the Treasury, lie removed to Buffalo and 
 became law partner of his college classmate, 
 Hon. James A. Roberts, formerly comptrol 
 ler of the State of New York. He was 
 United States attorney for the Northern 
 District of New Yoik, 1889-1903; was 
 elected as a member of the Fifty-iifth Con- 
 gress from the Thirty-third New York Dis- 
 trict, lS9li, reelected from that district in 
 1808 and 1900, and in 1902-1904-1906 and 
 1908 from the Thirty-sixth New York Dis- 
 trict, lie is an overseer of Bowdoin College 
 and is author of Politic-il History of the 
 State of New York (two volumes). Mr. 
 Alexander has been twice married; first 
 Sept. 21, 1871. lo Alice Colby, and second, 
 Dec. :-8, 1892. lo Annie L. Bliss. Address: 
 31 North Street. Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 ALEXANDER, George: 
 
 Clergyman: born in West Charlton, N. 
 Y.. Oct. 12. 1S43; son of Alexander F. and 
 Margaret (Biniyan) Alexander. He was 
 graduated from Union College, A.B., 1866. 
 and rect'ived from that college the degree of 
 D.D. in 1884. He was pastor of the East 
 End Avenue Presbyterian Church, Schenec- 
 tady. N. Y., 1870-1883, and has been pastor 
 of Ww. Presbyterian Church on University 
 Place, New York City, since 1884. Dr. 
 Alexander is vice-president of the Council 
 of New York University; president of the 
 Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyter- 
 ian Church; president of the Board of Di- 
 rectors of the New Y'ork College of Dentis- 
 try; a trustee of Union College and a di- 
 rector of Princeton Thrologieal Seminary. 
 .Ad.lress: 47 University Plae;', New York 
 Cily. 
 
 ALEXANDER. James Waddel: 
 
 l''ormer president of tiie Kqnitable Assnr 
 aiu-e Socielv of the United States; born in 
 
 Princeton. N. J., duly 19. 1839; son of Rev. 
 Dr. James W. Alexander, pastor of the Fifth 
 Avenue Presbyterian Church, of New York 
 City. He was graduated from Princeton, 
 A.li. in 1860, and later A.M.; was admitted 
 to the New York Bar, in 1862, and practised 
 law until 1866. After that he was in the 
 l-'quitable Life Assurance Society of th'? 
 United States, becoming president on th? 
 death of Henry B. Hyde, and so continuing 
 \intil his resignation in 1905. He is a trus- 
 tee of Princeton University; and was for- 
 merly president of the Society of the Virgin- 
 ians. He is author of: Princeton, Old and 
 New, 1898. Mr. Alexander is a member of 
 the Century Association, and a member and 
 was president eight years of the University 
 Club of New York City, and a member and 
 was president for six years of tlie Princeton 
 Club of New Y'ork City. He married at 
 Elizabeth, N. J., Nov. 24, 1862, Elizabeth 
 Beasley Wilhamson. Address: 4 East 64th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 ALEXANDER, John White: 
 
 Artist; born in Allegheny City, Pa., Oct. 
 7, 1856; son of John and Fanny (Smith) 
 Alexander. He received his art education 
 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, INIn- 
 nich: and received the degree of A.M. from 
 Princeton University, 1892. He is Cheva- 
 lier of the Legion d'Honneur, Societaire of 
 the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts, is an 
 Academician of the National Academy of 
 Design, elected 1902; member of the Society 
 of American Artists, Fine Arts Federation 
 of New York, Fine Arts Society of New 
 York, Architectural League, Society of 
 Mural Painters, National Institute of Arts 
 and Letters; Societe Nouvelle of Paris, In- 
 ternational Society of London; honorary 
 member of the Society of Austrian Painters, 
 honorary member of the Secession of Mu- 
 nich. He has received numerous medals and 
 prizes from exhibitions in the Ignited States 
 : and Europe. The names of his paintings in 
 j public museums follow: The Pot of Basil, 
 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ; A Quiet 
 Hour, Pennsylvania Academy: Portrait of 
 Fritz Thaulow. Wilstach Collection; Por- 
 trait of Rodin. Cincinnati Museum; Woman 
 ill Crev. LuNendioiiig Oallery, Paris; The 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 IMinor, St. l'oUMsl)mg (iallciv; The J?bfk 
 Cat. Odessa (iallciy; series of decorations 
 illiistvafiiiii- tiie Kvolution of the Book, Li- 
 liiary (it Conjjress, Wasliinjiton; Portrait 
 of ({ovcnior Norton, City Hall, Albany. He 
 is also r('])resented by portraits in the 
 Chamber of Commerce at New York, Prince- 
 ton University, Harvard University, Car- 
 nejiie Institute. Pittsburgh, and' in many pri- 
 vate collections; portrait of Walt Whitman 
 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New 
 York City and portrait of President Loubet, 
 at the Klysee Palace, Paris. Mr. Alexander 
 married. Nov. 2. 1887, Elizabeth Alexander. 
 Residence: 110 East G5th Street. Studio: 
 Pi;} East ():!d Street. New Y'ork City. 
 
 ALEXANDER, Joshua W. : 
 
 T^awyer and congressman; born in Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio, Jan. 22, 1852; son of Thomas W. 
 and Jane (Rol)inson) Alexander. He was 
 gi-aduated from tlie Christian University 
 of Canton, Mo., A.B. (valadictorian) , 1872. 
 He was admitted to the bar in 187-t at Gal- 
 latin, iSlo. ; was elected public administra- 
 tor of Daviess County, Missouri, in 1876 and 
 reelected in 1880. He was elected to the 
 General Assembly in Missouri in 1S82, and 
 served until 1888, being speaker of the 
 House in the 34th Assembly, 1886-1888. He 
 was mayor of Gallatin, Mo., for two terms, 
 and judge of the 7th judicial circuit of 
 Jlissouri' from 1900 to 1906, when he re- 
 signed, having been elected to the 60th Con- 
 gress from the 3d Missouri District as a 
 Democrat. He was reelected in 1908 to the 
 61st Congress. Judge Alexander was for 
 more than 20 years a member of the Board 
 of Education and he has always been active 
 in church and charitable work. He is senior 
 member of tlie law firm of Alexander & 
 Alexander; is a member and has served 
 several terms as vice-president of the ]SIis- 
 souri Bar Association, twenty years a mem- 
 ber of the Gallatin School Board; and has 
 several times served as president, secretary 
 and member of the Board of Trustees of 
 Christian University. He is a member of 
 the Missouri Society of Washington, D. C. 
 He married in Gallatin, IMo., Feb. 3, 1876, 
 Roe Ann Richardson, daughter of the late 
 Judge Samuel A. Richardson, and has five 
 
 sons and three daughters. Residences: (ial- 
 latin, ^lo. and \\ashing(oii. OITicc: Suite 
 411. House of Represeiilalivcs Oincc Huild- 
 
 iiig. \\ aNhiiiglon. 1). ( '. 
 
 ALEXANDER, Samuel: 
 
 Surgeon: liorn in New York City, April 
 2, 1858; son of Henry INI. and Susan Mary 
 (Brown) Alexander. He was graduated 
 from Princeton University, A.B., 1879, A. 
 M., 1882, and from Bellevue Hospital ^Sled- 
 ical College, jNI.D. 1882. He served as house 
 physician to Bellevue Hospital, 1882-1883; 
 studied at London. Leipzig and Vienna in 
 1883; was appointed attending surgeon at 
 Bellevue Hospital in 1888; professor of 
 surgery of the genito-urinary system at 
 Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1889, 
 and has been professor of clinical surgery 
 in the department of genito-urinary dis- 
 eases at Cornell University Medical College 
 from 1900. He is a fellow of the American 
 Association, member of the New A'ork 
 Academy of Medicine, the American Asso- 
 ciation of Genito-Urinary Surgeons, the So- 
 ciety of Alumni of Bellevue Hospital, Inter- 
 national Surgical Society, International 
 Urological Association, French Surgical So- 
 ciety, and the University and Princeton 
 Clubs. Address: 68 West 55th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 ALEXANDER, William DeWitt: 
 
 Ethnologist, liistori.ui : born in Honolulu. 
 Hawaiian Islands, April 2, 1833; son of 
 William Patterson Alexander (of Ken- 
 tucky) and Mary Ann (AIcKinney) Alex- 
 ander. He was educated at the Punahou 
 School until 1849, and in November of that 
 year sailed for New Bedford. :Mass.. via 
 Cape Horn. He made his home for several 
 years with Rev. \\'. R. DeWitt. D.D., at 
 Harrisburg, Pa. He Avas graduated from 
 Yale College, B.A. and salutatorian. 18.j5. 
 and received from Yale the degrees of ^LA.. 
 1858. and LL.D., 1903. He taught for a 
 year in Beloit College, Wis., and after that 
 in an academy in Vinceinies, hid., and he 
 returned to the Hawaiian Island- in 1858. 
 via Panama. lie was professor of (Jreek 
 in Oahu College. 1858-1864, and its presi- 
 dent 1864-1871, and has beon a trustee of 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 that same institution since 
 
 ISTT). lie was t Alfj;ebra, The Geonu-try of tlic Triangle, a.n( 
 
 snrveyoi-general of the Hawaiian Islands, 
 1S71-1H00. and from inOl to 1907 was as- 
 sistant in the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur- 
 vey. In 1878 he accompanied his brother 
 on a trip through Europe. Palestine and 
 Kgypt. He went to Washington as a com- 
 missioner from the Kingdom of Hawaii to 
 the International Meridiim Conference in 
 18S4. and again for llic Ki public of Hawaii. 
 lSi):M8!)4. He was a member of the Ha- 
 waiian Privy Council, 1S84-1893, of the 
 Board of Education of Honolulu, 1887-1005; 
 and was decorated with the Order of Kala- 
 kana in 1884. He is distinguished for his 
 researches and writings in the history, lan- 
 guages and ethnology of Polynesia, and par- 
 ticularly of the Hawaiian Islands, and has 
 written several volumes on the history and 
 language of Hawaii. Dr. Alexander is a 
 member of the Social Science Association, 
 the Polynesian Society, tlic Astronomic:.! 
 Society of the Pacific, the Koyal Geographi- 
 cal Society of London, Washington Academy 
 ot Sciences. He married at Lahaina, Mavii, and became head of the Department of ^le- 
 
 other mathematical works and revisions. 
 Prof. Aley was Democratic candidate for 
 superintendent of public instruction of Indi- 
 ana in 1000 and 1008 and elected to that 
 office in Nov., 1908. He married at Spencer, 
 Ind.. Aug. 28, 1884, Nellie A. Archer. Ad- 
 dress: Bloomington. Ind. 
 
 ALGER. Philip R. : 
 
 I'njfessor of mathematics, wilii rank of 
 captain, U. S. Navy; born in Boston. Sept. 
 20, 1850. He prepared for college in the 
 Boston Latin school but just before he was 
 ready for entrance, he was given an appoint- 
 niciil at large to the Naval Academy, from 
 which he was graduated in June, 1880, 
 Number One in a class of sixty-two mem- 
 bers, and was promoted to ensign June 26, 
 1884. On Nov. 1, 1890, he was made pro- 
 fessor of mathematics in the Navy and 
 stationed in the Bureau of Ordnance as an 
 ordmince expert. In Nov., 1890, he was as- 
 signed to the L'nited States Naval Academy. 
 
 Hawaiian Islands, .lul; 
 Charlotte Baldwin, and 
 Address: loOS i'uiiah( 
 T. H. 
 
 10, 1800, Abigail 
 
 has four children. 
 
 Street. Hnnnlul\i. 
 
 ALEY. Robert Judson: 
 
 Mathematician; born at Coal City. Ind.. 
 May 11, 1803; .son of Jesse J. and Paulina 
 (Moyer) Aley. He attended \'alparaiso Col- 
 lege, and was graduated in the teacher's 
 course in 1880; was graduated from Indi- 
 ana Cniversity, A.B., ISSS. ;uh1 A.M.. 1800; 
 took post-graduate work in Lcland Stanford 
 L'niversity. and the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, receiving the Ph.D., 1807 from the 
 latter. I'.esides a successful career as a 
 teacher of mathematics. .Mr. Aley was for 
 years mathematical editor of tlic Inland 
 pjducator and Educator-. Journal, and since 
 lOO.'i, has Ijeen editor-in-chief and director of 
 the Educator-Journal, and is now president 
 of its publishing comi)any. lie has licen 
 professor of niathemalics in Indiana liii- 
 versity since 1801. lie is a member of sev 
 eral niatheniatical societies in the United 
 States ami abroad, and is a .'52d-degree Ma- 
 son. He is the author of: Essentials of 
 
 clianics. which place he retained until 1907, 
 witen that department was consolidated with 
 the l)e])artment id' Mathematics. Since 
 1800 he has ben almost constantly on special 
 duty in connection with matters pertaining 
 to ordnance. Prof. Alger is the author of 
 works on exterior ballistics and the elastic 
 strength of guns as well as many articles 
 (in ])rofessional subjects, and is one the 
 k'ading ordnance experts of the world. His 
 calculations and researches have been the 
 basis of much of the progress in naval gun- 
 nery since the Spanish War. He has been 
 for six years the secretary and treasurer of 
 the United States Naval Institute, and has 
 edited its Proceedings and made many trans- 
 lations of technical and professional mat- 
 ters. He is at present on special duty with 
 regard to ordnance in the Navy Department. 
 
 at Washington, 
 children. Addri 
 .\nna])(ilis, ^Id. 
 
 He is married and has five 
 S. Xaval Ae.uleniv. 
 
 I" 
 
 ALLEE. 
 
 .lewel 
 in l)o\' 
 father 
 
 James Frank: 
 
 r 
 
 S. Senator; born 
 Del., is."i7. lie succeeded his 
 tlie watchmaking and jewelry 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 liiisincss wliicli lie now (■(iiidufls. In ISflS 
 :ui(l nuain in 1!H)l: lie was clcclcil lo the 
 Stale Sruali' uf Dclawaii' as a " I'liion " R'- 
 pnhlican. 'I'lial taction of liic llcpublifaii 
 party i-onslit ulcd tlu' force in Dclawurfc \ 
 jiolities. wiiieli tojicther with llie fact of a 
 small Democratic minority, made it possible 
 to carry on an indecisive contest, covering 
 a series of yea is, for tlic (dection of United 
 States senator. Mr. Alice was chairman of 
 the Union licpnlilican forces and in 1903 
 was elected to fill a vacancy in tlie repre- 
 sentation of the State of Delaware in the 
 r. S. Senate, which had been one of the 
 snbjects of the contest referred to. Mr. 
 Allee served as U. S. Senator until the expi- 
 ration of his terin.March 4, 1907, but was 
 not reelected. He married, at Camden, Del., 
 -Ian. IS. 1S82, Lizzie Stevens. Address: 
 Dover. Del. 
 
 ALLEN. Amos Lawrence: 
 
 Lawyer and member of Congress; born at 
 Waterboro, York County, Maine, iSIarch 17. 
 18.'^7. He prepared at Whitestown Semi- 
 nary. \Yhitestown. N. Y.. and from there 
 entered the so]iliomore class of Bowdoin Col- 
 lege, from which he was graduated as A. 13. 
 in 1860. He studied law at Alfred, :Maine. 
 and afterward attended the Law School of 
 ( 'ohnnbia.n (now (ieorge \Yashington ) Lhii- 
 v:'isity. lie was admitted to the bar of 
 York County, Maine, in 186(5; was a clerk in 
 the U. S. Treasury Department, three years; 
 clerk of the courts of York County, Maine. 
 1871-188;!; clerk of the Judiciary Com- 
 mittee of the V. S. House of Representa- 
 tives. 1S8:M884; special examiner of the 
 Pension Bureau, 1884-188.1 ; member of the 
 :\Iain.e Legislature. 1880 and 1887; delegate 
 at large, and member of the committee on 
 resolutions of the Republican National Con- 
 vention at St. Louis, 1890; ])rivate secretary 
 to Speaker Thomas B. I'eed, in the 51st. 
 r)4th and o.5th Congresses. In 1809 he was 
 elected as a Republican to the Fifty- sixth 
 (^ongress to fill the vacancy caused by the 
 resignation of Hon. Thomas B. Reed, has 
 been elected biennially since and is now 
 serving in the Sixty-first Congress. Ad- 
 I'.ress: Alficd. Elaine. 
 
 ALLEN, Andrew Hussey: 
 
 Lawyer and author: born in New 'S'ork 
 (ity. D( c. (i. IS,')."); son of .lulian and .Mary 
 .\. (llusscyi Allen. lie was educated at 
 riiilli|is Academy, .\ndover. Mass., and at 
 Harvard College, graduating A.B., 1878, and 
 .il tlic Law School of Colund)ia College, 
 New ^'ork. Mr. Allen was admitted to the 
 l)ar in North Carolina, in 1888. and has 
 lille<l various ion-political jiositions in the 
 jmblic service, lie was chief of the Ikireau 
 of Rolls anti Library of the Department of 
 State of the I'liited States for thirteen 
 years; memlier of I lie Cnitcd Stales Board 
 on { Jeograjihic Names for eleven years, and 
 was chairman, secretary, and member of the 
 Executive Committee of that board at dif- 
 ferent times. He inaugurated and edited 
 the Uulletin of the Bureau of Rolls and 
 Library: edited the Document;irv History of 
 the Constitution of the United States in 
 ii\e volumes; ami is author of The Diplo- 
 matic nidations between the United State.s 
 and Hawaii; Recognition of Foreign Gov- 
 
 ' friuiients by the (iovernment of the United 
 States; and. Historical Archives of the De- 
 partment of the Stale of the L^nited States. 
 Mr. Allen has contributed verse, etc., to 
 
 magazines; and was a member of the edi- 
 torial stall of the Chicago Tribune for .some 
 months, and resigned from ]ud)lic .service 
 Dec. 2, 1905. He is a member of the Ameri- 
 <an Historical Association, the Society of 
 Authors, and other associations. He was 
 
 •treasurer and one of the organizers of the 
 Harvard Club of Washington. D. C. and 
 has been a member of the University Club 
 of Washington, D. C., since its organiza- 
 tion. Address: Care Second National 
 Bank. New York City. 
 
 ALLEN. Charles: 
 
 Retired ju.stice, Supreme .Judicial Court 
 of ^Massachusetts; born in Greenfield. ^lass., 
 April 17, 1827. He was graduated from 
 Harvard L'niversity in the class of 1847 and 
 received the degree of LL.D. in 1802. Jvidge 
 .Mien studied and practised law in Green- 
 fi(dd, remaining in that town until 1802. 
 when he removed to Boston. He was the 
 reporter of the decisions of the Supreme 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Jiitlicial Court of ^lasfiacluiscds for six 
 yrais, 1801- 1S07, being tlie author of Al- 
 len's Massaeluisctts Reports, in fourteen 
 \i)lnnK'.s. coverinjj the period from 1801 to 
 180!). He was attorney-general of Massa- 
 eiiusetts, 1807-1872, and was chairman of 
 tile committee appointed to revise the stat- 
 utes of Massachusetts in 1881. In 1882 he 
 was appointed to the Supreme Judicial 
 Court of Massachusetts, serving until his 
 retirement in 1898. dudge Allen is the 
 author of: ]{e])ort on the Telegraph Cases, 
 1873, and has also published a volume on 
 the ]5acon-iSliakespeare question. Address: 
 'riic Charh'sgate. Boston. 
 
 ALLEN, Charles Herbert: 
 
 banker: horn in Lowell. i\lass., April 
 1."). 1848: son of (Mis and Louise (Bixby) 
 Allen. lie was graduated from Amherst 
 College in ISO!), the degree of A.M. being 
 later <onferred upon him. and in IflOi) he 
 received tlio degree of LL.l). from his alma 
 mater. Mr. Allen's early business life was 
 spent as a lumber meichant at Lowell. 
 and while so engaged he uas clccti'd mem- 
 ber of the Massachusetts (i(>neral C'ourt, 
 1881 to 1882; member of the ^Massachusetts 
 iState Senate. 1883; was elected member 
 of Congress, 1S84, and served two terms, 
 holding ini|)ortant 2)lace on the committees 
 on Indian Affairs and Post Offices. He 
 was the Republican candidate for Governor 
 of Massachusetts in 18!)1. but defeated by 
 a small majority by Governor Kussell. He 
 succeeded Theodore Roosevelt as assistant 
 secretary of the Navy, 1898, and served 
 during the war with Spain; was, in li)()0. 
 made first civil goveinor of Porto Rico 
 under American authority and organizid 
 tlie new (iovernment, and for these serv- 
 ices was ollered by President McKinley the 
 choice of several diplomatic appointments, 
 but preferred to return to private life. 
 Sinci- 1!)(J2 he has been president of the 
 Applelon .National l!aid< at lvo\v(dI. and 
 since l-'eb.. 1!M)4. vice-iucsidenl and dircctnr 
 of the .Morton Trust ('om|(;iny. in New 
 ^'ork City. lie is also ilirector of the 
 National Hank of Couunerce. the American 
 Surety Company. Cnioii Kxchange Rank, 
 Imluslrial Trust Co. He is a trustee of 
 
 Andierst College, Andierst. .Mass., and of 
 Smith College, Northampton, Mass. Gov- 
 ernor Allen married, Nov. 10, 1870. Har- 
 riet t'oleman Dean, and has two daughler-. 
 Residence: 48 ^^■. 4()tli Street. ()llic<-: :i8 
 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 ALLEN, Edmund Thompson: 
 
 Lawyer; boiii in Fairhaven, Mass., Aui. 
 10, 18:i(); son of Edmund and Sarah Ru- 
 sell (Freeman) Allen. He was educated in 
 Friends' Academj-, New Bedford, Williston 
 Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.. and Yale 
 College (A.M), Class of 18.-)7. lie was ad- 
 mitted to the Massachusetts Bar in ISoO: 
 practised law in New Bedford, ^lass.. until 
 1863; was shortliaud wiiter in the niilitarj; 
 courts in St. i.ouis. ]S(i:;- ISC.ii. ami after 
 that practised law in St. Louis, now bein,' 
 senim- of tlie law lirui uf E. T. and C. B. 
 Allen. ^Ir. Allen has also taken a j)o-;ition 
 of some prominence in the business world, 
 and was a director and the secret irv of 
 the Crystal Plate Glass Conip:ni> . ami a 
 director of the South St. Louis Iron Com- 
 l)any and of llie I'nion Dairy Company. 
 He is a member of the St. Louis and ]\Iis- 
 souri Bar Associations, the St. i.ouis Liw 
 Library Association, New England Socity, 
 and the St. Louis, Union and Noonday 
 Clubs of St. Louis, ^fr. Allen married in 
 Boston. Jan. \'A. ISti:!, Sylvia '!'. How en 
 (now deceased) and has twi^ sons ai:d a 
 daughter. Residence: 280,") Russell Ave- 
 nue. Office: \\'ainwiight Building, St. 
 Louis, Mo. 
 
 ALLEN, Edward P.: 
 
 Iloinan Calliolic IJisliop of .\!nl)ilei lorn 
 in Lowell. Mass.. March 17. IS."):!; son of 
 John and Mary il'"-gau) Alien. lie was 
 graduated from Ml. St. .Mnry's College, 
 Emmetsburg, .Md.. dune 20. 1S7S. AfCr a 
 four-year course in theology, h- was or- 
 dain(Hl a jji-iest. Dec. 17. ISSl. lie did 
 not tider at once on a pasloi-ale but re- 
 mained al Ml. SI. Mary's ( 'oliege as one 
 (it liie faciilly uiitii tlie s|iring of 1882. 
 In thai yeai- lie became an assistant at th"" 
 ealiicdral al r.ost(m and liter was assigned 
 to .service at Kramingham. ]\Iass. In 1881 
 he was made acting juesident of Ml. St. 
 
AIEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 29 
 
 Alaiy's Collei^t', and iu .hiiif. 1885, he was 
 elected president, serving until May 16, 
 1S!)7, when ho was conseerated the fifth 
 lu^liop of .Moliih'. Address: ]\l(ibih', Ala. 
 
 ALLEN, F. Sturges: 
 
 Lexicograplier and law writer; born in 
 Norwalk, Conn., Oct. 1, 1801; .'^on of Al- 
 fred Bnrr and Caroline (Stnrges) Allen, 
 lie was graduated witli tlie degree of A.B. 
 from Yale in 1884, and fj-oni tlie Yale Law 
 School in 1892 with the degree of LL.D. 
 l''roni his graduation from Yale until 1890, 
 he was employed as an editor on Webster's 
 International Dictionary, and he has edited 
 or abridged various smaller Webster's dic- 
 tionaries. He was chief editor, under Dr. 
 W. T. Harris, of the supplement to Web- 
 ster's International Dictionary published 
 1900. He was admitted to the bars of 
 Connecticut and New York in 1892, and 
 practised law until 1902, when he began 
 (o de\ote his entire time to editorial work 
 and writings. He was meanwliile contrib- 
 utor to and editor of the law articles in 
 Johnson's University Encyclopaedia, and 
 was a contributor to the 'aw department 
 of Appleton's Universal Ency.^lopa^dia Sup- 
 plement. He was also editor of the law 
 departuK'nt of the New International Eney- j 
 elojia^dia, and contributed to the depart- [ 
 ment of pronunciation in the same 
 l>ublication. Mr. Allen has also been a 
 friMpient contributor of articles to various I 
 |iul)lications in the lines above indicated. ' 
 and is author of Principles of Spelling Re- ' 
 form. 1907. He is a member of the Mod- i 
 em Language Association, Americnn Phil- 
 ological Association, American Bar Associa- 
 tion, International Law Association, British i 
 Modern Language Association, Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society, Association of the Bar of 
 the City of New York and Yale Club of New- 
 York. He married at North Adams, Mass.. 
 April 9, 189.5, Annie ]\I. White. Address; 
 Yale Club, New York City. 
 
 ALLEN, Frederick Innes: 
 
 l''onner United States connnissioner of 
 jiatents; born in Auburn, N. Y., Jan. 19, 
 18.")9; son of William Allen. He was edu- 
 cated at the Auburn High School and at 
 
 l'liilli])s Academy, Andover, Mass., and 
 from there entered the Shelfield Seientic 
 School of Yale University, from wliieh he 
 was graduated with the degree of B.S. in 
 1879, reciving the class prize in mineralogy 
 on graduation. He studied law and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1882, and practi.sed 
 patent law at Auburn until March, 1901, 
 wlien he was appointed as U. S. Commis- 
 sioner of Patents, resigning in 1908 to re- 
 sume the practice of patent law in Au- 
 burn. He represented the United States 
 at the Congress of the International Asso- 
 ciation for the Protection of Industrial 
 Pioperty at Berlin, and at Berne, Switzer- 
 land, in 1904. He married at Auburn, N. 
 Y., June 3, 1884, Cornelia Margaret, daugh- 
 ter of General William H. Seward. Ad- 
 dress; Auburn, N. Y. 
 
 ALLEN, Henry Crosby: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-congressman; born in 
 Paterson, N. J., May 13, 1872; son of 
 Samuel Coit ^Morgan ami Josephine Amelia 
 (Crosby) Allen. He was graduated from 
 Saint Paul's School, Garden City, Long 
 Island, in 1889; from Yale, with the de- 
 gree of B.A. in 1893, and from the New 
 Vork Law School as LL.B. in 1895, since 
 which year he has been engaged in the 
 practice of law at Paterson, N. J. He 
 is a Republican in politics, and in 1904 was 
 elected from the Sixth New Jersey District 
 (which is normally Democratic) to the 
 ]''ifty-ninfh Congress, in which he served 
 from 1905 to 1907. He is a member of the 
 Hamilton ami North Jersey Country Clubs 
 and various political organizations of Pater- 
 son. Residence; Little Falls, N. J. Of- 
 fices; Silk City Trust Buildinr;-. Paterson. 
 X. J. 
 
 ALLEN, Henry Tureman: 
 
 Army oHicer; born at Sharpsburg. Ky., 
 April 13, 1859. He was prepared at Peeks- 
 kill ililitary Academy and Georgetown Col- 
 lege, Kentucky, and was graduated from 
 the United States Military Academy in 
 1882; and he receiA^ed from Georgetown 
 College, Kentucky, the degree of A.M. in 
 1898. He was appointed second lieutenant 
 of tlie Second United States Cavalry, June 
 13, 1882; first lieutenant, June 22, 1889. 
 
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 -MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ami captain (itli Cavalry, 1S!)8; major 8tli 
 Cavalry. 1907. lie was engaged in the 
 exploration of .\laska in 1885 and 1880. 
 In tlic S])anish-Amcrican War lie became 
 major and assistant adjutant-general of 
 volunteers, .Tune :i. 18!)8. particii)ated 
 throughout the Santiago Compaigii, and 
 was honorably discharged June 13, 1899; 
 he was commissioned nuijor of the Forty- 
 third I'uited States Infantry Volunteers. 
 August 17, IS!)!); lieutenant-colonel. May 
 31, 1901, and honorably discharged June 
 30, 1!)01. serving in the Philippines. He 
 was governor of llic Island of Leyte, in the 
 Philippines, from April to July, 1901, and 
 July, 1!)01, was aii])ointed chief of the 
 Philii)i)ines Constabulary, and bv^ Act of 
 Congress, approved- Jan. 30, 1903, he was 
 appointed, Jan. 31. 1903. chief of the Philip- 
 pines Constabulary, with the rank of briga- 
 dier-general. He resigned as chief of con- 
 stabulaiy. .Tiuie 30, 1907. He served as 
 military attache at St. Petersburg, Russia. 
 1890-189;"): military attache at Berlin, 1897- 
 189S); military attacli^^ at Seoul, Tvorea, 
 1904, while engaged in watching the Japa- 
 nese operations against liussia. He is the 
 author of a Report on the Iteconnaissanee j 
 of Copper, Tanaiia and Koyukuk Pi\ers. 
 published in ISSli; and a work on Ihc 
 Military System of Swrden. jiublislied in 
 18!)'). lie is a mi'iiiliei- of tli" AiiuTJcan 
 (leograT)hical So<ie1y. and medailisl of tlif 
 Im])erial I'ussiaii Ceogiaiihical Society. 
 General Allen mairied in Chicago. July 1'2. 
 1887, Dora Johnston. Address: War Do- 
 partmenl, Washington. I). C. 
 
 ALLEN, Horace Newton: 
 
 Diplomat and missionary: born in 1) la 
 ware, Ohio, April '23, 18,')8; son of Horace 
 and Jane M. (Riley) Allen. He was grad- i 
 uated from Ohio \\'esleyan University, 
 B.S., and from Miami INIedical College, 
 M.D., and then went as a medical mission 
 ary one year to China and three years to 
 Korea, \inder the Presbyterian Board. 
 Having saved tlie life of a wounded Korean 
 I)rince l)y his surgical skill, he was, in 
 1884, appointed court physician and ad 
 viser to the Korean Covernnient . He wis 
 appointed in charge of the Korean Km- 
 
 bassy to Washington, 1888, was secretary 
 of the American Legation at Korea, 1890- 
 1897; minister resident and consul-gensral. 
 1H!)7-1!)()1. ami envoy extraordinary and 
 minister idenipotentiary to Korea, 1901- 
 lOO;!. He was twenty-one years a resident 
 o'f Korea, and fifteen years in the United 
 States diplomatic service. Dr. Allen was 
 honorary connnissioner of Korea to the 
 Worbrs Colunihiau Exposition, 1893. He 
 ncc'ivcd the iiighest decoration of the 
 Korean ( lovei iiiiient. as well as four lesser 
 ones, and he is an extensive traveler, having 
 crossed the Pacific tw(dve time§ and the 
 Atlantic twice. He is a director in several 
 mining companies, a member of the Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society, the National Geo- 
 giapliie Society, the Toledo and Country 
 (lulls of Toledo, the Seoul Club and th^ 
 Cheninlpo Chdi. He is the author of: 
 Koi( 111 Tales, 1889; Chronological Index 
 of Koiran Foieign Relations from the Be- 
 ginning of the Christian Era to the Twen- 
 tieth Century, 19(10, and Supplement to 
 Same, 1!)03: Koii-a — Fact and Fancy, 
 1904: Tliiii-s Korean. 190S, Dr. Allen mar- 
 ried in Chuk-^lieid. Ohio. May 17, 188:!. 
 Frances Ann Messenger, and they have two 
 sons. Address: Toledo Club. Toledo, Ohio. 
 ALLEN. James: 
 
 r>ii;_;' idier-gciicrai and cliief signal oUlc;'!-. 
 r. S. A.: born at Lapoiie, Ind., Kel). 1:1. 
 1849; son of Mark and Matilda Allen. He 
 was graduated liom the I'. S. .Mili(;iry 
 -Academy in IST'i, and after that served as 
 a ea\alry ollieer until 1S!II). Since then 
 he has been in the Signal Corps in all 
 iaid-;s from eajitain to his jjresent position 
 as brigadier-general and chief signal of- 
 tieir. to which he was appointed Feb. 10, 
 1900. He served as lieiitemuit -colonel and 
 colonel chief signal ollieer of Volunteers 
 ill Cuba and Porto Kieo in 1898 and 1899, 
 and as brigadier-general of Volunteers in 
 the Philippines ill H.IOl. (leiieral Allen has 
 a distinguished record in the corps in which 
 he is now the chief ollieer. Address; War 
 Department, Washington. 1). C. 
 
 ALLEN. James Lane: 
 
 Aiilhoi-; iioin near LexiTigton, Ky., in 
 isiii; ycningot cliild of Richard and Henry 
 
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 31 
 
 (Foster) Allen. His education was ac- 
 quired in Transylvania University, wliere 
 he received the degrees of A.B. and A.M. 
 The (h>a11i of his father when he was twen- 
 ty-one ])lac('(l Ihe support of liis niotliei' 
 and sister in his liands, and he tau<;li( in 
 public schools and was later a private tutor, 
 and afterward taught Latin and higher 
 English in Bethany College, West Virginia, 
 for two years, and since then has been en 
 gaged in literature. His published volumes 
 include: Flute and Violin and Other Ken- 
 tucky Tales and Koniances; The Blue Grass 
 llegions of Kentucky, and Other Kentucky 
 Articles; John Gray, a Kentucky Tale of 
 the Olden Time; A Kentucky Cardinal; A 
 S\unnier in Arcady; The Choir Invisible; 
 The Increasing Purpose ; Aftermath ( Sec- 
 ond Part of a Kentucky Cardinal) ; The 
 Mettle of the Pasture ; The Reign of Law ; 
 The Bride of the Mistletoe. The Choir In- 
 visible was dramatized in 1899. Address: 
 Care of Macmillan and Company, GO Fifth 
 Av., New York City. 
 
 ALLEN, Joel Asaph: 
 
 Naturalist; born in Springfield, Massa- 
 chusetts, July 19, 1838; son of Joel and 
 Harriet (Trumbull) Allen. He was edu- 
 cated at Wilbraham Academy and Law- 
 rence Scientific School, Harvard, from 18G2 
 to 18G7, specializing in zoology under Agas- 
 si/, and was Humboldt scholar of the same 
 in 1871 ; and later he received the degree 
 of Ph.D. from Indiana University. He was 
 assistant to Professor Agassiz on the scien- 
 tific expedition to Brazil in 1865, made 
 scientific researches in Florida in 1869 and 
 was chief of the scientific staflF of the Gov- 
 ernment Expedition, on the Northern Pa- 
 cific Railroad Survey in 1873. He was 
 special collaborator of the United States 
 Geological Survey, under Hayden, 1878 to 
 1883. He was assistant in ornithology in 
 the INIuseum of Comparative Zoology at 
 Harvard, 1871 to 1885, and has been cura- 
 tor of mammalogy and ornithology in the 
 American Museum of Natural History, New 
 York City, since 1885. Dr. Allen was editor 
 of the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornitholog- 
 ical Club. 1S7G-1883; The Auk. ornitholog- 
 ical quarterly, 1888-1906, and the Bulletin 
 
 and ^Icnioirs (/.o'llogical series) of the 
 AiiH'i iciiii MiiscuiH (if Natural History since 
 1SS7. lie has written a hirge nuiiilw'r of 
 niDiiogra plis, rc\icws and contributiitns re- 
 lating to mamuuUogy and ornitiiology, more 
 especially on geograpiiical zoiilogy. North 
 American Kodentia and I'iiMiipcdia, the 
 mannuals of Patagonia, tlic inanimals and 
 birds of Xorthcastern Siiici-ia :ind of Co- 
 loniliia. and on the ^iMins I)id(dpliys. Dr. 
 Allen is a fellow of the American Ornithol- 
 ogists' Union (president, 1883 to 1891); 
 has l)een a inendxT of the National Acad- 
 i^my of Sciences since 1876; is an honorary 
 meudicr of tlie J?ri1ish Ornithologists' 
 Union, the Deutsche Ornitliologische Ge- 
 sellschaft, the New York Zoological So- 
 cietj' and the Zoological Society of London, 
 and is member of the American Society of 
 Xaturalists, American Society of Geog- 
 rapliers, American Academy of Arts and 
 Sciences, American Philosophical Society, 
 New York Academy of Sciences (vicc- 
 picsideiit in 1891), the LinncLcn Society of 
 Natural History of New York (president, 
 1890 to 1897). and of the Washington 
 Academy of Sciences. Dr. Allen was 
 awarded the Walker Grand Prize of the 
 Boston Society of Natural History in 1903. 
 He married first at Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 
 0. 1S74. ^lary Manning Cleveland (who 
 died April 17, 1879), by whom he has a 
 son. He again married at Cornwall-on- 
 Hudson, N. Y., April 27, ISSG, Susie Au- 
 gusta Taft. Address: Ameiican Museum 
 of Natural Historv, New ^'ork (itv. 
 
 ALLEN, John Mills: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-congressman: born in 
 Tishomingo County, ]\Iiss., July 8. 184G; 
 son of David M. and Sallie Ann (Spencer) 
 Allen. He enlisted in the Confederate army 
 shortly after the opening of the war. and 
 served as a private for four years. He re- 
 ceived his legal education at Cumberland 
 University. Lebanon. Tenn., and at the Uni- 
 versity of ^Mississippi. LL.B., 1870. He was 
 admitted to the bar in that year and has 
 since practised law at Tupelo. In 1876 he 
 was elected prosecuting attorney in the 
 First Mississippi district, and in 1885 was 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 elected to Congress as a Denioerat from the 
 First Mississi])in district, serving until 
 lilOl, when he voluntarily retired. During 
 liis service in Congress he became nationally 
 famous as an orator and humorist, and 
 was know u us " Private John Allen " a-s a 
 result of his humorous allusions to his 
 service in the Civil War and to the nuni 
 ber of military titles which had been de- 
 veloped from that contest. Mr. Allen re- 
 tired from Congress to devote his time to 
 hiw practice and to a considerable num- 
 ber of financial interests with which he is 
 connected, among them being banking in- 
 stitutions, of Tupelo, the Tupelo Cotton 
 .Mills, and the Tupelo Fertilizer Factory. 
 -Mr. Allen was a member of the National 
 Commission of the Louisiana Purcliase 
 E.xposition. He married in Tupelo, INIiss., 
 Dec. 24, 1872, Georgie Taylor. Address: 
 Tupelo, i\Iiss. 
 
 ALLEN, Robert McDowell: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Edinburg, ]Mo., Oct. 29, 
 1878; son of Reverend Nelson McDowell 
 and Caroline Josephine (PeUy) Allen. He 
 was graduated from Kentucky State Col- 
 lege, A.JJ. in 1900, and taking up the study 
 of law was admitted to the bar of Ken- 
 tucky the following year. At tlu> time of 
 liis graduation he was appointed to a posi- 
 tion in the jjure food inspection work of 
 the Kentucky Agricultural Experinu-nt Sta- 
 tion and was later made the liead of the 
 Division of State Food Inspection of the 
 Station ; was special counsel for the State of 
 Kentucky in the prosecution in 1907 which 
 broke up still-slop dairying thiouglHiui llic 
 Stale; sj)ecial counsel for tlie State in de- 
 tcniiitiing the constitutionality of tiie ixen- 
 tucky food law before the State and Fed- 
 eral courts in 1900 and 1907. Special 
 counsel for the U. S. Government in litiga- 
 tion under Federal Food and Drugs Act. 
 and in cerlain Internal Revenue cases, since 
 l''elj.. 190S. lias l)een secretary and a mem- 
 ber of the lOxecutive Conuiiitteo of the 
 -Association of State and National Food 
 and Dairy Departments since 1901, and as 
 sucii represented the Association in its fight 
 for national j)nre food legislation. He was 
 secretarv of the international Pure Food 
 
 Congress of the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 
 tion; member of the committee appointed 
 by the State Food Commissioners to draft 
 a uniform State food and drug law. He 
 has written ninnerous reports and addresses 
 on food control work. Address: Lexing- 
 ton, Ky. 
 
 ALLEN, Thomas: 
 
 Artist; born at St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 19, 
 1849. He attended Washington University, 
 St. Louis, was graduated from the Royal 
 Academy at Dusseldorf, Germany, 1877, 
 and also studied three years in France. He 
 has attained distinction as a painter 
 of landscapes and animal pictures, exhib- 
 iting at the National Academy of Design 
 in New York in 1877. He has resided in 
 \ Roston since 1880. Mr. Allen exhibited 
 at the Paris Salons in 1882, 1887 and 1889, 
 has been a member of the Society of Amer- 
 ican Artists since 1880, and associate of the 
 National Academy since 1884; is president 
 of the Paint and Clay Club and the Bos- 
 Ion Society of Water Color Painters ; vice- 
 president of the Copley Society of Boston ; 
 chairman of the Council of the School of 
 Drawing and Painting at the Boston Mu- 
 seum of Fine Arts. He received medals 
 from the Pan-American Exposition at Buf- 
 falo and at Boston, was judge of awards at 
 tlie World's Columbian Exposition, Chi- 
 cago, in 1893, and chairman of the Inter- 
 national Jury of Awards at the Louisiana 
 Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904; 
 also chairman of the Department Jury of 
 Fine Arts at St. Louis in 1904. INIr. Allen 
 lias been twice married, iirst in 18S0 to 
 l^leanor G. Whitney, daughter of Professor 
 .1. I). Whitney, of Harvard, and second, in 
 1884, to Alice Ranney, daughter of the 
 Hon. A. A. Ranney of Boston. Address: 
 12 Commonwealth Av., lioston, Mass. 
 
 ALLEN, Viola: 
 
 .\ctrcss; born in ilunt>.ville. Ala., wliilo 
 iier parents were en tour. She is the daugh- 
 ter of C. Leslie and Sarah (Lyon) Allen, 
 her father being one of the best-known 
 actors on the American stage for more than 
 lifty years. Miss Allen was educated at 
 Wvckham House, Toronto, Canada, and in 
 
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 privjilo schools in New York City. The 
 lalfiil fur 11h' st:i,i.;c which she inlierited 
 linni licr rallicr was iiulicaU'd in (>ail\' life, 
 a nil liclorc slir was If) years old her debut 
 cnne about uncx|)ec(edly in a sudden call 
 to assume an ini;viuie role in a jtieee in 
 wiiieh her fatiier was then playing, in which 
 she made an inunediate succ;>ss. After a 
 season on the road, Miss Allen became Icad- 
 ino- lady for John McCullongh in what 
 l)roved to he his last season, and with him 
 ajipeared as "Virginia," " Desdemona," 
 •• Tarthenia," and as " Julia " in Dr. Bird's 
 version of The Gladiator. After that she 
 jilayed most of the Shakesperean roles with 
 Toinasso Salvini, the Italian tragedian. 
 Later she joined Lawrence Barrett in a 
 special proiluction of The Blot on the 
 'Scutiheon. and then, after a season in the 
 ISoston Museum Stock Company, in which 
 siie created in America the part of " Mrs. 
 l-'rrol " in Little Lord Fanntleroy, Miss 
 Allen supported Joseph Jefl"erson and Wil- 
 liam Florence in their joint starring tour 
 in The Rivals and The Heir at Law. 1889; 
 a]>peared in a special comjiany in Bronson 
 Howard's Aristocracy, 1892; leading lady 
 at the Empire Theati'e in New York City, 
 1S93. where she created and was very suc- 
 cessful in roles in Liberty Hall, The Mas- 
 (]ueraders. Sowing tlie Wind, The Con- 
 querors, and LTnder the Red Robe. In 1898 
 she withdrew from the Empire Company in 
 order to star in The Christian, by Hall 
 Caine, in Avhich she first appeared in Al- 
 bany, N. Y., and after two years of suc- 
 cess in that play she starred in The Palace 
 of the King, 1900, and The Eternal City, 
 
 1902. After that Miss Allen began a series 
 of Shakespearean revivals, ])roducing, in 
 
 1903, TM-elfth Night in whu-h she played 
 the part of '' Viola," and in 1904 A Win- 
 ter's Tale, in which she played the two 
 ])arts of " Hermione " and " Perdita." 
 In following seasons she produced Cym- 
 bcline. As You Like It, The School for 
 Scandal, The Merchant of Venice, The 
 Toast of tlu' Town, and Irene Wycherly. 
 Her dramatic work has run the gamut of 
 comedy, tragedy, modern classic and 
 Shakesperian roles. Address: 2 West 38th 
 Street. New York City. 
 
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 ALLEN, William Frederick: 
 
 Editor and civil engineer; born at ]i()\- 
 dcnlowu, N. .1.. Oct. 9. IS-tC; son ol ('(do- 
 nel .rose])h W'arnci' and Sarali Huiiis ( \or- 
 cross) Allen. lie was educated at tlin 
 Model School, at lionlentown, N. J., ami 
 the Protestant Episcopal Academy, I'liila- 
 delphia, and in 190G the degree of ]\LS. 
 was conferred upon him by Princeton l^ni- 
 versity. He served as first lieutenant of 
 New Jersey Militia, 1861-1804. Mr. Allen 
 engaged in practice as a civil engineer, 
 was rodman and assistant engineer of the 
 Camden and Amboy Railroad, 1862-1808; 
 resident engineer of the West Jersey Rail- 
 road, 18G8-1872; assistant editor, 1872- 
 1873. and since 1873 editor of the Official 
 Railway Gtuide and manager and director 
 of the National Railway Publication Com- 
 jiany. Since 1875 he has been secretary of 
 the General Time Convention and its suc- 
 cessor, the American Railway Association. 
 In April, 1883, he proposed the detailed 
 system of Standard Time now in use, and 
 was appointed to secure its adoption by 
 the General Time Convention, which result 
 followed Nov. 18, 1883. Mr. Allen was a 
 delegate of The American Railway Associa- 
 tion to the International Railway Con- 
 gresses, London. 1895. Paris, 1900, and 
 Washington, 1905. He was secretary of 
 the American Section and associate secre- 
 tary-general of the International Railway 
 Congress in 1905, and delegate of the U. S. 
 Government to the International Meridian 
 Conference at Washington. 1884, and to the 
 International Railway Congress at Paris, in 
 1900. Besides his distinguished services 
 in planning and securing the adojition of 
 the present system of Standard Time in 
 North America in 1883, he has rendered 
 valuable service in securing uniformity in 
 rules for the operation of American rail- 
 ways. He was a member of the Board of 
 Assessment and afterward of the Board of 
 Trustees of the Village of South Orange. N. 
 J., and was a delegate from the Eighth 
 New Jersey Congressional District to the 
 National Republican Convention in Chi- 
 cago. 1908. He founded and laid out the 
 ))lan of the town of Wenonah. (Jloucester 
 Counlv. X. J. He is a trustee of the 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Sitiitli Oran<j:e Free Library; secretary- 
 Inasurer of the American Railway Asso- 
 ciation; secretary and' treasurer of the 
 Bureau for the Safe Transportation of 
 Kxplosives; director and manager of tlu^ Na- 
 tional Railway Publication Company: vice- 
 pi esident and chairman of the Board of the 
 I {ail way Equipment and Publication Com- 
 pany: treasurer of the American Railway 
 Supply Comi)any; president of the Knicker- 
 bocker (iuide Company, and Manhattan Fire 
 Alarm Company; vice-president of the New 
 \nik Transfer Company, and president of 
 thf Meadow Land Society of South Orange. 
 He was decorated by the Belgian Govern- 
 ment as a chevalier of the Order of Leo- 
 pold, is an honorary member of the Royal 
 and Imperial Geographical Society of 
 N'ienna, and a member of the American 
 Society of Civil Engineers, American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science. 
 American ]\Ieteorological Society, Amercian 
 (ieographieal Society, National Geographic 
 Society. American Economic Association, 
 tlie Navy League, New Jersey Historical 
 Society, American Statistical Association, 
 .\merican Forestry Association, American 
 Academy of Political and Social Science, 
 and Washington Academy of Science, is 
 l)ast master of the American Railway 
 Guild; member of the Municipal Art So- 
 ciety ; New England Society of Orange, N. 
 J.; Pennsylvania Society of New York; 
 Companion of the Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion; and a member of the Masonic 
 Order. Mr. Allen is also a member of the 
 Lawyers', Transportation, Engineers', and 
 Railroad Clubs of New Yoik, Union League 
 Club of Chicago and the South Orange Field 
 (lull. .Mr. Allen married, at Salem, N. J., 
 .\pril 2U, 1871, Caroline Perry Yorke, and 
 has four sons. Residence: 180 Scotland 
 Road, South Orange, N. J. Address: 24 
 I'ark Place. New Vork City. 
 
 ALLEN, William Harvey: 
 
 Social worker, secretary of the New York 
 I'ureau of Municipal Research; born at 
 L<' Roy, Minn., I'Vb. 9. 1874; son of John 
 I), and Joanna (Corbett) .Mien. He was 
 graduated from the L'niversily of Chicago, 
 B..\., 1807; was a graduate student of the 
 
 L'niversities of Leipzig, Berlin and Penn- 
 sylvania, and received the degree of Ph.D. 
 He was an instructor in the University of 
 Pennsylvania; secretary of the New Jersey 
 State Charities Aid Association; editor of 
 the New Jersey Review of Charities and 
 Corrections; editor of Charities; general 
 agent of the New York Association for im- 
 proving the Condition of the Poor; secre- 
 tary of the National Municipal League 
 Committee on Instruction in Municipal 
 (jovernment ; instructor in New York 
 School of Philanthropy; instructor in the 
 Correspondence Study Department of the 
 University of Chicago; secretary of the 
 Committee on Hospital Needs and Hospital 
 Finances of New York City; secretary of 
 the Committee on Physical Welfare of 
 School Children of New York City, and 
 contributor to magazines on social topics. 
 He is a member of tlie American Academy 
 of Political and Social Science; the Amer- 
 ican Sociological Association; National 
 Municipal League ; member of the Chi Psi 
 fraternity, of the Faculty Council of the 
 School of Philanthropy and of the Century 
 Club of New York City. Mr. Allen is au 
 tlior of: Elficient Democracy; Rural Sani-, 
 tary Administration in Pennsylvania; Civ- 
 ics and Health; and joint author of School 
 Reports and School Efficiency. He mar- 
 ried, Oct. 28, 1903, Isabel Dangaix and they 
 have two sons. Address: 2G1 Broadway. 
 New York City. 
 
 ALLEN, William Vincent: 
 
 Former United States senator; born in 
 Midway, Madison County, Ohio, Jan. 28. 
 1847, and removed with his family to Iowa 
 in 1857. He was educated at the Upper 
 Iowa University, and was a private in the 
 32d Iowa Infantry in the Civil War. Mr. 
 Allen was admitted to the bar, ^lay M. 
 1809, and practised law in Iowa until 1884, 
 when he moved to Nebraska and practised 
 law until he was elected judge of the 9th 
 Jiulicial District of that State, in 1891. He 
 became prominent in the Populist, or Peo- 
 ple's party in Nebraska, and was elected 
 United States senator 1893, serving as the 
 result of this election. ;nul of a subsequent 
 appointment, until March 27, 1901. While 
 
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 lie was a inoiiibcr of the Senate, he was the 
 cliief exponent of tlic doctrines of the Pop- 
 nlist party in that body, and attracted na- 
 tional attention by his advocacy of those 
 tenets. Mr. Allen was president of the 
 State Convention of Populists in Nebraska 
 in 1892, 1894 and 1900, and was permanent 
 chairman of the Populist National Conven- 
 tion of 1896. He has continued to main- 
 tain his afhliation with the political party 
 named, and is now a member of the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee of 'the Populist Natiorial 
 Committee. Address : Madison, Neb. 
 
 ALLPORT, Frank: 
 
 Physician and surgeon; born at Water- 
 town, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1856. He received 
 his education at the Chicago University 
 and at Racine (Wis.) College, when, com- 
 pleting his academic studies, he took up 
 that of medicine at the Chicago Medical 
 College, where he received the degree of M. 
 D. in 1870. This he followed by two years 
 of post-graduate work at Heidelberg, Ger- 
 many, after which he returned to the Unit- 
 ed States and in 1878 began to practise at 
 Sycamore, 111. In 1883, he removed to 
 Minneapolis, Minn., where he began to prac- 
 tise in his specialty, diseases of the eye 
 and ear, in which he is widely known. He 
 was also professor of ophthalmology ana 
 otology at the Minneapolis State Uni- 
 versity, and surgeon of diseases of the eye 
 and ear at numerous hospitals and insti- 
 tutions. He went in 1898, to Chicago, and 
 was called to the chair of professor of 
 ophthalmology and otology in Northwestern 
 Universitj' Woman's Medical School, which 
 he held until that school went out of exist- 
 ence. He was also professor of ophthal- 
 mology in the Chicago Polyclinic, from 
 which he resigned some years ago. He was 
 professor of otology and clinical professor 
 of ophthamologj' and otology in the North- 
 western University Medical School but has 
 recently resigned. He is also surgeon of 
 diseases of the eye and ear at St. Luke's 
 Hospital and various other institutions. 
 He is, besides, consulting eye and ear sur- 
 geon for the Board of Education of Chi- 
 cago. Dr. Allport is one of the best known 
 and most successful specialists in the 
 
 United States. He was married at Syca- 
 more, 111., to Kate A. Ellwood. Residence: 
 2108 Prairie Avenue. Address: Chicago 
 Savings Bank Building, Chicago, 111. 
 
 ALTSHELER, Joseph Alexander: 
 
 Editor; born in Three Springs, Ky., April 
 29, 1802; son of Joseph A. and Lucy 
 (Snoddy) Altshcler. He was educated at 
 Liberty College, Glasgow, Ky., and at Van- 
 derbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. Upon 
 leaving the university he entered journal- 
 ism, and was connected with the Louis- 
 ville Evening Post and the Louisville 
 Courier-Journal. He entered the service 
 of the New York World in 1892, and for 
 the past fourteen years has been manager 
 and editor of the Thrice-a-week edition of 
 that newspaper. He is the author of: The 
 Sun of Saratoga; In Hostile Red; A Sol- 
 dier of Manhattan; A Herald of the West; 
 The Last Rebel; In Circling Camps; The 
 Wilderness Road; My Captive; Before the 
 Dawn; Guthrie of the Times; The Candi- 
 date; The I'oung Tradiers; The Forest 
 Runners; and The Recovery. He married 
 in Glasgow, Ky., May 30, 1888, Sarah Boles, 
 and has one son. Residence: 320 Manhat- 
 tan Avenue. Office: Pulitizer Building, 
 New York City. 
 
 ALVORD, John Watson: 
 
 Hydraulic and sanitary engineer; born 
 in Newton Center, Mass., Jan. 25, 1861; 
 son of Rev. John Watson and jNIyrtilla 
 Mead (Peck) Alvord. He was educated at a 
 preparatory school in Washington, D. C, 
 and fitted himself by study and practical 
 experience for the profession of engineer- 
 ing, in which he has become an expert in 
 hydraulic sewerage and sewage disposal 
 practice. He was assistant engineer of con- 
 struction of the Hyde Park and Lake View 
 pumping stations of the Chicago Water 
 Works, and was chief engineer of surveys 
 at the World's Columbian Exposition. 
 Since 1894 he has been consulting engineer 
 for over one hundred municipalities, on 
 water supply and besides has served power 
 companies, been a member of many ap- 
 praisal boards on water properties. Among 
 other important undertakings he has been 
 
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 consulting engineer on tlie Illinois and 
 Michigan Canal, and designed and con- 
 structed the Water Supply and Sewerage 
 works of the city built by the United 
 States Steel Corporation at Gary, Ind. 
 He is a member of the American Society of 
 Civil Engineers. Society for Municipal Im- 
 provement, 1st vice-president of the Ameri- 
 can Water- Works Association; past presi- 
 dent Illinois Society of Engineers; mem- 
 ber ^o\v England Water-Works Associa- 
 tion; the American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science, Past vice-president 
 Western Society of Engineers, and member 
 of the Engineers club of Chicago. Mr. 
 Alvord is a frequent contributor on engi- 
 neering subjects to the technical press. He 
 married in Chicago, Sept. 4, 1880, Helen C. 
 Cornell. Residence: 5203 Hibbard Ave- 
 nue. Addres: 1212 Hartford Building, Chi- 
 cago. 
 AMATEIS. Louis: 
 
 Sculptor; born in Turin, Italy, Dec. 13, 
 1855; son of Paul and Carolina Amateis. 
 He was educated at the Institute of Tech- 
 nology at Turin, and studied art at Paris 
 and INIilan. He came to New York in 
 1883, and has executed a large number of 
 busts from life, including President Arthur, 
 Generals Hancock and Logan, Secretaries 
 Blaine and Bayard, Andrew Carnegie, and 
 others. He executed historical bronze doors 
 for the Capitol and a considerable number 
 of memorial monuments. From 1892 to 
 1899 he was head of the department of 
 fine arts, of Columbian, now George Wash- 
 ington, University. One of the prominent 
 exhibits made by him was the group El 
 Caney at the Buffalo Exposition. He has 
 also exhibited at all the principal exhibits 
 and art exhibitions in the United States 
 and abroad, and has been a leading com- 
 petitor in Governmental competitions for 
 memorials at Washinglon. Mr. Amateis is 
 a member of the National Art Society. He 
 married in New York City, Feb. 24, 1889, 
 Dora Ballin. Residence: 1719 19th Street, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 AMEND, Edward B.: 
 
 Jurist; born in New York City and edu- 
 cated in St. Francis Xavier College, from 
 
 which he was graduated A.B., 1877, A.M., 
 1878; and was graduated from Columbia 
 Law School, LL.B., 1879. He engaged in 
 the practice of law until 1902, when lie was 
 >leeted on the Democratic ticket to the 
 ofliee of justice of the Supreme Court of 
 the State of New York for the term expir- 
 ing Dec. 31, 1916, in which iie now serving. 
 Address: 38 West 74th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 AMES, Adalbert: 
 
 Brigadier-general and ex-governor; born 
 in Rockland, Knox County, ]\Iaine, Oct. 
 31, 1835. He was appointed to the 
 United States Military Academy at West 
 Point, from which he was graduated in 
 the class of 1861. Upon liis graduation 
 he was assigned to the Fifth Regiment 
 of United States Artillery, and Avas pro- 
 moted through the intermediate grades to 
 brigadier-general of volunteers and brevet- 
 ted major-general of volunteers. He waa 
 mustered out of the volunteer service in 
 April, 1866, and commissioned in July, 
 1806, lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty- 
 fourth United States Infantry. He was ap- 
 pointed provisional governor of Mississippi, 
 ■iu]y 15, 1868, imder the recomstruction 
 acts; was elected United States senator in 
 1870 and elected Governor of Mississippi in 
 1873, resigned in 1876, when he removed 
 to New York. Later he removed to Lowell. 
 Mass., where lie became identified with im- 
 portant interests. He was appointed briga- 
 dier-general of United States Volunteers, 
 June 20, 1898, serving during the war with 
 Spain. He married at Boston, July 21, 
 1870, Blanche, daughter of the late General 
 Benjamin E. Butler. Address: Lowell, 
 Mass. 
 
 AMES, Butler: 
 
 Congressman: born in l.owcll. ]\Iass. Aug. 
 22, 1871; son of !Major General Adelbert 
 and Blanche (Butler) Ames, and grand>^on 
 of Major General Benjamin F. Butler. He 
 was educated in the Lowell schools, at 
 Phillips Exeter Academy in the class of 
 1890, and was graduated from the United 
 states Military Academy at West Point in 
 1894. He resigned from the United States 
 
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 Aiiny aflor appointuicut to the Elcvontli 
 Unitotl States Infantry for the purpose of 
 returning to IMassachusetts to take a post- 
 graduate course at the Massachusetts In- 
 stitute of Technology, graduating in 1896 
 as a mechanical and electrical engineer. He 
 has since heen agent of the Waniesit Power 
 C'omj)any of Lowell. At the commencement 
 of tlie Spanish War, he was made lieuten- 
 ant and adjutant of the Sixth Massachu- 
 setts Volunteers at Camp Alger, near Wash- 
 ington. He was appointed as acting engi- 
 neer of the Second Army Corps, under 
 General Graham, in addition to his duties 
 as adjutant, and went from Charlestown to 
 Cuba and Porto Rico, under General Miles. 
 He was at the landing at Guanica and the 
 skirmish at Yuaco Road in July, was pro- 
 moted to lieutenant-colonel of his regiment 
 in August and was civil administrator of 
 tlif Arecibo district of Porto Rico until 
 Nov., 1898. He served as a member of the 
 Massachusetts State Legislature for three 
 years from 1897 to 1899, and in that body 
 was chairman of the committee on street 
 railways. He was elected as a Republican 
 in 1902 from the Fifth Massachusetts 
 District to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and 
 reelected in 1904, 1906 and 1908 to the 
 Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first Con- 
 gresses, his present term expiring in 1911. 
 Address: Lowell, Mass. 
 
 AMES, Herman Vanderburg: 
 
 Authority on Federal and State relations; 
 born in Lancaster, Mass., Aug. 7, 1865; son 
 of Rev. Marcus Ames. He was graduated 
 from Amherst, 1888, receiving degrees of 
 A.M., and of Ph.D. from Harvard in 1890 
 and 1891 resjiectively. He took post-grad- 
 uate courses at Columbia, Harvard, Leip- 
 zig and Heidelberg, and returning to the 
 United States after the latter courses, re- 
 sumed the teaching of history, in which he 
 had been engaged at the University of 
 Michigan from 1891 to 1894. He became 
 connected with the Ohio State University 
 and later with the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, in which he is professor of American 
 constitutional liistory, and since 1907 dean 
 of the Graduate School. He has been especi- 
 allv distinguished for his writings and coin- 
 
 I pilations on the relations between tiic 
 United States and the States. He haa 
 been cluiirman of the Archives Commission 
 of the American Historical Association 
 since 1902, and, for several years was 
 secretarjf of the Association of Col- 
 leges and Preparatory Schools of the 
 ]\Iiddle States and Maryland. His works 
 include a large number of monographs 
 and contributions to the literature of 
 American history. He edited: State Doc- 
 uments on Federal relations; The State 
 and the United States, and is author of: 
 The Proposed Amendments to the Constitu- 
 tion of the United States; and of Outline 
 of Lectures on American Political and In- 
 stitutional History during the Colonial and 
 Revolutionary Periods. Residence: 210 
 South 37th St., Philadelphia. 
 
 AMES, James Barr: 
 
 Dean of Harvard Law School ; born in 
 Boston, Mass., June 22, 1846. He was 
 graduated from Harvard in 1868, receiving 
 the degree of A.M. in 1871, and from Har- 
 vard Law School, as LL.B., in 1872. He has 
 been successively, instructor in a private 
 school in Boston, tutor in French and Ger- 
 man at Harvard, instructor of history at 
 Harvard, associate professor of law, and 
 since 1877, professor of law in the Har- 
 vard Law School, and dean of that insti- 
 tution since 1895. The degree of LL.D. has 
 been conferred upon him by the University 
 of New York, University of ^Michigan, Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, Northwestern Uni- 
 versity, Williams College, Harvard and Uni- 
 versity of Cincinnati. Dean Ames has com- 
 piled collections of cases Avhich are leading 
 .'\merican authorities on torts, pleadings, 
 bills and notes, partnership, trusts, surety- 
 ship, admiralty and equity jurisdiction. He 
 is also author of numerous articles in the 
 Harvard Law Review and other law publi- 
 cations. His position, authority on mat- 
 ters of law, and personal intercourse witli 
 large numbers of men now in the legal pro- 
 fession of the United States, give Dean 
 Ames a very great influence which has al- 
 waj's been exerted for the best interest of 
 the profession and of American jurispru- 
 dence. He married, June 29, 1880, Sarah 
 
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 Russell, of Boston. Address: Cambridge, 
 Mass. 
 
 AMIDON, Charles Fremont: 
 
 Jurist; born at Clynier, Chatauqua 
 County. N. Y., Aug. 17, 185(5. After his 
 graduation from Hamilton College in 1882. 
 he went to Fargo, Dakota, where he studied 
 law and was admitted to the bar in 1886. 
 He practised law at Fargo until 1896, was 
 one of the members of the Code Commission 
 of North Dakota in 1893, and was appointed 
 Aug. 31, 1896 to his present position as 
 judge of the United States Court for the 
 District of Nortli Dakota. Address: Fargo, 
 N. Dak. 
 
 AMORY, Robert: 
 
 Retired physician; born in Boston, May 
 3, 1842. He was graduated from Harvard 
 University, A.M. in 1863, and continuing 
 liis studies at the Harvard Medical School, 
 took the degree of M.D. after a course of 
 tliree years. In his studies and researches 
 Dr. Amory has given special attention to 
 physiology and the physiological action of 
 medicines and has written and taught much 
 on these subjects. In 1869 he became lec- 
 turer at the Medical School of Harvard Uni- 
 versity on the physiological action of drugs, 
 and some years later was called to the chair 
 of physiology at Bowdoin College. He 
 translated as a text-book, Kiiss Physiology 
 and is author of several treatises on the ac- 
 tion of certain drugs and a volume on 
 Poisons in Wharton and Stille's series of 
 Medical Jurisjirudence. He is a member of 
 the American Academy of Arts and 
 Sciences, the Massachusetts Medical Soci- 
 ety, and various other local and national 
 medical associations. Dr. Amory is a di- 
 rector of the Bar Harbor Water Company, 
 the Ipswich Mills, the Mount Desert Tran- 
 sit Company of Bar Harbor, Maine (of 
 which he is secretary and clerk). He is a 
 vestryman of Trinity Church, Boston, presi- 
 dent and trustee of the Vincent Memorial 
 Hospital, director r)f the Young Men's Chris- 
 tian Association of Boston; president of the 
 Kebo Valley Club, at Bar Harbor; director 
 of the Property Owners' Association of Bar 
 Harbor, director and secretary of Mount 
 
 Desert Transit Company. He is also a 
 member of the Somerset Club, Country Club 
 of Brookline, Eastern Yacht Club, and the 
 Boston Athletic Club. Dr. Amory married 
 in Boston, May 8, 1864, Marianne Apple- 
 ton Lawrence, by whom he has a daughter. 
 !ie again married in Sept., 1884, Katherine 
 Leighton Crehore, and they liave four chil- 
 dren. Summer Home: The Eyrie, Bar 
 Harbor, Me. Address: 279 Beacon Street, 
 Boston. 
 
 ANDERSON, Albert Barnes: 
 
 Judge of the United States Distiict Court 
 lor the District of Indiana; born near 
 Zionsville,. Boone County, Ind., Feb. 10, 
 1857 ; son of Philander Anderson and Emma 
 A. (Duzan) Anderson. He was graduated 
 irom Wabash College as A.B. in 1879 and 
 afterward A.M.; studied law and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar at Crawfordsville, Ind., 
 where he was elected for two terms as pros- 
 ecuting attorney of Montgomery Countv, 
 Ind. He had the LL.D. degree conferred by 
 Wabash College in 1907. He was appointed 
 United States district judge Dec. 8, 1902. 
 He married at Crawfordsville, Ind., Nov. 14, 
 1882, Rose Campbell. Residence: 1325 
 North Penn Street. Office: Federal Build- 
 ing, Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 ANDERSON, Alexander Pierce: 
 
 Botanist; born in Red Wing, Minn., Nov. 
 22, 1862; son of John and Britta M. 
 (Gustafson) Anderson. He was graduated 
 i'rom the University of Minnesota as B.S. 
 in 1894, received its degree of M.S. in 1895, 
 and that of Ph.D. from the University of 
 Munich, 1897, where he pursued post-gradu- 
 ;ite studies in biology and chemistry. He 
 was connected with Clemson College, S. C, 
 1896-1899, and became assistant professor 
 of botany in the University of Minnesota in 
 the following year. In 1901 he was ap- 
 pointed curator of the lierbarium of Colum- 
 bia l^ni versify, whicli jiosition he resigned 
 in 1902 and took u]) the study of the econ- 
 omic uses of cereal grains and starch ma- 
 terials. Several Ameri('an and foreign pat- 
 ents for improvement in processes of treat- 
 ing these commodities have been granted 
 him, lie is a contributer to American and 
 
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 fdieijiii hiolooical journals and a member of 
 American and foreijjn sciontific assoeia- 
 I ions. 11(> married a1 lliji;lilands, N. C, 
 An--. 11, 1898, Lydia .lolmson. Address: 
 :>-l(io WasJiinjilon, Avi'nue. Chicago. 
 
 ANDERSON, Carl Carey: 
 
 Manulact urer and congressman; born at 
 HlufVton. Allen County, Ohio, Dec. 2, 1877; 
 removed in early boyhood to Fremont, Ohio, 
 where lie look a partial high school course. 
 \\'ent to work early in life, and engaged 
 successfully as a business man. He estab- 
 lished in 1!)04 a large underwear factory at 
 I'ostovin, Ohio, of which he is still owner, 
 iiiid he is a director in several manufactur- 
 ing enterprises. He lias bad a successful 
 political career as a Democrat, was twice 
 elfcteil mayor of Fostoria, Ohio, and in 
 I'.MiS was elected to the Sixty-first Congress 
 fioiii the Thirteentb Ohio District. He is 
 president of tbe Board of Trade of Fostoria, 
 president of the City Hospital Board, and a 
 meiidier of various fraternal orders. He 
 nuurieil in Sept., 1904, Nellie Ford of Fre- 
 mont, and bas a son. Address: Fostoria. 
 Oliio. 
 
 ANDERSON, Charles Palmerston: 
 
 i^isliop of Chicago; born in Kemptville, 
 t)nt.. Can.; sou of Henry and Maria (Sex- 
 ton) Anderson. He was educated at Trin- 
 ity College, Port Hope, Ont., and Trinity 
 College, Toronto, and he received the de- 
 gree of D.D. from Trinity College, Toronto, 
 in 1000, and S.T.D. from the Western Theo- 
 logical Seminary at Cbicago. He was or- 
 dered deacon in the Church of England in 
 1S87, and the following year was ordained 
 to the priesthood by the bishop of Ontario. 
 He was rector of the church at Beachburg. 
 Ont.. 1887-1891, and rector of Grace Episco- 
 pal Church. Oak Park, 111.. 1891-1900. In 
 the latter year he beoame bishop-coadjutor 
 of Chicago. 111. He became bishop of Chi- 
 cago upon the death of Bishop AIcLaren in 
 lOOn. Bisho]) Anderson married at Belle- 
 ville, Out., in 1S89, .Tanet Class, and they 
 have tive children. Jle is author of: Con- 
 firmation. 1S98, and The Christian Ministry, 
 1!)02. Address: 1G12 Prairie Avenue, Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 ANDERSON, Edwin Hatfield: 
 
 Librarian; horn at /ions\i]]c. hid.. Sept. 
 27, IStil ; son of I'liihiiiih'r ami I'hnma A. 
 (Duzan) Anderson. He was graduated 
 from Wabash College as A.B. in 188.S, later 
 receiving the degree of A.M., and he spent 
 a year at the N. Y. State Library School. 
 Albany, N. Y.. in 1890-1891. After work 
 at the Newberry Library, Chicago, and as 
 librarian of the Carnegie Free ]>ibrary at 
 Braddoek, I'a.. he organized and was the 
 first librarian of the C-arnegie Library of 
 Pittsburgh, Pa., from 1895 until lie resigned 
 in Dec, 1904. He was engaged in zinc and 
 lead mining at Carthage, Mo., during lOO.'j; 
 director of the New York State Library 
 and Library School, 1906-1908. resigning 
 June 1, 1808, to take his piesent ajipoint- 
 ment as assistant director of the Xew "S'ork 
 Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tildeii 
 Foundations. He was president of the 
 Keystone State Library Association, 1901- 
 1902; was member of the Public Uecords 
 Commission of Pennsylvania and of the His- 
 torical Archives Commission of Pennsyl- 
 vania. 1903-1904; and was iirst vicj-presi- 
 deiit of the American Library Association. 
 1899-1900 and 1906-1907; and president of 
 the New York Library Association. 1907- 
 1908. Mr. Anderson married at (ilencoe, 
 111., Dec. 22, 1891, Frances R. Plunimer. 
 Residence: 240 West 104th Street. Oflice: 
 42.5 Lafayette Street, New York City. 
 
 ANDERSON, John: 
 
 Publisher of the Skandinaven, the leading 
 Norwegian paper of the L'nited States. Mr. 
 Anderson was born in Voss. Norway, in 
 1836, but was brought to the United States 
 by his ])arents when he was eight j'ears obi. 
 His family settled in Chicago, and at the 
 age of twelve, owing to the death of his 
 father, Mr. Anderson became the chief 
 breadwinner of the famil}'. He learned the 
 printer's trade and in 186G established the 
 Skandinaven. The great fire in Chicago de- 
 stroy(>d his entire property, but he re-es- 
 tablished the i)aper <m borrowed money. 
 ami has achieved not only a great financial 
 success, but a le.uling position in the esti- 
 mation of his fellow-countrymen of the same 
 nativity as himself. His paper, which is 
 
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 issued in daily, Siiiidav and sonii-wcokly edi- 
 tions, circulates tliiough tlie Scandinavian 
 |io|)uiation of the Northwestern States. 
 lU'sidencc: (i4() C'levohind Avoiinc, Cliicago. 
 
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 ANDERSON, Thomas H.: 
 
 A.ssociate justice of the Supreme Court 
 of the District of Calumbia; born in Bel- 
 mont County, Oliio. June G, 1S4S; son of 
 .roiin and Amelia (Dallas) Anderson. He 
 was educated at Mt. Union College, Oliio, 
 and after leaving that institution, taught 
 in public schools; became principal of the 
 Cambridge, Ohio, High School, until he was 
 admitted to the bar in 1871, and practised 
 law there until 1889, when he was ap- 
 pointed minister resident and consul-general 
 to Bolivia, his mission being later advanced 
 to the rank of envoy extraordinary and 
 minister ])lenipotentiary. lie completed 
 his term of service in Boli\ ia in 18!)3, and 
 returned to the Cnited States, beginning 
 the |)ractice of law in ^Yas]lington. During 
 his residence in Bolivia, lie publisiied a vol- 
 lune of information on that country, and 
 pi-epared a very large number of reports 
 and pajH-rs of its characteristics and re- 
 sources. In 1809, Judge Anderson was ap- 
 pointed I'nited States district attorney for 
 the Di.strict of Columbia, and served for two 
 j'ears, or until his appointment to his pres- 
 ent position as associate justice of tlie Su- 
 preme Court of the District. He mar- 
 ried at Addison, Pa., Oct., 1879, Lauv,' I^.. 
 Augustine. Address: 1,5.31 New Hamp- 
 shire Avenue. Wasjiington, D. C. j 
 
 ANDERSON, Thomas McArthur: 
 
 Army ollicer and land owner: born in 
 Chillicothe, Ohio, -Jan. 31, 183fi; son of Wil- 
 liam Marshall and Eliza (McArthur) An- 
 derson; and descendant in the sixth gener.i- 
 tion of Tvobert Anderson, of New Kent 
 County. Virginia. He attended the Chilli- 
 cothe Academy, was graduated from Mount 
 St, diary's College, Maryland (from which 
 he afterward received the degree of LL.D. ). 
 was graduated fnun Cincinnati Law School. 
 iJ.,M,. ]Sr)H, and practised law until ISdl. 
 He was nni.stered in as private in the (Kh 
 Ohio Volunteer Infantry, A])rii id, 18(il: 
 was commissioned second lieut(>nant oth U. 
 
 S. Cavalry, May 7, 18(il ; captain 12th IJ. 
 S. Infantry. May 14, 1801, and subsequently 
 i served in all the grades of military service 
 I to brigadier-general U. S. A., and was a 
 major-general of Volunteers in the Spanish- 
 .\merican \\'ar. retiring from active service 
 by limitation of law, Jan. 31, 1900. After 
 serving in one campaign in the Cavalry, he 
 raised his own company of the Twelfth in- 
 fantry. After the battle of Cedar Mountain, 
 he served as acting field officer in the otli 
 Corps of the Army of the Potomac, and 
 was in nearly all the battles of that corps. 
 He was twice wounded and twice brevetted; 
 assisted in organizing the Invalid Corps un- 
 der the provost-marshal general; was com- 
 missary of musters of the Department of 
 the Ohio, 1805; mustered out the Anderson- 
 ville prisoners at Camp Chase, Ohio. He 
 served as Eeconstruction officer and commis- 
 sioner of registration in Virginia, 1807- 
 1808: commanded posts at Petersburg, 
 ^'orUtown and Williamsburg, Va.; Mcin- 
 tosh, liinggold Barracks, and Fort Mc- 
 Kavett, Texas; Colund)us Barracks, Ohio; 
 ^IcKenny, Bridger and D. A. Russell, Wy- 
 oming; commanded the first expedition to 
 Cavite, Luzon, and commanded the post 
 there; also conunanded the District of Lynn 
 Canal, Alaska, Department of Columbia and 
 lae Department of the East. In the Philip- 
 l)ines he was in command of the 1st and 
 2d Divisions, Sth Army Corps, and of the 
 Island of Luzon, South of the Pasig River. 
 He was in administrative charge of the 
 Virginia Asylum for the Insane at \Vil- 
 liamsburg, 1808; was admitted to the Texas 
 Bar, 18()9; was attorney for the United 
 States Covernment in ]\Iexican claims un- 
 der the treaty of (iuadahqie-Ilidalgo, Texas, 
 1S72-1873; and was in administrative 
 charge of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors 
 Home, 1891-1894. He was vice-president 
 and director of tho Commercial Bank of 
 \'ancouvcr, \\'ash., 1889-1895, He is a 
 member of the Cincinnati Literary Society, 
 of societies in Sandusky, Ohio, and Port- 
 land, Ore., anil of the National Geogra])hic 
 Society, a comrade of»fhe Grand Army of 
 (lie Kepiiblie. eompanicHi of the Oregon Com- 
 uiandery Aiililary Order of the Loyal Le- 
 gion, compatriot of the Sons of the Ameri- 
 
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 can Itevolutiou, a o3d-degrec Scottish Uite 
 JNlason, honorary lueiiiber of the Society of 
 lA)rt'ign Wars and ilie Society of the War 
 of 1H12, member of the Arlington and Com- 
 moroial Clubs of Portland, Ore., Columbus 
 Club, ('t)lumbus, Oliio, and Union League 
 Club, IMuladelpliia. lie married in lUch- 
 mond. Va., Feb. 8, 18G!), Elizabeth Van 
 Winkle, and they have had six children. 
 R;'si(h'uce: Vancouver, Wash., 1\. V. 1). 1. 
 Ollice: 717 Board of Trade. Portland, Ore. 
 
 ANDERSON, William Franklin: 
 
 IHslu)]) of the i\Iethodist Episcopal 
 Church ; born in iMorgantown, Va., April 
 22, 1800; son of William and Elizabeth 
 (Coombs) Anderson. He was graduated 
 from the Ohio Wesleyan University with 
 degree of A.B., in 1884, and from Drew 
 Theological Seminary, as B.D. in 1887. He 
 took a post-graduate course in philosophy 
 at the New York University from 1895 to 
 1899, and received the degree of D.D. from 
 Wesleyan University (Connecticut) , in 1902, 
 and of LL.D. from Ohio Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity' and from the Upper Iowa University in 
 1907. Dr. Anderson entered the ministry 
 of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1887, 
 and has been pa.stor of important churches 
 in New York City and. State. He was an 
 oflicer of the Board of Education of the 
 IM. ]'j. Church from 1898, having been re- 
 cording secretary until 1904, and corres- 
 ponding secretary from 1904 nntil elected 
 liy the General Conference at Baltimore, 
 May, 1908, and consecrated a bishop of the 
 Methodist Episcopal church. Bishop An- 
 derson has written extensively for the relig- 
 ious press, including the Outlook. He 
 edited the publication. The Christian Stu- 
 dent, mitil elected bishop, and is author of 
 a book : The Compulsion of Love. Dr. An- 
 derson married at Cincinnati, Ohio, June 
 9, 1887, Jennie Ketcham. Address: Fort 
 U'ood, Chattanooga, Tenn. 
 
 ANDREWS, Alexander Boyd: 
 
 Railway official; born in Franklin 
 County, N. C., July 23, 1841. lie enter;'d 
 the Confederate States Army in June, 1861, 
 and was second lieutenant in the First 
 North CaKilina Cavalry; and he was 
 
 wounded at Jack's Shop, Va., in Sejd., I80;i. 
 I He began his railway career witli the Blue 
 [ llidge Railroad in 1859. After tlie dose of 
 the war^ he leased, equipped and o|ierated 
 a railway ferry at Gaston, N. C., until July, 
 1807, when he became superintendent of tiie 
 [ Raleigli and Gaston and Raleigii and Au- 
 gusta Ixailroads until Nov., 1875, then super- 
 intendent until 1883 of the North Carolina 
 Division of the Richmond and Danville Rail- 
 road, in 1881 he was elected president of 
 I the Western North Carolina Railroad, 
 ' wliich he completed. He was also superin- 
 tendent of the Atlantic and Nortli Carolina 
 Railroad from 1878 to 1880. From 1883 to 
 1886 he was assistant to the president 
 of the Richmond and Danville Railroad; 
 was third vice-president from 1886 to 1889, 
 second vice-])resident from 1889 to 1894, and 
 from July, 1892 to July, 1894, also general 
 agent of the receivers of the same road. He 
 became second vice-president June 30, 1894, 
 and Oct. 1, 1895, became first vice-president 
 of the Southern Railway in which position 
 he continues; and he is also first vica-presi- 
 dent of the Mobile and Ohio, and Alabama 
 Great Southern Railroads. Address: Ra- 
 leigh, N. C. 
 
 ANDREWS, Champa Seabury: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Yazoo City, ^liss.. May 
 13, 1875; son of Colonel Garnett and Rosa- 
 lie Champe (Beirne) Andrews. His father 
 was a distinguished member of the ^Missis- 
 si])];i Bar and author of Andrews' ^Missis- 
 sippi Digest, and his grandfather. Judge 
 (jarnett Andrews, was a justice of the Su- 
 preme Court of Georgia. His maternal 
 great-grandfather, Andrew O'Beirne of Vir- 
 ginia, represented tlie Greeiibrier District 
 for many years in the LInited States Con- 
 gress. :\Ir. Andrews was gi-aduated, with 
 Hist honors and the B.S. degree, from the 
 Alabama Polytechnic Institute, in 1894, 
 then studied law, and after admission to 
 the bar practised with his father, at Chat- 
 tanooga, Tenn., in the firm of Andrews and 
 Andrews. In 1899 he settled in the practice 
 of law in New York City. He is jiresident 
 and director of tlie A. B. Andrews Company, 
 director of the Acme Box Company., and 
 iih'nlilicd witli otlier busini'ss inteiests. He 
 
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 lias contrilnitoil frequently to the Forum. 
 Cosiiiopolilan. Yale Law Journal. Journal 
 of the Ameriean ^ledical Association, Medi- 
 cal Xews. New York Times, and other news- 
 papers and maj-azines. largely on legal top- 
 ics, and more particularly to the law in 
 relation to ])hysicians and surgeons, the un- 
 lawful jiractice of medicine, the dangers of 
 quackery, and other topics related to public 
 health ; and has also written extensively on 
 foreign travel, having made many visits to 
 Kurope and also having visited Japan and 
 China. During his residence in the South. 
 Mr. Andrews was actively in military serv- 
 ice, having lieen certified to the War Depart- 
 ment as first honor military graduate of the 
 Alabama rolyteehnic Institute in 1884; and! 
 he was eai)tain of the Third Tennessee In- 
 fantry, U. S. Volunteers. 18!)8-1899, and 
 was recommended for a commission in the 
 regular army. i)ut declined. He is now an 
 otlicer in the Otii Coast Artillery, National 
 (Juard of New York. Mr. Andrews is a 
 Democrat, and a member of the Law Com- 
 mittee of Tammany Hall. He was for eight 
 years counsel to the Medical Society of the ! 
 County of New York, and he first suggested 
 the idea resulting in the formation of the 
 Public Health Defense League and was the 
 first chairman of its Board of Directors; 
 also was tiu; first secretary of the Com- 
 mittee of One Hundred on National Health, 
 apiK)iiited by the .Vinericau Association for 
 the Advancement of Science, is a member of 
 the .Medical Jurisprudence Society, the As- 
 sociation of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, and numerous local societies and 
 lodges, member of council of the Naval and 
 Military Order of the Spanisli War, past 
 commander of the New \tnk Department. 
 Spanish War Veterans, vice-iiresident of the 
 Tennessee Society of New York, member of 
 the Army and Xavy Club of New York, and 
 past ])resi(Icnt of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon 
 Association. Residence: Hotel Royalton. 
 44 West 44tli Street. Address: :; 1 West 
 l.')th Street. New York City. 
 
 ANDREWS, Charles Lee: 
 
 Stock broker: i)oni in Baltimore. ]\fd., 
 Oct. -js. ISoS; son of Riciiard Snowden and 
 Mary < '. (Lee) Andrews. He was gradu 
 
 ated from the University of Virginia with 
 the degree of M.A. in 1881. Mr. Andrews 
 moved to New York City from Baltimore 
 in 1884, and has been a member of the New 
 Voriv Stock Exchange since 1887, and he is 
 now a member of the firm of De Copjiet & 
 Doremus. lie enlisted in the First Bat- 
 talion of New York Naval Militia in 1892, 
 and rose to the rank of lieutenant, resign- 
 ing in 1903. He was appointed ensign in 
 the United States Navy in April, 1898. and 
 served during the Spanish-American War 
 on board the U. S. S. Y'ankee, receiving an 
 honorable discharge in Sept., 1898, when the 
 hostilities Avere over. Mr. Andrews is a 
 member of the Southern Society of New 
 York, the Maryland Society of New York, 
 the Military Order of Foreign Wars, the 
 Naval and Military Order of the Sijanish- 
 American War, the Delta Kappa Epsilon 
 fraternity, and the Union, Army and Navy, 
 and Manhasset Bay Y'acht Clubs. Mr. An- 
 drews married in Brooklyn, New York, in 
 1893, Edith Walden, and they have three 
 children. Address: 42 Broadway. New 
 York City. 
 
 ANDREWS, Clement Walker: 
 
 Librarian; born at Salem, Mass.. Jan. 13j 
 1858; son of Joseph and Judith (\\'alker) 
 Andrews. He was graduated from Har- 
 vard College. A.r... 1879, with honors in 
 cliemistry, and A..M.. 1880. He was in- 
 1 structor in chemistry at the Massachusetts 
 ! Institute of Technology, 1883-1895; was li- 
 ! brarian of that institution from 1889 to 
 I 1895. and since 1895 has been librarian of 
 j The John Crerar Library, at Chicago. ]\lr. 
 ! Andrews was secretary of the Society of 
 ! Arts of the .Massachusetts Institute of 
 ' Technology and editor of the Technology 
 Quarterly' from 1893-1895. lie is a mem- 
 uer of the Society of Chemical Industry. 
 American Chemical Society, Deutsche Chem- 
 ischc (Icst'llschaft. American Library Asso- 
 ciitioii. Illinois State ]>il)iaiy Association 
 and others, and was a trustee of the 
 l!amai)ai Association about five years. He 
 was councillor 1898-1908. and ]>resident for 
 ! 1900-1907 of the American Library Asso- 
 ciation. ^Ir. Andrews is a member of the 
 I 'hi r.eta Kiijipa Society, the I'i VAa Society 
 
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 Mild till! Cliiciiifo Lilcrary Club, lie is a 
 (riistcc of Unity Clmreli, Chicago, a iiieinbor 
 of llie University Club, TTnion Club, and 
 Cliff Dwcdlers of Chicago and (he Onwent- 
 sia Club at Lake Forcsf, ill. Pvcsidence: 
 Union Club. Olli.c: Tlic Jolni Cierar Li- 
 brary, Chieagu, 111. 
 
 ANDREWS, Elisha Benjamin: 
 
 I'Aliicator, clergyman, author; born at 
 Hinsdale, N. IL, Jan. 10, 1844; son of 
 Erastus AndrcAvs. His preparatory educa- 
 tion was interrupted by service in the Union 
 Army. 18G1-1SG4, attaining the rank of 
 socond lieutenant of U. S. Volunteers. He 
 afterwards entered Brown University, from 
 which he was graduated as A.B. in 1870, 
 and received the degree of A.M. and D.D., 
 1900, and the D.D. degree was also con 
 fcrred upon him by Colby University in 
 1884, and that of LL.D. by the University 
 of Nebraska in 1884, and by the University 
 of Chicago in 1901. After service of two 
 years as principal of the Connecticut Liter- 
 ary Institute at Suffield, Conn., he entered 
 the Newton, (Mass.) Theological Institu- 
 tion, and on his graduation there in 1874 
 was ordained in the ministry of the Baptist 
 Church, becoming pastor of the First Bap- 
 tist Church of iBeverly, Mass. In 1875 he 
 was called to the presidency of Denison 
 University, and served in that capacity 
 until 1879, after which he was for three 
 years professor of homiletics and pastoral 
 theology at Newton Theological Institution. 
 In 1882 and 1883 he pursued graduate stud- 
 ies in history and economics in the Uni- 
 versities of Berlin and Munich and from 
 1882-1888 was professor of history in 
 Brown University ; professor of economics 
 and imblic finance in Cornell LTniversity. 
 1888-1889, and from 1889 to 1898 was presi- 
 dent and professor of moral and intellectual 
 philosophy in Brown University. He was 
 superintendent of schools of Chicago, 111., 
 1898-1900. and chancellor of the University 
 of Nebraska from 1900 to the end of 1908. 
 when he became chancellor emeritus. Dr. 
 Andrews was a U. S. Commissioner to the 
 International Monetary Conference at Brus- 
 sels in 1892: is a member of the American 
 
 Kconomie Association, the New England 
 llistorical-fJenealogical Society, the Hliode 
 Island Historical Society, and the Military 
 Order of tlie Loyal Legion. He is author 
 of numerous theological and historical 
 works, among which is a five-volume historr 
 of the United States, as well as a work on 
 bimetalisin in which he expressed views on 
 the subjegt of the use of silver as money 
 which brought him into national attention 
 owing to the controversy which they 
 aroused. His fearless course while superin- 
 tendent of schools of Chicago also brought 
 him prominently into public notice. Chan- 
 cellor Andrews has gained distinction as a 
 progressive educator and able executive 
 whose administration of university affairs 
 has been eminently successful. Address: 
 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. 
 
 ANDREWS, Eliza Frances: 
 
 Author, botanist, lecturer; born in Wash- 
 ington, Ga., Aug. 10, 1840; and is of Revo- 
 lutionary ancestry through all four of her 
 grandparents, her parents being Judge Gar- 
 nett and Annulet (Ball) Andrews. Her 
 brother, the late Col. Garnett Andrews, was 
 a Confederate officer of distinction and 
 formerly mayor of Chattanooga, Tenn. Miss 
 Andrews was graduated from La Grange 
 College, Georgia, and has had an interesting 
 career as educator, author, lecturer and a 
 warm advocate of socialism. She has al- 
 ways devoted her leisure to the study of 
 botany, with the result that her book Bot- 
 any All the Year Around has become a 
 text book in schools in all parts of the 
 country and has had an international cir- 
 culation. Her earlier novels: A Family 
 Secret; A Mere Adventurer; and Prince 
 Hall, were published by the Lippincott 
 Company of Philadelphia, and two: The 
 Mistake of his life, and How He Was 
 Tempted, have appeared as serials. She is 
 iilso author of humorous sketches, short 
 stories, and political and scientific papers; 
 of A Memorial Day Ode, Haunted, and 
 other poems ; and her most important work 
 is The Wartime Journal of a Georgia Girl. 
 1908 (Appleton). Address: 310 Mildred 
 Street, Montgomery, Ala. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ANDREWS, George: 
 
 Colonel and adjutant-general, U. S. A.; 
 born in Providence, R. I., Aug. 26, 1850; 
 son of Brigadier-General George Lippitt An- 
 drews, U. S. A., and Alice Beverly (Potter) 
 Andrews. He was graduated from the 
 United States Military Academy in the 
 class of 1S76; served as lieutenant and cap- 
 tain 25th U. S. Infantry, 1876-1898; pro- 
 moted major and adjutant-general, Feb. 26, 
 IbjS; lieutenant-colonel, Feb. 2, 1!)01 colo- 
 nel, Aug. 7, 1903. He was adjutant-gen- 
 eral. Department of the Missouri, of the 
 4th Independent Division, and of the De- 
 partment of the East, 1898-1899, of the 
 Department of Santiago, Cuba, 1899-1900, 
 Department of California, 1902-1904, of the 
 Pacific Division to 1905, the Philippines 
 Division, 1907, the Department of the Colo- 
 rado, 1908-1909, and the Department of the 
 Lakes, 1909. Colonel Andrews is a mem- 
 ber of the ^Military Order of the Loyal Le- 
 gion (2d class), Sons of the American Rev- 
 olution, Union Club of Cleveland, Ohio; 
 Denver and Denver Country Clubs, Denver, 
 and the Army and Navy Club of Manila. 
 Address: Army Headquarters, Chicago, 111. 
 
 ANDREWS, Lorrin: 
 
 Attorney-general of Hawaii; born, Staten 
 Island, N.'^Y., July 29, 1870; son of William 
 and Adele M. (Oscanyan) Andrews. Mr. 
 Andrews is a graduate of New York Uni- 
 versity and of the law school of tliat in- 
 stitution. After practising law in Ntnv 
 York, where he was also prominent in 
 Republican politics, he removed to tho 
 Hawaiian Islands, being admitted to the 
 Hawaiian Bar in 1899. He occupied a 
 prominent position in politics and in the 
 affairs of the island during his life there 
 previous to 1903 when he was elected at- 
 torney-general of Hawaii, in which position 
 he is still serving. Mr. Andrews, in addi- 
 tion to his membership in the New Y''ork 
 and Hawaiian bars, is a member of the bar 
 at Shanghai, China, and of tlie Supreme 
 court of the United States. In 1904 he was 
 the governmental delegate from Hawaii to 
 the Universal Congress of Lawyers and jur- 
 ists at St. Louis. He married Estelle Lin- 
 vvood in 1893. Address: Honolulu, T. H. 
 
 ANDREWS, William H.: 
 
 Delegate to Congress; born in Youngs- 
 ville, Pa., Jan. 14, 1842. At an early age 
 Mr. Andrews became a prominent figure 
 in the Republican party in Pennsylvania. 
 In 1889-1890 he was chairman of the Re- 
 publican State Committee, and during his 
 residence in Pennsylvania took an active 
 part in all of the Republican campaigns. 
 Uti served in the House of Representatives 
 of the Legislature of Pennsylvania from 
 1889 to 1890 and from 1901 to 1902, and was 
 a member of the State Senate from 1895 to 
 1898. In 1902 he removed to New Mexico 
 and the following year was elected a mem- 
 ber of the Territorial Council. In 1904 he 
 was elected delegate to Congress, where he 
 took a prominent part in the movement for 
 the admission of New Mexico as a State, 
 and was reelected delegate to the Sixtieth 
 Congress in 1906. He has large farming 
 and mercantile interests in New Mexico, and 
 is president of the Santa Fe Central Rail- 
 waj^ Company, and connected with other 
 large New Mexico enterprises. Address: 
 Albuquerque, N. M. 
 
 ANDREWS, William Loring: 
 
 Merchant, author; born in New York City. 
 Sept. 9, 1837; son of Loring and Caroline 
 C. (Delmater) Andrews. He was educated 
 in private schools and engaged in business 
 
 I in New Y^ork until 1877, when he retired 
 from active business. Y^ale University con- 
 ferred upon Mr. Andrews the honorary de- 
 gree of M.A. in 1893. He is a trustee of 
 the Bank for Savings, director of the Conti- 
 nental Insurance Company and was form- 
 
 i erly for eleven years one of the managers 
 (5f {he Plouse of Refuge, on Randall's Is- 
 land. Mr. Andrews is a trustee, a member 
 of the executive committee and honorary li- 
 brarian of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; 
 member of the council of New York Univer- 
 sity; honorary member of the Eleventh 
 Army Corps Association; member of the 
 National Academy of Design, New York 
 Historical Societj'^, American Geographical 
 Society, Now York Chamber of Commerce, 
 lie was founder and president of the Society 
 of Iconophiles of New York. Mr. Andrews 
 
MEN or AMERICA. 
 
 is iiullior of scAi'ial books, among them; 
 Now Amsterdam. New Orange, N. Y. ; Old 
 I'ooksellers of New York; Fragments of 
 Ameriean History; Prospectus of Colleges 
 in Cambridge; Sexto Decemos et Infra; A 
 Trio of Frencli Engravers; Portraiture of 
 the American Revolutionary War ; James 
 Lj-ne's Survey; Gossip About Book Collect- 
 ing; Paul Revere and his Engraving; Castle 
 Garden; Bibliopegy in the United States; 
 Treatise of Fysshine Wyth an Angle, from 
 the Book of St. Albans; Historical Sketch 
 of the Continental Fire Insurance Com- 
 pany of the City of New York; New York 
 as Washington Knew It After the Revolu- 
 tion; An English XVIII Century Sports- 
 man ; Bibliopole and Binder of Angling 
 Books. Mr. Andrews is a member of the 
 Century Association, was one of the found- 
 ers, the second president and still a member 
 and one of the council of the Grolier Club; 
 member of the Union League Club of New 
 York and" the Savile Club of London. Mr. 
 Andrews married in New York City, Oct. 17, 
 1860, Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Theodore 
 Crane. Address: 10 East 38th Street, 
 New York City, and The Pepperid'ges, West 
 Islip, L. I., N. Y. 
 
 ANDREWS, William Shankland: 
 
 Jurist; born in Sja-acuse, N. Y., Sept. 25, 
 1858; son of Charles and Marcia (Shank- 
 land) Andrews. He was graduated from 
 Harvard, A.B., 1880, and from the Law 
 School of Columbia College, LL.B., 1882. 
 He practised laAV in Syracuse, N. Y., until 
 elected, in 1899, a justice of the Supreme 
 Court of the State of New York for the 
 term expiring Dec. 13, 1913. Address: 404 
 Oak Street, Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 ANDRUS, John Emory: 
 
 Congressman, manufacturer; born at 
 Pleasantville, Westchester County, N. Y., 
 Feb. 16, 1841; son of Loyal B. Andrus a;id 
 Ann (Palmer) Andrus. He was educated 
 at Wesleyan University, at Middletown, 
 Conn., from which he Avas graduated as A. 
 B. in 1802. He taught school in New Jer- 
 sey four years ; engaged as a manufacturer 
 of medicinal preparations, and is president 
 of the Palisade Manufacturing Company, 
 
 treasurer of the Arlington Clieniical Com- 
 pany and president of the New York Pliar- 
 maceutical Association. He was elected 
 mayor of Yonkers, in 1903, and to the 
 Fifty-ninth Congress in 1904, as a Republi- 
 can from the Nineteenth New York Dis- 
 trict and reelected in 1906 and 1908 to the 
 Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses. He is 
 a trustee of Wesleyan University. He mar- 
 ried at Yonkers, N. Y., June 23, 1869, Julia 
 .M. Dyckman. Address: Yonkers, N. Y. 
 
 ANGELL, James Biirrill: 
 
 President of the University of Michigan; 
 born at Scituate, R. I., Jan. 7, 1829; son 
 of Andrew Aldrich and Amy (Aldrich) 
 Angell. He was graduated from Brown 
 University as A.B., with Phi Beta Kappa 
 honors, in 1849, following his graduation 
 with travel and study in Europe. He was 
 professor of modern languages in Brown 
 University, 1853-1800, editor of the Provi- 
 dence Journal, Providence, R. I., 1860-1806, 
 president of the University of Vermont, 
 1806-1871, president of the University of 
 Michigan since 1871. He has received the 
 honorary degree of LL.D. from Brown Uni- 
 versity, Columbia University, Rutgers Col- 
 lege, Princeton University, Yale University, 
 Johns Hopkins University, the University 
 of Winconsin, Harvard University, Uni- 
 veristy of Vermont, and Michigan Agricul- 
 tural College. President Angell, in addi- 
 tion to his services to education has also 
 taken an important part in American diplo- 
 macy, having served as envoy extraordinary 
 and minister plenipotentiary of the United 
 States to China, 1880-1881, and to the Otto- 
 man Empire, 1897-1898. He was a member 
 of the International Commission of the 
 United States and Great Britain on Fisher- 
 ies Questions in 1887-1888, and chairman of 
 the International Commission of the United 
 States and Canada on Deep Waterways in 
 1895-1896. He is a regent of the Smithson- 
 ian Institution, a member of the American 
 Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Ameri- 
 can Philosophical Society, American Anti- 
 quarian Association, American Histoiical 
 Association, and American Society of Inter- 
 national Law. He married in Providence, 
 R. I., Nov. 26, 1855, Sarah Swope Caswell, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 (laugliter of Akxis Caswell, D.D., LL.D., 
 for many years professor and president of 
 Brown University. They have three adult 
 children. Address: Ann Arbor. Mich. 
 
 ANGELL, James Rowland: 
 
 Prdffssor of psychology: born in Burling- 
 ton, Vt., May S, 1869, son of James Burrill 
 Angell. LL.D., president of the University 
 of Michigan since 1871, and Sarah Swope 
 (Caswell) Angell, daughter of Alexis Cas- 
 well, D.D., LL.D., for many years professor 
 and at one time president of Brown Uni- 
 versity. He was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of J^Iichigan, A.B.. 1890, A.M., 1891; 
 took post-graduate work at Harvard, re- 
 ceiving the degree of A.M. in 1892, and at 
 the Universities of Berlin and Halle in 1893. 
 He was instructor in philosophy in the 
 University of Minnesota, 1894, and since 
 1895 has been of the faculty of the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago, where he was assistant 
 professor of experimental psychology, 1895- 
 1901, associate professor, 1901-1904, and pro- 
 fessor and head of the Department of Psy- 
 chology since 1904. He became dean of the 
 Senior Colleges in 1908. Professor Angell 
 was lecturer on psychology in the Uni- 
 versity of California in 1903, and in Wel- 
 lesley College in 1904. He is a member and 
 ex-president of the American Psychological 
 Association, and a member and former vice- 
 president of the Western Pliilosophical As- 
 sociation, and a member of the Scientific 
 Society of the Sigma Xi. He has made ex- 
 tensive researches in experimental psychol- 
 ogj-, and has contributed extensively to tlie 
 literature of psychology and particularly 
 in reference to the psychology of attention, 
 the organic accompaniments of conscious 
 processes, auditory localization, reaction- 
 time, the effect of partial tones on the lo- 
 calization of sound, dermal space-perception 
 and functional psychology. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. 
 Professor Angell married in Des Moines, 
 Iowa, Dec. 18, 1894, IMarion Isabel Watrous, 
 and they have two children. Address: Uni- 
 versity of Chicago, Cliicago. 
 
 ANGLIN, Margaret Mary: 
 
 Actress; born in Ottawa, Canada. April 
 3, 1876; daughter of Hon. Timothy Warren 
 
 Anglin, speaker of the Dominion Parlia- 
 ment, and Ellen (McTavish) Allen. She 
 was educated in Loretto Abbey, Toronto, 
 and at tlie Convent of the Sacred Heart in 
 ^lontreal. Having met with success as an 
 amateur reader, she went to New York City, 
 when she was seventeen years old, and be- 
 came one of the first pupils in Nelson 
 Wheatcroft's Empire School of Dramatic 
 Art, and in the public performance on 
 graduation in 1894 her acting made such a 
 favorable impression on ]\Ir. Charles Froh- 
 man that he engaged her for the part of 
 '• ]\Iadeline West " in Shenandoah, in which 
 she made her professional debut at the 
 Academy of Music in New York City in 
 September, 1894. After a year on the road. 
 Miss Anglin became leading lady with 
 James O'Neill for the season of 1896-1897, 
 playing " Ophelia " in Hamlet, " Virginia " 
 in Virginius, " Julie do Mortemar " in 
 Richelieu, and '' [Mercedes " in jNIonte Cristo. 
 She was leading lady with E. H: Sothern, 
 1897-1898, with Richard Mansfield, 1898- 
 1899, and in the Empire Theatre Stock 
 Company, 1899 to 1905. The following 
 year she starred in Zira, a dramatization of 
 \\ilkie Collins' novel, The New Magdalen, 
 and afterward, jointly with Henry Miller, 
 in The Great Divide. Address: Care of 
 The Lyric Theatre, New York City. 
 
 ANKENY, Levy: 
 
 United States senator and lianker; born 
 near St. Joseph, Mo., Aug. 1, 1844. In the 
 year 1850, with his parents, he crossed the 
 plains to Oregon, where he attended the 
 public schools of Portland. He afterward, 
 with his father. Captain Ankeny, engaged 
 in the transportation business to and from 
 the mines. He was agent for the W'ells- 
 Fargo Company, and later engaged in the 
 mercantile business at Lewiston. Idaho. 
 He was the first mayor of Lewiston. the 
 Government having deeded to him, as trus- 
 tee, the public land on which that town 
 was located. Later he moved to Walla 
 Walla, Wash., and engaged in the banking 
 business, being president of seven banks in 
 Washington and Oregon. He became a can- 
 didate for the United States Senate in 1895, 
 but was defeated, and was again defeated 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 47 
 
 ill 1S!»!). lie was soIocIchI as tlic iiifiiilier 
 of llio K<'pul)licaii National (Joiiiniiltpe from 
 the Slato of Washington in 1904, and elect- 
 ed Ujiited States Senator from the State 
 of Washinrjton, Jan. 29, 1903, to siiceeed 
 CJeorjie Turner, Democrat, and took his seat, 
 March 5, 1903, for the term expiring March 
 a, 1909. He married Oct. 2, 1S67, Jennie 
 Nesmitli, daugliter of tlie late Senator 
 James \V. Xesniitli, of Oregon. Address: 
 Walla Walla, Wash. 
 
 ANSBERRY. Timothy Thomas: 
 
 ]\Iember of Congress; born in Defiance, 
 Ohio, Dec. 24, 1871; son of Edward and 
 Elizabeth (Fitzpatrick) Ansberry. He was 
 educated at the University of Notre Dame, 
 of which he is LL.B. of 1893. He was ad- 
 mitted to the Ohio bar, and has since prac- 
 tised his profession at Defiance. In 1895 
 and again in 1899 he was elected prosecut- 
 ing attorney of Defiance County, serving 
 a two-year term in each case. In 1904 he 
 was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate 
 for Congress from the Fifth Ohio District, 
 but was elected in 190G to the Sixtieth 
 Congress and reelected to the Sixty-first 
 Congress in 1908. He married in Cleve- 
 land, Ohio, Dec. 26, 1898, Nellie Kettering. 
 Address : Defiance, Ohio. 
 
 ANSEL, Martin Frederick: 
 
 Governor of South Carolina ; born in 
 Charleston, S. C, Dec. 12, 1850; son of 
 John J. and Frederika (Bowers) Ansel. 
 After completing a common school educa- 
 tion he studied law, and was admitted to 
 the bar Nov., 1870, engaging in practice. 
 He also became active in politics as a Demo- 
 crat; was elected to the South Carolina 
 Legislature, serving from 1882 to 1888, then 
 became solicitor of the Eighth Judicial Dis- 
 trict of South Carolina for twelve years; 
 was an unsuccessful candidate for governor 
 of South Carolina in 1902, but in 1900 was 
 elected to that office, and reelected in 1908 
 for the term expiring in January, 1911. 
 Governor Ansel married first in February. 
 1878, Ophelia A. Speight, who died Dec. 25, 
 1895, and second, at Pickens, S. C, Aug. 
 24, 1898, Addie R. Harris (nee Hollings- 
 worth). Address: Coltuubia. S. C. 
 
 ANTHONY, Brayman William: 
 
 President of Adrian College; born in 
 Leray, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1851; son of George 
 W. and Mary L. (Lor;k:^i .Anthony. He 
 was graduated from Adrian College, Mich., 
 Ph.B., 1880, and received the degree of 
 D.D. from Kansas City University, Kansas, 
 1901. He was in the ministry of the Melh- 
 odist Protestant Church from 1877 to 1904, 
 was recording secretary of the Hoard of 
 Ministerial Education of that church, 1890 
 1900, and member of the Methodist Protest- 
 ant Board of Home Missions, 1900. Since 
 1904 he has been ])resident of Adrian Col- 
 lege. President Anthony was a member of 
 1h(< Tri-Church Council in Chicago. 1907. 
 When he took charge of Adrian College, in 
 1904, the institution was greatly discour- 
 aged by a heavy debt, which had embar- 
 rassed it for many years. During his presi- 
 dency the debt has been paid, the endow- 
 ment increased, and the attendance more 
 than doubled. He married at Red Creek, 
 N. Y., Aug. 12, 1879, Frances DeLanieter. 
 and they have two children. Address: 
 Adrian. Mich. 
 
 ANTHONY, Daniel Read: 
 
 ]\Iember of Congress; born in Leaven- 
 worth, Kan., Aug. 22, 1870; son of Col. 
 Daniel Read Anthony, foimder of the Leav- 
 enworth Times. He was educated at the 
 Michigan Military Academy and the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, of which he is an 
 LL.B., 1891. He entered the newspaper 
 business, and is now editor and manager of 
 the Leavenworth Times. He has been post- 
 master of Leavenworth, and was mayor 
 from 1903 to 1905. In 1907 he was elected 
 as a Republican to the Sixtieth Congress 
 and he was reelected in 1908. He married 
 in Leavenworth, Kan., in 1897. Elizabeth 
 Havens. Residence: Leavenworlh, Kan. 
 
 APPLEBY. Thomas Henry Montague Vil- 
 
 liers: 
 
 Superintendent of Indian ^Missions of the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church ; born in Re- 
 gent's Park, London. England. Oct. 28. 
 1843; son of Thomas and Lady L. M. (Vil- 
 liers) Appleby. He was educated at King'.s 
 College, London; Exeter College, Oxon 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 scholar lo St. Au;,nistine"s College, Canter- 
 bury, Knjrhuul; A.M. 1806; studied in hos- 
 pitals in London anil received from the State 
 Medical Board of the University of Minne- 
 sota, the decree of :M.D., 1877; Seabury 
 Divinity School, :Minnesota, D.D. 1900; St. 
 John's College, Maryland, LL.D. 1901. He 
 wa.s ordered deacon in 1865; priest, 1860; 
 was rector at Clarksburg, Ontario, from 
 1866 to 1870; at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, 
 from 1870 to 1881; and at St. Vincent, 
 Minn., 1881 lo 1888. After coming to the 
 United States he took up work among the 
 Indians, and in 1877 was adopted into the 
 Ojibway Tribe of Indians by the name of 
 Shu-na-we-whah-doon (silver tongue). He 
 was appointed lirst archdeacon of Minne- 
 sota in 1888, and was the lirst general 
 archdeacon in the American church; arch- 
 deacon of North Dakota in 1898 and of 
 Duluth in 1899. He was deputy to the 
 General Convention from 1892 to 1898, and 
 was appointed general superintendent of 
 Indian missions in 1900. Dr. Appleby has 
 taken an active interest in the civic atTairs 
 of the communities in which he has lived, 
 and in 1884-1888 was probate and county 
 judge. Residence: 1616 East Superior 
 Street. Diiluth. :\Iinn. 
 
 APPLETON, Daniel: 
 
 Publisher: born in New York City, Feb. 
 24, 1852; son of John A. Applcton and 
 grandson of Daniel Applcton, founder of 
 D. Applcton & Company. He was educated 
 in New York City and Carlsruhe, Germany, 
 and entered Harvard, but did not continue 
 the course, leaving in 1871 to enter busi- 
 ness. He was a clerk in the publishing 
 house of D. Appleton & Company until 
 1879, and since then has been member of 
 the firm ; and he is now vice-president of 
 the company. He entered the Boston Ca- 
 det Corps ill 1807, enlisted Oct. 31, 1871, as 
 a private in Company F of the Seventh 
 llegiment. National (juard of New York; 
 was promoted captain in January. 1879, 
 and elected colonel of the regiment July 18, 
 1HH9. since which date he has continued at 
 the head of that famous military organ- 
 ization. Residence: Hotel Astor. Business 
 address: 35 West 32d Street, New Y'ork 
 CUv. 
 
 APPLETON, Francis Henry: 
 
 Born in Boston, Mass., June 17, 1847. 
 General Appleton is one of the most public 
 spirited and best known citizens of ;Massa- 
 chusetts, and has for many years been 
 prominent in the promotion of a large num- 
 ber of interests, principally those relating 
 to agriculture. He was graduated from 
 Harvard College with the degree of A.B. in 
 1869, and took up the study of scientific 
 agriculture, being one of the earliest stu- 
 dents and workers along the lines which 
 have developed into the national and state 
 agricultural departments and bureaus. He 
 was curator of Bussy Institute from 1873 
 to 1875, and declined the secretaryship of 
 the Massachusetts State Board of Agricul- 
 ture, although he has been for many years 
 connected in official capacities with the lead- 
 ing agricultural and horticultural societies 
 of Massachusetts. He has been president of 
 the Essex County Agricultural Society; 
 president of the Massachusetts Horticul- 
 tural Society, and secretary of the Bay 
 State Agricultural Society, and is now sec- 
 retary of the old IVIassachusetts Society for 
 the Promotion of Agriculture. He was also 
 president of the New England Agricultural 
 Society, and had a leading part in the pro- 
 motion and management of some of the 
 most successful agricultural expositions 
 held in Massachusetts and New England. 
 He has also been reporter on foreign agri- 
 cultural matters, at Vienna, for the Massa- 
 chusetts State Board, and was for many 
 years a member of the ilassachusetts Board 
 of Agriculture, of the Board of Control of 
 the Massachusetts Experiment Station, and 
 a trustee o* the Massachusetts Agricultural 
 College. General Appleton is a prominent 
 mendier of the Republican party of INIassa- 
 eliusetts and has served two terms in each 
 branch of the Legislature. He has. since 
 1887, taken an active interest in the Massa- 
 chusetts volunteer militia, and in 1896 was 
 appointed conmiissary general by Governor 
 Woleott, with the rank of brigadier-general; 
 and he was retired with the rank of major- 
 general. He is also prominent in affairs 
 relating to patriotic societies, and was 
 president-general of the Sons of the Ameri- 
 can Revolution in 1905-1900. Address: 251 
 Marlboro Street, Boston. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 49 
 
 APPLETON, Francis Randall: 
 
 Tlio leading llginc in llie watch-selling 
 business of tlie United Stales, being a mem- 
 ber of the lirni whicli liandled the product 
 of the first successful American watch fac- 
 tory and made it possible for that success 
 (o be attained. He was born in New Yojrk 
 City, Aug. ."), 1854; son of Daniel Fuller 
 and Julia (Randall) Appleton. He was 
 cdueated at Anthon Grammar Fchool, at 
 i'liillips Andover Academy, at Harvard Col- 
 lege, graduating as A.P>. in 1875 and Col- 
 umbia College, graduating with the degree 
 of LL.B. in 1877. He practised law in 
 New York until 1883, and in 1884 became 
 a member of the firm of Robbins & Apple- 
 ton, general agents of the Waltham Watch 
 Company of Waltham, Mass. He is a di- 
 r<>etor of The National Park Bank, the 
 iNlouiit IMorris Bank and the Manliattan 
 Trust Company, and is vice-president and 
 director of the Waltham Watch Company, 
 of Waltham, Mass. For thirteen years he 
 was a staff officer of the First Brigade of 
 the National Guard of the State of New 
 York. He is a trustee of the General Me- 
 morial Hospital in New York, and a mem- j 
 ber of the Board of Overseers of Harvard 
 College. Mr. Appleton married at Lenox. '< 
 :\rass., Oct. 7, 1884, Fanny Lanier, and they 
 have five children. Residence: 26 East 
 37th Street^ New York City, and Ipswich, { 
 IMass. Business address: 21 Maiden Lane, 
 New York City. 
 
 APTHORP, William Foster: 
 
 Dramatic and musical critic; born in 
 Boston, Oct. 24, 1848, and graduated from 
 Harvard, 1860. He studied pianoforte, 
 harmony, and counterpoint under J. K. 
 Raine, and pianoforte under B. J. Lang. 
 He taught in various musical colleges in 
 Boston until 1884, and since 1872 has been 
 writing dramatic and musical criticisms for 
 the Atlantic Monthly and the Boston Sim- 
 day Courier, and since 1881 for the Bos- 
 ton Transcript. He was critical editor of 
 Sonbner's Eneyclopa?dia of Music and ^lu- 
 sioians, and besides a large number of 
 papers on musical and dramatic matters. 
 is author of: Hector Berlioz. Autobiogra- 
 i 
 
 pliy and Musical (irotesquc; .Mn-ieians an<l 
 Music Lovers; Jacques Dauionr and Otlior 
 Stoiics. ( translated from Zola ) ; By the 
 Way; and Tiie Opera, Past and Present. 
 A! •. Ai)tliorp married in 1876, Octavie Loir 
 lasagi. Residence: 14 Otis Place. Oflicc: 
 324 Washington Street, Boston. 
 
 ARBUCKLE. John: 
 
 Head of the cofiTee interests of the well- 
 known Arbuekle Bros. Mr. Arbuckle was 
 born in Allegheny, Pa., and in 1871 re- 
 moved with his brother Charles, now de- 
 ceased, to New York City, where they es- 
 tablished the firm of Arbuckle Bros. They 
 j were pioneers in the practice of roasting 
 j coll'ee to be put up in packages for sale 
 j under an extensively advertised name to 
 I consumers, their business intended to take 
 I the place of the very large trade in ready- 
 I ground cofl'ee, which had been highly adul- 
 j torated during the high price of coffee 
 i during the Civil War, and also to take 
 the place of the domestic practice of roast- 
 ing and grinding coffee. The firm came to 
 j bo the largest concern in the country in its 
 j line, and eventually came into competition 
 I with large sugar refineries, owing to tlie 
 advantage offered by their system for the 
 marketing of sugar products in connection 
 with their own goods. A bitter warfare 
 was carried on for a number of years and 
 ended in an adjustment which was in the 
 nature of a compromise. ]Mr. Arbuckle is 
 the head of the great firm which was thus 
 built up and is a director of the Importers' 
 and Traders' Bank and Kings County Trust 
 Co. He is president of the Royal Horse 
 Association, wliich owns large ranches in 
 Wyoming and other states. Mr. Arbuckle 
 maintains a fresh-air home for children on 
 Lake Molioiik, N. Y. He married at Pitts- 
 burgh. l*a.. in 1868, :Mary Alice Kerr, who 
 died June 24, 1907. Residence: 31.5 Clin- 
 ton Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Olfice: 71 
 Water Street, New York City. 
 
 ARCHBALD. Robert Wodrow: 
 
 I'nitcd States district judge; born at 
 Carbondale. Pa., Sept. 10, 1848; son of 
 James Archbald and of Augusta T. ( Froth- 
 iiigham ) Arcliiiald. daughter of Major 
 
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 iMEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Thomas Fiotliinpliain, of the Continental ! 
 Army. He entered Yale College, where he 
 was graduated in 1871, as A.B., and Dick- 
 inson College conferred upon him the de- 
 gree of LL.D. in 1008. For two years he 
 read law in tlie office of Hand & Post, 
 of Scranton. Pa., and was admitted to the 
 bar of Pennsylvania. Sept. 23, 1873. After 
 ])raptising law at Scranton for eleven years 
 he was elected in 1884 additional law 
 judge of the Forty-fifth District of Penn- 
 sylvania. He became president-judge Aug. 
 l", 1SS8, and was reelected in Nov., 1894, 
 for ;i second term of ten years. On April 
 1. I'.iOl. he was appointed by President 
 McKinley Ignited States district judge for 
 the newiy-formed Middle District of Penn- 
 sylvania. He is of Scotch descent through 
 liis father who was born on the little Cum- 
 bray Isle olV the west coast of Scotland 
 and derives liis given name from Rev. 
 Robert W'odrow, an ancestor, who was a 
 ])rominenl Presbyterian divine, the author 
 of 'I'lic Sufferings of the Church of Scot- 
 land. Among the societies to which he 
 l)elongs are the St. Andrew's Society of 
 Philadelphia, the Scroll and Key Society 
 of Yale and the Psi Upsilon frternity. 
 Judge Archbald married at Oxford. N. Y., 
 Jan. 21. 1875, Elizabeth Baldwin Cannon 
 and has three children. Residence: 236 
 ^lonroe Avenue, Scranton. Address: Post 
 Oflice P.uilding, Scranton. Pa. 
 
 ARCHBOLD, John Dustin: 
 
 Vice-president of the Standard Oil Com- 
 pany; born at Lcesburg, Highland County. 
 Ohio, July 26, 1848. He was educated in 
 the schools of Ohio and in 1864 he -went 
 to the Pennsylvania oil regions, remaining 
 there until 1875. and becoming president 
 of the Acme Oil Company. In 1875 lie 
 became a resident of Syracuse, N. Y., and 
 li" lias been a director since 1875 and is 
 now vice-i)resid('nt of the Standard Oil 
 CoTupany. Mr. Archbold is president of 
 the board of trustees of Syracuse University 
 and a director of the Post-Graduate Hos- 
 ])ital and Training School. He is a mem- 
 ber of tlic American Geological Society 
 and tbi' Ainciican ]\luseum of Nat\iral TTis- 
 torv. lie has foi- years been the active 
 
 force in the administrative details of the 
 Standard Oil Company and has especially 
 come into notice with reference to various 
 legislative and legal proceedings in which 
 the spokesman for the company has most 
 often been Mr. Archbold. He has been 
 identified with various philanthropies and 
 gave the new building at 454 West 42d 
 Street, New York City, to the New York 
 Kindergarten Association as a memorial 
 to his daughter, Mrs. Frances Dana Arch- 
 bold Walcott. Mr. Archbold married An 
 nie M. Mills. Residence: Tarrytown-on- 
 Hudson, N. Y. Office: 20 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 ARCHIBALD. James F. J.: 
 
 War correspondent ; born in Chautauqua, 
 N. Y., Sept. 22, 1872; son of Dr. F. A. and 
 Alartha W. ( Jewell ) Archibald. He was 
 graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University 
 in 1888. and since tliat time has had per- 
 sonal experience in most of the armed con- 
 tests throughout the world. He served in 
 the Chinese- Japanese War, and was with 
 General Miles through the Sioux campaign 
 and in the last Apache campaign. Mr. 
 Archibald accompanied tlie first scouting 
 expedition that landed in Cuba about a 
 month before the Santiago expedition, and 
 was wounded at that time. He was a 
 volunteer aide-de-camp in the Fifth Army 
 Corps in the Santiago campaign, and was in 
 the Soudan in 1899, and with the Boer 
 Army during the South African war until 
 the occupation of Pretoria, having been 
 wounded in the battle of Pretoria. He also 
 witnessed the last three campaigns in Vene- 
 zuela and in the Philii)i)ines; in the Rus- 
 sian-Japanese War was with the Russian 
 Army as correspondent of an illustrated 
 weeklv; and was with the French forces in 
 Northern Africa, 1908. :Mr. Archibald has 
 received a number of orders from various 
 nations, and is a member of several societies 
 of the wars of the United States, an honor- 
 ary member of the American Red Cross, 
 and of the Red Cross of Japan and of 
 Spain ; and is a fellow of the Royal Geo- 
 graphical Society of England. He is the 
 author of a large number of articles on 
 militarv subjects, and of tlie books. Blue 
 
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 Sliirl and Khaki, and Talcs from lliu 
 'rrcnc'lies. Address: Army and Navy Club, 
 Wasliinjjfion, D. C. 
 
 ARDEN, Edwin Hunter Pendleton: 
 
 Actor: born in St. Louis, Fob. 13, 1864. 
 lie left liis native place for the Western 
 States in ISSl, and after a series of expe- 
 riences in ditTcrcnt lines of activity, went 
 on the stage in 1882. For nine years he was 
 a star playing' in Eagle's Nest and other 
 dramas, dealing with the romantic aspects 
 of Western life, the plays being, in whole 
 or in ])art. of his own authorship. With 
 the waning popularity of the Western 
 drama, Mr. Arden entered into the general 
 work of his profession, and has achieved 
 a distinguished success as a skilful actor, 
 especially on legitimate comedy lines. Ow- 
 ing to his long and varied experience, he is 
 especially efficient in stock company work, 
 with its trying demand upon the resources 
 and versatility of the actois, and he is an 
 especial and personal favorite in many 
 of the large cities of the country. Address: 
 l.'SO ^Vest'44th Street, New York City. 
 
 ARENS, Franz Xavier: 
 
 Composer; born at Xeef, Rhenish Prus- 
 sia, Oct. 28, 1856. He emigrated to the 
 United States when he Avas ten years of 
 age, but returned to Germany to study 
 music, and graduated from the Royal Con- 
 servatory of Music in Dresden, in 1885. 
 He returned to the United States to be- 
 come conductor of the Cleveland, Ohio, 
 Philharmonic Orchestra and Gesangverein 
 and conducted the series of American Com- 
 posers' Concerts in Berlin, Dresden, Ham- 
 l)urg, Leipzig and other cities in Europe, 
 from 181)0 to 1892, and the American Com- 
 posers' Concerts at the Vienna International 
 Musical and Theatrical Exhibition. Studied 
 voice with Professor Julius Hey, Berlin, 
 1890-1892. He conducted a series of May 
 festivals in Indianapolis, Ind., until 1897, 
 when he removed to New York, and in 
 1898 was chosen conductor of the New 
 York Manuscript Society concerts. In 1900 
 he founded the New York People's Sjmi- 
 pliony Concerts, and has since been the con- 
 ductor of those popular series, and con- 
 
 ducts the Aicns Vocal Studio. New York 
 City. He is a member of the Lambs' Club, 
 the Manuscript Society and the American 
 Music Society, and a director of the Young 
 .Men's Orchestra. He married at Canal 
 Dover, Ohio, May 15, 1885, Emma Huegel. 
 Address: " ."JOS West 56th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 ARENTS, Albert: 
 
 Mining engineer and metallurgist ; born 
 in Claustlial, Germany, March 14, 1840. 
 He was graduated from the School of Mines 
 of his native place, and studied at the 
 University of Berlin lor two years. Mr. 
 Arents came to the United States in 1865 
 under engagement to treat lead ores in 
 Hampton County, Mass., but shortly after- 
 wards removed to the West. He has since 
 l)een prominently connected with the lead 
 mining and siiielting development of the 
 Western States, and has introduced a large 
 number of improvements in smelting ])rac- 
 tice, especially in Nevada, where he intro- 
 duced the rectangular, large-sized lead fur- 
 naces which are the type now used by 
 lead-smelters throughout the United States 
 and also invented the modern " siphon tap " 
 for lead blast furnaces. Mr, Arents is a 
 member of the American Society of Min- 
 ing Engineers. Address: 561 Railroad 
 Avenue, Alameda, Calif. 
 
 ARMBRECHT, William Heniy: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Port Chester, N. Y., 
 Feb. 9, 1874. He was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Knoxville, Tenn,, and studied 
 law under Iv L. Russell, general counsel 
 of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, at Mo- 
 bile. Ala. After a few years' service as 
 attorney for that railroad, he was apponited 
 L'nited Stales district attorney for ^lobile 
 in 1904, and from 1907 to 19()8 he was in 
 charge of the i)rosecution of the Honduras 
 National Lott(>ry. resulting in pleas of 
 guilty of thirty-five defendants, and the 
 assessment and collection, by the L^nited 
 States Government, of fines aggregating 
 $280,000. the largest fine ever collected by 
 the Inderal Government, He was reap- 
 pointed to his office as U. S. attorney in 
 1907. In 1902, .Mr. Arnd)reclit was nomin- 
 
mEN OF AIviiiRICA. 
 
 alod by the lli'publican Parly for attorney 
 general of Alabama. He is a member of 
 the firm of Inge and Armbrecht, attorneys, 
 ^lobile, director, vice-president, and gen- 
 eral counsel of the Meridian Light and 
 Railway Comjiany, Meridian, Miss., and 
 director of the Southern Construction Com- 
 pany, Mobile, and the Miazza-Woods Build- 
 ing Co., Meridian, Miss. He is a member 
 of the Tri-State Board of the Y. M. C. A., 
 which comprises the States of Alabama, 
 Mississippi and Louisiana. He is a 32d- 
 degree j\Iason, an Elk, and a Knights of 
 Pythias. Mr. Armbrecht married at Mobile, 
 Ala., Dec. 1, 1897, Anna B. Paterson, and 
 they have four children. Residence: 1073 
 Government Street. Office: 106 to 107 
 City Bank Building, Mobile, Ala. 
 
 ARMOUR, Jonathan Ogden: 
 
 ^kreliant, ca])italist; born in ^Milwaukee, 
 Wis.. Nov. 11, 1863; son of the late Philip 
 Danfortli Armour and Melvina Belle 
 ( Ogden ) Armour. He entered Yale, but 
 left before completing the course because 
 of the desire of his father that he should 
 join him in business and relieve him of part 
 of the executive burden. With that view 
 he returned to Cliicago and has ever since 
 been engaged in the business of Armour 
 and Company succeeding to the presidency 
 of that company upon the death of his 
 father in 1901. He is also director of the 
 Armour Car Lines, Armour Grain Com- 
 pany, the Chicago, iNIilwaukee and St. Paul 
 Railway, the Continental National Bank of 
 Chicago, the Northwestern National Insur- 
 ance Company of Milwaukee, Wis., the 
 National Packing Company, Omaha Pack- 
 ing Company, Illinois Central Railroad 
 Company, and of other corporations. Mr. 
 Armour married, in New York City, Lolita 
 Slicldon, and they have one daughter, 
 Lolilia. Residence: 3724 ]\Iichigan Ave- 
 nue. Odice: Home Insurance Building, 
 Cliicago. 
 
 ARMOUR. M. Cochrane: 
 
 Mcrcliaiil and manufacturer; born in 
 Auburn N. Y., Jan. 11, 1851; son of John 
 and Lillias (Cochrane) Armour. He was 
 educated in the public schools and then 
 
 became a clerk at Marshall, Mich., in tlie 
 grain and milling business, and afterward, 
 at the same place, was associated Avith his 
 father in tlie grain and grocery business un- 
 der the name of J. and M. C. Armour. He 
 removed in 1876 to Chicago where he was 
 for some years a department manager for 
 the Adams and Westlake Company, and 
 from there went to Cincinnati, where he 
 was vice president and general manager of 
 the Radford Pipe and Foundry Company, 
 and became also a partner in the firm of 
 Rogers, Brown and Company, leading pig 
 iron merchants. Since 1895 he has again 
 lived in Chicago, as resident partner of 
 that firm in that important market. He 
 is also director of the Chicago Short Line 
 Railway; president and director of the 
 Iroquois Iron Company; vice president and 
 director of the Rogers Iron Mining Com- 
 pany, and a director of the Rogers-Brown 
 Ore Company, and Chescaytawney Ore 
 Company. He is a member of the Union 
 League Club of Chicago, the Coimtry Club 
 of Evanston, Illinois, and the Glen View 
 Golf Club. He married at Hyde Park, 
 Chicago, in June, 1888, Minnie T. Huggins, 
 and they have four children. Residence: 
 1608 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, 111. Office: 
 Corn Exchange Bank Building, Chicago. 
 
 ARMSBY, Henry Prentiss: 
 
 Director of the Institute of Animal Nutri- 
 tion of The Pennsylvania State College 
 from 1907; born at Northbridge, Mass., 
 Sept. 21, 1853; son of Lewis and ]\Iary A. 
 Armsby. He was educated at Worcester 
 Polytechnic Institute, graduating with the 
 degree oi B.S. in 1871; Yale, graduating 
 with the degree of Pli.B. in 1874, and did 
 post-graduate work at Leipzig in 1876. and 
 at Yale, receiving the degree of Pli.D. in 
 1879; also receiving from the University 
 of Wisconsin the lionorary degree of LL.D. 
 in 1904. He was chemist and instructor 
 in agricultural chemistry in several insti- 
 tutions and director of The Pennsylvania 
 State College Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
 tion 1887 to 1907, and dean of the School 
 of Agriculture of the Pennsylvania State 
 College, 1890 to 1902. He was chairman of 
 the Committee on Cooperative Experiment 
 
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 Slalidii I']xliil)ils at the World's Columbian 
 Kxposition, lSi)8, and at the Paris Exposi- 
 tion, in 1000, also member of the Com- 
 mittee on Dairy Tests at the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition; and he has been expert in 
 animal nutrition in the U. S. Department 
 of Af^riculture since 1898. He is a fellow 
 of the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, and member of the 
 American Cliemical Society, American Phys- 
 iological Society, American Society of Bio- 
 logical Ciiemists, Society for the Promotion 
 of Agricultural Science (president 1905 to 
 1907), and of the Association of American 
 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Sta- 
 tions (president 1898 to 1899). He is au- 
 tiior of Manual of Cattle Feeding, 1880; 
 Principles of Animal Nutrition, 1903 ; also 
 of various scientific papers on the utiliza- 
 tion of the potential energy of the food of 
 domestic animals. Mr. Armsby married, 
 Oct. 15, 1878, Lucy A. Harding. Address: 
 State College, Centre County, Pa. 
 
 ARMSTRONG, Frank C: 
 
 JXIember of the Commission to the Five 
 Civilized Tribes. Mr. Armstrong was born 
 at the Choctaw Agency, Indian Territory, 
 in 1835; son of Frank W. and Annie M. 
 (Millard) Armstrong. He was educated 
 at Holy Cross College at Worcester, Mass., 
 and in 1854, went to Texas. He was ap- 
 pointed lieutenant in the United States 
 Dragoons for gallantry in a fight with In- 
 dians during a trip made across that State, 
 and served until 1861, when he resigned 
 and joined the Confederate Army. He had 
 a distinguished service during the Civil 
 War, attaining the rank of brigadier-gen- 
 eral, C.S.A., and at its close, engaged in 
 the overland mail service of Texas, until 
 ajipointed United States Indian Inspector 
 in 1885. He was assistant commissioner of 
 Indian affairs from 1893 to 1895, and later 
 appointed to his pi'esent position. Besides 
 his work on the commission, he is inter- 
 ested in mining, etc., in Mexico. Address: 
 1912 Sunderland Place. Washington, D. C. 
 
 ARMSTRONG, Samuel Treat: 
 
 i'hysician; born at St. Louis. Mo., Nov. 
 2, 1859; son of David Hartley and Laura 
 
 (Milligan) Armstrong. He was graduated 
 from the St. Louis University, Pli.B., 1879, 
 from the St. Louis Medical College (Medi- 
 cal Department of Washingtci. University), 
 M.D., 1879; and in 1880 tiie degree of 
 I Ph.D. was conferred upon him by St. Louis 
 i University. Dr. Armstrong served as assist- 
 j ant physician of the St. Louis City and 
 Female Hospitals, 1879-1880, and th(?n en- 
 I tered the U. S. Marine Hospital Service, 
 serving at New Orleans, La., Key West. 
 J Fla., Memphis, Tenn., New York City, 
 Cleveland, Ohio, then was in the United 
 States Army General Hospital, Key West, 
 I Fla. ; was chief sanitary inspector of the 
 j Fourth Corps, chief surgeon. Department 
 I of Puerto Principe, Cuba, of District of 
 Xegros, Dei)artment Visayas, and of the 
 Third District, in Southern Luzon, Philip- 
 pine Islands. He was commissioned as as- 
 sistant surgeon U. S. Marine Hospital Serv- 
 ice, Feb., 1881 ; promoted to passed assist- 
 ant surgeon, U. S. Marine Hospital Service, 
 March, 1884; resigned eommision, July, 
 1890; then was major and brigade surgeon, 
 ! U. S. Volunteers, 1898 and resigned June 
 I 30, 1901, coming to New York City and 
 j engaging in practice. He has attained dis- 
 J tinction in his profession and especially as a 
 hj'gienest and sanitarian. He is an honor- 
 ary member of the Memphis (Tenn.) and 
 New Rochelle (New York) Medical Socie- 
 l ties, member of the New York Academy of 
 iNIedicine. New York Historical Society, 
 New York Geographical Society. New York 
 , Academy of Sciences, Metropolitan Museum 
 of Art, American ]\Iuseum of Natural His- 
 j tory, New York Botanical Society, British 
 Medical Association, Societe Francaise 
 d'Hygiene, etc. He is a companion of the 
 Naval and INIilitary Order of the Spanish- 
 American War, and of the Order of Foreign 
 Wars, and a member of the Army and 
 Navy Club of New York. Dr. Armstrong 
 married at New Orleans, Dec. G, 1882. 
 Alice, daughter of J. II. Cobin. and they 
 ' have four children. Address : The Rock- 
 ingham, 1744 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 ARNOLD, Bion Joseph: 
 
 l*]l('ctrical enginoor and inventor; born in 
 Cazenovia, Mich., Aug. 14, 1861; son of 
 
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 .MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Josepli and (icraldine ( llcynolds) Arnold. 
 He was odiicalcd at the Univer.sity of Ne- 
 braska, and Hillsdale (Mich.) College, 
 .irradnating U.S., 1884, A.M., 1887, and M. 
 Pli., 188!). He took post-j^radiiate work at 
 Cornell University in 1889 and in 1897 re- 
 ceived the degree of E.E. from the Uni- 
 versity of Nebraska. In .lane. 1907, the 
 Armonr Institnte of Chicago conferred upon 
 liini the lionorary degree of Doctor of 
 .Science. He was consulting engineer with 
 the (Jeneral l']lectrie Company at Chicago. 
 1889-1893, and since then has been in inde- 
 pendent practice as consulting electrical en- 
 gineer. He designed and built the power 
 plant, and was consulting engineer for the 
 Intramural Railway which operated at the 
 World's Cohuubian Exposition, consulting 
 engineer of the Chicago and ^lilwaukee 
 I'^lectrie Railway, the Chicago, Burlington 
 and (^)uiney Railroad and Chicago Board of 
 Trade; member of the counnission which 
 devised ])lans for tlie electrical operation of 
 the New York Central trains in and out 
 ot New Vork City: consulting engineer of 
 tlie City of Chicago on traction matters; 
 consulting engineer to the New York Cen- 
 tral and Hudson River Railroad on their 
 electrification |)lans. He invented the di- 
 rect connected power station system, using 
 magnetic clutches, storage battery improve- 
 ments, a magnetic clutch, and new devices 
 and systems for electric traction, and was 
 the lirst to put into operation the high ten- 
 sion transmitting rotary converter sub-sta- 
 tion system for electric railways. He is a 
 past i)resident of the American Institute of 
 Electrical Engineers and of the ^\■estern 
 Society of Engineers; was vice-president 
 and chairman of the Executive Committee 
 of the International Electrical Congress of 
 St. J.,ouis in 1904, and represented the 
 American Institute of Electrical Engineers 
 at the Paris International Electrical Con- 
 gress in 1900. He is president of tlie Ar- 
 nold Company, and a director of the Elgin 
 ct Hclvidere Kleetric Railway Company ot 
 Illinois. lie is now chief engineer and 
 chiiirnian of the Board of SupcMvising l']n- 
 gineers in charge of reconstruction of the 
 street railway systems of Chicago, upon 
 wliich is 1o be spent $40,000,000, and con- 
 
 sulting engineer lo tlie Public Service Com- 
 mission of the State of New York, First 
 Di.strict; and he has acted in a similar ca- 
 pacity for the State Railway Commissioners 
 of Wisconsin and for the City of Toronto. 
 Mr. Arnold is a trustee of Hillsdale Col- 
 lege, Mich. He married at Reading, Mich., 
 Feb. 14, 1880, Carrie Estelle Berry, who 
 died Feb. 1, 1907, leaving nim three chil- 
 dren. Addresses: 181 La Salle Street, Chi- 
 cago; 314 Madison Avenue, New Y'ork City. 
 
 ARNOLD, Conway Hillyer: 
 
 Rear admiral, U. S. Navy; born in New 
 Vork City, Nov. 14, 1848; son of Henry N. 
 T. Arnold, commander U. S. N., and Corne- 
 lia Van Vleck (Sleight) Arnold. He en- 
 tered the U. S. Naval Academy as midship- 
 man Sept. 30, 1863, and was graduated in 
 1807. He went on a special cruise in the 
 iSlinnesota. 1867-1SG8, and was promoted 
 to ensign in 1868; master, 1870; lieutenant, 
 1871; lieutenant-commander, Jan. 10, 1892; 
 commander. May 11, 1898; captain, Sept. 
 17, 1902; rear admiral, Jan. 30, 1908. He 
 served in the Powhatan, Pacific Fleet, 1868- 
 1870; flag-ship Severn, North Atlantic Sta- 
 tion, as aide to Rear-Admiral Poor, 1870- 
 1871; receiving ship Vermont, 1871; aide 
 to Port-admiral Stringham, 1871-1872; 
 Wasp, Soutli Atlantic Station, 1872-1874, 
 Naval Observatory, 1874-1875; Hartford, 
 llagship of the North Atlantic Station 1875- 
 1877; Powhatan, Noi'th Atlantic Station, 
 Mag lieutenant and secretary to Rear- 
 Admiral Trenchard, 1877-1878; command- 
 ing tlie Wyandotte, Navy Yard, Washing- 
 ton, 1878-1881; Lancaster, European Sta- 
 tion, secretary to Rear-Admiral Nicholson. 
 1881-1882; INIiantonomah, special service, 
 1SS2-1883; Nipsic. SouHi Atlantic Station, 
 1883-1880; Navy Yard, New Y'ork, 1880- 
 188i. ; secretary to Rear-Admiral Gherardi, 
 1889-1893, in Galena, Kearsarge, Dolphin, 
 Baltimore, Philadelphia; on Board of In- 
 spection of ^Merchant Vessels, New ^'(U•k, 
 1893; aide to Rear-Admiral Gherardi. 
 Xavy Yard, New York, 189-1 ; in charge of 
 branch of the Hydrographie Office at New 
 York, 1894-1896; executive oflicer of the 
 battleship Massachusetts, lS9(i; eommand- 
 
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 incT the Bancroft. European Station, 1897; 
 lighthouse inspector. Sixth District, 18!)8, 
 (■oiuinandins- the Fifth Coast Defense Dis- 
 trict: coninianding the Glacier and Ben- 
 iiin-ton, 18!)9-indl, Asiatic Station and 
 IMiilijipines; president of tlie Wireless 
 r.loara]ihy Board, 1902-1903; member of 
 tile Kxainiiiinc: and Retirinp; Board; coni- 
 niaiidiiiji- U. S. receivinjj ships, Puritan 
 and Lancaster, Navy Yard, Leajjue Ishxnd, 
 I'a.; general inspector of U. S. S. West Vir- 
 ginia; in conniiand of the West Vir<,nnia. 
 Ihio-ship of the Armored Cruiser Division. 
 Alhintic Fleet, and flagship of tlie Pacific 
 Fleet. President of the general court-mar- 
 tial at New York 1907 ; Naval War Col- 
 lege; annual hoard of five admirals, 1908; 
 president of the Naval Examining and Re- 
 tiring Boards; appointed, Sept. 20, 1908, to 
 conunand the Third Squadron of the At- 
 lantic Fleet, flagship Dolphin, and later. 
 the battleship Maine, and special service 
 s(piadron. Rear-Admiral Arnold is holder 
 of the naval Civil War and Philippine 
 Campaign badges; is a member of the So- 
 ciety of Naval Architects and Marine En- 
 gineers, the Society of the Cincinnati, Aztec 
 Club of 1847, Military Order of the Cara- 
 has, the New York Yacht and the Army 
 and Navy Clubs. He married in New York 
 City, Nov. 17, 1870, Fanny, daughter of 
 Engineer-in-chief William W. W. Wood, U. 1 
 S. N., and they had two sons: Captain C. | 
 H. Arnold, Jr., U. S. Artillery, and William 
 Wood Arnold (both now deceased). Ad- 
 dress: Care Navy Departm(>nt. Washing- 
 t(m, D. C. 
 
 ARTHUR, Chester A. : 
 
 Capitalist; born New York City, July 25, 
 1804; son of Chester A. and Ellen Lewis 
 (Herndon) Arthur. He was educated at 
 Columbia and Princeton, class of 1885, B.A. 
 He is a member of the Psi Upsilon frater- 
 nity (Columbia), the Union, The Brook, 
 and Racquet and Tennis Clubs of New York; 
 Travelers' Club, Paris; El Paso and Coun- 
 try Clubs, Colorado Springs; Denver and 
 Denver Country Clubs. He married at Ve- 
 vey, Switzerland. May 8, 1900, Myra Towns- 
 end Fithian. and has a son, Chester A. Ar- 
 thur, :?d. Address; Colorado Springs, Colo. 
 
 ARTHUR, Helen: 
 
 Lawyer; horn in Lancaster, Wis., March 
 29, 1S79; daughter of Lemuel John and 
 :\lary I'liiima (Ziegler) Arthur. Miss Ar- 
 thur was prepared in the Evanslon (111.) 
 Township High School, graduating thence 
 in 1897, studied in Northwestern Univer- 
 sity, class of 1901, and was graduated from 
 New York University Law School as LL.B.. 
 1901. She was admitted to the New York 
 bar in 1902, and has since been practising 
 law in New York City. Miss Arthur v/a? 
 director of the Research Department of the 
 Woman's Municipal League, 1900-1907, is a 
 member of the High School Sorority of 
 Zeta Beta Psi, and of the University Soror- 
 ity Alpha Omicron Pi, and is editor of " To 
 ! Dragma " official jiublication of the last 
 named sorority. She is also dramatic edi- 
 tor of the National INIagazine. Miss Arthur 
 is co-author of tlie pamphlet issued during 
 the ■ city campaign of 1905, ^^■hy New 
 York Women Stand Back of \Mlliam Trav- 
 ers Jerome. She is a member of the 
 woman's Trade Union League, Twelfth 
 Night Club, Northwestern University Club, 
 New York University AlumuiC, New York 
 State Child Labor Committee, and the Col- 
 legiate Equal Suffrage Association. Ad- 
 dress: 220 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 ASAKAWA, Kwan-Ichl: 
 
 Educator and author; horn in Nohon- 
 matsu, Japan, Dec. 20, 1873; son of Masa- 
 zumi Asakawa and Uta Sugiura. He was 
 graduated from Waseda University. Japan. 
 1895, Dartmouth College, B. L., 1899, Yale 
 University, Ph.D.. 1902, and attended the 
 Imperial University at Tokyo, Japan. 190(5- 
 1907. Dr. Asakawa was lecturer on East 
 Asiatic history at Dartmouth College. 
 1902-190G; professor in English. Wa.seda 
 University, 1906-1907; and since then has 
 been instructor in the history of Japanese 
 civilization in Yale University, and cura- 
 tor of Japanese and Chinese collections in 
 the Yale University Library. He is author 
 of: The Early Institutional Life of Japan. 
 1903; The Russo-Japanese Conflict. 1904; 
 Sup])lementary Chapters to Brinkley's " Ja- 
 pan." 1905; is editor of the volume on Ja- 
 pan in the History of Nations series, 1906; 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 also writer of articles in various journals. 
 ])r. Asakawa made book-collcoting tours of 
 Japan, lOOG-IDOT, for the Library of Con- 
 gress and the Yale University Library. He 
 is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
 the Asiatic Society of Japan, Tokyo, Ameri- 
 can Historical Asociation, American Ori- 
 ental Society, and the Graduates Club of 
 New Haven. He married in New York 
 City, Oct. 12, 1905, Miriam Dingwall. Ad- 
 dress: Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 
 
 ASHBROOK, William Albert: 
 
 Mend)er of Congress; born in Johnstown, 
 Ohio, July 1, 1867; son of William and 
 Lucy (Pratt) Ashbrook. He entered the 
 news])aper business at an earlj' age and in 
 1885 became publishing editor of the Johns- 
 town (Ohio) Independent. He is also 
 ])rominent in the financial afTairs of Johns- 
 town and neighboring towns, being cashier 
 of three banks in that section, and the di- 
 recting oflieer of the local Building and 
 Loan Association for many years. He was 
 po.stmaster at Jolinstown from 1893 to 1897, 
 and a member of the 77th General Assembly 
 of Ohio, and was elected in 1906 as a Demo- 
 crat to the 00th Congress from the 17th 
 Ohio district, and reelected in 1908 to the 
 61st Congress. !Mr. Ashbrook has taken a 
 prominent ))art in national organizations of 
 n<'ws])aper woikers. and he was secretary 
 of the National Editorial Association of tlie 
 United States. 1902-1906. He married in 
 Johnstown. Ohio, Dec. 24, 1896, Jennie B. 
 Willi.son. Address: Johnstown, Ohio. 
 
 ASHHURST. John: 
 
 liibiariaii; liorn in Philadelphia, Djc. IU, 
 1K05, being tlie third in succession of his 
 name. He was ])reparcd for college at the 
 Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, and 
 entered the class of 1887, of the University 
 of Pemisylvania. He was connected with a 
 niimijcr of eolhge organizations, and was a 
 member of the cast of the Acharnians of 
 Aristophanes, and of the editorial staff of 
 tile L'liiversily Magazine. Leaving the Uni- 
 versity during his senior year, he entered 
 the service ( f tlie Philadelphia and Reading 
 ilailway Cnnipany; in 1S91 joined the con- 
 >tiiietioM <le|iartmeiit of tlie Western IMary- 
 
 land Railroad, and afterward entered the 
 works of the Maryland Steel Company. His 
 work as a librarian began in 189.3 in con- 
 nection with the West Philadelphia branch 
 of the Free Library of Philadelphia. In 
 1901 he was elected librarian of the Mercan- 
 tile Library of Philadelphia, and quickly 
 did much towards restoring this moribund 
 institution to public favor. In 1904 he 
 was elected assistant librarian of the Free 
 Library of Philadelphia. He is a member 
 of the American Library Association, Key- 
 stone State Library Association. Pennsyl- 
 vania Library Club (president 1904-1905). 
 Philobiblion Club (secretary since 1898). 
 Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and 
 University Club of Philadelphia. Address: 
 2000 De Lancey Place, Philadelphia. 
 
 ASHHURST, Richard Lewis: 
 
 Lawyer, postmaster; eldest son of John 
 and Harriette (Eyre) Ashhurst and grand- 
 son of j\Ianixel Eyre, all of Philadelphia. 
 He was born at Naples, Italy, where his 
 parents were sojourning, Feb. 5, 1888. He 
 was graduated with the highest honors 
 from the University of Pennsylvania, LSIG, 
 delivering the Greek salutatory oration; 
 studied law with Hon. W. M. Meredith, and 
 was admitled to 11h> l'liiladel])hia bar in 
 June, 1859, and has been engaged in the 
 ]nactice of the law in that city since that 
 time (except during his service in tiie 
 I'liited. States Volunteers during the Civil 
 War). He entered thc! Army of the Uni(m 
 . as adjutant of the 150th Pennsylvania Vol- 
 i imteers, Aug. II, 1862 and served in the 
 .\rmy of the Potomac until his honorable 
 discharge for wounds received at Gettys- 
 burg, Sept. 5, 186."5; he was brevetted cap- 
 tain for meritorious services at Chancellors- 
 ville and major of United States Volunteers 
 for distinguished gallantry at Gettysburg. 
 He is the author of a Biography of \\illiam 
 Morris Meredith; Contemporary Evidences 
 of Shakespeare's Identity, and other pam- 
 phlets and articles on Shakespearean and 
 military subjects. He is a memlier of the 
 Phi Beta Kappa, the American Philosophi- 
 cal Society, Pennsylvania Historical Soci- 
 ety, Loyal Legion, Sons of the Revoluticni, 
 Pennsvlvania Bar Association: he is vice- 
 
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 (lc:iu of Sluikosucavo Socii'ly of Philadel- 
 pliia and vice-president of tlio Philadelpliia 
 !„nv Assoeialion. lie has always been a 
 Kcjmlilican in ixdilies. Mr. Aslihnrst was 
 appointed, in Feb.. liJOO, by President 
 Roosevelt, postmaster of Pluhulelphia, en- 
 tering upon his dnties as such INIarch 1, 
 l!)OG. He married, IMay 30, 1861, Sarah, 
 (huicrhter of Professor John Fries Frazer of 
 the University of Pennsylvania. Residence, 
 .'.i^l South Fdeventh St"reet. Offica: 225 
 Soulli Sixth Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 ASHLEY, Clarence Degrand: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Boston, July 4, 1851; 
 son of Ossian D. Ashley and Hariett A. 
 ( Nash ) Ashley. He was graduated from 
 Phillips Academy, Andovcr, Mass., in 1869, 
 from Yale University, A.B., 1873; studied 
 at the University of Berlin (Prussia), 
 1875-1876, was graduated from Columbia 
 Law School, LL.B., 1880, and received from 
 New York University the degrees of LL. 
 M.. 1805. and J.D., 1903, and the degree of 
 Llv.l). from jSIiami University, 1898. He 
 was admitted to the Xew York Bar in 1880 
 and has been in active practice since. • He is 
 now senior mcnd)cr of the law firm of Ken- 
 neson, Emley and Piubino. ISIr. Ashley was 
 professor of law at the Metropolis Law 
 School, 1891-1895, and has been professor 
 at the New York University, since 1895. 
 He was vic?-dean of tlie Law Faculty. 1895- 
 1896, and has been dean of the Law Fac- 
 ulty, since 1896, in New York University, 
 and non-resident lecturer of law in Bryn 
 Mawr College, since 1899. Mr. Ashley 
 married in Geneva, Switerland, Aug. 12, 
 1880, Isabella HeyAvard Ripley, and they 
 have two daughters. Address: 32 Waverly 
 Phiee. New York City. 
 
 ASHMEAD, William Harris: 
 
 Entomologist; born in Philadelphia, Sep- 
 tember 19, 1855, son of Captain Albert 
 S. and Elizabeth (Graham) Ashmead. He 
 started in life 4n the publishing house of 
 tlic J. ]*>. Lippincott Company in Pliiladel- 
 phia. but iu 1876 went to Jacksonville. Fla.. 
 where he and liis brother established a 
 l)iihlishing house for an agricultural we;'k- 
 Iv. and also started a dailv. While editing 
 
 tlio Scientilie ])e|iart iiieiit. uf llie weekly, 
 he devoted himself to investigations of in- 
 jurious insects, and became connected with 
 the United States Department of Agricul- 
 ture as a special field entomologist in 
 1887, and after a course of special studies 
 in Berlin returned to the Department of 
 Agriculture, with which he remained con- 
 nected until July, 1897, when he was ap- 
 pointed assistant curator of the division of 
 insects of the National Museum, a position 
 which he now holds. He is specially known 
 for his investigations into and writings on 
 insects afi'ecting the oi'ange culture, and 
 has also written a monograph on the North 
 American Proctotryphidse. He has also 
 contribiited a large number of papers to 
 entomological publications. He is a fel- 
 low of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science; corresponding 
 member of the American Entomological So- 
 ciety of Philadelphia; vice-president of the 
 Washington Biological Society; Avas presi- 
 dent of the Cambridge Entomological 
 Society; was vice-president of the Wash- 
 ington Academy of Sciences; is an 
 honorary member of the Entomological 
 Society of Ontario; and has been vice- 
 president of the Association of Economic 
 Entomologists. He married in 1878, Har- 
 riet Holmes of Jacksonville. Residence: 
 1807 Belmont Avenue. Official address: 
 U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 
 
 ASHMORE, Sidney Gillespie: 
 
 Professor of Latin; born in London, in 
 1852 ; son of Sidney and JNIaria Ellsworth 
 (Phelps) Ashmore. He came to New Y''ork 
 at the age of six years, and was a studeid 
 from 1863-1868 in the schools of Charles d' 
 L^rban Morris (who was a fellow of Oriel 
 College, Oxford, and afterward a professor 
 at Johns Hopkins University). Mr. Ash- 
 more was graduated from Columbia Uni- 
 versity, B.A., 1872, M.A., 1875, and received 
 the honorary degree of L.H.D. from Hobart 
 CoUeiic, 1887. He was instructor in Latin 
 and Greek, Lehigh University. 1873-1876; 
 instructor in Latin, Colund)ia L'niversity. 
 1870-1881, and is professor of Latin at 
 Union University, since 1881. He spent 
 nearly a year in Italy and Greece, 1895- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ISilti; stiulii'd at llic University of Bonn, 
 and has been much iu England also. He 
 is a member of the American Philological 
 A.ssociation ; the Archaeological Institute of 
 America ; the Classical Association of Eng- 
 land; the New York Latin Club; the Clas- 
 sical Association of the Atlantic States, Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society and Delia Phi frater- 
 nity. Mr. Ashmore is author of several col- 
 lege te.xt books and other writings on clas- 
 sical subjects, including an edition of the 
 comedies of Terence. ]Mr. Ashmore married 
 Fanny Hart Vail, daughter of the late 
 Samuel M. Vail of Troy, New York, and 
 they have two children. Address: Schen- 
 ectady, N. Y. 
 
 ASHMUN, George Coates: 
 
 IMiysieiaii; born in Tallmadge, Ohio, Jan. 
 31. 1841; son of Russell Atwater and Mar- 
 cia (Wright) Ashmun. He received his 
 general education in the common schools 
 and academy of Tallmadge, Ohio, and was 
 graduated from tlie Medical Department of 
 Western Reserve University, M.D., 1873. 
 He was appointed United States examiner 
 for pensions at Cleveland, Ohio, in Feb., 
 1873, ami served in that capacity until 
 June, 188G; and since March, 1873, he has 
 been engaged in tlie practice of medicine at 
 Cleveland. Dr. Ashmun has been profes- 
 sor of hygiene and preventive medicine in 
 the Medical Department of Western Reserve 
 University, since 1893; and was registrar 
 of the Faculty, 1894-1»08. He has also, 
 since 1904, been lecturer im hygiene of the 
 Case School of Applied Science. Dr. Ash- 
 mun was a member of the Board of Health 
 of Cleveland, 1880, city health officer, 1881- 
 1891; member of City Council. 1897-1898 
 and 1902-1903, and president of City Coun- 
 cil 1902-1903; was elected secretary of the 
 Ohio State Board of Health, 1888, but did 
 not serve; and was a member of the Ohio 
 State Connnission for the investigation of 
 State Hospitals for Tuberculosis. He has 
 been for over twenty yeais a director of the 
 (Jhildrcn's Fresh .Air Camp of (Cleveland, 
 and is a member of I he Academy of Medicine 
 of Cleveland, lie is ;i director of the ]"]asl 
 ImkI Savings and Loan ('ompany and of 
 tlie Union Savings and Loan Company of 
 
 Cleveland. Dr. Ashnmn is a veteran of tlie 
 Civil War, serving as musician in the Sec- 
 ond Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, 
 Aug., 1801 to Sept., 1802, and as sergeant 
 and lieutenant in " I'nion Light Guard " 
 (Seventh Independent Company, Ohio Cav- 
 alry), an escort to President Lincoln, Nov.. 
 1803 to Sept., ISGo. He Avas also surgeoji 
 and major, Fifth Regiment, Ohio National 
 Guard, 1889-1898; and is a member of the 
 .Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Dr. 
 Ashmun married first. May 20, 1881, Laura 
 J. Po.st, and second, Nov. 27, 1888, Alice 
 Ford, of Cleveland, and by the last mar- 
 riage has three sons and a daughter. Ad- 
 dress: 1965 East 101st Street Cleveland, 
 Ohio. 
 
 ASPINWALL, J. Lawrence: 
 
 Architect; born in New York City, June 
 3. 1854 ; son of James Scott and Margaret 
 (Maxwell) Aspinwall, his mother being a 
 native of Dumfries, Scotland. He was edu- 
 cated at Dwight's Day School, and after- 
 ward at the Lyons School, and at the school 
 of Prof. CoUain, in New Y^ork City. Mr. 
 Aspinwall entered the office of James Ren- 
 wick, architect, in 1875, and in 1880 became 
 a member of tlie firm of Renwick, Aspin- 
 wall & Russell, which later changed to its 
 piesent style of Renwick, Aspinwall & 
 Tucker. He was architect of the second 
 Stock Exchange, the American Society for 
 the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and 
 that of the Society for the Prevention of 
 Cruelty to Animals; a large number of hos- 
 pitals (Scarlet Fever and Department Hos- 
 pitals. New York City. Stony Wold Sani- 
 tarium. .\iirondack Cottage Sanitarium, 
 New ^'()^k liilirniaiy for Women and 
 Children), olliee buildings, apartment 
 liouses. etc. He was also associated witli 
 James Renwick in working out nuich of the 
 (h'tail of St. Patrick's Cathedral and the 
 stone spire of Grace Church at Broadway 
 :in(l lOth Stre<'t. lie was one of the origi- 
 nal iiieiubers of Troup .\.. now Scpiadron A. 
 of I lie New ^'()|■k Stale (liiird. Mr. Asjjiii 
 wall is t icasiiicr of the St. Luke's .Assoei 
 at ion of (Jrace Church, New York City; a 
 iiHinlicr of the d'eiieral Society and New 
 Noik ('liapler of the .\meiican Institute 
 
.Joi^.N .Jacob A.stok 
 Capitalist 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 of Arcliitt'cls, the Architect ural League of 
 New York City, and a trustee of the New 
 York Inlirniary for Women and Children. 
 He is also a nieniber of the Union. Engi- 
 neers' and Atlantic Yacht Clubs of New 
 York. I\Ir. As])inwall married, in 1891, 
 May Morris Carnochan, of New York City, 
 who (lied .\|)ril 22, 1892. Address: 320 
 Fifth Avenue. New York City. 
 
 ASPINWALL. Joseph: 
 
 Juris! : horn in Brooklyn. N. Y., 1854. 
 He was graduated from the Law School of 
 Columbia ITnivcrsity, LL.B., 1875 and en- 
 gaged in Ih.e practice of law. He was gen- 
 eral attorney for the National City Bank of 
 Brooklyn and for other large institutions. 
 He was ;i uieiuber of the Ceneral Assembly 
 of New York. 1888-1889 and 1891, State 
 senator, 1892, and was elected on the Re- 
 publican ticket in 1892 justice of the Su- 
 preme Court of the State of New York for 
 the term expiring Dec. 31, 1920. He is 
 president of the Garfield Club, a 32d-degree 
 Mason and Shriner, and is a member of the 
 Union League and other clubs of Brooklyn. 
 Office: 44 Court Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 ASTOR, John Jacob: 
 
 Capitalist, soldier and inventor; bnrn at 
 FernclifL Rhinebeck, N. Y., July 13, 18G4; 
 son of William and Caroline (Schermer- 
 horn ) Astor ; grandson of William B. and 
 great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, the 
 founder of the family in America. Colonel 
 Astor was educated at St. Paul's School, 
 Concord, N. H., and Harvard University. 
 Colonel Astor's time is chiefly occupied in 
 the management of his vast inherited estate 
 and its improvement, under which has been 
 included the building of some of the finest 
 hotel structures in the metropolis. He com- 
 pleted that part of the Waldof-Astoria 
 Hotel known as the Astoria in 1897 ; com- 
 pleted the Hotel St. Regis, in 1905, and the 
 Hotel Knickerbocker, in 1906. He was 
 commissioned inspector-general with rank 
 of lieutenant-colonel. United States Volun- 
 teers, May 15, 1898, and he gave a com- 
 plete and fully equipped battery of artillery 
 to the Government of the United States on 
 the breaking out of the war with Spain. 
 
 He served in Southern camps and in Cuba, 
 including the battle, siege and surrender 
 of Santiago de Cuba, and was detailed by 
 Major-General W. R. Shatter to deliver the 
 official terms of capitulation to the Secre 
 tary of War and was mustered out of vol- 
 unteer service, Nov. 1, 1898. Colonel Astor 
 is the inventor of a pneumatic machine to 
 remove worn-out material fiom the roads 
 before the new stone is laid down, which re- 
 ceived a first prize at the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition in 1893; and is also in- 
 ventor of a practical turbine engine and 
 other mechanical devices. He is a director 
 of numerous large financial, railroad and 
 other corporations, mendjer of the Cham- 
 ber of Commerce of New York, ilie New 
 York Botanical Gardens, the New York 
 Zo(ilogical Society, Society of Colonial 
 Wars, the Military Order of Foreign Wars, 
 and of the leading New York and London 
 Clubs. Colonel Astor mari-ied, at Philadel- 
 phia. Feb. 17, 1891. Ava L. Willing, and 
 by that union has two children. William 
 Vincent Astor, born Nov. 15, 1891. and Ava 
 Alice Muriel Astor (born July 7, 1902). 
 Residences: FernclifT, Rhinebeck, N. Y., 
 and 840 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. City. Ad- 
 di-ess: (secretary's office) 23 West 26th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 ATHERTON. Gertrude Franklin: 
 
 Author: born in San Francisco, Calif.: 
 daughter of Thomas L. and Gertrude 
 (Franklin) Hoim, the latter being a collat- 
 eral descendant of Benjamin Franklin. 
 Mrs. Atherton was educated at home and in 
 various day and boarding schools, and she 
 married, at San Jose, Calif.. George Henry 
 Bowen Atherton, who is now deceased. 
 She lives, much of the time, abroad, her 
 travels extending over the most of Europe, 
 the West Indies and North America, and 
 is a life member of the American Historical 
 Association and of the Author's Societcy 
 of London, England, an honorary, but not 
 active, meudier of several clubs in San 
 Francisco, and is a nu'nd)er of the Ladies' 
 AthenaMun and of the Writers' Club of 
 i,ondon. and of the Touring Club de France. 
 Mrs. Athcrton's novels are of international 
 ' circulation, the list including: Before the 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 (Jriiifro Caiiio; Tlic Doomswoman ; A Whirl 
 Asiindor: Patience Sparhawlc and Her 
 Tinios: Mis Fortunate Grace; American 
 Wives and English Husbands; The Cali- 
 fornia ns; A Daughter of the Vine; Th« 
 Valiant Runaways; Senator North; The 
 Aristocrats; The Conqueror; The Splendid 
 Idle Forties (revised and enlarged edition 
 of Before the Gringo Came) ; A Few of 
 Hamilton's Letters; Rulers of Kings; Th« 
 Bell in tlie Fog; Mrs. Pendleton's Four in 
 Hand; Tlie Travelling Thirds; Rezanov; 
 Ancestors; The Gorgeous Isle. Address: 
 Tlu' ]\Luniilhin Company, New York City. 
 
 ATHERTON, Percy Lee: 
 
 Composer; born in Roxbury, ]\Iass., Sept. 
 25, 1871 ; son of William and Mary Ed- 
 wards (Dwight) Atherton. He was edu- 
 cated at Harvard College, A.B., 1893, at 
 the Royal High School, Munich, completing 
 with honors the course in theory of musia 
 in Harvard ; spent two years and also stud- 
 ied with leading teachers in Berlin, Paris 
 and Rome. He is the composer of music 
 for two operas, and of several suites, so- 
 natas and song cycles, etc., besides about 
 sixty songs for the solo voice. Address: 
 144 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. 
 
 ATKINSON. Fred "Washington: 
 
 President of the Brooklyn Polytechnic 
 Institute; born in Reading, Mass., May 23, 
 18Go; son of George W. and Eliza Atkin- 
 son. He was educated at the Massachusetts 
 State Normal School and at Harvard Col- 
 lege, also studied at Berlin, Halle, Leipzig, 
 and Jena Universities and the Sorbonne in 
 Paris, and is a Ph.D. of Leipzig, 1893. He 
 was a successful teacher and principal of 
 higli schools when he was selected in 1900 
 for tlie responsible position of general su- 
 perintendent of education of the Philippine 
 Islands. His duties in connection with this 
 position required a high order of ability 
 in selecting teacliers and aranging methods 
 of instruction which have developed into 
 the higlily successful system of American 
 scliools in Hie Pliilippine Islands, and wliich 
 is ra|)idly bringing tlie natives of tiiosc Is- 
 lands to a iiighcr level of civilization. Af- 
 ter three years of service in the Philippines, 
 
 Profesor Atkinson returned to the United 
 States, and after a short period of service 
 as superintendent of schools of Newton. 
 Mass., he was chosen July 1, 1004, as 
 president of the Polytechnic Institute of 
 Brooklyn. Profesor Atkinson is the author 
 of a well known volume on The Philippina 
 Islands and is a frequent contributor to 
 magazines and educational jovirnals. He 
 maried in Waltham, Mass., Aug. 27, 1890, 
 Winnifred G. Whitford. Address: Poly- 
 technic Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 ATKINSON, George Wesley: 
 
 Jurist and ex-governor; born in Charles- 
 ton W. Va., June 29, 1845. He was gradu- 
 ated from Ohio Wesleyan University, A.B., 
 1870, and three years later he received the 
 degree of A.M.; afterward taking post- ^ 
 graduate studies for which he received the 
 degree of Ph.D. pro inerito from Mount Un- 
 ion College, at Alliance, Ohio. He was 
 graduated from Howard University as LL. 
 B., and engaged in the practice of law. He 
 became prominent at the bar and also in 
 politics as a Republican, and was succes- 
 sively elected member of the Legislature of 
 West Virginia, member of the Charleston 
 Board of Education, assistant county super- 
 intendent of public schools, and was post- 
 master of Charleston, W. Va., for six years. 
 United States internal revenue agent for 
 four years, U. S. marshal of West Virginia 
 for four years, member of the Fifty-first 
 Congress, 1889-1891, governor of West Vir- 
 ginia, 1897-1901, U. S. attorney for the 
 Southern District of West Virginia, 1901- 
 1905, and in 1905 was appointed judge of 
 the United States Court of Claims at Wash- 
 ington, D. C, in which office he is now serv- 
 ing. Judge Atkinson is prominent in the 
 Masonic Order, in which he was Grand 
 Master in 1870-1877, and was secretary of 
 the Grand Lodge of West Virginia for 
 twenty consecutive years, during which time 
 lie was the writer of the Reports on Foreign 
 Correspondence. He has been twice mar- 
 ried. He has received tlic (h'gree of LLJl. 
 from Hie- University of Nasliville. Oliio 
 Wesleyan Ciiiversity. and the l'. S. Grant 
 I'niversily, and of D.C'.L. from the Uni- 
 versitv of West Virginia. He is autlior of: 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 History of Kiiiiaw l:;i ; Tlic West Virginia 
 i'ull)i("; Tlic A. 1!. ('. (.r (lio TnrilV; Don't, 
 or i\(\t;a(i\(' ('lii|is Iruiii Ulncks of J.iving 
 'J'nitlis; l!c\('iiiu' Digest; I'liiiniiicnt Men 
 of West \irginia; After tiie Moonsliiiiers; 
 J'syclK)looy Simplilied; volume of I'liblic 
 A(ldn>sses, and a volume of poems entitled 
 " Chips and Whetstones." Kesidence: 
 ("harlesloii. W. Va. Offiee: IGOO Thirteenth 
 St., N. W., Washington. 
 
 ATWATER, Edward W. : 
 
 Manufacturer; born in llochester, N. Y., 
 Jan. 5, 1842; son of Stephen and Mary L. 
 (Weaver) Atwater. He was educated in 
 the public schools of Providence, E. I., and 
 was graduated from the high school there 
 in 1859, immediately thereafter beginning 
 his business career as clerk to the Commer- 
 cial Steamboat Company, of Providence, in 
 which lie continued until 18G2. He served 
 as private in Company I, Eleventh Regi- 
 ment, llhode Island Volunters, in the Civil 
 War, 1862-1863, and after that was for 
 eight years cashier of the American Wood 
 Paper Company, of Royer's Ford, Pa. Mr. 
 Atwater engaged in fruit farming at Pal- 
 myra, N. Y., 1874-1878; Avas bookkeeper 
 for H. A. De Land fc Co., Fairport, N. Y., 
 and De Land, Fla., 1878-1885, and since 
 1886 he has been connected with The 
 Johnston Harvester Company, Batavia, N. 
 Y., of which he is now president, treasurer 
 and trustee. He has also, since 1888, been 
 accountant for the Dean Richmond Estate. 
 Mr. Atwater is treasurer of the First Bap- 
 tist Church of Batavia, N. Y., a trustee of 
 the Rochester Theological Seminary. He 
 married in Seneca Falls, N. Y., Sept. 17, 
 1872, Fanny A. Langworthy, who died in 
 1885, leaving two sons and two daughters. 
 Address: 401 East Main Street, Batavia, 
 N. Y. 
 
 ATWELL, William Hawley: 
 
 United States district attorney; born in 
 Sparta, Wis., June !), 1869; son of Capt, 
 Benjamin D. and D. E. Emma (Green) 
 Atwell. He was educated at the South- 
 western University of Georgetown, Tex., 
 A.B., B.S., 1880, and in the law department 
 
 of the Stale University of Te.vas, where he 
 received tlie ih-gree of LL.B. in 1S!)1, in 
 which year lie was admitted to Ihe bar, 
 later receiving the LL.D. degree from the 
 University of Te.xas. In 1898 he was ap- 
 pointed United States attorney for the 
 Nortliern District of Texas, and he has suc- 
 cessfully administered the duties of that 
 office, having been reappointed in 1902 and 
 in 1906. He is a well-known speaker and 
 writer, and one of the leading Republican* 
 of the southwest. He married in George- 
 town, Tex., Dec. 7, 1892, Susie Snyd-r. 
 Addi'ess: 510 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Tex. 
 
 ATWELL, William P.: 
 
 Consular official; appointed consular 
 agent at Schiedam, May 14, 1883, and re- 
 tired from that office in July, 1885. He 
 was ajipointed commercial agent at Rou- 
 baix, June 27, 1890, and retired in June, 
 1893; reappointed commercial agent at 
 Roubaix, May 28, 1897; promoted to con- 
 sul ]\Iay 31, 1899; appointed consul at 
 Ghent, June 22, 1906. Address: Client, 
 Belgium. 
 
 ATWILL, Edward Robert: 
 
 Bishop of Kansas City; born at Red 
 Hook, N. Y., Feb. 18, 1840; son of Edward 
 R. and Margaret Atwill. He was gradu- 
 ated from the academic course at Colum- 
 bia College in 1862 and at the General 
 Theological Seminary, New York City, in 
 1864, and he received from the University 
 of Vermont the degree of D.D. in 1882. 
 He was ordered deacon of the Episcopal 
 Church in 1864 and a year later was or- 
 dained priest by Bishop Horatio Potter. 
 He was consecutively assistant of St. Luke's 
 Church, New York City, rector of St Paul's 
 Church, Williamsburgh, L. I., assistant at 
 St. Paul's Church, Burlington, Vt., and its 
 rector from 1867 to 1882, and rector of Trin- 
 ity Church, Toledo, Ohio, from 1882 to 1890. 
 He was consecrated Bishop of Kansas City. 
 Mo., in 1890! He is author of A Tract on 
 Confirmation and various addresses and 
 sermons. Bisliop Atwill married ilary 
 Whiling. Address: 1709 East 32d Street, 
 Kansas Citj*. ]Mo. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ATWOOD, Isaac Morgan: 
 
 (iciicnil suiJL'iiiileiulout of the Univer.sal- 
 ist CluHcli in the United States and Can- 
 ada : born in Pembroke, N. Y., March 24, 
 1838; son of Orsamus Isaac and Nancy 
 (Shearer) Atwood. He was educated at 
 St. Lawrence University, receiving the de- 
 gree of M.A., and at the divinity school 
 of Tufts College, and the degree of LL.D. 
 was conferred upon him by Buchtel Col- 
 lege, lie was ordained in 1861 to the min- 
 istry of the Universalist Church and served 
 witli marked success in various pastorates. 
 lie has been editor of the Christian Leader 
 and president of the Canton Theological 
 Seminary, and is now associate editor of 
 the Universalist Leader of Boston and gen- 
 eral superintendent of the work of the 
 Universalist Church in the United States 
 and Canada, his official position being sec- 
 retary of the Universalist General Conven- 
 tion. He is in executive charge of the 
 measures decided upon by that organiza- 
 tion for the furtherance of the work of 
 the Universalist Church. He is a member 
 of the American Social Science Associa- 
 tion and tlie Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
 and the autlior of Have We Outgrown 
 Christianity?; Latest Word of Universal 
 isni; Walks About Zion; Episcopacy; Rev- 
 elation ; Balance Sheet of Biblical Criti- 
 -fiism and A System of Christian Doctrines. 
 He married in Clarendon, N. Y., Oct. 29, 
 1801, Almira Church. Address; 189 Har- 
 vard Street, Rocliester, N. Y. 
 
 AUDENRIED, Charles Young-: 
 
 Jurist: born in Philadelpliia, Dec. 9. 
 ISOli ; son of John T. Audenried, a success- 
 ful merchant and coal mine operator. He 
 was educated in Rugby Academy and the 
 University of Pennsylvania, from which he 
 was graduated as A.B., 1883, and LL.B.. 
 188G. Following the last graduation he 
 was admitted to the bar and engaged in 
 practice in Philadelphia, and from 1887 to 
 1896 he was secretary and treasurer of the 
 Maeungic iron Company. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Common and Select Councils of 
 Pliiladclphia from 1891 to 1896, resigning 
 from the Select Council upon his appoint- 
 ment as Judge of the Court of Common 
 
 Pleas No. 4, of Philadelphia, to which 
 position he was elected in 1897 for a full 
 term of ten years, and in 1907 was re- 
 elected for another tenn of ten years from 
 Jan. 1, 1908. Address: 6331 Lancaster 
 Avenue, Philadelphia. 
 
 AITDSIEY. George Ashdown: 
 
 Architect; born in Elgin, Scotland, Sept. 
 6, 1838. He came to the United States in 
 1892, when he began the practice of his 
 profession in New York in conjunction 
 with his brother, Willian James Audsley. 
 The firm has built a number of conspicu- 
 ous structures, among them being the Lay- 
 ton Art Gallery of Milwaukee, the Bowl- 
 ing Green office building in New York, the 
 Church of St. Edward, Philadelphia, and 
 others. Mr. Audsley is widely known as 
 an author and an authority on polychro- 
 matic decoration and is a student of the 
 historic art of ilhmiination, and of the 
 other medi.Tval arts. He has also written 
 extensively on other art topics. His spe- 
 cialties are best illustrated by his published 
 works, among which are: Keramic Art 
 of Japan, Ornamental Arts of Japan, The 
 Art of Chromolithography, The Practical 
 Decorator and The Art of Organ Building. 
 He has also written, in conjunction with 
 his brother, Illuminated Sermon on the 
 Mount, Illuminated Prisoner of Chillon, 
 Gviide to Illuminating and Missal Painting, 
 Handbook on Christian Symbolism, Cot- 
 tage, Lodge and Villa Architecture, Poly- 
 chromatic Decoration Applied to Buildings 
 in the Gothic Styles, Outlines of Ornament 
 in all Styles. Taste versus Fashionable Col- 
 ors and Popular Dictionary of Architecture 
 and the Allied Arts (unfinished). Resi- 
 dence: Lowerre, N. Y. Ofliee: IS West 
 27th Street, New York City. 
 
 AULLS. Samuel D.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Wheeler, Steuben Coun- 
 ty, N.' Y., April 9, 1875; son of Thomas 
 and Ellen (Williams) Aulls. He was grad- 
 uated from the Preparatory School at Dun- 
 dee, N. Y.. in 1893, and took post-gradu- 
 ate courses there and at Lowville (N. Y.) 
 .\eademy, and two years in .\lbany Law 
 I School. He taught school in Steuben and 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 63 
 
 Yiitivs Counties, New York, 1S'J3-1895, 
 studied law in the office of Hon. Aniasa J. 
 Parker at Albany and Col. Gabriel L. 
 Smith of Ehnira, and was admitted to the 
 bar in 1S!)S. lie became clerk and later 
 partner witli .fudge Smith, and he was 
 admitted to the bar of the United States 
 Supreme Court in 1902. Mr. Aulls is 
 eoun.sel for a large number of corporations, 
 iiieluding the Listed Securities Company of 
 Xi'w York. He is author of Aulls' Quizzer 
 on the Code. He is a member of Masonic 
 and other lodges, the Chemung County 
 liar Association, the Young Men's Club of 
 KImira and the Empire State Society of 
 Suns of the American Revolution. Ad- 
 dress: 214 East Water Street, Elmira, 
 N. Y. 
 
 AUSTIN, Henry: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Boston, Mass., Dtc. 21, 
 IS.-jS; son of William and Rachel A. Aus- 
 tin. He was graduated from Harvard Law 
 Scliool in 1879 and was admitted to the bar 
 of Massachusetts in 1880. He has been 
 a commissioner of insolvency for six years, 
 and is an associate justice of the West 
 IJoxliury district of the Boston INIunicipal 
 court. ^Ir. Austin has made a specialty of 
 tile study of law involving the rural dis- 
 tricts of New England and is author of: 
 American Farm and Game Laws; Liquor 
 Law in New England; and other publica- 
 tions. Address: 84 State Street, Boston. 
 
 AUSTIN, Oscar Phelps: 
 
 Statistican; born in Illinois. He is a 
 newspaper man by profession, but for many 
 years has been one of the best known sta- 
 tistician economists in the United States. 
 As Washington correspondent for metro- 
 ]iolitan dailies he became known for his 
 wiitings on finance and commerce, and in 
 1898 was appointed chief of the Bureau of 
 Statistics, formerly under the Treasury De- 
 partment but later transferred to the De- 
 ]Kirtment of Commerce and Labor, having 
 lield that office continuously since 1898, a 
 longer term of service than any other oc- 
 cupant of the position. Since 1890 he has 
 j)re]jared the quadrennial text-book for the 
 ilepubliean National Committee, and is the 
 
 leading authority in tlie L'nitid States on 
 the matters relating to government policies 
 and finance to wiiich that book is devoted. 
 Me is a mend)er of the International Colo- 
 nial Institute; international Union for 
 Stud}' of Jurisprudence and Political Econ- 
 omy; the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science; the American Eco- 
 nomic Association; the National Geograph- 
 ic Society (secret'.! y) ; an incorporator and 
 honorary member of the American Cham- 
 ber of Commerce in Paris; and a member 
 of the Commission Centrale de Statistique 
 of Belgium. He is the author of: Uncle 
 Sam's Secrets; Uncle Sam's Soldiers; Un- 
 cle Sam's Children (series of historical and 
 statistical novels for youth) ; Steps in Our 
 Territorial Expansion; Colonial Systems of 
 the World; Colonial Administration; Com- 
 mercial China; Commercial Japan; Com- 
 mercial Philippines; Commercial India; 
 Commercial Africa ; Conuuercial South and 
 Central America ; Commercial Orient ; Sub- 
 marine Telegraphs of the World; The 
 Great Canals of the World; The National 
 Debts of the World; etc. He married 
 Anna M. Richardson. Residence: 1020 
 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C. 
 Oificial address: Department of Commerce 
 and Labor, Washington, D. C. 
 
 AUSTIN, Richard Wilson: 
 
 Lawyer and Congressman; born at De- 
 catur, Ala., Aug. 20, 1857. He was edu- 
 cated in the Loudoun High School and the 
 University of Tennessee, and was admitted 
 to tlie bar of Tennessee. He was assistant 
 doorkeeper of tlie House of Representatives 
 in the Forty-seventh Congress ; U. S. Mar- 
 shal for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 
 1897-1900; American consul at Glasgow, 
 Scotland, July, 1900 to 1907. when he re- 
 signed to make the race for the Sixty- 
 first Congress, to wliich he was elected in 
 1908 from the Second Tennessee District as 
 a Republican. Address: Knoxville, Tenn. 
 
 AVES, Henry Damorel: 
 
 ]*][)iscoiial bishop of ^lexico; born in 
 Huron County. Ohio, July 10. ISo.'i; son of 
 Frederick William and Francis Elizabeth 
 (Damorel) Aves. He received his educa- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 tioii at Kt'iiyou College, i;iaduating with 
 llio (Ipgroe of Pli.B. in 1878, and taking the 
 lU'giee of H.D. in ISSU. ife also received 
 I lie degree of ]).D. from his alma mater 
 in 11104 and an honorary LL.D. from Kuth- 
 orford College, N. C, "in liK)]. lie took 
 orders as a deacon of the Episcopal 
 Church in 1883, and was ordained jniest 
 the following year by Bishop Bedell. He 
 was connected with St. Paul's Parish, Mt. 
 Vernon. Ohio, 1883-1885, first as deacon, 
 then olliciating as priest. In 1885 he went' 
 to Cleveland, Ohio, as priest at St. John's 
 Church, and after seven years was called 
 to the rectorship of Christ's Church, Hous- 
 ton, Tex. He remained here until 1904 
 when he was elected Bishop of Mexico, 
 lie was consecrated by Bishops Garrett, 
 Brown, Brooke, Rowe, Johnson and Mills- 
 paugh. He married [Mary Gertrude Smith, 
 at Kenton, Ohio, Sept. li, 1883. Address: 
 Torreon, Mexico. 
 
 AXTELL, Decatur: 
 
 Itailway oflieial; born at Elyria. Ohio, 
 Feb. 8, 1848; son of Almon and Sophronia 
 (Boynton) Axtell. He Avas educated in 
 Illinois College, and from IMarch 10, 1864, 
 has been in railway service, serving in en- 
 gineering capacities ou various roads; and 
 is a member of the American Society of 
 Civil Engineers. He became general man- 
 ager of the Richmond and Allegheny Rail- 
 road in July, 1880, and vice-president and 
 general manager of the same road in April. 
 1882. He was receiver and manager of the 
 llichmond and Allegheny Railroad from 
 1883-188!); became second vice-president of 
 the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in May, 
 1889, and since February, 1000, h;is been 
 vice-president of the same ro.ul. He was 
 also ])resideiil of the Toledo and Ohio 
 Central Railroad and vice-president of the 
 Kanawha and ^lichigan Railway from 
 1880-1003, an<l since 1003 has been chair- 
 man of the Boards of Directors of those two 
 roids. Address: Richmond, Va. 
 
 AYER, Clarence Walter: 
 
 Lil)rarian; born in Haverhill, Mass., 
 1802; son of Waller Ayer and Al)by West 
 (Stevens) Ayer. lie was educated in pub- 
 
 lie schools of Haverhill, and at Harvard 
 College, A.B., 1885, (magna cum laude. 
 with second year honors in classics, tint I 
 honors in music), A.M., 1888 (in Englisli 
 and Italian). He was instructor at Dum- 
 mer Academy, near Newburyport, 1885- 
 1886; private tutor at Cambridge, from 
 1886 to 1891; professor of English in Wit- 
 tenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, 1892- 
 1893; instructor in English in tlie College 
 for Women, Western Reserve University, 
 Cleveland, Ohio, from 1893-1895; instructor 
 in the Volkmann ])rivate school for boys, 
 Boston, 1895-1896; assistant in Harvard 
 College Library from 1896-1899; libiariui 
 of Brockton Public Library from 1809- 
 1904, and of the Cambridge Public Library 
 since 1904. He compiled a shelf classifi- 
 cation of music for the Harvard College 
 Library in 1896. which was published in 
 the Library Journal in 1902; and in 1908 
 he collaborated with Dr. William J. Rolfe 
 in the preparation of a '•History of the 
 Cambridge Public Library." He is a mem- 
 ber of the ^Massachusetts Library Club, 
 (vice-president 1900-1901; jiresident 1909- 
 1910), American Library Association, Xew 
 England Historical Genealogical Societj', 
 Harvard Musical Association, of Boston, 
 director of the Cambridge Social Union, 
 and a member of the Pi Eta Society of 
 Harvard College. Mr. Ayer is a Republi- 
 can in politics and a Universalist in reli- 
 gion. He married in Brockton, Mass.. Oct. 
 1, 1902, Grace Standwood Blaekwell. ami 
 they have one .son, Donald Blaekwell. born 
 April 3, 1904, Residence: 5 Cutler Ave- 
 nue, Cambridge. Ofiice address: Public 
 Library, Cambridge, ]\Iass. 
 
 AYER, Edward Everett: 
 
 Capitalist and bibiif)])liil(' : born at Har- 
 vard, Mellenry County, 111., Nov. 16, 1841: 
 son of Elbridgc Gerry and ]\fary (Titcomb) 
 Ayer. After leaving the public schonls, ho 
 became interested in the hunber business, 
 and especially in that branch of it con- 
 nected with sup])lying ihe demands of rail- 
 ways for cross-ties and in Ihat line built 
 uji, in the firm of Ayer & Lord, now the 
 •Ayj'r & Loid Tie Company, one of the most 
 extensive tie contracting enterprises in the 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 fi.-) 
 
 ooiiniiy. From its iiicei)tioii in ISO."? until 
 ISOS li(> was president, and is still a di- 
 rector, of tlie Field Colundiian Museum; 
 ;niil lie is also a director of the Xewlniry 
 Lihrary, the Chiea'^o Art Institute, and the 
 Cliicaoo Uistorieal Soeiety. He is deeply 
 iiderestod in American literature and his- 
 tory, and his library, which ranks as one 
 of the best and most valuable in private 
 hands in this country, is especially rich in 
 its collection of Americana. .Mr. Ayer mar- 
 ried, Sept. 7, 18(55, Emma Auoust Burbank, 
 by \vltnm he has one daughter. Address: 
 Itailway I'lxcliange Building, Chicago. 
 
 AYER, Francis Wayland: 
 
 .\dvertising agent; born in Lee, Berk- 
 shire County, Mass., 1848. He was edu- 
 cated iu the schools of Western New York. 
 ]\fr. Ayer started in the advertising busi- 
 ness in 18G9 at Philadelphia in association 
 with his father, under the firm name of 
 N. W. Ayer & Son, and upon the deatli of 
 his father in 1873, Mr. Ayer became head 
 of the firm. The yearly aggregate of the 
 tiini's payments to i^ublishers now exceeds 
 four million dollars. Mr. Ayer, in addi- 
 tion to conducting the large advertising 
 l)usiness, is jDresident of the Merchants' 
 National Bank of Philadelphia. He is also 
 senior partner of the tirm of Ayer & Mc- 
 Kenny, who have a large stock farm in 
 New York State. Mr. Ayer is superintend- 
 ent of the Sunday-school connected with 
 the North Baptist Church in Camden, New 
 Jersey, and is a director in large banking 
 and commercial institutions. Residence: 
 Camden, N. J. OfTice: 300 Chestnut St.. 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 AYER, Frederick Fanning: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Lowell, Mass., Sept. 12, 
 1851. He was graduated from Harvard 
 College as A.B. in 1873, and studied at 
 Harvard Law School. He was admitted to 
 the Massachusetts bar in 1875, and since 
 the death of his father, James C. Ayer, has 
 managed the great properties of the Ayer 
 estate. He presented the Ayer Memorial 
 Library, costing $40,000, to the town of 
 Ayer, Mass, ]Mr, Ayer is a director of the 
 5 
 
 l,ak(> Sii|)cri(ir Ship (anal, liailway and 
 lidii ( cMiiiiany. the I'ortagc Lake and IJis'cr 
 iuipidv cmciil ('oni|)any, the Lowell :inil 
 .\ndo\cr Itailroad, ami .L ( '. Ayer Company, 
 and he is a large stoi'kliolder in the New 
 ^dik 'rriliuue Association, the Tremont and 
 Sull'olk .Mills, and other corporations. Res- 
 idence: 5 West .")71h Street. Address: 
 Mills I'.uilding, N'ew Fork City. 
 
 AYERS, Howard: 
 
 Morphologist ; born in Olymjiia. Wash., 
 Mi\y 21, 1801 . He was graduated from 
 Harvard University as B.S. in 1883, and 
 from the Cniversity of Freiberg, Germany, 
 as Ph.D. in 1885. He also studied at the 
 universities of Strasburg and Heidelberg, 
 and has received the degree of LL.D. from 
 the University of Missouri. Since 1889 he 
 has been engaged in investigations into the 
 structure of animal bodies and is one of 
 the leaders in morphological work in the 
 United States. He was director of the 
 Lake Laboratory from 1889 to 1893, and has 
 been a member of the staflf of instruction 
 at the Marine Biological Laboratory of 
 Wood's Hole since 1889. In 1899 he be- 
 came president of the L^niversity of Cin- 
 cinnati, holding that position until 1904. 
 Dr. Ayers is a member of the American 
 Society of Naturalists; the American 
 Morphological Society ; the American As- 
 .sociation for the Advancement of Science i 
 and the National Educational Association. 
 He is the author of "The Vertebrate Ear," 
 and other papers on the morphology of ani- 
 mals. President Ayers has also made a 
 scientific study of the problems of educa- 
 tion and is the author of numerous >4d1- 
 umes and papers on this subject. Resi- 
 dence: 907 Lexington Avenue. Office: 
 15 West Second Street, Cincinnati. 
 
 AYERS, Rufus Adolphus: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Bedford County, Va., 
 ^lay 20, 1849. His early education was in- 
 terrupted by the Civil War, in which he 
 took part as a member of an independent 
 command in eastern Teimessce. western 
 North Carolina and southwestern Virginia. 
 .\fter the war he entiaircd in farming and 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 coniplotcd liis ('(liUMtiim l)y personal study. 
 ;iiul was adinittid In the l.ar in 1872. He 
 was active in llii' (l(\ eli)|)iiient of large 
 areas of coal land in Wise County. \'a.. 
 and in the eonstiuclion of tlu' railroad 
 which handled the output of the mines so 
 developed. Mr. Avers was attorney-gener- 
 al of Virginia from 1885 to 1890. He has a 
 large practice at the bar, and important 
 financial interests, being director in several 
 coal corporations and banks. He married 
 in Estillville. Va., June 8, 1870, Victoiia 
 Louisa Morison. Address: Big Stone 
 Crap, Wise County, Va. 
 
 AYME, Louis Henry: 
 
 Consul-general: born in New York City. 
 May 29, 1855; son of Dr. Henry Ayme 
 (surgeon, U. 8. -\.) and Elizabeth Ger- 
 aldino (Fitzgerald) Aynie. He w^as pre- 
 pared at Trinity School and graduated 
 from Columbia College, A.E. in 1871, fol- 
 lowing with two terms at the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia Uni- 
 versity. He was scientific assistant with 
 the United States Transit of Venus Expe- 
 dition, Xew Zealand Station, in 1874. He 
 was appointed United States consul at 
 Merida, Yucatan, ]\Iexico, in 1880, and 
 served there until 1884, and then became 
 connected', as a special ethnologist, with re- 
 search work for the Smithsonian Institu- 
 tion, 1884-188G. He became a member of 
 the editorial staff of the Cliicago Inter- 
 Ocean in 1886, remaining until appointed, 
 in 1891, foreign press editor for the World's 
 Columbian E.vposition. Upon the fulfil- 
 ment of his duties there he engaged in 
 newspaper work. Mr. Ayme was a])point- 
 ed by President :McKinley Jan. (i, 1898, 
 United States consul at C4u:ida loupe. West 
 Indies, whore he served until .luue. 190,S, 
 when he was transfericd Id I'ara. P.ra/il. 
 where he served until api)()iiit(Ml in 1900 
 Amrican consul-general at Lisbon. Portu- 
 gal, where he is now serving. He was 
 serving at (iuadaloupe when the Marti- 
 nique disaster occurred, and he was the 
 fiist on the spot, going as special repre- 
 sentative of the Lnited Stales (iovernnient 
 and special representative of the Associ- 
 ated Press, arriving Mav 11, 1902. He is 
 
 a member of the Ameiiian .\reheologicaI 
 Society; I lie American Ant i(|uarian Society: 
 and vaiidus historical socict ics ; a uienduT 
 the Sons of N'eleran--: ami a nicnilier i)y 
 inheritance of the Military Order nf th" 
 Loyal Legion of the Lnited States, also a 
 member of the American Association of 
 International Law, Optimi.st Club of Amer- 
 ica, Theosopliical Society, Consistory of the 
 City of New York, Scottish Rite Masons 
 (:52d-degree) , Mystic Shrine, and Patri- 
 archs Militant (Odd Fellows) having re- 
 ceived the grand decoration for loyalty and 
 chivalry. He is author of Notes on Mitla, 
 a valuable contribution to American arch- 
 eology; and has published numerous arti- 
 cles on the Great Pyramid as a great metro- 
 logical and nuithematical monument. Mr. 
 Ayme married at Chicago, Feb. 19, 1890. 
 Mary Stuart. Address: Anuuican Consu- 
 late-General, Lisbon, Portugal. 
 
 AYRES, Brown: 
 
 President of the University of Tennessee; 
 born in Memphis, Tenn.. May 25, 1856; son 
 of Samuel W'. and Elizabeth (Cook) Ayres. 
 He took the engineering course in Washing- 
 ton and Lee L'niversity, and then went to 
 the Stevens Institute of Technology, at IIo- 
 boken, N. J., from which he was gradu- 
 ated as B.S. in 1878, and itccived the de- 
 gree of Ph.D. in 1888. lie was a fellow in 
 Johns Hopkins L'niversity. 1S79-1880. and 
 received the LL.D. degice from Washington 
 and Lee L'niversity. ]9(I4. fiom South Car- 
 olina College I'.M).'). from rulane Univer- 
 sity of Ix)uisana, lOO.l, ami fiom the Lhii- 
 versity of Alabama, 1900; also the degree 
 of D.C.L. from the University of the South. 
 1907. He joined the faculty of the Tu- 
 lane University of l.otiisana in 1880 as ])ro- 
 fessoi- of ])hysies. holding that ehaii- for 
 twenty-four years, and also being dean of 
 the College of Technology from 1894 to 1900, 
 dean of the Academic College and vice- 
 chairman of the faculty from 1900 to 1904, 
 and was acting ])resideiit of that university 
 vviien, in l'.!()4, he was callecl i.i his pic-eiil 
 j)osition as |)i-esi(h'nt of tin- I niversity of 
 Tennessee. lie was a memlicr of the Elec- 
 tric .fuiy (if the World's ('nlnmbiaii ]*]xpo- 
 sition in IS'.i:), tin' Atlanta Lxposition in 
 
AIEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 IS'.l."., and llic \;isli\illc l^xposit ion in ISitT. 
 llr is Iclluw .il' llic Anicricui Assoriiitioii 
 lor llif Ailvjiicciiiciil (if Sciriic.': niul a 
 irriiii.cr n<i llic Socifly Inr Hi" rn.ini.l inn 
 of Kn,i;iii(HMiii,L; l-'-diial ion ; ami the Anicri 
 I' in I'hysial So.-icly. Dr. A> it-, manird 
 at l.cxin.uton. \'a.. -Inly .'>. ISSl, \\i\\\v A. 
 Anderson. Address: Knoxvillc I'cnn. 
 
 AYRES, Philip Wheelock: 
 
 Forester; born in Winterset. Iowa. Miiy 
 2(), lS(n. He was educated at Cornell Uni- 
 versity and Johns Ho])kins University, of 
 which he is Ph.D. 1888. Mr. Ayres lia^ 
 become nationally known in two lines: for 
 estry work and charity organization work. 
 In 188!) he becinie secretary of the A.ssoci- 
 ated Charities of Cincinnati, serving in this 
 position until 1895. when he went to Eu- 
 rope to study penal and eh iritable institu- 
 tions. In 1895 he bi'Cinie general secretary 
 of the Bureau of Associated Charities in 
 Chicago, and later went to New York, 
 where he became assistant secretary of Hi:' 
 Charity Organization Society, s-rving until 
 1900. He was for seven years superintend- 
 ent of the Summer School in Philanthropic- 
 Work of the New York Cliarity Organiza- 
 tion Society. He took Hie course in for- 
 estry at Coriu'll University, and in 1900 
 he l)ecame forester of the Society for th? 
 Protection of New Hampshire Forests, and 
 of Dartmouth College. He is a director of 
 the American Forestry Association and th? 
 Society of American Foresters, and lias 
 contributed to the magazines. He married 
 in Newton. :\rass.. Aug. 8. 1899. Alice Stan- 
 ley Taylor. Residnice: Fraiuonia. N. 11. 
 Ohlcc: " Conconl, N. 11. 
 
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 BAEB, Washington Irving: 
 
 Lawy(r: horn in Hes Moines County. 
 Iowa, Oct. >. 1S44: son of ]\Hles and Mary 
 (Moyei) P)alil). His studies at the Iowa 
 Wesleyan University were interrupted by 
 his enlistment, in 1863. in the Eighth Iowa 
 Cavalry, but after the Civil War closed 
 he returned to the University, from which 
 he was graduated A.B. in 18GG, received the 
 
 A.M. degree ill ISC.'.l. and the lionoiary de- 
 '^ice of IJ,.l). fioin it ill IS'.IS and Iroiil tlie 
 State liiivei-ity of biua in I'.MIT. \\>- wu> 
 idiiiilti d to Hie 1. n of Iowa in lS(iS, and 
 practised tiicrc for t li irty-cighl years ex- 
 cept tlic period from 181)1 to lS'.)."i, wiien lie 
 sei\-ed a full eleclive term as distiicl judge 
 in Iowa. l'\ir years he was one of the recog- 
 nized leaders of the Democratic Party in 
 Iowa, was (deeted to the House of Kepre- 
 seiitatives of that State, and was Democrat- 
 ic non.inee for governor of Iowa in 1895, and 
 the nominee of the Democratic caucus for 
 UniLcd States senator in the legislative ses- 
 sion of 189(1. He became a leader of the 
 Cold Democrats of Iowa, being one of the 
 strongest supporters of sound money while 
 the free silver agitation existed and chair- 
 man of the Sound Money Democratic Con- 
 vention in Iowa in 18!16. He was made a 
 regent of the State University of Iowa in 
 1898, and held that olliee until 1906, when 
 he removed from the State to become gen 
 eral counsel for several large manufactur- 
 ing corporations, with oliice at Chicago. 
 He is a member of the Union League Club 
 of Chicago. He married at ^Nlt. Pleasant. 
 Iowa, Oct. 9, 1873. Alice Bird, and has 
 three children. Residence: 255 ^^■est 
 Park Av.,, Aurora. HI. O.tiee: 1329 Man- 
 hattan Building, ( liicrgo. 
 
 BABCOCK, Harmon Seeley: 
 
 Lawyer, author; born in New Lebanon. 
 N. v.." April 11, 1849. He was graduated 
 from Brown LTniversity, valedictorian of 
 class, A.B.. 1874, A.M., 1877. receiving 
 Mathematical and Rhetorical prizes. He 
 became a tea(dier in the Lfniversity Cram- 
 mar Scliool. Providence. 1874-1876; was 
 admitted to the bar and began ])raetiee in 
 Providence. 1877; superintendent of pub- 
 lic schools. Fast Providence, IL L, 1879- 
 1882; town solicitor of Fast Providence. 
 1884-1887; and again from 1!)00 to the 
 present time. He has also been coroner 
 of East Providence since 1884. Mr. Bab- 
 cock was treasurer of the Watchemokct 
 Fire District. 1892-1905; president of the 
 East Providence Business ]Men's Associa- 
 ton. 1903-1!)05; and he was for several 
 vears treasurer of the Franklin Lyceum. 
 
C.S! 
 
 MKX OF AAFERTCA. 
 
 .Mr. Babeoek is antlior of: Tiillos. 1S7!) : A 
 Poultry Coiniu'iiiliiiiii. ISSo; riiilosopliy of 
 .lutlgin;^:. ISSD: Tlif liulinn (iiuiic. ISIll; 
 Tlic Ariroiiiuil. IS'.M: l'rii'ii(Ulii]i of Lr;ini 
 iiijr. IX'.Kt: also miincious arlii'lc^ in jicii- 
 odirals. lie was port at tlic coiivciil ion of 
 Beta Tlu'ta I'i fraternity in Ciiiciiiiiat i. ami 
 delivered a jjoeiu before the Aiuiiiui of 
 Brown University. Mr. Babcoek is a mem- 
 ber of tlie ]{liode Island Bar Association, 
 and ])residont of tlie I'.oird of Trustees of 
 the Haven .M. !•". Church of Kast Provi- 
 dence: and lie is a uicnihci- of tlie Beta 
 Thcla Pi fraternity, lie has been a candi- 
 date for representative to llic (ieneral As- 
 semldy of Rhode Island, hut not elected ; 
 and lias been a delegate to State Republi- 
 can conventions, president of campaiun 
 clubs, etc. lie has been twice married: 
 first at Lenox. :\lass.. dune 11. 1879. to 
 Eva S. Belden. and second. April 17. 1902. 
 at East Providence. \l. 1.. 1o Julia E. 
 Biickminster : and he has a daughter anil 
 a son. Address: 77 Sunmiit Street, East 
 Provideiici'. !!. 1. 
 
 BABCOCK, James Woods: 
 
 Physician, sjiecialist in mental diseases; 
 born in C'bester, S. C, Aug. 11. 1856; son 
 of Sidney E. and Margaret (Woods) Bab- 
 cock. He was ])repared foi' college at 
 Phillips Exeter Academy, and was gradu- 
 ated from Harvard College as A.]}, in 1882. 
 and from Harvai'd Medical School as M. 
 p. in 188(i, and in I'.IO.') the lionoraiy de 
 gree of Idj.l). was confciicd upon him by 
 South Carolina College. lie was a|)point- 
 ed a.s.sistant physician of the McLean Hos- 
 pital at Sonicrville. Mass., in 1885 and he 
 held that ])ositon until 1891, when he re- 
 ceived appointment to his present ollice as 
 ])hysician and superintendent of the South 
 Carolina State Hos|)ital lor (he Insan. 
 Dr. Babcoek, in addition to this State of- 
 fice, has .served on the Board of Health and 
 as chairman of the Seweiage Commission 
 and mendier of Ihc W'alci- Commisson of 
 Columbia, S. ('., and also as member of th" 
 State Commission 1o erect a monument 1o 
 (ieneral Sumter of the American Revolu- 
 tion. He has wiillcn a history of the 
 Suulli Carolina Hospital for the Insane and 
 
 \arious jnofessional jiapers. T)v. Babcock's 
 most important cout lihut ion- to medicine 
 •aw: (1) (linclinL; adenlion to the prcxa- 
 Icucc anl ])ic\cntion of 1 ulierculo^i-- in 
 .\meiican Insane Asylums in 1894: and 
 (2) calling attention to jlie existenci' of 
 p(dlagra in Southern a-ylums iu in07. He 
 is a nienilier of the American Medical As- 
 sociation, the American Medico-Psychologi- 
 cal Association and of State and local med- 
 ical societies. He has attained a positon 
 of nnudi dislinctiou among American alien- 
 ists. Dr. P>:ilicock married at fJncolnton. 
 X. ('.. Aug. 17. 1S',)2. Katharine (Juion. 
 Address: ('olumliia. S. (,'. 
 
 BABCOCK, Joseph Weeks: 
 
 Manufaetuicr and ex-congressman: biun 
 at Swanton, Franklin Counfy. N'ermont. 
 March 6, 1850. He removed witli his par- 
 ents in 1855 to Iowa, in which State he r(>- 
 sidcd until 1881. when he moved to Xece- 
 dah. Wis., where he has since resided. He 
 was for many years engaged there in the 
 manufacture of hnnbei'. and he has long 
 heen actixc in ])oliticil a Hairs as one of the 
 leaders of the Republican party in his State 
 and the Nation. He was elected a niend)er 
 of the Wisconsin Assembly in 1888. and 
 reelected in 1890. In 1892 he was elected 
 to the Fifty-third Congress from the Third 
 Congressional District of Wisconsin, and bi- 
 eiuiially (dieted thereafter up to and in 
 eluding th(> Fifty-ninth Congress. He was 
 ■iNo the Republican nominee for the Six- 
 tieth Congress from that dislrici iu lOOC. 
 hut failed of election. Mr. P.abcock was 
 chairman of the Xalimial Kepublicm Con- 
 gressional Connnittee in 1894, 189(;, 1S9S. 
 1900. 1902 and 1904: having full charge of 
 these cam])aig7is and making a uni<|ne 
 record among the managei's of .\mericin 
 political campaigns for elliciency of nudhod 
 and success in securing )-esults. He was 
 a (Udegate at laruc 1o the Xalional Republi- 
 c:ni Convention iu P'Ol. and w is a|iiioii:ted 
 in 1905 1o the National liepidiliciu Com- 
 mittee, to succeed the late Henry C. Pavne. 
 Mr. Ilabcock was fcu' twenty \ears chiirman 
 of the Committee on the District of Colum- 
 bia of the House of Representatives and 
 was a mcudjcr of the Ways and Means 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 (if) 
 
 ( (iiiniii( ((■(' ill 1 lie l'"il'l\ >i\lli. I-'il'ty-sev- 
 ciitli, l-'if(y-C'i^'lilli and Filty iiiiitli Con- 
 j.n-('sscs. Ill' iiiai'iicd at Lyons. Iowa, in 
 lS(i7. Mary A. J'"incli. .Vddross: Ncee- 
 dali. W is. ' 
 
 BABCOCK. Kendric Charles: 
 
 I'nixcrsity prcsidciil ; hdrii a1 Soutti 
 I'.rooklicld. N. ^■.. Scjit. S. 1S(;4: son of 
 (Jidcoii IN'M y and l.ydia ( .Maioiiili ■!■ I Biib- 
 fook. At'lcr liis madiiation from tlii' I'ni- 
 v<Tsity of .Miiiiiisola as 15. Lilt, in ISSi) lie 
 rcniaiiK'd with tliat institution as in- 
 structor in hi.story and I'^niilisli until 1S!)4. 
 and then took up graduate work at Hai- 
 vard University, from wliich lie received 
 the dejvrees of A.:\L in IS'Jo and Ph.D. in 
 lS!)(i. For two years he was instructor in 
 histoiy and political science and for five 
 years assistant professor of history in the 
 L'niversity of California, and during his 
 service on that Faculty was president of 
 the University of California Students" Co- 
 o])erative Association and for five years a 
 director of the San Francisco Settlement 
 Association. Siiice 1903 he has been ])resi- 
 dent of the University of Arizona, in which 
 he also liolds the chair of history and po- 
 litical economy. He is the author of The 
 Uise of American Nationality (Harpers. 
 lUOO), and a contributor to magazines and 
 leviews on liistorical and economic subjects. 
 Dr. Babcock is a jirominent fraternity man, 
 was president of Delta Tau Delta fraternity 
 from 1893 to 1899, and is a member of the 
 Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is also a 
 member of the American, ^Minnesota and 
 Ai-l>ona Historical Societies. Address: 
 Tucson, Ariz. 
 
 BABCOCK, Robert Hall: ' 
 
 Physician : biuii at ^^'at(■l•to\vn. N. ^■.. 
 July 2(), 1851 ; son of Itolicrt S. Babcock. 
 of Kalamazoo. .Mich., and luuily (Hall) 
 Babcock. Following his graduation from 
 Chicago Medical College in 187S, Dr. Bab- 
 cock spent a year in the College of I'hysi- 
 cians and Surgeons (Columbia University), I 
 in Xew York, and three years in graduate 
 stud\- ill (iciiuany. Since 1883 lu- has 
 ])ractiscd medicine in Chicago, in which 
 city he formerly held, for tifteen years, the 
 
 ical ]iu 
 cian to 
 
 son am 
 and to 
 
 chairs of iliniial nicdicinc and of diseases 
 of tlie chest in the College of I'hvsicians 
 and Surgeons. He is esiieciaily distin- 
 guisjicd in c(uiiiection with researches in 
 and tiiatiiicnt of diseases of (he heart and 
 lungs, and is aiitlior of text-hooks on Dis- 
 eases of the llcait and Arterial System 
 (1903), and Diseases of the Lungs (1907) 
 as well as numerous contributions to med- 
 ications. He is consulting physi- 
 tiic Cook County, Mary Thomp- 
 St. Anthony of Padua hospitals 
 lie Clarion Sims Sanitarium, was 
 formerly president of the American Clima- 
 tological Association and is a member of 
 the principal Xational. State and local med- 
 ical associations. lie married at ^lont- 
 clair. X. J.. June 12. 1879. Lizzie C. Wes- 
 ton, of Xew York City, and has two chil- 
 dren. Address:- 92 State St.. Chicago. 
 
 BABCOCK. Washington Irving: 
 
 Xaval arcliitect and engimcr; one of the 
 leading figures in the shiji-building inter- 
 ests on the Great Lakes which has con- 
 structed for the interior carrying trade of 
 the United States one of the most remark- 
 able Heets known to the history of the 
 world. A specific type of vessel has been 
 developed for the particular needs of this 
 trade and the magnitude of the ship-build- 
 ing enterprises at ditl'erent points along the 
 coast of the great interior seas by far 
 eclipses that of the ocean coa.sts of the 
 United States. ]\lr. Babcock was horn in 
 Stonington, Conn., Sept. 21, 1858. He was 
 graduated from the Brooklj'n Polytechnic 
 Institute in 187(i, and at the Rensselaer 
 Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, X'. Y.. in 
 1878. His apprenticeship at shipbuilding 
 was served at Morgan's Iron \N'orks, Xew 
 York City, and John Roach's shipyard at 
 ("luster. Pit., where he remained until 1883, 
 when he became connected with the Piovi- 
 dciic.' and Stonington .*>teamship Compiiny. 
 lie was superintendent of Hie Union Dry 
 Dock Co., lUilValo. X. Y.. from 1887 to 1S8!», 
 and was manager ten years and jiii'sident 
 in 1889-1900 of the Chicago Ship-building 
 Coniiiany. this jieiiod covering the years of 
 the great initial development of tlie ship- 
 biiildiiiLr industry on the Creat Lakes. He 
 
ro 
 
 MEX OF A.MICRICA. 
 
 111:11 rii'd in New ()ilc:iii>. .Ian. 1. IS'.X), (haco 
 W.. (lau>,ditfr uf tlie Hon. II. 1*. Ki'iiioclum. 
 Hesiilcni-c: :{74 Fifth .\vruiu'. Ollice: 8 
 J5iid;,'e St.. New York City. 
 
 BABCOCK. William: 
 
 Banki'i; boin in ( anlnii. Jll.; m)Ii of 
 William and I-^lizalietli A. (Kinsoy) I'.ah- 
 cock. He was educated in jiublic and high 
 scliool.s. Canton. 111. .Mr. ISabcock lias been 
 engaged in bankiiiii and in the organization 
 and nianagenient of banks, finaneial insti- 
 tutions, and industrial and other coipora- 
 tion.s since 1873; now iiresidenl of the 
 American Fiscal Cor])oiation. New York 
 City. He engaged in mining business in 
 .Southern Nevada, with headquarters at 
 Goldtield. his legal icsideiiee. for the past 
 twenty years. Ijeing in NewAork City. He 
 is a member of the American Bankers' As- 
 sociation. Mr. liabcock is a Eepublican in 
 politics, and is a Mason and Knight Temp- 
 lar. His father and lalter's only brother, 
 A. C. Babcock. were both colonels in the 
 t'nion Army during llie Civil War. and 
 both prominenl in Illinois polities: both 
 went from New 'idrk State to Illinois, and 
 took active part in building up that State 
 to its present greatness. Address: :!') 
 Xa.ssau St.. X'ew Y'ork. City. Temixiraiy 
 address: i.oek Box (J."?. (Joldtiebl, Xev. 
 
 BABCOCK. V/illiam Eenry: 
 
 Lawyer and solicitor of patents: born 
 in St. Louis. Mo.. .Ian. 1. 1S4!): son of 
 Welles J. and Cath( line (Smith) l>al)ein-k. 
 He was educated in di\cis ])ii\ate schools 
 of Xew York and Washington, I). ('.. and 
 the Pre])aratorv De])artment and Law 
 School of Cohuiibiaii (now (Jeorge Wash 
 ingtoii) ['niversity. lie was three years in 
 the Patent Ollice lv\aiiiiiiing Corps at 
 Wasliiiigtoii and since llien for alxnit thirty- 
 one years has been in ])ractie(> as a law- 
 yer and solicitor of i)atents. Mr. I'.abeock 
 was fijiiiierly an extensive contributor of 
 stories, ver.se and articles to magazines and 
 periodicals, and he is author of: The Tower 
 of Wye; Kent Fort .Maiio; Ciui of the 
 Chariots; Cv|)ress IJeach ; Lord Stirling'> 
 StraiKJ ; The Two Lost Ceiituiirs of I'>ril- 
 
 aiii; Lays from ()\cr Sea; The Bride of 
 the TiL;ti : .\ii Invention of the Knemy, etc. 
 He has twice married, lirst in June, 1874, 
 to Anne .lolins lOaile, and second, Aug. 18, 
 18i)7. to .Mrs. (iertrude Lee Mahood, of 
 Uielimond. \ a., ami he has nine eliildreii. 
 Kisiileiic': Koek lla\cn, Itidge Itoad. near 
 (ieoigelowii, 13. C. Ollice: ()()4 F Street. 
 X. \\.. Washington. I). C. 
 
 BABCOCK, V/innifrea Eaton: 
 
 .\utli()r: born in Nagasaki, -laiian. IS7!t; 
 daughter of Ivlward and Orace '(T'''ipt'sis) 
 Eaton. She received her education in the 
 public schools of .Montreal and Toronto. 
 Canada. su|)plemente(l by courses in Eng- 
 lish in Columbia Cniveisity; and .she was 
 manieil in New Y'ork City, July IG, 1901, 
 to B. W. liabcock. Since IS!)4 she has been 
 identifieil witli literar\- work as a writer 
 of short stories for magazines, and of books, 
 and the years spent in .Japan gave her an 
 intimate acijuaintance with the jiicturesiiue 
 life and (piaint manners and customs of its 
 peo|)le. whicli has ma<le her prominent as 
 ;ni e\])onent of .Ia|ian in liction. Ilcr liooks. 
 written under the pen-name of '" Onoto Wa- 
 tanna." include: The Old .liniiksha: Miss 
 Nume of .Tajjan; A .Ja}jaiiese X'ight ingale ; 
 The Wooing of Wistaria; Heart of Hya- 
 cinth: Daughters of Kings; The Love of 
 .\yal,a; .\ .Japanese Blossom; The Diary of 
 Delia. The story of a .Lipanesc Nightin- 
 gale was (lianiat i/cd in lltO.S and ])roduc:'d 
 witli success both in .\merica and iMigland. 
 .\dilress: .Ma m;i iniieck. .\. ^'. 
 
 BABSON, Thomas M. : 
 
 Lawyer; bmn in W'isi' asset. Maine. May 
 lis. |,S47. lie was graduated from llar- 
 \--ird Liw School in ISOS, anil admitted to 
 l!ie SulToik l!ar in lS(i!), and sinc<' Cieii ha- 
 |)i'ictis,>d law ill r.oston. P'or thirty years 
 he has becii continuously eonnecteil with 
 the llnsloii Law I )e|tart mciil, of which he is 
 now the head, his litst a|ipointinen( being 
 rec(i\'ed from .Nbnor I'rinee. in .Xiiril. 1S7!). 
 a.s loiiith assist;iiit city sojicitoi-. lie was 
 promoted to second assistant solicitor ISSl, 
 tirst assistant solicitor. 188."). ami in 1S!)1 
 was a|ipoinlcd cor|iorat ion et)un--cl of the 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 City of IJoston l)y Mayor Mathews. In, 
 IS!)") the Jjjvw Uepartiuent of the City of j 
 IJoston was phieed under the joint charge | 
 of till' corporation counsel and the city so- 
 licitor, and he was ajjpointed by Mayor Cur- 
 tis as city solicitor and served as such un- 
 til July 1!)04, when that ofKce was abol- 
 ished, and he was ajjpointcd to his present 
 otlioe of corporation counsel of Jiostou and 
 head of the city's Law Department. Ad- 
 dress: Corporation Counsel's Office, Bos- 
 ton. 
 
 BACHELDER, Nahum Josiah: 
 
 I'^oniur liovcrnor of New llanijishire, and 
 master of the National C4range, Patrons of 
 llushaiidry; born in Andover, N. H., Sept. 
 :!, 1S.")4; son of William A. and Adeline 
 K. 15. Hachelder. lie was educated in var- 
 ious academies in his native State and 
 since lea\ing sc1k)o1 has been engaged in 
 farming. Taking an active part in political 
 aiTairs and becoming a Republican leader, 
 he was nominated by his party, in 1902, 
 and elected governor of New Hampshire 
 for the two-year term beginning in Jan., 
 1!)().S. (iovernor liachelder has for years 
 been a pioniinent nundier of the Patrons of 
 Husbandry, and upon the expiration of his 
 term as governor of his State he accepted, 
 in l!)0o, the jiresidency of the National 
 (irangc wliich he has held ever since. 
 Dartmouth ('ollcgc conferred upon him, in 
 1887. the (Icgice of A. yi. Residence: 
 Andover. X. II. Oilice: Concord, N. H. 
 
 BACHELLER, Irving: 
 
 Author; liorn in Pierpont. N. Y., Sept. 
 2(). 185!); graduated from St. Lawrence 
 Cniversity as B.8. in 1882. and has since 
 received tlie degree of ]\LS. and A.M. from 
 Ills college. yir. Bachelder was actively 
 connected witli tlie ])ress of New York for 
 many years, ami was the proprietor of the 
 Baclieller Syndicate, furnishing sjjecial ar- 
 ticles and mateiial to tlie newspapers and 
 magazines of tlie country. In 1000 he at- 
 tracted national attention by his story, 
 Kben llolden. a study in character which 
 vied in ])opuIarity with tlie celebrated 
 " David Harum." which was in vogue about 
 
 liiat tiiiic. Mr. j'.aclicllcr is also aiilhor of 
 J)'ri and I, a story of the War of r812; of 
 Darrci ot I lie lilessed Isles, Silas Strong, 
 and several ntlier ])opnIar novels. He was 
 formerly one df the editors of the .New 
 York World. lie married at Brooklyn, 
 Dec. 10, 188;i. .\nna Delmar Schultz. Res- 
 idence: Sound Beach. Conn. 
 
 BACON, Alexander Samuel: 
 
 Lawyer; born in .Jackson, Micli., Nov. 20, 
 18o;5; son of ,l(ilui A. and Harriet (Smith) 
 Bacon. He was graduated (in the 
 "Stars ") in 187G from the United States 
 Military Acatlemy, in which he was the 
 first cajitain in the corjis of cadets, and 
 served as lieutenant in the 1st I'nited 
 States Artillery, from which he resigiu'd. 
 He was admitted to the bar in IS70. and he 
 has a wide practice, e.xtendiiig to London, 
 Tokio and Central America; is a director 
 and vice-president of the Webster I'iano 
 Company, the Lima Oil Company, Ueserva- 
 tion Oil Company and the New York and 
 Osage Oil Company; and he is treasurer of 
 the American Sabbath Union. He served 
 in the New York Legislature as Assembly- 
 man, 1887. and in the National Guard of 
 the State of New York, as captain, major 
 and lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-third 
 Regiment, and as colonel of the Second Pro- 
 visional Regiment. Colonel Bacon i< a 
 member of the Aurora Crata. Quill and 
 Winter's Night Clubs of Brooklyn. He 
 married in Denver, Colo., Sept. 1, 1886, 
 Harriet \\'hetelsey Schroter, and they have 
 two children. Residence: 101 Rugby 
 Road, Brooklyn. Oilice: :i7 Libcity Street, 
 New ^'ork City. 
 
 BACON, Augustus Octavius: 
 
 United Slates >eiiator: Iiorn in Hryau 
 County. (;eorgia, Oct. 20. 18:30. He re- 
 ceived a high school education in Liberty 
 and Troup counties and. was graduated 
 from the I'niversity of Georgia, in tiie lit- 
 erary and classical department, in IS.'iO, 
 and ill the law de])artment in 1800. He 
 entered the Confederate Army at the he- 
 ginning of the war and served during the 
 caiiipnigiis of IS(iO lS(;-2 as adjutant of the 
 
MEN OF AM J<: RICA. 
 
 Xiiilh Cii'uryia i;c<;iiiiriil in Uh' Army of 
 Xortliorn Virginia, ami suksiquently thereto 
 was eoniniis.sioued a eai)tain in tlie Pro- 
 visional Army of tlie Confederate States 
 and assigned to general stafT duty. At the 
 close of the war lie resumed the stvuly of 
 law and he began to practice in 18(i() at 
 Macon. He was several times candidate for 
 the Democratic nomination for (iovernor 
 of CJeorgia. He is a trustee of th* Uni- 
 versity of Georgia and also a regent of the 
 Smithsonian Institution at Washington. 
 He was elected to the United Statesr Senate 
 in Nov., 1894, and reelected in 1900 and 
 1907, his present term expiring March 4, 
 1913. Since his election as t^nited States 
 Senator he has traveled extensively in the 
 dependencies of the United States and in 
 foreign countries, where he has been a close 
 student of languages, manners and customs. 
 He is a forceful debater and one of the 
 leading members of the minority of the 
 Senate. Address: INIacon, Ga. 
 
 BACON, Benjamin Wisner: 
 
 Professor in Yale University; born in 
 Litchfield, Conn., Jan. 15, 1800; son of 
 Kev. Leonard Woolsey Bacon, D.D., and Su- 
 san Bacon. He was graduated from Yale 
 as B.A. in 1881, B.D. in 1884, and M. A. in 
 1890, and received the degrees of D.D. from 
 Western Reserve University in 1892, Litt. 
 D. from Syracuse University in 1894, and 
 LL.D. from Illinois College in 1905. He 
 was ordained in the ministry of tlie (Con- 
 gregational Churcli in 1884. and was pastor 
 of the First Congregational Church of Old 
 l.yin.'. Conn., until 1889, then at Oswego. 
 N. ^ .. until called to his present chair of 
 New Testament Criticism and Exegesis in 
 189C. Dr. Bacon has been an extensive con- 
 tributor to critical and exegetical litera- 
 ture, translated into English Wiideboer's 
 Kanon d<'s Oudcn Verbonds ; contributed to 
 llaiipt's Sacred Literature of the Old Tes- 
 tament and to \;uious jicriodicals and re- 
 views, and he is tlic audior of: Tlic 
 Genesis of Genesis; 'I'lir 'rriplc 'rr^idilion 
 of the Exodus; Introdiiclinn in Hi,. New 
 
 'i'estanient ; Tlie Sir ii mi llif .Moiinl. ;iiid 
 
 'I'lie Story of St. r;iiil. Dr. liiicoii married 
 at .\dr\vi(li. Conn., .Mav 1'. ).SS4. i'lliza 
 
 Buckiiigliam Aiken ; ami 1 hey iia\e two 
 cliildreii. DuKilhy lUickiiigham. and P.enja- 
 niiii Seiilcii. Address: 244 Edwards Street. 
 New llaM'ii. renin. 
 
 BACON, Charles W. : 
 
 Lawyer; born al Xatick. Mass.. Marcli 4, 
 185(j; sou of .loliii \\ . and Amelia A. (.ief- 
 fers) Bacon, lie was ])rcpared at Phillips 
 Academy, Exeter, X. 11., lieing graduated 
 in 1875, and then enlticd Harvard Uni- 
 versity, from wliicli he was graduated as 
 A.B. in 1879. .Mr. liacon has been engaged 
 in the jiractice of law from 1881, and he 
 was assistant United States attorney for 
 the Southern District of New York from 
 Ajiril 1, 1905, to Jan. 31, 190G. He is a 
 member of the Society of Medical Juris- 
 prudence of New Y'ork City, of the Papyrus 
 Club of Boston, and of the Harvard and 
 Republican Clubs of New York City. Mr. 
 Bacon married at Cambridge, Mass., May 
 28, 1888, Rena E. INIattis, and they have 
 two sons: John W. Bacon, born in 1892, 
 and Ross M. Bacon, born in 1894. Resi- 
 dence: 400 E. Fourth Street, Mount Ver- 
 non. N. Y. Address: 31 Nassau Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 BACON, Edward Rathbone: 
 
 Lawyer; lH)in in New York City, Nov. 
 22, 1840. He was educated at Phillips Ex- 
 (der Academy, and admitted to the New 
 York bar at "p.uflalo. N. Y.. in Nov.. 1809. 
 He was counsel for various railroad com- 
 panies for eighlccii years; became vice- 
 jiresident of tlie Ciiu-innnti, Washington «& 
 l?altimore Railroad 1881 and its presi- 
 dent 1890-1902, and has been vice-iiresideut 
 since 1902 of the Baltimore & Ohio South- 
 western Railway. He was one of the re- 
 organizers, and is imw a director, of the 
 Ualtimore & Oliio Kailmad. He is also 
 director of tlu' Knickerbocker Ai)arlmeiit 
 Coiiiliany. llii' I'aiiiiers' lyOan \ Tnisf, 
 Company, and Consolidated Coal Company. 
 Mr. llaciii! is a member of the riiion. .Maii- 
 liallaii. Mcliopdlitaii. City. Midday. Tux- 
 (■(in. i;;ic.|iwt and Tennis. l),iwn Town and 
 New ^(Mk Naclit Clnl)s. Residence: 247 
 Kiflli Avenue, (tlliee: 2 Wall Street, New 
 \()ik Cit\. 
 
MEN OF AMi'l'tlCA. 
 
 73 
 
 BACON, Josephine Dodge Daskam: 
 
 Author: lioni in ShiiiilOiil, ('nun.. I^'eb. 
 IT.lSTCi; ilau,i;litci- of Ilonu'c Sawyer and 
 Aiuic ( l.nriui;) Daskam. Slic was gradu- 
 ated fnnn Smith ( 'olleyr. A.l?.. 1808. being 
 (lass orator on graduation. W'iiile in col- 
 lege she was editor-in-chief of Die Smith 
 ("olloge ^Monthly, and .since graduation has 
 been i-ont iniionsly occn))ied with literature 
 as eontiibntor of stories and poems to 
 magazines, and as autlioi" of books: 
 Sister's Vocation, and Other Storie.s, inOO; 
 Smith Ccdiege Stories, IflOO; The Imp and 
 tlie Angel, inoi; Fables for the Fair, 1901; 
 \Miom the Gods Destroyed, in02; Poems, 
 190.3: :\Iiddle-Aged Love Stories, 1903; 
 Memoirs of a Baby, 1904; Domestic Adven- 
 tures, 1907; Ten to Seventeen, 1907; An 
 Idyll of All Fools' Day, 1908. She was mar- 
 ried at Stamford. C!(Uin.. duly 25, 1903. to 
 Selden Bacon, and has two daughters : 
 Anne and Deborah. Address: Beech Hill. 
 Pleasantville. Station, X. Y. 
 
 BACON, Robert: 
 
 l''ornier assistant secretary of State. 
 He was graduated from Harvard College 
 witli the degree of A.B. in 1880 (classmatae 
 of President Roosevelt). He was engaged 
 in banking and became a member of the 
 tinn of .T. P. Morgan & Clompany. of New 
 York, and was diiector in various large 
 corporations. He was a])pointed assistant 
 secretary of State of the United States, 
 from Oct. 1, 190.-), until INIarch 4, 1909. 
 ^Ir. Bacon was an overseer of Harvard 
 from 1889 to 1901, and was again ap- 
 I)ointed a member of the Board of Over- 
 seers in 1!)02. and is now serving. Mr. 
 I'acon married INlartha Cowdin. Resi- 
 dence: 1333 Sixteenth Street, Wasliing- 
 ton. Ollicial addi-ess: Department of 
 State, Washington. 1). C. 
 
 BACON, Selden: 
 
 Lawyer and law autlior; born in New 
 Haven, Conn., Sept. 28. ISOI: .son of Rev. 
 Dr. Leonard Woolsey Bacon, distinguished 
 Congregationalist clergyman and author, 
 and Susan Bacon. Mr. Bacon was edu- 
 
 cated in \:\\v College, Carleton ('(dlego, 
 Minnesota, A. 15. 1882. A.M. 188.-). Univer- 
 sity of Wisconsin. LL.B. 1884. He was ad- 
 mitted to the Minnesota bar. 1884, and 
 practised law in Minnesota until 1894. 
 since wiiicli year he has practised in New 
 York City. Mr. Bacon was ])rofessf)r of 
 civil procedure in the Law School of the 
 l^niversity of Minnesota from 1889 to 1894, 
 and is author of a volume on l'](piity Plead- 
 ing and Procedure. He is a mend)er of the 
 American Geograpiiical Society, and of the 
 Archaeological institute of America. He 
 married first, at Madi.son, Wis., Oct. 24, 
 1894. Sally Blair Fairchild, who died in 
 1902, leaving two daughters, and married, 
 second, July 2."). 1903, Josephine Dodge 
 Daskam, the well-known author, by whom 
 he has two daughters. Residence: Briar- 
 clitr Manor. N. Y. Otlice: 00 Wall Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 BADE, William Frederic: 
 
 Professor of Semitic literature and lan- 
 guages; born at Carver, Minn., Jan. 22. 
 1871; son of William and Anna (Voigt) 
 Bade. He was graduated from Moravian 
 College, as A.B. in 1892, from the Moravian 
 Theological Seminary as B.D. in 1894, and 
 from the Divinity School of Yale Univer- 
 sity, as B.D. in 189o, having studied Arabic 
 there for a year. He took post-graduate 
 work at Moravian College and Lehigh Uni- 
 versity from 1890 to 1898. receiving the 
 degree of Ph.D. (his doctor's thesis being 
 on The Babylonian Deluge Legends), and 
 took special studies at the University of 
 Berlin, Germany, in lOOo. He was assistant 
 professor of (Jreek and German at Mora- 
 vian College from 189fi to 1898; professor 
 of Hebrew and Old Testament Introduction 
 at the Moravian Theological Seminary from 
 1898 to 1902: and has been professor of Old 
 Testament Literature and Liinguages at 
 the Pacific Theological Seminary (alfili- 
 ated with the University of California) 
 since 1902. During 1909 he was engaged 
 on an exploring expedition in Asia Minor. 
 He was editor of the ^Moravian, oflicial 
 organ of the American Moravian denom- 
 ination in 18!)9 and 1900. He was 
 
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 ]\IKN OF AMERICA. 
 
 (lean of tin' Kcilciatc SuiiiiiuT School of 
 TlK'oiojry. at i;.ik.'l("y. Calif., in I'.MlT. Uc 
 is a iiit'iulici- uf the Society t'of liililical 
 Literature and Kxejjesis. and tlic .\nierican 
 l'liik)loiiical Association. Dr. liadi' maiiicd 
 at IJcrkeley. Calif.. Sept. 26. IHOO, Evelyn 
 Marianne Katclitr (B.S. University of Cali- 
 fornia), who died Sept. 18, 1!)07. Resi- 
 dence: 2G10 College Avenue. Address: 
 •lll.i Atliert'Mi Street, Berkeley. Calif. 
 
 BADGER, Charles Johnston: 
 
 I'aptain of the Cnited States Xavy; horn 
 Aug. G. 1S."):5. lie was a])i)ointed at large 
 to Naval .\eadeniy, June 1809. After 
 graduation he served on the various naval 
 stations and was executive of the U. S. S. 
 Aleit. (if the Greely Relief Expedition of 
 1884. For participation in this (expedition, 
 he received, hy name, the thanks of Mary- 
 land as tendered in joint resolutions of the 
 Senate and House of Delegates, assemhled 
 at Annapolis. He performed a tour of duty 
 with consjjiciious success a.s commandant of 
 cadets at the N'aval Academy under Super- 
 intendent iJrow iisdH and after sea service 
 as cai)tain of tlie L'. S. S. Chicago returned 
 to the Naval Academy as Superintendent, 
 July. 1!»()7. .Address:' U. S. Xaval Acad- 
 emy. .Viinapolis. .Md. 
 
 BAENSCH, Emil: 
 
 Lawyer; horn at .Manitowoc. Wis., June 
 12, 1857; son of August and Gesine 
 Baensoli. He was educated at tlie Univer- 
 sity of Wisconsin, and. returning to his 
 home town and taking up the study of 
 law, was admitted to the bar of Wisconsin 
 in 1882. He is a Republican, and has been 
 elected to various offices, including that of 
 county judge and two terms as lieutenant- 
 governor of Wisconsin. Besides his law 
 jiractice, Mr. Baensch is editor and ])ub- 
 lisher of the Manitowoc Post. He has been 
 vice-president of the Wisconsin Bar Associ- 
 ation, and three times president of the Wis- 
 consin Press Association; is identified with 
 various histoiical associations, and makes 
 a s])ecialty of tiie history of Cernians in 
 colonial ami revolntionaiy lime-. He mar- 
 ried, in 1882. Ilia Koehln. Addre-s: ^Mani- 
 towoc. Wis. 
 
 BAER, George F. 
 
 President of the I'liiladelpliia and Read- 
 ing Railroad; horn in Somerset County. 
 Pennsylvania, near tlie N'illage of Lavans- 
 ville. Sept. 2(i. 1842; of Cerman ance-try; 
 son of SoloiiKiu and Anna Baer. lie was 
 educated at the Franklin and Marshall 
 College. .\t the age of thirteen he entered 
 tlie otiice of the Somerset Democrat, where 
 lie remained for two years, and afterward 
 was engaged as employee and later book- 
 keeper for the Aslitola Lumber Mills, near 
 Johnstown. Pa., joined the Union Arnty at 
 the battle of Bull Run: i)artici])ated in all 
 the engagements up to and including Chan- 
 cellorsville. when he was the adjutant- 
 general of the Second Brigade. Resuming 
 his legal studies, he was admitted to the 
 bar in 18()4. In 1868 he removed to Read- 
 ing, Pa., and became an active practitioner 
 at the Berks County bar. He became prom- 
 inent, in connection with ISIr. J. P. ^lorgan. 
 in the reorganization of the Philadelphia 
 and Reading Railroad. 1893; and was 
 elected president of the Reading Company, 
 and of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, 
 in 1901. ]\Ir. Baer is a member, and was 
 formerly ])resident. of the Pennsylvania 
 German Society; is a member of the Read- 
 ing Park Connnission. and took an active 
 ])art in the establishment of the Reading 
 Public Library. He is interested in litera- 
 ture and in historical research, and is the 
 author of various papers on the early his- 
 tory of the Pennsylvania Germans. Ad- 
 dress: 1718 Spruce Street. Pliiladelpliia. 
 
 BAILEY. Edward: 
 
 Banker and iron manufacturer; born in 
 Ilarri.sburg, Pa.. Oct. 19. 1861; son of 
 Charles L. and Kmma 11. (Doll) Bail(>y. 
 He Avas prciiared in Pliillijis Academy. .\ii- 
 dover, Mass.. and graduated from the Shef- 
 field Scientific School of ^ale University as 
 Ph.B. in the class of 1881. Mr. Bailey is 
 president of the Ilarri.sburg National Bank, 
 the Harrisburg Trust Com])any and the 
 Harrisburg Traction Com])any. He is a 
 trustee of the Pennsylvania State Asylum, 
 a mendier uf the .\merican Institute of 
 ]\Iining l\!ngiiiccrs. and of the University 
 Club of New \drk Cilv, and the lUiversilv 
 
Geouue F. i5AP:K 
 President Reading Kailioad 
 
A[EN OF AMERICA. 
 
 and Art Clubs of Philadclpliia. He iiiar- 
 licil at Harrisburi;-. Oct. I. ISSit. Klizabcth 
 II. Ili'ily, and tlicy have Hire;' fhihlrcii. 
 Ui'sidciice: l.")17 \. KionI Sincl. Ollicc: 
 Ilanishui-L;- .Xational W-Auk. 1 lanisbuif;-, I'a. 
 
 BAILEY, Elijah Prentiss: 
 
 Ivlitdr; hdiu ill Manlius, N. "S'., Aug. 15, 
 IS.U. ilc was educated in i)ul)lic and Latin 
 and yianiniar schools of Utica, and has re- 
 ceived the honorary dcjirees of LL.D. from 
 St. .Tolin's Collc<!:e and of A.M. from Colgate 
 University. He has been connected with 
 llie Utica Observer continuously since 1853, 
 l)eing city editor until 1867. when he be- 
 came managing editor and ])ait proprietor; 
 and lias been editor-in-chief since 1883. 
 ]Mr. I^ailey was postmaster of Utici, N. Y.. 
 for two terms under President Cleveland; 
 school commissioner of Utica for six years; 
 jiresident of the Xew York State Civic Serv- 
 ice Commission, 1802-1894, and Government 
 commissioner of the Xortliern Pacific Rail- 
 road, 188G. He married first, in 1857, 
 Julia S. Wetherby, who died in 1S60; and, 
 second, in 18(58, Hannah Cha)>man. Resi- 
 dence: 320 Genesee Street. Oilice: The 
 (Observer, Utica. N. Y. 
 
 BAILEY, Joseph Weldon: 
 
 I'nited States Senator; bom in Copiah 
 County. Miss.. Oct. 0, 1803. He was admit- 
 ted to the bar in 1883; served as a district 
 elector on the Cleveland and Hendricks 
 ticket in 1884; removed to Texas in 1885 
 and located in tlie ]iiactice of law at 
 Gainesville, wliere he has ever since resided. 
 lie served as an elector for the State at 
 large on the Democratic ticket in 1888; 
 was elected to the Fiftv-second. Fifty-third. 
 I'^ifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth 
 Congresses, and on the organization of the 
 Fifty-fifth Congress, Mtirch 15, 1807, was 
 the Democratic nominee for Speaker of the 
 House of Representatives. He was chosen 
 United States Senator Jan. 23, 1901, to 
 succeed Senator Horace Chilton, and took 
 his seat March 5 of that year; and was 
 elected Jan. 23, 1007, for tlie leiin expiring 
 ]Marc]i 3, 1013. Senator Bailey was for 
 several years regarded as the leader of the 
 minority in the Senate, but owing to .severe 
 
 attacks made ii]p(in him alli-jing liis connec- 
 tion witli cnrpoialc int riNts. especially 
 those of the St.-iiidard ()il ('oiii])any. lie was 
 (•oin|)elh'd 1(.) gi\(' his .at ( :>ii1 ion to a >uccess- 
 ful defense again.st these aspersif)ns during 
 tile first session of tlie Sixtieth Congress. 
 Address: ( ia inesville. Texas. 
 
 BAILEY, Liberty Hyde: 
 
 Kducatf)r. author, editoi-. l(<'turer; born 
 at Soutii Haven. .Midi., March 15, 18.58; 
 son of L. H. IJailey and Sarali (Harrison) 
 liailey. He was graduated with the d(>gree 
 of B.'s. and later of M.S. from Micliigan 
 Agricultural ('oUege. and reci4\-ed the 
 LL.D. degree from the University of Wis- 
 consin and from .\lFred University. He 
 was professor of horticulture and lanilscape 
 gardening at the Michigan Agricultural 
 College from 1884 to 1888; ju'ofessor of 
 horticulture at Cornell University from 
 1888 to 1903. and has been director of 
 the New York State College of Agricul- 
 ture at Cornell University from 1003. 
 President Roose\-elt a])i)ointed Professor 
 Bailey ])resident of the Commission on 
 Country Life, organized in 1008. Dr. 
 Bailey is a lecturer on educational, scien- 
 tific and social topics; is editor of the 
 Cyclopedia of American Horticulture (four 
 volumes), Cycdojiedia of American Agricul- 
 ture (four volumes), and the I'ural Science 
 Series; was first I'ditor of Country Life in 
 America; was fcuiiierly editor of American 
 Garden, ami he is author of: Survival of 
 the Unlike; Kvolution of Our Native 
 Fruits; Flemeiitary 'j'extbook of P.otany; 
 Lessons ^Yith Plants; First Lessons With 
 Plants; Principles of Agriculture; Princi- 
 ples of Fruit -Growing: Principles of Veg- 
 table-Gardening: Outlook to Nature; The 
 Nature-Study Idea; Horticulturist's Rule- 
 Book; Nursery- Book; Plant -Breeding; 
 Forcing-Book; Garden-?tlaking; Pruning- 
 Book; Practical Garden-]5ook ; The State 
 and the Farmer, and other books, and of 
 botanical contributions. Dr. Bailey is a 
 fellow of the American Academy of .\rts 
 and Sciences; and a member of the Ameri- 
 can Philosojihical Society. He married, 
 June (). 1883. Anitette Smith, and he has 
 two children. Address: Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 BAILEY, Leon Orlando: 
 
 Lawyer: l)oni on a farm near Wi'Hsboro. 
 Tiojjfa County, Pa., .luni; 21, 1857; son of 
 John W. and Margaret (Lewis) Bailey. 
 He was entered as a student in the classical 
 course at Cornell L'niversity in the class 
 of 1880, but left at the end of the sopho- 
 more year, then entering the Indiana Law 
 SchooL from which he was graduated LL.B. 
 1881. He began the practice of law at 
 Indianapolis in 1881 : has been admitted to 
 all tlie courts of Indiana and New York, 
 and all the Federal courts, including tlic 
 Supreme Court of the United States. ]\Ir. 
 Bailey remoxcd to New Yoi-k City perma- 
 nently in 1002. and lias since practised 
 there; and he has made a specialty of 
 corporation law. He was a mendier of the 
 Indiana State Senate from Indianapolis for 
 four years; was chief assistant attorney- 
 general of Indiana for four years; assi.st- 
 tant United States attorney two years, and 
 ilesignated by President (^leveland as 
 United States attorney for the district of 
 Indiana at the close of the laltcr"s Ihst 
 term. lie was also corporaliini couiiscl of 
 the City of indiaiuipolis for on;- term, and 
 Democratic nominee for Congress from tlie 
 Indiana])olis district in 1808. lie is now 
 general counsel and director of tiie Ameri- 
 can Finance and Securities Company; 
 counsel fur the New Jersey Steel Company. 
 and counsel and director of the (iuunajuato 
 Ueduction and Mines Company, with plant 
 at (ruanajualo, .Mexico. ^Ir. iJailcy is a 
 member of the .\ssociation of llic Bar of 
 the City of New York, the Indiana State 
 i'.ai- .\--<ociat ion. 1 mlianapoli^ liar Asso- 
 ciation, and Delta Kapi^a l*]psilon frater- 
 nity. Mr. liailey lias been twice married, 
 first at Lock llaxcii. Pennsylvania, in 1S77. 
 to Kosamond I'aty ('oggeshall. who died 
 Sept. Ki. lS!t2 an<l second, at Martha's 
 N'ineyard. .Mass., Sept. 1. I'.Hil, Certrmle 
 May Stein, l)y whom he has a son and twin 
 daugiiters. Uesidence: I'ron.wiJie. N. Y. 
 Ollice: f) Nassau Street. .\ew ^'olk (it v. 
 
 BAILEY, Pearce: 
 
 \<>i\ 
 
 sician. ni'Uidlogist ; 
 Citv, .Fulv 12, ISCi.-). 
 
 Xew 
 rradu- 
 
 ated from Princeton. .\.\'. ISSti, afterward 
 receiving the A..M. degree, and was gradu- 
 ated from tlie College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons. New York City. M.D. 1889. J 
 Since tlien h.e has been practising medicine 1 
 in New York City, now being a siJecialist 
 in diseases of the mind and the nervous 
 system. ])i-. liailey is consulting neurolo- 
 gist to tlie St. Luke's and Koosevelt hos- 
 pitals. He is author of: Diseases of the 
 Nervous System Itesulting from Accident 
 and Injury. lie is a member of tlie Cen- 
 tury and I'liix crsit^x- Clubs. Dr. IJailey 
 mairied I'Alitli L. isfack. Address: .-)2 \V. 
 .YAd Street. New Yoik City. 
 
 BAILEY, Theodore Layton: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City. June 
 7. 1878: son of iMlward Henry and Irene 
 (Clitt'orili I'ailey. He was graduated from 
 Cornell University. Ph. 15. 18!)!t, and from 
 New Yolk Lnv Seliool. LL.P.. IDOL He was 
 admitted to the bar in li)01. and has sine 
 ])ractised law in New York City, now being 
 a niemb( r of the linn of Roelker, Bailey 
 anil Cult is. He is a member of the Associ- 
 ation of the Uar of the City of New York. 
 I lie \(\v N'oik County Lawyers' Associ- 
 ation, the Alpha Delta IMii and Phi Delta 
 Phi fraternities, S(|uadi(in A of the Na- 
 tional (iiiaril of New N'ork, and the .\lplia 
 l)(dta Phi and Liiderwi it ns Club of New 
 ■^'ork City, lie manied in New N'ork City. 
 .\])iil 20. I'.ll)7. Cillian Webster Hair, and 
 they have one daUL;hter. Ib'sidence : I.")."? 
 !•:. 7-Jth Sti-eet. Ollice: (12 William Street. 
 New ^■ol•k City. 
 
 BAILY, Joshua L. : 
 
 Merchant: born i:i I'liiladtdpliia. June 27. 
 IS20: son of .bishua I'.aily. Jr., and Kli/.a- 
 li(tli ( Lloydi r.aily. lie was educ;ited at 
 the l-'iiends Select Schotd in Philadel])liia 
 and at Westtown IJoarding School in Penn- 
 sylvania. He entered the dry goods busi- 
 111 -s at the aiic ni' 111 and is now senior 
 member <d' Joshua L. liaily i^ Company, of 
 I'hiladeliihia and New N'mk. He is jiresi- 
 dcllt of the I'liiladclpliii Society for the 
 Lmiiloyment and I n-^t i iid ion (J' the Poor; 
 i.f llic l'hilail(d|diia l>"oiintain Society, and 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 of the Ponnsylvuiiia Prison Socioty. He is | 
 also vice-president of the American Peace j 
 Society, the National Temperance Society | 
 and the America n I racl Society, and a 
 manajicr of tlie Aiiicricau r>ilile Society, 
 and a dirfclnr of llic Anurican Forestry 
 Association. He is a niemlxT of the Histor- 
 ical Society of Pennsylvania; t!ie National 
 (;eogra])hic Society; the American Academy 
 of Political and Social Science; an original 
 nuMubcr of the Committee of One llnndred 
 organized in 1879, and was a member of 
 the National Pelicf Commission dnring the 
 Spanish- American \\ar. and is a trustee i 
 and director of many charitable and other 
 institntions_. He is also a member of the i 
 Contemporary Club, the Merion Cricket 
 Club and the City Club. ]\Ir. Paily married 
 in lS.")(i. Theodate, daughter of John D. 
 Lang, of Vassalboro, Me., and they have 
 live sons, four of whom are partners with 
 him in his business. Residence: "Lang- 
 mere," Ardnuue, Pa. Office address: 32 
 South Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 BAIN. George Grantham: 
 
 Journalist; born in Chicago, Jan. 7, 
 1865. Mr. Bain is one of the leading syn- 
 dicate and special writers for the American 
 ])ress. ]Mr. Piain was graduated from the 
 St. Louis L'niversity in 1883. and received 
 the degree of M.A. from that L'niversity 
 in 18110. He was formerly one of the best- 
 known of Washington correspondents, but 
 of late years has heen located in New York, 
 and contributes New York letters to a 
 bug;' number of ])apers. He is also a 
 writer of short stories for the leading mag- 
 azines. Office: 32 L'nion Square, East, 
 New York City. 
 
 BAIN, Robert Edward Mather: 
 
 I'a^-Ncngi'r agent <ind amateur ]ihotogra- 
 ])li('r: lioin in Chicago, Aug. !). 1858. and 
 was educated at the Washington Cniversity, 
 St. Louis. He has had a successful career 
 as passenger agent for various lines of 
 transportation, and is at ])resent general 
 ])asscnger manager for the Southwest of 
 the International Mercantile ilarine Com- 
 pany, having held this position since Feb., 
 1!)()3. Mr. Bain is, however, most generally 
 known as one of the leading an.-a^eur pho- 
 
 tographers of the United States, lie has 
 traveled through the Holy Land extensively 
 
 and the icsults of his tiavcds ap|)ear in Ills 
 illustiation of se\cral wurks on tiic Bible 
 from piiotogra])iis made dnring his jonr- 
 neys. j\lr. Bain was a member of the 
 Missouri legislature from 1881 to 1883, and 
 for ten yea IS was president of the St. 
 Louis riiotograpiiic Club. lie married, 
 Nov. 3. 1880. .Mary Valle. Olliec: Cen- 
 tury lUiilding. St. Louis. 
 
 BAINBRIDGE. Oliver: 
 
 Lecturer, author ami e\])lorei-. .Mr. IJaiii- 
 bridge is P)ritish-born, but aptly desig- 
 nated a " citizen of the woild whose heart 
 is no island cut off from other lands but a 
 continent that joins them." He has traveled 
 200,000 miles and penetrated the unfamiliar 
 regions of the earth, mingled' with every 
 color, sort and condition of mankind. He 
 enjoys the personal acquaintance of nearly 
 every ruler in the world, has received many 
 honors from various countries and fellow- 
 ships from geographical, literary and scien- 
 tific societies for his notable contributions 
 to the world of science. He discovered the 
 Black Jews in the Gulf of Papua. Mr. 
 Bainbridge was the first scientist to visit 
 the Chinese Jews in Raifengfn — the ancient 
 capital of China, where he discovered a 
 sepher, sepher Torah and an old. long, nar- 
 row stone in the side of an empty nnul hut 
 which bore traces of an inscription, dealing 
 with these strange people. He is author of 
 Hidden Jewish Tribes ; The Devil's Note Book ; 
 Pacific Kindred, etc.. and is an occasional 
 contributor to leading magazines and jour- 
 nals throughput the world on Travel and 
 Education. Mr. Bainbridge lectures before 
 educational institutions and learned societies 
 in tile |irinci])ai countries on these subjects 
 and has coctperated with nearly every de- 
 partment of jjublic instruction in existence. 
 He ou-ns the largest collection of auto- 
 graphed photographs and letters from digni- 
 taries and e<'lcbrities in the world. Ad- 
 dress: 2227 Maplewooil .\ve.. Toledo, Ohio. 
 
 BAINBRIDGE, William Seaman: 
 
 l'liy>i(ian and surgeon; born in Provi- 
 dence. P. L. Feb. 17, 1870; son of William 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Fohvcll and \A\cy VM/.ahvth ( Seaman) 
 r.ainl)iid<rc. llf was educated at tlie Mo- 
 liegan Lake Seliool at Peekskill, N. ^ .. and 
 he received tlie dej^ree of A.M. from Sliuil 
 lefV rolleue. and M.S. from Wasliinglon 
 and .lell'erson : was graduated from tlie 
 r.ollege of Pliysieians and Surgeons of New 
 i'ork (^ledieal Department of Columbia 
 ["niveisily I \\\\h the degree of M.D. in 
 ISliti. In .lunc. r.lOT. the Western Univer- 
 sity of Penn-sylvania conferred iipon liiin 
 the degree of Sc.D. He was for over two 
 years on the house statY of the Presbyterian 
 Hosjiital of New York City, and later was 
 physician of the Sloane Maternity Hos- 
 pital. He was a graduate student of Co- 
 lumbia University, for one wintci-, in 
 bacteriology, and has been abroad seven 
 times, several times professionally, and 
 twice to stiuly. In all he has spent about 
 four years abroad, part of the time in 
 China. Japan and India. He was (jui/.- 
 niaster at the College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons, 18!)4-1S!)0, and he volunteered as 
 surgeon in the Si)anish-American War, 
 but did not see any active service. He was 
 formerly for years adjunct professor of 
 gynecology at the New York Post-Gradu- 
 ate ^Medical School and Hospital ; and is 
 now surgeon and gynecologist to the New 
 York Skin and Cancer Hospital ; attending 
 surgeon to the New York City Children's 
 Hospitals and Schoids : is clinical professor 
 of surgery. New York Polyclinic Medical 
 School and Hospital: consulting gynecolo- 
 gist to St. Anilrew's Convalescent Hospital 
 and St. Mary's Hospital. .lamaiea. Long 
 Inland, and consulting surgeon to the Man- 
 hattan State Hospital. Ward's Island, and 
 to the New York Home for Dependent 
 Ci'ippled Children; associate surgeon Wom- 
 an's Hosjjital. Dr. Bainbridge. when a 
 student, was graduated as senior captain 
 from the Mohegan Lake School; served one 
 year in Cadet Company of the Thirteenth 
 Regiment, National (Juard of the State of 
 New ^'ork. years ago; and \\a> for a time 
 surgeon-general, with rank of brigadier- 
 general. r)f the Hoys' Brigade of America. 
 lie is a member of the D(dta I'psilon fra- 
 ternity, of the .American Medical Associa- 
 linri. (.f th<' N'ew ^'ork Academy of Medi- 
 
 cine, New York State Medical Society, 
 Greater New York ^Medical Association, 
 Aluiuni Societies of tlie Presbyterian Hos- 
 |iilal and Sloane Maternity Hospital, etc., 
 and was honorary ])resident of the lleidel- 
 l)erg Congress on Cancer, hehl in Scjiti'm- 
 l)er, 1!HI7. He has been an extensive con- 
 tributor to iiicdical and sciciitilic literature, 
 and is author of: Life's Day; Guide Posts 
 and Danger Signals in Health; Our Unseen 
 Foes, a work on bacteriology, and The 
 (irowing ^'ears (both based on lectures de- 
 livered at Chautau(iua, and poinilo-scientific 
 in chai'acter) ; also of a Coinp;'nd of ()])era- 
 tive Gynecology. pul)lished by the Grafton 
 Press, New York City, and many scientific 
 ])a])ers. Dr. Bainbridge is a bachelor, and 
 a member of the (^)uill and Students' Club. 
 Address: ( sinnnici ) Hotel Atheiueuni. 
 
 ChautaiKpia. X. \.: (winter) ;U Gramercy 
 Park, New ^■ork City. 
 
 EAIR, Joseph Hershey: 
 
 Profcssoi- of ]isycliolog\- : born at Hall. 
 Pa., in 1S7-'): ^uu of Daniel and Ainia 
 (Hershey I I'.air. He studied at Lafayrtte 
 College, and at the Lnixcisity of ^Michigan, 
 from which he was gi-aduated in IS!)!) 
 with degree of A.Ji. He also received the 
 advanced degiees of A.M., in l!)l)0. from 
 the University of Michigan, and I'h.!).. in 
 in 1902 from Columbia Unix-ci-sily. In 
 11)01 he took uj) woik as a research fel- 
 low in the Carnegit' Institute, in which he 
 continued until 1!)()-J. when he went to 
 Columbia University as as>istant in an- 
 thropology. KK.m l!tn:{ to 1!)()7 he was 
 professor of p-ivchology in tlie rnixcrsity 
 of Colorado, at r.oulder. and in 1!)07 he 
 retiied from active university woik. and 
 is devoting liimscjf to research and to the 
 jndjlication of several books upon which lie 
 has been working for several year>. He 
 is also connected with several mining, pow- 
 er and other ent<'rpri>es. Hi l!)0-2 he was 
 elected to iiu ndiershi|i in the Colnmbi:i 
 Chapler <if the Sjoma Xi iionor society, 
 and in the same year became a fellow of 
 the .\meriean .\sMicia(ion for the Advance- 
 menl of Science. He is also a member of 
 the American I'.sychological Association, the 
 Western Association of College Teachers of 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Education, the Colorado Scientific Society 
 and the Boulder Commercial Association. 
 ])r. Hair married at Jersey Sliore, Pa., 
 July. 1904. Elizabeth B. Hill, and they 
 have two sons. Address: 4224 Chestnut 
 Sircct. Philadelphia. 
 
 BAIRD, George Washington: 
 
 Enj^ineer and lear admiral U. S. N., re- 
 tired; born in Washington, D. C, April 22, 
 1843; son of :\Iatthe\v and Ophelia (Cau- 
 tliorn) Baird. He was educated in public 
 and private schools in Washington, D. C, 
 and in 1862 entered the U. S. Navy as third 
 assistant engineer. He served through the 
 grades in the Engineer service of the Navy, 
 becoming chief engineer in 1892; was trans- 
 ferred to the Line in 1891; and retired 
 with the rank of rear admiral, U. S. N., 
 1905. He invented Baird's fresh water 
 distiller, an evaporator, steam trap, steer- 
 ing gear, steam heater, etc. ; designed the 
 first steam capstan vised in the U. S. Navj'; 
 he also designed the system of ventilation 
 by aspiration. He served in the Missis- 
 si])pi, Calhoun, Kensington and Pensacola, 
 during the Civil War, and was under fire 
 twenty-three times. During the Spanish 
 ^^'ar he was superintendent of the State, 
 ^^"ar and Navy Building, but did Navj' 
 duty in examining mechanical recruits. 
 Bear-Admiral Baird was formerly presi- 
 dent of the Board of Education, of Wash- 
 ington, D. C. ; is past president of the 
 Navy ^Mutual Aid Association; past presi- 
 dent of the American Society of Naval 
 Engineers; past grand master of Freema- 
 sons ; member of the National Geographic 
 Society, the Washington Society of Engi- 
 neers, Society of Naval Architects and 
 Marine Engineers. Sons of the American 
 Bevolution and the Cosmos Club of Wash- 
 ington. He married in Washington, Nov. 
 20, 1873. Lyle J. Prather. Address: 1505 
 Rhode Island Avenue. Washington, D. C. 
 
 BAIRD, Henry Carey: 
 
 Publisher and bookseller; born at 15rides- 
 burg. Pa., (Frankford Arsenal), Sept. 10. 
 1825; son of Cajitain Thomas James of the 
 U. S. Artillery and of Eliza Catherine 
 (Carey) Baird. daughter of-Mathew Carey. 
 
 He was tiie pioneer pui)lislier of industrial 
 books in America. He is a writer on eco- 
 M()iiii<- (|Ucsti()ns, and lecturer, and has been 
 a pniiipiilclccr for iialf a century at his 
 own cost. He is an ardent unllagging Pro- 
 tectionist, ehiiming that through tiiis pol- 
 icy diversified industries are built up, 
 the natural law of association and combi- 
 nation among men complied with, through 
 which alone civilization can be assured. 
 Mr. Baird has served as an expert witness 
 before Committees of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives on Currency, and on Ways and 
 Means, and also before the Monetary Com- 
 mission of 1876. He wa.s Greenback candi- 
 date for mayor of Philadelphia, and was 
 nominated by the Greenback Convention for 
 State treasurer of Pennsylvania, but de- 
 clined. He is head of the firm of Henry 
 Carey Baird &. Company, publishers. Mr. 
 Baird married' in Philadelphia, Sept. 26, 
 1850, Elizabeth Davis, daughter of John 
 Pennington (she died, 1901), and they 
 have had one daughter. Address: 810 
 Walnut Street. Philadelphia. 
 
 BAIRD, Julian William: 
 
 Chemist and educator; boru in Battle 
 Creek, Mich., Feb. 14, 1859; son of Abram 
 Hienry and Sarah Elizabeth (Wagoner) 
 Baird. He was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of ^Michigan as A.B. in 1882 and 
 as M.A. and PhX\ in 1883. He then at- 
 tended Harvard University ^Medical School 
 from which he was graduated as M.D. in 
 1890. Dr. Baird was assistant in quanti- 
 tative chemical analysis in the University 
 of [Michigan, in 1882-1883, instructor in 
 charge of qualitative chemical analysis and 
 in assaying in Lehigh University from 
 1883 to 1886. and has been .professor of ana- 
 lytical and organic chemistry, since 1886, 
 at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, 
 at Boston, of which institution he has also 
 been dean since 1897. He is a member of 
 the American Chemical Society; American 
 Pharmaceutical Association; American 
 Medical Association; the Society of Chem- 
 ical Industry (London) ; Massachusetts 
 [Medical Society, and Boston Society of 
 Medical Science; and he is honorary mem- 
 
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 MEX OF AMERICA. 
 
 biT of the Masafliusi'Us Slati' I'lianua- 
 ceiitical Association. Up manicd at La- 
 c'onia. N. H., Oc-t. 2.'), 18!)7, Hattie Bell 
 Kllinwood, ami they have one clavighter. 
 Residenfo : 102 8t! Botolph Street. Of- 
 fice: Massachusetts Colle<^e of I'liarniaey, 
 Boston. 
 
 BAKER. Alfred L.: 
 
 r.aiiki'i- and l)ioUei'; horn in l>o>ton. 
 Mass.. April 30, 1859; son of Addison and 
 Maria (Aludge) Baker, lie was ediu-alcd 
 at tlie Lynn High School. Eynn. Mass.. and 
 was adnutted to the bar of l^ssex County, 
 ^lass. at Lynn, in 1881, removed to Clii- 
 cago in 1880, and practised law under I lie 
 firm name of Baker & Greeley until he 
 went into stocks and bonds in 18!)(); and 
 he purchased in Oct.^ 1800. a nienilx'rslii]) 
 in the New York Stock Exclianuc of whicli 
 lie is slill a member, also vice-president of 
 the National City Bank of Chicago. He 
 is vice-i)resident and director of the Chi- 
 cago and Calumet Canal and Dock Co. 
 Mr. Baker was president of tlie Chicago 
 Stock Kxeha nge three years, from 1S!)8 to 
 1900. and is still a director .d' llial body, 
 and was jjifsident of tlie .Mcicliants' Club 
 of Chicago in 1905. He Wiis ])i(sidenl foi- 
 five years of the Onwentsia (lul). and i> 
 ])resident of tiie Board of 'i'rustei's of Lake. 
 Fcjrest University, goxernor of the Soci- 
 ety of Colonial Wars, and a mendier of 
 tile Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mr. 
 leaker married at Ciiicago. 111., -lune (>. 
 1894. Maiy Corwith. and they lia\c \\\o 
 children: Isabelle, ijorn in 1897, and Marv 
 IjiUidon. born in 1901. Residence: Lake 
 Forest, ill. Ollice: 209 La Salle Street, 
 Chicajro. 
 
 chief editor since 1895 of the Kngineering 
 News, New York City, and is vice-president 
 and a director of the Engineering News 
 Publishing Company. He is a Congrega- 
 tionalist in religious aflTiliation ; a member 
 of the American Society of Mechanical En- 
 gineers, the American Economic Associa- 
 tion, and the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. 
 He is author of Monopolies and the People 
 (Putn;iiui. lie married, June 4, 1800, Be- 
 lickah Wheeler, of Piurlington, Yermont, 
 anil \\\vy lia\i' two sons. Residence: Fern 
 Hill. 20 Soulli .Mountain Avenue, ]\Iont- 
 <lair. X. .J. Address: 220 Broadway. New 
 \uvk City. 
 
 BAKER, Fisher A.: 
 
 Lawyer; horn in Dedhani. Mass.. Feb. 
 8. 1887; son of dolin and Patty (Ellis) 
 Baker. He was graduated from Dartmouth 
 College, A.B., 1859, and studied in the Al- 
 bany Law School. He served, during the 
 Civil War. in the 18th Massahusetts Yolun- 
 leers with the Fifth Corps of the Army of 
 the Potomac. Mr. Baker was admitted to 
 the bar in 1800. and has practised law in 
 New York City from 1865. He is a trus- 
 tee of the Bankers' Safe Deposit Company; 
 and director of the First Security Com- 
 pany. First Xational I5ank of the City of 
 Xew "S'oik. and the N^ew .Jersey (jcnei'al 
 Securily Com])any. He is a trustee of tht; 
 Ilackley School at Tarrytown, N. Y., mem- 
 ber of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Phi 
 licta Kappa Society. Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion and (lie I'nitarian Club of 
 Xew York. lie niunied. :May 25, 1809 
 Catherine W. Fisher. Residence: Yonkers, 
 X. V. Ollice: 2 Wall Street. Xew York 
 Citv. 
 
 BAKER. Charles Whiting: 
 
 Editoi-. civil engineer: born at .lohnscm, 
 Lamoille Comity, V'erniont, .Fan. 17. lS(i5; 
 .son of Thomas Jcfrerson Baker and Mat- 
 tie (Whiting) Baker, lie was e<liicatcd at 
 llic Vermont Stale Xormal School and the 
 I'niversily of N'ermont. from which he wa'- 
 graduated :is C.K. in ISHO. lie was a 
 di'auglilsman at the Ualdwiii Locomotive 
 Woiks. Piiiladelphia. 18S0-1887. and has two years at 
 lu-en on tlie editorial staff since 1887, and ' er's law olli 
 
 BAKER. Francis E.: 
 
 United States circuit judge: born in 
 Coshen. Ind.. Oct. 20. 1800; son of .fudge 
 .Tohn 11. and Harriet (l)efrees) Baker. He 
 was educated in the Indiana State Univer- 
 sity and at the L"niversity id' Michigan, from 
 which he was graduated A. I'... 1SS2. iieing 
 class poet, and he was literary editor of 
 the Uni\ersiiy (hronicle diiriii_; the last 
 ll.-e. lie entered his fath- 
 in 1SS2, and in 1885 be- 
 
MEN OF AMl'.RICA. 
 
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 caiiio liis ])artnor in the linn of Bakor & 
 JJaker at (Joshen, Ind., until his father be- 
 came I'nited States judge in 181)2, and 
 after that as head of tlie firm of Baker and 
 Miller, who were attorneys for the Lake 
 Short' and Michigan Southern Railway and 
 other eor|)orations, until he was elected a 
 jiulge of the Supreme Court of Indiana in 
 IS!)!) and he held that oflice until appointed, 
 Fei). 4. li)02. to his present olliee of judge 
 of the United States Circuit Court for the 
 Seventh Circuit. Judge Baker is a meni- 
 her of the Columbia and ISfarion Clubs at 
 Indianapolis, the University Club and Chi- 
 cago Atheletic Association of Chicago, and 
 an honorary member of the Union League 
 Club of Chicago. Residence: Goshen, Ind. 
 Cllicial addresses: Chicago and Indianapo- 
 lis. In.l. 
 
 BAKER, Frank: 
 
 Sui)erintendent of the well-known zoo- 
 logical gardens in ^Yashington, D. C, which 
 are under the direction of the Smithsonian 
 Institution. Mr. Baker was graduated 
 froin the National Medical College, now a 
 jiart of George Washington University of 
 Washington, in 1880. Since 1883 he has 
 l)een professor of anatomy at Georgetown 
 University, and for many years superin- 
 tendent of the National Zoological Park. 
 He has written a large number of articles 
 I on anatomy for text and reference books. 
 He is secretary of the Washington Aca- 
 demy of Sciences, and a member of the 
 American Naturalists Association. Society 
 t of American Anatomists, National Geo- 
 ' graphic Society. Sons of the American Revo- 
 lution, and several scientific societies in 
 Washington. He married at Sedgwick, 
 :Maine. Sept. 1:5, 1873, May E. Cole. Address: 
 1728 Columbia Road. Washington. 
 
 BAKER, Fi-ank Collins: 
 
 Zoiilogist; horn in Warren, R. I.. Dec. 14, 
 1807. He studied at Brown University. 
 1S88-18S9. was Jesup scholar at the Aca- 
 demy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia 
 188!)-1800. was in charge of the Inverte- 
 brate Department of Ward's Natural 
 Science Establishment at Rochester. N. ^ . 
 18!)l-18n2; gurator of zoologj- in the 
 
 Field C()hnnl)ian .Museum. Cliicago. in 18!)4, 
 and was curator 1894-180!) and since then 
 has been director of the Chicago Academy 
 of Sciences of which he was also secretary. 
 18i)l-1892. He is a member of the Ameri- 
 can Association of Museums; the Natural- 
 ist Society of the Central States; Illinois 
 State Academy of Sciences, Ameiican Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science, 
 and the Illinois Audubon Society, of which 
 he has been vice-president from 1890. and 
 he is a fellow of the Rochester Academy of 
 Sciences, and was its .secretary in 1891- 
 18!)2. He has written extensively on mol- 
 lusca and on nuiseum administration. 
 Residence: 717 Pine Grove Avenue. Of- 
 fice: Chicago Academy of Sciences. Lin- 
 coln Park, Chicago. 
 
 BAKER. Franklin Thomas: 
 
 Educator and author; ixuii in Hagerstown. 
 Md.. Sept. 12, 1804; son of John Henry and 
 Julia (McCoy) Baker. He was graduated 
 from the high school at Hagerstown. Md., 
 then entered Dickinson College from which 
 he was graduated as A.B. in 1885. He af- 
 terward received the degree of A.M. both 
 from Dickinson College and Columbia Uni- 
 versity, and the degree of Litt.D. from 
 Dickinson College. He was a teacher in 
 the Dickinson Preparatory School from 
 1887 to 1892: instructor in Teachers Col- 
 lege, from 1892 to 1893; and has been pro- 
 fessor of English in Teachers College, 
 Columbia University since 1893. He was a 
 lecturer at the Brooklyn Institute 1898- 
 1900. ^Ir. Baker has contributed nu- 
 merous ])apers t<i educational periodi- 
 cals. He edited De Quincey's Revolt of the 
 Tartars (Sibley & Company) ; Browning's 
 Shorter Poems (Macniillan) ; Macaulay's 
 Poems (Macmillan) ; Tennyson's Princess 
 (Appleton) ; The De Coverley Papers (Ap- 
 pleton), :\Irs. Gaskell's Cranford (Long- 
 mans), and he is joint author of: Tiie 
 Teaching of English (Longmans) the Lan- 
 guage Reader Series (Macmillan), and an 
 English Composition (Holt). Professor 
 Baker jnarried in Brooklyn. N. Y.. Sept. 
 15. 1890. Emilie A. Kip. and they have 
 three chihlren. Address: Park Hill. Yonk- 
 ers, N. Y. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 BAKER, George Fisher: 
 
 Hanker; horn iu Troy. X. Y.. .March 27, 
 lS4(t. He i< president of the Fir.st National 
 Hank; a ilireetor of the Astor National 
 l>aiik. tlie lx)nji- I.sland Water Supply Com- 
 pany, and tlie New York and Long Branch 
 Railroad Company; vice-president and di- 
 rector in Bankers' Safe Deposit Co., and 
 director in various railroad and financial 
 corporation.s. He is a member of the Met- 
 ropolitan. Lawyers. New \iuk \'acht. Tux- 
 edo and Riding Clubs, and of the Music 
 Art Society. Residence : 258 Madison 
 Avenue. Oliice: 2 Wall Street, New Y'ork 
 city. 
 
 BAKER, James Hutehins: 
 
 Pifsident of the University of (Colorado; 
 born at Harmony, Somerset County, Maine, 
 Oct. i;}. 1S4S; son of Wesley and Lucy 
 (Hutehins) Baker. He was graduated from 
 Bate.s College, A.B., 1873, and received 
 from that college the degree of LL.D. in 
 18!)2. He was principal of the Y'armouth 
 (Maine) High School, 1873-1875; principal 
 of the Denver High Scliool, 1875-1892, and 
 since then lias been president of the Uni- 
 versity of Colorado. Dr. Baker was presi- 
 dent of tlie National Council of Education, 
 1892; president of the National Associa- 
 tion of State Universities, 1907, and has 
 served as a member of the National Com- 
 mittee of Ten on Secondary Education; 
 and he i.s a fellow of the American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science, 
 and a member of the Colorado Scientific So- 
 ciety and of the I nivcrsity Club of Den- 
 ver. He is autlioi- of: Klemcntary Psychol- 
 ogy; Ivlncat ion and Life; American l'i-o1)- 
 lenis. He iiianicd in Denver, .lune 20. 
 1882, Jennie V. Hilton, and they have two 
 cliildren. Address: Boulder, Colo. 
 
 BAKER, Jennie Van Holland: 
 
 Phj^sician and surgeon ; born in Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., May 25. 1851 daughter of James 
 and Eliza .Tane (Harned) Van Holland. 
 She was e<lucated in the Brooklyn public 
 schools and was giaduated from tlic New- 
 York Medical College and Hospital for 
 Women with the degree of M.I). She mar- 
 ried in Brooklyn, June 20, 1877. Mills P. 
 
 Baker, Jr., who died in 1879, and since 1882 
 she has been jiractising medicine in Brook- 
 lyn; and she is now chief of stalf of the 
 -Memorial Hospital for Women and Chil- 
 dren, Brooklyn, a member of the Board of 
 Managers of thai institution ami a trus- 
 tee of the Memorial Dispensary for Women 
 and Children. Dr. Baker is a member of 
 the Kings County Homeopathic ^ledical 
 Society, New \ ork State Homeopathic ]\led- 
 ical Society, American Institute of Hom- 
 eopathy, and of the Alumni Association of 
 the New Y'ork Medical College and Hospi- 
 tal for Women, a member of the National 
 Woman Sufl"rage Association, the Brooklyn 
 League and the Brooklyn Woman's and 
 Chiropean Clubs. Address: 512 Bedford 
 Avenue, Brooklyn, N. 1'. 
 
 BAKER, Ray Stannard: 
 
 U'riter, editor: born in Lansing, ^lich., 
 April 17, 1870; son of Joseph Stannard 
 and Alice (Potter) Baker. He was edu- 
 cated at the Michigan Agricultural College 
 from which he was graduated as B.S. in 
 1889 ; and he took a partial literary and 
 law course at the University of Micliigan. 
 He was formerly associate editor of Mc- 
 Clure's Magazine, and is now associate edi- 
 tor of The American Magazine, He is a 
 director of Phillips Publishing Company. 
 Mr. Baker is the author of several books, 
 notably: Following the Color Line, a study 
 of the Negro race in the United States; 
 Seen in Germany; The Boys' Book of In- 
 ventions; New Ideals in Healing and oth- 
 ers. He has also written many series of 
 magazine articles, being one of the coterie 
 of magazine writers who helped to create 
 the social and economic agitation of 1905- 
 1907. Mr. Ilaker married at Lansing. 
 .Mieli.. .Ian. 2. lS9(i, Jessie 1. Beal. daugh- 
 ter of Dr. W. .1. I'.eal, and they have four 
 ejiildren. Address: Care of I'liillips Pub- 
 lishing Cotiipany. ;M 1 l'"iflli Ascniie. New 
 \'()rk City. 
 
 BALDWIN, Evelyn Briggs: 
 
 Arctic explorer : born in Springfield. Mo.. 
 .iiil_\ 22. 1S()2. He was graduated from 
 .Northwestern College. Xapcrville. 111., and 
 was in early life a teacher and supeiin- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Iciulont of schools. In 18!)2 lie became con- [ 
 iiccted with the United States Weather Bu- 
 reau, serving- as an observer for eight years, j 
 \\ liile connected with the Bureau he ac- j 
 cDuipanicd the Peary North (ireenland Ex- 
 pedition, l.S!).'MS!)4, as meteorologist, and 
 ill 18!)7 attempted to join tiie Andre polar 
 expedition, but arrived at Spitzbergen too 
 late to do so. Ill 1808 he accompanied tlie 
 Wellinan I'olar lv\pedition to Franz-Josef 
 Land as iiieteoicdogist, and in connection 
 with that expedition discovered and explor- 
 ed (Irahaiii Bell Land. On his return to 
 the United States he severed his connec- 
 tidii with the Weather Bureau and began i 
 llie development of independent polar ex- 
 peditions, organizing the Baldwin-Ziegler : 
 jiolar expedition in 1901-1902, which estab- | 
 lished depots of supplies for use in pro- 
 jiosed attempts to reach the Pole. He con- 
 tiiiues to be engaged in matters relating to 1 
 arctic research, and has added materially to 
 the knowledge of arctic conditions by his ; 
 explorations and by his numerous writ- | 
 iii'^s and reports. He is a member of the 
 Nitional Geographic Society and is a 
 .')2-dcgree Mason, and a member ol' the Xew 
 York" Yacht Club. Address: :!7 \V. 44th 
 Street. Xew York City. 
 
 BALDWIN, James Mark: 
 
 I'syeliologist and educator; born in Co- 
 lumbia, S. C, Jan. 12, 1801; son of Hon. 
 Cyrus 11. Baldwin, U. S. sub-treasurer, and 
 of Lydia Eunice (Ford) Baldwin; descend- 
 ant of the Buckinghamsiiire (Rngland) 
 family of Baldwins. He was graduated 
 from Princeton as A.B. in 1884. and re- 
 ceived from the same college the degree of 
 A.:\I. in 1887 and Ph. d". in 1889; stud- 
 ied in the Universities of Leipzig and Ber- 
 lin in 1884-1885; received from the Uni- 
 versity of Oxford the degree of Sc.D. in 
 l'.)()() (tills being the first honorary degree 
 in science ever conferred by that univer- 
 sity), and degrees of LL.D. from the Uni- 
 versity of Glasgow, 1901, and the Univer- 
 sity of South Carolina, 1905, He was fel- 
 low and instructor in Princeton, 1885-1887, 
 professor of philosophy in Lake Forest I'ni- 
 versity, 1887-1890; professor of logic and 
 metaphysics in the University of Toronto, 
 
 1890-189;}; Stuart professor of psychology 
 in Princeton University, 189:i-p.»0.{ ; since 
 190;{ professor of pliilo.-^ophy and psyehol- 
 ogy in .lobiis Hopkins Uiii\cisity. Dr. 
 Haldwiu has an international reputation as 
 a teaeliei' and wriler (ui psycliology; is edi- 
 tor ol' a three \olume Dictionary of Philos- 
 o])hy and P.sychology which is pr(ji)ably tlie 
 most frequently consulted reference book on 
 tliose subjects ; has edited other reference 
 books on psychology and jihilosophy, and 
 has been editor of the Psychological Iteview 
 since 1894. lie is author of the Handbook 
 of Psychology (two volumes); Elements of 
 P.sychology ; Mental Development in the 
 Child and the Race; Social and Ethical 
 Interpretations; Story of the ilind; Devel- 
 opment and Evolution; Fragments of Phi- 
 losophy and Science; Thoughts and Things, 
 or Genetic Logic (three volumes) and of 
 a translation of i^ibot's German Psychology 
 of To-day. Dr. Baldwin was vice-president 
 of the International Psychological Con- 
 gresses lield in London in 1892 and at Mu- 
 nich in 1890; honorary jnesidenl of the 
 Congress of Criminal Anthropology, held at 
 Geneva in 1890; president of the American 
 Psychological Association in 1897; and is a 
 member of the American Philosophical So- 
 ciety; London Aristotelian Society, London 
 Sociological Society, the Paris Institute of 
 Sociology (one of three American mem- 
 bers), Belgian Pedagogical Society, and the 
 Southern Society of Philosophy and Psy- 
 chology, of which he was president, 1904- 
 1907. He was awarded the gold medal of 
 the Royal Academy of Science of Denmark 
 in 1897 (never awarded to anyone else in 
 America, before or since). His books have 
 been translated into several foreign lan- 
 guages. An estimate of Dr, Baldwin's con- 
 tributions to science, from the pen of Pro- 
 fessor of A. T. Ormond, is to be found in 
 the volume "A Score of Years. 1884-1904" 
 (Scribner's, 1904), He married, in 1888, 
 Helen Hayes Green, daughter of Rev, Wil- 
 liam Henry (ireen, D.D., president of 
 Princeton Theological Seminary, and they 
 have two daughters, known to the readers 
 of their father's books as - H " and " E." 
 Address: .lolms Ho]>kins University, Bal- 
 timore, yid. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 BALDWIN. Leroy Wilbiir: 
 
 I'.iiiikiT: lioni ill Kutlaiid. \'1.. Oct. :!1. 
 ISUo; son of Wiunor H. jialdwiu and ^lary 
 Olive (Hatoli) IJaldwin. He was educated 
 in tlie Kutland High School and private 
 .schools, lie began his business career in 
 ISSO. and he is now president and director 
 of the Eni])ire Trust Company, and the 
 Rutland «S: Woodstock Couiiiany. and is a 
 director of the Wisconsin Central Railway 
 Coin])any. Hungarian American Rank. Cen- 
 tury Rank. American Automatic Weighing 
 Machine Company. Limited, of England; 
 the ]{utland Railway, Light and Power 
 Conii)aiiy; the I'liion Ferry Company of 
 Rrooklyii. tiie American Mutoscope and Ri- 
 ograph Company. .Mr. Raldwin married in 
 New York City, in 1890. Kttie Lucile Field. 
 Residence: 8 Fast Seventieth Street. Of- 
 fice: 42 Rroadway, New York City. 
 
 BALDWIN. Simeon Eben: 
 
 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 
 Errors of Connecticut; born in New Haven, 
 Conn.. Vt-h. ."). l,S4(l: >oii of Hon. Roger 
 Sherman lialdwiii. LL.l).. goNcnior of Con- 
 necticut and L'nited States Senator, and 
 grandson of Hon. Simeon Raldwin. judge 
 of the Supreme Court of Errors. He was 
 educated in Hopkins Grammar School of 
 New Haven, at Yale College, frnm wliicii 
 he was graduated as A.B. in ISdL and at 
 Yale and Harvard Law Sdiools. am! he re- 
 ceived the degree of A..M. from \i\\f and 
 in 1891, the degree of LI..!), from Harvard 
 University. He engaged in the ])raelic(' of 
 law in New Ihnen. and was a member of 
 State Commissions to revise tlie Ivlucation 
 Laws. 1872. and (ieiieral Statutes in 1873- 
 1874. the Civil Procedure Laws, in 187S- 
 1879. Taxation in 188r)-1887. He was asso- 
 ciate justice of tlie Suiireme Court of C'on- 
 neeticnt from 189;{ In liidT. brcoming chief 
 justice of tliat conil in 1'.mi7. He has been 
 ])rofessor of constil ul ioiial and |)i-ivate in- 
 ternational law in \'ah- riii\crsity since 
 1872. He was president of the New Haxcn 
 Colony Historical Society. 18S4-189(;: of 
 the ,\meiieaii l!ai' Association. 18!)(): of the 
 .\merican Social Science .\ssociat ion. 1897- 
 1S99; of the ('imiii(tieiit A icha-ological 
 Societv. 18!)919(ll: of the I iiternat ioiial 
 
 Law As.sociation of London. 1899-1901; of 
 the Association of American Law Schools, 
 1902-1903 ; of the American Historical As- 
 sociation in 1!)0.>. etc. He is a member of 
 the American Anti<]uarian Society, and of 
 the National Institute of Arts and Letters 
 and corresponding member of the Massa- 
 chusetts Historical Society. lie is author 
 of Raldwin's Connecticut Digest ; Modern 
 Political institutions; liaidwin's Illustra- 
 tive Cases on Railroad Law; American 
 Railroad Law; The American Judiciary; 
 and co-author of; Two Centuiies' Growth 
 of American Law. He is a member of tlii' 
 Yale Club of New A'ork ( ity and the (irad- 
 uates. Club of New Haven. Judge Raldwin 
 married, in 18G5, Susan W inciiester, of Ros- 
 ton. Address: 44 Wall Street, New 
 ILncii, Conn. 
 
 BALDWIN, William James: 
 
 ilechanieal engineer and expeit on hea,- 
 ing and ventilating. ]Mr. Raldwin was born 
 on shipboard, Jiuie 14. 1844. his father hav- 
 ing been a shipmaster. His birth was re- 
 corded at \\'ateif<)id. Ireland. He received 
 s|)ecial training in marine architecture, 
 and, during the Ci\il \\ai-. was engaged in 
 si)ecial woik in ii;i\al const ruction, having 
 begun his career as mecJianieal tngineer 
 in 18()2. He is now lecturer and professin' 
 of engineering at the r.rookiyii Polyteeli- 
 nic Institute, and is hc-t known for his e\- 
 tensi\e writings on siilijects connected with 
 the lieating and \ (•ntilat ing of Imildings. 
 his wiuk on steam-heating ami on the ven- 
 tilation of -,choolro(iiii>. and those on tlie 
 mcehanieai details of heating and xcnlilat- 
 iiig ]Hdl)lems being the standard woiks on 
 such subj(>cts. He is a memiicr of the 
 .\incriean Society of ('ivil JMigineeis. Amer- 
 ican Society of Mcciianical l^ngineers. and 
 an associate number of the American Insti- 
 tute of An-hitccts. {•'roni iSSl to 1S!M) lie 
 was associate eiiilor of Hie I'higiiieei ing 
 Record. Residence: I .') 1 llalsey Street. 
 I'.iooklyn. Ollicc: •'Wold I'.iiilding." New 
 ^■ork. ' 
 
 BALL. James Moores: 
 
 I'hysiciaii: iioiii at ^\(•st riiion. Iowa. 
 Sept. 4. IS(i2; son of Dr. .lames Mooics 
 and .Martha (tilovei ) I'.all. lie studied 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Sf) 
 
 iticdiciiic Ml tl:c lowii State riiivcrsity. 
 li)\\a City, Iowa, <i-ra(liiatin<;' witli tlic dc- 
 t^icc (if y\. I), in 1SS4 and takiiiu; fiirtlicr 
 work in New NOrk (ily and abroiid. Dr. 
 ISall lias made a -piciality of diseases of 
 tile eye. to \\liic!i he now uivi's liis entire 
 tinic and on wliirli topic he holds the chair 
 at the ('(dh'^c of I'liysieians and Snri>-eons 
 in St. I. on is. Mo.; having;' been a])])ointed 
 in 1S!)4. lie has also been oculist to Jef- 
 ferson llos|)itaI. to the City Hospital, and 
 to the Convent of tin' (iood She])lierd in 
 the same city. He is a member of tlie 
 American Medical Association and of num- 
 erous other American professional socie- 
 ties. He has published a number of arti- 
 cles on his specialty, and is the author of 
 liall's :\[odern Ophthalmology (1904). He 
 was for two years editor of the Aniuils of 
 Ophthalmolofiy. Residence: 4374 Wash- 
 iuiiton Boulevard. Address: 4500 Olive 
 Street, St. Louis, ;Mo. 
 
 BALL, Thomas: 
 
 I'ainter, scnl])tor; boin in Charlestown, 
 Mass,, .lime ;!. ISI!): scm of Thomas Ball 
 ami Klisabeth Wyer (Hall) Ball. He was 
 educattd in a public school at Boston. 
 .Mass.. and he received the honorary de- 
 grei of A.M. from Dartmouth College in 
 ISCiO.' He was sculptor of the equesti'ian 
 statue of Washington in Boston; the Wash- 
 ington Monument in jMetlinen, i\Iass., and 
 statues of Daniel Webster. He resided for 
 many years in Florence. Italy. He became 
 an honorary fellow of the National iSculp- 
 tni-e Society in 18!)(). Mr. Ball is author 
 of !\ly Three Score Years and Ten, an an- 
 tobiogra]ihy, and also various ))()ems. Ho 
 married in Bo.ston, in 1854, Ellen Louisa 
 Wild, and they have a nmrried daughter. 
 l!(siilence: 10.") Ipjier Montclair Av., 
 
 Monlclaii-, \. .1. Studio: -iO.') East 17th 
 Street. New ^■ol■k. 
 
 BALLANTINE, William Gay: 
 
 l"'ormer jiresident of Obeilin Colb'ge; 
 born in Wasliingt(m. D. C, Dec. 7, 1S4S; 
 son of Prof. Elish:i Ballantine, LL.D. He 
 was graduated from Marietta College. Ohio, 
 as A.r>. in IStiS. and from I he l'ni(Hi Theo- 
 logical Seuiinars in .New ^'ork in 1S7'J; and 
 
 he look i)ost graduate work at the CniveH- 
 sily of Leipzig in 1872-lH7.'i. He was a 
 niendier of the .\merican Palestine IO.\ploring 
 l']\pe(lition in 1S7.'I; profes-.or of c'lemislry 
 and natural sciencr al Bipon College, 1874- 
 lS7(i; assistani professor of Greek in the 
 University of Imliana. 1871) to 1878. From 
 1878 to 1881 he was ])rofes,sor of fJreek 
 and Hebrew in Oberlin Theological Semi- 
 nary, and was pinfessor of Old Testament 
 languages and literature from 1881 to 
 18!)1 ; ami ]iresi(|eiit of Oberlin College 
 from 18U1 to 18'.l(), when he resigned and 
 went to Greece to sttnly. Since 18!)7 pro- 
 fessor of the Bible at the International 
 Y. M. C. A. Training School. Springfield, 
 Mass. He receivcnl the degree of i).D. from 
 iMarietta College in 188."). a)id of LL.D. 
 from the Western Keseive rni\-ersity in 
 1891. He was eilit(n- of the I'.ibliotheca 
 Sacra from 1884 to 1891. lie is author of 
 a work on Inductive Logic. Address: 
 Springfifdd, Mass. 
 
 BALLINGER, Richard Achilles: 
 
 Seci'ctary of the Interior; born at Boones- 
 boro. Iowa, .Inly 9, 1858; son of Richard 
 II,. and r^Iary E. (Xorton) Ballinger. He 
 was graduated fiom Williams College in 
 1884 with the dcgi-ee of A.T... and tiiking 
 up the study of law at Chicago, was ad- 
 mitted to the bar of the State of Illinois 
 in 1880. In 1890 he was made United 
 States Court Commissioner at Port Town- 
 send, Washington, and in 1894 was elected 
 judge of the Sujierior Ccnirt of Jefferson 
 County. ^Ir. ISal linger is a ]\epuhlican, 
 and was elected in 1904 as nniyor of Seat- 
 tle for a term of twi) years; and he was ap- 
 ]K)int((l by I'resideiil lloosevelt, March 4, 
 1907. as couimissioner of the General T-nnd 
 OlUce of the l"nileil States, which he re- 
 signed early in 1908. resuming the i)rac- 
 tice of law, uiUil called into the Cabinet by 
 l'resid(>nt. Taft, .March 4. 1909, as Secre- 
 tary of the luleiior. He i,s a member of 
 the Loyal Legion. .Mr. liallinger is author 
 of numerous legal works, among them be- 
 ing: Ballinger On Comnninity Property; 
 and Ballinger's Annotated Codes and Stat- 
 utes of Washington. He married Oct. ICi. 
 1880, Julia .\. i'.radlcv. of Lee. Mass., and 
 
8fi 
 
 ]\IRN OF AMERICA. 
 
 lias two cliiltlri'ii. A<l(lrcss: Dcpaitiiiciit 
 of tlic liitcrioi-. W'asliiii-loii. I). C. 
 
 BAMFORD, Mary Ellen: 
 
 Aulhor; Ixtni at 1 IcaM-lmi-^. Calif.. Dec. 
 10, lSo7; ihuiitliter of Or. William and 
 Corneliii Elizabeth (Ivaiul) I'.amford. Her 
 father was a pioneer physician who went 
 across the jilains in the early TjOs. and her 
 mother, a native of New llanipshire, went 
 to California. lS;')4-lS.")r). hy a lonjr voyage 
 around Cape Horn. Mi-s l'>aniford was 
 educated in llic high school of Oakland. 
 Calif., and was for four years an assistant 
 in the Oakland Free Public Library. Her 
 father was a contributor to the Western 
 Lancet, and her niothei wrote a <>ood deal 
 for the New ^Ork lnd(|)eiidi'nt. New York 
 Ob.server and other pajjers. Miss Baniford 
 is author of twenty books: I'p and Down 
 the Brooks. My Land and Water Friends; 
 The Look About Club; Second Year of the 
 Look About Club; Her Twenty Heathen: 
 In IMitha's Days; Jessie's Three Resolu- 
 tions; Three Roman Girls; Miss ^lillie's 
 Trying; Father Lambeil's Family; A 
 Piece of Kitty Hunter's Life; Thoughts of 
 ily Dumb Neighbors; Out of the Triangle, 
 (first published serially, winning first 
 prize of $250 for serial, offered by David 
 C. Cook Co.. Chicago) ; Ti ; The Di-nby Chil- 
 dicn at the l-'air; Eleanor and 1; Marie's 
 Story; Talks by Queer Folks; .Jani't and 
 Her Father; Nimiber One or Number Two; 
 also a pamphlet on Burnut ; the Work and 
 the Workers, (jjublished by the Woman's 
 Baptist Foreign ^Missionary Society), and 
 much writing for the Yotith's Companion 
 (Boston), Cook's publications (Chicago) 
 and the jniblications of the different de- 
 nominational boards. Miss Baniford is 
 secretary for Xoith and Central Cali- 
 fornia for the Woman's Baptist Foreign 
 Missionary Society of the West, (head 
 (piarters. Chicago). Address: 021 East 
 loth Street, Ea.st Oakland. Calif. 
 
 BANCROFT, Edgar Addison: 
 
 Lawyer: born at Cah'-buig. 111.. Nov. 20. 
 IS")?; son of .\ddi>on \. and Catherine 
 (Blair) l'>aricidft. lie was graduated in 
 1878 with the degiv.- of A.l',. from Knox 
 
 College at (Jalesbuig. and froin the law 
 de])ai1nient of Columbia University as LL. 
 li.. in ISSO. lie was admitted to the bar of 
 Illinois in ISSO and bi'gan to ])ractise law 
 at (lalcsburg. In 1S!)2 .Mr. Bancroft gave 
 II]) the general pi'actice of law and, becom- 
 ing counsel for Illinois of the Atchison. 
 Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company, 
 held that ])osition for three years. This 
 was followed by nine years as general 
 counscd, and at llic same time vice-])resi- 
 dent, of tile Chieagd and Western Indiana 
 Railroad Oniipaiiy. and The I'elt Uailway 
 Coni|iany. In 1!)U4 he se\cred his connec- 
 tion with tiuse. and became a member of 
 the law firm of Scott, Bancroft & Stephens, 
 with which he is still connected. Since 
 May, 1007 he has also been general counsel 
 of the International Harvester Company. In 
 1888 Mr. Bancroft was presidential elector 
 of the Republican |)aity and voted foi- Ben- 
 jamin Harrison. He is author of several 
 monogra])hs on legal and ]iolitical (pu's- 
 tions. Me was married in New York City. 
 April 18. ISnO, to ^Margaret Healy. Resi- 
 dence: 04 Cedar Street. Chicago. Ad- 
 dress: 200 La Salle Street, Cliicigo, 111. 
 
 BANCROFT, Frederic: 
 
 Historian; born in (ialesburg. 111.. Oct. 
 :5(). 1800. lie was graduated from Am- 
 herst as A.B. in 1SS2. ami leceixed the de- 
 grees of i'li.l). from Coliiniliia. in ISS.'). and 
 LL.l). from Knox College in 1000. He 
 studied law and political .science at 
 Columbia; studied history, political econ- 
 omy, and diplomacy at (iJittingen. Berlin. 
 l'"'reiburg (Baden), and at lOcole des 
 Sci(>nces Politicp'es. Paris; hctiind on the 
 political history of the Ci\il War and re- 
 cfmstruction at Amherst in 1S8S. and was 
 chief of the Bureau of Rolls and Library 
 of the Department of State, 1888-1802. He 
 has also lectured on diplonnitic and polit- 
 ical history at Coliimiiia. Johns Hopkins, 
 and Chicago rni\ ersit ies. has contributed 
 to most of the leading reviews and maga- 
 zines, and has long been on the literaiy 
 stair of the New ^'ork Nation. He was a 
 delegate to the i'aris Congicss of Histor- 
 ians in I'.HtO. leclnred liefoic the Lowell In- 
 stitute at I'.oston. in llKi:!. on Life in the 
 
MEN OF AMKRTCA. 
 
 87 
 
 ('oiifcilcriicy. ;iii(l made several trip^ 
 Ihrou^li the Suiillieiii States t'oi' historical 
 |iin|nises. lie is aiithui- of: Tiie Xefiro ill 
 Polities; Life of William II. Seward' (in 
 eollahorat ion with Win. A. Dunninff) ; A 
 Skoteh of the I'lihlic Life of Carl Scliurz. 
 and is writini^ an elaborate history of the 
 Soulhein ( 'onfe(leraev. Address: Wash- 
 ington. 1). ('. 
 
 BANCROFT, Hubert Howe: 
 
 Author of West Anieriean llistorios, 
 ]5ook of the Fair. I'.ook of Wealth, Re- 
 sources of ^Mexico. Tho New Pacific, etc.; 
 born ^lay o. 1832. in Granville, Ohio, a 
 New England settlement, his mother's 
 father. Curtis ITowe. coming from Ver- 
 mont, ami his fathei- from Granville. ^lass. 
 ^^'orke4 on his father's farm and attended 
 the academy until sixteen years of age. 
 when he entered, as clerk, a bookstore in 
 l^uflalo. X. v.. whose iiroprietor. three 
 years later, sent him with a stock of goods 
 to open business in San Francisco, where 
 lie arrived in ]\Iarch. 1852. While build- 
 ing uu a large book selling and publishing 
 house, ]\[r. Bancroft became interested in 
 gathering material for the history of this 
 new and fascinating land, until his collec- 
 tion numbered GO.OOO books, maps and man- 
 uscri]its, when he erected for it a library 
 building on Valencia Street, where it re- 
 mained until it passed into the possession 
 of the University of California, at Berke- 
 ley. Ambitious at length to reduce this 
 vast wealth of material to forms of prac- 
 tical utility, Mr. Bancroft ])ut at work 
 a dozen and more men to sort out, extract, 
 and classify the essential facts of history 
 and ])lace the results in his hands in 
 pro])er form for writing a series of his- 
 tories co\ering the western half of North 
 America from Alaska to Panama which 
 he had ]danned. This work covered a 
 period of thirty years, and the result was 
 the ]mblication of the series, as follows: 
 The Native Races of the Pacific States, 
 5 vol.; History of Centi'al America, 3 vols.; 
 History of Mexico, 6 vols. ; North IMexican 
 States and Texas, 2 vols.; California, 7 
 vols.; Arizona and New ^lexico. 1 vol.; 
 Colorado and WAomim;-. 1 vol.; I'tah and 
 
 \e\ada. 1 noI.; Nortliucst Coast. .; vols.; 
 Oregon. 2 \ids,; W asiiingt on. Idaiio, and 
 Montana. 1 vol.; I'.ritish Cojnmliia. 1 vol.; 
 Aiaskii, 1 \,,1.; California l'a>t(iral. I vol.; 
 (alifornia inter I'oeola. 1 \ol.: i'opular 
 'liihunals, 1^ v(ds.; ivssays and .Miscellany. 
 1 \ol.; Literary Industiies. 1 vol. Mr. 
 llaneroft nianied at New lla\en. ( 'oiin., 
 in lS7(i. Matihhi (Irilling. and has four 
 children, Paul, I'hili|), (Jrilling, ami Lucy. 
 Address: 28!)8 .Jackson Street, San Fran- 
 cisco. 
 
 BANCROFT, William Amos: 
 
 President of the Boston lOlevated Railway 
 Company, and the chief factor in the local 
 transportation situation in that city. Gen- 
 eral Bancroft was born in Groton, ]\Iass.. 
 A])ril 26, 18oo. He was educated at Law- 
 rence Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy 
 and Harvard College, being graduated from 
 the last named institution in 1S78. He stud- 
 ied in the Harvard T.,aw School from 1879 to 
 1881 and was admitted to lh(> Suffolk bar 
 in 1881. Before his connection with the 
 Boston Elevated Railway and the transit 
 problem in Boston, General Bancroft was 
 best known as the best exponent of the 
 militia system of Massachusetts. Enlist- 
 ing in 1875 as a private, he served in all 
 grades -to major-general, and by his influ- 
 ence and exami)le. and his untiring work 
 in behalf of the ^Massachusetts Voluntet^r 
 Militia, materially assisted in maintaining 
 the efficiency and standing of that branch 
 of the service of the United States. Dur- 
 ing the war with Spain his abilities as a 
 military^ officer were recognized by an ajv 
 pointment as brigadier-general of the Unit- 
 ed States Volunteers. General Bancroft 
 has taken an active part in the politics of 
 Cambridge, where he took up his residence 
 on his admission to the bar, and after a 
 number of years of service in the city 
 government, was elected mayor, serving for 
 four years in that position.^ He has. since 
 1885, been in almost continuous connection 
 with the surface railway enterprises in and 
 around Boston, and in October, 1899, was 
 chosen president of the IJoston Elevated 
 Railway Company, a corjwration which, 
 with its aniliated and associated concerns. 
 
ss 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 carried on tlic t rciiiciKlous 1 liuisporl alien 
 undfiiakiiitr <>t' carrying to Boston and re- 
 turning to their more or less suburban 
 lioiiies, the crowds of people wiio constitute 
 i>oston's business and industrial popula- 
 tion. The marked ability and success with 
 ^A•hich these problems have been met, is 
 h\rgely due to General Bancroft's skillful 
 direction and to the confidence in his man- 
 agement which is felt by the patrons of the 
 roads under liis control. General Bancroft 
 has been for inany years an overseer of 
 Harvard ( ollcge. and is a director of the 
 I'nited Stales Trust Company, and trustee 
 of Norwich University. Vermont, Lawrence 
 Academy. (Jroton. ^lass., and Phillips 
 Academy, Kxeter, X, H, His services are 
 frequently in demand for arranging and 
 directing the ceremonies on notable public 
 occasions. He is a member of the Cincin- 
 nati, The Order of Foreign Wars, Order of 
 the Spanish Why, and of a large number 
 of clubs and associations. He married in 
 Boston, in 1878. Mary Shaw. Residence: 
 12 Ware Street, Cambridge, Mass. Office: 
 101 Milk Street. IJoston, :Mass. 
 
 BANDELIER. Adolph Francis Alphonse: 
 
 -Archa-ologiNt : born in Berne, Switzer- 
 land, Aug. 0. 1840. but came to the United 
 States in his youth. From 1880 to ISSf) 
 he was commissioned by the Archaeological 
 Institute of America to travel among the 
 nil live laces of Xew Mexico, Arizona, Mexico 
 and Central America, and in 1892 went to 
 Pern and Bolivia on a scicntilic ex])edition 
 for Henry ^'illard. Since that time he lias 
 continued in exhaustive archicological, eth- 
 nological and historical researches in the 
 countries naiiUMl for individuals and insti- 
 tutions, and the last, from 18!)4 to 1!)():}, 
 was in the em])loy of the American Mu- 
 seum of Natural History, for which he 
 gatliered an extensive collection of Peru- 
 vian anil I)oli\ian ant icpiities. lie; lias writ- 
 ten a large niiiiili(r of iiooks on various 
 seiciitilic matters wliieh have iiecn the s\ib- 
 jeel ot his investigations, and has lectured 
 on these subjects as his work permitted, 
 lie returned from Bolivia 1o North Amer- 
 ica in liio;!. anil is now connecled with the 
 lli^iianic Socict\' of .\iMiTic:i. ('oliunbia 
 
 University, and with the Calhnlic Cyclo- 
 pedia. Mr. IJandelier married, first, in 
 Highland. 111., dan. 10. 1802. dosephine 
 Huegy, and second, in I>ima. Peru, Dec. 
 30, 1893. Fanny Kilter. Address: Care of 
 the Hispanic Society of America, l.Kith 
 Street, near Bi'oadway, Xew York. 
 
 BANGS, John Kendrick: 
 
 Humorist ; born in Yonkers, X. Y., ^lay 
 27, 1802: son of Francis X. Bangs and 
 Amelia Frances (l'>ull) Bangs. He was 
 graduated from Columbia College as Ph.B. 
 in 1883 and studied one year at the 
 Columbia Law School. He was associate 
 editor of Life from 1884 to 1888; editor 
 The Drawer, in Harper's Magazine in 1888 
 and 1889, and of Literary Xotes in the 
 same magazine in 1898 and 1899; was 
 editor of Literature in 1899. and of Har- 
 per's Weekly from 1898 to 1900, and editor 
 of the Metropolitan ^lagazine in 1903. Mr. 
 Bangs is author of: Cotl'ee and Repartee; 
 A House Boat on the Styx : R. Holmes & 
 Company; A Rebellious Heroine; ^Ir. 
 Bonaparte of t'orsica ; The Jinunieboy 
 Books; Lady Teazle (a comic opera); To- 
 morrowland. a ^lusical Fantasy, and many 
 other works. ]\Ir. Bangs has been twice 
 married, first on ^larcli 3, 188G, to Agnes 
 Lawson Hj'de, and second. .\|)ril 27, 1904, 
 to Mary Blakeney (liay. \'>y his lirst mar- 
 riage Mr. Bangs has three sons. Address: 
 Cai)e Xeddick. .Me. 
 
 BANKHEAD, John Hollis: 
 
 Ciiited States Senator: born in Moscow, 
 Ala,, Sejit, 13, 1842; son of dames (ireer 
 and Susan (Hollis) I'.aid^head. He is self- 
 educated, and from hoyhood was engaged as 
 a farmer, lie scr\-cil foi- four years in the 
 Confederate .\iiny. as lieutenant and ca])- 
 tain, and was wounded three times. He 
 re])resenteil Marion County in the General 
 Assembly of Alabama in the sessions of 
 18()r), 18()0 and ISCiT, and was a member of 
 the State Senate in 1870 and 1877, and of 
 the llon>e of Ivcpresentativcs of Alabama 
 in ISHO and 1881. He was warden of the 
 Alabama Penitentiaiy from ISSI to 188'). 
 was (deitcil in lSS(i to the iMtticth Con- 
 gress, ami liiciniia Il\- elected Ihcrcafter uii 
 
MEN OK A.MKKKA. 
 
 H!l 
 
 1(1 aiiil iiicl\i(liMj,' Xdvcuilii'r, 1!)(>4, when lie 
 was elected to the Fifty-ninlli Coiiffvoss 
 from Sixtli Alabama District. For the 
 Sixtieth Coiifiiess, in 1 !)()(), lie was defeated 
 i>y Rieiimoiid J.'. llol)soii, but having been 
 i:oiiiiiiat<Hl by the Ueniocratic primaiy, he 
 was apiioiiitfd in June. 1907, by Governor 
 (oiiKT. as L'nited States Senator to succeed 
 tlic late .lohn T. Morgan, and afterwai'd 
 elected by the LegisUiture " for the remain- 
 der of the term expiring March 4, 1913. 
 Senator JJankhead is prominent in the Ma- 
 sonic Order, and was Grand jMaster of the 
 Alabama (irand Lodge in 1880 and 1881. 
 lie married at Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 13, 
 IS(i(), Talhilah J. Brockman, daughter of 
 James Broekman, of tlie Greenville Dis- 
 trict, South Carolina. Address: Fayette, 
 Ala. 
 
 BANKSON, Lloyd: 
 
 Naval Constructor. U. S. Navy; born in 
 I'hiladelphia, Nov. 15, 1857; son of John 
 Palmer and Anne Catharine (Ash) Bank- 
 son. He was graduated from the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania (College Depart- 
 ment). B.Sc. 1877; was graduated from 
 the United States Naval Academy as cadet- 
 engineer in 1881, and from the £:cole d'Ap- 
 plication du Genie Maritime, France, with 
 the degree of Ingenieur, in 1890. He made 
 a two years' cruise as a cadet on men-of- 
 war in European and South American 
 waters, served as cadet-engineer, 1881-1883. 
 assistant engineer, 1883-1889, assistant 
 naval constructor, 1889-189G, and since 
 June 30, 1890, has been naval constructor. 
 He was assistant engineer in the Philadel- 
 ])hia Water Department, 1883-1886, with 
 Major William Ludlow of the Corps of En- 
 gineers of the U. S. Army. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Institution of Naval Architects 
 of England, the Association Technique 
 Maritime of France, and Society of Naval 
 Architects of the United States, and of the 
 University Club of Philadelpliia. Eesi- 
 dence: 4211 Chester Avenue, Philadelphia. 
 Address: Care of Navy Department, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 BANNARD, Otto T.: 
 
 President of the New York Trust Com- 
 l)any; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 28, 
 
 IS.M: son of .loliii \\ . and IJi/a l.aiidon 
 (Stone) Haniiard. He was graduated froiu 
 Vale as B.A. in IS7(i. and from ('olundiia 
 as LL.l'.. in IsTs. He is president of the 
 New \ ork Trust ('(nn|iany; is a director of 
 the Niagara hire Insinanee ('ompaiiy, tlio 
 Securities ( '()ni|iany. the l)(dpliin -fute 
 Mills, and the 1 bTring-llall-.Marvin Safe 
 Comj)any. Mi-. I'anuard is vice-])rt'sident 
 of the Charity Organization Society: trus- 
 tee of the United Charities Building, and 
 treasurer and trustee of the J'rovident 
 Loan Society (philanthropical i)awn sho])). 
 He is a Republican in politics and was a 
 commissioner of the Board of Education of 
 New York City luider INIayor Strong. Mr. 
 Bannard is a member and ex-secretary of 
 the University ("lub; ex-president of the 
 ^'ale Club; member of the Union. Century, 
 Republican and City Midday Clubs. Ad- 
 dress: 2G Broad Street. New York City. 
 
 BANNON, Henry Towne: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Scioto 
 County, near Portsmouth, Ohio, June 5, 
 1807: son of James W. and IMary E. 
 (Smith) Bannon. He attended the Ports- 
 mouth schools, and in 1885 and 1880 at- 
 tended the Ohio State University. He 
 entered the University of Michigan in 1886, 
 and was graduated therefrom as A.B. in 
 1889. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 
 1891, and was prosecuting attorney of 
 Scioto County from 1897 to 1902. He is 
 a Republican in politics, and in 1904 he 
 was elected from the Tenth Ohio District 
 to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and reelected 
 in 1900 to the Sixtieth Congress, expiring 
 March 3, 1909. He is a director of the 
 First National Bank of Portsmouth. Ohio. 
 Mr. Bannon married at Portsmouth. Ohio. 
 :\lay 25, 1893. Jessie Damarin. Address: 
 Portsmouth, Ohio. 
 
 BARBER, Anizi Lorenzo: 
 
 Contractor; born at Saxton's lliver. Yt., 
 June 22. 1843. He removed witli his fam- 
 ily to Bellevue. Huron County. Ohio, in 
 1852: to East Cleveland in 1S56 and later 
 to Austinbnrg. Ashtabula County. Ohio. 
 He was graduated from Uberlin Coli<'ge as 
 B.A. in 1807 and later A.M.. and from 
 IColuml)ian (now George Washington I Uni- 
 
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 MEX OF AMERICA. 
 
 vorsity at \\ a>liiiii;toii. I). ('.. as LL.B. in 
 l.STO. Hp was principal of the preparatory 
 (U'partnicnt in IStiS. and later jirofessor of 
 natnral pliil()so|>liy in Howard Tnivcrsity, 
 Wasliinjiton. 1). ('.. and in the real estate 
 business in 1S7_*. and since 1S88 has been 
 president of tlie Uaiher As])halt Pavinj^ 
 t'onipany. Siiu-e 1888 lie has i)een presi- 
 dent of the Trinidad As])haU Company; in 
 1887 he negotiated the concession with 
 (ireat Britain for Pitch Lake of Trinidad 
 lor lorly-two years. Mr. ISarher is a trns- 
 lec of Oheilin College; director of the 
 Washington Loan and Trnst Company, etc. 
 He is a fellow of the American Society •f 
 Civil Kngineers. Mr. Barber has been twice 
 n;arried; tirst at Ceneva. Oliio. in 18U8. to 
 Ccli:i N. r.radlcy. and M'cmd. at Marris- 
 iiiiigli. I'a.. in 1871. to Jnli.i l.onis Lang- 
 dnii. Address : 7 East 4-Jd Street. New 
 ^ ork City. 
 
 BARBER, Edwin AtLee: 
 
 Diiccloi' of tli;' I'cniisyh :ini;\ Museum 
 and School of Industrial Art. Philadelphia; 
 iioin in r.altiuiorc. Aug. i;i, 18.')1; son of 
 William Edwin and Anna K. (Townsend) 
 Barber, lie was graduated from Williston 
 Semiinjry, at Ivist Hampton., Mass., in 
 18(5!): entered Lafayette College, at Easton. 
 Pa., ill 18(5!), and remained three years, and 
 from there afterward rcccixcd the degrees 
 of A.M. anil I'li.l). He was naturalist on 
 the liiilcd Stales (Jeologieal and Geo- 
 giaphical Survey of the Tcnifories in 1874 
 and 187-"). jind since P.Mij lias been curator 
 and secretary of the Pennsylvania Museum 
 and School of Industrial Art, and was 
 maile dinclor of the Museum in 1007. He 
 i- auliior uf alioiil -JDd illust ral (m1 articles 
 in various magazines, and the following 
 books: Pottery and Poreehiin of the I'nit- 
 ed States; Anglo-American Pottery; Amer- 
 ican (Jlassware, Old and New; Tulip Ware 
 of the Pennsylvania-Clerman {'otters; 
 .Mark-- of .\merican I'otters ; Salt (Jlazed 
 StoiU'Warc; Tin Ihiaiiiclcd I'otlcrv; Arti- 
 liciaj Soft Pa~l. I'mcrlaiii; Leid (Jla/.ed 
 I'ottery ; 'i'lie Maiolica of Mexico, etc. l\Ir, 
 I5arber is a mcmbci- of imitorlant scien- 
 tific and histoiical societies. Iniiiic and for- 
 eign. He manicd in I'liihidclpliia, in 1880, 
 
 Nellie Louise, daughter of Major William 
 11. Parker, of the U. S. Marine Corps, and 
 they have one daughter, Louise AtLee 
 Barber. Residence: 236 E. Biddle Street. 
 West Chester. Address: Pennsylvania INlii- 
 senm. Memorial Hall. l''airmouiit Park, 
 Pliilad(d])hia. 
 
 BARBER, Ohio Columbus: 
 
 Capitalist; born in .Middlci)my, Oliio, 
 April 20. 1841 : son of (;corge and Eliza 
 (Smith) ISaiiicr. He became associated 
 ill the match manufacturing business of his 
 father, who had established the business in 
 1*^47, and in 18(il was admitted to part- 
 nership. He organized, with others, in 
 1881. the Diamond Match Company, which 
 was a consolidation of about 85 per cent of 
 the match manufacturing business of the 
 count ly, this being one of the earliest and 
 most successful of the consolidations which 
 have characterized the evolution of modern 
 business methods, and still remaining one 
 of the bist exemplars of the wisdom of the 
 policy of industrial concentration. To jNIr. 
 Barber, who was vice-president of the Com- 
 ])any from its incorporation until 1888 and 
 has since been its president, is chiefly due 
 tile coni[)leteii(>ss of its organization and 
 its continued success. Air, Barber is also 
 chairman of the (Jeneral Fire Extinguisher 
 Com])any. ]>i('si(lciit of the First National 
 Bank of Akron, Ohio, and director in vari- 
 ous oilier imsiness corporations. He found- 
 ed, in 18'.n. P)arberton (near Akron), Ohio, 
 which has grown to be a town of !),000 in- 
 habitants. He iiiairied at Akron, Ohio, 
 Oct. 10. 18(>(>. Laura I.. P.rowii. who is now- 
 deceased. Addresses: .\kroii. Ohio, and 
 I I 1 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 BARBOUR, Edwin Hinckley: 
 
 Stale geologist of Nebraska since 18!)1. 
 He was born near O.xford, Ohio, and was 
 graduated from ^al(■. in 1S8-J. receiving the 
 degree of Pli.D. in ISS7. Alter a number 
 of years' service with I lie Inited States 
 (Geological Sur\'ey and id professorship in 
 Western colleges, he been me coniiecled with 
 the geological work of the State of Ne- 
 braska, wlieie he is now pidtosor of geol- 
 oiix in tile Slate CniNcrsit \- : th(> State 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ni 
 
 jii'olojiisl ; ciuatdr of Uic Nfi)raska State 
 .Muscuiii. ;iii(l ,i;('olo<;ist of tlu> Xchraska 
 Stale lioinl of Aj>iicultuic. lie also has 
 chaise of tlir Monill annual geological ex- 
 pcdilioiis. ami is engaged from time to time 
 on I'niteil States geological and hyilro- 
 grapliicnl siiivey work. Professor P.arhor.r 
 is the aullior of more than a hundred puh- 
 lislied papers on geology, p ileontology, and 
 /.ot'ilogy. He is a fidlow of the (Jeological 
 Society of America, and of oilier National 
 and State scientific societies. lie married 
 Dec. 7. 1887. at New Haven, Conn.. Mar- 
 gai-el Koxanna Lamson. Address: 1234 K 
 Stieet. Lincoln, Neh. 
 
 BARBOUR, Ralph Henry: 
 
 Author; horn at ('and)ridge, Mass., Nov. 
 l.'i, 1870; son of -lames Henry Barhour and 
 Kii^.aheth M. (IMorgan) Barbour. He was 
 eiiucated in Waltham (Mass.) New Church 
 School, and at Highland Military Acad- 
 emy. Worcester, Mass. He is author of: 
 rhyllis in Bohemia (with L. 11. Bickford) ; 
 The Half P.ack ; For the Honor of the 
 School; Ca])tain of the Crew: Behind the 
 Line; The Land of Joy; Wcatherby's In- 
 ning; On Your Mark; The Arrival of 
 .Iim])son; The Pook of School and College 
 S])orts; Kitty of the l!oses; An Orchard 
 Piincess; Four in Camp; Four Afoot; The 
 Crimson Sweater; A Maid in Arcady ; Four 
 Alloat; The Spirit of the School; Tom, 
 nick and Harriet; Harry's Island; Cap- 
 tain Chul); Forward Pass; Double Play; 
 Holly: My Lady of the Fog. Mr. Harbour 
 is ;\ member of the Colonial Club of Cam- 
 bridge. Mass. He iiiairied in Denver, Colo., 
 i;i IS'.)."). Mabel Latshaw King. Summer 
 nddiess: Fast Gloucester, Mass. Ad- 
 d'.iss: Apph'ton Court, Cambridge, Mas. 
 
 BARCIIFELD, Andrew Jackson: 
 
 Physician, congressman; born in Pitts- 
 burgh, Pa., :\lay IS, 1803. He attended 
 JefTerson :\Iedical College, Philadelphia, 
 wliere he Avas graduated as M.D. in 1884, 
 and since then has been engaged in the 
 prac'tic;' of medicine in Pittsburgli. He 
 was noniinatcd for Congress in l!)(t-2 on 
 the Ib'iiulilican ticket, but after a hard 
 foii'.dit liattle was defeated by a narrow 
 
 margin by a comhiiialion of Democrats and 
 dissatislied Ucpublicans. He was again 
 nominated in li)04, and was elected from 
 the Thirty-second PennsyUania Disiiid to 
 the I'Mfty-ninth Congress and in I'.MKi ami 
 I'.IOS was reelected to the Sixtieth and 
 Sixty-lirst Congresses. He was a delegate 
 to the Peace Congress at Brussels in l!)()r>, 
 and a delegate to the international Inter- 
 P;irliamcntary liiioii at ISerlin. Cermany, 
 1!)()8. Address: 1(1(1 I'lighteent li Street, 
 Pittsburgh. 
 
 BARCLAY, Charles F.: 
 
 Lumberman and congressman; born in 
 Owego. N. v.. May !), 1844; son of George 
 A. and lOli/a (Allen) ISariday. He was 
 edueitcd in puldie and high schools, in 
 Belfast (N. \.) Seminary, ami in the law 
 department of the University of Michigan. 
 He enlisted as a piivate in Company 1\, 
 149th Pennsylvania Infantry (" Second 
 P)U(ktails") , served three years, rising 
 through successive promotions to captain, 
 was a prisoner of war for seventeen months 
 and eleven days, and was mustered out in 
 IStJ."). After leaving the law school he did 
 not engage in practice, but with an elder 
 brother formed the firm of Barclay Broth- 
 ers, at Sinnamahoning. Pa., where they 
 have since been engaged in an e.Ktensive 
 lumber business. Mi', liarclay has been 
 for many years active in politics, as a 
 Uepnblican,; was a ])residential elector in 
 1882; alternate delegate at large and as 
 such voted in the Reiuiblican National Con- 
 vention of 1<)U0. He was (lected lo the 
 Sixtieth Congress in 1110(1. ami in 1908 was 
 reelected to tlie Sixty-lirst Congress from 
 the Twenty-lirst District of Pennsylvania, 
 and is now serving. He is a member of 
 the Maiuifacturers' Clid) of Philadelphia 
 and the Pennsylvania (lull of Washington, 
 and is a :52d-degree MaMm. Mr. Barclay 
 married at Sinnamahoning. Pa., Aug. 22, 
 1872, Margaret .\. 1.. daughter of -lohn 
 Brooks. Address: Sinnamahoning. I'a. 
 
 BARD. Thomas Robert: 
 
 Railroad man, fornu'r I'nited States 
 Senator: born at Chandiersburg, Pa.. Dec. 
 
!t2 
 
 Ml'lX Ol- AMERICA. 
 
 S. 1S41. Wiis •iiaihiated from ('liaiuli('rsi)iiiii 
 Ai-iiileiiiy and studied law in lii?^ home 
 town, lie iK'oaine connected witii tlie rail- 
 mad liusiness in 1801. and diirinf^ the war 
 was a stronfi I'nion man and closely con- 
 nected with Colonel Thomas A. Scott, who 
 was in cluirfje of transportation of the 
 I'nion army. He was sent by Colonel 
 Scott, in 18(io, to look after Colonel Scott's 
 laru'e landed interests in southern Cali- 
 fornia, and has since resided in that State, 
 where lie is lari^cly interested in oil dc\el- 
 opmeiits and in huid enterprise. in li)()0 
 he was elected as a Repiihlican to the 
 United States Senate and served live years. 
 He married in San Francisco. April 17, 
 ISTO. .Mary B. (Jerberding. Address: Hu- 
 enenie. \enliira County, Calif. 
 
 BARDEEN, Charles William: 
 
 ICdilor and publislier of the School Bul- 
 letin since 1874. Mr. Bardeen was born in 
 Groton, ^lass.. Aug. 28, 1847, and gradu- 
 ated at Yale in 1869. He served in the 
 First ^lassachusetts Volunteers from July, 
 1802, to May 25, 18G4, and was a success- 
 ful teacher and school director until he be- 
 came editor and publisher of the School 
 Bulletin in the years above named. Be- 
 sides being a cojitributor to magazines on 
 educational and literary subjects, Mr. Bar- 
 deen lias written a large number of school 
 i)ooks and text books on various sidjjects, 
 including teclinical works for the use of 
 teachers, and has compiled a luimber of 
 song books. He was president of the ImIu- 
 calional Press Association of America from 
 li)()0 to lOOO. and has been i)rominently 
 (oiuKctcd willi the educational societies of 
 tlie I'nilcd Slates, liaving been in charge 
 of tiie educational ])id)lications of the In- 
 ternal ir)nal Congress in 189:?. and has 
 taken ])art in numerous meetings of educa- 
 tional workers. He married at New 
 Haven. Conn.. 1808. Kllen Palmer Dicker- 
 man. Residence: 1109 E. (ieiU'S(!e Street. 
 Ollii-.': 400 S. I'raiiklin Street, Syracuse. 
 
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 BARDEL. William: 
 
 Consular ollicial ; ap|iointed couunercial 
 agent at Bandx-rg, Dec. )."», 1900; promoted 
 
 consul at Hamburg. Di'c. 17. liHi2: promnted 
 
 consul at libeims. I'ranee. .lune S. 1908. 
 
 Address: American ( ousulaU', Uheims, 
 France. 
 
 BARKER, Albert Smith: 
 
 Hear admiral { . S. Xa\y. retired: l)(irn 
 in ilassachusetts. .\bireh :! 1 . 1S4:5; son of 
 •fosiah Barker. lie was appointed to the 
 Naval Academy Oct. 2."). 1S,")'.I. In istll 
 went into active serviee in the \\ C^t (!ulf 
 Squadron and was on the steam frigate 
 Mississi]i])i. participating in its engage- 
 ments \intil the destruction of that vessel 
 during the attack on and allempted pas- 
 sage of Port Hudson, ?darch 14. 1863, and 
 afterward in service on the Monongaliela 
 and other A'essels to the end of the Civil 
 \\'ar. He commanded the Mnterjjrise from 
 1882 to 1886 and ran a line of deep-sea 
 soundings around the workl. making casts 
 at intervals of about 100 miles. At thb 
 outbreak of the Spanish-American War he 
 was a member of the \Var Board. In May. 
 1898. he connuanded the ciuiser Newark, 
 taking ])art in bondiardmeut of batteries at 
 Santiago de (!uba. He relieved Admiral 
 Dewey as connnander-in-chief of tlie Asiatic 
 .sipiadron on ^lay 20. 18!t9, retaining com- 
 mand until the arrival of Bear Admiral 
 Watson. He was c(nnmander-in-chief. 
 North Atlantic Meet from Ai)ril 1, 1903, to 
 .March 31, 190."). when he retired for age. 
 He married, in 1894. Mrs. Kllen Blackmar 
 .Maxwell. Address: 17 Hi -\" Street, N. W., 
 Washington, I). C. 
 
 BARKER, Ellen Blackmar: 
 
 Author: born in \\'e-'t Springtield. Erie 
 County. I'a.; daughtei- of .lolin Simmon- 
 and llebecca M. lUaekmar. She was edn- 
 <'ated i:i Ivlinlioro. I'a.. and married, in 
 1879. i;e\-. Allen .Maxwell, who died in 
 1890. at l.neknow. India. In IS'.H sh/ 
 marriecl (aptain (now Kear Admiral i 
 Albert S. I'.aiker, of the C. S. Navy. Mrs. 
 Uarker has written i under the name of 
 Fdlen I'.lackmar Maxwell) several books, 
 inelutling: The Uishop's Conversion: 
 
 'i'liree ( »ld .Maids in Hawaii: The W a.\ of 
 Fire. .\ddress: 1710 \ Street. N . W.. 
 Washineton. I). C. 
 
MEN OF AMF.HTCA. 
 
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 BARKER, Lewellys Franklin: 
 
 I'liy-icinn; Imhii :iI Ndrw icii. <)ii(;iri(). 
 (■;in;iil,i. Sc|il. hi. 1S(;7: smi nl' .(aiiu's !•'. 
 :intl S:ir;\li .Iniic (Inyldi) I'.arUcr. lie 
 slmlicil iiKMliciiii al llic I'liivoisily of To- 
 ronto. wliiTc 111' \\a- graduated in ISitO 
 with tlie degree of ^i.l!. lie took fintlier 
 courses of study at T^cip/ii;- in IS!)!, and at 
 ^i^ni(■ll and lli'ilin in IDO"). Following iiis 
 graduation at llic I iiixcrsity he beeanie 
 foi- a short time resident jdiysiciau in the 
 Toronto (leneral Hos))ital, after wliieli he 
 wenl to Italliniore, where he was a])])oiided 
 assistant in dohns Hopkins Hospital. 
 After a year in this position, he became 
 fellow in pathology at dolms Hopkins Uni- 
 vi^isity. heeoming in IS!)4 associate in 
 anatomy, and at the ^amc time assistant 
 resident pathologist at the Hospital. 
 Three years later he was appointed asso- 
 ciate i)rofessor of anatomy, and in IS!)!) 
 associate professor of pathology. In 11)00 
 lie resigned from Johns Ho])kins to accept 
 the Chair of Anatomy at the Rush ^ledical 
 College in the I'niversity of Chicago, but 
 after ti\e years in this ])Osition he returned 
 to .lohns Hopkins, where he became pro- 
 fessor of medicine anil was made physi- 
 cian-in-ehief of the Hospital. Honorary 
 ihgrees: ]\[.D., University of Toronto; 
 kL.D.. Queen's University, Kingston. He 
 is author of various books and articles, 
 among the former of which are: The Nerv- 
 ous System and Its Constituent Neurones; 
 r.alioratory '^lantial of Human Anatomy, 
 etc. Dr. 15arker was married in October. 
 1!)03, to Lilian H. Halsey, of New York 
 City. Address: Johns Hopkins Univer- 
 sity. T'altimore, ~S\d. 
 
 BARKER, Wharton: 
 
 I'inancier. economist, publisher; born in 
 Philadelphia, ^lay 1. 1S4(!: son of Abra- 
 ham and Sarah (Wharton) Barker. He 
 was graduated from the University of 
 Pennsylvania as A.B. in ISIJfi. and A.^I. in 
 isn.'). He was founder of the Investment 
 Company of Philadelphia (capital, $4,000,- 
 01)0). and the Finance Company of Penn- 
 sylvania (capital. $5,000,000), was special 
 financial agent of Imperial Russian Gov- 
 ernment in 1878 and 1870, and frequently 
 
 since. He .served as lieutenant of the Tliird 
 Regiment of Unitnl Stales Colored Troops, 
 in ISli;!. He was a pioininciil Icadcf in 
 tile I ndrprndeiil ino\ I'lncnt ^ in Pcmi~\ I 
 vania. in ISSl. Issj and ISiiii. and jiresi- 
 dentiai candidate of the Peojile's Paity in 
 1!)00. He was tiie jjroposer, in 1H7!), of the 
 American Commendal Union of all Ameri- 
 can Xalions. with a eonunon (arid against 
 Kuropean and Asiatic Nations, and fair 
 distribution of customs receipts among 
 Nations within the Union. He is an advo- 
 cate of National money and an ojiponent of 
 bank money, also an ad\orate of the Na- 
 tionalization of the railroads, direct ta.\- 
 ation, income lax. tlic public ownership of 
 enterprises which in their nature or by law 
 nnist become mono])olies, and American 
 Coniinereial I'liion of all .\merican Na- 
 tions, with free trade on the American 
 Continent and tarill' protection in all 
 against European and Asiatic competition 
 and the restoration of the Philippines to 
 the ]<'ili]5inos by the joint guarantee of 
 l*airo|)ean, Asiatic and American Nations. 
 ]\lr. 15arker believes that neither the Re- 
 juibliean nor the Democratic party re- 
 sponds to or corresponds with the needs of 
 the American people, and that a new politi- 
 cal jiarty must be, and will be, organized 
 soon to secure to the peopU^ restoration of 
 rule by the people and overthrow of the 
 monied oligarchy now in control of Na- 
 tional, State and local governments, and 
 through such control in possession of 
 almost all lines of financi'. production, dis- 
 tribution and trans])ortation. In 1860 he 
 founded the Penn :\Iontlily. and in 1880 
 merged it with the American, a weekly 
 pa])ei-. He has been a trustee of the Uni- 
 versity of Penn.sylvania since 1880. He 
 received the Order of St. Stanislaus, in 
 1870, at St. Petersburg, conferred by Eni- 
 ])eror Alexander 11. Mr. Barker is a mem- 
 ber of the Americitn Philosophical Society, 
 and th.e American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science; the Academy of Natu- 
 ral Sciences; the Historical Society of 
 Pennsylvania. He had for a time uncom- 
 mon relations with high Chinese olhcials; 
 the Chinese lmi)eiial Government sending 
 to America a special Imperial conunission 
 
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 MEN OF AAFERTCA. 
 
 ill 18S7 tor ((iiisiiltation with liiiii upon ' 
 (•(•oiionuc .iiiil iiuliistriai ])iol»ictii- of |i;iia- 1 
 mount ini|iortani'(' to C'liina. ami in ISII,") lie 
 visited Cliina upon invitation of Li llunjj; 
 C'han,ir. At tliis time no other American 
 has the relations of eontidence of Russians 
 and t'liinesc Mr. Barker has. He married 
 Oct. Hi. ISiiT, Margaret Corlies Baker, and 
 he lias tiiree sons, Samuel H., Rodman and 
 Folfjer. Address: 608 Chestnut" Street. 
 Phihidclpliia. 
 
 BARKLEY, Henry L.: 
 
 i'i>liop of tile United Brethren Church; 
 born in Adams County. Indiana, March 19, 
 IS/iS. and graduated from the Bryan. Ohio. 
 High School. Subsequent to his graduation 
 he engaged in educational work, from which 
 he entered into the ministry, having a suc- 
 cessful career in the pastorate of several 
 important churches of his denomination. 
 He was chosen as bishop of The United 
 l^rethren Church for the Pacific Coast Dis- 
 trict, und took up his residence in Oregon. 
 He became interested in the political wel- 
 fare of the State, and as a result for two 
 terms was elected a member of the Oregon 
 Legislature. Address: ^^'oodl)^ll■n. Oregon. 
 
 BARNAEEE. Henry Clay: 
 
 Retired oiicralic (•(iiiunlian ; was born in 
 Portsmouth, X. H., Nov. 14, 1833. His 
 early life was spent as clerk in retail and 
 wholesale dry-goods houses, but in 1854 he 
 began to appear in entertainments in Bos- 
 ton, developing talents as a comedian, vo- 
 calist and mimic, lie received his training 
 in music as a member of choirs in Boston, 
 and in 180") he gave up business and de- 
 voted himself to i)u)dic entiilaiiimcnt. He 
 was a popular attraction in the Lyceum 
 courses until 187!(. when the Boston Ideal 
 Opera Co.. was organized to i)lay the then 
 popular success, I'inafore. In 1887 he or- 
 ganized the Bostonians with Tom Kirl and 
 VV. H. McDonald, and until tlir dissolution 
 of that company in l!)t)4, was <iue of the 
 leading favorites of the comic opera stage. 
 He is chiefly remembered in the character, 
 which he createil among many <itliers, of 
 the Sherill' of Nottingham in tlie Opera of 
 
 Robin Hood, .\ddre; 
 mercv Park. X. ^'. 
 
 Plavers Club. Cra- 
 
 BARNARD, Charles: 
 
 \\'riter: born in Boston. Mass.. Feb. 13. 
 1838; son of Lev. Cliiiles F. and Sarali 
 (Holmes) Barnard, lie is practically self- 
 educated by extciisi\e travel and stvuly. 
 Mr. Barnard is a contributor to leading 
 magazines on tcclinicil. educational and 
 scientific subjects; wrote many children's 
 stories ami a luge number of books upon 
 many subjects. He is contiibuting editor 
 to the Century Dictionary on tools and ma- 
 chines. He is author of: The County Fair 
 (play) ; Tools and Machines; The Door in 
 the Book; The Tone Masters; the Soprano; 
 Ten-Rod Farm; Light (in collaboration 
 with late Prof. Meyer 1 . He mnntains at 
 his residence a housekeeping laboratory for 
 experimental research, testing of new cook- 
 ing, heating and other domestic appliances, 
 etc. He married. May 17. 1881. Mary K. 
 Knight. Address: Cedar (iate, Darien. 
 Conn. 
 
 BARNARD. Edward Chester: 
 
 Topograiihical engineer: born in New 
 York City. Xov. 13. 18()3; son of Owen 
 Howard and Anne Fliza (Lenny) Barnard. 
 He was educated in the College of the City 
 of New York and the School of Mines of 
 Columbia (Allege, from which he received 
 the degree of E.M. in the class of 1884. He 
 was appointed assistant tojiographer of the 
 United States (Jeological Survey. aft(>r leav- 
 ing college in 1884. and was made topogra- 
 pher in 1880. He mapjied jiortions of Vir- 
 ginia and West Virginia, Kentucky. Tennes- 
 see, and Xew York: and went West in 1894 
 for the United Sttitcs Ccologieal Survey 
 and uiajiped areas in Montana. Oregon. 
 Washington, and California. lie went to 
 Alaska in 1S98 and 1 !)()(), and ina))])cd areas 
 in the Forty Mile and Nome Districts for the 
 United States (Jeological Survey; was chief 
 to])ographer of the United States and Can- 
 ada I'.nundaiy Survey. 1 '.103-1900 ; lo- 
 cated the Intern \t ion:tl boundary line be- 
 tween the liiiti'il States and Canada, west 
 of tile summit of tiic Rocky Mountains, and 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 n.-) 
 
 is now f>('o<iri(pluM- in cliarf^e of the Rocky 
 Monnlitin Division of Topogra])liy of the 
 I'liilcd Stales ( icolojj^ical Survey. lie lias 
 (raveled niiiel: over tlie United States, twice 
 to Alaska, down the Yukon and to Nome, 
 also uiiee in I'lurope. lie is a Republican 
 •in jjolitics. Mr. liarnard is a member of 
 tlie National (Jeoiiraphic Society, the Geo- 
 logical Society of Washington, D. C, the 
 American Institute of Civil Engineers. 
 Washington Society of Engineers, the Amer- 
 ican Forestry Association, and the Cosmos 
 Club of Washington, D. C. He married at 
 St. Paul Minn.. March 31, 1904. Virginia 
 Townsend Grover, now deceased. Address: 
 I'nited States Geological Survey, Washing- 
 Ion, D. C. 
 
 BARNARD, Edward Emerson: 
 
 Astronomer; born in Nashville, Tenn.. 
 Dec. 16, 1857. He graduated from Vander- 
 liilt University in 1887, and has received 
 the Sc.D. degree from this university and 
 llie A.M. degree from the University of the 
 Pacific. He began his career as astronomer 
 with the Lick Observatory, where he re- 
 mained until 1895, and is now professor 
 of ]iractical astronomy at the University of 
 ("hicago and astronomer in the Yerkes Ob- 
 servatory. Professor Barnard is the discov- 
 erer of the fifth satellite of Jupiter, which 
 was discovered in 1892, and has discovered 
 sixteen comets. He is one of the foremost 
 workers in celestial photography, having 
 made jihotographs of the Milky Way, the 
 comets, nebulae, etc. He has received sev- 
 eial medals, including the Lalande gold 
 medal of tlie Fi-ench Academy of Sciences in 
 1S!»'_>, tlie Arago gold medal in 1893, gold 
 medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of 
 (Jreat Britain in 1897. and the Janssen 
 gold medal of the French Academy of 
 Sciences in 1900, also the Janssen Prize 
 of tlie French Astronomical Society in 
 1907. He is a fellow and foreign associate 
 of tile Royal Astronomical Society of Eng- 
 land, and also of many American and for- 
 eign scientific societies. He is one of the 
 leading contributors of the United States to 
 astronomical journals. Address: Yerkes 
 Observatory, \\'illiams Bay, Wis. 
 
 BARNARD. Job: 
 
 .lurisl ; l)orii in I'mler (Vxiniy. I ihI.. .1 ime 
 S, 1844; son of Williaui 1 Sally (Wil- 
 liams) I'arnard. He was e<lucaled in llie 
 district school and at the Val])araiso (Ind.) 
 .Male and Female College; served in the 
 Civil War, 18{)1-18G5, becoming first ser- 
 geant of Com])any K. 73d Indiana Volun- 
 teers. After the war lie took the law course 
 in the University of I\lichigan. from which 
 he was graduated as U^.D. in 1S()7, and re- 
 ceived the honorary degree of U^.D. He 
 engaged in the practice of law until appoint- 
 ed by President McKinley to the olHce of jus- 
 tice of the Supreme Court of the District of 
 Columlria. Justice Barnard is president of 
 the Audubon Society of the District of Co- 
 lumliia; president of the Board of Trustees 
 of Howard University ; vice-president of the 
 (ieneral Convention of the New Church 
 ( Swedenborgian) in the United States. He 
 is deputy governor of the Society of Colo- 
 nial Wars, and a member of the Grand Army 
 of the Republic and the Society of the 
 Army of the Cumberland. He married, at 
 Berrien Springs, Mich., Sept. 25. 1807, 
 Florence A. Putnam, and has three sons. 
 Residence 1306 Rhode Island Avenue. Of- 
 fice address: United States Court House, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 BARNES, Albert Crane: 
 
 Jurist; born at Addison. \'ermont, June 
 28, 1853; son of Asahel and Ellen S. 
 (Crane) Barnes. He was graduated from 
 the University of Vermont with the degree 
 of A.B. in 1876, and completed a course of 
 law studies at the Albany (New York) 
 Law School in 1877, receiving the degree of 
 LL.ii. He was admitted to the New York 
 State bar in 1877, and after further stud- 
 ies at Keesville and Plattsburg, N. Y., went, 
 in 1879, to \\'ashington, D. C. where he 
 took the civil service examination and en- 
 tered the employ of the (Jovernment in the 
 General Land Oflice. There he was engaged 
 for four years in writing decisions upon 
 contested mining claims and contested land 
 claims within the railroad grants. In 1883 
 he went to North Dakota, where he was 
 appointed by the Governor as one of the 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 eoniniissioiipis to organize Bottineau Coun- 
 ty, of wliieh in 1884 he was elected dis- 
 tiiet atloincy. In 188') lie removed to Chi- 
 eaico, 11!., and en<j:a<>ed in <>eneral practice 
 of the law. For several years he was as- 
 sociated in his practice with S. M. milliard, 
 Esq. lu 1800 he received the appointment 
 of assistant State's attorney of Cook Coun- 
 ty, under State's Attorney Deneen, and was 
 liis lirst assistant from ioOO to 1004 when 
 Mr. Deneen was elected Governor; and he 
 was elected judge of the Su])erior Court 
 of Cook County for tlie term which will 
 expire in lOlO. lie is a Kepublican and a 
 member of the Hamilton, llomewood Coif 
 and Union League Clubs of Chicago. He 
 married iu Chicago in ]\lay, 1805, Jessie 
 Welles Griswold. Kesidence: 204 East 
 iMt'lictli Street. Cliicago. III. 
 
 BARNES, Benjamin F. : 
 
 I'nstmaster of the City of Washington. 
 Mr. Barnes was born in Yarmouth, Nova 
 Scotia. Dec. 3, 1868. He was educated in 
 the public schools of New Jersey and the 
 law department of Georgetown University, 
 and was appointed clerk in the Post Office 
 Department in Washington in 1887. After 
 service as private secretary to several of 
 the higher officials of the Post Office De- 
 jjartment, he was appointed stenographer 
 at the White House, Jan., 1808, and execu- 
 tive clerk in July of that year. In 1000 
 he was a))pointed assistant secretary to the 
 President by President ^IcKinley, and was 
 reappointed by President Poosevelt. After 
 several years' service in this position he was 
 appointed to be postmaster of the City of 
 Washington, the position he now holds. 
 Residence: 48 R St., N. E., Washington, 
 D. C. Office: General Post Office Huild- 
 ing. Washington. D. ('. 
 
 BARNES, Charles Raid: 
 
 Botanist; born at ^Madison, liid.. Se|)t. 7, 
 18;j8; son of Charles and Sarah (Reid) 
 Barnes. He was educated at Hanover 
 find.) College, with first honor and A.B. 
 degree, 1877, A.M., 1880, Ph.D. 1880. and 
 engaged in ])rivate research woik at Har- 
 vard 1885-1880, and 1802. ll<- taught in 
 
 public and high schools until 1880, when 
 he entered Purdue I'niversity as instructor 
 in natural history, and he was jjrofcssor of 
 natural history, 1882-1885, and professor 
 of botany and geology, 1885-1887, in that 
 university; professor of botanv in the Uni- 
 versity of Wisconsin 1887-1800, and since 
 1808 has been professor of plant physiology 
 in the University of Chicago. He is a 
 fellow and was general secretary 1805-1800, 
 and vice-president of Section G (botany). 
 1800, of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science; was secretary 
 1804-1800. president, 1002, and is a life 
 member of the Botanical Society of Amer- 
 ica ; life member of the Wisconsin Academy 
 of Sciences and member of the Beta Theta 
 Pi fraternity. He has been editor of the 
 Botanical Gazette since 1888. He married 
 at Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 25. 1882, Mary 
 King Ward, and they have had two sons 
 (one now deceased). Residence: 306 
 East 5Cth Street, Chicago. 
 
 BARNES, James: 
 
 Author; born iu Aniiajiolis, Md.. Sept. 
 10, 1866; son of Lieutenant Connuander 
 John Sanford Barnes, U. S. N.. and Susan 
 Bainbridge (Hayes) Barnes. Mr. Barnes 
 was educated in St. Paul's School, Concord, 
 N. H., and after spending two years, 1885- 
 1887, as civil engineer on construction work 
 with the Missouri Pacific Railroad, entered 
 Princeton College, from whicli he was grad- 
 uated A.B., 1801, and was editor of the 
 Nassau Literary ^lagazine. After his 
 graduation lie was associated with Scrib- 
 ner's Magazine, and he Avas assistant editor 
 of Harper's Weekly, 1804-1805; special cor- 
 respondent of the Outlook during the Boer 
 War, and in 1003 at the Venezuela block- 
 ade; now editor of A])pleton's Magazine 
 and literary adviser for D. A])|)leton & Co. 
 IMr. Barnes is author of: For King or Coun- 
 try; Naval Actions of the War of 1812; A 
 I'rincetonian; Midshipman Farragut; A 
 Loyal Traitor; Commodore Baiid)ridge; 
 Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors; The 
 Hero of Erie; ^^■ith the Flag in the Chan- 
 nel; The Great War Tnk ; The Giant of 
 Three Wars; Drake and His Yeomen; The 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ni 
 
 Sou of Lio'it 1 Torso TTarry ; The Block- 
 ;i<l('rs; Outside llio T.aw. Address: 10 
 Ivisl 7!Mli Sheet. Xew York Cily. 
 
 BARNES, Thurlow Weed: 
 
 Nofjotiator of contracts; born in Albany, 
 N. Y., June 28, 1853; son of William and 
 I'jiiily P. (Weed) Barnes; grandson of 
 I'luirlovv Weed, and descendant in the 
 eitilith generation of Thomas B.arnos of 
 llaitford, 1(530, who was a soldier in the 
 re<[uot War. He was graduated from 
 Harvard, A.B., 1870; spent several years 
 in Albany in editorial and political work, 
 llieii joined a publishing firm in Boston; 
 Imt for the past twenty years has been en- 
 gaged in business in New Y^'ork City. Mr. 
 Barnes has been around the world twice, 
 made . five trips to Russia, spent two win- 
 ters in India and made a special study of 
 China. He negotiated the famous Hankow- 
 Canton contracts, constituting the only 
 governmental concession ever obtained by 
 an American from the Chinese Empire. 
 As a Republican of prominence, he has been 
 a delegate to numerous political conven- 
 tions, including the National Convention at 
 St. Louis, 1890, and has been chairman of 
 the Albany County Connnittec. Mr. Barnes 
 is author of a Life of Thurlow Weed, 1884, 
 and a contributor to various periodicals. 
 He is a member of the Metropolitan, Aero 
 and Circumnavigators Clubs of New York, 
 and of the Union Society of the Civil War. 
 Residence: 230 West Fifty-fifth Street. 
 Office: 43 Exchange Place, New Y'ork 
 City., 
 
 BARNES, William Henry: 
 
 Railway official; born in Philadelphia, 
 July 12. 1820; son of Henry, of Marlborough 
 Ma^s.. and Marilla (Weldon) Barnes of 
 New Britain, Conn. He was educated at 
 private schools. From 1848 to 1850 he 
 served on surveys and construction of the 
 Western Division of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
 road, and 1850-1803 he was assistant su- 
 perintendent, secretary and comptroller of 
 the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago 
 Railway. He was in the service of the Un- 
 ion Railroad and Transportation Company 
 7 
 
 and Empire Transi)orta(if)ii Coinpuny, 
 1803-1871; and in 1871 lie was rlirector 
 and treasurer of the Pennsylvania Coni- 
 |)any. Ho M'as iceeivcr of the Alleglieiiy 
 Valley Railroad Cnnipniiy, 1MS}|S!1-J. 
 and then he became president of the com- 
 pany under its reorganization as the .Mle- 
 gheny Valley Railway Company, lb; has 
 also been president of the Western N( \v 
 York and Pennsylvania Railway, New York 
 and Pennsylvania Railway Conii)aiiy. sini-r 
 Jan. 14, 1901; and is a dinvlor of tin- 
 Pennsylvania Railroad, Pennsylvania Coui- 
 pany, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and 
 St. Louis ail way, and allied corporations. 
 Mr. Barnes married at Allegheny City, Pa.. 
 Oct. 27, 1857, Eva Hampton. Residence: 
 1727 Spruce Street; summer: Devon, Pa. 
 Office: 250 Broad Street Station, Phila- 
 delphia. 
 
 BARNES, William: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Pompey, Onondaga 
 County, N. Y., May 26, 1824; "son of Orson 
 Barnes, superintendent of Schools of Onon- 
 daga County, and Eliza (Phelps) Barnes. 
 He is seventh in descent from William 
 Barnes, who settled near Hartford, Conn., 
 about 1030; was one of its original pro- 
 prietors; and was a soldier in the Pequot 
 War. The family can be traced in England 
 to William Barneis. A. D.. 1203. Mr. 
 Barnes was educated in the common and 
 select schools and at the Manlius Academy 
 at Manlius, N. Y. He taught school, 
 •' boarding round " and making his own 
 fires, 1840-1843, and "in 1843 and 1844 organ- 
 ized and managed, in connection with his 
 father, at Baldwinsville and Syracuse, N. 
 Y., the first teachers' institutes ever held in 
 tlie state. He studied law. 1840-1840, was 
 admitted to the bar July, 1840. and was 
 long a member of the law firm of Hammond, 
 King & Barnes, of Albany, N. Y. He was 
 appointed special counsel of the Banking 
 Department of the State of Xew York; 
 s])ecial connnissioner to examine the con- 
 dition of several insurance companies of 
 New York City. 1855. The results of this 
 examination embodied in his reports, led to 
 the passage of the Act to organize the In- 
 
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 sui-iUico Depart iiK'ut in IS.')!), and lie was 
 a])pointo(l the first superintendent of insur- 
 ance of the State of New York, serving 1860- 
 ISTO. He compiled elaborate insurance sta- 
 tistics, and his ten annual reports and six 
 volumes of condensed insurance re])orts are 
 estahlished authorities in this country and 
 Europe, and he contributed largely to the 
 ilevelopment of fire, marine and life insur- 
 ance during his term of office. Great abuses 
 existed' among the insurance companies 
 w lien he entered the Insurance Department, 
 and were ended by his valuable public serv- 
 ice, and an article by Hon. John K. I'orter. 
 jvulge of the Court of Appeals, giving a de- 
 tailed sketch of Mr. i'.arnes' insurance ca- 
 reer, ended with the statement that " it is 
 no uiulue commendation to say that ho has 
 reformed the insurance sy.stem of the civil- 
 ized world', fie has achieved an American 
 and an lOurojiean I'ejjutation in this depart- 
 ment such as no one had previously attained 
 on either side of the Atlantic." After 1870 
 ^Ir. Barnes acted as consulting counsel and 
 actuary for several life insurance compa- 
 nies; in 1873 and subsequent years as spe- 
 cial eriunsel for the City of New York. He 
 acted as counsel for several hundred life in- 
 surance ])olicy-holders. was appointed by 
 l*resid'ent Grant one of the U. S. official 
 delegates to the Eighth International Sta- 
 tistical Congress at St. Petersburg, in 1872, 
 and was presented with a diamond ring with 
 the imperial monogram, as a souvenir of 
 services at this Congress, by Czar Alexan- 
 der II., and appointed a member of the 
 permanent commission. Mr. Barnes became 
 a memlter of the LibeVal Party in 1843 ; 
 sf)oke for Birney in 1844; supported Martin 
 Van Buren for President in 1848; and was 
 one of the leading organizers of the first 
 Republican State Convention at Saratoga 
 Sjirings in 18o4. He organized the New 
 York State Kansas .\id Society, and' two 
 National Kansas Conventions at Cleveland 
 anrl Buffalo in 1850; and lie was one of the 
 chief organizers of the Semi-Centennial 
 Celebration of the Bepublican party, held in 
 Se|itember, 1904, at Saratoga Springs. He 
 ))repared the article on the Early History of 
 Hie Ttcpublican Party at the ErCmont Semi- 
 
 Centeiniial at I'hiiadelphia in June, lilOO; 
 was a member of the Peace Congress held 
 at Boston, in Oct., 1904, and at New York 
 City, April, 1907. Mr. Barnes has been 
 an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical 
 Society of London, since 1872; is a member 
 of the Albany Institute, the American 
 Geographical Society, the National Geo- 
 grapliic Society, and the Law Institute of 
 New York, the American Society of Inter- 
 national Law. At the January, 1907, meet- 
 ing of the society at \\'ashinglon. lie ear- 
 nestly advocated the inuiumity of ])rivate 
 property (not contraband) at sea in ma- 
 rine warfare, and the application of the 
 Drago doctrine to tlie collection of all in- 
 ternational contractual debts. He was one 
 of the founders and first president of the 
 Society of Aledical Juiisprudence of New 
 York; is a mendicr nf tlie New Y^'ork State 
 Bar Association, and a member and one 
 of the founders of the Fort Orange Club 
 of Albany, New York. He was a stum;)- 
 speaker for temperance in the 'forties, and 
 has consistently held the views he then ex- 
 pressed and hopes to live long enough in 
 see all of the States in the "dry" column: 
 is an advocate of tlie right of married 
 women to their own property and believes in 
 equal suffrage rights for the sexes. .\s earlv 
 as 1850 he developed a taste for historical 
 research and composition, having wn-itten a 
 compe^titive prize essay (gold medal) for the 
 Young Men's Association, on The Settle- 
 ment and' Early History of Albany, N. Y. 
 Mr. Barnes married, July 10, 1849, Emily 
 P. Weed, a daughter of Thurlow Weed, and 
 by that union has five children, all living: 
 Mrs. (Catherine Weed Barnes ^\■ard, of Lon- 
 don, England ; Thurlow Weed Barnes, of New 
 York City; ]\Irs. George C. Hollister, of 
 Rochester"; Mrs. Rufus Hildreth Thayer, of 
 Washington, and William Barnes. Jr., of 
 Albany, New Yoik. .Mrs. Barnes died in 
 Felu'uary. 1889, and Mr. Barnes was again 
 married. June 1, 1891, to Mrs. Lizzie Bal- 
 mer Williams, widow of Samuel Vr'illiams, 
 editor of the Albany Evening Journal and 
 of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin. Ad- 
 dress: '{'he O'Conor-Barnes Homestead, On- 
 the-Cliff, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 BARNES, William, Jr.: 
 
 Publisher; born at Albany, N. Y., Nov. 
 17, 1866; son of William Barnes and Emily 
 I'eck (Weed) Barnes. He was educated at 
 Albany Academy and at Harvand, graduat- 
 ing as A.B. in 1888. He is proprietor of 
 the Albany Evening Journal ; United States 
 Surveyor of Customs of Albany, N. Y. ; a 
 member of the Republican State Committee 
 since 1892^ and chairman of its executive 
 connnittee from 1898. ]\lr. Barnes has tak- 
 en a prominent and influential part in the 
 Republican politics of the State of New 
 York and by virtue of this activity is a 
 factor in national political aflfairs. Mr. 
 Barnes married at Cincinnati, Ohio, June 
 12, 1888, Grace Davis, and they have two 
 children. Address: Albany, N. Y. 
 
 BARNETT, George: 
 
 Colonel U. S. Marine Corps. Appointed 
 from Wisconsin. Graduated from Naval 
 Academy, and transferred to Marine Corps 
 as second lieutenant, 1883. Commissioned 
 first lieutenant, Sept. 1, 1890. Commis- 
 sioned captain Aug. 11, 1898. Commis- 
 sioned major, March 3, 1901. Nov. 20, 
 1897, ordered to U. S. S. San Francisco; 
 reported on board at Smyrna, Dec. 12; as 
 fleet marine officer, European fleet. March 
 27, at Gravesend, England, transferred to 
 the Amazonas, afterwards the New Orleans; 
 came home on board New Orleans as 
 watcli officer; rejoined San Francisco, in 
 New York, April 14; April 17, ordered to 
 the New Orleans; as marine officer and 
 served on her throughout the war — first 
 ill Flying Squadron at Hampton Roads, 
 then in Sampson's Squadron on north coast 
 of Cuba, and then on south coast at Santi- 
 ago, under Schley and Sampson; took part 
 in bombardments, May 28, June 6, 14, 15, 
 and at Daikari during landing of army; 
 blockaded San Juan and Porto Rico, July 
 17, to August 14; entered San Juan and 
 present during transfer. Promoted to 
 captain to take rank from Aug. 11, 1898; 
 joined U. S. S. Chicago, Dec. 1, 1898, and 
 served on board until April 16, 1901, as 
 fleet marine officer South Atlantic fleet, de- 
 tached and ordered home. Examined for 
 
 promotion and promoted major to date 
 from March 3, 1901; granted leave one 
 monlii ; l^leet marine officer of Asiatic Fleet, 
 1903-1904; commanded marine brigade in 
 Philiiipincs. Nov., 1904, to April, 1905; pro- 
 moted to lieutenant-colonel Feb. 28, 1905; 
 commanded Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, 
 Washington, from July, 1905; promoted 
 colonel, May, 1909. Address: Care of the 
 Navy Department, Washington, D. C. 
 
 BARNETTE, William Jay: 
 
 Rear-Admiral. U. S. N. ; born in Morris- 
 ville, Madison County, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1847. 
 He was graduated from the Naval Academy 
 in 1868, and has served his terms of sea- 
 duty on all of the naval stations of the 
 United States and has had several import- 
 ant commands, including the command of 
 the battleship Kentucky. He is, however, 
 best known as one of the most useful of- 
 ficers of the navy on matters connected 
 with organization and strategy for the 
 navy, as developed by the operations of the 
 General Board in Washington, an organiza- 
 tion of officers established by regulation, 
 which performs the duties, to a certain ex- 
 tent, of a general staff. Rear-Admiral 
 Barnette has been for years, whether on 
 shore duly or afloat, one of the leading 
 minds among the officers who take especial 
 interest in this aspect of the work of the 
 navy, and has generally been assigned, dur- 
 ing his terms of shore duty, to membership 
 of the board, during which time he is also 
 member of the joint army and navy board, 
 established to bring about military coopera- 
 tion between the two branches of the serv- 
 ice. Rear-Admiral Barnette has been deep- 
 ly interested in the proposed establishment 
 of the general staff form of organization for 
 the administration of the navy of the Unit- 
 ed States, and assisted in preparing the 
 various propositions which have been ad- 
 vanced to this end. He married in San 
 Francisco, Nov. 20, 1877, Evelyn G. Hutch- 
 ins. Address: Care of Navy Department, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 BARNHART, Arthur Middleton: 
 
 Type founder; born in Hartfield, Chau- 
 tauqua County, N. Y., Feb. 7, 1844; son of 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Peter and Sarah (llerrick) Barnhart. In 
 association with his tliree brothers he was 
 in early life engnged in the publication of 
 four papers in the State of Iowa, extend- 
 ing over the period from 1S65 to 1873. He 
 removed to Chicago in 1868, and with his 
 brothers engaged in the advertising agency 
 business. In 1869, with his brothers, War- 
 ren, George W., and Alson E. and Charles E. 
 Spindler, he established the type foundry, 
 which was subsequently incorporated' under 
 the name of Barnhart Brothers & Spindler. 
 He is now president of the company and 
 of several other type foundry and printers' 
 supply companies throughout the country. 
 Mr. Barnhart is on the advisory board of 
 the Civic Federation, and a member of the 
 American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science. Mr. Barnhai't has been 
 twice married; first in 1869, to Angle B. 
 Stein, Avho died in 1895, and second, at Chi- 
 cago, in 1900, to Stella I. La Zelle. He 
 has one son living. Residence: 4455 Drexel 
 Boulevard. Office : 183 Monroe Street, Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 BARNHART, John Hendley: 
 
 Editor and librarian; born in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., Oct. 4, 1871; son of Bev. John Wes- 
 ley and Ellen Frances (Miller) Barnhart. 
 He was graduated from Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity A.B., 1892, AJ\I., 1893, and from the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Colum- 
 bia University, M.D., 1896. Dr. Barnhart 
 has gained distinction as a botanist, is a 
 member of the Torrcy Botanical Club of 
 New York and has been its vice-president 
 since 1908, and was editor-in-chief of the 
 Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 1903- 
 1907. He was editorial assistant, 1903- 
 1907, and has been librarian since Oct. 1907 
 of the New York Botanical Garden, and 
 was delegate from that institution to the 
 International Botanical Congress held in 
 Vienna in 'June, 1905. Dr. Barnhart is 
 also one of the three editors of North 
 American Flora (in thirty-two volumes) 
 now being published in parts by the New 
 York Botanical Garden. lie is a fellow of 
 the American Asociation for the Advance- 
 ment of Science; a life member of the 
 
 New York Botanical Garden, American 
 I\Iuscum of Natural History, the New York 
 Genealogical and Biographical Society and 
 the New York Historical Society, and a 
 member of the Biological Society of Wash- 
 ington and the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. 
 Dr. Barnhart married in Jessamine, Fla., 
 May 5, 1897, Emma Gertrude Piatt, of 
 Southampton, N. Y. Residence: 31 Win- 
 die Park, Tarrytown, N. Y. and 2690 Mor- 
 ' ris Avenue, Bronx, New York City. Of- 
 fice: New York Botanical Garden, J'.ronx, 
 Park, New York City. 
 
 BARNUM, Charlotte Cynthia: 
 
 Editor and mathematician; born in 
 Phillipston, Mass., May 17, 1860; daughter 
 of Rov. Samuel Weed and Charlotte (Betts) 
 Barnura. She was educated in the public 
 schools of New Haven, Conn., at Vassar 
 College, from which she was graduated as 
 A.B., 1881, and afterward pursued gradu- 
 ate studies two years in Johns Hopkins Uni- 
 versity, and three in Yale University, from 
 wliich she received the degree of Ph.D. in 
 mathematics in 1895. She taught in Betts 
 Academy, Stamford, Conn., in Bradford, 
 (Mass.) Academy, in Hillhouse High 
 School, New Haven, Conn., in Smith Col- 
 lege, and in Carleton College, Northficld, 
 Minn. She worked as a computer for 
 Yale Observatory, on Dana's Mineralogy, 
 in the actuarial departments of the Massa- 
 chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., and 
 of the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co., 
 of Philadelphia; in the U. S. Naval Observ- 
 atory, and 1901-1908 on the U. S. Coast 
 and Geodetic Survey. Dr.' Barnum is a 
 contributor to periodicals and has done im- 
 portant literary and scientific work. Slie 
 was assistant editor of pronunciation in 
 Webster's International Dictionary and as- 
 sistant editor of its Australian Supple- 
 ment; computer of the angles of crystals 
 in Dana's ^Mineralogy, and has done editing 
 and critical proof-reading on publications 
 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 
 D. C, and is now editor of the Biological 
 Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
 She is a member of the American Mathe- 
 matical Society, a fellow of the American 
 
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 101 
 
 Association for tlie Advancement of Science, 
 and a member of the National Geo£frapliic 
 Society, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the 
 Council of the Civic Center of Washington, 
 Association of Collegiate Alumnce, and 
 Ihc National Council of Charities and 
 Correction. Her father was an author and 
 editor of standard reference books, includ- 
 ing Webster's Dictionary (1847 edition); 
 Webster's International Dictionary, Smith 
 and Barnum's Comprehensive Dictionary 
 of the Bible, Bomanism as It Is, and Vo- 
 cabulary of English Rhymes. Address: U. 
 S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 BAE,R, Albert J.: 
 
 I'ublisher of the Pitsburgli Post and a 
 IHominent member of the Democratic party 
 in Pittsburgh. Mr. Barr was born in Pitts- 
 burgh, Jan. 12, 1851, and was educated 
 at the Western University. On graduation 
 he became interested in the newspaper bus- 
 iness and has, since 1886, been the publish- 
 er of the Pittsburgh Post. As director of a 
 leading Democratic paper he occupies a 
 )n-omincnt position in the councils of the 
 Democratic party of the city of Pittsburgh 
 and of that section of Pennsylvania. He 
 married at Lancaster, Pa., July 28, 1884, 
 Mary A. McDcvitt. Address: The Post, 
 Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 
 BARR, Amelia Edith: 
 
 Novelist; born in Ulverston, Lancashire, 
 England, March 29, 1831 ; daughter of Rev. 
 WiUiam Henry and May (Singleton) 
 Huddleston. She was educated in private 
 schools, and July 11, 1850, she married, at 
 Kendal, Westmoreland, England, Robert 
 Barr, son of Rev. John Barr, D.D., of 
 Glasgow, Scotland. She came to America in 
 September, 1853, and from 1856 to 1868 lived 
 at Austin and Galveston, Texas. Her hus- 
 band and three sons died in Galveston in 
 1807, of yellow fever, and in 1868 she came 
 1o New York, and in 1870 began to write. 
 Siic is author of fifty-seven novels, all of 
 which have been republished in England, 
 and most of them have been translated into 
 German, Dutch and other languages. Sh« 
 
 has five daughters 
 ing. Residence: 
 wall-on-IIudson, N. 
 
 BARR, Frank: 
 
 Railway ofTicial ; 
 
 and four sons still liv- 
 " Clierry Croft," Corn- 
 Y. 
 
 born in Nashua, N. H., 
 and educated in the public schools of that 
 place. Pie began railway service ]\rarch 1, 
 1869 as freight and ticket clerk and tele- 
 graph operator of tlie Worcester and Nash- 
 ua Railroad at Nashua, N. H., and was gen- 
 eral agent of the same road, 1873-1802. 
 He was appointed Nov. 1, 1892, superin- 
 tendent of the Worcester, Nashua and Port- 
 land Division of the Boston and Maine 
 Railroad at Nashua; Dec. 1, 1890, assist- 
 ant general manager, Boston and Maine 
 R. R. and since July 16, 1903, has been 
 third vice-president and general manager of 
 the Boston and Maine Railroad. ^Address: 
 Union Station, Boston, jSIass. 
 
 BARRETT, Harrison D.: 
 
 One of the leading exponents of the be- 
 lief as to the future life known as spirit- 
 ualism. Mr. Barrett was born in Canaan, 
 Me., April 26, 1863, and graduated at the 
 Meadville Theological Seminary in 1889. 
 He was, for twelve years, teacher in the 
 common schools, and for three years there- 
 after, supervisor of the public schools in 
 towns of Pennsylvania. He became inter- 
 ested in spiritualism, and, upon conviction 
 of the truth of its teachings, lectured 
 throughout the United States for several 
 years, and became editor of the Banner of 
 Light, a spiritualist paper published in 
 Boston, in 1879, continuing with that pa- 
 per until 1904. In 1893 he was elected 
 president of the National Spiritual Associa- 
 tion, and has since occupied that jiosition. 
 For a number of years he was chairman of 
 the Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Associa- 
 tion, which controls the place of the sum- 
 mer meetings of spiritualists. Mr. Barrett 
 is the author of a work on the purposes of. 
 and the results obtained at, the annual 
 meetings at Cassadaga, and of several other 
 works on spiritualism. He married, Oct. 
 13, 1897, Margaret CofTyn. Address: 600 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Pennsylvania Avenue, S. E., Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 BARRETT, John: 
 
 Diplomat; born at Grafton, Vt., Nov. 28, 
 180G; sou of Charles and Caroline (San- 
 ford) Barrett. After graduation from the 
 \\orcester Academy at Worcester, Mass., he 
 went to Nashville, Tenn., and attended 
 Vanderbilt University, but finished his col- 
 lege work in Dartmouth College, where he 
 was graduated as A.B. in 1889, receiving 
 the honorary degree of M.A. in 1899. Mr. 
 Barrett became a teacher in Hopkins Acad- 
 emy at Oakland, Calif., and soon afterward 
 became assistant editor of The Statistican, 
 a financial and industrial publication of 
 San Francisco. He was afterward editor- 
 ially conuectci with newspapers in San 
 Francisco, Tacoma, Seattle and Portland, 
 Ore., and while associate editor of The 
 Telegram at Portland, was appointed 
 American minister to Siam, where he se- 
 cured the settlement by arbitration of 
 claims amounting to three million dollars 
 and settled important questions of extra- 
 territoriality. He remained in that post 
 until 1898, and in addition to the duties of 
 the mission to Siam had charge of special 
 diplomatic and commercial investigations 
 in that country, Japan, Korea, Siberia and 
 India. He was a war correspondent in 
 the Philippines, 1898-18!39, and American 
 plenipotentiary to the International Confer- 
 ence of American Republics, at Mexico, in 
 1901-1902. He was commissioner-general 
 of foreign afl'airs for the Louisana Pur- 
 chase Exposition, 1902-1903, American min- 
 ister to the Argentine Republic, 1903-1904, 
 American minister to Panama, 1904-1905; 
 American minister to Columbia, 1905-1906; 
 is now director of the International Bureau 
 of American Republics. He is author of: 
 Admiral George Dewey, 1899, and is also 
 a contributor to magazines on Oriental and 
 J^atin American subjects. He is a member 
 of the University and Lotos Clubs of New 
 York; The Metropolitan, University and 
 Chevy Chase Clubs of Washington, the Uni- 
 versity Club of Chicago, and tlie University 
 
 Club of San Francisco. Address: Pan 
 American Bureau, Washington, D. C. 
 
 BARRON, Elwyn Alfred: 
 
 Dramatist and novelist; born in Lima, 
 N. Y., March 6, 1855; son of Alfred Love- 
 joy and Ellen Elizabeth Barron. He was 
 educated in Robert College, Tennessee, and 
 afterward engaged in newspaper work in 
 Chicago; and from 1887 to 1895 he was dra- 
 matic critic and editorial writer on the 
 staff of the Chicago Inter Ocean. He lived 
 in London and Paris from 1895 to 1907. 
 Mr. Barron's first two plays were written in 
 collaboration with Morgan Bates, including 
 A JMountain Pink, produced at the Grand 
 Opera House, Chicago, in 1883^ and A Mor- 
 al Crime, produced at the Columbia Thea- 
 tre, Chicago; and his svibsequent plays, of 
 which he is sole author, with the dates of 
 their production, are: Lady Ashley, 1886; 
 When Bess was Queen, 1894; Punchinello 
 (produced by Edward S. Willard), 1900; 
 The Ruling Power (New York), 1904; A 
 Prince of the People, (produced in Eng- 
 land), 1905. Mr. Barron is also author of: 
 The Viking (drama in blank verse), 1888; 
 Lawrence Barrett, a biography, 1887, and 
 the novels (published in London and Amer- 
 ican editions) : Manders, 1899; In Old New 
 York, 1900; Marcel Levignet, 1906. Mr. 
 Barron married in Chicago, Sept. 9, 1884, 
 Hannah Lee Bird, and they have a son and 
 daughter. Address : 107 Waverly Place, 
 New York City. 
 
 BARRON, Ernest R.: 
 
 Inventor, especially identified with the 
 development of the typewriter; born in 
 Meadville, Pa., May 23, 1844. He was in 
 charge of the assembling and aligning de- 
 partment of the Remington Typewriter Co., 
 in 1874, and personally prepared the first 
 Remington typewriter used. He was later 
 connected with the manufacture of the Cali- 
 grapli typewriter ami willi Ihe Densmore, 
 Deiismf)ri'-Franklin, and ullicr makes of 
 writing machines. His last employment 
 was with the Franklin Typewriter Co., with 
 whom lie was superinlciKh'iit of tlie align- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 ill",' and assi'inblinj; depaitment, and ex- 
 pert on inventions. .Since his retirement 
 from tiiat company, lie has lived on his in- 
 come from royalties on the Keniington ma- 
 chine, lie has made a large number of in- 
 ventions relative to typewriters which are 
 usikI on the standard make of machines 
 Mv. \'y.\\von is a step-son of the late James 
 Dcnsniorc, one of the early typewriter ex- 
 perts, lie married, March 18, 18(39, Rachel 
 II. Wynian. Cochranton, Pa. Address: 519 
 r.cdford A\cnuc, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 BARRY, Edward Buttevant: 
 
 llear-Admiral Lnited States Navy; was 
 horn in Vatrick Place, in New York City, 
 Oct. 20, 1849; son of Garrett Robert and 
 Sarah Agnes (Glover) Barry. He was ed- 
 ucated at the Lespinasse School in Clinton 
 Place, and at St. Francis Xavier's College 
 and was graduated from the United States 
 Naval Academy in June, 1809. He took three 
 practice cruises while cadet, on the Mace- 
 donian and Savannah, and after graduation 
 a special cruise on the Sabine, 1869-1870; 
 was promoted to ensign, 1870, and to master, 
 1872; commissioned lieutenant, 1875; lieu- 
 tenant commander, March, 1897; comman- 
 der, March, 1900, captain, March 31, 1905, 
 and rear-admiral, Feb. 1, 1909. He served on 
 many duties and stations as a naval officer; 
 aboard the Wachusett, European station, 
 and tlien at Key West during the Virginius 
 trouble with Spain, 1873-1874; aboard the 
 Alaska, 1878-1880; he witnessed the Chil- 
 ian torpedo-boat attack on the Peruvian 
 man-of-war Union, at Callao, and two 
 of the bombardments of Callao, and also the 
 l>lowing up of the Chilian Steamer Loa; 
 Cincinnati. lSi)7 to Feb. 1899; on South 
 Atlantic Station until war with Spain be- 
 i came imminent; then at Key West, from 
 March, 1898, to Feb., 1899. In the Span- 
 ish-American War he was participating in 
 the blockade of Havana, the attack on Ma- 
 tanzas; scouting off Cape Antonio when 
 the Spanish fleet was reported at Curagoa; 
 Hahama Channel and in the blockade of San 
 .luan, Porto Rico, July, 1898. He had two 
 interviews with Governor-general Macias at 
 the time the armistice Avas proclaimed, 
 and endeavored to secure the surrender of 
 
 San Juan; convoyed tlic; Maria Tiiercsa to 
 tlie eastern end of Cuba; the Cincinnati was 
 in Havana when the United States Mag was 
 hoisted there, Jan. 1, 1899. He afterwards 
 served on the receiving-ship Franklin, and 
 the gunnery training-ship Amphitrite, and 
 commanded the collier Marcellus, January- 
 May, l!)00. He commanded the gun-bo.it 
 Vicksburg, Aug., 1!)U0, and took her to the 
 Asiatic Station, Nov., 1900, serving there 
 until 1903, the Vicksburg forming the 
 naval part of the expedition, under IJriga- 
 dier-General Fun.ston, resulting in the cap- 
 ture of Emilio Aguinaldo. In conjunction 
 with Rrigadier-General Kobbe, lie occupied 
 for the first time, the islands of Palawan 
 (Paragua), Kulion and Cuyo; and later, 
 on the Samar Station, served in connection 
 with Brigadier-General Smith during part 
 of the insurrection. He was ordered by the 
 Department, ten days too late, by cible 
 from Samar, to winter in jS'^ew Chwang 
 ' (China), but succeeded in getting there, 
 2,000 miles against the N. E. monsoon. 
 He was attached to the Navy Yard. New 
 York, April, 1903, as aide to the command- 
 ant; was a member of the Labor Board 
 and Board of Inspection, Oct., 1904; com- 
 manded the battleship Kentucky, 1906- 
 1907; detached Nov., 1907, and ordered to 
 New York as recruiting ollicer, from which 
 duty he was relieved Dec. 19th and became 
 Supervisor of Naval Auxiliaries with head- 
 quarters in New York, Dec. 31st; May 7, 
 1909, was detached from that duty and 
 ordered May 17th to command second divi- 
 sion, first squadron of the Pacific fieet. He 
 is a member of the Order of Foreign \\ars 
 (Pennsylvania Comniandery), the Naval 
 Order of the United States (New York 
 Comniandery), and of the University and 
 Army and Navy Clubs of New York City. 
 He was married, April 7, 1875. to Mary 
 Wycliff Clitz, and has one daughter living, 
 Mary Agnes (now Mrs. L. A. Waters). 
 Address: Care Navy Department, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 BARRY, Thomas Henry: 
 
 Major-General U. S. Army: liorn in New 
 York City, Oct. 13, 1855; son of Davi.l and 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 .M:n<riirct (l)iiiioiul) li:iny. In 1S7.?. after 
 a coinpetilivo oxaniinatioii. he was appoint- 
 ed liy Hon. Robert 15. Koosevelt, a cadet at 
 the U. S. ;Militarv -Academy, from which he 
 was praduated in 1877. lie served at vari- 
 ous frontier posts and in several campaip^ns 
 a<rainst Indians, and on other duties prior 
 to tlie Sj)anisli-Amcrican War, when he was 
 assij,nied as adjutant-general of the Philip- 
 pine forces. He served as brigadier-fien- 
 eral of U. S. Volunteers with the China 
 Relief Expedition, in Anjr., 1900, observer 
 witli the Russian .\rmy during the Rus.so- 
 Ja panose War, to Dec., 1905; assistant chief 
 of statr, U. S. Army, and president of the 
 Army War College from Dec, 1905, to 
 Feb., 1907, when he was assigned to the 
 command of the Army of Cuban Pacifica- 
 tion, on wiiich duty he continued till April 
 1. 1909. (leneral Barry attended the ma- 
 neuvers of the (ierman Army in Sept., 
 1906. He married, at Washington, D. C, 
 Jan. 2,S. 1884, Ellen Bestor. Address: 
 War Department, Washington, D. C. 
 
 BARRYMORE, Ethel: 
 
 Actress; born in Piiiladelphia, Aug. 15, 
 1879, of a distinguisliod theatrical family, 
 her father, tlie late ]\Iaurice Barrymore, 
 having been one of the loading actors of 
 his time, and her mother, Georgina Drew 
 Barrymore, her uncle, John Drew, and her 
 grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Drew, of 
 Philadeipliia, all being people of mark on 
 the American stage. She was educated in 
 the Convent of Notre Dame, in Philadel- 
 phia. Her first recorded experience on tlie 
 stage was Sept. '2.3, 1895, at the Empire 
 Theater, New York City, when she ap- 
 peared as "Katharine" in That Indepen- 
 dent Young Person. In 1896 she became a 
 member of the Empire Tlieater Stock Com- 
 pany, headed by her uncle, John Drew, and 
 ])layed with it in New York and London, 
 and in 1897 she entered Sir Henry living's 
 Company, in which slie remained until 
 1900, wiien she retui iied to tlie Charles 
 l''rolimaii management, as a star, first in 
 < ':i|il.iiii -liiik^ of the Horse Marines, 
 and afterwaid in Cousin Kate; Sunday; 
 "Nora," in Ibsen's A Doll's House; Alice- 
 
 Sit-by-tiie-Fire; Lady Frederick, etc. She 
 married in jMareli. 1909, Russell G. Colt. 
 Address; l^mpire Theater, New York City. 
 
 BARSE, George R., Jr.: 
 
 Artist; born in Detroit, Mich., 1861; son 
 of George R. and Susan B. (Peironnet) 
 Barse. After completing the public school 
 courses in Kansas City, he studied in the 
 Chicago Art Institute, and afterward went 
 to Paris and entered the ficole des Beaux 
 Arts, wliere he was a pupil of Cabanel, and 
 also studied in tiie Academic Julian under 
 Gustave Boulanger and Jules LeFebvre, re- 
 maining in Paris five years. He had a 
 studio in Boston, 1883-1885, Avas in Italy, 
 1887-1892, and since then has lived in New 
 York City in Avinter, and in summer at his 
 countiy home, " Lone Pine," near Katonah, 
 N. H. Mr. Barse is a figure painter, and is 
 also prominently known for his mural and 
 decorative work. He painted eight deco- 
 rative panels in the Library of Congress 
 at Washington, and many mural paintings 
 in private residences, and he is represented 
 by paintings in many public galleries. Mr. 
 Barse has been an academician of the Na- 
 tional Academy of Design since 1899, and 
 is a member of the Society of American 
 Artists, and of the Century Club of New 
 York. He was awarded the first prize of 
 the National Academy of Design in 1895, the 
 Shaw Fund prize of the Society of Amer- 
 ican Artists in 1898, and the medal of the 
 Pan-American Exposition at Bufl'alo in 
 1901. He married in Rome, Italy, in 1890, 
 Rosa Ferrara. Address: Katonah, N. H., 
 or 7 W. 4.3d Street, New I'^ork City. 
 
 BARSTOW. Frank Qiiarles: 
 
 Capitalist ; l)orii in Waukesha, Wis., 
 Oct. 24, 1847. :\lr. P.arstow is best known 
 in connection witli the later history of the 
 operations of the Standard Oil Company, 
 of which lie is director, especially with 
 regaid to the t laiisportatiou of oil and 
 its products. He h:is. liowcxcf, taken a 
 prominent pail in llie ilevcloiiinenl of the 
 \\<irk (it ineieasing the iiunilier of eoiunier- 
 cial pKulucls of corn and of introducing 
 them to inteniat ional use. In connection 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 wiUi this work ho is one of ilic best known ] 
 of those active in this work. He is a direc- 
 tor of tlie Corn Products Ixofining Company 
 and the New York Clncose Company. Mr. 
 IJjirslow is also a director of the llailway 
 Steel Sprinj,' Company, the Thompson-Star- 
 rett Company, the Hegoman Company, the 
 Union Tank Line Co., the People's Bank, 
 and Savings Investment and Trust Com- 
 ])any. Residence: East Orange, N. J. Ad- 
 dress: 2(5 Broadway, Now York City. 
 
 EARTH, Charles George: 
 
 Stock broker; Lorn in Ohio, Aug. 19, 
 1840; son of John M. Barth and Elizabeth 
 (llelbig) Barth. He was educated in the 
 ])ublic schools of New York and Michigan. 
 Mr. Barth was a general merchant at St. 
 Joseph, Mich.;, 18(i5 to 1868, and grain. 
 Hour and provision commission merchant 
 in the Chicago Board of Trade, 18G8 to 
 1891. He has been a member of the Board 
 of Trade for thirty-three years, and a mem- 
 l)cr of the Chicago Stock Exchange since 
 1SS3. He organized and was a director and 
 cashier of the Lemont State Bank, of Le- 
 iiiont, 111., 1891 to 1897. He is now presi- 
 dent and director of the American Angora 
 (ioat and Live Stock Company; director 
 and treasurer of the Chicago, Hobart and 
 \'alparaiso Electric Railway, and a direc- 
 tor of the National Oil Company, the 
 Western Construction Comjjany, the Colo- 
 rado, Oklahoma and Chickasha Railway 
 Company and the Lemont Electric Light 
 and Power Company. He served on the 
 staff of Generals D. A. Russell, Pierson, 
 Sickles and Chamberlain as aide and com- 
 missary of subsistence with rank of cap- 
 tain and major by brevet, during the Civil 
 War, in the Army of the Potomac, and par- 
 ticipated in all the battles from and includ- 
 ing Antietam until the surrender at Appo- 
 mattox. He is a Republican in politics 
 and a Congregationalist in his religious 
 alliliation. Major Barth has served as a 
 school trustee. He is a member of the 
 Western Society of the Army of the Po- 
 tomac and of the Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion of the United States. He 
 married at St. Joseph, Mich., in June, 1864, 
 
 Emma E. Swartwout, and tlicy had two 
 children: Harry Arlington Barth and Nel- 
 lie Ristori Bartli, the latter now deceased. 
 Residence: 3G9 Oak Street, Chicago. 
 Olliee address: 153 La Salle Street, Chi- 
 cago, 111. 
 
 BARTHOLDT, Richard: 
 
 Congicssman, editor; born in Schleiz, 
 Thuringia, Germany, Nov. 2, 1853. He 
 came to this country while a mere boy, 
 going to St. Louis in the early 70's; and 
 afterwards went East and was connected 
 with several New York and Brooklyn 
 newspapers. He returned io St. Louis and 
 took charge of the Tribune, a daily Repub- 
 lican newspaper. In 1891 he was president 
 of the Conference of German-American So- 
 cieties, held in Washington, D. C. In 1892 
 he was elected to Congress as a Republican 
 from the Tenth IMissouri district. He was 
 reelected in 1894, 1896, 1898, 1900, 1902 
 and 1904, and 1906. He is cliairman of 
 the Committee on Public Buildings and 
 Grounds, and the second mendjer on tlie 
 Commitee on Labor. He ])residcd over llie 
 International Parliamentary Congress in 
 1904, and it was though his influence that 
 the Congress was held in the United States. 
 He is one of the leaders of the ])eaee move- 
 ment in this country. Address: .■{.■!19 S. 
 Ninth Street, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 BARTLETT, Charles Lafayette: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born at Mon- 
 ticello, Jasper County, Ga., Jan. 31, 1S.'>3. 
 He removed in 1875 from IMonticello to 
 Macon, Ga., where he has ever since re- 
 sided. He was educated at the University 
 of Georgia, graduating as A.B. in 1870, and 
 studied law in tlie University of Virginia. 
 He was admitted to the bar in Aug., 1872; 
 was appointed solicitor general for the 
 Macon Judicial Court, Jan. 31, 1877, and 
 served in that capacity until Jan. 31, 1881. 
 He was elected to two terms in tlie House 
 of Representatives "^f Georgia and one in 
 the State Senate, ' jis elected judge of the 
 Superior Court o( the Macon Circuit. Jan. 
 1, 1893. and resigned that office ^May 1, 
 1894. He became the Democratic nominee 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 for Conaross in 1894. and wns elected to 
 tlie Fifty-fourtli ("onjrress, and lie lias been 
 reelected liiennially since and is now serv- 
 m<i in the Sixty-first Congress. Address: 
 Macon, (ia. 
 
 BARTLETT. Charles W.: 
 
 Lawyer: liorn in Boston, M\<i. 12. 184;"). 
 He was wrailuated from Dartmonth College 
 in 1860, and from the Albany Law School 
 in 1871. He was admitted to the bar in 
 Bo.ston. and with a constantly increasing 
 practice has come to be one of the leading 
 members of that bar, being regarded espe- 
 cally strong as a pleader and trial lawyer. 
 In the past few years he has taken a 
 prominent part in the Democratic politics 
 of Massachnsetts, and made an nnsuccess- 
 fiil campaign for lieiitenant-governorship, 
 and was also an nnsuccessful candidate for 
 the nomination of governor. He married, 
 first in Franklin. N. H.. to Mary L. Mor- 
 rison, and second, in Acushnet. ]\Iass., in 
 Aug., 1807. to Annie M. White. Resi- 
 dence: 30 ]\l(lvillc Avenue. Office: 244 
 Wasliington Sticel. I'.dstnn. 
 
 BARTLETT. Edward Theodore: 
 
 Jurist: born in Skaneateles. N. Y., Jime 
 14, 1841 ; son of Dr. Levi Bartlett, who 
 practised as a physician and surgeon at 
 Skaneateles for over fifty years. He is of 
 Norman-French ancestry, the family name 
 having originally been Bartelot, and his 
 first American ancestor came from England 
 to New TTa)Mi)sliire in early Colonial days; 
 and he is a great-grandson of .Tosiah Bart- 
 lett (signer of the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence and the Articles of Confedera- 
 tion, and first governor and chief justice 
 of New Hampshire). He received a classical 
 education, then studied law and was admit- 
 ted to the bar at Skaneateles in Oct., 1862. 
 He |)raetised law at the Onondaga County 
 Bar until 18(i8, when he removed to New 
 York City, and ]nactised there until 1804. 
 He was Bepnblican nominee for justice of 
 the Supreme ("ourt of New "SOrk in 1801. 
 and in IH'Xi he was noMiiiia1c<l and elected 
 as.soeiate justice of the Court of .\p])eal3 
 of X'-w \i>yk. which office Im' Imhl^ by re- 
 
 election, his present term expiring Dec. 
 .31, 1011. Judge Bartlett is a member of 
 the Association of the Bar of City of 
 New York, the New York Law Iii-;ti1u1e. 
 New England Society, Sons of the Ameri- 
 can Revolution, and the Union League and 
 Republican Clubs of New York City. 
 Address : LTnion League Club, New York 
 City. 
 
 BARTLETT, George A.: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman: born in San 
 Francisco, Calif., Nov. 30. 1800. He has 
 lived in Nevada from his infancy, was edu- 
 cated in the common schools of that State, 
 and was graduated from the Law Depart- 
 ment of Georgetown University, Washing- 
 ton, D. C, LL.B., 1894. He was admitted 
 to the bar. and has been engaged in prac- 
 tice in Nevada since 1894; was elected 
 and served as district attorney of Eureka 
 County. Nev., and in 1906 he was elected, 
 as a Democrat, to the Sixtieth Congress, 
 and in 1008 was reelected to the Sixty-first 
 Congress from the State of Nevada at large. 
 Addiess : Tonopah. Nev. 
 
 BARTLETT, Homer Newton: 
 
 Organist and composer; born in Olive. 
 N. Y^, Dec. 28, 1845; son of Henry B. and 
 Hannah C. (Hall) Bartlett. descendant of 
 Josiah Bartlett (signer of the Declaration 
 of Independence, and first governor of New 
 York). He received a classical education 
 and then pursued liis nuisieal studies under 
 the tutelage of Tilills, Guyon, Brann. Jacob- 
 sen and other prominent te;icliers, and for 
 a munber of years has been organist of the 
 Madison Avenue Baptist Church of New 
 Y(uk. lie is a director and former i)i-esi- 
 deul of the Manuscript Society and a na- 
 tionally known teacher of the organ, be- 
 sides having an international reputation 
 as a composer, his compositions including 
 more than 22.'5 original works and arrange- 
 ments. AiDong these are a sym])honic 
 poem f(u- oichestra, entitled A]K)11o, illus- 
 trating jiait of Homer's Iliad: I.egciuh- 
 (medilatiou foi' orchestra): Concerto in 
 (i for violin and orchestra; two pieces for 
 string orchestra; several cantatas (chorus 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 iii!<i piano) ; Ballade (violin and orclies- 
 tia); Khamsin (concert aria for tenor 
 solo and orchestra) ; several cantatas (cho- 
 1 us and orchestra); one three-act opera, 
 La. Valliero; ninety published piano-fort%; 
 works, and an equal number of songs and 
 cluirch anthems; also organ pieces, among 
 tlicm the Toccata in E and suite, op. 206. 
 Mr. Bartlett was one of the founders of 
 tlic American Guild of Organists. Address: 
 ll-l jNIanhattan Avenue, New York City. 
 
 BARTLETT, John R.: 
 
 Organizer of cor]iorations; born in Fred- 
 ericton. New Brunswick, ]\Iay 17, 1839. He 
 has for the past thirty years been the mov- 
 ing spirit in the creation and reorganiza- 
 tion of many large corporations. An illus- 
 tration of, his peculiar creative ability may 
 be found in his conception and creation of 
 the great water system now supplying 
 Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Passaic, the 
 Oranges and other towns in New Jersey 
 with pure water, which, in spite of stren- 
 uous opposition, was brought to a success- 
 ful completion in the year 1890. He 
 reorganized and rehabilitated the manufac- 
 turing and conmiercial business of The 
 American Cotton Oil Company in this coun- 
 try and Europe. This company embraced 
 thirty-five separate corporations, located 
 in seventeen States of the Union, with a 
 capital of $33,000,000. On the successful 
 completion of this work, Mr. Bartlett was 
 elected to the chairmanship of the Nica- 
 ragua Canal Company. The reorganization 
 of this company was a complicated prob- 
 lem, but the plan formulated by Mr. Bart- 
 lett fulfilled the requirements of the situ- 
 ation. Perhaps the most remarkable of his 
 works, Avas the consolidation in England 
 (if the British Oil & Cake Mills, Limited, 
 wliich company embraced twenty-eight 
 mills and twelve refineries, engaged in man- 
 ufacturing and refining cotton seed and 
 linseed oil and cake throughout Great 
 Britain. This enterprise was organized on 
 a cash basis, and is unique from the fact 
 that it is the only large industrial com- 
 })ination in Great Britain or Europe organ- 
 ized by an American. Mr. Bartlett was 
 
 managing director of the Society for Es- 
 tablishing Useful Manufactures, organized 
 by Alexander Hamilton in 1772. lie or- 
 ganized and built the Macopin Railroad; 
 West Milford Water Storage Company and 
 the Montclair Water Company; vice-presi- 
 dent of the New Jersey General Security 
 Company, comptroller of the East Jersey 
 Water Company; director of the Pas- 
 saic Water Company and the .\cquachanonk 
 Water Company; president of the Draw- 
 baugh Telephone & Telegraph Company, 
 The American Cotton Oil Company of New 
 Jersey, The American Cotton Oil Company, 
 of Ohio, The National Cotton Oil Company, 
 Union Oil Company (of Rhode Island), 
 The N. K. Fairbank Company of Chicago, 
 and director of the W. J. Wilcox I^rd and 
 Refining Company; president of the Union 
 Oil Company of New Orleans, and of the 
 Bay State Gas Company of Delaware; di- 
 rector of the Siemens & Ilalske Electric 
 Company, Chicago, the Pennsylvania Iron 
 Works Co. of Philadelphia, and the Mari- 
 time Canal Company, and president of th« 
 Nicaragua Canal Company. He is a mem- 
 ber of the New England Society and of the 
 Union League and Lawyers' Clubs of New 
 York. Address: 2 Wall Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 BARTLETT, Paul Wayland: 
 
 Sculptor; born in New Haven, Conn., in 
 18G5. He began the study of sculpture 
 while a boy and at the age of fourteen ex- 
 hibited a bust in the Paris Salon. In 1880 
 he entered the ficole des Beaux Arts, where 
 he became a pupil of Cavelier. He attained 
 an early and considerable success and is 
 best known for his equestrian statue of 
 Lafayette in the Square of the Louvre, 
 Paris, the gift of the school children of the 
 United States to France. Among his other 
 works are the equestrian statue of General 
 McClellan, Philadelphia; statue of Gen- 
 eral Joseph Warren, Boston: statues of 
 Columbus and Michelangelo in the Con- 
 gressional Library at Washington, and the 
 Tiorth front of the Capitol, Hartford. 
 Conn. He is also represented in the Lirx- 
 embourg Gallery and the Mus6e des Arts 
 
lOS 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Decoratifs, Paris, ]\Ietropolitan Museum, 
 New York, tlie Boston IMuseum, the Phila- 
 delphia Academy of Fine Arts, and the Chi- 
 cago Art Institute. lie is an ofTicicr of 
 the Legion d'llonneur of France, and has 
 been a member of tlie jury of awards at 
 several sculpture exhibits connected with 
 international exhibitions. Address: South- 
 west corner of Third Street and Randolph 
 Place, N. E., Washington, D. C. 
 
 BARTLETT, Willard: 
 
 Jurist; born in Uxbridge, Mass., Oct. 14, 
 18-16; son of William 0. and Agnes E. H. 
 (Willard) Bartlett. He was graduated 
 from Columbia University, A.B., 1869, and 
 from the Law Department of New York 
 University, LL.B., 1868, and the degree of 
 LL.D. has been conferred upon him by 
 Hamilton College, 1894,- New York Univer- 
 sity, 1904, and Columbia University, 1904. 
 He was admitted to the bar in 1808; prac- 
 tised law in association with Hon. Elihu 
 Root, from 1869 to 1883, when he was 
 elected a justice of the Supreme Court of 
 the State of New York, and he was re- 
 elected in 1897. He served in the Appel- 
 late Division of the New York Supreme 
 Court until 1906, when he was appointed 
 associate justice of the Court of Appeals 
 of New York, and in Nov., 1907, was 
 elected to the same office, in which his terra 
 will expire Dec. 31, 1916. Judge Bartlett 
 has been professor of medical jvirisprudence 
 in Long Island College Hospital since 1898. 
 He is a member of the Society of Colonial 
 Wars, the Sons of the Revolution, the 
 University and Century Clubs of New York 
 City, and the Brooklyn and Hamilton 
 Clubs of Brooklyn, N. Y. He married in 
 Brooklyn, Oct. 26, 1876, Mary Fairbanks 
 BufTum. Residence: 21 Pierrepont Street, 
 Brooklyn. Official address: Allianj', N. Y. 
 
 BARTON, Clara: 
 
 Pliihintlirnpist; Ijorn in Oxford, Mass., 
 Dec. 25, 1821; daughter of Captain Stephen 
 and Sally (Stone) Barton; was graduated 
 from Clinton Liberal Institute, and studied 
 languages and art in the Art Institute at 
 Worcester, Mass. She taught school for 
 
 ten years, afterward becoming the first 
 woman clerk in a Government office in 
 Washington, having charge of the caveats 
 in the Patent Office; which position she- 
 gave up at the opening of the Civil War 
 for work in the field. She was in the 
 Franco-German War, serving with it on the 
 fields of Ilagenau, ]\Ietz, Strassburg, Bel- 
 fort, Wocrth, the Baden hospitals, Mont- 
 belard, and in Paris after the fall of the 
 Commune. ]\Iiss Barton spent the seven 
 years from 1875 to 1882 in making the 
 International Red Cross work known to 
 the United States, and in 1881 organized 
 the American National Red Cross. She 
 was nominated to its first presidency by 
 President Garfield, and secured the ad- 
 hesion of the United States to the Treaty 
 of Geneva, March 2, 1882. Under her 
 direction the American National Red Cross 
 took charge of relief work in the Michigan 
 forest fires of 1881; the floods of the 
 Mississippi and Ohio Valleys in 1882, 1883 
 and 1884; the Texas famine of 1885; the 
 cyclone at Mt. Vernon, 111., 1888; Florida 
 yellow fever, 1888; Johnstown disaster, 
 1889; the Russian famine of 1892; the 
 hurricane and tidal wave on the South 
 Carolina Islands in 1893-1894; the Armen- 
 ian massacres of 1896; the Cuban Recon- 
 centrado relief work of 1898-1900, in which 
 about $500,000 worth of* supplies, etc., 
 were distiibutcd ; the Spanish-American 
 War ($800,000), 1898, and the Galveston 
 hurricane and tidal wave, 1900, besides 
 many minor disasters. Miss Barton rep- 
 resented the Government of the United 
 States at the International Red Cross Con- 
 ferences at Geneva, 1884; Carlsruhe, 1887; 
 Vienna, Austria, 1897, and St. Petersburg, 
 Russia, 1902. She has been the recipient 
 of decorations and honors from many na- 
 tions, including a gold cross of remem- 
 brance from the Grand Duke and. Grand 
 Duchess of Baden, 1870; the Iron Cro^is, 
 of Prussia, conferred by Emperor William 
 ], and Empress Augusta, 1871; medal of 
 the International Committee of the Red 
 Cross of Geneva, Switzerland, 1882; Red 
 Cross by Queen of Servia, 1884; silver 
 medal by Empress Augusta of Germany, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 ISS-t; flag voted by the Congress at Berne, 
 Switzerland, 1884; jeAvels by the Grand 
 Duchess of Baden, 1884-1887, and from 
 tile Queen of Prussia, 1887; diplomas and 
 decorations by the Sultan of Tui'key, and 
 (he Prince of Armenia, 1896; Diploma 
 of Gratitude, and decoration, by Spain, and 
 vote of thanks by the Spanish Cortes, 1899; 
 decoration of the Order of the Red Cross 
 by the Czar of Russia, 1902, and decoration 
 by Belgium, 1902; besides resolutions of 
 the Central Relief Committee, Galveston, 
 1900, and votes of thanks from the Portu- 
 guese Red Cross, 1900; and the Texas Leg- 
 islature, 1901. Miss Barton added to the 
 work of the Red Cross in America, by per- 
 mission of the other nations, the feature 
 of relief in National calamities other than 
 War, since known as the " American 
 Amendment " to the Red Cross, and adopt- 
 ed by all nations. She is the author of: 
 The Official History of the Red Cross, 
 printed by the Government, 1883; The Red 
 Cross, 1899; A Story of the Red Cross, 
 1904; The Story of My Childhood, 1907, 
 and many pamphlets and reports. She re- 
 signed the presidency of the American Red 
 Cross in 1904, after having brought it to 
 a place of assured strength in the judg- 
 ment and affections of the American peo- 
 jile, accomplishing by a rare combination of 
 noble impulses, clear brain and high ex- 
 ecutive ability, a work for her country 
 and her age such as has been given to few 
 women to achieve. Address: Glea Echo, 
 Md. 
 
 BARTON, Enos M.: 
 
 Chairman of Board of Directors of the 
 Western Electric Company; born at Lor- 
 raine, New York, Dec. 2, 1842; son of Sid- 
 ney William and Fanny (Bliss) Barton, 
 lie was educated at the public and private 
 schools of Lorraine, and attended a course 
 at the University of Rochester, N. Y. His 
 entry into a business life was as a tele- 
 graph messenger boy, and his rise was 
 rapid. In 1809 he transferred his activities 
 to Chicago, where in 1872 he became secre- 
 tary of the Western Electric Company; 
 later he became vice-president and from 
 
 1887 to 1908 was president of the com- 
 pany; since then cliairman of the Board 
 of Directors. He is also a director of the 
 Merchants' Loan and Trust Company, and 
 is a trustee of the University of Chicago, 
 and an associate member of the American 
 Institute of Electrical Engineers. lie is a 
 Republican in politics and is a member of 
 the Chicago, , Union League, Commercial 
 and Quandrangle Clubs of Chicago, and 
 the Hinsdale Club of Hinsdale, 111. He 
 has been twice married. His first wife was 
 Katherinc S. Richardson, to whom he 
 was united at Rochester in 1869, and who 
 died leaving three children, Alvin L., Kath- 
 arine S. (Mrs. Robert W. Childs) and 
 Clara M.. His second marriage was to 
 Mary C. Rust, of Chicago, in 1899, and 
 they have three children: Malcolm S., 
 Evan M. and Gilbert R. Residence: Hins- 
 dale, DuPage County, 111. 
 
 BARTON, George De Forest: 
 
 Real estate; born in New York, March 
 23, 1841; son of William Barton and Eliza 
 Phillips (Whittemore) Barton. He was 
 educated in the private schools of New 
 York City and South Williamstown, oMass. 
 He was appointed paymaster in the United 
 States Navy, June 5, 1861, and served in 
 the United States ships Monticello, Sassa- 
 cus, St. Louis, Supply, Swatara, and Ports- 
 mouth. On the Monticello was present at 
 the bombardment and capture of Forts Hat- 
 teras and Clark at Hatteras Inlet, N. C, 
 Aug., 1861, the first naval success in the 
 War of the Rebellion. In the Sassacus was 
 aide and signal officer to Commander Fran- 
 cis A. Roe, U. S. Navj^ in the celebrated 
 encounter betwen the Sassacus and the 
 Confederate iron-clad, Albemarle, in Albe- 
 marle Sound, May, 1864, when Commander 
 Roe hurled at top speed the light, wooden 
 Sassacus on the iron-clad Albemarle, dis- 
 abling and driving the latter back to her 
 port at Plymouth, N. C, where she wa3 
 afterward torpedoed and destroyed by 
 Lieutenant Gushing. In 1860 was in the 
 Swatara in the IMediterrauean Squadron, 
 and chased to Alexandria, Egj'pt, and cap- 
 tured there, John H. Surratt, the friend of 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Jolin \Yilkes Booth and one of the Lincoln 
 conspirators, and brought him to Wash- 
 ington, D. C, in Feb., 1867. Kesigned from 
 the iiavj and iq, 1871 engaged in the real 
 estate business in New York City, with 
 his cousin, William Lawrence \\ hittemore, 
 under the firm name of Barton and Whitte- 
 more. He was treasurer of the Real Estate 
 Exchange in 1893 and 1894, and president 
 in 1895 and 1896. He is a Republican in 
 politics and an Episcopalian in religious 
 adherence. He is a companion, and treas- 
 urer-in-chief, of the Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion; a companion of the Military 
 Order Foreign Wars; vice-commander of the 
 Naval Order; member of the Sons of the 
 Revolution; the Society of 1812; vice-presi- 
 dent Nineteenth Army Corps; member of 
 the Army and Navy and Union League 
 Clubs of New York City. Mr. Barton mar- 
 ried at Garrison-on-Hudson, Dec. 28, 1876, 
 Anna Dudley Ward, only daughter of the 
 late Colonel Thomas William VYard, U. S. 
 V. Address: 122 West 74th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 BARTON, James Levi: 
 
 Foreign secretary of the American Board 
 of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; 
 born in Chittenden County, Vt., Sept. 23, 
 1855. He was educated at Middlebury 
 College and at Hartford Theological Sem- 
 inary. In 1885 he was sent to Turkey as 
 a missionary of the American Board for 
 Foreign Missions, and in 1888 became a 
 professor in the Theological Seminary at 
 Harpoot. In 1893 he became president of 
 Euphrates College at Harpoot, and in 
 1894 he was appointed foreign secretary 
 for the American Board, which office he 
 now holds. He has traveled extensively 
 in connection with the work of the Ameri- 
 can Board of ISIissions, having been chair- 
 man of the respective deputations to Japan, 
 Ceylon and India, and secretary of the 
 deputation to China. He is author of: 
 The Missionary and ITis Critics; The Un- 
 finished Task; Daybreak in Turkey, etc. 
 He married in West Winficld, N. Y'^., Flora 
 E. Holmes. Residence: Newton Centre, 
 Mass. Office: 14 Beacon Street, Boston. 
 
 BARUS, Carl: 
 
 Professor of physics; born in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, Feb. 19, 1856; son of Carl and Sophia 
 (Mollman) Barus. He was educated in 
 Woodward High School, Cincinnati, Colum- 
 bia University, 1874-1876, and the Univer- 
 sity of Wiirzburg, Bavaria, 1876-1880, re- 
 ceiving the Ph.D. degree, and in 1907 the 
 LL.D. degree Avas conferred upon him by 
 Brown University. He was assistant to 
 Professor Kohlrausch, at Wiirzbuig, in 
 1879 and 1880; was a pliysicist on tlic 
 U. S. Geological Survey, 1880-1892; pro- 
 fessor of meteorology in the U. S. Weather 
 Bureau, 1892-1893; physicist of the Smith- 
 sonian Institution, 1893-1895; since then 
 Hazard professor of physics at Brown Uni- 
 versity, where, since 1903, ho has been 
 Dean of the Graduate Department. H 
 served on the committee appointed by 
 Congress in 1895 to determine the elec- 
 trical standards of the Government, and 
 was speaker for American ])hysics at the 
 World's Congress of Scientists, held in St. 
 Louis in 1904. Dr. Barus is a. fellow of 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, and was vice-president, 
 and chairman of the Section of Physics in 
 1897; is a member of the National Acad- 
 emy of Sciences; corresponding member of 
 the British Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science; honorary member of the 
 Royal Institution of Great Britain; fellow 
 (Rumford medallist, 1900) of the Ameri- 
 can Academy of Arts and Sciences (Mass.) ; 
 member and ex-president of the American 
 Phj'sical Society, and member of the Frencli 
 Physical Society, Paris. He has been, 
 since 1902, a member of the Advisory Com- 
 mittee of the Carnegie Institution. Dr. 
 Barus has, since 1879, been a regular con- 
 tributor to the standard magazines of phys- 
 ical research throughout the world, and 
 his original investigations are embodied in 
 about two hundred and forty original arti- 
 cles, and numerous books on physical sub- 
 jects. He married in Boston, in Jan., 1887, 
 Annie Gertrude Howes, and they have two 
 children. Residence : 30 Elmgrove Ave- 
 nue. Office : Brown University, Provi- 
 dence, R. I. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 BASCOM, Florence: 
 
 dlcologist ; boni in Williiinistown, Mass.; 
 (lauiihter of .lolin and Kninia (Curtiss) 
 iJasfoin. She was si'<^<iU'^to(l from the Uni- 
 Acrsily of \\ isconsin, receiving the degrees 
 of A.ll and 15.L., 1882, B.S., 1884, and 
 A.M., 1887 ; was a graduate student of 
 Johns Hopkins University, with the degree 
 of Pii.D. in 1893. Miss Ijhsooui was assist- 
 ant in geology in the Ohio State University 
 at Columbus, Ohio, 1893-18U.5; since 1895 
 she has been lecturer and professor of geol- 
 ogy at Bryn Mawr College. She is an 
 assistant geologist of the United States 
 Geological Survey, was associate editor of 
 the American Geologist from 1896 to 1908. 
 ]\liss Bascom's contributions to geological 
 literature include Bulletin No. 136 of the 
 U. S. Geological Survey, The Ancient Vol- 
 canic Bocks of South Mountain, Pa., 1896, 
 No. 150, pp. 343-349. The Aporhylite, 1898; 
 No. 106, The Water Resources of the Phila- 
 delphia District, 1904. She is^ also author 
 of: The Structure, Origin and Nomencla- 
 ture of the Acid Volcanic Rocks of South 
 Mountain, 1893, and A Pre-Tertiary Nephe- 
 line-bearing Rock, 1896 (Journal of Geol- 
 ogy) ; Aporhylite of South Mountain, Pa., 
 1896, and The Piedmont Plateau of Penn- 
 sylvania, 1905 (Bulletin of the Geological 
 Society of America) ; The Geology of the 
 Crystalline Rocks of Cecil County, Md. 
 (IMaryland Geological Survey Publica- 
 tions) ; Anhydritzwilling von Ausse, with 
 V. Goldschmidt, 1907 (Groth's Zeitschrift 
 fiir Krystallographie, LeijJ/.ig) ; A Geologic 
 Map of the Crystalline Rock Formations of 
 the Piiiladelpiiia Belt, with text, 1909. 
 Also, in the American (geologist: The Rela- 
 tions of Streams in the Neighborhood of 
 Philadelphia to the Bryn Mawr Gravel, 
 Jan. 1897; On Some Dikes in the Vicinity 
 of Jolins Bay. Maine, 1899, also reviews 
 and editorials. Dr. Bascom is a fellow of 
 the Geological Society of Ameriei. and the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science; member of the Academy of 
 Natural Science and the Geograjjliical So- 
 ciety of Philadelphia ; of the National Geo- 
 graphic Society, the Seismic Society, and 
 
 the American Forestry AssociatiiHi. Ad- 
 drc--': l'.i\n Mawr. Pa. 
 
 BASH, Bertha Runkle: 
 
 Author; born at Berkeley Heights, N. ./.; 
 daughter of Cornelius A. nml l.ucia ((iil- 
 bcrtj Runkle. Her fatlier, w bo died dur- 
 ing her childhood, was a well-known hiw- 
 yer, and her mother is known as one of the 
 editors of Charles Dudley W'arncr's Jjibrary 
 of the World's Best Literature, and for 
 many essays and critical articles. The 
 daughter was educated at Miss Brackett's 
 School, in New \ork City, and travelled 
 in Europe and tlie Orient, but had her 
 home in New York until licr marriage, at 
 San Francisco, Oct. 26, 1904. to Captain 
 Louis 11. Bash., U. S. A., a fin- which she 
 spent three years in the Philippines, and 
 is now (1909) living at San Antonio, Te.xas. 
 She still uses her maiden name Bertha 
 Runkle, as a pen-name, and is author of: 
 The Helmet of Navarre, 1901; The Truth 
 About Tolna, 1906. Mrs. Bash is a member 
 of the Barnard Cluli of New ^'()rk. Ad- 
 dress: Care of the Century ('()in]i;uiy. New 
 York City. 
 
 BASHFORD, James Whitford: 
 
 ISishop of the Methodist I'ipi-cDpai 
 (Jhurch; born at Fayette, Wis., May 25, 
 1849; son of Rev. Samuel Bashford and of 
 Mary Ann (M'Kee) Bashford. He was 
 graduated in the classical course from the 
 University of Wisconsin as A.B. in 1873; 
 the theological course at Boston University 
 as S.T.B. in 1876 and from the School of 
 Oratory of Boston University in 187S, and 
 from the course in all sciences of Boston 
 Univeristy as Ph.D. in 1881. He was pas- 
 tor of Methodist ICpiscopal churches in Bos- 
 ton and Auburndale, Mass., Portland, Me., 
 and P.ullalo, N. Y., 1878-1889; president 
 of the Ohio Wesleyan University from 1889- 
 to 1904, and was elected a bishop of the 
 .Methodist J']piscopal Church at the General 
 Conference held in Los Angeles in 1!)04. He 
 received the degree of D.D. pro honore, from 
 Northwestern University in 1890, and LL. 
 1). from Weslevan I'niversity. in 1903. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Bishop Bashfoid is author of: Outlines of 
 tlie Science of Religion, for class use, and 
 Wesley and d'oetiie. He also published re- 
 cently: The A\vai<ening of Ciiina; China and 
 Metliodisni; and Cod's Missionary Plan for 
 tlic World. In connection with liis Episco- 
 pal duties he has visited India and made a 
 study of mission work in India and Malay- 
 sia, inchuiing tlic Philippines. He has also 
 visited Pussia and Siberia and lifteen of the 
 provinces of Cliina witnessing a large in- 
 crease of tlie missionary force and of mis- 
 sion work in connection with his Church in 
 China, of which lie now has oversight. 
 Bishop Basliford married in 1878, Jane M. 
 Field, daughter of Hon. W. W. Field, of 
 Madison, ^\'is. Address : Peking, China, 
 
 BASS, John Foster: 
 
 War correspondent; born in Chicago, in 
 1800. He was educated at Harvard Uni- 
 versity and at Harvard Law School, gradu- 
 ating from the latter in 1893 and being ad- 
 mitted to tlie bar in 1894. In 1895 he went 
 to Egypt as a war correspondent and since 
 that time has observed the Cretan insurrec- 
 tion, llie Armenian massacre, the Greek 
 war, the Spanisli-American war, the Philip- 
 pine insurrection, the Boxer insurrection, 
 the Bulgarian uprising, and the Russo- 
 Japanese war, thus having taken the com- 
 prehensive range of all of the armed con- 
 flicts that have taken place in the world 
 since the adoption of his profession. Dur- 
 ing the Russo-Japanese war, he was in the 
 field for si.x months with Kuroki. He is a 
 fellow of the Royal Geographical Society 
 of London and a member of the Explorers' 
 Club of New York. Residence: 125 Lin- 
 coln Park Boulevard. Oifice: 189 La 
 Salle Street, Chicago. 
 
 BASSETT, Adelaide Florence: 
 
 Authnr; born in IJoston in 1845; daugh- 
 ter of Emanuel and Abbie (Zanca) Sam- 
 uels. Her father was a naturalist of note, 
 and was one of the naturalists sent by the 
 Smithsonian Institution across the conti- 
 nent when the Pacific Railroad was being 
 surveyed. She was educated in the dis- 
 trict .school of Milton, Mass., and was mar- 
 
 ried at Milton, Mass., in 1891 to Orville 
 Bassett. She wrote four books for girls, 
 1872, and four books for boys, 1874, pub- 
 lished by Lee & Shepherd, of Boston ; Daisy 
 Travers, or the Girls of Hive Hall, same 
 publishers, 1896; Father Gander's Melo- 
 dies, 1894 (Little, Brown & Co.); also 
 many magazine articles. Address: Ilam- 
 monton, X. J. 
 
 BATEMAN, James Rice: 
 
 ^Manufacturer ; born in New York City, 
 June 26, 1807; son of Benjamin Bateman 
 and Louisa H. (Smith) Bateman. He was 
 educated in private schools. He is director 
 of the Colonial Roofing Company and vice- 
 president of the Acme Roofing Company, 
 president and director of the Dyett Sand- 
 Lime Brick Co., director Dyett Machine Co. 
 His maternal granduncle was David T. Val- 
 entine, author of Valentine's Manual, of 
 the City of New York, and an authority 
 on the older city. Mr. Bateman's father 
 was born in the old historic town of Eden- 
 ton, N. C, and was of English descent. He 
 is a Democrat in politics and an Episcopal- 
 ian in religion. He is member of the St. Da- 
 vid's Society, and the Masonic order and 
 the Economic Club of New York City Mr. 
 Bateman married, at Evart, Mich., M. Emma 
 Ardis. Address: 156 Fifth Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 BATES, Arlo: 
 
 Author; l)orn in Ka^^t jMachias, Mc, Dec. 
 16, 1850. He was graduated from Bow- 
 doin College in 1876. and began newspaper 
 and literary \\(iik. He was editor of the 
 Boston Sunday Courier from 1880 to 189.3, 
 when he was appointed professor of Eng- 
 lish literature of the ]\lassachusetts Insti- 
 tute of Technology, a position he still holds. 
 He is best known for his books on the study 
 of literature and on writing English, hav- 
 ing the faculty of pointing out to the pri- 
 vate student methods of improvement which 
 are part iculnrly liclpful. He is also regard- 
 ed as :i iim>lir (if lOnglish style in prose 
 and verse. Aiiiung liis books are: Patty's 
 Perversities; Mr. .facobs; The Pagans; A 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 \\ licpl of Fire; J>OMics of the Bvicr; Son- 1 
 nets in Shadow; A Lad's Love; The Phil- 
 istines; Albrecht; The Poet and His Self; 
 A Book o' Nine Tales; Told in the Gate; 
 In the Bundle of Time; The Torch Bearers; 
 Talks on \\'ritin<;- Ensxlish ; Talks on the 
 Study of Literature; The Puritans; Under 
 the Beech Tree; Love in a Cloud; Talks on 
 Writing English; The Diary of a Saint; 
 and Talks on Teaching Literature. He 
 married, in 1882, Harriet L. Vose, deceased. 
 Address: 4 Otis Place, Boston. 
 
 BATES, Arthur Laban: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born in Mead- 
 ville, Pa., June 6, 1859; son of Samuel P. 
 Bates, LL.D., and S. Josephine Bates. He 
 was educated in Allegheny College at Mead- 
 ville, receiving the degrees of A.B., 1880, 
 and A.M., 1883, and Phi Beta Kappa hon- 
 ors. He was admitted to the bar in 1882, 
 has practised his profession continuously 
 ever since, and served as city solicitor of 
 Meadville, 1887-1895. He was elected 
 to Congress from the Twenty-fifth District 
 of Pennsylvania in 1900, and has since been 
 biennially reelected, receiving the largest 
 majorities ever given in that district. Ad- 
 dress : Meadville, Pa. 
 
 BATES, Blanche: 
 
 Actress; born in Portland, Ore., in 1873; 
 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Bates, well 
 known actors, her father being manager of 
 the Oro Fino Theatre in Portland at the 
 time of her birth. The family removed to 
 San Francisco in her infancy and she was 
 educated in the public schools of that city. 
 Miss Bates made her first appearance on 
 the stage at a benefit performance in Stock- 
 well's Theatre in San Francisco, in This 
 Picture and That, a one-act play by Bran- 
 der Llatthews. After that she played gen- 
 eral utility parts in a company managed 
 by T. Daniel Frawley, afterward being ad- 
 vanced to leading woman and later to joint 
 star, making a notable success in 1895 as 
 INlrs. Hilary in The Senator, and afterward 
 in an extensive repertorie, including 
 " Nora " in Ibsen's A Doll's House. Miss 
 S 
 
 Bates played in Sliakesperian drama in Au- 
 gustiii Daly's Company in 1898, later re- 
 tuniiiig as a star under Frawley's manage- 
 ment for a short time, then played " Mi- 
 ladi ■' in Liebler & Co.'s production of the 
 Musketeers, and since then under manage- 
 ment of David Belasco in Madame Butter- 
 fly, " Cigarette " in Under Two Flags, 
 " Princess Yo-San " in The Darling of the 
 Gods, " The Girl " in The Girl of the Gol- 
 den West, and more recently in The Fight- 
 ing Hope. Miss Bates married Lieutenant 
 (now Captain) Milton F. Davis, of the 
 Tenth Cavalry, U. S. A. Address: Belasco 
 Theatre, New York City. 
 
 BATES, Charles Austin: 
 
 Writer on business and finance; born at 
 Indianapolis, Ind., April 18, 18G6; son of 
 Charles A. H. Bates and Margaret Holmes 
 (Ernsperger) Bates. He was educated in 
 the public schools of Indianapolis. He is 
 president of the Security National Bank 
 and of the Knickerbocker Syndicate, of 
 New York City, and vice-president of the 
 Colorado- Yule Marble Company, of Marble 
 City, Colorado. Mr. Bates married in Chi- 
 cago, Sept., 11, 1890, Belle Brandenburg, 
 and they have two children. Summer resi- 
 dence: Camp Cabates (Fourth Lake), Old 
 Forge, N. Y. Address: 109 Riverside 
 Drive, New York City. 
 
 BATES, John Coalter: 
 
 Former chief of StalT of the Army; born 
 in St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 26, 1842. He was 
 educated in the Washington University of 
 St. Louis, from which he received the honor- 
 ary degree of LL.D. in 1904. He was ap- 
 pointed first lieutenant of the 11th United 
 States Infantry from Missouri May 14, 
 1861, serving with marked credit through 
 the Civil War, and in the Spanish-American 
 War was made brigadier-general of United 
 States Volunteers, and subsequently pro- 
 moted to be major-general. His services in 
 the Philippines were specially meritorious, 
 and in 190G he was promoted to be lieu- 
 tenant-general and chief of staflF of the 
 army, subsequently retiring April 14, 1906, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 after over forty years of service. General 
 Bates received nuinoroiis brevets and promo- 
 tions for distinguished service during his 
 career. Addi-ess: 1313 Massachusetts Ave- 
 nue, X. W., Washington, D. C. 
 
 BATES. John Lewis: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-governor; born at North 
 Easton. ilass., Sept. 18, 1859; son of Rev. 
 Lewis Benton and Louisa D. (Field) Bates. 
 He was graduated from Boston University 
 in 1882 with the degree of A.B. ; taught 
 school one year and then taking up the 
 study of hiw at the Law School, received 
 the degree of LL. B. in 1885, and in that 
 year he was admitted to the bar. JMr. Bates 
 is idenlilicd with the Republican party and 
 in 1803 was elected to the lower hovise of 
 the Massachusetts Legislature; was reelect- 
 ed for live other successive terms, serving 
 as speaker of tlie house during his three 
 last sessions. In 1899 he was elected lieu- 
 tenant-govcrnoi- of Massachusetts and was 
 twice reeU'cled until 1902, when lie was 
 nominal cd and (dccted governor. He was 
 reeh'cted tlie following year, but was de- 
 feated for a third term. Covcrnor Bates is 
 a director of several banking institutions 
 and is president of the board of trustees of 
 Boston University. He is a thirty-third de- 
 gree IVIason, and an Odd Fellow, and a mem- 
 ber of the Beta Thota Pi fraternity. He 
 married at Jamestown, N. Y., July 12, 
 LSST, C'hvra Elizabeth Smith and has two 
 cliildren. Residence: Monmouth Square, 
 oilice: 7:? 'Fremont Street, Boston. 
 
 BATES, Katharine Lee: 
 
 Author and educator; born at Kainiouth, 
 Mass., Aug. 12, 1859; daughter of Rev. 
 William and Cornelia Frances (Lee) Bates. 
 She was graduated from Wellesley College 
 as A.B., in 1880, and after graduation 
 taught in tlic Natick High School and after- 
 ward at Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass., until 
 1HS5, when she entered the teaching stafT 
 of Wellesley College as instructor in Eng- 
 lisli literatine, becoming associate profes- 
 sor, 1888, and since 1891 professor in 
 charge of the Department of Knglish Litera- 
 
 ture. Professor Bates has edited numerous 
 editions of English classics, and is author 
 of: The College Beautiful, and Other 
 Poems; Rose and Thorn (a prize story) ; 
 Sunshine, and Other Verses for Children; 
 Hermit Island (story) ; The English Re- 
 ligious Drama (a course of lectures; Amer- 
 ican Literature; Spanish Highways and 
 Byways; From Gretna Green to Land's 
 End; The Canterbury Pilgrimage Retold 
 for Children; also various booklets and 
 magazine articles. She is a member of the 
 Phi Beta Kappa Society and of the Boston 
 Authors' Club. Address: Wellesley Col- 
 lege, ^^■ellesley, Mass. 
 
 BATES, Linden Wallace: 
 
 Contractor; was born at Marshtield, Vt., 
 Nov. 19, 1858; son of William Wallace and 
 Marie (Cole) Bates. He took the Yale Uni- 
 versity technical course, finishing in 1879. 
 He went west as assistant engineer on the 
 Northern Pacific, Oregon Railway and 
 Navigation Company, and Oregon Pacific 
 Railways. He was afterwards engaged as 
 contractor on various works on the Pacific 
 Coast, and built several dredges on im- 
 proved plans. He prepared reports and 
 projects for the improvement adopted for 
 the port of Antwerp, 189(i-1902; executed 
 a series of work on the Suez Canal in behalf 
 of its enlai'gement ; was retained by the 
 Russian Government to design inqirove- 
 ments for the ports and channels of the 
 Black Sea; the Sea of Azov; the rivers Dnie- 
 per, Volga and Bug, and the Canal Marie; 
 also by the Queensland Government to pro- 
 ject and direct harbor works at Brisbane, 
 and six other Colony ports. He prepared 
 projects also (many since executed), at the 
 request of the South Australian Govern- 
 ment, for Adelaide, for four other harbors 
 and rivers, and for extension of railroad 
 system. He designed a system of regula- 
 tion for the Hugli in behalf of the Calcutta 
 Port Board; and was also one of the engi- 
 neers on the International scheme for the 
 improvement of the port of Shanghai, 
 China. Mr. Bates was the contractor in the 
 work of raising the grade of Galveston 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 115 
 
 City and Island, and aiiotlier company, of 
 which he is president has contracts aggre- 
 gating some twenty-five miles of the New 
 York barge canal from the Hudson River 
 to Lake Erie and Black Rock harbor at 
 Bufl'alo, N. Y. Mr. Bates was awarded the 
 Grand Prix and a decoration by the French 
 Government in 1900 for distinguished serv- 
 ices to science, and has tw^o other Govern- 
 ment decorations. He is a member of the 
 leading engineering societies in the United 
 States and Europe. Mr. Bates married at 
 Chicago in 1S81, Josephine White, and has 
 two sons. Address : 14 East 60th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 BATES, T. Towar: 
 
 Banker; born in Jersey City, N. J., Feb. 
 10, 1874; son of Alfred W. and Cephise 
 C. Bates (nee Towar). He was graduated 
 from the Berkeley School of New Y'ork 
 City and from Columbia University, 1895. 
 He started in business with the dry goods 
 commission house of Faulkner, Page & 
 Co., of New Y'ork City and Boston, of 
 which firm his father had been a member 
 for about twenty years. After some years 
 in the dry goods business he engaged in 
 the bond and investment security busi- 
 ness, and Jan. 1, 1905, with Henry W. and 
 \Mlliam B. Shoemaker (sons of Henry F. 
 Shoemaker), started the banking house 
 of Shoemaker and Bates. The present firm 
 of Shoemaker, Bates & Co. was formed Jan. 
 1. 1907, and does an extensive banking and 
 general bond and stock business, with of- 
 fices in Chicago and Philadelphia, as well 
 as in New Y^ork City. He is a member of 
 the New Y'ork Stock Exchange. April 1, 
 1905 he received a full and honorable dis- 
 charge from the National Guard of the 
 State of New York, having served ten years 
 as a member of Troop 2, Squadron A, Na- 
 tional Guard of New Y^ork. He is a Re- 
 publican and Episcopalian, and a member 
 of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Mr. 
 Bates married in New York City, Bertha 
 Schefer, daughter of Carl Schefer, a promi- 
 nent banker and dry goods importer of New 
 York City. Residence: Woodlands, Con- 
 
 vent. X. ,1. Ullice: M Wall Street, New 
 York Cily. 
 
 BATTLE, William James: 
 
 Pro/essor of Greek; born in Kalcigii, N. 
 C, Nov. 30, 1870; son of Kemp Plumnier 
 and Martha Ann Battle. He was graduated 
 from the University of North Carolina, A. 
 B., 1888; was inslruclor in Latin there, 
 1889-1890; llicn cnfcrcd upon graduate 
 study in Harvard University, from which 
 he took the degrees of A. M., 1891, and Ph. 
 D., 1893. He took the Greek prize, edited 
 the College jMagazine, was president of one 
 of the two literary societies, and delivered 
 the classical oration at graduation, in the 
 University of North Carolina; and held the 
 Thayer Scholarship one year and the Mor- 
 gan Fellowshiji two years at Harvard. He 
 was elected tutor in Latin in the University 
 of Chicago, 1893, but later in the same year 
 resigned to become associate professor of 
 Greek in the LIniversity of Texas. In 1908 
 he was made professor of (ireek in the Uni- 
 versity of Texas, and, in 1908. dean of the 
 College of Arts. Professor Battle is a 
 meml»cr of the Texas Academy of Science, 
 the American Philological Society, the 
 Archa-ological Institute of America, the 
 Hellenic Society of England, the ArchsBo- 
 logical Society of Athens (Greece) ; the Zeta 
 Psi fraternity, and the University and 
 Town-and-Gown Clubs of Austin. Address: 
 2200 San Antonio Street, Austin, Texas. 
 
 [BAUER, Louis Agricola: 
 
 I Director Department of Terrestrial Mag- 
 netism of tlu' Carnegie Institution of Wash- 
 I ington ; 1)0111 in Cincinnati, Ohio, .Tan. 26, 
 11865; son of Ludwig and Wilhelmina 
 ! (Buehler) Bauer. He was graduated from 
 I the L'uiversity of Cincinnati, as C.E. in 
 1888, and received its degree of M.S. in 
 I 1894, and Ph.D. and M.A. from the Uni- 
 versity of Berlin in 1895. He was assistant 
 civil engineer. Walnut Hills Cable Road', 
 and of Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas 
 j Pacific R. R., Cincinnati, Ohio. 1886-1887; 
 was next computer in the I'nited States 
 i Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1 887-1892; and 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 from 1892 lo 1S!)5 lie pursuod special studies 
 and investigations in physics and geophys- 
 ics at the University of Berlin and at the 
 Potsdam ^Magnetic Observatory; engaged 
 as docent of mathematical physics and in- 
 structor of geophysics, University of Chi- 
 cago, 1895-1897; and as assistant professor 
 of mutliematics and mathematical physics 
 at the University of Cincinnati, 1897-1899. 
 From 1899 to 190G he was Chief of the Divis- 
 ion of Terrestrial Magnetism and inspector 
 of magnetic work in the U. S. Coast and 
 Geodetic Survey, during which period a 
 general magnetic survey of the United 
 States was completed. He became director 
 of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 
 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 
 in 1904. He was also chief of the Division 
 of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Maryland 
 Geological Survey from 189G-1899; astrono- 
 mer. and magnetician of the Boundary Sur- 
 veys of Maryland, 1897-1898, and has been 
 lecturer on terrestrial magnetism at the 
 Johns Hopkins University since 1899. He 
 is editor-in-chief of Terrestrial Magnetism 
 and Atmosplicric Electricity founded by 
 him in 1896. He lias been a member of the 
 International ^leteorological Conference 
 since 1898, as a member of the Permanent 
 Committee on Terrestrial Magnetism; also 
 member of the Committee on Terrestrial 
 ^Magnetism of the International Associa- 
 tion of Academies, since 1904. Dr. Bauer 
 is a fellow of the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science, (vice-presi- 
 dent. Section Physics, 1909), and a mem- 
 ber of the American Physical Society; the 
 American Astronomical and Astrophysical 
 Society; National Geographical Society; As- 
 sociation of American Geographers, (first 
 vice-president, 1909) ; Washington Academy 
 of Sciences; Washington Philosophical So- 
 ciety (president for 1908); Washington 
 Literary Socity; Sociedad Cientifica An- 
 tonio Alzate of Mexico; International Con- 
 gress of Arts and Sciences; corresponding 
 member of the Konigliche Gesellschaft der 
 Wissen-schaften zu Guttingen since 1906; 
 and a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity 
 and of the Cosmos Club of Washington. 
 Address: The Ontario, Washington, D. C. 
 
 BAUGH, Daniel: 
 
 Manufactui cr ; born in Chester County, 
 Pa., Oct. 22, 1S3G. He was educated at pri- 
 vate seminaries. His family, for several 
 generations, has been engaged in the tan- 
 ning business or connected with the leather 
 industry, but in 1853 his father decided to 
 turn his attention to the manufacture of ar- 
 tificial fertilizers by chemical and other 
 means, converting the power and machinery 
 of the old works to use in the new. In 
 1855 he associated with him his sons Daniel 
 and Edwin, under the firm title of Baugh 
 & Sons, and the manufacture of super-phos- 
 phate was begun and diligently developed. 
 In 18G0 the plant was removed to Philadel- 
 phia, and the Delaware River Chemical 
 Works established, new lines of manufactur- 
 ing being added till the business became 
 one of great impoi'tance. In 1862, during 
 the Civil War, Mr. Baugh, being a private 
 in the ranks of the Gray Reserves, went 
 with his regiment to the defense of the 
 State when it was menaced by General 
 Lee's Army, the regiment crossing into 
 Maryland about the time of the battle of 
 South Mountain, but not coming into ac- 
 tion. In 1888, his father and brother hav- 
 ing died, Mr. Baugh became president of 
 the Baugh & Sons Company, incorporated 
 the year before, and he is still at its 
 head. He was for ten years president of 
 the Art Club of Philadelphia and of the 
 Sanitarium Association, and is now presi- 
 dent of the Pennsylvania School of Design 
 for Women, a director of the Girard Na- 
 tional Bank and of a number of other finan- 
 cial, educational and charitable organiza- 
 tions in Philadelphia. Address: IGOl Lo- 
 cust Street, IMiihulelpliia. 
 
 BAUMANN, Gustav: 
 
 Hotel proi)rictor; born in Saint Gall, 
 Switzerland, in 1853; son of J. G. Baunmnn 
 and A. B. Baumann. He lived in Saint 
 Gall until 1871 and at Neufchatel from 1871- 
 1875, in London from 1875-1881, and came 
 to the United States in 1881. He became 
 connected with Kinsley's, then the loading 
 1 restaurant at Chicago, in which he was 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 partner and nianngcr until he removed to 
 New York City, where he is now of H. M. 
 Kinsley & Banniann, proprietor of the 
 Holland House. In religious afliliation he 
 is a Presbyterian; and he is a member of 
 1h(; Lotos, Swiss, Larchmont Yacht and 
 Fairfield County Golf Clubs. Address: 
 Holland House, Fifth Avenue, and Thirtieth 
 St reels, New York City. 
 
 BAXTER, Irving Franklin: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Liverpool, Onondaga 
 County, N. Y., Jan. 11, 1863; son of George 
 and Amie C. (Sitts) Baxter. After study- 
 ing law at Syracuse, N. Y., he was admitted 
 to practise law in the courts of that state. 
 He removed to Omaha, Neb., in 1887, and 
 began his legal practice there. Mr. Baxter 
 soon showed himself to be an able lawyer 
 and he was given various public offices and 
 lias been before the public eye continually. 
 In 1892 he was made attorney for the 
 Omaha Board of Education, and was elect- 
 ed the following year by the Republican 
 ])iirty of which he is a member, county 
 judge of Douglas County, Neb., and served 
 three terms, in all six years. This was fol- 
 lowed by five years as judge of the fourth 
 judicial district of Nebraska. Hi 1904 he 
 resigned the judgeship and became United 
 States attorney for Nebraska, which office 
 he held for two years, having prosecuted 
 land frauds and various other kind of cor- 
 ruption. He has since been a member of 
 tlie firm of Baxter and Van Dnsen, attor- 
 neys. On Sept. 2G, 1888, he married at 
 Liverpool, N. Y., Mary C. Gleason. _ Resi- 
 dence: The Madison. Address: New 
 \ork Life Building, Omaha, Neb. 
 
 BAXTER, Sylvester: 
 
 Author; born in West Y^armouth, Mass., 
 Feb. 6, 1850. He was educated in Leipzig 
 and Berlin, and entered newspaper work 
 in Boston, subsequently going to Mexico 
 where he was correspondent of American 
 ])apers and editor of the Mexican Financier. 
 He attended the Pan-American Conference 
 at Rio'Janiero in 190G as special corre- 
 spondent. In Boston he has taken an active 
 part in municipal afiairs. He was the fia'st 
 
 to suggest the organization of the Boston 
 Metropolitan Park System, and was secre- 
 tary of the preliminary commission tliat 
 brought about the co«Jperaf ion of Boston 
 with the surrounding municipalities in the 
 development of a park system and leading 
 to other metropolitan improvements. Mr. 
 Baxter's writings cover a wide scope, eco- 
 nomic, sociological, imaginative and in 
 verse. They include, among others, the fol- 
 lowing works: Cruise of a Land Yacht; 
 Berlin — A Study in Municipal Government; 
 The Boston Park Guide; The Old New 
 World, statement of the Hemenway South- 
 western Archaeological Expedition; Great- 
 er Boston, monograph ; Spanish Colonial 
 Architecture in Mexico; The Quest of the 
 Holy Grail; and Old Marblehead. He mar- 
 ried in East Bridgewater, Mass., Sept. 24, 
 1893, to Lucia Allen Millett. Address Mai- 
 den, Mass. 
 
 BAYLIES, Edwin: 
 
 Lawyer and author; born in Clinton. N. 
 Y''., Aug. 2:3, 1840. He was graduated from 
 Hamilton College as A.B., 18G2, and from 
 Hamilton College Law Scliool, as LL.B. in 
 1870, and has received the honorary de- 
 gree of LL.D. from his alma mater in 1901. 
 Mr. Baylies has resided in Johnstown, N. 
 Y'., since his admission to the bar in 1870 
 and has been constantly engaged in the 
 study and practice of the law and the 
 preparation of text-books both original and 
 edited from the works of earlier writers. 
 Among his books are: Questions and An- 
 swers for Law Students; Sureties and 
 Guarantors; Trial Practice; New Trials 
 and Appeals; Code Pleading and Forms; 
 and Supplement to Wait's Actions and De- 
 fenses. He is editor of the Revised Edi- 
 tion of Edwards on Bailments, American 
 Edition of Addison on Torts, and Wait's 
 Law and Practice. He was married in Mar- 
 cy, N. Y., May 2, 1871, to Agnes E. Nutter. 
 Address: Johnstown, N. Y. 
 
 BAYLOR, James Bowen: 
 
 Geodetist; born in Mirador, Va., May 30, 
 1849. He was educated in the University 
 of Virginia and has received the honorary 
 
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 deiii-pe of LI..D. from Baylor University. 
 Fn 1874 he was appointed an aide to the 
 United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 
 and has since been a field officer of tliat 
 service, having determined tlic elements of 
 the earth's mafjnetism from Canada to Mex- 
 ico in almost every State of the Union. He 
 has also done a large amount of geodetic, 
 astronomical and hydrographic work, es- 
 pecially in connection with the division of 
 the limits of oyster grounds as a means to 
 the ascertainment of the rights of individ- 
 uals and of the various States in such 
 grounds and for Ihc purpose of preventing 
 the waste of such public reserves. As a 
 part of this work, he made oyster surveys 
 in Louisiana and the " Baylor Survey " of 
 the oyster grounds of Virginia, together 
 with work relating to the oyster legisla- 
 ion of Maryland. He was the commissioner 
 of the United States Supreme Court for the 
 boundary of Virginia and Tennessee from 
 1900 to 1902; has been boundary engineer 
 on the Virginia and Maryland division, the 
 Pennsylvania and New York boundary, and 
 tlie United States and Canada boundary 
 survey. He has contributed to various re- 
 ports of the United States Cosjt and Geo- 
 detic Survey. Mr. Baylor is a member of 
 the Society of the Cincinnati, National Geo- 
 graphical Society, and Ihe Philosophical 
 Society of Washington. lie married at 
 Staunton Hill, Va., Jan. .">. 1881, Ellen 
 C. Bruce, who is now deceased. Residence : 
 Newmarket, Milford Postoffice, Va. Ollice: 
 United States Coast and (ieodefic Survey, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 BAYNE, Samuel Gamble: 
 
 Banker; born at Ulster. Ireland. 1844; 
 son of Peter and Margaret Bayne. He was 
 educated at tlie Royal Academy School and 
 Queen's College at Belfast. Ireland. He be- 
 gan his business life in 1lic ollice of Sir 
 James Hamilton, Belfasl. and later became 
 a linen mannfact nicr in Belfast. He came 
 to the United States in 1809, and went to 
 tile oil regions in Pennsylvania in isyo. 
 ilrilling 400 wells there. He made a Imir 
 f)f tlie woi Id in lS74-lS7r>. Mr. I'.axiir or 
 
 ganized First National Bank of P.radford, 
 Pa., becoming its president ; and subse- 
 quently organized National banks in Texas, 
 Kansas, Mississi])pi, Minnesota and Ohio. 
 He organized the Seaboard National Bank, 
 New York, in 188.3, and is now its presi- 
 dent. He is treasurer of Produce Exchange 
 Deposit Vaults and president of the Atlas 
 Improvement Company, and Riverside Drive 
 Property Association. He is author of: 
 Pith of Astronomy, 189G; On an Irish 
 Jaunting Car Through Donegal and Conne- 
 mara, 1902; Quicksteps through Scandina- 
 via, 1908. He is a member of the New York 
 Athletic Club. ]\Ir. Bayne married in New 
 York City, October. 1874, Emily Kelsey. 
 Residence: (winter) Riverside Drive and 
 108th Street, New York City; (summer) 
 White Plains, N. Y. OtTice 18 Broadway. 
 New York City. 
 
 BEACH. Amy Marcy Cheney (Mrs. H. H. A. 
 Beach) : 
 
 Composer; born in Henniker, N. H., Sept. 
 5, 1867; daughter of Cliarles Abbott and 
 Clara Imogen (Marc}') ' Cheney. She began 
 her education at home under her mother's 
 tuition, studied piano and harmony under 
 Junius W. Hill, Carl Baermann and Ern- 
 est Parabo., and afterward studied fugiie, 
 counterpoint, form and instrumentation from 
 text-books. She married in 188.^, Dr. Henry 
 Harris Aubrey Beach. As Miss Cheney she 
 attained much distinction as a pianist, 
 playing in concerts and recitals, and since 
 her marriage she has done much in musical 
 composition, taking a place in the foremost 
 rank of American composers .and enjoying 
 an international musical reputation. ^Irs. 
 Beach has composed music written to Brown- 
 ing's poetry, and in recognition of her 
 work in this direction has been made an 
 honorary member of the Boston Browning 
 Society, and she has composed many songs, 
 cantatas, masses, concertos, and otlier coin- 
 positions, for voice, piano and orchestra, 
 some of the best known of lur imblishcd 
 compositions being: Mass in ivilal. sung by 
 the Boston Handel and liaydn Society in 
 LS!I2 : (V)nccito foi' piano and orchestra, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 wliieh slie played witli the Boston Sym- 
 ]ilioiiy Orchestra; the cantatas The Rose 
 (>(' Avontown (for female voices), Sylvaiiia, 
 wcddinjr cantata for mixed voices, The Sea 
 t'airie*; The Chambered Nautilus; Quintet 
 f(ir ]iiaiio and strin<i;s ; Part-songs for fe- 
 male voices; Service in A; many pieces for 
 the piano. Address: 28 Commonwealth 
 .\\('nue. Boston. 
 
 BEACH, Frederick Converse: 
 
 Editor and patent attorney; born in New 
 York City. March 27, 1848; son of Alfred 
 Ely and Harriet E. (Holbrook) Beach. He 
 was graduated from Sheffield Scientific 
 School, Yale University, as Ph.B. in 1868. 
 He was patent solicitor in Washington, D. 
 C. in 1868-1869; was afterward engaged as 
 assistant superintendent in construction of 
 the Beach pneumatic tunnel under Broad- 
 way, and was a manufacturer of electrical 
 instruments until 1877, when he entered 
 the office of The Scientific American, of 
 which he later became and still is one of the 
 editors; also editor-in-chief of Encyclopaedia 
 Americana. He is secretary and treasurer 
 of Munn & Company, patent attorneys and 
 publishers of The Scientific American; 
 treasurer of the Union Waxed and Parch- 
 ment Paper Company; president and treas- 
 urer American Photographic Publishing 
 Company, and is a well known amateur 
 ])hotogra])her. Mr. Beach married, at 
 Stratford. Conn., June 16, 1875, Margaret 
 Allen Gilbert, and they have two children. 
 Address: 361 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 BEACH, Henry Harris Aubrey: 
 
 Pliysician and surgeon; boiii at INliddle- 
 town, Conn, Dec. 18, 1843; son of Elijah 
 Beach and Lucy Smith (Riley) Beach. He 
 was educated in the Cambridge public 
 schools. During the Civil War he enlisted 
 in the regular army and served two years 
 in the hospital corps until the close of 
 hostilities, becoming then surgical house 
 officer of tlie Massachusetts General Hos- 
 pital. At the same time he took up the 
 study of medicine at Harvard University 
 and was graduated M.D. in 1868. Besides 
 
 his jnivate })rai'tiec. Dr. Heach was ajipoint- 
 ed in 1868 assistant demonstrator of anat- 
 omy at Harv;ird Thiiversity and demonstra- 
 tor ;in(l member of tlir Harvard Faculty 
 in lS7il, and in 18!)!) lie became instructor 
 in clinical surgery, holding this position 
 until 1900, when lie became lecturer on the 
 same subject. l''or thirty-five years he has 
 served at the Massachusetts General Hos- 
 pital, first for one year, as'house surgeon, 
 .then consecutively for six years as surgeon 
 to out patients; twenty-eight years as visit- 
 ing surgeon, and from 1907 as consulting 
 surgeon. Dr. Beach has rendered valuable 
 service in surgeiy and the results of his 
 work are embodied in various articles and 
 medical papers. He was president of the 
 Boylston Medical Society of Harvard Uni- 
 versity, 1873-1874; is a member of the 
 American Medical Asociation, t'lie Massa- 
 chusetts Medical Society, Boston Society 
 for Medical Sciences, Boston Society for 
 Medical Improvement, Biological Society 
 of Washington, American x\ssociation for 
 the Advancement of Science and is honor- 
 ary member with medal of the first class of 
 the Academia Fisico-Chimica Italiano of 
 Palermo. Italy. He is a Republican in poli- 
 tics, and an Episcopalian in religion. He 
 has been twice married, first, June 7, 1871, 
 to Alice C. Mandell, of New Bedford, Mass.. 
 who died July 30, 1880, and second, Dec. 
 2, 1885. to Amy Marcy Cheney, of Boston, 
 Mass. Mrs. Beach has attained great dis- 
 tinction as a musical composer. Address: 
 28 Commonwealth Avenue. Boston. 
 
 BEACH, Rex Ellingwood: 
 
 Author; born at Atwood. ]Mich.. Sept. 
 1. 1877; son of Henry Walter and Eva 
 (Canfield) Beach. He was educated at 
 Rollins College. Winter Park, Florida, the 
 Chicago College of Law, and Kent College 
 of Law at Chicago. 111. He is author of: 
 Pardneis; The S])oilers; The Barrier; The 
 Silver Horde, lie also dramatized The 
 Spoileis and The Harrier and has written 
 various articles and stories for American 
 and Knglish magazines and periodicals. 
 Address; 259 \V. 701 h St.. New York, N. Y. 
 
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 BEAL, Junius Emery: 
 
 Regent of the Univeraily of Michigan; 
 born at Port Huron, Mich., Feb. 23, 1860, 
 of New England parentage, his grandfather 
 Field, great-grandfather and great-great- 
 grandfather, having been Yale graduates. 
 His mother died when he was eleven months 
 old and he was adopted by his uncle Rice 
 A. Beal. He received his education at the 
 Ann Arbor higTi school and University of 
 ^liehigan, being graduated A.B. in 1882. 
 During vacation, he worked in his father's 
 printing office at the case and in the press 
 room, getting familiar with the mechanical 
 part of the business, and on graduation he 
 assumed the editorship of the Ann Arbor 
 Courier. When R. A. Beal died in 1883 he 
 took up the work and carried on hook pub- 
 lishing in connection with the newspaper 
 for twenty years, Avhen he sold out. The 
 Dr. Chase Recipe Book published by him 
 had a sale of a million copies in its various 
 editions. Mr. Beal has been a member of 
 the Ann Arbor School Board for twenty 
 years, and was president of the Michigan 
 Press Association in 1893. He has traveled 
 extensively through Europe, including Rus- 
 sia, and about the Caribbean Sea. He is 
 a member of various Masonic orders and a 
 director of the Detroit F. & M. Insurance 
 Co., and on other boards. Mr. Beal has 
 always been an active Republican, a presi- 
 dential elector in 1888; president of the 
 Michigan League of Rei)ublican clubs, 1889- 
 1890, and was elected to the Legislature in 
 1904, by 711 majority, the largest the First 
 District had ever given. In April, 1907, he 
 was elected Regent of the University of 
 Michigan by over 105,000 majority. He is 
 married and has two children, a bo}- and a 
 girl. Address: Ann Arbor, Mich. 
 
 BEALE, Joseph Henry, Jr.: 
 
 Educator; l)orn in Dorchester, Mass., Oct. 
 12, 18G1. He was educated at Harvard 
 College, A.M. 1882 and LL.B. 1887; Univer- 
 sity of Wisconsin, LL.D. and the University 
 nl Chicago. After a number of years' prac- 
 1 ice of the law in Boston he became teacher 
 of law at Harvard Law School, and has 
 
 been professor of law there since 1897. He 
 was also for two years, 1902 to 1904, dean 
 of the law school of the University of 
 Chicago. Professor Bealc has taken a 
 prominent part in the modification of legal 
 practice through his writings, and in 1900 
 was a member of the Massachusetts State 
 Commission for Simplifying Criminal 
 Pleadings. He is the author of numerous 
 standard text-books on the law, including: 
 Cases on Criminal Law; Cases on Dam- 
 ages; Cases on Carriers; Criminal Plead- 
 ings and Practice; Cases on the Conflict of 
 Laws; Cases on Public Service Corpora- 
 tions ; Foreign Corporations ; Innkeepers ; 
 and Railroad Rate Regulation (with Bruce 
 ^Vyman ) . He married in Barnstable, 
 Mass., Dec. 23, 1891, Elizabeth C, Day. 
 Address: 29 Chaiincy Street, Cambridge, 
 Mass. 
 
 BEALE, Truxton: 
 
 Diplomat, author: born in San Francisco, 
 Calif., March G, 185G; son of Edward F. 
 and Mary (Edwards) Beale. He was grad- 
 uated from the Pennsylvania Military Col- 
 lege at Chester, Pa., in 1874, and from the 
 Law School of Columbia University, in New 
 York, as LL.B. in 1878. He engaged in 
 
 j la,w practice and made a special study of 
 
 i international questions, and was ai)iiointod 
 by President Harrison envoy extraordinary 
 
 I and minister plenipotentiary of the United 
 States to Persia, and from the legation at 
 Teheran was transferred to tlie post of 
 American minister to Greece. After his 
 service at Athens he became an extensive 
 traveler in the Orient, and particularly in 
 Siberia, Chinese Turkestan and other parts 
 
 I of Central Asia. Mr. Bcale is now de- 
 voting his attention to the management of 
 
 I large estates in California. He is a writer 
 in leading reviews and magazine-s of arti- 
 cles on Oriental and international subjects, 
 and is a member of tiie Asiatic Society. 
 Mr. Beale has been twice married, first to 
 Harriet Blaine, daughter of the late James 
 (t. Blaine, and second, at NeAV York City. 
 
 , April 23, 1903, to Marie Oge, of San Rafael, 
 
 I Calif., a granddaughter of the late Salmon 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 P. Cliaso. clii(!f justice of the Suprcnio 
 Court of the United States. Address: 222 
 Siuisonic Street, San Francisco. 
 
 BEALL, Jack: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman ; born in Ellis 
 County, Texas, Oct. 25, 18GG; son of Rich- 
 ard and Adelaide (Pierce) Beall. Both of 
 his parents were Kentuckians and were 
 among the early settlers of Texas. He was 
 reared upon a farm and attended the old- 
 fashioned coiuitry schools; taught school in 
 1884 and 1885; in 1886 entered the literary 
 department of the University of Texas and 
 in 1889 the law department, graduating 
 therefrom in 181)0, and has since been en- 
 gaged in the ])ractice of law. lie served 
 as a member of the Texas House of Repre- 
 sentatives for three years; and in the Texas 
 Senate for four years. Mr. Beall received 
 the Democratic nomination in 1902 and was 
 elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and 
 in 1904. 190G and 1908 was reelected to the 
 Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first Con- 
 gresses, and is now serving in the latter. 
 He married, in 1898, Patricia Martin. Ad- 
 dress : Waxaliachie, Texas. 
 
 BEALL, Mary Stevens: 
 
 Secretary of tlic Columbia Historical So- 
 ciety; born in Philadelphia; daughter of 
 James and Georgiana G. (Haines) Stevens; 
 graduated with honors and valedictory 
 from the Girls' High and Normal School 
 of Philadelphia; married in Philadelphia, 
 Alexander E. Beall^ of Washington, D. C, 
 and they have a daughter, Blanche Carroll 
 Beall (now Mrs. T. Magruder Hughes). 
 Her paternal ancestors came from England 
 and settled in Talbot County, Md., in 1652; 
 tlie first, William Stevens, holding the 
 ollice of King's justice. Her grandfather 
 Stevens died when her father was a lad 
 13 -years old, and as soon as the latter 
 attained his majority, he freed all the 
 slaves he had inherited, and about ten 
 years before the Civil War he gave $10,000 
 to help build tlie ship Mary Caroline, for 
 canying freed slaves to Liberia and estab- 
 lishing them there. Her maternal ancestors 
 came from Germany, the first, Peter 
 
 Snyder, being one of tiio first setthrs of 
 Germnntown. Pa. Author of: Militai-y 
 and Private Secretaries of George Washing- 
 ton (Volume I, records of the Columbia 
 Historical Society) ; Story of the Washing- 
 ton Coaclies and of the Powcl Coach now 
 at Mount Vernon; also historical sketches 
 and short stories in various papers and 
 magazines. Mrs. Beall has been secretary 
 of tlie Columbia Historicjxl Society since 
 1895, and is an associate member of the 
 National Alumni. Slie has classes each 
 winter in the study of Shakespeare, is a 
 lecturer on " The Merchant of Venice as 
 Shakespeare Saw It Played " and other 
 Sliakespearcan subjects, and has also pre- 
 pared a series of art lectures covering tlio 
 records from the earliest specimens of 
 Egypt, Greece and Rome, down to the 
 Christian Era. Mrs. Beall is active in the 
 institutional and charitable work of St. 
 John's Episcopal Church of Georgetown, 
 D. C. Address: 1643 Wisconsin Avenue, 
 ^Vashington, D. C. 
 
 BEAN, Tarleton Hoffman: 
 
 Fish culturist and zoologist; born at 
 Bainbridge, Pa., Oct. 8, 1846; son of 
 George and Mary (Smith) Bean. He was 
 graduated from the State Normal School at 
 Millersville, Pa., in 1866, later entering the 
 medical department of Columbian (now 
 George Washington) University, from 
 which he was graduated as j\I.D. in 1876, 
 and he received the degree of M.S. from 
 Indiana University in 1883. He was editor 
 of proceedings and bulletins of the United 
 States National IMuseum from 1878 to 
 1880, and curator of fishes there from 1880 
 to 1895, also editing the reports and bul- 
 letins of the U. S. Fish Commission from 
 188!) to 1892; and he was assistant in 
 charge of the Division of Fish Culture of 
 the U. S. Fish Commission from 1892 to 
 1895. He was director of the New York 
 Aquarium from 1895 to 1898, and acting 
 curator of fishes in the American iluseum 
 of Natural History. 1897-1898; was chief 
 of the departments of Fish, Game and 
 Forestry at the Louisiana Purchase Expo- 
 sition from 1902 to 1905, and is now State 
 
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 lisli oultmist of the Slate of New York, 
 lu recognition of his distinction as an ich- 
 thyologist and fish culturist he received 
 from France in 1901 the decoration of chev- 
 alier of the Legion of Honor, from Germany 
 in IDOf) that of Knight of the Red Eagle, 
 and from Japan in 1905 the Order of the 
 Rising Sun. Mr. Bean is the author of 
 several standard works on fish and fisheries. 
 He married in Wasliington, D. C, Jan. 1, 
 1878, Laurctte H. Van Hook. Address: 1 
 Madison Avenue, New York. 
 
 BEARD. Adelia Belle: 
 
 Artist and author; born in Painesville, 
 Ohio; daughter of James Henry Beard, 
 N.A., celebrated animal painter, and Mary 
 Caroline (Carter) Beard, daughter of Colo- 
 nel Thomas and Debora (Bartlett) Carter, 
 and, through the Bartletts directly related 
 to Josiali Bartlett, signer of the Declaration 
 of Independence. Miss Beard was educated 
 in private schools in Covington, Ky. ; stud- 
 ied art in Cooper Union, Art Students' 
 League, and Wyatt Eaton's studio, portrait 
 ))ainting under William M. Chase, life under 
 Walter Sliirlaw, and water colors under 
 Rhoda Holmes Nichols. Miss Beard's first 
 picture, submitted to the Academy of De- 
 sign, entitled " In the World but Not of 
 the World," was accepted, hung on the line, 
 and sold innnediatcly. Her works have 
 been exhibited in various prominent exhi- 
 bitions; also in the American Water Color 
 Society of New York. For one year Miss 
 Beard was supervisor of drawing in the 
 public schools of Flushing, L. I., and for 
 several years she carried du a private art 
 school in her own studio. She is joint 
 author, witli lier sister, Lina Beard, of: 
 Tlie American Girls' Handy Book; What a 
 Girl Can Make and Do; Recreation foi- 
 Girls; Things Worth Doing; and Home 
 Mission Handicraft (;ill ])ublish('d by 
 Charles Scribner's Sons) ; and she is a con- 
 tributor to various magazines and mnvs- 
 pa[)ers. Miss Beard is interested in all tliat 
 )nakes for the bellernient of mankind spirit- 
 ually, inciilally and jtliysically, in all new 
 inventions and discoveries; also in art. 
 
 especiall}' as related to painting and illus- 
 trating, handicrafts of all kinds, manual 
 training, and everything pertaining to out- 
 door life. Miss Beard is a member of the 
 National Child Labor Committee, charter 
 member of the Good Citizenship League of 
 Flushing, L. I., in which she has been re- 
 cording secretary, and chairman of the Art 
 Committee, and she founded, for the 
 League, the Building Fund, which has now 
 materialized into a fine club-house, an in- 
 spiration for other women's clubs. Ad- 
 dress: 100 Jaggar Avenue, Flushing, N. Y. 
 
 BEARD, Daniel Carter ("Dan Beard"): 
 
 Illustrator, author, editor; born in Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio, June 21, 1850; son of James 
 H. (National Academician and distin- 
 guished artist) and Mary Caroline (Cart- 
 er) Beard. He was educated as civil en- 
 gineer, and graduated second in class, and 
 studied art under Beckwith and Sartain. 
 He made detailed maps of most of the 
 cities, towns and villages east of Mississippi 
 River for a map i)ublishing company, and 
 later started as professional illustrator. 
 He illustrated Mark Twain's " Yankee in 
 King Arthur's Court," Ernest H. Crosby's 
 " Captain Jenks, Hero," John Jacob Astor's 
 and many other books; and has done work 
 for Life, Scribner's, Harper's, Century and 
 the Cosmopolitan. He was formerly editor 
 of Recreation, and contributor (in charge 
 of a department) in Outing and Ladies' 
 Home Journal and Circle; is associate edi- 
 tor of The Arena, but is especially known 
 for the books and articles written and 
 illustrated by himself, explaining various 
 lines of out door work and play especially 
 attractive to boys. Mr. lk>ard was an in- 
 timate friend of the late Henry George, 
 and has been continuously active as worker 
 and s])eaker in the single-tax propaganda. 
 lie is nii'inbcr of the Academy of Science, 
 Oniilliologisls' L^iiioM. ISiological Society, 
 Linnean So(aety, Zoological Society, Scien- 
 tilic Alliance; fellow of Society of illus- 
 trators (succeeded Charles Daiui Gibson as 
 ])resid(Mi1 of latter). His favorite recrea- 
 tions arc travelinij- in the Northwestern 
 
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 Wilderness, fishing and sketching wild ani- 
 mals; and he has recently published a book 
 of these sketches and notes. Mr. Beard 
 married at Newton, L. I., Aug. 15, 1894, 
 JSeatrice Alice Jackson, and they have two 
 eliildren. Address: 87 liowne Avenue, 
 Flushing-. Long Island, N. Y. 
 
 BEARD, Lina: 
 
 Author and illustrator; born in Cincin- 
 nati. Ohio; daughter of James Henry 
 Beard (National Academician and celebrat- 
 ed animal painter) and Mary Caroline 
 (Carter) Beard, who was a daughter of 
 Col. Thomas and Debora (Bartlett) Carter, 
 and through the Bartletts directly related 
 to Josiah Bartlett, signer of the Declara- 
 ion of Inde]>endence. Miss Beard was edu- 
 cated in Mrs. Collins' private school at 
 Covington, Ky., Wesleyan College, Cincin- 
 nati, and by Dr. Charles West at Brooklyn 
 Heights Seminary, Brooklyn, N. Y. She 
 studied drawing at Cooper Union and the 
 Art Students' League in New Y^ork City. 
 In collaboration with her sister, Adelia 
 Belle Beard, she has written and illustrated 
 four books : The American Girls' Handy 
 Book; What a Girl Can Make and Do; 
 Recreation for Girls; Things Worth Doing; 
 and Home Missions Handicraft (all pub- 
 lished by Charles Scribner's Sons). >She is 
 also a contribvitor to magazines and does 
 special work for newspapers. The Bureau 
 of Education of the U. S. Department of 
 the Interior lias solicited examples of Miss 
 Beard's work (which she has furnished) for 
 use in the Government exhibit at Seattle, 
 ]'M)d. Miss Beard is interested in all that 
 makes for develojiment and advancement, 
 also in nature, out door life, antiques and 
 handicrafts of all kinds; was one of the 
 organizers and directors of the Brooklyn 
 Primitive Art Club, and one of the founders 
 and directors of the Good Citizenship 
 League (first woman's club organized in 
 Flushing, L. I.), originated and for several 
 years was chairman of its Art Committee, 
 later chairman of the Political Economy 
 Committee and of the Board of Directors 
 of the League, and was its delegate to the 
 First National Arbitration and Peace Con- 
 
 gress, which was held in New York City in 
 April, 1{)07. Miss Beard is also well known 
 as an active and ardent single-taxer. Ad- 
 dress: 100 Jagger Avenue, Flushing, N. Y'. 
 
 BEATTY, Robert Chetwood: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, May 
 18, 1872; son of John Cuming Beatty and 
 Hetty (Bull) Beatty. He was graduated 
 from Columbia University Schools of Law 
 and Political Science, as LL.B. in 1894 and 
 LL.M. in 1895. He was junior assistant to 
 corporation counsel, New York City, in 
 1897; special counsel to city, in charge of 
 grade damage claims, from 1898 to 1903; 
 member of the bar of courts of New York 
 State, United States Supreme Court and 
 other Federal courts, and a master in chan- 
 cery of the United States Circuit Court for 
 the Southern District of New York. He is 
 member of the law firm of Beatty and Bur- 
 lingame (with Frederic Anson Burlin- 
 game). He is member of the Association of 
 the Bar of the City of New York, Society 
 of Colonial \\ars. Sons of Kevolution. He 
 is member of the Lawyers' Club and the 
 Century Association. Mr. Beatty married 
 in New York City, Jan. 30, 1901, Jean 
 Burlingame, and they have two daughters. 
 Address: 43 Codar Street, New York City. 
 
 BEATJPRe, Arthur M.: 
 
 Lawyer and diplomat; born at Oswego, 
 111., July 29, 1853. After receiving an 
 education in the public schools of Oswego, 
 he removed in 1874 to Aurora, 111., where 
 he studied law, and he was admitted to 
 ])ractise by the Supreme Court of Illinois. 
 Ho practised law at Aurora, and in 1880 
 was elected to the oflice of county clerk of 
 Kane County, 111. He was appointed by 
 President ^IcKinley to the otlice of consul- 
 general and secretary of the legation at 
 Guatemala, in Oct., 1897, was transferred 
 to Colombia in the same capacity in Oct., 
 1899, was appointed United States minister 
 to Colombia, in Feb., 1903, and served 
 tlurc <luring the pendency of the Panama 
 Canal Treaty in the Colombian Congress, 
 and in March, 1904, he was appointed by 
 President Roosevelt, envoy extraordinary 
 
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 and minister pk-uipotentiary to the Argen- 
 tine Republic, in which ollice ho served 
 until his appointment to his present post as 
 American minister to the Netherlands. 
 Mr. Beaupre married, in De Kalb, 111., 
 Oc. 20, 1S80, Mary F. Marsh, daughter of 
 Hon. C. W. Marsh. Residence: Aurora, 
 111. Official address: American Legation, 
 Tlie Hague, Holland. 
 
 BECK, Carl: 
 
 Surgeon ; born in Neckargemuend, Ger- 
 many, April 4, 1856; son of Wilhelm and 
 Sophia (Hiihler) Beck. After attending an 
 institution conducted by his granduncle, 
 Rev. August Hohler, and in the Gymna- 
 sium of Heidelberg, he pursued his profes- 
 sional studies in the Universities of Heidel- 
 berg, Berlin and Jena, receiving his medical 
 degree at Jena in 1879. Coming to the 
 United States in Feb., 1882, he has since 
 practised surgery in New York City, where 
 he has attainted a position of distinction in 
 his profession, and an international au- 
 thority on the surgical and therapeutic uses 
 of the Rontgen ray. He is author of valued 
 surgical text-books and various professional 
 papers, and also a contributor to general 
 literature, among the more prominent of his 
 writings being: Manual of Surgical Asep- 
 sis; Text-book on Fractures; Die Rontgen- 
 strahlen im Dienste der Chirurgie; Rontgen 
 Ray Diagnosis and Therapy; Surgical Dis- 
 eases (English and German editions) ; 
 Rontgenlehre; Der Schwedenkonrad (a 
 novel of the Neckar Valley), Amerikanische 
 Streiflichter; Feuchtfroehliches und Fcuch- 
 tunfroeliches; Sonnenblicks vom latinischcn 
 Amerika, etc. Dr. Beck is president of St. 
 Mark's Ilosjiital and visiting surgeon to 
 that institution and to the German Poli- 
 klinik. lie is also president of the American 
 Therapeutic Society and of the German 
 Medical Society of New York, and a mem- 
 ber of otlior important medical societies in 
 the United Slates and Germany, and is 
 ])rofossor of suigery in the New York Post- 
 Graduate School and Hospital. Dr. Beck is 
 also president of the Union of Old German 
 Students of America. He married, in Ger- 
 
 many, Hedwig S., daughter of Chief Justice 
 Fricdrich Heinrich von Loeser. Address: 
 37 E. 31st Street, New York City. 
 
 BECK, James M.: 
 
 Lawj^er; born in Philadelphia, July 9, 
 1861. He was educated in the IMoravian 
 College in Bethlehem, Pa., graduated with 
 the degree of A.B. in 1880, received the 
 degree of LL.D. from Muhlenberg College 
 in 1892, and from Moravian College in 
 1894. He was admitted to the bar at 
 Philadelphia in 1884, was a partner with 
 William F. Harrity from 1885 to 1898; 
 assistant United States attorney of the 
 Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1888 
 to 1892 and from 1896 to 1900; and as- 
 sistant attorney-general from 1900 to 1903. 
 He has been prosecutor of many important 
 criminal cases in the State and Federal 
 Courts. As master, appointed by the 
 United States Court, he sold in April, 1902, 
 the Philadelphia Record for three million 
 dollars, the highest price ever obtained for 
 an American newspaper at public sale. In 
 1902 he entered the law firm of Sherman 
 and Stirling of New York City, removing 
 there, but remains also senior member of 
 the firm of Beck & Robinson of Philadel- 
 phia. Mr. Beck has delivered many notable 
 orations on patriotic and other important 
 occasions. Mr. Beck married Lilla, daugh- 
 ter of James Mitchell of Philadelphia. Ad- 
 dress: 44 Wall Street, New York. 
 
 BECKER, Frederick Walter: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Ann Arbor, Midi., Oct. 
 27, 1844; son of Hiram and Sophia (Mil- 
 lard) Becker. He was graduated from the 
 Ann Arbor High School, 1861, from the 
 University of Michigan, A. B., 1866 and 
 LL.B., 1867, and afterward attended lec- 
 tures at the Sorbonne, Paris, for two years. 
 He was admitted to the Illinois bar, 1869, 
 and was a member of the firm of Carter 
 and P.i<'krr (in ])artnership with Walter S. 
 Carter) iiulil 1874, of the lirm of Becker 
 and Dale (in partnership with Samuel E. 
 Dale) until 1880, and is now of the firm 
 of MacChesney, Becker and Bradley (in 
 
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 paitiu'i-sliip with Natlian William Mac- 
 Chesnoy and Herbert E. Bradley). Mr. 
 Becker has been ad'niiUed to practise in the 
 Federal Courts, iiieludins the iSuprcnie 
 Court of the United States, as well as to 
 the Illinois bar. He is a Republican, a 
 Presbyterian, a member of the Chicago Law 
 Institute, the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity 
 and the Twentieth Century Club. He mar- 
 ried, in 1882, Clara, daugher of Judge D. N. 
 Cooley, of Dubuque, Iowa, and they have 
 two sons, Walter C. and Harlan A. Resi- 
 dence: '4109 Berkeley Avenue. Omce: 108 
 La Salle Street, Chicago. 
 
 BECKER, Sherburn Merrill: 
 
 Capitalist; born in Milwaukee, Wis., 
 Nov. 13, 1876. Mr. Becker is one of the 
 leading citizens of the City of Milwaukee, 
 being prominently identified with the finan- 
 cial and civic affairs of that city. He is 
 president of the Hansen-Schmidt Tobacco 
 Company and interested in a considerable 
 number of financial «and industrial institu- 
 tions. He has for many years been actively 
 interested in the government of the munici- 
 pality and was for several years a member 
 of the Board of Aldermen, and in 1906 be- 
 came mayor of the city, serving with 
 marked ability. He is a member of the 
 leading clubs of the city. He married in 
 Milwaukee, in 1899, Irene Booth Smith. 
 Residence: 87 Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee. 
 
 BECKER, Tracy Chatfield: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Cohoes, N. Y., Feb. 14, 
 18.55. He was educated at Union College 
 and Albany Law School, and has received 
 the degree of LL.B. from Union College. 
 He was admitted to the bar in 1876, and 
 began the practice of law in Buff'alo. In 
 1894 he was president of the New York 
 Bar Association, also a member of the 
 New York Constitutional Convention of 
 that year. For several years he was pro- 
 fessor of criminal law and medical juris- 
 prudence of the University of BuflFalo, and 
 is the author of Witthaus and Becker's 
 Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic Medicine 
 and Toxicology, in two editions. In 1907 
 
 he was appointed special assistant to the 
 attorney-general of the United States for 
 the purpose of carrying on proceedings in- 
 tended to test the rights and responsibili- 
 ties of the holders of certain land grant 
 titles in the Northwest and was also as- 
 signed to carry on the prosecutions arising 
 out of land frauds. This work having 
 brought him into close contact with the 
 legal profession of the Pacific coast he de- 
 termined to remove his interests there, and 
 he has established himself at Los Angeles 
 in the practice of law. He married in 
 Cohoes, N. Y., Dec. 27, 187G, Minnie A. 
 LeRoy. Address: Los Angeles, Calif. 
 
 BECKHAM, J. Crepps Wickliffe: 
 
 Former governor of Kentucky; born near 
 Bardstown, Ky., Aug. 5, 1869; son of Wil- 
 liam N. and Julia (Wickliff"e) Beckham. 
 He received his education at the Centraf 
 University of Kentucky, from which he re- 
 ceived the degree of LL.D. 'He was ap- 
 pointed principal of the Bardstown High 
 School in 1888 and taught school for three 
 years. In 1893 he commenced the practice 
 of law, the same year being elected member 
 of the Kentucky House of Representatives 
 and serving in the session of 1894. He was 
 twice reelected and was elected speaker of 
 the House in 1898. In 1899 he was elected 
 lieutenant-governor, becoming governor at 
 Governor Goebel's death, Feb. 3, 1900. He 
 was elected that year over John W. Yerkes 
 to fill the rest of his term, ending Dec. 8, 
 1903. He was reelected governor in 1903, 
 over M. B. Belknap, to serve a full tenu 
 ending Dec. 10, 1907. On Nov. 6, 1906, he 
 was nominated in a State primary by the 
 Democratic party as candidate for United 
 States Senator from Kentucky over James 
 B. INIcCreary, the incumbent, the election 
 to be held in the General Assembly in 
 Jan., 1908, but as that Assembly had a 
 Republican majority on joint ballot, he 
 failed of election. He was chairman of 
 the Board of Trustees of Kentucky State 
 College and various other institutions, and 
 is a member of the college fraternity, Sig- 
 ma Alpha Epsilon. He is a iMason, a 
 
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 Kniglit 'rciH])l;ir. and an Elk, and a member 
 of the Ancient Order of United Woodmen. 
 He married at Owensboro. Ky., Nov. 21, 
 1900, Jean Raphael Fuqna. and has two 
 children. Address: Frankfort, Ky. 
 
 BECKINGTON, Alice: 
 
 Miniature painter; born in St. Charles. 
 Mo. ; daughter of Charles and Adeline 
 (Cheney) Bec-kington. She studied draw- 
 ing at the Art Students' League of New 
 York foi' two years; then went to Paris and 
 remained for four years as a student in the 
 Academic Julian and under Charles Lazar. 
 She has exhibited miniatures in the Paris 
 Salon and in all the best exhibitions in the 
 United States ; received honorable mention 
 at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, 
 and a bronze medal from the Louisiana 
 I'uicliast' Exposition at St. Louis. Miss 
 Bcckington is instructor in miniature paint- 
 ing in the Art Students' League, and is 
 one of tlie founders of the American Soci- 
 ety of IMinialure Painters. She has her 
 suiiniicr residence at Scituate, Mass. 
 Studio: 157 Carnegie Hall, New York City. 
 
 BECKWITH, Charles Minnigrode: 
 
 Protestant Episcopal bisliop; born in 
 Prince Oeorge County, Va., June 3, 1851. 
 He was educated at the University of 
 Georgia and the Berkeley Divinity School, 
 and received tlie degree of D.D. from the 
 University of the South, where he was 
 master of grammar schools until 1881, 
 when he was ordained deacon and priest. 
 He was rector of Trinity Church of Gal- 
 veston, and in 1902 was consecrated bishop 
 of Alabama. Bishop Beckwith is the au- 
 thor, among other works, of The Trinity 
 Course of Church Instruction; The Teach- 
 er's Companion to the Trinity Course; and 
 Rightly Instructed in God's Holy Word. 
 He married in Galveston, Texas, May 11, 
 1897, Mary Belle Cameron. Residence: 
 Anniston, Alabama. 
 
 BECKWITH, Isbon Thaddeus: 
 
 (Jlcrgyiuaii. theologian; born at Old 
 Lyme, Conn., in 184.3; son of William and 
 Caroline (Champion) Beckwith. He was 
 
 graduated from Yale as A.B. in 1808, 
 and Ph.D. in 1872, took graduate work at 
 Leipzig and Gflttingen, 1872-1874, and 
 received the degree of D.D. from Trinity 
 College, Hartford, in 1898. He was in- 
 structor in Greek at the University of Ten- 
 nessee, 1868-1870; at Yale 1870-1872, and 
 1874-1879; professor of Greek at Trinity 
 College, Hartford, 1879-1898; professor of 
 New Testament interpretation in the Gen- 
 eral Theological Seminary in New York 
 City, 1898- 190G, and from 1907 lecturer 
 in biblical studies at Trinity College, Hart- 
 ford, Conn. He was ordered deacon in 1875 
 and ordained priest in 1876, in the min- 
 istry of the Episcopal Church. Dr. Beck- 
 with is a member of the Biblical and Ex- 
 egetical Society, the American Philological 
 Society, and the American Archaeological 
 Society. Address: Hartford, Conn. 
 
 BECKWITH, J. Carroll: 
 
 Artist; born at Hannibal, Mo., Sept. 23. 
 1852; son of Charles •Henry and Martha 
 Melissa (Owen) Beckwith. He commenced 
 studying art in Chicago in 1869, and in 
 1871 came to New York City, studying at 
 the National Academy of Design for two 
 years. Thence he went to Paris, France, 
 where he entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts, 
 later becoming a pupil of the famous 
 French artist, Carolus Duran, for five years. 
 In 1878 he established himself as a portrait 
 painter in New York City. He has been 
 instructor in the schools of the Art Stu- 
 dents' League of New York City for eight- 
 een years; also at the Cooper Institute, 
 and in the schools of the Metropolitan Mu- 
 seum of Art, New York City. He has oc- 
 cupied the offices of president Na- 
 tional Free Art League; vice-president of 
 the Fine Arts Commission of the City of 
 New York; treasurer of the Society of 
 American Artists, and secretary of the 
 National Academy of Design. He has been 
 an exhibitor in all the important art ex- 
 hibitions of the past thirty years. He rep- 
 resents the principles of conservative art 
 as opposed to impressionism. He has lived 
 many years in Europe and has traveled 
 extensively through France, Germany, 
 
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 Kaly, Kn.t'huul, Spuin, Egypt and Greece, 
 lie is a National Academician; a member 
 of the corporation of the Metropolitan 
 Museum of Art; of the American Water 
 Color Society and other art societies. He 
 married in New York City, June 1, 1887, 
 Bertha Hall. Country address: Onteora 
 Club, Tannersville, N. Y. Residence: 8 
 East 58th Street. Studio: 58 West 57th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 BEDE, J. Adam: 
 
 ( 'onyressman and journalist ; born on a 
 farm in Ix)rain County, Ohio, in 1856; his 
 father being a Welshman by birth, and his 
 iiiolher of New England stock and Scotch 
 extraction. He was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Ohio; taught school, learned 
 tilt' printer's trade and engaged in newspa- 
 ])cr work as a profession. He has lived in 
 most of the Western and Southern States 
 and did reportorial work in Washington. 
 He supported Grover Cleveland in 1888 
 and 1892, and was appointed United States 
 marshal for the district of Minnesota in 
 1S!)4. He served through the great rail- 
 road strikes of that year and resigned, 
 lie returned to the Republican party on the 
 linaneial issue in 1894, campaigning in 
 several states that year, and in 1898 and 
 1900. He decided to go to Congress as a 
 Republican and was elected from the Eighth 
 ^Minnesota District to the Fifty-eighth Con- 
 gress, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth and 
 Sixtieth Congresses serving until March 4, 
 1909. He has lectured extensively on po- 
 litical and patriotic subjects under lead- 
 iiiii bureaus. Address: Pine City, Minn. 
 
 BEDFORD, Edward Thomas: 
 
 Capitalist; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 
 19, 1849; son of Frederick Thomas and 
 Mary Ann Elizabeth (Pace) Bedford. He 
 was educated in the public schools and at 
 ^Nlaplegrove Academy, Westport, Conn. 
 He is president and director of the New 
 York Glucose Company, the Bedford Petro- 
 leum Company of Paris, France, the Colo- 
 nial Oil Company of New Jersey, and the 
 Self-Winding Clock Company; is vice-pres- 
 ident and director of the State Safe Depos- 
 
 it Vaults; trustee of the Title Guarantee 
 and Trust Company; director and miMuber 
 of the executive committee of the Stand- 
 ard Oil Company, the Atlantic Refining 
 Company, the Thompson-Starrett Company, 
 and the Manufacturers' Trust Company. 
 He is a member of the Riding and Driving 
 and Parkway Driving Clubs of Brooklyn, 
 and of the Bridgeport Yacht, Black Rock 
 Harbor, and Hokanum Golf Clubs of Con- 
 necticut. Mr. Bedford married at Bronx- 
 ville, N. Y^, Dec. 1871, Mary Ann Dingee, 
 and they have five children. Residence: 
 181 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn. Address: 
 26 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 BEER, William: 
 
 Librarian of the Howard Memorial. Li 
 brary. Mr. Beer is a native of England, 
 having been born in Plymouth, Devon, May 
 1, 1849. He was educated at the Newcas- 
 tle-on-Tyne School of Physical Science, " 
 and studied nu^dicine in Paris, 1872-1878. 
 Mr. Beer came to the United States in 1886 
 and for several years practised as a min- 
 ing engineer, but in 1890 was appointed 
 librarian of the Topeka (Kan.) Public 
 Library, from which he went to the How- 
 ard Memorial Library in New Orleans. 
 In 1896 he created the New Orleans Public 
 Library and was librarian of both institu- 
 tions till 1900 when he resigned the latter 
 and remains librarian of the Howard Me- 
 morial Library. I\Ir. Beers is a member 
 of the American Antiquarian Society, the 
 Societe des Anierieanistes. the Soci6te 
 Geographique de France, the Grolier Club 
 of New York, the American Historical So- 
 ciety, the Louisana Historical Society, The 
 American Folk-Lore Society, the American 
 Economic Association, and the American 
 Library Association, as well as of several 
 State historical societies. He is a recog- 
 nized authority on library and historical 
 subjects. ResiV.ence: lOO.*? Camp St.. New 
 Orleans, La. 
 
 BEERS. Henry Augustin: 
 
 Educator; born at BulTalo, N. Y., July 2, 
 1847; son of George Webster and Elizabeth 
 
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 Victoria (Clerc) Beers, lie was graduated 
 from Yale Collego willi llii- dofirce of A.13., 
 18()!l. Following iiis gradinilion, he wont 
 to New York City, and was admitted to 
 the bar in 1870. For a year he practised 
 law, but in 1871 he returned to Y'ale as 
 tutor in English, subsequently becoming as- 
 sistant ])rofessor and. in 1880, professor of 
 Engli^ih literature, which chair he con- 
 tinues to hold. He is a member of the 
 Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and of Skull 
 and Bones. He is autiior of numerous 
 books on English and American literature, 
 among them being: Life of N. P. Willis, 
 1885; From Chaucer to Tennyson, 1890; 
 Initial Studies in American Letters, 1891; 
 A History of English Romanticism in the 
 Eighteenth Century, 1899, and A History 
 of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth 
 Century, 1901, also of several volumes of 
 fiction, essays and verse. He married at 
 ► Covington, Ky., July 7, 1873, Mary Heaton, 
 and they have eight children. Residence: 
 05 York Square. Address: Yale College, 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
 BEHREND, Bernard Arthur: 
 
 Electrical engineer; born in Pomerania, 
 Germany, May 9, 1875; son of Royal Coun- 
 selor yi. Behrend. He was educated by 
 private tutor, and at the University and 
 Polytechnic Institute of Berlin, graduating 
 in 1S94; came to the United States and has 
 since then been engaged in engineering 
 practice with specialization in electrical 
 engineering, being connected with the Bul- 
 lock Electric Manufacturing Company, of 
 which he was chief engineer for nine years. 
 He has been non-resident lecturer on engi- 
 neering subjects to several universities, and 
 chief electrical engineer and consulting en- 
 gineer to Allis-Chalmers Company and affil- 
 iated corporations. He is a member of the 
 Society of Civil Engineers, Germany, Ameri- 
 can Society of Mechanical Engineers, 
 the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 
 neers; and a fellow of the American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science. 
 He is inventor of numerous electrical de- 
 vices, and machinery which received a grand 
 
 prize from the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 
 tion at St. lx)uis, in 1904, which he served 
 as a member of the Inteinational Commit 
 tee of organization and IKnu which \w. re- 
 ceived a gold medal, lie is author of: 'llic 
 Induction INIotor — Its Theory and Design, 
 1900 (French translation, 1901), (German 
 translation, 1902); The Debt of Electrical 
 Engineering to C. E. L. Brown, 1901; En- 
 gineering Education, 1907, and is contribu- 
 tor of over thirty monographs to leading 
 .American and European journals and 
 transactions on engineering subjects ami on 
 the theory of alternating currents, mo- 
 tors and generators, and other scientific 
 subjects. He is now advisory engineer of 
 the Westinghouse Electric and Manufactur- 
 ing Company. Mr. Behrend is a member of 
 The Engineers' Club of New York. Resi- 
 dence: Pittsbvugh, Pa. Ofllce: Westing- 
 house Electric and Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, East Liberty, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 
 BELASCO, David: 
 
 Manager, playwright; born in San Fran- 
 cisco, California. July 25, 1859; son of na- 
 tives of England. He received his early 
 education under Catholic priests at Van- 
 couver, British Columbia, and was gradu- 
 ated from Lincoln College, California, in 
 1875. He early showed a predilection for 
 the stage ; was stage manager of the Bald- 
 win Theatre, in San Francisco in 1878, and 
 later stage manager of the Grand Opera 
 House and Metropolitan Theatre, at San 
 Francisco. During this time he was also 
 engaged in dramatizing novels, adapting 
 foreign plays and doing original work. 
 He went East in 1880, and took charge of 
 the productions of Mallory Brothers at 
 the Madison Square Theatre. He joined 
 forces with Charles Frohman in 1887, and 
 later was manager of Mrs. Carter in his 
 own version of Berton & Simon's Zaza, and 
 has been manager and proprietor of the 
 Belasco Theatre from 1902; also since 1908 
 proprietor and manager of the Belasco- 
 Stuyvesant Theatre in New York. He is 
 also proprietor of the Belasco Ti)eatre in 
 Washington and directs the production of 
 
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 liis plays in difToront cilios. Imvinpr been for 
 ^ivrral years ongafjod in a fOTitest with 
 tlic ■• 'ri)oatrical Tnisl " so-called, in which 
 he has chaniitioiictl an independent stage. 
 He is nuthor and eo-iuillior of a large num- 
 ber of plays, most of which have been artis- 
 tic and financial successes and is especially 
 noted for his skill in stage production and 
 direction. Address: 115 West 44th St., 
 New York City. 
 
 BELDING, Alvah N. : 
 
 Silk manufacturer; born at Ashfield, 
 Mass., March 27, 1838 ; son of Hiram and 
 Mary (Wilson) Bclding. Mr. Belding was 
 one of the founders of the firm of Belding 
 Brothers, and is now vice-president and 
 secretary and manager of the manufactur- 
 ing part of the business of Belding Broth- 
 ers & 'Company. He is also president of the 
 Belding Land and Improvement Company; 
 vice-president of the Belding Savings Bank, 
 and director of the Spencer Electric Light 
 and Power Company, and the Belding Gas 
 Company, all of Belding, Mich.; director 
 of the James L Regan Company, of 
 Rockville, American Mills Company, the 
 Rockville National Bank and People's Sav- 
 ings Bank, all of Rockville, Conn.; mem- 
 ber of and director of the Belding, Paul 
 Company, Limited, Montreal, Canada, and 
 director of the Carison-Currier Company, 
 San Francisco, Calif. He married at 
 Shelburne Falls, Mass., Jan. G, 1870, Liz- 
 zie S. Merrick, and has two children. Ad- 
 dress: Rockville, Conn. 
 
 BELL, Alexander Graham: 
 
 Inventor; born in Edinburgh, Scotland. 
 March 3, 1847; son of Alexander Melville 
 Bell. He was educated at Edinburgh, and 
 at London University, of which he is LL.D., 
 Ph.D., and M.D. He has also received a 
 large number of degrees from Ainerican 
 and European imiversities, and in 1907 re- 
 ceived the degree of Sc.D. from Oxford 
 University. Professor Bell came to Ameri- 
 ca in 1870, studying in Canada for a year, 
 when he came to Boston as professor of 
 vocal physiology at Boston University. His 
 early work was in connection with attempts 
 9 
 
 to teach jiersons to speak who are unite 
 because of having been deaf from biitli, 
 so that they liad no incentive to imitate 
 the voices of uDrinal persons. In the course 
 of experiments arising out of his investi- 
 gations he invented the telephone, a pat- 
 ent for which was granted February 14, 
 1876. The great financial success of this 
 invention has enabled Professor Bell to 
 devote the remainder of his life to study 
 and experimentation and he has not only 
 perfected numerous devices of great value 
 to humanity, but has carried on experi- 
 ments which have enabled others less fortu- 
 nately situated to complete inventions 
 which been of very considerable advantage 
 to the inventors of the world. He was as- 
 sociated with C. A. Bell and Sumner Tain- 
 tor in the invention of the graphophone, 
 and for a number of years has been engaged 
 on experiments in the art of flying, having 
 applied the tetrahedral unit to the construc- 
 tion of aeroplanes, making such progress in 
 the application of this particular princi- 
 ple to aerial flight that it is confidently 
 believed that the first flying machine whicli 
 will solve the dangers of heavier than air 
 flight will be developed along the lines 
 of Professor Bell's method. He is ex-presi- 
 dent of the American Association to Pro- 
 mote Teaching of Speech to the Deaf; the 
 National Geographical Society, and regent 
 of the Smithsonian Institution. He was 
 awarded by the French Government in 1880 
 the Volta prize, and in 1902 received a 
 me(^al from the London Society of Fine 
 Arts. He is an officer of the French Tjcgion 
 of Honor; founder of the Volta Bureau; and 
 is a member of the National Academy 
 of Sciences^ and other scientific organiza- 
 tions. He has writen many papers on 
 scientific and educational subjects, includ- 
 ing a Memoir on the Formation of a Deaf 
 Variety of the Humane Race. He married, 
 in 1887, Mabel Gardiner, daughter of 
 G. G. Hubbard. Dr. Bell has two daugh- 
 ters; the oldest, Elsie, married Gilbert IT. 
 Grosvcnor, editor of the National Geograph- 
 ic Magazine, in 1900, and the younger, Ma- 
 rian, married David Fairchild, in charge of 
 Agricultural Explorations of the Depart- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 iiient of A»ricultuip. in IIH).'). Address: 
 l.S.Sl Connoetieiit Avciuic. \\ ;i~liiiiiitoii, D. C. 
 
 BELL, Charles James: 
 
 Ex-<>overnor and farmer; born in Waldon. 
 Vermont, IMarch 10, 1845; son of James 
 Dean and Caroline (Warner) Bell. He 
 was educated iu the common schools and at 
 Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.. and he 
 received the degree of LL.D. from Norwich 
 University at Northfield, Vt. He served in 
 Vermont infantry and cavalry regiments 
 during the Civil War, and since then has 
 been continuously engaged in agriculture. 
 He was secretary of the State Board of 
 Agriculture of Vermont for eight years; 
 railroad commissioner of Vermont for two 
 years ; has served in the House of Repre- 
 sentatives and Senate of the Vermont Leg- 
 islature, and was governor of Vermont, 
 1905-1906, being elected on the Republi- 
 can ticket. Governor Bell was master of 
 the State Grange of Vermont, 1894-1906, 
 and is now a member of the Executive Com- 
 mittee of the National Grange, and he is a 
 director of Phillips Academy and a mem- 
 ber of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
 He married at Cabot, Vt., Oct. 4, 1870, 
 Mary Louise Perry, and they have two 
 daughters. Address: East Hardwick, Vt. 
 
 BELL. Clark: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Whitesville, Jefferson 
 County, N. Y., March 12, 1832; son of 
 Philander V. and Sylvia (Jones) Bell; ed- 
 ucated at Franklin Academy; LL.D., Tay- 
 lor University, Indiana, and Rutherford Col- 
 lege, North Carolina. Admitted to bar, 
 Rochester, N. Y,, 1853; practised at 11am- 
 mondsport, N. Y., 1853-1861; Bath, N. Y., 
 1861-1864; in New York City, .since 1864; 
 attorney Union Pacific Railway, 1864, and 
 drew the act and had charge of the legisla- 
 tion whicli jjassed Congress to aid its 
 const ruet ion ; attorney for Pacific Mail 
 Steamsliip Company. President Medico- 
 l..egal Society, fourteen terms; founder 
 American International Congress on Tuber- 
 culosis in 1900 (honorary president, St. 
 Louis, l!i()4; treasurer and secretary Coun- 
 
 cil of Congress. New York City. 1900), 
 ]"]ditor and publisher, since 1SS3, of Medie<i- 
 Legal .l<)iiin;il. Ivlilor of Mi'dieo-Legal 
 Papers ( 1 hicc \ oluiiics ) : llullctiii Amer- 
 ican Congress on Tul)crculosis (four vol- 
 umes) ; Proceedings Medieo-Legal Congress 
 of 1889 and 1895; Govcnnncnt delegate of 
 the U. S, A. to the I'aris International 
 Medical Congress, 1900, and honorary presi- 
 dent of the section of medical jurispru- 
 dence. (Jovernnient delegate to the Lis- 
 bon International ]\Iedical Congress of 
 1906 at Lisbon, Portugal. Autlior: Bell's 
 .Medico-Legal Studies ( elc\i'n volumes; 
 Spiritism, Telepathy and Hypnotism; His- 
 tory of the Supreme Court of the States 
 and Provinces of Nortli America (New 
 York and fifteen other States),, two vol- 
 umes. He married Sp])t. 8, 1875, Helene 
 S. Taylor. Residence: 170 W. SeVenty- 
 tifth Street, Union League Club. Address: 
 39 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 BELL, Digby: 
 
 Actor; born in ^Milwaukee. Wis., in 1849. 
 He received a musical education at Na- 
 ples and had a foreign debut. He returned 
 to the United States and entered comic 
 opera, plaj'ing the leading baritone parts, 
 and subsequentlly entered the field of light 
 comedy, making a great success in the play 
 "The Education of Mr. Pip|i." in which 
 he appeared in the title n'A:- at the liead of 
 his own company. He married, in 1882, 
 Laura Joyce, a prominent comic opera 
 contralto, who died in 1904. Address: 
 1476 Lexington Avenue. New York City. 
 
 BELL, Hill McClelland: 
 
 President of Drake University; horn in 
 Ohio in 1860; son of .1. 11. nnd Elmy A. 
 (Cooper) Bell; removed willi parents to 
 Iowa in 1865. lie was educ.ited in Hazel 
 Dell Academy, Newton, iowa, the Western 
 Normal College at Shenandoah, Iowa, and 
 at Drake University from which lie re- 
 ceived the degrees of A.B. in 1S90 and A. 
 M. in 1899; and tlie degree of LL.D. wa- 
 conferred upon him hy Simp-'on College, in 
 1905. He began his e.uccr a^ an educator 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 III till' ;i,uc (if IS. ;is lonelier of ,i eoiiiitry 
 ~cliiMil. siidii after heeoniin^ |Miiieii):il of 
 the village seliools of l.iiiinille. lowa. 
 lie was siiiierilltelKlelit of sehooU at IscllogfJ', 
 Iowa. ISSr)-1888, toachor of inatlieiuitics in 
 tlie N'oniial College of Drake University, 
 iSSS-1890; teacher of English in Highland 
 I'ark College, Iowa, 1890-1894; teacher 
 1894-1897. and president 1895-1897, of 
 Lineoln Normal College, Lincoln, Neb. He 
 returned to Drake University in 1897, serv- 
 ing as dean of the Normal College from 
 1897 to 1900, vice-chancellor of Univer- 
 sity. 1900-1901, dean of the College of 
 iJheral Arts 1901-1903 and acting chan- 
 cellor of the University for the year 1902. 
 In 1902 he was elected to his present posi- 
 tion as president of the University. Presi- 
 dent Bell is a member of the Board of Trus- 
 tees of the Carnegie Foundation for the 
 Advancement of Teaching; a member of the 
 Iowa Committee of Selection for the 
 Khodes Scholarship, and during the year 
 1906 was president of the College Section 
 of the Iowa State Teachers' Association. 
 He has at different times filled various im- 
 portant positions in the educational world, 
 and is author of some popular text-books 
 in English. He married at Kellogg, Iowa, 
 Sept. 2, 1886, Edith L. Orebaugh, and 
 they have five children. Residence: 1091 
 Twenty-sixth Street. Office: Drake Uni- 
 versity, Des Moines. Iowa. 
 
 BELL, James Franklin: 
 
 Major-general. United States Army; born 
 in Shelbyville, Kentucky, Jan. 9, 1856; 
 son of John Wilson and Sarah Margaret 
 Venable (Allen) Bell. He was appointed 
 to the United States ^Military Academy, 
 from which he was graduated in the class 
 of 1878. He captured a band of half-breed 
 Cree Indians near Fort Buford, South 
 Dakota, 1883; was in the Sioux campaign 
 at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, in 1891; was 
 adjutant of the regiment and secretary of 
 the Cavalry and Light Artillery School, 
 from 1891 to 1894. He was appointed colo- 
 nel of volunteers, July 5, 1899. He organ- 
 ized the Thirty-sixth Infantry of United 
 States Volunteers in the Philippine Is- 
 
 lands in .luly, 1899; commanding the reg- 
 iment to Deeemlier, 1899, and was awardi-d 
 the Congressional Medal of Honor for most 
 distinguished gallantry in action, Sept., 
 9, 18!)9, near Porae, Luzon, Philippine Is- 
 lands, while in advance of his regiment 
 charging seven insurgents with his pistol 
 and compelling the surrender of the captain 
 and two privates, under a hot and close fire 
 from the remaining insurgents concealed in 
 a bamboo thicket. He performed useful 
 service in the pacification and control of 
 the Philippines, and returned to the United 
 States in 1903, and then became com- 
 mandant of the Infantry and Cavalry 
 School and Staff College at Fort Leaven- 
 worth Kansas. He was promoted to ma- 
 jor-general of the United States Army, Jan. 
 3, 1907, and is now serving as chief of the 
 General Staff'. Address: Room 224, War 
 Department, Washington. 
 
 BELL, James S.: 
 
 Merchant miller; born in Philadelphia. 
 June 30, 1847; son of Samuel and Eliza- 
 beth (Faust) Bell. He was educated in the 
 public schools of Philadelphia and the Phil- 
 adelphia Central High School until 1863, 
 when he began business life as a clerk, con- 
 tinuing until 1868, wlien on attaining his 
 majority he became a partner in the firm 
 of Samuel Bell & Sons, in which connec- 
 tion he continued for twenty years. In 
 1888 he became a partner in the firm of 
 Washburn, Martin & Company, and the 
 following year became president of the 
 Washburn-Crosby Company, the great flour 
 milling corporation of ^linneapolis, and 
 has continued at the head of that company 
 ever since. He is also president of the 
 Royal Milling Company, vice-president of 
 the St. Anthony Elevator Company, the 
 St. Anthony and Dakota Elevator Company 
 and the Barnum Grain Company, and is 
 a director of the Northwestern National 
 Bank of Minneapolis. Mr. Bell is a Re- 
 |)ul)lican in his political views. He is a 
 niendier of the Union League Club of Phil- 
 adelphia and the Minneapolis Club of Min- 
 neapolis. Mr. Bell marrieil at Philadel- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 [iliia, .Tiin. 8, IST-V- ^^JiHio Moiitjfonipiy Fonl. 
 Resilience : '22 la Park Avenue. Olliee ad- 
 dress: Tlio ^^'aslll)^lr^ t'rnsliy C'runjiauj', 
 .\[innc:iii()!is, Minn. 
 
 BELL, Lilian (Mrs. Bogue) : 
 
 Author; boin in Chicago, 18G7; daughter 
 of iMajor \\'illiain W. and Nancy Caroline 
 (Brown) Bell. She was educated at home 
 by a governess, and afterward in Dear- 
 born Seminar}', Chicago, from which she 
 was graduated. She married in New York 
 City. May 9, 1900. Author Hoyt Bogue, 
 and has a daughter, but retains her maiden 
 name for literary purposes. She began her 
 career in authorship in girlhood as a con- 
 tributor to magazines, Avhich she has con- 
 tinued ever since. She has also given many 
 author's readings, notably in 1897, when 
 she read in as.sociation with James Whit- 
 comb Riley and John Fox. Jr.; and she 
 spent four years in European travel. She 
 is author of: Love Affairs of an Old Maid, 
 1893; A Little Sister to the Wilderness, 
 189,); The Under Side of Things, 1897; 
 The Instinct of Stepfatherhood, 1898; 
 As Seen By M(\ 1900; The Expatriates, 
 1900; Sir John and the American Girl, 
 loni; Abroad with the Jimmies, 1902; 
 Hii]ic Loring, 1902; The Dowager Countess 
 and the American Girl, 1903; The Inter- 
 ference of Patricia, 1903; A Book of Girls, 
 1904; At Home with the Jardinos, 1905; Car- 
 oline Le?, I'.HMi: Why ]\I(ii Remain Buehe- 
 
 lors, and Other Luxuries, l!»0(i. Adilress: 
 Tarrytown. X. Y. 
 BELL. Louis: 
 
 Consulting electrical i-iigineer; born in 
 Chester. X. IL, D.c. 5, 1804. He was edu- 
 cated in Dartmouth College and Johns Hop- 
 kins L'niversily. In 1888 he became pro- 
 fessor of applied electricity at Purdue Uni- 
 versity, and organized the electrical course 
 tin re, leaving lo becgmo editor of tlie Elec- 
 lri<'al World, New York. On Ihe organiza- 
 tion in 1892, by the General Electric Com- 
 pany of its electric power transmission de- 
 |)artnient. he became chief engineer of that 
 <li-parlmetit and designed and installed the 
 
 first polyphase plant < fdi' ]>owei'. light- 
 ing and railway service n>c(l in the I'liitcd 
 States. Since 189.> he lias been consulting 
 eiigineer engaged mainly on wnrk in con- 
 nection with electrical power transmission. 
 He has taken out twenty-live patents relat- 
 ing to power transmission apparatus. He 
 was technical ofllcer of the Volunteer Elec- 
 trical Corps in the Spanish-American War, 
 is a fellow of the American Academy of 
 Arts and Sciences; member of the American 
 Institute of Electrical Engineers; vice-presi- 
 dent of the Illuminating Engineering So- 
 ciety, and was a member of the Internation- 
 al Electrical Congress at the Louisiana Pur- 
 chase Exposition. He is the author of: 
 The Electric Railway (with O. T. Crosby); 
 Power Distribution for Electric Railroads; 
 Electric Power Transmission; The Art of 
 Illumination; Boston Electrical Handbook. 
 Residence: Brookline, Mass. Oflice : 120 
 Boylston Street. Boston. ^Ia.ss. 
 
 BELLAMY. Charles Joseph: 
 
 Pulilislici- : horn in Chicopce Falls. ^lass.. 
 May 7, lS'y2. He was educated at Harvard 
 College, and was admitted to the bar in 
 1870. He piactised law for five years. j\lr. 
 Bellamy founded the Springfield Daily 
 News, in 1880 which he continues to pub- 
 lish. He is a brother of the late Edward 
 Bellamy, author of '" Looking Backward," 
 who was associated with him on the Daily 
 News for three years and has himself writ- 
 ten several novels, works on sociological 
 sidjjects atul scMTal childre-n's books. 
 Among his jjublications are: The Breton 
 Mills; An Experiment in Marriage; Were 
 They Sinners; A ^loment of ^Madness; The 
 Way Out; Retuiu ol 1 !ic fairies; and The 
 Wonder Children, lie married October 
 14, 1879, Imogen A. Cooper. .Xddrcss; 
 Springfield. Mass. 
 
 BELLAMY, John D.: 
 
 Lawyer anil c\ ctingrcssnian : lioin in Wil- 
 mington. \. C.. March 2 1. 1S."')4: son of 
 Dr. John i). Bellamy and Eliza M. i ilar- 
 riss) Bellamy. He was graduated from 
 Davidson College, North Carolina, A.U. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 l:!:{ 
 
 lS7;i, sludicd Geiiuau ami nuxU'iu lilcratuie 
 a1 llu> University of \'irginia in 1874 and 
 was graduated fnmi tliat University as B. 
 1a in 1875. He has served as county at- 
 torney of iJrnnswick County, city attorney 
 of Wilmington, N. C, district counsel of the 
 Seaboard Air Line and local counsel of the 
 Soutiiern Railway and one of the local coun- 
 sel of Atlantic Coast Line, of the Atlantic 
 National Bank, counsel for the Western 
 Union Telegraph Company, Postal Telegraph 
 & Cable Co., The Southern Bell Telephone 
 Company, the Wilmington Homestead and 
 Loan Association, the North Carolina Home 
 Building Association, and other corpora- 
 tions. He is a prominent Democrat, was 
 a member of the State Senate of North Car- 
 olina 1891-1892, and a member of the Fifty- 
 sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses, 1899- 
 190;i. Mr. Bellamy is a member of the 
 Tlieta Delta Chi fraternity, has been grand 
 master of Odd Fellows, and is a Knigh't of 
 I'ythias, and a member of the Cape Fear 
 Club. Mr. Bellamy has a very large ad- 
 miralty practice in the United States courts, 
 has also a general law and equity prac- 
 tice in all the State and federal courts. He 
 is author of: Sketches Historical; Life of 
 Major-General Robert Howe, and Life of 
 General Alexander Lillington. He married 
 at Townesville, N. C, Dec. (5, 187(3, Emma 
 .May Hargrove, and they have live children. 
 Residence: 602 Market Street, Wilmington. 
 Ultice: 416 Southern Building, Wilming- 
 ton, N. C. 
 
 BELLEW, Kyrle: 
 
 Actor; born in Calcutta in 1857; son of 
 the chaplain of tiie cathedral in that city. 
 He was for seven years a junior officer in 
 tlie English navy. He left the navy and 
 went to the Australian gold fields and was 
 also in newspaper work. He made his 
 stage debut at the Theatre Royal in Brigh- 
 ton, and after a successful career in London 
 came to the United States in 1895 as lead- 
 ing man in Wallack's Theatre. He subse- 
 (|iu'ntly toured the world as a joint star 
 with Mrs. James Brown Potter, and in 
 1900-1902 headed an exploring expedition 
 
 ill Xorliiirii (^)iicen-laii<l. Since 19(12 lie lias 
 been on the stage in tlie I'nitcd Stales as 
 a >tar al the head of his own compaMV. He 
 has niarki'il literary talents and is the au- 
 thor, among other wcuks. of the j)lays 
 Yvonne. lolande, lleio and Leander. and 
 Charlotte Corday. and several adnjjtat inns. 
 Address: Care Liebler & Company, IKli 
 Broadway. New York City. 
 
 BELMONT, August: 
 
 J>aid<er; born in New York tJily, l''el). 18, 
 I85:j; son of the late August and of Caro- 
 line Slidell (Perry) Jkdmont. He was ed- 
 ucated at the Rectory School at Hami)ton, 
 Conn.; Phillips Exeter Academy, and Har- 
 vard LTniversity, being graduated as A.]'.. 
 1874. In 1875 he entered his father's bank- 
 ing house and is now head of the firm of 
 August Belmont & Company, bankers, 
 which, in addition to its own large inter- 
 ests, is the accredited representative of the 
 Rothschilds in America. He is also chair- 
 man of the Board of Directors of the In- 
 terborough-Metropolitan Company, and the 
 Interborough Rapid Transit Company; di- 
 rector of the Louisville and Nashville Rail- 
 road; director National Park Bank, Man- 
 hattan Trust Company, and many other cor- 
 porations. He is president and director of 
 the National Civic Federation. Mr. Bel- 
 mont is a Democrat in politics. He is 
 president of the American Kennel Club; 
 chairman of the Jockey Club, and is ac- 
 tively identified with turf interests in New 
 York State. He is also a member of the 
 Union, Knickerbocker, Manhattan and 
 Country Clubs, and the New York Athletic 
 Club, of which he was formerly president. 
 He married in 1881, Bessie H. :\lorgan, who 
 died in 1898. Residence (country) : Hemp- 
 stead, L. L, (city): 44 East 34th Street. 
 Office: 23 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 BELMONT, Perry: 
 
 Lawyer, capitalist; born in New Y'ork City, 
 Dec. 28, 1851; eldest son of the late August 
 Belmont, financier, and of Caroline Slidell 
 (Perry) ISelmont. He was graduated from 
 Harvard as A. 15. in 1872, taking .special 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Iiuiiors in lii^lury ;iiiil jiolitiral oeonoiny, 
 ami following witli a course in civil law 
 at tile University of Berlin, then went to 
 the Columbia Law School, graduating as 
 LL. B. in 1S7U. lie was admitted to the 
 bar in 187G, engaged as counsel for impor- 
 tant corporate interests, and practised until 
 1881. Becoming active in jjolitical matters 
 he was elected in 1880 as a Democrat to 
 the Forty-seventh Congress from the First 
 New York District, and was reelected to the 
 Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth 
 Congresses, serving until 1887, and as chair- 
 man of the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
 during the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Con- 
 gresses. He was appointed United States 
 Minister to Spain in 1887, serving until 
 1889. During the Spanish-American War 
 he volunteered for service and was ap- 
 pointed inspector general with the rank of 
 major. Mr. Belmont is a director in sev- 
 eral corijorations and a member of the New 
 York Chamber of Commerce. He is also a 
 member of the Metropolitan, Knickerbocker, 
 University, New York Y'acht, Army and 
 Navy, Jockey, Turf and Field Coaching, 
 National Democratic, Manhattan and Union 
 Clubs of New York. Mr. Belmont mar- 
 ried, in 18'J!}, Jessie Bobbins. Address: 
 580 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 BEMIS, Edward Webster: 
 
 Economist; born in Springlield, Mass., 
 April 7, 1860. He was graduated from 
 Amherst College as A.B. 1880, AM. 1884, 
 and Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D., 1885. 
 After a successful service in professorships 
 of political economy at Vanderbilt Univer- 
 sity and the University of Chicago he be- 
 came assistant statistician of the Illinois 
 Bureau of Labor Statistics, lie subsequent- 
 ly became professor of economic science in 
 the Kansas State Agricultural College and 
 later was appointed director of the Depart- 
 ment of ^Municipal Monopolies of the Bu- 
 reau of Economic Kesearch in New York. 
 His service in this position was marked by 
 o.vcellent results and brought him into na- 
 tional notice as an expert on (juestions 
 relating to municipal ownership, lie gave 
 up iiis position in New Vork to become 
 
 superinlciuh'iil ul' ll:<' W'aler Works of 
 Cleveland. (.)liio. Then! his annual reports, 
 his system of accounts and the checking 
 by meters of tlie waste of water have at- 
 tracted much attention. Mr. Bemis has 
 written extensively on labor and municipal 
 (piestions, his works including: Municipal 
 ^Nlonopolies ; Municipal Ownership of Gas 
 Works in the United States. He was a mem- 
 ber of the conmiittee of the National Civic 
 Federation investigating municipal owner- 
 ship. He married in Clearwater, Minn., 
 Oct. 28, 1889, Annie Louise Sargent. Ad- 
 dress: LS47 E. (i;3d Street, N. E., Cleve- 
 land, Oliio. 
 
 BENEDICT, A. L.: 
 
 Physician; Iidiii in Bufl'alo, N. Y., 1865; 
 son of Natliau Cregory Benedict, Jr., and 
 (xracia Skinner (Smith) Benedict. He was 
 graduated from the University of Michigan, 
 A.B.', from the University of Buffalo, M.D., 
 from the University of Pennsylvania, 
 AI.D. and the Ohio Wesleyan University 
 conferred ujion him the degree of A.M. He 
 was ai)pointed to the United States Marine 
 Hospital Service in 1890, but did not 
 serve; ho held various teaching jjositions in 
 professional schools, including professorship 
 m pliysiology in the Dental Department, 
 cnnersity of Bud'alo, from 189G to 1901; 
 superintendent of ethnology at the Pan- 
 ^iiiierican Exposition, 1900-1901; associate 
 editor Medical and Surgical Keporter, and 
 editor of the American Therapist of New 
 iork. Dr. Benedict has been a vice-presi- 
 dent of tlie Medical Academy of Aiedicine, 
 councillor of the American Gastro-entero- 
 logic Association; is a member of the Ameri- 
 can Medical ^Vssociation (gold medal in 
 iiieuicinej, Medical Society of the State oi 
 ^Ncw loik (twice prize essayist) ; member 
 oi tuc Historical Society, Society of Natural 
 ociences, iiulfalo. Delta Upsilon iruternity 
 1 president of Alichigan Chapter and West- 
 eiu Aew \ork Alumni Association). His 
 lavorite recreation is ^^.merican arclieology. 
 lie IS a member of the University Club, the 
 liullalo Hi>iiiiical .^Society and tlie Sons of 
 tlie lievolulidu. Kcsideiiee: llaleigh Hotel. 
 Oillce: O.J I Franklin St., Bullalo, N. Y. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 BENEDICT, Elias Cornelius: 
 
 Hanker and stock-broki>r; born at Soni- 
 ers, Westchester County, N. Y., Jan. "24, 
 1834. He was educated in the schools of 
 New York until 1850, when he became a 
 clerk in a stock-broker's office. lie em- 
 barked in business for himself in 1837 and 
 has continued ever since. He originated 
 the Gold Exchange Bank, which grew out 
 of gold speculation during and after the 
 Civil War, and in recent years his specialty 
 lias been the handling of gas stocks. He 
 is president of the Commercial Acetylene 
 1 Company, the Marine Engine and Ma- 
 L'liinery Company-, and he is a director of 
 t he United States Rubber Company and the 
 Ct)huiibia Trust Company. His favorite 
 leureatiuns are liunting and yachting. Mr. 
 lienedict is a member of the Players', the 
 Seawanhaka Ckninthian Y^acht and New 
 York Yacht C'lubs. He married Sarah 
 Hart. Itesidence: 10 West 51st Street. 
 Ollice: SO Broadway, New Y^ork City. 
 
 BENEDICT, James Sackett: 
 
 I American consul; born at Aurelius, Ca- 
 
 yuga County, N. Y., Alarch 5, 185G; son of 
 Xcwlon and Asenath (Chapin) Benedict. 
 He was educated in the jjublic schools and 
 private school, Washington, D. 0. He was 
 draftsman and clerk, for fouv years, in 
 architect s office in Washington, D. C, and 
 received a temporary appointment in the 
 Engineer's Office, War Department; was 
 American consular agent at Stratford, Ont., 
 1870-1887; American commercial agent at 
 Moncton, New Brunswick, 1887-1897; 
 tiansferred to commercial agency at Canip- 
 bellton, New Brunswick, Jan. 25, 1897. On 
 reorgani;iation of the Consular Service by 
 Act of Congress, April 5, 190G, the commer- 
 cial agency was abolished and he was ap- 
 pointed American consul at Campbellton. 
 in April, 1007, he was promoted as Ameri- 
 can consul at St. John's, Newfoundland. 
 He is a Royal Arch Mason, Knight Templar, 
 charter and life aiember of the Ontario 
 Crand Lodge of the Ro^al Arcanum. He 
 is an honorary meudjer of the Campbellton 
 Club, also a number of other clubs. Mr. 
 
 Benedict married at Wasiiiiigton, D. C, 
 1879, ( (ira lilanciii' Cliase, and tlicy liave 
 two cliildicii. Addrr-s: A iiicrica ii Consul- 
 ale. Si. .lo! ii"~ Ncwiouncllaihl. 
 
 BENEDICT, Robert Dewey: 
 
 Lawyer: born at Burlington. \'t., Oct. 
 ;5, 1828; son of George Wyllys and Lliza 
 (Dewey) Benedict. He was graduated 
 from the University of Vermont in 1848 as 
 B.A. and received also the degrees of A.M. 
 and LL.D. Mr. Benedict was admitted to 
 the bar in New York City in 1851. He is 
 a Republican in politics. He is author of 
 Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in 
 the District Courts of the United States 
 within the Second Circuit (ten volumes) ; 
 and of various pamphlets; and lie was edi- 
 tor of Benedict's Admiralty, third edition. 
 He is a member of the Society of Colonial 
 Wars, the Military Order of Foreign VV^ars, 
 and the Order of Settlers and Defenders of 
 America (iirst vice-president). Mr. Bene- 
 dict married at Winooski Falls, Vt., in 
 1854, Frances A. Weaver. He retired from 
 active business in ItlOfi and removed to 
 Burlington. Address: Burlington, Vt. 
 
 BENJAMIN, Charles Henry: 
 
 Professor of mechanical engineering; 
 born at Patten, Maine, Aug. 29, 185(); son 
 of Samuel E. and Ellen M. (Fairfield) Ben- 
 jamin. He was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of Maine as M.E. in 1880. He was 
 instructor, 1880 to 1883 and professor 1883 
 to 1886, of mechanical engineering in the 
 University of ■Maine; mechanical engineer 
 of the McKaj- Heeling Machine Association, 
 1880-1889; professor of mechanical engi- 
 neering at the Case School of Applied 
 Science, 1889-1907, and in 1907 was ap- 
 pointed dean of the Engineering Schools of 
 Purdue L'ui\ eisity. He was supervising 
 engineer for smoke inspection of the City 
 of Cleveland, 1900 to 1902. in 1908 he 
 received the degree of Doctor of Engineer- 
 ing from the Ca.se School of Applied 
 Science. Professor Benjamin is a member 
 of the American Society of Mechanical En- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 jriiuMTs, llie Society for the Promotion of 
 Kii<i;ineeriiig Education, and is an honorary 
 nioniber of the Engineers' Society of the 
 City of Cleveland, member of the Society of 
 Sigma Xi and of the Tan Beta Pi frater- 
 nity. He is author of: Modern American 
 Machine Tools, published in London, and of 
 text-books on Machine Design and on the 
 Steam Engine. He married at Oakland, 
 Maine, August 17, 1879, Cora Louise Ben- 
 son, and they have two daughters. Ad- 
 dress: Lafayette, Ind. 
 
 BENJAMIN. Marcus: 
 
 Editor, U. S. National Museum; born in 
 San Francisco, Calif., Jan. 17, 1857; son of 
 Edmund Burke Benjamin, a prominent 
 merchant, and Sarah (Mitchell) Benjamin. 
 He was educated in the College of the City 
 of New York and was graduated from the 
 chemical course in Columbia University, 
 Ph.B., 1878; afterward receiving the hon- 
 orary degrees of A.M., Lafayette College, 
 1889; Ph.D., University of Na'^shville, 1889; 
 Sc.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1905. He 
 engaged in business pursuits four years, 
 was editor of the American Pharmacist, 
 1882, and later of its successor, the Weekly 
 Drug News; was chemist in the laboratory 
 of the U. S. Appraisers' Stores in New 
 York, 1883-1885; sanitary engineer to New- 
 York City Board of Health, 1885; lecturer 
 on chemistry in the New York Women's 
 Medical College, 1886. Dr. Benjamin has 
 been connected with leading encyclopedias 
 and reference books, in an editorial capac- 
 ity, including Appleton's Cyclopedia of 
 American Biography, Appleton's Annual 
 Cyclopedia, Johnson's Universal, and the 
 New International Cyclopedias, the Stand- 
 ard Dictionary and many others, and since 
 1890 has been editor of the Proceedings, 
 Bulletins and Annual Reports of the U. S. 
 National Museum. He is author of: Brad- 
 dock's Kock, a Study in Local History, 
 1899; Memoir of Rear Admiral Francis 
 Asbury Roe, 1903; Memoiial of John Henry 
 Boner, 1905; John Bidwell, Pioneer, a 
 sketch of His Career, 190(5, etc. He is also 
 a contributor to magazines. Dr. Benjamin 
 
 was a member of llie Jury of Awards of the 
 World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; Ten- 
 nessee Centennial Exposition, 1897; Trans- 
 Mississippi Exposition, 1898; Pan-American 
 Exposition, 1901; South Carolina Inter- 
 state Exposition, 1902; Louisiana Purchase 
 Exposition, 1904, and Jamestown Exposi- 
 tion. 1907; and he was a member of the U. 
 S. Assay Commission, 1890, 1899, 1904 and 
 190G. He was secretary of the Section of 
 Technical Chemistry, in the International 
 Congress of Arts and Sciences, St. Louis, 
 1904, is a life fellow of the London Chem- 
 ical Society, is a fellow and has been vice- 
 president of the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science, member of the 
 American Chemical Society, the Society of 
 Chemical Industry, National Geographic 
 Society, Society of the Sigma Xi; member 
 of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commis- 
 sion, president of the Alumni Association of 
 Columbia University in the District of Co- 
 lumbia. Dr. Benjamin was governor of the 
 Society of Colonial Wars, 1905-1907, secre- 
 tary, 1094-1907, of the Sons of the Revolu- 
 tion in the District of Columbia, president 
 of the Society of the War of 1812, 1898- 
 1908, and member of other patriotic socie- 
 ties; also of the Authors Club of New 
 York City and the Cosmos Club of Wash- 
 ington, D. C. He married June 16, 1892, 
 Carolyn, daughter of J. Loring Gilbert, of 
 New Y'ork City. Residence: 1703 Q Street, 
 N. W. Office: U. S. National ISIuseum, 
 Wasliington, D. C. 
 
 BENJAMIN, Park: 
 
 Patent lawyer, author: born in New York 
 City May 11, 1849; son of Park Benjamin 
 (poet) and of Mary (Western) Benjamin. 
 He was graduated from Trinity School, 
 New York City, in 1862, and from the 
 United States Naval Academy in 18G7. He 
 made several cruises; was with Admiral 
 Farragut, European station, 1S6S; promot- 
 ed to ensign, 18GL ::id resigned in 1869. 
 He was graduated from Albany Law School 
 as LL.B., 1870, was admitted to the bar 
 same year and received the degree of Ph.D. 
 from Union College in 1877. He was as- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 I 
 
 sdi'iato p(li1(ir of !!)(> Sciciilific Aniorican 
 rmiii 1S72 to 1S7S, aiul is a scientific ex- 
 [icrt and coiuiscl in |)al('iil matlers. Ho 
 was ((iifor-iii ('liicf of .\|i|ilr1 mi's r'yfl()|iodia 
 nf Apiilii'd Mc'liaiiics, I'loin 1S78 lo 18!)1. 
 Ill' i-- asxiciatc inciiihcr of llio Society of 
 Vaval AreliKcels and Afaiiuc ]<]noinoers; 
 foreign nu'inbor of the lliitish Chartered 
 institute of Patent Agents, and mend)er of 
 the American Institute of Mechanical Engi- 
 nei'rs, American Institute of Electrical En- 
 gineers. He is author of numerous books 
 and magazine contributions. He was the 
 lirst to advocate a United States Naval Re- 
 ser\e. He collected, with F\. T\I. Thompson 
 and E. J. Berwind, a valuable library of 
 rare works relating to electricity and pre- 
 sented it to the United States Naval Acad- 
 emy. Mr. Benjamin has been counsel to 
 leading inventors and corporations in vari- 
 ous ]U'oceeding and litigations. He is presi- 
 dent of the Naval Architects' Association 
 of New York. He married at Yonkers, 
 X. Y., in 1891, Ida E. Crane. Residence: 
 270 West 73d Street (winter); The 
 Barnacle, West Hampton Beach, Long 
 Island (summer). Ollice: 165 Broadway, 
 New York. 
 
 BENJAMIN, Samuel Greene Wheeler: 
 
 Author-, artist and art critic; born in 
 Argos, Greece, Feb. 13, 1837. He was edu- 
 cated at tlic English College, Smyrna, 
 Turkey, and at Williams College. He read 
 law and studied art, and for several years 
 followed the sea, developing his abilities in 
 marine painting, among his early work in 
 this line being a number of marine draw- 
 ings connected with the Crimean War sent 
 to the London Illustrated News in 1854; 
 studied art at home and abroad, receiving 
 honorable mention. He opened a studio in 
 Boston in 1870 and in 1883 he was ap- 
 l)ointed the first United States minister to 
 Persia, where he pref»ared a code for e.xtra- 
 territorial practice, and as a result of his 
 service there settled questions of land tenure 
 by foreigners in Persia, and won honorable 
 mention for exhibit of Persian products 
 at New Orleans Exhibition. He is the 
 auflior of: Constantinople, Isle of Pearls 
 
 and Olher l',.cms; Ode on tlie Dfiith of 
 .'\brali;nn LiiH'olii ; The Turk and the 
 (>'reik: 'I'oni Kopcr, A ^'arn for Boys; The 
 Clioice of Paris, a Romance of (he Toail ; 
 Advice of Father to Son (translated from 
 Latin poem; Contemporary Art in Europe; 
 What is Art? The Atlantic Islands; Art 
 in America; Our American Artists; The 
 Multitudinous Seas; The World's Para- 
 dises; 'iroy. Its TyOgend, Literature and 
 Topography; A Group of Etchers; Cruise 
 of the Alice May; Persia and the Persians; 
 Tlio Sforv of Persia; and Sea Spray. Con- 
 (ribiHor <o Atlantic Monthly, London Art 
 .rournal. llar|)er's, Century, etc. He is a 
 member of the Sons of the Revolution; 
 Society of Colonial Wars; Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society; Boston Art Chib; American Free 
 Art League; National Geographic Society; 
 American Forestry Association, and vice- 
 president Society of American Authors. 
 He married, first,' Oct. 20, 1803, Clara Stow- 
 ell, and second, Nov. 10, 1882, Fannie 
 Nichols Weed, the author. Address: Bur- 
 lington. Vt. 
 
 BENNESON, Cora Agnes: 
 
 Lawyer and writer; boiii in Quincy. 111.; 
 daughter of Robert S. and Electa Ann 
 (Park) Benneson. She was graduated from 
 the LTniversity of Michigan as A.B., 1878, 
 LL.B., 1880. and A.:\r., 1883, and was fellow 
 in history at Bryn ]\[awr College, 1887- 
 1888. She was admitted to the bar in 
 Michigan and Illinois in 1880, and in Mas- 
 sachusetts in 1894; has been special com- 
 missioner in Jlassachusetts since 1895, and 
 is now actively engaged in law practice in 
 Massachusetts. Miss Benneson edited law 
 reports for the West Publishing Company, 
 St. Paul, Minn., in 1886; gave the alumni 
 poem at the LTniversity of Michigan, June 
 27, 1889, printed in the Commencement An- 
 nual; wrote Executive Discretion in the 
 United States, printed in Volume 47 of 
 the Proceedings of the American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science; and 
 Federal Guaranties for Maintaining Ro- 
 imblican Government in the States, in 
 Volume 48 of same; also many articles in 
 magazines and other periodicals on law, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 oducation mid political scionco. She look 
 a trip a 101111(1 the world. 1883-1885. and 
 durinrr the two followinp: years lectured on 
 her travels. She is a fellow of the Ameri- 
 can Association for the Advancement of 
 Science ; member of the American Histori- 
 cal Association, and American Political 
 Science Association, and is sole trustee of 
 the Edward Everett Estate. Address: 4 
 IVfason St root. Cambridirc. ^fass. 
 
 BENNET. William S.: 
 
 l.nwycr and conijrcssuian ; l)Orn at Port 
 Jcrvis. Oianiio County. N. Y., Nov. 9, 1870; 
 son of James Bonnet and Alice Leonora 
 (Stiles) liciiiict. He was graduated from 
 the AlbaiiN l,a\v School as LL.B. with hon- 
 ors in 18!)-i. and was admitted to the bar 
 of tlie State of New York in ^lay of that 
 year. Mr. Bennet had a brief experience in 
 the newspaper business on the staff of the 
 Port Jervis Gazette, but has ])ractised law 
 continuously since his admission to the 
 bar. He removed to New York City in 
 1893. He was a member of the Assembly 
 of New York State in 1901 and 1902 and 
 justice of the Municipal Court of the City 
 of New York. 1903. He was elected, as a 
 Republican, from the Sevenlcontli Congres- 
 sional District of New ^'o^k 1o Ihr Fifty- 
 ninth Congress in 1904. and was reelected 
 in 190G and 1908 to the Sixtieth and Sixty- 
 first Congresses. During his service in 
 Congress he has tal^iii an c-iprcial interest 
 in matters relating to imiiiigration and he 
 is a memlier of the Immigration Commis- 
 sion. Mr. Bennet is an elder in the Fourth 
 Presbyterian Cliurch of New York City. 
 He married. June 30, 1896, Gertrude Wit- 
 schief. and tlicy have four children. OfTicc: 
 (10 \\:ill Sti.'ct. New York City. 
 
 BENNETT, Charles Edwin: 
 
 l'idt<-sor of j^atin in Coriull I iiivcisily; 
 born in Providence, R. f.. .\|iiii fl, 1858; 
 son of James L. Bennett ami Lucia (Dyer) 
 Bennett. He was graduated from Brown 
 University as A.B. in 1878; wa^^ a gradu- 
 ate .student of Harvard I'niversity in 1881- 
 l^H-j?, Mild student at Leipzig, I'.erlin and 
 
 and Heidelberg, 1882-1884. and lie received 
 the degree of Litt.D., from Brown Univer- 
 sity in 1904. He was jirincipal of the public 
 school at Milton. Fla., 1878-1879; classical 
 master at Sing Sing, N. Y., 1879-1881; head 
 of the preparatory department at the Uni- 
 versity of Nebraska. 1884-1889: professor of 
 Latin at the University of Wisconsin, 1889- 
 1891; professor of classical philology at 
 Brown University, 1891-1892, and professor 
 of Latin at Cornell University, from 1892. 
 He edited numerous Greek and Latin texts 
 and is autlior of: Bennett's Latin Gram- 
 mar, 1S95; and Appendix, 1895: Latin 
 Composition, LSOfi; The Foundations of 
 Latin, 1898; Criticism of Some Recent Sub 
 junctive Theories, 1898; The Quantitative 
 Reading of Latin Poetry, 1899: The Teach- 
 ing of Greek and Latin in Secondary 
 Schools, 1900; Sounds and Inflections of 
 the Cyprian dialect, 1888; Latin Lessons, 
 1901; Preparatory Latin Writer, 1905; 
 Latin Language, 1906 : also of niuuerous 
 articles in philological and other journals. 
 Editor of Cornell Studies in Classical Phi- 
 lology. Professor Bennett is a member of 
 the American Philological Association, the 
 Delta Upsilon fraternity. Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society and the City Club of New York. 
 He married at Lincoln, Neb., June 29, 1880. 
 INIaigaiet Gale Hitchcock, and they have 
 four chililrcn. Address: Ithaca. N. Y. 
 
 BENNETT. Charles Goodwin: 
 
 Secrctiuy of llie United States Senate: 
 l)orn, and lins always resided, in the old 
 Bennett homesteid in llrooklyn, N. ^■. He 
 was admitted to llic bar. and graduated as 
 LL.B. from tlw University of New ^drk. 
 He is chainiiaii of the Broadway l>raii('h 
 of the Meclianics' Bank, and trustee of the 
 Kings County Savings Institution, Un- 
 successful candidate in I lie I'ifth New York 
 Congressional District for the Fifty-third 
 Congress; elected to the l''i fty-fourth and 
 Fifty-fifth Congresses from 1895 to 1899. 
 serving on the Committee on Interstate and 
 Foreign Commerce. Unsuccessful candidate 
 for the Fifty-sixth Congress, and elected 
 secretai'v of the Senate of tlie United 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ino 
 
 States, Jan. 20, 1900. Address: United 
 Slates Seiiale. Wasliiiiolo,,, D. C. 
 
 BENNETT, James Gordon: 
 
 Joiinialisi ; l)oni in New York City, May 
 10, 1841; son of James Cordon and Hen- 
 rietta Agnes (Crean) Bemiett ; educated by 
 piivate tutors; unmarried. Tie was care- 
 fully trained in journalism, smd on tlie 
 death of his failier. 1872, succeeded to the 
 proprietorship and management of Tlie 
 Herald, which he has ever since continued. 
 Mr. Bennett fitted out, at personal expense, 
 the Jeannette Polar Exploring Expedition; 
 sent Henry M. Stanley to Africa to find 
 Livingston; for a time conducted a London 
 edition, and for years has conducted, and 
 still conducts, a Paris edition. He inaugu- 
 rated in England the plan of publishing 
 storm warnings telegraphed from the Unit- 
 ed States, and he joined John W. Mackey, 
 in 1883. in the organization of the Commer- 
 cial Cable Company, which laid an entirely 
 new cable between America and Europe 
 (the Mackey-Bennett cables), greatly in- 
 creasing the volume and reducing the cost 
 of transatlantic communication between the 
 Old and the New Worlds. He won an in- 
 ternational yacht race from Sandy Hook to 
 the Needles, Isle of Wight, against two com- 
 petitors, with his schooner yacht, the Henri- 
 etta, 1866, and sailed a similar race, 1870, 
 from Queenstown to New York Harbor, 
 but was beaten by the English yacht Cam- 
 bria. He resides, the greater part of the 
 time, in Paris. Address: 120 Champs 
 Elysees, Paris, France, or New York Her- 
 ald, New York City. 
 
 BENITETT, Joseph Bentley: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born on a farm 
 in Greenup County, Ky.. April 21, 1859; 
 son of Benjamin Franklin and Sarah Ann 
 (Snodgrass) Bennett. He was educated in 
 the common schools of Greenup County and 
 at the Greenup Academy. He taught for 
 a short time in the common schools of 
 Greenup County while studying law, and 
 lie was admitted to the bar Aug. 30, 1878, 
 since then ])ractising law at Greenup, Ky. 
 
 He was nominal rd by (he IJcj^ublicans for 
 county attorney of (.'utiiiiii County in 1882 
 and in 1886. cadi (imr luin'j defeated by a 
 small majority. He was elected in 1894 
 and reiUecled in !S97 for two three-year 
 terms as couuly juilge of Greenup County, 
 and again for a four-year term in 1901. 
 While holding tliat ofTlee he received the 
 Rejjublican noiiiiiiation foi- circuit judge of 
 the Nineteenth Kentucky District and was 
 defeated by 88 inajority. He was elected 
 fiom the Ninth Kentucky District in 1904 
 to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and reelected 
 in 1906 and 1908 to the Sixtieth and Sixty- 
 first Congresses, expiring March 3. 1909. 
 He was elected in 1900 and reelected in 
 1904, and is still serving as a member of 
 the Republican State Central Committee of 
 Kentucky from the Ninth District. He 
 married at Greenup, Ky., Aug. 30, 1883, 
 Annie Louise Mytinger. Address: Green- 
 up, Ky. 
 
 BENNETT, William H.: 
 
 Steamship broker; born in New York 
 City. April 17, 1852: son of Thomas and 
 Susan S. Bennett. He was educated in the 
 public schools and Free Academy. New 
 York City, and at Jon's College, England. 
 After leaving college he was a pilot on the 
 Mississippi River, and later served as offi- 
 cer and captain of ships under British and 
 foreign flags, holding British certificate No. 
 8997. American shipmaster's certificate, 
 United States certificate for command of 
 mercantile steamships and various others 
 in foreign navies. Since 1884 he has been 
 senior partner in the firm of Bennett. 
 Walsh & Co., steamship brokers. He is 
 also a director in the Atlantic Fruit Com- 
 pany, H. A. Kessel Company, the Tacas 
 Company, Santa Catalina Company, Amal- 
 gamated Paint Company, Cordova Land 
 Company. Bennett Steamship Company, and 
 others. Mr. Bennett is a member of the 
 New York Produce Exchange, the New York 
 Maritime Exchange, Merchants' Associa- 
 tion, Jlarine Society of New York, Master 
 Mariners' Steam.ship Association, the Met- 
 ropolitan Museum of Art. and other organi- 
 
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 /.nfions. Ho is a lifo monibor of the ^Ma- 
 soiiic ^'(•(^•^aIls, a .Sid-dcprop Mason, Knij^hts 
 Templar ami menibpr of llic Alystic Shrino; 
 and is also a nipnibcr of the New York, New 
 York Yacht, Coney Island Jockey and other 
 clnbs. ;Mr. Bennett married Helen Eliza- 
 beth Harvey. Residence: G9.3 West End 
 Avenue, New York City: and (winter) 
 Nipi, Cuba. Office: IS I'.roadwav. New 
 York City. * 
 
 BENOLIEL, Sol D.: 
 
 Electro-chemical engineer; lunn in New 
 York City, June 1, 1874; son of David J. 
 and Pauline (Wasscrmann) Bcnoliel. He 
 was graduated from College of the City of 
 New York, as B.S. in 1893, Columbia Uni- 
 versity School of Mines as E.E. in ISflG, 
 and from the Columbia School of Pure 
 Science, with the degree of A.M. in 1896. 
 In 1901 and 1906, as general manager and 
 electrocbemist of Roberts Chemical Com- 
 pany, Niagara Falls, N. Y., he perfected a 
 new process for the ])roduction of caustic 
 potash and chemically pure muriatic acid by 
 means of the electric current; rebuilt com- 
 j)any's entire plant after their fire on Sept. 
 14, 190.1. He resigned from Roberts Chem- 
 ical Company, Oct., 1896, to become general 
 manager of the International Chemical Com- 
 pany of Camden, N. J. He is a member of 
 the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 
 neers, National Geographic Society, and 
 American Electro-Chemical Society. Mr. 
 Benoliel married in New York City, June 
 1, 1897, 1'hcrese L. Lindeman, and they 
 have three children. Address: 4508 Lo- 
 cust Street, Philadel])hia. 
 
 BENSEL, John A.: 
 
 (-'ivil engineer; bom in New York City, 
 1SG.1; son of Brownlcc ami Mary Maclay 
 (Hogg) Bcnsel. II(! was graduated from 
 the Stevens Institute of Technology, with 
 the degree of ]\I.E. in 1884, and was for 
 .some yeais engaged as engineer for the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad, and later engaged 
 in consulting practice, becoming consulting 
 engineer for the City of Philadelphia and 
 the Oirard Estate in connection with im- 
 provement along the Belawnre River in 
 
 Phi]ailfl]ihia. Ho was afterward ongineor- 
 in-oliicf of llio ncpailniont of Docks of New 
 York City, and afteiwanl was appointed 
 dock conimissioncr of Xow "\'ork <'ity, whicli 
 ofllce he hold until i'.ios. wluii he was ap- 
 ])ointed to his |)r(!sent oliice as commissioner 
 on the Board of Water Supply of New York 
 City. He is a member of the American 
 Society of Civil Engineers, the Institution 
 of Civil Enginers of Great Britain, the 
 Chamber of Commerce of New York, and of 
 the University, Union and various other 
 clubs. Residence: Marie Antoinette Hotel. 
 Oliice: 299 Broadway. New York City. 
 
 BENSEL, Walter: 
 
 Physician and sanitarian; born in New 
 York City, Jan. 22, 1869; son of Brownlee 
 and Mary Maclay (Hogg) Bensel. He re- 
 ceived his general education in private 
 schools in New York City and was gradu- 
 ated with honors and a prize, and the M.D. 
 degree from the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons of New York. After graduation 
 he became successively interne, junior as- 
 sistant, senior assistant and house surgeon 
 of Bellevue Hospital, serving eighteen 
 months there, and then three months in 
 Sloane ]\laternity Hospital, and then en- 
 gaged in private practice. Dr. Bensel was 
 assistant surgeon to the Vanderbilt Clinic 
 for five years, and clinical assistant, in- 
 structor and lecturer on surgery in the New 
 York Polyclinic Medical School and Hos- 
 ])ital for five years. He was appointed 
 medical inspector of tlic Department of 
 llealtli of New York City in 1892, served 
 tlirougli the various grades luitil appointed 
 assistant sanitary superintendent of the 
 Department in 190:1, and ])romotod to sani- 
 tary superintendent of tlie Department July 
 1, 1907. To meet an emergency. Dr. Bensel 
 resigned July S, 1907, to accept appoint- 
 ment as commissioner of street cleaning of 
 New York City, but resigned that oliice 
 Nov. 25, 1907, to resume his position as 
 sanitary superintendent of the Dejiartment 
 of Health, in whicli lie conl inius. Di-. Ben- 
 sel is a member of tlic American .Medical 
 Association, the Xew ^■o^k State IMedical 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Society, New NOrk Coiiiily IMoiliral Society, 
 Wcsl ImhI Medical Sociely, Physicians' 
 i\lulu;il Aid Association, Medical Associa- 
 limi of llic (Greater City of New York, and 
 llie Almiini Societies of the College of Phy- 
 •siiians and Surgeons, ihe Bellevuc llos- 
 pilal and llie Sloane Maternity Hospital, 
 and llie St. Andrew's Society of New York. 
 J If married at Newport, P. I., June 19, 
 1894, Alice Cooper, a fji"'ii^liiit>ce of James 
 Feniniore Cooper, the author, and they have 
 a daughter. He has a country home on 
 (;reat South Bay, Amity ville, L. I. Ad- 
 dress: 135 W. 8711i Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 BENSON, Frank Weston: 
 
 Painter; horn in Salem, Mass., March 24, 
 1862. He received his art education at the 
 School of Drawing and Painting in the 
 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the 
 Acxdemie Julian. Paris. Since 1889 he 
 has been instructor in drawing and paint- 
 ing at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 
 and has created a succession of paintings 
 which lias given him a foremost place 
 among the younger American artists. 
 Among liis well known works are the four 
 panels in the Congressional Library at 
 Washington. He has painted a large num- 
 ber of portraits, and received a medal from 
 the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 
 1893; a medal from Carnegie Institute in 
 Pittsburg in 1899; two prizes from the 
 Boston Art Club; two prizes from the Jor- 
 dan Gallery in Boston; a prize from the 
 Cleveland Art Association; the Shaw Fund 
 Prize, Society of American Artists, New 
 York; the Clark Prize, and the Hallgarten 
 Prize, from the National Academy of De- 
 sign; Ellsworth Prize from the Art Insti- 
 tute of Chicago ; silver medal from the Par- 
 is Exposition in 1900; gold medal from 
 Carnegie Institute in 1903; Lippincott 
 Prize, Philadelphia, in 1904; two gold med- 
 als from the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 
 tion, St. Louis, in 1904; gold medal from 
 the Philadelphia Art Club in 1900; and the 
 silver medal from the Corcoran Gallery at 
 W'asliington in 1907. He married in Salem, 
 Mass., Oct., 1888, 'Mien Peny Peirsoii. 
 
 ilesidencc: Sah'ni. Mass. Stiuljo: 12, 
 SI. Cotojph Slrcet. r.osloh. 
 
 BENSON, R. Dale: 
 
 ['resident of the i'ennsylvaiiia l-'iie In 
 surance Company of Piiiladelphia ; born in 
 Philadelphia, Dec. (>, 1841. At the oiil- 
 break of the Civil War he cnlislcd in a 
 Pennsylvania Ivegiment, and was nnistcred 
 out as brevet major of volunteers in July. 
 18G5. He served as colonel of the First 
 Regiment of Inl'aiilry, National Guard of 
 Pennsylvania during tlic Pittsburgh riots 
 in 1877. For many years Colonel Benson 
 identihed himself with fire underwriting 
 and was previously engaged in mercantile 
 business as an importer and jobber of teas 
 in connection with the China trade. He 
 was elected vice-president of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Fire Insurance Company, in 1881, 
 and in 1890 became its president. He is a 
 member of the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion. Residence: 1120 Spruce Street. 
 Office: 510 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 BENTLEY, Rev. Walter E. : 
 
 Protestant Episcopal rector of the 
 Church of the Ascension, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; 
 born in Shetheld, England, Sept. 29, 1804. 
 Coming to this country in early life he 
 entered business but linally entered the 
 dramatic profession and for several years 
 traveled throughout the country playing 
 various Shakespearian roles. ]Moved by 
 Bishop Phillips Brooks of Massachusetts, 
 he studied for Holy Orders and was or- 
 dained by Bishop Huntington in Syracuse, 
 N. Y., in 1891. After serving in the Dio- 
 cese of Central New York he was called to 
 St. Mark's Church New York City as vicar 
 and later became assistant to Dr. Heber 
 Newton. In 1899 he became the founder 
 of the Actor's Church Alliance and as its 
 national secretary and organizer he estab- 
 lished chapters in many of the largest cities 
 of the country. He also heli)ed to establish 
 the Actors' Church L'liion throughout Great 
 Britain ;nid Ireland. Willi Professor 
 Charles S|)r.igue Sniilh he aided in founding 
 Ihe Peoples" VUxh and liecanie ils tirst .sec- 
 
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 letary. In I'JOo he entered his present 
 work, where, in addition to the Church he 
 has a reguhirly appointed theatre wherein 
 he produces Shakespearian and other class- 
 ical plays. In 1892 he married Harriott 
 Faye Chaiuberlin of Syracuse and in 1893 
 their only son, Cyril E. Bently, was born. 
 Address: Church of the Ascension, Kent 
 Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 BENTLEY, Wilson A.: 
 
 Meteorologist; born at Jericho, Vt., Feb. 9, 
 1865. He is self-educated in the technical 
 branch in which he has become distinguish- 
 ed, now being internationally known among 
 meteorologists for his studies of snow-crys- 
 tals and other forms of water. After a 
 short period of teaching music he took up 
 the study of snow-crystals, and has made 
 1500 photomicrographs of such crystals; 
 360 of frost and 200 of ice and ice crystals, 
 besides many of dew, clouds, raindrops, 
 etc. He is the author of the articles on 
 snow and frost in the Encyclopaedia Amer- 
 icana, and of illustrated monographs on 
 snow crystals and frost and ice crystals 
 published by the U. S. Weather Bureau. 
 He has also followed out the study of rain- 
 drops by means of their impressions in 
 Hour and has had a unique career among 
 the meteorologists in the character and mi- 
 nuteness of his investigations. Besides be- 
 ing the author of various magazine articles 
 on snow, ice and the various forms of 
 water, he has lectured with much success 
 on the same subjects. lie is a member of 
 the National Geograi)hical Society and of 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science. Address: Jericho, Vt. 
 
 BENTON. Frank: 
 
 ApicuUurist; born in Coldwator, Mich., 
 • luly 5, 1852. He was educated at the Mich- 
 igan Agricultural College, and attended lec- 
 tures at the universities of ' Munich and 
 Athens. Since 1901 he has been apicultur- 
 :il investigator for the United Stiites De- 
 lta rtmcnt of Agriculture. Mr. Benton 
 -ijK'nt eleven years, previous to 1891, in- 
 vestigating the honey bees of Europe, Af- 
 
 rica and Asia, and has recently completed 
 similar investigations in the Caucasus, Per- 
 sia, India and the Philippine Islands. He 
 was the first American importer of Orien- 
 tal races of bees, and has invented a wide 
 range of appliances for bee culture, in- 
 cluding the transport cage for sending 
 queen bees by mail, artificial queen cells, 
 etc. He has lectured throughout the 
 United States on apiarian topics, and is the 
 author of the books: The Honey Bee, 
 Bee Keeping, and a large number of ar- 
 ticles on subjects connected with his speci- 
 alty. He married in Angelica, N. Y., 
 Dec. 17, 1879, Harriet M. Wheeler. Resi- 
 dence 925 X. Street, N. W., Washington, D. 
 C. Office : Department of Agriculture, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 BENTON, George Alden: 
 
 Jurist; born in Tolland, Conn., May 7, 
 1848; son of Azariah L. and Louisa W. 
 (Alden) Benton, his mother being a de- 
 scendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mul- 
 lens, of the Mayflower. He was graduated 
 from Cornell University, A.B. with Phi 
 Beta Kappa honors, 1871, and from Colum- 
 bia College Law School, LL.B., 1874. He 
 engaged in the practice of law in Monroe 
 County, N. Y., immediately upon his ad- 
 mission to the bar in 1874, was district at- 
 torney 1886-1892, surrogate, 1896-1905, 
 county judge, 1906-1907, of Monroe Coun- 
 ty, and since Jan. 1, 1908, has been a jus- 
 tice of the Supreme Court of New Y'ork, 
 serving in the Seventh Judicial District. 
 He is a piominent member and campaign 
 speaker of the Republican party; a 32d-de- 
 gree Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner, 
 and honorary life president of the Roches- 
 ter Masonic Temple. Residence: Spencer- 
 port, N. Y. Olliee: Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 BENTON, Guy Potter: 
 
 President of Miami University; born in 
 Kenton, Oliin. Mwy 26, 1865; son of Daniel 
 Webster ;inil llmriet Maria (Wharton) 
 ]5ent(»n. Mr was educated in Baker Uni- 
 versity, Knnsas, leceiv'ng from it the de- 
 grees of A.I!.. A.M., and D.D., and at Ohio 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 14:5 
 
 Weslcyan University from which he re- 
 ceived the A.M. and D.D., and received the 
 degree of LI^.D. from Upper lovva Univer- 
 sity. Dr. Ik'uton was superintendent of 
 schools of Fort Scott, Kan., 1890-1895; as- 
 sistant State superintendent of public in- 
 struction for Kansas, 1895-1896; professor 
 of history in Baker University, 1890-1899; 
 member of the Kansas State Board of Ed- 
 ucation, 1899; president of Upper Iowa 
 University, 1899-1902, and since 1902 presi- 
 dent of Miami University. President Ben- 
 ton is an ex-president of the Southeastern 
 Kansas Teachers' Association, the Ohio Con- 
 ference of College Deans and Presidents 
 and the Ohio College Association, and a 
 member of the American Historical Associ- 
 ation and the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. 
 He married at Arcadia, Kan., Sept. 4, 1889, 
 Dora Konantz. and they have two daugh- 
 ters. Address: Oxford, Ohio. 
 
 BENTON, Maurice Erickson: 
 
 Assistant-secretary of The Land Title and 
 Trust Company; born at Sudlersville, 
 Maryland, Oct. 27, 1865; son of George 
 Vincent and Eleanor J. (Downs) Benton. 
 He was educated in the public schools of 
 Philadelphia and at the University of Penn- 
 sylvania. In 1884 he was connected with 
 the firm of J. Washington Miller and Sons, 
 dealers in druggists' supplies, and two years 
 later entered the banking establishment of 
 Grant & Grant, Philadelphia, being the fol- 
 lowing year transferred to the New York 
 ollice. In 1888, however, he resigned to 
 take a position with The Uand Title and 
 Trust Company. Philadelphia, of which he 
 is now assistant secretary. He is trustee 
 of the Masonic Life Association, and also 
 the Philadelphia Clinic for Home Treat- 
 ment of Chest and Throat Diseases. He is 
 a member of Melita Lodge of Masons, also 
 the Philadelphia Consistory, Scottish Rite, 
 (32d-degree) and the Royal Arcanum (Ion- 
 ic Council). He is also member of the City 
 Club of Philadelphia. He has traveled 
 much throughout the United States, Canada 
 and Europe. Mr. Benton is a member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Chiirch, and in 
 
 polities is a Itepubliean. He married at 
 Phihulelpliia, .Vpril 15, 1905, Mary Kliza- 
 hctli Uppeniiaii. Kcsideiiee: 2:i55 East 
 Susqueliamia Avenue. Philadelphia. Ollice 
 address: Tlic l.aud Title and Trust Com- 
 pany, Phihidclpliiu, Pn. 
 
 BERARD, Eugene Michel: 
 
 Lawyer; l)()in in I'.rooklyn, X. V., July 
 27, 1855; son of Joseph Eugene and .Mary 
 Roche (Grim) Berard. He was educaUsd 
 at home and in public and private schools 
 and was graduated from Columbia Law 
 Scliool, LL.P... 1870. Since then he has 
 been engaged in the practice of law and 
 lie is now a partner in the law firm of 
 Hoppin and Berard and is director and 
 treasuier of the Eastern Kentucky Coal 
 Lands Corporation. He is a member of the 
 American Academy of Political and Social 
 Science; the American Economic Associa- 
 tion; National Geographic Society, and an 
 associate member of the National Child La- 
 bor Committee, and councilor of the Amer- 
 ican Civic Association, member of the Play- 
 ground Association of America, New York 
 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
 Children, American Association for Labor 
 Legislation, New York Botanical Garden, 
 National Municipal League, and the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science, and is a mejuber of the Ilackensaek 
 Golf Club. Residence: Prospect Avenue, 
 Ilackensaek, N. J. Odice : 55 Liberty 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 BERGEN, Caroline McPhail: 
 
 Born in Brooklyn, X. Y.. Aug. 1, 1859; 
 daughter of Leonard Cassell McPhail, M. 
 D., and Caroline (Speir) McPhail. She 
 was educated first in the kindergarten and 
 after that by private instruction at home. 
 She married in Brooklyn, Jan. 26, 1881, 
 Tunis G. Bergen. Mrs. Bergen has taken a 
 great interest in movements for civic bet- 
 terment, and l)y request of two succeeding 
 borough ])residents made a report as to the 
 need for public baths in certain congested 
 neighborhoods in Brooklyn, and suggested 
 sites for them which were approved and 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 j)ui-L-liascd liy tlio city. Two public b;ith 
 houses on these sites are now in use and 
 others arc in course of construction. Mrs. 
 Bergen also, at t.he request of the city con- 
 troller, reported on the playground needs 
 of Brooklyn, and selected places appropri- 
 ate for public playgrounds, which are now 
 being developed for the use of the children. 
 She served, by appointment of Governor 
 Higgins, as a member of the State Proba- 
 tion Commission; as member of the Com- 
 mittee on School Census of New York City, 
 and on the Committee on Physical Welfare 
 of School Children of New York City. Mrs. 
 Bergen served as volunteer probation officer 
 of the Children's Court of Brooklyn, and 
 received a gold badge from the attaches of 
 that court in May, 1900. She is president 
 of the Brooklyn Free Kindergarten Society; 
 vice-president of the Brooklyn Division of 
 the American National Red Cross; member 
 of the State Charities Aid Association, and 
 president of its committee for the boroughs 
 of Brooklyn and Queens; trustee of the 
 Brooklyn Society for Parks and Play- 
 grounds; member of the Executive Com- 
 mittee of the National Playgrounds Asso- 
 ciation of America; director of the Metro- 
 politan Parks Association of New York 
 City; acting president of the Brooklyn 
 Barnard Club; and member of the New 
 York State Association Opposed to the 
 Extension of Suffrage to Women, and of 
 the Woman's Civitas and Twentieth Cen- 
 tury Clubs of Brooklyn. Her summer resi- 
 dence is " Fir Tower,"' Anteora, in the 
 Catskills. Residence: 101 ^\■il!ow Street, 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 BERGEN, Tunis G.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Alaj', 
 1848; son of Garret G. and Mary (Hub- 
 bard) Bergen. He was educated in Brook- 
 lyn Polytechnic Institute, and at Rutgers 
 (.'ollege, was graduated A.B., 18G7; after- 
 waid went to the Univeisity of Heidelberg, 
 from which he received the degree of Uoctoi- 
 in Public i^iw in 1871. lie afterward took 
 post-graduate work at the Universities of 
 JSerlin and Paris, and then took the regular 
 law cour.se iu Columbia University, being 
 
 graduated as I.L.i!. in 187). Mr. l!crgcii 
 was attached to tlio luMd(iuarters of the 
 German Crown IMiiice in tlie Franco-l*rus- 
 sian War in 1870. Since his graduation in 
 law, he has been engaged in practice in the 
 State and United States courts, and he is 
 also extensively identified witli Soutli 
 American railroads and other cntcrjtrises. 
 He was a member of the Brooklyn Board 
 of Education twelve years, and its president 
 from 1881 to 1886, and a New York State 
 Commissioner of Charities, 1895-1900; 
 and is a Republican in politics. He is 
 president of the Bogota City Railway Com- 
 pany of South America, the Chapinero 
 Company of Soiith America, the College 
 Heights Land Company of Niagara Falls; 
 a director of the New York and South 
 Brooklyn Ferry Company. He is a member 
 of the Reformed (Dutcli) Church in Amer- 
 ica and is ex-president of the Holland So- 
 ciety of New York, and of the St. Nicholas 
 Society of Nassau; president of the Board 
 of Trustees of the Brooklyn Heights Semi- 
 nary; a trustee of Rutgers College; direct- 
 or of the Long Island Historical Society. 
 He has delivered numerous historical ad- 
 dresses and has done much research work 
 and writing on early American (New 
 Netherlands) history. Is now actively en- 
 gaged as chairman of Committee, etc., of the 
 Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. 
 Mr. Bergen married at Brooklyn, Jan. 26, 
 1881, Caroline, daughter of Dr. Leonard 
 Cassel and Caroline (Speir) McPhail. Res- 
 idence: 101 Willow Street, Brooklyn. Ad- 
 dress: 55 Liberty Street, New York. 
 
 BERKLEY, Henry J.: 
 
 Physician; born in Baltimore, Md., July 
 17, 1860; son of Edris Berkley and Virginia 
 (Endres) Berkley. He was educated in the 
 University of Maryland, the University of 
 Vienna, graduating as ]\I.D. from the Uni- 
 versity of Maryland in 1881 and receiving 
 from it till' honorary degree of Sc.D. in 
 191)7. Ill' engaged in the practice of midi- 
 ciiic in r.allimorc alter his return Iron: 
 lOurojie in 1888. He is ])rofessoi ol' 
 [)sychiatry at Jolms Hopkins University, is 
 a member of the Association of American 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 I 1.') 
 
 Physiciaiis iiiiil Suincoiis and nf (lie Mcdico- 
 PsyclHilugifMl As.-ocialiou and \\w Johii-^ 
 H()j)kins C!lul). lie iiiariird in Baltiiiioro, 
 July 1:5, l.S8(), I'Mla T>iii1hiriiiii, and ilioy 
 havo a diuij-hlcr. Address: i;U):> Park 
 Avi'iiuc, llalliinori'. Mil. 
 
 BERLINER, Emile: 
 
 liivi'iilor; lidiM ill Hanover, (icnnany. 
 IMay 20, 1S.")1: sun of Saiiiuol and Sally 
 (Friodmaii) J'.ciliiu'i'. He was criaduated 
 fioni the Samson School at Wolfenbuttel 
 in lS(i4, and came to the United States in 
 1870. became a close and assiduous stu- 
 dent of physics, and in 1877 invented the 
 loose contract telephone transmitter or 
 microphone; discovered that a loose contact 
 will act as a telephone receiver in April, 
 1877, and was the first to use an induction 
 coil in connection with tran-iniitters, pat- 
 enting this feature in January, 1878; also 
 niade other inventions in telephony. He in- 
 vented, in 1887, the gramophone, which is 
 the first talking machine which utilizes a 
 groove of even depth and varying direc- 
 tion, and in which the record groove not 
 only vibrates but also propels the stylus 
 across the record. For this invention Mr. 
 Berliner received the John Scott Legacy 
 medal of the Franklin Institute of Philadel- 
 phia. He was founder and secretary 
 (IHOO) of the Society for Prevention of 
 Sickness, having for its aim the improve- 
 ment of the milk supply in Washington, D. 
 
 C. He proposed, planned and was a mem- 
 ber of the Washington Milk Conference of 
 1907. J\Ir. Berliner married at Washington, 
 
 D. C, Oct. 26, 1881, Cora Adler. Address: 
 1458 Columbia Road, Washington, D. C. 
 
 BERRY, James Henderson: 
 
 Former United States Senator; born in 
 Jackson County, Ala., May, 15, 1841, and 
 removed to Arkansas in 1848. He entered 
 the Confederate Army in 180 1 and was sec- 
 ond lieutenant in the Kith Arkansas Infantry, 
 and lost a leg at Coiinth, ]\Iiss., Oct. 4. 
 1802. After leaving the army he studied 
 law antl was admitted to the bar in 18li6. 
 becoming a member of the Arkansas legisla- 
 10 
 
 tiire ill tiial year. In Is7l lir was speak- 
 er of llie Inwer hoiisi', and in 1870 clecled 
 judge of llie Circuit Coiirl. ll(! served a 
 term as governor of Arkansas, being (dect- 
 ri\ in 1S82, and in 1885 he was (deeteil lo 
 (lie Inited Stairs Senate, serving until 1!)07, 
 when lie was defeated by Senator Davis. 
 Address: Bentonville, Ark. 
 
 BERRY, Joseph Flintoft: 
 
 Bishoji of the Melhodist l';|ti>c;ipal 
 Church: born in Alyiner, Canada, May 1:5, 
 1850; son of Francis and Anna L. ]}erry. 
 He was educated in Milton Academy, Ontario, 
 and has received the honorary degree of 
 D.n. from Lawrence University and of LL. 
 D. from Upper Iowa University and from 
 Syracuse University. He entered the INIeth- 
 odist Episcopal ministry in 1874, and from 
 1884 to 1890 he was associate editor of the 
 Michigan Christian Advocate. In the year 
 last named he was selected as editor of the 
 Epworth Herald, the organ of the Epworth 
 League of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 serving as such until May 18, 1904, when 
 he was elected bishop by the General Con- 
 ference at Los Angles. He married, in 
 1876, Olive J. Johnson. Address: 455 
 Franklin Street, r.ulfalo, N. Y. 
 
 BERRY, William H.: 
 
 Consulting engineer; born in Edwards- 
 ville. 111., Sept. 9, 1852. Mr. Berry re- 
 moved to Buffalo when he was 17 years old, 
 and learned the machinists' trade, fitting 
 himself for the profession of mechanical 
 engineer by night study. He later removed 
 to Chester, Pa., where he established a suc- 
 cessful business which became the Berry 
 Engineering Company, of whicli Mr. Berry 
 is president and manager. He served for 
 a term as mayor of Chester, and in 1905 
 was elected State treasurer of Pennsylva- 
 nia. During his incumbency he brought 
 about the disclosures whicli led to the in- 
 vestigation into the details of the building 
 of the new Pennsylvania State Capit<d and 
 Id \\\i' (lunges of extravagance and fraud 
 and tlie pioseculions which followeil. He 
 is a Deinociat in jiolilies. He married in 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 I'hiladelphia, Oct. 1, 1879, Sue Schofield. 
 Address: Chester, Pa. 
 
 BERRYHILL, Virginia Joynes: 
 
 J'xun in l-'airlickl, Iowa, Nov. 23, 1857; 
 daughter of Christian Wolff and Nancy 
 Maria (Seward) Slagle. She was gradu- 
 ated from the State University of Iowa 
 with the degrees of A.B. in 1877 and M.A. 
 in 1880, and Phi Beta Kappa honors, and 
 was married at Fairfield, Iowa, Jan. 19, 
 1881, to James Guest Berryhill, graduate 
 of the collegiate and law departments of 
 the State University of Iowa, who has serv- 
 ed two terms in the Iowa State Legislature, 
 and is an influential business man and 
 citizen of Des Moines, Iowa. Mrs. Berry- 
 hill lias taken a deep interest in woman's 
 club work, is an ex-president and director 
 of the Des Moines Women's Club, ex-pres- 
 ident of the Des Moines City Federation 
 of Women's Clubs, first president and hon- 
 orary president of the Iowa State Federa- 
 tion of W^omen's Clubs, and an ex-member 
 of the Board of Directors and Executive 
 Committee of the General Federation of 
 Women's Clubs. She is also a member of 
 the Women's Press Club of Des Moines, a 
 trustee of the Associated Charities of Des 
 Moines, and a member of theArchaeological 
 Institute and the Society of Psychical Re- 
 searcli. She has travelled extensively in 
 Europe and America, and her recreations 
 are , archery, motoring, golf and country 
 club social life. Her publications and lit- 
 erary work have been chiefly connected with 
 club work. Her children are James Guest 
 Berryhill, Jr. and Katherine Berryhill; and 
 her son, who was graduated from the State 
 University of Iowa, is the first student, 
 of any university to take both Sigma Xi 
 and Phi Beta Kappa honors on graduation. 
 Address: Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 BERWIND, Edward J.: 
 
 Financier; born in Philadelphia, June 17, 
 1S48. He was graduated from tlie United 
 States Naval Academy in 18t»9; appointed 
 ensign, July 4, 1870; master, March 24, 
 1872; and retired, May 14, 1875; title 
 
 changed to lieutenant (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883, and resigned from the re- 
 tired list, 1905. He is president of the 
 Berwind-White Coal Mining Company, and 
 the International Coal Company, the Ha- 
 vana Coal Company, Ocean Coal Company, 
 and the Wilmore Coal Company; and is 
 one of the leading coal supply men in the 
 country having for years made a specialty 
 of supplying coal for steam vessels; is a 
 member of the Board of Managers of the 
 Girard Trust Company (Philadelphia) ; 
 trustee of the Fifth Avenue Trust Compa- 
 ny; vice-president and director of the New 
 York and Porto Rico Steamship Company; 
 director of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa 
 Fe Railway Company, the Cuba Company, 
 International Mercantile Marine Company, 
 the Interborough-Metropolitan Company, 
 the ^Morton Trust Company, National Bank 
 of Commerce, Newport Trust Company, 
 New River and Pocahontas Consolidated 
 Coal Company, Republic Iron and Steel 
 Company, and various banking, railroad 
 and mining corporations. He is a member 
 of the United States Naval Academy Alum- 
 ni Association, the Metropolitan Museum 
 of Art, American Geographical Society, 
 American Museum of Natural History, and 
 the Union, University, Riding, IMetropoli- 
 tan. New York Yacht, Racquet and Ten- 
 nis, Army and Navy, and Turf and Field 
 (Uubs of New Y'ork City; the Philadelphia 
 Club of Philadelphia, the Metropolitan 
 Club of Washington, D. C, and the Union 
 Club of Boston. He married Herminie Tor- 
 rey. Residence: 2 East G4th Street. Ad- 
 dress : 1 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 BESSEY, Charles Edwin: 
 
 Botanist: born at Milton, Wayne Coun- 
 ty, Ohio, May 21, 1845; son of Adnah and ] 
 Margaret (EUenberger) Bessey. He was j 
 educated in the public schools, and at the ' 
 Seville and Canaan Academies of Ohio; 
 then entered the Michigan Agricultural 
 College, graduating with the degree of 
 B.Sc. in 18(i9, and M.Sc. in 1872. He stud- 
 ied under Dr. Asa Gray at Harvard Uni- 
 veristy, and received the degrees of Ph.D. ' 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 147 
 
 and LL.D. from the Univorsity of Iowa, 
 and Iowa College. Early in 1870 he be- 
 came professor of botany at the Iowa Agri- 
 cultural College, filling this position for 
 fifteen college years, until appointed to 
 head of the same department at the Univer- 
 sity of Nebraska in 1884. While at Iowa 
 Agricultural College, he was acting presi- 
 dent during the year 1882, and from 1888- 
 18"J1 was acting chancellor of the Univer- 
 sity of Nebraska, again occupying this po- 
 sition during 1899-1900, and in 1907-1908. 
 He has been dean of the Industrial College 
 of the University of Nebraska, 1884-1888, 
 and again since 1895. From 1888 to 1891 
 he was dean of the College of Literature, Sci- 
 ence, and Arts, at the University of Ne- 
 braska. He is trustee of Doane College, 
 Nebraska ; is a life member of the Botani- 
 cal Society of America (president in 1896- 
 1897); fellow of the American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science (vice- 
 president in 1893, 1902 and 1907) ; member 
 of the National Educational Association 
 ( vice-president in 1896 ) , the American 
 Microscopical Society (president in 1902), 
 the American Forestry Association, etc. 
 He is also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa 
 and the Sigma Xi societies, and of the 
 Si'hoohuastors' Club. He spends his leisure 
 hours in mountain tramping and botaniz- 
 ing, and has traveled for observation and 
 study, throughout the principal countries 
 of Europe, the Steppes, Transcaucasia, etc. 
 In politics he is an independent Republi- 
 can ; iviid he is a member of the Congrega- 
 tional Church. He married at West Tis- 
 bury, Mass., Dec. 25, 1873, Lucy Athearn, 
 and they have three sons. Residence: 1507 
 Iv. Street. Address: The University of 
 Nebraska. Lincoln. Neb. 
 
 BESTOR, Arthur Eugene: 
 
 Diieetor of Chautauqua Institution: 
 born in Uixon, 111., May 19, 1879; son of 
 Orson Porter and Laura Ellen (Moore) 
 Bestor. He was graduated from the Uni- 
 \(']isty (if Cliicago, A.B., 1901; was pro- 
 fcssDi- (if history and political science in 
 Franklin College. Franklin, Ind., 1901-1903, 
 and since 1904 has been lecturer in political 
 
 science in the Extension Division of tlio 
 University of Chicago. Mr. Bcstor was as- 
 sistant general director of Chautauqua In- 
 stitution, 1905-1907, and lias been its di- 
 rector since 1907, spending liis summers at 
 Chautauqua, N. Y. He is a member of the 
 American Historical A.ssociation, the Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society, Delta Upsilon fra- 
 ternity and the City and Quadrangle Clubs 
 of Chicago. Address: 5711 Kimbark Ave- 
 nue, Chicago, 111., and Chautauqua, N. Y. 
 
 BETHUNE, Louise Blanchard: 
 
 Architect; born in Waterloo, N. Y., July 
 21, 185(3; daughter of Dalson Wallace and 
 Emma M. (Williams) Blanchard. She was 
 educated in Buffalo Central High School, 
 and was married in Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 10, 
 1881, to Robert Armour Bethune, and has 
 a son. Dr. Charles W. Bethune, born in 
 1883. After leaving high school she studied 
 architecture, and she was engaged at 
 draughtsman work in Buffalo from 1876 to 
 1881, when she established an independent 
 office and became the first woman archi- 
 tect in the United States. Since her mar- 
 riage she has practised in partnership 
 with her husband, who is also an architect; 
 now member of the firm of Bethune, Beth- 
 une & Fuchs. Mrs. Bethune was for nine- 
 teen years a fellow of the American Insti- 
 tute of Architects, and is the only woman 
 who was ever a fellow of that society. She 
 is a member of the Buffalo Historical So- 
 ciety and the New York State Historical So- 
 ciety ; president of the Buffalo Genealogical 
 Society; treasurer of the National Society 
 of New England Women, Colony II: mem- 
 ber of the Revolutionary Records Commit- 
 tee of the Buffalo Chapter of Daughters of 
 the American Revolution. Address 215 
 Franklin Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 BETTS, James Albert: 
 
 Jurist; born at Broadalbin. Fulton 
 County, N. Y., :March 18. 1853; son of 
 Isaiah and Margaret A. (Hoes) Betts. He 
 wsa graduated from the State Normal 
 School at Albany, N. Y., taught school in 
 Saratoga County, N. Y., 1871-1873, was 
 l>riiicipal of a public school in Kingston, 
 
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 iMEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 N. ^ ., 1S7.")-1S77. liiw >tu(lcid iiiKl law 
 c-li'ik. 1S77-1SSII. iuul ill 1880 was adniilled 
 to the New York bar, ])raotising at Kings- 
 ton. N. Y., 1880-1808. lie was secretary of 
 till" Civil Service Coniniission of New York 
 State, 1883-1884; member of tlie Board of 
 Edueatioii of Kingston, N. Y., 1885-1898; 
 surn.gate of Ulster Connty. N. Y., 1892- 
 18!18, and was eleeted on tlie Democratic 
 ticket, 18U8, jnstice of tlie Siipreme Coui't 
 of the State of New York for the Third 
 Judicial District; t'(ir llie term expiring 
 Dec. :!1. 1!)12. lie is ai~o ]>rosident of the 
 Kingston Savings liank, and vice-president 
 of the City Hospital of Kingston, N. Y'. 
 Justice Betts married in Kingston, N. Y'., 
 Oct. 10. 1884, Frances M. Hill. Address: 
 Kingston, X. "N". 
 
 BEVAN, Arthur Dean: 
 
 Physician and surgeon; born in Chicago, 
 111., 18()1; son of Tliomas and Sarah (Ram- 
 sey) Bevan. After taking a year's work at 
 the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Uni- 
 versity, he became, in 1879, a medical stu- 
 dent at Rush jNledical College (now the 
 medical department of the University of 
 Chicago), graduating in 1883 with the de- 
 gree of M.D. In that year he was appoint- 
 ed surgeon in the United States Marine 
 Hospital .service in Oregon, remaining there 
 for four years, holding also in the last year 
 the chair of anatomy at the medical de- 
 partment of the Universitj^ of Oregon, at 
 Portland. In 1887 he was olYered a similar 
 position at the University of Chicago, and, 
 leaving the United States service, returned 
 to Chicago. Two years later he became pro 
 lessor of surgical anatomy and at the same 
 time associate professor of suigcry, in 
 Rush Medical College, where, in 1902, he 
 was made professor of surgery. He is 
 |)resideiit of and surgeon at tlie Presbyter- 
 ian Hospital of Chicago, and a prominent 
 member of various medical associations, be- 
 ing president of tlie Chicago Medical So- 
 ciety ill 1S99; fellow of liic Aincriciii Siir 
 gical Sdcicty since I'.KHI. clc Dr. Kcvan is 
 ;ii-ii :i iiicHilicr of tlic rni\ci>ily. Cliicago 
 .Mhii-lic. (iicii \ lew ;uh1 < hiiMijo (lolf Clubs 
 of ('hica''o. lie iiiaiiicil at .\krnM, Ohio. 
 
 February. ISlKi, Anna L, Barber. Resi- 
 dence: 2917 ^lichigan .Vveiiue. OHice ad- 
 dress: 100 State Street. Cliicago. 111. 
 
 BEVERIDGE, Albert J.: 
 
 United Stales Senator; born on a farm 
 in Highland County, Ohio, Oct. (i. 1802. He 
 was graduate(i from De Pauw T^niversity, 
 Oreencastle. Ind.. B.A.. 188."); was admitted 
 to the bar in 1880. He has been an active 
 Republican from the time he became a vot- 
 er, and he was elected to the Senate of the 
 United States by the Sixty-first General 
 Assembly of Indiana, Jan. 17, 1890, for the 
 term beginning ISIarch 4th following, and 
 was reelected in 1905, for the term of serv- 
 ice, expiring March 3, 1911. He is author of 
 a number of works dealing with foreign 
 affairs and with moral topics including The 
 Russian Advance; The Y'onng Man and the 
 World; the Bible as Good Reading; Amer- 
 icans of To-day and To-morrow; The Mean- 
 ing of the Times, and has frequently con- 
 tributed to the magazines. Among other 
 mattei's he has become prominently identi- 
 fied in the Senate with the movement for 
 the national child labor bill. Address: In- 
 dianapolis, Ind. 
 
 BICKHAM, Warren Stone: 
 
 Suigeon; born at Sluevcport, La., 
 Aug. 23, 1861 ; son of Dr. Charles Jasper 
 and Annie Augusta (Gray) Bickham. He 
 received his preparatory education in the 
 academies of the University of the South 
 (Sewanee, Tenn,), and the University of 
 Louisiana, until 1882; he was graduated 
 from I he Medical Department of Tulane 
 University of Louisiana, Phar, M., M.D., 
 1880; College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons (Columbia University), M.D., 1887; 
 followed by post-graduate study in New- 
 York, Berlin, \ieiina, London and Paris, 
 residing more than two years abroad. 
 lie i)ractised as surgeon in New Or- 
 leans; was iuleriu' and later \isiting 
 -;urg..iii of the Cliarity ilo-.]»ital. ia 
 \e\\ Oih'aii-: then loeiled ill \e\\ York 
 City ill inactii'c of surg.'ry. He was 
 inslnielor in Ningeiy in the Post-graduate 
 Mcdicil School and ilo-|iital; assistant 
 
MEN OF AMERTCA. 
 
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 instriicldr <if oiicralivc surjicry, Collcfjo of 
 l'hy>ici;nis and Sinjjjeons, Now York City; 
 in>(nic'(iir of siir^^cry, Now York rolyclinic. 
 lie was visiliiii,'' siiii^'cdii of llii' Xoit liwosl- 
 ci II Dispensary, and is now snr^con of tlio 
 Maiihattiin Stato Ifosjiital. Dr. Tiickliam is 
 author of a text-book on Operaiivo Siirfjory, 
 and 7unnerous contribntions to medical 
 journals on surgical topics. He is a fellow 
 of the Xcw York Academy of INfedicine; 
 member of the New York County Medical 
 Society, New York County Medical Associa- 
 tion, New York State Medical Association, 
 American Medical Association, Medical As- 
 sociation of Greater New York, and the Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons Alumni. 
 Ho married in Tjondon, 1895, Flora Sabina 
 P>randon. Address: 448 Madison Avenue, 
 New York City. 
 
 BICKMORE, Albert H.: 
 
 Sccuril ips ; Ijoi'n in JNIartinsville, !Me., 18G9 ; 
 son of William H. and Margaret A. (Mar- 
 tin) Bickmore. He was graduated from 
 Colby University, A.B., 1893. He has 
 since been engaged in financial business, 
 and is now senior member of the firm of 
 A. H. Bickmore & Company, investment 
 securities; director of the National Light, 
 Heat & Power Company, Atlantic Shore 
 Line Railway, Union Securities Companj' 
 (president), Atlantic Construction Com- 
 pany, Southern ]\Liine Steamship Company, 
 Taylorville Gas and Electric Company, 
 i'ana Gas and Electric Company, IMarshall 
 (ias and Electric Company, Lexington Gas 
 and Electric Company, City Gas and Elec- 
 tric Company, of Paris, Jersey ville Il- 
 luminating Company, Charleston Illumi- 
 nating Company, Hoosick Falls Illuminat- 
 ing Company, Bennington Electric Compa- 
 ny, Springfield Coal Mining Company. Mr. 
 Bickmore is a member of the Delta Upsilon 
 fraternity. Phi Beta Kappa, and of the 
 Union League, St. Nicholas, City, Gradu- 
 ates', Lawyers', Indian Harbor Yacht Clubs 
 of New York. Mr. Bickmore married' in 
 Camden, Maine, Oct. 2, 190L Myrtle L. 
 Frenoli. Residence: 300 West 71st Street. 
 A.ldrcss: 30 Pine Street, Now York City. 
 
 BICKNELL, George Augustus: 
 
 Roar Ailiiiiiai. l'. S. N.; Ihiiii mi lln' 
 estate of .)c-,^i' lliiliard-. iii- nml im iial 
 graiidfal her, al liaNlo. Um li ii;:lun ('cmiii 
 fy, N. .1.. May i:.. IS If,; -.,n of Ccorgr A. 
 Hioknoll. then a l:i\\yrr nf New ^'l^rk City, 
 and wlio later settled at New AHiany, Ind., 
 and Elizabeth Haskins Richards Bicknell. 
 Ho received his early education in private 
 schools in Indiana, was appointed acting 
 midshipman from Indiana, Docembor 2, 
 ISfil ; served as^first lieutenant in the Unit- 
 ed States volunteer infantry during the 
 Morgan Raid, until the regiment was mus- 
 tered out; graduated Ignited States Naval 
 Academy, 180G; served in the Iroquois, U. 
 S. Asiatic fleet, 1807-1870; was at the 
 opening of the ports, Kobe and Osaka, Ja- 
 pan, to trade; in landing party repelling 
 attack of Prince Hizen at Kobe; was sec- 
 ond in command of the marines of two 
 ships on outpost duty protecting Yokohama, 
 about ten days, the fleet being absent. He 
 was promoted to ensign, April, 18(38; to 
 master, March, 1869; to lieutenant, March 
 21, 1870; naval academy instructor, 1870- 
 1871; in the Worcester, flagship of North 
 Atlantic Station, 1872-1875; torpedo sta- 
 tion and hydrographic office, 1875; in the 
 Omaha, South Pacific Station, 1875; in the 
 flagship Richmond, South Atlantic Station, 
 1876; navigator of the Wachusett, South 
 Atlantic Station, 1879, going up the ;Miss- 
 issippi one hundred miles above Vick-^burg; 
 navigator of the Marion, 1880-1882; cruiseil 
 from Montevideo to Heard's Island, about 
 seven thousand miles, seeking and rescu- 
 ing about thirty survivors of the ship- 
 wrecked bark. Trinity; inspector of ma- 
 terial for the Advisory Board, and for 
 several bureaus, at Chester Rolling Mills 
 and other steel works; at Roach's Ship- 
 building Works, for the Dolphin, Atlantic, 
 Boston and Chicago, then building there, 
 1883-1880. Promoted to lieutenant com- 
 mander, 1886; executive otlicor, Essex, 
 Asiatic Station, 188G-18S9; assistant in 
 equipment, navy yard, New York, May 
 18S!) to ^lay, 1891; executive olficcr, U. S. 
 recoivin-f ship Fianklin. .Tan. to Doc. 1802; 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 oxociitivp officer, U. S. S. Allanta, Dec, 
 1892. to July. 1803; oxeciilive officer, U. 
 S. R. 8. Franklin. 1893-1804; connnandinor 
 the Fern. 1804-1S9G: captain of the yard, 
 naval station. Port Royal, S. C, Feb. 1, 
 189(5; atti-ndinii- torpedo station and war 
 college, 1896. Promoted to commander. 
 ISOfi. Inspector of Fourteenth Lighthouse 
 District. Cincinnati. Oiiio, Aug., 1897, to 
 April 14, 1898; detached from lighthous? 
 district, April 14, 1898, ordered to com- 
 mand the steamer Niagara, commissioned 
 that vessel at New York, April 16, 1898, 
 arrived at Key West in May. coaled vessels 
 of Sampson's Squadron, whih- on their way 
 to the l)ond)ardmciit of San Juan; took 
 station during tiic liomhardment off Point 
 Salinas, to guard against the approach of 
 gunboats from the westward; towed moni- 
 tor Terror to Key West, arriving there May 
 19. hu\ing delivered nearly all of cai'go of 
 this collier at sea under way: took the 
 Niagara to Norfolk naA-y yard and left her 
 May 30, to command Saturn: cruised in 
 Saturn in Porto Rican and Cuban waters 
 until Sept., 1898, returned to Norfolk; com- 
 manded tlie Monocacy at Shanghai, China, 
 Dec. 25, 1898 ; cruised to Han Kow and 
 river ports, taking the Hon. E. H. Conger 
 and suite to visit the two Viceroys of the 
 river provinces; detached from the Mono- 
 cacy and ordered home, ^lay 30. 1900; 
 reported at Mare Island, June 30, 1900; de- 
 tached from navy yard, July 5, to home; 
 to War College, July 20; to Norfolk navy 
 yard, Oct. 4; inspector of ordnance, na\-y 
 yard, Norfolk, Va., till July, 1902. Pro- 
 moted to captain in A])ril. 1901. Com- 
 mandant, naval station, Key West, Fla., 
 and commandant of the Seventh Naval 
 District, from Aug., 1902, until Aug., 1904. 
 Oct. 17, 1904, commanding the flagship 
 Texas, United States Coast Squadron, 
 under the flags of Rear-Admirals J. H. 
 Sands and F. W. Dickens, until June; 21, 
 1900; during this cruise, the summei' 
 maneuvers of the coast .squadron, then 
 consisting of about sixteen vessels, demon- 
 strated the incom])Ietencss of tlu- shore de- 
 fenses of Chesapeake Bay ; conunandant of 
 
 U. S. Navy Yard and Station, Pensacola, 
 Fla.. and also of the Eighth Naval Dis- 
 trict, July 1, 1906, to Feb. 12. 1907. Pro- 
 moted to rear admiral. Feb. 8. 1!)07 ; com- 
 mandant of tile l'"iist Naval District and 
 commandant of tlie U. S. Navy Yard. 
 Portsmouth, N. 11.. from Feb. 18. 1907, 
 until INlay 14. 190S. and retired May 15, 
 19flS. having attained the aye of 62 years. 
 He is a member of the U. S. Naval In- 
 stitute and the Army and' Xavy Clubs of 
 Washington and New >'ork. He married 
 in New Albany, ind.. ?*Iay 22. 1878. Annie 
 Sloan, daughter of John Sloan, M.D.. and 
 they have had one son. who died in in- 
 fancy. Residenee; 004 E. ^fain Street. New 
 Albany. Tnd. 
 
 BIDDLE, A. J. Drexel: 
 
 Author, explorer and lecturer; bovn in 
 Philadelphia. Oct. 1, 1874: son of Edward 
 and Emily (Drexel) Riddle. After a num- 
 ber of years' residence in the ]\ladeira 
 Islands he returned to the United States 
 in 1891. joined the stall" of the Philadelphia 
 Public Ledger and two years later he sev- 
 ered his connection witli the Ledger, and 
 contributed to magazines and humorous 
 journals. He revived the Pliiladelphia Sun- 
 day Ciaphic in 1895. and became its editoi". 
 and he was at the head of the publishing 
 house of Drexel Riddle, in New York. 
 Philadelphia, and San Franeisen. from 18!)7 
 to 1904. He is author of the following 
 books: A Dual Role, 1894; All Round Ath- 
 letics, 1894; An Allegory and Three Es- 
 says, 1894: The Froggy Fairy Rook. 1896; 
 Tlie Second Froggy Fairy ' Rook. 1897: 
 Shantytown Sketches, 1898; Word for 
 Word and Letter for Letter, 1898: The 
 Flowers of Life, 1898; The Aladeira Is- 
 lands, two volumes. 1900; The Land of the 
 Wine, two volumes. 1901. His favorite 
 recreations are autoinoluling and boxing, 
 lie liiis contested successfully in several 
 aniateiu- boxing tournaments and boxed 
 exhibition bouts with many of the leading 
 I)rofessional ])ugilists. He is a fcdlow of 
 the Royal Ceogra])hical Society nf Kngland. 
 He married in 1895, Cordelia Hundell 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ir.l 
 
 Bradloy. of Pitishiuijli, and Ihey liave two 
 sons and a dauqldcr. Address: 2104 Wal- 
 nut Strcci. T'liiladclpliia. 
 
 BIDDLE, Craig: 
 
 Jnrist ; born in Philadelphia, Jan. 10, 
 1823; son of Nicholas Eiddle, notable as 
 the ])resident of the Bank of the United 
 States from 1823 till its failure in 1841. 
 He was graduated from Princeton College 
 in 1841. He was admitted to the Phila- 
 delphia bar in 1844 and was elected to the 
 Pennsylvania Legislature in 1840. serving 
 one term in the House. On the otitbreak 
 of the Civil War in 1861 he became a major 
 on the staff of General Robert Patterson, 
 and saw service in the Shenandoah Valley; 
 lii> was afterward appointed on Governor 
 Curtin's staflT, and was detailed to organize 
 new regiments. In 1863. when General Lee 
 invaded Pennsylvania. Mr. Biddlc went to 
 the front as a private in a militia regiment 
 for State defense. As a lawyer he won 
 reputation for learning and ability, and 
 built up a large and lucrative practice, 
 which continued till 1845, when he was ap- 
 pointed a judge of the Common Pleas 
 Court of Philadelphia. In November of th:il 
 year he was elected by the Republicans to 
 this position by a large majority. The 
 Republicans and Democrates united in nom- 
 inating and electing him in 1885. and he 
 received a practically unanimous third 
 election in 1805. He is now presiding 
 judge of the Common Pleas Courts, in 
 which bench he has sat over thirty years. 
 Judge Biddle has been much interested in 
 agriculture, and has served as president 
 of the Philadelphia Agricultural Society; 
 he has also been vice-president of the His- 
 torical Society of Pennsylvania. Address: 
 2033 Pine Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 BIDDLE, William Phillips: 
 
 Colonel, v. S. Marine Corps; born in and 
 appointed from Pennsylvania. He was 
 commissioned a second lieutenant, U. S. 
 Marine Corps, in June, 1875; was pro- 
 moted first lieutenant in 1884; captain in 
 1804, major in 1800, lieutenant-colonel 
 
 Mareli 3, 1003, and colonel Vc\,.. 1!)05. He 
 has .served on the varied <iiilies and sta- 
 tions ashore and afloat, of an oHTicer of 
 marines. In Aug., 1877, durin? tlie rail- 
 road riofs. he was with a battalion of ma- 
 rines in Washington. Baltimore. Martins- 
 burg, W. Va., and Fort l\TcTTenry. which 
 opened up the traffic on the Baltimore and 
 Ohio Railroad. In June, 1800. he made 
 a forced march with a detachment of ma- 
 rines and sailors froin Chemulpo to Seoul, 
 Corea, to protect our legation. He com- 
 manded the marines on the Olympia during 
 the battle of Manila Bay. May 1, 1808. 
 and in May and June, 1808, was holdimr 
 Cavite Navy Yard with a detachment of 
 marines, and on the Olympia. blockading 
 Manila till its bombardment and fall in 
 August. In 1800 and 1000, he was in 
 charge of recruiting di.striet of Pennsyl- 
 vania and Western New Jersey, and in 
 Aug.. 1000. he commanded the First Regi- 
 ment of Marines of the China Relief Expe- 
 dition, during the march from Tientsin to 
 Pekin. for the relief of the Legations. He 
 commanded the marines in the battle of 
 Pietsang. Aug. 5. Yangtsnn, Aug. 6, and 
 in the fighting on the walls around Peking. 
 Aug. 15, when the Chinese were finally 
 driven from the Sacred City by the Ameri- 
 can forces; president Marine Corps Exam- 
 ining Board for entrance and promotion. 
 1003; commanded a regiment of marines 
 stationed on the Isthmus of Panama at 
 Empire. 1004; commanded the First Bri- 
 gade of Marines in the Philippines, 1006- 
 1008. Address: Care Headquarters Ma- 
 rine Corps. Washington. D. C. 
 
 BIDWELL, Daniel D.: 
 
 Journalist; born in East Hartford. 
 Conn.; .son of Charles M. Bidwell and 
 Emma W. (Brewer) Bidwell. He was edu- 
 cated in the East Hartford grammar 
 schools, the Hartford high school and Yale 
 College, graduating as A.B. in 1886. He 
 has been engaged on newspapers in Jack- 
 sonville. Fla., New York City and Hart- 
 ford, Conn., since 1886. He was a member 
 of the Connecticut General Assemblv in 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1005 and IHOT: ropicseiif alive nf tlio lown 
 i)f l\a>t Hail fcml. He i>^ a vicc-prosidsMil 
 >>< 111!' r.iilwcll Kaiiiily AssocinI ion. Mr. 
 Kiilwdl is a nii'niinr <>\' llic \';\]r Alumni 
 .Xssot'ialioii of llarlfriid: a ilircctdi- nf llio 
 Riiynioiid T.ilirary at East Hartford, Conn. 
 }Ie is an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias, 
 a Mason, aiid a menilier of the University 
 Club of Tlaitford. ll(> was collahorator 
 with Hpr1)ert Ward in i)ublishing Five' 
 Years witli the Congo Cannibals, and is a 
 contributor to several magazines. Tie mar 
 ried at Brooklyn, N. Y., April J!t, IS!) I, 
 Kditli ~M. Ross, and they liave two children: 
 I'anline B.. born in lSn:>. and Joseph, born 
 in 1902. Rosidenee: l':ast TTartford, Conn. 
 Olfics address: The Hartford Times, Hart- 
 ford, Conn. 
 
 BIEN, Morris: 
 
 Lawyer and ei\ii engineer; born in New 
 ^(|^k City, .\pril 17, 1859; son of Joseph 
 and Theresa (Leipoldt) Bien. He was 
 graduated from the University of Cali- 
 fornia as Ph.B. in 1879; from George 
 Wasliington University, Washington, D. C, 
 as LL.B. in 1895, and from the National 
 University, Washington, 1). ('., as LL.M. in 
 189G. He was in charge of topographic 
 surveys in various States in the East and 
 West in the United States Geological Sur- 
 vey from 1879 to 1893: was engaged in 
 special irrigation surveys for the United 
 States Geological Survty from 1888 to 
 189:}; in the General Land Omce at Wash- 
 ington. D. C. from 1893 lo 1902 in charge 
 of irrigation and the Railroad Right of 
 Way Section; and in the United States 
 Ueelamation Service since 1902, as super- 
 vising engineer in charge of land and legal 
 matters. Im the General Land Office he 
 |)repare(i many reports on Irrigation and 
 Kight of Way matters, and drafted much 
 legislation on these subjects which was 
 passed by Congi-ess and is now in force. 
 Jn 1904 he i)repared the draft of a code ol 
 State Irrigation Law, which has been en- 
 acted by .several State legislatures. He is 
 a mendier of the National Geographic Soci- 
 ety of Wasliington. !). ('., and f)f the I'ni- 
 
 \ersit\ Club n\ Wasliillulnll. 1). ('. jj,. 
 
 married a1 IlilNboio. Ohio. 'March 25, ISSfi, 
 Lilla \'. Hart, ami Hiey have 1 wo cliildren. 
 I!e-iilence: ll:!!) I.amoul Street. X. W. 
 (•nice; I'nited States Reclamation Ser\iee, 
 Washington. I). C. 
 
 BIERBOWER, Austin: 
 
 Lawycn- and authoi': bnin at Shelly's Is- 
 land, Dau])hin County. I'a.. son of Casper 
 and Lydia (Herman) Bierbower. He was 
 graduated from Dickinson College A.B. and 
 A.^1.. and the honorary degree of LL.D. 
 was conferred upon him by Iowa Wesleyan 
 Cniversily in 1902. After graduating from 
 Dickinson College he was ap])ointed pro- 
 fessor of Latin and (iicek at Iowa ^^'es- 
 Icyan University, holding this position 
 three yeais, and spending two years in 
 graduate work at the University of Berlin, 
 Germany. In the meantime, taking up the 
 study of law. he was admitted to the bar 
 of Baltimore in 1874 and subsequently prac- 
 tised over twenty years in Chicago. He 
 was attorney for Rev. H. W. Thomas, D.D., 
 in his famous heresy trial ; and among his 
 important cases tested tlu; High License 
 law of Illinois in the Supreme Court. He 
 has participated as a speaker in several 
 political campaigns. He was for some time 
 Kuro])ean correspondent of the Chicago 
 Tribune and the Cincinnati Times Star, 
 and an editorial writer of the Chicago 
 Daily News. Among the writings for which 
 he is known, besides various articles in the 
 magazines, are the following books: The 
 Morals of Christ; The Socialism of Christ; 
 The Virtues and Their Reasons; From 
 Monkey to Man; How to Succeed; Ethics 
 for Schools; The Training of Lovers; 
 Thoughts for the Rich, etc. Residence: 
 1810 ISIichigan Avenue. Address; 87 
 Washington Street, Chicago, III. 
 
 BIERCE, Ambrose: 
 
 Joniiialist ; born in Ohio in IS42. Mr. 
 Bierce saw distinguished service in the 
 Civil War, being breveted major, and after 
 its close went to California and subse- 
 quently to London. After a successful 
 literary career in l']ngland he returned to 
 ( alifoiiiia, where he eont rilml ed to the 
 
MEN OF .XMERICA. 
 
 1.-):! 
 
 Overland .Moiillily. :uiil ;i( dillVrt'iit liiiios 
 (ilitcil llic Argonaut, and Wasp, Ix'sides 
 doiiii;- a laiL;'(' amount of oilier journalistic 
 work. lie al present eonducts tlio depart- 
 ment of (lie Cosmopolitan Magazine of 
 eaustie coninu'nt on literary and other nnit- 
 teis. He is the author of a considerabk 
 nimiher of hooks on English literature, in- 
 eluding: Cobwebs from an Empty Skull; 
 The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter 
 (with Dr. A. Danziger) ; Black Beetles in 
 Amber; Can Such Things Be?; In the 
 Midst of Life (former title Tales of Sol- 
 diers and Civilians) ; Fantastic Fables; 
 Shapes of Clay; and The Cynic's Word 
 Book. Address: Army and Navy Club, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 BIGELOW, Edvi^ard Fuller: 
 
 Naturalist; born in Colchester, Conn., 
 Jan. 14, 1860. After a preparatory educa- 
 tion Mr. Bigelow undertook a comprehen- 
 sive course of special studies at the biologi- 
 cal laboratories of Yale University and Cold 
 Spring Harbor; the Nature Study School 
 of the College of Agriculture, Kingston, 
 It. I.; at the Marine Biological Laboratory 
 at Woods Hole, Mass., and at the Nature 
 Study School of Cornell University. He 
 has received the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. 
 from Taylor University. Upon the comple- 
 tion of these courses he entered upon his 
 well known career as a lecturer and writer 
 on nature subjects, was for eight years edi- 
 tor of the Nature and Science department 
 of the St. Nicholas Magazine, and for three 
 years was editor of Popular Science. He 
 was also for several years editor of 
 The Observer, a naturalist magazine. In 
 connection with his lecture work he has for 
 twenty-five years taken yearly several thou- 
 sand boys and girls on natural history 
 excursions, and has lectured on topics re- 
 lating to his special work before the leading 
 nature classes of the country, Chautauquas, 
 assL'iublies, colleges, schools, etc. Ho has 
 been instructor of nature study in summer 
 schools in many of the States of the Union. 
 lie is a member uf the American Associ- 
 ation for the Advancement of Science; the 
 r.rooklvn Institute of Arts and Sciences; 
 
 the New York Mieroscoj)ic Society; the 
 Audubon Society of Connecticul ; and was 
 elected president nf (he Agassiz .\ssociati<jn 
 ill li)07. He is the author (and designer) 
 of Bigelow's Descriptive I'lant Analysis; 
 How Nature Study Should lie Taught; 
 Walking, A Fine Art; and the Spirit of 
 Nature Study. He is also the editor of 
 Our School Out of Doors, and the invenior 
 of ehemieal tablets for artificial iiutrimehL 
 of plants. He married at Portland. Conn., 
 July 2, 1882, ]\Iary Augusta Peltoii. Ad- 
 dress: Arcadia, Sound Beach, Conn. 
 
 BIGELOW, Frank Hagar: 
 
 Astronomer, meteorologist, clergyman ; 
 born in Concord, INIass., Aug. 28, 1851 ; son 
 of Francis Edwin and Ann (Hagar) Bige- 
 low. He was prepared at the Boston Latin 
 School, was graduated from Haivard as 
 A.B. in 1873 and received its degree of 
 A.M. in 1880. He engaged in scientific 
 work and later studied theology, was gradu- 
 ated from the Episcopal Theological School 
 at Cambridge, Mass., as S.T.B., in 1880, 
 and received the degree of L.H.D. from Co- 
 lumbian (now George \Vashington) Univer- 
 sity in 1898. After his graduation at Cam- 
 bridge he took holy orders in the Episcopal 
 Church, and in 1881 was rector of St. Paul's 
 Church, at Natick, Mass. This position 
 he resigned to engage in scientific work, in 
 which he has continued ever since, but has 
 also, since 1892, been assistant minister of 
 St. John's Church, Washington, D. C. He 
 was assistant astronomer at the Argentine 
 National Observatory at Cordoba, 1873-1876 
 and 1881-1883; assistant at the U. S. 
 Naval Observatory 1876-1877, professor of 
 mathematics at Racine College, Wis., 188-4- 
 1889; assistant at the Nautical Almanac 
 OfTice, 1889-1891. Since 1891 he has been 
 professor of meteorology in the U. S. 
 Weather Bureau, and since 1894 professor 
 of astrophj'sics in the Ceorge Washington 
 University. Dr. Bigelow lias been a mem- 
 ber of the International Clouil Commission, 
 Commission on Solar Pliysics, and chair- 
 man of the Conference Bo.ud on Evapora- 
 tion, and is now in charge of the climatol- 
 oirv of the United States. Uc was a mem- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 \,vv of till' L'. S. Eclipse Expeditions to 
 West Afrieii in 1889, to South Carolina 
 in 1900 and to Spain in 1905. He is a 
 member and t'ornicr president of the Wash- 
 ington Philosophical Society; member of 
 the Society for Philosophical Inquiry, 
 Washington Academy of Science, Deutsche 
 Meteorologische (lescllschaft. American As- 
 sociation for I lie AdvanccmeMt of Science, 
 Sons of the Revolution, etc. lie is author 
 of more than one hundred and thirty 
 papers, monographs and volumes in solar 
 physics, terrestrial magnetism and meteor- 
 ology. He married, Oct. 0, 1881, Mary 
 Ellen Spalding, and they had a daughter, 
 who died in 1884. Residence: 1625 Mas- 
 sachusetts Avenue. Address: United 
 States Weal her Bureau, Washington, D. C. 
 
 BIGELOW, John: 
 
 ]>a\vyer, aiillior and pulilicisl; born in 
 .Maiden, Ulster County, iSJ. Y., Nov. 25, 
 1817. He was graduated from Union Col- 
 lege as A.B., 1835, and received the LL.D. 
 degree from his alma mater in 1886, from 
 llacine College in 1886, and from the Uni- 
 versity of the City of New York in 1889. He 
 was admitted to the New York bar, 1839. 
 lie was appointed by (luvernor Silas 
 \\ right one of the inspectors of Sing Sing 
 prison, and served until inspectors were 
 made elective by the new constitution of 
 1846; was editor of the New York Evening 
 Post from 1849 to 1801. He was appointed, 
 by President Lincoln, United States Consul 
 to Paris, 1861, and to succeed William L. 
 Dayton as United States minister to 
 France, in 1864-1867; secretary of State of 
 New York, 1875-1876, under the administra- 
 tion of Covernor Tilden, having before that 
 been chairman of the Canal Investigating 
 Committee appointed by Covernor Tilden. 
 By Covernor Tilden's will Mr. Bigelow was 
 appointed one of the e.\ecutors and trustees 
 of his estate. He is president of the Tilden 
 Trust; president of the Board of Trustees 
 of the New York Public Library, Astor, 
 i^-nox and Tilden Foundations; is trustee 
 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and ex- 
 ollicio member of tlie Art Conunission of 
 tlie City of New York. Mr. I'.igelow, while 
 
 a man of affairs in the largest sense, lias 
 also made for himself an enduring place in 
 American literature. He is the author of: 
 Jamaica in 1850, of The Effect of Sixteen 
 Y'ears of Freedom on a Slave Colony, 1852; 
 Life of Fremont, 1856; Les fitats-Unis d' 
 Amerique on 1863 (Paris) ; The Wit and 
 Wisdom of the Haytiens, 1876; Monograph 
 on Molinos the Quietist, 1882; France and 
 the Confederate Navy, 1888; Writings and 
 Speeches of Samuel T. Tilden (two vol- 
 umes), 1885; Life of William Cullen Bry- 
 ant, 1890; Life of Samuel .T. Tilden (two 
 volumes), 1875; Life of Franklin (three 
 volumes) ; and is editor of complete works 
 of Franklin (ten volumes). He also wrolr: 
 The Mystery of Sleep, 1897; which has 
 already reached a third edition and has also 
 been translated and published in the 
 French, German and Russian languages; 
 The Supreme Court and the Electoral Com- 
 mission — An Open Letter to the Honorable 
 ,Tosei)h II. Choate, 1903; Lest we Forget— 
 Gladstone. Morley and the Confederate' 
 Loan of 1863, a Rectification; The Useful 
 Life a C'rown to the Simple Life, 1905; 
 Some Recollections of Edouard Laboulaye; 
 Our Ex-Presidents, What Shall We Do For 
 Them, What Shall They Do For Us?, 1906; 
 The Propium, or What of Man is Not His 
 (Jwn. He was one of the early members 
 and is president of the Century Association. 
 Mr. Bigelow married, in 1850, Jennie 
 I'oultney, of Baltimore, and has six chil- 
 dren: two sons. Major John Bigelow and 
 Poultney Bigelow and four daughters: 
 Miss (Jraoe Bigelow, Mrs. Charles E. Tracy, 
 Mrs. I'.uticr K. Harding, and Honorable 
 Mrs. Lionel Guest. Address: 21 Gramercy 
 I'ark, New York City, or Highland Kalls- 
 oii-Iludsoii, N. Y. 
 
 BIGELOW, Melville Madison: 
 
 Dean of Boston University Law School; 
 born at Eaton Rapids, Mich., Aug. 2, 1846; 
 oldest son of Rev. William li. and Daphne 
 F. Bigelow. He was graduated from the 
 University nl' Michigan ;is A.B. in 1866, 
 1,1.. P.. in 1S()S, and A.M. in 1871; and 
 >lu(lic(l al llarvaid I nivcrsity, receiving 
 its de'.rees of Ph.D. and .\..\I. after exam- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 iiiaiimi in IST'.i; and al^^() i('C'('i\iii,n' (lie 
 (Ici^icc uf LL.D. I'loia Noi-lliwf.^tcin Lluivci- 
 sity ill 18!Hi. He is professor of law and 
 tleati of the L:i\v School of iioston Univer- 
 sity: also lawyer and aurnor. lie is a 
 meniluT ol' Ihe Massac-liiisel ts liislorical 
 Society, the Harvard eh!i])lcr of I'hi Beta 
 Ka|ipa and other learned soeiet ies. He is 
 author of: The L:n\ of Kslopjiel, which 
 has gone through live editions; Leading 
 Cases in the Law of Torts; The Law of 
 Torts (eight American and three English 
 editions); I'laeita Anglo-Normanica ; His- 
 tory of English Procedure ; Tiu; Law of 
 Fraud on the Civil Side: Law of Bills, 
 Notes and Cheques (two editions), and The 
 Law of Wills. He is also author of two 
 chapters (\'I and \ll) in the seventh vol- 
 ume of the Cand)ridge Modern History. 
 Professor Bigelow married in 1898, Alice 
 ilradford Woodman. Residence: 200 
 Brattle Street, Ctunbridge, Mass. Ollice: 
 Boston University Law School, Ashburton 
 Plaee, Boston. 
 
 EIGELOW, Poultney: 
 
 • lournalist : l)orn in New York City, Sept. 
 10. IS.j."): son of -John and Jane Tunis 
 (I'oultney) Bigelow. He was graduated 
 from Vale as B.A. in 1879, and then at 
 tended the Columbia Law School,^ and later 
 reeeixed the honorary degree of M.A. from 
 Yale. He was admitted to the New York 
 bar in ISS-!. Mr. Bigelow is anthor of: 
 The (ierman Emperor and Ills Eastern 
 Neighbors (German translation); Down 
 the Danube, from the Black Forest to the 
 Black Sea ; The Borderland of Czar and 
 Kaiser; History of the German Struggle 
 for Liberty (1806 to 1848), four volumes, 
 189.J to I'.K)."); White Man's Africa, 1897; 
 Children of the Nations, 1900. He has 
 visited the principal tropical colonies in 
 search of information on colonial adminis- 
 tration and three limes circumnavigated 
 the globe. In 11K)5 and 1900 he was lec- 
 turer on National Expansion in the Law 
 School of Uoston University. lie was cor- 
 respondent of the Loudon Times in the 
 Spanish- American War, and has lectured 
 
 al the piincipal imi\ci>it ies on odoiiial 
 
 adniini.st rat ion and i lern iii.slory. lie is 
 
 honorary memi)er of the Royal United 
 Service Institution, and of the Royal Artil- 
 leiy Institution (life), and a life fellow 
 of the lloyal Geographical Society, and of 
 other kindred societies at home and abroad, 
 and is a life member of the fmiierial 
 '^'aeht (lidi of Kiel, (leiinany. ami lloyal 
 Corinthian of London. Address: Malden- 
 on-lludson, N. Y. 
 
 BIGELOW. Robert Fayne: 
 
 Zoologist and lihiarian; Imni at IJald- 
 winsville, N. ^ .. in ISli,;; son of Otis Bige- 
 low and Margaret (I'ayne) l>ig(dow. lie 
 was graduated from Harvard as S.B. in 
 1887 and from Johns Hopkins University 
 as Pli.n. in 1892. and was .Adam T\ Brice 
 fellow at -lohns lloiikins from 1891 to 
 1893. He was editor of the .\nierican Natu- 
 ralist in 1897 and 1898, editor of the Tech- 
 nology (Vaartcrly from 189.'") to 1908. I fas 
 ])vddished various |)apers on /o.ilogieal >ui)- 
 jects. He is instructor in biology and 
 libraiiau at tin- Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology. He is a mi'mber of the .Vmeii- 
 can Society of Naturalists, the American 
 Society of Zoologists, fellow of the Ameri- 
 can Association for the Advencement of 
 Science, and a member of the Saint Botolpli 
 Club and Commonwealth Country Club of 
 Boston. Residence: 3 Spruce Street. 
 Office: Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
 nology, Boston. 
 
 BIGELOW, Willard Dell: 
 
 Chemist; horn at (iardnei'. Kan.. May 31, 
 1800; son of William 1. and .b'nnie (Lytic) 
 Bigelow. He was graduated from Andierst 
 College in 1889, and went to Oregon, where 
 he was professor of chemistry in the Ore- 
 gon State College for a year, then instruc- 
 tor ill chemistry in the liigh schools of 
 Washington, D. C, for a year; and in 
 July 1. 1891, he became chemist in the 
 U. S. I)ei>artment of Agriculture in which 
 position he has ever since continued, now 
 being chief of the Division of Foods in that 
 Ueparlmeiil He wa> jjiofessor of chemistry 
 
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 ^lEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 in tlic X;ili(iii;il I'liivcisit y at Washington 
 fnini lS!i;{ to 1898. Professor Bigelow 
 married at College Park, Md., April 9, 
 ISm;. Xanoy ]\r. Xosl)it. Address: De- 
 liartiiiciit of Au'iifulturc, \\asliin_gton, D. C. 
 
 BILLINGS. Cornelius K. G.: 
 
 Capitalist: lioni in Saratoga Springs, 
 N. Y., Sept. 17. lS(ii: son of Albert M. and 
 Augu.sta S. ( Farnswortli ) Billings. He 
 removed to Chicago witli his parents in 
 1804, and was educated at Racine College, 
 graduating as A.B. in lS7n. He entered the 
 office of the People's Gas Light and Coke 
 Company of Chicago, of which his father 
 was president, in 1879, and he has been 
 president of that company since the death 
 of his father in 1887. He is also president 
 and director of the Kings County Ligliting 
 Comjiaiiy: director of the Union Carbidft 
 Company, the Home National Bank and the 
 Home Savings Bank of Chicago. He was a 
 director of the World's Columbian Exposi- 
 tion from 1892 to 1904, and was West Park 
 Commissioner of Chicago in 1889. He is a 
 member of tiic Aletropolitan, Racquet and 
 Tennis, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, New 
 York Yacht, Turf and Field and Down 
 Town Clubs of New York, and the Chicago 
 and Union League Club, Chicago. He mar- 
 ried in 1885, Blanche, daughter of Andrew 
 MacLeisli, of Cliicago. Residence, 921 
 Madison Avenue. Address: 170 E. 75tl) 
 Street, New York. 
 
 BILLINGS, Frank: 
 
 Physician, cducatoi' ; horn at Highland, 
 Iowa County, Wis., in 18r)4; son of Henry 
 -M. and Ann (Bray) Billings. He studied 
 medicine at Northwestern University, being 
 graduated in 1881 with the degree of M.D., 
 and receiving the honorary degree of M.S. 
 in 1890. He has since his graduation prac- 
 tised in Chicago. ;uid is conncetsd witli 
 \aiiou-, lio,pil:ils and in-l iliit ioii-^. lie lia- 
 been ])hysician of tlic I'lcsbylerian llos- 
 |iital sine;- 1898. ami of St. Luke's since 
 IH92. Jle is also consulting physician to 
 the Cook County, ('liildren's Memorial, 
 -Miijijicl liccse, and Provident Hos]iitals. He 
 
 was teacher of anatomy, of pliysicul diag- 
 nosis, and of the practice of medicine in the 
 Northwestern University School of Medi- 
 cine. 1882-1898. In 1898 he was appointed 
 to the eliair of medicine in l\>ish ^ledical 
 College (now the Medical School of tlie 
 University of Chicago), and in 1900 liecame 
 dean of the Medical School. He is a prom- 
 inent member and was president in 1902- 
 190.3 of the American jNIedical Association, 
 and member and ex-president of the Asso- 
 ciation of American Physicians, and the 
 (•liicago Medical Society; also a member of 
 the Illinois State Medical Society and vari- 
 ous other local professional organizations. 
 He edited Diseases of the Digestive System 
 (1906). Dr. Billings married at Washing- 
 ton, D. C, May 26, 1887, Dane Ford Braw- 
 ley, by whom he has a daughter. Resi- 
 dence: 35 Twenty-second Street. Office: 
 100 State Street, Chicago. 
 
 BILLINGS, John Shaw: 
 
 Librarian, pliysician : born in Switzer- 
 land County, Ind., April 12, 18oS; son of 
 James and Abbie (Shaw) Billings. He was 
 gradtiated from Miami University, Ohio, 
 as A.B., 1857; received the degree of A.^1. 
 from the same college, 1860, and was gradu- 
 ated from the Medical College of Ohio, as 
 M.D., 18G0. He afterward received the de- 
 gree of LL.D. from the University of Edin- 
 burgli. in 1884; from Harvard University 
 1886; M.D. from the University of ]\Iunich, 
 1889; D.C.L. from Oxford University, 1889; 
 was made a member of the Royal College 
 of Physicians, of Ireland, and Royal College 
 of Surgeons, of Hxdand, in 1892; M.D., 
 Dublin, in 1892 and Budapest in 1896 
 LL.D., ^ ale, in 1901, and LL.D., Johns Hoj.- 
 kins University, 1902. He was resident 
 physician of the Commercial Hospital at 
 Cincinn;iti. Ohio, 1859-60; demonstrator of 
 anatomy of the jMedical College of Ohio 
 lsi;n jscij. I)i. Billings was appointed act 
 ing assistant surgeon U. S. Army. Xo\., 
 1861; promoted assistant surgeon A])ril Ki. 
 1802; brevetted lieutenant-colonel C. S. 
 Army, Alarch l.'i, 1865; captain ami as 
 sistant surgeon, U. S. Armv, -Julv 28. 1866; 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 iii;i jor .111(1 sur.i;r(Mi. Deo. 2. ISTO; lieiilon- 
 iinl-colniK'l 1111(1 (lc|iiily sur.iiCdii-uciicnil, 
 riiilf'd States Army, .liiiic 1(1. 1S!II: mul 
 retired from aetive service, at liis dwii re- 
 (|iiest, 1805. lie was in cliar,i;(' <>\ hospitals 
 at Wasliinntoii. D. C, and West riiiladcl- 
 Ithia, ISOl-O;): served with the Ariiiy of the 
 Potomac, 1803.. and was with the Fifth 
 Corps at the battles of Chancellorsville and 
 ( Jettysburg; was on hospital duty, David's 
 island and Bedloe's Island, N. Y., Oct., 
 18G.3, to Feb., 1864; acted as board of en- 
 rollment, and then was medical inspector. 
 Army of the Potomac, until Dec, 1864; 
 then in Surgeon-General's Office, Washing- 
 ton, in charge of the organization of Vet- 
 eran Reserve Corps, until 1875, and of the 
 Library of the Surgeon-General's Office vm- 
 lil Dec. 28, 1883; after which he served as 
 curator of the Army Medical Museum and 
 l-ilirary. 1885-1895. He was engaged in the 
 reorganization of the United States Marine 
 Hos])ital Service. 1870 ; had charge of the 
 Division of Vital Statistics, eleventh cen- 
 sus; was medical adviser to board of trus- 
 tees of Johns Hopkins University and Hos- 
 pital, Baltimore ; vice-president of the Na- 
 tioual Board of Health, 1879-82; professor 
 of hj'giene in the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, 1891-90; and since 1896, director of 
 the New York Public Library, Astor, 
 Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Dr. Bil- 
 lings is a member of the Academy of Natu- 
 ral Sciences, Philadelphia, the Philosophical 
 Society, of Washington (ex-president), the 
 American ^ledical Association, American 
 Social Science Association, American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science, the 
 National Academy of Sciences, the Ameri- 
 can Statistical Association, and also of the 
 Congress of American Physicians and Sur- 
 geons ( ex-president ) , American Academy of 
 Political and Social Science, International 
 Statistical Institute and Committee of 
 Fifty to Investigate the Liquor Problem. 
 He was president of the New York Library 
 Club, 1899-1900, and again in 1900-1907; 
 president of the American Library Associa- 
 tion, 1901-1902; director Carnegie Institu- 
 tion, and chairman since 1903. Dr. Billings 
 has distinguished liimself as a writer on 
 
 medical, hygienic ;iii(l liil>li()gia|iliical siib- 
 jecls, incliKling anion',-- liis works: A 
 I'.ililiograpliy of Cholera. lS75; .Medical 
 ]„ibi-aries in llie I nilc(l Slalc<. 1870; In- 
 troduction to a ■I'lcalisc on Hygiene and 
 Public J lea nil; Priiici[)les of Ventilation 
 and Heating, 1884^ second edition, 1893; 
 Mortality and Vital Statistics of the United 
 States, 1885; Index Catalog of the Library 
 of the Surgeon-General' s Office of the 
 United States Army, Washington, D. C, 
 1880-1894; also various professional rc.- 
 ports and papers. Address: 425 Lafayette 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 BINGHAM, Henry Harrison: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born in Phila- 
 delphia, Dec. 4; 1841. He was graduated 
 from Jefferson College in 1862, receiving 
 the degrees of A.B. and A.M., and later the 
 degree of LL.D. from Washington and Jef- 
 ferson College. He studied law, entered the 
 Union Army as a lieutenant in the One 
 Hundred and Fortieth Pennsylvania Volun- 
 teers; was wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., in 
 1803, at Spottsylvania, Va., in 1864, and at 
 Farmsville, Va, in 1865, He was mustered 
 out of service in July, 1866, having been 
 brevetted for distinguished gallantry as 
 major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brig- 
 adier-general, and he received the Medal 
 of Honor for special gallantry at the Battle 
 of the Wilderness, He was appointed post- 
 master at Philadelphia in Marcli, 1867, and 
 resigned December, 1872, to accept an elec- 
 tion to the clerkship of the Courts of Oyer 
 and Terminer and Quarter Sessions of the 
 Peace at Philadelphia. He was reelected 
 clerk of the courts in 1875; was a delegate- 
 at-large to the Republican National Con- 
 vention at Philadelphia in 1872, also dele- 
 gate from the First Congressional District 
 to the Republican National Convention at 
 Cincinnati in 1876, at Chicago in 1884 and 
 1888, at Minneapolis in 1892, St, Louis in 
 1896, at Philadelphia, 1900, and Chicago, 
 1904. He was elected to the Forty-sixth 
 Congress from the First Pennsylvania 
 District in 1878, beginning his services 
 March 4, 1879, and lias been in continuou.s 
 .service bv biennial elections since, and is 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 now spr\ iiii; in tlii> Sivty-Cirst Congress, cx- 
 pirinj,' M;n.l, ;;. lull. .Vddross: :^ir) 
 South 'rw.lllli Sficcl. l'liil;iil<'liiliia. 
 
 BINGHAM. Theodore Alfred: 
 
 Hrijjulior genoral United States Army, 
 retired; born at Andover, Tolliind County, 
 Conn.. May 14, 1S58; son of Joel Foote 
 and Sarali (Grew) Bingham. He spent 
 three years at Yale, in the class of 1876, 
 and received from that college the degree 
 of M.A. in 189G; and he was graduated 
 from the United States Military Academy 
 in 1879. He was appointed as second lieu- 
 tenant of engineers, in June, 1879. He was 
 military attache of the United States Em- 
 bassy "at Berlin from 1889-1892, and at 
 Rome from 1892-1894; military aide to the 
 President of tlie United States, with rank 
 of colonel, from 1897-1903; having charge 
 of th(! public buildings and grounds in 
 Washington. While on engineering duty in 
 Buffalo, N. Y., he met with a severe acci- 
 dent; was promoted brigadier-general in 
 the United States Army, July 11, 1904, and 
 was retired for disability in line of duty, 
 Jul}' 12, 1904. Ceneral Bingham was police 
 commissioner of New Y'ork City, from 1906 
 to 1909. General Bingham is a Royal Arch 
 Mason, and he is a Commander of the Le- 
 gion of Honor of France; member of the 
 Society of the Cincinnati ; a member of the 
 Society of Colonial Wars, and the Sons of 
 the American Revolution. He married in 
 St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 15, 1881, Lucille Ruth- 
 erf urd, and they have a son. Address: 
 300 Mulberry Street. New York. 
 
 BINNEY. Charles Chauncey: 
 
 LawviM'; born in P]uladel])hia, Oet. 20, 
 1855; son of Horace Binney. Jr.. and Eliza 
 Frances (Johnson) Binney. He was grad- 
 uated from Harvard as A.B. in 1878, stud- 
 ied law in llie ollicc of William Henry 
 Kawle in I'hiladclpliia ; aNn at llic Law 
 School of tile University of rcnnsylvania, 
 and was admitted to the bar. He was as- 
 sistant attorney in the Department of Jus- 
 tice of the United States, ]S9:M897: and 
 fi'om ScpcMibcr. 1X97, was s|)ccial altorncy 
 
 for the same depart incut iiiitil .liiiic 1. l'.)()7, 
 allliouuii he rfsiiiiii'd praclicc in I'liiladel- 
 jihia in NoNcmbcr. I'.iol. lie i-< a member 
 of I he Sncieiy of (njonial Wars, Historical 
 Society of Pcnnsv Uaiiia. I lie American For- 
 estry Assoeialioii. Ilie Pennsylvania For- 
 estry Association, the University and City 
 Clubs of Philadelpliia and the Cosmos Club 
 of Washington, D. ('. He is author of: Re- 
 strictions Upon Local and Special Legisla- 
 tion in State Constitutions, 1894; Life of 
 Horace Binney, 1903; and a contributor to 
 legal periodicals. Mr. Binney has been 
 twice married; first at Englewood, N. J., 
 June 4, 1885, to Sarah Cook Dawes, who 
 died Dec. 28. 1900, and second, at Provi- 
 dence. R. 1.. Nov 29. 1904. to Isabell Nich- 
 ols. Residence: St. ]\fartin"s. Chestnut 
 Hill. Address: 703 North American 
 Buihlin-, Plii]a(leli)liia. 
 
 BINNEY, Harold: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New Y'ork City, 1867; 
 son of Amos (of Boston) and Elizabeth N. 
 (Talbot) Binne}\ He was educated in the 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bos- 
 ton, Columbia Law School, Washington, D. 
 C, and the New Y'ork University Law 
 School. He was assistant examiner of pat- 
 ents at Washington, 1887-1890, and has 
 been practising in New Y'ork City since 
 1890; member of the firm of Binney, Brick- 
 enstein &. Ogden, patent lawyers. He is 
 a member of the Players', Calumet, Engi- 
 neers', Strollers', New York Y'aclit. Chem- 
 ists' and Lawyei's' Clubs. Mr. Binney mar- 
 ried, 1895, Gertrude A. Miles and they have 
 two ilaughters: Constance, born in 1897 
 and Frederika. born in 1S92. Address: 2 
 Rector Street, New NOrk City. 
 
 BINNIE, John Fairbairn: 
 
 Surgeon: boin in Stirling. Scotland. 
 April 22. 18(13. lie was educated at tlic 
 University of Aberdeen, and studied in 
 l.ondon, (ilasgow, (Jottingen and Bcilin, ic- 
 ceiving the degree of A.M. in 1882 and liis 
 medical degrees in 1S80 from Abcrdi'cn. 
 Since 1889, Dr. Binnie has been cm^aucd in 
 ])ractice as a surgeon in Kansas City, and 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 hits ail international roputatinn not only 
 among t lio monibors of liis piofossion but 
 a mono- laynion as well. Tie is professor of 
 surgery at tlie University of Kansas; fel- 
 low uf tile American Surgical Association; 
 meinlier of tile Societe Internationale de 
 (liirurgie; and of the ,\nierican Society 
 of Clinical Surgerj'. He is the author of a 
 ]\Ianual of Operative Surgery. Residence: 
 3601 Main Street. Olfice: Argyle Build- 
 ing, Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 BIOREN, John S.: 
 
 Banker; born in Philadelphia, Jan. 29, 
 1SG3; son of John and Anna J. (Maull) 
 Bioren. He was educated in private schools 
 and the Central High School of Philadel- 
 ])liia. Mr. Bioren is senior member of 
 iUoren and Company, bankers, of Philadel- 
 ])hia. He is president of the Delaware In- 
 surance Company, the Cape May (New Jer- 
 sey) Illuminating Company, and the Fidel- 
 ity Shareholders' Company, and is a direc- 
 tor in the American Gas Company, The Na- 
 tional Gas, Electric Light and Power Com- 
 pany, The American Railways Company, 
 the Easton Consolidated Electric (Street 
 railway) Company, and the Merchants' 
 Trust Company. He served in councils of 
 lliverton, N. J., for a period of seven years, 
 having been elected by good majorities over 
 opponents representing the dominant local 
 party. His own political views are Demo 
 cratic. He has been connected at various 
 times as director, manager or governor 
 with nearly all of the local institutions of 
 Biverton. N. J. His favorite recreations 
 are cricket, golf, tennis, rowing and horse- 
 liack riding. He is a member of the Rac- 
 quet and City Clubs of Philadelphia, and of 
 the Delaware River, Moorestown Field and 
 Riverton Country Clubs. Residence: Riv- 
 erton, N. J. Office address: 314 Chestnut 
 Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 BIRCKHEAD, Hugh: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Newport. R. I., 
 Sept. 7, 1876; son of William H. Birck- 
 head. M.D., and Sarah G. (King) Birck- 
 head. He was educated in St. Paul's School 
 at Concord, N. H., Columbia University, A. 
 
 H.. IS'.I!!, i'lpiscopal Tlieological School, 
 Cambridge. Mas>.. i;.|).. pidj. Ilr was or- 
 dered deacon in I'.itl:;, ami onlaiiicd priest 
 in 1003, and lie entered uixin his ministry 
 in St. George's Parish in New York City as 
 assistant minister, 1902-1905, becoming 
 minister-in-charge, 1905, and rector of the 
 same parish in 1906. Address: 209 Kast 
 16th Street, New York City. 
 
 BIRD, Abraham Calvin: 
 
 Traffic director of the (iould Railway Sys- 
 tem ; born in Pittsfield, 111., March 4, 1843. 
 He enlisted early in the Civil War, and 
 served throughout that conllict in the 22d 
 Illinois Infantry and the 4th United States 
 Cavalry. In 1865, after leaving the army, 
 he became connected with the St. Louis, 
 Alton & Terre Haute Railway, and by suc- 
 cessive promotions became general traffic 
 manager of the Wabash Railroad in 1895. 
 In 1901 he was made 3d vice-president of 
 the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, and 
 since ]\Iarch 1903 has been vice-president in 
 charge of traffic, of the Gould Lines, com- 
 prising the W'abash, Missouri Pacific, Den- 
 ver & Rio Grande, Texas and Pacific, In- 
 ternational and Great Northern and the 
 Wheeling and Lake Erie railroads. Resi- 
 dence: Evanston, 111., Olfice: Western 
 Union Building, Chicago. 
 
 BIRGE, Edward Asahel: 
 
 Zofdogist, educator; born at Troy, N. Y., 
 Sept. 7, 1851; son of Edward White Birge 
 and Ann ( Stevens ) Birge. He . received his 
 preparatory education at Troy High School 
 and entering Williams College, was gradu- 
 ated in 1873 with the degree of A.B., receiv- 
 ing that of A.M. three years later. The 
 honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred 
 upon him by his alma mater in 1903. He 
 studied zoology at the Museum of Compar- 
 ative Zoology, Harvard University, and re- 
 ceived the degree of Ph,D. in 1878. The 
 Western University of Pennsylvania con- 
 ferred on him the honorary degree of Sc.D. 
 in 1897. He spent the year 1880-1881 in 
 study at Leipzig under Professors Gaule 
 and Ludwig. In 1875 he became instructor 
 of natural history at the University of 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Wisconsin, and in 1870 became professor 
 jiiid lioad uf till' (Icpartniont of Zoolojjy in 
 lliat univorsily. Since 1801 he lias been 
 (lean of the College of Letters and Science, 
 an<l was acting jtresident of tlie nniversily 
 from 1000 to lOO.'J. Besides his connection 
 with tliis institution he lias been Commis- 
 sioner of Fisheries of the State of Wiscon- 
 sin since 1895; director of the Wisconsin 
 Geological and Natural History Survey 
 since 1897; Forestry Commissioner since 
 1905; on State Conservation Commission 
 since 1908. He has been a director of the 
 Madison Free Library since 1800 and presi- 
 dent of the Board of Directors since 1803. 
 In 1904 he was a member of the Interna- 
 tional Jury of Awards at the Louisiana 
 Purcha.se Expedition. In his active life, Dr. 
 Birge has found time to be connected with 
 various associations, professional and other. 
 He is fellow of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science; member 
 of llie ^^'isconsin Academy of Sciences 
 Arts, and Letters (president, 1890-91), of 
 the American IMicroscopical Society (presi- 
 dent 1902-1903), of the American Society of 
 Naturalists; the American Societj' of Zoolo- 
 gists (president, Central Branch, 1907-09), 
 the Washington Academy of Sciences, the 
 American Fisheries Society (president, 
 1900-07), and the National Geographic So- 
 ciety. He is also member of the Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society and Senator, 1904-10. He 
 is a member of the Congregational Churcli. 
 Dr. Birge married at Troy, N. Y., July 15, 
 1880, Anna W. Grant, and they have two 
 children: Edward G., born in 1881, and 
 Anna G., born in 1883. Residence: 744 
 Langdon Street, Madison, Wis. Address: 
 I'nJMTsity uf Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 
 
 BIRKHIMER, William Edward: 
 
 l'>iigaili< r-gcnei'al U. S. Army, retired; 
 born in Somerset, Ohio. March 11, 1848; son 
 of Nathan and Temperance (Hood) ]5irk- 
 himer. He was educated in the Denmark 
 ( Iowa ) Academy, and was graduated from 
 the United States Military Academy, 1870; 
 honor graduate from the United States 
 Artillery School, 1872, and was graduated 
 from the Law School of the University of 
 (Jregon. Lf>.l{., 1888. He was commis- 
 
 sioned si-CDiid liciilenant of the Tliird Artil- 
 lery. June. 1S70. lirst lieutenant, 1879, and 
 captain. 1898, colonel 28th U. S. Volun- 
 teers, 1899-1901, major and lieutenant-col- 
 onel. Artillery Corps, 1901-1905; promoted 
 brigadier general and i-etired at his own re- 
 quest after forty years' service, Feb. 16, 
 1906. He was awarded the Congressional 
 Medal of Honor for most distinguished gal- 
 lantry at San Miguel de Mayumo, Luzon, 
 May 13, 1899. He served as judge advo- 
 cate of the Department of The Columbia, 
 1886-1890, and he was associate justice 
 of the Audencia (or Supreme Court) of the 
 Philippines at Manilla in 1899. Brigadier- 
 General Birkhimer is an authority on mil- 
 itary law, and is author of: The Law of 
 Appointment and Promotion in the Army 
 of the LMted States, 1880; Historical 
 Sketch of the Organization, Administration, 
 Material and Tactics of the Artillery, Unit- 
 ed States Army, 1884; Military Govern- 
 ment and Martial Law, 1891-1904. He 
 married at Sackets Harbor, N. Y., Sept. 22, 
 1876, Geraldine, daughter of R. V. W. How- 
 ard, U. S. A. Address: 1427 20th Street, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 BIRNEY, Arthur Alexis: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Paris, France, ]\Iay 28, 
 1852; son of William and Catherine (Hoff- 
 man) Birney. He studied law at the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, and was graduated 
 in 1873 with the degree of LL.B. He was 
 admitted in 1873 to the bar of Washington, 
 D. C, and there began to practice in part- 
 nership with his father. In 1875 he was 
 appointed assistant United States district 
 attorney, but resigned two years later to 
 accept the appointment of assistant corpo- 
 ration counsel of the City of Washington, 
 in 1893 he was appointed by President 
 Cleveland United States attorney for the 
 District of Columbia, and held tliat office for 
 four years, during which time he prosecut- 
 ed many notable cases. He is now in pri- 
 vate practice at \Vashington, as senior 
 menilici- of the firm of Birney & Wood- 
 waid. In 1878 he was appointed to a pro- 
 fessorship in the Law Department of How- 
 ard I^niversity, and continues to hold that 
 position. He is a director of tlie Washing- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 It; 
 
 toil M;irl<('l ( '(iinpaiiy. Ihc Xntidiial Ciiy 
 J)aiiy ( 'uin|»;iii\ . and 1 lie t Dii^rcssioiial Ho- 
 tel Coiupany. Hi' is a '['rustic of the Na- 
 tional llDitii'opalliic ll<is|)ital Association; 
 and i>as( inaslci- of I'ciilalpha Lodj;e of Ma- 
 sons. He inanifd, Nov. ;5, 1875, Helen 
 (.'oinvav, of Baltimore, Md. Residence: 
 l.")l(i Twenty-.second Street. OHlcc: 602 
 Elcvciilh Street, Wa.shington, T). C. 
 
 BISBEE, Horatio: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Canton, Me., May 16, 
 18.Sit; son of Horatio Bisbee and Sarah 
 (White) Bisbee. He received his education 
 at Tufts Collet^e. where he was graduated 
 ill 1863 with the degree of A.B.. the degree 
 of A.M. being conferred u])on him in 1872. 
 He left college and enlisted in Company E 
 of the Fifth Massachusetts Volunteer In- 
 fantry. April 17, 1861. for three months' 
 service, and then joined a company of the 
 Ninth j\Iaine Kegiment and his gallantry 
 won him rapid promotion through the ranks 
 of cajitain, lieutenant-colonel and colonel in 
 the Xintli Maine Begiment of Volunteer In- 
 fantry, with which he was discharged in 
 1863. He then took up the study of law 
 and was in 1864 admitted to the bar at 
 t aicago, 111., and commenced practising 
 at Jacksonville, Fla., which he had adopted 
 for his home in 1865. In 1869 he was ap- 
 jiointed United States district attorney for 
 tile Northern District of Florida, and held 
 the position for four j'ears, declining a re- 
 ajipointment ; and he was attorney-general 
 of Florida for a short time in 1872. In 
 1S76 he was elected by the Republican 
 ])aity, with which he is identified, to a 
 seat in Congress and was I'eelected for 
 three successive terms, being member of 
 the Foity-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-ssventh 
 ami Forty-eighth Congresses. He is a 
 member of the New York Commandery of 
 llie JNIilitary Order of the Loyal Legion. 
 He married at Fernandina, Fla., April 5, 
 lSti3, Florida Plotard, and of that union 
 lias four children; and married a second 
 time. June 11, 1891, Lottie R. Beasley, of 
 New York City. Address: 318 West Bea- 
 ver Street, Jacksonville, Fla. 
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 BISCHOFF, Henry, Jr.: 
 
 Jurist; born in New NOik City, Aug. Id, 
 1852; son of llciiiy ami .\malie BischolV. 
 He was graduated from (olinnbia Liw 
 Sciiool. LL.B., 1871, was adiuilted to the 
 bar of New York in 1873, was attorney for 
 the collection of arrears in personal taxes 
 for the city of New York, 1889-1890; jmlge 
 of the Court of Common Pleas of New 
 York from 1890-1895, and since tiien jus- 
 tice of the Supreme Court of New York in 
 the First Judicial District, his present term 
 expiring Dec. 31, 1917. Justice Bischoil is 
 a member of the American Bar Association 
 and the New York State Bar Association, 
 and of the Manhattan, Lotos and National 
 Democratic Clubs. He married first in 
 New York City, Oct. 26, 1873, Annie Louise 
 Moshier, who died in February, 1897 ; and 
 second, in April, 1902, Eli/.abetli, widow of 
 Gihiuui CoUamore. Residence: 180 West 
 80th Street. Office: ('(niiity Court House, 
 New York City. 
 
 BISHOP, Emily M.: 
 
 Lecturer, dramatic reader; Imuu in For- 
 estville, N. Y., Nov. 3, 1858; daughter of 
 Asa L. and Ann Elizabeth (De Witt) Mul- 
 kin. She was educated in public and high 
 schools, followed by special studies in dra- 
 matic art, and she taught for several years 
 in the Silver Creek (N. Y.) High School, 
 and later studied dramatic art under Steele 
 JNlackaye's direction in New York City. 
 She was married at Silver Creek, N. Y., 
 Dec. 31, 1884, to Coleman F. Bishop, and 
 moved to Rapid City, S. 1).. wliere slie be- 
 came superintendent of the ]>ul)lic schools. 
 In 1888 she first lectured at CliautaiKjua 
 Institution, Chautauqua, X. \'., and in 
 1889 she established tiiere the department 
 of Health and Self-Expression. of which 
 slie has been principal ever since, having 
 had thousands of adult students. In 1^9t. 
 she organized, in connection with S. 11. 
 Clark of the University of Ciiicag,). tiu' 
 Chautauqua School of Kxpressioii. of wliich 
 she is still co-principal. Since beginning 
 iier platform work at Chautauqua in IHSS, 
 she lias given over lifty dramatic readings 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 and many j)iil)Iic lectures at. Chautauqua, 
 besides readinjjf and lecturing extensively 
 in tiie United States generally, and in Can- 
 ada. She has been a lecturer at Drexel 
 Institute, Pratt Institute, and for the past 
 seven years dramatic reader and lecturer 
 on health at the Mechanics' Institute, 
 Rochester, X. Y. She is author of: Health 
 and Self-Expression; Interpretative Forms 
 of Literature; Seventy Years Y'oung. Ad- 
 dress: 509 West ir2th St., New York City. 
 
 BISHOP. Louis Faugeres: 
 
 Physician; born in New Brunswick, N. 
 J., March 14, 1864; son of James and Mary 
 F. (Ellis) Bishop. He was educated in St. 
 Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and was 
 graduated from the Rutgers College as A. 
 H. in 1885, and A.M. in 1889, and from the 
 College of Piiysieians and Surgeons (Co- 
 lumbia University) in 1889. He was resi- 
 dent physician of St. Luke's Hospital, 1889- 
 IH\}2; was eight years secretary of the New 
 \ork Academy of Medicine, and part of 
 tliat time chairman of the section on Prac- 
 tice of Medicine. He is now professor of 
 diseases of the heart and circulation, Ford- 
 ham University, Medical Department; and 
 visiting physician to the Lincoln Hospital; 
 in 1904 he established the Laboratory of 
 Clinical Observation, for cooperative study 
 of disease by general practitioners; chiefly 
 occupied in general family and consulting 
 practice in New Y'ork City, and in summer 
 at York Harbor, Me. He is author of: 
 Heart Disease and Blood Pressure (E. B. 
 Treat) ; also numerous papers on the cir- 
 culation, diagnosis and clinical pathology. 
 He is a specialist in disorders of the heart 
 and circulation. He is trustee of the Good 
 Samaritan Dispensary, and member of the 
 American Medical Association, American 
 Academy of Medicine, Pathological Society, 
 Neurological Society, Society of Alumni St. 
 Luke's and Sloan Maternity Hospitals, 
 Delta Phi, Yew York Historical Society. 
 He is a Mason. His favorite recreations 
 are golf, automobiling and travel. He is a 
 member of the Calumet, Columbia Univer- 
 sitv. Chemists' Clubs, and Automobile Club 
 uf America. Dr. Bisliop married in New 
 
 York City, 1899, Charlotte Dater, and they 
 have one son. Address: 54 West Fifty- 
 fifth Street, New York City. 
 
 BISHOP, Seth Scott: 
 
 Physician and surgeon; born at Fond du 
 Lac, Wis.. Feb. 7, 1852; son of Lyman and 
 Maria (Probart) Bisliop. He attended 
 Pooler Institute, and Beloit College, where 
 lie took a three-year course. For a time he 
 was identified with the Fond du Lac Daily 
 Commonwealth, but afterwards took up the 
 study of medicine, and after completing 
 two courses in the medical department of 
 the University of the City of New Y''ork, 
 and studying with Dr. S. S. Bowers, he 
 was graduated from the medical school of 
 Northwestern University as M.D. in 187(). 
 Subsequently he practised in Fond du Lac; 
 since 1879 he has resided in Chicago, where 
 he has won for himself an extensive repu- 
 tation as a specialist and has made several 
 hundred contributions to medical science. 
 Sixty instruments of his invention have as- 
 sisted greatly in operative surgery. In 1881 
 he was elected to the medical statT of the 
 South Side Free Dispensary; he was also 
 surgeon to the Illinois Charitable Eye and 
 Ear Infirmary, the Post-Graduate and Illi- 
 nois Hospitals; consulting surgeon to the 
 Illinois Masonic Orphan's H^me, the Mary 
 Thompson Hospital, the Silver Cross Hos- 
 pital, and the School for Nervous and Deli- 
 cate Children, and is now a professor of 
 diseases of the nose, throat and ear in the 
 Illinois Medical College, and the Chicago 
 Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospi- 
 tal. He is author of: The Ear and Its 
 Diseases; also Diseases of the Nose, Tliroat 
 and Ear, and Their Accessory Cavities. He 
 is editor of the Illinois :Medical Bulletin: 
 is on the editorial staff of The Laryngo- 
 scope, and is a contributor to various peri- 
 odicals. Dr. Bishop is a member of the 
 International Medical Congress, the Pan- 
 American Medical Congress, the American 
 Medical Association, the State Medical So- 
 cieties of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois, 
 the Chicago Pathological Society, the Mis- 
 sissippi Valley Medical Association, and 
 the United States Hay Fever Association. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 lie is ii 32d-de<ireo ISJason and a Templar 
 and a Mystic Shriner. In politics he is a 
 i;c))uhlican. fic nianicd at Chicago, 111., 
 March 2'3, I880. Jessie Button, and they 
 have Iwo daughters: Jessie Elizabeth, born 
 Iti ISS(). and Mabel, born in 1888. Resi- 
 dence: 17-i(i Ridge Avenue, Evanston, 111. 
 Office address: 103 State Street, Chicago, 
 111. 
 
 BISHOP, William Henry: 
 
 United States consul ; born in Hartford, 
 Conn., Jan. 7, 1847. He was educated at 
 St. John's College at Fordham, New York, 
 and at Yale College, of which he is A.B., 
 18tJ7. After leaving college Mr. Bishop 
 studied architecture but entered the field 
 of journalism, becoming editor and propri- 
 etor of the Milwaukee Commerieal Times. 
 His first short story was published in 1876, 
 and since that time he has been a prolific 
 author of fiction both in the form of short 
 stories and of novels as well as of historical 
 works. In 1893 he became instructor in 
 modern languages at Yale, but resigned in 
 1902 to live abroad. In the following year 
 he was appointed United States consul at 
 (ienoa, Italy, and was subsequently trans- 
 ferred to Palermo, where he now holds the 
 ])osition of United States consul. He mar- 
 ried in New York, July 29, 1880, Mary 
 Dearborn Jackson. His address is Ameri- 
 can Consulate, Palermo, Italy; or New Ha- 
 ven, Conn. 
 
 BISPHAM, David S.: 
 
 Musician and opera singer ; born in Phil- 
 adelphia, Pa., Jan. 5, 1857; son of William 
 D. and Jane (Scull) Bispham. He was 
 educated at Haverford (Pennsylvania) Col- 
 lege, in the class of 1876. He began his 
 nuisical career as an amateur; studied for 
 tlie operatic stage, and made his first ap- 
 pearance as a professional as the " Due de 
 Longueville " in The Basoche, by Messager, 
 at the Royal English Opera in London, in 
 November, 1891. Since then he has been 
 singing the principal baritone roles in Ger- 
 man, French and Italian with the Royal 
 Opera Company, Covent Garden, London, 
 and the Metropolitan Opera Company in 
 
 New York City. He entered into theatrical 
 management in London, in November, 1906, 
 producing and singing the title role in the 
 romantic opera, " The Vicar of Wakefield," 
 the music by Liza Lehmann. Mr. Bisp- 
 ham's recitals of classical songs are famous 
 throughout the musical world. Address : 
 Carnegie Hall, New York City. 
 
 BISPHAM, Harrison Augustus: 
 
 Commander, U. S. Navy; born in Phil- 
 adelphia, Pa., Feb. 10, 1865; son of Samuel 
 Augustus Bispham and Cornelia (Koons) 
 Bispham. He was educated in the private 
 schools of Philadelphia, of which William 
 Fewsmith was principal, and in the United 
 States Naval Academy, from which he was 
 graduated in the class of 1885. He has 
 been promoted through the intermediate 
 grades to commander, receiving his present 
 commission Oct. 25, 1908, and is now In- 
 spector of the Fourth Light House District. 
 He married, first, June 30, 1893, Barbara 
 Carr Graff, and second, Augusta R. Wood- 
 ward at Hong Kong, China, Dec. 11, 1902, 
 and by his first marriage he has two chil- 
 dren: Barbara Carr, born in 1894, and Ed- 
 ward Koons, born in 1896. Address: Phil- 
 adelphia, Pa. 
 
 BISSELL, George Edwin: 
 
 Sculptor; born at New Preston, Conn., 
 Feb. 10, 1839; son of Hiram and Isabella 
 (Jones) Bissell. He was educated in the 
 Northville Academy, and the famous school 
 known as The Gunnery, at Washington, 
 Conn., enlisted as a private in Company 
 A in the Twenty-third Regiment of Connect- 
 icut Volunteers, was taken prisoner at 
 Brashear City, Louisiana, paroled and on 
 the expiration of term of service in 1863, 
 was appointed assistant paymaster in the 
 Navy. After the war, with his father and 
 brother, he engaged in the monument 
 business at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he 
 began his career as a sculptor. In 1875 and 
 1876 he traveled in Europe, studying art 
 in Florence, Rome and Paris, and had a 
 studio in the later city for about six 
 years at different periods between 1883 and 
 1896, and in Florence in 1904 and 1905, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 iiiul 11108 ami \'.)0'.). Aiiioiii,' liis iiioro ])roiii- 
 inont public works aro soldior'H nionuiiit'nts 
 and portrait statues, and exposition sculp- 
 ture at the Bullalo and St. Louis Exposi- 
 tions; was one of the contributing sculptors 
 to the Is'aval Arcli in Madison Square, New- 
 York City, giving to this work the Navy 
 Group. Of his Soldier's Monuments the 
 one in Waterbury, Conn., is the most im- 
 portant. He is the sculptor of the statue 
 of Chancellor James Kent, Congressional 
 Library, Washington, and of President Ar- 
 thur and Col. Abraham de Peyster in New 
 Yoik City. He is also the sculptor of the 
 bronze relief of the parting of Burns and 
 Highland Mary 'at Aye; and statue of Lin- 
 coln and Slave in Edinburg, Scotland. ^Ir. 
 Bissell is a member of the National Arts 
 Club, the National Sculpture and Munici- 
 pal Art Societies of New York, and is act- 
 ively identified with the movement for dec- 
 oration of ])ul)lic schools, inaugurated by 
 the latter society. He has contributed ar- 
 ticles to magazines and press on sociolog- 
 ical and art subjects. Mr. Bissell married, 
 Aug. 16, 1865, isiary E. Welton, of Water- 
 bury, Conn., and has three children living. 
 Address: Mount Vernon, N. Y. 
 
 BISSELL, Herbert Porter: 
 
 Lawj'cr; bnrn in New London, Oneida 
 County, N. 'N'., Aug. 30, 1856; son of Amos 
 Alan.son and Susan Amelia (Willse) Bis- 
 sell. He was educated in Da Veaux Col- 
 lege, Suspension Bridge, N. Y., the Gymna- 
 sium Catluirinarium, Braunschweig, Ger- 
 many, and Harvard College, whence he was 
 graduated A.B., 1880, afterward studying 
 law. He was admitted to the bar in 1883; 
 was a member of the firm of Bissell, Sicard, 
 Bissell & Carey until 1896. and is now head 
 of tlie firm of Bissell and Riley, corporation 
 lawyers. He is vice-president of The Ni- 
 agara Gorge Bailroad Company; presi- 
 dent of the New York I'ower Security Co., 
 and interested in other companies. Mr. 
 Jiissell was the Democratic candidate for 
 mayor of lUifValo in 1!)01, and is now presi- 
 dent of the Board of Education of East Au- 
 rora, N. Y., and was formerly a trustee of 
 Dc Veaux College. ]\lr. Bissell was major 
 
 and judge advocate of the New N'oik Na- 
 tional (Juard, on the Eighth Brigade Stall'. 
 1885-1893. He is a member of tiie New 
 York State liar Association, Sons of llic 
 American Kcvolution, the Lawyers, llnllahi 
 Saturn and Transportation Clubs of I'.ull'a 
 lo, and the University Club of New \ ink 
 City. He married in 1883, Lucy Agnes 
 Caffe}', and they have three daughters. Ad- 
 dress" 714 EUicott Square. Biiffalo. N. Y. 
 
 BISSELL, Hezekiah: 
 
 Chief engineer of the I5oston & Mains 
 Railroad; born in East Windsor, Conn. 
 Mr. Bissel, who is one of the best known 
 railway engineers in the United States, was 
 educated at the Sheffield Scientific School 
 at Y'ale, from which he graduated in 1861. 
 He was a civil engineer on the Union Pa- 
 eitic Railroad during its construction and 
 also on railroad construction in Peru. 
 South America. Returning from the latter 
 work he became connected with the Cleve- 
 land, Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati 
 Railroad, from which road he went to the 
 Eastern Railroad of Massachusetts, which 
 was later amalgamated with the Boston & 
 Maine system, of which Mr. Bissell was 
 made chief engineer. Address: West Bed- 
 ford, Mass. 
 
 BITTER, Karl Theodore Francis: 
 
 Sculptor: born in Vienna. Austria, Dec. 
 (i. IStiT. He studied ait in the Academy of 
 i^'ine Arts of his native city, and eam(> to 
 the United States in 1889 to take a posi 
 tion connected with architectural sculi)ture. 
 Ml-. Bitter luis taken a prominent ])art in 
 tiie execution of the sculptures for the chief 
 buildings of several expositions. He was 
 one of tlic ])rize winners in the conqx'tition 
 for the .\stor memorial gates of Trinity 
 Cluirch, New York, and executed important 
 sculptures for the residences of Colli- V. 
 Huntington and Cornelius Vanderbilt. He 
 has been an exhibitor at all of the leadin<; 
 world exhibitions, and was awarded the 
 silver medal at the Paris Exposition in 
 1900; the gold medal at the Pan-Anierican 
 Exposition in 1901, Philadelphia in 1902, 
 and St. Louis in 1904, Mr. Bitter is cs- 
 
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 pocially wi'll known for liis services as di- 
 rector of sculptor of expositions, having 
 boon director of sculptures for the Pan- 
 Anioricnn Exposition in 1901 and chief of 
 1h(> department of sculpture at the St. 
 Louis Exposition in 1004, both positions 
 having been filled with distinct credit He 
 is an academician of the National Academy 
 of Design and a member of the Fine Arts 
 Council appointed by President Roosevelt. 
 Address: 44 \\"est TTth St., New York City. 
 
 BITTING, William Coleman: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Hanover County, Va., 
 Feb. .'). 1857 ; son of Charles Carroll and Caro- 
 line (Shadinger) Bitting. He was educated 
 in llielimond College. Richmond. Va., being 
 graduated as philosophy medallist and re- 
 ceiving the degree of M. A., in 1877; was 
 graduated from Crozer Theological Semina- 
 ry, Chester, Pa.. 1880. and he has received 
 the degree of D.D. from Howard College, 
 Ala., and from Richmond College, Va. On 
 leaving the seminary he supplied the Lee 
 Street Baptist Church, Baltimore, Md., 
 from June, 1880, to Feb. 1881, then was 
 ]iastor at Luray, Front Royal and Riverton, 
 \ a., until Dec, 1883, then pastor of the 
 Mount Morris Baptist Church, New York 
 City, Jan. 1, 1884 to Oct. 31, 1905. He be- 
 came pastor of the Second Baptist Church, 
 St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 1, 1905. Dr. Bitting 
 is corresponding secretary of the Northern 
 Baptist Convention, is active on boards of 
 managers of many organizations, education- 
 al and philanthropic, national and local, 
 and is now a trustee of the Crozer Theologi- 
 cal Seminary, and frequently a preacher at 
 colleges and universities. He is author 
 of: Earthly Blooms from Heavenly Stems; 
 Bible Study l^nion Sunday School Lessons; 
 Foundation Truths; and many magazine 
 and religious newspaper articles. He is a 
 Scottish Rite Mason and Knight Temp- 
 lar, a member of the Beta Theta Pi fratern- 
 i(y, and of the ^Mercantile, Glen Echo, 
 Country, Town and Cown, and Chi Alpha 
 Clubs of St. Louis. He married in Balti- 
 more. .Md., Nov. 17, 188G, Anna Mary Bied- 
 ler, and they have two sons. Residence: 
 5109 ;McPherson Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 BIXBY, Tams: 
 
 Former Indian Commissioner; born in 
 Staunton, Va., Dec. 12, 1855. He removed 
 with his parents to ISlinnesota, where he 
 was educated in the public schools of Red 
 \\'ing. On arriving at manhood he entered 
 the newspaper business, and became editor 
 and proprietor of the Daily Republican at 
 Red Wing. He was active in the Republi- 
 can politics of the State, and an othcer in 
 its organization for many years. In 1888 
 he was appointed secretary of the Railroad 
 and Warehouse Commission of the State, 
 and from 1889 to 1897 was private secre- 
 tary to the several governors of the State 
 in those years. In 1897 he was appointed 
 chairman of the Commission to the Five 
 C'ivilized Tribes, which undertook the im- 
 portant work of determining the rights of 
 persons claiming enrollment on the tribal 
 list, such enrollment entitling the success- 
 ful claimants to allotment of land and 
 share in the tribal funds. Tliis arduous 
 duty was performed by Mr. Bixby and his 
 associates with maiked ability and success, 
 and upon the completion of the main part 
 of the work in 1905 Mr. Bixby was ap- 
 pointed sole commissioner, serving until 
 1907, when he terminated his work and be- 
 came connected with the Pioneer Press 
 Company of St. Paul, of which he is 
 general manager. He is also president 
 of the newspaper company localized at 
 Muskogee, Okla. ]\Ir. Bixby has for 
 many years been a stockholder and offi- 
 cer in numerous jNlinnesota corporations. 
 He married April 27, 1886, Clara Mues. 
 Address: The Pioneer Press, St. Paul, 
 Minn. 
 
 BIXBY. William Herbert: 
 
 Colonel of the Corps of Engineers of 
 the U. S. Army; born in Charlestown, 
 Mass., Dec. 27, 1849; son of Clark Smith 
 Bixby and Elizabeth (Clark) Bixby. He 
 was educated in the Brookline and Cam- 
 bridge, Mass., i)ublic schools, the ^Massa- 
 chusetts Institute of Technology, 1866- 
 1867, the United States Military Academy, 
 1809- 1S73, and the French National School 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 of Bridges and Highways at Paris, 1879- 
 1881. He was assistant professor of mili- 
 tary and civil engineering in the United 
 States Military Academy, 1875-1879. lec- 
 tured on Coast Defenses in the United 
 States Naval War College in 1887, and has 
 served all grades of the Corps of Engineers 
 of the United States Array from second 
 lieutenant to colonel, from 1873 to date. 
 He was on special duty examining iron 
 fortifications in Europe, 1881-1882, was 
 adjutant of the Battalion of Engineers of 
 the U. S. Army, 1882-1883; and was in 
 charge of the United States river and har- 
 bor improvements in Virginia, North Caro- 
 lina and South Carolina, 1884-1891, Con- 
 necticut. Rhode Island and Massachusetts, 
 1891-1895, in the Ohio River, 1897 to 1901, 
 on the Ship Channel on the Great Lakes, 
 1902-1904, and in Illinois and Indiana, 
 1905-1907; and division engineer north- 
 western United States in 1905-1908; and 
 of western United States since 1908, in 
 addition to being in direct charge of the 
 U. S. improvement of the Mississippi River 
 from St. Louis to Cairo and being presi- 
 dent of the Mississippi River Commission 
 since 1908. He was a member of the 
 Army Board on Long Span Suspension 
 Bridges in 1894, and of the Army Board 
 on Portlanci and Slag Cements in 1899, and 
 of the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterway 
 Boards of 1905 and 1907; and of many 
 other river, harbor, bridge, and engineer 
 special boards. He was United States 
 Lighthouse Engineer, 1895-1901, and United 
 States lightliouse inspector, 1898-1899, and 
 again lighthouse engineer since 1908. He 
 was chief engineer of the Departments of 
 the Lakes, Dakota and Missouri, of the 
 United States Army in 1907-1908. He is a 
 Unitarian in religion, lie has traveled in 
 England, France, Belgium, Holland and 
 (iermany on United States Army duty; and 
 in the same countries and Switzerland and 
 Italy for pleasure, and was sent by the 
 United States War Department to witness 
 the maneuvers of the Frencli Army in 1880, 
 and to inspect l)uildings at Charleston, 
 S. C, after the earthquake in 1887. He 
 is a Chevalier of the Legion d'lloinieur of 
 
 France; mcmjacr of the American Society 
 of Civil Engineers, American Society of 
 Mechanical Engineers, the British Associ- 
 ation of Civil Engineers and the French 
 Society of Civil Engineers, the United 
 States Naval Institute, United States Mili- 
 tary Service Institution, Naional Geo- 
 graphic Society, Washington Academy of 
 Sciences, the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, British Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science, Amer- 
 ican Society for the Promotion of Engi- 
 neering Education, American Economic As- 
 sociation, American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science, and the International 
 Congress of Navigation. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Missouri Athletic Club and the 
 New York University Club. He married at 
 Washington, D. C, Dec. 27, 1893. Lidey H. 
 Rogers. Address : 428 Customliouse, St. 
 Louis, Mo. 
 
 BJERREGAARD, Carl Henry Andrew: 
 
 Librarian, author, lecturer; born in Fred- 
 ericia, Denmark, May 24, 1845; son of 
 Janus Bagge Friis Bjerregaard, Ph.D., etc., 
 who was president of the Fredericia Col- 
 lege. He was educated in Fredericia Col- 
 lege and University of Copenhagen from 
 which he was graduated in 1863; was vol- 
 unteer scout in the Prusso-Danish War in 
 1863 and 1864, and graduated as officer 
 from the Royal Military Academy, in Den- 
 mark, in 1867. He served as lieutenant in 
 the Danish Army and was later of the 
 Danish Legation to Russian Court. He 
 came to America for political reasons; was 
 teacher and lecturer from 1873 to 1879; 
 since 1879 has been librarian at the Astor 
 Ivibrary. now Astor Branch of the New 
 ^'ork Public Library, Astor. Lenox and 
 Tihlen Foundations. He is an extensive 
 writer and lecturer on Oriental subjects 
 Mini iiivslicism, was a collaborator on the 
 S1;iii(l:ii(i Dictionary. Tiie New Interna- 
 ti<iii;il I'lncyciopa'dia, the Encyclopedia 
 Americana, and the Jowisli Encyclopedia, 
 is a contributor to magazines, and lecturer. 
 He lias been associate editor of .Mind (New 
 York City), from Jan. 1. I '.Ml.'), and is au- 
 Mtior of Mystieisin niid Nature Worship, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 two volumes; A Sufi Interpretation of 
 Omar Khayyam and Fitzgerald; and is now- 
 engaged on History and Doctrine of Mysti- 
 cism and Occultism. Mr. Bjerregaard mar- 
 ried, in 18G8, Matilda J. Thompson. Ad- 
 dress : Astor Library, New York City. 
 
 BLACK, Frank Swett: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Limington, Maine, 
 ]\Iarch 8, 1853. He was educated at Dart- 
 mouth College, from which he was gradu- 
 ated in 1875 and from which he received 
 the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1898. Mr. 
 Black's early work was in the newspaper 
 business at Johnstown and Troy, New York. 
 He was for a time attached to the post- 
 office at Troy. In 1870 he was admitted to 
 the bar and has since been in the successful 
 practice of law except when holding public 
 office, having been elected to Congress in 
 1895, and as governor of New York in 1897. 
 He is a prominent member of the Republi- 
 can party of the State of New Y^ork, and 
 as" such a national figure in Republican 
 politics, also enjoying marked distinction 
 for exceptional oratorical ability. Ad- 
 dress : Troy, N. Y. 
 
 BLACK, Hugh: 
 
 Theologian; born in Rothesay, Buteshire, 
 Scotland, March 26, 1869. He was edu- 
 cated at Glasgow University and at the 
 Free Church College of Glasgow. He was 
 ordained in Scotland in 1891, and after a 
 successful pastorate in Paisley, Scotland, 
 and ten years at St. George's United Free 
 Church in Edinburgh, he came to the Unit- 
 ed States in 1906 as professor of practical 
 theology at the Union Theological Sem- 
 inary in New York. Professor Black is the 
 author of: Friendship; Culture and Re- 
 straint; Work; The Practice of Self-Cul- 
 ture; Listening to God (Edinburgh Ser- 
 mons) ; and Christ's Service of Love; and 
 The Gift of Influence (University Ser- 
 mons). He married in Paisley, Scotland, 
 June 28, 1898, Edith Margaret Kerr. Resi- 
 dence: Upper JMontclair, N. J. Office: 
 TOO Park Avenue,. New York City. 
 
 BLACK, John Charles: 
 
 President of the United States Civil 
 Service Commission; born at Lexington, 
 Miss., Jan. 27, 1839. He removed with 
 his mother, in boyhood, to Danville, 111., 
 and Wiis educated at Wabash College, (h-aw- 
 fordsville, Ind. He enlisted on April 14, 
 1861. At the expiration of his first enlist- 
 ment he went to Danville, 111., and re- 
 cruited a company for the Thirty-seventh 
 Illniois Volunteers, of which regiment he 
 became major, and took part, with his regi- 
 ment, in thirteen battles and two great 
 sieges. He served until Aug. 15, 1865, and 
 being brevetted brigadier-general of United 
 States Volunteers for gallantry in action 
 at the storming of the Blakely batteries. 
 After the war ended he studied law, and 
 was admitted to the bar in 1867, engaging 
 in the practice of law at Danville, Vermil- 
 ion County, 111., and at Champaign, 111. 
 He received several unsuccessful nomina- 
 tions on Democratic tickets in Illinois and 
 was appointed by President t'leveland. 
 :March 4, 1885, to be United States Com- 
 missioner of Pensions, which office he held 
 until the close of the administration in 
 1889, when he removed to Chicago. He was 
 elected in Nov., 1892, as a Democratic can- 
 didate from Illinois at large, to the Fifty- 
 third Congress, but resigned his seat Dec. 
 12, 1894, to become United States Attorney 
 for the Northern District of Illinois. 1895- 
 99. He was nominated for governor of 
 Illinois by tlie National ((}old-Standard) 
 Democracy, but declined the nomination; 
 he returned to private practice, 1899 to 
 1903, and was appointed. Dec, 1903, United 
 States Civil Service Commissioner, and 
 elected president of the board, still holding 
 that office. General Black married at Ur- 
 bana. Champaign County, 111., Sept. 28, 
 1867, Miss Adaline L. Griggs. He received 
 the honorary degree of M.A. from Wabash 
 College, and that of LL.D. from Knox Col- 
 lege, Galesburg, 111. lie is a comjjanion 
 and past commander of Military Order of 
 the Loyal Legion, Conimandery of the State 
 of Illinois; was department commander of 
 the (Jiaiid Army of the Republic for llli- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 iLi)is. 1!I()-J-:!. iiiiil (•()iiiiii;iii(l(M-iii-chic'f of tin- 
 (Jriiiid Army of tlip Kcpiihlio of tlie I'liitod 
 Stales. 1!)0;"mU. Addifss: 1717 S Street, 
 N. W,. \\":is|iiii.i:((.ii. I). ('. 
 
 BLACK, John Clark: 
 
 r.aiikcr. capilalisl ; liorii al Mi(l(llcl)iirv. 
 Adilisoii County. Vt.. duly ;{. 1837; son of 
 Daniel and Jean (Lawrence) Black. He 
 received his education in the public schools 
 of Vermont. At nineteen years of ixf^e he 
 removed to Chicn^'o. w lieio lie was cnijiloyed 
 as a bookkeeper ami casjiicr for the firm 
 of Ross and lvand)er, diy goods merchants, 
 and later witli Armour & Company, with 
 whom he remained until 1881, when he 
 entered into business on liis own accoiuit. 
 In 1883 he was one of the organizers and 
 incorjxirators of the Chicago Continental 
 Haid-;. nf whicli lie has been the president 
 for many years. He is also president and 
 a director of the Xortluvestern Safe and 
 Trust Company, a men)ber of the Western 
 iJoanl of Control of the Audit Company of 
 New York;, trustee of the Prussian Na- 
 tional Insurance Company of Stettin, Ger- 
 many; trustee of the Art Institute of Chi- 
 cago and of the Armour Mission. He is 
 a member of the Chicago Board of Trade; 
 also a member of the (^hicago, Union 
 League, ]?ankers', Saddle and Cycle Clubs. 
 He married in New York City, vSept. 25, 
 1875, Elenor Clarke. Residence: 9 Wal- 
 ton Place. Ollice 218 La Salle Street, 
 Chicago. 
 
 BLACK. William Harman: 
 
 Lawyer; boin in l-'orsytli. (ia.. .lune 10, 
 18G8; sou of Eugene IMiickard and Zac 
 (Harman) Bhick. He was educated in 
 tile public and high .schools of Atlanta. 
 (in., until 1884, afterward studied law and 
 ••ngaged in ])raetice, -first in Georgia and 
 later iu N'ew ^'ork City, where he is presi- 
 dent of ami counsel for the Corporations 
 Urgani/.at ion <d New ^'ork and the Account- 
 ing Company of Xew Yoik. While residing 
 in Georgia he was special master for the 
 C. S. District Court for tiic Nmlhciii Dis 
 1 1 ici of Georgia, and was ai>o pre-.ideiit of 
 the ^'ouM" Men's Democratic League of 
 
 l''ultf)n ('ounty. (ia., and secretary of the 
 (ieorgia Cleveland Club. Since removing 
 to New York City he has given special 
 alleiitioii to the law of corporations and 
 he i^ auliior of: Black on New Y'ork and 
 \c\\ -lerscy Corporations, and of The Real 
 Wall SIrcel. Ml'. Black was conmiissioner 
 of accounts of the City of New York, 1904- 
 1905, and he organized in 1903 and has 
 since been vice-president of the Citizen's 
 Independent Democracy of New York City. 
 In 1909 he organized The Association for 
 Xew York, which has for its object the 
 advertising of the advantages of New 
 York, and the challenge of indiscriminate 
 abuse of tlie city. He is a member of the 
 S(nithern Society of New York, the Metro- 
 politan. Lawyers, and National Democratic 
 Clubs, and the Kane Lodge of Masons. 
 Residence: 18 E. 32d Street. Office: 111 
 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 BLACK, William J.: 
 
 Passenger trailic manager of the Santa 
 Fe Railroad; born in St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 3, 
 1804. He entered the railway service in 
 1879 as office boy, and since 1887 has occu- 
 pied responsible i)ositions in the traffic pas- 
 senger department of the Santa Fe system, 
 having been ajipointed general passenger 
 agent in 1897 and on Oct. 10, 1905, pas- 
 senger traffic manager of the entire system. 
 Address: Railway I^xchange. Chicago, 111. 
 
 BLACKBURN, Edmond Spencer; 
 
 Lawyer; born in Watanga County, N. C, 
 Sept. 22j 1808. He received an academic 
 education, and after studying law was ad- 
 mitted to tlie i)ar in 1890, since which time 
 he has jjiactised his jirofession at Wilkes- 
 boro. X. C. He is a Republican in poli- 
 tic-, a lid lias l)een for fifteen years promi- 
 nent in the councils of his party in North 
 Carolina, lie was a member of the Legis- 
 lature in IS'.Ki 1S97. being speaker pro tern., 
 and assi>lant liiited States attorney of 
 .Vorth Carolina in 191)0-1901. In the latter 
 year lie \\a- elcclcil 1o Congress, ami again 
 cl.cl.il ill lild."). Mr. lllackbnrn is a (iii-.tee 
 of Ihc Ciiix ci -,it \- of Noi'tli Carolina. Ho 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 iininicd. Dec. IS. 1!)()-J. l.diiisc Lc \ann. 
 Ail.lr.'ss: \\ilk.'slion). \. ('. 
 
 BLACKBURN, Joseph Clay Styles: 
 
 Lawyer and cx-l'iiited Stales Senator; 
 luirii in Woodford County, Kv., Oct. 1, 
 IS.'iS. He was s^ulualed in 1857, from 
 Centre Colk\<>o, Danville. Ky., from which 
 he afterward reeeived the dej-ree of LL.D. 
 lie was admitted to the bar in 1859 and 
 went to ('liica<;o, where he j)ractised law 
 until the Civil War broke out, when he 
 returned to the South, and served through 
 the war in the Confederate Army. After 
 the war he embarked in the practice of 
 law in Kentucky. He ha.s long been active 
 in politics as a Democrat, and was a mem- 
 ber of the House of Representatives of the 
 Kentucky Legislature from 1871 to 1875. 
 He was elected a member of the Forty- 
 fourth Congress in 1874, and was biei\nially 
 elected, serving until 1885. when he was 
 elected United States Senator. He was re- 
 elected in 1891, serving until 1897, and in 
 1901 was again elected United States Sen- 
 ator for the term which expired in March. 
 1907. At the conclusion of his service he 
 was appointed to the Panama Canal Com- 
 mission and assigned to the governorship 
 of the Canal Zone. Address: Ancon, 
 Canal Zone, Panama. 
 
 BLACKLOCK, Henry: 
 
 Clergyman; born in England; son of 
 Ceorge and Ellen (Sawyer) Blacklock. He 
 is a lineal descendant of Sir Thomas Gres- 
 ham (1519-1579). the founder of the Royal 
 KKchange, London; and on his paternal 
 grandmother's side, he is a cousin of the 
 Duke of Buccleuch and, through his mother, 
 a cousin of Viscount ]Milner, of African 
 fame. He was educated in Saint Paul's 
 College, Burgh, College of Saint Augustine, 
 Canterbury, and at Oxford University, 
 where he won a mathematical scholarshi]) 
 in 1880, a Greek scholarship in 1889, and 
 was Hebrew prizeman for the year 1891. 
 He was rector of Saint Andrew's Episcopal 
 Church. Wellington, Out., in 1891; was 
 curate of Saint Thomas' Church, Belleville. 
 Out.. 1894-1905, and of St. Luke's. Kings- 
 
 ton. Out., in ISOd. and was al (Kford I'ni- 
 versity in 1S97 and 1898. He was eurate 
 of St. .Johns, Vonkers. in 1898, but in Sep- 
 tember was called to be rcetoi- of St. Mary's 
 Ciiurch, Charleroi, Pa., which h- ace ■ptcd 
 and where he did a great work of thor- 
 oughly organizing and building up this new 
 and important field. In Sept., 1900. he 
 became rector of Grace Church, Mohawk, 
 and while recuperating from the strain of 
 overwork in Charleroi, built up the parish 
 from thirty-three families to eighty-four 
 and also built the most beautiful rectory, 
 purchased a house for Parish Hall, aiul 
 made other important improvements. With 
 the return of health he accepted, in May, 
 1905, the curacy of St. Peter's Church. 
 Brooklyn. N. Y. He is a mend)er of the 
 American Academy of Political and Social 
 Science, jMohawk Vallej' Lo.dge of Masons, 
 and Mohawk Chapter Order of the Ea.stern 
 Star, and the Herkimer County Historical 
 and other societies. His recreations are 
 mountain climbing, walking tours and art 
 works and books. Residence: 405 Pacific 
 Street. Office address: .347 State Street,, 
 Brooklyn. N. Y. 
 
 BLACKMAR, Abel Edward: 
 
 Jurist; born in Newark, X. J., Aug. 21, 
 1852. He was graduated from Hamilton 
 College, A.B., 1874, and from Columbia 
 College Law School, LL.B., 1878. He was 
 admitted to the bar in 1878 and practised 
 in New York City and Brooklyn, was 
 counsel for the New York I'roduce Ex- 
 change and a member of the law firm of 
 Baldwin & Blackmar until nominated by 
 the RepublicaTi ])arty and elected in 1908, 
 a justice of the Supreme Court of the State 
 of New York for the Second District for 
 the fourteen-year term expiring Dec. 31, 
 1922. He is a iiu>mber of the Association 
 of the liar of the City of New York, and of 
 the Union Club of Brooklyn. Residence: 
 1072 Bergen Street, Brooklyn. Olliee: Su- 
 preme Court, Hrooklyn. X. ^. 
 
 BLACKMER, Henry M.: 
 
 Lawver: born in Worcester. Ma- 
 
 .lulv 
 
 25. 18tl9: son of Francis T. and Abbie E. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 JUacknitT. llf was oducatod in the Worces- 
 ter (Mass.) Hi_i;li School, .studied law and 
 was admitted to the bar of Colorado, and 
 ])raetiscd in Colorado Springs in that State 
 until 1!)02, when he removed to New York 
 City. He was district attorney of El Paso 
 County. Coin., 1804-1897. He is president 
 (if the Cripple Creek Central Railway Com- 
 pany: and vice-president of the Cnited 
 States Reduction and Refining Company. 
 He is a member of the Society of Colonial 
 Wars, the Sons of the Revolution, the 
 Union League, City Lunch and Whist Clubs 
 of New York, Denver Club of Denver and 
 the 1:1 Paso Club of Colorado Springs, 
 Colo. ^Ir. Rlackmer is married and has 
 two cliildren. a son and a daughter. 
 Residence: New- Rochelle. N. Y. OfTice: 
 49 E.Kchange Place, New York City. 
 
 BLACKMORE, Henry Spencer: 
 
 Industrial chemi.st and chemical engineer: 
 born in Yonkers. N. Y., ]\Iarch 10, 1868 ; son 
 of Isaac and Hannah M. (Dean) Blackmore. 
 He was educated in the schools of Mt. Ver- 
 non, N. Y., and in the New York College of 
 Pharmacy (Columbia University), being 
 graduated Ph.Cl.. 1888. He makes prac- 
 tical chemical and metallurgical investiga- 
 tions, demonstrations, tests analysis and 
 .synthesis; is an expert in patents relating 
 to chemistry, metallurgy, electro-chemistry 
 and electro-metallurgy, and is a registered 
 attorney of the U. S. Patent Office, Mr. 
 lilackmore is a member of the International 
 Congress of np])lied chemistry, and the In- 
 ternational Electrical Congress. He is the 
 inventoi' of proccs-c^ for reducing alu- 
 minium ami (itlicr uutils. electric suielting. 
 making alkali from feldspar, making caus- 
 tic soda from common salt. sul])liuric acid. 
 etc.. li:i< lakeu out nver one hundred and 
 lifty ])aleiil-. lie is the discoverer, inventor 
 and pal cut ee of a jirocess for making sub- 
 stances wliieli all' uiistal)le at elevated tem- 
 perat\ires i»ut wiiicli evolve heat on their 
 formal ion: and tliis process has economized 
 and revolutionized the manufacture of these 
 firoduets, one of which is sulphuric acid. 
 Hi! has also discovered what is believed to 
 be two new chemical elements ol iion-nutal- 
 Mc nature, found associated or eond)iiied 
 
 with sul]iliur. for which the names " Azui- 
 eon " and " N'ei'iion " ha\'e l)een suggested. 
 He is consulting chemist of the Consolidated 
 Aluminum and Reduction Company, the 
 (^.encral Industrial Alcohol Company, Phip- 
 nix Electrolytic Alkali Company. American 
 Automatic Disinfectant Company, Chemical 
 Engineering and Construction Company and 
 Mexican National Leather Company: and he 
 is vice-president of the Black-Ford Utility 
 Oil Company. He is a fellow of the Chem- 
 ical Society of Great Britain ; member of 
 the American Geographical Society, Nation- 
 al Geographic Society, American Chemical 
 Society, Society of Chemical Industry of 
 Great Britain, American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, American Pharma- 
 ceutical Association. New York State 
 Pharmaceutical Association. Scientific Con- 
 gress, Franklin Institiite (Philadeli)hia ) , 
 Alumni Association of the College of Pharm- 
 acy 0^ Columbia University, Chemists Club. 
 U. S. Navy League, Veteran Association of 
 the 71st Regiment. National Guard of New 
 York, and he is a 32d-degree Mason. Kniglit 
 Templar and' Shriner. Mr. Blackmore mar- 
 ried in New Y^ork City, June 2. 1904, Isa- 
 belle Rostosky. Residence: ISIt. Vernon, N. 
 Y. Offices: G12 F Street. N. W., Washing- 
 ton, D. C, and 60 Wall Street, New York 
 City. • 
 
 BLACKWELL, Alice Stone: 
 
 Editor of the Woman's Journal : born in 
 Orange, N. J., Sept. 14, 1857; daughter of 
 Henry B. Blackwell and Lucy Stone. She 
 was educated in Boston University, being 
 class president of the Class of 1881, and 
 was chosen one of the commencement speak- 
 ers by the faculty. Since graduation she 
 has been editorially connected with the 
 Woman's Journal, first in association with 
 her parents and since her mother's death 
 in 189.3, as co-editor with her father, also 
 a director of the proprietary corporation 
 of that journal. Miss Blackwell follows in 
 the footsteps of her parents, who were both 
 ])roniinent in the movement for the enfran- 
 chisement of women, and is recording secre- 
 tary of the National American Woman Suf- 
 frage Association; chairman of the Execu- 
 tive Committee of the New England Woman 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 SulVra<;o Associalioii and of tlu> Massnoliu- 
 sHts Woman SnfTiajjo Association, and is 
 a diroctor of llio corporation of the latter 
 a-<sociation ; also a director of the Susan B. 
 Anthony Memorial Fund (incorporated), 
 vice-president of the College Eq\ial Suffrage 
 League of Massachusetts, and a member of 
 the Board of Trustees of Boston University. 
 She has taken a great interest in the cause 
 of the Armenians, and received the Order 
 of Melusina from Prince Guy de Lusignan. 
 She is author of three books of transla- 
 tions: Armenian Poems; Songs of Russia; 
 and Songs of Grief and Gladness, from the 
 Hebrew and Yiddish ; also joint compiler 
 with Rev. Anna H. Shaw and Miss Lucy E. 
 Anthony, of the Yellow Ribbon Speaker. 
 Miss Blackwell is a member of the Penta- 
 gon and Epsilon college societies and of 
 Phi Bet Kappa, and an honorary member 
 of the New England Women's Club. Resi- 
 dence: 45 Boutwell Avenue, Dorchester. 
 Mass. Office: 6 Beacon Street, Boston, 
 Mass., Room 1018. 
 
 BLACKWELL, Antoinette Louisa Brown: 
 
 Minister, lecturer; born at Henrietta, 
 N. Y.. jNIay 20,, 1825; daughter of Joseph 
 and Abby (Morse) Brown. She was edu- 
 cated in Monroe Academy until 1844, then 
 wont to Oberlin, where she took a some- 
 what unusual course of study, was entitled 
 to the literary degree in 1847, but did not 
 take it, but afterward received the AM. 
 degree. She took the full three years' 
 course in theology to 1850; and at the 
 7oth Anniversary of Oberlin College, the 
 degree of D.D. was conferred upon her. In 
 Jan., 1856, she married, at Henrietta, N. 
 Y.. Samuel Charles Blackwell, and she has 
 four living daughters, three married. She 
 was ordained in 1853 (ten years in ad- 
 vance of any other well-known woman), as 
 pastor of the (orthodox) Congregational 
 Church of South Butler, N. Y^., and in the 
 same year was the first woman to perform 
 the marriage ceremony. Mrs. Blackwell 
 afterward became a Unitarian, and is now 
 liastor emeritus of All Souls Church, Eliza- 
 beth, N. J., preaching monthly, and still 
 frequently speaking elsewhere. Her first 
 
 ]iulilic address in a church was at Roches- 
 ter, Mich., where she was teaching during 
 a long vacation before her first graduation 
 in 1847. She was one of the earliest advo- 
 cates of the eqiuil rights of women, and she 
 is also the last survivor among the speak- 
 ers at the first National Woman's Rights 
 Convention, held in Worcester, Mass., in 
 1850. She has. in her busy public career, 
 been active in the American Purity Alli- 
 ance and other progressive movements, as 
 sufi"rage and temperance and peace socie- 
 ties, and the Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Women, of which Mrs. Julia 
 Ward Howe was president, and is a mem- 
 ber and honorary member of numerous so- 
 cieties and clubs. Has been a member of 
 the Association for the Advancement of 
 Science. She is author of: Shadows of 
 Our Social System, 1855; Studies in Gen- 
 eral Science, 1869; The Market Woman. 
 1871; The Island Neighbors, 1871; The 
 Sexes Throughout Nature, 1875; The Phys- 
 ical Basis of Immortality, 1876; The Phi- 
 losophy of Individuality, or the One and 
 the Many, 1883; Sea Drift, a Parable in 
 Verse, 1903. Her summer home is at Chil- 
 mark. Mass. Address: 348 Bay Way, 
 Elizabeth, N. J. 
 
 BLACKWELL, Erancis Ogden: 
 
 Consulting engineer: Vwrn in New York 
 City, June 23, 1867; son of James and 
 Augusta (Mills) Blackwell. He was grad- 
 uated from Princeton University with the 
 degree of C.E. in 1887, and immediately 
 thereafter began practice as an engineer, 
 and he is now a member of the firm of 
 Viele, Blackwell & Buck, consulting engi- 
 neers. He has been identified as electric 
 and hydraulic engineer in the construction 
 and equipment of many large power plants. 
 Mr. Blackwell is a member of the American 
 Society of Civil Engineers, British Insti- 
 tution of Civil Engineers, American Insti- 
 tute of Electrical Engineers, American 
 Institute of Mining Engineers, and the 
 University, Princeton and Engineers Clubs. 
 He married Anita Searles of New York 
 City. Residence: Englewood, N. J. Of- 
 fice': 49 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 BLAIR, Charles H.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Ziinosvillo, Oliio, July 
 r». 1S51 : son of John A. Blair, a Virginian 
 liy liirth ;uul a distinjiuishiHl lawyer of 
 Oliio, mmI of Theresa (Van Voorhoe^) 
 Blair. He was educated in the public 
 .schools of Zanesville, at Kenyon College, 
 and Cornell University, from which he 
 graduated with honor (commencement ora- 
 tion), as A.B. in 1872, and A.M. in 1876. 
 He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1873. 
 He was in the railroad business at Ithaca 
 from 1873 to 1875 as director, secretary 
 and assistant to president of the Geneva 
 and Ithaca and Ithaca and Athens Rail- 
 roads, now the Lehigh Valley. He was 
 admitted to the New York bar in 1876, and 
 practised at Ithaca until 1882; since 1882 
 in New York City. He has been president 
 of the Hanover Land and Dock Company 
 since 1905. He was captain in the New 
 York National Guard in 1875 and 1876, 
 assistant adjutant general of the Twenty- 
 eighth Brigade in 1877 ; colonel and engi- 
 neer of the Seventh Division of the New 
 York National Guard from 1878 to 1885. 
 He was the Republican candidate for Con- 
 gress from the Twelfth District of Ncav 
 York in 1890. Colonel Blair is a member 
 of the IMasonic fraternity of high rank; 
 the Psi Upsilon fraternity; the Metropoli- 
 tan ]Museum of Art; and Municipal Art 
 Society, and one of the founders of the Ohio 
 Society of New York. He is vice-president 
 of the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce, 
 and chairman of the Park Committee. He 
 is the author of the " National Railway 
 Act," a proposed amendment of the Inter- 
 state Commerce Law, N. Y^, 1888, and 
 of a " Report on the Proposed Park System 
 for the Borough of Richmond," New York 
 City, 1002. He has been attorney and coun- 
 sel in a number of noted cases; in the case 
 of Drawbaugh against Bell, which involved 
 the telepiione ])atents; counsel for Brown, 
 Howard &, Company, builders of the New 
 York Aqueduct; the Cornell accounting 
 case, and others of great importance; and 
 is trustee for several large estates. He is 
 an ardent Republican and has taken an 
 
 active part in Union League Club aflairs. 
 serving on several committees, and in 1906 
 as chairman of tlic Coinmittee on Admis- 
 sions. He is a mcmbi'r of the Union 
 Leaguf, i;ci)iibli(aii and Cornell University 
 Clubs. He married at Ithaca, N. Y., Dec. 
 11. 1873, Emma P. Cornell, and Ihey have 
 tliree children: Ezra C. Blair, Charles H. 
 Blair, Jr., and John Hamilton Blair. Resi- 
 dences: Serpentine Road, Grymes Hill, 
 S. I., N. Y., and Llenroc, Ithaca, N. Y'. 
 Address: Mills Building, 15 Broad Street. 
 New York City. 
 
 BLAIR, Clinton Ledyard: 
 
 Banker; born in Belvidere. N. J.. July 
 16, 1867; son of DeWitt Clinton and Mary 
 Anna (Kimball) Blair. He was graduated 
 from Princeton University with the degree 
 of A.B. in 1890; and after leaving college 
 became one of the organizers of the house 
 of Blair & Company, bankers, of New York 
 City. He is a director of various large cor- 
 porations, including the Belvidere National 
 Bank, the Green Bay and Western Rail- 
 road; Kewaimee, Green Bay and Western 
 Railroad; Lackawanna Steel Company; 
 National Bank of Commerce; St. Louis 
 and Hannibal Railway; Securities Com- 
 pany; Sussex Railroad; is president of the 
 Sussex Realty Company. He is a member 
 of the Board of Managers of the Post- 
 Graduate Hospital, one of the managers of 
 the New Y'ork ZoiJlogical Society and the 
 Cooper Union Museum; is a member of the 
 American Geographical Society; the Sons of 
 the Revolulinn. Mr. Blair has membership 
 in several nf the most im])ortant clubs, in- 
 eluding the Metropolitan, Union and Uni- 
 versity Clubs, the New York Yacht Club, 
 (of which he is vice-connuodore) , City Mid- 
 day Club, Riding Club, Jckyl Island Club, 
 Morris County Golf Club, Kaccpiet and Ten- 
 nis Club, Princeton Club, Somerset Hills 
 Country Club, The Pilgrims Club, Coaching 
 Club of New York, the New York Farmers' 
 and the Whippany River Club. Mr. Bhnr 
 married, Oct. 1, 1891, Florence Osborn Jen- 
 nings, and by that union tliere are four 
 1 (laughters: Marjory I'.ruee, Florence Led- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 yard, Kditli Dodd and iMarie Louise. Res- 
 idence: Peapaek, Wonieiset County. N. J. 
 Address: 24 Inroad Street, New York City. 
 
 BLAIR, Frank Preston: 
 
 Lawyer; born in St. J.ouis, IMo., in LS5fi; 
 son of Major Ceneral Frank Preston l^lair, 
 a distinguished ollieer of tlie U. S. Army 
 ( I'liited States Senator from Missouri, and 
 ])('niocratic nominee for the Vice-Presidency 
 witli Seymour) and Apolline (Alexander) 
 I'dair. He entered the Military Academy 
 at West Point and was graduated from 
 that institution in 1877. He served in the 
 a liny at various posts for several years, 
 graduating in law from Columbia Law 
 Seliool wliile stationed at Fort Hamilton 
 and in medicine at the University of Mis- 
 souri, while stationed at Columbia, Mo. In 
 1881 he resigned from the army and was 
 admitted to the St. Louis bar, but shortly 
 afterward, in 1891, removed to Chicago, 
 111., where he has been engaged in active 
 ])raetice to the present time. He lias been 
 a lecturer on medical jurisprudence in 
 Hush Medical College for some time. He 
 is a member of the American Bar Associa- 
 tion, the Selden Society of England, and 
 of the University Club. He married in 
 Columbia, Mo., in 1882, Florence Price 
 and has one daughter. Address: 36 Cedar 
 Street, Chicago. 
 
 BLAIR, Henry Augustus: 
 
 IJanker, financier; born in Michigan City, 
 Ind., July 1852; son of Chauncey Buckley 
 and Caroline O. (De Graff) Blair; he re- 
 ceived his education at Williston Seminary, 
 East Hampton, Mass. He left school in 
 1871 and entered the Merchants' National 
 Bank of Chicago, of which his father was 
 founder and president, eventually becoming 
 vice-president. He retired from the bank 
 upon its consolidation with the Corn Ex- 
 change National Bank in 1903. He subse- 
 quently became a director and receiver of 
 the North Cliieago Street Eailway Com- 
 l)any; he is also in the directorates of the 
 Calumet and Chicago Canal and Dock Com- 
 jiany, the Elgin National Watch Company, 
 the West Division Hail way Company, and 
 
 ihe Cliieago Juiison Company. Ife is a 
 nuMuber of the Chicago Cnion League (di- 
 rector), Washington Park, Chicago Atliietic, 
 Midlothian, Chicago (Jolf, Caxton, Saddle 
 and Cycle, and the Onwentsia Clubs. He 
 married in Chicago, Feb. 19, 1878, Grace 
 E. Pearce, and has two daughters. He has 
 a summer residence at .fefferson, N. H. Ad- 
 dress: 2735 Prairie Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 BLAIR, Henry William: 
 
 Former United States Senator; born in 
 Campton, N. H.. Dee. G, 1834. He received 
 an academic education and the degree of 
 A.M. from Dartmoutli College. He was ad- 
 mitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1859 
 and on the breaking out of the Civil War 
 went to the front with the 15th New Hamp- 
 shire Volunteers, being promoted from cap- 
 tain to lieutenant-colonel. Immediately af- 
 ter the war he was a member of the New 
 Hampshire legislature for three years, and 
 in 1875 was elected to Congress, serving, 
 with but two years interim, as representa- 
 tive and senator until 1895. He was au- 
 thor of the bill to extend Federal aid to 
 education in the States, which, however, 
 passed the Senate but failed in the House, 
 and the bill establishing a United States 
 Labor Department. He was also active in 
 the formulation of bills under which pen- 
 sions are now paid to soldiers of the Civil 
 War. Ex-Senator Blair is a prominent tem- 
 perance advocate, and a leader in economic 
 defense. Since leaving Congress he has 
 practised law, chiefly in Washington, D. C. 
 He is the author of several works on the tem- 
 perance question and a frequent contribu- 
 tor to the press. He married, Dec. 20, 1859, 
 Eliza Nelson. Residence: Manchester, N. 
 H. Office: Colorado Building, Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 BLAKE, Francis: 
 
 Inventor of the Blake Transmitter; born 
 at Ncedham, Mass.. Dec. 25, 1850; son of 
 Francis and Caroline (Trumbull) Blake. 
 He was educated in public schools and the 
 Brookline, Mass., high school, and received 
 tlie lionorary degree of A.M. from Harvard 
 ill 1902. He ser\ed i«n 1h<' United States 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Coast Survey for thirteen years, having been 
 engaged in the work of determining the 
 diti'erences in longitude between the observa- 
 tories at Greenwich, Paris, Cambridge and 
 Washington. He devoted his leisure to ex- 
 perimental i)liysics, and in 1878 invented 
 the Blake Telephone Transmitter. He has 
 since patented many other electrical de- 
 vices. He is a director of the American 
 Telephone and Telegraph Company; a fel- 
 low of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, and the American 
 Academy of Arts and Sciences : a member of 
 the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 
 neers, Archeological Institute of America, 
 American Folk-lore Society, American For- 
 estry Association; National Geographic So- 
 ciety, and a member of the corporation of 
 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
 He is a member of the Boston Society of 
 Civil Engineers, and the American Anti- 
 quarian Society, and a trustee of the Mas- 
 sachusetts General Hospital, the Boston 
 Museum of Fine Arts, etc. He married, 
 June 24, 1873, Elizabeth L., daughter of 
 Charles T. Hubbard, of Weston. Address: 
 Keewaydin, ^\'eston ( Auburndale P. 0. ) , 
 Mass. 
 
 BLAKE, James Henry: 
 
 Lecturer, zoological artist; born in Bos- 
 ton, Mass., July 8, 1845; son of James 
 Henry and Louisa Maria (Russell) Blake. 
 He was educated in the Lawrence Scientific 
 School of Harvard University. He entered 
 business in early life with his stepfather, 
 the Hon. X. I'.. Atwood. and continued till 
 1869 when he studied for four years in 
 the Scientific school of Harvard University, 
 after which he became assistant to Pro- 
 fessor Louis Agassiz and curator in the 
 department of conchology, at the Museum 
 of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge. Mr. 
 Blake was vvitii Professor Louis Agassiz on 
 his last expedition in the steamer Hassler; 
 later he became connected with the United 
 States Fish commission, the United States 
 Geological Survey and Geological Survey of 
 the State of Mississipjii. He has lectured 
 in various r-ilies and towns in the United 
 States mill illiisti-atiMJ iiiniiv Imoks on nat- 
 
 ural history. He is a 
 sachusetts Society of 
 work has taken ^Mr. Bl 
 the world on collecting 
 ing expeditions in the 
 Oceans. lie marriei 
 Mass., July i^U, 1S71, L 
 ett, and has two sons: 
 :^1.D. and ]\h-. Ralph 
 cliant. Address: 18 
 bridge, Mass. 
 
 member of the ]\Ias- 
 
 tlie Cincinnati. His 
 
 ake to many parts of 
 
 trips, and on dredg- 
 
 Atlantic and Pacific 
 
 I at I'rovincetown, 
 
 ucinila Smith Critt-h- 
 
 Allen Hanson Blake, 
 
 Julian Blake, mer- 
 
 Prentiss St., Cam- 
 
 BLAKE, Joseph Augustus: 
 
 Physician; born in San Francisco, Calif.. 
 Aug. 31, 1SG4; son of William P. and Char- 
 lotte (Hayes) Blake. He was graduated 
 from Yale as B.A. in 1885, anfl Ph.B. in 
 1886, and from the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons of Columbia University as 
 M.D. in 1889. He was formerly attending 
 surgeon to St. Luke's and Harlem Hos- 
 pitals, now of the Roosevelt Hospital. He 
 was assistant demonstrator of anatomy, 
 1891-1900, instructor in surgery, 1900-1903 
 and since 1903 professor of surgery in the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons of Co- 
 lumbia University He is a member of the 
 American ^ledical Association. Association 
 of American Anatomists, American Surgi- 
 cal Association, American Society of Clini- 
 cal Surgery, New York Academy of Medi- 
 cine; fellow of the New York Academy of 
 Sciences; member of the New York County 
 and State Medical Societies, and the New 
 York Surgical Society, and of the ■ Y'ale. 
 .Metropolitan, University and Riding Clubs 
 of New York City. lie married in 1890, 
 Catherine Ketchum, and they have two 
 .sons: Joseph A., Jr., and Francis H., 2d. 
 Address: 601 Madison Avenue, Nevk' York 
 City. 
 
 BLAKE, Katherine D. Umsted: 
 
 Ivliicalor. w liter: born in New York City, 
 -Inly III, ls.")S; ilaiighter of Frank Geoft'rey 
 t^)uay L'mstcd and his wife, Lillie Devereux 
 (afterwards :Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake). 
 She was educated in Miss Walker's School, 
 and St. .\laiy"> School, and graduated from 
 the Normal College. 1S76. and studied at the 
 School of Pedagogy, New York University, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 1SS7-188S. .Miss Blake becaiiu' ])iiiicipal of 
 I'lihlic School No. 6., in 1894. and organizeil 
 the First Evening High School, for Women 
 ill New York City, 1897. She was chairman 
 of the Committee of Teachers and Princi- 
 pals that framed and presented to Mayor 
 Grace the monster petition asking for the 
 appointment of women on the Board of 
 Education, whicli resulted in the appoint- 
 ment of iSIiss Dodge and Mrs. Agnew as 
 Commissioners of Education ; called together 
 the committee of women teachers and prin- 
 cipals who made the first elTort to secure 
 adecjuate salaries for city teachers; spoke 
 in reply to President Roosevelt when he 
 addressed the National Educational Asso- 
 ciation; compiled the first statistics show- 
 ing the number of dark and badly lighted 
 rooms in public schools, and' called the at- 
 tention of superintendents and the Board of 
 Education to them. Miss Blake is a con- 
 tributor to periodicals in verse and prose. 
 Slie is vice-president of the Association of 
 \\'()men Principals of New York City; mem- 
 ber of the Special New York City Committee 
 of the National Educational Association; 
 charter member of the Society for Political 
 Study and member of the Executive Com- 
 mittee of the Normal College Alumnae. Ad- 
 dress: The Pvoslyn, 104 West 84th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 BLAKE, Lillie Devereux: 
 
 Author; born in Raleigh, N. 1'., Aug. 12, 
 18.'5;5; (laugrliter of George Pollock and Sarah 
 Elizabeth (Johnson) Devereux. Her father 
 died when she was three years old, and af- 
 ter that her home was in New Haven, 
 Conn., where she was educated at Miss 
 Apthrop's School and later took a course of 
 study under tutors of Yale College. She 
 married first, at New Haven, Conn., 1855, 
 Frank G. Q. Umstead, a lawyer of Phila- 
 delphia, who died in 1859, and has two 
 daughters by that marriage; and in 1866 
 she married at Stratford, Conn., GrenfiU 
 Blake, who died in 1896. Since her mar- 
 riage to Mr. Blake, she has been a resident 
 of New Y^ork City. She became deeply in- 
 terested in the movement for the enfran- 
 chisement of women in 1869, and has ever 
 since been a leader in that movement. Mrs. 
 
 Blake was the foiiiider in 1SS6 and has ever 
 since been president of the New York Leg- 
 islative League, she is honorary president 
 of the New York City Mothers' Cluli. ami 
 honorary president of the Society fnr Po- 
 litical Study. She has conducted many leg- 
 islative campaigns and secured tlie enact- 
 ment of many .statutes of benefit to her sex, 
 was influential in the passage of the school 
 suft'rage act, the police niation act. Die act 
 giving seats to saleswomen and other laws 
 for the benefit of women. She has ad- 
 dressed the Legislatures of New York, Con- 
 necticut and North Carolina, and is a lectur- 
 er of power and distinction, and is author of : 
 Southvvold, 1859; Rockford, 186:3; Fettered 
 for Life, 1874; Woman's Place To-day, 
 1883; A Daring Experiment, 1894, and 
 numerous stories and articles. Address: 
 The Roslyn, 104 West 84th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 BLAKE, William Phipps: 
 
 Geologist, mineralogist; born in New 
 York City, June 1, 1826; son of Elihu and 
 Adeline N. (Mix) Blake. He was educated 
 in the schools in New York and at Yale 
 (Sheffield Scientific School) graduating as 
 Ph.B. in 1852. He has received the honor- 
 ary degrees of M.A. from Dartmouth and 
 Sc.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, 
 and LL.D. from the University of Arizona. 
 He was geologist and mineralogist for the 
 United States Pacific Railway exploration 
 and survey.s, 1853; editor of the Mining 
 Magazine and Journal of Geology. 18.')6- 
 1860; was engaged in the exploration of 
 the Comstock Lodge of Nevada in 1860; 
 was mining engineer to the Japanese Gov- 
 ernment in 1862; made explorations in 
 China and Alaska in 1863, and was pro- 
 fessor of geology and mining at the College 
 of California in 1864. He organized the 
 School of Agriculture and the College of 
 Mechanic Arts for the College of California 
 and was professor of geology and mining, 
 1895-1904, and since 1905 has been pro- 
 fessor of geology emeritus of the Univer- 
 sity of Arizona. He has been connected of- 
 ficially with the great international expo- 
 sitions from 1853-1904. Received the deco- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ration oi clifv alici- of the l.('L;it)n of Honor 
 in 187S. He is autlior of numerous papers 
 and articles on scicntilio and ])rofcssion il 
 topics. ^fr. lilake is a meml it of tlic 
 American Pliilosophical Society; 'I'crritor- 
 ial (ieolo<»:ist Ari/on;i : fellow of the (ieolofr- 
 ical Society of L<milon. .nid of America; a 
 correspondin>i nienilxr v( the (jcolooical So- 
 ciety of Kdinhury; fellow of the American 
 Association for tlie .\d\ aneeiuont of Science, 
 and a nuinlx'r of the American Institute of 
 Minin^r Engineers. lie married at South 
 Berwick. ]\[e.. Dec. 25, 1855, Cluudotte 
 Haven Lord Haves, and they have tiiree 
 sons living-; Francis 11., Joseph A., and 
 Theodore Whitney. Address: Mill Rock, 
 New Haven_. ("onn.. and (winter) Tucson, 
 Ariz. 
 
 BLANCHARD, Amy Ella: 
 
 Author; l)orii in lialtimcu'c. Md.. J)ine 
 28. ]85(i: (hiugliter of Daniel Harris and 
 Sarah L. (lieynoids) I'danchard. On her 
 father's side she is of old Huguenot stock, 
 represented in this country since 18o9, and 
 her maternal descent is from one of the 
 early settlers of Lord Baltimore's colony. 
 She was educated in Baltimore, principally 
 at home, but also at private schools, and a 
 year in high school. She studied also in 
 Art schools in New York and Pliiladelphia, 
 and took the lir>t pri/e in li.e life class of 
 the Metropolitan Museum Art School in 
 1885. She taught drawing and painting 
 at a seminary at Plainfndd. X. J., for two 
 years, and afterward moved to I'hiladelpliia, 
 where she engaged in literary work. She 
 has for years been rankrd with the most 
 popular writers of books for girls of which 
 she has written a large number, including; 
 A Journey of Joy; The Four Corners; The 
 F'our Corners in California; Four Corners 
 at School; Janet's College Career; Two 
 -Maryland (iirls; i'liy l'"riend IDorothy ; 
 Taking a Stand; l.itllc Ciaiiduiothcr Jo; 
 Little Sister Anne; .\ l.illlc Tomboy; Lit- 
 tle Miss Oddity ; A Dear Little Girl ; A Sweet 
 Little Maid; Dimi)le Dallas; Mistress :May ; 
 Mabel's Mishap; Kittyboy's Chri>1nia-: and 
 Wortli His While (all Vieorge W . .la.-ol)s 
 & Co.. I'hiladelpliia I ; also A (iirl of 'TC ; 
 
 .\ Kcvdlut iouary Maid; A Daughter of 
 Freedom; .\ Heroine of 181"2; A Loyal 
 Lass; A (ontle Pioneer; Bonny Lesley of 
 the Pxirdcr. and A Frontier Knight (all 
 |)ul>lisli(<l l)y W". A. Wilde Com]iany, I'os- 
 ton ) ; and i'wd (iirls; (iiils Togetlier; Bet- 
 ty of Wye; Tliree Pretty Maids; An Inde- 
 ])endent Daughter; Miss \'anity ; Because 
 of Conscience; Her \'ery Best (all publish- 
 ed by .1. r.. Lippincott Co., Pliiladel])hia ) . 
 Miss lilaucliard's summer residence is on 
 Bailey's Island, Me. Address; 4102 Pine 
 St., Philadelphia. 
 
 BLANCHARD, Charles A.: 
 
 President of NMioaton College; born in 
 Galesburg, HI.. Nov. S, 1S4S; son of Jon i- 
 than Blanchard. Jr.. and [Mary Avery 
 (Bent) Blanchaid. He was educated at 
 Wlieaton College, from which he was grad- 
 uated and received the degree of A.B. and 
 A.1\I. He was a student of Chicago Theo- 
 logical Seminary, but did not graduate; he 
 has received the degree of D.D. from Mon- 
 mouth College, HI. Dr. Blanchard has been 
 a teacher sine' he was fifteen years of age. 
 In the fall of 1872 he went to Wheaton 
 Academy as princijial ; taught two years in 
 the Academy as ))rincipal and eight years 
 in the College and was in 1882 elected pres- 
 ident of \Alieat()n College, which ollice lu' 
 has filled cv( )■ since. He is an ordained 
 minister of the Congregational Church. 
 President lUancliard is also president of the 
 National Clnistian Association, was presi- 
 dent for twenty years of the Sabbath Asso- 
 ciation of Illinois, is president of the Col- 
 lege Section of the Illinois State Teachers' 
 Association, is a member of tli(> Xational 
 (reograplucal Society; of the American 
 Peace Society and of the Xational F'duea- 
 tional Association. Dr. I'.lanchard has done 
 (onsiderable work in the lecture Held, hav- 
 ing addressed many audiences on the suh 
 jects of Secret Societies, lidempciance. Sab- 
 liilh Observance, The Bible, the Word of 
 Cod; Arctic Exjilorations. etc. He married 
 in 187:1. Ella [Milligan, who died in 1884; 
 in l"^Sll, he minicd .Icannie Caroth.Ts, who 
 (lieil in iM'liiiiaiy. ISill; and lie again 
 maniol al S(. I.oiii., Mo,, i'ch. I'.i. ISDll. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Dr. Francos C. Caiotlicrs ; and he has soveh 
 children. Addns^: Wlicatdii Collcjje, 
 
 Whealon. 111. 
 
 BLANCHARD, James Armstrong: 
 
 Jurist; born a( llcndtMson, dctrcrson 
 County, N. Y.. .\u,l;-. 1(1, 1845; son of Philip 
 and Catharine (Druniniond) Blanchard. 
 He was jiradnaled fioni Rijion College, at 
 Ripon. Wis.. A. 13., 1871, and from the Law 
 School of Columbia University, LL.B., 
 1873; and ho rec?ived the LL.D. dei;ree in 
 1902, from Kipon Collejie. He engaged in 
 the practice of law in New York City imtil 
 appointed by Governor Roosevelt as judge 
 of General Sessions, serving one year. In 
 September, 1900. he was a])pointed a jus- 
 tice of the Supreme Court of the State of 
 New York, by Governor Roosevelt, and 
 elected, November, 1901, to the same offic3 
 for the term expiring Dee. 31, 1915. Jus- 
 tice Blanchard is a veteran of tlie Civil 
 War, having enlisted in 1804, and served 
 one year in Company I, of the Second Wis- 
 consin Cavalry. He is a member of the As- 
 sociation of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, Lafayette Post, Grand Army of the 
 Republic, the LTnion League Club and Re- 
 publican Club of New Y^ork City, and a 
 trustee of St. John's Guild. Justice Blanch- 
 ard married in 1881, Sallie Medbery, and 
 they have one son. Residence: 11 East 
 92d Street. Address: County Court House, 
 New York City. 
 
 BLANCHARD, Newton Grain: 
 
 l']x-Governor of Louisiana, 1904-1908 
 born in Rapides Parish, La., Jan. 29, 1849; 
 sou of Carey H. and Frances Amelia 
 (Crain) Blanchard. He was educited in 
 Louisiana State University and in the Tulane 
 University of Louisiana, Law Department, 
 from which he was graduated in LL.B. in 
 1870. After graduation he practised law 
 at Shreveport, La. Governor Blanchard was 
 a member of the Louisiana State Constitu- 
 tional Convention of 1879; was a represent- 
 ative in Congress from the Fourth District 
 of Louisiana for seven consecutive terms 
 from 18S0-1S93; was Ignited States Senator 
 from Louisiana fidui lS!);!-lSvt7 : anil :i jus- 
 
 lice of the Suproiue Court of Louisiana from 
 1897-1904, resigning from the bench when 
 elected (Governor of Louisiana in 1904, serv- 
 ing until 1908. Ho is a Democrat in poli- 
 tics and an I'^piscopalian in religion, (iov- 
 ernor i'>lan(liard married at Shreveport, La., 
 Die. l(i. 1S7;5, Mary Emily Barret; and 
 they lia\c two children. Address: Shreve- 
 port, La. 
 
 BLASHFIELD, Edwin Howland: 
 
 Decorative artist; born in New York, 
 Dec. 15, 1848. He studied' in Paris under 
 Leon Bonnat, and had the benefit of the 
 advice of Gerome and Chapu. He was an 
 exhibitor at the Paris Salon for nearly ten 
 consecutive seasons and for several years 
 at the Royal Academy in London. His 
 work since returning to America in 1881 
 has been frequently exhibited and widely 
 recognized and has achieved marked pub- 
 licity. Among his paintings are: Christ- 
 mas Bells and The Angel with the Flaming 
 Sword. INIr. Blashfield's highest distinction 
 has been obtained in the field of decorative 
 art. He decorated one of the donees of the 
 Manufacturers Building, World's Colum- 
 bian Exiwsition, Chicago; central dome of 
 the Congressional Library, Washington; 
 Bank of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh ; Senate 
 Chamber, State Capitol of Minnesota ( St. 
 Paul) ; Iowa State CapitoL Des Moines; 
 ceiling of great ball room in Waldorf-As- 
 toria Hotelj and Gothic supper room, house 
 of W. K. Vanderbilt, New York City; li- 
 brary, house of W. C. Drexel, Philadel- 
 phia; drawing room, in house of C. P. Hunt- 
 ington, and house of Adolph Lewisohn, New 
 York Cit}'; courthouse of City of Balti- 
 more; Appellate Court New York City; 
 ceiling and three lunetts in the Board Room 
 of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, 
 Newark, N. J.; court room in the Court 
 House at Baltimore, Md., chancel of Church 
 of the Saviour, Philadelphia, and many oth- 
 ers. He collaborated with Mrs. Blashfield 
 and A. A. Hopkins on Vasare's Lives of 
 the Painters, and is co-author with his wife 
 of the book on Italian Cities. Since 1888 
 he has been an academician of the National 
 Acadeinv of Design: and hi' i^ an Imnorary 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 uu'iiilirr (if the Anicrii'an Institute of Aictii- 
 teets, and a lut'inbtT of the Sociotj' of Amer- 
 ican Artists,, the Architectural League. So- 
 ciety of .Mural Painters and Society of 
 Painters in Water Colors. He has lectured 
 on art at tlie leading institutions of the 
 I'nited States. Mr. Blashlield married in 
 I'aris, France, in 1881, Evangeline Wilbour 
 of Rhode Island. Residence: 49 West 59th 
 Street. Studio: Carnegie Building, New 
 York Cily. 
 
 BLATCH, Harriot Stanton: 
 
 Writer and lecturer; born at Seneca 
 Falls, X. v., Jan. 20, 1856; daughter of 
 Henry Brewster and Elizabeth (Cady) 
 Stanton. She was educated at Vassar Col- 
 lege, from which she received the degree 
 of B.A. in 1878 (with honors in mathe- 
 matics!, and elected to the Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society, and received' the degree of M.A. 
 (on thesis) in 1893; and she also pursued 
 graduate studies in Boston in 1879, in Ber- 
 lin in 1880. and the University of Paris 
 in 1882. She was married in 1882, in Lon- 
 don, Enj'land, to William Henry Blatch, 
 and she has a daughter, Nora Stanton 
 Blatch. wlio was born in 1883, was gradu- 
 ated from Cornell as Civil Engineer in 1905. 
 and is a member of the American Society 
 of Civil I'higineers. After her marriage, 
 Mrs. Blatch li\ed for twenty years in Eng- 
 land, where she was active in the Women's 
 Industrial Union, the suffrage organiza- 
 tions, the Liberal Association, and on the 
 executive of the Fabian Society. She was 
 a trustee of evening scliools, and was asso- 
 ciated with Charles Booth, the statistician 
 in collecting facts on village life which 
 formed tlie basis for her thesis for the de- 
 gree of ]\I.A. Mrs. Blatch is president of 
 the League of Self-Supporting Women, 
 founded in 1907; member of the executive 
 l)oard of the Women's Trade Union League; 
 and she is a member of the Society for 
 Kthical Culture. She is a member of the 
 Pioneer Clul) of London, and of the 
 Women's University Club of New York. 
 She has written extensively in magazines 
 on economic and educational questions. Ad- 
 dress: 103 East 19tii Street, New York City. 
 
 BLENK, Hubert: 
 
 Catholic archbishop of New Orleans; 
 born in Neustadt, Bavaria, Aug. 6, 1856; 
 son of James and Catherine (Wiedemann) 
 Blenk. He was educated in St. James Col-, 
 lege, Baltimore at Jefferson College, Con- 
 vent, La. ; entered the Society of Mary in 
 1874, and took the theological course at 
 the Marist Houses of Studies in France and 
 Ireland, and a course at the Catholic Uni- 
 versity, Dublin, Ireland. He was ordained 
 priest in 1885, and became the same year a 
 professor in Jefferson College, Convent, La., 
 serving in that capacity until 1890, and 
 after that for six years president of the 
 college. He was rector of the Church of the 
 Holy Name of Mary, at Algiers, La., in 
 1897-1898; auditor of the Apostolic Dele- 
 gation to Cuba and Porto Rico, 1898, and 
 was consecrated bishop of Porto Rico, July 
 2, 1899 and became arch])ishop of Xew Or- 
 leans July 2, 1906. Address: 1205 Es- 
 planade Avenue, New Orleans, La. 
 
 BLETHEN, Alden J.: 
 
 Editor; born at Knox, Waldo County, 
 Me., Dec. 7, 1846; son of Alden and Abbie 
 L. Blenthen, of an old American family 
 whose first New England ancestor settled 
 at Ipswich, Mass., in 1680. He was gradu- 
 ated from Wesleyan Seminary and College, 
 1868, and from Bowdoin College, M.A., 
 1872, and was lessee and principal of the 
 Abbott Family School at Farmington, Me., 
 1869-1873, during which period he also 
 finished the study of law began in 1868, 
 being admitted to the Maine bar in 1873. 
 He practised law at Portland, ^le. until 
 1880, when, on account of ill-health he re- 
 moved to Kansas City, Mo., where he en- 
 tered journalism and for four years was 
 manager of the Kansas City Times. From 
 there he removed to Minneapolis, where he 
 purchased an interest in two papers, The 
 Tribune and The Journal, serving as edi- 
 tor and manager of The i'liiiune and mana- 
 ger of The Journal unlil 1SS8, when he 
 sold his interest in both for two hundred 
 and fifty thousand dollars eash. The fol- 
 lowing year he lepurchased tiie Minneapolis 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 17'.i 
 
 'rrihiinc, but lire dostroycd tlu' l)uil(liiif>' and 
 contents in Novembor. 1889, and he thus 
 snli'ered a loss of one hundred thousand dol- 
 lars. He set to work to rcbuiUl in 1890, 
 and erected the New Tribune Building in 
 Minneapolis at a cost of $100,000 but the 
 panic of 1893 followed so closely after his 
 large losses and expenses, that he lost all 
 he had saved. While in Minnesota he serv- 
 ed as colonel on the staffs of Governor Nel- 
 son and Clough. In 1896, desiring to be- 
 gin again in the newspaper field he went 
 to Seattle., where he purchased the plant of 
 a bankrupt newspaper, with a circulation 
 of thirty-five hundred. He increased this 
 ."lO per cent in the first year, and it has 
 since constantly grown until The Times now 
 has a circulation of 69,000 each evening and 
 81,000 Sunday morning, occupies its own 
 building and has the largest, plant in the 
 Northwest. Colonel Blethen is editor-in- 
 chief of The Times, and president of the 
 Times Printing Company. His oldest son, 
 Joseph, is business manager and his young- 
 est son, C. B., managing editor. He mar- 
 ried at Farmington, Me., March 2, 1869, 
 Rose, daughter of Captain David F. Hunter, 
 and they have two sons and two daughters. 
 Address : Seattle, Wash. 
 
 BLISS, Cornelius Newton: 
 
 Dry goods commission merchant ; born 
 at Fall River, Mass., Jan. 26, 1833; son of 
 Asabel Newton and Irene Borden (Luther) 
 Bliss. He was educated at the Academy of 
 Fall River, Mass., and the high school of 
 New Orleans, La. He connnenced business 
 life in New Orleans ; later lemoved to Bos- 
 ton, and thence to New York in 1866. He is 
 a member of the firm of Bliss, Fabylan & 
 Company, dry goods commission merchants 
 of Boston, New York City and Chicago ; is 
 a director of the Fourth National Bank of 
 New York, the Home Insurance Company; 
 a trustee of the Central Trust Company; 
 also a director in various manufacturing 
 companies in Massachusetts. He was sec- 
 retary of the Interior in President McKin- 
 ley's first administration, from March 4. 
 1897 to Feb. 20, 1899, and was treasurer of 
 the Republican National Committee in 1892, 
 
 l!)()() and 1904. lie is a Congregationalist, 
 and i)resident of the trustees of Broadway 
 Tabernacle, New York City; and is gover- 
 nor of the Society of New York Hospital. 
 Mr. Bliss is president of the Union League 
 Club of New York City, and a member of 
 the Metropolitan, Century and Rei)ubliain 
 Clubs of Washington, and the Jekyl Island 
 Club of Georgia. He married in Boston. 
 Mass., March 30, 1859, Elizabeth Mary 
 Plummer; and they have two children. 
 Residence: 198 Madison Avenue. Ad- 
 dress: 117 Duane Street, New York City. 
 
 BLISS, Walter Phelps: 
 
 Capitalist: horn in New York City, 
 March 10, 1870; son of George Bliss and 
 Augusta H. (Smith) Bliss. He was gradu- 
 ated from Yale as A.B. in 1892, and after- 
 ward attended the New York Law School. 
 He is a director of the Chicago, Milwaukee 
 and St. Paul Railway Co., Cleveland, Cin- 
 cinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway 
 Co., Manhattan Trust Co., Continental In- 
 surance Co., Quincy Mining Co. (vice-presi- 
 dent), Gauley Mountain Coal Co., Loup 
 Creek Colliery Co., Candelaria Mining Co., 
 Corralitos Co., Herzog Telephone Systems 
 Co., and Commercial Union Assurance Co., 
 Limited, of London. He is a trustee of the 
 Union Trust Co., Consolidated Gas Co., and 
 Caledonian Insurance Co. of Scotland. 
 Mr. Bliss is a member of the Union, Rid- 
 ing and Racquet and Tennis Clubs, New 
 York City. He married in Detroit, Mich., 
 April 29. 1897. Katharine Baldwin. Ad- 
 dress: No. 71 l^roadway, New York City. 
 
 BLISS, William Henry: 
 
 Lawyer ; born at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 
 Oct. 27, 1844; son of Philemon Bliss and 
 Martha W. Bliss. He was educated in the 
 public schools. He was admitted to the 
 bar in 1871, assistant United States attor- 
 ney, 1872-1876, and United States attorney, 
 1876-1887, at St. Louis, :Mo. He was after- 
 ward vice-president and general solicitor of 
 the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Com- 
 pany, and associate counsel of the North- 
 ern Pacific Railroad ('om])any. at St. Paul, 
 Minn., and has been practising at New 
 
ISO 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 York City liom ISH:!. Ih' is a iiioiiihcr of 
 the Association Bar of the City of Now 
 York; the Metropolitan Museinn of Art; 
 the Municipal Art Society; the American 
 C4eogra])1iieal Society; Society of Biblio- 
 philes; the Ohio Society, and the Union 
 Leapue. Metropolitan. Grolier. Players'. 
 Down Town, of New York City; the ^Metro- 
 politan and Chevy-Chase Clubs of \Vashing- 
 ton; the St. Botolph Club of Boston. Mr. 
 Bliss married first at St. Louis, April 6, 
 1874, Annie Louise Woods, and second at 
 New York City, April 14, 1894, Mrs. Anna 
 Blaksley Barnes, secretary of the Ameri- 
 can Legation at Brussels; and has a son 
 and a daugliter. Address: (i East 65th 
 Street. New York City. 
 
 BLOSSOM. Henry: 
 
 Author and playwright; loin in St. 
 Louis, -Mo., May 10, 1806; son of Henry 
 Martyn and Susan (Brigham) Blossom. 
 He was educated in Washington Univer- 
 sity, St. Louis. :\Ir. Blossom is author of 
 the Books: The Documents in Evidence; 
 and Checkers, a Hard-Luck Story. He lia.s 
 been especially successful as a dramatic au- 
 thor, his list of plays including: Check- 
 ers (dramatized by him from his book of 
 the same title) ; The Y'ankee Consul; M'Ue 
 Modi-ste; Tlu" Red Mill; The Prima Donna; 
 Miss Philura. Mr. Blossom is a member of 
 The Lambs, The Players and the Larch- 
 mont Y'acht Club of New York City, and 
 the St. Louis Club of St. Louis. Address: 
 The Lambs, 128 W. 41tli Street, New Y'ork 
 City. 
 
 BLUE, Victor: 
 
 (niimiaiMbr, U. S. Navy; born in iiic'.i- 
 nioiid (o\iiity. X. C, Dec. 6, 1865; son of 
 .John C. and .\miie j\I. (Evans) Blue. He 
 was appointed from South Carolina, Naval 
 Cadet, May 17. 1883; conunissioned assist- 
 ant engineer. .Inly 1. 1880; ensign, Dlc. 12, 
 1802; iieutciiant (Junior grade), Dee. 5, 
 1807; lieuten-.uil, :VIarch :5. 1800; IVnsa- 
 cola, 1880; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1892; 
 I'.emiington, ISO."}; Naval Academy, 1896; 
 Kentucky. 1808; inspection duty. Bureau 
 
 nf |-;.|ui|illiclll. 10(11 111 llMi:!; illS|)Cclion 
 
 duty. Bureau of (Jrdnance. since 1!U).'). 
 During the war with Spain he iicrfornicd 
 distinguislu'd service in connection with 
 the intelligence work of the Navy. Ids 
 ser\ice including dillicult and dangerous 
 missions in the cdllection of information on 
 Spanish ^ui!. lie was promoted and ad- 
 vanced in his grade for distinguished gal- 
 lantry in this war. Address: Care Navy 
 Department, \\ashington, D. C. 
 
 BLUNT, Stanhope English: 
 
 Colonel. C. S. A.; born in Boston. Mass.. 
 Sept. 29, 1850; son of Charles E. and 
 Penelope B. (English) Blunt. He was 
 graduated from the high school at Oswego, 
 N. Y., in 1868, and from the United States 
 Military Academy, in 1872. After gradua- 
 tion he served as second and first lieuten- 
 ant in the Thirteenth Infantry, and on 
 explorations and surveys west of the One 
 Hundredth meridian in Utah, Wyoming, 
 Colorado, and New ]\Iexico. He was trans- 
 ferred to the Ordnance Department, Nov. 
 1, 1874, and promoted through various 
 grades to colonel in the Ordnance Depart- 
 ment, June 25, 1006. He served at Frank- 
 ford Arsenal, Springfield Armory, Water- 
 vliet Arsenal; from March, 1897, to Aug., 
 1907, was in command of the Bock Island 
 Arsenal at Rock Island, 111., and since 
 Aug., 1907, has been in command of the 
 Springfield Armory, Springfield, ]\Iass. He 
 was at the Military Academy from 1876 
 to 1880 as instructor in mathematics and 
 also ordnance and the science of gunnery. 
 He was cliief ordnance officer of the Depart- 
 ment of l)ak.)t;t. 1880-1884. and at the 
 liea(l(|uarters of the Army, Washington. D. 
 ('.. 1SS4-18S9, as inspector of small arms 
 practice and as colonel and aid;'-de-c imp 
 on the staff of General P. 11. Siicridan. 
 He is author of: Rifie and Carbine Firing, 
 adopted 1885, for the use of tlie Army and 
 National Ciuinl, and of Small Arms l-'iring 
 Regulations. ISSO; and is also aiitbor of 
 various articles in eiu'vclopi'dias, and other 
 pajiers ui)nn small aims and their use. 
 Colond r.lnnl is a member of the Univer- 
 sity (lull «\' New ^'ork City, the Metroi)oli- 
 taii. anil Ainiy ami Na\y Clubs of Wash- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA 
 
 ISI 
 
 ino-toii. I). ('.; Ihc Troy Clul) of Troy, N. Y., 
 ami (lie Nayassct and W'iiitliid]) Clubs of 
 Siiiiiii^lii'ld, Mass. \\v iiianird at Clinton. 
 X. \ .. Nov. IS, 1S7."5, Kannv Smyth, and 
 (licy lia\c lliicc dau;^liU'is: Katliarinp, 
 ]M(dyii rictliuiic (who married Artlnir D. 
 Kickr. of |)a\(iii)orl. Iowa), and Francos 
 iSmytii r>luiit. A(hlrcss: Spvinnfudd Arm- 
 ory. S|)riiiy'li( Id. Mass. 
 
 BLYTHE, Samuel George: 
 
 Newspaper man; horn in Geneseo, N. Y., 
 May li), 18GS, and educated at the Geneseo 
 State Normal Seliool. He has had a bril- 
 liant career in the newspaper business, 
 anionji: his many positions being those of 
 managing editor of the BufTalo Express, 
 editor-in-chief of the BufTalo Courier and 
 Enquirer, and Washington carrespondent 
 of the New York World. He was also 
 managing editor of the Cosmopolitan in 
 1899 and was in charge of the literary 
 bureau of the Republican State Committee 
 of New York iu 1898. Since 1907 Mr. 
 Blythe lias been engaged in general literary 
 work, and has written numerous sketches 
 of foreign travel; and he conducts the 
 weekly department of " Who's Who and 
 Why " of the Saturday Evening Post, Phil- 
 adel])hia, besides furnishing matter on 
 otlier topics. During his servica as a 
 Washington news])aper coi-respondent he 
 was chairman of the standing canimittee of 
 correspondents in Washington, and presi- 
 dent of the Gridiron Club. He married at 
 Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 19. 1888, Carolyn 
 Hamilton Oak. Address: 1509 Thirteenth 
 Street, N. W., Washington. D. C. 
 
 BOARDMAN, Albert B.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York, Feb. 6, 1853. 
 He was educated at Yale, A.B. 1873, and 
 at Columliia College Law School, LL.B. 
 1875. He was admitted to the bar in the 
 last named year, and lias had an exception- 
 ally successful practice. Among his many 
 important connections are those of solicitor 
 for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; 
 counsel for the Balti'iiore & Ohio Railroad 
 Company, the Rapid Transit Commission, 
 the Trust Company of America, the United 
 
 Stales l';\])icss Company, tin' [''idelily & 
 Deiiosil Company of .Maryland, the Staten 
 Island liapid 'I'ransit Railroad Conii)any, 
 and the Rapid Transit Keriy Com])any; 
 vice-president and counsel of the TlK)mpson- 
 Starrett Company anil the Central Hudson 
 Steamboit Company; ami director of Ihc 
 Standard (Jordage Comjjany. lie is a iiieiii- 
 ber of the firm of O'Brien, Boardman. I'latt 
 & Littleton. He married in New York 
 City, CJertrude Honner. and has one son. 
 Residence: 40 W. 53d Street. Olllce: 35 
 Wall Street, New York: City. 
 
 BOARDMAN, Alec: 
 
 United States judge; born in Yazoo City, 
 Miss., Dec. 10, 1839. He was educated at 
 Kentucky Military College, and served in 
 the Confederate Army, through the Civil 
 War. In 1872 he was elected to the Na- 
 tional House of Representatives and for 
 four years he Avas a State judge in Louisi- 
 ana. In 1881 he was appointed I'nited 
 States judge for the Western District of 
 Louisiana, a position he now holds. He 
 married in St. Louis, AIo., Frances I. 
 Capen. Address : Shreveport, La. 
 
 BOAS, Emil Leopold: 
 
 Resident director and general manager 
 of the Hamburg-American Line; born in 
 Goerlitz, Germany, Nov. 15, 1854; son of 
 Louis and Minna Boas. He was educated 
 in the Royal Frederick William Ciymna- 
 siuni at Breslau, and the Sophia Gj'mna- 
 sium at Berlin, whence he was graduated 
 in 1872. Becoming connected with the 
 Hamburg-American Line in 1873, he came 
 to the United States in the same year. He 
 has been general manager of the Hamburg- 
 American Line since 1892, and since 190G 
 also resident director. He has been very 
 prominent and active in all efTorts to im- 
 prove the water-transportation facilities of 
 New York, was on the Committee for the 
 Extension of the Pier-head Line; on the 
 committee before Congress to secure an ap- 
 propiiation for the new channel to the 
 sea (Ambrose Channel).; is treasurer and 
 chairman of the Finance Committee of the 
 Greater New York Canal Association, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 whicli was acti\f in olitaiiiiiiu tlic ini|in)\c 
 iiu'iit of the Kiit' Canal. Mr. Boas lias re- 
 ceived from the Kniperor of Germany tlie 
 decoration of the Order of the Royal Prus- 
 sian Crown of the 3rd class and also the 
 Order of the Red Eagle of the 3rd class; 
 was decorated' by the Emperor of Austria, 
 liaviiig been made an ofTicer of the Order 
 of Francis Jose])h : by the King of Italy, 
 Chevalier of the Order of S.S. Mauritius 
 and Lazarus; by the King of Sweden and 
 Norway, Knight (first class) of the Order 
 of St. Olaf; by the Sultan of Turkey, com- 
 mander of the Order of Osmanioh, and com- 
 mander of the Order of Medjidie; by the 
 King of Greece, officer of the Order of the 
 Redeemer; by the President of Venezuela, 
 commander of the Order of Bolivar. He 
 is treasurer of the Germanistic Society of 
 of Anicrii'a: uicmber of the Board of New 
 York Civic Fe(h'ration : member of the 
 Chamber of Commerce of the State of New 
 York, the l^oard of Trade and Transporta- 
 tion (one of managing directors), the New 
 Y'ork Produce Exchange, Maritime Associa- 
 tion, German Society and various cliarita- 
 ble societies. Mr. Boas is a member of 
 various technical and scientiiic societies, 
 including the Society of Naval Architects 
 ami Marine Engineers; the National Geo- 
 graphic Society; the New York Academy of 
 Political Science; American Ethnological 
 Society; American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science; American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science; New Y^ork 
 Academy of Science; the New York Zoolog- 
 ical Society; the Metropolitan Museum of 
 Art; American Museum of Natural His- 
 tory; Japan Society; the American Scenic 
 an<l Historic Preservation Society, etc. 
 Clubs: New York Y''acht, Imperial Y'aclit 
 Club. Kiel; Lotos, Fairfield County, Law- 
 yers, Railroad; Deutscher Verein. Unitar- 
 ian, Liederkranz, S. S. Maurice Fish and 
 (Jame. ]Mr. Boas married in New Y'ork, 
 March 20, ISSS. Harriet B. Sternfeld, and 
 tliey have one sun. Residences: (city) 
 1-2S West 74tli Sticet. Xew York City; 
 (countiy house) I'onniccrcst. Greenwich. 
 Conn, (tllice: 4."i llrouiway, New York 
 Cilv. 
 
 BOAS, Franz: 
 
 Ant liropnlogist; born in ^Tinden, \Vest- 
 plialia. July 9, 1858. lie was educated at 
 the universities of Heidelberg. Boim and 
 Kiel. He became well known internation- 
 ally by his explorations in Baffin Land in 
 1883 and 1884. He subsequently imdertook 
 anthropological investigations in British 
 Columbia for the British Association for 
 the Advancement of Science, and later for 
 the American Museum of Natural History. 
 He also directed explorations in the United 
 States for tlie Smithsonian Institution, and 
 directed the operations and publications of 
 the Jesup North Pacific expedition. He 
 has been at different times instructor in 
 anthropology at leading universities ami 
 was chief assistant of the department of 
 anthropology' at the World's Colund)ian 
 Exposition. In 189.5 he was made lecturer 
 and in 1898 professor of anthropology at 
 Columbia University, and was curator of 
 the department of anthropology of the 
 American Museum of Natural History. 
 1895-1905. He is honorary philologist of 
 the Bureau of American Ethnology'; mem- 
 ber of the National Academy of Sciences 
 and the American Philosophical Society ; 
 fellow of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, the New York 
 Academy of Sciences, and the American 
 Anthropological societies of Berlin, ]Mos- 
 cow, Paris. Rome, Stockholm, Vienna and 
 Washington, and of the Anthropological 
 Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and 
 of the American Antiquarian and Numis 
 matic Society. Editor of the Journal of 
 American Folk-Tx)re, and of the publica- 
 tions of the American Ethnological Soci- 
 ety; author of: Bairin Land; The Cential 
 Eskimo; The Eskimos of Pallin Land anl 
 Hudson ISay ; Ciiinook Texts; Kathhiniet 
 Texts; Indianische Sageii stm der Xord- 
 westkiiste Amerikas (Berlin) ; Social Or- 
 ganization and Secret Societies of the 
 Kwakiutl Indians; Kwakiutl Texts; Mth- 
 nology of the Kwakiutl Indians; Tsirn- 
 shian Texts; Mythology of the Bella Cuola 
 Indians; The Growth of Children; and 
 Handbook of .\merican Languages. Resi- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 (Icm-c: diiiiiwodd. Beigcii County. N. J. 
 Address : Coluinbia University, Now Yoik 
 City. 
 
 BOOKMAN, Marcus Olaus: 
 
 Tlieologian ; born in Lansosund. Norway. 
 Jan. 0, 1840. TTo was edncitod at Chris- 
 tiana University. Norway. ;ind has received 
 the honorary dep:ree of D.D. from Muhlen- 
 berg College in Pennsylvania. He was 
 ordained to the ministry in Christiana in 
 1875, and shortly after crime to the United 
 States, where he occupied pastorates of the 
 Lutheran church until 1886. He was s\ib- 
 sequently professor of theolojyy at various 
 Lutheran seminaries until 1893, when he 
 was appointed president and professor of 
 theology of the Seminary of the United 
 Norwe^jian Lutheran Chuich. He married, 
 first in 1875. Leonharda Holby. and sec- 
 ond in 1896, In<Ta Holby. Address: St. 
 Anthony Park, Minn. 
 
 BOGART, John: 
 
 Consulting engineer; born at Albany. N. 
 Y.. Feb. 8, 1837; son of John Henry and 
 Eliza (Hermans) Bogart. Mr. Bogart was 
 graduated from Albany Academy and from 
 Kutgers College, receiving the degree of 
 M.A. in 1853. He was engaged as engineer 
 with the New York Central Railroad; also 
 on construction of Central Park, at New 
 York City; and from Dec, 1861, to July. 
 1866, was in the engineer service with the 
 United States Army, stationed at Forft 
 Monroe, and in charge of construction of 
 the fort at the Rip Raps. Va.. also in the 
 service at other points. He was engineer- 
 in-charge of construction, in 1886. and be- 
 came chief engineer of the Park Commis- 
 sion of Brooklyn, in 1870; and was chief 
 engineer. Department of Public Parks, New 
 York City, from 1872-1877. He was 
 treasurer, secretary and editor of publica- 
 tions. American Society of Civil Engineers. 
 1876-1890. lie designed the parks of Al- 
 bany, N. v.. the public State Grounds at 
 NashviHe. the west side parks of Chicago, 
 the park system of Essex County. N. J. 
 constructing engineer of the Washington 
 Bridge, New York City; consulting engi- 
 
 neci- of llic Niagara I'^ills I'owcr ('inn|iaiiy. 
 the St. I.awreni'c I'ower Coinii.-iiiy. Ilio 
 Cascade (British Columbiii) Power Com- 
 pany, the Atlanta Electric and Water 
 Power Company, the Chattanooga and Ten- 
 nessee River Power Company. Knrtxvillc 
 Power Company, the Verde (Arizona) 
 Power and Irrigation, the Susquehainia 
 Power Company, the Southern Virginia De- 
 velopment Company, the Western Mary- 
 land Power Com]iany. Harbor Works in 
 Venezuela, State Board of Health, the 
 Rapid Transit Commission, for many rail- 
 way constructions, and in various cases be- 
 fore the courts. He was deputy State 
 engineer. 1886-1888, and State engineer of 
 the State of New York, 1888-1892; Dele- 
 gate U. S. Government and* member Per- 
 manent Board International Navigation 
 Congresses. He is lieutenant-colonel and 
 chief engineer of the National Guard of 
 New York. Mr. Bogart is a member of the 
 American Society of Civil Engineers, and 
 the Institution of Civil Engineers of Lon- 
 don. He married at West Chester. Pa.. 
 Nov. 2, 1870, Emma Cherington Jefferis. 
 Residence: 30 Central Park South. Office: 
 141 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 BOGERT, Marston Taylor: 
 
 Chemist and educator; born in Flushing. 
 N. Y., April 18, 1868; son of Henry A. 
 and Mary Bowne Lawrence. He was grad- 
 uated from Columbia University in 1890. 
 and took the Columbia University School 
 of Mines course of chemistry from 1890- 
 1894. He has since been continuously on 
 the teaching staff Of Columbia University, 
 was adjunct jirofessor of organic chemistry 
 at Columbia University from 1901-1904. 
 and has been professor of same since 1904; 
 and became a member of the University 
 Council (Columbia) in 1908. He is a 
 member of tlie American Clieiiiical Society, 
 having been i)resident of the same from 
 1907-1909; a fellow of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
 ence; tlie Chemical Society of London; 
 vice-president of the Society of Chemical 
 Industry, of England, from 1902-1904; 
 one of the founders, secretary from 1898- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1902, and presidenl . I'HiS. of the Chem- 
 ists' Club of New York, and a member of 
 the Deutsche CluMiiische Oesellschaft, the 
 8oeiet«'' Chiiiiiiiuc dc Taris; the Sigma Xi 
 and riii I'-da Kappa limiDr societies, and 
 Delta Phi Iratcrnity. I'rofes-or Bogart is 
 also a member of the board of supervisors 
 of Rutgers Tiieological Seminary. He was. 
 by invitation of President Roosevelt:, a 
 member of the Conference on the Conserva- 
 tion of the Natural Resources, held at the 
 White House, May 13-15, 1908; and wa.s 
 a member of the American Advisory Com- 
 mittee of Honor for the Seventh Interna- 
 tional Congress of Applied Chemistry, held 
 in London, under the jjutronage of King 
 Kdward. May 27 to dune 2, 1909. He 
 married at Klusliing, N. Y., Sept. 13, 1893, 
 Charlotte !•:. lloogland. Address: 422 W. 
 l.')4tli Street, New York City. 
 
 BOGGS, Carroll Curtis: 
 
 • liidge of tlie Suju'eme Court of Illinois; 
 born in Fairfield. 111., Get. 19, 1843; son of 
 Richard L. and Sarah A. (Wright) Boggs. 
 He was educat-ed in the University of 
 Michigan, and has since devoted his life 
 to the law. He has held the olTices of 
 State's attorney, and county judge of 
 Wayne County, ill; was circuit judge. 
 1885-1897. and by assignment served six 
 years on the appellate bench for the Third 
 Appellate District. He was elected from 
 the First Supreme Court District, judge 
 of the Supreme Court in 1897, and pre- 
 sided as chief justice for the term begin- 
 ning June, 1900. In the contest for United 
 States Senator fioni Illinois in 1907, Judge 
 Boggs was the noniinei' of the Democratic 
 party and received the votes of all Ihr 
 Democratic senators and representatives 
 in the Legislature of Illinois. Address: 
 Fairfield. 111. 
 
 BOK, Edward William: 
 
 l^ditoi- of 'I'lie Ladies' Home ,lu>irnal; 
 born in Helder, lloUuid, Oct. 9, 1803. He 
 came to tlu' United States at the age of 
 si.v, bec:ime se]fsu])port ing during his boy- 
 liood, was a stenographer with the Wcfstern 
 Union T(de;_'ra]ili ( ■ompaiiy, and wliile yet 
 
 II lad organi/ed a literary syndicate, which, 
 anunig otiier notable undertakings, bandied 
 the sermons of Rev. Henry Ward Heeeher. 
 in 1S84 he became connected with the j)ub- 
 lishing house of Henry Holt & Company, 
 was subsciiuently with Scribner's, and in 
 1888 was selected to be editor of The 
 Ladies' Home Journal. Prior to his con- 
 nection with llie latter publication he was 
 nationally known for his newspaper con- 
 tributions on writers and their works. He 
 is author of: The Young i\Ian in Business; 
 Successward: and also of a large number of 
 incidental articles and contributions. He 
 received in 1!)07, from Yilla Nova College, 
 the honorary degree of LL.D. He married 
 Oct. 22, 189(), Mary Louise Curtis. Resi- 
 dence: Swastika. Mcriou. I'a. Address: 
 The Ladies' Home .Journal. l'hiladel])hia, 
 Pa. 
 
 BOLDT, George C: 
 
 Hotel proprietor and cijiitalist. He is 
 ])resident and director of the Waldorf-As- 
 toria Hotel Company, the Waldorf-Astoria 
 Segar Com])any, and the Waldorf Impor- 
 tation Comi)any; vice-president and direct- 
 or of the ApoUinaris Agency Company, and 
 trustee of Cornell University. He is ])resi- 
 dent of the Bellevue-Stratford hotels, Phila- 
 delphia ; director of the Commonwealth 
 Trust Conqjany of New Y^ork, and Lincoln 
 Trust Company, and the New York Board 
 of Trade and Transportation. He is a 
 member of the Americin Fine Arts Society, 
 the ^Metropolitan ^Museum of Art. and of 
 the Suburban Riding and Driving Club of 
 New York City. Address: f. W . :i4th 
 Sti-eet, New York City. 
 
 BOLDT, Hermann J.: 
 
 Physician, gynecologist; born near Ber- 
 lin, (iermany, June 24. 1851); son of Her- 
 mann (i)roniinent agriculturist) and Amalie 
 lioldt. lie came witli his ])arents to the 
 I'nited State- in ehildhond ; wa- (dueated 
 by i)rivate tutors and in pulilic granuuar 
 and high schools; sl\iilied and ])raetised 
 pharmacy until he saved means for medic »1 
 education, and was gra(lu:ited from the 
 Medical School. Inivcrsitv of New York, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 M. 1)., 187!). lie scivcd as assistant to 
 Professor Pallcii. of tlip University of New 
 York. 187!>; en.yaueil in practice, 1879; and 
 since 1891 has hccu exclusively in gyneco- 
 lofjieal practice. Dr. i'>oldt is the inventor 
 of numerous gynecological instruments, and 
 an o])erating table for abdominal surgery, 
 for which he received a medal at the Paris 
 E.xpositioin, 1900. He is a contributor to 
 the medical press, and author of various 
 professional monographs, is professor of 
 gynecology in the New York Post-Graduate 
 School and Hospital ; gynecologist of the 
 German Poliklinik and St. Mark's Hospi- 
 tal ; consulting gynecologist to Beth-Israel 
 Hospital and St. Vincent's Hospital. Dr. 
 Boldt is ex-president of the New York Ob- 
 stetrical Societj^; ex-president of the Ger- 
 man Medical Society; member of' the 
 American Gynecological Society, Interna- 
 tional Gynecological Society, British Gyne- 
 cological Society, Southern Surgical and 
 Gynecological Society, New York Patho- 
 ! logical Society, and New Y'ork Academy of 
 Medicine (ex-president Gynecological Sec- 
 tion). He married in 1891, Hedwig Kru- 
 ger, daughter of a publisher of Berlin. 
 Address: 39 E. Sixty-first Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 BOLLEK, Alfred Pancoast: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
 Feb. 23, 1840. He was educated at the 
 University of Pennsylvania and at Rensse- 
 laer Polytechnic Institute. After receiving 
 his degree of C.E. from the latter institu- 
 tion in 18G1 he became connected with rail- 
 road corporations, and since 1885 has been 
 contractor for bridge construction, now 
 being of the firm of Boiler & Hodge, con- 
 sulting engineers. He was the engineer of 
 the double-track bridge over the Hudson at 
 Albany, N. Y.. and the Central bridge and 
 viaduct over the Harlem River, New Y'ork, 
 besides a considerable number of other im- 
 portant works. He has been consulting 
 engineer on im])ortant municipal woiks in 
 New York and on the extension of the \\a- 
 bash lines into Pittsburg. He is the au- 
 thor of a Treatise on the Construction of 
 Iron lliglnvav Bridges, and other engineer- 
 
 ing pulilicat loll-;. lie is a member of Ihi' 
 American Society of ('i\il Engineers and of 
 the Institution of Civil iMigineers of Eon- 
 don, England, and the ('eiiliuv Association 
 of New York, lie married in Philadelpiii i. 
 in 18(i4, Katheiine Newbold. and 1 hey have 
 five children. Residence: 3.") Prospect 
 Street, East Orange. N. J. Office: Singer 
 Building. Broadway, New York City. 
 
 BOLTON, Charles Knowles: 
 
 Librarian of the Boston Athena?um ; born 
 in Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 14, 1867; son of 
 Charles Edward Bolton, A.M., lecturer, and 
 at one time Mayor of East Cleveland, and 
 Sarah Knowles Bolton, tlie autlior. lie 
 was graduated as A.B. from Haivanl Ccd- 
 lege in 1890. He was librarian of the 
 Brookline, Mass., Public Library from 1894- 
 '897, and since 1898 has been librarian of 
 the Boston Athena-um. Mr. Bolton is chair- 
 man of the School Committee and a Trustee 
 of the Public Library in Shirley; an hon- 
 orary member of the Harvard Chapter of 
 Phi Beta Kappa ; chairman of the Visit- 
 ing Committee to the Library of the ]\Iu- 
 seum of Fine Arts, Boston; a member of 
 the Bunker Hill Monument Association, the 
 Massachusetts Historical Society, and the 
 Colonial Society of Massachusetts. He is 
 author of: The Private Soldier under Wash- 
 ington, and several other historical books 
 and papers, and editor of the Letters of 
 Hugh, Earl Percy 1774-1776, etc. :\Ir. Bol- 
 ton married in Boston, June 23, 1897, Ethel 
 Stanwood, daughter of Edward Stanwood, 
 editor of the Youth's Companion, and they 
 have two sons. Residence: Poimd Hill 
 Place, Shirley, Mass. Office: lOVa Beacon 
 Street. Boston, Mass. 
 
 BOLTON, Frederick Elmer: 
 
 University profes.sor; born at Tomali, 
 Wis., i\Iay 9, 1866; son of Edwin Latham 
 and Rosaline (Cady) Bolton. He was grad- 
 uated from the Wisconsin State Normal 
 School al :\Iilwaukee, 1890, from the L'ni- 
 versity of Wisconsin, B.S.. 1893, M.S., 1896, 
 Honorary fellow, C^lark L^niversity, 1897- 
 1S9S. pii.n.. 1898. Professor Bolton was 
 a teadicr iu I he district schools of Wis- 
 
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 v'lEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 consin. 1885-1887: iniiici]);!! of the Tun- 
 nel City (Wis.) JSchool, 1887-1888, of the 
 high school at Fairchild, Wis., 1890-1891; 
 principal of schools at Kaukauna, Wis., 1893- 
 18!)."); jjiofessor of psychology and education 
 in the Wisconsin 8tate Xornial School at 
 Milwaukee. 1898-1900, and was lecturer in 
 the iSumnier Session of the University of 
 Wisconsin, 1899. Since 1900 he has been 
 in the State University of Iowa, where he 
 was assistant professor for one year, and 
 since 1901 has been i)rofessor and head of 
 the Department of Education in the Univer- 
 sity, and director of the Summer Sessions. 
 He is author of: The Secondary School Sys- 
 tem of Germany, 1900. He was chairman 
 of the Executive Committee of the Iowa 
 State Teachers' Association, 1908; secre- 
 tary of the National Society of College 
 Teachers of Education; president of the 
 Iowa Child Study Society; member of the 
 National Educational Association, the Na- 
 tional Society for the Scientific Study of 
 Education, was treasurer of the Iowa An- 
 thropological Society and is a member of 
 the Western Philosophical Society. Pro- 
 fessor Bolton married at Fairchild, Wis., 
 Aug. 23, 1893, Olive A. Foster. Address: 
 Iowa City. Iowa. 
 
 BOLTON, Herbert Eugene: 
 
 Teacher and writer of history; born near 
 Tomah, Wis., July 20, 1870; son of Edwin 
 Latham and Kosaline (Cady) Bolton. He 
 was graduated from the University of Wis- 
 consin, 13. L., 1895, University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, Ph.D. 1899, and was Harrison fel- 
 low in history in that University, 1897- 
 1899. He was professor of history and 
 economics in the Wisconsin State Normal 
 School at .Milwaukee. 1899-1901, and was 
 consecutively instructor. 1901-1905, adjunct 
 profes.sor, 1905-1908, and associate profes- 
 sor, 1908-1909, in tiie University of Texas, 
 becoming in 1909, jjrofessor of American 
 history in the Lehuul Stanford University. 
 Professor Bolton is the leading authority 
 on the historical archives of Mexico, a 
 speciaii-t in the Southwestern history, par- 
 ticularly lur the Si)anisli jieriod, and au- 
 lliiir (ii iimiici nil- p;i|)cr- nii I Ills subject iu 
 
 the American Historical Review and other 
 journals. He was investigator in Mexican 
 archives in the summers from 1902-1906; 
 sj)ent fifteen months in these archives, 1907- 
 1908, preparing a '' Guide " to them in the 
 interest of Die Carnegie Institution of Wash- 
 ington : has l)een since 1907 special inves- 
 tigator in history of the native tribes and 
 missions of Texas for the Bureau of Amer- 
 ican Ethnology, and contributed Texas arti- 
 cles to that Bureau's Handbook of the In- 
 dians; associate editor, of the "Quarterly" 
 of the Texas State Historical Association; 
 and editor (with E. C. Barker) of With 
 the Makers of Texas, 1904 (American Book 
 Co.). He is a fellow of the Texas Histori- 
 cal Association, and a member of American 
 Historical Association, Archaeological In- 
 stitute of America, and Theta Delta Chi 
 (Wisconsin), Phi Betta Kappa (honorary). 
 Address : Stanford University, Calif. 
 
 BOLTON, Sarah Knowles: 
 
 Author ; born in Farmington, Conn., Sept. 
 15, 1841 ; daughter of John Segar and 
 Elizabeth Mary (Miller) Knowles. Her 
 father descended from Henry Knowles, one 
 of the founders of Warwick, R. I., who 
 came from England, 1635; her paternal 
 grandmother, Mary Carpenter, from Eliza- 
 beth Jencks, sister of Joseph Jencks, gover- 
 nor of Rhode Island; and her mother de- 
 scended from Thomas Stanley (from Eng- 
 land 1634), one of the earliest and most 
 piomiucnt settlers of Hartford, Conn., and 
 tKiiii ( nl. William Pynchon, one of the 26 
 incorporators of ^lassachusetts Bay Colony, 
 founder of Roxbury, 1630, and Springfield, 
 Mass., Hi3(i, also from Thomas Miller who 
 came Iroui l''nghin(l to llowley, IMass., and 
 helped to found Middlctown, Conn, in 1650. 
 Her education was received in the Hartford 
 (Conn.) Seminary, established by Catherine 
 Beecher, sister of Henry Ward Beecher. 
 Oct. 16, 1866, she married Charles E. Bol- 
 ton, wiio had been graduated from Am- 
 herst llic previous year. ;uul lliey removed 
 to Clc\ilanil. ulnTc her li\i>liaiid |)ursui'd a 
 successful cured in l>u-inc--. plii hint liropy, 
 lecturing .-iihI nut lim -lii|i until liis death 
 Oct. 23, l!H)l. I'roni tlie age of 15, when 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 her first popiii was published in tlic Waverly 
 Mafia/.ino to the present tinic, Mrs. Bolton 
 lias been occupied with literature, taking a 
 place anionji- tlie nation's foremost woman 
 writers, and being particularly well known 
 as a biographer and a writer upon humani- 
 tarian tiiemes, her list of books including 
 about twenty-five titles, of which some of 
 the more recent are": Girls Who Became 
 Famous; European Artists; Emerson; 
 Raphad; Famous American Authors; So- 
 cial Studies in England; Famous Givers 
 and their Gifts; Our Devoted Friend, the 
 Dog; and a memorial sketch of her hus- 
 band, Charles Edward Bolton. Of her 
 works many are biographical volumes 
 about famous people in this country and 
 abroad two are of short stories and two 
 contain lier poetical works, five poems from 
 which have been set to music. She was the 
 first secretary of the Cleveland Woman's 
 Christian Association, and has been active 
 in Christian and temperance work, assistant 
 corresponding secretary of the Women's Na- 
 tional Christian Temperance Union, a vice- 
 president of the American Humane Educa- 
 tion Society, and life member of various 
 homes for dumb animals; and she was for 
 three years one of the editors of the Bos- 
 ton Congregationalists. She spent two 
 years abroad, chieflj' studying what employ- 
 ers are doing for their employees, to ele- 
 vate them mentally and morally, and read 
 a ])aper on this subject before the American 
 Social Science Association at Saratoga, 
 lSS;i. Mrs. Bolton's only child is Charles 
 Kiiowles Bolton, librarian of the Boston 
 AtheniEum and author of several books. 
 Address: Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 BONACUM, Thomas: 
 
 Roman Catholic Bisliop of Lincoln; born 
 in County Tipperary, Ireland, Jan. 29, 
 1847. He came to the United States in his 
 infancy. He was educated at the College 
 at Cape Girardeau, Mo., and also studied 
 at the University of Wiirzburg, Bavaria. 
 He was ordained as priest in 1870, and 
 served as a missionary. In 1881 he was ap- 
 pointed pastor of the Church of the Holy 
 Name in St. Louis, and in 1887 was conse- 
 
 crated the first bishop of Lincoln, Neb. 
 Bishop Bonacum was. theologian of tiie 
 Third Plenary Council of the United States 
 at Baltimore in 1884. Address: Ijnrnln. 
 Neb. 
 
 BONAPARTE, Charles Joseph: 
 
 Former attorney-general of the Ignited 
 States; born at Baltimore, ]\I(1., June 9, 
 1851; descendant of the most historically 
 interesting of our international marriages, 
 that of Jerome Bonaparte, brother of the 
 first Napoleon, to Miss Patterson, of Balti- 
 more, and possessed in considerable degree 
 the physical characteristics and tempera- 
 ment appropriate to that line of ancestry, 
 his career has yet been one that, in the 
 third generation, has revealed a devotion 
 to the best ideals of American citizenship 
 and a sterling quality of American states- 
 manship. Graduating from Harvard in the 
 class of 1871, and from Harvard Law 
 School in 1874, he engaged in the practice 
 of law in Baltimore, and built up for him- 
 self a high standing in the legal profession 
 of Baltimore and the country at large, as 
 the result of a close study of legal and for- 
 ensic principles and a thoroughly judicial 
 and analytical mind. He became the legal 
 representative and in many cases the trus- 
 tee of large property interests in Maryland, 
 and counsel for important organizations 
 and enterprises. While, in National affairs, 
 the political affiliations of Mr. Bonaparte 
 have always been with the Republican 
 party, his political endeavors have been 
 chiefly along lines removed from narrow 
 partisanship. He early became a strong be- 
 liever in and advocate of civil service re- 
 form in Nation, State and municipality. 
 In his native state and city, ]Mr. Bonaparte 
 was the recognized leader of the forces of 
 reform in administration, and in the Civil 
 Service Reform movement he exerted a Na- 
 tional influence whicli was recognized by 
 his election as chairman of the Council of 
 tlie National Civil Service Reform League, 
 which office he held until he entered the 
 President's Cabinet in 1!H).'). He was one of 
 the organizers and is ii(n\ i>rcsident of the 
 National .M iiiiici|)al l,cague. and is a mem- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 lior of the Kxcculivc roniiiiitiop of the Na- 
 tional C'ivie iMuloraf ion. In 1904 he was 
 eleoted a presidential elerlor from ^Maryland 
 on the Repnbliean ticket, the Democrats elect- 
 ing:: the other seven electors to which the 
 State of ?ilaryland was entitled. in 1902 
 he was ap])oin(ed hy President Pvoosevelt 
 a member of the Board of Indian Commis- 
 sioners and made a close study of the re- 
 lations of the Government with the In- 
 dians; and at the close of his service in 
 1904. made a valuable and exhaustive in- 
 quiry into tlie details of registration for 
 the purpose of protectinpr the Indians in 
 tiie proprietorship of tiie lands allotted to 
 them severally. He was one of the dis- 
 interested persons to whom were referred 
 the conflicting charges and statements in 
 reference to the administration of certain 
 details in tlie Tost Office Department in 
 1904, and as the result of his investiga- 
 tion and report, the salutary steps taken 
 toward the purification of the postal serv- 
 ice were inaugurated and successfully car- 
 ried out. At tlie earnest solicitation of 
 Piesideni Itonsevclt, ^Ir. Ponaparte en- 
 tered the Cabinet, July 1, 1905, as Secre- 
 tary of the Navy, filling its duties with 
 marked ability and public approbation, and 
 ill the rcorgaiii/alion of the Cabinet in tlie 
 lieginiiing of 1907, l)ecame Attorney-General 
 of the United States, serving until March 4, 
 19U9. .Mr. Ponaparte was an overseer of 
 Harvard fioiii 1S91-1903. He is one of tlie 
 foremost Catholic laymen of the country: 
 is a trustee of the Catholic University of 
 America, and connected with the nuinage- 
 ment of other Catliolic institutions. In 1903 
 he was awarded the LiPtare Medal of the 
 University of Notre Dame, one of which is 
 annually awarded to the most useful Cath- 
 olic layman. Mr. Ponaparte married, Sept. 
 1. IST-l. l-:ilen Channing Day, of Newport, 
 P. ].. and boides his residence in Balti- 
 more lias a country home at Bella \'ista. 
 Md. Ad<ircss: Paltimore, Md. 
 
 BOND, Stephen Norman: 
 
 Panlscr and aij i ii'wll iiia I i~l : Imiii in j'ly 
 m<»ulli. \. II.. .\|>ril '.I. iSlll. lie was cdu 
 cated in the schools of Melrose and Boston. 
 
 and liy jirivale tutors. Tie is senior part- 
 ner of tlu! firm of Bond and Goodwin, 
 bankers, of Boston and New York, and is also 
 largely interested in agriculture and stock- 
 raising, lie is presi.dent of the Hereford 
 Railway Comjiany, a part of the IMaine Cen- 
 tral Railroad System, and vice-president 
 of the Colonial Securities Company of Bos- 
 ton, and the Rockingham Power Company of 
 North Carolina. He has been prominent in 
 the National Guard of the State of INIas- 
 sachusetts, in which he has been inspector 
 of small arms practice and adjutant of the 
 8th Massachusetts Infantry. He served in 
 the Spanish-American War, liold'ing commis- 
 sion as an officer of the 8th INIassachusetts 
 Infant ly. United States Volunteers. He is a 
 fellow of tli(> American Geographical So- 
 ciety and tlie Massachusetts ]\Iilitary His- 
 torical Society, and is also a comrade of 
 the Naval and Military Order of the Span- 
 ish-American War, and various Social 
 Clubs. Residence: Brimmer Chambers, 
 Brimmer Street, Boston, Mass. Office: 111 
 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 BONE, Scott Cardelle: 
 
 Journalist: born in Shelby County, Ind., 
 Feb. 15, 18U0. On leaving school he entered 
 the newspaper business, being connected for 
 seven years witli Indianapolis papers, sub- 
 sequently removing to Washington, where 
 he was for seventeen years managing editor 
 of the Washington Post. On change of 
 owii(rslii|) in that pa]ior he founded and is 
 now iiiiiuii)al owner of the Washington 
 Daily and Siunlay Herald. :\Ir. Bone is 
 a iniiiiiiiiciit iigiire in the alTairs of the 
 National Capital, and one of the best known 
 of American Journalists. Residence: 1537 
 P Street, N. W. Wa>liiiigton. D. C. 
 
 BONSAL, Stephen: 
 
 .loiiriialist : liorii in Palliiiiore. Md., 
 Maicli ■J'.l, 1S()5. lie w;is rdiicatcd in lleid(d- 
 lieig. I'oiiii and ^■icnna. On tlii' breaking 
 Old of tlic P.ulgariaii-Ser\ iaii War in 1885 
 be was ;i|)|i(iiiitc<l special cDn-cspoiuleiit of 
 I lie New ^ ink Herald, and has sinci; seen 
 -,rr\ icf ill liic Macedonian uprising, the 
 ( 'hinn .Japanese war. the Cuban insurrcc- 
 
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 (inii (iT IS'.i;, llic S|i;iiiisli AiiH'iiciii Wiir. 
 iiud llic Cliiiia iclii'f cxiH'ilitioii. lie ;ilso 
 saw scr\ ie'c in ('(jinioetioii with llic (i|iiTa- 
 tioiis tit' llic lMiili|)|)iiu> Jslaiiils, ami was in 
 \'cnc/ucl I during llu' revDlutioii and block- 
 ade of 1903. Mr. Bonsai served as cliargn 
 d'affaires at Peking, Madrid, Tokio and in 
 Korea from 18!)1-190G. lie is the author 
 of: .Morocco as It Is; The Real Situation 
 of Cuba ; The Fight for Santiago; and The 
 Golden Horse Shoe. He married in March, 
 1!)00. Henrietta Fairfax Morris. Residence: 
 Wliitetields, Bedford, Westcliester County, 
 New York. Oilice : 7 W. 43d St., New 
 York City. 
 
 BONTECOU, Reed Brinsmade: 
 
 Pliysician ; born in Washington, D. C, 
 Dec. 1, 1SG4; son of Reed Brockway and 
 Susan (Northrup) Bontecou. He was edu- 
 cated in Williams College and Harvard Uni- 
 versity and at the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons (Columbia University), 
 whence he was graduated M.D., 1889. Dr. 
 Bontecou was jiension examiner for ten 
 years; physician and operating surgeon to 
 the Marshall Sanitorium, Troy, N. Y., for 
 ten years; deputy health officer of Troy, 
 1803-1894; attending surgeon to the Water- 
 vliet Arsenal, three years, and attending 
 physician to the Episcopal Church Home 
 for eighteen years. He was for five years 
 a member of the National Guard of New 
 York, serving during the strikes at Buffalo 
 and Albany. He is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Medical Association, the Medical So- 
 ciety of the State of New York, the Rens- 
 sclu'r County Medical Society, and the Lau- 
 retta Boat and Island Golf Clubs of Troy. 
 11(! married at Greenport, L. I., in 1890, 
 I.ula May Vail, and they have four daugh- 
 ters and one son. Address: 82 Fourth 
 Street, Troy, N. Y. 
 
 BONYNGE, Robert W.: 
 
 i>awyer and congressman; born in New 
 York City, Sept. 8, 1863; son of Robert 
 Bonynge and Susan Bonynge. He was 
 graduated as A.B. from the College of the 
 City of New York in 1882, and later re- 
 ceived A.M. degree from that college, and 
 
 he \\a^ l;i aiiiialcd as LL.I!. friiiii (iiiiiiiibia 
 College Law School in 1880. lie was ad- 
 mitted lo the New York bar in 188.1; lie 
 removed In Denser, in 18SS, and lias l)een 
 engaged in the |iracliec of law in Denver. 
 Colo, excr since. He is a member of the 
 lirm of Bonynge & Warner. He is a Repub- 
 lican in ])olitics; was a member of the Colo- 
 rado State Legislature in 1893-1894; was 
 elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress from 
 the First District of Colorado in 1902, and 
 was elected in 19U4-190(J to the Fifty-ninth 
 and Si.xtieth Congresses, in which latter 
 he is now serving. He is a inend)er of the 
 National Monetary Commission. He is a 
 Mason, Knight Templar and member of 
 Royal El Jebel Shrine, an Elk, and a mem- 
 ber of the Woodmen of the World. He 
 married in New York City, Jan. 20, 1886, 
 Mary Alida Riblet. Residence: Hotel Met- 
 ropole. Ottice: Equitable Building, Den- 
 ver, Colo. 
 
 BOOK, George Milton: 
 
 Rear-Admiral U. S. Navy, retired; born 
 in New Castle, Pa., May 25, 1845. He was 
 graduated from the U. S. Naval Aca'demy, 
 1865, was commissioned ensign Dec. 1, 1866, 
 master March 12, 1868, lieutenant, March 
 26, 1869, commander. May 28, 1881, com- 
 mander, Dec. 16, 1891; Captain, March 29, 
 1899, apd retired with the rank of rear- 
 admiral, March 8, 1900. He was in active 
 service during the Civil War in tlie summer 
 of 1864, on board of the Marblehead, in 
 pursuit of the Confederate steamers Flori- 
 da and TaHahassee, and fioni that lime 
 until retirement served witli an c\eellent 
 record in many duties and CDniniands. Ad- 
 dress: New Castle, Pa. 
 
 BOOKWALTER, Lewis: 
 
 President of Otterbein I^niversity ; born 
 in Hallsville, Ohio, Sept. 18, 1846. He was 
 graduated from the Western College of 
 Iowa, and the Union Biblical Seminary at 
 Dayton. Ohio. He has received the degrees 
 of A.M., 1875, D.D., 1890 and LL.D., 1906. 
 In 1872 he was licensed as a jneacher of 
 the United Brethren Churcli. and after sev- 
 eral years passed in professorships he be- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 eunie a inissionarv in Tennessee. In 188.*? 
 he was appointed jjiesident of Westfield Col- 
 lege. 111., and froin 18!)4-1904 was president 
 of Western College at Toledo, Iowa, having 
 also occupied pastorates during the inter- 
 vening years. .Since 1904 he has held his 
 present position as president of Otterbein 
 Universitj'. He was a member of the Gen- 
 eral Conference in 1885; also secretary of 
 the commission created by that conference 
 to amend the church constitution; was 
 again a iiicmhcr of the General Conference 
 in 1901 : and corresponding secretary of 
 the Board of Education of the United Breth- 
 ren Church from 1885-1894. He is the 
 author of several religious books and arti- 
 cles. He married in 1871, Miss E. M. 
 Guitncr. Atidress: Westerviile, Ohio. 
 
 BOOTH. Ballington: 
 
 Generai-in-clncf of the Volunteers of 
 America ; born in Brighouse, England, 
 July 28, 1859; son of Rev. William Bootli 
 of the Salvation Army. He early became 
 connected willi the work of his father in 
 connection witli the Salvation Army, and 
 was commander of the branch in Australia 
 in 1887, when he came to the United States 
 in command of the organization in Ameri- 
 ca. He served in the Salvation Army until 
 1896, when he deemed it liis duty to sepa- 
 rate from tlie Salvation Army organization, 
 and formed a new religious philanthropic 
 organization, the Volunteers of America, 
 which was incorporated Nov. 6, 1896. He 
 has since been the head of this organization 
 and is internationally known as a writer, 
 public speaker and philanthropist. He was 
 married April 10, 1887, Maud Charles- 
 worth. Address: ;}8 Cooper Square, New 
 York City. 
 
 BOOTH, Charles Edwin: 
 
 .Maiiuf;iclurcr ; horn at Springfield, Mass., 
 July 24, 184!); son of Alfred and Fanny 
 Woodbury (Abel) Booth. He was edu- 
 cated in public sciiools of Springfield, and 
 Lowell, Ma.ss., and by private tutors. He 
 is president of the Seaboard Refrigeration 
 Company. He visited Australia and New 
 Zealand in a trip around the world in 1901. 
 
 Mr. Booth is a Republican in ])olitics and 
 an Episco]jalian in religion. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Society of Colonial Wars, His- 
 toric-Genealogical Society of Boston, Con- 
 necticut Histoiical Society, Hartford. Long 
 Island Historical Society, Brooklyn. He 
 is a member of the National Arts Clul). 
 Address: National Arts Club, New York 
 City. 
 
 BOOTH, Maud Ballington: 
 
 Born in Limpfield, Surrey, England; 
 daughter of Rev. Samuel Charlesworth. 
 She was educated in Bellstead, Suffolk, 
 and in Switzerland, and married in London, 
 England, Sept. 16, 1887. Ballington Booth 
 (second son of General Booth), and has a 
 son and a daughter. She entered the Sal- 
 vation Army at 17, as an officer, serving in 
 Paris, and in Geneva and other parts of 
 Switzerland, in which country, with com- 
 panions, she was subject to bitter police per- 
 secution, and was expelled from Geneva, 
 although the work was later successfully 
 established there; was later in Salvation 
 Army work in Great Britain, and afterward 
 in Sweden, where she had a special series 
 of meetings for the students of Upsala Uni- 
 versity, attended by 1800 of the 2000 stu- 
 dents, with most successful results, ^^'ith 
 her husband, she commanded' Salvation 
 Army, 1887-18!)6. raising it from persecuted, 
 unknown movement to one of success and 
 recognition. The contention arising that 
 they were Americanizing that institution, 
 she started, with her husband. The Volun- 
 teers of America in 1896, and has ever since 
 been connected with it. She started a spe- 
 cial work for the prisoners of the United 
 States, which is now established in many 
 prisons, from New Y'ork to San Francisco. 
 Mrs. Booth is author of Sleepy Time Sto- 
 ries; Lights of Childland; Did the Pardon 
 Come Too Late?; The Curse of Septic Soul 
 Treatment; After Prison — What?; and 
 other books. Address: 34 West 2Sth 
 Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 BOOTHBY, Frederic Eleazer: 
 
 Railroad official; born at Norway, Me., 
 Dec. ;}, 1845; son of Levi Thompson and 
 Sophia I'lK-kanl ( I5rt'tt ) Boot.lihy. Me was 
 
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 191 
 
 pdiicated at tli(> Wutcivillc (Maine) Classi- 
 cal institute. Ilo bej^an railroad service 
 in 1S(;4 as a lioy with the Maine Central 
 Railroatl, with which he has ever since 
 continued ; and is now general passenger 
 and ticket agent of the Maine Central Rail- 
 road, the Portland. Mount Desert and 
 Machias Steamboat Company, the Washing- 
 ton County Railwaj' and the Somerset Rail- 
 way. He is a director of the Portland and 
 (Jgdenburg Railroad, the Union Safe De- 
 posit and Trust Company of Portland, Me., 
 and the New England Railway Publishing 
 Company. He served as a member of the 
 military staff of Governor's Joseph R. Rod- 
 well, Sebastian S. Marble, and Edwin C. 
 Hurleigh, of Maine, retiring as commissary 
 general with the rank of colonel. He was 
 ])resident of the Portland Board of Trade 
 from 1897-1901, and mayor of the City of 
 Portland, Me., from 1901-1903 inclusive. 
 He is a Republican in politics, and was 
 chairman of the Maine delegation to the 
 National Republican Convention of 1904. 
 He is an Episcopalian and junior warden of 
 St. Stephen's Church, at Portland, Me. He 
 is a member of the Maine Historical Soci- 
 ety, and a trustee of the Cobnrn Classical 
 Institute, of Waterville, Me. ; trustee and 
 treasurer of the IMaine Eye and Ear Infirm- 
 ary; treasurer of the Portland Prison Com- 
 mittee, and treasurer of the State of Maine 
 Branch of the National American Red Cross ; 
 chairman of the executive committee of the 
 railroad branch of the Young Men's Chris- 
 tian Association of Portland, Me., and di- 
 rector of the Maine Society for Protection 
 of Cruelty to Animals. He is president of 
 the Maine Society of Sons of the American 
 Revolution, and deputy governor of the 
 Maine Society of Mayflower Descendants. 
 Colonel Boothby married at Waterville, Me., 
 Oct. 25, 1871.. Adelaide Endora Smith. Res- 
 idence: Falmouth Hotel. Office: 238 St. 
 John Street, Portland, Me. 
 
 BORAH, William Edgar: 
 
 United States Senator; born in Fairfield, 
 l[ 111., June 29, 1865; son of William N. 
 |j and Eliza Borah. He was educated at the 
 ! University of Kansas, was admitted to the 
 
 i)ar in 1889. and estal)lished liimself in 
 practice at Boise, Idaiio. He Itecame ])rom- 
 inent in the Itepublican politics of that 
 State, and especially in connection with the 
 efforts made for the maintenance of pub- 
 lic order as against the outbreaks incident 
 to the labor troubles in Idaho. In 1903 
 he was one of the leading candidates for 
 election to the United States Senate, and 
 in 1907 was elected for the term 1907-1913. 
 He took a prominent part in the pre-conven- 
 tion campaign which resulted in the elec- 
 tion of President Taft, and in the national 
 campaign of 1908. He married in Boise, 
 Idaho, April 21, 1895, Mamie McConnell. 
 Address : Boise, Idaho. 
 
 BORDEN, William Alanson: 
 
 Librarian; born in New Bedford, Mass., 
 April 24, 1853; son of Alanson and Mary 
 C. (Topham) Boiden. He was graduated 
 from Cornell University, 1874, became a 
 farmer in 1876, agricultural editor of the 
 New England Homestead, 1879; assistant 
 at the Boston Athenseum, 1883 ; organized 
 the Reynolds Library at Rochester, N. Y., 
 in 1885, was appointed lecturer in the New 
 York Library School, 1886, and in 1887 re- 
 organized the Young Men's Institute at 
 New Haven, Conn., of which he has been 
 in charge ever since. Mr. Borden is in- 
 ventor of the removal card catalogue drawer 
 and of other minor library appliances and 
 methods. He is a member of the American 
 Library Association, and of the Connecti- 
 cut. New York and Massachusetts Library 
 Associations, and the Edgewood Civic As- 
 sociation. Residence: 341 Alden Avenue. 
 Office: 847 Chapel Street. New Haven. 
 Conn. 
 
 BORGLUM, Gutzon 
 
 Sculptor and 
 March 25, 1867; 
 Mothe and Ida ( 
 was educated at 
 sas, and studied 
 Paris, where he 
 Academic Julian 
 and he received 
 Princeton, 1909. 
 
 painter ; born in Idaho, 
 son of Dr. James de la 
 Michelson ) Borglum. He 
 St. Mary's College, Kan- 
 art in San Francisco and 
 was a member of the 
 and ficole des Beaux Arts, 
 the A.M. degree from 
 He exhibited paintings in 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Ilic I'iui^^ Siilon. ill S|i:iiii ami in l.omloii. 
 ami ill ]!M»:2 lie s.'ttUd |itMiiianently in Now 
 \t)rk. wlicic lit' was <;ivfn the commission 
 fur til.' -culi.tiiri' of lln' Catlicilral of St. 
 ■ lolm the Divine, llr was rDiuiuissiont'd to 
 make an cqiu'stiiau stutiK' of (Jen. Philip 
 H. Sheridan iu Washin<rton, ]). C. and a he- 
 roic statue of John Mackay for the State 
 of Nevada. His Mares of Dioniedes are in 
 the Metropolitan Museum and his colossal 
 niarhle head of Lincoln in the Capitol at 
 W'asliinfilon. He has exhibited at all the 
 leading sculpture exhibitions, and receivdl 
 the gold medal for sculpture at the Louis- 
 iana Purchase Exi)osition. Mr. Borgluin 
 is also a painter, his work, includinfr por- 
 traits and iiuirial paintinff. besides figures 
 and animals, lie is a member of the Royal 
 Society of P.ritish Aftists. the Societe Na- 
 tionale des Beaux Arts, Paris; the Players 
 and City Clubs, New York, and the Met- 
 ropolitan Club of Washington. Address: 
 KHi v.. :i8th "St., New York City. 
 
 BOROWSKI, Felix: 
 
 Com])oser; born in Burton, England, 
 March IU, 1872. He graduated at the Con- 
 servatoire, Cologne, Germany, in violin, 
 pi;uio and composition. He lived in London 
 until 1897, when he came to the United 
 States as an instructor, and is at present 
 director of the department of composition 
 and lecture on musical history at the Chi- 
 cigo Musical College. Mr. liorowski has 
 been the musical critic of the Chicigo 
 Evening Post since l!)0(i, and is a com- 
 poser of internationil re])ntation, among 
 his works being: '• Marche triomphile" 
 and "Eugene Onegin " (Symphonic poem), 
 for orchestra; •' Sonate-russe." " Pndudes," 
 and " Coiiccrlo. with orchestra." for the 
 ])iiiio: Picmiere Ma/iir. Schoumka L'krain- 
 ieiiiie, Alia " and Deiixieme .Ma/.ur, Adora- 
 lioii," for the \i(diii; Suite and two Sonatas 
 for the organ; and songs fm the voice. He 
 married in Aberdeen, Scotland. Oct. '.1, 18!)7, 
 Edith Frances (irant. Address: 202 Mich- 
 igLiii P>oule\ar(I, Chicago. 
 
 BOSS, Lewis: 
 
 Astronomer; born in I'lovidence, P. L, 
 Oct. 2G, 184G. He was educated at Dart- 
 
 mouth College, of which he is A.M.. lS7:i. 
 and has received the degree of 1.1.. I)., fioiii 
 Inion University in 1902. lie was as 
 tronomer of (he Northern Boundary Com- 
 mission from 1872-1870, and cliief of the 
 Transit of X'eiius Exposition l''xpedltion. 
 Santiago, Chile, in 1882. He was largely 
 instrumental in the reconstrution and en- 
 largement of the endowment of Dudley Ob- 
 servatory, of which he has been director 
 since 1870. He has also been superintend- 
 ent of the New York State Bureau of 
 Weights and Measures since 1884, and di- 
 rector of the department of meridian as- 
 tronomy of Carnegie Institution since 190G. 
 He is a foreign associate of the Royal As- 
 tronomical Society; member of the National 
 Academy of Scienc?s; Astrononiische Ge- 
 sellschaft, Leipzig; corresponding member 
 of the British Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science ; and received a gold medal 
 from the ]\oyal Astronomical Society in 
 London in 1905. He is the author of: De- 
 clinations of Fixed Stars; Catalogue of 
 8,241 Stars; prize essay on the Physic il 
 Nature of Comets; Division Correction of 
 the Olcott Meridian Circle; Southern Stars; 
 Solar Motion and Related R?searches and 
 Positions and Motions of 027 Standard 
 Stars. He married in Washington. Dec. 
 'M. 1871, Helen M. Hutchinson. Address: 
 Dudley Observatory. Albany, N. Y. 
 
 BOSTWICK, Arthur Elmore: 
 
 Librarian; born at Litchfield. Conn.. 
 March 8, 1800; son of Dr. David Elmore 
 and Adelaide (McKinley) P>ost\vick. He 
 is the eighth in direct descent from Arthur 
 Bostoek. or Piostwiek (of the Bostocks of 
 Postok Hall, near Noithwik. Cheshire, 
 England), who came to .-Vmeric-.i in 1040. 
 lie was educated at Litchfield Institute and 
 at Yale L'niversity, being graduated as P>..\. 
 in the class of 1881, was the thst incum- 
 bent of the Silliman fellowshi]) in pliysieil 
 science, froiu 1882-1884. receiving the de- 
 gree of Ph.D. in 188:5; and he was substi- 
 tute instructor and prodor at Xale. from 
 1883-1884. After leaving Vale, he was in- 
 structor ill the high school at .Monlclair, 
 .\. .!., until 1880, then was engaged in liter- 
 ary work iu New York City, until 1895. 
 
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MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Ife was chief librarian of tlio New York 
 Free Circulating Library, 18n5-18!»9; librar- 
 ian of (lie Brooklyn IMiblic Library, 1809- 
 litdl, anil since l'.)01 lias been cliief of the 
 circulation ilepartnicnt of New York Pub- 
 lic Library, includinf? charge of all branch 
 libraries, now numbering forty-one. He 
 was on the staff of Appleton's Cyclopicdia 
 of American Biography, from 1886-1888; 
 assistant editor of the Forum 1800-1892; 
 associate editor and ofTice expert in physics 
 of the Standard Dictionary, 1802-1805. He 
 was joint author (with John D. Champlin) 
 of the Y'oung Folks' Cyclopaedia of Games 
 and Sports; science editor Literary Digest 
 since 1804; also a contributor to periodicals 
 on scientific and literary topics. He was 
 president of the American Library Associa- 
 tion from 1007-1008. He has been a mem- 
 ber of the advisory committee of the Pub- 
 lic Education Association and of the Library 
 ( ouncil of the New l^ork State University, 
 from 1004, fellow of the American Library 
 Institute since 1006; delegate to the Copy- 
 right Conference in 1005-1006, and is also 
 a director of the People's University Ex- 
 tension Society. He is a member of the 
 Authors and Delta Kappa Epsilon Clubs. 
 Dr. Bostwick married, June 23, 1885, Lucy 
 Sawyer. Residence: Clewellyn Park, West 
 Orange, N. J. Address : 200 West Twenty- 
 tliird Street, New York City. 
 
 BOSWORTH, Edward Increase: 
 
 Theologian; born at Dundee, 111., Jan. 
 10, 1861; son of Frank S. and Sarah 
 (Himt) Bosworth. He received his pre- 
 paratory education at Elgin (111.) Acad- 
 emy, and, entering Oberlin College in 1879, 
 studied there for two years. Tlienee he 
 continued his academic studies at Yale 
 University, graduating in 1883 with the 
 degree of A.B. This was followed by three 
 years of study at the Oberlin Theological 
 Seminary, where he received the degree of 
 D.B. in 1886. He also took graduate work 
 at the University of Leipzig during the 
 year, 1890-1801, and at Athens, 1801-1802. 
 The degree of A.M. was conferred upon him 
 by Oberlin in 1803, and D.D. in 1901. He 
 entered the ministry of the Congregational 
 
 Church in 1886, becoming in tliat year pas- 
 tor of the church at Mount Vernon, Ohio. 
 A year later he became professor of Eng- 
 lish Bible at Oberlin Theological Seminary 
 and held that position until 1800. In 1891 
 he was given the chair of New Testament 
 language and literature, which lie lias since 
 filled, and since 1903 he has been dean of 
 the seminary. Dr. Bosworth has traveled 
 througli Europe several times, as well as 
 in Egypt, Palestine, Japan, China and 
 Korea. He is a member of the Phi Beta 
 Kajjpa Society. In politics he is affiliated 
 with the Republican party. Besides var- 
 ious magazine articles, he is author of: 
 Studies in the Acts and Epistles; Studies 
 in the Teaching of Jesus and His Apostles; 
 Eight Studies in the Life of Jesus Christ; 
 and New Studies in Acts. Mr. Bosworth 
 married at Elgin, 111., Oct. 1, 1801, Bertha 
 McCIure, and they have four children: 
 Lawrence McClure, born in 1893; Edward 
 Franklin, born in 1894; Richard Wilder, 
 born in 1001; and Sarah Frances, born in 
 1007. Address: Oberlin, Ohio. 
 
 BOSWORTH, Edwin Mahlon: 
 
 ]\lining and mechanical engineer; born 
 in Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 8, 1880; son of 
 Giles B. and Melzena A. (Reed) Bosworth. 
 After receiving a grammar and high school 
 education, he entered Shady Side Academy, 
 where he was graduated in 1899. His min- 
 ing and mechanical engineering education 
 was obtained at Cornell University. For a 
 time lie was mining engineer with the H. 
 C. Frick Coke Company, and in 1903 was 
 assistant engineer of construction with 
 Jones and Laughlin Steel Company of 
 Pittsburgh. From 1003-1905 he was en- 
 gaged in special work in the West, and in 
 the latter year being elected vice-president 
 and treasurer of The Amsler Engineering 
 Company of Pittsburgh. In 1908 he be- 
 came aliiliated with The Bosworth Invest- 
 ment Company of Denver, Colo., as treas- 
 urer, and The Union Realty and Investment 
 Company of the same city, as secretary and 
 treasurer. While in Pittsburgh he was sec- 
 retary and director of The Manufacturers' 
 Fuel and Light Company, and of The South- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ciH Ileal Kslali" Sfciiiily ('(>iii|i:uiy. all of 
 Pittsliurjih. lie was a niciiilici of the Pitts- 
 lnii'ili T.oanl of Trade ami (if The I^nion 
 
 Clul). Ill OellMT lie- i- a llleinlier of Thfi 
 
 Dcinrr Atliletie Cliili ami llie Denver Real 
 K-^tate l-".\eliaii^('. lie i> a iin iiiber of the 
 .Metliodisl Cluueli. aiul in polities js affiili- 
 ated with the Republican party: he belongs 
 to the Chi Psi and Delia Phi Delta Colleee 
 fraternities. Mr. r.u>\\(ntli married at 
 Pittsburgh. I'a.. April 17, I'JOli, Helen M. 
 Richey. Pvesidence: 1540 Grant Street. 
 Address: dO'.) Continental Building, Den- 
 ver, Colo. 
 
 BOTKIN. Theodosius: 
 
 Consular ollicial; born near Catawba, 
 Clark County, Ohio, June 25, 1846, and was 
 educated in the common schools. He en- 
 listed in the 44th Ohio Volunteers, Sept. 1, 
 1861 and served until Aug. 5, 1865. He 
 settled in Kansas, fed and herded cattle, 
 broke prairie sod, fanned, drove freight 
 team, clerked in a store and taught school, 
 and read history and law by night. He was 
 admitted to the bar, 1874; was police mag- 
 istrate of Pleasanton, Kan., 1875-1876; 
 ])robate judge, 1877-1878, practised law 
 1879-1890, was district judge, 1889-189-2 
 member of the Kansas Legislature and de- 
 partment commander. Grand Army of the 
 Republic, 1897. He was commissioned cap- 
 tain assistant adjutant general of volun- 
 teers by President McKinley, 1898; was se- 
 lected by the Republican National Com- 
 mittee to open and lead the contest in Utah 
 for the electoral ticket in 1900 and was 
 successful; was appointed to the consu- 
 lar .service as consul at I'ort Louis, June 10, 
 1905, and March 30, 1907. was appointed 
 to his present post as consul at Campbell- 
 ton, N. H. Address: U. S. Consulate, 
 CampbelHon. New Brunswick. 
 
 BOURN. Augustus Osborn: 
 
 ManiMaeliiK 1-. ex-govt-rnor; born in Prov- 
 idence. R. 1.. Oct. 1. 1834; .son of George 
 O. Bourn. lie entered Brown University 
 from which he received the degree of A.M. 
 in 1855. He engaged as a manufacturer of 
 rubber goods at Providence, founded in 
 
 1S(;7 and became ])resident of the National 
 Rnlilier ( Dinpany of Bristol. R. I., of wiiieh 
 town lie lieeame a resident in IS7;!. He bi- 
 eaiiie active in politieal niat1er> a> a Repuli- 
 iicaii ami was ideeted Slate senator, -ei'v 
 iiiii from 1876-1883. during wliieh tifme lie 
 was eliairman of the eommittee on Fininee 
 and a member of the .Indicia ry Committee. 
 In ISS:; he was elected governoi- of Rhode 
 Island, serving until 1S8."). He again serv- 
 e<l in the State Senate from 1SS6-1S88, and 
 while a memliei- of the rp])er House of the 
 Legislature he introiluee<l the " Bourn 
 Amendment " to the Constitution of the 
 State of Rhode Island, extending to foreign- 
 born citizens the same rights of voting as 
 are enjoyed by the native-born citizens of 
 the State. In 1889 he wa^ appointed by 
 President Harrison consul-general of the 
 United States to Italy, in which capacity 
 he served until 1893. Governor Bourn serv- 
 ed in the State Militia of Rhode Island in 
 all grades from private to lieutenant-colonel 
 of the Battalion of Cavalry. He was for- 
 merly president of the New England Rub- 
 ber Club of Boston. Governor Bourn mar- 
 ried, at Providence. R. I.. Feb. 24, 1863, 
 Elizabeth P., daughter of David C. and 
 Mary ( Went worth) Monill. Residence: 
 Bristol, R. 1. Office: I'rovideiie.'. R. 1. 
 
 BOURNE, Frederick Gilbert: 
 
 Capitalist and mannfae1\ii er. He was 
 formerly ))resident and i- now director of 
 the Singer Manufacturing Company; also 
 trustee of the New York Phonograph Com- 
 pany; director of the Liberty National 
 Hank, the Knickerbockei- Tni^t. Commer- 
 cial Trust Company, Manhattan Company, 
 of New Jeisey, Albany Tiust Company. 
 New York and Long Branch Railroad Com- 
 pany, Aeolian, Weber Piano and Pianola 
 Company, Babcock and Wihox Company, 
 Babcock and Wilcox, Limited, (London) 
 City and Suburban Honu's Clompany, At- 
 las' Cement Company. Diehl Manufactur- 
 ing Company, etc. He is a member of 
 the New York Chamber of Commerce, 
 the Metropolitan Museum of .\rt. ami the 
 New England Society of New York, and of 
 the Metropolitan, Racquet and Tennis, Law- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 ycrs'. New York Allilctic Automobile, 
 .Ickyl Ishviid. N"cw ^■o^l< ^■;\(•llt. Soawan- 
 liakii-Coriiitliiini N'aclil. Soiilh Siilr Sports- 
 iiiMirs Liikcwood Coif. Wc^lwdol Golf, 
 R(. hill's Island, .uid l'ciia(|iiit ( 'orintiiiau 
 Yactil Clubs, lie iiiaiiiiMl in 1875, Emma 
 Keeler, and llioy have live cliildron. Resi- 
 dence: Oakdale, Long Island. .\ddress: 
 14!> T'.roadway, Now York Ci<y. 
 
 BOURNE, Jonathan, Jr.: 
 
 United States senator: Ijorn in New Bed- 
 lord, Mass., Feb. 23, 1855, and a member 
 of the well known family of that State. He 
 was a member of the Harvard class of 1877, 
 Imt left college in his junior year to go to 
 ^(■a. He was shipwrecked off the Island of 
 l'"ormosa, but was rescued by a vessel which 
 landed him in Portland, Ore., where he set- 
 tled and studied law and was admitted to 
 the bar. He became interested in mining, 
 and acquired a large fortune in this busi- 
 ness. He is president of several Oregon 
 corporations and of the Bourne Cotton 
 IMills, at Fall River, Mass. He was a Re- 
 publican member of the Oregon Legislature 
 during the sessions of 1885, 1886 and 1897; 
 was a delegate to the Republican National 
 Conventions in 1888 and 1892, and was 
 Oregon's member of the Republican Na- 
 tional Committee from 1888 to 1892. In 
 1906 he was elected United States senator 
 from Oregon, and has since been one of the 
 prominent figures of the upper house of the 
 Xational Legislature. During the pre-con- 
 vcution campaign of 1908 he was an ardent 
 advocate of a second elective term for Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt. Residence: 331 7th Street. 
 Office: Chaml)or of Commerce, Portland, 
 Ore. 
 
 BOUTELL, Henry Sherman: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born in Bos- 
 ton, Mass., March 14, 1856; son of Louis 
 Henry and Anna (Greene) Boutell. He 
 removed to Chicago in 1863; was graduated 
 from Northwestern University, Evanston. 
 111., in 1874; and from Harvard University, 
 as A.B. in 1876; and received the degree of 
 AM. from Harvard (constitutional history 
 and international law) iu 1877, and the 
 
 degree of l.k.I). from Nrortlnve>tfrii Uni- 
 versity in 1904. lie is a trustee of (hr 
 Nortlnvcslcrn University. He was admit- 
 ted Id llic l>ar of Illinois in 1879, and to 
 thai of the Supreme Court of the I'nifed 
 States ill 1885, and has since ])ractised in 
 Chicago. He is a Republican in politics; 
 was elected a member of the Illinois gen- 
 eral assembly in 1884, and was one of the 
 " 103 " who elected General Logan to the 
 United States Senate. He was elected to 
 the Fifty-fiftli Congress from the Sixth Illi- 
 nois District in 1897 to fill the unexpired 
 term of Edward Dean Cooke; was re- 
 elected from that district in 1898 and 1900, 
 and after reapportionment was reelected 
 from the Ninth Illinois District in 1902, 
 1904, 1906 and 1908, and is now serving 
 in the Sixty-first Congress. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Committee on Ways and Means. 
 Mr. Boutell is a trustee of the Northwest- 
 ern University, has been president of the 
 Phi Beta Kappa Society of Northwestern 
 University; twice president of the Illinois 
 Society of Sons of the American Revolu- 
 tion; twice president of the Harvard Club 
 of Chicago, and twice president of the Uni- 
 versity Club of Chicago. Mr. Boutell mar- 
 ried in Provideilce, R. I., Dec. 29, 1880, 
 Euphemia Lucia Gates, and they have three 
 children. Residence: Virginia Hotel. Of- 
 fice address: 205 La Salle Street, Chicago, 
 111. 
 
 BOUTON. Rosa: 
 
 Professor of homo economics ; born in 
 Albany, Kan., Dec. 19, 1860; daughter of 
 E. F. and Fannie (Waldo) Bouton. ]Miss 
 Bouton was educated in the State Normal 
 School at Peru, Neb., and the University of 
 Nebraska, from which she was graduated 
 as B.S., 1891, and A.M., 1893. She was 
 for several years adjunct professor of chem- 
 istry in the University of Nebraska, but 
 her connection with the Chemical Depart- 
 ment was severed in order that she mignt 
 devote all her time to her present position 
 as head of the Department of Home Eco- 
 nomics in the same university. Miss Bou- 
 ton has lectured before farmers' and teach- 
 ers' institutes and women's clubs, has made 
 
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 MEN OF AMERTCy\. 
 
 miiiioiou.s tdiilriliutious (o a,i;ricultiiial and 
 cdueatioiial jouiiials, cliiolly on subjects 
 related to liuiiie eeonoinies, and is author 
 of: Home -Study Series No. 1, Convenient 
 Kitclieiis; Xo. 2, Food a Factor in the 
 Jloiiie; Cereals and How to Cook Them. 
 She is a ineuiber of the Sij^nia Xi honor 
 society, of the Lake Placid Conference for 
 Home Economics, and of the Advisory 
 Board of the Young Women's Christian 
 Association of the University of Nebraska. 
 Address: Lincoln, Neb. 
 
 BOUVET. Marie Mirguerite: 
 
 Author and teacher of French; born in 
 New Orleans, La., Feb. 14, 186.5; daughter 
 of Jean Francois and Adelphine (Ber- 
 trand) Bouvet. Miss Bouvet is of distin- 
 guished ancestry on both sides, her father 
 being, a direct descendant of Francois 
 C.omte de Bouvet d'Asti in Piedmont, who 
 was knighted in 1483 by Roi Rone, duke 
 of Lorraine, for valiant deeds in wars 
 against the Duke di 'Ferarre; and whose 
 grandson, ]\Iichel de Bouvet, was minister 
 of state under Duke Charles III, and her 
 maternal grandfather, Victor Jules Ber- 
 trand, was a cavalry officer in the service 
 of Charles X. Her mother, who was edu- 
 cated in the Convent of the Sacred Heart 
 and afterward took a degree at the Sor- 
 bonne, married her father in New Orleans, 
 and after his death in 1870, the fortune 
 having suiTered greatly by the Civil War, 
 became instructor in French literature in 
 the then well-known Loquet-Leroy Female 
 Institute in New Orleans. In tliat institu- 
 tion ]\liss Bouvet was a pupil until the age 
 of 14, and thereafter, for five years, a 
 student of St. Mary's College, Kno.xville, 
 ni., graduating in 1885. In early child- 
 hood she lived for seven years with her 
 l>aternal grandparents in tlfe environs of 
 Lyons, France, and since her majority has 
 made two extended visits to European 
 countries. She is engaged as a teacher of 
 French language and literature and is also 
 occupied with authorships, having pub- 
 lished: Sweet William; Little IMarjorie's 
 Tjove Story; I'rince 'Pip-Top ; A Child of 
 Tuscany; PicrroUe; A Litlle House in 
 
 I'iiiilico: licniardd and LaiucHc; Tales of 
 an Old ( liatrau: My Lady: Clotilde; also 
 a lilllc book of daily Krcucli quotations, 
 entitled "' Fleurs des Poetes et des Prosa- 
 teurs Francais,"' edited and eomjdled liy 
 ]\larguerite and Jeanne Bouvet. Miss Bou- 
 vet is an honorary member of the Woman's 
 Club (Federated), of Reading, Pa. Ad- 
 dress: 120 S. Fifth Street, Reading, Pa. 
 
 BOVARD, Freeman Daily: 
 
 Editor of the California Christian Advo- 
 cate; born in Alpha, Ind., Jan. 9, 1851. 
 He was educated at De Pauw University, 
 A.M. 1879, D.D. 1890, and received the de- 
 gree of Ph.D. from Illinois Wesleyan Col- 
 lege in 1891. He was ordained to the 
 Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1875, was 
 professor of mathematics in the University 
 of Southern California, 1880 to 1885, mem- 
 ber of the National Geographical Society, 
 and was presiding elder of the San Fran- 
 cisco district from 1887 to 189.3. He was 
 secretary of the movement for the exemp- 
 tion of churches in California from taxa- 
 tion, and a delegate to the General Con- 
 ference in 1900, 1904 and 1908. In 1900 
 he became editor of the California Chris- 
 tian Advocate, a position he still liolds. 
 He married in -Jeflfersonville, Ind., June 
 28, 1875, Sarah North. Address : 5 and 7 
 City Hall Avenue, San Francisco. Calif. 
 
 BOWDITCH, Charles Pickering: 
 
 Trustee, archaeologist; born in Boston, 
 Sept. 30, 1842; son of Jonathan Ingersoll 
 Bowditch (A.M., LL.D., Harvard) and 
 Lucy Orne (Nichols) Bowditch. He was 
 graduated from Harvard University, re- 
 ceiving the degree of A.B. in 1863, and 
 later A.M. He served as second lieutenant, 
 first lieutenant and captain in the Fifth 
 Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, May 1, 
 1863, to Feb., 1864, and captain in tlu; 
 Fifth ^Massachusetts Cavalry from Feb. to 
 Aug., 1804. ]\Ir. Bowditch was a director 
 of tlie American Bell Telephone Company 
 and the American Telephone and Telegra]ih 
 Company for many years, and was vice- 
 president of the American Bell Telephone 
 Company from 1883 to 1880. He is a direc- 
 
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 tor iiiid liu>li'(' in uuiiiy cinporal ions of 
 New En<il;ni(l, including tlio iMassadiuscUs 
 Cotton Mills, Iho roppciell ]\Ianufactining 
 t'onipaiiy, .Saco Water rower ('onipany, the 
 Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company, the 
 Massacliusctts INlills in Georgia, Massaclm- 
 -itls Hospital Life Insurance Company, 
 lie is also greatly interested in archaeologi- 
 nl research, is a member of the faculty of 
 Ihr rcabody Museum of Arclucology and 
 Kthudlogy of Harvard University, and has 
 devoted nuicli ])ersonal attention to arch- 
 anlogical research, the results of which he 
 lias given in various pamphlets especially 
 dc\()ted to tlie archicology of the Central 
 American nations. He is a member of the 
 \nierican Anthropological Association, vice- 
 president of the Archa?ological Institute of 
 America, fellow of the American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science, mem- 
 ber of the International Society of Ameri- 
 canists, of the Societe des Americanistes de I 
 Paris, the Department of Archaeology of 
 the University of Pennsylvania, the Ameri- 
 can Geographical Society, fellow and the 
 treasurer of American Academy of Arts 
 and Sciences. He is also interested in 
 historical matters, and has written on the 
 History of the Trustees of the Charity of 
 Edward Hopkins, and the Pickering Gene- 
 alogy. He is a member of the Massachu- 
 setts Historical Society, the American An- 
 ticpiarian Society, the Bostonian Society, 
 Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and the 
 New England Historic-Genealogical Soci- 
 I'ty. He married at Lenox, Mass., Jime 7, 
 ISCe, Cornelia Livingston Eockwell, and 
 they have four children. Residence: Ja- 
 maica Plain. Mass. Office address: 28 
 State Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 BOWDITCH, Henry Pickering: 
 
 Pliysiologist; born in Boston, Mass., 
 April 4, 1840. He was educated at Har- 
 vard and at Harvard Medical School. He 
 was an officer in the United States Volun- 
 !<■! r Cavalry during the Civil War, subse- 
 (piently studied physiology in France and 
 Cermaiiy, and from 1871 to 1000 was con- 
 nected with instruction in physiology at 
 
 the Harvard Medical School, being profes- 
 sor from ISTC to IftOO. He is internation- 
 ally known as the result of his work at 
 Harvard and of a large number of ])aper.s 
 on i)hysiologieal subjects published in the 
 United States and Europe and translated 
 into many foreign languages. His standing 
 in the scientific world is evinced by his 
 honorary degrees, of which he has received 
 D.Sc, from the University of Cambridge, 
 England, 1898; LL.D., Edinburgh, 1898; 
 Toronto, 1903, and University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, 1904. He is a fellow of the Ameri- 
 can Association for the Advancement of 
 Science and was vice-president of Section K, 
 1904. He married in Leipzig, in 1871, Selma 
 Knauth. Residence: ' Jamaica Plain, Mass. 
 
 BOWEN, Herbert Wolcott: 
 
 Diplomat and author; born in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., Feb. 29, 1850; son of Henry Chan- 
 dler Bowen, founder of the Independent. 
 He received his preparatory education in 
 Paris and Berlin, and was graduated from 
 Yale in 1878. He studied law at Columbia 
 University, and was admitted to the bar. 
 Mr. Bowen was appointed United States 
 consul in 1890, and consul-general in 1894 
 at Barcelona, Spain; American minister to 
 Persia in 1899, and minister to Venezuela 
 from 1901 to 1905, during which time he 
 attracted international attention by his 
 handling of difficult questions with Castro, 
 then President of Venezuela, and during 
 which his methods gave rise to the styling 
 of the direct course of negotiations followed 
 as " shirt-sleeve diplomacy." His separa- 
 tion from the diplomatic service followed a 
 series of misunderstandings in which the 
 official conduct of a predecessor was in- 
 volved. Mr. Bowen was counsel for Ven- 
 ezuela and the United States at The Hague 
 in 1903, anl his distinguished services in 
 preventing complications between Venezuela 
 and European nations under particularly 
 difhcult circumstances, constitute a bril- 
 liant chapter in the history of the diplo- 
 macy of the United States. Mr. Bowen is 
 author of: Verses, Boston (1884) ; In 
 Divers' Tones, 1890; Losing Ground; In- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 (finatioiial Law. New York, ISOfi. Address: 
 NVoodslofk, Conn. 
 
 BOWER, George Rosengarten: 
 
 .Manufacturing clienii^t ; Ixnu in Gtrnuin- 
 t.)\vn. Pliiladolpliiiu Mvj;. 1, 1866; son of 
 lli'nry and Lyc-rctia K. (Elliott) Bower. 
 He was graduated from the University of 
 Pennsylvania, A.B., 1885, after which he 
 bccanio connected with various chemical 
 concerns. In 1885 he became clerk of 
 Henry Bower & Son. and after two years 
 became secretary and treasurer of the Am- 
 monia Company of Philadelpiiia. In 18!)6 
 he was elected to similar ollices in the 
 Kalion Chemical Company, and in 1902 
 president of the Baltimore Chrome Works 
 Company. In 1906, the last named three 
 companies were consolidated into the Henry 
 Bower Chemical jManufacturing Company, 
 of which he has since been president. In 
 politics he is a member of the Republican 
 party, and in religion is affiliated with the 
 Protestant Episcopal church. He is a ves- 
 tryman of All Saints' Church, Lower Dub- 
 lin, at Torresdale. Mr. Bower is a member 
 uf the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 
 the American Academy of Political and 
 Social Science, and of the Alumni of the 
 University of Pennsylvania, the Phi Kappa 
 Psi fraternityi and the Athletic Association 
 of the University of Pennsylvania. He 
 spends his vacations in hunting and boat- 
 ing, and is a member of the Philadelphia 
 Gun, Markham, Rittenhouse, Philadelphia 
 and Union League of Philadelphia; the 
 Maryland Club of Baltimore; and the 
 Down Town Association of New York. Mr. 
 Bower married at Philadelphia, Jan. 10, 
 1893, Agnes Lee Fuller, and they have two 
 sons. Residence: Torresdale, Philadelphia. 
 Address: Gray's Ferry Road and 29th 
 Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 BOWERMAN, George Franklin: 
 
 Liliiariaii; Ikhu in Kaiiuington, N. Y., 
 Sept. 8, 1868; son of Jarvis R. and Anna 
 M. (Ewer) Bowerman. He was graduated 
 from the University of Rochester, A.B., 
 1892, and entered the New York State Li- 
 lirary School at .\li)any in lS!i:!, graduating 
 
 Willi the degree of B.L.S.. in 1895. :\lr, 
 Bowerman was reference librarian at Rey- 
 nolds Library, Rochester, 1895-1896; served 
 in the reference department of the New 
 \ink Slat.' Library, 1897-1898; ami was 
 (111 tlic editorial stall' of the New York 
 Triluiiii'. 1S98-1900; and on the editorial 
 stall of the New International Encyclo- 
 pedia. 1900-1901. He resumed library work 
 as librarian of the Wilmington (Delaware) 
 hislitiitc Free Library, 1901-1904, and has 
 be( II lilirariau of the Public Library of the 
 District (if Columbia since 1904. He is a 
 member of th(> American Library Associa- 
 tion, anil was its treasurer in 1906-1907, a 
 member and president of the District of 
 Columbia Library Association; was presi- 
 dent of the library department of the Re- 
 ligious Education Association in 1905; a 
 member of the Delaware State Library 
 Commission from 1901 to 1904; and is now 
 a member of the National Educational As- 
 sociation, the National Geographic Society, 
 the. American Economic Association, the 
 National Society of Fine Arts, the Archae- 
 ological Institute of America, the Washing- 
 ton Board of Trade, the Washington Li- 
 brary Society, and the Cosmos Club. He 
 has contributed extensively to The Library 
 Journal, Public Libraries and to newspa- 
 pers. Mr. Bowerman married at Albany 
 in 1901, Sarah N. Graham. Residence: 
 
 Tile Ontario. Office: Public Library, Wasli- 
 
 iiigtim, D. C. 
 
 BOWERS. Eaton Jackson: 
 j i/iwyer and congressman; born at Can- 
 lion. :Madison County. Miss., June 17, 1865; 
 he was educated in local schools and at 
 the :Mililary Institute at Pass Christian, 
 Miss. He was admitted to the bar at Can- 
 ton, Miss., at the age of seventeen, and 
 afterward engaged in the practice of law. 
 lie is a Democrat in politics. He was a 
 presidential elector on the Democratic tick- 
 et fiom llie Sixth District of Mississippi 
 in 1S88, and from the Stale at large in 
 1.S92, was elected to the State Senate of 
 Mississipiii in 1896, and in 1900 lo llic 
 House of Representatives of Missis-iiiiii 
 fidiii Hancock (iniiitv. \\>' was a (Udcgatc 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 to <Iio Deiuociatio National Convention at 
 Kansas City in 1!)00 and was a nioiiiber of 
 the .State Democratic Executive Committee 
 from 18S6 to 1!)(M). He was elected from 
 the Sixtii Mississippi to the Fifty-eighth 
 ■('()iii>ress in li)0"2, and reelected in 1904 and 
 l!tO(i to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Con- 
 yresses ; and is now serving in the latter, 
 lie married Sept. 3, 1888, Lula G. Posey. 
 Address: Hay Saint Louis, jMiss. 
 
 BOWERS, Edward Augustus: 
 
 Lawyer: horn at Hartford. (]onn.. Aug. 
 2, 1857; son of Caleb Bailey and Fanny M. 
 (Cutter) Bowers. He was graduated from 
 tlie academic course of Yale University 
 witli the degree of A.B. in 1879 and re- 
 maining tliere as a law student for two 
 years longer, received the degree of LL.B. 
 at the end of that time. In 1882 he re- 
 m()\ed to (hoton, Dakota, then still a. ter- 
 ritory, and began to practice his profession, 
 while giving attention to other pursuits. 
 In 1884: he was elected city judge of Groton, 
 occupying the office for two years, becoming 
 in 1887 Inspector of the Public Land Serv- 
 ice acting directly in the West for Mr. 
 Lamar, Secretary of the Interior, and hav- 
 ing a general supervision of legal questions 
 a;ising in the administration of the Public 
 Lands. In 1889 he removed to Washington, 
 1). C., where he established himself in 
 jiractie,'. In 1893 he was appointed assist- 
 ant conin:issioiier in tlie General Land Of- 
 liee at Washington, becoming in 1895 
 assistant comptroller of the United States 
 Treasury. After three years he returned 
 to Connecticut, and has since practised at 
 Xew Haven, at the same time lecturing at 
 the LTniversity of Yale on forest laAV and 
 administration, in which he is an authority. 
 He is a member of the American Forestry 
 Association and the American Geographi- 
 « cal Society and of various clubs of Wash- 
 ington. Xew York Cit\' and New Haven. 
 itesidriice: "ion Crown Street. Address: 
 410 l\\('iaiiuf I'.uilding, New Haven. Conn. 
 
 BOWERS, George Meade: 
 
 United States i<'isli commissioner; born 
 in (ierrardstown. W. Va., Sept. 13, 18G3. 
 
 He was privately educated and undertook 
 the scientific study of matters connected 
 with the preservation and culture of fish, 
 and in 1898 was appointed United States 
 commissioner of lish and fisheries, in whicli 
 position he has the direction of the exten- 
 sive work being carried on by the United 
 States for the increase of the fish food sup- 
 ply of this cotintry. He married in Hagers- 
 town, Md.. Nov. 18, 1884, Bessie C. Gray. 
 He resides in Martinsburg, W. Va. Offi- 
 cial address: Cor. Gth and B Streets, S. 
 W.. Washington, D. C. 
 
 BOWERS, Henry Francis: 
 
 Founder of the American Protective As- 
 sociation; born in Baltimore, Md., Aug. 12, 
 1837. He was educated at home and later 
 removed to Iowa, wnere he began his legal 
 career, rising from deputy clerk of courts 
 in 1863 and deputy recorder in 1869 to 
 county recorder in 1870. in which year he 
 was admitted to the bar. Until 1874 he 
 held the position of recorder and has since 
 continued the practice of his profession, 
 practising in the L^nited States Courts. 
 Mr. Bowers served with distinction on the 
 staff of Governor John H. Gear as special 
 aide-de-camp from 1878-1882. The work by 
 which he is best known to the world at 
 large began in 1887 with the founding of 
 the American Protective Association, popu- 
 larly known as the " A. P. A.," which he 
 served in the capacity of president for six 
 years. In connection with his various in- 
 terests, he has lectured extensively through- 
 out the United States. Address: Clinton, 
 Iowa. 
 
 BOWERSOCK, Justin DeWitt: 
 
 Manufacturer, banker and ex-congress- 
 man; born in Cohunbiana County, Ohio, 
 Sept. 19, 1842. He moved to Lawrence, 
 Kan., in 1877, and built the dam across the 
 Kansas Kiver and entered upon the busi- 
 ness of manufacturing and banking. Mr. 
 Bowersock is a Republican in politics, and 
 he was twice elected mayor of Lawrence, 
 and served in the Kan.sas House of Repre- 
 sentatives in 1887 and tlie State Senate in 
 1S95. lie was elected in 1898 from the 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Second Kansas District to the Fifty-sixth 
 Congress, and in 1900, 1902 and 190-1 to the 
 Fifty-seventh, and Fifly-eiglith and Fifty- 
 ninth Congresses, but in 1906 lie declined to 
 be a candidate for election in the Sixtieth 
 Congress. Mr. Bowersock married in 1866, 
 ;Mary Gower of Iowa City, Iowa, and they 
 have two sons and four daughters. Ad- 
 dress: Lawrence, Kan. 
 
 BOWKER, Richard Rogers: 
 
 Author and editor; born in Salem, Mass., 
 in 1848. He was educated in the public 
 schools of New York City and was gradu- 
 ated from the College of the City of New 
 York as A.B. in 1868. His connection with 
 Publisliing and Editorial work began as 
 Literary Editor of the New Y^ork Evening 
 Mail, 1868. He was resident in London, 
 1880 to 1882, as representative for Harper 
 & Brothers. He was first vice-president 
 and executive of the Edison Electric Illumi- 
 nating Company from 1890 to 1899, and is 
 now vice-president of the De Laval Steam 
 Turbine Co., and the De Laval Separator 
 Co. He is editor of the Publishers' Week- 
 ly, The Library Journal, American Catalog. 
 and other publications. Mr. Bowker is 
 author of: Work and Wealth, 1883; The 
 Economic Fact Book and Free Traders' 
 Guide, 1885; Primer for Political Educa- 
 tion, 1886; Copyright — Its Law and Its 
 Literature, 1886; Economics for the People 
 (5 editions ); The Arts of Life, 1900; Of 
 Business, 1901; Of Politics, 1901; Of Edu- 
 cation, 1903; Of Religion, 1903; Civil Serv- 
 ice Examination, and has edited : The Li- 
 brary List; The Reader's Guide in Eco- 
 nomic, Social and Political Science (in col- 
 laboration with George lies) ; The Annual 
 Literary Index, etc., besides writing many 
 articles in magazines. He early became 
 active in independent politics, and in 1879 
 originated the independent Repuljlican 
 movement, and because of this fact became 
 known as " the original Mugwump." lie 
 was active in ])ronioting the passage of the 
 fir.st Civil Service Reform Bill in the New 
 York Legislature, was a member of the 
 New York Fiec Trade Club and one of the 
 incorporators and on the original Board of 
 
 Trustees of the Reform Club. When free 
 coinage of silver became an issue, Mr. Bow- 
 ker became associated with the National 
 (gold-standard) Democratic party and edi- 
 tor of The Campaign Text-Book of the Na- 
 tional Democratic party, 1890. He has' 
 also been very active in the movement for 
 improvement in the law of copyrights, and 
 is vice-president of the American Copy- 
 right League. He is a member of the Coun- 
 cil of the American Library Association, 
 was formerly chairman of the Council of 
 the City Club, and is a member of the 
 Authors Club and other clubs of New York. 
 He married at Brookline, Mass., Jan. 1, 
 1902, Alice Mitchell. Residence: New York 
 and " Glendale," Stockbridge, Mass. Office : 
 298 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 BOWLES, Francis Tiffany: 
 
 Chief constructor United States Navy, 
 with rank of rear-admiral, 1901-1903; born 
 in Springfield, Mass., Oct. 7, 1858; son of 
 Benjamin and Mary E. (Bailey) Bowles. 
 He was graduated from the United States 
 Naval Academy in 1879 and also received 
 a post-graduate degree. Naval architect, 
 from the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 
 England. Admiral Bowles has had an ac- 
 tive career and is identified with the begin- 
 ning and establishment of the so-called 
 " New Navy," having served on the Naval 
 Advisory Board in 1882 and having been 
 in charge of construction and repair in the 
 navy yards at Norfolk and New York. He 
 has also been identified with the introduc- 
 tion of civil service reform in the employ- 
 ment of labor at navy yards. He is presi- 
 dent of the Fore River Shipbuilding Co., of 
 Quincy, Mass.; is a member of the Institute 
 of Naval Architects, London; and presideiii 
 of the Society of Naval Architects and 
 Marine Engineers, New York. Admiral 
 Bowles married Nov. 17, 1886, Adelaide 
 ilay Savage of Boston. Residence: 148 
 Marlborougli Street, Boston. Office: Quincy, 
 Mass. 
 
 BOWLES, Samuel: 
 
 ICditor; born in Sjn iuLilit Id, M:vss., Oct. 
 15, 1851; son of Samuel I'.owles, Mrd, editor 
 
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 of the Springfield Republican, and of Mary 
 Dwiglit (Schermerhorn) Bowles. He was 
 educated in public and private schools in 
 Springfield and spent two years in study 
 and travel in Europe, afterward took a 
 special course of two years at Yale, and 
 later lie received from Amherst College the 
 honorary degree of A.M. He entered the 
 service of the Springfield Republican as an 
 editorial assistant in 1873, and two years 
 later became the business manager of that 
 paper, of whicli he has been, since 1878, the 
 publisher and editor-in-chief, the third of 
 his name and family to hold that position. 
 Mr. Bowles married, at Concord, Mass., 
 June 12, 1884, Elizabeth, daughter of Eb- 
 enezer Rockwood Hoar; they have two sons. 
 Address : Springfield, INIass. 
 
 BOWMAN, Edward Morris: 
 
 -NLusician; born at Barnard, Vt., July 18, 
 1 S48 ; son of Joseph and Asenath ( Bur- 
 roughs) Bowman; descendant of Nathaniel 
 I'-owman, one of the founders and proprie- 
 1nis of Watertown, ]\Iass., who came from 
 I'.ngland witli John Winthrop in 1630, and, 
 on tiie maternal side, from Richard Warren 
 and Sarah Tilley, Mayflower Pilgrims. He 
 was graduated from St. Lawrence Univer- 
 sity, and afterward became a pupil in 
 pianoforte of Dr. William IMason of New 
 York City and of Franz Bendel of Berlin. 
 He studied organ under John P. Morgan of 
 Xow York City, Eduard Rohde and August 
 Haupt. Berlin; Edouard Batiste and Alex- 
 ander Guilmant, Paris ; and Sir Frederick 
 Bridge, London ; studied theory of music 
 with Carl Friederich Weitzmann of Berlin, 
 Sir George A. Macfarren and Dr. E. H. 
 Turpin of London, and John P. INIorgan of 
 New York. He was organist of old Trinity 
 Church, New York City, 1866-1867; teacher 
 and conductor, 1867-1887, at St. Louis, Mo., 
 where he was organist and director of music 
 of the Union jSIethodist Episcopal Church, 
 Second Presbyterian Church, and Second 
 Baptist Church; then of Peddie JNIcmorial 
 Church (Newark, N. J.), 1887-1894, where 
 he founded, on new and original lines. The 
 Cecilian Choir. He was the founder in 
 189.5 and director of the Baptist Temple 
 
 Choir and Temple Orchestra of 200 mem- 
 bers, of Brooklyn, until May 1, 1906; since 
 then has l)ecn organist and music director 
 of Calvary Baptist Church (Dr. MacArth- 
 ur's in New York City, where lie founded, 
 on a similar plan, a vested quartet and 
 chorus of 140 voices. He has also been 
 engaged as teacher and conductor in New 
 York City since 1887. He is a member of 
 the Royal College of Organists, London ; 
 member and co-founder of the American 
 Guild of Organists; founder and fellow 
 (president eight terms) of the American 
 College of Musicians; president (five 
 terms) of the Music Teachers' National As- 
 sociation; professor and director of music 
 at Vassar College, 1891-1895. He is a 
 member of the Executive Board of the 
 Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion, and ex-member of the Executive Board 
 of the Department of INIusic, Brooklyn In- 
 stitute of Arts and Sciences, and member 
 of the Board of Governors of Squirrel Is- 
 land Village Corporation. ^Mr. l^owman is 
 president of the Virgil Practice Clavier 
 Manufacturing Company of New York City. 
 He is author of Bowman's Weitzmann's 
 ]\Ianual of Harmony and Counterpoint, 
 1876, and is a frequent contributor to nuisi- 
 cal journals. Residence: 1810 Avenue H, 
 Fiske Terrace, Brooklyn; (summer) Squir- 
 rel Island, Coast of Maine. Studio: Stein- 
 way Hall, New York City. 
 
 BOWNE, Borden Parker: 
 
 Educator; born in Leonardville, X. J., 
 Jan. 14, 1847. He was educated at the 
 University of the City of New York, A.B. 
 1871, A.M. 1876, and for two years studied 
 at the universities of Halle, Paris and 
 Gottingen. He became assistant professor 
 of modern languages at the University of 
 the City of New York in 1875, and the 
 same year joined the staff of the New York 
 Independent. Since 1876 he has been pro- 
 fessor of pliilosophy and dean of the Gradu- 
 ate School of Arts and Sciences of Boston 
 University. In 1881 he received the degree 
 of LL.D. from Ohio Wesleyan University. 
 Dr. Bowne is an extensive contributor to 
 philosophical and theological literature, and 
 
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 is fli(> aullinr (if: 'Vhc Pllilo-^npliy of Tler- 
 bert Spencer: Studies in Theism; Meta- 
 physics; TntriKluction lo Psvcholofiical The- 
 ory; Philosophy of Tlieisni; The Principles 
 of Ethics; Tlieory of Thought and Knowl- 
 odge: The Christian Revelation; The Chris- 
 tian Life; The Atonenienl ; Tlie Immanence 
 of God; Personalism. Studies in Christian- 
 ity; and contributions to reviews and mag- 
 azines, lie is an lionorarv member of the 
 Imperial I^ducation Society of Japan. 
 Traveled extensively in journey around 
 world. 190(5; and lectured before Imperial 
 University at Tokyo, Japan, and at the 
 other universities and schools of Japan. 
 China and India. Address: .S80 Lonti^vvood 
 Avenue. Poston. 
 
 BOWNE. Samuel W.: 
 
 Manufaet uici . c-liemist : born a1 Mont- 
 pomery. \. ^■., Jan. '4. 1842; son of Cyrus 
 II. and Hester (Wood) Bowne. He was 
 educated at Montgomery Academy and 
 connuenced business in 1874 in the manu- 
 facture of Scott's Enuilsinn. which he made 
 a gieat success. He is now of tlv.' firm of 
 Scott and Powne, chemists, is president 
 and director of the Cold Procs's-; Company 
 of Xew York, director of the Aetna Na- 
 tion il l':!nk. tile Independent Milk Product 
 Company, R. II. Carter & Company, and 
 the Baldwin Steel Company of Charles- 
 town, ^^". Vix. Mr. Bowne is jiresident of 
 the Board of Trustees of the Drew Theo- 
 logical Seminary, and a trustee of the Syra- 
 cuse University, the Wesleyan University 
 of Watertown, Conn., and of the New York 
 City Church Extension and ^Missionary So- 
 ciety of the Methodist Episcopal church. 
 He is a member of the Union League, Re- 
 publican. Knollwood City and New \"ork 
 .Athletic Clubs. Residence: o;") West 57th 
 Street. Ollice: 411 Pearl Street, New 
 York. 
 
 BOYCE, William D. : 
 
 Publisher, born in Allegheny County, Pa., 
 .Ivine Hi, 1858; son of David and .Margaict 
 J. Boyce. He was reined nw m larin and 
 received liis earlv education in the pulilic 
 schools of hi> ii;iti\c enuiifx iiiid takiny a 
 
 course at the Univeisity of Wooster. Ohio. 
 He removed to Chicago in ISSI. and l)e- 
 came an advertising solicitor toi- a nioiitlily 
 magazine. In 1884 he organized a Imreau 
 of correspomlcnts euibraeing twelve hun- 
 dred newsi)a]!ers. He organized' a patent 
 inside publishing house, for which he se- 
 cured a large [latronage. and was ('i|ually 
 successful witli a similar enterjirise which 
 he started in Winfield. Kansas. In co- 
 operation with two Eastern nevvspaiier men 
 he established the Chicago Blade, and after- 
 ward sold out his patent inside business 
 and devoted his entire attention to building 
 up the Blade, which proved a great success. 
 Later he purchased the Chicago Ledger, 
 which he also placed in a prosperous condi- 
 tion and afterward established Boyce's 
 Monthly Magazine, now the Woman's 
 World, and other publications, all of which 
 are published by W. D. Boyce & Company, 
 of which he is the president and director. 
 He is also president and director of the W. 
 D. Boyce Paper Mills Company, and of the 
 the Marseilles Land and Water Power Com- 
 pany, and is owner of a large office builil- 
 ing at 112 Dearborn Street, Chicago. ^Ir. 
 Boyce has been actively identified with poli- 
 tics as a Republican. He married in Pitts- 
 burgh. Pa., in 1883, Mary Jane Beacon, 
 and they have three children, Addres^^: 
 112 Dearl.oiii Sti-eet. Chicago. 
 
 BOYD, David Ross: 
 
 Former incsident of the University of 
 Oklahoma ; lioin in Coshocton, Ohio, July 
 31, 185;!. He was graduated from Wooster 
 LTniversity. Ohio, as A.B., 1878, later re- 
 ceiving the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. lie 
 became principle of high schools at Bellevue. 
 Ohio, on graduation, hut resigned this ])o- 
 sition in 187!' td arecpt a similar one at 
 Van Wert, Oliio. During the years from 
 1880-1802 he was su])erintendent of schools 
 at \'an WCit . Ohio, ami at Kansas City. 
 Kan., ami in the latter year was elected to 
 the ollii-e nf president of the I niversity of 
 Oklahoma. lie (U-ganized that institution 
 and remainc.l at its head till .luly 1st, 190!), 
 on which dale he became sp(>cial eomniis- 
 sioiier (,>f education for the Picsbvteiia n 
 
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 Board of TTome ;Missions. Tic lias been di- 
 rector of tlic National Educational Associa- 
 tion, and is president ex oflicio of the Oi'cla- 
 liniiia Board of Education. Tie married in 
 l\iM'ne, Ohio. Sept. 6. 1882. Jennie Thompson. 
 Address: Xorman. Oklahoma. 
 
 BOYD, George Washington: 
 
 (lencral ])assen_<,fer atjent of the Pennsyl- 
 vania rvaihoad; born in Indiana])olis, Ind., 
 Aug. 1, 184!). lie was educated at the high 
 school there, and in October, 1863. entered 
 the freight office of the Cleveland. Columbus. 
 Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railroad, where 
 he served as clerk and chief clerk. In 
 June, 1872, he was appointed cashier of the 
 Passenger Department of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad at the general office in Philadel- 
 phia, and in 1874 he was promoted to the 
 chief clerkship of the department. In 1882 
 
 ; he became the first incumbent of the newly- 
 created office of assistant general passenger 
 
 ! agent. He discharged the duties of this of- 
 fice with conspicuous ability and success 
 until May, 1903, when he was made general 
 passenger agent. His work in favor of 
 abolishing illegal ticket selling by scalpers, 
 and his efforts toward developing the per- 
 sonally conducted system of travel under 
 the direct supervision of railroad companies 
 are universally acknowledged. Residence: 
 125 S. 22d Street. Office: 401 Broad Street 
 Station. Philadelphia. 
 
 BOYD, James E.: 
 
 Jurist ; born in Alamance County, N. C, 
 Feb. 14, 1845. He was educated at Gra- 
 ham Academy and Davidson College, in 
 Xorth Carolina. He enlisted in the Con- 
 federate Army during the Civil War, serv- 
 ing as private in the 13th North Carolina 
 Infantry and the 1st North Carolina Caval- 
 ry. At the close of the war he was admit- 
 ted to the bar of North Carolina, and was 
 elected to the Legislature of that state in 
 1874, serving for one year, when he became 
 delegate to the State Constitutional Con- 
 vention. From 1880-1885 he was United 
 States district attorney for the western dis- 
 trict of North Carolina, and from 1897- 
 1900 was assistant attorney general of the 
 United States. Since July 11, 1900, he has 
 
 been judge of Ihe Uniteil States District 
 Court for the western district of Nortli 
 Carolina. .Tiidge Boyd is a member of llie 
 Nortli Carolina Bar Association, and of 
 other professional organi/cations. He mar- 
 ried, Sept. 12, 1808. Sallio Hntf. Address: 
 Greensboro, N. C. 
 
 BOYD, John Covert: 
 
 Medical director, U. S. Navy; born in and 
 appointed from South Carolina. He en- 
 tered the service April 3, 1873 as assistant 
 surgeon U. S. Navy, and has served in the 
 various duties of the IMedical Corps of the 
 navy up to the rank of medical director, 
 his present commission being dated June 
 20, 1903, and his present duty being that 
 of medical director in command of the Na- 
 val Medical School ; also president of the 
 Naval Examining Board' at the Naval Medi- 
 cal School, Washington. D. C. Address: 
 1836 16th Street. Washington. D. C. 
 
 BOYNTON, Charles Augustus: 
 
 Journalist: l)orn in West Stockbridge, 
 Mass. Sept. 30. 1836; son of Rev. Charles 
 B. and Maria (Van Buskirk) Boynton. He 
 was graduated from Woodward College, 
 Cincinnati. Ohio, and Knox College, Illi- 
 nois. His first newspaper work was for The 
 Christian Nation, edited by his father. He 
 became the New York agent for the Western 
 Associated Press in 1870, and was appointed 
 superintendent of the Southern Division in 
 1894 with headquarters in Washington, a 
 position he has filled with marked success, 
 being responsible also for the news gather- 
 ing relative to national and international 
 events arising in Washington and conduct- 
 ing the work of a large Washington bu- 
 reau in addition to directing and consolidat- 
 ing the news reports of the south. He is a 
 charter member of the Gridiron Club an<l 
 the dean of the newspaper corps in Washing- 
 ton. He married, Oct. 25, 1866, Maretta 
 Hudson. Residence: 1357 Princeton Street. 
 Office: Evening Star Building, Washing- 
 jton, D. C. 
 
 I BOYNTON, Nathan Smith: 
 
 Founder of the Knights of the [Maccabees; 
 I born at Port Huron, Mich., June 23, 1837. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 After roeoivinj,' a lii^li school cdvication he 
 ongafied in niercaiilile business in his na- 
 tive city. Ho served as private in the Civil 
 \\'ar. Was promoted to 1st Lieut., then 
 captain and last major of liis rejjiment. 
 In 1868 he was elected to the ^Michigan 
 legislature, served as mayor of Port Huron 
 in 1874-1875 and again two terms from 
 1894-1898. He was elected to the Consti- 
 tutional Convention 1907. He became 
 owner and editor of the Port Huron Press 
 in 1870. Having founded the Order of the 
 Knights of the Maccabees, he has devoted 
 his attention since 1881 to that organiza- 
 tion, and now fills the office of past great 
 commander ilodern Maccabees. He is the 
 author of Boynton's Parliamentary Rules; 
 The History of the Ancient and Modern 
 Maccabees; The Dependency Plan; and Fra- 
 ternal Co-operation. He married in Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio, June 29, 1859, Annie Fields. 
 He is prominent in the affairs of Southern 
 Florida and spends his winters in that sec- 
 tion on his large plantation and -hotel in the 
 town of Boynton on the Atlantic coast 
 twelve miles south of Palm Beach. Ad- 
 dress: Port Huron, Mich. 
 
 BRACKETT, John Quincy Adams: 
 
 Lawyer and ox-governor; born at Brad- 
 ford, N. IL, June 8, 1842; son of Ambrose 
 S. and Nancy (Brown) Brackett. He re- 
 ceived his academic education at Harvard 
 University from which he was graduated 
 as A. B. with honors in 18G5, and in 1868 
 he was graduated from the Harvard Law 
 School with the degree of LL.B. He was 
 admitted in 1868 to the bar of Massachu- 
 setts and has ever since practised law in 
 Boston. In 1872 he was elected by the Re- 
 publican parly, to the common council of 
 Boston, holding that ofllce for four succes- 
 sive terms and being president of it the 
 last year. Upon the expiration of liis 
 fourth term in the coimcil he was elected 
 in 1870 to the lower house of the I\Iassa- 
 chusetts Legislature, and with the exception 
 of two years a member continuously until 
 1887, and was elected speaker of the House 
 of the last two years. Upon the expiration 
 of the term ending 1SS7, Mr. Brackett took 
 
 liis oath of ofllce as lieutcnant-goveiiior with 
 Oliver Ames as governor, and was twice re- 
 elected. In 1889 he was elected governor 
 of [Massachusetts and served till 1891. He 
 was delegate at large to the National Repub- 
 lican Convention of 1892, and presidential 
 elector at large in 1S90-1900. He is presi- 
 dent of the Middlesex Club and' member of 
 several other clubs. He married, June 20. 
 1878, Angle M. Peck, of Arlington, Mass. 
 Residence: Arlington, Mass. Address: 
 53 State Street, Boston. 
 
 BRACKETT, Walter M.: 
 
 Artist; born in Unity, 'Mc, June 14. 1S23. 
 He was self-educated and began painting in 
 1843, attaining considerable celebrity as a 
 portrait painter, but later took up the 
 painting of game fish, especially of salmon 
 and trout. He was one of the founders and 
 is an ex-president of the Boston Art Club. 
 For fifty years he has been an exhibitor in 
 Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Vienna, 
 London and other cities, receiving medals 
 from the Universal Exposition at Vienna, 
 Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, 
 medal and diploma at tlie Fishery Exposi- 
 tion at London. His works are in the Crys- 
 tal Palace, London, in Buckingham Palace. 
 London, the War Department, Washington, 
 and in tlie collections of Lord Dufferin, the 
 Liverpool Art Association, and many oth- 
 ers. Address: 154 Boylston troet, Boston, 
 Mass. 
 
 BRADFORD, Edward G.: 
 
 linitod States judge; born at Wilming- 
 ton, Del., IMarch i2. 1848: son of Hon. Ed- 
 ward G. and Mary Alicia (Ileyward) Brad- 
 ford. H(; received his ])reparatory educa- 
 tion at the Delaware Military Academy, 
 and tlicn entered Yale, from which he Avas 
 graduated with the degree of 15. A. in iSliS. 
 lie studied law and was admitted to tlio 
 bar. May il. ISJtt, practising at Wilmington, 
 Del., until appointed May 11, 1S97. as 
 United States di.strict judge for the Dis- 
 tiict of Delaware. Judge Bradford mar- 
 ried at Wilmington, Dei., Se])t. IS. 1S72, 
 ]']leutlina I", du I'ont. Address: W'iliiiiiig- 
 ton. Del. 
 
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 BRADFORD, Gamaliel: 
 
 Retired banker; born in Boston, Jan. 15, 
 1831; son of Gamaliel Bradford and Sophia 
 Eice Bradford. He is the fifth of his name 
 and is descendant in the eiglith generation 
 from ^^■illiam Bradford, governor of Ply- 
 nioutli Colony. He was graduated from 
 Harvard as A.B. in the Class of 1849. Mr. 
 Bradford was a member of the banking 
 firm of Blake Brothers and Company. Bos- 
 ton, from 1S58-18G8, and since the latter 
 year lie has been retired from active busi- 
 ness, devoting his attention largely to his- 
 torical and economic researches. He is au- 
 thor of a two volume work. The Lesson of 
 Popular Government, published in 1898, as 
 well as various monograplis and contribu- 
 tions to reviews, etc. He is a member of 
 the Massachusetts Historical Society, the 
 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati, 
 and the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower 
 Descendants (of which he was the first gov- 
 ernor ) . He is Independent in politics, and 
 has taken an active interest in the improve- 
 ment of the government of the city, state 
 and nation. Mr. Bradford married, at New- 
 buryport, Mass., Oct. 30, 1861, Clara Crown- 
 inshield Kinsman, who died in 1866. Ad- 
 dress : 502 Beacon Street, Boston. 
 
 BRADFORD, Gamaliel, Jr.: 
 
 Author; born in Boston, Oct. 9, 1803; 
 siiii of Gamaliel Bradford and Clara (Kins- 
 man) Bradford. He attended the public 
 schools of Wellesley, Mass., and was tutored 
 privately for Harvard and entered the 
 class of 1886. After a few months he was 
 obliged to leave on account of ill-health, 
 and was therefore not graduated. He has 
 never engaged in any business or profes- 
 sion, and having some independent means 
 has devoted himself to literature. He has 
 published numerous magazine articles and 
 the volumes. Types of American Character, 
 1895; A Pageant of Life (Poems), 1904; and 
 the novels: The Private Tutor, 1904; Be- 
 tween Two Masters, 1906; Matthew Por- 
 ter, 1908. Mr. Bradford married at Welles- 
 ley, ]\Iass., Oct. 30, 1886, Helen Hubbard 
 Ford, and they have two cliildren. Ad- 
 dress: Wellesley Hills, Mass. 
 
 BRADLEY, Herbert E.: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Brooklin, Ont., Canada, 
 Dec. 20, 1874; son of Thomas and Margaret 
 (Bradshaw) Bradley. His grandfather, 
 Jolin Bradley, was one of the earliest set- 
 tlers in York County, Ontario, where the 
 City of Toronto is now located, at that time 
 known as Muddy York, and later as York 
 Center, and the present Bradley home- 
 stead in Ontario County has been in pos- 
 session of the family for more than one 
 hundred years. Mr. Bradley was educated 
 in the public schools of Ontario, Port Perry 
 High School, and the Whitby Collegiate In- 
 stitute, Ontario. He has since been gradu- 
 ated LL.B. He afterward attended the 
 law department of the University of Michi- 
 gan, and was a special student in North- 
 western Law School, 1901. Mr. Bradley 
 taught in Canadian schools, 1893-1895; 
 studied law in Toronto, Canada, and in 
 1896 went to Chicago, where he was con- 
 nected with Morgan and ^\'right, rubber 
 manufacturers, until 1898. He afterward 
 engaged in the general practice of law, be- 
 coming associated in 1900, with Messrs. Na- 
 than William MacChesney and Frederick 
 W. Becker, in Chicago, and being admitted 
 to partnership in the firm of MacChesney, 
 Becker and Bradley in 1903. He was elect- 
 ed in 1903, secretary of the Commercial 
 Law League of America, and he is largely 
 interested, with his partner. Col. MacChes- 
 ney, in Chicago real estate. Mr. Bradley 
 is a member of the Seventh Ward Republi- 
 can Organization in Chicago, is a Mason, 
 is a Part regent of Fort Dearborn Council, 
 Royal Arcanum, and a member of the Illi- 
 nois, Hamilton and Twentieth Century 
 Clubs. Residence : 4526 Lake Avenue. Of- 
 fice: 108 La Salle Street, Chicago. 
 
 BRADLEY, Milton: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in Vienna, Mc., Nov. 
 8, 1838. He was educated in the Law- 
 rence Scientific School of Harvard Univer- 
 sity and began life as civil and mechanical 
 engineer. He became interested in lithogra- 
 phy and through that in the publishing of 
 home amusements. He organized the Mil- 
 ton Bradley Company at Springfield, ^Mass., 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Yale College and Union Theological Semi- 
 nary, and was graduated from the latter. 
 He then engaged 1700 acres of land in Tex- 
 as, proposing to establish an industrial re- 
 form colony for New York slum boys, but 
 this project was abandoned owing to lack of 
 funds to carry it on. In 1878 he went to 
 Alaska as missionary and later became man- 
 ager of the Sitka Trading Company. He 
 was appointed governor of Alaska, June 16, 
 1897, and served until April 30, 1906. On 
 retirement he engaged in commercial pur- 
 suits connected with the development of 
 Alaska. Address: Boston, Mass. 
 
 BRADY. John J.: 
 
 Jurist; born in New York City, Aug. 30, 
 1853. He was graduated from Fordham 
 University, A.B., 1872, and received from 
 that University the degree of LL.D., 1906. 
 He was admitted to the bar in 1876, and en- 
 gaged in successful practice as a lawyer in 
 New Y'ork City until elected on the Demo- 
 cratic ticket in November, 1906, judge of 
 the Supreme Court of New York for the 
 term expiring Dec. 31, 1920. Residence: 
 5^395 Valentine Avenue, New York City. 
 
 BRAIN, Belle Marvel: 
 
 Author; born in Springliekl, Ohio, Aug. 
 4, 1859; daughter of William Grey and 
 Mary (Dyer) Brain. Miss Brain was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of Cincinnati 
 and Springfield, Ohio, and after graduation 
 from the Springfield High School in 1878, 
 served as supervisor of drawing in the pub- 
 lic schools of Springfield, Ohio, until June, 
 1896, when she gave up the position on ac- 
 count of broken health, and then turned to 
 literary work, as contributor to magazines 
 and papers, principally religious, and is au- 
 thor of the following books: Fuel for 
 Missionary Fires; Weapons for Temperance 
 Warfare; Quaint Thoughts of an Old-Time 
 Army Cliaitlain; Tlie Morning Watch; The 
 Transformation of Hawaii; Fifty Mission- 
 ary Programs; Fifiy Missionary Stories; 
 Missionary lieadings for IMissionary Bro- 
 grams; Holding the Hopes; Bedemption of 
 tile Red man; All About Ja))an; Adventures 
 witli Four-footed Folk. Miss Brain is a 
 
 Presbyterian in denominational connection. 
 Address: 32 Roscdale Court, Detroit, Midi. 
 
 ERAINARD, David legge: 
 
 Lieutenant-colonel, U. S. A.; born at Nor- 
 way, Herkimer County, N. Y., Dec. 21, 
 1856. After attending' the State Normal 
 School at Courtland, N. Y., he entered the 
 United States Army as a private, Sept. IS, 
 1876, and later was promoted to corporal 
 and sergeant, and participated in the Sioux, 
 Bannock and Nez Perce Indian campaigns, 
 1877-1878. He was wounded in the face and 
 right hand in the fight with hostile Sioux 
 Indians at Little Muddy Creek, Mont.. May 
 7, 1877; and was detailed for duty, with the 
 Howgate Arctic Exploring Expedition, in 
 1880. In 1881 he joined the Lady Frank- 
 lin Bay Artie Expedition, under Lieutenant 
 (now general) A. W. Greely, serving with 
 it throe years; was associated with the late 
 Lieutenant Lockwood in the exploration of 
 the interior of Grinnell Land and the north- 
 west coast of Greenland; and on May 13, 
 1882, reached the then highest point North 
 ever attained by any nation, namely, lati- 
 tude 83° 24' 30" N. He was one of the 
 seven survivors rescued at Cape Sabine 
 liy Lieutenanl Commander (now Rear Ad- 
 miral) W. S. Schley, U. S. N., in June, 
 1884. LTpon his return to the United States 
 he was transferred as sergeant to the Sig- 
 nal SciVice; later commissioned second lieu- 
 tenant. Second U. S. Cavalry " for dis- 
 tinguished and meritorious services in con- 
 nection with the Arctic Expedition, 1881- 
 1884." He was promoted first lieutenant, 
 Aug., 1893; captain Subsistence Depart- 
 luont, Oct., 1896; and in Dec, 1897 was de- 
 tailed for duty on the Alaska Relief Expe- 
 dition for the destitute miners at Dawson 
 City; promoted to lieutenant-colonel Sub- 
 sistence Department, U. S. Volunteers, May, 
 1898; ordered to the Philippine Islands as 
 chief commissary of the military forces, 
 serving on the staffs of Major-General Mer- 
 ritt and j\Iajor-General Otis; promoted col- 
 onel and chief commissary of U. S. Volun- 
 teers, Nov., 1898; promoted Major, Subsist- 
 ence Department, U. S. Army, Feb., 1900; 
 promoted lieutenant-colonel U. S. A., Aug. 
 
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 200 
 
 28, 1905. LiiMilciiiUil-Coloiifl ]?rainard is 
 a fellow of the Auierican Geogmiihic;!! So- 
 ciety; member of tlie National Ccograplii- 
 cal Society, the Arctic Club, tlie Explorers' 
 Club, the New York Club, New York Ath- 
 letic Club and Army and Navy Club, etc. 
 He was awarded the Back Grant of the Roy- 
 al Oographical Society for 1885, " for spe- 
 cial services in connection with his work of 
 cxjiloration in the Arctic Regions." Address: 
 Caro War Department, Washington, D. C. 
 
 BRAINERD, Ezra: 
 
 Tresidcnt of Middlebury College; born at 
 St. Albans. Vt., Dec. 17, 1844. He was 
 graduated from Middlebury College in 1864, 
 and was tutor there from 1864-186G. He 
 was graduated from Andover Theological 
 Seminary in 1868, and became professor of 
 i rhetoric and English Literature from 1868- 
 1889 and of physics and applied mathe- 
 matics from 1880-1885, at Middlebury Col- 
 lege, of which he was president twenty- 
 three years, 1885-1908. He was one of 
 three commissioners appointed in 1887 to 
 revise the school laws of Vermont, and has 
 made important contributions to the Botany 
 and Geology of that State. The degree of 
 LL.D. was conferred upon him in 1888 by 
 Ripon College, Wisconsin, and the Univer- 
 sity of Vermont, and that of D.D. by How- 
 ard University in 1900. Address: Mid- 
 dlel)ury, Vt. 
 
 BRALEY, Henry King: 
 
 Jurist ; born at Rochester, Mass., March 
 17, 1850; son of Samuel Tripp and Mary 
 A. (King) Braley. He was educated at 
 Rochester and Pierce Academies and receiv- 
 ed tlie lionorary degree of A.lSl. from Dart- 
 moutli College in 1902. He was admitted to 
 the Plymouth County bar in 1873, and prac- 
 tised law at Fall River, Mass., until 1891. 
 He Avas elected city solicitor of Fall River 
 in 1874 and mayor in 1882-1883, was ap- 
 pointed examiner for the bar of Bristol 
 County in 1890 by tlie Supreme Judicial 
 Court, and in 1891 became associate jus- 
 tice of the Superior Court of ]\Iassachu- 
 setts by appointment of Governor Russell, 
 holding that office until 1902, when he was 
 appointed by Governor Crane to his present 
 
 office as associate justice of the Supremo 
 Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Judge 
 Braley is a Democrat in his political views, 
 and a Unitarian in his religious affiliation. 
 He is a member of the American Academy 
 of Political and Social Science, of the Uni- 
 versity and Union Clubs of Boston, and the 
 Quequechan Club of Fall River. Judge Bra- 
 ley married at Bridgewater, Mass., April 26, 
 1875, Caroline Ward Leach. Address: Fall 
 River, Mass. 
 
 BRANCH, Mary Lydia Bolles: 
 
 Author; born in New London, Conn., 
 June 13, 1840; daughter of John Rogers 
 and Mary (Hempstead) Bolles. She at- 
 tended the high school of her native town. 
 1854-1858, and Mr. Emerson's School, Bos- 
 ton, 1859-1860. She was married in New 
 London, April 21, 1870, to John Locke 
 Branch, and' has had two children, John 
 Bolles Branch, who died in 1888, and Anna 
 Hempstead Branch. After her marriage she 
 lived in Painesville, Ohio, until 1875, then 
 in New York City till 1882, and in Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y.. 1882-1900; since then in New 
 London, Conn. She began writing in girl- 
 hood, first, for a few years, under the pen- 
 name of August Bell, and after that under 
 her own name. She is author of: The 
 Kanter Girls; The Manner of Life of Nan- 
 cy Hempstead; A Visit to Newfoundland; 
 Aunt Patty's Schoolroom. Mrs. Branch is 
 a member of the Lucretia Shaw Chapter, 
 Daughters of the American Revolution, So- 
 ciety of Mayflower Descendants in Connecti- 
 cut, New London County Historical Society, 
 Hempstead Family Association, the Froe- 
 bel Society of Brooklyn, N. Y., and the 
 Saturday Club of New London. Address: 
 Hempstead House, New London, Conn. 
 
 BRANDEGEE, Frank Bosworth: 
 
 United States Senator; born in New Lon- 
 don, Conn., July 8, 1864; son of Augustus 
 and Nancy Christina (Bosworth) Brande- 
 gee. He was graduated from Yale as 13. A. 
 in 1885, studied law, and was admitted to 
 the bar in 1SS8. He has since then contin- 
 ued in tile practice of law at New London, 
 Conn., wheie he is now a member of the law 
 firm of Brandegee, Noyes and Brennan. He 
 
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 AlEx^ OF AMERICA. 
 
 was ii representative in the General Assem- 
 bly of Connecticut in 1888, and for ten 
 years was torporation counsel of the City 
 of New London. He was a delegate to the 
 Republican National Conventions of 1888, 
 1892, 1!)0() and 1904, speaker of the Con- 
 necticut House of Representatives in 1899, 
 and in 1902 he was elected from the Third 
 Connecticut District as a representative to 
 the second session of the Fifty-seventh Con- 
 gress to fill a vacancy, and was reelected 
 to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con- 
 gresses. On JNlay 9, 1905, he was elected 
 to the United States Senate to fill the unex- 
 pired term of the late Orville H. Piatt, ex- 
 piring in 1909 and was reelected in Janu- 
 ary, 1909, for a full term expiring March 
 3, 1915.. Address: New London, Conn. 
 
 BRANDEIS, Louis Dembitz: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Louisville. Ky.. Nov. 13, 
 1856; son of Adolph and Fredericka (Dem- 
 bitz) Brandeis. He studied at the Annen 
 Kealschule at Dresden, Germany, from 
 1873-1875. Returning to the United States 
 in 1875. he became a law student at Har- 
 vard University where he was graduated 
 in 1877, with the degree of LL.B. and took 
 a po.st-graduate course. The honorary de- 
 gree of A.M. was conferred upon him by 
 Harvard in 1891, and he was, in 1895, made 
 honorary member of the Harvard Chapter 
 of the Phi Beta Kappa. From 1878-1879 he 
 practised law in St. Louis. In 1879 formed 
 a partnership with Samuel D. Warren, prac- 
 tising in Boston, Mass., under the firm 
 name of Warren and Brandeis until 1897, 
 when the firm of Brandeis, Dunbar and 
 Nutter was formed. Mr. Brandeis devised 
 and was instrumental in establishing the 
 Massachusetts system of saving bank insur- 
 ance and pensions for wage earners. He 
 took an active part in opposition to the pro- 
 posed merger by the New York, New Haven 
 and Hartford Railroad, of steam railroad 
 transportation, electric trolley roads and 
 steamboat lines, east of New York. He 
 married in New York City, March 23, 1891, 
 Alice Gohlmark, and they liave two daugli- 
 ters. Residence: Otis Place. Olfice: 161 
 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 BRANNAN, John Winters: 
 
 Piiysician; l)orn in Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 
 14, 1853. He was graduated from Harvard 
 College in 1874, and at Harvard Aledical 
 Sciiool in 1878. He was physician at the 
 Massachusetts General Hospital, from 1877 
 to 1878. After studying in Paris, Vienna 
 and Strasburg, he returned to America and 
 practised medicine in Boston, Colorado 
 Springs and, since 1884, in New York. He 
 then became consulting physician at the 
 Bellevue Hospital and attending physician 
 at the hospitals of the Health Department. 
 He is a member of the American INIedical 
 Association, the Association of American 
 Physicians, the American Climatological 
 Association, the New York Academy of 
 Medicine, the New Y'^ork County Medical 
 Society, the Pathological Society, the Har- 
 vard Medical Society, the Society of Med- 
 ical Jurisprudence, the Practitioners' Soci- 
 ety, the Medical and Surgical Sncit'ty, the 
 Neurological Society and the Bellevue Hos- 
 pital Alumni Society, and also of the Uni- 
 versity, Harvard, Garden City Golf and 
 Century Clubs. He married in New York 
 City, Nov. 9, 1882, Eunice Dana, and they 
 have two children. Address: 11 W. 12th 
 Street, New York. 
 
 BRANTLEY, William Gordon: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman ; born at Black- 
 sliear. Pierce County, Ga., Sept. 18, 1860. 
 He was educated in the common schools 
 at his native place, and was two years at 
 the rnixcrsity of (Jcorgia. He read law 
 witli cK coiiiiicssiiian .lolin C. Nicholls, and 
 was admitted to the bar in Oct., 1801, 
 practising at Blackshear until 1889, when 
 he removed to Brunswick, Ga. He repre- 
 sented Pierce County in the Georgia House 
 of Representatives in 1884 and 1885, repre- 
 sented the Third Senatorial District in the 
 Georgia Senate in 1886 and 1887, and was 
 elected solicitor-general (prosecuting attor- 
 ney) of Briuiswick Circuit in 1888 for a 
 term of four years, and was reelected in 
 1892. In 1896 he was elected from the 
 Kleventh Georgia District to the Fifty- 
 fifth Congress, and has since been bienni- 1 
 aih' elected, and i> miw serving in the 
 
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 211 
 
 Si.vty-thst Congress, expiring March 3, 
 1911. He is a Democrat in politics. Ad- 
 dress : Brunswick, Ga. 
 
 BRATTON, Theodore Du Bose: 
 
 Bishop of Mississippi; born at Winns- 
 boro, S. C, Nov. 11, 1862; son of John and 
 Elizabeth Porcher (Du Bose) Bratton. He 
 was educated at the University of the 
 South, graduating from the theological 
 course in 1887 and receiving the degree of 
 B.D. in 1889. He received the degree of 
 D.D. from his Alma Mater in 1901. He 
 took orders as deacon of the Episcopal 
 cliureh in 1887 and was ordained priest in 
 1888 by Bishop Howe. He was missionary 
 at York, Lancaster and Chester, S. C, be- 
 coming in 1888, rector of the Church of the 
 j Advent, Spartanburg, S. C. After eleven 
 years of activity., he became rector of St. 
 Mary's School at Raleigh, N. C, continuing 
 until 1903, when he became Bishop of Mis- 
 sissippi. He was consecrated by Bishops 
 Dudley, Weed, Nelson, Gailor, Johnston and 
 Heckwith. He is author of: The Ministry 
 uf the Laity; Christian Education; The 
 Church's Duty, and other published ad- 
 dresses. On July 17, 1888, he married at 
 Tallahassee, Fla., Lucy Beverly Randolph, 
 now deceased. In Aug., 1906, he married 
 .Mrs. Ivy Perrin Gass, of Abbeville, S. C. 
 Address : Jackson, Miss. 
 
 BRAWLEY. William H.: 
 
 United States judge; born at Chester, 
 S. C, May 13, 1841; son of H. C. and 
 Harriet R. (Foote) Brawley. He was grad- 
 uated from South Carolina College in 1860, 
 with the degree of A.B,, and that college 
 conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. 
 in 1905. He studied law after the war 
 between the States, in which he served on 
 the Confederate side, and engaged in prac- 
 tice at Chester, S. C, practising there until 
 liis removal to Charleston in 1874. He be- 
 
 ' came prominent in the political activities 
 of the State as a Democrat, was solicitor 
 
 , of the Sixth Judicial Circuit of South Caro- 
 lina from 18()8 to 1874, was a member of 
 the South Carolina Legislature from 1880 
 to 1890, and in 1890 was elected as a Dem- 
 ocrat to the Fifty-second Congress. He was 
 
 reelected to the Fifty-third Congress in 
 1892, serving until appointed by President 
 Cleveland in Feb., 1894, as United States 
 judge for the District of South Carolina. 
 Address : Charleston, S. C. 
 
 BRAXTON, Allen Caperton: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Union, Monroe County, 
 W. Va., Feb. 6, 1862; son of Dr. Tomlin 
 and Mary (Caperton) Braxton. He studied 
 law in a lawyer's office and at the University 
 of Virginia and was admitted to the bar 
 of Virginia in 1883, and began to practise 
 law at Staunton, Va. He was for several 
 years Commonwealth's attorney and city 
 attorney of that city. During the year 
 1901-1902, he was delegate to the Consti- 
 tutional Convention of Virginia, when the 
 Constitution of that State was revised, and 
 served as chairman of the Committee on 
 Corporations and as a member of several 
 others. Mr. Braxton is an authority on 
 corporations, writing several articles on 
 the subject and formulating the powers and 
 laying the foundation of the Virginia Cor- 
 poration Commission for the purpose of 
 regulating and controlling railways and all 
 other public service corporations. He was 
 a delegate at large from Virginia to the 
 National Democratic Convention at St. 
 Louis in 1904; and was president of the 
 State Bar Association of Virginia and of 
 the Business Men's Club of Richmond, Va. 
 He is general counsel for the Richmond, 
 Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Co., 
 and of the Washington Southern Railway 
 Co., and is of the counsel for the receivers 
 of the Seaboard Air Line Railway, and his 
 tirm are general advisory counsel for the 
 Georgia and Florida Railway. He is a 
 member of the Westmoreland, Common- 
 wealth and other clubs in Richmond. Ad- 
 dress: Richmond, Va. 
 
 BRAY, Frank Chapin: 
 
 Editor; born in Salineville, Ohio, May 7, 
 1866; son of Rev. James Madison and Wil- 
 helmina (Chapin) Bray. He was gradu- 
 ated from Wesleyan University, Conn., in 
 1891). In 1891 he became city editor of the 
 Middletown (Conn.) Herald, managing edi- 
 tor of the Erie (Pa.) Morning Dispatch 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 from 18!)2 to 1894, served on the editorial 
 stafl' of the Literary Digest from 181)4 to 
 lS<»i), editing also iii 1898 to 1899 the Phi 
 Kappa Psi Shield, and departments in 
 Werner's ilagazine and The Chautauquan. 
 In 1899 lie became editor of The Chautau- 
 quan. and since June, 1902, has been editor- 
 in-chief of the Chautauqua Literary and 
 Scientific Circle Books, The Chautauquan 
 ^lagazine, Chautauquan Weekly, Daily (in 
 summer season), and quarterly, and the 
 Chautauqua Special Courses for Home 
 Heading. He is a member of the National 
 Arts Club of New York, and the Literary 
 Club of Chicago. He married at Washing- 
 ton, Pa., June 18, 1901, Gertrude McMil- 
 lan. Address: Chautauqua, N. Y. 
 
 BRAY, John P.: 
 
 American consul-general; born in Hen- 
 derson, Sibley County, Minn., Feb. 14, 1859. 
 His parents migrated from the State of 
 New York in the year 185.5. He received a 
 high school education and was graduated 
 from the Commercial Department of St. 
 Cloud College. He went to Grand Forks, 
 N. Dak., in 1870, and was one of the pio- 
 neers of the Red River Valley. He engaged 
 in the mercantile business, but was made 
 the first county auditor of Grand Forks 
 County. lie served in this position for 
 three terms (six years). When the State 
 was taken into the Union he was elected its 
 first State auditor in 1889 and i-eelected 
 in 1891. Before the expiration of his term 
 he was appointed ])ostmaster at Grand 
 Forks by President Harrison. In addition 
 to these positions Mr. Bray was chairman 
 of the commission appointed by the Legis- 
 lature to apportion and' divide the public 
 assets between the States of North and South 
 Dakota. He was appointed by President 
 .McKiiiley consul-general at Melbourne, and 
 ri'-a])pointed by President Roosevelt. Ad- 
 dress: American Consulate Genera], Mel- 
 bourne, Australia. 
 
 BRAZER, Clarence Wilson: 
 
 -Xieiiilect ; liorii in I'liihuh'lpliia, i'a.. 
 .Maidi i:}, 1880; son <il' ( luisloiilier Bra/.er 
 and Julia Wilson (Stackliouse) Brazer. He 
 was educated at Asbury Park, N. J., High 
 
 School, the Drexel Institute and Pennsyl- 
 vania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 
 four years in various Philadelphia offices 
 and four years in the office of Cass Gilbert 
 and the Society of Beaux Arts Architects 
 Ateliers, in New York City, and Europe, 
 and has traveled and studied extensively in 
 Europe. He has been engaged in practice 
 as an architect in New York City since 
 1902, Architect of Trinity P, E. Church, 
 Seventh Avenue, New York City, the Pa- 
 vilion and other buildings on the board- 
 walk at Asbury Park, N. J., as well as 
 many residences. In an open competition 
 held in 1908 for the selection of an archi- 
 tect for the new Capitol of Porto Rico at 
 San Juan, his design was recommended for 
 second prize by the jury of architects from 
 among 135 competitors. Mr. Brazer is a 
 member of the T- Square Club of Pliiladel- 
 phia, and of the Architectural League of 
 New York City. He married in Philadel- 
 phia April 25,'l905, Mary Ella Mendenliall. 
 Address: 1133 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 BRECKENRIDGE. Clifton Rhodes: 
 
 Diplomatist; born in Lexington, Ky., 
 Nov. 22j 1840. He was educated at schools 
 in Kentucky and at the Washington Col- 
 lege, Va.; served as private in the Confed- 
 erate States Army, and as midshipman in 
 the Confederate States Navy. In 1870 lie 
 moved to Arkansas, and engaged in cotton 
 planting, and from 1883 to 1894 was a 
 member of Congress, and served on the 
 Ways and INIeans Committee during the 
 greater part of liis congressional service. 
 He resigned from the 53d Congress and 
 became United States Minister to Russia, 
 from 1894 to 1897. On Nov. 21, 1S7G, he 
 married in Memphis, Teiin., Catherine B. 
 Carson. He is now president of the Arkan- 
 sas Valley Trust Comj)any. Address: i"(irl 
 Smith, Ark. 
 
 BRECKENRIDGE, Ralph W.: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Carlisle. Ohio, Mareli 
 14, 1800; sun of Charles F. and i\fary Jane 
 (Foster) Breckenridge. lie is of old New 
 England stock, his ancestor.. James Breck- 
 enridge, lia\iiig played a ])rominent part in 
 founding the State of Vermont, liis pa- 
 
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 213 
 
 tcnial grandmother was a IMorton, having 
 descended from Stephen Tlopkins, who came 
 over in the INIaynowcr, and from George 
 Morton, who came over in the Ann. He 
 was educated in the puhlic schools of North- 
 ern Iowa, whither his father removed at the 
 elose of the Civil War. He began the study 
 of law at CrescOj Iowa; was admitted to 
 (he har in 1881, and located in Omaha that 
 \-ear. He was first associated with Wil- 
 liam R. Morris, now deceased, under the 
 lirni name of Morris and Breckenridge. For 
 more than twenty years he has been associ- 
 ated with Mr. Charles J. Greene, and is now 
 a member of the law firm of Greene, Breck- 
 inridge and IMatters. Mr. Breckenridge is 
 a prominent member of the Nebraska State 
 liar Association and was its president in 
 llie year 1905; he has been a member of 
 the Executive Committee of the American 
 liar Association, and chairman of its stand- 
 ing Committee on Insurance since that 
 committee was created. In 1904 he was 
 a delegate from Nebraska to the Universal 
 ( ongress of Lawyers and Jurists at St. 
 l.onis, Mo. He has made a special study 
 of the legal problems related to insurance, 
 upon which he has lectured at Yale, at the 
 I'niversity of Nebraska, and at various 
 otlier places. He is a member of the Sons 
 (if the American Revolution, the xKmerican 
 Association for the Advancement of Science, 
 and of the Connecticut Society of Mayflower 
 descendants. He married Sept. 19, 1888, 
 Harriet A. Allen, of Burlington, Vt., and 
 lias two children. Residence: 3011 Jack- 
 sun Street, Omaha. Address: 711 New 
 \'()rk Building, Omalia, Neb. 
 
 BRECKONS, Joseph Allison: 
 
 -Newspaper writer since 1884; born in 
 St. Clair, Pa., Nov. 27, 1857. He was edu- 
 cated at Kewanee, 111., 1864 to 18G9; St. 
 ('lair, Pa., 1809 to 1871, and the academy 
 at Millersville, Pa., 1871 to 1873. He 
 ]mblished the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Daily Lead- 
 er, 1884 to 1893; was Wyoming correspond- 
 ent for the New York Sun, Chicago Record, 
 San Francisco Call. Omaha Bee, Salt Lake 
 I'riliinie, Denver Republican, etc., 1894 to 
 l!)(l(); established the Wyoming Industrial 
 Journal iu 1899, and has been the W^ash- 
 
 iiiLjfon correspondent for the Denver Repub- 
 lican, Salt Lake Herald, Hawaiian Star, 
 and the Portland (Ore.) Telegram since 
 1900; also acting as secretary to Senator 
 Warren of Wyoming. He is a Republican, 
 and is author of: Water Right Problems 
 on Bear River; also wrote: "The Carey 
 Arid Act," in the Irrigation Age; "Irri- 
 gated' Colorado," in same; and "Arid Land 
 Legislation," in Illustrated West. In 1882 
 he married in Philadelphia, Josephine 
 Whit!\ Address: 1814 G. Street, N. W. 
 Omce: 613 Fifteenth Street, N. W., Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 BREHM, Marie Caroline: 
 
 Lecturer; born in Sandusky, Ohio, June 
 30, 1859; daughter of William Henry and 
 Elizabeth (Rhode) Brehm. She was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of Sandusky, 
 Ohio, and at h.ome, with her father as in- 
 structor in civics and on public questions. 
 She organized and taught a class of fifteen 
 boys in Sunday school at 16 years, removed 
 from Ohio to Illinois in 1882; was super- 
 intendent of a Sunday school in Claremont. 
 111., 1887; principal of the Claremont 
 schools, 1887-1888; district president and 
 organizer of the Woman's Christian Tem- 
 perance Union, 1891-1896; State superin- 
 tendent of Institutes, 1895-1900, and State 
 president, 1901-1900, vice-president since 
 1907 of the Illinois Woman's Christian 
 Temperance Union, and from 1895 to 1902 
 superintendent of the National N. C. T. W. 
 Franchise Department; elected in June, 
 1900, special lecturer on scientific temper- 
 ance of the General Assembly's Permanent 
 Committee of Temperance of the Presby- 
 terian Church in the U. S. A., of which 
 she is now field secretary and lecturer. 
 jNIiss Brehm was two years a trustee of the 
 Frances E. Willard National Temperance 
 Hospital, Chicago ; was three times nomi- 
 nated by the Prohibition party for trustee 
 of the State University (received 42,725 
 votes in 1904 and led the ticket in 1908): 
 has lectured at Chautauqua assendjlies 
 since 1896; delivered one of the dedicatory 
 sermons at the dedication of the ]\Ietliodist 
 Episcopal Church in Ilillsboro, ill.; and 
 she freciuenllv addresses ministers' meet- 
 
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 ings, s\Tiods, presbyteries, State normal 
 schools, State universities and student bod- 
 ies of various kinds on scientific temper- 
 ance, Christian citizenship and woman suf- 
 frage. Her publications include her five 
 annual addresses while State president of 
 the Illinois W. C. T. U., and various pam- 
 phlets, leaflets, tracts, etc., and she wrote 
 the constitution under which the Illinois 
 W. C. T. U. does its work, including some 
 original features which have been copied by 
 other State and local unions. She is a life 
 member of the National W. C. T. U., and 
 of the Loyal Temperance Legion of Illinois, 
 ami a member of the Chicago Peace Society 
 and the South Side Equality Club of Chi- 
 cago. Address: .1464 Jefferson Avenue, 
 Chicago. 
 
 BRENNAN. James Francis: 
 
 Lawyer; l)()rn in Petcrboroiigli. N. H., 
 March 31, 1853; son of Hubert Brennan 
 and Mary (Mahoney) Brennan. He was 
 educated in the academy at Peterborough, 
 and graduated and received the degree of 
 B.A. from the University of Maryland', Bal- 
 timore, in 1884 . Returning to his native 
 town he engaged successfully in the prac- 
 1 ice of law and has had charge of very 
 many important law suits. He is one of 
 the three trustees of the New Hampshire 
 States IJbrary. and a member of the State 
 Board of Charities and Correction. He has 
 held many town and State offices, and is 
 president and director of several of the 
 local corporations. He is a Democrat in 
 politics and a Catholic in religion. He is 
 a member of the American-Irish Historical 
 Society, New Hampshire Historical Society 
 and llistriographer of the Peterborough 
 Historical Society. Address: Peterbor- 
 oiigli. X. H. 
 
 BRENNAN, Thomas Francis: 
 
 ( alholic bishop; boin in Tii)p('rary. Ire 
 land, in 1853. He came to the United 
 States in childhood, settling in Pennsyl- 
 vaiiiii. After his graduation from Alle- 
 gheny College, and studying the classics at 
 Jiouen, France., and theology at Innsbruck. 
 Cermany, he returned to this country, en- 
 gaging in mission work in Pennsylvania, 
 
 and was instrumental in building three 
 cluirches. He represented the diocese of 
 Erie at the jubilee of Pope Leo XIII, and 
 was made domestic prelate of the Pope's 
 household with the title of Monsignore. re- 
 ceiving the degree of D.D. at Rome in 1880. 
 He was con.secrated bishop of Dallas, Texas, 
 April 5, 1891, resigning two years later. 
 In 1893 and 1894 he was vicar apostolic 
 of Labrador, and in 1894 and 1895 became 
 auxilliary bishop in New Foundland, re- 
 tui-ning to Rome at the Pope's request. Ad- 
 dress: Via del Seminario, 112. Rome, Italy. 
 
 BRENNER, Victor David: 
 
 Medalist, sculptor; born in Shavly, Rus- 
 sia, June 12, 1871. He arrived in New 
 York in May, 1890, and started in business 
 as a die cutter in 1893. In 1898 he went 
 to Paris and became a pupil of Louis 
 Oscar Roty, and exhibited his works ;tt the 
 Paris Exposition and Salon, 1900, tlie Pan- 
 American Exposition, Buffalo. 1901, and 
 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 1904. 
 receiving awards from each. Mr. Brenner 
 designed the William Muhlenberg medal on 
 the opening of St. Luke's Hospital; the 
 25th National Conference of Charities med- 
 al ; souvenir plaquette of the American Sec- 
 tion of the Paris Exposition. 1900; the 
 George W. Curtis medal; Columbia liiiver- 
 sitj' ; Volunteers' medal, given by the State 
 of Michigan to her soldiers and sailors; 
 Prince Henry medal by the American Nu- 
 mismatic Society; Theodore L. De Vinno 
 medal by the Typotheta? of New York; 
 John Fritz medal by the United Engineer- 
 ing Societies; the Wright Brothers' medal, 
 presented to them by the Aero Club of 
 America; Lloyd McKim Garrison medal 
 for Harvard University; Amerigo Vespucci 
 and John Paul Jones plaques by the Amer- 
 ican Numismatic Society; James McNeill 
 Whistler placpie; medal of the lntern;\t ional 
 Congress on Tuberculosis, Washington. 
 1908; employees medal of the Panama Ca- 
 nal ; the Lincoln cent adapted, Feb. 18, 
 1909; seals of the New York Public Li- 
 braiy. the Fine Arts Federation of New 
 ^■^lk: busts of Professor Cliarles Eliot and 
 SiiuoM Stern: i)orlraits of William M. 
 l<]varts. Collis P. 1 luiil inyton, ex-President 
 
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 Theodore Roosevelt, etc. His works are in- 
 chuled in the collections of the Paris Mint, 
 tlie Munich Glyiitothek, Vienna Numis- 
 matic Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 
 and Numismatic Society, New York, Art 
 Institute of Chicago, the Luxembourg Mu- 
 seum in Paris, and' the Museum of Fine 
 Arts in Boston. Mr. Brenner is a member 
 of the American Numismatic Society, Na- 
 tional Sculpture Society, the Architectural 
 Lieague and the Arts Club in New York. 
 Residence: 107 Second Avenue. Office: 114 
 E. 28tli Street, New Y^ork City. 
 
 BRENT, Charles Henry: 
 
 Protestant Episcopal bishop of the Phil- 
 ippine Islands ; born at New Castle, On- 
 tario, April 9, 1862; son of Rev. Canon 
 Henry and Sophia Frances (Cummings) 
 Brent. He studied at Ti-inity College, 
 Toronto, graduating with the degree of B. 
 A. in 18S4 and receiving that of M.A. in 
 1889 and D.D. in 1901. He was ordered 
 deacon in tlie Church of England in 1886, 
 and ordained in the Church of England in 
 1886, and ordained to the priesthood the 
 following year by Bishop Sweatnara of To- 
 ronto. He became assistant at St. Paul's 
 Episcopal Church. Buffalo. N. Y., in 1887 
 and of St. John the Evangelist, Boston, 
 j\Tass., the following year. He was associ- 
 ate rector of St. Stephen's Church, Boston, 
 1891 to 1901, in which latter year he be- 
 came rector of the same church. He was 
 elected Bishop of the Philippine Islands 
 and consecrated bishop in 1901. In 1908. 
 on the death of Bishop Satterlee, Bishop 
 Brent was elected Bishop of Washington, 
 but declined in view of the importance of 
 his work in the Philippines. He was on 
 the editorial staff of the Churchman (New 
 York) from 1897 to 1900. Bishop Brent 
 is author of: With God in the World; the 
 Consolations of the Cross; The Splendor 
 of the Human Body; Adventure for God; 
 Lilierty and Other Sermons; The Mind of 
 Christ Jesus; Leadership (Longmans); 
 With God in Prayer (Jacobs). He was 
 Paddock lecturer at the General Theological 
 St>minary, N. Y., in 1904, and William 
 lielden Noble lecturer at Harvard Univer- 
 sity in 1907. He was a member of the 
 
 Phili])pine Opium Commission in 1903 and 
 1904: 1908-1909, Senior U. S. Commissioner 
 to the International Opium Commission in 
 Shanghai and became its president. Ad- 
 dress: 2.53 Calle Nozaleda, Manila, P. I. 
 
 BRETT, George Piatt: 
 
 President of the Macmillan Company; 
 born in London, England, in 1858; son of 
 George F. and Ellzabetji (Piatt) Brett. 
 He was educated in scliools in London ;ind 
 at the College of the City of New York. 
 He became connected in 1879 with The 
 Macmillan Company, of which he is now 
 president, and is also a director of the 
 Macmillan Publishing Company, of Canada. 
 He is a director of the American Publish- 
 ers' Association. Mr. Brett is an occa- 
 sional contributor to magazines, chiefly on 
 professional topics. He is a member of the 
 New York Chamber of Commerce, Ameri- 
 can Geographical Society, American Insti- 
 tute Archeology, American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science, and is also a 
 member of the Century Association, and the 
 Players', Grolier, New York Athletic, Na- 
 tional Arts, and National Democratic Clubs 
 of New York City, and the National Club 
 of London, England. He married in New 
 York City, in 1891, Marie Louise Tostevin. 
 Residence: 267 West End Avenue. Office: 
 06 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 BREWER, David Josiah: 
 
 Associate justice of the U. S. Supreme 
 Court; born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, June 
 20, 1837 ; son of Rev. Josiah Brewer, one 
 of the early missionaries of the American 
 Board to Turkey, and of his wife, Emilia 
 A. (Field) Brewer, who was a sister of 
 David Dudley, Cyrus W., and Justice 
 Stephen J. Field. He was graduated from 
 Yale College in 1856, and from the Albany 
 Law School in 1858, and the following year 
 he established himself in the practice of 
 law at Leavenworth, Kan., where he re- 
 sided until he removed to Washington to 
 enter upon his present duties. He was ap- 
 pointed LT. S. commissioner in 1861, served 
 as judge of the probate and criminal courts 
 of Leavenworth County, Kan., 1863-1864, 
 judge of the District Court, 1865-1869; 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ominty attorney of Leavenworth County, 
 1870. In 1870 he was elected, and in 1870 
 and 1882 was reelected .a justice of the 
 Supreme Court of the State of Kansas. He 
 was appointed, in 1884, by President 
 Arthur, to the office of judge of the Circuit 
 Court of the United States for the Eighth 
 District, which lie filled until his appoint- 
 ment in 1880. to his present office as 
 associate justice of the Supreme Court of 
 the United States in succession to Justice 
 Stanley ilatthews, deceased. Justice Brewer 
 was appointed by President Cleveland to 
 the office of president of the Venezuela 
 Boundary Commission in 1800, and in 1899 
 was api)ointed a member of the Arbitration 
 Tiibunal to settle the boundary dispute 
 between British Guiana and Venezuela. 
 Justice Brewer has delivered orations and 
 addresses on many important occasions, 
 was orator at the Bicentennial of Yale 
 University in 1901, and was president of 
 tlie International Congress of Lawyers and 
 Jurists, held at St. Louis in 1904 in con- 
 nection with the Louisiana Purchase Ex- 
 ])()sitioii. Justice Brewer has had the de- 
 gree of IJ..1). conferred upon him by Iowa 
 College. \\;i-lilitnu College, Yale, Bowdoin, 
 Wcsliyaii. :iiiil llic Universities of Wiscon- 
 sin and XCniiont. lie is author of: Tlie 
 Pew to llic I'ulpit, 1897; The Twentieth 
 Century from Aiiotber View Point, 1899; 
 American Citizenship, 1902. lie married at 
 P.urlington, Vt., Oct. 3, 1801, Louise R. 
 I>:indon, wbo died April 3, 1898; and mar- 
 ried again, at Burlington, Vt., June 5, 1901, 
 l-;mma ISIiner ]\lott, of Washington, T). C. 
 A.ldress: 1023 Sixteenth Street, Washing- 
 ton, D. C. 
 
 BREWER, Leigh Richmond: 
 
 Bishop of Alontana; born at Berksliire, 
 Vt., Jan. 20, 1839. He was graduated from 
 the academic course of ITobart College, B.A., 
 1800, M..\., 1809, and received the degrees 
 of S.T.D. and D.T). in 1K81. He studied 
 also at the General 'i'lieohjgical Seminary 
 in New York Cily. lie was ordered deacon 
 in the Episcopal tliurcli in 1800 by Bisliop 
 lliiratio i'otter, and ordained priest the fol- 
 lowing year by Bishop C'oxe. Upon enter- 
 in" lhi> minis! rv In- bfcame curate of Grace 
 
 Church, Carthage, N. Y.. later rector of 
 Trinity Church, Watertown, N. Y. He was 
 consecrated bi.shop in 1880 by Bishops 
 limit ington, Tuttle, Bissell, B. H. Paddock 
 and Morris, and became Bishop of IMontana. 
 He married, in 1800, Henrietta W. Foote. 
 He is author of various addresses, appeals 
 and reports. Address: Helena, Montana. 
 
 BREWSTER, William: 
 
 Ornithologist; born in Wakefield, Mass., 
 July f), 1851. He was graduated from the 
 Cambridge High School in 1809 and is an 
 honorary A.B. and A.M., receiving the first 
 named degree at Amherst in 1880, and the 
 other in 1899 at Harvard. He was the 
 a.ssistant in charge of tlie collection of 
 birds and mammals, for the Boston So 
 ciety of Natural History from 1880 to 
 1887; in charge of the department of mam- 
 mals and birds at the Cambridge Museum 
 of Comparitive Zoology from 1885 to 1900, 
 and since then he has become assistant 
 in charge of birds. Most of his time is 
 devoted to the managing of a private iini- 
 seuni of ornithology in Cambridge. He is 
 one of the three trustees of an estate in 
 l>ostoii, and one of eleven trustees of the 
 Brewster Eiee Academy at Wolfeboro, N. 
 11., which was endowed by his father; is 
 ex-president of the American Ornitholo- 
 gists' Union ; and president of the Nuttall 
 Ornithologist Club, and the ISIassachusetts 
 Audubon Society. Mr. Brewster is a fellow 
 of the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, and is a member of 
 various other scientific societies in this 
 country and Europe. On Feb. 9, 1878, he 
 nianicil a I lioston, Caroline F. Kettell. 
 Address: 14.') Brattle Street, Cambridge, 
 Mass. 
 
 BREWSTER, William: 
 
 Manufacturer of carriages and automo- 
 biles; born in New York City, June 2, 1800; 
 son of Henry and Charlotte (Drajicr) 
 I'.rcwslcr. He was educated at St. .lohn's 
 School, at Sing Sing, N. Y. He started in 
 business with Brewster & Co., Oct. 1, 18S3; 
 stiulied designing in Paris in 1885, and 
 visited tlu- piinciiial carriage concerns of 
 l^uropc in 1880. lie was admiticd to the 
 
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 firm of Biowster & Co. July 1. 188S, and 
 has been its president, since its incorpora- 
 tion, Jan. 1. l!t(>;J. He is also a director 
 of llio Lincoln National Bank and of the 
 Nortiiern Insurance Co. of New York. Mr. 
 lirewster is an independent in ])olitics, a 
 member of tlie J\Ietropolitan Museum of 
 Art and a life member of the Museum of 
 Natural History, and a member of the 
 Union 1^'ague, City and Barnard Clubs of 
 New York City. He is a widower and has 
 a daughter, Barbara. Address: Broadway 
 and 47th Street, New York City. 
 
 BREYFOGEL, Sylvanus C: 
 
 i Bishop of the Evangelical Association; 
 iborn at Pleasantville, Pa., July 20, 1851; 
 I son of Seneca and Sarah (Ely) Breyfogle. 
 He was educated in the Central Pennsyl- 
 ivania College, Union Seminary of Pennsyl- 
 ;vania, and was graduated from Illinois 
 iWesleyan University, with the degree of 
 :Ph.l3., and received the degree of D.D. from 
 Otterbein University in 1901. He was or- 
 dained in the ministry of the Evangelical 
 Association in 1873; filled five pastorates; 
 was elected presiding elder in 1886, and has 
 been bishop since 1891. He has preached 
 in official episcopal tours throughout the 
 United States, Canada and Europe; has 
 made tours of insjDection of missionary 
 fields of his church in China and Japan, 
 and speaks frequently at the summer as- 
 semblies of the Ocean Grove School of The- 
 ology; Winona Assembly, etc. He is au- 
 thor of: Evangelical Landmarks; The Pol- 
 ity of the Evangelical Association; Great 
 Sermons by Great Preachers. He was for- 
 merly editor of The Preachers' Assistant, 
 and is a member of the Publication Com- 
 niittee of his denomination. He married at 
 Reading, Pa., May 8, 1877, Kate Boas. Ad- 
 dress: Reading, Pa. 
 
 BRIDGES, Fidelia: 
 
 ' Landscape painter; born in Salem, Mass., 
 ^1834; daughter of Henry Gardner and Eliza 
 (Chadwick) Bridges, her ancestors being 
 jamong the earliest settlers of Salem and 
 'vicinity since 1G24. Her earlier work was 
 [principally in oils, but more recently her 
 [paintings have chiefly been water colors. 
 
 and she has l)een reprcseiiti'd in numcrotis 
 important e.xliibitions. Miss Bridges is an 
 associate academician of the National Acad- 
 emy of Design and a memlioi- of the Amer- 
 ican \Vater Color Society. Address: Can- 
 aan, CoiMi. 
 
 BRIDGMAN, Frederic Arthur: 
 
 Artist; born in Tuskegee, Ala., Nov. 10, 
 1847. He was an apprentice in the engrav- 
 ing department of the American Bank Note 
 Company in New York in 1804 and 18G.5, 
 and in the meantime studied in the Brook- 
 lyn Art School and the National Academy 
 of Design. He went to Paris, and from 
 1866 to 1871 was a pupil under J. L. 
 Gerome and at the ficole des Beaux Arts. 
 His studio is in Paris, but he occasionally 
 visits New York. Mr. Bridgman is a paint- 
 er of figure and of oriental and archaeologi- 
 cal pictures, and has won medals at Paris 
 and elsewhere. He was appointed chevalier 
 in 1878 and officier, 1907, of the Legion 
 d'Honneur of France, 1878, and is an officer 
 of the Order of St. Michael of Bavaria. 
 Mr. Bridgman is author of: Winters in 
 Algeria; and also (in French) of: An- 
 archy in Art, and the Idol and the Ideal. 
 He is also comjjoser of orchestral music 
 of much merit. He is a member of the Na- 
 tional Academy of Design; the Society of 
 American Artists, and Parisian Society of 
 x\merican Artists. Address : 146 Boule- 
 vard Malesherbes, Paris. 
 
 BRIDGMAN, George H.: 
 
 President of Hamline University, ]\Iinne- 
 sota ; born in Ontario, Canada, Aug. 2, 
 1841. He was graduated from Victoria 
 University, Canada, in 1864, and' from 
 Syracuse University he received the degrees 
 of A.M. in 1867, D.D. in 1878 and LL.D. in 
 1900. He was principal of Wesleyan Semi- 
 nary at Lima, N. Y'., 1873-188.3, and is a 
 clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. In June, 1873, he married Mary 
 B. Elliott, at Brantford, Ontario. Address: 
 1495 Hewitt Avenue, St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 BRIDGMAN, Herbert Lawrence: 
 
 Traveller, and secretary-treasurer, Peary 
 Arctic Club. He was born at Amherst, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 .Mass., May :W, 1844, ami i-> a <,M-aduate of j 
 Anilicrst t'olh'no, rccci\ inj,'^ tlie degrees of 
 A.r.. ill ISGG, A.M. in 180!); and honorary 
 M.A. iu 1904, and was i)rosident of the 
 general association of alumni, 1908-1 !)09. 
 .Mr. Mridgnian is by profession a journalist, 
 iiaving been connected witli llie Springlield 
 Republican in his earlier life, and succes- 
 sively Xew York agent of the New England 
 Associated Press, Washington correspondent 
 of the Boston Advertiser, and subsequently 
 connected with the N. Y. Tribune, Frank 
 Leslie's Publishing House, the New York 
 Press, and the Brooklyn Standard Union. 
 He began his experience with Arctic affairs 
 by a voyage in the Falcon, 18'J4. He was 
 iu connnand of the Diana expedition in 
 189'J, and of tiie Erik in lUOl. He was 
 with Prof. William Libbey in the Enchant- 
 ed Mesa expedition to New Mexico, in 1897, 
 and in 1904 made an extensive journey in 
 the Sudan. He is best known by his serv- 
 ices in connection with the efl'orts of Com- 
 mander Peary to discover the North Pole, 
 being secretary-treasurer of the Peary Arc- 
 tic Club, which has raised the money neces- 
 sary for tlie great arctic explorer's expedi- 
 tions. .Mr. Bridgman is a member of the 1 
 International Polar Commission, the Amer- 
 ican, Philadelphia, and National Geograph- ] 
 ic Societies, Psi Upsilon fraternity. Cham- 
 ber of Commerce of New York, and the Sons 
 of the Revolution, and chevalier of the Or- 
 der of Leopold 11 (1909). He is also a 
 member of the Explorers' Club of New Y'ork, 
 and the American Alpine Club of Philadel- 
 phia. jNIr. Bridgman is at present the bus- 
 iness manager of the Brooklyn Standard 
 Union, and is a director of the Brooklyn 
 Wareliouse and Storage Co. He is author 
 of: Africa from Sea to Center, describing 
 a journey to the Sudani and Uganda, 1905. 
 He married in New York, Sept. 7, 1887, 
 Helen Bartlett, and has one son. Kesi- 
 dence: (i04 Carlton Avenue. Office: 
 Stan<lar(l L'liion Ollice, ISrooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 BRIDGMAN. Lewis J.: 
 
 illustratoi-: hmii in Law icikm'. .Mass., 
 .Nov. 17^ 1857. lie was graduated from 
 Harvard Colh-ge with tiic class of 1881, and 
 lie is one of the most siiccessriil of modern 
 
 illustrators, and has been equally succ<'>s- 
 ful as a writer of short stories and of 
 children's books illustrated by himself. He 
 was formerly interested in the Nationalist 
 movement, and was a delegate to the Peo- 
 ples Party convention at Omaha, Neb., in 
 1892, but is now affiliated with the Republi- 
 can party. He is prominent in the civic 
 affairs of Salem, Mass., where lie now re- 
 sides. He is the author and illustrator of: 
 Odd Business, 1893; Mother Wild Gooso, 
 1900; Guess, 1901; Gulliver's Bird Book, 
 1902; Guess .Again, 1902; Bridgman's 
 Kewts, 1902; Lawsoni/ed Lyrics, 1905; 
 Seem-So's, 1906; The Santa Clans Club, 
 1907. He married first at North Andover, 
 Mass., Nov. 8, 1883, Lucy Stanwood Blan- 
 chard; and second, at Plymouth, Mass., 
 June 7, 1893, Annie Page Campbell, and 
 has two sons and a daughter. Address: 
 42 Summit Avenue, Salem, Mass. 
 
 BRIESEN, Arthur von: 
 
 i^awyer; born iu Borkcndorf, Germany, 
 July 11, 1843; son of Richard and Adele 
 (Brandtke) von Briesen. He was educated 
 at the Prussian Gymnasium, Hohenstein; 
 at Braunsberg ; and by a private tutor be- 
 1 fore he came in -1858 to New Y'ork where 
 1 he was graduated from the New York Uni- 
 versity lay school in 1868. He was Ser- 
 geant of Company B, 1st New Y'ork Volun- 
 teer Engineers from 1801-1864, and he was 
 on the staff of the Scientific American from 
 1864-1872, and of the American Artisan, 
 1872-1874. He was with the 10th Army 
 Corps in South Carolina and Georgia, at 
 the battles of Hilton-Head, Ft. Pulaski, Se- 
 cessionville, Pocotaligo, etc.; was president 
 of the Citizens' Union in 1896 and the Ger- 
 man-American McKinley and Roosevelt 
 League in 1900, and chairman of the New 
 York League in 1900, and of the Ellis Is- 
 land investigating committee in 1903. He 
 was admitted to the bar in 1868 and since 
 1888 has been senior member of the iirni 
 of Briesen and Knauth. He has been presi- 
 dent of the Legal Aid Society since 1S90, 
 and is director of the Stapleton National 
 Bank. lie is also a member of the New 
 Vork Cliamber of Commerce; the National 
 GeoLHapiiic Socicl v ; liic I'.a r Association, 
 
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 etc. Ill I'.MU Mr. liiicscii \v:is ;i delegate to 
 tilt' Lhiiver.sal Congress of Ijiiwyers and 
 Jurists at St. Louis, and the following year 
 was decorated with the Cross of the Legion 
 of Honor by the French Government, and 
 in 1908 he received from the Emperor of 
 (icniiany the Order of the Crown of Prus- 
 sia. He married Anna Goepel, in Brooklyn, 
 Oct. 22, 1873, and he has five children. 
 Residence: 1 East 47th Street. Office: 25 
 Broad St., New York City. 
 
 BRIGGS, Charles Augustus: 
 
 Clergyman, theologian; born in New 
 York City, Jan. 15, 1841; son of Alanson 
 Tuthill and Sarah Mead (Berrian) Briggs. 
 He was educated in the University of Vir- 
 ginia, 1857-1860; the Union Theological 
 Seminary, 18(U-18(i.'5, and the University of 
 Berlin, 1860- 18(i!), receiving the degree of 
 D.l). from the Universities of Edinburgh, 
 I'linceton, Glasgow and Williams, and of 
 D.Litt. from Oxford. From 1870-1874 he 
 was pastor of a Presbyterian Church at 
 Koselle, N. J.; was professor of Hebrew 
 from 1874-1891, of Biblical theology, 1891- 
 1904, and since then of Theological Encyclo- 
 paedia and Symbolics, at the Union The- 
 ological Seminary. He was editor of the 
 Presbyterian Review from 1880-1890, and 
 in 1891 was tried for heresy, but acquitted 
 by the Presbytery of New York, in 1893, 
 however, he was suspended by the General 
 Assembly. In 1899 he was made deacon, 
 and in 1900 was ordained priest by the 
 Protestant Episcopal bishop of New Y'ork. 
 Dr. Briggs is a member of the American 
 Oriental and German Oriental Societies, the 
 Oxford' Historical Society, the Society of 
 Biblical Literature and Exegesis, and of the 
 Century Club. He is the author of: Bib- 
 lical tetudy; American Presbyterianism ; 
 Messianic Prophecy; Whither? A Theologi- 
 cal Question for the Times; The Authority 
 of Holy Scripture (inaugural address upon 
 which the charges of heresy were based) ; 
 Bible, Church, and Reason; The Higher 
 Criticism of the Hexateuch; The Message 
 i of the Gospels; The Messiah of the Apos- 
 tles; Case against and Defense of Dr. Briggs 
 (3 |iart^) ; Study of Holy Scripture; In- 
 eanini inn of tlic Lmd; New Light on the 
 
 Life of .lesus; 'llie hlthical Teacliiiigs of 
 Jesus; Commentary on the Psalms; Church 
 Unity (all Scribners). Dr. Briggs is also 
 joint author (with F. Brown and S. R. 
 Driver) of llic \cw Hebrew Lexicon 
 (Houglitoii MilUiii), and with von lliigel of 
 The Papal Conunission and' the Pentateuch 
 (Longmans) ; is editor of the International 
 Theological Library, 34 volumes, and The 
 International Critical Commentary, 42 
 volumes, (bolli Sciibners), besides con- 
 tributing to leading periodicals in this coun- 
 try and in Europe. Dr. Briggs married 
 in" New York City, Oct. 19, 1865, Julie Val- 
 entine. Address: 700 Park Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 BRIGGS, Frank Obediah: 
 
 LTnited States senator ; born in Concord, 
 N. H., Aug. 12, 1851; son of James F. and 
 Roseanna (Smith) Briggs. He was educat- 
 ed in Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hamp- 
 sire. 1866-1868 and in the United States 
 Military Academy, from which he was grad- 
 uated in the class of 1872. He served as 
 second lieutenant in the Second U. S. In- 
 fantry as second lieutenanl;, 1872-1877, 
 when he resigned and became associated 
 with John A. Roebling's Sons Company, of 
 which he is assistant treasurer. He was 
 elected mayor of Trenton, N. J., serving 
 until Jan. 1, 1892; was appointed a mem- 
 ber of the State Board of Education by Gov- 
 ernor Voorhees, in 1901, but resigned in 
 1902, when appointed State treasurer to 
 till a vacancy, afterward being twice elect- 
 ed to that office and serving until elected 
 in 1907, United States senator from New 
 Jersey, for the term expiring in 1903. Sen- 
 ator Briggs has always been an active Re- 
 publican, and in 1904 was elected chairman 
 of the State Republican Committee, manag- 
 ing the successful campaign of that year. 
 Besides his connection with John A. Roe- 
 bling's Sons and subsidiary corporations 
 Senator Briggs is first vice-president of the 
 Norfolk and Portsmouth Tractiota Company, 
 a director of the Broad Street National 
 Bank, the Trenton Savings Fund Society 
 and the Metropolitan Surety Company. He 
 is a member of the I'liion League. Lawyers 
 and (Irolier Clubs of New York, the Lotus 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Club of Tiouton. Dofobo Club of Chicago, 
 Unit 0(1 Service Chib of Philadelphia, and 
 the l?ililiophile Society of Boston. He mar- 
 lic.l in Trenton, N. J., Sept. 22, 1874, Emi- 
 ly A. Allison. Address: Trenlon, N. J. 
 
 BRIGHAM. Johnson: 
 
 Author, librarian; born in Cherry Valley, 
 N. Y.. March 11, 184G. He graduated from 
 Hamilton College and in 1870, at Cornell 
 Universily. He was editor and half owner 
 of the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Daily Republi- 
 can from 1882-1893; president of the Iowa 
 State Republican League in 1892; United 
 States Consul to Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany 
 in 1893.. and was editor and publisher of 
 the ^Midland Monthly Magazine from 1894- 
 1899. He has been the State Librarian of 
 Iowa since 1898, and president of the Iowa 
 Library Commission since 1900; Avas presi- 
 dent of the Iowa Library Association in 
 1903 and of the National Association of 
 State Libraries in 1904, and he is a mem- 
 ber of the Iowa State Historical Society; 
 and the State Anthropological Society. Mr. 
 Brigham is a contributor to magazines and 
 reviews and has been designated by the 
 State Historical Society to write the Life 
 of James Harlan. He is the author of: 
 An Old Man's Idyl. In 1892 he married 
 Lucy Hitchcock Walker, at Ottiimwa, Iowa. 
 Address: Dos Moines, la. 
 
 BRIGHAM. William Tufts: 
 
 Lllinologist; born in Boston, May 24, 
 1841. He was graduated from Harvard 
 University in 18G2, receiving the degree 
 of A.M.; and the honorary degree of Sc.D., 
 \Vas conferred upon him by Columbia Uni- 
 versity in 1905. He explored the botany 
 of the Hawaiian Islands in 1864-186.'5; was 
 admitted to the Mas.sachusetts bar in 18C7; 
 and for part of the next two years was in 
 structor of botany at Harvard. \\ liile :i 
 member of the Boston school board lie in- 
 augurated a sy.stem of art iiisl ruction in 
 Ihe public schools, also the iiicfliod (jf an- 
 tliropometry now in general u-c in colleges, 
 etc. In 1888 he removed to Ibmolulu and 
 has since had charge of llie imi-cuin of 
 J'olvnesian ethnology and natural liistory 
 
 founded by Mr. C. R. Bishop. He is au- 
 thor of: Cast Catalogue of Antique Sculi>- 
 ture; Guatemala, the Land of the Quetzal; 
 Volcanic Manifestations in New Englaml : 
 Hawaiian Feather-work; Index to the Is 
 lands of the Pacific Ocean; Stone Imple- 
 ments of Ancient Hawaiians; Mats and 
 Baskets of Hawaiians; Ancient Hawaiian 
 Houses and Eruptions of Hawaiian Vol- 
 canoes. Dr. Brigham is a fellow of the 
 American Academy of Arts and Sciences 
 and an honoi-ary fellow of the Royal An- 
 thropological Institute of Great Britain and 
 Ireland. Address: Bishop INIuseum of Eth- 
 nology, Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. 
 
 BRINCKERHOFF, Henry Morton: 
 
 Electrical engineer; born in Fishkill-on- 
 Hudson, New York, April 20, 18GS. He 
 was graduated from Stevens Institute of 
 Technology, in 1890 as mechanical engi- 
 neer and began electrical work in the em- 
 ploy of Thomson-Houston Company on con- 
 struction work on the West End Street Rail- 
 waj^, of Boston ; was assistant engineer in 
 the power house of the Utica Belt Line 
 Street Railway in 1891-1892, and foreman 
 in charge of car equipment of the General 
 Electrical Company in Boston and on the 
 Coney Island and Brooklyn Railway. He 
 was assistant electrical engineer of the In- 
 tramur-al Railway at the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, which 
 was the first third-rail elevated road of the 
 United States, and was joint patentee of 
 the 3rd Rail System now so extensively 
 used, and on Aug. 4. 1894, became electri- 
 cal engineer of the Metropolitan West Side 
 Elevated Railway in Chicago, for which lie 
 equipped the first large elevated road for 
 city transportation with electricity. From 
 1898- 190G he was assistant general manager ^i 
 and general manager of the sama company,^ 
 and since then has been the electrical asso- 
 ciate of (ill). William Barclay Parsons. Hel 
 is a uieml) ■• of the Anieriean Soeii'ty of 
 l':iectrie(l ICii-.M'crs. and the \\'estern So- 
 ciety ><\ I'Jigi ,eers. in 1903 he married 
 Kjiireiiee I., lay at Chicago. Residence: 3 
 West Stli Slre("(. Olliee: (id Watl St re( 
 New York lit v. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 BRINKERHOFF, Roeliff: 
 
 Uaiikcf; born at Owasco, Cayiijiu County, 
 N. ^'.. -Fiuii' 28, 18:28. Up was odncated in 
 acadomies at Auburn and Honior, N. Y., and 
 afterward eiiijaged in teach in<;-. beginning 
 at the age of .sixteen. He was a tutor at 
 The Hermitage, the liome of General Jack- 
 son in Tennessee, for three years, and in 
 1849 went to Mansfield, Ohio, where ho 
 studied law with Judge Jacob BrinkerhofT, 
 a relative., and was admitted to the bar. 
 He practised law in INIansfield, and was 
 also fi'om 1855-1859 editor and proprietor 
 of the Mansfield Herald. At the beginning 
 of the war he became first lieutenant and 
 quartermaster of the Sixty-fourth Regiment 
 of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served five 
 years, attaining the rank of colonel in the 
 Quartermaster's Department, and brevet 
 Brigadier-general of United States Volun- 
 teers for meritorious services during the 
 war. He resumed the practice of law until 
 1878, and he is now president of the Mans- 
 field Savings Bank. General Brinkerhoff 
 has taken high rank as a philanthropist 
 and penologist, is a prominent member of 
 the National Conference of Charities and 
 ('(urection and was its president in 1880, 
 was president of the American delegation to 
 and vice-president of the International 
 Prison Congress at Paris in 1895, and was 
 formerly vice-president and' succeeded Gen- 
 eral Pi. B. Hayes as president of the Amer- 
 ican National Prison Congress. He is also 
 chairman of the Ohio Board of State Chari- 
 ties of which he has been a member for the 
 past thirty years. He is also president of 
 the Ohio Archeological and Historical So- 
 ciety which he organized in 1875. He mar- 
 ried ]\Iary Bentley, granddaughter of Gen- 
 eral Robert Bentley, of Ohio. Address : 
 Mansfield, Ohio. 
 
 BRINTON, Christian: 
 
 Art critic; born in Thornbury, Chester 
 County, Pa.j Sept. 17, 1870; son of Joseph 
 Hill and Mary A. (Herr) Brinton. He 
 was educated at Haverford College of 
 which he is a B.A. of 1892 and M.A. of 
 1900. He completed his studies at the Uni- 
 versity of Heidelberg and the University of 
 Paris, and was for a time a pupil of Felix 
 
 Galipaux at llic Vaudeville Theatre, Paris. 
 After a succes-^ful career as an aclor in 
 Palis, i.onddii and New York, he became 
 associate cdilur of The Critic, 1900-190:5 
 and ait direcjiu- of Everybody's Magazine, 
 190;M9()5. lie lias been a frequent con- 
 tributor of articles on architecture, sculp- 
 tuie aiul painting to the leading magazines 
 of the United States and is author of: 
 Modern Artists, 1908. He has travelled ex- 
 tensively throughout Europe and resided 
 abroad for protracted periods. He is a 
 member of the Leonardo da Vinci Society, 
 and of the Phi Beta KajJpa Society, of the 
 Pennsylvania Society of New York, and of 
 various clubs in New York and Philadel- 
 phia. Address: 16 Gramercj^ Park, New 
 Yoik fJity. 
 
 BRISBANE, Arthur: 
 
 Editor N. Y. Evening Journal; born in 
 Buflalo, New York, Dec. 12, 1864; son of 
 Albert and Sarah (White) Brisbane. He 
 was educated in the public schools of New 
 York State and five years in Germany and 
 France. Mr. Brisbane began newspaper 
 work in 1883, on the New York Sun, with 
 which he was connected seven years as re- 
 porter, London correspondent and editor 
 of the Evening Sun; was managing editor 
 of the different editions of the New York 
 World, 1890-1897, and has been editor of 
 the New York Evening Journal since 1897. 
 Mr. Brisbane is one of the most prominent 
 of American journalists, whose editorials 
 reach a larger number of readers than those 
 of any other man. Residence: Hempstead, 
 L. I. Address: N. Y. Evening Journal, 
 New York City. 
 
 BRISTOL, Frank Milton: 
 
 Methodist Episcopal bishop ; born in Or- 
 leans County, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1851. In 1877 
 he was graduated as Ph.B. from Northwest- 
 ern LTniversity, which afterward conferred 
 upon him the A.JNI. and D.D. degrees. Af- 
 ter completing the Conference course, he 
 entered the ministry in Rock River Con- 
 ference, and served as pastor of leading 
 churches in Chicago districts for example, 
 Trinity, Grace, Wabash Avenue and First 
 Churcli, Evanston, 111., afterward becoming 
 
M1':N OI- AMl'.RiCA. 
 
 pastoi- uf the .Mctni|i(ilit;Hi Mdliodisl Epis- 
 copal ('liui<li. W'asliin^iton. D. ('.. of whicli 
 I'l'csiirlcnl McKinlcv was an ationdani, 
 rcinainiiiji- in thai clririzi' imlil elected by 
 tlic (Jeiieral ( niiliieiice licld al r.aliiniore. 
 Afd.. in May. 1!(08, to liis ])rosent oHice as 
 l)isliop of tile ^fethodist Episcopal Cluireli, 
 and plai-ed in cliarjjp of the South American 
 Confeience. with episcopal residence at 
 Bnenos Aiics. He has five times been ap- 
 ])ointcd a iiu'inher of the General Confer- 
 ence, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 Besides the distinction he has attained as 
 a preacher and jiastor. Bishop Bristol bears 
 high repute as a bibliophile and litterateur, 
 and is author of several books, including: 
 Providential Epochs ; The Ministry of Art ; 
 Shakespeare and America, etc. He married 
 in 1878 Xellie Frisbie, of Morgan Park, 111. 
 Address: Buenos Aires. Republica Argen- 
 tine, S. A. 
 
 BRISTOW, Joseph Little: 
 
 I'nited States senator: born in Wolfe 
 County, Ky., July 22, 1861. In 1886 he 
 graduated from Baker University, Kansas. 
 From 1887-1891 he served as clerk of the 
 district court, Douglas County, Kansas; in 
 1895-1807 was private secretary to Gov. 
 .Morrill (Kansas) ; in 1900 he had entire 
 cjiarge of the investigation of Cuban postal 
 frauds and the reorganization of Cuban pos- 
 tal service. He owned and edited the Sa- 
 lina (Kansas) Daily Bepublican in 1890- 
 1895. and in 1895 purchased the Ottawa 
 (Kansas) Herald. In 1S97 he was ap- 
 pointed fourth assistant jiostmaster general 
 serving until .laiiuary 20, 1905. During 
 the latter i)art of liis term he rendered dis- 
 tinguished services in the investigation and 
 remedying of abuses in the postal service 
 and the punishment of persons guilty of 
 offenses under the Federal laws. He was 
 appointed by the President special Panama 
 Railroad Commissioner in 1905, and made 
 an exhaustive rejjort on the Panama Rail- 
 road. He returned to newspaper piiblisliing 
 in Kansas, and in the sununer df I'Mis be- 
 came a candidate in the Republica u pri- 
 maries for United States senator, defeating 
 Hie incumbent. Hon. Chester 1. Long for 
 the nomination and being elect ed for the 
 
 six years beginning ^lareli -I. IIIOI). He 
 was iiianieil on Xnw II. IS79. in I'h'ining 
 ('nunt\. Ky.. to Mari^arrl A. iicndrix. Ad- 
 di'o--: Salina. Kan. 
 
 BRITTAIN. Joseph I.: 
 
 Ct)iisuhu- ollicir: apj)ointed consul at 
 Xantes. France, Oct. 15, 1897; at Kehl. 
 Germany, June 6. 1902; consul at Prague, 
 Bohemia, .Austria. March 30. 1907. He was 
 a member of the Ohio House of Representa- 
 tives from 1892-1896 and is a son of the 
 American Revolution. Address: American 
 Consulate. Prague, Bohemia. Austria. 
 
 BRITTEN. Flora Phelps Harley (Mrs. F. E. 
 Britten ) : 
 
 Lecturei' and company jironioter; born in 
 Ann Arbor, Mich.. Sept. 2, 1864; daughter 
 of David Sower and Jennie (Phelps) Har- 
 ley. On her father's side she is descended 
 from the English Harleys, who for con- 
 science sake left England and went to Ger- 
 many, changing their name to Sower, and 
 from Christopher Sower, who came from 
 Germany to Pennsylvania, and printed the ' 
 first Bible in German in America; and on 
 her mother's side she is descended, in the 
 seventh generation, from William Phelps 
 of England, who was one of the founders of 
 Dorchester, Mass., in 1630, and great grand- 
 daughter of John Horace Phelps, Revolu- 
 tionary soldier from Northampton, ]\lass. 
 She was graduated from the INlanistee 
 (Mich.) High School and from the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan as A.B.., was teacher 
 in public schools and taught art, Greek and 
 Latin in the Central University of Iowa, 
 became a licensed ])reacher in the Baptist , 
 Cluircl:. and lias held Hiree pastorates in ■*j 
 that denoniiiiat inn in Nebraska and Michi- 
 gan. She is a lecture)- on popular themes, 
 and also a t eni])eraiicc. and Prohibition 
 Party Icctuicr. Mrs. Britten has long been 
 active in the work of the Woman's Chris- 
 tian Temperance l^nion, has toui(>d five 
 \Vestern States as a temjierance lecturer, 
 and especially j)rominent in the work in 
 ."ilassaehusetts, where she is State superin- 
 tendent of Christian citizenship in the ilas- 
 saehusetts Woman's Christian Temperance 
 Union, president lor past five years of the 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 22 n 
 
 j^oston Central Woman's Christian Tomper- 
 anco Union, and member of the Executive 
 Hoard of tlie State W. C. T. U., and the Suf- 
 folk County \\'. C. T. C. She has writ ten 
 nniuerous >inall (locuiueiifs t'or circulat ioi for 
 Teni])eranee purposes. j\lrs. Hrillen has 
 been a National lecturer of llie Proliihition 
 Party. Was office manager of the I'lohibi- 
 tion Party of Michigan, ISilS-lOOl. :\lrs. 
 Britten has also devoted much attention tu 
 the business of jironiotion and is vice-presi- 
 dent of the Boston Development Company 
 and director and treasurer of the Cuba 
 Fruit Company. She married at ^lanistee, 
 Mieli. April 29, 1886, Rev. Fred E. Britten, 
 then pastor of the First Baptist Church of 
 Fairbault, Minn., and has three sons. Res- 
 idence : 86 Ellory Street, Cambridge, Mass. 
 Office: 700 Tremont Temple. Boston. 
 
 BRITTON, Nathaniel Lord: 
 
 Director on the New Y^ork Botanical Gar- 
 den; born at New Dorp, Staten Island, N. 
 Y., Jan. 15, 1859. He worked on the Van- 
 derbilt farm in boyhood, and was educated 
 at the Staten Island Academy, and after- 
 ward at the Columbia School of Mines, from 
 whioli lie was graduated as Engineer of 
 Mines in 1879, afterward receiving from 
 Columbia University the degrees of Ph.D. 
 in 1881 and the honorary degree of Sc.D. 
 in 1904. He has been connected with geo- 
 logical and botanical instruction in Colum- 
 bia Ijiiversity since 1879, was professor of 
 botany, 1891-1896, and since then emeritus 
 piofessor of botany. He was appointed, in 
 1896, director-in-chief of the New York Bo- 
 tanical Garden, in which position he still 
 continues. Dr. Britton has been an exten- 
 sive contributor to the scientific press on 
 North and South American flora and is the 
 author of monographs on: The Flora of 
 New Jersey; Illustrated Flora of the North- 
 ern United States and Canada; Manual of 
 the Flora of the Northern States and Can 
 ada; North American-West Indian Flora. 
 He was editor of the Bulletin of Torrey 
 Botanical Club, 1888-1898. He is a member 
 of the Botanical Society of North America, 
 and was its president in 1898-1899; is a fel- 
 low and was vice-president in 1896 of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 
 of Science: :i inciiiiici' of the New 'N'oik Hor- 
 ticultural Society ami wa^ chaii-iiian of its 
 Colineil. r.l(ll-19(l7 ; iiieinl)e|- of the ToiTey 
 r.otaiiical ('lull. New \'ork Acmlciiiy Sci 
 enecs. and \\;is its president ill 1 ilOG- 1 9117. 
 and is also a. member of the New York 
 Mieioscopical Society and other scientific 
 societies. Dr. Britton married. August 27, 
 1885, Elizabeth Gertrude Knight. Mrs. 
 Britton is herself a scientist. Residence: 
 2965 Decatur ' Avenue. Office : Bronx 
 Park, New York City. 
 
 BRITTON, Wilton Everett: 
 
 State entomologist of Connecticut; born 
 in Marlboro, Mass., Sept. 18, 1868; son of 
 Benjamin Howard and Emma Eliza 
 (Wright) Britton. He was educated in the 
 public schools of Gilsum, N. H., and' at the 
 New Hampshire College of Agriculture and 
 Mechanic Arts, whence he was graduated B. 
 S., 1893; at Cornell University, 1893-1894, 
 and at Yale University, 1899-1903, receiv- 
 ing the degree of Ph.D., 1903. He became 
 assistant in May, 1894, and horticulturist 
 in October, 1894, at the Connecticut Agri- 
 cultural Experiment Station, and since July, 
 1901 has been entomologist of the same 
 station and State Entomologist of Connecti- 
 cut. He was also lecturer in entoinolog}' 
 in the Y'ale University Forest School, 1901- 
 1906. Dr. Britton is a fellow of the Ameri- 
 can Association for the Advancement of 
 Science ; is a member and was first vice- 
 ])resident, 1906-1908, president 1909 of the 
 American Association of Economic Ento- 
 mologists; is a member of the Connecticut 
 Academy of Arts and Sciences, Connecticut 
 Botanical Society, Entomological Society of 
 America, the Patrons of Husbandry and the 
 Society of Sigma Xi (Yale Chapter). He 
 married at Surry, N. H., April 30, 1895, 
 Bertha Madeline Perkins. Residence: 296 
 Melvinley Avenue. Office: Agricultural 
 Experiment Station, New Haven, Conn. 
 
 BROADHURST, George: 
 
 Dramatist : born in Walsall, England. 
 Avithor of the plays: The Man of the Hour; 
 The Call of the North; An International 
 Alarriage ; What Happened to Jones ; Why 
 Smith Left Home; The Wrong Mr. Wright; 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 A Fool and His IMoney; Tlie Crown Prince; 
 cfp. Co-anllior: ^^■il(l^ll•o : Tho American 
 Lord; Nancy l'>io\vii. lie is a nioniber of 
 <lie Lambs, Now York Atlilelic, American 
 Dramatists, and Ureeu Eoom Chdis of New 
 Vorl-:. Address: Laml)s did), LSO West 
 441 ii Street. New York City. 
 
 BROBSTON, Edwin: 
 
 Real estate dealer; born at Madison, Ga.. 
 Nov. 17, 1863; son of Edwin L. and Hattie 
 (Thomas) Brobston. His grandfather, Wil- 
 liam Brobston, was a noted Presbyterian 
 ])reacher in Illinois, Avho died at the age 
 of ninety in 1885, at Chicago. He was edu- 
 cated in tlie common schools of Morgan 
 County, Ga. INIr. Brobston was owner and 
 editor of the Madisonian in 1887, and edi- 
 tor and manager of the first morning daily 
 at Brunswick, Ga, 1888-1900. He engaged 
 in general real estate development, operat- 
 ing through the South, and made numerous 
 industrial speeches at Southern Pines, N. 
 C, Huntsville, Ala., Chattanooga, Tenn. 
 He served on numerous industrial commis- 
 sions and made National notoriety by pass- 
 ing a ship subsidy resolution at the Mari- 
 time Congress at Brunswick, Ga., 1903. He 
 was president of the board' of education of 
 Glynn County and Brunswick, Ga., for sev- 
 eral years, and reorganized the schools. He 
 is now head of the firm of Brobston & Com- 
 pany, real estate ; president of the Jackson- 
 ville Development Company; vice-president 
 of the Murray Hill Land Company, and the 
 Tampa Bay Land Company, and is director 
 in about a dozen corporations, mostly land 
 companies. He has been a member of sev- 
 eral Democratic State conventions in Geor- 
 gia, serving on the platform committee, and 
 active in good government. He moved to 
 Florida in 1904. and is chairman of the em- 
 igration committee of the Board of Trade 
 of Jacksonville, Florida. He is a Baptist in 
 religion. I\Ir. Brobston is a member of the 
 Beform Club and the Georgia Society of 
 New York City; the Phoenix Club of Bruns- 
 wick, Ga., and the Seminole Yacht, and 
 Country Clubs of Jacksonville, Florida. He 
 is an honorary member of the Florida Press 
 Association. He married at Brunswick, 
 Ga., April, 1890, Prisciila Littlefield, and 
 
 they have five children. Address: 216 
 West Forsythe Street. .Jacksonville, Fla. 
 
 BROCKWAY, Howard: 
 
 f!omposer. jiiaiiisf ; liorn in I'rooklyn. 
 Nov. 22, 1870; son of Leverett E. and 
 Clara (Kingsley) Brockway. He was ed- 
 ucated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic In- 
 stitute; studied music witli H. v. C. Korthe- 
 uer, Brooklyn, and 0. B. Boise and H. 
 Barth, Berlin. Mr. Brockway gave con- 
 certs of his own works with Berlin Phil- 
 harmonic Orchestra, at Berlin, February, 
 1895; since October, 1903, member of fac- 
 ulty Peabody Conservatory, Peabody In- 
 stitute, Baltimore, Maryland. He is a com- 
 poser of Sylvan Suite, first produced by 
 Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1901; also 
 Symphony for Grand Orchestra, produced 
 by Dr. Karl ]\Iuck and the Boston, Sym- 
 phony Orchestra in Boston, in April 5th 
 and Gth, 1907 (chamber music), choral 
 music, songs, pianoforte music, etc. He 
 married, first, at Lakewood, N. J., Feb., 
 1896, Anabel Boise (died in 1901); and 
 they had one daughter; married, second in 
 Washington, D. C, April, 1906, Katherine 
 Engs Bradford, daughter of Rear-Admiral 
 R. B. Bradford, U. S. N. Address: Pea- 
 body Institute, Baltimore, Md. 
 
 BROCKWAY, Zebulon Reed: 
 
 Penologist; born at Lyme, Conn., April 
 28, 1827; son of Zebulon and Caroline 
 Brockway, and educated at East Haddam, 
 Conn. After acting as clerk in the Con- 
 necticut State Prison, 1848-1851, he became 
 deputy superintendent of the Albany Peni- 
 tentiary, 1851; superintendent of Monroe 
 County Penitentiary, 1854, and in 1861 of 
 the Detroit House of Correction, he became 
 in 1876 the superintendent of the New York 
 State Reformatory, Elmira, retiring in 1900. 
 In 1873 he acted as special eonunissioner j 
 to establish a United States Military Pris- 
 on, later located at Leavenworth, Kan. In 
 1901 he was non-resident special lecturer 
 on penology at Cornell University. He is 
 a charterinember of the National Prison 
 Association, U. S. A.; member of Soci6t6 
 Generale of Prisons of France. During 
 the inciunbcncy of Superintendent Brock- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 225 
 
 \v:iy till- KImir:i sysd'ui of rcfoiiii 1 roatmont 
 was lully developed becoming the basis of 
 a permanent and advanced method of the 
 treatment of criminals which has had an 
 extensive application in all civilized coun- 
 tries. On April 13, 1853, he married at 
 Wethersfield, Conn., Jane Woodliouse. Ad- 
 dress: Elmira, N. Y. 
 
 BRODERICK, Bonadventure Finnbarr: 
 
 Catholic bishop; born in Hartford, Conn., 
 Dec. 25, 1868 ; son of John Harris and Mar- 
 garet (Healy) Broderick. He was educated 
 in 8t. Charles College, Md., from which he 
 |l received the degree of A.B., 1891; in Ur- 
 ban College, University of the Propaganda, 
 Rome, Ph.D., 1893, D.D., 1897; and was 
 graduated from the American College in 
 Rome, 1897. He was ordained priest in 
 1896, and took post-graduate courses in 
 history and archa>ology at Rome in 1897- 
 1808. He was professor of history, English 
 grammar and Italian literature in the Dio- 
 cesan Seminary at Hartford, Conn., in 
 1898, and at Westport, Conn., 1900. In 
 the latter year he was appointed American 
 secretary to Monsignor Sbaretti, papal dele- 
 gate to Havana, Cuba, in which capacity he 
 carried on negotiations between the church 
 and the Government which were success- 
 fully concluded in 1905. He was created 
 [irivate chamberlain by Pope Leo XIII, 
 I'.iQl; was American secretary to the Apos- 
 tolic delegation to the Philippine Islands, 
 1901, serving until the appointment of the 
 Taft Commission in 1902; and was the rep- 
 resentative of the Catholic Church at the 
 inauguration of the Cuban Republic, May 
 20, 1902. He was appointed titular bishop 
 of Juliopolis in September, 1903, was con- 
 secrated Oct. 28, 1903, and served as auxil- 
 iiary bishop of Havana, from 1903-1905. 
 Bishop Broderick was appointed, in 1904, 
 general commissioner of the Pope for the 
 collection of Peter's Pence. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Arcadia, and of the Collegium 
 I ultorium Martyrum at Rome. Combining 
 willi his thorough ecclesiastical training 
 and ripe scholarship exceptional executive 
 ability and diplomatic insight, it has been 
 the good fortune of Bishop Broderick to 
 bear an influential part in negotiations be- 
 15 
 
 t\\e(>ii iiis church and his count ly. a( a 
 point in American history when such serv- 
 ices and qualification as his were most 
 needed, and to aid in bringing those ne- 
 gotiations to a conclusion alike honorable 
 and just, both to the Church and the Na- 
 tion. Address: Staatsburg-on-Hudson, N. 
 Y. 
 
 BROMWELL, Charles S. : 
 
 Military engineer, U. S. A.; born at New- 
 port, Ky., May 1, 1869. After a prelimi- 
 nary education at Cincinnati, 0., he was 
 graduated from the United States Military 
 Academy, June 12, 1890, and the United 
 States Engineer School of Application, Wil- 
 let's Point, N. Y., in 1893. After various 
 a])pointments, he attained the rank of cap- 
 tain in February, 1901, in the United States 
 Army, having been in charge of various en- 
 gineering public works throughout the coun- 
 try. He is at present superintendent of 
 public grounds and buildings at Washing- 
 ton and military aid to the President, 
 with the temporary rank of colonel. He is 
 a member of the Metropolitan, Army and 
 Navy and Chevy Chase Clubs. He mar- 
 ried at Washington, June 11, 1890, Letitia 
 G. Scott. Residence: 1608 New Hampshire 
 Avenue. Address: War Department, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 BROOKE, Francis Key: 
 
 Bishop of Oklahoma ; born at Gambier, 
 Ohio, Nov. 2, 1852; son of Rev. John T. 
 and Louisa (Hunter) Biooke. He studied 
 at Kenyon College, gruluating B.A. in 1874, 
 and receiving the degree of M.A. in 1881. 
 He received the degree of S.T.D. from Kan- 
 sas Theological School in 1893. He took or- 
 ders as deacon in the Episcopal Church in 
 1875 and two years later was ordained 
 priest by Bishop Jaggar. He was rector 
 of Grace Church, College Hill, Ohio, 1875- 
 1877, of Christ Church, Portsmouth, Ohio, 
 1877-1880; of St. James' Church, Piqua, 
 Ohio, 1880-1884; Grace Church, Sandusky, 
 Ohio, from 1884-1886. In 1886 he was call- 
 ed to the rectorship of St. Peter's Church, 
 St. Louis, until 1888; and from 1888-1893, 
 he was rector of Trinity Church, Atchison, 
 Kansas. He became Bishop of Oklahoma 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ami Indian I'cnitorv. beinfr consecrated in 
 1S!».S. by fiisliops Tultlo, Pierce, Spauldinf?, 
 Japsjar. Thomas. Kondrick. Graves and At- 
 will. Bishop Brooke was married in 1881 
 to Mildred R. Baldwin. He is author of 
 various addresses, missionary reports and 
 a])])ea]s. Address: Oklahoma City, Okla. 
 
 BROOKE, John Rutter: 
 
 ,Major-<;eneral U. S. Army, retired; born 
 in Philadelphia, July 21, 1838. In April, 
 1861, he enlisted in the Fourth Pennsyl- 
 vania Infantry, and was promoted until 
 he became brigadier-general of volunteers. 
 May 12, 1864. On Aug. 1, 1864, he was 
 made brevet major-general, and was com- 
 missioned lieutenant-colonel of the Thirty- 
 seventh U. S. Infantry July 28, 1866. He 
 was transferred to the Third Infantry, 
 March 15, 1869, and March 20, 1870, was 
 made colonel of the Thirteenth Infantry; 
 w'as again transferred to the Third Infan- 
 try, June 14. 1870, and was commissioned 
 brigadier-general April 6, 1888. He com- 
 manded the Departments of the Platte, Da- 
 kota and the Missouri, and on May 22, 
 
 1897, was made major-general. In April, 
 
 1898, he was sent to command troops at 
 Chickamauga Park, and in July, 1898, was 
 ordered to Porto Rico, as head of the Mili- 
 tary Commission, becoming governor-gen- 
 eral of Porto Rico. In December, 1898, he 
 was appointed governor-general of Cuba, 
 and commanded the Division of Cuba; and 
 May, 1900, he was placed in command of 
 the Department of the East. He was re- 
 tired July 21, 1902. Major-General Brooke 
 is a companion of the Pennsylvania Com- 
 mandery of the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion. Address: IvOsemont. Pa. 
 
 BROOKS, Amy: 
 
 Artist, author and illustrator; born in 
 Chelsea, Mass., daughter of Alfred Hub- 
 bai-d and Hannah B. (Stebbins) Brooks. 
 She was educated in the public schools of 
 Hyde Park, Mass., and received her art ed- 
 ucation in the museum school of Drawing 
 and Painting, wheie she won four scholar- 
 ships for meritorious work, and she also 
 received a fine musical training, and is an 
 accomplished pianist. Her first painting 
 
 was exhibited in 1895, and her first book. 
 Randy's Summer, was published in 1900. 
 81ie has since written and illustrated twen- 
 ty more volumes, among which are: Doro- 
 thy Dainty; Dorothy's Playmates; Dorothy 
 Dainty at School; Dorothy Dainty at the 
 Shore; Dorothy in the City; Dorothy at 
 Home ; Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times ; Doro- 
 thy Dainty in the Country; Dorothy Dain- 
 ty's Winter; Little Sister Prue; Prue at 
 School; Prue's Little Friends; etc. Miss 
 Brooks has illustrated and designed covers 
 for all of her own books and has illustiated 
 over seventy books for other authors. She 
 has also published some songs of a high 
 class for which she has written the words 
 and composed the music. Address : Hyde 
 Park, Mass. 
 
 BROOKS, Bryant Butler: 
 
 Governor of ^\'yoming; born in Bernard- 
 ston, Mass., Feb. 5, 1861; son of Silas New- 
 ton and Melissa Minerva ( Burrows ) 
 Brooks. He attended the Powers Institute 
 in his native place and in high school in 
 Chicago, 111. In 1882 he went to Wyoming 
 and engaged in the live stock business in 
 that state, in which he has continued most 
 successfully, now being president of The 
 B. B. Brooks Company and the Brooks-Hud- 
 son Company in that business ; also presi- 
 dent of the Coal Creek Coal Company, and 
 director of the Casper National Bank. He 
 has long been active in the Republican 
 politics of ^^'yoming, was a member of the 
 Wyoming Legislature, 1892; presidential 
 elector on the McKinley and Roosevelt 
 ticket, 1900, and in 1904 was elected Gov- 
 ernor of Wyoming, and reelected in 1906 
 for the term expiring in January, 1911. He 
 married in Alexandria, Neb., March 10, 
 1886, Mary Naomi Willard. Residence: 
 Casper. Wyo. Oilice : Cheyenne, Wyo. 
 
 BROOKS, Franklin E. : ] 
 
 Lawyer and ex-congressman; born at 
 Stuibridge, Worcester County, Mass., Nov. 
 19, 1860; son of E. T. Brooks and Anna E. 
 Brooks. He was graduated from Brown 
 University with the degree of A.B. in 1883, 
 and received the degree of A.M. from the _ 
 same institution in 1886. He taught for 
 
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 several years after his graduation, ending 
 as an instructor in the Boston Latin School. 
 I-To studied law in an office in Boston and 
 attended the Law School of Boston Univer- 
 sity in 1887 and 1888. He was admitted 
 to the bar of Suffolk County, Mass., in 
 1888, and practised law in Boston until 
 1891 when, because of failing health, he 
 removed to Colorado. He resumed the 
 practise of law in 1892 and is now a mem- 
 ber of the law firm of Lunt, Brooks and 
 Wilcox of Colorado Springs. He is a Re- 
 publican in politics and he was elected from 
 the State of Colorado at large in 1902 to 
 the Fifty-eighth Congress, and was reelected 
 in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress, his 
 second term expiring in March, 1907. He 
 married at Leicester, Mass., June 3, 1891, 
 Sarah Brainerd Coolidge. Address: Colo- 
 rado Springs, Colo. 
 
 BROOKS, Samuel Palmer: 
 
 President of Baylor LTniversity; born in 
 Milledgeville, Ga.,"'Dec. 4, 1863;' son of S. 
 E. and Aurelia E. (Palmer) Brooks. He 
 was graduated from Baylor University, 
 Waco, Texas, as A.B., 1893, then went to 
 Yale, where he received the degree of A.B., 
 1894, A.M., in course, 1902, and from Rich- 
 mond College, Va., received the honorary 
 (h-gree of LL.D. in 1903. He has had a 
 successful career as a teacher, and in 1902 
 was elected to his present position as pres- 
 ident of Baylor University. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Texas Historical Society, and is 
 a member and was the first president of 
 the Texas State Peace Society; and he is 
 prominent in the Alasonic fraternities. He 
 married in Cleburne, Texas, Dec. 24, 1895. 
 Mat tie Sims, and they have a son and a 
 daughter. Address: 1024 Speight Street, 
 Waco, Texas. 
 
 BROOKS, William Penn: 
 
 Agriculturist ; born at Norwell, Mass., 
 Nov. 19, 1851; son of Nathaniel and Re- 
 becca P. (Cashing) Brooks. After attend- 
 ing common schools and academies in Mas- 
 sachusetts, he took a course in the Massa- 
 chusetts Agricultural College, from which 
 he was graduated in 1875, with the de- 
 gree of B.S. He also studied at the Uni- 
 
 versity of Halle, Germany (Friedrichs 
 Universitat), where he took the degree of 
 Ph.D. in 1897. From 1870 to 1872 ho 
 taught in mixed and grammar schools. In 
 1877 he accepted a professorship in agri- 
 culture in the Imperial College of Agricul- 
 ture, Japan, which position he held until 
 1889, acting as president of the college, ad 
 interim, for four years. Since 1889 he has 
 been professor of agriculture in the Mas- 
 sachusetts Agricultural College, and has 
 been president of this college, ad interim, 
 at two different periods — about two years 
 in all. Since 1906 he has been director of 
 the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment 
 Station. His travels include Japan, Bel- 
 gium, German}^ x\ustria, Holland, England, 
 and much of the United States. He is a 
 member of the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science, the Massa- 
 chusetts Forestry Association, and the Phi 
 Kappa Phi and Phi Sigma Kappa fraterni- 
 ties, and has received from the Emperor 
 of Japan the decoration of the Fourth 
 Order of the Rising Sun. He married at 
 Revere, Mass., March 29, 1882, Eva B. 
 Hall, and they have two children. Ad- 
 dress : Amherst, Mass. 
 
 BROOKS, William Robert: 
 
 Astronomer and lecturer; born in Maid- 
 stone, Kent, England, June 11, 1844; son of 
 Rev. William and Caroline (Wickings) 
 Brooks. He was educated in Marion, N. 
 Y., and received the honorary degrees of 
 A.M. from Hobart and D.Sc. from Hamil- 
 ton College. Professor Brooks has the dis- 
 tinction of being the discoverer of 25 comets, 
 more than any other living astronomer, 11 
 of which were discovered at Red House 
 Observatory at Phelps, N. Y., which he 
 founded in 1874. Upon his removal to 
 Geneva, N. Y., in 1888, lie discovered 14 
 comets, and since that time has been in 
 charge of Smith Observatory in that place, 
 and has been professor of astronomy in 
 Hobart College. Many of his valuable dis- 
 coveries were made with telescopes of his 
 own construction. He became early inter- 
 ested in photography, and later in its ap- 
 plication to astronomy. He has been the 
 recipient of numerous medals and diplomas, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 principally for his astronomical discov- 
 eries, among which are the following: 
 Over $1,000 in the Warner gold prizes; 8 
 medals from the Astronomical Society of 
 the Pacific; Lalande medal from the Paris 
 Academy of Sciences; special gold medal 
 from the St. Louis Exposition in 1904; 
 and gold medal and diploma from the As- 
 tronomical Society of Mexico. He is a fel- 
 low of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science; the Eoyal As- 
 tronomical Society, and a member of the 
 British Astronomical Association and the 
 Phi Beta Kappa Society. He was married 
 in Edwardshurg, Mich., Oct. 15, 1868, to 
 Mary E. Smith, and they have one daughter, 
 Anna Caroline. Address: Geneva, N. Y. 
 
 BROTJSSARD, Uobert F.: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born on the 
 Marie Louise plantation, near New Iberia, 
 La., Aug. 17, 1864, the Broussard family 
 being of French descent, long settled in 
 southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas, 
 and prominent in farming, stock-raising 
 and mercantile interests. After three years 
 at Georgetown University he entered the 
 Law School of Tulane University of Louis- 
 iana, at New Orleans, whence he was grad- 
 uated as LL.B. in 1889. Since then he has 
 been engaged in practice at New Iberia, 
 La. He took a prominent part in the move- 
 ment for the destruction of the Louisiana 
 Lottery, and was elected by the Anti-Lot- 
 tery Democrats to the office of district 
 attorney of the Nineteenth Judicial Dis- 
 trict of Louisiana, and was reelected for 
 a second term. He was elected in 1896 to 
 the fifty-fifth Congress, and lias since been 
 biennially elected; and he is now serving in 
 the Sixty-iirst Congress, expiring 1911. 
 Address: New Iberia, La. 
 
 BROWARD, Napoleon Bonaparte: 
 
 Governor of I'lorida; liorn on a farm in 
 Duval County, Ela., April 19, 1857; sou of 
 Napoleon 15onaparte and Mary Dorcas 
 (Parsons) Broward. He was left an 
 orphan at twelve years of age; attended 
 a country school and at the age of four- 
 teen wont to work in a log camp for an 
 uncle. He afterward worked as a farm 
 
 hand, as an employee of steamboats, a sea- 
 man on sailing vessels, etc., then became 
 a bar pilot on Saint Johns River in Flor- 
 ida, and later engaged in the steamboat 
 business. Since 1902 he has been engaged 
 in the towing and wrecking business at 
 Jacksonville, Key West and Tampa, Fla. 
 He has always been an active Democrat, 
 and in 1887 he was appointed and in 1889 
 elected sherifT of Duval County, Fla., which 
 office he continued to hold, by successive 
 reelections until 1900. He was elected a 
 member of the Florida Legislature from 
 Duval County in 1900, was a member of 
 the State Board of Health of Florida from 
 1900 to 1904, and in 1904 was elected Gov- 
 ernor of Florida for the term which ex- 
 pired in Jan.^ 1909. Address: Jackson- 
 ville, Fla. 
 
 BROWN, Abbie Farwell: 
 
 Author; born in Boston; daughter of 
 Benjamin F. and Clara M. (Neal) Brown. 
 She was educated in the Girls' Latin School 
 of Boston and in Radcliffe College. Since 
 leaving college she has been continuously 
 engaged in literary work, as a frequent 
 contributor to magazines, chiefly of juvenile 
 poems and stories. She is fond of music 
 and a great lover of the drama, and has 
 written many song texts and the librettos 
 of two comic operas, and several dramatic 
 sketches. Miss Brown was editor of the 
 Young People's Library and is author of: 
 Quits (a play) ; The Book of Saints and 
 Friendly Beasts, 1900; The Lonesomest 
 Doll. 1901; A Pocketful of Posies (poems), 
 1902; In the Days of Giants, 1902; The 
 Curious Book of Birds, 1903; The Flower 
 Princess, 1904; The Star Jewels, 1905; 
 Brothers and Sisters, 1906; Friends and 
 Cousins, 1907; The Legend of St. Christo- 
 pher; Fresh Posies (poems), 1908; Tales 
 of the Red Children, 1909. She is a mem- 
 ber of the American Folk Lore Association 
 and of the Saturday Morning and Boston 
 Authors' Clubs. Address: 41 W. Cedar 
 Street, Boston. 
 
 BROWN, Addison: 
 
 Jurist and botanist; born in West New- 
 bury, Mass.j Feb. 21, 1830; son of Addison 
 
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 and Catharine Babson (Griffin) Brown. 
 He was educated at Harvard College, of 
 which he is A.B. 1852; LL.B. 1854; LL.D. 
 1902. He was admitted to the bar at 
 Brooklyn in 1855^ and practised law in 
 New York City until 1891, when he was 
 appointed United States judge for the 
 Southern District of New York, resigning 
 in Sept., 1901. His published decisions, 
 mostly in admiralty and bankruptcy, num- 
 ber about 1,800, of which he published a 
 digest in 1902. Judge Brown is a botanist 
 of national reputation; is a member and 
 was for ten years president of the Torrey 
 Botanical Club, and was one of the orig- 
 ' inators and is a director of the New York 
 Botanical Garden. He is the author, with 
 Professor N. L. Britton, of Britton and 
 Brown's Illustrated Flora of the Northern 
 United States and Canada ; and also author 
 of: The Elgin Botanic Garden, its Rela- 
 tion to Columbia College, the New Hamp- 
 shire Grants and the Treaty with Vermont 
 in 1790. He is a member of the American 
 Geographical Society, the American Associ- 
 ation for the Advancement of Science, New 
 York Historical and Horticultural Soci- 
 eties, and the Century Association. He 
 married at Bradford, Mass., Jan. 1, 1856, 
 Mary Chadwick Barrett, who died in 1887; 
 and married second, in New York City, 
 July 20, 1893, Helen Carpenter Gaskin, 
 and he has three sons and one daughter. 
 Address: 45 W. 89th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 BROWN, Alice Van Vechten: 
 
 Artist and educator; born in Hanover, 
 N. H., June 7, 1862; daughter of President 
 Samuel Gilman and Sarah (Van Vechten) 
 Brown. She Avas educated at home and in 
 schools at Clinton and Utica, N. Y.; stud- 
 ied at the Art Students' League in New 
 York City, as well as in the studios of vari- 
 ous artists, and traveled abroad. In 1892 
 she became assistant director and in 1894 
 j director of the Norwich Art School, at 
 I Norwich, Conn., holding that appointment 
 i until elected in 1897 to her present posi- 
 j tion as professor of art at Wellesley Col- 
 ' lege. Professor Brown went abroad for 
 two years, 1905-1907, traveling and study- 
 
 ing in Europe. She is a member of the 
 American Fine Arts Society, the Archaeo- 
 logical Institute of America, Art Students' 
 League and the National Arts Club of New 
 York. Address: Wellesley College, Wel- 
 lesley, Mass. 
 
 BROWN, Arthur Lewis: 
 
 United States judge; born in Providence, 
 R. I., Nov. 28, 1854. He was graduated 
 from Brown University in the class of 1876, 
 receiving from that university the degrees 
 of A.B. and A.M., and was graduated from 
 Boston University Law School, LL.B., 1878. 
 From graduation in law he practised the 
 profession in Providence until appointed 
 by President Cleveland, Oct. 24, 1896, Unit- 
 ed States judge for the District of Rhode 
 Island, in which office he continues. Ad- 
 dress : United States Court, Providence, 
 R. I. 
 
 BROWN, Arthur Newton: 
 
 Librarian; born in Terre Haute, Ind., 
 1857 ; son of Robert Russell and Elvira 
 (Jenks) Brown. His parents went in 1861 
 to Springfield, Mass., where he was edu- 
 cated in the public schools. From 1876 to 
 1878 he was in the Mass. Institute of Tech- 
 nology in Boston. In 1878, he was made 
 assistant librarian of the Springfield City 
 Library, where he had previously done 
 work. In Jan., 1883, he went to take a 
 position in the auditor's office of the Mexi- 
 can Central Railroad in Mexico. Later he 
 left that post to become Spanish translator 
 for Mexican Financier, a trade journal pub- 
 lished in English and Spanish in Mexico 
 City, but on account of serious illness, he 
 returned to the United States in Aug., 1884. 
 In Feb., 1885, Mr. Brown became executive 
 assistant to the chief librarian of Columbia 
 College Library, New York. He became a 
 life member in 1885 of the American Li- 
 brary Association. In Oct., 1885 he was 
 elected assistant manager of the Library 
 Bureau at Boston. Subsequently, he was 
 appointed librarian of the United States 
 Naval Academy, in Aug., 1886, and in 
 Sept., 1896, was made professor of English, 
 in the same institution, and in Oct., 1900, 
 he again became Librarian of the Naval 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Academy, retaining the title of professor 
 of English. Mr. Brown married at Boston, 
 Mass., Jvine 29, 1898, Annie L. D. Currier, 
 daughter of Augustus N. Currier, of Wor- 
 cester, Mass. Address: United States Na- 
 val Academy, Annapolis, Md. 
 
 BROWN, Benjamin West Bonney: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, Feb. 13, 
 1870; son of Edward Flint and Eleanor 
 (Bonney) Brown. He was educated in 
 Williston Seminary, Easthampton, !Mass., 
 of 1887; Yale University, class of 1891, and 
 was a student in Columbia Law School. He 
 was admitted to the bar and has since been 
 engaged in practice. He is a moniber of the 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, is a trustee of the Northern Dispen- 
 sary, a member of the Board of Managers 
 of the Northwestern Dispensary, a member 
 of the Yale and Republican Clubs, the So- 
 ciety of Colonial Wars, New England Soci- 
 ety, the Sons of the Revolution, the Military 
 Society of the War of 1812, Phi Gamma 
 Delta, Saint Nicholas Society. He was 
 elected in 1905 and reelected 1907 to the 
 Board of Aldermen from tlie 28th Alder- 
 manic (27th Assembly) District to tho 
 Board of Aldermen,, and is executive mem- 
 ber of the Republican County Committee of 
 New York County for the 27th Assembly 
 District. Residence: 44 W. 44th Street. 
 Office: IS Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 BROWN, Calvin S. : 
 
 Professor of Romance languages; born in 
 Obion County, Tenn., Feb. 13, ^866; son of 
 Calvin S. and Margaret (Martin) Brown, 
 and a descendant of Virginia stock. He 
 was graduated from high school in Obion 
 County, Tenn., from Vanderbilt University; 
 studied at the University of Paris, France, 
 and the University of Leipzig, Germany; 
 and received tiie degree of Ph.D. from the 
 University of Colorado. He has held chairs 
 in Vanderbilt Hiiiversitj', the University of 
 Missouri, the University of Colorado, and 
 the University of Mississippi; and he has 
 been professor of Romance hmguages in the 
 University of .Mississippi since 1905. He 
 has traveled e.xtensively in the United 
 States, England. France, Spain, Portugal, 
 
 Madeira, the Azores, Italy, Greece, Asia, 
 Russia, Germany, Holland, Belgium and 
 Canada. He is a member of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
 ence, the Modern Language Association of 
 America, and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. 
 He is editor of the Later English Drama, 
 and of Tennyson's Poems. He married at 
 West Point, Ga., in 1905, Maud Morrow% 
 formerly professor of Greek and Latin in 
 the Agnes Scott College at Atlanta, and 
 they have a daughter and' a son. Residence 
 and postoffice: University, Miss. Exprc-s 
 address: Oxford, Miss. 
 
 BROWN, Charles Carroll: 
 
 Consulting civil engineer and editor; born 
 in Austinburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 1856; son of 
 (ieorge P. Brown and Mary (Seymour) 
 Brown. He was in Cornell University one 
 year, and then went to the University of 
 Michigan, whence he was graduated as C.E. 
 in 1879. He served on the United States 
 Lake Survey for three years, and on the 
 New York State Survey one year; is in 
 general practice as consulting engineer and 
 has been for twenty years; professor of civil 
 engineering for ten years (at Rose Poly- 
 technic Institute three years, and at Union 
 College, Schenectady, N. Y., seven years) ; 
 consulting engineer of the New York State 
 15oard of Health six years; in the city 
 engineers' offices of Indianapolis two years, 
 and of Omaha, Neb., one and a half years; 
 associate editor of Municipal Engineering 
 live years, and since 1900 its editor-in-chief. 
 Mr. Brown has also been consulting engineer 
 for many cities and towns in New York, 
 Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, North Dakota, and 
 other States. Mr. Brown is vice-president 
 of the IMunicipal Engineering Company, 
 treasurer of the Public School Publishing 
 Company, secretary and engineer of the 
 Grand Valley Land and INlineral Company. 
 He was also president of the Bridge and 
 Stream Impiovement Conuuission of Indian- 
 apolis, recently merged in the jNlunicipa/ 
 Art Association. He is a member of the 
 Amei-icnn Society of Civil Engineers, found- 
 er and ex-secretary of the National Associa- 
 tion of Cement Users; member of the Amer- 
 ican Waterworks As.sociation; past presi- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 dent of the American Society of Municipal 
 Ini])rovements ; past president of the Indian- 
 apolis Technical Club; vice-president of the 
 Indiana Engineering Society; past president 
 of the Illinois Society of Engineers and 
 Surveyors; was lirst national president of 
 the Society of the Sigma Xi; is member of 
 the Phi Delta Theta fraternity; president 
 of the Municipal Art Association of Indian- 
 apolis; member of the National Municipal 
 League and of the Commercial Club of In- 
 dianapolis. Mr. Brown married in Dublin, 
 Ind., Sept. 10, 1878, Cora Stanton, and they 
 have a son and a daughter. Residence: 
 2247 N. Pennsylvania Street. Olhce: 408 
 Commercial Club Building, Indianapolis, 
 Ind. 
 
 BROWN, Charles H.: 
 
 Lawyer; born at West Winfield. N. Y., 
 July 20, 1858; son of Hiram Clark and 
 Alice Ann (Stuart) Brown. He was edu- 
 cated at West Winfield Academy, 1870-1875, 
 and at- Hunger ford Collegiate Institute, 
 Atlams, N. Y., 1875-1877. He was admitted 
 Id the bar in 1880; district attorney of 
 Allegheny County, N. Y., 1889-1897; assist- 
 ant U. S. attorney for the Northern Dis- 
 trict of New York, 1897-1899; U. S. attor- 
 ney of the same district, 1899-1900; U. S. 
 iillorney for the Western District of New 
 York, 1900-1906. In 1906 he was elected 
 justice of the Supreme Court of the State 
 of New York, for the term expiring Dec. 31, 
 1920. He is a Republican in politics. He 
 is a Mason and a member of the Buffalo and 
 EUicott Clubs of Buffalo. Judge Brown 
 married at Adams, N. Y., Nov. 16, 1881, 
 Alice C. Smith, and they iiave three children. 
 Address: Belmont, Allegheny County, N. Y. 
 
 BROWN, David Walter: 
 
 i.a-wyer; born in Ogdensburg, N. Y., Aug. 
 10, 1852; son of Henry J. and Cornelia J. 
 (Allen) Brown. He was graduated from 
 Yale, B.A., 1876, Ph.D., 1878. He studied 
 hiw and was admitted to the bar of New 
 York, and he is now senior member of the 
 law firm of D. W. and H. V. Brown, and 
 <o\uisel in the firm's patent causes. Mr. 
 lirown published A New Theory of Dift'er- 
 eulial Calculus in the Journal of the Frank- 
 
 lin Institute, 1897, and numerous articles on 
 the law of Inter-State Commerce in law 
 periodicals from 1904 to 1907. He is a 
 member of the Association of the Bar of the 
 City of New York, the New York State Bar 
 Association, and of the American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science. Res- 
 idence: 337 W. 34th Street. OOlce: 5 
 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 BROWN, Edward Osgood: 
 
 Jurist; born at Salem, JNIass., Aug. 5, 
 1847; son of Edward and Eliza (Dalton) 
 Brown. He was graduated from Brown 
 University as A.B. in the class of 1867, and 
 then, returning to Salem, became a student 
 in the law offices there, and afterward in 
 Dane School at Harvard University. He 
 was admitted to the bar in 1870, became 
 assistant clerk to the Supreme Court of 
 Rhode Island in 1870-1871, and began prac- 
 tice in the firm of Peckham and Brown at 
 Chicago in -1872, continuing practice until 
 his elevation to the bench. Judge Brown is 
 classed politically as a Radical Democrat, 
 and has for years been known throughout 
 the country as one of the leaders in the 
 Single-tax movement. In 1903 he was 
 elected for a term of six years to his present 
 position as one of the judges of the Circuit 
 Court for Cook County, 111. He was desig- 
 nated by the Supreme Court of Illinois, in 
 1904. as one of thp judges of the Appellate 
 Court for the First (Chicago) District. 
 Judge Brown is author of numerous legal 
 and economic papers and other contributions 
 to the periodical press. He married at Chi- 
 cago, June 25, 1884, Helen Gertrude Eagle. 
 Residence: 400 N. State Street. Oflice ad- 
 dress: 400 Ashland Block, Chicago. 
 
 BROWN, Ernest William: 
 
 Professor of mathematics; born in Hull, 
 Yorkshire, England, Nov. 29, 1866; oldest 
 son of the late William Brown, and of Emma 
 (Martin) Brown. He was educated at the 
 Rev. J. D. Bell's School, at Totteridge Park, 
 Hertfordshire, England, and at Hull and 
 East Riding College, and at Christ's College, 
 Cambridge, England, as scholar in 1884. 
 He was fellow from 1889 to 1895, and he 
 received the degree of B.A. in 1887 and that 
 
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 ISDO. He was professor of | May, 1905, and placed on the retired list 
 
 in Nov., 1907. Address: Pullman Build- 
 ing, Chieago. 
 
 of So.D. in 
 
 niallieniatics at llavcrford College, Pa., 18!) 1- 
 li)07. and since 1907 has been professor of 
 mathematics in Yale University. He is au- 
 thor of: 'J'reatise on the Lunar Theory, 
 New Theory of the Motion of the Moon: 
 and editor of the transactions of the Amer- 
 ican Mathematical Society, 1900-1907; also 
 ;nillior of various papers on the Limar 
 ilicoiy anil on Celestial Mechanics during 
 p:ist sixteen years, chiefly in Memoirs and 
 Proceedings of Poyal Astronomical Society. 
 London ]\Iathematical Society, Americans 
 .lounial of JNlathematics and American Math- 
 ematical Society; articles and lectures on 
 ])opular subjects. He is a fellow of the 
 ivoyal Society and a member of the Royal 
 Astronomical Society, and was awarded the 
 gohl medal of the Royal Astronomical So- 
 ciety in 1907 and won the Adams Prize at 
 Camlnidge in 1907. He is a member of the 
 American Philosophical Society; the Amer- 
 ican Mathematical Society, etc. He has 
 frequently visited Switzerland, has traveled 
 in Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Germany, 
 and other European countries and visited 
 South Africa in 1905. His favorite recrea- 
 tions are rowing, music, chess, climbing, and 
 Lidlf. lie i-< a member of the Graduates 
 (lull and Coiuilry Club of New Haven, Conn. 
 Address: Yale University, New Haven, 
 Conn. 
 
 BROWN, George Francis: 
 
 Retired officer of The Pullman Company; 
 born in Chicago, Oct. 1, 1843. He was chief 
 clcik of the United States quartermaster 
 depaitment from 1861 to 1866. Entered 
 railroad service, July, 18G7, as secretary and 
 treasuier for receiver on the Memphis, 
 Clarksville and Louisville Railroad, and was 
 agent in charge of war claims and in the 
 freight department of the Illinois Central 
 Railroad in 1868 and 1869, and secretary of 
 the Blooniington (111.) Fire Insurance Com- 
 pany, during the ne.\t two years. Mr. Brown 
 has been with the Pullman Company since 
 1871 successively as clerk; assistant to the 
 general superintendent for seven years, act- 
 ing general superintendent; and general sup- 
 erintendent from 1880 to 1885; general man- 
 ager from 1885 to 1905; elected treasurer in 
 
 BROWN, Glenn: 
 
 Architect : born in t'auipiier County, V'a.. 
 Sept. 13, 1854. He was educated at the 
 Washington and Lee University, and took a 
 special course in architecture at the Massa- 
 chusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1878 
 he has practised his profession in Washing- 
 ton. D. C., and in Maryland and Virginia, 
 and has written several books bearing on the 
 subject in which he is most interested, 
 among them being: Healthy Foundations 
 for Houses ; Trap Syphonage ; History of the 
 ITnited States Cai)itol; and Papers on Im- 
 provement of Washington City. He is also 
 editor of European and Japanese Gardens, 
 and of tlie Proceedings of the American In- 
 stitute of Architects, and is a contributor 
 to technical journals. Mr. Brown is a fel- 
 low and director of the American Institute 
 of Architects; corresponding member of the 
 Societe Centrale des Architectes Francais, of 
 Paris; corresponding member of the Society 
 of Architects, of Antwerp, Belgium; secre- 
 tary of the Public Art League of the United 
 States; honorary corresponding member of 
 the Royal Institute of British Architects and 
 of the Societa degli Ingcgneri e degli Arch- 
 itetti Italiani, of Rome; life member of the 
 American Academy in Rome; and a member 
 of the executive conunittees of and delegate 
 of the United States Government to the 
 International Congress of Architects at 
 Madrid. London and Vienna; regent and 
 secretary of the National Academy of Art; 
 member of the Executive Committee, Council 
 of the Fine Arts, a])pointed by President 
 Roosevelt. He married in Staiuiton, Va., 
 Feb. 1, 1876, Mary Ella Chapman. Resi- 
 dence: 195 1 Street. Olllce: 806 17tli 
 Street. Washington. IX C. 
 
 BROWN, Goodwin: 
 
 Lawyer: Inuii at Henderson, Jell'iuson 
 tkmnty. .\'. V., .Vpril 5. 1852; son of Thomas 
 (ioodwiu and Josephiiu' Cornelia (Keith) 
 Brown. lie was graduated from Cornell 
 University. 1875; honorary A.M. Union Col- 
 lege, 1891. He was admitted to practice by 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 2:?.'^ 
 
 tlio Su|ir('iiio Court of Now York, 1870, and 
 to U. y. Courts, 1882; was secretary to 
 Governors Cleveland and Tlill, having charge 
 of the extradition of fugitives from justice, 
 and also of ])ardon niattei's, and resigned 
 1889. He was appointed N. Y. State commis- 
 sioner in lunacy, 1889; reappointed, 1893, 
 and retired, 1899; was delegate to and sec- 
 retary of the Extradition Conference, 1888, 
 appointed to frame statute amending U. S. 
 extradition laws. Mr. Brown is author of 
 numerous statutes relating to criminals and 
 criminal procedure. He served as president 
 if the Board of Health, Y^'onkers, several 
 Perms ; is author of the first general stat- 
 utes providing for free public baths, and 
 with two associates recommended the act 
 |hich passed the New York Legislature re- 
 eving the insane fiom county poorhouses 
 m 1890; centralized the management of 
 N. Y. State Hospital for Insane, 1893; was 
 appointed commissioner to revise and con- 
 solidate the statutes of New York State, 
 190G, and appointed receiver of the Inter- 
 national Trust Company, 1907. He is a 
 Democrat and Unitarian; is a member of 
 the Psi Upsilon and Phi Kappa Psi college 
 societies, Sons of Revolution, Society of 
 Colonial Wars, Founders and Patriots, and 
 Masonic Order. Mr. Brown is a manager of 
 St. rfohn's Riverside Hospital and Sprain 
 Ridge Hospital, Yonkers, N. Y., and a mem- 
 ber of the Fort Orange Club of Albany, and 
 the Psi Upsilon Club of New York City. 
 Mr. Brown married in Hartford, Conn., 
 1877, Lillian Spencer Woodhouse, and 
 they Jiave one son. Residence: 643 Pali- 
 sade Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. Office: 135 
 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 BROWN, Harry Fletcher: 
 
 Chemist ; born in Natick, Mass., July 10, 
 1867; son of William Henry and Maria 
 Frances (Osgood) Brown. He was educated 
 in Harvard University, from which he grad- 
 uated as A.B., 1890, followed by two and a 
 half years in residence in the Graduate 
 School, specializing in inorganic chemistry 
 and receiving the degree of A.M. in 1892. 
 Mr. Brown was an assistant in elementary 
 chemistry during the academic year, and an 
 instructor in the Summer School at Har- 
 
 vard, during his jiost-graduaic course. In 
 Nov., 1892, he was appointed chemist to the 
 United States Naval Torpedo Station at 
 Newport, R. I., where he was engaged in 
 the investigation and experimental mamifac- 
 ture of smokeless powder and high explo- 
 sives until 1900, and while so engaged made 
 many confidential reports to the Navy De- 
 partment. In 1900 he took his present posi- 
 tion as general superintendent of the Inter- 
 national Smokeless Powder and Chemical 
 Co. He is also chemical director of the 
 smokeless powder department of the E. I. 
 du Pont de Nemours Powder Company, of 
 Wilmington, Del. While at Harvard, Mr. 
 Brown was president of the Boylston Chem- 
 ical Club, and secretarj^ of the Pierian 
 Sodality, and he is now a member of the 
 Society of Chemical Indu.stry, and a director 
 of the American Institute of Chemical Engi- 
 neers. He married at Newport, R. I., Oct. 
 26, 1897. Florence ^L Hamnictt. Address: 
 Wilmington, Del. 
 
 BROWN, Helen Dawes: 
 
 Author and lecturer; born in Concord, 
 Mass., in 18.57 ; daughter of William Dawes 
 and Martha (Swan) Brown. She was grad- 
 uated from Vassar College in 1878, receiv- 
 ing the degree of A.M. in 1890. She after- 
 wards taught four years at Vassar, and 
 fifteen years in the Brearley School in New 
 York City. INliss Brown has lectured in New 
 York and vicinity for the past twenty- five 
 years. She is author of: Two College 
 Girls; The Petrie Estate; Little Miss Phcebe 
 Gay; Her Sixteenth Y'ear; A Book of Little 
 Boys; Mr. Tuckerman's Nieces (all pub- 
 lished by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.), and A 
 Civilian Attache (published y Scribner's). 
 She was a trustee of Barnard College, 1887- 
 1905, is a member of the Association of 
 Collegiate Alumnse, the College Settlements 
 Association, Vassar Students' Aid Society, 
 the Onteora Club ( Catskill Mountains ) , and 
 the Barnard Meridian, and Women's Univer- 
 sity Clubs of New York. Address: IMoiit- 
 clair, N. J. 
 
 BROWN, Henry Billings: 
 
 Associate justice of the Supreme Court of 
 the United States., retired; born at South 
 
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 A1FN OF AMERICA. 
 
 T.cc. ^fass.. Maicli 2. 1S36. Ho was cradu- 
 alfd from Valo ri>ll."-xi' as T5.A. in 1856, and 
 allcudrd tlio law schools of Yale and Har- 
 vard. He won! to Di-tioil and engaged in 
 luactioo until ISTi). when he was appointed 
 by President Crant. judge of the United 
 States District Court for the Eastern Dis- 
 trict of ]\Iichijriin. which office he held until 
 ap|)ointed. in 1S91. an associate justice of 
 the Supreme Court of the T"^nited States, in 
 which office he served until 1906. when he 
 retired. The de<iree of LL.D. was conferred 
 upon ■lud'ic Brown by the University of 
 Michi<«an in 18S7, and by Yale in 1891. He 
 (onijjiled lirown's Admiralty Reports. Jus- 
 tice Brown was lecturer upon Admiralty law 
 in the University of Michigan and in George- 
 town University. He is a member of the 
 Society of the Cincinnati, and the Society of 
 Mayflower IDescendants. He married first, at 
 Detroit. ;Mieh., in 1864. Caroline Pitts, who 
 died in 1901. He married again, June 25. 
 1904, Josephine E. Tyler. Address: 1720 
 Sixteenth Street. Washington. D. C. 
 
 BROWN, John A.: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Tannersville, Greene 
 County, N. Y.. June 21, 1876; son of James 
 Brown and Catharine (Goggin) Brown. He 
 was educated by a private tutor, and at the 
 Chicago High School. He studied at the 
 Ivent College of Law in Chicago, graduating 
 as LL.B. in 1898, and took a post-graduate 
 course at the Illinois College of Law, from 
 which he received the degrees of LL.B., and 
 LL.M., in 1899. He was admitted to tlie bar 
 in Dec, 1898, and has been engaged in gen- 
 eral practice in the State and Federal courts. 
 He handled the Tug Trust case, the Quota- 
 tion cases, involving the property rights of 
 the boards of trade in quotations througli 
 the United States Supreme Court, the Marks 
 murder case, and Frawley murder case, and 
 many important civil and criminal cases. 
 He has been associated with Jacob J. Kern, 
 formerly city attoiticy of Chicago, and later 
 Slates attorney of Cook County, HI., since 
 his a«lmi!-sion to the bar, the liiin now being 
 Kern & Brown. He is a director in many 
 of Ciiieago's largest eoijiorations, as well 
 as atlorney for many of its ))Usiness entcr- 
 juiscs. lie is the owner of the addilion 
 
 bearing his name to Glen Ellyii. one of the 
 city's most beautiful suburbs. He is Demo- 
 cratic in polities, though he has never held 
 a public office. Mr. Brown is a member of 
 tlie Illinois State Bar Association, and the 
 Chicago Bar Association; trustee of the Illi- 
 nois College of Law, and director of the 
 University Extension Law School. He is a 
 member of the Phi Alpha Delta law fra- 
 ternity, and president of its Alumni associa- 
 tion ; is past regent of the Illinois Council 
 of the Royal Arcanum; sitting past regent 
 of Aar Council, Royal Arcanum; member of 
 the Banner Lodge, 219, Knights of Pythias; 
 and he is a member of the Press Club of 
 Chicago, and Birchwood Country Clubj Res- 
 idence: 403 E. Ontario Street, Chicago. 
 Office: 79 S. Clark Street, Chicago, 
 
 BROWN, John Pinkney: 
 
 Editor and civil engineer ; born at Rising 
 Sun, Ind„ Jan. 19, 1842; son of Elbridge 
 Gerry Brown, who was a descendant of 
 General Brown, of the Massachusetts ilili- 
 tia during the Revolutionary War, and Ada- 
 line (Style) Brown. He was educated' in 
 the schools of Indiana, and for a brief period 
 at Hanover College, Hanover, Ind. He 
 served as a member of the Sixteenth Indi- 
 ana Regiment, 1861-1865, and was with the 
 U. S. Sanitary Commission of Indiana for 
 service in the Mississippi River in 1863, 
 and with General Logan's Division in 
 Mississippi River Service in 1864 and 
 1865. Mr. Brown was engaged as a civil 
 engineer in the survey of the Pacific Rail- 
 way east from California in 1866, the sur- 
 vey of the State line between California 
 and Nevada in 1866, and on various rail- 
 way engineering projects. He surveyed the 
 boundary of the Crow Indian Reservation 
 for the Government in 1890. Tie lias made 
 forestry studies in the lield. in the Iloeky 
 Mountains, and all portions of North Amer- 
 ica. He originated the plan for extensive 
 tree planting b}' railroads for tindier pur- 
 poses, and twenty-five million trees have 
 been planted as the result of his efforts 
 in that direction. He is secretary and 
 treasurer of the International Society of 
 .Xrboricnlturc, and he has t.axeled over three 
 hundred thousand miles in North and Cen- 
 
MKN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Iriil Ainerien in llii' ^tudy of forests. ^Ir. 
 l?rown establislu'd. in 1902. the magazine 
 Arborieiiltnro, devoted to economic forestry, 
 as an advocate of Covernmental, State, 
 corporation and individual tree planting 
 for the benefit of the future Nation and the 
 present generation, and he is author of : 
 Practical Arboriculture, a book covering 
 the problems of railway engineers, manu- 
 facturers, lumbermen and' farmers in rela- 
 tion to tree plaiiting and particularly the re- 
 forestation of denuded areas. He has been 
 the leader in advocacy of the planting of 
 the American tree Catalpa speciosa, a rapid 
 maturing and valuable economic tree, form- 
 erly almost unknown but now through his 
 advocacy growing by the millions in this 
 and many foreign countries. For the pur- 
 pose of demonstrating the methods and 
 j)racticability of forest planting and man- 
 agement, he has established' at his own ex- 
 pense an experimental forest plantation of 
 200.000 trees, mostly Catalpa, upon which 
 farm in Baldwin County, Ala., he spends 
 most of his time. He is an honorary mem- 
 ber of many foreign societies of arboricul- 
 ture and forestry. He is an Independent 
 Republican in politics, and is a Royal Arch 
 Mason. He married at Baldwin, Kan., 
 March IS, 1868. Mary Ellen Stephens, and 
 they have ten children living, three sons, 
 married,' and seven daughters. Address: 
 Conucrsville. Fayette County. Ind. 
 
 BRO'WN, Moreau Roberts: 
 
 Physician: born in Galveston, Tex., 
 July 26, 1853 ; son of James IMoreau and 
 Rebecca Ashton (Stoddart) Brown. He was 
 educated in the private schools of his native 
 j)laee and at Chester (Pa.) Academy. He 
 received his medical education at the Jeffer- 
 son ^Medical College, Philadelphia, and in 
 the medical department of the University 
 of Louisville, Ky., where he was gradu- 
 ated as M.D. in 1876. He also took post- 
 graduate courses in Austria and Germany, 
 then returned to Galveston, Texas, where 
 he built up an extensive practice and was 
 house physician of the Galveston City Hos- 
 pital, county physician of Galveston Coun- 
 ty, quarantine physician and city physician 
 of Galveston. He removed to Chicago, in 
 
 ISSli. \vh( re he I)eeanie a specialist in the 
 treatnuMit of diseases of throat, ear and 
 nose. For many years he was professor of 
 laryngology, rhinology and otology in tlie 
 Chicago College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons, resigning that position in order to 
 lessen the amount of work, in 1902; and he 
 is now professor of laryngology and rhi- 
 nology in the Chicago Polyclinic, and med- 
 ical director of the National Union. He 
 is a fellow of liie American Laryngological 
 Society; member of the Chicago Medical 
 Society, the State Medical Society, the 
 American Medical Association, the Medico- 
 Legal Society, the Chicago Laryngological 
 and the Medical Examiners' Societies. He 
 is a member of the Physicians' Club of 
 Chicago. Dr. Brown has been twice mar- 
 ried, his second marriage being to Louise 
 Grevemberg, at Jeanerette, La., July 18, 
 1887; he has two children. Residence: 
 Winnetka, 111. Office: 34 Washington, 
 Street, Chicago. 
 
 BROWN, Norris: 
 
 United States senator: born at Maquo- 
 keta, Iowa, May 2, 1863; son of William 
 Henry and Eliza Ann (Phelps) Brown. He 
 was educated in the Iowa State University, 
 being graduated in 1883 and A.M., 1885. 
 He studied law and was admitted' to the 
 Iowa Bar, Oct. 1883, and in April, 1888, 
 located in the practice of law at Kearney, 
 Neb. He served as county attorney of Buf- 
 falo County, Neb.. 1892-1896; was deputy 
 attorney-general 1900-1904. and attorney- 
 general, 1904-1906, and in January, 1907, 
 was elected as a Republican to the United 
 States Senate for the term expiring March 
 3, 1913. Address: Kearney, Neb. 
 
 BROWN, Orvon Graff: 
 
 President of Miami Military Institute; 
 born in Greensburg, Westmoreland County. 
 Pa., July 1, 1863. He was educated at 
 Mount Union College, the University of 
 Cincinnati and DenA^er University. He be- 
 came professor of science at Cincinnati Wes- 
 leyan College in 1882, and. three years 
 later organized and procured a charter for 
 the Twin Valley College, of which he is 
 president. He has been president also of 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 the Miami Military Institute since its or- 
 ganization in 1894, as the Military Depart- 
 ment of Twin Valley College. He married, 
 April 5, 1887, Lulu Reed. Address: Ger- 
 mantown, Ohio. 
 
 BROWN, Rollo Walter: 
 
 Professor of rhetoric in Wabash College; 
 born in Crooksville, Ohio, March 15, 1880; 
 son of Alexander and Roselba (Search) 
 Brown. He was educated in Ohio Northern 
 University, 1808-1903, Litt.B. and A.M., and 
 in the Graduate School of Harvard Uni- 
 versity, 1903-1905, receiving the degree 
 of A.M. from the University. Immedi- 
 ately after he left Harvard he was elected 
 to an instructorship in Wabash College. 
 and at the end of that college year, 1905- 
 1906, he was elected to a full professorship. 
 Professor Brown is a member of the Mod- 
 ern Language Association of America and 
 of the American Dialect Society, the Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society and the Harvard Club 
 of Indiana. Address: 607 South Water 
 Street, Crawfordsville, Ind. 
 
 BROWN, Roscoe C. E.: 
 
 Editor; born in Scottsville, N. Y., Aug. 
 23, 1867; son of the late D. D. S. Brown, 
 who was for some time proprietor of The 
 Rochester Democrat, now Tlie Rochester 
 Democrat and Chronicle, and vice-presi- 
 dent of the Rochester and State line, now 
 the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Rail- 
 road. He attended the public school of his 
 native town and was graduated from the 
 University of Rochester in 1889. That in- 
 stitution conferred upon him the degree of 
 M.A. in 1904. Immediately after gradua- 
 tion from college he joined the city staff 
 of The New York Tribune, and became as- 
 sistant day editor in 1893. He was an edi- 
 torial writer ' for that journal, devoting 
 himself especially to political, constitution- 
 al and sociological questions from 189.5- 
 1906, and in 1906 he became its managing 
 editor. He was appointed State civil serv- 
 ice commissioner by Governor Higgins on 
 Jan. 19, 1905, to succeed Cuthbert W. 
 Pound, who resigned to become the Gov- 
 ernor's counsel. Mr. Brown was a mem- 
 l)er of the Executive Committee of the New 
 
 York Civil Service Reform Association, and 
 he is a director of the People's University 
 Extension Society. He is a member of the 
 Plii Beta Kappa Society and Alpha Delta 
 Phi fraternity, and of the Union League, 
 Alpha Delta Phi and City Clubs of New York, 
 and the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn. Ad- 
 dress: Now York Tribune, New York City. 
 
 BROWN, W. Robinson: 
 
 Manufactui'er ; born in Portland, Me., 
 1875; son of William W. and Emily Hart 
 (Jenkins) Brown. He was graduated from 
 Phillips Andover Academy, 1893, William's 
 College, B.A., 1897. He is director and 
 manager of the Woods Department of the 
 Berlin Mills Company, and Burgess Sul- 
 phite Fibre Company, manufacturers of 
 newspaper sulphite and lumber, Portland, 
 Me., and is managing director of the Quebec 
 & St. Maurice Industrial Company of Que- 
 bec. He is president of the Brown Memor- 
 ial Library of Clinton, Me.; colonel on staff 
 of Governor Quimby of New Hampshire, 
 1908, and member of the Forestry Com- 
 mission of New Hampshire, 1909. He is a 
 member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity 
 (Williams College). Address: Berlin, N. 
 H. 
 
 BROWN, William Adams: 
 
 Clergyman and theologian; born in New 
 York City, Dec. 29, 1865; son of John 
 Crosby and Mary E. (Adams) Brown. 
 He was educated in St. Paul's School, Con- 
 cord, N. H., and was graduated from Yale 
 College, A.B., 1886, A.M., 1888, and Ph.D. 
 in 1901. He was graduated from the Union 
 Theological Seminary in 1890, and he spent 
 the years 1890-1892' in study at Berlin as 
 a fellow of the Union Theological Seminary. 
 The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred 
 upon him by Union College in 1902, and 
 by Yale University in 1907. He has been 
 a teacher in the Union Tiieological Semi- 
 nary from 1892, at first in the depart- 
 ment of Church History, afterwards in tliat 
 of Systematic Theology, and since 1898 has 
 been Roosevelt professor of systematic the- 
 ology in that institution. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Society of Biblical Exegesis, the 
 American Geographical Association, the 
 
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 237 
 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science, and the American Philosophical 
 Association. He is a patron of the Metro- 
 politan Museum of Art; a director of the 
 Yale Alumni Fund; a member of the Board 
 of Trustees of the New York Institution for 
 the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, of 
 the Governing Board of the Union Settle- 
 ment of New l^ork City, and of the Execu- 
 tive Committee of the Grenfell Association. 
 He is independent in politics and a Presby- 
 terian in his ecclesiastical connection. He 
 is author of: Musical Instruments and 
 Their Homes, 1888; The Essence of Chris- 
 tianity, 1902; Christian Theology in Out- 
 line, 1907; as well as of the articles, Salva- 
 tion, Millennium, etc., in Hastings' Diction- 
 ary of the Bible, and of numerous contri- 
 butions to reviews and magazines on the- 
 ological and historical subjects. Pie is a 
 member of the American Editorial Board 
 of the Hibbert Journal. Dr. Brown is a 
 member of the Century Association, the 
 University, Yale, American Alpine, Apa- 
 wamis Golf and West Side Tennis Clubs. 
 He married in St. Paul, Minn., in 1892, 
 Helen Gilman Noyes, and they have three 
 sons. Dr. Brown has a summer home, The 
 Tree Tops, at Seal Harbor, Me., where he 
 is president of the Harbor Cliflfs Tennis Club, 
 and a trustee of the Congregational Church. 
 Residence: 114 East 30th Street. Ad- 
 dress: 700 Park Avenue, New York City. 
 
 BROWN, William Maxwell: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in Warwick, R. I., 
 Aug. 13, 1853; son of Wililam M. and 
 Susan A. (Clapp) Brown. He was grad- 
 uated from Brown University in 1873, with 
 the degree of Ph.B., and immediately en- 
 gaged in the practice of civil engineering, 
 lirst on public work for the city of Provi- 
 dence, R. I., afterward assistant engineer 
 of the Massachusetts State Board of Health 
 at Boston, chiefly on work of drainage, and 
 since 1894 he has been chief engineer of the 
 JMassachusetts ^letropolitan Sewerage Com- 
 mission at Boston. He has been a member 
 since 1887, and was a director 1902-1904, 
 of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, 
 member since 1895 of the American Soci- 
 ety of Civil Engineers, member of the Bos- 
 
 ton Chamber of Commerce, and from 1902- 
 1905 was a member of the Chelsea (Mass.) 
 School Committee. Mr. Brown is author of 
 various reports relating to ^Tetropolitan 
 sewerage works. He married in Boston, in 
 1884, Julia Ida Daniels. Residence: 1285 
 Commonwealth Avenue. Oiiice: 1 Ashbur- 
 ton Place, Boston. 
 
 BROWN, William Montgomery: 
 
 Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Diocese 
 of Arkansas ; born near Orrville, Wayne 
 County, Ohio, Nov. 6, 1855. He studied 
 at Kenyon University and received the de- 
 gree of D.D. from Kenyon and the Univer- 
 sity of the South. He was ordered deacon 
 in 1883 and was ordained to the priest- 
 hood by Bishop Bedell the following year. 
 In 1886 he became rector of Grace Church, 
 Gallon, Ohio, and organized seven missions 
 in his district. He remained in this pas- 
 torate until 1891, when he became general 
 missionary and archdeacon of the Diocese of 
 Ohio. He was consecrated bishop coadjutor 
 of Arkansas in 1898, becoming bishop of 
 Arkansas in 1899. He is author of: The 
 Protestant Episcopal Church Defended 
 against Five Unjust Allegations, 1889; 
 The Church for Americans, 1896; The Cru- 
 cial Race Question, 1907 ; and he has also 
 published numerous sermons and addresses. 
 Bishop Brown married, at Cleveland, Ohio, 
 April 9, 1885;, Ella Scranton Bradford. Ad- 
 dress: Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 BROWN, William Wallace: 
 
 Assistant attorney-general of the United 
 States; born in Summer Hill, Cayuga 
 Coimty, N. Y., April 22, 1836. He was 
 educated at Alfred College in New York, 
 where he received the degree of LL.D. in 
 1886. He enlisted as private in the 23d 
 New York Vohmteers during the Civil War, 
 and later served in the 1st Pennsylvania 
 Rifles. At the close of the war he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar, and in 1867 was elected 
 district attorney for McKean County, Pa., 
 in which county, at a later date, he served 
 as recorder of deeds and superintendent of 
 common schools. In 1872 he was elected 
 to the legislature of Pennsylvania, serving 
 until 1876, and in 1883 became a member 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 of the National House of Representatives, 
 serving for two terms. He was auditor 
 for the War Department for two years, and 
 from Aug. 10, 1S99 to June 1, 1907 was 
 auditor for the Navy Department. On the 
 latter date he was appointed assistant at- 
 torney general for the defense of suits be- 
 fore the Spanish Claims Commission, liav- 
 ing cliarge of the interests of the United 
 States in opposing claims for dowages on 
 account of the Spanish War. tliis govern- 
 ment iiaving assumed the liability of the 
 S|»anisii government to American citizens. 
 This position includes the gathering of a 
 vast amount of testimony for the United 
 States especially in Cuba and is being di- 
 rected by Mr. Brown in such a manner as 
 to successfully safeguard the interests of 
 the United States against claims mount- 
 ing to many millions of dollars. Eesidence: 
 The Dewey. Office : Munsej' Building, 
 \Vashington. D. C. 
 
 BROWNE, Charles Francis: 
 
 i.andscape jjainter; born at Nntick, Mass., 
 Maj- 21, 1859; son of George Warren and 
 Emeline (Wetherbee) Browne. After at- 
 tending the Art schools at Boston and Phil- 
 adelphia, he studied under G6rume and oth- 
 ers in Faris from 1879-1883, he was a de- 
 signer for the Forbes Lithographic Manu- 
 facturering Company. He made three trips 
 to Europe, in 1887 and in 1903 and 1908. He 
 also traveled extensively in the Rocky 
 Mountains in 1895. and spent one year in 
 Scotland, painting. He was professor of Art 
 at Beloit College, Wisconsin, now in- 
 structor and lecturer in painting at the 
 Art Institute of Cliicago. He belongs to tlie 
 Society of Western Artists, the Chicago So- 
 ciety of Artists, the Chicago Water Color 
 Club, the National Geographic Society, the 
 Little Room, and the Cliff-dwellers Club, 
 C hicago. He is a trustee of Sharon Church, 
 Chicago, and is a member of the City 
 Club, Chicago. His i)ictures were e.vhibited 
 in the Exposition at Paris in 1889, Chicago, 
 1903, at the International Exhibitions at 
 Buffalo, in 1901, Omaha in 1!)03, at Paris in 
 1900, and at current exhibitions in the 
 United States since 1S90. lie lias pictures 
 in the Roger Williams Park Museum, Provi- 
 
 dence, R. I., in the Union League Club, and 
 in the Municipal Gallery, Chicago. He re- 
 ceived the Fine Arts Building Prize (of 
 $500.00) in 1908. He married" at Chicago. 
 May 21, 1898, Turbie Taft. and they have 
 one son. Address: The Art Institute of 
 Chicago. Studio: 216 East 57th Street, 
 Chicago. 
 
 BROWNELL, George Francis: 
 
 Lawyer and railroad official; born in 
 Des Moines, Iowa, June 5, 1861; son of 
 Samuel Clark and Catherine (Fox) Brow- 
 nell. He was educated in the Medina (N. 
 Y.) Academy, Lockport (N. Y.) High 
 School, Albany Law School, LL.B.. 1882, 
 University of Michigan, LL.B., 1883. He 
 began the study of law in the office of 
 Childs and Pitts at ]\Iedina, N. Y'.^ and 
 later with Thomas M. Cooley. chief jus- 
 tice of the Supreme Court of Michigan and 
 dean of the Law Department of the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan. He was admitted in 
 the Bar in 1883; became member of tlie 
 Buffalo law firm of Sprague, Morey, Sprague 
 and Brownell in 1888, and since 1897 has 
 been a member of the law firm of ^loot. 
 Sprague, Brownell and Marcy. He becanie 
 general solicitor of the Erie Railroad Com- 
 pany, June, 1897, with offices in New York 
 City and since Jan. 1, 1904, has been vice- 
 ])resident and general solicitor of the Erie 
 Railroad Company, vice-president, general 
 solicitor and director of the New Y'ork, 
 Susquehanna & Western Railroad Company, 
 and of the Chicago and Erie Railroad Com- 
 ])any; vice-president and director of the 
 Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad Compa- 
 ny, Erie and Jersey Railroad Company, Cin- 
 einnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Com- 
 pany, Pennsylvania Coal Company, Hill- 
 side Coal and Iron Company and the Erie 
 Terminals Railroad Company; director of 
 the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas 
 Railroad (.'ompany, Buffalo Creek Railroad 
 C^ompany, Southwestern Construction Com- 
 pany, Cincinnati, Indiana and Western Rail- 
 road Company, Blossburg Coal Company, 
 Long Dock Company, Lake Keuka Navi- 
 gation Company ami tlie General Railroad 
 Signal Company, lie is a member of the 
 Clii Psi Krateniit\ and of the Lotos, Rail- 
 
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MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 2:?!) 
 
 roiid. IWiIVmIo and Chi Tsi Clubs, and the 
 J,od;4v ol' Ancient Landmarks (Masonic). 
 Mr. Jhownell married in BulValo, June 7, 
 1S!)7. Annie Kniseley Abbott, and they have 
 two sons. Ixesidence: 312 West 89th 
 Street. Clliee": 50 Church Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 BROWNING, Eliza Gordon: 
 
 Librarian; born in Fortville, Ind.; daugh- 
 ter of Woodville and ]\Iary Anne (Brown) 
 Biowninji'. Slic i-ecoivcd lier education in 
 public and [)ri\a1e schools. Since 1892 she 
 has been librarian of the Indianapolis Pub- 
 lic Library. Miss Browning is a member 
 of the American Library Association, mem- 
 bei- and ex-president of the Indiana Library 
 Association; State historian of the Indiana 
 Society of Daughters of the American Rev- 
 olution; only woman member of the Indi- 
 ana State Historical Society, member of the 
 Indianapolis Art Association, Indianapolis 
 Library Club, Fortnightly Literary Club 
 and Y. W. C. A. She was joint editor, with 
 Mrs. Harriet McI. Foster, of the Lineage 
 Book of the Indiana Society of Daughters 
 of the American Revolution ; and is author 
 of numerous unsigned articles in newspa- 
 pers and magazines. She lias traveled in 
 all parts of the United States, and spent one 
 summer in Europe. Address: Public Li- 
 brary. Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 BROWNING, William: 
 
 Physician, neurologist; born in New Lon- 
 don County, Conn., July 7, 1855. He was 
 educated in Norwich Free Academy, Shef- 
 field Scientific School, Yale, Ph.D^. 1876; 
 University of Pennsylvania, from which he 
 received a diploma in anatomy; and the 
 universities of Leipzig and' Wurzburg, 
 Germany, receiving the degree of ^M.D. from 
 the former in 1881. Dr. Browning was in- 
 structor in science at Media Academy for 
 three years, but since 1883 has been engag- 
 ed in the practice of medicine in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. He has also been connected with 
 several hospitals in and around New York, 
 among them being the German Hospital, 
 the Long Island State, Long Island Col- 
 lege, Norwegian, German, St. John's Jew- 
 ish, Eastern District, Bushwick, St. Chris- 
 
 topher's and St. Catiierine's hospitals. He 
 was also physician to Central Dispensary 
 for two years; neurologist to Long Island 
 College Dispensary nine years; on the edi- 
 torial stair of the Annals of Surgery, 1885- 
 1891; lecturer on normal neurology at Long 
 Island (College Hospital Medical School, 
 1887-1901; librarian of the Medical So- 
 ciety; and co-editor of the Brooklyn Medi- 
 cal Journal. He has been professor of dis- 
 eases of the mind and nervous system at 
 Long Island College Hospital since 1901. 
 Dr. Browning is a member of a large num- 
 ber of medical and scientific associations, 
 and is author of: The Veins of the Brain 
 and Its Envelopes ; The Epileptic Interval ; 
 Circulation in the Central Nervous System ; 
 is editor of the Journal Neurographs, and 
 an extensive contributor to medical litera- 
 ture. Address: 54 Leflferts Place, P>rook- 
 lyn, N. Y. 
 
 BROWNLOW, Walter Preston: 
 
 Journalist and congressman; born at 
 Abingdon, Va. He attended the common 
 school for three years, but because of the 
 death of his father (the celebrated '" Par- 
 son " Brownlow, famous for his adherence 
 to the Union Cause during the Civil \Var), 
 he earned his support from the age of 10. 
 He entered the newspaper business as a rc- 
 ])orter for the Knoxville Whig and Chron- 
 icle (edited by his uncle, the late Hon. 
 William G. Brownlow United States Sen- 
 ator), in 1876. In the same year he pur- 
 chased the Herald and Tribune, a Republi- 
 can newspaper published at Jonesboro, of 
 which he has since been the editor and 
 proprietor. He was a delegate from his 
 district to the Republican National Con- 
 vention of 1880, 1896 and 1900, and a dele- 
 gate from the State at large to the National 
 Conventions of 1884 and 1904. He was ap- 
 pointed postmaster at Jonesboro in March, 
 1881, and resigned in Decendier to accept 
 the doorkeepership of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives of the Forty-seventh Congress. 
 In 1884. 1896, 1900, and 1906, he was elect- 
 ed by the delegation from his State to the 
 National Conventions as Tennessee's member 
 of the Republican National Committee, but 
 failed of reelection in 1908. He was elect- 
 
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 od by Congress as a member of tlic Board 
 of Managers for the National Soldier's 
 Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. He 
 was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, 
 Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth and Fifty- 
 ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses, and was re- 
 elected in 1909 to the Sixty-first Congress, 
 in which he is now serving. He has twice 
 been the Republican nominee for United 
 States Senator from Tennessee, and in 1908 
 was elected as Tennessee's member o£ the 
 National Congressional Committee. Ad- 
 dress: Jonesboro, Tenn. 
 
 BROWNSCOMBE. Jennie Augusta: 
 
 Artist painter; born in Honesdale, Pa., 
 daughter of William and Elvira (Kenne- 
 dy) Brownscombe. She was educated in the 
 high school at Honesdale, and afterward 
 studied art in Now York City, one year 
 in the School of Design for Women (Coop- 
 er Union), receiving the trustees' silver 
 medal, and five years in the National 
 Academy of Design, receiving- silver med- 
 als in tlie Antique and Life schools. She 
 also studied in Paris with Henry Mosler 
 for one year; has been abroad four times 
 on prolonged visits and has spent five win- 
 ters in Rome at different times. When she 
 had been a student of art less than two 
 years she began the making of drawings for 
 illustrated |)eriodicals — Harper's and others, 
 and three yeais later to exhibit. Four years 
 afterward she went abroad for a year's 
 study, and after her return her pictures 
 began to be reproduced in etchings, engrav- 
 ing and photo-engraving, and about sixty of 
 tiiese, all figure pictures, and many of them 
 of colonial and early American subjects, 
 have been published as proofs and prints, 
 some in monoclirome and some in colors. 
 Slie was at one time, for two years, a writer 
 of art notes for a daily newspaper in New 
 \<nk. j\Iiss lirowuscombe has exhibited 
 from time to time in the National Academy 
 and American Water-Color Society Exhibi- 
 tions in New York, and also in Philadel- 
 ])hia, Chicago and Western exhibitions, and 
 also with dealers in tlu;se and other cities, 
 and slic received a silver medal in 1907 
 fnmi the \iniTi<;m Ail Societv of Pliiia- 
 
 deljdiia. .\ddrof 
 York Citv. 
 
 96 Fifth Avenue, New 
 
 BROWNSON, Mary Wilson: 
 
 Professor of modern European history: 
 born in Washington, Pa., daughter of Rev. 
 James Irwin Brownson. D.D., and Eleanor 
 McCullough (Acheson) Brownson. She was 
 educated WviS^Jngton (Pa.) Seminary, the 
 Pennsylvania College for Women at Pitts- 
 burghi A.B., 1904, the Graduate School of 
 Washington and Jefferson College, AAt. 
 1905; she has pursued graduate study in 
 summer sessions of the Chicago and Wis- 
 consin Universities, and in 1007 at Oxford 
 University, England, and she has done re- 
 search work in French history in Harvard 
 University. Miss Brownson holds the 
 chairs of Modern European History and of 
 Biblical Literature in the Pennsylvania Col- 
 lege for Women at Pittsburgh. She has 
 given illustrated lectures on the Holy Land 
 after an extended camping tour in that 
 country in 1900. She is author of: The 
 Old Testament Story, to be completed in 
 four volumes, of which two have been is- 
 sued (W. A. Wilde Company) ; His Sister 
 (Winona Publishing Co.). Miss Brownson 
 is a member of the American Historical As- 
 sociation, and of the College Club of Pitts- 
 burgh. Address: Pennsylvania College for 
 Women. Pillslmrgh, Pa. 
 
 BROWNSON, Willard Herbert: 
 
 Rear-Adniiial, U. S. Navy, retired; born 
 in Lyons, N. Y.. July 8, 1845; son of Morton 
 and Harriet (Taft) Brownson. Upon his 
 graduation from the Naval Academy in 1805 
 he served for three years in the flagship of 
 the North Atlantic Squadron, when he was 
 ordered to the Pacific station. After serv- 
 ice (111 the Coast Survey, in deep sea inves- 
 tigation and as inspector of hydrography, 
 he was placed in command of various Unit- 
 ed States ships, among them being tlie 
 Petrel, Dolphin, and the Detroit at Rio de 
 Janeiro, lirazil, during the revolution. In 
 1894 he was detailed as commandant of tlie 
 cadets at the Naval Academy, and from 
 ]S!)(i-].S9S \\:is (111 tli(> Board of Inspection 
 and Sur\c\. lie wns ((iiiniinndci- of tlic 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 241 
 
 Yankee during the war with Spain, and of 
 the Alabama" from 1900-1902. For four 
 years he was sujieriiitondent of the Naval 
 Academy, and on May 6, 1906 was promoted 
 to the rank of rear-admiral. He command- 
 ed the Fourth Division of the Atlantic fleet 
 from July 8th to Aug. 15th, 1900; com- 
 manded a special service squadron for two 
 months thereafter; and from Oct. 15, 1906, 
 to April 1, 1907, was commander-in-chief of 
 the Asiatic fleet. On May 20, 1907 he be- 
 came chief of the Bureau of Navigation, 
 and although he was retired by operation of 
 law two months later, was kept on active 
 duty by order of the President until his 
 resignation of the position of chief of bu- 
 reau. He married July 10, 1872, Isabella 
 King Roberts and they have three cluldren. 
 Address 1751 N. Street, N. W., Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 BRUCE, Matthew Linn: 
 
 Jurist; born at !Mercersburg, Pa., Oct. 1, 
 18C0; son of Rev. James Bruce, D.D., and 
 Mary (Linn) Bruce. He received his pre- 
 paratory education at the Andes (New 
 York) Academy, and then entered Rutgers 
 College, from which he graduated as vale- 
 dictorian of his class, with the degree of A. 
 B. in 1884 and A.M. in 1887. After gradu- 
 ation he engaged in teaching and studied 
 law in the office of Casius M. Shaw, of 
 Andes, New l^ork; and was admitted' to the 
 bar in September, 1889. He removed to 
 New York City and has practised law there 
 ever since except during his service as a 
 justice of the Supreme Court. Judge Bruce 
 has always been an active Republican. He 
 was president of the Republican County 
 Connnittee of New York, in 1903. He was 
 elected lieutenant-governor of New Y'ork, in 
 1904, and renominated in 1906, but failed 
 of reelection, and was then appointed a 
 justice of the Supreme Court for the First 
 Judicial District of New York. He re- 
 sumed practice in 1908. He was reappoint- 
 ed a justice of the Supreme Court in 1908 
 by Gov. Hughes. Judge Bruce is a prom- 
 inent layman of the Presbyterian Cliurch, 
 and was a commissioner to the General As- 
 sembly of the Presbyterian Church at Buf- 
 falo, in 1904, and is president of tlie Pres- 
 16 
 
 l)yterian Union of New York. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Association of the Bar of the City 
 of New York and of the St. Andrew's So- 
 ciety. Judge Briice is also a member and 
 vice-president of the Republican Club of 
 New York. He married, in 1894, Mrs. Lil- 
 lian (Ballantine) Knapp, daughter of the 
 late Duncan Ballantine, of Andes, N. Y., 
 and of this union there are throe children. 
 Residence: 523 West One Hundred and 
 Fiftieth Street. Address: 18 Wall Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 BRUCE, Wallace: 
 
 Orator and author; born in Hillsdale, N. 
 Y., Nov. 10., 1844. He was educated at 
 Hudson River Institute and Yale, whence 
 he was graduated in 1867, and has been 
 engaged in literary work since 1868. Mr. 
 Bruce is a poet and orator of international 
 reputation, having delivered addresses on 
 numerous centennial and memorial occa- 
 sions, among them being the Burns anni- 
 versary addresses at Ayr, Edinburgh and 
 Kilmarnock, Scotland, and at Boston, Hart- 
 ford and Chicago. He also delivered an ad- 
 dress on Washington Irving at the Strat- 
 ford Grammar School, Stratford on Avon. 
 England. He was United States consul at 
 Edinburg, Scotland, from 1889-1893. Mr. 
 Bruce is honorary president of the Shakes- 
 peare Society of Edinburgh and president of 
 the Florida Chautauqua at De Funiak 
 Springs, Florida, and is the author of: 
 The Land of Burns; The Yosemite; The 
 Hudson; From the Hudson to the Yosemite; 
 Old Homestead Poems; The Hudson Pano- 
 rama; In Clover and Heather; Here's a 
 Hand; Wayside Poems; Scottish Poems; 
 Leaves of Gold: and Wanderers. He mar- 
 ried at Schodack Depot, N. Y., June 29, 
 1870, Annie Becker. Address: 267 Stuy- 
 vesant Aveniie, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 BRUNCKEN, Ernest: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Feldhausen, Oldenburg, 
 Germany, Feb. 16, 1865. He came to Amer- 
 ica with his parents at the age of 16, 
 learned the printing trade, and worked on 
 newspapers in Ciiicago and ^lilwaukee. He 
 studied law in a private office, and in 1892 
 was adniitled to the Wisconsin bar, prac- 
 
242 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 tisiii^y ill Milwauki'i'. wlu'iii lie was assist- 
 ant city attorm-y for four years, until 1902. 
 He was State Forestry Commissioner from 
 lS!)7-18i)!), and the following year made 
 eamiiaign speeehes through the western 
 states for tlio Ivepublican National Com- 
 mittee. He was assistant forester of the 
 Biltmore estate from 1902-1004, and since 
 December of the latter year has been legisla- 
 tive reference librarian of California. He is 
 a member of the American Forestry Asso- 
 ciation, llie American Historical Associa- 
 tion, the American Library Association: 
 and the California State Library Associa- 
 tion; and the author of: North American 
 Forests and Forestry ; German Political Ex- 
 iles in the United States; and (jointly with 
 \V. Hense- Jensen) of Wisconsin's Deutsch- 
 Amerikaner; also numerous articles on for- 
 estall, legal and sociological subjects in var- 
 ious periodicals. He married in Milwaukee, 
 Wis., Dec. 28, 1892, Erna Nohl. Address: 
 State Library. Sacramento, California. 
 
 BRTJNDAGE, Albert Harrison: 
 
 Physician, toxicologist, and author; born 
 at Camdor. N. Y., March 3, 1862; son of 
 Dr. Amos H. and Sarah Mervina (Dimnick) 
 Brundage. He was graduated from the 
 New York University Medical College as 
 M.D. in 188.5. and followed his graduation 
 with post-graduate work there and at the 
 Long Island College Hospital; and he 
 was graduated also from the Brooklyn Col- 
 lege of Pharmacy as Ph.G., 1892, Phar.D., 
 1897 ; and received the degree of A.M. from 
 the University of Nasiiville, 1898, and of M. 
 S. from the Science Department of the 
 Rhode Island College of Pharmacy and Al- 
 lied Sciences in 1905. He engaged for over 
 fifteen years in the practice of medicine in 
 Brooklyn, X. Y., and was president in 1903, 
 and board examiner in toxicology and 
 ])Osology from 1898-1905, of the Board of 
 Pharmacy of tlie State of New York. He 
 was professor of toxicology, physiology and 
 hygiene in Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, 
 1898-1904; |)rofessor of to.xicology and 
 physiology at the Rhode Island College of 
 I'harmacy and Allied Sciences, 1903-1907; 
 and was toxicologist to the Bushwick and 
 other hospitals in Brooklyn. He removed in 
 
 190(5 to Milwaukee, Wis., where he is pro- 
 fessor of toxicology in Marquette Univer- 
 sity, in the Depaitment of Medicine, Dentis- 
 try and Pharmacy. Dr. Brundage is a 
 member of the American Medical Associa- 
 tion, the American Pharmaceutical Associ- 
 ation. American Microscopical Society, 
 American Anthropological Association, 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science, American Geographical Society, 
 American National Red Cross, and many 
 State and local societies, and was formerly 
 president of the Brooklyn College of Pharm- 
 acy. He is author of Practical Points in 
 Physiology and a mamml of Toxicology 
 and many contributions to iJiofessional 
 journals on medical and pharmaceutical 
 subjects. Dr. Brundage married, Sept. 26, 
 1888, Sarah Alice, daughter of Rev. Kil- 
 burn Holt, of Amherst, Mass., and has a 
 daughter, and a son. Residence: 2404 
 State Street, Milwaukee, Wis. New York 
 address: 70 Linden Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 Y. 
 
 BRUNNER, Arnold William: 
 
 Architect; born in New York City. Sept. 
 25, 1857; son of \\'illiam and Isabella 
 (Solomon) Brunner. He was graduated in 
 the special course in architecture from the 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 
 1879 and then entered the olfice of George 
 B. Post. After extended travel in Europe 
 lie commenced practice in architecture. He 
 was architect of the Cleveland (Ohio) 
 postoffice, custom house and court house, 
 the Mount Sinai Hospital Buildings, the 
 School of Mines of Columbia University. 
 New York, and many other jjiiblic and pri- 
 vate buildings in New York City; designed 
 the pavilions in William H. Seward' Park, 
 Thomas Jefferson Park, the Public Baths, 
 etc. He was appointed by Governor Nash 
 of Ohio, one of the three supervising archi- 
 tects to prepare group plans of public build- 
 ings and grounds for the City of Cleveland; 
 and was appointed a member of the Board 
 of Education of New York in 1902. In 1907 
 lie was appointed by Mayor McClellan a 
 member of the Arts Commission of the City 
 of iSIew York. Mr. Brunner is a member 
 of the Architectural League of New York, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 243 
 
 and was elected its president in 1903-1904. 
 He is a fellow of the American Institute of 
 Architects and president of the New York 
 Chapter and is a member of the National 
 Sculpture Society, and was its vice-presi- 
 dent 1!)07. Mr. Brunner is a member of the 
 National Council of Fine Arts, appointed 
 January, 1909, by President Roosevelt. Mr. 
 Brunner was a contributor to Russell Stur- 
 gis' Dictionary of Architecture, and has 
 published numerous professional papers. 
 Residence: 1748 Broadway. Address: 33 
 Union Square, West, New York City. 
 
 BRUSH, Charles Francis: 
 
 Scientist; born in Euclid, Ohio, March 
 17, 1849. He was educated in the Univer- 
 sity of Michigan, from which he received 
 the degrees of M.E., 1869, and M.S., 1899; 
 and Western Reserve University, of which 
 he is Ph.D. 1880, and LL.D. 1900; and 
 he received from Kenyon the degree of 
 LL.D. 1903. Mr. Brush has been active 
 in the electrical field for many years, and 
 possesses the distinction of being the pio- 
 neer inventor of modern electric arc light- 
 ing. He was the founder of the Brush 
 Electric Company, and is j^resident and a 
 director of many large corporations ; also 
 trustee of many educational institutions. 
 He was decorated by the French Govern- 
 ment in 1881 for his achievements in elec- 
 trical science, and was awarded the Rum- 
 ford medal in 1899. He is a fellow of 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science; a life member of the 
 British Association; and a member of num- 
 erous other engineering and scientific soci- 
 eties. He married, in 1875, Mary E. Mor- 
 ris. Address: 481 The Arcade. Cleveland, 
 Ohio. 
 
 BRUSH, George Jarvis: 
 
 Mineralogist; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 Dee. 15, 1831. He was educated in pub- 
 lic schools until 1846, when he entered 
 business in New York City; severe illness 
 in 1848 decided him to become a farmer; 
 he went to Y'ale for six months' course 
 in agriculture; remained two years study- 
 ing chemistry and mineralogy; was as- 
 sistant to Professor Benjamin Silliman, 
 
 Jr., at the University of Louisville, in 1851, 
 traveled in lOurope with Professor Silliman, 
 Sr., in 1851, and received the degrees of 
 Pli.B. in 1852, and A.M. in 1857, from 
 Yale, and LL.D. from Harvard in 1886. 
 He was assistant in chemistry in the Uni- 
 versity of Virginia, 1852-1853; took post- 
 graduate stiulies at University of Munich, 
 1853 and 1854; at Royal Saxon School of 
 Mines, 1854-1855, and Government School 
 of Mines, London, 1855-1856. He was pro- 
 fessor of metallurgy, 1855-1871, professor 
 of mineralogy, 1864-1898 at the Slieffield 
 Scientific School, Y^ale, and has been emer- 
 itus professor since 1898. Dr. Brush was 
 director, 1872-1899, of the Sheffield Scientific 
 School. He is a member of the National 
 Academy of Sciences from 1868; fellow of 
 the American Association of Science (pres- 
 ident in 1881), American Society of Natu- 
 ralists, American Academy of Sciences, 
 American Philosophical Society, Connecti- 
 cut Academy of Sciences, New York Acad- 
 emy of Science, foreign member of the 
 London Geological Society; corresponding 
 member of the Edinburgh Geological So- 
 ciety, St. Petersburg Imperial Mineralogi- 
 cal Society; Bavarian Royal Academy of 
 Sciences. He is author of a Manual of 
 Determinative Mineralogy ; and also many 
 memoirs and articles chiefly on the chem- 
 ical composition of American minerals. 
 Mr. Brush married Harriet Silliman Trum- 
 bull. Address: 14 Trumbull Street, New 
 Haven. Conn. 
 
 BRYAN, Charles Page: 
 
 Diplomat; born in Chicago, Oct. 2, 1856; 
 son of Thomas Barbour Bryan (vice-pres- 
 ident of the World's Columbian Exposi- 
 tion), and of Jane Byrd (Page) Bryan. 
 He is of an old Virginia family and re- 
 ceived his education at the University of 
 Virginia, afterward entering the Law Col- 
 lege of Columbian (now George Washing- 
 ton) University of Washington, from which 
 he was graduated LL.B. in 1878. He was 
 admitted to the bar in 1878, and in 1879 
 rem(jved to Colorado, where he remained 
 until 1883, becoming a member of the 
 House of Representatives of that State, 
 and a colonel on the stalf of Governor 
 
244 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Eaton, of Colorado. He has been a resident 
 of Elnihurst, Du Page County, 111. (sixteen 
 miles west of Chicago), since 1883, and 
 was engaged in law practice in Chicago. 
 He was for four consecutive terms a mem- 
 ber of the lower house of the General As- 
 senibh' of Illinois; and was colonel on the 
 staffs of Governors Oglesby, Fifer and 
 Altgeld of that State; and is an active and 
 influential member of the Republican 
 party of Illinois. In 1897 he was appointed 
 envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo- 
 tentiary of the United States to China, 
 but was transferred to Brazil in 1898, re- 
 maining there until Sept., 1902, when he 
 was transferred to Switzerland, continuing 
 until Jan., 1903, ^when he was appointed 
 to his present post as envoy extraordinary 
 and minister plenipotentiary of the United 
 States to Portugal. Address: Department 
 of State, Washington, D. C. 
 
 BRYAN, Mary Edwards: 
 
 Author and editor; born near Tallahas- 
 see, Fla.; daughter of Major John D. and 
 Louisa Crutchfred (Houghton) Edwards. 
 She attended the Fletcher Institute, Thom- 
 asville, Ga., and married, while a school- 
 girl in her fifteenth year, I. E. Bryan, a 
 planter of Louisiana, and was graduated 
 four years later from College Temple, New- 
 nan, Ga., with the degree of M.A. Mrs. 
 Bryan began writing when only 15, and 
 published poems, stories and two serials. 
 She edited' The Sunny South at Atlanta, 
 Ga., for nine years, then went to New York 
 and edited the New York Bazar and The 
 Half Hour, magazines published by George 
 Munro, and she has published ten novels: 
 iManch; Wild Work (a novel of the Recon- 
 struction Era) ; Kildee; Nan Haggard; 
 Uncle Ned's White Child; His Legal Wife; 
 A Fugitive Bride; Ruth — An Outcast; 
 The Girl He Bought; My Own Sin; also 
 Poems and Stories in Verse; Poems for 
 J^ramatic Readings. Her books were first 
 ))nblished by the Appletons, but the copy- 
 rights of her novels were bought by George 
 Munro, who issued them in cheaper form. 
 Mrs. Bryan returned from New York in 
 1899, and became associate editor of The 
 Suimy South, and continued in the work 
 
 until that publication was merged into 
 the Remus Magazine (Joel Chandler Har- 
 ris, editor ) , when she became one of the 
 editorial staff, conducting a department, 
 and writing stories. Mrs. Bryan is an 
 accomplished reader and speaker, and oc- 
 casionally appears on the platform to 
 deliver commencement addresses, and reads 
 dramatic poems at entertainments for char- 
 ity. Her favorite recreation is cultivating 
 flowers and fruit trees, for which she has 
 always had opportunity, her husband being 
 a farmer. She is a member of United Char- 
 ities, and of the Woman's Home Mission of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church in Geor- 
 gia; and she has been a member of the 
 Sorosis Club, New York, since 1886, mem- 
 ber and formerly vice-president of the New 
 York Woman's Press Club, and was vice- 
 president of a former Georgia Woman's 
 Press Club. She has had five children, of 
 wliom a son and two daughters are now 
 living. Address: Uncle Remus Magazine, 
 Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 BRYAN, William Jennings: 
 
 Editor, lecturer, political leader; born 
 at Salem, 111., March 19, 1860; son of 
 Judge Silas Lillard and Mariah Elizabeth 
 (Jennings) Bryan. The Bryan family, of 
 Irish extraction, were citizens of Virginia 
 for at least three generations, Mr. Bryan's 
 father being born near Sperryville, Va. 
 Mr. Bryan's mother was born in Walnut 
 tlill, Marion County, 111., of which place 
 her grandfather, Israel Jennings, was one 
 of the first settlers. Mr. Bryan was edu- 
 cated in the public school at his birth- 
 place, and at Jacksonville, 111., in Whipple 
 Academy and Illinois College, whence he 
 was graduated A.B. (valedictorian) 1881, 
 A.M., 1884, and later received the degree of 
 LL.D., and was graduated from Union 
 College of Law, Chicago, LL.B., 1883. He 
 practised law at Jacksonville, 111., 1883- 
 1887, and afterward in Lincoln, Neb., was 
 elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third 
 Congresses in 1890 and 1892; received the 
 Democratic votes in the Nebraska Legis- 
 lature for United States Senator in 1895, 
 but was defeated in the Legislature by 
 John M. Thurston, Republican, and was 
 
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 240 
 
 editor of the Omaha World-Herald, 1894- 
 1890. He was a delegate from Nebi-aska 
 to the National Democratic Convention at 
 Chicago, 1896, and made a speech on the 
 platform which is one of the most noted 
 in tlie annals of American oratory, was 
 nominated for the Presidency by that con- 
 vention, and after one of the most strenu- 
 ous and bitterly fought campaigns was 
 defeated for President by William McKin- 
 ley. Mr. Bryan took the lecture platform 
 in 1897; in 1898 raised the Third Regi- 
 ment of Nebraska Volunteers for the War 
 with Spain; was again nominated for the 
 Presidency in 1900, and again defeated by 
 W^illiam McKinley. Immediately after the 
 election lie established at Lincoln, Neb., 
 the Commoner, a political weekly parser, 
 which he still conducts. Mr. Bryan head- 
 ed the Nebraska delegation to the National 
 Democratic Convention at St. Louis, 1904, 
 and took an active part in the subsequent 
 campaign. In 1905 and 1906, with Mrs. 
 Bryan, he went on a world-tour, during 
 which he took an important part in the 
 meeting of the Interparliamentary Union 
 in London. In 1908 Mr. Bryan received for 
 the third time the nomination of the Dem- 
 ocratic party for President, but after 
 another remarkable campaign was defeated 
 for the election by William Howard Taft. 
 Mr. Bryan has attained great prominence 
 as a lecturer in lyceum and Chautauqua 
 courses, his lectures being of a religious- 
 ethical character, and those entitled " The 
 Value of an Ideal," and " The Prince of 
 Peace," and " The Price of a Soul " have 
 attained wide celebrity. Mr. Bryan is 
 author of: The First Battle, 1897; The 
 Old World and Its Ways, 1907; and Let- 
 ters to a Chinese Official, 1907; as well as 
 many articles in magazines and newspa- 
 pers. He married in Perry, 111., Oct. 1, 
 1884, Mary Elizabeth Baird, and they 
 have three children: Ruth, William J., Jr., 
 and Grace D. Address: Lincoln, Neb. 
 
 BRYANT, David E.: 
 
 United States judge; born in LaRue 
 County, Ky., Oct. 19, 1840, removing with 
 his parents in 1853 to Gi-ayson County, 
 which has ever since been his home. He 
 
 studied in tlie schools at Sherman, Texas, 
 until entering Trinity College, N. C, from 
 which he was graduated in June, 1871. He 
 studied law in offices at Sherman. Texas, 
 and was admitted to the bar there in 1873, 
 and engaged in the general practice of the 
 law there until appointed. May 28, 1890, 
 to the office of United States judge for the 
 Eastern District of Texas, in whicli he is 
 still serving. Address: Sherman, Texas. 
 
 BRYANT, Henry Grier: 
 
 Explorer; born in Allegheny, Pa., Nov. 
 7, 1859. He was educated at Princeton 
 University, from which he received the de- 
 gree of A.M. in 1886, and was graduated 
 in law from the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania in 1886. His explorations began in 
 1891 with that of the Grand Falls of Lab- 
 rador, and the following j^ear he accom- 
 panied the Peary Relief Expedition as 
 second in command. In 1894 he was placed 
 in command of the Peary Auxiliary Ex- 
 pedition, and led an expedition to Mt. St. 
 Elias, Alaska, in 1897. He is president of 
 the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, 
 a fellow of the Royal Geographical Soci- 
 ety of London; corresponding member of 
 the Geographical Society of Stockholm and 
 Geographical Society of Geneva; secretary 
 since its formation of the American Alpine 
 Club, and is an officer of the French Acad- 
 emy. He is a contributor to magazines 
 and to the proceedings of various societies 
 and geograi^hical congresses. Residence: 
 2013 Walnut Street. Office: 806 Land 
 Title Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 BRYANT, Percy: 
 
 Pliysician and alienist; born at Charles 
 City, Iowa, April 19, 1862; son of Na- 
 thaniel Gushing Bryant, U. S. N. (com- 
 mander who served in the Mexican War as 
 acting master of the " Dale " and through 
 the American Civil War, commanding the 
 gunboat Cairo, Mississippi Flotilla, and 
 received prize money for capture of the 
 Confederate gunboats, Sumpter, General 
 Bragg and Hiawatha), and of Mary Eliza 
 (Southall) Bryant. He was educated in 
 the high school at Cedar Falls, Iowa, and 
 Columbia College, New York City, being 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 LTiadiiati'd as M.l). in ISS7. He lecoivcil 
 his first dojirco in medicino at the Chicago 
 Homeopathic ISTedical Collepe in 1883, was 
 appointed interne to Cook County Ho-pital 
 in the June follo\vin<r.. and served twenty- 
 two months. He was ambulance surgeon 
 to Chambers Street Hospital, New York 
 City, in 1886. Dr. Bryant was assistant 
 physician at Ward's Island Insane Asylum, 
 New York City. 1888-1880: assistant" phy- 
 sician at Buflfalo State Hospital, 1889-1894. 
 and was promoted to first assistant in 
 1895. He was promoted' to medical super- 
 intendent of Manhattan State Hospital. 
 Ward's Island. New York City, in 1897, and 
 resigned in 1901 on account of ill health. 
 He entered into jiractice in Brooklyn, but 
 ill health oblisjed him to retire. He pur- 
 chased the Bowdoin estate at Rahway. N. 
 J., in 1906. Dr. Bryant served as assistant 
 surgeon of the Seventy-fourth Regiment 
 of New York National' Guard, 1893-1898. 
 and qualified every year as sharpshooter. 
 He is Democratic in politics and an Episco- 
 palian in religion. He is a member of the 
 New York State Medical Association and 
 the American Medico-Psychological Associ- 
 ation; a life member of the Society of Co- 
 lonial Wars, and the Society of Mayflower 
 Descenthmts : a Companion, by inheritance, 
 of the ■Military Order of Loyal Legion; and 
 a in('nd)er of the Saturn and Liberal Clubs 
 of BufTalo. He married in New York City. 
 Feb. 21, 1900, Josephine Myrick Webb, and 
 they have two sons. Residence: Wood- 
 bridge, N. J. Address: Bowdoin Park. 
 Rahway. N. J. 
 
 BRYANT, W. Sohier: 
 
 Physician : born at Boston, Mass., May 
 15, 1861; son of Henry Bryant, distin- 
 guished physician and naturalist, who 
 served in the Union Army as brigade sur- 
 geon in 1861, and surgeon of the 20th Mas- 
 sachusetts Volunteers, and Elizabeth Brim- 
 mer (Sohier) Bryant, of the senior branch 
 of Sohier de Vermandois, the surviving 
 branch of the ancient Counts of Verman- 
 dois, the junior branch from Emperor 
 Charlemagne. Her family passed through 
 tlie Island of Jersey from Cambrai to Bos- 
 ton. The Bryant family passed through 
 
 Normandy. Devonshire and Barbados to 
 Boston, descended from Rollo and John de 
 Brienne. Christian King of Jerusalem and 
 Emperor of the East. He received his pre- 
 paratory education at St. Paul's School. 
 Concord, N. H., and from tutors. He was 
 graduated from Harvard College as A.B. 
 in 1884, and from Harvard Medical School 
 as M.D. in 1888, in which year he also re- 
 ceived the A.M. degree for anatomical dis- 
 coveries from Harvard University. Dr. 
 Bryant has been engaged in the practice 
 of medicine from 1888, and is now prac- 
 ticing as a specialist in diseases of the 
 ear, nose and throat. He was formerly 
 aural surgeon at the Boston Dispensary; 
 assistant in anatomy and otology at the 
 Harvard Medical School; assistant aural 
 surgeon to the Massachusetts Charitable 
 Eye and Ear Infirmary: instructor in otol- 
 ogy. College of Physicians and Surgeons. 
 N. Y. : clinical assistant in the Department 
 of Otology, Vanderbilt Clinic, N. Y. ; as- 
 sistant surgeon, St, Bartholomew Clinic; 
 clinical instructor and attending surgeon. 
 Otological Department, Cornell LTniversity 
 Medical School; physician in class of nose, 
 throat and ear diseases at the Presbyterian 
 Hospital, N. Y. ; and adjunct professor in 
 the Department of Diseases of the Ear, 
 New York Post-Graduate Medical School 
 and Hospital. He was a member of the 
 Boston Society of the Medical Sciences, the 
 Boylston Society of Medical Improvement, 
 the International Congress of Arts and Sci- 
 ences in 1904, the Seventh and Eighth 
 International Otological Congresses, the 
 Fourth and Fifth Pan-American Medical 
 Congresses, the Fifteenth and Sixteenth 
 International Medical Congresses, and the 
 Sixth and Seventh Congresses of the Amer- 
 ican Physicians and Surgeons. He served 
 in tile Massachusetts National Guard from 
 1883 to 1898, and also in the Spanish- 
 American War as assistant surgeon of the 
 First Massachusetts Regiment of Heavy 
 Artillery, United States Volunteers, and 
 was soon afterward commissioned by Pres- 
 ident IMcKinley as major and brigade sur- 
 geon of Volunteers, He served with Major- 
 (ieneral Fitzhugh Lee in the Seventh Army 
 Corps until May, 1899; then served two 
 
William Sohier Bkyant, M. D. 
 
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 yo;n-s as suv^oon of P>all(M'v A. Massaclui- 
 sclls National Cluavd. He roniovccl to New 
 York and encased in practico : is now con- 
 sullino- otologist of the Manhattan Stato 
 lT()s[)ital : and senior assistiint surgeon to 
 the Aural Department of the New York Eye 
 nnd Ear Tnfirinary. He is a member of 
 the American Otolooieal Soeiety. the New 
 York Academy of Medicine, chairman of 
 the Section on Lnrynjrolosy and Otology of 
 the American Medical Association; member 
 of the Medical Societies of the County and 
 State of New York, the New York Otologi- 
 cal Society, the Association of Military 
 Surgeons of the United States, the American 
 Laryngological. Rhinological and Otological 
 Society, the American Academy of Ophthal- 
 mology and Oto-Lai-yngology, ]\Iassachu- 
 setts Medical Society, American Society of 
 Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, American 
 Public Health Association, Boston Medical 
 Library Association, Harvard Medical 
 Alumni Association, president of the Har- 
 vard Medical Society of New York, the 
 Medical Association of the Greater City of 
 New York, Association for th? Promotion 
 of Hygiene and Salubrity in Dwellings, 
 East Side Physicians Association, American 
 Therapeutic Association. Boston Society of 
 Natural History, the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science, the Amer- 
 ican Academy of Medicine, and the National 
 Geographic Soeiety. Dr. Bryant is a Mug- 
 wump in politics, and an Episcopalian in 
 religious affiliation. He is a member of the 
 Spanish War Veterans, the Military Order 
 of Foreigns Wars, the Naval and Military 
 Order of the Spanish -American War, So- 
 ciety of the Seventh Army Corps, and is a 
 veteran member of the First Corps Cadets, 
 Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; a member 
 of the Zeta Psi and Delta Kappa Epsilon 
 fraternities, the Porcellian Club, the New 
 England Society Of New York, the Loyal 
 Legion, the Harvard Club of New York, the 
 Society of the Colonial Wars, the Society 
 of Mayflower Descendants, the Sons of 
 Veterans, and the Sons of the Pvevolution. 
 Dr. Bryant is the author of the ear section 
 of Knight and Bryant's " Nose, Throat and 
 Ear" (Blakiston's Sons & Co., and also 
 of 115 medical publications, anatomical 
 
 and otologiciil. He married ;il Oiangc. N. 
 J., in 1887. Martha Lyman Co.k. and thoy 
 have six children. .Address: 41 I'^. 'Hiirty- 
 third Street, New Yoik T'lly. 
 
 BRYCE, Lloyd: 
 
 Edilor. author; t)oni in Flushing. Long 
 Lsland, N. Y., Sept. 20. 1851 ; son of Major 
 Joseph Smith Bryce, U. S. A., and Eliza- 
 beth (Stephens) Bryce. He was graduated 
 from Oxford University, England, as B.A. 
 and M.A. Mr. Bryce was editor and owner 
 of the North American Review from 1880 
 to 1896. He is author of: Paradise 
 Friends in Exile; The Romance of an Alter 
 Ego ; A Dream of Conquest ; Lady Blanche's 
 Salon; Tlie Literary Duet; After Chris- 
 tianity — What?; and also of essays, etc., 
 contributed to reviews. He was for a time 
 paymaster-general of the State of New 
 York. He was elected as a Democrat from 
 the Seventh District of New York City, 
 to the Fiftieth Congress, serving from 1887 
 to 1889. He married, Edith, daughter of 
 Mayor Cooper, of New York City, and they 
 have three children. Address: Roslyn, 
 Nassau County. N. Y. 
 
 BUCHANAN, Charles Jay: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New Berlin, N. Y., Dec. 
 27, 1843. He was educated at the public 
 schools and the United States Military 
 Academy, and he served during the Civil 
 War in tlie First Regiment of United 
 States Sharp-shooters (Berdan's) as a priv- 
 ate, non-commissioned officer, and first lieu- 
 tenant; and as adjutant of the regiment. 
 Mr. Buchanan has been practising law in 
 Albany, N. Y., since Jan., 1874, and is now 
 a member of the law firm of Buchanan. 
 Lawyer and Whalen. He is also a director 
 of tile Union Trust Company, trustee and 
 secretary of the National Savings Bank of 
 Albany,* N. Y. He is a Republican in poli- 
 tics, and a member of the Episcopal Clmrcli. 
 Mr. Buchanan is a member of the ;Military 
 Order of the Loyal Legion, and of the 
 Buchanan and St. Andrew's societies; the 
 secretary and a trustee of the Albany Law 
 School;" a trustee of the Albany Academy 
 for Girls, and the Young Men's Associa- 
 tion of Albanv. N. Y. lie is also a member 
 
248 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 of the Fort Orange University, and Army 
 and Navy Clubs, and is active in various 
 corporate interests. Has received the de- 
 gree of M.A. Address: 79 Chapel Street, 
 Albany. X. Y. 
 
 BUCHANAN, James Isaac: 
 
 Banker; born in Hamilton, Ontario, Aug. 
 3, 185.3; son of the late Hon. Isaac Bu- 
 chanan, who was president of the Execu- 
 tive Council corresponding with the pres- 
 ent Privy Council, and a prominent Canad- 
 ian Government official. He was educated 
 at Dr. Tassie's Collegiate Institute, of Gait, 
 Ontario. He began his business ti-aining 
 in 18G8 in his father's wholesale dry-goods 
 house, and in 1870 he visited South Africa, 
 and afterwards, in 1871, returned to Can- 
 ada to the same business in which he 
 received his early training. In Jan., 1877, 
 he became a junior clerk with the Oil City 
 Trust Company, at Oil City, Pa., and from 
 that became private secretary and busi- 
 ness manager to the late Captain J. J. 
 Vandergrift. financier, oil operator and 
 manufacturer. On Captain Vandergrift's 
 death, he w^as made by his will one of the 
 trustees of his estate. He became vice- 
 president of the Pittsburg Trust Com]5any, 
 later succeeding in 1904 to the presidency 
 of the last named corporation. He has 
 been a director of several corporations in 
 Pennsylvania and now president of the 
 Pittsburg Trust Co., Pittsburg Terminal 
 \A'arehouse &- Transfer Company and Ter- 
 minal Trust Company; secretary and treas- 
 urer of the Keystone Commercial Com- 
 jjany; and he is a director of the Wash- 
 ington Oil Company; Unity Oil Co.; Tay- 
 lorstown Natural Gas Co., The Natural 
 Gas Co. of West Virginia, and of the 
 Keystone National Bank of Pittsburg; and 
 senior partner of J. I. Buchanan & Co., 
 bankers. Mr. Buchanan was for eight 
 years chairman of the Orchestra Commit- 
 tee of tlie Pittsburg Art Society, and is 
 president of the Athalia Daly Home for 
 Working Girls. He is an elder of the East 
 r.iberty Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg 
 and a former president of the Presbyterian 
 Union of Pittsburg. H(! is a past president 
 of the Academy of Science and Art of Pitts- 
 
 burg; a member of the Botanical Society 
 of Western Pennsylvania, and a member of 
 tlie American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science; the American Geograph- 
 ical Society, and the National Geographical 
 Society, and a life member of St. An- 
 drew's Society of New York and St. 
 Andrew's Society of Pennsylvania. He is a 
 member of the Masonic fraternity and since 
 1890 an active member of the Supreme 
 Council of the Scottish Rite, thirty-third 
 degree, and deputy for Pennsylvania since 
 1897. Mr. Buchanan married at Pittsburg, 
 July 11, 1901, Eliza Macfarlane, of Pitts- 
 burg. Address: 0108 Walnut Street, Pitts- 
 bing. 
 
 BUCHANAN, Eoberdeau: 
 
 Assistant, nautical almanac office; born 
 in Philadelphia, Nov. 22, 1839; son of Pay 
 Director McKean Buchanan of the U. S. 
 Navy, and F. Selina (Roberdeau) Bu- 
 chanan. He was educated at the Lawrence 
 Scientific School of Harvard University, 
 graduating as B.S. in the class of 1861. 
 Mr. Buchanan engaged in practice as a 
 civil engineer, and became connected with 
 the Nautical Almanac in 1879, and he is 
 now one of the assistants in the Nautical 
 Almanac Office, at the United States Naval 
 Observatory at Washington. He is author 
 of various technical and biographical 
 works, including: Mathematical Theory ot 
 Eclipses; Projection of the Sphere, and 
 Introduction to the DitTerential Calculus 
 by Means of Finite Difl'erences ; also gen- 
 ealogies of the Roberdeau, Shippen and 
 McKean families. He is a contributor 
 to astronomical magazines. He married in 
 Washington, D. C, Sept. 12, 1888, Eliza 
 M. Peters, davighter of Thomas Peters of 
 Maryland, and grandniece of Judge Rich- 
 ard Peters of Philadelphia. Address: 2015 
 Q Street, Washingion, D. C. 
 
 BUCHANAN, William Insco: 
 
 Diplomatist; born on a farm near Cov- 
 ington, Miami County, Ohio, Sept. 10, 1853. 
 In 1874 he was appointed engrossing clerk 
 in tlie House of Representatives of Indi- 
 ana, in which position he remained for a 
 year. In 1876 he removed to Piqua, Ohio, 
 
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 and from tlicre in 1882, to Sioux City, 
 Iowa. It was while he was a resident of 
 the latter place that he took a prominent 
 place in organizing and managing the first 
 four corn palaces at Sioux City, a series 
 of novel autumn exhibitions which became 
 famous throughout the country. He was 
 appointed in 1890 as the Democratic mem- 
 ber from Iowa of the National Commission 
 charged with carrying out the World's 
 Columbian Exposition at Chicago, of which 
 he was chief of the Departments of Agri- 
 culture, Live Stock and Forestry. In 1894 
 he was appointed by President Cleveland 
 envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo- 
 tentiary to the Argentine Republic, which 
 post he resigned in 1900. While so en- 
 gaged he was designated in 1898 by the 
 Congresses of both Argentina and Chile as 
 the deciding member of the joint Commis- 
 sion created to settle the boundary contro- 
 versy between the two countries as to the 
 line north of Latitude 23 degrees, and as 
 such fixed the existing boundary between 
 the two countries. He was Director Gen- 
 eral of the Pan-American Exposition at 
 Buffalo, 1S99-1901. He was appointed a 
 delegate from the United States to the 
 Second International Conference of Amer- 
 ican States, held in the City of Mexico, 
 1901-1902. He was appointed by President 
 Roosevelt in 1902 the first United States 
 minister to the new Republic of Panama, 
 during the organization of the Republic 
 and the making of her constitution. He 
 was appointed a delegate and chairman ol 
 the United States delegation to the Third 
 International Conference of American 
 States, held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 
 to Sept., 1906 ; appointed a member of the 
 United States delegation to the Second 
 international Peace Conference at the 
 Hague, held in 1907, and representative of 
 the United States in the Central American 
 Peace Conference at Washington, Nov. and 
 Dec, 1907. He attended and took part in 
 the inauguration of the International 
 Court of Justice at Cortago, Costa Rica, 
 in 1908, as High Commissioner representing 
 the President of the United States; in 
 1909 he was sent on special missions to 
 N'ciiezuela as High Commissioner repre- 
 
 senting the President to arrange the con- 
 ditions for the reestablishment of diplo- 
 matic relations between the United States 
 and that country, resulting in the settlement 
 of all claims of American citizens against 
 Venezuela. Residence: .34 Gates Circle, 
 Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 BUCHTEL, Henry Augustus: 
 
 Ex-governor of Colorado, clergyman, 
 educator; born near Akron, Ohio, Sept. 30, 
 1847; son of Dr. Jonathan B. Buchtel. He 
 was educated at Ashbury (now De Pauw) 
 University, receiving the degrees of A.M. 
 1875, D.D. 1884, and LL.D. 1900. In 1873 
 he was sent to Bulgaria as a missionary, 
 and since his return to this country has 
 held numerous pastorates, among them be- 
 ing Methodist Episcopal churches in Zions- 
 ville, Greenscastle, Knightstown, Grace 
 Church in Richmond, Trinity Church in 
 La Fayette, and Central Avenue Church 
 in Indianapolis, Ind.; Evans Chapel and 
 Trinity Church in Denver, Colo.; 1st Church 
 in Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; and Cavalry Church 
 in East Orange, N. J. He was appointed 
 chancellor of the University of Denver in 
 1900, and still holds that office. At the 
 election in 1906 he was elected on the Re- 
 publican ticket as governor of Colorado, 
 his term expiring in January, 1909. He 
 married in Greencastle, Ind., Feb. 4, 1873, . 
 Mary N. Stevenson. Address: University 
 Park, Colo. 
 
 BUCK, Albert Henry: 
 
 Physician; born in New York City, Oct, 
 20, 1842: son of Dr. Gurdon and Henrietta 
 E.' (Wolff) Buck. He Avas graduated from 
 Yale, A.B., 1864, and from the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia Uni- 
 versity, M.D.., 1867. He was aural surgeon 
 at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 
 1871-1883, and. professor of otology at Co- 
 lumbia University, 1887-1904. He is con- 
 sulting aural surgeon to the New York Eye 
 and Ear Infirmary; is an honorary mem- 
 ber of the American Otological Society, and 
 the New York Otological Society. Dr. 
 Buck is author of: A Treatise on Diseases 
 of the Ear; and editor of the following 
 woiks; Strieker's Histology (translation). 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 one voluiiif; ZiiinssenV C^'clopaedia of Med- 
 icine (translation), seventeen volumes; 
 Hygiene and Public Health, two volumes; 
 Reference Handbook of the Medical Sci- 
 ences, eight volumes, (two editions) ; and 
 (in conjunction with Dr. Jose^jh D. Bry- 
 ant) American Practice of Surgery, eight 
 volumes. Dr. Buck married at New Haven, 
 Conn., Laura, daughter of Rev. John S. C. 
 Abbott. Address: care of 11. W. Buck, 40 
 Wall St.. New York City. 
 
 BUCK, Dudley: 
 
 Composer, organist ; born at Hartford, 
 Conn., March 10, 18.39; studied at Trini- 
 ty College, Hartford and later at the Leip- 
 zig Conservatory of Music under Haupt- 
 mann, Richter, Reitz, Moschelles and Plaidy, 
 being a classmate there of Sir Oliver Sulli- 
 van. He also studied under Schneider at 
 Dresden, and in 1861-1862 at Paris. Mr. 
 Buck was for tliree years organist of the 
 Music Hall at Boston. He became assistant 
 conductor of the Garden Concerts at New 
 York City, on invitation of Theodore Thom- 
 as, in 1875; and he composed the cantata 
 sung at the opening of the Centennial Ex- 
 hibition at Philadelphia, which was exe- 
 cuted by 800 voices and 150 instruments, 
 conducted by Tlieodore Thomas. He was or- 
 ganist of the Church of Holy Trinity, 
 Brooklyn, conductor of the Apollo Club 
 twenty-five years and retired from all but 
 theoretical work and composition in 1902. 
 He is author of nu"merous compositions in 
 various forms, but for the greater part vo- 
 cal, and l)oth sacred and secular. Among 
 the more prominent of his compositions are: 
 The Legend of Don ]Munio, 1874; Mar- 
 mion Overture. 1880; The Golden Legend 
 (for the Cincinnati .May Festival, winning 
 the $1,000 prize) tlu; nuisic to Longfellow's 
 and Edmund ('. Stcdman's Poems; Light 
 of Asia, published and first performed in 
 lx)ndbn, 1886-1887. Mr. Buck is also au- 
 thor of A Dictionary of Musical Terms; 
 and of The Inliuencc of the Organ in His- 
 tory, 1882. Address: (;. Schirmer &, Co., 
 :}5 Union Squart'. Nfu N'nrk City. 
 
 BUCK, Gertrude: 
 
 Professor of English. Vassar College; 
 born in Kalamazoo, Mich., -July 14, 1871; 
 
 daughter of George Machan and Anne 
 (Bradford) Buck. She was graduated from 
 the University of Michigan as B.S., 1894, 
 M.S., 1895, Ph.D., 1898, and was fellow in 
 English in the University of Chicago 
 in 1895. She was assistant in English in 
 the University of Michigan, 1896-1897; 
 teacher of English in the Indianapolis 
 High School, 1897, and since then has 
 been in Vassar College as instructor, 
 1897-1901, associate professor, 1901-1907, 
 and professor since 1907. Professor Buck 
 is author of: The Metaphor-A Study in 
 the Psychology of Rhetoric, in the series 
 of ■' Contributions to Rhetorical Theory," 
 edited by Professor F. N. Scott, 1899; A 
 Course in Argumentative Writing, 1899; 
 A Course in Expository W'riting (with 
 Elizabeth Woodbridge), 1899; A Brief Eng- 
 lish Grammar (with F. N. Scott), 1905; 
 Ruskin's " Sesame and Lilies," in the ser- 
 ies of Longman's English Classics, 1906; 
 A Course in Narrative Writing (with E. 
 W. Morris), 1906; also magazine articles 
 on educational subjects in The Forum, 
 The Educational Review, The School Re- 
 view, Education, Modern Language Notes, 
 The Elementary School Teacher, etc. She 
 is a member of the Modern Language Asso- " 
 ciatiou of America, the Association of Col- 
 legiate Alunma', the Alpha Phi Sorority, 
 Daughteis of the American Revolution, 
 Equal Suffrage League, and the Women's 
 University Club of New Y'ork. Address: 
 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
 
 BUCK, Lillie West ("Amy Leslie"): 
 
 Critic of music,, drama and art; born in 
 Burlington, Iowa; daughter of Albert and 
 Kale (Content) \Vest. She was graduated 
 as valedictorian of the cla.ss of 1874 from 
 St. .Mary's Academy, at Notre Dame, Ind., 
 receiving a gold uieilal in the academic 
 course and a gold medal and special di- 
 ploma in the Conservatory course in vocal 
 nuisic. She went on tlie stage in Boston in 
 1880, creating roles in Audran's '' Plan- 
 chette ■■ and in OlVenbach opera boulle, and 
 afterward made a great success in the 
 Fifth Avenue Theatre as " Fiamctta "' in 
 The Alascot, in Olivette and in other lead- 
 ing soi»raiio roles. She married in Chicago, 
 in 1SS4. Harry Jirown, the popular coined- 
 
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 iaii, iiiul slio retired from tlie stage upon 
 tlie death of lier only son, Francis Albert 
 J>ro\vii, ill 1S89. The same year she en- 
 tered upon the position of dramatic critic 
 of the Chicago Daily News, which she still 
 holds ;\l one of the highest salaries .ever 
 p:iid a clitic, her articles on matters dra- 
 matic, luusictxl and artistic, signed " Amy 
 Tjeslic." earrying the greatest weight of au- 
 Ihorily with the Chicago public. In 1901 
 she inarri(>d. in Chicago, her present hus- 
 haud. Franklin Howard Buck, now head of 
 tlie i)ublicity department of Klaw & Er- 
 langer. In addition to her newspaper she 
 has published a pamphlet on sensational 
 dress in public, " Amy Leslie at the Fair," 
 an exhaustive story of the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition, 1903; a book of European 
 travels, and " Some Players," a book of per- 
 sonal reminiscences of celebrated actors, 
 with personal autograph letters and pic- 
 tures; also biographies of Mansfield, Mod- 
 jeska, Irving, Terry and others, and she 
 has translated books from the French and 
 Spanish. She lives, winter and summer, in 
 a secluded country home called " The 
 Roose " at Norwood Park, 111., where she 
 raises Homing pigeons. Black Spanish 
 chickens, rare flowers and small fruits. 
 Residence address: 265 Crescent Avenue, 
 Norwood Park, 111. Office: Chicago Daily 
 News, Chicago. 
 
 BUCKLEY, Ernest Robertson: 
 
 Director of the Missouri Bureau of Geol- 
 ogy and Mines; born in Milbury, Mass., 
 Sept. 3, 1872; son of Thomas M. and Grace 
 (Robertson) Buckley. He was graduated 
 from the University of Wisconsin as B.S. 
 in 1885 and Ph.D. in 1898. He served four 
 years in the Wisconsin National Guards 
 and two years in the University of Wis- 
 consin Regiment, in charge of small arms 
 firing; and was alderman of the city of 
 Madison, Wis. He is a life member of the 
 Geological Society of America, American 
 Institute of Mining Engineers, American 
 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
 ence, American Mining Congress, and is a 
 member of the Wisconsin Academy of Sci- 
 ences, Washington Academy of Science, 
 Arts and Letters, Wisconsin Clay Workers' 
 
 Association, tiic Wisconsin Natural History 
 Society, and the American Society for Test- 
 ing Materials. He is autlior of: Building 
 and Ornamental Stones of Wisconsin, 1898; 
 Clays and Clay Industries in Wisconsin, 
 1900; Highway Construction in Wisconsin, 
 1902 ; Quarrying Industry of Missouri, 
 1904; Public Roads in Missouri, Geology 
 of the Granby Area; Disseminated Lead 
 De])osits of St. Francois and Washington 
 Counties, Mo. He is a member of .Masonic 
 lodges and of the Mercantile Club of St. 
 Louis. Mr. Buckley married at ^tlilwaukee, 
 Aug. 25, 1903, Grace Kmeline Magdeburg. 
 Address: Rolla, Mo. 
 
 BUCKLEY, James Monroe: 
 
 Editor of the Christian Advocate; born 
 in Railway, N. J., Dec. 16, 1836. He stud- 
 ied parts of two years at Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity, from which he has received the de- 
 grees of A.M. and D.D., also the degree of 
 LL.D. from Emory and Henry College in 
 Virginia. He was also a student in the- 
 ology at Exeter. N. H. In 1859 he joined 
 the New Hampshire Conference of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church," and held pastor- 
 ates in Detroit and Brooklyn during the 
 years from 1863-1866. From that time 
 until 1880 he was in charge of pastorates 
 in and near New York. In 1880 he was 
 elected by the General Conference of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church to the editor- 
 ship of The Christian Advocate, at New 
 York, and he has been continued in that 
 position by quadrennial reelections by the 
 General Conference. Dr. Buckley was elect- 
 ed a member of the General Conference in 
 1872, and has since been reelected to each 
 of the subsequent General Conference quad- 
 rennial sessions, down to and including 
 that of 1908 at Baltimore. He is the au- 
 thor of a large number of religious books, 
 among them: Oats or Wild Oats; Faith 
 Healing, Christian Science and Kindred 
 Phenomena; Christians and the Theatre; 
 The Land of the Czar and the Nihilist; 
 Travels in Three Continents — Europe, Asia, 
 Africa; History of Methodism in the United 
 States; Extemporaneous Oratory for Pro- 
 fessional and Amateur Speakers; Supposed 
 Miracles; and the Fundamentals and Their 
 
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 Contrasts. He is now editor of the New 
 York Christian Advocate. Residence: 
 Morristown. N. J. Business address: 150 
 Fifth Avonuc, New York City. 
 
 BUCKNER, Simon Bolivar: 
 
 Soldier; born iu Kentucky in 1823. He 
 was appointed' from Kentucky to the United 
 States Military Academy^ from which he 
 was graduated in the Class of 1844. He 
 was professor of ethics in the United States 
 Military Academy in 1845-1846. He served 
 in the Mexican War from 1846-1848, was 
 wounded at the battle of Cherubusco, and 
 promoted to captain. He returned in 1848 
 to West Point as assistant instructor of 
 military tactics until 1850; and was ap- 
 pointed captain in the Subsistence Depart- 
 ment in 1852 and resigned from the U. S^ 
 Army in 1855. At the beginning of the 
 war between the States he entered the Con- 
 federate States Army, of which he became 
 one of the most distinguished lieutenant- 
 generals. He was elected governor of Ken- 
 tucky in November, 1886, serving a four- 
 year term from 1887-1891, and in 1896 he 
 was the candidate nominated by the Indian- 
 apolis Convention of National Democrats 
 (gold standard) for vice-president of the 
 United States, on the ticket with General 
 John M. Palmer of Illinois for president. 
 Address: Mimfordville, Ky. 
 
 BUFFINGTON, Joseph: 
 
 United States judge; born in Kittan- 
 ning, Pa., Sept. 5, 1855. He was graduated 
 from Trinity College as B.A., 1875. He 
 studied law and was admitted to the bar 
 Sept. 5, 1878, and from that year until 
 1892 practised in Kittanning, Pa. In 
 1892 he was appointed judge of the U. S. 
 District Court for the western district of 
 Pennsj'lvania, and since Sept. 21, 1906, has 
 been judge of the United States Circuit 
 Court for the :!d circuit. He was married 
 in Eniinitsburg, ]\[d., Jan. 29, 1885, to Mary 
 Alice Simonton. Residence: 5324 Ells- 
 worth Avenue. Ollico: Federal Building, 
 I'itlsburgh. Pa. 
 
 BULKELEY, Morgan Gardner: 
 
 United States senator; born at East 
 lladdam, Conn., Dec. 26, 1837; son of Hon. 
 
 Eliphalet A. Bulkeley, who was the first 
 Republican speaker (1857) of the Connecti- 
 cut House of Representatives. He was edu- 
 cated in the schools of his native town and 
 Hartford. In 1889 he received from Yale 
 University the honorary degree of M.A. In 
 1852 he commenced a business life in Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., and as clerk and partner con- 
 tinued until 1872. In 1862 he enlisted in 
 the Thirteenth Regiment of the National 
 Guard of the State of New York, and served 
 at Baltimore and Suffolk, Va., under the 
 command of Brigadier-General Max Weber. 
 He returned to Hartford in 1872, and or- 
 ganized and was the first president of the 
 United States Bank, and in 1879 was chosen 
 president of the Aetna Life Insurance Com- 
 pany, organized by his father. Mr. Bulke- 
 ley was for four terms, from 1880-1888 
 mayor of the city of Hartford. In 1888 he 
 was unanimously nominated as Republican 
 candidate for governor, and occupied that 
 office from 1889 until 1893. He was a dele- 
 gate to the Republican National Conven- 
 tions of 1888 and 1896; and was nomi- 
 nated by the Republican caucus, Jan. 11, 
 1905, as the candidate for United States 
 Senator, to succeed Hon. J. R. Hawley, and 
 was elected to the United States Senate, 
 and took his seat March 4, 1905. His term 
 will expire March 3, 1911. Address: Hart- 
 ford, Conn. 
 
 BULL, Charles Stedman: 
 
 Physician; born in New York City; son 
 of Henry King and Eliza A. (Ludlow) 
 Bull. He attended Professor Elie Charlier's 
 French School ; was graduated from Co- 
 lumbia University, A.B., 1864, A.M., 1867, 
 and M.D., 1868;" attended the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, three 
 3'ears, and was at Universities of Paris, 
 Berlin, Vienna and Heidelberg. He has been 
 ophthalmic surgeon to the City Hospital 
 and New York Dispensary, now is attend- 
 ing surgeon to New York Eye and Ear In- 
 firmary and consulting ophthalmic surgeon 
 to the Presbyterian Hospital, and to St. 
 Mary's Hospital for Children. Professor of 
 Ophthalmology in Cornell University Med- 
 ical College since 1900. He is a member of 
 the American 0])hthalmologieal Society, 
 New York Ophthalmological Society, Amer- 
 
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 253 
 
 iciui Medical Association, New York State 
 ]\Jcdical Association, New York Academy 
 of Medicine and Practitioners' Society; di- 
 rector of the New York Eye and Ear In- 
 tirmarJ^ He is a member of the Sons of 
 the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, 
 Huguenot Society of America and the Cen- 
 tury Association and University Club. Dr. 
 ]5ull married at ^Yaterbury, Conn., June 10, 
 
 1882, ]Mary E. ivingsbury, and they have 
 three children. Address: 47 West 36th 
 Street, New Y^ork City. 
 
 BULL, Melville: 
 
 Ex-member of coirgress; born in Newport, 
 11. I., in 1854. He graduated from Harvard 
 College in 1877, and since then has been en- 
 gaged in farming. He has been active in 
 the politics of the Republican party since 
 
 1883. when he became a member of the 
 State legislature. At the expiration of his 
 term he was elected to the State Senate, 
 serving for seven years, when he became lieu- 
 tenant-governor of the State, serving for one 
 term. He was a member of the Republican 
 State Central Committee from 1885-1895, 
 and a delegate to the Republican National 
 Convention in 1888. He became a member 
 of the National House of Representatives 
 in 1895, from the First Rhode Island Dis- 
 trict, and served for four consecutive terms, 
 hut was defeated in 1902. He has been 
 one of the board of managers of the Rhode 
 Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic 
 Arts since 1888. Address: ]\Iiddletown, 
 R. I. 
 
 BULL, William Lanman: 
 
 Capitalist and broker; born in New York 
 City, Aug. 23, 1844. He was educated in 
 the University of the City of New Y^ork. 
 Mr. Bull is chairman of the Board of Di- 
 rectors of the W^isconsin Central Railway, 
 is a director of the Northern Pacific Rail- 
 way Company, the Baltimore and South- 
 western Railway Company, the Louisville, 
 Evansville and Saint Louis Railway, New 
 Y^ork, Susquehanna and Western and other 
 laige railroad and mining corporations. He 
 is a trustee of the Metropolitan Trust 
 Company, and is a member of the firm of 
 Edward Sweet and Company, brokers. Mr. 
 
 Bull is a member of the New York Slock 
 Exchange and was its president, 1888-1890. 
 He is a member of the Chamber of Com- 
 merce, the New England Society, the Amer- 
 ican Fine Arts Society, the Mayflower So- 
 ciety, the Dunlaj) Society, the Sons of the 
 American Revolution, the Metro])olitan Mu- 
 seum of Art, and of the New Y'^ork Y''acht, 
 Metropolitan, G roller, University, Union, 
 Players', Century, Alpha Delta Plii, Riding. 
 Republican, Ardsley, Church and City Mid- 
 day Clubs of New Y'ork. Residence: 805 
 Fifth Avenue. Address: 38 Broad Street, 
 New Y^ork City. 
 
 BULLARD, George E.: 
 
 Banker; born at Boston, INIarch 4, 1839; 
 son of Francis Bullard and Harriet D. Bul- 
 lard. He was agent and attorney for Brown 
 Brothers & Co., New York, and Brown, 
 Shipley & Co., London, for thirty years, 
 and resigned, Dec. 31, 1908. Trustee Eliot 
 Five Cents Savings Bank; director of the 
 American Woolen Company, of New Jer- 
 se^^ Arlington Mills, Lawrence, Mass., 
 Woods Worsted Mills, Lawrence, Mass., Na- 
 tional and Providence Worsted Alills, Provi- 
 dence, R. I., and Cocheco IManufacturing Co., 
 Dover, N. H. Address: GO State Street, 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 BULLEN, Percy Sutherland: 
 
 American correspondent of the London 
 Daily Telegraph; born at Hastings, Sussex, 
 1867; third son of the late Captain Charles 
 Bullen, of the Royal Na%'y, and grandson of 
 Admiral Sir Charles Biillen, G.C.B., who 
 was in command of H.^F.S. Britannia at the 
 Battle of Trafalgar. He has traveled large- 
 ly in Europe and Morocco; has represented 
 le .ding American papers in Paris, Berlin 
 and Rome; and was special stafl' correspond- 
 ent of the Daily Telegraph in the Boer War 
 in 1900. He is a fellow of the Institute 
 of Journalists of I-X)ndon, and a member 
 of the London Press Club. Address: 116 
 Nassau Street., New Y'ork City. 
 
 BUMPUS, Hermon Carey: 
 
 Director of the American :Museum of 
 Natural History; born in Buckfield, Me., 
 May 5, 1862; son of Laurin A. and Abbie 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Ann (Eaton) Bunipus. He was graduated 
 from Brown University, Ph.B. (Phi Beta 
 Kappa), 1884, Clark University, Ph.D., 
 1891; and has received the honorary degree 
 of D.Sc. from Tufts College, 1905, and 
 Brown, 1905. He was professor of biology 
 in Olivet College, 1886-1889, fellow in 
 Clark University. 1889-1890, assistant pro- 
 fessor and associate professor of Zoology, 
 and later professor of Comparative Anat- 
 omy in Brown University, 1890-1901. 
 Professor Bumi)us was assistant director 
 of the Marine - Biological Laboratory, 
 1893-1895, director of the Biological Labora- 
 tory of the United States Fish Commission 
 Station at Wood's Hole, Mass.. 1896-1901; 
 was assistant to the president and curator 
 of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology 
 in the American Museum of Natural His- 
 tory, 1901, and since 1902 has been director 
 of the American Museum of Natural His- 
 tory. He is author of: A Laboratory 
 Course in Lnertebrate Zoology and numer- 
 ous articles on biological subjects. Dr. 
 Jiumpus is a corporate member of the Bos- 
 ton Society of Natural History, and the 
 American Fisheries Society, and a charter 
 member of the Brown Chapter of the Soci- 
 ety of Sigma Xi; member of the American 
 Society of Naturalists, American Society of 
 Zoologists, National Geographic Society, 
 Linnean Society of New* York, New York 
 ZoJilogical Society, the Faculty of Pure 
 Science of Columbia University, New Y^'ork 
 Botanical (Jarden, honorary member of the 
 Rhode Island Medical Society, fellow of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science and of the New York Academy of 
 Sciences; member of the Board of Gover- 
 nors of Brown University, trustee of the 
 Z^Iarine Biological Laboratory, member of 
 the Corporation of the Rhode Island School 
 of Design, vice-president of the Audubon 
 Society of the State of New York, and di- 
 rector of the National Association of Audu- 
 bon Societies. He was president of the In- 
 ternational Fisheries Congress, Washington, 
 1908, and of the American Association of 
 Museums, and member of many other sci- 
 entific and educational societies. He is a 
 member also of tlie Century Association of 
 New York and the University Club of 
 
 Providence, R. L, and is president of the 
 Brown L^niversity Club in New Y^ork City. 
 Dr. Bumpus married in Dorchester, Mass., 
 in 1886, Ella Nightingale, and they have 
 two sons. Address: American Museum of 
 Natural History, New York City. 
 
 BUMSTEAD, Horace: 
 
 Clergyman and college president; born 
 in Boston, Mass., Sept. 29, 1841; son of 
 Josiah Freeman and Lucy Douglas (Willis) 
 Bumstead. He was graduated from Yale 
 College as B.A. in 1863, M.A. in 1866. He 
 was also graduated from Andover Theologi- 
 cal Seminary in 1870, and studied at the 
 University of Tiibingen, Germany. 1870- 
 1871. He received the degree of D.D. from 
 New York University in 1881. He served 
 as major in the Forty-third Regiment of 
 United States Colored Troops from April, 
 1864, to December 1865, serving in Virginia 
 (siege of Richmond and Petersburg) and 
 in Texas. He was pastor of the Second 
 Congregational Church, Minneapolis, ]\Iinn., 
 from 1872-1875. He was professor in At- 
 lanta University, Atlanta, Ga., from 1875- 
 1897, and was president of the same insti- 
 tution from 1888 to 1907. He resigned the 
 presidency, to take effect Sept. 1, 1907, be- 
 ing placed at that time upon the retiring 
 list of the Carnegie Foundation. Dr. Bum- 
 stead is a member of the Military Order 
 of Loyal Legion of the United States, and 
 of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and Alpha 
 Delta Phi fraternity. He married at North 
 Conway, N. H., Jan. 9, 1872, Anna M. Hoit, 
 and they have had five children. Address: 
 91 St. Paul Street. Brookline, Mass. 
 
 BUNN, Charles Wilson: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Galesville, Wis., May 
 21, 1855; son of the Hon. Romanzo Bunn 
 former United States district judge and 
 Sarali (Purdy) Bunn. He was graduated 
 from tlie Scientific course of the Univer- 
 sity of \\isc()nsiu in 1874 with the degree 
 of B.S. He also graduated at the Law 
 School of the University of Wisconsin and 
 commenced practice in La Crosse, Wiscon- 
 sin in 1876. In the latter city he practised 
 until 1885 when he removed to Saint Paul, 
 Minn., where he still resides. In 1896 Mr. 
 
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 255 
 
 Bmin was appointed ficiicral counsel of the 
 Northern Pacific Railway Company, and 
 continues to act in that capacity to the 
 present day. lie is a member of the Uni- 
 versity Club of New York, Chicago Club of 
 Chicago, and ^Minnesota Club of St. Paul. 
 He was married Aug. 9, 1877, to Mary An- 
 derson, of La Crosse. Residence: 549 
 Portland Avenue. Address: Northern 
 Pacific Railway Building, St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 BURBANK, Luther: 
 
 Naturalist, originator of new fruits and 
 llowers; born in Lancaster, Mass., March 
 7, 1849; son of Samuel Walton and Olive 
 (Ross) Burbank. He spent his boyhood on 
 a farm and was educated in the Lancaster 
 Academy. He has always been devoted to 
 the study of nature, especially plant life. 
 In 1875 he removed to Santa Rosa, Calif., 
 where he conducts Burbank's Experiment 
 Farms. He is the originator of the Bur- 
 bank potato; the Gold Wickson Apple, Octo- 
 l)er purple, Shiro, Chalco, Santa Rosa, For- 
 mosa, America and Climax plums; the 
 (iiant. Splendor, Sugar, and Stoneless 
 prunes; a new fruit, the Plumcot; Peach- 
 blow, Burbank and Santa Rosa and other 
 Roses; gigantic forms of amaryllis, tigrid- 
 ias; the Shasta daisy; Giant and fragrant 
 callas; and various new apples, peaches, 
 nuts, berries and other valuable trees, flow- 
 ers, fruits, grasses, grains and vegetables. 
 He is a fellow of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science and of the 
 American Pomological Society; an honor- 
 ary member of the American Breeders' As- 
 sociation, and of numerous scientific so- 
 cieties. He is special lecturer on evolu- 
 tion at Leland Stanford University. Ad- 
 dress: Santa Rosa, Calif. 
 
 BTJRCKHALTER, Charles: 
 
 Astronomer in charge Chabot Observa- 
 tory; born in Ohio in Jan., 1849, and had 
 only a high school education. He followed 
 mercantile pursuits, and was engaged in 
 the railroad and fire insurance businesses 
 until he was 33 years of age, using his 
 spare time to secure an education in the 
 higher mathematics. His attainments in 
 this direction secured him recognition and 
 
 in 1S8G he was placed in ciiarge of the Cha- 
 bot Observatory at Oakland, Calif. He was 
 a member of the Lick Observatory expedi- 
 tion to observe the eclipse of tlio sun in 
 Japan in 189G, and headed expeditions 
 from his own observatory to observe the 
 eclipse in California in 1889, in India in 
 1898 and in Georgia in 1900. Prof. Burck- 
 halter is a fellow of the Royal Astrono- 
 mical Society, member of the British As- 
 tronomical Society, for three years secre- 
 tary and twice elected president of the As- 
 tronomical Sociot\' of the Pacific; member 
 of the California Academy of Sciences; etc., 
 and he was appointed member of the State 
 Earthquake Commission, 1906. He mar- 
 ried Mary Catherine Nash in 1878 and has 
 five children. Residence : 1224 Linden 
 Street. Ofiice: Chabot Observatory, Oak- 
 land, Calif. 
 
 BTJRDETTE, Clara Bradley: 
 
 Born in East Bloomfield, N. Y., July 22, 
 1855; daiighter of Albert Harvey and Lau- 
 ra Orinda (Coville) Bradley. After pass- 
 ing through the graded and high schools of 
 Syracuse, N. Y., she entered Syracuse Uni- 
 versity, from which she was graduated as 
 BS. in 1876. While there she led in the 
 organization of what is now the Alpha Phi 
 Society, one of the leading Woman's Greek 
 Letter Societies. * Upon leaving college she 
 became preceptress in a private school for 
 girls until 1878. She married at Syracuse. 
 July 24, 1878, N. Milman Wheeler, who 
 had been fellow student at Syracuse, and 
 removed to Wisconsin, where he was engag- 
 ed in educational work, and was soon after 
 appointed professor of Greek in Lawrence 
 University. Because of his health they la- 
 ter removed to California, where Professor 
 Wheeler died Dec. 6, 1886. On June 4, 
 1890 she married at Los Angeles, Calif.. 
 Col. Presley C. Baker, a former cavalry of- 
 ficer of the Confederate Army, who died 
 Sept. 5, 1893, and March 25. 1899, she 
 married Robert J. Burdette, well known 
 as humorist and lecturer and now pastor 
 of the Temple Baptist Church at Los An- 
 geles, Calif. Mrs. Burdette has always 
 been interested in woman's work, founded 
 the Woman's Exchange in Los Angeles, was 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 i>nc of tlio orjiaiiizors of ilie Chnulnuqua 
 luovement in Califoruia and is a trustee 
 of the Throop Polytcclniic Institute, Pasa- 
 dena, a member of the Hospital Board of 
 Pasadena Hospital, to which she gave a 
 Maternity Wing in 1004. one of tlie found- 
 ers and incorporators of tlie Southwest 
 Museum of Los Angeles, and a member of 
 the Associated Charities. Slie was one of 
 the charter members of the Ebell Club of 
 Los Angeles, was elected its president in 
 1897 and erected its club house; organized 
 the women's clubs of California in 1900, 
 into a State Federation, of which she was 
 elected president, took it into the Genei'al 
 Federation of Women's Clubs, and served 
 at its head until elected vice-president of 
 the Ceneral Federation in 1002. She is a 
 daughter of the American Eevolution, or- 
 ganized the Pasadena Chapter and was its 
 first Regent. While herself a Presbyterian, 
 Mrs. Burdette has actively filled the duties 
 falling to her as wife of the pastor of a 
 Baptist Congregation that numbers from 
 5,000 to 6,000 each Sunday, was one of the 
 incorporators and is now first vice-j^resi- 
 dent of the Auditorium Company that built 
 in Los Angeles an eight-story building in 
 which her husband's church worships. She 
 was chairman of the Finance Committee 
 that built this structure at a cost of 
 $025,000, was on the Btiilding Committee, 
 and the Furnishing Committee, and is now 
 chairman of the Supervisory Committee. 
 She has numerous business and philan- 
 thropic interests, has made frequent ad- 
 dresses, has written numerous articles in 
 magazines and newspapers and is the au- 
 thor of various booklets and books, notably: 
 Tlie Rainbow and the Pot of Gold. Mrs. 
 Burdette is a member of the American In- 
 stitute for Social Science, American Civic 
 Association, National Geographic Society, 
 the Archajologieal InsOtute of America, the 
 Ebell, Friday Morning and Badger Clubs 
 of Lo.=; Angeles, and the Shakespeare Club 
 of Pasadena. i\Irs. Burdette holds a pl.ice 
 of national distinction as a woman of activ- 
 ity and usefulness. She has a son, Roy 
 Brailiey Wheeler, and a stepson, Robert J. 
 Burdette. Jr. Address: SOI Orange (Jrove 
 Boulevard, Pasadena, Calif. 
 
 BURDETTE, Robert Jones: 
 
 Humorist and lecturer: born in Greens- 
 boro, Pa., July 30, 184-4. In his early 
 youth he removed to Peoria, 111., and at the 
 beginning of the Civil War entered the 
 Union army, serving as a private in the 
 47th Illinois "Volunteers until ISG5. He 
 was associated with several newspapers in 
 Peoria, and later became associate editor 
 of the Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye. where 
 he made his reputation as a humorist. Af- 
 ter a period with the Brooklyn Eagle he 
 entered the lecture field. In 1887 he be- 
 came a licensed minister of the Baptist 
 church, and was ordained in 1003. Since 
 1003 he has been in charge of the Temple 
 Baptist Church at Los Angeles, Calif. He 
 is member of the Archreological Institute 
 of America; the American Social Science 
 Association; and the Phi Kappa Psi fra- 
 ternity. He is the author of several books, 
 principally humorous, among which are: 
 Hawkeyetems; The Rise and Fall of the 
 Moustache; Hawkeyes; Life of William 
 Penn (in lives of American Worthies) ; 
 Innach Garden; Sons of Asaph; Chimes 
 from a Jester's Bells; and Smiles Yoked 
 with Sighs. He married, March 25, 1800, 
 Clara Bradley Baker. Residence: Pasa- 
 dena, Calif. 
 
 BURFORD, John Henry: 
 
 Jurist; born near Judson. Parke Coun- 
 ty. Ind., Feb. 29, 1852; son of James and 
 Sarah Ann (Reddish) Burford. He at- 
 tended the Collegiate Institute of W^ave- 
 land, Ind., and the Indiana State Univer- 
 sity Law School, from which he was grad- 
 uated as LL.B. in 1874. He was admitted 
 to the Indiana Bar in 1873, and engaged in 
 the general practice of law in that State. 
 In 1800 he settled in Oklahoma and became 
 probate judge of Beaver County, Oklalioma, 
 in 1800. He was appointed by President 
 Harrison register of the United States Land 
 Olllce at Oklahoma City, Okla., in 1800 
 serving until 1893. He was appointed as- 
 sociate justice of the Supreme Court of 
 the Territory Oklahoma serving from 1803 
 to 1807, and in 1898 he was appointed by 
 President McKinley, chief justice of the Su- 
 
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 257 
 
 prome Court of Oklahoma, in which posi- 
 tion he continued" until the admission 
 (if the State. Judge Burford is a Ecpubli- 
 (11 u in politics, lie has been editor of the 
 Oklahoma Territory Supreme Court Eeports 
 ISilfl-lOOB, and has published volumes v to 
 xviii. Judge Burford is a member of the 
 American Geographical Society, and is a 
 prominent member of the Masonic fra- 
 ternity. He married at Indianapolis, Ind., 
 Feb. i4, 1876, Mary Anna Cheek, and they 
 have a son. Address: 712 East Springer 
 Avenue, Guthrie, Okla. 
 
 BURGESS, Albert Franklin: 
 
 Entomologist; born at Rockland, Mass., 
 Oct. 2, 1873; son of Emory and Mary 
 (Lewis) Burgess. He was graduated from 
 the Massachusetts Agricultural College as 
 B.S. in 1895, and M.S. in 1897. Mr. Bur- 
 gess was assistant entomologist to the Mas- 
 sachusetts Board of Agriculture from 1895- 
 1899, assistant in entomology at the Uni- 
 versity of Illinois from 1899-1900, assistant 
 inspectors of. Nurseries and Orchards of 
 Ohio from 1900-1902, chief inspector of 
 nurseries and orchards of Ohio from 1902- 
 1907, and he was agent of the Gypsy Moth 
 Department at Boston, Mass, from March 
 1, 1907 to Sept. 1, 1907; since then he has 
 been assistant entomologist in the Bureau 
 of Entomology, at Washington. Mr. Bur- 
 gess is secretary of the American Associa- 
 tion of Economic Entomologists, associate 
 Editor of the Journal of Economic En- 
 tomology, past president of the Association 
 of Official Horticultural Inspectors, and is 
 a member of the Pni Sigma Kappa frater- 
 nity. He married at Castalia, Ohio, June 
 20, 1904, ]Mary E. Dwight, and they have a 
 son. Address: Bureau of Entomology, De- 
 ])artment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
 
 BURGESS, (Frank) Gelett: 
 
 Author and grotesque draughtsman; born 
 in Boston, Mass., Jan., 30, 1866; son of 
 Thomas H. and Caroline (Brooks) Bur- 
 gess. He was graduated from the Massa- 
 chusetts Institute of Technology as B.S. in 
 1887. He became a civil engineer on the 
 Southern Pacific Railroad in California 
 from 1887-1890; instructor in topographi- 
 17 
 
 cal drawing in tlie University of California 
 from 1891-1894, and designer till 1890, 
 wlien he took up literary work as a pro- 
 fession, illustrating most of his writings. 
 He was editor of The T^rk from 1895-1897, 
 and assistant editor of the Wave in 1896- 
 1897; became associate editor of Ridgvvay's 
 in 1906 and he is a contributor to various 
 American and English periodicals. He is 
 author of Vivette, 1897; The Lively City 
 o'Ligg, 1899; Goops, and How to Be Them, 
 1900; A Gage of Youth, and The Burgess 
 Nonsense Book, 1901; The Romance of the 
 Conuiionplace, 1902; More Goops, 1903; 
 The Reign of Queen Isyl (with Will Ir- 
 win), 1903; The Picaroons (with same), 
 1904; The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne, 
 1904; Goop Tales, 1904; A Little Sister of 
 Destiny, 1905; Are You A Bromide?, 1906; 
 The White Cat, The INIaxims of Methuselah ; 
 The Heart Line, 1907; Blue Goops and Red, 
 1909; Lady Mechante, 1909. Address: 
 1285 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. Tlie 
 Bohemian Club, San Francisco; The Play- 
 ers, New York City. 
 
 BURGESS, Frederick: 
 
 Bishop of Long Island; born in Provi- 
 dence, R. I., Oct. 6, 1853; son of Frederick 
 and Julia Ann (Niles) Burgess. He was 
 graduated from Brown University, as B.A., 
 1873, then attended one year in Oxford 
 University, England, and in 1898 he re- 
 ceived degree of D.D. from Brown Univer- 
 sity. He was ordered deacon of the Episco- 
 pal Church by the Bishop of New Hamp- 
 shire, in 1876, and ordained priest by the 
 late Bishop Clark in 1877. He began his 
 ministry as deacon in charge of St. Mark's 
 Mission at Mendham, N. J., in 1877, and a 
 year later became rector of Grace Church, 
 Amherst, Mass., subsequently occupying 
 rectorates in Detroit and Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 He was elected Bishop, Nov. 21, 1901, and 
 consecrated Jan. 15. 1902. bv Bishops Pot- 
 ter, Doane, and Davies, as Bishop of Long 
 Island. He is president of the Clmrch Char- 
 ity Foundation, and Diocesan Jlissions of 
 Long Island, the Cathedral of the Incarna- 
 tion, of the Trustees of Clergymen's Re- 
 tiring Fund; president of the Trustees of 
 the Estate belonging to the Diocese of Long 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Island and !< tnistop of tlic Doniostic and 
 lM)iciun .Mi--i(>iuir.\ ^-oc-icty. lie is a uieiii- 
 hcr of Ihc Alplia Didta Piii fraternity, and 
 (tf tlic Haiiiillnii. Twontietli Century and 
 (iardfu ( ily Cliilw. ITo received the degree 
 (if D.I), from I'.rown University in 1898. 
 He iiianied at .MVndhani. N. J.. Sept. 13, 
 ISSI. Caroline C. Ilaitow. and by that 
 union there are four sons. Residence : See 
 House, Garden City, N. Y. Office: Dio- 
 ee.san House. 170 Kenisen Street. Brooklyn, 
 X. V. 
 
 BURKE, James Francis: 
 
 l.awyer and eonuressnian ; horn in Pe- 
 troleum Center. Venango County, Pa., Oct. 
 21. 1807; son of Kichard J. and Anna 
 (Arnold) Burke. He was graduated from 
 the law department of the University of 
 .Michigan with the (h'gree of LL.B. in 
 18!»2. He was admitted to the bar in the 
 Supreme Court of Michigan, in the Su- 
 ])erior and Supreme Courts of Pennsyl- 
 vania, and in tiie United States courts, 
 and he lias practised law in Pittsburg 
 since 1893. He was for a time secretary 
 of the lleimblican National Committee in 
 l,S!t2. being the youngest man who ever 
 held that office. He was a delegate to the 
 Republican National Convention in 1908. 
 He was elected in 1904 from the Thirty- 
 first Pennsylvania District to the Fifty- 
 ninth Congress, in 1900 to tlie Sixtieth 
 Congress, and reelected in 1008 to the 
 Sixty-first Congress, in which lie is now 
 serving. He is a inember of the leading 
 clubs and commercial organi/.aiions of 
 I'itt-liini:. He marrie(l in Detroit, Mich., 
 April 1."). 1^9.'). .)o-.e|)iiine Burch Scolt. .\d- 
 dr.'ss: llerger P.uihiing. I'ittsburg, I'a. 
 
 BURKE, John: 
 
 (Governor of Norlii Dakota-, liorii in Keo- 
 kuk County. Iowa. Feb. 2."). lS.-)9: son of 
 .Foliii anil Mary I'.urke. He was educated 
 in the public schools of his native county 
 ;nid the Iowa State Cniver-ity. from which 
 he ua> graduated Lb. I'... ISSCi. He prac- 
 tised law in Des .Moines until 1888. when 
 he removed to Xorlh Dakota, practising 
 first at Bolla and aflerwaril at Devils 
 J^ike, where he is al the head of the law 
 
 linn of Ijiirke and .Middaugh. He served 
 as county judge of Kolette County, N. 
 Dak., 1889-i891, and 1890-1898; member 
 of the House of Bepresentatives, 1891-1893. 
 and the Senate, 1893-1895. in the State 
 Legislature, ' and in 1900 he was elected 
 governor of North Dakota, and reelected in 
 1908 for the term expiring in Jan., 1911. 
 Governor Burke is a Democrat in politics. 
 He married at Rolla, N. Dak., Aug. 22, 
 1891, Mary Kane. Address: Bismarck, N, 
 Dak. 
 
 BURKE, Maurice Francis: 
 
 Roman Catholic bishop; born in Ireland, 
 May 5, 1845. He was educated at old St. 
 Clary's of the Lake. Chicago, and Notre 
 Dame. Iml. After nine yi'ars of study at 
 the American College in IJome, he wa^ 
 ordained priest at that place :\lay 22, 1875, 
 and later held a pastorate in Joliet, 111, 
 On Oct. 28, 1887, he was consecrated bishop 
 of Cheyenne, Wyo,, and six years later was 
 transferred to the see of St. Joseph, Mo. 
 Bishop Burke is known as a linguist, 
 speaking fluently Italian. Latin. French, 
 (xerman and Spanish, and being a (Jreek 
 and Hebrew scholar of extensive attain- 
 ments. Address: St. Josej)!!. Mo. 
 
 BURKE, Thomas Martin Aloysius: 
 
 Boman Catholic bishop; boiu in licland. 
 Jan. 10, 1840. He eime to the United 
 States in his early youth. Ii\ing in Utica. 
 N. Y., until he took up >tudi;s at St. 
 Michael's College in Toronto. He was 
 graduated in classics from St. Charles' 
 College. Md.. in 1801. and after teaching 
 in college, took up the study of theology 
 in St. Mary's seminary. Baltimore, gradu- 
 ating with the degrees of A.M. and P..T. 
 in 1804. On .hnie :i(). IS04. he was or- 
 dained priest, ami during tiie following ten 
 years was assistant and a-~sislant rector of 
 St. John's. Albany. N. N. He held the 
 pastorate of St. .Joseph'- in the same cit.v 
 for twenty yens, am! in 1SS7 l)ecame 
 vicar-geiuu-al of Hie dioce-e of \lli:iny. and 
 upon the death of Bishop .McXeirney wa- 
 n:a(h' administrator scdc nirtnilr. He was 
 consecrated bishop of Allian>. .Inly 1. 1S91. 
 He was theologian of the Tliird L'leiiary 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 f)!) 
 
 Council, 1884. He was r-roated Knight of 
 llie Holy Sepulchre in 18'.»() and Knight 
 of the Grand Cross in 1894. Address: 225 
 Madison Avenue, Albany, N. \'. 
 
 BURKET, Harlan Fessenden: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Findlay. Ohio. May 15, 
 ISGO; son of Jacob F. and Paniy D. (Wal- 
 tcis) Burket, and is of old colonial stock, 
 lie received his preparatory education in 
 the schools of his native city and at Oberlin 
 Academy, and entering Oberlin College in 
 1878, was graduated four years later with 
 the class of 1882. He received the degree 
 of Ph.B., 1800, A.M., 1891. After his 
 graduation from college, he took up the 
 study of law in his father's law office at 
 I'indlay, where he was admitted to the 
 bar in 1887, and has since practised. In 
 1S91 he was elected prosecuting attorney 
 of Hancock County, serving for a term 
 of three years. He is president of the 
 American National Bank of i<Mndlay. Mr. 
 IJurket is very prominent in his profes- 
 sion, and is a member of various national 
 and local legal organizations. Among 
 lliese are the American Bar Association. 
 the Ohio State Bar Association, etc. . He 
 is also a meml)er of the Sons of the Ameri- 
 can Revolution. In 1904 he was a delegate 
 to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and 
 Jurists at St. Louis. He was for two years 
 vice-president of tRe Ohio Republican 
 League. He married at Findlay, Jan. 10, 
 189.J. Augusta Dukes. Address: Findlay, 
 Oliio. 
 
 BURKETT, Charles William: 
 
 Editor of American Agriculturist ; born 
 at Thornville, Perry County, Ohio, Jan. 3, 
 1873; son of Joseph W. and Anne (Cling- 
 inger) Burkett, He was graduated from 
 tlie Ohio State University as B.Sc. in 1895, 
 and as M.Sc. in 1898. He was assistant 
 in agriculture at New Hampshire Agricul- 
 tural College, and agriculturist of the New 
 Hampshire Experiment Station from 1898 
 to 1901 ; professor of agriculture at the 
 North Carolina Agricultural College and 
 agriculturist at the Nortli Carolina Ex- 
 l)eriment Station, 1901-1906; was director 
 of the Kansas State Agricultural Experi- 
 
 nu>nt Station. 1900-1908, when lie became 
 editor of American Agriculturist. Professor 
 Burkett founded the Agricultural Student, 
 tlie first distinctly college student agricul- 
 tural journal in the land. For some years 
 he was agricultural editor of The Progres- 
 sive Farmer, and The Ohio State Journal, 
 at Columbus, Ohio, and has contributed 
 extensively to the literature of Agricul- 
 tural Science. lie went abroad in 1907, 
 traveling in Europe investigating the 
 sources of seed wheat adapted to the State 
 of Kansas. Professor Burkett is the au- 
 thor of a number of books: A History of 
 Ohio Agriculture; Agriculture for Begin- 
 ners ; Cotton ; Soils ; Our Domestic Ani- 
 mals; Farm Stock. He is also editor of 
 the Cormtry Life Education series of col- 
 lege text books, the following having 
 already appeared: Types and Breeds of 
 Farm Animals; Thremmatology; Fungous 
 Diseases of Plants and many others in 
 press or in jjreparation. Professor B\irk- 
 ett married at Columbus. Oliio, Dec. 7, 
 1900. Laura Anna Weisuian. and they liave 
 two children Address: Manhattan. Kan. 
 
 BURKETT, Elmer Jacob: 
 
 United States Senator; horn in MilN 
 County, Iowa, Dec. 1, 1807; son of H. \V. 
 Burkett. He attended the public school 
 and afterward Tabor College, at Tabor. 
 Iowa, from which he was graduated in 
 1890, L'pon his graduation he was elected 
 principal of schools at Leigh, Neb., whicli 
 position he held two years, when he entered 
 the State University of Nebraska for a 
 law course, graduating from there with 
 the degrees of LL.B. in 1893. and LL.:M. 
 in 1895. He was admitted to the bar at 
 Lincoln. June. 1893. He was elected trus- 
 tee of Tabor College in 1895, and was 
 elected a member of the State Legislature 
 in 1896; and a Representative in Congress 
 in 1898. 1900, 1902 and 1904. resigning 
 from Fifty-ninth Congress, to succeed Hon. 
 C. H. Dietrich in the United States Senate, 
 taking his seat March 6. 1905. His term of 
 office will expire :Mi1rch 3. 1911. Senator 
 Burkett married. Sept. 1, 1891. Fanny F. 
 \Yright. of Glenwood, Iowa. Residence: 
 1544 B Street. Office Fraternity Building. 
 Lincoln, Neb. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 BURLEIGH, Edwin C: 
 
 Kx-iiovenior of Maiiio. and congressman; 
 lioin at Linnous. Aroostook County, Maine, 
 \(iv. -JT. 184.S. He was educated at the 
 Kimlldii Aciuleniy; afterward taught school 
 am! wa-- land surveyor and served in the 
 othce of the State adjutant-general. He is 
 now puhlislier of the Kennebec Journal, 
 Daily and Weekly. From 187fi to 1878 he 
 was State land agent, was State Treasurer 
 from 1885 to 1888, and governor from 
 1880 to 18!)2. He was elected in 1897 
 from the Third ]\Iaine District to the 
 Fifty-fifth Congress in place of Seth L. 
 Milliken. deceased, reelected in 1908, and 
 has since been bienniallj'' reelected and is 
 now serving in the Sixty-first Congress. 
 Address: Augusta, Maine. 
 
 BURLESON, Albert Sidney: 
 
 Member of Congress; born in San Mar- 
 cos. Texas, June 7, 186.3. He was gradu- 
 ated from the University of Texas in 1884, 
 and the following year v.as admitted to 
 tlie bar. He was assistant city attorney 
 of Austin. Texas, from 188.5 to" 1890, and 
 attorney for the 26th judicial district of 
 Texas from 1891 to 1898. In 1899 he was 
 elected to the National House of Eepresen- 
 tatives from the 9th Texas District, serving 
 until lOO:!. when he was elected' from the 
 1(11 li 'i"i\:is District, and successively 
 elected to subsequent Congresses, including 
 the Sixty-first, beginning March 4, 1909. 
 He is a Democrat and one of the foremost 
 of the minority members of the Committee 
 on .Appropriations of the House of Eepre- 
 sentatives. Address: Austin, Texas. 
 
 BURNAM, John Miller: 
 
 Fducator; born in Irvine, Ky., April 
 9, 1S04. He received a liberal educ-ition, 
 liaving attended Central University at 
 Richmond, Ky. ; ^Yashington University at 
 St. Louis, ^li>. : Vale, of wliieh he is A.B. 
 1884, and I'liJ). ISSG; and studied jn 
 Europe during tlie years between 1886 and 
 1904. From 1SS9 to 1891 he was professor 
 of Latin and I'rench at Georgetown Col- 
 lege, Ky.. and for eight years was assist- 
 ant ])rofessor of Latin at the University 
 of ]Missouri. Since 1900 he has been pro- 
 
 fessor of Latin at the University of Cin- 
 cinnati. His celebrated private collection 
 illustrating ancient forms of writing, in- 
 chuling iiianusiTi[)ts of all ages, is the 
 largest in the United States, and hardly 
 surpassed by similar collections belonging 
 to even the richest American miiversfdes. 
 He is the author of numerous monographs, 
 among which are: The Paris Prudent ius; 
 The So-Called Placidus Scholia of Statins; 
 and Glossemata de Prudentio; and is a 
 contributor to the American Journal of 
 Arclueology. He is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Philological Association; the New 
 PaliEOgraphical Society of London ; and 
 Gesellschaft fiir romanische Literatur, Got- 
 tingen. Address: L^niversity of Cincin- 
 nati, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 BURNHAM, Clara Louise: 
 
 Author; born in Newton, ]\Iass.; daugh- 
 ter of Dr. George F. and Mary O. (Wood- 
 man) Root, her father being the well- 
 known composer of " The Battle Cry of 
 Freedom," '' Tramp. Tramp," and other of 
 the most stirring of the w^ar songs of the 
 Civil War period and many ballads, can- 
 tatas and other composition^. She was 
 educated in Chicago and Boston, and she 
 married, in Chicago, Walter Burnham, a 
 lawyer. Mrs. Burnham wrote many libret- 
 tos for her father's cantatas and operettas, 
 and is author of the following novels, 
 ])ublished by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.: No 
 Gentlennm; A Sane Liuiatie; Dearly 
 Bought ; Next Door ; Young ]\Iaids and 
 Old; The Mistress of Beach Knoll; j\Iiss 
 Bagg's Secretary; Dr. Latimer; Sweet 
 Clover; The Wise Woman; INIiss Archer, 
 Ai'cher; A (ireat Love; A West Point 
 Wooing; Miss Pritchard's Wedding Trip; 
 The Right Princess; Jewel: Jewel's Story 
 Book: The Opened Shutters; The Leaven 
 of Love. Her summer home is The Moor- 
 ing, Bailey Island, Maine. Residence: 55 
 Fifty-third Street, Chicago. 111. 
 
 BURNHAM, George, Jr.: 
 
 ^lanufacturer ; born in Philadelphia. 
 Pa., Nov. 30, 184!». lie was educated at 
 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, recidving 
 the degree of C.E. in 1872, when he entered 
 
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 llic r>!il(l\viii Liu'ouiotivo Works, owiicil liy 
 lUnnhiim. Williams & Co.. of which his 
 latlicr. (Jcoryo Bmnhain. was senior part- 
 ner. Mr. Hiirnhani is a director of the 
 Cenlral National liank and vice-president 
 and dii'cclor of liip Union Trvist Company, 
 and iinlil his retirement, Dec. 31, 1906, 
 was a nienihcr of the firm of Burnham, 
 Williams & Company, of whose financial 
 dei)artment he was, up to that time, the 
 manager. He is a member of the council 
 of the National Civil Service Ileform 
 League; president of the Pennsylvania 
 Civil Service Keform Association; trea.s- 
 urer and member of the executive com- 
 mittee of the National Municipal League; 
 and was formerly president of the Munici- 
 pal League of Philadelphia. He has been 
 an active reformer in municipal affairs 
 and since 1907 has been a member of the 
 Philadelphia Common Covmcil. He is also 
 an associate of the American Society of 
 Civil Engineers, and a member of the Uni- 
 versity and Art Clubs of Philadelphia, and 
 is president of the City Club of Philadel- 
 phia, and a member of the City Club of 
 New York. He was married in Philadel- 
 phia, April 14, 1881, to Anna G. Lewis. 
 Residence: 214 N. 34th Street. Office: 
 1218 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 BURNHAM, Henry Eben: 
 
 United States Senator; born in Dunbar- 
 ton, N. H., Nov. 8, 1844; son of Henry L. 
 and Maria A. Burnham. He was gradu- 
 ated from Dartmouth College in 1865. He 
 studied law in the office of Minot and 
 INlugridge, at Concord, and in the offices 
 of E. S. Cutter and Judge Lewis W. Clark, 
 in Manchester, N. H. He was admitted 
 to the bar in April, 1868, and since that 
 time has practised in Manchester. He was 
 judge of probate for Hillsboro County, 
 Avas a member of the Constitutional Con- 
 vention of 1889, and has served as Ballot 
 Law commissioner. In 1888 he was chair- 
 man of the Republican State Convention 
 to nominate delegates to the National Con- 
 vention and lias always been a Republican 
 in politics. He was elected to the United 
 States Senate to succeed Hon. W. E. 
 
 Clianillci- for the term In-ginning March 4, 
 1901, and was niMectcd in 1907. the term 
 of service e.\})iring March 3, 1913. Senator 
 Burnham married, Oct. 22, 1874, Elixai)cth 
 11. Patterson, of Manchester, and they have 
 three daughters. Address: Mancbester, 
 N. H. 
 
 BURNHAM, Sherburne Wesley: 
 
 Astronomer; born in Thetford, Vt., in 
 1838. Professor Burnham has been closely 
 identified with the scientific world for 
 many years, having begun tlie study of 
 astronomy as an amateur and gaining 
 prominence tlirough his discoveries, not- ■ 
 ably of double stars with a six-inch re- 
 fractor. In 1874 he became a fellow of the 
 Royal Astronomical Society of England, 
 which, in view of his discovery and meas- 
 urement of double stars, his catalogue of 
 1,274 new double stars, far outnumbering 
 those discovered by any other one observer, 
 awarded him its gold medal in 1894. In 
 1876 he became connected with the Chi- 
 cago Observatory, later associated himself 
 with Lick Observatory, and is now pro- 
 fessor of practical astronomy at the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago. He has compiled sev- 
 eral catalogues of known stars, the best 
 known of which are his general catalogue 
 of stars discovered by himself and pub- 
 lished as Volume I of publications of the 
 Yerkes Observatory, and his general cata- 
 logue of all known double stars visible in 
 the northern hemisphere, published by the 
 Carnegie Institution. In 1898 he was 
 elected Associate of the Royal Astronom- 
 ical Society and was awarded the Lalande 
 prize in Astronomy by the Paris Academy 
 of Sciences in 1904. Address: Yerkes 
 Observatory, \\illiains Bay, \Yis. 
 
 BURNS, Waller T.: 
 
 United States judge. He was formerly 
 engaged in the practice of law in Houston, 
 Texas, and active in politics in that State 
 as a Republican, until appointed, in 1902, 
 to his present otlice as judge of the I'nited 
 States District Court for the Southern Dis- 
 trict of Texas. Address: United States 
 Court. Houston, Texas. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 BURR, George Lincoln: 
 
 lli-toriaii and librarian; born at Oraniel, 
 X. Y.; Jan. ."(), 1857; son of William Jo- 
 siah and Jane Charlotte (Lincoln) Burr. 
 After his graduation from Corntdl Univer- 
 sity in 1881. he |)ursued post-graduate 
 studies in the L'liivcrsity of Leipzig, the 
 Sorbonne and ficole des Chartes, Paris, 
 and the University of Zurich; and' he re- 
 ceived the honorary degrees of LL.D. from 
 the University of Wisconsin in 1904, and 
 of Litt.]). fi-oni the Western Reserve Uni- 
 versity in 19Uo. Dr. Burr has been libra- 
 rian of the President White Library of 
 Cornell University since 1878; was pres- 
 ident's secretary and instructor in history 
 at Cornell, 1881-1884. and 1888-1889; as- 
 sistant professor, 1889-1890, and has been 
 professor of medieval history in Cornell 
 University since 1892. He was historical 
 expert to President Cleveland's Commission 
 on the Venezuelan Boundary, 1896-1897. 
 He has been an editor of the American 
 Historical Review since 1905, and is editor 
 of the Century Historical Series. Profes- 
 sor Burr is a member of the American 
 Library Association, the American Histori- 
 cal Association, American Bibliograpliical 
 Society, and the Plii Beta Kappa Society. 
 Address: Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 *BURR, Joseph Arthur: 
 
 Jurist; born in Brooklyn, >.'. Y., Sept. 
 11, 1850; son of Joseph Arthur and' Har- 
 riett (Nasii) Burr. He was graduated from 
 Y'ale, B.A., 1871, and from Colund)ia Law 
 School, LL.B., 1873. He was admitted to 
 the bar in 1874, and practised in Brooklyn, 
 and was corporation counsel of the City of 
 Brooklyn from Jan., 1896, to Jan., 1898. 
 He was appointed by the governor, justice 
 of the Supreme Court of New York, to 
 till a vacancy, Dec. 27, 1904, and' elected 
 to the same oH'ice Nov. 1905, for the full 
 term expiring Dec. ."U, 1919. On Jan. 1, 
 1909, he was assigned to the Appellate 
 Division of the Supreme Court for the 
 Second Judicial Department. Justice Burr 
 is a J^iepublican in politics, is a member of 
 the Brooklyn Bar Association, the Brook- 
 lyn liislilute, Bi'ooklyn League. 1 lie New 
 l^Mglaiid Society of Brooklyn, llic Sons of 
 
 the Revolution. He is also a member of 
 the Brooklyn. Hamilton and University 
 CJlubs of Brooklyn and the Graduates Club 
 of New Haven, Conn. He married in New 
 Haven, Conn., Ella A. Dawson, and they 
 have two married daughters. Residence: 
 169 Columbia Heights. Office: County 
 Court House, P.rooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 BTJRR, William Hubert: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in \'\'atertown. 
 Conn.. July 14. 1851. He was educated 
 in \\'atertown Academy ami the Rensselaer 
 Polytechnic Institute;, at Troy, N. Y., being- 
 graduated as C.E. in 1872. He was in 
 subordinate positions, building wrought 
 iron bridges in New Y'ork and waterworks 
 at Newark, N. J.. 1872-1875; was a mem- 
 ber of the faculty of the Rensselaer Poly- 
 technic Institute, 1875-1884, as professor of 
 rational and technical mechanics, also prac- 
 tising civil engineering. He was assistant 
 to the chief engineer of the Phoenix Bridge 
 Company in 1884. and later became its 
 general manager. ^Ir. Burr became vice- 
 president of Sooysmith & Co., in 1891, antl 
 was professor of engineering at Harvard. 
 1892-189:^. and since 1893 has been pro- 
 fessor of civil engineering at Columbia 
 I niversity. In 1894 he was ajjpointed by 
 President Cleveland member of a Board of 
 I]ngineers to investigate the crossing of the 
 Hudson River at New Y'ork City with a 
 one-span bridge; and was also one of the 
 sub-committee of (he Committee of Seventy 
 for considering the improvement of the 
 city water front. .Mr. Burr was a member 
 of the ex]ieit connnittee on plans and esti- 
 mates for ra]5id transit; member of the 
 Hoard of Consulting Engineers to the Dock 
 Department of New York City, 1895-1898; 
 consulting engineer to the Department of 
 I'ublic Parks. 1896. in charge of building 
 the Harlem River driveway and bridges; 
 was ai)])ointed by President Cleveland on 
 the ISoard to locate a deep water harbor 
 on the South California Coast. 1896-1897, 
 and I'l'din lS!)(i to nX).") was consulting en- 
 gineer of I lie Di'parl nicnl of Hriilg(>s in 
 New \o\k (ilv. Mr. llnir \\a> a|ipointe(l 
 by I'resiilcnt McKinlev in IS!)!) a menihei- 
 t)f the liist Isthmian Canal Commission 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 m-.i 
 
 and' ill 1!)()4 \>y Picsidciil ItooscNclt a iiipin- 
 l)t'i- of tlic second Istlnnian Canal Coinniis- 
 fsion. In 1902 and 1903 he was chairman 
 of the commission on Additional Water 
 .Su])i)ly for New York City; was a member 
 of the Board of Consulting Engineers of 
 the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1905 ; 
 and since 190-'5 has been consulting engi- 
 neer of the Board of Water Supply of New 
 York, and' expert engineer to the Aque- 
 duct Commission. New York City. In 
 1896-1897 he won the national competi- 
 tion for tlie design of the proposed bridgL' 
 across tlie Potomac River at Washington 
 as a memorial to American patriotism. 
 My. Burr has been consulting engineer to 
 the Department of Bridges of New Y^'ork 
 City for the design and' construction of 
 the Henry Hudson Memorial Bridge since 
 1907. the 750-foot arcli span being his 
 design. He is a trustee of the Cathedral 
 of St. John the Divine; member of the 
 American Society of Civil Engineers, the 
 Institution of Civil Engineers of Great 
 Britain, and the National CTeographic So- 
 ciety. He is author of: Stresses in 
 Bridges and' Roof Trusses, 1881; The Elas- 
 ticity and Resistance of Materials, 1883; 
 Ancient and Modern I'higineering and the 
 Isthmian Canal. l'.)02, and of numerous 
 contributions to engineering and scientific 
 societies. Mr. Huir married first, in 1S76, 
 Caroline Kent Siclyc. wlio died in 1894, 
 and second in 1900. (ierlrude Cold Ship- 
 man, and they have four child'ren. Ad- 
 dress: l.-.l W.'tjCi street. New York City. 
 
 BURRAGE, Henry Sweetser: 
 
 Chaplain of the Xational Home for Dis- 
 abled Voliuiteer SohUers, Maine, and' chap- 
 lain-in-chief of tlie Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion of the Lnited States; born 
 in Fitchburg, Mass.. -Ian. 7. 1837. He was 
 educated' at Brown University and Newton 
 Theological Institution, and was a student 
 a1 the Cnivcrsily of Halle. Cennany. Dur- 
 ing the ('i\il War he serxcd in the 30tii 
 .Massachusetts N'olunieers. lieing pronioted 
 
 suecessixely fr seig(>ant inajor to cajjlain 
 
 and brevet-nia joi'. and was also acting as- 
 sistant adjutant -general on the staff of the 
 1st brigade. 'Id (li\ision. ittli Army Corps. 
 
 .\fter Hie close of the war he became a 
 Baptist minister, receiving the degree of 
 D.l). from iirown University in 1883. and 
 from 1874 to 1905 was editor of Zion's 
 Advocate. I'oitlaiid, Maine. He is the au- 
 thor of minierous books, principally re- 
 ligious and historical, among wliicli are the 
 following: Brown University in the Civil 
 War; The Act of Baptism [n the History 
 of the Christian Church; History of the 
 Anaha])tists of Switzerland; Rosier's Re- 
 lation of Wayinouth's Voyage to the Coast 
 of Maine; Baptist Hymn Writers and 
 Their Hymns; History of the Baptists in 
 New England; Gettysburg and Lincoln; 
 and Early English and' Fiench Voyages. 
 He is a member of the Maine Historical So- 
 ciety; the American Historical Associa- 
 tion; The Xational (ieograpliical Society; 
 The Military Order of the Loyal Legion ot 
 the United States; The Maine Society of 
 the Sons of the American Revolution; and 
 the Maine Society of Colonial Wars. He 
 is also a member of the Board of Fellows 
 of Brown L'niversity. and State Historian 
 of Maine. Address: National Soldiers' 
 Home, Maine. 
 
 BURROUGHS, John: 
 
 Author; born at Roxbury. N. V.. April 
 3. 1837; son of Chamicey A. and Amy 
 (Kelly) Burroughs. He was ediuated at 
 Cooperstown (N. Y.) Scniiiiary. and tin- 
 Heading Literary Institute at Ashland. N. 
 Y. Mr. Biuioiiglis was a school teacher 
 from 1S54 to 18(53; a treasury deik and 
 bank examiner from ]8(!4 to 1885; a fruit 
 farmer fi'om 1885 to 1902; and has been 
 a writer for magazines since the age of 
 twenty-three. He took trip'^ to England 
 and France in 1871 and 1SS2: was a com- 
 panion to President Roosevelt in a trip to 
 Yellowstone Bark in 1893, and was a meiii- 
 bei' of the Harriman Kxi)edition to Alaska 
 in 189!). .Mr. I'urrouglis is an Independent 
 in ])olitic-;. and holds to no d'cnominat ional 
 faith. He i> author of: Wake Bobin; 
 Signs and Seasons; 1 'cii:!!-!!)!! ; Uiverly; 
 Birds and I'oets; \\ inlri Sunshine; Lo- 
 custs and Wild lloiii'\ ; l'"ic>li h'ields ; In- 
 dooi- Studies; Wliitinan. a Study; The 
 Light of Day; Squirrels and Other Fur 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Bearers; Literary Values; Far and Near; 
 Ways of Nature; Leaf and Tendril; and 
 Bird and Bough (collected poems). He 
 married' Sept. 13, 1857, Ursula North, and 
 tlicy liave one son, Julian, born in 1879. 
 Address: West Park. IHster County, N. Y. 
 
 BURROWES. Katharine: 
 
 Piano and normal teacher and avithor; 
 born in Kingston, Ontario; daughter of 
 Edwin Anncsley and Florinda A. (Rad- 
 cliffe) Burrowes. She received' her general 
 education under private governesses in 
 Napanee, Ont., and later studied music 
 under J. C. Baehelder of Detroit, and Pro- 
 fessor Karl Klindworth of lierlin, Ger- 
 many. ]Miss Burrowes was a member of 
 the faculty of the Detroit Conservatory of 
 Music for eight years, and' in 1895 she 
 organized the Burrowes Piano School, of 
 which she was the directress. She orig- 
 inated the " Burrowes Course of Music 
 Study," a method for beginners, protected 
 by two United States patents and twenty- 
 six copyrights, and she read' a paper and 
 demonstrated her work before the Music 
 Teachers' National Convention in 1902. 
 Miss Burrowes is a contributor to- the 
 musical magazines, and is author of: Bur- 
 rowes' Course of Music Study (Kindergart- 
 en and Primary), 1895; Manual for Teach- 
 ers, 1901; Class Songs, 1901; Modern 
 Music IMethod's, 1902; The Note Gatherers, 
 1903; Short Pieces for Small Hands, 1904; 
 Forty Reading Studies, 1904; Playtime 
 Pieces, 1904; Musical Puzzle Stories, 1905; 
 The Girl and the Doves, 1905; The Five 
 Squirrels, 1905; Theory Course, or Some 
 of the Knowledge which a Music Teacher 
 of Children Should Possess, 1906. She is 
 a member of the Music Teachers' National 
 Association and of the Michigan Music 
 Teachers' Association. Address: Detroit, 
 Mich. 
 
 BURROWS, Julius C: 
 
 United Slates senator; burn in North 
 East, Erie County, Pa., Jan. !», 1837. He 
 acquired a common .school and academical 
 education, and at the age of seventeen 
 years taught school and read law. In 
 1859 he went to Michigan, taught school a 
 
 year and engaged in tlie practice of law 
 at Kalamazoo. During the war he served 
 as captain in the Seventeenth Michigan 
 Infantry, 1862 to 1864, when he returned 
 to Kalamazoo and resumed the practice of 
 law. In politics he has always been a 
 strong advocate ' of the principles of the 
 Republican party, and very active in cam- 
 paigns. He was elected in 1872 as a Re- 
 publican lepresentative to the Forty-third 
 Congress; in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Con- 
 gress; and was reelected in 1880 to the 
 Forty-seventh Congress; in 1884 to the 
 Forty-ninth Congress, and reelected in 
 1886', 1888, 1890, 1892 and 1894, .serving 
 in the lower house until Jan. 23, 1895. On 
 the convening of the ^lichigan Legislature 
 in Jan., 1895, Mr. Burrows was chosen 
 United States senator to succeed John Pat- 
 ton, Jr., for the unexpired term of the 
 late Senator Stockbridge. On the conven- 
 ing of the Legislature of 1899-1900, Sen- 
 ator Burrows was chosen by the unanimous 
 vote of the Republican members of the 
 Legislature to succeed himself in the United 
 States Senate for the term of six years, 
 from 1899 to 1905; and in 1905 was chosen 
 by the unanimous vote of the Legislature 
 for another term, expiring !March 4, 1911. 
 Address : Kalamazoo, Mich. 
 
 BURT, Horace Greeley: 
 
 Consulting engineer; born in Indiana, 
 Jan., 1849. He was graduated' from the 
 University of Michigan in 1873, and 
 entered the railway service in 1808, becom- 
 ing resident engineer the year of his grad- 
 uation from college, which position he held 
 until 1881. From that year until Aug., 
 1887, he was division superintendent, and" 
 during the succeeding year was chief engi- 
 neer of the Chicago & Northwestern Rail- 
 way Company. For eight years he was 
 general manager of the Fremont, Elkhorn 
 & Missouri Valley and the Sioux Railroad 
 companies, and in 1896 was general man- 
 ager of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis 
 & Omaha Railway, hold'ing that position 
 for three months, when he became 3d vice- 
 president of the Chicago and Northwestern 
 Railway, until Dec. 31. 1897. From that 
 time until Jaiuiary, 1904 lie was president 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 2i>r) 
 
 of the Union Pacific Ruilioad, and lie now 
 has an etensive clientele as consulting engi- 
 neer. Address: Oak Park, 111. 
 
 BURT, William: 
 
 liishop of the Methodist l^ijiscopal 
 Church ; born in Padstow, Cornwall, Eng- 
 land, Oct. 23, 1852. He was graduated 
 from Wesleyan University, A.B., 1879; 
 graduated' from Drew Theological Seminary 
 at Madison, N. J., 1881 with the degree of 
 B.D. ; and received the degree of D.D. from 
 Grant University in 1888. He entered the 
 New York East conference in 1881, and 
 held pastorates in Brooklyn, N. Y., until 
 188G, wlien he was transferred" to the Italy 
 Conference and made presiding elder of the 
 Milan district. In 1888 he removed to 
 Florence and later to Home, remaining 
 there 14 years in charge of churches and 
 schools, and accomplishing important work 
 along educational lines, being the founder 
 of a publishing house and organizer of boys' 
 college, a young ladies' college and other 
 schools. He received the honorary degree 
 of D.D. from Wesleyan University, 1902. 
 On May 20, 1904, he was elected a bishop 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church by the 
 (xeneral Conference held at Los Angeles, 
 Calif., and was consecrated May 26, 1904. 
 He is the author of several books in the 
 Italian language, and received the order of 
 Cavalliere di SS. Maurizzio e Lazzaro from 
 the King of Italy in 1903. He married in 
 Lynn, Mass., April 14, 1881, Helen B. 
 Graves. Address: 30 Volta Strasse, Zu- 
 ricli, Switzerland. 
 
 BURTON, Ernest De Witt: 
 
 Theologian ; born in Granville, Ohio, Feb. 
 4, 1856; son of Pvcv. Nathan Smith Burton, 
 D.D., and Sarah J. (Fairfield) Burton. 
 He was graduated' from Dennison University, 
 Granville, Ohio, B.A., 1876, and studied 
 in the Rochester Theological Seminary, 
 1879-1882; the University of Leipzig, 1887, 
 and the University of Berlin, 1894. He was 
 a teacher in public and' private schools 
 from 1876-1879; was instructor in Roches- 
 ter Theological Seminary, 1882-1883, and 
 associate professor, 1883- 1880. He was as- 
 sociate professor of New Testament inter- 
 
 pretation in tlie Xewton Theological Insti- 
 tution, 1883-1886, and professor, 1886-1892; 
 and from 1892 has been professor of New 
 Testament interpretation and head of the 
 New Testament (lei)artment at tlie Univer- 
 sity of Cliicago. lie was associate editor of 
 the Biblical World. 1892-1906, and has been 
 its editor-in-chief since 1906. He visited In- 
 dia and China in 1908-1909, as Oriental 
 Educational Commissioner of the Univer- 
 sity of Chicago. He has been editor (with 
 others) of the American Journal of The- 
 ology since 18!)7. He is author of numer- 
 ous tlieological works and is a member of 
 the Quadrangle Club of Chicago. He mar- 
 ried Frances ^Nfary Townson. in 1883, and 
 they have one daughter. Ad'drcss: Uni- 
 versity of Chicago. Cliicago. 111. 
 
 BURTON, Charles G.: 
 
 Former commander-in-chief of tiie Grand 
 Army of the Rejiublic; born in Ohio in 
 1846. He enlisted in the Union Army in 
 1861 at the age of fifteen years, saw much 
 hard service, and after the war studied 
 law. He practised his profession in three 
 States and' finally settled at Nevada, Mo., 
 became successively circuit attorney, judge 
 and congressman, and is now collector of 
 internal revenue for his district. He is a 
 prominent Republican and has been delegate 
 to the National Convention. He has been 
 commander of the Department of ^Missouri 
 and chairman of the National Pensions 
 Committee of the Grand Army of the Re- 
 public, and was elected commander-in- 
 chief at the National Encampment at Sara- 
 toga in 1907. Address: Nevada, Mo. 
 
 BURTON, George Dexter: 
 
 Inventor; born in Temple, N. H., Oct. 26. 
 1855. He received an academic education. 
 Mr. Burton is a well-known lecturer and 
 inventor along metallurgical and electrical 
 lines, gaining special prominence in the sci- 
 entific world through his inventions of a 
 liquid process of heating and welding met- 
 als by an electric current. He is also the 
 inventor of the Burton stock car and the 
 underground electric trolley system for sur- 
 face railways and the process of making 
 paper from corn stalks, straws, grasses and 
 
2fifi 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 liliic |p|.lllt-^ li\ clcrt ricil \ . lie is president 
 
 (if Die American Isleetric h'oiuc ('unipaiiy 
 and of tlie Kenn. \e\.. Hednelion Works. 
 He iia- leelured nil ileal iiii; and W'orkiiv^ 
 r^letais liy I':ieelriei1y l)efori' tiie Harvard 
 Leftuic (lid) of Jeft'erson Pliysieal Labora- 
 tory of llar\ard' Collpge; before the Soci- 
 ety of Alts of tlie Massachusetts Institute 
 of Teehnoh)fiy and Die Franklin Institute 
 of Pliiladel])}iia. lie was niariied' in New- 
 ton, Mass.. in .fan.. 1S!)4. to Frances C. 
 Jones, and resides in New Ipswich, N. H. 
 Address: IS.") Siinnnei- Street, Boston. 
 
 BURTON, Hiram Rodney: 
 
 Physician and ex-congressman: born in 
 Lewes, Sussex County. Delaware. Nov. 13. 
 1841 ; son of Joshua S. and Ruth Hunn 
 (Kodney) Burton. He was educated' in the 
 local schools of Lewes, Del.. tvn»l then 
 tau,a:ht for two years in the schools of Sus- 
 sex County. Del. He was eu'^aijed in the 
 dry (roods business at Washintiton. D. C, 
 from 1861-1865. then entered the medical 
 department of tlie L^niversity of Pennsyl- 
 vania, whence he was graduated as M.D. in 
 1808. Tie was appointed deputy collector 
 of cu-toms in 1877: was actinu' assistant 
 suroeon in the L^'nited States Marine Hos- 
 pital Service, stationed at Lewes, 1890-1893, 
 and was nominated for State senator from 
 the Fifth District of Sussex County in 1898. 
 He was elected from tlie state of Dcdaware 
 at 1-irife. in 19(14. to the Fifty-ninth Con- 
 gress, and leelected in 1906 to the Sixti- 
 eth Con<i:ress, servin<>- until Maicli 4. 1909. 
 He was a delejiate to the National Repub- 
 lican Convention of 1896 and 1900. He 
 married in 1877. Marj^aret V. Rawlins, who 
 dierl in 1897. and has one daii;_;liter. Ad- 
 dle--: Lew-. I)(d. 
 
 BURTON, Lewis William: 
 
 iiisliop of l.exiiij^lon : liorn in Cle\claiid. 
 Ohio, Xov. 9, 18.")2: son of l!e\. Dr. I.i'wis 
 and Jane (Wallace) Hinloii. lie was jrrad- 
 uate(l from Keiiyon ( dlleLic as lirst honor 
 man in 1S7:>. with the decree of A.l>.; and 
 from llie I'hiladeliihia l)i\inify School in 
 
 1877. lie- received 1 he de-lVCs of A.M. ill 
 
 I88li and D.I), in 1896 from his alma mater. 
 as well as D.D. from the l'iiiversil\ of the 
 
 South, ill ISilCi. He \\a- 
 the l''.|iisco|ial (hnrcli 
 
 made a deacon of 
 n 1S77. lieeomiiiLT 
 assistant of All Saint -,■ dinrch. Cleveland'. 
 ()hio: an<l the following scar he was or- 
 d:;iiied ]iiiest in l!isho|) IJcdidl. .\fter 
 rectorates in Cleveland. llich.mond and 
 fiOUisAille, lie was idt'cted. Dec. .1, 1895. and 
 on Jan. 30. 189(). he was consecrated' bisho]) 
 of the Diocesi' of Lexiniiton (which em- 
 braces the eastern half of the State of Ken- 
 tucky ) . He is author of: The Name of 
 the Ciuuch, 1!)03: The Necessity to the 
 Minister of a I'eisonnl Spiritual Life, 1904; 
 Annals of Henrico Parish, in .1. S. ^looic's 
 Virginiana, 1904. Pie traveled abroad in 
 1880, and again in 1897 and 1908, attend- 
 ing the Lambeth Conferences in London in 
 the two latter years. He is a member of 
 the Phi Beta Kappa Society (Kenyon 
 Chapter) ; a trustee of Kenyon College and 
 of the L'niversity of the South ; is president 
 of the Board of Directors of ^lai'garet Col- 
 lege, a diocesan institution for girls" and 
 young women at Versailles, Ky.; and is 
 the Episcopal head of Saint John's Collegi- 
 ate Institute at Corbin, Ky., and of the 
 Bishop Dudley Collegiate Institute at 
 Beattyville. Ky. Bishop Burton is a mem- 
 ber of the Society of Colonial Wars. He 
 mnriied at Decatur. Ga., Jan. 15. 188:!. 
 (ieorgie Hendree l^all, and they have had 
 three children, two of whom (d'aughters) 
 are living. Address: 4:!(i West SixtJi 
 Street. Lexington. Ky. 
 
 BURTON, Richard: 
 
 Fduealor and author: born in Hartford, 
 Conn., ]\Iarch 14. 1859. He was educated 
 at Trinity College, Hartford, of Avhich he 
 is A.B., and' received the degree of Ph.D. in 
 1887, from .lohiis Hopkins Cniversity. where 
 lie became teacher of (lid l<'nglisli a year 
 later. He bei'ame maiiaiiing editor of the 
 New York Chiircliman. and after traveling 
 in Euro])e for a year was appointed literary 
 editor of the Hartford ('oinaiil. which ])o- 
 sitioii he held for seven years. In 1S97 he 
 hccanie a>sociate editor of Warner's Library 
 of the World's Best literature, and fiom 
 1898-190-J was professor of English litera- 
 ture at the Ciii\('isity of Minnesota. The 
 siicceedinii \car he licconu' alliliated with 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 2fi7 
 
 llic L()tlir(i|) I'lihlisliiiii;- ('ciiii|iaii_\-. of which 
 lie was cdilor. l\v(i years, thon iiiilil 1906, 
 was professorial h^/Uirer on English Litera- 
 ture ill the University of Chieago. He has 
 l)eeii ])rofpssor of English literature at the 
 TnivcMsity of i\[innesota since 1906. Mr. 
 r.urton is the author of the books: Dumb 
 ill .hine; Memorial Day; Literary Likings; 
 Lyiics of Brotherhood ; Life of Whittier ; 
 Forces in Fiction; ^Message and Melody- 
 A Book of Verse; Literary Leaders' of 
 America; Rahab-a poetic drama and Three 
 of A Kind, a piece of fiction. He is a 
 member of the Authors Club and the Play- 
 ers. New York City, also of the National 
 Institute of Arts and Letters. He married 
 in London, Oct. 7. 1889. ]\lrs. A. E. Park- 
 hurst. Address: 2109 Blaisdell Avenue, 
 Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 BURTON, Theodore Elijah: 
 
 Ignited 8tates senator : horn at JefFerson, 
 Ohio. Dec. 20, 1851; son of Pvev. \Yilliam 
 and Elizabeth (Grant) Burton. He stud- 
 ied at Grand River Institute, Austinburg. 
 Ohio; at Iowa College and at Oberlin Col- 
 lege whence he was graduated in 1872, and 
 later received' the degree of LL.D. He be- 
 gan the practice of law in 1875. Mr. Bur- 
 ton was a member of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives in the Fifty-first Congress, but 
 was defeated for reelection in 1890. He was 
 again elected in 1894 and biennially after 
 tliat up to and including the election of 
 1908 as representative from the Twenty- 
 tiist Ohio (Cleveland) District. In Janu- 
 ary. 1909, however, he was elected LTnited 
 States senator from Ohio, for the term ex- 
 ]iiring March :|, 1915. During his service 
 ill the House of Representatives he was for 
 many years chairman of the Committee on 
 Rivers and" Harbors, in which position he 
 «-as the chief factor in the regulation of the 
 vast expenditures of the country for in- 
 ternal improvement of seaports, and he is 
 a prominent member of the Waterways 
 Commission. He took a leading part in the 
 ;niti-Foraker movement in Ohio in 1906- 
 1907. and unsuccessfully contested the may- 
 oralty campaign in Cleveland in 1907 
 against Tom L. .Tolmsoii. He «as regarded 
 
 as tlie leailei- of I he IJoosevelt forces in 
 Ohio ill the |M(-ele(t ion priinaries in 190S, 
 anil lie inaije tlie iKniiiiiiling speech for 
 'J'afI ill the Xatiniial Rcpulilicaii Conven- 
 tion al Chicago. Senator Burton is au- 
 thor of: l-'inaiieial (rises and Periods of 
 Commerical Depression; and Life of John 
 Sherman. He is uniiiarricd, and resides at 
 The Roeliambeau in Washington, D. C. Ad- 
 dress: 709 Society for Savings Building. 
 Cleveland'. Oliio. 
 
 BURTON-OPITZ, Russell: 
 
 Physician and physiologist; born in Ft. 
 W^ayne, Ind'., Oct. 25, 1875. He was gradu- 
 ated from the University of Chicago as 'SI. 
 D. (Rush Medical College) in 1895; as S.B. 
 in 1898. S.M., 1902. Ph.D.. 1905. He Avas 
 a graduate student at the University of 
 Vienna in 1898 ; was volunteer assistant, 
 1898-1899. and assistant docent in physiol- 
 ogy from 1899-1901 in the University of 
 Breslau; investigator of the ^farine Biolog- 
 ical Station at Xaples in 1901 : assistant 
 in physiology' at Harvard University in 
 1901-1902; and since 1902 at Columbia 
 University as assistant demonstrator oif 
 physiology, instructor in physiology, ad- 
 junct professor of physiology since 1904. and 
 head of the Department of Physiology since 
 1909. Dr. Burton-Opitz has traveled ex- 
 tensively in Europe and' Africa. He is a 
 memljer of the American Physiological So- 
 ciety, the Deutsche Physiologisehe Gesell- 
 schaft. Society for Experimental Biology' 
 and ]\Iedicine, the Harvey Society, the 
 American Society of Biological Chemists. 
 Society of American Naturalists, and 
 American Chemical Society; and fellow of 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science. He is co-editor of the 
 Biochemische Centralblatt, Biophysikalische 
 Centralblatt, Hygienische Centralblatt and 
 a frequent contributor to scientific journiils. 
 Dr. Burton-Oiiitz is a :^2(l-degree ilason. a 
 member of the Sigma Chi, Theta Nu Epsi- 
 lon, and' Nu Sigma Nu fraternities, and the 
 Sigma Xi. and Alpha Omega Alpha honor- 
 ary fraternities. Residence: Palisade, N. 
 J. Ollice address: 437 West 59th Street, 
 New ^■ork Citv. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 BUSBEY, L. White: 
 
 •Tournalist ; born in \'icnn;i, f)!iio, Nov. 
 11, 1S52. He received a common school edu- 
 cation, and after teaching for several years 
 bepfan newspaper work in ISTH with the 
 Chicago Inter Ocean, with which paper he 
 remained iiiilil 1905 as special correspond- 
 ent and \\'a-liiugton correspondent. Since 
 l!)04 he has served with marked distinction 
 in the dilhcult jjosition of secretary to the 
 .Speaker of the National House of Repre- 
 sentatives. He became active in Republi- 
 can politics during the campaign of 1900. 
 and was author of: The Battle of 1900, 
 a discussion of the political issues before 
 the country, in which Willis J. Abbott took 
 part representing the Democratic party. 
 He married, at Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1896, 
 Katherine Graves. Address : 233G Mas- 
 sachusetts Avenue, Washington, 13. C. 
 
 BUSCH, Adolpluis: 
 
 Brewer; lioiu in jNIayence-on-the-Rhine. 
 (Jermany, .July 10, 1842. He was educated 
 in tlie schools at jNIayence, and came to the 
 United Htates in 1857. After serving four 
 months under 'General Lyon during the Civil 
 War, he became associated in the brewing 
 business with his father-in-law, E. An- 
 heuser. In 18()5 lie became a partner in the 
 E. Anheuser Brewing Compan}', which later 
 became the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Asso- 
 ciation, of whicli he is now president. He 
 is connected with several banks and corpo- 
 rations, among which are the South Side 
 Bank, of whicli he is president; tlie Manu- 
 facturers Railway Company; the American 
 Diesel Engine Company of New York; the 
 Grand I'acific Hotel Company; the Geyser 
 Ice Company of Waco, Texas; the St. 
 Louis ITnion Trust Company; llie Third 
 National ]5aiik; the Kiiiloch Telephone 
 Company; the North American Company; 
 tlie American Car and Foundry Company ; 
 tlie United States Independent Telephona 
 Company; the ^li.ssouri Safe Deposit Com- 
 pany; and the American Bottle Company. 
 He has been decorated' by tlie Emperor of 
 (Jermany. He is a member of the St. Louis, 
 Noonday, University, and Mercantile Clubs 
 of St. Louis, and the Engineers and Midday 
 Clubs of New York. He married in St. 
 
 Louis, March 7, ISOl, Lilly Anheuser, and' re- 
 sides in Busch Place in that city. Office: 
 Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, St. 
 Ijouis. 
 
 BUSCK, August: 
 
 Entomologist; born in Randers, Denmark, 
 Feb. 18, 1870. He was educated at Ordrup 
 College in Denmark, and studied natural 
 sciences at the Royal University of Copen- 
 hagen, where he received the degrees of B.P. 
 and A.M. Since 189G he has been entomolo- 
 gist of the United States Department of 
 Agriculture. ' He is a member of the Wash- 
 ington Entomological Society; the Washing- 
 ton Biological Society ; the Entomological 
 Society of Stockholm, Sweden; and the En- 
 tomological Societj^ of Copenhagen, Den- 
 mark. He is a contributor of technical pa- 
 pers on American Microlepidoptera to var- 
 ious journals. INIr. Busck married' in New 
 York, Aug. 21, 1895, Ville Christensen, and 
 resides in Hyattsville. Md. Office: United 
 States National iMuseum, Washington, D. C. 
 
 BUSH, John Standish Foster: 
 
 Physician : born in Burlington, Vt., June 
 4, 1850; son of Solon W. and Theoda 
 (Foster) Bush. He obtained his early edu- 
 cation in the schools of Burlington, and the 
 Roxbury Latin School, his parents having 
 moved to Boston when he was fourteen 
 years old. He took a special course in 
 chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute 
 of Technology ; a course in natural sciences 
 at Cornell University; and was graduated 
 as M.D. from the Harvard ^Medical School 
 in 1874. In 1873 he was appointed house 
 surgeon in the Massachusetts General Hos- 
 ]>ital. For many years he was surgeon to 
 tiie Boston Dispensary; and he is now phy- 
 sician to the Children's Mission, and ont> 
 of its directors. He is a member of the 
 Massachusetts Medical Society, and one of 
 the Councilors of the society. Dr. Bush is 
 actively interested in fraternal organiza- 
 tions, being a m('ml>er of the Grand Lodge 
 of Masons of Massachusetts, and of the 
 Grand Commandery of Knights Templar 
 for jMassachusetts and Rhode Island, and 
 has the 33d-degree of the Scottish Rite. He 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 269 
 
 is a iiH'iiilifr (if iiiaiiy Icadiiij;- clubs of Bos- 
 ton. Dr. Bush luairiod, June 4, 1875, Jo- 
 S('])liine M. Mason, and' they have two chil- 
 dren. Address: IJoslon, jVTass. 
 
 BTJSH, Thomas Greene: 
 
 l"'iiianeicr ; born in l*iekens\ ille, ,Ma., in 
 1847. At the age of 13 he organized two 
 military companies, one of which was ac- 
 cepted temporarily by the governor of Ala- 
 bama. He entered the University of Ala- 
 bama iji 1801, but after three years of 
 study resigned to enter the Confederate 
 army as adjutant in the G2d Alabama Reg- 
 iment. He was captured by Federal troops 
 and held a prisoner at 8hip Island' and 
 New Orleans until the surrender of General 
 Dick Taylor and exchange of prisoners at 
 Mcksburg. Miss. After completing his ed- 
 ucation at the University of Mississippi in 
 1807 he engaged in various business enter- 
 ]nises, and' in 1880 was elected to the Leg- 
 islature of Alabama, since 'which time he 
 has been president of the Mobile & Birm- 
 ingham Railway Company. He is also pres- 
 ident of the Shelby Iron Company of Shel- 
 by, Ala., and a member of the Monetary 
 Commission created by the. Indianapolis 
 Monetary Conference in 1897. He is a 
 trustee of The Foiuidation for the Promo- 
 tion of Industrial Peace. Address: Birm- 
 ingham, Ala. 
 
 BUSH-BRO"WN, Henry Kirke: 
 
 Sculptor; born in Ogdensburg, IST. Y., 
 April 21, 1857; son of Robert W. and Car- 
 oline (Udall) Bush. He was educated in 
 the schools of Xewburgh, N. Y. ; and he 
 studied art with Henry Kirk Brown, and 
 in Paris Avith Antoine ^lercie. Among his 
 more notable works are: the Indian Buffa- 
 lo Hunt, exhibited at the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition at Chicago, in 1893 ; and 
 equestrian statues of General G. G. Meade 
 and General John F. Reynold's, erected on 
 the battlefield of Gettysbiirg, Pa.; the Civil 
 \Var Memorial, at the Union League, Phil- 
 adelphia; the Statue of Justinian, in the 
 Appellate Court House at New York City; 
 'if Horace INlann, at the Louisiana Purchase 
 Jvxposition. St. Louis, 1904; of Truth, for 
 tile Pan American Exposition at BufTalo, 
 
 in 1!)01; and an equestrian statue of Gen- 
 eral Anthony Wayne for Valley Forge, Pa. 
 He is a trustee of the Scenic and Historic 
 Preservation Society; a member of tlie Na- 
 tional Sculpture Society, the Architectural 
 Ficague of New York City, the IMunicipal 
 Art Society, the Mayflower Society, and the 
 Empire State Society of the Sons of the 
 American Revolution, and' of the National 
 Arts Club of New York. He married, 
 April 7, 1880, Margaret W. Lesley, of Phil- 
 adelphia, and they have four children. .\d- 
 dress: Newburg, N. Y. 
 
 BUSSE, Fred A.: 
 
 Mayor of Chicago; born in Chicago, 111., 
 March 3, 1800. He was educated in the 
 public schools of Chicago, and began his 
 business career as a clerk with his father, 
 who was engaged in the hardware business. 
 From the store h* graduated into the coal 
 business, and finally became secretary and 
 treasurer of the Northwestern Coal Com- 
 pany. Later he organized and became pres- 
 ident of the Busse-Reynolds Coal Company, 
 what was afterward reorganized' as the 
 Busse Coal Company. When elected -mayor 
 in 1907, he retired from the coal business. 
 He has always been active in politics, his 
 affiliations being with the Republican party. 
 He was town clerk of North, Chicago for 
 one term; was in the sheriff's office for 
 four years, and following that was chief 
 clerk in the North Town Collector's office. 
 He was a member of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives in the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth 
 General Assemblies, elected in 1894 and' 
 1890; State senator from the Twenty-first 
 Senatorial District of Chicago in 1898, and 
 in 1892 was elected State treasurer of Illi- 
 nois for the term expiring in 1900. He was 
 appointed postmaster of Chicago by Pi-esi- 
 dent Roosevelt in 1900, but resigned to ac- 
 cept the mayoralty, to which office he was 
 elected' in April, 1907, for the term of four 
 years. He is a member of the Republican 
 State Committee from the Ninth District, 
 and a member of the Cook County Central 
 Republican Committee. He is a member of 
 the Masonic order, in which he has the 
 32d-d'egree. Address: .")<)4 Xortli «'lark 
 Street,' Chicago, 111. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 BUTLER. Charles Henry: 
 
 Keportor of the U. S. Suprt'ine Court; 
 born in New York City, June 18, 1859; sou 
 of William Allen and Mary (Marshall) 
 iJutler. lie was at Trinceton College in the 
 elass of ISSI. hut did not graduate. In 
 18S-J lie was admitted to the New York 
 !St-;itc l)ai-. where he practised for many 
 years. In 1898 he was attached' as legal 
 expert to the United States delegation in 
 the Anglo-Anierican-Canadian Commission. 
 in 1902 he gave up the active practice of 
 law. and was appointed reporter of the Su- 
 incnie Court of the United States, and 
 has ]iiiblishe(l its Reports since Vol. 187. 
 lie i> a nicnihcr of the American Bar As- 
 sociation, and on its Executive Committee, 
 the International Law Association, and the 
 Bar Association of New York City and 
 State, and recording secretary of the Amer- 
 ican Society of International Law. In 1907 
 he was a technical delegate on the United 
 States Delegation to the Second Hague Con- 
 ference. He is a Republican and a Presby- 
 terian. Mr. Butler has written on subjects 
 of international law and relations and other 
 works of a legal and semi-legal nature, 
 among these being: Our Relations With 
 Spain, 1898; Our Treaty With Spain, 1899; 
 Freedom of Private Property on the Sea, 
 IS!)!); and Treaty Making Power of the 
 United States, 1902. He was also joint au- 
 thor with :Mr. Justice Brewer, of a work on 
 International Law. He married' in 1882, 
 Marcia Flagg, of Yonkers, N. Y. Residence: 
 1535 I Street, Washington. D. C; and 
 Yonkers, N. Y'. Address: U. S. Snpreme 
 Court, Washington, D. C. 
 
 BUTLER, Edward Hubert: 
 
 Kditoi- and proprietor of the Buffalo 
 News; !)oni in i.eJ'oy. X. Y.. Sept. 5, 1850. 
 He was educated in public and private 
 schools. Jn 1873 he established the Buf- 
 falo Sunday News, and on Oct. 11, 1880, 
 started the Evening News, of which he is 
 sole pro])rielor. For many years he has 
 been connected with various editorial asso- 
 ciations, being president of the State Edi- 
 torial Association in 1891; president of the 
 i{ei)ni)lic;in State Kditorial Association in 
 IS9H; hite director of the Associated' Press, 
 
 and late vice-jiresident of the United Press. 
 He was Republican presidential elector at 
 large in New Y'ork in 1890 and 1900 and 
 one of the four delegates at large to the 
 National Republican Convention. 1908. He 
 is a member of the Grade Crossings Com- 
 mission, President of the Grosvenor Li- 
 brary, and President of the Board of Di- 
 rectors of the State Normal School, a di- 
 rector of several banks. Residence: cor- 
 ner of Delaware Avenue and North Street, 
 Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 BUTLER, Ellis Parker: 
 
 Author; born in Muscatine. Iowa, Dec. 5. 
 1809; son of Audley Gazzam and Adella 
 (Vesey) Butler. He received a high school 
 education ; and after leaving school held 
 several mercantile positions at Muscatine. 
 Iowa. Upon coming to New Y'ork in 1898 
 he engaged in trade journalism, and for 
 six years, ending in 1905, was part owner 
 and editor of The Decorative Furnisher, 
 monthly magazine. i)ublished in New York 
 City. Since lltO.") he has devoted his time 
 to authorshij) exelusively. He is author of: 
 Pigs is Pigs ; ^Ir. Perkins of Portland ; 
 The Incubator Baby; Cheerful Snnigglers ; 
 That Pup; Confessions of a Daddy; Mike 
 Flannery, On Duty and Off; Kilo; The 
 Great American Pie Company; as well as 
 many stories and articles in magazines. 
 jNlr. Butler is a director in th(> Universal 
 Electric Welded Wheel Company, the Fes- 
 senden Food Company. Etc., and is a mem- 
 ber of the Players Salmagundi and Dutch 
 Treat Clubs and Iowa Society of New" 
 Y'ork, the Country Club and Niantic Club 
 of Flushing. L. 1., and the Authors Club 
 of London, lie married in Muscatine, Iowa, 
 June 28, 18!)9. Ida Anna Zipler. and they 
 have a (laughter. Address: 242 State 
 St reel, flushing. L. L 
 
 BUTLER, Howard Crosby: 
 
 ArchiKologist ; Ixuu in Crolun Falls, N. 
 Y'., March 7, 1872. He Wiis educated at 
 Princeton, fiom which he received the de- 
 gree AM., 1892, and took post-graduate 
 studies in the Columbia School of Archi- 
 tecture and the American Schools of Classi- 
 cal Studies in ivome and Athens. He was 
 
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 iiiii\i'rsit y I'clldw in arclia'ologv at Piiiico- 
 toii. 18!KM.S!I7. and a Idlow of the Ameri- 
 can Scliool of Classical Sludii's in Rome, 
 18!)7-1>S!)S. He oi-^ani/cil and conducted 
 arclia'oloiiicil expeditions in Syria in 1899- 
 1!)()0. and 1904-1905. and was |)rofessor of 
 the iiistoiy of arcliitectuie at Princeton. He- 
 is a niendier of tlie Archaeological Institute 
 of Amei'ica ami tlie American Oriental So- 
 ciety, and the author of: Scotland's Ruin- 
 etl' Abbeys ; The Story of Athens ; Archi- 
 tecture, Part II of Publications of Ameri- 
 can Arclupological Expedition to Syria : An- 
 cient Architecture in Syria. Division II of 
 Publications of Princeton Expedition to 
 Syria ; also papers in archseological jour- 
 nals. Address: Princeton, N. J. 
 
 BUTLER, John Vernon: 
 
 Musical director; born in Birmingham. 
 England. Aug. 24. 1868. He studied voice 
 culture and tlie organ with prominent Bos- 
 ton and' London teachers, and since 1890 
 has been organist and choirmaster at Pil- 
 grim Congregational Church. He is musi- 
 cal director and conductor of the Worcester 
 Oiatorio Society, and is founder and con- 
 ductor of the series of Nationally known 
 oratorio concerts in that city introducing 
 for the first time in New England' a number 
 of important musical works. He is vice- 
 president of Worcester County ^Musical Fes- 
 tival Association, and director of music at 
 the Highland Military Academy at Worces- 
 ter. He married in Worcester, Mass., June 
 22. 1905, Ruth Nelson. Address: 4 Char- 
 lotte Street. Worcester. Mass. 
 
 BUTLER, Marion: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Sampson County, N. 
 C ]\ray 20. 18().3. He was educated at the 
 L'niversity of North Carolina, graduating 
 in 1885 with the degree of A.B. In 1888 he 
 bought the Clinton Caucasian, and advo- 
 cated the establishment of a Railroad Com- 
 mission and generally the cause of the Far- 
 mers' Alliance. In 1890 he was elected 
 State senator, was made chairman of a 
 Joint Committee on Railroad Commission, 
 and was the author of the law governing 
 corporations enacted by that. Legislature. 
 In 1891 he was elected president of the State 
 
 Farnicis" Alliance and later president of the 
 National organi/ation. In 1S!(2 lie organized 
 the People's I'arty in liis State and cam- 
 paigned' the State as a Weaver elector-at- 
 large. In isii.") he was elected to the United 
 States Senate. In the meanwhile, he took 
 up the study of law aiul was admitted to 
 practice before the bar of tlie State of 
 North Carolina in 1899 and in the United 
 States Supreme Court in 1902, practising 
 both at Raleigh, N. C, and at Wa.shing- 
 ton. In 1891 he was mad'e tru.stee of the 
 University of North Carolina. He married. 
 August 31, 1893, Florence Faison, of North 
 Carolina, and they have five children. Ad- 
 dress: Raleigh. N. C. and Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 BUTLER, Nicholas Murray: 
 
 Piesident of Columbia University ; born 
 in Elizabeth, N. J,; son of Henry I. and 
 Mary J. (Murray) Butler. He was gradu- 
 ated from Columbia University, as A.B. in 
 1882; A.M. in 1883; Ph.D. in 1884; and re- 
 ceived the honorary degree of LL.D. from 
 Syracuse University in 1898. Tulane Uni- 
 versity in 1901, Johns Hopkins. Princeton, 
 the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale, 
 in 1902; the University "of Chicago, 1903; 
 St. Andrew's LTniversity. Manchester Uni- 
 versity, in 1905; Cambridge University in 
 1907: Litt.D. from the University of Ox- 
 ford in 1905 ; and was made officier d'e la 
 Legion d'Honneur of France in 1906. He 
 has been a member of the faculty of Co- 
 lumbia University since 1889; as adjunct 
 professor, from 1889-1890: dean of the fac- 
 ulty of philosophy, and professor of philoso- 
 phy and education from 1890-1901; since 
 January, 1902, as president of Columbia 
 University (including also the presidency 
 of Barnard College, the Teachers' College 
 and the College of Pharmacy). Dr. Butler 
 was a member of the State Board of Edu- 
 cation of New Jersey from 1887-1895; spec- 
 ial connnissioner from New Jersey to the 
 Paris Exposition in 1889; president of the 
 Patterson (New Jersey) Board of Educa- 
 tion in 1892-1893,, and chairman of the Ad- 
 ministrative Board of. the International 
 Congress of Arts and Sciences of tiie Louis- 
 iana Purchase Exposition in 1904. He is a 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 triistoo of llic (':iiiii't,nc' Foiuulatioii for Ad- 
 vancenioiit of Toacliing. trustee of the Na- 
 tional Educational Association, and -was its 
 president in 1S!)5; governor of the Society 
 of the Lyinj^f-in-TTospital ; director of the 
 New York Botanical Garden; trustee of Co- 
 lumbia University Press Club, and of the 
 American Academy in Rome. He is a mem- 
 ber of the American Philosophical Associa- 
 tion, and the American Psychological Asso- 
 ciation: life member of the National Red 
 Cross, the American Historical Association, 
 and the New York Historical Society; chair- 
 man of the College Entrance Examination 
 Board; president of the Germanistic Soci- 
 ety, the University Settlement Society, and 
 member of the American Copyright League. 
 He is a Republican in politics, and an Epis- 
 copalian in his religious affiliations. He 
 edited: Scribner's Great Educators' Series; 
 Macniillan's Teachers' Professional Library; 
 ilonographs of Education in the United 
 States (forming part of the United States 
 Educational Exhibit to Paris) ; editor of 
 the Educational Review; Columbia Contri- 
 butions to Philosophy and Education, from 
 1898- 1902; and one of the editors of the 
 Internationale Pedagogische Biblicjthek. He 
 is author of: The Meaning of Education. 
 He married' at Bergen Point, N. J., Feb. 8, 
 1887, Susannah Edwards Schuyler (who 
 died Jan. 10, 1903), and has a daughter. 
 He married in New York, March 5, 1907, 
 Kate La Montague. Address: Cohnnbia 
 University, New York City. 
 
 BUTLER, Thomas S.: 
 
 Congressman, lawyer; born in Uwchlan, 
 Chester County, Pa., Nov. 4. 18.5.^. He re- 
 ceived a common school and' academic ;^du- 
 cation and afterward studied law, engaging 
 in the practice of his profession at West 
 Chester, Pa. He was elected and' served 
 several years as judge of the 15th Judicial 
 District of Pennsylvania. In 189G ho was 
 elected from the Sixth Pennsylvania Dis- 
 trict to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and was 
 reelected in 1898 and 1900^ In J!)(ii lie 
 was clcclcd fidiii llic new Seventh Pennsyl- 
 vania Di^hiil. and was reeU'Cted in 1904, 
 1900 and 1908, and' is now serving in the 
 Sixly-fir.st Congress. Mr-. I'.iillcr is a prom- 
 
 inent meml)er of the House Committee on 
 Naval Affairs and one of the most energetic 
 and forceful of the members of the lower 
 branch. He is of Quaker ancestry and faith, 
 but has earned the title of " The Figliting 
 (Quaker " by his impetuous championship of 
 the measures he believes to be for the bene- 
 fit of tlie nation. Address: West Chester, 
 Pa. 
 
 BUTLER, Willard Parker: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, ]March 
 8, 1857; son of Benjamin F. and El- 
 leu G. (Parker) Butler, his father being 
 the second son of the late Benjamin F. But- 
 ler, Attorney-General in the Cabinet of 
 Jackson and' Van Buren. and one of the 
 Revisors of the Statutes of the State of New 
 York, and his mother being the eldest daugh- 
 ter of Dr. Willard Parker, the distinguished 
 surgeon. Mr. Butler was graduated from 
 Columbia University (School of Mines) 
 with the degree of E.M., afterward' studied 
 in the University of Berlin, and then at- 
 tended the Cohnnbia Law School, from 
 which he was graduated LL.B., 1883. He 
 was admitted to the Bar of the State of 
 New York, May 19, 1883, and has since 
 ])raetised' laAV continuously in New York 
 City, now being a member of the law firm 
 of Whitridge, Butler and Rice. He is a 
 director and treasurer of the New York 
 Juvenile Asylum; a member of the Alumni 
 Association of the School of Mines of Co- 
 lumbia University, of the Association of 
 the Bar of the City of New York, was a 
 member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, 
 Kand)da Chapter, when at Columbia, and 
 is a mend)er of the CJentury, University and 
 Down Town Clubs of New York. He is 
 unmarried. Residence: 143 East 36th 
 Street, New York City, and' ISIorristown, 
 N. J. Office: ■ 59 Wall Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 BUTTRICK, Wallace: 
 
 Secretary of tlu' Gciicial iMliieat ion 
 I'.oard: Inini in I'olsdam, N. V.. Oct. '23. 
 IS.")."!; son of Chailcs II. and I'olly Dodge 
 (Warren) r.nllrick. lie was educated in 
 Ogdensburg (X. \.) Academy, and' the Pots- 
 dam Normal School, and under private tui- 
 
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 273 
 
 tidii for tlircc years. After sorvini.j in the 
 Ivailway Afail Service 1875-1880, lio en- 
 tered, 1880, and was graduated' from the 
 Rocliester Theological Seminary, 1883, and 
 received the degree of D.D. from the Uni- 
 versity of Kochestcr. 1898. He was pastor 
 of the First ]ia])tist Church of New Haven, 
 Conn., 1883-188!), First Baptist Chiircli, St. 
 Paul. Minn., 1889-1892, Fmmanuel Bap- 
 tist Cniurch, Albany, N. Y., 1892-1902, and 
 in the latter year was appointed to the po- 
 sition he has filled ever since, of Secretary 
 of the General Education Board, in which 
 he is also trustee; and he is a trustee of the 
 John F. Slater Fund. Dr. Buttrick is a 
 member of the City Club of New York, 
 the Quadrangle Club of Chicago, and the 
 Teaneck Club, Teaneck, N. J. He married 
 in Saginaw, Mich., in December, 1875, Isa- 
 bella S. Allen, and they have two sons and 
 a daughter. Eesidence: Teaneck Road, 
 Englewood, N. J. Office: 2 Rector Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 BYNUM, William Dallas: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Newberry, Ind., June 
 2G, 1846. He studied law, was adniittetl 
 to the bar, and became city attorney of 
 Washington, Ind., where he was mayor, 
 1875-1879. In 187G he was presidential 
 elector on the Tilden ticket. He removed to 
 Indianapolis, and became a member of the 
 Indiana Legislature in 1882 and' speaker 
 in 1883. He was elected to the National 
 House of Representatives in 1885, and was 
 active in the organization of the National 
 (gold-standard) Democratic Party in 1896, 
 being chairman of its national committee 
 during the four succeeding years. From 
 1900-1906 lie was a member of the com- 
 mission appointed by Presid'ent McKinley 
 to revise the laws of the L'nited States. 
 Address: 1921 Ashland Avenue, Indianap- 
 olis, Ind. 
 
 BYRD, Mary Emma: 
 
 Astronomer; lioin in Le Roy, Midi., Nov. 
 15, 1849; daugliler of Rev. John Hunting- 
 Ion and Flizabetli Adelaide (Lowe) Byrd; 
 and slie is a descendant on tlie father's 
 si(U» from Timothy Edwards, father of 
 Jonathan Edwards, and' on tlie maternal 
 18 
 
 side from (JoveroMi- .loliii thidicoK. Slie 
 was educated in tlie high school of Leaven- 
 Nvortii, Ivan., and' after several years of 
 teacliing to earn money for college ex- 
 penses, she secured a collegiate education 
 in Oberlin College, and tlie University of 
 Michigan, from whicli slie was graduated 
 A.B., 1878, and she received the Pli.l). de- 
 gree from Carleton College. 1'.MI4. Miss 
 Byrd was principal of the Wabash (Ind.) 
 High School, 1879-1882; first assistant in 
 tlie Observatory of Carleton College, North- 
 field, Minn., "l883-1887; director of the 
 Smith College Observatory, Northampton, 
 Mass.. 1887-1906, and professor of astron- 
 omy in Smith College, 1898-1906, resigning 
 for conscience sake on account of the char- 
 acter of donations being received by the 
 college. Miss Byrd is a member of the 
 British Astronomical Association, the As- 
 tronomical Society of the Pacific, and the 
 Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of 
 America. She is author of several techni- 
 cal articles contributed' to the Astronomi- 
 cal Journal, and Astronomische Nachrich- 
 ten. Her non-mathematical articles have 
 for the most part appeared in the Sidereal 
 Messenger and in Popular Astronomy. She 
 is also author of: Laboratory INIanual in 
 Astronomy, 1899 (Ginn), and has in prep- 
 aration A Laboratory Handbook in Astron- 
 omy. Address: Box 77^ R. R. 9, Lawrence, 
 Kan. 
 
 BYRNE, Thomas Sebastian: 
 
 Roman Catholic bishop; born in Hamil- 
 ton, Ohio, July 29, 1841. He attended 
 schools in Hamilton luitil he reached the 
 age of eleven years, when he went to work 
 and became an expert machinist. Later he 
 entered' the Preparatory Seminary of St. 
 Thomas at Bardstown, Ky., and was grad- 
 uated from St. Mary's of the West in 1865. 
 He also studied' three years at the Ameri- 
 can College in Rome, and was created D.D. 
 by Leo XIII in 1887. After being ordained 
 priest in Cincinnati in 1869 he devoted 
 himself to literal ure and teaching in St. 
 j\larv's Si-minary. and later liad' charge 
 of tlie Cathedral at Cincinnati. Upon the 
 reojjening of the seminary ho became its 
 rector, servinijf until 1894. lie is transla- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 tor (witli NCry Rev. Dr. Pabiscli) of Dr. 
 Alzoy's Cluuc'li History; Jesus l^iving in 
 tlie Priest (from the Italian) ; and Abridge- 
 iiiciit of C'hristian Doctrine prescribed by 
 l'n|)c I'ius X. He is the author of: "Man 
 troiii a C'atliolic I'oint of View," which was 
 lead at the I'a ilia iiioiit of Religions in 
 l!)()o. He is also the author of other pam- 
 phlets and |)apers. chiefly religious. He was 
 consecrated and iu'^talled bisJiop of Nash- 
 ville. 'IViin.. .M:ty 10. 18!)4. Address: (507 
 Caiiitol S(|n;\rc\ \a->h\il!c, Tcmi. 
 
 BYRUM, Enoch Edwin: 
 
 (U riiyniaii. editor and author; born in 
 Randolph County, Ind., Oct. Vi, 18G1; son 
 of Ryrum and Lucinda (Fields) Byrum. 
 He was graduated in 1886, from the School 
 of Elooition and Oratory at Valparaiso, 
 Ind'., following which he took a course of 
 Sunday School work at Otterbein Univer- 
 sity, Wcstcrville, Ohio. After leaving Ot- 
 terbein University in 1887, he became busi- 
 ness manager of the Gospel Trumpet Com- 
 pany, later becoming president and editor- 
 iii-ciiicl' of its four weekly papers. In 1892 
 he was ordained to the ministry of the 
 Church of God, and went as missionary to 
 foreign lands. Mr. Byrum has traveled 
 throughout the United States and Canada. 
 In l!t<)4 he took a trip around the world', 
 inci tiding a tour in Palestine, Egypt and 
 India, and during his travels he made a 
 specialty of examining the ancient manu- 
 scripts of the Bible. He is trustee of the 
 Institution and Home for the Aged at An- 
 derson. Indiana, and director of contribu-" 
 tions for famine sufferers and charitable 
 missionary work in foreign land's. He is 
 author of a niiiiilicr of religious works, 
 among them being: Divine Healing of Soul 
 and l^ody, 18!)-2; The Secret of Salvation, 
 18!)G; The Prayer of Faith, 1899; The Great 
 Physician, 1900; Ordinances of the Bible, 
 1904; also of several books for boys, and 
 Travels and Experiences in Other Lands, 
 1905. He was married at Grand Junction, 
 Michigan, June 29, 1889, and has six chil- 
 dren. Residence: Union Avenue. Address: 
 20] Kast Ninth Street, Anderson, Ind. 
 
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 CABELL, Benjamin Francis: 
 
 President of Potter College, since 1889; 
 born in Campbellsville. Ky.. June (i, 1850; 
 son of Thomas Jefferson Cabell. He grad- 
 uated at Wesleyan University, Delaware, 
 Ohio. In 1875 he became the professor 
 of Warren College, (now called Ogden Col- 
 lege ) , at Bowling Green, Ky., and was 
 elected president of the Cedar Bluff College, 
 in Warren County, Ky., in 1877. Mr. Ca- 
 bell is a Methodist. He mairied Ellen 
 Douglas Patterson, at Campbellsville, Ky., 
 June 15. 1870. Address: Bowling Green. 
 
 CABLE, Benjamin Taylor: 
 
 Manufacturer: ])orn in Georgelown. Ky.. 
 in 1853; son of Philander L. and Mary 
 (Taylor) Cable. He was graduated from 
 the University of Michigan in 1870. and 
 was a delegate of the Democratic National 
 Convention, in 1884, and delegate-at-large. 
 during the years of 1892. 1900, and 1904. 
 From 1801-1893 he was a member of Con- 
 gress, declining renomination. He was a 
 member of the National Democratic Com- 
 mittee from 1892-1896, and was chairman 
 of the western branch of the same Com- 
 mittee in 1892; in 1896 was one of the or- 
 ganizers of the National (gold) Democratic 
 party, and also delegate-at-large to the Na- 
 tional (Gold) Democratic Convention at 
 Indianapolis. He returned to the regular 
 ranks in 1898, becoming a member of the 
 Illinois Democratic State Committee, and 
 in 1!)02 was chairman of the executive com- 
 mittee of the Democratic Congressional 
 Committee. Mr. Cable is a member of the 
 Chicago and Chicago .Vthletie Clubs, the 
 University. Grolier and Manliattan Clubs in 
 New York, Ritteiihouse Chih. I'hiladelphia. 
 and the Metropoliian Club at Washington. 
 Address: Rock Island. 111. 
 
 CABLE, George "Washington: 
 
 Author; born in New Orleans, La., Oct. 
 1, 1844. his father, George W. Cable, hav- 
 ing been a Viiginian. while his mother, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 K('l)ec'ca Uoardiiiaii ('able, was frimi Indi- 
 ana. He was educated in tlio New Orleans 
 public schools, but lias received the hon- 
 orary degrees of A.M. and Litt.D. from 
 Yale and of Litt.D. from Washington and 
 Lee University and from Bowdoin College, 
 in 18G3 he entered the Confederate Army 
 in General Wirt Adams' Brigade of the 
 Fourth Mississippi Cavalry, and he served 
 until the close of the Civil War. For 
 fourteen years he was accountant and cash- 
 ier of a firm of cotton factors, and for 
 eight years of the same time acting as 
 secretary of tlie Finance Committee of the 
 New Orleans Cotton Exchange. He was 
 writing in tlie meantime, and in 1879 
 formally entered upon a literary career. 
 In LS84 he removed to New England. Mr. 
 Cable is author of: Old Creole Days. 
 187!): the (handissimes, 1880; Madame 
 ])el])]iin('. 1S81; The Creoles of Louisiana, 
 188:^; Dr. Sevier, 1884; The Silent South. 
 1884: Bonaventure, 1888; Tlie Negro 
 Question. 1888; Strange True Stories of 
 Louisiana, 1888; John March, 18!J4; Strong 
 Hearts. 18!I0; The Cavalier, 1!)01 ; Bylow 
 Hill, 1!)()2; Kincaid's Battery, 1!)08. In 
 1887 he founded the Home Chilture clubs, 
 designetl to promote more cordial lelations 
 between divergent ranks of society. Mr. 
 Cable has been twice married : first in 
 New Orleans, Dec. 7, 18(59, to Louise Stuart 
 Bartlett. who died Feb. 26, 1904, by whom 
 he has a s(m and six daughters; and second 
 ill Philadelphia. Nov. 24, 1906, to Eva C. 
 Stevenson, of Lexington, Ky. Address: 
 Tarryawliile. Northampton, Mass. 
 
 CABLE, Hobart M.: 
 
 ]\lanufac(uier of pianos and organs; born 
 in Walton. Delaware County, N. Y., .March 
 :i, 1841; son of Silas and Mary (Goodrich) 
 Cable. He received his education in the 
 public schools of Delaware County and at 
 the Franklin Literary Institute, Franklin, 
 N. Y. He began teaching district schools 
 when but sixteen years of age and' was 
 elected school commissioner of his native 
 county when he was in his twenty-second 
 year, retaining that position for three years. 
 He then obtained employment with A. S. 
 Barnes &. Company, publishers of school 
 
 books, of \,.\v \i>vk City, and iciiiaincd 
 with the cimcern f(ir liKrcn yc,ii>. He 
 resided in Hyde Park, a siiImiiI) of Itoston. 
 for twenty years, was a member of its 
 School Board, and its Public Library Hoard, 
 and was a selectman. lie was elected to 
 the Massachusetts Stale Legislature, for 
 four successive years, serving on several im- 
 portant committees. In 1889 he removed 
 to Chicago, where he began the manufacture 
 of pianos and organs, becoming one of the 
 founders of the Hobart .M. Cable Company, 
 in association with Herman D. Cable, his 
 brother. Upon the death of his brother in 
 1900, he became president of the company. 
 The factories are at La Port, Ind., and' Free- 
 ])ort, 111., and they employ over six hun- 
 dred persons. Mr. Cable is a ."^id-degree Ma- 
 son. He married in Walton. N. Y., in 1869, 
 Estella 1{. Ells, and they have three chil- 
 dren. Address: 4947 Lake Avenue. Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 CABOT, Ella Lyman: 
 
 Author ami educator; born in Boston: 
 daughter of Arthur T. and Ella (Lowell) 
 Lyman. She was educated in private 
 schools in Boston, and at Radclitre Col- 
 lege as a special student in philosophy, 
 and married in Waltham. Mass.. Oct. 26, 
 1894, Richard C. Cabot. M.D.. assistant 
 professor in Harvard Medical School. She 
 has been identified with education as a 
 teacher of ethics in the Boston private 
 schools, and in connection with the admin- 
 istration of State Normal schools. IMrs. 
 Cabot was chairman of the Vacation School 
 Committee of the Massachusetts Civic 
 League, and a director of its Summer 
 Schools for three years until they were 
 adopted by the city. She ran for the 
 School Committee of Boston in 1902. and 
 received thirty thousand votes, and slie 
 was appointed by Governor Douglas a 
 member of the State Board of Education 
 in 1904. Mrs. Cabot is a member of the 
 Radclift'e College Governing Board and 
 chairman of the Education Department of 
 the Boston Women's Municijial League, is 
 president of the Massachusetts Civil Serv- 
 ice Reform Auxiliary, and a member of the 
 College Club of Bo.ston. Mrs. Cabot is 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 iuillior of: Kvcrvdiiy Ktliics, ])ublislied by 
 Jh'iirv lloH. and of articles on An Experi- 
 ment in the Teac]iinf>' of Ethics, in the 
 Educational Review, on Moral Training in 
 Scliools in the ^Yestern Journal of Educa- 
 tion, aiul the .Seventieth Report of the 
 ]\Iassacluisetts Roard of Education. Ad- 
 dVe>s: ino ^Marllx.rouiih Street, Boston. 
 
 CADWALADER, John: 
 
 Lawyer; horn in Phihidelphia, Pa.. June 
 27, 1843; son of Judge John Cadwalader. 
 He was graduated from the University of 
 Pennsylvania in 1862, and received the de- 
 gree of A.M. He was a Democrat and 
 active in ])olitical affairs; has been di- 
 I'ector of tlie jniblie schools, and was col- 
 lector at the Port of Philadelphia, from 
 1SS5 to 1889. He is president of the Gen- 
 eral Society of the War of 1812; president 
 of the Pennsylvania Institution for the 
 Blind: president of the University Club; 
 president of the Xew York & Baltimore 
 Transportation Line; president of the Bal- 
 timore &. Philadelphia Steamboat Com- 
 pany ; a member of the American Philo- 
 sophical Society ; and' a member of the 
 Board of Council of the Academy of Natu- 
 ral Sciences. Address: 1519 Locust Street, 
 Philadel])hia. 
 
 CADWALADER, John Lambert: 
 
 Lawyer; hnni in Trenton, X. J., Nov. 
 17, 1837. He was graduated from Prince- 
 ton, A.B., 185(), from Harvard Law School, 
 LL.B., 1863, and received' the degree of 
 LL.D. from Princeton in 1899. Since 1863 
 he has practised law in New York City 
 and is now a memljer of the law firm of 
 Strong and Cadwalader. He was assist- 
 ant .secretary of State of the United States 
 (under Hamilton Fisli ) , 1874-1876. He 
 is a trustee of tlie New York Life In- 
 surance and 'I'rust ('om|)any, the New York 
 Pul)lic Library, the Metropolitan Museum 
 of Art and' the New York Zoological So- 
 ciety. Mr. C'adwalader is a member of 
 llic Association of the l'>:ir of Ibc Cily of 
 .New \'ork, tlie Socicl \- of llic ClMciiiuati. 
 Sons of the Uevolution. Anu'rican Vuw 
 .\i'ls Society. Ainerican Museum of N:itu- | 
 lal lli-loi\. and of the L'liion Leairue. I 
 
 L'nion. Cenhiry, Grolier, Lawyers', Univer- 
 sity, Princeton, Knickerbocker, Metropol- 
 itan, New York Yacht, City, Midday, Down 
 Town, Delta Phi, City and Riding Clubs 
 of New York City. Residence: 12 E. 35th 
 Stieet, New York City. Address: 40 Wall 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 CADY, J. Cleveland: 
 
 Architect; born in Providence, R. I.; 
 son of Josiah and Lydia Cady. He was 
 educated at Trinity College, Hartford, 
 where he received the degree of A.M. in 
 1880 and LL.D. in 1905. He has been prac- 
 tising as an architect since 1870, and is 
 now a member of the firm of Cady and 
 Gregory, architects for many large col- 
 leges, hospitals, museums, churches, and 
 otiier buildings in New York and other 
 cities. Among them are the Metropolitan 
 Opera House, the Museum of Natural His- 
 tory and fifteen buildings for Yale College. 
 He is also a frequent writer for the Out- 
 look and Homiletic Review of New York 
 City. He is a director of the New York 
 City Mission and a governor of tlie Presby- 
 terian Hospital, and also president of the 
 National Federation of Churches and the 
 New York Skin and Cancer Hospital. He 
 is a member of the Architectural League, 
 American Institute of Architects and of 
 the Religious Education Association, also 
 of the Century Association, the Aldine, 
 and Quill Clubs. Mr. Cady married in 
 Orange, N. J., in 1881, Emma M. Bulkeley, 
 Residence: Alpine, N. J., and 315 W. 89th 
 Street, N. Y. Office: 6 W. 22d Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 CAFFIN, Charles Henry: 
 
 All critic, lecturer antl autlior: bom 
 in Sittingbourne, Kent, England, June 4, 
 1851; son of Rev. Charles Smart Callin 
 (rector of Broadway, Worcestershire) and 
 Harriet Callin. He was graduated from the 
 University of Oxford in 1876, afterward 
 traveled as a pii\a(e tutor and engaged 
 ill oilier seholaslic worlv. and (lien, after 
 six years' e\|K'iieiice ill lliealrieal work 
 as actor and manager, he came In liie 
 United Stales in 1S92. taking a ])osilion 
 in liie di'coraling depailnieiil of tlie 
 
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 Woi'ld's ('()luiiil)i;ni Kxjiositioii. lie set- 
 tled in New York City in 18!)7, taking 
 a position witli Harper & Brothers, as 
 art eritie of Harper's ^Veekly. Later ho 
 beeanic art critic of tlie New York Sun, 
 and now occupies a similar connection with 
 the New Y^ork Evening Post. He was 
 until recently i^merican editor of The 
 Studio, is a lecturer of the University Ex- 
 tension Association, has lectiired in aca- 
 demic institutions in New York, in the 
 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and 
 at Yale. Mr. Caffin is a frequent contrib- 
 utor on art to the principal magazines, 
 and is author of: American Masters of 
 Painting; American Masters of Sculpture; 
 Photography as a Fine Art; How to Study 
 Pictures; Spanish Masters; The Story of 
 American Painting; The Child's Guide to 
 Pictures; Appreciation of the Drama; also 
 several sliort stories. He married, in 
 1888, Caroline, daughter of Robert Scur- 
 field. an East India merchant. Address: 
 17 ^V. Sth Street, New York City. 
 
 CAIN, James William: 
 
 President of the Washington College, 
 at Chestertown, Md. ; born in New Haven, 
 Conn., Sept. 1, 18G0. He was educated at 
 Yale University, receiving the degrees of 
 A.B. from Y'ale College in 1884^ A.M. from 
 Yale University in 1893, and LL.D. from 
 St. John's College in 1903. He was prin- 
 cipal of the Lewiston (Pa.) Academy, 
 afterwards going to St. John's College, at 
 Annapolis, Md., of which he was succes- 
 sively ])rofessor, treasurer, and vice-pres- 
 ident, leaving that institution in 1903 to 
 become president of Washington College. 
 He is a member of National Geographic 
 Society, American Historical Society, and 
 American Academy of Political and Social 
 Science. He married at New Haven, Conn., 
 Dec. 2.1, 1890, Rose Cecelia Mallahan, and 
 has two sons and three daughters. Ad- 
 dress: Chestertown, IMd'. 
 
 CALDER, William M.: 
 
 Builder and congressman ; born in Brook- 
 lyn. N. Y., March 3, 1869. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of Brooklyn 
 and at the Cooper Institute of New Y'ork 
 
 City. He is engaged as a i)iiild<'r in Brook- 
 lyn, where he has built more than one 
 thousand houses. He was elected' as a 
 Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress in 
 1904, and reelected to the Si.xtieth and 
 Sixty-first Congresses from tlir Sixth New 
 York District. Mr. (alder married in 
 1893, Catherine E. Harloe, of Poughkeepsie, 
 N. Y. Residence: 'y')l First Stre;'t. Ollice: 
 91 Windsor I'lacr. Ilrooklyn. X. V. 
 
 CALDERHEAD, William Alexander: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born in Perry 
 County, Ohio, Sept, 2G, 1844. He was 
 educated in the connnon schools and by 
 his father. Rev. E. B. Calderhead, a min- 
 ister of the t^nited Presbyterian Church. 
 He spent the winter of 180 1 and 1862 in 
 the preparatory department of Franklin 
 College at New Athens, Ohio, and enlisted 
 in Aug., 1862, as a private in Company 
 H, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio 
 Infantry. He was transferred to Company 
 D, Ninth Veteran Reserves, for disability 
 incurred in the service, and discharged 
 June 27j 18G.5. He spent two years recov- 
 ering health, then one session at school ; 
 and he went to Kansas in the fall of 1868 
 and engaged in farming. In 1872 he set- 
 tled on a homestead near Newton, Harvey 
 County, Kan. ; taught school one year in 
 Newton; read law in the office of Hon. 
 J. W. Ady, and was admitted to the bar 
 in 1873. He went to Atchison, Kan., in 
 1875, and' spent four years there reading 
 law and teaching country schools during 
 the winters. He settled in ^larysville, 
 Kan., in Nov., 1870, and engaged' in the 
 general practice of law. He was elected 
 county attorney in the fall of 1888. and 
 served two years, and was for several years 
 clerk of the board of education of Marys- 
 ville. In 1894 he was elected' to the Fifty- 
 fourth Congress, and in 1898 to the Fifty- 
 sixth Congress, and has since been bien- 
 nially reelected, and is now serving in the 
 Sixty-first Congress from the Fifth Kansas 
 District. Was ten years on tlie Connnittee 
 on Banking and' Currency and a member 
 of the Ways and ISIeans Committee in the 
 Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses. Ad- 
 dress: Marvsville, Kan. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 CALDWELL. Eugene Wilson: 
 
 l'li\ -ici;in : limii :it S;i\ aiiiinli. Mo., in 
 ISTil. lie \\;i> i;l;l(lll;itci| t'loin lllr I'llivcr- 
 >ily <ii l\;iiis:i'< Willi iIh' ilc.urci' of 1?.S. 
 in 18!l-i; from Itic I iiixcisily and' lidlevuo 
 Hospital .Mrdical ('ollc<-v as M.D. in 100;1, 
 and was a special stndcnt at the College 
 of Physicians and 8ui-geons in 1898 and 
 1899. He was engaged in experiments in 
 wireless telepliony (with L. I. Blake) for 
 the United States Light House Establish- 
 ment from 1893 to 1895 and' was assistiint 
 in the engineering department of the ^ew 
 York Teleijhonp ('onii)any from 1895 to 
 1897. Since 1897 he has devoted nearly 
 all of iiis time to e.xperimental work with 
 Rontgen rays. 1lH>ir practical application 
 to diagnostic ami tlierapeutic uses; and 
 he is director of the Edward N. Gibbs 
 ^lemorial X-Ray Laboratory, at Bellevne 
 Hospital ^ledical College. He is the au- 
 tlior (with Dr. ^^■. A. Pusey) of The 
 Rontgen Rays in Therapeutics and Diag- 
 nosis, and was a contributor on original 
 work (chiefly telepliony and Rontgen 
 Rays) in the Electrical Review and New 
 York ^ledical Journal, etc. He is the in- 
 ventor of the Caldwell Liquid interrupter, 
 and of s])ecial forms of Rontgen ray ap- 
 paratus. Dr. Caldwell is a member of the 
 New York Electrical Scxtiety, tlie American 
 institute of Electrical Engineers, the Ront- 
 gen Society, London, the American Ront- 
 gen Ray Society, the New Y^ork County 
 and State Medical Societies, the American 
 Medical Association. New Y^ork Academy 
 of Medicine, the Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma 
 Xi, and the Nu Sigma Nu. He is a 
 member of the New York Club. Itesidence: 
 480 Park Avenue. New ^'ork City. 
 
 CALDWELL, Francis Cary: 
 
 I'l'ofcssor of elect ricai engineering; l)orn 
 in Ithaca. X. V.. i:)ec. -25. 1808; son of 
 (ieorge C. < ajilwell and' Rebecca S. (Wil- 
 liams Caldwell. lie was graduated fiDiii 
 Coinell Fniveisity as .\.H. in 18'.)(). M.E. 
 and E.E. in 1891 (holding the Sage fel- 
 lowship); elected member of the honorary 
 societies Phi Beta Kapim and Sigma Xi. 
 Hi- studied at the Xalionai l'<)lyteclini<'. 
 Zurich, Switzeiland, is'.ii:: Is'.i.i ; was as- 
 
 sistant j)rofessor of eleclrieal engineering. 
 Ohio State I'nivei'sity. 1883-IS9;{: becoming 
 associate |)rofessor of electric 1 1 engineer- 
 ing, 1897- 1!M) I. and |pnife>soi- of electrical 
 engineering '-inee 1901. He is secretary 
 of the National Engineering Company, and 
 ])resident of the Xeil King Company. Prof. 
 Caldwell is a member of the American 
 Institute of Electrical Engineers, and of 
 the Engineers' Club of Columbus, of which 
 he was ])resident. 1900-1907. He married 
 in Columbus. Ohio, .hily 12. 1900. Louise 
 'laft Orton. and they lia\e two children. 
 Residence: 20(i Sixteenth Avenue. OlHce: 
 Ohio State University-. Columbus. Ohio. 
 
 CALDWELL, John C: 
 
 Consular ollicial : ap]((Hnted' consul at 
 Valparaiso, April 1!). 1809. He acted as 
 chai'ge d'affaires ad interim to Chili from 
 Aug. 1, 1870. to Dec. 2. 1870: on Jan. 8. 
 1874. he was ajipointed minister resident 
 to Uruguay and Paraguay. He was ap- 
 pointed charge d'afi'aires to Uruguay ami 
 Paraguay. Aug. 15, 1870. and retired in 
 :\lay, 1881. On July 2. 1897. h- was ap- 
 pointed to his present post as on-ul at 
 San Jose, Costa Rica. Address: San 
 -lose. Costa Rica. 
 
 CALHOUN, Patrick: 
 
 Lawyer: iiorn at Fort Hill. I'endli'ton 
 District, S. C., ^Nlarch 21, 1850: son of 
 Andrew Pickens and ^fargaret ((ireen) 
 Calhoun: and grandson of .(ohn C. Cal- 
 houn. vice-])rcsident of the I'nited States. 
 He moved' to Dalton. (ia.. in 1871. and was 
 educated in pii\-ate schools. He was ad- 
 mitted to llie (Jeorgia bar in 1875. and the 
 Missouii bar in 1870; practised al .\tlanta, 
 (ia., from 1S78 to 1894. cliielly in corpora- 
 tion and railroad l;i\\, and ln'cauic espe- 
 cially promineni in (lie consolidation of 
 railway and traction iii(erests. notably the 
 ('enlial K'aili'oad of (ieoigia, the Richmond 
 and l)an\ille Kailway. and the Richmond 
 and West i'oint Teiniinal Railway and 
 W'ai'ehouse Company, foi' all of whicli he 
 was conns(d fi-oni IS89 to IS92. Since then 
 he has devoted his afield ion cliielly fo the 
 consolidation and de\cl<i|iiiien1 of si reel 
 lailways. taking an aeli\e part, in the con- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 si)li(la) i(Mi 111' llic sircct railway systeins 
 ill I'itlslimi:, SI. I.iiiiis. liaHininrc and 8nn 
 iMaiiciscii. lie is a diieotor (if liic I'hila- 
 drlliliia (onipaiiy. and ihe United Kiulways 
 ol' ritlsiiiirL; : is incsidiMit. of tlio United 
 Railroads of San I'^rancisco, the United 
 Railways Inwstmciil ^onlpany^ and Cal- 
 Ikhiii Mills; and is owner of Euclid 
 Hei,i;']its. Cleveland, Ohio, and' director of 
 llie Euclid Heinhts Realty Company, and 
 largely interested in real estate in South 
 Carolina, (ieorjjia and Texas. Mr. Calhoun 
 married in Charleston. S. C. Nov. 4, 1885, 
 Sarali Williams. Residence: Charleston, 
 S. C. Address: ."iO Broad Street. New 
 York City. 
 
 CALIGA, Isaac Henry: 
 
 Artist ; born in AubTirn, Ind., March 24, 
 1857. He was educated' at the public 
 school in New York, and studied' art at 
 Munich. He was a pupil of William Lin- 
 denschmidt. from 1S79 to 1883, and he has 
 been represented by pictures in numerous 
 exliibitions. He married Phoebe J. Wood- 
 man, niece of the poet. \Yhittier, at Oak 
 Knoll, Danvers. Mass. Residence: Salem, 
 :\[ass. Studio: 142 Federal Street, Salem. 
 Mass. 
 
 CALKINS, Franklin Welles: 
 
 Autlior: linni in Arena, Wis., June 5, 
 1857; son of Jolin I^^ranklin and Abigail 
 (Welles) Calkins. He was educated in 
 ])rivate and public schools and the Iowa 
 State College, and has been a constant 
 student. He \\as an early explorer of the 
 Black Hills of South Dakota, following 
 closely upon Custer's first expedition in 
 1874. His studies of the fauna of W^est- 
 ciii Xortli Ainerica have given him rank 
 aiuoni: naturalists. He is acquainted' with 
 many Indian tribes and intimately with 
 several historic characters among those of 
 the northwest. ]\Ir. Calkins speaks several 
 Indian tongues and has lived witli aborig- 
 ines in their primitive fashion. He lias 
 contributed numerous papers with regai'd 
 to Indian life and habits, including a 
 iiistorical series ("Famous Indians"), to 
 \arious ])eriodicals ; among others the As- 
 sociated Sunday Magazines; and since the 
 
 age of 'I'l lias liccM a coiislanl <'cin( i iliiilor 
 of tale> of wc^tciii life and adventure to 
 The N'oulirs ( (iiiipaninn. Among ilie juve- 
 nile books are: I'ronticr Sketelies; iiidi 
 an Tales: lliinling Stories; 'I'he ('ougar 
 Tamer: and .My Host. Hie l\nemy. He is 
 also antluir of Ihe no\els: Two Wilderness 
 \'oy:igers: and the Wooing of Tokala. .\d- 
 dress : .Maine. Ottertail County. Minn. 
 
 CALL, Annie Payson: 
 
 Author: iiorn in .\ilington, Mass., May 
 17, 1S5;J; ila lighter (d' Henry Edwin and 
 Emily Payson Call. ]\Iiss Call was edu- 
 cated in various schools and has made a 
 special study of nerve training, in whicli 
 she is a teacher of wide repute. She is a 
 trustee of the Free Reading Room of Wal- 
 tham, Mass. Miss Call is author of: 
 Power Through Repose; As a Matter of 
 Course; Freedom of Life; A Man of the 
 World; Every Day Living; The Heart of 
 Good Health.' Address: Hillside. Walthani. 
 Mass. 
 
 CALL, Edward Payson: 
 
 Publisher. He was private secretaiy to 
 the late R. M. Pulsifer, publisher of tlie 
 Boston Herald, for seven years, and ad- 
 vertising manager of the same paper. He 
 was assistant advertising manager for the 
 Royal Baking Powder Company, 1887- 
 1898; advertising manager of the Phila- 
 delphia Press, 1893-1897; publisher of the 
 Evening Post, 1897-1903; publislier of the 
 New Y^ork Commercial. 1904-1907, He was 
 chairman of the Publishers' Association 
 from 1897 to 1903. ]Mr. Call is a member 
 of the Chamber of Commerce and the New 
 England Society; and is a member of the 
 City, Hardware, Ap:iwamis, Horseshoe Har- 
 bor, New York Press, and other clubs. 
 Address: Larchmont Manor. New York. 
 
 CALLAHAN, James Morton: 
 
 Educator and author: born a I Rrdford. 
 Ind., Nov. 4, lHt)4; son of Martin I. and 
 Sophia Oregon (Taiinehill) Callahan. He 
 was graduated from Indiana University as 
 A.B. in 1894 and A.Al. in 1 895. and from 
 Johns Hojikiiis University as i^h.l). in 
 1897 (fellow in 1890 and dolin .Marshall 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 I'rizo in 1!>0U). He was instructor in 
 .Idliiis Hopkins University from 1895 to 
 18!(7; iutiiiji' professor of American liistory 
 and constitutional law at Hainillon College 
 in 181I7 and 18!)S. and leclurer at Johns 
 Hopkins University from 1S9S to IDOL Ho 
 made extensive researclies in aicliives at 
 Wasliinjrton. London and elsewhere while 
 jjreparing his various monographs on 
 American diplomatic history, four of which 
 are jjublished by the Johns Hopkins Press, 
 lie is head of the department of history 
 and political science at West Virginia Uni- 
 versity, and editor of the West Virginia 
 University Studies in American History 
 and West Virginia History. He is a mem- 
 ber of the American Historical Association. 
 American Political Science Association and' 
 Phi Beta Kappa. He married at Vinita, 
 Indian Territory. Sept. 4, 1907, Maud 
 Louise Fulcher, who had been assistant in 
 American history at West Virginia Univer- 
 <\iy. Address: INIorgantown. W. Va. 
 
 CALLAWAY, Llewellyn Link: 
 
 Lawyer; Ijorn in Tuscola, 111., Dec. 15, 
 18G8; son of James Edmund Callaway and 
 ^[ary E. (Link) Callaway. He was edu- 
 cated in the conunon schools in Virginia 
 City and Helena, Mont., the Hamilton 
 School at Philadelphia, from which he was 
 graduated in 1880, the University of Mich- 
 igan (Literary Department) in 1886 and 
 1887, and he was graduated from the Law 
 Department of that L^niversity, in 1891, as 
 TJ^.li. He was admitted to the bar in 
 Michigan in May. 1891. and in Montana 
 the following August. lie tried and won 
 his first ease in the Supreme Court in Jan., 
 1892. He was busily engaged in practice 
 nulil ii|ipoiii(fil to the Supreme Court in 
 Maich. I'.iO.i. He is a Republican in pol- 
 itics, was elected county attorney of Mad- 
 ison County. Mont., in 1894 and 1890, 
 iii:iynr of Virginia City three terms, was 
 ;i|ip()iiilc(l Supieme Court Commissioner by 
 the Su])reme Court in March, 1903, his 
 o])inions bi-ing in volumes 28 to 31, of the 
 Montana Kej)orts, and he was elected in 
 1904 and leiMecled in 1908 judge of the 
 l-"il"tli Judicial Districf of Montana. He is 
 cliaiiiiian i.d' the Innnnisvidii mi ('nn-rrva- 
 
 tion of Natural Resources for the State of 
 ^lontana. appointed by the governor, 1908; 
 is past master of Virginia City Ijodge No. 
 1, and' past grand master of ]\Iasons of 
 IMontana; past e.xalted ruler of Oro Plata 
 Lodge No. 390, of Virginia City, jNIont., 
 and past president of the State Association 
 of Montana, of the Benevolent and Pro- 
 tective Order of Elks. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Lambs' Club of Helena, Mont., 
 the Beaverhead Club of Dillon, ^lont., and 
 Aladison Club of Virginia City. Mont. He 
 married at White Sulphur Springs, Va., 
 Dec. 12. 1894: four children. Address: 
 Virginia City. ^Mont. 
 
 CALVERT, William Jephtha: 
 
 Physician; born in Lexington, Ky.. Oct. 
 7. 1871; son of Henry Clay and Rebecca 
 (Downing) Calvert. He was graduated 
 from the Kentucky University in 1893, 
 with the degree of A.B., and' from Johns 
 Hopkins University, in 1898, with the de- 
 gree of M.D. Dr. Calvert was first lieu- 
 tenant and assistant surgeon with the 
 United States Army in the Philippines, 
 1899-1902, and was lecturer on tropical 
 diseases at the Washington University, St. 
 Louis, Mo., 1902-1903. He was assistant 
 professor of internal medicine in the Uni- 
 versity of Missouri, 1903-1908, and pro- 
 fessor of physical diagnosis and clinical 
 pathology at the same college in 1908, 
 since Mhieh time he has been engaged in 
 the practice of internal medicine. He is 
 a member of the Sigma Xi honor frater- 
 nity, and the Columbia Club, of Columbia, 
 jMo. Address: Columbia, Mo. 
 
 CAMERON, Edgar Spier: 
 
 Artist; born in Ottawa, 111.. May 26, 
 18G2; son of John Rush and Emily (Spier) 
 Cameron. He was educated' at the Art 
 Students' League, of New York, and the 
 ficole des Beaux Arts, Academic Julian, 
 and the ficole des Arts Decoratifs, of Paris. 
 ^Ir. Cameron first exhibited' his work at 
 the Paris Salon in 1888. He was art critic 
 of the Chicago Tribune, 1891-1900, during 
 which time he worked on tiie World's Fair 
 decorations, in 1892. He was vice-president 
 of the Chicago Society of Artists in 1902, 
 
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 iiiid oi'^anizcd. with Max Manoh and Robert. 
 Thompson, tho Municipal Art League. He 
 was a member of the International Jury of 
 Award, Class XII, of the Paris Exposition 
 of 1900; received silver medal for this 
 service and he also received the Grower 
 Prize, for best group of paintings at Chi- 
 cago Artists' Exhibition, Art Institute, 
 190!). $100. ^Ir. Cameron is a. member of 
 tlio Chicago Society of Artists, the Chicago 
 Water Color Society, and the Cliff Dwell- 
 ers. His most important work is "The 
 Youth of Christ," and' his works include 
 tigures and landscape pictures and mural 
 decorations; and has done decorative work 
 in the Illinois Supreme Court Library at 
 Springfield, the Indianapolis Cathedral and 
 theaters, restaurants and residences in Chi- 
 cago and elsewhere. He married in Chi- 
 cago, Feb. 7j 1890, Marie Josephine jNIarthe 
 Gelon. Address: 15 Studio Building, Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 CAMERON, James Donald: 
 
 l-lx-Senator from Pennsylvania ; born in 
 Middletown, Pa., May 14, 1833; son of 
 Simon Cameron, for years United States 
 Senator from Pennsylvania. He was grad- 
 uated from Princeton in 1852, and was 
 consecutively clerk, cashier, and is now 
 president of the National Bank of Middle- 
 town. From 1863 to 1874, he was presi- 
 dent of the Northern Central Railroad 
 Company. He was secretary of War of 
 the United States, 1870-i877; United 
 States Senator from Pennsylvania, 1877- 
 1897; delegate to the National Republican 
 Conventions, 1860-1880; and chairman of 
 the National Republican Committee in 
 1880. He has large interests in coal mines 
 and iron manufactures. Address: Middle- 
 town, Pa. 
 
 CAMP, Walter: 
 
 Author and manufacturer; born at New 
 Britain, Conn., x\pril 7, 1859; son of Lev- 
 erett Lee Camp and Ellen (Cornwell) 
 Camp. He was prepared at Hopkins 
 Grammar School at New Haven, and grad- 
 uated from Yale University as B.A., 1880, 
 M.A., 1907. He is president, treasurer, and 
 general manager of the New Haven Clock 
 
 Compiiiiy; luciiibcr of the \:{]c I'liivorsity 
 Council; director of tlic Peck Hrothors 
 Company; triistec of Hopkins Graiiunar 
 Schood. and treasurer of the Board of 
 Trustees; treasurer of the Yale Financial 
 Union and treasurer of Yale Field', lie is 
 a Chand)er of Commerce delegate to the 
 Philadelphia Commercial Museum. Mr. 
 Camp has always taken a great interest 
 in athletic sports and has attained a na- 
 tional reputation in the luanagement of (he 
 athletics at Yale. He is author of Amer- 
 ican Football (Harper) ; The Book of Col- 
 lege Sports (Century) ; The Substitute, 
 (fiction) (Appleton) ; is joint author (with 
 Deland) of Foot-ball (Houghton, IMifllin 
 Company) ; (with Brooks) of Drives and 
 Puts (L. C. Page and Company), and 
 (with Welch of Yale — the Campus and 
 Class Room (L. C. Page and Company). 
 He is sports editor of various periodicals 
 and a contributor to the Century, Harper's, 
 Collier's and St. Nicholas magazines. Res- 
 idence: New Haven House. Address: 133 
 Hamilton Street, New Haven, Conn. 
 
 CAMPAU, Daniel J.: 
 
 Lawyer and turfman; born in Detroit, 
 Mich., Aug. 20, 1852. He was educated 
 at Saint John's College, Fordham, N. Y., 
 and afterward studied' law and was ad- 
 mitted to practice in all the courts of 
 Michigan, and the Supreme Court of the 
 United St^ites. He was appointed collector 
 of customs at Detroit by President Cleve- 
 land in 1886, and held that office until 
 1890. He has always been a Democrat in 
 politics and has been the leader of his 
 party in the State for the past twenty-five 
 years. He is owner of The Horseman and 
 Spirit of the Times, a journal devoted to 
 the breeding and turf news, and is one of 
 the most prominent men connected' with 
 the trotting turf. Office address: 22 Canr 
 pau Building, Detroit. Mich. 
 
 CAMPBELL, Edward R.: 
 
 Physician and surgeon: born in West- 
 minister West, Vt., Sept. 27, 1853; son of 
 Daniel and Julia A. (Hall) Campbell. He 
 was educated in Kimball Union Academy; 
 Dartmouth College (Scientific Department, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 one year), and tlir Mrdical J)fi)artiiient of 
 the University ot X'ermont, M.U., 1875 
 (valedictorian). Dr. Campbell has been 
 enntinuously engaged in llic ])ractice of 
 niedieine in ^lassachu-ctts antl Vermont 
 from graduation, and' lias attained a prom- 
 iiH'nt i)osili()n in the profession in his 
 native State. He was president of the 
 Wrniont Medical Society, 1888, and has 
 l)c('n treasnrer of the Connecticut River 
 Nalley Medical Association since 1878. 
 Member of \'ermont State Tuberculosis 
 Commission. 1!I04 to 1900. Dr. Campbell 
 is a Democrat in politics, and was a mem- 
 ber of the Vermont House of Representa- 
 tives, l!)04-190(i. He is a member of the 
 Westminister Club. Dr. Campbell married 
 in Westminister, Vt.. May 10, 1876,. Inez 
 E. ^lorse, and they have had two sons, of 
 whom one is d'ecpased. Address: 21 Henry 
 Street, Bellows Falls, Vt. 
 
 CAMPBELL, James Daniels: 
 
 Lawyei': Ikhii in Rridgewater. Beaver 
 County, Pa.. .Ian. 14. IS:!!). He was ad- 
 mitted to the har in Nov., 18;)!). and prac- 
 tised law at Huntingdon until April. 1801, 
 when he enli>ti(l in the local military com- 
 pany, of which he was elected 2d lieutenant. 
 The cniniiaiiy was assigned' to the 5th 
 Penn.syhania X'olunteers as a !K)-day reg- 
 iment, and \\a- nuistereil oiit at the end of 
 the term, hut lie recruited Company D, 
 4!)tli Pennsylvania Volunteers, of wliich he 
 became Ca])tain, Aug. 10. 18G1, and was 
 present in liattles and movements of the 
 .Army of tlie Potomac under McC'lellan. He 
 was hoiioialiiy dischargeil' dan. 13, 1863, 
 to aeci'))t a semi-military appointment 
 iindci- the C()nseri])tion .\et. wliich he held 
 until lS(i4. wluu he resumed the practice 
 of hiw. and was district attorney of Hunt- 
 ingdon County, and county .solicitor until 
 March, 18(;(i: then practised at Davenport, 
 Iowa, 1866 to 1880. In 1880 he went to 
 New York and became counsel for Austin 
 Corbin and his associates, superintending 
 tiie legal work of reorganizing and consol- 
 idating tlie railways on Long Island, and 
 later was chict loniixd of linaneiers in ae- 
 (piiring colli i(d ninl icoigaiii/.iiig the linan- 
 ces of llie Central Railroad (oiiipany of 
 
 New Jersey. From 1887 to 1890 he was 
 special counsel to the president and manage- 
 ment, and since October, 1890, has been 
 the general solicitor and head of the legal 
 department of the Philadelphia and Read- 
 ing System, Mr. Campbell married Ada 
 Katherine Campbell, at Huntingdon, Pa., 
 Sept. 17.. 1863. He is a member of the Loy- 
 al Legion. Residence: Wyncote. Pa. Of- 
 fice: Reading Terminal. Pliiladelphia. 
 
 CAMPBELL, James E. : 
 
 Lawyer and ex-governor of Ohio; born in 
 Middletown, Ohio, July 7, 1843. He re- 
 ceived an academic education, was admitted 
 to the bar, served in the L^nited States 
 Navy during the Civil War, and then began 
 law practice at Hamilton, Ohio, where he 
 became prosecuting attorney. He was a 
 member of Congress, 1893-1899, and was 
 governor of Ohio from 1890-1892. He is 
 a Democrat and a leading figure in the State 
 and National councils of his party. Ad- 
 d'less : Hamilton. Ohio. 
 
 CAMPBELL, John: 
 
 .luri-,t: lull 11 in Monroe County, Ind.. 
 Sept. 13. 1S.')3: son of James M. and Nancy 
 Cam])bell. He was graduated from the 
 State L^niversity of Iowa, A.B.. 1877. and 
 LL.B.. 1879, later receiving the .\.M. de- 
 gree. He located in tlie jiractice of law at 
 Colorado Springs. Colo., where he was en- 
 gaged' at the liar for nine years, during 
 wliicli time he was city attorney three years 
 and coiinl.N attorney one year. lie became 
 acti\c in politics as a Ivejiublican and bi'- 
 caiiie a meiiilier of the (ieiicial .\ssembly 
 of Colorailo, 188.'), and of the Senate in 1887. 
 He was elected judge of the District Court 
 in 1888, serving from 1889-1895, and since 
 1895 has been an associate justice, and for 
 six years chief justice, of the Supreme 
 Court of Colorado. IiIn ]ins(>iit tei'iij expir- 
 ing in 1!>13. Judge Cainplicll has been ever 
 since 1881 a trustee ol' Coloiado College, at 
 Colorado Springs, is dean ol the Law Scliool 
 of tin- University of Colorado, at Houlder: 
 and president of I lie Mi->s Wolcott School, 
 at Dcmcr. lie i> a iiieiiilier ol' the L.l Paso 
 Cliil) of Colorado Springs. Colo., and of 
 the Ciiixersitv and Coiintiv Clubs of Den- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 2H:i 
 
 ^(■^. lie niniiicd at Iowa City. Iowa, June 
 _'S. 1881, llaiiiet J. Parker. Address: 
 1401 r4ilpin Street, Denver, Colo. 
 
 CAMPBELL, John Allyn: 
 
 Owner of timber lands; horn in BufFalo. 
 X. Y.. Oet. 4. 1754; son of John A. B. 
 Caniphell and Daniaris (Bartholomew) 
 Campbell. He was educated' in the schools 
 of Bufi'alo. X. ^■. lie en;^ajied in business 
 lirst as secretaiv of tlu' Bufl'alo and James- 
 town Railroad (now the Southwestern 
 brancii of the Erie Railroad), then as a 
 grain shipper and merchant on the BuflTalo 
 Board of Trade; and at that place built 
 the floating elevator Bufi'alo, and' the large 
 grain elevator there called The Frontier, 
 with a capacity of two million bushels, and 
 was a large owner in the same. He now re- 
 sides in Chicago and is largely interested in, 
 and owner of oil wells in Kansas and In- 
 tlian Territory. als(j a large owner of tim- 
 ber and timber lands in Alabama, ]\Jissis- 
 sippi, and Florida, and in upper Michigan. 
 He edited and published numerous large 
 biogra])hical works (steel jjlate series) at 
 dilierent times in Chicago, entitled': Prom- 
 inent Men of the Great West, issued in sev- 
 eral editions. Mr. Campbell is now an of- 
 flcer and director in several dift'erent com- 
 panies and corjwrations. He has traveled 
 everywhere in the United States, traveling 
 over half of his time, and' has made several 
 trips through Europe. He is a Republican 
 in politics. He is a member of the Illinois 
 .\thletie Club of Chicago. He was married 
 at BuiTiio. A. v.. Marc.i 14, 1878, to Kxa J. 
 IJatclitl'e. and they have a daughter, Mrs. 
 Tliomas Rushton Pearce, residing at St. 
 I'aul. Minn. Address: Auditorium Annex, 
 Chicago. 111. 
 
 CAMPBELL. Killis: 
 
 Philologi.-^t ami educator; born in Entield, 
 \'a., 1872; son of Robert Camm and Alice 
 (Hawes) Campbell. He was educated in 
 The College of William and Mary, 1888- 
 1S!)(). and 189;M8!)4, receiving from that 
 College the degree of B.A.. 1894, The Uni- 
 versity of Nashville. 1890-1892. B.U..' 1892. 
 Ji.lins Hopkins University. 1894-1898, Fel- 
 h)W 1897-1898, Ph.D.. 1S9S. Dr. Campbell 
 was master of English in the Culver Mili- 
 
 tary Academy. 1S9S-1S99; and' has been in- 
 structor and adjunct pi'ofessor of English 
 in tlie Univei>ity of Te.\as since 1899. He 
 has beiai editor of the University of Texas 
 Record since 190U; has edited' The Seven 
 Sages of Rome, a book published by (Jinn 
 & Co.. in their All)ion Series, 1907; and is 
 author of A Study of the Seven Sages of 
 Rome, with Special Reference to the Mid- 
 dle English Versions (doctor's dissertation), 
 and articles in Modern Language Notes, 
 The Journal of English and (iermanic 
 Philology, and the X'^ation. He spent the 
 summers of 1S97, 1902 and 1904 in Europe, 
 mainly in study in the British Museum and 
 at Oxford. He is a member of the Modern 
 Language Association of America, the Kap- 
 pa Sigma fraternity, and the University 
 Club of Austin, Te.xas. Dr. Cam])bell mar- 
 ried in Baltimore, Md., June 2U, 1902, Mary 
 Hogg Aitken, and they have three daughtei's. 
 Address: 2301 Rio (Grande Street. Office: 
 The University of Texas. Austin, Texas. 
 
 CAMPBELL, Phillip Pitt: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Cape 
 Breton, Xovia Scotia, April 25, 1862; son 
 of Daniel A. and Mary (McRae) Camp- 
 bell. He was graduated from Baker Uni- 
 versity, A.B., 1888, and A.M., 1891, read 
 law on the farm, and was admitted to the 
 Kansas bar in 1890, and engaged in prac- 
 tice at Pittsburg, Kan. He was elected to 
 the Fifty-eighth Congress from the Third 
 Kansas District in 1902, reelected in 1904, 
 1906 and 1908, and is now serving in the 
 Sixty-tirst Congress. He is a Republican. 
 Mr. Campbell married at Walnut. Kan.. 
 Nov. 23, 1892, Helen Gotl'. Address: Pitts- 
 burg, Kan. 
 
 CAMPBELL, R. E.: 
 
 Jurist. He was engaged in tiie practice 
 of law in Oklahoma until ai)i)ointed by Pres- 
 ident Roosevelt in 1907 to the ollice of judge 
 of the United States District Court for the 
 Eastern District of Oklahoma. .\ddress: 
 Muskogee, gkla. 
 
 CAMPBELL. Thomas Mitchell: 
 
 (JoNernor of 'l"exas ; born in Uuok. t hero- 
 kee County. Texas, April 22. 1856; son of 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Tlioinas I), and llachel (Moore) Caniphcll. 
 He was ediicaloil in the public schools and 
 at Trinity College. Tehuacana. Texas, until 
 1874. He then read law in an office at 
 I^ngview. Texas, and in 1878 was admitted 
 to the bar. He served as master in chanc- 
 ery, 1889-181)1; and he was receiver, 1891- 
 1892, and se"(^i"iil manager, 1892-1897. of 
 the International and Great Northern lltiil- 
 road'. He was elected in 1906, and reelected 
 in 1908, governor of Texas, being at each 
 election the regular nominee of the Demo- 
 cratic i)arty. His present term will expire 
 in 1911. Address: Austin, Texas. 
 
 CAMPBELL. William Wallace: 
 
 AstroiioMHi' : born in Hancock County. 
 Ohio, April 11, 1802; son of Robert Wilson 
 and Harriet (Welsh) Campbell. He was 
 graduated from the University of Michigan 
 in 188G, as B.jS., and received from it the 
 honorary degree of M.S. in 1899, and D.Sc. 
 in 190.'); and' fioni the University of Wis- 
 (■<in->in of LL.13. in 1902. He was professor 
 of mathematics in the University of Colo- 
 rado. 188G-1888. instructor in astronomy in 
 the University of Michigan, 1888-1891, be- 
 came an astronomer at Lick Observatory in 
 
 1891, and has been its director since 1901. 
 He was in charge of the Lick Observatory 
 Eclipse Expeditions to India in 1898, to 
 Georgia in 1900, to Spain in 1905, and to 
 Flint Island in 1908. He is a foreign asso- 
 ciate of the Roj'al Astronomical Society, 
 and a member of the National Academy of 
 Sciences and' many other learned societies, 
 and the honorary society of Sigma Xi. He 
 received the Lalande prize and gold medal 
 from the Paris Academy of Sciences, the 
 gold medal of the Royal Astronomical So- 
 ciety, London ; and the Draper Gold Medal 
 fiom the National Academy of Sciences. He 
 married at (Jrand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 28, 
 
 1892, Elizabeth Ballard Thompson, and they 
 have three sons. Address: M1. llaMiillou. 
 Calif. 
 
 CANDEE, Helen Churchill: 
 
 W'rilci': boiii ill New ^ nrl<. id' J'uritan 
 ancestry. She atlciidcd tlie lir-t kindei'- 
 gaiten in this country, under itose Porter, 
 and the lirst natural method German school, 
 
 under Professor Heness. receiving her edu- 
 cation in New Haven and Norwalk. Conn. 
 Her mother was INIary Churchill Hunger- 
 foid. a writer and' editor of reputation, and 
 from girlhood the daughter has been a 
 writer having written innumerable short 
 stories and much miscellany for various 
 ])ublications, and the books: An Oklahoma 
 Romance, and Styles and Periods in Deco- 
 ration. Slie has traveled all over this 
 country, has lived in Italy and has made 
 frequent trijis abroad. She is a member of 
 the Chevy Chase Club at Washington. Ad'- 
 dress: " 171S Rhode Island Avenue, Wash- 
 ington. D. C. 
 
 CANDLER, Ezekiel Samuel, Jr.: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born in Bell- 
 ville, Hamilton County, Fla., Jan. 18, 1862; 
 oldest son of Ezekiel Samuel and Julia Bevil 
 Candler, who are natives of Georgia. He is 
 a direct descendant of William Candler, who 
 was a colonel in the Armj' of the American 
 Revolution. When he Avas eight years old 
 he removed with his parents to Tishomingo 
 County, Mississippi ; was educated in the 
 Male Academy, at luka, ]\Iiss., and' attended 
 the law department of the University of 
 Mississippi for the term 1880-1881. On 
 June 30, 1881, he graduated in law, when 
 a little over nineteen years old, and, his 
 minority being waived he at once com- 
 menced' the practice of law with his father 
 at luka. He removed from luka to Corinth, 
 Jan. 1, 1887. He was nominated bj' the 
 Democratic State Convention in 1888 for 
 presidential elector for the First Congres- 
 sional District. In November, 1900, he 
 was elected from the First Mississippi Dis- 
 trict to the Fifty-seventh Congress, was re- 
 elected in 1902, 1904, 1906, and 1908, and 
 is now serving in the Sixty-first Congress. 
 He married, April 26, 1883, Nancy Priscilla 
 Hazlewood. Address: Corinth, Miss. 
 
 CANDLER, Flamen Ball: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Cincinnati, Ohi(j, Dec. 
 16, 1838; s»m of Samuel ]\larsden Candler 
 and Elizabeth Cerilia ( P.all ) Candler. IL; 
 was educated in liie New Wnk College, and 
 he was adiiiilted to tile New York bar in 
 May, 1860, and has practised law in New 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 2Rr, 
 
 ^'ork ('it\' ('\('r since. IFc lias occupied liis 
 pi'cseiit (illlccs furl y-(\\() yeais. Tie was 
 parliier witli I'idiiar S. \an W'inklo for 
 seventeen yeais. ami now. willi Colonel Wil- 
 liam .lay and his oldest son, Kolicrt W. 
 Candler, forming the iiriu of Jay & 
 Candler. ]\lr. Candler and Colonel Jay liave 
 been partners since 1808 — tlie lonjj^cst law 
 partnership in New York City. He has been 
 president of the Republican Ward Associa- 
 tions of the First, Seventh and Twentieth 
 \\'ards of Brooklyn. He was first president 
 of the Department of Law in the Brooklyn 
 Institute of Arts and Sciences, holding the 
 position several terms, and is a member of 
 the Board of Council of the Long Island 
 Historical Society, of the Ohio Society (of 
 which he has been vice-president, one of the 
 governors and chairman of the executive 
 committee) ; and is also a member of the 
 Sons of the Revolution. Mr. Candler is 
 a member of the Union League, Down Town, 
 and Tuxedo Clubs of New York City, and 
 the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn. He mar- 
 ried in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct."^ 18, 1803, M. 
 Lillian Welch, anH they have three chil- 
 dren. Address: 48 Wall Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 CANDLER, Warren A.: 
 
 Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, South; born at Villa Rica, Carroll 
 County, Ga., Aug. 23, 1857 ; son of Samuel 
 Charles and' Martha (Beall) Candler. He 
 was graduated from Emory College, at Ox- 
 ford, Ga., in 1875, and later received the 
 degrees of D.D. and LL.D. He was licensed 
 to preach. May 15, 1875, entered the North 
 (Georgia Conference of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, South in December, 1875, and 
 continued in the pastorate until July, 1886, 
 when he became assistant editor of the 
 Christian Advocate, at Nashville, Tenn., 
 the official organ of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church, South, thus serving until 1888, 
 when he was elected to the presidency of 
 Emory College. In IMay, 1898, he was 
 elected by the General Conference and con- 
 secrated bishop of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, South. Bishop Candler besides his 
 episco])al and educational labors, has con- 
 tributed extensively to religious literature. 
 
 and is anthor of: History of Sun. lay 
 Seiiools, ISSO; (;eorgia's {•;dncational Work. 
 18!):{; Christ us Auefor, bSU'.l, High Idving 
 and High Lives, 1901; (Jreat JJevivals and 
 the (Jreat Republic. 1905. Bishop Candler 
 married at La (hange, C{a., Nov. 21, 1877, 
 Nettie Curtright, and they have three chil- 
 dren. Address: (i.'U) Edgcwood Avenue, At- 
 lanta. Ga. 
 
 CANEVIN, J. F. Regis: 
 
 Catholic Bisliop of Pittsburgh. He was 
 formerly rector of St. Paul's Cathedral and 
 a member of the board of diocesan consula- 
 tors and diocesan school board of the diocese 
 of Pittsburgh; was consecrated in 1903 as 
 coadjutor bishop of Pittsburgh, and on the 
 death of Bishop Phelan in 1904, succeeded 
 him as diocesan. He is president of the 
 Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Ameri- 
 ca. Address: 519 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, 
 Pa. 
 
 CANFIELD, George Folger: 
 
 Lawyer and professor of law in Columbia 
 LTniversity; born in New York City, Aug. 
 21, 1854; son of Albert Warren and Eliza- 
 beth I. H. (Bage) Canfield. He was gradu- 
 ated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1871, 
 from Harvard as A.B., 1875, and LL.B., 
 1880, and he also spent two years in German 
 universities. He was admitted to the bar 
 in 1880, and is a member of the law firm of 
 Wilmer, Canfield and Stone, and he has 
 been professor of law in Columbia. Univer- 
 sity since 1894. Mr. Canfield is chairman 
 of the Board of Dii'ectors and general coim- 
 sel of The Brad'street Company ; director 
 and vice-president of the Atlanta and Char- 
 lotte Air Line Railroad Co.; director of the 
 Building and Sanitary Inspection Co., and 
 of the Butte Electric and Power Co. He 
 is a member of the Association of the Bar 
 of the City of New York, New York State 
 Bar Association, American Bar Association, 
 the Law Institute, Civil Service Reform 
 Association, ^Metropolitan Museum of Art, 
 and several Clubs. He is also member of the 
 Board of Managers and vice-president of 
 the State Charities Aid Association. Mr. 
 Canfield married first, at Peekskill. N. Y., 
 in 1884, Sarah Kittredgo, who died in 1897; 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ami in r.M)4 lie iiiairicd at C'ulunibia. S. C, 
 Frances .M. Maisliall. by whom he lias three 
 sons. Addiess: 4!i Wall Street, New York 
 Cil.v. 
 
 CANNON, Frank Jenne: 
 
 l'"(iniu'r L'niU'd States Senator, and journ- 
 alist; born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 25, 
 1859. He was o;raduated from the Uni- 
 versity of L'tah, A.B., 1878. He was a dele- 
 }i;ate to the Kepiibliean National Convention 
 in 1892, and that same yeaf was defeated 
 as a delegate to Congress, but secured the 
 election in 1894, and served as United States 
 Senator from 1890-1899. He left the St. 
 Louis National Republican Convention ot 
 189(5 because of dissatisfaction with the 
 (iciM Standard plank of platform, and has 
 since lii-en alliliated with the Democratic 
 jiaity. Address: Ogden, LUali. 
 
 CANNON. Henry White: 
 
 l'>aiiktr: honi in Delhi, Delaware, County, 
 X. ^■.. Sc])t. 27. 1850; son of George B. Can- 
 ndii. Ik' was educated in private schools at 
 Delhi and the Delaware Literary Institute; 
 and liegan his i)usiness career in the First 
 National Bank of Delhi, in which he became 
 teller before he was twenty years of age. 
 Shortly afterward, in 1870, he went to the 
 Second National Hank of Saint Paul. Minn.. 
 and the fdlldwinu yeai'. at the age of twenty- 
 one yeais. ()ii>unized the Lund)erman's Na- 
 tional Hank nt Stillwater. ]\Iinn.. of which 
 lie was cashier and active manager for 
 thirteen years, carrying the bank safely 
 and successfully througli the disastrous 
 panic (if 187o. While at Stillwater he be- 
 came secretary of the ('h:iinl)er of Commerce 
 and ti'easurer and general manager of the 
 gas and water companies of that city. When 
 the public debt was funded. Mr. Cannon be- 
 came active in buying and exchanging (iov- 
 ernnient bonds Uiv Minnesota banks, and 
 also negotiated loans foi' the <'ity of Saint 
 Paul, lie was appointed by i'resjdcnl Ar- 
 I'lur ( (iniptrollei- of the Currency to succeed 
 Hon. .lohii .f. Knox, in 1884 and was asked 
 to continue in ollice by President Cleveland, 
 but he resigned early in 188(i and removed 
 to New ^'ork. where lie became \ice-|)resi- 
 dent of the .\ational I'.ank of the Keiiublic. 
 
 In NoNcinber. 188(5. he beciine president of 
 the Chase National Bank, of which he is 
 still at the head as president of the Board 
 of Directors. He was a member of the In- 
 ternational Monetary Commission at Brus- 
 sels in 1892 ; a member of the Assay Com- 
 mission during the administration of Presi- 
 dent Harrison; and a member of the Aque- 
 duct Commission of New York during the 
 administration of Mayor Hugh .1. (irant. 
 He is a director of the Great Northern. 
 Lake Erie and Western, Fort Wayne, and 
 Cincinnati ami Louisville railway; presi- 
 dent of the Pacific Coast Company; also di- 
 rector of tlie Manhattan Trust Company. 
 L'nited States (Guarantee Company, and 
 Guarantee Company of North America. He 
 is a member of the Sons of the Revolution, 
 and the Union League. Century, Players', 
 Metropolitan. Tuxedo. New York Yacht. 
 R('pul)lican. and National Arts Clubs of 
 New ^■(lrk. Mr. (annnn married Jenny (). 
 Curtis, and they li:i\-e two sons. Residence: 
 288 Madison Avenue. Ollice: 8:! Cellar 
 Street. New York (^ity. 
 
 CANNON, Joseph Gurley: 
 
 S])e:iker of the House of Re])resentit ives : 
 born at (Tiiilford. N. ('.. May 7, 183(i. of 
 mingled Scotch and New Kngland (Quaker 
 ancestry, ^^■llell a boy his jiareiits removed 
 to Illinois, wlieie he was reared on a farm, 
 and he piocured his education in country 
 schools, and afterward studied law. He was 
 admitted to the Illinois bar. and engaged 
 in practice at Danville; ami at the ag.' of 
 24 was elected State's attorney of X'ermillion 
 County. 111., in which otHce he served for 
 the seven years frtnu 18(51-1808. In Novem- 
 ber, 1872. he was elected fnnu the Twelfth 
 Illinois District to the Forty-third Con- 
 gress and has been iiicTuially elected, from 
 that district, now the hlighleeiith, with the 
 e.xception of (he peiiod of the Kifty-sccoml 
 Congress, and is now ser\ing in the Sixty- 
 first Congress, lie has been une nf the pioni- 
 iiient figures -in Congress from his first term, 
 and for many terms was chaiiinan of tht^ 
 Committee on .\ppropiintioiis. At the be- 
 ginning of the I'"ifty-eighth Congress he was 
 (^hosen sjjeaker of the House, in which re- 
 sponsible post he has since been retained. 
 
Joseph G. < a.n.nu.n 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 ]\Ir. Cannon has been fi'oiii his youth one of 
 the ablest canipaifiners of llu' Republican 
 |iaity, and he was ix'rnuuient chairman of 
 the National Republican Convention of lfl04. 
 Address: Danville, 111. 
 
 CANTOR, Jacob Aaron: 
 
 Lawyer; horn in New York City, Dec. 6, 
 isr)4; son of Henry and Hannah Cantor. 
 He studied law in offices and the University 
 Law iSchool, whence he was graduated as 
 LI..B. in 1875; and he was admitted to the 
 l);ir in 1876. He was elected to the General 
 Assembly from the Twenty-first District of 
 New York City in 1884, 1885, and 188G, and 
 was State senator, 1887-1898. He was chos- 
 en unanimously by his associates as Demo- 
 cratic leader in the State Senate in 1888. 
 :nid continued as such until his retirement 
 from the senate in 1898. Mr. Cantor was 
 president of the Senate and acting lieuten- 
 aul -governor from 1893-1894; and chairman 
 of the Committee on Finances ; and he re- 
 ceived votes for governor in the Democratic 
 State Convention at Saratoga in 1902. 
 Since Jan. 1, 1904, he has been chairman of 
 tlie Committee of Highways and Parks of 
 New York City Improvement Commission, 
 appointed by the mayor of New York City, 
 He was elected president of the Borough of 
 Manhattan on the Reform ticket in 1901 and 
 served from 1902-1904, declining a renomi- 
 nation. He married, Sept. 25, 1897, Lydia 
 Greenebauni. and they have three children. 
 Residence: 9 West 70th Street. Office: 25 
 Rroad Street, New York City. 
 
 CAPEN, Samuel Billings: 
 
 .Merchant; born in Boston, Dec. 12, 1842; 
 son of Samuel C. and Ann (Billings) Capen. 
 He was educated in the Boston public 
 schools, and the English High School of 
 Boston, and he has the degree of A.M., re- 
 ceived from Dartmouth College, and of LL. 
 D., received from Oberlin and Middlebury 
 Colleges, Since his graduation from the 
 English High School in 1858 he has been 
 in the carpet business, and he is now treas- 
 urer of the Torrey, Bright & Capen Com- 
 pany. He was a member of tlie Boston 
 School Committee. 1889-1892, and its ])res- 
 ident in 1892; and was president of the Bos- 
 
 Ion Muiiiripal League. lSi)4- 1 S'.lll. lie is one 
 of llie foremost laymen of 1 lie Congrega- 
 tionalist deuomination. He is president of 
 tlie American Board of Commissioners for 
 Foreign Missions, president of the Board of 
 Trustees of Wtdlesley College; is governor- 
 general of the Society of Mayflower De- 
 scendants; vice-presideiii of Hie Congrega- 
 tional Sunday School and I'liblication So- 
 ciety; vice-president of the American Con- 
 gregational Association, and a trustee of the 
 United Society of Christian Endeavor. Mr. 
 Capen married in Boston, Dec. 8, 1809, Hel- 
 en M. Warren, and thej- have a son and a 
 daughter. Residence: 38 Greenougli Ave- 
 nue, Jamaica Plain, Mass. Oifice: 350 
 Washington Street, Boston. 
 
 CAPERS. John G.: 
 
 Lavvyei-; l>oni at Anderson, S. C, April 
 17, 18011: son of the late Ellison Capers 
 Episcopal bishop of South Carolina, and 
 Charlotte Rebecca (Palmer) Ca])ers. At 
 the age of sixteen he entered the South Car- 
 olina ^Military Academy at Charleston, 
 where he studied for four years. He was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1888. In 1890, upon 
 the nomination of Brj'an, he joined the Re- 
 ]niblican party, although previous to that 
 time he had been a Democrat. Since that 
 time he has been prominent in the Republi- 
 can party, campaigning for McKinley in 
 1890-1900. He was a delegate-at-large to 
 the National Republican Convention held 
 in Chicago in 1904, and is now the member 
 of the Republican National Committee for 
 South Caiolina. He was U. S. District At- 
 torney for South Carolina from May, 1901 
 to February, 1906, and on June 5. 1907 he 
 was apjjointed commissioner of Inteinal 
 Revenue of the United States. Residence: 
 (Treenville, S. C. Office: Treasury Depart- 
 ment Building, Washington, D. ('. 
 
 CAPPS, Washington Lee: 
 
 Chief constructor and rear-adniiral_. U. S. 
 N., and chief of the Bui'eau of Construction 
 and Rei)air; son of the late Washington 
 Tazewell and Frances Bernard' Capps; born 
 at Portsmouth, Va., Jan, 31, 1804. He was 
 educated at private schools in Norfolk, Va., 
 and appointed to the United States Naval 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Acadoniy from Xoifulk County in OctobiT, 
 1880; araduaied from the Naval Academy 
 in 1884 and immediately assigned to duty 
 on the fhijislii]) Tennessee, of the North At- 
 lantic Station, remaining on this duty until 
 May, lSS(t; during this period of service 
 afloat, acted as aide on the personal staff 
 of the commander-in-chief, also as watch 
 and division officer. Was promoted to En- 
 sign in June, 188G, and subsequently assign- 
 ed to duty at the University of Glasgow for 
 a special course of instruction in naval arch- 
 itecture. Graduated from the University of 
 Glasgow with the degree of Bachelor of 
 Science in April, 1888 ; transferred to the 
 Construction Corps of the Navy as assistant 
 naval constructor shortly thereafter, con- 
 tinuing on duty at the University of Glas- 
 gow in order to take a special post-gradu- 
 ate course in naval architecture. Eeturned 
 to the United States in July, 1889; was 
 promoted to naval constructor with the rank 
 of lieutenant in January, 1895, to naval con- 
 structor with the rank of commander in 
 August, 1899, and to chief constructor with 
 the rank of rear-admiral in October, 1903. 
 From 1889-1903 served at various stations 
 at home and abroad and in various impor- 
 tant boards at the Navy Department, also as 
 superintending constructor for naval ves- 
 sels building at private shipbuilding yards, 
 the principal stations being as follows: At 
 the Navy Department and the William 
 Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company in 
 1889; at the Navy Yard, New York, from 
 September, 1889, to July, 1892; at the Bu- 
 reau of Construction and Repair from July, 
 1892. to December, 1895; as superintending 
 constructor for the Navy at the Union Iron 
 Works from January, 189G, to May, 1898; 
 technical aid on the staff of Admiral Dewey, 
 commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Station, 
 during the Spanish-American War and until 
 October, 1899; was a member of the Board 
 of Inspection and Survey at Washington, D. 
 C, from October, 1899, to March, 1901, and 
 head of tlie dej)artment of Construction and 
 llepair at the Navy Yard, New York, from 
 IMarcli, 1901, to October, 1903. While serv- 
 ing as aide on tlie technical staff of Admiral 
 Dewey, had charge of all work in connection 
 with tlie raising and preliminary refitting 
 
 of the captured Spanish vessels Ishi de 
 ChIki, JsIii dc Luzon, and Don Juan de 
 All si rill. Was one of the founders of the 
 American Society of Naval Architects and 
 ^Marine Engineers, and was its first secre- 
 tary. As chief constructor and chief of the 
 Bureaxi of Construction and Repair, has 
 general supervision, under the direction of 
 the Secretary of the Navy, of all matters un- 
 der the cognizance of his Bureau connected 
 with the construction, repair, and mainte- 
 nance of vessels of the United States Navy, 
 with headquarters at Washington, D. C. 
 During liis period of office as chief construc- 
 tor there have been designed under his su- 
 pervision the American representatives of 
 the " all-big-gun " type of battleship, in- 
 cluding the South Carolina and Michigan, 
 the Delaware and North Dakota, the Florida 
 and Utah, and the Arkansas and Wyoming; 
 is a member of various clubs and technical 
 societies, including the American Society of 
 Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, of 
 which he is a vice-president ; the British In- " 
 stitution of Naval Architects ; the American 
 Society of Naval Engineers; the Washington 
 Society of Engineers, etc. Address : Navy 
 Department, Washington, D. C. 
 
 CAPRON, Adin Ballou: 
 
 Miller and congressman; born in Mendon, 
 Mass., Jan. 9, 1841; son of Carlile W. and 
 Abby (Bates) Capron. He was educated at 
 Woonsocket High School and Westbrook 
 Seminary, near Portland, IVIe. He enlisted 
 as sergeant in the Second Rhode Island In- 
 fantry, in May, 1861; was promoted to ser- 
 geant-major, July 11, 18G1; commissioned 
 lieutenant, September, 1861, and ordered on 
 detached service in the Signal Corps, in De- 
 cember, 1861. He served in the Signal 
 Corps until the close of the war, having 
 been commissioned first lieutenant in the 
 Signal Corps, U. S. A., March 3, 1863, and 
 receiving promotion to the rank of captain 
 and major by brevet. Since the war he has 
 been in business pursuits and is now en- 
 gaged in milling and dealing in grain. He 
 was elected rei)resentative to the General 
 Assembly of Rhode Island in 1887, and re- 
 elected in 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, and 1892; 
 and he was speaker of the House in 1891- 
 
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 1802. lie was J^cpublican candidate for Con- 
 gress in 1892, and was elected in 189G to 
 the Fifty-fifth Congress from the Second 
 Rhode Island District, since which he has 
 been biennially reelected and is now serving 
 in the Sixty-first Congress. Address: Still- 
 walor. Providence County, R. I. 
 
 CARBONE, Agostino: 
 
 Vocal teacher, and late vocal artist of the 
 Metropolitan Grand Opera, in New York; 
 born in Genoa, Italy, May 19, 1856. He was 
 educated at the Civic Institute of Music, 
 Genoa, wdiere he was graduated' in the art of 
 singing with gold medal, and studied also 
 with the famous tenor, Vettimio Malvezzi. 
 He was engaged at the grand opera houses 
 in Milan, New York, Paris, London, St. 
 Petersburg, Moscow, Rome, Turin, Lisbon, 
 etc. He came to the United' States for the 
 first time in the season of 1881 and 1882, 
 engaged with Strakosh's Italian opera com- 
 pany. He was also a member of Patti's, 
 Gerster's INIelba's, Sembrich's and Campani- 
 ni's opera and concert company, and was a 
 member of the Metropolitan Grand Opera 
 Co., for eleven seasons. His last appearance 
 in opera at the Metropolitan Opera House 
 was in 1899. In Italy he created the lead- 
 ing roles in many operas, and has distin- 
 guished himself in New York as a singer 
 and now as a vocal teacher. He studied 
 many years upon the physiology of the voice, 
 and the science of voice production. Mr. 
 Carbone married in Genoa, Italy, 1883, Lilly 
 Cerbi, and they have four children. Ad- 
 dress: (101-602 Carnegie liall. New York 
 City. 
 
 CAREY, Charles Henry: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Cincinnati, Oct. 27, 1857. 
 lie graduiitod at the Farmers' College?, Col- 
 lege Hill, Ohio; the Denison University, 
 Cranvillc. Ohio, with the degree of Ph.B., 
 in ISSI, and the Law School of the Cincin- 
 nati College with the degree of LL.B. in 
 1S83. He has been practising law at Port- 
 land, Ore., since 1883, except when he prac- 
 tised at Detroit, Mica., 1888-1889. He was 
 municipal judge of Portland, Ore., 1892- 
 1895; vice-president of the American Bar 
 
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 Association 1894-1907; president of tlic 
 State League Republican Clubs, 1895-1H!m;: 
 and from 1894-1898 he was tlie chairman of 
 the Republican Congressional ( omniiltfe 
 and president of the Garfield Republican 
 Club. He lias been president of tlie Amer- 
 ican Trust and Investment Company since 
 1902, and is vice-president of the Union 
 INIeat Companj'^ and the Western Electric 
 Company. Mr. Carey is one of the founders 
 and a director of the Multonomah Law Li- 
 brary, and one of the founders and former- 
 ly secretary of the Oregon Bar Associitioii. 
 He has been a member of the Republican 
 National Committee since 1904, and is a 
 member of the Sons of the American Revolu- 
 tion ; the American Forestry Association ; 
 American Institute of Civics, the American 
 Historical Association, and' the Arlington 
 and Commerical Clubs, and is a 32d-degree 
 Mason. Mr. Carey is author of Index-Digest 
 of the Oregon and Washington Reports; and 
 History of the Pacific Northwest. He mar- 
 ried in Portland, Ore., Sept. 24, 1883, Mary 
 N. Bidwell. Address: 410 Chamber of 
 Commerce, Portland, Ore. 
 
 CAREY, James F.: 
 
 Shoemaker, socialist leader ; born hi Hav- 
 erhill, Mass., August 19, 18G7'. He was edu- 
 cated at the Haverhill public schools, and 
 afterward learned the shoe-making trade. 
 He joined the International Boot and' Shoe- 
 makers' Union and was made chairman of 
 the convention in Boston, in 1895, which 
 amalgamated three national organizations 
 of shoemakers into one union, and he was 
 one of the three leaders in the unemployed 
 agitation on Boston Common, in 1894. The 
 Governor appointed him a commissioner of 
 the unemployed but he was not confirmed. 
 He was the first socialist elected to a politi- 
 cal office in New England, was president of 
 the Haverhill common council, and electi'd 
 a member of the Massacliusetts House of 
 Representatives; in 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901 
 and 1902, the last four elections being over 
 a combination of Democratic and Republi- 
 can parties. He is now the national or- 
 ganizer of the Socialist Party. Address: 
 Haverhill, Mass. 
 
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 CARHART. Henry Smith: 
 
 I'ldtV-sor (if |)liysi(:'s : limn at C'oiynians, 
 X. v.. ^Marcli 27, 1844; son of Daniol S. and 
 Maiofaret Caihavt. He was graduated from 
 Wcslcyan University. A.B., 1869, studied at 
 ^'alo. Harvard and the University of Ber- 
 lin and received the LL.D. degree from Wes- 
 leyan in 189.3. He became professor of phys- 
 ics and chemistry at Northwestern Univer- 
 sity. 1S7-2-1S8G, and since 1886 has been pro- 
 fessor of physics at the University of ]\lich- 
 igan. He was a member of the International 
 Jury of Award at the Paris Electrical Ex- 
 position. 1881, president of the Board of 
 Judges in the Department of Electricity at 
 the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, 
 member of the Jury of Award at the Pan- 
 American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901 ; 
 and an official delegate of the United States 
 and vice-president of the Saint Louis Inter- 
 national Electrical Congress in 1904. In 
 1005 he went with the British Association 
 for the Advancement of Science, as an in- 
 vited guest, to South Africa, traveled in the 
 interior as far as Victoria Falls on the 
 Zambesi, and sailed around the continent. 
 Keturning from South Africa, he attended' 
 in Berlin, by invitation, the Preliminary 
 Conference on Electrical Units and Stand- 
 ards, and he was present as an official del- 
 egate from the United States, at the Inter- 
 national Conference on Electrical Units and 
 Standard's held in London in October, 1908. 
 Professor Carhart is a fellow of the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science, a member of the American Institute 
 of Electrical Engineers, the American Elec- 
 trochemical Society (of which he is ex- 
 ])resident), and the American Physical So- 
 ciety, and foreign member of the Institution 
 of Electrical Engineers of Great Britain. 
 Ho is author of various works on electricity 
 and physics. He married in 1876, Ellen M. 
 Soule. Address: Ann Arbor, Mich. 
 
 CARL, Katharine Augusta: 
 
 Artist; born in Louisiana; daughter of 
 Francis Augustus Carl, rh.D., LL.D., and 
 Mary (Breadon) Carl. She was graduiited 
 from the State College of Tennessee, at 
 .Memphis, with the degree of M. A., and af- 
 terward studied art in Paris under Bouge- 
 
 reau, Jean Paul Laurens and Gustave Cour- 
 tois. She fii'st exhibited in the Paris Soci- 
 ete des Artists Francais in 1887, received 
 honorable mention from that society in 1890, 
 and was made an associate of the Societe 
 Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris, in 1894. 
 Miss Carl is a painter of portraits and fig- 
 ure paintings, and has painted many notable 
 subjects, including Prince El Hadj and Ma- 
 homet Ali in Algiers in 1892, and also por- 
 traits of the late Empress Dowager of China 
 in 1903-1904, in Peking, and various figures 
 and groups which have been shown in num- 
 erous exhibitions. The Empress Dowager 
 conferred upon her the orders of Officer of 
 the Double Dragon and the Manchu Flaming 
 Pearl. She wrote and illustrated an ac- 
 count of her life in the Imperial Palace of 
 China which was published by the Century 
 Company under the title of " With the Em- 
 press Dowager of China; and she has also 
 contributed to the Century Magazines. Miss 
 Carl is a member of the International So- 
 ciety of Women Artists, London, Societe Na- 
 tionale des Beaux-Arts, Paris and of the Ly- 
 ceum Clubs of London and Paris, and she 
 was a member of the juries of fine arts in 
 the Sections of Painting and of Applied 
 Arts in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 
 at St. Louis in 1904. Address: 51 Wash- 
 ington Square, New i'ork City. 
 
 CARL, William C: 
 
 Concert organist ; born in Bloomfield, N. 
 J., March 2, 1865; son of Samuel Randolph 
 and' Mary Prudence (Crane) Carl. He was 
 educated in the Bloomfield schools, and com- 
 pleted his musical education in Paris, 
 France under M. Alexandre Guilmant (or- 
 gan and theory), in Paris, France. For five 
 seasons he was director of the Baton Club, 
 for two seasons, director of the Gamut Chib ; 
 was director, and for several seasons the 
 chairman of the Membership Committee of 
 the Manuscript Society in New York, and 
 founded and since its organization, has been 
 the chairman of the INIembership Committee 
 of American Guild of Organists. He is the 
 organist and choirmaster of the First Pres- 
 byterian Church, and director of the Guil- 
 mant Organ School in New York, President 
 of the Guilmant Club. Mr. Carl has made 
 
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 extensive organ tours in Europe and Amer- 
 ica, including tliree to the Pacific Coast, 
 and one to Dawson City, in the Klondike, 
 hcing the first concert organist to go to 
 the far north, and has given over 130 organ 
 concerts in tlie First Presbyterian Church 
 in New York. lie has appeared as soloist 
 with many of the best orchestras and' at nm- 
 sic festivals, and displayed the great organ 
 at the St. Louis Exposition for the jury of 
 awards, besides giving a series of concerts 
 there. He is author of several songs and 
 organ arrangements. Master Studies for the 
 Organ, Novelties for the Organ, Books I 
 and II, Masterpieces for the Organ, and 
 thirty Postludes for the Organ. Address: 
 :U \Vest 12th Street, New York City. 
 
 GARLAND, John Emmet: 
 
 Jurist; born in Oswego County, N. Y., 
 Dec. 11, 1853; son of Captain John Car- 
 land, of the United States Army. After a 
 preliminary education in the schools of 
 Corunna, Mich., he studied law, was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1875, and engaged 
 in the general practice of the law in the 
 Territory of Dakota. He became active in 
 ]iolitics and the Statehood movement, and 
 in May, 1885, he was appointed by Pres- 
 ident Cleveland to the office of United States 
 attorney for Dakota Territory, which he 
 held until appointed, by the same Pres- 
 ident, in March, 1888, associate justice of 
 the Supreme Court of Dakota Territory. 
 He was elected a member of the Consti- 
 tutional Convention of North Dakota in 
 1889, and was chairman of the Judiciary 
 Committee of that body, and in that ca- 
 pacity had much to do with the framing of 
 tlie present Constitution of the State. He 
 resumed the practice of law in South Da- 
 kota after the organization of that State, 
 imtil his appointment by President Cleve- 
 land, Aug. 31, 1896, to his present office 
 of United States district judge of the Dis- 
 trict of South Dakota. Judge Carland 
 married at Bismarck Dak., Sept. 29, 1884. 
 Albertine Knaack. Address: Sioux Falls, 
 S. Dak. 
 
 CARLE, Richard: 
 
 Actor, playwright; born in Somerville, 
 Mass., July 7, 1871. He was educated at 
 
 tiie high school of Somerville, Mass., and 
 began his stage career at the Bijou The- 
 ater, New York City, Sept. 20, 1891, play- 
 ing in The Spring Chicken in 1906 and 
 1907, and in Mary's Liimb, 1908 and 1909. 
 lie is the author of the plays: Mam'selle 
 Awkins; The Tenderfoot; The Storks; The 
 Mayor of Tokio; The Spring Chicken, and 
 Mary's Lamb. Residence: 200 Riverside 
 Drive, New York City. 
 
 CARLETON, Mark Alfred: 
 
 Cerealist, United States Department of 
 Agriculture; born at Jerusalem, Ohio, 
 March 7, 1866; son of Lewis D. and Lydia 
 Jane (Mann) Carleton. He was graduated 
 from the Kansas State Agricultural College 
 as B.Sc. in 1887 and M.Sc. in 1893; was 
 professor of natural history at Garfield Uni- 
 versity, 1889-1891; assistant botanist of the 
 Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 
 1892-1894, and has been cerealist in the 
 United States Department of Agriculture 
 since 1894. He was agricultural explorer 
 for the United States Department of Agri- 
 culture, 1898-1900, in Eastern Europe and 
 Siberia; was in charge of the Government 
 Grain Exhibit at the Paris Exposition in 
 1900; was on the International Jury of 
 Award's of the Paris Exposition of 1900; 
 and at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 
 in 1904. Professor Carleton established 
 the Durum Wheat industry in this coun- 
 try, now valued at thirty-five million dol- 
 lars annually. He is a fellow of the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science, the Botanical Society of America, 
 American Breeders' Association, Washing- 
 ton Botanical Society, Washington Biologi- 
 cal Society, National Geographic Society, 
 and he is Chevalier du Merite Agricole d'e 
 France. He married at Perkins, Okla.. Dec. 
 29, 1897, Amanda Elizabeth Faught, and 
 they have three children. Address: United 
 States Department of Agriculture, Washing- 
 ton, D. C. 
 
 CARLETON, Will: 
 
 Author and lecturer; born in Hudson, 
 Mich., Oct. 21, 1845; son of John H. and 
 Celeste E. (Smith) Carleton. He was grad- 
 uated from Hillsdale College with the de- 
 
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 gree of B.S., in June, 18G9, and afterward 
 received from it the degrees of A.M. and 
 Litt.D. After his graduation he did news- 
 paper work in Hillsdale for several years; 
 then was on the staff of papers in Detroit 
 and Chicago, became known as a poet, and 
 has lectured and given author's readings 
 through the United States, Great Britain 
 and continental Europe. He is the editor 
 of the illustrated magazine, Every Where, 
 in Brooklyn, and president of the Every 
 Where Publishing Co.; and is the author 
 of: Farm Ballads; Farm Legends; Farm 
 Festivals; City Ballads; City Legends; 
 City Festivals; Rhymes of Our Planet; The 
 Old Infant, and Similar Stories; Young 
 Folks' Centennial Rhymes; Songs of Two 
 Centuries ( poems ) ; Poems for Young Amer- 
 icans; In Old School Days; Drifted In; 
 A Thousand Thoughts; and many maga- 
 zine and newspaper articles. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Authors' Club of New York City, 
 and the Brooklyn University Club. Ad- 
 dress : 444 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 CARLISLE, James Henry: 
 
 President emeritus of Wofford College; 
 born in Winnsboro, S. C, May 4, 1825. 
 He graduated from South Carolina College 
 in 1844, and received the degree LL.D. from 
 the Southwestern University of Texas. He 
 was professor of mathematics at Wofford 
 College from 1854 to 1902, was president of 
 that college, 1875-1902, and has been pres- 
 ident emeritus since 1902. Dr. Carlisle was 
 editor of the Lives of Ascham and Arnold 
 and The Young Astronomer. In 1848 he 
 married Margaret Jane Bryce, who died, 
 1801. Address: Spartanburg, S. C. 
 
 CARLISLE, John Griffin: 
 
 Lawyer, ex-secretary of the Treasury; 
 born in Campbell County, Ky., Sept. 5, 
 1835. He receive a common school educa- 
 tion, and studied law with J. W. Steven- 
 son and W. B. Kinkhead. He taught school 
 for a time at Covington, Ky., before being 
 admitted to the bar in 1858. He served 
 one term in the Kentucky House of Rep- 
 resentatives and one term as State Senator. 
 He was a member of the Democratic Na- 
 tional Convention in 18G0; lieutenant-gov- 
 
 ernor of Kentucky, 1871-1875; presidential 
 elector in 1876; member of the United 
 States House of Representatives, 1877-1890, 
 and a member of the Committee on Ways 
 and Means; was speaker of the House of 
 Representatives from 1883 to 1889, and 
 United States senator, succeeding James 
 Beck, 1890-1893. He was secretary of the 
 Treasury of the United States in the cab- 
 inet of President Cleveland, 1893-1897, and 
 engaged in the practice of law in New 
 York City from 1897 to 1907, when he re- 
 moved to Washington, where his practice 
 is largely before the Supreme Court of the 
 United States. He married Jane Goodson, 
 who died Aug. 4, 1905, and has two sons. 
 Address : 1426 K Street, Washington, D. C. 
 
 CARMALT, Williani Henry: 
 
 Physician; born in Friendsville, Pa., 
 Aug. 3, 1836; son of Caleb and Sarah 
 (Price) Carmalt. He received his general 
 education in boarding schools in Pennsyl- 
 vania, New Jersey and Virginia, was grad- 
 uated from the Medical College of Colum- 
 bia University in 1861, and received the 
 honorary degree of A.M. from Yale in 1881. 
 Dr. Carmalt practised in New York City, 
 1861-1869; studied in Germany, 1869-1874. 
 He moved to New Haven in 1876, was pro- 
 fessor of surgery in Yale University, 1881- 
 1907, then resigned and was made professor 
 emeritus. He is connected with the New 
 Haven Hospital; has been president of the 
 American Surgical Association and of the 
 Connecticut State Medical Society; is sec- 
 retary of the Congress of American Phy- 
 sicians and Surgeons, and is a member of 
 several other medical organizations. Dr. 
 Carmalt is a member of the Century Club 
 of New York and president of the Gradu- 
 ates' Club in New Haven. He married at 
 Stratford, Conn., Dec. 8, 1863, Laura Wool- 
 sey Johnson. Address: 87 Elm Street, 
 No\v Haven, Conn. 
 
 CARMAN, (William) Bliss: 
 
 Journalist and poet; born in Fredericton. 
 New Brunswick, April 15, 1861. He was 
 graduated from the University of New 
 lirunswick in 1881, took post-graduate 
 study in the University of Edinburgh, 1882- 
 
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 1883, and at Harvard, 1886-1888. He stud- 
 ied law, practised civil engineering, taught 
 school and was office editor of the New 
 York Independent from 1890 to 1892. Mr. 
 Carman is the author of: Low Tide on 
 Grand Pre; A Sea-mark; Behind the Ar- 
 ras; Ballads of Lost Haven; By the Au- 
 relian Wall; Songs from Vagabondia (with 
 Richard Hovey) ; More Songs from Vaga- 
 bondia (with same) ; Last Songs of Vaga- 
 bondia (with same) ; St. Kavin, a Ballad; 
 At Michaelmas; The Girl in the Poster; 
 The Green Book of the Bards; The Ven- 
 geance of Noel Brassard'; Ode on the Cor- 
 onation of King Edward; From the Book 
 of Myths; Pipes of Pan. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 
 5; Poems, Collected Edition (2 vols); 
 Kinship of Nature; Friendship of Art; 
 From the Book of Valentines. Address: 
 Care L. C. Page and Company, Boston. 
 
 CARMER, Hermon A.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Dryd'en, N. Y., April 
 14, 1858; son of Abram Chester and Sarah 
 (Griswold) Carmer. He was educated in 
 the Munro Collegiate Institute, Elbridge, 
 N. Y., the University of Michigan, LL.B., 
 1883, National University Law Depart- 
 ment, Washington, D. C, M.L., 1887. Mr. 
 Carmer held a position as clerk in the 
 Treasury Department at Washington, from 
 April, 1886, to Nov., 1891, and since then 
 has been engaged in the practice of law 
 at Seneca Falls, N. Y., where he is a mem- 
 ber of the law firm of Hawley & Carmer. 
 He is a director and' manager of the Water 
 Works Company of Seneca Falls, N. Y., 
 a trustee of Elmira College, and director 
 of the Seneca Falls Historical Society. Mr. 
 Carmer is a prominent Democrat of his 
 city and section and was the candidate of 
 his party for the State Senate in 1906. He 
 is also prominent as a Presbyterian lay- 
 man, and was a commissioner to the Gen- 
 eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church 
 at Los Angeles, Calif., in 1903. He mar- 
 ried at Homer, N. Y., Oct. 10, 1886, Ella 
 Piosa. Address : Seneca Falls, N. Y. 
 
 CARMICHAEL, Annie Darling Cole: 
 
 Composer, writer, artist; born in Port- 
 land, INIe.; daughter of Charles Octavius 
 
 Cole, artist, of noble Huguenot ancestry, 
 and of Mary Brackett (Smith) Cole, artist, 
 poetess and singer, who was of Mayflower 
 stock. The daughter displayed early a 
 great love and genius for painting and 
 music, and' her mother became her first 
 teacher. Her general education was re- 
 ceived in Portland, at public and private 
 schools ; afterwards at Academy, Gorham, 
 ^le., and at Gorham Seminary, from both 
 of which she was graduated with high rank 
 in literature, the sciences and' the lan- 
 guages, excelling in art, music and poetry; 
 and in a later home in New York she 
 studied pianoforte in New York City, as 
 a favorite pupil of S. B. Mills, acquiring 
 great proficiency as a pianiste. She was a 
 member of the Portland Society of Art, and 
 founder of the Brunswick and Topsham 
 Musical Association. She married in New 
 York City, in 1877, Professor Henry Car- 
 michael, Ph.D. Mrs. Carmichael has been 
 much occupied with musical composition, 
 the writing of prose and poetry, and ar- 
 tistic work. Her musical works consist 
 of compositions for various instruments, 
 for large and small orchestras, songs, works 
 for voice and orchestra, and the lyrics for 
 the songs which she sets to music. Among 
 these works, " Remembrance " ( for orches- 
 tra, for violin or flute and piano, for 
 'cello and piano, and also for piano) was 
 first publicly played at a popular concert 
 of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1897 
 and' 1908, receiving marked favor. This 
 opus, and her idyl, "Sympathy" (violin 
 or flute and' orchestra) were given and 
 most favorably received at the Maine Music 
 festivals, 18913. " Sympathy " is also ar- 
 ranged for piano and for violin or flute 
 and' piano. Among her other compositions 
 are: Gondellied; Love and Song for or- 
 chestra, also for piano; Twilight Voices 
 (set of songs, among them a lullaby, en- 
 titled " Mother's Old Song," " O'er Loss of 
 the Gains," " When Voices of Love," " O 
 Wondrous Afl'ection," " With Scent of 
 Rose," " Evergreen Song," etc. ) , dedicated 
 to her mother. Other important works 
 are: "Dreams of Venice," suite, "The 
 Dream Journey," set of pieces from book 
 of mood's ; " Caprice Melancolique," " As- 
 
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 piration," " Hope," " Content," " Con- 
 stancy," etc.; The Shepherd's Love Life 
 in two books, " Pastorale Romance " and 
 •' Pastorale Tone Poem," for voice and or- 
 chestra, or orchestra, or for voice and 
 piano; A Symphonic poem, "Life," or the 
 " Seasons," " The Loom," " The Weavers," 
 Fancies; "The Invisible Fountains," "The 
 Rose-colored Scarf," " Whispering Leaves," 
 " Flower Children," Fancies of the Sea, 
 " The Giant's Stairway," Studies of Sun- 
 set and Sunrise tone pictures, A versatile 
 writer of numerous forms of composition, 
 consisting of dreams, poetic fancies, pic- 
 tures, inventions of the imagination, studies, 
 impressions and moods of nature and of 
 the heart. Those already played or known 
 in Europe or America have made her be- 
 loved as a writer with the purest and 
 highest ideals, the lover of nature aiid ot 
 humanity, who has done much for the up- 
 lifting and advancement of American art. 
 Always sympathetically interested in the 
 welfare and progress of others, Mrs. Car- 
 michael, in addition to her artistic, literary 
 and musical activities, has engaged actively 
 in private and public charities, and in a 
 successful movement for granting summer 
 liolidays to store clerks; is an active mem- 
 ber of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Mai- 
 den Boys' Industrial Club, Maiden, and 
 the W'omen's Guild of Workers for the 
 Peabody Home for Crippled Children, Hyde 
 Park, Boston, Mass. Iler artistic home at 
 Maiden is noted for its literary gatherings, 
 and its festivals of music and song. Ad- 
 dress: "The Arches," Highland Terrace, 
 Maiden, Mass. 
 
 CARMICHAEL, Henry: 
 
 ( hciiii-l, iiiftallurgist and educator; born 
 in Brooklyn, N. Y., March .5, 1846; son 
 of Daniel and Eliza (Otis) Carmichael. His 
 father was a famous anti-slavery agitator, 
 a railroad contractor and inventor, son of 
 John and Nancy Carmichael, who came from 
 Scotland to Philadelphia in the latter part 
 of tlie Eighteenth Century; and Professor 
 Carmichael's mother was a direct descend- 
 ant from John Otis of Barnstable, Devon- 
 shire, England, who settled in liinghaiii, 
 Mass., as early as 1635. He was graduated 
 from Amlierst College, with Phi Beta Kap- 
 
 pa honors, in 1807, receiving the degrees 
 of A.B. and A.M., and from the University 
 of Gottingen, with the degree of Ph.D. in 
 1877. He was professor of chemistry in 
 Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa, 1871-1872, 
 professor of chemistry in Bowdoin Col- 
 lege and in' the Maine Medical School, both 
 at Brunswick, Me., 1872-1885. Since 1885 
 he has been engaged in private practice as 
 analyst, assayer and chemical engineer in 
 Boston, and he was for two years special 
 lecturer in the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology, Boston. Professor Carmichael 
 has made numerous inventions which have 
 been patented, and some of which have 
 found extensive application. Among these 
 may be mentioned Indurated Fibre, which is 
 manufactured on an enormous scale in the 
 form of tubs, pails, etc., also electrolytic 
 apparatus and processes for the production 
 of chlorine and caustic soda, and metal- 
 lurgical processes for extraction of metals, 
 and carbonating apparatus. He has been 
 connected as an expert chemist with the 
 North Metropolitan Sewage Commission, 
 the Boston Rapid Transit Commission, 
 United Indurated Fibre Company, Car- 
 michael Reduction Company, New England 
 Static Carbonating Company, and is an 
 officer in many industrial corporations; and 
 he has served as expert in many important 
 patent and other legal proceedings. He has 
 made geological trips in Germany, Italy 
 and Switzerland, and mineralogical, and 
 mining expeditions in the United States 
 generally, in British Columbia, and in the 
 provinces of Ontario, Nova Scotia, etc. He 
 is a member of the American Chemical So- 
 ciety, American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, American Institute 
 of Mining Engineers, the Society of Chem- 
 ical Industry, and other scientific and tech- 
 nical organizations. Professor Carmichael 
 married in New York City, in 1877, Annie 
 Darling Cole, musician, w)iter and' artist. 
 Residence: "The Arches," Highland Ter- 
 race, Maiden, INIass. Ofiice: 15 Exchange 
 Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 CARPENTER, Fanny Hallock: 
 j Lawyer; born in Rainbow, Conn,; daugh- 
 ' ter of Rev. Thomas H. and Eliza (Hal- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 lock) JRouse. Slie was educated in Mills 
 Soniinary (now College) in California, and 
 the New York University Law School, 
 wlience she was graduated' with the degree 
 of LL.B. After growing up in California 
 and spending her late girlhood in the 
 Hawaiian Islands she came East and she 
 married in West Winstcd, Conn., Sept. 3, 
 1880, Philip Carpenter, living for the first 
 few years of married life in New Hamp- 
 shire, and since then in New York City. 
 JNIrs. Carpenter was admitted to the bar 
 of tlie State of New Y^ork in 1897, and 
 practised law continuously for five years. 
 She has been active in club work and has 
 made many public addresses, some of whicli 
 have been published, and also has pub- 
 lished a few poems and several magazine 
 articles. She is president of Sorosis, ex- 
 jjresident of the National Society of New 
 England Women, the Woman Lawyers' Club 
 :ind the New Y'ork Statei Federation o£ 
 Women's Clubs; is a director of the Gen 
 eral Federation of Women's Clubs, director 
 of the Women's Bar Association of the 
 City of New Y'ork; member of the Mills 
 College Alumnae Association, the New Y'ork 
 Law School Alumni Association, Woman's 
 Press, National Arts and National Cali- 
 fornia Clubs, and is honorary member of 
 the New York Daughters of 1812. Mrs. 
 Carpenter has been an extensive traveler 
 in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Eu- 
 rope and the Hawaiian Islands. She is 
 of old New England lineage, being grand- 
 daughter on her mother's side of Leavitt 
 llallock of Amherst, Mass., and of Eliza- 
 beth Snell, who was a daughter of Squire 
 Ebenezer Snell of Plainfield, own cousin of 
 \^'illiam Cullen Bryant, the Snells being 
 direct descendants of John and Priscilla 
 Alden, from whom Mrs. Carpenter is the 
 tenth generation. Her father's family, the 
 Rouses, are related to the Dewey, Breckin- 
 ridge and Henderson families, all of Ver- 
 mont. Address: " Graywings," Van Cort- 
 lanclt Terrace, Yonkers,, N. Y. 
 
 CARPENTER, Prank George: 
 
 Journalist; born in Mansfield, Ohio, May 
 8, 1855. He was graduated from Wooster 
 University in 1877, and began newspaper 
 
 work in 187!) as legislative correspondent 
 for the Cleveland Leader at Columbus, Oliin. 
 He spent the year of 1881 in European and 
 Egyptian travel ; was the Washington cor- 
 respondent for the Cleveland Leader in 
 1882 ; for the American Press Association 
 in 1884, and for the New Y'^ork World in 
 1887. In the years 1888 and 188!) he made 
 a trip around the world for a newspaper 
 syndicate and the Cosmopolitan Magazine, 
 and made subsequent newspaper trips to 
 Mexico in 18!) 1, to Russia, Germany and 
 England in 1892, and' to China, Japan and 
 Korea in 1894. He spent the year 18!)8 in 
 Soutli America, traveling about 2.),000 
 miles, and the year 1900 was spent in the 
 Philippines, Cliina, Java, Australia and 
 New Zealand. He made a newspaper tour 
 in 1902 to investigate American " commer- 
 cial invasion " in England, France, Ger- 
 many, Russia, Holland. Belgium. Norway, 
 Sweden, Denmark; thence, in 1905, to Pan- 
 ama, Cuba, and Canada, and a part of 
 1906 and 1907 was spent in Africa. He is 
 the author of: Carpenter's Geographical 
 Readers — Asia ; North America ; South 
 America ; Europe ; Australia ; Our Colonies 
 and other Islands of the Seas; Africa; 
 Through Asia with the Children; Through 
 North America with the Children; Social, 
 Industrial and Political South America; 
 Foods, or how the World is Fed; and of 
 the popular syndicate newspaper articles 
 on travel used by the leading Sunday 
 papers. Mr. Carpenter married Joanna D. 
 Condict at Mansfield, Ohio, Jan. 10, 1883. 
 Address: 1318 Vermont Avenue, Washing- 
 ton, D. C. 
 
 CARPENTER, Louis George: 
 
 Irrigation engineer and expert; born in 
 Orion, Mich., March 28. 1861. After gradu- 
 ating from the Michigan Agricultural Col- 
 lege in 1879, and taking post-graduate 
 courses in engineering and science at the 
 University of Michigan and at Johns Hop- 
 kins, he became an instructor in Michigan 
 Agricultural College for eight years; and 
 in Colorado, since 1888, is director of the 
 Colorado Experiment Station and has been 
 employed by the United States Department 
 of Agriculture as irrigation expert. He 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 has boon consulting engineer and Irrigation 
 expert in several State Irrigation Suits, 
 and notably the Kansas-Colorado case, also 
 on many important dams and hydraulic 
 enterprises. He was appointed on the Irri- 
 gation Commission of British Columbia, 
 1907-1908, preparing a report on the line to 
 be followed in the code of water laws, after- 
 wards enacted into law; State engineer of 
 Colorado. 1903-1905, having charge of the 
 water administration; and was arbitrator 
 in the Colorado Springs Lighting contro- 
 versy, notable for the number of famous 
 experts appearing to testify. He is on 
 the editorial staff of the Standard Dic- 
 tionary, has assisted in editing the Annual 
 Report of the American Society of Irriga- 
 tion Engineers, of which he was president, 
 and has written extensively on subjects re- 
 lating to engineering and prepared many 
 bulletins and reports on irrigation. Mr. 
 CarjK'nter is a fellow of the American As- 
 sociation for the Advancement of Science; 
 a member of the British Association; a 
 member and oflicer of the American Soci- 
 ety for the Promotion of Engineering Edu- 
 cation; member of the American Society 
 for Testing Materials, etc. In 1895 he was 
 decorated by the French Government as 
 Chevalier du Merite Agricole, and was 
 awarded a gold medal by the Paris Expo- 
 sition for his researches in regard to agri- 
 culture and irrigation. He married at Lan- 
 sing, Mich., Feb. 17, 1887, Mrs. Mary J. C. 
 Merrell. Address: Fort Collins, Colo. 
 
 CARPENTER, Philip: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Bath, N. II., March 9, 
 185G; son of Alonzo P. and Julia R. (Good- 
 all) Carpenter. Alonzo P. Carpenter, the 
 father, was justice of the New Hampshire 
 Supreme Court for many years, and for the 
 last few years before his death in 1898 was 
 chief justice. Mr. Carpenter was prepared 
 at St. Johnsbury Academy, St. Johnsbury, 
 Vt., and was graduated from Dartmouth 
 College with the class of 1877, with the 
 degree of A.B., and was class historian. 
 Following his graduation he studied law, 
 :iii(l was admitted to the New Hampshire 
 bar Sept. 2, 1880, and practised at Lan- 
 caster, N. II., for five years, then removing 
 
 to New York City, where he has practised 
 law ever since, attaining distinction at the 
 metropolitan bar. He was judge advocate 
 general of New Hampshire, 1885-1886, and 
 assistant district attorney of New York 
 County in 1897. IMr. Carpenter is a mem- 
 ber of the Association of the Bar of the 
 (Jity of New York, the New York iState Bar 
 Association, the Society of Medical Juris- 
 prudence and the Law Institute, and is 
 also a member of the New Hampshire His- 
 torical Societ}', the Dartmouth Association 
 in New York;, the New Hampshire Society 
 of New York, and the Delta Kappa Epsilon 
 Association of New York. He is a Repub- 
 lican in politics. He is a member of the 
 Union League, Republican, West Side Re- 
 pidilican. National Arts and the Dartmouth 
 Clubs of New York City. Mr. Carpenter 
 married at West Winsted, Conn., Sept. 3, 
 1880, Fanny Hallock Rouse. Residence: 
 Van Cortlandt Terrace, Yonkers, N. Y". Of- 
 fice: 111 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 CARPENTER, William L.: 
 
 Jurist; born at Orion, Oakland County, 
 Mich., Nov. 9, 1854; son of Charles K. and 
 Jennette (Coryell) Carpenter. His early 
 education was received in the schools of 
 Oakland County, and he afterward entered 
 the Agricultural College of Michigan, from 
 which he was graduated as B.S. in the 
 class of 1875. He followed with the law 
 course at the University of Michigan, from 
 which he was graduated LL.B. in 1878. He 
 was admitted to the bar of Michigan, and 
 engaged in general law practice at Detroit 
 until elected, in 1894, judge of the Wayne 
 Circuit Court, at Detroit. He served in 
 that capacity until Nov., 1902, when he was 
 elected one of the justices of the Supreme 
 Court of the State of Michigan. He re- 
 signed from tlic bench Sept. 15, 1908, and 
 resumed the practice of law in Detroit as 
 a member of the firm of Stevenson, Car- 
 penter & Bntzel. Judge Carpenter has 
 also been, since July, 1902, president of 
 tlie Detroit College of Law. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Delta Tan Delta fraternity, and 
 of the Detroit Club. Judge Carpenter mar- 
 ried in Detroit, Oct. 15, 1885, Elizabeth C. 
 Ferguson, They have two children. Resi- 
 
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 (Iciiec: 3G Delaware Avoiuie. Ofiice: Ford 
 Huildiiio:, Detroit, Mich. 
 
 CARNEGIE, Andrew: 
 
 ^[anufaeturcr and philanthropist; born 
 in Dnnfermline, Scotland, Nov. 25, 1835. 
 Ho came to the United States in 1845 and 
 attended school a few years in Pittsburg, 
 and in after life received the degree of 
 LL.D. from the University of Glasgow in 
 1905, and from the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh in 1906. 
 As a boy he attended a small stationary 
 engine, but soon became a telegraph mes- 
 senger for the Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph 
 Company, and later operator and clerk in 
 the office of the superintendent and' man- 
 ager of the telegraph lines of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad at Pittsburg. While there 
 he made acquaintance of Mr. Wood'ruflf, 
 the inventor of the sleeping car, and joined 
 with him in the enterprise, which proved 
 successful. He became superintendent of 
 the Pittsburg Division of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad; was successful in a venture at 
 Oil Creek, and in the founding of a rolling- 
 mill, from which grew his immense control 
 of iron and steel industries; the Edgar 
 Thompson Steel Works; the Pittsburg Bes- 
 semer Steel Works, the Lucy Furnaces, 
 Union Iron Mills, Keystone Bridge Works, 
 the Hartman Steel Works, Frick Coke 
 Company, Scotia Ore Mines, etc., all now 
 merged in the United States Steel Corpora- 
 tion, of the bonds of which he is the largest 
 owner. ]\Ir. Carnegie founded the Pitts- 
 burg Institute; has given over forty mil- 
 lion dollars for fifteen hundred libraries, 
 and large sums for other philanthropic 
 works ; these include ten million dollars to 
 the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, five mil- 
 lion dollars to New York for the establish- 
 ment of branch libraries, ten million dollars 
 to the Carnegie Institution at Washington, 
 ton million dollars to Scotch universities, 
 five million dollars to the fund for em- 
 ployees of the Carnegie Steel Company. 
 He was elected lord rector of the Univer- 
 sity of St. Andrew, Edinburgh, in 1902. 
 INIr. Carnegie has more recently been espe- 
 cially active in movements for the promo- 
 tion of peace among the nations and 
 
 furnished funds for the building of a home 
 for the Permanent Court of Arbitration at 
 the Hague, and a building for the home 
 of the Bureau of American Republics in 
 Washington. He has received from the 
 French Government the decoration of Com- 
 mander of the L(>gion d'Honnour. He is 
 author of: An American Four-in-Hand in 
 Britain; Round the World; Fifty Years' 
 March of the Republic; also various arti- 
 cles on the labor question. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Union League, Authors, En- 
 gineers', Lotos and other clubs. Mr. Car- 
 negie married in New York City, in 1887, 
 Louise Whitfield, and has a daughter. Ad- 
 dress: 21 E. 91st Street, New York City. 
 
 CARE,, Camillo Cassatti Cadmus: 
 
 Brigadier-general U. S. A. (retired) ; 
 born in Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, 
 Va., March 3, 1842. He entered the Chi- 
 cago University in 1859, and left in his 
 senior year before graduating to enter the 
 army, and in 1873, at this same college, 
 he received the honorary degree of A.M. He 
 served as a private in the Civil War and 
 rose to the rank of brigadier-general. For 
 over twenty years he campaigned in the 
 Indian country; was assistant instructor 
 and instructor of cavalry in the United 
 States Infantry and Cavalry School at Fort 
 Leavenworth, Kan.; and inspector-general of 
 the Department of Columbia. In 1898 and 
 1899 he was in command' of the western 
 part of Porto Rico; later commanding a 
 regiment in the Philippines, and in 1901 
 was commandant at the School of Applica- 
 tion for Cavalry and Field Artillery, Fort 
 Riley, Kan. He w^as commandant of the 
 Department of ISIissouri, soon after being 
 transferred to the Department of Dakota, 
 and was retired by operation of law in 1906. 
 General Carr is a member of the Military 
 Order of the Loyal Legion, the Society of 
 the Army of the Potomac, Society of the 
 War of 1812, Grand Army of the Republic, 
 etc. He has contributed to military jour- 
 nals, and translated from the French, Cav- 
 alry Outpost Duties. In 1878 he married 
 Mrs. Marie C. Camp (now deceased). Ad- 
 dress: 1338 Washington Boulevard, Chi- 
 cago. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 CARR, Clark E.: 
 
 Lawyer; l>oni in Boston Corners, Erie 
 Connty. N. Y.. Mixy 20. 1836; son of Clark 
 :M. and Delia Ann (Torrey) Carr. He went 
 to school at Springfield, not far from his 
 native town. Ihen studied at Knox College, 
 Galesburg. 111. He then took up the study 
 of law in a law office, and was afterwards 
 fjraduated' from the Albany Law School at 
 Albany. X. Y. : and he has received the de- 
 gree of LL.D. from Knox College. When 
 the Civil \Yar began, he became colonel on 
 Covernor Yates' staff. He practised law 
 for many years at Galesburg, but is now 
 retired from (iractice. He is a strong mem- 
 ber of the Republican party and has been 
 exceedingly active, having spoken in nearly 
 every Northern State, and' in every political 
 campaign, for a period of fifty-one years 
 back. He has been a delegate to two Na- 
 tional Conventions, was postmaster at 
 Galesburg. 111., for twenty-four years, and 
 was United States minister to Denmark 
 from 1889 to 1893. He is author of: The 
 mini, of Lincoln at Gettysburg; My Day 
 anil (feneration ; History of the Postal Rail- 
 way Service. Mr. Carr was married at 
 ML Carroll, 111., Dec. 31, 1873, to Grace 
 :\Iills. Address: Galesburg, 111. 
 
 CARR, Gene: 
 
 CaricaturisL illustrator for magazines; 
 born in New York, Jan. 7, 1881. He was 
 educated at public school No. 1, in New 
 York, but never studied art. In 1894 he 
 was employed on the New York Recorder, 
 and afterwards on the New York Herald. 
 Philadelphia Times, New York Journal and, 
 since 1903, he has been employed on the 
 New York World. He created the coniic 
 series. Lady Bountiful, Phyllis, Romoo. All 
 the Comforts of Home, Willie Wise, Home, 
 Sweet Home, Reddy and Caruso, Prodigal 
 Son and the Step Brothers. On Aug. 22, 
 1900, he married Helen Stilwell, artist and 
 writer. Residence: Kedbank, N. J. Ad- 
 dress: Care New York World. New York. 
 
 CARR. William John: 
 
 .linist; horn in Brooklyn. Ol. 10, 1862; 
 son f)f Cornelius and Marv (Gallagher) 
 
 Carr. He was graduated from the College 
 of St. Francis Xavier, in New Y^ork City, 
 A.B., 1882 and Villanova College, Penn- 
 sylvania, conferred upon him the degree of 
 LL.D. in 1905. He was admitted to the 
 bar of the State of New York in Sepi., 
 1884; served as a clerk in the Supreme 
 Court in Kings County, 1891-1892; U. S. 
 commissioner. 1893-1894; assistant corpora- 
 tion counsel of the City of New York. 1892- 
 1902. He was elected, in 1906. a justice 
 of the Supreme Court of the State of New 
 York for the Second Judicial District, for 
 the term expiring Dec. 31, 1920. He is 
 a member of the Brooklyn. Montauk and 
 Riding and Driving Clubs. He married in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 12, 1887, Julia M. 
 Fryer, and they have six children. Address; 
 831 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 CARReRE, John Merven: 
 
 Architect; born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. 
 Nov. 8, 1858, of American parents. He was 
 educated in Europe, graduating from the 
 ficole des Beaux Arts, at Paris, in 1882. 
 He is in partnership with Thomas Hastings, 
 forming the firm of Carrere and Hastings. 
 He has designed many important buildings, 
 including the New York Public Library, 
 the new National Academy of Design, also 
 the Alcazar and' Ponce de L6on Hotels at 
 St. Augustine. Fla. Mr. Carrfere is a mem- 
 ber of the New York Chapter of the Amer- 
 ican Institute of Architects and has been 
 twice president, and is also a founder and 
 twice president of the Beaux Arts Society 
 of New York City, a delegate to Fine Arts 
 Federation and' a member of tlie Archi- 
 tectural League of New York. He is a 
 member of the Century. Players', Apawamis 
 Golf, City and Richmond County Country 
 Clubs. Mr. Carrere married, in 1886. 
 Marion Dell, and they have two cliildren. 
 Residence: 101 E. Sixty-fifth Street. Ad- 
 dress; 225 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 CARRINGTON, Fitz-Roy: 
 
 Dealer in engravings and etchings; born 
 in Surbiton, Surrey, England, Nov. 6, 1869. 
 He was educated at Bute House. Petersham, 
 England, and Victoria College. Jersey, Chan- 
 nel Islands. He came to the [Jnited States 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 ill 1SS() and for oiio year was a farmpv at 
 Ifastinsjs, Minn. In 1888-1880 lie was on 
 tlic railway survey of the Groat Northern 
 Railway, and t,'ave up that position to work 
 for Harrington Heard (fine arts), in Minne- 
 apolis until 1892, when he became a clerk 
 and salesman; with Frederick Keppel & 
 Co., for whom he later became general man- 
 ao-er, and since 1899 he has been a partner 
 and is now treasurer, a director and' general 
 manager of Frederick Keppel and Company, 
 lie has edited, arranged and written intro- 
 ductions for various artistic books, includ- 
 ing: Dante's The New Life (translation 
 and ])ictures by Rossetti) ; The Queen's Gar- 
 land (Elizabethan verse) ; Songs and Son- 
 nets by Richard Lovelace; The Apocalypse 
 (designs by Albert Durer) -, The Kings Lyr- 
 ics (Temp. James I and Charles I) ; The 
 Pilgrim's Staff (sacred verse chiefly 17th 
 Century) ; The Shepherd's Pipe (pastoral 
 verse, mainly of the 17th Century) ; Pic- 
 tures and' Poems (Rossetti) ; Pictures of 
 Romance and Wonder ; St. George and the 
 Dragon ; The Doom of King Acrisius, by 
 \Yilliam Morris; and The Song of Songs. 
 He married. Feb. 24, 1897, Charlotte Austen 
 Singleton. Residence : Mamaroneck, N. Y. 
 Office: 4 East 39th Street, New York City. 
 
 CARRINGTON, Henry Beebee: 
 
 Brigadier General, U. S. Army, retired, 
 teacher, lawyer and historian ; born in Wall- 
 ingford', Conn., March 2, 1824; son of Miles 
 M. anct Mary (Beebee) Carrington; grad- 
 son of James Carrington, noted inventor, 
 partner of Eli Whitney, in making rifles for 
 tlie United States at Whitneyville, Conn.; 
 great-grandson of Rev. James Beebee (Yale 
 1745) who served under General Amherst 
 in French and' Indian War, 1787-1789; 
 great-grandson of Caleb Atwater, President 
 f)f the Connecticut Land Company that laid 
 out " New Connecticut " as the " Western 
 Reserve." He was at school at Torringford, 
 Conn., 1836, when John Brown, from New 
 Hartford, nearby, pledged the school boys, 
 on reaching manhood, to fight human slav- 
 ery; was graduated from Yale, B.A., 1845, 
 and M.A., 1848 ; taught science and classics 
 at Irving Institute, Tarrytown, N. W.. 1846- 
 1847: instituted military drill; was led by 
 
 W. Irving to take up Mevolul ionai y His- 
 tory; at Yale Law School, 1847-1848. teacli- 
 ing also at Root's Institute. He received 
 the LL.D. degree from Wabash College, 
 1873. He moved to Columbus, Ohio, and 
 while there was law partner of William 
 Dennison imtil 1861. He was an anti-slav- 
 ery Whig in politics; was on the Resolu- 
 tions Committee of the Fusion Convention, 
 July 13, 1854. and chairman of the Special 
 State Committee towards other states to 
 fuse as a National party (the Republican). 
 He was a special railroad and corporation 
 attorney; was elder and superintendent of 
 Sunday school of the Second Presbyterian 
 Church of Columbus, and founded the first 
 Young Men's Christian Association west of 
 Pittsburgh, and was a trustee of Marietta 
 College. During the illness of U. S. District 
 Judge Leavitt, he was selected by the Ohio 
 bar, to act as Commissioner pro hac vice, in 
 admiralty cases; and was afterward a mem- 
 ber of the U. S. Supreme Court Bar. He 
 was adjutant-general under Governors Chase 
 and' Dennison, and escorted the Legislatures 
 of Kentucky and Tennessee, from Cincinnati, 
 to Columbus; also the Prince of Wales, and 
 Mr. Lincoln on 52d birthday from Indiana 
 to Columbus. On April 11, 18G1, he de- 
 clared war as begun, and moved the State 
 Militia into West Virginia ; organized the 
 first 26 regiments of Ohio Volunteers, May 
 14, 1861, and was appointed colonel of the 
 18th U. S. Infantry. On July 1st, he or- 
 ganized Camp Thomas, for instruction and 
 recruiting four three-Battalion regiments at 
 the west; moved the 1st Battalion of the 
 16th, and' 2d Battalion of the 18th Infantry, 
 to support General Thomas at Lebanon. Ky., 
 assigned to command a brigade of the 18th. 
 with the 9th and 35th Ohio and 2d Minne- 
 sota Vohmteers; ordered by War Depart- 
 ment to- resume recruiting service. On 
 Bragg's Kentucky invasion, he was ordered 
 to Indiana, as State recruiting superintend- 
 ent; placed 20 regiments in Kentucky, in 
 twelve days, and organized 100.000 Indiana 
 Volunteers. He commanded District and 
 Draft Rendezvous, broke up disloyal socie- 
 ties, rejoined the Army of the Cumberland, 
 and in 1865 was sent with the 18th In- 
 fantrv, recruited to full strength, to the 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 frontier; comuiunded' in Nebraska; in May, 
 18G6, was sent to open road to Montana; 
 had 51 fights with Indians; lost party of 
 SO in Fettcrman massacre through disobedi- 
 ence of commanding officer; wounded in 
 later skirmish; on leave one year; com- 
 manded Fort Sedgwick, Colo., 1868-IS69; mil- 
 itary professor, Wabash College, Ind., 1869- 
 1878, and retired from active service be- 
 cause of renewed trouble with the former 
 wound, Dec. 1870. In 1875, he was admit- 
 ted to the British and French archives of 
 the Revolutionary War; called from Paris 
 by the British War Department, to see test 
 of the first 81-ton gun, at Woolwich, Eng- 
 land. He became a member of the British 
 Association of Science, 1875; made treaty 
 with Flathead Indians, Mont., 1889, took 
 the census of the Six Nations, N. Y., and 
 Cherokees, N. C, in 1870, and moved the 
 Flathead Indians to Jocko Reservation, 
 Montana, 1891. General Carrington is a 
 life member, of the American Historical So- 
 ciety, Army of the Cumberland, Loyal Le- 
 gion, and various historical and educational 
 societies: and was a delegate from Massa- 
 chusetts Department, Grand Army of the 
 Republic to the National Conventions 1894- 
 1895 and 1903-1909. He is author of: Bat- 
 tles of the American Revolution; Battle 
 Maps and Charts (42) of the American Rev- 
 olution; The Six Nations; Washington the 
 Soldier; The Washington Obelisk and its 
 Voices;' The Patriotic Reader; Columbian 
 Selections; Beacon Lights of Patriotism; 
 Christoplierus, the Christ Bearer; Absaraka, 
 or I^and of Massacre; Crisis Thoughts, etc; 
 editor of F. S. Smith's Poems, Home and 
 Country, and he has in preparation: La- 
 fayette and American Independents, with 
 maps; Exodus of the Flatheads; Rentvale 
 . and Other Poems, and Civil War Reminis- 
 cences, as well as contributions to magiizines. 
 Address: Hyde Park, Mass. 
 
 CARROLL, B. F.: 
 
 Governor of Iowa. He has long been ac- 
 tive in Ihe political afTars of Iowa, and was 
 auditor of the State in 1908, when nomi- 
 nated by the Republican State Convention 
 for the office of governor, to which he was 
 in November, 1908, elected for the term ex- 
 
 piring in January, 1911. Address: Des 
 Moines, Iowa. 
 
 CARROLL, Howard: 
 
 Journalist, author; born in Albany, N. 
 Y., in 1854. He was educated in the public 
 schools of New York City, Hanover, Ger- 
 many, and Geneva, Switzerland. He was 
 connected with the New York Times for 
 many years as reporter and special corres- 
 pondent; then went into business, and is 
 now vice-president of the Starin Transporta- 
 tion Company, and president of the Sicilian 
 Asphalt Paving Company. He served as 
 chief of artillery of the State of New York 
 from 1895-1898, and inspector-general of the 
 New York troops in the Spanish-American 
 War. He is a Republican in politics and 
 was a candidate for Congress from the 
 State at large; and he has been a delegate 
 three times to National Republican Conven- 
 tions. Mr. Carroll is author of: A Missis- 
 sippi Incident; Twelve Americans, Their 
 Lives and Times; The American Countess 
 (play), etc. He married Caroline Starin, 
 and they have three children. Residence: 
 9 West Thirty-eighth Street. Address: 41 
 Park Row, New York City. 
 
 CARROLL, John Lee: 
 
 Ex-governor of Maryland; born at Home- 
 wood, a suburb of Baltimore, Sept. 30, 1830. 
 He is a great-grandson of Charles Carroll of 
 Carrollton, signer of the Declaration of In- 
 dependence, and he was educated in' George- 
 town College, Mount St. Mary's College, Em- 
 mittsburg, Md., and at Harvard Law School. 
 He was admitted to the Maryland bar in 
 1851, and engaged in practice, and' has 
 been prominent in the afl'airs of his native 
 State. He was elected to the State Senate 
 as a Democrat in 1867 and reelected in 1871, 
 and in 1875 he was elected governor of the 
 State of Maryland, serving from 1876-1880. 
 Governor Carroll is president-general of the 
 Society of the Sons of the Revolution. His 
 first wife, who was Anita Phelps, died in 
 1873, and he afterward married Mary Car- 
 ter Thompson, of Staunton, Va., whose 
 father, Hon. Lucas P. Thompson, was a well- 
 known Virginia jurist. Address: Dougho- 
 regan Manor, Eliicott City, Md. 
 
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 CARROLL, John P.: 
 
 Ilonuui Catholic bishop; born in Dvibuque, 
 Iowa, Feb. 22, 1864; son of Martin and 
 Catherine (O'Farrell) Carroll. He was ed- 
 ucated at St. Raphael's Parochial School, 
 and St. Joseph's College, Dubuque, until 
 1883, and at the (^rand Seminary of Montre- 
 al Canada, until 1889, when he graduated 
 with the degree of D.D. He was ordained 
 priest on July 7, 1889, appointed professor of 
 mental philosophy, in St. Joseph's College, 
 Dubuque, Sept. 12, 1889, and became presi- 
 dent of that college, Sept. 12, 1894. He was 
 appointed bishop of Helena, Sept. 12, 1904, 
 and consecrated Dec. 21, 1904. Address: 
 Helena, Mont. 
 
 CARROLL, Mitchell: 
 
 Philologist, author and educator; born in 
 Wake Forest, N. C, June 2, 1870; son of 
 Rev. John L. Carroll, D.D., an eminent Bap- 
 tist divine. After graduation from Rich- 
 mond College, Virginia, in 1888, with the 
 degree of A.M., he pursued graduate stud- 
 ies in classical philology in Johns Hopkins 
 University, receiving the degree of Ph. D. 
 in 1893, and in the Universities of Leipzig 
 and Berlin, 1893-1894, After filling the 
 chair of Greek at Richmond College for two 
 years, he went to the American School of 
 Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, for a 
 year returning in 1898 to Johns Hopkins 
 University, where he was reader in classi- 
 cal archfeology until 1899, when he took his 
 present chair of classical philology in the 
 George Washington University at Washing- 
 ton. Professor Carroll is a contributor to 
 philological and arcliBeological publications 
 and is author of : " Aristotles Poetics in the 
 Light of the Homeric Scholia," and " Greek 
 Women; " joint author of " Early Christian 
 Women; " and is associate editor of The 
 ^A'orld's Orators, collaborating on The Ora- 
 tors of the Early and Mediasval Church and 
 The Orators of Ancient Greece. He edited 
 The Attica of Pausanias, in the College Ser- 
 ies of Greek Authors, with introduction, 
 notes and excursuses. Dr. Carroll is a 
 member of the American Philological Asso- 
 ciation, and the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
 and is secretary of the Archeeological Insti- 
 
 tute of America. Address: 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Cleveland Park, 
 
 CARROLL, Royal Phelps: 
 
 Yachtsman; born in New York City, Oct. 
 29, 1862; son of Governor John Lee Carroll 
 and Anita (Phelps) Carroll. He was gradu- 
 ated from Harvard College, in 1885, receiv- 
 ing the degree of A.B. In 1894 his yacht 
 Navahoe participated in the important Euro- 
 pean regattas, and in the race for the Bren- 
 ton Reef Cup, defeated the celebrated 
 Britannia, owned by the Prince of Wales. 
 Mr. Carroll is a member of the Delta Kappa 
 Epsilon fraternity, also a member of the 
 Union, Racquet, Knickerbocker, New York 
 Yacht, Larchmont Yacht, and Seawanhaka- 
 Corinthian Yacht Clubs, the Automobile 
 Club of America, the Turf and Field, Ards- 
 ley and Porcelian Clubs of New York City; 
 the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D. C., 
 and the Eastern Yacht Club of Boston. He 
 married in 1891, Marion, daughter of Eu- 
 gene Langdon, of New York City, and they 
 have one daughter. Residence: 41 East 
 49th Street, New York City. Summer resi- 
 dence: Newport, R. I. 
 
 CARRUTH, (Fred) Hay den: 
 
 Journalist and author; born near Lake 
 City, Minn., Oct. 31, 1862; son of Oliver 
 Powers and Mary (Veeder) Carruth. He 
 attended the schools of his native place and 
 the University of Minnesota, from which he 
 went into newspaper work in Minneapolis. 
 From there he went to Estelline, S. Dak., 
 where he conducted the local paper, the 
 Estelline Bell, the bright and witty stories 
 of which were widely copied and circulated. 
 He came to New York in 1888 as editorial 
 writer for the New York Tribune, continu- 
 ing until 1892, and then engaging in literary 
 work. He was editor of the Editor's Drawer 
 Department of Harper's Magazine, 1900- 
 1902, and has been literary editor of The 
 Roman's Home Companion since May, 1905. 
 Mr. Carruth has contributed to The Century 
 and Harper's magazines, The Youth's Com- 
 l)anion, Saturday Evening Post. Collier's 
 Weekly and other periodicals and is author 
 of The Adventures of Jones, 1895; The Voy- 
 age of the Rattletrap, 1897; Mr. Milo Bush 
 
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 and Other Worthies, Their Recollections, 
 1899. Residence: Tarrytown, N. Y. Of- 
 lic.' : 1 1 East •24th fSt., New York City. 
 
 CARSE, David Bradley: 
 
 Consulting engineer; born at Jefterson- 
 ville. Ind., Dec. 1, 1862; son of Thomas and 
 Matilda (Bradley) Carse. He was educated 
 in the Chicago public schools, and the Uni- 
 versity of Illinois. He was resident engi- 
 neer on the construction of the Sixty-eighth 
 Street Water Supply Tunnel of Chicago in 
 1883; resident engineer of the Con- 
 struction Works of the United States Roll- 
 ing Stock Company, Hegewisch, 111., 1884- 
 1885; president of the Black Diamond' Coal 
 Mining Company, of Denver, Colo., 1886, of 
 the Racine Cement and Pipe Company of 
 Racine, Wis., 1888-1894, of the Carse Broth- 
 ers Company, Chicago, from 1897-1903, and 
 member of the Advisory Committee of the 
 United States Steel Corporation, 1902-1907. 
 He is president and director of Carse Broth- 
 ers Company of Chicago and of David B. 
 Carse and Company, of New York; director 
 of the Central Foundry Company. Mr. 
 Carse is a member of the American Society 
 of Mechanical Engineers, American Electro- 
 Chemical Society, the Royal Arcanum, and 
 the Presbyterian Union, also of the New 
 York Yacht Club and the Chicago Athletic 
 Association. He married at Cleveland. Oct. 
 4, 1899. Marguerite Switzer, and they have 
 four children. Residence: 215 Palisade 
 Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. Address: 12 
 Broadway. New York City. 
 
 CARSE, John Bradley: 
 
 ^Member of the Advisory Committee of the 
 United States Steel Corporation ; born at 
 JefTersonville, Ind., Sept. 1864 ; son of Thom- 
 as and Matilda (Bradley) Carse. He was 
 graduated from Williams College with the 
 degree of A. B., 1886. and he was director 
 and official in several corporations in Chi- 
 cago up to 1903, when he removed to New 
 York City ; and he was located in business 
 in England from 1895-1897. Mr. Carse is a 
 member of the American Society of Mechan- 
 ical Engineers, the Delta Kappa Epsilon 
 fraternity, tlie Illinois Society of New York, 
 and the University, Railroad, St. Andrew's 
 
 Golf, Cliicago Athletic and Chicago Yacht 
 Clubs. The American Academj' of Political 
 and Social Science, and director of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association of the 
 City of New York. He married in Chicago, 
 in 1896, Anna Reed Wiliams, and they have 
 had two sons of whom one is now deceased. 
 Residence: Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y. Of- 
 fice: 71 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 CARSON, Hampton Lawrence: 
 
 Former attorney-general of Pennsylvania ; 
 born in Philadelphia, Feb. 21, 1852; son of 
 Dr. Joseph Carson, long professor of ma- 
 teria medica in the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania. He was graduated as A.B., 1871, 
 A.M. and LL.B., 1874, from the University 
 of Pennsylvania ; and' he received the degree 
 of LL.D. from Lafayette College in 1898, 
 and the same degree from the Western Uni- 
 versity in 1904 and from the University of 
 Pennsylvania in 1905. He was admitted to 
 the bar of Pliiladelphia in 1874, and soon 
 took a prominent place at the bar. He 
 has argued cases in every branch of the 
 United States Courts, and in the Supreme 
 Courts of Pennsylvania, New York, New 
 Jersey and other States. He was promi- 
 nently connected with the trials of various 
 bank cases in the Federal Courts, one of 
 which was the first of its kind to reach the 
 Supreme Court of the United States, and 
 has become a leading case; and he was the 
 leading counsel in a case in the Supreme 
 Court of the United States, which involved 
 the rights of the Indian tribes in Okla- 
 homa, known as the Lone Wolf Case. He 
 was the special representative of the Ameri- 
 can Bar Association at the gathering of 
 the English and French bars at INIontreal. 
 and was inviled to speak before the bench 
 and bar of England in London, at the ban- 
 quet to Labori, who defended' Dreyfus and 
 Zola. He was appointed attorney-general 
 of Pennsylvania by Governor Pcnnypacker, 
 Jan. 20, 1903. He is author of: Yaw of 
 Criminal Conspiracies; A History of the Cel- 
 ebration of tlie One Ilundreth Anniversary 
 of the Promulgation of the Constitution of 
 the United States; History of the Supreme 
 Court of the United States; and is now en- 
 gaged in writing the history of the Su- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 •My.i 
 
 pienie Coiut of Pennsylvania, and a life 
 of Lord' Mansfield. For many years he 
 was a professor of the law of contracts 
 and sales in tlie law department of the 
 Ihiiversity of Pennsylvania. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Pliiladelphia Law Association, 
 the American Philosophical Society, the His- 
 torical Society of Pennsylvania, and the 
 Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Rev- 
 olution. Residence: 1033 Spruce Street, 
 Philadelphia. Office address: 1336 Walnut 
 Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 CARSON, Howard Adams: 
 
 Civil and consulting engineer. Mr. Car- 
 son, who is a native of Westfield, Mass., was 
 graduated in 1869 from the Massachusetts 
 institute of Technology in the Civil Engi- 
 neering course with the degree of B.S. He 
 has the honorary degree of A.M. from Har- 
 vard University. His professional career 
 has been as follows: 1870, appointed as- 
 sistant engineer for a coal mining and iron 
 manufacturing company in western Pennsyl- 
 vania; 1871, appointed assistant engineer 
 on the construction of the Providence 
 Water Works; 1873, placed in charge of the 
 construction of the Providence sewers ; win- 
 ter of 1877-1878, in Europe studying var- 
 ious sewerage systems; 1878, appointed prin- 
 cipal superintendent of construction on the 
 Boston Main Drainage; from 1884, in gen- 
 eral practice as civil and consulting engi- 
 neer; 1887, made the design for the North 
 Metropolitan and Charles River Valley Sew- 
 erage Systems for the State of Massachu- 
 setts, and in 1889 was appointed chief engi- 
 neer of the ]Metropolitan Sewerage Commis- 
 sion, having charge of constructing the said 
 sewerage system; August, 1894, was ap- 
 pointed chief engineer of the Boston Tran- 
 sit Commission and had charge of construct- 
 ing the Boston Subway, the East Boston 
 Tunnel under Boston Harbor, the Washing- 
 ton-street Tunnel, and is now in charge of 
 constructing the tunnel under Beacon Hill 
 for the Cambridge Connection. He has been 
 consulted concerning works in various parts 
 of the country and' is now consulting engi- 
 neer on the Detroit River R. R. Tunnel. He 
 was president of the Alumni Association of 
 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 
 for four years and is now a tiustce of that 
 institution. He has been president of the 
 Boston Society of ('ivil Engineers. His 
 published writings have been mainly re- 
 ports on engineering subjects, including 
 somewhat extensive annual reports as Chief 
 Engineer of the two above-mentioned Com- 
 missions and he has also written an article 
 on Tunneling for the London Times edition 
 of the Encyclopiedia Britannica. Address: 
 Boston Transit Commission, Boston, Mass. 
 
 CARSON, John Miller: 
 
 Chief of the Bureau of ^lanufacturers, 
 Department of Commerce and Labor; born 
 in Philadelphia, June 18, 1838; son of Thom- 
 as and Jane Carson. He was educated in 
 the schools of Philadelphia, afterward serv- 
 ed several years as a compositor in a print- 
 ing office, and then became a reporter on 
 Philadelphia dailies until 1861 when he en- 
 tered the Union service as lieutenant in the 
 27th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, from 
 which he was honorably discharged as cap- 
 tain in 1864. Resumed his newspaper ca- 
 reer with Philadelphia newspapers until 
 1873; when he removed to Washington and 
 Avas night editor of the National Republican, 
 1873-1874; assistant Washington correspond- 
 ent 1874-1877, and chief of the Washington 
 Bureau, 1877-1882. of the New York Times; 
 chief of the Washington Bureau, Philadel- 
 phia Public Ledger, 1877-1902, and after 
 that chief of the consolidated bureaus of the 
 Philadelphia Public Ledger and the New 
 York Times, until 1905, when he was ap- 
 pointed to his present office as chief of the 
 Bureau of Manufacturers of the Department 
 of Commerce and Labor. In that capacity 
 he is in charge of the special investigation 
 of foreign market conditions, and of the dis- 
 semination of information relating thereto 
 gathered by the Bureau of Manufactures by 
 sjiecial agents and the Consular Service. 
 Mr. Carson assisted in formulating the 
 Kelley tariff act of 1883, and the McKinley 
 act of 1890, when he served as clerk of the 
 Ways and Means Committee of the House of 
 Representatives. He was one of the found- 
 (>rs of the Gridiron Club, became its first 
 ])resident and was again chosen its president 
 i in 1905. He is a member of the Military 
 
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 Order of the Loyal Legion. He married, 
 Nov. 28, 1861, Annie L. Miller. Residence: 
 1332 Vermont Avenue. Office: Department 
 of Commerce and Labor, Washington, D. C. 
 
 CARTER, Arabella: 
 
 Journalist; born at Byberry, Pa., July 
 12, 18G7, daughter of Elmer and Rebecci I. 
 (Kirk) Carter, .she was educated at the 
 Byberry Friends' School and afterward in 
 Swathniore College, Avhere her health failed 
 and she was kept at home for some years. 
 Later slie turned to writing and she was 
 graduated in journalism at Haven College, 
 Pliiladclphia, in 1899. For years she has 
 been a frequent contributor to papers, was 
 sometime editor of the Hospital Messenger, 
 and Managing Editor of the Berean Record, 
 both of Pliihulelphia and now being man- 
 aging editor of The Peacemaker, organ of 
 the Universal Peace Union, Philadelphia, of 
 which organization she has been a trustee; 
 and the business manager since Jan., 1900. 
 Her early writings were signed with the pen- 
 name, ^linnie j\loss, but more recently she 
 has assumed the pseudonym of " Auntie 
 Belle " when writing for children. She is 
 an active member of the Society of Friends, 
 and for years has been secretary of the Gen- 
 eral Conference of Friends' Associations, 
 with over forty-five locals comprising the 
 membership. Two years ago she was made 
 secretary of the Philanthropic Section of 
 Friends' General Conference. She is a mem- 
 ber of the ^Yoman's Suffrage Society of 
 Philadelphia, the Woman's Christian Tem- 
 perance Union of Bensalem, Pa.; secretary 
 of the Pennsylvania Peace Society ; secretary 
 of the Old Pupils Association of Byberry 
 Friends' School ; honorary member of the 
 Rhode Island Editors' and Writers' Club, 
 1900, an honorary member of the Writers' 
 Club of San Francisco. Address: 1305 
 Arch Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 CARTER, Ernest Trow: 
 
 ^Musical director and composer; born in 
 Orange, N. J., Sept. 3, 18GG; son of Aaron 
 and Sarah Swift (Trow) Carter. He was 
 graduated from Princeton University in 
 1888 as A.B. with the Philosophical Ora- 
 tion, and fioui (,'ulunibia University, receiv- 
 
 ing in 1889 the degree of M.A. in the 
 School of Political Science, and studying 
 from 1888-1891 in the Law School; and he 
 was engaged in musical studies in Berlin, 
 (Jermany, 1894-1898. Mr. Carter was ad- 
 mitted to the Bar of New York State in 
 1891, and was a member of the law firm of 
 Fisher and Carter, with W^illiam P. Fisher, 
 1892-1894. He was lecturer on music, or- 
 ganist and choirmaster of Princeton Univer- 
 sity, 1899-1901. Mr. Carter is a member 
 of the Association of the Bar of the City of 
 New York, and the JNIusical Mutual Pro- 
 tective Union of New Y^'ork; member of the 
 Adirondack League, of which he was seven 
 years trustee, and is trustee of the Associa- 
 tion for the Protection of the Adirondacks, 
 being a devotee to forestry and woods life. 
 He is a member of the American Forestry 
 Association, the American Scenic and His- 
 toric Preservation Society, and Brown's 
 Tract Guides' Association; and has member- 
 ship in the University, Princeton, and Na- 
 tional Arts Clubs New York City, and the 
 Nassau and Ivy Clubs of Princeton, N. J. 
 He is a member and district captain of the 
 Citizens' Union of New York City; is an 
 Independent Democrat in politics, and a 
 Presbyterian in religious faith. He mar- 
 ried in New York City, Sept. 29, 1891, Laura 
 Hoe, and they have three children. Resi- 
 dence: 150 West 58th Street. Office, 55 
 ^Vest 33d Street, New York City. 
 
 CARTER, George Roberts: 
 
 Governor of the Territory of Hawaii; 
 born in Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, Dec. 
 28, 1866; son of 11. A. P. Carter and S. A. 
 (Judd) Carter. He was , graduated from 
 Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in 1885, 
 and from the Sheffield Scientific School of 
 Yale, in the civil engineering course, in 1888. 
 He was a member of the 'varsity football 
 team and crew while at Yale. He was a 
 member of the Hawaiian Senate, 1901-1903, 
 and in 1902 visited Washington at the Pres- 
 ident's request. He was secretary of the 
 Territory of Hawaii from February to No- 
 vember, 'l903, and since Nov. 23, 1903, has 
 been governor of that Territory. He is a 
 Republican in politics. He married in 
 I Rochester, N. Y., April 19, 1892, Helen 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Strong. Address: Honolulu, Territory of 
 Hawaii. 
 
 CARTER, Orrin N. : 
 
 Lawyer; born in JeH'erson County, N. Y., 
 Jan. 2, 1854; son of Bonajali and Isabel 
 (Cole) Carter. He was bvit ten years of 
 age when his parents removed to DuPage 
 County, 111., where he completed his early 
 education in the public schools. His father 
 not having the means to pay for a collegiate 
 course, he worked his way through Wheaton 
 College, graduating in 1877. From this col- 
 lege he received the degree of LL.D. in 1899. 
 He began the study of law in Chicago im- 
 mediately after his graduation under the di- 
 rection of Judge Murray F. Tuley and Gen. 
 Isaac N. Stiles, supporting himself in the 
 meantime by teaching public schools in 
 Grundy County. He was superintendent of 
 schools of that county two years, and in 
 1882 began the practice of law at Morris, 
 111., and he was prosecuting attorney of 
 Grundy County, 1882-1888. He removed to 
 Chicago in 1888 and engaged in general 
 practice. He was attorney for the Sanitary 
 District of Chicago, 1892-1894. In the 
 latter year he was elected county jvidge of 
 Cook County, to which position he was re- 
 elected in 1898-1902, and in 1906 he was 
 elected a justice of the Supreme Court of 
 Illinois. Judge Carter is a member of the 
 Union League, Menoken, Congregational, 
 Hamilton and Lincoln Clubs of Chicago. 
 He married at Morris, 111., Aug. 1, 1881, 
 Nettie I. Stevens, and they have two chil- 
 dren. Address: 1331 West Monroe Street, 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 CARTER, Thomas Henry: 
 
 United States senator; born in Scioto 
 County, Ohio, Oct. 30, 1854. He received 
 a common school education in Illinois, and 
 was afterward engaged in farming, railroad- 
 ing, arid school-teaching for many years. 
 He studied law and was admitted to the bar, 
 and in 1882 he moved from Burlington, 
 Iowa, to Helena, Mont. He was elected in 
 1888 delegate from the Territory of Mon- 
 tana to the Fifty-first Congress, and upon 
 Ihe admission of the State was elected its 
 first representative in Congress. He was 
 20 
 
 connnissioner of the General Land Ollice 
 from March, 1891 to July, 1892, when lie was 
 elected chairman of the Republican National 
 Conuiiittee. In January, 1895, he was elect- 
 ed to the United States Senate by the Legis- 
 lature of Montana for the term beginning 
 iNIarch 4, 1895, and ending March 3, 1901. 
 He was appointed by President McKinley 
 a member of the Board of Commissioners of 
 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and' was 
 chosen its president. He was again elected 
 to the United States Senate, January 15, 
 1905. His term of service will expire March 
 3, 1911. Address: Helena, Mont. 
 
 CARTER, William Harding: 
 
 Colonel U. S. Army; born at Nashville, 
 Tenn., Nov. 14, 1851; son of Samuel J. Car- 
 ter and Anne (Vaulx) Carter. He was edu- 
 cated at the United States Military Acade- 
 my, at West Point, N. Y. He was commis- 
 sioned second lieutenant of the Eighth In- 
 fanti-y, June 13, 1873, transferred to the 
 Sixth Cavalry, Nov. 28, 1874, commissioned 
 first lieutenant April 14, 1879, captain Nov. 
 20, 1889, major, assistant adjutant general, 
 Jan. 29, 1897, lieutenant colonel, assistant 
 adjutant general May 18, 1898, colonel, as- 
 sistant adjutant general April 15, 1902, 
 brigadier general July 15, 1902. He toured 
 around the world; England and France and 
 Spain, inspecting army horses; China and 
 Japan on leave. Served in the Philippines; 
 visited Cuba and Porto Rico. He received 
 a Medal of Honor for services in action with 
 Indians. He married at San Francisco, 
 Calif., Oct. 27, 1880, Ida Dawley, and they 
 had two children. Address: Care Adjutant 
 General, United States Army, Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 CARTWRIGHT, James Henry: 
 
 Judge of the Supreme Court of Illinois; 
 born at Maquoketa, Iowa, Dee. 1, 1842; son 
 of Barton Hall Cartwright. He received his 
 education at IMount ^Morris Seminary, Mount 
 Morris, 111., and the University of Michigan, 
 where he was graduated as LL.B. in 1867. 
 He served as a volunteer during the Civil 
 War and was mustered out with the rank 
 of captain. After the war he practised law 
 at Oregon, Ogle County, 111., until he was 
 
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 elected judge of the circuit court in 1888. 
 He was reelected in 1891 and was assigned 
 to the appellate bench for the Second Ap- 
 pellate District. He was elected judge of 
 the Supreme Court in 1895, and reelected 
 in 1897, and again in 1906 for a term ending 
 in 1915, from the Sixth Supreme Court 
 District of Illinois. Address: Oregon, 111. 
 
 CARUS, Paul: 
 
 Editor and author; born in llsenburg, 
 Harz, Germany, July 18, 1852; son of Dr. 
 Gustav C. and Laura (Kruger) Carus. He 
 was educated in the Gymnasium in Stettin, 
 the University of Strassburg and the Uni- 
 versity of Tubingen, from which he received 
 the degree of Ph.D. in 1876. Dr. Carus has 
 attained distinction as an accomplished 
 scholar in the fields of philosophy, psycholo- 
 gy, ethics, religion in its relation to science, 
 and the history of religion. He has been 
 editor of The Open Court since 1887 and of 
 The Monist since 1890; was a prominent 
 factor in tlu' World's Parliament of Relig- 
 ions, held' in connection with the World's 
 Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, 
 and of the Extension movement whicli grew 
 out of that Parliament and was joint au- 
 thor, with the late Charles C. Bonney (presi- 
 dent of the World's Parliament), of The 
 World's Parliament of Religions and of the 
 Religious Parliament Extension, a memorial 
 published by the Religious Parliament Ex- 
 tension Committee. Dr. Carus is author of 
 the following books: Fundamental Prob- 
 lems; The Soul of Man; Primer of Philoso- 
 l)hy: Kant and Spencer, A Study of the 
 Fallacies of Agnosticism; The Gospel of 
 Buddah ; Godvvard ; The History of the Devil 
 and the Idea of Evil; History of the Cross; 
 Lao-Tze's Tao Teh King, (Chinese-English, 
 with introduction, transliteration and 
 notes) ; Homilies of Science; The Religion 
 of Science; The Ethical Problem; Whence 
 and Whither; Truth in Fiction; Karma, a 
 Story of Early Buddhism; Nirvana, a Story 
 of Buddhist Psycliology; Amitabha, a Story 
 (jf Buddliist Theology; The Crown of Thorns, 
 a Story of the Time of Christ; The Chief's 
 Daughter, a Legend of Niagara; Eros and 
 Psyche; The Nature of the State; Freidrich 
 Schiller, a sketch of His Life and an Ap- 
 
 preciation of His Poetry; The Rise of Man; 
 Our Children, Hints from Practical Exper- 
 ience for Parents and Teachers; The Story 
 of Samson and its Place in the Religious De- 
 velopment of Mankind; Chinese Thought; 
 Chinese Life and Customs; The Philoso- 
 pher's Martyrdom, a Satire ; God, a Solution 
 of the Problem from the Standpoint of Sci- 
 ence; also many shorter monographs and 
 pamphlets. He has edited an edition of 
 Kant's Prologomena, has translated and 
 published some of his own works in German, 
 and has translated, edited, and published 
 several works from the Chinese. Dr. Carus 
 is a member of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science, the Ameri- 
 can Oriental Society, Egypt Exploration 
 Fund, Illinois Academy of Science, Royal 
 Philosophical Association of London. Relig- 
 ious Education Association, Royal Asiatic 
 Society of England, Chicago Press Club and 
 the University Club of Chicago. Residence: 
 La Salle, 111. Office: Open Court Publish- 
 ing Co., 378 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 CARVALHO, David Nunes: 
 
 Handwriting expeit: born in Philadelp'nia, 
 Sept. 29, 1848; son of Solomon Nunes and 
 Sarah (Soils) Carvalho. He was graduated 
 from the College of the City of New York 
 (then called the New York Free Academy), 
 and he specialized' in organic chemistry, 
 photography, light and color. Since 1875 
 he has been professionally engaged as an 
 expert in handwriting and inks, was official 
 handwriting expert to the Grand Jury, New 
 York City, 1881-1906, and he has testified 
 in over one thousand cases where handwrit- 
 ing was in dispute, including many of na- 
 tional prominence in all sections of the 
 United States. He was the first expert in 
 the world to restore, in open court, fraudu- 
 lently bleached out handwriting, which he 
 did in 1884. In addition to his practice in 
 legal matters Mr. Carvalho has made re- 
 searches and discoveries of principles and 
 processes in optics and radiography, which 
 have proven of much practical value. He 
 was the first (1880) to separate white light 
 into its complementary parts in order to 
 absorb the actinic rays on the sensitive pho- 
 tographic plate, this being the principle 
 
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 upon which the present oithochromatic pro- 
 cesses arc based; and he was the first to 
 make photographs on celluloid. He was city 
 librarian of New York in charge of archives 
 in 1885, and while there made exhaustive 
 studies of ancient writing and inks. He is 
 author of: Forty Centuries of Ink, and of 
 numerous contributions to magazines; and 
 he is also well known as a diligent and suc- 
 cessful collector of incunabula. Mr. Car- 
 valho was president of the New York State 
 Reformatory for Women, 1892-1899. He 
 married in New Orleans, March 22, 1876, 
 Annie Abrams. Residence: 125 West 93rd 
 St. Office: 205 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 CART, Charles Preston: 
 
 State superintendent of public instruction 
 of Wisconsin; born at Marshall, Ohio, Jan. 
 28, 1856; son of William Henry Cary and 
 Eve Cary. His mother was of German de- 
 scent, and his father was directly related to 
 the political economist, Henry Carey. Until 
 lie was seventeen years of age he worked 
 on his father's farm in summer and attended 
 the district school in winter. At seventeen 
 he began to teach district school in winter 
 and continued working on the farm in sum- 
 mer. In 1877 he entered' the Ohio Central 
 Normal School, from which he was gradu- 
 ated in 1879. After this he taught for seven 
 years as principal of graded schools in 
 Ohio and Kansas, and served during most 
 of this period as county examiner of teach- 
 er and instructor in teachers' institutes. 
 In 1886 he was elected county superintend- 
 ent and two years later high school principal 
 at Fairbury, Neb., which position he resigned 
 in 1893 to become instructor in pedagogy 
 and principal of the training department 
 of the Milwaukee State Normal School, 
 which he resigned in 1901 to become super- 
 intendent of the Wisconsin School for the 
 Deaf, at Delavan, Wis. He resigned from 
 that position in 1902 to accept the Republi- 
 can nomination for the office of State super- 
 intendent of public instruction, to which he 
 was elected in 1902, reelected in 1905 as 
 a non-partisan candidate for four years, 
 and again reelected in 1909. He holds life 
 certificates to teach in the schools of Ne- 
 braska and Wisconsin, and is a graduate 
 
 of the University of Chicago, class of 1898. 
 He is an active member of the National 
 Educational Association ; a member of tiie 
 National Society for the Scientific Study 
 of Education, and has devoted his life to 
 the study of all the sciences and arts that 
 bear upon the problems of education. Ad- 
 dress : The Capitol, Madison, Wis. 
 
 CASE, Frances Powell: 
 
 Author; born in Newburgh, N. Y. ; daugh- 
 ter of Robert Ludlow and Marian (Gibson) 
 Case. She was educated at home and for 
 several years past has been engaged in 
 literary work under the pen-name of Fran- 
 ces Powell, and is author of : The House 
 on the Hudson; The By-Ways of Braithe; 
 The Prisoner of Ornith Farm; and Old Mr. 
 Davenant's Money, all published by Charles 
 Scribner's Sons. Address: Wainscott, L. I., 
 N. Y. 
 
 CASEY, Edward Pearce: 
 
 Architect; born in Portland'. Maine, Jime 
 IS. 1864; son of Brigadier-General Thomas 
 Lincoln and Emma (Weir) Casey. He was 
 educated at the Emerson Institute at Wash- 
 ington, and graduated from the School of 
 ]Mines of Columbia LTniversity. where he re- 
 ceived the degree of C.E. in 1886, and that 
 of architect in 1888. He studied also at 
 the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He was 
 supervising architect of the Congressional 
 Library Building, at Washington. 1892- 
 1897; was one of the six equal winners in 
 the New Y'ork City Hall competition in 
 1893; also, in conjunction with Professor 
 Burr in 1900, won the first prize for a 
 design for the Memorial Bridge over the 
 Potomac River, Washington; and in con- 
 junction with H. M. Shrad'y, won first prize 
 for a design for the Grant Monument at 
 Washington; and architect of Memorial 
 Continental Hall and the Connecticut Av- 
 enue Viaduct, also in Washington. Mr. 
 Casey is a member of the New Y'ork Chap- 
 ter of the American Institute of Architects, 
 the Beaux Arts Society, the Arcliitectural 
 League, the Natural Sculpture Society. Cen- 
 tury Association, and Sons of the Revolu- 
 tion. Residence: 55 W. 33d Street. Office: 
 1 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
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 CASEY, Silas: 
 
 Rear-admiral U. S. Navy, retired'; born 
 at East Greenwich, R. I., Sept. 11, 1847; 
 son of General Silas and Abbie (Pearce) 
 Casey. In 1856 he was appointed from 
 New York to the U. S. Naval Academy, 
 from which he was graduated in the class 
 of 18G0; and he was promoted through the 
 various grades until he became rear-admiral 
 March 3, 1899. He served on the steam 
 frigate, Niagara, 1800-1862, being in the 
 engagements with the batteries at Pensa- 
 cola, Fla., in 1861; also in several engage- 
 ments with Fort McAllister in 1862, while 
 serving on the gunboat Wissahickon, in 
 the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 
 1862-1863. While on the Quaker City, of 
 the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. 
 1863-1865, he took part in the first attack 
 on Charleston, under Admiral Dupont, and 
 in the attacks on Fort Fisher in Dec, 1864. 
 He served on the Winooska, Atlantic Squad- 
 ron, 1865-1867; at the Naval Academy, 
 1867-1870; on the frigate Colorado, Asiatic 
 Squadron, 1870-1873, and commanded a 
 battalion of sailors from that fleet in the 
 Korean Expedition and in the attack on 
 Fort McKee (Elbow Fort), on the Seoul 
 River, in June, 1872; he was on ordnance 
 duty at the Philadelphia Na^^ Yard, 1873- 
 1874; and after that commanded several 
 ships of the Navy, including the battleship 
 New York in 1897; was commandant of the 
 League Island Navy Yard, 1891-1901, and 
 commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet from 
 1901 until he was retired Sept. 11, 1903. 
 He married in Philadelphia, in Oct., 1865, 
 Sophie Gray Hebeiton. Address: 1729 P 
 Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 
 
 CASEY, Thomas L.: 
 
 Colonel, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. ; 
 born at West Point, N. Y., Feb. 19, 1857; 
 son of Brigadier-General Thomas Lincoln 
 and Emma (Weir) Casey. He was educated 
 at the SheflTield Scientific School of Yale 
 University, class of 1877 (non-graduate), 
 and was graduated from the United States 
 Military Academy in 1879. Since gradu- 
 ation he has been engaged in the profes- 
 sional work of the Corps of Engineers of 
 the United States Army. He was with the 
 
 United States Transit of Venus Expedition 
 to South Africa, 1882-1883; also a member 
 of the Greer County Commission in 1886, 
 and of the Mississippi River Commission, 
 1902-1906; was in charge of the fortifica- 
 tion work and submarine mine defense of 
 Hampton Roads during the war with Spain; 
 and since 1906 has been member and en- 
 gineer secretary of the Lighthouse Board. 
 He is author of numerous papers, chiefly 
 on biological subjects. Colonel Casey is a 
 fellow of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science ; a member of the 
 New York Academy of Sciences, the Phila- 
 delphia Academy of Natural Sciences, the 
 American Society of Naturalists, the Bio- 
 logical Society of Washington, the Societe 
 Entomologique d'e France, and others; is 
 a member of the University Club of New 
 York City, and the Cosmos, Metropolitan 
 and Chevy Chase Clubs of Washington, D. 
 C. Colonel Casey married in Philadelphia, 
 June 1, 1898, Laura Welsh. Address: 1419 
 K Street, Northwest, Washington, D. C. 
 
 CASSEL, Henry Burd: 
 
 Merchant and congressman; born in 
 ]\Iarietta, Lancaster County, Pa., Oct. 19, 
 1855; son of Abram Neff and Mary J. 
 Cassel. He was educated in the public 
 schools and the Columbia Classical Insti- 
 tute. He engaged in business pursuits and 
 is now senior member of the firm of A. N. 
 Cassel & Son, lumber dealers, and is also 
 associated as director or stockholder in 
 various other companies. He has always 
 been a staunch Republican, and' became 
 interested in politics at an early age. His 
 first public ofiice was as a member of the 
 county committee in 1881 ; he became chair- 
 man of the county committee in 1893; was 
 sent as a delegate to the National Repub- 
 lican Convention held in St. Louis in 1896, 
 and in 1898 was nominated and elected to 
 the lower house of the State Legislature, 
 wiiere his father had served fifty-nine years 
 before, and reelected in 1900. He was 
 elected from the old Tenth District of Penn- 
 sylvania, Nov. 5, 1901, to the Fifty-seventh 
 Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the 
 death of Hon. Marriott Brosius; and in 
 1902, 1904 and 1900 was reelected from 
 
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 the new Ninth District of Pennsylvania, 
 serving until March 4, lOOO. Address: 
 M.irietln, Pa. 
 
 CASSELBERRY, William Evans: 
 
 Physician; l)orn in Philadelphia, Sept. 6, 
 1858 • son of Jacob Rush and Ellen Lane 
 (Evans) Casselberry. He was educated at 
 tlip iM-cniont Seminary, [Morristown, Pa., 
 and graduated from the Lincoln Grammar 
 School. He attended jointly, the Auxiliary 
 Department of Medicine (Science) of the 
 University of Pennsylvania. 1875-1879, and 
 its Medical Department, from which he was 
 graduated M.D. in 1879. He was interne 
 at the Germantown Hospital, Philadelphia, 
 1879-1^81; took special courses at Vienna 
 General and London Throat Hospitals, 1882, 
 and since 1883 has practised at Chicago as 
 a specialist in lung, throat, and nasal dis- 
 eases. He was professor of therapeutics. 
 1883-1894, professor of laryngology and 
 rhinology, 1894-1908, and since then pro- 
 fessor emeritus in the Northwestern Uni- 
 versity jNIedical School. He is laryngologist 
 to St." Luke's and Wesley Hospitals of Chi- 
 cago, a member of the Chicago Academy of 
 Science, ex-president of the American Laryn- 
 gological Association and the Chicago 
 Laryngological Association, member of the 
 American Climatological Association, Amer- 
 ican ]\Iedical Association, and the Illinois 
 State and Chicago Medical Societies. He 
 is a Republican, and an adherent of the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church, and is a mem- 
 ber of the Onwentsia, University, Lake For- 
 est Winter and Physicians' Clubs of Chi- 
 cago. He married in Chicago, June 23, 1891. 
 Lillian Hibbard, and they have three chil- 
 dren. Address: 34 Washington Street, 
 Chicago. 
 
 CASSON, Herbert Nevpton: 
 
 Author, sociologist; born in Ontario, 
 Canada, in 1869; son of Rev. Wesley and 
 Elizabeth (Jackson) Casson. He was edu- 
 cated in Victoria College at Coburg, Ontario, 
 and afterward entered the INIethodist min- 
 istry in Canada, from which he later 
 resigned. He founded the first labor church 
 in America, .at Lynn, Mass., in 1893, lec- 
 tured on social reform in Great Britain, 
 
 the United States and' Canada, later editing 
 The Coming Nation, at Kuskin, Tenn. He 
 was an editor on the staff of the New York 
 Journal one year, the New York World four 
 years, afterward on the staff of Munsey's 
 ]\Iaga/.ine and contributing to various mag- 
 azines ; now member of The Emerson Com- 
 pany, efficiency engineers. He is also a 
 lecturer on humane education in the New 
 York Board of Education lecture course. 
 Mr. Casson is author of: The Crime of 
 Credulity; Organized Self-Help; The Races 
 that Made America; The Romance of Steel; 
 The Romance of the Reaper, etc. He was 
 president of the Brooklyn Philosophical As- 
 sociation, 1902-1903; is charter member of 
 the New York City Humane Society and of 
 the Railroad Club. Mr. Casson married at 
 Ruskin, Tenn., in 1899, .Lydia K. Com- 
 mander. Address: 1522 Hudson Terminal, 
 30 Church Street, New York City. 
 
 CASTLEMAN, John Breckinridge: 
 
 Retired citizen; born in Fayette County, 
 Ky., June 30, 1841; son of David and Vir- 
 ginia (Harrison) Castleman. He was at- 
 tending the Transylvania University, when, 
 at the age of nineteen years, he entered the 
 Confederate Army at the beginning of the 
 war as a trooper of Morgan's Cavalry, 
 serving until Oct., 1864, and becoming 
 major of Morgan's old regiment. He com- 
 manded the expedition which, in 1864, went 
 to release Confederate prisoners confined in 
 Illinois and Indiana, and while so engaged 
 he was captured, and was placed in solitary 
 confinement for nine months, and released 
 on parole, in July, 1865, to leave the United 
 States, never to return. The parole was 
 revoked by President Johnson. He studied 
 in Europe; was graduated from the law 
 department of the University of Louisville 
 in 1868, and engaged in the practice of law 
 in Louisville, later becoming identified with 
 insurance interests as manager for the 
 Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool, 
 1869-1902, when he retired. Governor 
 Knott appointed him adjutant-general of 
 Kentucky in 1883, and he has been com- 
 manding officer of the Louisville Legion 
 since 1891. He organized and enlisted the 
 First Kentucky Volunteer Infantry in 1898, 
 and served as its commander in the Porto 
 
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 Rican Campaign. He was commissioned 
 brigadier-genoral of United States Volun- 
 teers, and he declined the commission of \ 
 brigadier-general in the United States Army, 
 offered him by President ^loKinley. He 
 commanded the Kentucky Militia during the 
 trouble-* following the assassination of Gov- 
 ernor Goebel. He has taken great interest 
 in politics as a Democrat; was chairman 
 of the Democratic State Central Committee 
 from 1890 to 1892; and delegate to the 
 National Democratic Conventions of 1888 to 
 1892. He has been president of the Louis- 
 ville Board of Park Commissioners since 
 1891. Address: Louisville, Ky. 
 
 CATHCART, William Ledyard: 
 
 Engineer; born in Mystic. Conn., Aug. 
 12. 1855; son o'f William Catheart, D.D., 
 and Eliza (Caldwell) Catheart. He was 
 educated in the Philadelphia public schools, 
 the preparatory school of Henry D. Gregory, 
 the University of Pennsylvania, and the 
 United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. 
 ^Ir. Catheart was treasurer of a manufac- 
 turing company. 1891-1897; professor of 
 marine engineering at Webb's Academy of 
 Naval Architecture and Marine Engineer- 
 ing. New York City. 1897-1899. and adjunct 
 professor of mechanical engineering, Colum- 
 bia University, 1899-1903. After gradua- 
 tion from the Naval Academy he served in 
 the Engineer Corps of the United States 
 Naw until 1891, when he resigned to enter 
 private business. He volunteered in the 
 Spanish-American War, was appointed chief 
 engineer, U. S. Naw, and ordered to special 
 duty as assistant to Rear-Admiral Melville, 
 engineer-in-chief, U. S. Navy, at the Bu- 
 reau of Steam Engineering of the Navy 
 Department during that war. Mr. Cath- 
 eart is author of a work on Machine De- 
 sign, of two books on Graphic Statics, and 
 The Losses of Heat from Steam Pipes, now 
 in course of publication, and of variou- 
 technical papers. He is a member of the 
 American Society of Naval Engineers, So- 
 ciety of Naval Architects and Marine Engi- 
 neers. Franklin Institute, and American 
 Society of Mechanical ICngineers. He mar- 
 ried in Philadelphia in 1882. Mary Davis 
 Lee. Address: Gvvynedd, Pa. 
 
 CATLIN, Charles Albert: 
 
 Chemist; born in Burlington. Vt., May 
 10, 1849; son of Henry Wadhams and Mary 
 (Mayo) Catlin. He received his collegiate 
 education in the University of Vermont, 
 from which he received the degrees of B.S. 
 and Ph.B. He engaged in practice as a 
 chemist, and has specialized' in chemical 
 processes relating to the manufacture of 
 phosphates for dietetic use, has invented 
 and patented many chemical processes and 
 applications, has published a book on Bak- 
 ing Powders, which is a treatise on their 
 characteristics, and method's for determina- 
 tion of their chemical and dietetic values, 
 and he also published various papers in 
 technical and scientific journals on the com- 
 mercial value of cream of tartar substi- 
 tutes, on improved apparatus for the vol- 
 emetric determination of carbon dioxide, and 
 on other topics connected with his special 
 branch of chemical research. He is chem- 
 ist of the Rumford Chemical Works at 
 Providence, R. I., is a fellow of the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science, a member and a councillor of the 
 American Chemical Society, a member of 
 the Society of Cliemical Industry, a member 
 and director of the American Institute of 
 Chemical Engineers, and of other scientific 
 societies. He married at Burlington, Vt., 
 June 20, 1877. Frances L. Herrick. Ad- 
 dress: 133 Hope Street, Providence, R. I. 
 
 CATLIN, Louise Ensign: 
 
 Author; born in Lockport. N. Y.. May 
 9, 1861; daughter of H. A. and Halsey 
 (Oakley) Ensign. She was graduated from 
 Smith ' College as A.B.. 1881, and M.A., 
 1884, and did post-graduate work under pro- 
 fessors of the Sorbonne, Paris, and' the 
 University of Jena, Germany. She married 
 at Owego', N. Y., Oct., 1882, Frederick Ward 
 Catlin, and has a son. Randolph Catlin, 
 born Dec. 6, 1887, and graduate of Prince- 
 ton, 1908. Mrs. Catlin is author of: Mar- 
 jorie and Her Neighbors; My Little Lady 
 in Waiting; short .stories and' serials for 
 the various publications of the ]\Iethodist 
 Book Concern, and occasional travel sketches 
 for the New York Evening Post. She has 
 traveled throughout the American Continent 
 
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 and Europe, and a portion of the Orient. 
 Mrs. Catlin is a member of tlie Daughters 
 of the American Revolution and the Daugh- 
 ters of the Revolution ; and also of the 
 Smith College Alumna' Association. Ad- 
 dross: 285 Henry Street, Brooklyn. N. Y. 
 
 CATT, Carrie Chapman: 
 
 Lecturer; born in Ripon. Wis.; daughter 
 of Lucius and Maria (Clinton) Lane. She 
 was graduated from the Iowa State College 
 at Ames, with honors, was successively prin- 
 cipal and superintendent of schools, and 
 married first, Leo Chapman, who died' two 
 years after their marriage, and later mar- 
 ried George William Catt, a distinguished 
 engineer, who died in 1905. Mrs. Catt has 
 lectured' in every State in the Union and 
 in foreign countries on woman suffrage, 
 and is active in all the suffrage associations 
 and clubs where anything can be done for 
 llie advancement of women. She was elected 
 ])resid'ent of the National American Woman 
 Suffrage Association, when Miss Susan B. 
 Anthony retired, and' served four years, and 
 when, in 1904, in Berlin. Germany, the 
 International Woman Suffrage Alliance was 
 formed, Mrs. Catt was elected its president, 
 and still holds that office. In that capacity 
 she presided' over and conducted the meet- 
 ings of the Alliance in Copenhagen, Den- 
 mark, in 1906, and in Amsterdam, Holland, 
 in 1908. Address: 2 W. 86th Street, New 
 ^Ork City. 
 
 CATTELL, Henry Ware: 
 
 Physician and medical editor ; born in 
 Harrisburg. Pa., Oct. 7, 1862 ; son of Rev. 
 William C. Gattell, D.D., LL.D., and Eliza- 
 l)eth (McKeen) Gattell. He was gradu- 
 ated from Lafayette College in 1883, and 
 from tlie ^ledical Department of the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania as M.D. in 1887. 
 He was editor of International Medical Mag- 
 azine, 1894-1897; International Clinics, 
 190()-190;3; translator of Zeigler's Special 
 Pathology'; and is author of Post-Mortem 
 Pathology. Dr. Gattell is now editor of 
 Medical Notes and Queries and of Lippin- 
 cott's Medical Dictionary. He was demon- 
 strator of morbid anatomy at the University 
 of Pennsylvania, 1892-1897; senior coroner's 
 
 pliysician of Phihidclphia. 1 896] 899. and 
 has appeared as an expert in many murder 
 trials. He was director of the .\yer Clin- 
 ical Laboratory, 1899-1901, and' has been 
 patliologist to the Presbyterian Hospital. 
 the Philadelpliia Hospital and many others. 
 He has traveled extensively abroad and has 
 written many articles for the medical 
 press. Address: .S709 Spruce Street, Pliila- 
 ilelphia. 
 
 CATTELL, James McKeen: 
 
 Psychologist, editor and educator ; born 
 in Easton, Pa., May 25, 1860; son of Rev. 
 William C. Gattell," D.D.. LL.D. (president 
 of Lafayette College (1863-1883) , and Eliza- 
 beth (McKeen) Gattell. He was graduated 
 from Lafayette College, A.B. in 1880. A.M. 
 in 1883, and received from that college the 
 degree of LL.D. in 1907. He was a student 
 at G()ttingen, Leipzig, and Geneva, 1880- 
 1882; a fellow of Johns Hopkins University, 
 1882-1883, receiving the degree of Ph.D. in 
 1886. Dr. Gattell was lecturer in the Univ- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, and Bryn Mawr 
 College, 1887; in the University of Cam- 
 bridge, England, 1888 ; and professor of 
 psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 
 1888-1891. He has been professor of psy- 
 chology in Columbia University since 1891, 
 and during part of this time has been the 
 executive head of the Departments of Phi- 
 losophy and of Anthropology as well as of 
 Psychology. He was co-ed'itor of The Psy- 
 chological Review, 1893-1904; has been 
 editor of Science since 1894 ; of The Popular 
 Science Monthly since 1900, and of the 
 American Naturalist since 1908. He edited 
 American Men of Science in 1906. He is a 
 member of the National Academy of Sci- 
 ences; fellow of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science, and was its 
 vice-president in 1898; of the American 
 Psychological Association (president, 1895), 
 American Society of Naturalists (president, 
 1902) ; member of the American Philosophi- 
 cal Association, American Physiological So- 
 ciety; fellow of the American Ethnological 
 Society; member of the American Philo- 
 sophical Society ; fellow of the New York 
 Academy of Sciences (president, 1902 and 
 1903 ) , and of the London Aristotelian So- 
 
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 ciety. Dr. Cattel) is an extensive contrib- 
 utor to psychology of researches relating to 
 the measurement of psychological and' men- 
 tal processes, individual differences, etc. 
 Address: Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
 
 CATJGHY, Charles M.: 
 
 Consular official; appointed clerk in the 
 Department of State, Feb. 1, 1889, and re- 
 tired May 2, 1892. He was appointed consul 
 at Messina, Italy, Sept. 29, 1893, and trans- 
 ferred as consul at Malaga, Spain, in April, 
 1907. Address: Malaga, Spain. 
 
 CAULDWELL, Leslie Giffen: 
 
 Artist; born in New York City, Oct. 18, 
 1861 ; son of William and Eliza Ellen 
 Canldwell; and he was educated in the 
 schools of New York City, He was for a 
 time engaged on the New York Mercury, 
 of which his father was the head, but went 
 to Paris in 1884, becoming a student in 
 the Academic Julian, and a pupil of Bou- 
 langer, Lefebvre and Carolus Duran. He 
 exhibited pictures at the Paris Salon in 
 ISSG and 1888, at the Paris E.xposition in 
 1889, and at the annual salons on the 
 Champs du Mars from 1890 to 1896; also 
 in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy and 
 Society of British Artists, London, the 
 Academies at Liverpool and Berlin, Society 
 of American Artists and the National x\cad- 
 emy of Design, the Louisiana Purchase 
 Exposition and in several American cities. 
 Since 1896 he has made a profession of the 
 decorating and finishing of interiors, doing 
 that work at the Hotel Ritz in Paris, 1897- 
 
 1898, and Jn the Carlton Hotel, London, 
 
 1899. He was awarded the gold medal of 
 the Paris Exposition, 1900, for artistic 
 interior work at the British Pavilion and 
 the exhibit of Waring & Gillow in the 
 British Section of that Exposition. Since 
 Jan., 1907, he has been manager of the 
 New York branch of E. Alavoine & Co., of 
 Paris, interior decorators. Mr. Cauldwell 
 is a member of the Architectural League 
 and' of the Fencers' Club, in New York City 
 and otlicr aitistic and social orgiinizations. 
 Address: 58 W. Fifty-seventh Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 CHACE, Jonathan: 
 
 Ex-senator, manufacturer; born in Fall 
 River, Mass., July 22, 1829; son of Harvey 
 and Hannah (Wood) Chace. He received 
 his education in the Friends' School of 
 Providence, R. I., and engaged in manu- 
 facturing business. He was elected to the 
 Rhode Island State Senate, serving 1876- 
 1878. In 1880 he was elected to Congress 
 and in 1882 was reelected, serving in the 
 47th and 48th Congresses ; and in 1885 he 
 was elected to tlie United States Senate to 
 fill a vacancy. He served until 1889 and 
 was then reelected for a full six-year term, 
 but resigned after attending the short ses- 
 sion and returned to his manufacturing 
 interests. Senator Chace is a trustee of 
 Brown University. He married at Fallsing- 
 ton, Pa., in 1854, Jane C. Moon. Address: 
 Valley Falls, R. I. 
 
 CHADWICK, French Ensor: 
 
 Rear-admiral United States Navy, re- 
 tii-ed; born at Morganstown, W. Va., Feb. 
 29, 1844; son of Daniel and Margaret Eliza 
 (Evans) Chadwick. He was appointed from 
 Virginia to the United States Naval Acad- 
 emy Sept. 28, 1861, and continued in the 
 Navy as an officer, reaching the rank of 
 rear-admiral, Oct. 11, 1903, and being re- 
 tired by operation of law, Feb. 28, 1906. 
 Admiral Chadwick has filled the duties of a 
 naval officer in many stations. He was a 
 naval attache to the American Legation 
 at London, 1882-1889, sei'ved on several 
 boards, and was chief of the Bureau of 
 Equipment with the rank of commodore 
 from July, 1893, to Nov., 1897. He com- 
 manded the United States armored cruiser 
 New York, flagship of the North Atlantic 
 Squadron, from Dec, 1897, to Dec, 1899, 
 and was chief of stafl" to Admiral Sampson 
 during the Spanish-American War. He 
 took part in all the important actions in 
 Cuban waters during that war and was 
 advanced five numbers in his grade for 
 eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle. 
 He was president of the Naval War College, 
 1900-1903, and commanded the Soiith At- 
 lantic Squadron from 1904 until his retire- 
 ment. He is author of two volumes: 
 
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 Tenipeianient, Disease and Health ; and An 
 Unsolved Problem. He married at Utica, 
 N. Y., Nov. 20, 1878, Cornelia J. Miller. 
 Address: Newport, R. T. 
 
 CHADWICK, George Whitefield: 
 
 ]\Iusiciaii and cuinposer; born in Lowell, 
 Mass., Nov. 13, 1854. He received his gen- 
 eral education in the schools of Lowell, 
 studied music in German conservatories, 
 1877-1880. and after his return to America, 
 established himself in Boston, where he has 
 earned distinction as an organist and con- 
 ductor, and has also taken rank as one of 
 the foremost American composers. He is 
 now the director of the New England Con- 
 servatory of Music and' his services to the 
 country as one who has done much to raise 
 the standards of musical taste, and advance 
 the cause of musical education, have been 
 recognized by the conferring upon him by 
 Yale of the degree of A.M., and by Tufts 
 College of the degree of LL.D. His com- 
 jiositions include the opera Judith; the over- 
 tures Rip Van Winkle, Thalia, Melpomene, 
 Adonais and Euterpe; three symphonies; 
 the Dedication Ode for the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition, songs, string quartettes, 
 and various choral and orchestral works. 
 Address: 360 Marlborough Street, Boston. 
 
 CHAFFEE, Adna Romanza: 
 
 Lieutenant-general U. S. Army, retired; 
 born in Orwell, Ashtabula County, Ohio, 
 April 14, 1842. He was educated in the 
 public schools. He enlisted July 22, 18G1, 
 as a private in the Sixth Regiment U. S. 
 Cavalry, was commissioned second lieuten- 
 ant March 13, 1863, and first lieutenant 
 Feb. 23, 1805. At the close of the Civil 
 War he remained in the service and served 
 in several Indian campaigns. He was bre- 
 vetted several times for gallantry, both in 
 the Civil and Indian Wars and was ap- 
 pointed brigadier-general U. S. Volunteers, 
 May 4, 1898. He commanded the Third Bri- 
 gade of the Second Division of the Fifth 
 Army Corps, serving in the Santiago cam- 
 paign from June to Aug., 1898. He com- 
 manded the Second Division of the Fifth 
 Corps in Aug. and Sept., 1898; was pro- 
 moted major-general of U. S. Volunteers, 
 
 July 8, 1898; coiiunander of the First Di- 
 vision of the Fourth Corps in Nov. and Doe., 
 1898, and' was chief of stafT of the Division 
 of Cuba from Dec, 1898, to May, 1900. 
 He was honorably discharged as major- 
 general, April 13, 1899. but was again ap- 
 pointed brigadier-general of the U. S. Volun- 
 teers, April 13, 1899, and was assigned to 
 the command of the United States forces 
 for the relief of the United States Legation 
 at Peking, June 24, 1900. He arrived at 
 Peking, China, Aug. 14, 1900, and was pro- 
 moted major-general U. S. Army, Feb. 5, 
 1901. He was assigned to command the 
 Division of the Philippines and appointed 
 military governor, July 4, 1901, and was 
 relieved Sept. 30, 1902, and assigned to com- 
 mand the I^epartment of the East. He was 
 detailed to the General Staff Corps, Oct. 
 2. 1903, and assigned to duty as assistant 
 to the chief of staff at Washington. He 
 was promoted lieutenant-general U. S. 
 Army, and appointed chief of staff, Jan. 9, 
 1904, serving in that capacity until April 
 14, 1906, when he was retired from active 
 service bj'^ operation of law. General Chaf- 
 fee married at Junction City, Kan., March 
 30, 1875, Annie Frances Rockwell. Address: 
 987 INIagnolia Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif. 
 
 CHAFFEE, J. Irvin: 
 
 Mathematician and educator; born in 
 Seekonk, Mass., Jan. 3, 1861; son of Oliver 
 and Abby M. (Gray) Chaffee. He was 
 graduated from Brown University, A.B., 
 1883, A.M., 1886, and took post-graduate 
 work in Johns Hopkins University and the 
 University of Berlin, Germany. He was 
 principal of the High School in East Provi- 
 dence, R. I., 1882-1889; superintendent of 
 schools in Seekonk, Rehoboth and Swansea, 
 Mass., 1891-1892; principal of the Stratford 
 (Conn.) High School, 1893-1895. He has 
 been of the Faculty of Webbs' Academy and 
 Home for Shipbuilders, as professor of 
 mathematics since 1895, and dean of the 
 Faculty and resident manager since 1896. 
 Mr. Chaffee is co-author of a volume on 
 ]<]lements of Graphic Statics, soon to be 
 issued by the D. Van Nostrand Company. 
 He is a member of the Society of Naval 
 Architects and Marine Engineers and of the 
 
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 Masonic Order. He married in Rehoboth, 
 Mass., Dec. 23, 1885. Betsey Wright Marvel, 
 and lias a daughter and two sons. Address: 
 188th Street and Sedgwick Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 CHAFIN. Eugene W.: 
 
 Lawyer and lecturer; born at East Troy, 
 Wis., Nov. 1, 1852; son of Samuel E. and 
 Betsy (Polland) Chafin. He was graduated' 
 from the Universitj- of Wisconsin with the 
 degree of LL.B. in 1875. He practised law 
 at Waukesha, Wis., for twenty-five years. 
 Mr. Chaiin removed to Chicago in 11)01 to 
 become superintendent of the Washington- 
 ian Home, serving as such for three years, 
 and he is now a Chautauqua lecturer. He 
 has served as police justice and' as member 
 of the school and library board. He is a 
 Proliibitionist in politics, and was a can- 
 didate for Governor of Wisconsin in 1898, 
 and for attorney-general of Illinois in 1904. 
 He was nominated for President of the 
 United States July 16, 1908, at Columbus, 
 Ohio, by the Prohibition National Conven- 
 tion. He is author of: The Voter's Hand- 
 book, 1870; Lives of the Presidents, 1896; 
 Lincoln, the Man of Sorrow, 1908. Mr. 
 Chafin is a member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church. He was grand chief templar 
 of the Wisconsin Good Templars for four 
 years and of Illinois Good' Templars one 
 year, and is now president of the Good 
 Templars' Mutual Benefit Association, and 
 he is an Odd Fellow and Forester. He mar- 
 ried at \^■aukesha, Wis., Nov. 24, 1881, 
 Carrie A. Hunk ins, and they have a daugh- 
 ter, Desdemona Chafin. Address: 326 East- 
 wood Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 CaAILLe-LOWG, Charles: 
 
 Soldier and diplomat. One of the most 
 picturesque figures of the period since the 
 Civil War. He was born at Princess Anne, 
 Md., July 2, 1842, was educated at the 
 Washington Academy, Md., and attended 
 the Columbia College of Law in New York, 
 graduating in 1880, with the degree of 
 J-iL.B. He entered llii' L'nion Army during 
 the Civil War and became a captain in the 
 Eleventh Maryland Infantry. At the close 
 of tbo war he went to ICgyiit, and was ap- 
 
 pointed, in 1869, a lieutenant colonel in the 
 general stall' of the Egyptian Army. He 
 was chief of staft" to General Gordon, gov- 
 ernor of the Equatorial Provinces of Egypt, 
 1874-1877, and during this service made ex- 
 tensive explorations of the unknown Vic- 
 toria Nile; discovered Lake Ibrahim an-d 
 completed the solution of the problem of the 
 sources of the Nile, left incomplete by Speke 
 and Baker. He was decorated, promoted 
 Colonel and' Bey, and cited in General Or- 
 ders to the Army for distinguished gallantry 
 at M'rooii, and for the success of the diplo- 
 matic mission by which the Treaty of Ugan- 
 da was executed and that country annexed 
 to Egypt. In 1882, when the United States 
 Consulate at Alexandria was abandoned in 
 a moment of peril by its faithless agents, 
 the United States requested him to take 
 charge. Under his direction the consulate 
 became the refuge of foreigners of all na- 
 tions, and before and after the bombard- 
 ment and burning of Alexandria, with the 
 aid of United States sailors and marines, 
 he saved hundred's of lives, including those 
 of the Khedive and family, and saved' the 
 city of Alexandria fi'om entire destruction. 
 He was secretary of the legation and consul- 
 general from the United States to Korea, 
 1887-1889; secretary. Universal Postal Con- 
 gress, W ashington. May, 1887 ; secretary, 
 Aug., 1897, and charge d'alTaires, Oct., 1897, 
 to Sept., 1898, of tlie U. S. Special Commis- 
 sion to the Paris Exposition of 1900. He is 
 a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur of 
 France; an -honorary member of the Institut 
 Egyptien ; a member of the Maryland His- 
 torical Society, and is also a member of the 
 geographical societies of Cairo, Paris, 
 Koueii, and Bordeaux, the Societa Africana 
 d Italia, and is registrar in France for the 
 Sons of American Revolution. He was pre- 
 sented by the General Assembly of Mary- 
 land, (by a unanimous vote,) with resolu- 
 tions of thanks and a gold medal for " serv- 
 ices to science and valiant conduct in Cen- 
 tral Africa and Egypt," March 3, 1904. He 
 is tlie Autiior of: Central Africa — Naked 
 Truths of Naked Peo|)l('. 1876; L'Afrique 
 Centrale, 1877: The Thicf I'lopliets, 1883; 
 Les Sources dii Nil. IS'.U: L'Fgypte et ses 
 Prox iiici's I'crdues. IS'.IJ; La Cor6e on 
 
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 Clioscn La Tone du Calme Matinal, 1894; 
 Les Combattants Francais, 1778-1783, Paris 
 1905 also the Aiiieriean edition 190G. He is 
 a contributor to French and American re- 
 views and magazines on Egyptian and Afri- 
 can subjects. Since his last public service 
 lie has contributed many notable articles to 
 American and foreign publications, and is 
 chiefly engaged in historical research and 
 writing. Colonel Chaille-Long married at 
 Crown Point, N. Y., July 16, 1890, Marie 
 Amelie Hannnond. Address: Maryland 
 Historical Society, Baltimore, Md. 
 
 CHALMERS, Stephen: 
 
 Novelist and poet; born in Dunoon, Scot- 
 land, Feb. 29, 1880; son of Stephen and 
 Katherine Maria (McFarland) Chalmers. 
 He was educated at a Scots grammar school, 
 began active life as a telegraph messenger, 
 and studied telegraphy and various other 
 things which tilted him for journalistic gen- 
 cial work. He served on the staff of the 
 Daily Gleaner, Kingston, Jamaica, 1900- 
 1!)01 : New York Commercial, 1902; New 
 York World, 1902-1903; New York Sun, 
 1904; New York Times, 1904-1907. In 1907 
 he took up fiction and verse as a profession, 
 retiring from newspaper life because of ill 
 health. He has traveled as correspondent 
 for newspapers, to the West Indies, the Ca- 
 nal Zone, Columbia, Venezuela, etc. Mr. 
 Chalmers is author of: A Daughter of the 
 Armada; Little Lights (verse) ; and the 
 Vanishing Smuggler (1909). Residence: 
 Saranac Lake, N. Y. Office: Care New 
 York Times, New York City. 
 
 CHAMBERLAIN, Eugene Tyler: 
 
 United States commissioner of naviga- 
 tion; born in Albany, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1856; 
 son of General Frank Chamberlain and 
 Celia Deborah (Tyler) Chamberlain. He 
 was graduated with honors in metaphysics 
 from Harvard University in 1878. After 
 his graduation he was instructor in Albany 
 Academy for a year, following whicli he was 
 engaged in a grain and elevator business for 
 two years. He then engaged in the nevvspa- 
 ]jer business in Albany and in December, 
 1S93, he was appointed United States Com- 
 missioner of Navigation at Washington, the 
 
 office ho now liolds. He is an honorary as- 
 sociate of the Society of Naval Architects 
 and Marine Engineers, member of the Amer- 
 ican Maritime Law Association, of the Mili- 
 tary Order of the Loyal Legion, and various 
 social clubs. He is an occasional contribu- 
 tor to American and foreign publications on 
 subjects relating to merchant sliipping and 
 seamen. He married at Wasiiinglon, D. C, 
 April 17, 1900, Mary Lee Barnettc, (died 
 Aug. 29, 1904). Residence: The Ethel- 
 hurst, 15th & L. Sts. N. W. Address : Bu- 
 reau of Navigation, Department of Com- 
 merce and Labor, W^ashington, D. C. 
 
 CHAMBERLAIN, George A.: 
 
 Consular official. He was appointed dep- 
 uty consul-general at Rio Janeiro, April 29, 
 1904; appointed vice-deputy consul-general, 
 June 24, 1904, and retired December, 1904. 
 He was appointed consul at Pernambuco, 
 June 22, 1906. Address: Pernambuco, 
 Brazil. 
 
 CHAMBERLAIN, George Earle: 
 
 United States senator; born near Natchez, 
 Miss., Jan. 1, 1854; son of Charles Tiiomp- 
 son and Pamelia A. (Arthur) Chamberlain. 
 He received his education in the Washington 
 and Lee Universities of Virginia, where he 
 was graduated from both the classical and 
 law departments of that institution in 1876. 
 Following his graduation he removed to 
 Oregon in December, 1876, where he engaged 
 in the successful practice of law. He also 
 became prominent in politics as a Democrat; 
 was elected to the House of Representatives 
 of the Oregon Legislature in 1880, and dis- 
 trict attorney of the Third Judicial District 
 of Oregon, for a two-year term, in 1884. He 
 was appointed in May, 1891, and elected in 
 1892, to the office of attorney general of Ore- 
 gon, which he filled until January, 1895, 
 and was elected to a four-year term as dis- 
 trict attorney of the Fourth Judicial Dis- 
 trict of Oregon, in June 1900. He resigned 
 that office, however, upon his election in 
 1902 to the oflice of governor of Oregon, and 
 in 1906 he was reelected for a second four- 
 year term, but resigned the office upon his 
 election by the legislature as United States 
 Senator from Oregon for the six year term 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 expiring March 4. 1915. Senator Chamber- 
 lain married in Natchez, Miss., May 21, 
 
 1879, Sarah Newman Welch. Address: 
 Portland. Ore. 
 
 CHAMBERLAIN, John Loomis: 
 
 Cokdiel and inspoctor-genera], U. S. A.; 
 born in South Livonia, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1858; 
 son of Jabez Lewis and' Charity (Hart) 
 Chamberlain. He was educated in the dis- 
 trict schools until 1871, then at the State 
 Normal School at Geneseo, N. Y., until 187G, 
 when he entered the United States Military 
 Academy from which he w'as graduated in 
 
 1880. He was also graduated from the Ar- 
 tillery School and the School of Submarine 
 Mines, at Willot's Point. He was appointed 
 second lieutenant. First Artillery, June 12, 
 1880; first lieutenant, Aug. 14, 1887; cap- 
 tain, March 2, 1889; major and' inspector- 
 general, Nov. 10, 1900; lieutenant-colonel 
 and inspector-general, March 1, 1901, and 
 colonel and inspector-general, Nov. 14, 1904. 
 He was engaged on regimental duty, 1880- 
 August, 1884; was instructor of the depart- 
 ment of chemistry at the United States 
 Militai-y Academy, from August, 1884 to 
 August^ 1888; at the Artillery School until 
 July, 1890; was on ordnance duty, Navy 
 Yard, Washington, until April, 1892; chief 
 ordnance ofFiccr of the Department of the 
 Missouri until August, 1893, and on regi- 
 mental duty until Janviary, 1895. He was 
 military instructor at the Peekskill Military 
 Academy until August, 189G, then on regi- 
 mental duty until July, 1897. He was then 
 appointed military attache to the American 
 Legation at Vienna; became adjutant on 
 the Siege Artillery Train and chief ordnance 
 office and adjutant-general of the First Di- 
 vision of the Seventh Army Corps in 1898; 
 major of United States Volunteers from 
 July 18, 1898, to April 12, 1890, when he 
 was honorably discharged from volunteer 
 service. He was adjutant of the First Ar- 
 tillery from 1S99 to 1900; inspector-general 
 of the Department of California, from 1901 
 to 1902, and inspector-general of the Philip- 
 jiine Division 1903-1904; on leave in China 
 and Japan in February and March, 1905; 
 inspector-general Pacific Division and De- 
 partment of California, 1905-1907; from 
 
 Dec. 1907 to Aug. 1908, inspector-general 
 Department of the East, and since Aug. 
 1908 has been on duty in the office of the 
 inspector-general, LT. S. Army. Colonel 
 Chamberlain is a member of the Metropoli- 
 tan and the Army ajid Navy Clubs of Wash- 
 ington, D. C. Colonel Chamberlain married 
 at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, Sept. 
 9, 1896, Carolyn Marrow. Their children 
 are: John Loomis, Junior, born May 28, 
 1903, and Carolyn, born April 14, 1906. Ad- 
 dress: Care War Department, Washington 
 ,D. C. 
 
 CHAMBERLAIN, Joshua Lawrence: 
 
 Ex-governor of Maine; born at Brewer, 
 Me., Sept. 8, 1828; son of Joshua and' Sarah 
 Dupee (Brastow) Cliamberlain. He was ed- 
 ucated at the Bowdoin College, receiving 
 the degree of A.B. in 1852, A.M. in 1855, 
 and LL.D. in 1869; was graduated from Ban- 
 croft Theological Seminary in 1855 and re- 
 ceived' the LL.D. degree from Pennsylvania 
 College in 1866. He became professor of 
 rhetoric and oratory at Bowdoin College in 
 185G. He entered the Union Army as lieu- 
 tenant-colonel of the Twentieth Maine Infan- 
 try, became its colonel in 1863, took part in 
 the battle of Gett^'sburg, was given the Con- 
 gressional Medal of Honor for bravery there, 
 and, on the battlefield of Petersburg, Va., 
 was promoted brigadier-general by General 
 Grant. He commanded the parade on the 
 surrender of General Eobert E. Lee, and was 
 commander of the First Division of the 
 Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac. 
 During the War he was wounded three 
 times, once almost fatally, and he received 
 the brevet of major-general in 1865 for dis- 
 tinguished gallantry in action. He was elect- 
 ed governor of Maine, serving from 1866 lo 
 1871, and major-general of Maine charged 
 with the protection of peace and order in the 
 absence of civil government in 1879 and 1880. 
 From 1871 to 1882 he was president of Bow- 
 doin College. He was United' States com- 
 missioner of education to the Paris Exposi- 
 tion in 1900. General Chamberlain has been 
 department conunander of the Grand Army 
 of the Republic in Maine, and is a companion 
 of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion 
 and the Society of the Army of the Potomac. 
 
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 lie is author of several books on historical 
 and philosophical subjects. Ecsidence: in 
 Brunswick, ]\Ic. Olfice address: Portland, 
 Me. 
 
 CHAMBERLAIN, Leander Trowbridge: 
 
 Cleroyman; born in West Brookficld, 
 Mass.. Sept. 26, 1837; son of Eli and Achsah 
 ( Forbes ) Chamberlain. He was educated at 
 the Phillips Academy, And'over, Mass., and 
 at Yale, — being valedictorian in both insti- 
 tutions — . where he received the degree of 
 B.A. with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1863. 
 He was graduated from the Andover The- 
 ological Seminary in 1869; and received 
 from the University of Vermont the degree 
 of D.D. in 1879. He served in the United 
 States Navy as assistant paymaster and af- 
 terward as naval storekeeper and judge ad- 
 vocate of the South Pacific Squadron, 1863- 
 1867. He was pastor of the New England 
 Congregational Church of Chicago 1869- 
 1876; the Broadway Congregational Church, 
 Norwich, Conn., 1876-1883; and of the Clas- 
 son Avenue Presbyterian Church of Brook- 
 lyn, from 1883-1890, when he resigned. He 
 was superintendent of relief, after the great 
 Chicago fire in 1871, and is now president of 
 the Evangelical Alliance for the United 
 States ; president and treasurer of the Amer- 
 ican and Foreign Christian Union; presi- 
 dent of the New York State Colonization 
 Society; chairman of the directors of the 
 Thessalonica Agricultural and Industrial 
 Institute; vice-chairman of the Immigration 
 Department of the National Civic Federa- 
 tion ; patron of the Gem Collection in the 
 National Museum at Washington ; patron 
 and honorary curator of eocene mollusca, in 
 the Academy of Natural Sciences at Phila- 
 delphia; honorary associate of the Smith- 
 sonian Institution, and director of the 
 American India Relief Association. Dr. 
 Chamberlain is the author of A Short His- 
 tory of the English Bible; Colonial Policy 
 of the United States; The State, Its Origin, 
 Nature and Functions; The Evolutionary 
 Philosophy; Patriotism and the Moi'al Law; 
 Government Not Founded in Force; The 
 Suflfrage and Majority Rule, A Citizen's 
 Manual, and the True Doctrine of Prayer. 
 He is a member of the Executive Committee 
 
 of the Civil Service Reform Association, the 
 New York Academy of Science, The Torrey 
 Botanical Club, the New York Historical So- 
 ciety, and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. His 
 clu«bs are the Century, the Authors, the 
 Quill, and Sigma Chi. Dr. Chamberlain 
 married in Philadelphia in 1890, Francis 
 Lea, who died in 1894. Address : 222 West 
 Twenty-third Street, New York City. 
 
 CHAMBERLIN, Henry Barrett: 
 
 Journalist: born in Washington. D. C, 
 March 10, 1807, and resided in boyhood in 
 Mansfield, Ohio, where he attended school, 
 afterward taking a partial law course in the 
 Law School of Northwestern University. He 
 edited and published The Guardsman, a mil- 
 itary newspaper, from 1886-1892, and did 
 work as a reporter on the leading Chicago 
 newspapers. He was night manager of the 
 City Press Association from 1891, with the 
 Laffan Bureau and the New York Sun, 1894, 
 and was afterward, for two years, with the 
 Omaha World-Herald, in charge of various 
 departments. Mr. Chamberlin was in 
 charge during the Spanish-American War of 
 the Chicago Record's dispatch boat " Hercu- 
 les," which was the only newspaper boat 
 present at the battle of Santiago, July 3, 
 1898, where he was between the fire of the 
 fleets. While in that command he cruised 
 35,000 miles in the waters of Cuba, Porto 
 Rico and the West Indies, covering news 
 and stories. At the close of the Spanish 
 War he became city editor of the Chicago 
 Record, 1898-1901, and then was until 1904 
 assistant secretary of the INIunicipal Voters' 
 League, a non-partisan organization which 
 became a great purifying force in the local 
 politics of Chicago by the publicity given to 
 the records and environments of candidates 
 for office. He established and is editor of 
 The Voter, a paper devoted to the advocacy 
 of clean politics, and is writer of a column 
 entitled Stories of the Streets and of the 
 Town, in the Chicago Record-Herald. Mr. 
 Chamberlin is secretary of the State Legis- 
 lation Committee of the City Council of 
 Chicago, assistant secretary of the Chicago 
 Charter Convention, is captain of the First 
 Infantry, Illinois National Guard, and is a 
 member of the Press, Iroquois and City 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Clubs. He inarried' in 1903, Irene Celens 
 
 Byrne. Residence: 5227 Calumet Avenue. 
 
 Office: 312 Record-Herald Building, Chica- 
 go. 111. 
 
 CHAMBERLIN, Thomas Chrowder: ' 
 
 (Itologist: liorn in :\Itittoon, 111., Sept. 25, 
 1843. He was graduated from Beloit Col- 
 lege, A.B., 186G, receiving the A.M. degree, 
 1869. University of Michigan, B.S., 1869; 
 and he has received the degree of Ph.D. from 
 the Universities of Michigan and Wiscon- 
 sin, 1882, LL.D. from the University of 
 Michigan, Beloit College, and Columbian 
 University, 1887, University of Wisconsin, 
 1904, and Sc.D. from the University of Illi- 
 nois, 1905. He was professor of natural 
 science in the State Normal School at 
 Whitewater, Wis., 1869-1873; professor 
 of geology in Beloit College, 1873-1882; 
 president of the University of Wisconsin, 
 1887-1892; head of the Department of 
 Geolog}-. and director of the Walker Mu- 
 seum of the University of Chicago, since 
 1892. Professor Chamberlin was assist- 
 ant State geologist of Wisconsin. 1873- 
 1876, chief geologist of Wisconsin 1876- 
 1882, and geologist of the Peary Relief 
 Expedition of 1894. He made a special 
 study of the glaciers of Switzerland in 
 1878, and has been United States geologist 
 in charge of the Division of glacial geolo- 
 gy since 1882. He is editor of the Jour- 
 nal of Geology, author of The Geology of 
 Wisconsin, and joint author with Profes- 
 sor R. D. Salisbury of a General Treatise 
 on Geology, and has been an extensive con- 
 tributor of papers on geological sub- 
 jects to the Scientific press. Professor 
 Chamberlin has been a member of the Na- 
 tional Academy of Science since 1902, and 
 was president of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science in 1908. 
 He was apj)ointed a member of the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago Oriental Investigation 
 Commission in 1909. He married, in 1867, 
 Alma Isabel Wilson. Address: Univer- 
 sity of Chicago, Chicago. 
 
 CHAMBERS, Julius: 
 
 Journali.st. author; born at Bellefon- 
 taine, Ohio, Nov. 21, 1850. He was grad- 
 
 uated from Cornell University (Phi Beta 
 Kappa and Delta Kappa Epsilon) in the 
 class of 1870, afterward studied in the 
 Columbia Law School, and later read law 
 under U. S. Attorney General Brewster. 
 He entered the service of the New York 
 Tribune the day after leaving Cornell 
 University in 1870; joined the staff of 
 the New York Herald in February, 1873, 
 and was its city editor 1876-1877. He 
 fitted out an expedition to the headwaters 
 of the Mississippi in 1872, and on June 4, 
 1872, he discovered Elk Lake, Minnesota, 
 now recognized as the source of the great 
 river. He served on the New York Herald 
 over fifteen years, in the London, Paris, 
 Havana, Madrid, and Washington offices; 
 was called to New York City to become 
 managing editor in October, 1886, and 
 during this period (in 1887) started The 
 Paris edition of The Herald'. He wa*s 
 managing editor of the New York World 
 from 1889-1891; and since then has been en- 
 gaged in literature and travel. He is au- 
 thor of: A Mad World; On a Margin, A 
 Wall Street Story; Lovers Four and Maid- 
 ens Five; Missing, a Romance of the Sar- 
 gasso Sea; The Rascal Club; and The Des- 
 tiny of Doris. He edited an edition of Bal- 
 zac; is author of a farce produced in New 
 York in 1903, and of a comedy produced 
 in New York in 1904, and has published 
 over a hundred and fifty short stories and 
 numerous travel books. Mr. Chambers is a 
 member of the National Geographical So- 
 ciety, and a 32d-degree Mason; and is 
 non-resident lecturer on journalism at Cor- 
 nell University. He is a member of the 
 Authors and Lotos Clubs of New York City. 
 Address : 558 Fifth Avenue, New York 
 City. 
 
 CHAMBERS, Robert William: 
 
 Author and artist: born in Brooklyn, N. 
 Y., May 26, 1865; son of William P. and 
 Caroline (Boughton) Chambers. He stud- 
 ied in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute 
 and afterward in Paris, at the Academe Jul- 
 ian, including among his instructors Lefe- 
 burs, Carmon, Conlin and Benjamin-Con- 
 stant, remaining at work in the Champs 
 de Mars Salon until 1891, when he returned 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 to the United States, and engaged in illus- 
 trating in Life, Truth, Vogue, and other 
 jmblications. Since 1894 he has given his 
 entire time to literary occupations as a 
 w liter of books and short stories, also 
 I icing one of the best known of American 
 writers on tield sports and other out-door 
 matters. His books, many of which are 
 ranked with the best sellers, include: In 
 the Quarter; The King in Yellow; The Red 
 Republic; A King and a Few Dukes; 
 With the Rand (verse) ; Lorraine; The 
 Conspirators; Cardigan; The Maids of Par- 
 adise; The Maid-at-Arms; lole; Outdoor 
 Land; Orchard Land; Forest Land; The 
 Fighting Chartce; Mountain Land; Tracer 
 of Lost Persons; The Tree of Heaven; The 
 Second Generation; etc. He also wrote for 
 Miss Ada Rehan The Witch of Ellangowan, 
 a drama played in Daly's Theatre in New 
 York City. Mr. Chambers is a member of 
 tile Century and Calumet Clubs of New 
 York. He married in New York City, in 
 18!)8. Elsa Vaughn Moler. Address: 43 
 Fast 83rd Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 CHAMBERS, William Lea: 
 
 •Jurist; l)orii in Columbus, Ga., March 4, 
 1852; son of William Henry and Anne 
 (Flewellen) Chambers. He attended Emory 
 College, Georgia, taught school for two 
 years while studying law, and was admitted 
 to the bar in 1873, engaging successfully in 
 the practice of the law in Alabama, and be- 
 came president of the First National Bank 
 of Montgomery, Ala. He became identified 
 with important real estate interests in 
 Northern Alabama, and became president 
 of the company which founded Sheffield, 
 Ala., now the second city of the South in 
 the volume of its iron production, which 
 city has been his home since 1888. He was 
 appointed as the American member of the 
 Joint Commission created by the Berlin 
 Treaty between the United States, England 
 and Germany in reference to the Govern- 
 ment of Samoa, and in 1897 he was ap- 
 pointed chief justice of the International 
 Court of Samoa. Since 1900 Judge Cham- 
 bers has been a member of the Spanish 
 Treaty Claims Commission. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Archaeological Institute of Amer- 
 
 ica, the National Geographic Society, the 
 Alabama Historical Society and the Chi 
 Phi fraternity. He married, Oct. 27, 1873, 
 Laura Ligon Clopton. Residence: Shef- 
 field, Ala.' Olllce: 1415 H Street, N. W. 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 CHAMPION, Charles Sumner: 
 
 Patent lawyer; born in Washington, D. 
 C; son of Charles and Catherine Eliza- 
 beth (Hyde) Champion. He was educated 
 in public and iiigli schools in Washington, 
 and New York University Law School. He 
 has been engaged for twenty years in prac- 
 tice as solicitor, lawj'er, mechanical, elec- 
 trical and chemical expert, principally for 
 the leading inventors of America and Eu- 
 rope, among them Thomas A. Edison, first 
 on the records of the United States Patent 
 Office with 750 patents, and six years, 
 (1894-1900) with Francis H. Richards, sec- 
 ond on the list with nearly 700 patents; and 
 first assistant in charge (1893-1894) of all 
 the American patent interests of Dr. Wer- 
 ner von Siemens and the various Siemens 
 companies of Europe and America. He has 
 been patent counsel at different times for 
 members of the late firm of Evarts, Choate 
 & Beaman, patent counsel continuously since 
 1901 for Frank E. Kinsman, inventor of the 
 automatic train stop, etc., and for Ellas 
 E. Ries, inventor of the alternating current 
 railway system, etc. Politically he is an 
 independent Republican, and in 1905 started 
 and conducted in the Seventh Assembly Dis- 
 trict of Brooklyn the first campaign in New 
 York State for the selection of party leaders 
 by direct primary nominations, and he is 
 a member of the Executive Committee of 
 the Brooklyn Young Republican Club. He 
 is a member of the New York State Histori- 
 cal Association and the Phi Delta Phi fra- 
 ternity. Residence: Ridgewood, N. J. Of- 
 fice: 50 Cluucli Street. New York City. 
 
 CHAMPNEY, Elizabeth Williams: 
 
 Author; born in Springfield, Ohio, Feb. 
 6, 1850; daughter of Judge Samuel B. and 
 Caroline (Johnson) Williams. She was 
 graduated from Vassar College as A.B., 
 1809, and married in Manhattan. Kan., May 
 15, 1873, J. Wells Champney, distinguished 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 artist, who died' IMay 1, 1903, and by whom 
 she had two children: Edouard Frere 
 Cliampney (A. B. Harvard, and ficole des 
 l^eanx Arts), architect, and Mrs. INIarie 
 Chanipney Humphreys (A. B. Vassar, 
 189G), artist, who died Dec. 3, 1906. Mrs. 
 Chanipney is author of forty juvenile books, 
 among others the Three Vassar Girls 
 Abroad series. Witch Winnie series, Great 
 Grandmother's Girls series, Dames and 
 Daughters of Colonial Days series; and 
 for adults; Romance of the French Cha- 
 teaux (three volumes) ; Romance of the 
 French Abbeys; and Romance of the Ital- 
 ian Villas (two volumes) ; also many mag- 
 azine articles and stories. She is vice-pres- 
 ident of the Messiah Home for Children, 
 New York City, and is a member of the 
 Congregational Church, the Society of Co- 
 lonial Dames, the Vassar Alumna;, Ameri- 
 ca Historical Association, and the Wednes- 
 day Afternoon and Sorosis Clubs of New 
 York City. Mrs. Chanipney is familiar 
 with France by many tours and long resi- 
 dence in that country and has made occa- 
 sional visits to Italy and other parts of Eu- 
 rope. Address: " The Elmstead " (her an- 
 cestral home), Deer field, Mass. 
 
 CHANCELLOR, William Estabrook: 
 
 Superintendent of schools, university lec- 
 turer and author; born in Dayton, Ohio, 
 Sept. 25, 18G7 ; son of David Warwick Chan- 
 cellor and Harriet (Estabrook) Cliancellor. 
 He was graduated from Amherst College as 
 A.B. in 1889, and M.A. in 1895; from Long 
 Island Medical School in 1892, from Har- 
 vard Law School in 1895, and from the 
 School of Pedagogy of New York Univer- 
 sity in 1904. He was superintendent of 
 schools at Bloomfield, N. J., from 1897- 
 1904; of Patterson, N. J., from 1904-1906. 
 and of the District of Columbia, 1906-1908. 
 He was lecturer at New Y^ork University, 
 1904-1900, and has been lecturer at George 
 Washington since 1906; Johns Hopkins Uni- 
 vcristy since 1907; and the University of 
 Chicago and the University of Wooster 
 since 1907, on Education. He is now super- 
 intendent of schools of South Norwalk, 
 Town of Norwalk, Conn. He is author of: 
 A Theory of Notions, Ideals and Values in 
 
 Education; Our Schools, Their Administra- 
 tion and Supervision; Our City Schools — 
 Their Direction and Management; and ten 
 works on mathematics, five works in Amer- 
 ican history, various text-books and of num- 
 erous magazine articles. He is a member of 
 the American Academy of Political and So- 
 cial Science, the American Historical Asso- 
 ciation, the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, etc.; and a mem- 
 ber of the Masonic order, the Alpha Delta 
 Phi fraternity, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
 Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C, and Al- 
 pha Delta Phi Club of New York. He mar- 
 ried at Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 14, 1892, • 
 Louise Beecher, who died in Washington, 
 D. C, Aug. 18, 1908, there are four daugh- 
 ters and one son. Address: 28 East Ave- 
 nue, Norwalk, Conn. 
 
 CHANDLER, Albert Brown: 
 
 President of the Postal-Telegraph Cable 
 Company; born in West Randolph, Vt., Aug. 
 29, 1840. He is of the American family of 
 Chandlers, which had its origin in three 
 brothers who settled in Roxbury, Mass., in 
 1637, and is also a descendant of John Win- 
 throp, first governor of Massachusetts, 
 through his daughter, Mary Winthrop. He 
 was educated in the schools of West Ran- 
 rolph, Vt., spending his vacation learning 
 the printing art and working as a composi- 
 tor, and also learning telegraphy and work- 
 ing as a messeger in the local telegraph 
 office. He was manager of the Western 
 Union Telegraph office at Bcllaire, Ohio, 
 1858-1859; was in the office of the superin- 
 tendent of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh 
 Railroad in 1859 for three months, then be- 
 came agent for the same road' at Man- 
 chester, Pa., until 1863. In 1863 he was 
 cipher operator in the War Department, 
 and in October of the same year, distribut- 
 ing clerk for General Eckcrt, superintendent 
 of telegraph of the Department of the Po- 
 tomac, until 1866. He was chief clerk in 
 the office of superintendent of the Eastern 
 Division in 1886, and was also placed in 
 charge of transatlantic cable tralfic, and 
 later, in addition, was made superintendent 
 of the Sixth District of the Eastern Division 
 until January, 1875, when he became as- 
 
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 sistant general manager of the Atlantic and 
 Pacific Telegraph Company, in which he be- 
 came suceessivoly secretary, trustee, treas- 
 urer and vice-president, and in 1879 presi- 
 iUmt until the absorption of that company 
 l)y the ^Yestern Union Telegraph Company 
 in 1S82. He was also president of the Ful- 
 ler Electric Company, one of the first com- 
 panies engaged in the arc system of electric 
 lighting, in October, 1881. He was employ- 
 ed in December, 1884, at instance of John 
 W. Mackay, as counsel by the Postal Tele- 
 graph and Cable Company, and appointed 
 receiver of the same company in 1885 by the 
 Supreme Court of New York. Through 
 his efl'orts the company was reorganized and 
 he became its president and manager; also 
 general manager of the United Lines Tele- 
 graph Company, and director, vice-president 
 and member of the executive committee of 
 the Commercial Cable Company, and of the 
 Pacific Postal Telegraph Company; and di- 
 rector and later president of the Commerc- 
 ial Telegraph Company. With several chief 
 officials of the Western Union Telegraph 
 Company, he efl'octed in 1887 arrangements 
 for the discontinuance of the previously 
 existing destructive competition. He is now 
 president of the New England Telegraph 
 Company; vice-president of the Commer- 
 cial Cable Company, the Postal Telegraph 
 and Cable Company, the Otis Elevator Com- 
 pany, and the National Surety Company. 
 Mr. Chandler married at West Randolph, 
 Vt., Oct. 11, 1804, ^larilla Eunice Stedman. 
 Residence: 389 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, 
 Address : 253 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 CHANDLER, Francis Ward: 
 
 Architect and educator; born in Boston, 
 Sept. 30, 1844; son of Samuel Ward Chand- 
 ler (A.B. Harvard, 1822). Soon after his 
 graduation from the Lancaster (Mass.) 
 Academy in 1861, he enlisted as a private 
 in the 53d Massachusetts Volunteers, and 
 after the service of two years entered upon 
 the study of architecture. From 1864 to 
 1807 he was engaged as draughtsman and 
 assistant with the firm of Ware & Van 
 Brunt, architects, in Boston; and he was a 
 student in the architectural schools of Par- 
 is, 1807-1860, and assistant in the Architect- 
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 ural Department of the Massachusetts Insti- 
 tute of Technology. Mr. Chandler was as- 
 sistant architect of the Treasury Depart- 
 ment in Washington, 1871-1874, and there- 
 after practised his profession in Boston un- 
 til appointed in 1888 to the chair of archi- 
 tecture in the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology, which he has since held. 
 Mr. Chandler has contributed articles on 
 architectural subjects to the Technology 
 Quarterly, is editor of Municipal Architect- 
 ure in Boston, and author of: Construc- 
 tion Details, prepared as a text-book for 
 the use of the students of the Massachusetts 
 Institute of Technology, and of Notes on 
 Limes, Cements, Mortars and Concretes. 
 Since 1896 he has been advisory architect 
 to the mayor of Boston, and. since 1898 a 
 member of the Board of Art Commissioners 
 of the City of Boston; and he is an honor- 
 ary member of the American Institute of 
 Architects. He married in Boston, Oct. 12, 
 1882, Alice Daland. Address 195 Marlbor- 
 ough St., Boston, Mass. 
 
 CHANDLER, Julian Alvin Carroll: 
 
 Educator and editor; born at Guineys, 
 Caroline County, Va., Oct. 29, 1872; son of 
 Dr. Joseph A. and Emuella Josephine 
 (White) Chandler. He was graduated from 
 William and Mary College, A.B., 1891, A.M., 
 1892, Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D. in 
 history and English, 1896, and LL.D. Rich- 
 mond College, 1904. He was instructor in 
 history and English in William and Mary 
 College, 1891-1892, principal of public 
 schools in Houston, Va., 1892-1893; in- 
 structor in Morgan College, Baltimore, 1894- 
 1896; dean of the Faculty of the Woman's 
 College at Richmond, 1896-1899, and act- 
 ing president of same, 1899-1900; acting 
 professor of history and literature, 1897- 
 1900, and professor of English, 1900-1904, 
 in Richmond College, dean of Richmond 
 Academy. 1902-1904; editor of educational 
 publications for Silver, Burd'ette & Co.. pub- 
 lishers. New York, 1904-1907. Dr. Chand- 
 ler was director of history and education of 
 the Jamestown Exposition of 1907, and 
 is now editor of the Virginia Journal of ed- 
 ucation, and professor of history and politi- 
 cal science in Richmond College. He is a 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Iccluicr of the Virginia Suininer School of 
 Mcthodis. and is author of: Representation 
 in Virginia, 189G; History of Suflfrage in 
 Virginia, 1899; ^ilakers of Virginia History, 
 1904; and is joint author of: Geography 
 of Virginia, 1902, and Makers of American 
 History, 1904. He is a member of the Board 
 of Editors of The South in the Building of 
 the Nation and is also a member of the 
 American Historical Association, Virginia 
 Historical Society, Society for the Preserva- 
 tion of Virginia Antiquities, National Edu- 
 cational Association, Political Science Asso- 
 ciation, the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the 
 Kappa Alpha fraternity. Dr. Chandler 
 married in Churchland, Va., July 10, 1897, 
 l^enore Burten Duke. Address: Richmond, 
 Va. 
 
 CHANDLER, Lloyd Horwitz: 
 
 JJtultuant commander U. S. N. ; born 
 in Washington, D. C, Aug. 17, 1869; third 
 son of William E. Chandler, late secretary 
 of the Na\7 and' United States senator from 
 New Hampshire. He was appointed from 
 New Hampshire to the United States Naval 
 Academy, entering in September, 1884, and 
 being graduated in June, 1888. He served 
 as a naval cadet on board the United States 
 steamer Boston, was commissioned ensign, 
 July 1, 1890; promoted to lieutenant, jun- 
 ior grade, in April, 1898, to lieutenant 
 March 3, 1899, and to lieutenant-commander 
 July 1, 1905. In February, 1898, he be- 
 came secretary to Commodore John A. How- 
 ell, and served' with him on the Northern 
 Patrol Squadron and the Havana blockade 
 during the Spanish-American War. In 
 April, 1899, he went to duty aboard the 
 torpedo-boat iMackenzie., first as executive 
 and later as commanding officer; put the 
 Scorpion in commission as executive officer 
 in August, 1899, and in the following Octo- 
 ber went to the Bureau of Ordnance, as- 
 suming charge of the torpedo and mine work 
 of that bureau. He assumed command of 
 the torpedo-boat Bailey in July, 1901, and, 
 later was assigned to command of the task 
 of transfer of a fleet of torpedo-boat de- 
 stroj'ers from the Atlantic to the Philip- 
 ])ines, which he successfully accomplished, 
 lie then served from May to Aug., 1904, as 
 
 assistant to the naval attache, Tokio, Japan, 
 (luring the Russo-Japanese War. He re- 
 turned to the Bureau of Ordnance, Jan. 
 21, 1905, and' in Sept., 1900. joined the 
 U. S. S. Connecticut, where he served as 
 executive officer and navigator until Aug., 
 1907, when he reported for duty as flag 
 secretary to the commander-in-chief of the 
 Atlantic fleet, Rear-Admiral Robley D. 
 Evans, U. S. N., and served as such on 
 board the flagship Connecticut during the 
 voyage of that fleet from Hampton Roads, 
 through the Straits of Magellan to San 
 Francisco, during the winter of 1907-1908. 
 \Mien Admiral Evans hauled down his flag 
 at San Francisco on May 9, 1908, Lieu- 
 tenant-commander Chandler proceeded to 
 duty in the Bureau of Navigation. He 
 married Agatha Buford Edson, only daugh- 
 ter of the late Major Theodore Edson of the 
 Ordnance Corps of the United States Army, 
 and they have a son and daughter. Ad- 
 dress: Care Navy Department, Washing- 
 ton, D. C. 
 
 CHANDLER, William Eaton: 
 
 Lawyer ; born in Concord, N. H., Dec. 
 28, 1835; son of Nathan S. and Mary Ann 
 Chandler. He was graduated from the 
 law school, in 1854, of Harvard University 
 with the degree of LL.B. In early life he 
 was a newspaper writer and court reporter, 
 and in 1855 was admitted to the bar, and 
 commenced to practice in Concord. He 
 served during the years 1862, 1863, 18G4 
 and 1881 as a member of the New Hamp- 
 shire House of Representatives, and as 
 speaker in 1863 and 1864. In 1865 he was 
 appointed judge advocate-general in the 
 Navy Department. In the same year he 
 became assistant secretary of the Treasury, 
 and in President Artliur's administration 
 he was Secretary of the Navy from 1882 
 to 1885. In 1887 lie was I'lected to the 
 United States Senate, and was a member 
 of the Fiftieth to the Fifty-sixth Congresses. 
 At the expiration of his term in the Senate 
 he was appointed a member of the Spanish 
 treaty claims Conunission and was pres- 
 ideiil of tliat body until hv resigned in 
 1907. lie was one of the counsel for the 
 relatives of Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy 
 
William Eaton Chandler 
 
 -Former V. S. Senator 
 
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 in their suit against persons about her 
 alleged to be exercising undue influence. 
 Mr. Chandler has for many years been 
 interested in the leading newspaper of New 
 Hampshire and has always been a vigorous 
 tighter, an energetic worker and at the 
 present writing (1909) retains his facul- 
 ties to a remarkable degree, having, taken 
 an active interest in the campaign of the 
 year 1908, writing and speaking on sub- 
 jects connected therewith with his accus- 
 tomed force. Address: Concord, N. H., 
 and Washington, D. C. 
 
 CHANIER, Lewis Stuyvesant: 
 
 Lawyer, former, lieutenant-governor of 
 New York; born in Newport, R. I., Sept. 
 24, 1869; son of Hon. John Winthrop 
 Chanler and Margaret Ward Chanter, 
 daughter of Samuel Ward, Jr., and Mar- 
 garet, daughter of William B. Astor. Ho 
 was educated at the Columbia Law School 
 nuird'er, and in other prominent cases. He 
 was admitted to the bar in 1891, was 
 counsel in the defense of Carlyle Harri/i 
 and Roland B. Molineaux, on trial for 
 nuirder, and in other prominent cases. He 
 was Democratic and Independence League 
 nominee for lieutenant-governor of New 
 York in 1906 and was elected. He was 
 nominated on the Democratic ticket for 
 governor of New York in 1908, but was 
 defeated in the election. He is a member 
 of the Board of Managers of the Hudson 
 River State Hospital and the House of 
 Refuge, Randall's Island. He married 
 Alice Chamberlain. Residence : 14 E. 
 Seventy-fifth Street. Address: 346 Broad- 
 way, New York City. 
 
 CHANLER, William Astor: 
 
 Explorer, author and ex-congressman; 
 born in Newport, R. I., June 11, 1867; 
 grandson of William B. Astor. He was 
 graduated from Harvard in 1887. Mr. 
 Chanler spent the year of 1892 exploring 
 in Africa and made a second expedition to 
 Africa from 1892 to 1894. For these serv- 
 ices he was made honorary member of 
 the Royal Geographical Society of Vienna 
 and of the British Royal Geographical So- 
 ciety. In 1896 he became a, member of 
 
 Tammany Hall and in 1897 was elected to 
 the State Legislature. At the outbreak of 
 the Spanish-American War he equipped a 
 regiment, which being refused by Governor 
 Black, he left, going to Tampa, Fla. He 
 was soon after appointed by President 
 McKinley assistant adjutant on General 
 Wheeler's staff. At the close of the war in 
 1898 he was elected to Congress from the 
 Fourteenth District of New York, serving 
 from 1899 to 1901. Mr. Chanler is a mem- 
 ber of the American Geographical Society, 
 and the St. Nicholas Society. He is author 
 of: Through Jungle and' Deserts, and 
 Travels in Eastern Africa. Address: Roke- 
 ley, Barrytown, N. Y. 
 
 CHANNING, Edward: 
 
 Professor of history in Harvard Univer- 
 sity; born in Boston, June 1.5, 1856; son 
 of William EUery Channing, distinguished 
 poet and essayist, and Ellen Kilshaw (Ful- 
 ler) Channing. He was graduated from 
 Harvard College, A.B., with honors in his- 
 tory, and from Harvard University, Ph.D., 
 1880. Since 1884 he has been instructor, 
 assistant professor and professor of history 
 in Harvard University. Professor Chan- 
 ning has been an extensive contributor to 
 historical literature; was associated wit}i 
 the late Justin Winsor in authorship of 
 The Narrative and Critical History of 
 America, 1886-1888; with Thomas Went- 
 worth Higginson on English History for 
 Americans. 1893, and with Professor Albert 
 Bushnell Hart on Guide to the Study of 
 American History, 1896; A Students' His- 
 tory of the United States, 1897, and other 
 text-books; and wrote the United States of 
 America, 1765-1865, in the Cambridge His- 
 torical Series. He is also author of: Town 
 and County Government in the English 
 Colonies of North America, 1884; The Nar- 
 ragansett Planters, a Study of Causes, 
 1886; The Navigation Laws, 1890; History 
 of the United States, Vol. I, The Planting 
 of a Nation in the New World, 1905; Vol. 
 II, A Century of Colonial History, 1660- 
 1760, 1908; also various contributions to 
 historical publications. Professor Chan- 
 ning married in West Newton, ^lass., July 
 22, 1886, Alice Thacher, and they have two 
 
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 (lauf^hlerri. Addross: 74 Sparks Street, 
 (iuiibiidge, Mass. 
 
 CHANNING, Walter: 
 
 Aliciii-t ; born in Concord, Ma&s., April 
 14, 1849; son of William Ellery Clianning, 
 distinguislied ])oet and essayist, and' Ellen 
 (Fuller) Clianning. After completing his 
 preparatory education in the Chaimcy Hall 
 School in Boston, and a year of scientific 
 work in the jMassachusetts Institute of 
 Technology, lie entered the Harvard Med- 
 ical School, from which he was graduated 
 as 31. D., in 1872; and he was an honorary 
 fellow of Clark University, 1890-1892, and 
 received the degree of LL.D. from Tufts 
 College, 1900. Dr. Channing was assistant 
 physician of the State Asylum for Insane 
 Criminals, 1875-1877; first assistant phy- 
 sician of the State Insane Hospital at Dan- 
 vers, Mass., 1878-1879; has been superin- 
 tendent of a private hospital for mental 
 diseases since 1879. He was professor of 
 mental diseases in Tufts College Medical 
 Scliool, 1895-1903, and' was appointed chair- 
 man of trustees of Boston State Hospital, 
 1908. He has attained distinction in con- 
 nection with the pathology and treatment 
 of mental and nervous diseases, and has 
 contributed many papers to medical jour- 
 nals in relation to his specialty. He is a 
 member of the American Neurological As- 
 sociation, the American Medico-Psychologi- 
 cal Association and' the American Medical 
 Association, as well as other medical soci- 
 eties. Dr. Channing married, June 5, 1878, 
 Anna K. Morse. Address: Brookline, 
 Mass. 
 
 CHANUTE, Octave: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in Paris, France, 
 Feb. 18, 1832; son of Joseph and Eliza (De 
 Bonnaire) Chanute. He was educated in 
 New York City private schools and by 
 tutors. He was engaged as a railroad' en- 
 gineer -from ISoO to 1884, and has been 
 in practice as a consulting engineer since 
 1884. He built important bridges across 
 the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers ; re- 
 ported on rapid transit for New York City; 
 reported on wood preservation and has 
 written papers on various engineering sub- 
 
 jects. He has been president of the Chicago 
 Tie Preserving Company since 1894. He is 
 a member and ex-president of the American 
 Societj' of Civil Engineers and of the West- 
 ern Society of Civil Engineers; an hon- 
 orary member of the Canadian Society of 
 Civil Engineers, and of the British Insti- 
 tute of Civil Engineers; a member of the 
 Societ'e des Ingenieures Civils de France, 
 and was vice-president in 1886 of the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science. He received the honorary degree 
 of Doctor of Engineering from the Univer- 
 sity of Illinois. His favorite recreation 
 is aerial navigation, and he has served in 
 an advisory capacity . for the Wright 
 brothers and others in attempts at avia- 
 tion and was one of the earliest to point 
 out practical ways for the navigation of 
 the. air. He married at Peoria, 111., March 
 12, 1857, Annie James, and they have six 
 children. Address': Gl Cedar Street, Chi- 
 cago, 111. 
 
 CHAPIN, Henry Edgerton: 
 
 Educator, biologist; born at Wilbraham, 
 Mass., May 9, 1859 ; son of Samuel W. and 
 Maria M. (Damon) Chapin. He was grad- 
 uated from the Boston University, as B.Sc. 
 and the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 
 lege, as B.Sc. in 1881; was graduate stud- 
 ent at Johns Hopkins University in 188G 
 and 1887; received the degree of M.Sc. in 
 1893 from Michigan Agricultural College, 
 and D.Sc. (honorary) in 1908 from Mc- 
 Kendree College. He was teacher and edi- 
 tor from 1881 to 1886. teacher of the 
 Natural Sciences, Pennsylvania State Nor- 
 mal School, Bloomsburg, Pa.. 1888-1890; 
 teacher of biology in the Springfield (Mas- 
 sachusetts) High School, 1890-1891; pro- 
 fessor of biology and geology at the Ohio 
 University (Athens, 1891-1900; and he was 
 in charge of the Department of Biology, 
 summer school. New York University, in 
 1900; teacher of biology and' lecturer. New 
 York City; president of the Department 
 of Botany in 15rooklyn Institute of Arts 
 and Sciences, and member of the Council. 
 He is joint author of Elementary Zoology 
 and Laboratory Guide; and author of mon- 
 ographs and scientific articles. He was 
 
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 captain of Company 1', 17tli Kcginicnt, of 
 the Ohio National" Guard, 1802-1893. He 
 is a member of the American Society of 
 Naturalists, lionorary fellow of the Society 
 of Biological Chemistry, London; charter 
 member of the Ohio State Academy of Sci- 
 ences, and also member of the University 
 Club of Brooklyn. He married at Athens, 
 Ohio, June 29, 1893, Eudora M. Hoffman, 
 and they have two daughters. Address: 
 49 Lefferts Avenue, Richmond Hill, L. I., 
 N. Y. 
 
 CHAPIN, Roy Dikeman: 
 
 JManufacturer of automobiles; born in 
 Lansing, Mich., Feb. 23, 1880; son of Ed- 
 ward C. and Ella Rose (King) Chapin. 
 He was educated in the Lansing High 
 School and the LTniversity of Michigan, and 
 he has been connected with the automobiles 
 industry almost since its inception. It 
 1900 he organized the E. R. Thomas Detroit 
 Company, which later became the Chalmers- 
 Detroit Motor Company, makers of the 
 Chalmers-Detroit cars, of which he is treas- 
 urer, general inanager and director. He is 
 also secretary and' director of the Hudson 
 Motor Car Comj^any, director of the Fair- 
 view Savings Bank. Mr. Chapin is a mem- 
 ber of the Executive Committee of the 
 National Association of Automobile Man- 
 ufacturers, is a member of the Phi Delta 
 Tlieta fraternity, and of the Country, De- 
 troit, University, Detroit Racquet and Curl- 
 ing, Automobile, Detroit Boat, Detroit 
 Boat Club, Yachtsmen and the Bankers' 
 Club of Detroit. Residence: Pasadena 
 Apartments. Office: Chalmers-Detroit. 
 Motor Co., Detroit, Mich. 
 
 CHAPMAN, Frank Michler: 
 
 ( triiithologist; born at Englewood, N. J., 
 June 12, 1864. He received an academic 
 education, and he has been associate cura- 
 tor of the Department of Ornithology and 
 Mammalogy in the American Museum of 
 Natural History since 1887, and curator 
 since 1908. He was president of the Lin- 
 nrean Societj- of New Y^'ork City in 1897; 
 is honorary member of the New York Zo- 
 ological Society and a fellow of the New 
 York Academy of Sciences (vice-president, 
 
 1907. He was elected vice-president in 
 190.'i of the American Ornithologists' 
 Union; is a foreign member of the British 
 Ornithologists' Union, and a member of the 
 Society of Colonial Wars and' of the Cen- 
 tury Association. Mr. Chapman is author 
 of: Handbook of Birds of Eastern North 
 America, 189.5; Bird-Life, a Guide to the 
 Study of Our Common Birds, 1897; Bird 
 studies with a Camera, 1900; Color Key 
 to North American Birds, 1903; Economic 
 Value of Bird's to the State, 1903; the 
 Warblers of North America, 1907; Camps 
 and Cruises of an Ornithologist, 1908; and 
 also numerous papers on birds and mam- 
 mals. He is editor of Bird-Lore, and asso- 
 ciate editor of The Auk. Mr. Chapman 
 married, in 1898, Fannie Bates Emury, 
 and' they have one son. Residence: Engle- 
 wood, N. J. Address: American Museum 
 of Natural History, New York City. 
 
 CHAPMAN, J. Wilbur: 
 
 Clergyman, evangelist; born at Richmond, 
 Ind., June 17, 1859; son of A. H. and 
 Lorinda Chapman. He was educated in the 
 schools of Richmond', Ind., and Oberlin, 
 Ohio, and at the Lake Forest University, 
 graduating from there as A.B., 1879, and 
 from Lane Theological Seminary, 1882; 
 and he received the degree of D.D. from 
 Wooster University, Ohio. He was ordained 
 in the ministry of the Presbyterian Church 
 and was pastor at Albany, New York, Phil- 
 adelphia, Pa., and at the Fourth Presby- 
 terian Church of New York City; and since 
 1903 has been executive secretary of the 
 Committee on Evangelistic W^ork of the 
 General Assembly of the Presbyterian 
 Church. In that capacity he has conducted 
 evangelistic services in all the chief cities 
 of the country, and has added largely to the 
 membership of the Presyterian and other 
 Evangelical churches. He is the originator 
 of what is known as the simultaneous plan 
 of evangelistic meetings. Dr. Chapman has 
 been an extensive contributor to the relig- 
 ious press, and is author of several books 
 includiipg: Received Ye the Holy Ghost; 
 And Peter; Kadesh Barnea; The Lost 
 Crown; The Secret of a Happy Day; The 
 Surrendered Life; Spiritual Life in the 
 
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 Sunday School; From Life to Life; Present 
 Day Parables; Life of D. L. Moody; 
 Present Day Evangelism; and Judas, and 
 Fishing for Men. Dr. Cliapnian is also 
 the director of the Winona Assembly Bible 
 Conference, which holds its annual sessions 
 at Winona Lake. It is one of the largest 
 assemblies of its kind iu the world. Dr. 
 Chapman married in 1882, Irene E. Sted- 
 dom, and after her death, married, at 
 Albany, N. Y., in 1888, Agnes Pruyn Strain, 
 who died June 25, 1907. Addresses: 156 
 Fifth Avenue, New York City, and Winona 
 Lake, Ind. 
 
 CHAPMAN, Pleasant Thomas: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born on a farm 
 in Johnson County, 111., Oct. 8, 1854. He 
 attended the public schools until he was 
 s(!venteen years of age, when he went to 
 :MeKendree College at Lebanon, 111., grad- 
 uating therefrom as A.B. in 1876. He was 
 admitted to the bar at Mount Vernon, ill., 
 June, 1878, and has since practised at 
 Vienna, 111. He is also actively engaged in 
 the banking business and farming. He was 
 elected superintendent of public schools in 
 Johnson County in 1877, and served five 
 years; was elected county judge in 1882, 
 and reelected in 1886; was elected State 
 senator from the Fifty-first Senatorial Dis- 
 trict in 1890; and reelected in 1894 and in 
 1898. He was elected as a Kepublican to 
 the Fifty-ninth Congress from the Twenty- 
 fourth District of Illinois in 1904, and in 
 1906 and 1908 was reelected to the Six- 
 tieth and Sixty-first Congresses. Judge 
 Chapman is married and has three children. 
 Address: Vienna, 111. 
 
 CHAPPLE, Joseph Mitchell: 
 
 Editor; born in La Porte City, Iowa, 
 July 18, 1867. He was educated at Cornell 
 College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and became en- 
 gaged in newspaper work in Dakota, Ash- 
 land, Wis., and Chicago till 1897, wiien he 
 took charge of The iJostonian, afterwards 
 changing the title to The National Mag- 
 azine, of which he has since been the editor 
 and publisher. Mr, Chappie is a unique 
 type among American editors for the rea- 
 son that he carries on his editorial work 
 
 by means of close personal touch with men 
 of alfairs in the United States instead of 
 in a secluded sanctum. He is a frequent 
 visitor to Washington, making close at 
 hand studies of events, and his magazine 
 exhibits the results of his methods of work. 
 He is author of the following works: The 
 Minor Chord; Boss Bart, Politician; Mark 
 Hanna; Heart Throbs; The Panama Canal. 
 He married, in 1886, Annie F. Ryder at 
 Girand Rapids, N. D. Address: 944 Dor- 
 clioster Avenue, Boston, Mass. 
 
 CHARLTON, James: 
 
 Railway otficial. He began his railway 
 exjierience in the employ of the New Castle 
 and Carlisle Railway, at Newcastle-on- 
 i'yne, England, in 1847, as a junior clerk 
 in the freight department, advancing to 
 chief clerk and cashier, and serving there 
 until 1857, when he went to Canada and 
 entered the service of the Great Western 
 Railway of Canada as assistant to the 
 chief clerk of the Audit otfice, in charge 
 of statistics and freight accounts; and later 
 iie became chief clerk, auditor and general 
 agent. On March 22, 1870, he became gen- 
 eral passenger and ticket agent of the North 
 Missouri Railroad, and July 13, 1871, he 
 became general passenger and ticket agent 
 of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, in 
 wliich service he continued until Jan. 1, 
 1900. Since Oct., 1900, Mr. Charlton has 
 held his present position as chairman of 
 tlie Transcontinental Passenger Association. 
 Olhce: Railway Exciiange Building, Chicago. 
 
 CHASE, Emory Albert: 
 
 Jurist ; born at Hensonville, Greene 
 County, N. Y., Aug. 31, 1854; son of Albert 
 ami Laura 0. (Woodworth) Chase. He 
 was educated at Hensonville Village 
 School, and at Fort Edward, N. Y. He 
 then studied law and was admitted to the 
 bar May 6, 1880, and engaged in the prac- 
 tice of law at Catskill, N. Y., until 1896. 
 Judge Chase is a Republican in politics, 
 anil was elected supervisor of the Town of 
 Catskill, N. Y., in 1880; and was a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Education of Catskill, 
 1882-1896, the last five years being pres- 
 ident of the board. In Nov., 1896, he was 
 
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 oloctcd as justice of the Supreme Court 
 for the Third Judicial District, and Jan. 
 S, 1900, was designated an associate justice 
 of the Appellate Division, Third Depart- 
 ment. On Dec. 31, 1905, he was designated 
 as an associate judge of the Court of Ap- 
 peals, under the Constitutional Amendment 
 of 1889. Judge Chase is president of the 
 (Jreene County Bar Association, first vice- 
 president of the Catskill Savings Bank; 
 director of the Tanners' National Bank and 
 president of the Catskill Rural Cemetery 
 Association. He is a Presbyterian in his 
 religious athliation. He is a member of 
 thellip Van Winkle Club of Catskill, N. Y., 
 and the Fort Orange Club of Albany, N. Y. 
 Judge Chase married at Prattsville, Greene 
 County, N. Y., June 30, 1885, Mary E. 
 Churchill, and they have two children. Ad- 
 dress: 25 Prospect Avenue, Catskill, N. Y. 
 
 CHASE, Frederick Lincoln: 
 
 Astronomer; born at Boulder, Colo., June 
 28, 1865; son of George Franklin and Au- 
 gusta Ann (Staples) Chase. He was 
 graduated from the University of Colorado 
 as A.B. in 1886, and from Yale as Ph.D. 
 in 1891. Dr. Chase has been astronomer 
 at Yale Observatory since 1891, and was 
 instructor in the Sheffield Scientific School 
 of Yale University, 1894-1907. He is au- 
 thor of various astronomical papers pub- 
 lished in the Transactions of the Astronomi- 
 cal Observatory of Y'ale University. Dr. 
 (^'hase is a fellow of the American Associa- 
 tion for the Advaiu-cment of Science and a 
 member of the Astronomical and Astro- 
 physical Society of America, the Connecti- 
 cut Academy, tlie Sigma Xi Society, and 
 the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Address: 
 Yale Observatory, New Haven, Conn. 
 
 CHASE, George: 
 
 Jurist; born in Portland, Me., Dec. 
 29, 1849; son of David T. and Martha E. 
 Chase. He was graduated from Yale Col- 
 h'ge as A.B. in 1870, being valedictorian oi 
 I lie class and receiving the appointment to 
 I'hi Beta Kappa; and was graduated from 
 the Columbia Law School in 1873 as LL.B. 
 He was assistant professor of municipal 
 law. 1875-1878; professor of criminal law 
 
 and' procedure, and of torts, 1878-1891, at 
 Columbia University; and since 1891 he 
 lias been dean of the New York Law School. 
 Mr. Chase is a member of the American 
 Bar Association, New York State Bar As- 
 sociation, Association of the Bar of the 
 City of New York, American Geographical 
 Society, American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science, American Social Science 
 Association, the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra- 
 ternity, and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. 
 He is author of: Chase's Cases on Torts; 
 and of The Students' Blackstone; he is 
 also editor of Stephen's Digest of the Law 
 of Evidence, and Chase's New York Code 
 of Civil Procedure. Mr. Chase married in 
 Boston, Nov. 25, 1884, Eva R. Hawley. 
 Residence: 309 West 74th Street. Office: 
 35 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 CHASE, George Colby: 
 
 President of Bates College; born at 
 Unity, Me., March 15, 1844; son of 
 Joseph and Jane (Dyer) Chase. He was 
 graduated from Bates College in 1868 as 
 A.B.; was a student at Cobb Divinity 
 School, 1870-1871; a graduate student at 
 Harvard, 1871-1872, and received the de- 
 grees of D.D. from Colby College in 1895 
 and of LL.D. from Colorado University, 
 1895, University of New Brunswick, 1900, 
 and from Bowdoin College, 1902. He was 
 teacher of Greek and Latin in the New 
 Hampton Literary Institution. 1868-1870, 
 and w^as professor of rhetoric and English 
 literature, 1872-1894, and since 1894 has 
 been president and professor of psychology 
 and logic of Bates College, at Lewiston, 
 jNIaine. He is a member of the Modern 
 Language Association of America, the Re- 
 ligious Education Association, the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science 
 and numerous educational associations. Dr. 
 Bates married at Norway, :Maine, June 12, 
 1872, Emma Francetta Millett, and they 
 have five children. Residence: (i Frye 
 St. Office: Bates College. Lewiston, Maine. 
 
 CHASE, Lewis Nathaniel: 
 
 Educator, writer; born at Sidney, Me.. 
 June 27, 1873; son of Ethan Allen and 
 Augusta ( Field ) Chase. He was educated 
 
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 in public and' private schools of Rochester, 
 N. Y., University of Rochester, Leland 
 Stanford, Harvard, Grenoble and Columbia 
 University, being graduated from the latter 
 as A.B. 1895, A.M. 1898, and Ph.D. 1903. 
 He became assistant in literature, Columbia 
 University, 1899-1900, assistant in compar- 
 ative literature, 1900-1901, tutor in com- 
 parative literature, 1901-1902, public 
 lecturer on literary subjects. New York and 
 vicinity, in 1903; instructor in English, 
 Indiana University, in 1903 and 1904; as- 
 sistant professor of English, Indiana Uni- 
 versity from 1904 to 1907; professor of 
 English, University of Louisville, 1907 to 
 1908. Resident in Europe since 1908, and 
 since 1909 lecturer (professant un cours 
 libre) in the Faculty of Letters of the Uni- 
 versity of Bordeaux, the first American to 
 give a course of public lectures in any 
 French university outside of Paris, and 
 with the exception of the exchange profes- 
 sors on the Ilyde foundation, the first 
 American to give such a course in France. 
 He is author of: The English Heroic Play 
 (Macmillan), 1903; editor of Emerson's 
 Compensation (University Press of Se- 
 wanee, Tenn.), 190G; is literary correspond- 
 ent of the Boston Herald and a contributor 
 to newspapers and magazines. He is a 
 member of the Modern Language Associa- 
 tion of America. He married Pearl Rowell 
 Mikcsell, of New York. Address: 14, rue 
 Duplessis, Bordcau, France. 
 
 CHASE, Walter Greenough: 
 
 i'liysician; born in Boston, May 30, 1859; 
 .son of Charles G. and Relief J. (McQuesten) 
 Chase. He was graduated from Nobles 
 School, Boston, A.B., 1882, Harvard Medi- 
 cal School, M.D., 1901 and Johns Hopkins 
 Medical School, post-graduate, 1902. He 
 ''traveled in Alaska in 1883 as correspond- 
 ent of the Boston Herald, traveled in South 
 America and in Japan, 1893-1897, and made 
 three trips around the world between 1902 
 and 1907. He esbiblished the Mason Regu- 
 lator Co., steam regulating devices in 1883 
 and was connected with it until 1893. Dr. 
 Chase is not a practising physician, but has 
 occu])ied himself with medical research. He 
 adapted the cinemetograpli to the study of 
 
 nervous diseases, especially epilepsy, and 
 demonstrated in before the leading medical 
 societies of the United States. He was sent 
 as United States delegate lo the Internation- 
 al Medical Congress at Lisbon, 1906 and also 
 demonstrated before the Royal College of 
 Pliysicians and Surgeons in Edinburgh and 
 other English medical societies. Mr. Chase 
 is a member of the Massachusetts Medical 
 Society, the American Medical Society, and 
 a member of the Massachusetts Commission 
 on Old Age Pensions. He is also a member 
 of the University, Country, Massachusetts 
 Automobile Club, and Aero Club of New 
 England, Boston; University and' Harvard 
 Clubs, New Y^ork City, and Royal Automo- 
 bile Club of London, England. He married 
 in Wiscasset, Me., Oct." 20, 1906, Frances 
 Scott Hubbard, of Charleston, S. C, and has 
 a son. Address: Boston, Mass. 
 
 CHASE, William Martin: 
 
 Jurist; born at Canaan, N. H., Dec. 28, 
 1837; son of Horace and Abigail (Martin) 
 Chase. He was graduated from Dartmouth 
 College, with the degree of B.S. in 1858, and 
 that college conferred upon him the degrees 
 of A.M., 1879 and LL.D., 1898; and he was 
 elected an honorary member of the Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society, connected' with Dartmouth 
 College, in 1883. After teaching for a time 
 in Henniker Academy in New Hampshire, 
 he took up the study of law, and in August, 
 1862, was admitted to the bar of the highest 
 court of New Hampshire, practising law at 
 Concord, until appointed, April 1, 1891, 
 judge of the Supreme Court of New Hamp- 
 shire, in which office, he continued until 
 reaching the constitutional limit of age, 
 Dec. 28, 1907. Judge Chase is a Democrat. 
 He was clerk of the New Hampshire Sen- 
 ate in 1871; and was a member of 
 the New Hampshire Senate in 1909. He 
 was cliairman of the commission ap- 
 pointed to revise and codify the laws of 
 the State of New Hampshire, upon the 
 report of which commission tiie Public Stat- 
 utes of New Hampshire were enacted into 
 law at the January session of the New 
 Hampshire Legislature in 1891. Judge 
 Chase is a trustee of Dartmouth College. 
 He married at Concord, N. H., March 18, 
 
IxoYD H. Chandler 
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 18G3, Ellen S. Abbott, and they have a son, 
 Arthur H. Cliase, State Librarian of New 
 JIarnpshire. Address: Concord, N. IT. 
 
 CHASE, William Sheaf e: 
 
 Clorgyman ; born at Amboy, Lee County, 
 111., Jan. 11, 1858; son of Newton Simpson 
 and Harriet (Peckham) Chase. He was 
 ('(lucated in the public schools and high 
 school at Providence, R. I.; was graduated 
 from Brown University, A.B., 1881, and re- 
 ceived the degree A.M., 1884 from the same 
 university; and in 1885 he was graduated 
 with the B.D. degree from the Episcopal 
 Theological School, in Cambridge, Mass. 
 Mr. Chase was principal of the high school 
 at Bristol, R. I., 18S1-1SS3, and became as- 
 sistant minister of Emanuel Church, New- 
 bury Street, Boston, in 1885. He was rector 
 of St. James' Church, Woonsocket, R. I., 
 1885-1902, honorary canon of Garden City 
 Cathedral, and chaplain of St. Paul's School, 
 Garden City, N. Y., 1902-1905; rector of 
 Christ Church, Brooklyn, since 1905. He 
 is a Phi Beta Kappa man and a member 
 of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and was 
 editor-in-chief of the Delta Upsilon Quin- 
 quennial Catalogue in 1884. Mr. Chase has 
 traveled extensively in Europe. He is di- 
 rector of the Society for the Prevention 
 of Crime of New York City; president of 
 the Brooklyn Clerical League; vice-presi- 
 dent of the Brooklyn Juvenile Probation 
 Association, and president of the Union So- 
 cial Service Committee; and a member of 
 the Hanover Club of Brooklyn. Mr. Chase 
 married at Bristol, R. I., Jan. 11, 1887, 
 Susan Gladding Collins, who died Dec. 21, 
 1897, leaving one son, Newton Gladding. 
 Address: 481 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. 
 
 CHATARD, Francis Silas Marean: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Vincennes; born in 
 Baltimore, Md., Dec. 13, 1834; son of Fer- 
 dinand E. and Eliza Anna (Marean) Chat- 
 ard. He was graduated from Mount Saint 
 ]\Iary's College at Emmitsburg, Md., in 
 1853, with the degree of A.B., then took 
 the medical course at the University of 
 Maryland, from which he was graduated, 
 with the degree of M.D., in 1856. After his 
 
 graduation there he decided to enter the 
 church, and became a student at the Urban 
 College of Propaganda in Rome, Italy, Nov. 
 1857, in which he took the degree of D.D. 
 in 18G3. He became vice-rector and later 
 rector of the American College at Rome, 
 which office ho administered until 1878, 
 when he was appointed and consecrated 
 bishop of the diocese of Vincennes, in the 
 State of Indiana, establishing his episcopal 
 residence at Indianapolis, to which city the 
 see was transferred later. He has contrib- 
 uted extensively to religious literature, and 
 is the author of: Christian Truths; Oc- 
 casional Essays, and also of various pastor- 
 als and addresses. Address: 1437 North 
 Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 CHATARD, Thomas Marean: 
 
 jMining engineer ; born in Baltimore, Md., 
 Dec. 15, 1848. He was graduated from Mt. 
 St. Mary's College with the degree of A.B. 
 in 18G7, and received those of S.B. at Har- 
 vard University in 1871, and Ph.D. at 
 Heidelberg in 187G. He is a member of the 
 American Institute of Mining Engineers 
 and other societies, and has contributed 
 scientific articles to various journals. He 
 married in Baltimore, Feb. 12, 1889, Elea- 
 nor A. Williams. Address: 1716 Rhode 
 Island Avenue, Washington, D. C. 
 
 CHATFIELD, T. I.: 
 
 Jurist. He was engaged in the practice 
 of law in Brooklyn, N. Y., until appointed 
 by President Roosevelt in 1907 to the office 
 of judge of the United Stjites District Court 
 for the Eastern District of New York. Ad- 
 dress: United States Court, Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. 
 
 CHATFIELD-TAYLOR, Hobart Chatfield: 
 
 Author; born in Chicago, INIarch 24, 1865; 
 son of Henry Plobart and Adelaide (Chat- 
 field) Taylor. He was educated in the 
 Trinity School, Tivoli, N. Y., and in Euro- 
 pean schools and Cornell University, from 
 which he was graduated as B.S. in 1886. 
 He established in Chicago, in 1888, a week- 
 ly political review named America, con- 
 ducting it until 1890, when lie went abroad 
 and was special correspondent of the Chica- 
 
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 cro Daily News. Ho was consul of Sjiaiti at 
 riiicasro flurinir tho \A'orlcrs Coliunbian Ex- 
 ))osition and was a member of tho Spanish 
 Commission to that World's Fair. He has 
 oontributod lo all principal masrazines, and 
 is author of: With Edeed Tools; An Amer- 
 ican Peeress : Two Women and a Fool; The 
 Land of the Castenet ; The Vice of Fools; 
 The Idle Born: The Crimson Wing; Fame's 
 Pathway; Moliere, a Biojjraphy. etc. He 
 has lectured upon IMoliore and the French 
 drama of the Seventeenth Century at the 
 University of Chicago, Cornell. Bryn Mawr 
 and other colleges. He is a fellow of the 
 Royal Goo^raphicil Society of Enfrland ; and 
 has received the decorations of Chevalier of 
 the Legion d'Honneur and officier de I'ln- 
 struotion Publique. chevalier of the Order 
 of St. James (Portugal), officer of the Or- 
 der of the Bust of the Liberator (Ven- 
 ezuela), and chevalier of the Royal Order 
 of Isabella the Catholic (Spain). He is a 
 member of the New Hampshire Society of 
 the Cincinnati and of the Illinois Society 
 of Colonial Wars. Mr. Chatfield-Tnvlor 
 married at Chicago. June 10, 1800, Rose, 
 daughter of the late Chas. B. Farwell, 
 United States senator from Illinois; and 
 they have four children. Residence: Lake 
 Forest, 111. Office: 100 Washington, St., 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 CHENEY, Charles Edward: 
 
 Reformed Episcopal bishop ; born in 
 Canandaigua, N. Y., Feb. 12, 1836; son of 
 Dr. E. Warren and Altie Wheeler (Chip- 
 man) Cheney. He was graduated from 
 Ilobart College, A.B., 1857, following which 
 lie took the course at the Protestant Epis- 
 copal Theologian Seminary at Alexandria, 
 Va., and he received the degree of D.D. from 
 Iowa College in 1871. He was ordained in 
 tho ministry of the Protestant Episcopal 
 (Jhurch, Nov. 21, 1858, and after two brief 
 jiastorates in New York State became rector 
 of Christ Church, Chicago, in which rela- 
 tion he has continued (;ver since. During 
 the years from 186!) to 1873 he became in- 
 volved in ecclesiastical difficulties growing 
 out of doctrinal views concerning baptism, 
 and on Dec. 2, 1873, he joined Bishop 
 Ueorge David (himmins. D.D., in tho organ- 
 
 ization of tho Reformed Episcoi)al Church, 
 and Dec. 14, 1873, was consecrated bishop 
 of the Reformed Episcopal Church, with 
 jurisdiction over the churches of the North- 
 \\est, subsequently becoming bishop of the 
 Synod of Chicago, in which position he con- 
 tinues, retaining also the rectorate of Christ 
 Church. June, 1908 he received the degree 
 of S.T.D. from his Alma Mater. Hobart Col- 
 lege. He is a member of the American His- 
 torical Association. American Geographical 
 Society, Chicago University Club, Chicago 
 Historical Society, Chicago Literary Club, 
 the Illinois Society of the Sons of the Revo- 
 lution, and the Illinois Society of May- 
 flower Descendants. Bishop Cheney, besides 
 a A-olume of Sermons, published 1880, is 
 author of: What Do Reformed Episcopal- 
 ians Believe?, 1888; The Enlistment of the 
 Christian Soldier, 1892; A King of France 
 Unnamed in History, 1902; The Second 
 Norman Conquest of England, 1907. He 
 married in Chicago, April 25, 1860, Clara 
 Emma Griswold. Address : 2409 Michigan 
 Avenue. Chicago. 
 
 CHENEY, Charles H.: 
 
 Consular official. He was appointed con- 
 sul at Matanzas, Jan. 6, 1892, and retired 
 in June, 1894. He was appointed consul at 
 La Paz, Mexico, Feb. 4, 1898, and trans- 
 ferred to consul at Curacao, Feb. 2, 1899. 
 Address: Curacao, West Indies. 
 
 CHENEY, James William: 
 
 Librarian in the War Department since 
 the autumn of 1897; born in Newburyport, 
 Mass., Jan. 22, 1849. He was graduated 
 from Dartmouth College as A.B. in 1870, 
 received the degree of A.M. in 1875. He 
 was engaged in teaching for seventeen years. 
 He has been engaged as a church organist 
 and choir master since 1864, now serving 
 in that two-fold capacity at St. Paul's Prot- 
 estant i'^piscopal Church (Rock Creek Par- 
 ish) Washington. lie is one of the pioneers 
 of the Esperanto movement in the National 
 Capital and is Number 46 in the American 
 Esperanto Association. He is a 32d-degree 
 Mason. Mr. C^heney married, July 19, 1887, 
 Margaret Kline Staver, and they have three 
 children: James W. (Jheney, Jr., born in 
 
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 18S8; Frank Shaw Cheney, born in 1890, 
 and Edith Cheney, born in 1892. Address: 
 810 Taylor Street, Petworth, Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 CHENEY, Thomas Charles: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Morristown, Vt., Oct. 10, 
 1868; son of William S. and Mary E. 
 (Gates) Cheney. He was graduated from 
 the People's Academy, Morrisville, Vt., 
 1880, and the University of Vermont, 1891. 
 He was admitted to the Vermont Bar, Oct. 
 15, 1895, and has twice since been engaged 
 in the practice of law. He was assistant 
 clerk of the Vermont House of Representa- 
 tives, 1894-1898, clerk of the same, 1898- 
 1906 ; was States attorney for Lamoille 
 County, 1900-1902. He has been member 
 from INIorristown of the "House of Representa- 
 tives, of Vermont, for the term 1906-1908, 
 and 1908-1910, and was unanimously elect- 
 ed Speaker of the House at both sessions. 
 Mr. Cheney is one of the Republican leaders 
 of the Green Mountain State. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Vermont Bar Association, vice- 
 president of the Vermont Mutual Fire In- 
 surance Company, trustee of the People's 
 Academy of Morrisville, Vt., member of 
 Executive Committee of the Alumni Associ- 
 ation of University of Vermont, member of 
 the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, a Mason, 
 Knight Templar, Shriner and Knight of 
 Pythias, and a member of the Pastime 
 Club of Morrisville, Vt. He married in 
 Middletown, Conn., Jan. 15, 1896, May 
 Lily Terrill. Address: Morrisville, Vt. 
 
 CHENO"WETH, Alexander Crawford: 
 
 Civil engineer and contractor; born in 
 Baltimore, Md., June 5, 1849; son of Rev. 
 George Davenport Chenoweth and Frances 
 Ann Crawford Chenoweth. He was gradu- 
 ated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., 
 in 1808, with the degree of A.M.; LL.D., 
 1908, then studied engineering at Rensselaer 
 Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. He was 
 engineer on Prospect Park, Brooklyn, in 
 1871; assistant engineer on the Brunswick 
 and' Western Railroad in Georgia in 1873; 
 assistant engineer of public works at Wash- 
 ington, D. C, in 1874-1875; was engaged in 
 mining work in the LTnited States of Colom- 
 
 bia, in 1882; consulting engineer to Gen- 
 eral Mariano y Prado, President of Peru, in 
 1884. He ])repared the foundation of the 
 Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island in 
 1889; was resident engineer in charge of 
 the Croton Aqueduct in 1889; and since 
 1895 has been in a general engineering and 
 contracting business. He was awarded the 
 John Scott bronze medal by the city of 
 Philadelphia in 1889 for improvements re- 
 lating to placing electrical conductors un- 
 derground; also the Edward' Longstreth sil- 
 ver medal by the Franklin Institute of Phil- 
 adelphia in 1890, for improvement in con- 
 structing concrete drainage conduits. He 
 received an award for plans to reclaim land 
 under water in Newark, N. J., by the Board 
 of Water and Street Commissioners, after 
 public competition. He is the inventor of 
 the Chenoweth reinforced concrete railroad 
 sleepers, and Chenoweth reinforced concrete 
 piles for foundation construction. Mr. 
 Chenoweth has devoted much time to arch- 
 aeological investigation in North and South 
 America, and made a collection of Indian 
 remains which he discovered on Manhattan 
 Island, the only one now in existence and 
 now in the possession of the Museum of 
 Natural History. Mr. Chenoweth is a mem- 
 ber of the Zeta Psi fraternity, the New 
 York Chamber of Commerce, the Society of 
 Colonial Wars, Society of the War of 1812; 
 is a veteran of the Seventh Regiment of the 
 National Guard of New York, and a mem- 
 ber of the Academy of Sciences. He mar- 
 ried, April 19, 1876, Catherine Richardson 
 Wood, and they have one son, Alexander 
 Fernando Wood Chenoweth. Address 66 
 Madison Avenue, New York City. 
 
 CHENOWETH, Caroline Van Deusen: 
 
 Professor of English literature, and au- 
 thor; born near Louisville, Ky. ; daughter 
 of Charles and Mary (Huntington) Van 
 Deusen. Her preparatory education was in 
 St. Charles Institute, New Orleans, receiv- 
 ing later a collegiate education and the 
 degree of A.M. She married Colonel Ber- 
 nard Peel Chenoweth of Virginia, by whom 
 she had three children: Ernest Bernard 
 (Harvard '88), now deceased; Arthur Peel, 
 artist, and Laura Cromwell, who died in 
 
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 infancy. Colonol C'lionowoth served with 
 distinction in the Civil War, and was on 
 the stall's, successively, of General Dodge 
 and General U. S. Grant. He died while 
 U. S. consul at Canton, China, and follow- 
 ing his deatli Mrs. Chenoweth settled the 
 afl"airs of the Consulate, receiving due 
 recognition from the United' States and 
 Chinese Governments. During Colonel 
 Chenoweth's absence from his post he made 
 her the duly accredited vice-consul at that 
 large and important post; and Mrs. Cheno- 
 weth regards as one of her most imusual 
 privileges in life her official correspondence 
 with the Cliinese viceroy of Kwang Tung 
 Province while thus serving. She has been 
 for sixteen years associate editor of the 
 ^ledico-Legal Journal of New York, and 
 was professor of English Literature at 
 Smith College, 1S83-1884. Mrs. Chenoweth 
 is author of: Stories of the Saints; School 
 History of Worcester, Mass.: History of the 
 Second Church in Leicester, Mass. ; Child 
 Life in China, etc. She is the founder of three 
 chapters in the Society of the Daughters 
 of the Revolution and' Daughters of the 
 American Eevolution; and served for seven 
 years as chapter regent and two years as 
 State historian for Massachusetts of the 
 Daughters of the American Revolution. 
 ]\rrs. Chenoweth has travelled throughout 
 the United States and part of Canada, and 
 in China and Japan. She is a member of 
 the American Health League, the National 
 Geographic Society and the Boston Authors' 
 Club. Address: Worcester, Mass. 
 
 CHENOWETH, Catherine Richardson: 
 
 i'uunder of the Society of Daughters of 
 Holland Dames; born in New York City, 
 daughter of Hon. Fernando W^ood who was 
 forty years in public life (twice mayor of 
 New York, member of Congress many years 
 and chairman of the Ways and Means Com- 
 mittee, and entertained King Edward Vll 
 when he visited New York in 18(J0 as 
 Prince of Wales) ; and of Ann Dole ( IJich- 
 ard'son) Wood, daugliter of Hon. Joseph L. 
 Richardson, judge of the Supreme Court 
 of New York. She was educated in Miss 
 Rostan's French school, in New York City, 
 and she married in St. Thomas' Church, 
 
 New York City, April 10, 1876, Alexander 
 Crawford Chenoweth. Mrs. Chenoweth 
 founded the Society of Daughters of Hol- 
 land Dames, descendants of ancient and 
 honorable families of New York to com- 
 memorate the early history of New York 
 and to erect lasting memorials to the early 
 Dutch, and she has traveled extensively in 
 Holland, studying the Dutch and early his- 
 tory, and has made special studies of the 
 Dutch history of New York and of inter- 
 national law. Mrs. Chenoweth was a dele- 
 gate to the National Arbitration and Peace 
 Congress at New York, 1907, is a member 
 of the Cercle International, peace society of 
 The Hague, Holland, was a member of the 
 Hospital Ship Maine fund for wounded Eng- 
 lish and Boer soldiers during the South 
 African War; is a member of the Red Cross 
 Society appointed by the London Commit- 
 tee; a member of the Hungarian Women's 
 Society of Hungary, and' a member of the 
 Executive Committee of the Washington 
 Square Auxiliary of the Stony Wold Hospi- 
 tal. Address: G6 Madison Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 CHERRIE, George Kruck: 
 
 Naturalist; born in Knoxville, Iowa, Aug. 
 22, 1865; son of Martin and Agnes (Breck- 
 inridge) Cherrie. He was educated' in the 
 State Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa, 
 specializing in biology devoted much time 
 to research work as a field naturalist. In 
 1889 he was appointed curator of the Na- 
 tional Museums of Costa Rica, and in 1894 
 became assistant curator of ornithology in 
 the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago, 
 holding that position until 1897. In 1899 
 he was apjwinted' to his present position aa 
 curator of ornithology in the Brooklyn In- 
 stitute Museum. Mr. Cherrie made exten- 
 sive zoological exjilorations in Costa Rica, 
 1889-1893; in the interior of San Domingo, 
 1895, tiie Valley of the Orinoco, 1897-1899; 
 French Guiana, 1902-1903; Trinidad and 
 the middle Orinoco region, 1905 and 1907. 
 Results of Mr. Cherrie's explorations have 
 been published in technical journals, includ- 
 ing papers on Central American bird's, with 
 descriptions of new species, in the Proceed- 
 ings of tlic United States National Museum 
 
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 Science Bulletin, Brooklyn Institute Mu- 
 seum, and in The Auk, and is also author 
 of The Ornitliology of Santo Domingo, pub- 
 lished by the Field Columbian Museum of 
 Natural History in Chicago. He is a mem- 
 ber of the American Ornithologists' Union, 
 and of the Explorers' Club of New York. 
 Mr. Cherrie married at Knoxville, Iowa, 
 Dec. 1, 1895, Stella Mae Bruere, and they 
 have five children. Address: Brooklyn In- 
 stitute Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 CHESHIRE, Fleming Duncan: 
 
 American consul general at large; born 
 in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 4, 1849. He re- 
 ceived an Academic education, then engag- 
 ed in mercantile life in China from 1869 to 
 1877, in the American firms of Augustine 
 Heard & Co. and Russell & Co. He was 
 sent to Peking by the firm of Augustine 
 Heard & Co., in 1870 to study the Chinese 
 language. Mr. Cheshire was appointed act- 
 ing interpreter to the American Consulate 
 at Foochow, Sept. 1877; was appointed vice- 
 consul at Foochow, Aug. 7, 1878, and in 
 charge of the consulate at Foochow from 
 Nov. 20, 1878 to June 8, 1879; in charge of 
 the consulate at Canton Oct. 18, 1879 to 
 April 19, 1880; appointed interpreter to the 
 Consulate-General at Shanghai, June 19, 
 1880; also appointed vice-consul-general at 
 Shanghai, March 22, 1882; in charge of 
 Consulate-General at Shanghai, Aug. 24, 
 
 1882 to May 10, 1883, and from Dec. 15, 
 
 1883 to July 1884. He was appointed act- 
 ing interpreter to the American Legation at 
 Peking, Sept. 2, 1884, and was Chinese sec- 
 retary to The Legation, from July 1, 1900 
 to Feb. 21, 1901, Avhen he resigned, and he 
 served as Chinese secretary to the special 
 jilenipotentiary of the United States from 
 Ajiril to September, 1901. He was appoint- 
 ed consul-general at Mukden, Manchuria, 
 .Ian. 22, 1904, holding that position until 
 entering, July 1, 1906, upon his present du- 
 ties as one of the American consul-generals 
 at large. Address: Care of Department 
 of State, Washington, D. C. 
 
 CHESHIRE, Joseph Blount: 
 
 Bishop of North Carolina ; born at Tar- 
 boro, N. C, March 27, 1850; son of Joseph 
 
 Blount and Elizabeth Toole (Parker) Ches- 
 hire. He studied at Trinity College, Hart- 
 ford, Conn., being graduated as B.A. in 
 1869. and M.A. in 1872. He received the 
 degree of D.D. from the University of North 
 Carolina in 1890, and' from the University 
 of the South in 1894. He practised law 
 from 1872 until 1878, in which latter year 
 he was ordered deacon of the Episcopal 
 Church by Bishop Atkinson, and two years 
 later was ordained priest by Bishop Ly- 
 man. He became rector of the Chapel of 
 the Cross, at Chapel Hill, N. C, soon after 
 being ordered' deacon, and lield this office 
 until he was called to the rectorate of St. 
 Peter's Church, Charlotte, N. C, in I88I, 
 where he remained for twelve years. In 
 1893 he became bi.shop-coadjutor of North 
 Carolina, and a short time later bishop of 
 the same diocese. He was consecrated bish- 
 op by Bishops Lyman, Watson and Capers. 
 Bishop Cheshire has been trustee of the 
 Univeristy of the South since 1885, and is 
 one of the Chaplains General of " Society of 
 the Cincinnati." He is author of: Early 
 Conventions of the Church in North Caro- 
 lina, 1882; Fragments of North Carolina 
 Church History, 1886; The Church in the 
 Province of North Carolina; Decay and Re- 
 vival; Parson Miller and Whitehaven 
 Church, 1890. He has also published num- 
 erous addresses and sermons. Address: 
 Raleigh, N. C. 
 
 CHESNEY, Cummings C: 
 
 Electrical engineer; born in Selinsgrove. 
 Pa., Oct. 28, 1863; son of John C.and Jane 
 (McFall) Chesney. He was graduated 
 from the Pennsylvania State College as 
 chemist in 1885, and afterward taught 
 mathematics and chcniistiy in that institu- 
 tion and at tlie Doylestown Seminary until 
 1888, when he became connected with the 
 electrical laboratory of William Stanley at 
 Great Barrington, Mass. In 1889 and 1890 
 he was with the United States Electric 
 Lighting Co., of Newark, N. J., and in 1890 
 became one of the incorporators of the Stan- 
 ley Electrical Manufacturing Co., of Pitts- 
 tield, Mass., of which he is now the chief 
 engineer and first vice-president. He is also 
 consulting engineer of the General Electric 
 
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 Co., the Northern Electrical Manufacturing 
 Co.; and director in several electric light and 
 power companies. Mr. Chesney has pioneer- 
 ed many of the most important develop- 
 ments of electrical engineering, including 
 the designing of alternating current genera- 
 tors for high voltages, and the first poly- 
 phase power transmission plant to be oper- 
 ated in America was laid out by him. He 
 is a member of the American Institute of 
 Electrical Engineers, and of the Society of 
 Arts of London. ^Nlr. Chesney married at 
 East Orange, N. J., in ' 1891, Elizabeth 
 Cutler. Address: Pittsfi'^ld, Mass. 
 
 CHESNUT. Victor King: 
 
 C'heinirtt; boru at Nevada City, Calif., 
 June 28, 1867; son of John A. and Henri- 
 etta S. (King) Chestnut. He was gi'adu- 
 ated as B.S. from the University of Cali- 
 fornia in 1890, and took post-graduate work 
 at the University of Chicago and at George 
 Washington University. He was assistant 
 and instructor in the University of Cali- 
 fornia, 1890-1893; assistant in charge of 
 Poisonous Plant Investigations in the 
 United States Department of Agriculture 
 1894-1904; collaborator of the United 
 States Department of Agriculture, 1904- 
 190G ; professor of chemistry and geology 
 at the Montana College of Agriculture and 
 Mechanical Arts and chemist of the Mon- 
 tana Experimental Station, 1904-1907, and 
 was appointed assistant chemist of the Drug 
 Laboratory at the United States Depart- 
 ment of Agriculture, July 1, 1907. He is 
 author of several bulletins on Poisonous 
 Plants, etc. Mr. Chestnut is a member of 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, the American Chemical 
 Society, Washington Academy of Sciences, 
 and the National Geographic Society. He 
 married at Berkeley, Calif., July 18, 1899, 
 Olive Branch Spohr, and they have four 
 children. Address: Bureau of Chemistry, 
 U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washing- 
 ton, D. C. 
 
 CHESTER, Alden: 
 
 Jurist; born at Westford, Otsego County, 
 \. v., Sept. 4, 1848; son of Alden and Su- 
 sart G. (Draper) Chester, and is a de- 
 
 scendant of Elder William Brewster, one of 
 the Mayflower pilgrims. He was educated 
 in the district school, at the Westford Lit- 
 eraiy Institute and' at the Columbia Law 
 School, graduating as LL.B. in 1871. He 
 was admitted to the bar, in 1871; practised 
 in partnership with his cousin,, Andrew S. 
 Draper (now commissioner of education of 
 the State of New York) for sixteen years, 
 and after that continued to practise alone. 
 He was deputy clerk of the New York As- 
 sembly, 1874-1876; assistant United' States 
 Attorney of the Northern District of New 
 York, 1882-1885; president of the Board of 
 Public Instruction, Albany, 1884; assistant 
 corporation counsel of the City of Albany, 
 1894-1895; and was appointed by Governor 
 Morton memljer of the Commission to pre- 
 pare a uniform charter for cities of the sec- 
 ond class, from which he resigned, Novem- 
 ber, 1895, upon his election to his present 
 office as justice of the Supreme Court of the 
 State of New York for the Third Judicial 
 District, for the term expiring Dec. 31, 
 1909. Ho was designated by Governoi" 
 Odell, November, 1902, to serve in the Ap- 
 pellate Division, Third Department of New 
 York, in which he is now serving. He is 
 president of the Albany Academy for Girls; 
 vice-president and trustee of the Albany 
 ]\Iedical College, Graceland Cemetery and 
 the Albany Exchange Savings Bank, and 
 a goveronr of Union University. Judge 
 Chester is a special lecturer on the Federal 
 judicial system at the Albany Law School 
 of Union University. He is a Republican 
 in politics. Judge Chester married, Oct. 5, 
 1871, Lina, daughter of Ezra E. Thurber, 
 of East Worcester, N. Y., and they have one 
 daughter. Address: County Building, Al- 
 bany, N. Y. 
 
 CHESTER, Frank Dyer: 
 
 Linguist; born at Newton Lower Falls, 
 Mass., Dec. 2, 1869; son of Charles Edward 
 and Miranda (Burgess) Chester. He was 
 graduated from the English High School 
 at Boston, receiving the Franklin medal, 
 in 1880, and was graduated from Harvard 
 as A.B. in 1891 and A.M. in 1892, afterward 
 taking special studies in Arabic language 
 and literature and receiving the degree of 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 I'll. I), ill 1804. IIo was instructor in 
 Sciuilic languages at Harvard, 1893-1895, 
 studied as Rogers fellow of Harvard Uni- 
 versity, at Damascus, Syria, 1895 and 1896, 
 and at the University of Budapest, Hun- 
 gary, 1896-1897. He was appointed by 
 President Cleveland in Dec, 1896, Consul 
 at Budapest, Hungary, took office under 
 ]\IcKinley on March 11, 1897, and in May, 
 1904, was promoted by President Roosevelt 
 to be consul-general. Resigned' June 1, 
 1908, and traveled east around world. Dr. 
 Chester is a member of the American Or- 
 iental Society, and a contributor to its 
 Proceedings and Journal, and was a mem- 
 ber of the International Conference of 
 Orientalists at Geneva, Switzerland, in 
 1892, and at Paris in 1894. He has a 
 thorough knowledge of the Hungarian lan- 
 guage, reading, writing, and speaking it 
 lluently; has also studied Croatian, and 
 lias long been conversant with French, Ger- 
 man and Italian. He made special studies 
 in public law while in Hungary and' did 
 special work in immigration reports. Re- 
 placed all subordinates by native Amer- 
 icans resident in Hungary. Fiume consular 
 agency raised to consulate. The American 
 export to Hungary greatly increased since 
 he encouraged the opening of permanent 
 direct steamship service from New York 
 City to Fium. Now engaged in finishing 
 genealogical work of deceased brother, 
 Arthur H. ; lias resumed Oriental research. 
 Residence : Hotel Bristol, Boston. 
 
 CHILCOTT, Ellery Channing: 
 
 Expert in . dry farming; born in East 
 Hamburg, N. Y., April 8, 1859; son of 
 Benjamin Franklin and Philenda (Free- 
 man) Chilcott. He was educated at the 
 East Hamburg Friends' Institute and' the 
 South Dakota Agricultural College, from 
 the latter of which he received the degree 
 of M.S. He "lias been U. S. deputy sur- 
 veyor, 1882-1892; State Senator, South 
 Dakota, 1892-1893; professor of Agricul- 
 ture, South Dakota Agricultural College, 
 and agriculturist, S. D. Experiment Sta- 
 tion, 1893-1905; professor of Geology and 
 Agronomy and vice-director, 1897-1905; 
 member State Board of Agriculture, South 
 
 Dakota, 1901-1902; agriculturist in charge 
 of I3ry Land Agriculture Investigations, 
 IJ. S. Department of Agriculture, since 
 195. He is leading -expert in the United 
 States in the development of intensive 
 farming or the utilization of methods to 
 preserve the moisture in the soil in order 
 that the effects of drought may be mini- 
 mized, and is engaged in directing scien- 
 tiilc investigations and conducting experi- 
 ment farms with a purpose of extending 
 the tillable areas of the semi-arid plains 
 of the Western States. He is a member of 
 the American A? ociation for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, the National Geographic 
 Society, and is a life member of the South 
 Dakota Historical Society. He married in 
 Campbell County, S. D.," Jan. 2, 1884, Alice 
 Bushey, and has four children. Residence: 
 Fairfax Court House, Va. Club: Cosmos, 
 Washington, D. C. Official address: U. S. 
 Department of Agriculture, Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 CHILD, Edwin Burrage: 
 
 Artist, illustrator, writer; born at Gouv- 
 erneur, N. Y., 1868; son of Jonathan B. 
 and S. J. (Burnham) Child. He waa 
 graduated from Amherst College as A.B., 
 1890, and then was a pupil for a year at 
 the Art Students' League in New York 
 City, and afterward studied with John 
 La Farge, and was for several years his 
 assistant in mural decoration and stained 
 glass work. Mr. Child has been continu- 
 ously represented in the leading exhibi- 
 tions in New York City, Philadelphia, Chi- 
 cago, etc., by landscapes, portraits and 
 figure paintings. He was also represented 
 in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at 
 St. Louis and the Lewis and Clark Expo- 
 sition at Portland, Ore., by paintings and 
 illustrations. Mr. Child has illustrated 
 many important articles in Scribner's and 
 other leading magazines, and he is author, 
 as well as illustrator, of The Marble Moun- 
 tains (Scribner's) ; Uncle Ira's Sugar Sea- 
 son (Appleton's), and others. He is a 
 member of the Architectural League of 
 New York and of the Salmagundi Club, 
 director of the choir in the First Congre- 
 gational Church at Flushing, L. I., and a 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 member of the University Glee Club of 
 New York. Address: 71 Broadway, Flush- 
 ing, N. Y. 
 
 CHILTON, Robert S., Jr.: 
 
 Consular oflicial; appointed temporary 
 clerk in the Department of State, Aug. 7. 
 1877, and was several times promoted in 
 the service, up to and including Class 
 Four. He resigned April 2, 1889, to accept 
 appointment as private* secretary to the 
 Vice-president, and resigned that position 
 Feb. 14, 189.3, and was appointed chief 
 clerk of the Department of State, Jan. 9, 
 1893, to take effect Feb. 15, 1893. He was 
 appointed confidential clerk to the second 
 assistant secretary of State, April 15, 1893; 
 appointed temporary vice-consul at Erze- 
 rum, June 21, 1895; appointed chief of 
 tlie Consular Bureau, Dec. 30, 1895, and 
 resigned Jan. 3, 1902, to take effect Feb. 
 1, 1902. He was appointed' consul at To- 
 ronto, ]\Iarch 10, 1905. Address: Toronto, 
 Ontario, Canada. 
 
 CHISHOLM, Hugh J.: 
 
 Capitalist; born at Niagara-on-the-Lake, 
 Canada, of Scottish parentage, in 1847. 
 He had only a common school education 
 supplemented with night studies at the 
 Commercial College in Toronto. He began 
 his business career in the railway news 
 service of the Grand Trunk Railway, ad- 
 vanced steadily and later became publisher 
 and dealer in railway literature at Port- 
 land, Maine, and a manufacturer of paper 
 and pulp. In the early eighties he became 
 impressed with the vast unused water 
 power of the Androscoggin River at Rum- 
 ford Falls, I\Iaine, and organized the 
 Rumford Falls Power Company. Later he 
 acquired the Rumford Falls and Buckfield 
 Railroad, which he reorganized as the Port- 
 land and Rumford Falls Railway and 
 furnished an outlet for the Rumford Falls 
 Paper Company and for the Otis Falls 
 Pulp Company, lower down on the Andros- 
 coggin River. He has taken an active in- 
 terest in the thriving town of Rumford 
 Falls, building model dwellings for mill 
 workers, etc. He also took an active part 
 in the formation of the International Paper 
 
 Company, a combination of about thirty of 
 the leading Eastern newspaper and pulp 
 mills with a capacity of over seventeen 
 hundred tons of finished product, daily. 
 Mr. Chisholm was president of this con- 
 cern from 1898 until 1907, when he be- 
 came chairman of the Board of Directors. 
 He is president of the Portland and Rum- 
 ford' Falls Railway, Rumford Falls Power 
 Company, the Rumford Falls Realty Com- 
 pany, the Rumford Falls and Rangeley 
 Lake Railroad Company, and is a trustee 
 of the New York Orthopfedie Dispensary 
 and Hospital. He married' at Portland, 
 Maine, in 1872, Henrietta ]\Iason, and' they 
 have one son. Residence: 813 Fifth Av- 
 enue. Address: 30 Broad Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 CHITTENDEN, Hiram Martin: 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers, U. S. 
 Army, and author; born in Cattaraugus 
 County, N. Y., Oct. 25, 1858; son of Wil- 
 liam F. and Mary Jane (Wheeler) Chit- 
 tenden. He was graduated from the United 
 States Military Academy (third in class), 
 in 1884, and assigned to the Corps of 
 Engineers, in wliich he reached the rank of 
 lieutenant-colonel, U. S. A., July 28, 1908. 
 He has h;ul charge of the Government 
 works in the Yellowstone National Park, 
 and on the Missouri, Ohio and other West- 
 ern rivers; also of reservoir surveys in 
 arid regions. During the Spanish-Amer- 
 ican War, 1898-1899, he was Lieutenant- 
 Colonel of U. S. Volunteers and Chief 
 Engineer of the Fourth Army Corps. In 
 1904 he was a member of a Federal Com- 
 mission on the Yosemite National Park, and 
 of a State Commission of engineers on the 
 Sacramento fiood control. Lieut-Col. Chit- 
 tenden is author of: Yellowstone National 
 Park, Historical and' Descriptive; Reser- 
 voirs in the Arid Regions; Reservoir Sys- 
 tem of the Great Lakes;' Forests and 
 Reservoirs in Relation to Stream Flow; 
 The American Fur Trade of the Far West; 
 History of Steamboat Navigation on the 
 Missouri River; Life of Father De Smet. 
 Member American Society of Civil Engi- 
 neers; Anuaican Historical Association; 
 American Forestry Association; National 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 3:]7 
 
 Geographic Society; Honorary member Mis- 
 souri Historical Society. He married at 
 Arcade, N. Y., Dec. 30, 1884, Nettie Mae 
 Parker, and they have three children. Ad- 
 dross: Seattle, Wash. 
 
 CHITTENDEN, Jonathan Brace: 
 
 Lawyer, matlieinatician ; born in Milford, 
 Conn., May 13, 1864. He was graduated 
 from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute 
 in 1888, with the degrees of M.E. and C.E.; 
 from Harvard as A.B. 1889, and A.M. 
 l.snG, and in 1892 those of A.M. and Ph.D. 
 at Konigsberg, Prvissia. He was instructor 
 in mathematics at Princeton, 1893-189G, 
 and for tlie next five years at Columbia 
 and Barnard Colleges, and professor of 
 mathematics at Cooper Institute, New 
 York, and since 1890 has been professor 
 of mathematics at the Brooklyn Polytechnic 
 Institute. Professor Chittenden was ad- 
 mitted to the New York bar in 1901, and 
 is an expert in engineering law, with law 
 office in Brooklyn. He is a member of the 
 American Mathematical Society, and the 
 American Geographical Society; fellow of 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, and member of the Massa- 
 chusetts Society of Sons of the Revolu- 
 tion. Professor Chittenden is author of: 
 Functions of Lame, a translation of the 
 Clebsch-Lindemann Geometry, and also of 
 articles on mathematics, potential func- 
 tion, quaternions, trigonometry, squaring 
 of the Circle, etc., in the Encyclopfcdia 
 Americana and is a w^riter on generajl 
 mathematical subjects. He has in prep- 
 aration works on the calculus, and theory 
 of binary forms. He married, in New 
 York City, 1900, Evelyn Louise Betts. 
 Address: 162 Montague Street, Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. 
 
 CHITTENDEN, Russell Henry: 
 
 Educator, cliemist and author; born in 
 New Haven, Conn., Feb. 18, 1856. He was 
 graduated from the Sheffield Scientific 
 School of Yale University as Ph.B., 1875, 
 and Ph.D., 1880, and he received the degree 
 of LL.D. from the University of Toronto, 
 1903, and Sc.D. from the University of 
 Pennsylvania, 1904. He has been professor 
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 of physiological chemistry since 1882 and 
 director of the Sheffield Scientific School 
 since 1898 in Yale University, and was 
 lecturer on physiological chemistry in Co- 
 lumbia University, 1898-1903. Professor 
 Chittenden has obtained special distinction 
 as an investigator and writer on pliysio- 
 logical chemistry, as well as an educator, 
 and is author of: Digestive Proteolysis; 
 Studies in Physiological Chemistry (four 
 volumes) ; Physiological Economy in Nu- 
 trition; The Nutrition of Man; and' many 
 papers on various subjects in physiological 
 chemistry in technical publications in the 
 United States and foreign countries. He 
 is associate editor of the American Journal 
 of Physiology, and of the Journal of Bio- 
 logical Chemistry. He is a member and 
 has been president of the American So- 
 ciety of Naturalists, American Physiolog- 
 ical Society, American Society of Biolog- 
 ical Chemists; has been a member of the 
 National Academy of Sciences since 1890, 
 and is also a member of the American 
 Philosophical Society. He married, in 
 1877, Gertrude L. Baldwin. Address: 83 
 Trumbull Street, New Haven, Conn. 
 
 CHOATE, Charles Francis: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Salem, Mass., May 16, 
 1828; son of Dr. George Choate. He was 
 graduated from Harvard, A.B. and A.M., 
 1849, and from Harvard Law School as 
 LL.B., 1853, also receiving the A.M. degree 
 from Dartmouth College, in 1872. He was 
 a tutor in Harvard from 1851 to 1854, in 
 which year he was admitted to the Suflfolk 
 bar, and was thereafter engaged in the 
 practice of law in Boston until 1878, when 
 he became president of the Old Colony 
 Railroad Company, continuing in that 
 office until April, 1907, when he retired. 
 He has been president of the Massachusetts 
 Hospital Life Insurance Co. since 1901, 
 and is also president of the Essex Com- 
 pany, of Lawrence, Mass. He was presi- 
 dent of the Commercial Club of Boston, 
 1898-1900. Mr. Choate married in Utica, 
 N. Y., Elizabeth W. Carlile, of Providence, 
 R. I. Residences: 205 Beacon Street, 
 Boston (winter) ; Southborough, INIass. 
 (summer). Office: 50 State Street, Boston. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 CHOATE, Joseph Hodges: 
 
 Lawyer, diplomat; born at Salem, Mass., 
 Jan. 24, 1832. lie is a descendant of one 
 of the oldest New England families, and 
 has had many relatives who have gained 
 distinction in various fields of effort, par- 
 ticularly at the bar. Mr. Choate entered 
 Harvard at sixteen and was graduated with 
 the degree of A.B., and Phi Beta Kappa 
 honor, in 1852. He then entered the Dane 
 Law School of Harvard, graduating as 
 LL.B. in 1854. Mr. Choate has received 
 degrees of LL.D. from Amherst in 1887, 
 Harvard in 1SS8, Cambridge in 1900, Edin- 
 burgh in lUOO, Yale in 1901, St. Andrew's 
 in 1902, Williams in 1905, Pennsylvania 
 in 1907, and D.C.L. from the University of 
 Oxford in 1902. He was admitted to the 
 ilassachusetts bar in 1855 and to the New 
 York bar in 185G, and since then has been 
 practising at New Y^ork City. He was 
 counsel for General Fitz-John Porter in 
 his protracted' and successful fight for re- 
 instatement in his military rank; and 
 counsel in the Cesnola case; and was one 
 of the Committee of Seventy (and chair- 
 man of the Committee on. Elections), 
 which broke up the Tweed Ring. He was 
 ])resident of the New York Constitutional 
 Convention of' 1894; and was ambassador 
 of the United States to Great Britain, 
 from 1899 to 1905. He was appointed in 
 1907 as the first delegate of the United 
 States to the Second International Peace 
 Conference at the Hague. He is distin- 
 guished as an orator and after-dinner 
 speaker, and his addresses on Abraham 
 Lincoln, Admiral Farragut, Rufus Choate, 
 etc., has been printed. His forensic and 
 oratorical gifts have been recognized in 
 Great Britain as well as in his own coun- 
 try, and he was elected an honorary 
 bencher of the Middle Temple of London, 
 England, April 10, 1905. Mr. Choate is a 
 member and ex-president of the American 
 Bar Association, of the Association of the 
 Bar of the City of New York, and' of the 
 Harvard Law School Association. He is 
 a trustee of the American Museum of Nat- 
 ural History, the Metropolitan Museum of 
 Art; a governor of New York Hospital; 
 
 and has been president of The New Eng- 
 land Society, the Union League Club, the 
 Harvard Club, and of the New Y'ork State 
 Bar Associations, and is a member of the 
 American Philosophical Society. He has 
 also been president of the National Civil 
 Service Reform League. Mr. Choate mar- 
 ried, Oct. 16, 1861, Caroline Butcher Ster- 
 ling, daughter of Frederick A. Sterling, of 
 Cleveland, Ohio, Residence: 8 East Sixty- 
 third Street. Address : 60 Wall Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 CHRISTIAN, Henry Asbury: 
 
 Pliysiciaii; born in Lynchburg, Va., Feb. 
 17, 1876; son of Camillus and Mary E. 
 (Davis) Christian. He was educated in 
 the Lynchburg High School, Randolph- 
 Macon College, A.B., A.M., 1895, Johns 
 Hopkins University, M.D., 1900; and' ht 
 received the A.M. degree in course from 
 Harvard, 1903. Mr. Christian was instruc- 
 tor in pathology, 1903-1905, and in the 
 theory and practice of physic, 1905-1907, 
 at Harvard; assistant professor, 1907-1908, 
 and since Sept. 1, 1908, has been Hersey 
 professor of the theory and practice of 
 physic, dean of the Faculty of Medicine 
 and of the Medical School of Harvard Uni- 
 versity since Sept. 1, 1908. Dr. Christian 
 was formerly assistant pathologist to the 
 Boston City Hospital and to the Children's 
 Hospital, of Boston, and assistant visiting 
 physician to the Long Island Hospital; 
 and is now physician-in-chief of the Carney 
 Hospital of Boston. He is a member of 
 the American Medical Association, the As- 
 sociation of American Physicians, Amer- 
 ican Association of Pathologists and Bac- 
 teriologists, the Massachusetts Medical So- 
 ciety, etc., and author of numerous papers 
 on medical subjects, published in various 
 medical journals. He is a member of the 
 Sigma Chi , fraternity, honorary member 
 of the Phi Rho Sigma fraternity, and a 
 member of the University, St. Botolph, and 
 Long-wood Cricket Clubs of Boston, and the 
 Joiins Hopkins Club of Baltimore, and other 
 social organizations. Residence: 252 Marl- 
 borough Street. Olfice : Harvard jMedical 
 School. Boston. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 XW 
 
 CHRISTIE, Alexander: 
 
 Catholic archbishop of Oregon City; born 
 at Highgatc Falls, Franklin County, Vt., 
 May 28, 1848; son of Adam and Mary 
 Christie. After a secular education he 
 made his studies in divinity at the Grand 
 Seminary of jMontreal, where he was or- 
 dained priest Dec. 22, 1877. He labored 
 as a priest of the archdiocese of Saint Paul 
 for twenty-one years, in which he was for 
 thirteen years pastor at Waseca, Minn., 
 four years pastor of Ascension Parish, 
 Minneapolis, and four years pastor of Saint 
 Stephen's Parish, Minneapolis. He was 
 consecrated' June 29, 1898, bishop of Van- 
 couver Island, British Columbia, and Feb. 
 12, 1899, was promoted to the archiepis- 
 copal see of Oregon City, Ore. Address: 
 Portland. Ore. 
 
 CHRISTY, Howard Chandler: 
 
 Illustrator and writer; born in Morgan 
 County, Ohio, Jan. 10, 1873. He was edu- 
 cated at Duncan's Falls, Ohio, and' went 
 to New York in 1893. Since then he has 
 been connected with the New York illus- 
 1 rated periodicals, but went to Cuba witli 
 the Second U. S. regulars and the " Rough 
 Riders," and saw the fighting before Santi- 
 ago. His letters and illustrations are 
 published in Scribner's Magazine, Harper's 
 Magazine and Collier's Weekly, and by R. 
 H. Russell, publisher; and he had charge 
 for nine years of the illustrating class at 
 Cooper Institute, but resigned on account 
 of health. Mr. Christy was also instructor 
 at the Art Students' League, Chase School, 
 New York School of Art, Gibson School 
 and Whipple School, but has resigned from 
 them all. As an illustrator he is best 
 known by his types of attractive young 
 ladies, many of his drawings having been 
 published in portfolio and other art forms 
 and as high-class posters. He has also 
 illustrated fine holiday editions of th« 
 poems of James Whitcomb Riley, published 
 by the Bobbs-Merrill Co., of Indianapolis, 
 and other books. Mr. Christy is a stock- 
 holder and helped form the firm of Moffat. 
 Yard & Co., who are now his publishers. 
 Residence: The Warwick Arms, 101 West 
 
 80th Street. Address: Care MofTat, Yard 
 & Co., .31 East 17th Street, New York City. 
 
 CHRISTY, Samuel Benedict: 
 
 Professor of mining and metallurgy; 
 born in San Francisco, Calif., Aug. 8, 1855; 
 son of James and Elizabeth (Hubel) 
 Cliristy. He was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of California as Ph.D. in 1874, and 
 received the degree of Sc.D. from Columbia 
 University in 1902. He is professor of 
 mining and metallurgy in the University 
 of California. Professor Christy was vice- 
 president of the American Institute of 
 Mining Engineers, in 1891 to 1893, and 
 from 1907 to 1909, is a member of the 
 Institute of Mining and Metallurgy of 
 London, and the Society of Mining, Metal- 
 lurg}' and Chemistry of South Africa, the 
 Society for the Promotion of Engineering 
 Education, and the California Mining As- 
 sociation. He is author of numerous pa- 
 pers on tlie mining and metallurgy of gold, 
 silver and quicksilver, and' on engineering 
 education, and he is the inventor of pro- 
 cesses for treating gold ores. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Psi 
 fraternities. He married at Berkeley, 
 Calif., Feb. 23, 1880, Sarah Ad&le Field, 
 and they have three children. Residence: 
 2234 Piedmont Way, Berkeley, Calif. Office 
 address : University of California, Berk- 
 eley, Calif. 
 
 CHURCH, Augustus B.: 
 
 President of Buchtel College; born in 
 North Norwich, N. Y., Jan. 11, 1858; son 
 of A. William and Catherine (Conkling) 
 Church. He was graduated from St. Law- 
 rence University, Canton, N. Y., with 
 honors and A.B., 1886, and' from the St. 
 Lawrence Theological School, 1888; and re- 
 ceived the honorary degrees of A.M. from 
 Buchtel College, 1899, D.D, from St. Law- 
 rence University, 1901, and LL.D. from 
 Tufts College, 1905. He was ordained in 
 the Universalist ministry, 1888; was pastor 
 of the First Universalist Church of South 
 Berwick, Maine, 1888-1890, of the First 
 Universalist Church of North Adanjs, 
 Mass., 1890-1897; First Universalist 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Chureli of Akron, Ohio, 1897-1901; acting 
 president, 1901-1902, and' since then pres- 
 ident and chairman of the Board of Trus- 
 tees of Buchtcl College. He is a member 
 of tho National Educational Association, 
 the Beta Thcta Pi fraternity, and of vari- 
 ous other societies. He married in Canton, 
 N. Y., Sept. 5, 1889, Anne Atwood, and has 
 four children. Addiess: Buchtel College, 
 Akron, Ohio. 
 
 CHURCH, Frederick Stuart: 
 
 Artist ; born in Grand Rapids, Mich., 
 Dec. 1, 1842. He received a public school 
 education, and was in the employ of the 
 American Express Company, in Chicago, 
 from 1855 to 1861, and served in the Union 
 Army for more than three years. He stud- 
 ied at the Chicago Academy of Design and 
 later at the Art Students' League and the 
 National Academy of Design in New York. 
 Mr. Church is a painter of figures and ani- 
 mals, and has exhibited at various exhibi- 
 tions in the United States and Europe. 
 Among his more notable paintings are: 
 A Sea Princess;- Back from tlie Beach; 
 Muskrat's Nest; A Foggy Day; A Willing 
 Captive; Retaliation; Peacocks in the 
 Snow; The Sorceress; Pegasus Captured. 
 He was elected a National Academician in 
 1885, and is a member of the American 
 \\'ater Color Society, and of the Society of 
 American Artists. Address: 1512 Broad- 
 way, New York City. 
 
 CHURCH, Samuel Harden: 
 
 Author, railway official; born in Cald- 
 well County, Mo., Jan. 28, 1858; son of 
 William Church and Emily (Scott) Church. 
 His family has resided in Pittsburg since 
 1822, and he was educated in schools and 
 academies there until 1875, when he entered 
 llie service of the Pennsylvania lines west 
 of Pittsburg, in which he has continued 
 I'vei" since, beginning as office messenger 
 of the law department, and later clerk in 
 the same department until 1879, then 
 stenographer at the general superintend- 
 ent's office at Pittsburg, 1879-1880; chief 
 clerk of tiic general manager's office at 
 Cohunbus, Oliio, from 1880 to 1884; sup- 
 erintendent of transportation, from 1884 to 
 
 1S9S. and since 1898 assistant secretary 
 of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pitts- 
 burg. He is also vice-president of the 
 Union Steel Casting Company, and secre- 
 tary and trustee of the Carnegie Institute. 
 While a resident of Columbus, Ohio, he 
 was a colonel on the stafT of Governor 
 Hoadly, and he was presented' with a 
 sword by the governor and his staff for 
 his conduct in handling troops for the sup- 
 pression of riots in Cincinnati in 1884. 
 Colonel Church has taken a prominent place 
 in literature, and is author of: Oliver 
 Cromwell, a History, 1894, (six editions) ; 
 of which The Spectator said: "It is not 
 disparaging any other fame to say that 
 Church's ' Life of Cromwell ' is the greatest 
 book ever Avritten by an American author." 
 John Marmaduke, 1897; Beowulf, a poem, 
 1901; Penrud'dock of the White Lambs, 
 1903; The Brayton Episode (play), 1905; 
 A Short History of Pittsburg, 1908; 
 also frequent contributions to leading mag- 
 azines. Editor of a railroad compilation. 
 Corporate History of the Pennsylvania 
 Lines West of Pittsburg, thirteen volumes, 
 1906. Colonel Church is a Republican in 
 politics and was a speaker in the presiden- 
 tial campaigns of the past twelve years in 
 Pennsylvania, Ohio, and' Indiana. He was 
 a delegate to the Republican National Con- 
 vention of 1904. He has received the hon- 
 orary degrees of Litt.D. from the Western 
 University of Pennsylvania, LL.D. from the 
 University of Pittsburg, and A.M. from 
 Yale. He married at Pittsburg, March 15, 
 1898, Bertha Jean Reinhart, daughter of 
 James McH. Reinhart. Office address: 
 Union Station, Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 CHURCH, William Conant: 
 
 Ivlitiir and writer; bora in Rochester, 
 N. Y., Aug. 11, lS;i(): son of Rev. Phar- 
 cellus and C. Emily Church. He was edu- 
 cated in the Boston Latin School. He has 
 been for the past fifty-three years a resi- 
 dent of New York City, where he has large 
 interests. During the Civil War he served 
 as an officer on the staff of Major-General 
 Silas Casey; and then was brevetted' lieu- 
 tenant-colonel. He was publislier of the 
 New York Sun, leaving it to enter the mill- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 341 
 
 tary service. ITo is editor of the Army and 
 Navy Journal, which he established in 
 1863; established the Galaxy Magazine in 
 1868 and conducted' it until it was merged 
 in the Atlantic Monthly in 1878. He was 
 appointed by President Arthur, as Govern- 
 ment inspector for the Northern Pacific 
 Railroad. Mr. Church has taken an active 
 part in public affairs in New Yoik City. 
 He is a member of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic, George Washington Post, and was 
 one of the earliest members of the Loyal 
 Legion; is charter member, has been junior 
 and senior vice-commander of the New 
 York Commandery, and is now member ot 
 the commandery-in-chief of the Legion. He 
 also took an active part in the establish- 
 ment of the National Rifle Association and 
 was its president. Mr. Church is the au- 
 thor of: Life of John Erickson, 1890; 
 and Life of Ulysses S. Grant, 1899. He was 
 one of the founders and is a fellow in per- 
 petuity of the Metropolitan Museum of 
 Art; and a life member and director of 
 the Zoological Society. Address: 51 Irv- 
 ing Place, New York City. 
 
 CHURCHILL, Winston: 
 
 Author; born in St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 10, 
 1871; son of Edward Spalding and Emma 
 r.ell (Blaine) Churchill. He was educated 
 at Smith Academy and' at the U. S. Naval 
 Academy in the class of 1894. Mr. Churchill 
 is author of: The Celebrity; Richard Car- 
 vel; The Crisis; The Crossing; Coniston; 
 INIr. Crewe's Career; and some magazine 
 articles. Mr. Churchill is a Republican and 
 served two terms as a member of the New 
 Hampshire Legislature in 1903-1905, and 
 was candidate for governor of New Hamp- 
 shire in 190G. Besides being in the front 
 rank of American novelists, Mr. Churchill is 
 one of the chief representatives of the new 
 idea in politics and has for several years 
 led a movement against an alleged domina- 
 tion of railroad and other interests in his 
 state. He married at St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 
 22, 1895, Mabel Harlakenden Hall, and' they 
 have two children, Mabel Harlakenden and 
 John Hwight ^Yinston. Residence: Cor- 
 nish. N. H. Address: ^^■indsor, Yt. 
 
 CLAFLIN. John: 
 
 Merchant: born in Brooklyn, July 24, 
 1850; son of Horace Brigham Clallin and 
 Agnes (Sanger) Clallin. He was graduatefl 
 from the College nf tlic City of New York 
 in 1869. He entered tiie dry good's house 
 of H. B. Claflin & Company (established 
 by his father in 1843) as clerk, in October, 
 1870, became a partner in 1873, and head of 
 the house on the death of his father in 
 1885. He organized the business :is a cor- 
 poration, The II. B. Claflin Company, in 
 June, 1890, and has been its president. 
 The house has been from the end of the 
 Civil War the largest wholesale dry goods 
 business in New York City. He has trav- 
 eled extensively all over the United States, 
 Mexico, South America, Europe, and Asia, 
 and made a notable trip in the summer of 
 1877. Starting from the Peruvian Coast of 
 the Pacific Ocean, at the latitude of ten 
 degrees south, and with a single white 
 companion, he crossed the South Ameri- 
 can continent from west to east at its 
 widest part, reaching the Atlantic at the 
 mouth of the Amazon. Mr. Claflin is an 
 Independent Republican and a Congregation- 
 alist. He is a member of the Grand Army 
 of the Republic and' of the IVIetropolitan, 
 Tuxedo, Merchants', Jekyl, Morris County 
 Golf, and Morristown Clubs. Mr. Claflin 
 married at ]\Ionterey, Calif., June 27, 1890, 
 Elizabeth Stewart. Residence: 15 Wash- 
 ington Square North. Address: 224 Church 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 CLAPP, Jacob Crawford: 
 
 President of Catawba College; born at 
 Allemance, Guilford County, N. C, Sept. 
 5, 1832; sou of Joshua and Delilah (Hutf- 
 man) Clapp. He was graduated from Am- 
 herst College, A.B., 1857, and afterward re- 
 ceived the degree of D.D. from Ursinus Col- 
 lege, Pa. After teaching in schools in 
 North Carolina and' Mississippi he became 
 professor of ancient languages in Catawba 
 College at Newton, N. C, in 1860, and two 
 years later became the president of the Col- 
 leo-e, in which position he has continued 
 ever since. Dr. Clapp is a clergjman of the 
 Reformed Clnirch in the United States (Ger- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 iiiiin KcforiinMl ) . lunin.i;- been ordained by 
 the L'lassis of North Carolina in 1865, and 
 has served' almost continuously since as pas- 
 tor, in addition to his collegiate duties. JTe 
 is author of a History of the Reformed 
 Church in North Carolina. He married at 
 liolton, Hinds County, Miss., July 4, 1860, 
 F.innia Lewis. Address: Newton. N. C. 
 
 CLAPP, Moses Edwin: 
 
 United States Senator; born in Delphi, 
 Ind., May 21, 1851. His parents removed 
 to Hudson, Wis., in 1857, and after obtain- 
 ing a common school education he was 
 graduated from the Wisconsin Law School 
 in 1873. In 1878 he was elected county at- 
 torney of St. Croi.x County, Wis., and in 
 1881 he moved to Fergus Falls, Minn., and 
 resided there until 1891. He was elected 
 attorney-general of Minnesota in 1887, 1889 
 and 1891, and removed to St. Paul and 
 made that his permanent home in 1891. He 
 was elected to the United States Senate, 
 Jan. 23, 1901, to fill the vacancy occasioned 
 by the death of Senator Davis, of Minne- 
 sota, and took his seat Jan. 28, 1901, and 
 was reelected in 1905. His term of service 
 will expire March 3, 1911. He married in 
 1874, Hattie Allen, and has three children: 
 one son and two daughters. Address: 610 
 Manhattan Block, St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 CLARK, Aaron Baker: 
 
 Clergyman; born at Westport, N. Y., 
 Jan. 27, 1855; son of Aaron and Harriet 
 Patience Clark. He was educated at the 
 University of Vermont, in class of 1875, and 
 at the General Theological Seminary of New 
 York, 1884-1886. He was assistant princi- 
 pal of the Vermont Episcopal Institute, 
 1874-1881, principal of the Vergennes graded 
 schools, 1881-1883, rector of the Greenwich 
 and Schuylerville parishes in the Diocese of 
 Albany, N. Y., 1886-1888; rector of St. 
 Philips, Belmont, Western New York, 1888- 
 1889. Mr. Clark has been missionary at 
 the Rosebud Agency, S. Dak., since May, 
 1889, conducting services in Siou.K and Eng- 
 lish at a score of churches and stations 
 among the Upper Brule Sioux. From May, 
 1889, he has been absorbed in mission work 
 which required the accjuisilion of the dif- 
 
 funilt Sioux (Dakota) language and the 
 constant use of it in daily intercourse with 
 a dependent peoi)le accustomed to appeal to 
 the missionary for advice in all the affairs 
 of life, and this among a small population, 
 scattered over a district as large as Con- 
 necticut. As a lecturer upon Indian school 
 and mission work, Mr. Clark has traveled 
 in the New England and the Middle and 
 North Atlantic States. He is now especially 
 prominent and still active as a leader in de- 
 fense of Indian rights and demanding fair 
 treatment for them in all respects, as men 
 and fellow citizens. He has assisted these 
 Indians in getting a fairer price for lands 
 sold and protecting their trust and treaty 
 funds from unjust diversion. He is a Re- 
 publican in politics. ]Mr. Clark is a mem- 
 ber of the National Geographic Society, 
 and of the Sisco Lodge of Masons, New 
 York. Mr. Clark married at Vergennes, 
 Vt., July 1, 1886, Sarah White Booth, and 
 they have three children: John Booth, born 
 in 1887; David W., born in 1889, and Ho- 
 bart Hare, born in 1894. Address: Rose- 
 bud, S. Dak. 
 
 CLARK, Alonzo Howard: 
 
 Curator, Section of American History. U. 
 S. National Museum; born in Boston, April 
 13, 1850; son of Thatcher and Abby 
 (Barnes) Clark. He was educated at Wes- 
 leyan University, and received from it the 
 honary degree "of A.M., 1906. Mr. Clark 
 engaged in commercial pursuits in New 
 York City until 1875. He had charge of the 
 United S^tates Fish Commission Station at 
 Gloucester, Mass., and was special agent 
 of the Tenth Census, 1879-1880, and since 
 1881 he has held his present curatorship in 
 the U. S. National Museum at Washington, 
 and' is also an editoi" at the Smithsonian 
 Institution. He went to the Fourth London 
 International Exhibition, 1883, as assistant 
 U. S. Commissioner, and was expert com- 
 missioner to the Exposition Universelle at 
 Paris in 1889, receiving the decoration of 
 omcier du M6rite Agricole of France. He 
 is author of: The Fishery Industries of 
 the United States; Whale and Seal Fisher- 
 ies; Food Industries of the World (in Re- 
 ports of the I'aris Exposition of 1889) ; also 
 
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 iiumographs and articles on various histori- 
 r:\l topics. TTo is secretary of the Ameri- 
 (•;in Historical Association; secretary-gener- 
 ;il and registrar-general of the Sons of the 
 American Revolution; and is also a nienibor 
 of llie Baronial Order of Runynied'e, Society 
 of Mayflower Descendants, Society of Co- 
 lonial Wars and Society of the War of 1812. 
 He married in Gloucester, Mass., Alice Mor- 
 row. Address: Smithsonian Institution, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 CLARK, Champ: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born near Law- 
 renceburg, Anderson County, Ky., March 
 7, 1850; son of John Hampton and Aletha 
 Jane (Beauchanip) Clark. He was educated 
 in Kentucky University at Lexington, and 
 graduated from Bethany College. Pennsyl- 
 vania, as A.B. in 1873, and later received 
 tlie degrees of A.M. and LL.D. from that 
 college; and he was also graduated' from the 
 Cincinnati Law School as LL.B. in 1873 and 
 1874 he was president of Marshall College, 
 \\ est Virginia. After graduation from Cin 
 cinnati Law Scliool, he removed to ]\Iissouri 
 and became ])rincipal of the high school at 
 Louisiana, Mo. In 1876 he entered the ac- 
 tive practice of law, and' was city attorney 
 of Louisiana, Mo., and afterwards of Bowl- 
 ing Green, Mo. He served as prosecuting 
 attorney of Pike County, was editor of the 
 Piiverside Press in 1879 and 1880, then pres- 
 idential elector and member of the Missouri 
 Legislature. He was elected to the Fifty- 
 third Congress ill 1892, and to the Fifty- 
 fifth Congress in 1896, and has since been bi- 
 ennially reelected from the Ninth Mis- 
 souri District, which he now represents in 
 tiie Sixty-first Congress. Mr. Clark was 
 elected by the Democratic Caucus of the 
 Sixtieth Congress to the position of leader 
 of the minority on the floor of the House, 
 and is a member of the Committee on Ways 
 and Means. Mr. Clark has also attained 
 great prominence as a lecturer in lyceum 
 courses and at Chautauquas. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Christian, or Disciples Church, 
 and he is president of the Board of Trus- 
 tees of Park College. He married at Airx 
 Vasse, Callaway County, Mo., Dec. 14, 1881, 
 Genevieve Bennett, and tliey have two liv- 
 
 ing children, two others having died in in- 
 fancy. Address: Bowling Green, Mo. 
 
 CLARK, Charles Amory: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Sangervilh", Maine, Jan. 
 26, 1841 ; son of \Villiam Coding and 
 Elizabeth White Stevens Clark; and a de- 
 scendant of Hugh Clark, who settled in 
 Watertown. Mass., in 1640. He was edu- 
 cated in the common schools of Sanger- 
 ville. at Foxcroft Academy and by home 
 studies. He began as a school teacher at 
 the age of 15, in 1856, and taught every fall 
 and winter until he enlisted, at Foxcroft, 
 Maine, April 24, 1851, in Company A, Sixth 
 jNIaine Infantry. He was the first man to 
 volunteer from his county and one of the 
 very first to answer the call of President 
 Lincoln, and was successively corporal, ser- 
 geant and second lieutenant in the company 
 in which he enlisted. He became first lieu- 
 tenant and adjutant of the Sixth Maine 
 Regiment in August, 1862, and served with 
 it until honorably discharged because of 
 wounds, in February. 1864. He reentered 
 the army in April, 1864, being commis- 
 sioned by President Lincoln captain and 
 assistant adjutant-general of volunteers, 
 and' was brevetted major for gallantry at 
 JMarye's Heights, May 3, 1863, and lieuten- 
 ant-colonel for gallantry at Rappahannock 
 Station, Va., Nov. 7, 1863; and he received 
 the Congressional Medal of Honor for 
 bravery at Bank's Ford, Va., May 4, 1863. 
 He served in the Army of the Potomac and 
 the Army of the James, and resigned in the 
 fall of 1864 by reason of wounds and bad 
 health. He went to Iowa in 1866, and 
 practised law at Webster City in that State 
 until 1876, and' since then at Cedar Rapids, 
 Iowa. He has practised in the Supreme 
 Court of Iowa since 1868, the Federal 
 Courts of Iowa and several other States 
 since 1871, and the Supreme Court of the 
 United States since 1878. He is a member 
 of the Grand Army of the Republic, Military 
 Order of the Loyal Legion and the Medal 
 of Honor Legion; has been commander of 
 the Loyal Legion for Iowa ; commander of 
 the Department of Iowa, Grand Army of the 
 Republic. 1906, 1907, and judge advocate- 
 general. G. A. R., 1905-1 900.' Colonel Clark 
 
344 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 inairietV, Doc. 19, 1863, Helen E. Brockway, 1 
 of his native town of Sangerville, Maine, 
 and they have six chihlion. Address: Ce- 
 (hir T;ai>iil>. Iowa. 
 
 CLARK, Charles Edward: 
 
 Tu'ar- Admiral United States Navy, re- 
 tired; born at Bradford, Vt., Sept. 29, 1843. 
 He was at the United States Naval Acad- 
 emy from 18()0-1863, and he was promoted 
 to ensign Oct. 1, 1863, was attached to the 
 sloop dssipee in the West Gnlf Blockading 
 Squadron, from 1863 to 1865, and partici- 
 pated in the battle of Mobile Bay, Aug. 5. 
 1864, and the bombardment of Fort Morgan, 
 Aug. 23, 1864. He served on various sta- 
 tions and duties and in January, 1898, when 
 commanding tlie Monterey, he was ordered 
 to command the battleship Oregon, just 
 built at San Francisco. He left San Fran- 
 cisco in ]March with the battleship Oregon, 
 and arrived with her at Key West, Fla., 
 fourteen thousand miles, May 26, 1898, in 
 time to take active part in the Spanish- 
 American War, and he commanded her in 
 the battle of Santiago. This cruise of the 
 Oregon was unprecedented for speed' with a 
 battleship, and lias taken a prominent place 
 in naval annals. From the time of his pro- 
 motion to rear-admiral he was governor of 
 the United States Naval Home at Philadel- 
 phia, until lie retired in 1905. The Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania conferred upon Rear 
 Admiral Clark the degree of LL.D. in 1905. 
 He married ]Maria Davis, daugliter of W. T. 
 Davis of Greenfield, Mass. Address: Mont- 
 jtelier, Vt. 
 
 CLARK, Charles Hopkins: 
 
 Editor of the Hartford Courant; born in 
 Hartford, Conn., April 1, 1848; son of Ezra 
 Clark, Jr. He was graduated from Yale 
 in 1871, with the degree of M.A., and has 
 ever since been connected with the Courant; 
 and he succeeded the late U. S. Senator 
 Joseph P. Hawley in the editorship of that 
 paper. He is president and director of the 
 Hartford Courant Co.; vice-president of the 
 Collins Company, and director of the Con- 
 necticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, 
 and Phoenix Fire Insurance Company. He 
 is also treasurer of the Hartford Public Li- 
 
 brary, the Watkinson Library and Good 
 Will Club, and the Wadsworth Athenaeum, 
 and is a member of leading clubs in New 
 York and Hartford. Address: Courant, 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 
 CLARK, Clarence Don: 
 
 United States senator; born at Sandy 
 Creek, Oswego County, N. Y., April 16, 
 1851. He was educated in the common 
 schools and at the Iowa State University; 
 was admitted to the bar in 1874, and taught 
 and practised law in Delaware County, 
 Iowa, until 1881. In that year he removed 
 to Evanston, Wyo., where he has since re- 
 sided. He was prosecuting attorney for 
 Uinta County four years; was a delegate 
 to the National Republican Conventions of 
 1888, 1900 and 1904 and 1908. He was ap- 
 pointed associate justice of the Territory of 
 Wyoming in 1890, but declined the office. 
 Upon the admission of Wyoming as a State, 
 he was elected to the Fifty-first and Fifty- 
 second Congresses. He was defeated for re- 
 election to the Fifty-third Congress by a 
 fusion of Democrats and Populists; was 
 elected, Jan. 23, 1895, to the United States 
 Senate for the term ending March 3, 1899, 
 to till a vacancy caused by the failure of the 
 Legislature to elect in 1892 and 1893, and 
 was reelected in 1899 and 1905. His term 
 of service will expire March 3, 1911. Sena- 
 tor Clark is chairman of the important 
 Committee on Judiciary of the Senate. Ad- 
 dress: Evanston, Wyo. 
 
 CLARK, Edgar Erastus: 
 
 Member of the Interstate Commerce Com 
 mission; born at Lima, N. Y., Feb. 18 
 1856; son of Henry Dean and Nancy E 
 (Jones) Clark. He was educated in Gene 
 see ^Vesleyan Seminary at Lima, N. Y. Mr 
 Clark was grand chief conductor of the Or 
 der of Railway Conductors from 1890 to 
 1906; member of the Anthracite Coal Strike 
 Commission, in 1902 and 1903; and was 
 appointed member of the Interstate Com- 
 merce Commission in' 1906, He is a mem- 
 ber of the National Civic Federation, the 
 American Academy of Political and Social 
 Science, the National Cliikl Labor Commit- 
 tee and the Inslitute for Social Service. 
 
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 345 
 
 iAlr. Clark married at Ogden, Utah, Sept. 
 1, 1880, Lovenia Jenkins, who died in 1903, 
 and they have five children. Residence: 
 The Rochanibeau. Address: Interstate 
 Conunerce Commission, Washington, D. C. 
 
 CLARK, Francis Edward: 
 
 Clcroyiiian, founder of the United Soci- 
 ety of Christian Endeavor; born at Aylnier, 
 Province of Quebec, Canad;',. Sept. 12, 1851, 
 of New England parentage. His parents 
 who were named Symmes died in his boy- 
 hood and he was legally adopted by an un- 
 cle. Rev. E. W. Clark, who took him to 
 Claremont, N. H. He graduated from Dart- 
 mouth as A.B. in 1873 with Phi Beta Kappa 
 honors and received from it the degree of D. 
 D. in 1887. He studied at Andover Theolog- 
 ical Seminary, 1873-1876, and then took 
 charge of a mission at Portland, Me., was 
 ordained to the ministry of the Congrega- 
 tional Church, and built up the mission to 
 a prosperous church known as the Williston 
 Congregational Church of Portland. It was 
 there that, in February, 1881, he founded 
 the Society of Christian Endeavor, now a 
 world-wide organization with millions of 
 members among the young people of the 
 various evangelical churches. In 1883 he 
 became pastor of Phillips Church, South 
 Boston, in which he continued' until 1887, 
 and since then has devoted his entire atten- 
 tion to the Christian Endeavor work, being 
 president of the United Society of Christian 
 Endeavor, president of the World's Chris- 
 tian Endeavor Union, and editor of The 
 Christian Endeavor World. Dr. Clark is 
 author of the Christian Endeavor Manual, 
 and of various volumes on religious sub- 
 jects, also several volumes • relating to his 
 world-wide travels in the interest of Christ- 
 ian Endeavor work. Residence: Auburn- 
 dale, Mass. Office: Tremont Temple, Bos- 
 ton. 
 
 CLARK, Frank: 
 
 I'ongressnian. lawyer; born at Eufaula, 
 Ala., March 28, I860; son of John Wise 
 and Mary Emiline (Kells) Clark. He was 
 educated in the common schools of Alabama 
 and Georgia. He was admitted to the bar 
 at Fairburn, Ga., Aug. 3, 1881, and has since 
 
 been engaged in practice of law in Florida, 
 and he is also a member of the bar of the 
 Supreme Court of the United" States. He 
 served three terms in the Florida Legisla- 
 ture; was assistant district attorney of tlia 
 Southern District of Florida, and' United 
 States attorney for same district from 1893 
 to 1897. He was chairman of the Demo- 
 cratic State Committee of Florida, was 
 elected member of the Fifty-ninth Congress 
 from the Second' Florida District, in 1904, 
 and reelected in 1906, and 1908, to the Six- 
 tieth and Sixty-first Congress, in which he 
 is now serving. He married at Bartow, Fla., 
 Oct. 8, 1884, Mary Ellen Mayo. Address: 
 Lake City, Fla. 
 
 CLARK, George Harlow: 
 
 Naturalist and explorer; born in Hyde 
 Park, Mass., Feb. 21, 1871; son of Theodore 
 E. and Ellen A. Clark. He was educated 
 in the high school of Brookline, Mass., from 
 which he was graduated in 1887, and after- 
 ward devoted much attention to biological 
 research. He became a member of the Look- 
 out INIountain Exploring Expedition, was 
 the naturalist of the Peary Polar Expedi- 
 tion, 1893-1894, and was a companion of 
 Lieutenant Peary on the journey over the 
 Greenland Ice Cap and during the sledge 
 journeys over the frozen sea. ]\Ir. Clark 
 has since been a leader in several expedi- 
 tions in the Arctic regions, having com- 
 manded the North Alaskan Expedition in 
 1898-1900, and was associated with an ex- 
 pedition to the interior of Labrador in 1902; 
 and he has contributed on zoological sub- 
 jects and Arctic research to many of the 
 scientific publications. He is a member of 
 the Boston Society of Natural History, 
 American Folk-Lore Society, American An- 
 thropological Society, the Polar Research 
 Club, and the Geographic and Arctic Club 
 of America. He married in San Francisco, 
 March 21, 1900, Estellc Mny Baker. Ad- 
 dress: Winthrop, Mass. 
 
 CLARK, Imogen: 
 
 Author; born in Mew York City; daugh- 
 ter of George Homer and Phillie (Beatty) 
 Clark. She was educated in Madam da 
 Silva's French and English School in New 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 York, and by private tutors. Miss Clark 
 is a constant contributor to the magazines 
 and is author of the books: Will Shake- 
 speare's Little Lad; God's Puppets; The 
 N'ictory of Ezra Gardiner; The Heresy of 
 Parson Medlicott; and Santa Claus' Sweet- 
 heart; A Charming- Humbug; We Four and 
 Two More. The Book '' Will Shakespeare's 
 Little Lad " has been especially commended 
 by the Shakespearean scholar, W. J. Rolfe, 
 who advocates the reading of it in his 
 classes; and the social life of early New 
 York, as pictured in " God's Puppet's," has 
 been much praised, the value of the Dutch 
 element being particularly noted. Miss 
 Clark is a member of the W^ednesday After- 
 noon Club and of the Barnard Club, both 
 of New York City. Address: 302 West 
 SSth Street, New York City. 
 
 CLARK, John Bates: 
 
 Professor of political economy, author; 
 born in Providence, R. I., Jan. 26, 1847 ; 
 son of John Hezekiah and Charlotte Stod- 
 (hrrd (Huntington) Clark. He was educat 
 ed in Brown University, Amherst College, 
 A.B., 1872, and the Universities of Zurich 
 and Heidelberg; and he has received the 
 degree of Ph.D. and LL.D., from Amherst 
 and LL.D. from Princeton. He was pro- 
 fessor of political economy and history in 
 Carleton College, Minn., 1877-1881; profes- 
 sor of history and political science, Smith 
 College, 1882-1892, professor of political 
 economy in Amherst College, 1892-1895, and 
 Ijrofessor of economics in Columbia Univer- 
 sity since 1895. He was also lecturer in 
 economics in Johns Hopkins University. Dr. 
 Clark is author of: The Philosophy of 
 Wealth; the Distribution of Wealth; The 
 Control of Trusts; The Problem of Monop- 
 oly; Essentials of Economic Theory, all 
 bound \olumes, also about one hundred 
 monographs, parts of volumes, and articles 
 in economic journals, American and foreign. 
 He is author of a system of economic theory 
 which is presented in these publications. 
 He is a member, and was president for two 
 years of the American Economic Associa- 
 tion, is a member of the Commission on 
 Wall Street, appointed by Governor Hughes; 
 member of the American Association for the 
 
 the Advancement of Science, American 
 Academy of Political and Social Science, 
 New York Academy of Political Science, 
 American Association for Labor Legislation, 
 and other societies, a trustee of Smith Col- 
 lege, director of the League for Political 
 Education, trustee of Madura College; mem- 
 ber of the Executive Committee of the New 
 i'ork Peace Society, and the Ethical Social 
 League; and member of the Century Club 
 of New Y'ork, and others. He married in 
 Minneapolis, Minn., in Sept. 1875, Myra A. 
 Smith, and they have three sons and a 
 daughter. Residence: 635 West 115th 
 Street. Office: Columbia University, New 
 Vork City. 
 
 CLARK, Joseph Bourne: 
 
 Clergyman and missionary secretary ; 
 born in Sturbridge, Mass., Oct. 7, 1836; 
 son of Rev. Joseph S. Clark, D.D., and 
 Harriet Bates (Bourne) Clark. He was 
 graduated from Amherst College, A.B., 1855, 
 and from the Andover Theological Seminary 
 in 1801, and in 1884 he received the degree 
 of D.D. from Amherst. After his ordina- 
 tion in the Congregational ministry in 
 1861, he served as pastor of the First Con- 
 gregational Chvirch at Y'^armouth, Mass., for 
 seven years, the Central Congregational 
 Church of Newtonville, Mass., for four 
 years, and the Central Congregational 
 Churoli of Jamaica Plains, Boston for seven 
 years, becoming, in 1897 secretary of the 
 Massachusetts Home Missionary Society. 
 He served in that position until 1882, when 
 he was transferred to the National field in 
 his i^rescnt position as secretary of the Con- 
 gregational Home Missionary Society, with 
 headquarters in* New York. Dr. Clark is 
 author of: Leavening the Nation, (New 
 York, 1903). He married at Falmouth. 
 Mass., Oct. 23, 1878, Clara N. Herendeen, 
 Residence: 271 McDonough Street, Brook- 
 lyn. Office: United Cliarities Building, 
 New York City. 
 
 CLARK, Kate Upson: 
 
 WriliT and lecturer; burn in Camden, 
 Ala., Feb. 22, 1851; daughter of Edwin and 
 Priscilla (Maxwell) Upson. She was grad- 
 uated from Wheaton Seminary, Norton, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 34; 
 
 Mass., 18G9, from Westfield (Mass.) Nor- 
 mal School, 1872, and taught in Central 
 High School, Cleveland, Ohio, 1872-1873. 
 She married in Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. I, 
 1874, Edward Perkins Clark, who died in 
 1903, and she lias three sons. Mrs. Clark 
 edited Cood Cheer, 1882-1887; conducted the 
 Helping Hand Department of the Philadel- 
 phia Press, 1S83-18S0; Romance, 1892-1895; 
 and Food and Drink, 1UU8; has contributed 
 to most of the leading magazines, especially 
 to those for the young, writes editorially 
 for the Christian Herald and Brooklyn 
 Eagle, and lectures extensively upon social 
 and educational toi)ics. She is author of: 
 Bringing up Boys, 19U0; White Butterflies, 
 1900; How Dexter Paid His way, 1901; 
 Move Upward, 1902; Up the Witch Brook 
 Road, 1902; A Soldier of Conscience, 1903; 
 The Adventures of Si^ott}*, 1904; Donalds 
 Good Hen, 1905; The Dole Twiirs, 1906; Art 
 and Citizenship, 1907. Mrs. Clark is a 
 charter member of the Meridian Club of 
 New York, organized 1906; was president 
 of the Wheaton Club of New York, 1886- 
 1906, and has been a trustee of Wheatou 
 Semuiary since 1907. Address: 248a Mon- 
 roe Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 CLARK, Lester Williams: 
 
 Jurist; born in Brookline, Mass., Jan. 
 22, 1854; son- of Lester Manzer and Maria 
 Isabella (Williams) Clark. He was gradu- 
 ated' from Harvard College, A.B., 1875, 
 Columbia Law School, LL.B., 1878, was ad- 
 mitted to the bar and engaged in practice 
 until elected on the Republican ticket, in 
 November, 1906, a justice of the Supreme 
 Court of the State of New Y'ork for the Sec- 
 ond Judicial District for the term expiring 
 Dee. 31, 1920. Justice Clark is a member 
 of the Association of the Bar of the City of 
 New York, the Harvard Club of New York 
 City, Hamilton Club of Brooklyn, and' th« 
 Staten Island and Richmond County Coun- 
 try Clubs. He married, Oct. 20, 1883, Irene 
 M. de M. Carty. Address: New Brighton, 
 Staten Island, X. Y. 
 
 CLARK, Victor Selden 
 
 Writer, economist; born at Portageville, 
 ■N. Y., June 12, 1868; son of Major S. N. 
 
 and' Helen F. (Davis) Clark. He was grad- 
 uated from the Minnesota State University 
 as Litt.B. in 1890; was honorary fellow of 
 the University of Chicago, studying at the 
 University of Gottingen and the University 
 of Berne, and received his Ph.D. degree from 
 Columbia University in 1900, being a fel- 
 low of that university, 1897-1898. He was 
 president of the Insular Board of Educa- 
 tion and director of Public Instruction of 
 Porto Rico 1899-1900; was engaged in in- 
 vestigating tropical labor conditions for the 
 United States Bureau of Labor, 1902-1906; 
 and has been collaborator in charge of the 
 Division of Manufacturers, Department of 
 Economics and Sociology, in the Carnegie 
 Institute of Washington since 1906. He 
 traveled in Europe, Porto Rico, Cuba, Ha- 
 waii and the Philippines, also in the British 
 tropical colonies in the East; Java, and the 
 German Colonies in the Pacific, and exten- 
 sively in New Zealand and Australia. He 
 is author of: Teacher's Manual Studies in 
 the Latin of the Middle Ages and the Re- 
 naissance; The Labor Movement in Aus- 
 tralasia, as well as of numerous Government 
 reports on labor conditions; in foreign coun- 
 tries and is editor, with notes, of editions of 
 The Colloquies of Erasmus and the Historia 
 Romana of Eutropius. Residence: The 
 Ontario. Address: Carnegie Institute, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 CLARK, Walter: 
 
 Chief Justice of North Carolina; born in 
 Halifax, N. C, Aug. 19, 1846; son of Gen. 
 David' and Anna M. (Thorne) Clark. He 
 joined the Confederate Army in the Spring 
 of 1861, at fourteen years of age and after 
 over two years' service and reaching the 
 rank of iirst lieutenant and adjutant of the 
 Thirty-iifth North Carolina Regiment, he 
 resigned and entered.' the University of 
 North Carolina, from which he was gradu- 
 ated June 2, 1864, the next day again en- 
 tered the Confederate Stiites Army, and on 
 July 4, 1864 became lieutenant-colonel of 
 70th North Carolina Regiment, at the age 
 (jf seventeen, being the youngest officer of 
 that rank in either army during the Civil 
 War. After the war he took up the study 
 of law and was admitted to the bar of 
 
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 North Carolina in 1867. He practised law 
 until 1885, when lie became judge of the Su- 
 j)erior Court of North Carolina, and held 
 that ofilce until elected in 1889 one of the 
 judges of the Supreme Court of North Caro- 
 lina. In 1804, he was renominated by the 
 Democratic, Republican and Populist parties 
 and unanimously elected by the people. He 
 has remained on that bench ever since, and 
 has been chief justice since Jan. 1, 1903. 
 He has attained high distinction as a jur- 
 ist and legal author, compiled and edited 
 the North Carolina State Records, in seven- 
 teen folio volumes, Histories of the North 
 Carolina Regiments, from 1861 to 1865, in 
 five volumes; and has edited and annotated 
 a rejjrinted edition of ninety-eight volumes 
 of the Reporter of the Supreme Court of the 
 State of North Carolina, and' is author of 
 several legal works. He has also contrib- 
 uted extensively to reviews and magazines, 
 and he translated, from the original French, 
 Constant's INIemoirs of Napoleon, published 
 in three volumes in 1895. Judge Clark 
 married, at Hillsboro, N. C, Jan. 28, 1874, 
 Susan W. daughter of Hon. William A. Gra- 
 ham (governor of North Carolina 1845-1849, 
 secretary of the Navy 1850-1852, and U. S. 
 Senator from North Carolina), and has 
 seven children. Address: Raleigh, N. C. 
 
 CLARK, Walter: 
 
 Landscape artist; born in Brooklyn, N. 
 Y., March 9, 1848; son of Daniel Candee 
 and Helen ]\Iaria (Ballard) Clark. He was 
 educated in the ^Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology in the class of 1870, and was 
 afterward a student at the National Acad- 
 emy of Design, the Art Students' League 
 and under the late George Inness, and also 
 a student in sculpture under J. S. Hartley. 
 He exhibited at the World's Columbian Ex- 
 ])osition in Chicago in 1893, at the Paris 
 Exposition of 1900, the Pan-American and 
 St. Louis Expositions and was awarded sil- 
 ver medals at the two latter and received the 
 InTiess gold medal of the National Academy 
 of Design. He followed sculpture for five 
 years until 1881, and since then lie has 
 Iteen a landscape artist. He is an associate 
 member of the National Academy of Design, 
 a ineniher of the Society of American 
 
 Artists, the Society of Landscape Painters, 
 the New York Water Color Club, the 
 Artists' Fund Society, and the Century As- 
 sociation of New York City. He married in 
 New York City, in 1876, Jennie W. Clark, 
 and they have six children. Address: 134 
 Meadow Lane, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
 
 CLARK, Walter Gordan: 
 
 Electrical engineer; born in Salt Lake 
 City, Oct. 23, 1876; son of Thomas Allen and 
 Eunice Madelina (Wright) Clark. He was 
 educated in public schools. Salt Lake Acad- 
 emy, California Technical Schools and by 
 private instruction. He engaged in hydraul- 
 ic, steam and electrical engineering, 1893- 
 1903, in California, Washington, Oregon, 
 Hawaiian Islands and' Japan. He organized 
 the Kilbourne & Clark Company, and was 
 engaged in electrical engineering, contract- 
 ing and jobbing of electrical equipment, 
 1899-1903; became manager of the electrical 
 branch of the Ansonia Brass and Copper 
 Company, New York City, 1903; president 
 of the Parker-Clark Electric Company, Now 
 York City, 1905. He carried on research 
 work at Columbia University, 1903-1906, 
 and in conjunction with Professor Herschel 
 C. Paiker of Columbia University, invented 
 a new electric lamp (Helion), the Helion 
 Resistance Unit, and' Helion. Air Burning 
 Filament. He conducted research work on 
 electrical conductors and insulators for high 
 potential power transmission and has pat- 
 ented inventions in these lines. He is presi- 
 dent of the Parker-Clark Electric Company, 
 the Clark Electric and Manufacturering 
 Company; and director of the Texas Trac- 
 tion Company, Dallas, Texas, American 
 Railway and Lighting Company of New 
 York, and the Kilbourne and Clark Com- 
 pany, Seattle, Wash. j\Ii-. Clark has made 
 explorations in Mexico, tlie Sierra Ne- 
 vada ]\lountains. Rocky JNIountains, the J 
 ()Iyiii]>ia Mountains of W'ashington, and I 
 made tlie lirst ascent of Mount Olmypusm, 
 Wasti.. lOilti. Ho is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Institute of Electrical Engineers, Amer- 
 ican Electro-Clu-mical Society, Pacific North- 
 west Society of Engineers and the Pacific 
 Transmission Association, the Union 
 League, Railway, and Engineers' Clubs of 
 
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 Now York, ilic Faculty Club of Columbia 
 T'niversity, KaiiiiT Club of Seattle, Wash., 
 niid the Fairfii'ld County Golf and Indian 
 Harbor Yacht Clubs, of Greenwich, Conn., 
 is treasurer of the Explorers' Club of New 
 York Citj', and a member of Masonic and 
 Klks lodges in Seattle. Residence: Engi- 
 neers' Club, 32 West 4')th Street. OlTico: 
 149 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 CLARK, William Andrews: 
 
 United States Senator, banker and mine 
 owner ; born on a farm near Connellsville, 
 Pa., Jan. 8, 1839. He received a common 
 school education; moved to Iowa with his 
 father in 185G, and assisted in farm work 
 for a short time; taught school, and' studied 
 law at Mount Pleasant, Iowa; worked in 
 the quartz mines around Central City, 
 Colo., in 1862, and went in 1803 to Mon- 
 tana, where he has since resided. He was 
 State orator at the Philadelphia Centen- 
 nial in 1876; was elected grand master of 
 the Masonic fraternity in 1877; was major 
 of a battalion that pursued Chief Joseph 
 and his band in the Nez Perces invasion 
 of 1877; was president of the Constitu- 
 tional Convention of the State in 1884, and 
 was also president of the Second Constitu- 
 tional Convention in 1889. He was Demo- 
 cratic candidate for Congress in 1888, but 
 was defeated ; and elected' to the United 
 States Senate by the Democratic Legisla- 
 ture in 1890, but was not seated. He was 
 the caucus nominee of his party for the 
 Senate in 1893, and he assisted materially 
 in retaining the State capital at Helena 
 in a memorable contest between that city 
 and Anaconda in 1894. Senator Clark is 
 extensively engaged in banking, mining, 
 transportation, manufacturing, and' various 
 other business enterprises, and is possessed 
 of very large financial resources. He was 
 elected United States Senator, Jan. 28, 
 1899, to succeed Hon. Lee ^Mantle, Repub- 
 lican. A memorial was filed in the Senate 
 asking that the election of Senator Clark 
 be investigated, which was referred to the 
 Committee on Privileges and Elections; 
 after an investigation a resolution was re- 
 ported to the effect that the election was 
 void. Tliis resolution was not acted upon 
 
 by the Senate, as Senator Clark, in a 
 speecii on May 15, 1900, stated that lie 
 had sent his resignation to the governor 
 of Montana and desired to submit the mat- 
 ter to tlie people of his State, and would 
 abide by their verdict. The acting gover- 
 nor of the State immediately appointed 
 him to fill the vacancy created by his 
 resignation, but he did not present himself 
 to be sworn in under the credentials. In 
 the Democratic State convention, held in 
 IMontana in September, a resolution was 
 unanimously adopted demanding his re- 
 election to the Senate, and a legislative 
 ticket favorable to his reelection as elected 
 in Nov. and on Jan. IG, 1901, he was re- 
 elected for the term of six years, which 
 expired March 3, 1907. Senator Clark is 
 a member of the American Institute of 
 Mechanical Engineers, the New Y^'ork Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, New Y^ork' Historical So- 
 ciety, New Y^ork Zoological Society, New 
 York Botanical Gardens. He married first 
 in 1869, Kate L. StautTer, who died in 1893, 
 and second May 25, 1901, Anna E. La 
 Chapelle. Residence: 175 West 58th Street. 
 Office address: 49 Wall Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 CLARK, William Braddock: 
 
 President Aetna Insurance Company; 
 born in Hartford, Conn., June 29, 1841 ; 
 son of Abel Newell Clark, formerly pro- 
 prietor of the Hartford Courant, and Emily 
 I. (Braddock) Clark. He was educated in 
 the public and high schools of Hartford. 
 At the age of sixteen he entered the office 
 of' the Phoenix Insurance Company of 
 Hartford as bookkeeper, and remained with 
 that company eleven years, the last four 
 as secretary. He became assistant secre- 
 tary of the Aetna Insurance Company in 
 1868, became vice-president of that com- 
 pany in 1888, and succeeded to the pres- 
 idency, Nov. 30, 1892. He was vice-pres- 
 ident of the National Board of Fire 
 Underwriters, 1894-1895, and was elected 
 president of that board in 1896. Mr. Clark 
 is also a director of the Travelers' Insur- 
 ance Company, the First National Bank, 
 City Bank, Society for Savings. Mechanics' 
 Savings Bank, and the Fidelity Company 
 
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 of Hartford. He is a Repul)licaTi in politics 
 and has served as alderman and water 
 connnissioner in Hartford. He is a mem- 
 ber of the New England Society in New 
 York, and of the Republican Club of Hart- 
 ford. :Mr. Clark married', at Hartford. 
 Conn., May 13. 1863, Caroline H. Robbins, 
 who died' June 29, 1902, leaving three 
 daughters. Residence: 268 Farmington 
 Avenue, Hartford. Conn. c 
 
 CLARK, William Bullock: 
 
 Director of tlie Geological Laboratory of 
 Jolins Hopkins University since 1894; born 
 in Brattleboro, Vt., Dec. 15, 1860. He was 
 graduated from Amherst College as A.B., 
 1884; University of Munich, Ph.D., 1887, 
 and received the degree of LL.D. from Am- 
 herst College, 1908. He has been in 
 continuous service as instructor and pro- 
 fessor in geofogy at Johns Hopkins Uni- 
 versity since 1887, and was geologist of the 
 U. S. Geological Survey up to 1907. He 
 is State geologist and highway commis- 
 sioner of Maryland, and was a member of 
 the Conference on the Conservation of 
 Natural esources at the White House, in 
 May, 1908. He is a member of the Na- 
 tional Academy of Sciences; a fellow of 
 the Geological Society of America; foreign 
 correspondent of tlie Royal Geologiciil So- 
 ciety of London, and a member of the 
 (ierman Geological Society. He is also 
 j)resident of the Children's Aid Society of 
 Raltimore. He is author of: Tlie Eocene 
 Deposits of the United States; The Meso- 
 /.oic Echinodermata of the United States; 
 and other publications of the U. S. Geo- 
 logical and Maryland Surveys. Prof. Clark 
 was married at Boston, Mass., Oct. 12, 
 1892, to Ellen Clark Strong, and they have 
 four children. Residence: 8 East Read 
 Street, Baltimore, Md. Office: Johns Hop- 
 kins University, Baltimore. 
 
 CLARK, William W.: 
 
 .Jurist; born in Elgin, 111., Kch. II. 1858; 
 son of De :Marcus and Mary Ella (Walker) 
 Clark. He was educated in Hie Whites- 
 town (N. Y.) Seminary and Hamilton Col- 
 lege, being graduated A.B., 1878, studied 
 law and upon admission to the bar engaged 
 
 in practice at Wayland, N. Y., in 1879. 
 He served as district attorney of Steuben 
 County, 1893-1902: judge of the Steuben 
 County Court. 1902-1906, and was elected 
 in 1906, on the Republican ticket a justice 
 of the Supreme Court of the State of New 
 York for the Seventh Judicial District for 
 the term expiring Dee. 31, 1920. Justice 
 Clark is also president of the First Na- 
 tional Bank of Wayland, N. Y. He mar- 
 ried at Forestport, N. Y., Sept. 18, 1879, 
 Hattie M. Hill. Address: Wayland, N. Y. 
 
 CLARKE, Albert: 
 
 Lawyer and economist; born in Gran- 
 ville, Vt., Oct. 13, 1840; son of Jedediah 
 and Mary (Woodbury) Clarke. After grad- 
 uation from the Barre (Vt.) Academy 
 in 1859 he studied and practised law at 
 Montpelier. Vt., and in 1888 he received the 
 honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth 
 College. He enlisted in the 13th Vermont 
 Volunteer Infantry, Aug., 1862, and was 
 three times promoted, and during the bat- 
 tle of Gettysburg he was commander of 
 the company and captured cannon and 
 prisoners, and' in 1865 was colonel on Gov- 
 ernor Paul Dillingham's staff in Vermont. 
 He was, from 1868 to 1880, editor and 
 proprietor of the St. Albans (Vt.) Messen- 
 ger; was editorially connected with the 
 Boston Daily Advertiser, 1883-1885, and 
 was editor and manager of the Rutland 
 (Vt.) Herald from 1886 to 1889; since 
 then secretary of the Home Market Club 
 and editor of the Protectionist. Mr. Clarke 
 is one of the best known advocates of the 
 protective tariff system in the United 
 State. His writings and addresses in this 
 connection have been very extensive and 
 form a considerable part of the literature 
 (rcpt'iulcd upon for ])rotective tariff argu- 
 ments. He was a jnember of the Vermont 
 Senate, 1874; member of the Massachu- 
 setts House of Representatives, 1896, 1897 
 and 1898, and chairman of the Committee 
 of ^Vays and Means of that body. He was 
 I president of the Vermont and Canada 
 I Railroad, 1885-1886. Mr. Clarke was a 
 delegate to the National Republican Con- 
 vention in 1892, and was a member and 
 later chairman of the U. S. Industrial 
 
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 Coniinission, 1899-1900. He is a member 
 and was judge advocate general, 1897, of 
 the Grand Army of the Republic. He 
 married in Rochester, Vt., Jan. 21, 1864, 
 Josephine Briggs. Residence: 879 Beacon 
 Street. OfRce: 77 Summer Street, Boston. 
 
 CLARKE, Sir Caspar Purdon: 
 
 Director of the jNIetropolitan Museum of 
 Art; born in London in 1846; son of Ed- 
 ward Marmaduke and Mary Agnes (Close) 
 Clarke. He was educated in Gaultiers Col- 
 legiate School, Sydenham, England; at 
 Beaucourts' School, Boulogne, France, and 
 entered the National Art Training School 
 at South Kensington, London, in 1862, be- 
 coming medallist in 1864, and receiving 
 the National Medallion in 1865. He was 
 in Government employ after that in the 
 Office of Works in the House of Parlia- 
 jnent, London, two years; in the Architects' 
 Office, South Kensington Museum, 1867 ; 
 superintendent of art reproductions in 
 Italy, 1869; building the British Legation 
 in Teheran and surveying consular prop- 
 erty in Persia, 1874; collecting art objects 
 in Greece, Turkey and Syria, for the South 
 Kensington Museum, 1876; architect of the 
 Indian Section and commercial agent of 
 the Government of India at the Paris 
 Exposition, 1878. After that he was again 
 in the service of the South Kensington 
 Museum, collecting art examples in Spain, 
 Italy and Germany, 1879; rearranging the 
 Indian collections, 1892, assistant director, 
 1893-1896, and director of the South Ken- 
 sington Museum, 1896-1905. Since Sept. 1, 
 1905, he has been the director of the Met- 
 ropolitan Museum of Art in New York 
 City. He designed and built Cotherstone 
 Church, Durham, England, 1876, the Indian 
 Pavilion at the Paris Exposition. 1878, 
 Alexandra House, Kensington, 1884, In- 
 dian City, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 
 1886, National School of Cookery, 1887, 
 Lord Brassey's Indian Museum at London, 
 and the Indian Palace at the Paris Expo- 
 sition, 1889, winning a gold medal. He 
 was the British official delegate to the 
 X'ienna Exposition of 1891, and was ap- 
 pointed by the Austrian Government, editor 
 of a work on Oriental Carpets; was Royal 
 
 ooiniiiissionor to tlie Paris Exposition, 
 1902; and to the Louisiana Purchase Expo- 
 sition at St. Louis, 1904. He was created 
 Knight in 1902; companion of the Order 
 of the Indian Empire, 188.3; commander 
 of the Victorian Order, 1905; chevalier de 
 la Legion d'Honneur, 1878. He is a fel- 
 low of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, 
 the Royal Society of British Architects; 
 member of the Royal Asiatic Society, and 
 Royal Academy of Madrid'; is a Girdler and 
 Mason of the City of London, and member 
 of leading London and New York Clubs. 
 McGill University, Montreal, has conferred 
 upon him the degree of LL.D. He mar- 
 ried Frances Susannah Collins. Address: 
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
 City. 
 
 CLARKE, Frank Wigglesworth: 
 
 Chemist; born in Boston, Mass., March 
 19, 1847; son of Henry W. and Abby M. 
 ( Fisher ) Clarke. He was graduated from 
 Harvard as B.S. in 1867; received the 
 honorary D.Sc. from Victoria University, 
 and LL.D. from the University of Aber- 
 deen. He was instructor at Cornell Uni- 
 versity in 1869; professor of chemistry at 
 Howard University, Washington, 1873- 
 1874 ; professor of chemistry and physics 
 in the University of Cincinnati, 1874-1883, 
 and has been chief chemist of the United 
 States Geological Survey and honorary 
 curator of minerals of the United States 
 National Museum since 1883. He is a 
 member of the Washington Academy of 
 Sciences; fellow of the American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science; cor- 
 responding member of the British Associ- 
 ation, Edinburgh Geological Society, etc. 
 He is past president of the American Chem- 
 ical Society, and chairman of the Inter- 
 national Committee on Atomic Weights; 
 member of the International Jury of 
 Awards, Paris Exposition in 1900, and 
 received the decoration of Chevalier of the 
 Legion d'Honneur. He is honorary member 
 of the Manchester (England) Literary and 
 Philosophical Society (from which he re- 
 ceived the Wilde medal), and of The Chem- 
 ical Society (London) ; member of the 
 American Philosophical Society and of the 
 
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 Cosmos Club, of Washington. D. C. He is 
 autlior of several books and more ilian a 
 lumdred papers on scientific topics. Dr. 
 Clarke married at Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 
 0, 1874, Mary P. Olmsted, and they have 
 three daughters. Tvesidence: 1612 Riggs 
 Place, Washington, D. C. Office: United 
 States Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 
 
 CLARKE, James P. : 
 
 United States Senator; born at Yazoo 
 City, Miss., Aug. 18, 1854; son of Walter 
 and Ellen (White) Clark. After a prepar- 
 atory education he entered the law depart- 
 ment of the University of Virginia, from 
 which he was graduated in 1878, when he 
 established practice at Helena, Arkansas. 
 He has been active in political matters as 
 a representative Democrat, served in the 
 Arkansas House of Representatives, 1886- 
 1887, the Arkansas Senate, 1888-1892, 
 serving in 1891 as president of the Senate 
 and ex-officio lieutenant-governor; attorney- 
 general of Arkansas, 1893-1894, governor of 
 Arkansas from Jan., 1895, to Jan., 1897, 
 then, declining reelection, removed to Little 
 Rock and engaged in the practice of law. 
 He was elected in 1903 to the United States 
 Senate for the term expiring in March, 
 1909. Senator Clarke was formerly the 
 Arkansas member of the National Demo- 
 cratic Committee. He married at Helena, 
 Ark., Nov. 10, 1883, Sallie Moore. Address: 
 Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 CLARKE, John Proctor: 
 
 Jurist ; born in Florence, Italy, of Amer- 
 ican parents, April 23, 1856; son of I. Ed- 
 wards and May Louise (Proctor) Clarke. 
 He was graduated from Yale, B.A., 1878. 
 He was admitted to the bar in 1880; was 
 assistant U. S. attorney for the Southern 
 District of New York from July 1, 1881, 
 to .May 1, 1886, and was a ]ncml)er of the 
 law firm of Hascall, Clarke & Van der 
 Poel, from May 1, 1886, to March 1, 1895. 
 He was assistant corporation counsel in 
 Mayor Strong's administration from March 
 1, 1895, to Jan. 1, 1898, was counsel to 
 Fallow's Committee of the Assembly to 
 investigate the Surrogate's Court in 1899; 
 counsel to the Ma/.ct Committee of the As- 
 
 sembly to investigate the New York City 
 Government in 1899; and was appointed by 
 Governor Roosevelt, Dec, 1900, justice of 
 the Sui)reme Court to fill a vacancy; and 
 elected, Nov., 1901, for a full term, and 
 was assigned to the Appellate Division of 
 the Supreme Court, for the First Depart- 
 ment, by Governor Higgins, in Oct., 1905. 
 Mr. Clarke is a Republican in politics and 
 is a member of the Bar Association of 
 the City of New York. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Union League, University, Yale, 
 Manhattan, Larchmont Yacht, Republican, 
 and West Side Republican Clubs of New 
 York City. He married at Shrewsbury, 
 N. J., June 25, 1884, Sarah M. Parker, 
 and they have a son, Robert Parker. Ad- 
 dress: 1 West 81st Street, New York City. 
 
 CLARKE, R. Floyd: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Columbia, S. C, Oct. 
 14, 1859; son of Samuel C. and' Caroline 
 B. (Clarkson) Clarke. He was graduated 
 from the College of the City of New York, 
 A.B., 1880, and A.M., 1899, and from Co- 
 lumbia College Law School, LL.B., cum 
 laiide, with first prize in municipal law. 
 He was for many years counsel for the 
 New York and New Jersey Bridge Com- 
 pany, and the George A. Fuller Company. 
 He was counsel in the Kemp will case, and 
 is now counsel in the following matters: 
 for the North River Bridge Company, 
 for the United States Venezuela Company, 
 owners of the Crichfield concession in Ven- 
 ezuela, cancelled by Castro and claim now 
 pending in the State Department of the 
 United States and sent to the Hague Tri- 
 bunal foi' arbitration by protocol sequel 
 between the United States of America and 
 Venezuela Feb. 13, 1909, for the McGivney 
 & Rokeby Company, owners of the sewer- 
 age contract for the city of Havana under 
 the Piatt amendment and Governor Wood's 
 jiroclamation (which claim was now pend- 
 ing in the State Department of the United 
 States) and has now resulted in a new 
 contract between the Republic of Cuba and 
 the McGivney & Rokeby Construction Com- 
 pany, dated June 23, 1908, for the same work 
 with 10 per cent of the Havana customs 
 receipts set aside to pay for it, for the Mex- 
 
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 ieau claimauls io land in K\ Chamizal Dis- 
 trict, Kl Pa!<o, Texas (claim now pcndinc; 
 between Mexico and' the United States. He 
 is a diipctor of the Unadilla Valley Rail- 
 road (oin]):niy. and the Chamizal Title 
 Company. Mr. Clarke is a member of the 
 American Bar Association, the American 
 Society of International Law, the New York 
 State Bar Association, the Bar Association 
 of the City of New York, and the Colonial 
 Order of the Acorn. His favorite recreation 
 is yachting, and he is owner of the sloops 
 Atala and' Argonaut. Mr. Clarke is author 
 of: The Scienee of Law and Law Making, 
 1S!)S (Macniillan). A Permanent Tribunal 
 of International I-aw — Its Necessity and 
 Value. He is a mend)er of the New York 
 Southern Society, the University, New York 
 Yacht, Larchmont Yacht, and Atlantic 
 Yacht Clubs, the Lawyers' Club and the 
 Down Town Association of New York. Ees- 
 idence: West 74th Street. Address: 37 
 \\'a]l Street, New York City. 
 
 CLARKE, Thomas Benedict: 
 
 Art collector and connoisseur; born at 
 New York City, Dec. 11, 1848; son of 
 (Jeorge W. and Mary J. Clarke. He was 
 educated at the ^Mount Washington Col- 
 legiate Institute, New York City. Mr. 
 Clarke has devoted a lifetime to the collec- 
 tion of works of art, and in 1899 sold' a 
 collection of works of American artists for 
 $235,000. He is a member of the National 
 Academy of Design, and founded and en- 
 dowed the Clarke Composition prize at that 
 institution. He is also a member of the 
 American Fine Arts Society, the American 
 Museum of Natural History, the Metro- 
 politan ^Museum of Art, and' the Chamber 
 of Commerce of New York; the Century, 
 llie Aletropolitan, The Brook, Manhattan, 
 Union League, Lambs', New York Yacht, 
 and New York Athletic Clubs. i\Ir. Clarke 
 manied at New York City, Fanny E. Mor- 
 ris, and by that union there are two chil- 
 dren. Residence: 22 E. 35th Street. Ad- 
 dicts: 12 East 41st Street, New York City. 
 
 CLARKE, Thomas Shields: 
 
 Sculjitor and painter: iiorn Ajiril 25, 
 IStiO; son of Charles J. and Louisa (Sem- 
 
 ple) Clarke. He was graduated from 
 Princeton Universiiy in 1S82, (hen took u\> 
 the study of painting and sculpture at the 
 ficole des Beaux Arts, Pari-, and in Fhu- 
 ence and Rome. ISIr. Claike li;is reeeivc.l 
 awards and medals for both sculpture and 
 j)ainting from many expositions and repre- 
 sented by pictures in nuiseums in Boston 
 and Philadelphia, and by large works in 
 marble and bronze in New York, Chicago 
 and other cities. He is an associate Na- 
 tional academician of the National Acad- 
 emy of Design, member of the National 
 Sculpture Society, Metropolitan IMuseum of 
 Art, Architectural League, American i\Iu- 
 seum of Natural History, New 'S'ork Zo- 
 ological Society, National Geographic 
 Society, Royal Society of Arts of London, 
 National Society of Arts and Crafts, and 
 of the Princeton, University and Century 
 Clubs. He has a summer residence at 
 Lenox, Mass. Address: 50 Iviveiside Drive. 
 New. York City. 
 
 CLARKE, William Horatio: 
 
 Musical author and oiganist; born in 
 Newton, Mass., March 8, 1840; son of 
 Horatio and Elvira (Richards) Clarke. 
 He was educated in the public and high 
 schools of Dedham, Mass. Mr. Clarke was 
 organist in the Tremont Temple, Boston, 
 the Roberts Park Church, Indianapolis, and 
 in the First Baptist Church at Rochester, 
 N. Y. He retired from professional life 
 in 1892. Since 1805 he has written and 
 compiled thirty books for organ, choirs and 
 musical education, and his New Method' for 
 Reed Organs, published in ISO!), had a sale 
 of 150,000 copies. Besides being a musical 
 author and correspondent, ^Ir. ('larke is an 
 organ expert, having invented' several im- 
 provements in organ building. lie was 
 senior member of the firm of William II. 
 Clarke and Company, organ builders, of 
 Indianapolis, Ind., 1874-1878, and is a mem- 
 lier of tlie firm of E. T. Clarke and Com- 
 pany, music book jiublishers, Reading, Mass. 
 He has been member of the Society of 
 Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 
 ogy, since 1879, and his latest nnisical 
 works are: Valuable Organ Information, 
 1906; How to Use Organ Stops and Pedals, 
 
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 1!»()S : An Illustratod Treatise on Standard 
 Or-rau Building, 1909. He married at 
 Winchester, Mass., Dec. 18, 1861, Eliza 
 Tufts Richardson, and tliey have five chil- 
 dren, llcsidence: Clarigold Hall. Office: 
 28 Soutli Street, r»eadin<r, Mass. 
 
 CLARKSON, James S. : 
 
 Surveyor of customs; born in Indiana, in 
 1842. He removed to Iowa in 1856 and 
 was educated in the public schools. He 
 became a school teacher in 1859, and then 
 was in the employ of the Daily State 
 Register at Des Moines, Iowa, as printer 
 foreman, business manager and editor, from 
 1862 to 1870, and with his brother, the 
 late Richard P. Clarkson, purchased the 
 paper in 1870. He sold his interest in 1891. 
 From 1871 to 1877 he was postmaster at 
 Des Moines, Iowa, and from 1889 to 1890 
 was first assistant postmaster-general of 
 the United States, from which position he 
 resigned in 1890; and he has been, sur- 
 veyor of customs of the Port of New York 
 since 1902. He is a Republican in politics. 
 Mr. Clarkson was chairman of the Iowa 
 State Republican Committee in 1860, and 
 f(n- years after; a member of the National 
 J republican Committee, from 1884 to 1896, 
 and its chairman from 1890 to 1892. He 
 was also a member of all the Republican 
 National Conventions from 1880 to 1896, 
 and president of the Republican League of 
 the United States in 1891 and 1892. He 
 organized and was president of the com- 
 l)auy which constructed five of the railways 
 into Des Moines, l9wa; and is president of 
 the New York and New Jersey Bridge Com- 
 ])any, organized to construct a suspension 
 bridge over the Hudson River at Fifty- 
 ninth Street witli terminals. Mr. Clarkson 
 nuirried, in 1807, Anna Howell. Residence: 
 The Hendrick Hudson, Riverside Drive 
 and 110th Street. Ollice address: Custom 
 House. New York City. 
 
 CLAY, Alexander Stephens: 
 
 railed States Senator; born Sept. 25, 
 ]h:).',. on a farm in (,'obb County, Ga. He 
 leceived his primary and preparatory edu- 
 cation in the country schools and the high 
 school at Palmetto, Ga., and was graduated 
 
 from Hiawassee College in 1875; taught 
 school for two years and studied law under 
 Judge David Irwin, of Marietta. Mr. Clay 
 was admitted to the bar in Sept., 1877, and 
 has been engaged actively in the practice 
 of law ever since. He was elected a mem- 
 ber of the City Council in 1880 and re- 
 elected in 1881, and represented Cobb 
 County in the General Assembly of the 
 State from 1884 to 1887; and in 1886 and 
 1887 was elected speaker pro tempore. He 
 was reelected for 1889 and 1890, and served 
 as speaker for two years, and in 1892 was 
 elected to the State Senate, . and' served as 
 president of that body for two years. In 
 1894 he was elected chairman of the State 
 Democratic Executive Committee, and con- 
 ducted the State campaign between the 
 Democrats and Populists in that year; was 
 reelected to the same position in 1896 and 
 still occupies the place. He was elected 
 to the United States Senate to succeed 
 John G. Gordon, in Oct., 1890, and took his 
 seat March 4, 1897, and was reelected in 
 1903 and 1909. His present term will ex- 
 pire March 3, 1915. Address: Marietta, 
 Ga. 
 
 CLAY, Brutus Junius: 
 
 Diplomat; born in Madison County, Ky., 
 Feb. 20, 1847; son of General Cassius Mar- 
 cellus and Mary Jane (Warfield) Clay. 
 He was educated in the famous school of 
 Jason Chenault at Louisville, at Transyl- 
 vania University, and the University of 
 Michigan, receiving the degrees of B.S. and 
 C.E. in 1868. He established a mercantile 
 business in 1868 at Richmond, Ky., of 
 which place he has ever since been a 
 citizen, conducted farms in Illinois and 
 Kentucky and a cotton plantation in Mis- 
 sissippi, also owned lumber mills, freestone 
 quarries and other interests at various 
 places in Kentucky. Mr. Clay has been 
 active in political affairs in Kentucky as 
 a Republican, and in 1897 he was offered 
 the ap])ointment of American minister to 
 Argentina by President ]\IcKinley, but de- 
 clined the appointment. He was United 
 States commissioner to the Paris Exposi- 
 tion of 1900, and in 1905 was appointed 
 by President Roosevelt to his present posi- 
 
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 tion as envoy extraordinary and minister 
 jjlenipotentiary of the United iStates to the 
 Swiss llcpuhlic. Mr. Clay married first, at 
 llicliniond. Ky., 1872, Pa'ttie Amelia Field. 
 and M cond, at Nieliolasville, Ky., 1805, Lalla 
 K. l''ish. Address: .Xmcrifin Legation, 
 IJirne. Switzerland. 
 
 CLAYPOLE, Edith Jane: 
 
 Physician (pathologist) ; born in Bristol, 
 England ; daughter of Edward Waller and 
 Jane (Trotter) Claypole, and is one of 
 twin girls. She was brought to America as 
 a child and was educated by her father 
 and mother until she entered college. She 
 was graduated from Buchtel College, Akron, 
 Ohio, as Ph.B., from Cornell University as 
 i\I.S., taught physiology and histology five 
 years from Wellesley College, where she 
 was acting professor two years, then 
 entered the Medical School of Cornell Uni- 
 versity, and after completing two years 
 there, during which she also taught physi- 
 ology in the Medical Department, went to 
 California, taught a year at the Throop 
 Polytechnic Institute in biology, and com- 
 pleted her medical course in the Medical 
 School of the University of Southern Cali- 
 fornia, specializing in pathology and receiv- 
 ing- the degree of M.D., and she took a prize 
 for the best microscopical paper from the 
 American Microscopical Society. Dr. Clay- 
 pole lives in Pasadena and' lias her office in 
 Los Angeles, practising in those cities as a 
 pathologist, and' being pathologist to the 
 Pasadena Hospital. She is a fellow of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science, and of the Southern California 
 Academy of Science; member of the Ameri- 
 can Medical Association, the California 
 State Medical Society, Delta Gamma (Cor- 
 nell University ) , Sigma Xi ( honorary scien- 
 tific), A.E.I. (Medical), the Wellesley Col- 
 lege Club, and the Cornell University Club 
 of Southern California. Dr. Claypole is as- 
 sistant editor of the Year Book in Climatol- 
 ogy, and is author of The Blood of Necturus 
 and' Cryptobranchus, and of several papers 
 in histology. Residence: 50 South Grand 
 Avenue, Pasadena, Calif. Office: 800 Tem- 
 ple Auditorium, Los Angeles, Calif. 
 
 CLAYTON, Henry De Lamar: 
 
 Congressman; from 3rd Alabama district; 
 born in Barbour County, Alabama. lie was 
 graduated from the University of Alabama 
 as A.B. in 1878; studied law; was admitted 
 to the bar, and since then has practised his 
 profession at Clayton, Barbour County, and 
 subsequently at Eufaula, Ala. He was elect- 
 ed presidential elector in 1888 and again in 
 1892, and was United States attorney for 
 the middle district of Alabama, from May, 
 
 1893 to October, 1S96, and since 1888 has 
 been a member of the National Democratic 
 Committee. He was first elected to Con- 
 gress in 1897 and has been successively 
 elected, his election to the Sixtieth Congress 
 being remarkable from the fact that he re- 
 ceived every vote cast. During the Congress 
 he was the chairman of the Democratic Cau- 
 cus called to determine the action of the 
 minority in important matters. Mr. Clay- 
 ton has been reelected to the Sixty-first 
 Congress. Address: Eufaula, Ala. 
 
 CLAYTON, Henry Helm: 
 
 Meteorologist; born in Murfreesboro, 
 Tenn., March 12, 1861. He was educated 
 in the public schools and' at the Univer- 
 sity of Michigan, where he became student 
 assistant in the astronomical Observatory, 
 1884-1885, then became assistant in the Har- 
 vard Observatory, 1885-1886; observer at 
 the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory 
 at Hyde Park, Mass., 1886-1891; was local 
 forecast official of the United States Weath- 
 er Bureau, 1891-1893; and from January, 
 
 1894 to April. 1909, was meteorologist at 
 the Blue Hill INIeteorological Observatory of 
 Harvard College. He has invented numer- 
 ous devices in meteorological apparatus, 
 including the Blue Hill Box-Kite, an attach- 
 ment for anemometers, and others. He 
 was consulting expert in the preparation 
 of the Cloud Atlas prepared for the Hydro- 
 graphic Office under Captain Sigsbee, U. 
 S. N. ; and he is author of: Discussions 
 of the Cloud Observations at Blue Hill; 
 Exploration of the Air by Means of Kites; 
 and The Lawrence Tornado (all in the An- 
 nals of the Harvard Astronomical Observa- 
 tory ) ; also the Eclipsis Cyclone and the 
 
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 Diurnal Cyclones; A Study of Cyclonic and 
 Anticyclonic Plienoniena with Kites; The 
 Annual and Diurnal Periods of Tempera- 
 ture, Humidity and Wind Velocity in the 
 Free Air; also a large number of papers 
 on meteorological subjects in American and 
 European scientific journals. With Mr. 
 Erbsloh he won the International balloon 
 race in America in 1907, traveling the great- 
 est distance ever made by* balloon in Amer- 
 ica. He is now devoting his time to pro- 
 moting the development of aeronautics and 
 to lecturing and writing on the subject. He 
 married at Nashville, Tenn., 1892, Francis 
 Fawn Coman. Address: Canton, Mass. 
 
 CLAYTON, Joseph Culbertson: 
 
 Lawyer, publicist; born at Smithfield, 
 June 16, 1830; son of Rev. Thomas Greer 
 and Virginia Ann (Bayley) Clayton. He 
 was educated at Madison College, Pennsyl- 
 vania, and by private tutors, and read law 
 for three years with John L. Norris, at 
 Washington, D. C. He was admitted to 
 the bar of the Supreme Court of the Dis- 
 trict of Columbia, in 1SG3, and to the bar 
 of the United States Supreme Court in 
 1866; to the bar of the State of New York 
 in 1869, as well as in many United States 
 Circuit and District Courts, and the U. S. Cir- 
 cuit Courts of Appeal. After five years' gen- 
 eral practice, he gave most of his time to 
 practice in the National Courts, making a 
 specialty of patent law, and from 1868 to 
 1888 he was in charge of the great litiga- 
 tion in favor of the Driven Well patent. 
 He was mustered into the United States 
 service as a private in the National Rifles 
 at Washington, D. C, April 15, 1861, be- 
 ing the first company in the United States 
 sworn in under Lincoln's first call for vol- 
 unteers. In 1896 he edited the posthumous 
 second' volume of Curtis's Constitutional 
 History of the United States. Mr. Clayton 
 has been editor of the department of na- 
 tional and international law, of The Amer- 
 ican Lawyer, of New York City. His series 
 of articles from December, 1906, in Keat 
 Magazine, entitled: The Law Constitu- 
 tion: Suggestions Towards its Interpreta- 
 tion, have attracted much attention, and 
 will be issued with revisions and additions 
 
 in a volume under that title. At the Peace 
 Congress in New York City, in April, 1907, 
 he submitted (the first) A Plan for A 
 Tentative Constitution of the United Na- 
 tions. Mr. Clayton is an " Independent " 
 and " Nationalist " in politics. Prior to 
 1896 he often voted the " Democratic " tick- 
 et. Since 1896 he has voted with the Re- 
 publicans, and has supported the policies 
 associated with the names of McKinley 
 and of Roosevelt, and to that end has ex- 
 tensively contributed in the metropolitan 
 press and magazines, and in pamphlets. 
 In 1896, 1900, 1904, and 1908 he made num- 
 erous addresses in favor of the Republican 
 candidates. Since 1896 he has largely de- 
 voted himself to the careful study of the 
 Constitutional Law and History of the 
 United States for the purpose of maintain- 
 ing the broad doctrine of the Paramount- 
 cy of the United States as an Integral 
 Nation; and of opposing the conflicting doc- 
 trine of State Sovereignty. He is a member 
 of the N. Y. Southern Society, and of " The 
 Virginians." Mr. Clayton married, at 
 Springfield, 111., Dec. 19, 1876, Miss Elsie 
 Franklin Rowe. He has two sons, Robert 
 Rowe (1878) and Conrad Crawford (1879). 
 Residence: 221 St. John's Place, Brooklyn 
 N. Y. Address: New York City. 
 
 CLEARWATER, Alphonso Trumpbour: 
 
 Jurist, publicist; born at West Point, N. 
 Y., Sept. 11, 1848; son of Isaac Clearwater 
 and Emily Boudoin (Trumpbour) Clear- 
 water; of Dutch and Huguenot ancestry. 
 He was educated at the old Anthon Gram- 
 mar School in New York City and at the 
 Kingston (New York) Academy, and in 
 1903 received the degree of LL.D. from 
 Rutgers College for Distinction in the pub- 
 lic service. He was admitted to the bar 
 in November, 1871; elected district attorney 
 of Ulster County, N. Y., in 1877, and re- 
 elected in 1880 and 1883. He declined a 
 nomination for Congress in 1884 and 1886. 
 He lias repeatedly been a delegate to the 
 Republican National State, Judicial, Con- 
 gressional and Senatorial conventions. He 
 was elected county judge of Ulster County 
 in 1889, was reelected in 1895. and in 1898 
 resigned to accept the appointment, by the 
 
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 Governor, as justice of the Supreme Court 
 of New York, in place of Alton B. Parker, 
 then elected Chief Judge of the Court of 
 Appeals, and in 1909 was appointed by the 
 Governor of New York a member of the 
 State Probation Commission of that State. 
 He is a trustee of Rutgers College; was a 
 delegate of New York State Bar Associa- 
 tion to the Universal Congress of Lawyers 
 and Jurists, held in connection with the 
 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904, he 
 was the chairman of the Committee of the 
 New York State Bar Association to sug- 
 gest reform in the introduction of medical 
 expert testimony in civil and criminal 
 trials and chairman of the joint Committee 
 of that Association, of the New York State 
 Medical Society, of the Homoeopathic Med- 
 ical Society of the State and of the New 
 York Academy of Medicine to urge the pas- 
 sage of a law regulating the introduction 
 of that testimony. At the request of the 
 editor of the North American Review he 
 wrote an article upon Medical Expert Testi- 
 mony which appeared in the June, 1909, 
 number. He was appointed a member of 
 the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission 
 in 1906. At the request of David Dudley 
 Field, he prepared many of the provisions 
 of the Penal Code and the Code of Criminal 
 Procedure of New York. He was appointed 
 commissioner in 1895 to supervise the trans- 
 lation from Dutch into English of the 
 Dutch records of Ulster County (1661- 
 1084), and completed the work in 1898. 
 He was one of the founders and first vice- 
 president for Ulster County of the Holland 
 Society; one of the founders and since its 
 formation a vice-president of the Huguenot 
 Society of America ; vice-president of the 
 Old Senate House Association of Kingston; 
 Ulster Historical Society; trustee of the 
 Kingston City Hospital; member of the St. 
 Nicholas Society of New York City, of the 
 Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the 
 American Bar Association, the New York 
 State Bar Association; honorary member 
 of the St. Andrew's Society of Charleston, 
 S. C., member of the New York Historical 
 Society; the New York Genealogical and 
 Biographical Society, the Huguenot Soci- 
 eties of London, of South Carolina and of 
 
 New Paltz, the Ex-Libris Society of London, 
 the American Scenic and Historic Preserva- 
 tion Society, the Historical Society of New- 
 burg Bay and the Highlands, American 
 Numismatic Society, and the Minnisink His- 
 torical Society. He is also corresponding 
 member of the historical societies of var- 
 ious states. In 1907 he edited an authori- 
 tative history of Ulster County. He has 
 written many papeis and delivered frequent 
 addresses in America, Holland and France 
 upon the influence of the Dutch and Hugue- 
 nots in the formation of the American Re- 
 public, and has made a large collection of 
 original and unpublished manuscripts rela- 
 tive to that subject. He delivered the ad- 
 dress at the opening of the great Protestant 
 Mission at Menilmontant, Paris, France, in 
 June, 1888, and the response to the address 
 of welcome to the Holland Society made 
 by tlie Burgomaster of Rotterdam, Holland, 
 on the occasion of the visit of the Holland 
 Society to that country in 1888. Judge 
 Clearwater has been an extensive and val- 
 ued contributor to historical literature, be- 
 ing a contributor to the North American 
 Review, and the author on The Influence of 
 the Dutch and Huguenots in the Formation 
 of the American Republic; Louis XIV and 
 the Revocation of the Edict of- Nantes; The 
 Huguenot Settlement at New Paltz, in Ul- 
 ster County; Huguenot Medals in the Brit- 
 ish Museum; Founders of New Amsterdam; 
 Dutch Governors of New York; the Jurists 
 of Holland; Dutchmen of Albany and the 
 Iroqouis; Lord North and the American 
 Colonists; Ulster in the War of the Revo- 
 lution; The Adoption of the First Consti- 
 tution of New York at Kingston, 1777; The 
 Struggle for the Highlands during the War 
 of the Revolution; The Inaugural of George 
 Clinton, the First Constitutional Governor 
 of New York, at Kingston. He delivered 
 notable memorial addresses upon the life 
 and services of Abraham Lincoln, General 
 Ulysses S. Grant, William McKinley; Ul- 
 ster in the War of the Rebellion; Protest 
 Against the Destruction of the City Hall of 
 New York; Significance of Dutch Local 
 Names; Antiquity of Free Masonrj-; The 
 Trial of Christ from the Standpoint of a 
 Roman Lawyer of the Time of Tiberius. 
 
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 Judge Clearwater also has written extensive- 
 ly on criminalogical and legal subjects and 
 public matters including: Heredity and 
 Criminal Propensity; Lombroso and the 
 Danger of Sentimental Criminology; Moral 
 Accountability of Criminals; Goethe and 
 the Sentimentalists. At the request of the 
 Kingston Literary Club he prepared and 
 read before it an address ui)on Delusions : 
 Tlie Undervaluation of American Citizen- 
 ship. At the request of the New York 
 State Bar Association, he prepared and 
 read at its annual meeting in January, 
 1906, an address upon The Disregard of Law. 
 He is a member of the Union League, Met- 
 ropolitan and Grolier Clubs of New York 
 City, and of the Automobile Club of Amer- 
 ica. He is one of the founders, a mem- 
 ber, governor and former president of the 
 Kingston Club, and president and one of 
 the founders of the Twaalfskill Golf Club. 
 Judge Clearwater is a noted after dinner 
 speaker, a collector of early Americana and 
 early American silver, an enthusiastic gol- 
 fer and automobilist. He married in 1875, 
 Anna Houghtaling Farrand, daughter of 
 Colonel William D. Farrand, of San Fran- 
 cisco. Address: 316 Albany Avenue, 
 Kingston, New York. 
 
 CLEAR Y, Peter Joseph Augustine: 
 
 Physician and surgeon; born on the Is- 
 land of Malta, Nov. 7, 1839; son of Patrick 
 and Seraphina Laura (Cetti) Cleary. He 
 was educated in Queen's University, Ireland' 
 (Galway Branch), the Dublin hospitals and 
 was graduated from the Royal College of 
 Surgeons of England (London), as M.D. 
 in May, 1860. The following August he 
 came to the United States and practised' his 
 profession in Brooklyn until August, 1862, 
 when in response to a call for surgeons by 
 Secretary of War Stanton lie volunteered 
 his services after the second battle of Man- 
 asses, and was assigned to duty at Wash- 
 ington with the wounded from that battle- 
 field. Dr. Cleary was appointed assistant 
 surgeon, U. S. V., Oct. 4, 1862, surgeon 
 U. S. V. April 13, 1862; was brevetted lieu- 
 tenant-colonel U. S. V. for faithful and meri- 
 torious services Aug. 9, 1865, and honorably 
 imiMtercd out Aug. 10, 1865. During the Civil 
 
 War he served most of the time with the 
 Army of the Cumberland; converted the 
 Crutcnfield House into a hospital in Chatta- 
 nooga, Tenn., and took in the first wounded 
 from the battles of Chicamauga and Mission 
 Ridge in September and November 1863. Aft- 
 er the Civil War he Avas appointed assistant 
 surgeon U. S. A., Oct 9, 1867; captain Dec. 
 26, 1867; major Jan. 30, 1883; Heutenant- 
 colonel and deputy surgeon general, Nov. 
 15, 1897; colonel and assistant surgeon gen- 
 eral, Feb. 4, 1901; brigadier general, U. 
 S. A., Aug. 6, 1903, and retired Aug. 7, 
 1903. His service after the Civil War was 
 on the Western frontier — Colorado, Kan- 
 sas, Arizona, New Mexico, Indian Territory, 
 etc. He was chief surgeon of the Depart- 
 ment of Texas from 1896 until the Spanish- 
 American War in 1898, when he became 
 chief surgeon of the Department of the 
 Gulf, with headquarters in Atlanta, Ga.; 
 and after that war closed he was again 
 chief surgeon of the Department of Texas 
 until his retirement. Brigadier-General 
 Cleary is a member of several medical 
 and army societies and social clubs. He 
 married in Athens, Tenn., Sept. 28, 1865, 
 Sarah Maria, daughter of Judge Charles 
 F. Keith, and has one son. Address: Care 
 of the Adjutant Genera) 7. S. A., Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 CLELAND, McKenzie: 
 
 IMunicipal judge; born at Delhi, N. Y., 
 Oct. 8, 1860; son of William J. and Judith 
 (Wilson) Cleland. After his graduation 
 from Monmouth College, Illinois, with the 
 A.M. degree in 1882, he entered the law 
 department of Washington University, St. 
 Louis from which he was graduated as LL. 
 B. in 1884. In the same year he was ad- 
 mitted to tlie Illinois bar, and he after- 
 ward engaged in the practice of law in 
 Cliicago. On the organization of the new 
 Municipal Court in Chicago in 1906, he 
 was elected justice and assigned to the 
 Maxwell Street branch. He has adminis- 
 tered the duties of the office on the basis 
 of the view that it is the purpose of the 
 law to keep men out of prison, and with 
 a most extensive use of the probation and 
 parole system, with remarkable results in 
 
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 the reformation of offenders. Judge Cle- 
 land is prominent in religious work and 
 particularly in Bible-Class work in Chica- 
 go. He is a member of the United' Presby- 
 terian Church. He organized a Bible Cliss 
 of men upon methods that made it popular, 
 and was made director of adult work for 
 the Cook County Association, with the re- 
 sult that thousands of young men, repre- 
 sented in many churches, were organized 
 in Bible Classes, with attractive inter- 
 class social relations. He presented the 
 work to the International Sunday School 
 Association at Toronto in 1!)05, with the 
 result that it became an international move- 
 ment. He was for six years president of 
 the Englewood Young Men's Christian As- 
 sociation of Chicago, is president of the 
 National Probation League, and of the 
 Chicago Branch of the American Bible 
 League, and is a director of the Moody 
 Bible Institute. Pvcsidence: 6439 Normal 
 Boulevard, Chicago. Office address: 148 
 Michigan Avenue., Chicago. 
 
 CLEM, John Lincoln: 
 
 Colonel \j. S. Army; born at Newark, 
 Ohio, Aug. 1.3, 1851. He was in his tenth 
 year when the Civil War began, and' he sev- 
 eral times tried to enlist as a drummer 
 boy, but was rejected because of his ex- 
 treme youth. He succeeded in May, 1863, 
 by securing enlistment as musician in the 
 Twentj^-second Michigan Volunteers, and 
 lie took part in the hot fights and at Shiloh 
 especially distinguished' himself, his drum 
 being literally shot full of holes, and his 
 conduct on that occasion has endeared him 
 to the country and especially its veteran 
 soldiers as The Drummer Boy of Shiloh. 
 At Chickamauga he threw away his drum, 
 and, seizing the musket of a fallen com- 
 rade he entered the ranks. Being called 
 upon by a Confederate soldier to surrender, 
 he not only refused to entertain the sum- 
 mary proposition, but succeeded in placing 
 his would-be captor hors de combat. He 
 was mustered out of the service in Septem- 
 ber, 1864, as lance sergeant of Company C 
 of the Twenty-second' Michigan Infantry, 
 and attended school. Lossing says he was 
 probably the youngest soldier that ever 
 
 bore arms in battle. President Grant in 
 1871, appointed him 1o a place in the Ar- 
 tillery Training School at Fort Monroe, and 
 he was commissioned second lieutenant in 
 the Twenty-fourth Infantry. He was pro- 
 moted first lieutenant Oct. 5, 1874; captain 
 and assistant quartermaster Sept. 12, 1883; 
 major quartermaster Sept. 22, 189(i, lieu- 
 tenant-colonel and deputy quartermaster- 
 general, Oct. 26, 1001, colonel and as- 
 sistant quartermaster-general since Jan. 20, 
 1904. Address: Fort Sam Houston. San 
 Antonio, Texas. 
 
 CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne: 
 
 Author; born in Florida, Mo., Nov. 30, 
 1835,- son of John Marshall and Jane 
 (Lampton) Clemens. He was educated in 
 the common schools at Hannibal, Mo., but 
 has received several honorary degrees, in- 
 ckiding those of M.A. and' L.H.D. from Yale 
 in 1901, LL.D. from the University of Mis- 
 souri in 1902, and Litt.D. from the Uni- 
 versity of Oxford in 1907. He began in 
 1848 as a worker at the printing trade and 
 later was a steamboat pilot. He went in 
 1801 to Nevada, as private secretary to his 
 brother, who had been appointed Territor- 
 ial secretary there. He became city editor 
 of the Virginia City Enterprise in Nevada, 
 where his gift of humor first attracted at- 
 tention. He was afterwards a miner in 
 Calaveras County, California, made a voy- 
 age to Hawaii, and became- a lecturer and 
 writer of fiction vuider the nom de plume of 
 Mark Twain. He published a book, called 
 by the name of his first story. The Jump- 
 ing Frog of Calaveras County, the success 
 of which, together with his humorous lec- 
 tures, rapidly extended his fame. He join- 
 ed an excursion to the Orient in 1867-18G8, 
 and immortalized the trip in a book under 
 the title of Innocents Abroad; was editor 
 of the Bufl'alo express from 1869 to 1871, 
 and was connected with the publishing 
 house of Charles Webster & Company from 
 1884 to 1891. The failure of that house left 
 him without means, and in debt, and led 
 him to make a lecture tour around' the 
 world from 1895 to 1896, by means of which 
 he reestablished his fortune. Mr. Clemens 
 is author of: The Jumping Frog of Calav- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 pras County, 1867; Innocents Abroad, 1869; I of the Transcript, then under the editorship 
 
 Roughing It. 1872; The Gilded Age (with 
 Charles Dudley Warner), 1873; Adventures 
 of Tom Sawyer, 1870; A Tramp Abro?.d, 
 1880; The Stolen White Elephant, 1882; 
 The Prince and the Pauper, 1882; Life on 
 the Mississippi, 1883; Adventures of Huck- 
 leberry Finn. 1885; A Connecticut Yankee 
 at King Arthur's Court, 1889; the Ameri- 
 can Claimant, 1892; Merry Tales, 1892; 
 The f 1.000,000 Bank Note, 1893; The 
 Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894; Tom 
 Sawyer Abroad, 1894; Personal Recollec- 
 tions of Joan of Arc. 1896; More Tramps 
 Abroad, 1897; Following the Equator, 1897; 
 The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, 1900; 
 A Double-Barreled Detective Story, 1902; 
 Christian-Science, 1903; serially, Is Shake- 
 speare Dead? 1909; besides numerous con- 
 tributions to magazines. He is a member of 
 the Authors and Lotos Clubs of New York 
 City. ]Mr. Clemens married in 1870, Olivia 
 L. Langdon, of Elmira, N. Y., who died in 
 1904, and he has two daughters. Address: 
 Redding, Conn. 
 
 CLEMENT, Edward Henry: 
 
 Editor; born at Chelsea, Mass., April 19, 
 1843; son of Cyrus and Rebecca Fiske 
 (Shortridge) Clement. He is a descendant 
 of Robert Clement of Coventry, England, 
 who came to Massachusetts in 1643 and 
 was chosen to buy from the Indians and 
 survey the territory af Haverhill. Mr. 
 Clement entered' Tufts College from which 
 he was graduated as A.B. in 18G4; and he 
 received from that college the degree of 
 A.M. and Litt.D. in 1904. He began his 
 newspaper career in 1864 as reporter of an 
 army-post newspaper started with the de- 
 .serted plant of the Savannah Daily News, 
 and continued until 1867. He then return- 
 ed north and worked on several newspapers, 
 became chief proof-reader of tlie Boston 
 Daily Advertiser in 1867, then went to the 
 New York Tribune, under the editorship 
 of Horace Creeley. From that lie went to 
 the Daily Advertiser, of Newark, N. J., as 
 managing editor, and from 1871-1874 he 
 was editor and jiart proprietor of the Jour- 
 nal of Elizabeth, N. J. In 1875 he was 
 
 of William A. Hovey, and upon Mr. Hovey's 
 retirement in 1881, Mr. Clement was pro- 
 moted to the position of editor-in-chief of 
 The Boston Transcript, from which he re- 
 tired in 1906, still remaining on the ed- 
 itorial staff. He was one of the founders, 
 and is still a member of the Saint Botolph 
 Club of Boston, and of the Massachusetts 
 Historical Society and is active in the be- 
 nevolent organizations of Boston. He mar- 
 ried first at New York City, in 1869, Ger- 
 trude Pound, and by that union there were 
 three children. He again married at Bos- 
 ton in 1898, Josephine Hill Russell, and 
 they have one child. Residence: Brookline, 
 Mass. Office: 324 Washington Street, 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 CLEMENTS, Judson Claudius: 
 
 Interstate Coinmerce Commissioner ; born 
 in Walker County, Ga., Feb. 12, 1846. He 
 was educated in an academy at Villanow, 
 Gn., until Jan., 1864, when he entered the 
 Confederate States Army as a private, af- 
 terward being commissioned first lieutenant 
 and serving until the close of the War. He 
 afterward studied law in Cumberland Uni- 
 versity. Lebanon, Tenn., in the class of 1868, 
 was admitted to the Georgia Bar in 1869 
 and practised law at La Fayette, Ga., un- 
 til 1887, when he removed to Rome, Ga., 
 where he was for a year president of the 
 Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus Rail- 
 road. He was elected county school com- 
 missioner of Walker County in 1871; was a 
 member of the Georgia Legislature from 
 1872 to 1876, of tlie Georgia Senate from 
 1877 to 1880; was elected in 1880 to the For- 
 ty-seventh Congress from the Seventh Geor- 
 gia District, and was reelected to the Forty- 
 eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty-first 
 Congresses. In March, 1892, he was ap- 
 pointed a member of (lie Interstate Com- 
 merce Commissioner, to fill the unexpired 
 term of Commissioner Bragg, and he wa,s 
 reai)pointed tor six year terms in 189."), 1901 
 and 1907, his present term expiring Jan. 1, 
 1913. Mr. Clement married at Ivouisville, 
 Ky., in 1886, Lizzie E. Dulaney. Residence: 
 Rome, Ga. Address: 2113 Bancroft Place, 
 
 L-alled to Boston to become assistant editor I Washington, D. C. 
 
Henry Ci.kws 
 Banker 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 CLEPHANE, James Ogilvie: 
 
 Horn in W'ashinglon, ]). C, Feb. 21, 
 1842; son of Janios Cle])hano, a native of 
 iMlinburgh, .Sfotland, and wliose family be- 
 ing socially intimate with 8ir Walter Scott, 
 had the advantage of his valuable advice 
 in their literary elTorts. Mr. James O. 
 Clephane was at an early age admitted to 
 the Bar of the Supreme Court of the Dis- 
 trict of Columbia, and was soon in the en- 
 joyment of a good practice. Being of a pro- 
 gressive nature, however, he sacrificed his 
 promising career at the Bar to take up with 
 what to him appeared to be a more attract- 
 ive and important field' — that of certain 
 inventions which he saw were very much 
 needed. Among them was the development 
 of the Sholes, (now known as the Reming- 
 ton Typewriter;) the Moore Typewriter, 
 succeeded recently by the Planograph. 
 While pursuing this interesting line of ac- 
 tivity, he conceived the idea of getting up 
 a machine whicli should dispense with type- 
 setting by hand. Recognizing the extraor- 
 dinary genius of j\Ir. 0. Mergenthaler, who 
 at that time was employed by A. Hahl & 
 Co., of Baltimore, he explained to him in a 
 general way his ideas. From that time for 
 about fifteen years he and Mr. Mergenthaler 
 were closely associated, the result being the 
 j)erfection of the present popular Linotype 
 machine. He is still a director in that 
 successful Company, having among his as- 
 sociates, Whitelaw Reid, D. 0. Mills, and 
 P. T. Dodge. He also organized the Locke 
 Steel Belt Co., the Linomatrix Machine Co., 
 the National Typographic Co., the Aurora 
 Mining Co., the Horton Basket Machine Co., 
 the Fowler-Henkle Printing Press Co., the 
 (Jd'dur Machine Co., (about to introduce a 
 new line-casting machine). In all of these 
 companies he has been a Director, and Pres- 
 ident of several. Mr. Clephane has pub- 
 lished interesting accounts of several of his 
 journeys abroad and in this country. Res- 
 idence : Englewood, N. J. Office : 45 
 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 CLERGUE, Francis Hector: 
 
 Engineer, organizer and promoter of in- 
 dustries; born in Bangor, Me., May 28, 
 1856; son of Joseph H. and Frances (Lom- 
 
 bard) Clergue. He was educated in the 
 University of Maine. Was admitted to th.> 
 bar of IMaine in 1876, and afterward in 
 other States and in the Supreme Court of 
 the L^nited' States. Since 1880 his energies 
 have been directed toward liydraulic engi- 
 neering and the establishing of industries 
 to be developed by the utilization of water- 
 powers, and since 1894 iuis concentrated his 
 activities in development of the industrial 
 possibilities of the Falls of St. ^lary at 
 Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan and Ontario. 
 There, at a cost of over thirty million dol- 
 lars, he has built up great hydraulic power 
 plants, factories, blast furnaces, steel rail 
 mills, pulp mills, chemical, reduction and 
 refining works, has developed nickle and 
 copper mines and iron mines, cons-tructed 
 the Algoma Central Railway and the Mani- 
 toulin Railway, and has created the trans- 
 portation facilities, terminals and steam- 
 ship lilies requisite to the vitality of these 
 great enterprises. Address : Sault Ste. 
 Marie, Ontario, Canada. 
 
 CLEWS, Henry: 
 
 Banker and' author, is a native of Staf- 
 fordshire, England, his father having been 
 an extensive manufacturer of goods ex- 
 clusively for the American and Russian 
 markets, and his grandfather a partner in 
 business with Sir Robert Peel's father. 
 Henry Clews received a liberal preliminary 
 education, it being the design of his parents 
 that he should become the curate of the 
 Parish of Woolstanton. of which his cousin. 
 the Rev. Dr. Tyson, was vicar. On a visit 
 to New York, however, he determined to 
 remain here, and obtained a position in the 
 large importing house of Wilson G. Hunt 
 & Co.. but finally developed an ambition to 
 enter the field of finance. On the heels of 
 the great panic of 1857. in Wall Street, his 
 opportunity came when he organized the 
 banking firm of Stout, Clews & Ma.son. The 
 new firm met with success from the start, 
 and, on the retirement of ^Ir. Stout and 
 Mr. Mason, who were succeeded by Mr. 
 Charles F. Livermore, the firm bccauu' 
 Livermore, Clews & Co. Mr. Clews was ap- 
 pointed by Hon. Salmon P. Chase (Secre- 
 tary of the Trciisury in Lincoln's Cabinet), 
 
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 fiiiuiicial a^ciil for tlic sale of (Government 
 bonds issncd lo cany on llio Civil War. 
 Those bonds wi re not very favorably re- 
 ceived l>y llu' business world at the time as. 
 owinp to the uncertainties of the War, they 
 were <jenerally regarded as more or less 
 risky securities ; but Mr. Clews, though he 
 knew the Treasury was empty, had the ut- 
 7nost faith in the strength and' ability of 
 Die (Jovernment and the recuperative power 
 of tlic North, and not only invested every 
 dollar of his own in the bonds, but went in 
 debt for millions of them besides. Secre- 
 tary Chase gave well deserved credit to 
 Henry Clews for the success achieved in 
 floating his loans. He was, indeed, out- 
 spoken in saying, " If it had not been for 
 • lay Cooke and Henry Clews, I should never 
 have been able to sell enough of the 7-30 
 notes and 5-20 bonds to carry on the war." 
 Mr. Clews, after the War, made banking 
 his special business though he retained his 
 valuable commission business in Government 
 bonds. The revival in railroad interests 
 that followed offered one of the most val- 
 uable fields for investments and his house 
 negotiated for the sale of railroad bonds in 
 Europe, a line of business in which it be- 
 came extensively engaged. The present 
 firm, that of Henry Clews & Co., was formed 
 in 1877. jNIr. Clews has always taken deep 
 interest in American politics, but merely to 
 the extent of promoting and securing good 
 government, as he persistently declined to 
 accept official position. Twice the port- 
 folio of the Treasury Department was ten- 
 dered him, and as often the Republican 
 nomination for Mayor of New York, but 
 business interests in each ease forced him 
 to decline these profTered honors. He also 
 declined the post of Collector of the Port 
 of New York. Iml recommended General 
 Chester A. Artliur for the position, who 
 received the appointment from President 
 Grant. General Grant, however, appointed 
 ilr. Clews fiscal agent of the Government 
 for all foreign nations as a recognition by 
 the Administration of his services in financ- 
 • ing the Government during the War. He 
 never hesitated to act wlien reform became 
 imperative, and to him was due the credit 
 of originating and organizing the famous 
 
 New York ('oiinnittee of Seventy, as he se- 
 lected and nominated 65 of the 70 original 
 members before whose assault the Boss 
 Tweed Ring went down. Mr. Clews is au- 
 thor of: Twenty-eight Years in Wall Street, 
 1885; The Wall Street Point of View, 1900: 
 Fifty Years in Wall Street. 1008, and 
 Speeches and' Essays, 1909. In addition to 
 his activities as a banker and author Mr. 
 Clews is well kno^vn as a great orator and 
 debater, his addresses having been delivered 
 in all the chief cities of the country before 
 conventions of Bankers, Manufacturers and 
 Commercial Travelers, Universities, Schools 
 of Finance and Business, Economic Clubs 
 and other representative audiences. He has 
 also made notable addresses on popular sub- 
 jects in Cooper Institute, ]\Iad'ison Square 
 Garden, the Hippodrome, and the Columbia 
 Tlieatre (Brooklyn), and has occasionally 
 done this from the pulpits of Plymouth 
 Church in Brooklyn, and the Metropolitan 
 Temple in New York. He served for many 
 years as Treasurer of the American Geo- 
 graphical Society and the Society for the 
 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; and 
 was one of the founders of the Union 
 League Club. He is, too, one of the seven 
 oldest members of the New York Chamber 
 of Commerce, and the fourth oldest member 
 of the Union Club, and also a member of 
 the Army & Navy and Turf & Field Clubs, 
 as well as the fifth oldest member of the 
 New York Stock Exchange, and a member 
 of the New York Cotton and Produce Ex- 
 changes and Chicago Board of Trade. In 
 addition he is a life member of the IVTetro- 
 ])olitan Museum of Art. The American Mu- 
 seum of Natural History, and the National 
 Academy of Design; Trustee of the Civic 
 Forum of New York, Director and Treas- 
 urer of tlie National Peace League, Director 
 of the Kconomic Club of New York, Trustee 
 and Treasurer of the American Civic Alli- 
 ance of New York and President of the 
 National Protective Highways Association, 
 a Director of the Japan Peace Society and 
 Director and Treasurer of the Richmond 
 Mill Settlement, besides being connected 
 with numerous other institutions. In May, 
 1908, the Emperor of Japan conferred upon 
 Mr. Clews the Imperial Decoration of Com- 
 
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 iiKiiidi'i- of tlu' Musi Distiii'^uisliod Order f)f 
 tlic Rising- Sun. and cnijiavod on tlie insij^. 
 nia were the words, " llio most exalted mark 
 of merits and' services." Tlie Emperor also 
 nave Mr. Clews a diploma bearing his own 
 si^^nature and Imperial Seal. This was in 
 recognition of his services to the Japanese 
 (Jovernment in advising and aiding it to 
 organize the new financial system forty 
 years ago, he having been appointed special 
 agent in connection therewith, the appoint- 
 ment being .recommended by General Grant 
 while President. The opening up of Japan 
 to the world of finance, under the prelim- 
 inaries thus inaugurated, was declared by 
 Ambassador Takahira in a recent speech at 
 a " Peace " banquet to have been an event 
 second only in importance to Commodore 
 Perry's great service in opening the ports 
 of Japan to the world, and he gave the 
 credit therefor to Mr. Clews. In 1874 Mr. 
 Clews married Miss Lucy Madison Worth- 
 iiigton, of Kentucky, grandniece of Presi- 
 dent Madison and great granddaughter of 
 General Andrew Lewis, next in command' to 
 General George Washington in the Revo- 
 lutionary Army. Her father. Colonel Wil- 
 liam Worthington, who was shot from his 
 horse while in command, in the Civil War, 
 was a grandson of Gov. Slaughter, of Ken- 
 tucky, and a gallant soldier on the Union 
 side. Address: 15 Broad Street and 27 
 West 51st Street, New York City. 
 
 CLEWS, James Blanchard: 
 
 Banker; born in Dunkirk, N. Y., Aug. 4. 
 18G9; son of John and Sabina (Dayman) 
 Clews. He received" his education in Cham- 
 berlain College, and his first ' commercial 
 training was in the general offices of the 
 Red Line Transit Company, and of the 
 Union Steamboat Company at Buffalo, N. Y., 
 where a knowledge of the railroad and trans- 
 portation business was acquired and later 
 he became president of the Toledo, Ann 
 Arbor and Northern Michigan Railway 
 Company during the period of reorganiza- 
 tion. He was chairman of the Ontario and 
 Western Railroad Stockholders' Committee, 
 which succeeded in dissolving the Voting 
 Trust which had been in existence for many 
 years, and after several other committees 
 
 liad failed, and ho has served on several 
 reorgaiii/.al ion eommittecs. Mr. Clews is a 
 mcml)ei- (if the liiin of Henry Clews & 
 Co., bankers, and a .well-known financial 
 writer. He is chairman of the Board of 
 Directors of the Standard' Cordage ; presi- 
 dent of the Cannabis Manufactuiing Com- 
 pany; director of the Irving Publishing 
 Com])any, and New Amsterdam Casualty 
 Company; trustee of the East River Sav- 
 ings Institution and a governor • of the 
 Northwestern Dispensary. He is also 
 trustee of several large estates. Mr. Clews 
 is a member of the Union League Club of 
 New York and of the Automobile Club of 
 America. Mr. Clews married in November, 
 1908, Mrs. Leta Nichols Livingston, daugh- 
 ter of Washington Romaine Nichols and 
 great-granddaughter of General Benjamin 
 Romaine of prison ship martyr fame. Resi- 
 dence: 1039 Fifth Avenue. Office: 15 
 Broad Street, New York City. 
 
 CLINCH, Edward Sears: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City; son of 
 Frederick and S. Sophia (De Milt) Clinch. 
 He was educated at the public schools; 
 was graduated from the College of the 
 City of New York as B.S., and from Co- 
 lumbia Law School as LL.B. He engaged 
 in the practice of law and made a specialty 
 of the commercial, probate and real estate 
 branches of law. He was appointed justice 
 of the Supreme Court of the State of New 
 York for the first Judicial District in 
 1906. Judge Clinch has always been an 
 active Republican. He served as a member 
 of the Republican County Committee of 
 New York County for fifteen years, and 
 was elected a presidential elector in 1904. 
 He is a prominent Baptist layman, vice- 
 president of the New York City Baptist 
 Mission Society, and a member of the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee of the Northern Baptist 
 Convention and a member of the Baptist 
 Social Union, the Municipal Art Society, 
 National Geographic Society, the Audubon 
 Society, New York Historical Society, 
 the American Society of ^ iernational 
 Law, American Bar Associat-on, the New 
 York State Bar Association, and Asso- 
 ciation of the Bar of the City of New 
 
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 York, the American IMuseuni of Natural 
 History. He is also a member of the 
 Hardware and Quill Clubs, and the Har- 
 lem and Mt. Morrjs Republican Clubs. 
 Judge Clinch married at New York City, 
 Sept. 15, 1869, Cornelia B. Todd. Address: 
 133 West 121st Street, New York City. 
 
 CLINEDINST, Benjamin West: 
 
 Artist; born at Woodstock. Va.. in 1859; 
 son of Barnet M. and ]\Iary Caroline Cline- 
 dinst. He was educated at the Virginia 
 Military Institute, and. after finishing 
 there, went to Paris, and for several years 
 studied art at the ficole des Beaux Arts, 
 and under the famous French artists, 
 Cabanel and Bonnat. Mr. Clinedinst is 
 one of the best and most successful artists 
 in the United States, both in black and 
 white and color work. He has given con- 
 siderable time to book and magazine illus- 
 trations, principally in the works of Mark 
 Twain, Harriet B. Stowe, George W. 
 Cable, Thomas Nelson Page, Nathaniel 
 Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson and 
 Bret Harte. He is now engaged largely 
 in portrait painting, having last year 
 painted the portraits of several prominent 
 Americans, among them being President 
 Roosevelt, General G, W. Curtis Lee, Gen- 
 eral John Clous and others. He was, from 
 its inception to its close, professor in the 
 Art Schools of the Metropolitan Museum 
 of Art, and is now director of the Wo- 
 men's School of Applied Design of New 
 York City, the School of Illustration, and 
 the Drexel Institute of Philadelphia. In 
 1900 he was awarded the Evans Prize by 
 the American Water Color Society, and he 
 received medals at the Buffalo Exposition 
 in 1901, and at the Charleston Exposition 
 in 1902. He is member of the National 
 Academy of Design, of the American Water 
 Color Society, the Society of American 
 Artists, of the Phi Kappa and various 
 Masonic fraternities; he is also a member 
 of the Century and Fencers' Clubs of New 
 York City. Mr, Clinedinst spends much 
 of his leisure time in riding and driving. 
 He married at Baltimore, in 1888, Emily 
 Gertrude Waters, and has two children. 
 
 Residence: Pawling, N. Y. Address: 7 
 West Forty-third Street, New York City. 
 
 CLINTON, Charles William: 
 
 Arcliitect; born in New York City, 1838; 
 son of Dr. Alexander and Adeline Arden 
 (Hamilton) Clinton. He is a descendant 
 of an old New York family, being great- 
 grandson of General James Clinton and 
 grand-nephew of Governor De Witt Clin- 
 ton. He received his education in the 
 schools of New York City. :Mr. Clinton 
 has been engaged as an architect for many 
 years and is now senior member of the 
 firm of Clinton & Russell, architects. He 
 was architect of the Mutual Life Insurance 
 Building, of the Seventh Regiment Armory, 
 the Brown Brothers & Company. Wilkes, 
 Central Trust, Bank of America, Mechan- 
 ics' Bank, Continental Insurance and 
 Stokes Buildings, and, in connection with 
 Mr. Russell, of the Broad-Exchange, Ex- 
 change Court, ^\ all-Exchange, Atlantic 
 Mutual, Sixty Wall Street, Hotel As- 
 tor, Seventy-first Regiment Armory, and 
 other important buildings. Mr. Clinton 
 is a member of the Seventh Regiment of 
 the National Guard of the State of New 
 York; is a member and has served as 
 vice-president of the American Institute of 
 Architects. He is a member of the Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, the Architectural League, 
 the jSIunicipal Arts Society, and of the 
 Tuxedo, Riding, New York Yacht, and 
 Century Clubs of New York City. He 
 married Emily de S. Gorsuch. and of that 
 marriage were born three children. Ad- 
 dress: 39 East 57th Street, New York City. 
 
 CLINTON, George: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 
 7, 1846. He received his general education 
 in the schools of liis native city and then 
 entered the Law School of Columbia Uni- 
 versity, from which he was graduated as 
 LL.B. in 1868. He was admitted to the 
 bar of the State of New York in 1868,. 
 and lias since then been continuously en- 
 gaged in the practice of law. He was 
 member of the Assembly of the State of 
 New York in 1884, and afterward served 
 
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 as a park coniniissiniier of the city of Buf- 
 falo, and as chairman of the Board of 
 Trunk Sewer Coinniissioners of the City of 
 Buffalo. He was president of the Mer- 
 chants' Exchange of Buffalo in 1893 and 
 was a member of the commission to in- 
 vestigate the expenditure of nine million 
 dollars for canal improvement, in 1898. 
 He is a member of the International Water- 
 ways Commission (of the United States 
 and Great Britain) appointed in 1902, and 
 is president of the Erie County Bar Asso- 
 ciation. Mr. Clinton is also a member of 
 the Buffalo Historical Society, of the Buf- 
 falo Society of Natural Science, of the 
 Permanent International Association of 
 Navigation Congresses and of the American 
 Society of International Law. Address: 
 Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 CLINTQN, George Wylie: 
 
 Bishop of the African Methodist Episco- 
 pal Zion Church; born in Cedar Creek 
 Township, Lancaster County, S. C, of 
 slave parents, March 28, 1859. After 
 graduation from the Brainerd Institute at 
 Chester, S. C, he took the junior classical 
 course in South Carolina University, from 
 which he was graduated in 1878; and took 
 the theological course from Livingstone 
 College, which afterward conferred vipon 
 him the degrees of A.M., 1893, D.D., 1894, 
 and LL.D., 1906; and he also received the 
 LL.D. from Wilberforce College in 1893. 
 Entering the ministry of the African 
 Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in 1879, 
 he has ever since been engaged in teaching 
 and preaching, holding pastoral charges 
 while teaching in the high school at Lan- 
 caster, S. C, and the graded schools at 
 Union, S. C, for twelve years; and he 
 was the fovinder, in 1889, and for two 
 years editor of the African Methodist 
 Episcopal Zion Quarterly Review, and edi- 
 tor of the Star of Zion from 1892 until 
 his election as bishop in 1890. Bishop 
 Clinton is president of Atkinson College, 
 Madisonville, Ky., and a trustee of Living- 
 stone College; president-general of the 
 Church Extension Board of the African 
 Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and 
 president of the Young People's Christian 
 
 and Educational Congress, and was the 
 first manager of the African Methodist 
 Episcopal Zion Publishing House. Ho is 
 author of: The Negro in the Ecumenical 
 Conference; The Three Alarm Cries; Tus- 
 kegee Lectures; Twenty-five Years as an 
 Itinerant, etc. He married, in 1901, Marie 
 J^uise Clay. Address: Charlotte, N. C. 
 
 CLOUD, Frederick Douglass: 
 
 Consular official; born in Westfield, Ind., 
 P"'eb. 17, 1874; son of Seth and Rebecca A. 
 (Johnson) Cloud. He completed the aca- 
 demic courses in the Washington State 
 Agricultural College in 1876, and was 
 graduated from Drake University, Des 
 Moines, Iowa, in 1901, with the degree of 
 Ph.B. He entered the consular service of 
 the United States, being sent as student 
 interpreter to Peking, 1902, and was ap- 
 pointed vice-consul at Antung, Feb., 1904; 
 vice-consul at Hangchow, Aug., 1904, and 
 he was acting consul at Hangchow from 
 Feb., 1904, to July, 1906; was appointed 
 vice consul-general at Shanghai, Oct., 1907 ; 
 acting consul-general at Shanghai, July, 
 1908, appointed, July 1, 1908, consul at 
 Antung, which position he holds, and is 
 also acting consul-general at Mukden. Mr. 
 Cloud has traveled through China and 
 Japan, and he is author of a book on 
 Hangchow, entitled " Hangchow the City 
 of Heaven and Soochow the Beautiful," 
 published by the Presbyterian Mission 
 Press at Shanghai. He is a member of 
 the Royal Asiatic Society at Shanghai, and 
 of the Peking, Shanghai and Mukden Clubs. 
 INIr. Cloud married in Ottumwa, Iowa, Jan. 
 29, 1907, Myrtle Le Compte, and they have 
 a son, Frederick Donald, born in Shanghai, 
 Jan. 4, 1908. Address: Mukden, China. 
 
 CLOVER, Richardson: 
 
 Naval officer. He was graduated from 
 the Naval Academy in 18G7; was appointed 
 ensign, Dec. 18, 1868; master, March 21, 
 1870; lieutenant, March 21, 1871; lieu- 
 tenant-commander. May 19, 1891; com- 
 mander, Sept. 14, 1897; Ciiptain, April 
 11, 1902. He has served in various 
 stations and departments, notably in the 
 Coast Survey service, in charge of the 
 
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 survey of southeast Alaska from 1885 to 
 18SG ; hydrographer of the Bureau of Nav- 
 igation, 1880-1893; chief of the Office of 
 Naval Intelligence, 1897-1898; and a mem- 
 ber of the War and Strategy Board from 
 March 15 to April 25, 1908. He com- 
 manded the U. S. Steamer Bancroft from 
 May 1, 1898, to the end of the Spanish- 
 American War. He then returned to the 
 Naval Intelligence Office; was naval at- 
 tache in London from 1900-1903, and since 
 Dec, 1903, has been commanding the 
 United States Steamer Wisconsin on the 
 Asiatic Station. Captain Clover is a mem- 
 ber of the National Geographic Society 
 and of the Metropolitan Country, and 
 Che\-y Chase Clubs at Washington; and 
 the University and New York Yacht Clubs 
 at New York City. He married May 19, 
 1886, Mary Eudora, daughter of the late 
 General John F. Miller, senator from Cali- 
 fornia. Residence: 1535 New Hampshire 
 Avenue, Washington, D. C. 
 
 CLOWRY, Robert C: 
 
 President of the Western Union Tele- 
 graph Company; born in Will County, HI., 
 Sept. 8, 1838. He was educated in the 
 public schools, then learned telegraphy and 
 was engaged as an operator when the war 
 began, and he entered the Government 
 service. He has charge of the military 
 telegraph lines from 1863 to 1866, and was 
 brevettcd lieutenant-colonel, U. S. Volun- 
 teers. Upon the completion of that service, 
 in 1866, he became identified with the 
 Western Union Telegraph Co. in various 
 capacities until he reached his present po- 
 sition as president, general manager and 
 director. He was director and member of 
 the (Grounds and ihiildings CouDiiittee of the 
 World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago 
 World's Fair ) . He is also president and 
 director of the American Telegraph and 
 Cable Co., the Gold and Stock Telegraph 
 Co, American Union Telegraph Co.. Inter- 
 national Ocean Telegraph Co., Southern 
 and Atlantic Telegraph Co., American 
 Speaking Telegraph Co., Pacific and At- 
 lantic Telegraph Co., American District 
 'I'elegraph Co. of New York, American Dis- 
 trict Telegraph Co. of New Jersey, Eastern 
 
 District jNIessenger Co.; director of the 
 New York Telephone Co., Great North- 
 western Telegraph Co., of Canada; Kansas 
 City, Mexico and Orient Railway Co., 
 iMercantile National Bank, Bowling Green 
 Trust Company. He married at Omaha, 
 Neb., Aug. 29, 1865, Caroline A. Esta- 
 brook, who died in April, 1896. Residence: 
 301 West 76th Street. Office: 195 Broad- 
 way. New York City. 
 
 CLUTZ, Jacob A.: 
 
 Clergyman ; born in Adams County, Pa., 
 Jan. 5, 1848; son of Henry and Hannah 
 (Buffinglon) Clutz. He received his edu- 
 cation at the Lutheran College and Sem- 
 inary at Gettysburg, Pa., receiving the 
 lionorary degree of D.D. in 1889. He en- 
 listed in the United States Volunteers in 
 1864, when but sixteen years old, and after 
 serving four months was honorably dis- 
 charged. After pas-torates in several Luth- 
 eran churches in Pennsylvania and' Mary- 
 land until 1877, he became general secre- 
 tary of the Board of Foreign Missions, 
 Lutheran General Synod, serving until 
 1883, when he became general secretary 
 of the Board of Home Missions of the 
 same church. Upon leaving the last named 
 position he was chosen president of the 
 Midland College, at Atchison, Kan., serv- 
 ing until 1904, leaving this pcst for the 
 one he now holds as pastor of St. James 
 Lutheran Church, Gettysburg, Pa. In 1891 
 he served as president of the Evangelical 
 Lutheran General Synod meeting in Leb- 
 anon, Pa. Dr. Clutz is a director of 
 Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa. He 
 was married at Gettysburg, Pa., Sept. 4, 
 1872, to Liberty A. Hollinger, and he has 
 five children. Address: 109 York Street, 
 Gettysburg, Pa. 
 
 COAN, Titus Munson: 
 
 Physician, autlior and editor; born at 
 Ililo, Hawaiian Island's, Sept. 27, 1836; 
 son of Titus and Fidelia (Church) Coan. 
 He was educated at the Punahou School, 
 Honolulu, the Royal School of Honolulu, 
 also in Yale College, Williams College, 
 where he received tiie degree of A.B. 
 (1859), and later tliat of A.M.; and the 
 
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 New York College of Pliysieians and Sur- 
 geons, graduating in ]S(!l with the degree 
 of M.D. Dr. Coan made a voyage around' 
 Cape Horn in a whaler in 185G. From 
 1S()1 to 18(i.S he was interne in Bellevue 
 island and Army Hospital, and from 
 18().3 to 1865 was acting assistant sur- 
 geon in the United States Navy in the 
 West Gulf Squadron under Farragut. 
 lie has iiiadi^ many visits to Europe, 
 and was in medical i)raetiee in New 
 \ ork City for many years. Dr. Coan 
 is the author of technical papers on min- 
 eral waters and health resorts, critical 
 essays and verse. In 1880 he founded and 
 is now director of the New York Bureau 
 of Literary Revision. He is also author 
 of : Ounces of Prevention ; Hawaiian 
 Ethnography; Hawaiian Climate; French 
 jMineral Springs, etc. He is a member of 
 the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the Mil- 
 itary Order of the Loyal Legion and of 
 the Century, the Authors, and the Neigh- 
 borhood Clubs, and the German Lieder- 
 kranz. Dr. Coan is a widower and has 
 two sons. Address: 70 Fifth Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 COBB, George H.: 
 
 Lawyer and State Senator; born in the 
 town of Hounsfield, Jefl'erson County, N. Y., 
 1864. While a youth he was at his father's 
 farm near Sacket Harbor, N. Y'^., and at 
 an early age he began teaching in the 
 country schools of his county, and later 
 took a course and was graduated from the 
 Potsdam State Normal School in June, 
 1886. After serving for two years as the 
 principal of the graded school at Ham- 
 mond, N. Y._, he entered the law offices 
 of the firm of Lansing & Rogers, which 
 consisted of the Hon. Frederick Lansing, 
 who at one time represented Mr. Cobb's 
 senate district in the State Senate, and 
 Watson M. Rogers, now a justice of the 
 Supreme Court; and he was admitted to 
 the bar in 1891. He is now the senior 
 member of the law firm of Cobb & Cos- 
 grove, and has a large practice. Shortly 
 after his adnussion he received the ap- 
 pointment of deputy county clerk, which 
 
 position he held niilil the following year 
 wiien he was elected city judge of tlic city 
 of Watertown, serving in this capacity for 
 a term of four years. In the fall of 18!)8 
 he was nominated and elected district 
 attorney. Three years later lie was re- 
 nondnated without opposition, and was 
 serving his last year of the second term 
 in 1904, when he was nominated as a 
 Republican and elected to the State Senate, 
 and he was reelected in 1906 and" 1908. 
 jMr. Cobb was apixjinted chairnnin of the 
 Senate Committee on Railroads in 1909, 
 and is a member of the Senate Connnittees 
 on Judiciary, Finance, and Forest, Fish 
 and Game. Address: Watertown, N. \. 
 
 COBB, Henry Ives: 
 
 .^ichitcct; born in Brooklinc, .Mass., 
 Aug. 19, 1859; son of Albert A. and .Mary 
 R. (Candler) Cobb. He was educated in 
 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 and in the Lawrence Scientific School of 
 Harvard, whence he was graduated B.S., 
 1881, and afterward pursued architectural 
 studies in Europe. He practised as an 
 architect at Chicago for several years, and 
 now has offices at Chicago, Washington 
 and New York, with headquarters in the 
 latter city. He was a member of the Board 
 of Architects of the World's Columbian 
 Exposition; special architect of the United 
 States Government for eight years, design- 
 ing and building the United States' new 
 Post Office Building at Chicago and' many 
 other large buildings for the Government, 
 and his practice has been very extensive 
 in buildings of all kinds in all sections of 
 the country. Mr. Cobb is president of the 
 Forty-two Broadway Company, John Jay 
 Really Company and the Fidelity Develop- 
 ment Company. He is a fellow of the 
 American Institute of Architects, and a 
 member of leading clubs in New York, 
 Washington and Chicago. Mr. Cobb mar- 
 ried in New York City in 1882, Emma M. 
 Smith, and they have seven sons and a 
 daughter. Residences: 128 West 59th 
 Street, New York City, and (summer) 
 Rockdale Farm, Brewster, N. Y. Ollice: 42 
 Broadway, New York City. 
 
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 COBLENTZ. Virgil: 
 
 Chemist ; born in Si)ringfield. Ohio, 
 March 12. 1862; son of John Philip and 
 Susan (Zitzor) Coblontz. lie was educated 
 in \Vittenber<i: College, Springfield, Ohio; 
 was graduated from the Philadelphia Col- 
 lege of Pharmacy as Ph.G., and later re- 
 ceived the degree of Ph.M. ; pursued post- 
 graduate studies in sciences in the Uni- 
 versity of Gcettingen. Strassburg. Wurz- 
 burg, ilunich and Berlin, receiving from 
 Berlin the degree of Ph.D. in 1891. He 
 was professor of materia niedica and tox- 
 icology in the Cincinnati College of Phar- 
 macy,' 1884-1887, and since 1891 has been 
 j)rofessor of chemist rv in the Department 
 of Pliarmacy of Columbia University. Dr. 
 Coblentz is nationally known for his con- 
 Irilnitions to chemical and other publica- 
 tions in the United States and" foreign 
 countries, is chairman of one of the im- 
 ])ortant committees on the Revision of tht 
 United States Pharmacopoeia, and is author 
 of several volumes, including: Handbook 
 of Pharmacy; Volumetric Analysis; The 
 Newer Remedies and joint author of Phar- 
 maceutical and Medical Chemistry. He 
 was chairman of the New York Section of 
 the Society of Chemical Industry, 1902- 
 1904; vice-president of the British Society 
 of Chemical Industry, 1903-1904; and is 
 chairman of the New York Section of the 
 Verein Deutscher Chemiker. He married 
 in Strassburg, Alsace, Germany, in 1889, 
 Anna Bauel, and has two sons. Residence: 
 145 Ciiester Street, IVIount Vernon, N. Y. 
 onice: 115 West 68th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 COBURN, Foster Dwight: 
 
 Agriculturist; horn in Jcfrerson County, 
 Wis., May 7, 1846; son of Ephraim W. 
 and Mary Jane (Mulks) Coburn. He was 
 reared on a farm and educated in the 
 district schools. He enlisted in the 135th 
 Regiment of Illinois Volunteers and was 
 later sergeant-major of the 62d Illinois 
 Infantry, to tlie end of the Civil War, 
 Ix'ing honorably discharged in March, 1806. 
 In 1H67 he went to Franklin County, Kan., 
 bccoining a successful farmer and stock- 
 man. He was elected secretary of tlie 
 
 Kansas Department of Agriculture in 
 1882, serving four years. In Jan., 1894. 
 he was again elected to the same position, 
 which he has lield ever since. He is widely 
 known as an expert in live stock, was for 
 six years editor of the Kansas City Live- 
 ySfoeJc Indicator, has served as judge of 
 live stock at many leading expositions and 
 fairs, and was chief of the Department of 
 Live Stock in the Louisiana Purchase Ex- 
 position at St. Louis, 1904. Mr. Coburn 
 has written nuich on agriculture and live 
 stock, and in addition to about twenty 
 volumes of Kansas Agricultural Reports, 
 has written two books on Alfalfa, and two 
 on Swine Husbandry. He has been four 
 times appointed a regent of the State 
 Agricultural College of Kansas, and served 
 as vice-president and president of the 
 Board of Regents continuously. In June, 
 1906, he received the governor's appoint- 
 ment as United States senator from Kan- 
 sas to fill a vacancy, but declined the honor. 
 Mr. Coburn married at Pomona, Kan., in 
 Sept., 1869, Lou Jenkins. Address: State 
 Department of Agriculture. Topcka, Kan. 
 
 COCHRAN, A. M. J.: 
 
 Jurist. He was engaged in the practice 
 of law in Kentucky until appointed by 
 President McKinley, in 1901, to the oflice 
 of judge of the United States District 
 Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. 
 Address: ^Maysville, Ky. 
 
 COCHRANE, Aaron Van Schaick: 
 
 Jurist; born in Coxsackie, N. Y., March 
 14, 1858. lie was graduated from Yale 
 in 1879, studied law at Hudson, N. Y., 
 and was admitted to the bar in 1881 and 
 engaged in jjractice. He Wiis police justice 
 of Hudson, N. Y., 1887-1888; district at- 
 torney of Columbia Coimty, N. Y., 1889- 
 1892; elected to the Fifty-fifth and re- 
 elected to tlie Fifty-sixth Congresses from 
 the Nineteentii New York District, serving 
 1897-1901, and elected in Nov., 1901, a 
 justice of tlu' Supreme Court of the Stale 
 of New York for the Third Judicial Dis- 
 trict, for the tcnu expiring Dec. 31. 1915, 
 in which ollicc lie is now serving. Address: 
 Hudson, N. Y. 
 
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 COCHRANE, Henry Clay: 
 
 r.iigiulici-Ciciioial U. S. Marine Corps; 
 liorn in Cliestcr, Va., 1842; son of James 
 and Sarali J. Gillespie. He was educated 
 in the best schools of that section and Phil- 
 adelphia, and' was one of the first to volun- 
 teer liis services in the Civil War; was 
 examined and passed for a lieutenancy in 
 the Marine Corps, but being under the re- 
 ((uired age served in the Volunteer Navy 
 under Admirals Gold'sborough, Dupont and 
 I'arragut, until 1863, when he was ap- 
 jjointed lieutenant; took part in the battle 
 of Port Royal, S. C, on his nineteenth birth- 
 day, and during the following forty years 
 served at the Naval Academy, War College, 
 every Navy Yard on the Atlantic and Pa- 
 cific Coasts; also in Alaska, Honolulu, Mex- 
 ico, Central and South America, the West 
 Indies, Europe, Africa, China and the Phil- 
 ippines. He spent fifteen years at sea, cruis- 
 ing in ships from the old sailing vessel 
 Jamestown to the modern flagship Phila- 
 delphia; lielped to suppress labor riots 
 (1877) and arson and pillage aboard, in 
 Alexandria, Egypt, after the bombardment 
 of that city by the English in 1882, also 
 on the Isthmus of Panama in 1885; was 
 present at the coronation of Czar Alexander 
 III. in Moscow, and decorated with the 
 Cross of the Legion of Honor by President 
 Carnot of France, for services at the Uni- 
 versal Exposition of 1889, where he com- 
 manded' a detachment of United States ma- 
 rines. During the war with Spain he was 
 major of the famous Marine Battalion that 
 held the heights of Guantanamo, Cuba, and 
 detailed as governor of City of Manzanillo; 
 sent to China in 1900 when the foreign lega- 
 tions were besieged in Pekin, in which re- 
 markable campaign his regiment lost a cap- 
 tain and over thirty men; ordered to Ma- 
 nila and organized and commanded First 
 Brigade of Marines; then appointed' mili- 
 tary governor of the Peninsula of Cavite. 
 He was promoted to brigadier-general and 
 retired upon his own application after forty 
 i years' service March 10, 1905. He is a com- 
 panion of the Pennsylvania Commandery 
 of the ]Military Order of the Loyal Legion, 
 and member of the Grand Army of the Re- 
 public, Military Order of Foreign Wars, 
 24 
 
 Military Ord.T of the Dragon, and other 
 societies. Brigadier-gineral Cocliianc mar- 
 ried, in 1SR7, Eli/al)etli K., dnuglitcr of 
 Captain Edward P. Lull, United States 
 Xavy. I lien {•oitimanilaiit i)i (lie Navy Yard 
 at Pensaeola. I'crnianent Address: Ches- 
 ter, Pa. 
 
 COCKRAN, William Bourke: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born in County 
 Sligo, Ireland, Feb. 28, 1854; son of Mar- 
 tin and Harriet (Knight) Cockran. He 
 was educated in France and Ireland, came 
 to the United States in 1871, and soon af- 
 ter was appointed teacher in a private 
 academy, afterward becoming principal of 
 a public school in Westchester County, N. 
 Y. While engaged in teaching, he read law, 
 and in 1876 was admitted to practice in the 
 Supreme Court of New York, and he has 
 ever since practised law in New York City. 
 'Sir. Cockran is one of the leading ex- 
 ponents of the forensic art in the United 
 States, has delivered numerous notable ad- 
 dresses and orations, and' during his service 
 in Congress has been one of the most bril- 
 liant of the speakers and debaters on the 
 minority side. He has been active in nui- 
 nicipal. State and local politics; was a 
 mendier of the Fiftieth Congress, 1887- 
 ISS!); member of the Commission to re- 
 vise the Judiciary Article of the Constitu- 
 tion of the State of New York; member of 
 the 52d and 5:3d Congress, 1891-1895; op- 
 posed the platform adopted by the Nation- 
 al Democratic Convention at Chicago in 
 1896, and voted for McKinley. In Novem- 
 ber, 1896, at Chickering Hall, New York 
 City, addressed the first public meeting in 
 favor of intervention by the United States 
 Government to terminate the perpetration 
 of barbarities in Cuba, and at the Academy 
 of Music, New York City, in January, 1899, 
 addresses the first meeting in opposition 
 to forcible annexation or conquest of the 
 Phillippines. In 1900 Mr. Cochran support- 
 ed Mr. Bryan for President on the ground 
 of opposition to Imperialism. He was elect- 
 ed at the special election held Feb. 23, 
 1904, to the 58tii Congress from the Twelfth 
 New York District, to fill the vacancy 
 caused by the resignation of George B. Mc- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 L'lellaii, and was reelected to the 59th and 
 Sixlietli Congresses, his service expiring 
 March 14, 1909. Mr. Cockran married in 
 Xew York City, Xov. 5, 190G, Anne Clay 
 Id'e. Residence: The Cedars, Port Wash- 
 ington, N. Y. OHice: 31 Nassau Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 COCKRELL, Francis Marion: 
 
 Mciulicr interstate Commerce Commis- 
 sion; born on a farm in Johnson County, 
 Mo., Oct. 1, 1834; son of Joseph and Nancy 
 (Ellis) Cockrell. He was graduated from 
 Chapel Hill College in 1853 with the degree 
 of A. 15. He then went to Warrensburg, 
 where he studied law and was admitted 
 to the bar. In 1861 he joined the Confed- 
 erate Army, was elected by his company as 
 captain and in recognition of valuable serv- 
 ices rendered was advanced successively to 
 the rank of captain, lieutenant-colonel, colo- 
 nel, and brigadier-general. At the close 
 of the war he resumed his i^ractice and be- 
 came prominent as a member of various 
 committees appointed to investigate affairs 
 of State. As a member of the Democratic 
 party he was elected to the United States 
 Senate in 1875, in which he served by suc- 
 cessive reelections, until 1905, when he be- 
 came by appointment of President Roose- 
 velt, a member of the Interstate Commerce 
 Commission, on which he is now serving. 
 Mr. Cockrell married, first in 1853, Are- 
 thusa D. Stapp, who died' in 1800, second, 
 in 1807, Anne E. Mann, who died, and in 
 1873 he married Anna Ewiug, who died Jan. 
 0, 1894, and he has six sons and two daugh- 
 ters. Residence: Warrensburg, Mo. Of- 
 fice: 1518 R Street, Washington, D. C. 
 
 CODY, William Frederick: 
 
 Scout and showman; born in Scott Coun- 
 ty, Iowa, Feb. 26, 1840. His boyhood was 
 spent on the Kansas-Missouri border, where 
 liis father was killed in tlie Border War. 
 He was a pony express rider over the Great 
 Salt Lake Trail in 1800-1861, and for the 
 four years of the Civil War was a Govern- 
 ment scout and guide and a member of the 
 Seventh Kansas Cavalry Regiment. After 
 the war he contracted to furnish the con- 
 stiuction gangs of the Kansas Pacific Rail- 
 
 way with all the buffalo meat required to 
 feed them, and in eighteen months killed 
 and delivered 4280 buffaloes, earning the 
 soubriquet of " Buffalo Bill," by which he 
 is popularly known all over this and many 
 other countries. As a Government scout 
 and guide he served in the operations 
 against the Sioux and Cheyennes, 1868- 
 1872; and in 1876 he was attached as scout 
 to the 5th U. S. Cavalry, participating in 
 many Indian battles, and lie killed the 
 Cheyenne chief Yellow Hand, in a hand-to- 
 hand fight at the battle of Indian Creek. 
 During the Sioux " Ghost Dance " outbreak 
 of 1890-1891, Colonel Cody was command- 
 ing officer of the National Guard of Nebras- 
 ka, with Iieadquarters at Pine Ridge Agen- 
 cy, and took part in the battle of Wounded 
 Knee. In 1883 he inaugurated the " Wild 
 West Show," a travelling aggregation illus- 
 trative of cow-boy life, Indian warfare and 
 other frontier incidents, and has since added 
 to his entourage of cowboys, Indians, etc., 
 all sorts of rough-riders from all lands. 
 Colonel Cody was long resident in Nebraska, 
 and once served in its State Legislature, 
 but for some years past has lived in Big 
 Horn County, Wyoming, where he founded 
 the town of Cody, and is identified with 
 ranching and real estate interests and' large 
 irrigation enterprises, being president of 
 the Shoshone Irrigation Co. He is co-au- 
 tiior of The Great Salt Lake Trail. He mar- 
 ried, in 1860, Louisa Frederic!. Address: 
 Cody, Wyo. 
 
 COE, Henry Clarke: 
 
 Surgeon;, born in Cincinnati, Feb. 21, 
 1856; son of Erastus Pease, and Mary 
 (Ross) Coe. He was graduated from Yale, 
 A.\i., 1878, A.M., 1881; from Harvard Uni- 
 versity (Medical Deixutment) in 1881, Co- 
 lumbia University (Medical Dei)artment) 
 1882, Member of the Royal College of Sur- 
 geons (England) 1884, Licentiate of the 
 Royal College of Physicians (London) 1884. 
 He has practised' in New York City since 
 1884, liis specialty being obstetrics and the 
 diseases of women. Dr. Coe has been on the 
 editorial staff of several medical journals, 
 has written many papers, monographs, etc., 
 and has bi'en for twenty-five years a med- 
 
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 ical teacher. He is now professor of gyne- 
 cology at the University and Bellevue Hos- 
 pital Medicd College, gynecologist to Helle- 
 vue and General Memorial Hospitals, con- 
 sulting gynecologist to the Woman's and 
 Foundling Hospitals, etc. He is an honor- 
 ary fellow of the Edinburg Obstetrical So- 
 ciety, Fellow of the American Gynecological 
 Society, American Therapeutic Society, 
 member of New York State Medical Society, 
 New York Obstetrical Society, Clinical So- 
 ciety, Harvard Medical Society, County 
 Medical Society, Academy of Medicine, the 
 Society of Alumni of Bellevue Hospital, etc. 
 Dr. Coe is a trustee oi the general Memorial 
 Hospital. He is a member of the Phi J3eta 
 Kappa (Yale), Delta Kappa Epsilon; Ord^r 
 of Foreign Wars, Society of Colonial Wars, 
 the Mayflower Society, Society of the War 
 of 1812, Sons of the Revolution, and several 
 city clubs. Dr. Coe married Sara Werden 
 and they have three sons. Address: 8 
 \^'est 7Gth Street, New York City. 
 
 COFFEY, George Nelson: 
 
 Scientific expert on soils ; born at Patter- 
 son, N. C, Jan. 17, 1875; son of Elijah 
 and Mary Ann (Nelson) Coffey. He was 
 graduated from the University of North 
 Carolina as Ph.B., cum laude, in 1900; re- 
 ceived' the representative medal, junior year, 
 for best original oration, and received the 
 degree of M. S. from George Washington 
 University, 1908. Upon his graduation he 
 entered the Bureau of Soils of the United 
 Stiites Department of Agriculture. He 
 wrote reports upon soils of various areas; 
 was in charge of the Soil Survey from July, 
 1904 to 1905; and since then he has been in 
 charge of the classification and correlation 
 of the soils of the United States. He has 
 made a special study of the soils of the 
 United States, and is recognized as one of 
 the highest authorities upon this subject. 
 Piesid'ent American Society of Agronomy, 
 1909. Office: Bureau of Soils, Washing- 
 ton, D. C. 
 
 COFFIN, Charles Albert: 
 
 Financier, manufacturer; born in Somer- 
 set County, Me.; son of Albert and Anstrus 
 (Varney) Coffin; of Nantucket ancestry. 
 
 He was graduated from Bloomfield Acad- 
 emy, Bloonifield, Me. After leaving scliool, 
 Mr. Coffin engaged in manufacturing busi- 
 ness in Massachusetts, and in 1881 was one 
 of a number who purchased the Thomson- 
 Houston Electric Company, which in 1892, 
 together with the Edison General IClectric 
 Compan3% was merged in the General Elec- 
 tric Company, of which he has since been 
 president. He is a member of the Chambers 
 of Commerce of Boston and New York, the 
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is a trus- 
 tee of Vassar College. Mr. Coffin is a mem- 
 ber of the Union League, Metropolitan, Pil- 
 grims, Lawyers', National Arts, and' West- 
 chester Country Clubs of New York City, 
 and other societies and clubs, and of the St. 
 Botolph and Algonquin Clubs in Boston. 
 He is a director in many financial institu- 
 tions and companies. He married Caroline 
 L. Russell, daughter of Rev. E. Russell, D. 
 D., and they have had a son (now deceas- 
 ed), and have two daughters. Residence: 
 145 West 58th Street. Office: 44 Broad 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 COFFIN, William Anderson: 
 
 Painter and art critic; born at Allegheny, 
 Pa., Jan. 31, 1855; son of James Gardiner 
 and Isabel Catherine (Anderson) Coffin. 
 He was graduated from Yale College as B.A. 
 in 1874; received the honorary degree of B. 
 F.A. from Yale University in 1901, studied 
 art in the LTnited States from 1874 to 1877, 
 and in Paris under M. Leon Bonnat, 1877- 
 1882. He has had his studio in New Y^ork 
 City since 1882, and is a painter of land- 
 scapes and figure pieces. He was art critic 
 of the New York Evening Post and the Na- 
 tion. 1880-1892 and' 1903-1904; and of the 
 Sun (New York) 1897-1901, and has been a 
 frequent contributor on art topics to the 
 Century ^Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, etc. 
 He was manager of the Exhibition of His- 
 torical Portraits and Relics at the Wash- 
 ington Centennial Celebration in New York 
 City in 1889 : was manager of the first 
 Portrait Show, Portraits of Women, in New 
 York City in 1894, and was director of Fine 
 Arts at the Pan-American Exposition at 
 BulValo in 1901. He painted the picture, 
 The Rain, in the Metropolitan Museum of 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Art, Xow York City and At Break of Day, 
 in the Bufl'alo Fine Arts Academy (Al- 
 briglit Gallery). He exhibited at the Paris 
 Salon from 1879-1882, and is a regular ex- 
 hibitor at the National Academy of Design, 
 the Society of American Artists, etc. Mr. 
 ColTin received the Hallgarten prize from 
 the National Academy of Design in 188G 
 and the Webb prize from the Society of 
 American Artists, in 1891. He received 
 medals from Paris Exposition in 1889, from 
 the Art Club, Philadelphia (gold) in 1898 
 and from the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 
 tion (Silver) at St. Louis in 1904, besides 
 other, awards. He is an associate member 
 of the National Academy of Design; mem- 
 ber of the Society of American Artists (was 
 its secretary from 1887 to 1892), Municipal 
 Art Society (a founder and vice-president), 
 and the Architectural League of New York 
 (vice-president two terms). Ckibs: Lotos, 
 Fencers. He has a farm and sunnner home 
 in Somerset County, Pa. Address: Jen- 
 nerstown, Pa. 
 
 COHAN, George M.: 
 
 Actor, manager, ]ilaywright and' song 
 writer ; born in Providence, R. I., July 4, 
 1878; son of Jerry J. and E. Cohan, both of 
 whom are well known on the stage and are 
 now playing in their son's company. His 
 sister, Josephine, is also an actress. Mr. 
 Cohan made his first appearance on the 
 stage in a play written by his father. Be- 
 fore he was of ago he wrote at least one 
 play which was performed by the Four 
 Cohans. His first great success was in 
 " Little Johnny Jones," of which he was the 
 author of music and words. This musical 
 comedy was first jjroduced October 10, 1904, 
 and was played continuously until April 12, 
 1900. It made a fortune for its author, 
 who was also its owner, manager and' star. 
 This was followed by another musical 
 comedy, equally as successful. Forty-five 
 Minutes from Broadway, first. i)roduceil 
 September 25, 1905. In February, 1900, he 
 produced (Jeorge Washington, Jr., at the 
 Herald Square Theatre, New York City, and 
 he has since produced' many other plays, and 
 is a prolific song writer. Address: New 
 Amsterdam Theatre, Now York City. 
 
 COHEN, David Solis: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadelphia in Septem- 
 ber, 1852; son of Myer David and Judith 
 Semiah (Solis) Cohen. After completing 
 his course in the public schools of Philadel- 
 phia he went ^^'est, and engaged in business 
 as a wholesale exporter and imjjorter in 
 Portland, Ore. His interest in the study of 
 law led him to adopt it as his profession, 
 and lie was admitted to the Oregon bar, and 
 since 1895 has practised in Portland, where 
 lie is well known as an eminent lawj^er and 
 public-spirited citizen. He has gained 
 praise in the literary world by his writings, 
 among them being two plays produced by 
 Roland Reed, and' a number of delightful 
 fairy tales. He is also a frequent contribu- 
 tor to current periodicals. He married, at 
 Portland, Ore., in 1892, Bertha Kahn. Ad- 
 dress : Washington Building, Portland, 
 Ore. 
 
 COHEN, Solomon Solis: 
 
 Physician; born in Philadelphia, Sept. 1, 
 1867; son of Myer David and Judith Se- 
 miah (Solis) Cohen. He was educated at 
 the Central High School of Philadelphia, 
 where he received the degree of A. B. in J 
 1872 and A.M. in 1877, and was graduated | 
 from Jefferson Medical College as M. D, in 
 1883. Dr. Cohen is professor of clinical 
 medicine in Jefferson Medical College; phy- 
 sician to Jefi'erson Medical College Hospital, 
 the Philadelphia General Hospital, and the 
 Rush Hospital for Consumptives, and con- 
 sulting phj-sieian to the Jewish Hospital. 
 At one time he was professor of medicine 
 and therapeutics in the Philadelphia Poly- 
 clinical and College for Graduates of ]\Iedi- 
 cine. Dr. Cohen is recorder of the Associa- 
 tion of American Physicians; was president 
 of tlie I'hiladelphia County Medical Society; 
 and is a fellow of the College of Physicians 
 and of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science. He is author of 
 a text book on therapeutics; Therapeutics 
 of 'I'uberculosis; lOssentials of Diagnosis; 
 and is editor of System of Physiologic 
 Therapeutics; and is also known as a 
 writer of graceful verse. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Pcnn, Pegasus and Franklin Inn 
 (ilubs of Philadelphia. He married at Phil- 
 
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 373 
 
 udelphia, March 24. 1885, Emily Grace Solis, 
 and llicy have one daughter and three sons. 
 Address: 1525 Walnut Street, Philadel- 
 phia. 
 
 COHN. Adolphe: 
 
 rhil<>L;ist and educator; born in Paris. 
 France. ]May 20, 1851; son of Albert and 
 Mnthildo (Lowcngard) Colin. He was 
 giaduated from the University of Paris, 
 Hachclier es lettres, 1868, LL.B., 1873; 
 arcliiviste paleographe, ficole Nationale de 
 Chartes, Paris, 1874. He served in the 
 French Army. 1870-1871, taking part in 
 the Franco-Prussian ^Yar and came to New 
 York City in 1875. He was instructor in 
 Fi'ench in Columbia University, 1882-1884, 
 then went to Harvard University, where he 
 was instructor and afterward assistant pro- 
 fessor of French until 1891, when he re- 
 turned to Columbia University where he 
 lias since been professor of Romance lan- 
 guages and literatures. Professor Cohn is 
 a member of the Modern Language Associa- 
 tion of America and of the American His- 
 torical Association. He is author, in col- 
 laboration with Dr. B. D. Woodward, of 
 Voltaire's Prose; of Le Sage's Gil Bias (in 
 collaboration with R. Sanderson) ; and au- 
 tlior of Montaigne (in French Classics for 
 English Readers, of which he is co-editor) ; 
 also editor of the Silver Series of Modern 
 Language Text-Books. Professor Cohn's 
 chief service to his adopted country has 
 been in connection with making more famil- 
 iar the masterpieces of French literature. 
 He has been a frequent contributor to 
 French and American journals and' maga- 
 zines, and was for several years United 
 States correspondent for several leading 
 French newspapers. He is a Knight of the 
 Crown of Italy, chevalier of the Legion 
 d'Honncur, and honorary president of I'Al- 
 liance Francaise. He married first, in Cam- 
 bridge, Mass., April 6, 1887, Marian Loys 
 Wright, who died in 1888; and he married 
 second, in New York City, June 4, 1904, 
 Madeline Merlin, and he has two sons and 
 a daughter. Residence: 2018 Fifth Ave- 
 nue. Office : Columbia University, New 
 York City. 
 
 COLAHAN, John Barron, Jr.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Pliila(hd])liia, May 18, 
 1848. He was educated in Saunders' In- 
 stitute St. Joseph's College and the Phila- 
 (lel])hia High School, whence he was grad- 
 uiited. ISGO. He began the study of law un- 
 der his father, a distinguished member of 
 the Pliiladel])hia Bar, also attending tlie 
 Law Department of the University of Penn- 
 sylvania, was admitted to the bar in 1869, 
 and established in practice in Philadelphia. 
 He soon became known as an expert in real 
 estate law and the investigation of titles to 
 property, and built up a large practice. 
 Mr. Colahan has served as counsel in liti- 
 gated cases aflfecting cases of vast import- 
 ance, including the court proceedings 
 brought by the heirs of the late Joseph Du- 
 gan. General Robert Patterson and Francis 
 A. Drexel. He was one of the principle fac- 
 tors in the organization of the Real Estate 
 Title and Insurance Company of Philadel- 
 phia, and was for a long time a director of 
 The Land Title and Trust Company. He 
 was for six years chairman of the Board of 
 Censors of the Law Association of Philadel- 
 phia, has been president of the Pennsylva- 
 nia State Bar Association and chairman of 
 its Executive Comiiiittee, and vice president 
 of the American Bar Association. ?Te was 
 an active member of the Committee of Fifty 
 in Philadelphia and chairman of its Com- 
 mittee on Nominators, and was president 
 of the Twenty-seventh Ward' Republican 
 Club. He was for many years president of 
 the- Belmont Cricket Club of Philadelphia, 
 and president of the associated Cricket 
 Clubs of Philadelphia; and is treasurer of 
 the Philadelphia Fencing and Sparring 
 Club and secretary of the Hamilton Club. 
 Mr. Colahan married April 14. 1873, IMary 
 Ophelia Cowton. Address: 4004 Pine 
 Street. Philad'elpliia. 
 
 COLBY, Frank Moore: 
 
 Editor, educator; born at Washington, 
 D. ('., Feb. 10, 1865; son of Stoddard Ben- 
 ham and Ellen Cornelia (Hunt) Colby. He 
 was educated at Columbian (now George 
 Washington) University, Washington, D. 
 C, and Columbia College, being graduated 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 A.B., 1888, A.M., 1889. He was acting pro- 
 fessor of history at Amherst College, 1890- 
 1891: lecturer in history, Columbia Col- 
 lege, 1891-1895; instructor of history and 
 economics. New York University. 1895-1900. 
 He was editorial writer on the Commercial 
 Advertiser. 1900-1902. on the editorial staff 
 of Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia (history 
 and political science), 1 893-1 S95; editor of 
 The International Cyclopanlia, 1898, Inter- 
 national Year Book, 1902, and on its re- 
 simiption in 1907, editor of the New Inter- 
 national Encyclopiedia since 1900, one of 
 the editors of The Bookman from 1904; 
 editor of Nelson's EneyclojxxHlia (American- 
 ized from Harmsworth's Cyclop;T>dia) , 1905- 
 1907. lie is author of: Outlines of General 
 History, 1900; Imaginary Obligations, 1904, 
 and several subsequent editions; contribu- 
 tor to magazines on literary and dramatic 
 topics. He married at Amherst, ]\Iass., Dec. 
 30. 189G, Harriet Wood Fowler. Address: 
 372 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 COLBY, J. Rose: 
 
 Educator and author; born in Cherry 
 Valley, Ohio, June 4. 185G; daughter of 
 Lewis and Celestia (Rice) Colby. She was 
 educated in Ann Arbor High School and in 
 the University of Michigan, receiving the 
 degree of A.B., 1878, A.M., 1885, and Ph.D., 
 1886, and also studied one year, 1883-1884 
 in Radcliff College. Miss Colby tauuht al- 
 gebra in Ann Arbor (Mich.) High School. 
 1878-1879; preceptress and teacher of Latin 
 and Greek. Flint (Mich.) High School. 
 1879-1883; then after throe years more of 
 study with English as uinjor niid Greek. 
 French, German, ethics and education as 
 minors, she became teacher of literature in 
 the Peoria (111.) High School, from 1880 
 until lier appointment in January, 1890 
 to her present position as preceptress and 
 professor of literature in the Illinois State 
 Normal University. Dr. Colby is autlior of 
 Some Ethical Aspects of Later Elizabethan 
 Tragedy, 1880, which was her doctoral the- 
 sis; is editor of an edition of Silas Marncr, 
 with introduction and notes (D. Appleton 
 & Co.), 1900; Literature ami Life in School 
 (Houghton, Mifllin & Co.), 1900; also var- 
 ious literary and professional articles in 
 
 the Herbartian Year Book, Illinois State 
 Normal University Bulletin, and The Vi- 
 dette. She is a member of the Illinois State 
 and Central Teachers Association, the Illi- 
 nois Schoolmistresses' Club, Association of 
 Collegiate Alumn£e, The Q. C. (LTniversity 
 of Michigan). Address: Normal, 111. 
 
 COLCORD, Roswell Keyes: 
 
 Superintendent of the United States 
 Mint; born in Searsport, Me., April 25, 
 1839; son of James and Eliza Colcord. 
 He was educated in public schools, went to 
 Nevada in the early sixties and was in- 
 terested in mining and other enterprises. 
 He was elected governor of Nevada for the 
 term 1890-1894, and' appointed Nov. 1, 1^98 
 to his present position as superintendent of 
 the United States Mint at Carson City. 
 Address : Carson City, Nev. 
 
 COLE, Frank Nelson: 
 
 Professor of mathematics; born in Ash- 
 land, Mass. Sept. 20, 1861; son of Otis 
 Cole and Frances M. (Pond) Cole. He was 
 graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1882, Ph. 
 D., 1886. He was lecturer in mathematics 
 at Harvard, 1885-1887, tutor and assistant 
 professor in the University of Michigan, 
 1888-1895, and has been professor of math- 
 ematics in Columbia University since 1895. 
 Professor Cole has been secretary of the 
 American Mathematical Society since 1895, 
 and editor of the Bulletin of the American 
 Mathematical Society since 1897. He mar- 
 ried, July 2G, 1888, Martha M. Streiff. Ad- 
 dress: Columbia University, New Y^ork 
 City. 
 
 COLE. George C. : 
 
 ■Consular oflicial ; appointed consul-gen- 
 eral at Buenos Aires, April 13, 1905; ap- 
 pointed consul at Dawson, June 22, 1906. 
 -Vdd'ress : Dawson, Yukon Territory, Can- 
 ada. 
 
 COLE, George Watson: 
 
 iiililiograjihcr; born at Wancu. Conn., 
 S('))t. 6. 18.")0; son of Munson and Antoi- 
 nette i^'idelia. (Taylor) Colo. lie was edu- 
 cated in |)ublic schools and at Phillips 
 
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 Aiailciiiy, Amlovor, Mass. After teachinir 
 scliool and londinfT' law, lio wa.s admitted 
 1() (lie ));n- in ls7(i. and' practised his pro- 
 Ics-icin in liis initi\o county until 1885, 
 w lien he abandoned law to engajjc in li- 
 hiary work. During 1885-1886 he com- 
 piled the printed catalogue of the Fitchhurg 
 (Massachusetts) Public Library, a work 
 still regarded as a model classified cata- 
 logue of a public library. From Fitchhurg 
 he went to New York, becoming the librar- 
 ian of the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn and 
 at the same time attending the Library 
 School at Columbia University, from which 
 he was graduated in 1888. For the next 
 three years he was connected with the New- 
 berry Library at Chicago, which he left in 
 January, 1891, to become librarian of the 
 Free Public Library of Jersey City, then be- 
 ing organized. The distribution of books 
 through delivery stations was one of the 
 most successful features of his librarian- 
 ship. In December, 1895, Mr. Cole resign- 
 ed his position and devoted the next two 
 years to travel, spending the winter of 1895- 
 
 1896 in Bermuda and the greater part of 
 
 1897 in Europe, principally at Paris. He 
 attended the International Conference of 
 Librarians at London in July, 1897. On 
 his return to this country, he became in- 
 terested in bibliography, and has since al- 
 most entirel}' devoted himself to that pur- 
 suit. In December, 1901, he began compil- 
 ing a catalogue of the very rare collection 
 of Ameiicana belonging to Mr. E. Dwight 
 Church of New York City. The result of 
 his labors is contained in the five volumes, 
 imperial octavo (2635 pages), published' in 
 1908. Early in 1909 the catalogue of a sec- 
 ond section of jMr. Church's library, contain- 
 ing works in English literature and miscel- 
 lanea, was published in two volumes of over 
 1100 pages, uniform in character with that 
 of his catalogue of Americana. The chief 
 value of this latter work will no doubt be 
 found in its detailed descriptions of the 
 ninnerous early editions of Shakespeare's 
 works, this portion of Mr. Church's library 
 ranking as the most important in this coun- 
 try, and being excelled by only four other 
 collections abroad : those in the Bodleian, 
 
 Britisli Museum, and Trinity College, Cam- 
 bridge, Libraries, and' tliat of the Duke of 
 Devonshire. Besides these works, Mr. Cole 
 is the Author of: American Libraries; 
 their Past, Present, and Future (1895), 
 printed in the "Occasional Papers" of the 
 Pennsylvania Library Club; Bermuda and 
 the Ciiallenger Expedition (1901) ; Compil- 
 ing a Bibliography (1902): Libraries of 
 the City of New York (1902). in the New 
 York Library Club's Handbook ; and Ber- 
 muda in Periodical Literature (1908). His 
 ingenious size-card for determining the 
 sizes of books, based upon the size notation 
 of the American Library Association, is in 
 general use in American libraries. Mr. Cole 
 is a life-member of the American Library 
 Association (treasurer, 1893-1896), of the 
 American Historical Association, and of the 
 Bibliographical Society of America. He is 
 also a member of the Bibliographical So- 
 ciety (London), of the Institute Interna- 
 tional de Bibliographic (Brussels), of the 
 American Geographical Society, New York 
 Library Club (President, 1893-1894), New 
 Jersey Library Association (president. 
 1894-1895), and of several other library and 
 bibliographical associations. Address: Piv- 
 erside, Conn. 
 
 COLE, Ralph D. : 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born in Big- 
 lick Township, Hancock County, Ohio, Nov. 
 30, 1873; son of John W. and Sarah Cole. 
 He attended the common schools in the 
 country rmtil eighteen years of age; enter- 
 ed Findley College, and was graduated with 
 the degree of Ph.B. in 1896. and in 1898 
 was graduated from the classical course in 
 the Northwestern Ohio Normal University, 
 at Ada. He is engaged in the practice of 
 law; served for two j-ears as deputy clerk 
 of Hancock County, and in 1899 was elect- 
 ed to represent Hancock County in the 
 State Legislature, and was reelected in 
 1901. He was elected in 1904 from the 
 Eighth Ohio District to the Fifty-ninth Con- 
 gress, and reelected in 1900 and 1908 to the 
 Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses. He is 
 a Republican in ]inlities. Address: Find- 
 lav, Ohio. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 COLER, Bird S.: 
 
 i'lesident borough of Brooklyn; born in 
 Champaign, 111.. Oct. 9. 1807; son of Wil- 
 liam N. Coler. He was educated at the 
 Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and Phillips 
 Andover Academy. He became clerk and 
 later partner of the firm of W. N. Coler 
 & Company, brokers. Pie was Demo- 
 cratic candidate for alderman-at-large in 
 Brooklyn. 1892, but was defeated; and 
 was elected comptroller of the City of New 
 York in 1897. He was also Democratic 
 candidate for governor of New York in 1902, 
 but was defeated and was elected in No- 
 vember, 1905, as president of the Borough 
 of Brooklyn. Residence: 224 Hancock 
 Street, Brooklyn. Office: .34 Nassau Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 COLES, Jonathan Ackerman: 
 
 I'liysician, surgeon and art patron; born 
 in Newark, N. J., May 6, 1843; son of Abra- 
 ham Coles, A.M., M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., and 
 Caroline E. (x\ckerman) Coles. He was 
 graduated from Columbia, A.B., 1864, A.M., 
 18G7, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
 ^I.D., 1868, receiving the Harsen prize for 
 the best report of medical and surgical cases 
 in the New York Hospital; and he received 
 from Hope College the degree of LL.D. in 
 1898. He studied in the hospitals and uni- 
 versities of Great Britain and the European 
 Continent, 1877-1878, and is engaged in 
 practice in Newark, N. J., and in New York 
 City. Dr. Coles is a contributor to medical 
 and scientific publications, is a member of 
 the American Medical Association and of 
 the- Union County (New Jersey) Medical 
 Society, of which he was elected president 
 and made permanent delegate to the New 
 Jersey State Medical Society. Dr. Coles is 
 jjatron of the Newark Orphan Asylum and 
 Home for Little Cripples, for which he has 
 built beautiful country homes at Mountain- 
 side, Wcftt field, N. J. For himself and his 
 father's estate, he gave to Washington Park, 
 Newark, N. J., a colossal bronze bust of his 
 father (by J. Q. A. Ward), with a pedestal 
 made from stones from the Mount of Olives, 
 Jerusalem, Bethlehem aiul Nazareth, with 
 a seven-ton base from Plymouth, Mass.; gave 
 
 to Lincoln Park, Newark, the historical In- 
 dian group in bronze, life-size (by C. B. 
 Ives) ; sent a Barye allegorical bronze of an 
 eagle and a dead heron to Admiral Dewey 
 as a memento of the victory of Manila Bay; 
 gave reproductions in bronze of Jean An- 
 toine Iloudon's busts of George Washington 
 and Benjamin Franklin to the Cniversities 
 of Oxford and Cambridge, England, and to 
 tlie American Embassy in London ; gave the 
 jjainting. The Good Samaritan (by Daniel 
 Huntington and Paul Delaroche) to the 
 State House at Trenton, N. J.; and has 
 given valviable works of art to Columbia, 
 Yale, Harvard, Princeton and other Univer- 
 sities, and' to the Metropolitan Museum of 
 Art, New York City. Dr. Coles owns a 
 classical library of beautiful bindings and a 
 fine collection of pictures, including one by 
 J. M. W. Turner, Benjamin West's portrait, 
 ])ainted by himself, and Bridgeman's famous 
 Salon painting of Pharoah's Host Pursuing 
 the Israelites Across the Bed of the Red 
 Sea. Residence: Deerhurst, Scotch Plains, 
 N. J. Office: 17 West 39th Street, New 
 York Citv, and 222 Market Street, Newark, 
 N. J. 
 
 COLLIER, Peter Fenelon: 
 
 Publisher; born in Marshall, County Car- 
 low, Ireland, Dec. 12, 1849; son of Robert 
 and Katherine (Fenelon) Collier. He was 
 educated partly in Ireland, and finished at 
 Moimt Saint Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati, 
 Ohio; and in 1908 he received the degree of 
 LL.D. from Seton Hall College. For nuxny 
 years past he has been at the head of the 
 publishing firm of P. F. Collier and Son, 
 and is founder aiuV owner of Collier's Week- 
 ly. Mr. Collier is a member of tlie Society 
 of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, the 
 Merchants' and Manufacturers' Board of 
 Trade, the New York Tax Reform Asso- 
 ciation, the Ohio Society of New York. He 
 is a Republican and a Roman Catholic. 
 His favorite recreations are hunting and 
 polo. He is also a mendier of the ^Meadow 
 Brook. Hunting. Riding. Country of Lake- 
 wood, Dt'nioci'atie, Turf and Field, Rem- 
 sen Polo, Catholic and Westchester Polo 
 Clubs, the Auloniobile Club of America, 
 
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 and the Rockawuy Ifunting. Morris Park 
 ■Motor RaciiifT and The Brook Clubs. Mr. 
 Collier married, at St. Peter's Rectory, 
 Barclay Street, New York City, July, 1873, 
 Katharine, d'aujjhter of Richard Dunne of 
 Park, Ireland. They have one son, born 
 June 17, 1876. Address: 29 Fifth Avenue, 
 New York City. 
 
 COLLIER, Robert Joseph: 
 
 Publisher and editor; born in New Y^ork 
 City, June 17, 1876; son of Peter Fenelon 
 and Katharine Louise (Dunne) Collier. 
 He was educated in St. Francis College, 
 New York, C4eorgetown University, Wash- 
 ington. D. C, A.B. 1894, followed by a 
 year each at Oxford University, England, 
 and at Harvard. He is junior member 
 (if the firm of P. F. Collier & Son, pub- 
 lishers of standard books, and' has been 
 editor and publisher of Collier's Weekly 
 since 1898. He is director and treasurer 
 of the Educational Theater for Children 
 and Y^oung People, and director and vice- 
 ])resident of the Lincoln Farm Association. 
 Mr. Collier is a member of the Racquet 
 and Tennis. Brook, Harvard, City, Catholic, 
 Players, New Y'ork Y'acht, Meadowbrook 
 Hunt, Westchester County, Riding, and 
 Turf and Field clubs. He married at New- 
 ]K)rt, R. I., Sarah Steward Van Alen, July, 
 190-2. Residence: 752 Park Avenue. Of- 
 lice: 416 West 13th Street, New York City. 
 
 COLLIER, William: 
 
 Actor; born in 1868. His first appear- 
 ance on the stage was as Dick Deadeye, in 
 Pinafore. He appeared afterwards in 
 minor parts in various plays, until finally 
 lie became leading man in Hoyt's company. 
 In 1901 he became a star, afterwards join- 
 ing the. force of Weber and Field's, in the 
 N'ew Y'ork Music Hall. Since the disso- 
 lution of that firm he has appeared in 
 many productions with marked success. 
 Address : The Lambs' Club, New York City. 
 
 COLLIER, William Miller: 
 
 L Diplomat, lawyer; born at Lodi, N. Y., 
 ' Nov. 11, 1SG7; "son of Rev. Isaac H. Col- 
 
 lier and Francis (Miller) Collier. After 
 a careful preparatory education, he entered 
 Hamilton College, from which he was grad- 
 uated as A.B. in 1889, and A.M. in 1892. 
 He studied for a year in Columbia I^aw 
 School and also in offices in New York 
 City and Brooklyn. He was admitted to 
 the New^ Y^ork bar in 1892, and practised 
 at Auburn, N. Y. He was appointed ref- 
 eree in bankruptcy for the Northern Dis- 
 trict of New Y'ork in 1898, and was 
 appointed by Governor Roosevelt, Jan., 
 1899, and reappointed by Governor Odell, 
 a member of the State Civil Service Com- 
 mission, of which he was elected president 
 in Feb., 1901. He resigned' in 1903; and 
 he was offered, in March, 1903, by Pres- 
 ident Roosevelt, appointment as solicitor 
 of internal revenue, but declined. Later 
 in the same month, he was appointed to 
 the position of special assistant to the 
 attorney-general of United States, was 
 assigned to act as solicitor of the newly 
 created Department of Commerce and 
 Labor, and was appointed solicitor of that 
 department when the office was permanently 
 created in 1904. On March 6, 1905, he was 
 appointed to his present post as envoy 
 extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary 
 of the United States to Spain. He is au- 
 thor of: Collier on Bankruptcy, 1898; 
 The Trusts— What Can We Do With Them 
 and What Can They Do For Us?. 1900; 
 Collier on Civil Service Law, 1901; and 
 he edited the first twelve volumes of Amer- 
 ican Bankruptcy Reports, He was ap- 
 pointed in Jan., 1903, special lecturer 
 on the law of bankruptcy at the New Y^ork 
 Law School. Mr. Collier is a member of 
 the New Y^ork State Bar Association, the 
 New Y'ork Civil Service Reform Associa- 
 tion, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and the 
 Chi Psi fraternity, and is also a member 
 of the City Club and the Owasco Country 
 Club of Auburn, N. Y., Metropolitan, and 
 Chevy Chase Clubs of Washington, D. C, 
 and the Universitj' and Republican Clubs 
 of New York City. Mr. Collier married, 
 at Auburn, N. Y., Sept. 13, 1893, Frances 
 Beardsley Ross. Address: American Le- 
 gation, Madrid, Spain. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 COLLINS, Robert Moore: 
 
 Journalist; born in Washington, D. C, 
 Dec. 25. 1866; son of Dr. William T. and 
 Anne Askew (Moore) Collins. After grad- 
 uation with the degree of B.S. from Mid- 
 dlebury College in 1889, he began news- 
 ])a]K'r work as a reporter on the Boston 
 Advertiser, and a year later on the Akron 
 (Ohio) Beacon, and from 1890 to 1893 
 was Congressional reporter for the Wash- 
 ington Post. In 1893 he began his con- 
 nection with the Associated Press, first as 
 Washington correspondent and afterward as 
 Xew York editor until 1897, when he went 
 to Europe as its London and Paris cor- 
 respondent, and represented the Associated 
 Press during the Peace Commission in 
 Paris in 1898, after which he was Eastern 
 correspondent for the Associated Press in 
 China and the Philippines until 1900, and 
 was the first to send news of General Law- 
 ton's Lake Cruz Expedition and later of 
 his death, and the first news of the battle 
 of Tien-Tsin. From 1900 to 1907 he was 
 Eastern correspondent of the Reuter Tel- 
 egram Company and during that service 
 represented that company and the Asso- 
 ciated Press with the First Japanese Army 
 during the entire period of the Japanese- 
 Russian War. Since 1907 ]\Ir. Collins has 
 been chief of the London Bureau of the 
 Associated Press. He is a fellow of the 
 Royal Geographic Society and a member 
 of the Savage Club. Address: King's 
 House, St. James Court, London, England. 
 
 COLLYER, Robert: 
 
 Clergyman; l»)iii in Keiglily. Vorksliire, 
 England', Dec. 8, 1823; son of Samuel and 
 Harriet (Norman) Collyer. He was edu- 
 cated at the common schools at Fewston, 
 Yorkshire, England, until eight years old, 
 and afterward spent two winters at a night 
 scliool. He was a factory boy from 1832- 
 1838; a blacksmith, boy and man, 1838- 
 1859; and a Methodist local preacher at 
 nothing a year from 1849 to 1859. He 
 was minister of tlic I nit}' Churcli of Chi- 
 cago, 1859-1879; sole minister of the 
 Church of the Messiah of New York City, 
 1879-1896; and associate minister wilti 
 
 Rev. M. J. Savage, 1896-1906; and since 
 1903 he has been pastor emeritus. Mr. 
 Collyer was also in the lecture field for 
 many years, lecturing from Maine to Cal- 
 ifornia, and has made seven visits to his 
 old home. He is author of: Nature and 
 Life; The Life that Now Is; The Simple 
 Truth; A Home Book; Talks to Young 
 Men; History of Ilkley in Yorkshire (with 
 Horsefall Turner) ; Things Old and New; 
 Father Taylor, the Seaman's Chaplain; 
 Augustus Conant, Illinois Preacher and 
 Pioneer; Some Memories. Mr. Collyer mar- 
 ried, first, in 1845, and from that union 
 he has one son. He married a second time 
 at Bradford, Yorkshire, April 11, 1850, 
 Ann Armitage, and they have two chil- 
 dren. Address: 201 West Fifty-fifth Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 COLMAN. Norman Jay: 
 
 Agriculturist ; born on a farm near Rich- 
 field Springs. N. Y.. May 16, 1827; son 
 of Hamilton and' Nancy (Sprague) Colman. 
 He moved to Kentucky in 1847, taught 
 school, and in 1851 was graduated from 
 the Louisville Law School, taking the de- 
 gree of LL.B. He practised first in New 
 Albany, Ind., where he was district attor- 
 ney in 1852. He removed to St. Louis, 
 ^lo.. where he established Colman's Rural 
 World, which became the most influential 
 agricultural paper of the West. He served 
 as lieutenant-colonel of the 85th Regiment 
 of Missouri Enrolled Militia during the 
 Civil Wai-; was elected to the Missouri 
 Legislal urc. serving in the session of 1865; 
 was nn luisuecessful candidate for lieu- 
 tcnniit -governor in 1868. but was elected 
 to that office in 1875 and served two years. 
 Mr. Colman has for many years been a 
 leader in agrieultural movements and 
 organi/at i(uis in tlie West; was president 
 of tlie Missouri State Horticultural Soci- 
 ety, and of the Missouri State Board of 
 Agriculture; was for fifteen years a trustee 
 of the State University of Missouri, and 
 two years president of ihe Missouri State 
 Press Association. He was appointed by 
 President Cleveland, in ISS.'), United States 
 ("onunissioner of Agriculture, and when 
 Ihe I'.iii-eau was ex|)anded into an execu- 
 
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 livo depart niciit lio was appointed, Feb. 
 11. 1889, the first secretary of agriculture 
 of the United States, serving until the 
 close of the first Cleveland Administration, 
 March 4, 1889. Mr. Colman received, in 
 IDO;'). the degree of LL.D. from the Uni- 
 versity of Missouri, and the degree of 
 D.Agr. from the University of Illinois; and 
 lie has received the cross, medal and dec- 
 oration of Officier du Merite Agricole from 
 the French Government. He married', in 
 1807, Kate Wright. Residence: 5499 Del- 
 mar Boulevard. Office: 821 Holland 
 P.uilding, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 COLMAN, Samuel: 
 
 Artist ; born in Portland, Me., March, 
 1832; son of Samuel and Pamela (Chand- 
 ler) Colman. He studied art for many 
 years in various European cities — Madrid, 
 Paris, Dresden and London. He is a land- 
 scape painter and works both in oil and 
 in water colors. His principal pictures 
 are: Ships of the Western Plains, now 
 in the possession of the Union League Club; 
 jMoonrise, Venice; 'and Spanish Peaks, in 
 the collection of the Metropolitan ]\Iuseum 
 of Art ; and Mosque of Side Bou Hac, 
 Tlemcin, Algeria, in the Aster Library. 
 He has traveled extensively through Eu- 
 rope Africa, Mexico and California. Mr. 
 Colman was made an associate member 
 of the National Academy of Design in 1860, 
 and received to full membership in 1864. 
 He was one of the founders and' the first 
 ]n'esident of the American Water Color 
 Society. He is at present engaged in an 
 investigation of the principles of angular 
 magnitude, resulting from polar force in 
 its relation to Beauty and proportional 
 form, disclosing the application of these 
 principles to the study of art, as well as 
 to architecture. He was married first, at 
 Irvington, N. Y., in 1862, to Anne L. Dun- 
 ham; second at Newport, R. I., in 1903 
 to Lillie M. GaiTney. Address: 267 Cen- 
 tral Park West, New York City. 
 
 COLT, LeBaron Bradford: 
 
 United States circuit judge; born at 
 Dedham, Mass., June 25, 1846; son of 
 Christopher and Theodora G. (DeWolf) 
 
 Colt. After liis graduation from Yale as 
 B.A. in 1868 and from Columbia Univer- 
 sity as LL.B. in 1870, he was admitted to 
 the bar. He practised law in Chicago for 
 two years, but after 1875 he was engaged 
 in the practice of law at Bristol, R. L, 
 until 1881. He was elected to the Legis- 
 lature of Rhode Island as a Republican, 
 serving from 1879 to 1881, and in the 
 latter year was appointed to tlie office 
 of United States judge for the District of 
 Rhode Island, and so remained imtil pro- 
 moted July 6, 1884, to his present office 
 as United States circuit judge for the First 
 Judicial Circuit. Address : Providence, 
 R. I. 
 
 COLTON, Arthur Willis: 
 
 Author; born in Washingion. Conn., May 
 22, 1868; son of Willis S. and Lucy P. 
 (Gibson) Colton. He was educated in the 
 Gunnery School, Washington, Conn., 1862- 
 1860; was graduated from Yale, A.B. 1890, 
 Ph.D. in 1893. He was instructor in 
 English at Yale University, 1893-1895, and 
 has been librarian of the University Club 
 of New York City from 1906. He is author 
 of: Bennie Ben Cree, 1900 (Doubleday) ; 
 Delectable Mountains, 1901 (Scribner) ; 
 Debatable Land, 190! (Harper) ; Tioba, 
 1903 (Holt); Belted Seas, 1905 (Holt); 
 Cruise of the Violetta, 1906 (Holt) ; and 
 Harps Hung Up in Babylon, poems, 1907 
 (Holt). He is a member of the Graduate 
 Club of New Haven, and of the Yale and 
 Authors Clubs of New York City. Resi- 
 dence: Washington, Conn. Address: Uni- 
 versity Club, New York City. 
 
 COLTON, Charles Henry: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Buft'alo; born in New 
 York City, Oct. 15, 1848; son of Patrick 
 S. and Theresa (Mullin) Colton. He was 
 graduated from St. Francis Xavier College, 
 New York City, 1872; and in theology from 
 St. Joseph Seminary, Troy, N. Y., 1876. 
 He was ordained priest, June 10, 1876, and 
 became assistant, 1870-1886. and rector, 
 1886-1903, of St. Stephen's Church, New 
 York City. He was chancellor of the arch- 
 diocese of New York, 1896-1903, and was 
 consecrated bishop of the diocese of Buffalo, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 N. Y., Aug. 25, 1903. Bishop Colton is 
 author of: Seedlings; My Trip to Rome; 
 The Holy Land. Address: 1025 Delaware 
 Avenue, BufTalo. N. Y. 
 
 COLVIN, Verplanck: 
 
 Geodisist, topographical engineer; born in 
 Albany, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1847; son of An- 
 drew James and Margaret Crane (Ailing) 
 Colvin. He was educated in private schools 
 and at Albany Academy, then studied law 
 in the office of Colvin & Bingham in Al- 
 bany. He began making surveys and 
 explorations in the Adirondaeks in 1865; 
 ascended ^Mount Marcy in 1869, and was 
 the first to ascend and measure the height 
 of Mount Seward. He originated the plan 
 for tlie Adirondack Park in a report to 
 the regents of the University of New York 
 in 1870, and made the first report recom- 
 mending the preservation of the State 
 forests of New York. He carried on the 
 Adirondack Survey as a private work for 
 many years; discovered Lake Tear-of-the- 
 Clouds, source of the Hudson River; 
 ascended and determined the heights, lati- 
 tudes and longitudes of all prominent 
 mountains in the Adirondaeks, making 
 many corrections of errors in previous maps 
 of the region, and from 1883 to 1895 was 
 superintendent, with special authority over 
 State land surveys. He was appointed by 
 Covernor Cornell, in 1882, a delegate to 
 the first American forestry Congress, and 
 in 1893 he was Republican nominee for 
 State engineer and surveyor. He secured 
 tlio United States gun foundry for Water- 
 vliet, X. Y., and in recognition of that 
 service was presented with a sword by the 
 Albany Burgesses Corps in 1894. Mr. Col- 
 vin is author of numerous papers and re- 
 ports concerning the Adirondaeks and other 
 matters; and in 1902 ))ul)lished a plan, 
 which attracted much attention, proposing 
 to settle the Negi'o question in this country 
 by tlie ])urcliase of Congo Free State by 
 tlie Uniteii States, and its colonization with 
 American negroes under white officers. He 
 is a life member of the American Institute 
 of Mining Lngineers, member of the Amer- 
 ican (ieographical Society, the American 
 Associal ion for tlic Advaiifciiiciit of Sci- 
 
 ence, British Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, Society of American 
 Authors, Sons of the Revolution, the Asso- 
 ciation for the Preservation of the Adiron- 
 daeks, the Appulacliian Club of Boston, 
 and the Adirondack Club of New York- 
 City; and he is an honorary member of the 
 Rocky Mountain Club of Denver, Colo., and 
 of the Club Alpine Frangais. Address: The 
 Elms, 175 Western Avenue, Albany. N. Y. 
 
 COMAN, Henry B, 
 
 Lawyer; born in jNIorrisville, N. Y., Dec. 
 8, 1858; son of Benjamin F. and Harriet 
 E. (White) Coman. He was educated in 
 ^lorrisville Union School and Cazenovia 
 Seminar}^ studied' law and was admitted 
 to the bar, engaging in general practice. 
 He served as deputy attorney-general of 
 New York State, 1889-1902, in charge of 
 the trial of " special franchise " cases be- 
 fore Judge Robert Earl; and as counsel to 
 the Judiciary Committee of the General 
 Assembly of the State of New York, in 
 1905, in the investigai^on of the charges 
 against Warren B. Hooker, justice of the 
 Supreme Court, and the same year counsel 
 to the Legislature on the trial of that 
 ease. In 1900 he was elected a justice of 
 the Supreme Court of the State of New 
 York for the term expiring Dec. 31, 1920. 
 Justice Coman is a director of the First 
 National Bank of Morrisville, N. Y., a 
 member of the New York State Bar Asso- 
 ciation and a trustee of the Morrisville 
 Public Library. He is a member of the 
 Oneida Business IMen's Club, Oneida Coun- 
 try Club, the Citizens' Club of Syracuse 
 and the Republican Club of New York 
 City. He married in Rochester, N. Y., in 
 1888, Lucy Sand'ford Dana, and they have 
 two daughters. Address: Morrisville, N. Y. 
 
 COMBS, Leslie: 
 
 Diplomatist; born in Little Compton, R. 
 I., July 31, 1852; son of General Leslie 
 and Mary Elizabeth (Brownell) Combs. 
 He was educated in the public schools and 
 in Transylvania University (through tlie 
 sdpliomoro year. He has been engagcnl 
 since maiiliood in line stock raisintr and 
 
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 tobacco plantiiii^, ami was also a rancher 
 ill Texas and Indian Territory for several 
 velars. He was pension agent for Kentucky, 
 189S-lit()(), resigning in 1900 to become 
 chairman of the Republican Executive Com- 
 mittee of Kentucky. lie was reappointed 
 pension agent for Kentucky. 1900-1902, and 
 in Nov., 1902, was appointed United States 
 minister to Guatemala and Honduras. Mr. 
 Combs married in Woodford County, Ken- 
 tucky, Oct. 18, 1878, Mary C, daughter 
 of Daniel Swigert, of Spring Station, Ky. 
 Residence: Lexington, Ky. Official ad- 
 dress: United States Legation, Guatemala 
 City, Guatemala. 
 
 COMER, Braxton Bragg: 
 
 Governor of Alabama; born on a planta- 
 tion in Barbour County, Ala., Nov. 7, 1843. 
 He was educated in the Alabama State 
 University, served' as State cadet in the 
 Confederate Army in the Civil War, and 
 afterward went to Emory and Henry Col- 
 lege at Birmingham, Ala., graduating in 
 1869. Became one of the largest farmers 
 in Alabama, and is interested in large 
 milling and other enterprises; in partner- 
 ship with S. B. Trapp engaged as a whole- 
 sale merchant since 1886. He became in- 
 terested as merchant and miller in railroad 
 rebates, rates and discriminations, and was 
 elected', in 1904, president of the Alabama 
 Railroad Commission. The railroad rate 
 issue became the most prominent in State 
 politics, and he received the Democratic 
 nomination, and was in November, 1906, 
 elected Governor of Alabama for the term 
 expiring in Jan., 1911. Residence: Bir- 
 mingham. Ala. Official address: Mont- 
 gomery, Ala. 
 
 COMLY, Samuel Pancoast: 
 
 (_!aptain L^. S. Navy; born in New Jer- 
 sey; appointed from New Jersey as mid- 
 shipman in the United States Naval 
 Academy, from which he was graduated 
 and promoted to ensign in Julj'^, 1871. His 
 subsequent promotions were to master, 
 Aug., 1873; lieutenant, April, 1878; lieu- 
 tenant-commander, July 3, 1898; com- 
 mander, March 3, 1901 ; captain, July 1, 
 1905. He served on the various duties and 
 
 stations of a naval officer, and from Nov., 
 1895, until the end of the war with Spain 
 was on the battleship Indiana, after that 
 on the receiving ship Richmond until 1900; 
 commanded the training ship Alliance, ami 
 commanded the battleship Alabama, in the 
 North Atlantic Squadron until Oct. 1, 1907. 
 Address: Care Navy Department, Wash- 
 ington, 1). C. 
 
 COMMANDER, Lydia Kingsmill (Mrs. Cas- 
 son) : 
 
 Lecturer, author, editor, minister and so- 
 ciologist; born in Clinton, Ont. ; daughter 
 of Charles Richard and Lydia (Kingsmill) 
 Commander. She was graduated from 
 the Collegiate Institute, Stratford', Out., also 
 studied at Western University, London. Ont., 
 and under tutors at Meadville Theological 
 Seminary. She married' at Ruskin, Tenn., 
 1899, Herbert N. Casson. She was ordained 
 and installed pastor of Free Congregational 
 Church, at Baraboo, Wis., 1897; went to 
 Ruskin, Tenn., in 1898, becoming a member 
 of the cooperative colony there, and associ- 
 ate editor, with Herbert N. Casson, of the 
 Coming Nation; member of the editorial 
 staff of the New York Journal, 1899-1902; 
 edited The Bellamy Review and' Fair Play 
 (social reform magazines), 1902; since then 
 lecturer and writer ; lecturer of the New 
 York Humane Society, and for the New 
 York City Board of Education. She is au- 
 thor of:" Marred in the Making, 1903; 
 The American Idea, 1907. She was speaker 
 at the International Congress of Women, 
 Berlin, 1904, and at Toronto, 1909; dele- 
 gate to the National Peace Congress, New 
 York 1907, and Chicago 1909. In 1907, she 
 organized a committee and secured employ- 
 ment for over 2,000 women, thrown out of 
 work by the panic and hard times. In 1909, 
 she gave a course of lectures at the I'niver- 
 sity of Wisconsin on the Social Opportuni- 
 ties and Responsibilities of Women. She is 
 a member of the League for Political Edu- 
 cation, League of Self-Supporting Women, 
 Equal Suffrage League of New York, Ameri- 
 can Sociological Society, also the Women's 
 Club of London. She is one of the ablest 
 advocates of equal sufl'rage. Summer ad'- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 dress: Piiu' Hill. X. J. Residenco: 17 
 East 11th St ret. Xew York City. 
 
 COMSTOCK, Ada Louise: 
 
 Educator: l)oni in Moorhcad, ]\linn., 
 187G; daughter of S. G. and Sarah (Ball) 
 Conistock. She was educated in the Uni- 
 versity of Minnesota, 1892-1894, Smitli 
 College, 1894-1897, receiving the B.L. de- 
 gree. 1897, IMoorhead State Normal School. 
 1897-1898, Columbia University, 1898-1899, 
 A.M., 1899: and was a graduate student 
 at the Coll&ge de France and Sorbonne, 
 1904. Miss Comstock began to teach in 
 the University of Minnesota in the fall 
 of 1899; became professor of rhetoric in 
 1904, and in 1907 became the first dean 
 of women in the University of Minnesota, 
 which position she still hold's. She is a 
 member of the Delta Gamma Sorority, Phi 
 Kappa Psi Society of Smith College, 
 Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, the Asso- 
 ciation of Collegiate Alumnae and the 
 Woman's Club of Minneapolis. Address: 
 University of ^linnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 COMSTOCK, Anthony: 
 
 Secretary of the New York Society for 
 the Suppression of Vice; born in Canaan, 
 Conn., March 7, 1844; son of Thomas An- 
 thony and Polly Ann (Lockwood) Com- 
 stock. He was educated at Wyckoff's Acad- 
 emy at New Canaan, and for one year 
 in the New Britain (Conn.) high school. 
 He volunteei'ed, Dec, 1803, in the 17th 
 Connecticut Volunteers, and served under 
 General Gilmore in the Third Separate 
 Brigade, Depaitnient of the South. He 
 was honorably discharged in 1805, and went 
 in 1807 to New York City, where he 
 worked consecutively as porter, stock clerk, 
 and salesman in wholesale dry goods houses, 
 1807-1873. Mr. Comstock made his first 
 seven arrests of venders of obscene books 
 March 2, 1872, and has been secretary and 
 chief special agent of the New York Soci- 
 ety for Suppression of Vice since its incor- 
 poration by act of the Legislature of New 
 Y'ork in 1873. He was appointed special 
 agent, now called inspector, of the Postoffice 
 Department, March "), 1873, and served the 
 Government of the United States in that 
 
 capacity without salary until Jan. 1, 1907. 
 He has made more than three thousand and 
 three hundred arrests and seized more than 
 one liundred and twenty-eight tons of ob- 
 scene literature and otner contraband mat- 
 ter. Mr. Comstock is a Republican in 
 politics and a member of the Central Pres- 
 byterian Church of Summit, N. J., and has 
 been prominent in Young Men's Christian 
 Association work. He is author of: Frauds 
 Exposed; Gambling Outrages; Moraij 
 Versus Arts; and Traps for the Y^'oung. 
 Mr. Comstock married in Brooklyn, Jan. 
 25, 1871, Margaret Hamilton, and they have 
 a daughter. Residence: 35 Beekman Road, 
 Summit, N. J. Address: 140-142 Nassau 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 COMSTOCit, George Gary: 
 
 Astronomer; born in Madison, Wis., Feb. 
 12, 1855; son of Charles Henry and Mercj' 
 (Bronson) Comstock. He was graduated 
 from the University of Michigan as Ph.B. 
 in 1877 and received the honorary degree 
 of Sc.D. in 1907, and from the University 
 of Wisconsin was graduated as LL.B. in 
 1883, and the University of Illinois con- 
 ferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 
 1907. He was recorder of the United States 
 Lake Survey, assistant engineer of the Im- 
 provement of Mississippi River, and assist- 
 ant astronomer of the Washburn Observa- 
 tory. He was admitted to the bar of 
 Wisconsin and to the United States Courts; 
 was professor of mathematics and astron- 
 omy of the Ohio State University in 1885; 
 professor of astronomy at the University of 
 Wisconsin ; associate director and director 
 in 1890 of the Washburn Observatory, and 
 has been director of the Graduate School 
 of the University of Wisconsin since 1900. 
 He is a member of the American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science, 
 Astronomsche Gesellschaft, of Leipzig, So- 
 ciety Astronomique de France, Sociedad 
 Astronomica de JNIexico, and has been a 
 member of the National Academy of Science 
 since 1899, and secretary gf the Astronom- 
 ical and Astrophysical Society of America 
 from its first organization. Mr. Comstock 
 married in Madison, Wis., June 12, 1894, 
 E. Cecile Everett, and tliey have one daugh- 
 
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 tcr. Address: Observatory Hill, Madison, 
 Wis. 
 
 COMSTOCK, Harriet Theresa: 
 
 Author; lioni in Niclmls, N. Y. ; daugh- 
 ter of 8. Alpheus and Jean (Downey) 
 Smith. She was educated at Plainfield, 
 N. J., was married in Brooklyn, N. Y., to 
 Philip Conistock. and has two sons. Mrs. 
 Couistock has traveled extensively over the 
 United States and Canada, and is a con- 
 stant contributor to the press, having writ- 
 ten for the New York Post, New York 
 Sun, Brooklyn Eagle, 'Boston Transcript. 
 Burlington Press and many other papers, 
 and is a regular correspondent of the 
 Boston Christian Register. Iler published 
 volumes include a series of historical books 
 ])ublished by Altemus, Philadelphia; A 
 Boy of a Thousand Years Ago (Lee & 
 Shepard) ; Tower or Throne, The Queen's 
 Hostage and Janet of the Dunes (Little, 
 Brown & Co.) ; A Little Dusky Hero and 
 Meg and the Others (Crowell). Mrs. Corn- 
 stock is a member of the New York League 
 of Unitarian Women, a life member of the 
 American Unitarian Association and the 
 lirooklyn Woman's Club. Address: 31 
 Lincoln Road. Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 COMSTOCK, Theodore Bryant: 
 
 Mining engineer ; born in Cuyahoga 
 Falls, Ohio, July 27, 1849; son of Calvin J. 
 and Amelia (Hanford) Comstock. He was 
 graduated from Pennsylvania State Col- 
 lege, B.Agr., 18C8; from Cornell University, 
 B.S., 1870, and received the Se.D. degree 
 tliere in 1886. He was the first assistant 
 and pliotographer of the Moi-gan Expedi- 
 tion to Brazil in 1870; geologist of Captain 
 W. A. Jones' Northwest \^"yoming and Yel- 
 lowstone Park Expedition in 1873, and led 
 the expedition to the Northwest Territory 
 of Canada in 1877. Mr. Comstock was 
 acting professor of geology and jDaleontol- 
 ogy at Cornell, 1875-1879, having founded 
 the department ^f economic geology there; 
 and founded and directed the Kirtland 
 Summer School of Natural History, Cleve- 
 land, Ohio, in 1875 ; was assistant at the 
 Harvard Summer School of Geology in 
 
 1870; professor of mining engineering and 
 physics at the University of Illinois, 1885- 
 1889; assistant State geologist of Arkansas, 
 1887; assistant State geologist of Texas, 
 1889-1891; was founder and director of 
 the Arizona School of Mines, 1891-1895; 
 and part of that time president of the Uni- 
 versity of Arizona; and has been manager 
 and engineer of Colorado, Arizona and 
 Mexican mining companies and consulting 
 engineer to many leading mining corpora- 
 tions of America and Europe. He holds 
 a number of important offices in the com- 
 mercial world ; is a member of many asso- 
 ciations, institutions and societies, and' was 
 a member of the executive committee of 
 the Trans-Mississippi Congress from 1892- 
 1894; director National Educational Asso- 
 ciation, 1894-189G; vice-president National 
 Irrigation Congress, 1892; vice-president 
 Association American Agricultural College 
 and Experiment Station, 1894. A founder 
 of the Geological Society of America; a 
 founder of the Mining and Metallurgical 
 Society. Author of works on geology and 
 mining engineering; correspondent of lead- 
 ing technical journals. Mr. Comstock mar- 
 ried in Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 9, 1880, 
 Blanche Huggins. Residence: 827 Beacon 
 Street. Office: 534 Stimson Building, Los 
 Angeles, Calif. 
 
 CONANT, Charles Arthur: 
 
 Financial expert; born at Winchester, 
 Mass., July 2, 1861. He was graduated 
 from the Winchester (Mass.) High School 
 in 1879. He was engaged in newspaper 
 work for about twenty years, beginning at 
 Boston in 1880, and was for ten years 
 Washington correspondent of the New York 
 Journal of Commerce. He was Democratic 
 candidate for Congress in the Harvard Uni- 
 versity District in 1894, and delegate to 
 the Gold Democratic Convention in 1896. 
 He became associated with the Executive 
 Committee of the Indianapolis Monetary 
 Convention in 1897, and' suggested several 
 of the provisions of the Gold Standard Law 
 of March 14, 1900. He was appointed by 
 Secretary Root, special commissioner to the 
 Philippine Islands in the summer of 1901, 
 for the purpose of investigating coinage 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ami banking- conditions (licro, liis report 
 boing tbe basis for tlip Philippine Coinage 
 Act of 1003. In Feb., 1!102, he was elected 
 troasnrer of the INIorlon Trust Company 
 of New York, resigning at the close of 1906. 
 He visited Mexico in 1903 on the invita- 
 tion of the Mexican Government to confer 
 with a committee regarding the reform of 
 tlic Mexican currency. 'Mr. Conant was 
 a))pointed by President Roosevelt a member 
 of the Committee on International Ex- 
 cliange of the United States, which, in the 
 summer of 1903, conferred with European 
 (lovernnients in regard' to a reform of the 
 currency systems in China and other Ori- 
 ental countries. In 1904 he aided the War 
 Department in suggesting a currency meas- 
 ure for Panama, similar to that of the 
 Philippines. In 190G lie was appointed a 
 member of the special committee of the New 
 York Chamber of Commerce on Reform of 
 the Currency, whose report was adopted 
 by the Chamber, Nov. 1, 1906. In 1909 
 Mr. Conant was appointed by the Secre- 
 tary of State, j\Ir. Knox, the sole delegate 
 of the United States to the International 
 Conference at The Hague on International 
 Bills of Exchange. In the same year he 
 prepared a monograph for the National 
 Monetary Commission on the National 
 Rank of J^clgium, giving a thorough history 
 and analysis of the development of that 
 institution. Mr. Conant is author of: A 
 History of Modern Banks of Issue, with 
 an account of the economic crises of the 
 nineteenth century and the crisis of 1907, 
 fourth edition, 1909; The United States 
 in the Orient; The Nature of the Economic 
 Problem. 1900; Wall Street and the Coun- 
 try. 1904; and The Principles of INIoney 
 and Banking (two volumes) 1905. The 
 latter was translated into French by 
 Rajdiael CcorgesLevy and published in 
 Pari- in 1907. Mr. Conant is a director 
 of llio Manila liailway and the Credit 
 Clearing House. He is a member of the 
 Chamber of Commerce of the State of New 
 York, the American Economic Associa- 
 tion, the Washington Economic, the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science, the American Asiatic Association. 
 New York Economic Club, National Civil 
 
 Service Reform League, and the Soci^te 
 dTcconomie Politique de France. Resi- 
 dence: 58 West 47th Street. Office: 26 
 Liberty Street. New York City. 
 
 CONANT, Ernest Lee: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Dudley, Mass., Sept. 11, 
 1859; son of Charles R. and Ann F. (Ross) 
 Conant. He was graduated from Harvard 
 College as A.B. in 1884, attended Johns 
 Hopkins University and Maryland Law 
 School from 1884 to 188G, and was gradu- 
 ated from the Harvard Law School as A.i\I. 
 and LL.B. in 1889: He was instructor in 
 English in Harvard College for two years; 
 instructor in law and lecturer on interna- 
 tional law at Harvard L'niversity, two years 
 and' since then has been engaged in practis- 
 ing law in New York City and Havana, 
 Cuba. He resided in Havana from 1898 to 
 1906. He was counsel to the military gover- 
 nor of Havana, in 1899, and president of the 
 Havana Finance Commission for Examining 
 the Financial Condition of Havana in 1899- 
 1900. He was a member of the Havana 
 Charter Commission in 1900 and special 
 prosecuting attorney (fiscal) in Cuban Post 
 Office fraud cases in 1901. In 1906 he re- 
 sumed his residence in New York City. Di- 
 rector American Type Founders Co., and 
 other companies. Member of Association of 
 Bar, City of New York, Lawyers, University, 
 (Jity and Harvard Clubs. Mr. Conant mar- 
 ried in 1903. Blanche M. Allison. Resi- 
 dence: 135 East 06th Street. N. ^■.. and New 
 Canaan, Conn. 
 
 CONATY. Thomas James: 
 
 Catholic bisho]) of ^Monterey and Los An- 
 geles; born at Kilnaleck, County Cavan. Ire- 
 land, Aug. 1, 1847; son of Patrick and Alice 
 (Lynch) Conaty. He removed with his 
 parents to the United States in 1850, 
 and received his early ediicitinn at Taun- 
 ton. Mass. He attended' Montreal Col- 
 lege, 1863-1867, and was graduated from 
 the College of the Holy Cross at U'orces- 
 ter. Mass., 1869, and from Montreal The- 
 ologian School in 1872. and was ordained 
 priest Dee. 21, 1872. He was assistant at 
 St. .fui:u"s (imrcli, Worcester, from 1873 to 
 
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 1S80, and pastor of the Church of the Sa- 
 cred Heart at Worcester, Mass., for seven- 
 teen years, and was selected by the Ameri- 
 can Catholic bishops who were trustees of 
 tlie (!atholic University at Washington, D. 
 v., as lector of tiiat University, Oct. 22, 
 
 1896, and appointed to that position Nov. 
 20, 1896, by Pope Leo XllI, who conferred 
 upon hiin June 19, 1897, the title of Do- 
 mestic Prelate. He was nominated by Pope 
 Leo, July 16, 1901, titular bishop of Samos, 
 and he was consecrated bishop by Cardinal 
 Gibbons, at Baltimore, Nov. 24, 1901. He 
 was appointed to the see of Monterey and 
 Los Angeles, March 27, 1903, and took up 
 his Episcopal residence at Los Angeles, 
 Calif. He received the degree of D.D. from 
 Georgetown University in 1899, and the de- 
 grees of J.U.D. and D.D. from Laval Univer- 
 sity, Quebec, in 1896. Bishop Conaty has 
 been active in the promotion of temperance 
 and education among the Catholics of Amer- 
 ica, was president of the Catholic Total Ab- 
 stinence Union of America, 1887-1888. He 
 was one of the originators and organizers 
 of the Catholic Summer School at Platts- 
 burg, N. Y., and' its president from 1893 to 
 
 1897, was founder and for four years editor 
 of the Catholic School and Home Magazine 
 and is author of Bible Studies, for college 
 and school use, published in 1898. Address: 
 Los Angeles, Calif. 
 
 CONGER, Emily Bronson: 
 
 Osteopath physician; born at Peninsula, 
 Ohio, May 7, 1843; daughter of Hiram V. 
 and Ruth Lenora (Ranney) Bronson. She 
 was educated in Professor Emerson's Col- 
 lege at Peninsula, Ohio, class of 1859, and 
 the American College of Osteopathy at 
 Kirksville, Mo., class of 1899-1902. She 
 married in Peninsula, Ohio, Nov. 1, 1864, 
 Col. Arthur Latham Conger, and has had 
 four sons of whom one is now deceased. She 
 was deputy to Col. Conger as county treas- 
 urer for four years, and assisted her hus- 
 band in his various business affairs and in 
 politics. Mrs. Conger has traveled exten- 
 sively, knew personally all the generals of 
 the Army, attending Grand Army of the Re- 
 public annual meetings and serving on the 
 stafl" of the Woman's Relief Corps (auxil- 
 
 liary to the G. A. R. ) She has given several 
 addresses l>efore societies on the ^.Philippines, 
 wliere she spent two years from July 189'J 
 to 1901. She entered' the American School 
 of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo., in 1897, 
 and in 1898 went to Dcs Moines, Iowa, 
 where she became one of the charter trus- 
 tees of the Still College of Osteopathy, 1898- 
 1899, and was licensed to practise in New 
 York. Mrs. Conger is author of An Ohio 
 Woman in the Philippines. She was presi- 
 dent of the National Axis Club, 1905-1906, 
 and vice-president of the American Osteo- 
 path Association, 1906-1907. Address: Irv- 
 ing Lawn, Akron, Ohio. 
 
 CONKLIN, Roland Ray: 
 
 Banker; born at Urbana, 111., Feb. 1, 
 1858; son of Joseph Okell and Julia Louise 
 (Hunt) Conklin. He was graduated from 
 the University of Illinois, in 1880; and re- 
 ceived from that institution the degree of 
 Master of Literature in 1890. Mr. Conklin 
 was engaged in the banking business at Kan- 
 sas City, Mo., from 1880 to 1892, and was 
 one of the founders of the Jarvis-Conklin 
 Mortgage Trust Company; and he has been 
 a resident of New York City from 1892. 
 In 1894, with S. M. Jarvis, he organized the 
 North American Trust Company, of which 
 he was vice-president. He was very active 
 in the management of the company which 
 was, in 1898, appointed fiscal agent of the 
 United States Government in Cuba, and was 
 the first American institution engaged in 
 banking in that island. Later, by consolida- 
 tion, with other trust companies the corpo- 
 ration became known as the Trust Company 
 of America. He resigned the vice-presidency 
 in 1900, to devote more time to personal in- 
 vestments and other financial undertakings. 
 He is one of the founders and a director of 
 the National Bank of Cuba; president of 
 the Havana Telephone Company, and also 
 connected with many street railways and 
 public utility corporations in the United 
 States and the Cuban Republic. Mr. Conk- 
 lin is an extensive traveler and reader, and 
 member of the Bibliophile Society, and is 
 also a member of the Municipal Art Society 
 and of the Civic, City Lunch, St. Nicholas 
 and Nassau Countrv Clubs and Automobile 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 (lull of \iiiciic;i ; ;ils(i tlic AiiK'iiain Club 
 (il ll;i\;iii:i. Mr. Coiikliii iiuurit'd, at Paris. 
 l"i:iii(i'. .M,i\ 4. 1S98. Miss Mary Macfaddpii, 
 Miiil liy ili.il niarriatro lias two daughters 
 and a son. His homo at Rosemary Farm, 
 lluntiiigloii. \j. 1., has been a residence of 
 tlie family from KiOlf, and he also resides 
 at Tlie Wyoming, 55th and 7th Ave. Ad- 
 dress: 1 \\all Street, New York City. 
 
 CONKLING, Howard: 
 
 Lawyer and author and real estate oper- 
 ator; born in New York City in 1856; son 
 of Frederick A. and Eleanora (Ronalds) 
 Conklin. He was educated in private acad- 
 emies and was graduated LL.B. from New 
 York University Law School, 1900. After 
 a few years in commercial pursuits, he se- 
 cured admission to the bar in the States of 
 New York and Indiana ; practised' a short 
 time in Indianapolis and then returned to 
 New Y^ork City where he has practised ever 
 since. Mr. Conklin has been active in poli- 
 tics as a Republican, was a member of the 
 General Assembly of New York in 1892, 
 1893 and 1903, and was a candidate for Con- 
 gress in 1898 but was defeated by George 
 B. McClellan. Mr. Conkling has taken a 
 great interest in the propagation of the 
 French language, is vice-president of the 
 Alliance Francai.se, and official presenter of 
 medals for the Alliance. He is author of: 
 Biography of the Chevalier d"e la Luzerne; 
 The Game Laws; Travelers in Mexico. He 
 was formerly president of the Madison 
 Square Republican Club and of the Hamil- 
 ton Republican Club, and is now a member 
 of the Union, Metropolitan and Republican 
 Clubs of New York. He has a summer resi- 
 dence at Luzerne, N. Y. Residence: 157 
 East 70th Street. Ollice: 7& William 
 Street. New York City. 
 
 CONN, Herbert William: 
 
 i*rofess(jr of biology; Ixun at Fitcldjuig, 
 Mass., Jan. 10, 1859; son of Rueben R. and 
 Harriet K. (Harding) Conn. lie received 
 the degree of A.B. from Boston University 
 in 1881, and Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins 
 University in 1884. He was acting director 
 of Johns Hopkins Summer School in 1884; 
 
 in.structor in biology in \\'cslfy;in Univer- 
 sity from 1884 to 1S8S; mid has l)een pro- 
 fessor of biology, Weslcyan Uiiixcrsity, since 
 LSSS. Ke was also lecturer in l)iology in 
 'I'rinily College. ]SS(i-1887: director of the 
 Cohl Spring Harbor Bi()h)gical Laboratory, 
 Long Island, 1889-1897; bacteriologist of 
 Storrs Experiment Station. Connecticut, 
 1892-1!)0(!; lecturer on l)acleriology at Storrs 
 Agricultural College, 1901-190G; and has 
 been director of the Connecticut State Bac- 
 teriological Laboratory since 1905. Dr. 
 Conn was president of the American Society 
 of Bacteriology in 1902, and is a member 
 of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He has 
 published nearly o^ne hundred and fifty ar- 
 ticles and books mostly scientific. In poli- 
 tics, he is a Republican and in religion a 
 Methodist. He married at Fitchburg, Mass., 
 Aug. 5, 1885, Julia M. Joel, and they have 
 two children. Address: Middletown, Conn. 
 
 CONNERS, William James: 
 
 Publisher, contractor ; born in Buffalo, 
 N. Y., Jan. 3, 1857. He attended the com- 
 mon schools until he was thirteen years old, 
 then started to work as a boy on a steam- 
 boat on Lake Erie. He worked hard at 
 various kinds of labor until 1885 when he 
 estabiislied in his present business as a 
 freight contractor. He added the business 
 of paving, in stone and asphalt, in 1888, and 
 has been a brewer since 1890 and since 1893 
 president of the Magnus Beck Brewing Com- 
 pany. j\Ir. Conners has been proprietor of 
 the Butl'alo Enquirer since December, 1895, 
 and of the Buffalo Courier since May, 1897. 
 He is a large employer of labor, now having 
 over six tliousand men on his payroll. He 
 has for many ye^irs been a prominent figure 
 in the Democratic State politics in New 
 York; has been chairman of the Democratic 
 State Committee since 1900, and was one 
 of the leaders of the Democratic National 
 eainj)aign of 1908. Address: 599 South 
 I'ark Axenue. BulValo. X. V. 
 
 CONNOLLY. James Brendan: 
 
 Writer of sea stories; liorn in Boston, 
 Mass.; son of John and Anne (ODonnell) 
 Connolly. He was educated at Harvard 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 I ni\crsi(y. Mr. Connolly \\:is a nicnihci- of 
 the L^nitod Stales Engincci- Corps; was a 
 winner ill the first modern Olympic games 
 III .Mliens in 189(); was a member of the 
 !Kli Massachu.setts Regiment of V. 8. Volun- 
 teers (luring the Spanish-American War, 
 and lias been in the Na.vy. He eollccted ma- 
 lerial for narratives of salt water adven- 
 ture, especially of fisherman life, which at- 
 tracted much attention and which were de- 
 veloped into several books, which include: 
 Out of Gloucester, 1902; The Seiners, 1904; 
 The Deep Sea's Toll, 1905; The Crested Seas, 
 1907; An Olj-mpic Victor, 1908. He mar- 
 ried in Boston, Sept. 28, 1904, Elizabeth 
 Frances Hurley. Address: Dorchester, 
 IMass. 
 
 CONNOLLY, Louise: 
 
 Superintendent of Schools; born in Wash- 
 ington, D. C, July 22, 1862; daughter of 
 Thomas C. and Margaret (Williams) Con- 
 nolly. She was educated in the Washington 
 Normal School and was graduated' from 
 Columbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
 versity, with the degrees of B.S. and M.S. 
 ^liss Connolly was a teacher in the public 
 schools of Washington, D. C; editor for the 
 University Publishing Co., three years; su- 
 pervisor of the schools in Newark, N. J., 
 four years, and superintendent of schools in 
 Summit, N. J., since :\Iarch 15, 1906. Miss 
 Connolly is an institute lecturer, and was 
 joint author, with W. B. Powell, of Rational 
 Grammar, and has edited several special 
 State geographies. She is a member of the 
 Board of Directors of the Town Improve- 
 ment Association of Summit, N. J., member 
 of the Educational Association of Newark, 
 N. J., and first vice-president of the Fort- 
 nightly Club of Simnnit. Address: Sum- 
 mit, N. J. 
 
 CONNOR, George L.: 
 
 Railway ollicial ; burn in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 Aug. 23. 1846. In August, 1868, he became 
 a clerk in the treasurer's office of the Nar- 
 rangansett Steamship Company; became 
 auditor of passenger and freight receipts, 
 1873-1874, and general passenger agent of 
 same company in 1874. He became general 
 passenger agent of the Old Colony Steam- 
 
 l)oat Coni|)aiiy ( h'all Ki\cr Line ), June 1874. 
 to June, 1894; also general passenger and 
 ticket agent of the Old Colony Railroad, 
 1877-1893. He has been passenger traffic 
 manager of the New York, New Haven, and 
 Hartford Railroad since July, 1893; was 
 also passenger traffic manager of the Provi- 
 dence and Stonington Steamship Company, 
 1893-1898; and in June, 1898, also became 
 passenger traflic manager of the Old Colony 
 Steamboat Company, and since Jan. 1, 1905, 
 has been passenger traffic manager of the 
 New England Navigation Company. Ad- 
 dress: New Haven, Conn. 
 
 CONVERSE, Florence: 
 
 Author; born in New Orleans, April 30, 
 1871; daughter of George T. and Caroline 
 (Edwards) Converse. Miss Converse was 
 graduated from Wellesley College, B.S., 
 1893, A.M. 1903; lived several years in 
 San Francisco and for several years past 
 in Boston. She was a member of the editor- 
 ial staff of The Churchman, in New York 
 City, from January, 1900, to January, 1908. 
 Miss Converse is author of: Diana Victrix; 
 The Burden of Christopher; Long Will; 
 The House of Prayer; and' she is also a 
 contributor to various magazines. Address: 
 The Charlesgate, Boston. 
 
 CONWELL, Russell Herrman: 
 
 President of Temple University; born in 
 Worthington, Mass., Feb. 15, 1843; son of 
 Martin and IVIiranda (Wickham) Conwell. 
 He was educated in Yale University and 
 Albany University. He has been engaged in 
 law since 1865. Mr. Conwell was foreign 
 correspondent of New York Tribune, 1870; 
 commissioner of emigration of Minnesota, 
 1868; editor of Boston Traveler, 1872; 
 founder of the Minneapolis Chronicle, now 
 the Tribune, 1867. He was ordained Baptist 
 minister of Lexington, Mass., 1879; found- 
 er of the Baptist Temple, Philadelphia, 
 1889; founder of the Temple University, 
 Philadelphia, 1884; founder of Samaritan 
 Hospital, Philadelphia, 1892; founder of 
 the Philadelphia Law School, 1898; founder 
 of the Philadelphia Medical College, 1900; 
 founder of the Philadelphia Theological 
 
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 School in 189G, jirosidoni of Garrclson Hos- 
 pital. PhiliKU'lpliia. 1007, and' president of 
 the riiiladoli)liia Dental College, 1907. He 
 was captain in the Massachusetts Volun- 
 teers, in 186.3-1864, and staff officer in 1864- 
 186.1, and reached the grade of lieutenant- 
 colonel. He is a Republican in politics, and 
 has traA-eled extensively for the New York 
 Tribune. Dr. Conwell is one of the most 
 successful and ])opular of lecturers in ly- 
 ceuni and chant aucjua courses, his lecture. 
 " Acres of Diamonds " being especially fa- 
 mous. He married in Chicopee Falls, Mass., 
 1866, Jennie P. Harden, and they have 
 two children. Residence: 2020 North 
 Broad Street. Business address : Broad 
 and Berks Streets, Philadelphia. 
 
 COOK, Frederick Albert: 
 
 Physician, explorer, lecturer; born at Cal- 
 licoon Depot, Sullivan County, N. Y. ; son 
 of Theodore A. and ^lagdalen (I^ng) Cook. 
 He was graduated from the Medical Depart- 
 ment of the New York University, M.D., 
 18<)(J, and, after a year of post-graduate 
 work in the College of Physicians and' Sur- 
 geons of Columbia University, he became 
 surgeon of the Peary Arctic Expedition, 
 1891-1892. He was surgeon of the Belgian 
 Antarctic Expedition, 1897-1899, and was 
 leader of the several expeditions to climb 
 and explore Mount McKinley, 1903-1906. 
 He went to the Arctic, 1907, and returned, 
 reaching Copenhagen Sept. 4, 1!)09, with re- 
 port that he reached North I'ole April 21, 
 190S. Received decoration from King of 
 ]3cnmark and degree Sc.D. from University 
 of Copenhagen. He is author of: Through 
 tlie First Antarctic Night; To the Top of the 
 Continent; and magazine articles; and is a 
 lecturer on Antarctic Exploration. He has 
 received the decoration of the Order of Leo- 
 pold', a gold medal from the municipality of 
 Brussels; gold medal of the Royal Society 
 of Belgium, and silver medal of the Royal 
 (ieogra]>hic Society. He is an honorary 
 nu-mber of the Geographic Society of Brus- 
 sels; member of the American Geographical 
 Society, the National Geographic Society, 
 P.rooklyn iledical Society, Kings County 
 Mfdical Society; is secretary of the Arctic 
 Club and vice-president of the Explorers 
 
 Club. Addiess: 670 Busliwick Avenue, 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 COOK, Joel: 
 
 Congressman, editor; born in Philadel- 
 phia, March 20, 1842. He was graduated 
 from the Central High School, Philadelphia, 
 as A.B. in 1859; studied law, and in 186:^ 
 was admitted to the Philadelphia bar; but 
 afterward adopted journalism as a profes- 
 sion. From 1862 to 1863 was war corres- 
 pondent with the Army of the Potomac. Mr. 
 Cook was on the editorial staflf of the Pub- 
 lic Ledger, 1865-1907; and became its finan- 
 cial editor in 1883. Since June, 1865, on 
 stafi' of foreign correspondents of London 
 Times. Mr. Cook is president of the Phila- 
 delphia Board of Trade, and vice-president 
 of the United Security Life Insurance and 
 Trust Company, and served, from 1897 until 
 1907, as a member of the Board of Public 
 Education and chairman of its Committee 
 on the Central High Schools; president of 
 the Board of Port \\'ard'ens from 1893 imtil 
 1907. He is a Republican in politics, and 
 after John E. Reyburn resigned his seat in 
 Congress, March 30, 1907, ]\Ir. Cook was 
 elected to fill the vacancy. He was reelect- 
 ed in 1908, and is now serving in the Sixty- 
 first Congress from the Second District of 
 Pennsylvania. He is author of: A Holiday 
 Tour in p]urope; An Eastern Tour at Home; 
 England, Picturesque and Descriptive; 
 America, Picturesque and Descriptive; A 
 Visit to tile States, and other works of 
 travel. ]\lr. Cook married in Philadelphia. 
 Sept. 1!), 1865, ^lary J. Edmunds, and has 
 a son and a daughter. Address: 849 North 
 Broad Street. I'lnladrlpliia. 
 
 COOK, Walter: 
 
 Architect; born in New York City. July 
 23. 1S46; son of Edward and Catherine 
 (Ireland) Cook. He was graduated from 
 Harvard College as A.B. in 1869 and A.M. 
 in 1872; and later attended the Royal Poly- 
 technic School at INIunich and the ficole 
 des Beaux Arts at Paris (Pupil of E. Vau- 
 dremer). Mr. Cook has practised archi- 
 tecture in New York City since 1877; and 
 is now a mcmtier of the lirm of Babl), 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Cook & Willixrd, architects. This firm 
 were architects of the DeVinne Press 
 hiiihling, the residence of Andrew Carnegie 
 ana of niiui}' of the branch Public Libraries, 
 clc. in New York City; the residence of 
 V. V,. Pratt, Brooklyn; the New York Life 
 Insiii-ance Buildings in IMontreal, (!anada, 
 Si. Paul, and Minneapolis, and many other 
 structures of importance. He is past presi- 
 dent of the New Y^ork Chapter of the Amer- 
 ican Institute of Architects; and has been 
 the architect member of the Municipal Art 
 Conunission since 1905. He was American 
 member of the International Jury which 
 judged the Phoebe Hearst competition for 
 the University of California; also a member 
 of the jury for competitions tor the New 
 York Public Library, for Washington Uni- 
 versity, St. Louis, and for the remodeling 
 of West Point. Mr. Cook is a fellow of the 
 American Institute of Architects, and mem- 
 ber of the Century and Harvard Clubs of 
 New York City, and associate of the Na- 
 tional Academy of Design. Residence: 135 
 East 37th .Street. Address: 3 West 29th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 COOKE, Joseph Brown: 
 
 Surgeon and author; born in Saratoga 
 Springs, N. Y., March 24, 1868; son of Jo- 
 seph Cardner and Phebe Dana (Brown) 
 Cooke. He obtained his early education in 
 Saratoga, N. Y^, at the Franklin School, 
 Washington, D. C, from 1880 to 1882; 
 Trinity School, Tivoli-on-Hudson, 1882-1885; 
 the Phillips Exeter Academy, 1885-1887, and 
 the College of Physicians and Surgeons of 
 Columbia University, M.D., 1890. He has 
 l)ractised medicine and surgery in New Y''ork 
 City since 1890. Dr. Cooke was visiting 
 l)hysician at the Northwestern Dispensary 
 from 1892 to 1894, and at St. Mary's Free 
 Hospital for Children, 1892-189G. He has 
 been a lecturer on obstetrics in the New 
 York City Training School for Nurses since 
 1900. Dr. Cooke is adjunct professor of ob- 
 stetrics at the New Y'ork Polyclinic Medi- 
 cal School ; obstetrician to the New York 
 Polyclinical Hospital; surgeon to the New 
 York ^Maternity Hospital, and visiting ob- 
 stetric surgeon to the Misericordia Hospital. 
 He is a fellow of the New York Obstetrical 
 
 Society, and the Medical Society of Greater 
 New York; a member of the American, New 
 York State, and New York County Medical 
 Associations, the Harlem Medical Associa- 
 tion, the Medico-Surgical Society, the Man- 
 hattan Clinical Society, and the Valentine 
 Mott Society. He is author of: Manual of 
 Obstetrical TechiiicpK! (seventli edition), 
 1901; Nurses' Handbook of Obstetrics 
 (fourth edition), 1903; Text Book of Ob- 
 stetrics, 1909; The Mystery of Carney- 
 Croft (fiction), 1906; The Clarendon Case, 
 etc. ; also many contributions to various 
 popular and technical magazines. Dr. 
 Cooke married in London, England, May 
 31, 1898, Constance Rachel Cottin, and they 
 have two daughters and two sons. Address: 
 616 Madison Avenue, New York City. Sum- 
 mer residence: Cooperstown, N. Y. 
 
 COOKE, Lorenzo Wesley: 
 
 Brigadier-general V. S. Army, retired; 
 born near Round Top, N. J., June 8, 1847; 
 son of Amos Bishop and Lucy A. (Smith) 
 Cooke. He was educated in public schools. 
 He began his military career as private and 
 corporal of Company H, 27th Wisconsin 
 Infantry, July 26, to Dec. 11, 1862; then 
 private in Company E, 1st Battalion, 13th 
 Infantry, U.-S. A., Dee. 11, 1862 to Dec. 11, 
 1865 ; private in general service, Dec. 13, 
 
 1865, to Oct. 1, 1866. He was commissioned 
 second lieutenant 3d Infantry, Sept. 21, 
 
 1866, and first lieutenant, Sept. 17, 
 1868, and honorably mustered out Jan. 1, 
 1871. He was commissioned second lieu- 
 tenant, 13th Infantry, Oct. 13, 1871; first 
 lieutenant. May 31, 1883; captain, Nov. 29, 
 1892; major 26th Infantry, Feb. 2, 1901; 
 lieutenant-colonel, Jan. 24, 1904; appointed 
 brigadier-genera], jMarch 9, 1906, and' retired 
 Marcli 24, 1906, on his own application 
 after more than forty years service. During 
 the Civil War he participated in the arrest 
 of Clement L. Vallandigham, at his home 
 in Dayton, Ohio, in May, 1863 ; the sieges 
 of Vicksburg and' Jackson, IMiss., June-July, 
 1863; battles of Collinsville, Tenn., Oct. 11, 
 1863; Missionary Ridge, Nov., 1863; Nash- 
 ville, Dec, 1864; also numerous skirmishes 
 and " affairs." He participated after the 
 war in atTairs with Indians at and near 
 
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 Fort Zarah. Kan., Oct., 18G8, and with the 
 Crows on Little Big Horn River, Mont., 
 Nov. 7, 1887. He also served most efficient- 
 ly in the Philippines, participated in the 
 ]{attle of Malabon, P. J., March 2.) and 26, 
 ISllJ). and was s])ecially commended by Gen. 
 Loyd Wlieaton for the assistance he gave in 
 carrj'ing all the enemy's entrenched posi- 
 tions from Caloocan to Malinte against a 
 force superior in numbers. He was recom- 
 mended by Gen. Lawton for brevet as major, 
 U. 8. Army, for gallantry and ability in 
 repulsing a determined attack at San Ylde- 
 fonso, and his good soldiership in the 
 Philippines was also officially commended 
 by Gen. Arthur McArthur and Generals 
 Constant Williams and J. C. Bates; and 
 (ien. J. M. Lee recommended his advance- 
 ment to the grade of brigadier-general. 
 General Cooke is a companion of the Mili- 
 tary Order of the Loyal Legion of the 
 United States, and is a member of the 
 (hand Army of the Republic. He married 
 in Chicago, Nov. 4, 1869, S. Emma Beatty, 
 and tliey have a son. Address: Lemon 
 (Ivnvi: Calif. 
 
 COOKE, Richard Joseph: 
 
 Book editor of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church; born in New York City, Jan. 31, 
 1853. He was graduated from the East 
 Tennessee Wesleyan University, 1880, was 
 afterward a student in the University of 
 Berlin, and the degree of D.D. was conferred 
 upon him by the University of Tennessee. 
 He was ordained in the ministry of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church in 1876, and 
 served in important charges. He became 
 professor of New Testament exegesis and 
 theology, 188'J, vice-chancellor, 1893, acting 
 j)n'sident 1897, of Grant University. He 
 was editor of the Methodist Advocate Jour- 
 nal twelve years. In 1904 he was appointed 
 by the General Conference at Los Angeles, 
 book editor of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Cliurch. in addition to writings in re- 
 views and tiie church press. Dr. Cooke is 
 author of: The Doctrine of the Resurrec- 
 tion; Jicasons for Ciiurch Creed; Christian- 
 ity and Childhood; Tlie Historic Episcopate; 
 History of the Ritual of the Methodist Epis- 
 
 copal Church; Christ and the Critics; Di- 
 gest of Judicial Decisions of the General 
 Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church; The Incarnation and recent criti- 
 cism. He was a member of the General 
 Conferences of 1896, 1900, 1904 and 1908, 
 delegate to excumimieal Conference, Eng- 
 land, 1901. Fraternal delegate to the Brit- 
 ish and Irish Conferences, Belfast and Not- 
 tingham, 1906, and served the church as a 
 commissioner on the Federation of Episco- 
 jjal Methodism; commissioner on The Com- 
 mon Hynmal, on the Constitution, on Revis- 
 ion of the Ritual of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Ciiurch, and on Commission on Judicial 
 Procedure. Is a member of Ocean Grove 
 Association, New Jersey. Dr. Cooke mar- 
 ried, April 20, 1881, Eliza Gettys Fisher. 
 Office address: 150 Fifth Avenue, New 
 iork City. 
 
 COOKE, Walter Piatt: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Buffalo, N. Y., April 28, 
 1869; son of Josiah P. and Alice A. (Baker) 
 Cooke. He was educated in the Buffalo pub- 
 lic and high schools, and Cornell University, 
 wiience he was graduated LL.B., 1891. He 
 engaged in the practice of law in Bufialo, 
 was a member of the law firm of Brown & 
 Cooke, 1895-1897, of Bissell, Carey and 
 Cooke, 1897-1906; since then of Kenifick, 
 Cooke and Mitchell. He is also a director 
 of the People's Bank of Buffalo, the Buffalo 
 and Susquehanna Railway, Buffalo General 
 Electric Company, Western New York Water 
 Com])any, Great Southern Lumber Com- 
 pany, Goodyear Lumber Company, Buffalo 
 Abstract and Title Company, and the Fron- 
 tier Telephone Company. Mr. Cooke was 
 formerly president of the Erie County Bar 
 Association, and a member of the Board of 
 .Managers of the Buffalo State Hospital for 
 Insane; and is now vice-president and trus- 
 tee of the Buffalo Library, a trustee of the 
 Buffalo llomuiopathic Hospital, and a di- 
 rector of the Buffalo Philliarmonic Society. 
 He is a member of the Beta Theta Pi fra- 
 ternity, the Buffalo, Saturn, Buffalo Coun- 
 try, Park and Lawyers Clubs of Bull'alo, and 
 Die Wakanali Golf Club. He married in 
 I:uI1;iIm, Juiu. 28, 1894, May Louise Perry, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 and tliey have a daughter and a son. Res- 1 Hartford, N. Y., Sept. 18, 1872, Mary 
 idence: 69 Ashland Ave. Office: 558 Elli- Louise, daughter of General R. U. Sherman. 
 cott Square, Buffalo, N. Y. I Address: Utica, N. Y. 
 
 COOKINHAM, Henry J.: 
 
 COOLEY. Afford Warriner; 
 
 Lawyer; born at Prospect, N. Y., Oct. 1, 
 184.3: son of John D. and Diantha L. Cook- 
 inhain. He was graduated in the classical 
 course from Whitestown Seminary, 1865; 
 studied Latin, Greek and French under pri- 
 vate tutors and was graduated from Hamil- 
 ton College, LL.B., 1867. He was admitted 
 to the bar in 1867 and has since practised 
 law in Utica, N. Y. Mr. Cookinham has 
 been retained in many important cases in 
 the United States Courts; represented the 
 Tobacco combination in arguing the case of I 
 t lie United States vs. Rothschilds ( involving 
 duties on leaf tobacco), and also the case 
 of the National Harrow Company vs. E. 
 Hcment & Sons, which was one of the first 
 cases involving the question of contracts in 
 restraint of trade before the United States 
 Supreme Court. He was a director of the 
 United Glass Company. Is a director of 
 Troy Rublic Works Company, and a director 
 of the New Hartford Canning Company. He 
 was special surrogate of Oneida County, 
 1873; member of the New York Assembly, 
 1880; candidate for Congress, 1884; dele- 
 gate to the New York Constitutional Con- 
 vention, 18!)4 and a member of its com- 
 mittees on .Tudiciary, Suffrage and Privi- 
 leges, and Elections, and chairman of the 
 committee to draft the Address to the Peo- 
 ple Explanatory of the New Constitution. 
 He is chairman of the commissioners for the 
 erection, in Utica, of a new courthouse for 
 Oneida County; was for many years, a trus- 
 tee of Whitestown Seminary, and a director 
 of the Young Men's Christian Association. 
 He is a member of the New York State Bar 
 Association, the Association of the Bar of 
 the City of New York, Oneida County Law 
 .Library Association (of which he was sev- 
 eral years president ) , and' Sons of the Revo- 
 lution, and is a statutory charter member of 
 the American Scenic and Historic Preserva- 
 tion Society. He is author of: Truly Res- 
 cued, 1881; Memorial of President James A. 
 Garfield; 1881; Recollections of the Bar of 
 Oneida County, 1895. He married at New 
 
 Lawyer; born at Westchester, N. Y., April 
 9, 1873; son of James Calvin and Agnes 
 (iMedlicott) Cooley. He went to private 
 schools until he was fourteen years of age, 
 when he was sent to St. Paul's School, at 
 Concord, N. H. After completing a four- 
 year course at this institution, he entered 
 the freshman class at Harvard, in 1891, and 
 was graduated in 1895 with the degree of 
 A. B. He then took up the study of law at 
 Columbia University and was admitted to 
 the New York bar in January, 1898. Mr. 
 Cooley was a member of the New York As- 
 sembly during the sessions of 1900 and 
 1901, and subsequently became clerk in the 
 Surrogate's Court of Westchester County, 
 New York. From 1903 to 1906 he was 
 United States civil service commissioner, 
 and from November, 1906 to August, 1908 
 he was assistant attorney-general of the 
 United States. He resigned as assistant 
 attorney general in August, 1908 on account 
 of ill health and was reappointed to the 
 same position in January, 1909. He mar- 
 ried at Longwood, Mass., Dec. 1, 1904, Su- 
 san Dexter Dalton. Residence: Westches- 
 ter, N. Y. Official address: Department 
 of Justice, ^^'ashington, D. C. 
 
 COOLEY, Le Roy Clark: 
 
 Professor of pliysics; born at Point Penin- 
 sula, N. Y., Oct., 1833; son of James and 
 Sally (Clark) Cooley, and a direct descend- 
 ant "of Benjamin Cooley and Sarah Cooley, 
 who settled in Springfield', Mass., about the 
 year 1636. He was graduated from the New 
 York State Normal College in 1855, and 
 from Union College, A.B., 1858, A.M., 1861 
 and Ph.D. in 1870. Professor Cooley was 
 teacher of natural science at the Lockport 
 Union School, 1855-1856; professor of math- 
 ematics at Fairfield Seminary, 1858-1860; 
 professor of natural science at the New 
 York State Normal College, 1801-1874; pro- 
 fessor of physics and chemistry at Vassar 
 College, 1874-1895; professor of physics, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1895-1907, and became professor emeritus in 
 1907. Among his contributions to science 
 are the following invosligations: Tlie appli- 
 cation of electricity to registering vibra- 
 tions; the nicclianieal action of radiation; 
 tlie motions of light bodies in air and vac- 
 uum; convection applied to tlie detection of 
 lieat. To educational conventions and jour- 
 nals also he has contributed' many addresses 
 and papers. He has been especially devot- 
 ed to tlie improvement of science teaching in 
 secondary schools; was chairman of the 
 Committee of Nine of the New York State 
 Science Teachers' Association, to investigate 
 the condition of science teaching in the 
 schools and to suggest improved methods 
 from 1897 to 1899; member and was presi- 
 dent in 1899 of the New York State Science 
 Teachers' Association. He is author of 
 a series of elementary and high school text- 
 books of physics and chemistry. He is a 
 member of the Presbyterian church. Dr. 
 Cooley is a fellow of the American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science; a 
 member of the American Physical Society; 
 the National Educational Association, the 
 National Geographic Association, the Delta 
 Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and' the Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society. He is also a member of 
 the University Club and the Club of Pough- 
 kcepsie, N. Y. He married at Argyle, N. 
 Y., March 30, 1859, M. Rossabella Flack, 
 and tliey have five daughters and four sons. 
 Address: 2 Reservoir Square, Poughkeep- 
 sie, N. Y. 
 
 COOLEY, Winifred Harper: 
 
 Writer and lecturer; born in Terre Haute, 
 Ind., 1876; daughter of T. W. and Ida 
 Ilusted-Harper. She was graduated from 
 tlie Girl's Classical School, Indianapolis, 
 189;i, and Leland Stanford University, Cali- 
 fornia, as A. B., 1890. She was winner of 
 the prize in tlie lirst contest for story, was 
 editor of all three college publications — 
 weekly, monthly, and annual, no other girl 
 student, before or since, liaving filled all 
 these olliees. She took all the four years' 
 studies in three, and lias specialized in Eng- 
 lish litiuature and ctliics. She married in 
 WiLsliiiigtoii, iJ. C, June 13, 1899, Rev. 
 George Elliot Cooley, Unitarian minister. 
 
 Mrs. Cooley is autlior of "' The New Woman- 
 hood," and a writer of numerous maga- 
 zine, newspaper and syndicate articles; and 
 she has done mucli lecture work in New 
 Phigland and the ]\Iiddle West, has conduct- 
 ed classes in Literature and Travel, and 
 since 1907 has been on tlie Public Lecture 
 Course of Greater New York. Mrs. Cooley's 
 lectures cover the subjects of the social and 
 political evolution of woman, also she has 
 many stereopticon lectures on travel, and 
 also lectures on miscellaneous topics, such 
 as " Prison Reform." Mrs. Cooley was ap- 
 pointed in 1895, by the governor of Michi- 
 gan, the only woman delegate from that 
 State to the National Prison Reform Con- 
 vention. She is a member of the National 
 Woman Suflfrage Association and of the 
 Pi Beta Phi Sorority, and honorary life 
 member of the Ladies of the Maccabees and 
 member of various local clubs and societies. 
 She is connected with Tlw National Food 
 Magazine, and is State Secretary of the 
 Associated Clubs of Domestic Science, and 
 President of the New York City division. 
 Address: 149 East 34th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 COOLIDGE, Louis Arthur: 
 
 Assistant secretary of the Treasury; born 
 in Natick, Mass., Oct. 8, 1801; son of Wil- 
 liam L. and Sarah E. Coolidge. He Avas 
 graduated from Harvard in 1883, and did 
 newspaper work on the Springfield Repub- 
 lican until 1888, when he became tlie private 
 secretary to Hon. Cabot Lodge. He has 
 been the 'Washington correspondent for the 
 Boston Journal and the New York Com- 
 mercial Advertiser; editor of the Congres- 
 sional Directory; indexer of the Congres- 
 sional Record; clerk of the committee on 
 the election of President, vice-president and 
 representatives in Congress during the 51st 
 Congress, and in 1904 was director of the 
 Literary Bureau of the Republican National 
 Committee. In 1908 he was appointed" as- 
 sistant secretary of the Treasury, a position 
 lH^ now holds, having been continued in it 
 liy the Taft administration. I\Ir. Coolidge 
 has been ])rominciit in national Republican 
 politics botli in active and advisory capaci- 
 ties for yeais, and has proven an active and 
 
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 cHiciciil, oxocutivc in liis work in the Treas- 
 ury Dcpartnionf. Mr. Coolidf^c is a member 
 lit' (lie Liiiiversity, and Republican Clubs of 
 N'cw "SOrk. ihc Oridiron Club (of which he 
 wiis prcsidciii in 1!)04), Cosmos, and Uni- 
 versity Chd)s of Washington, and the Cum- 
 berland Club of Portland, Me. He is au- 
 thor of: The Show at Washington; Klon- 
 dike and the Yukon Country; and is a con- 
 tributor to magazines. He married in 1890, 
 Helen I. Tickerel]. Residence: 2419 Mas- 
 sachusetts Avenue. Office: Treasury De- 
 partment, Washington, D. C. 
 
 COOLIDGE, Mary Elizabeth Burroughs 
 Roberts: 
 
 Teacher of sociology and author; born in 
 Kingsburg, Ind., Oct. 28, 18G0; daughter of 
 Professor Isaac Phillips Roberts, M. Agr., 
 and Margaret J. (Marr) Roberts. She 
 was graduated from Cornell University, 
 Ph.B., 1880, M.S., 1882, received the degree 
 of Ph.D. from Stanford' University, 1896, 
 and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Soci- 
 ety. She married, first, Aug. 28, 1890, Al- 
 bert W. Smithj and second, at Berkeley, 
 Calif., July 30, 1906, Dane Coolidge, author 
 and naturalist. She served on the staff of 
 the Rural New Yorker, 1880-1881, Avas 
 teacher of history in the high school of 
 Washington, D. C., 1882-1884; was princi- 
 ]ial and teacher of history in Miss Nourse 
 and Miss Roberts' private school at Cincin- 
 nati, two years; then for four years, until 
 1890, was instructor of history and econo- 
 mics, and for the last two years of that per- 
 iod also secretary of the Board of Examin- 
 er.s of Wellesley College. In 1896 she be- 
 came assistant professor, and later associate 
 ])rofessor of sociology in Stanford University, 
 retaining that chair until 1903, and she was, 
 from 1904 until 1907, research assistant 
 to the Carnegie Institute of Washington, 
 1). C; and she was head worker in the 
 South Park Settlement, San Francisco, 1905- 
 1900, and is still a member of the Council 
 of that settlement. Mrs. Coolidge is author 
 of the book: Chinese Immigration, 1909; 
 revised the second eduion of Amos G. War- 
 ner's American Charities, 1908, and is au- 
 thor of monographs in the Publications of 
 the American Statistical Association on 
 
 Almshouse Women, 1890, and Statistics of 
 College and Non-College Women, 1900. She 
 is a member of the American Kconomic As- 
 sociation, tlic Association of Collegiate 
 Alumna', the Associated Cliarities of San 
 Francisco, and the Kapjta Alpha Theta 
 Sorority. Address: Dwight Way, End, 
 East, Berkeley, Calif. 
 
 COOLIDGE, Sherman: 
 
 Clergyman ; born near Sheridan, Wyo., in 
 1863; son of Banas-da (Big Heart) and 
 Ba-ah-noce (Turtle Woman), Arapahoe In- 
 dians. He was captured in battle by the 
 Bannocks and Shoshones, the traditional 
 enemies of his tribe, a mile below Camp 
 Brown, the present site of the City of Lan- 
 der, Wyo. He was among the captives sur- 
 rendered to the army officers of Camp Brown 
 and he and his two little brothers were ob- 
 tained from their )nother and were subse- 
 quently adopted by the army officers. He 
 saw, in this tight, a man killed and scalped 
 in the presence of his shrieking family and 
 his scalp torn off in several pieces. Under 
 cover of the night his mother fled back to 
 her tribe. She never saw her sons again 
 except the oldest, who returned again as 
 a Christian missionary fourteen years after. 
 Dr. Shapleigh gave him afterward to the 
 large-hearted wife of Brigadier-General 
 Charles A. Coolidge, who brought him up 
 and educated him. He attended Shattuck 
 ^Military School, at Faribault, Minn., 1877- 
 1880 and Seabury Divinity School at the 
 same place, 1880-1884, and was graduated 
 B.D., and he took a post-graduate course at 
 Hobart College, 1887-1890. He has written 
 articles in Church periodicals, in the general 
 newspapers and magazines. He has trav- 
 eled in the eastern and western parts of the 
 United States making addresses and deliv- 
 ering lectures on the Indian Problem from 
 the native standpoint, and he has made sev- 
 eral Memorial Day addresses. He was or- 
 dained to the diaconate of the Episcopal 
 Church by Bishop Whipple in 1884. and 
 advanced to the priesthood by Bishop Spald- 
 ing of Colorado, May 25, 1885. He was 
 appointed one of the six speakers of the 
 Missionary Council which met in Washing- 
 ton, D. C, in 1903, and was also delegate to 
 
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 Ihe same council from Wvoiiiinfj; and Tdalio; 
 and recently lectured' for (lie Department of 
 Economics and Sociolofjjy of ilie Ohio State 
 I'niveisiiy. He is rector of the rimrcli of 
 tile liedecnicr :it Slidslume Aiiciiev. Wyn- 
 minj,'. assistant iiiissioiiary at Lindcr. Fort 
 Washakie, and North Fork, and minister in 
 chartje in two chapels among the Arapahoes, 
 and St. Luke's ilission, Shosoni, Fremont 
 County. Wyominfj. also Government teacher 
 at the Wind River Boarding School, Sho- 
 slione Agency. Wyoming, and issue clerk at 
 the Shoshone Agency, Wyoming. He is a 
 Repuhliean in politics, is a member of the 
 Delta Sigma fraternity at Geneva, N. Y.. 
 and of the Saint Andrew's Brotherhood. He 
 juarried' at Shoshone Agency, Wyoming, Oct. 
 S. 1!)02. Grace D. Wetherbee of New' York, 
 and they have a daughter. Address: Fort 
 Wnsliakie. Wyo. 
 
 COOLIDGE, Thomas Jefferson: 
 
 ^lanufacturcr. diplomat; ])orn in Boston, 
 Mass., Aug. 2G, 1831; son of Joseph and 
 Ellen (Wayles) Coolidge. After prepara- 
 tory education in Switzerland and Germany, 
 he entered Harvard College, from which he 
 was graduated A.B. in 1850, and which con- 
 ferred upon him, 1902, the degree of LL, 
 D. After leaving college he engaged in bus- 
 iness as a member of the firm of Gardner 
 & Coolidge, East India merchants, and after- 
 ward became largely interested in cotton 
 mills. He is now president of the Amoskeag 
 Manufacturing Company, and is connected 
 as officer or director with many other large 
 New England mills, banks, railroads and" 
 financial corporations. He was formerly 
 president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa 
 Fe Railroad Company, the Oregon Railroad 
 and Navigatiorn Company, and tlie Boston 
 and Lowell Railroad Company. ^Mr. Cool- 
 idge is a Republican in politics, and was 
 envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo- 
 tentiary of the United' States to France in 
 1802-189."i. He also served as a member of 
 the High Joint Commission of Ar])itration 
 appointed to adjust disputes between the 
 I'liited States and Canada in 1899. He was 
 an overseer of Harvard College, 188G-1897, 
 and was formerly vice-president of the Mas- 
 sachuscds Historical Society. Mr. Coolidge 
 
 married in Boston, in 1852, Hetty Sullivan 
 Appleton. and of that union were born three 
 daughters all now married' and, one son. 
 Addiess: (!4 Ames Building, Boston, 
 
 COOLIDGE, Thomas Jefferson, Jr.: 
 
 Banker; born in Boston, March 16, 1863; 
 son of Thomas Jefferson and Hetty Sullivan 
 (Appleton) Coolidge. He was graduated 
 from Harvard College with the degree of 
 A.B. in the class of 1884, and has ever since 
 been actively identified with financial en- 
 terprises. He established the Old' Colony 
 Trust Company in 1890, and was its presi- 
 dent for some years, and is now chairman 
 of its Board of Directors. He is also vice- 
 president and director of the National Bank 
 of Commerce; director and voting trustee 
 of the Seaboard Air Line Railway. He is a 
 director of the Georgia Railway and Elec- 
 tric Company, American Telegrajdi and Tele- 
 phone Company, Edison Electric Illuminat- 
 ing Company, General Electric Company, 
 and Boston Elevated Railroad Company. 
 Mr. Coolidge is a member of the Somerset 
 Club of Boston and of the ]\Ietropolitan 
 and Knickerbocker Clubs of New York. 
 He married in Brookline, Mass., Sept. 30, 
 1891, Clara Amory. Residence: Magnolia, 
 ^lass. OfRce address: The Old Colony 
 Trust Comjiany, Boston. 
 
 COOLIDGE. William Henry: 
 
 Lawyer: horn at Natick, Mass., Feb. 23, 
 1859; son of William Tv. and Sarah Isabella 
 (Washburn) Coolidge. He was graduated 
 from Harvard, A.B., 1881, subsequently 
 studied for a time in the Harvard Law 
 School, and was admitted to the Massachu- 
 setts bar in 1885. He has since practised in 
 Boston, where he is one of the leading cor- 
 poration attorneys, having been connected 
 with many large companies, among which 
 are the United States Coal and Oil Com- 
 pany, the United States Smelting Refining 
 and .Mining Company, the American Zinc. 
 Lead & Smelting Company, tlie Boston and 
 Maine Railroad, etc. He is identified with 
 the Republican party, but has not entered 
 actively into politics. He married, at Bay- 
 omie, N. J., Oct. 3, 1887. May Humplireys. 
 
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 llosidence: Newton Cciilcr. Mass. Ofiicp: 
 no Congross Street, Boston. 
 
 COOMBS, William Jerome: 
 
 INIeiehant, banker; born at Jordan, Onon- 
 dago County. N. Y., Dec. 24, 1833; son of 
 (Iharles Coombs, soldier of the war of 18"! 2, 
 and Mary (Wooleaver) Coombs. He was 
 educated at Jordan Academy, and upon his 
 jrraduation. when thirteen and a half years 
 old, was denied admission to Union Col- 
 lege, on account of insufficient age. He was 
 engaged in exporting American manufactur- 
 ed products for forty years, as member of 
 the firm of Joseph H. Adams and Coombs, 
 1856-1870. and of Coombs, Crosby and Eddy, 
 1870-1895, these firms being pioneers in in- 
 troducing American manufactured goods 
 abroad. He was president of the Manu- 
 facturers' Trust Company, 189G-1903, and 
 lias been chairman of the Advisory Board 
 of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company 
 (Manufacturers' Branch), since 1903, presi- 
 dent of the South Brooklyn Savings Bank 
 since 1904. Mr. Coombs is a Democrat in 
 politics and was a member of the Fifty-sec- 
 ond, and Fifty-third Congresses, 1891-1895. 
 He was appointed by President Cleveland, 
 Government director of the Union Pacific 
 Railroad, with special commission to devise 
 a plan for collecting the debt of ,$124,000,- 
 000 due the Government from the various 
 Pacific railroads, continued the work under 
 President McKinley by his special request, 
 and supervised the collection of the entire 
 amount. He has been a trustee of the 
 Brooklyn Institute, since 1888; is a trustee 
 of the Brookyln Art Association, and is also 
 treasurer of the Brooklyn Society for the 
 Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Mr. 
 Coombs finds his most favored recreation in 
 fishing. He is president of the Common- 
 wealth Club, and a member of the Reform 
 and Municipal Art Clubs of New York City, 
 and the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn. Mr. 
 Coombs married, in 1856, Josephine Adams, 
 of Brooklyn, and they have three children 
 surviving, William H. Coombs, Jerome W. 
 Coombs and Mary C. Fox. Residence: 63 
 South Portland Avenue. Address: 160 
 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 COOPER, Allen Foster: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman ; born on a farm 
 in Franklin Townshij), Fayette County, Pa., 
 June 16, 1862. He was educated in the pub- 
 lic school of his native township, in the 
 State Normal School at California and Lock- 
 haven, Pa., and at Mount Union College, 
 Ohio. He was graduated from the State 
 Normal School at California. Pa., in the 
 class of 1882, and then taught school for 
 six years. Deciding upon the profession of 
 law, he entered the Law Department of the 
 University of Michigan, and was graduated 
 from that institution in the class of 1888. 
 He was admitted to the Circuit Court of 
 Washtenaw County, Tklichigan, and to the 
 Supreme Court of the State of Michigan be- 
 fore liis graduation from the law school. 
 After completing his law course in the Uni- 
 versity of ]\Iichigan he returned to Fayette 
 County, Pa., and was admitted to the bar 
 of that county, Dec. 4, 1888. On Jan. 1, 
 1889, he formed a law partnership at Union- 
 town, Pa., with his classmate, J. Q. Van 
 Swearingen, which still exists. Mr. Cooper 
 is a member of the Bar of the Supreme 
 Court of Pennsylvania; of the District Cir- 
 cuit Courts of the United States for the 
 western district of Pennsylvania, and of the 
 Supreme Court of the United States. He 
 was elected as a Republican in 1902 from 
 the Twenty-third Pennsylvania District to 
 the Fifty-eighth Congress and' reelected in 
 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and in 
 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress. Address: 
 Uniontown, Pa. 
 
 COOPER, Drury W.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New Brunswick. N. J., 
 Aug. 7, 1872; son of Rev. Jacob Cooper, D. 
 D.,''lKD., and Mary (Linn) Cooper. He was 
 graduated from Rutgers College A.B., (Phi 
 Betta Kappa), 1892, and from New York 
 Law School. LI^.B., 1894. and since then 
 has practised law in New York City, giving 
 special attention to, litigations over patents 
 trade marks and copyrights. He is a di- 
 rector of the International Time Recording 
 Company, the Bundy Manufacturing Com- 
 pany. Pike Adding Machine Company and 
 the General Pump Appliance Company. He 
 
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 is a llcimblicaii in politics and was mayor 
 of Now Uiuuswick, N. J., 1906- 1U07. He is 
 a lut'iiiber of the American Bar Association, 
 the Association of the Bar of the City of 
 New York, and tlie Phi Beta Kappa Alum- 
 ni of New York; a trustee of Rutgers Col- 
 lege, and of the Francis E. Parker Memorial 
 Home; member of the Delta Phi fraternity 
 and of the University and Lawyers Clubs of 
 New York City. lie married in New Bruns- 
 wick, N. J., June 15, 1898, Esther Steven- 
 son Nicholas, and they have three daughters 
 and two sons. Kcsidence: New Brunswick, 
 N. J. OlTice: 14',) Broadway, New York 
 City. 
 
 COOPER, Henry Allen: 
 
 Lawyer and' congressman ; born at Spring 
 Prairie, Walworth County, Wis., Sept. 8, 
 1850. He was graduated from Northwestern 
 University in 1873, and from the Union 
 College of Law in Chicago, in 1875. He is 
 by profession a lawyer and in 1880 was 
 elected district attorney of Racine Coimty, 
 and was reelected without opposition in 
 1882-1884. Mr. Cooper was a member of the 
 Board of Education of the City of Eacine 
 from 188G to 1887; and was a member of 
 the State Senate from 1887 to 1889. He 
 was elected in 1892 from the First Wiscon- 
 sin District to the Fifty-third Congress, has 
 since been biennially reelected', and is now 
 serving in the Sixtieth Congress. Address: 
 Racine, Wis. 
 
 COOPER, Henry Ernest: 
 
 President Board of Regents, College of 
 Hawaii, first Secretary' of the Territory of 
 Hawaii; horn in New Albany, Ind., Aug. 
 28, 1857. He was graduated from the Bos- 
 ton University Law School, LL.B., 1878, 
 and was admitted to the bar of Suffolk 
 County, Mass. In 1890, he located in Hono- 
 lulu and was chosen Chairman of the Com- 
 nuttee of Safety of the Hawaiian Revolu- 
 tion on Jan. 14, 1893, and on Jan. 17, read 
 tlie proclamation abrogating monarchical 
 government in the Hawaiian Islands and es- 
 tablishing a provisional government. He 
 was a member of the Advisory Council of tlie 
 I'rovisioiiiil <if)Vci-niiicnt and was Judge of 
 
 tlie Circuit Court of the Jirsl circuit nf the 
 Hawaiian Islands, 1893-1895. Under the 
 Republic of Hawaii he was Premier of the 
 Cabinet holding the Portfolio of Minister 
 of Foreign Atfairs, 1895-1890. He was act- 
 ing President of the Republic for two periods. 
 He was appointed Secretary of the Terri- 
 tory, June 14, 1900. He is now retired from 
 public service and is practising law. Mr. 
 Cooper married in San Diego, Calif., 1SS3, 
 Mary E. Porter. 
 
 COOPER, Sam Bronson: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer ; born in Cald- 
 well County, Ky., May 30, 1850; son of 
 Archibald Hunter and Elizabeth (Frazer) 
 Cooper. He removed with his parents to 
 Texas in 1850, and located at Woodville, 
 the countj^ seat of Tyler County, where his 
 father died in 1853. He was educated in 
 the local school of Woodville, and at the age 
 of sixteen he became a clerk in the country 
 store of his grandfather at that place. 
 \Miile so occupied he began the study of 
 law, and later studied in the office of lion. 
 Perry Nicks, a prominent lawyer of that 
 place, and was admitted to the bar in the 
 District Court of Tyler County in 1872 and 
 became a member of the law firm of Nicks, 
 Hobby and Cooper. He was elected County 
 Attorney of Tyler County in 1870, serving 
 until 1880, in which year he was elected 
 to the State Senate of Texas, serving from 
 1881 to 1885, and being for one term presi- 
 dent pro tern of that bod,y. He was ap- 
 pointed in 1885, by President Cleveland, 
 collector of internal revenue for the First 
 District of Texas, serving until 1889. He 
 was elected in 1892, and reelected biennially 
 until 1902, as a member of Congress from 
 the Second District of Texas, and served 
 in the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fift3'-fifth, 
 Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth 
 Congresses, and in 1906 was elected to the 
 Sixtieth Congress, from the same district, 
 serving until March 3, 1909. Mr. Cooper 
 is prominent in the councils of the Dem- 
 ocratic Party of Texas, was chairman of 
 the State Democratic Convention of Texas 
 in 1!)()4, and was chairman of the Texas 
 delcgatidii to tlic National Democratic Con- 
 
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 vciitioii III Kansas City in 1900. He resides 
 at Beaumont, where he is a leader at the 
 l)ar and prominently identified with many 
 important enterprises of that city and of 
 Southeast Texas generally. He is a Mason, 
 Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias and Elk. 
 Mr. Cooper married at Woodville, Texas, 
 Oct. IT), 1873, Phebo Young, and they have 
 four tliildrcn. Address: Beaumont, Texas. 
 
 COOPER, William Albert: 
 
 Photographer of paintings and' interiors; 
 born in London, Ontario, Aug. 27, 1843. 
 He was educated in the Union School of 
 that city, studied photography and prac- 
 lised it in various parts of Ontario, includ- 
 ing Toronto, and finished his Canadian 
 career at St. Thomas, Ont. Mr. Cooper 
 studied the carbon process in London, 
 England, and assisted Lambert to introduce 
 it into America in 1876; studied photo- 
 mechanical printing with Obernetter in 
 IMunich, and introduced the Artotype pro- 
 cess into the United States; studied with 
 Guillaume, in Paris, and in 1889 brouglit 
 the half-tone process to America, and estab- 
 lished it in Chicago. In 1892 he took up 
 research work in the reproduction of paint- 
 ings with color values, and in 1894 opened 
 a studio in New York City, which he has 
 since maintained, and where he has since 
 reproduced many of the most important 
 private galleries in this country, including 
 tliose of P. A. B. Widener and the late 
 W. L. Elkins, of Philadelphia, Mrs. Jack 
 (4ardner. of Boston, Sir William Van 
 Home of ]\Iontreal and the Vanderbilt col- 
 lection of New York City, besides many 
 others. Mr. Cooper has also taken up the 
 work of interior photography, and has 
 jdiotographed many of the finest homes. 
 He is a member of the Canadian Club of 
 New York, and honorary president of the 
 London Old Boys' Association of Greater 
 New York. Address: 106 East 23d Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 COftUILLETT, Daniel Vfilliam: 
 
 Entomologist; born near Woodstock, 111., 
 Jan. 23, 1850; son of F. M. L. and Sarah 
 A. (Cokelet) Coquillett. He was educated 
 
 in public schools and studied special sub- 
 jects at home. He inaugurated' and per- 
 fected the hydrocyanic acid gas treatment 
 for the extermination of destructive insects 
 on trees, etc. He had charge of the lady- 
 birds which were introduced into Cali- 
 fornia from Australia by the United States 
 Division of Entomology; later these lady- 
 birds and their ])rogeny freed the trees and 
 shrubs of the destructive white or cottony 
 cushion scale. He was assistant State en- 
 tomologist of Illinois ; field agent of the 
 United States Division of Entomology; 
 assistant entomologist of the United States 
 Division of Entomology and is custodian 
 of the Diptera of the United States Na- 
 tional Museum. He is author of about 
 one hundred and forty pamphlets and arti- 
 cles, chiefly technical, the greater number 
 treating of the classification and' descrip- 
 tion of the Diptera, and has described over 
 1,100 new species in this order. He is 
 charter member of the Washington Acad- 
 emy of Sciences, and Entomological Society 
 of America; fellow of the American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science, and 
 was president of the Entomological Society 
 of Washington in 1903 and 1904. He mar- 
 ried in Washington, D. C, Feb. 18, 1896. 
 Address: United States National Museum, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 CORBIN, Austin: <> 
 
 Banker; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 
 12, 1873; son of Austin and' Hannah M. 
 (Wheeler) Corbin. He was educated at 
 the Cutler and Westminster Schools, and 
 was graduated from Harvard in 1896, as 
 A.B. cum laude. He entered business on 
 the death of his father in 1896, as partner 
 in the Corbin Banking Company house; 
 and he is executor of the estate of Austin 
 Corbin. Mr. Corbin is president of the 
 Rockaway Park Improvement; president of 
 the JNlanhattan Beach Estates, and treas- 
 urer of the New England IMortgage Secur- 
 ity Company. He is a member of the Uni- 
 versity, Lambs', Harvard, New York 
 Athletic, of New York City; and the 
 Somerset Club of Boston. Residence: 76 
 Park Avenue, New York City; Blue :Moun- 
 
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 tain Farm, Newport, N. H., and Northport, 
 J.. 1. Address: 192 Broadway, New York 
 City. 
 
 CORBIN, Henry Clarke: 
 
 J^it'utenant-gencral of the United States 
 Army; bona in Clermont County, Ohio. He 
 passed liis boyhood on the home farm, 
 attended the common schools and an acad- 
 emy and pursued legal studies in 1860 
 and 1861. In 1862, at the age of nineteen, 
 he was commissioned as second lieutenant 
 in the Seventy-ninth Regiment of Ohio Vol- 
 unteers, and he served with the Army of 
 the Cumberland until the close of the war, 
 and passed through all intermediate ranks 
 in the volunteer service until he became 
 colonel and brevet brigadier-general of vol- 
 unteers. After he was mustered out of the 
 vohuiteer service, he entered the regular 
 army as second lieutenant of the Seven- 
 teenth United States Infantry in May, 1866. 
 He was promoted to captain in 1867 and 
 for ten years he served on the plains and 
 tile frontier. In March, 1877, he was de- 
 tailed for duty at the Executive Mansion in 
 Wasliington, and he served as secretary of 
 tlie Sitting Bull Commission. He was with 
 President Garfiekl at the time he was shot 
 and at his bedside at Elberon, where he 
 dicil. He was a])pointed, in 1880, major 
 and assistant adjutant-general, and was 
 iiKulc adjutant-general Feb. 25. 1898. In 
 recognition of his services, and the part he 
 took in the war with Spain, Congress con 
 ferred upon him tlie rank of major-general, 
 and in 1906 he was promoted lieutenant- 
 general, and retired April bi, 1908, by the 
 operation of law. He served as adjutant- 
 gcnei'al. with the rank of major-general, 
 during tlu; latter part ol' liis service. He 
 married in Washington, Nov. 6, 1901, 
 Kdytlie Agnes Patten. Residence: High- 
 wood, Chevy Chase, Wasliington, D. C. 
 
 CORBIN, John: 
 
 W rilci : lioui in Chicago, May 2, 1870; 
 son of Calvin Ricli and Caroline Elizabeth 
 (Fairfield) Corbin. Education, Ogden 
 CraniMiar and Nortli Division High School 
 nf Chicago; Harvard, A.B., 1892, A,M., 
 l.S!):{, witli honors in Kn'rlish; I'.alliol Col- 
 
 lege Oxford, 1894-1895. Editor of Outing, 
 1893-1894. Instructor in English at Har- 
 vard, 1895-1896; assistant editor of Har- 
 per's Magazine, 1897-1900; on the editorial 
 stafl" of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 
 London, 1900-1902; dramatic criti'c of Har- 
 per's Weekly, 1898-1900, of the New York 
 Times, ■ 1902-1905, and of the New York 
 Sun, 1905-1908; and is now literary man- 
 ager of The New Theatre, New York City. 
 Besides magazine stories and articles on 
 education and the drama, jNIr. Corbin is 
 author of the books: The Elizabethan 
 Hamlet, 1895; Schoolboy Life in England, 
 1898; An American at Oxford, 1902; A 
 New Portrait of Shakespeare, 1903; The 
 First Loves of Perilla (novelette)," 1904; 
 The Cave Man (novel), 1907; Which Col- 
 lege for the boy?, 1908. He is a member of 
 the Harvard, University and Players' Clubs 
 of New York. He married in New York 
 City, in 1899, Amy Foster. Residence: 131 
 East loth Street, New York City. 
 
 CORBUSIER, William Henry: 
 
 Surgeon, ethnologist; born in New York 
 City, April 10, 1844; son of William Mor- 
 rison and i\Iahala (Myers) Corbusier. 
 After completing his general education in 
 the public and private schools, he entered 
 Bellevue Hospital Medical College, from 
 which he was graduated as M,D. in 1867. 
 he served in tlie field as acting assistant 
 surgeon, U. S. A., during the Civil W^ar, 
 ]\ray 30, 1864, to June 14, 1865; was act- 
 ing assistant surgeon, U. S. A., Aug. 19, 
 1867, to Dec. 16. 1868, and July 17, 1869, 
 to May 30, 1875; and was surgeon to the 
 Rio Verde Indian Agency, Arizona, serving 
 from 1873 to 1875. He was commissioned 
 first lieutenant and assistant surgeon, U. 
 S. A., Aug. 5, 1876; captain. Aug. 5, 1881; 
 major and surgeon. Oct. 17, 1895; lieu- 
 tenant-colonel and deputy surgeon-general, 
 April 26, 1904. He has served at many 
 frontier posts; was inspector of annuities, 
 Rio Verde Indian Agency, Ariz., Feb., 1874; 
 Pine- Ridge Iiulian Agency, Dakota, 1878 
 to 1880; Fort Washakie, Wyo., Oct., 1880. 
 He served in tlu; field against hostile Apaclie 
 tribes at various times in 1874, 1875 and 
 1S85; was acting 7uedical ])urveyor of the 
 
MEN OF AMICKICA. 
 
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 expedition to liic I'hilippine Island's, May 
 17, 1898, to April ;U), 1900; chief snrgeon, 
 Department of Mindanao, Philippine Is- 
 lands, 1903-1905; chief surfi;eon Department 
 of The Columbia from 190(5 to 1908; re- 
 tired from active service April 10, 1908, 
 liaviTig reached the age limit. He has made 
 a study of the sign language of the North 
 American Indians, of the dialects of the 
 Mojave, the Apache- Yuma and Apache- 
 Mojave Indians, and discovered' several 
 Winter-Counts — or Calendars — among the 
 Dakota Indians. He contributed the results 
 of his labors to the Annual Reports of the 
 r.ureau of Ethnology, 1879-1880, 1882-1883 
 and 1888-1889; the Zeitschrift fiir Ethnol- 
 ogic, Berlin, 1883 and 1892, and the Amer- 
 ican Antiquarian, Sept. and Nov., 1886. 
 Dr. Corbusier is a member of the Empire 
 State Society of Sons of the American Revo- 
 lution, the Society of the War of 1812 of 
 Pennsylvania, Society of Colonial Wars of 
 New York, National Society of the Army of 
 the Philippines, Military Order of Moro 
 Campaigns, American Flag Association and 
 the Association of Military Surgeons of 
 the United States. He married at Amite 
 City, La., March 22, 1869, Fanny Dunbar, 
 and' they have five children. Address: 612 
 Park Avenue, Plainfield, N. J. 
 
 COREY, Fred Brainard: 
 
 Meclianical and electrical engineer ; born 
 in Homer, N. Y., Sept. 28. 1869; son of 
 David Brainard and Francis M. (Benedict) 
 Corey. He was educated in Homer Acad- 
 emy and Cornell University, being gradu- 
 ated with the degree of M. E., 1892. He 
 has held various positions in mechanical 
 and electrical engineering and is now En- 
 gineer of Railway Signals to the General 
 Electric Company. Mr. Corey has been 
 granted about seventy United States pat- 
 ents on inventions, mostly relating to rail- 
 way safety appliances, and is author of 
 many technical papers. He is a member of 
 the American Society of Mechanical En- 
 gineers, American Institute of Electrical 
 Engineers, American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, and the Railway 
 Signal Association. He is a member of the 
 Schenectady Board of Trade, the Empire 
 
 State Society of Sons of the American Rev- 
 olution, tlie Cornell Alumni Association, 
 Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Soci- 
 ety, State Charities Aid Association, Sche- 
 nectady Cluvrities Association, Young Men's 
 Christian Association and' the Mohawk and 
 IMohawk Golf Clubs of Schenectady, N. Y. 
 ]Mr. Corey married, in Homer, N. Y., May 
 23, 1894, Caroline Louise Heberd, and they 
 have two sons. Residence : Glenwood Boul- 
 evard. Office: General Electric Company, 
 Schenectady, N. Y. 
 
 COREY, William Ellis: 
 
 President of the United States Steel 
 Corporation; born in Pennsylvania in 1866. 
 At sixteen years of age he was in the 
 chemical laboratory of the Edgar Thomson 
 Steel \\'orks at Pittsburg, and studied at 
 home. He was superintendent of the plate 
 mill at the Edgar Thomson works of 
 Carnegie Brothers & Company, Pittsburg, 
 1887. He invented the Carnegie reforged 
 armor plate. Mr. Corey succeeded Charles 
 M. Schwab as president of the Carnegie 
 Steel Company, and in 1903 as president 
 and director of the United' States Steel 
 Corporation, in which position he still con- 
 tinues. He is also director of the Carne- 
 gie Steel Company, the Elgin, Joliet and 
 Eastern Railway Company, the Federal 
 Steel Company, the National Tube Com- 
 pany, and Shelby Steel Trust Company, 
 and the United States Steel Products Ex- 
 port Company. He is a member of the 
 American Institute of Mining Engineers. 
 Residence: 2 East Forty-fiftn Street. Of- 
 fice: 71 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 CORLETT, William Thomas: 
 
 Physician; born in Orange, Ohio, April 
 15, 1854; son of William and Ann (Avery) 
 Corlett. He was educated' at Oberlin Col- 
 lege, the Medical Department of Wooster 
 University, M.D., 1877, and various hos- 
 pitals and medical schools of London. He 
 also studied in Paris, and in 1881 received 
 the diploma of tlic Royal College of Phy- 
 sicians of London. Since 1884 he has been 
 professor of diseases of the skin in West- 
 ern Reserve University, of Ohio. He is 
 
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 a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, 
 of London, and was a member of the lltli 
 international Medical Congress, Rome, 
 1894; American Public Health Association, 
 Mexico Citj', 18!)3; International Congress 
 of Dermatology, London, 1896, and New- 
 York, 1907; is a member of the American 
 Dermatological Association, its president in 
 1906, American Medical Association; and 
 the Cleveland Academy of ]\Iedicine. lie 
 is one of the leading specialists in the 
 I'nited States in diseases of the skin and 
 kindred subjects, and is author of Treatise 
 on The • Acute Infectious Exanthemata, 
 1901; also of chapters in various systems 
 and text-books. He has also contributed 
 extensively to medical journals and society 
 proceedings, American and foreign. He has 
 traveled widely and is the author of The 
 American Tropics, 1908. Prof. Corlett 
 married at Rhcinpfalz, Germany, June 26, 
 1895, Amanda Mar^e Leisy, and has three 
 daughters and two sons. Address: 1935 
 Kuclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 CORLISS, Guy Carleton Haynes: 
 
 Jurist; born at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., July 
 4, 1858; son of Cyrus K. and Clarinda M. 
 
 C. Corliss. He was educated in common 
 and high schools, and was graduated from 
 the latter in 1873. He afterward studied 
 law, went West and engaged in practice 
 at Grand Forks. N. Dak., until elected, in 
 1889, chief justice of the Supreme Court 
 of North Dakota, in which office he served 
 imtil 1898, when he returned to the prac- 
 tice of law. When the North Dakota Law 
 School was established as the law depart- 
 ment of the University of North Dakota, 
 in 1899, Judge Corliss was elected its first 
 dean. He is a contributor to various legal 
 publications. Address: Grand Forks, N. 
 Dak. 
 
 CORLISS, John Blaisdell: 
 
 l^awyer; hoin at Richfort, Vt., June 7, 
 1851; son of Hezekiah Corliss and Lydia 
 (Rounds) Corliss. He was graduated from 
 llie Vermont Methodist University in 1871, 
 and subsequently registered as a law stu- 
 dent in Columbia University, Washington, 
 
 D. C, where he took the degree of LL.B. 
 
 in 1875. He was admitted to the bar the 
 .same year and commenced to practice in 
 Detioit, Mich. In 1881 he was elected city 
 attorney, which office he held for four 
 years. He has several times been chosen 
 by the Republican party to act as a mem- 
 ber of important committees, and the dis- 
 tinction of having framed the first com- 
 plete charter of the City of Detroit, still 
 in use, is his. In 1895 he was elected to 
 the United States House of Representa- 
 tives, and served during the Fifty-fourth 
 Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh 
 Congresses. Address: Detroit, IMich. 
 
 CORN, Samuel Thompson: 
 
 Jurist; born at Nicholasville, Jessamine 
 County, Ky., Oct. 8, 1840; son of Ellis 
 Corn. After a thorough preparatory edu- 
 cation he entered Princeton University, 
 from which he was graduated as A.B. in 
 the class of 1860. After leaving college 
 he studied law, was admitted to the bar of 
 Illinois and practised law at Carlinville, 
 Macoupin County, HI., until 1886, when 
 he was appointed by President Cleveland 
 as one of the justices of the Supreme Court 
 of the Territory of Wyoming, which office 
 he retained until Wyoming assumed State- 
 hood in 1890. He engaged in the practice 
 of law from 1890 until 1890, at Evanston, 
 Uinta County, Wyo., and in the latter 
 year was elected one of the justices of the 
 Supreme Court of the State of Wyoming, 
 in which office he served until 1904, and 
 during the last year of his term he was 
 chief justice of that court. Since the ex- 
 piration of his term he has been engaged in 
 practice at Cheyenne, Wyo. He married at 
 Carlinsville, 111., in 1876, Emma Blackburn. 
 Address : Cheyenne, Wyo. 
 
 CORNELIUS, Mary Ann: 
 
 Autiior and philanthroj)ist; born in Pon- 
 tiac, Mich., Sept. 25, 1827; daughter of 
 Lewis Whiting and Elirra (Bagley) Mann. 
 Slie was educated in the schools of her 
 native State, where she married in 1850, 
 Samuel Cornelius, D.D. (now deceased). 
 Her liirtli. training and associations 
 hrouglif her into acquaintance with many 
 disdiiguislied personages, and due of her 
 
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 most treasured nieiuories is that of having 
 recited an original poem at one of Wen- 
 dell Phillips' lectures in Cooper Institute. 
 Her life and writings have been devoted 
 1(1 pliilanthropy and social ni)lift, and she 
 lias established in her home in Tacoma, 
 Wash., a free reading room and free cir- 
 culating library for the young. She is 
 auilior of: Little Wolf (for the promotion 
 of temperance), 1880; Uncle Nathan's 
 Farm (for the promotion of tolerance), 
 1887; The White Flame (to emphasize 
 God's Love), 1900; Why? or A Kansas 
 Girl's Query (dedicated' to the patrons of 
 her free reading room), 1905. She has held 
 tlie positions of State president of the 
 ^^'oman's Christian Temperance Union of 
 Arkansas, director in the Topeka Humane 
 Society and in the Tacoma Humane Society. 
 She was appointed a member of the Ad- 
 visory Council of the Woman's Branch of 
 the World's- Congress Auxiliary on the 
 liaptist Church and the Woman's Chris- 
 tian Temperance Union at World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition, Chicage, 1893. Address: 
 1291.3 South Twelfth Street, Tacoma, Wash. 
 
 CORNING, Charles Robert: 
 
 Jurist; born at Concord, N. H., Dec. 20, 
 ISoo; son of Robert Nesmith Corning. He 
 received his preparatory education at Phil- 
 lips Academy, Andover, Mass., and studied 
 law at Harvard Law School and in offices 
 at Concord', N. H., then being admitted to 
 the New Hampshire bar; and he later re- 
 ceived the degree of A.M. from Dartmouth 
 College in 1885. Mr. Corning is a Kepub- 
 lican in politics, and has filled' various 
 important elective and appointive offices, 
 becoming a representative to the General 
 Court of New Hampshire from 1878 to 
 1883, and State senator from the Concord 
 District in 1889. During the Benjamin 
 Harrison administration, from 1889 to 1893, 
 he was an assistant attorney in the De- 
 partment of Justice at Washington, D. C, 
 and after that engaged in the general law 
 ])ractice at Concord, N. H. He was ap- 
 l)ointed by the governor and council of 
 New Hampshire, June 19, 1899, judge of 
 probate for the County of INIerrimack, in 
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 which ollic(! he is now serving. Hi; was 
 also elected in 1903 mayor o_f Concord for 
 the term expiring 1907. Judge Corning 
 has written many articles and various 
 monographs on historical and biogra])hical 
 subjects, and was one of the editors of, and 
 a contributor to, The History of Concord, 
 New Hampshire, and he is corresponding 
 secretary of the New Hampshire Historical 
 Society. He is also author of a volume, 
 Aalesund to Tetuan, published in 1888. 
 Judge Corning is a bachelor, and is a mem- 
 ber of the University Club of Concord. 
 Address : Concord, N. H. 
 
 CORNING, James Leonard: 
 
 Physician, neurologist; born in Stamford, 
 Conn., Aug. 28, 1855; son of Rev. James 
 Leonard Corning. He was educated in the 
 Riverview Military Academy at Pough 
 keepsie, N. Y., and at the Universities of 
 Heidelberg and Wiirzburg, Germany, re- 
 ceiving from the latter his M.D. degree, 
 and afterward received from WMUiams Col- 
 lege the honorary degrees of A.M. and LL.D. 
 Dr. Corning, who has been engaged in 
 practice in New York City from graduation, 
 has attained special distinction in the do- 
 main of neuro-pathology and neuro-thera- 
 peutics, in which he has made many im- 
 portant investigations and discoveries, 
 including the original discovery of spinal 
 anaesthesia in 1885; and he has held many 
 hospital appointments as consulting neu- 
 rologist. Dr. Corning is author of: 
 Carotid Compression, 1882; Brain Rest, 
 1883; Brain Exhaustion, 1884; Local Anaes- 
 thesia, 1886; Hysteria and Epilepsy, 1888; 
 Headache and Neuralgia, 1888; Pain in its 
 Neuro-Pathological and Neuro-Therapeutic 
 Relations, 1894; and many other contribu- 
 tions to medical literature in his special- 
 ties; and is author of a romance, The 
 Princess Ahmedee, 1900, published under 
 the pen-name of Roland Champion. Dr. 
 Corning is a member of the New York State 
 Medical Society, New York Academy of 
 Medicine, New York Neurological Society, 
 Medical Society of the County of New 
 York, and JNIedical Society of the Greater 
 City of New York. He married in Morris- 
 
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 town, N. J., May 1, 1883, Julia Crane. Ad- 
 dress: 53 West 38th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 CORNMAN, Daniel: 
 
 (.'uloiiel Soveiilh U. 8. Infantry; born in 
 Carlisle, Pa.. Feb. 8, 1852; son of Ephraim 
 and Barbara (Shram) Cornnian. He was 
 j^nadiiated from the high school of Car- 
 lisle, Pa., and from the United States Mil- 
 itary Academy, class of 1873, served in the 
 Twenty-first Infantry until 1809, the First 
 Infantry, 1899-1907, and was commissioned 
 lieutenant-colonel Oct. 4, 1901, and com- 
 missioned colonel commanding the Seventh 
 Infantry, Aug. 8, 1903. He served on the 
 frontier in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Ore- 
 gon and Utah for fifteen years, engaged in 
 the Nez Perces, Shohsone and Sioux Wars, 
 commanded a battalion of the Twenty-first 
 Infantry in the battle of San Juan, Cuba, 
 and tlic fights aroimd Santiago, in the cam- 
 paign against the insurgent Filipinos, 1900- 
 1902. He is a member of the Society of 
 Indian Wars, Society of the Spanish War, 
 and Society of the Filipino War. He mar- 
 ried in Boise, Idaho, Oct. 5, 1877, Julia 
 Leighton, of Lowell, Mass., and they have 
 two sons. Address: Care of Adjutant- 
 General. U. S. Army, Washington, D. C. 
 
 CORSON, Dighton: 
 
 Jurist. He was educated at tlie Water- 
 ville Academy, Waterville, Me., and after- 
 ward read law in otfices at Bangor, Me., 
 where he was admitted to the bar. He went 
 West to Wisconsin, and was engaged in 
 practice for some yejirs at Milwaukee, and 
 was district attorney for Milwaukee County 
 for two years and also served in the Legis- 
 lature of Wisconsin. Thence he went to 
 Virginia City, Nev., and' practised law, and 
 he was district attorney of Storey County, 
 Nev., for five years during the bonanza 
 period. Since 1877 he has been a citizen 
 of Deadwood, S. Dak., where he was en- 
 gaged in the practice of law until 1889. He 
 was a member of the two Constitutional 
 Conventions held in 1885 and 1889, and in 
 (lie latter year was elected one of the judges 
 of the Supreme Court of South Dakota, 
 ill wlii<'h ollice lie has ever since continued, 
 
 and he was for a time chief justice of that 
 Court. Judge Corson is a Republican. He 
 still has his legal residence at Deadwood. 
 Official address: Pierre, S. Dak. 
 
 CORSON, Eugene Rollin: 
 
 Physician ; born at Washington, D. C, 
 July 20, 1855; son of Dr. Hiram and Caro- 
 line (Rollin) Corson. He was educated at 
 St. John's College, Annapolis, Md'., 1866- 
 1871, at Cornell University, 1871-1875, and 
 at the Southern Medical College, Atlanta, 
 where he was graduated M.D., 1894. He 
 has practised medicine in Savannah, Ga., 
 since 1879. He has written many scientific 
 papers, on the Negro, and on anatomical, 
 surgical, and X-ray subjects. Dr. Corson 
 has made three trips to Europe, Great Brit- 
 ain, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Italy. 
 He is a member of the Association of Amer- 
 ican Anatomists, American Electro-Thera- 
 peutic Association. Aledical Association of 
 Georgia, Georgia Medical Society, and the 
 Chatham County Medical Society. He 
 married at New Orleans, La., Sept. 4, 1894, 
 Cora Wirt Baker, and they have three chil- 
 dren. Address: 11 Jones Street, East Sa 
 vannah, Ga. 
 
 CORSON, Hiram: 
 
 Educator; born in Philadelphia, Nov. 6, 
 1828; son of Joseph Dickinson and Ann 
 Eliza (Hagey) Corson. His early educa- 
 tion was private, and at the classical and 
 mathematical school (Treemount Semi- 
 nary) of the Rev. Dr. Aaron, Norristown, 
 Pa., and the classical school of Rev. Dr. 
 Anspach, Barren Hill, Pa. He was con- 
 nected with the library of the Smithsonian 
 Institution, at Washington, D. C. 1850- 
 1856, there receiving a training in bibli- 
 ography and in library management vmder 
 Professor Charles C. Jewett. He taught 
 lintin and English literature, in Washing- 
 ton. 1). C., 1856-1859; was lecturer on 
 English literature in Philadelphia, 1859- 
 1805; iiKifcssor of history and moral sci- 
 ence, and vice-president, at (iirard College, 
 1865-1866; professor of Anglo-Saxon, Eng- 
 lish literature and rhetoric, St. John's 
 College, Annapolis, 1866-1870; professor of 
 Knglisli literature, 1870-1903, and professor 
 
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 emeritus since 1903, at Cornell University; 
 appointed lecturer on English literature at 
 the Johns Hopkins University, for the 
 winter terms of 1883, 1884 and 1885; pen- 
 sioned by the Carnegie Foundation, June, 
 1006. He received' from Princeton the 
 honorary degree of A.M., 1804, and Litt.D., 
 Ii)03, and LL.D. from St. John's College, 
 
 1878. He is author of a large number of 
 works on English literature, and other 
 subjects. He has taken the lead, in this 
 country, in Browning study. Professor Cor- 
 son married, Sept. 13, 1854, Caroline RoUin 
 (born Paris, France, Dec. 29, 1828, died 
 May 21, 1901), and has one son. Dr. Eu- 
 gene Rollin Corson. Address : Cascadilla 
 Cottage, Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 CORTEYOU, George Bruce: 
 
 President, Consolidated Gas Co., of New 
 Yoik. former secretary of the Treasury of 
 tlie United' States; born in New York City, 
 July 2(). 1862. He was graduated from 
 the Hempstead Institute, Hempstead, L. I., 
 
 1879, from the State Normal School at 
 Westfield, Mass., in 1882; from the Law 
 Department of Georgetown University as 
 LL.B. in 1805 and from the Columbia (now 
 George Washington) University, as LL.M. 
 in 1896 ; and received the degree of LL.D. 
 from Georgetown University in 1903, and 
 from the University of Illinois and the 
 Kentucky Wesleyan University. Mr. Cor- 
 telyou engaged as a general law and ver- 
 l)atim reporter in New York City, in 1883; 
 was princi])al of preparatory schools in 
 New York, from 1885 to 1889^ He entered 
 public service in 1889, and' has been private 
 secretary to various public officials, among 
 them postoffice inspector in charge at New 
 York City, surveyor of the Port of New 
 York and fourth assistant postmaster-gen- 
 eral. He was appointed in Nov., 1895, 
 stenographer to President Cleveland, became 
 executive clerk, Feb., 1896; assistant sec- 
 retary to President McKinley, July 1, 1898; 
 secretary to the President, April 13, 1000. 
 He was reappointed !Mareh 15, 1901, by 
 President McKinley, and on Sept. 16, 1901, 
 was reappointed by President Roosevelt. 
 Mr. Cortelyou was appointed secretary of 
 the newly established Department of Com- 
 
 merce and Labor, Feb. 16, 1903, and con- 
 firmed the same day. He was elected, June 
 23, 1904, chairman of the Republican Na- 
 tional Committee, and conducted the cam- 
 paign which resulted in the election of 
 President Roosevelt. He entered the new 
 Cabinet, March 7, 1905, as postmaster- 
 general, and on the retirement of Hon. 
 Leslie M. Shaw in March, 1907, became 
 secretary of the Treasury, serving imtil 
 the close of the Roosevelt administration, 
 March 4, 1909. Mr. Cortelyou married in 
 1888, Lily Morris Hinds, daughter of Dr. 
 Ephraim Hinds, president of the Hemp- 
 stead Institute. Address: 4 Irving Place, 
 New York City. 
 
 CORTHELI, Elmer Lawrence: 
 
 Civil engineer; born at South Abington 
 (now Whitman), Mass., Sept. 30, 1840; 
 son of James Lawrence and Mary (Gurney) 
 Corthell. He was educated at South Abing- 
 ton High School, and Phillips Academy, 
 Exeter, N. H., from which he was gradu- 
 ated in 1858. He entered Brown Univer- 
 sity in 1859, but was absent from 1861 to 
 1865, in the Civil War. He returned to 
 Brown in 1865 and was graduated A.B., 
 with Plii Beta Kappa honor, in 1867, also 
 receiving his A.M. 1868, and the honorary 
 degree of Sc.D., 1894. Mr. Corthell served 
 in the Union Army in the Civil War in the 
 First Regiment of Rhode Island Artillery 
 as private to captain of Battery D, serving 
 in Virginia and North Carolina, and was 
 mustered out at the end of the war in 1865. 
 On graduation in 1867, he engaged as a 
 civil engineer at Providence, R. I. He be- 
 came assistant engineer of the Hannibal 
 and Naples Railroad in Illinois in 1868; 
 division engineer in the location and con- 
 struction of the Hannibal and Central ]\Iis- 
 souri Railroad, 1869; chief assistant engi- 
 neer in construction of the bridge over the 
 Mississippi at Hannibal, Mo., 1870-1871; 
 chief engineer of Sny Island Levee, on the 
 east bank of the Mississippi River, in Illi- 
 nois, 1871-1874. He was chief engineer 
 of construction of the bridge over the 
 Mississippi at Louisiana, Mo., for the Chi- 
 cago and Alton Railway, 1873-1874: was 
 in charge for Capiain James B. Eads of the 
 
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 en<,'inecring and construct ion of jetties at 
 the nioutli of the jMississippi, 1875-1879; 
 associated with Captain Eads in surveys 
 for the sliip railway of the Isthmus of 
 Toluiantepec, 1880-1881. Mr. Corthell was 
 chief engineer in the construction of the 
 Xew York, West Shore and Buffalo llail- 
 Nvay, and the New York. Ontario and West- 
 ern Railway, and their terminals at New 
 York City, 1881-1884; as engineer in build- 
 ing steel railway bridges over the Missis- 
 si])pi, Missouri, Ohio and other rivers, 1887- 
 1889; chief engineer of tlio jetties at the 
 mouth of the Brazos Eiver in Texas, and 
 in the building of the Merchants' Bridge 
 over the Mississippi River at St. Louis; 
 and consulting engineer of waterways, rail- 
 ways, etc., until 1894. He spent some years 
 in Europe, and from 1900 to 1902 was 
 consulting engineer for national public 
 works for the Argentine Government. He 
 was appointed in Feb., 1904, by the gov- 
 ernor of New Y'ork State, and was a mem- 
 ber of the Advisory Board of Consulting 
 Engineers to build the barge canals of the 
 State, to cost over $100,000,000; and is 
 also consulting engineer of the Cape Cod 
 Ship Canal to shorten the distance between 
 New Y'ork and Boston. He is a member of 
 the Advisory Board of the Trans- Alaska 
 Siberian Railway; and' consulting engineer 
 in charge of the construction of a modern 
 port at Para, Brazil, at the mouth of the 
 Amazon, and chief engineer of the Port of 
 Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Mr. Corthell 
 is a Republican in politics and a Baptist 
 in his religious affiliation. Mr. Corthell 
 was chairman of a committee of the Inter- 
 national Engineering Congress at Chicago, 
 in 1893; United States delegate to and vice- 
 president of the International Navigation 
 Congress at Brussels, 1898; delegate of the 
 Argentine Government to the International 
 Navigation Congress at Dusseldorf in 1902; 
 United States Government member of the 
 J'ermanent Com'mission of the International 
 Navigation Congress. He is a member and 
 ex-vice-president of the American Society 
 of Civil Engineers; member and ex-pres- 
 ident of the Western Society of Engineers, 
 Chicago; iniMuber of the Institution of Civil 
 Engineers of Great Britain, the French 
 
 Society of Civil Engineers (of which he is 
 also a corresponding member), the Mexican 
 Association of Civil Engineers, the Boston 
 Society of Civil Engineers. He is a fellow 
 of the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science; member of the Amer- 
 ican Geographical Society, National Geo- 
 graphic Society; fellow of the Royal 
 (Tcographical Societ}', London; a member 
 of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Society of 
 the Sigma Xi, Grand Army of the Republic, 
 the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, 
 the Sons of the American Revolution, New 
 England Society in New York, Society of 
 the Army of the Potomac. Mr. Corthell is 
 author of: The History of the Mississippi 
 Jetties, 1880; Report of the Brussels Nav- 
 igation Congress, 1898; Maritime Com- 
 merce, Past, Present and Future, 1898; 
 Some Ports of the World (Paris Navigation 
 Congress), 1901; Increase in Dimensions of 
 Vessels (Milan Navigation Congress), 
 190.'5; also articles in Johnson's Cyclopedia 
 and the Encyclopedia Americana on engi- 
 neering subjects, as well as many papers 
 contributed to technical magazines and the 
 proceedings of learned societies. ^Ir. 
 Corthell married at Providence, R. I., in 
 1870, Emily Theodate Davis, who died in 
 1884, leaving two children: Alice (now 
 Mrs. Edward S. Dewey, of Guadalajara, 
 Mexico), and Howard Lawrence Corthell, 
 civil engineer (born in 1876). Mr. Cor- 
 thell again married, in 1900, Marie Kiichler, 
 of Berne, Switzerland. Address: 1 Nassau 
 Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 CORWIN, Edward Tanjore: 
 
 Clergyman ; l)()in in New York City, July 
 12, 1S:!4; sou of Edward Caldwell and 
 Mary Ann (Shuart) Corwin. He was 
 graduated from the College of the City of 
 New Y^ork, A.B., 1853 and AM. in 1856, 
 and from New Brunswick Theological Sem- 
 inary in 1856; and he received the degree 
 of D.D. from Rutger College. 1872. He 
 was settled over the Reformed Church of 
 Paramus, N. J., 1857-1863; over the Re- 
 formed Church of Millstone, N, J., 1863 ■ 
 1888; and was rector of Ilertzog Theologi- 
 cal Hall, New Brunswick, N. J., 1888-1895; 
 over Reformed Church of Greenport (Co- 
 
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 Imnl.ia C.mniy). N. Y., 1S95-1S97; asont 
 (if (tcikmuI Synod of the lloformod (JIiuitIi 
 ill Anicrioa to collect liistoriciil data in 
 Holland, relatinjjf to tlie colonial phurehos, 
 ]S!)7-18!)8; was editor of Ecclesiastical Kec- 
 ords of the State of New York, six vol- 
 umes, pnblished by the Legislature, 1900- 
 1907. He was president of the General 
 Synod of the Reformed Church in America 
 in 1891; temporary instructor in Hebrew 
 and Greek exegesis, in New Brunswick 
 Theological Seminary, 1883-1884 and oc- 
 casionally from 1889 to 1892. He is au- 
 thor of: Manual of Reformed Church in 
 America, first edition in 1859; and fourth 
 edition in 1902; History of Reformed 
 Church in America, in American Church 
 History Series, volume VIII; Digest of Con- 
 stitutional and Synodical Legislation cf 
 Reformed Church in America in 1906; Cor- 
 win Genealogy, 1872, and numerous articles 
 in cyclopedias, etc. He visited Great Brit- 
 ain, France, Switzerland:, Germany, and 
 Holland in 1887 ; and was collecting histor- 
 ical documents in Holland, in 1897 and 
 1898. He is a Republican in politics. He 
 is a charter member of the American 
 Church History Society and of the Ameri- 
 can Historical Association. Dr. Corwin 
 married' in Geneva, N. Y., July 25, 1861, 
 ]\Iary Esther Kipp, and they have two chil- 
 dren. Address : North Branch, N. J. 
 
 COSGRAVE, John O'Hara: 
 
 I'ditor of Everybody's Magazine; born in 
 Melbourne. Australia, July 11, 1866. He 
 was educated in the Church of England 
 (jranimar School of Auckland, New Zea- 
 land, and in the Auckland College and 
 Grammar School. He Avent to California in 
 San Francisco ; was a reporter on the San 
 Francisco Call, 1887-1890; and' editor and 
 publisher of The Wave, San Francisco, 1890- 
 1900. He was managing editor of Every- 
 body's Magazine under the Doubleday, Page 
 & Co. regime, 1901-1903, and has been edi- 
 tor of the same magazine through its re- 
 markable career of success since its pur- 
 chase by The Ridgway Company in 1903. 
 JNIr. Cosgrave is a member of the Atlantic 
 Yacht and The Players Clubs of New York 
 City and the St. Botolph's Club of Boston. 
 
 lie marri(Ml in I'oslon in 1906, Marguerite 
 
 Kielle Scott. Kcsidciicc: .ll East 30) h 
 
 Street. Ollicc: ;!1 Kast 171 li Street, Now 
 York City. 
 
 COSGROVE, Henry: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Davenport; born at 
 Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pa., in 
 1834; son of John and Bridget Cosgrove. 
 He removed with his parents to Dubuque, 
 Iowa, in 1845 and was educated in paroch- 
 ial schools, afterward making his literary 
 and divinity studies, and being ordained 
 to the priesthood in 1857. He w^as ap- 
 pointed, the same year, assistant pastor of 
 Saint ^Marguerite's Church at Davenport. 
 Iowa, and became pastor of that Church in 
 1862. He was appointed vicar-general of 
 the diocese of Davenport in 1882, and upon 
 the death of Bishop McMullen he was ap- 
 pointed' and consecrated his successor in 
 1884, and has since administered both the 
 spiritual and financial affairs of the diocese 
 having prospered exceedingly under Bishop 
 Cosgrove's pastoral care. Address: Dav- 
 enport, Iowa. 
 
 COSGROVE, Samuel G.: 
 
 Governor of \Yashington. He has long 
 been active in the political afTaii's of the 
 State of Washington as a Republican, and 
 in 1908 was nominated and elected to the 
 office of governor for the four-year term 
 expiring in 1912. Address: Olympia, 
 Wash. 
 
 COTTERAL, John H.: 
 
 Jurist. He was engaged in the practice 
 of law in Oklahoma until appointed by 
 President Roosevelt in 1907 to the office 
 of judge of the United States District 
 Court for the Western District of Okla- 
 homa. Address: (iuthrie. Okla. 
 
 COTJDEN, Henry Noble: 
 
 Chaplain of the United States House of 
 Representatives; born in Marshall County, 
 Ind., Nov. 21, 1842. He served in the Union 
 Army, from April, 1861 to July, 1863, and 
 was honorably discharged by reason of a 
 wound in a battle which destroyed the sight 
 
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 of liotli eyes. TTc was fjra<lua1('(l from Die 
 Stair iScliool fur the Blind, Colunibus, Ohio, 
 after the war ami tiie Divinity School, at 
 SI. Lawrcneo University, Canton. N. Y., 
 frnin which he received the dej^ree of D.D. 
 and was ordained a Universalist clergyman. 
 November, 1878. Since 1895 he has been 
 chaplain of the Hou.se of Representatives. 
 He married, Jan. 26, 1886, Harriet Dunbar. 
 Address: 1310 Columbia Road. Wasliino- 
 ton. D. C. 
 
 COITDERT. Frederic Rene: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City; son of 
 the late Frederic Ren6 and Elizabeth (Mc- 
 Credy) Coudert. He was jiraduated from 
 Columbia College in 1898. He is a member 
 of the law firm of Coudert Brothers and a 
 trustee of the Equitable Trust Company, 
 the Chesebrough ]\Ianufacturing Company, 
 a director of the Chesebrough Building 
 Company, the McVicker Realty Trust Com- 
 pany and the Pacific Fire Insurance Com- 
 pany. 'Mr. Coudert is a member of the 
 American Bar Association, the Association 
 of the Bar of the City of New York, and 
 other professional associations. He is also 
 a member of the Manhattan, University, 
 T^awyers', Fencers' and New York Athletic 
 Clubs, and' the Century Association of New 
 York City. Mr. Cou(lert married Alice T. 
 Wilmerding. Residence: 124 East 56th 
 Street. Office: 71 Broadway. New York 
 ( ily. 
 
 COUNCILMAN, William Thomas. 
 
 Pliy.sician; born in Pikesville. Md.. Jan. 
 1. 1854. He was educated' in St. John's 
 College, Annapolis, Md., and was gi-adu- 
 ated from the medical department of the 
 University of Maryland, later receiving 
 the honorary degree of A.M. from Harvard 
 and Johns Hopkins. Since 1892, he has 
 been professor of pathology at the Harvard 
 University Medical School, and is a member 
 of the National Academy of Sciences; the 
 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 
 etc., and is a fellow of the I'hiladelphia 
 Academy of Medicine. lie is also a member 
 of the St. Botoljih (Boston), and' the Coun- 
 tr\' (Brookliricj Chilis. lie has written 
 monograplis on dysentary, cerebrospinal 
 
 iiicMiiigiiis. (lipdiciia. smallpox, and other 
 medical subjects. He married in Boston, 
 1894, Isabella Coolidge. Residence: 78 
 IJay Slate Road. Boston. 
 
 COUNSELMAN, Charles: 
 
 Banker and grain dealer; born in Chica- 
 go, Jan. 6, 1881; son of Charles and Jennie 
 Elizabeth (Otis) Counselman. He received 
 his education in the public schools of Chica- 
 go, at the Harvard School, Chicago, and' the 
 Hill School of PottstowTi, Pa. He began 
 business as a clerk in the employ of Coun- 
 selman & Company, of Chicago, brokers in 
 1900, remaining with that concern four 
 .years. Since 1904 he has been vice-presi- 
 dent of the Chicago Grain and Elevator 
 Company, and since 1906 he has represent- 
 ed the New York banking firm of Risk & 
 Robinson in the West, with headquarters at 
 Chicago. Mr. Counselman is a member of 
 the Chicago Athletic. Midlothian Country, 
 Onwentsia and Mid-Day Clubs. Residence: 
 32 Bank Street. Office: Conunercial Na- 
 tional Bank Building, Chicago. 
 
 COURTNEY, Frederick: 
 
 Bi-shop; born in Plymouth, England, Jan. 
 5, 1837 ; son of Rev. Septimus Courteney, 
 M,A., and Elizabeth (Wilshin) Courtney. 
 He was educated' at Christ's Hospital 
 ("Blue Coat School") London; and King's 
 College, A.K.C., and has received the honor- 
 ary degrees of S.T.D., Racine College, Wis.; 
 D.D., Kings College, Windsor, N. S. ; LL.D. 
 Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Que.; and D. 
 C.L. Trinity College, Toronto. He was or- 
 dained to the ministry of the Church of 
 England by the Arelibishop of Canterbury, 
 and became curate of Hadlow, Kent, 1864- 
 18(i5; incumbent of Charles' Chapel. Ply- 
 mouth, 1865-1870, St. Jude's Church, Glas- 
 gow, 1870-1876; assistant of St. Thomas' 
 Church. New York City, 1876-1880; rector 
 of St. James' Church, Ciiicago, 1880-1882, 
 St. Paul's Church, Boston, 1882-1888; bish- 
 op of Nova Scotia, 1888-1904; rector of St. 
 James Church, New York City since 1904. 
 He was a representative of the Church of 
 England' in Canada, and of the Protestant 
 K))iscopal Church in the United States, at 
 I lie .fuliilee Meetinif of the Australian 
 
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 I^oard of Missions, Sydney, New South 
 Wales, in 1900, and a member of the Lem- 
 l.cfh (Conference, Sessions of 1888, 18!)7 and 
 1!)(»S. J^isliop (Courtney is a Director of the 
 Jiiitisii Schools and Universities Club, and 
 chaplain of the St. George's Society of New 
 "^'ork ; member of the National Geographic 
 Society, and of the United Empire Club of 
 London. Residence: 119 Elast 79th Street. 
 Office: St. James' Church, 31 East 71st 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 COUSE, Eanger Irving: 
 
 Artist ; born in Saginaw, Mich.. Sept. 3, 
 1866; son of M. S. and Mary J. (Price) 
 Couse. He was educated in the schools of 
 the National Academy of Design, New York, 
 receiving two medals, and the Academie 
 .lulian. Paris, receiving prizes for drawing 
 and composition and a medal for painting. 
 He received the Shaw prize for black and 
 white, and the Proctor prize for painting, 
 from the Salmagundi Club; the First and 
 Second Hallgarten prizes from the National 
 Academy of Design; honorable mention 
 from the Paris Exposition, 1900, and' Pan 
 American Exposition, 1901, and two medals 
 from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 
 St. Louis. 1904. He is an Associate Na- 
 tional Academician of the National Acad- 
 emy of Design ; member of the American 
 \^'ater Color Society, New York Water 
 Color Club and Artists Fund Society. He 
 has pictures in the permanent collections 
 of the Omaha National Gallery, Museum of 
 Smith College, Northampton, Mass., Brook- 
 lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and 
 decorations in Grace Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, Harrisburg, Pa. Mr. Couse is a 
 member of the Lotos Club, New York City. 
 He married in Paris, France, Sept. 5, 1889, 
 Virginia J. Walker, and they have one son. 
 Address: 58 West 57th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 COUSINS, Robert J.: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-congressman; born in 
 Cedar County, Iowa, in 1859. He was grad- 
 uated at Cornell College, Iowa, in 1881, ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1882, and has been 
 engaged in the practice of law since that 
 time. In 1886 he was elected to the Iowa 
 
 Legislature, and was elected by the House 
 of Itepiiscntatives as one of the prosecutors 
 for the IJrown impeachment tried before 
 the Senale during 1887. In 1888 he was 
 elected ])rosecuting attorney and' also presi- 
 dential elector for the Fifth Congressional 
 District. He was elected in 1892 from the 
 Fifth Iowa District to the Fifty-third Con- 
 gress, and was biennially reelected, termi- 
 nating his service in the Sixtieth Congress, 
 ex])iring in March, 1909. Address: Tip- 
 ton, Iowa. 
 
 COVERT, John Cutler: 
 
 Consul, journalist; born at Norwich. Che- 
 nango, County, N. Y., Feb. 11, 1839; son of 
 Jacob and Phebean (Cutler) Covert. He 
 attended public schools but procured most 
 of his education in a printing office and by 
 private study; and he has specialized in 
 the study of modern languages, so that, be- 
 sides English, he speaks French, German, 
 Italian and Spanish. He became an expert 
 printer, but left the case for the editorial 
 office, becoming editor of the Cleveland 
 Leader. He also took an active part in 
 Ohio politics as a Republican, and was 
 twice elected a member of the Ohio Legis- 
 lature. In July, 1897, he was appointed 
 by President McKinley to his present post 
 as consul of the United States at Lyons, 
 France. Mr. Covert is a bibliophile and is 
 a member and former president of the Row- 
 fant Club of Cleveland, the membership of 
 which includes the most prominent book- 
 lovers of Cleveland and many other cities; 
 and he was also president of the Cleveland 
 Art Association. He is also a member of 
 the principal literary clubs and associations 
 of Lyons. Mr. Covert has written various 
 contributions to magazine literature, and 
 also wrote in 1896, a treatise on the silver 
 question, which was widely distributed by 
 the Republican National Committee. His 
 earlier acquaintance with France was made 
 in a pedestrian tour which he took during 
 the Second Empire, an account of which 
 he prepared in the form of a lecture which 
 he delivered in all the principal American 
 cities. He has also lectured in France, 
 and has been decorated bj' the French gov- 
 ernment as Officier de I'Academie Francaise. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 y\v. (overt iii:uritil in ( Icvclaiid, in 1S70, 
 AuH'liu Ajiiics Dutilicr. KcsiiU'iico: 7- Uuc 
 ^'t'luIonl(^ Lyons. France. Consular ollico: 
 IS I'lacc Tolozon. T.yf)ns. Franco. 
 
 COVILLE, Frederick Vernon: 
 
 Botanist: born in Proston. N. Y., March 
 23, 1867; son of Joseph Addison and Lydia 
 (Alore) Coville. He was graduated from 
 Cornell University as A.B. in 1887. and was 
 elected to the honorary societies of Phi Beta 
 Kappa and Sigma Xi. Mr. Coville Avas in- 
 structor in botany at Cornell, 1887-1888; 
 assistant botanist to the Department of Ag- 
 riculture at Washington, D. C, 1888-1893; 
 was detailed as botanist of the Death Val- 
 ley Expedition to California in 1890 and 
 1891; and has been botanist of the Depart- 
 ment of Agriculture since 1893. Mr. Co- 
 ville has also been curator of botany of 
 the United States National Museum since 
 1893. He has traveled extensively on bo- 
 tanical investigations of the deserts and 
 other remote portions of the Western United 
 States, and in Alaska; and has made a 
 special study of the economics of grazing 
 on public lands. Mr. Coville is a member 
 of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity, the 
 Washington Acad'omy of Sciences, Botani- 
 cal Society of America, and many other so- 
 cieties, and of the Cosmos Club of Washing- 
 ton. He secured the foundation by the Car- 
 negie Institution of the Desert Botanical 
 Laboratory at Tucson, Ariz. He has pub- 
 lished: Botany of the Death Valley Expe- 
 dition: Our Public Crazing Lands; and 
 many botanical papers. Mr. Coville mar- 
 ried at Lockport, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1890, Eliza- 
 beth Harwood Boynton, and they have four 
 children. IJesidence: 183G California 
 Street. OHice: Department of Agriculture, 
 \\:isliinu1oii. I). C. 
 
 COWHERD, William Strother: 
 
 Nawyer; born in Jackson County, Mo., 
 Sept. 1, 18(i0; .son of Charles J. and Emily 
 S. Cowherd. He went to the public schools 
 of Lee's Summit. Mo., wliither his parents 
 had moved, aftei- which he entered the Uni- 
 versity of Missouri. Me was graduated in 
 ISHI. with the degree of A.B.. and the next 
 year cnlcicd the law department, complet- 
 
 ing Ills course in 188:2. He was admitted 
 to tlie Missoui-i bar, and eonimonced to jtrac- 
 tice in Kansas City, wIhtc ho lias become 
 prominent, in his profession, and an influ- 
 ential member of the Democratic party. He 
 has been assistant prosecuting attorney in 
 Jackson County, first assistant city coun- 
 selor of Kansas City, and in 1892 was 
 elected mayor of Kansas City for a two- 
 year term. In 1897 he was elected con- 
 gressman from his district, and served by 
 successive reelections until 190.^. Address: 
 Kansas City, ]\Io. 
 
 COWIE, Thomas Jefferson: 
 
 Pay inspector LT. 8. Navy; appointed 
 iron\ Iowa as assistant paymaster June 
 10, 1880; passed assistant paymaster, Nov. 
 19, 1891; paymaster Sept. 11, 1895; pay 
 inspector Jan. 5, 1903. He served on var- 
 ious duties in the Pay Department of the 
 Navy and since Jan. 31, 1905, has been pay 
 officer and general storekeeper at the Na- 
 val Academy. Pay Inspector Cowie is well 
 known and highly esteemed in the service 
 as the father and most efficient advocate 
 of the new bill now pending in Congress, 
 asking for a twenty per cent, increase in 
 pay of the officers of the Navy, the present 
 l)ay bill unrevised since the Civil War, be- 
 ing unquestionably inadequate under pres- 
 ent-day conditions. Address : U. S. Naval 
 Academy. Annapolis. ]VId. 
 
 COWLES, Alfred: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Chicago, Jan. 5, 1865; 
 son of Aldred and Sarah Frances (Hutchin- 
 son) Cowles. He was prepared for his col- 
 legiate course at Harvard School, Chicago, 
 and was graduated from Yale University 
 in 1886 with the degree of A.B. He took 
 the post-graduate course at Yale, 1886-1887, 
 and attended the Yale Law School, 1887- 
 1888, and then took a two years' course at 
 the Northwestern College of Law at Chi- 
 cago. He was admitted to the bar of the 
 Supieme Court of Illinois in 1889, and has 
 been in continuous practice except for the 
 j)eriod from the fall of 1898 until the early 
 j)art of 1901. during which period he was 
 emjiloyed in the managemojit of the Chicago 
 'I'liliiino: for most of tlie time as secretary 
 
MEN OF AM1<:KICA. 
 
 4 on 
 
 ;iii(l treasurer of the company. He is presi- 
 dent, of the Rialto Company, and a director 
 of the Tribune Company, the Commercial 
 National Bank, the Electric Smeltino- and 
 Aluminum Comjiany, the American Radia- 
 tor Company, and several other corpora- 
 tions. He is a member of the Chicago, 
 Calumet, University. Saddle and Cycle and 
 Onwentsia Clubs. He married at South 
 Manchester, Conn.. Nov. 28, ''890, Elizabeth 
 Cheney, now deceased, and has four sons. 
 Residence: 1805 Michigan Avenue. Office: 
 Postal Telegrapli Building, Chicago. 
 
 COWLES, Eugene: 
 
 Operatic basso; born at Stanstead, Que- 
 bec, Canada; son of C. W. Cowles, M.D., 
 and Hortense B. (Chase) Cowles. He was 
 graduated from Stanstead College and from 
 Canada went to Chicago, where he was em- 
 ployed for a number of years in the First 
 National Bank of Chicago, singing at the 
 same time in churches and concerts. He 
 left the bank to join The Bostonians Opera 
 Company, and was with them ten years, 
 playing in many roles, the best known of 
 which is Will Scarlett in Robin Hood. He 
 has since sung with difierent stars and his 
 own company in this country and abroad. 
 He has composed several well known songs: 
 Forgotten; The First Kiss, etc. Mr. Cowles 
 is a Free Mason of the 32d-degree, and a 
 Knight Templar, and is a member of the 
 Lambs' Club of New York City. He mar- 
 ried in New Jersey, May 23, 1898, Louise 
 Therese Cleary. Address: Derby Line, Vt. 
 
 COWLES, James Lewis: 
 
 Economist and author ; born in Farming- 
 ton, Conn., Sept. 14, 1843; son of James 
 and Jane (Lewis) Cowles. He was educat- 
 ed in Russel's Military School, New Haven, 
 Conn., and at Yale, from which he was grad- 
 uated, B.A., in 1866. He was a student at 
 the Yale Law School, 1886-1888, and in the 
 hitter year was admitted to the Connecti- 
 cut Bar, but he has never practised law. 
 lie has devoted his attention to study and 
 writing on economic subjects, upon which 
 lie has contributed to reviews, magazines, 
 railway journals and newspapers. He is 
 jiarticularly interested in the subject of 
 
 postal reform and in railroad prol)lcms. He 
 was secretary of the Connecticut Reform 
 Club in 1888, is a member of the Cobdeu 
 Club of England, and associated with var- 
 ious reform clubs in tliis country, and is 
 secretary and treasurer of the Postal Pro- 
 gress league. Mr. Cowles is author of: A 
 General Freight and Passenger Post, of 
 which three editions iiave been published by 
 Putnams, New York City. He is a member 
 of the Reform Club, London. He married at 
 Allington Plantation, Burke County, Ga., 
 June 2, 1870, Martha L. Gwaltney, who 
 died June 10, 1893. Address: 361 Broad- 
 way, New York City. 
 
 COWLES, William Sheffield: 
 
 Rear- Admiral of the United States Navy; 
 born at Farmington, Conn., Avig. 1, 1846; 
 son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Sheffield) 
 Cowles. He was appointed to the United 
 States Naval Academy in July 21, 1863 and 
 was graduated in 1867. He was flag lieu- 
 tenant of the North Atlantic Squadron, 
 1882-1884. He was then appointed secre- 
 tary of the Board of Inspection of merchant 
 ships at New York City and during this 
 detail served three weeks on the Isthmus of 
 Panama, guarding the transit across the 
 Isthmus, the property of the Paiiama Rail- 
 road Company and property of the Ameri- 
 can citizen on the isthmus. He was naval 
 aid to the secretary of the Navy and in 
 charge of the Naval Militia from 1891 to 
 1892; was naval attache of the United 
 States Embassy in London from 1893 to 
 1897; commanding the Fern in the North 
 Atlantic Squadron in 1897-1898; command- 
 ing the Topeka in 1898-1899; assistant to 
 the Bureau of Navigation from 1899 to 
 1903; commanding tlie battleship Missouri 
 from 1903 to 1904; and since Jan. 23, 1906, 
 chief of the Bureau of Equipment at Wash- 
 ington, D. C, with the rank of rear admiral. 
 He went on the retired list by operation of 
 law, but remained chief of the Bureau of 
 Equipment, and a member of the Board on 
 Constructions. Rear-Admiral Cowles is a 
 brother-in-law of ex-President Roosevelt, 
 luiving married the ex-President's sister. 
 Addiess: Navy Department, Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 COWPERTHWAITE. Allen Corson: 
 
 Physician ; born at Capo May, N. J., May 
 3, 1848; son of Josepli C. and Deborah Cow- 
 perthwaito. lie was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools and at the Toulon (111.) Semi- 
 nary, and was oraduated from the Hahne- 
 mann ^Medical College, Philadelphia, as M. 
 D. in 186!). In 1876 he received the degree 
 of Ph.D. from the Central I'niversity of 
 Iowa, and from ShurtlcfT College the de- 
 gree of LL.D., in 1888. He practised his 
 profession at Galva, 111., 1869-1873, and at 
 Nebraska City. Neb., 1873-1877. He was 
 dean and professor of materia medica in the 
 llomo?opathic Department of the State Uni- 
 ver.sity of Iowa, 1877-1892, and dean of the 
 HouKjeopathic JNlcdical College, University 
 of Michigan, 1884-1885. Since 1892 he has 
 been in practice in Chicago. He was pro- 
 fessor of materia medica and therapeutics, 
 1892-1901; and' was president from 1901 to 
 1905 when the Chicago HouKPopathic Medi- 
 cal College merged with the Hahnemann 
 Medical College of Chicago, since which 
 time Dr. ("owperthwaite has held the posi- 
 tion of professor of Materia Medica and 
 Therapeutics in the latter institution. Dr. 
 Cowperthwaite is consulting physician to 
 the Cook County, Chicago I'uion, Chicago 
 Homoeopathic anil Hahnemann Hospitals; 
 ex-president of the State Homoeopathic Med- 
 ical Societies of Iowa, Illinois and Nebras- 
 ka; ex-president of the American Institute 
 of Homa'opathy, and a fellow of the Socie- 
 ty of Science, Letters and Arts, London, 
 England. He has written extensively on 
 medical subjects, and among his published 
 works are: Insanity and Its Medico-Legal 
 Relations, 1870; Materia Medica and The- 
 rapeutics, 1881; Text-book of Gynecology, 
 1888; text-book of the Practice of Medicine, 
 1901. Dr. Cowperthwaite married at Oska- 
 loosa, Iowa, June 2, 1870, Ida E. Irving, 
 and has two children. Residence: 176 Ash- 
 land Boulevard. Office: 31 Washington 
 Street, Chicago. 
 
 COX, Charles Finney: 
 
 Railway ollicer; born on Staten Lsland, 
 N. Y., Jan. 16, 1846; son of Jacob Dolson 
 am! Thcdia Rcddia (Keuyon) Coi, and 
 
 brother of the late Gen. Jacob D. Cox, form- 
 erly governor of Ohio. He is an alumnus 
 of Oberlin College, Ohio, class of 1869, and 
 received from that college the degree of 
 M.A. iu 1889. He is now one of its trus- 
 tees. Mr. Cox was engaged in business in 
 Wall Street, 1867-1875, and from 1882 to 
 1885. He has been officially connected with 
 the Vanderbilt railroads since 1875; is a di- 
 rector of several of those companies, and is 
 now treasurer of all New York Central lines 
 west of Buffalo, including the Lake Shore 
 and Michigan Southern Railway, the Michi- 
 gan Central Railroad, the Cleveland, Cin- 
 cinnati, Chicago and St. Louis (Big Four) 
 Railway, the New York Chicago and St. 
 Louis (Nickel Plate) Railroad, the Lake 
 Erie and Western Railroad, the Chicago, 
 Indiana and Southern Railroad, the Cin- 
 cinnati Northern Railroad, the Peoria and 
 Eastern Railroad, the Canada Southern 
 Railway, and the Toronto, Hamilton and 
 Buffalo Railway. He is also president and 
 trustee of the American Safe Deposit Com- 
 pany of New York. Mr. Cox find's his 
 chief recreation in the study of science and 
 the collection of books. He has made re- 
 searches in microscojjical botany and zo<Jlo- 
 gy. He is president of the New York Acade- 
 my of Sciences; has been tresisurer of the 
 New York Botanical Garden since 1898, and 
 is one of its board of scientific directors. He 
 is a fellow of the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science; and a fellow 
 of the Royal Microscopical Society of Lon- 
 don, is ex-president of the New York Mi- 
 croscopical Society, and a member of the 
 Torrey Botanical Club, the Linn^an Society 
 of New York, the American Fine Arts So- 
 ciety, tile Executive Committee and Coun- 
 cil of the Charity Organization Society, 
 and was until rci^'utly, chairman of its 
 (^ommittee on the Prevention of Tuberculo- 
 sis. He was one of the founders and is one 
 of the Trustees of the Provident Loan So- 
 ciety. He has been prominent in Young 
 Men's Christian Association matters since 
 1867, being a member of its International 
 Committee and of its committee on work 
 for railroad men. Mr. Cox is author of a 
 book entitled: Protoplasm and Life, pub- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 lishcd ill 188!). lie nianiiMl at Fort 
 Kiciiiiiond, Staten Island, N. Y., April 30, 
 1878, Helen ]Midd'lobrook Fake, and they 
 have one daughter, wife of Dr. Edwin B. 
 Jenks, of Yonkers, N. Y. Residence: Buck- 
 ingham Hotel. Address: (Jrand Central 
 Station, New York City. 
 
 COX, Charles N: 
 
 Physician; born in Wertsville, N. J., May 
 27. 18o!); son of Rev. 8aniuel L. and Sarah 
 D. (Rowland) Cox. He was educated' in 
 Bucknell University and the Medical De- 
 partment of the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, M.D., 1883. Dr. Cox was engaged 
 in general practice seven years after gradua- 
 tion, but since 1890 his practice has been 
 devoted exclusively to diseases of the 
 throat, nose and ear. He is laryngological 
 surgeon to the Bushwick Hosjiital. Brook- 
 lyn ; aural surgeon to the Brooklyn Eye and 
 Ear Hospital, and consulting (aural) sur- 
 geon to St. Mary's Hospital, Jamaica, L. I. 
 He served as captain and assistant sur- 
 geon, 1889-1891, major and surgeon, 1891- 
 189o, in the 47th Regiment of the National 
 Cruaid of New York. Dr. Cox is a member 
 of the American Otological Society, Ameri- 
 icaii Ivhinological and Otological Society, 
 American Medical Association, New Y^ork 
 State ^Medical Society, New York Academy 
 of ■Medicine. King's Comity Medical Society 
 (treasurer 18!)0-1900. vice-president, 1902- 
 1903, president. 1903-19u-i), Brooklyn Medi- 
 cal Society, Brooklyn Pathological Society, 
 Associated Physicians of Long Island; 
 member and formerly director and vice- 
 president of the Phj'sicians Alutual Aid 
 Association, and is councillor of the Long 
 Island Hospital Medical College. He is a 
 member of the Lake Hopatocong Yacht 
 ( hib. Address: 257 Jefferson Avenue,, 
 Brooklyn. N. Y. 
 
 COX, Henry Joseph: 
 
 Meteorologist ; ))orn at Newton, j\Iass., 
 April 5. 1863; son of Thomas and' Hannah 
 (Perkins) Cox. He was graduated from 
 Harvard University as A.B. in 1884, re- 
 ceiving the honorary degree of A.M. in 1887 
 from Norwich Universitv. He entered the 
 
 .service of the United States Weather Bu- 
 reau, Aug. 1, 1884; was promoted through 
 various grades steadily, and was appointed 
 professor of meteorology in 1899, and he 
 has been in charge of the North Central 
 Forecast District since 1898, with' head- 
 quarters in Cliicago. He is a director of 
 the Cabrestante Alining and Milling Com- 
 pany, Guanajuato, Mexico. He visited 
 Europe in the winter of 1906 and 1907, 
 ins])ecting meteorological observatories. In 
 politics lie is an Independent Rei)ublican, 
 and in religion a Roman Catholic. He is a 
 member of the National Geographic Society, 
 the Geographic Society of Chicago, and Chi- 
 cago Academy of Science, and was elected 
 president of the Geographic Society of Chi- 
 cago for 1906-1907 and reelected for 1907- 
 1908. His favorite recreations are base- 
 ball and yachting. He is a member of the 
 University, Union League, Chicago Athletic 
 and Chicago A^acht Clubs. Mr. Cox mar- 
 ried in Somerville, Mass., Sept. 8, 1887, 
 Mary Cavanagh, and they have three chil- 
 dren. Residence: University Club. Ad- 
 dress: United States Weather Bureau, Fed- 
 eral Building, Chicago. 
 
 COX, Kenyon: 
 
 Painter; born in Warren, Ohio, Oct. 27, 
 1836; son of General Jacob Dolson Cox and 
 Helen (Finney) Cox, daughter of President 
 C. G. Finney, of Oberlin College, one of the 
 most distinguished of American divines and 
 educators. He was a student at McMicken 
 School of Art, in Cincinnati, the Pennsyl- 
 vania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadel- 
 phia, and then in Paris from 1877 to 1882, 
 first with Carolus Duran and afterward 
 at the Ecole des BeaiLx Arts under J. L. 
 GerOme. He was elected member of the So- 
 ciety of American Artists in 1882, and was 
 its vice-president at the time of its consol- 
 idation with the National Academy of De- 
 sign in 1906. He received the second Hall- 
 garten Prize of the National Academy of 
 Design in 1889, and two bronze medals 
 from the Paris Exposition Universelle in 
 1889, the Temple silver medal of the Penn- 
 sylvania Academy in 1891, a medal at the 
 \^'orld's Columbian Exposition at Chicago 
 
412 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 in 1893, and a gold medal at the Louisiana 
 Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904. 
 He has executed mural paintings in th(i 
 Walker Art Building at Bowdoin College, 
 the Library of Congress, the Appellate 
 Court Building in New York City, the Min- 
 nesota State Cai)itol, Iowa State Capitol, 
 the Essex County Court House at Newark, 
 N. J., the Luzerne County Court House at 
 Wilkes-Barre, Pa., the Citizens Building 
 at Cleveland, Ohio, and the Manhattan 
 Hotel in New York City. He has pictures 
 in the collections of The Metropolitan Mu- 
 seum, New York, the Art Museum of Cin- 
 cinnati, the National Academy of Design, 
 the Lotos and Players' Clubs, and drawings 
 in Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, and else- 
 where. Mr. Cox has done much illustrative 
 work, including The Blessed Damozel 
 (Dodd, Mead and Company), 1886. He 
 has painted landscapes, figure pieces and 
 portraits, and modelled one of the statues 
 for the building of the Brooklyn Institute 
 of Arts and Sciences. In 1892 he painted 
 one of the domes in the Liberal Arts Build- 
 ing, at the World's Columbian Exposition. 
 He was an instructor in the Art Students' 
 League of New York from 1884 to 1909, 
 and is an honorary member of the League. 
 Mr. Cox has written on Art subjects in lead- 
 ing periodicals, and is part author of Mod- 
 ern French Masters, edited by J. C. Van 
 Dyke, 1890; Tiie Nineteenth Century, 1901; 
 and of Noteworthy Paintings in American 
 Private Collections, 1907, edited by John 
 La Farge and August F. Jaccaci. He is 
 author of: Old Masters and New, 1905; 
 Painters and Sculptors, 1907 ; and' Mixed 
 Beasts, rhymes and pictures for children, 
 1904. Mr. Co.x is an academician and a 
 member of the Council of the National 
 Academy of Design, member of the National 
 Society of Mural Painters, National In- 
 .stitute and American Academy of Arts 
 and Letters, Architectural League of New 
 York, and a fellow of the Pennsylvania 
 Academj' of Fine Arts. He inarried at Bel- 
 mont, Mass., in 1892, Louise Ilowland King, 
 who is herself an artist of much distinc- 
 tion and an associate of tlie National Acad- 
 emy of Design. They have tiiree children. 
 
 Residence and studio: 1.34 East 67th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 COX, Palmer: 
 
 Artist and author; born in Grauby, Pro- 
 vince of Oii^'l"-'c, Canada, April 28, 1840; 
 son of Michael Cox and Sarah (Miller) 
 Cox. He was graduated from the Gran- 
 by Academy. He removed to Springfield, 
 Mass., in 1860 and entered the car shops of 
 T. W. Wason; then went to California in 
 1803 remaining until 1875. Mr. Cox was a 
 contributor to the Golden Era, Alta-Cali- 
 fornia, and other Californian paiblications. 
 Since 1875 he has been in New York City, 
 and has written and illustrated many 
 humorous books. He is author of : Squibs 
 of California, or Every Day Life, illustrat- 
 ed, 1875; subsequently rewritten and pub- 
 lished as Comic Yarns, in 1889; Hans Von 
 Peter's Trip to Gotham, 1870; How Colum- 
 bus Found America, 1877; That Stanley. 
 1878; The Brownies, Their Book, 1887; 
 Queer People, 1888; Queer People With 
 Wings and' Strings, 1888; Queer People 
 with Paws and Claws, 1888; Another 
 Brownie Book, 1890; The Brownies at 
 Home, 1893 ; The Brownies Around' the 
 World, 1894; The Brownies Through the 
 Union, 1895; The Brownies Abroad, 1899; 
 The Brownies in Fairyland, cantata in three 
 acts for children, 1895; Palmer Cox's 
 Brownies, spectacular play in three acts, 
 1895 ; The Brownies in the Philippines, 
 1903; The Brownie Clown in Brownie Town, 
 and also designer of toys and games, the 
 Brownie Blocks, Brownie Scroll Puzzle, 
 the Brownie Calendar or Year Book, the 
 Brownie Nine Pins, the Brownie Portrait 
 Gallery, and others. Mr. Cox is a member 
 of the Masonic order, the National Geo- 
 graphic Society of Washington, D. ('., and 
 tiie League of American Wheelmen. He 
 States and Europe; is a Republican and a 
 member of the Episcopal Church. Address : 
 134 ^^'est 23d Street, New Ynik City. 
 
 COX, William Van Zandt: 
 
 P.aiikcr; In rii in .Mu-;kiiigiim County, 
 Oliin. t:c;ir Z:in('s\ill(>, June 12, 1S52; son 
 of Cdloncl 'I'lKiiuas ,J. Cox, U. S. .\., and 
 
Palmer Cox 
 Artist 
 
Mi'.N OF ami<:ric.\. 
 
 413 
 
 of Lucy Anil (\:in Zaiidl ) Cox; iicpliow 
 of ilio .Saiiiuol Sullivan Cox, for many 
 years nioniber of Congress from New York 
 Ci(y and soiiict iino sjieakor. lie was grad- 
 uated from Oliio U'esleyan University, 
 .\.U., 1874, and later A.!\l.. receiving elec- 
 tion to Phi Beta Kapiii. He studied law 
 and was admitted to bar in 1877, but 
 beeame, from 1879 to 1902, a member of 
 the administrative staflf of the United 
 States National Museum. He was secre- 
 tary and disbursing otficer of the Inter- 
 national Fisheries Exposition in London, 
 18S3; represented the Smithsonian Insti- 
 tution at the Minneapolis Exposition, 1887, 
 Northwest Territory Centennial, Marietta, 
 Ohio, 1888; financial officer for the Smith- 
 sonian Institution and' U. S. National 
 Museum at the World's Columbian Exposi- 
 tion, 1893, Atlanta Exposition, 1896; secre- 
 tary of U. S. Government Board of the 
 Nashville Exposition, 1897, Trans-]\Iissis- 
 sippi Exposition, Omaha, 1898, Pan-Ameri- 
 can Exposition, Buffalo, 1901, and Louisi- 
 ana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. 
 Mr. Cox is now president of the Second 
 National Bank of Washington, D. C; vice- 
 jn-esident of the Washington Market Com- 
 j)any, and a director in various financial 
 institutions in the District of Columbia. 
 He served as vice-chairman of the Citizens' 
 Committee for the reception of Admiral 
 Dewey in 1899, and was secretary of the 
 Congressional, Gubernatorial and' Citizens' 
 committees for the celebration of the Cen- 
 tennial of the National Capital in the Dis- 
 trict of Columbia in 1900. Mr. Cox has 
 served as president of the Board of Trade 
 of Washington, vice-chairman of the Shep- 
 herd Memorial Committee, member of the 
 Committees on Presidential Inaugural in 
 inOl, 190.5 and 1909. He is a member of 
 ilie Currency Commission and Executive 
 Council of the American Bankers' Associa- 
 tion, vice-president of the Board of Edu- 
 cation of the District of Columbia, governor 
 of the Society of Colonial Wars, and a 
 member of various patriotic and historical 
 societies and clubs. Mr. Cox collaborated 
 with' H. M. Northrup on The Life of 
 Samuel S. Cox (published in 1899) ; is 
 author of A Memorial of Alatthew Gault 
 
 llmerv (publislied in HlOt), also of reports 
 in regard to the various expositions and 
 celebrations to which he has been accred- 
 ited, and numerous monographs and mag- 
 azine contributions. He married in Wash- 
 ington, D. C, Oct. 27, 1886, Juliet H. 
 Emery. Address: Second National Bank, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 COXE, Alfred Conkling: 
 
 Jurist; born at Auburn, N. Y. ; son of 
 Rev. S. Hanson and Eliza Cockburn (Conk- 
 ling) Coxe; grandson of Hon. Alfred 
 Conkling, judge of United States Court, 
 and a nephew of the late United States 
 Senator Roscoe Conkling and of Right Rev. 
 Arthur Cleveland Coxe, late bishop of 
 Western New York. He was educated at 
 Oxford' Academy, Utica Academy and Ham- 
 ilton College. He was admitted to the 
 bar in 1868, and practised law at Utica, 
 N. Y. He was appointed a manager of 
 the State Hospital at Utica, 1880; judge 
 of the United States District Court for the 
 Northern District New York, 1882, serv- 
 ing ;as such until 1903, when he was 
 appointed to his present position as judge 
 of the United States Circuit Court for 
 the Second Circuit. Judge Coxe has 
 always been a Republican. He is lecturer 
 on the law of shipping and' admiralty 
 at Cornell University. Columbia Univer- 
 sity conferred upon him, in 1904, the de- 
 gree of LL.D. Judge Coxe is a member of 
 the University Club of New York City and 
 the Fort Schuyler Club and Yahnundasis 
 Golf Club of Utica, N. Y. He married, 
 at Utica, Mariette A. Doolittle. Address: 
 Utica, N. Y. 
 
 COXE, Hanson Cleveland: 
 
 American deputy-consul-general at Paris. 
 France; born in Baltimore, Md. ; son of 
 A. Cleveland' and Katharine (Hyde) Coxe. 
 He was graduated from Trinity Univer- 
 sity, Toronto, Can., and took special studies 
 at Oxford University, England. He was 
 a lawyer and journalist for many years, 
 was on the staff of the Paris edition of 
 the New York Herald, was secretary of 
 the naval and military altachf-s of the 
 
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 MKN OF AMERICA. 
 
 AincricMii l"iiili:i->v. I'mis. and tlieii entered 
 t lie (•< insular ^i r\ ice. Mr. Coxo is a nieni- 
 hd of tlic X»'\v York State Bar Association, 
 the AiiHiican V>nr Association, a niem])er 
 of tli(> (iraiid Army "f the l\epul)lic and 
 was tlecoratcd by the French (iovernnient 
 as otticier d'Acadeniie for publications on 
 tlie French law. He is author of: Manual 
 of the Frencli law (Bentano's) ; Automo- 
 bile liegulations, and is a contributor to 
 Sharp and Alleman's Lawyers' and Bank- 
 ers' Directory and various law magazines. 
 Address: American Consulate-General, 
 Paris, France. 
 
 COYLE, Henry: 
 
 Editor and journalist ; born in Boston 
 in 1865; son of Thomas and' Annie (Far- 
 rell) Coyle. He was educated in a gram- 
 mar school in Boston, and afterward 
 engaged in journalism. He has for four- 
 teen years been editor of The Orphan's 
 Friend, a Catholic paper, published in 
 Boston; was editor of Our Church, Her 
 Children, and Institutions (three volumes), 
 and author of The Promise of Morning, 
 verses. Mr. Coyle is a contributor to The 
 Independent, The Youth's Companion, The 
 Chautauquan and other publications, also 
 to tlie syndicates. He has traveled exten- 
 sively over Europe and America. Mr. 
 Coyle has done much charitable work in 
 connection with Catholic institutions, or- 
 phanages, etc., for tlic past twenty years. 
 Address: 85 Vernon Street, Boston. 
 
 COYNE, Frederick E.: 
 
 Merciiant; born in East Orange, N. J., 
 in 1860. He was educated in the public 
 scliools of New .Jersey. At the age of 
 twenty-three he removed to Chicago, 111., 
 where he has been in active business since. 
 After a short period spent as a clerk, he 
 started a bakery, which througli liis ener- 
 geitic efforts grew to large proportions. 
 Ill' subsequently bought several restaurants 
 and added to his bakery a wholesale de- 
 ])artMient, wiiicli iu; still conducts. He is 
 a Ke|jubiican, and has been active in local. 
 State and National politics. He was coF 
 lector of internal revenue at Cliicago, 1897- 
 I'JUl and was postmaster of lliat city from 
 
 I'.IOl to IIMKI. He is a, mend»er of the 
 Union League. Cliicago .\lliletic. Hamilton, 
 Forty. Lincoln. Menoken. Marquette and 
 Press Clubs. He married at Sycamore. 111., 
 Oct. :i, 1888. Zada B. Dnstin. and has two 
 children. JJesidence: 52{)() Hibbard Avenue, 
 OfHce: ^Marquette Building, Chicago, 111. 
 
 COYNER. Charles Luther: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Ijong Glade, Va., Feb. 
 8, 1853; son of Addison Hyde Coyner and 
 Elizabeth (Brown) Coyner. He was grad- 
 uated from Forest Academy and Wesleyan 
 College, Va. Subsequently he studied law 
 in Washington and' Lee University, and was 
 admitted to the Virginia bar in 1877, and 
 he has since been admitted to the bars of 
 additional States. He is a member of the 
 Tennessee State Bar Association. In Texas 
 he was appointed District Judge to' fill 
 out unexpired term, by Governor 0. M. 
 Roberts, in 1881; he became prosecuting 
 attorney of Duval County in 1884, was 
 appointed district attorney by Governor 
 Ireland in 1886; was also elected' probate 
 judge in 1888, and elected county judge in 
 1896. He became a member of the Texas 
 Press Association in 1879, owned and 
 edited the Henderson County Journal 
 (Texas) in 1879, and became owner of 
 Narrow Gauge newspaper in 1881. He was 
 the chairman of the Democratic Executive 
 Committee of his county in 1889, and was 
 a delegate from his county to the Deep 
 Water Convention at Denver, Colo., in 1891. 
 In 1891 he was appointed chairman of 
 the Texas delegation to the World's Co- 
 lumbian E.xposition at 'Chicago, and in 
 1S84 he was secretary of the Democratic 
 State Executive Conunitlee of Texas. In 
 1902 he moved to Memphis, Tenn., where 
 lie has since practised. lie has done a 
 considerable amount of writing for mag- 
 azines, and in addition to his Twenty Years 
 in Te.xas, is tlu' author of several other 
 books. He is a member of the Memphis 
 Bar Association, the Tennessee State Bar 
 Association, the Texas Bar Association, 
 and the Texas Historical Association. He 
 is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of 
 Pythias, and a member of the Woodmen 
 of the World and the Order of Bedmcn. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 \ 1 ■) 
 
 lie iiiiinicd at Moscow. \a.. .Ian. 4. 1884, 
 Marj;ai('t Blair. i;csi(k'ucc : nO!) iMosby 
 Slicot. Otlico: 2Uti iJogers lUiildinj;-, JMcni- 
 pliis, Teiin. 
 
 CRAFTS, Wilbur Fisk: 
 
 (U'lgyinan. author, editor, lecturer, trav- 
 eler and reformer; born at Fryeburg, Me., 
 Jan. 12, 1850; son of Rev. Frederick A. 
 Crafts, a Methodist preacher; of Puritan 
 stock; was graduated at Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity, Middletown, Conn., in 1869, with 
 degree of A.B., and received from same 
 in 1871 degree of A.M.; in same year 
 graduated from the Boston University 
 School of Theology and received degree of 
 B.D.; and in 1896 received Ph.D. from 
 Marietta College. He served as a Metho- 
 dist minister from 1867 to 1879, a Con- 
 gregationalist minister from 1880 to 1883, 
 since which date he has been a Presby- 
 terian clergyman. Since 1871 he has been 
 active in Sunday school work, and has 
 participated in many Sunday school con- 
 ventions, assemblies and Chautauquas. 
 Since 1883 he has been active in Sabbath 
 observance movements and other moral re- 
 forms. In 1888-1889 he founded the Amer- 
 ican Sabbath Union; and from that year 
 to 1900 he lectured in all parts of the 
 United States as its field secretary. He 
 was chief editor of the Christian States- 
 man from 1901 to 1903; and has been 
 editor of the Twentieth Century Quarterly 
 since 1896. Dr. Crafts is author of: 
 " Practical Christian Sociology," " The 
 Sabbath for Man," " Intoxicating Drinks 
 and Drugs in All Times and Lands," and 
 other books on Bible teaching, Sunday 
 school work and moral reforms. Since 
 1895 he has been superintendent of a 
 bureau of lectures, literature and law. The 
 International Reform Bureau, which he 
 founded in that year. Its headquarters are 
 at Wasliington, where it undertakes agita- 
 tion in favor of Congressional legislation 
 against various forms of vice, and may be 
 said to be the first to have put the " reform 
 lobby " idea into practical and continuous 
 operation. Dr. Crafts married, in 1874, 
 Sara T. Timanus, a Sunday school author 
 
 and s|)i'al<cr. Address: 20(1 Pi'iinsy l\ a iiia 
 Av.'iiiic, S. Iv. Wasliiiigfoii, D. C. 
 
 CRAIG, Oscar John: 
 
 I'rcsidcni of llic IWiiversity of Montana; 
 l)i)rn in Madison, hid.; son of Miles W. and 
 Mary (Feather) Craig. He received the 
 degree of A.B. from Ashbury University, 
 A.M. from De Pauw University, and Ph.D. 
 from the University of Wooster. After 
 serving as superintendent of the city 
 scliools of Sullivan, Ind., he was elected 
 to the chair of history and political econ- 
 omy in Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., 
 from which position he was called to the 
 presidency of the University of Montana 
 at Missoula in 1893. Among President 
 Craig's prominent literary productions are: 
 Ouiatanon, a study in Indiana History; 
 The Bible in the Nineteenth Century; Stud- 
 ies in Civil Government. Mr. Craig mar- 
 ried Narrie E. Grassaway, of Madison, Ind., 
 and they have three children. Address : 
 Missoula, Mont. 
 
 CRAIGIE, Mary E. Whitbeck: 
 
 Author, philanthropist; born in Newark, 
 N. Y.; daughter of Rev. John and Margaret 
 Strong (Cook) Whitbeck. She was edu- 
 cated in the Detroit (Mich.) High School 
 and the Academy in Ithaca, N. Y., and 
 married in Ithaca, N. Y., in 1879, Charles 
 OTIara Craigie. In 1897, there being no 
 public library in the city of Brookyn, Mrs. 
 Craigie formed the Brooklyn Public Li- 
 brary Association, of which she has been 
 the president ever since. The association 
 agitated for a public library and got a 
 resolution through the common council to 
 establish branch libraries in the Borough 
 of Brooklyn. Mayor Wurster made an 
 appropriation of $10,000, which was the 
 next year increased to $40,000, appointed 
 a Library Board, and within two years, 
 under Mrs. Craigie's management as di- 
 rector of the libraries, ten branches were 
 in operation, including three reading-rooms 
 and libraries in public parks, which was 
 Mrs. Craigie's idea. She has also taken 
 a great interest in the w^elfare of city 
 boys, and has recognized the need of pro- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Aiding places of recreation to keep them 
 oir the streets and out of the saloons. Slio 
 formed a committee and drafted a bill, 
 wliich slie succeeded in having passed at 
 Albany. ])roviding that the city should 
 establish municipal club houses for boys, 
 but the bill was vetoed by Mayor McClel- 
 lan on the ground that the city could not 
 atiord it. Mrs. Craigie is interested in 
 and helps to support several boys' clubs. 
 She was one of five women representing 
 women's organizations who went to Albany 
 and secured the passage of a bill to com- 
 pel the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company 
 to provide vestibules for the motor men, 
 and was afterward one of the guests of 
 honor of 2,000 motor men and' conductors, 
 who gave a dinner to celebrate the passage 
 of the bill. Mrs. Craigie has lectured in 
 many states on literary subjects and on 
 woman suffrage, and she is author of: 
 .lohn Anderson and I; and of Once Upon 
 a Time (stories for children), both pub- 
 lished by Putnam's Sons. She was ap- 
 pointed by Mayor Wurster of Brooklyn, 
 to represent that city at the Tennessee 
 Centennial in Nashville, and by Governor 
 ]51aek to represent the State at the Omaha 
 Exposition ; and she was named by Bor- 
 ough President Coler on his Advisory 
 Committee of One Hundred. Mrs. Craigie 
 formed the King Manor Association of L. I. 
 and was its president for two years. This 
 is a patriotic association of women and 
 tlieir work was to save the historic Gover- 
 nor King Homestead at Jamaica, L. I., 
 which, located in a park now a part of the 
 city park system, is like Mt. Vernon and 
 tiie Van Cortland Manor House filled 
 with old historic furniture and relics of 
 Colonial days on Long Island. She has for 
 years been a iiieinber of Hie Brooklyn 
 Woman's Club, the Fort CJreen Cbapler of 
 Daughters of tlie American Revolution, and 
 the Woman's Auxiliary of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association. Address: (!raigio 
 Miuior, Baldwin, L. 1. 
 
 CRAIGHEAD, Erwin: 
 
 Kditor of the Mobile Register; born in 
 Nashvilh', Teiin.. April 4, 18,'i2; son of 
 .liniics I!, and l-'.llin Kiikinan (Miwin) 
 
 Craighead. lie was educated at Racine 
 College, Racine, Wis., and the University 
 of Nashville, Tenn., from which he was 
 graduated A.B., in 1872. He pursued post- 
 graduate studies at the University of Leip- 
 zig, and was admitted to the bar of Ten- 
 nessee in 187G, but never practised law. 
 In 1877 he made his first entry into jour- 
 nalism, was music critic and editorial 
 writer on the New Orleans Times, 1878- j 
 1880, and managing editor of the New 
 Orleans Daily States, 1880-1882. In the 
 latter year he began his connection with 
 the ]\Iobile Register, which has ever since 
 continued, beginning as city editor, 1882- 
 1884, managing editor since 1884, and 
 since 1903 also editor and vice-president 
 of the Mobile Register Company. Mr. 
 Craighead is a Democrat in politics and 
 since 1904 has been chairman of the Ala- 
 bama State Educational Board. He mar- 
 ried, at Nashville, Tenn., 1876, Lura Har- 
 ris. Residence: 400 Congress Street. Of- 
 fice: Register Building, Mobile, Ala. 
 
 CRAM, Ralph Adams: 
 
 Architect and author ; born at Hampton 
 William Augustine and Sarah Elizabeth 
 (Blake) Cram. He was educated in schools 
 in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and 
 afterward studied architecture; and since 
 1889 has practised that profession, now 
 being senior member of the firm of Cram, 
 Goodhue & Ferguson, architects having 
 offices in Boston and New York City. ]\Ir. 
 Cram is a fellow of the American Insti- 
 tute of Architects, the Royal Geographical 
 Society of London and the Boston Society 
 of Architects, and a member of the Arch- 
 itectural Association of London and the 
 Architectural Leagiie of New York City, 
 lie is a writer on architectural subjects 
 in technical and popular magazines, and 
 also of verse and prose in The Century. 
 Atlantic Monthly, New England ]\Iagazine. 
 Catholic \\'orld, etc., and is author of the 
 books: I'.lack Spirits and White; The 
 Decadent; Church Building; Impressions of 
 Japanese Architeclure and the Allied Arts: 
 The Ruined" Abbeys of Great Britain; The 
 Ciothic Quest; " Excalibur." He was first 
 vice-presideiii of tlie Ameiicnn Inslitute of 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 417 
 
 Arcliilccls, 1900; presideni; of the Boston 
 Society of Architects, 1!)0!); is lecturer op 
 arolutec'tural design in Harvard University, 
 and supervising architect to Princeton Uni- 
 versity. He is also, a member of the Cen- 
 tury Club of New York and the Puritan 
 Club of Boston. Mr. Cram married in 
 New Bedford, IMass., Sept. 20, 1900, Elizo- 
 betli Carrington Read, of Virginia. Resi- 
 dence: 52 Chestnut Street, Boston. Offi- 
 ces: 15 Beacon Street, Boston, and 170 
 Fiftli Avenue, New York City. 
 
 CRAMP, Charles Henry: 
 
 Ship builder; born in Philadelphia, May 
 9, 1828; son of William Cramp, founder 
 of the great ship and engine-building en- 
 terprise. He was educated in the schools 
 of Philadelphia, graduating from the Cen- 
 tral High School of that city. After leav- 
 ing school he entered his father's ship- 
 yards, learning the business thoroughly, 
 and in 1857 he was admitted as a partner 
 in the firm of William Cramp & Sens, 
 out of which has grown the present organ- 
 ization. For many years Mr. Charles H. 
 Cramp was at the head of this business. 
 Residence: 507 South Broad Street, Phila- 
 delphia. Office: Beach, corner of Ball 
 Streets, Philadelphia. 
 
 CRAMPTON, Henry Edward: 
 
 Professor of zoology, Columbia Univer- 
 sity; born in New York City, Jan. 5, 1875; 
 son of Dr. Henry Edward and Dorcas M. 
 (Miller) Crampton. He was educated in 
 the College of the City of New York and 
 Columbia College, graduating A.B., 1893, 
 and he received from Columbia the degree 
 of Ph.D. in 1899. He was assistant in 
 biology in Columbia University. 1893-1895; 
 instructor in biology at the Massachusetts 
 Institute of Technology, 1895-1896; fellow 
 in zoology, 1896-1897, lecturer, tutor and 
 instructor from 1897 to 1901 at Columbia 
 University; was adjunct professor of the 
 faculty of Pure Science and of Barnard 
 College, from 1901 to 1904; professor of 
 zoiilogy in the same, since 1904; was in- 
 structor of embryology at the Woods Hole 
 (Massachusetts) Biological Laboratory, 
 1895-1902; and has been instructor (in 
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 charge) of the work in embryology at the 
 Cold Spring Harbor Biological Laboratory, 
 1903-1905. Since Jan. 1, 1909, Professor 
 Crampton has been curator in charge of 
 the Department of Invertebrate Zoology of 
 the American Museum of Natural History. 
 Dr. Crampton's investigations have been 
 in the fields of experimental embryology 
 and experimental evolution, his contribu- 
 tions appearing in technical journals of 
 the United States, England and Germany. 
 Dr. Crampton is an associate member of 
 the staff of the Carnegie Institution for 
 the Station for Experimental Evolution at 
 Cold Spring Harbor. He traveled in tlie 
 Society Islands in the South Pacific in the 
 years 1906, 1907 and 1908, and in New 
 Zealand, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji and Hawaii 
 in 1909. Dr. Crampton is a fellow of the 
 New York Academy of Sciences (of which 
 he was formerly recording secretary and 
 later vice-president) ; fellow of the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science and the American Ethnological 
 Society; is a member of the American 
 Society of Naturalists, the American Soci- 
 ety of Zoologists, the Society for Experi- 
 mental Biology and Medicine; and he is 
 also a member of the Theta Delta Chi 
 fraternity, the Society of the Sigma Xi, 
 the Alumni Association of Columbia Uni- 
 versity. Dr. Crampton married at New 
 York, Oct. 27, 189G, jNIarion Maud Tulley, 
 Falls, N. H., Dec. 16, 1863; son of Rev. 
 and they have two children. Address: 
 Columbia University, or the American 
 Museum of Natural History, New York 
 City. 
 
 CRANDALL, Francis Asbury: 
 
 Journalist, librarian, specialist in Ignited 
 States public documents; born at Carbon- 
 dale, Pa., Nov. 28, 1837; son of Rev. 
 Andrew Jackson and Amelia (Fink) Cran- 
 dall. He learned the printer's trade in 
 Cazenovia and Syracuse, and was educated 
 at the Cazenovia Methodist Seminary. He 
 began editorial writing in 1861 on the 
 Utica ]\Iorning Herald, under the tutelage 
 of Ellis H. Roberts, who was later for 
 many years treasurer of the United States 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 rcpieseiilative in Congress, and otherwise 
 (listiiiguislu'd. Mr. (.'randall was for about 
 ."{.") year.s an editor, managing editor, or 
 |)iil)lisluT. and frequently all three at' 
 (iiicc. in Cazenovia, Utica, Scranton, St. 
 I.duis. Oswego, Erie, Buffalo and Provi- 
 liiiicc. Ill conipanj' with Joseph A. Scran- 
 Inn, and under the firm name of Crandall 
 & Co., he founded, in 1867, the Scranton 
 ^lorning Republican, the first modern daily 
 l)aper having telegraph service in that 
 city. In 1873 he bought the Erie Gazette, 
 which had been founded in 1820 by Joseph 
 Sterrett, and in 1875 bought out' the Sun- 
 day Gazette, the first Sunday issue in Erie. 
 Was managing editor of the Buffalo Ex- 
 press for nine years and of the Buffalo 
 Courier for five years. March 26, 1895, 
 was appointed first United States super- 
 intendent of documents and organized that 
 new office. Was demoted on a change of 
 administration in Nov., 1897, and has since 
 been librarian of public documents, chief 
 of index, and compilation division, and 
 acting chief editor in the Government 
 Printing Office at Washington. Mr. Cran- 
 dall is a member of the American Histori- 
 cal Association, the American Library As- 
 sociation, the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, the National 
 tleographic Society, the American Forestry 
 Association, the District of Columbia Li- 
 brary Association (of which he was pres- 
 ident in 1891), and a corresponding mem- 
 ber of the Buffalo Historical Society. lie 
 married at Trenton (now Barneveld), 
 N. Y., Sept. 17, 1861, Annie A. Jones, 
 who died Jan. 5, 1907, and has four chil- 
 dren, all living. Address: 1636 Sixteenth 
 Sire.t, N. W., Washington, D. C. 
 
 CRANDALL, Floyd Milford: 
 
 I'iiysician, editor; born at Belfast, N. Y., 
 May 2, 1858; son of Charles Milford 
 (M.D.) and Deborah J. (Wood) Crandall. 
 He was graduated from Genesco Normal 
 College, in 1880, and from the University 
 Medical College of New York as M.D. in 
 1884. He was interne at Bellevue Hos- 
 pital, 1884-1885, attending pliysician in 
 Bellevue Dispensary, 1886-1889, and in 
 Northwestern Dispensary, 1889-1890, was 
 
 surgeon to the New Y'ork Skin and Cancer 
 Hospital, 1890-1895; visiting physician at 
 the Children's Hospital, 1895-1898, at the 
 Infants' Hospital, 1895-1898, Minturn Hos- 
 pital, 1897-1899, and has been consulting 
 physician to the Infants' and Children's 
 Hospitals since 1898. He was lecturer on 
 diseases of children, 1889-1893, and has 
 been adjunct professor since 1893 at the 
 New Y^ork Polyclinic. Dr. Crandall waa 
 appointed, in 1907, by the Regents of the 
 University, a member of the State Medical 
 Board of New York. He was on the edi- 
 torial staff of the New York Medical Jour- 
 nal, 1889-1893, managing editor of Gal- 
 liard's Medical Journal, 1893-1895, and 
 editor of the Archives of Pediatrics, 1895- 
 1901. He is a member of the American 
 Pediatric Society, American Medical Asso- 
 ciation, the New York State Medical So- 
 ciety, New York County Medical Society, 
 of which he was president in 190G, 
 the New York Academy of Medicine, in 
 which he was president of the Section on 
 Pediatrics in 1895, the Harvey Medical 
 Society, and the West End Society, of 
 which latter he was president in 1895. Dr. 
 Crandall is author of: How to Keep Well, 
 1903, and of about sixty medical mono- 
 graplis and papers. Address: 113 West 
 95th Street, New York City. 
 
 CRANDON, Thomas Philip Franklin: 
 
 Railway official. He was educated at 
 Madison, Wis., and he served in the Union 
 Army from Dec, 1861, to July, 1866. He 
 settled in Batavia, Kane County, 111., 
 after the war, and he was elected clerk of 
 the County Court of Kane County, and was 
 also a member of the Village Council of 
 Batavia, 111. Jan., 1874, he entered the 
 service of the Chicago and Northwestern 
 Railway, of which he has for years been 
 the tax commissioner. Mr. Crandon has 
 long resided at Evanston, 111, and has 
 served as a member of the city Council 
 there and also as a member of the School 
 Board of School District Number 75 at 
 Evanston. He received the degree of A.M. 
 from Northwestern University in 1894, and 
 he is a member of the Board of Trustees 
 of that university. Residence: 1414 Forest 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Avenue, Evanston, 111. Office: Chicago and 
 No rtli western Railway, Chicago, 111. 
 
 CRANE, Albert: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, Dec. 
 30, 1842; son of Thomas and Clarissa 
 Lawrence (Starkey) Crane. His father 
 was of Quincy, Mass., and his mother of 
 Troy, N. H. Mr. Crane was educated at 
 Mount Washington Collegiate Institute in 
 New York City, at Tufts College, Medford, 
 Mass., whence he was graduated A.B., 1863, 
 and from Columbia College, LL.B., 1866. 
 He was admitted to the New York bar in 
 1866, and has been engaged in practice 
 ever since. The Thomas Crane Public Li- 
 brary was erected at Quincy, Mass., in 
 1882, as a memorial of Thomas Crane by 
 his widow and' two surviving sons, Ben- 
 jamin F. and Albert Crane, and the latter 
 lias given to The Crane Theological School 
 of Tufts College, as a further memorial of 
 his father, the sum of one hundred thou- 
 sand dollars, and also has given more land 
 and built a large addition to The Tliomas 
 Crane Public Library at Quincy, costing 
 over eight-eight thousand dollars. Mr. 
 Crane served seven years, 1863-1870, in 
 the 22d Regiment of the National Guard 
 of the State of New York. He was for- 
 merly a director of the Second Avenue 
 (surface) Railroad, the Pacific Fire insur- 
 ance Company and the Rutgers Fire In- 
 surance Company. He is a member of the 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, the New York State Bar Association, 
 New York Historical Society, New England 
 Historic-Genealogical Society, New York 
 Genealogical Society, American Geograph- 
 ical Society, the New England Society, the 
 Society of Colonial Wars in the State of 
 Connecticvit, and the Union Club of New 
 York City. Mr. Crane married first, in 
 New Y^ork City, 1884, Ellen M. Davies, of 
 Fishkill, N. Y., and second, in Boston, 
 1902, Fanny Starkey. He has his residence 
 at Villa Rock-Acre, Stamford, Conn. Ad- 
 dress : 35 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 CRANE, Bruce: 
 
 Artist ; born in New York City in 1857 ; 
 son of Solomon Crane and Leah Gillespie 
 
 Bruce. He was educated in New York 
 City and in Paris, France. He is a land- 
 scape painter and his first exhibition of 
 pictures was at the National Academy of 
 Design in 1879. He has been a National 
 Academician since 1902. Mr. Crane is a 
 member of the Society of American Artists 
 and the American Water Color Society. He 
 was awarded the Webb prize, the bronze 
 medal of the Paris Exposition in 1900, the 
 silver medal of the Pan American Exposi- 
 tion in 1901, the silver medal of the Caro- 
 lina Exposition, the gold medal of the Na- 
 tional Academy and the gold medal of the 
 Louisiana Exposition in 1904. Mr. Crane's 
 favorite recreations are farming and fish- 
 ing. He is a member of the Artist Fund 
 Society and of the Lotos and Salmagundi 
 Clubs of New York City. Address: 14 
 West Twelfth Street, New York City. 
 
 CRANE, Frank: 
 
 Congregational clergyman; born in Ur- 
 bana. 111., May 12, 1861 ; son of Rev. James 
 L. Crane (Methodist clergyman) and Eliza- 
 beth (Mayo) Crane. He was educated in 
 the public schools of Springfield, 111., and 
 in Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloom- 
 ington, 111., but did not continue to grad- 
 uation, though that University afterward 
 conferred upon him the degree of Ph.B., 
 and Nebraska Wesleyan University gave 
 him the degree of D.D. He entered the 
 ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church in Rock River Conference, and 
 filled leading Methodist pulpits in Chicago 
 until 1904, when he resigned from the 
 Conference and entered the ministry of the 
 C^ongregational Church, and for seven years 
 was pastor of' the Union Congregational 
 Church at Worcester, Mass. Dr. Crane is 
 widely known for his ability as a pulpit 
 orator and lyceum lecturer, and for a 
 period of four years, while a minister in 
 Chicago, he contributed a weekly column 
 of Pulpit Editorials to the Chicago Record 
 and the American Press Association. He 
 is author of The Religion of Tomorrow, and 
 has contributed essays and short stories 
 to magazines. He has just entered upon 
 a lectureship for the Sunday Afternoon 
 Club of Chicago, supported by all denom- 
 
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 inations. He married at Hillsboro, 111., in 
 1883, Ella C. Stickel. Address: 8 Ash- 
 land Street. Worcester, Mass. 
 
 CRANE, Frederick Evan: 
 
 Jurist; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 
 2, 1869; son of Frederick H. and Mary E. 
 (Jones) Crane. He was educated in the 
 Adelphi College, Brooklyn, and Columbia 
 College Law School, LL.B., 1889. He was 
 admitted to the bar of the State of New 
 York in 1889; was assistant district attor- 
 ney of Kings County, 1896, but resigned 
 in order to return to the general practice 
 of law in the firm of Dailey, Bell & Crane. 
 He was elected county judge of Kings 
 County and served . i that office until 
 elected, in Nov., 1906, a justice of the 
 Supreme Court of the Second District of 
 New York, for the term to expire Dec. 31, 
 1C20. Justice Crane is a member of the 
 Brooklyn, Crescent Athletic and Union 
 League Clubs of Brooklyn. He married' in 
 Montreal, Canada, in 1893, Gertrude 
 Craven, and they have a daughter and a 
 son. Address: 854 Prospect Place, Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y. 
 
 CRANE, William H.: 
 
 Actor; born in Leicester, Mass., April 
 30, 1845; son of Amaziah Brito and Mary 
 Sophia Crane. From infancy he lived in 
 Boston, and he was educated in the public 
 schools of that city. Pie began his stage 
 career in the Holman Opera Company, of 
 which Mrs. Harriet Ilolman was the head, 
 and made his debut in Mechanics' Hall, 
 Utica, N. Y., July 13, 1863, as "The 
 Notary," in The Daughter of the Regi- 
 ment. He remained with that company for 
 eight years, then was low comedian of the 
 Alice Gates Gpera Company four years, 
 then with Hooley's Stock Company, Chi- 
 cago. In 1877 he took part in the pro- 
 duction of the comedy, Gur Boarding 
 House, at the Park Theater, New York 
 City, and in that company met Stuart 
 Robson, and the two decided to star to- 
 gether. During their joint operations they 
 produced many important plays, and also 
 revived Shakespearean and other classical 
 dramas, notably The Comedy of Errors, 
 
 in whicli they played the two Dromios, and 
 The Merry Wives of Windsor. The last 
 play in which they were joint stars was 
 The Henrietta, which enjoyed a most suc- 
 cessful run up to the time of their separa- 
 tion in 1889. Since then Mr. Crane has 
 confined his attention almost exclusively to 
 plays by American authors, and has pro- 
 duced and played leading roles in: New- 
 port; The Senator; On Probation; For Mon- 
 ey; The American Minister; Brother John; 
 The Pacific Mail; His Wife's Father; A 
 Fool of Fortune; A Virginia Courtship; 
 Worth a Million; The Head of the Family; 
 Peter Stuyvesant; A Rich Man's Son; 
 David Harum; Business is Business; The 
 American Lord; The Price of Money; etc. 
 Residence: Cohasset, Mass. Address: The 
 Players Club, New York City. 
 
 CRANE, Winthrop Murray: 
 
 United States Senator; born at Dalton, 
 Mass., April 23, 1853; son of Zenas Mar- 
 shall and Louise (Laplin) Crane. He was 
 educated in the public schools of Dalton 
 and at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, 
 Mass. He is a paper manufacturer, having, 
 with his brother succeeded to the historic 
 Crane Paper manufacturing interests at 
 Dalton, which also manufactures the pa- 
 per for the currency of the United States. 
 Senator Crane was a delegate-at-large to 
 the Republican National Conventions of 
 1892, 1896, 1904 and 1908, and was selected 
 as the Massacliusetts member of the Repub- 
 lican national committee in the same year. 
 He was lieutenant-governor of Massachu- 
 setts from 1897 to 1899, and governor from 
 1900 to 1902. On Oct. 12, 1904, he was ap- 
 pointed to the United States Senate and 
 took his seat Dec. 6. He was elected by 
 the Legislature, in January, 1905, to fill out 
 the term expiring 1907, and reelected for 
 the term expiring in 1913. Senator Crane 
 is one of the National leaders of tlie Repu- 
 iican party and has been a potent force in 
 State and National campaigns and was sup- 
 posed to be the spokesman for the anti- 
 Taft forces in the Chicago Convention of 
 1908, and had a large share in the forming 
 of llie platform adopted by that convention. 
 He was a member of the advisory com- 
 
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 mitlee of the National Republican Com- 
 mittee in the c:impaign which followed 
 and largely responsible for its successful 
 outcome. Address: Dalton, Mass. 
 
 CRANSTON, Earl: 
 
 Bisliop of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church; born at Athens, Ohio, June 27, 
 1840; son of Earl and Jane (Montgomery) 
 Cranston. He was graduated from Ohio 
 University, Athens, Ohio, as A.B. in 1861, 
 later receiving from that institution the de- 
 gree of A.M. in 1866, and of LL.D. in 1897, 
 also receiving the degree of D.D. from Alle- 
 gheny College, Meadville, Pa., in 1882. He 
 served as a soldier in the Civil War, first 
 in the Third and Sixtieth Ohio Infantry 
 Regiments and the Second West Virginia 
 Cavalry Regiment, being promoted to be 
 captain. After the war he entered the min- 
 istry of the Methodist Episcopal Church as 
 a member of the Ohio Conference in 1867, 
 serving in that and other conferences as 
 pastor and presiding elder until 1884, when 
 he was elected one of the publishing agents 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, having 
 charge of the Western Methodist Book Con- 
 cern. He was senior publishing agent 
 (Cranston and Stowe, and Cranston & 
 Curts) from 1884 to 1896. In 1896 he was 
 elected by the General Conference as one of 
 the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. Bishop Cranston spent two years 
 in Episcopal visitation of the Methodist 
 Episcopal churches in China, Japan and 
 Korea from 1898 to 1900, and in 1907 re- 
 visited Japan as one of the commissioners of 
 his church, for the union of several Metho- 
 dist bodies in that country and the organ- 
 izing of the Methodist Church of Japan, 
 the Nippon Methodist Kyokwai, after which 
 service he made an Episcopal visit to Korea, 
 and later to Italy, Bulgaria, Germany, and 
 Northern Europe. He is one of the bishops 
 appointed by his colleagues to the Commis- 
 sion on Federation with the Methodist 
 Church, South. He married at Middleport, 
 Ohio, Oct. 1861, Martha Behan. One son. 
 Earl M., United States district attorney for 
 Colorado, 1901-1908 is the only one of their 
 children surviving. Three daughters, living, 
 
 are the children from a second marriage. 
 Address: Washington, D. C. 
 
 CRAPO, William Wallace: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Dartmouth, Mass., May 
 16, 1830; son of Henry H. and Mary A. 
 (Slocum) Crapo. He was graduated from 
 Yale University in 1852 with the degree of A. 
 B., and subsequently studied law at Harvard 
 University, completing his course in 1854 ; 
 and he received the degree of LL.D. from 
 Yale in 1882. He has practised in New 
 Bedford since 1855, where for twelve years 
 he was city solicitor. He is prominent in 
 the Republican party, by which he was elect- 
 ed to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1857, 
 and to the United ritates House of Repre- 
 sentatives in 1875, occupying his seat dur- 
 ing the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty- 
 sixth and Forty-seventh Congress. Mr. 
 Crapo has for many years been at the heft-d 
 of the law firm of Crapo. . Cliff"ord' & Pres- 
 cott, and is connected with a number of 
 banks. He is president of the Wamsutta, 
 Potomska and Acushnet Cotton Mills; and 
 he was president, 1882-1900, and chairman 
 of the Board of Directors, 1900-1902, of the 
 Pere Marquette Railroad of Michigan. He 
 married at New Bedford, Mass., Jan. 22, 
 1857, Sarah A. D. Tappan, who died in 
 1893. Address: New Bedford, Mass. 
 
 CRAVATH, Paul Drennan: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Berlin Heights, Ohio, 
 July 14, 1861; son of Erastus M. and Ruth- 
 anna (Jackson) Cravath. He received his 
 preparatory education at the Brooklyn Poly- 
 technic Institute and then studied in Eu- 
 rope two years, after which he entered 
 Oberlin College, from which he was grad- 
 uated as A.B. in 1882, following with the 
 course at the Columbia Law School and 
 graduating as LL.B. in 1886. He was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1886, and is now sen- 
 ior partner of the law firm of Cravath, 
 Henderson & de Gersdorff. He is also a di- 
 rector of the Standard Safe Deposit Com- 
 pany, and the Morton Trust Company; 
 Trustee Equitable Trust Co., Director ]Mer- 
 cantile Trust Co., and director of the Na- 
 tional Banlc of Commerce. He is a Republi- 
 
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 can in politics, and a member of the Congre- 
 gational Church. Mr. Cravath is a mem- 
 ber of the Association of the Bar of the 
 City of New York, the New England Soci- 
 ety, the Ohio Society, and the Lawyers', 
 Metropolitan. Down Town, Union League, 
 University, City Midday, and Congressional 
 Clubs of New York. He married at New 
 York City, Nov. 15, 1893, Agnes Hunting- 
 ton, by whom he has a daughter. Resi- 
 dence: 107 East 3!)th Street. Address: 52 
 William Street, New York City. 
 
 GRAVER, Harrison W.: 
 
 Librarian; born in Owaneco, 111.,- Aug. 10, 
 1875; son of Harrison E. and Caroline E. 
 (Weirauch) Craver. He was educated in 
 the public schools of Carmi, 111., and Terre 
 Haute, Ind., and he studied chemistry at 
 Rose Polytechnic Institute, graduating with 
 the degree of B.S. in 1895. Mr. Craver was 
 chemist to Kirkpatrick and Company, Lim- 
 ited, Pittsburgh, 1896-1898; to the\Shoen- 
 berger Steel Company, Pittsburgh, 1898- 
 1899; metallurgist to the Duquesne Reduc- 
 tion Company, Pittsburgh, in 1899-1900; 
 technology librarian to the Carnegie Li- 
 brary of Pittsburgh in 1900 and 1901, and 
 1903 to 1908. He was assistant superin- 
 tendent of the Allegheny Steel and Iron 
 Company, Pittsburgh, in 1902. Since 1908 
 he has been librarian of the Carnegie Li- 
 brary of Pittsburgh. Mr. Craver is a mem- 
 ber of the American Chemical Society, the 
 American Library Association, the Ameri- 
 can Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
 ence and the Engineers' Society of Western 
 Pennsylvania of which he is a director. 
 His special work has been in establishing 
 work in technology and useful arts as a 
 branch of public library service. He or- 
 ganized the work in his library, the lirst 
 free public library to devote special at- 
 tention to the needs of the industrial com- 
 munity. Mr. Craver is a member of the 
 University and German Clubs of Pittsburgh. 
 He married in Pittsburgh, June 17, 1902, 
 Adelaide Nevins Martin. Residence: 1344 
 Denniston Avenue, East End. Ollice ad- 
 dress: Carnegie Library, Schenley Park, 
 Pittsburgh. 
 
 CRAWFORD, Coe Isaac: 
 
 United States senator; born at Volney, 
 Iowa, Jan. 14, 1858; son of Robert and 
 Sarah (Shannon) Crawford. After receiv- 
 ing his preliminary instruction in public 
 sc'liools, and under tutors, he registered as 
 a law student in the University of Iowa, 
 and was graduated 1882. He was admitted 
 to the bar and practised for one year at 
 Independence, Iowa. In 1884 he moved to 
 Pierre, Dakota Territory, where he grew 
 into prominence both politically and pro- 
 fessionally. In 1886 he became States at- 
 torney of Hughes County, which office he 
 held for two years, and in 1889 was elected 
 a member of the Territorial Legislative 
 Council. Tlie following year he was elected 
 to the South Dakota Senate, and upon the 
 expiration of the term he became attorney- 
 general of South Dakota, occupying the 
 office until 1896. In 1897 he became a resi- 
 dent of Huron, S. D., where for eight years 
 he was attorney for the Chicago and North- 
 western Railway Company. Since 1901 he 
 has been in partnership, under the firm 
 name of Crawford & Taylor. In November, 
 1906, he was elected governor of South Da- 
 kota. He was nominated at the election 
 held under the new South Dakota primary 
 law, June 9, 1908, as the Republican candi- 
 date for U. S. senator, was elected by the 
 Legislature and is now serving for the term 
 which will expire March 3, 1915. He is a 
 prominent member of the American Bar As- 
 sociation and the South Dakota Bar Asso- 
 ciation, and in 1904 was chosen a delegate 
 to attend the Universal Congress of Law- 
 yers and Jurists, held at St. Louis. He 
 married first, Oct. 4, 1884, May Robinson, 
 who died July 20, 1894, and second, at 
 Iowa City, Iowa, Nov. 26, 1896, Lavina 
 Robinson. Address: Huron, S. Dak. 
 
 CRAWFORD, John Jones: 
 
 Miner and engineer; born at Newcastle, 
 Pa., Feb. 2, 1846; son of J. M. and Eliza- 
 betli J. Crawford. After careful prepara- 
 loiy training he entered the Polytechnic 
 College of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, 
 from which he was graduated in 1867, and 
 then attended the Royal Scliool of Mines 
 
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 at Freiburg, Saxony, from which he was 
 graduated in 1870. He became superintend- 
 ent of the Great Basin Mining Company at 
 Wliite Pine, Nev., in 1871, and after that 
 was superintendent of otlier Nevada and 
 California mines. In 1890 and 1891 he 
 served as member and secretary of the Ex- 
 amining Commission of Rivers and Harbors 
 for California, and since 1891 he has been 
 owner of a canal and mines in Calaveras, 
 Amador, Placer and Eldorado Counties in 
 California, and he is also secretary of the 
 Gwin Development Company. He was State 
 mineralogist of California from 1893 to 
 18!t7, and edited various reports and bulle- 
 tins relating to mines and minerals in 
 that State. He is a member of the Ameri- 
 can Institute of Mining Engineers. Ad- 
 dress: 1209 Spreckles' Building, San Fran- 
 cisco, Calif. 
 
 CRAWFORD, Mary Caroline: 
 
 Author and social worker; born in Bos- 
 ton; daughter of James G. and Mary (Co- 
 burn) Crawford. She was educated in the 
 Girls Latin School, Boston, in Radcliff Col- 
 lege, and in the School for Social Workers 
 maintained by Simmons College and Har- 
 vard University. Miss Crawford is author 
 of: The Pvomance of Old New England 
 Roof -Trees; The Romance of Old New Eng- 
 land Churches; The College Girl of Ameri- 
 ca; Among Old New England Inns; St. 
 Botolph's Town in Colonial Days; Old Bos- 
 ton Days and Ways. She was secretary in 
 1907 of the Women's Trade Union League 
 and in 1908-1909 of the Ford Hall Meetings, 
 Boston. She is a member of the Boston Au- 
 thors Club and of the Monday Evening Club 
 for Social Workers. Address: 30 High 
 Street, Charlestown, Mass. 
 
 CRAWFORD, William Henry: 
 
 President of Allegheny College; born at 
 Wilton Center, 111., Oct. G, 1855; son of 
 John and Lucy Jane Crawford. He was ed- 
 ucated in the high school at Joliet, 111., and 
 the academy and college of Northwestern 
 University, at Evanston, 111., from which he 
 was graduated as A.B., 1884, A.M., 1887; 
 was graduated from Garrett Biblical Insti- 
 tute, Evanston, 111., 1884, and the degree of 
 
 D.D. was conferred' upon him by North- 
 western University in 1893. He was or.- 
 dained in the ministery of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and was a member of 
 Rock River Annual Conference for iiijic 
 years, including two years Dr. Crawford 
 was pastor of the Ravenswood M. E. Church 
 and three years at Fulton Street ]\I. p]. 
 Church, both in Chicago. He was professor 
 of historical theology in Gammon Tlioologi- 
 cal Seminary, 1889-1S93; and since 1S9;5. has 
 been I'esident of Allegheny College. He mar- 
 ried at Batavia, 111., in 1884, Jennie ^I. 
 Foote. Address: Meadvillc, Pa. 
 
 CRAWSHAW, William Henry: 
 
 Educator; 1/orn in Newinug, N. Y., Nov. 
 G, 18G1; son of Charles and Mary (Lodge) 
 Crawshaw. He was educated in the public 
 schools of Newburg and Yonkers, N. Y., at 
 Colgate Academy, Hamilton, N. Y., 1880- 
 1883, and was graduated from Colgate Uni- 
 versity as A.B., with Phi Beta Kappa hon- 
 ors, in 1887; and he received the A.M. de- 
 gree in 1889. He has been instructor and 
 professor of English literature at Colgate 
 University since 1887, and' dean of the Col- 
 lege Faculty since 1897; and he was acting 
 president, 1897-1899 and in 1907, and was a 
 student at Oxford University, England, in 
 1900 and 1901. Prof. Crawshaw is a mem- 
 ber of the Modern Language Association, 
 and the American Social Science Associa- 
 tion, is an associate of the National Insti- 
 tute of Art and Letters, and a member of 
 the Beta Theta Pi. He is author of: The 
 Interpretation of Literature; the Literary 
 Interpretation of Life; Dryden's Palamon 
 and Arcite, and The Making of English Lit- 
 erature. Mr. Crawshaw married at Poult- 
 ney, Vt., Dec. 26, 1888, Jennie Louise 
 Broughton. Address: Hamilton, N. Y. 
 
 CREEL, Heber M.: 
 
 Soldier; born in La Fayette County, Mo., 
 Nov. 30, 1853; son of Alexander M. and 
 Salina (Poole) Creek. He was educated at 
 Cooper Institute and Kenper's Academy at 
 Booneville, Mo., at "Virginia JNIilitary Insti- 
 tute, Lexington, Va., and was appointed 
 from Missouri to the United States Military 
 
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 Academy at West Poini, from wliich ho was 
 •graduated in 1877, and commissioned lieu- 
 tenant in the Seventh United States Caval- 
 ry. He resigned in 1882 and has since been 
 engaged in real estate stock and farming 
 interests at Devils Lake, N. Dak. He was 
 chairman of the Board of County Commis- 
 sioners of Ramsey County, N. Dak., from 
 1884 to 1880; register of deeds from 1889 
 to ISitO: and State senator from 1897 to 
 1901. He was inspector and judge advo- 
 c-ite-general of the North Dakota National 
 Guard, 1891-190.'), adjutant-general, 1905- 
 1907, and major-general, retired, Jan. 7, 
 1907. Ceneral Creel has been special agent 
 for the Seventh District of the United 
 States, for the United States Department 
 of Agriculture, since 1903. He is a Repub- 
 lican in politics; was chairman of the Re- 
 publican County Central Committee of Ram- 
 sey County. North Dakota; member of the 
 Itepublican State Central and Executive 
 Committee of North Dakota, and was for 
 eight years National committeeman of 
 North Dakota of the Silver Republican Par- 
 ty. He was nominated in 1898 as an Inde- 
 pendent Rejniblican for Congressman-at- 
 large for North Dakota, and was endorsed 
 by the Democratic and Populist parties, 
 and he ran ahead of his ticket by live thous- 
 and votes. General Creel has traveled all 
 over the United States and Canada. He is 
 an Episcopalian in his church affiliation. 
 He received the badge of the United States 
 Indian Wars, and the badge for twenty-five 
 years service in the National Guard of 
 North Dakota; is a member of the Odd Fel- 
 lows, Elks, and the Modern Woodmen of 
 America; and is a director of the Chautau- 
 qua at Devils Lake. He married in Indian 
 Territory, May 10, 1879, Alice H. La Rue, 
 niece of Hon. William Holman who was for 
 thirty yeiirs a member of Congress from 
 Indiana. Address: Devils Lake, N. Dak. 
 
 CREELMAN, James: 
 
 .Journalist; born in Montreal, Canada, 
 Nov. 12, 1859. He was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools and in Talmage's Lay Theologi- 
 cal College. He began his ncwspa])er ca- 
 reer with the New York Herald, in 1887, 
 with which he was consecutively a reporter. 
 
 correspondent and editorial writer imtil 
 1889, editor of the London edition, 1890, 
 and of the Paris edition 1891-1892; and was 
 editor of the New York Evening Telegram 
 1892-1893. He represented the New York 
 World in the Chino- Japanese War in 1894; 
 correspondent of the New Y''ork Journal, 
 1897-1899, including the Graeco-Turkish War 
 of 1897, Spanish-American War, 1898, and 
 the War in the Philippines, 1899. Mr. 
 Creelman received the surrender of the 
 Spanish commandant after the battle of EI 
 Caney, Cuba, 1898, captured the Spanish 
 flag and was dangerously wounded. Later 
 he had charge of the editorial page and was 
 Washington correspondent of the New York 
 Journal, and is now editorial correspondent 
 of the New York World. Mr. Creelman 
 has gained much distinction as an inter- 
 viewer, and has interviewed many famous 
 personages, including the late Pope Leo 
 XIII, Prince Bismark, President Faure of 
 France, the Emperor of Korea, Henry IM. 
 Stanley, Louis Kossuth, Count Tolstoy, and 
 others. He is author of: On the Great 
 Highway; Eagle's Blood; etc. He is member 
 of the Lotos, Authors, and National Demo- 
 cratic Clubs of New York, and of the Na- 
 tional Liberal and New Vagabonds Clubs of 
 London. He married in 1891, Alice L. 
 Buell. Residence: 67 West 94th Street. 
 Office: Care of The New York World, 
 New Y^ork City. 
 
 CRIMMINS, John Daniel: 
 
 Real estate and banking; born in New 
 York City, May 18, 1844. He was educated 
 in the p\iblic schools of the city and the 
 College of St. Francis Xavier, and in 18G4 
 he became a partner in his father's con- 
 tracting business. In 1873 he became head 
 of the firm which was the first to make use 
 of mechanical appliances and steam drills 
 in New York City. The firm erected more 
 than four hundred buildings in New York 
 City, built the Broadway, Columbus and 
 Lexington Avenue Cable roads and later 
 supervised the installation of electricity on 
 these roads and most of the other lines of 
 the Melroi)olitan Street Railway System. 
 From the beginning of his career, Mr. Crim- 
 mins has been extensively interested in city 
 
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 real ostato, of which lio has large holdings. 
 He i?< a director of the Fifth Avenue Bank, 
 (lie Title Insurance C'onijiany of New York, 
 New York IMortgage and Security Company, 
 the ("helsea Realty Company, a member of 
 the Chamber of Commerce and fellow for 
 life of the American Fine Arts Society. Mr. 
 Crimmins is one of the most distinguished 
 Catholic laymen in this country, is treas- 
 urer of the Board of Trustees of St. Pat- 
 rick's Cathedral ; and the late Pope Leo 
 XIII conferred on him the order of knight- 
 hood, creating him a Knight of the Order 
 of St. Gregory the Great. He devotes his 
 leisure to literature and has published two 
 volumes dealing with the history of the 
 Irish in America. Politically he is a Dem- 
 ocrat, and was a nominee of that party for 
 presidential elector in 1908. Mr. Crimmins 
 is a trustee of the Catholic University of 
 America, a manager of St. Vincent's Hos- 
 pital, trustee of the Seton Sanatorium and 
 St. John's Day Nursery; treasurer of the 
 Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, member of 
 Board of Managers of the Society for the 
 Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, presi- 
 dent of St. John's Guild, trustee of the 
 Provident Loan Society, member of Board 
 of Managers of American Society for Pre- 
 vention Cruelty to Animals, , patron of the 
 Museum of Natural History, member of the 
 INIetropolitan Museum of Art and of the 
 American Geographical Society. Mr. Crim- 
 mins married Lily Louise Lalor, who died 
 in 1888, and has five sons and five daugh- 
 ters. Address : Emmett Arcade, 624 Madi- 
 son Avenue, New York City. 
 
 CROCKER, Francis Bacon: 
 
 Electrical engineer; born in New York 
 City, July 4, 1861; son of Henry H. and 
 Mary (Eldridge) Crocker. He was gradu- 
 ated from Columbia University, as E.M., 
 1882. and Ph.D., 1895. He was one of the 
 pioneers in the invention and development 
 of electric motors and lighting, being en- 
 gaged as inventor and practising electrical 
 engineer, 1882-1889. He founded the C. & 
 C. (Curtis & Crocker) Electric Company in 
 1886, and the Crocker-Wheeler Company 
 in 1888. having been vice-president of both 
 companies. In 1889 he was appointed head 
 
 of the Electrical Engineering Department 
 of Columbia University, and now retains 
 that position. He was president of the 
 American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 
 1897-1898; president of the New York 
 Electrical Society, 1892-1895; and is a mem- 
 ber of the British Institution of Electrical 
 Engineers; American Physical Society; 
 American Electrochemical Society; fellow 
 of the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science ; and was permanent 
 secretary of the International Electrical 
 Congress, Chicago, 1893. He was chairman 
 of the committees which formulated the 
 the Standardization Rules of the American 
 Institute of Electrical Engineers and the 
 National Electrical Code according to which 
 electrical apparatus is manufactured and 
 installed throughout the United States. He 
 is the author of: Management of Electrical 
 Machinery, 7th edition, 1907; Electric Light- 
 ing, 2 volumes, 6th edition, 1904; Direct and 
 Alternating Current Machine Design, 1908, 
 and Dynamo Electric Machinery, 1908. Res- 
 idence : 14 West 45th Street. Address: 
 Columbia University, New York City. 
 
 CROCKER, George: 
 
 Capitalist and banker; born in Califor- 
 nia; son of Charles Crocker, one of the 
 founders of the first railroad across the 
 Sierras. He has for some years made his 
 residence in New York City. He is a 
 director in various corporations; member of 
 the Metropolitan, City, Midday, New York 
 Yacht, New York Athletic, Union League, 
 Tuxedo, The Brook Clubs of New York City 
 and the Automobile Club of America, and 
 Army and Navy Club. Residence: 1 East 
 64th Street. Address: 60 Wall Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 CROCKER, George Glover: 
 
 Lawyer and chairman of the Boston 
 Transit Commission; born in Boston, Dec. 
 15, 1843; son of Uriel and Sarah Kidder 
 (Haskell) Crocker. He was educated at 
 the Boston Public Latin School, and at 
 Harvard College, from which he was grad- 
 uated as A.B. in 1864, and afterward was 
 crraduated from Harvard Law School, re- 
 
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 ceiving the degrees of A.M. and LL.B. He 
 was a nieniber of the Massachusetts House 
 of Representatives in 1873, 1874 and of the 
 Massachusetts Senate from 1880 to 1883 in- 
 clusive, being its president in 1883. He was 
 chairman of the Massachusetts Board of 
 Railroad Commissioners from 1887 to 1892, 
 and has been chairman of the Boston 
 Transit f'ommission since 1894. He was ap- 
 pointed a member of the Massachusetts 
 State Commission on Commerce and Indus- 
 try in 1907. He is a Republican in politics. 
 He is author of a manual entitled, Princi- 
 ples of Procedure in Deliberative Assem- 
 blies; of a Digest of Rulings of the Pre- 
 siding Officers of the Massachusetts Senate 
 and House from 1833; and of an historical 
 pamphlet, entitled. From the State Coach to 
 the Railroad Train and the Street Car. He 
 is a member of the American Bar Associa- 
 tion, the American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science, the American Statistical 
 Association, the National and the Massa- 
 chusetts Civil Service Reform Associations, 
 the American Institute of Civics, the Ameri- 
 can Economic Association, and the Phi Beta 
 Kappa Socety. j\Ir. Crocker married in 
 Boston, June 19, 1875, Annie Bliss Keep, 
 and they have five children. Residence: 
 343 Commonwealth Avenue. Address: Old 
 South Building, Boston. 
 
 CROKER, Richard: 
 
 Kx-leader of Tammany Hall; born at 
 Black Rock, Ireland, Nov. 24, 1843. He came 
 to the United States at the age of three 
 years, and attended the public schools of 
 New York City. He was alderman in New 
 York City, 1868-1870, and in 1885; coroner 
 from 1873 to 1870; fire commissioner in 
 1883, and city chamberlain, 1889-1890. He 
 attracted the attention of John Kelly; was 
 prominent in opposing the Tweed Ring, and 
 ro.se to be leader in Tammany Hall; and in 
 1897 he caused' the election of Robert A. 
 Van Wyck, first mayor of Greater New 
 York. Mr. Croker is founder of the Demo- 
 cratic Club, now the National Democratic 
 Club of New York City, of wliich he is a 
 member. His favorite recreation is horse 
 racing, and he has a stud of horses in Eng- 
 land, and won the English Derby with his 
 
 horse Corby in 1907. For several years Mr. 
 Croker has been a resident of England, but 
 in 1909 made an extended visit to the 
 United States. Address: National Demo- 
 cratic Club, New York City. 
 
 CROMWELL, William Nelson: 
 
 Lawyer, financier. He was graduated 
 from the Columbia Law School in 187G, and 
 and became a clerk and in 1877 a partner 
 in the law firm of Sullivan. Kobb§ & Fowler, 
 which was suceeded by the firm of Sullivan 
 & Cromwell, of which he is now the senior 
 member, Mr. Cromwell has been retained 
 in the largest financial organizations and 
 reorganizations, was counsel for the Reor- 
 ganization Committee of the Northern Pa- 
 cific Railroad Company; organized the 
 American Cotton Oil Company and the 
 $80,000,000 National Tube Company; re- 
 organized and set on its feet, under another 
 title the Produce Exchange Trust Company : 
 settled up the affairs of the Seventh Nation- 
 al Bank, the Metropolitan Fire Engine Com- 
 pany and' the tangle of the Penfield Com- 
 panies. The affairs of the French Panama 
 Canal Company were placed unreservedly 
 in his hands, and the sale of the canal to 
 the United States Government was negoti- 
 ated under his direction. "Sir. Cromwell is 
 a member of the Metropolitan Museum of 
 Art, and of the Lawyers, Union League, 
 New York and Metropolitan Clubs. He 
 married Miss Jennie Osgood. Residence: 
 12 West 49th Street. Office: 49 Wall 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 CROOK, Alja Robinson: 
 
 Curator, Illinois State Museum of Natur- 
 al History; born in Circleville, Ohio, June 
 17, 1864; son of Isaac Crook, LL.D. and 
 Emma (Wilson) LL.D. He was graduated 
 at the Ohio Wesleyan University, A.B., 
 1887, and the LTniversity of Munich, Ph.D., 
 1892. After a thorough course of study in 
 German Universities and terms at the 
 British Museum, the Jardin des Plantes, 
 etc, he became professor of natural liistory 
 at Wheaton (Illinois) College, 1892-189.3, 
 then went to Northwestern University as 
 ])rofessor of mineralogy and economic geol- 
 ogy, and' in 1906 became curator of the 
 
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 Illinois State Museum of Natural History. 
 ITe orsranized the State Academy of Sciences 
 ill 1907, and is its secretary. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Deutschen Geologischen Gesell- 
 schaft; the Sio^ma Xi Society, of the Phi 
 (ianima Delta fraternity; the State Acad- 
 emy of Science; and a fellow of the Ameri- 
 can Association for the Advancement of 
 Science and the Geological Society of Ameri- 
 ca. He is the author of a large number of 
 jiapers and encyclopedia articles on mineral- 
 ogy and general geology, and is a frequent 
 contributor on similar topics. Dr. Crook 
 has been an extensive traveler in the United 
 States, Mexico. Europe and Asia Minor, 
 and has mountaineered in the Urals, Cau- 
 casus, Alps and Rocky Mountains with par- 
 tial ascents of Mount" Elbruz (18,800), and 
 ascent of Orizaba (18,300), Mt. Blanc (15,- 
 780), etc. He was married in Chillicothe, 
 Ohio, Dec. 28. 1904, to Florence Wayne Pur- 
 dum. and has one daughter. Residence : 
 82G South Glenwood Street. Office: State 
 ^Museum of Natural History, Springfield. 111. 
 
 CEOSBY, John Schuyler: 
 
 Colonel, U. S. Army, retired; born in 
 Albany County. N. Y., Sept. 19, 1839; son 
 of Clarkson Floyd Crosby and Angelica 
 (Schuyler) Crosby. He is a great-great- 
 grandson of General William Floyd', signer 
 of the Declaration of Independence, and also 
 of Surgeon Ebenezer Crosby, of General 
 Washington's Life Guard. He was gradu- 
 ated from the University of the City of New 
 York, and after leaving college, made a voy- 
 age to China and crossed the continent of 
 South America from Valparaiso to Monte- 
 video. He served in the Civil War, entering 
 as second lieutenant in the regular Artil- 
 lerj'; served in the Army of the Potomac 
 and later in the Department of the Gulf, 
 as assistant adjutant-general and aide-de- 
 camp on the staff of Major-General Banks, 
 and from 1864 to 1871 served on the staff 
 of Lieutenant-General Sheridan with the 
 rank of lieutenant-colonel of the United 
 States Army. In 1863 he was appointed by 
 Governor Seymour colonel of the Seventh 
 New York Heavy Artillery, United States 
 Volunteers, but continued to serve on staff 
 duty. He was brevetted four times for gal- 
 
 lantry during the Civil War, and received 
 an autograph letter from Abraham Lincoln, 
 thanking him for carrying dispatches 
 through the enemy's country to Admiral 
 Farragut aboard the Hartford, in the Mis- 
 sissippi River. After the War. he served in 
 several Indian campaigns with Generals 
 Sheridan and Custer, as adjutant-general 
 of those expeditions. He resigned from the 
 army in 1871. He was consul to Florence, 
 Italy, in 1876. and received a decoration 
 from the King of Italy for discovering and 
 helping to capture a band of criminals in 
 Tuscany. He was governor of Montana, 
 1882-1884; first assistant postmaster-gen- 
 eral of the United States, 1883-1886, school 
 commissioner of New York City, 1889-1892. 
 He is a Republican in politics. Colonel 
 Crosby was awarded a medal of the first- 
 class for saving' life at sea. He is a member 
 of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, 
 the Grand Army of the Republic, the Soci- 
 ety of the Army of the Potomac, Sons of the 
 Revolution, and St. Nicholas Society; and 
 the Union, Army and Navy, and New York 
 Yacht Clubs of New York City, and the 
 Aletropolitan Club of Washington, D. C. 
 Colonel Crosby married at the Van Rens- 
 selaer manor, June 28, 1863, Harriet Van 
 Rensselaer, daughter of the last patroon of 
 Albany, N. Y., and he has a son. and a 
 daughter. Address: Union Club, New 
 York City. 
 
 CROSS, Charles Robert: 
 
 Professor of physics; born in Troy, N. 
 Y., March 29, 1848; son of George and 
 Lucy Ann (Brown) Cross. He was gradu- 
 ated from the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology, Boston, as S.B. in 1870. He 
 has remained at the Massachusetts Institute 
 of Technology since graduation, and is 
 Thayer professor of physics in charge of 
 the Department and director of the Rogers 
 Laboratory. In 1882, at his instigation, a 
 course in electrical engineering, leading to 
 a degree, was instituted at the Massachu- 
 setts Institute of Technology, the first to 
 be established in this country and one of 
 the first in the world, and he was in charge 
 of it for twenty years. He has published 
 many scientific papers on acoustics and 
 
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 electricity, chiefly in the proceedings of the 
 American Academy. He is an. Independent 
 in politics. Mr. Cross is a fellow of the 
 American Academy of Arts and Science, and 
 for some years has been chairman of the 
 Eumford Committee. He is a member of 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, the British Association for 
 the Advancement of Science, the French 
 Physical Society, American Physical So- 
 ciety, American Institute of Electrical En- 
 gineers, and was president of the Appahich- 
 ian Mountain Club in 1880, and he is a 
 member of the St. Botolph, Oakley Country 
 and Technology Clubs. Mr. Cross married 
 in Salisbury, Mass., July 15, 1873, Mariana 
 Pike, who died June 10, 1890, and they had 
 two sons of whom one is now deceased. Res- 
 idence: 100 Upland Pioad, Brookline, Mass. 
 Address: Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
 nology, Boston, J\lass. 
 
 CROSS, Joseph: 
 
 Jurist; born in Morristown, N. J., Dec. 
 29, 1843; son of William and Sarah M. 
 Cross. He was graduated from Princeton, 
 A.B., 1865, A.M., 1868, studied law in office 
 and at Columbia Law School and practised 
 at Elizabeth, N. J., until 1905. He was a 
 member, 1894-1895, and speaker 1895 in the 
 New Jersey Assembly, member, 1889-1905 
 and president 1905 of the New Jersey Sen- 
 ate, and since April, 1905, was appointed to 
 his present office as judge of the U. S. Dis- 
 trict Court for the District of New Jersey. 
 Address: Elizabeth, N. J. 
 
 CROTHERS, Austin L.: 
 
 Governor of Maryland. He has long been 
 active in the political affairs of Maryland 
 as a Democrat, and in 1907 was nominated 
 and elected to the office of governor for the 
 four-year term expiring in 1912. Address: 
 Annapolis, Md. 
 
 CROTHERS, George Edward: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Wapello. Iowa, May 27, 
 1870; son of John and Margaret (Fair) 
 Crothers. He was graduated from the Le- 
 land Stanford, Junior, University, as A.B., 
 in 1895, and as A.M. in Law in 1896. Since 
 
 1896 he has been engaged in law practice at 
 San Francisco, Calif., where he is a member 
 of the firm of Crothers and Crothers, his 
 brother, T. G. Crothers, being the senior 
 member of the firm. He was one of the at- 
 torneys for the executors and trustees of the 
 Estate of James G. Fair, during the pro- 
 tracted litigation over that estate; repre- 
 sented Mrs. Stanford in the revision of the 
 Stanford University Trustee and in recon- 
 veyance of the Stanford University endow- 
 ment. He wrote and directed the movement 
 which secured the adoption of a Constitu- 
 tional Amendment and several laws relative 
 to the security of the endowment of the Uni- 
 versity and the construction of trusts. Mr. 
 Crothers is a member of the American His- 
 torical Society, the Archfeological Institute 
 of America, the American Political Science 
 Society, the Schoolmasters' Club of Cali- 
 fornia, the Seismological Society of Amer- 
 ica, The American Geographical Society and 
 the American Municipal League. He is a 
 trustee of the Stanford Kindergarten Trvist, 
 and a member of the Board of Trustees of 
 Stanford University, being the only gradu- 
 ate of Stanford on the Board. Residence: 
 2998 Pacific Avenue. Office: 612, 615 Call 
 Building, San Francisco, Calif. 
 
 CROTHERS, Samuel McChord: 
 
 Clergyman; born at Oswego, 111., June 7, 
 1857; son of Hon. John M. and Nancy (Fos- 
 ter) Crothers. He was graduated from 
 Princeton College A.B. in 1874; afterward 
 studied theology at the Union Theological 
 Seminary in New York, and he received the 
 lionorary degree of S.T.D. from Harvard 
 University in 1899, and that of Litt.D. 
 from Saint Lawrence University, Canton, 
 N. Y., in 1904. He was ordained' in the min- 
 istry of the Unitarian Church, and entered 
 upon his first pastorate at Eureka, Nev. ; 
 and he was afterward minister at Santa 
 Barbara, Calif., Brattleboro, Vt., and St. 
 Paul, Minn., and since 1894 has been minis- 
 ter over the First Parish at Cambridge, 
 Mass.; and he is also preacher to Harvard 
 University. Dr. Crothers has also attained 
 distinction in the literary field as author of: 
 Members of One Body; Miss Muffet's Christ- 
 mas Party; The Gentle Reader; The Un- 
 
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 derstanding Heart; and A-arioiis contribu- 
 tions to magazines. He married at 8anta 
 liarbara, Calif., Sept. 9, 1882, Louise M. 
 Hronson. Address: 20 Oxford Street, Cam- 
 liridge, Mass. 
 
 CROWDER, Enoch H.: 
 
 Colonel, U. S. Army; born in Missouri, 
 April 11, 1859. He was appointed a cadet 
 at the United States Military Academy, 
 Sept. 1, 1877; was commissioned second 
 lieutenant of the Eighth Cavalry, June 11, 
 1886; first lieutenant, July 5, 1886; major 
 (judge advocate), Jan. 24, 1895; lieuten- 
 ant-colonel. May 21, 1901, and colonel, April 
 16, 1903. Address: War Department, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 CROWNINSHIELD, Caspar S.: 
 
 Consular official; born at Nice, France, 
 in 1871; son of Rear-Admiral Arent 
 Schuyler Crowninshield, of the United 
 States Navy, and Mary (Bradford) Crown- 
 inshield, distinguished novelist. He was ap- 
 pointed commercial agent of the United 
 States at Castellamare di Stabia, Italy, 
 April 27, 1901, promoted to consul at the 
 same place, June 22, 1900, and about a 
 year later was promoted to his present 
 office as consul at Naples, Italy. Address: 
 American Consulate, Naples, Italy. 
 
 CROZIER, William: 
 
 Brigadier-general United States Army; 
 born at Carrollton, Ohio, Feb. 19, 1855; 
 son of Judge Robert and Margaret Crozier. 
 He was graduated from West Point in 1876, 
 and was assigned to the Fourth Artillery. 
 He served under Generals Crook and How- 
 ard in campaigns against the Sioux and 
 Bannocks in 1876-1877 and 1878, and in 
 1879 became instructor of mathematics at 
 the United States Military Academy, until 
 1884. After a competitive examination 
 in 1881 he entered the Ordnance Depart- 
 ment, and he has ever since served as an 
 ordnance officer. He was promoted captain 
 in 1890. In association with General Buf- 
 fington he invented the Buffington-Crozier 
 disappearing gun-carriage, now in general 
 use in American coast-defense works, and 
 
 he is also inventor of a wire-wrapped rifle. 
 He served as major and inspector-general 
 of United States volunteers in the Spanish- 
 American War from May 17 to Nov. 30, 
 1898. He was one of the American dele- 
 gates to the Peace Conference at The Hague 
 in 1899; served on the staff of General 
 Bates and of General Schwan in the cam- 
 paign in Southern Luzon of the Philippine 
 Insurrection; was chief ordnance officer of 
 the Pekin Relief Expedition under General 
 Chaffee in 1900; was appointed professor of 
 natural and experimental philosophy at the 
 U. S. Military Academy, West Point, in 
 1901, but declined the appointment; was 
 promoted brigadier-general and has been 
 chief of ordnance of the United States Army 
 since Nov. 22, 1901. Address: War De- 
 partment, Washington, D. C. 
 
 CRUMPACKER, Edgar Dean: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born in La- 
 porte County, Ind. He was educated in the 
 common schools and at the Valparaiso 
 Academy. He was admitted to the bar 
 in 1876, and has been in the practice of 
 law at Valparaiso, Ind., ever since. He 
 was prosecuting attorney for the Thirty- 
 first Judicial District of Indiana, 1884- 
 1888, and then served as appellate judge 
 in the State of Indiana, by appointment, 
 under Governor Hovey, from jNIarch, 1891, 
 to Jan. 1, 1893. Mr. Crumpacker was 
 elected in 1896 from the Tenth Indiana 
 District to the Fifty-fifth Congress and re- 
 elected in 1898, 1900, 1902, 1904, 1906 
 and 1908, and is now serving in the Six- 
 ty-first Congress. He is especially known 
 as an advocate of the reduction of the rep- 
 resentation of Southern States in the Con- 
 gress of the United States in the ratio in 
 which such States have disfranchised citi- 
 zens of the United States by laws estab- 
 lishing qualifications for voting. Address: 
 Valparaiso, Ind. 
 
 CRUNDEN, Frederick Morgan: 
 
 Librarian; born at Graveseud, Kent, 
 England, Sept. 1, 1847; son of Benjamin 
 Robert and Mary (Morgan) Crunden. He 
 has been a resident of St. Louis from 
 infancy. He won a scholarship at Wash- 
 
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 ington University and completed the course 
 in three years, graduating with the degree 
 of A.B. in 1S68, and he received from that 
 university the degree of A.M. in 1872 and 
 that of LL.D. in 1905. After his gradua- 
 tion he engaged in teaching until 1872, 
 when he became a professor in Washington 
 University; was appointed, in 1877, libra- 
 rian and secretary of the St. Louis Public 
 Library, in which position he has ever since 
 continued. He is a member of the execu- 
 tive committee of the American Library 
 Institute, a member of the American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science, 
 the St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis 
 Academy of Science, Missouri Historical 
 Society, American Social Science Associa- 
 tion, American Economic Association, and 
 American Civic Federation. He has deliv- 
 ered numerous addresses on sociological 
 and educational topics and is an occasional 
 contributor to leading magazines. Mr. 
 Crunden married in St. Louis, 1889, Kate 
 Edmondson. Address: The Public Li- 
 brary, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 CUDAHY, John: 
 
 Packer; born at Callan, in County Kil- 
 kenny, Ireland, Nov. 2, 1843; son of Pat- 
 rick and Elizabeth (Shaw) Cudahy. The 
 family removed to the United States in 
 1849, and settled at Milwaukee, Wis. 
 There he attended the public schools until 
 he was fourteen years old, when he went 
 to work in the packing house of Edward 
 Roddis at Milwaukee, remaining there three 
 years and then in the employ of John 
 Plankinton and his successor, the firm of 
 Plankinton and Armour, until in 1865 he 
 went into business for himself as a dealer 
 in ornamental and fruit trees. In 1870 
 lie again became connected with the pack- 
 ing business and was with several Milwau- 
 kee firms until 1875, when he became a 
 partner in the firm of Ciiapin and Company 
 of Chicago. In 1877 the firm became 
 Chapin and Cudahy, and afterward changed 
 to the Cudahy Packing Company. In 1881 
 with his brothers, Michael and Patrick, he 
 established the firm of Cudahy Brothers, 
 and for years, in tliese and other connec- 
 tions, has been one of the most prominent 
 
 representatives of the packing, provision 
 and grain interests of Chicago. Mr. Cud- 
 ahy married, first, at Bridgeport, Conn., 
 in 1873, Mary Nolan, and second at Chi- 
 cago, Margaret F. O'Neil. Residence: 3254 
 Michigan Avenue. Office: 145 Van Buren 
 Street. Chicago, 111. 
 
 CUDAHY, Michael: 
 
 Packer; born at Callan, County Kilkenny, 
 Ireland, Dec. 7, 1841; son of Patrick and 
 Elizabeth (Shaw) Cudahy. The family 
 emigrated in 1849 and settled in Milwau- 
 kee, Wis., and he was educated in the 
 public schools there. He learned the butch- 
 er's trade with his father, and in 1856 
 entered the packing house of John Plankin- 
 ton at Milwaukee, remaining there until 
 1806 when he became connected with the 
 packing house of Edward Roddis at Mil- 
 waukee, and afterward for four years was 
 manager of the packing house of Plankin- 
 ton and Armour at Milwaukee. He was a 
 partner with Philip D. Armour in the firm 
 of Armour and Company from 1873 to 1890, 
 removing to Chicago. In 1881 he joined 
 his brothers, John and Patrick Cudahy, in 
 establishing the firm of Cudahy Brothers, 
 of which he is the senior member, and he is 
 also president of the Cudahy Packing Com- 
 pany, conducting large packing and provis- 
 ion enterprises at Milwaukee, Omaha. Sioux 
 City and Los Angeles. Mr. Cudahy is also 
 jnesident of the North American Transpor- 
 tation and Trading Company, and a direc- 
 tor of the Bankers' National Bank of Chi- 
 cago. He is a member of the Union 
 League, Chicago Yacht, Sheridan, Glen 
 View and Exmoor Clubs. Residence: 3138 
 Michigan Avenue. Office address: 763 The 
 Rookery, Chicago, 111. 
 
 CUDAHY, Patrick: 
 
 Packer; born at CallaU;, County of Kil- 
 kenny, Ireland, March 17, 1849; son of 
 Patrick and Elizabeth (Shaw) Cudahy, and 
 tliree months after his birth was brought 
 to the United States by his parents, who 
 settled in Milwaukee. He was educated in 
 the public schools of Milwaukee until he 
 was twelve years old, when he became a 
 
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 delivery boy for a Milwaukee grocery firm, 
 and two years later he became an em- 
 ployee of the packing house of Edward 
 Koddis and Company. He was afterward 
 in tlie employ of two other Milwaukee pack- 
 ing firms and then of Plankinton and 
 Armour, and of the latter he became super- 
 intendent in 1874 and a partner in 1876. 
 In 1888, with his brother, John Cudahy, he 
 bouglit out the interests of Mr. Plankinton 
 in the latter firm, which became Cudahy 
 Brothers, his brother, Michael, later be- 
 coming interested also; and the business 
 was in 1893 removed to a new plant near 
 Milwaukee at a place now named Cudahy, 
 and the business incorporated as the Cud- 
 ahy Brothers Company, of which Mr. Pat- 
 rick Cudahy is president and general 
 manager. He is also identified with other 
 .Milwaukee corporations. Mr. Cudahy is a 
 member of the Milwaukee Club. He mar- 
 ried in Milwaukee, 1877, Annie A. Madden. 
 Address : Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 CULBERSON, Charles A.: 
 
 United States senator; born in Dade- 
 ville, Tallapoosa County, Ala., June 10, 
 1855; the eldest son of the late David B. 
 Culberson, for twenty-two years a member 
 of the House of Representatives from Texas, 
 and of Eugenia (Kimball) Culberson. In 
 1856 he removed with his parents from 
 Alabama to Texas and resided at Gilmer 
 and Jefl'erson until 1887, when he removed 
 to Dallas. He was graduated from the 
 Virginia Military Institute at Lexington 
 in the class of 1874; and studied law 
 under his father and at the University of 
 Virginia in 1876 and 1877. Mr. Culberson 
 was elected attorney-general of Texas in 
 1890 and 1892, governor of Texas in 1894 
 and 1896, was a delegate at large to the 
 Democratic National Conventions at Chi- 
 cago in 1896 and at St. Louis in 1904, and 
 was chairman of the Texas delegation at 
 both. He was chosen United States Senator 
 Jan. 25, 1899, with only three opposing 
 votes, to succeed Rogers Q. Mills, and was 
 unanimously reelected in 1905. His term 
 of office will expire March 3, 1911. Ad- 
 dress : Dallas, Texas. 
 
 CULLEN, Edgar Montgomery: 
 
 Jurist; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 4, 
 1843; son of Dr. Henry J. and Eliza M. 
 (McCuy) Cullen. He received his prepara- 
 tory education in Kinderhook Academy and 
 was graduated from Columbia College, A.B. 
 1860, receiving the LL.D. degree from that 
 college, 1892, and from Union College, 1905. 
 He was commissioned second lieutenant of 
 the 1st U. S. Infantry, 1862, first lieuten- 
 ant, 1863, and colonel of the 96th New 
 York Volunteers, 1863-1865. He was ad- 
 mitted to the bar of the State of New 
 York and practised until elected, in 1880, 
 a justice of the Supreme Court of the 
 State of New Y'ork. He was reelected' in 
 1894 and was designated a judge of the 
 Court of Appeals of New York in Jan., 
 1900; appointed chief judge of that court 
 in Sept., 1904, and elected to that office 
 in 1904. Judge Cullen is a Democrat in 
 politics and an Episcopalian in religion. 
 Address: 14 Willow Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 CULLOM, Shelby Moore: 
 
 United States senator; born in Wayne 
 County, Ky., Nov. 22, 1829; his father 
 removed to Tazewell County, 111., the fol- 
 lowing year. He received' an academic and 
 university education, and went to Spring- 
 field in the fall of 1853 to study law and 
 has since resided there. Immediately upon 
 receiving license to practise he was elected 
 city attorney. He continued to practise 
 law until he took his seat in the House 
 of Representatives in 1865. He was a 
 Presidential elector in 1866, on the Fillmore 
 Ticket; was elected a member of the House 
 of Rep"resentatives of the Illinois Legis- 
 lature in 1856, 1860, 1872 and 1874, and 
 was elected speaker in 1861 and 1873. Mr. 
 Cullom was elected a representative from 
 Illinois in the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth and 
 Forty-first Congresses, serving from Dec. 
 4, 1865, to March 3, 1871. He was a 
 delegate to the National Republican Con- 
 vention at Philadelphia in 1872, being chair- 
 man of the Illinois delegation, and placed 
 General Grant in nomination. He was a 
 delegate to the National Republican in 
 1884. and was chairman of the Illinois del- 
 
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 egation. He was elected governor of Illi- 
 nois in 187G and reelected in 1880, serving 
 from Jan. 8, 1877, until Feb. G, 1883, when 
 he resigned, having been elected to the 
 United Slate Senate to succeed David 
 Davis, Independent Democrat. He took 
 his seat Dec. 4, 1883, and was reelected in 
 1888 and 1894, 1900 and again in 190G. 
 He was a member of the commission ap- 
 pointed to jirepare a system of laws for 
 the Hawaiian Islands. His term of office 
 will exjiire March 3, 1913. Residence: 
 Springfiekl, ill. Address: 1413 Massa- 
 chusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C. 
 
 CUMMINGS, Edward: 
 
 t'ler>^\ man : l)orn at Colebrook, Coos 
 County, N. H., April 20, 1861; son of 
 Edward Norris and Lucretia Frances (Mer- 
 rill) Cummings. He was graduated from 
 Harvard College as A.B. in 1883 and A.M. 
 in 1885; and he was a student at the 
 Harvard Divinity School from 1883 to 1885, 
 and afterward in the Graduate School of 
 Harvard University. He was the first in- 
 cumbent of the Robert Paine Fellowsliip in 
 Social Science, 1888-1891, and studied soci- 
 ology in Great Britain, France, Italy and 
 Germany, was a resident of Toynbee Hall 
 in Whitcchapel, London, in the winter of 
 1888-1889; studied at the ficole Libre 
 des Sciences Politiques at Paris and at the 
 University of Berlin. He was instructor 
 1891-1893, and assistant professor of soci- 
 ology, 1893-1900, at Harvard, and since 
 Oct., 1900, has been minister of the old 
 South Congregational Church, Boston, being 
 associated' with Dr. Edward Everett Hale, 
 minister emeritus. He is well known as a 
 lecturer and writer on sociological subjects, 
 and was one of the editors of the Quarterly 
 Journal of Economics. He is a director 
 of Hale House Social Settlement, vice- 
 president of the Benevolent Fraternity of 
 Churches, and president of the Massachu- 
 setts Civic League. Mr. Cummings is pres- 
 ident of the Association for Promoting the 
 Interests of the Adult Blind, and a director 
 of the Industrial Aid Society, the Watch 
 and Ward Society, and the Boston Associ- 
 ated Charities, and of tlie Massachusetts 
 Prison Association. Ho married at Rox- 
 
 bury, Mass., June 25, 1891, Rebecca Has- 
 woll Clarke, and they have two children. 
 Address: 104 Irving Street, Cambridge, 
 Mass. 
 
 CUMMINS, Albert Baird: 
 
 United States senator; born at Car- 
 michael. Pa., Feb. 15, 1850. He received 
 liis education at the Academy at Waynes- 
 burg, Pa., studied law, and was admitted 
 to the bar of that State. He went to Iowa 
 and located in practice at Des Moines. 
 Mr. Cummins was a member of the Repub- 
 lican National Committee from 1896 to 
 1900, and in 1901 he was elected governor 
 of Iowa for the term expiring in 1904. 
 He was renominated in 1903 for the term 
 ending in 190G, and again in 1906 for the 
 term expiring 1908. He was elected by the 
 Iowa Legislature, after the death of Sen- 
 ator Allison in Aug., 1908, to fill the United 
 States senatorial term expiring March 4, 
 1909, and was reelected in Jan., 1909, for 
 the full term as U. S. senator, expiring 
 March 4, 1915. Governor Cummins has a 
 groat reputation as a campaigner, and, 
 while he has antagonized a faction in his 
 own party, he has built up an enthusiastic 
 and victorious following among the pro- 
 gressive element of the party in his State. 
 He was strongly urged for the vice-pres- 
 idential nomination on the Republican 
 ticket in 1908 and was believed to be the 
 administration's choice for llie honor. Ad- 
 dress: Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 CUNNINGHAM. Andrew Chase: 
 
 Civil engineer, U. S. Navy; born in Mo- 
 hawk, Herkimer County, New York, Feb. 
 15, 1858; son of Thomas and Celeste 
 (Chase) Cunningham. He was graduated 
 from the United States Naval Academy in 
 1879, and tlie Rensselaer Polytechnic In- 
 stitute in 1885. He served as an officer in 
 the line of the Navy, until 1883, then re- 
 signed and took up the study of civil 
 engineering. He followed this profession 
 until the Spanish-American War, in which 
 ho served as volunteer ensign, and at the 
 end of the war was appointed to the corps 
 of civil engineers, U. S. Navy. ]\lr. Cun- 
 ningliain is distinguished as an exi^ert in 
 
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 properties of iron and steel, and' lias made 
 inventions, including lloating dry docks, de- 
 vices and methods for coaling ships at sea, 
 and inventions for the burning of liquid 
 fuel. He is a member of the American 
 iSociety of Civil Engineers, the United 
 States Naval Institute, the American So- 
 ciety of Naval Engineers, and the Univer- 
 sity Club of Washington. He married at 
 .Middleville, N. Y., in 1879, Jessie E. 
 Thomas. Address: Navy Department, 
 Washington. 
 
 CUNNINGHAM, Edwin S.: 
 
 Lawyer and American consul; born in 
 Sevier Coimty, Tenn., July 6, 1868; son of 
 Major Ben and Jane A. (Sheddan) Cun- 
 ningham. He was graduated from Mary- 
 ville College, Maryville, Tenn., as A.B., in 
 1889, and from the University of Michigan 
 as LL.B. in 1893. He was junior member 
 of the law firm of Cates & Cunningham, 
 Maryville, Tenn., until Feb., 1898, when he 
 was appointed consul to Aden, Arabia, by 
 President McKinley. He was transferred 
 to Bergen, Norway, in 1903, and to Durban, 
 Natal, in 1906, by President Roosevelt; and 
 is now American consul at Durban. Mr. 
 Cunningham has traveled extensively in 
 the United States, Mexico, and Canada, 
 Southern and Northern Europe, the United 
 Kingdom, and parts of Asia and Africa. 
 He is a Republican in politics and a 
 Presbyterian in religion, and he is a mem- 
 ber of the Knights of Pythias. Home: 
 Maryville, Tenn. Address: Durban, Natal, 
 Africa. 
 
 CUNNINGHAM, John F.: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Concordia; born in 
 the parish of Irremore, County Kerry, Ire- 
 land, in July, 1842; son of John and Cath- 
 erine (Fitzgerald) Cunningham. He re- 
 ceived his preparatory education in the 
 classical school at Listowel, Ireland, then 
 came to the United States and entered 
 St. Benedict's College, at Atchison, Kan., 
 from which he was graduated' in 1860, and 
 afterward took the theological course at 
 St. Francis' Seminary, Milwaukee, Wis., 
 from which he received the degree of D.D. 
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 He was ordained priest in the cathedral at 
 Leavenwortli, Kan., Aug. 8, 1865, and was 
 the first Catholic resident pastor at Fort 
 Scott, Kan., 1865-1868, and transferred to 
 Saint John's Church, Lawrence, Kan., in 
 1868. He remained pastor there until 1876, 
 building a new church and pastor's resi- 
 dence. After the devastation from the 
 drought and grasshoppers, he went all over 
 the Eastern Stales securing donations for 
 the relief of the Kansas sufferers and for 
 the payment of the debt of Leavenworth 
 Cathedral. He was pastor of the Church 
 of the Assumption at Topeka, Kan., 1876- 
 1882, building a new church and securing 
 nuich church property for that parish,' be- 
 came vicar-general of the diocese of Leaven- 
 worth, Jan. 1, 1881, and rector of Leaven- 
 worth Cathedral from 1882 to 1898. Sept. 
 21, 1898, he was consecrated bishop of Con- 
 cordia, Kan., since then administering the 
 affairs of that diocese. Address: Con- 
 cordia, Kan. 
 
 CUNNINGHAM, John L.: 
 
 Fire insurance president; born in Hud- 
 son, N. Y., April 5, 1840; son of Jeremiah 
 and Bethia (White) Cunningham. He was 
 educated in the common and private schools, 
 and the Union University Law School at 
 Albany, N. Y., graduating in 1861 with the 
 degree of LL.B. Mr. Cunningham practised 
 law at Essex, New York, until he enlisted 
 in the 118th New Y^ork Regiment and went 
 to the front and saw much active service. 
 He was for some time provost marshal at 
 Portsmouth, Va., and came out of the war 
 as major and brevet lieutenant-colonel. On 
 his return from the war he was appointed 
 collector of internal revenue for the Six- 
 teenth Congressional District of New York, 
 but resigned to join the field force of the 
 Glens P'alls Insurance Company, as special 
 agent. He Avas elected in 1872 secretary 
 of the company and was virtually its man- 
 ager. Since the death of President Little 
 in 1892, Mr. Cunningham has been pres- 
 dent and director of the company. He 
 is a Republican and an elder of the Pres- 
 byterian Church. He married at Chester- 
 town, N. Y., Elizabeth Fowler, now deceased. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 lie has one daughter, Beth, now the wife 
 of William A. Urown of (ilens Falls, N. Y. 
 Address: Glens Falls, N. Y. 
 
 CUPPLES. Samuel: 
 
 Merchant and manufacturer; born in 
 Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 13, 1831; son of 
 James and Elizabeth (Bigham) Cupples. 
 He received his education in the public 
 schools and at the age of twelve years 
 began his business career as a boy in a 
 grocery store at Pittsburg. He removed in 
 1846 to Cincinnati, where he entered the 
 employ of A. O. Tyler, the pioneer manu- 
 facturer of wooden-ware in the West, and 
 there became thoroughly acquainted with 
 the wooden-ware business. In 1851 he 
 removed to St. Louis , and began as a 
 manufacturer of wooden-ware on his own 
 account, as Samuel Cupples & Company, 
 which within a few years became the larg- 
 est enterprise of its kind in the United 
 State; and he is now president of the 
 Samuel Cupples Wooden-Ware Company, 
 operating the largest business of its kind 
 in the world and controlling many subsid- 
 iary companies, president of the Samuel 
 Cupples Heal Estate Company of St. Louis, 
 and of the Samuel Cupples Envelope Com- 
 pany, and he is also interested as di- 
 rector in other industrial and financial cor- 
 porations. Mr. Cupples is a Methodist in 
 his religious affiliation. He married in 
 St. Louis, in 1854, Amelia Kells, now 
 deceased, and has one daughter, Mrs. 
 Amelia Cupples Scudder. Residence: 3673 
 Pine Boulevard. Office address: Seventh 
 and Spruce Streets, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 CURRAN, Charles Courtney: 
 
 Artist; born at Hartford, Ky., Feb. 13, 
 1801; son of Ulysses Thompson and Eliz- 
 abeth (Thompson) Curran. He was edu- 
 cated' in Ohio at the common schools and 
 high school, being graduated from the lat- 
 ter. He has received second and third 
 Halgarten prizes and the Clarke Prize for 
 the best figure picture from the National 
 Academy of Design, also honorable mention, 
 at the Paris Salon, besides being the recip- 
 ient of various medals from the Chicago 
 Columbian Exposition in 1893, the Atlanta 
 
 Cotton States Exposition in 1895, the Pan- 
 American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901, 
 and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 
 St. Louis, 1904. He received the Carnegie 
 Prize of five hundred dollars from the So- 
 ciety of American Artists and the first 
 Corcoran Prize in Washington. Mr. Curran 
 has served as assistant to the director of 
 Fine Arts at the Paris Exposition in 1900, 
 and as assistant director of Fine Arts of 
 the Fan-American Exposition at Buffalo. 
 He is secretary and treasurer of the Co- 
 lonial Studios (stock company) and has 
 made three trips to Europe. In 1904 he 
 was elected member of the National Acad- 
 emy of Design, being also a member of the 
 American Water Color Society, of the New 
 York Water Color Club and of the Salma- 
 gundi Club. He is a life member of the 
 Lotos Club and Fencers' Club of New York 
 City. His chief recreation is fencing. He 
 married at Norwalk, Ohio, in 1888, Grace 
 Winthrop Wickham, and has had three 
 children. Address: 39 West Sixty-seventh 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 CURRIER, Frank Dunklee: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born at Can- 
 aan, N. H., Oct. 30, 1853. He received his 
 education in the common schools and' in 
 the Academy. He studied law and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1874. Mr. Currier 
 was a member of the New Hampshire House 
 of Representatives in 1879, was secretary 
 of the Republican State Committee, 1882- 
 1890, and was clerk of the State Senate, 
 1883-1887. In 1884 he was a delegate to 
 the Republican National Convention. He 
 was president of the State Senate in 1887 
 and was naval officer of customs of the 
 port of Boston, Mass., 1890-1894. He was 
 speaker of the New Hampshire House of 
 Representatives in 1899; was elected from 
 the Second New Hampshire District in 
 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress and' re- 
 elected in 1902, 1904, 1906 and 1908, and 
 is now serving in the Sixty-first Congress. 
 Address: Canaan, N. H. 
 
 CURRY, George: 
 
 Governor of New Jlexico. He was ap- 
 pointed by President Roosevelt, in 1907, to 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 his present office of governor of the Terri- 
 tory of New Mexico. His term will expire 
 Jan. 22, 1912. Address: Santa Fe, N. M. 
 
 CURRY, Samuel Silas: 
 
 President of the School of Expression; 
 horn at Chatata, Tenn., 1847; son of James 
 Campbell Curry. He was graduated from 
 Grant University in 1872, and afterward 
 studied at Boston University, receiving the 
 degrees of A.M. and B.D. in 1875 and' of 
 Ph.D. in 1879. He specialized in rhetorical 
 and oratorical studies and studied elocu- 
 tion, expression, etc., under more than forty 
 of the foremost teachers in Europe and 
 America. He was professor of oratory at 
 Boston University, 1879-1888, has been act- 
 ing professor of elocution at Newton Theo- 
 logical Seminary since 1884, and was also 
 instructor in elocution at Harvard College, 
 1891-1894, Harvard Divinity School, 1896- 
 1902, the Divinity School at Yale, 1892- 
 1902, and he founded and has from the 
 first been president of the School of Ex- 
 pression. Dr. Curry is also author of sev- 
 eral widely circulated volumes on the art 
 of expression and related themes, includ- 
 ing: The Province of Expression; Lessons 
 in Vocal Expression ; Imagination and 
 Dramatic Instinct; Vocal and Literary In- 
 terpretation of the Bible; Foundations of 
 Expression, etc., and is editor of: Classics 
 for Vocal Expression. Residence: 5 Ried- 
 esel Avenue, Cambridge, Mass. Office: 301 
 Pierce Building, Boston. 
 
 CURTIN, Roland Gideon: 
 
 Physician; born at Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 
 29, 1839; son of Dr. Constant Curtin and 
 Mary Anne (Kinne) Curtin. He is a lineal 
 descendant on the maternal side from 
 Thomas Welles, the third governor of Con- 
 necticut, a descendant of John Humphries, 
 the first lieutenant-governor of Massachu- 
 setts Bay Colony, under governor Winthrop 
 and Colonial Governor Pyncheon, of Spring- 
 field, Mass. He was educated in the Belle- 
 fonte public schools and the Bellefonte 
 Academy, at his birthplace, and graduated 
 at Williston Seminary at Easthampton, 
 Mass., in 1859, and at the University of 
 Pennsylvania, in 1866 he received the degree 
 
 of M.D., and Ph.D. in 1871, and he also 
 received the honorary degree of A.M. from 
 Lafayette College in 1883. He was engaged 
 in the iron business in Philadelphia in 
 1859 and 1860, and after that served as 
 United States naval storekeeper for over 
 three years in the Civil War. After his 
 graduation in medicine he was resident 
 physician at the Philadelphia Hospital, 
 1866 and 1867, visited the hospitals in 
 Great Britain and on the continent of Eu- 
 rope in 1868, and later in the same year 
 became connected, as assistant United 
 States geologist and surgeon, with the 
 famous exploring expedition and' geological 
 survey of the Rocky Mountain region known 
 as the Hayden Survey. He was professor 
 of geology at the Wagner Free Institute of 
 Philadelphia from 1871 to 1873, and later 
 professor of mineralogy in George's Insti- 
 tute, Philadelphia. He was assistant phy- 
 sician to the Philadelphia Lying-in Charity 
 from 1871 to 1882, was chief of the Medical 
 Dispensary of the Hospital of the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania for ten years, was 
 lecturer on physical diagnosis at the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania for twenty years, 
 assistant to the professor of clinical med- 
 cine at the University of Pennsylvania, 
 1879-1887, and also ex-president and his- 
 torian of the Alumni Society of the Medi- 
 cal Department of the University of Penn- 
 sylvania, and physician to the Throat and 
 Chest Department of Howard Hospital, 
 1876-1882. He was also visiting physician 
 to the INIaternity Hospital of Philadelphia 
 for seven years, and has been visiting pliy- 
 sician to the Presbyterian Hospital since 
 1887. He was a member of the medical 
 staff of the Philadelphia General Hospital 
 (Blockley) for twenty-five years, and pres- 
 ident of its Medical Board from 1890 to 
 1906, and is now emeritus visiting physi- 
 cian to the same. He is also consulting 
 physician to the Rush Hospital for Con- 
 sumptives, St. Timothy's Hospital, Douglas 
 Hospital, the Jewish Hospital. He is now 
 a member and was formerly president of 
 the American Climatological Society, pres- 
 ident of the Philadelphia Medical Club, 
 1905-1906, member and was president, 1905- 
 1906 of the Philadelphia County Medical 
 
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 Society, and physician to the University 
 of Pennsylvania Hospital. He is an ex- 
 member of the National Association for the 
 Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, and 
 also of the American Anthropological So- 
 ciety, and the American Social Service As- 
 sociation. He is grand president of the 
 Alpha Mu Pi Omega, medical fraternity, 
 and a member of the Phi Gamma Delta 
 fraternity, and' is president of the Phi 
 Gamma Delta Graduate Club of Philadel- 
 phia. Dr. Curtin is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Medical Association, and was its dele- 
 gate to the British Medical Association at 
 London in 1895, a member of the Philadel- 
 phia County Medical Society, and is a mem- 
 ber of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania. 
 He was assistant medical director of the 
 Centennial Exhibition in 1876, a member 
 of the Committee of Arrangements of the 
 International Medical Congress at Philadel- 
 phia in 1876, and was a member of the 
 First, Second, Third and Fourth Pan-Amer- 
 ican Medical Congresses at Washington in 
 1893, Mexico in 1896, Cuba in 1902, and 
 Panama in 1906. Dr. Curtin is a member 
 of the Episcopal Church and is a manager 
 of the Midnight Mission of Philadelphia. 
 He is a member of the Pennsylvania Gen- 
 ealogical Society, the Pennsylvania Histori- 
 cal Society, Fairmount Park Association 
 and the Academy of Natural Sciences of 
 Philadelphia. He is a thirty-second degree 
 Mason and a past master and a member of 
 Post 2 of the Grand army of the Republic; 
 is past commander of the Philadelphia As- 
 sociation of Naval Veterans (from 1861 to 
 18G5), and a member of the Sons of the 
 American Revolution. He is a Republican 
 in politics. Dr. Curtin married, at Hart- 
 ford, Conn., March 21, 1882, Julia Taylor 
 Robinson, who died March 18, 1905. Of 
 this union there were two children: Roland 
 G. Curtin, Jr., who died when one year 
 old, and Mary Constance Curtin, born in 
 1886. Address: 22 South Eighteenth Street, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 CURTIS, Charles: 
 
 United States senator; born in what is 
 now known as North Topeka, Shawnee 
 County, Kansas, Jan. 25, 1880, and is of 
 
 Indian descent. He received his education 
 in the common schools of the city of To- 
 peka, and studied law there with A. H. 
 Case. He was admitted to the bar in 1881, 
 and entered into partnership in 1881 with 
 Mr. Case, remaining with him until 1884. 
 Mr. Curtis was elected county attorney of 
 Shawnee County in 1884 and reelected in 
 1880. He was elected to the Fifty-third 
 Congress in 1892, and was reelected in 1894 
 and 1896 from the Fourth Kansas District. 
 In 1897 Shawnee County was taken out of 
 the Fourth District and placed in the First 
 District. Mr. Curtis w-as nominated by the 
 Republicans of the First District and elected 
 in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress, and he 
 was reelected in 1900, 1902, 1904 and 1906. 
 In January, 1907, he was elected to the 
 United States Senate to fill out the term of 
 J. R. Burton, resigned, and was elected for 
 the full term beginning March 4, 1907 and 
 ending in 1913. Senator Curtis is not 
 only a fine example of the results of self- 
 help, having secured his education and suc- 
 cess in life through his own efforts, practi- 
 cally unaided but he is tlie most prom- 
 inent man of the type which is becoming 
 distinguished in the western states of men 
 of Indian blood who are winning marked 
 success in all lines of endeavor and on 
 equal terms with the white men of their 
 communities. Address : Topeka, Kan. 
 
 CURTIS, Cyrus H. K.: 
 
 Publislior; born at Portland, Me., June 
 18, 1850; son of Cyrus L. and Salome A. 
 Curtis. After leaving school he went to 
 Boston and engaged in the newspaper pub- 
 lishing business, and to Pliiladelphia in 
 1876, establishing the Tribune and Farmer, 
 and later he founded the Ladies' Home 
 Jouinal, which has met with the most re- 
 markable success, attaining a montlily cir- 
 culation of over one million copies. He or- 
 ganized the Curtis Publishing Co., of which 
 he is president, to carry on that publication 
 and added the Saturday Evening Post, an 
 old paper which is the direct continuation 
 of the Pennsylvania Gazette, founded by 
 Benjamin Franklin in 1728. This weekly 
 journal has also attained great popularity 
 and a large circulation all over the Uniteil 
 
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 437 
 
 States. Mr. Curl is jiiarriod at Boston, 
 Mass., March 10, 1875, Louise Knapp, and 
 they have a dauj^htcr, Mary Louise (wife 
 of Edward W. Bok). Residence: Wyncote, 
 Pa. Office: 425 Arch Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 CURTIS, Frank Charles: 
 
 Lawyer; horn in Troj% N. Y. June 3, 
 1SG9: son of Charles H. and Gertrude L. 
 (]\[abee) Curtis. He was educated in pub- 
 lic schools in Troy, and after studying law 
 was admitted to the bar in that city. His 
 practice is exclusively confined to patent 
 law. and he is a member of the law firm 
 of iNIosher & Curtis; also a director of the 
 Stockwell-Purser Realty Company. Mr. 
 Curtis was formerly United States Com- 
 missioner. He served for six years in the 
 0th Separate Company of the National 
 Guard of the State of New York. He is a 
 member of the New York State Bar Associa- 
 tion, Rensselaer County Ear Association, 
 the Troy Chamber of Commerce, The Citi- 
 zens' Corps of Troy, and the East Side, 
 Pafraets Dael and Island Golf Clubs of 
 Troy, N. Y. Mr. Curtis married in Sche- 
 nectady, N. Y., June 27, 1908, Marie Joseph- 
 ine Leduc. Residence: 8 Terrace Place. 
 Office: Cannon Place, Troy, N. Y. 
 
 CURTIS, William Edmond: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, June 2, 
 1855; the eldest son of the late William 
 Edmond Curtis, chief justice of the Su- 
 perior Court of New Y^ork, and Mary A. 
 (Scovill) Curtis. He was graduated from 
 Trinity College, Hartford, 1875, received 
 honorary degree of LL.D., 1902. He was 
 admitted to the New York bar in 1877, and 
 began practice as a member of the firm of 
 Stearns & Curtis. From 1893 to 1897 he 
 was assistant secretary of the Treasury of 
 the United States, and during the term was 
 for several months in England on a special 
 mission for the Treasury Department. 
 Since 1897 he has been senior member of 
 the law firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost & 
 Colt. Mr. Curtis is a Democrat and took 
 an earnest part in the movement which re- 
 sulted in the Syracuse Convention in 1892; 
 and was treasurer of the Provisional State 
 Committee. He was aqueduct commission- 
 
 er of the City of New York under flavor 
 Low in 1902. and a delegate to the National 
 Democratic Convention in 1904. 'S\r. Cur- 
 tis is a member of the Episcopal Church. 
 He is a life trustee of Trinity College; a 
 member of the Association of the Bar of 
 the City of New York; a fellow of the 
 American Geographical Society ; and a life 
 member of the New York Historical So- 
 ciety and he is also a member of the Cen- 
 tury Association, the Union, Tuxedo, Down 
 Town. City, Midday, Manhattan, Univer- 
 sity. Church and City Clubs of New York 
 City; the Garden City Golf Club, and the 
 Metropolitan Club of Washington, D. C. 
 Address: 27 West 47th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 CURTIS, William Eleroy: 
 
 Newspaper correspondent and author; 
 born in Akron, Ohio, Nov. 5, 1850; son of 
 Rev. Eleroy Curtis, D.D., and Harriet Eddy 
 (Coe) Curtis. He was educated at the 
 Western Reserve University, from which he 
 received the degrees of A.B.. A.M. and Litt. 
 D. and he received the degree of L.H.D. from 
 Amherst College. He began his newspaper 
 career by work on the Cleveland Leader, 
 1867-1871, during college vacations, then on 
 the Erie Dispatch in 1871; the Toledo Com- 
 mercial in 1872; the Inter-Ocean, Chicago, 
 from May, 1872, to March, 1887; as manag- 
 ing editor from 1880 to 1884, and Wash- 
 ington correspondeni and traveling corres- 
 pondent the remainder of the time. Since 
 1887 he has been with the Chicago Record 
 and its successor. The Chicago Record-Her- 
 ald, in which his daily letters from Wash- 
 ington and from all over the world have been 
 a leading feature for twenty years. Mr. 
 Curtis has visited all parts of the world 
 and a letter from his pen has appeared in 
 the first columns of the first page every 
 morning since Dec. 3, 1903. He was min- 
 ister plenipotentiary of the United States 
 to Mexico and the Republics of Central and 
 South America in 1884; special envoy to 
 His Holiness the Pope in 1892; special en- 
 voy to the King of Spain in 1892; commis- 
 sioner to the Columbus Exposition. Madrid, 
 in 1892; chief of the Latin-American De- 
 partment, and Historical Section of the 
 
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 World's Coliiinbian Exposition at Chicago 
 in 1893; executive officer of the First Pan- 
 Ajnerican Conference; founder and first 
 director of the Bureau of American Repub- 
 lics in 1800. and commissioner of the Vati- 
 can for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 
 in 1903. He is a Republican in politics, a 
 Presbyterian in religious affiliation, and a 
 trustee of the Church of the Covenant at 
 Washington. Mr. Curtis is a member of 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, the American Historical 
 Association the National Geographic So- 
 ciety of the United States; and many other 
 learned societies of Europe and America; 
 the Sons of the American Revolution and 
 is grand commander of the (Spanish) Or- 
 der of Isabella the Catholic. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Union League, and Alpha Delta 
 Phi Clubs. New York ; the Cosmos and Press 
 Clubs of Washington and the Press Club of 
 Chicago, the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity 
 and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Mr. Cur- 
 tis is aiithor of a large number of volumes 
 of travel, works on political economy, bi- 
 ography and novels. He married at Erie. 
 Pa., Dec. 24, 1874, Cora Isabel Kepler, and 
 they have two children. Residence: 1801 
 Connecticut Avenue, N. W. Office: Home 
 Life Building, Washington, D. C. 
 
 CUTLER, Condict Walker: 
 
 Pliysician; born at Morristown, N. J., 
 1859; son of Augustus W. Cutler and Julia 
 R. (Walker) Cutler. He was graduated 
 from Rutgers College as B.S. in 1879, and 
 and -M.S. in 1882; and from the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia) as 
 M.D. in 1882, receiving the first honor and 
 the Harsen prize. He was formerly pro- 
 fessor of deimatology at the University of 
 Vermont, and attending physician of the 
 New York City Hospital. Dr. Cutler is an 
 Independent Democrat, and a member of 
 the Dutch Reformed Church. He is a fel- 
 low of the New York Academy of Medicine; 
 member of the New York County Medical 
 Society, New York Derniatological Society 
 (ex-president), and Zeta Psi ; trustee of the 
 New York Dispensary; iiicmbcr of the Medi- 
 cal Board of Free Industrial School for 
 Crippled Children, New York City. He is 
 
 author of DifTerential Medical Diagnosis of 
 Diseases of the Skin; Lectures on Der- 
 matology; Treatment of Typhoid Fever; 
 Essentials of Physics and Chemistry; etc. 
 He married in New York City, 1884, Cora 
 Carpenter, and they have one child. Con- 
 dict Walker, Jr., born in 1889. Address: 
 GIO INIadison Avenue, New York City. 
 
 CUTLER, John C: 
 
 Ex-governor and merchant; ])orn in Shef- 
 field, England, Feb. 5, 1846; son of John 
 and Elizabeth Robinson Cutler. He was 
 educated in private schools in EnErland. 
 Governor Cutler began business in Utah, 
 in July, 1877, as agent of the Provo Woolen 
 Mills and in 1896 incorporated the business 
 under the firm name of Cutler Brothers and 
 Company, of which he is president. He is 
 a director of the Utah Sugar Company and 
 the Idaho Sugar Company and a member 
 of the executive committee of the Tremont 
 Sugar Company of Idaho, and of the Desert 
 National Bank, Deseret Savings Bank, of 
 Salt Lake City, the Utah Light and Power 
 Company, the Provo Woolen Mills. Com- 
 pany, of Sugar City. Idaho, the Townsite 
 Company, the Home Fire Insurance Com- 
 pany of Utah, and the People's Co-operative 
 Institution of Lehi, Utah. He was county 
 clerk of Salt Lake County, 1884-1890, and 
 was elected in 1904 governor of Utah for 
 the term from 1905 to 1909. He is a Repub- 
 lican in politics and a member of the Trans- 
 Mississippi Commercial Congress. He is 
 also a member of the Alta and Commercial 
 Clubs, of which he was vice-president in 
 1902. Governor Cutler is a member of the 
 Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormon). 
 Mr. Cutler married at Salt Lake City, April 
 3, 1871, Sarah Elizabeth Taylor. Resi- 
 dence: 935 West Temple Street. Office 
 address: 36 Main Street, Salt Lake City, 
 Utah. 
 
 CUTTING, Robert Fulton: 
 
 I'rcsident of the Citizens' Union of New 
 York City; born in New York City, in 
 June, 1852; son of Fulton and' Justine 
 (Bayard) Cutting. lie was graduated 
 from Cohnubia College in 1871. Mr. Cut- 
 ting is director of several large corpora- 
 
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 439 
 
 tions; president of the New York Trade 
 Scliool, and of the Association for Improv- 
 iiiLT the Condition of the Poor; also a di- 
 rcolor of the City and Suburban Home 
 ('(nn])any. He is an Episcopalian and a 
 luciiibcr of the Delta Phi, Columbia Uni- 
 versity Alumni Association, the American 
 Museum of Natural History, and the Amer- 
 ican Economic Association. He has taken 
 active part in politics as head of the Citi- 
 zens' Union in campaigns from 1897. He 
 is also a member of the Delta Phi fraterni- 
 ty, the Century Association, and the City, 
 Church and Tuxedo Clubs. Mr. Cutting 
 married first in 1875. Natalie C. P. 
 Sclienck. who died in 1876; and second, 
 January, 1883, Helen Suydam. He has 
 six children. Residence: 24 East 67th 
 Street. Address: 32 Nassau Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 CUTTING, William Bayard: 
 
 Luwyer: born in New York City, Jan. 
 12, 1850; son of Fulton and Elise Justine 
 (Bayard) Cutting. He was graduated from 
 Columbia College, A.B., 1869, A.M., 1869- 
 1871. and LL.B.. 1871. He was admitted to 
 tlie bar in New York in 1871. He became 
 ])rcsident of the St. Louis, Alton and Terre 
 Haute Railroad Company in 1878, and is 
 now trustee of the United States Trust 
 Company, a director of the American Ex- 
 change National Bank, the Commercial Un- 
 ion Assurance Company, the American Beet 
 Sugar Company, the City and Suburban 
 Homes Company and Southern Pacific Rail- 
 road. Mr. Cutting was a civil service com- 
 missioner of New York City under Mayor 
 William L. Strong; and' he is a Republican, 
 and a member of the Episcopal Church. 
 He is a director of the New York Botanical 
 (hardens, tlie American Museum of Natural 
 History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 
 tlie Zo(llogical Society ; and is a trustee of 
 Columbia College. Mr. Cutting is a mem- 
 ber of the Century Association, and the 
 Union, Metropolitan. Players', National 
 Arts, South Side, Tuxedo, University, City, 
 Delta Phi. Grolier, Church, and Jekyl Clubs. 
 He married at the University Place Pres- 
 byterian Church, April 26, 1877, Olivia Pey- 
 ton Murray. Their children are: William 
 
 Bayard, Jr., born .lime 13. 1878; Justine 
 Bayard, born Sept. 5, 187!>; Bronson Mur- 
 ray, born June 23, 1888, and Olivia, born, 
 18!)2. Address: 24 East 77th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 CUYLER, Thomas De Witt: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Sept. 28, 
 1854; son of Theodore Cuyler and Mary 
 (deWitt) Cuyler. He was graduated from 
 Yale, as B.A. in 1874. He was admitted to 
 the bar in 1876, and has since been engaged 
 in practice in Philadelphia. Ho is judge 
 advocate-general to the National Cuard of 
 Pennsylvania, a director of tlu> Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad Company, Equitable Life In- 
 surance Society, and other financial insti- 
 tutions. He is a member of the Society 
 of the Cincinnati, and of the Philadelphia, 
 and Rittenhouse Clubs of Philadelphia, and 
 the Century, University, and LTnion of New 
 York. He married in Philadelphia, May 3, 
 1881, Francis Lewis. Address: 1830 
 Spruce Street. Office address: 701 Arcade 
 Building, Philadelphia. 
 
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 DABNET, Charles William: 
 
 President of the University of Cincinnati: 
 born at Hampden-Sidney, Va., June 19, 
 1855; son of INIajor Robert I. Dabney, Gen. 
 " Stonewall '" Jackson's chief of staff' and 
 biographer. Hr. was graduated from Hamp- 
 den-Sidney College,, A.B., 1873, from the 
 University of Virginia, 1877; and received 
 the degrees of Pli.D. from the University of 
 (iottingen, 1880, LL.D., Yale, 1901, and 
 Johns Hopkins, 1902. He was professor 'of 
 chemistry in the Emory and Henry Col- 
 lege of Virginia, 1877-1878, Stale chemist 
 and director of the Agricultural Experiment 
 Station of North Carolina at Raleigh. ISSO- 
 1887, president of the University of Ten- 
 nessee from 1887-1904, and since 1904 presi- 
 dent of the University of Cincinnati. Ho 
 was director of the Tennessr;i Agricultural 
 Experiment Station, 1887-1890. assistant 
 secretary of agriculture of the United 
 States. 1S94 1S97. chairman of liiited 
 Stales Govornnient exhibits at the Na.sh- 
 
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 ville Exposition. 1807. and l!i(> Atlanta Ex- 
 position, 1895. He was juidr in tlie de- 
 partment of agronomy at the I'aris Ex- 
 jiosition of 1900, has been a member of 
 the Southern Education Board >inee 1902. 
 and was president of the .Summer School 
 of tlie South, 1902-1904. Dr. Dabney is 
 a.utlior of: Reports of North Carolina 
 Agricultural Experiment Station, 1880- 
 1887 on Phosphates, Pyrites. Black Tin in 
 North Carolina, etc. ; Reports of Tennessee 
 Station of the University of Tennessee, 
 1887-1890; The Old College and the New, 
 1894; The National University, 1897; A 
 National Department of Science, 1897; 
 History of Agricultural Education in 
 America; Education and Agriculture, 1899; 
 Condition of the Public Schools in the 
 Southern States; Thomas Jefl^er^'on and 
 Public Education; Educational Principles 
 for the South; Man in the Democracy; 
 Agriculture and Science at the Interna- 
 tional Congress, St. Louis, 1905, etc. He 
 marrieul at Lexington, Ky., Aug. 24, 1881, 
 ]\Iary Brent, and they have two daugh- 
 ters. Address: The University of Cin- 
 cinnati. Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 DAGGETT, Mary Stewart: 
 
 Author; born in Morristown, Ohio; daugh- 
 ter of Rev. John B. and Nancy (MacGregor) 
 Stewart. She was graduated from the 
 Steubenville (Ohio) Seminary as valedic- 
 torian of the- Class of 1873, married in 
 Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 7, 1875, Charles 
 Daniel Daggett, and has a son and three 
 daughters. Since 1890 she has resided in 
 Pasadena, where, she has a delightful home 
 at Columbia Hill, occupying a six-acre tract 
 facing the mountains and suriouiidcd l)y 
 the garden homes of Pasadena. Daring 
 her residence there in addition to he.r 
 family and social inlcrest>, Mrs. Daggett 
 has devoted certain intervals to literary 
 work, and has published two novels: 
 :Mariposilla, 1895, and The Broad Aisle, 
 1809; also numerous short stories and ar- 
 ticles for Californiii; publications; also 
 Eastern magazines, the most notable series 
 being T'hinese stories in The Outlook, writ- 
 ten with intent to alleviate the injustice of 
 the present Chinese Exclusion Act; and has 
 
 also contrii)utf><l California stories to The 
 Reader Magazine. At the Schiller Memo- 
 rial, Chicago, 1905, Mrs. Daggett was in 
 eluded among the seventy-five writers (om- 
 prising the memorial autograph voiuuie. 
 Mrs. Daggett is a member of the Bibli.i- 
 th&que Nationale, Paris. Addre;s: Cohnii- 
 bia Hill. Pasadena, Calif. 
 
 DAHLMAN, James C: 
 
 Stockman and mayor; born in Texas, in 
 1856. He was educated in the public 
 schools of Texas, learncAl the details of 
 driving and managing live stock on the 
 Texas ranges, and in 1878 he went to Ne- 
 braska, of which State he has since been a 
 citizen, engaging in the live stock biisinc.-;s 
 at Chadron, Neb., and re-iding there until 
 about ten ycjars ago, when he removed 
 to Omaha. He is a Democrat in politics, 
 was a member of the City Council. 1884- 
 1887, and mayor, 1894-1895, at Chadron, 
 Neb.; sheriff of Daws County, Neb., for 
 three terms, 1888-1894. He was a delegate 
 to the National Deuiocratic Conventions of 
 1892 and 1S9G; was appointed secretary 
 of the State Board of Transportation. 1897; 
 was elected chairman of the Nebraska 
 Democratic State Committee of Nebraska. 
 1890; and served four years; and since 
 1900 has been the Nebraska member of the 
 Democratic National Conuuittee, and Ji 
 member of its Executive Committee. He 
 was also chairman of the. Democratic 
 County Committee of Douglas County, Ne- 
 braska. At the city election in 1905 he wa 
 elected mayor of the city of Omaha for 
 the term expiring May 21, 1909. Address: 
 ■2<.W] Hickory Street, Omaha. Neb. 
 
 DAINGERFIELD, Elliott: 
 
 Artist; bora at Ilar])er"s I'erry. \V. \'a., 
 :\rarch 20, 1859; son of John E. P. Dainger- 
 field and Matilda (Brua) Daingerfu Id. 
 He was educated in tli(> public school and 
 academies and by prixalc tutors at l'\)yett(',- 
 ville, N. C. He stiulicd (hawing and paint- 
 ing in New York City, with a private 
 teacher and at the Ait Student's League. 
 He first exhibited hi- works at the. Na- 
 tional Acadcmv of Design in 1880 and 
 
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 li(> sludied ill Kiiro]).' in 1S!)7. He was 
 coininissioned to \n\inl llio J-/ady Chapel of 
 the Chnich of Mary the Virgin, New York 
 f'ity in 1902, and is i)rofcssor of painting 
 anci composition al tlic Pliiladelphia 
 Soliool of Dr>sign and at Blowing liock, 
 X. ('. Mr. Daingertield's principal paint- 
 ings are the INIadonna and Child, property 
 of Haley Fiske; Child of Mary, for which 
 lie received a silver medal and The Story 
 of the Madonna, which was awarded a prize 
 in 1002. "Slumbering Fog" in Metro- 
 ])o]itan :Museum, "The Midnight Aloon " 
 in Brooklyn Institute, and important works 
 ill many private galleries. He received the 
 silver medal at the Pan American Expo- 
 sition in 1901, and tlie Clarke prize, of 
 (he National Academy of Design in 1902. 
 He is a member of the Fine Arts Federa- 
 tion, the Municipal Art Association, the 
 Society of American Artists, and is a Na 
 tional. Academician. He is also a mr.niber 
 of the New York Water Color, Lotos and 
 Church Clubs. Mr. Daingerfield married 
 at Louisville, Ky., Dee. 30, 1895, Anna E. 
 Crainger, and they have two children: 
 ]\[arjorie Jay, and Gwendoline. Address: 
 222 Central Park South. N(>w York City. 
 
 DALAND, William Clifton: 
 
 President of :\lilton College; born in 
 New York City, Oct. 25, 1800. He was 
 graduated from the Brooklyn Polytechnic 
 Institute, A.B., in 1879, and from the 
 Union Theological Seminary, New Y^ork, 
 1886; from Alfred University with the de- 
 gree of A.M. for three years' work in 
 Semitic languages, 1887, and received the 
 degree of D.D. at :\Hlton College in 1895, 
 and from Alfred University in 1903. He 
 was ordained to the ministry of the 
 Seventli-day Baptist Church in 1885. From 
 1886 to 1891 and again, from 1900 to 1902, 
 he was pastor at Leonardsville, N. Y.; at 
 Westerly, R. I., 1891-1896; and in I^ndon, 
 England, 1890-1900. Dr. Daland has been 
 piesident of Milton Colle.ge since Septem- 
 ber, 1902. He published in 1887 and 1888, 
 a translation from the Hebrew of The 
 Song of Solomon with annotations. He 
 married at Elizabeth, N. J., 1884. Agnes 
 B. Norton. Address: Milton, Wis. 
 
 DALE, Alan (Alfred J. Cohen) : 
 
 Dramatic critic; born in Birmingham, 
 England, May 14, 1801. He was educated 
 in King Edward's school at Birmingham, 
 came to the. United States in 1880, and 
 has ever since been engaged in journalism 
 in New York City. He was dramatic critic 
 of the New York Evening World, 1887- 
 1895, and since then has been dramatic 
 critic of the Nqw York Journal. He is 
 author of: Jonatlian's Home; A Marriage 
 Below Zero; My Footliglit Husband; An 
 Eerie He and She; Familiar Chats with 
 Queens of the Stage; A Moral Busj^body; 
 Miss Innocence; Conscience on Ice; A Girl 
 Who Wrote; His Own Image; Wanted. A 
 Cook; The Great Wet Way, a book which 
 tells of incidents and experiences in cross- 
 ing the Atlantic. He married in 1886, 
 Carrie LiAdngston Frost. Residence: 110 
 St. Nicholas Avenue. Office: New York 
 Journal, New York City. 
 
 DALE, Thomas Nelson: 
 
 Geologist of the United States Geological 
 Survey; born in New Y^ork City, Nov. 
 25, 1845; son of Thomas Nelson and Sarah 
 Patten (Monson) Dale. He was educated 
 at a private school at Frankfort in Ger- 
 many, and under private tutors at Paris, 
 and at Williston Seminary; Easthampton, 
 Mass., and received his geological training 
 under Zittel and Pumpelly. He was in- 
 structor in geology and botany at Williams 
 College, 1893-1901. Mr. Dale is author 
 of: A Study of the Rhaetic Strata of the 
 \al de Ledro in the South Tyrol; The 
 Outskirts of Physical Science (essays) ; 
 The areal and structural geology- of Mount 
 Greylock; Taconic Physiography: Slate 
 Deposits and Slate Industry of the United 
 States; The Granites of Maine; The Chief 
 Commercial Granites of Mass., N. H., and 
 R. I.; The Granites of Vermont; al-o 
 various minor papers on geological sub- 
 jects. Mr. Dale is a corresponding mem- 
 ber of the Austrian Geological Survey, and 
 a member of the Societe Geologique de, 
 France. He married in Dec. 22, 1874, 
 Margaret Brown. Address: Pittsfield, 
 Mass. 
 
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 BALL, William Healey: 
 
 Naturali.-t ; lioru in Hoston. A\\<^. 21, 
 1845; son of Kev. C. 11. A. Dull, and of 
 t'arolino (Hcaloy) Dall, I.L.D., author and 
 publicist. After conipletinor tlie courses of 
 the public schonls. ainl was a pupil in 
 natural sciences under J.ouis Agassiz; took 
 special courses in anatomy and medicine; 
 and received the honorarj' def^rees of A.M. 
 from Wesleyan University, 1888, and D.Sc. 
 from the University of Pennsylvania, 1904. 
 He .served as Director of the Scientific 
 cor])s of the International Telegraph Ex- 
 pedition to Alaska, 18G5-18G8, during which 
 he became interested in that region in all 
 its scientific aspects, and particularly in 
 geology, zoology, and etlinology. He was 
 connected with the United States Coast 
 Survey, on hj'drographic survey work in 
 Alaska, 1871-1884, and was paleontologist 
 to llic U. S. Geological Survey from 1884 
 uulil 1!M)',). Since 1880. Dr. Dall has been 
 a curator of the U. S. National jNIuseum in 
 Washington, and since February, 1893, has 
 been professor of invertebrates paleontolony 
 in the Wagner Institute of Science in Phila 
 delphia. Dr. Dall is author of: Tribes 
 of the E.xtreme Xortliwcst: Scicntilie Re- 
 sults of the Ivxploration of Alaska; Re- 
 ports on tlic Mollusca of the Blake and 
 Albatross Deepsea E.xpeditions; Alaska and 
 Its Resources; a Monograph of the Mio- 
 cene of' Oregon; also variou.; smaller pub- 
 lications and contributions to scir.ntific 
 journals. He is a member of tlie National 
 Academy of Sciences, elected in 1897. He 
 mairied March :i. 1880, Annette Whitney. 
 Address: U. S. National .Musi'um, Wash- 
 inglon. 1). C. 
 
 DALLAS, George Mifflin: 
 
 I'liitc.d Slates circuit judge; born in 
 Pittsburgh, Pa.. Fel). 7. 1839; son of 
 Trevanitm B. Dallas. lie removed to 
 Philadelphia in his infiincy and was edu- 
 cated in the schools of tli:i1 city. He 
 studied law and was adniitti-d to the l>ar 
 in August, 1854, and i-ngaged in tlu' prac- 
 tice of law at Philiidc.l])hia. He was a 
 member of the ( 'oiistit utional Coincntion 
 which I'lamcil I lie |prr'-,ciit ( oii-l il iil imi of 
 
 the State of Pennsylvania. He was ap- 
 pointed May 17. 1892, judge of the United 
 States Circuit Court for the Third Circuit, 
 in which office he is still serving. Judge 
 Dallas is also profes.--or of the law of torts, 
 evidence and practice of the Law Dejjart- 
 ment of the University of Pennsylvaiii i. 
 He received the degree of LL.D. from 
 Princeton University. He married in Phila- 
 delphia, Oct. 22, 1867, Ellen :\larkoe Whar- 
 ton. Address: 1514 Pine Street, Phila- 
 delphia. 
 
 DALLINGER, Frederick William: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Cambridge, ^lass., Oct. 
 2, 1871; son of William W. and Elizabeth 
 F. Dal linger. He was graduated from 
 Harvard University as A.B., 1893, and 
 A.M., 1894, then took up the .study of 
 law, was graduated from the Harvard L:\w 
 School in 1897, and passed his bar ex- 
 aminations the same year. He had already 
 bfMi'ome prominent in public life, having 
 been for two terms a member of the Massa- 
 chusetts House of Representatives in 1894 
 and 1895. In 1896 he was elected to the 
 Massachusetts Senate, in which he served, 
 by successive reelections until 1900. He is 
 also well known for his political writings, 
 notably a volume on Nominations for Elec- 
 tive Onice in the United States. Residence: 
 4 Hancock Park, Cambridge, ]\lass. Ollict;: 
 28 State Street. Boston, Mass. 
 
 DALY, Arnold: 
 
 Actor: born in ISrooklyn. N. N .. Oct. 4, 
 1875. His parenls. .losepli .1. and Mary 
 Daly, were born in Ireland and were in- 
 timate friends of tlu' parents of George 
 Barnard Shaw, tiie Irish playwriglit. in 
 whose plays Mr. Daly has made his tir>t 
 a])pearance on the stage in a play in wliieh 
 I'^anny Rice was starring, but came into 
 prominence first in his impersonation of 
 Chambers in Frank Mayo's production of 
 Pudd'n Head Wilson, dramatized fi'om 
 .Maik Twain's book of that name. After 
 that Ml'. Daly .■ieliie\(il successes in \aiious 
 parts and linally. Dee. 9. !!)();{. li.> pio- 
 (Ineecl Shaw's ('.-mdida. wliieli I'an for more 
 than I.")!) ni-lils. and was followed up hv 
 
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 (lie production of various other Shaw 
 ]iiav-. all of which have been .successful. 
 Mr. Dai.v married in July 1, 1»U0, Mary 
 lUythc, a niece of General La (Grange, of 
 Los Angele.s, Calif., and they have one 
 child. Address: 230 West KKlth Street, 
 New \n\k City. 
 
 DALY, Joseph Francis: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Plymouth. N. C, Dr,c. 
 8. 1840; son of Dennis and Elizabeth T. 
 Daly. He removed to New York City when 
 nine years of age and was educated there. 
 He recf.ived the LL.D. degree from St. 
 John's College in 1883, and from Villanova 
 College in 1902. He was admitted to the 
 bar in 1802; was judge, 1870-1890, and 
 chief juotice, 1890-1896, in the Court of 
 Common Pleas of New York City and from 
 1S9G to 1898 justice of the Supreme, Court, 
 but since 1898 has practised privately. In 
 1900 he was appointed commissioner from 
 the United States to revise the laws in 
 Porto Rico. He is a membe,r of the Board 
 of Managers of the Roman Catholic Or- 
 phan Asj'lum, the Advisory Board of St. 
 Vincent Hospital, and was president of the 
 United Catholic Charities Association from 
 1890 to 1897. He is a member of the 
 Board of Trinity College at Washington, 
 momber of the American Geographical So- 
 ciety, the North Carolina Society, Asso- 
 ciation of the Bar of the City of New York, 
 New York Law Institute, National Con- 
 vention of Charities and the Dunlap So 
 ciety. He is a member of the Players', 
 Lawyf^rs', and Catholic Clubs, of which 
 latter he was president, 1893-1890. Judge 
 Daly married twice; first in 1873, Emma 
 Robinson Barker, who died in 1880, leaving 
 three children; and he married second, in 
 1890, Mary Louise Smith. Residence: 
 Roanoke, Yonkers, N. Y. Office: 54 Wall 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 DALZELL, John: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born in New 
 York City, April 19, 1845; moved to Pitts- 
 burgli, in 1847. He, received his early edu- 
 cation in the common schools and after- 
 ward went to Yale College, from which he 
 
 was graduated as B.A. in tlic class of 1805. 
 He studied law, and was admitted to tiie 
 bar in February, 1867, and lias since |)rac- 
 tised his profession in Pittsburgh. In 1886 
 ho was elected to the Fiftieth Congress, and 
 he has been continued iji the Mouse of 
 Representatives by l)icnnial reelect ions, and 
 novv- represents the Thirtieth Pennsylvania 
 Districts in the Sixly-first Congress. Mr. 
 Dalzell is widely recognized as the fore- 
 most advocate of the protective tari fi" and 
 one of tho foremost parliamentarians of 
 the House of Representatives of the United 
 States. His study of both .subjects has 
 been incessant, both at honje and abroad; 
 he has sought evr.iy source of information, 
 has collated and arranged a larger amount 
 of information than lias probably any man 
 who has ever .served in Congress, and stands 
 easily foremost as an authority on either 
 subject. For years he, has been a mem 
 ber of both the Committee on Rules and 
 the Committee on Ways and Means, tlie 
 two chief committees in the House of 
 Re.pre.-entatives. Address: Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 
 DALZELL, Samuel M. : 
 
 Coal operator; born in llartstown. I'a.. 
 Dec. 3. 1850; son of Rev. \\'illiam and 
 Elizabeth C. (INIartzell) Dalzell. He was 
 educated in the common schools. ]\lr. Dal- 
 zell has long hee,n engaged in business as 
 a coal operator in the Illinois field, and 
 is now general manager and director of 
 the Spring Valley Coal Company, and 
 president and director of the Illinois Third 
 Vein Coal Company, director and for three 
 years president of the Illinois Coal Oper- 
 ators Association. He is also a director 
 of the Kenwood Trust and Savings Bank 
 of Chicago, and president, treasurer and 
 director of the Ladd Mercantile Company. 
 also president of the Universal Folding 
 Machine Co. He was at one time a mem- 
 ber of the Ohio National Guard and four 
 years a member of the Illinois Labor 
 Bure.au. He is a Republican in politics, 
 and in religion is a Presbyterian, though 
 now connected with the Kenwood Evan- 
 gelical Churcli (Congregational). He is 
 pa.st master of SM. Dalzell Lodge of A. 
 
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 F. and A. ^lasons; a mombor of Pooria 
 Consistory of Scottish Rite Masons, of 
 Peoria, Illinois, and of Medinah Temple, 
 ]\Iystic Shrine of Chicago. Mr. Dalzell is 
 a member of the Union League, Chicago 
 Yacht, and South Shore Country Clubs 
 of Chicago. He married at Sharon, Pa., 
 Dec. 29, 187.5, Elnora King, and they have 
 had three children: Lizzie Elnora, who 
 died in infancy; Ada Dalzell, now Mrs. 
 E. M. Sweet, born in 1S78; Bessie Dal- 
 zell, now Mrs. L. W. Jared. Residence: 
 40.30 Grand Boulevard, Chicago. Office ad- 
 dress: Old Colony Building, 84 Van Buren 
 Street, Chicago, 111. 
 
 DAMOir, Samuel Mills: 
 
 Banker; born in Honolulu, Hawaiian 
 Islands, i\Iarch 1.3, 1845; son of Rev. 
 Saiiiuol C. Damon and Julia (Mills) 
 Damon. He was educated in Honolulu, 
 and since 1871 has been engaged in the 
 banking business in that city, now being 
 senior mendjei' of the banking house of 
 Bi.slio]) and Company. He was one of the 
 leaders in establishing the Republic of 
 Hawaii in place of the monarchy and was 
 minister of liiuince under the Hawaiian Re- 
 public imtii the annexation of the- islands 
 to the United States. He has received 
 various foreign decorations, including the 
 Victorian Jubilee medal from Great Britain, 
 the Order of the Golden Treasure of 
 Japan, and the decoration of Knight of the 
 Order of Christ from Portugal, and he is 
 a member of the Soci6te des Beaux Arts of 
 Paris and the Society of Arts of London. 
 Mr. Damon married at Honolulu, Sept. 5. 
 1872, II. I\I. Baldwin. Address: Honolulu. 
 Territory of Hawaii. 
 
 DAMROSCH, Frank H.: 
 
 Miisict! (lircftor; born in llrc^laii, (Jer 
 many, June 22, 1859; son of Dr. Leopold 
 and Helene (von Heimburg) Danirosch. 
 He was educated in the College of the 
 City of New York and afterward studied 
 nuisic with Brucknei-. J(;-.in Vogt, and von 
 Inten, and received Hie honorary degree 
 of Mus. Doc. from Yale, 1904. He was 
 conductor of the Denver Chorus Club, 1882- 
 1884, and (luring 1884 was supervisor of 
 
 nuisic of the Denver public schools. After 
 that he was chorus master of the Metro- 
 politan Opera House in New York, \mtil 
 1891; and he has served as conductor of 
 the Harmonic Society of Newark, N. J., 
 the Choral Club of New York, the Musical 
 Art Society and the Masurgia (nuile 
 chorus), of New York, and the Orpheus 
 Club and the Eurydice Chorus (female), 
 of Philadelphia, and was director of music 
 in the New York public schools, 1897-1905. 
 Since 1898 he, has been conductor of the 
 Oratoiio Society, and of the Symphony 
 Concerts for Young People, and, 1904-1909, 
 of the Mendelssohn Glee Club. He or- 
 ganized in 1905, and has since been 
 director of the Institute of IMusical Art. 
 Mr. Danirosch was a lieutenant in the 
 Colorado National Guard in 1884. He is 
 a member of the Armstrong Association, 
 the National Geographic Society, the So- 
 ciety for Ethical Culture and the Century 
 Association. He married in New York 
 City, Jan. 10, 1888. Hettie Mosenthal, and 
 they have a son and a daughter. Address: 
 53 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 DAMROSCH, Walter Johannes: 
 
 Musician: l)orn ul Breslau, Germany, 
 Jan. 30, 18G2; son of Leopold and Helene 
 (Von Ileimbrug) Danirosch. He was edu- 
 cated in the New York City public schools, 
 studied harmony and composition under 
 his father Dr. Leopold Danirosch, and under 
 Rischbricter and Draeseke in Dresden, in 
 piano under Von Inten, Boeckelman, Pin- 
 ner and Hans Von Bulow. Pie succeeded 
 his father as conductor of the \ew York 
 Symjihony Society; Hie New York Oralorio 
 Society and the German Opera at Hie 
 Metropolitan Opera House in 1885. \n 
 1894 he loundcd a Wagner Opera Com- 
 pany which ])ruduced Hie Nihelungcii Tri 
 ology in Hic I'liited States. He was elected 
 conductor (if the New ^'ork I'hilhaniionic 
 Society in 1902, and condiiclor of the Xew 
 York Symphony Orehotra in 190.3. Mr. 
 Danirosch is a i;e]uil)lieaii in |i(ilitie>. th- 
 is composer of: The Scarlet, Letter. :in 
 opera, in three acts; Manila Te Dcinn : 
 Cyrona, an o|)era in four acts; Danny 
 Deever, etc. Mr. Danirosch married in 
 
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 \\;i>liiimf(m. I). ('., May 17, IS'.Ill, Margaret 
 IMaiiic, (lauglitcr of lion, .lames Li. Blaine, 
 and tlioy have four eliildien. Address: IIG 
 Kast Sixly-firsl St reel , Xew York City. 
 
 DANA, Charles Loomis: 
 
 Pliysician; born in Woodstock. XCriiioiit. 
 March 25, 1852; son of Cliarlr.s and 
 Charity S. (Loomis) Dana. lie was 
 graduated from Dartmouth College as A.B. 
 in 1872, and later as A.]\L ; and from Co- 
 himhia University as ^NI.D. in 1877. He 
 was given the degree of LL.D. by Dart- 
 mouth in 1905. He is professor of 
 diseases of the nervous system in the Med- 
 ical Department of Cornell University and 
 formerly at Dartmouth Medical College, 
 and the Post-graduate Medical School of 
 New York, and is physician to Bellevue 
 Hospital. Dr. Dana is an ex-prcsident of 
 tlie American Neurological Association and 
 of the New Y''ork Neurological Society; 
 and of the New Y^ork Academy of Med- 
 icine; a fellow of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science, and a 
 corresponding member of the, Societe de 
 Neurologic. Paris; and of the Societe de 
 Psychiatric de Paris. He is author of 
 text books on Nervous Diseases and 
 Psychiatry; also of monographs in Hamil- 
 ton's Legal ]\Iedicine. on Traumatic Neu- 
 roses, and of other monographs and con- 
 tributions to journals on nervous and men- 
 tal diseases. He is founder and ex-presi- 
 dent of the Charaka Club; a member of 
 Dartmouth Alumni Association, and Sons 
 of the. Pvevolution, and Society of Colonial 
 \^'ars. He married Lilian Farlee, now de- 
 ceased. Address: 53 West 5.3d Street, 
 New Y'ork City. 
 
 DANA, Edward Salisbury: 
 
 ^Mineralogist and educator; born in New 
 Haven, Conn., Nov. 10, 1849; son of James 
 Dwight and Henry F. (Silliman) Dana. 
 He was graduated from Y'ale B.A., 1870, 
 M.A., 1874, and Ph.D., 1876, and also 
 studied at Heidelberg and Vienna. He 
 began his connection with Y'ale University 
 as tutor, 1874-1879, became, assistant pro 
 fessor of natural philosophy, 1879-1890, 
 
 and since IH!l(t has been |.rr.f<.-<.,r of 
 physics in \a\(' Lniveisity. His I'cxl- 
 book of .Miiieralngy. first publislic/l in 
 1877, has passed through several editions 
 and holds a leading place as an educational 
 text-book on the subject, and with his 
 works on Minerals and How (o Study Them, 
 Dana's System of Mineralogy, Localities 
 of Minerals; Catalogue of American Lo- 
 calities of Minerals, and various papers on 
 minerals, form the most important con- 
 tributions to mineralogy produced by any 
 American; and hei is also author of a 
 text-book of Elementary IMechanics ami 
 papei-s on othci- scientitic subjects. Dr. 
 Dana has been curator of the Mineral Col 
 lection at Y^ale since 1874, editor of llie 
 American Journal of Science since 1875, 
 member of the. National Academy of Science 
 since 1884, and of the American Phil- 
 osophic Society since 1896. He married in 
 New Haven, Conn., in 1883, Caroline 
 Bristol. Address: New Haven, Conn. 
 
 DANA, John Cotton: 
 
 Librarian; born in \\'oodstock County, 
 Vermont, Aug. 19, 1856; son of Charles and 
 Charity (Loomis) Dana. He was graduated 
 from Dartmouth College, A.B., 1878. then 
 studied law, and was admitted to the New- 
 York bar in 1882. He entei'ed upon his 
 library career in 1889 as librarian of the 
 Denver Public Library, in which position 
 he continued until 1897, when he became 
 city librarian of Springfield, Mass., re- 
 maining there until 1902. when lie became, 
 librarian of the Free Public Library of 
 Newark, N. .J., in which position he con- 
 tinues. Mr. Dana has taken a prominent 
 part in the plans and deliberations of the, 
 American Library Association of which he 
 was president in 1896, and is still a mem- 
 ber. Address: Free Public Library, 
 N. J. 
 
 DANA, Paul: 
 
 Editor; born in New Y'ork City. Aug. 
 20, 1852; son of Charles Anderson and 
 Eunice (Macdaniel) Dana. He was edu- 
 cated in private schools in New Y'ork City, 
 Harvard College, A.B., 1874, Columbia Law 
 
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 School, LL.B., 1878. He became conneclcd 
 with the New York Sun, of which hi.s 
 fallior was editor, and succeeded as editor 
 on tlie death of his father until 1903, when 
 he retired. Mr. Dana was for several 
 years park coniinissioner of New York City. 
 He married in New York City, Nov. 11, 
 1884, JNIary 1). Butler Duncaii, and has 
 four children. Address: (llencove, Long 
 Island. N. ^^ 
 
 DANA, Richard Henry: 
 
 Lawyer; honi in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 
 3, 1851; son of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., 
 and Sarah (Watson) Dana. He was 
 graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1874 and 
 LL.B., 1877. was class orator and three 
 years stroke of the University crew. 
 Following his graduation he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar and has since prac 
 tised law in Boston. Mr. Dana has been 
 actively identified with the advocacy of 
 measures of political and social reform, 
 and especially of civil service reform. He 
 edited the Civil Service Record, from 1889 
 to 1892: organized the Associated Charitie.s 
 of Boston in 1878, drafted the Civil Service 
 Reform Act, wliich passed the Legislature 
 of Massachusetts in 1884, and the first 
 Australian Ballot Act passed in tlie Unit(,d 
 States, adopted by the Legislature of Massa- 
 chusetts in 1888. He was president of 
 the New Erigland Conservatory of Music. 
 1891-1898, of the Boston Young Moii's 
 Cliristian Association in 1890' 1891 ; of the. 
 Cand)ridge Civil Service Reform As?o(ia- 
 tion, 1897-1901: of the Massachusetts 
 Civil Service Reform As.sociaf ion. lOUo- 
 1906, of the Oakley Country Club, 1905-1907, 
 and is chairman of the Nalioiial Civil Serv- 
 ice Reform Council, member Harvard Phi 
 Beta Kappa. He is author of: Double 
 Ta.xation in Massachusetts, 1895; also ad- 
 dresses on reform subjects. Residence: 113 
 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Mass. Office: 19 
 Congress Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 DANA, William Henry: 
 
 .Musiciiin. aiith(ir and Iccliii'cr; liorn in 
 Warren, Ohio, Jiine 10, 1840; son of Junius 
 and Martlia (Potter) Dana. After com- 
 pleting tlie course in the liigh scliool of 
 
 his native, eity and attending Willislon 
 Seminary at Lusthampton, Mass., served 
 in the Union Army in the Civil War, then 
 took musieal courses in Kullak's Conserv- 
 atory of Music in Berlin and tlie Itoyal 
 -Academy of iMusic, London, ile has since 
 been actively engaged in musical work as 
 teacher and writer of musical te.xt-books 
 the excellence of which procured him the 
 medal and diploma of the l']xposition at 
 Bologna, Italy. He is now president of 
 Dana's Musical Institute at Wairen, Oiiio, 
 is a lecturer on social, political and travel 
 topics in lyceum courses, and at Chau- 
 tauqua assemblies. His musical text-books, 
 which have attained wide adoption and cir- 
 culation, include: Dana's Practical Tlior- 
 ougli Bass; Dana's Practical Harmony; 
 Dana's Practical Counterpoint; Guide in 
 Orchestration: Guide in Military Band Ar- 
 ranging; The National School for Cornel. 
 Mr. Dana is an extensive traveler liaxing 
 made tours in Europe and especially in 
 Scandinavia, Russia and the Arctic ro 
 gions. He is a fellow of the American 
 College of .Musicians of the University of 
 New York, a member of the Royal Academy 
 of Music of London, Eng., the Society of 
 the Order of .Merit, N. V. ; the National 
 Geographic Society, Washington, D. C. ; life 
 member of the Music Teachers National 
 Ass'n and the Indiana Ass'n; and various 
 political clubs both local and national. He 
 married in Oleon, N. V'., in ]S70, l']nnna 
 Jane Tnttle. Address: Wancn. Ohio. 
 
 DANFORTH, Loomis L. : 
 
 Physician, surgeon; boin at IMonticello, 
 Otsego County, N. W; son of Hiram D. 
 and Mary .Tane (Tanner) Danfortli. lie 
 was educated in an acadeuiy at Itiea. \. 
 ^'.. and was graduated from the College of 
 I'liysicians and Surgeons of Cohunbia I'ni 
 versity as .M.D. in 1874. He has been en- 
 gaged in ])ractice as a lionKeojiathic phys- 
 ician and surgeon since 1S74. He ba> been 
 professor of obstetrics, in the New >'ork 
 I lomd'opathic Medical College and Hospital 
 siiic(> 188() and is now s(Miior ])rofessor and 
 also head of the Maternity Department of 
 Flower Hospital and chief of the Mater- 
 nity Stair at llahneniann Hospital. Dr. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 447 
 
 l):iiiroi-1 li is ,1 iiiciiilicr, .iiiil was |)rcsiilciil 
 in litO-J. (if I he llmiKropalliic Medical So- 
 ciclv lit" llic ('(iiiiil.v n{ Now York. Ho i.s 
 a iiiciiilicr nt' the liiioii LoafTUO Club. Dr. 
 I':iiif(iil h iiianicil at Williiiiaiil ic. ('dim., 
 in 1S7I. iMinna .\iiL;nsla ilainliii. Adilrcss; 
 I!) \\('s( .-,L'il Street. New Ndrk City. 
 
 DANIEL, John Warwick: 
 
 l/niled Slates senator; bom in Lynch- 
 burg, Va., Sept. 5, 1842. He was educated 
 at Tvvnclibiirg College and at, the celebrated 
 liii\-ersity School maintained by Dr. Uess- 
 ner Harrison in ante-bellnm days. He 
 joined "the Aiiny of Northern Virginia upon 
 the breaking out of hostilities, and served 
 in llie Confederate Army during the entire 
 war. liecoming adjutant general on the stalT 
 (if General .Tubal Early. At the close of 
 the war in 1865 he went to the University 
 of Virginia to study law. He- was admitted 
 to the bar in 1866, and has practised ever 
 since. He has long been a leader at the 
 \'iiginia bar, and is author of an au- 
 llioritative work upon attachments under 
 Die Code of that State; is a lawyer of 
 national repute and author of a valuable 
 textbook on Negotiable Instruments. For 
 nearly forty years he has been a leader in 
 the Democratic party of his State: was a 
 member of the House of Delegates of Vir- 
 ginia for two terms, 1869-1872, and of the 
 State Senate, 1875-1881. He was elected 
 ])rcsidential elector in 1S7G and voted foi 
 'J'ilden and Hendrick.. ; was defeated for 
 governor of Virginia in 1881, and in 1884 
 he was elected to the House of Represen- 
 tatives of the. Forty-ninth Congress. He 
 was elected to the United States Senate 
 in 1887, and lias been continued in that 
 body e\er since by successive reelections. 
 His ]nesent term will e\i)ire in 1911. 
 Senator Daniel \\as a member of the Na- 
 tional Democratic Conventions of 1880, 
 1SS8. 1896. 1900 and 1904, and wa.. per- 
 manent chairman of the Chicago Conven- 
 tion in 1896. Senator Daniel received the 
 degree of LL.D. from Washington and Lee 
 University. 1883, and from the University 
 of Michigan, 1887. He married in 1869, 
 Julia E. Munnell of Lynchburg. Address: 
 Lynchburg, Va. 
 
 DANIELS, Frank: 
 
 .\ctor: bdin ;it Dayton. Oiiio, in iKliO, 
 but renio\c(l. when \(ry young, to Uoston, 
 where he was educated in the Lawrence 
 School and Piej-ce's Ihisiness College. He 
 was afterward emploj'ed as a wood en 
 graver in lioston ami while there took 
 courses in vocal music at the New Eng- 
 land Conservatory of Music. He became an 
 amateur actor for a short time, and made 
 his professional d^l)ut as " 'I'iie Sherilf " 
 in The Chimes of Normandy at Chelsea. 
 Mass., in 1879, afterward was second 
 comedian in the stock company of tlie 
 Gaiety Theatre in Boston, playe.d witii the 
 McCaull Opera Company and afterward 
 with Atkinson's Jollities. He created the 
 part of '■ Old Sport " jn Hoyt's A Rag 
 Baby, with which ho Gvtr.ained until 1887, 
 when he started out a.; a star, at the. head 
 of his own company in Little Puck, since 
 which time he has produced and played 
 leading roles in The Attorney, Princess 
 Bonnie. The Wizard of the. Nile, The Idol's 
 Eye, The Ameer, Miss Simplicity, The Of- 
 fice Boy, Sergeant Brue, and otlicr comedies. 
 Address: Rye, Ne.w York. 
 
 DANIELS, Josephus: 
 
 Editor; born at Washington. Beaufort 
 County, N. C, May 18, 1862; son of Jo- 
 sephus and Mary Cleves Daniels. He was 
 educated in\ the Collegiate Institute at 
 Wilson, N. C, and afterward engagr,d in 
 newspaper work. He became State Printer 
 for North Carolina, 1887-1893, then was 
 appointed chief clerk of the Department of 
 the Interior of the United States, serving 
 two years. He is now editor of tlie News 
 and Observer, at Raleigh, the leading news- 
 paper of North Carolina, and he is member 
 of the Executive Committee of trustees 
 pf the University of North Carolina. Mr. 
 Daniels is prominent in the councils of the 
 Deniocratic Party in his State and the Na- 
 tion, and is the North Carolina member of 
 the Democratic National E.xecutive Com- 
 mittee. He married. May 18, 1888, Miss 
 Addie Worth Bagley, and they have four 
 children. Address: Raleigh, N. C. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 DARLING, Charles Hial: 
 
 Lawyer and cnlloclor of customs; born in 
 Woodstock, Vt., May 0, 1859; son of Jason 
 L. Darling and Elian L. (Paul) Darling. 
 He was educated in Perkins Academy, 
 Woodstock, Vt., a1 llie Mnimtpelier .Semi- 
 nary at Montpelicr. \i.. and at Kufts Col 
 lege, as A.B. in 1884. and lie received the 
 degree of LL.D. in 1903. lie was admitted 
 to the bar in 188G, and he is now partner 
 in the firm of Darling and Mower, attor- 
 neys at Burlington, Vt. He was judge of 
 tlie Municipal Court of Bennington, 1887- 
 1901, and he represented the I'own of Ben- 
 nington in the Legislature of Vermont, 
 1S9G-1898, and was a member of the Ju- 
 diciary Committee of the bod}-. He was 
 a.ssistant i-ecretary of the Navy, 1901-1905; 
 and was appointed in 1905 collector of cus- 
 toms for the District of Vermont, in which 
 office he is now serving. He is a member 
 and was president, 1899 1900, of the Ver 
 mont Bar Association; is a member of the 
 Vermont Historical Society. Judge Darling 
 is a prominent member of the college fra- 
 ternity of Zeta Psi, and was president of 
 the National Association, 1904-1905. He is 
 also a member of the Masonic order 
 and grand lecturer thereof and a member 
 and ])resident of the Vermont Society, Sons 
 of the American Revolution. He is a 
 trustee of Tufts College and ])rcsident of 
 the Board of Trustees of Coddard S.^ni- 
 nary. He married in Bennington, Vt., Oct. 
 (i, 1889, Agnes Christmas Noiton, and they 
 luive three children. Address: liurliniiton, 
 \'1 . 
 
 DARLING, Flora Adams: 
 
 louiidia' of patriotic societies; born in 
 Lancaster, N. H., July 25, 1840; daughter 
 of Harvey and Nancy Duslin (Rowell) 
 Adams. She was educated in Lanca.,tcr 
 Academy, and the degree of A.M. was con- 
 ferred on her by Wc.-stern Maryland College, 
 1880. She married in New York City, 1859, 
 Ceneral Edward Irving Darling, and re- 
 moved to Louisiana, and in 18G3 her hus- 
 band was killed in the Confedeiate service, 
 leaving her with a son. Ivlwiird Irving 
 Darling, who after attaining piuuiiuciu-c as 
 
 a music;il (-(nuiiDscr, died in IS'.tl. Since 
 the Civil War Mrs. Darling has lived in 
 Washington, D. C, where, she founded and 
 organized the three great patriotic societies 
 for women : Daughters of the American 
 Re\olution (headqnartei-s ;il \\'ashington) , 
 Daughters of the. Revolution ( licadtiuarters 
 New York City), and United States Daugh- 
 ters of 1812 (headquarters Wasliington ) : 
 and she is also president of the Edward 
 Irving Darling Musical Society, named in 
 memory of the son, a branch of the In- 
 ternational Sunshine Society, She is au 
 thor ofl': Mrs. Darling's Letters, ^Memories 
 of the Civil War; A Social Diplomat: A 
 Wayward Winning Woman; Was It a Just 
 Verdict; History of the Founding of tlie 
 D. A, R. and " D. R. Societies :' Senator 
 Atkins, C. S. A.; ^Memories of Virginia; 
 ^Memories and Legr.nds of The Granite 
 State. Mrs. Darling presented " The Cruci- 
 fixion,'' a masterpiece by Ooige B. 
 ]\Iatthews, to the Church " of St. Peter 
 (Catholic) at ]Mt. Clemens, ^lich.. in mem- 
 ory of lier son who died there; presented 
 a portrait of Jefferson Davis to the State 
 of Mississippi, which is now at Beauv(dr, 
 the Davis home — now a -Mus uin ;ind Sol- 
 diei's;' Home; also presented to tlie College 
 of \\'illiam and Mary (^'irgini;^) a eollec- 
 tion of l)()oks, pictures, vidies. and f(nind- 
 ing arelii\es of the societies. lett(M<. cer- 
 tificates, etc., to be known as tlie Darling 
 Collection. Address: 1907 X. Street. N. 
 \V., Wasliington. D. C. 
 
 DARLINGTON, Charles Francis: 
 
 Lawyer: horn in Biiioklyn. X. ^■.. Nov. 
 1. ISUO: son of Thoma> and llannali A. 
 ((ioodliflV.) Darlington, lie w is graduated 
 from Princeton A.M.. ISSI. A.I'... 1SS2. and 
 from Columbian Law Seiidul LL.l!.. 1884. 
 He was admitted to the bar in 1884. Mr. 
 Darlintiion is a member (d' tlie Sons of the 
 IJexdliilinn. Ilie H'liLinennl Suciijy of 
 America, tlu' Society (d' (olnnial Wars and 
 the St. Nicholas Society. lie inini.'d in 
 New York City, Jan. 2S. l!):);!, Letitia 
 Craig O'Xeill, and they lia\c one son. 
 Summer iiome: Ml. Kiseo. Westchester 
 County, N, Y. llesideuee: 14;! Wet 57tU 
 
llciiltli ( 'iiiiiiiiis>i(iiicr. New N'oik City 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 440 
 
 Sdocl. Ollicc: 200 T.inadw.iy, New York 
 Cily. 
 
 DARLINGTON, James Henry: 
 
 r.islii)|) (if Ihnrisliiir.i; ; is nf nn oM 
 ( 'til()iii:il hiiiiily, .niil was lioni al l>n)oklyn. 
 N. y.. •luiic 11, ISoCi: son nt' 'I'lioinas and 
 Hannah A. (Goodliflfe) Darlington, and 
 grandson of Peter Darlington. He was 
 graduated from the University of New York, 
 B.A., 1877, from Princeton Seminary in 1880, 
 receiving also, in 1884, the degree of Ph.D. 
 from Princeton University, D.D. in 1895 
 fiom tlie University of New York, and 
 LL.D. from St. John's College., Annapolis, 
 ]!)(>5, and fiom Dickinson College in 1907. 
 He took deacon's orders in the Episcopal 
 (iiiinh in 1882 and was ordained priest 
 l)y Bisluip Littlejolin in the same year. 
 Dining the year 1882-1S8.S he was assistant 
 in Christ Church, Bedford Avenue, Brook 
 lyn, X. \'., becoming rector the following 
 year. He officiated there, until 1905, when 
 lie became Bishop of Harrisburg, Pa. Ho 
 is author of: Verses for Children, and 
 editor of the Hynnial of the Church, and 
 has published numerous addresses and 
 pamphlets. He was chaplain of the 47th 
 Regiment of the National Guard of New 
 Y'ork for eight years. Bishop Darlington 
 is a member of the Society of Colonial 
 Wars, the Sons of the Revolution, the 
 Huguenot, St. Nicholas, National C4co- 
 graphic and other societies. He married at 
 Garden City, N. Y., July 26, 1886, Ella 
 Beams. Address: Harrisburg. Pa. 
 
 DARLINGTON, Thomas: 
 
 Physician and commissioner of healtli ; 
 born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1858; 
 sou of Thomas and Hannah A. (Goodlift'e) 
 Darlington. He was educated in the public 
 schools of New York and Newark, N. J., and 
 afterward was graduated in the scientific and 
 engineering course from the University of 
 the City of New York, and from the Col- 
 lege of Phj^sicians and Surgeons of New 
 Y'ork, M.D., 1880. He practised medicine 
 in Newark, N. J., 1880-1882, and after that 
 practised at Kingsbridge., N. Y., 1882-1904, 
 except for two years spent in Arizona, 
 where he was surgeon of several mining 
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 coiiijianies, and lie was appnintcl rdiniiiis- 
 
 sidller of lie.lllh of Xe.W VovU ('i(> ill 1!MI| 
 ;iiid rea|i|ioiiilc(i in l!i(l(!. liilil hi- a|i 
 poinlnienl as heailh eomniis>ioner. Dr. 
 DarlingioM was visiting pliysieian to .-ev- 
 eral hospitals of I lie city; and he is now 
 eoiisiilt ing iihysieiaii lo (lie I'reneli IFos- 
 jiital and to Fordham Hospital, and is pro- 
 fessor of hygir.ne in Fordham I'niver.sity. 
 lie lias been an extensive contributor to 
 medical literature and is <a member of tiic 
 American Medical Association, the Xe,w 
 York State and New Y''ork County ]\Iedical 
 Societies, the Medico-Legal Society, Asso- 
 ciation of the .Mumni of the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons, Harlem Medical 
 Association, New York Phj^sicians' Mutual 
 Aid Association, Medical Society of the 
 Borough of the Bron.x, Medical Association 
 of Greater New Y^ork; e.x-president of the 
 American Cliinatological Association ; mem- 
 ber of the, Yonkers Practitioners Society, 
 Society of Medical Jurisprudence and 
 Academy of Medicine; member of the 
 Committee of One Hundred on National 
 Health appointed by the American As.so 
 elation for the Advancement of Science, and 
 of the Commission on the prevention of 
 Tuberculosis of the Charity Organization 
 Society of the City of New Y^ork. Dr. 
 Darlington is surgeon of the Society 
 oFColonial Wars; member of the National 
 Association for the Study and Prevention 
 of Tuberculosis, the Society of Tropical 
 Medicine; was appointed by President 
 Roosevelt first lieutenant of the Medical 
 Reserve Corps, U. S. A., member of the 
 Chamber of Commerce, New Y'ork, and is a 
 member of the Special Committee on 
 Blindness. He is also a member of the 
 Archdeaconry of New York, the Chemi-'ts' 
 Club, Thomas Hunter Association of Gram- 
 mar School No. 35, Sons of the Revolu- 
 tion, New Y'ork University Alumni A-sso- 
 ciation, Kingsbridge Council, No. 108.'> 
 Royal Arcanum, Parish Club, Church 
 Temperance Society, Huguenot Society of 
 America, Fordham Club. North Side Board 
 of Trade, New York Athletic Club. Na- 
 tional Child Labor Committee. Lotos Club, 
 American Geograpliical Society, National 
 Geographic Society, and is president of 
 
450 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 the New York Cliaptor of the Alpha Mil Pi 
 Omega Society. Address: 48 West 5111 li 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 DARROW, Clarence S.: 
 
 Lawj'er; bom in Kinsman, Ohio, A])ri] 
 18, 1857. He was educated in the Oliio 
 l)ub]ic schools; studied law, and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1857. He was for 
 some years attorney for tlie. Northwestern 
 Railway Company, but during recent years, 
 lias been active in cases against monopolies, 
 including litigation against the Gas Trust 
 in Chicago; and the cases of Chicago 
 against the street railways of Chicago; was 
 chief counsel for anthracite miners in the 
 anthracite coal strike arbitration at Scran- 
 ton and Piiiladelphia in 1902 and 1903, and 
 active in political campaigns as an Inde- 
 pendent Democrat; was counsel in the. Debs 
 strike case and a large number of labor 
 injunction and labor conspiracy cases on 
 the side of labor and secured acquittal of 
 William D. Haywood at Boise City, Idaho, 
 wliere he. was charged with the murder of 
 Former Governor Steunenberg of that 
 State. i\lr. Darrow is a noted platform 
 speaker, was for a term in the Illinois 
 l.egislature, and was associated with the. 
 reforms of the Altgeld administration in 
 Illinois. He is author of Persian Pearl 
 (essays); Kesist Not Evil; Parmington 
 (novel) ; An Eye for an Eye; and various 
 pamphlets on social and economic que.stions. 
 lie married and has one son. Kesidence: 
 218 GOth St. Ollice: 1202 Ashland Block, 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 DARTT, Justus: 
 
 I'aiiiici' and etliicator; b(jin in Weathers 
 held, Vt., Feb. 17, 183(j; son of Erastus 
 and Rebecca (Jackman) Dartt. He was 
 educated in the common schools and Wcs- 
 kyan Seminary at Springfield, Vt., and at 
 Xowbury (Vt.) Seminary. The larger part 
 of his life has been devoted to work in 
 the common schools, first as a teacher and 
 afterward as superintendent of schools for 
 eight years, in the districts of Charle- 
 moiit, ('fill way, CJardner and Ashby, in 
 Massachusetts, mulcr the State Board of 
 
 Education of Massachusetts, and from 
 ISSO 1o 1888 he was State Superintendent 
 of Education of the State of Vermont. 
 His present occupation is farming. Din- 
 ing the Civil War he served as second 
 lieutenant in Company D of the 9th Regi- 
 ment of Vermont Volunteers, lie has been 
 prominent in political affairs, as a Re- 
 publican, in Vermont, was a member of 
 the House of Representatives of that State 
 in 1874, 1878, 1880, 1902, and 1904, and 
 State senator from Windsor County in 
 1882, and was president pro tem of tlio 
 Senate in that year. He was a trustee of 
 the Vermont Agricultural College, 1880- 
 1886, and was elected trustee of the Ver- 
 mont Soldiers' Home in 190(). .Mr. Dartt 
 is past commander of Jarvis Post, G. A. R. ; 
 is a Mason and Knight Templar and past 
 high priest of Skitchawy Chapter, Royal 
 Arch Masons. Mr. Dartt married in 
 Weathersfield, Vt., Oct. 13, 1859, Abbie I 
 Patten Knight, and has two sons and a T 
 daughter. Address: Springfield, V^t. 
 
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 DARWIN, Charles Carlyle: 
 
 Librarian; born in Paris, Tennessee, Jan. 
 27, 1848; son of Charles Darwin, born in 
 England, but brought up in tiiis country, 
 who was a lawyer and edited the first 
 paper in Des Moines, Iowa, and Mary 
 (Piatt) Darwin, descendant of Richaril 
 Platt, an early settler in Connecticut. He 
 graduated in Oberlin in 1808 with the de- 
 gree of A.M., and at the Union Theological 
 Seminary in 1870, after studying there for 
 two years. He engaged in literary work J 
 in New Y'ork, and from 1S70 to 1872 was ^ 
 a co-worker with Dr. Lyman Abbott on his 
 Life of Christ and Bible Dictionary; pro- 
 fessor of Hebrew at Harvard University 
 in 1872; libraries in the Library of Con- j 
 gress and in charge of flic Smitlisonian 
 Library from 1872-1882; lihiariaii of the 
 United States Geological Survey from 1882 
 to 1902, and also, Vrom 1882 to 1894, li- 
 brarian of tlui Bureau of Ethnology at the 
 Smithsonian Institution. While with the 
 Geological Survey, lie was cliargiMl willi 
 building up of the library wliicli. in his 
 twenty years as its chief, he (h'vejoprd into 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 451 
 
 tlif iM()>( v'.\t(',nsi\(' of its kind in tlic world, 
 lie is a. iiiciiil)(>r of tiie Cosmos Club. In 
 ISSO lie niaiiit'tl Gortrnde Basconi, and 
 tlioy have a sou and tiirec daughters. 
 Residence: 152-1 Twenty-eighth Street. 
 W'asliinglon, D. C. 
 
 DARWIN, Gertrude Bascom: 
 
 Probation oflicer of the Juvenile Court 
 of Washington; born in Middlebury, Vt., 
 May 19, 1855; daughter of William Frank- 
 lin and Anne Field (Strong) Bascom; and 
 she is of Revolutionary ancestry. She was 
 one of the ten honor girls of her class at 
 Vassar College, where she was graduated 
 A.B., 1878; and she married at Shenford, 
 N. Dak., Nov. 25, 1880, Charles Carlyle Dar- 
 win, and has a son and three daughters. 
 While at college she painted still life under 
 Professor Henry Van Ingen, 1876-1878; 
 exhibited at the National Academy of De,- 
 sign, New York, 1878; painted in oils un- 
 der Henri and Jules Hebert, and water- 
 color under M'lle Annen, at Geneva, 
 Switzerland, 1878-1879, also painted (china 
 decoration) in Dresden under Franz Tiel, 
 1879, then taught jjainting and taught pub- 
 lic school in North Platte, Neb., 1879-1880. 
 Mrs. Darwin was librarian general, 1897- 
 1899, treasurer-general, 1899-1903, Daugh- 
 ters of the American Revolution; was Na- 
 tional vice-president in charge of the 
 organization of local societies of Children 
 of the American Revolution, 1903-1907, and 
 National vice president of Children of the 
 American Re\olution since 1907. She was 
 also president of the Aurora (W. Va.) 
 Library Association since 1893. Since the 
 organization of the Juvenile Court in Wash- 
 ington, D. C, she has been probation officer 
 of that court, keeping in personal touch 
 with about five hundred children annually. 
 She has contributed to the reports of the 
 Daughters of the American Revolution, 
 ])ublished by the Smithsonian Institution. 
 ^Irs. Darwin is a member of the Vassar 
 Alumnae Association, Vassar Students' Aid 
 Society, Association of Collegiate Alumna;, 
 and the Public Education Association of 
 Washington, Chapter of New York, Phi 
 Beta Kappa. Residence: 1524 Twenty- 
 
 eiglilh Street. Oflice: Juvenile Court, 
 ISKi F Street, Washington, D. C. 
 
 DAVENPORT, Bennett Franklin: 
 
 Medicolegal exp(,rt; born in Cambridge, 
 Mass., I\lay 28, 1845; son of Charles and 
 Joan Fullerton (Hagar) Davenport. He 
 prepared for college at the Cambridge High 
 School. He graduated at Harvard College. 
 A.B., 1867, A.M., 1870, and M.D., 1871. 
 He was of the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa. 
 He also received the degree of M.D. from 
 Columbia University. He afterward studied 
 at German universities. From 1871 to 1886 
 he was in genei'al practice in Boston. 
 Since then has devotcxl himself to medico- 
 legal specialities as an expert, having been 
 appointed coroner for Suffolk Co., Bos- 
 ton in 1875. He was expert on the writ- 
 ings in the Roland B. Molineux, and the 
 William M. Rice or Albert F. Patrick 
 trials in New York City; the August 
 hartje trial in Pittsburgh, the Charles L. 
 Tucker murder trial in Boston, and many 
 othe.rs. He was for ten years chairman of 
 the Health Board, five years chairman of 
 the Water Board and chairman of the 
 Park Board of Watertown, a subuib of 
 Boston. He has been in continuous em- 
 ployment of the State of Massachusettts 
 for more than twenty five years as medico- 
 legal expert, was for three years milk in- 
 spector for the City of Boston, for ten 
 years analyst for the State Board of Health, 
 and for over ten years past expert for the 
 State upon its official Record Ink with 
 which all the public records throughout 
 the state must be written. Di'. Davenport 
 is a member of the, American Chemical 
 Society and of the Chemical Societies of 
 London, Paris and Berlin, of the ]5ritish 
 Society of Public Analysts, the Deutsche 
 Gesellschaft fur Angr.wandte Cheniie and 
 other leading medical and chemical soci- 
 eties, city, State and National, over twenty 
 in all. He is president of the Historical 
 Society of Watertown, Mass., and was of 
 its chapter of the Sons of the .American 
 Revolution. He is a member of the New 
 England Historic-Genealogical Society, the 
 American Historical Association and the 
 
45:i 
 
 MEN 01< AMERICA. 
 
 National Geographic Society. Tie mav- 
 licd in Watoitown. :Miis.s.. July -2:',. lS7:i. 
 .Annie V. Cooiidjjre, and (luy h:\\i' torn 
 cliildrcn. tlie three oldei- of wlioiii liave 
 alieaoy _L;radualed al Harvard, wliilr. the 
 fourth is yet a student tlieic. Kesidence: 
 Waterlown, Mass. Office: Ifil Tremont 
 Street, Boston. Mass. 
 
 DAVENPORT, Charles Benedict: 
 
 Jliuld-i^l : l>t>in in Stamford, Conn., dune 
 1, ISGti: s(in of Anizi IJenodiet and Jane 
 Joralenion (Dinion) Davenport. He was 
 graduated from the rolyleelinic Institute 
 of Brooklyn, 13.S.. 188G. Harvard Univer 
 sity, A.I?.," ISSi), Pli.D.. 1892. He was en- 
 "iueer on tlie survey of the Duluth, South 
 Shore and Atlantic llailway; assistant in 
 zoolog}', 1888-1892, instructor in zoology 
 1 892- 1899, Harvard University; assistant 
 ])rofr.ssor 1899-1901 and associate professor 
 1901-1904, of zoology in the University of 
 Chicago; has been director of the Biological 
 Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor since 
 lb98, and is now also director of the Sta- 
 tion for E.\periinental Evolution, at the 
 same place, for the Carnegie Institution 
 of Washington, D.C. Dr. Davenport is a 
 fellow of tlie .American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science of which he was, 
 in 1900. vice-])residc.nt of Section F; 
 cliainnan of the Eastern Branch of tlie 
 American Society of Naturalists, 1905- 
 1906; member of the .\merican Society 
 of Zoologists, of which he was president 
 in 1907; member of the American Academy 
 of Arts and Sciences, American Philosoph 
 ical Society, Boston Society of Natural 
 History, New York Academy of Sciences, 
 Washington Academy of Sciences, Society 
 for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 
 New York Zoological Society, Soci^te Zoo- 
 logique de France, Allegemeine Entomo 
 logisehe Gesell.schaft, American Breeders' 
 Association (Secretary of the .Animal Sec- 
 tion), and American Bison Society (mem- 
 ber of the Board of ^lanagers). Dr. Da- 
 venport is author of: A Handbook for Grad- 
 uate Courses; Experimental Morphology; 
 Statistical Methods in Biological Varia- 
 tion; Introduction to Zoology (with G. C. 
 Davenport) ; and Inheritance in Poultry. 
 
 He is coeditoi' of the .lomnal of l-]\pi'rinien- 
 tal Zoology and of Psycdie. and a contrili- 
 utoi- to scientific journals on biological sub 
 jects. lie married in Burlington, Kan., 
 June 2:3, 1894, (Gertrude Crotty, and they 
 have two daugiiters. Address: Cold 
 Spring ilailior. Long Island. X. Y. 
 
 DAVENPORT, Frances Gardiner: 
 
 Historical research; born in Stamford; 
 Conn., daughter of Amzi Benedict and Jane 
 Joralemon (Dimon) Davenport. She was 
 educated in Badcliffe College, A.B., 1894, 
 A.M., 189G, and the University of Chicago. 
 190:M904, Ph.D., 1904. Miss Davenport 
 was instructor in history. Vassar College. 
 1904-1905; assistant in the Department of 
 Historical Research of the Carnegie Insti- 
 tution of Wasnington since 1905. Among 
 her publications are: A Cla.ssified List 
 of Printed Original Materials for the 
 ^lanorial and Agrarian History of Eng- 
 land (Radeliffe College Monographs No. 
 G — Ginn), 1894; The Economic His- 
 tory of a Norfolk Manor (Cambridge Uni- 
 versity Press), 190G. Joint author with 
 Professor C. ^I. Andrews of Guide to the 
 ifanuscript Materials for the History of the 
 United States to 1837, in the British Mu- 
 seum, Elinor London Archives and in the 
 Libraries of Oxford and Cambridge (Carne- 
 gie Institution, 1908). Office: Department 
 of Historical Research, Carnegie Institu- 
 tion. Washinglon, D.C. 
 
 DAVENPORT, Gertrude Crotty: 
 
 Seicnlilic investigator; born near Den- 
 ver, Colo.; daughter of William and Mil- 
 lia (Armstrong) • Crotty. She was gradu- 
 ated from the Kansas State University, 
 S.B.. 1889, was a graduate student of Rad- 
 eliffe College, i892-1894; married in 
 Burlington, Kan., June 2:i. 1894. Charles 
 P.enedict Davenport, and lias two daughters. 
 Mrs. Davenport was joint author, with C. 
 B. Davenjxut. of Introduction to Biology 
 (Macmillan); and has written monographs 
 on: The Origin of the Primitive Streak 
 in Chelonia : Variatiim in the Number of 
 Stripes on the Sea Anemone, Sagartia Lu- 
 roir ; Heredity of Eye-color in Man; Hercd- 
 Hv of Hair I'onii in Man; llcreditv of 
 
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 Ihvir-color in Man. Mrs. J)avpnport is in 
 tiiictor ill llie JMological Jjaboiatory of the 
 l.ronklyn institutp of Arts and Sciences. 
 Slic is a iiicniber of the Signa Xi Society 
 and oi the American Society of Zoologists. 
 Address: (\ild Sjirini;- ITarbor, Long 
 Island. N. Y. 
 
 DAVENPORT, Homer Calvin: 
 
 (.'arieaturist and writer; born at Silver- 
 ton. Oregon. March 8, 1SG8; son of Tim- 
 othy W. and Florinda (Geer) Davenport, 
 lie never attended an art school, but was 
 successively a jockey, foreman and circus 
 clown. His first ne.wspaper employment 
 was on the Portland Orcgonian and in 1892 
 ho was engaged on the San Francisco Ex- 
 aminer and Clironicle. He came to New 
 York City in 1895, to do political cartoons 
 for the New Y'ork Journal, his work caus- 
 ing an attempt to pass an anti-cartoon bill 
 in the. New Y'ork Legislature in 1897. 
 Since 1904 he has been on the staff of the 
 New Y^ork Evening Mail and Express, by 
 which his cartoons are syndicated through- 
 out the United States. Mr. Davenport has 
 a farm at :Morris Plains, N. J. In 1897 
 he took a European trip cartooning public 
 and political characters, including Glad- 
 stone. He went to Paris during the Drey- 
 fus trial to sketch and write, and in 1906 
 to the Arabian Dosert to import pure 
 Arabian mares and stallions, having ob- 
 tained special permission of the Sultan, 
 and being accompanied by a detachment 
 of Turkish soldiers. His favorite recrea- 
 tions are, horseback riding and farming. 
 He has tlie finest and largest private collec- 
 tion of pheasants and wild water fowl in 
 America and is a large importer and breed- 
 er of pure Arabian horses. Mr. Davenjjort 
 married at Chicago, Sept. 7. 1893, Daisy 
 15. ;\Ioore, of San Francisco, and they have 
 tliree children. Residence: Morris Plains, 
 N. J. Address: 203 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 DAVIDSON, Hannah Amelia: 
 
 Autlior and ])ublishe.r; linni in Campello, 
 ]\Iass.; daughter of Spencer \Yilliams and 
 Mary (Packard) Noyes. both descendants 
 of tlie lirst colonists settling Massachusetts. 
 
 She w:is graduated from Iowa College, A.B., 
 1878, A.M.. 1882; and she, was married 
 in Griuneli, Iowa, Aug. 21, 1878, Charles 
 Davidson (now professor of education in 
 the University of INIaine). and I hey liad a 
 daughter, Enid Amelia, who i-- now de- 
 ceased. Mrs. Davidson tauglit. will) he,r 
 husband, in IMitchell Seminary, la., 1878- 
 1879; was assistant jjrineipal (Mr. David- 
 son being principal) and nnister in Latiu, 
 Greek and English history in IMinneapolis 
 (Minn.) Academy, 1879-1884; taught his- 
 tory and composition in Dalles City High 
 School, The Dalles Ore,. 1884-1885; and 
 fi'om 1885-1888 pursued graduate studies 
 in, economics, finance, American Colonial 
 institutions and comparative politics, first 
 under Professor F. W. Taussig of Harvard 
 University, and afterward in the, Graduate 
 departments of the Universities of Min- 
 nesota and California; was master in his- 
 tory in the Belmont (Calif.) School, 1888- 
 1893; spent summer terms of 1894-1895 in 
 the Graduate Department of the University 
 of Chicago taking studies in politics, eco- 
 nomics and history. From 1894 engaged in 
 literary work and literary study; author 
 editor and publisher of the Study-Guide 
 Series of Books, (six books) ; author of 
 Referr.nce History of the United States 
 ( Ginn & Co. ) , also author of many crit- 
 ical papers, essays, etc., as: The Gift of 
 Genius; Literarj"- Study for Busy People; 
 The Study Club as a Moans of Culture., 
 etc., writing under the pen-name of •' H. 
 A. Davidson." under which name also she 
 conducts her publishing activities. Special 
 lecturer in the Department of English, 
 \Vellesley College on The Art of Fiction, 
 Tlie Short Story, etc. She resided in Cleve- 
 land, Ohio, 1894-1896, Albany, N. Y^, 1896- 
 1904. Present residence: Orono, Me. Of- 
 fice address: H. A. Davidson, Cambridge, 
 Mass. 
 
 DAVIDSON, James H.: 
 
 Congressman; was born in Colc]iest<v", 
 Delaware CouTity. N. Y^. June 18, 1858. 
 He was educated in the juiblic schools 
 and at Walton (N. Y'.) Academy; taught 
 school; studied law; was graduated from 
 Albany Law Scliool as president of the 
 
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 class in 18S4 ami was in Iho same year 
 admitted to the bar of New York; sub- 
 sequently moved to Wisconsin and com 
 menoed the. practice of law at Princeton 
 in 1887. ]n 1888 he was elected prose- 
 cuting attorney of Green Lake County; in 
 1892 removed to Oshkosh and continued 
 the practice of law: in 1895 was appointed 
 city attorney; was chaiinian of the Re- 
 l)ublican Congressional committee from 
 1890 to 1890; was elected to the Fifty- 
 fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, 
 Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses and 
 reelected in 1908 to the Sixty-tirst Congress 
 from the 8th Wisconsin District. Address: 
 Oshkosh, Wis. 
 
 DAVIDSON, James 0.: 
 
 (;u\'eiuiji' of Wisconsin; born in Norway, 
 Feb. 10, 1854; son of Ole and Ingabor 
 (Jenson) Davidson. He was educated in 
 Norway and in 1872 he came to the United 
 States, se.ttling in Wisconsin, and since 
 1877 he has been engaged in farming 
 milling and mercantile business at Soldiers' 
 Grove, \\'is. lie lias been prominent and 
 active in ])olitical affairs in Wisconsin; 
 served as a member of the, Wisconsin Leg- 
 islature, 1893-1899, and State treasurer. 
 1899-1903. He was elected to the office of 
 lieutenant-governor in 1904, and became 
 governor of Wisconsin in January. 19()(i. 
 to fill the unexpired term of Governor L;i 
 Folette, who resigned the governorship on 
 his election to the United Stat(*s Senate. 
 Governor Davidson was reelected governor 
 in November, 1906 and in 1908. and liis 
 present term will expire in 1911. He mar- 
 ried in Reedstown, Wis., Fel). 21. 1883, 
 Helen Bliss. Address: Madison, Wis. 
 
 DAVIDSON, James Wheeler: 
 
 Former consul-general ami w.w (iinc 
 spondenl ; ijorn in Austin, .Minn., .Inn'; N, 
 1872. He was graduated from the Nortli 
 western Military Academy of Higliland 
 Park, 111., in 1891, and was a member of 
 the Peary Arctic Exi)edition in 1894. This 
 adventurous opening of his career was fol- 
 lowed by service as a war correspondent 
 will! Iho Chinese Arm\ , <liiriiiLr Hie war 
 
 between .lajnin and China in 1894; and 
 with the Ja|)anese Army in 1895 and 1896, 
 He was American Consular Agent and 
 Consul at Formosa, from 1897 to 1903 dur- 
 ing which time he wrote several valuable 
 monographs on Formosan affairs as well 
 as a large volume entitled " Formosa, Past 
 and Present " which is considered as the 
 standard book of reference on this subject. 
 In 1904 he was American consul at Dalny, 
 Manclnuia, and, when refused recognition 
 on account of the closing of that port, was 
 made special agent of the Department of 
 State. He was acting Consul General of 
 the United States at Shanghai in 1905, 
 and is at present the president of Crown J 
 Lumber Co. Ltd., a lumber corporation with ^ 
 its head office at Calgary, Canada. Mr. 
 Davidson is a Fellow of the Royal Geo- 
 graphical Society of London, tlie Royal 
 Asiatic Society and tlio Arctic Club and 
 has received the order of the Rising Sun 
 from the Emperor of Japan given for serv- 
 ices rendered the Japanese Army during 
 the war with Japan and China. Mr. 
 Davidson married at San Francisco, Cal., 
 Oct. 9, 1906, Mabel Lillian Dow. Resi- 
 dence: Royal Avenue. Office: Care of 
 Crown Lumber Co., Ltd., Calgary, Canada. 
 
 DAVIES, Arthur Ernest: 
 
 Professor of philosophy; boiii in London. 
 l']ngland, Marcli 18, 1867; son of James 
 and Ellenor Davies. He was educated in 
 King's College School, and at Owens Col- 
 lege, Manchester, England, and University 
 College, London, 1884-1888, Yale Divinity 
 School, 1888 1891, B.D., 1891, Yale Gradu- 
 ate. School, 1895-1898, Ph.D. He was pas 
 lor of Lake Preston and Lrwin Congrega- 
 tional Churches in South Dakota, J892- 
 1893, and was ordained at I-ake Preston. 
 .May 29, 1893. He was pastor of the Con- 
 gregational Church in Mianus, Conn,, 1896- 
 1898, of Purwell (Neb,) Congregational 
 Church, 1898-1899; and of Ku^tis" (Neb.) 
 Congregational Church, ISiCi IDOH. He was 
 instructor in ()hiIosn])!iy at I lie ()hio Stale 
 University, 1900 1906, and assistant pro- 
 fessor of philosophy in the Ohio State Uni- 
 \<a-silv from 1906 lo 190S. when he was ad- 
 
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 v;inicil tn tln' i:iiik (if I'liU pi'ofpssor. Dr. 
 J)a\ic.s Ikis boon ;iii cxicusivc contributor 
 to S(>lt"-C'iilture, tlic Aiiglo-Anio.ricaii Mag- 
 a/iiip, IJibliotliecii Sacra, tlie Philosophic- 
 al IJeview, Psycliologicai Review, tlie Jour 
 iial of Ethics, cliiefly on philosophical, re- 
 liuii.us, etliical and psychological subjects. 
 His l)o()k Tiie IMoral Life: A study in 
 (Jcnclic Ktliics (1!)0!)). is the iirst volume 
 of llic Library of Cionetic Scio.nce and 
 l'hil(is()|)h\ . i^-sucil uiulcr the editorship of 
 I'rof. .1. Mark i'.aldwin. JIc is an Inde- 
 ]i('iiil('iit ill pdlilics. He is a iiic.nibcr of the 
 America 11 Associaiimi for tlie Advance- 
 ment of Science, the. Religious Education 
 Association, the Western Philosophical As- 
 sociation, and the American Psychological 
 Association. He married in London, Eng- 
 land, December 28, 1892, Emily Adeline 
 Hill, and they have two daughters. Ad- 
 dii'ss: 295 East Seventeenth Avenue, Co- 
 liiir.bus, Oiiio. 
 
 DAVIES, J. Clarence: 
 
 Real estate; born at New York City, 
 Nov. 27, 1867; ;-.on of David and Maria 
 (Phillips) Davics. He was educated at 
 school No. 09 and College of the City of 
 New York. Mr. Davies began in the real 
 estate business in 1889, making a special- 
 ty of Jjionx pi'operty, and has charge of 
 numerous large estates. He has consum- 
 mated many large sales and is frequently 
 employed a.^ expert in many condemnation 
 proceedings of property in the Bronx sec- 
 lion, as wi'U as for railroad and other cor- 
 porations, and as appraiser for banks, trust 
 companies, institutions and attorneys for 
 lironx properties. He is a member of the 
 New York State Real Estate Association, 
 President of the Association of Bronx Real 
 Estate Brokers; was organizer, and member 
 and chairman of the Real E.state Commit- 
 tee of the North Side Board of Trade; and 
 he is a director of the Twenty-third Ward 
 Bank, the Lawyers' Westchester Title and 
 Mortgage Company, and several real estate 
 corporations; is trustee of the North Side 
 Savings Bank, was many years treasurer 
 of the Real Estate Board Brokers. He is 
 a member of the ^Metropolitan j\Iuseum of 
 Art, the Horticultural Society, the Zoo- 
 
 logical Society, the Academy of Science, 
 and of true (haftsmen (Masonic) Lodge, 
 and the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Davies' 
 chief recreations are golf, billiards, and 
 yachting and aiiloiiiobiling. lie is a mem- 
 ber of the City, Reform, Atlantic Yacht, 
 Automobile Clui) of America, Harmonic, 
 Century Country, North Jersey Country, 
 Amateur Billiard, Fordham, and other 
 clubs of New York City and*" its vicinity. 
 JMr. Davies married at New York in Oct. 
 1901, Rosalie Loewi, and they have a son, 
 Valentine Loevvi Davies, born in 1905. 
 Re.-idence: 14 East 81st Street. Address 
 (business) : 149th Street and Third Ave- 
 nue, and 1;")G Broadway, New York City. 
 
 DAVIES, Julien Tappan: 
 
 Lawyer; born at New York City, Sept. 
 25, 1845; son of Henry E. and Rebecca Wal- 
 do (Tappan) Davies. He was educated at 
 Mt. Washington Collegiate Institute in New 
 York City, the Walnut Hill School, Geneva, 
 N. Y., Charlier Institute, New York City, 
 Columbia College, A.B., 186G, A.M. in 1869, 
 Columbia College Law School, LL.B., 1868. 
 He studied law with Hon. Alexander W. 
 Bradford and was later associated with his 
 father, Henry E. Davies, as counsel of the 
 Mutual Life Insurance Company. Upon 
 the death of his father he succeeded him as 
 trustee and one of counsel of the Mutual 
 Life Insurance Company, and was general 
 solicitor for the same company, 1905-190G. 
 He has been counsel for the ]\lanhattan 
 Railway Company since 1884, was receiver 
 of Grant and Ward, 1884-lS9:i, and closed 
 up its afl'airs; assisted in 1882, in forming 
 the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, 
 and was its vice-president for several years. 
 He assisted in 1871, in forming the Y'oung 
 Men's INlunicipal Association and was chair- 
 man of the Executive Committee of the 
 campaign of Judge Scott for mayor of New 
 Y'ork City. He is now senior member of the 
 law firni of Davies, Stone and Auerbach. 
 He was president of St. David's Society. 
 1900-1903, is now (and since 1904) pres- 
 ident of the Columbia College Alumni Asso- 
 ciation, has been one of the vice-presidents 
 of the Association of the Bar of the 'Jity 
 of New York. He is trustee of the ^^lutual 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Life Insurance Company of New York, 
 the Title Cruarantee and Trust Company, 
 tlie Bond and Mortgage Guarantee Compa- 
 ny, and the .St. George Scliool at Newport, 
 R. I. He is a lufinlicr of the Aniciicaii liar 
 Association. llu> New N oi k State J'.ar As- 
 sociation, Association of llie J'.ar of the 
 City of New York, New York Historical 
 Society, American Geograpliical Society, 
 tlie Board of Managers of the Foreign and 
 domestic Missions Society of the Prote.-><ant 
 Episcopal Cluircii for whom he lias acted as 
 counsel for over twenty-five years. He is 
 a veteran of the ( ivil War and a member 
 of James Monroe Post, Grand Army of the 
 Republic. Mr. Davies married at Albany, 
 N. Y., April 22, 18(59, Alice Martin, and 
 tliey liavo four surviving children. Resi- 
 dences: 49 East 51st Street and Timber 
 Point, Great River, L. I. Office: 32 Nas- 
 sau Street, New York City. , 
 
 DAVIS, Arthur Powell: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in Decatur, HI., Feb. 
 9, 1861; son of John and Martha (Powell) 
 Davis. He was educated in the State Nor- 
 nuil School in Emporia, Kan., and in Co- 
 lumbian (now George Washington) Univer- 
 sity, from which he was graduated B.S. 
 He entered the United States Geological 
 Survey in 1884 as a topographer, in which 
 capacity he had charge foi- ten years of 
 surveys in the Territories of New Mexico 
 and Arizona and tlie State of California; 
 became hydrographer of the same Survey 
 in 1895, and as such was in charge for two 
 years of the Government stream measure- 
 ments, a;ul later in charge of the hydro- 
 graphic examination of the Nicaragua and 
 Panama canal routes; has also served as 
 consulting engineer on Construction of 
 Panama canal. He is now iliiif engineer 
 in (he United States Reclaiiuit ion Service, 
 in charge; of Hie construction of the re- 
 scr\oii-s and oHin- work iiilciKlcd to im- 
 I'oiukI llooil waters Uiv use in iirigadon 
 dining Ihi- agii<-iih iii:il >ca-oii. II.- is an 
 Hior (if: Klevation and Stadia Talilrs; 
 J'rogTess of Sfi(,ini Mra>iiicincnls ; lly 
 drograjihy of Nicaragua; Jirigalion In- 
 vest ii^nt ion ill Ari/ona; irri^iation near 
 
 Phoenix Ari/ona; 1 lydrograjdiy of the 
 American Isilnnns; Water Storage on Salt 
 Itivcr, Arizona, and articles in magazines 
 on land reclamation, irrigation and other 
 hydrograjihic subjects. He is a member of 
 Hie American Society of Civil Engineers, 
 the Washington Society of Engineers, 
 Washington Academy of Scieiicc-s. and the 
 National (Uographic Society. He married 
 in Washington. I). ('., .June 20. ISSS, Eliz- 
 abeth Brown. Residenec: 2212 First 
 Street. Olfiee,: 'I'lie Reclamation Service, 
 Wasliiiigloii. I). ('. 
 
 DAVIS, Benjamin Joseph: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Hamdcn, Conn., Oct. 
 28, 18b4: son of Samuel and Emily (Mans- 
 field) J^avis. He was graduated from the 
 Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, 
 C^onn., in 1882, then entered Yale Univer- 
 sity, graduating in the class of 1880, and 
 received a High Oration appointment and 
 also was named one of the conuiiencement 
 speake.vs at graduation. He studied theol- 
 ogy at Beikeley Divinity School, Middle- 
 town, Conn., and was graduated in 1889, 
 then was ordered deacon in the Episcopal 
 Church. He was appointed to the, charge 
 of St. Luke's Church, Bridgeport, Conn., 
 in 1889, was ordained to the priesthood, 
 became curate in St. James' Cliurch, 
 Philadelpliia, in 1890; rector of Trinity 
 Cliurch, Easton, Pa., 1892-1903, and rector 
 of Trinity Cliurcli, Santa Barbara, Cal., 
 since 1903. Air. Davis is a member of the 
 Phi Beta Kappa Society, Yale Chapter. He 
 married at Clifton, Staten Island, N. Y., 
 June 18, 1895, Anna Townsend Ripley, and 
 tliey have one daughter. Address: Trinity 
 licctory, Santa ]!ail)ara, Cal. 
 
 DAVIS, Boothe Colwell: 
 
 College president; born in Janelew, 
 Lewis County, W. \:i. July 12, ]S()3; .son 
 of Ive\'. iSamiiel I), and l-"lizabeth ( Han- 
 dol|)h) !)a\is. He studied (uie year in 
 \\e-~l N'ir.uiiiia Slate \'<innal Selu.ol, taught 
 four years in the public sclnxds of West 
 \irginia. and was graduated from Alfred 
 University. A.!!. IS!)(), fnnn the Divinily 
 Sclioid of ^ale. i;.l).. 1S93, an.l later re- 
 
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 ceivod the dc.^n-ocs of I'li.l). anil D.D. l")r. 
 Davis was 'pastor of the Fir.^t Sevi'iith Day 
 •JJaptist Cluirch at Alfred, N. V., 1893 18i)5. 
 lie is a member of the College Council, 
 riiivcisit y of tlie State of New York, the 
 Xalioual Education Association, the Re- 
 ligious Kducation Association, and has been 
 ])rcsident and professor of philosophy at 
 .Alfred Uni\ersity since Sept., 1895. He 
 is i*resident of the New York State School 
 of Clay \^'orking and Ceramics and the New 
 \'ork State School of agriculture at Alfred 
 rniversity. Ho is also a popular lecturer. 
 j\lr. Davis married at Shiloh, N. J., 1893. 
 Kstelle \\'. llolTman, and they have three 
 children. Address: Alfred. N. Y. 
 
 DAVIS, Charles Henry: 
 
 I'u'ar-Admiral. V. S. N., retirr.d; born in 
 Cambridge. :Mass., Aug. 28, 1845; son of the 
 late Rear-Admiral C. H. Davis, the fourth 
 in rank of the original six Rear-Admirals 
 created in 1802 in accordance with the 
 act (establishing that grade. He was ap- 
 ])()inlcd from Massachusttes as acting mid- 
 shipman in 111.' Navy, Nov. 29, 18G1 ; and 
 midsliipnian. .Inly 1SG2, and was graduated 
 fioni the r. S. Naval Academy in 1864. 
 He \va> coinu'ctcd with the several expedi- 
 tions for the (Icterniinulion of the difTer- 
 cnces of longitude by means of submarine 
 1(.legraph cables from Europe to the At- 
 lantic Islands and the east coast of South 
 America; also in India, China, Japan and 
 tlie Indian Archipelago; in Mexico and 
 Central America, and on the west coast of 
 South America. He commanded the Sara- 
 toga and afterward the, Quinnebaug, 1886- 
 1889; was cliief intelligence ollicer of the 
 Navy Department, 188"9-1892, aud after- 
 ward commanded the Montgomery; was 
 a member of the, Board of Inspection and 
 Survey, 1896-1897, and was then super- 
 ijitendent of the Naval Observatory until 
 Ai^ril, 1898, when he was placed in com- 
 mand of the auxiliary cruiser Dixie, at- 
 taclu-.d to the North Atlantic Squadron, 
 through the Spanish-American War. In 
 Nov., 1898, he returned to the superin- 
 teiulency of the Naval Observatory; and 
 ill 1902 was placed in command of the bat- 
 tleship Alaliama, which became his flagship 
 
 wlieii he was ]ironiolcd (o rear admiral, 
 and was placed in i-ommaiul of tlic Sccoiiil 
 Siiuadidii of the .\tlaiitie KJcct. on wliiili 
 duty lu! (ontiniicd until his ictircnicnl l>y 
 operation of law, Aug. 28, 19(t7. Hear 
 Admiral Davis is an officer of marked 
 accomplishments, with a fluent command 
 of French and other foreign languages, 
 and for that reason has se.veral times Ix^en 
 detached and sent on imi)ortaiit missions 
 abroad. He served as American Commis- 
 sioner on the International Commission of 
 Inquiry of the J3ogger Bank incident, at 
 Paris, " 1904-1905. He has published tech- 
 nical works relating to the effect of tem- 
 perature, and other causes, on chron'omcter 
 rates, and the telegraphic determination 
 of longitude; and he is also author of the 
 Life of Rear Admiral Davis (his father). 
 Address: Care of Navy Department. 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 DAVIS, Charles Russell: 
 
 Lawyer and congrr.ssman ; born at Pitts- 
 field, ill., Sept. iV, 1849. He removed to 
 Lesueur County. Minn., in 1853, aud was 
 educated in the coinmon schools of Lesueur 
 County, being graduated from St. i'eter 
 High School in 1866. For two years there- 
 after he received private instruction in the. 
 higher branches and took a business college, 
 course in St. Paul during the winter of 
 1807-1808. He studied law with Alfred 
 Walliii, th(. ])reseiit chief justice of North 
 Dakota, and was admitted to the bar, 
 March 6, 1872; and he has practised his 
 ))rof(>ssion ever since in Minnesota. Tie was 
 county attornr.y of Nicollet County for ten 
 years, and city clerk and city attorney of 
 St. Peter for eighteen years. Mr. Davis 
 was ele.eted to the House of Representatives 
 of the State Legislature, in 1888, and to the 
 State Senate in 1890. He was captain of 
 Company I, Second Regiment, Minnesota 
 National Guard, for four years, was elected 
 to the Fifty-eighth Congress in 1902 from 
 the Third Minnesota District and re- 
 elected in 1904 and 1906 and 1908 to the 
 Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first Con- 
 gresses. He married in 1874. Emma 
 Haven, of Chicago. .\ddress: St. Peter. 
 IMinn. 
 
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 DAVIS, George Breckenridge: 
 
 .linliro-nfl vocal e general. U. S. A.: born 
 ill Ware. ISfa.^^s.. Feb. 1:3. 1S47. Ue was 
 jjiadnaterl from West Point in ]X~\. and 
 sludied law at Columbian ITiiiversily. Ifc 
 is the chief authority on military law in the, 
 t'liiied States, as well as one of Ihe lending 
 students and expounders of Intoniilioiial 
 Law in the world. He has taken a i)rom 
 ine.nt part in the International tribunals 
 and diseussioiis at the Hague and elsewhere, 
 lie is author of: Elements of International 
 Law; l'"lemeiits of I,aw: Military T.aw: and 
 :\niitary Law of llie fiiited Sfnfes. lie, 
 is a. memlier of tlie ^lilKary Older of the 
 I,oyal Legion and the Army and Xavy 
 Club of Washington, B.C. In 1S71 he mar- 
 ried K\\;{ L Prince. ,at West Springfield. 
 Mass. Kcsidence: 1734 rolumbia Road. 
 Washington. D. D. 
 
 DAVIS, George Whitefield: 
 
 :\[ajor-general L'. S. A., retired ; born in 
 ■riiomp.soii, t'onn., July 26, 18;50, son of 
 (reorge and Betsy (Grow) Davis. He was 
 educated in the common and high schools 
 of Connecticut and Massachusetts. He en- 
 tered upon military service Nov. 27, 1861, 
 as quartermaster-sergeant, 11th Connecticut 
 Infantry, and served througli the Civil 
 War. becoming major of volunteers, until 
 mustered out April 26, 1866. He was com- 
 missioned captain in the. Regular Army, 
 Jan. 22, 1867, with promotions in order, 
 to major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, briga- 
 dier general and major general, until re- 
 tired from active service, by law in 1903. 
 Among the notable features of his military 
 service were his appointment as assistant 
 engineer on the, completion of the Washing- 
 ton Monument, 1878-1885; member of the 
 Board of Army and Navy OlTicers to pre- 
 pare a ])lan of relief of the Lady Franklin 
 Bay Expedition, 1883; aide-de-camp to 
 Lieiitcnaiil-fieneral Sheridan, 1885; pres- 
 ident of the Board of Publication of the 
 Civil Win- Records, 1895 1898; commanded 
 the Second Division of the. Second x\riny 
 Corps in Spanish-American War, 1898; 
 eomnianded Department of Pinar del Rio, 
 Cuba, 1898-1899; mililarv governor of 
 
 Porto Rico. 1S!I!)-19()0: military governor of 
 the City of Manila. 1901; eomnianded the 
 Department of Mindanao, and the De-' 
 partment of Luzon, 1901-1902; commanded 
 the Division of the Philippines, 1902-190:5. 
 In 1899 was a member of the Court of En- 
 quiry to investigate the charges of General 
 Miles respecting the rations issued to troops 
 in the War with Spain. General Davis was 
 vice president and general manager of the 
 Nicaragua Canal Company, 1890-1893; 
 member of Tstlnniaii Caiial Commission, 
 1904-1905: govenuir nt Hie Caiinl Zone. 
 1904-1905; special envoy of the, I'nited 
 States Covernnieiit to (iuatcmala. 1908; 
 directing surveys for a railway for the gov- 
 ernment of Giiateiiiala. 1!I0!). He is a 
 director of flic San Cristobal Sugar Com- 
 pany: cliairman of the" Central Committee 
 of the Anvcrican National Red Cross: mem- 
 ber of the International Law Association, 
 the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. 
 National Geographic Society, Metropolitan 
 Club of Washington and the Chr.vy Chase 
 Club of Maryland. He married in Wash- 
 ington, D. C, April 30, 1870, Carmen 
 Atoeha. (deceased 1904), and tluy had 
 three daughters. Address: The Connecti- 
 cut, Washington. D. C. 
 
 DAVIS, Hayne: 
 
 Lawyer; Ikuii in Statr,sville, N. C, Nov. 
 2, 1868; son of E. Hayne, and Mary 
 Williams (Pearson) Davis. He was gradu- 
 ated from the University of North Carolina, 
 A.B., 1888, completed his law course in 
 1890, and in 1891-1894 was a member of the 
 law firm of Williams, Henderson & Davis 
 at Knoxville, Tenn. In 1904 he established 
 his office in New York City. Mr. Davis 
 was secretary of the Democratic State Ex- 
 ecutive Committee, of North Carolina in 
 1888; was secretary of the American dele- 
 gations to the 12th, lotii and 14th sessions 
 of the Interparliamentarj' Union, and in 
 1906 was elected American secretary of the 
 Association for Jiiternaticmal Conciliation. 
 In 1908 he organized The American 
 Peace and Arbitration League, for the 
 purpose of promoting " ade(iuate armament 
 and e.flfective arbitration, as correlative 
 
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 i)f;eiici(>s for nalioiial security and tor In- 
 ti'inatioiial I'cacc and Justice," and was 
 clr.i'tod its i''iist I'rosident, Theodore 
 Uciosevelt and Admiral George Dewey being 
 the Honorary Presidents. Mr. Davis re- 
 signed this ofliee in order that U. S. Senator 
 Janic.s B. !McC'reary, father of the Union of 
 American Republics, might become active 
 jiresident of this organization. Edited 
 Among the Worlds Race Makers, and after 
 attending the second Hague Conference, 
 published a concise, popular work entitled 
 The Second Peace Conference at The Hague. 
 Mr. Davis is author of many articles on 
 international questions. Residence: 35 
 West 96th St. Office: 1 West 96th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 DAVIS, Henry Gassaway: 
 
 Capitalist: born in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 
 16, 1823; son of Caleb and Louisa (Brown) 
 Davis. He was educated in country schools. 
 Mr. Davis was for a time an overseer on a 
 farm, but was chiefly engaged in railroading 
 in early life as brakeman, conductor and 
 agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
 He later embarked in merchandizing at 
 Piedmont, W. Va., and afterward in coal 
 mining in West Virginia and Maryland near 
 Piedmont ; also in banking in Piedmont and 
 elsewhere in West Virginia, and the build- 
 ing of the West Virginia Central, Piedmont 
 and Cumberland, and Coal and Coke Rail- 
 ways of West Virginia. He is now presi- 
 dent of the Coal and Coke Railway, Davis 
 Colliery . Company, Davis Trust Company 
 and Elkins National Bank, of Elkins, W. 
 Va., Davis National Bank of Piedmont, W. 
 Va., the Davis Land Company and the Po- 
 chahontas Timber Company. He was 
 elected in 1866 a member of the West Vir- 
 ginia Legislature,, served as State senator 
 1867-1871 and as United States Senator 
 from West Virginia 1871-1883. He was a 
 delegate to the First Pan-American Con- 
 ference in 1890, and was chairman of the 
 United States delegation to the second Pan- 
 American Conference in 1901 and 1902; was 
 a member of the West Virginia Tax Com- 
 mission in 1901 and was the Democratic 
 candidate for Vice-President of the United 
 
 States in 1!)(I4. lie has been a delegate-at- 
 large from West Virginia to all I lie Demo- 
 cratic National Conventions since 1H72. 
 Senator Davis built and helps to support the, 
 Davis ]\Iemorial Hospital, and the Davis 
 Memorial Presbyterian Church, at Elkins. 
 W. Va., the Davis Memorial Church at 
 Gassaway, W. Va., and the Davis-Childs 
 Shelter, at Charleston, W. Va., and gave to 
 Piedmont, Henry and Gassaway, West Vir- 
 ginia, their Davis Free School buildings, ail 
 handsome brick structures. Senator Davis 
 has long been a prominent member of the 
 Masonic and Oddfellow Orders. He is a 
 member of the ^Manhattan Club, and the 
 Maryland Society of New York City, and 
 the Metropolitan Club of Washington", D. C. 
 He married at Frederick, Md. Feb. 22, 1853, 
 Kate Bantz, who died in 1902. Three chil- 
 dren survive: Mrs. S. B. Elkins, Mrs. Ar- 
 thur Lee and John T. Davis. Residence: 
 Elkins, W. Va. Office: 1517 H Street, N. 
 W., Washington, D. C. 
 
 DAVIS, Herman Stearns: 
 
 Astronomer and engineer: born in ^lil- 
 ford, Del., Aug. 6, 1868; educated at the 
 Conference Academy, Dover, Del., Phillips 
 Academy, Andover, ]\Iass. and Princeton 
 University, being graduated A.B. with dis- 
 tinction, 1892. His college course was in- 
 terrupted by service as assistant astrono- 
 mer of the U. S. Scientific Expedition to 
 West Africa, 1889-1890. He was post- 
 graduate student of astronomy at Prince- 
 ton, 1893; became University fellow, 1893- 
 1895, A.M., 1894, Ph.D., 1895, and tutor 
 in astronomy and geodesy, 1895-1899, in 
 Columbia University; in charge of the In- 
 ternational Latitude Observatory, Gaithers- 
 burg, Md., 1900-1905. He -was expert com- 
 puter and assistant of the U. S. Coast and 
 Geodetic Survey, 1900; first assistant on 
 the Allegheny Observatory Eclipse Expedi- 
 tion, 1900; associate editor of Astronom- 
 iscle Jahresbericht, since 1900. Dr. Davis 
 is a fellow of the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science; charter mem- 
 ber of the Astronomical and Astrophysical 
 Society of America, the Washington Phil- 
 osophical Society and life-member of 
 
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 Ihe Aslroiioiiiisclio Osollscliaft. His ro 
 searches liave been principally in relation 
 to the variation of latitude, the con.stant of 
 aberration, mean star positions and proper 
 motions, and the history of astronomy, as 
 an astronomer; and the designing of high 
 tension transmission lines and large stor- 
 age dams in hydro-electrical developments 
 in various parts of the West, as an engi- 
 neer. He is author of: A New Reduction 
 of Piazzi's Observations; Biographical Cy- 
 clopedia of Astronomers; also numerous ar- 
 ticles in his special brandies of astronomy, 
 geodesy, aiid engineering; and reviews of 
 current astronomical literature. Address: 
 Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 
 DAVIS, Jefferson: 
 
 rnitcil States senator; boiii near Ivich- 
 mond, in Little River County, Arkansas, 
 May G, 1802; son of Lewis W. and E. A. 
 Davis. He received his preliminary educa- 
 tion at Russellville, Ark., and then studied 
 law in Vanderbilt University. He was ad- 
 mitted to tlie bar of Pope County, Ark., the 
 same year, and rapidly rose, to prominence. 
 He was prosecuting attorney of the Fifth 
 Judicial District of Arkansas for two terms, 
 1803 1897; was elected attorney-general of 
 Arkansas in 1898, and in 1900 he became 
 governor. He lias the distinction of being 
 the first governor of Arkansas to be three 
 times elected to the office. He was elected 
 U. S. Senator in January, 1907, to succeed 
 Hon. J. H. Berry, for the term expiring in 
 1913. He was married at Russellville \rk 
 Oct. 22, 1882, to Ina IMcKcn/ir. Address:' 
 Little Rock, Arkansas. 
 
 DAVIS, Katharine Benient: 
 
 Superintendent of New York State Re- 
 formatory for Women; born in Bufialo. N. 
 v.; daughter of Oscar B. and I'rances 
 (Bement) Davis. She was educated in the 
 Rochester Free Academy, Vassar College, 
 A.B., and University of Chicago. Ph.D. 
 Miss Davis taught sciences in tlic High 
 School of Dunkirk, N. Y. ; was head- 
 worker of the College Sett Icin. nl in Phila- 
 delphia, 1893-1897; fellow in political econ- 
 omy and sociology in the University of (Chi- 
 
 cago, 1897-1S9S, and 1899-1900; European 
 fellow of the New England Women's Edu- 
 cational Association, 1S9S-1899, studying 
 in the Universities of Berlin and Vienna. 
 She was appointed to her present position 
 as superintendent of the. State Reformatory 
 for Women at Bedford, N. Y., Jan. 1, 1901, 
 and organized the work of the Reformatory. 
 Miss Davis is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, 
 and she is a writer, in addition to official 
 reports, of magazine and newspaper articles 
 on social and reform questions. Address: 
 Bedford, N. Y. 
 
 DAVIS, Nathan Smith: 
 
 Physician ; born in Chicago, Sept. .5, 
 1858; son of Dr. Nathan Smith and Anna 
 M. (Parker) Davis. He. was graduated 
 from Northwestern University, A.B., 1880, 
 A.M., 1883, Chicago Medical College, M.D., 
 1883, and took post-graduate medical study 
 at Heidelberg and Vienna, 188.'). Dr. Davis 
 was appointed assistant professor of pathol- 
 ogy in the Northwestern University IMedical 
 Scliool, 1884, professor of the jirinciples 
 and practice of medicine, 18SG, also taking 
 the chair of clinical medicine in 1887, and 
 was dean of the Medical Faculty of North- 
 western University for many y<'ais. lie is 
 physician to ]\Iercy, Wesley and St. 
 Luke's Hospitals, and consulting physi- 
 cian to the Washington Home and the 
 Marion Sim's Hospital, Chicago. Dr. Davis 
 is author of: Consumption — How to Pre- 
 vent It and How to Live Willi If: 'i'reatiss 
 on Disease of the Heart, Lungs and Kid- 
 neys; Diet ill Ifcallh and J^isease; also 
 many conti ihutions to current medical 
 literature. He was vice-president of the 
 U. S. Pharmacopoda Convention; member 
 of the Pan-AiiK rii an ^Medical Congress 
 (councillor of the Section of Medicine), 
 and the Ninth International Medical Con- 
 gress (councillor of Section of Pathology) ; 
 member of the Ame.rican Medical Associa- 
 tion (formerly secretary of ^Medical Sec- 
 tion and chairman pf Section of Materia 
 Medica and Therapeutics), fellow of t1i<! 
 American Association for the Advamenu'iit 
 of Science; member of the American 
 Climatological Association, American Tiiera- 
 
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 peutical Association, Aniorivaii Academy of 
 Medicine, Illinois State IModical Society 
 (formerly cliainnan of Medical Section), 
 Oliicajio Medical Society, Chicago Patho- 
 logical Society, Chicago Neurological So- 
 ciety, American Tuberculosis Society, Chi- 
 cago Tuberculosis Institute, Chicago Acad- 
 emy of Science (formerly recording secre 
 tary and librarian). Phi Beta Kappa So- 
 ciety, Sigma Chi college fraternity, Ku 
 Sigma Nu and Alpha Omega Alpha medical 
 fraternities, the University Club of Chi- 
 cago (trustee), Onwentsia Club, Lake 
 Forest, III., is a trustee of Northwestern 
 University and was formerly vice-president 
 of the Young Men's Christian Association 
 of Chicago. He married in jNladison, \Yis., 
 in June" 1884, Jessie Hopkins, and they 
 have two sons and a daugliter. Residence : 
 291 East Huron Street. Office: 72 East 
 ^ladison Street, Chicago. 
 
 DAVIS, Norah: 
 
 Novelist; born in Huntsville, Ala., 1873; 
 daughter of Zcbulon Pike and Willianietta 
 (Eason) Davis. She was educated in 
 Huntsville, at home, by private tutors, 
 learned stenography and became newspaper 
 writer and afterward clerk of the U. S. 
 Court for the Northern District of Alabama, 
 1898-1907. Miss Davis is author of The 
 Northerner, published by the Century Co., 
 1905, creating a sensation. The World's 
 Warrant, 1907 (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.), 
 and Wallace Rhodes, 1909 (Harper's), 
 ^liss Davis has traveled all over the South 
 as a newspaper correspondent. Address: 
 Huntsville, Ala. 
 
 DAVIS, Oscar King: 
 
 Journalist ; born in Baldwinsville. N. Y., 
 Jan. 13, ISGC. He was graduated from 
 Colgate University, A.B., 1S84, A.:\I., 1892, 
 and since his gi-aduation has been occupied 
 with newspaper and literary work. He be- 
 came distinguished as special correspondent 
 at i\Ianila for the New York Sun during 
 i.ic Spanish-American War and the Philip- 
 jiine Insurrection, and in China in the 
 trouble following the Boxer Uprising in 
 1900; was with the First Japanese Army 
 in 1904 as correspondent for the New York 
 
 Herald, He is now and for several years 
 past has been Washington correspondent for 
 the New York Times and the Piiiladelphia 
 Ledger. He is author of Our Con(]ucsts iu 
 the Pacific; At the Emperor's ^^'ish; 
 Dewey's Capture of Manila; Sherreaf's Ex- 
 clusive; and numerous popular short 
 stories. He married in Binghamton, N. 
 Y., April 6, 1899, Jessie Bates Johnson. 
 Address: Post Building, Washington, D. C. 
 
 DAVIS, Richard Harding: 
 
 Novelist, war correspondent, playwriglit; 
 born at Philadelphia, 1864; son of the late 
 L. Clarke Davis, editor of Philadelphia 
 Public Ledger, and of Rebecca (Harding) 
 Davis, the well known novelist. He was 
 educated at the Lehigh and Johns Hopkins 
 Universities, and on leaving college he be- 
 came a reporter on the Philadelphia Record, 
 1887, and later on the Philadelphia Press, 
 until 1889, part of the time in England as 
 correspondent. He wrote special articles 
 for the New York Evening Sun, 1889-1890, 
 and also wrote for magazines. He became 
 managing editor of Harper's Weekly, in 
 1890, but resigned in 1892 in order to 
 travel. He was present at the coronation 
 of the Czar Nicholas II, in 1896, reporting 
 the spectacle for Harper's Magazine; was 
 correspondent of the London Times, in the 
 Graeco-Turkish War, of the New York 
 Herald in the Spanish- American War and 
 the South African War, and of Collier's 
 Weekly with General Oku in ^lanchuria 
 during the Russo-Japanese War, and also 
 in the Cuban Rebellion, the Revolution of 
 Matos in Venezuela and of Garcia against 
 Diaz on the Rio Grande. He is a member 
 of the Royal Geographical Society of Lon- 
 don, and the American Explorers' Club. Mr. 
 Davis has been one of the most industrious 
 and successful contributors to American 
 literature during the past two decades, and 
 is author of: Van Bibber, and Others; 
 Gallagher and Other Stories; Soldiers of 
 Fortune; The King's Jackal; The Princess 
 Aline; Our English Cousins; About Paris; 
 Rulei-s of the Mediterranean; Tliree 
 Gringos in Venezuela; Cuba iii War Time: 
 In the Fog; Captain Macklin; a Rear from 
 a, Correspondent's Note-Book; Stories for 
 
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 Boj's; The Cuban and Porto Rican Cam- 
 paigns; Cinderella and Other Stories; Dr. 
 Jameson's Raiders; Exiles ; The Lion and 
 the Unicorn; \\est from a Car Window; 
 Episodes in Van Bibber's Life; With Both 
 Armies in South Africa; Ranson's Fully; 
 The Bar Sinister; Real Soldiers of Fortune; 
 The Congo and the Coasts of Africa; The, 
 Scarlet-Car; The White Mice; and he is 
 also author of the plays: The Taming 
 of Helen; Ranson's Folly; The Dictator; 
 ^ The Galloper, Vera, the Medium. He mar 
 ried at Marion, Mass., May 4, 1899, Cecil, 
 daughter of John Marshall Clark of Chi- 
 cago. Address: Cross Roads Farm, Mount 
 Kisco, N. Y. 
 
 DAVIS, Thomas Edward: 
 
 Editor; born in Bedford, Va., Sept. 25, 
 1835. He was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of Virginia, A.B., 1858, and later 
 read law and medicine but never entered 
 upon tlie practice of either. In May, 1861, 
 he entered the Army of the Confederate 
 States as a private in the Second Virginia 
 Cavalry, and afterwards he became adju- 
 tant of the Twenty-first Virginia Cavalry 
 Regiment, and afterward was major and 
 assistant adjutant-general, C. S. A. He 
 fought in numerous battles and served until 
 the close of the war. After that he was 
 for some j'ears engaged in mining opera- 
 tions in Montana and afterward went to 
 Texas and engaged in business pursuits. 
 In 1876 he founded the Telegram news- 
 paper at Houston, Texas, and in 1879 he 
 became a member of the staff of the 
 Picayune at New Orleans, of which he has 
 been editor since 1884. Major Davis mar 
 ried at Houston, Texas, in 1874, Mary 
 Evelyn Moore, we.ll known as poet and au- 
 tlior under the pen-name of " Mollie E. 
 Moore Davis." who died Jan. 1, 1909. Ad- 
 dress: 400 Royal Street, New Orleans, La. 
 
 DAVIS, Vernon Mansfield: 
 
 Jurist; born in New York City; son of 
 Rolx rt Vernon and Mary (Samlcr) Davis. 
 ]lc' was educated in llic public schools and 
 was graduated fiom (lie College of the 
 City of New York, A. 15., in 1870, and from 
 
 Columbia University Law School, LL.B., 
 1879. He was instructor in the College of 
 the City of New York in Greek and mathe- 
 matics, while taking his law course, and 
 was admitted to the bar in 1879 and en- 
 gaged in practice in New York City. He 
 was appointed assistant district attorney 
 of New York County and served from 1885 
 to 1897; district attorney of Ne.w York 
 County in 1897, and was commissioner of 
 education of New York City. He was 
 elected in 1902 a justice of the Supreme 
 Court of New York for the First District, 
 for the term expiring Dec. 31, 1910. Judge 
 Davis is a member of the Association of 
 the Bar of the City of New York; the 
 Society of Medical Jurisprudence; the New 
 York State Bar Association; the American 
 Bar Association, and the Society of Inter- 
 national Law. He was president of tlie So- 
 ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- 
 dren, from 1899 to 1902. He is a member 
 of the Church, Metropolitan, Rlanhattan, 
 and National Democratic Clubs. Judge 
 Davis married in New York City, June 17, 
 1885, Harriet, daughter of Reverend Fran 
 cis Lobdell, D.D. Address: 194 Lenox 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
 DAVIS, Webster: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Ebensburgli, Cambria 
 County, Pennsylvania, June 1, 1802, and 
 went with his family to Missouri in 1808. 
 His higher education was obtained witli dif- 
 ficulty with long intervals of work in stores 
 ana at the shoemaker's bench. He at- 
 tended Lake Forest University, Hlinois, one 
 year, and afterward the State University 
 of Kansas; was admitted to the bar fit 
 Garden City, Kan., 1880; practised a short 
 time and afterward attended the University 
 of Michigan, from which he was graduated 
 LL.B., and practised in Kansas Citj', Mo. 
 He was special deputy for the Survey of 
 Customs of the \^■estern District of Missouri 
 arid Kansas, 1882-1892; was defeated in a 
 race for Congress in 1892; mayor of Kan- 
 sas City, 1894-1896; took active part as a 
 campaign orator in the McKinley campaign 
 of 1890; was appointed assistant Secretary 
 of tlie Interior, June 1, 1897, serving until 
 
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 April 2, 1900, when he resigned to engage 
 in pi'actice. He is now i)ractising law in 
 Seattle., Wash., and Wasliinglon, D. C. Ad- 
 dress: Pioneer Building, (Seattle, Wash. 
 
 DAVIS, William Morris: 
 
 Professor of geology; born in Philadel- 
 l)lua, Feb. 12, 1850; son of Edward Mor 
 ris and Maria (Mott) Davis, grandson of 
 James and Lucretia Mott. He was grad- 
 uated from the Lawroaice Scientific School 
 of Harvard University, S.B., 1SG9, M.E., 
 1870. He was assistant in the National 
 Argentine Observatory, at Cordoba, Argen- 
 tina, 1870-1873; began teaching geology at 
 Harvard, in 187(3, and geography in 1878. 
 He ti'avelftd round the world in 1877 and 
 1878; became assistant professor in 1885, 
 professor in 1890, and since 1899, has been 
 Sturgis-Hooper professor of geology in Har- 
 vard University. He was, for a time, as- 
 sistant geologist of the Northern Transcon- 
 tinental Survey and of the United States 
 Geological Survey, was phy.siographer to 
 Pumpelly's Carnegie Institution Expedition 
 to Turkestan in 1903, foreign guest of the, 
 British Association Excursion to South 
 Africa in 1905, and Harvard Exchange pro- 
 fessor at the University of Berlin for the 
 winter of 1908-1909. He has been president 
 of the Harvard Travelers' Club since its 
 foundation in 1902, and president of the 
 Association of American Geograjjhers in 
 1905 and 1909; was corresponding secretary 
 of the American Academy of Arts and 
 Sciences, Boston, 1901-1904, and vice-presi- 
 dent of the Geological Society of America 
 in 1906; is a member of the National 
 Academy of Sciences, American Academy 
 of Arts and Sciences, American Philosoph- 
 ical Society, Geological Society of America, 
 and Boston Society of Natural Hiotory, 
 National Geographic Society, honorary 
 member of the American Geographical So- 
 ciety of New York, Gesellschaft fiir Erd- 
 kunde of Berlin, Geographische, Gesell- 
 schaft at Vienna, Verein fiir Erdkunde of 
 Leipzig, Geographische Gesellschaft of 
 Gleifswald, Sociedad Real de. Geograpia of 
 Madrid, and Liverpool Geological Society ; 
 foreign member of the Royal Academy of 
 
 Science, Stoekliolm, foreign correspondo,nt 
 of the Gecdogical Society of London, cor- 
 responding member of tlie Cliristiania 
 Academy of Sciences, German Meteorological 
 Society, Club Alpin Framjais, Geologists' 
 Association of London, Geological Society 
 of Edinburgh, Sociedad Antonio Al/.ate of 
 Mexico; New York Academy of Science, 
 and the Geographical Societies of London, 
 Paris, St. Petersburg, Munich, Geneva, and 
 Pliiladelphia. Professor Davis is author of: 
 Elementary iMeteorology, 1894; The Triassic 
 I'ormation of Connecticut ( 18th Ann. Rep., 
 Geological Survey) ; Physical Ge,ography, 
 1899; Elementary Physical Geography, 
 1902; A Journey across Turkestan, 1904 
 (Carnegie Inst'n of Washington) ; Geological 
 Observations in South Africa, 1900; Prac- 
 tical Exercises in Physical Geography, 
 1908; also numerous articles in scientific 
 journals. He married, in 1879, Ellen B. 
 Warner, of Springfield, Mass., and they 
 have three sons. Address: Cambridge, 
 Mass. 
 
 DAVISON, Charles Stuart: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, April 
 l4, 1855; second son of Edward Francis 
 Davison and Charlotte. Sewall (White) 
 Davison. He was educated in private 
 schools and abroad with a tutor. He at- 
 tendeu Harvard University (class of '75) ; 
 Columbia University Law School (Class of 
 '77) ; the University of Cambridge (Eng- 
 land) and the Inner Temple, (London). He 
 was chairman of the Good Government 
 Clubs and chairman of the Parker Inde- 
 pendent Clubs. Mr. Davison is a member 
 of the New York Zoological Socie.ty; the 
 American Museum of Natural History and 
 the Association of the Bar of the City of 
 New York, and was chairman of the ex- 
 ecutive committee of the latter. He is a 
 member of the Century Association and of 
 the University", Harvard, Boone and Crocket, 
 and Down Town Clubs of New York "City. 
 Address: GO Wall Street, New York City 
 
 DAWES, Charles Gates: 
 
 Banker; born at Marietta, Ohio, Aug. 
 27, 1865; son of General Rufus R. and 
 Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes. He was 
 
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 jrradiiated from ^Marietta Collego. A.B.. 
 1884, and from tlio Cincinnati Law School, 
 LL.B., 18S6. During his summer vacations 
 from collogp and law school he served with 
 civil onginooring parties, and after gradua 
 tion became chief engineer of a railroad 
 which is now a part of the Toledo and Ohio 
 Central Railroad until 1887, when he went 
 to Lincoln, Neb., and engaged in tlie prac- 
 tice of law there until 1894. .Since then 
 he has been interested in the gas business. 
 Mr. Dawes has always been a Republican, 
 and he became particularly active in the 
 movement to secure the nomination of Gov- 
 ernor William McKinley for President of 
 the United States. He was given executive 
 charge of the movement in Illinois, which 
 was so successful that the State Rejjublican 
 Convention held at Springfield, 111., in 
 April, 1896, instructed the delegates chosen 
 to the National Convention to cast their 
 votes for the nomination of Mr. McKinley. 
 Mr. Dawes was selected as a meinber of 
 the Executive Committee of the. Republican 
 National Committee in the campaign of 
 1896, and in 1897 he was appointed by Presi- 
 dent McKinley comptroller of the currency 
 of the. United States. He served in tliat 
 capacity until 1901, when he resigned. In 
 li)yjA he established the Central Trust Com- 
 pany of Illinois, of which he has ever since 
 been president, and he is also director of 
 the Manufacturers Bank of Chicago. i\Ir. 
 Dawes is author of a volume on The Bank- 
 ing System of the United States. He is a 
 member of the Union League, Chicago. 
 Hamilton, Evanston, Evanston County, Glen 
 View, and Evanston Golf Clubs. Mr. 
 Dawes married at Cincinnati. Ohio, .Tunc 
 24, 1889, Cora D. Blynier, and ihey have, 
 two children. Residence: Evanston, 111. 
 Oflice: Central Trust Company. Chicago. 
 
 DAWLEY, F. E.: 
 
 Earmer; former director of New York 
 State Farmers' Institute; born in Onon- 
 daga County, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1863; son of 
 William Walker and Charlotte A. (Lamson) 
 Dawlcy. He was educated in the common 
 schools and at Munro Collegiate Institute at 
 Elbridge, but an accident resulting in a 
 
 broken skull prevented graduation and in- 
 terrupted the study of medicine, which he 
 had begun. He was born and' reared on a 
 farm, and after leaving off the study of 
 medicine because of accident, took up the 
 breeding of fancy poultry and stock, and 
 built up the establishment known as Dots- 
 home Farms, breeding and exliibiting fowls 
 and Jersey cattle and ponies^ and winning 
 the highest honors in close competition. In 
 1889 he began lecturing at Farmers' Insti- 
 tutes, and was appointed' State fertilizer in- 
 spector; and in 1896, on civil service ex- 
 amination, was appointed under Governor 
 Levi P. Morton, as director of Farmers' In- 
 stitutes. The attendance at that time was 
 45,700 in the year, but under Mr. Dawley's 
 administration it had increased to 147.500 
 in 1908, when he resigned to devote his 
 entire attention to farming. The Dotshome 
 herd of pure bred cattle and flocks of wild 
 turkeys and poultry' are known from 
 one end of the land to the other, and the 
 large fields of alfalfa there have been vis- 
 ited by thousands. In 1905, Mr. Dawley 
 built the first iron frame barn in America, 
 and has done more to introduce alfalfa in 
 the East than any other man. The repu- 
 tation of the stock for quality and of Mr. 
 Dawley personally, have built a large busi- 
 ness in the products of the Dotshome 
 Farms. Mr. Dawley has visited' every 
 State in the Union, Mexico, Canada, Nova 
 Scotia and New Foundland in his work. He 
 is a Republican in politics and attends the 
 Baptist Church. Mr. Dawley was secretary 
 of the New York State Farmers' League, 
 1880-1891; secretary of the State Poultry 
 Society, 1889-1894; treasurer of the State 
 Dairymen's Association, 1896-1902, and he 
 reorganized it in 1896, and made it a suc- 
 cess. He was a trustee of Cornell Uni- 
 versity since 1899; treasurer of the New 
 York State Breeders' Association from 1904, 
 and secretary of the Cheviot Sheep Society 
 since 1899. He was secretary of Central 
 New York Pomona Grange, 1894-1897; mas- 
 ter of Syracuse Grange, 1891-1892, and of 
 Fayetteville Grange, l!)05-l!)0(i. and is again 
 master since 1008. He married in Syracuse. 
 N. v., June 16, 1891, Carrie L. Barnes, and 
 lluv iuive four daughters. Residence: 
 
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 ]>)(.shoiiK' Farm, l-'ayctlcville, N. Y. Offices: 
 Fny.'llevillc, N. V./nnd Albany, N. Y. 
 
 DAWSON, Albert Foster: 
 
 .(oiirnalist and coiigrcssMiaii ; born in 
 Spragneville, Iowa, Jan. 2G, 1872; son of 
 Thomas and Alice (Foster) Dawson. He 
 was educated in the common schools of 
 Iowa, supplemented by one year at the 
 L^nivcrsity of Wisconsin ; was engaged in 
 newspaper work at Preston and Clinton; 
 served several years in the oi'ganization of 
 Congress, and for six years as confidential 
 secretary to Senator William B. Allien. 
 He was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress 
 and reelected to the Sixtieth and Sixty- 
 first Congress from the Second Iowa Dis 
 trict. He married in Clinton, Iowa, June 
 21, 1893, Phoebe R. De Groat. Address: 
 Preston, Iowa. 
 
 DAWSON, Miles Menander: 
 
 Lawyer and actuary; born at Viroqua, 
 Wis., May 13, 1863; son of John and 
 Martha W. (Ady) Dawson. He was edu- 
 cated at Kentucky (now Transylvania) 
 University and at New Y^ork University 
 Law School. Mr. Dawson is engaged in 
 general consulting practice as an insurance 
 lawyer and actuary; was consulting ac- 
 f uary of New Y'ork Legislature Investigat- 
 ing Committee on Insurance, the Poyal 
 Commission on Insurance in Canada, and 
 the Wisconsin Legislative Insurance In- 
 vestigating Committee. He is author of: 
 Practical Lessons in Actuarial Scie.nce; 
 Elements of Life Insurance; Assessment 
 Life Insurance; The Business of Life In- 
 surance, and other books. He was chair- 
 man of the Social Reform Club Commit- 
 tee, and vice chairman of the Executive 
 Committee of the Committee of Fifty, to se- 
 cure the removal of the tracks of the New- 
 York Central Railway from the surface of 
 Eleventh Avenue and other streets, which 
 committees had charge of the agitation that 
 l)rought about the enactment in l!i05 of 
 a law requiring removal. ]\Ir. Dawson is 
 ])rofessor of actuarial science in the School 
 of Commerce of New York University; a 
 fellow of the Actuarial Society of America, 
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 tlie Tnstituie of Actuaries of Creal Brifain, 
 the Deutscher Verein fiir Versicherungs 
 Wissenschaft of P,erlin; is a nieiiibrr of 
 the, Permanent Committee of Ihe Infciiia- 
 tional Congress of Actuaries. Mr. l)aw>oii, 
 in addition to his actuarial works, is also 
 author of: Poems of the New Time, and 
 translafor of ))oems and sloiic^s from the 
 Norwegian, including a novel : l<]|sio, A 
 Christmas Story by Alexander Kjclland. 
 He isi a member of the Masonic order, 
 having the consistory degrees. ]\Ir. Daw- 
 son married Grace 1j. Burnett, and they 
 have two sons. Residences; 135 West 95th 
 Street, and Cornvvall-on-Hudson. Address: 
 141 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 DAWSON, Thomas Cleland: 
 
 Diplomat and lawyer, born at Hudson, 
 Wis., July 30, 1865; son of Allen and Anna 
 (Cleland) Dawson. He studied at Hanover 
 College,, Indiana, and Harvard College, re- 
 ceiving from Hanover College the degree of 
 A.B. in 1886 and A.M. the degree in 1898. 
 He was also graduated from Cincinnati Law 
 School as LL.B. in 1886. He published a 
 newspaper at Enterprise, Fla., for two 
 years, and was admitted to the Iowa bar 
 in 1886; practised law at Des Moines three 
 years; was legislative! corresjiondcnf and 
 later city editor of the Iowa Register at 
 Des j\Ioines, and then practised law at Coun- 
 cil Bluffs, from 1891 to 1897, also being 
 assistant attorney general of Iowa from 
 1891 to 1894. He was appointed in the 
 diplomatic service as secretary of the Le- 
 gation at Rio de Janeiro, June 28, 1897; 
 was appointed minister resident and consul- 
 general to Santo Domingo, April 29, 1904, 
 retaining that mission until he \\as ap- 
 pointed Jan. 10, 1907, envoy extraordinary 
 and minister plenipotentiary to Colombia. 
 April 19, 1909, he was appointed E.E. 
 and M.P. to Chile. Address; Care Slate 
 Department, Washington, D. C. 
 
 DAWSON, William Mercer Owens: 
 
 Law\er and ex-go Niinor ; Ikhii at 15hMiiii- 
 ington, Maryland, within a few iiundred 
 yards of the Virginia (West Virginia) line, 
 May 21. 1853; son of Francis Raven.scraft 
 
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 and Leah (Knight) Dawson. In 1863 he 
 bc^'au to learn the cooper's trade at Cran- 
 berry (now Terra Alta), VV. Va., and subse 
 queutly attended school there, after which 
 he worked as a clerk and taught school in 
 the vicinity. In 1873 he settled at King- 
 wood, the county seat of Preston County, 
 and became editor of The Preston County 
 Journal, a Republican sheet, of which he 
 later became owner. Later he engaged in 
 the practice of law. In 1874 he was elected 
 chairman of the county Kepublican com- 
 mittee and served by reelection for thirteen 
 years. He was elected to the State Senate 
 in 1880, was reelected in 1884, but de- 
 clined a third nomination in 1888. He was 
 the author of a bill to regulate railroad 
 charges on lines that were subsequently 
 adopted by the Federal Government in the 
 creation of Interstate Commerce Connnis- 
 sion. In 1891 Mr. Dawson became chair- 
 man of the Republican State Committee, 
 and three years later West Virginia, which 
 had been Democratic since 1871, was placed 
 in the column of Republican States. 
 Similar victories followed in 189G, 1898, 
 1900 and 1902, and since 1894 the Repub- 
 licans liave had a majority in both branches 
 of the Legislature. He served as chairman 
 until 1904, when he resigned. Mr. Daw- 
 son was secretary of State two terms, 1897- 
 1905. In 1904 he was elected governor of 
 West Virginia for the term of four years, 
 which expired March 4, 1909. In 1901, 
 after much contest, the Legislature of his 
 State enacted the Dawson Corporation Law, 
 a measure which greatly increased the 
 revenues of the State from license taxes on 
 corporations. He married in 1879, Luda 
 Nefi", by whom he had a son. She died 
 in 1894; and in 1899 he married Maude 
 Brown, by whom he has a daugiiter. Ad- 
 dress: Charleston, W. Va. 
 
 DAY, Charles Orrin: 
 
 President of Andover Tho/Dlogical Semi- 
 nary; born in Catskill, N. Y., Nov. 8, 1851. 
 He was educated in Hopkins Grammar 
 School, New Haven, Conn., was graduated 
 from Yale, 1872, and from Andover Theo- 
 logical Seminary, 1877. He entered the 
 Congregational ministry, and after a year 
 
 as a city missionary in Montreal became 
 pastor of the Congregational Church at 
 Williamsburg, Mass., 1879-1884, studied as 
 post-graduate student in Yale Divinity 
 School, 1884-1885. He became pastor of the 
 Congregational Church at Brattleboro, Vt. ; 
 chaplain of the First Vermont Volunteers, 
 in camp at Chickamauga, during the 
 Spanish-American War, 1898; secretary of 
 the Congregational Educational Society, 
 1898-1901; since May, 1901, president of 
 the Andover Theological Seminary, in which 
 institution he also holds the Bartlet chair 
 of homiletics and practical theology. He 
 married at Catskill, N. Y., in 1879. Mary 
 Hiland Hull. Address: Andover, Mass. 
 
 DAY, David Talbot: 
 
 Pr.troleum expert ; born in East Rockport, 
 Ohio, Sept. 10, 1859; son of W. G. and 
 Caroline (Cathcart) Day. He was gradu- 
 ated from Johns Hopkins University, A.B., 
 1881, Ph.D., 1883; and was a demonstrator 
 of cliemistry at the University of Mary- 
 land, in 1884-1885. Mr. Day was an ex- 
 hibitor at the Centennial Exhibition in 
 187G; and special agent of the United States 
 Geological Survey, 1883 1885. He was in 
 charge of petroleum exhibits at the World's 
 Columbian Exposition, 1893; director of 
 mining at the Cotton States and Interna- 
 tional Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 1896, 
 secretary of the Jury of Awards at the 
 Tennessee Centennial Exposition, 1897; di- 
 rector of mining, at the Trans-Mississippi 
 Exposition, 1898; in charge of petroleum, 
 etc., at the Philadelphia Exposition in 
 1899; in charge of petroleum, etc., at the 
 Paris Exposition, 1900; in charge of mining 
 at the Pan-American Exposition, 1901; 
 honorary chief of the Department of IMines 
 and INIetallurgy in the Louisiana Purchase 
 Exposition in 1904; honorary commissioner 
 of mining at the Lewis Clark Exposition at 
 Portland, Ore., in 1905, and honorary di- 
 rector of mines and metallurgy .at James- 
 town Exposition in 1907. Mr. Day was 
 compiler of the volumes of Mineral Re- 
 sources of the United States for twenty- 
 one j'cars, taking charge of the petroleum 
 investigations of the United States Geolog- 
 ical Survey, Aug. 1, 1907, in which position 
 
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 ho is now engaged. He is the American 
 member of tlie International Commission 
 for unifying the methods of testing petro- 
 leum. He is a member of the American In- 
 stitute of Mining Engineers, National Geo- 
 graphic Society, Geological Society of 
 America, American Chemical Society, Na- 
 tional Statistical Association, Geographical 
 Society of Switzerland; the Engineers' Club 
 of New York City, the Round Table Club, 
 St. Louis, and the University Club of 
 Washington, D. C. Mr. Day married at 
 Mayport, Ela., March 17, 18S6, Elizabeth 
 Eliot Keeler, and they have two children. 
 Residence: 2511 Cliflfbourne PI. Address: 
 Unitr.d States Geological Survey, Washing 
 ton, D. C. 
 
 DAY, Holman Francis: 
 
 Author; born in Vassalboro, Maine, Nov. 
 6, 1865; son of Captain John R. and Mary 
 (Carter) Day. He was graduated from 
 Colby College, A.B., 1887, honorary degree 
 Litt.D., 1907; became editor and pro- 
 prietor of the Dexter (Maine) Gazette, 
 1888-1892; associate editor of the Lewis- 
 ton (Maine) Journal, 1892-1900; political 
 editor of the Boston Journal, 1904; author 
 of many articles and short stories in lead- 
 ing magazines. Mr. Day was chief of the. 
 Publicity Bureau of the Republican State 
 Committee in the campaign of 1906; was 
 major and military secretary on the staff 
 of Governor John F. Hill of Maine, 1901 
 1904. He is author of: Up in Maine, 
 (verse) ; Pine Tree Ballads; Kin o'Ktaadn; 
 and of the novels : Squire Phin, pro- 
 duced at Chicago, Aug. 28, 1909, as a play 
 by Klaw & Erlanger, under title, " The 
 Circus Man;" Rainy Day Railroad War; 
 The Eagle Badge; King Spruce; The Ram- 
 rodders. He is prominent in the Elks order, 
 and is a Mason. He, married in Boston, 
 Sept. 28, 1903, Agnes M. Bearce, and they 
 have a daughter. Address : Auburn, 
 Maine. 
 
 DAY, James Roscoe: 
 
 Chancellor (jf Syracuse University; born 
 in Whitneyville, Washington County, Maine; 
 son of Thomas Day (prominent lumber- 
 man) and Mary P. (Hillman) Day, daugh- 
 
 ter of Rev. A. P. Hillman. He is a descend- 
 ant of the Day family of Cape. Ann, from 
 which have come the Days of New Eng- 
 land, New York and New Jersey. He was 
 educated in the Maine Conference Seminary, 
 at Kent's Hill, Maine, and at Bowdoin Col- 
 lege and received the degree of D.D. from 
 \A'esleyan University and Dickinson Col- 
 lege in 1904, S.T.D. from Bowdoin College, 
 LL.D. from Northwestern University, and 
 D.C.L. from Cornell College, Iowa. He en- 
 tered the Maine Methodist Episcopal Con- 
 ference in 1872, and filled pastorates suc- 
 cr.ssively at Bath, Biddeford and Portland, 
 Maine ; Nashua, N. H. ; Boston, New York 
 City and Newburgh, N. Y. While he was 
 pastor at Calvary Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, New York City, he was elected, 
 in 1893, Chancellor of Syi'acuse University 
 which now has faculties numbering 225 
 and an enrollment of over 3,200 students, 
 a library containing 90,000 volumes and 
 property and endowment fund of $4,500,000. 
 He was elected a Bishop of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church by the General Confer- 
 ence at Los Angeles in 1904, but resigned 
 in order to continue his work at the Uni- 
 versity. He is author of: The Raid on 
 Prosperity. Dr- Day married, July 14, 
 1873, Hannah E., daughter of Re.v. R. R. 
 Richards, of Auburn, Maine, and they have 
 one daughter, Mary Emogene. Address: 
 Syracuse, New York. 
 
 DAY, Joseph P.: 
 
 Real estate broker, auctione,er, agent and 
 dealer; born in New York City, Sept. 22, 
 1873; son of John W. and Catherine A. 
 (Hayes) Day. He was educated in the 
 public schools of New York City and, after 
 completing his school course, became in- 
 terested in real estate. When twenty-one 
 years of age, he started for himself, doing 
 an insurance business in connection with 
 real estate. In 1898, he negotiated the 
 heaviest accident policy ever written, cov- 
 ering insurance against accidents resulting 
 from the change of motive power of the 
 Third Avenue Surface Railroad and of the 
 42nd Street, Manhattanville and St. Nich- 
 olas Avenue Railroad. During recent years 
 he has been specially prominent in the 
 
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 department of sales of real cslate hy auc- 
 tion and in tliat department is the recog- 
 nized loader in New York City, he having 
 been the auctioneer in the now famous 
 Ogden Estate sale, comprising 1,500 lots in 
 the West Bronx, between High Bridge, and 
 Washington Bridge. Tiiis was a four-days' 
 sale and is the largest absolute partition 
 sale of city real estate of improved lots in 
 the history of the country. He was also 
 the auctioneer of the Doherty Estate hold- 
 ing.-;, which brought $1,913,600, in a single 
 afternoon's sale ; comprising property on 
 r.rnadway and on Eighth Ave.nuc, Manhat- 
 tan. Besides conducting real estate auc 
 tion sales, he also sells stocks and bonds 
 at auction and has charge of many im- 
 portant executor's sales and appraisals and 
 other matters relating to Ne.w York real 
 estate, in whicli he is recognized as one 
 of the foremost experts of values. The 
 Corporation Council, representing the City 
 of New York, has frequently called him to 
 testify in reference to appraisals of value 
 of real estate. Mr. Day is a member of 
 the Real Estate Auctioneer's Association 
 of New Y'ork City: president of the Real 
 Estate Board of Brokers of New Y^ork City; 
 member of the Chamber of Commerce, the 
 Asi-ociation of Bronx Re.al Estate Brokers, 
 the Long Island Real Estate Exchange and 
 the Real Estate Brokers Exchange of 
 Newark and vicinity; and is a director in 
 the New Jersey and New York Real Estate 
 Exchange. He is the treasurer of the Tam- 
 many Society and is a nicnilier of the 
 Eriendly Sons of St. Patrick, and is also 
 the vice-president of the Sydenham Hos- 
 pital. Mr. Day is a member of the Man- 
 hattan, the New York Atliletic, and Na- 
 tional Democratic Clubs of New York City, 
 and tiie Canoe Brook Country Club of Sum- 
 mit. N. J. I To married in New York City 
 on June 1, 1898, rauliiic M. I'ope (a grand- 
 <iaughte,r of the late d. .Monroe Taylor) 
 and they have four children: Joseph P., 
 .Ir.. Bernird N.. Charles, and Pauline Pope 
 Day. Town residence: 34 Gramorcy Park, 
 New ^'ork City. Cniiiihy lionu': '"Pleas- 
 ant Days,"" Milllnini, \. .1. Olllces: .31 
 Nassau Street, .\i\\ \tnk ( ity. 
 
 DAY, William A.: 
 
 Vice-pre.sident of the Equitable Life As- 
 surance Society of the United States. He 
 was formerly auditor of the United States 
 Treasury; special assistant to the attorney- 
 ge.neral of the United States in cases under 
 the Inter-State Commerce Act and the Sher- 
 man Anti-trust Law; first assistant to the 
 attorney-general of the United States, 1903- 
 1905. He is a member of the ^Metropolitan 
 and Chevy Chase Clubs of Wasliington, the 
 Brook and New York Riding Clubs of New 
 York City. Residence: 4 Gramercy Park. 
 OtRce: 120 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 DAY, William Rufus: 
 
 Justice of the Supreme Court of the 
 United States; born in Ravenna, Ohio, 
 April 17, 1849; son of Judge Luther Day, 
 of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and of 
 Emily (Spalding) Day. In 1S6G he en- 
 tered the academic department of the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, where he was gradu- 
 ated in 1870; he also spent one year in 
 the law department of that institution. 
 In 1872 he was admitted to tlie Ohio bar 
 and began the practice of law in Canton, 
 Stark County, Ohio, wliere lie was elected 
 judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 
 188G. In 1889 he was appointed Unite^d 
 State district judge for the Northern Dis- 
 trict of Ohio by President Harrison, which 
 position he declined. In April. 1897, he 
 was appointed assistant secretary of State 
 by President McKinley, and in A])ril. 1898, 
 was made secretary of Slate, which ])osi- 
 tion he resigned to accept the chairman- 
 shiji of the commission which negotiated the 
 treaty of peace with Sjiain at the close of 
 the Spanisli-American War. in February, 
 1899, he was ajijioiiitcd rnilcd States cii-- 
 cuit judge lor llic Sixth .ludicial liy I'lcsi- 
 dent ^IcKinley. in Ecluuary, 19();>. lie was 
 made justice of the United States Suincine 
 Court by President Roosevelt, taking the 
 oath of ofTice March 2, 1903. Address: 
 1301 Cliflon Street. Washington. 1). C. 
 
 DAYTON, Alston Gordon: 
 
 United Slates judge: Imrn at IMiilippi. 
 W. Va., Oct. IS, is:.'). He was graduat(.l 
 
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 from tli(> L'liivcrsily of \\"cs( Viryiiiiii, in 
 1878. lie cnofaffed in the practice of law 
 in 1878, was prosecutinjj attorney of Uj) 
 sluir County, W. Va., to fill an unexi)ircd 
 term, and was afterward prosecuting at- 
 torney of Barbour County, W. Va., for four 
 years' until December 31, 1887. In 1804 
 lie was elected to Congress as a Republican 
 from the Second Congressional District of 
 West Virginia, and reelected biennially five 
 times and he resigned from the Fifty-ninth 
 Congress upon his appointme.nt in 1905 to 
 his present otTice as United States judge 
 for the Northern District of \Vcst Virginia. 
 Address: Philippi, W. Va. 
 
 DAYTON, Charles Willoughby: 
 
 Jurist; born in Brooklyn, Oct. 3, 1846; 
 son of Abraham C. Dayton, author, and 
 descendant of Colonel Andrew Adams of 
 the Continental Army, who was also 
 Speaker of the Continental Congress, 1779- 
 1780, and chief justice of Connecticut. He 
 was educated in the College of the City of 
 New York, and Columbia Law School, from 
 which he was graduated LL.B., 18G8, and 
 was in continuous practice of law in New 
 York City until 1900, when he was elected 
 a justice of the Supreme Court for the 
 term expiring Dec. 31, 1920. Justice Day- 
 ton has always been a prominent Democrat ; 
 made speeches for (4eneral McClellan in 
 1804; was member of the State Assembly 
 in 1881: presidential elector and secretary 
 of the Electoral College of New York, 1884; 
 made speeches in favor of Grover Cleve- 
 land for President in New York and other 
 States in the campaigns of 1884, 1888 and 
 r892 ; was postmaster of New York City, 
 1893-1897; delegate to the New York State 
 Constitutional Convention of 1894, and to 
 the National Democratic Convention of 
 1904. He is a director of the Empire, City 
 Savings Bank and the United States Life 
 Insurance Company, and is a trustee of 
 the Church of the Puritans and of the Har- 
 lem Library. He has been a member of 
 tlie Harlem Democratic Club from its foun- 
 dation in 1892. Justice Dayton is a mem- 
 ber of the New York State Bar Associa- 
 tion, Association of the Bar of the City of 
 New York, and the Society of International 
 
 Law, and flic Maiihallan, Down 'low ii and 
 Players Clubs. He married, dan. 29. 1874, 
 Laura A. Newman. Kesideiic<": 1:'. .Mount 
 Morris Park. OfTicial address: County 
 Court House, New York City. 
 
 DAYTON, James H.: 
 
 Rear-admiral U. S. N., retired ; born in 
 Indiana, Oct. 25, 184G. He was appointed 
 from Indiana to the United States Naval 
 Academy, Sept. 27, 1802, and was gradu- 
 ated in 1800. He was promoted through 
 subordinate grades and became lieutcnani- 
 commander in November, 1884, in which 
 year he was in special service on the Dol- 
 phin, and then went to the Mohican, Pacilic 
 Station, 1884-1887. He was at the Naval 
 Ordnance Proving Ground, 1888-1890, and 
 was placed in command of the Peti'el in 
 February, 1893. He was jiromoted to com- 
 mander, January, 1894; was lighthouse in- 
 spector, 1894-1897; commanded the Detroit, 
 June, 1897 to August, 1899; appointed 
 commandant of the Naval Station at San 
 Juan, Oct. 11, 1899; promoted captain, 
 March 29, 1900, and May 3, 1900 was 
 placed in command of the Chicago; was 
 captain of the Naval War College, 1903- 
 1904; was president of the Board of In- 
 spection and survey from Feb. 15, 1904, 
 and was, on Feb. 27, 1900, ordered to com- 
 mand the Philippine Squadron of the 
 Asiatic I<leet. He was promoted to rear- 
 admiral of the United States Navy, Feb. 
 28, 1900, and in 1907 became commander- 
 in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet; and he was 
 retired by operation of law. Oct. 25. 190S. 
 Address: Care of the. Navy Dcpai I nieiit, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 DEAN, Bashford: 
 
 Zoologist, archieologist; born in New 
 York City, Oct. 28, 1807. He was gradu- 
 ated from the College of the City of New 
 York, as A.B. in 188G. Columbia Univer- 
 sity, A.M., 1889, Ph.D.. 1890. He has 
 been professor of vertebrate zoology in Co- 
 lumbia University since 1903. Professor 
 Dean was assistant to the New York Fish 
 Commission, 1880-1888; United States Fish 
 Commission. 1889-1892. and as biologist in 
 1900 and I'.HlI : special investigator of 
 
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 oyster cultiiro in England, France, Bel- 
 gium, Spain, Portugal. Italy and Japan; 
 director of the Biological Laboratory, Cold 
 Spring Harbor, 1890; nK-mber of the Ad- 
 visory Board, New York Aquarium, since 
 1902; curator of ichthyology and herpe- 
 tolog^- American Museum of Natural His- 
 tory, curator arms and armor. Metropolitan 
 Museum of Art. He is a fellow of the New 
 York Academy of Science; New York 
 Zoological Society, Mctrojiolitan Museiun 
 of Art, and American ^luseum of Natural 
 History, correspondent of foreign societies, 
 and of the Natural History Museum of 
 Paris. Dr. Dean is author of numerous works 
 on the anatomy, embryology and paleontol- 
 ogy of fishes. Residence : Riversdale, N. Y. 
 City. Olfieo: Department of Zoologj^ Co- 
 luuiliia University. New York City. 
 
 DE ANGELIS. Jefferson: 
 
 Comedian; born at San Francisco. Cal., 
 Nov. 30, 1859. He was educated in the 
 public schools of San Francisco and New 
 York City. Mr. De Angelis entered the 
 theatrical profession as a child ; toured the 
 world with his own company, from 1880 
 to 1884, visiting the Sandwich Islands, 
 Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Malay 
 Archipelago, China, Japan, Manila, India, 
 Africa, etc.; then became comedian of the 
 McCaull Opera Company until 1890, then 
 with the Casino Company, later becoming 
 joint star with Delia Fo.x and Lillian Rus- 
 sell in The Wedding Day. Since 1896 lie 
 has been at the head of the De Angelis 
 Opera Company, playing The Royal Rogue, 
 The Toreador, Fantana, The Girl and the 
 Governor, and other plays, and in the sea- 
 .son of 1909 in The Beauty Spot. Mr. De 
 Angelis is a Mason of the thirty-second de- 
 gree; a member of the Mystic Shrine, and 
 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of 
 Elks. Mr. De Angelis married, in India. 
 in 1882; Florence Conliffe, and Uuy liave 
 one son. Address: Sunnyside Drive, 
 Yonkers, N. Y. 
 
 DE ANGELIS, P. C. J.: 
 
 Jurist; was engaged in the practice of 
 law at Utica, N. Y., until elected on the 
 
 Republican ticket in November, 1906, -a 
 justice of the Supreme Court of New York 
 for the 5th District, for the, term expiring 
 Dec. 31, 1920. Address: Utica, N. Y. 
 
 DE ARMOND, David Albaugh: 
 
 Congressman ; born in Blair County, 
 Pennsylvania, March 18. 1844; was brought 
 up on a farm ; educated in the common 
 schools and at Williamsport Dickinson Sem- 
 inary; was State .senator, circuit judge, 
 and Missouri Supreme Court commissioner; 
 was elected to the Fifty second. Fifty-third, 
 Fifty-fourth. Fifty-fiftl'i,, Fifty-sixth,' Fifty- 
 seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth. and 
 Sixtietii Congresses and reelected to the 
 Sixty-first Congress from the Sixtli Mis- 
 souri District. Address: Butler, Mo. 
 
 DE BELLEVILLE, Frederic: 
 
 Actor; born in Liege, Belgium, his father 
 was a colonel and his brother is a com- 
 mander in the Belgium Army. His great- 
 uncle, Charles Rogier, was prime minister 
 of Belgium during the reign of King 
 Leopold I. He made his first professional 
 appearance in English in London, where he 
 appeared for eight years ; then twelve 
 months in Australia. His first appearance 
 in the United States was in San Francisco 
 at Baldwin's Theatre. Here A. M. Palmer 
 saw him plaj^ the Dwarf in Namon, and 
 engaged him for his Union Square Theatre 
 Company, in New York. He played at the 
 L^nion Square for three seasons, creating, 
 while there, many and various roles success- 
 fully, and then followed several years of 
 starring under difTerent managements. 
 Since then he has supported Mr. Crane in 
 The Senator, Rose Coghlan in Diplomacy, 
 Mrs. Fiske in Divorcons, Tess of the 
 D'Urbevilles, Little Italy, Frou Frou, and 
 Leah Kleschna, and Viola Allen in The 
 Eternal City; and originated parts in M'lle 
 ^larni. The Coward, Popularity, Tenement 
 Traged}'; JNIarriage of Reason, Step Sister, 
 Samson. Mr. De Belleville is a member of 
 the Players, Greenroom and Brooklyn Yacht 
 Clubs, the Actor's Order of Friendship, 
 Actors' Fund, Actors' Society, etc. Ad- 
 dress: 101 West SOth Street, New York 
 City. 
 
IlK.MiY ]\I. DeCHEUT 
 
 Chairman Board Directors Coniiiioiiwcaltli Trust Company 
 
 Philadelphia 
 
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 DEBEVOISE, George: 
 
 ]\I;nmfat'turor of colors and varnishes; 
 born in Now Yoric City, June 80, 1865; son 
 of r!('oro;<" W. and Nettie (Harkcr) De- 
 bovoisc. Ife was educated in the public 
 schools of New York City and the College 
 of the City of New York in the class of 
 1885. After leaving college he engaged in 
 business, and he is treasurer, general man- 
 ager and director of the Chilton Paint Com- 
 pany. He has been for many years inter- 
 ested in community work and civic reform 
 in New York City. ]\Ir. Debevoise is a Re- 
 ]iubliean in politics and an Episcopalian in 
 religious atliliation, and he is a member of 
 tbo Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the 
 Chamber of Commerce of New York, New 
 York Historical Society, and the Holland 
 Society, and of the City, Alpha Delta Phi 
 and Esse.x; County Country Clubs, and his 
 favorite rr.crcations are hunting and fish- 
 ing. ;Mr. Debevoise married at Orange, N. 
 J., Oct. 4, 1902, Jessie I^rd. Address: 
 162 East SSth Street, New York City. 
 
 DEBEVOISE, Thomas McElrath: 
 
 Lawyer; Ijorn at New York City; son of 
 George W. and Katherine Price (McElrath) 
 Debevoise. He was educated at Yale Uni- 
 versity and at the New York Law School, 
 and was admitted to the bar and engaged in 
 practice in New York City, now being a 
 member of the law firm of Rounds, Hatch, 
 Dillingham & Debevoise. Mr. Debevoise is a 
 member of the Association of the Bar of 
 the City of New York, the New York State 
 Bar Association, the American Bar Asso- 
 ciation, the Holland Society and the Alpha 
 Delta Phi fraternity. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the University, Down Town, Yale. 
 Republican, Alpha Delta Phi, Quill, and 
 Canoe Brook Country Clubs. He is a Re- 
 publican in politics. Mr. Debevoise mar- 
 ried at New Haven, Connecticut, Dec. 6, 
 1898, Anne Farnam Whitney, and has two 
 children : Eli Whitney Debevoise and 
 Katherine Price Debevoise. Address: 62 
 Cedar Street, New York City. 
 
 DEBS, Eugene Victor: 
 
 Presidential candidate, organizer, lec- 
 turer; born in Terre Haute, Ind,, Nov. 5, 
 
 1855; son of Jean Daniel and Marg\ieritc 
 (Betterich) Debs. He was educated in (he 
 public schools of Terre Haute, and fium 
 1871 to 1874 was a locomotive fireman on 
 the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Rail- 
 road, then was clerk with a wholesale gro- 
 cery house in Terre Haute until elected 
 city clerk of Terre Haute, in which office 
 he served, 1879-1883, and while in that office 
 was elected grand secretary and treasurer 
 of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- 
 men, which office he held, 1880-189:3, mean- 
 while being elected to a term in the Indiana 
 Legislature. In 1893 he was elected presi- 
 dent of the American Railway Union, which 
 oflSce he held for four years. He directed 
 and won a great strike on the Great North- 
 ern Railway, and in 1894 was manager of 
 the greater strike of the Western Roads, 
 in connection with which he was indicted 
 for conspiracy but acquitted ; then was 
 charged with violation of an injunction and 
 sent to the jail of McHenry County, 111., 
 for six months for contempt of court. He 
 was chairman of the National Council of 
 the Social Democracy, 1897-1898, and since 
 then has been a leader of the Socialist 
 forces, becoming candidate for President 
 in 1900 of the Social Democratic Party, 
 and under its new name of the Socialist 
 Party again nominee for President of the 
 United States in 1904 and 1908. Mr. Drbs 
 is a vigorous campaigner, and also a 
 popular lecturer. He married, June 9, 
 1885, Katherine Metzel. Address: Terre 
 Haute, Ind. 
 
 DECHERT, Henry Martyn: 
 
 Lawj'cr; born in Reading, Pa., March 11, 
 1832 ; son of Elijah and Mary Williams 
 (Porter) Dechert. He was graduated from 
 Yale, A.B., 1850; taught school near 
 Pottstown, Pa., studied law and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1854, 
 and continued in the general practice of 
 law vmtil 1891. He was president of the 
 Commonwealth Trust Company of Phila- 
 delphia, 1886 1906, and is now chairman 
 of the Board and Executive Committee 
 Stockholders, consisting of lawyers and con- 
 veyancers; and he is also a director of the 
 Delaware Fire Insurance Company of 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 lMiil;ulcl|ilii;i. Mr. Dcclicrl lias scvvod a? 
 si-hool (liroclor and assistant city solicitor 
 of Philadelphia, Avas nominated for city 
 solicitor in 1800 and for associate judge of 
 the Court of Common Pleas in 1870. He 
 served in 18G2 and 18G3 in the Civil War 
 as first lieutenant of the 23d and 40th 
 Pennsylvania regiments. Mr. Dechert is a 
 member of the Pennsylvania Bar Associa- 
 tion, the Law Association of Philadelphia, 
 Xaval Order of tiie United States; presi- 
 dent of the W'estern Home for Poor Chil- 
 dren, Young Men's Institute, and the West 
 Philadelphia Institute; vice-president of the 
 Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children ; 
 ])resident of the- State Asylum for Chronic 
 Insane of Pennsylvania since 1894; director 
 of the Pennsylvania Epileptic Hospital and 
 Colony Farm, and the Western Temporary 
 Hospital for Women and Children. He was 
 the first president of the Trust Section of 
 the American Bankers' Association, organ- 
 ized in 189G at St. Louis, Mo. He is 
 a member of the Grand Army of the Re- 
 public, the Sons of the Revolution and the 
 I'niversity, Art and Lawyers Clubs. He 
 nuirried in Philadcli)hia, Sept. 15, 1857. 
 Ksther S. Taylor. Mrs. Dechert died Nov. 
 1, ISitd. 'Ilicy have ilirce childieii: Col. 
 llnny I", .iinl JMlward P. Drclicrt ol' i'liila- 
 d.'jphia. and .Mis. Cliarlcs 11. (.'ale, Cleve- 
 iaiid, Ohio. Residence: ;5930 Walnut 
 Street. (mice: 1201 (Jhestnut Street. 
 I'hihideli.hia. 
 
 DECHERT, Henry T.: 
 
 Lawyer: Ikhii in I'liiladelpliin . T'cli. 2, 
 185!); soil nl' Henry M. Dechert. lb- was 
 edncated at the I'niversity of I'eiinnl- 
 \aiiia, i-ee(i\iiig llie (hvjrees of A.B., 1879. 
 LL.IJ., ISSI. and A..\l.. 1882. He was ad- 
 mitted to llie Philadelphia bar in 1S81, 
 and to the bar of the Supreme Court of 
 the United States in 1889. lie has been 
 active in llie National Cuard of Pennsyl- 
 vania. He enlisted in 1884 in Hie j'irst 
 Troop of Philadeliiliia City Cavalry, was 
 commissioned a lieutenant in the. Second 
 Regiment of Infantry in 1890, major in 
 1891. lieutenant-colonel in 1893 and colonel 
 in 1S99. During the Spanisli-.\iiierican War 
 ilU |S!IS he sei\cd as lie.ntcliaiil i<pl(inej of 
 
 the Second Pemisyh ania Infantry during 
 its entire term of duty, commanding five; 
 companies in the Department of the Ea.st. 
 He is a member of the firm of Potter, 
 Dechert, & Norris, and is a member of the 
 Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military 
 Order of the Loyal Legion by inheritance 
 from his uncle, Brigadier-General Robert P. 
 Dechert. Mr. Dechert married in 1895, 
 Virginia Louise Howard. Address: 32 
 South Broad Street Philadelphia. 
 
 DeCORMIS, Louis: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Norfolk, Va., of 
 ari.stocratie French lineage on his father's 
 side, and, in the maternal line of the 
 \Miitelock family of Leeds, England, a 
 branch of the celebrated Pusey family of 
 which Canon Pusey was a distinguished 
 member, and on the mother's side is also a 
 descendant of Deputy Governor Freeman, 
 associate of Governor Bradford of Plymouth 
 Colony, and founder of Sandwich, Mass. 
 After filling various positions in the Third 
 National Bank of Baltimore, he Avas pre- 
 pared by tutors and entered Kenyon Col- 
 lege, Ohio, and was graduated A.B., with 
 distinction, and afterward from tlie K[)is- 
 eopal Theological Seminary, at Cambridge, 
 Mass., B.D., 1873. He was ordered deacon 
 by Bishop Neely, 1873, and soon after or- 
 dained ]>riest by Bishop Paddock. His first 
 charge was St. John s Church, Taunton, 
 Mass., 1873187(i, and was rector of St. 
 Stephen's Church, Lynn. ISlass., 1870-1885, 
 during which rectorship St. Slephen"s 
 .Memorial Church was l)uiU. Hon. K. R. 
 -Mudge, of 15oston, donating the (piarter of 
 a million dollars re(piired for the construc- 
 tion of the church, cha])el and icctory. He 
 was assistant minister of St. Anne's, Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., 1885-1887, and from 1887 to 
 1895 was rector of All Saints Cliurch, (Jreat 
 Neck, L. L, wiiero a new and handsome 
 church ami rectory, with large endownuMit, 
 were built during his rectorship; and from 
 1895 to 1901 was rector of St. Patd's 
 Church, Columbia, Pa., wliere he raised a 
 large sum of money to pay oil' the debt 
 on the cliuich pi'ojierty, and while there 
 was a trustee of the Cdluniliia (^ity Hos- 
 pital, ineiiiber (d tin- Diuce-an ( 'ciinniit lee.i 
 
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 on Sunday Sclioul Lessons, ii-proscnting tlie 
 Diocese of Central Pennsylvania, and niein 
 her of tiie special Diocesan Court appointed 
 by the Standing Conunittee. He has re- 
 sided in Cambridge, ^lass., since, 1901. He 
 received the degrees of J3.D., 1898, and 
 LL.D., 1900. Dr. DeCormis has taught in 
 tlie public schools, has prepared young 
 men for Columbia I'niversity and has done, 
 other tutor work. He Avas for about two 
 years a membei- of the Fifth Maryland 
 Regiment (Militia), and while in Lynn was 
 actively interested in hosjntal work and 
 is still a member of the Lynn Hospital 
 Corporation. He is a member of the Massa- 
 chusetts Society of Colonial Wars; chap- 
 lain of the Eleusis Lodge of Masons, 
 Boston, a Knight Templar, and a member 
 of the Brooklyn and Bo.>ton Clerical Clubs. 
 Dr. DeCormis married, in 1882, Isabel, 
 daughter of Nathan 11. Gibbs of Boston, 
 and they have a son and a daughter. Ad- 
 dress : 54 Wendell Street, Cambridge, 
 Mass. 
 
 PEERING, William: 
 
 ^lanufacturer, born at Paris, Oxford 
 County, Maine, April 25, 182G; son of 
 James and Eliza (Moore) Deering. He 
 was educated at the j\Iaine Wesleyan Sem- 
 inary, Readfield, Kennebec County, Maine, 
 and soon thereafter became connected with 
 a small woolen mill at South Paris, Maine. 
 He afterward became identified with the 
 wholesale dry goods business, as the head 
 of the firm of Deering, Milliken and Com- 
 jiany, wholesale and commission dry goods 
 merchants at Portland, Maine, and New 
 York City. In 1870 he became connected 
 with the grain harvester business, acquiring 
 tlie business originally established at 
 Piano, 111., for the manufacture of the 
 Marsh harvester, and greatly extended it 
 by new patents and the use of improved 
 manufacturing methods. The business was 
 removed to Chicago in 1880, and conducted 
 in the name of the Deering Harvester Com- 
 pany, maiuifacturrs of Deering harvesting 
 machinery, which was recently merged in 
 the International Harvester Company. He 
 retired from active business in 1902. Mr. 
 Deering is a member of the Methodist Epis- 
 
 copal Churcli, a trustee of tlie l'"irst Metho- 
 dist JOpiscopal Cliurch of Evanslon, 111., 
 and of Nortliwestern University, ami lias 
 served several terms as a member of the 
 General Conferences of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church. Residence: 408 Church Street. 
 Ofliee address: 518 Davis Street, Evans- 
 ton, Hi. 
 
 DE FOREST, lockwood: 
 
 Artist; born in New York City in 1S50. 
 He studied art with Herman Corrodi in 
 Rome, 1869, with Frederick E. Church in 
 Greece, 1869-1870, and with Mr. Church 
 and James M. Hart in New York, 1870. 
 He engaged professionally as a landscape 
 painter with studio in New "i'ork City. He 
 studied abroad again in Egj'pt, Syria, and 
 Greece, 1875-1878, was associated with 
 Louis C. Tift'any in interior decoration, 
 1879. He was in India, studying Oriental 
 art and collecting examples of interest, 
 1881-1882, and exhibited specimens of India 
 wood carving made under his direction at 
 the. Lahore Exhibition of 1882. He re- 
 ceived medal for Indian carving in the 
 Colonial Exhibition in London, and at the 
 VYorld's Columbian Exposition, 1893. Mr. 
 De Forest spent the winter of 1892 and 
 1893 traveling again in India, making ex- 
 tensive collections. The most important one 
 now forms the Indian jewehy collection in 
 the Field Museum at Chicago, considered 
 by many critics to be as fine as the one 
 in the Indian jMusevmi at South Kensing- 
 ton. He was elected associate of the Na- 
 tional Academy of Design in 1891, and an 
 academician in 1898. He is a member of 
 the Century Club, the Metropolitan Mu- 
 seum of Art, New Y'^ork Artist Fund So- 
 ciety, Arti.st Aid Society, Architectural 
 League, and Arts and Crafts of Boston. 
 Mr. De Forest married, in November, 1880, 
 Meta Kemble, of New Y'ork. Address: 7 
 East 10th Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 DE FOREST, Robert Weeks: 
 
 Lawyer; born at New York City, April 
 25, 1848; .son of Henry G. and Julia M. 
 (Weeks) de Forest. He was graduated 
 from Yale University, A.B., 1870. and later 
 A.M., and the degree of LL.D. was con- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 feriod upon him by Yale in 1904. Mr. 
 de Forest was admitted to the bar in 
 1S71 and engaged in the practice of law 
 in New York City. In 1872 he became 
 a member of the law firm of Weeks, Forster 
 and de Forest, and later in that of de 
 Forest Bros., in wliich he is associated 
 with his brother, H. W. de Forest, and his 
 son, Johnston de Forest. Mr. de Forest be- 
 came general attorney of the Central Rail- 
 road of New Jersey in 1874, and has been 
 at the head of its law department for 
 many years. He is vice president and gen- 
 eral counsel, as well as director of the 
 companj^; is president of the Hackensack 
 \\'ater Company, trustee of the New York 
 Trust Company and the Hudson Trust Com- 
 pany, and director of other business corpo- 
 rations. In philanthropic matters, he has 
 lx?en president of the New York Charity 
 Organization Society since 1883. He was 
 one of the founders and first president of 
 the Provident Loan Society, for philan- 
 thropic pawnbroking, organized in 1894. 
 He was chairman of the New Yoiic State 
 Tenement House Commission of 1900, and 
 was appointed first Tenement House Com- 
 missioner of the State of New York, which 
 office he held, 1902-1904. He was presi- 
 dent of the National Conference of Charities 
 and Correction, which met at Atlanta in 
 1903, and has been president of the New 
 York City Municipal Art Commission since 
 1905. He was one of the original in- 
 corporators of the Russell Sage Founda 
 tion for the Improvement of Social and 
 Living Conditions, of which he is vice- 
 president. He has been a trustee of the 
 Metropolitan Museum of Art continuously 
 since 1889 and has been secretary of the 
 institution since 1904. He was elected 
 vice-president of the American National 
 Red Cro.^s in 1908, and he is a member of 
 the University, Century, and other clubs. 
 He is a Presbyterian in church relations. 
 Mr. de Forest married at New York City. 
 Nov. 12, 1872, Emil}^ Johnston, and they 
 have four children: two sons and two mar- 
 ried daughters. Residences: 7 Washington 
 Square, North N. Y., and Cold Spring Har- 
 bor, L. I. Office: 30 Broad Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 DE GARMO, Charles: 
 
 Professor in Cornell University; born in 
 Mukwanago, Wis., Jan. 7, 1849; son of 
 Rufus and Laura M. (Wilbur) De Garmo. 
 He was graduated from Illinois State Nor- 
 mal University in 1873, and from Halle 
 University, Germany, Ph. D. in 1886. He 
 was principal of public schools in Naples, 
 111., 1873-1876; assistant training teacher 
 of the Illinois State Normal University, 
 1876-1883; professor of modern languages 
 in the same university, 1886-1890. Dr. De 
 Garmo was professor of psychology of the 
 University of Illinois, 1890-1891; president 
 of Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, 1891- 
 1898, and has been professor of the science 
 and art of education at Cornell University 
 since 1898. He is author of: Essentials of 
 Method; Herbart and Herbartians; Lan- 
 guage Lessons; Interest and Education, 
 1902, and Principles of Secondaiy Educa- 
 tion, 1907. He was a private in Company 
 I of the 149th Illinois Volunteers, 1865- 
 186G. Dr. De Garmo was president of the 
 National Herbart Society, 1893-1898; and 
 cliairman of the National Council of Edu- 
 cation in 1898. He married at Belvidere, 
 111., 1875, Ida .Witbeck, and they have had 
 three children. Address: Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 DE HAVEN, John Jefferson: 
 
 Jurist; born at St. Joseph, Mo., March 
 12, 1845; son of Jacob de Haven. He re- 
 moved with his parents to California in 
 1849, and he was educated in the common 
 schools of that State, afterward studying 
 law and being admitted to the California 
 bar in T866. He, established in the practice 
 of law at Eureka, Calif., and was district 
 attorney of Humboldt County, Calif., 1867- 
 1869; member of the California Legislature 
 in 1869 and of the State Senate, 1871- 
 1875. He was the Republican candidate for 
 Congress from his district in 1882, but was 
 defeated; was elected judge of the Superior 
 Court of Humboldt County, serving, 1884- 
 1889, was elected in 1888 and served from 
 1889 to 1891 as a member of the fifty- 
 first Congress, and was associate justice of 
 the Supreme Couit of California, 1891- 
 1895. In 1895 he established in the prac- 
 tice of law at San Francisco, coiilinuing 
 
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 until appoiiilcd by President McKinley, 
 June 8, 18'J7, judge of the U. S. Court for 
 (lie Northern Distriet of California, in 
 which ollice he is still serving. Judge De 
 Haven married, June 24, 1872, Zernah Jane 
 Ball. Address: U. S. Appraiser's Build- 
 ing, San Francisco, Calif. 
 
 DEKAY, Charles: 
 
 Autlior and critic; born in Washington, 
 D. C, Jul3'.2o, 1848; son of Commodore 
 George C. and Janet (Drake) DeKay. He 
 was graduated from Yale in 18'68, and for 
 twenty years was connected with the New 
 York Times as literary and art editor, 
 serving later as art editor of the New 
 York Evening Post. Mr. DeKay was foun- 
 der of the Fencers' Club (of which he is 
 still a governor), 1880, Authors' Club, 
 1882, National Sculpture Society, 1892, Der 
 Berliner Fecht Club in Berlin, 189G, and in 
 1899 founded the National Arts Club, of 
 which he was formerly managing director 
 and is still a governor; and he is a mem- 
 ber of the Century Club. In 1909 he or 
 ganized the Circle of Friends of the 
 IMedallion. Mr. DeKay is author of: The 
 Bohemian, Hesperus and Other Poems; 
 Visions of Nimrod; Vision of Esther; Bird 
 Gods; Essays on Ancient Ireland (con 
 tributed to The Century JNIagazine) ; Won- 
 ders of tlie Alphabet (contributed to the 
 St. ^Nicholas Magazine) ; Love Poems of 
 Louis Barnaval (pen-name) ; Life and 
 Works of Barye, The Sculptor ; and numer- 
 ous magazine articles; also translated from 
 tlie German The Family Letters of Hein- 
 rich Heine, and made several translations 
 from the French of Alphonse Daudet and 
 others. Mr. DeKay was' American consul 
 at Berlin, 1894-1897. He married Edwalyn 
 Coffey, daughter of JNIajor Edward Lees 
 CoiTey, of the British East India Army. 
 Residences: 413 West 23d Street, New 
 York City, and East -Hampden, L. I. Ad- 
 dress: National Arts Club, Gramercy 
 Park. New York City. 
 
 DE KOVEN, Reginald: 
 
 Composer; born in ^liddletoxMi, Conn., 
 April 3, 1801; son of Rev. Rev. Henry De 
 
 Koven, D.I)., and Charlotte (Le Roy) De 
 Koven. lie was graduated from St. John's 
 College, Oxford, England, in 1881, with 
 the degree of B.A. He studied music first 
 at Stuttgart, Germany, under William 
 Speidl and afterward studied professionally 
 at the same place under Dr. Lobert and 
 Professor Pruckner. Later he took up har- 
 mony and coimterpoint with Dr. llufl of 
 Frankfort, Germany, and singing under 
 Signor Vannucinni, at Florence, Italy, and 
 Heuschel in London; and finally studied 
 under Richard Genee, the Viennese com- 
 poser, and Delibes in Paris. Mr. De 
 Koven is the composer of : The Begum ; 
 Don Quixote; Robin Hood; The FfJicing 
 Master; The Algerian; Rob Roy; The 
 Knickerbockers; The Tzigane; The Man- 
 darin; The Highwayman; Man in the 
 Moon; The Three Dragoons; Papa's Wife; 
 Foxy Quiller; Little Duchess; Maid 
 Marian; Red Feather; Happy Land; The 
 Student King; The Golden Butterfly; The 
 Beauty Spot; The Snowman, and many 
 songs including: O Promise Me, and a 
 Recessional and music for piano and or- 
 chestra. He has served as musical critic 
 on various New York publications, is now 
 critic N. Y. World. He is a member of 
 the National Institute of Arts and Let- 
 ters, the Manuscript Society, of which 
 he was president, 1897-1898, and the Union, 
 Knickerbocker, Brook and Lambs Clubs of 
 New York City. He was the founder and 
 conductor of the Washington Symphony Or- 
 chestra, 1902-1905. Mr. De Koven married, 
 May 1, 1884, Anna, daughter of the late 
 United States Senator Charles B. Farwell, 
 of Illinois, and they have one daughter. 
 Residence: 42 East 66th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 DELAFIELD, Francis: 
 
 Physician, pathologist; born in New 
 York City, in 1841. He was educated in 
 priA-ate schools, and at i'ale College, being 
 graduated as A.B., 1860, and from the 
 College of physicians and Surgeons in New 
 York City, M.D., in 1862. He also took 
 post-graduate study at the London and 
 Paris hospitals, and received the honorary 
 deo-ree of LL.D. from Yale in 1890 and 
 
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 from Cohiuilua in 1U04. Dr. Dolaficld was 
 adjunct professor. 1875-1881, professor of 
 medicine, 1882-1901. and emeritus pro- 
 fessor since lOOl of ilie College of Phys- 
 icians and Surj;eiins of Columbia Univer- 
 sity. Ho has served as ])hysician to the 
 I'.ellevuc Ilosjjital. pathologist and phy- 
 sician lo the Roosevelt Hospital, and sur- 
 geon to ihe New Tork Eye and Ear In- 
 lirmary. He is a member of the New York 
 County Medical Society, New York Acad 
 emy of j\Iedicinc, Pathological Society, As- 
 sociation of American Physicians, and the 
 St. Nicholas Society. He has contributed 
 much to original research in pathology and 
 is author of: Studies in Pathological An- 
 atomy; Hand-book of Post-Morteni Ex- 
 amination and INlorbid Anatomy; also of a 
 monograph on Renal Diseases. He is a 
 member of the Century, Riding, City and 
 Yale Clubs of New York. Dr. Delaficld 
 married Jan. 17, 1870, Katharine Van 
 Rensselaer. Address: 5 West 50th Street, 
 New York (^ity. 
 
 DELAFIELD, John Boss: 
 
 J.awycr; born in New York City. May 8, 
 1874; son of IMaturin Livingston and Mary 
 Coleman (Livingston) Delafield. He was 
 educated at Princeton University, graduat- 
 ing as A.R. and later received the degree 
 of A.M. He was also graduated from Har- 
 vard Law School, as LL.B. He was ad- 
 mitted to the New York State bar, in 189!) 
 and has since been engaged in general prac 
 tice in New York City. He is an Indepen- 
 dent R('i)ublican in politics and an Epis- 
 copalian in his religious alliliation. He is 
 a memtx']' of the Association of the Bar of 
 the City of New York, and the University 
 and Riding Clubs of New York City. Mr. 
 Delafield married at New York City, June 
 14, 1904, Yioletta S. White, and they have 
 two sons John W. R. Delafield, and P>icliard 
 iVlontgomery Delafield. Address: 17 IDast 
 Seventy-ninth Street, New York City, and 
 Kixcidalc-on-lluirson. New York. 
 
 DELAFIELD, Richard: 
 
 Hanker: Ixuii in .\i\\ Hiighton, Staten 
 Island, X. v.. Scjif. V>. IS."),!; son of Rufus 
 King and Eliz;i (I'.ai.l) Delaiifbl. Was 
 
 educated in the Antlion (irammar School 
 in New York, and at an c.irly age engaged 
 in mercantile pursuits. He became an 
 active and successful merchant, being senior 
 partner of the firm of Delafield &• Company 
 of New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, 
 which house he founded. ^Ir. Delafield is 
 President of the National Park Bank of 
 New York; Director in the Mount Morris 
 Bank, Plaza Bank, Mutual Bank, and York- 
 ville Bank. He was a Commissioner from 
 the State, of New York to the "World's Co- 
 lumbia Exposition in 1893. Is largely in- 
 terested in various charitable institutions. 
 He is a vestryman of Trinity Church and a 
 member of the Society of Sons of the Rev- 
 olution. He belongs to the Union League, 
 Tuxedo, Riding, Metropolitan, Racquet and 
 Tennis, and other Clubs. He married Clara 
 1^'oster Carey. City Residence: 40 West 
 4Gtli Street. Country Residence: Tuxedo 
 Park, N. Y. Office: 214 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 DELANO, Frederic Adrian: 
 
 President of the Wabash Railroad; born 
 in Hong Kong, China, Sept. 10, 18G3; son of 
 Warren and Catherine Robbins (Lyman) 
 Delano, both native of Massachusetts. His 
 boyliood was passed at Newburg, N. Y., and 
 he was educated in Adams Academy, 
 Quincy, Mass., and Harvard University, 
 A.B., 1885, and immediately after gradua- 
 tion he became a machinist apprentice in 
 the erecting shops of the Chicago, Burling- 
 ton IV Quincy Railroad at Aurora, 111., 1885- 
 1887. He was in charge of the Bureau of 
 Steel Rail Inspection and Tests, 1887-1SS9, 
 assistant to second vice-president. 1889- 
 1890, superintendent of freight terminals at 
 Chicago, 1890-1899, superintendent of mo- 
 tive power, 1899-1901, and general manager, 
 1901-1905 of the same road, leaving the 
 service of the Burlington, Jan. 10, 1905. He 
 became for a short time consulting engineer 
 to the War De])artment and (lie Philippine 
 Commission, and since Max 1, 190.") has been 
 [jresident nt the Wheeling and Lake Erie 
 Itailroad and k( the, Wabash Pittsburgh 
 icniiiiial Pailway: was lirsl vi('e-i)residcnt, 
 .Ma\()(l.. lild."., and since Oct. ,">, 1905 has 
 liccM |ircsi(|(.|il of tiu! Wabash i;aiIioa<l. 
 
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 477 
 
 ;\lr. Di'lniio is nl-o cliiniiiiaii of ilic Board 
 of Dirwlors of tin; Motiopolitaii Went and 
 Soutii Side EU'valcil Kailroad Company of 
 ('liica<;o; and is a director of (Ih- Union 
 Milling Company of Maryland and of llie 
 Hamilton National Jiank of Ciiioago. Mr. 
 Delano was a vice-president of tlie Amer- 
 ican Unitarian Association, 1907-lOOS, is a 
 member of the Board of Overseers of 
 Harvard CoHege, and president of the Board 
 of Directors of the Chicago Lying-in Hos- 
 pital. He is a member of the American 
 Society of Civil Engineers, the American 
 Institute of ]\Hning Engineers, Western 
 Society of Engineers, American Master 
 Mechanics' Association, American Master 
 Car-Builders' Association, International 
 Railway Congress, the Franklin Institute, 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science and the We.stern Eaihvay 
 (lidi of Chicago. He is a member of the 
 Union League, University, Mid-day, Chica- 
 go Literary and Commercial Clubs of Chi- 
 cago. He married in Chicago, Nov. 22, 1888, 
 Matilda Peasley. Residence: 1844 Wel- 
 lington Avenue. Office: Western Union 
 Building, Chicago. 
 
 DELAVAN, David Bryson: 
 
 Physician; born in New York City; son 
 of Edward C. and Margaretta (Bryson) 
 Delavan. He was graduated from Yale, 
 A.B., 1872, College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons, New York City, M.D., 187"), being 
 while there under the preceptorship of the 
 late Professor Willard Parker, M.D. Dr. 
 Delavan has been engaged in the practice of 
 medicine in New York City since gradua- 
 tion, and is consultant to St. Luke's Hos- 
 I)ital, Mt. Sinai Hospital, the General Me- 
 morial Hospital. Hospital for Ruptured and 
 Crippled, New York Skin and Cancer Hos- 
 pital, Vassar Brothers Hospital, and the 
 Stony Wold Sanitarium. He is professor of 
 laryngology in New York Polyclinic, and is 
 an alumnus of the City and Presbyterian 
 Hospitals, and was formerly curator and 
 assistant pathologist to the New York Hos- 
 pital. Dr. Delavan is a frequent contribu- 
 tor to medical literature, especially in the 
 department of laryngology. He is a trustee 
 and vice-president of the Russell Sage Insti- 
 
 tute of Pallidldgy, and of the Cirenfell As- 
 sociation of ^\mcri(;a ; trust(^e of tlie New 
 York Polyclinic llos])ital and Medical 
 School, <he Scenic and Historic Preservation 
 Society oi America, and the New York Dis- 
 pensary; meml)er of the American INIedical 
 Association; member and ex-president of 
 the American-Laryngological Association; 
 member of the New York Academy of Medi- 
 cine, New York Clinical Society, Hospital 
 Graduates Club, and the Yale, University 
 and Century Club of New York City. Dr. 
 Delavan married in St. Louis, Mo., June 
 14, 1899, Marion Rumsey, and they have a 
 daughter. Address: 1 East 33rd Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 DE LEON, Daniel: 
 
 Editor; born on the island of Curacao, 
 Dec. 14, 1852; went to Europe in boyhood, 
 coming to the United States in 1872. He 
 was graduated from the University of Ley- 
 den, Ph.D., and from Columbia Law School, 
 LL.B., 1878, and he was prize lecturer on 
 Latin- American diplomacy, 1883-1889, in 
 Columbia University. He was instrumental 
 in founding the Socialist Trade and Labor 
 Alliance in 1895, and was an officer of that 
 organization until it was merged into The 
 Industrial Workers of the World, 1905. 
 He joined the Socialist Labor Party in Oct., 
 1890, and since 1892 has been editor of its 
 English organ. The Weekly People, and in 
 1900 he founded, and has since edited The 
 Daily People. He has long been recognized 
 as the most influential member of the 
 Socialist Labor Party. Address: 28 City 
 Hall Place, New York City. 
 
 DE LIMA, Elias Ablniin: 
 
 JNIerchant, banker ; born at Curacao, 
 Dutch West Indies. April 24, 1865; son of 
 David A. and Sarah (Wolff) de Lima. He 
 was educated at Dr. Sach's School, New 
 York City, and was graduated from Cor- 
 nell University, B.S., 1886; and from Co- 
 lumbia Law School, LL.B., 1889. Mr. de 
 Lima was admitted to the New York bar 
 in 1889 and he is a member of the mercan- 
 tile firm of D. A. De Lima & Company; 
 is president of the Battery Park National 
 Bank and is a director and advisory coun- 
 
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 sel of tlie Corn Exchange Bank (Staten 
 Island branch). He is a trustee of the. S. 
 Vx. Smith inlirmary of Staten Island; and 
 is a iiu"iiih(>r of the Municipal Art Society. 
 Mr. de Lima is a member of the Cornell, 
 Theta Dr.lta Chi, Craduatcs', National Art? 
 and New York Athletic Clubs. He married 
 in New York City, Oct. 27, 1886, Estela A. 
 de Lima, and they have four children. 
 Address: 58 West 87th Street, New Y'ork 
 City. 
 
 DEL MAR, Alexander: 
 
 Engineer and author; born in New Y^ork 
 City, Aug. 9. 1836; son of Jacques and 
 Belvidera Del ]Mar. He was educated in and 
 received a diploma from the New Y'ork 
 Polytechnic, studied in London under Sir 
 Arthur Helps and Manuel Del Mar (joint 
 authors of '' The Conquerors of Amer- 
 ica " ) , and attended New Y^ork University 
 and the Madrid ^Mining School. He was 
 financial editor of the Daily American 
 Times, 1854; Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, 
 1800; Social Science Review, 1863; the 
 Financial and Commercial Chronicle, 1865; 
 and the National Intelligencer, Washington, 
 D. C, 1870. He organized and was Director 
 of the United States Bureau of Commerce, 
 Navigation, Emigration, Mines and Statis- 
 tics (now De]iartment of Commerce and 
 Labor), 1SG5-1809; was commissioner to 
 Italy, Holland and Russia, 1866-1872; 
 member of the United States Monetary 
 Commission, 1876-1878. He engaged in the 
 practice of civil and mining engineering 
 from 1872, and was for twenty-six years 
 engaged in mining and constructing mining 
 works and machinery. He was editorial 
 manager of the Cambridge Encyclopedia, 
 1!»00; editor in-chief of the American 
 Banker, 1!)05-1!)0G, and resumed mining in 
 1908. Mr. Del Mar is now engaged in the 
 project of excavating the l)uried city of 
 Herculaneum for the Italian Clovernment. 
 He was connected with the movement of 
 remonetize silver from 1874; and was a 
 leader in the niunicii)al reform movement 
 ill r.rooklMi wliich resulted in the overthrow 
 of ilie iting. in 1871. Mr. Did :\Iar is au- 
 tiior of a " History of the Precious 
 Metals:"' a "History of Money and many 
 
 important works and numerous essays in 
 relation to monetary science and the his- 
 tory of money and the precious metals in 
 all ages and countries, upon which sub- 
 jects he ranks with the first authorities; 
 also upon economy, social conditions, an- 
 tiquities and archaeology, his latest works 
 being "Ancient Britain;" a "History of 
 the ]Middle Ages ; " " The Worship of Au- 
 gustus Csesar; " and "The Messiah, or the 
 Discovery and Colonization of Asia Minor, 
 Egypt and Europe by Thibetan, Indian and 
 other Oriental Races," 1909. Besides books, 
 Mr. Del Mar has contributed to leading 
 English, French and American journals and 
 to official publications, many notable ar- 
 ticles and papers on monetary, economic 
 and historical subjects. Address: 160 
 Madison Square, New York City. 
 
 DELMAS, Delphin Micheal: 
 
 Lawyer; born in France, April 14. 1844; 
 son of Antoine Delmas and Coralie Del- 
 mas. While he was a small boy his parents 
 became part of the colony of French set- 
 tlers who went to Santa Clara County, Cal- 
 ifornia, and there he received his education. 
 He was graduated as A.B. from the Santa 
 Clara College in 1862, and from it received 
 the degree of A.M. in 1803 and Ph.D. in 
 1903; and in 1865 he was graduated from 
 the Law School of Yale with the degree of 
 LL.B. In 1866 he began practice at San 
 Jose, California, was elected district attor- 
 nc.v of Santa Clara County in 1808. and 
 was the recognized leader of the Santa 
 Clara bar when, in 1883, he removed his 
 practice to San Francisco. He has been 
 leading counsel in many important cases, 
 civil and criminal, on the Pacific Coast, and 
 was leading counsel on tlie trial of Harry 
 Thaw for the murder of Stanford White in 
 New York City in I'.KKi. resulting in a dis- 
 agreement of Ihc. jury. In polities Mr. Del- 
 mas is a Democrat, antl he was delegate-at- 
 large from California to the National Dem- 
 ocratic convention at St. Louis in 1904. 
 In religion he is a Catholic. He was a 
 regent of the University of California in 
 1885. Mr. Di'inias is one of the famous 
 orators of America, and has made many 
 addresses on important public occasions, in 
 
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 addition to his forensic arguments. A vol- 
 ume of these, under the title: Speeches and 
 Addresses, was published in San Francisco 
 in 1901. Mr. Delmas married in San Fran- 
 cisco, April 7, 1869, Pauline Hoge. Resi- 
 dence: Casa Delmas, Santa Clara County, 
 Cal. Office address: 901 Call Building, 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 DE LONGPRe, Paul: 
 
 Artist and painter; born at Lyons, 
 France, April 18, 1855; son of Victor and 
 Theresia (Pinchaud) De Longpre. He 
 was educated in the public schools of 
 Paris until he was twelve years of age. He 
 lias especially distinguished himself as a 
 ])ainter of flowers and had his first paint 
 ings accepted at the Paris Salon in 187G. 
 By a failure of a large bank in Paris he 
 was ruined and in 1890 came to New York. 
 He made his first exhibition of only flower 
 paintings at the American Art Galleries in 
 1896; and has held annual exhibitions ever 
 since. In 1899 he moved to Los Angeles, 
 Calif., and in 1901 built a residence at Hol- 
 lywood, Los Angeles County, with three 
 acres of flower gardens, which is one of the 
 notable sights visited by tourists. He 
 married at Paris, France, March, 1874, 
 Josephine Estievenard. Address: Holly- 
 wood, Los Angeles County, Calif. 
 
 DE MILLE, William C: 
 
 Dramatist; born in Washington, N. C 
 Juiy 25, 1878; son of Henry C. and Matilda 
 B. (Samuel) De Mille. He was educated 
 at Freiburg, C4ermany, 1895-1896; and was 
 graduated from Columbia University A.B., 
 1900. Mr. De Mille is author of: Strong- 
 heart ; The Genius, and other plays. He is 
 a member of the American Dramatists, 
 Columbia University, and The Lambs Clubs 
 of New York City. He married at Fort 
 Hamilton, N. Y. Anna A. George, daughter 
 of Henry George, and they have one daugh- 
 ter. Address: The Lambs. 130 West 44th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 DEMING, Edwin Willard: 
 
 Artist; born in Ashland, Ohio, Aug. 26, 
 1860; son of Howard A. and Celestia V. 
 
 (Willard) Deiiiing. lie was educated in 
 public schools in Illinois and studied art in 
 Paris viiider lioulanger and Le Fehvre. lie 
 was awarded medals at Philadelphia, at the 
 Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, and the 
 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and re- 
 ceived honorable mention in Berlin and 
 .Turin. He won a first prize in competition 
 of the Municipal Art Society for two deco- 
 rations in the Morris High School Build- 
 ing, in New York City. He is represented 
 in the Wisconsin Historical Society's Mu- 
 seum at Madison, Wis., by two large can- 
 vasses : " Braddock's Defeat " and " The 
 Landfall of Jean Nicollet; in the Metropol- 
 itan Museum of Art by two bronzes, and he 
 has executed many bronzes of Indians, wild 
 animals, and much decoration in private 
 homes and pictures. He is a member of the 
 Society of Mural Decorators, the Architec- 
 tural League and the Anthropological and 
 Ethnological Societies and a member of the 
 Sons of the Revolution." He married in 
 Yonkers, N. Y., Oct. 22, 1892, Therese 
 Osterheld, and they have one son and three 
 daughters. Address : 5 Macdougal Allej% 
 New York City. 
 
 DEMING, Horace Edward: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Palmyra, N. Y., March 
 ;31, 1850; son of Jeremiah P. H. and Mary 
 ( Colt ) Deming. He was educated in Palmy- 
 ra Union School, 1864, Phillips Academy, 
 Andover, Mass., 1865, Harvard College, 
 A.B., 1871, followed by graduate work there 
 and two years in the Harvard Law School. 
 He was admitted to the bar in 1877, and has 
 since been engaged in active law practice. 
 Mr. Deming has been actively identified 
 with political and reform movements, was 
 one of the founders, 1880, and president 
 and chairman of executive committee, 1880- 
 1882, of the Brooklyn Young Republican 
 Club; chairman of executive committee of 
 the National Committee of Republicans and 
 Independents, 1884; special counsel of the 
 commissioners of accounts in investigating 
 tlie corporation counsel's office in New 
 \ork City, 1885. He was one of the 
 founders and a member of the executive 
 committee of the Commonwealth Club, 
 which inaugurated 'the ballot-reform of 
 
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 18S(i-1887; one of the founders and a trus- 
 tee of the New York Reform Club, 1887; 
 eliairnuui of the General Coniniiltec of 
 (lie New York Ballot Reform League, 
 1S8S-18!I0; chairman of the executive 
 connnillce of the People's iMunieipal 
 League, 1S'.)1: one of foumlcrs, 1S!)4. 
 chairman of committee on municipal 
 programme. lHi)7-1899. and now chairman 
 of the executive, committee of the National 
 ]\Iunicipal League. ^Ir. Deming was a 
 member of the special committee of munici- 
 pal reform organizations to draft proposed 
 changes in the constitution of the State 
 of New York relating to the government of 
 cities, and of the special committee that 
 drafted the State Civil Service. Reform 
 clause of the New York Constitution of 
 1S!)4; was coun.sel of the Senate Committee 
 to investigate the admini-stration of the 
 Civil Service Law of me State, 1894; and 
 drafted the bill which was made the basis 
 of the present law on that subject. He was 
 a member of the special committee of the 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York to report on the proposed new charter 
 of Greater New York, and represented the 
 Bar Association before the governor and 
 mayor in opposition to the proposed charter 
 in 1897; was on the executive committee of 
 the Merclumls' Association in the move- 
 ment (1899-1900) which prevented the City 
 of New York from being obliged to secure 
 its water supply from private corporations; 
 on the Citizens Committee of 250 to 
 secure the adoption of revi.sed charter 
 for New York City, 1901, and was 
 special counsel of the attorney-general's 
 ollice in the investigation of the district 
 attorneys ofhce in New York in 1901. Mr. 
 Deming is joint author of A Municipal Pro- 
 gram, 1900, and author of The Government 
 of American Cities," 1909. He was presi- 
 ident of the Phillips Andover Academy 
 Alumni As.sociation, 1905-190G; is a mem- 
 ber of the coimcil of the National Civil 
 Service Reform Association ; member of the 
 Phi Beta Kappa Society, American Econom- 
 ic Association, National Civic Federation, 
 Academy of Political Science, American 
 Political Science Association, and of the 
 Citv Club of New York. He married at 
 
 Saugerties, N. Y., July 17, 1878, Caroline 
 Springstced. Residence: 853 West End 
 Aveiuio. Otlico: 15 William Street, New 
 V.uk ( ily. 
 
 DEMOREST, William Curtis: 
 
 Lawyer; born at New "S'ork City, Aug. 
 2. 1859; son of W. .Icnnings and Ellen 
 lx)ui.se (Curtis) Demor.--et. He was edu- 
 cated at the Cheshire School to 1875; the 
 Columbia Grammar School to 1877, was 
 graduated from Columbia Colle.ge, A.B., 
 1881 and from the Columbia Law School, 
 LL.B., 1883. He studied law in the office 
 of Norwood and Coggeshall, being especial- 
 ly connected with the title and mortgage 
 departments, and he abandoned law prac- 
 tice to assume the management of his 
 father's large estate, and make a specialty 
 of real estate. Since the organization of 
 the Realty Tru.st in 1890, has been its presi- 
 dent. He is also president of the Cleve- 
 land Baking Powder Company, and secre- 
 tary and treasurer of the State Realty & 
 Mortgage Company, is geaieral manager 
 and treasurer of Demorset & Little, real 
 estate (incorporated) ; director of the 
 Fidelity Trust Co., the Market and Fulton 
 National Bank, the Royal Baking Powder 
 Company, and the Tartar Chemical Compa- 
 ny; trustee of the Irving Savings Bank, 
 and Hospital Guild. Mr. Demorset is mem- 
 ber of the New York Academy of Sciences, 
 the American Academy of Political and 
 Social Science, the Genealogical and Bio- 
 graphical Society, the Metropolitan Museum 
 of Arts, the American Museum of Natural 
 History, New York Zoological Society, St. 
 Nicholas Society the Holland Society, Soci- 
 ety of Colonial Wars, the Empire State 
 Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the 
 Committee of Allied Real Estate Interests, 
 the Chamber of Commerce, Association of 
 the Bar of the City of New York, New 
 York County Law Association, New York 
 State, Bar As.sociation, and Psi Upsilon fra- 
 ternity. INIr. Demorset is a member of the 
 Metropolitan, Union League, Columbia Uni- 
 \-ersity, and Metropolitan Opera Clubs, 
 Automobile Club of America, Auto- 
 mobile Association of America, Long Island 
 Auto Club, Lawyers', Fulton, Kncdlwood, 
 
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 ;iiiil Niiuitic Clubs, (Jaiii)) Fire Club of 
 Ainorica. Canij) Fire Club of Quebec, 
 Montagnuis Club (Canada), the Accomack 
 Club of Chesapeake Bay, and the St. 
 Bernard Hunting and Fishing of Canada. 
 Mr. Deniorset married at New York City, 
 Feb. 6, 1884, Alice Estelle Gilbert; and 
 tlu^y have three children. Residence: 68 
 East (iOth Street, New York City, and Huk- 
 wcciu Lodge (Loon Lake, Adirondacks) . 
 Ollicc: (iO Liberty Street, New York City. 
 
 DENBY, Charles: 
 
 Consular official ; born in Evansville, Ind., 
 Nov. 14, 1861 ; son of the late Charles Den- 
 In-, former United States minister to China 
 and Martha (Fitch) Denby. He was grad- 
 uated from Princeton University, A.B., 
 1S82. and he was appointed second secretary 
 of the Legation at Peking, July 1, 1885; 
 was appointed first secretary Oct. 20, 1893; 
 and was charge dAflfaires from March 
 17 to Oct. 27, 1894, and from May 14 to 
 Aug. 1, 1896. He resigned in Nov., 1897, 
 and engaged in business at Tientsin China. 
 ]\lr. Denby was appointed secretary-general 
 of the Provisional Government established 
 by the Allied Powers for the District of 
 of Tientsin, July 18, 1900, serving for two 
 years. Mr. Denby was appointed chief 
 clerk of the Department of State, Nov. 16, 
 1905; and April 15, 1907. was appointed 
 American consul-general at Slianghai, which 
 office he still holds. He married in 1895 
 Martha Dalzell Orr. Address: Shanghai. 
 China. 
 
 DENBY, Edwin: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born in Evans- 
 ville, Ind., Feb. IS, 1870; sou of Hon. 
 Charles Denby. diplomatist, and of Martha 
 (Fiteh) Denby. He was gi-aduated from the 
 University of Michigan, LL.B., 1896. He 
 went to China while his father was Amer- 
 ican minister to that country, and was for 
 ten years in the customs service, of China 
 under Sir Robert Hart. He served as gun- 
 ner's mate, third class, in the U. S. Navy 
 during the War with Spain, 1898; served in 
 thr. ^Michigan Legislature as a Republican 
 member from Detroit, was elected in 1904 
 to Congress from the First Michigan Dis- 
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 trict, and was reelected in IIMIO ainl Hins. 
 Mr. De.nby is a member of tlic law linn of 
 May, Denby & O'Brien, in Del mil. Rcsi 
 dence: 402 JefTerson Avenui'. Olliro: 201 
 MolTat Block, Detroit, Mich. 
 
 DENBY, Edwin H.: 
 
 Arciiitect; born in Philadelphia, Feb. 9, 
 1873; son of Dr. Edwin Robinson and Lau- 
 ra (Hooper) Denby. He was educated at 
 the Polytechnic at Dresden, Germany, and 
 is Dipolme of the ficole des Beaux Arts, in 
 Paris, 1897. He traveled through Greece., 
 Tui-key, the Holy Land, Egypt, Spain, Italy, 
 Belgium, Holland and Germany, 1897-1899. 
 He was decorated by the Sultan of Turkey 
 with order of Osmanieh, and received honor- 
 able mention in tlie Salon of Architecture, 
 1897-1898; and he returned to America in 
 1899. He is a member of the firm of Denby 
 & Nute, architects. His summers are spent 
 in Bar Harbor, Me., where he has a local 
 office. j\lr. Denby is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Institute of Architects, the Beaux 
 Arts Society, Architects Diplomes par le 
 Gouvernement, the Municipal Art Society, 
 the Architectural League; and the Manhat- 
 tan Club of New York City. Address : 333 
 Fourth Avenue, New Y'ork City. 
 
 DENEEN, Charles Samuel: 
 
 Governor of Illinois; born in Edwards- 
 ville, 111., May 4, 1863; son of Samuel H. 
 and Mary F. (Ashley) Deneen. He was 
 graduated from McKendree College,, Leba- 
 non, 111., in 1882. He taught school for 
 three years, and then studied law, and was 
 later admitted to the bar. Mr. De.neen was 
 a member of several law firms and is now 
 a member of the law firm of Deneen and 
 Hamill. He was elected to the Illinois 
 House of Representatives in 1892. serving 
 one term as attorney for the sanitary dis- 
 trict of Chicago from Dec, 1895 to 1896, 
 and was State's attorney of Cook County, 
 111. from Dec, 1896 until elected governor 
 in 1904 of Illinois. He was reelected in 
 1908 for the term expiring in 1912. Gov- 
 ernor Deneen has always been an active 
 Repn])liean. He married at :Mt. Carmel, 
 111., May 10, 1891, Bina Day Maloney. Res- 
 
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 idence: 532 West 61st Strool, Chicago. 
 Official address: Springfield. 111. 
 
 DENEGRE, Walter Denis: 
 
 l.awvcr; horn in New Orleans, La., June 
 17, 1S58; son of James Denis and Syl- 
 variie (Blanc) Denegre. He was educated 
 in Jesuits College, New Orleans, and St. 
 Johns College, Fordham, N. Y., was gradu- 
 ated from Harvard, A.B., 1879, and from 
 the law department of the Tulane Univer 
 sity of Louisiana, LL.B., 1881, and admitted 
 to the Louisiana bar in 1881. Since 189G 
 he has been a member of tlie firm of 
 Denegre, Blair and Denegre, and was spe- 
 cial counsel for the United States before the 
 French and American Claims Commission 
 in 1881. He was King of the Mardi-Gras 
 Carnival at New Orleans in 1899. Mr. 
 j^onegre has been active in Louisiana 
 politics in the Independent Democracy, and 
 was its candidate for United States Senator 
 in 1896, and had the votes necessary for 
 election, but S. D. McEnery was declared 
 elected by a vote of 68 to 66. Mr. Denegre 
 was a member of the board of adminis- 
 trators of the Tulane University Educa- 
 tional Fund; is a member of the University 
 ( alumet, Racquet, Harvard, and Brook 
 Clubs of New York, the Myopia Hunt and 
 Essex County Clubs of Mass., of the Boston 
 Club of New Orleans and of the Metropol- 
 itan Club at Washington. He married in 
 1893, Mrs. Bertha Cobb-Armour, widow of 
 of William Armour, and daughter of S. B. 
 Cobb of Chicago. Address: New Orle,ans, 
 La. 
 
 DENISON, Edmund Decatur: 
 
 City superintendent of schools ; born at 
 Hanna, Indiana; son of George S. Denison 
 and Aiirilla (Blaekman) Denison. He was 
 graduated from Northwestern University as 
 A.B. in 1899. He was high school assist 
 ant at Lake Geneva, Wis., from 1899 to 
 Jan., 1902; principal of the Negaunee 
 (Michigan) High School from Jan. to June, 
 1902; and principal of Ripon (Wisconsin) 
 College Academy in 1902 and 1903. He en- 
 gaged in mercantile business at Lake 
 Geneva, Wis., in 1903; became high school 
 assistant at Lake Geneva, Wis., from 1905 
 
 to 1907, and has been city superintendent 
 of schools at Lake Geneva, Wis., from 1907. 
 He is a member of the firm of Burton, Deni- 
 son and Davidson. Mr. Denison is a Repub- 
 lican in politics and a Congregationalist in 
 religion. He is a member of the Classical 
 Association of the Middle West and South, 
 and of the National Geographical Society; 
 is a Royal Arch Mason; a member of the 
 Delta Tau Delta fraternity, and of the 
 INIodern Woodmen of America. He married 
 Lake Geneva, W^is., June 22, 1904, Bon- 
 nie Eloise Burton. Address: Lake Geneva, 
 Wis. 
 
 DENNIS, Frederic Shepard: 
 
 Surgeon; born in Newark, N. J., April 17, 
 1850; son of Alfred L. and Eliza A. (Shep- 
 ard) Dennis. He was graduated from Phil- 
 lips Academy, Andover, Mass., 1868, Yale 
 College, B.A., 1872, Bellevue Hospital 
 Medical College, M.D., 1874, attended the 
 Royal College of Surgeons, London, 1877, 
 (F.R.C.S.,18b9). Dr. Dennis is attending 
 surgeon of the Bellevue and St. Vincent 
 Hospitals; professor of clinical surgery in 
 Cornell University; and is a member of the 
 staff" of Bellevue and St. Vincent's Hos- 
 pitals and the Montefiore Home in New 
 York City, and St. Joseph's Hospital at 
 Yonkers, N. Y. Dr. Dennis is a member of 
 the American Surgical Association, the 
 Clinical Society of London, New York 
 Academy of Medicine, and the German 
 Congress of Surgeons of Berlin. He is also 
 a member of the Century and University 
 Clubs. He married, Feb. 5, 1880, Fannie 
 R. Carhart. Address: 62 East 55th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 DENNIS, James Shepard: 
 
 Clergyman and author; born in Ne.wark. 
 N. J., Dec. 15, 1842; son of Alfred L. and 
 Eliza (Shepard) Dennis. He was graduated 
 from Princeton University in 1863 ; student 
 of law at Harvard Law School from 1803 
 to 1864; was graduated from Princeton 
 I'heological Seniinaiy in 1867, and received 
 the degree of D.D. from Princeton Univer- 
 sity in 1879, and from the University of 
 Aberdeen in 1906. He was ordained to the 
 Presbyterian ministry by the Presbytery of 
 
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 Newark in 1808. He went to Syria as mis- 
 sionary in the autumn of the same year; 
 and was principal and professor of theology 
 in the Seminary of the Syria Mission at 
 Beirut from 1873 to 1891. He prepared 
 several theological text-books in the Arabic 
 language and returned to the United States 
 in 1891. He resigned as missionary of the 
 Presbyterian Board in 1892 and since that 
 date was made honorary member of the 
 Syria Mission. He was student lecturer 
 on missions at the Princeton Theological 
 Seminary in 1893 and in 1896, repeating the 
 latter course by invitation at the Lane, 
 Allegheny, and Auburn Seminaries the same 
 year; and was special lecturer on missions 
 at the McCormick Theological Seminary in 
 Chicago, in 1907. He was chairman of the 
 Committee on Statistics and member of the 
 Executive Committee of Ecumenical Con- 
 ference on Foreign Missions in New York 
 in 1900. Since 1904 he has been a member 
 of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis- 
 sions of New York City. Mr. Dennis is 
 author of: Foreign Missions; After a Cen- 
 tury; The Message of Christianity to Other 
 Religions; Christian Missions and Social 
 Progress (three volumes) ; Centennial Sur- 
 vey of Foreign Missions; and the New Hor- 
 oscope of Missions. He is a member of the 
 Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Soci 
 ety of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolu- 
 tion, the Presbyterian Union of New York, 
 Chi Alpha, Sigma Chi, and the American 
 Academy of Political and Social Science. 
 He is a fellow of the American Geograph- 
 ical Society and a member of the Prince- 
 ton and Quill Clubs. He married in 1872, 
 Mary Elizabeth Pinneo, daughter of James 
 B. Pinneo, of Newark, N. J. Their only 
 son, Alfred L. P. Dennis, Ph.D., is professor 
 of Modern European History in the Univer- 
 sity of Wisconsin. Address: Montclair, 
 N. J. 
 
 DENNIS, Louis Munroe: 
 
 Professor of chemistry; born in Chicago, 
 May 26, 1863; son of Joseph S. and Faus- 
 tina (Munroe) Dennis. He was graduated 
 from the University of Michigan, Ph.B., 
 1885, B.S., 1886; studied in the years, 1889- 
 1891 at Fresenius' Laboratory, Wiesbaden, 
 
 Techniaehe Hochschulen of Aachen and 
 Dresden, and the University of Munich. He 
 was instructor in Cornell University, 1887- 
 1889, and after graduate study in Europe 
 returned to that University as assistant 
 professor of analytical chemistry, 1891- 
 1894; associate professor of inorganic and 
 analytical chemistry, 1894 1897; professor 
 of analytical chemistry, 1897-1903, and 
 since 1903 has been professor of inorganic 
 chemistry and head of the Department of 
 Chemistry in Cornell University. Professor 
 Dennis is a member of the Board of Health 
 of the City of Ithaca, director of the Amer- 
 ican Chemical Society, member of the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science, the American Electrochemical So- 
 ciety, Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa Soci- 
 ety, Psi Upsilon fraternity, and the Town 
 ■ind Gown and Country Clubs of Ithaca, 
 N. Y. Residence : 722 University Avenue. 
 Office: Department of Chemistry, Cornell 
 University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 DENNIS, William B.: 
 
 Mine operator; born in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 Dec. 8, 1865; son of Rev. M. J. Dennis 
 (Presbyterian clergyman). He was pre- 
 pared for college at the Madison County 
 Academy at Richmond, Ky., and then en- 
 tered the Central University at Richmond, 
 Ky., from which he was graduated A.B., 
 1884. On leaving college he began news- 
 paper work at Dayton, Ohio, on the Dayton 
 Daily Journal, and in 1885, became pub 
 Usher of the Farmers' Home at Dayton, 
 continuing until 1890, when he removed to 
 Port Townsend, Wash., where he became 
 editor and manager of the daily and weekly 
 Port Townsend Leader, until 1892. Since 
 then he has devoted his attention to mining 
 interests, was for some years president and 
 general manager of the Eureka Pacific Con- 
 solidated Mining Company, of Idaho, and 
 he is now president and manager of the 
 Black Butte Quicksilver Mine at Black 
 Butte. He is a member of the American 
 Institute of Mining Engineers, American 
 Geographic Society, and social clubs in 
 New York, San Francisco, and Portland, 
 Ore. In late years he has devoted much 
 time and study to metallurgical work, and 
 
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 is tho invpntor of the Dennis Roasting 
 Process for treating sulphide ores, for 
 which patents have been granted in tlie 
 United States and all important foreign 
 countries. i\Ir. Dennis married in June, 
 1!)00, Queen H. Littlefield, of Port Town- 
 send. Wash. Address: Black Butte, I^ane 
 County, Ore. 
 
 DENNISON, Charles Sumner: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in Newtonvillo, 
 Mass., June 20, 1858; son of Eliphakt W. 
 and Lydia A. (Beals) Dennison. He was 
 educated in the Highland Military Acad- 
 emy, Worcester, Mass., and the Massa- 
 chusetts Institute of Technology. He be- 
 came a skilled machinist, but did not adopt 
 the business as a profession as he was made 
 an active member and treasurer of the Den- 
 nison ]\ranufacturing Company with ex- 
 tensive manufactory at South Framinghara, 
 Mass., and ■ offices in Boston, New York, 
 Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis 
 and San Francisco. He was one of the 
 early promoters of the Newton Hospital in 
 1886, was made member of the board of 
 trustees and is the founder of the Eliz- 
 abeth Dennison ward for children. Mr. 
 De.nnison married Mary R., daughter of 
 Abram French, and they have three daugh- 
 ters: Florence, Lydia, and Olivia Bell Den- 
 nison. Residence: Kirkstall Road, Newton- 
 ville, Mass. Address: Franklin Street, 
 Boston. 
 
 DENNY, Frank Lee: 
 
 Colonel, United Slates :\Iarine Corps; 
 born at Indianapolis, Ind. ; son of lion. 
 James Cook and Caroline (Davis) Benny. 
 He was appointed second lieutenant, U. S. 
 Marine Corps, in June, 1880; first lieu- 
 tenant in Dec, 1884, captain and assist- 
 ant quartermaster in Feb., 1892; colonel 
 and chief quartermaster in March, 1899. 
 He had six years sea service; shore service 
 at Alexandria, Egypt in 1882 after the 
 British bombardment; at the Isthmus of 
 Panama in 1885; and in the Spanish-Amer- 
 ican War. As chief quartermaster of the 
 Marine Corps he has direction of the mat 
 ters relating to the supply, payment, etc. 
 of the Corps and is recognized as one of tho 
 
 leading experts of the United States on the 
 equipment and maintenance of infantry 
 forces. He is a member of the Sigma Chi 
 fraternity, Naval Order of the United 
 States, and Order of the, Spanish War; and 
 of the Alibi, Metropolitan, and Chevj^ Chase 
 Clubs of Washington and the New York 
 Yacht Club. He married Julia Graham 
 Palmer, daughter of Ge.n. I. N. Pahiier 
 U. S. A. Address: Headquarters Marine 
 Corps, Washington, D. C. 
 
 DENSLOW, William Wallace: 
 
 Author, illustrator, and designer of stage 
 productions; born in Philadelphia, May 5, 
 1856; son of William Wallace and Jane E. 
 (Evans) Denslow. He was educated in 
 the New York public schools, the Cooper 
 Institute and the National Academy of De- 
 sign at New York. He, has worked on most 
 of the principal newspapers and magazines. 
 Among his best pictures are: What's the 
 Use, and Victory. Since 1899 he has bee.n 
 devoted principally to the illustration of 
 books for children, including: Father 
 Goose — ^His Book; The Wonderful Wizard 
 of Oz; Dot and Tot of Maryland; Denslow's 
 Mother Goose; Denslow's Night Before 
 Ciiristmas; Denslow's One Ring Circus; 
 Denslow's Humpty-Dumpty; Denslow's 
 Scarecrow and Tin Man; Denslow's Picture 
 Books for Children, in sixteen volumes; 
 the last four mentioned being compiled or 
 written by Mr. Denslow; also the Pearl 
 and the Pumpkin, collaborating on the text 
 with Paul West. He illu.sfrated Billy 
 Bonnce, collaborating on text with Dudley 
 A. Bragdon; The Jeweled Toad and Parlor 
 Animals; wrote, and illustrated When I 
 Grow Up (published by The Century Com- 
 panj'), and Dreams of Childhood. He de- 
 signed tho eccentric costumes for the play 
 of The Wizard of Oz, and ho made design ^ 
 for the entire stage production of The Pearl 
 and the Pumpkin. Much of Mr. Denslow's 
 lime is spent in Bermuda, where he has 
 built a winter home upon an island named 
 afier him. He is a member of the Press 
 Club of Chicago, Ad Club of Buffalo, Colum- 
 bia Yacht Club of Now York, and the 
 Dingov Club of Hamilton, Bornuida. He 
 married in New York City, Dec. 26, 1903, 
 
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 Frances G. Doolittle. Address: 2403 
 15road\vay, New York City. 
 
 DENSMORE, Emmet: 
 
 Physician; boni in Crawford County, Pa., 
 May 19, 1837; son of Joel and Sophia Dens- 
 nioro. He received his. early educaiion in 
 the public schools of Crawford County; 
 was two years at Allegheny College, Mead- 
 ville, Pa., and was graduated from the 
 New York University Medical College, as 
 M.D. in 1885. In 1862, with his brothers, 
 he developed, on the Tarr farm, on Oil 
 Creek, Pa., one of the first successful oil 
 wells; and the brothers invented and intro- 
 duced the first tank cars by which oil was 
 shipped to the seaboard'. He was connected 
 with his brother James in the development 
 of the Sholes typewriter, later known as 
 Remington typewriter; owned the British 
 patents for and introduced into London the 
 Remington typewriter. 1871-1872; and in 
 partnership with his brother Amos, begin- 
 ning 1885, developed and introduced the 
 Densmore typewriter. Dr. Densmore is prin- 
 cipal proprietor of the Garfield Tea cor- 
 poration. He is author of: Natural Food 
 of Man (booklet), 1890; How Nature Cures, 
 1890; Consumption and Chronic Diseases, 
 1899; Sex Equality, 1907; and Introduc- 
 tion to Arcana of Nature, 1908. Dr. Dens- 
 more married first, at Bloomington Valley, 
 Pa., in 1855, Elizabeth Heard; second, at 
 Chicago, 111., May 14, 1881 Helen Barnard, 
 and third at New York City Oct. 6, 1905, 
 Mabelle Hoff. Residence: 471 Park 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
 DEPEW, Chauncey Mitchell: 
 
 United States senator; born in Peekskill, 
 N.Y., April 23, 1834; son of Isaac ami 
 Martha (Mitchell) Depew. He is of French 
 Huguenot descent on the paternal side, and 
 descended from Roger Sherman on his 
 mother's side. He was graduated from Yale 
 College, B.A., 1856, and received from it 
 the degree of LL.D. in 1887. Mr. Depew 
 read law at Peekskill with Hon. William 
 Nelson, was admitted to the bar in 1858 
 and began practice in 1859. In 1866 he was 
 appointed attorney for the New Y^ork and 
 Harlem Railroad Company; was made gen- 
 
 eral coiuisel of the New York Central and 
 Hudson River Railroad Company in 1875, 
 and has since continuously been identified 
 with that company and with various other 
 railroads comprising and allied to the Van- 
 derbilt System. He became president of 
 the New York Central and Hudson River 
 Railroad in 1885, but resigned in 1899 to 
 become chairman of the boards of directors 
 of the New York Central, the Lake Shore, 
 the Michigan Central, and the New York, 
 Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Companies. 
 He has also served on the board of directors 
 of several large financial organizations, 
 irom which he has now retired. Mr. Depew 
 has rendered service to the Republican 
 Party in every National campaign since he 
 became a voter, and is its most dis- 
 tinguished orator. He was delegate to the 
 Republican State Convention of New York 
 in 1858; was elected to the New York 
 Legislature in 1861 and reelected in 1863, 
 serving on the Committee of Ways and 
 Means; was elected secretary of State of 
 New York, 1863; was candidate for lieu- 
 tenant-governor of New York on the Liberal 
 Republican ticket, 1872; was appointed re- 
 gent of the University of the State of Ne.w 
 York in 1874, and was appointed a member 
 of the Commission to superintend the erec- 
 tion of the State Capital; was a prominent 
 candidate for United States senator in 
 1881; offered an election for United States 
 senator in 1885 — but declined. He re- 
 ceived ninety-nine votes for President in 
 the National Republican Convejition of 1888, 
 but withdrew in favor of General Benjamin 
 Harrison, who after the election olYered 
 Mr. Depew any place in his cabinet except 
 Secretary of State of the United States, 
 which he had procured to Mr. Blaine, which 
 he declined. Immediately after President 
 Harrison's re-nomination in 1892 he offered 
 Mr. Depew the Secretaryship of State in 
 place of Mr. Blaine, which he declined. Mr. 
 Depew was elected to the United States 
 Senate from New York in 1899, and was 
 reelected in 1905 for the term expiring in 
 1911. He has been delegate-at-large from 
 New Y^ork to six National Repul)lican Con- 
 ventions and made nominating speeches for 
 Benjamin Harrison in 1892, Levi P. Mor- 
 
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 ton in 1896, and for Theodore Roosevelt 
 in 1904. As an orator he has made ad- 
 dresses on many occasions of National im- 
 portance, and as after dinner speaker he 
 stands preeminent. Among his more notable 
 orations were those delivere,d at the un- 
 veiling of the Statue of Liberty in New 
 York Harbor; the Centennial celebration of 
 the inauguration of George Wasliingtou as 
 the first President of the United States; 
 the opening in 1892 of the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition in Chicago, celebrating the 
 Tercentenary of the discovery of America 
 by Columbus; centennial celebration of the 
 organization of the Legislature of the State 
 of New York, and many other occasions of 
 importance. He is a member of numerous 
 patriotic and social organizations and clubs 
 of New York City and Washington. 
 Senator Depew married first, Nov. 9, 1871, 
 Elise Hegeman, who died in 1893, and by 
 whom he has a son; and second, in Decem- 
 ber, 1901, May Palmer. Address: 27 West 
 54th Street, New Y^ork City. 
 
 DE ROALDeS, Arthur Washington: 
 
 Aural surgeon and laryngologist ; born in 
 Ojjeloussa, La., Jan. 25, 1849; son of A. 
 de Roaldfes and Coralie Testas de Flomont. 
 He was educated in Je.suit schools in France, 
 at College de France, being graduated 
 Bachelier &s Lettres, 1865, Bachelier es 
 Sciences, 1866, and was graduated from the 
 Medical Department of the University of 
 Louisiana, M.D., 1869, and was interne in 
 the Charity Hospital in New Orleans. He 
 continued his studies in Paris and the 
 Facult6 de MC'dccine of Paris conferred upon 
 him the M.D. degree, 1871, became assistant 
 surgeon 6th International Ambulance Corps 
 in the Franco-German War, in which he 
 was mentioned in the Order of the Day for 
 bravery on the battlefield of lieaumont- 
 Mouzon, and he was afterward decorated 
 with the Cross of the L6gion d'Honneur, of 
 wliich he was promoted to Olficer in 1893. 
 Dr. lloaldfes was surgeon of the lied Cross 
 Society during the outbreak of the French 
 Commune. He returned to New Orleans in 
 1872 and has since practised in that city, 
 was placed in charge of the New Orleans 
 Charity Hospital, 1880, in connection with 
 
 which he solved important problems in con- 
 nection with sewage and sanitation, es- 
 tablished efficient ambulance service, and 
 established a training school for nurses. Dr. 
 de Roaldfes founded, in 1889, the New Or- 
 leans Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital, of 
 which he has since been surgeon in-chief, 
 and since 1890 he has been professor of 
 diseases of the. ear, nose, and throat in 
 the New Orleans Polyclinic School of Med- 
 icine. Dr. de Roaldes was a member of 
 the International Medical Congresses at 
 Berlin, 1890, Rome, 1894, Paris, 1900; was 
 president of the New Orleans Diphtheria 
 Anti-toxin Commission, 1894. He was presi- 
 dent of the Louisiana State Medical Society, 
 1892, and 1906-1907 of the American 
 Laryngological Association, of which he is 
 a fellow; was a member of the International 
 Congresses of Otology, Florence, 1895, Lon- 
 don, 1889, and Bordeaux, 1904, and was 
 American member of the Committee on Or- 
 ganization of the latter. Residence: 1328 
 Jackson Avenue. Office: 624 Graves 
 Street, New Orleans, La. 
 
 DE ROSSET, Frederick Ancrum: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Wilmington, N. C, 
 April 13, 1856; son of Armand John De 
 Rosset, M.D., and Eliza Jane (Lord) De 
 Rosset. He was educated under private 
 tuition and at private schools until 1864 
 in North Carolina, in London and Paris, 
 1864-1865, at the North Carolina Military 
 Academy, at Hillsboro, 1867-lSOS, Cape Fear 
 Military Academy, 1868 1872, and was 
 graduated from the University of the South 
 as M.A. in 1878; he was a tutor in Hebrew 
 in the Theological School of that Uni- 
 versity, 1878-1881; was a student in 
 the Theological Department of the Uni- 
 versity of the South, 1878-1879, and in the 
 General Theological Seminary, New York 
 City, 1879-1882, in which year he was 
 graduated. He was ordered deacon, Jan. 6, 
 1880, and ordained priest, June 6, 1882, of 
 the Protestant Episcopal Church ; was 
 curate of Holy Trinity Church Harlem, St. 
 Thomas, New York, St. Andrews', Harlem, 
 and St. George's, New York, 1880-1881, and 
 of Zion Church, Wappingers Falls, N. Y., 
 1881-1883. He was curate at Larchmont, 
 
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 N. Y.,, and was tutor of Greek at St. 
 John's School, Manlius, N. Y., in 1883, was 
 curate of Calvary Church, New York, 1883- 
 1884, St. Mark's Church, Grand Rapids, 
 Mich., 1884-1887. He was rector of Trinity 
 Church, Natchez, Miss.; was a trustee of 
 the University of the South from 1887 to 
 1892;' was rector of the Church of the 
 Redeemer, Cairo, 111., 1892-1901, and arch- 
 deacon of Cairo; was rector of St. Paul's 
 pro cathe.dral, and has been archdeacon of 
 Springfield, HI., since 1901. He is secretary 
 of the Standing Committee of the Diocese 
 of Springfield, 111., and has been deputy to 
 six General Conventions of the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church. He is organizing Sec- 
 retary of the Jerusalem and the East Mis- 
 sion for the United States of America since 
 1900. He has been secretary of the com- 
 mission on Ecclesiastical Relations since, 
 1895, and chairman of the committee on 
 Memorials of Deceased Members of the 
 General Convention from 1898, and he. has 
 been secretary of the Trustees of Diocese 
 of Springfield continuously since 1901. He 
 is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fra- 
 ternity, a Knight Teanplar and a thirty- 
 second degree Mason. He has traveled in 
 England, France, Canada, and in most of 
 the States of the Union from the Atlantic 
 to the Pacific, and over a great part of 
 Mexico. Mr. De Rosset married in Se.wanee, 
 Tenn., Oct. 10, 1882, Mary Williams Green, 
 granddaughter of Bishop William Mercer 
 Green, and they have five children. Ad- 
 dress: 312 East Adams Street, Spring- 
 field, 111. 
 
 DEUEL, Joseph M.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Deerfield, Oneida County, 
 N. Y., April 23, 1846; son of John C. and 
 Elniira (Earnard) Duel. He was educated 
 in Lhe public schools and the Whitestown, 
 Utica Seminary. He was commonwealth at 
 torney of Hampton, Va., 1869-1871; secre- 
 tary to Roscoe Conkling, 1871-1874; as- 
 sistant United States attorney of New York 
 City, 1874-1876; deputy clerk of the United 
 States Circuit Court and United States 
 commissioner, 1870-1878; clerk of the 
 United States Circuit Court of New York 
 City, 1879-1882; police justice of New Y'ork 
 
 City, 1894; city magistrate of New York 
 City, 1895-1903; and justice of the Court 
 of Special Sessions in the. City of New 
 York, First Division, 1904. He is author 
 of: Children's Court Law for New York 
 City. Judge Deuel married at Utica, Nov. 
 5, 1874, Cornelia C. Downer, and they 
 have two children. Address: 125 West 
 80th Street, New York City. 
 
 DEVENDORF, Irving R.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Danube, N. Y., Nov. 2, 
 1856; son of Lovenus and Margaret (Wal- 
 rath) Devendorf. He was graduated from 
 Little Falls Academy, 1877; studied law 
 and was admitted to the bar in 1880, at 
 Herkimer, N. Y., where he engaged in prac- 
 tice. He held several offices in Herkimer 
 County: District attorney, 1889-1894, 
 county judge and surrogate, 1896-1900, and 
 was elected on the Republican ticket. 1906, 
 a justice of the Supreme Court of New 
 York for the term expiring Dec. 31, 1920. 
 He married in Herkimer, N. Y., in 1882, 
 Margaret Bellinger. Address: Herkimer, 
 N. Y. 
 
 DE'VINE, Edward Thomas: 
 
 Author, educator, humanitarian; born at 
 Union, Hardin County, Iowa, May 6, 1807; 
 son of John Devine and Laura (Hall) 
 Devine. He was graduated from Albion Sem- 
 inary in 1883, from Cornell College, Iowa, 
 as B.A., in 1887, and M.A. in 1900, and 
 studied at the University of Halle, Ger- 
 many, 1890-1891; fellow of the Wharton 
 School of Finance and Commerce of the 
 University of Pennsylvania, 1891-1895, re- 
 ceiving the degree of Ph.D., and in 1904 
 he received the degree of LL.D. from Cor- 
 nell College. He taught in public and 
 private schools in Iowa for five years; was 
 stafi' lecturer in economics of the American 
 Society for the Extension of University 
 Teaching, 1891-1896, and its secretary, 1894- 
 1896. He, has been general secretary of the 
 Charity Organization Society of the City 
 of New York since 1896, taking an active 
 part in many reform movements, especially 
 in tenement house reform, the restriction 
 of child labor, and the movement for the. 
 prevention of tuberculosis. He was presi- 
 
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 (h'lil of tlie National Coiiferonee of Charities 
 and Correction in 1906. He founded in 
 1808. and has since been editor of the jour- 
 nal now known as the Survey, formerly 
 Charities and the Commons, a weekly 
 periodical of local and general pliilan- 
 thra])y, with which four other periodicals, 
 Lend a Hand, The Charities Review, the 
 Chicago Commons, and Jewish Charity, have 
 been consolidated. Dr. Devine was until 
 April, 1907. director of the New York 
 School of Philanthropy, established by the 
 Charity Organization Society in 1904; be- 
 came. Sell iff professor of social economy at 
 Columbia University, in 1905, and was spe- 
 cial representatitve of the American Na- 
 tional Red Cross in charge of relief in San 
 Francisco in 1906. He is author of: 
 Economics, 1889 (Macmillan) ; The Practice 
 of Charity, 1901 (Dodd, Mead; second edi- 
 tion, 1904); The Principles of Rejief, 1904 
 (Macmillan) ; Efficiency and Relief. 1906 
 (Columbia University Press, Macmillan) ; 
 Report on the Desirability of Establishing 
 an Em])loyment Bureau in the City of New 
 York, 1908; Charities Publication Commit- 
 tee, for the Russell Sage Foundation; 
 Misery and its Causes, 1909 (Macmillan). 
 Dr. Devine is a member of the Council of 
 the American Academy of Political and So- 
 cial Science, of the Council of the American 
 Economic Association, of the Board of Di 
 rectors of the National Association for the 
 Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, of 
 the. Board of Trustees of the National Child 
 Labor Committee, of the Council of the 
 American Association for Labor Legislation, 
 of the Bo.ird of Directors of the New York 
 Probation Association, of the Committee on 
 International Congress of Hygiene and 
 Demography to be held in Washington in 
 1910; theAldine Club and the Century 
 Association. He was president of the sec- 
 tion on Hygienic, Social, Industrial and 
 Economic Aspects of Tuberculosis, in the 
 International Congress on Tuberculosis in 
 Washington, 1908. Dr. Devine married Aug. 
 15, 1889, Hattie Evelyn Scovel, and they 
 have a son and a daughtc.r. Residence: 
 501 West 113th Street. Address: 105 East 
 ■2-^1] St ret, New York City. 
 
 DE VINNE, Theodore Low: 
 
 Printer; born in Stamford, Conn., Dec. 
 25, 1828; son of Daniel and Joanna Augusta 
 (Low) De Vinne. He was educated in the 
 public schools at Catskill, White Plains and 
 Amcnia, N. Y., and rece.ived the degree of 
 A.M. from Columbia and Yale UnivQi'sities 
 for proficieiacy in printing. He entered tlie 
 printing office of the Newburgh (New York) 
 Gazette in 1844, removed to New York 
 City in 1848 and bc.came connected with the 
 printing house of Francis Hart. In 1858 
 he became junior partner and seven years 
 after the death of Mr. Hart, in 1877, the 
 firm was changed to Theodore L. De Vinne 
 and Company, with his son as junior part- 
 ner. He is a Jeader in the improvement 
 of typography; prints the St. Nicholas and 
 Century magazines, and Century Dictionary, 
 and has printed many editions de luxe 
 for various publishers. INIr. De Vinne is a 
 member of the New York Typothetae and 
 the, Aldine Association, Authors Club, 
 Grolier Club and Century Association. He 
 is author of: Printer's Price List, 1869; 
 Invention of Printing, 1876; Historic Tj'pe, 
 1884; Christopher Plantin, 1888; Plain 
 Printing Types, 1900; Correct Composition, 
 1901, and Title Pages, 1902; Book Composi- 
 tion, 1904. He is a member of the National 
 Arts Club. Mr. De Vinne married in New 
 York City, Grace, Brockbank, who died May 
 7, 1905, and they have one son. Residence: 
 300 \A"est 76th Street. Address: 395 
 Lafayette Street, New York City. 
 
 DEVOE, Frederick William: 
 
 ]\Iercliant and manufacturer; born in New 
 York City, Jan. 26, 1828. He was educated 
 by private instructors, worked in mercantile 
 business as clerk until 1852, when he be- 
 came a partner in the firm of Raymond & 
 Devoe, and in 1864 organized the firm of 
 F. W. Devoe & Co., incorporated, paint and 
 varnish manufacturers of which he was 
 pre.iident until by a consolidation the name 
 was changed in 1890 to the F. W. Devoe 
 & C. T. Raynolds Co., of which he has 
 since been president, that firm being the 
 larcfest in it^ line in tlie United States. 
 
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 lie was fonnoiiy president, of tlie Greater 
 New York Coinniission, the Board of Edu- 
 eation of New York, and the New York 
 Juvenile Asylum; and is connected with 
 several philanthropic organizations; is a 
 member of the Chamber of Commerce of 
 New York, the New York Botanical Gar- 
 dens, American Museum of Natural His- 
 tory, New York Historical Society, the 
 Scientific Alliance, St. Nicholas Society and 
 the Fulton and Church Clubs. Residence: 
 59 Park Avenue. Address: 101 Fulton 
 Street, New Y'ork. 
 
 DE VRIES, Marion: 
 
 United States general appraiser; born at 
 Woodbridge, Calif., Aug. 15, 18G5; son of 
 \A'illiam Henry De Vries and Cornelia 
 (Crowe) De Vries. He was graduated from 
 the, San Joaquin Valley College, as Ph.B., 
 in 1886. He afterward attended the Law 
 Department of the University of jNIichigan, 
 from which he was graduated as valedic- 
 torian of his class, with the degree of LL.B., 
 in 1888. He was admitted to the Michigan 
 bar in 1887, and to the Supreme Court of 
 California, the same year. He commenced 
 practice at Stockton, Calif., in 1889, and 
 was admitted to the Supreme Court of the 
 United States, in January, 1897. He served 
 three years as lieutenant-colonel and as- 
 sistant adjutant-general of the third Bri- 
 gade of the National Guard of California ; 
 was assistant district attorney of San 
 Joaquin County, California, from 1893 to 
 1897. He was elected and served as mem- 
 ber of the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Con- 
 gresses from the Se.cond California District, 
 from ^Nlarch, 1897, until he resigned, Aug. 
 22, 1900; and he has been a general ap- 
 praiser since Aug. 22, 1900, and president 
 of the Board of United States General Ap- 
 praiser's since Jan. 1, 1906. He is a Demo- 
 crat, a member of the Masonic order, and 
 Knights Templar; of the Odd Fellows, 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and 
 Turners, and is also a member of the Cal- 
 ifornia Society and the Enginee.rs' Club of 
 New Y^ork and of the Yosemite Club, Stock- 
 ton, Calif.; was married, Feb. 23, 1892, to 
 IMinerva L. Snead, of California. Address : 
 
 United States Appraisers' Building. New 
 York City. 
 
 DEW, louise E.: 
 
 Editor, writer, and lecturer; born at St. 
 John's, ]\Iich., daughter of Henry F. and 
 Harriet T. (Longwood) Dew. She was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of St. John's 
 and Lansing, Mich., and the Lucy Webb 
 Hayes Training School in Washington, D. 
 C. She was special contributor to the 
 Michigan Christian Advocate, 1890-1895, 
 afterward in regular newspaper work as a 
 reporter on Dc.troit papers, associate editor 
 of the Ladies' Illustrated Journal, Chicago, 
 and special writer for the Chicago Tribune 
 and Times-Herald until 1899. In 1899 she 
 started on a tour of the world, and rode 
 from Chicago to the Pacific Coast on an 
 engine, at which time she wrotr, " Acro.-s 
 Country On an Engine," which was syndi- 
 cated to leading papers all over the coun- 
 try; crossed the Pacific on a freight ship, 
 visiting various oriental ports of Japan, 
 China, India and the Philippines, and was 
 the first woman to ride in an " aerial 
 tramway." Editor of How to Grow 
 Flowers (now Home and Flowers), and 
 Pets and Animals, 1900; assistant editor 
 The Woman's Home Companion, 1901; 
 editor The Ladies' World, 1902-1906; con- 
 nected with The McClure Syndicate, 1903- 
 1906; o/litor of the Woman's Section of 
 the Philadelphia North. American, 1906- 
 1907 ; since then doing free lance work on 
 magazines and New York Sunday papers. 
 Also author of " The Flow'er Lady and Her 
 Children," and compiler of " Entertainment 
 for All Seasons." Miss De.w finds her rec- 
 reation working among the children of the 
 East Side of New York, where she is known 
 as The Flower Lady, taking especial in- 
 terest in the Italian children of the Lower 
 East Side,. She began this work while 
 editor of The Ladies' World on City Hall 
 Place, inaugurating daily visits to the chil- 
 dren of the neighborhood, where she has 
 become acquainted with over one thousand 
 children, all of whom she knows by name. 
 Over two hundred of these children are 
 sent to the country each summer, through 
 
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 the ofTcrinsTS of ])frsonal friends. Miss Dew 
 is a member of the Japan Society of Lon- 
 don. Japan Society of New York, and a 
 nionibor of the Authors' Committee, of 101, 
 and of other societies. Address: Hotel 
 Martha Washington, 29 East 29th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 DEWEY. George: 
 
 Admiral of the United States Navy; born 
 in :\rontpelier, Vt., Dec. 26, 1837: son of Dr. 
 Julius Yemans and Mary (Perrin) Dewey. 
 He was appointed to the Naval Academy 
 from Vermont, Sept. 23, 1854, and wai» 
 graduated in 1858, being then attached to 
 the frigate Wabash, in the Mediterranean 
 Squadron, and in 1861 transferred to the 
 steam sloop Mississippi of the West Gulf 
 Squadron. He was commissioned lieutenant 
 April 19, 1861, and was in Farragut's 
 Squadron which forced the passage of 
 Forts Saint Philip and Jackson in April, 
 1862. He took part in the. attack on Fort 
 St. Philip, and the fights which followed 
 and resulted in the capture of New Orleans. 
 In the thick smoke of the battle of Port 
 Hudson, the steam sloop Mississippi lost 
 her bearings and ran ashore under the guns 
 of thr. land batteries, and the officers and 
 men took to the boats after setting the 
 vessel on fire. He served on the steam gun- 
 boat Agawam, in the North Atlantic Block- 
 ading Squadron, in 1804-1865, and par- 
 ticipated in the two attacks on Fort Fisher 
 in December, 1864, and January, 1865. 
 He was commissioned lieutenant-commander 
 March 3, 1865; served successively on the 
 steamer Kearsarge, the frigate Colorado, at 
 the Naval Academy, 1868-1869, commanded 
 the Nari-agansett on special service in 1870 
 and 1871, and was at the Torpedo Station 
 in 1872. He was commissioned commander 
 April 13, 1872, commanded the Narragansett 
 on the Pacific Survey, 1872-1875, was light 
 house inspector, 1876-1877, .secretary of the 
 Lighthouse Board, 1877-1882, commanded 
 the Juniata on the Asiatic Station, 1882- 
 1883, and was promoted captain in Septem- 
 ber, 1884. He was given command of the 
 Dolphin in 1884, the Pensacola, (lagsliip of 
 the European Station, 1885 1888, chief of 
 the Bureau of Equipmcjrt and Recruiting, 
 
 with rank of commodore, 1889-1893. mem- 
 ber of the Lighthouse Board, 1893 1895: 
 president of the Board of Inspection and 
 Survey, 1895-1897; promoted to commodore, 
 Feb. 28, 1896. He assumed command of 
 the Asiatic Station in January, 1898, and 
 the beginning of hostilities found him in 
 command of the United States naval forces, 
 consisting of six unarmored .ships, at Hong 
 Kong. China. Acting under orders from the 
 Department to capture or destroy enemy's 
 fleet, Dewey proceeded toward Manila, in 
 the Philippine Islands, where the Spanish 
 fleet of seven cruisers and several gunboats 
 were assembled undej" the protection of the 
 batteries at Corregidor, Cavite and Manila 
 proper. Dewey entered Manila Bay early 
 in the morning of May 1, attacked and 
 annihilated the ene.my's ships, captured the 
 arsenal at Cavite, destroyed the fortifica- 
 tions at the mouth of the bay, and es- 
 tablished a blockade of Manila. For this 
 daring and brilliant action, in which he lost 
 not a single man, Dewey received the, thanks 
 of Congress and was commissioned rear- 
 admiral on May 10, 1898. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Philippines Commission, 1899; 
 detached from command of Asiatic Station. 
 October, 1899; commissioned admiral, 
 March 29, 1900. In 1901 he became, senior 
 member of the General Board, of which he 
 is now president. Admiral Dewey mariied 
 first, Oct. 24, 1867, Susie, daughter of 
 Governor Ichabod Goodwin of New Hani])- 
 shire. She died Dec. 28. 1872, and Ad- 
 miral Dewey again married in Washington, 
 D. C, Nov. 9, 1899, Mrs. Mildred (Mc- 
 Lean) Hazen, N. W., Washington, D. C. 
 
 DEWEY, Henry Sweetser: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Hanover, N. IL, Nov. 
 9, 1856; son of Major Israel Otis Dewey 
 and of Susan Augusta (Sweetser) Dewey, 
 who was daughter of General Henry and 
 Susan (West) Sweetser. Mr. Dewey is a 
 descendant of Thomas Dewey of Sandwich, 
 Kent, England, who became a freeman of 
 Dorchester, Mass., 1633, and of Seth Swect- 
 -er of Tring, ?Iertfordshire, ]<:]ngland, who 
 settled in Charleston, Mass. 1637. He was 
 graduated from Dartmouth, A.B., 1878, 
 A.M., 1881, and was a member of the 
 
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 Alpha Delta Phi Society while in college. 
 He was appointed paymaster's clerk, U. S. 
 Army, and served 1878-1879 at Boston, re- 
 signing- in the latter year to enter the Bos- 
 ion University Law School, from which he 
 wa>i graduated LL.B., 1882, and having also 
 read law in the office of Hon. Ambrose A. 
 Kanney, he Avas admitted in 1882 to the, 
 bar in Boston, where he has since practised 
 law. He served in the Massachusetts House 
 of Representatives from the 21st Suffolk 
 District in 1889, 1890, and 1891. Mr. 
 Dewey served in the State Militia in the 
 First Corps of Cadets, 1880-1809, then was 
 judge advocate on the staff of the First 
 Brigade, with the rank of captain, until 
 January, 1900, when he was appointed 
 judge advocate general on the staff of the 
 commander-in-chief by Governor Crane, with 
 the rank of colonel, and in May of the same 
 year was promoted to brigadier-general, 
 serving until he resigned in January, 1905. 
 He was a member in 1891 and chairman 
 in 1895 of the Board of Bar Examiners for 
 Suffolk County, was chairman of the State 
 Board of Bar Examiners from its establish- 
 ment in 1897 until 1903. Since February, 
 1893, he has been a master in chancery for 
 the County of Suffolk. He was appointed 
 a special justice of the< Municipal Court 
 of the City of Boston in April, 1896, and 
 an associate justice of that court in May, 
 1899. serving as such until December, 1902. 
 when he resigned and resumed the practice 
 of law. He was a candidate for Mayor of 
 Boston in 1905. Judge Dewey is a member 
 of the Bar Association of the City of Bos- 
 ton, American Bar Association, Interna 
 tional Law Association, Military Order of 
 tlie Loyal Legion, Sons of the Revolution, 
 the Wissenshaftlichen Klub in Vienna (hon- 
 orary) , the University and Athletic Clubs 
 of Boston, and the Alpha Delta Rhi Club 
 of New York City. Residence: 896 Beacon 
 Street. Office: 23 Court Street, Boston. 
 
 DEWEY, Melvil: 
 
 Librarian ; boni in Adams Centre, N. Y., 
 Dec. 10, 1851. Graduated from Amherst 
 College, A.B., 1874, A.M., 1877; acting 
 lilirarian, Amherst College, 1873-1876. 
 
 Moved to Boston in 1876, and established 
 the Library Bureau to secure better library 
 methods, appliances and supplies, and called 
 library conference at Philadelphia, whicli 
 resulted in establishing the American Li- 
 brary Association and the Library Journal. 
 Similarly instrumental the same year 
 (1876) in organizing American Metric 
 Bureau, and the Spelling Reform Associa- 
 tion, of both of which he was made sec- 
 retary. In May, 1883, he was appointed 
 chief librarian of Columbia College, pro- 
 fessor of library economy in 1884, and di- 
 rector, in 1887, of the Columbia College 
 School Library Economy, established as the 
 outcome of his argument for the urgent 
 neeti of a library training school. He was 
 seci .'tary and treasurer of the University 
 of Le State of New York, 1889-1900; di- 
 rector of the New York State Library and 
 Library School, 1889-1906; secretary of the 
 American Library Association, 1876-1890, 
 and 1897-1898; its treasurer, 1879-1881, and 
 president, 1890 and 1893. He edited the 
 Library Journal, 1876-1881, Library Notes, 
 Metric Bulletin, Metric Advocate, and the 
 Spelling Reform Bulletin. He was director 
 of the New York State educational exhibit 
 at the World's Columbian Exijosition in 
 Chicago in 1893. The value of his work has 
 been recognized by universal expositions in 
 Paris, in 1878, and 1889; in Chicago, 1893, 
 and Paris, 1900, where of nine grand prizes 
 awarded to the United States one was for 
 an exhibit of methods of education by 
 means of reading and traveling libraries, an- 
 other for general library exhibit, both pre- 
 pared by the New York State Library, and 
 a third to him in honor of his distinguished 
 services not only as a librarian but as an 
 educator whose administration during the 
 period of reorganization of the University 
 of New York from 1889 to 1900 produced 
 such marked advance in both secondary and 
 higher education. A similar award of a 
 gold medal was made by the Louisiana 
 Purchase Expo ition in 1904. He is author 
 of: Library School Rules; Simplified Li- 
 brary School Rules and Decimal Classifica- 
 lion and Relative Index. Address: Lake 
 Placid Club, Essex Co., N. Y. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 DE WITT, George G.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in the town of Callicoon, 
 Sullivan County, N. Y., April 9, 1S45; son 
 of Georgp. and Julia (Foster) De Witt. 
 He was graduated from Columbia College. 
 A.B., 1867, A.M., 1870, and was graduated 
 as LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 
 1869. He was admitted to the New York 
 bar, 1869, and has ever since practised law 
 in New York City. Mr. De Witt is a 
 trustee of the Chemical National Bank, the, 
 New York Life Insurance Company, and the 
 Real Estate Trust Company. De Witt is a 
 member of the Association of the Bar of 
 the City of New York, a trustee of Colum- 
 bia University, and the Roosevelt Hospital; 
 governor of New York Hospital, and Mce- 
 president of the New York Society for .he 
 Prevention of Cruelty to Children. J\e is 
 also a member of the Union, ]\Ietropolitan, 
 Union League, University, New York Yacht, 
 and South Side Sportsmen's Clubs. Resi- 
 dence: .39 West 51st Street, New York 
 City. Office address: 88 Nassau Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 DE WOLF, John: 
 
 Landscape architect; born in Bristol, 11. 
 I., March 26, 1850; son of Algernon Sid- 
 ney and Clara (Diman) De Wolf. His art 
 education was secured largely through 
 private teachers, owing to a defect in his 
 hearing, caused by scarlet fever. Hhs first 
 employment was as an aid to the U. S. 
 Coast and Geodetic Survey, and he then, 
 entered upon a successful series of employ- 
 ments as a landscape architect, his work 
 being among the notable examples of land- 
 scape architecture in all the Atlantic and 
 Gulf States. He also designed the Villa 
 Maria Cadenobbia, on Lake Como, Italy. 
 In 1898, he was appointed landscape archi- 
 tect and general superintendent of the park 
 system of Brooklyn and Queens County, 
 and was made the first landscape architect 
 of Greater New York, after the consolida 
 tion of the Boroughs. He resigned the 
 position after four years' service. Mr. Do 
 Wolf has been a frequent writer on matters 
 relating to landscape architecture, and is a 
 member of the Now York Horticultural So- 
 
 ciety, of New York, and the American Park 
 and Outdoor Society. He is a member of 
 the Players Club of New York. Address: 
 Bristol, R. I. 
 
 DE WOLFE, Elsie: 
 
 Actress and artist; born in New York 
 City in 1865; daughter of Stephen and 
 Virginia (Copeland) de Wolfe. Made her 
 debut in Sardou's Thermidor, 1890, and 
 was for many years a member of the Em- 
 pire Stock Company. Miss de Wolfe was 
 specially successful in comedy roles, be- 
 coming a leading New York favorite and 
 afterward a star and manager of her own 
 company. In 1905 she retired definitely 
 from the stage and has taken up house 
 decoration as a profession. She has decor- 
 ated and furnished many public buildings, 
 notably the Colony Club for Women, which 
 is generally conceded to mark a new era in 
 ele.gant simplicity and comfort, and is now 
 established as a decorator. Address: 4 
 West 40th Street, New York City. 
 
 DEXTER, Henry: 
 
 Retired merchant; born in West Cam- 
 bridge, Mass., March 14, 1813; son of 
 Jonathan Marsh and Elizabeth (Balch) 
 Dexter. He was educated in public and 
 private schools, and prepared for Harvard. 
 At the age of fourteen, he entered a print- 
 ing office in Boston, serving an apprentice- 
 ship for three years, and for similar time 
 was second foreman in Harvard University 
 printing office, where close application to the 
 work in hand gave him a liberal education. 
 Mr. Dexter removed to New York City, in 
 1836, and was employed by Grannis, White 
 & Company, and later in a hardware store 
 conducted by the Whittemores, inventors of 
 the carding machine. He bought, in 1842, 
 an interest in the firm of Dexter & Tuttle, 
 books, periodicals and daily papers, which 
 firm became Henry Dexter & Company, and 
 later changed to the style of II. Dexter, 
 Hamilton & Company. Ho fornnilato.d the 
 idea and founded the consolidation of lead- 
 ing newsdealers, which developed into the 
 present Am.erican News Company of which 
 he was president for many years until 1890. 
 
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 He also oioanized in Tjondon, on similar 
 lines, the International News Company. 
 He is now retired from active business. He 
 was associated with George P. Putnam, the 
 publisher (who first projected it), as one 
 of the founders of the. Metropolitan Museum 
 of Art, of which he is a member in per- 
 petuity. He built a new home for the New 
 York Historical Society on Central Park 
 West, opposite the Museum of Natural His- 
 tory, at the cost of $350,000, in memory of 
 his son, Orrando Perry Dexter. Mr. Dexter 
 is a life member of the American Geograph- 
 ical Society; patron of the New York 
 Historical Society; vice-president of the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary So- 
 ciety for Seamen; trustee of the. Midnight 
 Mission; life director of the American Bible 
 Society, and American Tract Society; mem- 
 ber of the New York Society for the Preven- 
 tion of Cruelty to Children, St. Luke's Hos- 
 pital Society, Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation, Children's Aid Society, Home for 
 Incurables, Charity Organization Society of 
 New Y^ork, Association for Improving the 
 Condition of the Poor, Home for Age,d Mar- 
 ried Couples, etc. He spent eight years in 
 traveling through Europe, Asia, and Africa, 
 and two years across North America by way 
 of the West Indies, Mexico, the United 
 States and Canada. In his ninety-fourth 
 year he issued a pamphlet entitled Letters 
 from the Pen of Henry Dexter, bejng a 
 collection of letters on public questions, for 
 which he received letters of commendation 
 from Prof. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton 
 University, and James Stillman of the City 
 Bank. Mr. Dexter married at Southport, 
 Conn., Oct. II, 1853, Lucretia Marquand 
 Perry, and of this union there was born 
 Oct. 31, 1854, a son Orrando Perry Dexter, 
 who was assassinated at Dexter Lake, in 
 the Adirondacks, Sept. 19, 1903. Address: 
 42 West 56tli Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 DEYO, Robert Emmet: 
 
 Lawyer; born near Newburgh, N. Y., 
 Aug. 19, 1843; son of Dr. Nathaniel and 
 Cornelia Bruyn (Dubois) Deyo. He was 
 graduated from Princeton in 1864, and from 
 the Albany Law School in 1865. He. was 
 
 justice of tlie peace at Newburgli, in 1866; 
 removed to New York City the same year 
 and became a member of the law firm of 
 Field & Deyo, with David Dudley Field and 
 Dudley Field as partners. He was a dele- 
 gate to the Constitutional Convention in 
 1894, and was a member of the Committees 
 on Rules, Education and Kevision of that 
 body. He was a me.mber of the first Civil 
 Service Connnission appointed under the 
 Greater New York Charter; and a member 
 of the commission to inquire into delays 
 and expenses in administrations of justice 
 in the counties of New Y^ork and Kings. 
 Mr. Deyo is at present the senior member 
 of the firm of Deyo, Duer & Bauerdorf. He 
 is a member of the Association of the Bar 
 of the City of New York, the Huguenot As- 
 sociation, and the New Y^ork Historical So- 
 ciety; and he is chairman of the New York 
 Law Institute. He is also a member of the 
 Manhattan, Democratic, and Princeton 
 Clubs. Mr. Deyo married, in 1876, Jane 
 Crawford Denniston. Address: 64 West 
 74th Street, New York City. 
 
 DE YOUNG, Michael Harry: 
 
 Newsjjaper proprietor; born in St. Louis, 
 Oct., 1, 1848. His mother, whose maiden 
 name was Morange, was daughter of a 
 French nobleman. When a boy five years 
 old, he was taken to California and was 
 educated in the schools of that State. He 
 became associated with his brother, Charles 
 De Young, in 1865, in establishing Tlie 
 Dramatic Chronicle, a theatrical paper 
 from which they afterward developed The 
 San Francisco Chronicle, which, in a few 
 years, they made the leading daily paper 
 of the Pacific Coast. Upon his brother's 
 death in ISSO, he became sole proprietor of 
 the paper, and its editor-in-chief, and has 
 so continued ever since. Mr. De Young was 
 twice the California member of the National 
 Republican Committee, and for one term its 
 vice-chairman, and was a delegate at large 
 to the National Republican Conventions, 
 1888 1892. He has also taken an especially 
 prominent part in the creation and man- 
 agement of international expositions, begin- 
 ning with the Paris Exposition of 1889, to 
 
494 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 which he was a comniissioner from Cali- 
 fornia. He was commissioner from Cali- 
 fornia and vice-president of the World's 
 Columbian National Commission in 1892 
 and 1893, and was the originator of its 
 classification plan; was president of the In- 
 ternational League of Press Clubs in 1893, 
 was projector, organizer and director-gen- 
 eral of the California Midwinter Exposition 
 at San Francisco in 1893 and 1894; or 
 ganizer of the Midwinter Fair Memorial 
 Museum, 1894; commissioner-general for 
 California at the Omaha Trans-Mississippi 
 E.xposition in 1898, and president of the 
 Unite.' I States Commission at the Paris Ex- 
 position in 1900. He is a member of the 
 Legion d'Honneur of France, and has been 
 a director of the Associated Press since 
 1882. Residence: Meadowlands, San 
 
 Rafael, Calif. Address: 1919 California 
 Street, San Francisco, Calif. 
 
 DICK, Charles: 
 
 United States Senator from Ohio; born 
 in Akron, Ohio, Nov. 3, 1858. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools, later becoming, 
 successively, store clerk, bank bookkeeper 
 and teller, and grain commission merchant, 
 and he is now a lawyer, being admitted to 
 the Ohio bar in 1894, and to practice before 
 the United States Supreme Court in 1897. 
 He served two terms as auditor of Summit 
 County; was long major and lieutenant- 
 colonel. Eighth Regiment, Ohio National 
 Guard; served in Cuba in the war with 
 Spain, being subsequently elected brigadier- 
 general, and now serving as major-general, 
 commanding Ohio National Guard. Senator 
 Dick is president of the Interstate National 
 Guard Association; was several years mem- 
 ber and three times chairman of the Sum 
 mit County Republican Committee; is chair- 
 man of the Ohio Republican State Commit.- 
 tee, and has served in that capacity almost 
 continuously since 1982; served as secretary 
 at the Cliicago Republican National Head 
 quarters in 189G, and as secretary of the 
 Republican National Committee. 1897-1900. 
 He was closely associated with Chairman 
 Hanna in the preliminary canvass for Mc- 
 Kinley's nomination and subsequent general 
 campaign in 1896; was delegate to the Re- 
 
 publican National Conventions, 1892-1890, 
 and delegate-at large from Ohio, to the Re- 
 publican National Conventions of 1900 and 
 1904. He represented the Nineteenth Ohio 
 District in the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty- 
 seventh and Fifty eighth Congresses, and as 
 chairman of Committee on jNIilitia and mem- 
 ber of the Committee on Military Affairs, 
 secured enactment of what is known as the 
 Dick Militia Law, and he was elected 
 senator, March 2, 1904, for short and long 
 terms to succeed Marcus Alonzo Hanna, 
 deceased, receiving the unanimous party 
 vote. His present term of service will ex- 
 pire March 3. 1911. Address: Akron, Ohio. 
 
 DICKERSON, Denver S. 
 
 Governor of Nevada ; elected in November, 
 1906, on the Democratic ticket to the office 
 of lieutenant-governor of Nevada for the 
 four year term expiring in January, 1911, 
 but on the death of Governor John Sparks, 
 May 22, 1908, succeeded to the office of 
 governor to serve out the unexpired term. 
 Address: Carson City, Nevada. 
 
 DICKEY, James Edward: 
 
 President of Emory College; born at Jef- 
 fersonville, Ga., May 11, 1864; son of the 
 Rev. Jame.s Madison Dickey and Ann E. 
 (Thomas) Dickey. Dr. Dickey is of old 
 Southern Colonial stock, his paternal an- 
 cestor, John Dickey, being on the Council 
 of Safety of Iredel County, N. C, in 1776, 
 and his maternal ancestor, Benjamin Few, a 
 colonel in the Revolutionary War. A ma- 
 ternal uncle., William Few, was a dele- 
 gate from Georgia to the Constitutional 
 Convention of 1787, and afterwards first 
 senator from Georgia. As a youth James 
 Dickej- entered Emory College in 1887, and, j 
 taking the academic course, graduated with I 
 the degree of'A.B. in 1891, receiving medals 
 in declamation, composition and meta- 
 physics, as well as second honor. The de- 
 gree of D.D. was conferred upon him by 
 the Kentucky Weslyan College in 1903. 
 After his graduation he became adjunct 
 professor of mental and moral science at 
 Emory College, becoming five years later 
 professor of history and economics. In 
 1899 he resigned and was appointed to the 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 pastorate of tlie Grace Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, South, of Athiitta, Ga., officiating 
 tliere until 1902. In July of that year 
 lu> returned to Emory College, to become 
 its president. He is also trustee of Emory 
 College, and of Weslyan Female College, at 
 IMacon, Ga. He is president of the Board 
 of Missions of the, North Georgia Confer- 
 ence, and is a member of Chi Phi fraternity. 
 In politics Mr. Dickey is identified with 
 tlie Democratic party. He was married at 
 Quincy, Fla., Sept. 9, IS9I, to Jessie Mun- 
 roe, and has had six children: Julia, Annie, 
 Jessie, Claire, Edna (deceased) and James 
 Edward, Jr. Address: Oxford, Ga. 
 
 DICKEY, William Donaldson: 
 
 Jurist; born in Newburgh, N. Y., Jan. 
 II, IS45; son of William and Esther 
 '(James) Donaldson. He was educated in 
 Newburgh Seminary and the Albany Law 
 School; served in the Civil War from pri 
 rate to colonel, and was admitted to the 
 bar in New ■ York State, practising until 
 elected in 1895 a justice of the Supreme 
 Court of the State of New York, for the 
 term expiring Dec. 31, 1909. He married 
 in Newburgh, N. Y., June 25, 1868, Kate 
 W. Riclimond. Address: 8677 Twenty- 
 second Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 DICKIE, George William: 
 
 Engineer, nsanufacturer; born at Ar 
 broath, Scotland, July 17, 1844; son of 
 William Dickie, shipbuilder. He was edu- 
 cated at Tay Port, Fife, Scotland. In 1860 
 lie entered the service of the North British 
 Railroad Company to learn the engineering 
 business, and completed his engineering edu- 
 cation in his father's shipj^ard. In 1869 
 he went from Scotland direct to San Fran- 
 cisco, where he became identified with all 
 the important steamship work at that port, 
 and also the designing and construction of 
 the machinery for the operation of the 
 mines of the Comstock Lode at Virginia 
 City, and Gold Hill, Nevada. Upon the es- 
 tablishing of the Union Iron Works at San 
 Francisco in 1883 he became its manager, 
 which position he held up to March, 1905, 
 and had special charge of its naval work 
 for the United States Government including 
 
 the building of some of the finest battle- 
 ships and others vessels in the new navy. 
 Mr. Dickie is a member of the Council of 
 the Society of Naval Architects and Marine 
 Engineers; life member and president of 
 the Technical Society of the Pacific Coast, 
 and member and former councilor of the 
 American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 
 He has written numerous technical papers 
 which have appeared in the proceedings of 
 these societies, and is author of a work on : 
 Pumping and Hoisting Works, published in 
 1876. Mr. Dickie married in San Francisco, 
 Aug. 5, 1873, Anna Juck. Residence: San 
 Mateo, Calif. Office: 24 California Street, 
 San Francisco, Calif. 
 
 DICKINSON, Charles C: 
 
 Banker, lawyer, author; born in Schoharie 
 County, N. Y. July 12, 1870. He was 
 graduated with highest honors as valedic- 
 torian from the Cobleskill (N. Y.) Union 
 Free School and Academy, at the age of 
 15; won by competitive examination a 
 scholarship in Cornell University, which he 
 entered in 1887, and was gi'aduated in 1891, 
 as commencement orator, also winning the 
 certificate for proficiency in military science, 
 commission as captain in the military de- 
 partment, and first prize for the best work 
 written by an undergraduate in any col- 
 lege of the United States on " Electoral 
 Corruption." He was appointed an ex- 
 aminer of banks of the State of New York, 
 and designated to make a complete ex- 
 amination of the trust departments of all 
 the trust companies of New York State. He 
 had studied law in private, and obtaining 
 leave of absence from his post of examiner 
 of banks he attended Cornell, finishing the 
 law course in one year, and being graduated 
 with the first honors of his class, LL.B., 
 1894; was admitted to the Ne.w York Bar 
 at Albany, May 10, 1894, and engaged in 
 successful practice. Also writing text-books, 
 well known as: Dickinson on Eminent 
 Domain; Groesbeck and Dickinson's Bank- 
 ing Laws; and Dickinson and Cnmmings 
 General Municipal Laws. He raised a mil- 
 lion and a half dollars in cash and or- 
 ganized the Colonial Trust Company, and 
 also capitalized and organized the Colonial 
 
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 Safe Deposit Conipauy, of eacli of which 
 fonipanios Ex-governor Roswell P. Flower, 
 became president and j\lr. Dickinson the 
 active vice president. His chief achievement, 
 however, was the organization of the Carne- 
 gie Trust Company, for whieli he raised 
 a capital of two and a quarter million 
 dollars, becoming first a director, then vice- 
 presidr.nt, then chairman of the Board of 
 Directors and then president of the com- 
 pany, which olllce he still holds; and he is 
 also president of the Board of Directors 
 of the Carnegie Safe Deposit Company, 
 which has constructed the largest and 
 strongest safe deposit vaults in the world. 
 He also, with others, planned and con- 
 summated the formation of a syndicate 
 which acquired control of the Wisconsin 
 Central Railway System and leased it to 
 the Canadian Pacific Railroad interests, and 
 is a director of the system; is also one of 
 the '■ Ramsey "' Protective Committee of 
 bondholders of the Detroit, Toledo and Iron- 
 ton Railway, which successfully consum- 
 mated its undertaking in 1909. He is a 
 member of the State Bar Association of 
 the State of New York and of the New 
 York County Lawyers Association. He was 
 appointed by Mayor McClellan one of the 
 committee in charge of the Hudson-Fulton 
 Celebration of New York in 1909. He is 
 one of tlie governors of the Cornell Uni- 
 versity Club, and was recently elected by 
 the Board of Trustees of Cornell University 
 a member of the new Cornellian Council, 
 which was selected from the entire body 
 of the Alumni to advance the financial wel- 
 fare of the University. He is a member of 
 the Delta Tau Delta and Delta Phi fra- 
 ternities and Chanery of Cornell, was 
 elected president of the Delta Tau Delta 
 Chapte.'- while in college, then president of 
 the Eastern Division, and finally, presi- 
 dent of the fraternity. Mr. Dickinson is a 
 member of the Mayflower Society, Sons of 
 the Revolution, Huguenot Society, Society of 
 Colonial Wars, American Museum of 
 Natural Hi.slory, Metropolitan Museum 
 of Art, American Geographical Society, 
 Now York Botanical Gardens, Muni- 
 cipal Art League, and the Manhattan, Lotus, 
 New York, (Jornell University, Democratic, 
 
 Lawyers and Railroad Clubs. Mr. Dickin- 
 son married in New York City, Jan. 19, 
 1905, Grace Georgette Kidd, and has one 
 son, Charles Courter, Jr., born Oct. 30, 
 1905. Residence: 853 Fifth Avenue. Of- 
 fice: Carnegie Trust Company, New York 
 City. 
 
 DICKINSON, Charles Monroe: 
 
 Editor; bnrn at Lowvillc, Lewis County, 
 N. Y., Nov. 15, 1842; son of Richard and 
 Elizabeth (Rea) Dickinson. He was edu- 
 cated in Lowville Academy and at Fair- 
 field (N. Y.) Seminary. :Mr. Dickinson 
 studied law and was admitted to the bar 
 by the Supreme Court of New York in 
 November, 1865. He practised law in Bing 
 hamton, N. Y., and New York City, until 
 YS7S, when he was compelled by broken 
 health to abandon the professioii. Since 
 1878 he has been editor and proprietor of 
 the. Binghamton Republican. Mr. Dickinson 
 was a Republican presidential elector in 
 1896, and was appointed consul-general at 
 Constantinople in September, 1897, serving 
 there until 1906. and he was also diplomatic 
 agent to Bulgaria. 1901-1903. He was ap- 
 pointed consul-general-at-large in May, 
 1906, and detailed to prepare rules and 
 regulations under the Consular Reorganiza- 
 tion Act of June, 1904, and he resigned 
 from the Consular Service, Oct. 1, 1907. 
 His connection with the consular and in- 
 spection service for ten years gave him op- 
 portunities Yor extensive travel in many 
 parts of Europe, Asia and Africa. Mr. 
 Dickinson is author of: The Dickinson 
 Family, 1884; The Children and Other 
 Verses, 1889. He is trustee for life of the 
 Barlow Industrial School, Binghamton, and 
 is a member of the Authors Club of New 
 York City. Mr. Dickinson married at Bing- 
 hamton, N. Y., March 24, 1867, Bessie Vir- 
 ginia Hotchkiss. and they have two sons. 
 Address: Binglianiton, N. Y. 
 
 DICKINSON, Don M. : 
 
 Lawyer; born in i'ort Ontario, N. Y.. 
 Jan. 17, ]S4(i: son of Col. Asa C. and 
 Minerva 11. Dickinson; and he has been 
 a resident of Michigan from 1848. He was 
 
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 graduated from the University of INIichigan, 
 LL.B., 1866, and in 1867 was admitted to 
 the Micliigan Bar. 8ince that time he has 
 been in continuous practice securing inter- 
 national distinction for his legal and 
 forensic ability, and a large practice in 
 the West, New York and Washington. 
 Politically he early became a leader in the 
 Democracy of Michigan, was chairman of 
 the Democratic State Committee in 1870, 
 Michigan member of the National Demo- 
 cratic Committee, 1880-1885; postmaster- 
 general of the United States in the first 
 Cleveland Administration, 1887-188!), and he 
 was tendered and declined a^ cabinet posi- 
 tion in the Second Cleveland Administra 
 tion, 1893. Mr. Dickinson was senior coun- 
 sel of the United States before the Interna- 
 tional High Commission on Bering Sea 
 claims in connection with the Fur Seal Arbi- 
 tration of 1896-1897, and was the American 
 member of the Court of Arbitration to ad- 
 just the controversy between the United 
 States and the Republic of Salvador, 1902. 
 He is a member of the American Bar As- 
 sociation, Michigan Bar Association and 
 member and ex-president of the Detroit Bar 
 Association, former president of the Detroit 
 Museum of Art; president of the Senator 
 MacMillan Memorial Association; vice- 
 president of the Jefferson Memorial A&so 
 ciation; member of the Detroit Cliamber of 
 Commerce, National Geographic Society; 
 American Historical Association, Chi Psi 
 fraternity; member and ex-president of the 
 Detroit Club, member of the Bankers, Uni- 
 versity and Detroit Boat Clubs of Detroit, 
 The Pilgrims Club of London and the Man- 
 hattan, National Democratic and Pilgrims 
 Clubs of New York City. He married, June 
 
 15, 1869, Frances L. Piatt. Residence: 720 
 JeflFerson Avenue. Office: Union Trust 
 Building, Detroit, Mich. 
 
 DICKINSON, Marquis Fayette: 
 
 Lawyer; Horn in Andicrst, Mass., Jan. 
 
 16, 1840; son of Marquis F. and Hannah 
 Shepard (William) Dickinson. He was 
 graduated from Williston Seminary, East- 
 hampton, Mass., in 1858, Avith second honor 
 from Amherst College as one of three of 
 equal highest rank, with the degree of 
 
 32 
 
 A.B., in 1862, and A.M., in 1865, and at- 
 tended Howard Law School, 1867-1868. He 
 was assistant United States attorney 1868- 
 1871. His practice is now chiefly in the 
 trial of cases in court, especially for cor- 
 porations. Mr. Dickinson has been president 
 of the Nashawannack Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, the Whitcomb Envelope Company: 
 director of the West End Street Railway 
 Company, the Metropolitan Steamship Com- 
 pany, and the E. and A. H. Batchelcr 
 Company. He has been a member of the 
 Boston School Committee, was a member of 
 the Boston Common Council, 1871-1872, and 
 president of that body in 1872. He is a 
 member of the American Bar Association, 
 the Boston Bar Association, and the Inter- 
 national Law Association, is a trustee of 
 the Massachusetts Homceopathic Hospital, 
 overseer of Amherst College, trustee of the 
 Massachusetts Agricultural College and 
 president of the Board of Trustees of Wil- 
 liston Seminary. Mr. Dickinson is a mem- 
 ber of the Phi Upsilon fraternity of Am- 
 her.-.t College, of the University, New Al- 
 gonquin and Art Clubs of Boston, and the 
 Brookline Thursday Club. He married at 
 Easthampton, Mass., Nov. 23, 1864, Cecilia 
 Risk Williston, and they have one son liv- 
 ing, Charles (A.B., Harvard, 1896), who 
 is his partner in the firm of Dickinson 
 and Dickinson. Residence: 79 Carlton 
 Street, Brookline, Mass. Office: 53 State 
 Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 DICKINSON, Robert Latou: 
 
 Physician; born in Jersey City, N. J., 
 Feb. 21, 1861; son of Horace and Jeanette 
 (Latou) Dickinson. He was educated in 
 Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and in 
 Switzerland and Germany, and was gradu- 
 ated from Long Island College Hospital, 
 M.D., 1882. Dr. Dickinson is gynecologist 
 to Brooklyn Hospital; onstetrician-in-chief 
 to the Methodist-Episcopal Hospital, and 
 consulting gynecologist to St. Mary's Hos- 
 pital, Jamaica, L. I. He is a member of 
 the American Gynecological Society, New 
 York Academy of Medicine, Kings County 
 Medical Society, New Y^ork Obstetric So- 
 ciety, Brooklyn Gynecological Society and 
 British Gynecological Society. He was co- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 o,ditor of the American Text-book of Ob- j 
 stetrics, has published many researclies. He 
 is a. member of the Hamilton Club of 
 Brooklyn. Dr. Dickinson married in 
 Brooklyn, 1890, Sarah Truslow. Address: 
 1G8 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 DIEDERICH, Henry W.: 
 
 Consul-general; born in Pittsburgh, Pa., 
 Nov. 13, 1845; son of Nicholas H. and 
 Clara M. (Wessler) Diederich. He was 
 educated for the Lutheran ministry, and 
 was graduated from Concordia College at 
 Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1866, and afterward 
 from the theological course in the Con- 
 cordia Seminary at St. Louis, in 1869, 
 took a post-graduate course in Columbian 
 College (now (Jeorge Washington Univer- 
 sity) at Washington, D. C. He became 
 pastor of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran 
 Church in New York, 1870-1873; then was 
 professor of the English language and litera- 
 ture at Concordia College, 1873-1889. 
 President Benjamin Harrison, who had for 
 years been his personal friend, appointed 
 him United States Con^^ul to Leipzig in 
 1889, but he was recalled after the change 
 of administration in 1893. In 1897 he was 
 appointed by President McKinley United 
 States consul to Magdeburg, Prussia, and 
 promoted Jan. 1, 1900, as consul to Bremen, 
 Germany, continuing there until 1906, when 
 he was appointed to his present position as 
 consul-general of the United States at Ant- 
 werp, Belgium. Mr. Diederich married at 
 Washington, D. C, Aug. 23, 1870, Margaret 
 Stutz. Address: American Consulate 
 Geno.ral, Antwerp, Belgium. 
 
 DIEFENDORF, Allen Ross: 
 
 I'liysiciau ; boiii in Savannah, N. Y., Dec. 
 21, i871; son of Fletcher Adelbert and 
 Susan (Quackenbush) Diefendorf. He was 
 graduated from Yale, A.B., 1894, and M.D. 
 (Gaining the Keese Prize), 1896-1897. He 
 was interne one. year and assistant physician 
 one year in the insane Hospital at Worces- 
 ter, Mass., and 1898-1908, assistant phys- 
 ician and pathologist of the Middletown 
 Insane Hospital, and since 1908 practising 
 the specialty of nervous and mental diseases. 
 
 He has also been, since 1898, lecturer in 
 psychiatry and since 1904 also lecturer in 
 the medical jurisprudence of insanity in 
 Yale University Medical School. Dr. Diefen- 
 dorf is a member of the American Neuro- 
 logical Association, New York Neurological 
 Association, the New York Psychiatrical 
 Society, American Medico-Psychofogical As- 
 sociation, American Medical Society, Con- 
 necticut State Medical Society, the Sigma 
 Xi fraternity and Graduate Club of New 
 Haven. Is consulting neurologist at the 
 Bridgeport General Hospital and St. Vin- 
 cent's Hospital. He married in New Haven, 
 Sept. 4, 1895, Jeanette Cooper, and they 
 have a son and three daughters. Address: 
 108 Huntington Street, New Haven, Conn. 
 
 DIETRICH, Charles Henry: 
 
 Banker, former senator and governor; 
 born in Aurora, 111., Nov. 26, 1853; son of 
 Leonard and Wilhelmina Dietrich. He was 
 educated in the Aurora public schools until 
 1867, worked on a farm during vacations, 
 in Kane County, 111., and afterward as a 
 clerk in stores in Chicago and in St. Jo- 
 seph, Mo.; was engaged in cotton planting 
 and cutting cypress timber in the south, 
 1873-1874, then blacksmithing until fall of 
 1875, then in mining and merchandising in 
 the Black Hills until 1878, since which 
 year he has been engaged in mercantile and 
 banking business at that place, where he is 
 president of the German National Bank. 
 He became a leader in the Republican pol- 
 itics of Nebraska, was elected governor of 
 that State in 1900, but resigned upon his 
 election March 28, 1901, to the United 
 States Senate for the term which expired 
 March 4, 1905. He married in Aurora, 111., 
 in 1878, Elizabeth Slaker, who is now de- 
 ceased. Address: Hastings, Neb. 
 
 DIETRICH, Frank Sigel: 
 
 Jurist; born in Ottawa, Kan., Jan. 23, 
 1863; son of Jacob and Catherine (Jackel) 
 Dietrich. He was educated in the prepara- 
 tory department of Ottawa (Kan.) Uni- 
 versity and in Brown University, A.B., 
 1887, A.M., 1890. He was instructor in 
 history and political economy in Ottawa 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 499 
 
 University, 1887-1891; was admitted to the 
 bar in Kansas in 1891; became attorney of 
 the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company, 
 18991907, and was appointed by Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt in 1907 to his present office 
 as judge of the United States District Court 
 for the District of Idaho. Judge Dietrich 
 married at Blackfoot, Idaho, Sept. 27, 
 1893, Martha Behle. Address: Pocatello, 
 Idaho. 
 
 DIKE, Norman Staunton: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 
 22, 1862; son of Camden C. and Jeannie 
 (Scott) Dike. He was educated in the 
 Brooklyn Polytechnic School, was graduated 
 from Brown University as Ph.B., 1885, and 
 from Columbia Law School, LL.B., 1887. 
 He has been engaged in the general prac- 
 tice of law since 1887. He has always 
 taken a deep interest in politics as an ac- 
 tive Republican. He was elected super- 
 visor of Kings County in 1894; elected 
 president pro tempore of the Board in 
 1895; and was active in expelling John 
 Y. jMcKane from the Board and organizing 
 it as Republican. In 1895 he was appointed 
 assistant to the judge advocate general in 
 the National Guard of the State of New 
 York, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, 
 by Governor Morton. He was appointed by 
 Governor Odell as sheriff of Kings County, 
 for a year, to fill a vacancy, and was aloo 
 appointed on the Board of Managers of the 
 Long Island State Hospital for the Insane 
 by Governor Higgins; and he was appointed 
 by Governor Higgins, in 1906, to the office 
 of county judge of Kings County, and 
 elected for the full term of six years at 
 the following election. He was president of 
 Brooklyn Homoeopathic Hospital; and presi- 
 dent for two years of Brown University 
 Alumni of New York City. Judge Dike 
 is a member of the Sons of the Revolution, 
 and of the University Club, Brown Uni- 
 versity Club (of which he is ex-president), 
 Hamilton, Brooklyn, Riding and Driving, 
 Dyker Meadow Golf and Casino Crescent 
 Athletic Clubs. Residence: 194 Columbia 
 Heights. Address: 164 Montague Street, 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 DILL, James Brooks: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Spencerport, N. Y., July 
 25, 1854; son of Rev. James H. and 
 Catharine D. Dill. He was graduated from 
 Yale in 1876, and from the Law School of 
 the University of New York in 1878. He be- 
 gan the practice of law in New York City 
 in 1878, and since 1885 has given special 
 attention to the subject of corporation law, 
 in which he has made his reputation in 
 New Jersey as well as in New York. Mr. 
 Dill has been a member of several State 
 commissions dealing with the codification 
 of the statutes, and since 1892 he has been 
 regarded as a leader in moulding and shap- 
 ing the corporation laws of New Jersey. 
 He has been connected with the organiza- 
 tion of important corporations and the man- 
 agement, as director or counsel, of various 
 corporate interests, industrial, financial and 
 railroad. He was appointe.d in July, 1905, 
 one of the judges of the Court of Errors 
 and Appeals of the State of New Jersey. 
 Judge Dill is author of: Dill on New 
 Jersey Corporations, a work of recognized 
 authority, and of a number of articles, 
 mainly on e.conomics and kindred topics, his 
 address at Harvard University on National 
 Corporations being widely commented upon. 
 His attitude has been quite independent of 
 so-called corporate influence, and his ut- 
 terances have been frankly critical of cer- 
 tain corporate tendencies and practices. 
 Residence: East Orange, N. J. Office: 27 
 Pine Street, New York City. 
 
 DILLINGHAM, William Paul: 
 
 United States Senator; born at Water- 
 bury, Vt. Dec. 12, 1843; son of Paul and 
 Julia (Carpenter) Dillingham. He received 
 an academic education and was admitted 
 to the bar in 1867. He was State's attorney 
 for Washington County for two terms and 
 commissioner of State taxes for several 
 years. In 1876 and again in 1884 he was a 
 member of the Vermont House of Represent- 
 atives, and he was a State Senator from 
 Washington County in 1878 and again in 
 1880. He was afterward elected governor 
 of Vermont, serving from 1888 to 1890. 
 On October 18, 1900, he was elected United 
 
500 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 States Senator from Vermont to till the 
 vacancy caused by the death of Justin S. 
 Morrill and has been twice elected for full 
 terms. His present term will expire March 
 3, 1915. Senator Dillingham was appointed 
 chairman of tiie United States Immi;,'ration 
 Commission in 1907. He has been president 
 of the Watcrbury (Vt.) National Bank 
 since ISOO. Address: Montpelier, Vermont. 
 
 DILLON, John Forrest: 
 
 Jurist ; born in Northampton, N. Y., Dec. 
 25. 1831; son of Thomas and Rosannah 
 Dillon. He was graduated from the medical 
 department of the University of Iowa, but 
 after six months medical practice he took 
 up the study of law, and he was admitted 
 to the bar in 1852. He was State prosecut 
 ing attorney from 1852 to 1858; judge, of the 
 Seventh Judicial District of Iowa from 1858 
 to 1863; judge of the Supreme Court of 
 Iowa from 18G3 to 1869; and judge of the 
 United States Circuit Court of the Eighth 
 Judicial Circuit from 1867 to 1879. He 
 resigned and then became professor of real 
 estate and equity jurisprudence in Columbia 
 Law School from 1879 until 1882, when 
 he resumed the practice of law. He is au- 
 thor of numerous law books and of many 
 articles on legal subjects. Judge Dillon was 
 a member of the Third Annual Convention 
 of tlie Association for the Codification of the 
 Law of Nations (L'lnstitut de droit Inter- 
 national ) . He is general and consulting- 
 counsel to Interborough Railroad, Texas and 
 Pacific Railway and the Western Union 
 Telegraph Companies. Re.-^idenee: Far 
 Hills, N. J. Address: 195 Bioadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 DIMMOCK, George: 
 
 Zoologist; born in Springfield, Mass., May 
 17, 1852; son of George Moni-oe and Eliz- 
 abeth (Learned) Dinmioek. He was gradu- 
 ated from Harvard University, A.B., 1877 
 from the University of Leipzig, as A.I\I. and 
 Ph.D. in 1881, and was at the Sorbonne 
 (University of Paris) as special student 
 1S81-1882, and since then has been engaged 
 in private research. For several years he 
 has been working on investigations in the 
 
 early stages of beetles. He was editor of 
 Psyche (entomological journal), 1877-1890. 
 Mr. Dimmock is a fellow of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science 
 and a member of the American Society of 
 N'aturalists, the Boston Society of Natural 
 History, Society Entomologique de. France, 
 and the Cambridge Entomological Club. 
 He married at Cambridge, Mass., March 30. 
 1878, Anna Katharina Hofmann, and they 
 have one daughter. Address: 531 Berk- 
 shire Avenue, Springfield, Mass. 
 
 DINGLEY, Frank Lambert: 
 
 Editor; born at Unity, Waldo County, 
 Me., Feb. 7, 1840; son of Nelson and Jane 
 (Lambert) Dingley. He was graduated 
 from Bowdoin College, A.B., with Phi 
 Beta Kappa honors, in 1861, and received 
 the degree of A.M. in 1863. With 
 his brother (the late Congressman Nelson 
 Dingley, Jr. ) , he established the Lewiston 
 Journal at Lewiston, Maine, in 1861, and 
 he is still its editor, and treasurer of the 
 Lewiston Journal Company. In addition 
 to his editorial work Mr. Dingley has deliv- 
 ered from time to time, addresses on current 
 topics, and a series of addresses on The 
 Newspaper, made before the Greenacre 
 School of Philosophy, have been published 
 by the Lewiston Journal Company. During 
 the administi-ation of President Benjamin 
 Harrison, he was appointed a special com- 
 missioner to investigate the subject of 
 foreign immigration, and in that capacity 
 he went to points of embarkation of 
 emigrants on the continent of Europe and 
 in the British Isles, and on the basis of his 
 report, which was published by the Depart- 
 ment of State, the first legislation in re- 
 straint of undesirable innnigration was 
 enacted by the American Congress. He 
 married Lu IVIary Greeley, at Canton, 
 Lewis County, Mo., Oct. 21, 1863. Resi- 
 dence: Auburn, Me. Oillce: Tlie Journal, 
 Ijcwiston ]\I;>ine. 
 
 DISSTON, William: 
 
 Maiuifacturer ; born in I'iiilailclpliia, June 
 24, 1859. He is the fourth son of the late 
 Henry Disston, of England, who came to 
 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 501 
 
 America and in 1S40 ostablishod the Diss- 
 ton Saw Manufactory. On liis father's 
 .side he is descended from John d'Tsney 
 who came from Normandy with William 
 tlie Conqueror in tlie eleventh century, and 
 on liis mother's side from a Swedish fam- 
 ily who came to Philadelphia in 1640. lie 
 was educated at the Episcopal Academy 
 and afterward spent seven years in his 
 father's manufactory. He is president of 
 Henry Disston and Sons Saw Works and 
 of the German American Title and Trust 
 Company and is a director of the Union 
 League of Philadelphia. Address: Chest- 
 nut Hill, Philadelphia. 
 
 DITHMAR, Edward Augustus: 
 
 Editor; horn in New York City, May 22, 
 1854; son of Henry and Anna B. Dithmar. 
 He was educated in the schools of New York 
 City. Since 1871 he has been engaged in 
 editorial work of the New York Evening 
 Post and the New York Times. He was 
 dramatic critic, 1884-1901 ; London corre- 
 spondent. 1901-1902; editor of The Saturday 
 Review of Books, 1902-1907, and since 1907 
 has been editorial writer on the New Y'ork 
 Times. He is author of: John Drew, A 
 Biographical Sketch, and other dramatic 
 writings. He is a member of the Savage. 
 Club of London and the National Club of 
 New York City. He married in 1882, Ella 
 B. Knapp. Address': Hotel San Remo, New 
 York City. 
 
 DITSON, Charles Healy: 
 
 Publisher of music ; born in Boston, 
 Mass., Aug. 11, 1845; son of Oliver and 
 Catherine (Delano) Ditson. He was edu- 
 cated in the Boston High School. His career 
 has been spent in the business established 
 by his father ; and he is now president of the, 
 Oliver Ditson Company, of Boston, and pres- 
 ident of Charles H. Ditson & Company of 
 New York City. IMr. Ditson is a member 
 of the New England Society in New York, 
 and the Society of Mayflower Descendants; 
 treasurer of the Oliver Ditson Society for 
 the Relief of Needy Musicians (Boston), 
 and is a member of the Players' Club of 
 New York City and the Algonquin Club of 
 
 Boston. ■Mr. Ditson married in New York 
 City, Oct. 7, 1890, Alice M. Tappin. Ad- 
 dress: 19 East 37th Street. New York City. 
 
 DITTENHOEFER, Abram Jesse: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Charleston, S. C, March 
 17, 1836; son of Isaac and Babetta Ditten- 
 hoefer. When four years old, came to New 
 York City with his parents. He was edu- 
 cated in Columbia College, and was at the 
 head of his class in classics, and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1857. Mr. Dittenhoefer 
 was appointed by Governor Fenton of New 
 York, a Justice of the City Court, to fill a 
 vacancy, and was later nominated to the 
 same office. He was presidential elector for 
 the State of New York for Lincoln and 
 Johnson in 1864, and was offered the ap- 
 pointment as a United States District 
 Judge for South Carolina, by President Lin- 
 coln. He was a delegate to the Republican 
 National Convention in 1876, that nomi- 
 nated President Hayes, and has also been a 
 delegate to many other Republican Conven- 
 tions. Judge Dittenhoefer was Chairman of 
 the German ReiDublican Central Committee 
 for twelve terms. He is counsel for the 
 Lincoln National Bank and numerous other 
 corporations; has been prominent in nu- 
 merous important litigations ; and was 
 counsel for the brokers and newspaper men 
 who were indicted and tried in Washington 
 for refusing to answer the United States 
 Senate Investigating Committee, as to who 
 gave them the information published by 
 them in the newspapers, relating to the 
 sugar scandal. He has been successful in 
 many prominent criminal cases that have 
 attracted j^ublic attention. He was counsel 
 for the directors and captain of the ill-fated 
 General Slocum, and for Rosenthal and 
 Company, who were prosecuted in the 
 United States courts in connection with the 
 Japanese silk-smuggling frauds. He is an 
 authority on the law of the drama and 
 stage, and, as counsel for the Metropolitan 
 Opera House of New York City, he succeeded 
 in defeating the application of the widow 
 of Richard Wagner for an injunction re- 
 straining the production of the Opera Par- 
 sifal at that opera house. Mr. Dittenhoefer 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 is an lionorary member of the Actors' Fund, 
 which he helped to organize. Office Ad- 
 dress: Of) Broadway, New York City. 
 
 DIX, Beulah Marie: 
 
 Author, playwright; born in Kingston, 
 ]\rass., Dec. 25, 1876; daughter of Henry S. 
 and INIaria L. (Morse) Dix. She was edu 
 cated in the public schools of Plymouth 
 and Chelsea, Mass., and RadclifTe College, 
 being graduated A.B., summa cum laude, 
 1897, with highest honors in English and 
 the Sohier prize of $250 " for the best thesis 
 presented by a student either of Radcliffe 
 or Harvard, who was a candidate for Eng- 
 lish honors," and received the A.M. degree 
 from Radcliffe. College, 1898. Miss Dix is 
 author of the juvenile books: Hugl 
 Gwyeth; Soldier Rigdale; A Little Captive 
 Lad; Merrylips; also of the novels: The 
 Making of Christopher Ferringham; Blount 
 of Breckenhow; The Fair Maid of Gray- 
 stones; and (in collaborotion with Miss 
 C. A. Harper), The, Beau's Comedy: and 
 .short stories in Harper's, Lippincott's, St. 
 Nicholas, Delineator, Youth's Companion. 
 Miss Dix is also author of the one act play 
 "The Hundredth Trick" and (in collabora- 
 tion with E. G. Sutherland) of the four-act 
 plays: A Rose of Plymouth Town, pro- 
 duced in United States, 1902-1903; The 
 Breed of the Tre.shams, 1903-1909; Boy 
 O'Carroll, 190G-1907, and Matt of Merry 
 mount, 1906-1907, all three produced in 
 England; also Young Fernald, 1906, The 
 Lilac Room, 1906-1907, The Road to Yester- 
 day, 1906-1909, "The Substitute" 1908- 
 1909 all produced in the United States. 
 Miss Dix is a member of the Boston Au- 
 thors and College Clubs of Boston; the Pen 
 and Brush Club and Society of American 
 Dramatists and Composers, New York City; 
 and also a member of the Lyceum Club of 
 London. Address: 15 Blagden Street, Bos- 
 ton, Mass. 
 
 DIX, Eulabee: 
 
 ]\lini:itiire j)ainter; born in Greenfield. 
 III., 1879; daughter of Horace P. and 
 Mamie (Bartholomew) Dix. She studied at 
 the St. Ix)uis School of Fine Arts (where 
 she received two medals), the Art Students' 
 
 League, New York City, and the Colarossi 
 School in Paris. Miss Dix has exhibited at 
 the National Academy of Design, the Ame.r- 
 ican Water Color Society, and the New York 
 Miniature Society in New York City; and 
 in the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts 
 and Miniature Society in Philadelphia. 
 She had an exhibit at the Fine Arts Society, 
 Bond Street, London, 1906, at the Bauer- 
 Tolcom Galleries in New York City, 1907, 
 and at the Forest Park IMuseum in St. 
 Louis, and has gained wide recognition for 
 the artistic coloring and composition of her 
 work. Address: 57 West 57th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 DIX, William Frederick: 
 
 Secretary of the Mutual Life Insurance 
 Company of New York; born in Newark, 
 N. J., Nov. 18, 1867; son of John Edwin 
 and Mary Fisher (Joy) Dix. He was 
 graduated from Princeton University with 
 honors in English literature in 1889. Mr. 
 Dix was managing editor of the Nassau 
 Literary Magazine at Princeton. After his 
 graduation he traveled in Europe, North 
 Africa, Asia Minor, India, Burma, China, 
 and Japan, and on his return he engaged 
 in literary work. He was literary editor 
 of the Churchman in 1894. In 1900 he be- 
 came the editor of the Home Journal, which 
 soon after changed its name to Town and 
 Country. He resigned that editorship, May 
 1, 1906, to become secretary of the Mutual 
 Life Insurance Company. He is still, how- 
 ever, a director of the Stuyvesant Company, 
 who are the publishers of Town and 
 Country. Mr. Dix is author of: The Face 
 in the Girandole, a Romance of Old Furni- 
 ture; and of The Lost Princess, a novel. 
 He is a me.mber and registrar of the Society 
 of Colonial Wars in the State of New 
 Jersey; a member of the Essex County 
 Country Club of New Jersey; Crystal Lake 
 Skating Club, Orange, N. J., and a member 
 of the Authors Club of Ne.w York. Mr. 
 Dix married at East Orange, N. J., June 2, 
 1900, Mary Alice Tennille, and they have 
 a son, Tennille, and a daughter, Allison 
 Joy. Residence: 177 Harrison Street, 
 East Orange, N. J. Office: 32 Nassau 
 Street, New York City. 
 
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 DIXEY, Henry E: 
 
 Actor; born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 6, 
 1859. He made liis first appearance on the 
 stage at the age of ten, at the Howard 
 Athenreiim, Boston, playing " Peanuts " in 
 the melodrama " Under the Gaslight." He 
 afterward became a member of Edward E. 
 Rice's Company, in which he was one of the 
 original cast of Evangeline, in which he and 
 Richard Golden playe.d the Humorous 
 Heifer, afterward playing other parts in 
 ihat play and becoming leading comedian 
 of that company, afterward playing in the 
 Gilbert and Sullivan and other comic operas 
 of what period and afterward leading 
 comedian unde.r the management of John 
 Stetson. He made his first great success 
 in the extravaganza " Adonis," under the 
 managemeiit of E. E. Rice. He was a mem- 
 ber of Augustin Daly's Company, 1894-1895 
 and has since starred in numerous comedy 
 parts in the United States and England, 
 including The Adventures of Frangois, The 
 Man on the Box, etc. He is a member of 
 The Lambs and The Players Clubs. Resi- 
 dr.nce: Wassaic, N. Y. Address: Lambs 
 Club, New York City. 
 
 DIXON, Joseph Moore: 
 
 United States Senator ; born at Snow 
 Camp, N. C, July 31, 1867. He attended 
 Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, and 
 was graduated from Guilford College, N. C, 
 May, 1889. He was admitted to the bar in 
 Dec, 1892; and serve.d as assistant prosecut- 
 ing attorney for Missoula County, Mont., 
 1893-1895. He was elected prosecuting 
 attorney in 1894 and served until 1897, and 
 was elected a member of the Montana 
 Legislature in 1900. Senator Dixon was a 
 delegate-at-large from Montana to the Na- 
 tional Republican Convention at Chicago 
 in 1904. He was elected in 1902 to the 
 House of Representatives of the, Fifty-eighth 
 Congress, was reelected in 1904 to the Fifty- 
 ninth Congress, and was elected United 
 States Senator from Montana for the term 
 ending March 4, 1913, succeeding Hon. W. 
 A. Clark, Democrat. Senator Dixon mar- 
 ried in March, 1896, Carrie :M. Worden. 
 Address: Missoula, Mont. 
 
 DIXON, Lincoln: 
 
 Congressman; born in Vernon, Ind., Feb. 
 9. I860; son of Samuel M. and Belinda 
 (Foster) Dixon. He was graduated from 
 the Indiana State University A. B., 1880, 
 and began the practice of law at North 
 Vr.rnon in 1882. He was elected prosecut- 
 ing attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit 
 of Indiana in 1884; reelected in 1886, 1888 
 and 1890, and was a member of the Dem- 
 ocratic State Committee from 1987 until he 
 was nominated for Congress in 1904. He 
 was elected to the, Fifth-ninth Congress in 
 1904 from the Fourth Indiana District and 
 reelected in 1906 and 1908 to the Sixtieth 
 and Sixty first Congress. Mr. Dixon mar- 
 ried at North Vernon, Ind., Oct. 16, 1884, 
 Kate Storey. Address : North Vernon, 
 Ind. 
 
 DIXON, Thomas, Jr.: 
 
 Lecturer, author and playwright; born in 
 Shelby, Cleveland County," N. C, Jan. 11, 
 1864; son of Rev. Thomas and Amanda 
 (McAfee) Dixon. He was graduated from 
 Wake Forest (N. C.) College, A.B., 1882, 
 A.M., 1883, Greensboro (N. C.) Law School, 
 LL.B., 1886; scholar in history and politics, 
 Johns Hopkins University. 1883-1884. Mr. 
 Dixon was admitted to the bar and practised 
 law in North Carolina, and was afterward 
 admitted to the Supreme Court of the 
 United States, and he served a term as mem- 
 ber of the North Carolina Legislature. He 
 entered the Baptist ministry in 1887, was 
 pastor at Rale.igh, N. C, 1887-1888; pastor 
 of Baptist Church in Boston, 1888-1889, 
 and in New York City, 1889-1899. During 
 the period of his pastorates Mr. Dixon be- 
 came one of the most popular of American 
 platform lecturers, and from 1899 to 1902 
 devoted his attention to engagements as a 
 lyceum lecturp.r. Since 1902 he has been 
 occupied chiefly as novelist and dramatist. 
 He is especially well known for his works 
 based upon the relations between the white 
 and colored races in the South, and for 
 plays based upon these books. He is author 
 of: The Leopard's Spots, 1902; The One 
 Woman, 1903; The Clansman, 1904; The 
 Life Worth Living, 1905; The Traitor, 1907; 
 
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 Comrades, 1909. Mr. Dixon has drama- 
 tized: The Chinsmaii, 1905; The One Wom- 
 an, 190G.: The. Traitor, 1908. Mr. Dixon 
 married, in Montgomery, Ala., March 3, 
 1886. Harriet Bussey. Residence: 867 
 Riverside Drive, New York City. 
 
 DIXSON, Zella Allen: 
 
 Author, lecturer, puljlisher, librarian; 
 born in Zanesville, Ohio; youngest daughter 
 of Josiah Buire.tt and Mary Caroline (Blan- 
 dy) Allen. Her father, who was one of tlie 
 pioneer merchants of Zanesville, was a de- 
 scendant of Increase Allen, a native of 
 Devonshire, England, who e.niigrated with 
 his two brothers to Dartmouth County, 
 R. I. (now Massachusetts) in 1661. Her 
 paternal great-grandmother was Rachel 
 Buffet, of Paris, France, a daughter of the 
 famous French author. Her maternal an- 
 cestry is wholly English, her grandfather 
 being Benjamin Blandy, of Bristol, Eng- 
 land, and her maternal grandmother was 
 Jane Addison, daughter of Leonard Addison 
 of the family of the English essayest, Joseph 
 Addison. Among her cousins she includes 
 Lady Kelvin, who was Mary Blandy of the 
 ^Madeira Islands. Her education was se- 
 cured in the public schools of Zanesville, 
 Putnam Seminary and Mt. Holyoke College, 
 A.B., 1880, with additional four years of 
 graduate Greek. Oct. 6, 1881, she married 
 in Zanesville, Ohio, Joseph Ehrman Dixson, 
 of Elyria, Ohio, who died in Dayton, Ohio, 
 April 25, 1885. She pursued a special 
 course in library science and served as as- 
 sistant librarian in Columbia College, 1885- 
 1886, followed by two periods of study in the 
 British Museum Library as an accredited 
 scholar; received the degree of A.M. from 
 Shepardson College, 1892, and from Denison 
 University, 1902, and the degree of Doctor 
 of Letters (L.H.D.) from Shurtleff College. 
 Dr. Dixson has held many important posi- 
 tions, was professionally engaged as library 
 expert, 1887-1888; librarian of Denison 
 University, 1888-1890; librarian of the Bap- 
 tist Union Theological Seminary, 1890-1892; 
 organizer and administrative head of the 
 University of Cliicago Librarj' since 1892; 
 also, since 1896, leclnior in bibliography 
 and library science, in tlie University of 
 
 Chicago. She was literary editor of the 
 Bulletins of the Northwestern Library As- 
 sociation, 1899-1900, and literary review 
 editor of the First Aid Magazine, 1905; and 
 she is author of: Library Science; Cata- 
 loguer's Manual of Authors Nnames; Sub- 
 ject Index to Prose Fiction, Children's Book- 
 plates; Concerning Book-Plates; Charles 
 Kingsley as a Social Reformer, etc. Dr. 
 Dixson founded and owns an unique private 
 book-making plant, occupying a small fire- 
 proof building in the rear of her residence, 
 for which she fills the quadruple role of 
 author, compositor, printer, and publisher, 
 and this private plant, under the name of 
 Wisteria Cottage Press, is noted for its 
 beautiful work. Dr. Dixson is a member of 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science. Ex-Libris Socir.ty of Lon- 
 don, Ex-libris Verein zu Berlin, Oester- 
 reichische Ex-libris-Gessellscraft of Vienna, 
 Societe Frangaise des Collectionneurs d'Ex- 
 Libris of Paris, and Ex-Libris Club of Basle, 
 Switzerland, and has held many offices in the 
 Chicago Woman's Club, the ]\It. Holyoke 
 Alumme Association, the Chicago Club of 
 Chicago, and the State and National Library 
 Associations. Residence.: 5600 Monroe Av- 
 enue. Office: The Library, University of 
 Chicago, Chicago. 
 
 DOAN, Fletcher Morris: 
 
 Jurist; born at Circleville, Pickaway 
 County, Ohio, July 21, 1846; son of John 
 Doan and Maria Doan. He received his 
 early educaiion in the. common schools of 
 Ohio, and afterward entered Ohio Wesleyan 
 University, from which he was graduated 
 A.B., 1867, A.M., 1872, and he was gradu- 
 ated from the Albany Law School at Albany, 
 New York, with the degree of LL.B. in 1868. 
 He was admitted lo the bar of the Supreme 
 Court of New Yo;-k in 1868, and to the 
 Supreme Court of Missouri in 1869, prac- 
 tising at Bowling Green in the latter State, 
 until 1888, when he went to Arizona and 
 was admitted to the Supreme Court of tliat 
 Territory in 1894, locating in practice at 
 Florence, Pinal County. He was district 
 attorney of Pinal County from 1894 to 
 1896, and on July H, 1897, he was appointed 
 associate justice of tlie Supreme Court and 
 
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 judge of the Second Judicial District of 
 Arizona, in which office he is still serving'. 
 Judge Doan is a Re])ublican in his political 
 views. He married, at Bowling Green, Mo., 
 Dec. 25, 187;?. Anna Murray. Address: 
 Tombstone, Ariz. 
 
 DOANE, William Croswell: 
 
 Bishop of Albany; born in Boston, Mass., 
 March 2, 1832; son of George Washington 
 Doane, bishop of New Jersey, and Eliza 
 (Greene) Doane. He was graduated from 
 Burlington (New Jersey) College in 1850 
 with the degree of A.B. and later as A.M. 
 and LL.D. He received the degree of D.D. 
 from Columbia, Union, Hobart, Trinity 
 College (Hartford), and from the Univer- 
 sities of Cambridge and Oxford, England 
 and Dublin, Ii-eland. He was ordered 
 deacon March, 1853; and ordained priest 
 1856; and he served as assistant to his 
 father, the rector of St. Mary's Church; and 
 later became rector of St. Barnabas' Church 
 at Burlington, N. J., until 1863. From 1863 
 to 1868 he was rector at St. John's, Hart- 
 ford, Conn. ; and was at St. Peter's at Al- 
 bany, N. Y., 18671869. He was elected 
 in Dec, 1868, and consecrated in Feb., 1869, 
 bishop of Albany, N. Y. He was a member 
 of the Board of Regents of the. University 
 of the State of New York, and became chan- 
 cellor from 1903. He has begun and directed 
 the construction of All Saints' Cathedral, at 
 Albany, N. Y. ; founded the. Sisterhood of 
 the Holy Child Jesus, St. Agnes' School for 
 Girls, and the Child's Hospital at Albany. 
 He is author of: Questions on the Collects, 
 Epistles and Gospels; Mosaics, or the Har- 
 mony of Collects, Epistle and Gospel for the 
 Sundays of the, Christian Year; Life and 
 Writings of the Second Bishop of New 
 Jersey; and Rhymes from Time to Time; 
 also numerous addresses, sermons and 
 pamphlets. He married at Newark, N. J., 
 in 1853, Sarah Catherine Condit. Address: 
 ■.^9 Elk Street, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 DOANE, William Howard: 
 
 Musical composer, and manufacturer of 
 woodworking machinery; born in Prescott, 
 Conn., Feb. 3, 1832; son of Joseph H. and 
 Frances (Treat) Doane. He was educated 
 
 in Woodstock Academy, Conn. He was 
 connected with J. A. Fay & Company, manu- 
 facturers of woodworking machinery at 
 Norwich, Conn., 1850-1861, and at the head 
 of the same firm in Cincinnati as president 
 and manager. His early musical education 
 was gained at Boston, studying under B. F. 
 Baker, and, afterward from leading Amer- 
 ican and German teachers Kanhoy.sen, 
 Kingsle.y, and also had an extensive train- 
 ing m church choirs. He is composer of: 
 Safe in the Arms of Jesus; More Like 
 Jesus; Draw Me Neare.r; and hundreds of 
 other evangelistic hymns; has edited thirty- 
 five collections of Sunday-school music 
 books, and is recognized as one of the fore 
 most of American composers of sacred 
 music. In his business life as a manu- 
 facturer he is equally distinguished; has 
 taken out over eighty patents for wood- 
 worKing machinery in this country and 
 abroa .. Mr. Doane was formerly president 
 of the. Central Trust and Safe Deposit Com- 
 pany. He is a chevalier of the Legion 
 d'Honneur of France; fellow of the Amer- 
 ican Society of Mechanical Engineers, the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science, American Society of Mining En- 
 gineers; and he is president of the Ohio 
 Baptist Convention, and is connected with 
 other Baptist institutions. Ho, is a member 
 of the Engineers and Transportation Clubs 
 of New York and the Queen City Club of 
 Cincinnati. He married iSov. 2, 1857, 
 Frances M. Treat. Address: Watch 
 Hill, R. I. 
 
 DOCKERY, Alexander Monroe: 
 
 Physician, banker and ex-governor; born 
 ai Gallatin, Daviess County, Mo., Feb. 11, 
 lo-t6 ; son of Willis E. and Sarah E. 
 Dockery. He was educated in common 
 scnools, Macon (Mo.) Academy and St. Louis 
 Medical College, being graduated M.D., 
 1865; and the University of Missouri later 
 conferred upon him the degree, of LL.D. 
 Then, after attending lectures at Bellevue 
 Hospital Medical College, New York, and at 
 Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, 
 he practised medicine at Chillicotiie, Mo., 
 eight years, until, in 1874, he abandoned 
 medical practice to join in the organization 
 
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 of tlie Farmers' Exchange Bank of Gallatin, 
 Mo., of which he was cashier until Nov., 
 1882, whpji he was elected to the 48th Con- 
 gress from the Third Congressional Dis- 
 trict of Missouri. He was biennially re- 
 elected seven times, serving until the close 
 of the Fifty-fifth Congress in 1899, making 
 a continuous service of sixteen years. At 
 the election in 1900 lie was elected governor 
 of Missouri, in which office he served for 
 four j-ears ending Jan. 9, 1905. Governor 
 Dockery has bee.n a life-long Democrat, and 
 one of the recognized leaders of the party 
 in his State and in Congress. He was 
 curator of the University of Missouri, 1872- 
 1882, and is now president of the Gallatin 
 Boarvx of Education. Governor Dockery is 
 a prominent Mason, and a director of the 
 i\Iasonic Home of Missoviri ; and is also a 
 member of the Odd Fellows Order. He mar- 
 ried at Chillicothe, Mo., April 14, 1869, 
 Mary Elizabeth Bird (now deceased) and 
 they had eight children. Address: Gal- 
 latin, Mo. 
 
 DODD, Amzi: 
 
 Jurist, insurance president; born in what 
 is now a part of the township of Bloom- 
 tieid, Essex County, N. J., March 2, 1823; 
 second son of Dr. Joseph S. and Maria 
 Dodd, daughter of Rev. Stephen Grover. 
 His grandfatlier was General John Dodd, 
 and he is a descendant of Daniel Dodd, a 
 native of England, who died in Newark, 
 N. J., in 1005. He was prepared for college 
 at Bloomfield Academy, entered Princeton 
 College in the middle of the sophomore year, 
 in tue spring of 1839, and was graduated 
 A.B. with the liighest honor, pronouncing 
 the Latin salutatory at commencement in 
 Sr.ptember, 1841. ixe engaged in teaching 
 for four years, at the same time studying 
 law, received a license to practice law in 
 New Jersey in Jan., 1848, and became as- 
 sociated in practice with F. T. Frelinghuyso.n 
 (afterward secretary of State of the United 
 States ) . He was clerk of the Common 
 Council of Newark, N. J., 1850-1853, but 
 resigned because of the increased demands 
 of his law practice. He became active in 
 politics in connection with the. organi/a 
 lion of the Republican party in New Jersey, 
 
 presided over the first Republican mass- 
 meeting held at Newark in the summer of 
 ^856, and he was the, Republican nominee 
 for Congress from the Newark district in 
 that year, and was strongly supported, al- 
 thotiga the Democratic candidate, as ex- 
 pected, was elected. He took an active part 
 in the public discussions in the. campaigns 
 of l8o6 and 1860, in behalf of Reptiblican 
 principles and candidates. He lived in New- 
 ark until 1860, and since then has been a 
 resident of Bloomfield. He was elected to 
 the State Legislature from that district and 
 served in the session of 1863, but declined 
 a second term. In 1863 he. was appointed 
 mathematician of the Mutual Benefit Life 
 Insurance Company. In 1871, when the 
 office of vice-chancellor was created to meet 
 the demands of the increasing eqtiity busi- 
 ness, he was appointed to the office by Gov- 
 ernor Randolph, on the nomination of Chan- 
 cellor Zabriskie, and served until 1875. In 
 18/2 he was appointed one of the special 
 judges of the Court of Errors and Appeals 
 by Governor Parker, and reappointed in 
 1878 by Governor McClellan. Judge Dodd 
 resigned that office in 1882, and also the 
 vice-chancellorship (to which he had been 
 reappointed in 1881) in order to become, 
 president of the Muttial Benefit Life Insur- 
 ance Company, in which office he contintied 
 until 1902, when he retired. He was ap- 
 pointed one of the managers of the New 
 Jersey Soldiers' Home, and served in that 
 capacity for over thirty years. Judge Dodd 
 married at Newark, N. J., in 1852, Jane, 
 daughter of William Frame. Address: 
 Bloomfield, N. J. 
 
 DODD, Frank Howard: 
 
 Publisher; born at Bloomfield, N. J., 
 April 12, 1844. He was educated at Bloom- 
 field Academy in his native place. Until 
 1870 he was connected with the publishing 
 business of his father, M. W. Dodd (founded 
 in Brick Church Chapel, Printing House 
 Square, in 1839. He succeeded to his busi- 
 ness in 1870, and with iMlward S. Mead 
 formed the firm of Dodd & Mead; and is 
 now the active head of Dodd, Mead and 
 Company, puolishers. lie estal)lished the 
 Bookman, in 1895; tiie New International 
 
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 Encycloptcdia in 1902, and otlier important 
 publications. Mr. Dodd is president of the 
 American Publisliers' Association, president 
 of J- he Riverside Association, and trustee 
 of the Greenwich Savings Bank. He is a 
 member of the New Yorlv Cliamber of Com- 
 merce., the Century and City Clubs of New 
 Yorlc City, and the National Clubs of Lon- 
 don. Mr. Dodd married, in 1868, Martha 
 Bliss Parker, and they have four children. 
 Residence: 363 We.st 77th Street. Ad- 
 dress: 372 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 DODGE, Charles Richards: 
 
 Consulting librc expert j born in Coving- 
 ton County, Miss., July 17, 1847; son of 
 Hon. Jacob Richards and Frances Gove 
 (Buxton) Dodge. He took a special course 
 of two years in the Sheffield Scientific 
 School at Y'ale 1865-1867. He became con- 
 nected with the United States Department 
 of Agriculture in 1867, and he was assistant 
 entomologist and had charge of the Ag- 
 ricultural jMuseum for ten years. In 1870 
 he began a special study, of fibres. From 
 1890 to July, 1898, he. was in charge of the 
 ofiice of Fibre investigations of the Depart- 
 ment of Agriculture, since discontinued. He 
 was editor and publisher of Field and Forest 
 (scientific journal), 1872-1875, and he was 
 special agent in agriculture of the Tenth 
 Census. Mr. Dodge has published twenty 
 special reports on fibres and various fibre 
 industries, including a Dictionary of the 
 Fibre Plants of the World. He has been 
 connected in an official capacity with ten 
 international expositions; was a member of 
 the Jury of Awards at the Expositions at 
 Paris, 1889, Chicago, 1893, Atlanta, 1895, 
 Nashville, 1897, Omaha, 1898, Paris, 1900, 
 Buflalo, 1901 and St Louis, 1902; and he 
 was director of agriculture of the United 
 States Commission to the Paris Exposition 
 of 1900. In connection with his services in 
 that capacity received from the French 
 Government the decorations of Chevalier du 
 Merite Agricole de France, in 1890, and 
 Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur de France 
 in 1901. He made a fibre survey of Mexico 
 and iucatan in 1902. Mr. Dodge has con- 
 tributr.d extensively to magazines, technical 
 and other journals, was for some time editor 
 
 of Outing, and was for tlnee years agricul- 
 tural editor of the New York Press. He is 
 a fellow of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, a member of the 
 Philosophical Society of Washington, Wash- 
 ington Entomological Society, National 
 Geographical Society, and the Cosmos Club 
 of Washington. He married, Jan. 23, 1868, 
 Mira, daughter of Colonel Josiah Reab, of 
 New Haven, Conn. Address : Cosmos Club, 
 \\ ashington, D. C. 
 
 DODGE, Cleveland Hoadley: 
 
 Merchant; born in New York City, Jan. 
 20, i860; son of William Earl and Sarah H. 
 Dodge. He was graduated from Princeton 
 University, A.B., 1879, A.M., 1882. He is 
 a member of the firm of Pnelps, Dodge & 
 Co.; director of the National City Bank, 
 Farmers Loan and Trust Company, Nevf 
 York Life Insurance and Trust Company, 
 Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, Copper 
 Queen Consolidated Mining Company; 
 treasurer and director of the El Paso and 
 Southwestern Railroad. Mr. Dodge is a 
 prominent Preabyterian layman, a trustee of 
 Princeton University, the Carnegie institu- 
 tion, and The John F. Slater Educational 
 Fund; and he is a member of the Century, 
 University, City and National Arts Clubs, 
 and other social and business organizations. 
 Mr. Dodge married at irvington-on-Hudson, 
 N. Y., Oct. 11, 1883, Grace Parish. Resi- 
 dence: 90 Park Avenue. Office: 99 John 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 DODGE, Frederic: 
 
 Jurist; born in Cambridge, Mass., April 
 24, 1847; son of John C. and Lucy (Sher- 
 man) Dodge. He was graduated from 
 Harvard College, A.B., 1867, and from 
 Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1869, and prac- 
 tised law in Boston until he was appointed 
 April 18, 1905 to his present office of judge 
 of the United States District Court for the 
 District of Massachusetts. He is a member 
 of the Union Club of Boston. He married 
 in Concord, Mass., Sept. 20, 1877, Eugenia 
 Louise Jackson. Residence: Belmont, 
 Mass. Office: 107 Post Office Building, 
 Boston. 
 
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 DODGE, Grenville Mellin: 
 
 Civil engineer; born at Danver.s, Mass., 
 April 12, 1831; son of Sylvanus and Julia 
 M. (Phillips) Dodge. He was graduated in 
 1850 from Xorwich University from which 
 he received the degrees of C.E., M.A., and 
 LL.D. He served as civil engineer before the 
 war, but entered the United States Army 
 as colonel of the Fourth Iowa Infantry in 
 May, 1861. He was brigadier-general and 
 major-general and commanded regiment, 
 brigade division and Sixteenth Army Corps, 
 and department and Army of the ^Missouri. 
 He took part in the campaigns of Grant and 
 Sherman and of Curtis in the West. Gen- 
 eral Dodge was chief engineer of, and built 
 the Union Pacific; the Texas Pacific; Mis- 
 souri, Kansas and Texas; Colorado and 
 Southern; Fort Worth and Denver Railway, 
 and many others. General Dodge has been 
 president of several railroads and director of 
 many and of several financial institutions. 
 He is a Republican and served as a member 
 of the Thirty-ninth Congress from Iowa, 
 1867-1869. He was president of the Cora- 
 mission for the Investigation of the War 
 Department in the Spanish War by appoint 
 ment of President McKinley. General 
 Dodge is president of the Society of the 
 Army of the Tennessee; an honorary mem- 
 ber of the Society of the Army of the Cum- 
 berland ; connnander in chief of the Loyal 
 Legion of the United States, cliairman of 
 the Committee for erecting a monument to 
 Gen. U. S. Grant, in Washington, and chair- 
 man of the Committee for erecting a monu- 
 ment to Hon. William B. Allison in Washing- 
 ton, and in Iowa. General Dodge is an Odd 
 Fellow, and is honorary member of the 
 Union League and a member of Army and 
 Navy, and Republican Clubs of New York. 
 Residence: Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 DODGE, James Mapes: 
 
 ^lechaiiiciil engineer; born at Waverly, 
 N. J., June 30, 1852; son of William and 
 Mary (Mapcs) Dodge. He was educated in 
 the Academy at Newark, New Jersey', and 
 in Cornell University, to junior year, and 
 at Rutgers College. After leaving college 
 hu served an apprenticeship witii John 
 
 Roach, and since then has practised me- 
 chanical engineering, directing special at- 
 tention to the improvement of conveying 
 machiner}' and devices in the manufacture 
 of which he extensively engaged, and he is 
 now chairman of the Board of the Link- 
 Belt Company, of Philadelphia. He is also 
 president of the J. M. Dodge Company of 
 Philadelphia. He is a member and was 
 president in 1903 of the American Society 
 of ]\Ieehanical Engineers, is a member and 
 vice president of the Franklin Institute of 
 Philadelphia, honorary member of the En- 
 gineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania; 
 member of the Union League, Germantown 
 Cricket, Country, Corinthian Yacht, Ameri- 
 can Institute of Mining Engineers, and 
 Engineers' Clubs of Philadelphia, and New 
 York. Mr. Dodge married at Chicago, 
 Sept. 10, 1879, Josephine Kern. Residence: 
 McKean Avenue, Germantown. Office: 
 Nicotown, Philadelphia. 
 
 DODGE, Raymond: 
 
 Professor of psycholog;^^ ; born in Woburn, 
 Mass., in 1871; son of George S. Dodge, 
 M.D., and Anna (Pickering) Dodge. He 
 was graduated from Williams College, A.B., 
 1893, and from the University of Halle, 
 Ph.D., 1896. He was assistant librarian, 
 Williams College, 1893-1894; assistant Pro- 
 fessor Benno Erdmann, University of Halle, 
 1890-1897; professor of philosophy, Ursinus 
 College, 1897-1898; since then in Wesleyan 
 University, as instructor in philosophy 1898- 
 1899; and professor of psychology, since 
 1902. He is also cooperating editor of the, 
 Psychological Bulletin. His publications 
 are chiclly the psychology of languages and 
 in psychological optics. Professor Dodge 
 devised the first apparatus for photograph- 
 ing the eye movements. He is a member 
 of the American Philosophical Association 
 and of tlie American Psychological Associa- 
 tion. He married at West Acton, Mass., 
 Aug. 15. 1897, Henrietta Cutler. Resi- 
 dence: 107 Lawn Avenue. Address: Wes- 
 leyan University, Middletown, Conn. 
 
 DODGE, Richard Elwood: 
 
 Professor of geograjihy in Teachers Col- 
 lege, Columbia University; born in Wen- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 liam, Mass., Mar. 30, 1868; .son of Robert 
 Frances and Sarah Elizabeth (Wood) 
 Dodge. He was graduated from Salem 
 (Mass.) High School, 1885, Harvard Col- 
 lege, A.B.. 1890, A.M., 1894. He was as- 
 sistant in geology, 1891-1894, and instructor 
 in geology 1894-189.5 in Harvard University, 
 and since 1895 has been in Teachers Col- 
 lego., Columbia University as instructor in 
 geology and geography, 1895-1896, asso- 
 ciate professor of natural science, 1896-1897, 
 and has been professor of geography since 
 1897. He was assistant on the U. S. Geo- 
 logic;! 1 Survey in New England and the 
 Southern Appalachians in the summers of 
 1890-1895. He is author of: Reader in 
 Physical Geography for Beginners, 1900, 
 Dodge's School Geographies, 1903, and nu- 
 merous papers in educational periodicals 
 on the teaching of Geography. He is a 
 fellow of the, New York Academy of 
 Sciences ; member of the Geological Society 
 of America, American Geographical Society, 
 American Association for the Advance'raent 
 of Science, Association of American Geog- 
 raphers, and other scientific societies. He 
 married, in 1896, Stella Pomeroy Dalton, 
 and they have three children. Residence: 
 Washington, Conn. Address : Teachers 
 College, Columbia University, New York 
 City. 
 
 DODGE, Theodore Ayrault: 
 
 Lieutenant-colonel U. S. A., and author; 
 born in Pittsfiejd, Mass., May 28, 1842. He 
 leceived his military education in Berlin, 
 and was afterward a student at University 
 College, London and the University of Hei- 
 delberg. He was graduated from the Lon- 
 don L^niversity in 1861 and from Columbia 
 University in 1866 with the degree of LL.B. 
 He joined the army of the Potomac in July, 
 1861, and he lost a leg at Gettysburg. In 
 1864 he. was major of volunteers and was 
 then brevetted colonel. He was commis- 
 sioned captain of the Forty-fourth United 
 States Infantry in July, 1866, received the 
 brevet of lieutenant-colonel of the United 
 States Army and from January, 1864, was 
 chief of a Bureau of the War Department 
 imtil he retired in 1870. He is author of: 
 Chancellorsville, 1881; A Bird's-eye Vie.w 
 
 of Our Civil War, 1883; A Chat in the Sad- 
 dle, 1885; Great Captains, 1889; History of 
 the Art of War; Alexander, 1890; Hanni- 
 bal, 1891; Caesar, 1892; Riders of Many 
 Lands, 1893; Gustavus Adolphus, 1895; 
 Napoleon, 1904. Address; 42 Broadway, 
 New York City. 
 
 DODGE, Walter Phelps: 
 
 Barrister-at-law; born at Be.yrout, Sjn-ia, 
 June 13, 1869; son of Rev. D. Stuart Dodge, 
 D.D. He was educated at Cornwall-on-Hud- 
 son, N. Y., and by private tutors prepara- 
 tory to entering the Yale class of 1891. 
 He was also a student at the University 
 of Oxford in 1896, and in the Inns of 
 Court in London where he was called to the 
 English Bar in 1898. He has practised law 
 in London for some years, being one of the 
 vory few Americans called to the English 
 bar. His ancestor, John Phelps, was admit- 
 ted in 1541 by the same Inn of Court (Mid- 
 dle Temple). Mr. Dodge has devoted his 
 attention very largely to literature and is 
 author of: Piers Gaveston (a standard 
 work on the reign of Edward II) ; From 
 Squire to Prince (history of the German 
 Provinces of East Frisia) ; Three Gre.ek 
 Tales; As the Crow Flies; A Strong Man 
 Armed; The Sea of Love. He has just pub- 
 lished in London, The Real Sir Richard 
 Burton. He is a fellow the Royal Geo- 
 graphical Society, the American Geographi- 
 cal Society and Sons of the Revolution. 
 He is a member of the Racquet and Tennis, 
 and Authors Clubs of New York City and 
 the Reform Club of London. Mr. Dodge 
 married first, in 1888, Ida Cooke, and sec- 
 ond, in 1905, Ethel Adlard Coles, and he 
 has three children. Address: The Grange, 
 Simsbury, Connecticut. 
 
 DODSON, John E.: 
 
 Actor ; born in London, England, Sep- 
 tember 25, 1858. He Avas educated for the 
 bar. He first appeared on the stage at 
 Prince's Theatre, Manchester, Sept., 1876, 
 with J. L. Toole. He played in the British 
 pi'ovinces until Sept. 1889, when he came 
 to the United States with the Kendals, ap- 
 pearing at the Fifth Avenue Theatre. New 
 York City, as " Dr Penguin " in the Scrap 
 
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 of Paper, in 1889. He remained comedian 
 of the Kendal Company until June, 1894, 
 and as principal comedian at the Empire 
 Thp.atrc Company of New York, appearing 
 as Richelieu, in Under the Red Robe, and 
 other roles until 1898, when he appeared 
 as " John Wetherby " in Because She Loved 
 Him So. In 1901 he joined Mrs. Fiske at 
 the Manhattan Theatre, played " Captain 
 Warriner," in Miranda of the Balcony, and 
 then went to London and played " Simoni- 
 dcs," in the production of Ben Hur at Drury 
 Lane Theatre, London. He produced An 
 American Invasion, playing " John Brain- 
 ard," at the Bijou Theatre, New York City, 
 in October, 1902; played " Simonides " in a 
 revival of Bo.n Hur at New York Theatre 
 in September, 1903, and played "Pierre" in 
 the all-star cast of The Two Orphans, tour- 
 ing the country during the season of 1904 
 and 190i3, and played " Fagin " in the new 
 version of Oliver Twist, by Comyus Carr in 
 New York City, March, 1905. He created 
 the title role in General Lew Wallace's 
 Prince of India at Chicago in February, 
 1906, also in October of the same year, 
 " Stephen Roland " in Truth, by Clyde Fitch. 
 Created the part of Sir John Cotswold in 
 "The House Next Door," by I. Hartley 
 Manners, in New York City in 1909. Mr. 
 Dodson is a member of the Lotos, Players', 
 Lambs', Briti.-,h Schools, and University, and 
 the New York Whist Clubs. Address: 
 Lotos Club, NeAV York City. 
 
 D'OENCH, Albert Frederick: 
 
 Architect; born in St. Ix)uis, Mo., Dec. 
 25, 1852; son of William and Marie 
 (Braasch) D'Oench. He was graduated 
 from Washington University, St. Louis, 
 M.E., in 1872, and afte.r that at Stuttgart, 
 Wiirtemberg, Germany, graduating from 
 the Royal Polytechnic Institute there. He 
 has been engaged in practice of architecture 
 from 1875, and is now senior member of the 
 firm of D'Oench and Post. He was super- 
 intendent of buildings of the City of New 
 York, 1885-1889, and was member and chair- 
 man of the Board of Examiners of the City 
 of New York, 1900-1902. Mr. D'Oench is 
 a director of the Ge.rmania Life Insurance 
 Company, and the Eden Musee American 
 
 Comi)any. He is a fellow of the American 
 Institute of Architects and its New York 
 Chapter; member of the Architectural 
 League of New York, and the Beta Theta 
 Pi, Reform and Graduates' Clubs. Mr. 
 D'Oench married in January, 1901, Alice 
 Grace, and has one son. Residence: Sun- 
 set Hill, Manhasset, Long Island, N. Y., 
 and 1130 Madison Avenue New York. Of- 
 fice: 289 Fourth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 DOHME, Alfred Robert Louis: 
 
 Manufacturing chemist; born in Balti- 
 more, Md., Feb. 15, 1867. He was pre- 
 pared for college at the Friends' School at 
 Baltimore, and then entered Johns Hopkins 
 University, from which he was graduated 
 as A.B., 1886, and took post-graduate 
 courses in chemistry, mineralogy and geol- 
 ogy, receiving the degree of Ph.D. in 1889, 
 then went abroad, studying at the Univer- 
 sity of Berlin, the laboratory of Fresenius 
 at Wiesbaden and the University of Strass- 
 burg 'until 1891, when he engaged in busi- 
 ness in Baltimore as a manufacturing chem- 
 ist, and he, is now vice-president of the 
 corporation of Sharp and Dohme, manu- 
 facturing chemists, of Baltimore, who are 
 among the leaders in the modern improve- 
 ment in pharmaceutical manufacturing 
 methods. Dr. Dohme is one of the, leading 
 members of the American Pharmaceutical 
 Association, was chairman of its Scientific 
 Section in 1898, and at the Decennial Con- 
 vention held in Washington in May, 1900, 
 he was ejected secretary of the National 
 Con)mittee for the Revision of the Pharma- 
 copoeia of the United States for the decade, 
 1900-1910. He was elected lecturer on 
 pharmacy at Johns Hopkins University, 
 medical department, in 1901. He is a mem- 
 ber of the American Chemical Society, the 
 Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft of Berlin, 
 Soci6t6 Chimique de Paris, the Society of 
 Chemical Industry, London, German Phar- 
 maceutical Association, and the Maryland 
 Pharmaceutical Association, and was presi- 
 dent of the latter in 1899 and 1900. He is 
 a frequent contributor to chemical and phar- 
 maceutical journals and proceedings. He 
 married in Baltimore, Feb. 15, 1893, Emma 
 D. Blummer, who died Jan. 25, 1908, leav- 
 
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 iiii^- him with six children. Residence: 
 
 ■• CliestnulwocKl," Roland Park, Baltimore. 
 
 Oilier, address: 303 West Pratt Street, 
 Baltimore, Md. 
 
 DOLE, Charles Fletcher: 
 
 Clergyman ; born at Brewer, Maine, May 
 17, 1845; son of Rev. Nathan and Caroline 
 (Fletcher) Dole. He was graduated from 
 Harvard College, A.B., 1808, A.M., 1870. 
 He afterward entered Andover Theological 
 Seminary and was graduated therefrom in 
 1872; and he received the degree of D.D. 
 from Bowdoin College, 1906. He was in 
 the United States Service for three months 
 in 1804, in the Fourth Unattached Com- 
 pany, Massachusetts Militia. He was pro- 
 fessor of Greek in the. University of Ver- 
 mont in 1873; minister of Plymouth Church 
 at Portland, Maine, from 1874 to 1876, and 
 since 1876 has been minister of the First 
 Congregational (Unitarian) Church at Ja- 
 maica Plain, Boston. He was Ingersoll 
 lecturer at Harvard, 1906; is a trustee of 
 the Tuskegee Institute at Tuskegee, Ala., 
 the American Peace Society, the, Anti-Im- 
 perialist League, and the Unitarian Tem- 
 perance Society; member of the Massa- 
 chusetts, American Forestry Association, 
 Massachusetts Forestry Association, Massa- 
 chusetts Civic League, Ministers Appala- 
 chian, Eliot, Boston City, and Twentieth 
 Century Clubs. In addition to his min- 
 isterial labors Mr. Dole has been extensively 
 occupied with literature, and he is author 
 of The Citizen and His Neighbor; Earlj 
 Hebrew Stories; Jesus and the Men About 
 Him; The American Citizen; A Catechism 
 of Liberal Faith ; The Golden Rule in Busi- 
 ness; The Coming People; Luxury and 
 Sacrifice; The Theology of Civilization; The 
 Young Citizen; Noble Womanhood; The Re- 
 ligion of a Gentleman; The Problem of 
 Duty; From Agnosticism to Thefsm; The 
 Smoke and the Flame; The Spirit of 
 Democracy, etc. Mr. Dole married in 
 Brunswick, Maine, March 4, 1873, Frances 
 Drummond, and they have living two chil- 
 dren, James Drummond Dole and Winifred 
 Dole. Address : 14 Roanoke Avenue, Ja- 
 maica Plain, Mass. 
 
 DOLE, Nathan Haskell: 
 
 Autlior; born at Chelsea, Mass., Aug. 31, 
 1852; son of Rev. Nathan and Caroline 
 (Fletcher) Dole. He was graduated from 
 Harvard, A.B., 1874, and after four years 
 of teaching took up literary work and be- 
 came literary and musical editor of the 
 Philadelphia Press. He was for thirteen 
 years literary adviser, T. Y. Crovvell & 
 Company. He is a secretary of the depart- 
 ment of publicity of D. Appleton & Com- 
 pany; president of the Omar Khayyam So- 
 ciety of America; president of the Biblio- 
 phile Society, and director of the Fellowes 
 Athenaeum ; has been odist to the Ancient 
 and Honorable Artillery Company. Mr. Dole 
 is one of the examiners of the Boston Pub 
 lie Library, and is Boston correspondent 
 of the New York Evening Post. He is a 
 member of the Twentieth Century Club of 
 Boston, New York and Boston Authors 
 Clubs, Harvard Musical Association, Do- 
 fobs Club of Chicago, and the Castilian 
 Club. He was accorded a medal by the 
 Shah of Persia. Mr. Dole is author of: 
 Young Folks" History of Russia, is81; A 
 Score of Famous Composers, 1891 (re-im- 
 pression under title, Famous Composers, 2 
 vols., 1902); Not Angels Quite, 1893; On 
 the Point, 1895; The Hawthorne Tree and 
 other Poems, 1895; Poems for the Educa- 
 tional Music Course, 1896; Life of Fran- 
 cis William Bird, 1897; Joseph Jefferson 
 at Home, 1898; Omar, the Tent-Maker — 
 A Romance of Old Persia, 1899; Peace and 
 Progress — The Building of the. Organ and 
 Onward (poems), 1904; A Teacher of 
 Dante, 1907. The Pilgrims and other 
 Poems for Public Occasions, 1907. He has 
 edited The International Library and a large 
 number of other compilations; is the 
 translator of many standard works from 
 the Russian, the Spanish, French, Italian, 
 Swedish, and the. Danish. He has also 
 translated from these languages hundreds 
 of songs and lyrical pieces for music. He 
 married at Boston, June 28, 1882, Helen 
 James Bennett, and the.y have four chil- 
 dren. Residence: 91 Glen Road, Jamaica 
 Plain, Boston, and The Mornings, Iginquit, 
 Maine. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 DOLE, Sanford Ballard: 
 
 Jurist; Ex-prcsidoni of Hawaii; born in 
 the Hawaiian Islands, April 23, 1844; son 
 of Rev. Daniel Dole and Emily (Ballard) 
 Dole., American missionaries; educated at 
 his father's Koloa scliool, and at Oahu Col- 
 lege, Hawaii, and Williams College, Mass.; 
 studied law at Boston; was admitted there 
 to the Sufl'olk County bar; returned to 
 Hawaii and engaged in the practice of law 
 in Honolulu in 1869. He became a member 
 of the Hawaiian legislature in 1884 and 
 1886, and became a leader in the reform 
 movement of 1887; was judge of the Su- 
 preme Court of Hawaii, 1887-1893; at the 
 time of the revolution of 1893, he was 
 placed at the head of the Provisional Gov- 
 ernment, and became President of the Re- 
 public of Hawaii by a provision of its 
 constitution in 1894, which created a presi- 
 d(>ntial term of six years. When holding the 
 office of Provisional President he received a 
 demand from President Cleveland in De- 
 cember, 1893, through U. S. Minister Willis, 
 that he should relinquish to Queen Liliuoka- 
 lani her con:-titutional authority. He re- 
 plied with a denial of the right of Mr. 
 Cleveland to interfere, in the matter and 
 continued his duties as the head of the 
 Hawaiian government. He was an advo- 
 cate of the annexation of Hawaii to the 
 United States and visited that country in 
 that interest in January, 1898. Upon the 
 annexation of the islands to the United 
 States he was appointed by President Mc- 
 Kinley a member of the commission to 
 rr/'onunend legislation to Congress con- 
 cerning Hawaii. In 1900 he was appointed 
 Governor of the Territory of Hawaii by 
 President McKinley, in which position he 
 continued until Nov. 18, 1903, when he re 
 signed the governorship and was ajjpointed 
 to his present office as United States dis- 
 trict judge for the Territory of Hawaii. 
 He married at Castine, Maine, in 1873, 
 Anna P. Gate. Address: Honolulu, Ter- 
 ritory of Hawaii. 
 
 DOLLIVER, Jonathan Prentiss: 
 
 United States Senator; born near King- 
 wood, Preston County, Va. (now West Vir- 
 
 ginia), Fe.b. 6, 1858. He was graduated in 
 1875 from the West Virginia University 
 and admitted to the bar in 1878. He never 
 held any political office until elected in 
 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress as a repre- 
 sentative from the Tenth Congressional Dis- 
 trict of Iowa, and was a member of the 
 House also in the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, 
 Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth 
 Congresses." On Aug. 23, 1900, he. was ap- 
 pointed United States Senator to fill the 
 vacancy caused by the death of Hon. J. H. 
 Gear, and he was elected Jan. 21, 1902, 
 to succeed himself, and reelected in January, 
 1907. His term of office will expire March 
 3, 1913. Address: Fort Dodge, Iowa. 
 
 DONAGHEY, George A.: 
 
 Governor of Arkansas. He was elected 
 to the office on the Democratic ticket at 
 the November election of 1908 for the two 
 j'ear term exjjiring in Januar\% 1911. Ad- 
 dress: Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 DONALDSON, Chester: 
 
 American consul; born at Ovid, N. Y., 
 March 28, 1862; son of John Chester and 
 Mary McMahon (Smith) Donaldson. He 
 was graduated from Hamilton College, A.B., 
 1884, A.M., 1887. After his graduation he ' 
 was a teacher of mathematics at the River- 
 view Military Academy at Poughkeepsie, N. 
 Y., 1884-1885; master of Berkeley School, 
 New York City, 1885-1887; head master of 
 tlic West End School, New York City, 1887- 
 1895. He served in, the Twenty second 
 Regiment of the National Guard of the 
 State of New York, 1889-1895; went to 
 Nicaragua with the Nicaraguan Canal 
 Commission in May, 1895; was appoiiilcil 
 chief military engineer and confidential ad- 
 visor of President Zelaya of Nicaragua, Oct. 
 15, 1895, serving vmtil api)ointcd Oct. 15, 
 1897, United States consul at ]\Ianagua. 
 He served there until Aug. 12, 1905, wlicn, 
 owing to his strenuous eOorts to get two 
 Americans released from prison or given 
 a fair trial, his exe.quator was cancelled by 
 President Zelaya. He proceeded to Wash- 
 ington with the case, got the American 
 citizens pardoned and was appointed to his 
 
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 513 
 
 prosc,nt position as American consul at Port 
 liinion, Costa Rica. Mr. Donaldson delights 
 ill ail kinds of- athletics, basehall, football, 
 lawn tennis, jumping, long distance runs, 
 wrestling, boxing, and he still holds the 
 world's record, whicli lie has held for 
 oxer twenty-two years, for a. stone-gath- 
 ering race, for tliirty stones one yard 
 apart, his speed excee.ding all other races 
 of this kind at anj' distance from ten 
 stones up. He served seven years in the 
 22d Regiment, Ne-w York National Guard; 
 is a member of the Society of International 
 Law and the Delta Upsilon fraternity and 
 has been president of the Limon Sports 
 Club for three, successive years. Mr. Don- 
 aldson married in New York City, Dec. 
 23, 1886, Edith Maduro, and they have a 
 sou and a daughter. Address: American 
 Consulate, Port Limon, Costa Rica. 
 
 DONAHUE. Patrick James: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Wheeling; born in 
 Malvern, Worcestershire, England, April 15, 
 1849. He was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of London in 1869, and the degree 
 of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Co- 
 lumbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
 versity. In 1873 he came to the United 
 States and settled at Washington, D. C, 
 where he practised law until 1882. He 
 studied for the priesthood at St. Mary's in 
 Baltimore, 1882-188.5, and was ordained 
 priest. Dec. 23, 188.5; was chancellor of 
 the archdiocese of Baltimore. 1886-1891; 
 rector of Baltimore Cathedral, 1891-1894; 
 and on April 8, 1894, was consecrated 
 Bishop of Wheeling. Address: Wheeling, 
 W. Va. 
 
 DONOHOE, Denis: 
 
 Journalist and lawyer; born in Buffalo, 
 N. Y.. Sept. 19, 1861; son of Denis Dono- 
 hoe, British consul, and Eliza Hamilton 
 (Ruxton) Donohoe. He was educated in 
 private schools in New Orleans and Balti- 
 more, Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Can., 
 one year, University of Bonn. Germany, 
 lS79-'l880, Columbia Law School LL.B., and 
 was admitted to the New- York Bar in 1882; 
 was spe,cial counsel in employ of British 
 Government to secure extradition of Butler, 
 33 
 
 winning the case against strong o])position, 
 and securing return of Butler to Au.stralia, 
 where he was fried and found guilty of the 
 murdo.r of fourteen people, and executed; 
 \\as general counsel of the British consul- 
 general at San Francisco, 1880-1000. He 
 was city editor of the New York Star, 1886- 
 1889; has been a writer of short stories 
 since 1890; also of special articles; financial 
 editor N. Y. Commercial since 1904. Mr. 
 Donohoe is a member of the Sons of the 
 American Revolution and of the Press Club 
 of San Francisco. He married in New- 
 York City, June 1, 1885, Marie Paule Parot. 
 Residence: 360 Fordham Road, Bronx. 
 Office: 8 Spruce Street, New York City. 
 
 DORCHESTER, Liverus Hull: 
 
 ^Methodist Episcopal clergj-man; born in 
 Charlestown, Mass., Aug. 27, 1864; son of 
 Re.v. Daniel Dorchester, D.D., and Mary 
 Payson (Davis) Dorchester. After a care- 
 ful preparatory education he entered Bos- 
 ton University, from which he was gradu- 
 ated as A.B. in 1886, and he was graduated 
 as S.T.B. from the School of Theology in 
 1889. He entered the ministry of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church in the New 
 England Conference and was pastor of Saint 
 Luke's Church at Springfield, Mass., 1889- 
 1894, the First Church at Westfield, Mass., 
 1894-1899, the People's Temple at Boston, 
 1899-1902, and the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church at Newton Centre, Mass., 1902-1903. 
 In the latter year he was transferred to 
 the St. Louis Conference where he was 
 pastor of the Lindell Avenue Methodist 
 Episcopal Church of St. Louis, until May. 
 1907, when he became pastor of Elm 
 Park Methodist Episcopal Church, Scran- 
 ton, Pa., in the Wyoming Conference. He 
 married at Natick, Mass., June 10, 1889, 
 Nellie E. Hardy, and they have tw-o chil- 
 dren. Address: Elm Park. Parsonage, 
 718 Linden Street, Scranton, Pa. 
 
 DOREMUS, Arthur lispenard: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in New York City. 
 Sept. 3, 1869; son of Robert Ogden and 
 Estella Emma (Skidmore) Doremus. He 
 was educated at MacMullen's private school, 
 New York City, and the College of the 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 City of New York, in Uio class of 18!)0. 
 He entered the employ of The Crocker- 
 Wheeler Company, then the Crocker-Wheeler 
 Electric Company, manufacturers and elec- 
 trical engineers, in March, 1892; and after 
 going through several departments was ap- 
 pointed a salesman in the latter part of 
 1893. I^te.r he was assistant to the gen 
 eral sales manager, and on the death of 
 the general in 1896, was elected secretary 
 in charge of the sales division. In 1904 
 he was elected to his present position of 
 second vice-president and director, but also 
 continues as secretary. As second vice- 
 president, he has full charge of the sales 
 division of the company, and he has es- 
 tablished nineteen branch offices, traveling 
 to all parts of the United States, also 
 visiting, every year since 1897, England, 
 Scotland, France, and Germany, on agency 
 and other business matters for the company. 
 Mr. Doremus is a member of the New York 
 Electrical Society, the Alpha Delta Phi fra- 
 ternity and the New York Athletic Club. 
 Residence: The, Strathmore, Broadway and 
 52d Street. Address: 32 Cortlandt Street, 
 New York Citv. 
 
 DOREMUS, Charles Avery: 
 
 (hemist; born in New York City, Sept. 
 6, 1851. He was graduated from the Col- 
 lege, of the City of New York, with the 
 degree of A.B. in 1870; studied in Heidel- 
 berg and T^ipzig, 1870-1883, received the 
 degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. at Heidelberg in 
 1873 and the honorary degree of M.D. from 
 the University of Buffalo. He was assistant 
 in chemi.stry at the Bellevue Hospital Med- 
 ical Colle.'^e, 1875-1879; was adjunct pro- 
 fessor of chemical toxicology and medical 
 jurisprudence at Bellevue, 1879-1897; pro- 
 fessor of chemistry and toxicology at the 
 Medical department of the University of 
 {'.iillalo, 1879 1882; profes.sor of chemistry 
 in the American Veterinary College, New 
 York City, 1882-1892; emeritus professor 
 of chemistry, 1892-1898; assistant in chem- 
 istry and physics in the College of the City 
 of New York, 18921897; assistant professor 
 of chemistry and physics, 1897-1903, and 
 acting professor of chemistry from 1903 to 
 1904. He was the United States reporter 
 
 at the Vienna Exposition, 1898, the Paris 
 Exposition, 1900, and the Berlin Exposi- 
 tion, 1903. Dr. Doremus has acted as chc.m- 
 ical expert in many poison cases in New 
 York and other States and is an expert in 
 patent causes and consulting chemist. Dr. 
 Doremvis is author of the section of Gasr.ous 
 Poisons in Text-Book of Legal IMedicine 
 and Toxicology, and is a contributor of 
 many papers to scientific societies. He is 
 a fellow of the New York Academy of 
 Sciences, and a member of the American 
 Chemical Society, the Society of Chemists 
 at Paris, the Deutsche Chemische Gesell 
 schaft. Society of Chemical Industry; 
 American Electro-Chemical Society, Medico- 
 Legal Society, the American Institute of 
 Electrical Engineering, and other scientific 
 societies. Address: 55 West Fifty-third 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 DOS PASSO, John R.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philade.lphia, Pa., July 
 31, 1844. He attended law lectures at the 
 University of Pennsylvania and served in 
 the militia of Pennsylvania during the Civil 
 War. Pie practise.d his profession in Phila- 
 delphia and later in New York. In his 
 early practice he was coimsel in many 
 notable criminal cases and secured the ac- 
 quittals of Edward S. Stokes for the mur- 
 der of Jame.s Fisk, and in the case of Emil 
 Endre. Of late years he has made a spe- 
 cially of Ihe law of corporations and of 
 stock brokers' practice. With John E. 
 Parsons he formed the Sugar Trust — re- 
 ceiving for same the largest fee on record 
 at that time. He is author of: The Inter- 
 state Conuiicrce Act; ("diiuiu'rcial Trusts; 
 The Anglo-Saxon Ceiituiy : A Trustee on the 
 Law of Stock Brokers and Slock Exchangr.s. 
 He is a charter member of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Society. Mr. Dos Passes is owner of 
 a large plantation in Virginia, and is much 
 iid crested in farming, lie is a member of 
 the. Lawyers, :\laniia1t;ni. Strollers, and 
 American Yacht Cliihs of New York City; 
 the Metropolitan Cliili dl' Washington. D. C, 
 and the Eastern Yacht Cluh of P.oston. 
 Residence: 18 East 5()tti Street. Xcw York 
 City. Address: 20 Hroad Street. New 
 York City. 
 
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 515 
 
 DOUBLEDAY, Frank Nelson: 
 
 I'ul)lish(,f ; born in Jhooklx ii. X. \'., Jan. 
 S. 1862. He was odiUMlfd in tlio Polytecli- 
 iiic School at Brooklyn. lie entered tlie 
 employ of Cliarlos Seribners' Sons, where 
 (huing an apprentic(\ship of twenty years, 
 lie acquired a fiOl knowledge of the pub- 
 lishinof business. He revived, in 1884, The 
 I5ook Buyer, which grew to be a well known 
 periodical, and whr.n Scribner's Magazine 
 was issued in 1886, he was appointed its 
 manager. In 1897, he joined the S. S. 
 ]\IcChu-e Company, and shortly afterward 
 a partnership with Mr. McClure was formed 
 under the name of Doublr.day and McClure 
 Company. During the first year, he pub- 
 lished some very successful books, notably 
 Mr. Kipling's The Day's Work. In 1900 
 the firm of Doubleday, Page and Company 
 was formed, with Walter H. Page,, H. W. 
 Lanier, H. S. Houston and S. A. Everitt 
 as partners, and within a year a new maga- 
 zine. The World's Work, was founded, the 
 first number being issued in November, 
 1900. Thr,y established Country Life in 
 America, 1901, and The Garden Magazine 
 in 1905. Early in 1904 Doubleday, Page 
 and Company became an incorporated com- 
 pany with Mr. Doubleday as president, and 
 in November, 1908, that company also ac- 
 quired the book business of the S. S. Mc- 
 Clure Company. He married in Plainfielil, 
 N. J., June 9, 18b6, Neltje Delgraflf (the 
 well-known author ''Neltje Blanchan"), 
 and they have three children. Address: 133- 
 137 East 16th Street, New York City. 
 
 DOUBLEDAY, Neltje De Graff ("Neltje 
 Blanchan") : 
 
 Author; born in Chicago, 111., Oct. 23, 
 ISG.j; daughter of LiA'erius and Alice (Fair) 
 De Graff. She was educated in St. John's 
 School, New York City, and The, Misses 
 ^Masters School. Dobbs Ferry. N. Y.. and 
 married in Plainfield. N. J.. June 9, 1886, 
 Frank Nelson Doubleday. They have two 
 sons and a daughter. Mrs. Doubleday, un 
 der the pen-name of " Ne.lt je Blanchan," 
 has written several of the most popular and 
 usefnl books on birds and flowers, including: 
 Bird Neighbors; Birds that Hunt and are 
 
 Hunted ; Nature's Garden, How to Attract 
 the Birds; Birds Every Child Siiould 
 Know; and The American Flower Garden: 
 also magazine and newspaper articles on' 
 Agriculttiral Training; Negroes, Nature 
 Study, Gardening, the North American 
 Indians, and their Primitive, Indtistries, An- 
 tique Furnitvire, critical essays and reviews 
 of books, descriptions of travel, etc. Mrs. 
 Doubleday is a member of the Armstrong 
 Association, the History Class of Brooklyn, 
 and the National Arts Club of New York. 
 Address: Mill Neck, Long Island, N. Y. 
 
 DOUGLAS, Albert: 
 
 . La\^^'er and congressman; born in Chilli- 
 cothe, Ohio, April 25, 1852. He was 
 graduated from Kenyon College, A.B., 1872, 
 from Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1874, and 
 received from the LTniversity of Ohio in 
 1905 and from Kenyon College in 1906 the, 
 degree of LL.D. He was graduated from 
 Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1874, and es- 
 tablished in the practice of law at Chilli- 
 jcothe. He was electe.d prosecuting attorney 
 of Ross County, 1876-1880; was elected 
 presidential elector-at-large from Ohio, in 
 1896, and was chairman of the electoral col- 
 lege, of Ohio. He was a candidate for the 
 Republican nomination for governor iii 
 1899. He was elected a member of the 
 Sixtieth Congress in 1906 and to the Sixty- 
 first Congress in 1908 from the Eleve.nth 
 Ohio District. He is one of the leading 
 members of the local bar, and he is a 
 trustee of Kenyon College and of the, Ohio 
 State University. He married, April 14. 
 1880, Lucia C. Taylor of Brooklyn. N. Y. 
 Address : Chillicothe, Ohio. 
 
 DOUGLAS, Robert Martin: 
 
 Jurist; born at Douglas. Rockingham 
 County, N. C, J;in. 28, 1849; son of Stephen 
 A. Douglas, United States senator from 
 [llinois. and Martha Denny (Martin) 
 Douglas. He was graduated from George- 
 town University in the District of 
 Columbia, A.B., 18G7, and later received the 
 degrees of A.M. and LL.D. from the same 
 institution. He was private secret.nry to 
 the governor of North Carolina, 1868, and 
 
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 ATEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 WHS a coloiK'l of Xoitli Carolina Militia, 
 186S-1S71. ('clonal Douglas was secretary 
 to President Ulysses S. Grant, 1869-1873, 
 and United States marshal for North Caro- 
 lina, 1873-1883. He e;igaged in practice and 
 was general counsel for and director in sev- 
 eral corporations. He was standing master 
 in chancery of the United States Circuit 
 Court, 1888 1890, and associate justice of 
 the Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1897- 
 1!1().'). He was renominated hy acclamation 
 fur the Supreme Court judgeship hy the 
 Kepiiblican State Convention, but was de- 
 feated for reelection, together with the e.n- 
 tire Republican ticket. He re-umed prac- 
 tice at the close of his judicial term, and 
 is senior member of the law firm of Doug- 
 las & Douglas. lie has been a Republican 
 ever since he became, a voter, and has writ- 
 ten extensively on historical, political and 
 economic subjects. He married at Greens- 
 boro. N. C. June 23, 1874, Jessie M. Dick, 
 daugliter of United States District Judge 
 R. P. Dick. lie was a dflegnte to the 
 Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists. 
 at St. Louis in 1904; where he delivered 
 an address in opposition to granting ali 
 mony in cases of divorce a vinculo. He was 
 nominated by acclamation by Republican 
 State Convention in 190G for Corporation 
 Commissioner, and led the ticket, but was 
 defeated. Address: Greensboro, N. C. 
 
 DOUGLAS, William Lewis: 
 
 ^Manufacturer, ex-governor; born at Ply- 
 mouth, :\Iass., Aug. 22, 1845; son of Wil- 
 liam and ilary G. (Vaughan) Douglas. He 
 was only five years old when his father 
 died, and at the age of seven he began work 
 pegging shoes for an uncle. He returned 
 to his mother for a short lime in his 
 eleventh year, and then went i)a(k to his 
 uncle's shop until lie was 15 years old. 
 He ha<l. during tlic time he was with his 
 iinele. ii fcvv luicf ami irreuular ])criods of 
 alteiidaiici' upon tlie pulilic schools, but 
 beyond tiiis liis edncalion liiis Ik'cii self- 
 ac(|uired. At the a^e ol lillecn he went to 
 work in a cotton-mill at Chiltonville, 
 Mass.. then learned bootmaking in factories 
 :ii llo|ikiiiton and South Rraintree, Mass. 
 Ill I si;,") he went to Colorado, working as 
 
 a journeyman for two years, and in 18ti7 
 starting on his own account. He sold out 
 his establishment there in 1868, and re 
 turned to jNIassachusetts, becoming fir>t 
 journeyman and afterward foreman in a 
 shoe factory at Brockton until 1S7(). In 
 the latter year he began on his own ac- 
 count as a shoe manufacturer at l^rockton, 
 with small facilities and little help. I)ut 
 from that modest beginning he has built up 
 a business which is one of the largest in 
 the country, witii two factories at Brockton 
 with a capacity of over seventeen thousand 
 pairs of shoes daily; 70 retail stores in 
 large cities owned and operated by the 
 W. L. Douglas Shoe Company. Mr. Doug- 
 las has filled niunerous elective offices; w-as 
 a member of the House of Representative^ 
 in the General Court of Massachusetts, 1883- 
 1884, of the Massachusetts Senate in 1886. 
 was mayor of Brockton in 1891 and elected 
 governor of Massachusetts in 1904, de- 
 clining a re-nomination. He has always 
 been a Democrat, was a delegate from his 
 district to the National Democratic Con- 
 ventions at Chicago in 1884, 1892 and 1896, 
 and from Massachusetts at large to the 
 National Democratic Convention at St. 
 Louis in 1904. He married at Chiltonville, 
 in the town of Plymouth, Mass., Sept. 6, 
 1868, N. Augusta Terry, and has two mar- 
 ried daughters. Address: Brockton, ilass. 
 
 DOUGLAS, William W.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Providence, R. L. Nov. 
 26, 1841; son of Rev. William and Sarah 
 (Sawyer) Douglas. His education was be- 
 gun in the schools of Providence, from which 
 he went to P.rown I'liivcrsity, whence he 
 was graduated A. M.. with I'hi I'.eta Kappa 
 honors in 1861, afterward rc.'eiving the de- 
 gree of LL.D. from tiuil iu<titu1ion. He 
 served as second lieutenant to captain of 
 U. S. Volunteers, ]8()l-lSti4. then entered 
 the Albany Law School of I'nion Univer- 
 sity, and was graduated LL.15.. ISIIO. lie 
 practised law at I'rovidence, R. 1., lSt)7- 
 1891, was elected one of the justices of the 
 Supreme Court of Rhode Island, 1891, serv- 
 ing until li)08, chief justice of that court 
 from February, 1905 to July 13, 1908, when 
 lie resigned. Judge Douglas is a Repub- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 lican; Avns a inoiiilx'r of tlio Uciieral As- 
 sciiihly of Kliodc Island, 1871-187."i, nienibor 
 of Ihe Common Council of Providfnco, 1873- 
 l.Sid, and of tho Rhode Island Sonato in 
 1S!»(). He was Division judge advocato of 
 llliode Island Militia. 18{)G-1874, assistant 
 adjutant-fjeneral in 1881, and adjutant- 
 general o'f Rhode Island in 1882. Judge 
 Douglas is a companion of the Massachu- 
 setts Commandery of the Military Order 
 of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 
 and was its senior vice commander in 1889, 
 and again in 1909; and was judge-advocate- 
 general of the Grand Army of the Republic 
 of the United States, 1871-1877. He mar- 
 ried at Newton. Mass., June .30, 1884, Anna 
 Jean Bennett. Address: 107 Prospect 
 Street, Providence, R. I. 
 
 DOVER, Elmer: 
 
 I<"o7'mer secretary. Re]nit)]ican National 
 Committee: horn at McConnelsville, Ohio, 
 April 14, 1873. He received a common 
 scliool education and became newspaper re- 
 j)ortr.r and editor from 1889 189 7. In the 
 latter year he became secretary to the late 
 Senator M. A. Hanna, serving in that ca- 
 jiaeity until the Senator's death. During 
 this ])criod he was actively connected with 
 the national politics of the Republican 
 l)arty. was elected secretary of the Repub- 
 lican National Committee serving until the 
 re organization of the Committee for the 
 campaign of 1908. He also became identified 
 with the large business interests of Senator 
 1 la una, and now occupies important posi- 
 tions with relation to these interests. He 
 married at Portsmouth, Ohio, Jan. 2.3, 1898, 
 Martha Peebles. Address: National Metro- 
 politan Bank Building, Washington, D. C. 
 
 DOW, Frederick Neal: 
 
 Xews])aper jiublislir.v; born at Portland, 
 INIaine, Dec. 23, 1840; sou of General Neal 
 and Maria Cornelia Durant (Maynard) 
 Dow. He was educated at Portland Acad- 
 emy and the Friends' School at Providence, 
 R. I. Mr. Dow has always br.'^n active in 
 llie Republican Party in Maine, and has 
 been chairman of the State Republican 
 Committee. He has held sarioris local of- 
 tiei'S in the citv "overnmont and school 
 
 eonunittee of Poiiland; was a member of 
 the State Executive Council of Maine, 1S72- 
 1873; chairman of council, 1874; counnis- 
 sioner from Elaine to the Centennial at 
 Pliiladelphia in 187t); was a delegate to the 
 Republican National Convention at Cliicago, 
 in 1880; for some years chairman of the 
 Republican City Committee, Republican 
 State Committee and Republican Stale Ex- 
 ecutive Committee,, succeeding Hon. .Tames 
 G. Blaine; collector of the port of Port- 
 land, Maine, 1883 1885 and 1890-189."), a 
 member of the House of Representatives in 
 the Maine Legislature, 1887-1888, and 1889- 
 1890, and was speaker of the House during 
 the last named term. He is president of 
 the Evening Express Company and directs 
 the editorial policy of the Portland Even- 
 ing Express, the most widely circulated 
 newspaper in Maine. Mr. Dow is also presi- 
 dent of the Cascoe National Bank of Port- 
 land; president of the Evening Express 
 Publishing Company of Portland, Maine; 
 president of the Portland Gas Light Com- 
 pany; first vice-president of the Union Safe 
 Deposit and Trust Company; director of 
 the Mercantile Trust Company and the Cas- 
 co Bay Steamboat Company. He is trustee 
 of the Maine Ej'e and Ear Infirnuxry, and 
 was formerly president of the Board. .Mr. 
 Dow is a member of the Sons of the Ameri- 
 can Revolution, Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion, is a Mason and Knight Templar, 
 and a member of the Portland, Lincoln, 
 State Parish and Economic Club of Port- 
 land. He married in Portland, Oct. 22, 
 1864, Julia Dana Hammond, and they have 
 two children. Residence: 714 Congress 
 Street. Office: 12 Monument Scjuare, Port- 
 land, ]\Iaine. 
 
 DOW, William Hammond: 
 
 Newspaper publisher; born in Portland, 
 Maine, Dec. 25, 1866; son of Frederick Neal 
 and Julia Dana (Hammond) Dow. He was 
 educated in the Portland pid)lic schools and 
 the Alassachusetts Institute of Teclinology, 
 where for three years he studied civil en- 
 gineering. He entered newspaper work in 
 1888, and except for two years in tlu' lum- 
 ber business in Bangor, Maine, has been 
 engaged in news^japer work ever since, now 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 being diiL'Clor, treasuiiT and business man- 
 ager of the Evening Expro-s i'ubhsliing 
 Company of Poitlancl, Aiaiiie. lie serveu 
 lluee years ipresiueiil ont' year) ol the 
 Common Council and two years iu tlie 
 Board of Aldermen oi TortlanU, being one 
 year ciiairman of tliat i3oard. He is a mem- 
 ber and was president, lyoO-lUUT, of the 
 Elaine Press Association; member of tlie 
 rortland bociety of iSatural History, tlie 
 Tortiand Board of Trade, Portland feociety 
 of Art and Portland Camera Club, the 
 Maine Charitable jMechanics Association, 
 Associated Charities and various Portland 
 clubs and societies. i\lr. Dow married, June 
 Itt, IS'JT, Kate Turner Wade, and they have 
 one daugJiter and one son. Kesidence: U 
 Dow tetieet. Ollice: 12 iMonument Square, 
 PortJaiul, Alaine. 
 
 BOWLING, Victor J.: 
 
 Jurist; born in New York City, July 'M, 
 18(j(j; son of Denis and Elizabetli Eierlants 
 (Faiuer) Dowling. He was educated in 
 St. Peter's iSchool, De La Salle Institute 
 and Manhattan College, being graduateu 
 A.B., 1883, A.M., 1885, and receiving the 
 degree of LL.D., I'JOU. He studied law in 
 the ollice of Judge James l^itzgerald and in 
 the law school ol the University of the City 
 of ]\'ew York, wJience he was graduateu 
 LL.B., 1887, and received the uegree oi 
 JjL.D., iyU8. Ironi his admission to tlie 
 bar in 1887 he, was in continuous practice 
 of law until 1905. He was a member of 
 the Assembly from the Twenty-fourth Dis- 
 trict in 1894; State senator from tlie 
 Eigliteenth District, 1901-19U4; and wa. 
 elected, in 19U4, justice of the Supreme 
 Court of New York for the Iciiii expiring 
 Dec. 31, 1918. Judge Dowling was an e.\. 
 ceutive committeeman of tiie 1 wenty-fourtii 
 New \'oik District Democratic organiza- 
 tion, 1895-1898, and secretary of tlie E.v- 
 eculise Committee. He was tendc.ri'd a 
 nomination for City Court judge l)y tlie 
 United Labor party in 189;»; was again 
 e.vecutive committeeman of tlic Twenty 
 fourtli District of Tammany Hall, I'JU::: 
 19(J.'{, and a sachem of the Taiiiiuaiiy So 
 ciety fiom 190.3 to 1904. Judge Dowling 
 has several times been a dcdej^ate to the 
 
 State and national conventions of his party. 
 He was a member of the Catholic Commit- 
 tee of the Washington Centennial in 1889; 
 was State secretary of the Catholic Benevo- 
 lent Legion, 1888-1894; supreme representa- 
 tive of the same legion, 1894-1899; State 
 president, 1899-1900, and served as a dele- 
 gate to tlie Catholic Congresses in Balti- 
 more and Chicago, and was a member of 
 the Committee of three of the Catholic Co- 
 lumbian Parade in 189^!. Judge Dowling 
 is a member of the Association of the Bar 
 of the City of New York, New York State 
 Bar Association, the Eriendly Sons of St. 
 Patrick, Eriends of Ireland, American 
 Catholic Historical Society, United States 
 Catholic Historical Society, Bibliophile So 
 cic.ty of Boston, the Columbian Order, 
 Catliolic Benevolent Legion, Xniglils of Co- 
 lumbus, and the Manhattan, Catholic, Wy- 
 andot and Oakland Golf Clubs. Judge 
 Dowling married at Middletown, Conn., 
 June to, 1891, Mary Agnes Ford. Address: 
 Country Court House, New York City. 
 
 DOWNES, William Howe: 
 
 Art critic, author; born in Derby, Conn., 
 xMarch 1, 1854; son of William Elijah and 
 Jaiu; M. (Howe) Downes. He was edu- 
 cated in private day schools at Derby and 
 later under private tutors (Professors Del- 
 fosse and Beers) at New Haven, Conn. He 
 went as correspondouit to the International 
 E.KjJosition at Vienna, 1873, for Hie New 
 Haven Journal and Courier, and was one 
 of tiie editors of The American Voutli, j)iil)- 
 lislied at that exposition, and subsetpiciuly 
 in.<'Mine a rejjorter on the St. Paul (Alinn.) 
 Desiialch, 1874, Boston Globe, 1874-1878, 
 Boston Advertiser, 1880-1883; .since 1883 
 art critic (ui the J5ostoii Evening Tran 
 script. He is author of: Twelve Great 
 .^\rtists; Arcadian Days; Spanish Ways and 
 Byways; The Tin Army of the Potomac; 
 Original Etchings by A. 11. Bickuell; Book 
 I'late.s selected from the Works of Ed- 
 mund H. Gariett; aloo many contributions 
 to magazines and several essays in Yoluiiie 
 1 of Noteworthy Paintings in Aiiieiican 
 l'ri\ate ('ollections, edited by John La i''arge 
 and August I'', .(accaci. Mr. Downes is a 
 member of tlwi .\mericaii Social Science 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 519 
 
 Association, the Metropolitan Improvement 
 League, The Brae-Burn Country Club, and 
 die Paint and Clay Club of Boston, llesi- 
 (lence: 83 Sutlicrland Boad. Ollice: ,'524 
 Washington (Street, Boston. 
 
 DOWNEY, David George: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Ireland, Sept. 21, 
 1858; son of Archibald and Mary Anne 
 (llawksley) Downey. He was graduated 
 from Wesleyan University, A.B., 1884, and 
 attended Drew Theological Seminary, and 
 lie, received the degree of A.M., 1887, and 
 D.D., 1899. He entered the ministry of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1884, 
 and has ever since been a member of the 
 >i'ew York East Conference, in which ha 
 lilled several pastorates. He was chaplain 
 of the Connecticut House of Representa 
 lives, 1886, and of the Connecticut Senate,, 
 1887. Dr. Downey was a member of the 
 General Conference of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church in 1904 and 1908, and was 
 appointed by the General Conference, in 
 1908, corresponding secretary of The Board 
 of Education and Sunday Schools of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a 
 trustee aird secretary of the Board of 
 Trustees of Wesleyan University, and mem- 
 ber of the Board of Managers of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Missionary Society. Dr. 
 Downey is author of Modern Poets and 
 Christian Teaching. He is a member of 
 the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Ad- 
 dress: 57 Washington Street, Chicago, 111. 
 
 DOWNING, Robert L.: 
 
 Evangelist; born in Washington, D. C, 
 1857. He entered the dramatic profession 
 in 1877 at Baltimore and later supported 
 Mary Anderson, Edwin Booth, John Mc 
 CuUough, John E. Owens, Joseph Jeffer- 
 son, and others. From 1889 to 1908 he 
 starred under his own management as Vir- 
 ginius, " Sparticus " in The Gladiator, 
 Othello, Ingoniai', and other he.roic roles. 
 In 1908 he announced his permanent re- 
 tirement from the stage and later in the 
 year took up evangelistic work in which 
 he. has achieved marked success. He mar- 
 ried Eugenia Blair, an actress. Address: 
 Sedgemore, Benning, D. C. 
 
 DOYLE, Alexander: 
 
 Sculptor; liorn in Steubenville, Ohio, Jan. 
 28, 1857; son of George and Alice Catherine 
 (Butler) Doyle. He was educated in pri- 
 vate schools in Italy and the Louisville 
 (Ky. ) Higii School; began the study of 
 sculpture in tlie aeadefnies of Carrara and 
 Florence, Italy, and afterward studied for 
 years in Rome and Paris. He has executed 
 many statues, chielly for public monuments, 
 including those of Horace Greeley for N. 
 Y. City; Senators Be.nton, Blair, and Kenna, 
 for U. S. Capitol ; Generals Johnston and 
 Lee for New Orleans; Philip Schuyler for 
 National Monument, Saratoga; Emma Wil- 
 lard for Troy, N. Y.; Senator Hill and 
 Henry W. Grady for Atlanta, Ga.; Sol- 
 diers' Monument at New Haven, and statut 
 of General Garfield in Tomb at Cleveland, 
 Ohio; Soldiers' Monument, Montgomery, 
 Ala. He succeeded, 1898, to the stone 
 quarrying business of his father, and now 
 sole proprietor of George Doyle & Company, 
 quarriers of Bedford (Ind.) limestone. Mr. 
 Doyle is a member of the Ohio Society of 
 New Y'ork; president of the Squirrel Island 
 (Maine) Athletic and Yachting Associa- 
 tions, and the New York Athletic Club. He 
 marrie,d in Hallowell, Maine, Dec. '61, 1880, 
 Fannie Belle Jolmson, and they have on» 
 daugliter. They have a summer home on 
 Squirrel Island, Maine. Residence: Hotel 
 San Remo. Office: 287 Fourth Avenue, 
 New York City. 
 
 DRACHMAN, Bernard: 
 
 Theologian and author; l)orn in Ne\T 
 York City, June 27, 1861; son of Ben- 
 jamin and Matilda (Stein) Drachnian. He 
 was graduated from Jersey City High 
 School, 1873, Columbia College, A.B. (with 
 thesis on the Poets and Poetry of the 
 Karaites) ; studied three years in Germany, 
 attending the Univei'sity of Breslau, the 
 Jewish Theological Seminary, Breslcy and 
 Heidelberg University, where he received 
 the degree of Ph.D., nnilta cum laude, also 
 was made rabbi at Breslau, and made spo, 
 cial studies of Jewish theology, Semitic 
 languages and philosophy. Dr. Drachnian 
 has been rabbi of the Congregation Zichron 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Kpliiaim of NfW York City, 1889-190!) ; and 
 since 1909, rabl)i of the Congregation Oliab 
 Zedek, in New York City. In 1887, ho 
 was appointed to the chair of Biblical exfi- 
 gesis and Hebrew philosophy in the Jewish 
 Theological Seminary, and in 1S89 dean 
 of tlie institution; these positions he held 
 until 1892, when the seminary was merged 
 into the Jewish Theological Seminary of 
 America, then appointed instructor in Bible 
 and reader in rabbinical codes in the new 
 institution until he resigned in 1908. Dr. 
 Drachman is a warm adherent to the tradi- 
 tional or orthodox faith of Judaism. He 
 is author of: The Place and Impor- 
 tance of Jehuda Hayyug in the History of 
 Hebrew Grammar, Breslau, 1885; Trans- 
 lator: The Nineteen Letters of Ben Uziel, 
 from the German of Samson Raphael Hirsh, 
 1899; The Second Book of Samuel, from 
 the original Hebrew for new Bible transla- 
 tion of Jewish Publication Society of 
 America; contributor to theological and 
 rabbinical literature; has published a vol- 
 ume of Jewish tales, under the title From 
 -the Heart of Israel, and, 1908, a Hebrew 
 Ms. of the Middle Ages, called Dibre Riboth, 
 with commentaries. Rabbi Drachman mar- 
 ried in New York City, Feb. 15, 1888, Sarah 
 Weil, daughter of the well-known philan- 
 thropist. Address: 128 West 121st Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 DRAPER, Andrew Sloan: 
 
 ( Ounnissioncr of education; horn in Ot- 
 sego County, N. Y., June 21, 1848; son of 
 Sylvester Bigelow Draper and Jane (Sloan) 
 Draper. lie is descended on his father's 
 side, in direct line from James Draper, " the 
 Puritan," who settled at Roxbury, Massa- 
 chusetts, in 1040; and througli Mary Pratt, 
 his paternal great-grandmother is descended 
 from Degory Priest, a Mayflower pilgrim. 
 His mother was Scotch-Irish, her parents 
 coming from the north of Ireland in 1812; 
 one paternal great-grandfather wa-; :in of- 
 ficer in King Philip's War, and another 
 was an ollicer in (lie IJcvolul ionary War. 
 He attended the .Mhany |iublic sclio(ds ami 
 was grailuated fi(jni Hit- Alliany Academy 
 ill 180G; the .\ll)aiiy haw School of the 
 L'liion I iiiversity, with the degree of JJj.B., 
 
 in 1871. He afterward received the LTj.D. 
 degree from Colgate L'liiversity in 1899; 
 from Columbia University in 1903 and from 
 the University of Illinois in 1905. Me 
 tnught in the Albany Academy and otlier 
 institutions from 18G0 to 1870; was a mem- 
 ber of the law firm of Draper and Chester 
 from 1871 to 1886; and was a member of 
 the, Albany Board of Education from 1879 
 to 1881, and from 1890 to 1892. He was 
 a member of the New York Legislature in 
 1881; and was a member of the State Nor- 
 mal College Board from 1882 to 1886. Dr. 
 Draper was appointed a judge of the. United 
 States Court of Alabama Claims and ser\cd 
 from 1884 to 1886; was State superin- 
 tendent of public instruction of New Y'ork 
 from 1886 to 1892; superintendent of in- 
 struction of the Cleveland public schools 
 from 1892 to 1894, and president of the 
 University of Illinois from 1894 to 1904. 
 Upon the unification of the two State edu- 
 cational de])artments in New York, he was 
 made in 1904, by special provision in the 
 statute, and election by the Legislature, the 
 tirst Commissioner of Education of the State 
 of New York, which office he now holds. 
 Jrie declined the position of assistant United 
 States attorney for the Northern District 
 of New York in 1882, the position of Sec- 
 retary of the Board of Regeals in 1889, 
 and the position of first superintendent 
 of schools of Greater New York in 1898. 
 He was president of the National Associa- 
 tion of School Superintendents from 1889 
 to 1891; president of the North Central 
 Association of Colleges and Preparatory 
 Schools from 1903 to 1904; honorary mem- 
 ber of the New Y'ork State Historical So- 
 ciety, the Illinois State Historical Society, 
 the Wisconsin State Historical Society, the 
 Chicago Historical Society, the St. Louis 
 Railway Club, chairman of the Department 
 of Education of Intei-national Congresses 
 at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition; and 
 was appointed in li»02 by President Roose- 
 velt a mendjcr of the United States Board 
 of Indian Commissioners, and is now cliiiir- 
 man of the Board. He is also a diivcior 
 of the National Commercial Bank, ami a 
 trustee of the National Savings Bank of 
 Albanv. New York. He is a trustee of the 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 521 
 
 First Piesbytoiian Clniioli of Albany. Mr. 
 Draper i.s aiillior of: The Rescue of Cuba; 
 wlso a monoii'rapli on Educational Organiza- 
 tions and Administration in the United 
 States for which he received the silver 
 medal of thr, Paris Exposition in 1900. He 
 was editor of the Department of Education, 
 Encyclopaedia Americana, and editor-in- 
 cliief of Self-Culture for Young People, 
 «liieh embraces ten volumes. He was 
 awarded a gold medal and two commemora- 
 tive diplomas for educational writings and 
 one of the two grand prizes conferred for 
 conspicuous service to education by the 
 Ijouisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis 
 in ■ 1904. In 1872 he married Miss Abbie 
 Louise Lyon, of New Britain, Conn. Mrs. 
 Draper, like her husband, is descended from 
 the earliest New England stock. They have 
 two e.iildren, Charlotte Leland, married 
 May 8, 1907, to Arthur A. Brown, Pitts- 
 burgh manager of the Westingliouse, Church. 
 Kerr Company, and residing in Pittsburgh, 
 Pa.; and Edwin Lyon, a physician and 
 surgeon in practice at Albany, married Oct. 
 14, 1908, to Miss Mary Frances Headen, of 
 Slielbyville, 111. The family home is at 
 l.")3 Lake Avenue, south, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 DRAPER, Daniel: 
 
 .Melerologist; born in Ne.w York City, 
 April Z. 1S41; son of Professor John Wil- 
 liam and Antonia C. de P. (Gardner) 
 Draper. He was educated in New Y^'ork 
 University, from which he received the de,- 
 giee of Ph.D. in 1880. He was assistant 
 lo Jiis father for several years in chemistry 
 and ])liysiology at New York University, 
 and amanuensis to his father for his In- 
 tellectual Development of Europe and other 
 works. He served a five years' apprentice- 
 sliip at the Novelty Iron Works, Ne.w York 
 City and he assisted his brother, Henry 
 Draper, M.D., LL.D., in constructing the 
 ol)servatory at Hastings-on-Hudson, New 
 York; and he was also assistant port en- 
 gineer of a line of steamships between New 
 York and New Orleans. He established in 
 18(19 and has since been director of the 
 New York Meteorological Observatory in 
 Central Park, inventing for it many instru- 
 ments and making other improvements. In 
 
 1871 he began investigations showing that 
 clearing land of trees did not diminish 
 rainfall, and also that American storms 
 cross the Atlantic. This led to the re- 
 porting of United States disturbances in 
 Great Britain. Dr. Draper is president of 
 the Draper Manufacturing Company of 152 
 Front Street, New York City. He is a 
 fellow of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, and a member of 
 the American Philosophical Society and of 
 the National Geographic Society. He mar- 
 ried in St. Louis, Mo., April 28, 1887, Ann 
 Maury Ludlow, and thr.y have three chil- 
 dren. Residence: Hastings-on-Hudson, 
 iNCw York. Address: New York Meteoro- 
 logical Observatory, Central Park, New 
 York City. 
 
 DRAPER, Eben Sumner: 
 
 Governor of Massachusetts; born at 
 Hopedale, Worcester County, Mass., June 
 17, 1858; son of George Draper. He was 
 educated in Allen's School, West Newton, 
 Mass., and the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology, and after that went through 
 a thorough course of training in machine 
 shops and cotton mills. He was admitted 
 to the firm of George Draper & Sons, and 
 when the business was reorganized and in- 
 corporated as The Draper Company, in 
 189G, he became its selling agent, and he 
 continues in that capacity. He was until 
 recently a director of the New England 
 Cotton A^arn Company, Old Colony Trust 
 Company, National Shawmnt Bank, and 
 Bostcm and Albany Railroad. Mr. Draper 
 is a director of the Milford National 
 Bank and Queen City Cotton Company, 
 and is a mend>er of the corporation 
 of the ]\Iassachnsetts Institute of Tech- 
 nology, of the Board of Trustees of 
 the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Fund, 
 vice-president of the American Unitarian 
 Association. In 1898, through the Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteer Aid Association, he 
 raised two hundred thousand dollars for the 
 hospital ship Bay State, for the Spanish- 
 American War. Mr. Draper is an active 
 member of the Home Market Club at Bos- 
 ton; was chairman of the Republican State 
 Committee in 1892, and chairman of the 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Massachusetts delegation lo the Republican 
 ■NTational Convention at .St. Louis in 1896, 
 wliere lie was a leader in securing the 
 sfrong declaration of llic platfoiin in favor 
 of the gold standard. He was chairman 
 of the Massachusetts Commission to the 
 Nashville Exposition in 1807, and was 
 elected in 1000 as a IMcKinley and Roose- 
 velt elector from the Eleventh Mass- 
 achuset Distrid ; and lie served as lieu- 
 ienant-governor juior to liis election in No- 
 vendier. 1008. to his present ofTice as gov- 
 ernor of Massachnsc.tts. Residence: Hope 
 dale. Mass. Cdicial addres>: Txtslon. 
 Mass. 
 
 DRAPER, Frank Winthrop: 
 
 Physician; lioin in Wayland. Mass.. Feb. 
 25, 1843; son of James Sumner and Em- 
 meline Amanda (Reeves) Draper. He was 
 graduated from Wayland High School, 
 Brown University, A.B., 1862, A.M., 1865, 
 and Harvard, M.D., 1869. Dr. Draper has 
 bc.en engaged in the general practice of 
 meuicine since 1869. He is medical ex- 
 aminer of SufTolk County, Mass.; and is 
 professor of legal medicine in Harvard Med- 
 ical School. He is a member and was 
 president. 1900-1902, of the Massachusetts 
 Medical Society, a member of the Massa- 
 chusetts State Board of Health, and a 
 trustee of Tufts College. Dr. Draper is a 
 companion of the Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion, having served in the Civil 
 War as a private in the 35th Massachusetts 
 Volunteer Infantry, and afterward as cap- 
 tain of the 39th U. S. Colored Troops. 
 Address: 514 Harvard Sireet. Brookline, 
 Mass. 
 
 DRAPER, William Franklin: 
 
 Capitalist and diplomat; born in Lowell, 
 Mass., April 9, 1842; son of George and 
 Hannah (Tiiwing) Draper, and a descend- 
 ant of Abijah Draper, a Revolutionary sol- 
 dier. He was educated in the public schools, 
 and began his preparation for entering 
 Harvard College, but did n"( enter as on 
 Aug. 9, 1861, lie enlist ol in :i vdlunteer 
 company wliicli his fatlicr Ii;m1 Ihiii lirgely 
 instrumental in raising, and which was sub 
 sequcntly incorporated in tlu' 25th Massa- 
 
 chusetts Regiment : and he was cliosen 
 second lieutenant of the company. His first 
 important duty was in connection with 
 General Burnsides' Exjiedit ion to North 
 Carolina, during which he bccanie signal 
 oflicer mi the general's slatl', and partici- 
 pated in tlie battles of Roanoke Island, 
 Newbern and Fort Macon, during which 
 service he w'as connnissioned first lieutenant. 
 He was commissioned captain in August, 
 1862, and transferred to the 36th Massa- 
 cliusetts Regiment, wliicli li<' joined Se])t. 
 14, 1862, just after the battle of South 
 Mountain. He was ]iicsent at the battles 
 of Antietam. and Frederick.sburg, after- 
 wards engaged in the pursuit of Morgans 
 Cavalry, joined (ieneral Grant in the siege 
 and capture of Vicksbnrg and in the sub- 
 sequent march to Jackson and engagements 
 in that locality, the severity of the cam- 
 paign reducing the regiment from 650 in 
 June to 198 in September. Ife was pro- 
 moted to major, participated in the siege 
 of Knoxville, and the battles of Blue 
 Springs, Campbell's Station and Strawberry 
 Plains, and after Oct, 20, 1863, had com- 
 mand of the regiment. Colonel Goodell hav- 
 ing been wounded. At the battle of the 
 Wilderness, while leading his regiment in 
 a charge over a Confederate ritte pit, he 
 was shot through the body and left on 
 the field. After the position had been suc- 
 cessively captured and recaptured he was 
 finally rescued and sent to a hospital in 
 Washington. He received his commission as 
 lieutenant-colonel and served as colonel of 
 his regiment until the close of his service, 
 resuming active service in front of Peters- 
 burg, and commanding the brigade during 
 the severe engagement at the Weldon Rail- 
 road. On Oct. 12, 1S64. his term of service 
 having expired and his wounds being of 
 a troublesome character, he accepted his 
 discharge and returned home, having re- 
 ceived the brevets of colonel and brigadier 
 general for gallant service. Soon after the 
 close of the war General Draper became 
 engaged in the manufacture of cotton ma- 
 chinerv. in wliicli he attained great suc- 
 cess and he is now at the head of the 
 firm of George l)rai)er and Sons, being 
 besides, president and rliicctor in niinicr- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 523 
 
 ous iiiaiiufai'lming, railroad or insurance 
 companies. He is a mechanical expert, and 
 an inventor with a record of over fifty 
 ]iatents. ITe is a well known writer on 
 (•coiu)mics and was for one year president 
 of the Home Market Club. General Draper 
 served for three years on the staff of Gov- 
 oinor Long, and made a strong fight for 
 tlie Gubernatorial nomination in 1880. He 
 was subsequently elected to Congress from 
 tlie Eleventh Massachusetts Congressional 
 District; and served as United States am- 
 bassador to Italy from 1897 to 1900. Ad- 
 dress: Hopedale, Mass., and 170.1 R Street, 
 X. W.. Washington, D. C. 
 
 DRAPER, William H.: 
 
 Congressman ; born in Worcester C'ounty, 
 Mass., June 24, 1841; son of Stephen and 
 Harriet Draper. He moved to Troy in 
 1847 and has resided there ever since. He 
 attended the public schools until 1856 and 
 then entered upon a mercantile career. He 
 is now engaged in manufacturing cordage 
 and twine under the firm name of William 
 H. Draper & Son. He was a trustee of 
 the village of Lansingburg and from 1896 
 to 1900 was commissioner of jurors for 
 Rensselaer County, N. Y. He was elected 
 in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress from 
 the 22d District of New York and reelected 
 to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth. Six- 
 tieth, and again, in 1908, to the Sixty-first 
 Congress. He married at Sclienectady, N". 
 Y.. 1864. Miss Livingston, and they have 
 tliree children. Address: Troy, N. Y. 
 
 DREISER, Theodore: 
 
 Author, editor; born in Terre, Haute, 
 Ind., Aug. 27, 1871; son of John Paul and 
 Sarah (Schanab) Dreiser. He was edu- 
 cated in the publip schools of Warsaw, Ind., 
 and the State University of Indiana. He 
 entered newspaper work on the Chicago 
 Daily Globe, June 15, 1802; was draiuatic 
 editor and traveling correspondent of the 
 St. Louis Globe Democrat, 1892-1893, and 
 traveling correspondent of the St. Louis 
 Republic. 1893-1894. He visited Toledo, 
 Cleveland. Bufl'alo. Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, 
 and New York City as a general news- 
 paper writer and reporter. Mr. Dreiser 
 
 was editor of Every Month, a literary and 
 musical publication, 1895-1898, and after 
 that he was in special work for Harper's, 
 McCliire's, Scribner's, Cosmopolitan and 
 Munsey's magazines. He was editor of 
 Smith's Magazine, 1905 1906; managing 
 editor of the Broadway Magazine, 1906- 
 1907; editor-in-chief of The Butterick pub- 
 lications. The Delineator. The Designer, and 
 The New Idea, since June. 1907. ^Mr. 
 Dreiser is author of: Studies of Contem- 
 porary Celebrities. 1900; and Sister Carrie 
 (a novel), 1901. He is a member of the 
 American Social Science Association and of 
 the Salmagundi Club. In November, 1907. 
 Mr. Dreiser inaugurated for the Butterick 
 Company the National Child Rescue cam- 
 paign, which resulted in a National Confer- 
 ence at Washington, called by the then 
 President Roosevelt, and the adoption of a 
 set of principles governing the care and 
 control of the dependent child. These rules 
 are already in force in several states. Mr. 
 Dreiser married in Washington, D. C, Dec. 
 28, 1898, Sarah Osborne White. Residence: 
 439 West 123d Street. Office: Tlie But- 
 terick Building, New York City. 
 
 DRESSER, Horatio Willis: 
 
 Author and philosopher: born in Yar- 
 mouth, Maine, Jan. 15, 1866. He was 
 graduated from Harvard University, A.B., 
 1895, A.M., 1904, and Ph.D., 1907. He has 
 been assistant in philosophy at Harvard 
 University, since 1903. He is the author 
 of several works on philosophical topics, 
 thfir scope being indicated by their titles, 
 which are as follows : Living by the Spirit ; 
 The Power of iSilence ; A Book of Secrets ; 
 In Search of a Soul ; Voices of Hope ; 
 Health and the Inner Life; Man and the 
 Divine. Order; The Christ Ideal; The Per- 
 fect Whole; Voices of Freedom; The Heart 
 of It; Education and the Philosophical 
 Ideal; The Greatest Truth; The Philosophy 
 of the Spirit. He married in Boston, 3Iarch 
 17, 1898, Alice Mae Reed. Address: 2 
 Gorham Street, Cambridge. Mass. 
 
 DRESSER, Solomon Robert: 
 
 Manufacturer, inventor and ex-congress- 
 man; born in Litchfield, Hillsdale County, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Mich., Ft.-1). 1, 1842; son of Parker 
 and Lydia (Cronkhite) Dresser. lie 
 attended the Hillsdale College, and then 
 eoiiducted the Dresser faiiu with his 
 fatlier until 18G5, when llie oil develop- 
 ment of West Virginia began to attract 
 attention and companies were formed for 
 oil operation. In one of these he took stock 
 and soon became its manager, and con- 
 tinued in this capacity until 1872, when he 
 went to Pennsylvania to engage in the pro- 
 duction of oil and gas. Here he gained 
 the practical experience which, combined 
 with his inventive genius, placed his name 
 foremost among the men of brains whose 
 business energy invented and developed the 
 machinery and appliances used in the oil 
 and gas industry. Among his inventions 
 are a packer for oil and gas wells, which 
 has taken the lead from the first day it 
 was placed on the market, a rubber pipe 
 coupling which by providing for contrac- 
 tion and expansion makes a perfectly tight 
 joint, and an insulated pipe coupling which 
 pievents the destruction of water and gas 
 jtipes by electrolysis. He is a larger em 
 ployer of labor and has never had a strike 
 or any trouble with his emploj'ees. Mr. 
 Dresser was elected to the Fifty-eighth Con- 
 gress in 1902 and reelected in 1904 to the 
 Fifty-ninth Congiess from the 'rwei>ty-lirst 
 Pennsylvania District, lie nianied. first in 
 18G3, Vesta E. Stimson, who died in 188:i. 
 and second, Dec. 21, 1885, Caroline Kirsch. 
 Residence: 149 Jackson Avenue. Oflice: 
 54 Boylston Sticet, Bradford, I'a. 
 
 DREW, John: 
 
 Actor: boiii in l'liihul(l|ihia, Nov. lli, 
 1S5;5: son of .rolm Dicw. Iii-li comedian, 
 who died in 1802, and Mrs. dohn Drew, 
 actress and manager, who died in 1891. lie 
 was educated at the Protestant l^jiiscopal 
 Academy at Philadelphia and bv private 
 tutors. He went on the stage when nine- 
 teen years of age, and was for many years 
 a member of Augustin Daly's Company. 
 Since 1892 he has starred under the man- 
 agement of Charles Frohman, notably in 
 Rosemary, Richard Carvel, Hie Duke of 
 Killicrankie; His House in Order. I)i' l.aiKv 
 and many others. He is a niemliti oi t lie 
 
 Actors Fund Association and the Lambs", 
 Players', The Brook, Racquet and Tennis, 
 and the Westchester Country Clubs. Mr. 
 Drew married Josephine Baker, of Phila- 
 delphia, and they have one daughter. Ad- 
 dress: Easthampton, Long Island, N. Y. 
 
 DREXEL, George W. Childs: 
 
 Capitalist; born in Philadelphia, 1808; 
 son of the late Anthony J. Drexel, banker 
 and philanthropist. He was educated in 
 private schools and by tutors. He became 
 connected with the Philadelphia Ledger in 
 association with the late George William i 
 Childs, whom he succeeded as editor and 
 publisher of that paper, conducting it until 
 1903, when the paper^ was sold, and re- 
 tired. He married at Vincentown, Burling- 
 ton County, N. J., Nov. 18, 1891, Mary S. 
 Irick. Besides their town house at Locust 
 and Eighteenth Streets, Philadelphia, Mr. 
 Drexel has a country home at Wootton, 
 Bryn Mawr, Pa. Office: fiOS Chestnut 
 Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 DRINKER, Henry Sturgis: 
 
 President of Lehigh University; born at 
 Hong Kong, China, Nov., 8, 1850; son of 
 Sandwith and Susannah (Budd) Drinker. 
 He was graduated from Lehigh University 
 ill 1871. as mining engineer; and he re- 
 ceived the degree of LL.D. from Lafayette 
 Collr.o-e, 1905. He was colliery clerk with 
 the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, 1871- 
 1872, after wliicli he enteral the service of 
 the Lehigh ^■alley Railroad, in the engineer- 
 ing department, and from 1S72 to 1875 had 
 charge of the building ol' the Musconetcoiig 
 Tunnel. He then entered thr main olliee. 
 and after studying law and iieing iidinitled 
 to the bar in 1S7S. hccainc. later, general 
 solicitor of tlie same road. lie is author 
 of: Tunneling: hXplosixe Coinponnds and 
 Rock Drills; and editor oi a revised and 
 enlarged edition of Ball's General Rail 
 road and Telegraph Laws of Pennsylvania; 
 contributor of many technical pajiers. 
 He has been president of Lehigh University 
 since 1905. lie married at Philadelphia, 
 Dec. 2, 187!>. Ainiee lOrnesta P.eaux, Ad- 
 dress: South I'.elhli'lieni, Pa. 
 
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 DRISCOLL, Michael Edward: 
 
 Lawyer. coimicssiiiMn ; hoin in Syracuse, 
 N. Y., Feb. 0, 1851; son of Michael and 
 Ellen Diiscoll. lie was educated in district 
 scliools, Monro Collegiate Institute, El- 
 hridge, Onondaga County, and Williams 
 College, A.B., 1877. He was admitted to 
 tile bar in 1879, and since has been prac- 
 tisitig law at Syracuse, N. Y. He is a Ke- 
 publican; was elected to the Fifty-sixth, 
 Fifty-seventh, Fifty eighth. Fifty-ninth, and 
 Sixtieth Congresses, and reelected to the. 
 Sixty-first Congress from the 28th N. Y. 
 District. Mr. Driscoll married in Syracuse, 
 N. Y'., 1S80, Mary McLean. Address: Uni- 
 versity Block, Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 DROPPERS, Garrett: 
 
 Professor of political economy ; born in 
 :\nhvauke,e, Wis., April 12, 1861; son of 
 .John Dirk and Gertrude (Boyink) Drop- 
 ]iejs. He was graduated from Harvard, 
 A.B., 1887; took special studies in eco- 
 nomics, finance, and political science, in 
 Harvard and at the Univei'sity of Berlin, 
 and receive.d the honorary degree of Ph.D. 
 from the University of South Dakota. 
 He was professor of economic^, at the 
 University of Tokyo, Japan, 1889-1898, 
 and was secretary of the Asiatic So- 
 ciety of Japan, 1894-1898, In 1899 he be- 
 came president of the University of South 
 Dakota, serving until 1906, when he left to 
 accept the position of Professorial lecturer 
 in political economy in the University of 
 Chicago. He left that institution in 1907 
 to become secretary of the Massachusetts 
 Commission on Commerce and Industry, 
 serving in this capacity until 1908, when 
 he took his present chair as jirofessor of 
 jiolitical economy at Williams College. 
 Professor Dro])pers married in Cambridge, 
 -Mass., rlean Tewkesbiiry Rand, and they 
 have four children. Address: NVillianis 
 College, Williamstown, Mass. 
 
 DROUET, Robert: 
 
 Actor and dramatist: born in Clinton, 
 Iowa, in 1870. He joined a theatrical com- 
 ])any at the age of sixteen, and in a few 
 years had a company of his own in 
 
 Shakespearean repertoire. He later played 
 leading parts with Joseph Haworth, Effie 
 Ellsler, jMary Mannering, and stock coni- 
 ])anies; was original "John Storm" in 
 The Christian in Viola Allen Company; also 
 ''Col. Jack Brereton,"' in Janice Meredith; 
 in Clyde Fitch's Girl With the Green Eyes; 
 Woman in the Case, Toast of the Town; 
 and with Margaret Anglin in The. Eternal 
 Feminine and The Measure of a Man, 
 Genessee Hills and The Mills of the Gods. 
 Mr. Drouet is author of the plays: To- 
 morrow; An Idyl of Virginia; Doris; The 
 White Czar; Montana; Fra Diano; Cap- 
 tain Bob. He married in 1897, Mildred, 
 daughter of ]\I. A. Loring. Address : The 
 Plaj^ers, Gramercy Park, New Y'ork City. 
 
 DRYDEN, John Fairfield: 
 
 United States senator ; born near Farm- 
 ington, Maine, Aug. 7, 1839; son of John 
 and Elizabeth B. Dryden. He removed with 
 his parents, when in his seventh year, to 
 Massachusetts, was fitted for college at 
 Worcester, Mass., and entered Yale Uni- 
 versity, intending to adopt the legal pro- 
 fession, but before fully completing his 
 course was obliged to leave on account of 
 ill health. Subsequently he was graduated 
 with the class of 1865. During a period 
 of enforced rest he made a special study 
 of life insurance, and in 1875 at Newark, 
 N. J., originated and founded the Pruden- 
 tial Insurance Company of America, becom- 
 ing its first secretary, and in 1881 became 
 its president, a position he still holds, and 
 he was also one of the Founders of the 
 Fidc.lity Tiust Company. He is identified 
 with the management of various street rail- 
 ways, banks, and other large financial en- 
 terprises of New Jersey and New Y'ork. 
 Mr. Dryden has been a Republican all his 
 life, but was more active in business than 
 in politics. He was one of the New Jersey 
 Presidential electors at large in 1896 and 
 1900 and was elected to the United States 
 Senate to succeed the late William J. 
 Sewell, Jan 29, 1902, for the remainder of 
 the term of office which expired March ."5, 
 1907. Address: 1020 Broad Street, New- 
 ark, N. J. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 DU BOIS, Augustus Jay: 
 
 Civil ciiyiiieer and educator; burn at Xf;\s- 
 ton Falls, Ohio, April 25, 184U. lie was 
 graduated from Shellield Scientitic Scliool, 
 Yale University, Ph.B., 1869, C.E. in 187U, 
 Ph.D. 1873. He studied mechanics two 
 years in the Mining School at Freiberg, 
 Saxony, became professor of civil and 
 mechanical engineering at Lehigh Univer- 
 sity, 1874-1876; professor of mechanical en- 
 gineering, 1877-1884, and since 1884 has 
 been professor of civil engineering in Shef- 
 field Scientific School of Yale. He is au 
 thor of: Elements of Graphic Statics; 
 The New Method of Graphical Statics; 
 Strains in Framed Structures; Elements of 
 Mechanics; Mechanics of Engineering. He 
 al^io translated and edited from the Go.r- 
 man: Hydraulics and Hydraulic Motors, 
 and Heat, Steam and the Steam Engine, by 
 Professor Weisbach; The Calculation of the 
 Strength and Dimensions of Iron and Steel 
 Construction by Professor Weyranch; The 
 Principles of Thermodynamics by Profes- 
 sor Rontgen, and has contributed papers in 
 technical journals and articles on the re- 
 lation of science to the spiritual and super- 
 natural. Address: .384 Edwards Street, 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
 DU BOIS, William Edward Burghardt: 
 
 Profes.sor of sociology in Atlanta Uni- 
 versity; born at Great liarrington, Mass., 
 Feb. 23, 1868; son of Alfred and Mary S. 
 Du Bois, of African descent. He was 
 graduated from Harvard. A.l'.., 18!)0, was 
 a fellow there, 1890-18!)2, and received then 
 the degrees of A.M., 1891, Pli.D., 189.'). He 
 is also A.B. of Fisk University, 188S, and 
 has studied at the University of Berlin. 
 Professor Du Bois is generallj' recognized as 
 the leader of the movement for the higher 
 education for persons of African descent, 
 and of the agitation against race discrimina 
 tion. He is general secretary of the Niagara 
 ^Movement, an association intended to sc^- 
 curc results along these lines. He was a 
 teticher at Wilberforce University, 1894- 
 1S!)6, and an assistant instructor at the 
 University of Pennsylvania in 1896, before 
 going to Atlanta University, where he is 
 
 titular professor of economics and history, 
 devoting his teaching, however^ to the study 
 of sociological phenomena. His book. The 
 Souls of Black Folk, attracted universal 
 attention. He is also author of Tlie Sup- 
 pression of the Slave Trade, and The Phila- 
 delphia Negro, and is editor of the Atlanta 
 University studies of the Negro Problem. 
 He is a fellow of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science. He mar- 
 ried at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1896, Nina 
 Gomer, and has one daughter. Address : 
 Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 DU BOIS, Edwin W.: 
 
 Dredging contractor; born in New York 
 City, July 18, 1868; son of Charles and 
 Emily A. (Wells) Du Bois. He was edu- 
 cated in the public and high schools of 
 Brooklyn. Mr. Du Bois has been con 
 nected with the dredging interests for years 
 and is now vice-president and secretary of 
 the Henry Du Bois Sons Company, and 
 also a director of the Marine Manufactur- 
 ing and Supply Company. He has traveled 
 extensively through the United States. 
 Canada, and Europe, and he has repre- 
 sented the dredging interests of New York 
 on several occasions before Congress in 
 legislative matters. Mr. Du Bois is presi- 
 dent of the Board of Trustees of the Church 
 of the Evangel (Congregational) in Brook- 
 lyn. Mr. Du Bois is a member of the Royal 
 Arcanum, an executive member of the As- 
 sociation for tlie Protection of tiie Com- 
 merce of the Port of New York, and a 
 member of the Flatbush Taxpayers' Asso- 
 ciation, and of the Union League Club of 
 Brooklyn. Mr. Du Bois married Etta M. 
 Beardsle}' of Brooklyn, and they have two 
 cliildren. Address: 62 Marlborough Road, 
 Flatlnisli. P.rnoklyn, N. Y. 
 
 DUCEY, Thomas James: 
 
 Catliolic clergyman: liorn in Lisnore, 
 Irehnsd, I'cii. 4. 1843. He cauic to this 
 counliy .it llie age of five veins and was 
 adopted by James T. Brady in IS.")!*. He, 
 was educated at the College of St. Francis 
 Xavier, New York City; studied theology 
 at the Troy Theological Seminary, and was 
 
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 527 
 
 onliiiiicd to the priesthood in 18G8, and ap- 
 poialcd to tlie Church of the Nativity in 
 ISG'J, wliere he preached sermons denouncing 
 the Tweed ring. He was connected with St. 
 Micliael's Church in 1872, and began the 
 organization of the Roman Catliolic Soci- 
 eties in 1873. He established the Church of 
 St. Leo in 1880 and has since been its 
 pastor. Father Ducey is one of the founders 
 of the People's Municipal League and the 
 Social Reform Club, and during the Lexow 
 Investigation took a fearless and inde- 
 pendent course, which attracted the atten- 
 tion of the entire country. Address: 16 
 East 2!)th Street, New York City. 
 
 DUDLEY, Charles Rowland: 
 
 Librarian; born at Easton, Conn., June 
 26, 1853; son of Rev. Martin and Sarah 
 (Rowland) Dudley. He, was educated at 
 Monson Academy, Monson, Mass., and then 
 entered the Law School of Yale University, 
 from which he was graduated LL.B., 1877. 
 He was adinitted to the Hampden County 
 bar in Massachusetts in 1878 and practised 
 at Monson, Mass., until 1882, when he re- 
 moved to Denver, of which he has since been 
 a citizen. Since 1886 he has been librarian 
 of the Denver Public Library, and, since 
 1887, also secretary of the State Historical 
 Society of Colorado. Mr. Dudley was a 
 regent of the State University of Colorado, 
 1888 1900, and again elected "in 1906 for a 
 term of six years. He married, Sept. 14, 
 1893, Rose A. Smith, and they have three 
 daughters. Residence: 1274 Marion Street. 
 Office : Public Library, Denver, Colo. 
 
 DUDLEY, Edgar Swartwout: 
 
 Brigadier-general U. S. Army (retired) ; 
 born in' Oppenheim, N. Y., June 14, 1845; 
 son of James ]\L and Maria (Swartwout) 
 Dudley. He was educated in the Johnstown 
 (N. Y. ) Academy, the United States Mili- 
 tary Academy, Albany Law School, Union 
 University, LL.B., and received the degree 
 of LL.D. from the University of Nebraska, 
 June 9, 1904. He served as second lieu- 
 tenant 1st New York Light Artillery Volun- 
 teers, May 28 to Nov. 28, 1864; cadet in 
 U. S. Military Academy, Sept. 1866 to June, 
 
 1870; commissioned second lieutenant 2d 
 U. S. Artillery, June 15, 1870; 1st lieu- 
 tenant Oct. 29, 1875; captain, assistant 
 quartermaster U. S. A., Dec. 20, 1892; major 
 and judge advocate, U. S. A., Feb. 2, 1901; 
 lieute.nant-colonel and judge advocate, May 
 24, 1901, colonel, judge advocate, Nov. 22, 
 1903, brigadier-general, U. S. A., retired, 
 June l4, 1909, at age limit. He was pro- 
 fessor of military science and tactics, Uni- 
 versity of Nebraska, 1876-1879, and 1884- 
 1888; judge advocate and legal adviser of 
 the military governors of Cuba (Generals 
 John R. Brooke and Leonard Wood, 
 U. S. A.), from beginning of the first mil- 
 itary occupation of that island, Dec. 1898, 
 until May 21. 1901; professor of law. U. S. 
 Military Academy, July 31, 1901 to his 
 retirement June 14, 1909. He is author of 
 Dudley's Militar^v Law and the Procedure 
 of Courts Martial. General Dudley is pres- 
 ident of the Alumni Association of Albany 
 Law School of University, Albany, N. Y^. ; 
 member of the American Society of Inter- 
 national Law, National Geographic Society, 
 New York State Historical Society, Society 
 of Colonial Wars, Sons of the American 
 Revolution, Society of the War of 1812, Mil- 
 itary Order of the Loyal Legion, Society 
 of the Army of the Potomac, Naval and 
 Military Order of the Spanish-American 
 War; one of the founders of the Johnstown 
 (N. Y. ) Historical Society; member of the 
 Union League and Army and Navy Clubs 
 of New York City, Army Clubs at Fort 
 Monroe, Va., Fort Thomas, Ky., Fort 
 Leavenworth, Kan., and West Point, N. Y., 
 and the Colonial Club at Johnstown, N. Y. 
 Address: Johnstown, N. Y. 
 
 DUDLEY, Irving Bedell: 
 
 Ambassador; born at Jefferson, Ashtabula 
 County, Ohio, Nov. 30, 1860; son of Rev. 
 H. C. Hamilton Dudley and Mary (East- 
 wood) Dudley. He was graduated from 
 Kenyon College, A.B., 1882, (LL. D., 1908) 
 and was graduated from the Law Depart- 
 ment of Columbian (now George Washing- 
 ton) University at Washington, LL.B., 1885, 
 LL.M., 1886. He went to California and 
 engaged in the practice of law at San Diego, 
 1888-1897. He served as city judge of San 
 
528 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Dit'go for two terms, became active and 
 ])roiiiinoin in the politics of liis State as 
 a KepublicMii, and was a member of the lle- 
 ])ublican State Executive Committee of 
 California in 1897. In June, 1897, he en- 
 tered upon his diplomatic career, being 
 appointed by President JNIcKinley envoy ex- 
 traordinary and minister plenipotentiary 
 of the United States to Pery, in which 
 position he remained until promotion to 
 ambassadorial rank and transfer, in Dec, 
 1906, as the American ambassador to Brazil 
 in which post he is now serving. Address: 
 American Embassy, Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 
 
 DUELL, Charles H.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Cortland, N. Y., April 
 13, 1850; son of R. Holland and Mary 
 Lcdyard (Cuyler) Duell. He was educated 
 at the Corlandville Academy and was gradu- 
 ated from Hamilton College with the degree 
 of A.B., 1871, and from the Hamilton Col- 
 lege Law School with the degree of LL.B., 
 1872, and he received the degree of LL.D. 
 from Hamilton in 1906. He practised law 
 in New York City, 1874-1880; in Syracuse, 
 1880-1898, and again in New York City, 
 1901-1904, his specialty being patent law. 
 He was a member of the New York As- 
 sembly, 1878-1880; commissioner of patents, 
 1898-i901, but resigned to resume, the prac- 
 tice of his profession. In Dec, 1904, he was 
 apj)ointed by President Roosevelt associate 
 justice of the Court of Appeals of the. Dis- 
 trict of Columbia, but resigned Sept. 1, 1906, 
 to resume tlie practice of his profession in 
 the firm of Duell, Warfield and Duell. In 
 1908 was at the head of the Republican 
 electoral ticket of New York and received 
 the highest vote cast for any elector; was 
 President of the Electoral College which met 
 at Albany in Jan., 1909. He was assistant 
 treasurer of tlie Republican National Com- 
 mittee in 1904; president of the McKinley 
 League of Onondaga County of New York, 
 in 1896, and director of the Carter-Crume 
 Company and Vice-President of William A. 
 Rogers, Limited, both of Toronlo. Canada 
 and President of The Kiaudcrweldon Dyeing 
 Macliine Co., of Amsterdam. N. Y., a Pres- 
 byterian in his denominational adherence. 
 Judge Duell is a member of the American 
 
 Bar Association; and of the Sons of the 
 American Revolution, and is also a member 
 of the Union League Republican and West- 
 Side Republican Clubs of New York City, 
 and the Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C. 
 Judge Duell married at Syracuse, N. Y., 
 iNOV. 20, 1879, Harriet M., daughter of 
 William A. Sackett, of Saratoga Springs, 
 N. Y. They have four children: Hon. Hol- 
 huid S., W. Sackett, Mary L., and Charles 
 IL, Junior. Residence: 335 West End 
 Avenue. Office: 2 Rector Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 DUFFIELD, Pitts: 
 
 Publisher; born at Detroit, Mich., Jan. 
 22, 1869; son of Henry M. and Frances 
 (Pitts) Duffield. He was graduated from 
 Harvard, A.B., 1892. He was formerly 
 se-retary of Fox, Duffield and Company, 
 publishers; and is now president, treasurer 
 and director of Duffield and Company, pub- 
 lishers (incorporated). He is a member 
 of the American Publishers' Association, 
 the Delta Kappa Ep-ilon fraternity 
 (Harvard), the University, Players' and 
 Harvard Clubs of New York and the Hasty 
 Pudding Club of Harvard. :\Ir. Duffield 
 married at Washington, D. C, Jan. G, 1904, 
 Isabel, daughter of Justice McKenna, of 
 the United States Supreme Court, and they 
 have a daughter, Carolyn Pitts Dullicld, 
 born in 1905. Residence: 135 East 66th 
 Street. Address: 30 East 21st Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 DTJGGIN, Charles: 
 
 Retired architect; 1)(>rn iu Loudon. Eng- 
 land, June 19, 1830; He was educated as an 
 architect in England, came to New York in 
 1853, arriving April 15, and on April 20 
 obtained emi)loyment as an arcliitect's as- 
 sistant; and in 1856 he began independent 
 practice as an arehitecL In 1S58 Mr. Dug- 
 gin had an exhibit of designs for churclies, 
 villas, etc., and models of country houses, 
 churches, etc., wliich he made with his own 
 hands and whicli attracted much favorable 
 attention at the New York Crystal Palace 
 in Bryant Square, The burning of that 
 building, with his exhibit, Oct. 15, 1858, 
 was a severe less to him. In 1859 his de- 
 
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 529 
 
 sio;n was chosen, over those of about two 
 dozen competitors, for ]Ii'.nry Ward 
 JJooelior's proposed new cliurclij but in con- 
 sequence of the Civil War the building of 
 that eliurch was abandoned. J\lr. Duggin 
 continued in successful practice, and also 
 accjuired valuable property which lie im- 
 proved, and in 1870 he established the busi- 
 ness of the " manufacture of homes," 
 building a factory on property he had pur- 
 chased at Park Avenue and 41st Street. 
 I'lic following year he abandoned the prac- 
 tice of architecture, and J. M. Grossman, 
 who had been his assistant in practice from 
 1SG2, became his partner in -the house man- 
 ufacturing business. In April, 1872, Mr. 
 Duggin retired from business, leaving Mr. 
 Crossman as his successor; but the latter 
 becoming embarrassed in his operations 
 because of the panic following Jay Cooke's 
 failure in 1873, Mr. Duggin resumed his con- 
 nection with the business, under the old 
 firm name of Diiggin & Crossman. They 
 ' retired from business in 1879, selling out to 
 Cliarles Buck & Co., which firm was reor- 
 ganized in 1881 with Jlr. Duggin, who had 
 repurchased control, as special partner, 
 wliich partnership continued until 1884, 
 wlien he finally retired from business. 
 From the years 1866 to 1884, inclusive, more 
 than two hundred first-class residences in 
 Xew York City were designed, planned, 
 manufactured, and sold by his establishment. 
 He is a member of the Union League and 
 Manhattan Clubs, and a life member of the. 
 Xew York Athletic Club. Mr. Duggin mar- 
 ried in 1862, Emilie Bailey, of Philadelphia. 
 Address: 25 East 38th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 DUGRO, Philip Henry: 
 
 Jurist- born in New York City, Oct. 3, 
 18.").3; son of Anthony Dugro. He was 
 graduated from Columbia College, as A.B. 
 in 187G, A.M., in 1876; and from Columbia 
 Law School as LL.B. in 1878. He was 
 elected a member of the Assembly of the 
 State of New York in 1878, and a member 
 of Congress, in 1880. He was nominated 
 for comptroller of the City of New York, 
 by the Democratic Party, in 1884, but owincr 
 34 
 
 to his father's death immediately after 
 nomination, he declined it. In 1886, he was 
 nominated by the governor of New York 
 as emigration commissioner of the State, but 
 while the nomination was pending in the 
 State Senate, he was elected judge of the 
 Superior Court of the City of New York. 
 In 1896, by constitutional amendment, he 
 was made justice of the Supreme Court of 
 the State, of New York, and in 1900, was 
 elected to the same position for a term 
 e.Kpiring in 1914. Judge Dugro has always 
 been Democrat in politics. He built the 
 Hotel Savoy and the Hotel Seville. He 
 married in 1875, Sophia Goeller, and has 
 a son and a daughter. Address: Hotel 
 Savoy, New York City. 
 
 DUKE, James B.: 
 
 Manufacturer and capitalist; he was 
 engaged in the manufacture of smoking 
 tobacco at Durham, N. C, as a member 
 of the firm of Duke Brothers and 
 Company, which was absorbed in 1890 by 
 the American Tobacco Company, of 
 which he is president; he is also president 
 of the Continental . Tobacco Company, 
 incorporated in 1898, and the Consolidated 
 Tobacco Company, incorporated in 1901. 
 He is a chairman of the Board of Directors 
 of the British-American Tobacco Company 
 Limited; director of American Cigar Com- 
 panj% American Snuff" Company, Harry 
 Wcissinger Tobacco Company, Havana- 
 American Company, Havana Commercial 
 Company, Havana Tobacco, Imperial Tobac- 
 co Company of London, and of the INIorton 
 Trust Company and National Bank of Com- 
 merce. Residence: Somerville, N. J. Of- 
 fice: 111 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 DULLES, Heatly Courtonne: 
 
 Stock lirokcr and banker; Ixnii in I'liila- 
 dolphia, March 17, 1867; son of Rev. John 
 W. Dulles, D.D. and Nataline (Baynard) 
 Dulles. He was educated in Lawrenceville 
 School, New Jerse3^ He is a member of the 
 firm of AVurts, Dulles & Company. His 
 favorite recreations are horseback riding, 
 tennis, swimming and rowing. Mr. Dulles 
 is a Republican and Presbyterian. He is 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 a nioiiibcr of tlie Philadeljiliia, University 
 Barge, Merion Cricke.t and Whitemarsh Val- 
 ley Hunt Clubs. Residence: 311 South 
 22d Street, Philadelphia. Address: 125 
 Soutli 4th Street. Philadelphia. 
 
 DULLES, William: 
 
 President of manufacturing corporations ; 
 born in Philadelphia, Oct. 25, 1857; son of 
 Rev. Joiin Welsh Dulles, D.D., and Harriet 
 L. (Winslow) Dulles. He was graduated 
 from Princeton, A.B., 1878, A.M., 1880, re- 
 ceiving various prizes (junior orations, 
 Maclean prize, Lyde debate prize, etc.), and 
 has been president of his class from gradua- 
 tion. He was graduated from the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania, LL.B., 1880; practised 
 law in Philadelphia, 1880-1882; removed to 
 New York City, 1882, entering financial 
 business as private secretary, assistant sec- 
 retary and treasurer of the Louisville, New 
 Albany and Chicago Railroad, 1884-1889. 
 He was treasurer of the Presbyterian Board 
 of Foreign Missions, 1889-1897; became 
 president of the Appert Glass Com- 
 pany, 1897, vice-president of the Mississippi 
 Wire Glass Company from its organization, 
 1901, and in 1904 also vice-president of 
 the Mississippi Glass Company; also treas- 
 urer and a director of both companies. 
 With E. W. Humphreys, president of the 
 Mississippi \^'ire Glass Company, he has 
 been especially active in the development oi 
 the manufacture and use of wire glass, now 
 so extensively used as a fire retardent in 
 window openings, elevator shafts and other 
 exposures, and as security against breakage 
 in skylights, etc. He is a director of the 
 Vulcan Mining Company and the American 
 Stoker Company. He is a member of the 
 Board of Education of Englevvood, N. J., 
 trustee and secretary of Mackenzie College, 
 Brazil; member of the Pennsylvania So- 
 ciety, Presbyterian Union, American j\Iu- 
 seum of Natural History, New York Zoo- 
 logical Society, American Society of Inter- 
 national Law; the University, Lawyers', 
 University of Pennsylvania. National Arts, 
 Princeton and Pilgrims Clubs of New York 
 City; University Club of Philadelphia; Du- 
 quesne Club of Pittsburgh; and the Engle- 
 wood, Englewood Field and Englewood Golf 
 
 Clubs. He married in Lake Forest, 111., 
 Jan. 15, 1891, Sophea Rhea, and they have 
 had four children (one now deceased). 
 Residence: Englewood, N. J. OUice: 116 
 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 DU MAZUEL, Edmond Guy Ferdinand R. 
 (Marquis) : 
 
 Consulting engineer; born in Paris, 
 France, in 1876; son of Dr. Edmond R. 
 and Antonia R. du Mazuel. He studied at 
 St. Charles College, principality of Monaco, 
 graduating as B.L. and B.S. in 1893; be- 
 came a student of the Ecole Polyteclinique 
 and received the degree of Licentiate es 
 Science at Paris in 1897. The marquis du 
 Mazuel was assistant engineer to Mr. Bres- 
 sand of Montmelian for estimates on roads 
 for the Isere section, France (the estimates 
 amounting to $2,000,000) ; chief of staff for 
 the improvements of the harbor of Algiers 
 (Algeria) ; chief assistant engineer for 
 Brousseau d'Essex, C. E. on the location, 
 erection and construction of a $3,000,000 
 rack railway of La Turbie (Alpes Mari- 
 times), and on soundings, estimates, etc., 
 of proposed piers for the harbor of the prin- 
 cipality of Monaco, 1898-1899-1900. He 
 gave special lectures in hydraulic engineer- 
 ing for the fieole Poly technique, Paris, 1900- 
 1901; and since 1902 has been in New York 
 City, doing private bridge work; and occa- 
 sionally working for different firms and 
 companies, including the New York Central 
 Railroad; Tribus & Massa, hydraulic en- 
 gineers, as their field engineer for the 
 Larchmont dam and the* Caldwell water 
 works (th(i works amounting to about $400,- 
 000) ; was engaged on road location' and 
 topographical work on Long Island; was 
 with the firm of Dr. F. S. Pearson on 
 computations relating to works of the 
 Necaxa Power Company, the Electrical 
 Development Compau}- of Ontario, Limited, 
 and the Sao Paulo Railway Company (each 
 of these works costing over $1,000,000). 
 He was at the American Asbestos Mills 
 of Black Lake, Province of Quebec, Canada, 
 designing and supervising during the erec- 
 tion of the mills; was chief of the engineer- 
 ing department of the Iroquois Construction 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 531 
 
 Company and of the Niagara, Lockport and 
 Ontario Power Company (companies sold 
 out by the Messrs. J. G. Robin and C. M. 
 Wicker to New York Central and Westing- 
 house interests in 1905) ; became with Mr. 
 C. M. Wicker, one of the promoters and 
 directors of the Consolidated Engineering 
 Company of America, running the affairs 
 of said company until the latter part of 
 1907, when he severed all connections with 
 Mr. C. M. Wicker, and became alone the 
 tinancial backer of that company. He is 
 a director and officer of the Concrete Inter- 
 locking Steel Corporation. The. marquis du 
 Mazuel \\as one of the few promotors of re- 
 enforced concrete construction in this coun- 
 try; was the designer, architect and en- 
 gineer for St. Edmund's Church of Now 
 York City, the first reenforced concrete 
 church in America; was the first to intro- 
 duce the consumption of garbage and refuse 
 by reenforced concrete inverted retort dis- 
 tillation of same, thus doing away with all 
 IHirifier.s, etc., and producing a gas of high 
 power and caloric, which can be stored in- 
 definitely in tanks. The marquis du Mazuel 
 has become a silent factor in the steel in- 
 dustry ; has designed labor saving machinery 
 for the drawing and rolling of light steel 
 sheets to long lengths, as well as other ma- 
 chinery for steel sheet work, and is now 
 utilizing same, in 'Pittsburgh, Pa., for man- 
 ufacturing the " du Mazuel " reenforcement 
 for concrete, which is the cheapest, lightest 
 and strongest reenforcement on the market 
 that does away with all form-work and 
 skilled labor. Address: 41 Wall Street, 
 New York City . 
 
 DUMONT, Charles Walter: 
 
 Law publisher; born at Juneau, \\'is., 
 18G0; son of Dr. John E. and Julia (War- 
 ford) Dumont. He was educated at the 
 University of Wisconsin, Mr. Dumont was 
 principal and superintendent of various 
 jmblic high schools in Wisconsin for six 
 years; was formerly treasurer of the Ed- 
 ward Tliompson Company of Northport, 
 Long Island, N. Y., law publishers; and 
 is now president and manager of The Amer- 
 ican Law Book Company. He was the orig- 
 
 inator of the idea of the Cyclopedia of Law 
 and Procedure CYC, a forty volume work, 
 which is universally conceded to be the 
 greatest work in the law. Mr. Dumont 
 may very properly be called the father of 
 CYC. Mr. Dumont has visited most of the 
 J<]uropean countries. He is a Republican in 
 politics, and a member of the Odd Fellows 
 Order. His favorite recreations are yachting 
 and driving. He is a member of the New 
 York Athletic and Northport Yacht Clubs". 
 He is also a member of the Empire State 
 Society Sons of the American Revolution. 
 Mr. Dumont married at Juneau, Wis., in 
 1879, Jennie Hargraves, and he has three 
 children: George Dumont (born in 1880), 
 Dorothea Dumont (born in 1885) and 
 Charles W. Dumont (born in 1898). Resi- 
 dence,: Glendale, Northport, Long Island. 
 Address: 60 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 DUNBAR, James Robert: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Pittsfield, Mass., Dec. 
 23, 1847; son of Henry W. and Elizabeth 
 (Richards) Dunbar. He was educated in 
 the public schools of Pittsfield, and Wil- 
 liams College, where he received the degree 
 of A.B., and at the Harvard Law School. 
 He was admitted to the bar in 1874, and 
 has ever since been engaged in practice, 
 now being senior partner of the law firm of 
 Dunbar and Rackemann, which holds an 
 enviable position at the Boston bar. He 
 is a director of the Boston Safe Deposit and 
 Trust Company. He has served as a mem- 
 ber of the, Massachusetts Senate, and also 
 as district attorney and from 1888 to 1898 
 as judge of the Superior Court of Massa- 
 chusetts; has been chairman of the Taxation 
 Commission and is now chairman of the 
 Suffolk County Court House Commission. 
 He is president of the Evening Law School 
 and a trustee of Williams College. Mr. 
 Dunbar is a member of the Boston Bar As- 
 sociation. He has traveled extensively in 
 Europe and the United States, Canada, and 
 the West Indies. He is a member of the 
 Beacon, Curtis, Massachusetts Agricultural, 
 New Algonquin and Seapuit Clubs. He mar- 
 ried at Westfield, Mass., May 15, 1875, Har- 
 riet P. Walton, and they have five children: 
 
532 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Kalph \\'., rliilip K., Ruth, ]Iclon L., and 
 Henry F. Kesidcnce : Brookline, Mass. 
 Olliio: Amos Binldino", Boston, Mass. 
 
 DUNHAM, Sylvester Clark: 
 
 President of the Travelers Insurance 
 Company; born in [Mansfield, Conn., April 
 •24. 1S4G; son of Jonathan Lyman and Abi- 
 gail (Eldridge) Dunham. He was educated 
 in common .schools and was for a short time 
 a student at Mount Union College, Ohio. 
 He practised law in Hartford, 1873-1885, 
 then became general counsel for the Travel- 
 ers Insurance Company; afterwards vice- 
 president, and then president. He has trav- 
 eled throughout the United States, Canada, 
 [Mexico and Europe. He has been corpora- 
 tion coinisel of Hartford and a member of 
 Water lioaril. and of several civic societies 
 and like organizations. He is president, di- 
 rector and eliairman of the Finance Commit- 
 tee, Travelers Insurance Company, and of the 
 Travelers Indemnity Company, vice-presi- 
 dent and director of. the City Bank, Con- 
 necticut Fire Insurance Company, American 
 Hardware Company, New Britain, Conn., 
 American Surety Company, New York City, 
 and the [Metropolitan Bank, New York City. 
 Mr. Dunham is president of the National 
 Board of Casualty and Surety Underwriters, 
 and is a inember of the Executive Commit- 
 tee of the Life Insurance Presidents Asso- 
 ciation. In politics he is an independent 
 Republican. Mr. Dunham is a member of 
 the Union League Club of New York City, 
 and the Hartford, Country, Twentieth Cen- 
 tury, and Travelers Clubs of Hartford. He 
 married in Bristol, Conn., Oct. 18, 1877, 
 Mary Austin, and has a son. Address: 
 llarlford. Conn. 
 
 DTJNLAP, Frederick Levy: 
 
 Chemist; lioni in Cliillirdt he Oliio. Maj 
 Ifl, 1870. Ill' was (Mlucalcd in the Ohio State 
 University, and llif University of Michigan, 
 B.S., 18!)2; and received the degree of 
 Sc.D. from Harvard University in 18i)5 and 
 from Yale in 18!)0. He was instructor in 
 imiustrial chemistry at the Worcester 
 I'oiytcchnic Institute, 18!)0-li)00, and in 
 inorganic chemistry in the Iniiversity of 
 .Michigan liiUU-nJOl; instructor in analytical 
 
 chemistry. 19U1-1UUG, and has been assist- 
 ant professor of analytical chemistiy from 
 190G in that university. He was also in- 
 structor at the Summer School at Harvard, 
 1893-1895. Dr. Dunlap is a member of the 
 American Chemical Society, and of the 
 Deutsche Chemische Gessellschaft. He was 
 appointed a member of the U. S. Board of 
 Food and Drug Inspection in Washington, 
 D. C. in April 1907, and associate chemist 
 of the Bureau of Chemistry. His principal 
 researches have been in the chemistry of oils, 
 fats and waxes and in organic chemistry. 
 He has written papers on products formed 
 during the boiling or oxidation of linseed 
 oil, and other chemical subjects. Address: 
 Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agri- 
 culture, Washington, D. C. 
 
 DUNN, Charles Bullen: 
 
 Banker; born in the County of Cornwall, 
 England, in 1837; son of Robert Dunn and 
 Mary Ann (Rowe) Dunn, he is descended 
 from two old yoeman families in North 
 Cornwall, near Tintagal. England. He was 
 educated in Saint Anstell Grammar School 
 in Cornwall. He emigrated to the United 
 States in 1853, and was cashier for his 
 cousin, John Grigg, late publisher and 
 banker, from 1853 to 1860. He acted as 
 trustee and executor for the Estates of 
 John Grigg and his son, John W. Grigg, 
 until 1867. In conjunction with his broth- 
 ers Joseph H. and Robert M. Dunn, he or- 
 ganized the present firm of Dunn Broth- 
 ers, bankers, in 18G8. Mr. Dunn is a di- 
 rector and chairman of the Finance Com- 
 mittee of the [Midvale Steel Company of 
 the City of Pliiladelphia, and president and 
 director of the independence Trust Company 
 of the City of Philadelphia, a director of 
 the Edgemoor Iron Com])any of ^^■ilming- 
 ton, Delaware. He is a Democrat in poli- 
 tics and an Episcopalian in his religious 
 views. Mr. Dunn is a member of the Art 
 Club of Philadelphia and the Arts Club and 
 Lotos Club of New York. He married in 
 Philadelphia in 18G5. Residence: Norwood 
 Avenue, Chestnut Hill, Piiiladeli)hia. Of- 
 fice address: 115 South Fifth Street, Phila- 
 delphia, and 2 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
MEN OF' AMERICA. 
 
 533 
 
 DUNN, Henry E.: 
 
 Prt'sidout and director of the Bradslreet 
 Company; born in Brooklyn, Doc. 9, 1868. 
 He was educated in the public seliool. He is 
 president and director of the Bradstreet 
 Company. Mr. Dunn is a member of the 
 Chamber of Commerce of the State of 
 New York. He married at Rochester, N. Y., 
 June 24, 1896, Elizabeth Wadsworth Ives, 
 and they have three children. Residence: 
 53 East 79th Street. Office: 346 Broad- 
 way, New York City. 
 
 DUNNE, Edward F.: 
 
 Jurist, ex-mayor: born at Waterville, New 
 Haven County, Conn., Oct. 12, 1853; son of 
 P. W. and Delia M. (Lawler) Dunne. The 
 family removed to Illinois in his boyhood, 
 and he was graduated from the high school 
 at Peoria, 111., 1870. He went to Trinity 
 College of Dublin University, Ireland, but 
 left the University at the end of three years 
 without finishing the course because of his 
 father's failure in business. He took up the 
 study of law, and he was graduated from the 
 Union College of Law, Chicago, LL. B., 1877, 
 and he later received the honorary degree of 
 LL.D. from the St. Ignatius College Chica- 
 go. He was admitted to the bar of Illinois 
 by the Supreme Court, in 1877; and he was 
 engaged in the practice of law until elected 
 in 1892, judge of the Circuit Court of Cook 
 County, 111. He was reelected in 1898 and 
 
 1904, but resigned on his election in April, 
 
 1905, as mayor of Chicago for a two year 
 term which expired in April, 1907. He was 
 eieeteil as the regular Democratic candidate 
 ujiou a platform strongly favoring the mu- 
 nicipal ownership -of the traction lines of 
 Chicago. He gave to the city a clean admin- 
 istration and fought valiantly against a 
 iiostile majority in the City Council for the 
 traction reformed to which he was pledged, 
 and secured the ajjproval of his policy on 
 a referendum vote in 1906, but when he, was 
 a canuulate for reelection in 1907, he was 
 opposed by a strong combination of corpora- 
 tion influences, and was defeated. Judge 
 Dunne has always been a Democrat, and was 
 Democratic nominee for presidential elector, 
 1900. He has twice been president of the 
 
 Iroquois Club of Chicago, and twice presi- 
 dent of the Monticello Club. He is a prom- 
 inent Catholic layman. Judge Dunne was 
 elected in 1905 vice president of the Nation- 
 al Civic Federation, and in 1906 was elected 
 presid(-.nt of the League of American Munic- 
 ipalities, Was selected as delegate-at-large 
 from the State of Illinois to the Democratic 
 National Convention held in Denver 1908. 
 He married in Chicago, Aug. 16, 1881, Eliz- 
 abeth J. Kelly, and they have thirteen chil- 
 dren. Residence: 3127 Bc.acon Street. 
 Office: 806-807 Ashland Block, Chicago. 
 
 DUNNE, Edward Joseph: 
 
 Catholic Bishop of Dallas; born in Tip- 
 perary, Ireland, April 23, 1848. When a 
 year old he was brought by his parents to 
 the United States, settling in Chicago, and 
 he was educated in the parochial schools of 
 that city and at the College of St. Mary's 
 of the Lake, Chicago. He received his theo- 
 logical training at the Seminary of St. 
 Francis de Sales, at Milwaukee,, and at St. 
 Mary's Seminary at Baltimore; and he wa."! 
 ordained to the priesthood at Baltimore, 
 June 29, 1871. He began his ministry as as- 
 sistant in Chicago churches until 1875, when 
 he was appointed pastor of All Saints Par- 
 ish, Chicago, continuing with nuu-li success 
 there for eighteen years until his consecra- 
 tion, Nov. 30, 1893,'as bishop of Dallas, Tex. 
 He has since devoted his attention to tlie 
 episcopal duties in his diocese, which has 
 prospered greatly under his administration. 
 Addre.-^s: Dallas, Tex. 
 
 DUNNE, Finley Peter: 
 
 Author and Journalist; born in Cliicago, 
 July 10, 1867; son of Peter and Ellen (Fin- 
 ley) Dunne. He received his education in 
 the jjublic schools and West Division High 
 School of Chicago, and in 1885 began as a 
 reporter on a Chicago newspaper. He was 
 for a time on the stall" of the Chicago Daily 
 News, afterward with the Chicago Tribune, 
 city editor of the Chicago Times, editorial 
 writer on the Chicago Times-Herald and the 
 Chicago Evening Post (upon which later 
 paper Mr. Dunne first introduced to the 
 public the now famous philosopher, ]\Ir. 
 
534 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Dooley of the Arclie\- Road) ; and from 
 1897 to 1899, was editor of the Chicago 
 Journal. He lias traveled extensively, and 
 one of the assignments of his early re- 
 portorial career was to go around the world 
 with the Chicago National Basehall Team, 
 then the champions, for the Chicago Tribune. 
 From 1900 he lias been occupied with liter- 
 ary work and he is now associate editor of 
 the American Magazine. His Dooley articles 
 have attained popularity scarcely equalled 
 by any other humorous productions of the 
 last decade and many of them have been 
 collected into the volumes: Mr. Dooley in 
 Peace and in War. 1898; iMr. Dooley in the 
 Hearts of His Countrymen, 1898; Mr. 
 Doolcy's Philosophy, 1900; Mr. Dooley's 
 Opinions, 1901; Observations by Mr. Dooley, 
 1902; Dissertations by Mr. Dooley, 1906. 
 !Mr. Dunne, is a member of the Racquet and 
 'lennis. Metropolitan, Riding and Brook 
 Clubs of New York. He married in New 
 York City, Dec. 9, 1902, Margaret Abbott, 
 a daugliter of the late Mary Perkins Abbott, 
 a popular journalist and author of Chicago. 
 Residence: 114 East 78th Street. Office: 
 .'Ul Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 DUNNING, Albert Elijah: 
 
 Clergyman, editor; born at Brookfield, 
 Fairfield County, Conn., Jan. 5, 1844; son 
 of Elijah Starr and Abigail (Beach) Dun- 
 ning. He was graduated from Yale with the 
 degree of B.A. and Phi Beta Kappa honors 
 in the class of 1867, and he was graduated 
 from Andover Theological Seminary in 1870. 
 He was ordained in the ministry of tlie Con- 
 gregational Church in 1870, and was pastor 
 of the Highland Congregational Church at 
 Boston. 1870 1881. He was general Sunday 
 school secretary for Congregational 
 churches, 1881-1889, and since May 2, 1889, 
 has been editor-in-chief of The Congrega- 
 tionalist. Beloit College, Wis., conferred 
 upon him the degree of D.D. in 1889. Dr. 
 IDainning was secretary of the International 
 Sunday School Ix'sson Committee, 1897-1902. 
 He is author of: The Sunday School Libra- 
 ry, 1883; Bible !=>ludies, l'88C ; The Con- 
 gregationalists in America, 1894. He mar- 
 ried at Kingston, N. Y., Dec. 27, 1870, Har- 
 
 riet W. Westbrook. Residence : Brookline. 
 Mass. Ofiicc : 14 Beacon Street, Boston, 
 :\lass. 
 
 DU PONT, Alfred Camille: 
 
 Physician and educator ; born in New 
 York City, Oct. 28, 1867. He is of a Fi'ench 
 ancestry, and received his early education 
 both in France and America. He was 
 graduated from New York University in 
 1895, has received the degrees of B.A. and 
 ]\I.D., and is a member of the Alumni of 
 New York University. Dr. Du Pont is an 
 examiner in lunacy for the State of New 
 York; fellow of the Medical Society for 
 Greater New York ; life member of the Soci- 
 ety of Science, Letters and Art of London, 
 England. Colonel of the National Volunteer 
 Emergency Service ; member of the jMasonic 
 Order, chapter, commandery and Mystic 
 Shrine ; active member of the Sovereign 
 Grand Consistory and Supreme Council, 
 is grand secretary in tliis body and was 
 created S3^° at vitum. Member of the order 
 of Elks and other orders; one of the organ- 
 izers of the Pleiades Club, and many others; 
 and he is a devotee of music and art. Ad- 
 dress: 310 West 23d Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 DU PONT, Henry Algernon: 
 
 United States senator; born near ^Vil- 
 mington, Del., July 30, 1838; son of Henry 
 Du Pont and grandson of Eleuthere Ircnee 
 Du Pont de Nemours and great-grandson 
 of Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Ne.mours. 
 French economist and statesman, who died 
 in Delaware in 1817. Mr. Du Pont was 
 graduated from West Point, May 6, 1861, 
 at the head of his class. He was promoted 
 second lieutenant of engineers, and iirst 
 lieutenant of the Fifth Artillery, May 14, 
 18G1. On July 16, 1861, he was appointed 
 regimental adjutant; from 1862 to 1863; 
 was acting assistant adjutant-general of the 
 troops in >vew York Harbor, and on March 
 24. 18()4. he was commissioned • ca])tain of 
 the l-il'lli Arlillcry. At tlie baltlc of New 
 Market. W . \'n.. lie was in cominaiul of the 
 battery and he took jjart in tlie battles of 
 Piedmont and Lynchburg as chief of artil- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 535 
 
 ItMV and later was commander of the artil- 
 lery in the corps of General Crook. He took 
 part in the battles of Winchester, Fisher's 
 Hill and Cedar Creek, and for gallantry at 
 Winciiester and at Fisher's Hill he was 
 brevetted major, and was also breve.tted 
 lieutenant colonel Oct. 19, 1864, for dis- 
 liiiguished services at Cedar Creek, and was 
 awarded the. Congressional Medal of Honor 
 for distinguislied gallantry. In 1874 he 
 resigned from the army, and became pres- 
 ident and general manager of the Wilming- 
 ton and Northern Railroad Company. After 
 a long deadlock in the Delaware Legislature 
 lie received fifteen of the thirty votes cast 
 on May 9, 1895. The election was con- 
 tested on the question of right of the ex- 
 speaker of the Delaware Senate, Watson, 
 1 then acting as governor) to vote. Without 
 liis vote Colonel Du Pont had a majority 
 of one, the committee reported in his favor, 
 but the United States Senate, by a strick 
 party majority of one, declined to seat him. 
 In 1906, however Mr. Du Pont was elected 
 as a Republican, by the Legislature of 
 Delaware United States Senator for the term 
 expiring in 1911. Address: Winterthur, 
 Del. 
 
 DURAND, Edward Dana: 
 
 Director of the Census of the United 
 States; born in Romeo, Mich., Oct. 18, 
 1871; son of Cyrus Yale and Celia (Day) 
 Durand. He was graduated from Oberlin 
 College, A.B., 1893 and from Cornell Univer- 
 sity, Ph.D., 1896. Mr. Durand was legis- 
 lative librarian in the New York State 
 Library, 1896-1897, and assistant professor 
 of political science and finance, at Stanford 
 University, 1898-1899. Fi-om 1899 to 1902, 
 he was secretary of the United States In 
 dustrial Commission, at Washington, and 
 from 1902 to 19'03 was lecturer on economics 
 at Harvard University. In 1903, Mr. 
 Durand became connected with the United 
 States Bureau of Corporations, Washington, 
 D. C., in the capacity of Special Examiner, 
 which position he held until 1907, when he 
 was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Cor- 
 porations, which he held until June. 1909, 
 when he was appointed to his present office 
 
 as Director of the Census. He is a mem- 
 ber of the American Economic Associa- 
 tion, the American Political Science As- 
 sociation, and the Cosmos Club, of Washing- 
 ton. He married in New York City, July 
 15, 1903, Mary Elizabeth Bennett, and they 
 have two children. Residence : 3325 Hol- 
 mead Place. Office: Bureau of Corpora- 
 tions, Washington, D. C. 
 
 DURAND, William Frederick: 
 
 Professor of mechanical engineering; 
 born at Bethany, Conn., March 5, 1859; 
 son of William L. and Ruth (Coe) Durand. 
 He was graduated from the United States 
 Naval Academy in 1880, and received the 
 degree of Ph.D. from Lafayette College, 
 1888. He served in the engineer corps of 
 the United States Navy 1880-1887; was on 
 special duty at Lafayette College, 1883- 
 1885; was professor of mechanics and su- 
 perintendent of the Mechanical Department 
 of the Michigan Agricultural College, 1887- 
 1891, professor of marine engineering at 
 Cornell, 1891-1904 and professor of mechan- 
 ical engineering at Stanford Univej-sity 
 since 1904. He was an' advisory editor of 
 Marine Engineering from 1901 to 1906. 
 Professor Durand received the gold medal 
 of the Society of Naval Engineers in 1900. 
 He is a fellow of the American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science, mem- 
 ber of the American Institute of Mechanical 
 Engineers, Society of Naval Engineers, So- 
 ciety of Naval Architects and Marine En- 
 gineers, the Franklin Institute of Phila- 
 delphia and the Societe Technique Maritime 
 of France. He is the author of text books 
 on the Resistance and Propulsion of Ships 
 and on Marine Engineering, as well as of 
 numerous smaller publications and papers 
 dealing with a wide varie.ty of engineering 
 topics. After the destruction of the build- 
 ings of Stanford University by the earth- 
 quake of April 18, 1906, he was appointed 
 a member of the. Commission of Engineers 
 (three), having in charge the reconstruc- 
 tion and rehabilitation of the buildings of 
 the Univeisity. Dr. Durand is a member 
 of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and 
 Acacia Society (college) and of the Ma- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 sonic Older, lie mariicd al Shclton, Conn., 
 Oct. 2:{, 1883. Charlotte Knoon, and they 
 liave one son. Address: Stanford Uni- 
 versity, Calif. 
 
 DURBIN. Winfield Taylor: 
 
 .Mniuifactinx'r, ex-govci nor ; horn at Lavv- 
 renceburg. Dearborn County Ind., May 4, 
 1S47; son of William 8. and Eliza A. i)ur- 
 hin. lie was edncated in the public schools 
 of his native place, leavinir to enter the 
 Union Army, as a privalc. serving until 
 the war closed. After the war he taught 
 school until 18C9, and in that year went 
 to Indianapolis where he became con- 
 nected with a wholesale dry goods house 
 in the office and afterward as a traveling 
 salesman. In 1879 he removed to Ander- 
 son, Ind., and established in banking busi- 
 ness. He was connected with the first fuel 
 gas company that installed a distributing 
 system in Anderson, and also a fuel sup- 
 ply company, and he is interested as an 
 ofiicer and director in numerous electric 
 railways and manufacturing corporations. 
 He was colonel of the One Hundred and 
 Si.xty-first Indian Regiment in the Spanish- 
 American War. He has always been an 
 active Rei)ublican, and one of the influential 
 party leadeis in Indiana. He served for 
 several years as a nienihcr of the Republi- 
 can State Cojnmittee of lii<liana. and was 
 chairman of its Executive Committee, and 
 lie was tlie Indiana member of the National 
 Republican Committee and of its Executive 
 Committee, 1S!)()-1!)()0. In 1!)00 he was 
 elected governor of the Stale of Indiana, 
 and served the four-year term ending in 
 daiiuarv. IDOf). Covernoi- Durbin is a 
 prominent member of the .Methodist church 
 and also of the ]\!asonie order, in which 
 he liiis attained the (iiirty-third degree. He 
 married, al Anderson. Ind.. Oct. (i. 187;"). 
 Rertlia .M<'Cnllougi). and has a son |'lctch<T 
 M. J)nri)in, who was an ollicer in the Kilst 
 Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the Spanish 
 American War. Address: I n(liana|)(ilis. 
 Ind. 
 
 DU RELLE, George: 
 
 . Jurist; born at York, Livingston County, 
 N. \., Oct. 18, 1852. He removed with his 
 
 parents to Louisville, Ky., 1859. He was 
 educated in the Hopkins Grammar School 
 at New Haven, Conn., and Yale College, 
 but left the University at the close of his 
 soplimore year in 1870. He taught school 
 in Louisville and at the same time at- 
 tended the Law Department of the Uni- 
 versity of Louisville, from which he was 
 graduated LL.B., 1874. He was admitted 
 to the bar at Louisville in 1874 ; was as- 
 sistant U. S. attorney for the District of 
 Kentucky, 1882-1886, and from 1889-1891; 
 and was judge of the Court of Appeals of 
 Kentucky, 1895-1902, resuming practice at 
 Louisville on the expiration of his term. 
 He was appointed U. S. attorney for the 
 Western District of Kentucky in June, 
 190G. Judge Du Relle has always been an 
 active Republican, and is one of the lead- 
 ers of his party in Kentucky. Address: 
 Louisville. Ky. 
 
 DURHAM, John Stephens: 
 
 Lawyer; born in I'liilaiielpliia. July 18, 
 18G1; son of Samuel and Elizabeth 
 (Stephens) Durham. He was graduated 
 from the University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 
 1S8G, and from the Engineering Department 
 of the same university, C.E., later. He was 
 an editor on the staff of the Evening Rulle- 
 tin, Philadelphia, 1887-1890, and afterward 
 V. S. minister to Haiti and Charge d'af- 
 fairs to Santo Dduiingo. Mr. Durham spent 
 a considerable lime in ( 'uha as C S. as- 
 sistant attorney, ])re])aring the defenses 
 against claims before tlie Spanish Treaty 
 Claims (Commission. lie is autlioi- of: 
 Diane, Priestess of Haiti, also of con- 
 tributions to magazines, lie is now engaged 
 in law jiractice in Philadclpliia. Mr. Dur- 
 ham \\as ^■iee-pl■esident of the I'cniisyl- 
 vania League of Rei)ublican Clubs. 1900- 
 1904, and he is a mend)er of the Ameri- 
 can .\caileiny of Political and Social Science, 
 and of the Contemporary Club of Philadel- 
 phia, Residence: 481(5 l<'loi-enee .Avenue, 
 West Philadelphia. Ollice: 411 Cro/ier 
 Building. Philadelphia. 
 
 DURYEA, Hiram: 
 
 President of the National Starch Com- 
 pany; born in IManha-sset, L. 1.. A[)ril 12, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 537 
 
 1S.!4. At tlic ago of iwi-iiiy-onc lie becaine 
 a jjarliuT in the stareh iiiauufacturing busi- 
 ness of liis father, by whom the process 
 of making .starch was originated. He was 
 \ ice-president and president of the Olen 
 Cove Starch Manufacturing Comi)any for 
 many years and afterwards became presi- 
 (U'nt of the National Starch Company, which 
 succeeded the Glen Cove Company. In 185.5 
 lie was commissioned by Governor j\Iyron 
 Clark first lieutenant of artillery in the 
 Forty-eighth Eegimeut of the State Militia, 
 a, commission which lie held for several 
 years. At the beginning of the Civil War 
 he promptly tendered his services to the 
 State, and on April 25, 1861, wais com- 
 missioned captain in the Fifth New York 
 Infantry, known as the Duryea Zouaves. 
 On Aug. 15, 1861, he was commissioned 
 major in the same regiment, and on Sept. 
 2, lieutenant colonel. After the siege of 
 Yorktown he commanded the regiment in 
 the Peninsula and Maryland Campaigns; in 
 the Seven Days' Battle and in operations 
 before Richmond, the regiment was spe- 
 cially mentioned for its gallantry and ef- 
 ficient service, being one of the most famous 
 of the New York commands in the war, 
 and he was several times commended in 
 official reports for distinguished service. 
 He was appointed colonel of the same regi- 
 ment, Oct. 29, 1862, and on j\Iay 26, 1866, 
 was commissioned by the President of the 
 United States as brevet brigadier-general oi 
 volunteers for distinguished conduct at the 
 battle of Gaines Mills, Va. General Duryea 
 retired from the service December, 1802, 
 in consequence of many injuries received 
 in the field, which incapacitated him for 
 further duty. He is now president of the 
 Veterans' Association and a member of the 
 Veterans' Association of the Regiment which 
 he commanded during the war, and is also 
 a member of the Society of the Fifth Army 
 Corps, the United Service Club, and 
 tlie Military Order of the Loyal Legion. 
 Address: 80 ]\Iadison Avenue, New York 
 City. 
 
 BUTTON, Edward Payson: 
 
 Publisher; born in Kcune, N. H., Jan. 4, 
 1831. He removed to Boston in 1833, and 
 
 was educated in the ])ublic; and Latin 
 schools. He was a member of Ide and Dut- 
 ton, booksellers of Boston, 1852-1858, bought 
 out Ide's interest and continued as E. P. 
 Button and Company. He bought the re- 
 tail business of Ticknor and Field in 1864, 
 and also that of the General Protestant 
 Episcopal Sunday School Union and Church 
 Book Society of New Yoik, and in 1S()!) 
 moved' the business to New York. ]\Ir. But- 
 ton married in 1856, a daughter of Jacob 
 Sleeper of Boston. Address: 31 West 23d 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 BUTTON, Samuel Train: 
 
 Educator; born at Hillsboro, N. H., Oct. 
 16, 1849; son of Jeremiah and Rebecca 
 Train. He was educated at New London 
 (Conn.) Academy;, graduated from Yale 
 University, A.B.,' 1873, A.M., 1890. He 
 was in charge of schools at South Nor- 
 walk. Conn., 1873-1878; principal of Eaton 
 School, New Haven, 1878-1882; superin- 
 tendent of schools of New Haven, 1882- 
 1890; superintendent of schools of Brook- 
 line, Mass., 1890-1900; lecturer in pedagogy 
 at Harvard, 1895-1897, at Chicago Univer- 
 sity, 1897-1898; Boston University in 1898; 
 and since then has been professor of 
 school administration and superintendent of 
 schools, Teachers College (Columbia Uni- 
 versity). He has made seven journeys 
 abroad, and read a paper at the Interna- 
 tional Conference of Drawing at Berne, 
 1904. Mr. Button is a member of the 
 American Historical Association, the Na- 
 tional Educational Association, secretary of 
 the Peace Society of the City of New York, 
 cnairman of the Executive Committee of 
 iSational Arbitration and Peace Congress in 
 1907, member of the Berae Bureau of the 
 International Peace, and a trustee of the 
 American College for Girls, Constantinople. 
 he is author of: Morse Speller; Social 
 Phases of Education; School iManageinent; 
 joint-author of The Administration of Pub- 
 lic i'juucation in the United States, and is 
 editor of the Historical Series published 
 by the Morse Company, and of the ^^'orld 
 at \Vork Series by the American Book 
 Companj-. Mr. Button is a member of the 
 
538 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Schoolmasters', Yale Fortniglilly, and Mc- 
 Dowell Clubs. He married at New Haven, 
 Conn., Oct. 8, 1874, Cornelia North, and 
 they have two children. Address : Teach- 
 ers College, New York City. 
 
 BUTTON, William J. 
 
 Insurance president ; born at Bangor, 
 Penobscot County, Maine, Jan. 23, 1847; 
 son of Henry and Frances (Stevens) But- 
 ton. He removed in boyhood, with his 
 parents, to San Francisco, and he received 
 his education in the public schools and 
 City College in that city until January, 
 1867, when he became a clerk in the office 
 of the agency of the North British and 
 Mercantile Insurance Company, at San 
 Francisco. In May, 1867, he inaugurated 
 the Marine Department of the Fireman's 
 Fund Insurance Company of San Francisco, 
 and in 1869 became secretary of that de- 
 partment, and he continued the manage- 
 ment of that branch of the business until 
 1881, also being assistant secretary of the 
 companj^ from 1873 until 1881, when he 
 became general secretary. He was vice- 
 president and general secretary from 1886 
 to 1890, vice-president and general man- 
 ager from 1890 to 1900, and since 1900 
 he has been president of the Fireman's 
 Fund Insurance Companj\ He was also 
 vice-president from 1892 to 1896, and since 
 then has been president of the Home Fire 
 and Marine Insurance Company of San 
 Francisco. He has been president of the 
 Board of Marine Underwriters of San Fran- 
 cisco since 1888. He was president in 1885 
 and vice-president for several years of tlie 
 Board oi Fire Underwriters of tlie Pacific 
 Coast, and a member of its Executive Com 
 mittee from 1884 to 1902. Mr. Dutton is a 
 Congregationalist in his religious affilia- 
 tions and is chairman of the Board of 
 Trustees of the First Congregational Churcli 
 o^ San Francisco. He was president in 
 1903 of the California Society of Sons of 
 tiie American Kevolution and is a member 
 of the Pacific Union Club. Mr. Dutton mar- 
 ried in San Francisco, in 1868, ;Mary Hey- 
 den Feldl. Residence: Fairmont Hotel, 
 San Francisco. Office address: California 
 and Sansomc Streets, San Francisco, Calif. 
 
 DUVENECK, Frank: 
 
 Artist; born in Covington, Ky., in 1848. 
 He studied art in Munich for over ten 
 years, and has attained international re- 
 pute as a specialist in portrait and figure 
 painting, in which department of art he 
 is represented in the leading art collections 
 of America and Europe. He lived for some 
 time in Boston, but since 1881, chiefly in 
 PTorence, Italy, painting and teaching. He 
 was elected, in 1908, academician of the 
 National Academy of Design. Address: 
 Covington, Ky. 
 
 DWIGHT, John Wilbur: 
 
 Congressman and banker; born at Dry- 
 den, May 24, 1859; son of Jeremiah W. 
 and Rebecca A. (Cady) Dwight. He was 
 educated at New Haven, Conn. Mr. Dwight 
 was elected to Congress in 1902, to fill the 
 vacancy in the 57th Congress, caused by 
 the resignation of George W. Ray, who was 
 appointed U. S. judge, and reelected to the 
 Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and again 
 in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress from the 
 Thirtieth New York District. Mr. Dwight 
 is a member of the Union League and Re- 
 publican Clubs of New York. He married 
 at Los Angeles, Calif., in 1895, Emma 
 Childs. Residence: Dryuen, N. Y. Office: 
 Flmira, N. Y. 
 
 DWIGHT, Thomas: 
 
 Professor of anatomy; born in Boston, 
 Oct. 13, 1843. He was graduated from 
 Harvard, A.B., 1866, M.D., 1867, and has 
 received the degree of LL.D. from George- 
 town University, 1889. He studied abroad 
 for two years after graduation and then 
 returned to Boston and established medical 
 practice. He was instructor in comparative 
 anatomy in Harvard, 1872-1873; lecturer 
 and professor of anatomy in Bowdoin Col- 
 lege, 1872-1876; instructor in histology in 
 Harvard iMedical School, 1874-1883, and in 
 1883 lie succeeded Dr. Oliver Wendell 
 Holmes as Parkman professor of anatomy 
 in Harvard Medical School. Dr. Dwight 
 edited the Boston Medical Journal, 1873- 
 1878, and is author of many papers on hu- 
 man and vertebrate anatomy. Residence: 
 Nahant, Mass. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 539 
 
 DWIGHT, Timothy: 
 
 l''oriiier [)rcsidenl. of Yale Univer.sity ; 
 l)uru in Norwich, Conn., Nov. 10, 1828; son 
 of James and (Susan (Breed) Dvvight, and 
 grandson of Rev. Timothy Uwight, eighth 
 president of Yale, 1795-1817. He was 
 grauLiated from Yale, A.B. (salutatorian) , 
 1849; was tutor in Yale, 18511855, and 
 student in Yale Theological Seminary, 1853- 
 1855; student in the Universities of Bonn 
 and Berlin, 1856-1858; elected professor of 
 sacred literature in Y'ale Tlieological Sem- 
 inary, Sept. 16, 1858, and was ordained 
 to tlie ministry of the Congregational 
 Church, Sept. 15, 1861. He received the de- 
 gree of D.D. fi'om Chicago Theological Sem- 
 inary, 1869, from Yale, 1886, LL.D., Har- 
 vard, 1886, Princeton, 1888, was chosen 
 twelfth jJiesident of Y^ale College 1886, serv- 
 ing until 1899, when he resigned. Presi- 
 dent Dwight was a member of the American 
 Committee for the Revision of the English 
 N ersion of the Bible; edited several vol 
 umes of Meyer's Commentary on the New 
 'testament, to which he added extencled 
 notes, and is author of: Thouglits of and 
 for the Inner Life; Memories of Yale Life 
 and Men, and various articles on theological 
 and educational subjects. He married in 
 New Haven, Conn., Dec. 3i, 1866, Jane 
 \\ak:eman Skinner. Address : 56 Hillhouse 
 Avenue, New Haven, Conn. 
 
 DWYER, Jeremiah: 
 
 i>tove manufacturer; born in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., Aug. 22, 1838; son of Michael and 
 Mary (O'Donnell) Dwyer. A few months 
 after his birth his parents removed to 
 Detroit, Mich., locating on a farm four 
 miles from the city. His father was killed 
 in an accident in 1848, and after the farm 
 was sold, the family removed to the city. 
 He was educated in the common schools of 
 Detroit, and left school as a boy to work 
 in a saw and planing mill. From there he 
 went to the Hydraulic Iron Works in De- 
 troit to learn the foundry trade. After four 
 years there, he worked as a journeyman in 
 several foundries until 1861, when he and 
 his brother, James Dyer, established them- 
 selves as stove founders under the &Ym. 
 
 name of J. Dwyer & Company, meeting with 
 nuich success. In 1864 it became the De- 
 troit Stove Works, in which he continued 
 until 1869, when he sold out and went 
 South for the benefit of liis healtli. In 
 1871 he returned to Detroit and established 
 the Michigan Stove Company which he de- 
 veloped into the largest stove manufactur- 
 ing enterprise in the world, and of which 
 he is still the president. He is also a di- 
 rector of the Ideal Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, also director of The Michigan Cop- 
 per and Brass Company, and of the Peoples 
 btate Savings Baidv, at Detroit. Mr. Dwyer 
 is a Democrat in politics and a Catholic in 
 religious belief. He is a member of the 
 Detroit Club and of the Detroit Country 
 Club. He married at Detroit, Nov. 22, 
 1859, Mary Long, and he has six sons and 
 one daughter. Residence : 692 Jefferson 
 Avenue. Office: 1022 Jefferson Avenue, 
 Detroit, Mich. 
 
 DYE, Eva Emery: 
 
 Author; born in Prophetstown, 111., 
 daughter of Cyrus and Caroline (Trafton) 
 Emery. She was graduated from Oberlin 
 College, A.B., 1882, A.M., 1889, and was 
 married in July, 1882 (just after gradua- 
 tion), to her college classmate, Charles H. 
 Dye, of Ft. Madison, Iowa (A.B., Oberlin, 
 1882, LL.B., University of Iowa, 1887), 
 now prominent lawyer and member of the 
 Oregon Legislature anil they have three 
 sons and a daughter. JNlrs. Dye is a 
 descendant of Sir Gilbert de Amory (or 
 Emery), wlio accompanied William the 
 Conqueror in the conquest of England, 
 whose estate at Romsey, Hants, England, 
 is still in the family, also descendant of 
 Antliony Emery, who with his elder brother, 
 John, landed in Boston, June 3, 1635, on 
 the ship James, of London, and also, in 
 fifth generation from Colonel Caleb Emery, 
 who fought in the i^'rencli, Indian and Revo- 
 lutionary Wars, and whose son William 
 married Mary Salter (Mrs. Dye's great- 
 grandmother) whose father. Captain Titus 
 Salter, of Portsmouth, N. H., captured in 
 1774, the powder in a British fort at the 
 mouth of the Piscataqua River, which was 
 
540 
 
 MEN OF A^IERICA. 
 
 used a year lalcr at llie lialtlc of l^unker 
 Hill. ^irs. Dye is author of: McLouglilin 
 and Old Oregon, 1900 ; The Conquest, The 
 True Story of Lewis and Clark, 1902; Mc- 
 Donald of Oregon, 1000; also Stories of 
 Oregon for use in the public schools, the 
 ])late3 of which were destroyed in the San 
 Francisco earthquake and fire. Mrs. Dye 
 was the originator of the Williamette Val- 
 ley Chautauqua Assembly, now in its four- 
 teenth year, and camps there every summer 
 at Gladstone Park on the Clackamas River. 
 Mrs. Dye has taken tiie foremost place 
 among the woman-writers of Oregon, and 
 as historian-novelist of the Northwest. Ad- 
 dress: Oregon City, Oregon. 
 
 DYER, David Patterson: 
 
 Jurist; born in Henry County, Va., Feb. 
 12, 1838; moved to Missouri in 1841. He 
 was educated in St. Charles (Mo.) College; 
 was admitted to the bar in Bowling Green, 
 Mo.. 1850, and practised law in Pike 
 County and adjoining counties in ]\lissouri 
 until 1875. He was a member of Congress, 
 1S09-1S71, was appointed U. S. district at- 
 torney in 1875 and removed to St. Louis, 
 where he prosecuted the famous " Whiskey 
 Pving Cases" in 1875 and 1870. He has 
 long been a leader of the Republican Party 
 in Missouri; was Republican candidate for 
 Governor of Missouri in 1880, and a dele- 
 gate at large to the National Republican 
 Conventions of 1888 and 1900. He was U. 
 S. attorney for the Eastern District of 
 Mis.souri, from 1902 to April, 1907, when 
 he was appointed by President Roosevelt to 
 his present otTicc as judge of the U. S. 
 District Court of the Eastern District of 
 Missouri. Residence: 3807 Delmar Avenue. 
 Office: U. S. Custom House, St. I^ouis, Mo. 
 
 DYER, Elisha, Jr.: 
 
 Ranker; born in i'roviilcncc. 1!. !•: son 
 of Governor Elisha Dyci- nnd Naiuy A. 
 (Vial!) Dyer. He was graduated from 
 Brown University, A.B., 1883. and from Co- 
 lundjia Law School. 1885, LL.I'. tie was 
 admitted to the bar in 1885. Iml rni^iiged 
 in business as a banker and ludkcr. Mr. 
 Dyer is president and directoi- of the I'lijip 
 
 Compressed Air and Electric Power Com- 
 pany, and is also director of the Seaside 
 and Brooklyn Bridge Elevated Railroad 
 Company and is otherwise interested in 
 corporations. He is a member of the Brown 
 University Alumni Association and the 
 Knickerbocker, Manhattan, Union, The 
 Brook, New York Yacht, and Country Clubs, 
 the Automobile Club of America, and the 
 Turf and Field Club. Mr. Dyer married 
 Mrs. Sydney Turner Swan. Residence: 37 
 West 56th Street, New York City. Ollice: 
 30 New Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 DYRENFORTH, Robert St. George: 
 
 Patent lawyer; bo'n in Cliicago, Oct. 17, 
 1844; son of Julius and Caroline Dyren- 
 forth. He was educated in Breslau, Neisse, 
 and Berlin, Germany, served in the Union 
 Army, 1861-1806. returned to Germany and 
 was graduated from the Polytechnic School 
 at Carlsruhe, Baden, M.E., and from Heidel- 
 berg University, Ph.D., 1809, afterward 
 studying law and medicine in Cohnubian 
 (now George Washingion) University in 
 Washington, D. C. His Civil War service 
 began in April 1861 in the Schambeck Dra- 
 goons, Illinois Cavalry under Generals Mc- 
 Clellan and Rosecrans in West Virginia, 
 and later as captain and major in the 
 12th, 13th and 17th regiments of Illinois 
 Cavalry. He served as acting engineer of- 
 ficer in charge of the work of fortifying 
 the mouth of the Missouri River in advance 
 of Price's raid in 1864, and after the Civil 
 War closed he finished his military service 
 in the Indian campaigns on the Western 
 Plains. In 1871 he entered the I'. S. 
 Patent ollice in which he held various po- 
 sitions, and was assistant commissioner 
 under President Arthur. He resigned when 
 Mr. Cleveland became President in 1885. 
 but at his request remained for ten days as 
 commissioner of patents. Since 1885 he 
 has been engaged in ]irarli(c in Wa^liiiiii- 
 ton. giving his attention In i.atcut ami 
 corporation law. Mr. Dyrcntorth mairied 
 in Chicago iu ISOO. .lane de J^acy. Resi- 
 dence: 14lli anil I'.cniify Streets, N. W . 
 Ollice: \Vasliinglun Loan and Trust Build- 
 ing, \\a>liington, D. C. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 641 
 
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 EAGER, George Eugene: 
 
 Consul; born at Eiifiold, Mass., March 
 If). 1859; son of John D. and CLarissa 
 (Lathrop) Eager. He was educated in pub- 
 lic schools and General Russell's Military 
 Academy at New Haven, Conn., where he 
 was prepared for Yale. His health became 
 so impaired that he was compelled to fore- 
 go his intention to take the college course, 
 and lit' went to Germany, deciding to era- 
 bark on a musical career and entering the 
 Royal Conservatory of Music at Leipzig. 
 He remained there for four years, pursuing 
 his studies under Bv. Jadassohn and Gustav 
 Schreck in nuisical theory and under Profes- 
 sor Dr. Carl Reinecke and Bruno Zwintcher 
 in Piano, and at the end of the four years 
 course he was awarded the Helbig prize of 
 tlie conservatory for excellence. He re- 
 turned to America and engaged in teaching 
 in New York, and was also pianist of the 
 Mozart Club of that city, playing in numer- 
 ous concerts. He went to Chicago in 1892 
 and taught private pupils there and at the 
 same time was head of the music depart- 
 ment of Lake Forest University at Lake 
 Forest, 111., until appointed consul at Bar- 
 men in 1906. He married in 1900, Ruth F. 
 Spalding of Norwich, Conn., and has two 
 daughters. Address: American Consulate, 
 Barmen, Prussia, Germany. 
 
 EAKIN, Robert: 
 
 Jurist; born in Elgin. 111., March 15, 
 1848; son of Stewart B. and Catherine 
 (McEldowney) Eakin. He was graduated 
 from Willamette University, Salem. Ore., 
 B.S., then studied law, was admitted to bar, 
 and' located at Union, Ore., practising there 
 until he went upon the bench. He was 
 jndge of the Circuit Court for the Eighth 
 District of Oregon from March, 1895, until 
 Jan. 1, 1907; since Jan. 14, 1907 justice of 
 the Supreme Court of Oregon. He married 
 at Eugene, Ore., June 21, 1876, Mary Walk- 
 er, and they have had five children of 
 whom two are now deceased. Address: 
 1088 State Street, Salem, Ore. 
 
 EAKINS, Thomas: 
 
 Artist; born in Philadelphia, July 25, 
 1844. He secured his academic education 
 in the high schools of Philadelphia. He 
 studied art under Gerome at the ficole des 
 Beaux Arts, Paris. After this, he was pro- 
 fessor and lecturer on anatomy and paint- 
 ing in various schools of art. He assisted 
 Samuel Murray, his pupil, to model the 
 colossal figures of the prophets which deco- 
 rate the Witherspoon Building, Philadel- 
 phia. The reliefs on the Trenton Battle 
 Monument, and on the Soldiers' and Sail- 
 ors' IMonument in Brooklyn are also his 
 work. Since 1902 he has been an academi- 
 cian of the National Academy of Design. 
 He was given awards at the Columbian Ex- 
 position, 1893; the Paris Exposition, 1900, 
 and Pan American Exirosition, 1901; gold 
 medal at St. Louis, 1904; the Proctor p'l-ize 
 of the National Academy of Design, and' the 
 Temple gold medal of the Pennsylvania 
 Academy of Fine Arts. ' Address: 1729 
 Mt. Vernon Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 EAMES, Francis L: 
 
 Retired stock broker; born in Fall River. 
 Mass., in 1844; son of. Asa and Harriet 
 (Seabury) Fames. He was educated in the 
 schools of Fall River, Mass., and in 1866 
 he was elected a member of the New York 
 Stock Exchange, and he was a member of 
 the firm of Fames & Moore, stock brokers. 
 New York City, from 1SG9 until 1903, when 
 he retired. Mr. Fames organized the clear- 
 ing system of the New York Stock Exchange, 
 in 1892, in recognition of which he was pre- 
 sented by the exchange with a service of 
 silver in 1893. He was elected president 
 of the Stock Exchange in 1894, 1895, 1896, 
 and 1897, is a member of the Governing 
 Committee and chairman of Trustees of the 
 Gratuitj' Fund of the Exchange, and a trus- 
 tee of the New York Stock Exchange Build- 
 ing Company. He is a trustee of the Brook- 
 lyn Hospital, the Long Island Historical 
 Society, and the Brooklyn Savings Bank, 
 a member of the Sons of the Revolution, 
 Society of Colonial Wars, the Chamber of 
 Commerce of New York and' the Hamilton 
 Club of Brooklyn. Address: 125 Remsen 
 Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
542 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 EAMES, John C: 
 
 Mcrclmiit : born in New York City, Aug. 
 1, 18G0; son of Edward Everett and Mary 
 (Capen) Eamcs. He was educated at St. 
 John's Military Academy, Sing Sing, from 
 which he was graduated with honors in 
 1878. Immediately aiter graduation he 
 entered the dry goods establishment of H. 
 B. Claflin & Company; later he went West 
 where he became interested in various en- 
 terprises. He returned to New York in 
 1895 and again beciime connected with The 
 H. B. Claflin Company; he was its vice-pres- 
 ident and afterwards its general manager. 
 He is treasurer of the Dry Goods Auxiliary 
 of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday As- 
 sociation; trustee of the Grant Memorial As- 
 sociation; member of the order of Founders 
 and Patriots of America ; member of the 
 New England Society; one of the founders 
 of the Merchants' Association of New York 
 — during the past five years, he has held 
 the positions of secretary and vice-president 
 and' is now actively engaged on several of 
 the most important committees; commis- 
 sioner and trustee of the Hudson-Fulton 
 Celebration Commission. He is a member 
 of the Englewood Golf, Englewood Field, 
 Lakewood Country, Merchants', and Union 
 League Clubs. He married at Denver, Colo., 
 in 188G, Sophie S. Cary, of Louisville, Ky. 
 Address: H. B. Claflin Company, New York 
 City. 
 
 EAMES, Wilberforce: 
 
 Librarian and bibliographer; born in 
 Newark. N. J.. Oct. 12, 185.'5; son of Nel- 
 son and Harriet P. (Crane) Fames. He 
 was educated in the public schools and' in 
 189C, he received the honorary degree of A. 
 ^r. from Harvard. He was assistant of the 
 Lenox Library, 1885; assistant librarian, 
 1802; librarian, 189.3 until the consolidation 
 in 1895, with the Astor Library and the 
 Tilden Trust as the New York Public Li- 
 brary, librarian Lenox branch since 1895. 
 lie edited volumes 15-20 of Sabin's Diction- 
 ary of Books Relating to America, 1885- 
 1892, and has resumed tlie editing of this 
 work since its resuscitation in 19()G. under 
 the auspices of a grant from the Carnegie 
 
 Institution. Articles by him in that work on 
 Bibliographies of the Bay Palm Book, 1885; 
 of Ptolemy's Geography, 1886; and of Sir 
 Walter Raleigh, have been printed separate- 
 ly. He is the author of a large number of 
 works on bibliological subjects. He collected 
 a large, private library of over 18,000 vol- 
 umes on history, travels, philology, religious 
 bibliography, archeology and ethnology, 
 parts of which were dispersed at auction 
 during 190.3-1907. Mr. Eames is now con- 
 centrating his collecting upon his Indian 
 library, and still retains his large collec- 
 tions on India, China, Japan, Africa and 
 Oceanica. He is a member of the American 
 Library Association, of the Bibliographical 
 Society of America (Librarian since 1905), 
 of the American Antiquarian Society, a cor- 
 responding member of the Massachusetts 
 Historical Society, a life member of the 
 New York Historical Society, a member of 
 the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, an 
 officer d'Academie d'Instruction Publique 
 d'es Beaux Arts et des Cultes of France, and 
 member of the New York Library Club 
 (vice-president, 1897-1899; president, 1900- 
 1901). Residence: 2752 Fulton Street. 
 Brooklyn. Address: Lenox Library, 895 
 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 EAMES, William S.: 
 
 Architect; born in Clinton, Mich., Aug. 
 4, 1857; son of William H. and Laura 
 Maria (Schofield) Eames. He was grad- 
 uated from W'ashington University, St. 
 Louis, A.B., and studied art and architect- 
 ure in the ficole d'es Beaux Arts, Paris, and 
 in Rome. Since 1882 he has been engaged 
 in architectural practice in St. Louis, and 
 is senior member of the firm of Eames & 
 Young, which designed and carried on the 
 construction of the United States peniten- 
 tiaries at Leavenworth, Kan., and Atlanta, 
 Ga. Each of these represent the results of f 
 comprehensive study and research in prison . 
 construction, and are believed to be the 
 most advanced types of penal arcliitecture 
 in the United States, if not in the world. 
 Mr. Eames has also been tiie architect of 
 many public, business, institutional and res- 
 idence structures in St. Louis and other 
 
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 cities. Mr. Eames was deputy commissioner 
 of public buildings of St. Louis, 1881-1883; 
 U. S. representative to the International 
 Congress in Madrid, Spain, 1904. He is a 
 member, was director for fifteen years and 
 president 1904-1905 of the American Insti- 
 tute of Architects ; life member of the Amer- 
 ican Academy in Rome; member of the 
 Architectural League, International Society 
 of State and Municipal Building Commis- 
 sioners; member of the Board of Appeals 
 of the Bviilding Department of St. Louis, 
 National Society for Civic Improvement of 
 Municipalities, and of the St. Louis and Al- 
 gonquin Country Clubs of St. Louis and 
 the Cosmos Club of Washington. Resi- 
 dence: 3334 Washington Avenue. Office: 
 Lincoln Trust Building, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 EARL, Charles: 
 
 Solicitor for the Department of Commerce 
 and Labor; born in Cambridge, Mass., April 
 21, 1869. He was graduatd from George- 
 town University, LL.B., 1895, LL.M., 1896, 
 and was admitted to the bar, practising in 
 the District of Columbia and Maryland, 1896- 
 1903. Mr. Earl was special attorney for 
 the Bureau of Corporations, Department of 
 Commerce and Labor, 1903-1906; assistant 
 , attorney for the Department of Justice 
 1 from June to September, 1906, when he re- 
 i turned to the Department of Commerce and 
 ! Labor as solicitor. He is a member of the 
 I University Club of Washington. Mr. Earl 
 j married Kathleen Rogers of Paincourtville, 
 La. Residence : Riverdale, Md. Office : 
 Department of Commerce and Labor, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 EARLE, Franklin Sumner: 
 
 1 Botanist and horticulturist; born on a 
 ' farm in Grundy County, 111., Sept. 4, 1856; 
 j son of Parker and Melanie (Tracy) Earle. 
 i He was educated in but not graduated from 
 the University of Illinois, and he received 
 the honorary A.M. degree from the Alabama 
 i Polytechnic Institute, 1902. He was assist- 
 iant in mycology in the University of Illi- 
 j nois, 1886; branch superintendent of the 
 [Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
 Ition, 1892-1895; assistant pathologist, U. S. 
 IDepartment of Agriculture, 1895; associate 
 
 professor of horticulture, Alabama Poly- 
 technic Institute and horticulturist of the 
 Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, 
 1896; professor of biology and horticulture 
 Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and biolo- 
 gist and horticulturist of the Alftbama 
 Agricultural Experiment Station, 1806- 
 1901; assistant curator of the New York 
 Botanical Garden, 1901-1904; director of 
 the Estacion Central Agronomica de Cuba, 
 1904-1906; since 1908 agricultural inspector 
 for the Cuban-American Sugar Com- 
 pany'. Professor Earle has made im- 
 portant contributions to systematic mycolo- 
 gy and to the horticulture of the Southern 
 United States, and tropical agriculture, and 
 is author of a Text-Book on Southern Agri- 
 culture. He is a fellow of Ihe American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science, 
 member and was president 1906-1907 of the 
 Botanical Society of America; member of 
 the American Mycological Society, 'nd tlie 
 Torrey Botanical Club. He married, first at 
 Cobden, 111., 1886, Susan B. Skehan, and 
 second at Ocean Springs, Miss., to Esther 
 J. Skehan. Address: Herradura, Cuba. 
 
 EARLE, George H.: 
 
 Lawyer and financier; born in Philadel- 
 phia, July 6, 1856. He was educated in 
 Harvard University, then studied law and 
 was admitted to practice in the profession 
 of which his father and grandfather had 
 been notable members. He became a mem- 
 ber of the legal firm of Earle and White, 
 which existed for twelve years, and con- 
 ducted a large and lucrative practice, in 
 which Mr. Earle showed high ability and 
 was markedly successful. He was elected 
 president of the Pennsylvania Warehousing 
 and Safe Deposit Company, and vice-presi- 
 dent of the Guarantee Trust and Safe De- 
 posit Company. His many duties in these 
 positions obliged him to withdraw from the 
 active practice of the law. The great abil- 
 ity which he manifested as a financier led 
 later to his being made president of the 
 Finance Company of Pennsylvania and of 
 the Tradesmen's National Bank, resign- 
 ing at the same time his vice-presidency in 
 the Guarantee Company. He has success- 
 
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 fully filled other important financial posi- 
 tions and in 1898 he was appointed receiv- 
 er for the Chestnut Street National Bank, 
 and associated with R. Y. Cook, was as- 
 signee of the Chestnut Street Trust and 
 Saving Fund Company. The affairs of the 
 defunct institutions he conducted to a suc- 
 cessful termination. He became also a mem- 
 ber of the board of the Philadelphia 
 Record Publishing Company and a director 
 of the Equitable Trust Company and many 
 others. He has a national reputation as a 
 financial rebuilder, having taken numerous 
 tottering enterprises and built them up to 
 stability and success. Mr. Earle has taken a 
 deep interest in political affairs and has been 
 a strong element in the struggle for munici- 
 pal reform. He was an active member of 
 the Committee of One Hundred and has al- 
 ways taken great interest in the cause of 
 honest administration. He is a lover of fine 
 horses and has one of the largest stock 
 farms in Pennsylvania, at his summer coun- 
 try seat. Broad Acres, near the Radnor 
 Hunt. He married in Philadelphia, 1881, 
 Catherine H. French. Residence: Devon, 
 Pa. Office: 232 Foiirth Street. Philadelphia. 
 
 EARLING, Albert J.: 
 
 Railway president; born at Richfield, 
 Washington County, Wis., Jan. 19, 1849. 
 He was educated in the common schools of 
 Wisconsin until 18GG, when he entered the 
 employ of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint 
 Paul Railway, with which he has been con- 
 nected ever since. For the first six years 
 he was a telegraph operator, five years a 
 train despatcher, and four years assistant 
 superintendent of the road, then became di- 
 vision superintendent, 1882-1884, assistant 
 general superintendent, 1888-1890, general 
 manager, 1890-1899, and also second vice- 
 president, 1895-1899. Since Sept. 23, 1899 
 he has been president of the Chicago, Mil- 
 waukee and Saint Paul Railway Company. 
 He is also director of the Central Trust 
 Company of Illinois, the Continental Na- 
 tional Bank of Chicago and the Saint Paul 
 Coal Company. Residence: 514 North 
 State Street. ' Office: Railway Exchange, 
 Chicago. 
 
 EASLEY, Ralph Montgomery: 
 
 Chairman of the Executive Council of the 
 National Civic Federation; bom in Schuyler 
 Coimty. 111., Feb. 25, 1858; son of Charles 
 L. ami Elizabeth J. ( Berry ) Easley. He was 
 educated in the public schools of Quincy, 
 111. ]\Ir. Easley went to Hutchinson, Kan., 
 in 1875, and was a teacher in the public 
 schools 1877-1888. He was proprietor and 
 editor of the Hvitchinson Daily News, 1883- 
 1891; postmaster of Hutchinson, 1882-1887; 
 and afterward on the staff of the Chicago 
 Inter-Ocean, in charge of tlie politico-econo- 
 mic department. He organized the Civic 
 Federation of Chicago in 1893 and was its 
 secretary for seven years; organized the Na- 
 tional Civic Federation in 1900 and has 
 since been chairman of its Executive Coun- 
 cil, with headquarters in New York City. 
 He was promoter of the National Conference 
 on Primary Election Reform in New York 
 City, Jan., 1898, National Conference on 
 Foreign Policy at Saratoga, Aug., 1898, Na- 
 tional Conference on Trusts and Combina- 
 tions at Chicago, Sept., 1899, and the Na- 
 tional Conference on Taxation, at Buffalo, 
 1901. He married at Mechanicsburg, Ohio, 
 March 23, 1881, Nerva C. Cheney. Resi- 
 dence: New Canaan, Conn. Office: New- 
 York Citv. 
 
 EASTMAN Annis Eord: 
 
 Minister of the Congregational Church; 
 born in Peoria, 111., daughter of George ami 
 Catherine (Stehley) Eastman. She was 
 educated in Peoria High School and Oberlin 
 College, and married in 1874, Rev. Sannicl 
 E. Eastman, and she has had four children, 
 of whom three are living. INIrs. Eastman 
 was ordained to the ministry in 1885, and 
 in 1893 was called as an associate pastor 
 with Thomas K. Beecher in the Congrega- 
 tional Church at Elmira, N. Y., of which 
 she is now in charge, associated with her 
 husband. Address: Elmira, N. Y. 
 
 EASTMAN, Charles Alexander ("Ohiyesa"): 
 
 Piiysician and author; born in Minnesota, 
 
 1858; son of Jacob and Nancy Eastman; 
 
 father a full blooded Sioux Indian (native 
 
MEN OF AMERICA 
 
 545 
 
 iiaiiic Many Lightnings) ; mother the daugh- 
 ter of a native chief's (laughter and an 
 .army ollieer. He received preparatory train- 
 ing from Beloit College, Knox College and 
 Kimball Union Academy; was graduated 
 from Dartmouth College, S.B., 1887, and 
 Boston University School of Medicine, JM.D., 
 1890. Dr. Eastman was Government physi- 
 cian at Indian agencies in South Dakota, 
 1S!)0-1803, and 1900-1903, and since 1903 
 liohls appointment to revise the family 
 names and allotment rolls of the Sioux In- 
 dians. He was traveling secretary for the 
 \. M. C. A. in charge of the Indian field, 
 lS'.i;M896, and represented the Sioux at 
 Washington, 189(5-1900. He is the author 
 of: Indian Boyhood. 1902; Red Hunters 
 and the Animal People, 1904; Old' Indian 
 Days, 1907; Wigwam Evenings, Sioux Folk- 
 Tales Retold, 1909. For several seasons 
 he has been a successful lecturer, addressing 
 about lifty audiences each winter on the 
 American Indian. He is a member of the 
 Congregational Church. Dr. Eastman mar- 
 ried in Xew York City in 1891, Elaine Good- 
 ale, the author, and they have a son and 
 live (laughters. Address: Amherst, Ma-ss. 
 
 EASTMAN, Charles Rochester: 
 
 Geologist and paleontologist; born in Ce- 
 dar Rapids, Iowa, June o, 1868; son of Aus- 
 tin Vitruvius and Mary (Scoville) East- 
 man; the later a descendant of Captain 
 Reuben Ballou of Rhode Island, a noted of- 
 ficer of the Revolutionary War. He was 
 graduated from Harvard University, A.B., 
 1890. A.M.. 1891; took graduate work at 
 Jolnis Hopkins University. 1892, and at 
 Municli, Ph.D., 1894. He first engaged in 
 teaching geology and paleontology in Har- 
 vard and RadcliflPe Colleges, and was later 
 appointed curator in charge of vertebrate 
 paleontology in the ]\Iuseum of Comparative 
 Zoology of Harvard, whicli position he has 
 held ever since. He has served as assistant 
 geologist on the New England Division of 
 the United States Geological Survey, and 
 he has been engaged as expert assistant on 
 various State Geological vSurveys. Dr. East- 
 man lias made several trips abroad, once as 
 foreign delegate representing the Geological 
 Society of America, and also in behalf of 
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 the Harvard Museum and tlie Carnegie IMu- 
 seum at Pittsburgh. He translated and 
 edited von Zittel's Text-Book of Paleontol- 
 ogy (Macmillan), and he is author of vari- 
 ous scientific memoirs published by both of 
 the above institutions and by different State 
 Geological Surveys; also of numerous minor 
 contributions to vertebrate ]ialeontology, es- 
 pecially North American and European 
 paleichthyology. Dr. Eastman is a fellow 
 of the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science; member of the Amer- 
 ican Society of Naturalists, Geological So- 
 ciety of America, American Society of Zo- 
 ologists, American Paleontological Society 
 (Executive Council and Editor), American 
 Association of Anatomists, National Geo- 
 grapliic Society, the Boston Society of Nat- 
 ural History and one or two foreign scien- 
 tific societies. He married in 1892, Caroline 
 A., daughter of Alvan G. Clark, the famous 
 maker of astronomical telescopes, and he has 
 one son, Alvan Clark Eastman. Residence: 
 35 Brookline Street. Office : Harvard Uni- 
 versity Museum, Cambridge, jNIass, 
 
 EASTMAN, Edwin Gamage: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Grantham, N. H., Nov. 
 2, 1847; son of William Henry and Pauli- 
 na Sibley (Winter) Eastman. He was grad- 
 uated from Dartmouth College, A.B., 1874, 
 studied law at Bath, N. H., with Judge A. 
 P. Carpenter and was admitted to practice 
 in the courts of New Hampshire at Haver- 
 hill, N. H., in 1876. He entered the office 
 of General G. ]\Iarston in 1876 and two 
 years lated became his partner and was as- 
 sociated with him for fourteen years. He is 
 now head of the law firm of Eastman, 
 Scanunon & Gardner. In 1876 Mr. East- 
 man was elected by the Republican party 
 to the lower house of the New Hampshire 
 legislature and in 1889 to tlie State Senate. 
 He was solicitor for Rockingham County, 
 1881-1885, and in 1892 he was appointed 
 attorney-general of New Hampshire and has 
 retained that position to date, by successive 
 reappointments. He was a delegate to the 
 Constitutional Convention of 1901, for the 
 revision of the New Hampshire Constitu- 
 tion. He is vice-president of the Exeter 
 Banking Company and of the Union Five 
 
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 Cents Savings Bank (also trustee) ; he is 
 also on the Board of Directors and is the 
 president of the Exeter manufacturing Com- 
 pany and has been a member of the Board 
 of New Hampshire Bar Examiners since 
 1893. Mr. Eastman has been twice mar- 
 ried; first, at Newport, N. H., March 12, 
 1877, to Elma E. Dodge; second, at Exeter, 
 March 15, 1885, to Margie A. Follansby. 
 Address: Exeter, N. H. 
 
 EASTMAN, Elaine Goodale: 
 
 Autlior and educntor; born at Mt. Wash- 
 ington, Mass., Oct. 9, 1863; daughter of 
 Henry S. and Dora H. (Read) Goodale. 
 She was educated at home by parents and 
 tutors, and was teacher and supervisor of 
 Indian schools. 1883-1891, and in 1891 she 
 married Dr. Charles A. Eastman, by whom 
 she has six children. She and her sister, 
 Dora Reed Goodale, during their girlhood 
 wrote and published three volumes of verse: 
 Apple Blossoms, 1878; In Berkshire With 
 the Wild Flowers, 1879; and All Round the 
 Year, 1880, which attracted much attention; 
 and since then she has written much in 
 verse and prose for the magazines. She is 
 a member of the Woman's National Indian 
 Association and the Amherst Woman's Club. 
 Address: Amherst, Mass. 
 
 EASTMAN, John Coates: 
 
 Newspaper publisher; born at Eaton, 
 Ohio, Dec. 19. 1862; son of John and Har- 
 riet Ardella (Davis) Eastman. He was 
 educated in the public schools and Ohio 
 State University, Columbus, taking a course 
 of studies preparatory to the civil engineer- 
 ing profession, 1878-1880. He was engaged 
 in various engineering and newspaper capac- 
 ities until 1890, when he entered the news- 
 paper field in Chicago as a reporter on the 
 city staff of Chicago Herald. In 1895 he be- 
 came the bunsiness manager of the Cliicago 
 Chronicle, and from that he went in 1898 
 to New York City, where he became asso- 
 ciate advertising manager of the New York 
 Journal. In July, 1900, when the Chicago 
 American was established he became its 
 treasurer and business manager vmtil 1904. 
 On April 1, 1904, he bought the Chicago 
 Journal, the oldest newspaper in Chicago, 
 
 and he has since been president and treas- 
 urer of the Chicago Journal Company. 
 Under his management the business and 
 circulation of the Chicago Journal have 
 greatly increased. Mr. Eastman is a mem- 
 ber by inheritance of the Military Order of 
 the Loyal Legion of the United States, a 
 member of the jNIidlotliian, Glen View. South 
 Shofe, Chicago Automobile, Chicago Kennel, 
 Forty and Chicago Athletic Clubs of Chi- 
 cago. He married at Marion, Ind., July 20, 
 1886, Eva Harter. Residence: 2718 Michi- 
 gan Avenue. Office: 117 Market Street, 
 Chicago. 
 
 EASTMAN, John Robie: 
 
 Astronomer; born in Andover, N. H., 
 July 29, 1836; son of Royal Friend and So- 
 phronia (iSIayo) Eastman. He was gradu- 
 ated from Dartmouth College, B.S., 1862. 
 M.S., 1865, Ph.D., 1877. He was assistant 
 astronomer U.S. Naval Observatory, 1861- 
 1865, and since 1865 has been professor in 
 mathematics U. S. Navy. He has been en- 
 gaged in astronomical observations, compu- 
 tations and research since 1862, and wa-* 
 attached to the U. S. Naval Observatory, 
 1862-1898. Most of his published work is 
 in the annual volumes of the U. S. Naval 
 Observatory. He was in charge of the i\teri- 
 dian Circle work at the observatory, 1874- 
 1891 : observed the total solar eclipses Aug. 
 7, 1869, at Des Moines, Iowa, and at a mim- 
 ber of other places; was in charge of the 
 Eclipse Expedition to Las Animas, Colo., 
 1878, and of the Transit of Venus Exi)edi- 
 tion to Cedar Keys, Fla., 1882. He prejjarod 
 and edited the Second Washington Star 
 Catalogue, which contains the results of 
 nearly 80,000 observations made at the U. 
 S. Naval observatory, from 1866 to 1891. 
 He was retired from the Navy for age. July 
 29, 1898, with the rank of captain, but was 
 retained on active duty till Oct. 12, 1898, 
 and was promoted to the rank of rear-ad- 
 miral U. S. Navy, retired June 29, 1906. 
 He is now a trustee of Dartmouth College; 
 and is a member of the New Hampshire 
 State Board of Equalization of Ta.xes. 
 He is author of: Transit Circle Observa- 
 tions on the Sun, Moon, Planets and Com- 
 ets. Rear-admiral Eastman is a fellow of 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 547 
 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science of which he was assistant 
 general secretary, 1882, general secretary, 
 1883, and vice-president 1887 and 1892; 
 momber of the Astronomical and Astrophys- 
 ical Society of America, and member and 
 the first president of the Washington Acad- 
 emy of Sciences and member and ex-presi- 
 dent of the Washington Philosophical 
 Society. He married in 1866, ^Vlary J. Am- 
 brose. Address : Hanover, N. H. 
 
 EASTMAN, Linda Anne: 
 
 Librarian; born in Oberlin. Ohio, 1867; 
 son of William Harvey and Sarah Ann 
 (Redrup) Eastman. The family have been 
 residents of Northern Ohio since 1828, and 
 are descendants of Roger Eastman, who 
 came to America in 1636; and her paternal 
 great-grandmother was a Standish — de- 
 scendant of i\Iiles. Miss Eastman was edu- 
 cated in the Cleveland public schools and 
 by private study; taught in the public 
 schools of West Cleveland and Cleveland, 
 Ohio; assistant Cleveland Public Library, 
 1892-189-4; librarian of the Miles Park 
 Branch of the Cleveland Public Library, 
 1894-1895; assistant librarian and cataloger, 
 Dayton (Ohio) Public Library, 1895-1896; 
 since 1896 vice-librarian of the Cleveland 
 Public Library. Also, since 1904, member 
 of the Faculty of the Western Reserve Uni- 
 versity Library School. Miss Eastman has 
 been a member since 1894 and member of 
 the covmcil since 1905 of the American Li- 
 brary Association; charter member from 
 1895, and was the first woman president, 
 1903-1904, of the Ohio Library Association, 
 member of the New York State Library As- 
 sociation since. 1903. She is a frequent con- 
 tributor to the Library Journal and Public 
 Libraries, and was literary editor of the 
 Little Chronicle, 1900-1901. Residence: 
 2126 Fairmount Road. Office: Public Li- 
 brary, Cleveland, 0. 
 
 EASTON, Edward Denison: 
 
 I Lawyer, organizer of the talking machine 
 1 business ; born at Gloucester, Mass., April 
 ( 10, 1856; son of Denison Mitchell Easton 
 j and Mary (Lyle) Easton. He was educated 
 ; in the public school of Areola and the Wat- 
 
 ers Seminary of Paterson, N. J. ; he is a 
 graduate of the law school of the University 
 of Georgetown. He studied shorthand at 
 home in Areola and became an expert sten- 
 ograiDher, doing newspaper and court work 
 for New York newspapers; he was reporter 
 and assistant editor in 1873-1874 of the 
 Hackensack (New Jersey) Republican; in 
 1874 he became stenographer for the United 
 States Lighthouse Board, Washington, D. 
 C. ; he reported the Guiteau trial and the 
 Star Route trials for the government, the 
 debates of Congress, and nearly every event 
 of national importance for fifteen years. He 
 was admitted to the bar of the Supreme 
 Court of the District of Columbia; he made 
 corporation law a specialty. With the in- 
 vention of the Graphophone, he made the de- 
 velopment of the talking machine industry 
 a life work. In 1889, he organized the 
 Columbia Phonograph Company and became 
 its president; in 1893, when his company 
 consolidated with the American Grapho- 
 phone Company, he was made president and 
 counsel of both companies. In 1897 the 
 headquarters of the business were removed 
 from Washington, D. C, to New York City. 
 He is also president of the Burt Company, 
 and of the Volta Graphophone Company; 
 he is vice-president of the Hackensack 
 Trust Company, vice-president of the Hack- 
 ensack Hospital Association, trustee of the 
 Areola M. E. Church, member of the Hack- 
 ensack Golf Club, Oritani Field Club and 
 New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club. 
 He married first Jan. 24, 1876, at Washing- 
 ton, D. C, Hattie Kaldenbach, and second, 
 May 24, 1883, at Washington, D. C, Helen 
 Mortimer Jefferis ; he has a son, Mortimer 
 D., and four daughters. Mrs. Charles W. 
 Woddrop, Mrs. Earl Godwin, Florence Lyle 
 and Helen. His principal recreation is 
 automobiling, in which he was one of the 
 pioneers. Residence: Areola, N. J. Ad- 
 dress: Tribune Building, New York City. 
 
 EATON, Amasa Mason: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Providence, R. I., May 
 31, 1841; son of Levi Curtis Eaton. He 
 was graduated from Brown University, 
 A.B., 1861, engaged in business pursuits 
 for several years, then took up the studj 
 
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 of law, and was graduated from the Har- 
 vard Law School, LL.B., in 1878. His 
 practice is extensive and he includes among 
 his clients many of the larger corporations 
 and manufacturers of Providence and Paw- 
 tucket. He was a member and president of 
 the town council of North Providence, 18G3- 
 1865; member of the Rhode Island House 
 of Representatives, 1865-1866 and 1872- 
 1874; member of the Providence common 
 council, 1874-1875; and of the Providence 
 Board of Aldermen, 1875. He has been 
 Rhode Island Commissioner on Uniformity 
 of State I^egislatiou since 18!(7 and pres- 
 ident of the National Conference on the 
 same since 1901. He is ex-president of the 
 Rhode Island Horticultural Society. Mr. 
 Eaton is a member of the American Bar 
 Association, American Historical Associa- 
 tion, American Political Science Association, 
 National Municipal League, Harvard Law 
 School Association; and the L^niversity 
 Club, of Providence. He is the author of: 
 Constitution Making in Rhode Island, 1899; 
 and also of numerous articles in law re- 
 view, reports, etc. He married at Paw- 
 tucket, R. I., Sept. 15, 1873, Maude Bun- 
 nell. Residence: 701 Smith Street. Of- 
 fice : 59 Studley Building. Providence, R. I. 
 
 EATON, Frederick Heber: 
 
 -Maiuifacturcr ; born in Berwick. Pa., 
 April 15, 1863; son of Ralph H. and Eliza 
 Knapp (Dickerman) Raton. He was edu- 
 cated in the j)ublic schools, and he has been 
 engaged in manufacturing since 1880; has 
 been president and director of the Amer- 
 ican Car and Foundry Company since 1901 ; 
 also vice-president and director of the Sus- 
 quehanna, liloomsburg & Berwick Railroad; 
 director of the Columbia Trust Company, 
 Seaboard National Bank, Iloyt & Woodin 
 Manufacturing Company, Sligo & Eastern 
 Railway; trustee of the Mutual Life In- 
 surance Company of New York. Mr. Eaton 
 is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, 
 the Union League, New York Athletic, and 
 Metropolitan Clubs of New York City, and 
 the Union League Club of Philadelphia. 
 He married in Bloomsburg. Pa., in 1881, 
 C. Elizabeth Furman, and they have a 
 daughter. Residence: 40 Central Park 
 
 South. Office: 165 Broadway, New York 
 City. 
 
 EATON, Homer: 
 
 Clergyman and publishing agent; born in 
 Enosburg, Vt., Nov. 16, 1834; son of Ben- 
 nett and Betsy Maria (Webster) Eaton. 
 He was educated in public schools, in Bak- 
 ersville (Vt. ) Academy and the Theological 
 Seminary at Concord, N. H., and received 
 from Syracuse University the degree of 
 D.D. in' 1878, and of LL.D., 1908. He was 
 admitted to the Troy Annual Conference 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1857, 
 was its first assistant secretary, 1861-1870, 
 and secretary, 1870-1877. He was in the 
 pastorate of several important churches un- 
 til Feb., 1889, when he was elected pub- 
 lishing agent of the Methodist Book Con- 
 cern at New York City. Mr. Eaton was 
 a delegate to the Methodist Episcopal Gen- 
 eral Conference at Brooklyn in 1872; a 
 fraternal delegate to the General Confer- 
 ence of the Methodist Church in Canada, a 
 reserve delegate to the General Conference 
 in 1876 and for eight eonsecvitive sessions. 
 He was also a delegate to the Ecumenic 
 Conference at London in 1881; and served 
 as presiding elder of the Albany district, 
 and of the Cambridge district. He is treas- 
 virer of the Board of Foreign Missions of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, and trus- 
 tee of several universities and theological 
 institutions. Dr. Eaton married, at Shel- 
 don, Vt., April 28, 1858, Hannah Saxe. 
 Address: 150 Fifth Avenue, New York 
 City. 
 
 EATON, Marquis: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Michigan, April 5, 1876; 
 son of General Cliarles L. Eaton and Nellie 
 (Joiner) Eaton. He is a graduate of the 
 University of Michigan. He was associate 
 reporter of the ]\fichigan Supreme Court, 
 1897-1901, exclusively engaged' in writing 
 tlie head notes or syllabi of the decisions. 
 For eight years he has been a member of 
 the firm of Cody and Eaton, 135 Adams 
 Street, Chicago, engaged in the active prac- 
 tice of law, particularly in the corporation 
 branches. He also holds the official posi- 
 
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 tion of counsel for the Chicago city treas- 
 urer. He is president and director of 
 The Idaho Company, Limited, and a direc- 
 tor of the Allied Securities Company, Carls- 
 bad Mineral Spring Company, Kirby Equip- 
 ment Company, INIidland Casualty Company, 
 and Snow Manufacturing Company. He is 
 a member of the Illinois State and Chicago 
 Bar Associations, the Zeta Psi and Alpha 
 Omega fraternities and the Masonic orders; 
 vice-president of the Chicago Law Insti- 
 tute; member of the Law Club of Chicago; 
 and from May, 1908, to May, 1909, was 
 president of the Hamilton Club of Chicago, 
 the largest organization of its kind in the 
 world, and the leading Republican club of 
 the West. Mr. Eaton has been actively 
 identified with political affairs and has 
 campaigned extensively under the auspices 
 of the various Republican State Central 
 Committees. His achievements in behalf of 
 a safe and sane celebration of Independence 
 Day have been notable. He has been presi- 
 dent since its organization of the incorpo- 
 rated Sane Fourth Assoeiation,which secured 
 for Chicago in 1909, a type of celebration 
 whereby the casualties attending the use of 
 explosives were reduced to less than 20 per 
 cent of the number in previous years. He 
 is a member of the University Congrega- 
 tional Church of Chicago, a director of 
 the Chicago Congregational Club and of the 
 Congregational Brotherhood of Chicago. He 
 married at Flint, Mich., June 8, 1904, 
 Jacquette Hunter of San Francisco, Calif.; 
 they have one son. Residence: 5623 Wash- 
 ington Avenue. Address: 135 Adams Street, 
 Chicago. 
 
 EATON, Seymour: 
 
 Author and library founder; born in 
 Epping. Ontario, Canada, 1859. He was 
 educated in Canadian schools and taught 
 in district schools seven years. Mr. Eaton 
 became a resident of Boston in 1886, and 
 from there went to Philadelphia in 1892. 
 He founded, in the United States and the 
 British Isles, the Booklovers' and Tabard Inn 
 libraries, and is now vice-president of the 
 Booklovers' Corporation. For five years he 
 was director of Drexel Institute. Mr. Eaton 
 was, for five years, a daily contributor to 
 
 the Chicago Record and has done other im- 
 ])ortant work in journalism, founded and 
 edited the Booklovers' Magazine until it 
 was merged into the present Appleton's 
 Magazine, is author of several college text- 
 books, of the novel: Dan Black, Editor 
 and Proprietor; was the originator of the 
 famous Teddy Bears and author of The 
 Teddy Bears Musical Comedy, The Roose- 
 velt Bears, and The Telepath (drama). 
 ^Ir. Eaton married in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 
 Jan. 15, 1884, -Jennie V. Adair. Residence: 
 Lansdowne, Pa. Office: 333 Fifth Avenue, 
 New York City. 
 
 EATON, Walter Prichard: 
 
 Dramatic critic; born in Maiden, Mass., 
 Aug. 24, 1878; son of Warren E. and Mary 
 (Prichard) Eaton. He was educated in the 
 Phillips Andover Academy, and Harvard 
 College, A.B., 1900. Mr. Eaton went on the 
 staff of the Boston Joiirnal after his gradu- 
 ation and two years later entered the New 
 York Tribune, where he did reportorial and 
 editorial work until 1907. He was then for 
 one year dramatic critic of The Sun. He 
 is author of The American Stage of To-day, 
 
 1908 (Small, Maynard &, Co.), The Run- 
 away Place (with Elise M. Underbill), 
 
 1909 (Henry Holt & Co.), and of numerous 
 stories, essays and poems in current Amer- 
 ican magazines. He is a member of the 
 Harvard Club of New York, and of the 
 Cranford Golf Culb. Address: 80 Wash- 
 ington Square, New York City. 
 
 EATON, Willard lee: 
 
 Lawyer and railroad commissioner; born 
 in Delhi, Iowa, Oct. 13, 1848; son of Arial 
 K. and Sarah (Jarnagin) Eaton. He was 
 educated in the public schools. Cedar Val- 
 ley Seminary and the law school of the 
 Iowa State University, from which he has 
 received the degrees of B.S., LL.B. and' 
 LL.D. Mr. Eaton has been successfully 
 engaged in the practice of law since 1874. 
 He is also prominent in politics as a Repub- 
 lican, was elected to the Twenty-seventh. 
 Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth General 
 Assemblies of Iowa, and was speaker of 
 the House of Representatives in the Twenty- 
 ninth General Assembly. He was elected 
 
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 railroad coniinissioner for Iowa in 1896, 
 for a four-year term, which he is now serv- 
 ing. Mr. Eaton is a director of the 
 Farmers' National Bank and the Home 
 Trust and Savings Bank, hoth of Osage, 
 Iowa. He was trustee of the Cedar Valley 
 Seminary for many years, and is now a 
 trustee of the Upper Iowa University. He 
 is a member of all Masonic bodies, both of i 
 the York and Scottish Rites, and was for- j 
 merly Worshipful Grand Master of IMasons j 
 of losva ; is a member of the Knights of 
 Pytiiias and Elks and of the Grant Club 
 of Des Moines. Mr. Eaton married in 
 Waverly, Iowa, Sept. II, 1874, Laura 11. 
 Annis, and they have a son. Residence: 
 Osage, Iowa. Official address: Des Moines, 
 Iowa. 
 
 EATON, William Colgate: 
 
 Conuuodore U. S. Navy, retired; born in 
 Hamilton, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1851; son of Rev. 
 George W. Eaton, D.D., LL.D., and Eliza 
 H. (Boardman) Eaton. He was graduated 
 from Colgate University, A.B., with Clas- 
 sical Oration. 1869, A.M., 1872, Ph.D., 1881, 
 and was graduated from the U. S. Naval 
 Academy in 1874. He served in the various 
 duties of an officer in the Navy, chiefly in 
 the Department of Engineering; was de- 
 tailed as head of the Department of Engi- 
 neering in Colgate University, 1888-1890; 
 was appointed by Viceroy Li Hung Chang 
 examiner of naval engineering graduates in 
 the Imperial University, Tientsin, China, 
 1892, was fleet engineer of the Paciflc quad- 
 ron, 1899-1900; commissioned chief engi- 
 neer, June 1, 1905; captain, Nov. 18, 1907; 
 retired as commodore at his own request, 
 June 30, 1908, but still retained on duty 
 as inspector of ordnance and engineering 
 material. Commodore Eaton is a member 
 of the Sigma Phi fraternity and the Piii 
 Beta Kappa Society. He married in Brook- 
 lyn, Sept., 1890, Lizzie Blish, and they 
 liave one son. Residence: 194 Clinton 
 Street, Brooklyn. Office: Room 5, Post 
 Ullice Building, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 EBY, Frederick: 
 
 instructor in tlio history of education; 
 born in Berlin, Canada, Oct. 20, 1874; son 
 
 of Aaron Eby, M.D., and Matilde C. (Bow- 
 ers) Eby. He was graduated from Mc- 
 Master University, A.B., 1895; graduate 
 student in the University of Chicago, 1895- 
 1897; scholar and fellow in Clark Univer- 
 sity, 1898-1900, Ph.D. 1900; student in 
 Berlin, 1905-1906; professor of philosophy 
 and education in Baylor University, Texas, 
 1900-1909; instructor in the history of edu- 
 cation University of Texas, from 1909. Dr. 
 Eby married in Toronto, Canada, Dec. 26, 
 1900, Elizabeth Newman, and they hava 
 three children. Address: University of Tex- 
 as, Austin, Texas. 
 
 ECCLES, Robert Gibson: 
 
 Physician; born in Scotland, Jan. 1, 
 1848; son of David and Isabella Gibson 
 Eccles. He was educated in the Long Is- 
 land Medical College, where he received 
 the degree of M.D. in 1882; the Scio (Ohio) 
 College, with the degree of Phar.D. and the 
 Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, with the 
 degree of Ph.D. Dr. Eccles was dean of 
 Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, Government 
 chemist, etc., and served for ten years on 
 the Committees of Revision of the United 
 States Pharmacopcjeia and chairman of the 
 section on the active principles of drugs. 
 He was former president of the New Y'ork 
 State Pharmaceutical Association; president 
 of the Chemical Section of the Brooklyn 
 Institute and chairman of the Section of 
 Education of the American Pharmaceutical 
 Association. He is a discoverer of a num- 
 ber of new active principles of plants. Dr. 
 Eccles is a fellow of the American Associ- 
 ation for the Advancement of Science, mem- 
 ber of the American Geographical Society, 
 American Medical Association, American 
 Anatomical Association, American Pharma- 
 ceutical Association, and the National Geo- 
 graphic Society. He married at Kansas 
 City, Mo., Sept., 1876, JNIary Hance. Ad- 
 dress: 191 Dean Street, Brooklyn, N. 1'. 
 
 ECKERT, Thomas Thompson: 
 
 Presideiil and general manager Western 
 Union Telegraph Company; born at St. 
 Ciairsville, Ohio, April 23, 1825. He was 
 jiostmaster and telegraplier at Wooster, 
 Ohio, in 1849; and in 1852 lie supervised 
 
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 tlie construction of a telegraph line from 
 Pittsburg to Chicago, and was its super- 
 intendent until it became a part of the 
 Western Union Telegraph Company. He 
 resigned in 1859, becoming superintendent 
 of a gold mining company in North Caro- 
 lina. He was superintendent of military 
 telegraph, Army of the Potomac, with rank 
 of captain, and later general superintendent 
 of military telegraph with rank of major; 
 he reached the brevet rank of brigadier- 
 general ; and he became assistant secretary 
 of war, 1864-1866. General Eckert was gen- 
 eral superintendent, Eastern Division, West- 
 ern Union Telegraph Company, 1866-1875; 
 president of the Atlantic and Pacific Com- 
 I)any, 1875-1881; president American Union 
 Telegraph Company, 1880-1881; vice-pres- 
 ident and general manager Western Union 
 Telegraph Company, 1881-1892; president 
 and general manager of the Western Union 
 Telegraph Company, 1881-1892; president 
 and general manager of the Western Union 
 Telegraph Company since 1892. He is a 
 director of the Union Pacific Railroad Com- 
 pany; of the Texas and Pacific Railway 
 Company, and the American Telegraph and 
 Cable Company. He is a member of the 
 Union League and Riding Clubs of New 
 York City. Residence: 549 Fifth Avenue. 
 Address: 195 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 ECKSTORM, Fannie Hardy: 
 
 Author; born Brewer, Me., June 18, 1865; 
 daughter of Manly and Emma Freeman 
 (Wheeler) Hardy. She was educated in 
 Bangor High School, Abbot Academy, and 
 Smith College, being graduated with B.A. 
 degree (class poet), 1888. She was married 
 in Portland, Ore., Oct. 24, 1893, to Rev. 
 Jacob A. Eckstorm, and has had a daugh- 
 ter, now deceased, and a son, still living. 
 Mrs. Eckstorm is author of: The Bird Book, 
 1900; The Woodpeckers, 1900; The Penob- 
 scot Man, 1904; David Libbey, 1907; and is 
 a contributor to The Atlantic and other 
 periodicals. Address: 173 Wilson Street, 
 Brewer, Me. ' 
 
 EDDY, Clarence: 
 
 Concert organist; born in Greenfield, 
 Mass., June 23, 1851; son of George Sanger 
 
 and Silence (Clieney) Eddy. lie studied 
 nuisic under Dudley Buck and in Berlin, Ger- 
 many, under Albert Loeschhorn and August 
 Haupt. He was engaged as organist in the 
 leading churches of Chicago for over twenty 
 years, and has given recitals in the principal 
 American and European cities. Mr. Eddy 
 is author of organ works; The Church and 
 Concert Organist (three volumes) ; The 
 Organ in Church; and Concert pieces for 
 the Organ. He is now organist and director 
 of music of the Tompkins Avenue Congre- 
 gational Churcli of Brooklyn. Residence: 
 930 West End Avenue, New York City. 
 
 EDDY, Henry Turner: 
 
 Professor of mathematics and mechanics 
 in the College of Engineering and Dean of 
 the Graduate School, University of Minne- 
 sota; born at Stoughton, Mass., June 9, 
 1844; son of Henry and Sarah H. (Torrey) 
 Eddy. He was educated' at Yale, receiving 
 the degree of A.B. in 1867, Ph.B. from the 
 Scientific School in 1868, A.M. in 1870; 
 he received the degree C.E. from Coinell in 
 1870 and Ph.D. in 1872; from Center Col- 
 lege, he received the degree LL.D. in 1892; 
 he studied at Berlin in 1879 and at Paris 
 in 1880. After filling the position of in- 
 structor in various educational institutions, 
 including Cornell, Princeton, University of 
 Cincinnati and Rose Polytechnic Institute, 
 lie was appointed professor of Engineering 
 and Mechanics in the University of Minne- 
 sota in 1894; he was made dean of the 
 Graduate School in the same University 
 in 1906 and advanced to his present posi- 
 tion in 1907. He is a director in the St. 
 Anthony Falls Bank, jMinneapolis, in the 
 Barnard-Cope Manufacturing Company, 
 and also in the Pillsbury Settlement House 
 Minneapolis. Besides being a fellow of 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, he is a member of the 
 American Philosophical Society, of the 
 American Mathematical Society, of the So- 
 ciety for the Promotion of Engineering 
 Education, of the American Physical 
 Society, and' of the Sigma Xi and Phi 
 Beta Kappa fraternities. He is the author 
 of several mathematical and engineering 
 works, including an Analytic Geometry, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1S74. and I\(>seurc'lu's in Graphical Statics, 
 1S78; besides this, he has contributed 
 numerous scientific and technical papers to 
 tlie j)roceedin<iM of Engineerinj^ Societies. 
 He married at New Haven, Conn., Jan. 4, 
 1870, Sebella E. Taylor; they have five 
 cliildren and six grandchildren. In politics 
 he is a Kepublican, and in religion, a Con- 
 gregationalist. Residence: OUi Gth Street, 
 S. I",. .Minneapolis. ]Minn. Address: Uni- 
 viTsiiy of ^Minnesota. Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 EDDY, Spencer Fayette: 
 
 l)i))]()niatist; born in Chicago, June 18. 
 1874; son of Augustus and Abbie Louise 
 (Spencer) Eddy. After his graduation 
 from Harvard, A.B., 1890, and a year in 
 the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg, 
 he became ])rivate secretary to the late 
 John Hay, then andiassador to Great Bri- 
 tain, 1897-1898; was clerk in the Depart- 
 ment of State in Washington, 1898-1899, 
 and during part of the latter year third 
 secretary in the American Embassy in Lon- 
 don; second secretary in the American 
 Embassy in Paris, 1899-1901; first secretary 
 and charge d'affaires in American Legation 
 in Constantinople, 1901-1903; fir.st secretary 
 in American l^hnbassy at St. Petersburg, 
 1903-1900, and one year charge d'affaires 
 there; first secretary in the American Em- 
 bassy in Berlin, 1906-1907; envoy extra- 
 ordinary and minister plenipotentiary to 
 the Argentine Republic, 1907-1909; ap- 
 pointed, 1909. American envoy extraordi- 
 nary and minister plenipotentiary to Rou- 
 niania and Servia and diplomatic agent for 
 Bulgaria, wliieli ollice he now holds. Mr. 
 lOddy is a meml)cr of the Chicago Club of 
 (Chicago and the Metropolitan Club of Wash- 
 ington, lie married' in Paris, France, in 
 l!)()(i, Lurlinc l':iizal)eth Spreckels, of San 
 J-'rancisco. Address: American Legation, 
 Bucliarest, Roumania. 
 
 EDENBORN, William: 
 
 ('apitalist; l)cpin in Westphalia, Prussia, 
 March 20, 1848. lie was educated in the 
 schools of liis native place and came to 
 America in 1807. He worked as a mechanic 
 in St. Louis, 1809-1871; was president of 
 the St. Louis Wire Mill Company, 1871- 
 
 1882: i)resident of the Consolidated Steel 
 and Wire Comi)any, 1882-1898, when he be- 
 came vice-president and a member of the 
 Executive Committee of the American Steel 
 and Wire Company. During this long 
 connection with the wire industry Mr. Eden- 
 born invented important patented improve- 
 ments in wire and wire-making macliinery. 
 He was a member of the executive and 
 advisory committees of the United States 
 Steel Corporation, 1901-1904, and he is now 
 president of the Louisiana Railway and 
 Navigation Companv; vice-president of the 
 l^uisiana Central Construction Company; 
 president of the Pittsburgh and Southern 
 Coal Company; director of the St. Louis 
 Iron and' Machine ^^'orks, Urania Lumber 
 Company of Louisiana and of the United 
 States Steel Corporation. Add'ress: Hiber- 
 nia Building, New Orleans, La. 
 
 EDES, Robert Thaxter: 
 
 Physician and surgeon, author aiid inves- 
 tigator; born in Eastport, Me.. Sept. 23, 
 1838; son of Rev. Richard Sullivan and 
 Mary (Gushing) Edes. He is a descendant 
 of John Edes, who came from England to 
 Charleston, Mass., previous to 1840; John 
 May, Jamaica Plain, l(i40; Matthew Gush- 
 ing, Hiugham, 1638, and Thomas Thaxter, 
 Hingham, 1038. He was graduated from 
 the J^olton High School, from Harvard in 
 the class of 1858, and from Harvard Uni- 
 versity Medical School as M.D. in 1801. 
 He was appointed acting assistant surgeon 
 in the United S'tates Navy Sept. 10, 1801, 
 serving until he resigned from service June 
 1, 1865, as passed assistant surgeon. He 
 studied in Europe, principally at Vienna. 
 He practised in Hingham for three years 
 and then removed to Roxbury (Boston) 
 in 1865. lie was assistant professor of 
 materia medica in Harvard University, 
 1870-1875, full i)rofessor 1875-1884, and 
 Jackson professor of clinical medicine, 1884- 
 1880. He was also physician to Boston City 
 Hos])ital, 1S72-1S80, and removed to Wash- 
 ington. I). G.. in 1880, where he was a 
 inacti-iiig |.li\ sici;in. 1S80-1891, physician 
 ill 111.- Gailicld Mciiioiial Hospital, 1889- 
 1891, and lecturer in (ieorgetown Univer- 
 1 sity Medical Scliool from 1886 to 1891. He 
 
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 was resident pliysieiau at Adams Nervine 
 Asylum, Jamaica Plain. Mass., from 1891 
 to 18!)". and leoturer in materia med'ica at 
 Dartmontli. 1891. He removed from Ja- 
 maica Plain to Keadinij;, Mass., 1903. He 
 was a fellow of the American Academy of 
 Arts and Sciences of Boston ; of the Phil- 
 osophical Society of Washington, D. C, and 
 is a member of the American Medical Asso- 
 ciation, the Association of American Phy- 
 sicians, of which oroanization he was a 
 founder, and the American Neurological 
 Association, of which he w'as president. Dr. 
 Edes is a companion of the ^Military Order 
 of the Loyal Legion of the United States. 
 He is the author of: Physiology and Path- 
 ology of the Synipathetic or Ganglionic 
 Nervous System (O'Reilly prize essay), 
 1809; Tiierapeutics and Materia Medica, 
 1893; A Therapeutic Handbook of the 
 LInited States Pharmacopa?ia. 1886; and 
 contributed articles to many medical peri- 
 odicals. He has also published two novels : 
 Mugwumps, by One of Them, and Parson 
 Gay's Three Sermons. Residence: Read- 
 ing, Mass. Office: 419 Boylston Street, 
 Boston. 
 
 EDESON, Robert: 
 
 Actor; born in New Orleans, where his 
 father was a well known comedian and 
 stage manager. He was educated in Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y, In 1886 Mr. Ed'eson was box 
 office clerk at the Park Theatre in Brook- 
 lyn under the management of Colonel Sinn. 
 The following year, when Cora Tanner was 
 to produce Fascination there, an actor, who 
 had a minor part, became ill, and Mr. Ede- 
 son volunteered to play the part — which he 
 did most successfully. Later he appeared in 
 Augustin Dal}''s and in Charles Dickson's 
 companies. In 1896 he joined the Empire 
 Stock Company and became well known as 
 understudy to William Faversham in Under 
 the Red Robe. He was very successful as 
 leading man with Maude Adams in The 
 Little Minister, and with Amelia Bingham 
 in The Climbers. Since then he has starred 
 in Augustus Thomas' dramatization of 
 Richard Harding Davis's novel, Soldiers of 
 Fortime, and in Strongheart, an Indian 
 
 play. He married' Ellen Barg, an actress, 
 who died in June, 190(1. Address: The 
 Lambs' t;lub, New York City. 
 
 EDGAR, William C: 
 
 Editor and publisher; born in La Crosse, 
 Wis., 1850; son of J. C. and Lucy D. Edgar. 
 Ho removed to St. Louis, Mo., in boyhood 
 and was educated in the public and high 
 schools of that city until 1874. He was 
 employed' by a business firm in St. Louis 
 until 1882, when he went to Minneapolis 
 to take a position with the Northwestern 
 Miller, which is the leading trade journal 
 representing the flour milling industry of 
 the United States. Since 1884 he has been 
 manager of that journal and since 1886 ita 
 editor and president of its publishing com- 
 pany. In 1891, when a great famine af- 
 flicted the peasants of Russia, he organized 
 a relief movement for their benefit, with the 
 result that the millers of America contrib- 
 uted a shipload of flour, the collection of 
 which, as well as its shipment and subse- 
 quent distribution, were under the personal 
 direction of Mr. Edgar, whose eflforts in 
 this humanitarian enterprise were recog- 
 nized by Emperor Alexander III, by the 
 present to him of a golden flagon. Mr. Ed- 
 gar has contributed extensively to other 
 periodicals as well as to his own journal, 
 and is avithor of: The Story of a Grain of 
 Wheat, a book published in 1903, and of 
 pamphlets on The Russian Famine, 1893, 
 and The Miller's Evil Genius (published 
 by the American Free Trade League in 
 1902). He is a member of the American 
 Social Science Association, the National 
 Municipal League, the American Free Trade 
 League, and the Voters' League, and is a 
 member of the Executive Committee of the 
 latter. He is president of the Minnesota 
 Trade Press Association, and is a member 
 of the Minneapolis, Lafayette and Mini- 
 kahda Clubs of Minneapolis, the St. Louis 
 Club of St. Louis, and the Reform Club of 
 New York. !Mr. Edgar married in St. 
 Louis in 1883, Anne Page Randolph Robin- 
 son. Residence: 66 Groveland' Terrace, 
 Office address: Miller Building, ^linneapo- 
 lis, Minn. 
 
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 EDISON. Thomas A.: 
 
 Electrician and inventor: was born in 
 ■Milan. Ohio, Fi'b. 7. 1847. The Edisons 
 are of Dutch orif^in. The first of the name 
 of whom Thomas Alva is in descent was 
 John, who came to America as early as 
 1737, and became a banker in New York; 
 but being a loyalist in the strugsrle of the 
 Colonies and siding with the British inter- 
 ests, he found it convenient to change his 
 residence to Nova Scotia. There Samuel, 
 father of Tliomas Alva, was born. When 
 Samuel Edison had arrived at the age of 
 manhood he received a grant of land from 
 the Government, located on the shores of 
 Lake Erie, and moved to and settled upon 
 it. But in 1838 he became involved in 
 what was known as the Papineau rebellion, 
 and his lands were forfeited to the crown. 
 His personal liberty being endangered, he 
 fled for safety to United States territory 
 and settled in JNTilan, Ohio, where he mar- 
 ried a woman of Scotch descent. Of this 
 union Thomas Alva was born. Mr. Edison 
 was early thrown upon his own resources, 
 indeed early made a contribution to the 
 family support. His first regular employ- 
 ment was as a newsboy on the Grand Trunk 
 Railway. Later he learned the art of teleg- 
 rapliy and was operator at various places 
 in the United States and' Canada. He 
 showed inventive skill from boyhood, and 
 at tlie age of twenty-two he was in Boston, 
 holding a position requiring the utmost 
 skill, operating the crack wire from New 
 York. It was while in this position that 
 he conceived the idea of the duplex system, 
 by which two messages could be sent over 
 a wire at the .same time. In 1871 he was 
 made superintendent of the Gold and Stock 
 Company, and a year later he not only per- 
 fected liis duplex system, but developed it 
 into a quadruple system, making a single 
 wire do the work previously done by four, 
 and saving to the telegraph companies mil- 
 lions of dollars. He establisiied a factory 
 in Newark, N. J., ostensibly for the manu- 
 facture of his stock quotation machines; 
 but his time was chiefly, if not wholly, 
 given to experimentation, though still in 
 tlie line of telegraj)iiy. It was not long 
 
 before the sextuplex system a|)])eared. De- 
 vices, improvements and new inventions 
 relating to telegraphy flowed from his 
 fingers and brain, almost without number, 
 and the dominating telegraph company was 
 kept busy in securing control of them, lest 
 they should fall into rival hands. In 1876 
 Mr. Edison removed to IMenlo Park and 
 built the first of those buildinrrs intended 
 for merely exnerimental purposes, and 
 where he has produced some of the most 
 wonderful inventions of the age. Among 
 these his carbon telephone transmitter 
 for telephones, the phonograph, the micro- 
 phone, the megaphone and the kinetoscope 
 are among those which have brought his 
 name into the greatest prominence, together 
 with the wonderful improvements he has 
 made in electric lighting, in which field his 
 greatest achievements have been obtained. 
 Here he stands unrivaled and unassailable. 
 In his accomplishment of the incandescent 
 light no one claims to divide honors with 
 him. ]\Ir. Edison is a member of the Es- 
 sex Country Club. He married Mina M. 
 Miller. Address : West Orange, N. J. 
 
 EDMONDS, Franklin Spencer: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, March 28, 
 1874; son of Henry R. and' Catharine Ann 
 (Huntzinger) Edmonds. He was graduated 
 from the Central High School of Pliiladel- 
 phia, A.B., 1801, A.M., 189(1. University of 
 Pennsylvania, Ph.B., 1893, LL.B., 1903; 
 Andrew D. White fellow in political and 
 social science in Cornell University, 1894- 
 1895. He was assistant secretary of the 
 American University Extension Society, 
 1893-1894; instructor and professor of po- 
 litical science in the Central High School 
 of Philadelphia, 1895-1904. and since tlien 
 honorary lecturer in that institution. Since 
 1904 he has been practising law in Phil- 
 adelphia, being a member of llie law lirm 
 of Mason and l^^dmonds, and is professor of 
 law in Swarthmore College, Pa. Mr. Ed- 
 monds is solicitor of the Fairmount Sav- 
 ings Trust Company of Philadelphia, the 
 Pocono Pines Assembly, Pennsylvania j\Iu- 
 seum and School of Industrial Art and 
 solicitor of the Philadel])liia Teachers' As- 
 
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 sociatioii. He was candidate for the Select 
 Council of Philadelphia on the City Party 
 ticket in 1905, for receiver of taxes on the 
 same ticket in lfl07; chairman of the City 
 Comniittcc of the City Party in 1905 and 
 chairman of two City Party County Con- 
 ventions ; and' was a member of the Lincoln 
 I'arty State Committee in 1905-1906. He 
 is a Republican in politics. Professor Ed- 
 monds was editor of The Teacher, 1898-1901, 
 and president of the Educational Club of 
 Philadelpliia. 1900-1903. He is author of: 
 The Century's Piogress in Education; His- 
 tory of Central High School, Philadelphia, 
 from 1838 to 1902; and of many educa- 
 tional articles. He is a member of the 
 American Historical Association, American 
 Economic Association, American Political 
 Science Association, American Statistical 
 Association. American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science, Pennsylvania Historical 
 Society; member of the Board of Public 
 Education, Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Phi 
 Delta Phi legal fraternity, and the Univer- 
 sity, City. Franklin Inn, Schoolmen's, La^y- 
 yers', and Church Clubs. Address: 614 
 Franklin Building, Philadelphia. 
 
 EDMUNDS, Albert Joseph: 
 
 Librarian and Buddhist scholar; born in 
 Tottenham, England, Nov. 21, 1857; son of 
 Thomas and Rebecca (Hallat) Edmunds. 
 He was educated' in the Friends' School, 
 Croydon, 1866-1873; Flounders Institute, 
 Ackworth, 1876-1877; and was honorary 
 M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1907. 
 Since 1891 he has been engaged for four 
 hours a day with the Historical Society of 
 Pennsylvania, so as to secure leisure for 
 his literary work, and he is author of: 
 Buddhist and Christian Gospels Now First 
 ('ompared from the Originals, Tokyo, 1905, 
 and a new edition, Philadelphia, 1908-1909, 
 2 volumes, edited by Professor M. Anesaki, 
 of the University of Tokyo; and he has also 
 contributed to various journals on com- 
 ])arative religions. Mr. Edmunds is a mem- 
 ber of the Ethical Culture Society, the Ori- 
 ental Club of Philadelphia and the Pennsyl- 
 vania History Club. Address : 1300 Locust 
 Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 EDMIJNDS, George Franklin: 
 
 Lawyer and formed senator; born in Rich- 
 mond, Vt, Feb. 1, 1828. After attending 
 the common schools of Vermont and taking 
 advance studies under private tuition, he 
 began reading law, was admitted to the bar 
 as soon as he attained his majority in 
 1849 and in 1851 removed to Burlington. 
 Vt., where he became a leader at the bar. 
 His practice as a lawyer became very large 
 and Mr. Edmunds has long been known as 
 one of the leading constitutional lawyers 
 of the United States. In politics and states- 
 manship he was also for many years one 
 of the leaders in the Republican party, and 
 in the councils of the nation. He was a 
 member, 1854-1859, and speaker, 1856-1859, 
 of the House of Representatives of Vermont; 
 member and president pro tempore of the 
 State Senate of Vermont, 1861-1862; was 
 elected LTnited States senator in 1866 and 
 four times reelected, serving until 1891, 
 when he resigned. Senator Edmunds was 
 a member of the Electoral Commission of* 
 1877; was author of the act, known as the 
 Edmunds Act, passed in 1882 for the sup- 
 pression of polj'gamy in Utah and the dis- 
 franchisement of those who practise it, and 
 author of the Anti-Trust Law of 1890. He 
 was president pro tempore of the United 
 States during the Presidential term of Gen- 
 eral Chester A. Arthur. Senator Edmunds 
 was a leader of his party in the Senate 
 during his quarter-century of service, and 
 in 1897 he was chairman of the Monetary 
 Commission appointed by the Executive 
 Committee of the Indianapolis Monetary 
 Conference. Address : Philadelphia. 
 
 EDSALL, Samuel Cook: 
 
 Bishop of Minnesota; born at Dixon, 111., 
 March 4, 1860; son of James K. and Caro- 
 line Florella (More) Edsall. He entered 
 Racine College, Racine, Wis., receiving the 
 degree of M.A. in 1888. He also received 
 the degree of D.D. from Illinois College in 
 1898, and of S.T.D. from the Western The- 
 ological Seminary in 1900. He was engaged 
 in the practice of law from 1882, and after 
 being ordered deacon in the Episcopal 
 Church, in 1888, he was ordained to the 
 
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 priesthood in 1880 by Bisliop McLaren. He 
 tlien became rector of St. Peter's Church, 
 Chicago (which he had founded as a lay 
 reader in 1887). olllciating until 1899, when 
 he became Rislio]) of North Dakota, bcinp 
 consecrated by Bishops McT^aren, Gilbert, 
 Nicholson, Seymour, Walker, Hale and 
 White. He was elected Bishop of Minnesota 
 in 1901. He is author of: Prayer Book 
 Prejiaration for Confirmation (1898), and 
 numerous addresses and sermons. Address: 
 •_'(il-2 Portland Avenue, Minneapolis, iSIinn. 
 
 EDSON, John Jay: 
 
 I'lf^ident. Washino^on Loan and Trust 
 Company; born at Jefferson, Ohio, May 17, 
 1846. He was graduated from the law 
 department of Columbia University in 
 1869, and was admitted to the bar. at the 
 Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, 
 1869. He enlisted in the Civil War in the 
 (ilst New York Volunteers, 1861-1863; was 
 a c-lerk in the United States Treasury De- 
 partment. 1863-1875; he was an attorney- 
 at-law. patent practice, 1875-1881; organ- 
 ized and was secretary of the Equitable 
 Coui»erative Building Association, 1879- 
 1880. and has been its president since 1898; 
 and he has been president of the Washing- 
 ton Loan and Trust Company since 1894. 
 He is also a director in many corporations. 
 Mr. Edson was |)resident of the National 
 Homa'opatliic Hospital, 1889-1895; presi- 
 dent Civil Service Reform Association of 
 the District of Columbia, 1895-1904; chair- 
 man of tlie executive committee for recep- 
 tion and entertainment of the Grand Army 
 of Uepulilic, 1892; and served on the 
 Presidential Inaugural Executive Commit- 
 tee, 1889, 1893, 1897, 1901. 1905. Mr. Ed- 
 son was chairman of the McKinley Second 
 Inausrural Executive Committee, 1901; 
 president of tlie Board of Trade, 1900-1901; 
 n member of the government board of char- 
 ities, 19001905; treasurer of George Wash- 
 ington Cniversity, 19031905; member of 
 the Washington .Sanitary Improvement 
 Company, 18!»9-1905; member of the Asso- 
 ciated Charities, 1905. He is a member of 
 the (irand .\riiiy of the Ripublic. He de- 
 clined the position of commissioner of tlie 
 District of Columliia, tendered by President 
 
 Harrison, 1893, and by President ^McKinley, 
 1901. Address: Washington Loan and 
 Trust Company, ^^'ashington, 1). C. 
 
 EDWARDS, Charles Gordon: 
 
 Lawyer and' congressman; born in Tatt- 
 nall County, Ga., July 2, 1878; son of 
 Thomas J. and Annie (Conley) Edwards, 
 lie was educated in the common schools, and 
 afterward at Gordon Institute, Barnesville, 
 Ga., the Florida State College, and the Uni- 
 versity of Georgia, whence he was graduated 
 B.L. He began practising law in Reid'sville, 
 Ga., at the age of 19, moved to Savannah 
 in Dec, 1900, and has since practised there. 
 At the age of 21 he was nominated as Rep- 
 resentative of Tattnall County by the 
 Democratic party and endorsed by the Pop- 
 ulists ; this nomination, he declined ; Nov. 6, 
 1906, he was elected to Congress from the 
 First District of Georgia, and he was re- 
 elected in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress. 
 He is a member of the Savannah Bar Asso- 
 ciation; steward of the Wesley Monumental 
 Methodist Church; is a Mason, Knight Tem- 
 plar and Slniner, member of the Odd Fel- 
 lows and Knights of Pythias orders, the 
 Sons of Confederate Veterans and a trustee 
 of the South Georgia College at McRae, 
 Ga. Mr. Edwards married at Wayeross, 
 Ga., Dec. 17, 1902, Ora Beach, and they have 
 one son, Charles Beach Edwards. Resi- 
 dence: 302 Thirty-sixth Street, West Sa- 
 vannah, Ga. Address: 910 Sorrel Building, 
 Savannah, Ga. 
 
 EDWARDS, George Wharton: 
 
 Artist; born in Fair Haven, Conn., 1859. 
 He was educated abroad, at Antwerp and 
 Paris, and it was in the latter city where 
 liis art education was chiefly obtained. He 
 began his professional career in the early 
 eiglities, and has also done much literary 
 work. He has received medals from Art ex- 
 liibitions in Boston and from the Pan- Amer- 
 ican, Charleston and Foreign Expositions. 
 He is a member (elected 1883) of the Amer- 
 ican \\'ater Color Society, National Arts 
 Club; New York Water " Color Club; Au- 
 thors' Club; Ex Libris Society of London. 
 He was the director of the Art Department, 
 Collier's, 1898-1903; and of the American 
 
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 Bank Nofc Conipauy, 1004-1007. He painted 
 the mural decoration, Henrick Hudson, in 
 tlio officers' mess at the West Point ]\]ilitary 
 Academy, and designed' the diploma for 
 Jamestown Exposition, 1907. He is the 
 author of: Thumbnail Sketches, 1886; 
 P'tit Matinie Monotones, 1887; The Rival- 
 ries of Long and Short Codiac, 1888; Break 
 0' Day and Other Stories, 1889; A Reading 
 Journej' in the Hollow-land, 1908; Holland 
 of To-day, 1009. He is the illustrator of: 
 0. W. Holmes' Last Leaf, 1885, Austin Dob- 
 son's Sun Dial, 1892; Spenser's Epithlam- 
 ion, 1895; Okl English Love Songs, 1896; 
 Old English Ballads, 1897; The Christmas 
 Book, 1909, etc. He married, March, 1886, 
 Anne Johns Cox, daughter of General John 
 C. Cox, of Quincy, HI. Residence: 345 
 Franklin Place, Plainfield, N. J. Studio: 
 Flatiron Building, New York City. 
 
 EDWARDS, Harry Stillwell: 
 
 Author; born in Macon, Ga., April 23, 
 1855. He was educated in the schools of his 
 native place and in the law department of 
 INIercer University at Macon, where he was 
 graduated LL.B., 1877. He began newspa- 
 per work in 1881 as assistant editor of the 
 Macon Telegraph of which he later became 
 editor until 1887; then editor of the Macon 
 Evening News and Sunday Times for a 
 year. After that he engaged in law prac- 
 tice and literary work, and in 1900 he was 
 appointed postmaster of Macon, Ga., which 
 office he has held ever since. He is one of 
 the most prominent Republicans of the 
 South, and for that section seconded the 
 nomination of Theodore Roosevelt at the 
 National Republican Convention of 1904, 
 and took a prominent part in the Conven- 
 tion of 1908. He is author of Sons and 
 Fathers, a novel which was awarded the 
 $10,000 prize of The Chicago Record over 
 816 other competitors, and is also author 
 of: The Marbeau Cousins; Two Runaways 
 and Other Stories; His Defense and Other 
 Stories, and also many songs and poems, 
 contributed to various magazines and other 
 publications. He married in Sparta, Ga., in 
 1881, Marie Roxie Lane. Address: Macon, 
 Ga. 
 
 EDWARDS, Stephen Ostrom: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Glen, N. Y., Jan. 22, 
 1855; son of William Henry and Helena 
 Schenck (Mount) Edwards. He was grad- 
 uated from Brown University, A.B., 1879, 
 A.M., 1882, and attended the law school of 
 Boston University, 1882-1883. Mr. Edwards 
 taiiglit a country school, 1872-1873; was a 
 teacher in Providence High School, 1879- 
 1882, was admitted to the Rhode Island 
 bar in February, 1884; instructor in mathe- 
 matics and logic in Brown University, 1886- 
 1887. He practised law alone, in Provi- 
 dence, R. I., until May, 1894 when he formed 
 partnership with Walter F. Angell in the 
 present law firm of Edwards &, Angell. Mr. 
 Edwards was clerk of the Rhode Island 
 House of Representatives, 1889-1891, and 
 member of the Commission on Revision of 
 the Judicial System of Rhode Island, 1904- 
 1905. He is a director of the Providence 
 Journal Company and the Rhode Island 
 Hospital Trust Company; trustee of Brown 
 University; director of the Providende Ly- 
 ing-in Hospital, Providence Society for Or- 
 ganizing Charity, a member of Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society. St. Johns Commandery of 
 Knights Templar, and the Hope, University, 
 Agawam, Hunt, Providence Bar, Rhode Is- 
 land Bar and Providence Art Clubs. Mr. 
 Edwards married in Providence, June 30, 
 1887, Ellen A. Chace, and they have a son 
 and two daughters. Residence: 181 Lloyd 
 Street. Office: 170 Westminster Street, 
 Providence, R. I. 
 
 ED WORDS, Clarence Edgar: 
 
 Author and lecturer; born in Staunton, 
 Va., Nov. 15, 1856; son of John L. and 
 Marie J. (Widen) Edwords. He was grad- 
 uated from the St. Louis jMedical College, 
 M.D., 1877, and Heidelberg University, 1879. 
 He engaged in literary work, becoming man- 
 aging editor of the Kansas City Journal, 
 1893-1890. He traveled in Mexico writing 
 for syndicates and magazines; was on the 
 editorial staff of the San Francisco Call and 
 Chronicle, 1897-1905, and is now chief of 
 the Literary Bureau of the California Pro- 
 motion Committee. He is author of: 
 Campfires of a Naturalist; Inch by Inch; 
 
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 Six Months in TTcll ; Fallon Loaves (poems). 
 Dr. Edwords lectures on travel and on Hunt- 
 iilg With a Camera. He has traveled in Eu- 
 rope, Mexico, Central America and the 
 South Sea Islands, and he served through 
 the Apache campaigns in the Medical De- 
 partment of the United States Army. He 
 has found his recreation in natural history 
 study in the field, and he is a member of the 
 National Geographic Society and of the 
 Commonwealth Club of California. Dr. Ed- 
 words married in Denver, Colo., Oct. 17, 
 1897. Elizabeth M. Estes. Rosidoneo: 2186 
 Green Street. Office: California Building, 
 Union Square, San Francisco. 
 
 EELLS, Richard Latimer: 
 
 Stnck broker; boni in Simsbury, Conn., 
 in 1839; son of Erasmus Latimer and Phebe 
 Eells. He was educated at the Westfield 
 (Mass.) Academy, and took a business 
 course at Hartford, Conn. He was for some 
 time engaged in the dry goods business and 
 since then as a gold and stock broker. Mr. 
 Eells is a member of the Hartford' City 
 Guard. He was connected with the late 
 Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage for many years as 
 superintendent of a Sunday School. He is 
 a Republican in politics and a Presbj'terian 
 in his religious denomination. He is also 
 a member of the Prospects Heights Citi- 
 zens' Association and a member of the Brook- 
 lyn League Club. He married in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., in 1860, Cornelia A. Boyer. Address: 
 51 Exchange Place, New York City. 
 
 EGAN, Maurice Francis: 
 
 Di|)lomati.st, autlior and educator; born 
 in Piiiladelphia, May 24, 1852; son of Mau- 
 rice and Margaret (MacMullen) Egan. He 
 was giaduated from La Salle College A.M., 
 1873, entered Georgetown (D.C. ) College in 
 1875, received tlie degrees of A.M. from No- 
 tre Dame, 1878; LL.D. from Georgetown, 
 1879, J.U.D. from Ottawa University, 1891; 
 and Ph.D. from Villanova College in 1907. 
 In 1877 he became sub-editor of McGee's Il- 
 lustrated Weekly and in 1879 of the Catho- 
 lic Review; was editor of Freeman's Journal 
 1880-1888; jirofessor of English literature 
 at the University of Notre Dame, Ind., 1888- 
 1895; professor of English language and lit- 
 
 erature in the Catholic University of Amer- 
 ica, 1895-1907, resigning that chair upon 
 liis appointment as envoy extraordinary and 
 minister plenipotentiary to Denmark. Dr. 
 Egan is author of: A Garden of Roses; 
 Stories of Duty; The Life Around Us; The 
 Theatre and Christian Parents; ]\Iodern 
 Novelists; Lectures on English Literature; 
 A Gentleman; Jack Chumlcigh; Jack Chum- 
 leigli at Boarding School; Preludes (poems) ; 
 Songs and Sonnets, and Other Poems; the 
 translations: Coppee's Pater (for Mr. Au- 
 i^nstin Daly), and the Sonnets of Jose de 
 lieredia (in World's Best Literature), and 
 a number of other works. He is also one of 
 the editors of the World's Best Literature; 
 the Encycloptedia of Irish Literature. He 
 married in 1880, Katharine Mullin, of Phil- 
 adelphia. Address: American Legation, 
 Copenhagen, Denmark. 
 
 EGBERT, James Chidester: 
 
 Professor of Latin; born in New York in 
 1859; son of Rev. James C. and Louisa 
 (Drew) Egbert. He was graduated from 
 Columbia University in 1881 ; and later re- 
 ceived the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. He 
 held a prize fellowship, 1882-1885; was as- 
 sistant in Greek, 1885-1887; tutor in Latin, 
 1888-1891; instructor in Latin, 1891-1895; 
 adjunct professor of Latin, 1895-1900; pro- 
 fessor of Roman archaeology and epigraphy, 
 1900-1906; professor of Latin, 1906; di- 
 rector of the Summer Session of Columbia I 
 University since 1902; professor of Latin in I 
 tlie American School of Classical Studies in 
 Rome, 1903-1904. He is a member of the 
 Archa'ological Institute of America; the 
 American Philological Association; the Phi 
 Beta Kappa Alvimni Association, New York 
 (president, 1904-1905) ; a member of the 
 managing and executive committees Ameri- 
 can School, Rome ; a member of the Board of 
 Education, Jersey City, 1898-1903. He is 
 the author of: Macmillan's Shorter Latin 
 Cour.se, 1892; Introduction to tlie Study of 
 Latin Inscri])tions, 1895. Professor Egbert 
 is editor of Macmillan's Scries of Latin 
 Classics; wrote The Equestrian Cursus Hon- 
 (trunr in Classical Studies in Honor of 
 Henry Drisler, 1894, and also several ar- 
 ticles ill Harper's Dictionary of Classical 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 559 
 
 Antiquity and tlie New International Cyclo- 
 pedia, lie married in New York in 1884, 
 Emma G. Pennington. Address: 4^5 West 
 140th Street, New York City. 
 
 EGGLESTON, George Gary: 
 
 Journalist and author; born in Vevay, 
 Ind., Nov. 20, 1839; son of Joseph Cary and 
 Mary Jane (Craig) Eggleston. He attended 
 Indiana Asbury University, 1856-1857; 
 Richmond (Virginia) College, 1858-1859, 
 and Brockenborongh's Lexington (Virginia) 
 Law School, 1859-1800. He was admitted to 
 the bar in Virginia and practised one year, 
 before the Civil War, in that State, and for 
 four years after the war in Cairo, 111. He 
 entered newspaper work in New York City 
 in 1870; was literary editor of the Evening 
 Post from 1875 to 1881; editor-in-chief of 
 Hearth and Home, 1872-1874; editor of the 
 American Homes Magazine, 1874-1875; edi- 
 tor-in-chief of the New York Commercial 
 Advertiser, 1884-1889, and editorial writer 
 of the New Y^rk World, 1889-1900. Mr. 
 Eggleston served in the Confederate Army 
 from the beginning to the close of the war. 
 He is author of: How to Educate Your- 
 self, 1872; A Man of Honor, 1873; A 
 Piebel's Recollections, 1874; How to Make 
 a Living, 1875; The Big Brother, 1875; 
 Captain Sam, 1876; The Signal Boys, 1877; 
 Red Eagle, 1878; The Wreck of the Red- 
 bird, 1882; Strange Stories from History, 
 1885; A Primary History of the United 
 States, 1885; Juggernaut (with Dolores 
 Marbourg), 1891; Southern Soldier Stories, 
 1898; The Last of the Flatboats, 1900; A 
 Carolina Cavalier, 1900; Camp Venture, 
 1900; The American Immortals, 1902; 
 Dorothy South, 1902; The Bale marked 
 Circle X, 1902; The Master of Warlock, 
 1903; The First of the Hoosiers, 1903; 
 Running the River, 1904; A Captain in the 
 Ranks, 1904; Evelyn Byrd, 1904; Our First 
 Century, 1905; A Daughter of the South, 
 1905; Life in the Eighteenth Century, 1905; 
 Blind Alleys, 1906; Jack Shelby, 1906; 
 Love is the Sum of it All, 1907, and' Long 
 Knives, 1908 ; Two Gentlemen of Virginia, 
 1908; The Warrens of Virginia (founded on 
 the De Mille Play), 1908; Irene of tha 
 
 Mountains, 1909. He is also editor of: 
 French History for English Children, 1882; 
 Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (American 
 edition), 1883; American War Ballads (two 
 volumes), 1889; Liber Scriptorium, 1893. 
 Mr. Eggleston is a member of the Authors 
 Club, the American Historical Association, 
 the New Y'ork State Historical Association, 
 the Royal Arcanum, Knights of Honor, 
 and is honorary president of The Dickens' 
 Fellowship. He married at Cairo, 111., Sept. 
 9, 1808, Marion Craggs, and they have two 
 sons. Summer residence: Culross, Lake 
 George, N. Y. Address: 188 West 135th 
 Street, New Y^ork City. 
 
 EILERS, Frederic Anton: 
 
 ilining engineer and metallurgist; born 
 in Laufenselten, Nassau, Germany, Jan. 14, 
 1839; son of E. J. A. F. Filers, chief fores- 
 ter and Elizabeth (Dielmann) Filers. He 
 was educated in the gymnasia at Weilburg, 
 and Wiesbaden, the Mining School at 
 Clausthal and the University of Gottin- 
 gen, 1852-1859, coming to the United States 
 in the latter year. He was assistant to 
 Adelberg & Raymond, mining engineers, 
 1803-1866; in cliarge of mines and copper 
 smelting works in Virginia, 1866-1809; dep- 
 uty U. S. Commissioner of mining statistics, 
 1809-1876; part owner and manager of the 
 Germania Smelting and Refining Works, 
 Salt Lake City, 1876-1879; in the smelting 
 business, as a member of the firm of 
 Billing & Filers, Leadville, Colo., 1879- 
 1882; president of the Colorado Smelting 
 Company of Pueblo, Colo., 1883-1899, 
 and manager, director and vice-presi- 
 dent of the United Smelting and Refining 
 Company of Montana and Chicago, 1890- 
 1899; since 1899 director and member of the 
 executive committee of the American Smelt- 
 ing and Refining Company, also of the 
 American Smelters Securities Company and 
 the United JNIissouri River Power Company; 
 and he is a director and vice-president of 
 the Last Dollar Gold Mining Company and 
 the Seneca Mining Companj'. I\Ir. Eilers 
 has written extensively on mining and 
 metallurgical subjects. He was one of the 
 
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 earliest members and has been a manager 
 and vice-president of tlie American Insti- 
 tute of Mining Engineers; is a member of 
 the National CJeographic Society, Colorado 
 Scientilic Society. American Forestry Asso- 
 ciation, American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, Brooklyn Institute 
 of Arts and Sciences, Technical Society of 
 New York, the Engineers Club of New York, 
 Germjui and Germania Clubs of Brooklyn, 
 and the Denver and Alta Clubs of Salt Lake 
 City. Residence: 751 St. Marks Avenue, 
 Brooklyn. Ollicf: 165 B,roadvvay, New 
 York City. 
 
 EIS, Frederick: 
 
 Catholic bishoi) of Sault Sainte ^larie and 
 Marquette, ]\Iich.; born in Arbach, near 
 Coblentz, Germany, Jan. 20, 1843. In 1855 
 he came with his parents to the United 
 States, settling in the Upper Peninsula of 
 Michigan, and after completing his prelimi- 
 nary education he studied for the priest- 
 hood at seminaries in Milwaukee, Wis., and 
 in Canada. In 1870 he was ordained to the 
 priesthood by Bishop ilrak, at Marquette, 
 Mich., and entered upon his pastoral labors 
 in Saint Peter's Cathedral Parish at that 
 place. He was afterwards pastor of the 
 Sacred' Heart Church at Calumet, Mich., 
 Saint Ann's Church at Hancock, Mich.; 
 Saint Paul's Church at Negaunee, I\Iich., 
 and at Crystal Falls, Mich. Upon the 
 death of Bishop Vertin, in March, 1899, he 
 was appointed administrator of the diocese 
 of Sault Sainte Marie and Marquette, and 
 was consecrated as successor to that prel- 
 ate, Aug. 2-i, 1899. Address: Marquette, 
 Mich. 
 
 EISEN, Gustav August: 
 
 Biologist; born in Stockliolni, Sweden, 
 Aug. 2, 1847; sou of Franz August and 
 Amalia (Markander) Eisen. He was grad- 
 uated from the University of Upsala, Swe- 
 den, Ph.D., 1873, becoming docent in zoijlogy 
 in that institution in the same year, lie 
 made biological explorations in Central 
 America and Mc.vico at various times from 
 1880 to 1900, and in Europe from 1904 to 
 1907. Dr. j']isen was editor of California 
 
 in 1889; curator of the California Academy 
 of Sciences, 1893-1900, and in the Lloyd 
 Tevis Aquarium and Biological Station. 
 1904-1907. He was a member of the jury 
 of Award of the California Midwinter Fair. 
 1895; is a member of the California Acad- 
 emy of Sciences, president of the San Fran- 
 cisco Microscopical Society; corresponding 
 member of the Prag Wissenschaften Gesell- 
 schaft, and of the Swedish Society of 
 Anthropology and Geology. His principal 
 researches have been in Oligochaeta (earth- 
 worms ) , cytology, caprification of the fig, 
 and the plasmocytes of human and batrach- 
 ian blood. His chief writings are on Oli- 
 gochasta, cytology and horticulture. Ad- 
 dress: California Academy of Sciences, San 
 Francisco. 
 
 ELAM, John B.: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Spring Valley. Ohio, 
 Dee. 16, 1845; sou of Ambrose and Susan 
 (Babb) Elam. He served in an Ohio vohm- 
 teer regiment in the Civil War, participat- 
 ing in many important battles; was gradu- 
 ated from Miami University, Ohio, A.B.. 
 1870. and from the Law Department of the 
 University of Michigan, LL.B., 1872, and i'.-i 
 the same year he went to Indianapolis, 
 where he was admitted to the bar. He 
 served as prosecuting attorney and after- 
 ward was in partnership with the late Pres- 
 ident Benjamin Harrison. Mr. Elam is & 
 member of the Marion, Commercial and 
 other leading Clubs of Indianapolis. He 
 married. July 22, 1875, Emma Lee, of Ox- 
 ford, Ohio. Residence: 1320 Park Avenue. 
 Address: Newton Claypool Building. In- 
 dianapolis Ind. 
 
 ELDER, Samuel James: 
 
 Lawyer; liorn ;it llopeville, 11. L, Jan. 
 4, 1850; .son of James and Deborah (Keen) 
 Elder. He was graduated from Yale Uni- 
 versity witli the degree of A.B. in 1873, 
 and taking up the study of law at Boston, 
 was admitted to the bar of ISlassachusetts 
 in 1875. He is a prominent lawyer of gen- 
 eral j)ractice in Boston, and a specialist in 
 cojjy right law. Many of his arguments have 
 bcfMi published. He is a well known after- 
 
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 dinner speaker. He received the degree of 
 LL.D. from Yale, 1908. Mr. Elder was one 
 of the senior counsel for the United States 
 in the North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration 
 witii Great Britain at Tlie Hague. On May 
 10, 1876, he married at Hastings-on-Hudson, 
 N. Y., Lilla S. Tiiomas. Residence: Win- 
 chester, ]\lass. Ollice: Peiiiherton Building, 
 liosloii. 
 
 ELIOT, Amory: 
 
 Lawyer and trustee; born in Chicopee, 
 Mass., May 26, 1856; son of William Pres- 
 cott and Eleanor (Chapin) Eliot; grandson 
 of Harvey and' Sarah (Stockwell) Chapin 
 and of William Havard and Margaretta 
 (Bradford) Eliot, and a descendant from 
 \\'illiam Bradford and John Alden, May- 
 flower, 1620. and from Andrew Elliot, the 
 immigrant. 1668, and Thomas Dudley, 1630. 
 He was educated in Phillips Academy, 
 Exeter, N. H., and Harvard, A.B., 1877; 
 attended Harvard Law School, 1878-1879, 
 and became a practising lawyer in Boston, 
 
 1880. He is treasurer of the Good Govern- 
 ment Association of Boston, trustee of the 
 Board of Trade Trust, Business Real Estate 
 Trust, Congress Street Building Trust, 
 Sufl'olk Savings Bank; Oliver Building 
 Trust, and Real Estate Improvement Trust; 
 director of the Webster and Atlas National 
 Bank, Atlantic Cotton Mills, and Boston 
 Real Estate Exchange. He is a member of 
 the Tennis and Racquet Club, the Country 
 Club, the Essex County Club, of which he 
 is chairman, and' the Exchange Club of 
 Boston, of which he is treasurer. He was a 
 Cleveland Democrat, and is now an Inde- 
 pendent Republican. He married, Dec. 7, 
 
 1881, Mary, daughter of Henry A. and Ly- 
 dia (Sumner) Clarke, and a descendant of 
 Lawrence Wilkinson, Rhode Island, 1647; 
 and of this man-iage there are four chil- 
 dren. The city home of Mr. Elliot is 
 on Beacon Street, and his residence at 
 Manchester-by-the-Sea. Otiice: 131 State 
 Street, Boston. 
 
 ELIOT, Charles William: 
 
 Former president of Harvard L^niversity; 
 born in Boston, Mass., March 20, 1834; son 
 86 
 
 of Samuel .Mkins and Mary (Lyman) El- 
 iot. He was lilted for college at the Boston 
 Latin School, was graduated from Harvard 
 in 18.53 and received the degree of LL.D. 
 from Williams College and' from Princeton, 
 1869, Yale, 1870, Johns Hopkins, 1902. He 
 was tutor in mathematics at Harvard and 
 student under Professor Joseph P. Cooke 
 in chemistry, 1854-1858; and from 1858 to 
 1863, he was assistant professor of chemis- 
 try and mathematics at the Lawrence Sci- 
 entific School, Harvard. He studied chem- 
 istry and investigated educational methods 
 in Europe, 1863-1865; and was professor of 
 analytical chemistry at the Massachusetts 
 Institute of Technology, 1865-1869, and was 
 president of Harvard University from 1869 
 until his voluntary retirement in 1909. 
 President Eliot is a fellow of the American 
 Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Ameri- 
 can Philosophical Society; officer de la Le- 
 gion d'Honneur de France, corresponding 
 member of the Academie des Sciences 
 Morales et Politiques of the Institute de 
 France. He has delivered many addresses 
 on educational and scientific subjects. He 
 is avithor of: Manual of Qualitive Chem- 
 ical Analysis (with Professor Francis H. 
 Storer) ; ]\lanual of Inorganic Chemistry 
 (with Professor Storer) ; Five American 
 Contributions to Civilization and Other 
 Essays; Educational Reform; Charles Eliot 
 — Landscape Architect, 1902; Annual Re- 
 ports of the President of Harvard Univer- 
 sity from 1869 to 1909; More Money for the 
 Public Schools, 1903; John Gilley, 1904; 
 Four American Leaders, 190G. Under the 
 Administration of President Eliot, the pro- 
 gress of Harvard University was greater 
 than during any corresponding jjeriod of 
 its remarkable history. President Eliot has 
 been twice married, first in Boston, Oct 27, 
 1858, to Ellen Derby Peabody, who died in 
 1869, and second iu Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 
 30, 1877, to Grace Mellen Ilopkinson. Ad- 
 dress: Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 ELIOT, Samuel Atkins: 
 
 President American Unitarian Associa- 
 tion; born at Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 24, 
 1802; son of Charles W. and Ellen D. 
 
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 (Peabod'y) Eliot. He received from Har- ] 
 vard, the degree of A.B. in 1884 and A.M. j 
 in 1880; from Bowdoin, S.T.D. in 1900. He | 
 was minister of Unity Church, Denver, Colo., ' 
 1889-1893; Church of the Savior, Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., 1893-1898; secretary of the American 
 Unitarian Association 1898-1900; president 
 since 1000; also, since 1907 president of the 
 International Unitarian Council. He mar- 
 ried at Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 22, 1889, 
 Frances S. Hopkinson. Residence: 25 Res- 
 ervoir Street, Cambridge, Mass. Address: 
 25 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 ELIOT, Walter Graeme: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in New York City, 
 Nov. 16, 1857; son of Augustus G. Eliot 
 and a member of the family of which the 
 Earl of St. Germans is head'. He was grad- 
 uated from the School of Mines of Colum- 
 bia College with the degrees of M.E. and 
 Ph.B. in 1878, and afterward rocieved tlie de- 
 grees of Ph.D. from Columbia College and 
 of LL.D. from St. Francis Xavier College 
 gincer of the New York Board of Health ; 
 in 1892. He was engaged as sanitary en- 
 inspector of tenements; assistant chemist 
 and inspector of foods; and was engineer 
 agent of the Tenth United' States Census 
 on Water Works of the United States cities 
 in 1881. He was connected with various 
 business corporations until May, 1891, when 
 he took charge of the University Magazine 
 as one of the proprietors and managing edi- 
 tor. He is vice-president of the Zeta Psi 
 fraternity, and is president or director in 
 many corporations and a contributor to 
 many periodicals. Mr. Eliot is author of: 
 Noted Physicians of New York; History 
 of the Eliot family; College Presidents of 
 the United States, and" a History of the 
 Stoutenburgh Family. He is a member of 
 the Society of Colonial Wars; the Society of 
 Municipal Engineers; and a member of the 
 Seventh Regiment of the National Guard of 
 New York, and of the rifle team of that 
 regiment, wliicli won in the years 1904, 
 )'.»0.-) and 19()(i. He married, Feb. 2, 1802, 
 Maude Stoutenburgli, and they have three 
 children. Rcsidi^nces: Cedarhurst, L. I., 
 and Hyde Park-on-lludson, N. Y, 
 
 ELKIN, John P.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Indiana County, Pa. H« 
 was educated in the Indiana State Normal 
 School, and the law department of the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, LL.B., 1884, and was 
 admitted to the bar of Indiana County, Pa., 
 in 1885. Mr. Elkin's legal practice has been 
 active and successful, though broken into 
 by legislative duty for the State, he being 
 elected a member of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives in 1884, before his admission to 
 the bar, and reelected in 1886. While in the 
 House he was chairman of several commit- 
 tees and has served as chairman of the 
 State Committee of his party, and delegate 
 to several Republican State Conventions. 
 He was appointed in 1895 deputy attorney 
 general of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl- 
 vania, and in 1899 was appointed attorney- 
 general of the State. He was a prominent 
 candidate for Governor in 1902, but, though 
 popular with the people, he was defeated 
 in the State Convention. When Mr. Penny- 
 packer became governor, Mr. Elkin retired 
 from the office of attorney general and de- 
 voted himself actively to legal practice in 
 Indiana County, in whose concerns he has 
 taken an active interest, having been presi- 
 dent of its school board for the past nine 
 years, a trustee of the Indiana State Nor- 
 mal School, and active in the development 
 of its coal field's. He is president of the 
 Farmer's Bank of Indiana, one of the lead- 
 ing financial institutions of th'e county. In 
 March, 1004, on the declination of Gover- 
 nor Pennypacker to be a candidate for the 
 vacancy on the bench of the Supreme Court 
 of Pennsylvania, Mr. Elkin was unanimous- 
 ly nominated for that judicial position and 
 elected. Address: Indiana, Pa. 
 
 ELKIN, William Lewis: 
 
 Astronomer; born in New Orleans, April 
 29, 1855; son of Lewis and Jane (Fitch) 
 j'Jkin. He was graduated from the Royal 
 Polytechnic 'School of Stuttgart, Germany, 
 C.F., 1876, and University of Strassburg, 
 Ph.D., 1880. He was associated as a 
 volunteer under Sir David Gill, in the Royal 
 Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, in- 
 vestigating the parallaxes of Southern Stars, 
 
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 and he received the honorary degree of 
 M.A. from Yale University in 1893. Dr. 
 Elkin became astronomer in the Yale Ob- 
 servatory, 1884-1896, and since then has 
 been director of that institution. He has 
 been a member of the National Academy of 
 Sciences from 1895; is a fellow of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science; member of the Astronomical and 
 Astropliysical Society of America, tlie Con- 
 necticut Academy of Sciences; associate of 
 the Royal Astronomical Society and of the 
 Deutsche Astronomische Gcsellschaft. Dr. 
 Elkin has published in astronomical jour- 
 nals and in the Transaction of Yale Ob- 
 servatory the results of his researches, es- 
 pecially in connection with stellar paral- 
 laxes, star clusters and the photography of 
 meteors. Address : Y'ale Observatory, New 
 Haven, Conn. 
 
 ELKINS, Stephen Benton: 
 
 United States Senator; born in Perry 
 County, Ohio, Sept. 26, 1841. He received 
 his early education in the public schools of 
 Missouri and was graduated' from the Uni- 
 versity of that State, at Columbia, with the 
 class of 1860. He was admitted to the bar 
 in 1864 and in the same year went to New 
 Mexico, where he acquired a knowledge of 
 the Spanish language and began the prac- 
 tice of law. He was a member of the Terri- 
 torial legislature Assembly of New Mexico 
 in 1864 and 1865, and held the office of 
 territorial district attorney, attorney-gen- 
 eral and United States district attorney. He 
 was elected to the Forty-third Congress and 
 while abroad was nominated and elected to 
 the Forty-fourth Congress. During his first 
 term in Congress he was made a member of 
 the Republican National Committee on 
 which he served for three Presidential cam- 
 paigns. After leaving Congress he moved 
 to West Virginia and devoted himself to 
 business affairs. He was appointed Secre- 
 tary of War, Dec. 17, 1891, and served until 
 the close of President Harrison's adminis- 
 tration in February, 1894, when he was 
 elected to the United States Senate to suc- 
 ceed Hon. Johnson N. Camden, and re- 
 elected in 1901 by the unanimous vote of 
 
 the Republican members of the Legislature. 
 He was also reelected, in January, 1907, to 
 succeed himself. PHs term of service will 
 expire in 1913. Address: Elkins, W. Va. 
 
 ELLERBE, James Edwin: 
 
 Congressman; horn near Marion, S. C, 
 Jan. 12, 1897; and has been a farmer all 
 liis life. His early education was received 
 at Old Pine Hill Academy. In October, 
 1882, he entered the South Carolina College 
 where he spent one year, and in October, 
 1884, he entered Wofford College, at Spart- 
 enburg, S. C, where he spent three years, 
 and was graduated from there with the de- 
 gree of A.B., in Jvme, 1887. In 1894 he was 
 elected to the State Legislature, and in 1895 
 represented in part, Marion County, in the 
 State Constitutional Convention. He was 
 elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress in 1904, 
 from the Sixth South Carolina District, 
 and reelected in 1906 to the Sixtieth Con- 
 gress without opposition, and was reelected 
 in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress. He 
 married, Nov., 23, 1887, Nellie Converse 
 Elford, of Spartenburg, S. C, and they have 
 liad five children, three of whom are now liv- 
 ing. Address: Marion, S. C. 
 
 ELLIOTT, Charles Burke: 
 
 Jurist; born near McConnelsville, in Mor- 
 gan County, Ohio, Jan. 6, 1861; son of Ed- 
 ward and Angeline Elliott. After passing 
 through the schools of Morgan County and 
 the Academy of Marietta College, Ohio, he 
 entered the law department of the Univer- 
 sity of Iowa, from which he was graduated 
 i^L.B. in 1881, and he afterward took post- 
 graduate work at the University of Minne- 
 sota, receiving tlie degree of Ph.D. for spe- 
 cial work in Roman and International Law 
 in 1887. He practised law at Minneapolis 
 until appointed in January, 1890, a judge 
 of tlie ^Municipal Court of that city. He 
 was appointed judge of the District Court 
 for the Fourth District of Minnesota in 
 1893, and after eleven years of service there 
 he was appointed and thereafter elected one 
 of the associate justices of the Supreme 
 Court of Minnesota, in which office he is 
 still serving. Judge Elliott was professor 
 
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 of corporation and international law in the 
 University of Minnesota, 1890-1897, and is 
 now lecturer on International Law; re- 
 ceived the honorary degree of LL.D. from 
 the University of Iowa in 1895, and from 
 Marietta College in 1904. He is a frequent 
 contributor to legal and other periodicals of 
 this country and Europe and wrote as his 
 doctor's thesis in 1887, a discussion under 
 the title: The United States and the North- 
 eastern Fisheries, which was published by 
 the University of ^linnesota in 1887. 
 Among his legal works are The Law of 
 Public Corporations, 1898; Minnesota Prac- 
 tice, 1900; The Law of Private Corpora- 
 tions, 1900, and The Law of Insurance, 1902. 
 He has also made many addresses on legal 
 and other subjects which have been pub- 
 lished. He married at Muscatine, Iowa, 
 May 13, 1884, Edith Winslow. and has five 
 children. Residence: 2634 Portland Ave- 
 nue, Minneapolis. Official address : State 
 Capitol, Saint Paul, Minn. 
 
 ELLIOTT, George Frank: 
 
 Major-general, commandant of the U. S. 
 Marine Corps; born in Alabama, Nov. 30, 
 1846. He entered the U. S. Marine Corps 
 from New York, Oct. 12, 1870; was pro- 
 moted to first lieutenant May 30, 1870, and 
 after that received other promotions until 
 he became conunandant of the U. S. Marine 
 Corps with the rank of brigadier-general, 
 Oct. 3, 1903, and was advanced in rank to 
 major-general, commandant. May 13, 1908. 
 He made an active cruise of nearly three 
 years while commanding the marine guard 
 of the U. S. S. Alliance; commanded U. S. 
 Marines in protection of the American Le- 
 gation at Seoul, Korea, 1894; served in 
 China in protection of American interests 
 during the Japanese-Chinese ^\'a^; com- 
 manded Company C, First Battalion of Ma- 
 rines, organized for service in Cuba during 
 the Spanish-American War, April 22 to 
 Sept. 22, 1898, and was advanced three 
 numbers in liis grade for eminent and con- 
 spicuous conduct in the battle of Guantan- 
 amo, June, 11, 1898. He was in the Philip- 
 pines, 1899-1900, commanded marines in the 
 engagement at Novaleta, P. I., Oct. 8, 1889 ; 
 
 also commanded' the expeditionary brigade 
 of marines on the Isthmus of Panama, Dec, 
 1903, to March, 1904. Address: Headquar- 
 ters U. S. Marino Corps, Washington, D. C. 
 
 ELLIOTT, John Stuart: 
 
 Commissioner of the Interior of Porto 
 Rico; born in Savannah, Ga., March 20, 
 1859; son of Stuart and Lucy Irland (Sor- 
 rel ) Elliott. After attending schools in the 
 Umted States and for five years in Europe 
 lie entered the University of Pennsylvania 
 in 1875, and was graduated B.S., 1879 and 
 C.E., 1886, being awarded the Senior En- 
 gineering prize. He was instructor in civil 
 engineering in the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, 1884-1885, and afterward practised as 
 civil and mining engineer in the Northwest, 
 in Cincinnati, in Mexico and Jamaica and in 
 New York City, and in 1905 he was ap- 
 pointed commissioner of the Interior for 
 Porto Eico. He is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Society of Civil Engineers, the Ameri- 
 can Institute of Mining Engineers, the Phi 
 Kappa Psi fraternity and the Racquet and 
 Tennis Club of New York City. He has 
 written various papers and translations 
 from the German on engineering subjects. 
 He married in New York City, Sept. 4, 
 1890, Helena Forsyth Ellis, now deceased. 
 Address : San Juan, Porto Rico. 
 
 ELLIS, Wade H.: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Covington, Ky.; son 
 son of A. C. and Kate (Blackburn) Ellis. 
 Educated at High School and Chickering 
 Institute, Cincinnati, and Washington & 
 Lee University, Virginia. Graduated at 
 university 1889 with degree of LL.B., hay- 
 ing won law scholarship and honors of his 
 class. Received honorary degree of LL.D., 
 from Miami University (Ohio) in 1904. 
 Admitted to the bar in 1889. Practised in 
 Cincinnati. Was managing editor of Cin- 
 cinnati Tribune and later of Commercial Tri- 
 bune in 1896. Served as first assistant cor- 
 poration counsel of Cincinnati, 1897-1903. 
 Was elected Attorney General of Ohio in 
 1903, and reelected in 1905, serving until 
 Ids appointment in 1908 as Assistant to the 
 Alloiuey (ieneral of the United States. 
 
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 ]^iaf(('<l ilio nuiiiicipal code for the govern- 
 meat of Ohio cities, which was passed by 
 the legiskiture in 1902, and is the author 
 of Ellis' Ohio Municipal Code, Annotated. 
 Wrote the National Republican Platform, 
 which was adopted by the convention at 
 Cliicago in June, 1908, and' served as a mem- 
 ber of the committee on resolutions of that 
 body. Lectured on the law of private cor- 
 porations at the Ohio State University for 
 several years and is the author of numerous 
 addresses and essays on legal and economic 
 subjects. Was married in Covington, Ky., 
 in 1894, to Dessie Corwin Chase. Resi- 
 dence: Cincinnati, Ohio. Address: De- 
 part nient of Justice, Washington, D. C. 
 
 ELLIS, William R.: 
 
 Jurist; born at Waveland, Montgomery 
 County, Ind., April 23, 1850; son of James 
 and Susan (Stone) Ellis. When he was 
 five years old his parents removed to Guth- 
 rie County, Iowa, where he attended the dis- 
 trict school and worked on the home farm. 
 After reaching the age of eighteen divided 
 his time between farm work and teaching 
 school winters and later attending the Iowa 
 State Agricultural College at Ames, and 
 afterward the law department of the Iowa 
 State University at Iowa City, from which 
 he was graduated witli the degree of LL.B. 
 in 1874. After his graduation he practised 
 law at Hamburg, Iowa, until 1883, and he 
 was for two terms city attorney and one 
 term mayor of that city. He removed" to 
 Oregon in 1883, resided at Heppner until 
 1901 and has since been a citizen of Pendle- 
 ton, Ore., where he engaged in practice of 
 law, and where he also became prominent 
 in politics as a leading Republican. He was 
 superintendent of schools of Morrow Coun- 
 ty, and three terms district attorney of the 
 Seventh Judicial District of Oregon. In 
 1892 he was elected to the 53rd Congress. 
 In 1894 he was elected to the 54th Congress 
 from the Second Oregon District, and he 
 was elected to the 55th Congress in 1896. 
 In 1900 he was elected as judge of the 
 Sixth Judicial District of Oregon, served six 
 years. Was elected in 1906 to 60th Con- 
 gress and reelected to 61st Congress in 1908. 
 
 Judge Kills has twice married, first at Ham- 
 burg, Iowa, March 31, 1880, Jennie 15. Ed- 
 wards, who died Jan. 24, 1882, and second, 
 at Walla Walla, Wash., .liino 16, 188.5, Mrs. 
 Ida .1. Stolt. A<ldress: Pendleton, Ore. 
 
 ELLWOOD, Isaac Leonard: 
 
 iVTanufacturer and Ca])italist; born at 
 Salt Springville, Otsego County, N. Y., Aug. 
 3, 1833; son of Abram and' Sarah (Delymg) 
 Ell wood. He went to Illinois and became 
 interested in various business enterprises, 
 and in the early seventies he became an as- 
 sociate of J. F. Glidden in the then new 
 business of manufacturing and selling of 
 barbed wire as a fencing material for the 
 western prairies. Mr. Glidden sold his in- 
 terest to the Washburn and Moen Manufact- 
 uring Company, and the business developed 
 rapidly and later became known as I. L. Ell- 
 wood & Co., of which Mr. Ellwood became 
 managing partner and afterward sole owner. 
 He built large manufacturing establish- 
 ments at De Kalb, 111., which he conducted 
 under the names of the I. L. Ellwood Manu- 
 facturing Company, and the Ellwood Wire 
 and Nail Company, both of which he sold to 
 the American Steel and Wire Company upon 
 its organization in 1898, and he took a re- 
 sponsible position in the management of that 
 corporation, which afterward became one of 
 the subsidary companies of the United 
 States Steel Corporation. Mr. Ellwood has 
 taken a deep interest in the development 
 which has advanced De Kalb, 111., from a 
 sleepy country village to a thriving man- 
 ufacturing city, and his enterprise has 
 been a leading factor in this advance. It 
 was also through his efforts, chiefly, that the 
 Northern Illinois State Normal School was 
 established at De Kalb. Mr. Ellwood mar- 
 ried, Jan. 27, 1859, Harriet Miller. Ad- 
 dress : De Kalb, 111. 
 
 ELLYSON, J. Taylor: 
 
 iMerchnnt; born in Richmond. Ya.. May 
 20, 1847; son of Henry K. and Elizabeth P. 
 Ellysou. He attended public schools and 
 Richmond College, but suspended his college 
 work to join the Second Com])any of Rich- 
 mond Howitzers, with which he served in 
 
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 Lee's Army until the surrender at Appomat- 
 tox in 18G5, following which he entered the 
 University of Virginia, from which he was 
 graduated A.T?.. 1869. Since then he has 
 been engaged in business in Ttichniond, which 
 city he 'has served as president of the city 
 Council, president of the Board of Public 
 Interests, chainnan of the City School 
 Board sixteen years, and for three terms 
 mayor of Richmond. Ho served in the Vir- 
 ginia State Senate. 1885-1888. Since 1891 
 Mr. Ellyson has been chairman of the Dem- 
 ocratic State Committee of Virginia, and 
 the Virginia member of the Democratic Na- 
 tional Committee, and has attended nearly 
 all the Virginia State and National conven- 
 tions of the Democratic Party. He is a 
 prominent Baptist; for thirty-five years an 
 executive member of tlie Educational Board 
 of the Baptist General Association ; and he 
 has been president of the Virginia State 
 Baptist Association, vice-president of tlie 
 Southern Baptist Convention and' a member 
 of its Orphanage and Education Boards; 
 and is vice-president of the Board of Trus- 
 tees of Richmond College. Mr. Ellyson is a 
 member of the Piobert E. Lee and George E. 
 Pickett Camps of United Confederate Vet- 
 erans; president of the Pvichmond Howitzer 
 Association ; former president of the Jeffer- 
 son Davis ]\Ionument Association; and is 
 a member of the Confederate Memorial and 
 Literary Society, the Society for the Preser- 
 vation of Virginia Antiquities, and the 
 Westmoreland and Commonwealth Clubs of 
 Virginia. He married in Howardsville. Va., 
 in 1869, Lora E. Hotrhkiss. Address: 
 Richmond, Va. 
 
 ELMER, Herbert Charles: 
 
 Kdiicalur; boiii at Rusliford, N. Y., March 
 .30, 18G0; .son of Charles Jefferson and Lucy 
 Jane (Ashley) Elmer. He was graduated 
 from Cornell University, A.B., 1883; he re- 
 ceived the degrees of Ph.D. from Johns Hop- 
 kins, 1888; was holder of the State scholar- 
 ship to Cornell University, 1879-1883. He 
 was tutor in Latin in Johns Hopkins Univer- 
 sity, 1888; assistant professor of Latin. Cor- 
 nell University, 1888-1909; full professor of 
 Latin since 1909; studied in tlie universities 
 of Bonn and Leipzig, Germany, 1885-1886; 
 
 traveled in Europe, 1895-1896. He is a 
 member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, 
 Phi Beta Kappa Society and of the Ameri- 
 can Philological Association. He is author 
 of: The Copulative Conjunctions, Que, Et 
 and Atque, in the Inscriptions in Terrence 
 and Cato; The Latin Prohibitive; Studies 
 in Latin Moods and Tenses : and numerous 
 articles in the American Journal of Philol- 
 ogy, Translations and Proceedings of the 
 American Philological Association, the 
 Classical Review, the Latin Leaflet, etc. He 
 is editor of editions of the Captivi of Plau- 
 tus and the Phormio of Terence. He mar- 
 ried, first at Baltimore, Md., in 1886, Rose 
 Elmore; and second, at East Aurora, N. Y., 
 in 1891, Bertha E. Beebe. Address: 113 
 Oak Street, Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 ELROD, Samuel H.: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-governor ; born near 
 Coatesville. Ind., May 1, 1856; son of Jesse 
 F. and Lydia (Pursel) Elrod. He was grad- 
 uated from De Pauw University, A.B.. 1882, 
 later receiving the A.M. degree. While at 
 college he also studied law, so that at his 
 graduation he was ready to take his bar 
 examinations. In that year he removed to 
 Clark, S. Dak., where he was admitted to 
 the bar and established himself in the prac- 
 tice of law. Before the admittance of South 
 Dakota to Statehood, he served one year as 
 probate judge, and served a term as at- 
 torney-general of the State. He has al- 
 ways been prominent in the Republican 
 party, and in 1904 he was elected governor 
 of South Dakota for a term of two years. 
 lie holds a considerable interest in various 
 public utilities, and is vice-president of 
 the Water, Light and' Power Company at 
 Clark, and member of the Board of Di- 
 rectors of the Clark County National Bank. 
 He married at Coatesville, Ind., Nov. 11, 
 1884, Mary Ellen Masten. Address: Clark, 
 S. Dak. 
 
 ELSON, Louis Charles: 
 
 l.eclurer. aiilhor, critic, teacher; born in 
 Boston, April 17, 1848; son of Julius and 
 Rosalie (Schnell) Elson. He received his 
 general education in the Boston Schools, and 
 
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 received liis earliest instruction in music 
 from his motlier, wlio was a musical ama- 
 teur of mucli ability, his later studies beinji 
 under distlnqiiislied American and European 
 teachers, including August Haniann of Bos- 
 ton, and August Kreissmann, vocal and 
 Carl Gloggmer-Castelli, composition, of 
 Leipzig. He has been at the head' of the De- 
 partment of Musical Theory in the New 
 England Conservatory of Music of Boston 
 since 1882. He has lectured before many 
 of the Universities and colleges, delivered a 
 series of eighteen lectures before the Lowell 
 Institute, and others before clubs, musical 
 societies, academies, churches, in lyceum and 
 Chautauqua courses, and other places. He 
 was editorially connected with Vox Humana, 
 a Boston journal devoted to organ music, 
 later becoming editor of the IMusical Herald, 
 correspondent and editorial writer of Mu- 
 sic and Drama, Musical Courier, and other 
 musical papers, and occasional correspond- 
 ent from Europe to the Boston Transcript, 
 New York Tribune, New York Evening Post 
 and other newspapers; became musical edi- 
 tor of The Boston, 1880, and musical editor 
 of the Boston Advertiser in 1888. He is au- 
 thor of: Curiosities of Music; History of 
 German Song; The Theory of Music; The 
 Realm of Music; The National Music of 
 America and Its Sources; European Remi- 
 niscences; Great Composers; Famous Com- 
 posers and Their Works; Shakespeare in 
 Music; History of American Music;. Elson's 
 Distionary of Music, also Elson's Pocket 
 Dictionary of Music. He also wrote the 
 Essay on Music (a condensed history) in 
 the Encyclopaedia Americana. Mr. Elson 
 was elected president of the National Music 
 Teachers' Association in 1904, but was un- 
 able to accept because of other duties. He 
 has founded a public musical lectureship in 
 connection with the municipal concerts giv- 
 en by the City of Boston, delivering from 
 35 to 40 lectures to the masses each season. 
 This kind of instruction in musical auditor- 
 ship being the first in America or in the 
 world. He married in Boston, Jan. 29, 
 1872, Bertha Lissner, and they have a son. 
 Residence: 811 Beacon Street. Oflice: 
 New England Conservatory, Boston. 
 
 ELVERSON, James: 
 
 Proprietor of the Philadelphia Inquirer 
 since 1879; born in England in 1838; moved 
 with his parents to Newark, N. J., in 1847, 
 and received a connnon school education. 
 He became a telegraph operator, and had 
 charge of Willard' Hotel office during the 
 Civil War. In 180o he was one of the 
 founders of the Philadelphia Saturday 
 Night, and since 1879 its sole proprietor. 
 He establi-shed, in 1880, Golden Days, a 
 weekly publication. He is a member of the 
 Arts, Country, and Union League Clubs of 
 Philadelphia, the Metropolitan Club of 
 Washington, D. C. Mr. Elverson married 
 Sallie Du Val. Residence: 2024 Walnut 
 Street. Office: The Inquirer, Philadelphia. 
 
 ELWELL, Frank Edwin: 
 
 Sculptor and writer; born at Concord, 
 Mass., June 15, 1858; 'son of John Wesley 
 and Clara (Farrar) Elwell. He studied 
 Sculpture at the ficole des Beaux Arts, 
 Paris, Ghent, Belgium, and finally under 
 Jean Alexandre Falquiere, a member of 
 the Institute of France. He received the 
 highest reward at the Chicago Exposition 
 in 1893; two gold medals from the Art 
 Club of Philadelphia; silver medal from 
 Leopold II of Belgium ; at Royal Art School 
 of Ghent, Belgium. He was in E\irope for 
 seven years and visited Mexico, Egj-pt and 
 South America. He is the first American 
 sculptor to model a statue in America that 
 was erected in Europe. Among his better 
 known works are the monument at Edam, 
 Holland, The Death of Strength; bust of 
 the Lord Provost of Aberdeen, at Aberdeen, 
 Scotland; statue of the Awakening of 
 Egypt, in Paris; equestrian statue of Gen- 
 eral Hancock at Gettysburg; monument to 
 Edwin Booth at Mount Auburn, Cambridge; 
 the two fountains of Kronos and Ceres 
 at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo; 
 Dickens and Little Nell at Fairmount Park, 
 Philadelphia; the statue of New Life, Low- 
 ell, Mass. ; Greece and Rome, New York 
 Custom House; the Dispatch Rider at 
 Orange, N. J.; and the busts of Hon. Levi 
 P. Morton and Garret A. Hobart in the 
 
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 Senate Chamber at Washington, D. C, the 
 heroic busts of Dante and Shakespeare for 
 the Scranton ]\[omorial Library, Madison, 
 Conn., " The Flag " 7th Rhode Island State 
 Monument at Vicksburg, Miss., " Lincoln " 
 for East Orange, N. J., Heroic statue in 
 bronze, and lias made the busts of Hon. 
 S. B. Chittenden, Yale University; Elihu 
 Yale for the Yale Club; bust of Miss L. M. 
 Alcott, Concord Library, Mass.; Hon. Frank 
 B. Sanborn, Topcka, Kan., and Colonel Van 
 Horn for tlie Journal Office, Kansas City, 
 ilo. He is a veteran member of the Con- 
 cord Artillery Company, having served' two 
 enlistments, and an executive member of 
 the Old Colony Club. He is an honorary 
 member of the Art Club of Cincinnati, Son 
 of the American Revolution, Orange Chap- 
 ter. Orange. N. J., Curator of Ancient and 
 ^Modern Sculpture until the death of Gen- 
 eral L. P. di Cesnola, director, at Metro- 
 politan jNIuseum of Art, New York City. 
 Address: 14 Hudson Place, Weehawkon. 
 X. J. 
 
 ELY, Robert Erskine: 
 
 Lecturer on economics; born in Birigliam- 
 ton. N. Y., Sept. 1.3, 1861; son of Richard 
 and Sarali (Rosoboom) Ely. He was grad- 
 uated' from Amherst College, A.B., 1885, and 
 the Union Theological Seminary, New York, 
 B.D., 1888. He was president of Prospect 
 Union (Cambridge, Mass.), 1891-1901, and 
 since then has l)een director of the League 
 for Political Education, in New York City. 
 He is the Executive Director of the Civic 
 Forum, secretary of the Economic Club of 
 New York, and secretary of the Academy of 
 Political Science. Mr. Ely is a member of 
 the American Academy of Political and So- 
 cial Science, Ameiican Economic Associa- 
 tion, the American Social Science Associa- 
 tion, the City Club of New York and the 
 Twentieth Century Club of Boston. He is 
 one of tlie best known organizers of and 
 lecturers and writers on economics and soci- 
 ological movements in the United States. 
 Mr. Ely married in Binghamton, N. Y., 
 June 7, 1905, Rudolpliine Schaflfer, of Am- 
 sterdam, Holland. Residence: 353 We.st 
 57th Street. Office: 23 West 44th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 ELY, Richard Theodore: 
 
 Economist and educator; born in Ripley, 
 N. Y., April 13, 1854; son of Ezra Ster- 
 ling and Harriet G. Ely. He was gradu- 
 ated from Columbia College, A.B., 1876, 
 A.M., 1879, and was fellow in letters there, 
 1876-1879; graduate student in the Univer- 
 sities of Halle, Heidelberg (Ph.D., 1879), 
 Geneva, and in the Royal Statistical Bu- 
 reau at Berlin: and he received the degree 
 of LL.D. from Hobart College, 1892. Dr. 
 Ely was head of the department of political 
 economy in Johns Hopkins University, 1885- 
 1892. and since tlien lias been professor 
 of economics of the University of Wis- 
 consin. He was secretary of the Ameri- 
 can Economic Association from its inception 
 in 1885 to 1892. and its i)resident, 1899- 
 1901; was first president of the American 
 Association for Labor Legislation, 1900-1907, 
 founder in 1904, and ever since director 
 of the American Bureau of Industrial Re- 
 search. He is author of: French and 
 German Socialism, 1883; The Labor Move- 
 ment in America, 188G; Taxation in Amer- 
 ican States and Cities, 1888; Political 
 Economy, 1889; Outlines of Economies, 
 1893; Socialism and Social Reform, 1894; 
 The Coming City, 1902; Studies in the 
 Evolution of Industrial Society, 1903; and 
 he is editor of Macmillan's Citizen's Li- 
 brary of Economics, Politics and Sociology. 
 Professor Ely married in Richmond. Va., 
 June 25, 1884, Anna ]\lorris Anderson. Ad- 
 dress: Madison, Wis. 
 
 ELY, Smith: 
 
 Ex-mayor of New York City; born in 
 Hanover. N. J., April 17, 1825; studied law 
 at the University of New York, but never 
 practised the profession, engaging in mer- 
 cantile pursuits. He served as school trus- 
 tee, 1856-1860; State senator, 1857; coimty 
 supervisor, 1860-1868; member of Congress, 
 1871-1876; mayor of Now York City, Jan. 
 1, 1877, to Dec. 31. 1878; Democratic Pres- 
 idential elector, ISSO; Central Park Com- 
 missioner, 1897-1898. lie is a member of 
 the Sons of the Revolution, Society of the 
 War of 1812. Society of Colonial Wars; 
 and of the Century, Manhattan, and Mer- 
 
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 chants' Clubs of Now York City. Residence: 
 47 West 57th Street. Address: in3 Gold 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 ELY. Theodore Newel: 
 
 Chief of iiiolixe power, ].'eiinsyl\ani:i Sys- 
 tem ; born at Watertown, N. Y'., June 23, 
 1840; son of Adriel and Evelina (Foster) 
 Ely. He was graduated from Rensselaer 
 Polytechnic Institute. Troy, N. Y., as C.E. 
 in 1866, and he received the honorary de- 
 cree of M.A. from Y'ale in 1897, and Sc.D. 
 from Hamilton College in 1904. Immedi- 
 ately after his graduation he was engaged 
 as engineer at the Fort Pitt Foundry in 
 Pittsburg, experimenting under General 
 Rodman with projectiles. Since 1S68 he 
 has been engaged in railway service, begin- 
 ning in the engineeiing department of the 
 Pittsburg. Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail- 
 way at Pittsburg, and soon after was ap- 
 pointed assistant engineer of the Philadel- 
 phia and Erie Railroad Division of the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad; division superin- 
 tendent, 1809-1870; assistant general super- 
 intendent, Philadelphia and Erie Division. 
 1870-1873; superintendent of motive power, 
 same division, 1873-1874; superintendent of 
 motive power, Pennsylvania Railroad Divi- 
 sion, 1874-1882; general superintendent of 
 motive power of Pennsylvania Lines east of 
 Pittsburg and Erie, 1882-1893; and since 
 March, 1893, chief of motive power of the 
 entire Peruisylvania System east and west 
 of Pittsburg. Mr. Ely is president of the 
 Eastern R:iilroad Association; and a mem- 
 ber of the permanent Commission of the 
 International Railway Congress. He is a 
 member of the Board of Directors of the 
 Pennsylvania Steel Company, and the Cam- 
 bria Steel Company; and trustee of Drcxel 
 Institute and of the Philadelphia Commer- 
 cial Museum. He is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Society of Civil Engineers, the Insti- 
 tution of Civil Engineers of Great Britain, 
 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 
 American Institute of jNIining Engineers, 
 the American Philosophical Society, and the 
 Franklin Institute; fellow of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
 ence; is vice-president of the American 
 
 Academy in Rome, and an honorary mem- 
 ber of the American Institute of Architects. 
 He is also a member of Sons of the Rev- 
 olution, the Philadelphia and' Merion 
 Cricket Clubs of Philadelpliia. Century, Cni- 
 versity and Engineers' ('lubs of New York, 
 and the Metroj)olitan Club of Washington. 
 Residence: Bryn Mawr, Pa. OITice: Broad 
 Street Station, Philadelphia. 
 
 EMANUEL, John Henderson, Jr.: 
 
 Banker; born in Brooklyn, May 8, 1870; 
 son of John Henderson and ^Margaret 
 Waters (Sayre) Emanuel. He is a member 
 of the firm of Emanuel, Parker & Company, 
 bankers. Mr. Emanuel is a trustee of the 
 Long Island Loan and Trust Company. He 
 is a member of tlie New York Zoological 
 Society, the American Museum of Natural 
 History, the New York Botanical Society, 
 and the ]\Ietropolitan Museum of Art; and 
 also a member of the Union League, Cres- 
 cent Athletic, Long Island Automobile, 
 Railroad Club, Englewood Golf Club, Ma- 
 rine and Field Club, and of the Automo- 
 bile Club of America. Mr. Emanuel mar- 
 ried Nov. 1, 1898, Jennett Idele Englis, and 
 has two children. Address: 304 Clinton 
 Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 EMERSON, Edward Randolph: 
 
 Merchant, author, banker and wine 
 grower; born in New Y'ork City, Oct. 22, 
 1856; son of Jesse Milton Emerson and 
 Sophia Thankful (Pierson) Emerson. He 
 was educated in the public schools and 
 with a private tutor. He has traveled ex- 
 tensively in the United States, Europe, and 
 the Holy Land. Mr. Emerson is president 
 of the Brotherhood Wine Company; pres- 
 ident of First National Bank, Washington- 
 ville, Orange County, N. Y'. He is a Con- 
 g-regationalist in his religious alRliations. 
 Mr. Emerson is a member of the St. An- 
 drew's Society, and a Royal Arch Mason; 
 a member of the Albany Burgesses Corps. 
 He is author of: Story of the Vine, 1901; 
 A Lay Thesis on Bible Wines, 1902; Bev- 
 erages Past and Present (Putnam), 1908; 
 and is a contributor to magazines. Mr. 
 Emerson is also a member of the Ark- 
 
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 Wright and Orange Lake Clubs, and an j 
 honorary member of the New York Press 
 Club. He married at Titusville, Pa., June 1 
 24, 1874, Idanthea De Lacey, and they [ 
 have one child, Mrs. Jessie Emerson Mof- j 
 fatt. Residence: 335 West 29th Street, 
 New York City. Country residence: VVash- 
 ingtonville. Orange County, N. Y. Office 
 address: 332 Spring Street, New Y'^ork City. 
 
 EMERSON, Edward Waldo: 
 
 Physician, writer and instructor in art 
 anatomy; born in Concord, ]\Iass., July, 
 1844; son of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 
 distinguished poet and philosopher, and 
 J.idian (Jackson) Emerson. He was grad- 
 uated from Harvard in 1866 and from the 
 Harvard Medical School in 1874. Dr. Em- 
 erson was instructor of art anatomy at 
 the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston from 
 1885 to 1906. He is author of: Emerson 
 in Concord, 1888; edited the correspondenc* 
 of John Sterling and Ralph Waldo Emer- 
 son, with a sketch of Sterling's life, 1897; 
 and is also editor of the Centenary Edition 
 of the ^^'orks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 
 1903, and of the Life and Letters of Gen- 
 eral Charles Russell Lowell, 1907; and has 
 made numerous contributions to magazines. 
 Address: Concord, Mass. 
 
 EMERTON, Ephraim: 
 
 Historian; born in Salem, Mass., Feb. 
 18, 1851; son of James and Martha (West) 
 Emerton. He was graduated from Har- 
 vard College, A.B., 1871, and from the Uni- 
 versity of Leipzig, Ph.D., 1876. He became 
 a tutor in history at Harvard in 1876, and 
 since 1882 has been Winn professor of 
 ecclesiastical history at Harvard. He is 
 author of: Synopsis of the History of Con- 
 tinental Europe; The Study of Church His- 
 tory; The Practical Method in Higher 
 Historical Education; An Introduction to 
 the Study of the Middle Ages, 1888, and 
 Mediajval Europe, 1894, the two last named 
 being widely accepted as standard authority 
 on the middle ages, botii in England and 
 America. He also wrote Desiderius Eras- 
 mus in the " Heroes of the Reformation " 
 Series, 1899. Dr. Emerton married in Cam- 
 
 bridge, Mass., April 18, 1877, Sibyl M. 
 Clark. Address: Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 EMERY, Lucilius Alonzo: 
 
 Jurist; born at Carmel, Penobscot Coun- 
 ty, Me., July 27, 1840; son of James Scam- 
 mon and Eliza Wing Emery. He was 
 educated in Hampden Academy and Bow- 
 doin College, A.B., 1861, A.M., 'l864, LL.D., 
 1894. He studied law and engaged in prac- 
 tice at Ellsworth, Me., in partnership with 
 United States Senator Hale. He became 
 active in political affairs as a Republican, 
 and was elected to the State Senate in 
 1874, 1875 and 1881, and was attorney- 
 general of Maine, 1870-1879. In 1883 he 
 was appointed one of the associate justices 
 of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, 
 and in 1906 was appointed chief justice, 
 in which office he is still serving. Chief 
 Justice Emery is lecturer on Roman law 
 in the University of Maine, and professor 
 of medical jurisprudence in the Medical 
 School of Maine, and he is a member of 
 the Board of Trustees of Bowdoin College. 
 He married, at Hampden, Me., Nov. 9, 
 1864, Annie S. Crosby, and they have two 
 children. Address: Ellsworth, Me. 
 
 EMERY, Z. Taylor: 
 
 Phj'sician and surgeon; born in Novi, 
 Oakland County, Mich., Feb. 22, 1847; son 
 of John Cutter and Mary (Y^erkes) Emery. 
 He was educated in the Ann Arbor (Mich.) 
 High School, took a special course in the 
 Literary Department and one year in the 
 Medical Department of the University of 
 Michigan, was graduated from the Detroit 
 Medical College, M.D., JMarch 5, 1874, and 
 J^ong Island College of Medicine, M.D., Juna 
 21, 1874. Dr. Emery practised medicine 
 in ]?rooklyn, 1874-1904; since 1895 medical 
 diicctor of the Manhattan Life Insurance 
 Cuiiipany, of which he is also a director. 
 He was attending pliysician and' surgeon 
 of the Central Dispensary for nine years; 
 attending physician of the Graham Institute 
 for twelve years, Brooklyn Orphan Asylum 
 for tliirteen years. King's County Hospital, 
 eleven years. He has been a member since 
 1874 of the Medical Society for the County 
 
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 of Kings, and has been secretary, vice- 
 president, president and trustee of that soci- 
 ety; regent of the Long Ishmd College 
 Hospital for the past twenty years; and 
 he is a member of the American Medical 
 Association. Dr. Emery was commissioner 
 of health of the City of Brooklyn from 
 1894 to 1897 inclusive. He is a member 
 of the Union League Club of Brooklyn. 
 He married in Scotland, Jan. 17, 1889. 
 Residence: Union League Club, Brooklyn. 
 Office : 6G Broadway, New York City. 
 
 EMMONS, Samuel Franklin: 
 
 Geologist of the U. S. Geological Survey 
 since 1879; born in Boston, Mass., March 
 29, 1841; son of Nathaniel H. and Eliza- 
 beth (Wales) Emmons. He was graduated 
 from Harvard, A.B., 1861, A.M., 1866; 
 studied at the ficole Imperiale des Mines, 
 Paris, 1862-1804, and at the Bergacademie 
 at Freiberg, Saxony, 1865-1867; honorary 
 D.Sc. Columbia and Harvard, 1909. He has 
 been geologist in the government employ 
 since 1867, and has been a leader in the 
 application of geology to the development 
 of the mineral resources of the United 
 States. Mr. Emmons is a member and treas- 
 urer of the National Academy of Sciences and 
 was president of the Geological Society of 
 America in 1903. He was general secre- 
 tary, 1891, and vice-president in 1897 and 
 1903 of the International Congress of Geol- 
 ogists; is a member of the American Phil- 
 osophic Society; fellow of the American 
 Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Geolog- 
 ical Society of London. He is author of: 
 Descriptive^ Geology of the Fortieth Parallel 
 Region (with Arnold Hague), 1877; Sta- 
 tistics and Technology of the Precious 
 Metals (with George F. Becker), 1880; 
 The Geology and Mining Industry of 
 Leadville, Colo., 1886; Geological Guide 
 Book of the Rocky Mountains; Geological 
 Distribution of the Useful Metals in the 
 United States, 1893; Geology of Lower 
 California, 1890; Geology of the Denver 
 Basin in Colorado, 1896; Secondary Enrich- 
 ment of Ore Deposits, 1900; Theories of Ore 
 Deposition Historically Considered; Bi- 
 ography of Clarence King; and others. 
 Mr. Emmons married first, Aug. 5, 1876, 
 
 Weltha Anita Steeves; second, Feb. 14, 1889, 
 Sophie Dallas Markoe, who died June 19, 
 1896; and third, Aug, 4, 1903, Suzanne 
 Earle Ogden Jones. Address: 1721 U 
 Street, Washington, D. C. 
 
 EMORY, William Hemsley: 
 
 Rear-admiral U. S. Navy, retired'; born 
 in Washington, D. C, Dec. 17, 1846; son 
 of Major-General W. H. Emory, U. S. A., 
 commanding the 19th Army Corps during 
 the Civil War. He was appointed to the 
 U. S. Naval Academy, Sept. 2, 1862, and 
 was graduated in 1866. He was promoted 
 ensign in April, 1868; master, March 26, 
 1869; lieutenant, March 21, 1870; lieuten- 
 ant-commander. May, 1887; commander, 
 Dec, 189.5; captain, April 14, 1801; rear- 
 admiral, Nov. 2, 1906. He has served on 
 numerous duties and at various stations. 
 As a lieutenant he commanded the U. S. S. 
 Palos on the Asiatic Station in 1873, and 
 the U. S. S. Bear of the Greely Relief 
 Expedition of 1884, the U. S. S. Despatch, 
 1885-1886, and the U. S. S. Thetis, on duty 
 with the Bering Sea Whaling Fleet, 1887- 
 1888. He was naval attache to the U. S. 
 Embassy in London, 1890-1893; commanded 
 the U. S. S. Petrel, 1894-1897 on the Asi- 
 atic Station and at New Chang, Manchuria, 
 during the Chino- Japanese War; com- 
 manded the Yosemite during the Spanish- 
 American War; as captain commanded the 
 training-ship Monongahela, 1900, and the 
 battleship Indiana from Aug., 1901, to Jan., 
 1904. As rear-admiral he commanded the 
 Second Division of the U. S. Atlantic Fleet 
 as far as San Francisco, and the Second 
 Squadron of the same fleet until after the 
 ceremonies attending the visit of the Second 
 Squadron to Amoy, China, when he pro- 
 ceeded home by mail steamer to his retire- 
 ment from active service. He married Oct. 
 5, 1876, Blanche, daughter of Richard 
 Storrs Willis. Addresses: Roslyn, L. I., 
 N. Y., and 1301 Connecticut Avenue, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 ENDICOTT, Mordecai Thomas: 
 
 Civil engineer, with the rank of rear- 
 admiral; born at May's Landing, N. J., 
 
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 Xov. 2(1. 1844: son of Thomas Doughty and 
 Ann (Pennington) Endicott. He was grad- 
 uated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- 
 tute, C.E., 18(')8, and was appointed civil 
 engineer in the NaA'y July 14, 1874, and 
 after serving at various stations, and as 
 consulting engineer to the Bureau of Yards 
 and Docks, he became in 1898 cliief of the 
 Bureau of the Yards and Docks in the 
 Navy Department, and was reappointed 
 in 1902, for another term of four years, 
 and again in 1906 for a third term, 
 serving until a time after the date of 
 his retirement, Nov. 26, 1906. In 1895 
 he was appointed by President Cleveland 
 a member of the Nicaragua Canal Com- 
 mission, and in 1905 was appointed by 
 President Roosevelt a member of the Isth- 
 mian Canal Commission. Admiral Endicott 
 reflected great credit on his corps while 
 serving as chief of bureau, and as a mem- 
 ber of the Isthmian Canal Commission. 
 One of his brothers is a judge of the Cir- 
 cuit Court of New Jersey, and another is 
 a physician and surgeon of prominence. 
 Admiral Endicott is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Society of Civil Engineers, of the 
 Engineers' Club of New York, and the 
 Army and Navy and Cosmos Clubs of 
 Washington. He married in 1872, Elizabeth 
 Adams. Address: 1330 R Street, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 ENGLEBRIGHT, William F.: 
 
 Mining engineer and congressman; born 
 in New Bedford Mass., Nov. 23, 1855. 
 He removed to Vallejo, Calif., in childhood 
 and' was educated in public schools, then 
 entered the service of the United States 
 at the jNIare Island Navy Yard as a house- 
 joiner's apprentice, 1872-1875. He after- 
 wards entered a civil engineer's office and 
 there completed his studies in engineering, 
 and later established liimself in practice as 
 a mining engineer at Nevada City, Calif. 
 He was superintendent of the South Yuba 
 Water Comjiany, and is vice-president of 
 the Oustomoli Gold Mining Company. He 
 has been prominent in all matters relating 
 1o mining legislation and litigation, and 
 is a generally recognized authority upon 
 
 mining and irrigation problems. He was 
 elected, as a Republican, in the November 
 election of 1906 to fill the unexpired term 
 in the Fifty-ninth Congress of James N. 
 Gillett, resigned, and at the same time to 
 the full term in the Sixtieth Congress, and 
 was reelected in 1908 to the Sixty-first 
 Congress from the First California District. 
 Mr. Englebright is a member of the execu- 
 tive committee of the California State 
 Miners' Association. He married in Ne- 
 vada City, Calif., in 1882, Kittie F. Hol- 
 land, and they have three sons. Address: 
 Nevada City, Calif. 
 
 ENGLER, Edmund Arthur: 
 
 President of Worcester Polytechnic In- 
 stitute; born in St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 23, 
 1856. He was graduated fi-om Washington 
 University, St. Louis, A.B., 1876. Ph.B., 
 1877, A.M., 1879, Ph.D., 1892, LL.D., 1901. 
 He was professor of mathematics, 1881-1901, 
 and dean of the School of Engineering, 
 1890-1901, in Washington University, and 
 since 1901 president of Worcester Poly- 
 technic Institute. He was a member of the 
 Eclipse Party sent by Washington Univer- 
 sity to Norman, Calif., Jan. 1, 1889; chair- 
 man of jury in the Department of Man- 
 ufactures of the Pan-American Exposition 
 at Buifalo, N. Y., 1901; and chairman of 
 the International Jury on Instruments of 
 Precision of the Louisiana Purchase Expo- 
 sition at St. Louis, 1904. He married in 
 St. Louis, June 17, 1886, Catherine A. 
 Ashbrook. Residence: 11 Boynton Street, 
 Worcester, Mass. 
 
 ENGLISH, William Eastin: 
 
 Capitalist, ex-suldier and ex-congressman; 
 born at " Engiisliton Park," in Scott Coun- 
 ty, Ind., Nov. 3, 1850; son of Hon. William 
 H. and Emma Mardulia (Jackson) English. 
 lie was educated in Northwestern Christian 
 Universitj', now known as Butler Univer- 
 sity, and was graduated from the Law 
 Department of the University as LL.B., and 
 engaged in the practice of law in Indian- 
 a]inlis luitil 1880. His father was one of 
 the niost prominent members of the Dem- 
 ocratic party, and was the nominee of that 
 
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 party for vice-president on the ticket witli 
 General Winfield S. Hancock, in 1880. 
 Mr. English also became active in politics 
 as a member of the same party, becoming- 
 a mem])er of the State, county and city 
 committees of the Democratic party in 
 Indiana and chairman in 1878 of the In- 
 dianapolis City Democratic Committee and 
 the ISIarion County Democratic Committee. 
 He was a member of the Indiana Legisla- 
 ture from IMarion County, 1879-1880, 
 and was elected to the Forty-eighth Con- 
 gress in 1882, declining a renomination in 
 1884. He was a delegate to the Democratic 
 National Conventions at Cliieago in 1892- 
 1896, but left the party after its adop- 
 tion of the radical platform of the latter 
 year and has since been a Republican in 
 politics. He was president of the Board of 
 Park Commissioners of Indianapolis in 1898- 
 1800, and of the Board of Police and 
 Fire Commissioners of Indianapolis, in 1901- 
 1902. During the war with Spain he 
 was commissioned a captain of U. S. Vol- 
 unteers, served as aide-de-camp on the staflF 
 of General Joseph Wheeler during the cam- 
 paign in Cuba, and was seriously injured 
 as a result of his horse being wounded 
 and falling upon him in the battle before 
 Santiago, July 1, 1898. He was after- 
 ward appointed inspector-general and aide- 
 de-camp with the rank of colonel on the 
 staffs of Governors Moinit, Durbin and 
 Hanly. Captain English is owner of the 
 English Block, the Hotel English, the Eng- 
 lish Opera House and other valuable prop- 
 erty interests in Indianapolis. He has been 
 an extensive traveler in foreign countries, 
 and some years ago published his experi- 
 ences under the title: Letters from Europe. 
 He is a prominent Mason of the thirty-sec- 
 ond degree, a Knight Templar, and a mem- 
 ber of the Order of Nobles of the Mystic 
 Shrine, has been grand master of Masons 
 of Indiana, and' is author of a History of 
 Masonry. He is also past grand exalted 
 ruler of the Order of Elks of the United 
 States. He has served as commander-in- 
 
 » chief of the National Association of United 
 Spanish War Veterans, and as president 
 of the Indiana Society of Sons of the Amer- 
 
 ican llovolutioii, and the Indiana Society 
 of Colonial Wars, and as vice-president of 
 the Northwest Genealogical Society and the 
 Indiana Historical Society. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Order of the Cincinnati, Order 
 of Foreign Wars, Huguenot Society of New 
 York, Holland Society of Chicago, Lambs' 
 Club, New York, Army and Na\'y Club, 
 Washington, D. C, University, Columbia 
 and Country Clubs, Indianapolis, and was 
 formerly president of the Commercial Club 
 of Indianapolis. Captain English married 
 in Indianapolis, Jan. 5, 1898, Helen Orr, and 
 they have a daughter. City residence: 
 Hotel English, Indianapolis. Country resi- 
 dence : " Englishton Park," Scott County, 
 Ind. Office: 102 Monument Place, Indian- 
 apolis, Ind. 
 
 ENNIS, William: 
 
 Brigadier-general U. S. Army, retired; 
 born in Newport, R. I., Dec. 26, 1841; son 
 of William and Eliza A. (Whitehorne) 
 Ennis. He was educated in public and 
 private schools, the United' States Military 
 Academy, being graduated thence in 1864, 
 and from the Artillery School at Fort Mon- 
 roe, Va., 1876. He was commissioned sec- 
 ond lieutenant 4th Artillery, June 13, 1864; 
 promoted first lieutenant May 8, 1866; cap- 
 tain, Oct. 5, 1877; major 6th Artillery, 
 Aug. 1, 1901 ; assistant adjutant -general, 
 July 30, 1902; colonel Artillery Corps, 
 x4pril 17, 1903, and retired at his own re- 
 quest after over forty years' service Nov. 
 7, 1905. He served in the Civil War and 
 was brevetted first lieutenant, Nov. 30, 
 
 1864, for gallant services in the battle of 
 Franklin, Tenn., and captain, INIareh 13, 
 
 1865, for gallant services at Nashville, 
 Tenn., Dee. 15-16, 1864. He was aide-de- 
 camp to General Schofield, 1866-1875, and 
 thereafter filled various duties as an officer 
 of artillery, and was commissioned July 
 18, 1898, and served until his honorable 
 discharge, Dee. 31, 1898, as lieutenant- 
 colonel of volunteers and' chief ordnance 
 officer. He is a member of the Military 
 Order of the Loyal Legion of the United 
 States; subscriber to the Newport Reading 
 Room, member of the West Point ]\Iess and 
 
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 the Fort Monroe Club. Address: Newport, 
 K. 1. 
 
 ERLANGER, Abraham L. : 
 
 DrainaliL' manager; born in Buffalo, N. 
 Y., May 4, 1860. He was educated in 
 Cleveland, Ohio. He is a member of the 
 firms of Hayman, Klaw & Erlanger; and 
 Hayman, Frohman, Klaw & Erlanger; pres- 
 ident of the American Checkogram Com- 
 pany, the Klaw & Erlanger Company, the 
 Klaw & Erlanger New Orleans Theatres 
 Company,, tlie New York Theatre Company, 
 the Auditorium Theatre Company, Chicago; 
 the Klaw and Erlanger Construction Com- 
 pany, the United States Amusement Com- 
 pany; treasurer of the Hayman and Davis 
 Company, of the Mount Carmel Cemetery 
 Association, of the Throggs Neck Eealty 
 Company; secretary of the Nixon and Zim- 
 merman Amusement Company ; a director 
 in the Commercial Trust Company, and in 
 the Interstate Amusement Company; he is 
 a member of the Lambs', Green Room and 
 Democratic Clubs. Residence: 232 West 
 End Avenue. Address : New Amsterdam 
 Theatre Building, New York City. 
 
 ERLANGER, Joseph: 
 
 I*rof('s>i)r of ])l)ysiology, University of 
 \Viscon.sin; born in San Francisco, Jan. 
 5, 1874; son of Hermann and Sarah (Gal- 
 linger) Erlanger. lie was graduated from 
 the University of California, B.S., 1895, 
 and from Johns Hopkins Medical School, 
 M.D., 1899; was a fellow at Johns Hopkins 
 in 1000; resident medical ofhcer at Johns 
 Hopkins Hospital, 1890-1900; assistant in 
 physiologj' Johns Hopkins University, 1900- 
 1901. He went to the University of Wis- 
 consin as instructor, 1901-1903, associate, 
 1903-1904; associate professor, 1904-190(5, 
 and professor of physiology in the Univer- 
 sity of Wisconsin since 1906. He is a 
 member of the Physiological Society and 
 of the Society for Experimental Biology and 
 Medicine. His chief researches have been 
 on Metabolism in dogs with shortened small 
 intestines, on clinical methods of determin- 
 ing blood pressure, and on heart-block. His 
 principal writings are on the Influence of 
 
 Pulse Pressure on Renal Secretion; Mech- 
 anism of the Circulation; he has also writ- 
 ten articles on the rhythmicity of auricles. 
 He married at San Francisco, June 21, 1906, 
 Aimee Hirstel. Residence : 148 West Gor- 
 ham Street. Office: University of Wiscon- 
 sin, Madison, Wis. 
 
 ERLANGER, Mitchell L.: 
 
 Jurist; born in BuiTalo, N. Y., Feb. 15, 
 1857; son of Leopold and Reginald Er- 
 langer. He was educated in public schools 
 and Columbia College Law School, LL.B., 
 1882; was admited to the New York bar, 
 1882, and engaged in practice. He was 
 elected sheriff of New York County, serving 
 1904-1906, and elected, 1900, a judge of the 
 Supreme Court of New York for the First 
 District, for the term expiring Dec. 31, 
 1920. Judge Erlanger is a director of the 
 Hebrew Infant Asylum, Hebrew Immigrant 
 Aid Society, Montefiore Home; member of 
 the United Hebrew Charities, Mount Sinai 
 Hospital, Jewish Publication Society. He 
 is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a mem- 
 ber of the National Democratic, Harmonic, 
 Green Room, and Brookljai Y'acht Clubs. 
 Residence: The Armonde, Broadway and 
 Seventieth Street, New York City. 
 
 ERNST, Harold Clarence: 
 
 Bacteriologist; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 July 31, 1856; son of Andrew II. and 
 Sarah (Otis) Ernst. He was graduated 
 from Harvard, A.B., 1878, M.D., 1880, A.M., 
 1884. He became demonstrator, 1885, in- 
 structor, 1889; assistant professor, 1891, and 
 luis been professor of bacteriology in Har- 
 vard Medical School since 1895; and he has 
 taken an active part in bacteriological re- 
 search, in connection witli which he has 
 contributed to various scientific and medical 
 magazines. Dr. Ernst is editor of The Jour- 
 nal of Medical Research and author of: 
 Infectiousness of Milk; Infection and' Im- 
 munity; Animal Experimentation; Modern 
 Theories of Bacterial Immunity. He is 
 secretary of the American Association of 
 Pathologists and Bacteriologists, president 
 of tlie Boston Society of Medical Sciences; 
 i fellow of the American Association of Phy- 
 
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 sicians and of Iho American Academy of 
 Arts and Sciences. He married in Boston, 
 Sept. 20, 1883,, Ellen Limt Frothingham. 
 Address: 8 Creenoiioli Avenue, Boston. 
 
 ERNST, Oswald Herbert: 
 
 Brioadier-fjeneral, U. S. A., retired; born 
 near Cincinnati, June 27, 1842; son of An- 
 drew H. and Sarah (Otis) Ernst; and the 
 grandson of a burgomaster in Germany, 
 wlio emigrated in 1812 to escape the op- 
 pression of Napoleon. On his mother's side 
 he is descended from Richard Warren of 
 the Mayflower. He attended Harvard, 1858- 
 1800, and was graduated from the United 
 States Military Academy in 18G4 as first 
 lieutenant in the corps of engineers. He 
 served as assistant chief engineer of the 
 Army of the Tennessee; then was assistant 
 engineer on the fortification of the Pacific 
 Coast, 1864-1868, and was astronomer with 
 the United States Commission to observe 
 the .solar eclipse in Spain in 1870. He was 
 instructor in practical military engineering, 
 military signaling and telegraphy at West 
 Point 1871-1878; as engineer in charge of 
 western river improvements, 1878-1886; and 
 in charge of harbor improvements on the 
 Texas coast, 1886-1889, where he inaugu- 
 rated the great work which resulted in 
 deepening the channel at the entrance to 
 (Jalveston harbor from twelve feet to twen- 
 ty-six feet. He was also engineer on num- 
 erous boards, 1880-1905; was in charge 
 of public buildings and ground's at Wash- 
 ington, 1889-1898; and served as superin- 
 tendent of the United States Military Acad- 
 emy, 1893-1898. He was promoted through 
 every intermediate grade, and was commis- 
 sioned colonel, Feb. 20, 1903, and brigadier- 
 general of volunteers in May, 1898. He 
 served in the war against Spain, going to 
 Porto Rico, July, 1898; and he had imme- 
 diate command of the troops in the affair 
 at Coamo, Aug. 9, 1898, He was division 
 engineer of the Northwest Division from 
 Aug., 1901, until he was promoted to brig- 
 adier-general, and retired, June 27, 1906. 
 Brigadier-general Ernst was a member of 
 the Isthmian Canal' Commission, 1889-1904; 
 president of the Mississippi River Commis- 
 
 sion, 1903-1906; and has been, since 1905, 
 and is now a member of the International 
 Commission upon the condition and use of 
 waters adjacent to the boundary lines be- 
 tween the United States and Canada. He 
 was reappointed a member of the Isthmian 
 Canal Commission in 1905. Brigadier-gen- 
 eral Ernst is a member of the Military 
 Order of the Loyal Legion, Order of For- 
 eign Wars, the Porto Rico Society, and the 
 American Society of Civil Engineers; and 
 an honorary vice-president of the Wisconsin 
 National Guard. He is author of: A Man- 
 ual of Practical Military Engineering. Gen- 
 eral Ernst married, Nov. 3, 1866, Elizabeth 
 Amory, daughter of W. R. Lee, of Roxbury, 
 Mass. Address: 132 Connecticut Avenue, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 ESCH, John Jacob: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born near Nor- 
 walk, Monroe County, Wis., March 20, 1861, 
 of German parents. In 1865 his parents 
 moved to Milwaukee and five years later to 
 Sparta, Wis., where they both still reside. 
 After being graduated from the Sparta High 
 School, he entered the modern classical 
 course of the State University at Madison. 
 Wis., and took his degree with the class of 
 1882. For three years following he engaged 
 in teaching and the study of law, and in 
 1886 he entered the law department of the 
 State University, and was graduated in 
 1887. Since being admited to the bar he 
 has practised law in La Crosse. The only 
 elective office held' by him previous to his 
 Congressional career, was that of city treas- 
 urer of Sparta in 1885. In 1883 he organ- 
 ized 'the Sparta Rifles, afterwards known as 
 Company I of the Tliird Regiment of the 
 Wisconsin National Guard and, was was 
 commissioned captain, retaining the oifice 
 until 1887. Upon his removal to La Crosse 
 he helped organize Company ]M of the same 
 regiment, being first lieutenant, and after- 
 wards captain. In Jan., 1894, he was 
 commissioned acting judge-advocate-general 
 with the rank of colonel, by Governor W. H. 
 Upham, holding the office for two years. 
 He was elected in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth 
 Congress from the Seventh Wisconsin Dis- 
 
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 trict, ami reelect eil in 1900. 1902, 1904, 
 1906 and 1908; and is now serving in the 
 Sixty-first Congress. Address: La Crosse, 
 Wis." 
 
 ESENWEIN, Joseph Berg: 
 
 IMKov of TJjtpiiicof i 's Magazine; born in 
 Philadelphia, May 15, 1807; son of Au- 
 gustus and Katharine (Angolo) Esenwein. 
 lie received the degree of B.S. from Al- 
 briglit College in 1S84; stiulied pedagogy at 
 the !Millersville Normal School; received the 
 degree of A.M. from Lafayette College in 
 1894. rh.D. from Richmond College in 1896, 
 and Litt.D. from the University of Omaha 
 in 1890. He was president of Albright Col- 
 legiate Institute, 1895-1890; educational di- 
 rector of the Young INIen's Christian Asso- 
 ciation, Washington Heights, New York 
 City, 1897; from 1898 to 1899 was engaged 
 in literary work with Charles Dudley 
 Warner and in foreign travel ; was professor 
 of English language and literature at the 
 Pennsylvania Military 'College at Chester, 
 Pa., 1899-1903; manager of the Booklovers' 
 Magazine, 1903-1905, and has been editor 
 and manager of Lippincott's Magazine since 
 1905. and literary adviser of the J. B. IJp- 
 pincott Co. since 1908. Is a member of the 
 National Authors' Guild, a director of the 
 Periodical Publishers' Association of Amer- 
 ica, and a member of the National Press 
 Club. He is president of the Board of Di- 
 rectors of the Young ]Men's Cliristian Asso- 
 ciation; member of the Advisory Committee 
 on Industrial Work of the International 
 Committee of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association, and vice-president of the So- 
 ciety of Arts and Letters. He is the author 
 of: Songs for Reapers, 1895; Modern Ag- 
 nosticism, 1896; Feathers for Shafts, 1897; 
 How to Attract and Hold an Audience, 
 1001; Writing the Short Story, 1909. He 
 is a lecturer, song writer, and contributor 
 to various magazines and reviews. In poli- 
 tics he is a Re])ublican, and in religion a 
 ]'resl)yterian (ruling elder). He married 
 at Pine Crove. Pa.. March 21, 1889, Caro- 
 line Deals Miller (B.E., Albright College, 
 M.A., RicliMiond College), and they have 
 one son. Residence: Nurbcrtlij Pa. Ad- 
 
 dress: East Washington S(|uare. IMiiladel- 
 phia. 
 
 ESTABROOK, Henry Dodge: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Alden. X. Y., Oct. 23, 
 1854; son of Experience and Caroline Au- 
 gusta (Maxwell) Estabrook. He removed 
 to Nebraska (of which territory his father 
 was appointed United States attorney-gen- 
 eral ) in 1855. He was educated in the 
 Omaha public schools, and was graduated 
 from the law department of Washington 
 University in 1875. He practised law at 
 Omaha, 1875-1896; at Chicago, 1890-1902 
 as a member of the firm of Lowdcn, Esta- 
 brook & Davis, and since 1902 he has been 
 solicitor for the Western Union Telegraph 
 Company in New York City. He is a mem- 
 ber of the New York State and American 
 Bar Associations. He is a member of the 
 Union League, Lawyers', Lotos, Metropoli- 
 tan, Republican, Automobile of America, 
 and Magnetic Clubs of New York City, the 
 Deal Golf Club of New Jersey, the Ardsley 
 Club of New York, and honorary mem- 
 ber of the Marquette Club of Chicago. 
 He married at Omaha, Oct. 23, 1880, Clara 
 Campbell, and they have one daughter, Mrs. 
 Karl G. Roebling of Trenton, N. J. His 
 only sister was the late wife of R. C. Clow- 
 ry, president of the Western Union Tele- 
 graph Company. Residence (summer) : 
 Tarrytown, N. 'y.; (winter): 301 West 
 70th Street, New York City. Ofliee: 195 
 P.roadway, New York City. 
 
 EVANS, Dudley: 
 
 President Wells, Eargo and Com]iany; 
 born in Morgantown, Va., Jan. 27, 1838. 
 He was graduated from .the Washington and 
 Jefferson College in 1859. ^Ir. Evans was 
 a member of the Virginia Legislature 1803- 
 1865; lieutenant-colonel Twentieth Regi- 
 ment, Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States 
 of America. He is a member of the Army 
 and Navy. Society of the Confederate States, 
 of Maryland; of the Sons of the Revolution; 
 of the Colonial Wars Society; War of 1812 
 of the Lee-Jackson Camp of Confederate 
 Veterans, Lexington, Va., of the Phi Kappa 
 Psi fraternity; and of the Lawyers' and the 
 
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 Englewood clubs. IIo married in 1878, Miss 
 N. Seelye. Residence: Englewood, N. J. 
 Office: 51 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 EVANS, Henry: 
 
 Insurance president; born in Houston, 
 Texas, April 14, 1860. He became a resi- 
 dent of New York City in 1866, and was ed- 
 ucated' in the Brooklyn public schools, the 
 Shelleck .School of Norwalk, Conn., and one 
 year in the Columbia School of ]\Iines. He 
 entered the office of the Continental Fire 
 Insurance Company, as a minor clerk in 
 ;March, 1878, and was elected secretary May, 
 1888, second vice-president in January, 
 1889; first vice-president in January, 1892 
 and has been president since January, 1903. 
 He is president of the Fidelity Fire Insixr- 
 ance Company and of the Continental Fire 
 Insurance Company, and is also president of 
 the Alabama White Marble Company, the 
 Fidelity Fire Insurance Company of New 
 York, and the Central Trust Company of 
 New York. Mr. Evans is a member of the 
 ^Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Society of 
 ]Maytlower Descendants, the Chamber of 
 Commerce, the New York Board of Trade 
 and the Merchants' Association, and the 
 Players' and Lawyers' Clubs of New York 
 City. Address: Continental Fire Insurance 
 Company, Box 2038, New York City. 
 
 EVANS, Henry Clay: 
 
 Former United States consul-general at 
 London; born in Juniata County, Pa., June 
 18, 1843; son of Jesse B. Evans and Anna 
 (Single) Evans. He was educated in the 
 schools of Platteville and Lancaster, Wis. 
 He served in the Forty-first Wisconsin Reg- 
 iment, 1862-1864, after that civilian in the 
 Ai'my at Chattanooga and later in Texas. 
 Returned to Chattanooga, 1870; became iron 
 and car maiiufacturer; Avas twice mayor; 
 member of Fifty-first Congress, 1889-1891; 
 assistant postmaster-general, 1893. Mr. 
 Evans was elected governor on face of re- 
 turns, 1894, but Turney, Democrat, claimed 
 irregularities, and was seated. He stootl 
 second in the balloting for vice-president of 
 the United States at the National Republi- 
 can Convention in 1896, and was appointed 
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 United States Commissioner of pensions, 
 serving from 1897 to 1902. He served as 
 United States consul-general at London, 
 1902-1905. Address: 203 East Terrace 
 Street, Chattanooga, Tenn. 
 
 EVANS, Robley Dunglison: 
 
 Rear-admiral of the United States Navy; 
 born in Floyd County, Va., Aug. 18, 1846; 
 son of Dr. Samuel Andrew Jackson Evans. 
 He was educated in the public schools of 
 Washington and' appointed to the United 
 States Navy, from Utah, Sept. 20, 1860. He 
 was graduated from the United States Naval 
 Academy in 1863; promoted ensign, Oct. 
 1, 1863; lieutenant, July 25, 1866; lieuten- 
 ant-commander, March 12, 1868, commander, 
 July, 1878; captain, June 27, 1893, and 
 rear-admiral, Feb. 11, 1901. He served in 
 the Civil War; participated in both at- 
 tacks on Fort Fisher, and received' two se- 
 vere wounds from rifle shots. He command- 
 ed the battleship Iowa during the Spanish - 
 American War, and after the destruction 
 of Cervera's squadron, off Santiago, July 3, 
 1898. He also commanded the Asiatic fleet 
 for three years, and shortly after his re- 
 turn home he was ordered to command' the 
 North Atlantic fleet, subsequently increased 
 to the battleship fleet comprising the largest 
 number of battleships ever placed imder 
 one officer's command. He commanded this 
 fleet in its successful trip through the 
 Straits of Magellan to the Pacific Coast, 
 where he hauled down his flag as rear-ad- 
 miral. He retired on account of age Aug, 
 19, 1908. He is author of: A Sailor's Log, 
 1901. Address: Care Navy Department, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 EVANS, Walter: 
 
 Jurist ; born on a farm in Barren County, 
 Ky., Sept. 18, 1842; son of Joseph Warden 
 and Matilda (Ritter) Evans. He was edu- 
 cated in private schools in Kentucky, en- 
 tered the Union Army in 1861, and after- 
 ward studied law and was admitted to the 
 bar of Kentucky in 1864. He engaged in 
 practice at Hopkinsville, Ky., 1864-1874, 
 and after that at Louisville. He was 
 elected to the House of Representatives of 
 
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 the Kentucky Legislature from Christian 
 County in 1871, and to the State Senate in 
 1873. After his removal to Louisville he 
 was a Republican candidate for Congress in 
 1876 and for governor in 1879, and was com- 
 missioner of internal revenue of the United 
 States under appointment by President 
 Artliur from May, 1883, to April, 1885, at 
 which time he resumed his law practice at 
 Louisville. He was elected in 1894 a mem- 
 ber of the Fifty-fourth Congress and reelect- 
 ed to the Fifty-fifth Congress in 1896, 
 serving from 1895 to 1899. On March 4, 
 1899, he was appointed by President Mc- 
 Kinley to his present position as judge of 
 the United States District Court for the 
 Western District of Kentucky. He mar- 
 ried at Hopkinsville, Ky., June 9, 1868, 
 Louise Gowen, and they have a daughter. 
 Address: Louisville, Ky. 
 
 EVARTS. Allen W.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, Dec. 10, 
 1848; son of William M. Evarts and Helen 
 Minerva (Wardner) Evarts. He was grad- 
 uated from Yale University as B.A. in 18G9 
 and M.A. in 1872 and studied law at the 
 Columbia Law School from 1870 to 1871. 
 He is a member of the firm of Evarts, 
 Choate and Sherman. Mr. Evarts is presi- 
 dent of the Garden City Company, secre- 
 tary of the United Metals Selling Company, 
 a member of the New York City Bar Asso- 
 ciation, the Society of Medical Jurispru- 
 dence; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; 
 the American Museum of Natural History; 
 New York Zoological Society; the New Eng- 
 land" Society; and Delta Kappa Epsilon 
 fraternity. Mr. Evarts is a trustee of Vas- 
 sar College. He is also a member of the 
 Century Association and the Union, Univer- 
 sity, Yale, New York Athletic, Manhattan, 
 Grolier, Wliist, Turf and Field, and Garden 
 City Golf Clubs and the Metropolitan Club 
 of Washington, D. C, and the St. Stephen's 
 Club of London. Address: 60 Wall Street. 
 New York Citv. 
 
 EVERETT, Walter Goodnow: 
 
 Professor of jiliilosophy ; boni in IJowe. 
 Mass., Aug. 21, I860; son of Samuel P. and 
 
 Alcesta (Goodnow) Everett. He was grad- 
 uated from Brown University, as valedic- 
 torian of his class with highest honors, A. 
 B., 1885, A.M., 1888, Ph.D., 1895. After 
 graduation he was for some years tutor in 
 an English family, then became instructor 
 in Greek and Latin, 1890-1895 in Brown 
 University, in which institution he became 
 associate professor of philosophy, 1895-1899, 
 and since 1899 has been professor of philos- 
 ophy and natural theology. He studied in 
 the Universities of Berlin and Strassburg, 
 1895-1896. Dr. Everett was for three years 
 president of the Providence Public Educa- 
 tion Association, and three years president 
 of Rhode Island Alpha of the Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society. He is a contributor to vari- 
 ous philosophical journals. He is a mem- 
 ber of the American Psychological Associ- 
 ation, the American Philosophical Associ- 
 ation, Delta Upsilon fraternity and Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society. Residence: 116 Gov- 
 ernor Street. Office: Brown University, 
 Providence, R. I. 
 
 EVERMANN, Barton Warren: 
 
 Biologist, author; born in jVIonroe County, 
 Iowa, Oct. 24, 1853; son of Andrew and 
 Netty (Gardner) Evermann. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of Indiana, How- 
 ard College, Kokomo, Ind., Butler College, 
 Indiana, and the University of Indiana, B. 
 S., 1886, A.M., 1888, Ph.D., 1891. He was a 
 teacher in public schools in Indiana, 1871- 
 1879, and in California, 1879-1881; super- 
 intendent of schools of Carroll County, Ind., 
 1883-1885; and professor of biology and ge- 
 ology in the Indiana State Normal School, 
 1886-1891. Dr. Evermann lias been ichthy- 
 ologist of the U. S. Fish Commission since 
 1891; assistant in charge of the Division of 
 Scientific Inquiry, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries 
 since 1903, and curator Division of Fish- 
 eries, U. S. National Museum since 1905. 
 He has been vice-president of the Board of 
 Kdueation of the District of Columbia since 
 1906. He was special lecturer at Stanford 
 University, 1893-1894; lecturer on fish cul- 
 ture and fish and game protection in Cor- 
 nell University. 1899-1903. and at Yale For- 
 est Scliool from 1904. He was appointed 
 
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 <a member of the U. S. Fur Seal Commission, 
 1S!»2, and received a gold medal from the 
 Paris Exposition of 1900. Dr. Evermann 
 was joint author with President David 
 Starr Jordan of the four-volume work on 
 Fishes of North and Middle America (more 
 than 3,200 pages and 392 plates) ; and is 
 author of American Food and Game Fishes 
 (Doubleday, Page & Co.); The Fishes of 
 Porto Rieo; The Aquatic Resources of the 
 Hawaiian Islands; The Fishes of Alaska; 
 Tlie Golden Trout of the Southern High 
 Sierra; Lapho the Quail; and many pa- 
 pers and reports, chiefly on birds and fishes. 
 He is a fellow of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science and of the 
 American Ornithologist Union; member of 
 the National Geographic Society, the Plant 
 Preservation Society, Washington Academy 
 of Sciences (editor since 1903), Californii 
 Academjr of Sciences, Indiana Academy of 
 Sciences; Washington Biological Society 
 (president 1903-1904). He married in Bur- 
 lington, Ind., Oct. 24, 1875, Meadie Hawkins. 
 Residence: 1425 Clifton Street. Office: 
 Bureau of Fisheries, Wasliington, D. C. 
 
 EWART, Hamilton Grover: 
 
 Jurist; born in Columbia, S. C, Oct, 23, 
 1849; son of James B. and Mary Ann 
 Ewart. He was educated in the schools of 
 Columbia and afterward took the law course 
 at the University of South Carolina, from 
 which he was graduated LL.B., 1876. In 
 the same year he was admitted to the bar, 
 located at Hendersonville. N. C, and en- 
 gaged in the practice of law. He became 
 active in political afl'airs as a Repulican, 
 was an elector on the Hayes and Wheeler 
 ticket in 1876, and was elected to the North 
 Carolina Legislature in 1884 and 1887. In 
 1888 he was elected to he Fifty-first Con- 
 gress, and served imtil 1891. He was elect- 
 ed judge of the W^estern Criminal District 
 of North Carolina in 1895, and served until 
 he was appointed in 1898 by President Mc- 
 Kinley to his present office as judge of the 
 District Court of the United States for the 
 Western District of North Carolina. He 
 married at Hendersonville, 1879. Sarah C. 
 Ripley. Address: Hendersonville, N. C. 
 
 EWELL, Marshall Davis: 
 
 Lawyer, microscopical ; 
 expert; born in Oxford, 
 1844; son of Edmund C. 
 (Davis) Ewell. He was 
 
 ind handwriting 
 Mich., Aug. 18, 
 
 and Frances E. 
 
 graduated from 
 
 the Michigan State Normal School, 1804, 
 University of Michigan, LL.B., 1868, LL.D., 
 1879; received the honorary degree of A.M. 
 from Northwestern University, 1879, and 
 afterward studied medicine in the Chicago 
 Medical College, whence he was graduated 
 M.D., 1884. He was admitted to the Michi- 
 gan Bar in 1868, practising there for sever- 
 al years; became professor of common law 
 in the Union College of Law, Chicago, from 
 1877 until 1892, when he resigned and 
 founded the Kent College of Law, of which 
 he was president and dean until 1902. Dr. 
 Ewell has made a specialty of medico-legal 
 cases, and he is a noted handwriting expert 
 and microscopist, and a fellow of the Royal 
 Microscopical Society of London. He is au- 
 thor of: Leading Cases on Disabilities, 
 1876; The Law of Fixtures, 1876, second 
 edition, 1904; Essentials of the Law, 1882; 
 Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, 1887; 
 and he has edited editions of various stand- 
 ard legal works. He married in Armada, 
 Mich., in 1870, Abbie L. Walker. Resi- 
 dence: 747 Hinman Avenue, Evanston, 111. 
 Office 59 Clark Street, Chicago. 
 
 EWING, Adlai Thomas: 
 
 Lavk^yer; born in McLean County, 111., 
 Feb. 5, 1846; son of John Wallace and 
 Maria McClellan (Stevenson) Ewing. He 
 was graduated from the Illinois State Uni- 
 versity, studied law in the office of his 
 brother, Hon. James S. Ewing, and was 
 admitted to the Illinois bar in 1868. He 
 was appointed by President Harrison one of 
 the Illinois members of the United States 
 Commission for the World's Columbian Ex- 
 position at Chicago, and served on the com- 
 mittees on Permanent Organization and on 
 Fine Arts, and was also a member of the 
 Executive Commitee, in all of which posi- 
 tions he rendered efficient service. He was 
 one of the earliest and most active workers 
 in the scheme for the sanitary drainage of 
 the city of Chicago. He was also the origi- 
 
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 MKN OF A^IEKICA. 
 
 Hill ])ioiiiot('r of tho boulovard connecting 
 Inidii Park with Douglas Park in that city. 
 Jlc is now president of the ^larine Iron 
 Works, and is identified with other large 
 business enterprises. He is a Democrat. 
 He was one of the organizers of the Union 
 Club and is a charter member and ex-presi- 
 dent of the Iroquois Club. He married in 
 BulValo, in 1879, Kate Hyde. Residence: 
 3745 Ellis Avenue. Office": 1(18 La Salle 
 Street, Chicago, 111. 
 
 EWING. Hampton D.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Washington, D. C, June 
 18, 186G; son of General Thomas and Ellen 
 (Co.x) Ewing. He was graduated from 
 Columbia University, A.B., 1888, A.M., 1889, 
 and held the prize fellowship in science in 
 that institution, 1888-1891. He is a member 
 of the law firm of Ewing & Ewing, and a 
 member of tho American Bar Association, 
 and of the New York State, New York City, 
 and Westchester County Bar Association, 
 tiic Medico-Legal Society of New York, the 
 Phi Beta KaiJjia Society and the Alpha 
 Delta Phi and Phi Delta Phi fraternities. 
 He is trustee of the First Presbyterian 
 Church, at Yonkers, N. Y., and president 
 of the Yonkers Chapter of the Sons of tho 
 American Eevolution. Mr. Ewing is also a 
 member of the University. Alpha Delta 
 Phi and Cohnnbia University Clubs; a direct- 
 or of the Amaskasson Club and a member of 
 the Atholstan Club of Mobile, Ala. He mar- 
 ried in Richmond, Va., April 14, 1898, Ma- 
 rie L. Dunloj). and they have two children. 
 Address: 27 Belmont Terrace, Yonkers, 
 N. Y. 
 
 EWING, Nathaniel: 
 
 .Jurist; born in Uniontown, Pa., June 17, 
 1848; son of Judge John K. and a grand- 
 son of Judge Nathaniel Ewing of Fayette 
 County. He was graduated from Princeton 
 College in 18(i9; read hiw witli bis father 
 and his uncle Jiulge A. A. Wil-ini. ami wn- 
 admitted to the bar of Kayette County in 
 1871. .\fter a period of active practice, he 
 succeeded to the honorable position which 
 had been held by his father and grandfather, 
 
 being elected president judge of Fayette 
 County in 1887. In 1S89 he retired from the 
 bench and returned to practice at the bar; 
 and in 1906 he was apjiointed U. S. District 
 judge for Western District of Pennsyl- 
 vania, which position he resigned Feb. 1, 
 1908, to accept the position of chairman of 
 the Pennsylvania State Riiilroad Commis- 
 sion. In 190;? Judge Ewing was elected 
 
 to tlic i)resi(Iency 
 
 of 
 
 I5ar Association. 
 i'a. 
 
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 I niontown. 
 
 EWING, Presley Kittredge: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Lafourche, La., July 21, 
 1800; sou of Dr. Fayette Clay and Eliza 
 Josephine Ewing, nee Kittredge. He was 
 graduated from the University of Mississip- 
 pi, Ph.B., 1881, and having in the meantime 
 taken the necessary law courses, he received 
 in the same year the degree of LL.B., cum 
 laude. The following year he was admit- 
 ted to tho bar in the State of Texas, where 
 he has since practised. He has appeared 
 in many important cases in the United 
 States Supreme Court, and is recognized as 
 a pioneer in the settlement of many impor- 
 tant principles of Texas jurisprudence. He 
 served several ad interim terms in some of 
 the district courts of Texas, and in 1905 
 was commissioned chief justice of the S\i- 
 preme Court of that State. He is a promi- 
 nent member of the Texas Bar Association, 
 having been elected its president in 1899. 
 He is an ardent Democrat, and orator of ex- 
 tensive reputation, and was one of the dis- 
 tinguished group of Southern speakers who 
 campaigned in New York and other states of 
 the Fast in 1908 under the auspices of the 
 National Democratic Connnittcc. He is a 
 social leader, and is president of the /. Z. 
 Club, the oldest social organization of its 
 kind in Texas. He married at Lafourclie, 
 Ln., Fel). 10, 1885, iMary Elinor Willianis. 
 Address: Houston, Texas. 
 
 EWING, Thomas, Jr.: 
 
 Lawyer ami patent solii'itor; born in 
 L<'avenworth, Kan.. May 21, 1802; son of 
 Thomas Ewing (chief justice of Kansas, 
 
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 niiijor-genoral of U. S. Volunteers, and 
 member of the Forty-lifth and Forty-sixth 
 Congresses from Ohio) and Ellen Ewing 
 (Cox) Ewing. He was educated in public 
 schools at Lancaster, Ohio, 1871-1877; at 
 the \\ooster (Ohio) University, 187l»-1881, 
 Columbia University, A.B., ISSo, A.M., 1880, 
 and was in the Columbia Law School, 1887- 
 1888. Mr. Ewing was tutor in the Colum- 
 bia School of i\Iines, 1885-1888, and received 
 from Georgetown University Law School 
 the degree of LL.B. in IS'JO, having studied 
 there while assistant examiner, United 
 States Patent Office, 1886-1890. His pat- 
 ent office experience has given direction to 
 his practice and since 1891 he has practised 
 in New York City, his firm, Ewing, Whit- 
 man and Ewing, being constantly identified 
 with the most important patent law litiga- 
 tions. He has also solicited some . well- 
 known patents, notably the fundamental 
 patent of Frank J. Sprague on the multiple 
 unit system of electric tram operation; and 
 Professor M. 1. Pupin's patents on long- 
 distance telephony. Mr. Ewing is presi- 
 dent of the Current Literature Publishing 
 Company, and a director of the Crocker- 
 Wheeler Company. He was the Democratic 
 candidate for mayor of Yonkers in 1897 
 and in 1899; a member of the Y^onkers 
 School Board, 1897-1903; a member of the 
 Commission to revise the charter of l^onkers, 
 1904-1905; is vice-president of the Ohio So- 
 ciety of New Y^ork; a member of the Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society, and of the University 
 and the Columbia University Clubs of New 
 York City. He is author of: Jonathan, 
 a Tragedy, 1902. He married in Yonkers, 
 1894, Anna Phillips Cochran. Residence: 
 Y'onkers, N. Y'. Address: 67 Wall Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 EYCLESHYMER, Albert Chauncey: 
 
 Professor of anatomy; born at Cambridge, 
 N. Y., June 16, 1867; son of David C. 
 Eycleshymer and Anna M. (Perry) Eycle- 
 shsiner. He received the degree of B.S. 
 from the University of Michigan in 1891 ; 
 Mas ai)pointed fellow at Princeton in 1891; 
 a fellow at Clark from 1891 to 1892; a 
 fellow at Chicago from 1892 to 1893; re- 
 
 ceived the degree of Ph.D. from the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago in 1894 ; studied at 
 Cambridge, England, from 1895 to 1896; 
 was Austin fellow at the Harvard Mcdicjil 
 School from 1!)00 to 1901. Was assistant 
 in animal morphology, University of Micli- 
 igan in 1889; in botany, in 1890; chief 
 assistant, Allis l^ake Laboratory, from 1890 
 to 1891; assistant in biology. University of 
 (Chicago, from 1893 to 1895; associate, anat- 
 omy, from 1895 to 1897; instructor from 
 1897 to 1902; assistant professor from 
 1902 to 1903; director. Department of 
 Anatomy, St. Louis University, from 1903. 
 Was lectvirer on human embryology, Rush 
 Medical College, from 1897 to 1898; as- 
 sistant professor from 1898 to 1899. He is 
 a fellow of the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science, of the Ameri- 
 can Society of Naturalists of the American 
 Society of Zoologists, of the American As- 
 sociation of Anatomists, the Academy of 
 Science, St. Louis, and of the University 
 Club. His chief researches have been on 
 Vertebrate Embryology. He received the 
 grand prize at St. Louis Exposition for 
 embrj'ological researches. He married at 
 Chicago, 111., Sept. 23, 1895, Mary Eliza- 
 beth Donovan; they have three children: 
 Ethel M., aged nine, Albert D., aged seven, 
 and Lois E., aged two. Address: St. 
 Louis University, Medical Department, St. 
 Louis, Mo. 
 
 EYRE, Wilson, Jr.: 
 
 Architect; born in Florence, Italy, Oct. 
 30, 1858; son of Wilson and Louisa (Lear) 
 Eyre. His early education was obtained in 
 Italy, and later in the schools of Newport, 
 R. I., Lenoxville, Canada, and Woburn, 
 Mass., and he took a special course in arch- 
 itecture in the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology in the class of 1876. He was 
 associated with James P. Sims, architect, 
 1876-1881; and since then has been engaged 
 in independent practice. He has been arch- 
 itect of many prominent buildings in New 
 Y^ork City and Philadelphia, having offices 
 in both cities. Among his works are the 
 Detroit Club Building, Detroit, buildings 
 for the Newcomb Memorial College, New 
 
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 Orleans, and nuuiy others. Mr. Eyre is a 
 member of the American Institute of Archi- 
 tects, American Social Science Association, 
 the T-Square Club, and the Philadelphia Art 
 Club of Philadelphia. Office: 35 West 21st 
 Street, New York City, and 929 Chestnut 
 Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 FABER, John Eberhard: 
 
 ^lanufacturor ; born in New York City, 
 ^larch 14, 1859; son of Eberhard and Jenny 
 (Haag) Faber. He was educated at Colum- 
 bia College, School of Mines, 1878; also 
 France. He entered the office of his father, 
 the well-known lead pencil manufacturer, in 
 1876, and since the death of his father in 
 1879, he has had entire charge of the busi- 
 ness, still conducting it under name of Eber- 
 hard Faber. He is president of the United 
 States Trade-Mark Association; trustee and 
 director of the Stationers' Board of Trade, 
 Northern Fire Insurance Company. He 
 married first, Dec. 22, 1886, Abby B. Adams, 
 who died May, 1898; second April 20, 1904, 
 Roberta A. lieim. Address: 37 Grecnpoint 
 Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y''. 
 
 FAHS, Charles Harvey: 
 
 Editor; born at Eichview, 111., May 18, 
 1872; son of Rolando Zeigler and Mary M. 
 (Houston) Fahs. He was graduated from 
 Northwestern University, A.B., 1898, and 
 from the Drew Theological Seminary, B.D., 
 1901. He was assistant editor of the Associ- 
 ation Men (Chicago) 1897-1898; managing 
 editor of the Intercollegian (New York), 
 1898-1901; assistant editor of the North- 
 western Christian Advocate ( Chicago ) , 
 1901-1902; editor of the Board of Foreign 
 Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church 
 (New York) since 1902. For two months 
 in 1898 he was among the soldiers of the 
 Seventh Army Corps, in Jacksonville, Fla., 
 as an army secretary of the International 
 (ommitee of Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciations. Mr. Fahs is a Republican in poli- 
 tics and a Methodist Episcopalian in his 
 religious belief. He is a fellow of 1hc Amer- 
 ican Geographical Society; inciulMr of the 
 
 National Geographic Soeietj\ He married 
 at \\aukegan. 111., June 14, 1902, Sophia 
 Blanche Lyon, and they have two daughters 
 and one son. Residence: Madison, N. J. 
 Address: 150 Fifth Avenue, New Y'ork 
 City. 
 
 FAIRBANKS, Charles Warren: 
 
 Former vice-president of the United 
 States; born on a farm near Unionville 
 Center, Union County, Ohio, May 11, 1852; 
 son of Loriston M. and Mary A. (Smith) 
 Fairbanks. He was graduated from the 
 Ohio \Vesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, 
 in 1872 in the classical course. JNIr. Fair- 
 banks was admitted to the bar by the Su- 
 preme Court of Ohio in 1874; removed to 
 Indianapolis in the same year, where he 
 practised his profession until his admission 
 to the United States Senate. He never 
 lield jmblic office prior to his election to 
 the United States Senate in 1897 ; was elect- 
 ed a trustee of the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity in 1885. He was chairman of the Indi- 
 ana Republican State conventions in 1892 
 and 1898 was unanimously chosen as the 
 nominee of the Republican caucus for United 
 States Senator in the Indiana Legislature 
 in January, 1893, and subsequently re- 
 ceived his entire party vote in the Legisla- 
 ture, but was defeated by David Turpie, 
 Democrat; was elected to the United States 
 Senate Jan. 20, 1897, to succeed Daniel W. 
 Voorhees, Democrat; took his seat March 
 4, 1897, and was reelected in 1903. He was 
 a])pointed a member of the United States 
 and British Joint High Commission which 
 met in (Quebec in 1898, for the adjustment 
 of Canadian questions, and was chairman 
 of the United States high commissioners; 
 was a delegato-at-large to the Republican 
 Xational Convention at St. Louis in 1896, 
 and was temporary chairman of tlie con- 
 vention; was a delegate-at-hirgc to the Re- 
 publican National Convention at I'liiladcl- 
 l)liia in 1900, and was chairnian of tlie plat- 
 form; was a delegate-at-large to the Repub- 
 lican National Convention at Chicago in 
 1904, and was chairman of the Indiana 
 delegation; was unanimously nominated by 
 lliat convention for Vice-President of the 
 
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 United States, and elected on the ticket 
 with Theodore Roosevelt, receiving 337 of 
 the 476 electoral votes, to 139 for Henry 
 Gassaway Davis, of West Virginia, the Dem- 
 ocratic candidate. Mr. Fairbanks resigned 
 as United States Senator from Indiana to 
 take effect March 4, 1905, at noon, on which 
 day and hour he took the oath as Vice-Presi- 
 dent of the United States. He was an un- 
 successful candidate for the nomination for 
 the Presidency in 1908. His term of office 
 expired March 4, 1909. Mr. Fairbanks mar- 
 ried in 1874, Miss Cornelia Cole. Address: 
 Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 FAIRBANKS, Harold Wellman: 
 
 Geologist and geograjjher^ born at Cone- 
 wango, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., Aug. 29, 
 1860. He was educated in the State Nor- 
 mal School at Fredonia, N. Y., and the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, graduating B.S., 1890, 
 and he received the degree of Ph.D. from 
 the University of California, 1896. He 
 has been engaged since 1890 upon the ge- 
 ologj^ and geography of the Pacific Coast; 
 was connected with the California State 
 Mining Bureau, 1890-1894; assistant United 
 States Geological Survey, 1897-1898; and 
 since 1900, has been engaged in independ- 
 ent research. Dr. Fairbanks is a member of 
 the Geological Society; the Geographical 
 Society of America; the National Geograph- 
 ic Society ; and the California Academy. 
 He is the author of the text-books : Sto- 
 ries of Our ^Mother Earth; Home Geogra- 
 phy; Pliysiography of California; Stories 
 of Rocks and ]\linerals; The Western United 
 States (a geographical reader) and Practi- 
 cal Physiography (for high schools). Ad- 
 dress: Berkeley, Calif. 
 
 FAIRBANKS, Henry: 
 
 Manufacturer; born at Saint Johnsbury, 
 Vt., May 6, 1830; son of the late Thaddeus 
 Fairbanks, inventor of scales, and Lucy P. 
 (Barker) Fairbanks. He was graduated 
 from Dartmouth College, A.B., 1853 (Ph.D., 
 1880), and from there went to the Andover 
 Theological Seminary whence he was grad- 
 uated in 1857. He was ordained in the 
 ministry of the Congregational Church and 
 
 served in pastorates until 1860, when he 
 became professor of physics at Dartmouth 
 College. Later his chair at that institution 
 was changed to that of professor of natural 
 history, in which he continued until 1868, 
 when he resigned in order to become actively 
 identified with the manufacturing enterprise 
 of E. and T. Fairbanks and Company with 
 which he has ever since been connected, 
 and of which lie is now vice-president. Mr. 
 Fairbanks is an inventor of distinction and 
 has received over thirty patents for his 
 inventions. He was for twenty-five years a 
 Trustee of Dartmouth College, is President 
 of St. Johnsbury Academy, and has been 
 vice-president of the National Association of 
 Manufacturers. He has been a member of 
 eight of the National Councils of the Con- 
 gregational Church, and of two of the Inter- 
 national Councils, receiving appointment to 
 the third, and is president of the Vermont 
 Domestic Missionary Society. He has been 
 twice married; first at Hanover, N. H., 
 April 30, 1862, to Annie Noyes, (who died 
 Sept. 11, 1872,) and second, May 5, 1874, 
 to Ruthy Page of Newport, Vt. Address: 
 St. Johnsbury, Vt. 
 
 FAIRCHILD, Benjamin Lewis: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Sweden, Monroe County, 
 N. Y., Jan. 5, 1863; son of Benjamin and 
 Calista (SchaefFer) Fairchild. He was ed- 
 ucated in the public schools of the District 
 of Columbia and the Law Department of 
 Columbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
 versity, LL.B., 1883, LL.M., 1885. He was 
 a draughtsman in the U. S. Patent Office 
 at the age of thirteen; clerk in the U. S. 
 Treasury Department, 1877-1885; since then 
 practised law in New York City. Mr. 
 Fairchild has large real estate interests in 
 Pelham Heights. He was representative in 
 Congress from the 16th New York District, 
 1895-1897. He is a member of the Union 
 League, Lawyers, and New York Athletic 
 Clubs of New York City. He married in 
 New York City, Feb. 28, 1893, Anna E. 
 Crumble (who died Nov. 24, 1902), and has 
 one son. Franklin Crumble. Residence: 
 Pelham Heights, N. Y. Address: 149 
 Broadway, New York City. 
 
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 FAIRCHILD, Charles Stebbins: 
 
 I.a\vvor, banker; born in Cazenovia, N. Y., 
 April 30, 1842; son of Sidney T. and Helen 
 (Childs) Fairchild. He was graduated 
 from Harvard College, A.B., 18G3, Harvard 
 Law School, LL.B., 18G5, and received the 
 LL.D. degree from Harvard and Columbia 
 Universities in 1888. He was admited to 
 the New York Bar in 1865; practised law in 
 Albany until 1876; was deputy attorney- 
 general of the State of New York. 1874- 
 1875; attorney-general 1876-1877; then es- 
 tablished law practice in New York City. 
 He was appointed assistant secretary of 
 the United States Treasury by President 
 Cleveland in 1885, and secretary of the 
 same, 1887-1889. Upon retirement from 
 the Treasury, he entered into banking bus- 
 iness. Mr. Fairchild is president and di- 
 rector of the Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line 
 Railway Company; president and trustee 
 of Birkbeck Investment, Savings and Loan 
 Company; director Erie and Pittsburgh 
 Railway Company, National City Bank of 
 New York; trustee British and American 
 Manufacturing Company. He is a member 
 of the American Economic Society, Ameri- 
 can Statistical Society, Americiin and Na- 
 tional Geographic Societies, Association of 
 the Bar of the City of New York, Chamber 
 of Commerce New York, State Charities Aid 
 Association, Cliarity Organization Society 
 of New York. He was formerly a trustee of 
 the New York Life Insurance Company; 
 member of the New York Instituion for the 
 blind, and a member of the Monetary Com- 
 mittee, appointed by Executive Committee 
 of the Indianapolis Conference, 1897. He 
 was formerly president of the Reform 
 Club, is a member and ex-president of 
 the Harvard Club and also a member of the 
 Century, University, Midday, Delta liappa 
 Epsilon, Alpha Delta Phi, Ardsley and 
 (Jarden City Gold' Clubs of New York and 
 llic .Mclropolitan Clul) of Wasbiniiton. 1). ('. 
 Ili^ favniilc iccicat ions arc gnlt'. l)illi:inl'- 
 :iiiil lii):ilin;i. Mr. I''aircliild in:iniiil in 
 ( 'a/fiiovia. N. \'.. .huic 1, 1S71. llflcii Liiick- 
 l<'an. Address: Id West Sth Street. New 
 York Citv. 
 
 FAIRCHILD, David Grandison: 
 
 Agricultural explorer in charge of the 
 office of Seed and Plant Introduction of the 
 United States Department of Agriculture; 
 born at the Michigan State Agricultural 
 College near Lansing, Mich., April 7, 1869; 
 son of George T. and Charlotte P. (Hal- 
 sted) Fairchild. He was graduated from 
 the Kansas State Agricultural College, B.S., 
 1888 and' later as M.S.; did post-graduate 
 work in biology at the Zoological Station 
 at Naples, at the University of Breslau, 
 Berlin, Mtinster and Bonn, and at the Bo- 
 tanical Gardens at Buitenzorg, Java. He 
 made, as agricultural explorer for Mr. Bar- 
 bour Lathrop of Chicago, several scientific 
 expeditions in search of seeds and plants to 
 South America, South Africa, Australia, 
 South Sea Islands, Malayan Archipelago, 
 Arabia, China, Japan, India and Europe, 
 and for the Department of Agriculture to 
 Greece, Spain, Algiers, Egypt and the Dal- 
 matian Coast. Mr. Fairchild has been pro- 
 fessionally engaged' as an agriculturist 
 since 1889, has been in his present position 
 since 1897; and organized in 1897 the work 
 now carried on by the Office of Seed and 
 Plant Introduction and Distribution in the 
 United States Department of Agriculture. 
 Residence: 1331 Connecticut Avenue. Of- 
 fice: United States Department of Agri- 
 culture. Washington, D. C. 
 
 FAIRCHILD, George Winthrop: 
 
 Publisher, congressman ; born in Oneonta, 
 N. Y., May 6, 1854; son of Jesse Fairchild, 
 and direct descendant of Thomas Fairchild, 
 who settled in Stamford, Conn., in 1639; 
 on mother's side, great grandson of Thomas 
 Morenus, Revolutionary soldier and grand- 
 son of Jeremiah Morenus, veteran of the 
 War of 1812. He was educated in the dis- 
 trict schools of Oneonta, N. Y., in 1891; 
 learned Iho jirinter's trade; entered the em- 
 ploy ol' Oneonta Herald. 1876; president of 
 the Oncnnia ilciald Publishing Company, 
 since 1S!10. President of the International 
 Time Recording Company, Binghauipton. 
 l)c.\- Time Register Company, Syracuse; 
 vice ])rcsideiit of the (Uiardian Trust Com- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 pniiy. and the National Coijioration sccuri- 
 tios Company, New York City. He was 
 elected' in November, 1906 as a Republican 
 (o tlie Sixtieth Congress from the Twenty- 
 fourth New York District, and was reelect- 
 ed in lOflS to the Sixty-first Congress. Mr. 
 Fairchild married, in 1891, Josephine Mills 
 Sherman, niece of the late Joseph G. Mills, 
 of New Y'ork City. Address : Oneonta, N. Y''. 
 
 FAIRCHILD. Herman Le Roy: 
 
 Professor of geology; born at Montrose, 
 Pa., April 29, 1850; son of Harmon Can- 
 tield and Mary Amanda (Bissell) Fairchild. 
 Ilis paternal ancestry goes back to Tlionias 
 Fairchild of Stratford, Conn., while his 
 mother's family, tlie Bissells, were from 
 Cooperstown, N. Y"., and still earlier from 
 Rhode Island. Mr. Fairchild was graduated 
 from Cornell University, B.S., 1874; was 
 professor of natural sciences in Wyoming 
 Seminary, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., 1874-1876. 
 and engaged as a science lecturer in the 
 schools and institutions of New Y'ork City 
 and its vicinity until 1888; since then pro- 
 fessor of geology in the University of 
 Rochester. He was secretary of the Acad- 
 emy of Sciences of New York, 1885-1888, 
 and he published a history of that organiza- 
 tion in 1887. He has written and publislied 
 about one liundred and twenty monographs 
 and contributions on geology, paleontology 
 and biology, and has made special investi- 
 gations in the Pleistocene geologj^ of West- 
 ern New York, and particularly in reference 
 to the glacial lakes which were held at the 
 ice front during the retreat of the ice sheet 
 across New York State. He is a fellow of 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, was secretary of its Gen- 
 eral Council in 1893, general secretary in 
 1894, and vice-president of Section E (ge- 
 ology) in 1898. He is a member and was 
 president 1889-1902 of the Rochester Acad- 
 emy of Sciences, and from 1890 to 1907 was 
 secretary of Geological Society of America. 
 Address: University of Rochester, Roches- 
 ter, N. Y. 
 
 FAIRFAX, Albert Kirby: 
 
 Lord Fairfax of Cameron (twelfth baron) 
 in the peerage of Scotland, and merchant 
 
 (title was confirmed by the House of Lords 
 on Nov. 17, 1908) ; born at Northampton, 
 Largo, Prince George County, Md., June 2.'{, 
 1870; son of John Contee Fairfax, M.I). 
 (eleventh baron), and Mary Kirby Fairfax 
 (daughter of Colonel Edmund Kirby, United 
 States Army). He received his education in 
 Maupin's LTniversity School, Ellicott City, 
 Md. He was fourteen years with Brown 
 Brothers & Company, bankers. New York 
 City; four years assistant manager London 
 ofReo International Banking Company of 
 New Y'ork and now partner in William P. 
 Bonbright & Company, London, and New 
 York. He is a member and. vice-president 
 Yorkshire Society of London, on the Execu- 
 tive Committee of The Pilgrims in London, 
 and American Society in London, and a 
 member of the City of London, Bachelors 
 and' Sports Club of London and Union Club 
 of New York City. Residence: 22 Upper 
 G«orge Street, London, W. Office: 16 
 George Street, Mansion House, London, E. 
 C, England. 
 
 FALLOWS, Edward H.: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Appleton, Wis., 1865; 
 son of Right Rev. Samuel and Lucy B. 
 (Huntington) Fallows; graduated from 
 Amherst College, (summa cum laude) B.A., 
 1886; A.M., 1890; Yale University, (post- 
 graduate), 1890; Columbia Law School 
 1892. Admited to bar, 1892; associated in 
 practice with Governor Stewart L. Wood- 
 ruff; began independent practice 1893; 
 served in State Assembly from the Twenty- 
 first District, New Y^ork City, 1898-1900. 
 Author of text-book on Collateral Inheri- 
 tance and Transfer Tax; Director and Gen- 
 eral Counsel American Brake Shoe and 
 Foundry Company ; Republican ; Reformed 
 ^Episcopalian; Member New Y^ork City and 
 State IBar Associations, New Y''ork Law In- 
 stitute, Recreations: Golf; tennis, auto- 
 mobiling. Clubs: University, Y'ale, Engi- 
 neers, Lambs', Republican, Ardsley, Anto- 
 mobile Club of America, New Y'ork Athletic, 
 Cresceiit Atliletic, Railroad Club. Mr. Fal- 
 h)\vs married, in 1S93. Julia Ilaughton Kit- 
 tredge, and they have one daughter, Annette 
 Richards. Residence: 219 West 79th 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Street. Ofliee: 30 Cluucli Street, New York 
 Cily. 
 
 FALLOWS. Samuel: 
 
 Hisln))) of tlie Reformed Episcopal 
 Cliurch ; liorii in Pendleton, Lancashire, 
 England. Dee. 13, 1835; son of Thomas and 
 Anne (Ashworth) Fallows. He came with 
 his parents to America, 1848, settling in 
 Wisconsin and was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of Wisconsin. A.B., 1859, A.M. and 
 received the honorary degree of LL.D. from 
 that University and D.D. from Lawrence 
 University and Marietta College. He was 
 ordained in the ministry of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church in 1859, was vice-presi- 
 dent of Galesville (Wis.) University, 1859- 
 1861. then entered the Union Army in the 
 Civil War, attaining the rank of colonel and 
 brevet brigadier-general U. S. V. He re- 
 turned to the Methodist ministry after the 
 war, becoming a pastor in Milwaukee until 
 1871, then State superintendent of public 
 instruction of Wisconsin, 1871-1874; presi- 
 dent of the Illinois Wesleyan University at 
 Bloomington, 111., 1874-1875, but retired 
 from that position in 1875, when he left 
 the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church and entered' that of the Reformed 
 Episcopal Church as rector of St. Paul's 
 Church, Chicago, in which position he has 
 ever since continued, and he has also been 
 since 1876 one of the bishops of the Reformed 
 Episcopal Church, and has seven times 
 been elected presiding bishop of that church. 
 Bishop Fallows is author of: Bright and 
 Happy Homes, 1877; The Home Beyond, 
 1879; Synonyms and Antonyms, 1884; 
 Handbook of Abbreviations and Contrac- 
 tions, 1884; Handbook of Briticisms, Ameri- 
 canisms, etc.. 1884; Suiiplemcntal Dictionary 
 of the English Language, 1887; Webster's 
 Encyclopadie Dictionary, 1891; Past Noon, 
 1892; The Bible Looking Glass; Life of 
 Samuel Adams, 1898; Splendid Deeds, 1900; 
 Popular and Critical Biblical Encyclopedia, 
 1901; Story of the American Flag, 1903; 
 Science of Health, 1904; Christian Philoso- 
 phy, 1905; Memory Culture, 1905. Bishop 
 Fallows lias ber-Ti ))resident of the' Board of 
 Managers of llic Illinois State Reformatory 
 
 since 1891, was Chancellor of the Univer- 
 sity Association and chairman of the Gen- 
 eral Educational Committee of World's Con- 
 gresses. He is commander of the Military 
 Order of the Loyal Legion of the United 
 States, fur 1lic State of Illinois. He mar- 
 ried, April !•. 1860, Lucy B. Huntington. 
 Address: 967 West ]\Ionroe Street. Chica- 
 
 FANNING, John Thomas: 
 
 Consulting engineer: born at Norwich, 
 Conn., Dec. 31, 1837; son of John Howard 
 and Elizabeth (Pridde) Fanning. He stud- 
 ied and practised civil engineering and arch- 
 itecture until 1861, when he entered the 
 Third Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers 
 and served the full time of the regiment 
 in the Civil War. He afterwards entered the 
 Connecticut State Military as lieutenant 
 and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. 
 When the war closed he resumed his engi- 
 neering practice, making a specialty of de- 
 signing and constructing water-works and 
 the mechanical development of water pow- 
 ers, first in New England, and afterward 
 in the West, doing especially notable water- 
 power work at Minneapolis, and on the 
 Spokane River in Washington, and the 
 Missouri River at Great Falls, and Helena, 
 Mont.; and on the Wenatchee river in 
 Washington for the electrification of the 
 Great Northern Railway Cascade tunnel ; 
 was also consulting engineer for railways 
 in the Northwest, etc. He has written ex- 
 tensively on hydraulic engineering; is a 
 member and former director of the Ameri- 
 can Society of Civil Engineers; member and 
 former president of the American Water- 
 Works Association, and he has been a mem- 
 ber since 1880 and a fellow since 1885 of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science. Mr. Fanning married at Provi- 
 dence, R. I., June 14, 1865, M. Louise Bens- 
 ley. Address: Kasota Building, :Minnea po- 
 lls, Minn. 
 
 FANNING, William Joseph: 
 
 Lawyer; born in CresccTit. Saratoga Coun- 
 ty, N. Y.. July 12. 1850: son of James and 
 Joliaiina ( iMlzgerald ) Fanning. He was 
 
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 (■(liie:i(('cl al the IlaUiiiooii Institute and the 
 J^aw Depaitmeiit of the University of he 
 City of New York wliere he was graduated 
 LL.B., 1873 ; and has since then practised 
 law in New York City. Mr. Fanning has 
 been attorney for the Hotel Association 
 since 1882; and was appointed by Mayor 
 .Strong, city magistrate, but declined. He 
 is director, secretary and treasurer of the 
 Sinclair Realtj^ Company, and is a member 
 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and 
 was school trustee of the Eighteenth Ward 
 for two years. He is also a member of the 
 Manhattan, National Democratic, Catholic 
 and Graduates' Clubs. Mr. Fanning mar- 
 ried in New York City, Oct. 19, 1881, 
 Annie Ashman. Address: 752 Broadway, 
 New l^ork City. 
 
 FARENHOLT, Oscar Walter: 
 
 Rear-admiral, U. S. Navy, retired; born 
 in Texas, May 2, 1845. He was educated 
 in Schools of San Antonio, Texas, New Or- 
 leans, La., and Pittsburg, Pa. He entered 
 the Na%'y at New York as seaman, April 
 IS, 1861; served on the frigate Wabash; 
 participated in engagements and battles at 
 Fort Hatteras, N. C, Port Royal, S. C, 
 Fort Pulaski, Ga., and was severely 
 wounded at battle of Pocotaligo, S. C, 
 Oct. 22, 1862; sent to the Naval Hospital, 
 New York, and discharged from the Navy. 
 Having recovered from his wounds, he re- 
 entered the Navy Feb., 1863, on the mon- 
 itor Catskill; was in almost daily engage- 
 ments with defences of Charleston, S. C, 
 April, 1863 to April, 1864, participated in 
 the unsuccessful storming party of Fort 
 Sumter, Sept., 1863. He was promoted 
 acting ensign Aug., 1864, and commanded 
 schooner Henry James attached to squadron 
 in Sounds of North Carolina. Participated 
 in the recapture of Plymouth and several 
 engagements on Roanoke, Chowan and Black 
 Water Rivers, and capture of Fort Fisher, 
 N. C. After the Civil War he had the 
 varied duties of a naval officer at sea and 
 ashore, and was inspector of the Thirteenth 
 Lighthouse District from 1892 to July, 
 1896, when he was ordered to the command 
 of the steamer INIonocacy, in which he 
 
 served on llic Asiatic Station during the 
 Spanish-Aiiierican \\ ar, stationed at Shang- 
 hai as base of information and supplies for 
 the fleet imd'er Dewey ; ordered to the Navy 
 Yard, Boston, July 5, 1899, to command 
 of the Navy Yard at Cavite, Philippine 
 Islands, in 1900, and to the command of 
 the Monadnock, Dec. 28, 1900, in which he 
 served until his retirement with the rank 
 of rear-admiral in 1901. Address: Care 
 Navy Pay office, Washington, D. C. 
 
 FARLEY, John Murphy: 
 
 Archbishop ; born at Newton-Hamilton, 
 Ireland, April 20, 1842; son of Philip and 
 Catherine (Murphy) Farley. He studied 
 for the priesthood at St. Macartan's Col- 
 lege, Monaghan, St. John's College, Ford- 
 ham, St. Joseph's Seminary, Troy, and at 
 the American College, Rome; was ordained 
 priest at Rome June 11, 1870; assistant 
 rector at St. Peter's Church, New Brighton, 
 Staten Island, the same year; secretary 
 to Archbishop MeCloskey, 1872-1884; pri- 
 vate chamberlain to pope, 1884, with the 
 title of Monsignor vicar-general of New 
 York Archdiocese, 1892; prothonotary apos- 
 tolic, 1895; auxiliary bishop of New York, 
 with title of Bishop of Zeugma, 1895; 
 appointed administrator of New York, Sept. 
 15, 1902; and archbishop of New York, 
 1903. Archbishop Farley is author of: 
 The Life of Cardinal MeCloskey; Neither 
 Generous nor Just; Why Church Property 
 Should not be Taxed. Address: 452 Mad- 
 ison Avenue, New York City. 
 
 FARLEY, Robert Emmet: 
 
 Lawyer, banker; born in Fort Plain, 
 N. Y., Sept. 28, 1871; son of Worthington 
 S. and Helen Hall (Moyer) Farley. His 
 father was a prominent hardware merchant 
 in Fort Plains, N. Y., and master of Fort 
 Plain Masonic Lodge for 17 years; his mo- 
 ther is an authoress who, under the pseudo- 
 nym of Ernest Gilmore, has written many 
 stories and books, and he is a grandson of 
 John H. TMoyer, former President of Fort 
 Plain National Bank, one of the oldest banks 
 in the Mohawk Valley; is cousin of Vice 
 President James S. Sherman, being great- 
 
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 MF.N OF AMERICA. 
 
 grandson of Dr. Jonatlian Slierman of 
 Utica, N. Y. He was educated in public and 
 private schools, and graduated from the Clin- 
 ton Liberal Institute, Fort Plain (president 
 and valedictorian of class), 1888, Rutgers 
 College, A.B. (rhetorical honors and presi- 
 dent of the class), 1892, A.M., 1895, New 
 York Law School, LL.B., cum laude, 1894, 
 and was admitted to the New York State bar. 
 May 15, 1894. Mr. Farley is senior mem- 
 ber of the firm of Farley & Rumsey, of 
 White Plains, N. Y., and New York City; 
 is president of the Graniatan National 
 Bank of Bronxville, N. Y., of the Scarsdale 
 Estates, Eastern Mill and Material Co., and 
 Westchester Land Exchange; and treas- 
 urer and director of the Westchester Syn- 
 dicate. He is a member of the Association 
 of the Bar of the City of New York, West- 
 chester County Bar Association, New Y'ork 
 State Bar Association, Society of Medical 
 Jurisprudence of New I'ork City; governor 
 of White Plains Hospital; president of 
 the Willie Plains I'oung Men's Christian 
 Association; president of Lake Mahopac 
 Protective Association; vice-president of 
 Mahopac Golf Club, director of the Scars- 
 dale Golf and Country Club; vice-president 
 of the Montgomery County Society of New 
 York City; member of the Delta Phi frater- 
 nity; former president of the Rutgers Col- 
 lege Alumni Association of the City of New 
 York, and member of the University, New 
 Y'ork Athletic, Hardware, Phi Delta Phi, 
 and St. Elmo Clubs of New York City, 
 and of the Rutgers, White Plains, and 
 Lake Mahopac Golf Clubs, and the Scarsdale 
 Golf and Country Club. Mr. Farley mar- 
 ried in Brooklyn, N. Y., in Dec, 1897, 
 Grace Hazard Colvin (daughter of Wil- 
 liam S. Colvin, then president of the Haz- 
 ard Powder Company), and they have two 
 sons and a daughter. Thoy have a summer 
 home on Canopus Island, Lake Mahopac, 
 N. Y. Residence: White Plains, N. Y. 
 Omces: White Plains, N. Y., and 56 Pine 
 Street, Now York City. 
 
 FARMAN, Elbert Eli: 
 
 .Jurist; lioni in New Haven, Oswego 
 County. N. Y.. April 23, ISIU ; son of 
 Zadok and Martha (Dix) Farman; and he 
 
 is a descendant of William Foreman, a 
 planter of Maryland, who came from Lon- 
 don to Annapolis in 1G75; and through the 
 niatcnial line is a descendant of Leonard 
 Dix. one of the settlers of Wethersfield, 
 Conn., and of Governor Thomas Welles of 
 Connecticut. He was graduated from Am- 
 herst College, A.B., 1855, A.M., 1858, LL.D., 
 1882. He was admitted to the New York 
 State bar, 1858; to United States courts, 
 18G2; was one of the publishers of the 
 Western New Yorker, 1859-1861; in Eu- 
 rope, 1805-1867, studying languages and 
 international law in the University of Ber- 
 lin and Heidelberg; accompanied General 
 Grant in voyage of the Nile, 1878; was in 
 Mexico, Yucatan and Cuba, 1893; in 
 France, winters of 1893-1897, 1899-1900; 
 in Germany, winter of 1897-1898; in Eg:s'pt. 
 1898-1899;' in Spain, winter of 1893-1894; 
 Italy, 1905-1906. He secured' the Egyptian 
 obelisk for New Y''ork, 1879, and made large 
 collections of coins and Egyptian antiqui- 
 ties, now in the Metropolitan Museum of 
 Art. Mr. Farman was district attorney 
 of Wyoming County, 1868-1875; United 
 States diplomatic agent, and consul-general 
 at Cairo, Egypt, 1876-1881; commissioner 
 to revise the judicial code of Egypt for 
 use of mixed tribunals of Egypt, 1880-1881; 
 judge of mixed tribunals of Egypt, 1881- 
 1884; United States member of commission 
 to examine claims and determine amounts 
 to bo paid inhabitants of Alexandria for 
 losses arising from bombardment and burn- 
 inj» of city in 1882; commission passed 
 upon 10.000 claims and awarded .$20,000,- 
 000 damages. lie delivered political ad- 
 dresses in Presidential campaigns, 1856- 
 1888; and was a delegate to the National 
 Re])ublican Convention. 1872. Judge Far- 
 man was decorated by the Khedive of 
 l']gyi)t. Grand Oflicer of the Imjjerial Order 
 of Medjidieh; is a member of the Sons 
 of the Revolution, Psi Upsilon fraternity 
 (Amherst), and the Union League Club of 
 New York. He is author of: Along the 
 Nile with General Grant, 1904; Egypt and 
 Its Betrayal, 1908. He married, first, in 
 Madison. Ohio, Dec. 24, 1855, Lois I'arker 
 (died June 27, 1881); and second. Gales- 
 
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 burg, J II., Ucl. t), 1883, Adelaide Frisbie, 
 by whom lie has two daughters and a son. 
 Address: Warsaw, N. Y. 
 
 FARNAM, Henry Walcott: 
 
 Political economist and educator; born 
 in New ][aven, Conn., Nov. (I, 1853; son 
 of Henry and Aim Sophia (Whitman) 
 Farnani. He was graduated' from Yale, 
 A.B. with Phi Beta Kappa honors, 1874, 
 and A.M., 1876; took post-graduate work 
 in ])olitical economy at the Universities of 
 Berlin, Gottingen and Strassburg, receiv- 
 ing the degree of R.P.D. in 1878, and then 
 became a tutor at Y'ale until taking, in 
 1880, his present chair as professor of po- 
 litical economy in Yale University. Pro- 
 fessor Farnani is one of the editors of the 
 Yale Review, is distinguished as a civil 
 service reformer and has been chairman 
 of the New Haven City Civil Service Board 
 and president of the Connecticut Civil 
 Service Reform Association. He was a 
 member of the Committee of Fifty, and 
 one of the editors of Economic Aspects of 
 the Liquor Problem. Professor Farnam is 
 a member of the Century, University, Yale 
 and Reform Clubs of New Y''ork, and the 
 Graduates' and Country Clubs of New 
 Haven. He married, June 26, 1890, Eliz- 
 abeth U. Kingsley, and they have three 
 children. Address: 43 Hillhouse Avenue, 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
 FARRAGUT, Loyall: 
 
 Author; born in Norfolk, Va., 1844; son 
 of Admiral David G. Farragut and Vir- 
 ginia L. Farragut. He was graduated from 
 the United States Military Academy in 
 1888, but later resigned and was in the 
 employ of the Central Railroad of New 
 Jersey. ]Mr. Farragut is author of: Life 
 of David Glasgow Farragut, First Admiral 
 of the United States. He is a member of 
 the Naval Order of the United States, Amer- 
 ican Geograijhical Society, the Military 
 Order of the Loyal Legion, the Association 
 of Graduates of the United States Mili- 
 tary Academy and the Century Association 
 and the University Club. He married in 
 New York City, 1869, Gertrude Metcalfe. 
 
 Address: 113 East 36th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 FARRAR, Edgar Howard: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Concordia Parish, La., 
 June 20, 1849; son of Thomas Prince and 
 Anna (Girault) Farrar. He received his 
 academic education at the University of 
 Charlottesville, Va., graduating in 1871 
 with the degree of A.M. Thence, going 
 to Baton Rouge, La., he took up the study 
 of law at the Louisiana State University 
 and passed his bar examinations in 1872. 
 Since then he has practised at New Orleans. 
 In 1878 he was appointed by the mayor 
 assistant corporation counsel for the city 
 and two years later became full corporation 
 counsel. Mr. Farrar is one of the leading 
 members of the Democratic party at New 
 Orleans and was one of the organizers of 
 National Democracy in 1896, which refused 
 to accept the silver platform as that of 
 the party. As a citizen, he has always 
 stood for good government and for many 
 years has been chairman of the Committee 
 of One Hundred, organized to keep the 
 city, government out of the hands of unprin- 
 cipled politicians. He led the prosecution 
 against the band of Mafia who assassinated 
 the chief of police and caused the riots 
 at New Orleans. He married at New Or- 
 leans in 1878, Lucinda Davis Stamps. Ad- 
 dress: 2209 St. Charles Avenue, New 
 Orleans, La. 
 
 FARRELLY, Stephen: 
 
 Head of the American News Company 
 of New York; is a native of Ireland, in 
 which country he was born in 1843. His 
 father, Owen Farrelly, emigrated with his 
 family to this country, in 1848, and set- 
 tled at Penn Yan, N. Y., where he himself 
 educated his sons. After some years he 
 removed with his family to New York City, 
 where, when seventeen years of age, 
 Stephen entered the service of Dexter & 
 Bro., at that time wholesale news agents, 
 but later prominent members of the great 
 distributing organization known as the 
 American News Company, w-hich was estab- 
 lished in 1864. After the founding of the 
 
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 American News Company he went to Savan- 
 nah, Ga., undertook the rehabilitation of 
 the old book firm of John M. Cooper &, 
 Company, which had been before the war 
 one of the largest book and stationery con- 
 cerns in the South, reorganized it as 
 Cooper, Olcott and Farrelly and made it a 
 great success. He sold his interest in 1869 
 and returned to New York, where he estab- 
 lished the National News Company. This 
 company prospered under his manage- 
 ment, as a rival to the American News 
 Company, but after a few years its busi- 
 ness was merged with that of the latter 
 concern, in which Mr. Farrelly now be- 
 came a director. His residence in Phila- 
 delphia began in 1878, he having accepted 
 the position of manager of the Central 
 News Company, a branch house which the 
 American News Company had established 
 in that city in 1869. He was formerly pres- 
 ident of the Catholic Club, and a member 
 of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 
 the Citizens' Municipal Association of 
 Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Horticul- 
 ural Society and the Penn and Art Clubs. 
 He was also a director of the St. Joseph's 
 Orphan Asylum, of the City Trust, Safe 
 Deposit and Surety Company, and of the 
 Beneficial Savings Fund Society. In 1902 
 Mr. Farrelly was transferred to New York, 
 to become, in succession to his brother, the 
 late Patrick Farrelly, the head of the Amer- 
 ican News Company, and he has directed 
 the aflfairs of this great business with signal 
 success. Address: 39 Chambers Street, 
 New York Citj\ 
 
 FARRINGTON, Edward Silsby: 
 
 Jurist; born at Yreka, Calif., Sept. 6, 
 1856; son of Daniel and Elizabeth Ann 
 (Silsby) Farrington. He received his col- 
 lege education at Amherst, where he was 
 graduated in 1880 with the degree of A.B. ; 
 and he received the degree of LL.D. from 
 the University of Nevada, 1908. Following 
 his graduation from Amherst he became a 
 teacher in the West and in 188.3 was placed 
 at the head of Nevada State University, 
 then at Elko Reno. Nev. Two years later 
 he took up the study of law at the Hast- 
 
 ings Law School in San Francisco and in 
 
 1887, returning to Nevada, was admitted 
 to the bar of the State, and practising law 
 until appointed, in 1907, to his present 
 office of United States district judge for 
 Nevada. He was a candidate of the Repub- 
 lican party for representative to Congress 
 in 1900 and 1902. In 1904 he was mem- 
 ber of the National Republican Convention 
 held at Chicago. He is an Odd Fellow and 
 also belongs to the Sage Brush Club at 
 Carson, Nev. He married at Salt Lake 
 City, Aug. 14, 1892, Celia Taber. Address: 
 Carson, Nev. 
 
 FARRINGTON, Oliver Cummings: 
 
 Geologist; born in Brewer, Me., Oct. 9, 
 1864; son of Joseph Rider and Ellen E. 
 (Holj'oke) Farrington. He was graduated 
 from Maine State College, B.S., 1881, M.S., 
 
 1888, and from Yale University, Ph.D., 
 1891. He taught in Maine academies, 1883- 
 1886; was tutor in mineralogy in Yale 
 University, 1890-1891; assistant in min- 
 eralogy, U. S. National Museum, 1893; 
 curator of geology in the Field Columbian 
 Museum, Chicago, since 1894. He was 
 lecturer in mineralogy in the University of 
 Chicago, 1895-1898; member of the Interna- 
 tional Jury of Awards, Louisiana Purchase 
 Exposition, 1904. Dr. Farrington is author 
 of: Gems and Gem Minerals, and of various 
 articles in scientific magazines. He is a 
 fellow of the Geological Society of America 
 and the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, and a charter mem- 
 ber of the American Association of Mu- 
 seums. He married in Gloversville, N. Y., 
 Aug. 3, 1896, Clara Adaline Bradley. Resi- 
 dence: 5741 Monroe Avenue. Office: Field 
 Museum of Natural History, Chicago. 
 
 FARWELL, Granger: 
 
 Banker and broker; born in Chicago, 
 :\Iay 25, 1857; son of Judge William W. 
 and Mary E. (Grancrer^ Far well. He was 
 educated in the public schools of Chicago 
 and at Yalo University, being graduated 
 from 111.' latlcr in 1878. His collegiate 
 course was followed by two years spent in 
 the study of law, l)ut lie did not enter 
 
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 into practice. He chose u mercantile career, 
 and in ISSO entered the employ of James 
 H. Pearson & Company, of Chicago, lum- 
 ber merchants, and in 1882 was admitted 
 to partnership in the concern. In 1890 
 he withdrew from the firm to become a 
 member of the brokerage firm of Lobdell, 
 Farwell & Company, which association con- 
 tinued until 1898, when the firm of 
 Granger, Farwell & Company was organ- 
 ized, which, in April, 1907, was succeeded 
 by the Farwell Trust Company, of which 
 he is president. He is a director Chicago 
 Stock Exchange; president and director the 
 Farwell Trust Company; director the Pyle- 
 National Electric Headlight Company; 
 Diamond Match Company ; director the 
 University Club; chairman Board of di- 
 rectors, Utah Gas and Coke Company; 
 director State Bank of Lake Forest; di- 
 rector the Western Trust and Savings 
 Bank. He is a member of the Chicago, 
 University, Onwentsia, and Merchants' 
 Clubs of Chicago, and also of the University 
 Club of New York City. He married, Dec. 
 23, 1880, Sarah C. Goodrich. Residence: 
 Lake Forest, HI. Address: 226 La Salle 
 Street, Chicago. 
 
 FARWELL, Oliver Atkins 
 
 Librarian, botanist and drug inspector; 
 born in Boston, Dec. 13, 1867; son of 
 Oliver Atkins and Charlotte L. (Brokway) 
 Farwell. In early boyhood he removed 
 to Michigan and he was educated in the 
 public schools and the Ypsilanti Normal 
 School in that State. He was a teacher in 
 the public schools, 1889-1890, and in the 
 Michigan Normal School, 1890-1892; and in 
 the latter year he became curator of the 
 herbarium and librarian for Parke, Davis 
 and Company, the noted manufacturing 
 pharmacists of Detroit. Mr. Farwell is a 
 member of the Society of Botanists of the 
 Central States, the Michigan Academy of 
 Sciences, Torrey Botanical Club, New York 
 Academy of Science, National Geographic 
 Society, and formerly member of the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science, and the Agassiz Association. He 
 has written various papers on Michigan 
 
 flora, in connection wilii which lie has made 
 special researches. Jn politics he is a Dem- 
 ocrat, and in church relations a Cjongrega- 
 tionalist. His favorite recreations are 
 sliooting and fishing. Mr. Farwell is a 
 member of the JMod'ern Maccabees, of the 
 New England Society in Detroit. Residence: 
 4-49 McClellan Avenue. Office: Care Parke, 
 Davis and Company, Detroit, Mich. 
 
 FARWELL, William Gilmor: 
 
 Medical director, U. S. A., retired; born 
 in Canada, April 5, 1843. After graduation 
 in medicine he was appointed from Mich- 
 igan to the Medical Corps of the U. S. 
 Array, Nov. 10, 1808, and served in various 
 sea and shore duties of a medical officer 
 of the Navy, reaching the grade of med- 
 ical director, Jan. 22, 1900, in which he 
 was retired by operation of law with the 
 rank of captain, April 5, 1905. Address: 
 St. Francis Court, 135th Street and River- 
 side Drive, New York City 
 
 FASSETT, Jacob Sloat: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; was born in 
 Elmira, N. Y., Nov. 13, 1853, and has 
 always lived in Elmira. He was gradu- 
 ated fi-om the University of Rochester in 
 June, 1875; was admitted to the bar as 
 attorney in 1878, and as coimselor in 1879. 
 Immediately thereafter he was appointed 
 by Governor Lucius Robinson to the office 
 of district attorney for the county of Che- 
 mung, which position he held for one year. 
 He then became a student at Heidelberg 
 University, at Heidelberg. Germany. He 
 was elected to the New York State Senate 
 in 1883, and served eight years as senator; 
 was elected temporary president of the 
 senate in 1889; was secretary of the Re- 
 publican national committee for the cam- 
 paign of 1888; Sept. 9, 1891, he was 
 nominated for governor of New York by 
 the Republicans in State convention held 
 at Rochester, but was defeated by Roswell 
 P. Flower; was temporary chairman of the 
 Republican national convention in Minne- 
 apolis in 1892; was temporary chairman of 
 the Republican State convention held at 
 Saratoga in 1904. Mr. Fassett was elected 
 
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 to the Fifty-uinth Congress in 190-i, and in 
 I'JOG and I'JUS was reelected to the Sixtieth 
 and Sixty-first Congresses. Address: El- 
 iiiira, >,'. V. 
 
 FAUNCE, Daniel Worcester: 
 
 Clorgyniau; born at Plymouth, Mass., 
 Jan. 3, 182!); son of Peleg and Olive Faunce. 
 He was graduated from Amherst College, 
 A.B., 1S50, and afterward' pursued his 
 theological studies in the Newton Theo- 
 loiiical Institute at Newton, Mass., and was 
 ordained to the ministry of the Baptist 
 Church in 1853. He tilled several im- 
 portant pastorates in New England, Wash- 
 ington, D. C, and afterward at Pawtucket, 
 R. I., and is now retired from pastoral 
 activities, but still identified with church 
 interests as a member of the Board of 
 ^lanagers of the American Baptist ]Mission- 
 ary Union. He received' the degree of D.D. 
 fi-om Amherst College in 1870. Dr. 
 Faunce's career has been one of great use- 
 fulness and influence in his denomination 
 and beyond its bounds, not only as a pastor 
 and pulpit orator, but also in highly val- 
 ued contributions to religious literature. 
 Two of his works, The Christian in the 
 World and Prayer as a Theory and a Fact, 
 each received, in different years, the 
 Fletcher prize at Dartmouth College, and 
 among his other best known books are: 
 The \^■ords and Works of Jesus ; The Words 
 and Acts of the Apostles; A Young Man's 
 Difficulties with his Bible; The Resurrec- 
 tion in Nature and in Revelation; Hours 
 with a Skeptic; Shall We Believe in a Di- 
 vine Providence; Inspiration Considered as 
 a Trend; Advent and Ascension. Dr. 
 Faunce has been twice married, first at 
 Bristol, R. I., in 1853, to Mary P. Perry, 
 and second, at Boston, in 1871, to Mary E. 
 Tucker. His children are: Rev. William 
 Herbert Perry Faunce, D.D., LL.D., pres- 
 ident of Brown University, and George P. 
 Faunce and E. Howard Faunce, of Lynn, 
 Mass., and Albert B. Faunce, of Chicago. 
 Address: Providence, R. I. 
 
 FAUNCE, William Herbert Perry: 
 
 President of I'rown University ; born at 
 Worcester, . Mass., .Jan. 15, 1859; son of 
 
 Rev. DaJiiel \\oreester and ]\lary Parkhurst 
 (Perry) Faunce. He was graduated from 
 Brown University, A.B., 1880, and received 
 the degree of A.M. in 1883. The degree 
 of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the 
 Universities of Baylor and Alabama in 1904 
 and the degree of D.D. by Brown, Yale 
 and Harvard Universities. After his gradu- 
 ation from Brown University, he became 
 instructor of mathematics at that college 
 until 1883. In 1884 ho was ordained to 
 tile Baptist ministry and accepted a call as 
 minister at Springfield, Mass. In 1889 he 
 resigned, going to New Y^ork in the same 
 capacity, where he officiated for ten years. 
 While he was still holding the latter posi- 
 tion, he was elected a trustee of Brown 
 University in 1897, and also of the Newton 
 Seminary in 1898. In 1899 he was elected 
 president of Brown University, which posi- 
 tion he still holds. Dr. Faunce is one of 
 the most prominent educators in the United 
 States; he has delivered many lectures and 
 addresses. He was lecturer at the Univer- 
 sity of Chicago from 1906 to 1907, and was 
 appointed Lyman Beecher lecturer at Y'ale 
 University for the year 1907-1908. He was 
 president of the Religious Education Asso- 
 ciation, 1906-1907. Dr. Faimce is also 
 trustee of the Rhode Island School of De- 
 sign, a member of the Rhode Island Metro- 
 politan Park Commission, of the University 
 Clubs in Providence, Boston and New Y'ork 
 City, and of the Hope and Agwam Clubs 
 in Providence. He married at Lynn, Mass., 
 in 1884, Sarah R. Edson, and has one son. 
 Residence: 180 Hope Street. Address: 
 Brown University. Providence, R. I. 
 
 FAVERSHAM, William Alfred: 
 
 Actor; born in London. Ihigland, Feb. 
 12, 1808, the youngest of tliirtcen children. 
 His first appearance on the stage was in 
 1887, in support of Helen Hastings at the 
 Union Square Theater, New York. He 
 joined the Lyceum Company for a time, and 
 after leaving that appeared as Leo, in 
 Rider Haggard's She, and with Mrs. Minnie 
 .Maddern Fiske in a number of plays. Re- 
 luming to the Lyceum Company he ap- 
 licared in various plays witli tliom, and then 
 
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 Wfiit to I he Empire Tlieuter, New York, 
 and played second parts, where at the end 
 of the second year he succeeded Henry 
 Miller as loading man — making his first 
 appearanco in that capacity as Gril de 
 i5erauU, in Under the Red Robe. He also 
 ai)i)caie(l in The Conqueror, Lord' and Lady 
 Algy. and otlier plays, and played Romeo 
 to the Juliet of Maude Adams. Mr. Fav- 
 orsham is one of the largest breeders of 
 bull terriers in America. He has also a 
 farm in tlie south of England, where he 
 imports and breeds American trotting 
 horses. Address: 28 East 76th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 FAVILL, Henry Baird: 
 
 Physician; born in Madison. Wis., Aug. 
 14, 1860; son of John and Louise Sophia 
 (Baird) Favill. After being graduated 
 from' the LTniversity of Wisconsin, B.A., 
 1880, he entered Rush Medical College, Chi- 
 cago, from which he was graduated M.D., 
 1883. He engaged in the practice of med- 
 icine; was appointed Ingals professor of 
 therapeutics and preventive medicine at 
 Rush Medical College in 1898, and has been 
 professor of clinical medicine, at the same 
 institution, since 1906. In politics he is a 
 Republican and became president of the 
 Municipal Voters' League in 1907. Dr. 
 Favill is a member of the American Medical 
 Association, American Academy of Medi- 
 cine, Illinois State Medical Society, Chicago 
 Medical Society, Chicago Pathological So- 
 ciety, American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, Chicago Society of 
 Social Hygiene (member of its board of 
 directors) ; ])resident of the Chicago Tuber- 
 culosis Institute ; member of tlie board of 
 trustees of the Home for Destitute Crip- 
 pled Children, and a member of the Nu 
 Sigma Nu and Beta Theta Pi fraternities, 
 the University, City, Quadrangle, Chicago 
 Golf and Chicago Literary Clubs of Chi- 
 cago, University Club of Milwaukee, City 
 Club of New Y'ork, and the Caledon Moun- 
 tain Trout Club. Dr. Favill married in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y^, June 17, 1885, Susan 
 Cleveland Pratt, and they have one son. 
 Residence: 469 Elm Street. Office: 100 
 State Street, Chicago. 
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 FAWCETT, M. Edward: 
 
 Bishop of Quiney; born at New Hartford, 
 Iowa, Nov. 1, 1865, son of Rev. Dr. William 
 and Sarah (Houghton) Fawcett. He stud- 
 ied in the Upper Iowa University, and was 
 graduated B.A., 1880, M.A., 1890, and 
 Ph.D. in 1893. He was ordered deacon of 
 the Episcopal Church in 1897, and in the 
 same year was ordained priest by Bishop 
 McLaren, after wliich he accepted a call 
 from the Church of the Redeemer, of Elgin, 
 111. He was its rector luitil 1901, when he 
 was called to the rectorship of St. Bar- 
 tholomew's Church, Chicago, where he re- 
 mained until 1904. He resigned in 1904 to 
 become bishop of Quiney, 111. He was con- 
 secrated by Bishops Tuttle, Nicholson, An- 
 derson, Seymour, Grafton, Edsall, Morrison 
 (Iowa), Williams (bishop coadjutor of 
 Nebraska), and Weller. Bishop Fawcett 
 married in Chicago, Nov. 3. 1887, Esther 
 L. Faul. Address: Quiney, 111. 
 
 FAXON, Charles Edward: 
 
 Botanical artist; born at Roxbury, Mass., 
 Jan. 21, 1846; son of Elisha and Hannah 
 Mann (Whiting) Faxon. He was graduated 
 from the Lawrence Scientific School of Har- 
 vard University as S.B. in 1867, and received 
 the honorary AM. degree from Harvard 
 in 1897. He has been instructor in botany 
 at Harvard, and is now assistant director 
 of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard Uni- 
 versity, at Jamaica Plain, Mass., and is 
 especially distinguished in botanical art, 
 having made drawings for plates for the 
 foremost botanical works and' publications. 
 ]Mr. Faxon is a member of the American 
 Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston Nat- 
 ural History Society and New England 
 Botanical Club. Address: Jamaica Plain, 
 Mass. 
 
 FAXON, Frederick Winthrop: 
 
 Bibliographer; born at West Roxbury, 
 Mass., Aug. 24, 1866; son of Marcus and 
 Augusta Chalmers (Fernald) Faxon. He 
 was graduated from the Boston Latin 
 School in 1885, and from Harvard as A.B. 
 in 1889, and since the latter date he has 
 been manager of the library department of 
 
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 the Boston Book Compauy. He was secre- 
 tary of the American Library Association, 
 1900-1903, and has been editor of the 
 quarterly Bulletin of Bibliography since 
 1897. Mr. Faxon is author and compiler 
 of the Magazine Suhject-Index, Vol. I, 1907, 
 and the Annual Magazine Subject-Index for 
 1908 (1909). He married at Boston, May 
 IG, 1900, Adeline True Thompson. Resi- 
 dence: Ivoslindale, Boston. Office: 83 
 Francis IStreet, Fenway, Boston. 
 
 FAXON, Walter: 
 
 Zoologist : born in Koxbury, Mass., Feb. 
 4, 1848; son of Elisha and Hannah Mann 
 (Whiting) Faxon. He was educated at 
 Harvard University, A.B., 1871, Sc.D., 
 1878. He was assistant in the Zoological 
 Laboratory, 1873-1877; instructor, 1877- 
 1881, and assistant professor of zoology, 
 1881-1886, in Harvard, and assistant in 
 charge of mollusca and Crustacea in the 
 Museum, since 1886 in the Museum of Com- 
 parative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. Dr. 
 Faxon is a fellow of the American Ornithol- 
 ogists' Union; member of the Washington 
 Academy of Sciences, Washington Biologi- 
 cal Society and other zoological societies; 
 and is author of numerous scientific mono- 
 graphs and contributions. Residence: Lex- 
 ington, Mass. Address: Museum of Com- 
 parative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 FAY, Henry: 
 
 Chemist and educator; born in Williams- 
 burg, Pa., Jan. 12, 1868; son of John Fay, 
 M. D., and Sarah C. (Royer) Fay. He was 
 graduated from Lafayette College, A.B., 
 1889, A.M., 1892, and Johns Hopkins Uni- 
 versity, Ph.D., 1895. He was assistant in 
 the chemical laboratory of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad at Altoona, Pa., 1889-1890; lecture 
 assistant in Johns Hopkins University, 
 1893-1895; instructor in analytical chem- 
 istry in the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology, 1895-1900, assistant professor, 
 1900-1905, associate professor, 1905-1907, 
 and professor of analytical chemistry since 
 1907 in the same institution. Dr. Fay has 
 published many papers in scientific journals 
 on analytical chemistry and metallography. 
 
 He is a member of the American Chemical 
 Society, American Association for Testing 
 ^laterials, American Academy of Arts and 
 Sciences, British Iron and Steel Institute, 
 Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. University and 
 Technology Clubs of Boston, and Brae Burn 
 Country Club. He married, Sept. 19, 1908, 
 JNIarie F. Phelps, of Boston. Address: 
 IMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Bos- 
 ton. 
 
 FEARN, Richard Lee: 
 
 C'iiief of the Washington Bureau of the 
 Xcw York Tribune since 1902; born in 
 Mobile, Ala., Aug. 31, 1862; son of Dr. 
 Richard Lee and Elizabeth (Spear) Fearn. 
 He was educated at the University of the 
 South at Sewanee, Tenn., the University of 
 Alabama, and the Stevens Institute of 
 Technology at Hoboken, N. J., from which 
 he was graduated with the degree of M.E. 
 in 1884. He began newspaper work with 
 the Brooklyn Eagle in 1886, and was its 
 Washington correspondent, 1887-1891. He 
 was secretary of foreign affairs for the 
 World's Columbian Exposition, 1891-1893; 
 was on the W^ashington staff of the United 
 Press, 1893-1895, and one of its London 
 correspondents in 1895, joining the staff of 
 tlie New York Tribune in 1897. He is a 
 member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, 
 and he has been secretary and vice-presi- 
 dent and president of the Gridiron Club in 
 Washington. Mr. Fearn married in Balti- 
 more, April 21, 1887, Eleanor Egerton, and 
 they have two children. Residence: 2202 
 Massachusetts Avenue. Office: 1322 F. 
 Street, Washington, D. C. 
 
 FEDIGAN, John J.: 
 
 I'rnvincial of the Order of Saint August- 
 ine in the United States since July, 1898; 
 born in County Meath, Ireland, April 27, 
 1842; son of James Fcdigan and Ann (Mc- 
 Covern) Fcdigan, with whom he came to 
 the United States in childhood. He re- 
 ceived his education at Westchester, Penn., 
 and ^^■illnington, Del., until 1860, was grad- 
 uated from Saint Mary's College in 1864. 
 Tie then went to Ghent, Belgium, and en- 
 tered the novitiate of the Augustinian 
 
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 Fathers, where he completed the ecclesias- 
 tical course. He was ordained priest in 
 1868, filled' various pastorates, built several 
 churches, and in 1898 was made provincial 
 of the Augustinian order. Address : Bryn 
 Mawr, Pa. 
 
 FEEHAN, Daniel F.: 
 
 Catholic bishop; consecrated in 1907, 
 bishop of the Diocese of Fall River in Mas- 
 sachusetts. Address : Fall Eiver, Mass. 
 
 FELL, Thomas: 
 
 President of St. John's College; born in 
 Liverpool, England, July 15, 1851; son of 
 Thomas and Hannah (Corry) Fell. He was 
 educated at the Royal Institution School in 
 Liverpool, Kings' College, London, and the 
 University of London, England, and for 
 two years at the University of Munich. He 
 has received the degrees of A.B., A.M., and 
 Ph.D., and later the honorary degrees of 
 LL.D. from Hampden-Sidney College, Vir- 
 ginia, and of D.C.L. from the University of 
 the South. He was professor of ancient and 
 modern languages in New Windsor College, 
 Maryland, 1884-1886, has been president of 
 St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., since 
 July, 1886; and also became vice-chancel- 
 lor of the University of Maryland in Febru- 
 ary, 1907. Dr. Fell made a tour of Egypt, 
 India and China, 1874-1876, and of France, 
 Germany and Italy, 1878-1879. He is a ves- 
 trj'man of St. Anne's Episcopal Church in 
 Annapolis, a member of the American Acad- 
 emy of Political and Social Science, Ameri- 
 can Philological Society, the Phi Sigma 
 Kappa fraternity, the CarjDenters' Guild, of 
 London, England, and the University Club 
 of Baltimore. He married in London, April 
 21, 1881, Isabella L. Hunter, and they have 
 two children. Address: St. John's College, 
 Annapolis, Md. 
 
 FELLOWS, George Emory: 
 
 College president; born at Beaver Dam, 
 Wis., June 9, 1858; son of George and Eme- 
 line (Gurnee) Fellows. He was graduated 
 from Lawrence University, B.A., 1879, M.A., 
 1882, and received from that L^niversity the 
 L.H.D. degree in 1902; attended the Univer- 
 
 sity of Munich and Berne, 1888-1890, re- 
 ceived the Pli.D. degree from Berne, 1890; 
 and the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon 
 him by Bowdoin College in 1902. He served 
 as princii^al of Eau Claire (Wisconsin) 
 Seminary, 1879-1880; instructor at Ryan 
 High School, Applcton, Wis., from 1883 to 
 1885; at Central High School, New Orleans, 
 La., 1885-1888. He was principal of the 
 Aurora (111.) High School, 1890-1891; pro- 
 fessor of European history in Indiana Uni- 
 versity, 1891-1895; assistant professor of 
 history at the University of Chicago, 1895- 
 1902, and has been jn-esident and professor 
 of history at the University of Maine since 
 1902. He is a member of the New Orleans 
 Academy of Sciences, National Educational 
 Association, American Historical Associa- 
 tion; secretary of the National Association 
 of State Universities, and he is a member 
 of the University Club of Boston, and the 
 Twentieth Century Club of Bangor, Me. 
 Professor Fellows married in Randolph, 
 Wis., Oct. 25, 1881, Lucia Russell, and they 
 have three children. Address : Orono, Me. 
 
 FELT, Ephraim Porter: 
 
 Entomologist; born Salem, Mass., Jan. 7, 
 1868; son of Charles Wilson and ]Martha 
 Seeth (Ropes) Felt. He was educated in 
 the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and 
 Boston University, being graduated B.S. in 
 1891; Cornell University, D. S., 1894 (fel- 
 low in entomology, 1892-189.3). Dr. Felt is 
 a specialist in entomology; he was teacher 
 of natural sciences, in the Clinton Lineral 
 Institute (Fort Plain, N. Y.), 1893-1895; 
 assistant to State entomologist, 1895-1898; 
 and has been New York State entomologist 
 since December, 1898. Dr. Felt is editor of 
 the Journal of Economic Entomology, asso- 
 ciate editor of the Journal of the New York 
 Entomological Society, entomological editor 
 of the Country Gentleman, and consulting 
 entomologist of the Garden Magazine, is a 
 writer for several agricultural and horticul- 
 tural papers and has published numer'ous 
 articles on entomology. He has prepared 
 numeroiL= bulletins and reports issued by the 
 State, the more important being: Scale In- 
 sects of Importance ; Mosquitos of New York 
 State; and a monograph on Insects Affect- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 iiiy Park and WuoiUaiiil Trees, (a quarto 
 volume of over 800 pages, illustrated by 70 
 plates). lni]M)rtant investigations on aquat- 
 ic insects have been conducted under his di- 
 rection. Dr. ]''olt is a inend)er of the Society 
 for the Promotion of Agricultural Science, 
 the Western New York Horticultural Soci- 
 ety, New York State Fruit Growers' Associa- 
 tion. Connecticut Promological Society, fel- 
 low (if the American Association for the Ad- 
 vanci'Uient of Science; member of Sigma Xi. 
 the Association of Economic Entomologists 
 (past i)resident) Entomological Society of 
 Washington, Entomological Society of Amer- 
 ica, Societe Entomologique de France, New 
 York Entomological Society, Albany Ento- 
 mological Society, Albany Institute, and the 
 Historical and Art Society of Albany. Dr. 
 Felt married as Berlin, Mass., June 24, 1896, 
 Helen IMaria Otterson. and they have three 
 children. Address: Geological Hall. Al- 
 bany, N. Y. 
 
 FELTON, Samuel Morse: 
 
 Railway president; l)orn in Pliiladeli)hia, 
 Feb. :i, 1853. He was educated in the Mas- 
 sachu-setts Institute of Technology, Boston, 
 and entered railroad service, 1808, as rod- 
 man on the Chester Creek Railroad; became 
 leveller and assistant engineer of the Lan- 
 caster Railroad; 1870-1871; chief engineer 
 of the Chester and Delaware River Railroad. 
 187.'M874; general superintendent of the 
 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Rail- 
 way, 1874-1881, general sui)erintendent of 
 the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis, 
 Little Miami and Cincinnati and Musking- 
 um Valleys railways, 1881-1882; general 
 manager of the New York and New England 
 Railroad, 1882-1884. He became assistant 
 to the president of the Erie Railroad from 
 February to November. 1884; general mana- 
 lii-y of tlie New York, Pennsylvania and 
 Ohio Railroad; 1884-1885, vice-president 
 Erie Railroad, 188;1-18!)0; president of the 
 Cincinnati New Orleans and Texas Pacific 
 Railway Company, 1890-1893 and after that 
 receiver of the same road until 1899, and 
 during a portion of this time also president 
 ICast Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail- 
 way and Loviisvillc Soutlicrn Railroad, re- 
 ceiver Kentucky and Indiana I'.ridge Com- 
 
 pany, June 1, 1897, to Sepl. 7, 1899. Was 
 president of the Chicago and Alton Railroad 
 from 1899 to 1907, and during the same per- 
 iod president of the Joliet and Chicago and 
 the Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago 
 Railroads, Since 1907 he has been presi- 
 dent of the jMexican Central Railroad and of 
 the Mexican-American Steamship Company, 
 He is a member of the American Society of 
 Civil Engineers, Sons of tlie Revolution, So- 
 ciety of Colonial Wars, Ohio Society, and 
 New iMigland Society in New York; also 
 member of the Chicago Athletic Association, 
 and Chicago and Chicago Golf Clubs; the 
 St, Louis and St. Louis Racquet Clubs; the 
 Commercial Club of •incinuati ; the Univer- 
 sity and City Midday Chibs of New Y^ork, 
 and the Jockey Club of the City of Mexico. 
 Address: Chicago. 
 
 FENN, Harry: 
 
 Artist; l)orn in Riehuioiid, Surrey. Eng- 
 land, Sept, 14, 1838; son of James and Mar- 
 ian (Bridges) Fenn, He was educated in 
 England and came to the United States in 
 18.}7, He was the suggester and principal 
 illustrator of: Picturesque America; Pic- 
 turesque Europe; Picturesque Palestine, 
 Sinai and Eg>pt; illustrator of many books 
 and contributor to leading American maga- 
 zines. He was the recipient of a medal 
 from the World's Columbian Exposition, 
 Chicago, 1S93. Mr. Fenn was one of the 
 founders of the American Water Color So- 
 ci(!ty; is a member of the Now York Water 
 Color Club and the Salmagundi Club. He 
 married in Brooklyn, N, Y., Sept, 10, 1862, 
 Marian A. Thompson, and' they have four 
 daughters and a son. He has a summer 
 liome at Rockyneck, East Gloucester, Mass. 
 Achlress: The Majestic, 684 St, Nicholas 
 Avenue, New A'ork City, 
 
 FENN, William Wallace: 
 
 Dean of llarviud Divinity School: born in 
 Boston, Feb. 1:^. 1S(;2; son of William Wal- 
 lace and ll;innali Morrill (Osgood) Fenn. 
 lie was giadiialccl fmni P>oston Latin School, 
 1880, from ilarvnrd. A.l*.., 1884, A.M, and 
 B.D., 1887. He was ordained in the Unitar- 
 ian ministry in 1890; was minister of Unity 
 
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 Clmicli, riltsllrld, Mass., 1887-lS!)!. nnd" of 
 the Kirsi Unitarian Society of Chicago, 18!)1- 
 l!tOl; .since 1001, Bussoy professor of the- 
 ology, and since 1006 dean of Harvard Di- 
 vinity School. He married at Lunesborough, 
 Mass., May 28, 1801, Faitli Huntington Fish- 
 er, and they have a daughter and four sons. 
 Address: Harvard Divinity School, Cam- 
 bridge, Mass. 
 
 FEREBEE, Nelson Macpherson: 
 
 Medical director U. S. Navj', retired; 
 born in North Carolina. He was appointed 
 from that State assistant surgeon U. S. 
 Xavy Sept. 12, 1872, and served in various 
 sea and shore duties as a medical olTicer of 
 the navy, reaching the grade of medical 
 director U. S. Navy Jan. 26, 1002. He was 
 retired, Dec. 31, 1904, with the rank of 
 captain for incapacity resulting from inci- 
 dent of service. Address: Oxford, N. C. 
 
 EERGUSON, Louis Aloysius: 
 
 Electrical engineer; born at Dorchester, 
 Mass., Aug. 10, 1867; son of Denis and 
 Louisa Ferguson. He was graduated from 
 the ^Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
 B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1888, and 
 since that time has been engaged with the 
 Chicago Edison Company, successively as 
 electrical engineer, general superintendent, 
 and since July, 1002, second vice-president 
 of that company and of the Commonwealth 
 Electric Company, the two companies con- 
 trolling the electric lighting business of Chi- 
 cago. Upon the consolidation of these com- 
 panies in 1007 he was made second vice-pres- 
 ident of the Commonwealth Edison Com- 
 ])any. Mr. Ferguson was elected president 
 of the Association of Edison Illuminating 
 Companies in 1901 and again in 1902. The 
 latter year he was also elected president of 
 the National Electric Light Association. In 
 1908 he was elected president of the Ameri- 
 can Institute of Electrical Engineers. He is 
 a director of the North Shore Electric Com- 
 ])any, and is a member of the Commercial, 
 and Union League Clubs, Chicago Athletic 
 Association, Midday and University Clubs 
 of Chicago, Onwentsia and Glen View Golf 
 Clubs and the Country Club of Evanston. 
 Mr. Ferguson married in Dorcliester, Mass., 
 
 June 21. 1S02, IMartha Sargent. Jenkins. 
 They haxc liail imw iliililicn. l.n\iis, John 
 (deceased). Art hiii- and Martha. Itesidence, 
 Evanston, III. Ollicc: i:!0 .\dams Street, 
 Chicago. 
 
 FERGUSON, Samuel David: 
 
 Missionary l)isho)); born in Charleston, 
 S. C, Jan.' 1, 1842; son of Edward and 
 Roseine Elizabeth Ferguson. He emigrated 
 with his parents to Liberia in 1842, and was 
 trained in the IMission Schools, received the 
 degree of D.D. from Kenyon College in 188"), 
 and that of D.C.L. from Liberia College in 
 1803. He was ordered deacon in 1865 and 
 ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal 
 Church by Bishop Payne, in 1868. He has 
 been missionary bishop of Cape Palmas and 
 vicinity since 1885, having been consecrated 
 in that year at Grace Church in New York 
 City, by Bishop Lee, Stevens, Littlejohn, 
 Starkey and H. C. Potter. He is author 
 of numerous addresses, pamphlets, etc. 
 Bishop Ferguson is the first of the African 
 race to be consecrated to the espiscopate of 
 the Protestant Episcopal Church. He has 
 been twice married, first in April, 1863, to 
 Mary Leonora ^Montgomery, and after her 
 death to Sarah Elizabeth Brown. Address: 
 Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa. 
 
 EERNALD, Bert M.: 
 
 Governor of Maine; elected at the State 
 election in September, 1908, on the Republi- 
 can ticket, to the office of governor for the 
 two-year term expiring in January, 1911. 
 Address: Augusta, Me. 
 
 EERNALD, Charles Henry: 
 
 Entomologist and educator; born at ^Mt. 
 Desert, Me.. March 16, 1838; son of Eben 
 and Sophronia (Wasgatt) Fernald. He at- 
 tended public scliools and worked on the 
 home farm until seventeen years old; then 
 went to sea during the sunnners, rising 
 from the lowest position to the highest, and 
 taught school winters and attended' ]Maine 
 Wesleyan Seminary; entered tlie U. S. Navy 
 as seaman in 1862, serving until 1865 and 
 becoming line officer, and resigned at the end 
 of the war. He completed his college courses 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 wliile serving; in the Navy, lu'canie principal 
 of Litchfield Academy one year, and of 
 llouUon Academy five years; and' he re- 
 ceived the degree of A.M. from Bowdoin 
 College, 1S71, and Ph.D. from the Univer- 
 sity of ^Maine in 1886. He was professor of 
 natural history in the University of ^Maine, 
 1871-1SS6, and since 1886 has been professor 
 01 zoology in the ^lassachusctts Agricultural 
 College, of which institution he was acting 
 president 1891-1892. Professor Fernald has 
 attained distinction as a scientist in the field 
 of entomology- by his researches as entomolo- 
 gist of the State Board of Agriculture and 
 independently in reference to the Crambida; 
 Pteroforda; and Pyrolids of North America, 
 and Tortricidaj of the world. He bore a 
 prominent part in the gypsie moth investi- 
 gations of the State of Massachusetts, and 
 has written numerous monographs and ar- 
 ticles on entomological subjects. He is a 
 member and was president in 1896 of the 
 Association of Economic Entomologists; 
 member of the Boston Society of Natural 
 History and fellow of the London Entomo- 
 logical Society. He married at Tremont, 
 Me., Aug. 24, 1862, Maria Elizabeth Smith 
 and they have one son, Professor Henry T. 
 Fernald. Address: Amherst, Mass. 
 
 FERNALD, Henry Torsey: 
 
 Entomologist; born at Litclifield, j\Te., 
 April 17, 1866; son of Professor Charles 
 Henry and ]\Iaria Elizabeth (Smith) Fern- 
 ald. He was educated at the University of 
 Maine, from which lie received the degrees 
 of B.S. in 1885 and M.S. in 1888, then tak- 
 ing post-graduate studies at Johns Hopkins 
 University, from which he received the de- 
 gree of Ph.D. in 1890. He was professor of 
 zoiilogy in the Pennsylvania State College, 
 1S90-1899, and State zoologist of Pennsyl- 
 vania, 1898-1899; and since 1899 has been 
 professor of entomology in the Massachu- 
 setts Agricultural College; also State nur- 
 sery inspector of Massachusetts, since 1902. 
 Professor Fernald is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science, the American Association of Econo- 
 mic Entomologists, American Society of Nat- 
 uralists and otlier scientific societies. Dr. 
 Fernald married in Baltimore, Md., 1890, 
 
 Minna B. Simon, and they have one son 
 and two dauglilers Address: Amherst. 
 Mass. 
 
 FERRIS, Harry B.: 
 
 Physician and ])rofessor of Anatomy; 
 ^ledical Department, Yale University; born 
 at Old Greenwich, Conn., May 21, 1865; son 
 of Samuel Holmes Ferris and ]\Iary F. 
 (Clark) Ferris. He was graduated from 
 Yale, B.A., 1887, and Yale Medical School 
 as M.D. in 1890. He is a member of the 
 Connecticut Medical Society. New Haven 
 County and City Societies, American Natur- 
 alists, American Zoological Society, Ameri- 
 can Anatomy Society, American Microscopi- 
 cal Society, the Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, 
 Delta Epsilon Iota Chapter of Nu Sigma 
 Nu (medical). Dr. Ferris is also a member 
 of the Graduates' and Lawn Clubs. He 
 married at Sound Beach, Conn.. June 23, 
 1892, Helen Whiting Ferris, and they have 
 two children. Residence: 395 St. Ronan 
 Street. Office: 150 York Street, New Ha- 
 ven, Conn. 
 
 FERRIS, Madison J. H.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, Aug. 4, 
 1846; son of Oliver Lockwood and Hannah 
 (Holmes) Ferris. He was educated in Char- 
 lier's French Institute, New York City, and 
 finished his legal education in law school, 
 lie studied law in the office of the Hon. 
 Roger A. Pryor, 1867; and was admitted to 
 the bar in 1868, and engaged in politics in 
 1871, speaking in many States in support 
 of the Democratic ticket in the national 
 campaigns. Since 1895 he has given exclus- 
 ive attention to the legal matters of the Sal- 
 vation Army, througliout the United States, 
 and has visited Europe twice in that connec- 
 tion. Mr. Ferris is a Democrat in politics 
 and a Salvationist in his religious views. 
 He is a member of the Colfax Lodge, Royal 
 Arcanum; the New York County Lawyers 
 Association, Triune Lodge No. 159 of F. & 
 A. Masons at Arlington, N. J.: director in 
 tlie Hudson County Building and Loan Asso- 
 ciation; director in and counsel to the Ar- 
 lington Home Protective Association: trus- 
 tee of the Salvation Army corporation; di- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 roc'lor of (lie Kcliaiicc Realty Company, Tn- 
 dustrial lluiuos Company; tnistco in The 
 Tncorjjoraled Trustees of TIio Salvation 
 Army in Pennsylvania and secretary of the 
 Jkiard, and director in The Salvation Army 
 of Massachiisotts Incorporated and secretary 
 of the Board. He married first, in New 
 York City in 1873, Laura Barker, who died 
 in 1884; and second', July 9, 1902, Mrs. Car- 
 oline L. Welsh, and has five children: Eva 
 Bruce, born in 1881, Madison B., born in 
 1885, Paith E., born in 1884, Charles R., 
 born in ISSfl, and Henry J. L., born in 1889. 
 Address: 120 West 14th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 PESSENDEN, Franklin Goodridge: 
 
 Jurist; born in Fitchburg, Mass., June 20, 
 1849 ; son of Charles and Martha Elizabeth 
 (Newton) Fessend'en, grandson of Nathan 
 and Jane (Goodridge) Fessenden, and of 
 Martin and Susan (Chamberlain) Newton, 
 and a descendant of Nicholas and Margaret 
 (Cheney) Fessenden, who came from Can- 
 terbury, England, to Cambridge, Mass., in 
 1674; of ^Yilliam Goodridge, Watertown, 
 1636, and Richard Newton, Sudbury, Mass., 
 1640. Mr. Fessenden was graduated from 
 the Fitchburg High School and then studied 
 in Paris, France. He was instructor in 
 French at Harvard. He took the full three- 
 year course at the Harvard Law School, 
 1870-1873, and received LL.B. He prac- 
 tised law in Fitchburg, 1873, and in 
 Greenfield, Mass., 1874-1891. He was ad- 
 mitted to practice in the United States 
 Courts in 1883; was a lecturer on criminal 
 law in Dane Law School, Harvard Univer- 
 sity, 1882-1883. He was master in chan- 
 cery for many years; was attorney for the 
 National Bank of Greenfield and district 
 attorney pro tempore for the Northwestern 
 District of Massachusetts. He served as a 
 trustee of the Prospect Hill School from 
 1881; of the Franklin Savings Institution 
 from 1884, and became vice-president of the 
 board. He was appointed by Governor 
 William E. Russell a justice of the Supreme 
 Court of Commonwealth of INIassachusetts, 
 in August, 1891. He is a member of the 
 Greenfield Club; of the Colonial Club of 
 Cambridge, and of the Union, University 
 
 and Tavern Clubs of Hoston. He is a con- 
 tributor to tlic ll:u\:ii(l Law Review on in- 
 tricate points of law. He married, Oct. 3, 
 1S7S, Mary Jane Rowley. Residence: High 
 and Main Streets, Greenfield, Mass. 
 
 FESSENDEN, Reginald Aubrey: 
 
 1^'dectrical engineer; born at Bolton, Pro- 
 vince of Quebec, Canada, Oct. 6, 1866; son 
 of Rev. E. J. Fessenden, of a New England 
 family of Cambridge, Mass., and Clementina 
 (Trendolm) Fessenden. He was educated at 
 tlie De Veanx Military School at Suspen- 
 sion Bridge, N. Y., and Trinity College 
 School, Port Hope, Ontario, until 1883, 
 then studied electrical engineering practi- 
 cally. He held prominent positions with the 
 Edison Company, New Y^'ork, the laboratory 
 of Thomas A. Edison at Menlo Park, New 
 Jersey, and with the Westinghouse Electric 
 and Manufacturing Company at Newark, N. 
 J. He was professor of physics and elec- 
 trical engineering in Purdue University, 
 1892-1893, and professor of electrical engi- 
 neering in the Western University of Penn- 
 sylvania from 1893 to 1900, when he be- 
 came siJecial agent of the United States 
 Weather Bureau. He is now general man- 
 ager of the National Electric Signalling 
 Company, having perfected a number of in- 
 ventions in connection with wireless teleg- 
 raphy, developing the Fessenden system of 
 aerial communication. He is author of 
 many papers and monographs relating to 
 physics and electricity. Mr. Fessenden 
 married in 1889, Helen May Trott, of Ber- 
 muda, and they have a son. Address: 
 Brant Rock, Mass. 
 
 FETTEROLF, Adam H.: 
 
 President of Girard College since 1883; 
 born in Perkiomen, Pa., Nov. 25, 1841. He 
 was educated in Ursinus College, Pa., re- 
 ceived the honorary degrees of A.M., 1866 
 and Ph.D., 1878, from Lafayette College, 
 Pa., and Hon. LL.D. from Delaware College, 
 Del., 1886. He began life as a public school 
 teacher; became principal of Freeland' Sem- 
 inary, now Ursinus College, in 1865 ; prin- 
 cipal of Andalusia Hall, Pennsylvania, 1870- 
 1880; vice-president of Girard College, 1880- 
 1883, and since then president. Dr. Fetter- 
 
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 MKX OF A^rERICA. 
 
 olf nianicd liist, in ISfi.'), Annio, daughter 
 tif (ieoi<re Hoijioslu-imor of Gcniiantown. Pa., 
 and second, in ISSJi, Laura ^I., danphler of 
 William D. ^langam of Now York City. 
 Address: (Wrard Collofro, TMiil;id(dpliia. 
 
 FEWKES, Jesse Walter: 
 
 Kthnologist; born at Newton, Mass., Nov. 
 14, 1850. He was graduated from Har- 
 vard College, A.B.. 1875, A.M. (in natural 
 history) and Ph.D., 1877; then studied zo- 
 ology at the University of Leipzig, 1878- 
 1880. He was assistant at the Museum of 
 Comparative Zoiilogy of Harvard College, 
 1881-1889, editor of the Journal of Ethnolo- 
 gy and Archeology, 1800-1894 and since 1895 
 has been ethnologist of the Bureau of 
 American Kthnology in the Smithsonian In- 
 stitution at Washington. Dr. Fewkes is a 
 fellow of the American Association of the 
 Advancement of Science; member of the 
 American Society of Naturalists, American 
 Folk-lore Society; fellow of the American 
 Academy of Arts and Sciences, Washington 
 Anthropological Society and the Deutsche 
 Anthropologische Gesellschaft. He is au- 
 thor of many monographs on American 
 archa>ology and ethnology, and is especially 
 well-known for his researches in relation 
 to the ceremonies of the Moqui Indians, 
 and the ruins of the Southwest. He has 
 also had charge of the excavation and re- 
 pair of Casa Grande, Ariz., Cliff Palace and 
 Spruce Tree House, in the Mesa Verde Na- 
 tional Park, Colo., for the Smithsonian In- 
 stitution and the Department of the In- 
 terior. Dr. Fewkes married at Cainbridge, 
 Ma.ss., April 4, 1898, Harriet 0. Cutler. 
 Address: Smithsonian Tn';(itii1ioii, Wash- 
 ington, 1). ('. 
 
 FIALA. Anthony: 
 
 Author, lecturer; born in Jersey City 
 lleiglils. \. J., Sept. 19, 18G9; .son of An- 
 thony and Annie (Kohoiit) Fiala. He was 
 educated in the public schools of Jersey 
 City and Brooklyn, Cooper Union and tlie 
 National .Xcadcmy of Design. He began 
 business life as designer and stone artist 
 in liUiograpliy : later was assistant in a 
 pliysical and chemical laboratory; five years 
 news])a|)er artist and cartoonist. He install- 
 
 ed the photoengraving plant for the r>rook- 
 lyii Daily Eagle and was in charge of Art 
 and Engraving Department of that paper, 
 1894-1899. Pie was war correspondent for 
 the Brooklyn Daily Eagle while a troo]>er 
 ill 1"ioop C, 1st New York Volunteer Caval- 
 ry in the Spanish- American War, 189S; 
 took part in the engagement of Coamo, and 
 in skirmishes at Asomante and Aibonito. 
 He was commissioned battalion quartermas- 
 ter and 1st lieutenant, 1th Regiment Na- 
 tional Guard of New Y'ork, June 18, 1900, 
 and was instructor of military engineering 
 of the same; commissioned second lieutenant 
 aijd quartermaster Squadron " C " National 
 Guard of New York, May 22, 1908; pho- 
 tographer of the Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Ex- 
 pedition, 1901-1902; commanding officer of 
 the Ziegler Polar Expedition, 1903-1905. 
 He reached 82 degrees 4 minutes North Lat- 
 itiule; explored Franz Josef Archipelago, 
 discovering new islands, etc., the scientific 
 results of this Ziegler Polar Expedition, be- 
 ing published by the National Geographic 
 Society, Washington, D. C, 1907. He is 
 secretary and treasurer of the Ziegler Pub- 
 lishing Company for the Blind, and adver- 
 tising manager of the Realty Trust Com- 
 pany, New York City. Mr. Fiala is a mem- 
 ber of the American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science, American Geographical 
 Society, National Geographic Society; hon- 
 orary member of the Y'ukon Polar Institute; 
 honorary member of the Societa dei Reduci 
 Dalle Patrie Battaghe di San Giovanni in 
 Persicoto, Bologna, Italy, and a membt'r of 
 the Explorers, Arctic and Ends of the Earth 
 Clubs of New York City. He is author of: 
 Troop C in Service, 1899; Fighting the Po- 
 lar Jce. 1900. Mr. Fiala married in Nash- 
 ville, Tcnn.. Pec. (i. 1900. Mary Clare Pur- 
 year, and llicy liave two sons. Residence: 
 221 Eastern i'aikway, Brooklyn. OlTice: 00 
 Liberty Street. .New ^■n|■k City. 
 
 FIEBEGER, Gustave Joseph: 
 
 JCngineer, soldier, educator; born in Ak- 
 ron. Ohio, May 9, 1858; son of Jo.seph and 
 Rosalie May Fiebeger. He was graduated 
 from the U. S. Military Academy, West 
 Point. 1879. He served as officer in the 
 Corps of lOngineers, U. S. A., 1879-1890; 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Avas detailed to river and harbor improve- 
 ments in Virginia, North Carolina, and 
 Washington, D. C, and since 1896, has 
 been professor of civil and military engi- 
 neering in the U. S. Military Academy, 
 with the rank of colonel, U. S. A. He is a 
 member of the American Society of Civil 
 Engineers, and of the Century Association 
 of New York City. He married in Akron, 
 Ohio, in 1887. Anna Perkins Upson. Ad- 
 dress: West Point, N. Y. 
 
 FIELD, Roswell Martin: 
 
 Journalist and author; born in St. Louis, 
 Mo., Sept. 1, 1851; son of Roswell M. Field, 
 and brother of the late Eugene Field, poet 
 and literateur. He was educated in Phillips 
 Exeter Academy, New Hampshire and in the 
 University of IMissouri. After leaving the 
 University, Mr. Field engaged in New^spaper 
 work; and he has been connected with lead- 
 ing daily papers in San Francisco, St. Louis, 
 Kansas City, New York and, during recent 
 years in Chicago, where he has been on the 
 stall" of the Evening Post, Chicago Tribune 
 and other papers. He collaborated with his 
 brother Eugene, in some of his most famous 
 productions, including imitations and new 
 renderings of the classics. Besides many 
 newspaper and magazine contributions Mr. 
 Field is author of the books: In Sunflower 
 Land; Echoes from the Sabine Farm; The 
 Passing of Mother's Portrait; The Romance 
 of an Old Fool; The Bondage of Ballinger; 
 Little Miss Dee; Madeline. Residence: 35 
 Bittersweet Place, Chicago. 
 
 FIELD, Wells Laflln: 
 
 Rear-admiral U. S. Navy, retired; born in 
 St. Louis, Jan. 31, 1846; son of Matthew D. 
 and Clarissa (Laflin) Field. He was ap- 
 pointed from New York to the U. S. Naval 
 Academy, Nov. 20, 1862, was graduated in 
 the class of 1867; promoted ensign, 1868; 
 master. 1879; lieutenant commander, 1892; 
 connuander, April, 1898; captain, June 16, 
 1902; and retired Nov. 20, 1902, after more 
 I ban forty years' service, with the rank of 
 icar admiral. He is a member of the Army 
 and Navy Chib of Washington, D. C, and of 
 I he University, New York Yacht and Larch- 
 mont Yacht Clubs of New Y''ork City. Ad- 
 
 dross: 190 Mojitaguc Street, Brooklvn, 
 N. Y. 
 
 FILLEBROWN, Charles Bowdoin: 
 
 INIanufacturer and political economist; 
 born at Wintlirop, Me., Dec. 26. 1842; son of 
 James Bowdoin and Almira (Butler) Fille- 
 brown. He was educated at Kent's Hill, 
 Me., and' at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., 
 in 1862, and from that school entered the 
 Twenty-fourth Maine Infantry for nine 
 months, then to the Twenty-ninth ^Maine In- 
 fantry, in which he served for three years in 
 tlie First Division of the Nineteenth Army 
 Corps. He was aide-de-camp on staff of 
 (Jeneral William Dwight, commanding the 
 First Brigade during Banks' Second Red 
 River Expedition, and again when he com- 
 manded the Division in Sheridan's Shenan- 
 doah Valley Campaign. The last year of 
 service ending June 1866, he was acting as- 
 sistant adjutant-general of the Military Dis- 
 trict of Eastern South Carolina, garrisoned 
 by the First Brigade. He attended the Mas- 
 sachusetts Institute of Technology, 1866- 
 1867, and has since been engaged in the 
 dry goods business. From 1881 to 1903 he 
 was i^resident and general manager of the 
 Glenark Knitting Company at Woonsocket, 
 R. I. 'Mv. Fillebrown has attained great 
 prominence as a writer and propagandist of 
 the Single Tax theory of Henry George, and 
 his more important contributions to this 
 sub j act are preserved in book form in " The 
 A B C of Taxation," Doubled'ay, Page & Co., 
 1909. He married at Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 
 9, 1873, Mary Louise Hall, who died in 
 1887; he has one daughter, Mrs. Louise 
 Jackson Murray. Residence: Newton, 
 Mass. Office: 68 Essex Street, Boston, 
 Mass. 
 
 FILLER, Mervin G. : 
 
 Professor of Latin; born at Boiling 
 Springs, Pa.. Oct. 9, 1873; son of Peter P. 
 and Elizabeth (Shuh) Filler, lie was grad- 
 uated from Dickinson College A.B., 1893, A. 
 M., 1895; studied in the University of Chi- 
 cago in 1900-1901. and the University of 
 Pennsylvania, 1906-1907. He was vice-prin- 
 ci\n\\ of Dickinson Preparatory School, 1893- 
 1899, and has been professor of Latin in 
 
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 Dickinson College since 1899. He served as 
 dean of tlie Pennsylvania Chautauqua Sum- 
 mer .School for teachers, 1902-1907, and in 
 1907 he was elected Chancellor of the Penn- 
 sylvania Chautauqua and Summer Scliool. 
 He is a member of the American Philological 
 Association, Archajological Institute of 
 America, Phi Beta Kappa Society, and 
 the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He mar- 
 ried at Boiling Springs, Pa., June 12, 1895, 
 Mildred E. Bcitzel, ( and they have three 
 children. Address: Carlisle, Pa. 
 
 FINCH, Edward Ridley: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, Nov. 15, 
 1873. He was graduated from Yale as A.B., 
 189;} (received special honors in political 
 science and law) ; from the Columbia Uni- 
 versity Law School, LL.B., 1898, and was 
 admitted to the New Y^'ork bar in 1898. He 
 was a member of the firm of Tappan and 
 Finch, now Finch and Coleman. Mr. Finch 
 was a member of the New York State As- 
 sembly, 1901-1904; author of bill placing 
 these who fail to register and vote upon pre- 
 ferred list for jury service; also laws de- 
 signed to protect the labor of women and 
 children, known as child labor laws; identi- 
 fied with educational laws and movements, 
 and author of important measures affecting 
 the government of the City of New York. 
 He is a writer and a lecturer on Municipal 
 Government; a member of the National Bar 
 Association, State Bar Association, Associ- 
 ation of the Bar of the City of New York, 
 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, St. Nich- 
 olas Society, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Sons 
 of the American Revolution. He is identified 
 in New York City with the work of the bet- 
 terment and uplifting of boj's and young 
 men, and is a trustee of the Southern Dis- 
 pensary and a director of Legal Aid Soci- 
 ety. He is a member of the City, Republi- 
 can, and Yale Clubs, Baltusrol Golf and 
 Phiinfield Tennis and Golf Clubs and the 
 Fort Orange Country Club of Albany, N. Y. 
 Residence: 37 Fifth Avenue. Ollicc: 32 
 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 FINCH, John Wellington: 
 
 Geologist and mine manager; born at 
 Leltanon, N. Y., Nov. 3, 1873; son of De 
 
 Loss and Mary Ellen (Lillibridge) Finch. 
 He was graduated from Colgate Academy, 
 1890, from Colgate University, A.B., 1897, 
 instructor in geology and physics, and A.M. 
 in 1898 at Colgate University, and graduate 
 student and instructor in geology in the 
 University of Chicago, 1898-1899. He was 
 engaged in geological work in Indian Terri- 
 tory and Texas for the Chicago, Rock Island 
 and Pacific Railway in 1899; was geologist 
 for the Gold Coin, Doctor and other mines 
 in Cripple Creek in 1900 for the Portland 
 Gold JMining Company, and Stratton's Inde- 
 pendence, Limited, in 1901; made examina- 
 tions in Colorado, Arizona, Mexico, Mon- 
 tana, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada for the 
 Guggenheim Exploration Company, Amal- 
 gamated Copper Company, etc., 1901-1903; 
 conducted a geological engineering office in 
 Denver, 1903-1906, and was State geologist 
 of Colorado, 1901-1906. In 1906 and 1907 
 he was general manager for United Steates 
 Senator George S. Nixon and George Wing- 
 field, and director and general manager of 
 the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company 
 and other mining companies of Nevada and 
 California, and he spent the year 1908, in 
 travel in Europe. Mr. Fincli has visited 
 nearly every State in the United States, 
 much of Mexico and some of Canada. He is 
 a member of the American Institute of Min- 
 ing Engineers, the Colorado Scientific Soci- 
 ety, the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, the Nevada Mining 
 and Scientific Society, and is president of 
 the latter; and he is a member of the Delta 
 Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Mr. Finch is 
 a member of the Denver. University, Coun- 
 try and Mile High Clubs of Denver, and the 
 Rocky Mountain Club of New York City. 
 He married in Philadelphia, April 10, 1900, 
 J'^thel lone Woods, and they have a daugh- 
 ter, lone Lillibridge Finch. Offices : Rooms 
 14-17, No. 71 IJroadway, New York City, 
 and 811-812 Ideal Building, Denver, Colo. 
 
 FINCK, Henry Theophilus: 
 
 •Journalist and autlior; born in Bethel, 
 Mo., Sept. 22, 1854; son of Henry C. and 
 Beatrice (Fink) Finck. He was graduated 
 froTn Harvard L^niversily as A.B., with high- 
 est honors in philosophy in 1876; and the 
 
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 Harris Fellowship in Berlin and Heidelberg. 
 Since 1881 he has been musical critic and 
 general editorial writer on the staff of the 
 New York Evening Post and the Nation. In 
 politics he is an Independent. Mr. Finck is 
 author of: Pacific Coast Scenic Tour; 
 Spain and INIorocco; Lotos Time in Japan; 
 Romantic Love and Personal Beauty; Primi- 
 tive Love; Wagner and his Works; Chopin 
 and other Musical Essays; Paderewski and 
 His Art ; Songs and Song ■\^^riters ; Grieg 
 and his Music; Development of Musical In- 
 struments. Mr. Finck married in 1890, Ab- 
 bie H. Cushnian. Address: Evening Post, 
 New York City. 
 
 FINE, Henry Burchard: 
 
 Mathematician and educator; born in 
 Chambersburg, Pa., Sept. 14, 1858; son of 
 Lambert Suydam and Mary (Burchard) 
 Fine. He was educated in Princeton, A.B., 
 1880, and the University of Leipzig, and re- 
 ceived the honorary degree LL.D. from Wil- 
 liams College, 1909, Ph.D., 1885. He was 
 tutor in mathematics at Princeton, 1881- 
 1884; assistant professor, 1885-1890, and 
 since 1891 has been Dod professor of math- 
 ematics in Princeton University, of which he 
 has also been dean of the faculty since 1908. 
 Professor Fine is author of: The Number 
 System in Algebra; also of a College Alge- 
 bra, and (with Professor H. D. Thompson) 
 of a Coordinate Geometry; and is also au- 
 thor of Monographs and Papers on the sin- 
 gulai-ities of curves, the functions defined by 
 differential equations, the number concept 
 and other mathematical subjects. Address: 
 Princeton, N. .T. 
 
 FINK, Evert Scott: 
 
 IN'al estate; born in Wheeling, W. Va., 
 May ."). 187.S; son of John and Elizabeth 
 (Scott) Fink. He was educated at the Uni- 
 versity of Ziirich, Switzerland. He is presi- 
 dent of the Celtic Avenue Realty Company, 
 president. Metropolitan Dredging Company; 
 vice-president, Turner-Fink Company, Mau- 
 rice Realty Company, and Mercantile Land 
 and Improvement Company; director Dau- 
 phin Realty Company, Conestoga Realty 
 Company, Thompson Avenue Realty Com- 
 pany. He is a Republican and a member of 
 
 the Illinois Society of New York, of the 
 Lawyers', and City Clubs, and the Faiifield 
 County Golf Club. He married at Wat- 
 seka. 111., Nov. 8. 1898, Alice Alter. Ad- 
 dress: 115 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 FINK, Henry: 
 
 Chairman of the Board of Directors of the 
 Norfolk & Western Railway; born in Ger- 
 many, Nov. 29, 1831. He was educated in 
 the Polytechnic School of Darmstadt. Mr. 
 Fink has been in railway service since 
 March 20, 1851 ; was rodman and transit- 
 man of the Western Maryland Railroad, 
 1851: typographer and draughtsman on sur- 
 veys and location of the Parkersburg Branch 
 of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 1851- 
 1852, resident engineer on construction of 
 the same branch, 1852-1855, resident engi- 
 neer on construction of tlie Norfolk & Peters- 
 burg Railroad, 1855-1858; master road and 
 master of transportation, Norfolk & Peters- 
 burg Railroad, 1858-1867; superintendent 
 of transportation of the same road and 
 South Side and Virginia and Tennessee Rail- 
 roads, 1807-1871; superintendent of trans- 
 portation of the Atlantic, Mississippi and 
 Ohio Railroad, 1871-1876; receiver and gen- 
 eral manager of the same road. 1876-1881; 
 second vice-president and general manager of 
 the Norfolk & Western Railroad, 1881-1883; 
 vice-president and general manager of the 
 East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail- 
 way, and general manager of the Virginia, 
 Tennessee & Georgia Air Line, 1881-1888; 
 receiver of the East Tennessee, Virginia & 
 Georgia Railway, 1885-1880, vice-president 
 of the same road, 1880-1892; vice-president 
 of the Richmond & Danville Railroad, April- 
 December, 1887; vice-president of the Mem- 
 phis & Charleston Railroad, 1887-1892; vice- 
 president of the Cincinnati, New Orleans & 
 Texas Pacific Railway, 1890-1893; vice-pres- 
 ident of the Alabama Great Southern Rail- 
 road, 1890-1893; receiver of the East Tennes- 
 see, Virginia and Georgia Railway, 1892- 
 1894 ; receiver of the Memphis & Charleston 
 Railroad, 1892-1898; receiver of the Nor- 
 folk & Western Railroad, 1895-1896; presi- 
 dent of the reorganized company, the Nor- 
 folk & Western Railway, 1896-1902, and 
 chairman of the Board of Directors, same 
 
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 road, since 1902. Residence: Plaza Hotel. 
 Ortice: 40 Exchange Place, New York City. 
 
 FINLEY. David Edward: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born at Tren- 
 ton, Ark.,. Feb. 28, 1861.' He was educated 
 in Soutli Carolina College, and afterward 
 studied law and engaged in practice at 
 Yorkville, 8. C. He was a member of the 
 House of Representatives of South Carolina 
 in 1890-1891, and of the State Senate, 1892- 
 1896, was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty- 
 seventh and Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth Con- 
 gress, and' Sixtieth Congresses and in 1908 
 to the Sixty- first Congress, from the Fifth 
 South Carolina District. Addi'ess: York- 
 vilU-. S. C. 
 
 FINLEY, William Wilson: 
 
 President of the Soutliern Railway; born 
 at Pass Christian, Miss., Sept. 2, 1853; son 
 of Lewis Augustus and Lydia Rebecca Fin- 
 ley. He became vice-i)resident's stenograph- 
 er of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great 
 Northern Railroad, and the Chicago, St. 
 Louis and New Orleans Railroad, and served 
 in various positions up to assistant-general 
 freight agent from March 1, 188.3, when he 
 became assistant-general freight agent of the 
 Texas and Pacific Division of the ISIissouri 
 Pacific Railway; he was assistant general 
 freight agent for the receiver for the Texas 
 and' Pacific Railway from December, 1885, to 
 July, 188(i, and tlien general freight agent 
 of the same road until Sept. 15, 1888. Then, 
 until May, 1889, he was general freight 
 agent of tlie Pan-Handle Route, comprising 
 the Fort Worth and Denver City, the Den- 
 ver, Texas and Fort Worth, and the Denver, 
 Texas and Gulf Railroads. He was then 
 cliairman of the Trans-Missouri Traffic As- 
 sociation at Kansas City, Mo., until Oct. 1. 
 1890, and tlien, until May 20, 1892, chair- 
 man of the Western Passenger Association 
 at Cliicago, 111. In ^lay 1892, he became 
 general trafiie nnuiagi-r of llu' Great Nortli- 
 erri Itaiiway and tiie Muiilana Central Rail- 
 way. Iraviiig lliat jiosilion Ai)ril 10, 1895, to 
 beeome eommissionei' of tlie Soiitlieni States 
 Passenger Association. From Oct. 1, 1H95, 
 1o May 15, 1H9G, he was third vice-president 
 of tlie Southern Railway Company, and was 
 
 third vice-president of the Great Northern 
 Railway until Sept. 15, 1890, when he be- 
 came second vice-president of the Southern 
 Railway. He continued in that position un- 
 til December. 1906, when he was elected 
 president of the Southern Railway in succes- 
 sion to the late Samuel Spencer. Mr. Fin- 
 ley married at Pass Christian, Mississippi, 
 in 1883. Lillie Vidal Davis, and they have 
 five children. Address: 2019 Massachu- 
 setts Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. 
 
 FISH, Frederick Perry: 
 
 President. American Telephone and Tele- 
 graph Company; born at Taunton, Mass., 
 Jan. 13. 1855; son of Frederick L. and Mary 
 Jarvis (Perry) Fish. He was graduated 
 from Harvard A.B., 1875, and was at the 
 Harvard Law School, 1875-1876. Mr. Fish 
 practised law in New York City and Boston 
 until July 1, 19'01 ; was president and di- 
 rector of the American Bell Telephone Com- 
 pany; the American Telephone and Tele- 
 graj)!) Company, and the Western Telegraph 
 and Telephone Company, 1901-1907; also a 
 director of the City Trust Company (Bos- 
 ton), the New England Trust Company 
 (Boston), and the Old Colony Trust Com- 
 pany (Boston). May 1, 1907, resinned the 
 practice of law as a member of the firm of 
 Fish, Richardson. Herrick and' Neave. Mr. 
 Fish is an associate member of the Amer- 
 ican Institute of Electrical Engineers, and 
 member of the Union, University, Grolier, 
 National Arts, and Harvard Clubs of New 
 ^'ork City, and the Union, St. Botolph, 
 Lfniversity, and Exchange Clubs of Boston. 
 He is an overseer of Harvard College, a 
 member of the corporation and of the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee of the Massachusetts 
 Institute of Technology, an associate of 
 Radclitfe College and a member of the Mas- 
 sachusetts State Board of Education. He 
 married. April 7, 1880, Clara P. Livermore, 
 of Cambridge. Mass. Residence: Brook- 
 line, Mass. A<l(lress: 5 Nassau Street, New 
 \nrk City. :iii<l S-l Stale Street, Boston. 
 
 FISH. Hamilton: 
 
 Lawyer; boin at Albany, N. Y., April 
 17, 1849; son of Hon. Hamilton Fish and 
 
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 ens 
 
 Julia (Kcau) Fish. He was educated in 
 ('hurchill's School, Sing Sing, N. Y., and 
 at the Chateau de Lancy, Geneva, Switzer- 
 land; was graduated from Columbia Col- 
 lege. A.B.. 186!), and from the Columbia 
 Law School, LL.B., 1873. Mr. Fish has 
 traveled extensively over the United States 
 and Europe; was private secretary to his 
 father. Hon. Hamilton Fish, secretary of 
 State under President Grant, from 1869 to 
 1871; aide-de-camp on staflF of Governor 
 John A. Dix. 1873-1874; served eleven terms 
 in the Assembly of the State of New York, 
 being speaker for two terms, 1895-1896. 
 Mr. Fish was appointed assistant treasurer, 
 United States, at New Y'ork City, by Pres- 
 ident Roosevelt in 1903, and reappointed 
 in 1907. He is a member of the ]\Ietropol- 
 itan. Union. Union League, Republican and 
 St. Micholas Clubs of New York. He mar- 
 ried. April 28, 1880, Emily M. Mann. Ad- 
 dress: Garrison, N. Y. 
 
 FISH, Stuyvesant: 
 
 r.anker and railway official; born in New 
 York City, June 24, 1851; son of Hon. 
 Hamilton Fish, secretary of state in Pres- 
 ident Grant's Cabinet, and Julia (Kean) 
 Fish. He was graduated from Columbia 
 College, A.B.. 1871, A.M., 1874; and entered 
 railway service as clerk in the New York 
 office of the Illinois Central Railroad June 
 20, 1872, afterward becoming secretary to 
 president of the same company. He was 
 clerk with Morton, Bliss & Co., New York 
 City, and Morton, Rose and Co., London; 
 managing clerk (holding power of attorney) 
 of Morton. Bliss & Co., 1876-1879, and mem- 
 ber of the New York Stock Exchange. On 
 March 16, 1876, he was elected director of 
 the Illinois Central Railroad and appointed 
 treasurer and agent for the purchasing 
 conmiittee of the New Orleans, Jackson and 
 Great Northern Railroad; Nov. 8, 1877, 
 elected secretary of the Chicago, St. Louis 
 and New Orleans Railroad, and March, 
 1882, vice-president of the Chicago, St. 
 Louis and New Orleans Railroad. He be- 
 came second vice-president Jan. 7, 1883, 
 vice-president April 2, 1884, and president 
 May, 1887, to Nov. 7, 1906, of the Illinois 
 Central Railroad. Mr. Fish was president 
 
 of llie American Railway Association, 1904- 
 1906; chairman Seventh Session Interna- 
 tional Railway C(mgrcss, Washington. D. C, 
 May, 19'05; member of the ^Monetary Com- 
 mission created by the Indianapolis Mone- 
 tary Conference, 1897; trustee of New York 
 Life Insurance and Trust Company; for 
 many years vice-president and director Na- 
 tional Park Bank, New York, and director 
 of other fiscal and fiduciary institutions. 
 Trustee of Mutiuil Life Insurance Company 
 of New York from 1883, until liis resigna- 
 tion in 1906, owing to disapproval of meth- 
 ods then brought to light among certain 
 of his co-trustees. He is a member of the 
 Union, Metropolitan, Down Town, and St. 
 Anthony's Clubs, member of St. Nicholas 
 Society. He married Marian G. Anthon. 
 Residence: 25 East 78th Street. Address: 
 52 Wall Street, New I'ork City. 
 
 FISH, William Hansell: 
 
 Chief justice of Georgia; born in Macon. 
 Ga., May 12, 1849; son of George W. and 
 Martha E. (Hansell) Fish. He was grad- 
 uated from the University of Georgia, A.B., 
 1869, studied law in the University of Vir- 
 ginia; was admitted to the Georgia bar, 
 and practised law until 1891, when he be- 
 came judge of the Circuit Court, serving 
 until 1896, in which year he was elected 
 one of the justices of the Supreme Court 
 of the State of Georgia, upon the duties 
 of which he entered Jan. 1. 1897, serving 
 as associate justice and later becoming 
 chief justice, in which office he continues. 
 Judge Fish has been a trustee of the Uni- 
 versity of Georgia since 1893 and of the 
 Wesleyan Female College of Georgia since 
 1895. He married in Washington County, 
 Ga., 1876, ]\Iary P. Hines. Address: At- 
 lanta, Ga. 
 
 FISHER, Albert Kenrick: 
 
 Naturalist; born at Sing Sing, N. Y., 
 March 21, 1856; son of Hiram and Susan 
 E. (Townsend) Fisher. He was educated 
 in Holbrook's Military High School at Sing 
 Sing, and took the medical course at the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, grad- 
 uating as M.D. in 1879, although his career 
 
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 lias chiefly been in the field of economic 
 zoology. He was assistant ornithologist to 
 the United States Department of Agricul- 
 ture, 1885-1896; assistant biologist. 1896- 
 1902; assistant chief of the Biological Sur- 
 vey. 1902-1906, and in charge of economic 
 investigations in biology since 1906. He 
 was engaged in the biological surveys of 
 the Death Valley Expedition and many 
 other survej's sent out by the Department 
 of Agriculture in 1891 and subsequent 
 years; has done field work in all but three 
 States of the Union, and was a member of 
 the Harriman Alaska Expedition in 1899. 
 He is vice-president of the American Orni- 
 thologists' Union, member of the Washing- 
 ton Academy of Science, Biological Society 
 of Washington, D. C, American Forestry 
 Association, and the Cooper Ornithological 
 Club; corresponding member of the Lin- 
 na;an Society of New York ; member of the 
 Xuttall Ornithological Club, and president 
 of the Washington Biologists' Field Club. 
 Dr. Fisher is interested specially in faunal 
 and economic zoology and geographic dis- 
 tribution, and is author of: Hawks and 
 Owls of the United States, 1893; Birds of 
 the Death Valley Expedition, 1893; and a 
 number of minor papers. His favorite rec- 
 reations are shooting and fishing. Dr. 
 Fisher is a member of the Cosmos Club and 
 Sangerbund of Washington, D. C- He mar- 
 ried at Sing Sing, N. Y., in 1876. Alwilda 
 Merritt, and they have three children liv- 
 ing. Address: Department of Agriculture, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 FISHER, George Huntington: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Oswego, N. Y., ]\Iay 7, 
 1832; son of George and Elizabeth P. 
 (Huntington) Fisher. He was graduated 
 from Harvard, A.B., 1852; studied at Har- 
 vard Law School. Admitted to the bar at 
 Utica, N. Y., 1854, and has since practised 
 law in New York City and Brooklyn, with 
 ollices in Brooklyn. Served two terms in 
 the Legislature, representing the Seventh 
 Assembly District, Kings County, 1860- 
 1861; served nearly nine years in Brooklyn 
 Common Council, and afterward in Kings 
 County Board of Supervisors for one term, 
 also register in bankruptcy, appointed by 
 
 Judge Salmon P. Chase; several times mem- 
 ber of the Brooklyn Board of Education, and 
 member of the Board of Park Commission- 
 ers in Mayor Low's administration. He 
 served in the National Guard of the State 
 of New Y'ork as private in the 47th Reg- 
 iment, and after as judge advocate of the 
 11th Brigade. Since 1871 he has been a 
 member of the law firm of Fisher & Voltz; 
 from its inception, 1866, trustee, secretary 
 and counsel of the German Savings Bank 
 of Brooklyn; director and counsel from in- 
 corporation, 1894, of the Broadway Bank 
 of Brooklyn ; trustee for over twenty-five 
 years and secretary of the Industrial School 
 Association of Brooklyn, secretary of the 
 Law Librarj- in Brooklyn; one of the found- 
 ers and original directors of the New 
 England Society in Brooklyn. He is a 
 Republican in politics and a L^hitarian- 
 Universalist in religion. He is an honorary 
 member of the 139th New York Volunteer 
 Veteran Association, having participated in 
 the formation of the regiment as a member 
 of the Senatorial Committee, appointed by 
 Governor Morgan. Mr. Fisher is a trustee 
 of the Eastern District Hospital, Hospital 
 Saturday and Sunday Association, Long 
 Island Throat Hospital, Law Department 
 of Brooklyn Institute; member of the Brook- 
 lyn League. Mr. Fisher spends his summers 
 at cottage at Sheepshead Bay. He is a 
 member of the Hanover and University 
 (Hubs. He married, first, in Brooklyn, N. 
 Y., Dec. 25, 1857, Emma Chichester (died, 
 1888), and second, at East Norwich, Long 
 Island, Nov. 6, 1889, Katharine Weeks, and 
 lias one son, George Cliichester Fisher, of 
 San Francisco, Calif. Address: 84 Broad- 
 way, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 FISHER, Harrison: 
 
 Illustrator; born in Brooklyn, July 27, 
 1875; son of Hugo A. Fisher. He was edu- 
 cated in the schools of San Francisco. For 
 several years, ^Ir. Fisher has been profes- 
 sionally engaged as illustrator for The Sat- 
 urday Evening Post (Philadelphia), Mc- 
 Clure's, Scribner's Ladies' Home Journal, 
 Life. Puck, etc.; also illustrator of books, 
 including The Market Place (Harold Fred- 
 eric) ; Three Men on Wheels (Jerome K. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Jerome) ; The Eagle's Heart (Hamilton 
 Garland). He is antlior of The Harrison 
 Fisher Book, a collection of drawings. Ad- 
 dress: 7 West 32d Street, New York City. 
 
 FISHER, Irving: 
 
 Professor of political economy; born in 
 Sangerties, N. Y., Feb. 27, 1867; son of 
 Rev. George Whitefield and Elmira (West- 
 cott) Fisher. He was graduated from Yale, 
 A.B., 1888, Ph.D., 1891; studied in Berlin 
 and Parisj 1893-1894. He was tutor in 
 mathematics in Yale University, 1891-1893; 
 assistant professor of mathematics, 1893- 
 1895; assistant professor of political econ- 
 omy, 1895-1898. He spent the years from 
 1898 to 1901 in Colorado and California, 
 regaining lost health, and resumed work at 
 Y^ale in 1901 as professor of political econ- 
 omy. Professor Fisher is editor of the Yale 
 Review, a contributor to economic journals 
 and is president of the Committee of One 
 Hundred appointed by the American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science to 
 advocate the establishment of a National 
 Bureau of Health; also a member of the 
 President's National Conservation Commis- 
 sion. He is joint author (with Professor 
 A. W. Phillips) of Elements of Geometry, 
 published by the American Book Company 
 in 189G, and translated into Japanese, 1900. 
 He assisted in translating and editing 
 Cournot's Mathematical Theory of Wealth, 
 for which he also wrote the Bibliography 
 of Mathematical Economics, 1897 (Macmil- 
 lan) ; and is author of: A Brief Introduc- 
 tion to the Infinitesimal Calculus, 1897 
 (Macmillan), translated into German, 1904; 
 Tiie Nature of Capital and Income, 1900 
 (Macmillan) ; The Rate of Interest, 1907 
 (Macmillan) ; also numerous articles, mon- 
 ographs, etc. Professor Fisher is a member 
 of the American Economic Association, the 
 British Economic Association, American 
 Mathematical Society, American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science, American 
 Statistical Association; fellow of the Royal 
 Statistical Society; member of the Amer- 
 ican Academy of Political and Social Sci- 
 ence, the Connecticut Academy of Arts and 
 Sciences, Washington Academy of Arts 
 and Sciences, New England Free Trade 
 
 League and New York Itcfonn (lull. lie 
 married June 24, 1893, Margaret, daugliter 
 of Rowland Hazard, and they have three 
 children. Address: 400 Prospect Street, 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
 FISHER, Walter Lowrie: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Wheeling, W. Va., July 
 4, 1802; son of Rev. Daniel W. Fisher, 
 now president of Hanover College, and 
 Amanda K. (Kouns) Fisher. He was edu- 
 cated in Marietta College, Ohio, and Han- 
 over College, Ind. ; went to Chicago in 
 1884, and studied law in offices. He was 
 admitted to the bar in 1888 and is now 
 of the firm of Matz, Fisher and Boyden. 
 From 1900 to 1905 he was secretary and 
 from 1905 to 1906 he was president of the 
 Municipal Voters' League, which he made 
 a powerful influence for civic reform, and 
 lie founded the City Club of Chicago in 
 1903. As special traction counsel of City 
 of Chicago he drafted and was chiefly in- 
 strumental in securing the passage of ordi- 
 nances settling the street railway contro- 
 versy, which had been the chief issue in 
 local politics for years. These ordinances 
 contained many novel provisions securing 
 public rights and giving the city the option 
 to purchase the system at any time on six 
 months' notice. Residence: 463 North 
 State Street. Office: 107 Dearliorn Street, 
 Chicago. 
 
 FISHER, William Arms: 
 
 Musical editor; born in San Francisco, 
 Clalif., April 27, 1861. He attended the 
 public schools of Oakland, Calif., studied 
 tlie piano, organ and harmony, with John 
 P. JMorgan, of Oakland, canon and fugue, 
 with Horatio W. Parker, of New Y'ork; 
 composition and orchestration, with Anton 
 Dvorak, and singing with William Shake- 
 speare, of London, England. He was in- 
 structor in harmony for three years in the 
 National Conservatory of Music, New Y''ork 
 City, and since Jan. 1, 1897, has been musi- 
 cal editor and publishing manager of the 
 Oliver Ditson Company, Boston. Mr. Fisher 
 has published with Sehirmer, Ditson, and 
 Luckhardt & Belder more than fifty songs, 
 besides anthems, part-songs, and other com- 
 
fins 
 
 MEN OF AAIERICA. 
 
 positions. He is a member of the Twentieth 
 Century, Piiddingstone and Boston City 
 Clubs of Boston. Residence: 45 Lanark 
 Road, Brookline, Mass. Office: 150 Trc- 
 
 niont Street. T?os<nn. 
 
 FISK, Everett Olin: 
 
 President of the Fisk Teachers' Agencies; 
 horn in Marlboro. Mass., Aug. 1, 1850; 
 son of Rev. Franklin and Chloe Catherine 
 (Stone) Fisk. He was graduated from 
 Wesleyan Academy, 1869, from Wesleyan 
 University, A.]?., 1873, and A.M.. 1876. He 
 taught in Wallingford and Enfield, Conn.. 
 1873-1875; was New England agent for 
 (Jinn & Company, 1875-1885; and has been 
 president of The Fisk Teachers' Agencies 
 since 1885, including offices in Boston, New 
 York, ^^■ashingion, Chicago, ]\Iinneapolis, 
 Denver, Spokane, Portland, San Francisco 
 and Los Angeles. He is treasurer of the 
 Board of Trustees of the First Methodist 
 Episcopal Chiireh of Boston; a manager of 
 the New England Conference Missionary 
 Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church; 
 he is also a vice-president of the American 
 Peace Society, trustee of the New England 
 Deaconess' Home and Hospital; trustee of 
 the New England Home for Little Wan- 
 derers; trustee of the Wesleyan Association 
 Building, and a director of the National 
 League for the Protection of the Family. 
 Mr. Fisk married in Wilbraham-. Mass., 
 Sept. 12, 1882, Helen Chase Steele, who 
 died Aug. 31. 1901, and he has one daugh- 
 ter, Harriet Storer Fisk, born Oct 14, 1884. 
 Residence: 29 Fern Street, Auburndale, 
 Mass. Address: 2 A Park Street, Boston. 
 
 FISK, Herbert F.: 
 
 Educator and clergyman: Imhii in- Stough- 
 ton, Mass., Sept, 25, 1840; sou of Rev. 
 Franklin and Chloe Catherine (Stone) 
 Fisk. He was graduated from Wesleyan 
 University, ;Mid(lletown, Conn., A.B., 1800, 
 A.M., 1863, D.D., 1888, and received the 
 degree of LL.D. from Allegheny College, 
 1899, and from Northwestern University, 
 1904. He tauglit in West Brookfield and 
 Hull, Mass., and :Middleto\vn, Conn., 1856, 
 1858 and' 1800; in Delaware Literary In- 
 
 stitute, Franklin, N. Y., 1800-1861; princi- 
 l)al of Shelburne (Vt.) Academy, 1861- 
 1803; teacher of Latin and Greek in Caz- 
 enovia (N. Y.) Seminary, 1863-1867; Wes- 
 leyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass., 1867- 
 1868; principal of Genesee Wesleyan Sem- 
 inary, Lima, N. Y., 1868-1873; principal of 
 the Academy of Northwestern University, 
 1873-1904; professor of pedagogy in North- 
 w-estern University since 1888. Dr. Fisk 
 entered the ministry of the ]\Iethodist Epis- 
 copal Church in 1866 as a member of the 
 Oneida (N. Y".) Annual Conference, in 
 which he remained until 1878, since which 
 time he has been a member of the Rock 
 River (111.) Annual Conference. He 
 served as ^pastor of Methodist churches in 
 ]Mi(ldlebury, Vt., 1862; Oneida, N. Y., 1866; 
 Wilbraham, Mass, 1867; and Evanston, 
 111., 1876. He is secretary of the Fisk 
 Teachers' Agencies, and has been manager 
 of the Chicago office of the Fisk Teachers' 
 Agencies since 1905. He is a member of 
 the National Geographic Society, National 
 Educational Association, American Associ- 
 ation for the Advancement of Science, North 
 Central Association of Colleges and Sec- 
 ondary Schools, The Society of College 
 Teachers of Education, Phi Nu Theta, and 
 Ali)ha Delta Tau fraternities. Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society, the New England Society 
 of Chicago and the University Club of Chi- 
 cago. He married in Portageville, N. Y.. 
 July 11, 1866, Anna Green, and they have 
 two daughters. Residence: 1625 Judson 
 Avenue, Evanston, 111. Office: 203 :\Iich- 
 igan Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 FISK, Walter L.: 
 
 Colonel of engineers, U. S. A.; born in 
 Illinois, Jan. 8, 1855. He was appointed 
 fi-om Iowa as a cadet in the United States 
 Military Academy Sept. 1, 1873, was grad- 
 uated and commissioned second lieutenant 
 of engineers .lime 15. 1877; promoted first 
 lieutenant April 9. 1880, captain Jan. 10, 
 1SS7: uiajor .Inly 5. 1S98, lieutenant-colo- 
 nel. Oct. i."'. 19(1.'). and he was iiromoted to 
 (■olon<"l of the Corps of Engineers, Aug. 7, 
 1!)()8. Address: Federal Building, Buf- 
 falo, N. Y. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 FISKE. Bradley Allen: 
 
 (aptaiii. I'liitcd Slates Xavy; was born 
 at Lyons, >s'. Y., June 13, 1854. He was 
 appointed to tlie United States Naval 
 Academy, Sept. 21, 1870, and was gradu- 
 ated second in class. May 30. 1874. Served 
 in U. S. S. Saratoga, Constellation, Pensa- 
 cola. Plymouth, Powhatan, Minnesota, 
 lirooklyn. Atlanta, Yorktown, Petrel, Mon- 
 aduoik and Massachusetts, Minneapolis, 
 Arkansas and Tennessee. In 1877 invent- 
 ed his detaching apparatus for lowering 
 l)oats in a seaway, which is still in use 
 on many ships. In 1883 wrote Electricity 
 and' Electrical Engineering, which is still 
 (1009) selling, in its tenth edition. In 
 1S84 was member of the First International 
 Congress of Electricians. In 1889 he in- 
 vented the naval telescope sight, which 
 is now used in all tlie navies and has 
 revolutionized naval gunnery. In 1892 in- 
 vented the stadimeter, a portable little 
 optical instrument, by means of which the 
 distance of a ship can be quickly measured, 
 if the height of her mast be known. This 
 instrument is used in all the ships of our 
 navy. In 1894 Lieutenant Fisk adapted 
 the Ward Leonard system of electric motors 
 to handling the turrets of battleships, the 
 culminating invention for adapting it being 
 made and patented by Lieutenant Fiske. 
 He invented the electric solenoid warning 
 whistle in 1896, which is used in all the 
 larger ships of our navy; and the same 
 year invented the naval electric semajihore; 
 and later also a somewhat similar device, 
 operated by mechanism. He invented in 
 1901 the naval' telescope mount, which 
 renders it possible to use large telescopes 
 on shipboard. These are now (1909) being 
 supplied to the larger sliips of our navy. 
 In 1904 Commander Fiske invented the 
 turret target range-tinder, an optical instru- 
 ment by means of which an observer can 
 measure the distance of the enemy while 
 liimself ]irotected inside the turret. Lieu- 
 tenant Fiske was in Valparaiso in the York- 
 town in 1892, during the critical times fol- 
 lowing the Baltimore incident, and in 1894 
 he was in Rio, in Admiral Benham's flag- 
 ship, when the fleet was cleared for action, 
 and enforced neutral rights. At the battle 
 39 
 
 of Manila Bay lie was navigator of the 
 Petrel. With the permission of tlic (mj)- 
 tain lie arranged an observing station aloft, 
 and there he stationed himself, above the 
 smoke, with his stadimeter, and kept the 
 captain continually informed of the distance 
 of the enemy, and of all that was going on. 
 This was the first time that " fire control " 
 from aloft was ever used in battle. He was 
 reported to the Department by the captain 
 for eminent and conspicuous conduct in 
 battle for his work that day. Lieutenant 
 Fiske, besides being navigator of the Petrel 
 at the capture of Manila, was also navi- 
 gator of the monitor Monadnock during the 
 first four months of the Filipino insurrec- 
 tion, when the Monadnock's liglit draught 
 and heavy battery enabled her to support 
 the flank of our army in its operations on 
 the east side of Manila Bay. During this 
 time, besides minor engagements, he took 
 part in the bombardments of Paranaque 
 and Malabon. As executive officer of the 
 Yorktown, he took part in the bombardment 
 of San Fernando. Commander Fiske was 
 a member of the Naval Wireless Telegraph 
 Board in 1904-1905. He received the Elliott 
 Cresson gold' medal from the Franklin In- 
 stitute in 1893, and the gold medal for the 
 prize essay by the United States Naval 
 Institute in 1905. He is the author of 
 many papers on electrical and naval sub- 
 jects, of which his series of articles in 
 The United Service Magazine, Recollec- 
 tions of INIanila, received the most atten- 
 tion. Commanded United States Steam- 
 ship [Minneapolis and United States Steam- 
 ship Arkansas in 1906 and 1907. In 1906 
 invented the horizometer. Promoted' to cap- 
 tain, Aug., 1907. In 1907, demonstrated 
 and published his method " Navigating 
 Without Horizon," a distinct contribution 
 to nautical science. Commanded flagship 
 Tennessee, 1908-1909. In 1909. demonstrat- 
 ed and published his method " To Ad'just 
 Range Finders Before Battle." which gives 
 to naval range finders an element of reli- 
 ability never had before. On Jan. 20, 1909, 
 while in command of the '' fire and rescue 
 parties " of four armored cruisers, put out 
 a large fire in Coquinta, Chile, and was offi- 
 cially commended for it by the Na^y De- 
 
fiin 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 |>aitiiu'iil. Address : Care Navy Depurt- 
 iiiciit, Wasliiii^ton. D. C. 
 
 FISKE. Harrison Grey: 
 
 Kdilor, playwright, and theatrical man- 
 ager: born at Harrison. Westchester Coun- 
 ty. New York. July 30, 1861; son of Lyman 
 and Jane Maria (Durfee) Fiske. He was 
 educated at private schools in New York, 
 anil the University of the City of New Y^ork. 
 He is editor of the Dramatic Mirror; pres- 
 ident of the Dramatic Mirror Corporation; 
 manager of ]\lrs. Fiske and the ^Manhattan 
 Company (theatrical), George Arliss and 
 (Juy Bates Post and their companies (theat- 
 rical ) ; president of the National Humane 
 Alliance. Mr. Fiske is a member of the 
 Sons of the Revolution, Zeta Psi fraternity, 
 and of the American Society of Dramatists 
 and Composers, New York Athletic, Lotos, 
 Manhattan and Knollwood Country Clubs. 
 Mr. Fiske married at Larchmont, N. Y.. 
 March 19. 1900, ]\Iary Augusta Davey 
 (Minnie Maddern). Address: 12 West 
 40th Street. New York City. 
 
 FISKE, James Porter: 
 
 Surgeon ; born in New York City, Nov. 
 22. 18G(5; son of Thomas Scott and Clara 
 (Pitman) Fiske. He was graduated from 
 the College of Physicians and Surgeons of 
 Columbia University. M.D., 1891. He has 
 liccn practising in New York City from 
 IS'.d witli a specialty in surgery, and par- 
 ticularly the correction of deformities and 
 errors of development and hv is author of 
 papers on the deformities of children. Dr. 
 Fiske is president of the Guild for Crip- 
 pled Children of the City of New York, 
 one of the founders and attending surgeon 
 of the Free School for Crippled Children; 
 eliarter member of the W. II. Davis School 
 for Crippled Children; lecturer on surgery 
 in tiic New York Post-Graduate Medical 
 School: orthopedic surgeon of Roosevelt 
 Hospital, 18!i:M»01; assistant surgeon and 
 lecturer on surgery in the ^Medical Depart- 
 ment of Cornell University, 1901-1903; ob- 
 stetiic surgeon of the Church Hospital, 
 attending surgeon of St. Elizabeth's Hos- 
 pital, since 1893; assistant surgeon of Bel- 
 levue Hospital, 1899-1900; orthopedic sur- 
 
 lle was surgeon of the Charity Hospital, 
 and New Y'ork Maternity Hospital, 1891- 
 geon of New York Hospital, since 1904. 
 1892. Dr. Fiske is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Medical Association, New York State 
 Medical Society, Medical Association of 
 Greater City of New Y^ork, New Y'ork 
 County INIedical Society, and fellow of the 
 New York Academy of Medicine, and mem- 
 ber of the Columbia University Club of New 
 York City. Dr. Fiske married in Albany, 
 N. Y'., June U, 1906, Amy Treadwell. Ad- 
 dress: 76 West S6th Street, New York City. 
 
 FISKE, Stephen: 
 
 Aullior. dramatist, journalist; born in 
 New Brunswick. N. J., Nov. 22, 1840. He 
 was educated at Rutgers College, class of 
 1862; and was admitted to the New Y^ork 
 bar in 1864. He became editorial writer 
 and special correspondent for the New Y^ork 
 Herald; accompanied the Japanese princes, 
 the Prince of Wales (now Edward VII) 
 and President Lincoln on tour; telegraphed 
 the Bible from Niagara Falls to hold the 
 wire; war correspondent 1861; dramatic 
 critic. New York Herald, 1862-1866. He 
 went to England in 1866, in the Henrietta 
 yacht race; was with Garibaldi at Rome; 
 is manager of St. James' Theater, and the 
 Royal English Opera Company, in London, 
 anil Fifth Avenue Theater, New York City; 
 introduced IMme. Modjeska and Mary Ander- 
 son. jMr. Fiske was founder of the New 
 York Dramatic Mirror, and originator of 
 the Actors' Fund, and is now dramatic critic 
 of Sports of the Times. He is author of 
 the plays: Corporal Cartouche; ^Martin 
 Chuzzlewit; My Noble Son-in-Law; and 
 Robert Rabagas. :Mr. Fiske also wrote the 
 books: Knglish Photographs; Holiday 
 Tales; OlMiand Portraits of Prominent New 
 Yorkers, etc. He is a member of the Lotos, 
 Pen, Press, Dramatists, and Rutgers Clubs 
 of New York City, and the Savage, and 
 Scribblers' Clubs of London. Address: 47 
 West !I3(1 Street, New York City. 
 
 FITCH, Clyde: 
 
 Dramatist and author; born in Klmira, 
 N. Y., May 5, 1865; son of Captain William 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Goodwin and Alice (Clarke) Fitch. He was 
 f,'iaduated from Amherst, A.B., 1886, and 
 received from that college the honorary de- 
 gree of A.M. in 1902. He has devoted him- 
 self to literary and dramatic authorship, 
 and is known as one of the most successful 
 of American dramatists. Among his best 
 known plays are: Nathan Hale; Beau 
 Bnunmel; Barbara Frietchie; The Moth 
 and the Flame; The Cowboy and the Lady; 
 Pamela's Prodigy; The Climbers; The Last 
 of the Dandies; Lover's Lane; The Way of 
 the World; Frederick Lemaitre; A Modern 
 Match; His Grace de Grammont; Mistress 
 Betty; Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines; 
 The Girl and the Judge ; The Stubbornness 
 of Geraldine ; The Girl with the Green Eyes ; 
 Her Own Way; The Woman in the Case; 
 Her Great Match ; Major Andre ; The Cor- 
 onet of the Duchess; The Truth; The 
 Straight Road; The Girl Who Has Every- 
 thing, etc., besides many adaptations. He 
 is also author of the books: A Wave of 
 Life; The Knighting of Twins; Some Cor- 
 respondence and Six Conversations; The 
 Smart Set; Nathan Hale; Barbara 
 Frietchie; Captain Jinks of the Horse Ma- 
 rines. Address: 113 East 40th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 FITCH, William Edward: 
 
 Physician, surgeon and author ; born in 
 Burlington, N. C, May 29, 1867; son of 
 Colonel William James and Mary Elizabeth 
 (King) Fitch. He was educated in Union 
 College, Union Ridge, N. C, Medical Depart- 
 ment of University of New York, and Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore. 
 M.D., 1891 ; and did post-graduate work 
 in the New York Post-Graduate School and 
 Hospital. Dr. Fitch engaged in practice 
 as physician and surgeon, with a specialty 
 in the diseases of women. He is attending 
 physician to the Vanderbilt Clinic of the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, and 
 attending gynecologist Presbyterian Hos- 
 pital Dispensary, New York City, was for- 
 merly lecturer on surgery in Fordham Uni- 
 versity School of Medicine in Fordham, 
 New York City, and now a member of the 
 Faculty of the University of the State of 
 New Jersey. He is president and treasurer 
 
 of Gaillard's Southern Medicine, Inc., and 
 editor of Gaillard's Southern Medicine 
 (medical journal), and a director of the 
 Cuban Commercial Company. He was as- 
 sistant surgeon of the U. S. Public Health 
 and Marine Hospital Service during the 
 Spanish-Ainerican War, and is now major 
 and surgeon in the National Volunteer 
 Emergency Service. Dr. Fitch is a member 
 of the American Medical Editors' Associa- 
 tion, the West Side Clinical Society of New 
 York City, Clinical Society of the Presby- 
 terian Hospital of New York City, North 
 Carolina State Medical Association and 
 Medical Association of the State of Georgia. 
 Dr. Fitch is interested in historical matters, 
 and is author of: Some Neglected History 
 of the Revolution; Some Things the Colony 
 of North Carolina Did and Did First in the 
 Founding of English-Speaking America; 
 Some Neglected History of North Carolina, 
 and other historical contributions. He is a 
 member of the New York Society of the 
 Order of Founders and Patriots of America, 
 and registrar-general of the General Court 
 of the Order; member of the Sons of the 
 American Revolution, the New York State 
 Historical Society, the Drawing-Room Club 
 of New York City and the Hussars and 
 Yacht Clubs of Savannah, Ga. Dr. Fitch 
 married in Jerusalem, Davie County, N. C, 
 Oct. 5, 1892, Minnie, daughter of James A. 
 and Elizabeth (Hearne) Crump, and he has 
 two daughters and a son. Address: 320 
 Manhattan Avenue, New York City. 
 
 FITTS, George H.: 
 
 Jurist ; born in Cohoes, N. Y.. Sept. 29, 
 1851; son of Lucien and Lemira M. 
 ( Slocum ) Fitts. He was graduated from the 
 Williston Seminary at Easthampton, Mass., 
 1869; from Dartmouth College, A.B., 1873, 
 and from Albany Law School, LL.B., 1874; 
 and he was engaged in the active practice 
 of law at Cohoes, 1875-1896; associated with 
 Charles F. Doyle, 1878-1891; with Walter 
 H. Westum, 1893-1896; city attorney of 
 Cohoes, 1888-1896; surrogate Albany Coun- 
 ty, 1896-1906; and in 1905 he was elected 
 on the Republican ticKet to the office of 
 justice of the Supreme Court of New York 
 for the term expiring Dec. 31, 1919. Judge 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Fitts is president of the Masonic Temple 
 Association of Cohoes. and vice-president of 
 the ^lechunics' Savings Bank of Cohoes. He 
 married in Cohoes.. N. Y., June 4, 1900, 
 Clara B. Bogue. Address : (59 Grant Street, 
 Cohoes, N. Y. 
 
 FITZ, Reginald Heber: 
 
 Physician; horn at Chelsea, Mass., May 
 5, 1S43; son of Albert and Eliza Roberts 
 (Xye) Fitz. He was graduated from Har- 
 vard jNIedical School as M.D. in 1868 and 
 received from Harvard the degree of LL.D. 
 in 1905; practised medicine in Boston since 
 1870; he is also Hersey professor of the 
 theory and practice of physic, emeritus in 
 Harvard Medical School. He was joint 
 author with Dr. Horatio C. Wood of The 
 Practice of Medicine, 1897. Address: 18 
 Arlington Street, Boston. 
 
 FITZGERALD, Adolphus Leigh: 
 
 Chief justice of Nevada; born in Rock- 
 ingham County, N. C, Oct. 27, 1840: son 
 of Richard and Martha Jones (Hooper) 
 Fitzgei-ald. He was graduated from the 
 University of North Carolina, A.B. and 
 A.M., and studied law while engaged as an 
 educator, becoming j^rofessor of Latin and 
 Greek in the Pacific Methodist College, Calif., 
 1S6G-186S, then became deputy superin- 
 tendent of public instruction of California 
 unlil 1871, when he returned to the Pacific 
 Metliodist College as president until 1876. 
 He was admitted to the California bar in 
 Jan., 187S, and practised law in Nevada 
 until 1886, when he was elected judge of the 
 District Court of Nevada, in which position 
 he continued until 1901, when he was 
 elected as nominee of the Democratic and 
 Silver parties as one of the justices of the 
 Supreme Court of Nevada, and later became 
 eliiiif justice of that court, in which position 
 lie continues. Judge Fitzgerald married, at 
 Eureka, Nev., in April, 1884, Mrs. Fannie 
 Cliaiipcll. Address: Carson City, Nev. 
 
 FITZGERALD, James: 
 
 Jurist; born in Ireland, Oct. 28, 1851; 
 son of James and Delia Fitzgerald. He 
 was educated in Jesuit's Seminary, Lim- 
 
 erick, the New York City public schools, 
 Cooper Union, and Columbia College Law 
 School. He was a member of the State 
 Assembly, 1878; State senator, 1882-1883; 
 assistant district attorney of New York 
 City, 1884-1889; judge of the Court of Gen- 
 eral Sessions, 1890-1898, and has been jus- 
 tice of the Supreme Court, New York State, 
 since 1899. He is a member of the Associ- 
 ation of the Bar of the City of New York 
 (honorary). Veteran Corps, 69th Regiment, 
 National Guard of New York, Knights of 
 Columbus, New York Historical Society, 
 Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and of the Man- 
 hattan, National Democratic, Arkwright, 
 Catholic, and Reform Clubs of New York 
 City. He married, in New York City, 1884, 
 Ann Tynan, and they have two children. 
 Address: 140 East 79th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 FITZGERALD, John Francis: 
 
 Editor, mayor of Boston; born in Boston, 
 Feb. 11, 1863; son of Tliomas and Rosanna 
 Fitzgerald. He was educated in the Eliot 
 Grammar School and the Boston Latin 
 School and was afterward a student at Har- 
 vard. He is editor of The Republic, a 
 weekly journal, and has been prominently 
 identified with Democratic politics in Bos- 
 ton. He was a member of the Boston Com- 
 mon Council in 1892, of the Massachusetts 
 Senate, 1893-1894, and in 1894 was elected 
 to Congress and reelected in 1896 and 1898, 
 serving in the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth and 
 Fifty-sixth Congresses, 1895-1901, and he 
 was mayor of Boston, 1906-1907. Mr. Fitz- 
 gerald married at South Acton, Mass., Sept. 
 18, 1889, Josephine Mary Hannon. Ad- 
 dress: Dorchester, Mass. 
 
 FITZGERALD, John Joseph: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 
 10, 1872; son of Patrick P. and Catherine 
 (McMahon) Fitzgerald. He was educated 
 in the Sacred Heart Academy, Westchester, 
 N. Y., Manhattan College, A.B., M.A., New 
 New York Law School, (LL.B. cum laude 
 from Regents of State of New York). Mr. 
 Fitzgerald was elected as a Democrat to the 
 Fifty-sixth and' Fifty-seventh Congresses 
 
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 from tlie Second, and to the Fifty-oighth. 
 Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first Con- 
 gresses from the Seventh New York District. 
 He is a director of tlie People's ITome Realty 
 Company. He is a member of the St. Pat- 
 rick's Society, Roman Catholic Orphan Asy- 
 lum Society, Manhattan College Alumni As- 
 sociation, Brooklyn Lodge, B. P. 0. Elks; 
 Bi'ooklyn Council Knights of Columbus 
 (charter member and past grand knight) ; 
 Catholic Young Men's Diocesan Union of 
 Brooklyn, and of the Brooklyn, Kings Coun- 
 ty, and Third Ward Young Men's and First 
 Assembly District Democratic clubs. He 
 married in New York City, Jan. 29, 1901, 
 Kathleen L. Ferris. Residence: 418 Paci- 
 fic Street. Office: 215 Montague Street, 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 TITZGERALD, Oscar Penn: 
 
 Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 South; born in North Carolina, Aug. 24, 
 1820. He received his education in the com- 
 mon schools of the South and after that was 
 employed in a printing office in Virginia. 
 He took up the studies for the ministry of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and 
 was admitted in 1853, to the Georgia Con- 
 ference, in which he began his ministry. He 
 went to California in 1855, and became edi- 
 tor of the Pacific Methodist and Christian 
 Spectator. He was superintendent of pub- 
 lic instruction for California, 1867-1871, and 
 by virtue of that ofiice was also editor of the 
 California School Journal. In 1878 he was 
 elected editor of the Nashville Christian Ad- 
 vocate, and continued in that position until 
 elected by the General Conference of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church South, in 1890, 
 to the office of bishop. Bishop Fitzgerald 
 lias, in his long ministi-y, pastoral and epis- 
 copal, exerted a deep influence upon the af- 
 fairs and policy of his denomination. He is 
 the author of numerous volumes published 
 by the Southern ]\Iethodist Publishing 
 Glimpses of Truth; 
 
 Christian Growth ; Dr. 
 
 Study; Bible Nights; 
 
 The Whetstone; Emi-» 
 nent Methodists ; The Epworth Book ; Judge 
 Longstreet; The Day and the Word; Sunset 
 Views, and Upper Room Meditations in ad- 
 
 House at Nashville: 
 California Sketches ; 
 Summers — A Life 
 Centenary Cameos;- 
 
 dition to which many of his sermons have 
 been published. Bishop Fitzgerald received 
 the honorary degree of D.D. from the Uni- 
 versity of the South. He married at Enoa, 
 Ala., Feb. 16, 1855, Sarah Banks. Address: 
 17 Garland Avenue, Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 FITZMAURICE, John E.: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Erie; born in Ireland, 
 Jan. 8, 1840; son of James and Katherine 
 Fitzmaurice. He received his education in 
 schools of Ireland and the United States, 
 made his divinity studies at the Saint 
 Charles Seminary in Philadelphia, and was 
 ordained to the priesthood in 1862. He 
 filled pastorates in the archdiocese of Penn- 
 sylvania until consecrated, in 1898, bishop 
 of Erie. He received the degree of D.D. 
 from Georgetown University. Address: 
 Erie, Pa. 
 
 FITZPATRICK, Morgan C: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-congressman; son of J. M. 
 and Elizabeth Fitzpatrick. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of Tennessee and 
 at the University of Ohio, following with 
 a course in the law department of Cumber- 
 land University at Lebanon, Tenn., from 
 which he was graduated in 1890 with the de- 
 gree of A.B. He was admitted to the bar, 
 and has practised law at Hartsville, Tenn., 
 from 1890, and he edited the Hartsville Vi- 
 dette, 1895-1896. He has long been promi- 
 nent as a Democratic leader in Tennessee, 
 and was chairman of the State Democratic 
 Committee, 1898-1902. He was a member of 
 the Tennessee Legislature, 1894-1898, and 
 its speaker 1897-1898; was State superin- 
 tendent of schools, 1899-1903, and in 1902 
 was elected from the Fourth Tennessee Dis- 
 trict and served in the Fifty-eighth Con- 
 gress, 1903-1905. Address: Hartsville, 
 Tenn. 
 
 FITZSIMONS, Paul: 
 
 Medical director, U. S. Navy; born in 
 Georgia, Feb. 27, 1849. After graduation 
 in medicine he was appointed to the Medical 
 Corps. U. S. Navy as assistant surgeon and 
 has since served in the various sea and shore 
 duties of a medical officer of the Navy, re- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ceiving his present commission as a medical 
 director, with the rank of captain, Nov. 19, 
 1900; now being in command of the Naval 
 ^Medical Supply Depot in New York City. 
 Address: Naval Medical Supply Dopot, 
 New York City. 
 
 FLAGG, Charles Albert: 
 
 Librarian; born in Sandwich, Mass., Oct. 
 1. 1870; son of Samuel Benjamin and Anna 
 B. (Allcott) Flagg. He was graduated from 
 Bowdoin College, A.B., 1894, the University 
 of the State of New York, B.L.S., 1899, 
 George Washington University, A.M., 1902. 
 He was principal of the High School, Hope- 
 dale, Mass., 1894-1895; in New York State 
 Library, 1896-1900; in Catalogue Division, 
 Library of Congress, 1900. He is author 
 of: Family of Asa Allcott, 1899; Reference 
 List on Connecticut Local History, 1900; 
 Bibliography of New York Colonial History, 
 1901; In Memorian — Samuel Benjamin 
 Flagg, 1901; Descendants of Eleazer Flagg, 
 of Grafton, Mass., 1903; Descendants of 
 Benjamin Rockwood of Grafton, 1905; 
 Guide to Massachusetts Local History, 1907. 
 He is a member of the American Library 
 Association, American Historical Associa- 
 tion, New England Historic-Genealogical 
 Society, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Beta 
 Kappa. He married, first, in East Orange, 
 N. J., June 21, 1900, Harriet D. Valentine, 
 who died April 28, 1901; second, Washing- 
 ton, D. C, Feb. 18, 1909, Ethel M. Flinder. 
 Residence : The Newton, 6th and E. Streets. 
 Ollice: Library of Congress, Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 now a director in the Municipal Art Socie- 
 ty of Hartford ; is ex-vice-president of the 
 Hartford Yacht Club; chairman of the Art 
 Committee of the Hartford Club; member of 
 the Cercle Francais of Hartford. Mr. Flagg 
 is represented by portraits in Connecticut 
 State Capitol. Federal Building Wadsworth 
 Atheneum. Hartford Club and many other 
 oublic buildings in Hartford. Also in Yule 
 University and New Haven City Hall, in 
 City Hall at Bridgeport, Minnesota Club, 
 St. Paul, Independence Hall. Philadelphia, 
 Hillyer Ari Gallerj^ at Northampton, Mass., 
 •and in many other places. Mr. Flagg won 
 the Thomas R. Proctor Prize (for the best 
 portrait) in the winter exhibition 1908, Na- 
 tional Academy of Design, New York. 
 Elected associate member, N.A.D., 1909. 
 Author of " The Evolution of an Equestrian 
 Statue," published in Scribner's ^lagazine 
 March, 1909. Has written for Atlantic 
 Monthly, New England ^Magazine, Connecti- 
 cut Quarterly, &c., &c. Delegate from the 
 Connecticut Commission of Sculpture and 
 the M.A.S. of Hartford to the National Art 
 Convention, Washington, D. C, 1909. Ad- 
 dress: Ballerstcin Building, Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 FLAGG, Edward Octavius: 
 
 Clergyman, poet and lecturer ; born in 
 Charleston, S. C, Dec. 13, 1824; son oi 
 Henry Collins and Martha (Whiting) Flagg. 
 He was educated in the Lancastorian School 
 and Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, 
 Conn., and was graduated from Trinity Col- 
 lege, Hartford, in the class of 1848, received 
 the degree of D.D. from New York Univer- 
 sity, and of LL.D. from St. John's College, 
 Annapolis, Md., 1898. He studied civil en- 
 gineering, and afterward began studies for 
 the I'^piscopal ministry under Rev. Drs. Cros- 
 well, Pitkin and Cook. He was ordered 
 deacon in 1848 and ordained priest, 1849, 
 and first settled as assistant of Christ 
 Ciiurch, Norwich, Conn. He was the first 
 rector nf Trinity Church, Norwich, and 
 wliih' al that cliurch inaiiguratod the parisli 
 of Grace ( liurcli. Yantic, Conn.; was next 
 associate icclor St. Paul's Church, Balti- 
 more; took charge for a time of Trinity 
 
 FLAGG, Charles Noel: 
 
 Aiti>t: born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 25, 
 1848; son of Rev. Jared Bradley and Louisa 
 (Hart) Flagg. He was educated at Hop- 
 kins Grammar School, New Haven, Conn., 
 and afterward studied art ten years in 
 Paris, Franco, under L. Jacquesson de la 
 Chevreuse. He has long been professionally 
 engaged as an artist and founded and is the 
 director of the Connecticut League of Art 
 Students, a fice evening art school for men, 
 at Hartford. He is a member of the Connec- 
 ticut State Capitol Commission of Sculp- 
 ture, and he was the first president and is | Church, New Orleans, but declined a ca'l 
 
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 to its roctorship ; accepted a call to St. 
 Paul's Church, Paterson, N. J., and while 
 there planted the church tirst known as St. 
 John the Divine, but now known as the 
 Church of the Holy Communion. In conse- 
 quence of ill health Dr. Flagg traveled 
 abroad for a year, and after that accepted 
 a call to All Saints' Church, New York City, 
 and while there planted the Church of the 
 Resurrection. He was subsequently assist- 
 ant to Bishop Potter and Dr. Huntington in 
 Grace Church for nearly six years. His last 
 clerical duty was as rector of St. Mark's 
 Washington Irving Memorial Church, Tarry- 
 town, and he is now on the retired list of 
 the clergy, and engaged in literary work. 
 Dr. Flagg has delivered lectures on history 
 and literature in the Van Norman and 
 Gardner Institutes and in Miss Dana's 
 School in Morristown, N. Y.. as well as in 
 public. He was formerly secretary of the 
 Society of American Authors, member of 
 the Executive Committee of the New York 
 Huguenot Society of America; is a member 
 of the Sons of the Revolution, and the 
 Church Educational Society; also of the 
 Alpha Delta Phi, and was poet at its Fifty- 
 second Annual Convention; was chaplain of 
 the Prince of Orange Masonic lodge, and 
 also of the Ninth Regiment. He is an ex- 
 tensive contributor to its press, and an au- 
 thor of numerous poems, and of a national 
 anthem Rejoice for Liberty (words and mu- 
 sic ) , which was accepted by the Jamestown 
 Exposition of 1907 and sung there by 5.000 
 children; also the words and music of Live 
 it Down, and of several Christmas and Eas- 
 ter carols. He married, first, Eliza Win- 
 stanly ^McNeil, and second, Mary L. Ferris, 
 and he has two daughters. Address: 152 
 East 35th Street, New York City. 
 
 FLAGG, Ernest: 
 
 Architect: bom in Brooklyn, in 1860. He 
 was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux Arts, 
 Paris, 1889. He is the architect of St. 
 Luke's Hospital, Morningside Heights, New 
 York City; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 
 Washington ; the Naval Academy at Annap- 
 olis; the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance 
 Company's building at Hartford. Conn. ; the 
 Scribner Building, Fifth Avenue, New 
 
 York; St. Margaret's Memorial Hospital 
 Pittsburgh, Pa.; Naval Hospital, Washing- 
 ton, D. C. ; Naval Hospital, Annapolis, Md. ; 
 the Singer Manufacturing Company's I)uild- 
 ing Broadway and Prince Street and ]?road- 
 way and Liberty Street, New York City; 
 and many other public buildings and private 
 residences. He wrote articles on the ficole 
 des Beaux Arts, published in the Architec- 
 tural Record, and in an article, ])ublished 
 in Scribner's Magazine in 1893, entitled The 
 New York Tenement House Evil and Its 
 Cure, he was the first to call attention to 
 the fact that all the worst evils of the ten- 
 ement house system of New York lay in the 
 plan and the 25xl00-foot lot. Address: 35 
 Wall Street. New York City. 
 
 FLAGLER, Henry M.: 
 
 Capitalist; born in Canandaigua, N. Y., 
 in 1830. He was educated in public schools. 
 He early became a clerk in a store in Or- 
 leans County, Mich.; subsequently removed 
 to Saginaw, Mich., and conducted salt works 
 there; later became a resident of Cleveland, 
 and one of the pioneers in the petroleum 
 business there; he joined Messrs. Rockefeller 
 and Andrews in firm of Rockefellers, An- 
 drews & Flagler, which was succeeded by 
 the Standard Oil Company; and has been 
 jirominently identified with its management 
 since its organization, until his recent re- 
 tirement. Director, Chicago, Rock Island &. 
 Pacific Railway, Minnesota Iron Company, 
 Duluth and Iron Range Railroad, Western 
 Union Telegraph Company, International 
 Bank Note Company, Jacksonville, Tampa 
 and Key West Railway, and other compan- 
 ies. Built and is owner of the Ponce de 
 Leon and Alcazar hotels in Florida, and has 
 built about six hundred miles of railroad in 
 that State. Member of the New England So- 
 ciety also the Union League, Metropolitan. 
 City, Larchmont. New York, American 
 Yacht, KnoUwood Golf Clubs. He married 
 Mary L. Kenan. Address: 26 Broadway. 
 New York City. 
 
 FLANAGAN, John: 
 
 Sculptor; l)ori\ in Newark, \. J. He stud- 
 ied under Augustus St. Gaudens (N. Y.), 
 
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 and Henry Chapu and Alexandre Falguiere, 
 ficole des Beaux Arts, Paris. Mr. Flana- 
 jian was awarded silver medals by the Paris 
 Kxposition. 1000, Pan-American Exposition, 
 BufTalo, 1901, Louisiana Pui-chase Exposi- 
 tion, 1!»04; and is represented in tlie French 
 National Collection of Living Artists in the 
 Lnxembo\ir<; Museum, Paris. Among his 
 more notable works are bronze high relief. 
 Public Library, Newark, N. J., and IMonu- 
 mental Clock in the Congressional Library 
 at Washington, D. C. He is a member of 
 the Art Students League, and the New York 
 Athletic Club of New York City. Resi- 
 dence: 23 North 7th Street, Newark, N. J. 
 Studio: 107 East 27th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 FLANAGAN, Webster: 
 
 Lawyer. United States official; born at 
 Cloverport, Ky., Jan. 9, 1832; son of James 
 \V. Flanagan who became United States Sen- 
 ator in 1871. He has been a resident of 
 Texas since 1843, and held several local of- 
 fices in Rusk County, Texas, prior to the 
 Civil War in which he served' in the Confed- 
 erate Army as brigadier-general. After the 
 war he became identified with the Republi- 
 can Party, was appointed judge of the Fifth 
 Judicial District of Texas in 18G5. was a 
 member of the State Constitutional Conven- 
 tion of 18G9-1875. lieutenant-governor of 
 Texas from 1871 to 1873, member of the 
 State Senate in 1875, collector of internal 
 revenue of the Fourth Texas District in 
 1884-1885, collector of customs at El Paso. 
 Texas, from 1891 to 1893, and since 1897, 
 collector of internal revenue of the Third 
 Texas District. He has served as delegate 
 to all the National Republican Conventions 
 from 1872, except those of 187fi and 1900. 
 Address: Au.stin, Texas. 
 
 FLEET, Alexander Frederick: 
 
 Superintendent of Culver .Military Acad- 
 emy; born in King and Queen County, Va., 
 .hiiic (1. 1843; son of Dr. Benjamin and 
 M:iria I»uise (Wacker) Fleet. He was was 
 graduated from the University of Virginia 
 in 1SG7, studied one year in tlie Medical 
 Department of tliat University, and received 
 tile degree of A.M. from Columbian College 
 
 (now George Washington University) at 
 Washington. D. C. in 1869, and of LL.D. 
 from Richmond College (Virginia) in 1889. 
 He served as an officer in the Confederate 
 Army through tlie Civil War, surrendering 
 as adjutant-general in General H. A. Wise's 
 Brigade at Appomattox. April 9, 1865, He 
 was professor of Greek at William Jewell 
 College, at Liberty, Missouri, 1868-1873; 
 president of Lexington Female College. Mis- 
 souri, 1873-1879; professor of Greek in the 
 University of Missouri, 1879-1890; founder 
 and superintendent of Missouri ]\Iilitary 
 Academy, 1890-1896, and since then superin- 
 tendent of Culver Military Academy. Ad- 
 dress: Culver, Ind. 
 
 FLEISCHMANN. Julius: 
 
 ^Manufacturer and banker: born in Cin- 
 cinnati. He is president of Fleischmann & 
 Company, of the Union Grain and Hay Com- 
 pany, and of the INIarket National Bank of 
 Cincinnati and was mayor of Cincinnati, 
 1901-1904. Address: 3555 Vvashingion 
 Avenue, Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 
 FLEMING, George Elliott: 
 
 Lawyer, Avriter. composer ; bnni at Sholby- 
 ville, Ind., Jime 20, 1877 ; son of Thomas W. 
 and Anna (Rowen) Fleming. He was grad- 
 uated from Harvard College A.B. in 1899, 
 and afterwards attended the Harvard Law 
 School and tlie Harvard Graduate School. 
 He is engaged in corporation practice in 
 New York and Indiana, being admitted to 
 the bar of Indiana in 1900, and of New 
 York in 1904. He was on the editorial staff 
 of the American and English Encyclopedia 
 of Law, and is the author of: The Laws 
 ami Decisions relating to Attorneys, now in 
 preparation; campaign speaker; treasurer 
 and director of the New York and Eastern 
 Telegrapli and 'I'elephone Company; director 
 of the American District Telegraph Com- 
 pany, the Kenai ^Mining and Trading Com- 
 pany, and the Poster People, Publishers; 
 l)re.sident of the Lactobacilline Co,, the sole 
 manager of the famous products of Profes- 
 sor MetchnikofV of tlie Pasteur Institute in 
 J'aris: secretary and treasurer of the South- 
 ern Fuel and Iron Cori)oration, and presi- 
 
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 (lent (if llio Ainciicitii Timber Corporation. 
 Mr. Fleiiiino- is actively eiigajfcd in railroad 
 and niiniufi enterprises in Washinjiton and 
 Idaho, in Nevada and in Alaska; interested 
 in charity and mission work; is secretary of 
 the Indiana Society of New York, of which 
 he was one of the organizers. He has travel- 
 ed extensively in Europe, making a special 
 study of sociological and economic condi- 
 tions. He is a strong advocate of centrali- 
 zation of power in the Federal government 
 and the pioneer in the effort to have the 
 chartering- of corporations taken away from 
 the States and lodged only in the Federal 
 Government. He is the author of the pro- 
 posed law ]>roviding for the deportation of 
 all aliens convicted of crime, as proving 
 thereby that they are not the kind of per- 
 sons that will ever make the citizens we 
 want, or have the right to harbor. Also an 
 advocate for the coinage of a two-and-a-half- 
 cent piece, as a means of solving the street 
 car fare problem and other public service 
 overcharges; also of an effort to abolish the 
 collection agencies and their resulting 
 abuses of limiting collections to legal chan- 
 nels only. He is actively fighting for a total 
 restriction of child labor by the Federal 
 Government, and of making the infringe- 
 ment of patents and copyrights a crime in- 
 stead of a civil wrong, as at present, in or- 
 der to protect poor patentees who have a 
 right to feel secure in their rights, having 
 paid the government for protection. Also 
 for a national uniform law of Divorce, and 
 a national uniform law on naturalization 
 and voting qualifications. Author of: Ce- 
 cil Gray (a novel), and a Beggar in Even- 
 ing Dress. Composer of: The Celebrity. 
 He is a member of The Equal Franchise So- 
 ciety, The Pennsylvania Society of the Sons 
 of the Revolution, the Sons of the American 
 Revolution, the Masonic Order, the National 
 Civic Federation and the Lawj'ers' Club. 
 Residence: 7-11 Fifth Avenue. Address: 
 Box 1419, New York City. 
 
 FLEMING, Eufus: 
 
 Consul, journalist; born in Indiana, in 
 1853. He was educated at the University of 
 INIichigan and on leaving college began news- 
 paper life as a reporter on the Missouri Re- 
 
 publican at St. Louis. In 1SS:> lie Ijccame 
 managing editor of the Cincinnati Times- 
 Star, and continued in that capacity until 
 his appointment, Oct. 5, 18!)7, to his present 
 position as United' States consul at Edin- 
 burgh. Scotland. Mr. Fleming is known as 
 a writer of exceptional ability on commerc- 
 ial and economic subjects. He married in 
 1878 Annabel Lee Hutchins, daughter of 
 Carleton B. Hutchins, president of the 
 Hutcliins Refrigerator Car Conipanj-, and 
 they have their home at Avondale, one of the 
 most beautiful residence sections of Cincin- 
 nati. Address : American Consulate, Edin- 
 burgh, Scotland. 
 
 FLEMING, William Hansell: 
 
 Author, editor and lecturer; born in Phil- 
 adelphia, Aug. 23, 1844; son of George M. 
 and Sarah Ford (Hansell) Fleming. He 
 was educated in the public schools of Phila- 
 delphia, and in Princeton University, Class 
 of 1865, and received from Princeton the 
 lionorary A.M. degree in 1900. Mr. Fleming 
 has lectured on literature for the Board of 
 Education of Greater New York, and for 
 The American Society for the Extension of 
 University Teaching. He is author of: A 
 Bibliography of the First (Shakespeare) 
 Folios; How to Study Shakespeare, 4 vol- 
 umes; Shakespeare's Plots; also papers on 
 Slmkespearean subjects in various maga- 
 zines. Editor of Much Ado About Nothing, 
 and I. and II. King Henry the Fourth, in 
 the Bankside Edition of Shakespeare; also 
 editor of the Looker-On, a magazine. Mr. 
 Fleming has been a member and secretary of 
 the Shakespeare Society of New York for 
 eight years. Address: 60 West 3Sth Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 FLEMING, William Henry: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-congressman; born in .\u- 
 gusta. Ga., Oct. 18, 1856; son of Porter and 
 Catherine B. (IMoragne) Fleming. He was 
 brought up on the family farm near Augus- 
 ta; was graduated from the University of 
 Georgia as C.E. in 1875, and afterward re- 
 ceived the degree of A.M. He Avas superin- 
 tendent of schools of Augusta and Richmond 
 County, Ga., 1877-1880;, and was admitted to 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 the l);ir ill ISSO, jn-actisiiii:- law in Aujrusta 
 ever siiu'i'. .Mr. l'k'iiiin<i- has been prominent 
 in polilios as a Denioeiatie leader, and' was 
 a member. 18S8-18!)4. and speaker in 1894. 
 of tlie (Jeorpia Leoislature : and member of 
 tlie Fifty-fifth. Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh 
 Con,i,nesses from the Tenth Georjjia District. 
 1897-1903. lie lias boon ])resident of the 
 Cleorjiia Stale I'ar Association, and grand 
 coiiimander of Kniahts Templar of Georgia. 
 In 1908 he published a volume entitled " The 
 TaritV. Civil Service, Income Tax, Imperial- 
 ism. Tlie Race Problem, and Other Address- 
 es " (A. B. Caldwell Publisher Atlanta, 
 Ga.) Mr. Fleming married' at Rome, Ga., 
 Aug. 22. 1900. Marie Celeste Ayer. Ad- 
 dress: Augusta. Ga. 
 
 FLETCHER, Austin Barclay: 
 
 Lawyer; boiii in :\Iendon, ]\Iass., March 
 13, 1852; son of Asa A. and Harriet (Dur- 
 kee) Fletcher. He was graduated from 
 Tufts College. A.B., 1876, and received from 
 that college the LL.D. degree, 1899; was 
 graduated from Boston University. School of 
 Oratory. 1878. School' of Science. A.M., 
 1879. and School of Law, LL.B., 1880. He 
 engaged in ]ira(ti<-e as a bank and corpora- 
 tion lawyer: lias reorganized many large 
 corporations and l)usiness concerns, and is 
 president of tiio Kppinger & Russell Com- 
 pany; director of the IMonmouth Electric 
 Company and the Pequonnock National 
 Bank (Bridgeport, Conn.). Mr. Fletcher is 
 a Republican in politics; president of the 
 Fletcher Family Union; trustee of Dean 
 Academy, of Tufts College, and of Boston 
 I'niversity. He is a member of the Union 
 League, Metropolitan. New York Athletic 
 and Lawyers' Clubs of New York City, the 
 IMii Beta Kai)])a Society and Zeta Psi fra- 
 ternity, and a Knight Templar. He married 
 in New York City, Jan. 2G, 1882, Hortense 
 :M. FoUett, who died in 1905. Address: 
 K;.") T.roadway. New York City. 
 
 FLETCHER, Frank Friday: 
 
 • a plain C S. Xavy: born in Iowa, Nov. 
 2:{. iss,'). He was ai)i)oinle(i a cadet mid- 
 shipman in llic I'. S. Naval Academy Sept. 
 2:{, 1870. Ill' lias perfoniKil Ihe varied du- 
 ties of a naval odicer and is known as one; 
 
 of the ablest or<lnance experts of the Navy. 
 He has commanded the naval vessels Gush- 
 ing, Kanawha. Eagle and Raleigh and is 
 now in command of the battleship Veimont. 
 Address: Navy Department, Washington, 
 1). C. 
 
 FLETCHER, Henry: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Brooklyn. N. Y.. Sept. 
 29, 1877; son of George Harley (A.B. Dart- 
 mouth, 1872) descendant of Robert Fletcher 
 who came to America in 1630, and Ida 
 (Sharp) Fletcher: educated in the Reichs 
 Gymnasium in Hanover, Germany; gradu- 
 ated from Adelphi Academy. Brooklyn. 
 1894: Yale University. A.B. (Phi Beta 
 Kappa), 1898, A.M., 1901; Harvard I'ni- 
 versity Law School, LL.B. (cum lando. 
 He was editor for two years of tlic Har 
 vard Law Review; Mr. Fletcher has trav- 
 eled much in Europe, Africa, and North 
 America; has been a cowboy and camp;''! 
 and traveled over Western pait of L'nited 
 States, northern Canada, and in ILul-on 
 Bay County territory. Senior member of 
 the firm of Fletcher, Sillcocks & Leahy; 
 member of the Association of the Bar of 
 the City of New York, the Selden Society 
 of Great Britain, Society of Medical Juris- 
 prudence of New York, Bibliophile Society 
 of Boston. He is a member of th(> Piii 
 Delta Phi fraternity, Phi Beta Kapi)a So- 
 ciety, the Society of Qolonial Wars. Sons 
 of the Revolution, the Harvard. Yale. New 
 York Athletic. Phi Delta Phi. City Luiirli 
 and Drugam Chemical Clubs df New ^Orl^. 
 S|)ring Lake Casino, University, and Liw- 
 vers Clubs of Brooklyn. Residences: j'iiii' 
 Knoll. A'rooni Ancihic. Sjiring Lake. N. -1. 
 ( sunniici- laniic I : 214 Lincoln Place, iirook- 
 lyn. and 4!t Wc-t l-'orty-fmnth Street. New 
 York City. Ollice: City investing Build- 
 ing. 16.") Uroaiiway. New \nrk City. 
 
 FLETCHER, Horace: 
 
 AuUku-. lecturer on (lietftics; l.nrn in 
 Lawrence. Mass., Aug. 10, 1849; son of 
 Isaac and l\Iary A. (Blake) Fletcher. He 
 was educated in llie Science Department of 
 Dartmoutli. in the class of 1870. He is an 
 (■\lensi\c travcder and coiislanl student : has 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Xh'cu in all pails of tlic world an<l made 
 special study of tlic devcloinnciit of .Japan 
 and otluM" rcscaichcs in socioloiiv; also in- 
 torcstod in ail suhjccls : in more iccenl 
 years has inndc rcscarclics in lalioralorics 
 of \ix\(' and of llir riiivorsity of ('ani- 
 biidj^c, and clsewhcic in ])hysiolof''i('al clicni- 
 istry and dietetics, with special reference 
 to the minimum quantity of food requisite 
 for the best human oll'iciency and the ])hysio 
 logical and psychological aids or detriments 
 of nutrition, and lectures on these and other 
 subjects. Author: A B C of Snap Shoot- 
 ing; ^lenticulture ; Happiness; That Last 
 Waif; or Social Quarantine; What Sense? 
 or Economic Nutrition; Nature's Food Fil- 
 ter; Glutton or Epicure; A B C of Our 
 Nutrition ; Optimism ; Nature Knows. He 
 is a member of the Japan Society of Lon- 
 don. Resides most of the year in Venice, 
 Italy, where, with his son-in-law, Dr. Erne-^t 
 H. Van Someren, an English physician and 
 surgeon residing in Venice, he pursues his 
 studies and experiments. He is a member 
 of the Arts Club of London, and the Tavern 
 Club of Boston. He married Grace A. 
 Marsh. Address: Care Barrett Manufac- 
 turing Company, 17 Battery Place, New 
 York City. 
 
 FLETCHER, Loren: 
 
 ^Merchant and manufacturer ; born at 
 Mount Vernon, Kenebec County, Maine; he 
 was educated in public schools and at Maine 
 Wesleyan Seminary, Kents Hill, Maine; in 
 1853 he removed to Bangor. Maine, where 
 he was employed as clerk by a mercantile 
 and lumber company; in 1856 he removed 
 to Minneapolis, Minn., where he has since 
 resided, engaged in manufacturing and mer- 
 cantile pursuits, largely in the manufacture 
 of lumber and flour ; was elected to the 
 State Legislature in 1872, and reelected 
 seven times; the last three terms served 
 as speaker, having been unanimously elected 
 the last term. He was elected as a Repub- 
 lican to the Fifty third. Fifty-fourth, Fifty- 
 fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Con- 
 gresses, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth 
 Congress, serving. 1893-1903, and 1905-1907. 
 Address: Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 FLETCHER, Robert Howe: 
 
 Director of tlie Mark Hopkins Institute 
 of Art, San Francisco, since 1899, and 
 director of the San Franci.sco Institutr of 
 Art since 1907; born in ("incinnati. Ohio. 
 July 21, 1850: son of Dr. Robert and 
 Anna (Howe) Fletcher. lie was graduated 
 from the United States Naval Academy in 
 tlie class of 1872. After graduation he was 
 transferred to the army and appointed 
 second lieutenant of the 21st Infantry, July 
 27, 1872. He was promoted first lieutenant 
 April 23, 1877, and retired Oct. 21. 188(). 
 for disability contracted in the line of 
 duty. He served on the Indian frontier and 
 in California, and he was hicvctted captain 
 Feb. 27, 1890. for services in the Nez 
 Perces Indian Uar. Captain Fletcher has 
 resided in San Francisco since his retire- 
 ment from the service, and in addition 
 to his duties as director of the Art In- 
 stitute he has devoted himself to literature, 
 being author of: A Blind Bargain; The 
 Johnstown Stage; Marjorie and Her Papa; 
 Annals of the Bohemian Club, and short 
 stories and essays in various publications. 
 He married at San Francisco, Aug. 1, 1878, 
 Octavia Shreve Miller, and has one son. 
 Address: San Francisco Institute of Art, 
 San Francisco. 
 
 FLETCHER, William Isaacs: 
 
 Librarian; born in Burlington, Vt.. Ai)ril 
 28, 1844; son of Stillman and Elizabeth 
 (Severance) Fletcher. He was educated in 
 the public schools of Winchester, ^Mass., 
 afterward devoting himself to library work. 
 He conducted a summer school of library 
 economy in the Amherst Summer School, 
 1891-1905; is librarian of Amherst College, 
 and is an active member and e.x-president 
 of the American Library Association. He 
 received the honorary degree of A.M. from 
 Amherst in 1884. Mr. Fletcher was joint 
 editor of Poole's Index to Periodical Litera- 
 ture from 187G, and since the death of 
 Dr. Poole in 1894 has edited the volumes 
 in continuation of that work, and is au- 
 thor of: Public Libraries in America; the 
 American Library Association Index to 
 
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 General Literature; the Cooperative Index 
 to Periodicals, and other publications. Ad- 
 dress: Amherst. Mass. 
 
 FLEXNER, Simon: 
 
 Physician, and pathologist; born in 
 Louij.ville, Ky., son of Morris and Esther 
 (Abraham) Flexner. He was educated in 
 the public schools; was graduated from 
 the University of Louisville, as M.D. in 
 1899 (Hon. D.Sc. from Harvard), and took 
 post-graduate studies in Johns Hopkins, 
 Strassburg and Berlin Universities. He was 
 associate professor and professor of patho- 
 logical anatomy in Johns Hopkins Univer- 
 sity, 1891-1899; professor of pathology, in 
 the University of Pennsylvania, 1899; mem 
 ber of the Johns Hopkins University Com- 
 mission for Investigation of Tropical 
 Diseases, sent to the Philippine Islands, 
 1900; member of the commission appointed 
 by the secretary of the Treasury of the 
 United States, to investigate the bubonic 
 plague in San Francisco, Calif., 1901 ; di- 
 rector of the Ayer Clinical Laboratory, 
 Pennsylvania Hospital. 1901 ; Pathologist 
 of the University Hospital. 1900; and since 
 1903 director of the laboratories of the 
 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 
 New York City. Dr. Flexner was elected 
 a member of the National Academy of 
 Sciences, 1908, is a fellow of the Academy 
 of Medicine, New York City; member of 
 the Association of American Physicians, 
 American Philosophical Society, the Ameri- 
 can Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
 ence. American Association of Pathologists 
 and Bacteriologists; corresponding member 
 of the Medico Chirurgical Society, Bologna. 
 Italy, and of the Society de Pathologic Ex- 
 otique de France; and a member of llic 
 Century Club of New York City. Dr. Flexner 
 is author of various monographs and ])ai)crs 
 relating to pathological and bacteriological 
 snljjects, snake-venom, bubonic plague, 
 dysentery, meningitis and other infections. 
 Dr. Flexner married at Bryn Mawr, Pa., 
 in 1903, Helen Whitall Thomas, and thej 
 have two children. Address: The Rocke- 
 feller Institute, 60th Str.-ft and Avenue A, 
 New York City. 
 
 FLICKINGER, Daniel Kumler: 
 
 Bishop of the United Brethren; born at 
 Seven Mile, Butler County. Ohio, May 25, 
 1824. He wa,s educated in local academies, 
 and entered the ministry of the United 
 Brethren. He was corresponding secretary 
 of the United Brethren Church Missionary 
 Society, 1875-1885, and has been foreign 
 bishop of that church since the latter date. 
 He has made twelve missionary tours in . 
 Africa, and has written several books on 
 missionary topics. Address: 318 South D. 
 Street, Hamilton. Ohio. 
 
 FLINN, Alfred Douglas: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in New Berlin. Pa.. 
 Aug. 4, 1869; son of Matthew Bonner and 
 Sarah Jane (Jones) Flinn. He was edu- 
 cated in the public" schools of Worcester, 
 Mass., and was graduated in 1893 from the 
 Worcester Polytechnic Institute, receiving 
 the degree of S.B. and the Salisbury prize. 
 He was assistant on rapid transit surveys 
 and water works in Boston, 1893-1896; as- 
 sistant engineer of the jSIetropolitan Water 
 Works, for Boston and vicinity, 1896-1902, 
 being for the last few years of that period 
 in charge of the designs for the Wachusett 
 dam, the Weston aqueduct, etc. He was for 
 two years a lecturer on water-works and 
 sewerage to the senior engineering classes in 
 the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard 
 University. Mr. Flynn was managing editor 
 of Tlie Engineering Record, in New York 
 City, 1902-1904; and 1904-1905 was general 
 engineering inspector for the Aqueduct Com- 
 missioners of New York City, during which 
 service he designed the Cross River dam 
 and reservoir and made preliminary studies 
 for the Croton Falls dam and reservoir. 
 Since August 1, 1005, he has been depart- 
 ment engineer of Headquarters Department, 
 Board of Water Supply of New York, in 
 charge of designs, organization and general 
 matters of the Engineering Bureau, in con- 
 nection with the works for obtaining from 
 the Catskill ]\Iountains an additional supply 
 of water for New York City ; also charge of 
 surveys and construction for tunnels and 
 large pipe lines for distributing Catskill 
 Mountain water to the five boroughs of the 
 
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 city. He has conducted investigations and 
 superintended the preparation of designs and 
 contracts for the Ashokan Reservoir and 
 the Catskill Aqueduct, each the largest ever 
 undertaken, the estimated cost of which is 
 $162,000,000. Mr. Flinn is a member of the 
 American Society of Civil Engineers, Boston 
 Society of Civil Engineers, New England 
 Water-Works Association, Harvard En- 
 gineering Society, Municipal Engineers of 
 the City of New York, National Geographic 
 Society, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 
 Alumni Association, Sigma Alpha Epsilon 
 fraternity and the Park Hill Country Club 
 of Yonkers. He married in Boston, Nov. 1, 
 1900, Mary Brownell Davis. Address: Glen- 
 brook Avenue, Park Hill, Yonkers, N. Y, 
 
 PLINT, Albert Stowell: 
 
 Astronomer; born at Salem, Mass., Sept. 
 12, 1853; son of Simeon and Ellen Rebecca 
 (Polland) Flint. He was graduated from 
 Harvard College as A.B. in 1875, was a 
 student at the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology, 1870-1877, and received the de- 
 gree of A.M. in astronomy from the Uni- 
 versity of Cincinnati. He has been en- 
 gaged in astronomical work since 1878, 
 and is now astronomer at the Wash- 
 burn Observatory of the University of 
 Wisconsin. He has contributed portions of 
 the series of publications of the Washburn 
 Observatory, and a few papers on as- 
 tronomical subjects. His principal work 
 has been the meridian determinations 
 of stellar parallaxes. He is a member of Phi 
 Beta Kappa (Harvard), Sigma Xi, the As- 
 tronomical and Astrophvsieal Society of 
 America; Astronomische Gesellschaft ; fel- 
 low of the American Association for the Ad- 
 ^ancement of Science, ex-secretary of the 
 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and 
 Letters, ex-secretary of the Madison Choral 
 I'nion; and an active member of the Uni- 
 tarian Church. Mr. Flint married at Wash- 
 ington. D. ('.. Oct. 22, 1884, Helen Alfreda 
 Thomas, and has three children. Address: 
 450 North Charter Street, Madison, Wis. 
 
 FLINT, Austin: 
 
 Physiologist, alienist, consulting phys- 
 ician; born at Northampton, Mass., March 
 
 28, 183G; son of Austin Flint, distinguished 
 physician, and Annie S. Flint. He was a 
 student at Harvard, 1852-1853, and received 
 liis professional education in the Medical 
 Department of the University of Louisville 
 and in Jeflerson Medical College, Philadcl- 
 pliia, from which latter he was graduated 
 M.D., 1857, and received the honorary de- 
 gree of LL.D.j 1885. He practised medicine 
 in Butlalo, N. Y., 1857-1859, and in New 
 iork City since 1859. He was professor 
 of pliysiology in the Medical Department 
 of the University of Buffalo, 1858 1859; in 
 tiie New York Medical College, 1859-1860; 
 in the New Orleans School of Medicine, 
 1 SCO- 1861; was one of the founders, and 
 professor of physiology in Bellevue Hos- 
 pital Medical College, 1861-1898; professor 
 of jjhysiology, in Long Island College Hos- 
 pital, 1862-1868; in Cornell University 
 Medical College, 1898-1906, meritus, 1906. 
 Dr. Flint was surgeon-general of the State 
 of New York, 1874-1878; consulting phys- 
 ician, State Hospital for Insane, since 1896 
 (president of Consulting Board, 1899). He 
 is a fellow of the New York State Medical 
 Association (jaresident, 1895) ; member of 
 the Medical Association of the Greater City 
 of New York (president, 1899) ; member of 
 the Executive Committee of the New York 
 Prison Association, 1896. He was decorated 
 with the Order of Bolivar (third class) of 
 Venezuela, in 1891; is a member of the 
 American Medical Association, New Y^ork 
 County Medical Association; American 
 Academy of Medicine (honorary), American 
 Medico-Psychological Association, Associa- 
 tion of Military Surgeons of the United 
 States, fellow of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science, and a mem- 
 ber of the Academy of Natural Sciences 
 (Philadelphia). He is author of : Physiol- 
 ogy of Man (five volumes) ; Clinical Ex- 
 amination of Urine in Disease; Physiolog- 
 ical Etlects of Severe and Prolonged Muscu- 
 lar Exercise; Text-Book of Human Physiol- 
 ogy; Source of Muscular Power; Handbook 
 of Ph^'siology ; C(»llected Essays and Articles 
 on Physiology and Medicine, two volumes, 
 8 vo. ; also many contributions to medical 
 literature. He married at Ballston, N. Y., 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Dec. 23, 1862, Elizabeth B. ]\IcMasler, and 
 they have four children. Address: 118 
 East 19th Street, New York City. 
 
 FLINT, Charles Ranlett: 
 
 .Merchant; born at Tlioniaslou. .Maine, 
 Jan. 24, 1850: son of Benjamin and Sarah 
 (Tobey) Flint. The progenitor of the 
 family in this country, Tiiomas Flint, emi- 
 grated to America from Wales in 1G42, and 
 settled at Salem, Mass. Mr. Flint was 
 educated in the public schools of his native 
 town, and those of Brooklyn, N. Y. In 
 18C8 was graduated from the Polytechnic 
 Institute of Brooklyn, being president of 
 his class and of the alumni. In 18G9 he 
 entered the employ of W. R. Grace, and in 
 1871 organized the firm of Gilchrist, Flint 
 & Company, ship chandlers; in 1872, with 
 W. R. and M. P. Grace, he established tlie 
 firm of W. R. Grace & Company, and in 
 1876 Grace Brothers & Company of (;allac, 
 Peru, and was appointed consul in New 
 York for the Republic of Chili, and in the 
 absence of the charge d'affaires attended 
 to the business of the Chilian Legation. 
 He held this position until Chili declared 
 war against Peru in 1878, when owing to 
 his firm being the financial agents of the 
 Peruvian Government, he cabled liis resig- 
 nation to Chili. In 1880 he became the 
 President of the U. S. Electric Light Com- 
 pany, of which Farmer Maxim and Weston 
 were the electricians, and was the first to 
 use the incandescent light in the city of 
 New York. 1884 visited Brazil and ar- 
 ranged- for the export during succeeding 
 years of large quantities of rubber from 
 the Amazon. Upon his return he was ap- 
 ])ointed consul of Nicaragua in New York. 
 In 1885 he entered the firm of Flint & 
 Company, successors of the shipbuilding and 
 shipowning firm of Chainnan & Flint, es- 
 tablislied in 18.37, then eniii|in>e,| ,,i liis 
 fatlicr and his brother. .Mr. i'linl leiidered 
 important services as a delegate of the 
 United States to the International American 
 Conference held in Washington in tlie win 
 ter of 1889-1890, having an iiitimale knowl- 
 edge of tiie resources ami ti.nle dl tlie 
 South American countries. In liiat Con- 
 
 ference he represented the United States 
 on the Committee on Banking and as a mem- 
 ber of the Committee on Custom Regula- 
 tions formulated a report for unifying the 
 Custom Regulations for the American Re- 
 publics, and in that report, after consulting 
 Andrew Carnegie and the other United 
 States delegates, recommended the oiganiza- 
 tion of the Bureau of American Republics, 
 which was adopted by the Conference and 
 to which Mr. Carnegie has recently given 
 $750,000. In 1890 he acted as intermediary 
 between Secretary Blaine and the Brazilian 
 Minister in negotiating and formulating the 
 first Reciprocity Treaty under the Aldrich 
 Amendment. In 1893, during the Mello 
 Da Gama Rebellion in Brazil lie acted for 
 President Piexoto in the purchase of ves- 
 sels and nuuiitions of war; and in IS'.)."), 
 during the Chinese-Japanese War he pur- 
 chased the cruiser Esmerelda tKnii Cliiii 
 and delivered her to Japan. In IS!)S, hoth 
 before and during the war with Spain, lie 
 rendered valuable services to the United 
 States Government in tlie purchase of ves- 
 sels and munitions of war. In several in- 
 stances he blocked the Spaniards in their 
 efi'orts to purchase foreign war vessels and 
 supplies ; he gave the United States informa- 
 tion of the departure of the Sjiauish fieet 
 from Cape Verde, and twelve luiur- later, 
 the direction in which tiie licet was steam- 
 ing. He also advised the Government of 
 the .sailing of the colliers to the rendezvous 
 with the Spanish fleet off Venezuela. In 
 1895-1898 he established in the City of 
 Manaos, which is located l.dOO miles up 
 the Amazon River, a modern trolley road, 
 electric light system, water works and the 
 asphalt block pavement. During the Rus-so- 
 Japane.se War Mr. Flint was pro-Russian 
 and at the outset of the war purchased for 
 the Russian Government all the available 
 oi-dnance and projectiles in the United 
 States, and bought and shijjped to Kussia 
 the submarine Protector, live other sub- 
 marines and ten torpedo boats. Cnder the 
 diplomatic passports of the Russian Gov- 
 eriniicnt. he went to St. Petersburg, was 
 granted an audience liy the iMnjieror. re- 
 ceiving letters of credit of de Koth-child 
 
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 Frcres of I'nris. :iggro-,'a1iii-; ISO.ODO.OOO 
 francs ami coiuluck'cl iinportaiil nciiotia- 
 tions ill prcvoiitiiiy the salo of llic Ari^rii 
 tine ami Cliilian war vessels In Japan and 
 Turkey, visiting Constantinople for tiuit 
 purpose. During the past fifteen yt^'H's Mi'- 
 Flint has devoted himself largely to the 
 consolidation of industrials and the exist- 
 ence of soino thirty-nine consolidations, hav- 
 ing an outstanding capitalization of over 
 $:UG,O0O.{)(M) hear witness to his success 
 and industry, and he has hecome widely 
 known as the "' Father of Trusts."' He 
 has given much attention to yachting, being 
 a member of the New York, Seawanhaka, 
 Larchmont. and Atlantic Yacht Clubs; and 
 he is also a member of the Century, Union 
 and Metropolitan Clubs. He married, in 
 1883, E. Kate Simmons, of Troy, N. Y. 
 Residence: 4 East Thirty-sixth Street. 
 Address: 25 Broad Street, New York City. 
 
 FLINT, Frank Putnam: 
 
 U. S. senator, lawyer; burn in North 
 Reading, Mass., July 1.5, 18G2; son of Fran- 
 cis Eaton and Althea (Hewes) Flint. He 
 removed with his parents in 18G9 to San 
 Francisco, where he was educated in the 
 public schools. He removed to Los Angeles 
 in 1888, studied law and in 1892 he was 
 admitted to the bar and appointed as- 
 sistant U. S. attorney, serving in that ca- 
 pacity until 1893, and after that was in 
 ])rivate practice until 1897, when he was 
 appointed U. S. attorney for the Soutliern 
 District of California. He was elected Jan. 
 11, 190.5, as a Republican, to the United 
 States Senate from California, for the term 
 expiring March 3, 1911. lie married in 
 Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 2.5. IS'.IO, Katherinc 
 J. Bloss, and they have two children. Ad- 
 dress: Los Angeles, Calif. 
 
 FLINT, James Milton: 
 
 Medical director U. S. Navy, retired; 
 born in Hillsborough, N. H.. Feb. 7, 1S3S; 
 son of Amos and Mary (Sticknev) Flint. 
 He was educated in the ])ul)li(' scliuols and 
 the Pembroke (N. H.) Academy, was grad- 
 uated from the Medical Depart meut of Har- 
 vard University, M.D., 18(i0. He was ap- 
 jjointed assistant surgeon, U. S. Navy, 
 
 A])ril 14, 18(i2: pniiiKitcd surgeon in 
 1874, medical iiispccl or IS'.i;!. iiicilic,:! 
 (lircctoi-. 1SII7. and icliicil l''cl.. 7. I'.ltid, 
 witli tile rank of icar adiiiiiaj. I . S. 
 N. He has served as iionorary curator in 
 the Division of Medicine, V. S. National 
 Museum, 1880-1884, 1888- IS!)], and again 
 since 1895; was a, member of (he ( oiiimis- 
 sion on Revision and Piil)licatioii of the 
 U. S. Pharmacopa'ia. 1880-1890; was sur- 
 geon of the U. S. Fish Commission steamer 
 Albatross, on its expedition for deep-sea 
 explorations, 1884-1 887. and ha- attained 
 distinction as a biologist, as wed! as in his 
 record in medicine and as a naval officer. 
 He has made notable researches in pliarma- 
 cology and in the history of mediciiie, and 
 in the biology of the Foraminifera. and has 
 written reports and bulletins of the U. 
 S. National Museum on the deeji-sea de- 
 posits of the Pacific Ocean, and otlicr s di 
 jects. He is a fellow of llic Anicricin 
 Association for the Advancement of Science; 
 member of the American Anthropological 
 Association, Washington Academy of Sci- 
 ences, Washington Biological Society, and 
 Washington Philosophical Society; also 
 member of the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion, Sons of the American Revolution 
 and Society of Colonial Wars. Address: 
 Stoneleigh Court, Washington, D. C. 
 
 FLINT, Joseph Marshall: 
 
 Surgeon and anatomist; born in ( liicago, 
 July 8, 1872; son of Francis and Sai-:ili 
 Elizabeth (Dancy) Flint. He attended 
 Princeton University, 1891-1893. and tlie 
 University of Chicago, 1893-1895, receiving 
 the degree of B.S. in 1895; was graduated 
 from Johns Hopkins Medical Scliool. M.D.. 
 in 1900, and received the Iionorary M.A. 
 degree from Princeton, in 1900. Dr. Flint 
 was an associate in anatomy at the Univer- 
 sity of Chicago in the summer of 1897. and 
 again in 1901, and assi.stant with the Johns 
 Hopkins Medical Commission to the Philip- 
 jiines in 1898; .served on special plague 
 duty with the United States Marine Hos- 
 pital Service in San Fran<'isco in 1900; 
 was professor of anatomy, 1901-1907, in the 
 University of California : professor of 
 surgery at Yale University since 1907; 
 
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 also ehii-'f sui\ui'on to New Haven Di-iicn-ary 
 and attendinjj; surgeon to the New Haven 
 Hospital. Dr. Flint traveled in Cliina, 
 India, ami tlie Philippines on llic Medical 
 Coniniis.^ion and studied at Euroi)e during: 
 the year 18!)G, and again. 190."vl907. He 
 is a member of the Morphologisehe Physi- 
 ologiselie (Je.-ellsehaft of Vienna, the Manila 
 Medical Society, and the Alpha Delta Phi 
 fraternity, the (iraduate.s Club of New 
 Haven, l"ni\ersity and Princeton Clubs of 
 New York. Dr. Flint married at Hacienda 
 del Pozo de Verona, Calif., Sept. 15, 190.3, 
 Anne Drueilla Apperson. Addres.s: Yale 
 ['niversitv. New Ha\en, Conn. 
 
 FLINT, Peter: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Ticonderoga, N. Y.. Dec. 
 G, 1856; son of Charles Northrop and Aura 
 Maria (Thompson) Flint. He was educated 
 in the high school at Fort Henry, N. Y., 
 the Hopkins Grammar School at New Ha- 
 ven, and Yale University, whence he was 
 graduated A.B., 1880. He was admitted 
 to the bar at Saratoga, N. Y., 1883; was a 
 meml)er of the law firm of Benedict and 
 Flint, 1898-1900; since then practising alone 
 in New York City. Mr. Flint won the 
 first case (MacGregor vs. Southniayd) tried 
 under the New York State Tenement House 
 Law relative to keeping lights burning in 
 halls of llat-hou>es, securing a verdict in the 
 Supreme Court of Brooklyn for the ])lain- 
 tiir, who had fallen down the stairs of a 
 tenement owned by the Astor Estate, and 
 has been identified with many imiJortant 
 ca.ses. At the latter part of the Spanish 
 War lie v.'ent as a member of a committee 
 of tlie Sons of the American Revolution. 
 und(>r orders of the United States, in cliarge 
 of about $8,000 worth of delicacies, wines, 
 provisions, cots, l)edding. medicines, and 
 other supplies contributed by Sir Thomas 
 Ivipton and Miss Helen (;ould, for U. S. 
 .soliliers in hospitals at San Juan and Ponce. 
 Porto Rico, and Santiago, Cuba; and in- 
 spected these hospitals,, distributing sup- 
 plies and leaving a large quantity with 
 (Jeneral Leonard Wood at Santiago. Mr. 
 Flint is secretary of the Yale Alumni 
 Nathan Hale Statue Committee, a move- 
 
 ment to place a full-sized statue of Hale, 
 by William Ordway Partridge, on the cam- 
 pus in front of the old South Middle Col- 
 lege at Yale. He originated and is sec- 
 retary of the Sons of Oriskany, a patriotic 
 society of lineal descendants of soldiers of 
 Nicholas Herkimer's regiment, wlio won a 
 signal victory, .\r,g. (i. 1877. in liand-to- 
 hand conllict with a force of twice their 
 numbers, composed of Tories, Englisli regu- 
 lars and Indians under Colonel Barney St. 
 Leger; and Mr. Flint has devoted much 
 time to the effort to bring the importanca 
 of the battle of Oriskany to the attention 
 of the American people. He is greatly in 
 terested in forestry, fishing, and hunting, 
 in the Eagle Lake section of Essex County, 
 near his birthplace, where he has his sum- 
 mer home, and has been a continuous con- 
 tributor to the New York Tribune, Press 
 and Sun on these subjects. He was orgin- 
 ator and is secretary of the K. W. Y. A. A. 
 ( Know What You Aim At ) , a voluntary 
 organization of men who hunt in the Adi- 
 rondacks, bound by a pledge never to aim 
 at any object until its nature is known, 
 and which has saved many lives. He is 
 a member of the New York County Law- 
 yers' Association, New York State Historical 
 Association, Yale Club of New York City, 
 Theatre-goers uf America, and the Ticon- 
 deroga Gun Clul). He inanieil in New 
 York City. June :!(». ISIU). Alice .Morlan, 
 a portrait and miniature painter of dis- 
 tinction. Summer home: Arden Lodge, 
 Eagle Cliir 1'. ()., Ticonderoga, N. Y. Ad- 
 dress: Care New York Lawyers' Associa- 
 tion, Room 2G75, 105 Broadway, New York 
 City. 
 
 FLOOD, Henry Delaware: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman: born in .\p- 
 pomattox County, Va., Sept. 2. 1805; son 
 of J. W. and Ella W. Flood. He was edu- 
 cated in the Washington and Lee I'niver- 
 sity and in the Law Department of the 
 University, being giaduated LL.B., 1880, 
 and admitted to 1 he Virginia Bar. Sept. 
 15, 18SG. Me engaged in practice in his 
 native county, served as attorney for the 
 Commonwealth for Appomattox County, 
 
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 and as a member of the House of Delegates 
 and of the Senate in the (General Assembly 
 of Virginia, was a presidential elector on 
 the Democratic ticket in 1802, a member 
 of the Virginia Constitutional Convention 
 of 1901-1!)02; was defeated for Congress 
 in 181)6, but elected to the Fifty-seventh, 
 Fifty-eighth, Fifty ninth, and Sixtieth Con- 
 gresses, and reelected in 1!)08 to the Sixty- 
 first Congress from the Tenth Virginia Dis- 
 trict. Mr. Flood was appointed by Gov- 
 ernor Swanson in 190G, a member of the 
 Board of Visitors for the University of 
 Virginia. Address: Appomattox, Va. 
 
 FLORANCE, Ernest Touro: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Pass Christian, Miss., 
 July 30, 1854; son of Benjamin and Re- 
 becca (Kursheedt) Florance. He was edu- 
 cated in schools and academies in New 
 Orleans, and was admitted to the bar at 
 New Orleans in 1875. He has attained es- 
 pecial distinction as a connuercial lawyer 
 and president at the Connuercial Law 
 League of America. Residence: 318 Royal 
 Street. Office address: 610 612 Maison 
 Blanche Bldg., New Orleans, La. 
 
 FLOYD, John Charles: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Sparta, 
 White County, Tenn., April 14, 1858; son 
 of John Wesley and Eliza Jane (Snod- 
 grass) Floyd. He moved with his parents 
 to Benton County, Ark., in 1869, where he 
 worked on a farm and attended the com- 
 mon and high schools until he was eighteen 
 years old; in 1876 he entered the State 
 University, at Fayetteville, Ark., whence he 
 was graduated A.B., 1879. He taught 
 school, 1880-1881, was admitted to the bar 
 in 1882, and has ever since practised law 
 in Yellville, Ark. In 1888 was elected 
 repi'esentative of Marion County in the 
 State legislature; in 1890 and again in 
 1892 was elected prosecuting attorney of 
 the Fourteenth Circuit, each time without 
 opposition; was elected to the Fifty-ninth 
 Congress and reelected to the Sixtieth and 
 Sixty-first Congresses, from the Third Ar- 
 kansas District. He married in Yellville, 
 Ark., Nov. 24, 1887, Sarah Virginia Berry. 
 Address: Yellville, Ark. 
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 FLYNN, Denis T.: 
 
 Lawyer; Ixuii at I'lia-nixville, Pa.. ]-'eb. 
 13, 18()2. His boyhood was spent at Buffalo, 
 N. Y., in the seiiools of which city he was 
 educated, and in 1880 he removed to River- 
 side, Iowa, where he studied law and was 
 admitted to tlie bar. He established there 
 the Riverside l^eader, but afterward re- 
 moved to Kiowa, Kan., where he practised 
 law and edited the Kiowa Herald, and was 
 the first postmaster and city attorney there. 
 He went to Oklahoma in 1889, and was 
 postmaster of Guthrie, Okla., 1890 1893, 
 and delegate in Congress from Oklahoma in 
 the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-sixth, 
 and Fifty-seventh Congresses. Mr. Flynn 
 is a Republican. Address: Oklahoma Citv. 
 Okla. 
 
 FOCHT, Benjamin K.: 
 
 Editor and congressman ; born at New 
 Bloomfield, Pa., March 12, 1863. His father 
 was of German descent and a scholar, 
 orator and Lutheran preacher of note, who 
 died when his son was one year old. Some 
 of his paternal ancestors served in the 
 Revolutionary War. Mr. Focht's maternal 
 grandfather was of English descent, and 
 in the early days owned a large part of 
 what is now Lewisburg, Pa., and operated 
 a number of flouring mills in the neighbor- 
 hood. Since childhood Mr. Focht resided 
 at Lewisburg, Pa., his present residence. 
 He is married and has two daughters and 
 a son and his home life is ideal. After 
 attending Bucknell University, Pennsyl- 
 vania State College and the Susquehanna 
 University, Mr. Focht learned the printing 
 and publishing business, and at the age ot 
 eighteen years founded a newspaper which 
 he still owns. He immediately engaged in 
 politics, and as a mere boy received his 
 political tutelage in heated campaigns from 
 the elder Cameron, his son Donald ami 
 M. S. Quay. He is a talented and forceful 
 newspaper writer, and like his father be- 
 fore liim, is an orator of ability. His 
 career for thirty years in politics and busi- 
 ness has been as distinguished and success- 
 ful as it has been stormy. He has been 
 a recognized Republican leader in Central 
 
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 Pennsylvania politics for many years. He 
 berved as State delegate, many times a Con- 
 gressional Conferee, League Club delegate, 
 belongs to a Republican Club in New York 
 and one in Philadelphia, was three times 
 a member <if the Assemuly at llarrisburg, 
 served four years in llic Pennsylvania State 
 Senate, is author of one hundred laws now 
 on the statute books, served as chairman 
 on important committees in the House and 
 Senate, addressed Presidents McKinley and 
 Roosevelt, as head of special committees, 
 and was chairman of the committee' which 
 luul til irge of the ceremonies attending the 
 inauguration of (jiovernor Pennypacker. 
 While successfully engaged in enteiprises in 
 Philadelphia and New York as a member 
 of the firjn of Davis and Focht, he still 
 retains his ownership of tiie news])a])er he 
 founded at Lewisburg when a l)uy. He 
 was elected in 190{), on the Republican 
 ticket from the Seventeenth Pennsylvania 
 District in the Sixtieth Congress, and re- 
 elected by ten thousand majority in 1!)0S, 
 to the Sixty-first Congress. Address : 
 J.ewisburg, Pa. 
 
 FOGARTY, Thomas: 
 
 Artist, illustrator: lioni in N. Y. City, 
 in 1873. lie was a pupil of 11. Siddous 
 Mowbray, and took llie scienlilic course in 
 De La Salle Listitute, N. Y. City; then en- 
 tered the publishing house of Charles Scrib- 
 ner's Sons; studied art at the Art Stmleiits" 
 League; began illustrating on Harper's 
 Young People, 18!)2; also published a few 
 drav.ings in Life, and drew for school 
 books and histories for the American Book 
 Company. Mr. Fogarty illustrated: Riis" 
 The Making of An American; Battle with 
 the Slums, 1902; The Melon Farm: The 
 Blazed Trail; The Merry Anne and the 
 Forest (the latter work being I he iisuh 
 of a canoe trip into the Canailian wilder 
 ness with the author) ; Tonuuy & Com 
 pany (Jerome K. Jerome), Debbonaire ( \\ . 
 F. Payson;: is on staH" of AlcClure's and 
 the American magazines, and contril)i'l()r 
 to other leading periodicals. He is also in- 
 structor in illustration in the Art Students' 
 League, and a member of the Society of 
 
 Illustrators, and The Players Club uf New 
 York City. Address: 38 East 22d Street, 
 New Y'ork City. 
 
 FOLLANSBEE, Mitchell Davis: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Chicago, Jan. 23, 1870; 
 son of George Alanson and Susan l^ana 
 (Davis) Follansbee. He attended public 
 and private schools; was graduated A.B., 
 at Harvard in 1892, and LL.B., at North- 
 western University Law School in 1894, and 
 has since practised law. He is a member 
 of the firm of Follansbee, McConnell & 
 Follansbee. He is an editor of the Illinois 
 Law Review, a professor in the North- 
 western University Law School, a member 
 of the Chicago Bar Association, Illinois 
 State Bar Association; is a member of the 
 Law, the Legal, University, Chicago Mid- 
 day, and Saddle and Cycle Clubs of Chicago, 
 and the Harvard and University Clubs of 
 New Y^ork, and is a director of the United 
 Charities of Chicago. He married at Sea- 
 breeze, Fla., April 14, 1903. Julia Rogers 
 McConnell, and they have three cliihlreii: 
 Eleanor McConnell, Mitchell 1).. Jr.. an, I 
 Rogers McConnell. Residence: .")2 Belle- 
 vue Place. Business address: 20.5 La Salic 
 Street, Chicago. 
 
 FOLEY, John Samuel: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Detroit : born in ISalti- 
 more, Md., Nov. T). 183.'!. lie received his 
 classical education at Saint Mary's College, 
 Baltimore, and after his graduation there 
 in 1800, entered upon his divinity studies 
 at the Saint JNIary's Ecclesiasi ical Scniinary 
 in Baltimore, afterward complct in^ tlicni at 
 the Roman Seminary. He was ordained to 
 the Catholic priesthood in ISoti: was rector 
 of Saint Bridget's Parish in Baltimore, and 
 afterward for six years at Ellicott City, 
 .Md. After that he was assistant pastor of 
 Saint Peter's, Baltimore. He foun(ic(l and 
 became pastor of Saint Martin's. Balliuiorc. 
 in which charge he worked faithfully until 
 his consecration as bishop, establishing new 
 parochial schools, de^■(doping the Saint Jo- 
 seph's House of Industry and the Sisters 
 of the Good Shepherd. In November, 1888, 
 he was consecrated bishop of Detroit, and 
 
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 has sinco devoted his energies to the over- 
 sight of thrat diocese. Address: Detroit, 
 Mich. 
 
 FOLGER, William Mayhew: 
 
 l!e;ir Adiuiral U. >S. Navy, retired; born 
 in Massillon, Ohio, May 19, 1844; son of 
 Robert and Amelia (Hayden) Folger. He 
 was appointed from Ohio to the U. S. Naval 
 Academy. Sept. 21, 1861, was graduated in 
 the Class of 1864, and promoted tlirough all 
 tlie grades nntil commissioned rear-admiial 
 U. S. Navy, June 1, 1904, with which rank 
 he was retired on his own application after 
 forty years' service June 30, 1905. He 
 served on many duties and stations, and bi- 
 came especially well known as an ordinance 
 officer, becoming chief of the Bureau of Ord- 
 nance, with the ranlc of commodore, 1890- 
 1893. After that he commanded the York- 
 town, commanded the cruiser New Orleans 
 during the war with Spain, and later tlie 
 Kearsarge; was light-house inspector for the 
 Third District, 1901-1904; commanded the 
 Philippine Squadron of the Asiatic Fleet, 
 April to September, 1898, and after that the 
 Cruiser Squadron of the Asiatic Fleet to 
 March, 1905, then commanded the Asiatic 
 Fleet until retired. Address: Windsor, Vt. 
 
 POLK, Joseph Wingate: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-governor ; born in Browns- 
 ville, Tenn., Oct. 28, 1869; son of Henry 
 B. and Martha (Estes) Folk. He was 
 graduated from Vanderbilt University, 
 LL.B., 1890, and after practising for a 
 year in liis native town, \Aent to St. Louis, 
 where he established an extensive civil prac- 
 tice. He is a life-long Democrat, and he 
 took the stump for the Democratic ticket 
 in 1896 and 1900. In the sunnner of 1900, 
 when the great street-car strike paralyzed 
 the industries of St. Louis, Mr. Folk was 
 appealed to by the strikers and succeeded 
 in settling the dispute and bringing the 
 strike to an end. In October, 1900, when 
 the City Democratic Convention met in St. 
 Louis, the Democratic managers, who had 
 prepared a slate almost solidly represent- 
 ing the so-called " gold element " of the 
 party, were reminded that the Bryan men 
 had been given no recognition, and it was 
 
 suggested that it would hi' wise to put 
 Mr. Folk on the ticket tor circuit attorney, 
 which was done witiiout Iiis solicitation or 
 desire, as it meant a financial sacritlcc to 
 him. He was finally persuaded to accept 
 the nomination, was elected by three thou- 
 sand majority and won national fame by 
 his prosecution of those guilty of election 
 frauds, bribery arul munici])al corruption, 
 and against the most vigorous opposition, 
 legal and political, brought about a com- 
 plete purging of the city government. 
 Seven convictions of election bribers were 
 secured, but set aside on the ground tluit 
 the penal clauses of the law were uncon- 
 stitutional; and for bribery charges there 
 were nineteen trials and eighteen convic- 
 tions. Then he turned his attention to 
 State matters in which he showed that 
 legislation was sold to the highest bidder, 
 forced the resignation of Lieutenant-Gov- 
 ernor Lee and his confession to disgraceful 
 corruption, involving senators and repre- 
 sentatives ; and incidentally he seciu'ed a 
 treaty bet^\■een the United States and Mexico 
 covering bribery. The record thus made se- 
 cured his nomination for governor in 1904, 
 when he was elected, receiving fifty thou 
 sand votes more than other candidates on 
 his ticket. His term, which expired in 
 January, 1909, was notable for the fearless 
 and unbiased enforcement of ever\' law on 
 the statute books of Missouri. Governor 
 Folk has also attained great popularity as 
 a lecturer in Chautauqua and lyccum 
 courses. He resumed the practice of law 
 in St. Louis after the expiration of his 
 gubernatorial term. He married in Browns- 
 vile, Tenn., in 1896, Gertrude Glass. Ad- 
 ress : St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 FOLKS, Homer: 
 
 Social worker; born in Hanover, Mich.. 
 Feb. 18, 1867; son of James and Elizabeth 
 (Woodliff) Folks. He was graduated from 
 Albion College, A.B., 1889, and from Har- 
 vard College, A.B.. 1890. Mr. Folks was 
 general superintendent of the Children's 
 Aid Society of Pennsylvania 1890-1893; 
 secretary of the State Charities Aid Asso- 
 ciation of New York, 1893-1902; commis- 
 
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 sioncr of Public Charities of New York 
 City, 1002 1903, and again since 1904, sec- 
 retary of the State Charities Aid Associa- 
 tion. Mr. Folks has published a History 
 of the Care of Destitute, Neglected, and 
 Delinquent Children in the United States, 
 contributed to the Charities Review during 
 1899-1900, and published in book form by 
 the Macniillan Company in January, 1902, 
 and numerous reports, pamphlets and maga- 
 zine articles. He was a member of the 
 Board of Alderman of New York City, 1898- 
 1899, and is president of the State Pro- 
 bation Commission of New York, established 
 in 1907, and also of the National Associa- 
 tion of Probation Officers. Mr. Folks is a 
 member of the Board of Trustees of the 
 City Club of New York; vice-chairman of 
 the National Child Labor Committee, mem- 
 ber of the Central Council of the Charity 
 Organization Society; member of the Board 
 of Directors of the National Association for 
 the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis; 
 member of the Executive Committee of 
 the Civil Service Reform Association; 
 member of the Board of Directors of the 
 Loeb Convalescent Home; and member of 
 the Advisory Board of the State Health 
 Department. He is a member of the Alpha 
 Tau Omega fraternity and of the City, Re- 
 publican and National Arts Clubs of New 
 York City. Mr. Folks married in Albion. 
 Mich., Dec. 22, 1891, M. Maude Beard, and 
 they have three daughters: Lalitha, Ger- 
 trude and Evelyn. Residence: 428 Haw- 
 thorne Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. Office: 105 
 East 22d Street, New York City. 
 
 FOLWELL, Arthur H.: 
 
 Kditor; l)orn in lirnoklyn. Nov. 22, 1877; 
 .son of Arthur and Agnes H. (Cahoon) Fol- 
 Well. He was educated in the Brooklyn 
 public schools at the Boy's High School of 
 Brooklyn. Mr. Folwell was for seven years 
 on the staff of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle 
 in various capacities, until June, 1902; was 
 literary editor, 1902-190.5, and since 1903 
 has been editor, of Puck. Mr. Folwell mar- 
 ried in Brooklyn, June 12, 1901, Edna M. 
 Neal. Residence: 427 Maron Street. Brook- 
 lyn. N. Y. Office: Puck Building. New 
 York City. 
 
 FONTAINE, William Morris: 
 
 Professor in geology and natural history 
 in the University of Virginia; born in 
 Louisa County, Virginia, Dec. 1, 1835; son 
 of James and Juliet (Morris) Fontaine. He 
 was graduated from the University of 
 V^irginia, A.M., 1859. He served as second 
 lieutenant of artillery in the Army of the 
 Confederate States until 1862, then as first 
 lieutenant of ordinance until April 9, 1865. 
 He attended the School of Mines at Frei- 
 berg, Saxony, 1869-1870; was professor of 
 chemistry and geology in the University of 
 West Virginia, 1873-1879; and since then 
 has held his present chair at the University 
 of Virginia. He is a fellow of the Geo- 
 logical Society of America and a member 
 of the Huguenot Society of America. Pro- 
 fessor Fontaine is distinguished for scien- 
 tific research, especially in the realm of 
 ])aleobotany, is pg,rt author of: Resources of 
 Vvest Virginia, and of Report on the Per- 
 nian Flora of Southwest Pennsylvania and 
 and West Virginia; author of Monographs 
 VI and XV of the United States Geological 
 Survey; Bulletins of the same Survey on 
 The Potomac Formation, and of various 
 papers on fossil botany, published in the 
 monographs and annual reports of the 
 Survey; and of various papers on geology 
 and mineralogy, published in the American 
 Journal of Science. Address: University 
 Station, Charlottesville, Va. 
 
 FOOTE, Arthur: 
 
 ]\rusician ; born in Salem, Mass., ^Nlanli 
 5, 1853; son of Caleb and Mary Wilder 
 (White) Foote. He was graduated from 
 Harvard, A.B., 1874, A.M., 1875. In 1876 
 lie began his successful career as teacher of 
 piano playing in Boston, and since 1878 has 
 been organist of tlie First Unitarian Church 
 in Boston. He has given many recitals on 
 the organ and i)iano, and has published a 
 large number of musical compositions, in- 
 cluding about seventy songs and forty 
 piano pieces, besides orchestra suites and 
 overtures, cantatas, church and organ uuisic, 
 etc. He is the author, witli W. R. Spalding, 
 of the Standard textbook "Modern Har- 
 mony." Mr. Foote is president of the 
 Cecilia Society of Boston, Honorary Pres- 
 
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 ident of the American Guild of Organists; 
 member of the Kssex Institute, Salem, Mass., 
 the Harvard Musical Association, the 8t. 
 Botolph and Tavern Clubs of Boston and 
 the Norfolk Country and Norfolk Golf Club 
 of Dedlunn, Mass. He married in Boston, 
 July 7, 1880, Kate Grant Knowlton, and 
 has one daughter. Residence : Denham, 
 Mass. Office: 6 Newbury Street, Boston. 
 
 rOOTE, Mary Hallock: 
 
 Author and illustrator; born in Milton, 
 N. Y., Nov. 19, 1847; daughter of Nathaniel 
 and Anne (Burling) Hallock; descendant on 
 both sides of old Quaker families of New 
 York State. She received her education at 
 home, in childhood, and latter in the Pough- 
 keepsie (N. Y.) Female Seminary and in 
 the New York School of Design for Women. 
 She married in Milton, N. Y., in 1876, Ar- 
 thur De Wint Foote, a civil engineer, and 
 she has a son and daughter living, and had 
 another daughter, now deceased. Her hus- 
 band's professional connections have caused 
 her to reside chiefly in the West (in Colo- 
 rado, Idaho, Mexico and California), and 
 she has devoted herself to literature and 
 art. Mrs. Foote was one of the Jury of 
 Award in the Black and White Department, 
 Fine Arts Committee, at the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition of Chicago. She is author 
 of : The Led Horse Claim ( a novel ) ; John 
 Bodewin's Testimony; The Last Assembly 
 Ball; In Exile, and Other Stories; Coeur 
 d'Alene; The Chosen Valley; The Cup of 
 Trembling; The Desert and the Sown; The 
 Prodigal: The Little Fig Tree Stories; A 
 Touch of Sun and Other Stories. Among 
 her chief illustrations are: Longfellow's 
 Hanging of the Crane; Marble Martin; The 
 Skeleton in Armor, and The Scarlet Letter. 
 She also illustrated her own stories when 
 they were published as serials in the Cen- 
 tury Magazine. Address: Care of North 
 Star INIines, Grass Valley, California. 
 
 FOOTE, Nathaniel: 
 
 Justice of the Supreme Court of New 
 Y^'ork; born in Morrisville, N. Y.. Nov. 15, 
 1849; son of Nathaniel and Olivia M. 
 (Knox) Foote. After a preparatory educa- 
 tion in the Morrisville Union School, and 
 
 Cazenovia Seminary, he entered Tlaniillon 
 College in the class of 1870, and he re- 
 ceived the B.A., M.A., nnd LL.D. degrees 
 from that institution, lie luactised law at 
 Morrisville. N. Y., until 187.'}; then removed 
 to Rochester and continued the practice of 
 law there until his appointment as justice 
 of the Supreme Court by Governor Iliggiiis 
 on Jan. 2, 1905; and in Nov., 1906, he was 
 elected for the full term of fourteen years, 
 expiring Dec. 31, 1919. Judge Foote was a 
 delegate to the New York State Constitvi- 
 tional Convention of 1894, and was chair- 
 man of its Committee on Revision and En- 
 grossment. He was the first president of the 
 Rochester Bar Association on its organiza- 
 tion in 1892, and is now a member of tin; 
 New York State Bar Association, the 
 Rochester Bar Association. Rochester His- 
 torical Society, American Society of Inter- 
 national Law, National Goograpliic Society, 
 and the American Institute of Civics. 
 Judge Foote is a member of the Delta Kap- 
 pa Epsilon fraternity, the Genesee Valley 
 Club, Country Club, and Church Club of 
 Rochester. He married in Rochester, N. Y., 
 Jan. 10, 1872, Charlotte A. Campbell; and 
 they have five children. Residence: 245 
 Culver Road, Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 FORAKER, Joseph Benson: 
 
 Former LT. S. Senator; born on a farm 
 near Rainsboro, Highland County, Ohio, 
 July 5, 1846. He enlisted July {4, 1862, 
 as a private in Company A, 89th Hegiment 
 of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which or- 
 ganization he served until the close of the 
 war, at which time he held the rank of first 
 lieutenant and brevet captain. He was 
 graduated from Cornell University, July 1, 
 1869; was admitted to the bar and entered 
 upon the practice of law' at Cincinnati. Ohio, 
 Oct. 14, 1869; was elected judge of the su- 
 perior court Cincinnati in April, 1879; and 
 resigned on account of • ill health May 1, 
 1882. He was the Republican candidate for 
 governor of Ohio in 1883, but was defeated; 
 was elected to that office in 1885, and re- 
 elected in 1887 ; was again nominated for 
 governor and defeated in 1889. He was 
 chairman of the Republican State conven- 
 tions of Ohio for 1886, 1890, 1896, and 1901, 
 
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 ami a delc^'ate at -large from Oliio lo tlic 
 National Ro]mblican conventions, nl' 1SS4. 
 1888. 1892. ISnt;, 1900 and 1904. lie wa.s 
 chairman of the Ohio delegatiini in tlie con- 
 vention.s of 1884 and 1888, and presented to 
 both of these conventions the name of Hon. 
 John Sherman for nomination for tlie Pres- 
 idency. In the conventions of 1892 and 
 1896, lie sei\ed as chairman of the com- 
 mittee on resolutions, and as siich reported 
 the platform each time to the convention, 
 presented the name of William McKinlev 
 to the conventions of 1896 and 1900 for 
 nomination to the Presidency: was elected 
 United States Senator Jan. 1.). 1896. to 
 succeed Calvin S. Brice, for the term begin- 
 ning March 4, 1897; elected Jan. 15, 1902, 
 to succeed himself for the term which ex- 
 pired March 3, 1909; and he has resigned 
 active law practice. Address : Traction 
 Buihling. Cincinnati. Oliio. 
 
 FORBES, Allan: 
 
 ('ajiilalist: l)orn in Boston, Mass.. Nov. 
 20, 1874; son of John Murray and Alice 
 (Bowditch) Forbes; grandson of John Mur- 
 ray Forbes (1813 1898), a Boston merchant 
 engaged in the East India trade, and a 
 descendant of -Tames Forbes, who im- 
 migrated to Hartford Colony from Culloden. 
 Scotland. He was graduated from Harvard, 
 A.B., 1897, and in 1899 became Assistant 
 Treasurer and later vice-president and 
 actuary of the State Street Trust Company: 
 he is treasurer of the Riverbank Improve 
 ment Company; trustee of the Franklin 
 Savings Bank, of Boston; President of the 
 Bankers' Electric Protective Association; 
 director of the 151 iic Hill Street Railway 
 Company; Boston Water Power Company 
 and Boston Wharf Company, Cape Breton 
 Electric Company Limited ; secretary of the 
 Hotel Somerset Company, and trustee of the 
 Boston Floating Hospital; and the Dami 
 Bank; treasurer of the Dallas lee and 
 Power Company. He is vice-president of the 
 Massachusetts Banker's Association and a 
 member of the Somerset. Boston Tennis 
 and Racquet, Delta Phi and the Dedham 
 Polo Clubs. Residence: Milton. :VIass. 
 Office: State Trust Company, I'oston. 
 
 FORBES, Harrye R. P. (Mrs. A. S. C.) : 
 
 Author; born in Everett, Pa., daughter of 
 William Piper and R. Lavinia (Kay) Smith. 
 On the paternal side she is great-grand- 
 daughter of Col. James Smith, who was 
 capttired by the Indians near Raystown, 
 later becoming famous as the leader of the 
 " Black Boys " and the capturer of Fort 
 Bedford, and also descendant of Colonel 
 John Piper of Piper's Fort. Tlirough her 
 mother she is a direct descendant of John 
 Kaye, the fir.st child born within the present 
 city limits of Philadelphia, and whose par- 
 ents came over in the Ship Welcome, with 
 William Penn. She married in Wichita, 
 Kan., Feb. 10, 1886, Armitage S. C. Forbes 
 son of the Rev. Edward Forbes, D.D., Paris, 
 France. Mrs. Forbes has long resided in 
 California, taking a great interest in Cali- 
 fornian interests and history, and has trav- 
 elled along the entire Pacific Coast from 
 Alaska to Mexico, gathering Indian legends 
 and folk-lore. She is autlior of: Cali- 
 fornia History and Landmarks : ^lission 
 Tales in the Days of the Dons ; and various 
 articles on California and Indian subjects ; 
 and her syndicated articles on " China " 
 during the Boxer War were published by 
 all the leading newspapers of that time. 
 She frequently uses the pen-name " Harry 
 Forbes." Mrs. Forbes is secretary of El 
 Camino Real Association that has for its 
 object the rehabilitation and reconstruction 
 of the Camino Real (King's Highway) 
 which in the earliest days of Spanisji 
 occupation connected the twenty-one ]Mis- 
 sions, the Pueblos, Presidios and many of 
 the large Indian rancherias of California. 
 Mrs. Forbes created and established the Na- 
 tional Naval ]\Iemorial Ceremony of casting 
 tlowers on the sea in memory of the Naval 
 Dead. This ceremony was endorsed by Ad- 
 miral Dewey, Rear-Admirals Sampson. 
 Schley. Robley D. Evans, Sigsbee. Higgin 
 son. Farquhar, Tony and Mead; also Cap- 
 tains V. Q. Cottman, Gla.ss, Robinson. Rock- 
 w<dl. Blanchard and others, as well as mem- 
 bers of the Army, among them being ^la- 
 jor-General Shaffer. The service for the 
 Naval Memorial has been adopted by the 
 .\aval Association, the Grand Army of the 
 
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 Ropiiblic. Woman's Relief Corps and Sons 
 of Votiuans. Tlie ceremony is observed not 
 only ill Aiiicrica hui In- our sliips in foreign 
 ]Mi:t-;. Mrs. l''(>rlics is honorary member of 
 tile National Association of Ladies of Naval 
 V'eterans; of Hopkins Squadron, No. 11, U. 
 S. ^'eteran Navy, of the V. S. S. Pinto De- 
 tachment, Engineers Division of Naval Mi- 
 litia of California. She is also member of 
 the Daughters of the American Revolution, 
 Woman's Relief Corps, National Indian As- 
 sociation. Governor Pico Museum and His- 
 torical Society, Ruskin Art Club, Friday 
 Morning and Landmarks Clubs of Los An- 
 geles, and the Sequoia League; and for 
 three years was state chairman of Califor- 
 nia History and Landmarks for the Wom- 
 an's Federated Clubs of California. Ad- 
 dress: 618 Laughlin Building, Los Angeles, 
 C;alif. Residence: 1104 Lyndon Street, 
 Soutlf Pasadena, Calif. 
 
 FORBES, Robert Humphrey: 
 
 Agricultural chemist ; born at Cobden, 
 Union County, 111.. May 15, 1867; son of 
 Henry Clinton and Laura Jane (Gorham) 
 Forbes. He was graduated from the Prince- 
 ton (Illinois) High School, in 1888, from 
 the University of Illinois, B.S., 1892 and 
 M.S., 1897; taking special research work 
 at Harvard 1893-1894. He was instructor 
 at the University of Illinois, 1891-1893, 
 and in 1894 became professor of chemistry 
 in the University of Arizona and chemist 
 of the Arizona Agricultural Experiment 
 Station until 1899; since then director and 
 chemist of the Arizona Agricultural Exper 
 iment Station. He married at Tucson, 
 Ariz., Jan. 16, 1902, Georgie Hazel Scott. 
 Address : Tucson, Ariz. 
 
 FORBES, Stephen Alfred: 
 
 Naturalist; born in Stephenson County, 
 111., May 29, 1844; son of Isaac Sawyer 
 and Agnes (Van Hoesen) Forbes. He was 
 educated in the Beloit (Wis.) Academy, 
 Rush ]Medical College and the Illinois State 
 Normal University, and received the degree 
 of Ph.D. fiom Indiana State University 
 and LL.D. from the University of Illinois. 
 He served four years and two montlis in the 
 Civil War a.-; first Sergeant, second lieuten- 
 ant and captain of Company B, Seventh Illi- 
 
 nois Cavalry, and was prisoner of war for 
 four months. He became instructor in zool- 
 ogy in the Illinois State Normal School and 
 founded, 1877, and has since been director 
 of the Illinoi.s State l^iboratory of Natural 
 History. Dr. Forbes lias l)eeu State en- 
 tomologist of Illinois since 1882. and pro- 
 fessor of zoology in the University ut' Illinois 
 since 1884. He is author of: Biennial Re- 
 ports of the State Entomologist of Illinois; 
 Studies of the Food of Birds, Fishes and 
 Insects; Contagious Diseases of Insects; also 
 various papers on the Entomostraca of 
 North America, and on other zoological and 
 educational subjects. Dr. Forbes received 
 the first-class medal of the Society d'Ac- 
 climatation de Paris; is a member of the 
 Signa Xi Society and the Phi Gamma Delta 
 fraternity, the Washington Academy of 
 Sciences, St. Louis Academy of Sciences, 
 Societe Entoniologique de France, American 
 Zoological Society, American Society of En- 
 tomologists, Association of Economic En- 
 tomologists, and the Country, University 
 and Chaos Clubs of Chicago. Professor 
 Forbes married at Normal, 111., Dec. 25, 
 1873, Clara Shaw Gaston, and they have 
 three daughters and a son. Residence: 
 1209 Springfield Avenue, Urbana, 111. 
 
 FORBES, Theodore Freylinghuysen : 
 
 Brigadier-general U. S. A., retired; born 
 in Hawaii, July 13, 1840; son of Cochran 
 and Rebecca Dennian (Smith) Forbes. He 
 received an academic education and entered 
 the Union Army for service in the Civil War 
 Nov. 9, 1861, and served as corporal and 
 sergeant of Company G, 102d New York 
 Infantry, until Oct. 28, 1862, then as second 
 lieutenant in the same Company until 
 honorably mustered out jMarch 7, 1863. He 
 was commissioned second lieutenant in the 
 Veteran Reserve Corps, Aug. 13, 1863, and 
 honorably mustered out Oct. 12, 1866, 
 having been commissioned second lieutenant 
 in the Forty second Infantry in the Regular 
 Army. He was severely wounded at the 
 Battie of Cedar Mountain, Va.. Aug. 9. 1862, 
 and remained in the hospital on account of 
 his wounds until Feb., 1863. In the Regular 
 Army he was assigned to the 5th Infantry 
 Nov. 15, 1869, promoted first lieutenant 
 
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 Ally. 31, lS7o. captain, Oct. S, 1885; major 
 4th Infantry, Feb. 27, 18f)9, transferred to 
 the 5th Infantry. March 20, 1899 ; lieutenant 
 colonel 26th Infantry, Feb. 2, 1901, Colonel 
 4th Infantry, May 28, 1902, brigadier-gen- 
 eral, Aug. 14, 1903, and retired Aug. 15, 
 1903 at his own request, after forty years' 
 service. Brigadier-General Forbes is a mem- 
 ber of the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion, Order of Indian Wars, Order of 
 Foreign Wars and the Army and Xavy Club 
 of Washington, D. C. Address: The Con- 
 iii'ctieut. Washington. T). C. 
 
 FORBES, William Cameron: 
 
 Secretary of commerce and police of the 
 Phili))pine islands; born at Milton. Mass., 
 May 21. 1870; son of William Hathaway 
 and Edith (Emerson) Forbes. He was 
 graduated from Harvard College, A.B., 1892, 
 then engaged in business, and since 1899 
 has been a member of the firm of J. N. 
 Forbes and Co. He was also connected 
 as officer and director in several banks in 
 Boston until 1904, when he was ap])ointed 
 a member of the Philippine Commission and 
 secretary of commerce and police. He is a 
 member of the Union, Saint Botolph and 
 Tavern Clubs, of Boston, the University 
 Club of New York City, and the Univer- 
 sity Club of ^laniia. Address: .Manila, 
 Philippine Islands. 
 
 FORCE, William H.: 
 
 Merchant; born in Brooklyn, May II, 
 1852; son of William Force and Sophia 
 (Emmons) Force. He was educated at the 
 Dutchess County Academy, Poughkeepsie, 
 N. Y. His present business (shipping and 
 forwarding), he established in 1873; he is 
 .>enior mendier of the firm of William H. 
 Force & Co. He is a director of the Staten 
 Lsland Rapid Transit 11. R. Co., and United 
 Casualty Co., and the New York Board of 
 Trade, and Transportation; member of the 
 New York Chamber of Commerce, the N(.'w 
 York CofTee Exchange and the Down 1'own 
 and New York Y^acht Clubs of New York 
 City, and the Hamilton and Crescent Clubs 
 of Brooklyn ; and is secretary and treasurer 
 of the Robbins Island Cun Club. He mar- 
 ried Katherine Arvilla Talmadge; and tkey 
 
 have two daughters. Addre; 
 Street, New York Cit\. 
 
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 FORD, Arthur Younger: 
 
 Trust Company officer; born at Parkville. 
 Mo.. Nov. II. 1861; son of Salem II. and 
 Sallie (Beauchamp), Ford. He removed in 
 early boyhood to Owensboro, Ky. He was 
 educated in Centre College. Ky., and Brown 
 University, A.B.. 1884. Published the 
 Owensboro (Ky.) Inquirer, 1884-1889. and 
 in 1890 became a member of the staff of 
 the Louisville Courier- Journal, of which he 
 was State editor, 1890-1892, editorial writer, 
 1892-1894, and then managing editor of the 
 ])aper until 1905. He then left the news- 
 paper field to become Treasurer and sub- 
 sequently Vice-President of Columbia 
 Trust Co. He rendered valuable serv- 
 ices as president of the Kentucky Ex- 
 hibit As.sociation, 1904-1905. and was 'chair- 
 man of the Kentucky State Commission to 
 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. 
 Louis in 1904. Mr. Ford is a trustee of 
 Georgetown Collepo, Kentucky; Treasurer of 
 the Baptist Educ.^tion Society of Kentucky ; 
 and a member of the Board of Trustees of 
 various charitable organizations. He is a 
 member of the Filson. Pondcnnis. and 
 Louisville ("ounty Clubs; and an honorary 
 member of the Louisville Commercial Club. 
 He married at Cloverport. Ky., Jan. :{. 1SS7. 
 Esther Brown. Residence: I2(il First 
 Street. Office: Columbia Trust Co.. Louis- 
 ville. Ky. 
 
 FORD, Henry Jones: 
 
 Born in Kaltiniore. ^Id, Aug. 25. 1851; 
 son of Franklin and Annie Elizabeth 
 (Jones) Ford. He was graduated from Bal- 
 timore City College in 1868. He became ed- 
 itorial writer of the Baltimore American 
 in 1872, was later city editor of the ISal- 
 tiiiiore Sun, managing editor of the Balti 
 more American, sub-editor of the New Vurk 
 Sun, managing editor of the Pittsburizh 
 Connnercial tJazette. managing editor of tii(> 
 Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph, and editor 
 of the Pittsburgh Gazette, retiring in 1905. 
 in 19U6 he took uj) university work as 
 lecturer on political science at Johns Hop 
 kins University and the University of 
 
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 Pennsylvania. In 1908 was appointed Pro- 
 fessor of Politics in Prineeton University. 
 Author of: The llise and Growth of Amer- 
 ican Politics, and various monographs on 
 subjects pertaining to political science. Ad- 
 dress : Princeton, N. J. 
 
 FORD, John: 
 
 Jurist; born at Knovvlesville. Orleans 
 County, X. Y.. 1802; son of Michael and 
 Sarah (O'Malley) Ford. He was graduated 
 from Cornell University as A.B. in 1890. 
 He was a member of the State Senate, 
 from 1896 to 1900; active in municipal af- 
 fairs; candidate for comptroller. City of 
 New York, on Hearst ticket, 190.5 and was 
 elected justice of the Supreme Court, State 
 of New York, First Judicial District, on 
 the Democratic and Independence League 
 ticket, 1906. He is a member of the Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society, Friendly Sons of St. 
 Patrick. Order of Elks, Royal Arcanum, 
 Fellowship of Solidarity. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Republican, Cornell University, 
 and Dalcassion Clubs. He married in New 
 York City, in 1891, Lulu Fairchild Van 
 Aken, and they have two daughters: 
 Esther, born in 1893, and Edith, born in 
 189o. Address: County Court House, New 
 York City. 
 
 FORD, John Donaldson: 
 
 Rear-Admiral U. S. Navy; born in Mary- 
 land ; son of Thomas C. and Isabella 
 (Logic) Ford. He was educated in public 
 schools, of Baltimore; was graduated from 
 the Maryland Institute School of Design. 
 June, 1861, receiving the Peabody prize; 
 graduated from Potts School of jNIechanical 
 Engineering, June, 1862; entered the U. S. 
 Navy as third assistant engineer, Jnly .SO. 
 1862; promoted second assistant engineer, 
 Feb. 13, 1864; first assistant engineer, June 
 6, 1868; passed assistant engineer, Feb. 
 24, 1874; chief engineer, Dec. 27. 1890. 
 During the Civil \Yar, he took part in the 
 recapture of Baton Rouge. La., March, 
 1863, battles of :Mobile Bay, 1864; was on 
 Arizona, destroyed by fire ofT Poverty Point, 
 Mississippi River, Feb. 27, 1865. Was 
 wrecked, in the Sacramento, on Cora- 
 mandel coast of India, June, 1867; served 
 
 on many expeditions and stations; delachcil 
 and ordered to start Baltimore Manual 
 Training School IMarch 13, 1884; at Mary- 
 land Agricultural and Mechanical College, 
 from 1894 to 1896; on United States Steam- 
 ship Brooklyn, from 1896 to 1898; Balti- 
 more (flagship) January 25, 1898; and fleet 
 engineer. Pacific Station; joined Asiatic 
 Fleet; took part in actions of April 30, 
 ^lay 1, and Aug. 13: the destruction of the 
 Spanish fieet off Cavite; the destruction of 
 the batteries at Cavite and at Sangley 
 Point, and the capture of tiie forts at Cor- 
 regidor and the capture of Manila; commis- 
 sioned commander, March 3, 1899, and later 
 advanced in that grade for eminent and 
 conspicuous conduct in battle; promoted 
 captain, March 5, 1902; rear-admiral and 
 placed on retired list, May 19, 1902, but 
 continued on duty as inspector of machinery 
 and ordnance of Baltimore, and Sparrow's 
 Point, Md. He is author of several pam- 
 phlets on Manual Training, An American 
 Cruiser in the East, 1900; and many pro- 
 fessional papers. Address: Baltimore, Md. 
 
 FORD, Sewell: 
 
 Author; born in South Levant, Me., March 
 7, 1868; son of John S. and Susan (Morrill) 
 Ford. He was graduated from the Haver- 
 hill (Mass.) High School in 1887. He i.s 
 a contributor to magazines, and is one of 
 the most popular of present day short-story 
 writers. Mr. Ford has created several types 
 of modern American life that are univer- 
 sally recognized as unusually true to life. 
 Pie is also author of the books: Truegate 
 of INIogador. and Shorty ^IcCane. He is 
 a member of the Salmagundi Club of New 
 York. He married in Haverhill. Mass., Dec. 
 Ix, 1889, Lillian M. Sylvester. Address: 
 Hackensack, N. J. 
 
 FORD, Simeon: 
 
 Proprietor of the Orand Union Hotel, 
 He has been engaged in liotel business 
 from youth, and he is also a well known 
 after-dinner speaker. Mr. Ford is presi- 
 dent of the Hotel Red Book and Directory 
 Companj'; director of the Columbia Bank; 
 trustee of the American Safe Deposit Com- 
 pany; director of the Manhattan Life In- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 .sjirance Company, Rye Land and Improve- 
 ment Company, and Fireproof Elevator 
 Hatclnvay Company, and treasurer of the 
 I'nited Ajjeiicy Conipanj', and the General 
 Kh^ctrie Inspection Company. Addi^ess: 
 Urand Union Hotel, New York City. 
 
 FORD. Worthington Chauncey: 
 
 JMlitor, historian and statistician; born 
 in Brooklyn, N. Y., Fob. 16, 18aS; son of 
 Gordon Lester and Emily (Fowler) Ford. 
 He was educated in the Brooklyn Polytecii- 
 nic Institute and Columbia University, and 
 received from Harvard the honorary degree 
 of A.M.. 1!)07. He was appointed chief of 
 the Bureau of Statistics in the Department 
 of State at Washington, serving 1885-1889; 
 chief of the Bureau of Statistics in the 
 U. S. Treasury Department, 1893-1898; was 
 connected with the Boston Public Library. 
 1898-1902; chief of the Devision of Mail 
 usc-ripts, library of Congress, Washington. 
 D. C, 1902-1908; since 1908, editor of the 
 publications of the Massachusetts Historical 
 Society. He is author of a Life of George 
 Washington; American Citizens' ]\Ianual ; 
 The Standard Silver Dollar; and contribu- 
 tions to various publications and has_ edited 
 The Writings of Geoige Washington, and 
 other historical works. He was lecturer on 
 statistics in the University of Chicago, 1901. 
 Mr. Ford is a member of the Century and 
 Grolier C!ul)s of New York City, the Union 
 Club of IJostoii. and the Chevy Chase Clubs, 
 of Washington. He married Bettina Fill- 
 more (^uiii. of Washinglon, D. C. Address: 
 'I'hf .MM-^-aclm-rlt,-, lli--t()iical Society, Bos- 
 tdii. .Ma». 
 
 FORDHAM, Herbert Latham: 
 
 Lawyei-; born in ( ir('en|)<)rt . Sullolk 
 County, X. Y., Nov. 2.>. lS(i9: son of Thomas 
 D. and Lydia .M. (Lalhnnii l'nnlh:iiii. Ilr 
 is a descendant of \lvv. linlicrt i-'di illiam. 
 first minister of Hempstead Irnm Hii:; in 
 1047: and second minister ol Smil liaiii]ilnii 
 fioiii i(i47 to Hi7l. Mr. |MHilli:nii was grad- 
 iijilcd Iroiii ( iirriipdil I iiioii ScIkkiI ill 1S87 ; 
 and alteiidec] Cornrll ( iii\ ci -ily. w liciicc lie 
 \\a,> graduated a- I'li.l!. in IS'.H and LL.I'.. 
 ill 189.'). While at Cornell lie \\a> |iii)niincnt 
 in intercollegiate (h^liatcs: \\a> an editor of 
 
 the Cornell Magazine; and was elected to 
 Phi Beta Kappa. He was admitted to the 
 bar of New York State in 1895, and began 
 practice in New York City in 1896. He 
 takes an active part as a public speaker in 
 the campaigns of Republican party. Mr. 
 Fordham is a member of the American Bar 
 Association, the New Y^ork State Bar As- 
 sociation; the Association of the Bar of the 
 City of New York; the New Y'ork County 
 Lawyers' As.^ociation, the Suffolk County 
 Bar Association, the Sons of the Revolution, 
 Suffolk County Historical Society, Phi Beta 
 Kappa Alumni Association, Delta Chi fra- 
 ternity; the Cornell University, Republican, 
 Lawyers', and Brooklyn Clubs. He married 
 in New York City, June 21, 1900, Inez G. 
 Bobbins. Residence: Greenport, Suffolk 
 County, N. Y. Oliice : 49 \Vall Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 FORDNEY, Joseph "Warren: 
 
 Lumberman and congressman; born in 
 Blackford County, Ind., Nov. 5, 1853. Pie 
 received a common school education, living 
 with his parents on a farm until sixteen 
 years of age; came to Saginaw in June, 
 1869; began life in the lumber woods, log- 
 ging and estimating pine timber, thus ac- 
 quiring a thorough knowledge of the jjine 
 land and lumber iiidusti'v. which has oc- 
 cupied his atteiilioii since: is also interested 
 ill an art iticial-ice ]ilant at Hartford City, 
 liKi.: was vice-president of the Saginaw 
 Hoard of Trade; was elected alderman in 
 1895 and reelected in 1897; was elected to 
 the Fifty-sixth. Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth. 
 !''ifty-iiinth and Sixtieth Congresses, and 
 again in 1!)0S to the Sixty-llrst Congress 
 troiii I lie i'lighth Miciiigan District. Ad- 
 ilress: Sagiiuiw W. S.. Mieli. 
 
 FORDYCE, John Addison: 
 
 i'livsici.-in : ii(irii in (Guernsey County, 
 (•liio. fell. Hi. 1S5S: son ol .lolm and Mary 
 \. (llouMnan) JMUilyee. lie was graduated 
 from Acliian ( M ieliigaii ) College. A.I!.. 
 
 1S78. I'll. I).. I'.MIj ; Cliieago Medical College. 
 
 M.I).. ISSl: I'nivei-ily of Berlin. M.D., 
 ISSS. Dr. iMPidyee practised medicine, at 
 llnl Sprin-^. .\rk.. 18S;M886; .studied in 
 \ ieiina. I'.erlin and Paris, 1886-1888; and 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 lie practised in Now York City since 1888. 
 He is a member of the American Der- 
 inatolof!:ical Association, New York Academy 
 of Medicine, American Medical Association, 
 New York Dermatological Society, Amer- 
 ican Academy of Medicine, New York State 
 Medical Society, New York Academy of 
 Sciences, American Museum of Natural His- 
 tory; is professor of dermatology and 
 syphilology in the Medical Department New 
 York University, and visiting- dermatologist 
 to the City Hospital. Dr. Fordyce was 
 editor of the Journal of Cutaneous and 
 (ienito-Urinary Diseases, 1888-1896; contrib- 
 utor to Morrow's System of Genito Urinary 
 Diseases, Syphilology and Dermatology, 3 
 volumes, 1893; Parkes' Surgery by Amer- 
 ican Authors, 1896; Bangs'-Hardaway's 
 American Text-Book of Genito-Urinary 
 Diseases, Syphilology and Diseases of the 
 Sivin; ^^"ood's Reference Handbook of the 
 Medical Sciences, and to Keen's Surgery; 
 and author of numerous monographs on 
 medical subjects. He married in New York 
 City, 1886, Alice Dean Smith and they have 
 two children: Residence: 8 West 77th 
 Street, New York City. Address: 80 West 
 40..1 Street. New York City. 
 
 FOREST, John Anthony: 
 
 Catholic bishop of San Antonio; born at 
 Saint Martin's, Saint Germain, France, Dec. 
 25, 1838. He was educated for the priest- 
 hood and advanced to the diaconate in 
 France, emigrated to the diocese of Galves- 
 ton in 1863 and was advanced to the priest- 
 hood, and was stationed at Saint Mary's 
 Settlement in Lavaca County, Tex., and 
 later was pastor of the Sacred Heart Parish 
 at Kallettsville, Tex., continuing until his 
 consecration by Archbishop Janssens of New 
 Orleans, as bishop of San Antonio, Oct. 28, 
 189,5, and since then has administered that 
 see. Address: San Antonio, Tex. 
 
 FORGAN, James Berwick: 
 
 President of the First National Bank of 
 Chicago; born in St. Andrews, Scotland, 
 April 11, 1852; son of Robert and Elizabeth 
 (Berwick) Forgan. He was educated in 
 the ^Madras College, St. Andrews, and 
 
 Forres Aeadeiiiy, Forres, Scotland. At tlie 
 age of seventeen, after having spent a short 
 time in a lawyer's office, he entered the em- 
 ploy of tlie Royal Bank of Scotland at its 
 St. Andrews' branch; after three years ap- 
 prenticeship in the Royal J?ank, he secured 
 a position with the Bank of British North 
 America in l.,on(h>n and was sent by that 
 institution to Montreal, Canada ; after fill- 
 ing various clerical positions in its Mont- 
 real, New York, and Halifax offices, he 
 joined the service of the Bank of Nova 
 Scotia as paying teller, at tlie last-named 
 city. Later he became agent of the bank at 
 Liverpool, N. S., and again at Wood.-tock, 
 N. B., and subsequently was promoted to the 
 position of inspector of branches. In 1885 
 he established and took charge of a branch 
 of that bank in Minneapolis, Minn., and 
 three years later, on the invitation of the 
 directors of the Northwestern National 
 Bank, of Minneapolis, he accepted the 
 eashiership of that institution. In 1892 at 
 the request of Mr. Lyman J. Gage, president 
 of the First National Bank of Chicago, he 
 was elected vice-president of that bank, and 
 Jan. 9, 1900, he succeeded to the presidency. 
 He is also president and director of the 
 First Trust and Savings Bank, and of the 
 National Safe Deposit Company; chairman 
 of the Board of Directors of the Security 
 Bank of Chicago; director of the Standard 
 Safe Deposit Company, American Radiator 
 Comjiany, Chicago Title and Trust Company, 
 Metropolitan West Side Elevated Company, 
 Guarantee Company of North America, 
 Fidelity and Deposit Companj- of ilaryland, 
 and the Equitable Life Assurance Society 
 of the United States; and he is a member 
 of the Western Board of Control of the 
 Audit Company of New York. He is also 
 a director of the Presbyterian Hospital of 
 Chicago. He is a member of the Chicago 
 Golf, Chicago, Union League, ^Midday Union 
 and Saddle and Cycle Club.-- of Chicago, and 
 the Exmoor Country Club of Highland 
 Park, 111. He married in ?Ialifax, N. S., 
 Oct. 19, 1875. :Mary Ellen Murray, and they 
 have four children. Residence: 514 Dear- 
 born Avenue. Olllce: First National Bank, 
 Chicago. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 FORMAN, Allan: 
 
 Editor of the .lourimlisl ; horn in Mat- 
 tituck, L. I.. N. Y., Sept. 27, 1860. He was 
 educated in private sehool and by tutors 
 in Brooklyn, and at Williams College, where 
 he specialized in economics and Enjili.sh lit- 
 erature. He is a dramatic critic and con- 
 tributor to current periodicals; established 
 the Journalist in 1884, and has since con- 
 ducted it. He is a member of the Long 
 Island Historical Society, and of the Under- 
 writers' Club. He married Xesia Carl- 
 stedt. Residence: 10 East 16th Street. 
 OflTice: 41 Liberty Street, New York City. 
 
 FORMAN, Henry James: 
 
 Editor; born in New York City, Eeb. 17. 
 1879. He was graduated from Harvard 
 University, A.B., (with special distinction 
 in philosophy), in 1903. Mr. Forman 
 served on the staff of the New York Sun. 
 1903-1905; in the summer of 1905, he was 
 special correspondent of the N. Y. Sun, with 
 President Roosevelt during the Russo- 
 Japanese Peace Conference, and member of 
 the President's suite on board the U. S. S. 
 Mayflower when the President brought to- 
 gether the Russian and Japanese envoys; 
 political editor of the Literary Digest, Dec. 
 1905 to Oct. 1906; associate editor and gen 
 eral manager of the North American Review 
 .since Oct. 1906. Mr. Forman lias contrib- 
 uted to the leading magazines; was literary 
 editor of Appleton's Magazine, July, 1905 to 
 Oct., 1906; American delegate to the Es- 
 peranto Congress, Cambridge, England, 
 1907. He is a member of the Harvard, and 
 The Vagabonds Clubs of New York City. 
 Residence: 111 East •23d Street. Office: 
 North America Ivcview, Franklin Scjuare, 
 New York City. 
 
 FORMAN, Justus Miles: 
 
 Authoi-; horn in Le Roy, Genesee County, 
 N. Y., Nov. 1, 1S75; son of J. M. and Mary 
 (Cole) Forman. After graduation from 
 Yale as B.A. in 1898 he took up art, went to 
 Paris and was a student in the Acad^'mie 
 Julian, meanwhile becoming a contributor 
 of short stories to the leading New York 
 Magazines, and making such success that he 
 
 has made literature his chief vocation. Mr. 
 Forman is author of: The Garden of Lies, 
 1902, and Journey's End, 1903. Addiess: 
 28 West 26th Street, New York City. 
 
 FORSE, Charles Thomas: 
 
 Rear-admiral, U. S. Navy, retired: born 
 in Pittsburg, Dec. 29, 1846; son of William 
 and Marianne (Boyer) Forse. He entered 
 the Naval Academy, Oct. 1, 1864, and was 
 graduated 1868. He served on the store- 
 ship Guard, European Fleet, 1868; James- 
 town, Pacific Fleet, 1868-1869; promoted to 
 ensign, 1869; Alaska. Asiatic Fleet, 1869- 
 1872; promoted to master, 1870; and com- 
 missioned as lieutenant, 1873; Ossipee, 
 North Atlantic Station, 18731876: Tus- 
 carora, Pacific Station, 1877-1881; Ranger, 
 Pacific Station, 1881-1884, commanding C. 
 S. S. Earnest, 1884-1887; inspector of steel, 
 new cruisers, 1887-1892; Kearsarge. North 
 Atlantic Station, 1892-1894; inspector of 
 steel, 1894-1897; lieutenant-commander, 
 June, 1894; commanding Endeavor, 1897- 
 1898; Paterson, April, 1898; conunanding 
 Lebanon; promoted to commander, March 3, 
 1899; lighthouse inspector. Fourteenth Dis- 
 trict, March 13, 1899; commanding Celtic, 
 1900-1903; captain, 1902; retired with rank 
 of rear admiral, Dec. 26, 1903. Address: 
 Morewood Avenue, Pittsburgh. 
 
 FORSYTH, James McQueen: 
 
 Rear admiral, U. S. Navy, retired : born 
 on Long Island, in the Bahamas, Jan. 1, 
 1842; son of James and Catherine Ann 
 (Taylor) Forsyth. He was educated in the 
 schools of Pliiladelphia and was graduated 
 from the Central High School of that City 
 in 1858. lie became a sailor on a merchant 
 vessel immediately upon leaving school, and 
 entered the Volunteer Navy in Aug., 1861; 
 was appointed acting master's mate, Sept. 
 25, 1S61, and took part in the capture of 
 Forts Clarke and llatteras. the engagements 
 ment with the Confederate ram, Arkansas, 
 under Farragut on the Mississippi, engage- 
 and with Forts Sumter, Moultrie and other 
 fortifications in Charleston Harbor. Tie 
 was promoted acting ensign. Se])t. 5. lSt;2: 
 active master, Aug. 1. 1S64 and liaving 
 passed the competitive examination for the 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Regular Navy, was conimissioiipd master, 
 March 12, 1868; lieutenant. Dee. IS, ISdS, 
 lieutenant-commander, May, 1878; promoted 
 to commander in August, 1889 ; captain, 
 March 3, 1899; retired Sept. 25, 1901, at 
 his own request, after forty years' service, 
 with the rank of reai'-admiral. He com- 
 manded the cruiser Brooklyn, and the U. S. 
 battleship Indiana; chief of stafl' to the 
 Rear Admiral J. C. Watson commanding the 
 Philippine Fleet, 1899-1900. He is a com- 
 panion of the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion ; member of the Naval Order of the 
 United States, Grand Army of the Republic, 
 and of the Union League Club of Philadel- 
 phia. He married in Philadelphia, tirst 
 Aug. 1, 1871, Mary I. Perkins, who died, 
 and by whom he has a son, James Perkins, 
 and second, Oct. 7, 1903, Caroline A. Hel- 
 fenstein. Address: Shanwater, Pa. 
 
 rORT, John Franklin: 
 
 Governor of New Jersey; born at Pember- 
 ton, Burlington County, N. J., March 20, 
 1852; son of Andrew" H. Fort. After a 
 careful preparation at Mount Holly Insti- 
 tute and Pennington Seminary, in New 
 Jersey, he took the course at Albany Law 
 School, from which he was graduated LL.B., 
 1872. He was admitted to the bar in 1873, 
 and engaged in practice until elevated to 
 the bench. He was journal clerk for the 
 New Jersey Legislature, 1873-1874; judge 
 of the District Court of Newark, N. J., 
 1878-1886; president judge of the Court of 
 Common Pleas of Essex County, N. J., 
 189G-1900, justice of the Supreme Court of 
 New Jersey, 1900-1907. In Nov., 1907, he 
 was elected governor of New Jersey for 
 the term expiring Jan., 1911. He married 
 at Newark, N. J., April 20, 1876, Charlotte 
 E. Stainsby, and they have three children. 
 Address: East Orange, N. J. 
 
 FORWOOD, William Henry: 
 
 Surgeon-general, U. S. Army; was born 
 in Brandywine Hundred', Del., Sept. 7, 1838, 
 and received his preliminary education in 
 the public schools and Crozier Academy, 
 Chester, Pa. After graduating in the med- 
 ical department of the LTniversity of Penn- 
 sylvania, he was appointed assistant sur- 
 
 geon in the army, 1861; serving first as 
 executive ollicer of the Seminary Hospital 
 at Georgetown, D. C, but after a few 
 months was assigned to active service, first 
 as surgeon of the 14th Infantry and later 
 as acting medical director of Sykes Divi- 
 sion, Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac. 
 On duty in the oflice of the medical director 
 in Washington for five months, he again 
 saw eight months' active service as surgeon 
 of the Sixth Cavalry in Storeman's Divi- 
 sion, when he was disabled by wounds 
 received in action. His Civil War service 
 was concluded with tours of duty as ex- 
 ecutive officer of the Satterlee Hospital in 
 Philadelphia, and in command of the med- 
 ical storeship, Marcy C. Day, and the 
 Whitehall General Hospital near Bristol, 
 Pa. Whitehall General Hospital, which 
 had a capacity of 2,000 beds, was built by 
 General (then Lieutenant) Forwood and re- 
 mained under his command to the end of 
 the war. He took part in numerous en- 
 gagements, including Yorktown, Gaine's 
 Mills, Malvern Hills, the second Bull Pvun, 
 Antietam, Gettysburg and' Brandy Station. 
 His horse was killed xuider him at the 
 battle of Fairfield and he was severely 
 wounded through the right breast at the 
 battle of Brandy Station. His gallantry in 
 bringing off Lieutenant James F. McEl- 
 hone. Fourteenth Infantry, who had fallen 
 severely wounded within the enemy's lines 
 at Gaiiies' Mills was an instance of the 
 conspicuous valor which uniformly attended 
 the performance of his duty. At Fort Riley, 
 in 1866, he fought alone an epidemic of 
 cholera which carried' off twenty-seven out 
 of fifty-nine cases. In 1870, he devoted a 
 leave of absence to the study of yellow 
 fever at the quarantine station near Phil- 
 adelphia, in order that he might famil- 
 iarize himself by actual contact with that 
 disease. He served in the Department of 
 the Missouri, 1866-1870; he was at Fort 
 Brady. Mich., 1870-1872, in Texas, 1872- 
 1876." Department of the South, 1876-1879, 
 and Department of the Platte, 1879-1882. 
 During this latter tour of duty, he acted as 
 surgeon and naturalist to the military 
 reconnaissances and exploring expeditions 
 conducted in the Northwest by Lieutenant- 
 
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 General Sheridan. He was attending sur- 
 geon on the staff of General Sheridan at 
 Chicago, 1882-1886; surgeon of the Depart- 
 ment of Dakota, 1886-1890, and then for a 
 long time on duty at the Soldiers' Homo 
 near Washington. During most of his 
 service here he occupied the chair of sur- 
 gical pathology, and for a time that also 
 of military surgery in the medical depart- 
 ment of Georgetown University, which con- 
 ferred upon him the degree of LL.D. When 
 the Army Medical School was organized, 
 he became professor of military surgery, 
 until the suspension of its work consequent 
 upon the Spanish War. Upon the resump- 
 tion of its sessions after the war, he re- 
 turned' to the school, this time as president, 
 a position which he held until his promo- 
 tion to the command of his corps. Upon 
 the return of the army of invasion from 
 Cuba to Montauk Point, he was assigned to 
 duty as chief medical officer of the great 
 convalescent camp which terminated the 
 first stage of the Spanish War; and by 
 the tact, energy, and efficiency which he 
 manifested, he brought order out of chaos 
 and placed the work of the camp in an 
 excellent sanitary situation. When later 
 the return of the volunteer regiments neces- 
 sitated the establishment of a great general 
 hospital at Savannah, General Forwood 
 selected the location and supervised the 
 work of con.struction, until in Dec, 1898, 
 he was ordered to San Francisco as chief 
 surgeon of the Department of California. 
 Early in I'.Hil. lie returned to Washington 
 as principal a>sistant to the surgeon-gen- 
 eral, a duty which he continued to perform 
 until his own promotion to that office, 
 which he held until retired by operation 
 of law, Sept. 7, 1902. General Forwood 
 is the author of numerous important pro- 
 fessional contributions, conspicuous among 
 which are liis monographs upon Military 
 Surgery in Dennis' System of Surgery and 
 in Warren and Gould's International Text- 
 Ijook of Surgery. He was for a number 
 of years edit<ir of The Military Surgeon, 
 published in Washington in connection with 
 the National Medical Review. He married 
 Sept. 28, 1870, Mary A. Y. Osborne, daugh- 
 ter of Antrim Osborne, owner and operator 
 
 of the Rose Valley Woolen ISIills in Del- 
 aware County, Pa. Address: 1425 Euclid 
 Place, Washington, D. C. 
 
 FOSDICK, Charles Austin (" Harry Castle- 
 
 mon ") : 
 
 Author of juvenile stories; born in Ran- 
 dolph, N. Y., Sept. 6. 1842. He was edu- 
 cated in the Central High School of Buffalo, 
 N. Y. In Civil War he served as lands- 
 man on the magazine ship Illinois, in the 
 Mississippi Squadron; also on the store 
 ship Sovereign; made a trip down the river 
 to provision the ironclads that were block- 
 aded by low water at St. Helena; served 
 as paymaster's steward on the gunboat 
 St. Clair, on the Cumberland River, and 
 during the Yazoo Pass Expedition, and 
 other operations, ending in the surrender of 
 Vicksburg; was on the Choctaw as cap- 
 tain's clerk during the Red River Expedi- 
 tion, under Lieutenant-Commander (now 
 rear-admiral) Francis M. Ramsay; was 
 ordered to Mound City to accept promotion, 
 and was chief officer of the coal supply 
 of the squadron when the war closed. He 
 began writing at age of 15, and has written 
 over forty books for boys, many of which 
 have become very popular, notably the 
 " Gunboat Series " and the " War Series." 
 iMr. Fosdick is a member of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic. He married, in 
 1873, Sarah Elizabeth Stoddard. Address: 
 Westfield, N. Y. 
 
 FOSDICK, Frederick: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in Groton, Mass., 
 April 24, 1850; son of Rev. David Fosdick, 
 Jr., and Sarah Lawrence (Woodbury) Fos- 
 dick: descendant in eighth generation from 
 Stephen Fosdick, who emigrated from 
 England to Charlestown, Mass., in 1635. 
 Me was educated at home, under his father's 
 direction, and started in business in 1870 
 as an office boy in the Burleigh Rock Drill 
 Company of Fitchburg, Mass.; was em- 
 ployed in erecting coal mine machinery in 
 IVnnsylvania. 1871-1872; was draftsman for 
 the Haskins Machine Company. 1872-1876; 
 became treasurer and general manager of 
 the Fitchburg Steam Engine Company in 
 
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 639 
 
 1876 and has been president and general 
 manager of tlie same concern since 1879. 
 He was mayor of the city, 1887-1888; and 
 is trustee of tlie Worcester North Savings 
 Institution. He was president of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association of Fitchburg 
 for eight years and has been a member of 
 the Association's State Executive Commit- 
 tee from ISDO. He also served as Massa- 
 chusetts commissioner to the Pan-American 
 Exposition at Buffalo, 1901-1902. He is 
 cliairman of Board' of Trustees of the 
 Fpxboro State Hospital ; president of the 
 board of trustees of the Massachusetts Anti- 
 Saloon League and a speaker at religious, 
 temperance and mission meetings. He has 
 contributed to mechanical and engineering 
 journals and patented several engine move- 
 ments and details in engine building. He 
 is a member of the Royal Arcanum and the 
 Mayors' Club of INIassachusetts. Mr. Fos- 
 dick married. April 24, 1873, Lucy Maria 
 Hill, and has four children. Address: 
 Fitchburg, Mass. 
 
 FOSDICK, James William: 
 
 Artist; born in Charlestown, Mass., Feb. 
 13, 1858; son of William and Elizabeth 
 T. (Pierce) Fosdick. He was educated in 
 the Boston public schools and in the Boston 
 Museum of Fine Arts, was student of art 
 under Boulanger, Lefebvre, and Collin, in 
 Paris. His specialty in art is mural paint- 
 ing, and he has done work of this kind in 
 the residences of the Goulds, Havemeyers, 
 Lewisohns, etc., in and around New York 
 City. He has work in the permanent col- 
 lections of the Pennsj'lvania Museum of 
 Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and the St. Louis 
 ^luseum of Fine Arts. Mr. Fosdick was 
 the introducer of fire etching into U. S., 
 and his work. The Glorification of Joan of 
 Arc, in burnt wood, is widely known. He 
 received a gold medal for the mural decora- 
 tion. The Field of the Cloth of Gold', at 
 the Atlanta Exposition. He is chairman 
 of the Committee on Decoration of the Arch- 
 itectural League of New York; secretary 
 of the National Society of Mural Painters; 
 vice-president of the National Society of 
 Craftsmen; president of the Julian (Paris) 
 Academy Association of America, and mem- 
 
 ber of tiie Lolos and National Arts Clubs 
 of New York City. He is author of: The 
 Honor of the Braxtons, 1902; also of short 
 stories, and articles on art and travel in 
 leading magazines. He married in Rich- 
 mond, Va., Oct. 22, 1890, Gertrude, daugh- 
 ter of Supreme Court Judge Joseph Chris- 
 tian, and they liave one daugliter. Ad- 
 dress: 33 West 67th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 FOSS, Cyrus David: 
 
 Methodist Episcopal bishop; born at 
 Kingston, N. Y., Jan. 17, 1834; son of Rev. 
 Cyrus and Jane (Campbell) Foss. In 1854 
 he was graduated from W^esleyan Univer- 
 sity; received the degree of D.D. from the 
 same institution in 1870, the degree of LL.D. 
 from Cornell College, Iowa, in 1879, and 
 LL.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, 
 in 1889. He was instructor in America 
 (N. Y.) Seminary, 1854-1855, and principal 
 of the same, 185G-1S57. He entered' the 
 itinerant ministry in New York in 1857 ; 
 was pastor at Chester, N. Y., 1857-1859; 
 pastor in Brooklyn and in New York City 
 sixteen years, 1859-1875; president of Wes- 
 leyan University, Middletown, Conn., 1875- 
 1880. He was consecrated a bishop of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church in 1880. In 
 1878 he was fraternal delegate to the Gen- 
 eral Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church South; and in 1886 to the Britisli 
 Wesleyan Conference, which met in the City 
 Road Chapel, founded by John Wesley (in 
 London). He officially visited' the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal ^Missions in Europe in 1886, 
 those in ^Mexico in 1893, and those in India 
 and Malaysia, 1897-1898, and made the 
 second tour round the world, inspecting 
 the missions of the church, 1906-1907. Ad- 
 dress: 2043 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 FOSS, Eugene M.: 
 
 Manufacturer; born at AY est Berkshire, 
 Vt., Sept. 24. 1858; son of George E. and 
 Marcia (Noble) Foss. He entered the class 
 of 1881, University of Vermont, but left 
 at the end of two years to engage in busi- 
 ness, and the degree of A.B. was conferred 
 upon him in 1901. He is now treasurer 
 
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 and general manager of B. F. Stiirtevani 
 Company; president of Becker-Brainard 
 Milling Macliine Company, Mead-Morrison 
 Manufacturing Company, Burgess Mills; 
 director of the American Trust Company 
 of Boston, American Pneumatic Service 
 Company of Boston, Bridgewaters Water 
 Company (president). Brooklyn Rapid 
 Transit Company, Chicago Junction Rail- 
 ways and Union Stock Yards Company, 
 Hyde Park (Mass.) National Bank. Man- 
 Iiattan Railway Company, Massachiisetts 
 Electric Companies. He visited Euirope 
 three times, making special study of the 
 tariff and reciprocity situation, 1906. Mr. 
 Fo3s was twice Republican candidate for 
 Congress from the Eleventh Massachusetts 
 District. .He has been a leader in the 
 movement for tariff revision and reciproc- 
 ity, particularly with Canada; and has been 
 a candidate for public office several times, 
 solely to advance this cause. Mr. Foss is a 
 Baptist; trustee of Newton Theological In- 
 stitution, Colby College, Moody School, 
 Vermont Academy, Robert B. Brigham Hos- 
 pital for Incurables, Boston Baptist Hos- 
 pital, Boston Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation, Hebron Academy; and he is a 
 member of the New .Algonquin, Exchange. 
 Massachusetts Country, Jamaica. Eliot, Bos- 
 ton Art, Boston City Clubs of Boston. He 
 married at Bo.ston, June 12, 1884, Lilla R. 
 Sturtevant, and they have four children. 
 Residence: 11 Revere Street, Jamaica 
 Plain, Mass. Address: 34 Oliver Street, 
 ] Boston. 
 
 FOSS. George Edmund: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born at Berk- 
 shire, Franklin County, Vt., July 2, 18G3; 
 graduated from Harvard College, 1885; 
 attended the Columbia Law School and 
 School of Political Science in New York 
 City, and was graduated from the Union 
 CoUege of Law of Chicago in 1889, LL.B. 
 Mr. Foss was admitted to the bar the same 
 year and began the practice of law in Chi- 
 cago; never held any political office until 
 elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress; was 
 reelected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, 
 Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Sixtieth and 
 Sixty-first Congresses from the Tenth Illi- 
 
 nois District, 
 race. Office: 
 ing, Cliicago. 
 
 Residence: 47 Gordon Ter- 
 First National Bank Build- 
 
 FOSS, Sam Walter: 
 
 Librarian: born in Candia. X. H., son of 
 Dj'er Foss and Folly (Hardy) Foss. He 
 was graduated from Portsmouth High 
 School, Tilton Seminary and in 1882 from 
 Brown University. He was editor of the 
 Lynn Saturday Union, 1883-1887; The Yan- 
 kee Blade, 1887-1894; contributor to many 
 publications from 1894 to 1898, and has 
 been librarian of the Somerville Public Li- 
 brary since 1898. He is author of: Back 
 Country Poems; WhiiTs from Wild' Mead- 
 ows ; Dream in Homespun ; Songs of War 
 and Peace, and Songs of the Average Man ; 
 all published by Lothrop, Lee and Sheppard, 
 Boston. In politics he is an Independent. 
 He is a member of the American Library 
 Association, the Massachusetts Library Club 
 
 (formerly president). The Twentieth Cen- 
 tury Association and the Authors' and 
 Economic Clubs of Boston, and is president 
 of the Somerville Boys' Club; a member of 
 the Beta Theta Pi and Phi Beta Kappa. 
 Mr. Foss married in Providence, R. I., July 
 
 13, 1887, Carrie M. Conant, and they have 
 two children. Residence: 249 Highland 
 Avenue. Office: Pul)lic Liluary. Somer- 
 ville, Mass. 
 
 FOSTER, Agness Greene: 
 
 Lecturer, impersonator and author; born 
 in Athens. Ala., Dec. G, 18G3; daughter of 
 John and Mary Stuart (Pinkerton) Greene, 
 and great-granddaughter of Lady Agness 
 Stuart of Belfast. Ireland. She was gradu- 
 ated from the Stillwater (]\Iinn.) High 
 School, and from The American College of 
 Oratory. She won a scholarship which en- 
 abled her to enter the Woman's Oratorical 
 Department of the University of Dublin. 
 Siie also attended M'lle. Piquot's Scliool in 
 Blois, France. She married in Stillwater. 
 Minn., Aug. 31, 188G. William Clarence Fos- 
 ter, a scholarly man and an accepted au- 
 thority on the law of taxation. Mrs. Foster 
 is distinguished as a writer, a lecturer and 
 an orator; her illustrated lectures on the 
 " Artistic Side of Ireland " and other 
 
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 llioinos have inct wide recognition, while as 
 a (Iranuitic reader she has gained distinc- 
 tion. In liteiature she is author of: By 
 ihe Way (travels) ; Promises; Commands; 
 .Vnswers: Admonitions; Blessings; You and 
 Some Otliors (a boolv of poems' now in its 
 i:5th edition) ; Christmas Chimes (poems) ; 
 Alpha and Omega (poems) ; A Royal Eoad, 
 a broehure on success, whieli was a tremend- 
 ous success; Painting of Lifes' Day (poem) ; 
 Friendship ; Weaving of Life's Fabric 
 (poems); My Wi.sh for You (song). Mrs. 
 Foster is a much traveled woman and is a 
 member of the League of American Pen- 
 Women, of Washington, D. C, and of other 
 organizations. Address: Mrs. William C. 
 Foster, The Plaza, Chicago. 
 
 FOSTER, Ben: 
 
 Artist; born in N. Anson, Me., July 31, 
 1852; son of Paulinus Mahew and Lydia 
 Ring (Ilutchins) Foster. He was a pupil 
 of Abbott Thayer, New Y''ork City, and of 
 Luc Oliver Merson and Aim6 Morot, Paris. 
 He was awarded bronze medals at the 
 World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; 2d 
 prize for water colors at Cleveland', 1895; 
 silver medal Pan-American Exposition, 
 Buffalo; bronze medal at the Exposition 
 Universelle, Paris, 1900; silver medal at 
 the International Exhibition, Carnegie Insti- 
 tute, Pittsburgh. Pa., 1900, and at the 
 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 
 1904, the Webb Prize of the Society of Amer- 
 ican Artists, N. Y., 1901 ; Carnegie Prize 
 and Inness medal at the National Academy 
 of Design, New York, 1909. Mr. Foster was 
 art critic for several years of the Evening 
 Post of New York and an occasional contrib- 
 utor to the Nation, etc. He is represented 
 in the Luxembourg (Paris), Brooklyn In- 
 stitute, and Corcoran Art Gallery ( Washing- 
 ton), Pa., Academy of Fine Arts, Montreal 
 Art Association. Richmond Art Association, 
 and Boston Art Club. He is an academician 
 of the National Academy of Design and is 
 a member of the American Water Color So- 
 ciety, of the Century Association, and of 
 the Lotos, and Water Color Clubs of New 
 York City. Address : 253 West 42d Street. 
 New York City. 
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 FOSTER, David Johnson: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born at Barnet, 
 Vt., June 27, 1857; son of Jacob Prentiss 
 and Matilda Foster. He was graduated 
 from the St. Johnsbury (Vt. ) Academy and 
 from Dartmouth College, A.B., 1880; stud- 
 ied law and was admitted to the bar in 
 1883, at Burlington, Vt., where he has ever 
 since been engaged in the practice of law. 
 Mr. Foster has always taken an interest in 
 politics as an active Republican, and has 
 held the offices of State's attorney for Chit- 
 tenden County, State senator. State tax 
 commissioner, and chairman of the State 
 Railroad Commission. He was elected in 
 1900 from the First Vermont District to the 
 Fifty-seventh Congress, and' has been reelect- 
 ed biennially since then, and is now serving 
 in the Sixty-first Congress. Mr. Foster mar- 
 ried at Chelsea, Vt., Oct. 4, 1883, Mabel M. 
 Allen. Address: Burlington, Vt. 
 
 FOSTER, Edna: 
 
 Author and editor; born in Sullivan Har- 
 bor, Me.; daughter of Charles W. Foster, 
 architect, and Sarah (Dyer) Foster. She 
 was educated in the schools of Lowell and 
 Boston, engaged in magazine work and later 
 became assistant editor of The Household; 
 and since 1900 has been editor of the Chil- 
 dren's Page of The Youth's Companion. 
 Miss Foster is author of Hortense, A Diffi- 
 cult Child, and its sequel. Cordelia's Path- 
 way Out, both published by Lothrop, Lee 
 & Shepard, Boston. Address: 102 Harris- 
 hof Street, Boston. 
 
 FOSTER, Frank P.: 
 
 Physician and editor; born in Concord, 
 N. H., Nov. 26, 1841. He was educated in 
 the Concord High School and the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons of New York, INI.D., 
 1862. followed by two years in hospitals in 
 New York City. He served as acting as- 
 sistant surgeon, U. S. Army, 1865, and since 
 then has been in active practice in New 
 York City. He is now editor of the New 
 York Medical Journal; and he is co-author 
 of the Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dic- 
 tionary. He is a member of the Century 
 and Aldine Clubs of New York City. Dr. 
 
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 Foster iii;inii'il in New York City, Oct. 18, 
 18G0. Georgiana Molleson. Address: 66 
 West Broadway, Now York City. 
 
 FOSTER, George Burman: 
 
 Profossor of the philosophy of religion in 
 the University of Chicago; born at Alderson, 
 Monroe County, W. Va.; son of Oliver Har- 
 rison and Helen Louise Foster. He was 
 graduated from the West Virginia Univer- 
 sity, A.B., 1883, A.M., 1885, and from the 
 Rochester Theological Seminary in 1887, 
 becoming pastor of the First Baptist Church 
 of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., until 1891. 
 He studied at the Universities of Gottingen 
 and Berlin one year; was professor of 
 philosophy at McMaster University, 1892- 
 
 1895, then entered the University of Chica- 
 go as professor of systematic theology, later 
 taking his present c^air. He received the 
 degree of Ph.D. from Denison University. 
 Ohio, in 1902. Dr. Foster is author of 
 The Finality of the Christian Religion, pub- 
 lished by the University of Chicago Press, 
 
 1896, and of The Function of Religion in 
 Man's Struggle For Existence, which was 
 severely attacked by the Baptist Ministers 
 organization in Chicago. Dr. Foster is also 
 an associate editor of The American Jour- 
 nal of Theology and author of articles in 
 various magazines. He married at Morgan- 
 town, W. Va., Aug. 6, 1884, Mary Lyon, 
 daugliter of Professor Franklin Lyon of the 
 W'est Virginia University, and they have 
 five children. Address: 145 East 51st 
 Street, Chicago. 
 
 FOSTER, John Gilman: 
 
 Consul-general; born at Derby Line, Vt., 
 March 9, 1859; son of Austin T. and Sarah 
 H. (Gilman) Foster. He was graduated 
 from Goddard Seminary at Barre, Vt., 1870, 
 and from Tufts College, A.B., 1880. He was 
 admitted to the bar of the State of Vermont 
 in 1881, and from that time until 1897 
 was principally engaged in banking and in 
 the management of trust estates at Derby 
 Line, Vt. He has helu the positions of 
 vice-president of the National Bank of 
 Derby Line and president of the Massa- 
 wip[)i Valley Jiailway Company. He repre- 
 sented the town of Derby in the Vermont 
 
 Legislature, 1892-1894, as a Republican, 
 and was a colonel on the staff of Governor 
 J^vi K. Fuller of Vermont, 1892-1894. Col- 
 onel Foster began his consular service, 
 June 23, 1897, when he was appointed by 
 President McKinley United tates consul- 
 general at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and since 
 June 18, 1903, he has been consul-general 
 of the United States at Ottawa, Canada. He 
 married, June 9, 1886, Clara Merriman, 
 daughter of Judge Amos Lee Merriman, 
 of Peoria, 111. Address : United States 
 Consulate-General, Ottawa, Ont., Canada. 
 
 FOSTER, John Hopkins: 
 
 Congressman; born in Evansville, Ind., 
 Jan. 31, 1862. He was educated in the com- 
 mon schools; is a graduate of Indiana Uni- 
 versity, class of 1882, and' of the law de- 
 partment of Columbian, now George Wash- 
 ington, University, of Washington, D. C, 
 class of 1884; began the practice of law 
 in 1885; was elected to the House of Repre- 
 sentatives of the General Assembly of Indi- 
 ana in 1893; elected judge of tne Superior 
 Court of Vanderburg County in 1894 and 
 reelected in 1898 and 1902. He was elected 
 to the Fifty-ninth Congress in 1904, and. 
 reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, his serv- 
 ice ending March 4, 1909. Address: Evans- 
 ville, Ind. 
 
 FOSTER, John Watson: 
 
 Lawyer and diplomat; born in Pike Coun- 
 ty, Ind., March 2, 1836; son of Judge Mat- 
 thew Watson and Eleanor (Johnson) Fos- 
 te;-. He was graduated from the Indiana 
 State University, A.B., 1855, and then was 
 one year at tlie Harvard Law School before 
 engaging in the practice of law in Indiana; 
 and he has received the LL.D. degree from 
 \ale, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Indiana 
 Universities and Wabash College. He served 
 as major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel of 
 Indiana regiments in the Civil War, and 
 after its close ho became editor of the Evans- 
 ville Daily Journal at Evansville, Ind.; was 
 postmaster at Evansville, 1869-1872; United 
 States minister to Mexico, 1873-1880, and to 
 Russia, 1880-1881. On his return from that 
 mission ho engaged in the practice of inter- 
 national law in Washington, and in that 
 
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 practice was the representative of leading 
 foreign legations before various commis- 
 sions, arbitration boards and other tribunals. 
 He was appointed in 1883 as envoy extraor- 
 dinary and minister plenipotentiary of the 
 United States to Spain, serving until 1885, 
 and then resuming his practice at Washing- 
 ton. In 1891 he was appointed special rep- 
 resentative of the United States to negotiate 
 reciprocity treaties with Brazil, Spain, Ger- 
 many, the British West Indies and other 
 countries; was Secretary of State of the 
 United States, in 1892-1893, and appointed 
 agent of the United States before the Behr- 
 ing Sea Arbitration at Paris in 1893. Later, 
 on the invitation of the Emperor of China, 
 he took part in the peace negotiations be- 
 tween that country and Japan, and in 1897 
 he was commissioned by President McKanley 
 on a special mission to Great Britain and 
 Eussia. He was a member of the Anglo- 
 Canadian Commission in 1898, and agent 
 of the United States before the Alaskan 
 Boundary Tribunal at London in 1903. In 
 1907 he represented China as a delegate to 
 the Hague Peace Conference. Mr. Foster's 
 abilities as a diplomat and international 
 lawyer have met world-wide recognition, 
 and he has contributed in a valuable way 
 to the history of diplomacy in the books: 
 Century of American Diplomacy, 1900; 
 American Diplomacy in the Orient, 1903 ; 
 Arbitration and the Hague Court, 1904; 
 and The Practice of Diplomacy, 1906. He 
 has also written a Biography of Matthew 
 Watson Foster (his father), which was 
 published in 1896. He married in 1859, 
 Mary Parke McFerson. Address: 1323 
 Eighteenth Street, N. VV., Washington, D. C. 
 
 FOSTER, Mabel Grace: 
 
 Author, teacher and lecturer; born in 
 Boston in 1869; daughter of Rev. Addison 
 P. Foster, D.D., and Harriet (Day) Foster. 
 She was educated in Hasbrouck Institute, 
 Jersey City, class of 1886, and in the Mas- 
 sachusetts Normal Art School, and after- 
 wai'd engaged in educational work, eng:iged 
 in teaching in Medford, Mass. For several 
 years ]\Iiss Foster has been a lecturer be- 
 fore women's clubs and classes, througliout 
 New England on Italian Art, Literature and 
 
 Immigration, the Art Galleries of Europe 
 and general historical and literary subjects. 
 She has traveled over Europe, and lived 
 for a long time in Italy, where she stud- 
 ied Italian sociological conditions under 
 Professor Francesco S. Nitti of the Royal 
 University of Naples, Italian language and 
 literature with Cavaliere Vincenzo Bocca- 
 furni of Rome and Professor I. Perella of 
 Florence, and painting with Professor Nardi 
 of Rome. While living in Italy Miss Fos- 
 ter was the vice-president for Italy of the 
 International Press Club, and she is now 
 a member of the New England Woman's 
 Press Association. She is author of var- 
 ious short stories and of art and travel pa- 
 pers in the newspapers, also of the novels: 
 The Heart of the Doctor, 1902; Leonardo, 
 1909. Address: 8 Beacon Street, Boston. 
 
 FOSTER, Martin D.: 
 
 Physician and member of congress; born 
 near West Salem, Edwards County, 111., 
 Sept. 3, 1861; son of Blashel and Emily 
 (Housler) Foster. He was educated in 
 Eureka College, 111.; was graduated from 
 the Electic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, 
 1882, and from the Hahnemann Medical 
 College of Chicago, M.D., 1894. He has 
 practised medicine since 1882 in OIney, 111., 
 of which place he was elected mayor in 
 1895 and again in 1902. He was a member 
 of the Board of the United States Examin- 
 ing Surgeons, 1885-1889, and 1893-1897. Dr. 
 Foster was surgeon of a regiment raised in 
 Illinois during the Spanish-American War. 
 He became active in the politics of the 
 Democratic party, and was elected to the 
 Sixtieth Congress from the 23d Illinois Dis- 
 trict in 1906, and reelected in 1908 to the 
 Sixty-first Congress. He married in Olney, 
 111., in 1891, Lula Cliffe. Address: Olney, 
 111. 
 
 FOSTER, Murphy J.: 
 
 United States Senator ; born at Frank- 
 lin, La., Jan. 12, 1849. .After the Civil 
 War he attended preparatory school at 
 White's Creek, near Nashville, Tenn., for 
 two years; Washington and Lee College, 
 1867-1868: then went to Cumberland Uni- 
 versity, Lebanon, Tenn., was graduated in 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1870. TTc iiUoiidod the law school of Tulane 
 Univeraity, New Orleans, graduatiii*; in 
 1871; in 1872 was elected member of the 
 John ]\IcEnery legislature, but owing to tlie 
 fact that this government was never recog- 
 nized and that the Kellogg government was, 
 did not take his seat; in 1879 was elected 
 a member of the senate of the State of 
 Louisiana under the constitution of that 
 year, and' was returned for three consecutive 
 terms of four years each; was elected x^resi- 
 dent pro tempore of the senate in 1888-1890; 
 led the anti-lottery fight in the legislature 
 in 1890. and in 1892 was nominated by the 
 anti-lottery convention as candidate for gov- 
 eronr; was elected for four years, and in 
 1896 was nominated to be his own successor 
 and again elected ; at the end of eight years 
 in the governor's office was unanimously 
 elected to the United' States Senate to suc- 
 ceed Hon. Donelson Caffery, Democrat, for 
 the term beginning March 4, 1901. When 
 the Democratic party of Louisiana adopted 
 the plan of selecting nominees for State of- 
 fices by a general primary election, he re- 
 quested, inasmuch as the members of the 
 general assembly to be so elected would 
 select his successor, that the United States 
 Senatorship be included in the primary, and 
 announced his candidacy to succeed' himself. 
 His term of service will expire March :?, 
 1913. Address: Franklin, La. 
 
 FOSTER, Robert Frederick: 
 
 An authority on games of cards; for the 
 past twelve years card editor of the New 
 York Sun; born at Edinburgh, 1853. Edu- 
 cated as an Architect and Civil Engineer 
 and practised until 1893. when he gave it 
 up for literature. Author of: Foster's 
 Whist Manual; Foster's Bridge Tactics; 
 Foster on Bridge; Foster's Bridge IManual; 
 Foster's Whist Tactics; Foster's Duplicate 
 ^\■hist; Common Sense in Whist; Modern 
 Whist; Whist at a Glance; American Leads ; 
 Common Sense Leads; Whist and Its Mas- 
 ters ; Foster's Encyclopedia of Indoor Games ; 
 Chess; Cinch; Poker, Hearts; Dice and Dom- 
 inoes; Whist Inferences; Fraetical Poker; 
 Call-Ace Euchre; Foster's Bridge Maxims; 
 The Bridge Player's Handljook; The Gist of 
 Briilge; Foster on Skat; and Foster's Com- 
 
 plete Bridge. He is inventor of the Foster 
 Whist ]\lark(Ms and tlie Self-Playing Whist 
 and Bridge Cards; the Pocket Card Player, 
 etc.; originator of the "eleven rule" at 
 Bridge. Has written many gambling stories 
 for the magazines, and is author of the 
 novel, " Cab No. 44." He is a member of 
 the Savage and National Liberal Club of 
 London, the Bridge Whist and the Fox- 
 Hills Golf Club, of New York. Mr. Foster 
 married Mary E. Johnson of New York City. 
 Address: New York Sun, New York City. 
 
 FOSTER, Roger: 
 
 Lawyer, author; born at Worcester, Mass., 
 April 21, 1857; son of Dwight (attorney- 
 general and justice Supreme Court, Massa- 
 chusetts), and Henrietta Parkins (Bald- 
 win) Foster (daughter Roger S. Baldwin, 
 governor and United States senator from 
 Connecticut) . He was graduated from Yale, 
 B.A., 1878. ]\r.A., 1881; Columbia Law 
 School, LL.B., 1889; and admitted to the 
 New York Bar, 1880. Mr. Foster was coun- 
 sel for the Caro heirs in cases which es- 
 tablished liability of elevated railroad com- 
 panies to abutters in New York City, 1880- 
 1884; appointed tenement house commission- 
 er by Governor Flower, 1894; drafted tene- 
 ment house laws of 1895; as special counsel 
 for New York City Board of Health, 1896- 
 1898; prosecuted' proceedings which estab- 
 lished the constitutionality of one of these 
 Taws, and resulted in the condemnation and 
 destruction of more tlian seventy unsani- 
 tary tenement houses; in 1896, procured ap- 
 pointment of the receivers of Bay State Gas 
 Company (subsequently criticized by Thom- 
 as Lawson in Frenzied Finance — for which 
 Law.son apologized) : in 1902, procured de- 
 cision of New York Supreme Court, holding 
 unconstitutional section of charter which 
 forbade pensioners positions in civil service 
 of New York City. Author: Taxation of 
 the Elevated' Railroads of New York City 
 
 (pamphlet); Treatise on the Federal Ju- 
 diciary Acts of 1875 and 1877; A Treatise on 
 Federal Practice (four editions, 1890, 1892, 
 1901, 1909) ; Commentaries on the Constitu- 
 tion of the United States (volume I), 1895; 
 Treatise on the Income Taxes of 1894; also 
 several pamphlets and articles in period- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 iciils; Trial by Ne\vs])ap('r (N. American 
 Keview, May, 1887), in which were first 
 used the phrase '" trial by newspaper " and 
 "court of public opinion;" and' article in 
 Albany Journal which caused abandonment 
 of the proecodinjj^s instituted in Pennsyl- 
 vania to try riotous strikers for treason; 
 has also edited articles in Cyclopedia of Law 
 Jtnd Procedure. Address: 35 Wall Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 FOSTER, Scott: 
 
 Banker; boru near Newburgh, N. Y., 
 May 19, 1837; son of Dr. John L. and 
 Harriet (Scott) Foster. Dry goods clerk 
 for Jeremiah Lambert New York, 1853-1859. 
 Member of firm Foster Brothers dry good's, 
 New York, and Fort 'Wayne & Terre Haute, 
 Ind., 1859-1882. Mr. Foster became vice- 
 president 1882, and since 1884 has been 
 president of the People's Bank. He is an 
 elder in Rutger's Presbyterian Church, and 
 a member of the Presbyterian Board of 
 Foreign Missions. He is a member of the 
 Chamber of Commerce of New York, His- 
 torical Society of New York Zoological So- 
 ciety, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ameri- 
 can Museum Natural History, New Y'ork 
 Botanical Garden, the Presbyterian Union, 
 and the Union League and Quill Clubs. 
 Mr. Foster is executor and trustee of a num- 
 ber of large estates; treasurer of the North- 
 ern Dispensary and the North Eastern Dis- 
 pensary. He married at Pottersville, New 
 Jersey, 1867, Emetine Hegeman (died July, 
 1906) ; he has four children: J. Hegeman, 
 of the Stock Exchange firm Foster & Louns- 
 bery, Eugene Gray and Howard Crosby both 
 of Stock Exchange firm, Foster & Adams, 
 and Jennie Groendyke. Residence: 332 
 West 72d Street. Address: 395 Canal 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 FOSTER, Theodosia Foil: 
 
 Author and teacher; born in 'Verona, N. 
 Y. ; daughter of Daniel D., and' Ruth Hol- 
 lister (Hills) Toll. On her father's side 
 she is descended from Karl Hansen Toll, 
 a Norwegian who came to America early 
 in the 17th Century and settled in the Mo- 
 hawk Valley, and the Toll Homestead in 
 Verona, where she resides has been in the 
 
 family for nearly a century. His grand- 
 mother was Susan Cond6, of the family of 
 the French Princes Cond6, Huguenots who 
 fled to Holland during the persecutions, and 
 later came to America, at least two broth- 
 ers who settled in Schenectady, N. Y. She 
 was educated in the public .schools and 
 Oneida Seminary, and she was married in 
 Verona, N. Y., in December, 1869, James 
 Henry Foster, who died in 1872, by whom 
 she has two sons. Mrs. Foster engaged in 
 educational work, and' is principal of the 
 Home School for Girls at Oneida, N, Y. 
 She has written numerous books, using the 
 pen-name " Faye Huntington," and is au- 
 thor of: A Modern Exodus ; St. Paul's 
 Problem; Transformed; His First Charge; 
 A Break in Schedule Time, and others. 
 Mrs. Foster is president of the Oneida Coun- 
 ty Woman's Christian Temperance LTnion. 
 Address : Verona, N. Y''. 
 
 FOSTER, William Eaton: 
 
 Librarian, author; born at Brattleboro, 
 Vt., June 2, 1851. He was graduated from 
 Brown University, A.B., 1873, and' is now 
 librarian of the Province Public Library. 
 Mr. Foster has written extensively on his- 
 torical and economic subjects, and is au- 
 thor of: Town Government in Rhode Is- 
 land; Stephen Hopkins, a Rhode Island 
 Statesman; The Civil Service Reform Move- 
 ment; The Literature of Civil Service Re- 
 form in the United States. He is a mem- 
 ber of the American Historical Association 
 and of the American Library Association. 
 Address: 240 Bowen Street, Providence, 
 R. I. 
 
 FOULKE, William Dudley: 
 
 Lawyer, author; born in New York City, 
 Nov. 20, 1848; son of Thomas and Hannah 
 S. Foulke. He Avas graduated from Colum- 
 bia College, A.B., 1896, A.M., 1872, and from 
 Columbia Law School as LL.B., 1871; and 
 lie received the degree of LL.D. from Earl- 
 ham College, Ind., in 1906. He removed 
 to Indiana in 1876 and engaged in practice 
 there; and he became greatly interested 
 in reform in the civil service and in sutTrage 
 laws, becoming president of the Indiana 
 Civil Service Reform Association, of the 
 
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 Amcricau rropoitional Representation 
 League, and of the American Woman Suf- 
 frage Association; and lie was chairman 
 of the SuUrage Congress at the World's 
 Columbian Exposition in 1893. Mr. Foulke 
 served in the Indiana Senate, and was U. 
 S. Civil Service Commissioner, 1901-1903. 
 He is author of the volumes: Slav or 
 Saxon? J Life of Oliver P. Morton; Maya, 
 a Story of Yucatan; Protean Papers; and 
 of a translation of the History of the 
 Langobards by Paul the Deacon. Address: 
 Rielimoud, iud. 
 
 FOULKROD, William Walker: 
 
 Merchant and member of Congress; born 
 in Prankford, Philadelphia, Is'ov. -I'l, 1840. 
 He was educated in public and private 
 schools in Philadelphia, and entered upon 
 a business career in a wholesale dry-goods 
 house, later becoming a member of the 
 wholesale dry-goods tirm of Hood, Foulkrod 
 & Co.; and after the retirement of that 
 firm from business he became interested 
 in manufacLuriug, and is also president of 
 the Prankiord Aiutual Pire insurance Com- 
 pany. He iielped to organize and was 
 president lor twelve years of the Trades 
 League of Philadelphia, and is now chair- 
 man of its Harbor and Navigation Commit- 
 tee, and identified with other organization^ 
 of Philadelphia. He was elected as a ile- 
 publican, in PJOO, to the Sixtieth Congress, 
 and reelected to the Sixty-first Congress in 
 1908. He married Mary C. Buckins, and 
 has two children. Address: 4710 Leipor 
 Street, i- rankford, Philadelpiiia. 
 
 FOUNTAIN, Samuel Warren: 
 
 Brigadier-general, U. S. A., retired; born 
 in Paikersburg, VV. Va., Dec. 13, 18-16; son 
 of Chauncy and Kuhama (Ogle) Pouiitain. 
 lie served in the Union Army as a private in 
 Company K, i40tli Uhio infantry xrom May 
 to beplember, 1804, and July 1, i8u0, was 
 appointed iroiu Uuio as a cadet to ttie U. S. 
 Military Acadeiuy, iiom which he was grad- 
 uated and coiiiiiiibsioned second lieutenant 
 in the 8th Cavalry, June 15, 1870; promoted 
 first lieutenant Oct. 22, 1878, captain, April 
 11, 1889; major 9th Cavalry, Peb. 2, 1901; 
 lieutenant-colonel 13th Cavalry, Aug. 26, 
 
 1903, transferred to the 4th Cavalry, Aug. 
 28, 1903, brigadier-general, April 10, 1905, 
 and retired with that rank April 11, 1905. 
 He participated in the campaigns against 
 the Apaches under Geronimo, 1885-1886; 
 against hostile Sioux Indians, 1890-1891; 
 served in Cuba during the Spanish-Amer- 
 ican War in 1898, and after that in the 
 Philipjjines as adjutant-general of the De- 
 partments of ]\Iindanao and Jolo. He com- 
 manded the JelTerson Guards at the Louisi- 
 ana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 
 
 1904. Brigadier General Fountain is a 
 companion of the Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion; member of the Grand Army 
 of the Republic, the National Geographic 
 Society, the University Club of St. Louis 
 and the Army and Navy Club of Washing- 
 ton. He married first in 1879, Emily M. 
 Kaullman, who died in 1885, and second, 
 ill Philadelphia, Jan. 11, 1887 Katherine 
 G. McGrath. Address: Devon, Pa. 
 
 FOUST, Julius Isaac: 
 
 Normal college president; born in Gra- 
 ham, N. C, in 1865; son of Thomas C. and 
 Mary (Robbins) Foust. He was educated 
 at the Graham High School and was grad- 
 uated from the University of North Carolina 
 with the degree of Ph.B. He was principal 
 of the Goldsboro (N.C.) schools, from 1890 
 to 1891; suiJeriiitendent of Wilson schools, 
 1891-1894; superintendent of Goldsboro 
 schools, 1894-ly02; professor of pedagogy 
 at the State Normal and industrial College 
 at Greensboro, N. C, 1902-1907, and is 
 now president of that institution. He has 
 been president of the North Carolina As- 
 sociation of City School Superintendents, 
 and of the North Carolina Teachers' As- 
 sembly. Mr. Foust married at Wilson, 
 N. C, ill 1892, Sallie Price, and they have 
 two children: Henry P., and Mary R. Ad- 
 dress: Greensboro, N. C. 
 
 FOWLER, Charles Newell: 
 
 L ougiessman ; born in Lena, HI., Nov. 
 2, 1852. lie was graduated from Yale, 
 B.A., 1876, Chicago Law School, LL.B., 
 1878. He removed to Elizabeth,, N. J., 
 where he has been engaged in tlie banking 
 business. He was elected in November, 
 
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 1894, to the Fifty-fourth Congress and has 
 been biennially reelected since, ivnd he is 
 now rejDrcsentative from the Fifth Congres- 
 sional District of New Jersey in the Sixty- 
 first Congress. While in Congress, Mr. 
 Fowler has been a consistent advocate of 
 currency reform. He drew the Fowler Bill 
 which was widely discussed; and as chair- 
 man of the Committee on Banking and Cur- 
 rency has taken a leading part in the formu- 
 lation of currency legislation. Address : 
 Elizabeth, N. J. 
 
 FOWLER, Frank: 
 
 Portrait and ligure painter; born in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., July 12, 1852; son of 
 John and Margaret (Westervelt) Fowler. 
 He was educated in the Adelphi Academy 
 (now Adelphi College) in Brooklyn, and 
 by private tutors in New York also at 
 Florence, Italy; and in Paris at the ficole 
 des Beaux Arts and under Carolus Duran. 
 He painted the portraits of Charles A. Dana, 
 Samuel J. Tilden, Archbishop Corrigan, 
 Arthur T. Hadley, president of Yale Uni- 
 versity, W. D. Howells, Governor Tilden, 
 Governor Greenhalge, Gen. Alexander S. 
 Webb; also many officers and professors at 
 the United States Military Academy, West 
 Point, N. Y., and of Parke Godwin and 
 John Bigelow. Mr. Fowler is a writer in 
 the current magazines on art topics. He is 
 an academician of the National Academy 
 of Design; trustee of the American Fine 
 Arts Society; member of the Artists' Fund 
 Society, Artists' Aid Society, the Century 
 Association and the Lotos Club of New 
 York City. He married in Paris, France, 
 Nov. 28, 1878, Mary, daughter of Bishop 
 Odenheimer of New Jersey. Residence: 
 ionkers, N. Y. Studio: lOG West 55th 
 Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 FOWLER, John: 
 
 Consul-general; born in New Y'ork City, 
 May 9, 1858. He was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of W inchester, Mass., and at 
 Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H. He enter- 
 ed the service of the United States Govern- 
 ment as clerk in the Naval Rendezvous at 
 Washington, remaining there until 1881, 
 then became clerk on the U. S. Steamer 
 
 Tallapoosa until tliat vessel was wrecked in 
 August, 1885. He served as captain's clerk, 
 later as clerk to the Secretary of the Navy 
 and to the President, and cruised around 
 the world, 188G-1889. Mr. Fowler entered 
 the consular service under appointment by 
 President Harrison, Feb. 27, 1890, as con- 
 sul of the United States at Ningpo, China. 
 He was transferred by President Cleveland 
 to Chefoo, July 1, 1896, and promoted to 
 consul-general by President Roosevelt, Feb. 
 2, 1904, in which position he still remains. 
 He received resolutions of thanks from many 
 societies in the United States, Canada, and 
 Europe, for services during the boxer Rebel- 
 lion, and was given by the Emperor of China 
 the decoration of the Order of the Double 
 Dragon of the First Class. He has also re- 
 ceived the thanks of the Japanese Govern- 
 ment for services rendered in the Chinese- 
 Japanese War of 1905, and the Russian- 
 Japanese War of 1906. Mr. Fowler is a 
 member of the Society of International Law 
 and of the Army and Navy Union. He has 
 made numerous contributions to various 
 magazines on Chinese and other oriental 
 subjects. Address: American Consulate- 
 General, Cheefoo, China. 
 
 FOWLER, Nathaniel Clark, Jr.: 
 
 Author, lecturer, and business advisor; 
 born in Yarmouth, Mass., Jan., 21, 1858. 
 in 1880 he founded the Pittslield, Mass., 
 Daily Journal, and at that time was sup- 
 posed to be the youngest daily newspaper 
 editor and proprietor in ,the world. He 
 later founded the Worcester Light, and in 
 1897 founded and managed the first corres- 
 pondence school of advertising. For the 
 past twenty-five years he has practised the 
 business-profession of advertising and busi- 
 ness advisor and counsellor without con- 
 nection with an advertising agency. He has 
 planned advertising and selling campaigns 
 for many of tlie largest concerns in Ameri- 
 ca, and is said to have written over 10,000 
 advertisements. He is the author of: About 
 Advertising and Printing, 1889, the first 
 comprehensive book on advertising pub- 
 lished; Building Business, 1893; Dollars 
 and Sense, 1896; Practical Publicity, 1896; 
 
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 Fowler's Cyclopedia of Advertising and 
 Printing, 2,000 illustrations, 1897; Ayes 
 of Advertising, 1900; The Boy, How to Help 
 Him succeed, 1902; How to Get and Keep 
 a Job, 1907; Gumption, and Starting in 
 Life. He is also the author of a large 
 number of syndicate articles on businessi 
 methods, advertising and similar subjects. 
 He is a member of the Twentieth Century 
 Club, Pud'dingstone Club. Boston Authors. 
 and Boston City Club of Boston; ]\lassa- 
 chusetts Civic League, Massachusetts Press 
 Association, Agate Club of Chicago secre- 
 tary and treasurer of Puddingstone Club, 
 Boston; and is a Mason and Knight of 
 Pythias. He married April 27, 1882, Fanny 
 Alica Foot, and has two boys and' two 
 girls. Address: Pemberton Building, Bos- 
 ton. 
 
 FOWLER, Thomas Powell: 
 
 President of the New York, Ontario and 
 Western Railway; born in Newburgh, N. Y., 
 Oct. 26, 1851. ile was graduated from the 
 Columbian Law School, LL.D., 1874, was 
 admitted to the New Y'ork bar in the same 
 year and has been, since then, engaged in 
 practice in New l^ork City. He became a 
 director of the Shenango and Allegheny 
 Railroad, 1879; director of the Lehigh and 
 Hudson River Railroad Company, 1881; di- 
 rector of the West Pennsylvania and She- 
 nango Connecting Railroad, 1883, New York, 
 Ontario and Western Railway, 1884; ap- 
 pointed receiver of the Shenango and Alle- 
 gheny Railroad, March 15, 1884, and pres- 
 ident of the same road March 31, 1884; 
 director of the Carthage and Adirondack 
 Railroad since Jan., 1886; president of the 
 New York, Ontario and Western Railway, 
 since Jan. 20, 1890; also president and 
 director of the Ellenville and Kingston 
 Railroad; Ontario, Carbondalc and Scranton 
 Railroad; Port Jervis, Monticello and Sum- 
 mitville Railroad; Atchison, Topeka and 
 Santa Fe Railway; Gulf, Colorado and 
 Santa Fe Railway; Lehigh and Hudson 
 River Railway; Santa Fe, Prescott and 
 Plioenix Railway; California Eastern Rail- 
 way; Randsburgh, Sonora and New York 
 City Railway; Santa Fe Pacific Railroad; 
 Southern California and Wharton Valley 
 
 Railroad, Niagara; trustee of the New York 
 Life Insurance Company, American Estates 
 ^Association, English Association of Amer- 
 ican Bond and Share Holders, Ltd.; di- 
 rector of the Interborough-Metropolitan 
 Company, Fidelity Bank, Mechanics' Na- 
 tional Bank, Temple Iron Company, etc.; 
 member of the Sons of the Revolution, and 
 of the Metropolitan, Grolier, Down Town 
 and Tuxedo Clubs of New York. He mar- 
 ried Isabelle Dunning. Residence: 39 East 
 68th Street. Office: 56 Beaver Street, New 
 Yoik City. 
 
 FOX, Austen G.: 
 
 Lawyer; born Sept. 7, 1849. He was 
 educated at Choule's School, Newport, R. I., 
 and at Churchill's Military School at Sing 
 Sing, N. Y. He was graduated from Har- 
 vard as A.B., 1869, and was admitted to 
 the bar in 1872. He was special assistant 
 district attorney in the prosecution of police 
 ollicials after the Lexow Committee Investi- 
 gation, from 1894 to 1896, and chairman 
 of the Citizens' Committee of Nine on re- 
 organization of the New York police force 
 in 1905. He is a member of the Bar Asso- 
 ciation of the City of New York, the New 
 York Historical Society; was president of 
 the St. Nicholas Society, 1905-1907; pres- 
 ident of the Alumni Association of Harvard 
 University, 1908; is a member of the Met- 
 ropolitan Museum of Art, a member and 
 president, 1908-1909, of the Harvard, and 
 a member of the University, Century, 
 Players', City, and Nineteenth Century 
 Clubs. He married, in 1877, Alice Hoppin. 
 Residence: 37 East 39th Street, New York. 
 Office: 45 Wall Street, Now York City. 
 I 
 FOX, Emma A. : 
 
 TcacluT of |i;irliaiiu'nt:iry law; born in 
 Binghamton, N. Y.; daughter of Allen Goff 
 and Caroline (Scott) Stowell. She was 
 educated in public and private schools and 
 tauglit in the North Division High School 
 of Cliicago until 1876, when she was mar- 
 ried in Peoria, 111., to Charles Edgar Fox, 
 of Massacluisetts, by whom she has two 
 sons. Mrs. Fox removed, on her marriage, 
 to Detroit, Mich., where she has ever since 
 resided. She soon became interested in 
 
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 women's clubs, and later in the scientific 
 study of parlianiontary law. She was pres- 
 ident of the Detroit Women's Club three 
 years, president of the Michigan State Fed- 
 eration of Women's Clubs, and has been 
 recording secretary and vice-president of 
 the General Federation of Women's Clubs. 
 She has lectured at many State federation 
 meetings of women's clubs, and Chautauqua 
 assemblies and has been the official parlia- 
 mentarian of several Continental Congresses 
 of the Daughters of the American Revolu- 
 tion, the United Daughters of the Confed- 
 eracy, and many other National societies, 
 and' her book. Parliamentary Usage for 
 Women's Clubs, has been adopted as author- 
 ity by the General Federation of Women's 
 Clubs. She has been treasurer of the Wom- 
 en's Hospital and Infants' Home of Detroit; 
 was elected and served as a member of the 
 Board of Education of the City of Detroit; 
 is president of the Twentieth Century Club 
 of Detroit (330 members), and president of 
 its Board of Trustees, president of the De- 
 troit Parliamentary Law Club, and member 
 of the Daughters of the American Revolu- 
 tion. Address: Detroit, Mich. 
 
 FOX, Frances Margaret: 
 
 Author; born in South Framingham, 
 Mass., June 23, 1870; daughter of James 
 and Frances Mary (Franks) Fox. She 
 was educated in the Kalamazoo Seminary, 
 at Kalamazoo, ]\Iich. INIiss Fox is a writer 
 of short stories for children and author of 
 the books: Farmer Brown and the Birds; 
 Betty of Old Mackinaw; The Little Giants' 
 Neighbors ; What Gladys Saw ; Mother 
 Nature's Little Ones; Little Lady Marjorie; 
 Brother Billy; The Rainbow Bridge; How 
 Christmas Came to the Mulvaneys; The 
 Country Christmas; Carlota; Alan's Jungle 
 Story; Seven Christmas Candles, and oth- 
 ers. Home address: Bay City, Mich. Pres- 
 ent address: Long Beach, Calif. 
 
 FOX, George Henry: 
 
 Pliysieian ; born at Ballston Spa, N. Y., 
 Oct., 184G; son of Norman and Jane De 
 Hart (Freeman) Fox. He was graduated 
 from the University of Rochester, as A.B., 
 A.M., and University of Pennsylvania, as 
 
 M.D. He enlisted during his college course 
 in 18G4 in the 77th Regiment of the New 
 York Volunteers, and served eight montlis, 
 was one year, 1870, in Philadelphia Hos- 
 pital ; studied three years in Berlin, Vienna, 
 Paris and London, and traveled in Greece 
 and Turkey. He began medical practice 
 in New York City in 1873. Dr. Fox is a 
 member and ex-president of the ^ledical 
 Societies of the County and State of New 
 York, New York and American Dermato- 
 logical Societies ; was professor of dermatol- 
 ogV at Columbia University, 1880-1890; is 
 a trustee of the New York Skin and Cancer 
 Hospital. He is author of Atlas of Skin 
 Diseases, etc. He is a member of the Uni- 
 versity, Psi Upsilon (ex-president), Bar- 
 nard and Camera Clubs. Dr. Fox married 
 at Titusville, Pa., Aug. 29, 1872, Harriet 
 Louisa Gibbs, and they have four children. 
 Address: 18 East 31st Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 FOX, Joseph J.: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Green Bay; born at 
 Green Bay, Wis., Aug. 2, 1855; son of 
 Paul and Francis (Bartel) Fox. He was 
 educated in the Cathedral School at Green 
 Bay, studied the classics at Saint Francis 
 Seminary at INIilwaukee, and philosophy and 
 theology at the American College and Uni- 
 versity of Louvain, Belgium, receiving the 
 degree of D.D. He was ordained priest 
 June 7, 1879, and began pastoral duties 
 at New Franken, Wis., then took charge 
 of St. John's Church, Green Bay, and acted 
 as secretary to Bishop Krautbauer. He 
 became rector of Our Lady of Lourdes 
 Church at Marinette, Wis., in 1893 and 
 1894, vicar-general of the diocese of Green 
 Bay, 1894-1904; was appointed domestic 
 prelate to Pope Leo XIII in 1898, and con- 
 secrated bishop of Green Bay July 25, 1904. 
 Address: Green Bay, Wis. 
 
 FOX, Reuben L. : 
 
 Bureau of Legislative and Department 
 Information, Albany, N. Y. He served with 
 the Republican State Committee as chief 
 clerk and afterwards secretary and member 
 for twenty-nine years; was deputy State 
 engineer and surveyor in 1882. He gave to 
 
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 tlie village of Oneonta, in 1900. a hospital 
 in memory of ]\Irs. Fox. called The Aure- 
 lia Osborn Fox ^Memorial Hospital. He 
 was born in Chenango County, N. Y. ; son 
 of H. and Sally M. (Finch) Fox; and was 
 educated at Cazenovia Seminary. He is a 
 director in the Central Hudson Transporta- 
 tion Company, National Electrolytic Com- 
 pany, T. F. ^larvell Shipbuilding Company. 
 Staples and Hanford Manufacturing Com- 
 pany. Clubs: Union League, Lotos, Re- 
 publican. Fort Orange (Albany), Oneonta 
 ( Oneonta ) . He married at Oneonta, N. Y., 
 Aurelia Osborn. Address: Republican 
 Club, 54 West Fortieth Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 FOX, Williams Carlton: 
 
 Diplomat: born in St. Louis, Mo.. May 
 •20. 1855; son of Elias Williams and Eu- 
 sebia (Johnson) Fox. He was educated at 
 Washington University, St. Louis, and the 
 Pennsylvania Military College, Chester, Pa. 
 He was American consul at Brunswick, Ger- 
 many. 1876-1888; and American vice-consul- 
 general at Teheran, Persia, 1891-1892, and 
 was in charge of the American Legation at 
 Teheran, and during the cholera epidemic 
 there organized and financed the American 
 Missionary Hospital and Dispensary, for 
 which work he received the thanks of the 
 Shah of Persia, and of the American Board 
 of Foreign Missions. He was appointed 
 in 1893, secretary to the American minister 
 to Greece, Roumania and Servia. Mr. Fox 
 was chief clerk of the Bureau of American 
 Republics, 1898-1905, and director of that 
 Bureau 1905-1907, and in 1907 was ap- 
 pointed to his present office as envoy extra- 
 ordinary and minister plenipotentiary of 
 the United States to Ecuador. Designated 
 July, 1907, by President Roosevelt as arbi- 
 trator in the controversy between the gov- 
 ernment of Ecuador and the Guayaquil and 
 Quito Railway Co. He represented the 
 International Union of the American Re- 
 publics at the Second and Third Interna- 
 tional American Conferences at the City 
 of Mexico, 1901, and Rio de Janeiro, 1906. 
 Mr. Fox was formerlj' president of the 
 New Jersey Republican Association of the 
 District of Columbia. He was a member 
 
 of the Government Board of Management 
 of the Pan-American Exposition at ButTalo, 
 1901, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 
 St. Louis, 1904, and the Lewis and Clark 
 Exposition, Portland, Ore., 1905. Mr. Fox 
 established the first diplomatic journal in 
 the United States, and is a writer on diplo- 
 matic subjects and international questions, 
 having contributed to various publications 
 in Europe and America. He is a 32d 
 degree Mason, member of the Society of the 
 War of 1812, the Cosmos Club of Washing- 
 ton, D. C, and other societies. He married 
 in Brunswick, Germany, 1880, Louise Lude- 
 wig. Address: American Legation, Quito, 
 Ecuador. 
 
 FOXCROFT, Frank: 
 
 Journalist; born in Boston. Jan. 21, 
 1850 ; son 'of George A. Foxcroft, also a 
 journalist, and well known to newspaper 
 readers of his day as the writer of the 
 " Job Sass " letters, and of Harriet E. 
 (Goodrich) Foxcroft. He was graduated 
 from Williams College, A.B., 1871, and then 
 became first an assistant editor and then 
 associate editor of the Boston Journal, re- 
 taining the latter position until 1904. He 
 has been a department editor of The Youth's 
 Companion since 1895, and editor of Lit- 
 tell's Living Age since 1896. He was ap- 
 pointed a civil service commissioner of 
 Massachusetts in July, 1904, and' reap- 
 pointed in 1907. He published a volume 
 of original verse in 1868; edited " Re- 
 surgit," a collection of hymns and songs 
 of the resurrection; and has contributed 
 articles to the Atlantic Monthly, the Nine- 
 teenth Century and other magazines and 
 reviews. He is a member of the Boston 
 City, Twentieth Century, Cambridge, Con- 
 gregational, and Puddingstone Clubs. He 
 married, first, in 1872, Elizabeth True How- 
 ard, who died in 1888; second, in 1891, 
 Lily Sherman Rice. Residence: 25 Hill- 
 side Avenue, Cambridge, INIass. Office: 6 
 Beacon Street, Boston. 
 
 FOY, Eddie (Edwin Fitzgerald) : 
 
 Actor; born in New York City; son of 
 Richard and Ellen (Hennessy) Fitzgerald. 
 He made his first public appearance in 
 
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 1869 at a benefit at the Newsboys' Home 
 at Chicago, in a eloo; dance. From 1876 
 until 1881 he was dancincf and doinjr turns 
 at concert halls in Chicafjo and Kansas 
 City. In 1881 he appeared at the Adelphi 
 Theater, San Francisco, in white face spe- 
 cialties in the openinsf Olios, and played 
 leading parts in the dramas which wound 
 up the show. Later he was a member of 
 Emerson's Minstrels, and of the Carncross 
 Minstrels in Philadelphia. After that he 
 appeared with various companies, making 
 his first comedy hit as the Lunatic, with 
 Kate Castleton, in 1888. Since then he has 
 starred' in a number of parts, playing in 
 Topsy Turvy for one hundred and fifty 
 nights at the Herald Square Theater in New 
 York. He was playing in Mr. Bluebeard 
 at the Iroquois Theater, Chicago, when the 
 great disaster occurred there, and barely 
 escaped with his life. He starred in The 
 Earl and the Girl, 1906-1907; The Orchid. 
 1907-1908, and Mr. Hamlet of Broadway, 
 1908-1909. Mr. Foy married, in 1895, 
 Madeline Morando, premier dancer. Ad- 
 dress: Post Road, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
 
 FRACKELTON, Susan Stuart: 
 
 Potter and art lecturer; born in Mil- 
 waukee, Wis.. June 5, 1848; daughter of 
 Edwin H. and Mary S. (Robinson) Good- 
 rich, and' of New England lineage on both 
 sides. She was educated in private schools 
 in Milwaukee and New York City; was 
 married in Milwaukee, July 19, 1859, to 
 Richard G. Frackelton, and has three sons 
 and a daughter. Mrs. Frackelton has, for 
 several years, been engaged as a lecturer 
 before women's clubs. State federations, 
 teachers' institutes, Chautauqua assemblies, 
 schools, and drawing-room audiences, her 
 subjectes being connected with the Arts 
 and Crafts movement, illustrated by speci- 
 mens of craft work in metal, weaving, pot- 
 tery, baskets, lace, wood-carving, jewelry, 
 leather, cloth painting, also lectures on 
 " Early Colonial Weaving and INIodern 
 American Rug Weaving," and on " The 
 Indian in His Playtime." Mrs. Frackelton 
 has been identified with Keramics since 
 1876, and' earned distinguished honors as 
 a potter and decorator, including the Inter- 
 
 national gold medal and a silver medal 
 at Atlanta, 1881; the International medal 
 from Mexico, being the first foreign medal 
 ever awarded by that country to an artist 
 in keramics; awards at Philadelphia (U. S. 
 Potter's Association), 1889; Buffalo, 1892; 
 St. Louis, 1892 (special medal of honor) ; 
 Birmingham, 1892 (first award' for gold 
 and colors) : New York, 1892 (first prize 
 for " conventional design." New York So- 
 ciety of Keramic Arts, and Tiffany prize 
 for "best original work") ; World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition, 1893; eight awards, An- 
 twerp, Belgium, 1894; New York, 1894 
 (first prize for originality of design from 
 the National League of Mineral Painters) ; 
 and at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Mrs. 
 Frackelton founded the National League 
 of Mineral Painters and was its first pres- 
 ident; is a member of the Daughters of 
 the American Revolution, and of the Chi- 
 cago Womans' Club. She is author of 
 Tried by Fire, a work on china painting, 
 and of much magazine and newspaper work. 
 Address: 1025 Fine Arts Building, and 
 203 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 FRAILEY, Leonard August: 
 
 Pay director U. S. Navy, retired; born 
 in Washington, D. C, Aug. 8, 1843; son of 
 Charles S. and Caroline M. B. Frailey. He 
 was educated in Union Academy, Gonzaga 
 College and the Young Commercial College 
 and Aug. 20, 1864, was appointed acting 
 assistant paymaster, U. S. Navy. He was 
 promoted through the grades, reaching that 
 of pay director Aug. 29, 1899, and was 
 retired at his own request, after forty 
 years' service, with the rank of rear-admiral 
 U. S. Navy, Feb. 17, 1905. He married in 
 Boston, Sept. 28, 1869, Helen Watson Free- 
 man. Address: 1506 Twenty-first Street, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 FRANCIS, Charles Spencer: 
 
 Ambassador to Austria-Hungary; born in 
 Troy, N. Y., June 17, 1853; son of John 
 Morgan Francis, distinguished, journalist 
 and successively American minister to the 
 courts of Greece. Portugal and Austria- 
 Hungary, and of Harriet E. (Tucker) Fran- 
 cis. He was graduated from Cornell, A.B., 
 
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 1877, and while a student there ho repeat- 
 edly won the single-scull championship of 
 tlie University. He represented Cornell in 
 the contest for the intercollegiate single- 
 scull championship at Saratoga Lake in 
 1876, winning it hy sculling two miles in 
 thirteen minutes and forty-two and three- 
 fourth seconds, which time still stands as 
 the world's intercollegiate record. Before 
 matriculating at Cornell University he 
 entered the office of the Troy Times, and 
 learned the printing trade. He was suc- 
 cessively compositor, reporter, city editor 
 and manager of that journal, in which he 
 acquired an interest in 1881, He became 
 equal partner with his father in 1887, and 
 in 1897, on the death of his father, suc- 
 ceeded to the editorial direction and sole 
 ownership of Tlie Times, and is also sole 
 owner of the Times Building. Mr; Francis 
 was secretary to his father during the 
 latter's three years' residence at Athens as 
 United States minister to Greece, and was 
 envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo- 
 tentiai-y to Greece, Roumania and' Servia, 
 1900-1903, He was appointed, in March, 
 1906, American Ambassador to Austria- 
 Hungary. Mr, Francis was colonel and 
 aide-de-Camp on the staff of (iovernor 
 Alonzo B. Cornell, of New \'ork. 1881- 
 1883. and was earlier captain, major and 
 lieutenant-colonel on the staff of Major- 
 (ieneral J. B. Carr of the National Guard 
 of New York. He was twice elected an 
 alumni trustee of Cornell University, and is 
 vice-president of the New York Scenic and 
 Historic Preservation Society. Mr. Francis 
 is a member of the Sons of the Kevolution. 
 the Society of the War of liifl2. the Hud- 
 .son-Fnlton, New York State Commission, 
 the Zeta Psi fraternity, treasurer and 
 founder in 1887 of the Troy Times Fresh 
 Air Fund; director of tlie Troy Trust Com- 
 pany and the Albany Trust Company; and 
 was a regent of the University of the 
 State of New York from 1903 to 1906— 
 twice elected by the Legislature and re- 
 signing a ten-year term upon accepting 
 dii)lomatic mission to Austria-Hungary. 
 He is a member of the Troy. Laureate 
 Boat and Rensselaer County liepublican 
 Clubs of Troy, and the Republican and Cor- 
 
 nell University Clubs of New York City. 
 Mr. Francis married, at Ithaca, N. Y., May 
 23, 1878, Alice Evans, daughter of the late 
 Professor Evans of Cornell, and they have 
 five children. Address : Troy Times, Troy, 
 N. Y., or American Embassy, Vienna, 
 Austria. 
 
 FRANCIS, David Rowland: 
 
 Merchant and ex-governor; born at Rich- 
 mond, Ky., Oct. 1, 1850; son of John B. 
 and Eliza Francis. He was graduated 
 from Washington University, St. Louis, 
 A.B., 1870, and has received' the LL.D. de- 
 grees from the University of Missouri, 1891, 
 Shurtlefif College, 1904, St. Louis Univer- 
 sity and Washington University, 1905. He 
 entered the employ of the firm of Shryock 
 and Rowland. He founded, 1877, the firm 
 of D. R. Francis, which later became D. R. 
 l^'rancis and Brother, and D. R. Francis and 
 Brother Commission Company, grain mer- 
 chants, of which he is president. He also 
 founded, in 1898, the financial house of Fran- 
 cis Brothers and Company, of which he is 
 senior partner. He was mayor of St, Louis, 
 1885-1889, governor of Missouri, 1889-1893, 
 and was in President Cleveland's cabinet as 
 secretary of the interior, 1890-1897 • Gov- 
 ernor Francis was president of the Louisi- 
 ana Purchase Exposition, elected in INIay, 
 1901. and reelected each succeeding year. 
 He was president of the Merchants' Ex- 
 eliange of St, Louis in 1884, is vice-pres- 
 ident of the Merchants'-Laclede National 
 Bank of St, Louis, president of the iNIadison 
 County Ferry Company, director of the ]\lis- 
 sissippi Valley Trust Company In connec- 
 tion with the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 
 tion he received decorations from the rulers 
 of the principal countries of Europe and 
 Asia. He is a member of the St. Louis, 
 University, St. Louis Country, Log Cabin 
 Field, Round Table, Commercial, Noonday, 
 Racquet and Kinloch Clubs, of St. Louis, 
 and of the Metropolitan Club and National 
 (Geographic Society of Washington, D. C. 
 He married in SI. Louis, in 1876. Jane 
 Perry, and they have six sons. Residence: 
 421 Maryland Avenue. Office: 214 North 
 I Fourth Street, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
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 FRANCIS, Joseph Marshall: 
 
 Bishop of the Kpiscopal Church; born 
 Eaglesmere, Pa., April 6, 1862; son of 
 James B. and Charlotte A. (Marshall) 
 Francis. He was graduated from Racine 
 College, Wis., and later completed his stud- 
 ies in the University of Oxford, England. 
 He received the degree of B.D. from Nasho- 
 tah (Wis.) Theological Seminary in 1889, 
 and of D.D. from Hobart College and 
 Nashotah. He was ordered to the diaco- 
 nate in 1884 and was attached to the 
 Cathedral staff, Milwaukee, with the charge 
 of St. Edmund's Church, Milwaukee, and 
 St. Peter's, Greenfield, Wis., was ordained 
 to the priesthood by Bishop Welles, 188G, 
 was canon of the Cathedral of Milwaukee, 
 1886-1887, and rector of St Luke's, White- 
 water, Wis., 1887-1888. Following this he 
 went to Japan, where, in 18!)1, he became 
 professor at the Trinity divinity school at 
 Tolcyo, being made sub-dean in 1894. He 
 also held the office of priest in charge of 
 Trinity Cathedral at Tokyo, 1892-1897; rec- 
 tor of St. Paul's Church, Evansville, Ind., 
 1897-1899; elected Bishop of Indiana, June 
 8, 1899j and was consecrated bishop on 
 Sept. 21, 1899. Bishop Francis married in 
 1887, Kate Stevens, of Milwaukee, Wis. 
 Address: 1549' Central Avenue, Indian- 
 apolis, Ind. 
 
 FRANCKE, Kuno: 
 
 Scholar and author; born in Kiel, Ger- 
 many, Sept. 27, 1855; son of Judge A. W. 
 S. and Marie (Jensen) Francke. He was 
 educated in the Gymnasium at Kiel, and 
 the Universities of Berlin, Jena and Munich, 
 receiving the degrees of Ph.D., Munich, 
 1878, and LL.D. from the University of 
 Wisconsin, 1904. Dr. Francke was asso- 
 ciate editor of the jMonumenta Germanise 
 Historica, Berlin, 1882-1884. He was called 
 to Harvard University in 1884 as instructor 
 in German literature, and since 1896 has 
 been full professor; since 1903 curator of 
 the Germanic Museum, and since 1906 pro- 
 fessor of the history of German culture in 
 Harvard University. Dr. Francke is author 
 of: Social Forces in German Literature, 
 1890; Glimpses of Modern German Culture, 
 1898; History of German Literature, 1901; 
 
 Handbook of the Germanic Museum, 1906; 
 (Jerman Ideals of To-day, 1907. He is a 
 fellow of the American Academy of Arts 
 and Sciences; member of the American 
 Philosophical Society; chevalier of the 
 Royal Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, 
 and of the Order of the Crown. He married 
 in Gilbertsville, N. Y., June 27, 1889, Kath- 
 arine Gilbert, and they have a daughter and 
 two sons. Residence: .3 Berkeley Place. 
 Office: Hai'vard University, Cambridge, 
 Mass. 
 
 FRANK, Henry: 
 
 Lecturer and author; born in LaFayette, 
 Ind., Dec. 31, 1854; son of Jacob Henry 
 and Henrietta (Auerbach) Frank. He was 
 educated in the Chicago common and high 
 schools, Phillips' Andover Academy, North- 
 western and Harvard Universities. He was 
 professor of English and literature in Cor- 
 nell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, for a year, 
 then was for several years in the ministry 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Kan- 
 sas and Wisconsin. He resigned from that 
 ministry, becoming pastor of the First Con- 
 gregational Church of Jamestown, N. Y., 
 for two years until 1888, when he renounced 
 orthodoxy and organized the Independent 
 Congregational (New Theology) Church. In 
 1897 he founded the Metropolitan Inde- 
 pendent Church (Independent Ethical) in 
 New York City, which met in the Carnegie 
 Lyceum; and he is now independent, liberal 
 and radical, lecturing for the Independent 
 Liberal Congregation in Berkeley Theater, 
 New York City, on Sundays, and conduct- 
 ing a work which is absolutely non-sectarian 
 and creedless, but devoted to social reform 
 and the highest ethical progress without 
 necessity of subscription to antiquated dog- 
 mas. Mr. Frank is author of several vol- 
 umes which have awakened wide interest, 
 including: The Triumph of Truth, or the 
 Doom of Dogma; TW Kingdom of Love; 
 Tile Mastery of ^Mind; The Shrine of Si- 
 lence; Modern Light on Immortality. The 
 latter work presents a unique and novel 
 argument based on thorough scientific re- 
 search. Mr. Frank is a member of the 
 American Institute for Scientific Research, 
 The American Civic Alliance, Medico-Legal 
 
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 Society, Sigma Chi fraternity and the Cen- 
 tury, Theater, Press, Single Tax and Social 
 Reform Clubs. He married in Mansfield, 
 La., Jan. 14, 1886, Alice Roberta Field, and 
 has one son. Address: 132a West 79th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 TRANKFORTER, George Bell: 
 
 Chemist and educator ; born in Potter, 
 Wood County. Ohio. April 22, 1860; son of 
 Andrew and Elizabeth (Clunk) Frankforter. 
 He was graduated from the University of 
 Nebraska, A.B., 1886, A.M., 1888, and from 
 the University of Berlin, Ph.D., 1893. He 
 was instructor in chemistry, 1885-1887, and 
 professor of chemistry, 1893-1894, in the 
 University of Nebraska; and since 1894 has 
 been dean and director of the School of 
 Chemistry in the University of Minnesota. 
 He was appointed by President McKinley 
 a member of the United States Mint Com- 
 mission in 1900. Professor Frankforter has 
 made valuable contributions to chemical re- 
 search and chemical literature, especially 
 with reference to the pitch of the Northern 
 pine, formaldehyde, veratrin and eugenol. 
 He is a fellow of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science; member of 
 the American Chemical Society, the Electro- 
 chemical Society, Society of Chemical In- 
 dustry, Society for the Promotion of 
 Engineering Education, Deutsche Chomische 
 Gesellschaft and Electro-Chemische Gesell- 
 schaft. Address: 525 East River Parkway, 
 Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 FRANKLIN, Edward Curtis: 
 
 Choinist and educalor; born in Grcary 
 City, Kan., March 1, 1862; son of Thomas 
 Henry and Cynthia Ann (Curtis) Franklin. 
 He was graduated from the University of 
 Kansas, B.S., 1888, M.S., 1890; was grad- 
 uate student in the University of Berlin, 
 1890-1891, and at Johns Hopkins Univer- 
 sity, where he received his Ph.D., 1894. He 
 was assistant professor of chemistry, 1889- 
 1894, associate professor, 1894-1899, and 
 profes.sor of physical chemistry, 1899-1903, 
 in the University of Kansas; associate pro- 
 fessor, 1903-1906, and professor since 1906 
 of organic chemistry in Lidand Stanford, 
 Jr., University. He was engaged as chem- 
 
 ist to sugar plantations in Donaldsonville, 
 La., 1888, and to a gold mining company 
 at Miramar, Costa Rica, in 1897. Dr. 
 I'ranklin has made noteworthy contributions 
 to chemical research, especially in relation 
 to the action of liquid ammonia as an elec- 
 trolytic solvent. He was a member of 
 the United States Assay Commission, 1907. 
 He is a fellow of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science and the 
 American Chemical Society; life member of 
 the Kansas Academy of Sciences; member 
 of the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft, 
 National Geographic Society, Phi Beta 
 Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Delta Theta 
 fraternity, and the Bohemian and Sierra 
 Clubs of San Francisco. He married in 
 Denver, Colo., July 11, 1897, Effie June Scott, 
 and they have three children. Residence: 
 1057 Ramona Street, Palo Alto, Calif. Of- 
 lice: Stanford University, Calif. 
 
 FRANKLIN, Fabian: 
 
 Editor, mathematician; born at Egar, 
 Hungary, Jan. 18, 1853; son of Morris J. 
 and Sarah (Heilprin) Franklin. After be- 
 ing graduated from Columbian (now Georgt 
 Washington) University, as Ph.B., in 1869, 
 he was engaged in civil engineering and 
 surveying until 1877 when he went to Johns 
 Hopkins University as fellow until 1879. 
 then associate professor and professor of 
 mathematics at Johns Hopkins until becom- 
 ing editor of the Baltimore News. He re- 
 ceived the degree of Ph.D. from Johns Hop- 
 kins University in 1880, and that of LL.D. 
 from the George Washington University in 
 1904. Mr. Franklin is a fellow of the 
 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 
 member of the American Jlathcniatical So- 
 ciety, and American Economic Association 
 and Phi Beta Kappa Society, and' of the 
 University and Johns Hopkins Clubs of 
 Baltimore, and the Baltimore Country Club. 
 Mr. Franklin married at Windsor, Conn., 
 Aug. 24, 1882, Christine Ladd, and they 
 have one daughter. Address: 103 West 
 Monument Street, Baltimore, Md. 
 
 FRAZER, Robert Sellers: 
 
 President judge; born in Fayette City, 
 Pa., Sept. 18, 1849. He was eduated at 
 
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 West Chester (Pa.) Academy and Western 
 University of Pittsburg; was admitted to 
 practise in the courts of Allegheny County, 
 Pa., March 20, 1873; member of the State 
 House of Representatives from Allegheny 
 County in 1877, 1878, 1879 and 1880. He 
 was elected judge of the Court of Common 
 Pleas Number 2, Allegheny County, in 1896, 
 for a ten years' term, and was commissioned 
 president judge of the same court, Nov. 5, 
 1900. He was reelected in 1906 without 
 opposition and commissioned as president 
 judge for ten years beginning on the first 
 Monday of Jan., 1907. He is a Republican 
 in politics and a member of the Union 
 Club, of Pittsburgh. Address: 1100 Shady 
 Avenue, Pittsburgh. 
 
 FRAZIER, James B.: 
 
 United States senator ; born in Pikeville, 
 Bledsoe County, Tenn., Oct. 18, 1856; son 
 of Judge Thomas N. and Margaret (Mc- 
 Reynolds) Frazier. He was graduated from 
 the University of Tennessee in June. 1878; 
 read law with his father, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., was admitted to the bar and re- 
 moved to Chattanooga in 1881, and practised 
 law there continuously until 1902; was 
 elector for the States-at-large on the Dem- 
 ocratic ticket in 1900; was elected governor 
 of Tennessee in 1902, and again in 1904; 
 was elected to the United States Senate 
 March 21, 1905, to fill out the unexpired 
 term of Hon. William B. Bate, who died 
 during the session of the General Assembly, 
 and resigned the office of governor of Ten- 
 nesee on March 27, 1905; took his seat 
 Dec. 4, 1905. His term as senator will 
 expire March 3, 1911. He married at 
 Athens, Tenn., in 1883, Miss Louis Douglas 
 Keith. Address : Chattanooga, Tenn. 
 
 FREAR, Walter Francis: 
 
 Governor of Hawaii ; born in Grass Val- 
 ley, Nevada County, Calif., Oct. 29, 1863; 
 son of Rev. Walter and Francis E. (Foster) 
 Frear. He was graduated from Oahu Col- 
 lege, 1881, from Yale, A.B., 1885, and from 
 Yale Law School, LL.B., 1890. He prac- 
 tised law in Honolulu, 1890-1892. He was 
 appointed second judge of the First Circuit 
 Court, Kingdom of Hawaii, in 1893; second 
 
 associate justice of the Supreme Court of 
 the Provisional Clovernment of Hawaii in 
 1893 first associate justice of the Supreme 
 Court of the Republic of Hawaii, in 1896; 
 chief justice of the Territory of Hawaii in 
 1900; governor of Hawaii in 1907. He was 
 a member of the Hawaiian Commission in 
 1898; chairman of the Hawaiian Code Com- 
 mission in 1903, and chairman of the Ha- 
 waiian Tax Commission in 1907. Governor 
 Frear is a member of the Honolulu Social 
 Science Association, the Hawaiian Histor- 
 ical Society, and the Pacific, University and 
 Country Clubs of Honolulu. He married 
 in Honolulu, Aug. 1, 1893, Mary Emma 
 Uillingham, and they have two daughters. 
 Residence and address: 1434 Punahou 
 Street, Honolulu, Hawaii. 
 
 FREEMAN, Abraham Clark: 
 
 Lawyer, author; born in Hancock County, 
 111., May 15, 1843; son of 0. S. and Nancy 
 (Clark) Freeman. He was educated in the 
 district schools of his native place, went to 
 California with his father in 1861, taught 
 school in Joaquin County, Calif., for two 
 years and studied law, and he was admitted 
 to the California bar in 1864. He was a 
 member of the Constitutional Convention of 
 California in 1878 and 1879, and was a mem- 
 ber of the committee appointed by the gover- 
 nor to propose such amendments as were 
 necessary to harmonize the codes of Califor- 
 nia with the new Constitution. He became 
 editor of American Decisions in 1879, and of 
 American State Reports in 1888. Address: 
 488 Parrott Building, San Francisco, 
 
 FREEMAN, Henry Blanchard: 
 
 Brigadier-general U. S. A., retired; born 
 in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, Jan. 17, 1837. He 
 entered the army as a private in Company 
 G, 10th Infantry, July 16, 1855, and was 
 discharged Feb. 5, 1856. He reenlisted 
 July 8, 1861, serving as private and first 
 sergeant of Company B, 2d battalion, 18th 
 Infantry, and commissioned second lieuten- 
 ant of the same regiment Oct. 30, 1801, first 
 lieutenant. May 30, 1862, captain, July 28, 
 18G6; transferred to 27th Infantry Sept. 21, 
 18(50, to 7th Infantry Jan. 7, 1870; major 
 16th Infantry, June 19, 1891; lieutenant- 
 
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 colonel 5th Infantry, Jan. 30, 1895, colonel 
 24th Infantry, Oct. 4, 1898; brigadier-gener- 
 al, Jan. IG, 1901, and retired by operation 
 of law, Jan. 17, 1901. He was captured at 
 (Jhicaraauga, and confined in Libby prison; 
 escaped, but was recaptured and again es- 
 caped and served as acting assistant adju- 
 tant-general of the 17th Army Corps, and 
 he was brevetted for gallant and meritor- 
 ious services as captain for Stone River and 
 major for Cliicamauga, and also received 
 the Congressional Medal of Honor for most 
 distinguished gallantry at Stone River. 
 He served for years on the frontier, and 
 participated in the war against the Sioux, 
 1807-1808, on Powder River and Fort Phil 
 Kearney against the Cheyennes, and' in 
 Kansas, 1868-1869; in war against the Sioux 
 on the Yellowstone, 1876, and against the 
 Utes in Colorado, 1879. He also served in 
 Cuba and the Philippines. He married, 
 April 26, 1866j Sarah E. Darlington, of 
 Zanesville, Ohio. Address: Douglas, Wyo. 
 
 FREEMAN, Henry Varnum: 
 
 Jurist; born at Bridgeton, Cumberland 
 County, N. J., Dec. 20, 1842; son of Henry 
 and Mar}' (Bungs) Freeman; and he is of 
 Pilgrim Ancestry. He was educated in the 
 schools of New Haven, Conn., Freeport, 111., 
 and Beloit, Wis. He enlisted Aug. 6, 1862, 
 in Company K, 74th Illinois Volunteer In- 
 fantry and became its first sergeant until 
 Aug. 24, 186.3, when he was commissioned 
 captain in the Twelfth United States Col- 
 ored Infantry, serving as such in the Army 
 of the Cumberland until honorably dis- 
 charged at the end of the war in July, 1865. 
 He entered Yale College, from which he was 
 graduated as A.B. in ISO!), and received the 
 degree of A.M. in 1874. He studied law in 
 New Haven, Conn., and in Chicago, and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1872, practising law 
 in Chicago until elected judge of the Super- 
 ior Court in November, 1893. He was re- 
 elected in 1898 and 1904 and was appointed 
 justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois in 
 1898. Address: 5760 Woodlawn Aveiuic, 
 CliicaL'o. 
 FREEMAN, James Edward: 
 
 Clergyman; born in New York City, July 
 24, 1866; son of Henry Freeman and Mary 
 
 (Morgan) Freeman. He was educated in 
 the New York public schools and subse- 
 (juently for orders in the Episcopal Church. 
 He was in the railroad business with the 
 New York Central Railroad, 1882-1894; was 
 ordered deacon in the ministry of the Epis- 
 copal Church, May 20, 1894, and ordained 
 as priest by Henry C. Potter, April 28, 1895. 
 Mr. Freeman became assistant to the rector, 
 St. John's Church, Yonkers, May, 1894, as- 
 suming charge of St. Andrew's Chapel in 
 South Yonkers; has been rector of the New 
 St. Andrew's Memorial Church since its or- 
 ganization in the fall of 1894; and during 
 the summer, is the rector of the Church of 
 the Redeemer, Sorrento, Me. ; and was some- 
 time acting rector of St. John's Church, 
 Dresden, Germany. Mr. Freeman is vice- 
 president and chairman of the Board of Di- 
 rectors of Hollywood Inn, Yonkers, presi- 
 dent of the Yonkers Sanitary League and 
 director of the Yonkers Tuberculosis Sani- 
 tarium and the St. John-Land Home, Long 
 Island ; and he is a member of the Transpor- 
 tation and Church and Parkhill Country 
 Clubs, Yonkers and the Corinthian Yacht 
 Club. He is author of : If not the Saloon ; 
 What ? ; Certain Aspects of the Master-Life ; 
 Themes in Verse. He married at New York 
 City, April 16, 1890, Ella Vigelius, and they 
 have three children. Address: 47 Livings- 
 ton Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. 
 
 FREEMAN, John Ripley: 
 
 Hydraulic engineer; born at West Bridge- 
 ton, Me., July 27, 1855; son of Nathaniel D. 
 and ]\Iary Elizabeth (Morse) Freeman. He 
 was graduated in 1870 as B.S. from the 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and 
 received tho honorary Sc.D. degree from 
 Brown University in 1904, and from Tufts 
 Cniversity in 1905. He was principal as- 
 sistant engineer of tho Water Power Com- 
 pany at Lawrence, Mass.. 1877-1880: princi- 
 pal assistant to Hiram F. Mills, consulting 
 hydraulic engineer. 1SS0-1SS6; and has since 
 been engaged in imlix iilu:il practice as a con- 
 sulting engineei. Mr. Kreeman was chief 
 engineer and superintendent of inspection of 
 tho Association of Factory Mutual Insur- 
 ance Companies. 1887-1889; engineer mem- 
 ber of the Massachusetts Metropolitan 
 
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 Water Board, 1895-189G; president and 
 treasurer of the Manufacturers Mutual Fire 
 Insurance Company since 1890; -and consult- 
 ing engineer of the New York City Water 
 Supply since 1900; also consulting engineer 
 to Baltimore and various other cities on 
 public water supply extensions. He served 
 as a member of the United States Gun Car- 
 riage Test Board in 1901; consulting engi- 
 neer in the construction of the Owens River 
 Aqueduct for Los Angeles, Calif., 1906; to 
 the Isthmian Canal in 1907 and 1909, the 
 St. Lawrence Biver Power Company, on 
 damming the river at Long Sault, 1907- 
 1909. He was also consulting engineer to 
 the Massachusetts Metropolitan Park Com- 
 mission in 1903 on the drainage and sanita- 
 tion of the marshes at Cambridge, Mass., 
 and has been consulting engineer to various 
 manufacturing companies. Dr. Treeman 
 has been a lecturer in and is a member of 
 the corporation of the Massachusetts Insti- 
 tute of Technology. He has twice been 
 awarded the Norman gold medal of the 
 American Society of Civil Engineers, and 
 was vice-president of the Society in 1902; 
 is a member of the American Society of Me- 
 chanical Engineers and was its president 
 1904-1905; and of the New England Water 
 Works Association, Boston Society of Civil 
 Engineers (president, 1894). He is a di- 
 rector of the Rhode Island Hospital Trust 
 Company, National Bank of Commerce, 
 Providence Gas Company, and trustee of the 
 People's Savings Bank and Butler Hospital, 
 all in Providence, and is a member of the 
 Engineers Clubs of New York, University 
 Club of Providence and Technology Club of 
 Boston. Residence: 23.5 Arlington Avenue. 
 Office: 815 Banigan Building, Providence, 
 R. I. 
 
 FREEMAN, Joseph Edwin: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Unity, jNle., Feb. 14, 
 1876; son of Joseph Hewitt and Aletta 
 (Stone) Freeman; graduate of University 
 of Chicago and Georgetown Law School, 
 post-graduate work at Harvard Law School. 
 Was three years accountant in United 
 States Treasury Department, and for a 
 brief period in tlie banking business, ileni- 
 ber of law firm of Stover, Hall & Freeman, 
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 and N. Y. Stock Excliange firm of Freeman, 
 Rollins & Co. ; director of Trojan Powder 
 Company, Seashore Municipal Railroad 
 (yompany ; I^and & Lake Association, and 
 Link Chain Belt Company. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Association of the Bar of the 
 City of New Y''ork City, Military Order 
 of the Loyal Legion, Delta Kappa Epsilon 
 fraternity, and the Harvard Club. Ad- 
 dress: 00 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 FREER, Charles Lang: 
 
 Capitalist, art connoisseur ; born in 
 Kingston, N. Y., 1856; son of Jacob R. and 
 Phcebe Jane (Townsend) Freer. He was 
 educated in the public schools of Kingston 
 and' afterward engaged in railway service 
 for several years, then became a manu- 
 facturer in Detroit but has for several 
 years been retired from business. Mr. Freer 
 has long been a patron and collector of art, 
 and made a Whistler collection which gain- 
 ed recognition as the finest in the United 
 States, and presented it along with his other 
 art collections, to the Smithsonian Institu- 
 tion at Washington. His services to educa- 
 tion have also been notable and he received 
 from the University of ^Michigan the degree 
 of A.M. and is a director of the American 
 Academy in Rome. He is a member of the 
 Grolier and Players' Clubs in New York, 
 the Caxton Club of Chicago, the Copley So- 
 ciety of Boston, and the Detroit, University, 
 Witenagemote, Yondotega and Lake St. 
 Clair Fishing and Shooting Clubs of De- 
 troit. Residence: 33 Ferry Avenue. Of- 
 fice: Union Trust Building, Detroit, :\Iicli. 
 
 FREER, Otto Tiger: 
 
 Physician; born in Chicago, Aug. S, 1857; 
 son of Joseph Warren and Katherine (Gat- 
 ter) Freer. He was educated' in Ludwig's 
 Gymnasium. Munich, Bavaria, in the Cen- 
 tral High School, Chicago, and Rush Medi- 
 cal College, Chicago, where he was gradu- 
 ated as M.D. in 1879; and one semester 
 eacli in the universities of Munich, Vienna 
 and Heidelberg after graduation. He was 
 house physician and surgeon of Cook Coun- 
 ty Hospital in 1880; attending physician at 
 the German Hospital of Chicago, 1890-1890; 
 laryngologist at the German Hospital, 1890- 
 
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 1905 and is professor of laryngology and 
 rhinology in the Chicago Policlinic since 
 1898. Dr. Freer was president of the Sec- 
 tion on Laryngology and Otology of the 
 American Medical Association in 1906; 
 president of the Chicago Laryngological and 
 Otological Society in 1906, was elected a 
 member of the American Laryngological As- 
 sociation in 1904, and was chosen a member 
 of tlie Royal Society of Medicine, London, 
 in 1908. In politics he is a Democrat. He 
 is a member of tlie University Club of Chi- 
 cago. Residence: 224 Ontario Street, Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 FREMONT, John Charles: 
 
 Captain, U. S. Navy; born in San Fran- 
 cisco, Calif., April 19, 1849; son of Major 
 General John Charles Fremont, U. S. 
 A., the famous soldier, " Pathfinder," and 
 Presidential candidate, and Jessie (Benton) 
 Fremont, daughter of U. S. Senator Thomas 
 H. Benton of Missouri. He was graduated 
 from the U. S. Naval Academy, 1872, has 
 since served in various duties as a naval 
 officer, and was commissioned captain Oct. 
 10, 1906. He commanded the U. S. S. Pinta, 
 1875-1877: suppressed the riots in Balti- 
 more in 1877; commanded the U. S. S. 
 Drift, 1883-1885; the torpedo-boat Porter 
 in the Spanish-American War ; was com- 
 mandant of the Na^y Yard at Cavite, P. I, 
 1899-1901; U. S. S. Calgoa, 1902-1903; U. 
 S. Monitor Florida, 1903; afterward on 
 duty on boards; naval attache to the Amer- 
 ican embassies in Paris and St. Petersburg, 
 1900-1907; commanding U. S. S. battleship 
 Mississippi since Feb. 11, 1908. Captain 
 Fremont is a member of the New York 
 Athletic and University Clubs of New York, 
 Army and Navy. Club of Washington, D. C, 
 and the Carabou Club of Manila. He mar- 
 ried in New York City, May 27, 1877, Sally 
 Anderson. Address: Care of Navy De- 
 partment, Washington, D. C. 
 
 FRENCH, Allen: 
 
 Author; l)Oiii in Boston, Nov. 2S, 1870; 
 son of John J. and Frances M. (Strattoii) 
 French. He was graduated from the Massa- 
 chusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., 1892, 
 studied a year in the University of Berlin 
 
 and a year in Harvard University, A.B., 
 1894. He is author of The Junior Cup, 
 1901; The Colonials, 1902; Sir Marrock, 
 1903; The Barrier, 1904; The Story of 
 Rolf, 1904; Heroes of Iceland. 1905; The 
 Reform of Shaim, 1905; Pelham and his 
 Friend Tim, 1906; The Book of Vegetables, 
 1907; The Story of Grettir the Strong, 
 1908. Mr. French is a member of the Delta 
 Psi fraternity. He married in Providence, 
 R. I., April 14, 1898, Ellen R. Dorrance, 
 and they have three daughters. Address : 
 Concord, Mass. 
 
 FRENCH, Amos Tuck: 
 
 Banker; born in Boston, Mass., July 20, 
 1803; son of Francis O. and Ellen (Tuck) 
 French. He was graduated from Harvard, 
 A.B., 1885. Mr. Tuck was a member of 
 the New York Stock Exchange for three 
 years. He is vice-president and director 
 Manhattan Trust Company for fifteen years. 
 Northern Securities Company, Northern 
 Pacific Railway. He is a member of the 
 New Y^ork Chamber of Commerce, New 
 York Historical Society; director Lying-in- 
 Hospital of New York; and of the Knicker- 
 bocker, Metropolitan, Union, Grolier, Har- 
 vard, New Y'ork Yacht, Down Town, Turf 
 and Field, Tuxedo, and Coney Island Jockey 
 Clubs. He married in • Newport, R. I., 
 Dec. 2, 1885, Pauline Le Roy, and they have 
 six children. Residence: Tuxedo Park, N. 
 Y., and Chester, N. H. Address: 20 Wall 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 FRENCH, Asa Palmer: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Braintree, Mass., Jan. 
 29, 1860; son of Asa and Sophia B. (Pal- 
 mer) French. He received his preparatory 
 education in the Boston public schools, 
 Adams Academy, and Thayer Academy, and 
 was graduated from Yale as A.B., in 1882. 
 He was clerk to the judges of the Court of 
 Alabama Claims at Washington, 1885-1886; 
 district attorney for the Southeastern Dis- 
 trict of Massachusetts, 1901-1900, and has 
 been U. S. attorney for tlic District of Mas- 
 sachusetts since January. 1906. He is also 
 president of the Randolph Savings Bank, of 
 Randolph, Mass., is president of the Nor- 
 
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 folk County Bar Association ; trustee of 
 Thayer Academy, Braintree, Mass., gover- 
 nor of the jNlassachusetts (Society of May- 
 llower Descendants, and a member of the 
 Psi Upsilon fraternity, the Masonic .order, 
 the University Club of New York and the 
 University Club of Boston. Mr. French 
 married in Randolph, Mass., Dec. 13, 1887, 
 Elizabetli Ambrose Wales, and they have 
 two children. Residence: Randolph, Mass. 
 Adilress: 87 Milk Street, Boston. 
 
 FRENCH, Burton Lee: 
 
 Lawyer; born near Delphi, Ind., Aug. 1, 
 1875; son of Charles A. and Mina P. French. 
 He moved with his parents to Kearney, 
 Neb., in 1880, and moved to Idaho in 1882; 
 was graduated from the University of Idaho 
 A.B., 1901, and was fellow in the University 
 of Chicago, 1901-1902, being graduated in 
 1903 with the degree of Ph.M. He is an 
 attorney at law, was elected upon the Re- 
 publican ticket to the house of representa- 
 tives to the fifth and sixth sessions of the 
 Idaho legislature, serving 1898-1902, and in 
 the latter session he was the Republican 
 caucus nominee for speaker. He was elected 
 to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con- 
 gresses and reelected to the Sixtieth Con- 
 gress as member at large. His term of 
 service ended' March 4, 1909. He married, 
 June 28, 1904, Winifred Hartley. Address: 
 jNIosoow, Idaho. 
 
 FRENCH, Calvin H.: 
 
 President of Huron College; born in Wil- 
 liamsburg, Ohio, June 13, 1802; son of Rev. 
 Charles P. and Mary J. (Brown) French. 
 He was graduated from Lake Forest (111.) 
 University, A.B., 1888, A.M., 1891, from the 
 Union Theological Seminary, 1891, and re- 
 ceived the D.D. degree from Wooster (Ohio) 
 University, 1900. He was pastor of the 
 Presbyterian Church at Scotland S. Dak., 
 1891-1898, and since 1898 has been presi- 
 dent of Huron College. He married at Col- 
 lege Springs, Iowa, July 27, 1897, Anna E. 
 Long, and they have three sons. Address: 
 Huron, S. Dak. 
 
 FRENCH, Daniel Chester: 
 
 Sculptor; born in Exeter, N. H., April 20, 
 1850; son of Henry Flagg and Anne (Rich- 
 
 ardson) French. He was educated in the 
 Cambridge ])ublic and Amherst higli scliools, 
 attended tlie ^Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology, 1868-1809, and received the de- 
 gree of A.B. from Dartmouth College. Mr. 
 French studied art in Boston and in Flor- 
 ence, Italy, and has been professionally en- 
 gaged as a sculptor since 1809, and since 
 1887 has resided in New York. Some of his 
 principal works are : the statues of the 
 IMinute Man at Concord, Mass., and of John 
 Harvard, at Cambridge, Mass., the Milmore 
 Memorial in Forest Hills Cemetery in Bos- 
 ton, the Gallaudet group and the statue of 
 Lewis Cass at Washington, D. C. ; the statue 
 of Alma Mater at Columbia University, 
 New York City; groups of "Europe," 
 "Asia," ':' Africa" and "America" on the 
 New Y^ork Custom House, and the statue of 
 Hon. George H. Hoar at Worcester, Mass. 
 He was awarded' a medal by the Paris Salon 
 in 1892, and the Medaille d'Honneur of the 
 Exposition Universelle at Paris in 1900. 
 Mr. French has long been a member, and 
 was elected in 1906 president, of the Na- 
 tional Sculpture Society; was a member of 
 the Municipal Art Commission of New York 
 for the first seven years of its existence, and 
 is a member of the New York City Improve- 
 ment Commission. He is a member of the 
 National Academy of Design; the Accademia 
 di San Luca, Rome, Italy; Legion d'Hon- 
 neur of France (1900) ; is a trustee of the 
 ]\letropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
 City, and of the American Academy in 
 Rome. Mr. French is also a member of the 
 National Institute of Arts and Letters, the 
 Academy of Arts and Leisters, the Century 
 Association, and National Arts Club of New 
 Y^ork City, and the Technology Club of 
 Boston. He married in Washington, D. C, 
 in 1888, Mary Adams French, and they have 
 a daughter. Summer residence: Glendale, 
 Berkshire County, Mass. Address: 125 
 West 11th Street New York City. 
 
 FREUND, John C: 
 
 Musical editor _aiul publisher, dramatist 
 and writer on Social Economics; born Lon- 
 don, England, Nov. 22, 1848, where his fath- 
 er. Dr. Jonas Charles Hermann Freund, was 
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 years; Deputy Inspector of Hospitals dur- 
 ing the Crimean War, Surgeon in the Brit- 
 ish Army, founder and first directing physi- 
 cian of the German Hospital, Dalston. Lon- 
 don, and author of a number of leading 
 medical works. His mother, Amelia Louisa 
 (Rudiger) Freund, was the niece and com- 
 panion of Christian Huettner, a noted lin- 
 guist, who, as secretary and interpreter, ac- 
 companied Lord Macartney's first English 
 Embassy to China. Under the nom-de- 
 plume, Amelia Lewis, she gained an inter- 
 national reputation as a writer on Social 
 Economics. ^Ir. Freund went to Oxford 
 University with the Times (London) and 
 Carpenter Scholarships, won in open com- 
 petition. Remained at the University three 
 years, but before finishing the full course 
 came to the United States. While at Ox- 
 ford, and before he was twenty-two, start- 
 ed and edited the Dark Blue Magazine, to 
 which the Rossettis, Swinbourne and Wil- 
 liam Morris, the poets. Professors Blackie, 
 Dowden and Sylvester, Rev. J. G. Wood, 
 the naturalist, Thomas Hughes and' other 
 distinguished writers contributed. He pro- 
 duced his first play. The Under-Graduate, 
 at the Queen's Theatre, London, in 1870, 
 in which Miss Hodson, now the wife of 
 Henri Labouchere, the Radical leader, edi- 
 tor of Truth (London) played the leading 
 role. Mr. Freund came to the United' States 
 in 1871 and became connected with trade 
 journalism in New York City, first on staff 
 of the Wine and Spirit Gazette, and then 
 as proprietor -of the Hat, Cap and Fur 
 Trade Review, which he started. He later 
 purchased and conducted the Arcadian, a 
 critical weekly. One of the pioneers in nui- 
 sical, and dramatic and music trade journal- 
 ism in the United States. Was the first to 
 start a musical and nmsic trade paper in 
 the English language, in New York, in 1873. 
 Later developed from it the Musical and 
 Dramatic Times, which was sold. Then, 
 after a year in Colorado and New jNIcxico, 
 he returned to New York and established a 
 weekly called ^lusie. which later became 
 Music and Drama, which was developed into 
 a daily and was very successful for a time. 
 Ill 1885 he ))r(Mluced his second play, True 
 Nobility, at McVicker's Theatre, Chicago, 
 
 in whicli, with Viola Allen and Robert B. 
 Mantell, he played the leading character 
 part. Was after that in Frank Mayo's com- 
 pany, and later played leading character 
 parts .with Mme. Janish and Henry Miller. 
 Mr. Freund returned to journalism in 1887 
 as editor of the American jNIusician, until 
 1890. He then established the Music Trades 
 and he edited the Dolgeville Herald, from 
 1891 to 1893. Since then, editor of the Mu- 
 sic Trades, and president and director of 
 the Music Trades Co. Also editor of Musi- 
 cal America, which he established in 1898, 
 and president and director of the Musical 
 America Co., and editor of the annual, The 
 Piano and Organ Purchaser's Guide. He is 
 a member of the National Civic Federation, 
 the National Geographic Society, the West 
 End Association, St. John's Guild, and 
 other societies. His favoi'ite recreations are 
 those of out door life. He has traveled and 
 visited many countries. He is a member 
 of the Pleiades Club of New York City. 
 Mr. Freund married, in 1887, Florence 
 Smith (now deceased) by whom he had one 
 daughter, Florence 'Louise, born in 1889. 
 He again married', in 1890, Anna C. Hughes, 
 and of that union there are two daughters: 
 Annette, born in 1896, and INLarjorie, born in 
 1904. Residence: 760 West End Avenue, 
 New York City. Address: 135 Fifth Ave- 
 nue, New York City. 
 
 FRICK, Henry Clay: 
 
 Capitalist; born 
 
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 moreland Countv, Pa. 
 
 West Overton, West- 
 Dec. 19, 1849; son of 
 
 John W. and Elizabeth (Overholt) Frick. 
 He attended the pviblic schools of West 
 Overton, and for a short time the Chester 
 (Pa.) Military Academy, and Otterbein 
 University, Ohio, and at the age of sixteen 
 was engaged as a clerk. At twenty-one he 
 became agent of Morgan & Company, coke- 
 dealers, at Pittsburgh, later went into the 
 coke business for himself, organizing the 
 corporation of Frick & Company. He in- 
 creased the bu«ine«s r;q)idly, and in 1882 re- 
 organized it as the 11. C. Frick Coal and 
 Coke Company wliich is now the largest 
 coke producer in the world, operating nearly 
 forty thousand acres of coal and twelve 
 thousand coke ovens with a daily capacity of 
 
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 25,000 tons of coke. He became interested 
 in Carnegie Brothers & Company, Limited, 
 and cliairman of that corporation, and in 
 1892 bought the Dnquesne Steel Works and 
 consolidated it into the Carnegie Steel 
 Company, Limited. ]\Ir. Frick liad charge 
 of the resistance of that company to 
 the demands of the strikers in tlie Home- 
 stead strike and persisted until he won it. 
 He was assaulted, shot and stabbed July 23, 
 1802, by a Russian anarchist named Berk- 
 mann, from New York, but after thirteen 
 days returned to the office and resumed 
 charge of the strike situation, continuing to 
 a successful conclusion. He continued in 
 the management of the Carnegie Steel Com- 
 pany until disputes arose between him and 
 Mr. Carnegie which was finally settled by 
 the organization in 11)00 of The Carnegie 
 Comjiany. in whihc Mr. Frick had a share of 
 $31,000,000, about equally divided between 
 stocks and bonds, and in the subsequent 
 sale to the United States Steel Corporation, 
 he received about $45,000,000 in stocks and 
 nearly $10,000,000 in lionds of the later cor- 
 ])oration ; has bouglit largely and is now one 
 of the principal owners of the corporation. 
 He built the Frick Building, the largest and 
 finest olliee building in Pittsburgh, in 1904, 
 and later added to it the Frick Building An- 
 nex; is said to be the largest stockliolder in 
 Pennsylvania Railroad; has large interests 
 in Cambria Steel Company, Norfolk and' 
 Western Railroad, and Baltimore and Ohio; 
 extensive interests also in Philadelphia and 
 Reading Railroad; director and member of 
 the executive committee of the Union Pa- 
 cific Railroad; and he is the largest owner 
 of real estate in Pittsburgh, and an officer 
 and director in many of the large corpora- 
 tions of Pittsburgh. He was a member of 
 the Board of Directors of the Equitable Life 
 Assurance Society and chairman of the Com- 
 mittee whicli investigated the charges 
 against Alexander and Hyde. Mr. Frick is 
 a member of the Union League Club of Phil- 
 adelphia and of the Metropolitan, Lawyers, 
 Engineers, Union League, Automobile Club 
 of America and other clubs of New York 
 City. He married in Pittsburgh, Dec. 15, 
 1881, Adelaide Howard Child's. Address: 
 Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 
 FRIEDMAN, William Sterne: 
 
 Rabl)i; ho.'n in Chicago, Oct. 24, 1809; son 
 of Nathan and Bertha (Sternberg) Fried- 
 man. He was graduated from the Univer- 
 sity of Cincinnati, A.B., 1880, and from the 
 Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, as rabbi, 
 1889 and received from the University of 
 Colorado the degree of LL.D., 1000. Dr. 
 Friedman lias been rabbi of Temple Eman- 
 uel, Denver, Colo., since Aug. 1, 1880, hav- 
 ing refused many calls to other pulpits. 
 He was founder in 1890 of the National 
 Jewish Hospital for Consumptives at Den- 
 ver, the first free tuberc\ilosis sanitarium in 
 America, a non-sectarian institution with 
 130 patients. He has been a member since 
 1901, and president since 1005 of the Colo- 
 rado State Board of Charities and Correc- 
 tion; a member since 1006 of the Board of 
 Library Commissioners of Denver, and 
 chairman of its book committee; vice-presi- 
 dent of the Colorado State Conference of 
 Charities since 1905; vice-president of the 
 Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association 
 since 1905; vice-president of the Charity 
 Organization Society of Denver, 1890-1901; 
 president of the Central Committee of tlie 
 Rocky Mountain Region for the Relief of 
 Oppressed Jews. He married in New Or- 
 leans, La., April 29, 1003, Juliet Freyhan, 
 and they have a son. Address : 1000 Emer- 
 son Street, Denver, Colo. 
 
 FRISSELL, Algernon S. : 
 
 President of the Fifth Avenue Bank of 
 New York; born in South Amenia, N. Y., 
 Feb. 1, 1845; son of Rev. A. C. and Lavinia 
 (Barker) Frissell. He was educated in the 
 Amenia Seminary and a private school at 
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y., entered the employ of 
 the City Bank at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 
 1862, and has been actively engaged in the 
 banking business ever since. In 1875 he was 
 loan clerk at the Importers and Traders Na- 
 tional Bank in New York City, and was call- 
 ed from that position to accept the position 
 of cashier of the Fifth Avenue Bank, which 
 was being organized. For ten years he served 
 it as cashier, and was then elected president 
 of the bank, whicli position he has since' held. 
 He is also second-vice president and a trus- 
 
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 tee of the Greenwich Savings Bank; is a 
 director of The Associates Land Company, 
 the Southern Improvement Company of 
 New York and the Woodlawn Cemetery 
 Company. Mr. Frissell was a member of 
 the Board of Education of the City of New 
 York, 1901-1005: is treasurer of the New 
 York Kindergarten Association and of the 
 Civil Service Keform Association; and is 
 a member of the Century, City and Barnard 
 Clubs of New York City, the Cosmos Club 
 of \Yashington, D. C, and the National Club 
 of London. Mr. Frissell married, May 12, 
 1870, Suscan BrinkerhofT Varick, who died 
 in 1885, and their living children are: Lew- 
 is F., M.D., and Lavinia B. Residence: 7 
 West 43d Street. Business: 530 Fifth 
 Avenue. New York City. 
 
 FRISSELL, HoUis Burke: 
 
 Principal of Hampton Normal and Agri- 
 cultural Instit\ite; born in Amenia, N. Y., 
 July 14, 1851. He was graduated from 
 Yale in 1874 and from Union Theological 
 Seminary in 1879, and received the degrees 
 of D.D. from Howard University. S.T.D. 
 from Harvard in 1900, and LL.D. from Yale 
 in 1901, and from Richmond College in 1909. 
 In religion he is a Presbyterian. Dr. Fris- 
 sell is a member of the Century and Yale 
 Clubs of New York, and the Cosmos Club of 
 Washington, D. C. Also member of the 
 Southern Education Board, which he helped 
 to organize; member of the General Educa- 
 tion Board; and of the Negro Rural School 
 Fund, Anna T. Jeanes Foundation ; Chair- 
 man of the Calhoun Colored School Board 
 of Trustees; and of the Penn N. A. & I. 
 Board of Trustees, and actively interested 
 in the management of various other colored 
 schools in the South as well as in a number 
 of Educational and Industrial Associations 
 for the benefit of the Indians. He married 
 in Bloomfield, N. J., Nov. 8, 1883, Julia F. 
 Dodd, and they liave one son. Address: 
 Hampton, Va. 
 
 FROHMAN, Daniel: 
 
 Theatrical manager; born in Sandu<ky. 
 Ohio, 1853; son of Henry and Barbara 
 Frohman. He received liis educalion in the 
 schools of Sandusky and New York City. 
 
 He was office boy with the New York Tri- 
 bune, in 1860 and continued in the newspa- 
 per business for five years. He then became 
 manager of traveling theatrical companies 
 through the United States; manager of the 
 Fifth Avenue Theatre and Madison Square 
 Theatre, New York City in 1879; manager 
 of Lyceum Theatre, New York City, from 
 1885, and is now manager of the new 
 Lyceum Theatre, also of Daly's Theatre, 
 New York and the Daniel Frohman Stock 
 Company as well as several English and 
 American stars. Mr. Frohman is president 
 of the Actors' Fund' of America; also at 
 one time president of the Theatrical Mana- 
 gers' Association of Manhattan and presi- 
 dent of the New York Symphony Orchestra, 
 and also several others. He married, in 
 New York City, in November, 1903, Mar- 
 garet lUington. Address: 159 West 79th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 FROST, George Henry: 
 
 Newspaper publisher; born in West 
 Hawkesbury, Ontario, July 9, 1838; son of 
 Ebenezer and Caroline (Harwood) Frost; 
 both natives of Vermont. He removed to 
 Smith's Falls, Ontario, 1839 was educated 
 in public school there, in private academies, 
 Glover, Vt., one year, and McGill Univer- 
 sity, Canada, C.E., 1860. P.L.S. (Provincial 
 Land Surveyor), 1863. He served as Civil 
 engineer wath the Chicago & Northwestern 
 Railway, Chicago, 1863-1867; city survey- 
 ing in Chicago, 1867- 1874; founded Engi- 
 neering News, April, 1874; removed to New 
 York City, 1878; incorporated the business 
 Jan. 12. 1883, and is now president of The 
 Engineering News Publishing Company. He 
 lias been a resident of Plainfield, N. J., since 
 18SG, and is president of the Courier News 
 Publishing Company of Plainfield. Mr. Frost 
 is an associate member of the American So- 
 ciety Civil Engineers, member of the Cana- 
 dian Society of Civil Engineers, and of sun- 
 dry engineering associations of the United 
 States and Canada, the New England His- 
 toric Genealogyical Society, and he is a 
 member of the Country Club of Plainfield. 
 He married Louisa, daughter of l<]dwin 
 Hunt, hardware merchant of Chicago, and 
 they have four children. Residence: 745 
 
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 Watt'huno; Avenue, Plfiinfield. N. J. Office: 
 220 Bioadwny, Now York City. 
 
 FROST, William Goodell: 
 
 President of IVrra Collesye; born in Le 
 Roy. N. Y.. July 2. 1854; son of Rev. Lew^is 
 P. and Maria (Goodell) Frost. He entered 
 the Beloit Colletre in 1872, but completed 
 his course at Oberlin College, where he was 
 graduated A.B., 187C; and took post-gradu- 
 ate work at Hai-vard and Goettingen Univer- 
 sities; received the degree of Ph.D. from 
 the University of Wooster in 1893, and that 
 of D.D. from Oberlin College, 1893, and 
 Harvard, 1907, and' LL.D. from Oberlin, 
 1908. He was professor of Greek language 
 and literature at Oberlin College, 1879-1892. 
 in 1885 he was candidate for lieutenant-gov- 
 ernor of Ohio on the Prohibition ticket 
 and is now a member of the Republican 
 party. Dr. Frost is chiefly known as bring- 
 ing his attention to the educational needs of 
 the Southern mountaineers, and their worth 
 and promise, and making for them im- 
 portant educational adaptations in methods 
 and courses. He has gained great promi- 
 nence by his addresses in behalf of the 
 movmtain people of Kentucky. He is author 
 of the articles on Kentucky and Appalach- 
 ian America in the Encyclopredia Ameri- 
 cana ; Our Contemporary Ancestors, in the 
 Atlantic Monthly; Southern Mountaineers, 
 in the Review of Reviews; and Educational 
 Pioneering, in the Outlook, and various 
 others. He married first at Painesville, 
 Ohio, Aug. 15, 1876, Louise Raney (deceas- 
 ed) ; and second at Oberlin, Ohio, July 5, 
 1891, Ella Marsh. They have had five chil- 
 dren. Address: Berea, Ky. 
 
 rROTHINGHAM, Arthur Lincoln: 
 
 Professor of archaeology; born in Boston. 
 June 21, 1859; son of Professor Arthur 
 Lincoln and Jessie (Peabody) Frothingham. 
 He received his early education in the 
 Academy of the Christian Brothers at Rome, 
 from 1868-1873; took special courses in Ori- 
 ental languages in the Catholic Seminary of 
 Saint Apollinaire, and at the Royal Uni- 
 versity of Rome, 1875-1880, and in Germany, 
 1880-i883; receiving the A.M. and Ph.D. 
 degrees from the University of Leipzig, 
 
 1883; and he was fellow in Semitic lan- 
 guages and lecturer in archneology in Johns 
 Hopkins' University, 1883-1885. He has 
 been professor of archeology and' the his- 
 tory of art in Princeton University since 
 1887, and also of ancient history since 1898. 
 Professor Froth'ingham has written exten- 
 sively on archa-ological and historical sub- 
 jects, was editor of the American Journal of 
 Archaeology, and is a member and was 
 formerly secretary of the American Insti- 
 tute of Archaeology. Address: Princeton, 
 N. J. 
 
 FROTHINGHAM, Louis Adams: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Boston, July 13, 1871; 
 son of Thomas B. Frothingham and Anne 
 P. (Lunt) Frothingham. After being grad- 
 uated from Harvard as A.B. in 1893 he 
 entered Harvard' Law School, and was 
 graduated as LL.B. in 1896. He has since 
 been engaged in the practice of law in 
 Boston. Mr. Frothingham is a Republican 
 in politics; was speaker of the Massachu- 
 setts House of Representatives in 1904 and 
 1905 and Republican candidate for mayor 
 of Boston in 1905, and was elected lieu- 
 tenant-governor of Massachusetts in Nov., 
 1908. He served as second lieutenant of 
 the United States Marine Corps in 1898. 
 He is a Unitarian in religious belief ; is 
 a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon and 
 Alpha Delta Phi fraternities, and of the 
 Country, Union and Tennis and Racquet 
 Clubs of Boston. Residence: 140 Beacon 
 Street, Boston. Office address: Barristers' 
 Hall, Boston, Mass. 
 
 FROTHINGHAM, Paul Revere: 
 
 Clergyman; born at Jamaica Plain, July 
 6, 1864; son of Thomas B. and Anne P. 
 (Lunt) Frothingham. He was graduated 
 from Harvard as A.B., A.M. and S.T.B. 
 Has been minister of the Arlington Street 
 Church (Unitarian), Boston, since 1900 
 and was preaclier to Harvard University, 
 1899-1902. He is an overseer of Harvard 
 College and trustee of the Massachusetts 
 School for the Blind'; also a member of the 
 Country and Union Clubs. Author of: 
 The Temple of Virtue; William Ellery 
 
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 Chautiing. Mr. Frothingham married, June 
 14, 1802. Anna C. Clapp. Address: 204 
 Jieacon St root. r>o?ton. 
 
 FROTHINGHAM. Theodore Longfellow: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Brooklyn. X. Y.. Sept. 
 10, 1S(!3: son of James Harding and Wil- 
 holmine E. (Vietor) Frothingham. He was 
 educated at tlie Brooklyn Collegiate and 
 Polytechnic Institute from 1875 to 1880; 
 and was graduated from Harvard Univer- 
 sity, A.B. in 1884 and from Harvard Law 
 School, LL.B. in 1887. He was admitted 
 to the New York bar in 1887, and ever 
 since engaged in practice. Director in 
 various business and financial corporations. 
 Member of the Association Bar of the City 
 of New York, Harvard Law School Asso- 
 ciation; trustee of the Brooklyn Hospital, 
 Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Poly- 
 teclinic Institute; director of New England 
 Society. Brooklyn; chairman of Committee 
 on Hospitals, State Charities Aid Associ- 
 ation. Is a member of the University, 
 Harvard and Lawyers' Clubs of New York 
 City, and Hamilton. Twentieth Century 
 and Brooklyn Heights Casino Clubs of 
 Brooklyn. He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 Dee. 2,' 1001, Elizabeth F. Mason, and they 
 jiave two children: Theodore Frothingham, 
 born March 2, 1904, and Elizabeth Froth- 
 ingham, born Nov. 9, 1008. Address (sum- 
 mer) : South Yarmouth, Mass. Oirice ad- 
 dress: :{2 Liberty Street, New York City. 
 
 FRYE, William Pierce: 
 
 United States Senator, lawyer; born in 
 Lewiston, j\Ie., Sept. 2, 1831 ; graduated at 
 Bowdoin College, ^le., 1850; studied and 
 ])ractised law; was a member of the State 
 Legi.slature in 1861, 18G2, and 1867; was 
 mayor of the city of Lewiston, 1866-1867; 
 attorney-general of the State of Maine in 
 1867, 1868, and 1869; was elected a mem- 
 ber of the national Republican executive 
 committee in 1872 and reelected in 1876 and 
 1880; was elected a trustee of Bowdoin 
 College in June, 1880, received the degree 
 of LL.D. from Bates College in July, 1881, 
 and tiie same degree frorp Bowdoin College 
 in 1889. iSlr. Frye was a Presidential 
 elector in 1864; was a delegate to the 
 
 national Republican Conventions in 1872, 
 1876 and 1880; was elected chairman of 
 the Republican State Committee of ]Maine 
 in place of Hon. James G. Blaine, resigned, 
 in November, 1881; was elected a repre- 
 sentative in the Forty-second, Forty-third, 
 Forty-fourth. Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and 
 Forty-seventh Congresses; was elected 
 March 15, 1881, to the United States 
 Senate to fill the vacancy occasioned' by the 
 resignation of James G. Blaine, appointed 
 Secretary of State, and took his seat Marcli 
 18, 188r; was reelected in 1883, 1888, 1895, 
 1901, and 1907; was elected president pro 
 tempore of the Senate Feb. 7, 1896, and 
 reelected March 7, 1901; was a member of 
 the commission which met in Paris, Sept., 
 1898, to adjust terms of peace between the 
 United States and Spain. His term of 
 service will expire March 3, 1913. Address: 
 Lewiston, Me. 
 
 FTJERTES, James Hillhouse: 
 
 Consulting engineer; born in Ponce, Porto 
 Rico, Aug. 10, 1863; son of Estevan An- 
 tonio and Mary, Stone (Perry) Fuertes. 
 He was graduated from the College of Civil 
 Engineering in Cornell University, 1883, 
 and since then has been engaged in practice. 
 Ho has made reports \ipon plans for and 
 supervision of construction of municipal 
 and engineering works, including the sani- 
 tation of the city and port of Santos, Bra- 
 zil; water supply of Lynchburg, Va.; filtra- 
 tion and wat(a- supply of Harrisburg, Pa.. 
 Steelton, Pa., and the Tome Institute, Port 
 Deposit, Md.; report of water supply of 
 Winnipeg, Canada., Mechaniesburg, Pa., 
 New York City, Eastport, Me.; sewerage 
 of Lebanon, Pa., Alexandria, La., Harris- 
 burg. Pa., Ithaca, N. Y., and' other cities. 
 Mr. Fuertes is especially distinguished as 
 an expert on hydraulic and sanitary mat- 
 ters. He is a mend)er and seeretai-y of 
 the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission of 
 New York, and consulting engineer for 
 various numieipalities. He is a member of 
 the American Society of Civil Engineers, 
 the Coniill Tniversity Association of Civil 
 Engineers, Ainorican Water Works Associ- 
 ation, the Engineers' Chd) of New York 
 City, and the Harrisburg Club of Harris- 
 
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 burg, Pa. Mr. Fuortes is author of: Water 
 and Public Ilealtli, 1897; Water Filtration 
 Works, 1901; Tlie Waste of Water in New 
 York, and its Keduction by Meters and 
 Inspection, 1906, (published by the New 
 York jNIerchants' Association) ; and he is 
 a contributor to scientific and technical 
 journals, and author of many printed re- 
 ports on municipal improvements and pub- 
 lic works. He married in Camden. Ark., 
 Jan. IG, 1895, Mary Hill Cable. Address: 
 140 Nassau Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 FUERTES, Louis Agassiz: 
 
 Artist, illustrator, ornitholofjist ; born in 
 Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 7, 1874; son of Pro- 
 fessor Estevan Antonio and Mary (Perry) 
 Fuertes. He was educated in public schools, 
 Ithaca High School, and Cornell Univer- 
 sity, whence he was graduated A.B., 1897. 
 Has made a specialty of ornithological 
 illustration and among other books has 
 illustrated: Bird'ing on a Broncho; Citizen 
 Bird ; Song Birds and Water Fowl ; Bird- 
 craft ; The Woodpeckers ; Second Book of 
 Birds; Birds of the Rockies; Handbook of 
 Birds of Western North America; Coues's 
 Key to North American Birds; plates for 
 report of New York State Game, Forest 
 and Fish Commission; Upland Game Bird's, 
 and companion volume, Waterfowl, The 
 Birds of New Y^'ork State, as well as other 
 illustrations for books, scientific journals, 
 and Government reports. Is a member of 
 the American Ornithologists' Union. Ad- 
 dress : Cornell Heights, Ithaca, N. Y'. 
 
 FULLER, Charles E.: 
 
 Congressman and. lawyer; born near Bel- 
 videre. 111.; son of Seymour and Eliza A. 
 (Mordorf) Fuller. He was admitted to 
 the bar of Illinois in 1870; was city attor- 
 ney of Belvidere two terms; State's attor- 
 ney for Boone County one term; represen- 
 tative in the General Assembly of Illinois 
 three terms; State senator two terms; 
 circuit judge for six years; raised a regi- 
 ment for the Spanish- American War in 
 1898, and was commissioned colonel by 
 Governor Tanner, , but the regiment was 
 never called into the service. Mr. Fuller 
 was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress, 
 
 and reelected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth 
 and Sixty-first Congresses as a Republican. 
 Address: Belvidere, 111. 
 
 FULLER, Charles Houston: 
 
 Advertising agent; born at Rome, Pa., 
 Oct. 17, 1843; .son of Lucius and Candace 
 (Newell) Fuller. His parents removed to 
 Belvidere, 111., while he was yet in his 
 infancy, and he received his education in 
 the public schools at that place and at 
 Rockford and Lee Center in the same State. 
 He was engaged in the hardware trade in 
 Belvidere five years before removing to 
 Chicago, in 1871, where he obtained em- 
 ployment in the newspaper business with 
 the Chicago Daily INIail, and later with the 
 Chicago Daily News, where he remained 
 until 1880, when he established on his own 
 account a newspaper and magazine adver- 
 tising business, Avhich became incorporated 
 in 1888, under the name of the Charles H. 
 Fuller Advertising Agency, of which I\Ir. 
 Fuller has since been the president. Re- 
 tired from advertising business June, 1908. 
 He is a member of the Masonic order and 
 of the Chicago Athletic, the Union League 
 and Atlas Clubs. He married in New Y'ork 
 State, in 1867. Alice E. Doolittle. and has 
 one son, Lucius Chapman Fuller. Resi- 
 dence: 1734 Asbury Avenue, Evanston, 111. 
 Office: 378 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 111. 
 
 FULLER, Edward: 
 
 Author and journalist; born in Syracuse, 
 N, Y., June 30, 1860; son of George and 
 ]\Iary Griffiths Fuller. He was graduated 
 from HarA'ard, A.B., 1882, and in the fol- 
 lowing year engaged in journalism, in 
 which he has continued' ever since. Mr. 
 Fuller was general reporter, and afterward 
 assistant to the dramatic editor and edi- 
 torial writer on the Boston Advertiser, 
 1883-1886; editorial writer and dramatic 
 editor of the Boston Post, 1886-1891; since 
 then with the Providence Journal, of which 
 he was editorial writer and literary editor, 
 1891-1900, and since Feb., 1908, has been 
 chief editorial writer in charge of the edi- 
 torial page. He is a member of the Pi 
 Eta and O. K. college societies, of the 
 University Club of Providence and the City 
 
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 Club of New York City. He wiis editor of 
 The Dramatic Year (London and Boston, 
 1SS8) ; author of the novels: Fellow 
 Travellers (London, 18SG) ; Complaining 
 Millions of Men (New York, 1893); and 
 The Malcolms (Providence, 1904) ; also of 
 the plays: Fetters; The Price of Silence. 
 He married in Boston, July 3, 1885, Anne 
 Devens Robinson. Residence: 261 Benefit 
 Street. Office: The Journal, Providence, 
 R. L 
 
 PULLER, George Warren: 
 
 Sanitary engineer; born in Franklin, 
 Mass., Dec. 21, 1868; son of George Newell 
 and Harriet (Craig) Fuller. He was grad- 
 uated from the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology, S.B., 1890, and was a graduate 
 student of the University of Berlin. He 
 served under the Massachusetts State Board 
 of Health at the Lawrence Experiment Sta- 
 tion, 1890-1895, and was in charge there, 
 1893-1895; was in charge of tests for Louis- 
 ville, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio, on most 
 available method for purification of water; 
 practising since 1899, as sanitary and hy- 
 draulic engineer in firm of Hering & Fuller. 
 He has acted in advi'sory capacity in con- 
 nection with filtration plants of New York 
 City, Washington, New Orleans, Baltimore, 
 Columbus. He is a member of the Man- 
 hattan, Engineers, and Technology Clubs 
 of New York City. Residence: iOO Boul- 
 evard, Summit, N. J. Office: 170 Broad- 
 way, New York City. 
 
 FULLER, Melville Weston: 
 
 Chief Justice of the United States; born 
 in Augusta, Me., Feb. 11, 1833. He was 
 graduated from Bowdoin College in 1853; 
 studied law, attended a course of lectures 
 at Harvard Law iSchool, and was admitted 
 to the bar in 1855; formed a law partner- 
 ship in Augusta, Me., and was an asso- 
 ciate editor of a Democratic paper called 
 The Age. In 1856 became president of the 
 conuiion council, and served as city solici- 
 tor; removed to Chicago in 1856, where he 
 practised law until appointed Chief Justice; 
 in 1862 was a member of the State consti- 
 tutional convention; was a member of 
 the State Legislature from 1863 to 1865; 
 
 was a delegate to the Democratic national 
 conventions of 1864, 1872, 1876, and 1880; 
 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon 
 him by the Northwestern University and 
 by Bowdoin College in 1888, by Harvard 
 in 1890, and by Yale and Dartmouth in 
 1901. He was appointed chief justice April 
 30, 1888, confirmed July 20, 1888, and took 
 the oath of oflice Oct. 8, same year. Resi- 
 dence: 1801 F Street, Washington, D. C. 
 
 FULLER, Myron Leslie: 
 
 Geologist and hydrologist; born in Broc- 
 ton, Mass., April 19, 1873; son of Albert 
 H. and Phoebe A. Fuller. He was grad- 
 uated from the Massachusetts Institute 
 of Technology, B.S., 1896, and remained on 
 the teaching force of that Institute as 
 assistant and afterward as instructor in 
 geology until 1900, when he became con- 
 nected with the U. S. Geological Survey 
 as assistant geologist until 1903; organ- 
 ized and became chief of the Eastern Sec- 
 tion of the Division of Hydrology in 1903, 
 and since 1907 has been geologist on the 
 U. S. Geological Survey. He has done 
 much field work in connection with coal, 
 oil, gas and artesian water problems and 
 has made extensive researches in relation 
 to glacial and stratigraphic geology, and 
 has written extensively on these subjects. 
 Mr. Fuller was reviewer tor mineralogical 
 and geological chemistry of the Technology 
 Quarterly and the Review of American 
 Cliemical Research, 1897-1900; special agent 
 of the Paris Exposition, 1899-1900. He re- 
 ceived the Walker Prizes of the Boston 
 Society of Natural History in 1897 and 
 1905 for geological essay. He is a fellow 
 of the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science; member of the Geo- 
 logical Society of America, the Washington 
 Geological Society, National Geographic 
 .•society and Seismological Society, lie mar- 
 ried in Brocton, Mass., April 26, 1897, Lil- 
 lian A. Gaynor. Residence and ofiice: 104 
 Belmuiit AviiuK', Biocton, Mass. 
 
 FULLER, Williamson Whitehead: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Fayetteville, N. C, Aug. 
 28, 1858; son of Thomas C. and Caroline 
 D. (Whitehead) Fuller. He was graduated 
 
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 from the University of Virginia, A.B., 1878 ; 
 studied law at Dick and Dillard's Law 
 School, Greensboro, N, C, 187!) ; was admit- 
 ted to the bar in 1880, and engaged in prac- 
 tice. He is now general counsel of the 
 Consolidated Tobacco Company, the Amer- 
 ican Tobacco .Company, Continental To- 
 bacco Company, and many subsidiary and 
 afliliatcd corporations. Mr. Fuller is a 
 member of the Association of the Bar of 
 the City of New York, the University of 
 Virginia, Alumni Association in New York, 
 Noi'th Carolina Society in New York, 
 Southern Society, Metropolitan Museum of 
 Art, Aldine Association, and the National 
 Democratic, Pilgrims, and Ardsley Clubs of 
 New York, lie married in Greensboro, N. 
 C, Feb. 19, 1880, Annie M. Staples. Kesi- 
 dence: 1072 Fifth Avenue. Office: 111 
 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 FULLERTON, George Stuart: 
 
 Professor of philosophy in Columbia 
 University; born in Fategarh, India, Aug. 
 18, 1859; son of Rev. Robert S. and Martha 
 (White) Fullerton. He was graduated 
 from the University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 
 1879, A.M., 1882, Yale, B.D., 1883; and 
 lie received from Muhlenberg College the 
 honorary degrees of Ph.D., 1892, and LL.D., 
 1900. He was instructor in philosophy, 
 1883-1885, adjunct professor, 1885-18t>7, 
 and professor of philosophy, 1887-1903 in 
 the bniversity of Pennsylvania, where he 
 was also dean of the Department of Phi- 
 losophy, 1889-1898, dean of the College, 
 189-1-1890, and vice-jijtovost of the bniver- 
 sity, 1894-1898. He *7sas been professor of 
 philosophy in Columbia University since 
 1904. Dr. Fullerton was part author of 
 the Preliminary Report of the Seybert Com- 
 mission on Spiritualism, 1887 ; and is author 
 of: The Conception of the Inhnite, 1887; 
 A Plain Argument for God, 1889; On Same- 
 ness and Identity, 1890; The Philosophy 
 of Spinoza, 1894; On Spinoistic Immor- 
 tality, 1899; A System of Metaphysics, 
 1904; An Introduction to Philosophy, 1906. 
 Dr. Fullerton is a member of the American 
 Philosophical Association, the American 
 Psychological Association (of which he was 
 president in 1895), and the Phi Beta Kappa 
 
 Society. Professor Fullerton married first, 
 in Alexiindria, Va., Jan. 20, 1884, Rcbekah 
 Daingorfield Smith (died May 5, 1892), 
 and second, in Philadelphia, March 8, 1897, 
 Julia Winslow Dickerson. Address: Co- 
 lumbia University, New York City. 
 
 FULTON, Charles William: 
 
 Lawyer and former U. S. Senator; born 
 in Lima, Ohio, Aug. 24, 1853; son of Jacob 
 and Eliza A. Fulton. In 1871 his parents 
 moved to Pawnee City, Neb., at which place 
 he took up tlie study of law. In 1873 and 
 1874 he taught school, and during part of 
 the time attended an academy; in the 
 spring of 1875 he determined to remove 
 West, and early in that year landed in 
 Oregon; taught school one term at Water- 
 loo, Linn County; settled in June, 1875, 
 in Astoria, which has since been his home. 
 In 1877 he formed a law partnership with 
 J. W. Robb, and through him became inter- 
 ested in politics as a Republican, being 
 elected to the State Senate in 1878. In the 
 early eighties he was elected city attorney, 
 and in 1888 was a Presidential elector, 
 carrying to Washington the vote of Oregon 
 and casting it for President Harrison. He 
 was elected to the State Senate in 1890, 
 1898 and 1902, and was president at the 
 sessions of 1893 and 1901, and was elected 
 to the U. S. Senate, Feb. 28, 1903, to suc- 
 ceed Josejih Simon, for the term beginning 
 March 4, 1903. His term of service ex- 
 pired March 3, 1909. Senator Fulton mar- 
 ried, Sept. 5, 1878, Miss Ida Hobson and 
 they have one son. Address : Astoria, Ore. 
 
 FULTON, Robert Burwell: 
 
 Chancellor of the University of Missis- 
 sippi, 1892-1906, and president of the Miller 
 School (technical), Albemarle County, Va., 
 since 1906; born in Sumpter County, Ala., 
 April 8, 1849; son of William and Eliza- 
 beth K. Fulton. He was educated in 
 private schools to 1866; University of Mis- 
 sissippi, A.B., 1869; A.M., 1873; and re- 
 ceived the LL.D. degree from the University 
 of Nashville, 1893, South Carolina College, 
 1905, and University of Alabama, 1906. He 
 taught in high schools in Alabama, 1869- 
 1870, in New Orleans, 1870-1871; was as- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 sislant professor in the University of Mis- 
 sissippi, 1871; adjunct professor of physics, 
 1872; professor of physics and astronomy, 
 1875-1906. He is a fellow (by election) 
 of the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, since 1888, was pres- 
 ident of the Department of Higher Educa- 
 tion in the National Educational Associ- 
 ation. 1898 ; president Southern Educa- 
 tional Association, 1899; president Na- 
 tional Association of State Universities, 
 1890-1902; contributor to Britannica. ninth 
 edition and supplement Encyclopaedia, and 
 is author of various papers on educational 
 and scientific subjects. Chancellor Fulton 
 is a member of the Chi Psi Club. He mar- 
 ried, first, in 1871, Annie Rose Garland, 
 who died in 1893, and second, in 1903, 
 Florence Thompson. Address: Miller 
 School, Virginia. 
 
 FUNK, Isaac Kaufman: 
 
 Author, publisher, clergyman; born at 
 Clifton, Ohio, Sept. 10, 1839. He was grad- 
 uated from Wittenberg College with the 
 degree of B.D. in 1800 (LL.D. 1896). He 
 lilled various pastorates from 1807 to 1872, 
 the last being St. Matthew's English Luth- 
 eran Church in Brooklyn. He is editor- 
 in-chief of the various periodicals of the 
 Funk and Wagnalls Com])any; editor-in- 
 chief of the Standard Dictionary; chairman 
 of the editorial boai'd that produced the 
 Jewish Encyclopedia; founder-editor of the 
 Metropolitan Pulpit (now the Homilctic 
 Review), 1870; in connection with his 
 house, founded the Voice, 1880; the Mis- 
 sionary Review, 1888; the Literary Digest, 
 1889; and in 1900 established The Circle, 
 and has published numerous works of refer- 
 ence. In 1878 he entered into partnership 
 with A. W. Wagnalls, merging, in 1890, 
 inlo the Funk and Wagnalls Company, of 
 wliidi he is president. Dr. Funk is editor 
 of: Tarry Tliou 'lill I Come, with intro- 
 duction, 1901. a 11(1 initlior of: The Next 
 Step in Evolution. 1902; Tlie Widow's Mite 
 and Other Psychic Phenomena, 1904; The 
 P.syeliie Riddle, li)07. He is treasurer of 
 the Prohibition I'ark Company, Staten Is- 
 land; iii.Miilicr (if I lie Siriiplilied Spelling 
 
 Board (on Executive Committee) ; a mem- 
 ber of the National Geographical Society; 
 of the Aldine Club, and of the Brooklyn 
 Clerical Union. Residence: 22 Upper 
 Moiuitain Avenue, Montclair, N. J. Ad- 
 dress: 44-00 East 23d Street, New York 
 fMty. 
 
 FUNKHOUSER, Abram Paul: 
 
 President of Lebanon Valley College; 
 born at Dayton. Va., Dec. 10, 1853; son of 
 Samuel and Elizabeth (Paul) Funkhouser. 
 He Avas educated' in various schools and 
 entered the ministry of the United Brethren 
 Church; founded the Shenandoah Institute 
 at Dayton, Va., in 1870, and from 1870 to 
 1881 was pastor and presiding elder of the 
 Virginia United Brethren Conference. He 
 took the scientific course at Otterbein Uni- 
 versity and was graduated' as B.S. in 1882, 
 and received the AM. degree from X>tter- 
 bein and the D.D. degree from York College, 
 Neb., in 1907. He became superintendent 
 of schools of Rockingham County, Va., 
 until 1880, when he resigned to give his 
 time entirely to the editing of the State 
 Republican of Harrisonburg, Va, which he 
 had been ])ublishing for three years and 
 continued to publish until 1898. He was 
 superintendent of the Shenandoah Valley 
 Chautauqua, 1892-1905; president of the 
 Western College of Toledo, Ohio, 1893-1894; 
 associate editor of the Religious Telescope, 
 Dayton, Ohio, 1897-1898; postmaster at 
 Harrisonburg, Va., 1898-1906; and since 
 then has been president and trustee of 
 Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pa. He 
 is also trustee of the Shenandoah Institute 
 in Dayton, Va. INIr. Funkhouser is a mem- 
 ber of the Republican State Committee and 
 has been delegate to the National Conven- 
 tions of 1888 and 1900. He was a delegate 
 in the General Conferences of the United 
 Brethren in Christ in 1889, 1893, 1897, 
 1901 and 1905, and represented his church 
 in the Tri-ehurch Council of Congregational, 
 I'nited Brethren, and Methodist Protestant 
 Cliurchos in 1900 and 1907. He married at 
 Westerville. Ohio, June 23, 1880, Minnie 
 King, and has four children. Address: 
 Aiunille, Pa. 
 
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 rUNSTEN, James Bowen: 
 
 riotostaiil l"]])is(.'0|:ml bishop; bnni in 
 Clark Couniy, Va., 185(1; son of Col. Oliver 
 lvi(lj;cway and Mary (Bowen) Funstcn. 
 lie was graduaicil trinii tlic Virfifinia Mili- 
 tary Instiliilc, ISTT). from tiie University 
 of Virsinia. ll.L., 187S. and from the Vir- 
 ;iinia Theological Seminary. 1882; and he 
 received the D.D. degree from the Univer- 
 sity of the South, 1902. He was ordered 
 deacon, 1882, and ordained priest, 1883, in 
 the Episcopal Church by Bishop Peterkin. 
 He was connected as deacon and' priest, 
 during the years 1882-1884, with churches 
 at Marion, Va., and Bristol, Tenn.; as eight 
 years rector of Christ's Church, Richmond. 
 Va., and in 1890 became general missionary 
 of Virginia. In 1892 he was called to the 
 rectorship of Trinity Church. Portsmouth, 
 Va., remaining there until 1899, when he 
 was made bishop of Boise. In 1907 he be- 
 came bishop of Idaho and on the declination 
 of tlie bishop-elect for Wyoming was also 
 placed in charge of that diocese. He was 
 consecrated' by Bishops Whittle, Randolph, 
 Talbot, Cheshire, Penick, Peterkin, Poret 
 and Gibson. He is author of several tracts 
 and numerous other publications. Address: 
 Boise City, Idaho. 
 
 FUNSTON, Frederick: 
 
 Brigadier-general, U. S. Army: born in 
 New Carlisle, Ohio, Nov. 9, 1865; son of 
 Edward H. and Ann Eliza (Mitchell) Euns- 
 ton, who moved to Kansas in 1867. He 
 lived on a farm during boyhood, attending 
 the district school, was a teacher, 1883- 
 1884, and was graduated from Ida (Kan.) 
 High School. 1886; entered the University 
 of Kansas in 1886 and remained there 
 until 1890, except one year and a half in 
 the employ of the Atchison, Topeka and 
 Santa Fe Railway and as a newspaper re- 
 iiorter in Kansas City. In 1890, after 
 leaving the University, he was appointed' 
 special agent of the U. S. Department of 
 Agriculture, in which capacity he did work 
 in North Dakota, and was assistant bota- 
 nist of the Death Valley Expedition of 
 1891. He spent the years 1892, 1893 and 
 1894 in Alaska crossing the Territory from 
 the South Coast to the Arctic Ocean and 
 
 from liic ^trili'^li I'lOiiiulary In (he Bering 
 Sea ; ictuiiicd lo San I'^rancisco in Oct., 
 1894. and left 1 he service of the Depart- 
 ment of Agriculture. He traveled in South- 
 ern Mexico in 1895, and in 1896 went to 
 Cuba on a lilibustering exi)odii.ion and 
 served' for nearly two yearn in the Cuban 
 Insurgent Army under Generals Maximo 
 Gomez and Calixto Garcia, as captain, 
 major and lieutenant-colonel ; returned to 
 the United States in Jan., 1898, and at the 
 beginning of the Spanish- American War 
 was appointed colonel of the 20th Kansas 
 Volunteer Infantry, and sailed with that 
 regiment for tlie Philippine Islands. Oct. 
 27, 1898, participating in all the battles of 
 the Second Division of the Eighth Army 
 Corps from the beginning of the insurrec- 
 tion until July, 1899; promoted brigadier- 
 general U. S. Volunteers, May 1, 1899; 
 wounded in action at Santo Tomas, May 4, 
 1899; granted Congressional Medal of 
 Honor for distinguished gallantry in action 
 in the engagement at Calumpit. April 27, 
 1899, crossing the Rio Grande de la Pam- 
 panza with small detachment, and turning 
 the enemy out of his trenches. General 
 Funston returned to the United States for 
 a few weeks, but was ordered back to the 
 Philippine Islands, and during 1900 and 
 1901 commanded the Fourth District. De- 
 partment of Northern Luzon, participating 
 during this time in many engagements and 
 expeditions. He organized and led the ex- 
 pedition which captured Aguinaldo, and 
 was. on April 1, 1901, appointed brigadier- 
 general U. S. Army. He returned lo the 
 United States in Jan., 1902, and since that 
 time has commanded various departments 
 in the United States. Address: Care War 
 Department, Washington, D. C. 
 
 FUREY, John Vincent: 
 
 Brigadier-general, U. S. A., retired; born 
 in Brooklyn. N. Y.. May 22, 1839; son of 
 Robert and INIary Furey. He was educated 
 in the schools of Brooklyn, N. Y., and en- 
 listed in the Volunteer service during the 
 Civil War as private of the 14th N. Y. 
 State Militia and 84th U. S. Volunteer 
 Infantry, in April. 1861. He participated 
 in the battles of Bull Run, the Peninsular 
 
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 Campaign of 1862, and battle of Antietam. 
 Took a civil appoint mciit in quaitcrmiistcr's 
 (rcpaitnieiil. and served as sucli, 1862-1S64; 
 was appointed captain assistant quarter- 
 master, U. S. Volunteers, 1864; vacated his 
 commission, March, 1867; was brevetted 
 major U. S. Volunteers in March, 1865; ap- 
 pointed captain assistant quartermaster, U. 
 S. A., 1867; major and quartermaster, Nov. 
 
 11, 1887; lieutenant-colonel, deputy quarter- 
 master-general. Aug. 21, 18'J6; colonel as- 
 sistant quartermaster-general, Aug. 21, 1896; 
 colonel assistant quartermaster-general, Aug. 
 
 12, 1900; brigadier-general U. S. A., Feb. 25, 
 1903, retired Feb. 26, 1903. He served under 
 Generals Terry Hancock, Euger, Merritt 
 and Brooke in the Department of Dakota, 
 with General George Crook in Arizona, 1872- 
 1874, and in the Northwest in the field as 
 chief quartermaster Big Horn and Yellow- 
 stone Expedition, 1876-1877; as depot quar- 
 termaster at Omaha, Neb., 1877-1883, chief 
 quartermaster at Santa Fe, N. M., 1883- 
 1884, disbursing quartermaster at Chicago, 
 1884-1886, Philadelphia Depot, 1886-1890, 
 chief quartermaster Department of Dakota, 
 1891-1896; depot quartermaster Philadel- 
 phia, 1896-1903. Residence: 10 Eighth 
 Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 FURNESS, Horace Howard: 
 
 Author; born in Philadelphia, Nov. 2, 
 1833; son of Pa-v. William Henry Furncss 
 and Annis P. (Jenke) Furness. He was 
 graduated from Harvard as A.B., in 1854, 
 A.M., 1858; Ph.D., University of Halle- 
 Wittenberg. 1878; LL.D., University of 
 Pennsylvania, 1879, Harvard, 1894, Yale, 
 1901; L.H.D., Columbia University, 1887; 
 Litt.D., University of Cambridge, England. 
 1899. He was admitted to the bar in 1859, 
 and engaged in practice in Philadelphia; 
 became deeply interested in Shakespeare, 
 and began to work on his now famous 
 Variorum Edition of Shakespeare, of which 
 the first published volume was Romeo and 
 Juliet in 1871, and other plays have ap- 
 peared at intervals since then. During the 
 past seven years his son, Horace Howard 
 Furness, Jr., has been associated with him. 
 Dr. Furness has been a trustee of the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania and' is a member of 
 
 the .American Philosophical Society and the 
 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 
 and of the Academy of Arts and Letters. 
 He married Helen Kate Rogers, who died 
 Oct. 30, 1883. Residence: Wallingford. Pa. 
 
 FYLES, Franklin: 
 
 Author and journalist; born in Troy, 
 N. Y., 1847; son of Frederick and Mary J. 
 (Jones) Fyles. He was educated in the 
 public schools of Troy, N. Y., afterward en- 
 gaging in newspaper- work in New Y'ork 
 City, and he was dramatic editor of the 
 New York Sun, 1885-1903. Author of num- 
 erous dramas, etc., including: Cumber- 
 land '61; The Girl I Left Behind Me; The 
 Governor of Kentucky; The Tlieater and Its 
 People; A Ward of France; Drusa Wayne. 
 jNIr. Fyles married in New York City, 1871, 
 Sarah E. Oliver, and they have two chil- 
 dren : Vanderhej'd'en and Florence Tyler. 
 Address: 114 West 94th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
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 GABRIELS, Henry: 
 
 Catliolic bishop of Ogdensburg, N. Y. ; 
 born in Wannegem, Belgium, Oct. 6, 1838; 
 son of Leopold and Rosalie (Moerman) 
 (rabriels. He was educated in the church 
 schools of Belgium; was graduated' from 
 Louvain (Belgium) S.T.L., 1864; D.D., 
 1882. He became professor of theology 
 in St. Joseph's Seminary, New York, 1864- 
 1892, and was its president from 1871, until 
 eon.secrated bishop in 1892. Bishop Gabriels 
 is author of a Book on Rubrics, and of a 
 translation of Rudiments of Hebrew and a 
 Historical Sketcli of St. Joseph's Seminary, 
 Troy, N. Y. Address: Ogdensburg, N. A^ 
 
 GAEHR, Paul Frederick: 
 
 instriielor in physics; born in Thun, 
 Switzerland, May 15, 1880; son of Gottlieb 
 and Jacobea (Zurbnigg) Gaehr. He was 
 graduated from Oberlin (Ohio) Academy 
 in 1898, tlien entered Cornell University, 
 from which he was graduated A.B., 1902, 
 A.M., 1905. Mr. Gaehr was instructor at 
 
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 ilic Cascadilla Preparatory School, Ithaca, 
 N. Y., from 1899-li>01; assistant in physics 
 at Cornell University, 1!)01-100:5, instructor 
 in physics, 1903-1908; and has been head 
 professor of mathematics at Robert College, 
 Constantinople, Turkey, since 190S. He is 
 a member of the American Physical Society, 
 member of the American Mathematical As- 
 sociation, American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, and Sigma Xi. Mr. 
 (iaelir has made researches in photometry, 
 with principal reference to the study of in- 
 struments and standards and on the fitting 
 of empirical equations to curves plotted 
 from experimental data. Permanent ad- 
 dress: Ithaca, N. Y. Temporary address: 
 Robert College, Constantinople, Turkey. 
 
 GAFFNEY, Thomas St. John: 
 
 United States consul-general; born in 
 Limerick, Ireland, Maj' 17, 1864; son of Al- 
 derman Thomas Gaffney, J. P. and Agnes 
 Mary (Clune) Gaflfney. He was educated 
 at Clongovves Wood College and the Royal 
 University of Ireland. He became active in 
 all the patriotic efforts of his time in sup- 
 port of Irish nationality, and was especially 
 identified with the movement under the 
 leadership of the late Charles Stewart Par- 
 nell. In 1882 he came to the United States 
 and studied for the New York Bar, to which 
 he was admitted and, subsequently, became 
 a strong advocate of the principles of the 
 Republican party. He was secretary of the 
 McKinley League of the State of New Yoi'k 
 in the campaign of 1896. He has been a 
 frequent contributor to magazines and news- 
 papers on national and international sub- 
 jects. He has been an extensive traveler in 
 European countries and was decorated with 
 the Cross of the Legion of Honor by Presi- 
 dent Loubet in 1902, and the King of the 
 Belgians made him an ollicer o t e Ordei 
 of Leopold the Second in February, 1906. 
 In 1907 he was presented to the German 
 Kaiser. Mr. Gaffney was nominated consul- 
 general to Dresden, Saxony, by President 
 Roosevelt immediately after his election. 
 jNIr. Gaffney is a member of the American 
 Irish Historical Society, the Knights of Co- 
 lumbus, the Republican Club of New York, 
 the Gaelic Society, and the Irish Texts So- 
 
 ciety of i.dllilnii; ;inil lie 1^ :il--n 11 liiiMri lie i' 
 of the Royal Saxon Automobile Club, the 
 Dresden Golf Club, the German Touring 
 C'lub of Munich, and the Touring Club of 
 France. Address: Dresden, Saxony. 
 
 GAGE, Lyman Judson: 
 
 Former secretary of the Treasury; born 
 in DeRuyter, N. Y., June 28, 1836; son of 
 Eli A. and Mary (Judson) Gage. He was 
 educated in the Academy at Rome, N. Y., 
 then became at 14, an employe of the Rome 
 post-office, and later mail agent on the Rome 
 & Watertown Railroad, and eighteen months 
 in the Oneida Central Bank at Rome, N. Y. 
 He went to Chicago at the age of 19, became 
 bookkeeper for a lumber yard and planing 
 mill for three years, and in August, 1858, 
 became bookkeeper with The Merchants' 
 Savings, Loan and Trust Company, of which 
 he later became paying teller, then assistant 
 cashier, and from 1860 to 1868 cashier. In 
 the latter year he became cashier of the 
 First National Bank of Chicago, in which he 
 gained a high reputation as a banker, and 
 in 1882, when the bank secured a new char- 
 ter and was reorganized, Mr. Gage was 
 elected vice-president of the bank. He be- 
 came president of the bank in 1891, and 
 held that office until appointed, in 1897, 
 secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of 
 President McKinley. He resigned that office 
 in 1902 and became president of the United 
 States Trust Company in New York City, 
 from which he resigned in 1906. Since then 
 he has made his home in California. Mr. 
 Gage was elected president of the American 
 Bankers' Association in 1892, and was twice 
 reelected. He was the first president of the 
 Board of Directors of the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition, twice president of the Civic 
 Federation of Chicago, was first president of 
 the Chicago Bankers' Club, and is a trustee 
 of the Carnegie Institution in W^ashington. 
 D. C. He has received the LL.D. degree 
 from Beloit College, 1897, and New York 
 University, 1903 in Washington, D. C. Mr. 
 Gage has been twice married, first, in 1864, 
 Sarah Etheridge of Hastings, Minn., who 
 died in 1874; and second, June 7, 1887, Mrs. 
 Cornelia Washburn Gage, of Denver, Colo. 
 Address: Point Loma, Calif. 
 
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 GAGE, Simon Henry: 
 
 1 listoloiiist . ('ial)iyolo;;is(, and educator; 
 born in Otsego County, N. Y., May 20, 1851; 
 son of Henry Van Tassel and Lucy Ann 
 (Crover) Gage. He was graduated from 
 Cornell, B.S., 1S77 ; was assistant and in- 
 structor in vertebrate Zoology, 1878-1881, 
 assistant professor 1881-1889, associate pro- 
 fessor 1889-1890, and professor of histology 
 and embryology, 189G-1908, in Cornell Uni- 
 versity. In June, 1908, he was retired from 
 teaching at own request for purpose of re- 
 search, was granted a Carnegie allowance 
 for twenty-five years' service and made pro- 
 fessor of histolog\' and embryology, emer- 
 itus, by Cornell University. He is co-editor 
 of the American Journal of Anatomy; and 
 was cliairnian of the Section of Embryol- 
 ogy of the International Congress of Arts 
 and Sciences, St. Louis. 1904. Professor 
 Gage is author of: The Microscope; Origin 
 and Use of the Projection Microscope; Ana- 
 tomical Technology (with Professor Burt G. 
 Wilder) ; also a contributor to scientific 
 journals on comparative histology and em- 
 bryology. He is a fellow and was vice-pres- 
 ident, 1885-1892 and 1899, of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science ; 
 member of the Advisory Board of the Wis- 
 tar Institute for Anatomy and Biology of 
 Philadelphia; member of the American So- 
 ciety of Naturalists, American Society of 
 Zoologists, Association of American Anato- 
 omists, American Microscopical Society 
 (president. 1895-1900), Washington Acad- 
 emy of Sciences, New York State Science 
 Teachers' Association (president 1890) ; a,s- 
 sociate member of the American Medical As- 
 sociation, honorary member of the New 
 York State Veterinary Medical Association; 
 Member of the Delta Upsilon and honorary 
 member of the Omega Upsilon Phi fraterni- 
 ties. He married in Morrisville, N. Y., Dec. 
 15, 1881, Susanna Stewart Phelps, and has 
 a son. Address: 4 South Avenue, Ithaca, 
 N. Y. 
 
 GAGE-DAY, Mary: 
 
 Physician ; born in Worcester, N. Y. ; 
 daughter of Henry van Tassell Gage and 
 Ivucy Ann (Grover) Gage. She was edu- 
 cixted in the village school of her native 
 
 place and in ( luirlotleville, and one year 
 special work at (Cornell University was 
 graduated from the University of Michigan. 
 M.I).. 188S. and afterward took a post-grad- 
 uate course in the New York Post-Graduatc 
 Medical School and Hospital. Dr. Gage- 
 Day was, after graduation, resident physi- 
 cian of the Home for Dependent Children at 
 Coldwater, Mich.; practised six years at 
 Wichita, Kan., and has practised at Kingston, 
 N. Y. since 1897. She is attending gynecolo- 
 gist and secretary of the Benedictine Sani- 
 tarium and Hospital staff of the Ulster 
 County Committee for the Prevention of 
 Tuberculosis; secretary of Ulster County 
 Medical Society; medical gynecologist of 
 the City of Kingston Hospital. Dr. Gage- 
 Day is an occasional contributor to medical 
 journals, the most important being on " The 
 Toxicity of the Loco weed." She is a mem- 
 ber of the American Medical Association, 
 Medical Society of the State of New York. 
 Woman's Medical Society of the State of 
 New York, the National Association for the 
 Prevention of Tuberculosis, American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science, 
 Kingston Library Association, Woman's 
 Auxilliary of the Benedictine Sanitarium; 
 permanent member of the Alumni Associa- 
 tion of the University of Michigan; member 
 of the Woman's Federation of Clubs of 
 Kingston and the Twalfskill Club. She is 
 a member of St. John's Episcopal Church. 
 Address: Kingston, N. Y. 
 
 GAILOJl, Thomas Frank: 
 
 Bishop of Tennessee; born at Jackson, 
 Miss., Sept. 17. 1850; son of Frank M. and 
 Charlotte (MolTett) Gailor. He was grad- 
 lurted from Racine (Wis.) College, B.A., 
 (Greek prize), 1876, M.A., 1879, General 
 Theological Seminary New York City, 
 (Greek prize), S.T.B., 1879, S.T.D., 1893; 
 and he has received the D.D. degree from 
 Trinity College, Hartford, 1892, University 
 of the South, 189:3; S.T.D. Columbia Uni- 
 versity, 1890. He took orders as deacon of 
 the Episcopal Church, 1879, and was or- 
 dained priest in 1880 by Bishop Quintard ; 
 was connected with the Church of the Mes- 
 siah, of Pulaski, Tenn., 1879-1882, and fol- 
 j lowing that became chaplain and professor 
 
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 of occlesiiistieal liislory, in the University of 
 the South. In 1890 ho bccaine vice-chancel- 
 lor and after throe years was elected and 
 consecrated bishop coadjutor of Tennessee, 
 He was made bishop of Tennessee in 1893. 
 Bishop Gailor is author of: ]\Ianual of De- 
 votion ; Sermons ; The Puritan Reaction, 
 1889; The Apostolic Succession, 1890; The 
 Divine Event of All Time, 1892; Things 
 New and Old. 1895; The Master's Word 
 and Church's Act, 1895; The Trust of the 
 Episcopate, 1896. Address: Memphis, 
 Tenn. 
 
 GAINES, Joseph Holt: 
 
 La^vyer and member of Congress; born in 
 the District of Columbia, Sept. 3, 1864; son 
 of Theophilus and Ariadne (Stockton) 
 (xaines. He was taken by his parents to 
 Fayette County, W. Va., in 1867; was edu- 
 cated at the University of West Virginia 
 and Princeton, A.B. from the latter institu- 
 tion in 1886; and was admitted to the bar 
 in Fayette, W. Va. in 1887. He was ap- 
 l)ointed U. S. district attorney for West Vir- 
 ginia by President McKinley, in 1897, and 
 resigned in 1901. Mr. Gaines was elected to 
 the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth 
 and Sixtieth Congresses, and reelected in 
 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress from the 
 Third West Virginia District, as a Republi- 
 can. He married in Charleston, W. Va., 
 Nov. 23, 1898, Marjorie Lewis Gentry. Ad- 
 dress: Charleston, W. Va. 
 
 GALBRAITH, Anna Mary: 
 
 Physician and author; born in Carlisle, 
 Pa. ; daughter of Thompson Moore and 
 Elizabeth (Woods) Galbraith, and great- 
 granddaughter of John Moore, of the Revo- 
 lutionary Army. She was educated in pub- 
 lic schools in Pennsylvania, in Vassar Col- 
 lege. 1875-1879, and the Woman's Medical 
 College of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1884, fol- 
 lowed by two years of post graduate work 
 in Vienna and Munich, and she was the first 
 woman to be admitted as resident physician 
 in the Woman's Hospital of JNIunich. Dr. 
 Galbraith was clinician and assistant on the 
 gynecological staff of the Woman's Hospital 
 of Philadelpliia, 1886-1889, and since 1889 
 has practised medicine in New York City. 
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 She was attending clinician and instructor 
 in clinical medicine in tlie New York Infirm- 
 ary, 1889-1903, and attending physician in 
 the Neurological Department of the New 
 York Orthoptedic Hospital and Dispensary, 
 1889-1908, liaving been the first woman pliy- 
 sician to receive an appointment on the 
 statr of that hospital. Dr. Galbraith is au- 
 tlior of Hygiene and Physical Culture for 
 Woman. 1895; Tlie Four Epochs of Woman's 
 Life, 1901; and many contributions to the 
 medical and general press. Dr. Galbraitli 
 was one of tlie founders and is a member of 
 the New Y'ork bi'anch of the Vassar Stu- 
 dents' Aid Society, and was its president, 
 1892-1893; is a member and was president 
 1897-1899 of the Woman's Medical College 
 of Pennsylvania; member of the New York 
 County Medical Society, New York State 
 jNIedical Association and American Medical 
 Association, and fellow of the New York 
 Academy of Medicine, Address: 15 West 
 91st Street, New York City. 
 
 GALLAGHER, Nicholas Aloysius: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Galveston ; born in 
 Temperanceville, Ohio, Feb. 19, 1846. He 
 received his education in Mount St. Mary's 
 Seminary, from which he was graduated in 
 1868, and on Christmas Day of the same 
 year was ordained to the priesthood. After 
 serving as assistant priest of St. Patrick's 
 Church, in Columbus, Ohio, he became pres- 
 ident of St, Aloysius Seminary in Columbus 
 in 1871, and after five years there returned 
 to St, Patrick's Church as its pastor, 1876- 
 1878. He was administrator of the Diocese 
 of Columbus, 1878-1880; pastor of St. Pat- 
 rick's and vicar-general of tlie Diocese of 
 Columbus. 1880-1882. He was appointed 
 bishop of Canopus and administrator of the 
 Diocese of Galveston, Texas, Jan. 10, 1882, 
 was consecrated to the episcopal otlice April 
 30, 1882, and became bishop of Galveston, 
 Dec. 16, 1892. Address: St. :Mary"s Ca- 
 thedral, Galveston, Texas, 
 
 GAILAUDET, Edward Miner: 
 
 President of Gallaudet College for the 
 Deaf; born in Hartford, Conn., Feb. 5, 
 1837; son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. 
 
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 II.' was graduated from Trinity College, 
 U.S.. 1S5(; and received tlie degree of LL.D. 
 lr..in Trinity. 18G!) and from Yale, 1895, 
 Mild I'li.l). from Columbian (now George 
 W a>liiiii:toii) I'niversity in 1869. He 
 iMiiulit ill Ills fatlier's institution for the 
 Deaf at Hartford, 1850-1857, and then or- 
 ganized tlie Columbia Institution for Deaf 
 and 131ind at \Vashington, of which Gal- 
 hxudet College, founded in 1864 is a de- 
 jiartment; and he is professor of moral 
 and ifolitical .science in that college. Dr. 
 Ciallaudet is president of the Convention of 
 American Instructors of the Deaf, and ap- 
 peared by invitation before the Koyal Com- 
 mission (British) in 1886, in the interest 
 of the deaf-mute education. He is author 
 of: Popular Manual of International Law, 
 and of Life of Thomas Hopkins Gallaud'et. 
 Address : Kendall Green, Washington, D. C. 
 
 GALLINGER, Jacob: 
 
 United States Senator; born on a farm 
 in Cornwall, Ontario, March, 28, 1837; son 
 of Jacob and Catherine (Cook) Gallinger. 
 He was a printer in early life; studied 
 medicine and was graduated with honors 
 in 1858. and followed' the profession of 
 medicine and surgery in the city of his 
 ])resent residence from April, 1862, until he 
 entered Congress. He was a member of the 
 Hou.se of Representatives of New Hamp- 
 sliire, 1872-1873 and 1891; member of the 
 State Constitutional Convention, 1876; of 
 the State Senate in 1878, 1879, and 1880, 
 being president of that body the last two 
 years; was surgeon-general of New Hamp- 
 shire with the rank of brigadier-general in 
 1879-1880; received the honorary degree 
 of A.M. from Dartmouth College in 1885: 
 and is a trustee of George Washington 
 University, Washington, D. C. He was 
 cliairman of the Republican State Commit- 
 tee of New Hampshire, 1882-1890, when he 
 resigned I lie jdace, but was again elected 
 to the position in 1898, reelected in 1900, 
 1902, 1904, and 1906; was chairman of the 
 delegation from his State to the Republican 
 National Convention of 1888, and made a 
 speech .seconding the nomination of Benja- 
 min Harrison. He was also chairman of 
 the New Hampshire delegation to the Re- 
 
 publican National Conventions of 1900, 1904 
 and 1908; was for a time a member of the 
 National Republican Committee; was chair- 
 man of the ]\Ierchant Marine Commission 
 of 1904-1905, composed of five senators and 
 five representatives in Congress, and is vice- 
 chairman of the National Waterways Com- 
 mission, composed of seven senators and five 
 representatives in Congress. He was fleeted 
 to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, 
 and declined nomination to the Fifty- first 
 Congress; was elected United States senator 
 to succeed Henry W. Blair, for the term 
 beginning March 4, 1891 ; and was reelected 
 in 1897 by a unanimous vote of the Republi- 
 can members of the Legislature and the 
 votes of five Democratic members; was 
 again unanimously reelected in 1903 (the 
 first time in the history of the State that 
 anyone had been elected' United States sena- 
 tor for three full terms) ; and was again 
 reelected in 1909 for the term which will 
 expire March 3, 1915. He married in 1860, 
 Mary Anna Bailey, of Salisbury, N. H., who 
 died in Wasliington, D. C, Feb. 2, 1907. 
 Address: Concord, N. H. 
 
 GALLUP, Asa Oran: 
 
 Lawyer, estate manager; born in Alexan- 
 dria, Va., Sept. 24, 1865; son of Asa and 
 Welthy P. (Palmer) Gallup. He was grad- 
 uated from Yale, B.A. with special honors 
 in English. 1888; New York Law School. 
 LL.B., 1903. He was engaged as a tutor 
 in Evansville, Ind., 1888-1889; examiner in 
 science, New York State University (Al- 
 bany-Regent's office), 1889-lSi)0; report 
 clerk of the University of the State of New 
 York, 1890-1891; chief clerk, 1892-1895; 
 deputy secretary, 1893-1895; regent's spec- 
 ial commissioner for greater New York, 
 1895; president and treasurer of the New 
 York preparatory school system ; lecturer on 
 English and political and elementary sci- 
 ence, 1895-1904. He was admitted to the 
 New York bar in October, 1903, and wa3 
 manager of the sales department of the 
 American Real Estate Company, 1902-1904; 
 general manager of the Belle-Terre estate 
 and Belle-Terre Club, Port JefTerson, Long 
 Island, 1906-1907, and has been secretary, 
 treasurer and general manager of the Lake 
 
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 Placid Club since 1900. He was elected 
 the Republican Presidential (Taft) elector, 
 1008 for the 26th Congressional District of 
 New York, vice-president Bank of Lake 
 Placid. Mr. Gallup married at Oneida, N. 
 Y., June 29, 1889, Almira Dewey, and has 
 two children. Address: Lake Placid Club, 
 Essex County. N. Y. 
 
 GALLOWAY, Beverley Thomas: 
 
 Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, 
 U. S. Department of Agriculture; born in 
 Millersburg, Mo., Oct. 16, 1863. He was 
 graduated from the University of Missouri, 
 B.S., 1884, and received from that univer- 
 sity the degree of LL.D., 1902. He was as- 
 sistant in horticulture in the University, 
 1884-1887; assistant pathologist of the U. 
 S. Department of Agriculture, 1887-1888; 
 pathologist and chief of the Division of Veg- 
 etable Pathology and Physiology, 1888-1901; 
 since then chief of the Bureau of Plant In- 
 dustry. Dr. Galloway is a fellow of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science, and was secretary of Section G, 
 1893 and 1895; is a member of the Botani- 
 cal Society of America, and of the Society 
 for Plant Morphology and' Physiology. He 
 is author of numerous papers on botany, 
 plant physiology and pathology to scientific 
 journals and proceedings, and to the publi- 
 cations of the U. S. Department of Agricul- 
 ture. Residence: Takoma Park, D. C. Of- 
 fice: U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 GAMBLE, James: 
 
 Contractor; born in Ballincollig, Ireland, 
 June 22, 1835; son of John ' and Eleanor 
 (Parfit) Gamble. He was educated in a 
 private school and in Christ's Hospital, 
 London, England, familiarly known as the 
 Blue Coat School. Mr. Gamble is presi- 
 dent of the Hames Gamble Contract Com- 
 pany, Public Utilities Company, Patent Pur- 
 chase Company, Goshen (New York), Illum- 
 inating Company, and American Checko- 
 gram Company, and treasurer of the Claren- 
 don Syndicate. His recreation is pedestrian- 
 ism. He married in London in October, 
 1862, Emily Bishop, who died in May, 1892. 
 One child survives, Eleanor Emily. Resi- 
 
 dence: 204 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn. 
 Address: 15 William Street. New York 
 City. 
 
 GAMBLE, Robert Jackson: 
 
 United States senator and lawyer ; born 
 in Akron, N. Y., Feb. 7, 1851; son of Robert 
 and Jennie A. (Abernathy) Gamble. He re- 
 moved to Fox Lake, Wis., in 1862; was 
 graduated from Lawrence University, Apple- 
 ton, Wis., A.B., 1874; and received the de- 
 gree of LL.D. from that institution in June 
 1909. He located at Yankton in 1875, where 
 he has since been engaged in the practice of 
 law; was district attorney for the Second 
 Judicial District of the Territory in 1880; 
 city attorney of Yankton for two terms; 
 State senator in 1885; was elected as a Re- 
 publican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-sixth 
 Congresses, and elected to the United States 
 Senate, Jan. 23, 1901 ; and reelected Jan. 23, 
 1907, for the term expiring March 3, 1913. 
 He is a member of the Cosmos Club of 
 Washington, D. C. He married, March 26, 
 1884, Carrie S. Osborne. They have one son, 
 Ralph A., who is a graduate of Princeton 
 University, of the class of 1909. Address: 
 Yankton, S. Dak. 
 
 GANNETT, Henry: 
 
 Geographer of the United States Geo- 
 logical Survey; born in Bath, Me., Aug. 
 24, 1846; son of M. F. and Hannah T. Gan- 
 nett. He was graduated from the Lawrence 
 Scientific School of Haiward University, 
 B.S., 1869, M.E., from Hooper Mining 
 School, 1870, and he received the degree of 
 LL.D. from Bowdoin College in 1899. He 
 was assistant in Harvard College Observ- 
 atory, 1870-1872; topographer of the Hay- 
 den Survey, 1872-1879, and has been geo- 
 grapher of the U. S. Geological Survey 
 since 1882. Dr. Gannett was geographer 
 of the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Cen- 
 suses, and was detailed as assistant director 
 of the census of the Philippine Islands. He 
 is chairman of the U. S. Board on Geograph- 
 ic Names; was secretary of the Eighth In- 
 ternational Geographic Congress ; is a mem- 
 ber of the American Geographical Society 
 and associate editor of its Bulletin; member 
 of the National Geographic Society, Geo- 
 
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 logical Society of America, and the Royal 
 Scottish Geographical Society. Mr. Gannett 
 is author of: Manual of Topographic Sur- 
 veying; Statistical Athises of the Tenth and 
 Eleventli Censuses; Connnercial Geography; 
 Dictionary of Altitudes; Building of a Na- 
 tion : Tlie United States ; Stanford Compen- 
 dium of Geography; Census of Cuba (part 
 author) ; Census of Porto Rico (part au- 
 thor) ; Census of the Philippine Islands; 
 Gazateers of ]\Iassachusetts, Rhode Island, 
 Connecticut, Xew Jersey, Kansas, Texas. 
 Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, District of 
 Columbia, jNIaryland, and Indian Territory; 
 Magnetic Declination in the United States; 
 also reports on forest conditions in the 
 United States. He was a contributor on 
 geographical topographical and statistical 
 subjects to the Encyclopaedia Brittannica, 
 Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia and the 
 Xew International Encyclopaedia, and other 
 publications. Dr. Gannett i'^ a member of 
 the Cosmos Club of Washington. He mar- 
 ried in Watervillc, Me., Nov. 24, 1874, Mary 
 E. Chase. Residence: 1829 Phelps Place, 
 N. W. Office: U. S. Geological Survey, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 GANNON, Frank S.: 
 
 Railway ollicial ; born in Spring Valley, 
 N. Y., Sept. 16, 1851; son of John and Mary 
 (Clancy) Gannon. He was educated in the 
 public schools of Port Jervis, N. Y. He was 
 a telegraph operator on the Erie Railway, 
 18f)S-1870; clerk, terminal agent and' train 
 dispatcher with the New Jersey Midland 
 Railway, 1870-1875; train dispatcher. 1875 
 and later master of transportation until 
 1881, Long Island Railroad; supervisor of 
 trains Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1881; 
 general supeiinteridont of the New York 
 City and Northern Railroad, 1881-1886; 
 general superintendent, 1886-1894; and gen- 
 eral manager, 1894-1896, Staten Island 
 Rapid Transit Railroad; president of the 
 Staten Island Railway, 1893-1896; general 
 superintendent of tlie New ^'ork Division of 
 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1890-18!)6; 
 third vice-president and general manager of 
 the Soutbern Railway 1890-190.3; vice-presi- 
 dent and director New York City l{ailway, 
 iyu:j-1906; director of the Broadway and 
 
 Seventh Avenue Railroad, Forty-second 
 Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad, 
 Fulton Street Railroad, Metropolitan Secur- 
 ities Company, Thirty-fourth Street Cross- 
 town Railway, Twenty-third Street Railway, 
 president and director of the Norfolk and 
 Southern Railway Company, vice-president 
 and director of J. L. Roper Lumber Com- 
 pany of Norfolk, Va., president and director 
 of the Montana, Wyoming & Southern R. R. 
 Co. Mr. Gannon is also a trustee of the 
 Emigrants' Industrial Savings Bank, New 
 York, and president of the Catholic Club 
 of New York. He married in Jersey City, 
 Sept. 24, 1874, Marietta Burrows. Address: 
 2 Rector Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 GANONG, William Fraiicis: 
 
 Professor of botany; born in St. John, 
 N. B., Feb. 19, 1864; son of James Harvey 
 and Susan Elizabeth (Brittain) Ganong. 
 He was graduated from the University of 
 New Brunswick, A.B., 1884; Harvard Uni- 
 versity, A.B., 1887; and from the University 
 of Munich, Germany, Ph.D., 1894. He was j 
 assistant and instructor in botany in Har- \ 
 vard University, 1887-1903, and has been 
 professor of botany in Smith College, North- 
 ampton, Mass., since 1904. Mr. Ganong is 
 author of books and papers on botany (es- 
 jiecially upon plant morphology and ecol- 
 ogy), and upon natural history, etc., of 
 the Province of New Brunswick. He is a 
 fellow of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science; member of the 
 Botanical Society of America; correspond- 
 ing member of the Royal Society of Canada, 
 and of other scientific societies. He mar- 
 ried in Boston, /\pril 4, 1888, Jean Murray 
 Carman. Residence: 11 ]\Iassasoit Street. 
 Office: Smith College, Northampton, Mass. 
 
 GANSE, Franklin W.: 
 
 Life insurance underwriter; born in New 
 York City, May 31, 1859; son of Rev. Her- 
 vey D. and Emma E. (Wile) Ganse. He 
 was educated in New York public schools, 
 St. Louis (Mo.) High School and the St. 
 Louis Law School. He practised law in 
 Chicago, 1888-1903, then became Chicago 
 niuuager and later supervisor for the Cen- 
 
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 tral Department of The Columbian National 
 Life Insurance Company, and was elected 
 vice-president and director of agencies of 
 the same company in 1905, when he removed 
 to Boston. Mr. Ganse is a member of the 
 Life LTnderwriters' Associations of Boston 
 and Chicago, a director of the Newton 
 Young Men's Christian Association and a 
 member of the Brae Burn Country Club of 
 West Newton, the Hamilton and Union 
 League Clubs of Chicago and the Phi Delta 
 Phi fraternity. He has done much cam- 
 paign speaking for the Republican party, 
 but has never been a candidate for office. 
 He married in Chicago, April 22, 1891, Hel- 
 en Seymour Woodbridge and they have four 
 daughters: Elizabeth, Helen W., Mary F. 
 and Katharine V. Residence: 90 Waban 
 Park, Newton, Mass. Office: 176 Federal 
 Street, Boston. 
 
 GARDAM, William: 
 
 Clergyiiiau ; born in Clitheroe, England 
 Oct. 18, 1851 ; son of James Briggs and 
 Ellen (Hothersall) Gardam. He was edu- 
 cated in the schools of his native town. 
 Headingly College. Engl;\nd, 187^-1875. 
 Lincoln Theological College, 1875-1877, Lon- 
 don University. 1875, and received the de- 
 gree of B.D. from Seabury College, Minn., 
 1895. He was ordained priest in Lincoln 
 Cathedral, England, by Bishop Wordsworth : 
 was minister for two years in Bourne Abbey 
 Church, Lincolnshire, England, and has la- 
 bored in the United States from 1880. He 
 was dean of the Cathedral of Our Mercifiil 
 Saviour, at Farribault, Minn., 1887-1896. 
 Mr. Gardam is a member of the Standing 
 Committee of the Diocese of Michigan, and 
 examining chaplain. Since 1896 he has been 
 rector of St. Luke's, at Ypsilanti, Mich. 
 He is secretary of the standing committee 
 and a deputy to the General Conventio.i. 
 He is a contribytor to various magazini'- 
 including the Church Eclectic of New York, 
 and was for some time editorial writer on 
 the New York Churchman and writer of 
 many biographical and other sketches. He 
 has traveled extensively in Europe and 
 America. Mr. Graham married at Mil- 
 waukee, Wis., Dec. 27, 1881, Mary Chase, 
 great-granddaughter of Rt. Rev. Philander 
 
 Chase, First Bisliop of Ohio and Illinois. 
 Address: Y^psilanti. IMich. 
 
 GARDENER, Cornelius: 
 
 Colonel of U. S. Army ; born in the Neth- 
 erlands, Sept. 4, 1849; son of Rev. Wynand 
 and Barendina (Visser) Gardener. He was 
 graduated from Hope College, Holland, 
 Mich., as A.B., then entered the United 
 States Military Academy, from which he 
 was graduated in 1873, and' commissioned 
 second lieutenant U. S. Armj% and passed 
 through all intermediate grades of the Reg- 
 ular Army until commissioned colonel of the 
 16th Infantry Regiment, Dee. 26, 1905. He 
 served in Indian wars on the Plains, 1874- 
 1881; commanded the 31st Michigan Volun- 
 teers during the war with Spain, at Chica- 
 mauga and in Cuba, 1898. commanded the 
 30th U. S. Volunteer Regiment in the Philip- 
 pine Islands, 1899-1900, in the Philippine in- 
 surrection, and was governor of the Pro- 
 vince of Tabayas, Philippine Islands, 1901- 
 1902. Colonel Gardener is a member of the 
 Order of Indian Wars, the National Geo- 
 graphic Society, the Wittenagemote, Yonde- 
 tega and Detroit Clubs of Detroit, and the 
 Omaha Club of Omaha. Colonel Gardner 
 has been twice married, and was married 
 to his present wife who was Miss Bessie 
 Patton, in Manila, P. I., in 1901. He has 
 two sons and three daughters. Address: 
 Fort Crook, Neb. 
 
 GARDINER, Asa Bird: 
 
 Lawyer and lieutenant-colonel, U. S. 
 Army, retired; born in New Y'ork City, 
 Sept. 30, 1839; son of Asa and Rebekah 
 Willard Bentley Gardiner. He was gradu- 
 ated from the "^College of the City of New 
 York, A.B., 1859, A.M., 1862, Dartmouth 
 College, A.M., 1864; Columbia University, 
 A.M., 1869, and received the degree of LL.D. 
 from New Y'ork University, 1875, and L.H, 
 D. from Hobart College. 1896. He entered 
 the U. S. Army as lieutenant, May, 1861; 
 brevetted captain for gallant and meritori- 
 ous services; professor of law at the U. S. 
 Military Academy, West Point. 1874-1878. 
 President of the Rhode Island State Society 
 of the Cincinnati since 1899; secretary gen- 
 
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 eral of the Society of the Cincinnati since 
 1884; in a member of the iMilitary Order 
 of the Loyal Legion; member and incorpo- 
 rator of the U. S. Military Service Institu- 
 tion; one of the founders and incorporators 
 Oi the Sons of the Revolution; comm:ind;»nt 
 Veteran Corps of Artillery, State of New 
 York; member of Beta chapter Phi Beta 
 Kappa, Nu Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsi- 
 lon; deputy to the Long Island Diocesan 
 Convention of the Episcopal Cnurch; mem- 
 ber of the Standing Commission on Archives 
 of the General Convention of the Episcopal 
 Church. He received the Medal of Honor 
 of Congiess for most distinguished conduct 
 in action. He served as district attorney of 
 New York County, 18'J7-1<JU0. Colonel 
 Gardiner is a member of the Union Metro- 
 politan, West Point, Manhattan and Church 
 Clubs, of the New England Historic Geneal- 
 ogical Society and of many State Historical 
 Societies. He married first, Oct. 18, 1865, 
 Mary Austen of Baltimore County, Md., 
 (died in 1900) ; and married, second, Har- 
 riet Isabella Lindsaj'-Fitzpatrick, Nov. 5, 
 1902. Address: 24 Stone Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 GARDNER, Augustus Peabody: 
 
 Congressman ; born in Boston, Nov. 5, 
 1865; son of Joseph Peabody and Harriet 
 (Amory) Gardner. He was graduated from 
 Harvard, A.B.," 1886. He was a member of 
 the Massachusetts State Senate for two 
 terms; served as captain and assistant 
 adjutant-general on the staff of Gen. James 
 11. Wilson during the Spanish-American 
 war; was elected as a Republican to the 
 Fifty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy 
 caused by the resignation of the Hon. W. H. 
 Moody to become secretary of tiie Navy in 
 the cabinet of President Roosevelt, and to 
 the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth 
 Congresses, and reelected in 1908 to the 
 Sixty-first Congress- from the Sixth Massa- 
 chusetts District. He married, June 14, 
 1892, Constance Lodge. Residence: Hamil- 
 ton, Mass. Office: 22 Congress Street, Bos- 
 ton. 
 
 GARDNER, John J.: 
 
 Congressman; born in Atlantic County, 
 N. J., in 1845. He servrd in a New Jersey 
 
 Regiment in the Civil War, and afterward 
 in the U. S. Vetei'an Volunteers to the end 
 of tlie war. He engaged in farming in his 
 native county, in which he became active in 
 ])oIitics as a Republican. He served as al- 
 derman, councilman and for seven times as 
 mayor of Atlantic City, and was for fifteen 
 years a member of tlie New Jersey Senate 
 prior to his election to the Fifty-third Con- 
 gress, his fii'st term beginning in March, 
 1893. He has since been biennially reelect- 
 ed, and is now serving in the Sixty-first 
 Congress from the Second New Jersey Dis- 
 trict. Address: Atlantic City, N. J. 
 
 GARDNER, ■Washington: 
 
 Congressman; born in Morrow County. 
 Ohio. Feb. 16, 1845; son of John L. and 
 Sarah (Goodin) Gardner. When sixteen 
 years of age he entered the Union Army, 
 serving in the 65th Ohio Volunteer Infantry 
 from October, 1861, to December, 1865. He 
 was severely wounded in action at Resaca, 
 Ga. He was graduated from the Oliio W^es- 
 leyan University, A.B., 1870; studied in the 
 school of theology, Boston University, 1870- 
 1871; was graduated from the Albany Law 
 School,* 1876; practised law one year in 
 Grand Rapids, Mich., and then entered the 
 ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 in which he served twelve years. He was 
 commander of the Department of Michigan 
 of the Grand Army of the Republic, 1888; 
 was made professor in and' public lecturer 
 for Albion College, 1889; and was appointed 
 by Governor John T. Rich, secretary of 
 State, in March, 1894, to fill out an unex- 
 pired term, and was subsequently twice nom- 
 inated by acclamation and elected to suc- 
 ceed himself. He was elected in November, 
 1898, as a Republican, to the Fifty-sixth 
 Congress, and has since been biennially re- 
 elected and is now serving in the Sixty-first 
 Congress from the Third JNlichigan District. 
 Address: Albion, Mich. * 
 
 GARFIELD, Harry Augustus: 
 
 President ol' Williams College from 1908; 
 born ill lliraiii. I'ortage County, Ohio, 
 Ocl. II. isi;;): >()ii of President .lame-, 
 A. and Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield. He 
 was graduated from Williams College in 
 
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 1885; also studied one year at the Columbia 
 Law School in New York City. He engaged 
 in the practice of law in Cleveland, Ohio, 
 lS8S-lil04; professor of politics, Princeton 
 University. 1!)()4-1!)08. :\lr. Garfield wa.-> 
 vice-president and trustee of the Cleveland 
 Trust (oniiiany: was president of the 
 Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. 1898-1899; 
 was an organizer and was i)resident, 1896- 
 1904, of the Municipal Association of Cleve- 
 land ; cliairman of the Special Committee of 
 the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce on re- 
 organization of the United States Consular 
 Service, 1899-1907. He is a member of the 
 American Historical Society, the American 
 Economic Association and the National Mu- 
 nicipal League. He married' at Mentor, 
 Ohio, June 14, 1888, Belle Hartford Ma- 
 son. Address: Williamstown. Mass. 
 
 GARLAND, Hamlin: 
 
 Novelist, lecturer; born in West Salem, 
 Wis., Sept. 16, 1860; son of Richard Hayes 
 and Isabel (McClintock) Garland. He was 
 educated in Cedar Valley Seminary, Osage, 
 Iowa, and at Boston; taught school in Illi- 
 nois, 1882-1883; took up a claim in McPher- 
 son County, Dakota, 1883; went to Boston 
 in 1884; began to write stories, 1887; 
 and went to the Klondike by trail in 
 1898. ]\Ir. Garland has traveled extensive- 
 ly in America from Alaska to Central Amer- 
 ica; and spends several months trailing in 
 the Rocky Mountains every summer. He is 
 the president of the Cliff Dwellers of Chica- 
 go, a literary and artists club of which he 
 was the originator. He is author of: Main 
 Traveled Roads, 1890; Jason Edwards, 1891; 
 A Little Norsk, 1891; Prairie Folks, 1892; 
 A Spoil of Omce, 1892; A Member of the 
 Third House, 1892; Crumbling Idols (es- 
 says), 1893; Rose of Dutcher's Cooly, 1895; 
 Wayside Courtships, 1897; Ulysses Grant 
 (biography), 1898; Prairie Songs, 1894; The 
 Spirit of"^ Sweetwater, 1898; The Eagle's 
 Heart, 1900; Her Mountain Lover, 1901; 
 The Captain of The Gray Horse Troop, 
 1902; Hesper, 1903; Light of the Star, 
 1904; The Tyranny of the Dark, 1905; 
 Money Magic, 1907 ; The Shadow World, a 
 study of spiritualistic phenomena, 1908. 
 He married in Hanover, Kansas, Nov. 18, 
 
 1899, Zulime Taft, and has two daughters. 
 He has a summer home at his birth]dace. 
 Address: 6427 Greenwood Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 GARNER, James Wilford: 
 
 Professor of jiolitical sciencf ; l)i)ni in 
 Pike County, Miss., Nov. 22, 1871. He was 
 graduated from the Mississippi Agricultur- 
 al and Mechanical College, B.S.. 1892; the 
 University of Cliicago, Ph.M., 1900; and' re- 
 ceived the Ph.D. degree from Columbia Uni- 
 versity, 1903. He was lecturer in history un- 
 til 1903, when he become instructor in polit- 
 ical science at the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, and since September, 1904, has been 
 professor of political science at the Univer- 
 sity of Illinois. He is the author of: Re- 
 construction in Mississippi, 1901 ; History 
 of the United States in 5 vols, (jointly with 
 Senator Henry Cabot Lodge), 1906; and is 
 also the author of about three hundred es- 
 says, articles, reviews, etc., on history and 
 political science. Professor Garner is as- 
 sociate editor of the American Political Sci- 
 ence Review, and American collaborator for 
 the French Revue Politique et Parlemeu- 
 taire. He is a member of the American Po- 
 litical Science Association, the American So- 
 ciety of International Law, the American 
 Academy of Political and Social Science, 
 and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He mar- 
 ried in INIississippi, Dec. 24, 1895, Therese 
 Leggett. Address: Urbana, 111. 
 
 GARNER, John Nance: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Red 
 River County, Texas, Nov. 22, 1869. He 
 was admitted to the bar in December, 1890, 
 and served two terms in the Texas House of 
 Representatives. He was elected from the 
 15th Texas District to the Fifty-eighth Con- 
 gress, and was reelected to the Fifty-ninth, 
 Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses. Mr. 
 Garner was a delegate to the National Dem- 
 ocratic Conventions in Kansas City in 1900 
 and in St. Louis in 1904. He married, Nov. 
 25, 1895, Ettie Rheiner. Address: Uvalde, 
 I'exas. 
 GARRETSON, Garret James: 
 
 Jurist; born in Newton, N. Y., in 1847. 
 He was educated at private schools and the 
 
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 Flushing' (L. I.) Institute in New York. 
 He was admitted to the New York bar. 
 1869; served as school commissioner of 
 Queens County. N. Y.. 187.3-1875; surro- 
 gate, 1880. and county judfje of Queens 
 County, 1880-1890; member of the Greater 
 New York Charter Commission, 1896. He 
 was elected in 1896 justice of the Supreme 
 Court of the State of New York for the 
 term expirino- Dec. ;U, 1910. He married 
 first, at Roslyn, N. Y., 1876, Eliza L. East- 
 man (died 1888) by whom he has two 
 daughters and a son and he married, sec- 
 ond, in Brooklyn. 1897, Sara ^Vilson. Ad- 
 dress: Elmhurst, N. Y. 
 
 GARRETT, Alexander Charles: 
 
 IJishop of Dallas; born at Ballymot, 
 County Sligo, Ireland, Nov. 4, 1832; son of 
 Rev. John and Elizabeth (Fry) Garrett. 
 He was graduated from Trinity College, 
 Dublin, Ireland, with the degree of B.A., 
 1855, and received from his alma mater 
 the degree of D.D. in 1882, and that of LL. 
 D., from the University of Mississippi in 
 1876. He was ordered deacon in the Church 
 of England by the Bishop of Winchester in 
 1850 and was ordained to the priesthood by 
 the same bishop in 1857; was curate of East 
 Warldham, Hants, 1856-1859, and following 
 that he became missionary in the British 
 Colonies, holding the office for ten years. 
 He was rector of St. James' Church, San 
 Francisco, 1870-1872, and dean of Trinity 
 Cathedral, Omaha, Neb., 1872-1874. He was 
 made bishop of Dallas, Texas, in 1874, and 
 was consecrated by Bishops Clarkson, Tut- 
 tle. Hare and Spalding. Bishop Garrett is 
 author of: Historical Continuity, 1875; 
 The Eternal Sacrifice, and other Sermons, 
 1881; Baldwin Lectures on the Philosophy 
 of the Incarnation, 1891, and occasional 
 sermons and addresses. Address: Dallas, 
 Te.\as. 
 
 GARRETT, Finis James: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born mar Ore 
 Springs, Weakley County, Tenn., Aug. 26, 
 1875; son of Noah J. and Virginia (Baugh- 
 mau) Garrett. He was graduated from 
 Bethel College, McKenzie, Tenn., A.B., 1897. 
 
 He was for a time engaged in teaching in 
 the city schools of Milan, Tenn.; studied 
 law under the instructions and in the office 
 of the late Charles M. Ewing, at Dresden, 
 Tenn.. and was admitted to the bar in 1899, 
 practising at Dresden ever since. He was 
 appointed master in chancery Sept. 1, 1900, 
 and served until Jan. 24, 1905. He was 
 elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress at the 
 regular election in 1904, and reelected in 
 1900 to the Sixtieth Congress and in 1908 
 from the Ninth Tennessee District. He mar- 
 ried in 1901. Elizabeth Harris Burns, of Mc- 
 Kenzie, Tenn. Address: Dresden, Tenn. 
 
 GARRIGAN, Philip Joseph: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Sioux City; born in 
 Ireland'; son of Philip and Alice Garrigan. 
 He was educated in the public schools of 
 Massachusetts and St. Charles College, 
 Maryland, afterward making philological 
 and theological studies in St. Joseph's Pro- 
 vincial Seminary, Troy, N. Y. He was or- 
 dained priest, July ^1, 1870; director of the 
 Troy Seminary, 1872-1875; pastor of St. 
 Bernard's Church. Fitehburg, Mass., 1875- 
 1888. then became vice-rector of the Catho- 
 lic University of Washington, until he was 
 consecrated. May 25, 1902, first bishop of 
 the new diocese of Sioux City. Address: 
 Sioux City, Iowa. 
 
 6ARVEY, Eugene A.: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Altoona ; born in Car- 
 bondale, Pa., Oct. 6, 1845; son of Michael 
 and Catherine (Boylan) Garvey. He was 
 educated in schools of Dunmore, Pa., the 
 Scranton (Pa.) High School, St. Charles 
 College, Ellicott City, Md., and was gradu- 
 ated from St. Charles Seminary, Philadel- 
 |)hia. and ordained to the priesthood in 1870. 
 He was assistant pastor at Hawley, I'a., 
 1870; pastor at Athens, Pa., 1871, at Wil- 
 liamsport. Pa., 1871-1899, and at Pittston, 
 Pa., from 1899 until consecrated Sept. 8, 
 1901. bishop of Altoona. Address: Al- 
 toona. Pa. 
 
 GARY, Elbert Henry: 
 
 (Chairman of the Board of Directors and 
 chairman of the Finance Committee of the 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 United States Steel Corporation ; born in 
 Wheaton, 111., Oct. 8, 184(j; son of Erastus 
 and Susan (Vallotte) Gary. He was edu- 
 cated in the Wheaton public schools, Wheat- 
 on College, and the Law Department of Chi- 
 cago University, LL.B., 1867; and he re- 
 ceived the degree of LL.D. from McKendree 
 College, Illinois, 1906. His boyhood was 
 spent on the paternal farm, and after at- 
 ending college he taught school two winters, 
 "id studied law in the office of H. F. Va- 
 I'itte, his imcle, who was practising in Na- 
 perville, 111. When he was graduated from 
 the law school he was employed with the 
 clerk of the courts in Cook County for three 
 and a half years, but gave that up to prac- 
 tise law, entering his uncle's Chicago office. 
 Wlien Chicago's great fire came he was 
 away from home, but a clerk saved his per- 
 sonal library. The day after the fire he 
 rented a room and started for himself in 
 Chicago, where he practised for twenty-five 
 years ; and he was elected president of the 
 Chicago Bar Association in 1893. He also 
 ])ractised in Wheaton, 25 miles west of Chi- 
 cago, where he held the office of county judge 
 of DuPage County for two terms. He 
 was also president of the village of Wheaton 
 for three terms, and after its incorporation 
 was its first mayor, holding the office for 
 two terms. He organized the Gary-Wheaton 
 Bank in 1874, and has been its president 
 ever since. His Chicago practice became a 
 very large one, he had retainers from many 
 of the largest transportation, industrial and 
 business enterprises in Chicago. His con- 
 nection with corporations led him to dis- 
 cern possibilities which had not then been 
 realized in the direction of the consolidation 
 of manufacturing interests. Among his 
 clients was John W. Gates, who was head 
 of a wire company. Judge Gary thought it 
 would be advantageous to unite several wire 
 companies. He undertook the work, and' in 
 1891 organized the Consolidated Steel and 
 Wire Company, Capital $4,000,000, of which 
 he was a director and Mr. Gates president. 
 More mills were added seven years later, 
 and the enlarged business was incorporated 
 as the American Steel and Wire Company. 
 Tlie Illinois Steel Company was another 
 large concern in which John W. Gates was 
 
 president and Judge Gary a director, and a 
 suggestion being made that the Company 
 should buy a railroad to connect its plants 
 Judge Gary proposed a much larger combi- 
 nation which should include mills, mines, 
 railways, steamship lines, and coke plants. 
 Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan became interested, 
 and other large capitalists and a committee 
 was appointed, of whom only Judge Gary 
 and Robert Bacon of J. P. Morgan &, Co. 
 actually served, and the Federal Steel Com- 
 pany was organized in 1898 with a capital 
 of $200,000,000 of which Judge Gary became 
 president. Three years later when this great 
 corporation was united with the Carnegie 
 Steel Company and other great corporations 
 in the United States Steel Corporation, 
 Judge Gar}^ became head of the Executive 
 Committee, and later took his present place 
 as chairman of the Board of Directors and 
 of the Finance Committee. The charter of 
 the corporation was drawn by Judge Gary, 
 and its plan of government devised by him. 
 Under this plan the chairman of the Boai'd 
 of Directors is the head of the corporation. 
 Besides this office, Judge Gary is a director 
 in about forty of the 213 subsidiary corpora- 
 tions. As a mark of esteem for his services 
 the United States Steel Corporation has 
 named its made-to-order city now approach- 
 ing completion in Indiana. Gary. Judge 
 Gary's policy for the corporation has made 
 its competitors friendly, his idea being to 
 harmonize interests, and his occasional din- 
 ners to the representatives of the steel trade 
 both inside and outside of the corporation 
 have contributed much to the peace of the 
 steel interests. He is also persona grata 
 with the steel magnates of Great Britain 
 and the European continent, who have de- 
 lighted to honor him publicly and his visits 
 abroad. Outside of steel activities Judge 
 Gary, has worked for unitj^ of business in- 
 tersts in other prominent ways, notably by 
 bringing together the previously conllicting 
 and hostile interests now united in the In- 
 ternational Harvester Company. He is a 
 director in that company and in several 
 banking and railroad corporations, besides 
 the subsidiaries of the Steel Corporation. 
 His home town of Wheaton has benefited 
 
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 jiuich by his bpnifiopnco. He erected there 
 in 1001. to the memory of his parents the 
 finest memorial ehurch in America and has 
 recently completed a $100,000 mausoleum 
 over their irraves. He is a member of the 
 New York Yacht. Lawyers, and IMetropoli- 
 tan Clubs of New York and the Union 
 Leijrue Club of Chicago; is president of 
 the .\ntoinobile Club of America, and mem- 
 \h'v of tlie Automobile Clubs of Great Brit- 
 ain and Ireland. France and Germany. He 
 is a connoisseur in art and the owner of a 
 mafjnificent collection. .Tudfre Gary ha.s 
 been twice married, first June 23, 1869. to 
 Julia Graves of Aurora. 111., who died June 
 11, 1902. and by whom he has two married 
 daurjhters. He ajjain married. Dec. 2, 1905, 
 in New York City, Mrs. Emma T. Scott. 
 Residence: The Waldorf-Astoria. Office: 
 71 l?roadway. New York City. 
 
 GARY, Hampson: 
 
 Lawyer: born in Tyler, Texas, April 23, 
 1873; son of Franklin Newman and Martha 
 Isabella (Boren) Gary. His father was an 
 able lawyer and an officer in the Confed- 
 erate Army, and his grandfather, Hampson 
 Bioxen. was a lieutenant in the Army of 
 the Republic of Texas. Mr. Gary was grad- 
 uated from the Bingham School in the class 
 of 1890 and fron\ the L^niversity of Vir- 
 ginia in 1894. He was admitted to the 
 Texas bar in Oct., 1894. and began the prac- 
 tice of law in Tyler. He has been success- 
 ful, especially in corporation, property, 
 banking and land matters. Mr. Gary's 
 business capacity has been recognized by 
 several financial concerns which have made 
 him a director, and he is vice-president 
 and director of the Royall National Bank 
 of Tyler, Texas. He was captain of the 
 4th Texas Regiment, U. S. Volunteers in 
 the Spanish- American War; is lieutenant- 
 colonel of the 3d Infantry, Texas National 
 Guard, and was aide-de-camp on staff of 
 the governor of Texas, 1905-1907. He was 
 representative for the counties of Smith, 
 L'psluir and Camp in the Texas Legislature, 
 1901-1902: d'eiegate to the State Democratic 
 Conventions, 1904 and 1900. and to the 
 Democratic National Convention. 1908; was 
 nominated presidential elector for the State 
 
 at large. 1908, but declined, and was ap- 
 pointed a regent of the University of Texas 
 by Governor Campbell in Jan., 1909. Mr. . 
 
 Gary was a trustee of the Tyler Public Li- I 
 brary, 1904-1905. He married in Palestine. ' 
 
 Texas. Dec. 18, 1901. Bessie, daughter of 
 the late N. R. Royall, and they have a 
 son and daughter. Residence: 407 South 
 Broad Avenue. Office: 217 West Ferguson 
 Street, Tyler, Texas. 
 
 GASTON, William Alexander: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Roxbury, Mass., May 
 1, 1859; son of William and Louisa Au- 
 gusta (Beecher) Gaston. He was grad- 
 uated from Roxbury Latin School, 1876, 
 Harvard A.B., 1880, and was a student 
 in Harvard Law School, 1881-1882. He was 
 admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and 
 has been engaged in practice in Boston 
 ever since. He has taken an active part 
 in politics as a Democrat, was colonel on 
 the staff of Governor William E. Russell 
 of ^Massachusetts, 1900-1902; Democratic 
 candidate for governor of Massachusetts, 
 1902 and 1903; delegate-at-large from Mas- 
 sachusetts to the National Democratic Con- 
 vention in St. Louis, 1904, and was the 
 nominee of the Democratic members of the 
 Massachusetts Legislature for U. S. senator 
 in 1905, and has served on the National 
 and State Democratic Committees. Mr. 
 Gaston is president of the Boston Real 
 Estate Exchange, president of the National 
 Shawmut Bank and the Commonwealth 
 Trust Company; director of the National 
 Rockland Bank. Columbian National Life 
 Insurance Company, Eastern Audit Com- 
 pany, E. Howard Clock Company, Fore 
 River Ship and Engine Company, and is 
 trustee of the Roxbury Institution for Sav- 
 ings and the Forest Hill Cemetery. Colonel 
 (iaston is a member of the Board of Over- 
 seeis of Harvard College, a member of the 
 Roxbury Military Association, the Boslon- 
 ian Society, Massachusetts Horticultural 
 Society, the Somerset, University, Algon- 
 quin, Democratic. Curtis, Tennis and 
 Racquet and Country Clubs of Boston, and 
 tiie Manhattan and Harvard Clubs of New 
 York City. He married in Boston, April 
 9, 1892, Mary Davidson Lockwood. Resi- 
 
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 donee: 07 Bay State PvOiul. Office: 40 
 Water Street. Boston. , 
 
 Gi^TES. Eleanor (Mrs. Richard Walton 
 Tully) : 
 
 Author; born in Sliakopee, Minn., Sept. 
 20, 1875; diuiglitcr of William Cummings 
 and Margaret Ann (Archer) Gates. She 
 was educated in the public schools of Da- 
 kota and California, one year in Stanford 
 University, and also two years in the Uni- 
 versity of California, where she held n 
 Phcebe A. Hearst scholarship while on staff 
 newspaper work in San Francisco. She 
 taught scliool four terms; was on the staffs 
 of the Examiner, Chronicle, and Call in 
 San Francisco, and the Enquirer in Oak- 
 land. Calif. ^Yhile in the University she 
 was elected a member of the Prytanean 
 Honor Society, which membership she still 
 Iiolds, and w^as actively identified with the 
 student publication work in the University 
 of California. She began professional writ- 
 ing in the fall of 1901, her first work being 
 accepted by the Century Magazine. She is 
 author of: The Biography of a Prairie 
 Girl; The Plow Woman; Good-Night; 
 Cupid, the Cow-Punch; also short stories 
 or serials in Scribner's, The Century and 
 the Book-Lovers' magazines and the Sat- 
 urday Evening Post ( Philadelphia ) . She is 
 a member of the Pacific Coast Woman's 
 Press Association and the National Cali- 
 fornia Club. She married in Merced, Calif., 
 Jan. 26, 1901. Richard Walton Tully, the 
 playwright, but still uses her maiden name 
 as a pen-name. She is a direct descendant 
 of the Sir Thomas Gates to Avhom a very 
 large part of what is now Virginia was 
 granted by the English Crown, and' she is 
 also a direct descendant of Edmund Raw- 
 son and Richard Dana. Tlie family has 
 been distinguished for military service 
 throughout the history of the United States, 
 beginning at the battle of Lexington. Resi- 
 dence: El Rancho de las Rosas, Alma, 
 Santa Clara County, Calif. 
 
 GATES, Frederick Taylor: 
 
 Chairman of the General Education 
 Board; born in Maine, Broome County, N. 
 Y., July 2, 1853 ; son of Rev. Grenville and 
 
 Sarah J. (Bowers) Gates. He was grad- 
 uated from the University of Rochester, 
 A.B., 1877, A.M., 1870, with Phi Beta 
 Kappa honors, and from Rochester Theo- 
 'o'ic'l !"i'min:'rv. 188''. Vo ws ordain 'd in 
 the ministry of the Baptist Church, becom- 
 ing pastor of the Central Baptist Church 
 of Minneapolis, 1880-1888; corresponding 
 secretary of the American Baptist Educa- 
 tion Society, 1888-1893; and as such estab- 
 lished the University of Chicago. Since 
 1893 he has been business and benevolent 
 manager for John D. Rockefeller. Mr. 
 Gates is chairman of the General Education 
 Board, trustee of the University of Chicago, 
 ■ind a director of various corporations. He 
 married in Racine, W"is., 1886. Emma L. 
 Cahoone. Residence: 66 Mountain Avenue, 
 Montclair, N. J. Office: 26 Broadway, 
 New York City. 
 
 GATES, John Warne: 
 
 Capitalist ; born on a farm in DuPage 
 County, 111., near Turner Junction (now 
 West Chicago), 111., 1855; son of Asel A. 
 and Maiy Gates. He was educMted in the 
 district schools of Kane and DuPage coun- 
 ties, 111., and began business life as pro- 
 prietor of a small hardware store at Turner 
 Junction, 111., and later at Wheaton, 111., 
 became traveling salesman for Isaac L. 
 Ell wood, of the Ell wood Barbed Wire 
 Works, DeKalb, 111. ; introduced barbed wire 
 in Texas, and later established himself as 
 a barbed wire manufacturer at St. Louis. 
 Mr. Gates organized the Southern Wire 
 Company, 1880, and afterward the Brad- 
 dock (Pa.) Wire Company, which he com- 
 bined with other wire factories, in 1892, 
 as the Consolidated Steel and Wire Com- 
 pany, which sold to the Federal Steel 
 Company, in 1898. He organized, in 1897, 
 the American Steel and Wire Company, 
 which is now a subsidiary company of the 
 United States Steel Corporation; and has 
 been identified with many large operations 
 in railway and industrial stocks. Of 
 recent years, i\Ir. Gates has been one of the 
 most prominent figures on the American 
 Turf, and one of the boldest and' most 
 successful speculators on Wall Street; not- 
 ably the coup by which he secured control 
 
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 of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. 
 He was active in Illinois politics as a Re- 
 publican, and was colonel on the staff of 
 Governor John R. Tanner, of Illinois, 1807- 
 inOO. He is a director of the Baltimore 
 and Ohio Railroad Company, the Western 
 ilarjiand Railway Company, Tennessee 
 Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, Na- 
 tional Bank of North America, American 
 Salt Company, New York Hippodrome, Re- 
 public Iron and Steel Company of New 
 Jersey, and the United States Realty and 
 Improvement Company. Mr. Gates married 
 at St. Charles, 111., Feb. 25, 1874, Dellora 
 R. Baker, and has one son, Charles G. Gates. 
 Address: 18 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 GATES, Merrill Edwards: 
 
 Secretary of the United States Board of 
 Indian Commissioners; born in Warsaw, 
 N. Y., April 6, 1848; son of Hon. Seth M. 
 and Fanny Jeanette (Parsons) Gates. He 
 was graduated from the University of 
 Rochester, A.B., 1870, A.M., 1873, and has 
 received the degrees of Ph.D. from the 
 University of the State of New York, 1880, 
 LL.D. from Princeton and Rochester, 1882, 
 Columbia, .1891, Williams, 1893; and the 
 degree of L.H.D. from Columbia in 1887. 
 He was principal of the famous Albany 
 Boys' Academy from 1870 to 1882, when he 
 became president of Rutgers College, in 
 1882. In 1890 was chosen president of Am- 
 herst College, serving until 1899. In that 
 year he resigned to become the secretary of 
 the Board of Indian Commissioners, of which 
 he had been a member since 1884, and was 
 chairman, 1890-1899. The advancement of 
 the Indians of the United States in educa- 
 tion, Christianity and civilization, and their 
 protection against the evils and dangers 
 of transition from savagery to citizenship 
 has commanded the active interest and has 
 been greatly helped by the services of Dr. 
 Gates, who is one of the authorities on 
 Indian affairs in this country. He was 
 president of the American Missionary As- 
 sociation, 1892-1898; eight years president 
 of the Lake Mohonk Indian Conference; 
 was long a member of the Internationa] 
 Committee of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association; is a vice-president of the 
 
 American Bible Society, and of the Amer- 
 ican Tract Society; member of the American 
 Philosophical Society, the American His- 
 torical Association, the American Social 
 Science Association, the Centuiy Club of 
 New York, and the Cosmos and Chevy 
 Chase Clubs of Washington. Dr. Gates is 
 the author of: Sidney Lanier, Poet and 
 Artist; Land' and Law as Agents in Edu- 
 cating the Indians; International Arbitra- 
 tion; Highest Use of Wealth, and of many 
 articles upon educational, social and relig- 
 ious themes. He is a licensed clergyman 
 of the Congregational Church. He married 
 at Orange, N. J., April 10, 1873, Mary C. 
 Bishop of Rochester, N. Y., and has three 
 children. Address: 1309 Rhode Island 
 Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. 
 
 GATES, Susa Young: 
 
 Writer, lecturer; born in the Zion House, 
 Salt Lake City, Utah, March 18. 1856; 
 daughter of Brigham Young, president of 
 the Church of Latter-Day Saints, and of 
 Lucy (Bigelow) Young. She was educated 
 in the University of Utah and the Brig- 
 ham Young University of Provo, Utah. 
 She was married at St. George, Utah, Jan. 
 5, 1880, to Jacob F. Gates, and has had 
 thirteen children, of whom the two oldest 
 girls are locally famous, Mrs. Widtsoe 
 being the first graduated domestic scien- 
 tist in Utah, and Miss Emma Lucy Gates 
 being a soprano soloist of distinction. Mrs. 
 Gates foimded and edited the Young Wom- 
 an's Journal, of Salt Lake City, for its 
 first eleven years, then presented it to the 
 Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Asso- 
 ciation, of which it was the organ, and 
 she is a member of the General Board of 
 that association. She has published a vol- 
 ume of biography and magazine articles, 
 sketches of Mormon women, has a depart- 
 ment of genealogj' in the Deseret Evening 
 News at Salt Lake, and is a writer for all 
 the home publications and has also written 
 for Eastern papers. Mrs. Gates is a trus- 
 tee of the Brigham Young University at 
 Provo. Utah, and also of the State Agri- 
 cultural College of Utah; has been a di- 
 rector of the National Household Economic 
 Association and was chairman of the Press 
 
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 Comiiiittoe of tlie National Council of 
 Women, ]n00-in02; founder and State or- 
 ganizer of tile Daughters of the Revolution 
 in Utah; member of the National Press 
 Club and assisted' Mrs. Wells in founding 
 the Utah Press Club, and she is president 
 of the Daughters of Pioneers. She attended 
 the International Council of Women held 
 in London in 1899, and was U. S. delegate 
 to the Executive Session of that Council 
 held in Copenhagen in 1901. She estab- 
 lished the Musical Department of the Brig- 
 ham Young University at Provo at the age 
 of 23 years and founded the Domestic Sci- 
 ence Department in that school, 189S-1899. 
 Slie is a member of the Church of Latter- 
 Day Saints, has a city home in Salt Lake 
 and a canyon summer home, and is espe- 
 cially interested in genealogy and music. 
 Address: 672 North 1st West Street, Salt 
 Lake City, Utah. 
 
 GAUL, Gilbert W.: 
 
 Historical and genre painter; born in 
 Jersey City. N. J., March .31, 1855. He 
 was educated in the public schools, pursued 
 art studies in New York City under J. G. 
 Brown and L. E. Wilmarth, 1872-1876. He 
 opened a studio in New York City, but for 
 several years past has resided in Nashville, 
 Tenn. He was given the medal of the 
 American Art Association in 1882, and' was 
 awarded two medals by the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. Mr. Gaul 
 became an associate, ISSO, and since 1882 
 has been an academician of the National 
 Academy of Design. He married, Sept. 16, 
 1898, Marian, daughter of vice-Admiral G. 
 A. Halstead. R. N. Address: 610V-> Church 
 Street, Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 GAUSS, Henry C: 
 
 Government official, author; born in 
 Salem, Mass. After completing his educa- 
 tion he was actively engaged as a journalist 
 until he entered tlie government service. 
 Mr. Gauss was confidential clerk to secre- 
 taries of the Navy Moody and' Morton. 
 When Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte succeeded 
 Hon. Paul Morton as secretary of the Navy, 
 Mr. Gauss was appointed private secretary 
 to the secretary of the Navy. When Mr. 
 
 Bonaparte, in the reorganization of the 
 Cabinet in 1906, became attorney-general, 
 he took Mr. Gauss with him to the Depart- 
 ment of Justice, and he remained private 
 secretary to the attorney-general until the 
 end of the Roosevelt Administration, when 
 he was appointed a special attorney in the 
 Department of Justice, in which office he 
 continues. Mr. Gauss is author of The 
 American Government, 1908 (Hamersly) ; 
 and is joint editor of Men and Women of 
 America. Residence: 1359 Park Road. 
 Office: Department of Justice, Washing- 
 ton, D. C. 
 
 GAY, Edward: 
 
 Artist; born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1837; 
 son of Richard and Helen (Killduff) Gay. 
 He was educated in Albany, N. Y., then 
 went to Carlsruhe, Germany, and studied 
 art. He opened a studio in New York City, 
 and has attained a place among the fore- 
 most American landscape artists. Among 
 his better known paintings are: Moun- 
 tain Stream, I860; Swabian Home, 1869; 
 Late Afternoon, near Albany, 1870; Ready 
 for Reapers, 1875; A Quiet Hour, 1876; 
 The Slopes of the Mohawk, 1877; East- 
 chester, New York, 1878; The Last Load, 
 Harvest Time, 1878; Gathering the Leaves, 
 1880; Old Estates, 1881; Banks of the 
 Thames, 1882; On the Sogue Fjord, Nor- 
 way, 1883; Norwegian Scene, 1884, etc. 
 Water colors : Foggy Morning by the Lake, 
 1876; A Springy Morning, 1877; Waving 
 Grain, 1884; Riverside, 1884; Haymaking, 
 1884; Rye Field's in Early June, 1885; 
 Hillside, 1885; Oyster Beds in Pelham Bay, 
 1885; Salt Marshes, 1885. Mr. Gay took 
 the Metropolitan Museum of Art prize of 
 $2,000 in 1887 for the picture. Broad Acres, 
 presented to the Metropolitan Museum ; was 
 awarded the Shaw prize of the Society of 
 American Artists, for the painting entitled 
 Mianus River, Connecticut, 1903; and at 
 the Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of the 
 National Academy of Design, 1905, was 
 awarded the Inness gold' medal for the best 
 landscape in the exiiibition. Mr. Gay was 
 elected an associate of the National Acad- 
 emy of Design in 1868, and an academician 
 in 1870, and lie is also a member of the 
 
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 American Water Color Club, and was made 
 a life member of the Lotos Club for his 
 achievements in art in 1901. He married 
 in 1862, Martha Fcarey. Address: Mount 
 Vernon, N. Y. 
 
 GAY, Walter: 
 
 Artist; born in Hingham, Mass., Jan. 
 22, 1856; son of Ebenezer and Ellen 
 (Blake) Gay. After completing his studies 
 in the Roxbury (Mass.) Latin School, he 
 was for a short time employed in a Boston 
 business office. In 1876 he went to Paris, 
 where he became a pupil of Bonnat, and 
 exhibited constantly at the Salon. His 
 painting of " Le Benedicite " was bought in 
 1888 by the French Government for the 
 Luxembourg. The picture remained ten 
 years in that museum, and after that period 
 was transferred to the JNIuseum at Amiens, 
 " Las Cigarreras " was bought in 1894 for 
 the Luxembourg, and' since then two more 
 of his pictures have been purchased for that 
 museum: "Blue and White" in 1904, and 
 " Les Portraits " in 1908. He is repre- 
 sented by paintings in the Pinocothec Mu- 
 seum at Munich; Museum of Fine Arts, 
 Brussels; Luxembourg Museum, Paris; 
 Amiens Museum, Amiens; Metropolitan 
 Museum, New York City; Museum of Fine 
 Arts, Boston; Carnegie Institute, Pitts- 
 burg; and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine 
 Arts, Philadelphia. He represents, in Paris, 
 the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston. Mr. 
 Gay was awarded lionoral)le mention in 
 the Paris Salon of 1885, a gold medal by 
 the Salon of 1888; gold medals at Antwerp, 
 1894, Vienna, 1893, Berlin, 1895, Budapest, 
 1895; was created chevalier in 1895 an.l 
 officier in 1907 of the L(5gion d'Honneur of 
 France. He was made societaire of the 
 Soci6t6 Nationale, Paris; made member of 
 tlie National Institute of Arts and Letters 
 of the United States, 1896; created fellow 
 for life of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 
 of New York. Address: 73 Rue Ampfere, 
 I'aris. 
 
 GAYLEY, James: 
 
 .Manufacturer; lioni in Ldck Haven, Pa., 
 Oct. 11, 1855. He was graduated from 
 Lafayette College with the degree of M.E. 
 
 in 1876. and began his business life as 
 chemist for Crane Iron Works, Catasauqua, 
 Pa., 1877-1880; superintendent of furnaces 
 for the Missouri Furnace Company in St. 
 Louis, and for the E. and G. Brooke Iron 
 Company at Birdsboro, Pa., 1880-1885. In 
 1885 he became superintendent of the Edgar 
 Thompson Blast • Furnaces, where in 1887, 
 and again in 1890, he obtained the maxi- 
 mum yield of iron on record. He after- 
 ward' became manager of the Carnegie Steel 
 Company, and since 1901 has been first 
 vice-president of the United States Steel 
 Corporation. Mr. Gayley is the inventor 
 of many improvements in blasting furnaces 
 and Bessemer steel plants, and has written 
 technical papers in various periodicals. He 
 is a member of the University, Riding, 
 Metropolitan. Ardsley, Engineers' Clubs of 
 New York. He married Julia Gardner, and 
 has three daughters. Residence: 8 East 
 69th Street. Address: 71 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 GAYIORD, Harvey Russell: 
 
 Surgeon, pathologist; hoin in Saginaw. 
 Mich., Oct. 4, 1872; son of Augustine S. 
 and Ellen Emeline (Warren) Gaylord. He 
 was educated in the Bay City (Mich.) pub- 
 lice schools, Cheltenham Academy, Ogontz, 
 Pa., and the University of Pennsylvania, 
 M.D., 1893. He became an interne in the 
 Philadelphia Hospital, 1893-1894; A'olunteer 
 assistant in pathology in the Pathological 
 Institute of the University of Gottingen, 
 Germany, 1895-1898; since then in prac- 
 tice of medicine at Bviflfalo. He has been 
 director of the State Cancer Laboratory 
 of Buffalo, since 1898; professor of surg- 
 ical pathology in the University of Buf- 
 falo since 1899; pathologist to the Ger- 
 man Hospital since 1899; surgeon to 
 tlie Erie County Hospital since 1900; as- 
 sistant surgeon to the BufTalo General Hos- 
 pital; ortho])edist to tlie Children's Hos- 
 pital. Dr. Gaylord is a member of the 
 Association Pathologists and Bacteriolo- 
 gists; a fellow of tlie Pathologische Gesell- 
 schaft, Berlin Konunittee fiir Krebfor- 
 schung. He is joint author of Gaylord and 
 Asclioff's Pathological Histology, also of 
 various re^jorts of the State Cancer Lab- 
 
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 oratory, and of papers in pathological 
 research, particuhirly in reference to the 
 etiology of cancer, and on fibrinoid degen- 
 eration. Dr. Gaylord married in Detroit, 
 Mich., Oct. 4, 1893, Elizabeth May Ketcham. 
 Address: 478 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, 
 N. Y. 
 
 GAYNOR, William Jay: 
 
 Jurist; born in W'hitestown, N. Y., in 
 1851. He was educated at Whitestown 
 Seminary, and later in Boston ; from there 
 went to Brooklyn in 1873, and engaged in 
 journalistic work while pursuing the study 
 of law. He was admitted to the bar in 
 1875; became known and feared as a foe 
 of corruption in public life, and gained 
 national reputation by effective work in 
 breaking up " rings " within the Democratic 
 party, of whicli party he was an adherent, 
 and by the part he took in securing the 
 conviction of a notorious and powerful Dem- 
 ocratic boss for election frauds. He was 
 elected a justice of the Supreme Court of 
 New York, in 1893, on nomination of Re- 
 publicans and Independent Democrats, for 
 the term expiring Dec. 21, 1907, and was 
 reelected in 1907 for the term expiring Dec. 
 31, 1921, and designated for service in tlie 
 Second Appellate Division of the Supreme 
 Court. Judge Gaynor, who is a Democrat 
 in national politics, has frequently been 
 solicited to become a candidate for non- 
 judicial offices, but declined nominations 
 for mayor of Brooklyn, 1896, for governor 
 of New York, 1904, for Vice-President of 
 the United States, 1908, etc. In 1909 he 
 called attention to a case of public oppres- 
 sion which resulted' in an entire reorgan- 
 ization of the New York police. He nas 
 written frequently on legal subjects for 
 various publications. Address: 20 Eighth 
 Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 GAZZAM, Joseph M.: 
 
 Lawyer; bom in Pittsburgh, Dec. 2. 1S42; 
 son of Dr. Edward Despard Gazzam (phy- 
 sician, lawyer, statesman, one of organizers 
 of the Fjee Soil Party and its first candi- 
 date for governor of Pennsylvania) and of 
 Elizabeth Antoinette de Beelen de Bertholff, 
 daughter of Constantine Antoine de Beelen 
 
 de Bertholff and granddaughter of Baron 
 Frederick Eugene Francois de Beelen de 
 Bertliolff (Austrian minister to the United 
 States, 1783-1787). He was educated at the 
 University of Western Pennsylvania. Ad- 
 mitted to the Allegheny County bar, Jan. 
 6, 1864 ; to the Supreme Court of Pennsyl- 
 vania, Nov., 1867; to the Circuit and Dis- 
 trict Courts of the United States, May, 
 1869, and to the Supreme Court of the 
 United States, .March 19, 1870. He prac- 
 tised at Pittsburgh until 1879; member of 
 the law firm of Gaz/.am and Cochran (Mr. 
 Cochran being ex-member of Congress and 
 vice-president of the Missouri Pacific Rail- 
 road), 1872-1879; and removed in 1879 to 
 Philadelphia. He has since practised law 
 in the latter city and associated with Wil- 
 liam S. Wallace and Edward Fell Lukens 
 constitutes the firm of Gazzam, Wallace 
 and Lukens. Mr. Gazzam is a Republican 
 in politics, was a member of the City 
 Council of Pittsburgh, 1869-1873 and elected 
 State Senator in 1876, from the Forty- 
 third Senatorial District of Pennsylvania. 
 While so serving he introduced a bill for 
 a marriage license law which was almost 
 identical with the law now in force, out 
 which was defeated in the lower house. 
 He was author of the law which did away 
 with the calls' for special elections for State 
 officers and thus effected a great saving 
 to the State and many other important 
 acts. He was appointed by Governor Stone, 
 commissioner from Pennsylvania to the 
 South Carolina Interstate and West Indian 
 Exposition of 1902, and by Governor Penny- 
 packer a member of the Pennsylvania Com- 
 mission to the Louisiana Purchase Expo- 
 sition, St. Louis. Mr. Gazzam is president 
 of the Rees-Welsh Digest and' Law Pub- 
 lishing Companj^ and of the Kramer Web 
 Manufacturing Company, was one of the 
 oi'ganizers of Quaker City National Bank 
 of Pliiladelphia and fourteen years its vice- 
 president ; is president of the Ames-Bonner 
 Company of Toledo, Ohio ; vice-president of 
 tlie Dent's Run (Pa.) Coal Company; 
 chairman of the Board of Directors of 
 Peale, Peacock & Kerr. Incorporated; di- 
 rector in the Delaware Company and others. 
 He was one of the projectors of the Beech 
 
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 Creek Railroad and Ihe town of Gazzam 
 was named for him. Mr. Gazzam is a life 
 member of the Pennsylvania Historical So- 
 ciety, the Fairniount Park Association, the 
 Franklin Institute. Horticultural Associa- 
 tion of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania For- 
 estry Association. Pennsylvania Academy 
 of Fine Arts. Zoological Society, the Amer- 
 ican Academy of Political and Social 
 Science, the Genealogical Society of Penn- 
 sylvania, the Archieological and Paheonto- 
 logical Society of the University of Penn- 
 sylvania. He is a member and ex-president 
 of the Pennsylvania Club, a life member of 
 the Union League and Layers' Clubs of 
 Philadelphia, a member of the Young Re- 
 publicans of Philadelphia, National Arts 
 and City Clubs of Xew York City, and the 
 Toledo Club, Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Gazzam 
 married', in 1893, Nellie M. Andrews of 
 New Orleans, and they have two children. 
 Residence: 265 South 19th Street. Office: 
 Railey Building, 1218 Chestnut Street, 
 Pliiladclphia. 
 
 GEARIN, John M.: 
 
 Lawyer and former LTnited States sena- 
 tor; born in Umatilla County, Ore., on the 
 Emigrant Trail, Aug. 15, 1851. He at- 
 tended St. Mary's College, San Francisco, 
 1863-1867; was graduated' from Notre Dame 
 University. Ind., A.B., 1871, and received 
 the degree of LL.D. from tliis imiversity in 
 1903. He began the study of law in 1871; 
 was admitted to tiie Oregon bir in 1873, and 
 has been in the active practice of the law 
 ever since. He was a member of the Ore- 
 gon Legislature in 1874; city attorney of 
 the city of Portland in 1875; and was 
 elected district attorney for Multonomah 
 County, Ore., in 1884, and served two years; 
 in 1878, when Oregon constituted one Con- 
 gressional district, he was the Democratic 
 candidate for Congress, but was defeated. 
 When the celebrated opium frauds w^ere 
 unearthed, in 1893, he was appointed by 
 President Cleveland as special prosecutor 
 for the Government in the cases. Dec. 13, 
 1905, ho was appointed by the governor of 
 Oregon U. S. senator to fill tlie vacancy' 
 caused by the death of Jolin II. Mitchell, 
 
 and' took his seat Dec. 21, 1905. Address: 
 Portland, Ore. 
 
 GEER, Walter: 
 
 Lawyer and manufacturer; born in Wil- 
 
 liamstown, !Mass.. Aug. 19, 1857: son ot 
 Asahel and Helen Augusta (Danforth) 
 (U'or. He was educated in Greylock Insti- 
 tute. South Williamstown, Mass., \Yiniams 
 College, A.B., 1878, A.M., 1881, National 
 L'niversity Tjxw School, Washington, D. C. 
 LL.B., 1881, LL.M., 1882. He was assistant 
 manager for the Walter A. Wood ]Mowing 
 and Reaping ]\Iachine Company at Chicago, 
 1882-1886, and since 1886 has been pres- 
 ident and director of the New York Arch- 
 itectural Terra-cotta Company, New York 
 City. He is also vice-president and director 
 of the New York Knife Company, and of 
 the Metropolitan Safe Deposit Company, 
 and a director of the Brunswick Site Com- 
 pany. ]\Ir. Geers is a member of the Asso- 
 ciation for the Protection of the Adiron- 
 dacks, the American ^Museum of Natural 
 History, Municipal Art Society, National 
 Sculpture Society, New England Society, 
 New York Historical Society, Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society, Sons of the Revolution, 
 Order of Founders and Patriots of America, 
 Society of Colonial Wars, the Williams 
 Alumni Association of New York, Univer- 
 sity, Manhattan, Strollers', National Arts 
 and Lawyers' Clubs of New York City. 
 Mr. Geer married in New York City, Sept. 
 26, 1883, Mary Potter, and' they have three 
 sons and a daugliter. Residences: 246 
 West 72d Street, New York City, and 
 Crow's Nest. Ossining, N. Y. Office: 122-") 
 Fifth .\^•('Illlo. New Yoik City. 
 
 GEER, "William Montague: 
 
 Clergyiii.ui ; burn in Balston, N. Y., April 
 9, 1848; son of Rev. George Jarvis Geer, 
 D.D., formerly rector of St. Timothy's 
 Church (now Zion and St. Timothy's), New 
 York City, and Isabel (Montague) Geer. 
 He was graduated from Columbia College, 
 A.B., 1809, A.M., 1872, and from tlie Gen- 
 eral Tlioologieal Seminary in 187S. ]\lr. 
 Geer was admitted to the bar of the State 
 of New York in 1872, and was ordered 
 
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 deacon in 1878 and ordainod priest in 1879 
 in the ministry of the E{)iscopal Church. 
 He bcijan liis niinistry as assistant to Rev. 
 (afterward bishop) Henry Y. Satterlee, Wap- 
 pinsjers Falls. N. Y., in 1878, became rector 
 of St. John's Church, North Adams, Mass., 
 in 1879 J rector of Christ Church, Oyster 
 Bay, L. I., 1880-1888; assistant minister, 
 1888-1894, and has been vicar since 1894 
 of St. Paul's Cliapel, Trinity Parish, New 
 York City. He is a member of the New 
 York Churchmen's Association, (president 
 1898) ; trustee of the General Theological 
 Seminary, Society for Promotion of Relig- 
 ion and Learning, Trinity School, and 
 St. Agatha's; is a member of the Cen- 
 tury Chib, and honorary member of 
 the Seawauhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club of 
 which he was lleet-chaplain, 1900-1901. 
 He inaugurated noonday services, and mid- 
 night (2.30 A.M.) services for printers and 
 other night workers, in St. Paul's Chapel 
 and founded the first Business Women's 
 Club for stenographers, typewriters and 
 others, 600 membership. Mr. Geer married 
 in New York City, April 8, 1880, Katharine 
 Gridley Throop, who died in 1900; and he 
 has seven children. Residence: 60 West 
 84th Street, New York City. Office: 29 
 Vesey Street, New York City. 
 
 GELERT, Johannes Sophus: 
 
 Sculptor; born in Nybel, Schleswig, Den- 
 mark (now Prussia), Dec. 10, 1852; son of 
 Lud'wig Christian Frederick and Constance 
 Andrea (Peterson) Gelert. He studied art 
 at the Royal Academy of Copenhagen, 
 1870-1875, and began his artistic career as 
 an apprentice to wood-carving in 1866-1870. 
 After graduation he made a tour through 
 Germany, then worked fifteen months in 
 Paris and exhibited, at the Salon of 1878, 
 a colossal group representing the Norse god, 
 Thor, combating a bull. He worked' on 
 large monumental works in Berlin, 1879- 
 1882; executed several decorative statues 
 for a theater in Copenhagen, 1882; studied 
 at Rome, on a scholarship awarded by the 
 Danish Government, and then returned to 
 Copenhagen. Mr. Gelert has been a resi- 
 dent of the United States since 1887 and 
 citizen since 1892. He worked at his art 
 
 in Chicago, 1887-1898; since then in New 
 York City. He exhibited at the World's 
 Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 (mem- 
 ber International Jury of Award), Paris 
 Ex])()sition. 1900 (honorable mention), 
 Nasliville Centennial Exposition, 1897 (gold 
 medal I for his picture, " Wounded American 
 Soldier": Pliiladelpliia Art Club, receiving 
 a gold medal for the group. The Little 
 Architect; American Art Society, Philadel- 
 phia (gold medal), honorable mention Buf- 
 falo Exposition. He is a member of the 
 National Sculpture Society, and Municipal 
 Art League. Among his important works 
 are: Statue representing Denmark, for U. 
 S. Custom House, New York City; colossal 
 group. The Struggle for Work, at World's 
 Columbian Exposition; statue representing 
 Napoleon the Great, for Missouri State 
 Building, Louisiana Purchase Exposition; 
 statue representing Gothic Art, Fine Arts 
 Building, St. Louis; Policeman Statue 
 (Union Square). and Beethoven and 
 Andersen statues (Lincoln Park), Chicago; 
 four colossal statues for the Brooklyn In- 
 stitute of Science and Art representing 
 Roman civilization; statue of M. Furmen 
 for Vanderbilt University, Nashville, and 
 Grant Statue, Galena, 111. He married in 
 Chicago in 1896, Georeina J. B. Sundberg, 
 and has three children. Residence: 470 
 Summit Avenue, South Orange. N. J. Stu- 
 dio: 11 East 14th Street, New York City. 
 
 GENTH, Frederick Augustus, Jr.: 
 
 Clieuust; born in Philadelphia. Feb. 12, 
 1855; son of Dr. F. A. and r^linna Pauline 
 (Fischer) Gentli. He was graduated from 
 tlie University of Pennsylvania, B.S., 1876, 
 and M.S., 1878. Mr. Genth was assistant 
 in chemistry on tlie Second Geological Sur- 
 vvy of Pennsylvania, 1877-1880; instructor 
 at the University of Pennsylvania in an- 
 alytical chemistry. 1881-1883; assistant 
 jMofessor of chemistry at the University of 
 Penn.-ylvania, 1883-1888, inclusive, and since 
 then has been in general practice as an an- 
 alytical ex])ert chemist. He was chemist 
 to the Dairy Vond Commission; Department 
 of .Agriculture in Pennsylvania, 1897-1903; 
 al.=o to the State Pharmaceutical Examining 
 IJoard of Pennsylvania. ]\Ir. Genth is one 
 
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 of tlic foumlc'is and a dircclnr of the West 
 IMiiladelpliia Tillc and rru>t Conijjany; is 
 a nieiiiber ol I he Auicrican I'liilusophical 
 yocietv; tlif Anu'iifan C'licniical Society; 
 the Society of C'lieniieal Industry of Lon- 
 don; Societe Cliiniiqiie de Paris, and 
 Deutsche Cheiuische (Jesellschafl. Berlin; a 
 fellow of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, and was a director 
 of the Lansdowne School District, 1900- 
 l!IO{). lie has traveled extensively in the 
 United States and abroad. Mr. Genth mar 
 ricd at Phihid(>]])!iia. in 1881, Louise T. 
 llaht. who (lied in 1SS!»; and in 1890, to 
 -Miriam S. DulSois. He had onv cliild, Ju- 
 lius Frederick, horn Oct. 1, 1885, who died 
 .Marcli 4. ISSO. Residence: Go East Green- 
 wood Avenue. Lansdowne, Pa. Office ad- 
 dress: 222 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 GEORGE, Henry: 
 
 Journalist, author; born in Sacramento, 
 Calif., Nov. 3, 1862; son of Henry George, 
 the famous philosopher and political econ- 
 omist. He was educated in the public 
 schools ; was secretary to his father on his 
 lecture tour of Great Britain, 1883. and 
 since 1881 has been engaged in newspaper 
 and book writing and lecturing, mainly on the 
 single tax question. He succeeded' his father 
 on his death, a few daj^s before election day. 
 1897, as nominee for mayor of New York 
 City on the Jeflersonian Democratic ticket. 
 He went to .Japan for ;> syndicate of news- 
 ))a])ers in 190(). and around the world for 
 several piil)lications in lUOI). Mr. George 
 is author of: Life of Henry (icorge; The 
 Tragedy of the (Jrcat I'ennsylvania Coal 
 Strike, Who are the Criminils?; ^lo 1- 
 ern Methods of Finance; The Menace of 
 Privilege, 1905; The Romance of John 
 Bainbridge, 1906. lie is a member of the 
 City and Authors' Clubs of New York. Ad- 
 dress: 87 iianiilton IMace, New ^'ork City. 
 
 GEORGE, William Henry: 
 
 President of Geneva College; born in 
 Nortliwood, Ohio, Aug. 18, 1878; son of 
 Henry Hosack and Sarah (Brown) George, 
 lie was graduated from Geneva College, 
 A. B., 1900; Harvaril University, A. B., 1902; 
 the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Sem- 
 
 inary at Allegheny, Pa., 1905; Princeton 
 University, A.M., 1906. After a short term 
 in the pastorate of the Reformed Presby- 
 terian Church at Waukesha, Wis., he was 
 called to Geneva College in 1907. Address: 
 Beaver Falls, Pa. 
 
 GERARD, James Watson: 
 
 Jurist; born in Geneseo, N. Y., 1867; 
 son of James Watson and Jenny (Angel) 
 Gerard. He was educated in Wilson and 
 Kellogg's School of New York City, St. 
 Paul's School, Concord. N. H., Columbia 
 College, A.B., 1890, A.M., 1891, and New 
 York" Law School, LL.B., 1892. After that 
 he engaged in practice, becoming counsel 
 for many large corporations and a number 
 of celebrated cases, among them, Gusthal 
 versus William ]\1. Strong, mayor, involv- 
 ing the validity of the King's Bridge fran- 
 chise granted to the Third Avenue Rail- 
 road ; was one of the counsel for the Press 
 Publishing Company, in the suit of that 
 corporation against the Ramapo Water 
 Company, and others, and in 1007 he was 
 elected a justice of the Supreme Court of 
 the State of New York for the term expir- 
 ing Dec. 31, 1921. He entered the National 
 Guard of New York, as second lieutenant 
 of Company F, 12th Infantry, and in 1892 
 attained his' captaincy,- with that rank 
 served as an aide on stafT of General Mc- 
 Coskry Butt during the Spanish-American 
 War, and in Jiine, 1900, was appointed 
 quartermaster with the rank of major. 
 First Brigade, and resumed practice at the 
 end of the war. Judge Gerard is a member 
 of the Association of the Bar of the City 
 of New York, the Sons of the American 
 Revolution, and the Union, Tuxedo, Coun- 
 try, University, New York Athletic, Riding, 
 Fencers', and the National Democratic 
 Clubs of New York City. Address: 725 
 l<'ifth Avenue; New York City. 
 
 GERHARD, William Paul: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in Hamburg, Ger- 
 many, July 30, 1854; son of IJcrnhard and 
 Mathilda (Hiihn) (Sierhard. He was edu- 
 cated in the Italian College at Alexandria, 
 Egypt, the Latin School at Kiel, Germany, 
 and the Technical University at Karlsruhe, 
 
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 Germany, whence he was graduated in 1875. 
 He served as a volunteer in the Prussian 
 Railroad Regiment, 1875-1870, practised a 
 year as civil engineer in Hamburg, and 
 came to the United States in 1877. He was 
 assistant engineer to the Board of Public 
 Works of St. Louis, 1877-1879; in Captain 
 James B. Eads' office in St. Louis, 1879- 
 1880; chief assistant to Colonel George E. 
 Waring, Jr., at Newport, R. I., 1881-1883; 
 chief engineer of the Durham House Drain- 
 age Company, Xew York City, 1883-1884, 
 and since then practised as a consulting 
 engineer for hydraulic and sanitary works, 
 gas service and fire protection. He served 
 on the staff of the State architect of New 
 York, as sanitary engineer; was honorary 
 consulting engineer to the Health Depart- 
 ment of the City of Brooklyn, and is now 
 engineer-general on the executive staff of 
 the National Volunteer Emergency Service, 
 with rank of brigadier-general. He is au- 
 thor of: House Drainage and Sanitary 
 Plumbing (13 editions); Recent Practice 
 in the Sanitary Drainage of Buildings; 
 The Disposal of Household Wastes ; Gas 
 Lighting and Gas Fitting; Guide to Sani- 
 tary Inspections (4 editions) ; The Preven- 
 tion of Fire; Theatre Fires and Panics, 
 Their Causes and Their Prevention; Fire 
 Protection, Comfort and Sanitation in The- 
 atres; Sanitation and Sanitary Engineering; 
 Sanitary Engineering of Buildings ; The 
 Superintendence of Piping Installations in 
 Buildings, 1907; The Sanitation of Public 
 Buildings, 1907 ; Modern Baths and Bath 
 Houses, 1908; The American Practice of 
 Gas Piping and Gas Lighting in Buildings, 
 1908; The Sanitation, Water Supply and 
 Sewage Disposal of Country Homes, 1909; 
 The Plumbing and Water Supply of Mod- 
 ern City Buildings, 1909; also of three Ger- 
 man works; contributor of about 70 arti- 
 cles to the Dictionary of Architecture. He 
 is a member of the American Society of 
 Mechanical Engineers, the American Public 
 Health Association. Brooklyn Engineers' 
 Club, New England Water Works Associa- 
 tion, National Geographic Society, and 
 other societies; corresponding member of 
 the American Institute of Architects, and 
 honorary member of the British Fire-Pre- 
 
 vention Committee. He married May 10, 
 1881, Selma Weiskirch of Milwaukee, Wis., 
 who died Nov. 27, 1901, and has two sons. 
 Residence: 39 Strong Place, Brooklyn. Of- 
 fice: 33 Union Square, Nc York City. 
 
 GERHART, Francis Henry: 
 
 Real estate capitalist; born in St. Ixtuis, 
 Mo., June 28, 1860; son of Peter George 
 and Octavia Agnes (Flandrin) Gerhart. 
 He was educated in St. Louis University, 
 and by private tutors, and in the St. Louis 
 Law School. Mr. Gerhart has been in the 
 real estate business in St. Louis for the 
 past thirty years, making a specialty of 
 office buildings. He was one of the first 
 citizens to advocate the St. Louis Free 
 Municipal Bridge, involving a five-years' 
 strenuous campaign, but now building; was 
 one of the prime movers for legislation, 
 which has been enacted, to abolish steam 
 railroad grade crossings in St. Louis, and 
 is now urging additional ordinances to that 
 end and for other civic reforms. Mr. Ger- 
 hart is a member of the Merchants' Ex- 
 change and a director of the Real Estate 
 Exchange for several years. He is a Dem- 
 ocrat and a Catholic. Residence: 4900 
 Lindell Avenue. Office: 707 Chestnut 
 Street, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 GERRISH, Frederic Henry: 
 
 Pln'sician ; born in Portland, Me., ^March 
 21, 1845; son of Oliver and Sarah (Little) 
 Gerrish. He was graduated from Bowdoin 
 College, A.B.. 18G6, A.M., and M.D., in 
 1869, and the degree of LL.D. was conferred 
 upon him by the University of Michigan in 
 1904, and by Bowdoin College in 1905. Dr. 
 Gerrish was professor of materia medica 
 and therapeutics, 1873-1882; professor of 
 anatomy, 1882-1905, and has been professor 
 of surgery since 1905 at Bowdoin College; 
 was professor of phj'siology in the Univer- 
 sity of Michigan, 1874-1875, and is con- 
 sulting surgeon of Maine General, St. 
 Mary's and the Children's Hospitals. He is 
 editor and in large part author of the Text- 
 book of Anatomy by American Authors, 
 1899; author of articles in Keen's, Park's, 
 and Dennis's System of Surgery ; translator 
 and editor of Championnifere's Chirurgie 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Antiseptiqnc, and contributor to various 
 medical and scientific journals. Dr. Ger- 
 rish Avas the first president of the Maine 
 State Board of Health, 1885-1889; is a 
 member of the American Surgical Associa- 
 tion, the Society Internationale de Chi- 
 rurgie, Association of American Anatomists, 
 American Academy of ^Medicine (ex-presi- 
 dent), American Therapeutic Society (pres- 
 ident 1908-1909), American Medical Associ- 
 ation, American Public Health Association, 
 Maine Medical Association (ex-president). 
 Congress of American Physicians and Sur- 
 geons, American Society of Naturalists, 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science, American Association for the 
 Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, 
 Maine Historical Society, Maine Genealogical 
 Society, Society for Psychical Research and 
 the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is presi- 
 dent of the Portland Charitable Dispensary; 
 associate corporator of Maine General Hos- 
 pital; trustee of the Portland Public Li- 
 brary, and a member of the Board of Over- 
 seers of Bowdoin College; is a member of 
 the Society of Colonial Wars, Alpha Delta 
 Phi fraternity, and of the Cumberland, 
 Portland Athletic, Portland Country, and 
 Alpha Delta Phi Clubs. Dr. Gerrish mar- 
 ried in Portland, Me., Dec. 31, 1879, Emily 
 Manning Swan. Address: 675 Congress 
 Street, Portland, Me. 
 
 GERRY, Elbridge Thomas: 
 
 Lawyer and humanitarian; born in New 
 York City, Dec. 25, 1837; son of Thomas 
 R. Gerry, U. S. N., and Hannah G. (Goelet) 
 Gerry; grandson of Elbridge Gerry, signer 
 of the Declaration of Independence and' Vice- 
 President of the United States during the 
 second Madison administration, and, on the 
 maternal side, grandson of Peter P. Goelet, 
 of New York. Mr. Gerry was graduated 
 from Columbia University, A.B., 1857, A.M., 
 1800, and was admitted to the New York 
 bar 1800. He became member of the New 
 York State Constitutional Convention in 
 1807, and was a member of its Committee 
 on the Pardoning Power. Mr. Gerry be- 
 came active in liumane work in connection 
 with the American Society for the Preven- 
 
 tion of Cruelty to Animals, and later in 
 connection with the formation of the Society 
 for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, or- 
 ganized in 1874, of which he was president, 
 1874-1901, and which because of his long and 
 efficient service still bears the popular desig- 
 nation of " The Gerry Society " in New 
 York City. Mr. Gerry is especially distin- 
 guished as promoter of New York legisla- 
 tion for the benefit of children and animals. 
 He was appointed by the State Senate of 
 New York in 1886, with Hon. Matthew 
 Hale and Dr. A. P. Southwick, as a Com- 
 mission to consider the most humane and 
 effective method of executing the death 
 sentence on criminals, as a result of which 
 the present electrical system of execution 
 displaced the old system of hanging in the 
 State of New York. Since 1885 has been a 
 governor of the New York Hospital; was 
 chairman of the executive committee of the 
 Centennial Celebration of the Constitution, 
 1889 ; chairman of the commission to con- 
 sider the best method of caring for the in- 
 sane of New York City, 1892. He has been 
 a trustee of the General Theological Semi- 
 nary of the Episcopal Church since 1877; 
 director of the Newport Trust Company, 
 since 1901, and Industrial Trust Company, 
 Providence. R. I., since 1902. Mr. Gerry is 
 a member of the Newport Reading Room, 
 Sons of the Revolution, St. Nicholas Society, 
 N. Y. Yacht Club (commodore, 1886-1893), 
 and the Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, Turf 
 and Field, Merchants, Players, Tuxedo 
 Larchmont Yacht, and Ardsley Clubs of 
 New York City, the Somerset Clubs of Bos- 
 ton, and the Metropolitan Club of Washing- 
 ton, D. C. He married in 1867, Louisa M., 
 daughter of Robert J. and Louisa M. 
 ( Storm ) Livingston, and granddaughter of 
 i\loi-gau Lewis, governor of New York and 
 grand master of Masons. They have two 
 (hiughters and two sons. Residence: Sea- 
 verge, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, R. I. Of- 
 fice: 258 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 GIBBON, John Heysham: 
 
 Surgeon; born in Cliarlotte, N. C, March 
 16, 1871; son of Robert and Mary Amelia 
 (Rogers) Gibbon. He was educated in pri- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 vate schools in North Carolina and received 
 the degree of M.D. from Jcflferson Medical 
 College of Philadelphia, 1891. Dr. Gibbon 
 is surgeon to the Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr, 
 and Jefferson Medical College Hospitals, 
 and has been professor of surgery at Jeffer- 
 son Medical School since 1907. He was first 
 lieutenant and assistant surgeon in the 
 Tliird United States Volunteer Engineers, 
 during the Spanish-American War, and is 
 consulting surgeon of the Woman's Hospi- 
 tal of Philadelphia. Dr. Gibbon is a first 
 lieutenant of the Army Medical Reserve 
 Corps, and is a fellow of the Philadelphia 
 College of Physicians, the Philadelphia 
 Academy of Surgery, and a member of the 
 American Surgical Association, the Society 
 of Clinical Surgery, and of many State and 
 county medical societies, and is also mem- 
 ber of the Racquet, Southern and Merion 
 Cricket Clubs. He is a contributor to the 
 Reference Hand-book of the Medical Sci- 
 ences, Keen's System of Surgery, 1907, and 
 of many articles to surgical journals, be- 
 sides being the author of a Text-Book on 
 Surgery, published in 1907. He married at 
 San Francisco, Calif., Sept. 2, 1901, Mar- 
 jorie G. Young, and they have four children. 
 Address: 1608 Spruce Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 GIBBONS, James: 
 
 Cardinal and archbishop of Baltimore; 
 born in Baltimore, July 23, 1834, of Irish 
 parentage. His parents returned with him 
 during his early childhood to their former 
 home in Ireland, and he began his education 
 there until 1848, when, with his parents, he 
 settled in New Orleans, La., and attended 
 parochial schools. Plis higher education 
 was received in St. Charles College, Mary- 
 land, 1855-1857, and St. Mary's Seminary, 
 Baltimore. He was ordained to the priest- 
 hood of the Roman Catholic Church, June 
 30, 18G1, and after a few montlis' service as 
 assistant at St. Patrick's Church in Balti- 
 more, he became pastor of St. Bridget's, 
 Canton, Md., and hitter became chancellor 
 of the archdiocese and private secretary to 
 Archbishop Spalding of Baltimore; vicar 
 apostolic of North Carolina, 1868, bishop 
 of Richmond, Va., 1872; coadjutor arch- 
 bishop of Baltimore, May 20, 1877, succeed- 
 
 ing to the see Oct. 3, 1877. and he was cre- 
 ated cardinal by Pope Pius IX., and in- 
 vested with the princely insignia June 30, 
 1866. He was assistant chancellor of the 
 Second Plenary Council of the American 
 Roman Catholic Church, in 1866, and pre- 
 sided over the Third Plenary Council at 
 Baltimore in November, 1884. Cardinal 
 Gibbons has written several books which 
 luive attained wide circulation, including: 
 The Faith of Our Fathers; Our Christian 
 Heritage; The Ambassador of Christ; 
 True Manhood. Address: 408 North 
 Charles Street, Baltimore. 
 
 GIBBS, George: 
 
 Author, illustrator; born in New Or- 
 leans, La., March 8, 1870; son of late Medi- 
 cal Inspector Benjamin E. Gibbs, U. S. 
 Navy and of Elizabeth (Kellogg) Gibbs. 
 After attending schools in Switzerland and 
 Washington, D. C, he entered the U. S. 
 Naval Academy, 1886, but resigned in 1888 
 to study art; student at the Art Students' 
 League and the Corcoran Gallery. Washing- 
 ton. D. C, until 1893; then began book and 
 magazine illustration. He removed to Phil- 
 adelphia in 1898. to work as illustrator for 
 the Curtis Publishing Company. He is au- 
 thor of: Pike and Cutlass; In Search of 
 Mademoiselle; The Love of Monsieur; and 
 he has also published American Sea Fights; 
 a portfolio of his drawings. Address: 
 Rosemont, Pa. 
 
 GIBBS, George: 
 
 Consulting engineer; born in Chicago, 
 April 19, 1861 ; son of Francis and Eliza 
 (Hosmcr) Gibbs. He was graduated from 
 the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1882, 
 and afterward became engineer of tests and 
 chemist, 1884-1887, and mechanical engi- 
 neer, 1887-1897, with the Chicago, Milwau- 
 kee and St. Paul Railway Company. He 
 was consulting engineer of the Baldwin Lo- 
 comotive Works and Westinghouse Electric 
 and ^Manufacturing Company, 1897-1901; 
 consulting engineer of the Interborough 
 Rapid Transit Company, 1901-1905; first 
 vice-president of Westinghouse Church, 
 Kerr and Company, 1902-1905; member of 
 the Electric Traction Commission of the 
 
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 New York Central and TTiulson River Rail- 
 road, 1902-1905; conpultins: ensjineer of the 
 Metropolitan Securities Company. 1904- 
 1905; member of the Board of Engineers of 
 the New York Terminal of the Pennsylvania 
 Rnilroad Company; chief engineer of elec- 
 tric traction of the Long Island Railroad 
 Company, and of the West Jersey and Sea- 
 shore Railroad : chief engineer of electric 
 traction and station construction, Pennsyl- 
 vania Tunnel and Terminal Railway, and 
 consulting engineer of the Chicago. Milwau- 
 kee and St. Paul Ry. Mr. Gibbs is a di- 
 rector of the American Society of Civil 
 Engineers : member of the American Soci- 
 ety of Mechanical Engineers, American In- 
 stitute of Electrical Engineers, Institution 
 of Civil Engineers of England, and' of the 
 Century, University, Down Town, and South 
 Side Sportsmen's of New York City and the 
 Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia. Ad- 
 dress: 10 Bridge Street, New York City. 
 
 GIBBS, "William David: 
 
 President of New Hampshire College: 
 born in Winchester, 111.. March 15. 1869; 
 son of William C. and Margaret C. (Tank- 
 ersley) Gibbs. He was graduated from the 
 University of Illinois. B.S., 1893, M.S., 
 1894 ; and was a post-graduate student at 
 the University of Wisconsin in 1894. He 
 was appointed assistant professor of agricul- 
 ture in 1895; a.ssociate professor 1896, and 
 professor of agronomy in 1898 in the Ohio 
 State University ; was director of the New 
 Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station 
 in 1902 ; dean and director of the Texas Agri- 
 cult ural and Mechanical College in 1902, 
 and since 1903 has been president of New 
 Hampshire College. He is a member of 
 the Sigma Xi Society, and Kappa Sigma 
 fraternity, and is a trustee of the New 
 Hampshire College of Agriculture and the 
 Mechanic Arts. President Gibbs married in 
 Toledo, Ohio, June 26, 1901, Perla Gray 
 Bowman, and they have one son. Address: 
 Durham, N. 11. 
 
 GIBSON, Charles Dana: 
 
 Illustrator; born in Roxbury, Mass., Sept. 
 14, 1865; son of Charles De Wolf and Jo- 
 sephine Elizabeth Gibson. He received his 
 
 general education in schools in Boston and 
 Elushing, L. I., and attended the Art Stu- 
 dents' League. 1883-1884. He devoted him- 
 self to illustrating from 1887. and' in 19U5 
 made an exclusive contract with Collier's 
 Weekly, at the largest salary ever paid for 
 black-and-white work, but at the end of that 
 vear went to Europe to study oil painting. 
 He has illustrated: Richard Haidin'r Da- 
 vis' Soldiers of Fortune; Anthony Hope's 
 Piisoner of Zenda. and Rupert of Hentzau. 
 Mid other books, as well as many illustra- 
 tions in magazines. Among the series of 
 -ketches made by him are: Americans, 
 1890; London as seen by C. D. Gibson, 
 1898; People of Dickens, i898; Sketches in 
 Egypt, 1898; Education of Mr. Pipp, 1899; 
 The Widow and Her Friends, 1901. and a 
 collection of these series, in two large vol- 
 imes under the tide of The Gibson Books. 
 Ins attained an exceptionally large popular 
 circulation. He is a member of the Players', 
 Racquet and Meadow Brook Clubs of New 
 N'ork City. Mr. Gibson married, Nov. 7. 
 1S95. Irene Langhorne. of Richmond, Va. 
 Residence: 127 East 73d Street. Address: 
 I!) West 31st Street, New York City. 
 
 GIBSON. Robert A.: 
 
 Bishop of Virginia; born at Petersburg. 
 \'a., July 9, 1846; son of Rev. Churchill J. 
 and Lucy Fitzhugh (Atkinson) Gibson. He 
 was graduated from Ilampden-Sidney Col- 
 lege, A.B.. 1867, and from the "Virginia The- 
 ological Seminary. 1870. and the D.D. degree 
 was conferred upon liim in 1897 by Kenyon 
 College and by the University of the South. 
 He was ordered deacon in the ministry of 
 the Episcopal Church in 1870 by Bishop 
 Whipple, and ordained priest by Bishoj) 
 Johns. He was missionary of the South- 
 Eastern Convocation, 1870-1872; assistant 
 in St. James' Church, Richmoiul, Va.. 1872- 
 1878; rector of Trinity Church, Parkers- 
 burg, W. Va., 1878-1887, and rector of 
 Christ Church, Cincinnati. Ohio, from 1887, 
 until his consecration to the episcopate as 
 Hisho]) of Virginia to which he was conse- 
 crated by Bishops Whittle, Peterkin, Vin- 
 cent ;iii(l others, in 1897. Bishop Gibson 
 married, at Staunton, Va., Nov. 12, 1872, 
 
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 Susan Baldwin Stuart. Address: Rich- 
 mond. Va. 
 
 GIBSON, Robert Williams: 
 
 Architect : horn at Avoley, Essex, Eng- 
 land. Nov. 17. lSr)4; son of Samuel Lodwick 
 and Eliza (Williams) Gibson. He was edu- 
 cated in Insress House School, Gravesend, 
 Kent, and graduated from the Royal Acad- 
 emy of Arts, London, 1879, receiving a sil- 
 ver medal and seholarshi]). After gradua- 
 tion he traveled in Europe, 1880; came to 
 the United' States, 1881; practised archi- 
 tecture in Albany, N. Y., 188^1888; since 
 I hen in New York City; and became a nat- 
 uralized citizen in 1887. Mr. Gibson was 
 the designer and architect of the Albany 
 'Jathedral, New York Clearing House, New 
 York Botanical Museum. New York CofTee 
 Exchange. United States Trust Company 
 Building, and the Randall Memorial Church 
 (Sailor's Snug Harbor), Greenwich Savings 
 Bank, and many banks, churches, residences, 
 and other structures. Before coming to 
 .America he served seven years in the Eng- 
 lish Volunteers. Mr. Gibson is a member 
 and ex-director of the American Institute 
 Architects, Architectural League (twice 
 president) ; member of the New York Acad- 
 emy of Sciences, New York Botanical So- 
 ciet}', New York Horticultural Society, 
 American Fine Arts Society, New York 
 Chamber of Commerce, St. George's Society, 
 and the Century, National Arts and Sea- 
 wanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Clubs. He mar- 
 ried in New York City, in 1880, Caroline 
 Hammond, and they have four children. 
 Residence: 15 East 77th Street. Office: 
 7ti William Street, New York City. 
 
 GIDDINGS, Franklin Henry: 
 
 Educator and sociologist; born in Sher- 
 man, Conn.. March 23, 1855; son of Rev. 
 Edward J. and Jane (Fuller) Giddings. He 
 was graduated from Union College, A.B., 
 1877, A.M.. 1889, Ph.D., 1897; and re- 
 ceived the degree of LL.D. from Oberlin 
 College, 1900. He was engaged in newspa- 
 per work, 1877-1888. being editorial writer 
 for the Springfield Republican, 1878. and 
 the Springfield Union 1884-1888. He was 
 lecturer on Political Science in Bryn Mawr 
 
 College. 1888-1889, and associate, 1889-1891. 
 associate professor, 1891-1892, and professor 
 of Political Science, 1892-1894, in the same 
 institution. He was lecturer on sociology 
 in (,'ohimbia, 1891-1894. and since 1894 has 
 been professor of sociology in Columbia 
 University. He has been a member of the 
 Kdi1()ri:il Board of the Political Science 
 Quarterly since 1894. Profes.sor Giddings 
 was a member of the Central Council of the 
 Charity Organization Society of New York 
 in 1894; has been a trustee of Union College 
 from 1902; has been a vice-president since 
 1890 of the American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science, and was editor of its 
 "Annals," 1890-1894; is a member of the 
 American Economic Association, edited its 
 "Publications,"' 1891-1893, and was its first 
 vice-president. 1896-1897; vice-president of 
 the American Sociological Society since 
 1906. fellow of the American Ethnological 
 Society, the Philadelphia Academy of Sci- 
 ences and Institut International de Sociol- 
 ogie de Paris. Professor Giddings is joint 
 author, with Professor John Bates Clark, of 
 The JModern Distributive Process, 1888; and 
 is author of: The Theory of Sociology 
 1894; Principles of Sociology, 1896; Tht 
 Theory of Socialization, 1897; The Elements 
 of Sociology, 1898 ; Democracy and Empire, 
 1900: Inductive Sociology, 1901; and De- 
 scriptive and Historical Sociology, 190(5. 
 Tr:)nslations of his works have been made 
 and ))ublished, into French, Russian, He- 
 brew, Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Japanese. 
 He is a member of the Authors, Century and 
 Barnard Clubs. Professor Giddings mar- 
 ried Elizabeth P. Hawes, and they have 
 a son and two daughters. Address: 150 
 West 79th Street, New York City. 
 
 GIEGERICH, Leonard A.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Bavaria, May 20, 1855; 
 son of Leonard and Theresa (Kramer) 
 Giegerich. He was educated in village, 
 public and parochial schools and has re- 
 ceived the honorary degree of LL.D., from 
 Manhattan College, New York City. He 
 was admitted to the New York bar, May 
 31, 1877, and practised law. He was a mem- 
 ber of the New York Assembly, 1887 ; col- 
 lector of United States Internal revenue, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1887-1890; justice of the City Court of 
 Now York. 1890; county clerk of New York 
 t'ounty. 1891: judge of the Court of Com- 
 mon Pleas. 1891-189;'); delegate to the Con- 
 stitutional Convention of New York, 1894; 
 justice of tlie Supreme Court, 1890, reelect- 
 ed November. 1906 for the term expiring 
 D:C. .'U. 19:iO. He is an honorary member 
 of the New York State Bar Association; 
 New York County Iviwyers' .Association; 
 member of the Knights of Columbus. Catho 
 lie Benevolent Legion, St. Francis Xavier 
 Sodalily. .Manhattan College Alumni So- 
 ciety, Tammany Society, New York Histori- 
 cal Society, Fidelia Gesang Verein ; is treas- 
 urer of the Park District Protective League 
 and member of tiie Catholic. Democratic 
 .Manliattan, Arion. (German Press and New 
 York Fishing, and Fordham Clubs. He 
 married in New York City, Sept. 0, 1887, 
 Ix)uise oVl. Boll and they liave two sons. 
 Address: West 'ioi'd Street, and Arlington 
 Avenue. Riverdale-on-lludson. New York 
 City. 
 
 GIES, William J.: 
 
 Biological cliemist; born in Reisterstown, 
 Md., Feb. 21, 1872; son of John and Ophelia 
 ( Ensminger ) Gies. He was educated in 
 Gettysburg College, B.S., 1893, M.S.. 1896, 
 Yale, Ph.B., 1894, Ph.D., 1897, was a stu- 
 dent in the University of Berne, Switzer- 
 land, 1899. and in the Marine Biological 
 Laboratory, Wood's Hole, Mass., 1901-1902. 
 He was connected with Yale University as 
 laboratory assistant in zoology, 1895, and 
 in physiological chemistry, 1894-1896, as- 
 sistant in physiological chemistry and tutor 
 in pliysiuiogy. 1896-1898. Since (hen lie lias 
 been connected with the Faculty of Colum- 
 bia University as instructor, 1898-1902, ad- 
 junct professor, 1902-1905, and professor, 
 1905-1907, of physiological chemistry, and 
 since 1907 as profes.sor of biological chemis- 
 try. He has also filled chairs of general 
 chemistry in the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons of New York since 1904, and of 
 I)liysiological chemistry in the New York 
 College of Pharmacy since 1904 and in New- 
 York Teachers College since 1909. He has 
 been consulting chemist to the New York 
 Botanical Garden since 1902, and secretary 
 
 of the Faculty of Medicine Columbia Uni- 
 versity, since 1905. Professor Gies is a fel- 
 low and secretary of Section K, American 
 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
 ence since 1904; secretary of the Society for 
 Experimental Biology and Medicine since 
 1903; secretary of the American Society of 
 Biological Chemists since 1906 ; member of 
 the American Society of Naturalists, Amer- 
 ican Chemical Society. American Physiologi- 
 cal Society, International Society of Botan- 
 ists, German Chemical Society; fellow (and 
 councillor since 1907) of the New York 
 Academy of, Science; member of the Harvey 
 Society and the Torrey Botanical Club, pres- 
 ident of the Society of Physiological Chem- 
 ists, 1890-1902; secretary of the New York 
 Gettysburg (College) Club, 1898-1906, and 
 president since 1906; and secretary of the 
 Physiological Congress. Louisiana Purchase 
 Exposition, 1904. Professor Gies is a mem- 
 ber of the Sigma Xi (honor society), and of 
 the Nu Sigma Nu and Druid fraternities. 
 He is author of scientific works, chief 
 among which are: Biochemical Researches 
 (volume I, 1903; volume II, 1906; volume 
 111. 1908; volume IV, 1909); and is editor 
 of the Proceedings of the Society for Experi- 
 mental Biology and Medicine, also of the 
 American Society of Biological Chemists, 
 and collaborator of the Journal of Biologi- 
 cal Chemistry. He was editor of the Gettys- 
 burg College Spectrum, 1892 (alumni edi- 
 tor. 1890-1897), and edited the Gettysburg 
 College Monthly, 1891-1893. He founded 
 the Pen and Sword at Gettysburg College, 
 and is donor of annual literary and debat- 
 ing prizes at that college. Professor Gies is 
 a Lutheran, was the choice of the Gettys- 
 burg College alunmi for president in 1904, 
 and was nominated an alumni member of 
 the Board of Tr\istees of Gettysburg College 
 in 1907 and elected in 1908. He has been 
 actively interested in every important polit- 
 ical c:imi)aign since 1892 as an independent 
 Kcpublican, took the stump for Hoosevclt. 
 Low, Jerome, etc.; elected Republican cap- 
 tain of tlie 43rd Election District of former 
 I9tli Assembly District; secretary of the 
 I\c'i)iil)lic;ui organization that elected Harry 
 \\ . .Mack as Republican leader of the New 
 l.ltli Assembly District, 1906; delegate tu 
 
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 the State Conventions that nominated 
 Charles E. Hughes for governor, 1006 and 
 1908; treasurer of the Judge Spiegelberg 
 Campaign Committee, 1907, and of the lath 
 Assembly District Organizations since 1908. 
 He married in Millersburg, Pa., May 24, 
 1899, Mabel L. Lark, and they have two 
 sons. Address: 437 West r)9th Street, New- 
 York City. 
 
 GIFFORD, John Clayton: 
 
 Forester; bora at Mary's Landing, N. J., 
 Feb. 8, 1870. He was graduated from 
 Swarthmore College, B.S., and was graduate 
 student in the University of Michigan, 
 Johns Hopkins University and the Univer- 
 sity of Munich, receiving from the latter 
 the degree of D.OEc. (Doctor of Economics). 
 He was instructor in economic botany at 
 Swarthmore College, forester for the New 
 Jersey Geological Survey and was formerly 
 assistant professor of forestry in Cornell 
 University, and special agent of the U. S. 
 Department of Agriculture. He was found- 
 er and former editor of The Forester, now 
 Conservation, the official organ of the Amer- 
 ican Forestry Association at Washington, 
 D. C. Professor GifFord has written articles 
 on forestrj' in the engineering magazines. 
 The Forester, Swiss Journal of Forestry and 
 Reports on Forestry to the Geological of 
 New Jersey, and is author of : Practical 
 Forestry (Appleton) ; The Luquillo Forest 
 Reserve of Porto Rico; Silvicultural Pros- 
 pects of the Coastal Plain of New Jersey. 
 He is at present engaged in reporting on 
 forests in South Florida and' tropical Amer- 
 ica in general. He is a member of the Soci- 
 ety of American Foresters. He married in 
 Piainfield, N. J. May, 1896, Edith Wright. 
 Address : Cocoanut Grove, Florida. 
 
 GIFFORD, Robert Ladd: 
 
 Engineer and inventor; born in Smith- 
 field, "Ohio, Sept. 12, 1867; son of William 
 and Lyd'ia (Ladd) Gifiord. He was gradu- 
 ated from Cornell University in 1891. He 
 has been president of the Illinois Engineer- 
 ing Company since 1900, and is nationally 
 known' as an inventor of steam appliances 
 and a process for the recovery of sulphate of 
 iron. He is a member of the American So- 
 
 ciety of Civil Engineers; the American So- 
 ciety of Mechanical Engineers, the American 
 Society of Heating and Ventilating Engi- 
 neers, the Western Society of Engineers ; is 
 a director of the Anti-Cruelty Society of 
 Chicago, and is a member of the Alpha Del- 
 ta Phi fraternity, and tlie University, South 
 Sliore Country, and City Clubs of Chicago. 
 He married in Chicago, Oct. 12, 1898, Eve- 
 lyn A. Brooks, and has one son. Residence: 
 4908 Kimbark Avenue. Office: Monadnock 
 Building, Cliicago, and branches. 
 
 GILBERT, Alexander: 
 
 Banker; born in Elizabeth, N. J.. Aug. 10, 
 18.39; son of Tliomas and Phcbe M. Gilbert. 
 He was educated in New Haven, Conn., and 
 afterward engaged in banking in New York 
 City, and at the age of twenty-four was ap- 
 pointed cashier of the Market and Fulton 
 National Bank and for years was the young- 
 est bank officer in New Y'ork City. He is 
 now president of the Market and Fulton Na- 
 tional Bank ; was secretary of the New 
 York Clearing House, 1893-1894; was 
 member of the Clearing House Committee of 
 New York City, 1903-1904; elected presi- 
 dent of the New York Clearing House As- 
 sociation, October, 1906; treasurer of the 
 Hillside Cemetery Association, of Piainfield, 
 N. J.; mayor of Piainfield, N. J., serving 
 1890-1896 (elected two terms without oppo- 
 sition) ; president of Piainfield Public Li- 
 brary. Mr. Gilbert was a delegate to the Na- 
 tional Republican Convention of 1892, and 
 Presidential Elector in 1908. He is a mem- 
 ber of the American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science, N. Y. Board of Trade and 
 Transportation, New I'ork Chamber of Com- 
 merce and Union League, Republican and 
 Fulton Clubs of New Y'ork City, and of the 
 Piainfield Country and Park Clubs of Plain- 
 field, N. J. Mr. Gilbert married June 6, 
 1865, Louise F. Randolph. Residence: 
 Piainfield, N. J. 
 
 GILBERT, Cass: 
 
 Architect; born in Zanesville, Ohio, Nov. 
 24, 1859; son of Brigadier-General Samuel 
 A. and Elizabeth Fulton (Wheeler) Gilbert. 
 He was educated in the public schools of 
 Zanesville and St. Paul, and' in the Massa- 
 
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 chusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Gil- 
 bert began the study of architecture in 1876 
 and has been practising for himself since 
 1883. He is architect of the new United 
 States Custom House, Union Club, Broad- 
 way Chambers, West Street Building, and 
 others in New York City; Brazer Building 
 and Suffolk Savings Bank in Boston; Art 
 Building and Festival Hall, Louisiana Pur- 
 chase Exposition ; the new State Capitol of 
 -Minnesota; Public Library Building, St. 
 Louis; and Essex County Court House in 
 Mewark, N. J. Mr. Gilbert is a member 
 and founder of the Architectural League; 
 president of the American Institute of Arch- 
 itects; a member of the Sons of Revolution; 
 academician member of the National Acad- 
 emy of Design ; was member the Jury of Fine 
 Arts, World's Columbian Exposition, Chica- 
 go, 1893, and the National Jury for Archi- 
 tecture at the Paris Exposition in 1900, and 
 he is a member of the Century, Union and 
 Lawyers' Club of New York City, the Cosmos 
 Club of Washington and the Minnesota Club 
 of St. Paul. Mr. Gilbert married in Mil- 
 waukee, Wis., in 1887, Julia T. Finch. Res- 
 idence: 45 East 78th Street, New York 
 City, and Ridgefield, Conn. Office address: 
 11 p:ast 24th Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 GILBERT, Grove Karl: 
 
 Geologist; born in Rochester, N. Y., May 
 6, 1843; son of Grove Sheldon and Eliza 
 (Stanley) Gilbert. He was graduated from 
 the University of Rochester, A.B., 1862; 
 was teacher, 1862-1863; assistant at Ward's 
 Natural History Museum, 1863-1869; assist- 
 ant geologist in the Oliio Geological Survey, 
 1869-1871; geologist of the Wheeler Survey, 
 1871-1874; of the Powell Survey, 1874-1879; 
 and has been geologist in the service of the 
 United States Geological Survey since 1879. 
 He was lecturer at Johns Hopkins, 1894- 
 1895, and associate editor of Johnson's En- 
 cyclopedia. Mr. Gilbert received the Wollas- 
 ton medal from tlie London Geological So- 
 ciety in 1899; the Walker Prize from the 
 Boston Society of Natural History in 1907; 
 the degree of LL.D. from Rocliester Univer- 
 sity in 1898, from tlie University of Wiscon- 
 sin in 1904, and from tlu! I 'ni versify of 
 Pennsylvania in 1908. He is a member of 
 
 the National Academy of Sciences, Ameri- 
 can Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
 ence (past president), American Society of 
 Naturalists (past president) ; Geological 
 Society of America (past president), Na- 
 tional Geographic Society, American Philo- 
 sophical Society, and the Washington Geo- 
 logical Society. He is author of: Geology 
 of the Henry Mountains; Lake Bonneville; 
 Introduction to Physical Geography; and 
 numerous articles on geological subjects. 
 He married at Cambridge, Mass., Fannie 
 Loretta Porter and has two cliild'ren. Ad- 
 dress: United States Geological Survey, 
 »\ ashington, D. C. 
 
 GILBERT, William Ball: 
 
 United States circuit judge; born in Fair- 
 fax County, Va., July 4, 1847; son of John 
 and Mary Catherine (Ball) Gilbert. He 
 was graduated from Williams College, 1868, 
 and from the Law School of the University 
 of Michigan in 1872. He engaged in prac- 
 tice at Portland, Ore., in 1892, and became 
 one of the leading lawyers at that bar, and 
 also prominent in the councils of the Repub- 
 lican party of that State. In 1892 he was 
 appointed by President Harrison to his pres- 
 ent office of judge of the Circuit Court of 
 the United States for the Ninth Judicial 
 Circuit. Address: Portland, Ore. 
 
 GILCHRIST, Albert W.: 
 
 Govcnior ut Florida; elected on the Dem- 
 ocratic lickfl in 11108, for the four-year 
 term expiring in .laniiary. I'M'A. Address: 
 Tnllahassee. Fla. 
 
 GILDER, Jeannette Leonard: 
 
 .l<)urii:ili>t and critic: born in Flushing, 
 N. N .. Oft. :',. 1849; daughter of Rev. Wil- 
 liiiiii 11. and .lane (Nutt) (iilder. She was 
 educated in St. Thouias Hall, a woman's col- 
 lege conduct (•(! Iiy iicr father, and' began her 
 newspa|icr career at 18 as a writer on the 
 Newark, (N. .1.) Morning Register, con- 
 ducted l>y iier brother, Richard Watson Gil- 
 der, and as Newark reporter for the New- 
 York Tribune. She was later on editorial 
 staff of the old Scribner's .Monthly (now 
 the Cenlury IMagazine) : literary editor, 
 1875, and later dramatic and musical critic 
 
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 of the New York Herald until 1880. With 
 lier brother, Joseph B. Gilder, she founded 
 in 1881, and has ever since been joint editor 
 with him of The Critic (now Putnam's 
 Magazine). Miss Gilder has been a corres- 
 pondent of leading papers in Boston and 
 Philadelphia, and of the London Academy, 
 and is now regular correspondent and liter- 
 ary critic of the Chicago Tribune. She is 
 author of: Taken by feiege; Pen Portraits 
 of Literary Women (with Helen G. Cone) ; 
 Essays from the Critic and Authors at 
 Home, 1889; (with J. B. Gilder) ; Repre- 
 sentative Poems of Living Poets, 1880; The 
 Autobiography of a Tomboy, 1900; The 
 Tomboy at VV ork, 1904. Miss Gilder is a 
 member of the Colony Club of New York. 
 Residences: 100 East 17th Street, New 
 York City, and Redding Riuge, Conn. Of- 
 fice: Putnam's Magazine, 27 West 23d 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 GILDER, Joseph B.: 
 
 Editor; born in Flushing, N. Y., June 29, 
 1858; son of Rev. William H. and Jane 
 (Nutt) Gilder. He entered the U. S. Naval 
 Academy, 1872 ; but resigned in 1874 and 
 entered journalism in the capacity of re- 
 porter on Newark newspapers, 1874-1877, 
 and was also a correspondent of the Boston 
 Advertiser, Buffalo Courier, and other pa- 
 pers during the same period. He became a 
 reporter for the New York Herald, 1877, 
 and resigned as assistant city editor, Dec, 
 1880, in order to establish in January, 1881, 
 with his sister, Jeannette L. Gilder, The 
 Critic, of which was co-editor until Dec, 
 1901. He was president and treasurer of 
 The Critic Company, 1893-1898; literary 
 adviser to The Century Company, 1895- 
 1902; U. S. despatch agent, London (suc- 
 ceeding the late B. F. Stevens), 1902-1904; 
 editor, since July 1, 1906, of Putnam's Mag- 
 azine (formerly The Critic). Mr. Gilder 
 was treasurer of the American Copyright 
 League, 1886; one of the organizers, 1891, 
 and first secretary of the University Settle- 
 ment Society of New York. He was author 
 and comj^oser of the patriotic song " In 
 God We Trust " and editor of : James Rus- 
 sell Lowell's Impressions of Spain; Andrew 
 Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth; Addresses of 
 
 John Hay; The American Idea. Joint edi- 
 tor (with Jeannette L. Gilder) : Essays 
 from the Critic; Authors at Home. He is 
 a member of the Century Club (New York), 
 and Whitefriars ( I^ndon ) . Address : 27 
 West 23d Street, New York City. 
 
 GILDER, Richard Watson: 
 
 Editor of the Century Magazine and au- 
 thor; born in Bordentown, N. J., Feb. 8, 
 1844; son of Rev. William Henry Gilder, 
 A.M. and Jane (Nutt) Gilder. He was edu- 
 cated in his father s school and in Dr. James 
 Strong's Greek and Hebrew classes and by 
 private tutors. He has received the degree 
 of A. M., Harvard, 1890; of LL.D. from 
 Princeton (Seoquicentennial) , Yale (Bicen- 
 tennial), and Columbia; LL.D. from Dickin- 
 son College and from Wesleyan (Bicenten- 
 nial of Wesley) ; and was made chevalier of 
 the Legion d'Honneur of France, 1908. Mr. 
 Gilder was a private in the L^nion Army, 
 1863; student of law in Philadelphia; con- 
 nected with the daily press of Newark, N. 
 J. ; editor ( for the Scribner's ) of Hours at 
 Home (monthly) 1869; since 1870 on the 
 editorial staff of what is now known as the 
 Century (originally Scribner's) Magazine, 
 and since 1881 its editor-in-chief. He is a 
 member of the Academy of Arts and Let- 
 ters ; a founder of the Society of American 
 Artists and of the American Copyright 
 League; member of the Executive Com- 
 mittee of the National Civil Service Reform 
 League; president of the New York Associa- 
 tion for the Blind ; member of the ]\Iuseum 
 of Safety and Sanitation, and of the Bureau 
 of Municipal Research; president of the 
 council of 100 of the Parks and Playgrounds 
 Association; founder and first secretary of 
 the New Jersey Society for the Prevention 
 of Cruelty to Animals; first president of 
 the New York Kindergarten Association, 
 and of the Public Art League of America; 
 member and was first vice-president and act- 
 ing president of the City Club; member of 
 the Century, Authors (a founder), Players 
 and National Arts Clubs. Mr. Gilder was 
 a member of the Executive Committee of the 
 Citizens' Union, and chairman of the New 
 York Tenement House Committee, 1894. He 
 is author of: The New Day, 1875; later. 
 
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 MEN OF AAIERICA. 
 
 The Celestial Passion; Lyrics; Two Worlds; 
 The Great Remembrance, and Other Poems: 
 For the Country. 1897 (collection) ; In Pal- 
 estine and Other Poems, 1898; Poems and 
 Inscriptions, 1001; A Christmas Wreath, 
 1903 (collection); In the Heights, 1905; A 
 Book of Music, 1906 (collection). The Fire 
 Divine, 1907; Complete "Poems," including 
 the above and Helena's Garden, 1908. He 
 married Helena de Kay, daughter of Com- 
 modore de Kay of New York (of the Navy 
 of the Argentine Republic) , and granddaugh- 
 ter of Joseph Rodman Drake (the poet) ; 
 and they have living two sons and three 
 daughters. Address: 33 East 17th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 GILDERSLEEVE, Henry Alger: 
 
 Jurist ; born on a farm in Township of 
 Clinton, Dutchess County. N. Y., Aug. 1, 
 1840; son of Smith J. and Rachel (Alger) 
 Gildersleeve. He was educated' in the Hud- 
 son River Institute, Claverack, N. Y., and 
 College Hill. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; taught 
 district school in Bull's Head District, 
 town of Clinton, 1857 ; recruited a com- 
 pany, and was mustered in, Sept. 17, 1862, 
 as captain of Company C, 150th New York 
 Volunteer Infantry; served with the regi- 
 ment at Baltimore, participating in the 
 battle of Gettysburg and subsequent cam- 
 paigns in Maryland and Virginia, in the 
 Army of the Potomac; then served in Sher- 
 man's Army until the close of the war, in- 
 cluding the March lo the Sea; was made 
 provost-marshal of the First Division, 
 Twentieth Army Corps, on the staff of 
 General Williams, of Michigan; promoted 
 major of regiment and brevetted lieutenant- 
 colonel, U. S. Volunteers, by President Lin- 
 coln " for gallant and meritorious service 
 in the campaigns of Georgia and the Caro- 
 linas; " mustered out June, 1865. He stud- 
 ied law in the office of Henry W. Johnson, 
 in New York City, and attended Columbia 
 College Law School, was admitted to the 
 bar at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., May, 1800, 
 practised law in New York City from 1866; 
 elected judge of the Court of General Ses- 
 sions, New York City, 1875 ; was renominat- 
 ed in 1889, but failed of reelection; was ap- 
 pointed by Governor Hill, May, 1891, to 
 
 fill a vacancy in the Superior Court of the 
 City of New York, and elected November, 
 1891, to the same position; transferred to 
 the Supreme Court of New York in January, 
 1890, under the provisions of new Consti- 
 tiition. abolishing the Superior Court; re- 
 elected, 1905, for term expiring Dec. 31, 
 1919, and is now presiding justice of the 
 Appellate Term in the First Department. 
 He was elected lieutenant-colonel of the 
 Twelfth Regiment, National Guard of New 
 York. 1870. and during the Orange Riots in 
 New York City, 1871, had command of the 
 Twelfth Regiment, which was assigned to 
 defense of the State Arsenal at Thirty-fifth 
 Street and Seventh Avenue. He was distin- 
 guished as marksman and was a member of 
 the American Rifle Team which won in con- 
 test with the Irish Team at Creed'more, 
 1874, and captain of the team in the contest 
 (which it won) with the Irish team at 
 DoUymouth, near Dublin, June 9, 1875; 
 also in several competitions in England 
 and Scotland. He is author of: Rifles 
 and Marksmanship. 1896. Judge Gilder- 
 sleeve is a member of the Manhattan, Na- 
 tional Democratic, and New York Athletic 
 Clubs, and of the Garden City and Oak- 
 land Golf Clubs, the Country Club of West- 
 chester and the Robbins Island Hunting 
 Club. He married' in New York City, April 
 14, 1868, Virginia Crochernn. and has a son 
 and a daughter. Address: 27 West 23d 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 GILDERSLEEVE, Oliver: 
 
 Shipbuilder and merchant; born in Gil- 
 dersleeve, Middlesex County, Conn., March 
 6, 1844; son of Henry and Emily (Fonette) 
 Gildersleeve; descended in both lines from 
 early English settlers in Connecticut. He 
 was educated in tlie district schools of Gil- 
 dersleeve, Conn., the Chase Private School 
 in Middletown and public high school in 
 Hartford. Conn. At seventeen he began his 
 business life in his father's shipyard (S. 
 <;iidersioeve & Sons), and for ten years, in- 
 terspersed with frequent trips ovei' the 
 rniti'd' States, Canada, and Europe, contin- 
 ued to work as a practical shipbuilder. The 
 firm built the U. S. gunboat Cayuga in 1861, 
 and the yard has built one hundred and 
 
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 sevonty-seven vessels since he became con- 
 nected with tlie husiness. He was also in- 
 terested, witii liis brother Sylvester, in thi! 
 shipping coiinnission business in New York 
 City, 1881-1884, and he established in 1897. 
 in New York City, an agency for selling and 
 chartering vessels constructed' at the Gil- 
 dersleeve Ship Yard, and has since sold or 
 profitably eni])loyed ninety-nine vessels of 
 from 400 to 1250 tons burden, sent from 
 the Gildersleeve Ship Y^'ard. Mr. Gilder- 
 sleeve is president of the Portland Water 
 Company, Portland Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, and Middlesex Quarry Company, all 
 of Portland, Conn., the Plioenix Lead Com- 
 pany of Silver Cliff, Colo., and the United 
 States Grapliotype Company, of New Yoik 
 City; director of the First National Bank 
 of Portland. Alabama Barge and Coal Com- 
 pany, of Tidewater, Ala., Ideal Manu- 
 facturing Company of Gildersleeve, Conn.; 
 trustee of Freeston Savings Bank of Port- 
 land, Conn. ; trustee under the will of 
 Henry Gildersleeve, deceased, and trustee of 
 the S. Gildersleeve School Fund of Gilder- 
 sleeve, Conn. He is chairman of the com- 
 mittee on River Improvements in The As- 
 sociation for the Permanent Improvement 
 of the Lower Connecticut River, which as- 
 sociation was organized in 1908, has a 
 membership of 2,500, and has secured an 
 order from Congress for the survey of the 
 Lower Connecticut River, which is now be- 
 ing made at an estimated expense of $2,000, 
 with a view to securing a 14-foot permanent 
 channel. On Aug. 4, 1909, Mr. Gildersleeve 
 was appointed, by the Governor of Con- 
 necticut, a member of the State Commission 
 of five on Rivers and Harbors, whose duties 
 are to investigate the condition oi the 
 rivers and harbors of Connecticut and to 
 report to the next General Assembly* their 
 findings and make such reconmiendations as 
 may seem best regarding the improvement 
 of such rivers and harbors. He was Demo- 
 cratic nominee for Congress in 1900, and he 
 is warden since 1884 of Trinity Church 
 (Episcopalian) of Portland, Conn., super- 
 intendent of its Sunday School since 1872: 
 established a Memorial Fund in connection 
 with that church in 1900; and has been a 
 delegate to the Diocesan Convention annual- 
 
 ly from 1884 and a member of the Diocesan 
 Committee on Finance and of .several other 
 committees of the diocese. He is a member 
 of the Middlesex County Historical Society, 
 Civic Federation of New England, National 
 Geogra])liic Society, Economic Club of New 
 York, and the Association of Descendants 
 of Andrew Ward. He married. Nov. 8. 
 1871, Mary Ellen, daughter of Hon. Alfred 
 Hall of Portland, Conn., and they have had 
 eight children of whom two are now de- 
 ceased. Residence: Gildersleeve, Conn. Of- 
 fice: 1 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 GILL, John, Jr.: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Balti- 
 more City, June 9, 1850; son of George M.. 
 and Ann (McKim) Gill. He received his 
 academic training at Hampden-Sidney Col- 
 lege, Va., and studied law at the ^Maryland 
 University. In 1871 Mr. Gill was admitted 
 to the Baltimore Bar, and' has for a number 
 of years been senior member of the law firm 
 of Gill & Preston. Mr. Gill at one time 
 served as one of the legal advisers of Balti- 
 more City, and for nine years was one of its 
 police commissioners; in the years 1874, 
 1875, 1876 and 1877 he was a member of the 
 Maryland house of delegates; in 1882 was 
 elected to the ]\laryland Senate for a term 
 of four years, and was reelected for a like 
 term in 1904; it was while serving part of 
 this second term that Mr. Gill was elected 
 as a Democrat to the Fifty-ninth Congress. 
 He was reelected' to the Sixtieth and Sixty- 
 first Congresses from the Fourth Maryland 
 District. Address: 1007 North Charles 
 Street, Baltimore. 
 
 OILL, Laura Drake: 
 
 Educator; born in Chesterville, Me., Aug. 
 24, 1860; daughter of Elisha and Hulda 
 (Capen) Gill. She received her early ed- 
 ucation in the public schools of Brockton, 
 Mass., was graduated from Smith College, 
 A.B., 1881, and A.M., 1885; took post- 
 graduate work in the University of Leipzig, 
 1890-1892, and in the Sorbonne," Paris, 1892- 
 1893, and she received the degree of D.C.L. 
 from the University of the South in 1907. 
 Miss Gill was teacher of mathematics in 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Miss Capen's School, Northampton, Mass., 
 1S80-1889 and 1893-1808; director of relief 
 work of the Cuban Orphan Society in Cuba, 
 lS!)8-iy01.: dean of Barnard College, 1901- 
 1908. Since 1908 she has been in volun- 
 teer educational work as president of the 
 Association of Collegiate Alumnae, presi- 
 dent of the department of Women's Organi- 
 zations in the National Educational Associ- 
 ation and cliairman of education of the Gen- 
 eral Federation of Women's Clubs. She 
 is a trustee of Smith College and of the 
 Clarke School for the Deaf; member of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science, the Society for the Promotion 
 of Industrial Education, National Red Cross 
 Society, American Civic Association, Na- 
 tional Municipal League, and the Barnard, 
 Women's University and Smith College 
 Clubs of New York City, College Club of 
 Boston, and College Club of Baltimore. Ad- 
 dress: 1320 19th Street, Washington, D. C. 
 
 GILL, Theodore Nicholas: 
 
 Professor of zoology; born in New York 
 City, March 21, 1837; son of James Darrell 
 and Elizabeth (Vosburgh) Gill, and a de- 
 scendant of Nicholas Gill, who was admiral- 
 *-y jufla^ of Newfoundland in 1722. He at- 
 tended private schools and received instruc- 
 tion from special tutors, became adjunct 
 professor of physics and natural history in 
 Columbian University, 1861-1802, at the 
 same time taking graduate studies, and he 
 received from that University the degrees of 
 A. M., 1865, M.D., 1866, and the honorary 
 degrees of Ph.D., 1870, and LL.D., 1895. 
 He was appointed in 1803 assistant and li- 
 brarian in the Smithsonian Institution; 
 was appointed assistant librarian of Con- 
 gress in 1866, but resigned in 1874. He was 
 lecturer on natuial history, 1864-1866 and 
 again, 1873-1884 in Columbian University, 
 and since 1884 has been professor of zoology 
 in the .same institution. Professor Gill pre- 
 pared reports on zoology for the Smith- 
 sonian Institution, 1879-1886. He is author 
 of numej-ous works on systematic zoology 
 and has written hundreds of articles on 
 zoiilogy for cyclopedias. He has been a 
 member of the National Academy of Sci- 
 ences since 1873; is a fellow and was presi- 
 
 dent, 1896-1897 of the American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science; fellow 
 of the American Ornithologists' Union, and 
 a membei- of about fifty other scientific so- 
 cieties. Residence: 321 John Marshall 
 Place. Office: Smithsonian Institute, 
 Washinuton, D. C. 
 
 GILLESPIE, George Lewis: 
 
 Major-general Corps of Engineers. U. S. 
 Army, retired; born in Kingston, Tenn., 
 June 17, 1843. He was graduated from 
 West Point in 1862, one of the stars in his 
 class, and was assigned to the Corps of En- 
 gineers, and served' with distinction in the 
 Civil War, being engineer officer on the staff 
 of the general commanding the Army of the 
 Potomac, 1862-1864, and after that chief 
 engineer of the Shenandoah. He was pres- 
 ent at Lee's surrender at Appomattox, was 
 twice brevetted for gallantry, and received 
 the Congressional Medal of Honor for 
 bravery. At the close of the war in 1865, 
 he became chief engineer in the reconstruc- 
 tion of the Gulf States and the restoration 
 of the Republic of Mexico. He was twice 
 brevetted for gallantry in the Civil War, 
 was promoted' second lieutenant. June 17, 
 1862; first lieutenant, March 3, 1863; cap- 
 tain, April 22, 1864; major, Sept. 5, 1871; 
 lieutenant-colonel, Oct. 12, 1886; colonel, 
 Oct. 2, 1895; brigadier-general, chief of 
 Engineers, May 3, 1901 ; major-general, Jan. 
 23, 1904, and Retired June 17, 1905. After 
 the Civil War period he filled many import- 
 ant positions as an engineer officer, was 
 president of the Mississippi River Commis- 
 sion in 1884, and during the War with 
 Spain in 1898; commissioned brigadier- 
 general, chief of Engineers, May 3, 1901; 
 appointed major-general Jan. 23, 1904, and 
 assigned as assistant chief of staff until re- 
 tired by operation of law, June 17, 1905. 
 Address: 1533 New Ilampsliire Avenue, 
 Wasliington. D. C. 
 
 GILLESPIE, Oscar William: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer, born in Clarke 
 County, Miss., June 20, 1858; son of T. J. 
 and Mary E. Gillespie. He was graduated 
 from Mansfield College in Tarrant County, 
 Texas; admitted to the bar, November, 
 
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 1S,S(); served as assistant county attorney, 
 iSS(J-1888, and as prosecuting attorney of 
 Warrant County, 1890-1894. He was elected 
 to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth and 
 Sixtieth Congresses and reelected to the 
 Sixty-first Congress from the Twelfth Texas 
 District, as a Democrat. He married. Dec. 
 23, 1884, Ada Kate Hodges, of Mansfield, 
 Texas. Address: Fort Worth, Texas. 
 
 GILLETT, Charles Ripley: 
 
 Registrar and clergyman; born in New 
 York City, Nov. 29, 1855; son of Rev. Ezra 
 Hall (D.b.) and Mary Jane (Kendall) Gil- 
 lett. He was graduated from New York 
 University, A.B., 1874, B.S., C.E., M.A., 
 1876, honorary D.D., 1898; student in the 
 Union Theological Seminary, 1877-1880, 
 University of Berlin in Germany, 1881- 
 1883; honorary L.H.D., Beloit College, 1899. 
 He was librarian, 1883-1908, instructor of 
 propaedeutics, 1893-1908, registrar since 
 1908, secretary of the faculty since 1898, 
 Union Theological Seminary New York 
 City ; assistant curator of the Department 
 of Oriental Antiquities, Metropolitan Mu- 
 seum of Art, New Y'ork City, since 1900. 
 Author: General Catalogues, Union Theo- 
 logical Seminary, 1886, 1898, 1908; Cata- 
 logue Egyptian Antiquities in Metropolitan 
 Museum in N. Y.; Catalogue of Cypriote 
 Stone Sculpture and of Pottery and Terra 
 Cotta, in the Cesnola Collection in the 
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1905; also the 
 third volume of the Descriptive Atlas of 
 Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan 
 Museum. He is the translator of Harnack's 
 Monasticism, 1895, Kruger's History of 
 I^arly Christian Literature, 1897; and was 
 six years editor of the Literary Department 
 of the Magazine of Christian Literature. 
 ]\Iember of the Century Association, New 
 York, and of the Wykagyl Country Club, 
 New Rochelle, N. Y'. He married in Yonk- 
 ers. N. Y., April 20, 1881, Kate Van Kirk, 
 and tliey have liad five children, of whom 
 two are now deceased. Residence: Pelham 
 Manor, N. Y". Address : 700 Park Avenue, 
 New York City. 
 
 GILLETT, Frederick Huntington: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman ; born in West- 
 field, Mass., Oct. 16, 1851; son of Edward 
 
 Bales and Lucy Douglass (Fowler) Gillett. 
 He was graduated from Amherst College, 
 A.B., 1874, and from Harvard Law School, 
 A.B., 1877. He was admitted to the bar in 
 Springfield in 1877; was assistant attorney- 
 general of Massachusetts from 1879 to 
 1882; was elected to the Massachusetts 
 House of Representatives in 1890 and 1891; 
 was elected as a Republican to the Fifty- 
 third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, 
 Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth 
 and Sixtieth Congresses and reelected in 
 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress from the 
 Second Massachusetts District. Mr. Gil- 
 lett is an influential member of the Ap- 
 propriations Committee and is chairman of 
 the Committee on Reform in the Civil 
 Service. Address: Springfield, Mass. 
 
 GILLETT, James Norris: 
 
 Governor of California; born in Viroqua. 
 Wis., Sept., 30, I860; son of Cyrus L. and 
 Sarah J. Gillett. He was educated in Wis- 
 consin schools, studied law and was admit- 
 ted to the bar in 1881. He went to Cali- 
 fornia and engaged in practice in San Fran- 
 cisco, and also became prominent in poli- 
 tics as a Republican ; served in tlie Stale 
 senate of California 1897-1899; was elected 
 to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con- 
 gresses from the First California District, 
 and in November, 1906 was elected Gover- 
 nor for the four-year term expiring in Jan- 
 uary, 1911. Address: S.acramento, Calif. 
 
 GILLETTE, William: 
 
 Actor, dramatic author; born in Hart- 
 ford, Conn., July 24, 1855 ; son of Francis 
 Gillette, former United States senator. He 
 was educated in Boston College and Col- 
 lege of the City of New York. Went on 
 stage in minor roles, 1877; by 1881 was 
 playing in his own dramas and has so con- 
 tinued since, with a few exceptional engage- 
 ments. Author of plays (unpublished) : 
 The Professor; The Private Secretary; 
 Esmeralda; A Legal Wreck; Held by the 
 Enenw; Too Much Johnson; Ninety Days; 
 Mr. Wilkinson's Widows; All the Comforts 
 of Home; Because She Loved Him So; 
 Settled Out of Court; The Red Owl; Clar- 
 ice; Secret Service; A Maid-of-AU-Work; 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Sherlock Holmes. He is a member of The 
 Plaj'eis', The Lambs', American Drama- 
 tists' Clubs. Address: Empire Theater, 
 New York City. 
 
 GILMAN, Bradley: 
 
 Autlior and clergyman; born in Boston. 
 Jan. 22, 1857 ; son of Thomas R. and Ruth 
 (Matthews) Oilman. He was graduated 
 from Harvard University, A.B., 1880, and 
 from Harvard Divinity School, S.T.B., 1884. 
 lie entered the Unitarian ministry, filling 
 pastorates in Belmont and Waverly, 1884- 
 1885, Concord, N. H., 1885-1892, Spring- 
 field, Mass., 1892-1903; since then pastor 
 over the First Parish, Canton, Mass., a 
 suburb of Boston. He is author of juvenile 
 stories and The Drifting Island; Kibboo 
 Ganey (under the pen-name of Walter 
 Went worth) ; also author of the juvenile 
 stories: Kingdom of Coins; and a Son of 
 the Desert; and The Musical Journey of 
 Dorothy and Delia. He is also author, 
 under his own name, of: The Parsonage 
 Porch; Back to the Soil; Ronald Carna- 
 quay, a Commercial Clergyman ; and The 
 Open Secret of Xazaretli. Mr. Oilman has 
 contributed to various magazines, and has 
 translated Edouard Rod's Pastor Naudies 
 Young Wife. Mr. Oilman is a member of 
 the Twentieth Century, University, and 
 Authors' Clubs of Boston. He married, 
 Sept. 14, 188G, Mary Rebecca Foster, and 
 has a daughter. Addi-ess: Canton, Mass. 
 
 GILMAN, Charlotte Perkins: 
 
 Author, lecturer; born in Hartford, 
 Conn., 1860; daughter of Frederick Beecher 
 and Mary A. Fitch (Westcott) Perkins; 
 great-granddaughter of Lyman Beecher. 
 She married, in 1884, C. W. Stetson; 
 in 1900, G. H. Oilman. She has been 
 a lecturer since 1890; also an extensive 
 magazine contributor on subjects of soci- 
 ology, ethics and economics; writer of 
 verses and stories. Mrs. Oilman has writ- 
 ten much in favor of the advancement of 
 women along practical lines, of economic 
 and social progress, and on i)roblems of 
 labor. Author of: in This Our World 
 (verse), 1808; Women and Economics, 1898; 
 
 The Yellow Wall -Paper, 1899; Concerning 
 Children, 1900; The Home, Its Work and 
 Inlluence, 1903; Human Work, 1904. Made 
 speaking tours of Europe, 1896, 1899, 1905. 
 Mrs. Oilman is a member of the American 
 Sociological Association, League for Politi- 
 cal Education, American Academy of Politi- 
 cal and Social Science. She publishes The 
 l-'orerunner. a monthly magazine, written 
 entirely by herself. Address: The Charl- 
 ton Co.. 67 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 GILMAN, Lawrence: 
 
 Musical critic, author; born in Flushing, 
 Long Island, July 5, 1878; son of Arthur 
 C. and Bessie (Lawrence) Oilman. He was 
 educated in the public schools of New Yoi'k 
 City, and the Collins Street Classical 
 School at Hartford, Conn.; studied paint- 
 ing under \Mlliam M. Chase, and illustra- 
 tion at the Art Students' League, New Y^ork 
 City; studied privately musical theory and 
 composition, piano and organ. Air. Oilman 
 is author of: Phases of Modern Music, 
 1904; Edward McDowell (in "Living Mas- 
 ters of Music" series), 1905; Edward Mc- 
 Dowell: A Study (revised and enlarged 
 edition of the preceding), 1909; The Music 
 of To-Morrow, 1906; A Ouide to Strauss' 
 Salome, 1907; Stories of Symphonic Music, 
 1907 ; A Ouide to Debussy's Pelleas et 
 M^lisande, 1907; Aspects of Modern Opera, 
 1908. He has been musical critic of Har- 
 per's Weekly since 1901, and assistant edi- 
 tor of the same since 1903, and i§ a con- 
 tributor to musical and general publica- 
 tions. He was elected a member of the 
 National Institute of Arts and Letters in 
 1908. Mr. Oilman married, in 1904, Eliza- 
 beth Wright Walter. Residence: 227 East 
 72d Street. Ollico: Caie of Harper's 
 Weekly, Franklin Square, New York City. 
 
 GILMAN, Mary Rebecca Foster: 
 
 Autlior and literary critic; boni in Wor- 
 cester, Mass.,' in 1859; daughter of Hon. 
 Dwight Foster, judge of the Supreme Judi- 
 cial Court of Massachusetts and Henrietta 
 (Baldwin) Foster, daughter of Oovernor 
 Roger Sherman Baldwin of Connecticut. 
 She was educated in Boston schools and in 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Ihnopi', and lived in Boston until her niar- 
 iia<vo. Sept. 14. 1S86, to Rev. Bradloy Gil- 
 man, Unitarian clorirynian and writer, 
 since Vhich time slu; has lived about six 
 years in Concord, N. II., twelve years in 
 Spriuf'field, Mass., and since 1003 in Can- 
 ton, Mass., a suburb of Boston, in which 
 places her husband has held pastorates. 
 They have a daugliter, Dorothy Foster Gil- 
 man. Mrs. Gilnian is well known as a 
 literary critic, and has written for the 
 Springfield Republican, the Boston Tran- 
 script, Critic and Literary World. She is 
 author of: The Wit and Wisdom of George 
 ^leredith, and of the Life of St. Theresa 
 in the " Famous Women Series." She 
 edited and wrote an introduction to Ham- 
 erton's " Quest of Happiness." -She is a 
 member of the Fiction Committee of the 
 Boston Public Library; member of the 
 Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames 
 and of the Women's National Alliance. 
 Address : Mrs. Bradley Gilman, Hemen- 
 way Chambers, Boston ; or Canton, Mass. 
 
 GILMAN, Stella Scott: 
 
 Aiitlior; born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., April 
 9, 1844; daughter of David and Stella 
 (Houghton) Scott. She was educated in 
 Ingham University, New York. She mar- 
 ried in Cambridge, Mass., July 11, 1876, 
 Arthur Gilman, and they have two daugh- 
 ters and a son. With her husband she 
 was originator of the Harvard Annex, now 
 Radcliflfe College; and was chairman for 
 years of the Students' Committee of the 
 Harvard Annex, and associate of Radcliflfe 
 College; and was president for years of 
 the Mothers' Club of Cambridge, of which 
 she is still a member. She is also a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Visitors of The Gilman 
 School (incorporated) of Cambridge; mem- 
 ber of the W^omen's Education Society of 
 Boston, the Society for the University 
 Education of Women, and the Anti- Suffrage 
 Society of Boston. She is a trustee of the 
 Welcome House, and of the Bethesda So- 
 ciety, both of Boston. Mrs. Gilman is a 
 writer under the nom de guerre of " Mrs. 
 Marion Vaughn," and is author of: The 
 Mothers' Record, and of Mothers in Coun- 
 cil. Address: Cambridge, Mass. 
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 GILMAN, Theodore: 
 
 Merchant; I)orn in Alton, III., Jan. 2, 
 1841; son of Winthrop Sargent and Abid 
 Swift (Lippincott) Gilman. Mr. Gilman 
 was educated in private schools and Wil- 
 liams College, A.B., 1862, A.M., 1864. Mr. 
 Gilman has been on Wall Street forty years, 
 connected with various business enterprises, 
 municipal, railroad and industrial. He is 
 vice-president and director of Gilman, Son 
 and Company; trustee of the Bessemer 
 Ditch Company; president and trustee of 
 the East Side Building Association; di- 
 rector of the Keokuk and Hamilton Bridge 
 Company, New York Warehouse and Se- 
 curity Company; trustee and director of 
 the North Platte Land and Water Com- 
 pany. Mr. Gilman prepared and presented 
 a bill in Congress for the incorporation of 
 clearing houses, and made statements in 
 support of the bill before the House Com- 
 mittee on Banking and Currency. He is 
 author of: A Graded Banking System, 
 1898; Federal Clearing Houses, 1899. He 
 has also made important contributions on 
 financial subjects to the Bankers' Magazine: 
 The Completion of the National Banking 
 System (Sept., 1893), The Philosophy of 
 the History of Bank Currency in the Unit- 
 ed States (Oct., 1875); to The Chicago 
 Banker: The Ninety-fifth Section of the 
 National Bank Act (April- June, 1900), Re- 
 ply to M. des Essars, statistician of the 
 Bank of France (Jime, 1902) ; Our Dem- 
 ocratic Banking System and Its Natu- 
 ral Ally, the Clearing House (Bankers' 
 Monthly, June, 1904) ; Heredity versus 
 Evolution (The Monist, Oct., 1893); The 
 Clearing-House System (Journal of Politi- 
 cal Economy, March, 1904) ; Ambiguities 
 (open court, July, 1905); The Aldricli- 
 Vreeland Bill (North American Review, 
 Aug., 1908). There have also been pub- 
 lished addresses by Mr. Gilman before the 
 Washington State Bankers' Association, 
 July, 1903, on Clearing House Emergency 
 Circulation (resolution passed approving 
 same) ; before the Nebraska State Bankers' 
 Association, July, 1903, on A Clearing- 
 House Currency; also address before the 
 Founders and Patriots of America, Jan. 
 
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 MEN OF A>rERICA. 
 
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 .'!1. I'.MI.'). oil Some Social Tlioorios of tho | 
 llcvolul ion. Mr. (Jilniiui is a (l(>acon and i 
 olilor of the Prcsliv tci iaii (lunoli: w;is 
 (rcasinvr. 1 SdS-lSCi'.t. ami prcsidciil, 1874- 
 187(). of llic New \uvk I'.ililc .Society; 
 lucnibcr and iov over twenty yciii's treas- 
 urer of the New York Sabbath Committee; 
 member of the Board of Manaoer.s of the 
 American Bible Society, and of St. John's 
 Riverside Hospital. Yonkers; president of 
 the Young- Men's Christian Association of 
 Yonkers, and' trustee of the Young Women's 
 Christian Association of Yonkers. He is 
 a member of the Williams College Alumni 
 Association, the Anthropological Club of 
 Yonkers, N. Y., Kappa Alpha fraternity. 
 Founders and Patriots of America, Sons 
 of the American Revolution, New England 
 Society of New York and the Union 
 League Club of New York City. He 
 married in St. George's Church, New 
 York City, Oct. 22, 1803, Elizabeth Drinker 
 Paxson, and they have two sons and two 
 daughter's. Residence: Yonkers, N. Y. 
 Uffice: 55 William Street, New York City. 
 
 GITTERMAN, Alice Elsberg Sterne: 
 
 Born in New York City; daughter of 
 Hon. Simon and Mathilde (Elsberg) Sterne. 
 She was graduated' from. Smith College, 
 A.B. ; Columbia, A.M.; holder of graduate 
 scholarship from Y^ale University, and in 
 1008-1909 student in the Washington Col- 
 lege of Law. She married John Milton 
 Gitterman, A.M., LL.B., Ph.D. Mrs. Git- 
 torman is an active worker in the cause of 
 popular education ; secured the first ap- 
 propriation from Congress for free lectures 
 to the people for the benefit of the work- 
 ing people of the District of Columbia, and 
 was chairman of the volunteer committee 
 appointed by the District Board of Edu- 
 cation to arrange the first two lecture 
 scries (seasons of 1904-190G), She is 
 deeply interested in ethnology; contributor 
 on sociological, ethnological and educational 
 subjects to various magazines. She is au- 
 tluu- of the Ethnological Study of the 
 Dyaks of J'.ornco. Member of the College 
 of Preceptors of England, New York State 
 Charities Aid Association; was member of 
 
 the Library Coniniittcc of tlic New '^drk 
 I'ublic Library; one of tlu' incorporator^ 
 and member of the Executive Committee 
 of the City History Club of New York City. 
 Mrs. Gitterman was chairman of the 13th 
 Senatorial District of New York of the 
 League for Political Education. She was 
 tlie founder and is ju-esidcnt of the Public 
 Education Association of \\';ishington, D. 
 C.. which aided' in the introduction and 
 success in the first session of the 59th 
 Congress, of the first compulsory education 
 law for the District of Cohuubia. and the 
 first Juvenile Court and first law regulating 
 employment agencies in Washington City. 
 She is also a member of the Authors' Com- 
 mittee of 100 on Public Health and a mem- 
 ber of the Smith College Club. Mrs. Git- 
 terman has written numerous magazine 
 articles and of syndicate work on pending 
 educational matters. Addresses: 116 C 
 Street, N. E., Washington, D. C. ; and 40 
 West 59th Street, New York City. 
 
 GLADDEN, Washington: 
 
 Clergyman and author; born at Potts 
 Grove, Pa., Feb. 11, 1836; son of Solomon 
 and Amanda (Daniels) Gladden. He was 
 reared on a farm near Oswego, N. Y. ; was 
 educated in a country district school and 
 Owego Academy, learned the printer's 
 trade, then attended Williams College, from 
 which he was graduated A.B., 1859, studied 
 theology, was licensed to preach in 1860, 
 and in that year was ordained pastor of the 
 State Street Congregational Church, Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., serving a year there. He was 
 pastor at Morrisania, N. Y., 1861-1866. 
 North Adams. I\Liss., 1866-1871; removed 
 to New York City and became a member 
 of the editorial staff of The Independent, 
 1871-1875; pastor of the North Congrega- 
 tional Church of Springfield, Mass., 1875- 
 1882, and for ])art of the same period edi- 
 tor ot Sunday Afternoon; since 1882 pastor 
 of the First Congregational Church of Co- 
 lumbus, Ohio. Besides being one of the 
 most distinguished divines of liis denomina- 
 tion. Dr. Gladden has made for himself a 
 pidininent place as a ))ulilic lecturer and 
 reformer, and as author of about thirty 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 liunks (III rcliyidiis. clliical ;iiiir social suh- I 
 Jccts. lie ivfrivcd [\\r dr-Tcr u( I). I), from 
 lioanokc ('ollciic \'a.. iSSt. and id' LL.l). 
 from the University of ^\ isrunsin, 1881, 
 and from llic University of Notre Daine, 
 Ind., 1805. He is a nienibor of the Amer- 
 ican Social Science Association, American 
 Economic Association, the Ohio Archaelogi- 
 cal and Historical Society and otliers. Ad- 
 dress: ('(dunibns, Oliio. 
 
 GLADDING, Albert F.: 
 
 .hui-~t ; horn in I'h n>alia. Chen mg i 
 County, N. Y., Dtc. 9, 1S1;5; ^on of James 
 C. and Mary (Fargo) Cladding. He was 
 educated in the public schools, and Norwic'i 
 Academy. He was elected county judge 
 and surrogate of Chenango County, in 
 1S99. on the Republican ticket and reelected 
 in 1895 and 1901; and was elected' Nov. (!, 
 1906, justice of the Supreme Court for the 
 Sixth Judicial District, for the term expir- 
 ing December 31, 1920. Ju-t:ce Gladding 
 is president of the Chenango National Bank. 
 He has been president sine its organiza 
 tion in 1900, of the Norwicli Club. He 
 married in Courtland, N. V., .March 10. 
 1881, Grace V. E. Owen, iind they haye thrc 
 daughters. Address: Norwic!;, N. Y. 
 
 GLASS, Carter: 
 
 Journalist and congressman; born in 
 Lynchburg, Va., Jan. 4, 1858. He was edu- 
 cated in private and public schools in the 
 newspaper business ; owns The Daily News, 
 the morning paper of the city, and' The 
 Daily Advance, the afternoon paper; mem- 
 ber of Virginia State Senate, 1899-1903, 
 and Virginia Constitutional Convention, 
 1901-1902. He was for eight years a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Visitors of the Univer- 
 sity of Virginia ; and resigned from the 
 Virginia State Senate to contest for seat 
 in the Fifty-seventh Congress vacated by 
 death of P. J. Otey. He was elected as a 
 Democrat, in Nov., 1902, for the unexpired 
 term in the Fifty-seventh and full term 
 in the Fifty-eighth Congress, and reelected 
 to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first 
 Congresses, from the Sixth Virginia Dis- 
 trict. Address: Lynchburg, Va, 
 
 d)- I GLASS, Chester: 
 
 * l-awyer. Iiankii ; liorn in London, Can- 
 ada; son of lion. I)a\id (Jlass, K. C, and 
 Small Dixon (Dalton) Glass. He received 
 his education in Hellnuith College and To- 
 ronto University, and was admitted a bar- 
 ristcr-at-law of Osgoode Hall, Toronto. In 
 1880 he spent a year and a half in traveling 
 around the world'. His book describing 
 this tour had a wide circulation and was 
 very favorably criticised in America and 
 England. He practised law in Canada, and 
 in 1889 successfully argued the well-known 
 case of Attorney-General vs. Fonseca before 
 the Supreme Court of Canada, at Ottawa. 
 At Spokane, Wash., he engaged extensively 
 and successfully in street railroad building, 
 real estate, and mining, and still holds 
 large interests there. Coming East in 1902, 
 Mr. Glass became interested in e.xtensive 
 coal fields in Pennsylvania and real estate 
 in New York State. He is director of the 
 United Copper Company; and the Pitts- 
 burg and New York Coal Company. In 
 politics he is a Republican and in religion 
 an Episcopalian. He is a member of the 
 bar of the State of Washington, and is a 
 member of the Calumet Club of New Y'ork 
 and the Seawanhaka Yacht Club. Mr. 
 Glass married in Canada, June 20, 1883, 
 Beatrice Claus Kingswill, and they have 
 two children: Gordon Goldin, and Doro- 
 thy Beatrice. Addi'ess : Calumet Club, New 
 Vork City. 
 
 GLASSCOCK, William E.: 
 
 Governor of West Virginia; id.cted on 
 the Republican ticket, in November, 1908, 
 for the four-year term expiring in March, 
 l!)i:i. Address: Charleston, W. Va. 
 
 GLEAVES, Albert: 
 
 Commander, U. S. Navy; born in Nash- 
 ville, Tenn.. Jan. 1. 1858; son of H. A. 
 aTid Eliza (Tannehill) Gleaves. He was 
 appointed from the State of Tennessee at 
 large, June 13, 1873, as cadet midshipman; 
 was graduated from Naval Academy, June 
 20. 1877. His service afloat included dutj' 
 on all the foreign stations. During his service 
 ashore as a junior officer he had several tours 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 of ordnanfo duty mid' w :is (inc (if Iho oavly lor- 
 ])odo oHiftTs. c-oiniiiiuulinji' llic t()r|)cdo bo;it 
 Cnshintr in 18!)7. He was on the blockade 
 of tlie Xortliern Coast of Cuba in 1898 and 
 from 1901 to 1904 commanded the U. S. S. 
 Dolphin and U. S. S. ISIayflower on spe- 
 cial service. While in command of the 
 Dolphin, he discovered the greatest depth 
 in North Atlantic Ocean, while running 
 a line of deep sea soundings. He was 
 ordered to command torpedo station at 
 Newport, R. I., Nov. 16, 1904, and was 
 ordered on special duty in Europe, June, 
 July, 1907. He was promoted commander 
 July 1, 1905, and has commanded U. S. 
 S. St. Louis since April 21, 1908. He 
 was awarded the diploma and decoration 
 of Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur of 
 France, for services rendered' the Roch- 
 ambeau Commission, but its acceptance 
 was not authorized by Congress. Com- 
 mander Gleaves wrote the Life of Captain 
 James Lawrence, the commander of the 
 Chesapeake, which book has met with much 
 success, and is regarded in England as the 
 most impartial statement of tlie battle be- 
 tween the Chesapeake and Shannon that has 
 yet been written. Commander Gleaves is 
 regarded here and abroad as an authority 
 on torpedoes and their manufacture. He 
 married in Washington, D. C, June 12, 
 1889, Evelina :\I. Heap. Address: Care of 
 the Navy Department, Washington, D. C. 
 
 GLENN. John Mark: 
 
 Director of the Russell Sage Foundation; 
 born in Baltimore, Md'. ; son of William 
 Wiikins fJienn and' Hllen Mark (Smith) 
 Glenn. He was educated in the Washington 
 and Lee University, M.A.. 1879 (LL.D., 
 1907), Johns Hopkins University, M.A. 
 (honorary), 1901 University of ^Maryland, 
 LL.B., 1882. He was engaged in law prac- 
 tice from 1882 in Baltimore; and director 
 of the Provident Savings Bank of Balti- 
 more. He was president of the Department 
 of Charities of Baltimore, Md., 1904-1907; 
 trustee of Johns Hopkins Hospital. 1906- 
 1908, and upon the establisliment of The 
 Russell Sage Foundation liy IMrs. Sage 
 along broad lines, for the l)(ltcnnciit of 
 social ami living conditinns in the I'niliMl 
 
 States of America, ]\Ir. Glciiii was selected 
 as its director. He is a uiriulicr of the 
 Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and the 
 Century and City Clubs of New York. 
 Mr. Glenn married in Baltimore, in 1902 
 Mary Willcox Brown. Address: 105 East 
 22d "street, New York City. 
 
 GLENN, Robert Brodnax: 
 
 I^awyer and ex-governor of North Caro- 
 lina : born in Rockingham County. N. C. 
 Aug. 11, 1854; son of Chalmers L. and 
 Annie S. (Dodge) Glenn. He was educated 
 in Davidson College, N. C, the University 
 of Virginia and Pearson's Law School, Rich- 
 mond Hill, N. C. He was admitted to the 
 bar in 1878, and soon gained a prominent 
 place at the North Carolina bar, becoming 
 head of the firm of Glenn, Moody and 
 Hendren at Winston-Salem. He served as 
 attorney for the Western Union Telegraph 
 Company, the Southern Railway and other 
 large corporations. He has taken an active 
 and leading place in the political affairs 
 of his State as a Democrat, and has rep- 
 resented the State in National Conventions. 
 He was a member of the North Carolina 
 Legislature in 1881; State solicitor of 
 North Carolina in 1886; Democratic Pres- 
 idential elector in 1884 and 1892; U. S. 
 attorney for the District of North Carolina, 
 1893-1897, and in 1904 was elected govern- 
 or of Nortli Carolina for the term expir- 
 ing in 1909. In 1907 he attracted Na- 
 tional attention l)y his attitude with refer- 
 ence to his riglit to executive State laws, as 
 against the asserted right of a Un"ited 
 States judge to suspend them pendente lite, 
 but arranged a compromise by which the 
 question at issue should be speedily decided 
 by the United States Supreme Court in 
 the case of the enforcement of the 2-cent 
 rate hnv against the Southern Railway. 
 He served in the National Guard of North 
 Carolina, 1890-1903, as captaiii and major. 
 Governor Glenn married in Kno.xville, 
 Tenn., Jan. 8, 1878, Nina Deaderick. Ad- 
 dress: Raleigh. N. C. 
 
 GLENNAN, John Joseph: 
 
 Catholic archbishop; born in Kinnogad, 
 Count V .Meath, Ireland, June 14, 1862. He 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 received liis ticnenil educiition in St. Mary's 
 College, Mulliiigiiv, and was "raduated in 
 divinity fioni All Hallows Collejje, Dublin, 
 1883, being ordained a i)riest in the follow- 
 ing year. He Avas assistant pastor of St. 
 Patrick's Church in Kansas City, Mo.. 1884- 
 1887 ; jiastor of the cathedral in KaTisas 
 City under Bishop Hogan, 1887-1892; vicar- 
 general, ]8i)2-lS!)4, and administrator of 
 the dioces(! of Kansas City. 1894-1805. He 
 was a))pointed coadjutor bishop of Kansas 
 City with the right of succession and con- 
 secrated titular' bishop of Pinara in 189(5; 
 became coadjutor archbisho]i of St. Louis 
 in April, 1003, and installed as archbishop 
 Oct. 13, 1003. Address: St. Louis, IMo. 
 
 GLESSNER, John Jacob: 
 
 ^Manufacturer; born at Zancsville, Ohio, 
 in Jan.. 1843;, son of Jacob and Mary 
 (Laughlin) Glessner. He was educated in 
 the Zanesville public schools and was after- 
 ward connected with local newspapers 
 there until 1864, when he became a mem- 
 bei' of the firm of Warder, Bushnell & 
 Glessner, manufacturers of harvesting ma- 
 chinery, and in 1870 becoming vice-pres- 
 ident of the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner 
 Company, established its administrative 
 and executive headquarters at Chicago, re- 
 taining the factory at Springfield, Ohio, 
 and built up a very large business in the 
 Champion machines manufactured by the 
 company. In the subsequent organization 
 of the International Harvester Company, 
 when the business of the Warder, Bush- 
 nell and Glessner Company was combined 
 with the ]McCormick Deering and other 
 large harvesting interests, he became vice- 
 president of the company, and was elected 
 to the i^osition of chairman of the Execu- 
 tive Committee. He was president of the 
 Citizens' Association of Chicago during the 
 period Avhen that organization prepared the 
 bill for the establishing of the Sanitary 
 District of Chicago and secured its passage 
 through the Legislature of Illinois. Since 
 1905 he has been a director of the Chicago 
 Relief and Aid' Society. He is a trustee 
 of the Chicago Orphan Asylum, of Rush 
 Medical College (now the medical depart- 
 ment of the University of Chicago), the 
 
 Chicago Orchestral Association, iind of the 
 Art Institute of Chicago. He is a member 
 and former president of the Commercial 
 Club of Chicago, and is also a member of 
 the Chicago, Union League, Quadrangle and 
 Literary Clubs. Mr. Glessner married, in 
 Dec. 1870, Frances, daughter of James R. 
 and Nancy (Bayard) Macbeth. They have 
 a son, John George iNIacbeth Glessner (born 
 in 1871), who is a graduate of Harvard 
 and manager of the LTtility Division of the 
 International Harvester Company, and a 
 daughter. Residence: 1800 Prairie Ave- 
 nue. Office: ^Michigan Avenue and Harri- 
 son Street, Chicago. 
 
 GLORIETJX, Alphonsus Joseph: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Boise; born in Dottig- 
 nies. Belgium, Feb. 1, 1844. He was edu- 
 cated in tlie parochial schools of his native 
 place and in the college at Courtrai, Bel- 
 gium, from which he was graduated in 
 1803; pursued divinity studies in the Uni- 
 versity of Louvain, 1863-1867, and was or- 
 dained to the ])riesthood. He became prin- 
 cipal of St. Michael's College, Portland, 
 Ore., 1871-1884; was consecrated bishop 
 of Appolonia, in 1884, and appointed in 
 1893 to the see of Boise. Address: Boise 
 City, Idaho. 
 
 GLOVER, Charles Carroll: 
 
 President of the Riggs National Bank of 
 Washington, D. C, ; born in Macon County, 
 N. C, Nov. 24, 1846; son of Charles and 
 Caroline (Piercy) Glover. After complet- 
 ing his studies at the Rittenhouse Academy 
 in Washington he was clerk in a book store 
 for three years and in 1866 he began his 
 banking experience as a cleik with Riggs 
 and Company, bankers, in which he became 
 a partner, 1873, and since July 1, 1806, 
 has been president of the Rijggs National 
 Bank. He is also vice-president of the 
 Capital Traction Company; and' was for- 
 merly vice-president of the National Safe 
 Deposit and Trust Company, and is a mem- 
 ber and former vice-president of the Wash- 
 ington Stock Exchange. He originated and 
 succeeded in carrying through Congress the 
 projects for establishing Rock Creek Park 
 and Potomac Park, and securing, on be- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 half of the District of Columbia, a site for 
 Fort Reno reservoir. He is a member of 
 the Federal C'omiiiiltee on changing the 
 date of the inaugural of the President of 
 the United States, and of the Washington 
 National Monument Society ; vice-president 
 and treasurer of the Corcoran Gallery of 
 Art; treasurer of the American University 
 (Methodist), and trustee of the Protestant 
 Episcopal Cathedral Foundation. He mar- 
 ried Jan. 10, 1878, Annie C, daughter of 
 Uear-Admiral Poor. U. S. N. Residence: 
 1703 K Street, N. W.. Wasliington, D. C. 
 
 GLOVER, James Waterman: 
 
 Educator; born at Clio, Mich., July 24, 
 18G8; son of James Polk Glover and Em- 
 erette (Xeff) Glover. He was gradviated 
 from the Saginaw (Mich.) High School in 
 1885, and the University of Michigan, as 
 B.L., in 1892. He received an A.B. fi'om 
 Harvard in LSHo, an A.M. in 18!J4, and 
 a Pli.D. in 1805. havini^- held a Morgan 
 Fellowship in Mathematics during two 
 j'ears. Dr. Glover was appointed instructor 
 in mathematics at the University of ISlich- 
 igan in 1805, senior instructor in math- 
 ematics in ISni), assistant professor oi 
 mathematics and lecturer on insurance in 
 1!)03, and since 1906 has held the position 
 of junior professor of mathematics and in- 
 surance in Ihat inslilution. Professor 
 (ilover lias written numerous papers on 
 mathematics, actum iil and iu-ur nee the- 
 ory, and vital statistics. He established 
 the courses in insurance at the University 
 of Michigan in 1902. He served as expert 
 to the Royal Commission on Insurance of 
 Canada in 190G, as consulting actuary to 
 the Wisconsin Legislative Insurance Inves- 
 tigation Committee in the same year, and 
 to the Wisconsin Legislative Joint Com- 
 mittee on Panks and Insurance in 1907. 
 He has been a member of several Interna- 
 tional Acturial Congresses and is now a 
 member of the American Mathenuitical So- 
 ciety, the Deutscher Verein fiir Versich- 
 erungs-W'issenschaft, and the Phi Beta 
 Kappa and Sigma Xi Societies. Di'. Glover 
 married at .\nn Arbor, Micli., .\ug. 29, 
 1900, Alice Durfee Webber, and t lu-y have 
 a son, James Webber Glover, born Sepj.. 
 
 l(i. 1901: and anntlicr son. born in 1903, 
 died ill infancy. Address: G20 Oxford 
 Road, Ann Arbor, Mich. 
 
 GLOVER. John Franklin: 
 
 Lawyer, editor, minister; born in Hartle- 
 ton. Pa., Seiit. 10, 1845; son of William 
 and Eliza (Fisher) Glover. He was grad- 
 uated at the University of Wisconsin, with 
 degrees of A. P.. 1871, and A.M., 1874. In 
 idoneer days in Northwestern Iowa, Mr. 
 Glover was an editor of weekly newspa- 
 ])ers: and he was clerk of Osceola County, 
 Iowa. 1873-1870; a member of the Iowa 
 Legislature, 1876-1877; mayor of Sibley, 
 Iowa, for three years, and county attorney 
 of Osceola County for two years. During 
 the Civil War he served in the Thirty- 
 eighth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteer 
 Infantry, and was promoted from private 
 to lieutenant. In the battle of Petersburg 
 (Battle of the Crater) during the retreat, 
 with the help of three negro soldiers he 
 carried a \\ounded Union officer from the 
 Crater to the main Union line. He also 
 participated, April 2, 1865, in the charge 
 against Fort Mahone, resulting in the cap- 
 ture of Petersburg. In 1908, Mr. Glover 
 was ordained as a Congregational minister, 
 and is minister for the Congregational 
 Cliincii of Ocheyedon, lovva. In 1909, he 
 was appointed judge advocate on the staff 
 of ( 'oiiimander J. S. Lothrop of Sioux City, 
 of the North western Iowa Veterans' Asso- 
 ciation. As a pulpit, camp-fire and politi- 
 cil speaker, he speaks without manuscript. 
 He is secretary of the Osceola County Bar 
 Association; and a member of the Grand 
 Army of the i;(|>iii)lic. Mr. Glover mar- 
 ried at Lakeville, Iowa, Sept. 19, 1876, 
 Mary Frances Upton, who died' May 23, 
 188(), and has one son, Lyn l-'ishcr Glover. 
 Address: Sibley, Iowa. 
 
 GOBIN, John Peter Shindel: 
 
 Lawyci and soldier; born in Sunbury, 
 Pa.. .Ian. 2(i, 1837; son of Samuel S. and 
 Susan (Shindel) Gobin. He is of Revolu- 
 tionary stock, his paternal great-grand- 
 father. Ciiai'lcs (iobin, having been captain 
 in our of tile Herks County associated bat- 
 talions scrxiiig in the War for Independ- 
 
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 eiioe ill tlip .Torsoy eaiiipaign, and also on 
 active duty on the frontiers of Pennsyl- 
 vania in 1780; and his grandfather, Ed- 
 ward Cobin, was a soldier in the War of 
 IS 12- 18 14. lie received an academic edu- 
 cation, and the degree of LL.B. from Sus- 
 (Hudianna University, learned the art of 
 piinting' and was admitted to the Northum- 
 l)orland County bar, 1858. When the Civil 
 War threatened, before the firing on Sum- 
 ter, he tendered his services to Governor 
 C'urtin, was accepted, and. returning to 
 Sunbuvy. organized what eventually became 
 Comiiany F, Eleventh Pennsylvania Vol- 
 unteers, and was commissioned its first 
 lieutenant. The company, which partici- 
 pated in the lirst fight at Falling Waters. 
 \oluntarily remained in service after the 
 three months' enlistment expired, and he 
 reorganized it and, Sept. 2, 1861, was mus- 
 tered in as captain of Company C, 41st 
 Pennsylvania llegin-ient, serving in the 
 Army of the Potomac until Jan., 1862, after 
 which the regiment went to Florida and 
 garrisoned Fort Taylor, on the island of 
 Key West, and Fort Jefferson, Dry Tor- 
 tugas. In the summer of 1862 the regi- 
 ment was sent to Hilton Head, S. C, to 
 assist in the attack on the approaches to 
 Charleston, took part in the battle of 
 Pocotaligo and in the autumn of 1862 was 
 the first regiment to reenlist under the 
 so-called Veteran Order, and subsequently 
 participated in tlie Red River Expedition, 
 (■'aptain (lobin was especially commended 
 for bravery in tlie battle of Pleasant Hill, 
 and recommended to Governor Curtin for 
 promotion by General J. W. Mc^Nlillan, and 
 for services rendered in the campaign he 
 was detailed by (General Banks to conduct 
 all the prisoners, captured on the Red River 
 Expedition, to New Orleans. The Regiment 
 joined General Sheridan in the Shenandoah 
 \'alley in July. 1804, and he was promoted 
 major, participating in that campaign and 
 the battle of Cedar Creek. He was pro- 
 moted lieutenant-colonel Nov. 4, 1864, and 
 Jan. 3, 1865, colonel of the regiment, which 
 became a part of Hancock's Veteran Corps 
 on its organization in 1865. Colonel 
 (iobin was brevetted brigadier-general, 
 March 13, 1805, and placed in command of 
 
 the Second Brigade, First Division, 19th 
 Army Corps, coui)erating witVi Grant, and 
 was heading for Lynchburg when news 
 arrived of the surrender of Lee. The 47th 
 Regiment took part in the Grand' Review 
 and was afterward sent South. General 
 Gobin was placed in command of Charles- 
 ton, S. C, immediately after the war and 
 at the same time was made provost judge 
 and he was the only judicial oHicer in that 
 city during the reconstruction period until 
 his regiment was finally discharged Jan. 
 9, 1866. He returned to the practice of 
 law in Lebanon. He was a member of the 
 State Senate, 1884-1898. He for many 
 years commanded the Pennsylvania Na- 
 tional Guard with the rank of major-gen- 
 eral, served as brigadier-general U. S. Vol- 
 unteers in the war with Spain and was 
 elected lieutenant-governor of Pennsylvania. 
 He was commander-in-chief of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic, 1897-1898, is a mem- 
 ber of the Military Order of the I^yal 
 l^egion, and grand master of the Grand 
 Encampment of Knights Templar of the 
 United States. He married in 1866, Annie 
 M. Howe, of Florida. Address: Lebanon, 
 Pa. 
 
 GODDARD, Morrill: 
 
 Editor New York Sunday American and 
 Journal ; born in Portland, Me., Oct. 7, 
 1860; son of Judge Charles W. and Rowena 
 C. (Morrill) Goddard. He was graduated 
 from Dartmouth College, 1885, and from 
 1885 to 1894, was successively city editor, 
 Washington correspondent, Sunday editor 
 and managing editor New York World. 
 Since 1895 he has been editor of the Sunday 
 edition New York American and Journal; 
 has also been war correspondent, traveler, 
 and magazine writer. He is a member of 
 the ]\Iaine Society, the American Social 
 Science Society, National Mosquito Exter- 
 mination Society, American Geographical 
 Society, Palestine Exploration Fund Asso- 
 ciation. American Anti-Vivisection Society, 
 American Forestry Association, Peace So- 
 ciety of New York, American Institute 
 Scientific Research, American Society for 
 Psycliical Research, the Atlantic and Colum- 
 bia Yacht, and Dxrtmouth Clubs, New 
 
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 MEN OF A^IERICA. 
 
 ^'o^k. lie niairiod. in 1890, Je=!sainiiio 
 Ruj^'u-. of Hot Sprinifs, Ark. Residence: 'idO 
 West !t4th Street. Office: American and 
 .Iiuirnnl. 2 Duane Street, New ^'ork City. 
 
 GODWIN, Hannibal Lafayette: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer: l)orn on a farm 
 near Dnnn, Ilartnett County, N. C, Nov. 3, 
 1873. He was educated in Trinity College, 
 Durham, N. C, and was graduated from the 
 Law Department of the University of Xorth 
 Carolina, and admitted to the bar in Sept., 
 181)6. He was a member of the State 
 Senate, 1903; elected Presidential elector 
 for the Sixth Congressional District of 
 Xorth Carolina, 1904; was a member ol 
 tlie State Democratic Executive Committee, 
 1904-1906. He was elected to the Sixtieth 
 Congress in 1906, and reelected in 1908 to 
 tlie Sixty-first Congress. He married in 
 Dunn, N. C, Dec. 23, 1896, Matiie B. 
 Barnes. Address : Dunn, N. C. 
 
 GODWIN, Harold: 
 
 Journalist; born in Eoslyn, N. Y., May 
 21, 1858; son of Parke and Fanny (Bry- 
 ant) Godwin. He was graduated from 
 Princeton University, A.B., 1879, and was 
 a fellow in history there after graduation. 
 He was for a time engaged in editorial 
 work on the New York Evening Post, New 
 York Evening Mail, and the New York 
 Commercial Advertiser, having been man- 
 aging editor of the latter in 1890; later 
 he was editor of Current Literature, and 
 president of the Sliort Stories Company; 
 but is now retired from active business. 
 He is a member of tlie New Y'^ork University 
 Club, the Lenox Club, of Lenox, Mass., and 
 tiie Garden City Golf Club of Long Island. 
 Mr. Godwin married in Matlock, England. 
 May 31, 1884, Elizabeth Marquand', and they 
 have three children, llesidence: lloslyn, 
 X. V. 
 
 GOEBEL, Herman Philip: 
 
 Lawyer and congr(!s.snian ; Innn in Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio, April 5, 1853. He was edu- 
 (;ated in the public schools of Cincinnati 
 and the Cincinnati Law School; was admit- 
 ted to the bar in 1874 and has since been 
 engaged in the active practice of law. Jle 
 
 was elected a member nf the House of Rep- 
 resentatives of Ohio in 1875; was elected' 
 judge of the probate court of Hamilton 
 County. Ohio, in 1884, and reelected in 
 1887. He was elected to the Fifty-eighth, 
 Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first "^Con- 
 gresses, as a Republican, from the Second 
 Ohio District. Address: Cincinnati. Ohio. 
 
 GOELET, Robert Walton: 
 
 Capitalist: born in New York City, 
 March 19, 1886; son of Robert and Harri- 
 ette (Warren) Goelet. He was graduated 
 from Harvard, A.B., 1902, A.M., 1903, and 
 from Columbia, LL.B., 1907. Mr. Goelet is 
 a director of the Chemical National Bank 
 of New York City, the Illinois Central 
 Railroad Company. Lawyers' IMortgage 
 Company, Mortgage Bond Company of New 
 York ; trustee of the t'nion Trust Company 
 of New York. He is a member of the 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, Manuscripts Society, American Fine 
 Arts Society, Holland Society, St. Nicholas 
 Society, Aldine Association, Columbia Uni- 
 versity Alumni Association, the Knicker- 
 bocker, Union, Metropolitan, Players', New 
 York Yacht, Tuxedo, Racquet and Tennis, 
 and The Brook and Harvard Clubs and the 
 Automobile Club of America. Residence: 
 591 Fifth Avenue. Address: 9 West 17th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 GOETHALS, George Washington: 
 
 Ciiairinan and chief engineer. Isthmian 
 Canal; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 29, 
 1858. He was graduated from the U. S. 
 Military Academy in 1880, and' from the 
 Engineers' School at Willets Point in 1882. 
 He was connected with the engineers' office, 
 Department of the Columbia, 1882-1884, 
 serving under General Merrill in the con- 
 struction of dams, dikes and locks, and in 
 charge of Mussel Shoals Canal, Tennessee 
 River; and the beginning of construction 
 work on the Colbert Shoals Canal. He was 
 chief engineer nf the First Army Corps, 
 during the wai- willi Spain; was detailed 
 to the General Stall' in 1903, and was ap- 
 pointed chairman and chief engineer of the 
 Isthmian (Panama) Canal, in 1907, having 
 particular charge of construction and' engi- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 tiooriiif; as well as yciu'ial sn|)civision over 
 the whole ()f that stupendous iindeilakinii'. 
 Address: f'ulohra, (^anal Zone. Panama. 
 
 GOFF, Nathan: 
 
 .liirist : l)orn in Chirksburt:-. \'a.. Vvh. !). 
 1S43: sou of Waldo P. and Ilani.'l !.. (JolT. 
 He attended the Nortliwesteni Virginia 
 Academy at Clarksburg, and Georgetown 
 College until 1861. He enlisted as a private 
 in the Union Army in the Third Virginia 
 Infantry, was later promoted lieutenant, 
 eaptain and major, and' Jan. 20. 1864, wa.?. 
 captured by the Confederates and confined 
 for several months in Libby Prison. He 
 was brevetted in March, 1865, brigadier- 
 general of volunteers and discharged from 
 tiie volunteer army. He was graduated 
 from the law department of New York Uni- 
 versity in 1867, and engaged' in the practice 
 of law at Clarksburg, W. Va. He was 
 elected to tlie West Virginia Legislature 
 in 18<i7, and in 1868 was appointed by 
 President Johnson U. S. attorney for West 
 Virginia, to which oflice he was reappointed 
 in 1872, 1876 and 1880, resigning in Jan., 
 1881, to accept the office of secretary of 
 the Navy in the Cabinet of President Hayes. 
 He served until March, 1881, when he was 
 reappointed U. S. district attorney by Pres- 
 ident Garfield. He resigned in 1882, in 
 which year he was elected' to the Forty- 
 eighth Congress, and was reelected in 1884 
 and 1886 to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth 
 Congresses, serving until 1889. In 1876 and 
 again in 1888 he was the Republican candi- 
 date for governor of West Virginia. In 
 1892 he was appointed by President Harri- 
 son judge of the U. 8. Circuit Court for the 
 Fourth Circuit, in which oflice he is still 
 serving. Address: Clarksburg, W. Va. 
 
 GOFFE, J. Riddle: 
 
 Educator, physician and surgeon; born 
 in Kenosha, Wis., Aug. 10, 1851; son of 
 William and' Betsy (Paddle) Gofi'e. He was 
 graduated from the University of ^Michigan. 
 Ph.B., 1873, Ph.M., 1876, Bellevue Hos- 
 pital Medical School, New York, 1881, 
 Woman's Hospital, New York City, 1883, 
 and studied in Paris and Vienna. Dr. 
 Gofle is professor of gynecology in, and a 
 
 trustee of. lli(> New ^'ork Polyclinic Med- 
 ical School iin<l Hospital ; attending gyne- 
 cologist to Ihe Polyclinic and Woman's 
 Hospitals; consulting surgeon to the New 
 Vork City llosiiital, St. Joseph's Hospital, 
 Vnnkcrs. X. \'.. jnid :\It. Vernon (N. Y.) 
 Hosi)ital and the Lawrence Hospital at 
 Bronxville, N. Y. He is a nieiid)er and e.\- 
 prcsident of the American Gynecological 
 N. Y. County ^Medical and New York Obstet- 
 rical Societies and the N. Y. State Medical 
 Association; member of the American Med- 
 ical Association, N. Y. State Medical So- 
 ciety, Southern Surgical and Gynecological 
 Society; fellow N. Y. Academy of Medicine. 
 Dr. CJoflfe is author of numerous mono- 
 graphs, including: Organization, the 
 Watchword of Creation; The Scope and 
 Limitation of Vaginal Section; A New 
 Operation, for Cystocelc in Women; The 
 Menstrual Function, etc. Dr. Goffe is a 
 charter member of Squadron A, National 
 Guard of New York and a member of the 
 Psi Upsilon fraternity, and the University, 
 Pvichmond Hill Golf and Dunwoodie Golf 
 Clubs. Dr. Gofi'e married in New York City 
 in 1890, Eleanor Taylor, who died in 1908. 
 Residence: 550 Park Avenue. Office; 616 
 Madison Avenue, New York City. 
 
 GOLDEN, Richard: 
 
 Actor; born in Bangor, Me., July 6, 1854; 
 son of Patrick and Matilda Golden. He 
 was educated in the schools of Penobscot 
 County, Me. Mr. Golden made his first 
 professional appearance as a boy of thir- 
 teen years in the comedy Fashion, but his 
 real debut was made in 1876, when he was 
 a component part of the celebrated heifer 
 in E. E. Rice's Evangeline in which he was 
 later promoted to the parts of the Policeman 
 and Le Blanc. He was for many seasons 
 with the Rice Company, and in 1889 
 achieved national distinction by his creation 
 of the type of the New England tavern 
 keeper. Old Jed Prouty, in the play of that 
 name of which he was co-author, 1889, of 
 which over 3,000 performances were given. 
 He was joint star with Pauline Hall in a 
 revival of The Princess of Trebizonde, later 
 with Alice Neilson in The Fortune Teller, 
 
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 niul ;iftt'i\vaid louk Icadiiifi- comedy parts in! 
 Princess Chic. The Tourists, Tiie Bad Saniar- | 
 itan and other productions. He married in 
 Cohoes. N. Y., Katherine Kittleman. He is 
 a member of The Lambs and The Green 
 Room Clubs of New York City. Address: 
 Poit Washington, N. Y. 
 
 GOLDFOGLE, Henry M. : 
 
 .lurist and conirressman ; born in New 
 ^■ork City. i\Iay -2:?. 1856; son of Mayer 
 (Joldfogle. He was educated' in the public 
 schools and was admitted to the bar in 
 1877. He practised law until 1887, when he 
 was elected justice of the Fifth District 
 Court of New York and reelected in 189.3. 
 He became one of the Jvxdges of the Munici- 
 ]}al Court of New York and retired from 
 the bench, .Jan. 1, 1900. to resume the prac- 
 tice of law. In 1900 he was elected to Con- 
 gress and was reelected in 1902, 1904, 1906 
 and 1908, from the Ninth New York Dis- 
 trict. Congressman Goldfogle has been a 
 delegate to every State Democratic Con- 
 vention for the past twenty-four years, 
 and a delegate to the National Democratic 
 Convention in 1896. He was formerly brand 
 l)resident of the District One, Independent 
 Order of B'nai B'rith; is vice-president of 
 Temple Rodeph Sholom of New York City; 
 and master of the Empire City Lodge. Res- 
 idence: 16 Columbia Street. Office: 271 
 i?roadway. New York City. 
 
 GOLDMARK. Rubin: 
 
 .Musician, coiiqioser. Icclurer; born in 
 New York City, Aug. 1."), 1872; son of 1.^0 
 and Augusta (Stern) Ooldmark. He was 
 educated in the College of the City of New 
 York, three years, the Philosophic Faculty 
 of the University of Vienna ; student of the 
 Vienna Conservatory of Music, under Pro- 
 fessors Door in piano, and Fuchs in com- 
 position ; subsequently ])U|)il of JosefTy and 
 Antonin Dvorak: and \\c received the hon- 
 orary degree of A..M. from Colorado Col- 
 lege in 1899. Professor C4oldmark was in- 
 structor in the National Conservatory of 
 .Music, New York City, 1891-1893; director 
 of the Colorado College Conservatory of 
 .Music, 189.3-1901; lecturer for H. W. Savage 
 
 Parsifal Coni])any. 1904- P.tO."), and has given 
 about 300 public lectures and recitals in 
 tlie U. 8. and Canada. Among his compo- 
 sitions are: Trio for piano, violin and 
 'cello ; Sonata for piano and violin, and 
 Quartet for piano and strings. He has 
 also composed the orchestral works: Theme 
 and variations (played" by the late Anton 
 Seidl), and the Overture Hiawatha (played 
 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and 
 Vienna Conzertverein) . Address: 131 
 West 126t]i Street. New York Citv. 
 
 GOLDSBOROUGH, Winder Elwell: 
 
 Electrical engineer; born in Baltimore, 
 Md,, Oct, 10, 1871; son of Washington Elwell 
 and Martha Pearce (Laird) Goldsborough. 
 He was graduated from Cornell L'niversity. 
 M.E., 1892; was in charge of the electrical 
 engineering department of Arkansas Indus- 
 trial University, Fayetteville, 1893-1894; 
 professor of electrical engineering, 1894- 
 1904, and director of the School Electrical 
 Engineering of Purdue L^niversity. Lafay- 
 ette, Ind.. 1898-1904: consulting engineer 
 of the Editon Electric Illuminating Com- 
 pany. Baltimore, Md., 1894-1896; chief of 
 electricity and member of the Superior 
 Jury of the Universal Exposition. St. Louis, 
 1902-1905; vice-president of the Internation- 
 al Electrical Congress, St. Louis, 1904; 
 chairman of the executive committee of the 
 Electrical Railway Test Committee, 1903- 
 1906; major of the corps of cadets. Cornell 
 University. 1892: major of -the First Regi- 
 ment of Arkansas National Guard, 1893- 
 1894; and was decorated' by Victor Emman- 
 uel with the Cross of the Order of the Crown 
 of Italy. Mr. Goldsborough was business 
 manager of the engineering department of 
 J. G. White and Company, Incorporated, 
 1905-1907; vice-president and general man- 
 ager of the Denver Reservoir Irrigation 
 Company; director of the Fngineering and 
 Electrical Securities Corporation. He is 
 a member of the American Institute of 
 Electrical Engineers, Institute of Electrical 
 Engineers of England; International Elec- 
 trical Congress, Chicago, 1893, Paris, 1900, 
 St. Louis, 1904; member of the Committee 
 of the National Electric Light Association 
 
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 oil Arc Liiiht-PliotoiiH'lry. He is also a 
 iiu'inher of the Botu Tlu'ta Pi fialernity, and 
 tlie Lawyers, Engineers, National Arts and 
 Cornell Clubs. He married at Lafayette, 
 Ind.. Dec. 20. 1890, Charlotte Poole Wallace, 
 and has one son. Address: Ideal Building, 
 Denver, Colo. 
 
 GOMPERS, Samuel: 
 
 President of the American Federation of 
 Labor; born in p]ngland, Jan. 27, 1850. He 
 learned the eigar-niaker's trade, and from 
 the age of fifteen has been actively identified 
 with the trade union movement, and long 
 a leader in the effort to unite trades unions 
 into a national organization for the promo- 
 tion of combined eflbrt to obtain general 
 ends. He was one of the founders and since 
 1882 has been, with the exception of one 
 year, president of the American Federatioa 
 of Labor and editor of its olLicial publica- 
 tion, The Federalist. He is also first vice- 
 president of the Nation il Civic Fedpration. 
 Mr. Gompers is a frequent and forceful 
 lecturer and a prolific wiiter on subjects 
 connected with general sociological condi- 
 tions as well as with the labor movement. 
 Address: 801-809 G Street, N. W., Wash- 
 ington. D. C. 
 
 GOOCH, Frank Austin: 
 
 Professor of chemistry in Yale; born in 
 Watertown, Mass., May 2. 1852; son of 
 Joshua Goodale and Sarah Gates (Coolidge) 
 Gooch. He was graduated from Harvard, 
 A.B., 1872, student in Vienna, 1875-1876, 
 Harvard A.M., Ph.D.. 1877; honorary A.M., 
 Yale, 1887. He was expert special agent of 
 the U. S. Geological Survey in connection 
 with the Tenth Census 1878-1881, chemist 
 on the Northern Transcontinental Survey, 
 1881-1884, and the U. S. Geological Survey, 
 1884-1886, and has been professor of chem- 
 istry, Yale, since 1885. He is a member of 
 the National Academy of Sciences ; Ameri- 
 can Academy of Arts and Sciences; Ameri- 
 can Philosophical Society; American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science; 
 American Chemical Society, C'onnecticut 
 Academy of Sciences, New York Academy of 
 Science, Washington Academy of Science, 
 
 WashiMg(((n l'liil()M)|iliifal Society, etc. He 
 is editor of: llesearcli Papers from tlie 
 Kent Chemical Lal)oratory of Yale Univer- 
 sity. He is author of: Outlines of Inor- 
 ganic Chemistry; Lal)oratory Experiments; 
 Outlines of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, 
 various contributions 1o scientific literature, 
 and many research papers in the journals. 
 He married, Aug. 12, 1880, Sarah Elisabeth 
 Wyman. Address: 291 Edward Street. 
 New Haven. Conn. 
 
 GOOD, James W. : 
 
 Lawyer: bc^rn near Cedar Kajiids, Iowa, 
 Sept. 24, 1866; son of Henry and Margaret 
 E. (Combs) Good. He was graduated from 
 Coe College, B.S., 1892. and from the Lavr 
 Department of the University of Michigan, 
 LL.B., 1893, being class orator in competi- 
 tion of over three hundred. Since 1893 he 
 has been engaged in the practice of law at 
 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and as city attorney of 
 that place drew and successfully established 
 the validity of an ordinance limiting the 
 price which could be charged for gas at 
 90 cents per 1,000 cubic feet. He is presi- 
 dent of The Realty Company, and vice-presi- 
 dent of the Consumers Coal Company of 
 Cedar Rapids. Mr. Good is a 32d-degree 
 Mason and a member of the Country and 
 Commercial Clubs of Cedar Rapids. Resi- 
 dence: 1905 B Avenue. Office: 208 Sec- 
 ond Aveniu', Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 
 
 GOODELL, Charles LeRoy: 
 
 Clergyman ; born in Dudley, Mass., July 
 31, 1854; son of Warren and Clarinda 
 (Healy) Goodell. He was graduated from 
 Boston University, A.B., 1877, N. Y. Uni- 
 versity, A.M., 1902, W^esleyan University, 
 D.D., 1903. He was ordained in the min- 
 istry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 was pa.stor for years in Providence, R. I.; 
 eight years in Boston, Mass.; seven years, 
 Hansom Place ^lethodist Episcopal Church, 
 Brooklyn; since 1904 at Calvary Methodist 
 Episcojial Church, New York City, the larg- 
 est Methodist Church in tlie world, now 
 having a membership of over three thousand. 
 Dr. Goodell is naturally known as one of 
 the greatest orators, lecturers and preachers 
 
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 in McllKulisin. ITo lias Iravclod in I'.uropp, 
 I'alcstino and E-rypt. and is author of: My 
 .Motlu'i's Bible; flie Drill Master of IMethod- 
 ism ; The Price of Winning Souls; Pastoral 
 Evangelism; Pathways of the Best; The 
 Old Darnnian ; also contributions to maga- 
 zines. Dr. Goodell is a trustee of Drew 
 Theological Seminary and other educational 
 institutions, and president of the Evan- 
 gelistic Committee of 100 in New York City. 
 He married in Boston, June 3, 1896, Mary 
 F. Blair, and they have two sons and' two 
 dauglitors. Address: 186 West 130th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 GOODELL, Thomas Dwight: 
 
 Professor of Greek in Yale College; born 
 in Ellington, Conn., Nov. 8, 1854. He was 
 graduated from Yale College, A.B., 1877, 
 Ph.D.. 1884. His professional life has been 
 spent entirely in Connecticut, as after a 
 term of years as teacher in the schools of 
 Hartford in that state, he was appointed as- 
 sistant professor of Greek at Yale in 1888, 
 and, in 1893, was appointed professor of 
 Greek language and literature at that uni- 
 versit}'. He has continued in the chair of 
 Greek to the present time, and is one of the 
 foremost among the Greek scholars of the 
 I'nited States. In addition to his studies 
 in this country, he has had periods of stvidy 
 in Germany and Greece, and was professor 
 in the American Scliool of Classical Stxulies 
 at Athens, by appointment of Yale Univer- 
 sity, 1894-189.5. He is a member of the 
 American Philological Association, the 
 American Archa-ological Institute, and a 
 member of the Advisor}- Council of the 
 Sim])lified Spelling Board. He is author of: 
 The Greek in English, 1886; Greek Lessons, 
 1892; Ciiapters on Greek Metric, 1901; 
 Greek Festival Hymn for Yale University 
 with music by Horatio Parker, 1901; School 
 Grammar of Attic Greek, 1902; also a con- 
 tributor of monographs to the Proceedings 
 of the -American Philological Association, 
 and articles in magazines on Greece and the 
 (J reek language. He married at Kockville, 
 Conn., May 9, 1878, J. Harriett Andross. 
 Residence: 3") Edgehill Road, New Haven, 
 Conn. 
 
 GOODHUE, Isaac W.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Boston, Nov. 22, 1862; 
 son of Henry A. and Emma (Burdett**) 
 Goodhue. He was educated in Harvard 
 University, Columbia UniA-ersity, LL,B,, 
 1901, Crozier Seminary, B.D., 1890. Mr. 
 (lOodhue was admitted to the bar of the 
 State of New York in 1901; is a member of 
 the law firm of Goodhue and' Ray. He is 
 president and director of the Continental 
 Talc Company; vice-president and secretary 
 of the Alba Mineral Company. He is a 
 member of the New York County Lawyers' 
 Association; member of the Alumni Associ- 
 ation of Columbia University, Kane Lodge 
 F. and A. Masons, and of the Republican 
 Club of New York. Address: 41 Wall 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 GOODLOE, Green Clay: 
 
 Brigadier-general L'. S. Marine Corps, re- 
 tired; born in Kentucky, Jan. 31, 1845. He 
 served with distinction in the Union Army 
 during the Civil War, and was commissioned 
 second lieutenant in the U. S. ^Marine Corps. 
 April 21, 1809; promoted first lieutenant, 
 Jan. 12, 1876, major and paymaster, March 
 17, 1877, colonel and paymaster March 3, 
 1899; retired Jan. 31, 1909, with rank of 
 brigadier-general, U. S. Marine Corps. 
 Upon entering the Marine Corps in 1869 he 
 was ordered to ^larine Barracks at ^^'ash- 
 ington, D. C. ; to Fort Myer, October, 18G9, 
 for instruction in Army Code of Signals, 
 and after finishing his course was for several 
 months instructor at Brooklyn, N. Y., and' 
 Annai)olis; took full cruise of three years in 
 the Wachusett, 1871-1874, U. S. S. Michi- 
 gan, 1875-1876; afterward ordered to the 
 Marine Barracks at Washington, where he 
 remained on duty as paymaster of the Ma- 
 rine Corjjs from March 17, 1877, until his 
 icl iii'niciil liy operation of law. Brigadier- 
 (icni'ia) (louilloc married Miss Beck, daugh- 
 ter of tiic late U. S. Senator Beck of Ken- 
 tucky. Address: 1103 16th Street, N. W., 
 Washington, D, C. 
 
 GOODNOW, Frank Johnson: 
 
 I'mlCssor of law and author; i)orn in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y,, Jan, 18, 1S59; son of Abel 
 
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 F. iuul .1:1110 >r. (Koot) Goodiiow. Hn was 
 eduoiitetl in private schools; Amherst Col- 
 lege, A.]{., 1870, A.M.. 1887, LL.D., 1897, 
 Columbia University, LL.B., 1882, LL.D., 
 1904, £coIe Libre des Sciences Politiques, 
 Paris. University of Berlin. He was ad- 
 mitted to the New York bar on graduation 
 in 1882, and has been professor of adminis- 
 trative law and iininicipal science in Colum- 
 bia University, since 1883. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Commission to Revise the Charter 
 of the City of New York, 1900-1901; mem- 
 ber of the Commission of the National Civic 
 Federation on Public Ownership, 1905-1906, 
 member of the Association Bar of the City 
 of New York, American Political Science 
 Association, American Economic Association 
 and the Century, University, Barnard and 
 City Clubs of New York. He is author of 
 Comparative Administrative Law, 1893; 
 Municipal Home Pule, 1895; Municipal 
 Problems, 1897; Politics and Administra- 
 tion, 1900; City Government in the United 
 States, 1904; Principles of American Ad- 
 ministrative Law, 1006. He edited: Se- 
 lected Cases on the Law of Taxation, 1905; 
 Selected Cases on Government and Adminis- 
 tration, 1906; selected Cases on the Law of 
 Uilicers, 1906. Professor Goodnow married 
 in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 2, 1886, Elizabeth 
 Lyall. Address: 49 Riverside Drive New 
 York City. 
 
 GOODRICH, Caspar Frederick: 
 
 Pear-admiral U. S. Navy, retired; born 
 in Philadelphia, Jan. 7, 1847; son of Wil- 
 liam and Sarah A. (Bearden) Goodrich. 
 He was appointed to the U. S. Naval Acad- 
 emy from Connecticut, Dec. 9, 1861, and was 
 graduated at the head of the class of 1864. 
 After passing through the various grades he 
 was commissioned as lieutenant-commander 
 Dec. 18, 1868. He was on duty at the Naval 
 Academy, 1871-1873; Tennessee, Asiatic 
 Squadron, 1875-1876; Kcarsarge Asiatic 
 Station, 1876-1878; Torpedo Station, 1878- 
 1880; Lancaster, European Station, 1881- 
 1884; naval attache, on staff of Lieutenant- 
 (4cneral Sir Garnet \Volsoley, during the 
 Telel-Kebir Cauii)aign, 1882; special in- 
 
 structor of Ordnance, 1884-1886. He was 
 a member of the Endicott Board of Fortifi- 
 cations, 1885; promoted to commander, Sep- 
 tendjer, 1884; in charge of Torpedo Station, 
 1886-1889; commanding the Jamestown. 
 1891-1892; commanding Constellation, 18!)2- 
 1893; commanding Concord', 1893-1895; lec- 
 turer at Naval War College, 1896-1897; 
 president of the Naval War College, 1897; 
 gold medalist of the Naval Institute. He 
 was commissioned' captain in September, 
 1897; commanding St. Louis, April-August, 
 1898; Newark, 1898-1899, Iowa, 1899-1900. 
 During the Spanish- American War he had 
 the first engagement with the batteries at 
 Santiago, while cutting cables, aided by the 
 Wompatuck, and fought the last naval ac- 
 tion of the war at Manzanillo. He was ap- 
 pointed lecturer at the Naval War College, 
 July 1, 1900; promoted to rear-admiral Feb. 
 17, 1904; in command of the Pacific Squad- 
 ron, from Aug. 1, 1904, to Dec. 28, 1900, and 
 in 1907 was ordered as commandant of the 
 NeAV York Navy Yard, and retired bj^ opera- 
 tion of law, Jan. 7, 1909. He married, 
 Sept. 4, 1873, Eleanor Milnor, who died May 
 29, 1908. Admiral Goodrich is the father 
 of Lieutenant Goodrich, who died from the 
 result of injuries received from the explosion 
 of powder in his turret in target practice 
 on board the Georgia in July, 1907. Ad- 
 miral Goodrich's contributions to the Pro- 
 ceedings of the United States Naval Insti- 
 tute and to other periodicals have been read 
 witn interest and' pleasure by members of 
 his own and foreign services. Address: 
 Pomfret, Conn. 
 
 GOODRICH, Wallace: 
 
 ^lusician; born in Newton, ^Mass. ^lay 
 27, 1871; son of John B. and Anna L. 
 (Woodward) Goodrich. After graduating 
 from the Newton High School in 1888, he 
 attended the Royal Academy of ]Music in 
 Munich, 1804-1895; and continued his stud- 
 ies in Paris and Leipzig, 1895-1897. From 
 1902 to 1907 he was conductor of choral 
 works of tlie \^'orcester County (IMassachu- 
 setts) jNIusical Association, and was also 
 the founder and conductor of the Choral Art 
 
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 Society of Boston. In 1907 he founded and 
 conducted tlie Jordan Hall Orchestral Con- 
 certs in Boston, and became conductor of 
 the Cecilia Society. He has been organist 
 of Trinity Church, Boston, since 1902 and 
 organist at the concerts of the Boston Sym- 
 phony Orchestra, and since 1897 has been a 
 member of the faculty of the New England 
 Conservatory of Music, of which he is now 
 the dean. Upon the organization of the 
 Boston Opera Company in 1908 he became 
 one of its conduclors. He is a member of 
 the St. Botolph and Tavern Clubs of Bos- 
 ton. Mr. Goodrich married at Manchester, 
 Mass., April 20, 1904, Madeline Boardman. 
 Address: 145 Beacon Street, Boston. 
 
 GOODSELL, Daniel Ayres: 
 
 Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church; born in Newburg, N. Y., Nov. 5, 
 1840; son of Buel and Adeline (Ferris) 
 Goodsell. He was educated in Clinton Acad- 
 emy, Keesville, N. Y., was graduated from 
 New York University in 1859 ; and the de- 
 gree of S.T.D. was conferred upon him by 
 Wesleyan University, D.D. by New York 
 University; and LL.D. by Dickerson Col- 
 lege. He entered the ministry of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church in 1859, was ordained 
 in 18G1; filled various pastorates, became 
 literary editor of the Christian Advocate 
 in New York City in 1880, and afterward 
 secretary of the Board of Education of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Churcli until elected by 
 the General Conference of 1888 to the offices 
 of bishop. In connection with his episcopal 
 duties he has traveled in Cliina, japan, Ko- 
 rea and Europe three times and resided 
 in Europe two years. He is author of: 
 Nature and Character at Granite Bay; The 
 Things Which Remain; Peter the Hermit; 
 and also of numerous contributions to re- 
 views and other periodicals. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Society of American Wars; Sons 
 of the Revolution; and the Zeta Psi frater- 
 nity; and is a trustee of the Drew Theo- 
 logical Seminary, and Wilbraham Academy, 
 liisliop (Joodsell iiiarrie<l in Wliitestone, N. 
 v.. .June (1. IBGft. Sanih I'. Loweree, and 
 Ihi'V have two { li iMicii. itrsidence: 15 
 St. Nicholas Place, New Vork City. 
 
 GOODSPEED, Thomas Wakefield: 
 
 Clergyman, and secretary and registrar 
 of the University of Chicago; born in Glenn 
 Falls, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1842; son of Stephen 
 and Jane (Johnson) Goodspeed. After 
 spending three years at the old University 
 of Chicago, Mr. Goodspeed was graduated 
 from the University of Rochester in 1863, 
 and the Rochester Theological Seminary, 
 1866; and received the degree of D.D. from 
 the University of Chicago. He was pastor 
 of the Vermont Street Baptist Church of 
 Quincy, 111.. 1866-1872; the Second Baptist 
 Church of Chicago, 1872-1876, secretary of 
 tlie Baptist Union Theological Seminary, 
 1876-1889, and has been secretary of the 
 University of Chicago since 1890, and its 
 registrar since 1895. He is a trustee of the 
 Chicago Baptist Hospital, Baptist Theologi- 
 cal Union, Rush Medical College, Frances 
 Shinier Academy at ]\Iount Carroll, 111., the 
 Chicago ]\Ianual Training School Associa- 
 tion, and the University of Chicago. He 
 was formerly president of the village of 
 Morgan Park, 111., and is a member of the 
 Quadrangle Club of Chicago. Dr. Good- 
 speed married at Panton, Vt., Sept. 4, 1866, 
 Mary Ellen Ten Brocke, and they have two 
 sons. Residence: 5630 Kimbark Avenue. 
 Address: Tlie Universitv of Cliicago. Chi- 
 
 GOODWIN, Henry Timrod: 
 
 Piiysician and surgeon; born in Ciiarles- 
 ton, S. C.; son of ({eorge Munro and Emily 
 (Timrod) Goodwin, nejihew of Henry Tim- 
 rod, the South Carolina poet. He was grad- 
 uated from the l^ong Island College Hospi- 
 tal, M.D., was for several years a medical 
 officer in the U. S. Marine Hospital Serv- 
 ice, as past assistant surgeon. In 1896, 
 while in conunand of the U. S. Marine Hos- 
 l)it:il at Louisville, Ky., he resigned to take 
 up |iii\atc ))ractice on Staten Island. He is 
 surgeon to St. Vincent's Hospital, Richmond 
 I'oiough, New York City, and local exam- 
 iner to I lie Xew ^'o^k Life Insurance Com- 
 pany. Dr. Cooilwin is a member of the 
 Ivicliiiioiiil ( oiiiily Medical Society, fellow 
 of the Mcilical Association of the Greater 
 City of New York, the New York State Med- 
 
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 ical Association. Dr. Goodwin's great-grand- 
 father, Henry Tinirod, was president of the 
 (lerman Friendly Society of Charleston, S. 
 C, organized in 1766; was a member of the 
 Uerman Fusilliers. a patriotic organization, 
 and in May, 177ii, when the thrilling news 
 from Lexington and Concord was received, 
 and was the first man to sign the document 
 pledging to take up arms against Great 
 Britain. Dr. Goodwin married in 1876, 
 Laura Wincow, who died in 1881, leaving 
 one son, Hugh Marriott; and in 1876 mar- 
 ried Annie Moody, who died in 1891, leav- 
 ing one son, George Munro. Address: 360 
 raelimond Road, Tompkinsville, Staten Is- 
 land, N. Y. 
 
 GOODWIN, Nathaniel Carl: 
 
 Comedian; born in Boston. Mass., July 
 25, 1857. He was educated in the public 
 schools, and the Little Blue Academy in 
 Farmington, Me. He became a dry-goods 
 clerk in Boston, and while so engaged de- 
 voted his attention to the study of 
 Shakespeare and dramatic art. He began 
 his professional career by giving impersona- 
 tions of well-known men at private enter- 
 tainments, and afterward was with several 
 companies in utility parts, made his first 
 New York appearance in a speaking part 
 at Tony Pastor's in 1875, later played " Cap- 
 tain Crosstree " in the burlesque of Black- 
 eyed Susan, and afterward went with E. E. 
 Rice, creating the part of " Captain Die- 
 Irick " in Evangeline and afterward for 
 three years, playing the leading part of 
 '■ Le Blanc " in the same comedy. Since 
 then he has appeared as Mr. Golightly in 
 Lend Me Five Shillings; Modus in The 
 Hunchback, the Gravedigger in Hamlet 
 (Cincinnati Dramatic Festival, 1883) ; has 
 played in England as well as United States; 
 lias produced many original plays, includ- 
 ing: The Nominee; The Gold Mine; A 
 Gilded Fool; In Mizzouri; Ambition; An 
 American Citizen; The Bookmaker; Nathan 
 Yale; Cowboy and the Lady; When We 
 Were Twenty-One ; Tlie Altar of Friendship ; 
 1 lobbies; The Ramblers; Member from Slo- 
 cum ; Ourselves ; The Skating Rink ; Turned 
 Up ; also Confusion ( burlescfue of Sir Henry 
 Irving in The Bells); Wolfoille; The Gen- 
 
 ius, etc.; has made ornate revivals of The 
 Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer 
 Night's Dream; and producted an original 
 comic opera. Big Pony. His present wife is 
 Edna Goodrich, the actress. Address: 326 
 West End Avenue, New York City. 
 
 GOODYEAR, William Henry: 
 
 Curator of Fine Arts in the Museum of 
 the Brooklyn Institute; born in New Haven, 
 Conn., April 21, 1846; son of Charles Good- 
 year, the famous inventor of vulcanized rub- 
 ber and most processes of its manufacture. 
 He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1867 
 (honorary A.M., Yale, 1904) ; studied his- 
 tory and art history at Heidelberg and Ber- 
 lin, 18G7-1870; traveled in Southern Europe 
 and the Holy Land, 1869-1870; taught in 
 private schools and at Cooper Union ; was 
 curator of the ]\Ietropolitan Museum of Art, 
 1881-1888, studied lotus ornament in Egj'pt, 
 1891, and architectural art in Italy and 
 Northern Europe on several visits, and he 
 was appointed curator of the Fine Arts 
 Museum of Brooklyn Institute in 1899. He 
 is author of: Ancient and Modern History, 
 1883; History of Art, 1887; The Grammar 
 of the Lotus, 1891 ; Roman and Mediaeval 
 Art, 1893 ; Renaissance and Modern Art, 
 1894; also magazine articles. Mr. Good- 
 year is a corresponding member of the Amer- 
 ican Institute of Architects ; honorary mem- 
 ber of the Edinburg Architectural Associa- 
 tion, the Architects' Society of Rome, Royal 
 Academy of Fine Arts of Milan, Royal Acad- 
 emy of Fine Arts of Venice, a founder of 
 the American Anthropological Association, 
 1902; and a fellow of the American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science. Ad- 
 dress : 458 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 GORDON, George Washington: 
 
 Member of Congress; born in Giles Coun- 
 ty, Tenn., Oct. 5, 1836; son of Andrew and 
 Eliza K. Gordon. He was graduated from 
 the Western Military Institute, Nashville, 
 IYmiu., 1859, and practised civil engineering 
 xuitil the beginning of the Civil War ; enlist- 
 ed in the military service of the State of 
 Tennessee in June, 1861, in the capacity of 
 drillmaster of the 1th Tennessee Infantry, 
 and was soon thereafter transferred to the 
 
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 military service of the Confederate States 
 of America, in which he was successively a 
 captain, lioutonant-colonel and' colonel of 
 his regiment, and in 1864 was made a hriga- 
 dier-general and served with that rank to 
 the close of the war. Though captured 
 three times, and once dangerously wounded, 
 he participated in every engagement fought 
 by his command except those at Nashville. 
 Tenn., and Bentonville, N. C, at which 
 times he was a prisoner at Fort Warren, 
 Mass., where he was held till August, 1865. 
 He studied law at Lebanon, Tenn., and prac- 
 tised his profession at Pulaski and Mem- 
 phis, Tenn.. until 1883, when he was ap- 
 pointed a member of the State Railroad 
 Commission of Tennessee. He was appoint- 
 ed to a position in the Interior Department 
 of the United States Government in 1885, 
 and served until 1889 in the Indian country; 
 resumed the practice of law in Memphis, 
 1889-1892, was superintendent of city 
 schools of Memphis until March, 1907. He 
 was elected in November, 1906 to the 
 Sixtieth Congress, and reelected in 1908 to 
 the Sixtj'-first Congress from the Tenth 
 Tennessee District, as a Democrat. General 
 Gordon, was elected in 1901 and has since 
 been annually reelected major-general com- 
 manding the Tennessee Division of United 
 Confederate Veterans. He married in Bart- 
 lett, Tenn., Sept., 5, 1876, Ora S. Paine. Ad- 
 dress: Memphis, Tenn. 
 
 GORE, Thomas Pryor: 
 
 r. S. senator; Ijoni in W ( Ijster County. 
 Miss., Dec. 10. 1870; son of Thomas Madi- 
 son and Carrie Elizabeth (Wingo) Gore. 
 He is blind, luivihg lost liis left eye when 
 eight years old by being accid'ently struck 
 with a stick by a playnuite; and his right 
 eye, when eight years old by an arrow from 
 a cross-bow. He attended a local school at 
 Walthall, Miss., was graduated from tlio 
 Law Department of Cumberland Univer- 
 sit}', Lebanon. Tenn.. in 1892, in which year 
 he was admitted to the Par. lie practised 
 in Mississippi until he rcmoxcd lo Texas in 
 lS9(i. and fniiii tlicre he went to Oklahoma 
 ill 1901. .\li-. (Jore becaiiu! interested in pol- 
 itics and was soon known as an orator of 
 great power. lie was alliiiated with the 
 
 People's Party, luitil 1899, and was a can- 
 didate of that party for Congress from the 
 in 1898. anl a dele- 
 Convention of that 
 iS'.Ki. He joined the 
 1S'.I9. and has since 
 in its National and 
 member toi 
 
 Sixth Texas District 
 gate to tlic Xatinna 
 party in St. Louis in 
 Deujociatic Tarty in 
 taken an active part 
 State cainpaigns. \\a 
 
 tei-m of the Territorial Senate of Oklahoma; 
 was nominated for tlie V. S. Senate at the; 
 State Democratic primary in .Tune. 1907. 
 was apjiointed by the governor, Nov. 11. 
 and elected by the Legislature. Dec. 11, 
 1907, as one of the first two senators from 
 the State of Oklahoma. He drew the short 
 term, expiring IMarch .3, 1909; was renomi- 
 nated in the State Democratic Primary, 
 Aug. 4, 1908, and reelected Jan. 20. 1909. 
 by the Oklahoma Legislature, for the full 
 term expiring jMarch 5. 1913. He married 
 in Palestine, Texas, Dec. 27. 1900, Nina 
 Kay. Address: Lawton. Okla. 
 
 GORGAS, William Crawford: 
 
 Chief sanitary officer, Isthmian Canal 
 Commission; born in Mobile, Ala., Oct. 3, 
 1854. His father, the late General Josiah 
 Gorgas, Avas graduated from West Point in 
 1841, and was a captain in the Ordnance 
 Corps, when he resigned from the U. S. 
 Army, 1861, joined the Confederacy and 
 rose to be brigadier-general and chief of 
 ordnance, C. S. Army; and Colonel Gorgas' 
 mother is Amelia (Gayle) Gorgas, a daugh- 
 ter of Governor Gayle of Alabama. He was 
 graduated from the University of the South, 
 Sewanee, Tenn., A.B., 1875, and from Belle- 
 vue Hospital Medical College, M.D., 1879. 
 He was house surgeon in Bellevue Hospital, 
 1879-1880; entered the U. S. Army, 1880, 
 and served continuously in Florida and on 
 the Western frontier of the United States 
 until, wlien the Spanish-American war be- 
 gan in 1898, he went to Cuba with the San- 
 tiago Expedition, served at Santiago until 
 December, 1898, and then became health of- 
 lieer at Havana until the fall of 1902. 
 While llure the discovery was made by the 
 Army Medical ]?oard' that the mosquito was 
 the means of conveying yellow fever. As 
 heallh officer he at once made plans for i)ut- 
 ting this discovery into practical operation 
 
MEN OF AM1':RICA. 
 
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 and, as a rosull, Havana was frcfnl frciiii yel- 
 low fovor. For this work lie was promoted 
 from the jjrado of major to that of colonel 
 of the ^Icdioal (^orps. V. S. Army, by special 
 act of Congress in lOO.S. In 1004 he Avas 
 sent to Panama as health oHicer for the Isth- 
 mian Canal C'ommissio^n, and in 1907 was 
 made a member of the Commission. Ho is a 
 member of the Society of the Alumni of 
 Bellevue Hospital; member and president- 
 elect of the American Medical Association; 
 fellow of the New York Academy of Medi- 
 cine; associate fellow of the Philadelphia 
 College of Physicians; fellow of the Ameri- 
 can Association for the Advancement of 
 Science; vice-president of the Association of 
 Military Surgeons of the United States; 
 member of the International Congress of 
 ]\Iedicine, of the First Pan-American Sci- 
 entific Congress, and of the American Pub- 
 lic Hcaltli .Association: member of the So- 
 ciete de Pathologic Kxotiqiie. and the Pas- 
 teur Institute, of Paris. Colonel Gorgas ha* 
 the honorary degree of Sc.D. from the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania and from Harvard; 
 and also received lionorary degrees, in 1909, 
 from the Jefferson Medical College, Phila- 
 delphia, and from Brown University; 
 and was awarded the Mary Kingsley medal 
 by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medi- 
 cine. He married in Cincinnati, Sept. 15, 
 1885, Marie Cook Doughty. Address: An- 
 con. Canal Zone, Panama. 
 
 GOSSLER, Philip G.: 
 
 Mechanical engineer; born in Columbia, 
 Pa., Aug. 6, 1870; son of Philip and Emily 
 ( Washabaugh) Gossler. He was graduated 
 from Pennsylvania State College, B.S., 1890, 
 E.E., 1892, and took a post-graduate course 
 in Columbia University in 1893. Mr. Goss- 
 ler was in the engineering department of 
 Chester, (Pa.) Foundry and ^lachine Com- 
 pany and of the Edison General Electric 
 Company, 1890-1891 ; assistant engineer of 
 the United Electric Light and Power Com- 
 pany, New York City, 1891-1895; superin- 
 tendent and engineer of the Royal Electric 
 Company, IMontreal, Canada, 1895-1901; 
 general superintendent and engineer of the 
 Montreal Light, Heat and Power Company, 
 1901-1904; second vice-president of J. G. 
 46 
 
 While Si. ('(mijiany. New York City, since 
 1904 : second vice-])residont and director of 
 the Canadian White Company, Limited; 
 vice-president and director of the Wilkes- 
 Barre (4as and Electric Company, and Tri- 
 ('ity Railway and Light Coinpany; presi- 
 dent and director of the San Juan Light and 
 Transit Company; ]\Tonterey Light and Pow- 
 er Company; the Helena Light and Railway 
 Com])any; ]>orto Rico Power and Light 
 Comi)any; The Eastern Pennsylvania Rail- 
 ways Company; director of the Porto Rico 
 Railway Company. He is a member of the 
 American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 
 National Electric Light Association, Cana- 
 dian Society of Civil Engineers, New York 
 Electrical Society (vice-president), Cana- 
 dian Electrical Association (past president), 
 Pennsylvania Society and the Pilgrims So- 
 ciety of America, and is a member of the 
 Engineers, Lawyers', New York Athletic 
 and Dvmwoodie Country. ^Metropolitan and 
 Amateur Comedy Clubs of New York, and 
 St. James Club of Montreal. Mr. Gossler 
 married in Brooklyn, Nov. 26, 1895, Mary 
 Clailin, and they have three children: Mary, 
 Katherine and Philip. Address : Care of 
 A. B. Leach & Co.. 149 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 GOTTHEIL, Richard James Horatio: 
 
 Educator; born in Manchester, England, 
 Oct. 13, 18G2; son of Rabbi Gustav and 
 Rosalia Gottheil. He was educated in Man- 
 chester, England, Columbia Grammar 
 School, New Y'^ork, was graduated from Co- 
 lumbia College A.B., 1881, followed by grad- 
 uate work in the Universities of Berlin, 
 Tubingen, Leipzig (from which he received 
 the degree of Ph. D. sumnia cum laiule ) , 
 Hochschule fiir die Wissenschaft des Juden- 
 thums and Veitel-Heine-Ephraimsche Beth 
 Hamidrash in Berlin. He has been profes- 
 sor of Semitic languages in Columbia Uni- 
 versity, since 1887; and is also head of the 
 Oriental Department in the New York Pub- 
 lic Library. He was president of the Ameri- 
 can Federation of Zionists, 1898-1904; 
 member of the German Oriental Society, 
 Societe des I^tudes Juives (Paris) ; Jewish 
 Historical Society, England; member of the 
 council of the American Oriental Society; 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 president of the Society of Biblical Litera- 
 ture 1902-1903; vice-president of the Ameri- 
 can Jewish Historical Society; vice-presi- 
 dent of the Judeans (New York City). He 
 is aiitlior of The Syriac Grammar of Mar 
 Elia of Zobha (Berlin) ; has been one of 
 the editors of the Jewish Encyclopedia 
 (Funk and Wagnalls, N. Y.), since 1901; 
 contributor to Johnson's Encyclopedia, sec- 
 ond edition. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Mor- 
 genland Gesellschaft, Journal of the Ameri- 
 can Oriental Society, Zeitschrift fiir As- 
 syriologie, Journal of the Society of Bibli- 
 cal Literature; also contributor to the Cen- 
 tury Magazine, Xorth Americtin Review, 
 and World's Work. Professor Gottheil 
 married in Paris, France, in 1891, Emma R. 
 Leon. Address: 63 West 85th Street, New 
 \'oik City. 
 
 GOTTLIEB, Maurice Artnur: 
 
 Artist and collector of relics and antiqui- 
 ties; born in Vienna, Austria, May 15, 1856; 
 son of Adolf and Caroline (von Sonnenberg) 
 Gottlieb; and distant relative of Antonio 
 Lopez de Santa Anna, the fighting general 
 and president of Mexico. He was educated 
 in St. John's Catholic College under direc- 
 tion of Pater Canonicus, and received the de- 
 gree of AM. Mr. Gottlieb was connected 
 with Puck as manager of the Art Depart- 
 ment for nearly thirty years, and retired on 
 account of ill health. He is author of the 
 History of the Rite of Memphis, and other 
 works. He is a past-master of Odd Fellows; 
 active member of the Masonic fraternity; 
 York Rile Swedenboro Rite, 33d-degree Scol- 
 ti.sh Rite, 96th-degree Egyptian Rite, Chap- 
 ter, Cryptic Rite, Knight Templar, Noble 
 of the Mystic Shrine, Veiled Prophet, Sheik 
 of Kiaba, Rose Croix, and all degrees of the 
 order; honorary member to Spain, Portugal, 
 Italy and Egypt; decorated with the five- 
 pointed bronze star, Order of Merit, by 
 the Khedive. He is a member of the 
 Microscopical Society, Geographical Soci- 
 ety; treasurer of the ]\Iedico-I-.egal Lab- 
 oratory; life member of the Society of 
 Science, Letters and Art, London, Eng- 
 land, and vice-president of the Ameri- 
 can Branch. lie is quartermaster-general 
 with rank of brigadier-general, of the Na- 
 
 tional Volunteer Emergency Service Medi- 
 cal Corps, U. S. A., which he, in connection 
 with his brother, founded in 1900. He is 
 a member of the First Battery, National 
 Guard of New York, and of the New York 
 Press Club. He married Cecilia Miller. Ad- 
 dress: 126 West nth Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 GOTTSCHALK, Alfred L. M. : 
 
 U. S. consul-general-at-large ; born in 
 New York City, Feb. 8, 1873; son of L. G. 
 and Louise de L. (Baucher) Gottschalk. 
 He was educated in Kenyon College, 1891- 
 1894; New York University, r896, and 
 abroad. Mr. Gottschalk was a newspaper 
 and magazine correspondent, attaclied t« 
 Gen. Brooke's Division in the Porto Rico 
 campaign of 1898, as representative of the 
 New York Herald; was author of a book of 
 verse and magazine articles, etc., and' also 
 engaged in sugar growing in Santo Domin- 
 go. In 1900 he was appointed collector of 
 customs at Monte Cristi, Santo Domingo, 
 for the Santo Domingo Improvement Com- 
 pany; appointed consul at San Juandel 
 Norte, Nicaragua, April 25, 1902; consul 
 at Callao, Peru, June 24, 1903; promoted 
 to consul-general at Callao, May 22, 1905; 
 consul-general at Mexico City, Dec. 20, 1905; 
 detailed for duty as inspector of consulates 
 in the Near East, with rank of consul-gener- 
 al-at-large, March 3, 1908. Mr. Gottschalk 
 is a member of the 7th Regiment, National 
 Guard of New York, Geographical Society of 
 Lime, Geographical Society of Mexico, and 
 the Natioiml Geographic Society. He is 
 also a member of The Lambs and Delta 
 Ka])pa Epsilon Clubs of New York City 
 and the Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C. 
 Adil'ress: care of the Consular Bureau, De- 
 |)aitinent of State, ^\■ashington, D. C. 
 
 GOUCHER. John Franklin: 
 
 President tiucritus of The Woman's Col- 
 lege of Balliiiiorc: Imi n in Waynesboro, Pa., 
 in .(une. 1845: sou df \)v. .lolin and Eleanor 
 (TowMscnd) Goucher. lie was" graduated 
 from Dickinson College. A.B.. 1868, A.M., 
 187.S, and received from that college the 
 honorary degrees of D.D., 1885, LL.D., 1898. 
 He was ordained in tlu' ministry of the 
 
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 Methodist Episcopal Church, becoming a 
 iiieiiiber of the Baltiniore Conference in 
 ISO!), projected' and brought to completion 
 the llarlcm Park and Stravvbridge churches 
 and the new First Church of Baltimore and 
 eleven other churches and chapels during his 
 twenty-two years in the pastorate. He was 
 president of the Board of Trustees of the 
 Centenary Biblical Institute, now called 
 Morgan College, in Baltimore, was the pro- 
 jector and chief benefactor of the Princess 
 Anne Training School, and of the Lynch- 
 burg, Va., Industrial School, for colored peo- 
 l)le. He also became active in missionary 
 matters, securing the funds for obliteration 
 of the debt of the Martin Mission Institute. 
 Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany; founded 
 the Anglo-Japanese College at Tokyo, as 
 also the \Yest China and Korean Missions 
 of the ^Methodist Episcopal Church. He 
 was ai)pointed by the Board of Missions to 
 inspect their missions in Italy in 1886, 
 Mexico in 1892, India, 1897-1898," 1906-1907; 
 took an active part in establishing vernacu- 
 lar schools in India. He was president of 
 The Woman's College of Baltimore, which 
 lie projected in 1884, from 1889 to 1909. 
 He has been a delegate to all of the quadren- 
 nial General Conferences of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, beginning with that of 
 1888; was a fraternal delegate to the Con- 
 ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 South, in 1894; is president of the American 
 Methodist Historical Society, vice-president 
 of the Geographical Society of Baltimore ; 
 member of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, American Academy 
 of Political and Social Science, ArchiBologi- 
 cal Institute of America; National Geo- 
 grapliic Society and Sons of the American 
 Revolution. President Goucher married in 
 Pikesville, Md., Dec. 24, 1877, Mary C. Fish- 
 er. Address: The Woman's College. Bal- 
 timore, Md. 
 
 GOULD, Edwin: 
 
 Cajiitalist; born in New York City. Feb. 
 25, 1800; son of Jay and Helen Day (Mil- 
 ler) Gould. He was graduated from Colum- 
 bia College, A.B.. 1888. He served in Troop 
 A and the 71st Regiment of the National 
 Guard of New York, and was captain and 
 
 inspector of ride practice in the latter regi- 
 ment. He is president of the St. Louis 
 and Southwestern Railway, Bowling Green 
 Trust Company, Western Coal and Mining 
 Company, Para-(Jould Soutliwestern Rail- 
 way, Ifine Bluff (Ark.) Railway; vice- 
 president of tlie Utah Fuel Company, Amer- 
 ican Writing Paper Company; director of 
 the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, In- 
 ternational and Greiit Northern Railroad 
 Coiiipan}'-, Te.xas Pacific Railway Company, 
 Vv'estern Union Telegraph Company, Man- 
 hattan Railway Company, Colorado Midland 
 Railway Company, Denver and Rio Grande 
 Railroad. Pittsburg Terminal Railroad Coal 
 Company, Rio Grande Southern Railway 
 Company, West Side Belt Railroad' Com- 
 pany, Western Marj^land Railroad Com- 
 jiany, Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad 
 Company, California and Texas Railway 
 Construction Company, Mercantile National 
 Bank, Mercantile Trust Company, Virginia 
 Passenger and Power Company, American 
 Telegraph and Cable, Colorado Fuel and 
 Iron Company, International Ocean Tele- 
 graph Company, Standard Milling Com- 
 pany, jNlr. Gould is a member of the New 
 York Stock Exchange, Chicago Stock Ex- 
 change, Society of Colonial Wars, Military 
 Order of Foreign Wars, Sons of the Revo- 
 lution, and' of the Union League. Seawan- 
 haka-Corinthian Yacht, American Yacht, 
 New Y'ork Y'aclit, Atlantic Y'acht, New Y'ork 
 Athletic, Essex County Country, Kiiollwood 
 Golf, Larchmont, Jekyl Island, Automobile 
 of America, Armj^ and Navy Country, and 
 Ardsley Clubs of New Y'ork City; Chicago, 
 and St. Louis Club of St. Louis. He mar- 
 ried in New York City, Oct. 27, 1892, Sarah 
 C. Shrady. Residence: Ardsley-on-Hudson, 
 and 730 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Of- 
 fice: 195 Broadway, New Y^ork City. 
 
 GOULD, Elgin Ralston Lovell: 
 
 President City and Suburban Homes Com- 
 pany; born in Oshawa, Ont., Aug. 15, 1860; 
 son of John T. and Emily A. Gould. He 
 was graduated from the Victoria University, 
 A.B., 1881, and from .Johns Hopkins Uni- 
 versity, Pli.D., 1880, having been a fellow 
 there, 1882-1884, and lecturer in the same 
 institution, 1892-1897; professor of econom- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ics in the University of Cliicago, 1805-1896. 
 Since 1800 he has been president of the City 
 and Suburban Homes Company of New 
 York. Mr. Gould was appointed chamber- 
 hiin of the City of New York by INIayor 
 Seth Low, takinf? oflice Jan. 1, 1902, and 
 continuing it to Jan. 1, 1904; and was given 
 a complimentary dinner Jan. 7. 1902, by 
 the citizens of New Y'ork City, in recogni- 
 tion of distinguished municipal service. 
 He was appointed in 1907 and 1908 by 
 (Governor Hughes as a member of the Com- 
 mission to Ilevisc the New York City 
 ('barter. He is ex-vice-president of the 
 American Economic Association; fellow of 
 the American Academy of Political and So- 
 cial Science; member of the International 
 Statistical Institute, British Economic As- 
 sociation, Societe d'Economie Politique and 
 Societe de Statistique de Paris. He is au- 
 thor of various books on social and economic 
 subjects, including: Hou-^ing of the Work- 
 ing People; Popular Control of the Liquor 
 Traffic; The Gothenburg System of Liquor 
 Traffic; The Social Condition of Labor; 
 and various contributions to magazines. 
 Mr. Gould is a vestryman and treasurer of 
 St. Bartholomew's Church, and member of 
 the Century, Church, City, Barnard, Na- 
 tional Arts, Baltimore Country and St. 
 Andrew's Golf Clubs. Residence: 57 West 
 52d Street. Office: 281 Fourth Avenue, 
 New Y'^ork City. 
 
 GOULD, Frank Jay: 
 
 Capitalist; born in New York City, Dec. 
 4, 1878; son of Jay and Helen Day (Miller) 
 Gould. He was graduated from tlic Uni- 
 versity of New Y^ork, A.B., 1900. Mr. 
 Gould' is first vice-president of several cor- 
 porations, including Missouri Pacific, St. 
 Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, Texas 
 & Pacific, and International and Great 
 Northern Itailronil. of which George Jay 
 (iould is ])rcsidciit ; also of ^Vestern Union 
 Telegraph ninl otlicr (•nm])anies. He is a 
 member of tlu; L'liion League, Atlantic 
 ^'aeht, Athletic, Lawyers' and New York 
 Yacht Clubs of New York City. Residence: 
 S:54 Kifth Avenue. Address:' 195 I'.road 
 w;i\'. N'i'W York Citv. 
 
 GOULD, George J.: 
 
 Capitalist; born in New Y'ork City, Feb. 
 G, 1804; son of Jay and Helen Day (Miller) 
 (Jould. He was educated in Dr. Cornwall's 
 |)rivate school, and at the close of his school 
 course, preferred business to college, and 
 became a ricrk in the banking house of 
 W. E. Conner & Company, in which his 
 father was a partner, and when the latter 
 retired in Dec, 1885, became a member of 
 the firm in his father's place. Mr. Gould 
 became a member of the New Y''ork Stock 
 Exchange in Feb., 1880, soon after retiring 
 from the Conner firm. He became vice- 
 president, 1888, and president, 1893, of the 
 Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad Com- 
 pany; also, since 1893, president and di- 
 rector of the Missouri Pacific, Texas and 
 Pacific, International and Great Northern, 
 and St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern 
 Railway Companies; is also chairman of 
 the Board of Directors of the Wabash Rail- 
 road Company, Denver and Rio Grande 
 Railroad Company, and Rio Grande West- 
 ern Railway Company, and, since 1892, has 
 been president of the Manhattan Railway 
 Company. i\Ir. Gould is also president and 
 director of the Arkansas Midland, Coal 
 Belt, and Fort Smith Suburban Railway 
 Companies, 'International Ocean Telegraph 
 Company', Kansas and Arkansas Valley, 
 Kansas City Northwestern, Little Rock 
 Junction, Railway Companies, Pine Bluff 
 and Western Railroad Company, Sedalia, 
 Warsaw and Southwestern, Weatherford 
 and ]\Iineral Wells and Northwestern Rail- 
 way Companies; vice-president and director 
 of the Western Union Telegraph Company, 
 Rio Grande Southern and Kansas City 
 Southern Railroad Companies; director of 
 tiu' American District Telegraph Company, 
 (jold and Stock Telegraph Company, Amer- 
 ican Telegraph and Cable Company, Amer- 
 ican L^uion, Atlantic and Pacific, and New 
 York jNIiitual Telegraph Comi)anies, New 
 \'ork Telephone Company. Soutlicrn and 
 Atlantic, and Washington ami New Or- 
 leans Telegrajih Companies, Pacific i\lail 
 Sleamslii]) Company. Colorado Midland, and 
 Eldorado and Baslri]|i Kailway Companies. 
 Galveston, iloustoii and Henderson Rail- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 ro;ul roiiipany, Kausiis f'iiy. i\Tpxioo iind 
 Oripiit, Kailwiiy Conipaiiy. Pittslmrj? Ter- 
 iniTial Kailroad and Coal ConiiKuiy. Wabash 
 rittsbnrji' Tonuiiial IJailway Company, 
 \\(>st Virginia Central and Pittsburg Rail- 
 way Company, Western Maryland Railroad 
 Company, Western Pacific Railway Com- 
 ])any, Wheeling and' Lake Erie Railroad 
 Comjiany: Bowling Green Trust Company, 
 Continental Trust Company of Baltimore, 
 jNIercantile Trust Cora))any, National Bank 
 of Commerce, National Surety Company, 
 Utah Fuel Company, Colorado Fuel and 
 Iron Company, Davis Coal and Coke Com- 
 ])any, Chicago Elevator Company, Kansas- 
 Missouri Elevator Company, Conried Metro- 
 politan Opera Company. He is a member 
 of the Sons of the Revolution, and Society 
 of Foreign Wars, and of the New York 
 Yacht, Atlantic Yacht, Larchmont, New 
 York, New York Athletic, Rockaway Hunt, 
 City, Midday. Automobile of America, Ards- 
 ley, and Jekyl Island Country Clubs. Mr. 
 Gould married in New York City, in 1886, 
 Edith M. Kingdon, and they have seven 
 children: Kingdon, Jay, Marjorie, Vivian, 
 George, Edith, and Gloria. Residence: 
 Georgian Coxirt, Lakewood, N. J. Address: 
 ]i);i Broadway, New York City. 
 
 GOULD, George Milbry: 
 
 Physician ; born in Auburn. Me., Nov. 8, 
 1848 ; son of George Thomas and' Eliza Ann 
 (Lapham) Gould. He was graduated from 
 Ohio Wesleyan University, A.B., 1873, later 
 A.M.; Harvard Divinity School, 1873; 
 Jefl'erson Medical College, Philadelphia, 
 M.D., 1888. He engaged in practice at Phil- 
 adelphia as specialist in ophthalmology; 
 was ophthalmologist of Philadelphia Alms- 
 house, 1892-1894; president of the American 
 Academy of Medicine, 1895; speaker of the 
 Congress of Arts and Sciences at the Louis- 
 iana Purchase Exposition, 1904. Editor of 
 the Medical News, 1892-1895, Philadelphia 
 Medical Journal, 1898-1900, American Med- 
 icine, 1900-1908; removed to Ithaca, N. Y., 
 1908. Dr. Gould is author of: A New 
 Medical Dictionary, 10 editions, 1891-1900; 
 Pocket ]\Iedical Dictionary, many editions, 
 1897-1909; Illustrated Dictionary of Med- 
 icine and Biology, 1894-1900; Diseases of 
 
 the Eye. ISSS, 1S!)8: 'I'lio Meaning :uid the 
 i\lethod of Life, 1894; .\nieriean Year Hook 
 of Medicine and Surgery, lS!tO-19(l4; Anom- 
 alies and C'uriosities of Medicine, 1898; 
 EncyclDjiedia of Practical Medicine and Sur- 
 gery, 1900; Suggestions to Aledical Writers, 
 19()0; Biographic Clinics, volumes. 1903- 
 1909; also a. Dictionary of New Medical 
 Words; The Practitioners' Medical Diction- 
 ary; Borderland Studies, two volumes; 
 Pocket Encyclopedia of Practical Medicine 
 and Surgery; An Autumn Singer; Con- 
 cerning Lafcadio Hearn, 1908 ; Righthanded- 
 ne.ss and Lefthandedness, 1908; History of 
 Jefferson jNIedical College, two volumes; 
 Personal Bibliography; and various contri- 
 butions to medical journals. He enlisted in 
 1801 as a drnmmer-boy in the Union Army, 
 in the 63d' Ohio Volunteers (discharged, 
 1862) ; enlisted, 18G4, in 141st Ohio Volun- 
 teers, discharged 1865. Dr. Gould is a fel- 
 low of the College of Physicians of Phil- 
 adelphia, and a member of the American 
 Ophthalmologieal Society, American Acad- 
 emy of ]\Iedicine and the American Med- 
 ical Association. He married in Pomeroy, 
 Ohio, in 1876, Harriet F. Cartwright. Ad- 
 dress: The Sentinels, Cayuga Heights, 
 Ithaca. N. Y. 
 GOULD, Howard: 
 
 Actor; born in Minneapolis, INIarch 19, 
 1863; son of Dr. W. H. and Elizabeth J. 
 Gould. He was educated in the schools of 
 Boston, Mass. He began his connection 
 with things theatrical as a call-boy at the 
 Boston INIuseum ; went on stage, and later 
 appeared with James O'Neill, Maggie ]Mitch- 
 ell, and E. H. Sothern; was for seven years 
 a star under Daniel Frohman, then leading 
 support to Mary :Mannering, [Mrs. Patrick 
 Campbell, and Viola Allen. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Players' and Lambs' Clubs of 
 New York City. Address: Players' Club, 
 New York City. 
 
 GOULD, Howard: 
 
 Capitalist; born in New York City in 
 1870; son of the late Jay and Helen Day 
 (Miller) Gould. He received a private 
 education. Mv. Gould has been a member 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 of the Ne\\ York Stock Exchange since 
 1898, and he is a director in the American 
 Pneumatic Service Company, Gold and 
 Stock Telegraph Company, International 
 and Great Northern Railroad Company, 
 Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railway Com- 
 pany, Kansas City Northwestern Railroad 
 Company, ]\Ianhattan Railway Company. 
 Missouri Pacific Railway Company, Rio 
 Grande Southern Railroad Company, Rio 
 Grande Western Railroad Company, St. 
 Louis, Iron Mountain and' Southern Rail- 
 way Company, St. Louis Southwestern 
 Railway Company, Texas and Pacific Rail- 
 way Company. Western IMaryland Railroad 
 Company, and Western Union Telegraph 
 Company. He is distinguished as a yachts- 
 man, and won Lord Dunraven's challenge 
 cup -with the yacht Niagara. Mr. Gould 
 married, Oct. 12, 1898. Viola Katherine 
 Clenimons. Address: Irvington-on-Hudson, 
 New York. 
 
 GOULD, Norman Judd: 
 
 -Manufacturer; born in Seneca Falls, N. 
 Y., March 15, 1877; son of Seabury S. and 
 Mary Mitchell (Judd) Gould. He was 
 graduated from Lawrenceville (N. J.) 
 School, 1895, and from Cornell University, 
 as M.E., in 1899. He is president of The 
 Goulds' Manufacturing Company of Seneca 
 Falls, N. Y. ; director of the Exchange Na- 
 tional Bank of Seneca Falls; trustee of 
 Seneca Falls Savings Bank. Mr. Gould was 
 an alternate-at-large from New Y'ork State, 
 to the Republican National Convention of 
 1908. He is a director of the Seneca Falls 
 Library Association ; member of the Board 
 of School Commissioners and the Board of 
 Water Commissioners of Seneca Falls, N. 
 Y^. ; member and trustee of the Sigma Phi 
 Association of Cornell University; trustee 
 of the National Iron Pump Manufacturers' 
 Club; member of the American Society of 
 Mechanical Engineers; and an associate 
 member of the National Fine Protection 
 Association and the American Water Works 
 Association. He is a prominent member of 
 the Masonic Order, Geneva Commandery, 
 No. 29, Knights Templar, and Damascus 
 Temple Mystic Shrine, Rochester, and ho 
 is a member of the Seneca Falls Club of 
 
 Seneca Falls, the Cornell University, Ma- 
 chinery, and New York Athletic Clubs of 
 New Y''ork City; the Kanadasaga, and 
 Country Clubs of Geneva, N. Y., the Uni- 
 versity Club of Chicago, City Club of Au- 
 burn, N. Y., Genesee Valley Club of Roch- 
 ester, N. Y^., and the City Club of Boston. 
 Address: Seneca Falls. N. Y. 
 
 GOULDEN, Joseph A.: 
 
 Underwriter and congressman: born in 
 Adams County, Pa., Aug. 1, 1844. He 
 served in the Navy during 1864 and 1865; 
 was a member of the Board of ^Managers of 
 the State Reformatpry at Morganza. Pa., 
 commissioner and trustee of the public 
 schools of New Y^ork City for ten years; 
 is a member of the Board of Trustees of 
 the Soldiers' Home, Bath, N. Y. : was secre- 
 tary and a member of the commission that 
 erected the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, 
 by the City of New York, in Riverside 
 Park. He was elected as a Democrat to 
 the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-nintli and Si.xtieth 
 Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-first 
 Congress from the Eighteenth New Y''ork 
 District. He married in Dec, 1867, Isabella 
 Allwein. Residence: 2433 Creston Avenue, 
 Fordham. Office: 180 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 GOVE, William henry: 
 
 I^awyer and business man: born in South 
 Berwick, Me., Sept. 4, 1851 ; son of Levi 
 and Mary (Mead'er) Gove; grandson of 
 Joseph and Mehitable (Varney) INIeader, 
 and of Moses and Hannah (Chase) Gove, 
 and a descendant of John Gove, who came 
 from England about 1647, and settled in 
 Charlestown. Mr. Gove was brought up on 
 liis father's farm, with few school privileges 
 beyond llic district school until he was 
 nearly liftceu years old. wlien his family 
 removed to Lynn, Mass.. and he entered the 
 High School there, from w liicli he was grad- 
 uated in 1809, and passed the examinations 
 for admission to Harvard College, but did 
 not enter until 1872 from want of the 
 necessary means. The intervening years he 
 spent as clerk and student in a law office 
 and was admitted to the bar in 1872. He 
 was graduated from Harvard in 1876, and 
 
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 jci'fivcd llic (Icyrcc of Ui.B. from I l;irv;iid 
 l^aw School in 1877. lie practised law in 
 Salem. Mass., 1877-1900, till 1885 in part- 
 nership with John W. Porter, afterwards 
 alone. He was a member of the School 
 Board of Lynn in 1878-1881; removed' to 
 Salem early in 1882 and was alderman of 
 that city. is94-lS06. beinir president of the 
 board in 1805 and 189G. He was representa- 
 tive from Salem in the General Court, 1903 
 and 1904. sewing as a member of the Com- 
 mittee on the Judiciary. He was alternate- 
 delegate to Republican National Convention 
 from his Congressional District in 1908. 
 Mr. Gove is author of a plan for Propor- 
 tional Representation, which is somewhat 
 widely known as '* The Gove System.'' Mr. 
 Gove is a knight Templar and 32d degree 
 !Mason and a member of the lodge and en- 
 campment of Odd Fellows. He is a di- 
 rector of the Essex Institute, Salem, and 
 a member of the Salem Club. He became 
 president and general manager of the Lydia 
 E. Pinkham ]\Iedicine Company late in 
 1900, through the death of his wife's 
 brother, and he is now successfully con- 
 ducting that extensive business. He mar- 
 ried, Jan. 5, 1882, Aroline C, daughter of 
 Isaac and Lydia (Estes) Pinkham, and 
 they have four children. Address : 254 
 Lafayette Street. Salem, Mass. 
 
 GOW, John Russell: 
 
 Clergyman ; born in Waterville, Me., Oct. 
 20, 1855; son of George Boardman and 
 Luey Ann (Marston) Gow. He was grad- 
 uated from the Worcester (Mass.) High 
 School. 1872, Brown University, A.B., 1877, 
 Xewton Tlieological Institution, 1882, and 
 received the degree of D.D. from Colby 
 College in 1908. He was ordained to the 
 ministry in the First Baptist Church of 
 Fair Haven, Vt., in 1882, remaining there 
 until 1886, pastor of Baptist churches at 
 Bridgeport. Conn., 1886-1891, Hyde Park, 
 Chicago, 1891-1895, Somerville, Mass., 1895- 
 1908, and since 1908 at Brattleboro, Vt. 
 Dr. Gow is a member and was president 
 of tlie Boston Browning Society; trustee 
 of the Fair Haven (Vt.) public schools; 
 secretary of the Somerville Boys' Club and 
 the Somerville Associated Charities; is a 
 
 tru^lce of I he Newton Tlieological insti- 
 tution and of the Brattleborcj Public Li- 
 brary; is a member of the Delta Upsilon 
 fraternity at Yale, the Royal Arcanum in 
 Somerville, Mass., and the Twentieth Cen- 
 tury Club in Boston. Address: 10 Ter- 
 race Street, Brattleboro, Vt. 
 
 GRABAU, Amadeus William: 
 
 Professor of ])aleontology in Columbia 
 University; born in Cedarburgh, Wis.. Jan. 
 9, 1870; son of Professor William and 
 Maria (von Rohr) Grabau. He was grad- 
 uated from the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology, S.B., 1896, Harvard. S.:\r., 1898, 
 S.D., 1900. Formerly professor of geology 
 in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and 
 lecturer in geology in Tufts College. He 
 beciime lecturer in paleontology in Colum- 
 bia University in 1901, was appointed 
 adjunct professor in 1902, and professor of 
 paleontology in 1905. Professor Grabau is 
 distinguished for his researches in paleon- 
 tology and stratigraphy, and particularly 
 in the succession of faunas in the middle 
 Devonic of the United States and the phylo- 
 geny of Gastropoda. He is a fellow of the 
 Geological Society of America, the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science, 
 fellow and vice-president of the New York 
 Academy of Sciences, and chairman of sec- 
 tion; member of the Boston Society of Nat- 
 ural History, Buffalo Society of Natural 
 Sciences. Dr. Grabau Avas coeditor of the 
 Guide to Localities, illustrating the geology, 
 marine zoijlogy and botany of Boston: 
 Geology and Paleontology of Eighteen-^NIile 
 Creek and the Lake Shore of Erie County, 
 New York (Buffalo Society of Natural Sci- 
 ences) ; Guide to the Geology and Paleon- 
 tology of Niagara Falls (University of the 
 State of New York Museum Bulletin, 
 1901) ; Phylogeny of Fusus and Its Allies 
 (Smithsonian Institute, 1904) ; Guide to 
 the Geology and' Paleontology of the Scho- 
 harie Region in Eastern New York (Uni- 
 versity of the State of New York Museum, 
 1906), and numerous scientific papers. 
 Married, Boston, 1901, Mary Antin. Resi- 
 dence: SOth Street and 11th Avenue, 
 Brooklyn. Address : Columbia University, 
 New York City. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 GRACE, Thomas: 
 
 Catholic bisliop of Saeramontn ; born in 
 Wexfoi.l. Irohmd. Aug. 2, 1841. He ro- 
 coixod his jjoneral education in St. Peter's 
 CoUeije in his native town, and pursued 
 his divinity studies in All Hallows College. 
 Dublin. He was ordained priest June 11, 
 ISOT. and went to California, entering npon 
 parochial work at Red Bluflf in that State. 
 He was afterward successively at Eureka, 
 Humboldt and Carson. Nev. : was rector 
 of the Marysville (Calif.) Cathedral. 1873- 
 1881. and of the Sacramento Cathedral. 
 1881-1896. He was preconized bishop, Feb. 
 27, 1896, and consecrated June 16, 1896, 
 bishop of Sacramento. Address: Sacra- 
 juenlo. Calif. 
 
 GRADY, Thomas 1'.: 
 
 Lawyer and State senator; born in Xew 
 York City, Nov. 29, 1853. He was educated 
 in De La Salle Institute and St. James' 
 Church Parochial School ; and he received 
 the degree of A.M. from Manhattan College 
 in 1880. He studied law in the offices of 
 ;Middlebrook and Phillips, and of William 
 C. \Yhitney, corporation counsel, and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1883. He was a 
 mendier of the House in the General As- 
 senddy of New York, 1877, 1878, 1879; 
 State senator, 1882-1883, 1889; police jus- 
 tice, 1891-1895; elected State senator, 1894, 
 and' has been reelected biennially since; up 
 to and including election of 1908. For 
 many years Senator Grady has been a prom- 
 inent member of the Tammany Society. 
 He has been the leader of the Democratic 
 minority in the New York Senate since 
 1899; has been a prominent delegate to 
 many Democratic State Conventions and a 
 conspicuous figure at the National Conven- 
 tion, and has been chief speaker for Tam- 
 many Hall at many State conventions. 
 Since the session of 1902, he has been a 
 mcndit-r of the Senate Committees on Rules, 
 I-'inance, Judiciary and Cities. Addre.ss: 
 74 I'roadway, New York City. 
 
 GRAFF, Joseph V.: 
 
 ( uMgrcssman ; born in Tci re Haute, Jnd., 
 July 1, 1854; son of Jacob K. and Mary 
 
 J. (Miller) GrafT. He was graduated from 
 the Terre Haute High School, and took a 
 ])artial course in Wabash College. He stud- 
 ied law and was admitted to the bar while 
 living at Delavan. 111., in 1879. and has 
 ever since been engaged in the practice of 
 law. He was a delegate to the National 
 Republican Convention at Minneapolis in 
 1892. Before election to Congress he had 
 never held a public ofTice except president 
 of the Board of Education of Pekin, 111., 
 which position he held' at the time of his 
 election to the Fifty-fourth Congress in 
 1894, and he has since been biennially 
 elected and is now serving in the Sixty- 
 first Congress. Address: Peoria. 111. 
 
 GRAFLY, Charles: 
 
 Sculptor; born in Philadelphia, Dec. 3, 
 1 S62 ; son of Charles and Elizabeth ( Sim- 
 juons) Grafly. He was educated in the 
 Philadelphia public schools, studied sculp- 
 ture in Paris under Chapu and Dampt, 
 1888-1902 and later at the Spring Garden 
 Institute, and at the Pennsylvania Academy 
 of Fine Arts. Philadelphia. He is instruc- 
 tor in scul])ture at the Pennsylvania Acad- 
 emy of Fine Arts and curator of sculpture 
 at the Memorial Hall in Philadelphia. Mr. 
 Grafly has done much notable work in 
 bronze figures, groups and busts and is 
 represented in the permanent collections of 
 the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and 
 in the Detroit Museum of Fine Arts. He 
 received honorable mention at the Paris 
 Salon. 1891, and the Temple Trust Fund, 
 Philadelphia. 1892, medal from the World's 
 Cohnnbian ivxposition, 1893, silver medal 
 from the Atlanta Exposition, 1895, the 
 Converse (in\i\ .Modal from the Pennsyl- 
 vania Academy in 1899, and gold medals 
 from the Paris Exposition, 1900, Charleston 
 IvxjKJsition and the Buftalo Exposition, 
 1901. He was member of the International 
 Jury of Awards at the St. Louis Exposi- 
 tion in 1!H)4. 11(! is a fellow of the Penn- 
 sylvania .\cadeniy of Fine Arts; an acad- 
 emician of the National Academy of Design, 
 the Architectural I^nigue of New York, the 
 N'ational Sculpture Society, the Art Club of 
 I'liiladelphia. and the National Institute of 
 Arts and Letters. He married in i'liila- 
 
MEN Ol' AMEIUCA. 
 
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 dflphia, .(line 7, 1SU5, Friiiicos Sokelcs, of 
 Corinth, Miss., and has one daujxlitor. Res- 
 idence: 2140 North Twelfth Street. Ad- 
 dress: 2200 Arch Street. Philadelphia. 
 Country address (from June to Oct.) : 
 Lancsville, Gloucester, Mass. 
 
 GRAFTON, Charles Chapman: 
 
 Bishop of Fond du Lac; born in Boston, 
 Mass., x\pril 12, 1830; son of Joseph and 
 Anna ]\Iaria (Gurley) Grafton. He was edu- 
 cated in Boston Latin School, was graduated 
 from the Law School of Harvard University, 
 LL.B., 1853, but instead of practising law 
 took up studies for the ministry of the 
 Episcopal Church, and he received the de- 
 gree of S.T.D. from Racine College in 1889. 
 He was ordered deacon in 1855, and or- 
 dained priest by Bishoj) Whittingham in 
 1858. Following his ordination he was 
 consecutively assistant in Reistertown, Md., 
 missionary at Baltimore, assistant in St. 
 Paul's Church, Baltimore, and chaplain of 
 the ]\Iaryland Dcaconnesses. In coopera- 
 tion with the Rev. R. M. Benson, he helped 
 to organize the Society of St. John the 
 Evangelist, known as the Cowley Fathers. 
 He became rector of the Church of the 
 Advent, Boston, in 1888. He established 
 also the Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity, 
 whose Mother liouse is at Fond du Lac. 
 In 1889 he became bishop of Fond du Lac, 
 Wis., being consecrated' by Bishops Mc- 
 Laren, A. Burgess, Seymour, Knickerbocker, 
 Gilbert and Knight. He is author of: Vo- 
 cation, or the Call of the Divine Master 
 to a Sister's Life, 1886; Plain Suggestions 
 for a Reverend Celebration of the Holj' 
 Communion; Christian and Catholic; The 
 Catholic Atlas. Bishop Grafton is a mem- 
 ber of the Society of Colonial Wars. He 
 has published various sermons. Address: 
 Fond du Lac. Wis. 
 
 GRAHAM, George Scott: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Sept. 13. 
 1850; son of James Henry and Sarah Jane 
 (Scott) .Graham. He was graduated from 
 the University of Pennsjdvania, LL.B., 
 1871. and received the degree of LL.D. 
 from Lafayette College. Mr. Graham was 
 admitted to the bar in Philadelphia, 1871, 
 
 and in New \urk in l!t04; was professor 
 of criminal law in llu; University of Penn- 
 sylvania, ten years, resigning in 1898; 
 district attorney of Philadelphia, eighteen 
 years, six consecutive terms, to four of 
 which he was elected on both Republican 
 and Democratic tickets ; and is now mem- 
 ber of the firm of Graham and L'Amoreaux, 
 lawyers. Mr. Graham is a director of The 
 Columbia Avenue Trust and Pennsylvania 
 Klectrie Light and Power Company, Phila- 
 delphia; Pennsylvania Heat, Light and' 
 Power Company; International Smokeless 
 Powder and Chemical Company of New 
 Jersey; The Marsden Company of New Jer- 
 sey. He is past grand commander of 
 Knights Templar of Pennsylvania. IMr. 
 Graham married first, Dec. 14, 1870, Emma 
 M. Ellis; and second June 8, 1898, Pauline 
 M. Clarke ; and he has three living daugh- 
 ters, and a son and daughter now deceased. 
 Address : 42 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 GRAHAM, William Harrison: 
 
 Congressman ; born' in Allegheny, Pa,, 
 Aug. 3, 1844; son of Harrison and Eliza- 
 beth Graham. He was educated in the 
 public schools of his native city, and en- 
 listed for the Civil War at the age of 
 seventeen, in a Pittsburg Company, but 
 Pennsylvania's quota being full, they char- 
 tered a steamer, went down the Ohio River 
 to Wheeling, and were accepted there, be- 
 coming Company A, Second Virginia In- 
 fantry. After a service of two years they 
 were mounted and became the Fifth West 
 Virginia Cavalry. He saw active service 
 under Generals Averill, Crook and Sheri- 
 dan; was in service until the close of the 
 war, witnessing the surrender of General 
 Lee at Appomattox, and was wounded in 
 the battle of White Sulphur Springs, W. 
 Va. After the -war he engaged actively in 
 business and has been very successful; was 
 elected three terms successively as recorder 
 of deed's of Allegheny County: represented 
 his city during four sessions of the Penn- 
 sylvania Legislature ; was elected to the 
 Fifty-lifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh 
 Congresses ; was defeateti by eighteen votes 
 for the Fifty-eighth Congress through a 
 Citizens-Democratic fusion movement; but 
 
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 was leelofted to the Fift\ -ninth, Sixtieth 
 and iSixty-tirst Congresses from the 29th 
 Pennsylvania District. Address: Alle- 
 gheny, Pa. 
 
 6RANJ0N, Henry Regis: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Tucson: limn in St. 
 Etienne, France, June lo. ISti."}; son of 
 Pierre and Jeanne (Meunier) Granjon. He 
 was educated in tlie St. Sulpice Seminary 
 in Paris and in the universities in Rome, 
 was ordained priest in 1887, joined the 
 Arizona mission in 1890, and labored there 
 until 1897, when he was placed in charge 
 of the Society of the Propagation of the 
 faitli with residence at Baltimore until 
 l!i()(>, when he was consecrated bishop of 
 Tucson. Address: The Cathedral. Tucson, 
 Ariz. 
 
 GRANT, Frederick Dent: 
 
 Major-general, U. S. Army; born in St. 
 Louis, May oO, 1850; son of Ulysses S. and 
 Julia (Dent) Grant. He was educated in 
 the schools of St. Louis and at Galena, 111., 
 where his father was in business when the 
 Civil War began. As a boy he accompanied 
 his father in the Vicksburg campaign to 
 the final surrender of Vicksburg to the 
 Union forces, and was present at five battles 
 before he was thirteen years old. He was 
 appointed to the U. S. Military Academy, 
 18G7, was graduated and commissioned sec- 
 ond lieutenant 4th U. S. Cavalry, 1871. 
 He was employed as engineer of the Union 
 Pacific and Colorado Central Pailroads in 
 the summer of 1871, went to Europe with 
 General Sherman, 1871-1872; returned to 
 the United States, 1872, and joined his regi- 
 ment in Texas, 1873, and commanded a 
 cavalry escort to the party making a pre- 
 liminary survey for the Southern Pacific 
 liailway, as a protection against hostile In- 
 dians. In 1873 he was made aide-de-camp 
 to General Sh(;ridan, with rank of lieu- 
 tenant-colonel ; was engaged in various 
 expeditions again.st hostile Indians and later 
 joined iiis father in the Orient, continued 
 with him on tlie remainder of the celebrated 
 journey aiound the world and thereafter 
 until his fatiier's death, resigning his com- 
 mission in 1881. After his father's deatli 
 
 he took charge of the interests of his mother 
 and the estate until 1889. He was U. S. 
 minister to Austria, 1889-1893, and resumed 
 military service in the Spanish-American 
 War as colonel of the 14th New York Vol- 
 unters, brigadier-general of the U. S. Vol- 
 unteers in Porto Rico, and commanding the 
 Military District of San Juan. He was 
 transferred to the Philippines in 1899, and 
 commanded the Second Brigade of the First 
 (Lawton's) Division, July-Nov., 1899, cov- 
 ering the line south of Manila, and fighting 
 in numerous skirmishes and the battles of 
 Imus (or Big Bend) and Benician; com- 
 manded the Second Brigade of the Second 
 (MacArthur's) Division, 1899-1900, and 
 commanded the column invading the prov- 
 inces of Bataan and Zambales; commanded 
 the Fifth Military District of the Depart- 
 ment of Luzon, Feb., 1900, to Oct., 1901, 
 and after pacification of that district was 
 in command of Southern Luzon; later 
 placed in command of the Sixth Separate 
 Brigade and transferred to Samar and 
 Leyte, where he brought about the sur- 
 render of all insurgents in Samar, April 
 27, 1902. He was commissioned brigadier- 
 general U. S. A., Feb. 18, 1901; commanded 
 the Department of Texas, 1902-1904, De- 
 partment of the Lakes, Jan. -Sept., 1904; 
 Department of the East, 1904-1908; De- 
 ])artment of the Lakes since 1908. Major- 
 (Tcneral Grant is a member of the Military 
 Order of tlie Loyal Legion, the Society of 
 Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolvition, the 
 Society of Foreign Wars, and the Union 
 League, Badminton and Army and Navy 
 Clubs of Ne York City. He married in 
 Chicago, Oct. 20, 1874, Ida Honore, daugh- 
 ter of Henry II. and Eliza (Carr) Honore. 
 Address: Headquarters U. S. Army, Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 GRANT, Hugh John: 
 
 J-lx-mayor of Nevv York City; born in 
 New York City, 1855. He was graduated 
 from :Manhattan College, 1871; went abroad 
 with parents for a year, most of which was 
 spent in Berlin; on return spent three years 
 in St. Francis Xavier's College, then at- 
 tended Cohunbia I.,aw School, from which he 
 was graduated. After graduation he spent 
 
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 a yciir in (lie olliee of D. i\l. I'ortiM", lawyer, 
 tli(Mi foniu'il ii business connection with 
 Jiunes M. Smith (former recorder) ; Later 
 moved uptown, wliere lie practised law and 
 operated extensively in real estate, and soon 
 h;ul his attention occupied by the business 
 of luuiierous estates of which his father 
 luul charge. He received the Tammany 
 nomination for alderman in the 19th Dis- 
 trict, 1882, and was elected, and was re- 
 elected. 1883, to the " Boodle " Board, in 
 whicli liis straightforward and honorable 
 course was in marke contrast to the 
 crooked acts of most of his fellow members, 
 which he was largely instrumental in ex- 
 posing and punishing. He received the 
 Tannnany nomination for mayor, 1884, but 
 was defeated by William R. Grace in a 
 close contest ; received the Tammany nom- 
 ination for sherilT, 1885, and was elected; 
 was elected mayor, 1888, and' reelected 1890, 
 and was nominated. 189-4, for third term, 
 but ^\■as defeated by William L. Strong. 
 Since then he has devoted his attention to 
 the management of his large real estate 
 interests. He has served as receiver of the 
 St. Nicholas Bank, Brooklyn Wharf and 
 Warehouse Company, and the Third Avenue 
 Railroad. Mr. Grant married a daughter 
 of Edward IVlurphj', Jr., of Albany, formerly 
 United States senator from New York. 
 Residence: 261 West 73d Street. Office: 
 20 East 72(1 Street, New York City. 
 
 GRANT, Jesse R.: 
 
 ^Mining operator ; born in St. Louis, Feb. 
 0, 1858; son of Ulysses S. and Julia (Dent) 
 Grant. He was educated in Cornell Uni- 
 versity and the Columbia Law School; and 
 he is interested as officer and stockholder 
 in many mining enterprises. Mr. Grant is 
 a member of the American Geographical 
 Society, American Numismatic Society, the 
 Kappa Alpha fraternity, and tlie jNIanhattan 
 and National Democratic Clubs of New 
 York City. He married in San Francisco, 
 in 1880, Elizabeth R. Chapman. Address: 
 Manhattan Club, New York City. 
 
 GRANT, Percy Stickney: 
 
 Clergyman ; born in Boston, May 13, 
 1860; son of Stephen Mason and Anna 
 
 Stickney (irant. lie was educated in th« 
 Boston public schools and at the Roxbury 
 Latin Scliool, and was graduated at Har- 
 vard in 188.S. He entered the Episcopal 
 Theological Scliool at ('aml)ri(lge, and was 
 graduated from that institution in 1880. 
 At the same time he received the degree 
 of M.A. finiii Harvard for post-graduate 
 work, liunicdiately after his graduation he 
 went as curate to tlie Church of the Ascen- 
 sion, Fall River. Here he soon became at- 
 tracted l>y till' problem presented by the 
 religious ami -ocial needs of the cotton op- 
 eratives in that greiit manufacturing city. 
 In six months he became minister of St. 
 Mark, and soon built a new church on a 
 large piece of land in the factory district, 
 with a view to putting his views into prac- 
 tical operation. He became the rector of 
 the chapel, and labored earnestly and suc- 
 cessfully among these people until 1893. 
 During that period he became prominent 
 in Fall River affairs, serving on school com- 
 mittees and furthering various philan- 
 thropic and educational works. When Dr. 
 \\'inchester Donald (Phillips Brooks' suc- 
 cessor at Trinity) left the pulpit of the 
 Church of the Ascension, in New York City, 
 in 1893, he was called to become its rector, 
 and he has since served in that office. He 
 assumed the charge on condition that the 
 pews should be fiee. This was a rather 
 startling proposition to some of the vestry- 
 men. Its acceptance involved the surrender 
 of fourteen thousand dollars in pew rents 
 annually; but they finally yielded, and' seats 
 in the church have been free ever since. 
 The result of this change was most encour- 
 aging, the increase in the attendance and 
 income have been remarkable. ^Ir. Grant 
 has contributed to the literary world two 
 volumes of poems, entitled " Ad Matrem 
 and Other Poems," and " The Search of 
 Belisarius." IVIr. Grant has gained an envi- 
 able standing in New York, and was high 
 in the esteem of Bishop Potter. In the 
 winter of 1899-1900 he was honorary secre- 
 tary and chaplain to the Bishop in his 
 trip around the world, and on his return 
 wrote several articles on the Philippine Is- 
 lands, and the religious conditions of the 
 East. These he published under the title. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 " Observations in Asia." Anioiic; liis pub- 
 lished pai)ers are " IManiajio and Divoioe " 
 and " ]\[onolo<,Mios of Kobcrt. Browninj;." 
 Mr. Graivt. is a University preacher at 
 Harvard. Address: 7 West Tenth Street, 
 New York. 
 
 GRANT, Robert: 
 
 Anthor and jurisi : ])orn in l^oston, Jan. 
 24. 1852: son of Patrick and Cliarloite 
 (Bordman) Crant. He was educated in 
 the Boston Latin School and in Harvard, 
 A.B.. 1873, Ph.D.. 1876, LL.B., 1879. He 
 Practised law, 1879-1803. and since 1803 
 has been judfje of the Probate Court and 
 Court of Insolvency of Boston. He was 
 one of the Waler Commissioners of City 
 of Boston. 1888-1803 and chairman of the 
 board from 1880, overseer of Harvard Col- 
 lege since 180.'5. Judge Grant is author of: 
 The Little Tin Gods on Wheels (verse), 
 1870; The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl. 
 1880; The Lambs (verse), 1882; An Aver- 
 age Man, 1883; Face to Face, 1886; Jack 
 Hall, or tlie Schooldays of an American 
 Boy, 1887; Jack in the Bush, or a Summer 
 on a Salmon Eiver, 1888; The Reflections of 
 a ^larried ]\Ian. 1802; The 0]iinions of a 
 Philosopher, 1893; The Bachelor's Christ- 
 mas, 1895; The Art of Living, 1805; Search- 
 Light Letters. 1899; Unleavened Bread, 
 1900; The Undercurrent, 1904; The Orchid, 
 1905; The Law-Breakers, 1906; The Chip- 
 pendales. 1909. He is a member of the 
 Somerset, Country and Tavern Clubs of Bos- 
 ■ton. He married, in 1883, Amy Gordon, 
 eldest daughter of Sir Alexander T. Gait, 
 G.C.M.G., Montreal, 1883, and has four sons. 
 Residence: 211 Bay State Road. Office: 
 Court House, Boston. ■ 
 
 GRANT, Robert Parks: 
 
 Hanker, manufacturer; born in Never- 
 sink. X. v.. May 8, 1844; son of Isaac and 
 Hannah (Le Roy) (Jrant. He was edu- 
 cated' in the puldic schools. He served in 
 the Civil War in tlie 92d Regiment of New 
 York X'oiuntecrs. from private to colonel of 
 Ihi' regiment. After liis war service lie en- 
 gaged in eonimi'rcial and liaiikiie^ alVaii-^; 
 aiib'd in foumling Hie IJaiik of (laytoii. N. 
 \.. in I87t), and in 1S84, with otliers, or- 
 
 ganized the Exchange I5aiik. whieli later be- 
 came tlie National Bank of Clayton, aiul of 
 wliicli lie lias been cashier since organiza- 
 tion. ISOS. He is stockholder in eighteen 
 National Hanks and two trust companies; 
 is largely interested in the manufacture and 
 sale of cheese and other dairy products; 
 ])resident of the \A'atertown Produce Fx- 
 I'liange. and the State Dairy Board of 
 Trade; vice-presiilent of the Thousand Is- 
 lands Park Association; and trustee of the 
 Clayton Pid)lishing Com])any. He has been 
 supervisor of the town of Clayton. N. Y., 
 three years; also a trustee of the Prospect 
 Park Company, a summer resort at the 
 Thousand Islands; managing owner of six 
 cheese factories, and also has one of the 
 laigest fire insurance agencies in Jefferson 
 County. He is a 32d-d'egree Mason and is 
 a Republican in politics and a mendier of 
 the Bankers' and Brokers' Club and the 
 Anglers' Club of the St. Lawrence River. 
 He married in Hawkinsville. N. Y.. Sept. 
 14. 1870, Lettie C. Hayes, and has one son, 
 Robert D. Address: Clayton, N. Y. 
 
 GRANT, Ulysses Sherman: 
 
 Geologist; born in Moline, 111., Feb. 14, 
 1807; son of General L. A. Grant. He was 
 educated in Des INloines, Iowa, 1873-1882; 
 was graduated from the University of Min- 
 nesota, B.S.. 1888; and the degree"^ of Ph.D. 
 was conferred on him in 1803 by Johns 
 Hopkins University. He was assistant 
 State geologist of Minnesota, 1893-1899; 
 instructor in geology in the University of 
 Minnesota, 1897-1898, has been geologist on 
 the Geology and Natural History Survey 
 of Wisconsin since 18!)0, and assistant ge- 
 ologist on the United States Geological Sur- 
 vey, 1001-1903, and' geologist, since 1904; , 
 consulting geologist on the Illinois Geolog- ■ 
 ical Survey since 1900. He was associate ' 
 editor of the American Geologist, 1897-1906, 
 and has published a number of papers and , 
 re])orts on general and economic geology. ■' 
 His ]ia])ers deal cliiedy with the Lake Su- '' 
 jieiior iron and coppei- districts, the Wis- 
 consin lead and zinc district, and Prince 
 Williaiii Sound. Alaska. Since 1899 he has 
 been professm- of geology in Northwestern 
 University and was acting dean of the Col- 
 
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 lejjc of Liberal Arts of that university, 1907- 
 1!)08. Professor (^.rant married in Minne- 
 apolis, Oct. 1, 1891, Avis Winclioll. Ad- 
 dress: Evanston, III. 
 
 GRANT, Ulysses S., Jr.: 
 
 Lawyer; Irorn in Bollicl, Oliio. Jiily 22, 
 1852 ; son of General and President Ulysses 
 S. and Julia (Dent) Grant. He was grad- 
 uated from the Emerson Institute, Wash- 
 ington, D. C., 18G8, Phillips Exeter Acad- 
 emy, Exeter, N, H., 1870, Harvard Univer- 
 sity, A.B., 1874, and Columbia Law School, 
 LL.R.. 1870; and was admitted to practice 
 in California. He was, for several years, 
 secretary to his father, was later assistant 
 district attorney of New York, and has 
 been banker, farmer and real estate owner; 
 now engaged in managing his real estate in- 
 terests at San Diego, Calif. He has twic 
 been delegate-at-large to the National Con- 
 vention of tlie Republican party, and twice 
 elector-at-large on the Republican ticket. 
 Mr. (Trant married' in New York City, Nov. 
 1. ISSO. Fannie Josephine Chaffeo. daughter 
 of Senator Jerome B. Chaffee of Colorado, 
 and they have five children. Address: San 
 Diego, Calif. 
 
 GRAVATT, William Loyall: 
 
 Bishop coadjutor of West Virginia; born 
 in Port Royal, Va., Dec. 15, 1858; son of 
 Dr. John James and Mary Eliza (Smith) 
 Gravatt. He was educated in the Blacks- 
 burg (Va.) Military College and the Vir- 
 ginia Theological Seminary, from which he 
 was graduated in 1884, and he received the 
 D.D. degree from Washington and Lee Uni- 
 versity, 1902, and from the University of 
 the South, 1907. He took orders as deacon 
 of the Episcopal Church in 1884 and the 
 following year was ordained priest by 
 Bishoj) ^\■hittle. After his ordination to 
 the priesthood, he was successively assistant 
 rector of St. Paul's Church, Richmond, Va., 
 rector of St. Peter's Church, Norfolk, Va., 
 and rector of Zion Church, Charlestown, W. 
 Va. He was made bishop-coadjutor of West 
 Virginia in 1899 and was consecrated by 
 Bishops Whittle, Peterkin, Satterlee, Bur- 
 ton, Penick and Gibson. He married in 
 
 Richmond. Va., Oct. 13, 1887, Miss Sidney 
 8. Peyton. Address: Charlestown, W. Va. 
 
 GRAVES, Anson Rogers: 
 
 Bishop of Kearney; born at Wells, Rut- 
 land County, Vt., April 13, 1842; son of 
 Daniel and Almira (Rogers) Graves. He 
 was graduated from Hobart College, in 1866, 
 and from the General Theological Seminary. 
 New York City, in 1870. He received the 
 degree of D.D. from Racine College, and 
 that of LL.D. from Hobart College. He was 
 ordered deacon of the Episcopal Church by 
 Bishop H. Potter in 1870, and the following 
 year was ordained' priest by Bishop Little- 
 john. After entering the ministry, he was 
 consecutively assistant of Grace Church, 
 Brooklyn rector of St. Luke's Church, 
 Plattsmouth, Neb., assistant in Gethseraane 
 Church, Minneapolis, rector of All Saints' 
 Church, Northfield, Minn., of All Saints' 
 Church, Littleton, N. H., of St. Peter's 
 Church, Bennington, Vt.. and of Gethse- 
 mane Church, Minneaptilis. He was con- 
 secrated in 1890 by Bishops Tuttle, Hare, 
 A. Burgess, Knickerbocker, Gilbert and 
 Knight. He has been bishop of Western 
 Nebraska, called the Missionary District 
 of Kearney, for about twenty years. Bishop 
 Graves married, at Brattleboro., Vt., April 
 3, 1877, to Mary Totten Watrons. He is 
 author of various tracts, sermons and mis- 
 sionary reports and co-author of the tract : 
 The Church and Her Ways. Address: 
 Kearney, Neb. 
 
 GRAVES, Erwin Ralph: 
 
 Banker and manufacturer; born in Han- 
 cock, Me., May 14, 1865; son of Frank 
 Graves and Ernestine F. (Busche) Graves. 
 His education was obtained in public and 
 private schools in Hancock, Me., and Bos- 
 ton, Mass. He removed to Boston when 
 fourteen years of age and was for many 
 years associated with the Provident Institu- 
 tion for Savings of that City, which is be- 
 lieved to be the oldest savings bank in the 
 world. In 1905 he removed to New York 
 City and is now president and director of 
 the First National Bank of Belleville, N. 
 J.; president and director of the European- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Amorioan H;iiik nf New York City: director 
 of Bankers Life Ins. Co. of New York City; 
 (lirecloi- of AnicriiMii 'I'nwiisilc ('o., New 
 York City, ami treasurer and director of 
 New ^ink M iiiufacturers Keal Estate Co.. 
 New Yoik City: director of the Mellis Real- 
 ty Company of Belleville. N. J.; and is a 
 member of the tirni of the Ellis & Craves. of 
 New York City, lie lias been an extensive 
 traveler, especially in the United States, 
 Canada, the \Yest Indies and Europe. In 
 Politics he is a Republican and in religion 
 a Unitarian. He is a member of, and' has 
 held important positions in the Ancient and 
 Honorable Artillery Company of Boston; is 
 a member of St. John's Lodge of Masons 
 (the oldest Masonic Lodge in America), of 
 St. Andrews' Royal Arch Chapter and Bos- 
 ton Council, and of the Boston Coramandery 
 of Knights Templar. He is also a member 
 of the Boston Press, Fulton Dining, and 
 New York Athletic Clubs and the Field and 
 Marine Club of Bath Beach, Brooklyn. Mr. 
 Graves married, first at Buda, III., October, 
 1887, Edith Hood Evans, a direct descend- 
 ant of the patriot James Otis, and by that 
 marriage there have been three daughters: 
 Phillis Elizabeth, born in 1889, Edith 
 Frederika, born in 181)0, and Dorothy Olis, 
 born in 1895. Mr. Graves married second, 
 in New Y'ork City, November, 1906, Mary 
 Ann Rigley. Residence: Old' Mamaroneck 
 Road, White Plains, N. Y. Address: 003 
 West r.kl Street, New York City. 
 
 GRA'VES, Frederick Rogers: 
 
 l'.i>hoi) of Shangiiai: burn in Auburn, 
 N. Y., in 1858 ; son of Samuel Seabury and 
 Elizabeth Anna Graves. He was graduated 
 from Hobart College. Geneva, N. Y., B.A. 
 in 1878, later receiving the degree of D.D. 
 from Hobart. He was graduated from the 
 (ieneral Theological Seminary, from which 
 he was graduated in 1881 and received', in 
 1893, its degree of D.D. He was ordered 
 deacon of the Kpiscopal Church in 1881 by 
 Bishop A. Potter and was ordained priest 
 the next year l)y l'.isli()|] ( '. M. Williams. 
 Ill' was missionary to (liina for thirteen 
 years, and in 1893 became missionary bish- 
 of) of Shanghai. China, being consecrated 
 by ]$isliops I>it t Icjoiiii, Colcinan, l.ynian. 
 
 Dudley. Scarliiiiduuli. KinsdKing and J?arry 
 (Piinialc oT An-I ralia I . He received the 
 degree of D.I). Ironi Oxford University in 
 19()S. .Xddic--,: Shanghai. China. 
 
 GRAVES, Henry Solon: 
 
 nircctoi- of the Y'ale Forest School; born 
 in .Marietta, Ohio. May 3, 1871; son of 
 W. B. and L. H. Graves. He was edu- 
 cated in Phillips Andover Academy, and 
 at Yale, being graduated B.A. in 1892; 
 studied forestry at Harvard', 1894-1895, and 
 and at Munich, 1895-1896, and received 
 the honorary degree of M.A. from Y'^ale in 
 1901. He was assistant chief of the Divi- 
 sion of Forestry in the U. S. Department 
 of Agriculture, "^1898-1900, and since 1900 
 has been professor of forestry and director 
 of the Yale Forest School. He has made ex- 
 tensive researches in forestry, was one of 
 the authors of the volume. The White Pine, 
 has contributed to the publications of the 
 Department of Agriculture and is associate 
 editor of The Forest Quarterly. Professor 
 Graves is a member of the American Fores- 
 try Association, Connecticut Forestry Asso- 
 ciation, New Hampshire Forestry Associa- 
 tion, Society of American Foresters, the 
 Osterreichischer Reichsforstverein of Vien- 
 na, Connecticut Academy of Sciences and 
 Washington Academy of Sciences. He mar- 
 ried, Dec. 19. 1903, Ella Marian Welch. 
 Address: 360 Prospect Street, New Haven, 
 Conn. 
 
 GRAVES, John Temple: 
 
 Journalist: l)orn at A\'illiiigton Church, 
 Abbeville County, N. C, Nov. 9, 1S50; son 
 of General James Porterfield and Katherine 
 Floride (Calhoun) Graves; grandson of \\i\- 
 liani Calhoun, eldest brother of John C. Cal- 
 houn. He was graduated fnuu the Univer- 
 sity of Georgia in iS;."), and engaged in 
 journalism, and he became editor of the 
 Florida Union (daily), Jacksonville, Fla., 
 1881-1883, Atlanta l):iily Journal, 1SS7-1888, 
 Rome, (Ga.) Tribune, 1888-1890; editor-in- 
 chief and jtiini proprietor of the Daily 
 Georgian i.Xtlanta). 1905-1907; and has 
 been editor-in-chief of the New Yoik Ameri- 
 can since 1907. ^Ir. Graves is widely known 
 as an oiator, lia\ing s[)oken on many patri- 
 
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 iitic occasions and anniversary celebrations. 
 lie was formerly active in politics as a 
 Democrat; was colonel on the staff of Gov. 
 N'orllien of (icorgia ; candidate for V. S. sen- 
 ator troiii (Jeor<.;ia, 1905, but withdrew; 
 juiiicd the Indeix'ndence Party, which nomi- 
 nated liim at Chicaiio, in July, 1908, as its 
 candidate for tlie office of vice-president of 
 tlie United States. Colonel Graves is au- 
 thor of: History of Florida of To-day; 
 History of Colleton, S. C. ; Twelve Standard 
 Lectures, The Platform of To-day; Speeches 
 and Selections for Schools; The Negro. He 
 married, first in Sparta, Ga., April 17, 1878, 
 Mattie E. Simpson, and second, at Rome, 
 Ga., Dec. 30, 1890, Annie E. Cothran. Ad- 
 dress : New York American, New York 
 City. 
 
 GRAY, Andrew Caldwell: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New Castle, Del., Oct. 
 13, 1871; son of Judge George Gray and 
 Harriet L. Black. He was prepared' by 
 tutors and entered Princeton University, 
 from which he was graduated A.B., cum 
 laude, 1892, A.M., 1895, and also was a 
 student of Harvard Law School. He was 
 admitted to the bar of Delaware in 1895; 
 was a member of the law firm of Gray, 
 Ward and Gray, 1895-1899; since then of 
 tlie firm of Ward and' Gray. Jlr. Gray was 
 judge advocate general of the State of Dela- 
 ware, 1897-1901. President McKinley offer- 
 ed him commission as judge advocate with 
 the rank of lieutenant-colonel at the time of 
 the Spanish War, but Mr. Gray was com- 
 pelled to refuse it. He was elected in No- 
 vember, 1908, attorney-general of the State 
 of Delaware for the term of four years, be- 
 ing the only Democrat elected in that State 
 at that election. He is a member of the 
 Wilmington and Wilmington Country Clubs 
 of Wilmington; Philadelphia, University 
 and Princeton Clubs of Philadelphia; Ivy 
 Club of Princeton, N. J., and the Pvacquet 
 and University Clubs of New York City. 
 Address: Wilmington, Del. 
 
 GRAY, David: 
 
 Author ;born in Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 8, 
 1870; son of David and Martha Terry 
 
 ((Jutlnic) <;ray. lie was graduated from 
 Harvard. A. I'... lS9-i. HulVaio University 
 Law Sch.Hil. LL.i;.. ISiM). After graduation 
 from il:ir\:ii(l ln' \\;is inniicctod with journ- 
 jilisin ;is iciiortiT ;nid editorial writer with 
 the Koclicslcr I iiion and Advertiser, then 
 l)ec;nn(' editorial writer on the Buffalo 
 Times, 1894, subeditor of the New York 
 World, 1896, and then managing editor of 
 the P.uffalo Courier, leaving journalism to 
 study law and being admitted to the bar at 
 liutlalo, in 1899. Mr. Gray is author of 
 (hillops, M. Cateret and other stories and of 
 the play of the same name, produced in 
 190G, as well as occasional contributions 
 to magazines. While at Harvard he was au- 
 tlior of the Hasty Pudding Club play, The 
 Sphinx (produced in 1892). He is a mem- 
 ber of the Buffalo Club of Buffalo, and of 
 the Harvard Club of New York City. Ad- 
 dress : Buftalo Club, Buflalo, N. Y. 
 
 GUIAY, Edward: 
 
 Physician ; l;oin in Benicia, Calif., Nov. 
 17, 1849; son of Samuel Cotton and Lucy 
 (Wetnore) Gray. He was educated in the 
 Preparatory School of Rev. H. M. Colton 
 (^liildletown. Conn.) ; Yale University, Col 
 lege Oi Physicians and Surgeons, and in 
 sptcial course at University of Vienna. He 
 has been in medical practice in California 
 since August, 1877. From 1898 to 1902 he 
 ,vas engaged in editing the revised Velasquez 
 Spanisn-English Dictionary (D. Appleton & 
 Con.pany). In 1902 he became resident 
 phy. ician at the California Home for the 
 Care and Training of Feeble-minded Chil- 
 dren (Now Sonoma State Home), and so 
 continues. He has been director of Benicia 
 Klectric Light Company and secretaiy at 
 various times of three vestries of Episcopal 
 •■liurelies. He traveled in Germany, Aus- 
 !ria, Italy ami Switzerland. He served in 
 tlic U. S. A. as post surgeon (contract) at 
 Foit Gaston, Calif., 1881-1884. Dr. Gray 
 is a ii:cnd)er of the Sonoma County Medical 
 Society, State Medical Society of California, 
 and American Medical Association. His 
 favorite recreations are amateur pholog- 
 r'phy and Spanish literature, and has edited 
 three Spanish texts. He is a member of the 
 Sierra Club and former fellow of the no\-al 
 
736 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA, 
 
 ]\lici()sc(i])ioal Society (London). Dr. Oiay 
 niiurit'il in London, l-'niiiand. Auiiiist :51, 
 ISTfi. (icrliiidf Ciiltdii, (lauulitcr nl' liis pre- 
 ceptor, Kev. li. ,M. ( iiltdu. She ilicd in 
 18S4. In ISS!) J)i-. (iray married .Maria 
 Wiiley. daughter of Jlev. S. 11. Willey, i)res- 
 ident of the College of California. Three 
 children survive: Henry Colton, Samuel 
 Herhort. :ind Ciiard. .Xddrcs^: I'.ldridge, 
 Calif. 
 
 GRAY, George: 
 
 Jurist; born in New Castle, Del., Maj 
 
 4, 1840; son of Andrew Caldwell and' Eliza- 
 beth (Seofield) Gray. He was graduated 
 from Princeton as A.B.. 1859, A.M., 1863, 
 LL.D. 1889. He studied law with his father, 
 1859-1802, studied a year in Harvard Law 
 Scliool, and in 1803 was admitted to the 
 Delaware Bar. He was appointed attorney- 
 general of Delaware by Governor Hall in 
 1879 and reappointed by Governor Stocklcy 
 in 1884. He was a delegate to the National 
 Democratic Conventions of 1876, 1880 and 
 1884 ; and was elected to the United States 
 Senate from Delaware to fill the vacancy 
 caused by the appointment of Tlaomas F. Bay- 
 ard as secretary of State. He was reelected 
 in 1887 and again in 1893. He was appoint- 
 ed by President McKinley in 1898, one of the 
 commissioners to arrange a treaty of peace 
 between the United States and Spain, and at 
 the close of his senatorial term, March 3, 
 1899, President McKinley appointed him U. 
 
 5. circuit judge for the Third Judicial Cir- 
 cuit, in which office he is still serving. He 
 was appointed a member of the National 
 Court of Arbitration under the ILigue con- 
 vention, in November, 1900, and was chair- 
 man of tlie Anthracite Coal Strike Commis- 
 sion in 1902. In 1908 he was prominently 
 mentioned as a possible candidate for the 
 j)residency and is nationally regarded as 
 one of the foremost of the members of the 
 conservative wing of the Democratic party. 
 Judge Gray married Harriet L. Black. Ad- 
 dress: Wilmington, Del. 
 
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 GRAY, John Clinton: 
 
 .lu^i^^t; liDiii in New ^'nik C^ity, Dec. 4, 
 1843: sou Ml .luliti A. ( '. (Irav. lie was 
 
 educated in the University of Berlin, Uni- 
 versity of the City of New' York, A.B., 1864, 
 .\.M.. 180(i, and Harvard Law School, 
 LL.B.. 1803. lie was engaged in the prac- 
 tice of law in New York City, 1860-1888; 
 he was elected in 1888, and reelected in 1902 
 judge of the New York Court of Appeals; 
 his present term expires Dec. 31. 1910. He 
 married Grace Townsend. Ilesidence: 5 
 East oGth Street. Official address: State 
 Capitol, Albany. 
 
 GRAY, Maria Freeman: 
 
 Born in New Salem, Mass., Feb. 15, 1832; 
 daughter of Daniel Sanford and Achsa 
 Bridgman (Kimball) Freeman. She was ed- 
 ucated in public schools and' academy in 
 New Salem, and Wesleyan Academy, \Vil- 
 braham. INIass., whence she was graduated, 
 1852. In that year she went under the aus- 
 pices of the National Board of Popular Edu- 
 cation, to Indiana, took charge of the pub- 
 lic school in Huntingdon, Ind., and later was 
 preceptress in Fort Wayne College for two 
 years. She married in Fort Wayne, Ind., 
 May 5, 1855, John Henry Gray (born in 
 Maryland, 1831, but reared in Ohio, and an 
 honor graduate of Allegheny College, Mead- 
 ville. Pa.) ; and by that marriage has two 
 sons, the Gray Brothers, now in business in 
 San Francisco as stone contractors and brick 
 manufacturers. Following her marriage to 
 Mr. Gray they went to Des Moines, Iowa, 
 wliero her husband was elected, in 1858, to 
 tile office of district judge, wliich he held 
 until his death in 1865. During her resi- 
 dence of twenty-five years in Des Moines she 
 was largely identified with educational and 
 philantliropic interests, was president of the 
 Loyal Women's League in 1862, and official- 
 ly connected with the early movements for 
 temperance and equal sufTrage, and she was 
 engaged in the same lines of work in Denver, 
 Colo., for several years before her removal 
 to San Francisco in 1887. She was one of 
 six women who received nearly 25,000 votes 
 in 1888 for school director in San Fran- 
 cisco. Mrs. Maria Freeman-Gray is ■an earn- 
 est worker in the American Humane Edu- 
 cation Society (headquarters in Boston) in 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Ciilifoniia, Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands, 
 and otlior places which she has visited, and 
 has organized eighty Bands of Mercy nnder 
 the auspices of this society. She is also en- 
 thusiastic in her efforts to promote the 
 cnuse of peace and arbitration and is super- 
 intendent of this department in the Cali- 
 fornia Woman's Christian Temperance Un- 
 ion; is one of the vice-presidents of the 
 American Peace Society and the Universal 
 i'ciee Union; is a vice-president of the 
 Alliance Universelle des Femmes pour la 
 I'aix, founded in Paris by Princess Wisz- 
 uiewska in 1896, is an honorary mem- 
 l)er of the Opera educative-imcifica, I Nostri 
 Contemporanei, foundtd in Rome in 1901. 
 and is also a member of the National Geo- 
 graphic Society and the Pacific Coast Wom- 
 an's Press Association. In her religious 
 connection INIrs. Gray is a member of the 
 Society of Friends. She is a member of the 
 Society of Mayflower Descendants, being a 
 lineal descendant of both Captain Myles 
 Standisli and John Alden. Address: 130.3 
 Tliirteenth Avenue, East Oakland, Calif. 
 
 GRAY, William Crane: 
 
 Bisliop of Southern Florida; born in 
 Lambcrtville, N. J., Sept G. 1835; son of 
 Joseph L. and Hannah (Price) Gray. He 
 was graduated in 1859 from Kenyon College 
 as B.A., and from Bexley Hall on divinity; 
 and lie received the D.D. degree from Ken- 
 yon College, 1881, and from the University 
 of the South, 1892. He was ordered deacon 
 in the ministry of the Episcopal Church in 
 1859 and was ordained' priest the following 
 year by Bishop Otey. He was general mis- 
 sionary of the Diocese of Tennessee, 1859- 
 ISUO, and upon his ordination to the priest- 
 liood, he became rector of St. James' Church, 
 Bolivar, Tenn., where he remained until 
 1881. resigning in 1881 to become rector of 
 the Cliurch of the Advent, Nashville, Tenn. 
 In 1892 he was elected Bishop of Southern 
 Flprida, and was consecrated by Bishops 
 Quintard, Dudley, Weed, Nelson and' Hale. 
 Bishop Gray has been twice married, first, 
 IMay 20, 1863, to Margaret Locke Trent and 
 second, Aug. 2, 1877, to Fannie Campbell 
 Bovvers. Address: Orlando, Fla. 
 47 
 
 GREELY, Adolphus Washington: 
 
 Major-general U. S. Army; born in New- 
 buryport, Mass., March 27, 184i; son of 
 John Balch and Frances (Cobb) Greely; 
 descended from early colonial and Mayflower 
 ancestry. In 1861, when he went almost 
 directly from the high school to the 19th 
 Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. He 
 was promoted to first sergeant; was wound- 
 ed twice at Antietam. and also at Fred- 
 ericksburg, Va., Dec. 11, 1862; was appoint- 
 ed second lieutenant, 81st U. S. Colored In- 
 fantry; promoted first lieutenant and cap- 
 tain and brevetted major, and honorably dis- 
 charged from volunteer service, March 22, 
 1867. He was commissioned second lieu- 
 tenant in the regular army and assigned to 
 the 36th Infantry, March 2, 1867; trans- 
 ferred to the Second U. S. Artillery, July 
 14, 1869; and detailed to construct about 
 two thousand miles of military telegraph 
 lines on the Indian and Mexican frontiers. 
 In 1881 he was assigned to command the 
 Arctic Expedition, now known by his name, 
 which was dispatched by the United States 
 Government to establish one of the inter- 
 national circumpolar stations, in which 
 eleven nations cooperated. This expedition 
 added by its discoveries about six thousand 
 square miles of land to the map, and greatly 
 to genoraf geographic knowledge of the 
 Arctic regions. The loss of the relief-ship 
 Proteus, crushed by ice in July, 1883, left 
 the party to winter in a hut of rocks and 
 snow with only six weeks' supply of food. 
 The members of the party died, one by one, 
 of slow starvation, and only six were found 
 alive when the relief ships Thetis and Bear, 
 under command of Commander ^^'infield 
 Scott Schley and Lieutenant-Commander 
 William H. Emory rescued them, June 22, 
 1884, after they had been for forty -two 
 hours entirely without food'. Lieutenant 
 Greeley was assigned to the Fifth Cavalry, 
 July 14, 1869, and was promoted captain, 
 June 11, 1886; designated acting chief sig- 
 nal officer, Dec. 11, 1886, and was commis- 
 sioned brigadier-general, March 3. 1887, 
 and chief signal officer. By this unusual 
 advance in rank he became the first volun- 
 teer private soldier of the Civil War to 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 reach the rank of brigadier-general in the 
 United States Army. He was promoted 
 to major-general, Feb. 10, 1006, and' was re- 
 tired by operation of law on March 27, 1908, 
 being 04 years of age. For his geographical 
 discoveries he was awarded gold medals by 
 the Royal Geographical Society and the So- 
 ciety de Gt'ographie, and made honorary 
 member of those societies, and was honor- 
 ary vice-president of the International Geo- 
 grapliical Congresses at London in 1896 and 
 Berlin in ISOo" He is one of three American 
 representative members of the Institut In- 
 ternational Colonial. He was in command 
 of the Pacific Division at the time of the 
 San Francisco earthquake, and with the effi- 
 cient aid of General Funston relief was giv- 
 en and order was enforced with an effective- 
 ness never approached after such a catastro- 
 phe. He settled the last Ute uprising with- 
 out firing a shot. General Greely is author 
 of: Three Years of Arctic Service; Ameri- 
 can Weather; Polan Handbook; Handbook 
 of Alaska; and many monographs and pa- 
 pers on scientific and meteorological sub- 
 jects. He married, June 30, 1878, Henriet- 
 ta H. C. Nesmith. Address: Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 GREEN, Adolphus Williamson: 
 
 l.awj^er; born in Boston, Jan. 14, 1843; 
 son of John H. and Jane Green. He was 
 graduated from the Boston Latin School, 
 18.')9 and from Harvard College in 1863. 
 He was principal of high school at Groton, 
 Mass., 1863-1864; second assistant librarian, 
 1864-18(i7, and librarian, 1867-1800 of the 
 Mercantile Library Association of New York 
 City. He studied law in the latter city in 
 the offices of Evarts, South mayd and Choate, 
 1860-1873, and was admitted to the New 
 York Bar upon the completion of his studies, 
 he removed to Chicago, and from 1882 to 
 1884 was attorney of the South Park Com- 
 missioners. He was a partner with Hon. 
 William C. Goudy, in the firm of Goudy and 
 (Jrccn, 1884-1894, later was head of the firm 
 of Green, Willits and Robbins, and is now 
 senior member of the firm of Green, 
 Peters and Bapst, He was a delegate-at- 
 large to the National Democratic Con- 
 vention of 1892. He organized the Na- 
 
 tional Biscuit Company in 1898 and became 
 a member of its executive committee. He 
 was subsequently elected chairman of the 
 board of directors, and in February, 1905, 
 was made president of the company. He is 
 a governor of the Art Institute of Chicago 
 and a member of the Harvard and Hyde 
 Park Clubs of Chicago. Mr. Green married 
 in Chicago, July 3, 1893, Esther Walsh. Ad- 
 dress: 205 La Salle Street, Chicago. 
 
 GREEN, Charles Montraville: 
 
 Physician; born in Medford, Mass., Dec. 
 18, 1850; son of George Bent and Melinda 
 (Witherbee) Green. His immigrant ances- 
 tor was Thomas Green of Maiden, Mass., 
 (1638). He was educated in the public 
 schools of Medford, the Boston Latin School, 
 Harvard College, A.B., 1874, Harvard Medi- 
 cal School, M.D., 1877, and the same year 
 was elected fellow of the Massachusetts Med- 
 ical Society. He spent the next two years 
 in hospital work and study at home and 
 in Europe, and since 1879 has practised 
 medicine in Boston. Dr. Green was appoint- 
 ed a district physician of the Boston Dis- 
 pensary, in October, 1879, became a member 
 of the staff at the Central Office, 1880, was 
 transferred to the new department of Dis- 
 eases of Women, in which he served, 1881- 
 1885; brought about the establishment of an 
 Obstetrical Department, and remained at 
 its head, 1885-1907. He was a surgeon to 
 out-patients at the Free Hospital for Wo- 
 men, 1882-1885; was appointed Jan. 1884, 
 assistant physician to the Boston Lying-in 
 Hospital, of which he was made assistant 
 visiting physician in February, 1890, a mem- 
 ber of the Corporation in 1891, and visiting 
 physician in charge in February, 1907. Dr. 
 Green was appointed physician for diseases 
 of women in the Out-patient Department of 
 the Boston City Hospital, October, 1884; as- 
 sistant visiting physician in 1893; visiting 
 physician in 1896; and since May, 1900, has 
 been senior visiting surgeon for diseases of 
 women, in charge of the department. He 
 was appointed consulting physician to the 
 State Hospital at Tewksbury, 1894, to the 
 Adams Nervine Asylum, 1904; elected pres- 
 ident of the senior staff and chairman of the 
 (•\ecutivo committee of the Boston City Hos- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 739 
 
 pit ill, 1907. Dr. Green served as secretary 
 of tlie ISiifVolk District of the Massachusetts 
 Medical Society, 1884-1886, as censor, 1886- 
 1800, and since then as Councillor, and was 
 vice-president in 1899. He was treasurer 
 of the Boston Society for IMedical Observa- 
 lion, 188;M886; member since 1S81, and 
 president, 1904-1905, of the Boston Society 
 for ^ledicul Improvement; member since 
 1882, secretary, 1884-1889, president, 1893- 
 1895, of the Boston Obstetrical Society; 
 member of the American Gynecological So- 
 ciety and has twice served as councillor. Dr. 
 Green joined with several colleagues in es- 
 tablishing in Boston, in 1880, a system of 
 summer courses of medical study, which 
 were svibsequently made a part of the in- 
 struction offered by Harvard University. 
 He was appointed assistant in obstetrics in 
 Harvard Medical School, 1883, instructor, 
 1886; assistant professor of obstetrics, 1894; 
 associate professor of obstetrics and clinical 
 gynecology, 1904, and professor of obstetrics 
 1907. He served as secretary of the Har- 
 vard Faculty of Medicine, 1897-1907, and 
 during the academic year, 1907-1908, he was 
 acting dean of the Faculty. Dr. Green was 
 a member, 1888-1893 of the School Com- 
 mittee of Boston, and' chairman of its com- 
 mittees on high schools and text-books. He 
 is a member of the Standing Committee of 
 the Boston Latin School Association, Alpha 
 Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (Harvard) , Har- 
 vard Union, Massachusetts Medical Benevo- 
 lent Association, Boston Medical Library As- 
 sociation, Bunker Hill Monument Associa- 
 tion (director and member of the Standing 
 Committee ) , Massachusetts Society of Sons 
 of the American Revolution (vice-president 
 1891. and since then treasurer), Republican 
 Institution in the Town of Boston (former 
 president), Massachusetts Charitable Fire 
 Society (president, and chairman of Com- 
 mittee on Donations ) , Colonial Society of 
 Massachusetts, Massachusetts Society of Co- 
 lonial \Yars (surgeon), Bostonian Society, 
 Massachusetts Military Historical Society, 
 Harvard Medical Alumni As.sociation (coun- 
 cillor), Medford Historical Society, Royal 
 J^Iouse Association (president), St. Botolph 
 Club, Veteran Association of First Corps of 
 Cadets, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 
 
 Veteran Association of the Lawrence Light 
 Guard. In 1870 he enlisted in the Fifth 
 Regiment M. V. M., serving for seven years 
 as private, sergeant and subaltern; entered 
 the Fiftli Corps of Cadets, M. V. M. of Bos- 
 ton, and served as hospital steward four 
 years, assistant surgeon eighteen years, and 
 major and surgeon, 1899-1905, when he re- 
 tired as lieutenant-colonel. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Association of Military Surgeons 
 of the United States, 1894-1905. Dr. Green 
 married in Boston, June 29, 1876, Helen Lin- 
 coln Ware, and they have had two sons: 
 Charles Montraville, Jr., who died in in- 
 fancy and Robert Montraville Green, A.B., 
 1902, M.D., 1906 (Harvard). Address: 78 
 Marlborough Street, Boston. 
 
 GREEN, David I.: 
 
 Social economist; born in Independence, 
 IN. Y., Feb. 5, 1864; son of John Chandler 
 and Emily (Sherman) Green. He was grad- 
 uated from Alfred University, A.B., 1885, 
 A.M., 1886, and S.B., 1890, and received the 
 Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 
 1893, as a result of a course as graduate 
 student in economics, history and sociology. 
 He taught in the \Vest Nottingham Acad- 
 emy, Md'., 1886-1887, Glenwood (N. J.) Col- 
 legiate Institute, 1887-1888; was professor of 
 Latin in Alfred University, in 1888-1890, and 
 taught social science in Johns Hopkins Uni- 
 versity, 1893-1894; taught economics and so- 
 ciology in the Hartford School of Sociology, 
 1894-1896; lecturer in Hartford Theological 
 Seminary since 1902. He has been superin- 
 tendent of the Charity Organization Society 
 of Hartford, Conn., since 1894. Dr. Green 
 is author of: Charities and Correction, a 
 chapter in Maryland, Its Resources and In- 
 stitutions, Baltimore, 1893; Pain-cost and 
 Opportunity-cost, Quarterly Journal of 
 Economics, 1894; Wieser's National Value, 
 Annals of the American Academy of Politi- 
 cal and Social Science, 1895; Value and Its 
 Measurement, Yale Review, 1899; The Pov- 
 erty of an English Town, Y''ale Review, 
 1903; The Annual Reports of the Charity 
 Organization Society of Hartford, 1894- 
 1908 ; Treatment of Needy Families in Their 
 Homes by Public Agencies, Proceedings of 
 the National Conference of Charities and 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Correction, 1003; Progress in Work for the 
 Poor during the Liist Seventy-five Years, a 
 chapter in Christian Progress during the 
 Last Seventy-five Years, Maxmillan, 1909. 
 He is a member of the American Economic 
 Association, American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science, and National Conference 
 of Charities and Correction, and the 
 Twentieth Century, University, Get-Together 
 and Congregational Clubs of Hartford. He 
 married in Dunellen, N. J., Nov. 2, 1892. 
 Mary, daughter of Dr. Abel Titsorth, and 
 has four children. Address: 133 Trumbull 
 Street, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 GREEN, Edward Howland Robinson: 
 
 Railroad president; born in The Lang- 
 ham Hotel, London, England, Aug. 22, 
 1868; son of Edward H. and Hetty How- 
 land (Robinson) Green. His family lived 
 in New York City from 1872, and he was 
 graduated from Fordham College in 1888. 
 He served as clerk in the office of the 
 Connecticut River Railroad, became a di- 
 rector of the Baltimore and Ohio South- 
 western Railway, and other railway cor- 
 porations, and since 1893 has been president 
 of the Texas Midland Railroad, in which 
 he has a controlling interest. He is also 
 a director of numerous baiiks. He is prom- 
 inent in the Republican party of Texas, was 
 chairman of tlie Republican State Commit- 
 tee for three terms and has been delegate 
 to National Conventions. He was a com- 
 missioner to and director of the Louisiana 
 Purchase Exposition in 1904, and he is 
 president of the well-known Tarpon Club 
 of Texas and other Texas organizations. 
 .\<ldress: Terrell, Texas. 
 
 GREEN, Hetty Howland Robinson: 
 
 Financier: born in New Bedford, Mass., 
 Nov. 21, 1835; daughter of Edward Mott 
 Robinson. She was educated in Mrs. Low- 
 ell's School in Boston. In 1865 her father 
 died, leaving her a large fortune, which 
 she has personally managed ever since and 
 greatly augmented. Her estate includes 
 large holdings of realty in Chicago, New 
 York and other cities, as well as stocks 
 and bonds in nearly all the larger corpora- 
 tions and enterprises. She has attained the 
 
 reputation of being the greatest woman 
 financier and probably the richest woman 
 in the world. She married in New York 
 City, in 1807, Edward' H. Green, who is 
 now deceased, and has a son, Edward H. R. 
 Green, president of the Texas Midland Rail- 
 road, and a daughter, Sylvia H., now mar- 
 ried. Address: Bellows Falls, Vt. 
 
 GREEN, John Pugh: 
 
 Vice-president of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
 road; born in Philadelphia, July 31, 1839. 
 He was educated in the Pliiladelphia public 
 schools, being graduated with credit from 
 the Central High School. While there he 
 studied shorthand writing and became an 
 expert stenographer, and also studied law 
 and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar. 
 He enlisted in the Union service at the 
 opening of the Civil War, and remained in 
 the army till the end of the war, when 
 he had attained the rank of captain, and 
 was assistant adjutant-general on the staff 
 of General Thomas L. Kane, commander of 
 the famous Pennsylvania Bucktail Brigade. 
 Returning to private life early in 1865, 
 Captain Green entered the service of the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Company as private 
 secretary to Colonel Thomas A. Scott, then 
 first vice-president of the company. On 
 Jan. 1, 1866, he became secretary and treas- 
 urer of the Milwaukee and INIinnesota Rail- 
 way Company, a service in which he re- 
 nudned till Feb. 1, 1868. On July 1, 1869, 
 he resumed his position as secretary to 
 Colonel Scott, holding it till 1874, when 
 he was promoted assistant to the president. 
 On Oct. 1, 1882, when he was made fourth 
 vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company; was elected third vice-president 
 June 1, 1896, and on March 1, 1893, second 
 vice-president of the Company, a position 
 which gave him general charge of the ac- 
 counting department and special supervi- 
 sion over the lines west of Pittsburg. On 
 Feb. 10, 1897, he was made first vice-pres- 
 ident of the company. Captain Green has 
 long devoted much of his leisure time to 
 tlie health-giving game of cricket, and has 
 been president of the Belmont Cricket Club. 
 Residence: Rosemont, Pa. Ollice: 211 
 Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 741 
 
 GREEN, Warren I.: 
 
 Engraver, printer ; born in New York 
 (Jity, May 1!), 1866; son of Francis George 
 and Antoinette Luqueer (Macdonoiigh) 
 (ireen. He was educated in Wilson and 
 Kellogg School, and was pupil of Bougue- 
 reau. Entered service of American Bank 
 Note Comjjany, as apprentice in 1882; man- 
 ager of the Canadian branch, 18!)6; second 
 vice-president in 1901, first vice-president 
 in 1903 and president since 1906; vice- 
 president of the United Bank Note Corpo- 
 ration; director of the American Bank Note 
 Co., United Bank Note Co., American Build- 
 ing Company, National Bank Note Com- 
 ]iany. Continental Bank Note Company. He 
 is a member of the Metropolitan, Lawyers, 
 Railroad, Rideau, Garrison, Fairfield and Ot- 
 tawa Golf Clubs, Indian Harbor Yacht, Tri- 
 ton and Clove Valley Rod and' Gun Clubs. 
 Mr. Green married in Paris, France, Feb. 4, 
 1891, Jeanne Marguerite Thierry, and they 
 have one daughter, Marguerite Macdonough, 
 born in 1897. Address: 627 West End 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
 GREENBAUM, Samuel: 
 
 Jurist ; born in London, England, Jan. 23, 
 1854; son of Louis and Rachel (Schlesinger) 
 Greenbaum. He came to New York City 
 when three years old; was educated in the 
 public schools of New York City, College 
 City of New York, A.B., 1872, A.M.; Colum- 
 bia College Law School, LL.B., 1875. He 
 was a teacher in the public schools of New 
 York City and afterward practised law from 
 1877 until Jan. 1, 1902, when he became 
 justice of the Supreme Court of New York, 
 having been elected for the term which ex- 
 pires Dec. 31, 1915. He is a member of the 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, New York State Bar Association, 
 Society of Medical Jurisprudence, Civil 
 Service Reform Association, Free Trade 
 League and Jewish Historical Society; was 
 formerly president of the Young Men's He- 
 brew Association; one of the founders of the 
 Aguilar Free Library Society, and' presi- 
 dent until its merger with the New York 
 Public Library; one of the founders and 
 first vice-president of the Educational Al- 
 
 liance; president of the Council of Jewish 
 Communal Institutions. Judge Greenbaum 
 is also a trustee of the New York Public Li- 
 brary, and the Jewish Theological Seminary 
 of America. He is a member of the Law- 
 yers', Manhattan City and Refonn Clubs. 
 He married in New York City, March 13, 
 1888, Selina Ullman, and has four children: 
 Lawrence S., Edward S., Grace and Isabel. 
 Residence: 2 East 94th Street. Address: 
 County Court House. New York City, 
 
 f 
 GREENE, Charles Wilson: 
 
 Physiologist and pharmacologist; born in 
 Crawford County, Ind., Aug. 12. 1866. He 
 was educated in DePauw University and 
 Stanford University. A.B., 1892. A.M.. 1893, 
 and Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D., 
 1898. He was engaged in physiological in- 
 struction at Stanford University, 1893-1900, 
 and since 1900 has been professor of physi- 
 ology and pharmacology at the State Uni- 
 versity of Missouri. His specialty is the 
 investigation of the circulatory system. 
 He was instructor in zoology at Woods 
 Hole Biological Station, 1896-1897, and in 
 physiology in 1900. From 1901 to 1904 
 and again since 1906, he has conducted 
 special investigations in the physiology of 
 salmon, with special reference to the prob- 
 lem of nutrition, for the U.S. Fish Commis- 
 sion. His special line of investigation has 
 been into the structure and functions of 
 phosphorescent organs in fishes; the influ- 
 ence of inorganic salts on cardiac tissues; 
 the circulatory system of hag-fishes. He 
 has also written important papers on the 
 physiological changes in breeding salmon; 
 the limits of change in osmotic pressure 
 of blood and other animal fluids, and nu- 
 trition in fasting animals. Professor Greene 
 revised Kirke's Handbook of Physiology, 
 1907, and he is author of: Experimental 
 Pharmacology, A Laboratory Guide to the 
 Physiological Action of Drugs, 1909. He is 
 a fellow of the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science, the Physiologi- 
 cal Society, the Pharmacological Society, 
 the National Geographical Society and the 
 Washington Academy of Science. Address: 
 State University, Columbia, Mo. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 GREENE, Clay Meredith: 
 
 Dramatic author; born in San Francisco, 
 Calif., March 12, 1850; was the first boy 
 born of American parents in that city; son 
 of ^Yilliam and Anne Elizabeth (Fiske) 
 Greene. He was educated in the Santa 
 Clara College and the University of Cali- 
 fornia, and the degree of Ph.D. was con- 
 ferred upon him by Santa Clara College 
 in 1901. Mr. Greene was in early life a 
 stock broker and journalist; in 1883 took 
 up dramatic writing as a profession, with 
 occasional brief seasons in acting, made a 
 tour of the world in 1804; has also trav- 
 eled extensively in Mexico and Central 
 America, and has made extended yachting 
 cruises across the ocean and in the Mediter- 
 ranean. Among his more prominent plays 
 are: M'liss; Chispa; Sharps and Flats; 
 The Golden Giant; The New South; Struck 
 Oil; Nazareth (the American Passion 
 Play); The Duchess; The Master Stroke; 
 also the operas, Bluebeard, The Maid of 
 Plymouth, The Conspirators, The Wander- 
 ing Minstrel, and about fifty other plays. 
 He is a member of the Actors' Order of 
 Friendship, Sons of the American Revolu- 
 tion, Patriotic Order Sons of America, 
 Actors' Fund Society, The Lambs' (pres- 
 ident for twelve terms ) , Green Room, Bo- 
 hemian (San Francisco), Society of Cali- 
 fornia Pioneers, Larchmont Yacht and Man- 
 hasset Bay Yacht Clubs. Mr. Greene mar- 
 ried, July 24, 1873, Alice R. Wheeler, and 
 they have had two daughters, now deceased. 
 Address: Bayside, N. Y. 
 
 GREENE, Francis Vinton: 
 
 Major-general U. S. Volunteers; born in 
 Providence, R. I., June 27, 1850; son of 
 General George Sears Greene. He was grad- 
 uated from West Point, 1870, at the liead 
 of the class of 58 cadets; assigned to 
 artillery service on graduation; and trans- 
 ferred, 1872, to the Corps of Engineers. 
 He was detailed as military attache to the 
 U. S. Legation at St. Petersburg, 1877, his 
 special duty being to make a study of mili- 
 tary operations during the war between 
 Russia and 'i'urkey; accompanied Russian 
 army throughout its campaign; received 
 
 from the Czar the decorations of St. Vladi- 
 mir and St. Anne and the campaign medal, 
 and from the Prince of Roumania the Star 
 of Roumania and the Roumania Cross. He 
 was appointed instructor of practical mili- 
 tary engineering at the U. S. Military Acad- 
 emy, July, 1885, resigned from the army 
 and became vice-president of the Barber 
 Asphalt Paving Company, and was soon 
 after advanced to the presidency of the 
 corporation, which he resigned to join the 
 U. S. Army in Philippines. He joined the 
 National Guard of the State of New York, 
 1889, being commissioned as major and 
 engineer of the First Brigade; elected colo- 
 nel of the 71st Regiment, 1892; ordered to 
 Cuba 1898; afterwards transferred to Ma- 
 nila; promoted to rank of brigadier-general, 
 May 27, 1898, promoted major-general for 
 gallant and distinguished service in the 
 Philippines, Aug. 13, 1908; in command of 
 the Seventh Army Corps in Georgia, Oct., 
 1898, and of U. S. Troops at Havana, Nov.- 
 Dec, 1898; resigned, Jan. 1, 1899; and' was 
 appointed police commissioner of New Y'ork 
 City, Jan. 1, 1903; resigned Jan. 1, 1904. 
 General Greene has contributed much to 
 military literature; his official report upon 
 the Turkey-Russian War was published in 
 two volumes for the U. S. Government in 
 1879, under the title, The Russian Army 
 and Its Campaigns in Turkey, 1877-1878. 
 He is also author of: Army Life in Russia; 
 The Mississippi, which treats of the cam- 
 paigns of the Civil War; a biography of 
 Major-General Nathaniel Greene; and a 
 monograph on Lincoln as Commander-in- 
 Chief. He is a member of the Century, 
 University, Republican and Lawyers' Clubs 
 of New York City; University and Buffalo 
 Clubs of Buffalo, and the Metropolitan Club 
 of Washington. He married, Feb. 25, 1879, 
 Belle Eugenie Chevallie. Address: 303 
 North Street, Buffalo, N. Y., and Hotel 
 Seville, New York City. 
 
 GREENE, Henry Fay: 
 
 •Lawyer, United States civil service com- 
 missioner; born in Newbern, N. C, May 
 30, 1859; son of Rev. Henry Fay and Alice 
 Gray (Lawrence) Greene. He was gradu- 
 ated from Princeton, A.B., 1880, A.M., 1883, 
 
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 and was Boudinot fellow in Princeton Uni- 
 versity, 1880-1881; was graduated from the 
 University of Maryland, LL.B., 1883. He 
 ])ractised law in Baltimore, 1883-1887, and 
 in Duluth, .Alinn., 1887-1903. He was city 
 attorney of Dulutli, 1893-1804; referee in 
 bankruptcy at Duluth, 1898-1903, and chair- 
 man of the commission appointed by the 
 judges of the District Court to prepare a 
 charter for the City of Duluth, which re- 
 jjorted the charter adopted. He was ap- 
 pointed, June 20, 1903, a member of the 
 U. S. Civil Service Commission, in which 
 oilice he continues. He is a member of the 
 Cosmos Club of Washington, Duluth Bar 
 Library Association, and the Sons of the 
 Revolution. He married, Aug. 27, 1895, 
 Susan Ryan Grady. Residence: 1527 
 Thirty-first Street. Office: Civil Service 
 Connuission, Washington, D. C. 
 
 GREENE, Herbert Wilber: 
 
 Musician, editor; born in Holyoke, Mass., 
 j\lay 20, 1851 ; son of Myron E. and Amanda 
 H. Greene. He was educated in the 
 Holyoke High School, and studied music in 
 New York City, London and Paris. Mr. 
 Greene was the founder and is the director 
 of the Metropolitan College of Music in 
 New York City. He was formerly associate 
 editor of the Etude, Philadelphia; now 
 director of the Brookfield Summer School 
 of Music ; associate editor of The Musician, 
 Boston. Air. Greene is also well known as 
 a composer; is a lecturer on musical and 
 historical subjects; and a contributor of 
 \'erses and short stories to magazine and 
 class journals. He is a member of the 
 ]\Iusic Teachers' National Association (twice 
 president), New Y^ork Clef Club (twice 
 president) ; director of the National Amer- 
 ican Opera Company; director of the Na- 
 tional Association of Teachers of Singing. 
 Residence : Brookfield Center, Conn. Of- 
 fice: Carnegie Hall, New York City. 
 
 GREENE, Sarah Pratt McLean: 
 
 Author; born in Simsbury, Conn., July, 
 1856; daugliter of Dudley Bestor McLean, 
 of Scotch ancestry, and of Mary (Payne) 
 McLean, a Mayflower descendant. She was 
 educated at home an(^ in Mt. Holyoke Col- 
 
 lege, beginning there her work as a writer. 
 She married in St. Louis, in 1887, Frank- 
 lin Lyndc Greene. Her twin boys died in 
 infancy, and her husband died in 1890. Of 
 iier writings wliile at Mt. Holyoke the 
 well-known song, " De Massa of de Sheep- 
 fold," is one of the best known. On leaving 
 the college she took, for a few months, a 
 classmate's place as teacher on Cape Cod, 
 and the life of the place and quaint say- 
 ings of the fisher-folk gave direction to her 
 pen and inspired her first publislicd vol- 
 ume. Her married life was spent in the 
 West, but after her husband's deatli she 
 returned East. Spending some time in Nova 
 Scotia and on the coast of Maine, and 
 afterward spending much time in Europe. 
 She is author of: Cape Cod Folks; Tow- 
 head; Some Otlier Folk; Leon Pontifex; 
 Last Chance Junction; Vestj' of the Basins; 
 Stuart and Bamboo; Moral Imbeciles; 
 Floodtide; Winslow Plain; Deacon Lysan- 
 der; Power Lot; also numerous short stories 
 in magazines. Permanent address : Lex- 
 ington, Mass. 
 
 GREENE, William C: 
 
 Lawyer; born Otisfield, Me., Se|)t. 23, 
 1852; son of John and Elizabeth (Knight) 
 Greene; graduated Bowdoin College, A.B. 
 (Phi Beta Kappa orator, editor Bowdoin 
 Orient), 1877. Admitted to Maine bar, 
 1879, Massachusetts bar, 1881, New York 
 bar, 1884. Practiced law in Mechanic Falls, 
 Me., one year; Boston, three years; at 
 Sag Harbor, N. Y., since June, 1884 ; prac- 
 tices in all courts of New York and' United 
 States District Court; has filled offices of 
 jvistice of the peace, police justice and 
 president Board of Health. Cliairman Re- 
 publican Town Committee; member Board 
 of Education, Sag Harbor, Southampton 
 Town Board of Amlit. Vice-president Suf- 
 folk County Building Block Company; 
 trustee, attorney and member Funding Com- 
 mittee Sag Harbor Savings Bank, Sag Har- 
 bor- Real Estate Company ; attorney of 
 Peconic Bank. Republican. jMember M. E. 
 Church; trustee and superintendent sunday 
 School, Sag Harbor M. E. Church; trustee 
 Oakland Cemetery, Jamesport Camp-Meet- 
 ing Association. Treasurer Sag Harbor 
 
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 Historical Society; president Suffolk Coun- 
 ty Sunday School Association; president 
 Literary Union, Bowdoin Alumni Associa- 
 tion, New York City, Theta Delta Chi, Bow- 
 doin Colle<re. Recreations : Tennis, yacht- 
 ing. :^^arrie(l, Paris, Me., June 6, 1888, 
 Eliza Ripley. Address: Sag Harbor, Suf- 
 folk County, Now York. 
 
 GREENE, William Stedman: 
 
 Cnii;,nessiii;ui ; borii in Treniont, 111., April 
 28, 1841. He removed to Fall River with 
 his parents in 1844; was educated in the 
 public schools of that city, and' was a clerk 
 in the insurance business, 1858-1865; com- 
 menced business as auctioneer, real estate 
 and insurance agent in 1866; was elected 
 member of tlie Common Council in 1876, 
 1877, 1878 and 1879, and was president of 
 the bod}' the latter three years; elected 
 mayor in 1880; was also alternate delegate 
 to Republican National Convention which 
 nominated President Garfield ; was reelected 
 mayor in 1881, but resigned the same year, 
 being appointed' postmaster by President 
 Garfield. In 1886 he was again elected 
 mayor; was a candidate in 1887 and 1888, 
 but was defeated ; in July, 1888, was ap- 
 pointed bj' Governor Ames general superin- 
 tendent of prisons for the State, and served 
 until 1893, when he was removed by the 
 Democratic governor for political reasons; 
 was again candidate for maj'or in 1894 and 
 defeated; mayor in 1895, 1896 and in 1897, 
 and declined a reelection in 1898; was ap- 
 pointed postmaster bj' President McKinley, 
 and entered upon his duties April 1, 1898; 
 resigned this position and was elected to 
 Congress May 31, 1898, to fill the unex- 
 jiired term of the late John Simpkins for 
 the Fifty-fifth Congress, also elected to the 
 Fifty-si.\th, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth 
 Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth, 
 Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses from 
 the Thirteenth Massachusetts District. He 
 married March 8, 1865, Mary E. White. 
 Address: Fall River, Mass. 
 
 GREER, David Hummell: 
 
 liisiiop of New York; born in Wlieeliug. 
 
 subsequently studied at the Protestant Epis- 
 copal Theological Seminary at Gambier, 0., 
 and lie has received the degrees of D.D. from 
 P>rown University, Kenyon College, and the 
 University of the South; of S.T.D. from 
 Columbia and of LL.D. from Washington 
 and Jefferson College. He was ordered 
 deacon, 1866; ordained priest, 1868: rector 
 of Christ Church, Clarksburgh. W. Va., 
 1866-1868; Trinity Church, Covington, Ky., 
 1868-1871; Grace "^Church, Providence, R. I., 
 1871-1888, St. Bartholomew's Church, New 
 York City, 1888-1904, and was elected 
 bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of New 
 York, in Sept., 1903, succeeding to the 
 bishopric on the death of Bishop Henry C. 
 Potter, July 21, 1908. Bishop Greer is au- 
 thor of : The Historic Christ ; From Things 
 to God'; The Preacher and His Place (Y^'ale 
 lectures) ; Visions. He married Caroline A. 
 Keith. Address: 7 Gramercy Park, New 
 York City. 
 
 GREEVER, Walton Harlowe: 
 
 Religious editor; born at Burke's Garden, 
 V^a., Dec. 18. 1870; son of John D. and 
 Mary E. (Spracher) Greever. He was 
 graduated from Roanoke College, at Salem, 
 Va., A.B., 1892, and A.M.; and was grad- 
 uated from tlic Lutheran Theological Sem- 
 inary, at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, 1896. In 
 addition to successful pastoral work in 
 Bluefield, W. Va., and Columbia, S. C, 
 which he still continues, he became editor 
 of the Lutheran Church Visitor, the official 
 organ of the United Synod of the Lutheran 
 Church in the South, 1904, and organized 
 and is president and manager of the United 
 Synod Publishing Company. He is now en- 
 gaged chiefly in providing for the erection 
 of the Publication Building of the Lutheran 
 Church, in Columbia, S. C, and the exten- 
 sion of its i)ublication work in the South. 
 He married in Philadelphia, June 27, 1901, 
 Nevia Roberta Bi'uegel, and has two chil- 
 dren. Residence: 1431 Blanding Street. 
 Ollice: 1626 Main Street, Columbia, S. C. 
 
 GREGG, Alexander White: 
 
 Conyrcssniiui and iaw\(;r: 
 
 born in Texas. 
 
 W. Va., Maieh 20, 1844. He was graduated I lie graduated from King College at Bris- 
 from Washington College, Pa., A.B., 1862, 1 tol, Tenn., and afterN^irds attended the law 
 
David Hummell Gkekk 
 
 liisho)) of \c\v York 
 
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 (lei)artmon( of the University of Virginia. 
 was admit tod to the Texas bar and has since 
 been engajjed in the practice of law .at 
 Palestine, Texas. Tie was elected to the 
 Fifty-eighth Consrress without opposition, 
 and rer-lected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth 
 and Si.xty-first Cono;resses from the Seventh 
 Texas District. Address: Palestine, Texas. 
 
 GREGG, David McMurtrie: 
 
 Commander-in-chief of the Military Order 
 of the Loyal Lefjion of the United' States; 
 born in Huntinsidon, Pa., April 10, 1833; 
 son of Matthew D. Gre^g, lawyer, and Ellen 
 (McMurtrie) Gregg. He is a grandson of 
 Andrew Gregg of Londonderry, Ireland, 
 who came to Pennsylvania in 1712, and 
 died in Carlisle, Pa., in 1789; and grandson 
 of Andrew Gregg, who was a member of the 
 Second to tlie Ninth Congresses (1791- 
 1807), of the U. S. Senate, 1807-1813, and 
 secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl- 
 vania, 1820-1823. His maternal grand- 
 father, David McMurtrie, settled in Hunt- 
 ingdon, Pa., before the Eevolution. David 
 INIc^Murtrie Gregg was educated in a school 
 at Milnwood, Pa., the University of Lewis- 
 burg and the U. S. Military Academy, from 
 which he was graduated in 1855. He was 
 commissioned brevet second lieutenant of 
 dragoons, July 1, 1855; first lieutenant, 
 March 21, 1861. Before the Civil War he 
 saw active service in New Mexico, Cali- 
 fornia, Oregon and Washington Territory; 
 was on the Spokane Expedition, 1858, and 
 engaged at the desperate combat at Tohots- 
 nimme, the combat at Four Lakes, Sept., 
 1858, and other Indian fights. He was com- 
 missioned captain Sixth U. S. Cavalry, May 
 14, 1861, and served in the defences of 
 Washington until commissioned, Jan. 24, 
 1862, colonel 8th Pennsylvania Volunteers. 
 He participated in the battles of Seven 
 Pines and Fair Oaks in May, 1862, and 
 Glendale and Malvern Hill in June and 
 July, 1862; commissioned brigadier-general 
 of Volunteers, Nov. 29, 1862, and placed in 
 command of the Second Cavalry Division, 
 Army of the Potomac. In 1863 he took part 
 in Stoneman's Eaid, and was at Brandy 
 Station, Aldie, Upperville, Gettysburg 
 ( wliere, on the right flank, on July 3, he 
 
 repulsed' Stuart's attempt with four bri- 
 gades of Confederate Cavalry to reach the 
 rear of Meade's Army, simultaneously with 
 Pickett's assault in front), Shepherdstown, 
 Culpoper Court House and Rapidan Station, 
 Sulpliur Springs. Auburn and Bristoe Sta- 
 tion, and at New Hope Church and Parker's 
 Store in the Mine Run campaign; and in 
 1864 at Todd's Tavern, in Sheridan's Raid, 
 at Ground-Squirrel Church, Meadow Bridge, 
 Hawes' Shop, Gaines' House, Trevilian 
 Station, Tunstall Station, St, Mary's 
 Church, Warwick Swamp, Darbytown, Lee's 
 Mills, Charles City Road, Deep Bottom, 
 Ream's Station, Peebles' Farm, Vaughn 
 Road, Boydton Plank Road, and Belleiield, 
 besides many minor actions. He com- 
 manded the Cavalry Corps of the Army of 
 the Potomac. March 26 to April 6, 18G4, 
 commanded the Second Cavalry Division 
 again April 6. 1864, to Feb. 3, 1865, in the 
 Richmond campaign, and was in command 
 of all the Cavalry of the Army of the Po- 
 tomac from Aug/ 1, 1864, to Feb. 3, 1865, 
 when he resigned. He was brevetted major- 
 general, U. S. Volunteers, Aug. 1, 1864, for 
 " highly meritorious and distinguished con- 
 duct throughout the campaign, particularly 
 in the reconnoissance on the Charles City 
 Road." He was appointed U. S. Consul at 
 Prague by President Grant in 1874, but 
 resigned the position later in the same year 
 and afterward resided in Reading, Pa. He 
 was elected auditor-general of Pennsylvania 
 in 1891. Upon the death of General Han- 
 cock in 1886, General Gregg succeeded him 
 as commander of the Pennsylvania Com- 
 mandery of the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion, which he has ever since held; and 
 since Nov., 1903, he has been commander- 
 in-chief of the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion of the United States. The degree 
 of LL.D. has been conferred upon General 
 Gregg by the Pennsylvania Military College. 
 Address : Reading, Pa. 
 
 GREGORY, Charles Noble: 
 
 Lawyer and educator; born in Unadilla, 
 N. Y.," Aug. 27, 1851 ; sou of Hon. J. C. 
 and Charlotte C. (Camp) Gregory. He was 
 graduated froin the University of Wiscon- 
 sin, A.B., cum laude, 1871, LL.B., 1872, and 
 
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 rpoeivpd its dojjree of LL.D., 1901. He 
 practised law in Madison, Wis.. 1872-1804, 
 in association at various times with Hon. 
 J. C. Greu'ory, Hon. S. U. Pinney (late on 
 the Wisconsin Supreme Bench), and Colonel 
 Georsre W. Bird'. He was associate dean 
 of the Colleore of Law of the University of 
 Wisconsin. 1894-1901; since 1904 dean of 
 the College of Law of the University of 
 Town. He served as alderman and as mem- 
 l..r (if the Board of Education in Madison. 
 Wis. ^fr. Orepory is an active member of 
 the American Bar Association, is chairman 
 of its Standing Committee on International 
 Law. and member of its General Council. 
 He was one of the organizers of the Amer- 
 ican Association of Law Schools, presided 
 at the meetinor in Saratoga at which it was 
 formed, and is president of the Association 
 for 1908-1909. He was vice-president of 
 the Antwerp Conference of the International 
 Law Association. He has delivered ad- 
 dresses before the State Bar Associations 
 of Virginia. Tennessee, Iowa, Wisconsin and 
 Georgia, and before many learned societies 
 and universities, and has been a contributor 
 on subjects of international law to the lead- 
 ing American and English law magazines, 
 and he is author of a life of Justice Samuel 
 F. :\riller, of the Supreme Court of the 
 United States. He was a Democrat until 
 1890. since then Republican, and an active 
 member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 
 He is a member of the Iowa Bar Associa- 
 tion, the Executive Council of the Interna- 
 tional Law Association of London, of the 
 Americ^an Political Science Association, the 
 General Council of the National Civil Serv- 
 ice Reform Association. He edited the 
 Tariff Reform Advocate in 1888, and is now 
 one of the editors of the American Journal 
 of International Law. He was author of 
 the Corrupt Practices Act, now in force in 
 Wisconsin, requiring that election expenses 
 be made j)ublic. He is a member of the 
 Psi Upsilon and Phi Delta Phi fraternities, 
 the City Club of New York, Grant Club of 
 Des Moines, Triangle and Country Clubs of 
 Iowa City, and the University and Maple 
 Bluff (U}]{ Clubs of Madison. Wis. Address: 
 227 Xortii Clinton Street, Iowa City, Iowa. 
 
 GREGORY, Henry Elsworth: 
 
 Lawver; born in New York City. May 
 9, 1857; son of Edward C. and Mary (Els- 
 worth) Gregory. He was prepared in 
 nrivate schools in New York City and 
 Stockbridge. Mass. : was graduated from 
 Columbia. A.B.. 1878. A.M., 1883, and Co- 
 lumbia Law School, LL.B.. 1880. He has 
 been engaged in practice, since his gradvia- 
 tion in law, in New York City. He has 
 also written many newsnaper articles and 
 essays, and delivered addresses on various 
 subjects, and is author of the article, 
 Charles O'Conor, in " Great American Law- 
 yers." Mr. Gregory was treasiirer and sec- 
 retary of the Commissioners of the State 
 Reservation at Niagara, 1888-1889; presi- 
 dent of the Civic League of Westchester 
 County, 1907 ; and he is a member of the 
 Executive Committee of the New York 
 Prison Association ; director of the New 
 York Juvenile Asylum and of the Society 
 for Italian Immigrants; trustee and counsel 
 of the American Scenic and Historic Res- 
 ervation Society; trustee of the Hudson- 
 Fulton Celebration Commissions. He was 
 the first president of the Barnard Literary 
 Association of Columbia College, 1877-1878; 
 is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society 
 and was president of Columbia Chapter, 
 1888-1889. Mr. Gregory is a member of 
 the American Bar Association, the Associ- 
 ation of the Bar of the City of New York. 
 New York Historical Association. American 
 Society of International Kaw. the St. Nicho- 
 las Society and' the Century and University 
 Clubs. Residence: Irvington, N. Y. Of- 
 fice: 25 Liberty Street, New York City. 
 
 GRIFFIN, Appleton Prentiss Clark: 
 
 Chief assistant librarian of Congrc-s; 
 born in Wilton, N. H. ; son of :\loses 
 Porter and' Charlotte Helen (Clark) Griffin; 
 descendant of prominent colonial families 
 on both sides. He removed in early child- 
 hood to ]\Iassachusetts and was educated in 
 public schools and by private tutors. He 
 made studies in library science, became cus- 
 todian of shelves, 1871-1890. and keeper of 
 l)00ks, 1890-1894, in the Boston Public Li- 
 brary, then was engaged for three years in 
 
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 picoarinfr a catalogue of books in the Wash- 
 i Hilton collection of the Boston Athenaeum. 
 Ill 1807 lio w;is appointed an assistant li- 
 hraiian, and in 1809 chief bibliosrrapher 
 of the Librarv of Confiress, and in Aupf.. 
 1008. after the death of Ainsworth R. 
 SiiofTord. sncceeded him as chief assi=tnnt 
 librarian of Contrress. Mr. Griffin is author 
 of bildion-rnpbical works on: The Discovery 
 of llie Mississippi. 1883; Index of Articles 
 upon American Local History in the Boston 
 Public Library. 1889: Index of Literature 
 of American Local History in Collections 
 Published from 1800 to 1895. 1806; Bibli- 
 oirrMphy of American Historical Societies, 
 1806. second edition. 1008. Biblionfraphicil 
 lists compiled under his direction as chief 
 biblio"'rapber number more than tifty. He 
 lias edited the Annual Reports of the Li 
 brarv from 1899. He was a contributor to 
 Appleton's Cyclopa>dia of American Biogra- 
 phy, Webster's International D'ctionary. 
 and other publications. Mr. Griffin n^ar- 
 ried. in Cambridge. Mass.. Oct. 2.3. 1878. 
 Pvcsidence: .3 Kirke vStreet. Chew Chase 
 Md. Office: Library of Congi'ess, Wa.sh- 
 inuton. D. C. 
 
 GRIGGS, James Matthews: 
 
 Conofressman and lawyer ; born at La- 
 liransre. Ga., March 29, 1861. He was grad- 
 uated from the Peabody Normal College. 
 Nashville. Tenn.. in May. 1881. nnd after 
 graduation taucrht school and studied law; 
 was .admitted to the bar in 1883, and com- 
 menced the practice of law in 1884 at 
 AInpaha. Berrien County, Ga. ; was for a 
 sl'ort time engaged in the newspaper busi- 
 ness; removed to Dawson in 1885; was 
 elected solicitor-general (prosecuting at- 
 torney) of the Pataula Judicial Circuit in 
 1888,' and was reelected in 1892; in 1893 
 resigned and was appointed judge of the 
 same circuit, and' was twice reelected with- 
 out opposition. He resigned this office in 
 1806 to make the race for Congress, and 
 was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fiftv-sixth, 
 Fifty-seventh. Fifty-eighth. Fifty-ninth and 
 Sixtieth Congresses, and reelected to the 
 Sixty-first Congress from the Second Geor- 
 gia District. Mr. Griggs was a delegate to 
 the Democratic National Convention in 
 
 1892. He married, July 14. 1886, Theo- 
 doshia Stewart. Address; Dawson, Ga. 
 
 GRIGGS, John William: 
 
 Lawyer, and fnruier governor and Cabinet 
 officer; born in Newton. N. J.. July 10, 
 1849; son of Daniel and' Emeline f Johnson) 
 Griggs. He was graduated from Lafayette 
 College. A.B., 1868, and has received the 
 honorary degree of LL.D. from Yale and 
 Princeton. He was admitted to the New 
 Jersey bar. 1871, and practised at Paterson, 
 N. J. He became active in politics as a 
 Bepublican, and became a member of the 
 New Jersey Assembly. 1876-1877, State sen- 
 ator, New Jersey, 1883-1889 (president of 
 the Senate. 1886) ; governor of New Jersey, 
 1896-1898, resigning to enter the Cabinet of 
 President McKinley as attorney-general, and 
 serving until 1901. Governor Griggs is a 
 pTcmber of the Permanent Court of Arbitra- 
 tion at The Hague, nnd is now head of the 
 law firm of Griggs. Baldwin & Pierce, New 
 York City. He is president and director of 
 the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company 
 of America ; director of the Corporation 
 Trust Company, New York and New Jersey 
 Telephone Company, New York and New 
 Jersey Rapid Transit Company, and Rogers 
 Locomotive Works. He is a member of the 
 Society of the Cincinnati, Military Order 
 of the Loyal Legion, and the Union League 
 Club of New York City. Governor Griggs 
 married L. Elizabeth Price. Residence; 
 Paterson, N. J. Office: 27 Pine Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 'JRIGGS. Nathan Kirk: 
 
 Lawyer and author; born in Frankfort. 
 Ind.. Oct. 25, 1844; son of Lucien D. and 
 Mary T. (Kirk) Griggs. He as graduated 
 from the Law School of the University of 
 Indiana, 1867, and settled in practice at 
 Beatrice, Neb. He became prominent in 
 politics there as a Republican; was elected 
 to the State Constitutional Convention in 
 1871, to the State Senate in 1872 and 1874, 
 '•nd was president of the Nebraska Senate, 
 1875; American consul at Chemnitz, Sax- 
 ony. 1876-1882; resumed legal practice in 
 Beatrice, Neb.. 1882-1890. Since 1890 he 
 has been attorney for the Northwestern Di- 
 vision of the Chicago, Burlington and 
 
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 Quincv Railroad Co. with lieadquarlcrs in 
 Lincoln. He is a member of the Official 
 Board of Cotner University, Lincoln, Neb., 
 and was formerly a member of the vState 
 Institution of Nebraska for the Deaf and 
 Dimib. Mr. Griggs is a prominent member 
 of the Christian (Disciples) Church, and 
 will deliver an address at the Centennial 
 Meeting of the Christian Church at Pitts- 
 burg, Pa., in Oct., 1909, on the subject: 
 Christ in America's Life. He is author of: 
 several volumes of poems, including: Lyrics 
 of the Lariat; Hell's Canyon (illustrated 
 poem) ; Croonings of the Winds (slumber 
 songs) ; Sighings of the Winds (love 
 songs) ; Moanings of the Winds (songs of 
 pathos) ; Rumblings of the Winds (bass and 
 baritone songs) ; Sportings of the Wind's 
 (negro songs); Windings of the Winds 
 (sundry songs) ; Landings of the Winds 
 (sacred solos) ; Chantings of the Winds 
 (sacred quartets) ; The Lilies (collection of 
 sacred songs) ; Griggs' Collection (sacred 
 songs). Mr. Griggs married in Delphi, Ind., 
 Dec. 21, 1869, Epsie E. Saimders, and has 
 three daughters. Address: Lincoln, Neb. 
 
 GRINNELL, George Bird: 
 
 President business corporations, author, 
 ethnologist; born in Brooklyn, Sept. 20, 
 1849; son of George Blake and Helen (Lan- 
 sing) Grinnell. He was educated in 
 Churchill's Military School. Ossining, N. Y., 
 Yale, A.B., 1870, Ph.D., 1880; was assistant 
 in osteology, Peabody Museum, Now llavon. 
 Conn., 1874-1880; since 1880 president and 
 editorial manager Forest and Stream Pub- 
 lishing Company. He is also president of 
 the Bosworth Machine Company, Lansing 
 Investment Company; director Mil ford 
 Land Company, Campbell -Bosworth ]\Ia- 
 chine Company. He collaborated with Pres- 
 ident Theodore Roosevelt in writing Amer- 
 ican Big Game Hunting; Hunting in I\Iany 
 Ijjinds; Trail and Camp Fire; and edited 
 American Big Game in Its Haunts. As an 
 ethnologist he is regarded as authority on 
 the history and habits of the Indians of the 
 Plains and the West generally. He is au- 
 thor of: Indians of To-day; Blackfoot 
 Lodge Tales; The Slory of the Indian; 
 Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales; Jack, 
 
 the Young Ranchman; Jack Among the 
 Indians; Jack in the Rockies; Jack, the 
 Young Canoeman; Jack, the Young Trap- 
 per ; Jack, the Young Explorer ; American 
 Duck-shooting; Punishment of the Stingy. 
 He is a fellow of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science, American 
 Ethnological Society, American Ornitholog- 
 ical Union, American Geographical Society, 
 American folk-lore Society. Washington An- 
 tliropological Society, Biological Society, 
 Washington; New York Academy of Sci- 
 ences, American Numismatic Society, His- 
 panic Society, New York Zoulogical Society 
 ( member Board of jManagers ) , New York 
 Aquarium (member Board of Managers). 
 He was a member of the Committee of 
 Seventy, and took part in the reform move- 
 ment of 1894. Mr. Grinnell is a member of 
 the Society of Colonial Wars, Society of 
 ^layflower Descendants and the Union, Uni- 
 versity and Century Clubs of New York 
 City. He married in New A^ork City, Aug. 
 21,^1902, Elizabeth K., daughter of Colonel 
 F. D. Curtis. Residence : ' 238 East 15th 
 Street. Address: 127 Franklin Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 GRISCOM, Clement Acton. Jr.: 
 
 Corporate official; born in Philadelphia, 
 June 20, 1868; son of Clement A. and Fran- 
 ces Canb}' (Biddle) Griscom. He was edu- 
 cated in the schools of Geneva, Switzerland, 
 Frankfort-on-Main, Germany, and at the 
 University of Pennsylvania, Ph,B., 1887. 
 Mr. Griscom was formerly supervisor, man- 
 ager and general manager of the Interna- 
 tional Navigation Company, the Interna- 
 tional Mercantile Marine Com])any, and 
 resigned in 1904. He is now president and 
 director of The Griscom Spencer Company, 
 and the Bell Pure Air and Cooling Com- 
 pany; vice-president and director of the 
 Guanajuato Reduction and IMines Company; 
 director of the American Finance and Se- 
 curities Company, Development Company of 
 America, Empire Trust Company, and the 
 El Tiro Copper Company. He is a member 
 of the Chamber of Commerce, New York 
 Produce E.xchange, Maritime Exchange, 
 American Academy of Political and Social 
 Science, Metropolitan IMuseum of Art, De- 
 
Lloyd Cahi'k.ntkk Ciiuscoii 
 Diplomat 
 
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 partment of Archaeology and Paleontology 
 of the University of Pennsylvania, Amer- 
 ican Museniii of Natnrnl History, New York 
 Academy of Sciences, Society of Naval Arch- 
 itects and Marine Engineers. Pennsylvania 
 Society of the Sons of tlie Revolution, Penn- 
 sylvania Society of New York : Society ot 
 Colonial Wars, General Alumni Society of 
 the University of Pennsylvania, New York 
 Zoological Society, New York Botanical 
 Garden, American Society for the Preven- 
 tion of Cruelty to Animals, American Na- 
 tional Red Cross Society, American Forestry 
 Association; vestryman of the Church of 
 the Ascension ; member of the Ethical- 
 Social League New York State Conference 
 of Religion. Mr. Griscom is also a member 
 of the Metropolitan, Union, City Midday, 
 Lawyers', ^lendelssohn Glee, and University 
 of Pennsylvania Clubs of New York City, 
 University and Merlon Cricket Clubs of 
 Philadelphia, St. James' Club of London, 
 England; Morris County Golf Club of Mor- 
 ris town, N. J., and the Somerset Hills 
 Country Club of Bernardsville, N. Y. Mr. 
 Griscom married in Grace Church, New 
 Y^'ork City, Sept. 18, 1889, Genevieve Sprigg 
 Ludlow, and they have two sons. Address : 
 21 Washing-ton Square, North, New York 
 City. 
 
 GRISCOM, Lloyd Carpenter: 
 
 Ambassador; born at Rivei'ton, N. J., 
 Nov. 4, 1872; sou of Clement Acton Griscom 
 (president of the International Navigation 
 Company) and Frances Canby (Biddle) 
 Griscom, both of Philadelphia. He was grad- 
 uated from the University of Pennsylvania, 
 Ph.B., 1891, and was a student in the Law 
 School there, 1891-1893; then became sec- 
 retary to the American Embassy at Loudon 
 under Mr. Bajard (the first representative 
 of the United States of ambassadorial 
 rank) , 1893-1894. He resumed his law 
 studies in 1895 at the Law School of the 
 University of New York, and in 1896 was 
 admitted to the New Y'ork bar. He was ap- 
 pointed deputy district attorney of New 
 Y^ork in 1897, but on the breaking out of 
 the Spanish-American War entered the vol- 
 unteer service, was commissioned cap and as- 
 sistant quartermaster and served four 
 
 months in Cuba as aide-de-camp to Major- 
 General James F. Wade, and was recom- 
 mended for promotion, but resigned to re- 
 enter diplomatic life. He was appointed 
 secretary of the American Legation at Con- 
 stantinople in July, 1899, and was charge 
 d'afltaires at Constantinople from December, 
 1899, to March, 1901. He was envoy extra- 
 ordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the 
 United "states to Persia, 1901-1902, and to 
 Japan, 1902-1906; was transferred in 1906 
 to Brazil as the first American ambassador 
 to that country and in December, 1906, was 
 transferred to his present post as Ameri- 
 can ambassador to Italy. During one ex- 
 tended trip through the Central Americam 
 countries, Mr. Griscom wrote a series of in- 
 teresting letters descriptive of his travels 
 in Honduras, Nicaraugua, the Isthmus of 
 Panama and Venezuela. He received from 
 the Governor of Venezuela, in 1895, the 
 Order of Bolivar. He also received the 
 Grand Cordon of the Order of the Lion and 
 the Sun from the Shah of Persia in Decem- 
 ber, 1902, and Mrs. Griscom received from 
 the Sultan of Turkey the Grand Cordon of 
 the Order of Chefekat in November, 1901. 
 He is a member of the Sons of the American 
 Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars, 
 the Philadelphia, Radnor Hunt and Marion 
 Cricket Clubs of Philadelphia, the Union 
 Club of New York, Bachelors' Club of Lon- 
 don, Tokyo Club of Tokyo, Club des Diarios 
 of Rio de Janeiro, Circolo, Nuovo of Rome, 
 and the Cercle d'Orient of Constantinople. 
 Mr. Griscom married in London, England, 
 Nov. 2, 1901, Elizabeth Duer, daughter of 
 Frederic Bronson of New York. He has his 
 home at Haverford, Pa. Address: Ameri- 
 can Embassy, Rome, Italy. 
 
 GRISWOLD, Cassimer Clayton: 
 
 Artist; born in Delaware, Ohio, 1834. He 
 was educated in Ohio schools, and studied 
 wood engraving in Cincinnati and painting 
 in New York City. He exhibited his first 
 picture at the National Academy of Design, 
 1857, his specialty being marines. He was 
 made associate of the National Academy of 
 Design, 1866, and academician in 1867; 
 and he was one of the foimding members of 
 the Artists Fund Society, 1859. He lived 
 
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 in Koiiu', 1872-1S8G. Address: 2G2 West 
 liith .Slieet, New York City. 
 
 GRISWOLD, Sheldon Munson: 
 
 Bishop of Salina; born in Delhi, N. Y., 
 Jan. S, 1861; son of Walter llanford and 
 Ann Elizabeth (Betts) Griswold. He was 
 educated from Union College, A.B., 1882, 
 and A.M., 1885, and received from that col- 
 lege the degree of D.D. in 1900. He was 
 graduated from the General Theological 
 Seminary, New York City, 1885, and re- 
 ceived its D.D. in 1903. He was ordered 
 deacon in the Episcopal Church in 1885, 
 and was ordained priest soon after by Bish- 
 op Doane. For three years following his 
 ordination he was connected with churches 
 at liion, Mohawk, and Frankfort, N. Y.; 
 then was called to the rectorship of Emman- 
 uel Church, Little Falls, N. Y., and in 1890 
 became rector at Hudson, N. Y., where he 
 remained until his election as bishop of Sa- 
 lina, Kan., and he was consecrated in 1903 
 by Bishops Doane, Seymour and Hall. Bish- 
 op Griswold married in Schenectady, N. Y., 
 Oct. 7, 1885, Kate Maxwell van der Bogert. 
 Address: Salina, Kan. 
 
 GRONNA, Asle J.: 
 
 Congressman; born at Elkader, Clayton 
 County. Iowa, Dec. 10, 1858. At the age of 
 two years his parents moved to Houston 
 County, Minn., where he was brought up on 
 a fai-m and educated at the public schools, 
 finishing at the Caledonian Academy. He 
 taught school for two years at Wilmington, 
 Minn.; moved to South Dakota in 1879 
 where he was engaged in farming and teach- 
 ing; in 1880 moved to Buxton, Traill Coun- 
 ty, Dakota Territory, engaging in the mer- 
 cantile business; moved to Dakota, Nelson 
 County, in the winter of 1887. He is a 
 merchant and banker, and also extensively 
 engaged in farming; was a member of the 
 Territorial Legislature of 1889; has served 
 as president of the village Board of Trustees 
 and president of the Board of Education 
 several terms. In 1902 he was appointed 
 a member of the Board of Regents of the 
 University of North D ikota by Governor 
 Frank White. He was elected to the Fifty- 
 ninth Congress and reelected in 1000-1908 
 
 to the Sixtieth and Si.xty-first Congresses 
 from North Dakota-at-large. He married, 
 Aug. 31, 1884, Bertha M. Ostby, of Spring 
 Grove, Minn., and they have two sons and 
 three daughters. Address: Dakota, N. Dak. 
 
 GROSS, Samuel Eberly: 
 
 Capitalist; born at tlic "Mansion Farm," 
 on the banks of the Susquehanna River, 
 near Dauphin, Pa., Nov. 11, 1843; son of 
 John Custer and Elizabeth (Eberly) Gross. 
 He is of Holland-Dutch descent through the 
 early settlers of New York State, and of 
 Huguenot ancestry through Louis Dubois, 
 who settled New Paltz, N. Y., in 1071, and 
 through John Gross, who settled in Mont- 
 gomery County, Pa., in 1745, and Captain 
 John Gross, whose commission in the Rev- 
 olutionary Army was dated Nov. 25, 1776, 
 and who settled in Dauphin County, Pa., 
 after the Revolutionary War. His grand- 
 son, John Custer Gross, removed with his 
 family in 1846 to Bureau County. 111., and 
 after some years there, settled in Carroll 
 County, 111. His son, Samuel E. Gross, at- 
 tended schools and academies until the 
 Civil War began, when, at the first oppor- 
 tunity, he enlisted in the 41st Illinois Vol- 
 unteers, but was mustered out because of 
 his youth. He was tlien sent to Whitehall 
 Academy in Pennsylvania and contiiuied 
 studies there until the Confederate forces 
 invaded that State in 1863. He immedi- 
 ately joined Com])any D, 20th Pennsylvania 
 Cavalry, in which he was commissioned 
 first lieutenant, being one of the youngest 
 liolders of that rank in the Federal Army. 
 He was promoted for gallantry to captain 
 of Company K in that regiment Feb. 21, 
 1804, serving with his command througli 
 Virginia, 1864-1865, and taking an active 
 part in the battle of Piedmont, Lynchburg, 
 Ashby's Gap. Winchester, and otlier battles, 
 and was honorably nuistered out July 13, 
 1865. He went from the war direct to the 
 Union College of Law, Chicago, from wliioh 
 lie was graduated, LL.B., 1860. Kvcii while 
 a student the ])ossibilities of real estate 
 development in Cliicago attracted him and 
 he bought a few lots before his admission 
 to the Illimiis l)ar in ISOC. He practised 
 law successtully. but liis attention became 
 
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 nioie iiiul iiioiL' engrossed witli real estate 
 matters, and in 18US and ISO'J he took an 
 inlluential part in the development of the 
 great park and boule\ard system which is 
 one of the most noteworthy and unique of 
 the physical features of Chicago. In the 
 gioat Chicago fire of Oct. 8-9, 1871, he was 
 fortunate enough to save all his books and 
 papers, and was able to continue his busi- 
 ness with an interruption of only three days. 
 Captain Gross began, about 1880, the dis- 
 tinctive business of the laying out and sub- 
 dividing into lots, streets, . parks, etc., of 
 suburban towns in close proximity to Chi- 
 cago. He has built twenty-one towns, most 
 of which are now embraced in the municipal 
 limits of Chicago, has erected and' sold over 
 10,000 houses, and sold 40,000 lots. He is 
 also interested in mines and mining. While 
 diligently prosecuting the business which 
 made him a millionaire, Captain Gross has 
 devoted much time to the study and prac- 
 tice of literature, to art and to mechanical 
 invention, and in the latter field has in- 
 vented' and received several patents for im- 
 provements in mathematical instruments 
 and street pavements. In literature he has 
 written and published much miscellaneous 
 verse, and he is author of a romantic com- 
 edy, " The Merchant Prince of Cornville," 
 1896, which became famous because of the 
 suit which he later prosecuted in the United 
 States Court, contending that Edmond Ros- 
 tand, the French author, had plagiarized 
 from it the play " Cyrano de Bergerac," 
 which contention was fully sustained by the 
 court in 1902. Captain Gross is a mem- 
 ber of the Grand Army of the Republic; 
 has been secretary-general and vice-pres- 
 ident-general of the Sons of the American 
 Revolution; deputy-governor in the Society 
 of Colonial Wars of the United States; 
 president of the Western Society of the 
 Army of the Potomac; commander of the 
 Military Order of Foreign Wars, Illinois 
 Commandery; is a member of the Holland 
 Society of Chicago and the Huguenot So- 
 ciety of America; was a director of the 
 Chicago Relief and Aid Society, and other- 
 wise identified with charities; and is a lib- 
 eral patron of art. He is a member of the 
 Chicago Athletic Association, and of the 
 
 Chicago Club of Cliicago. j\lr. Gross mar- 
 ried, May 2, 1909, l!ul)y J>ois llauglicy, of 
 liattle Creek, Aiich. 
 
 GROSSCUP, Peter Stanger: 
 
 United States circuit judge; born in Ash- 
 land, Ohio, Feb. 15, 1852; son of Benjamin 
 and Susannah (Bowermaster) Grosscup; 
 and a descendant of Paul Grosscup, who rep- 
 resented Berks and Lebanon Counties in the 
 Pennsylvania Colonial Assembly and also 
 in the Constitutional Convention of 1791. 
 He was graduated from Wittenberg College 
 A.B. with the honors of his class in 1872, 
 and from the Law School of Boston Univer- 
 sity LL.B., 1874. He was admitted to the 
 Ohio Bar, 1874, and practised law in Ash- 
 land until 1883; and for six years he was 
 city solicitor. He was Republican candi- 
 date for representative in the Forty-fifth 
 Congress, but was defeated by his Demo- 
 cratic opponent. After 1883 he practised 
 law in Chicago until appointed by President 
 Harrison, Dec. 12, 1892, as U. S. district 
 judge for the Northern District of Illinois, 
 and in January, 1899, was promoted by 
 President McKinley to his present office as 
 judge of the U. S. Circuit Court for the 
 Seventh Circuit, of which he is the presid- 
 ing judge. Judge Grosscup has presided in 
 many important cases ; upon the application 
 to close the World's Columbian Exposition 
 on Sunday; the Debs conspiracy case; the 
 receivership of the Chicago City Railway 
 Company; the appeal from the fine of 
 $29,000,000 imposed upon the Standard Oil 
 Company, and others. Residence: High- 
 land Park, 111. Office: Federal Building, 
 Chicago. 
 
 GROSVENOR, Charles Henry: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Pomfret, Conn., Sept. 20, 
 1833; son of ]\Iajor Peter (Jrosveiior. who 
 served' in the 10th Connecticut Regiment, 
 in the War of 1812, and grandson of Colonel 
 Thomas Grosvenor of the Second Connecti- 
 cut Regiment. He was taken to Ohio by 
 his father in 1838, attended a few terms in 
 a country log schoolhouse, in Athens Coun- 
 ty, Ohio; taught school and studied law, 
 and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He 
 
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 was chairman of tlie Executive Committee 
 of the Ohio State Bar Association from its 
 orjjani/.ation for many years. He served in 
 the Union Army, in the 18th Ohio Volun- 
 teers, from July. 1861, to November, 1865; 
 was major, lioutenant-colonol, colonel, and 
 brevet brigadier-general of volunteers, com- 
 manding a brigade at the battle of Nash- 
 ville, in December, 1864. He has held divers 
 township and village offices; was a member 
 of the State House of Representatives of 
 Ohio, 1874-1878, serving as speaker of the 
 house two years; was presidential elector 
 for the Fifteentli District of Ohio in 1872, 
 and was chosen to carry the electoral vote 
 of the State to Washington; was president- 
 ial elector at large in 1880; was a member 
 of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio Sol- 
 diers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, at Xenia. 
 1880-1888, and president of the Board for 
 five years; was a delegate at large to the 
 National Republican Convention at St. Louis 
 in 1896, and again to the National Repub- 
 lican Convention at Philadelphia in 1900; 
 was elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, 
 Fifty-first, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty- 
 fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth 
 and Fifty-ninth Congresses. He is national- 
 ly known as a strong supporter of the 
 American protective system of tariffs on im- 
 ports and also for his knowledge of political 
 statistics and for his ability in political 
 forecasts. Address: Athens, Ohio. 
 
 GROUT, Edward Marshall: 
 
 Former comptroller of the City of New 
 York; born in New York City, Oct. 27, 
 1861; son of Edward and Fanny (Marshall) 
 Grout. He was graduated from Colgate 
 University, A.B., 1884, and received from 
 it the degree of LL.D. in 1903. He studied 
 law in the office of General Stewart L. 
 Woodford and was admitted to the bar in 
 1885. He was the Democratic candidate 
 for mayor of Brooklyn, 1895; elected presi- 
 dent of the Borough of Brooklyn, 1897; 
 elected comptroller of New York City on 
 the Fusion ticket in 1901, and on the Tam- 
 many ticket in 1903. He was judge-advo- 
 cate and major of the Second Brigade of the 
 National Guard of the State of New York, 
 1894-1904. He ia a trustee of the Colgate 
 
 University; member of the Delta Kappa 
 Epsilon fraternity, and a member of the 
 Brooklyn. Hamilton, Montauk, and Riding 
 and Driving Clubs. He married in Brook- 
 lyn, June 4, 1889, Ida L. Loeschigk. Resi- 
 dence: 860 Carroll Street, Brooklyn. Offi- 
 ces: 111 Broadway, New York City, and 
 189 [Montague Street, Brooklyn. 
 
 GROZIER, Edwin A.: 
 
 Editor and publisher of the Boston Post; 
 born in San Francisco, Sept. 2, 1859, of 
 New England parentage. He studied in 
 Brown University, and later was graduated 
 from Boston University in 1881. He was 
 reporter on the Boston Globe and Herald, 
 1881-1882; private secretary to the Gover- 
 nor of Massachusetts, 1884-1885, when he 
 went to New York as secretary to Joseph 
 Pulitzer of the New York World. He was 
 appointed city editor in 1887 and later he 
 became editor of the Evening and Sunday 
 World. In 1891 he secured control of the 
 Boston Post, a morning paper which had 
 once been the leading journal in the morning 
 field but had fallen into decay. Mr. Grozier 
 has since developed The Boston Post into 
 one of the most successful and influential 
 newspapers of the country. He married 
 Alice G. Goodell of Salem. Two children, 
 Richard and Helen. Member of Society of 
 Mayflower Descendants and of numerous 
 clubs. Residence: 168 Brattle Street, 
 Cambridge, Mass. Office: The Post, Bos- 
 ton. 
 
 GUENTHER, Francis Luther: 
 
 Brigadier-general, U. S. Army, retired; 
 born in Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1838; son 
 of Rev. Francis Henry and Katherine 
 (Knouts) Guenther. He was appointed 
 from New York a cadet at the U. S. Military 
 Academy, July 1, 1854, from which he was 
 graduated in 1859. He was brevetted sec- 
 ond lieutenant, U. S. Army, July 1, 1859; 
 commissioned second lieutenant. Fourth Ar- 
 tillery, Nov. 2, 1859; first lieutenant. Fifth 
 Artillery. May 14, 1861; captain July 2, 
 1863; major Second Artillery, June 26, 
 18S2; lieutenant-colonel. Fifth Artillery. 
 July 1, 1891; colonel Fourth Artillery, June 
 
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 6, 1896; brigadier-general, Feb. 13, 1902, 
 and retired Feb. 22, 1902. He served in the 
 Civil War in the armies of the West Vir- 
 ginie, the Ohio, and the Cumberland; took 
 part in many battles. He was brevetted for 
 gallant and meritorious services ; captain, 
 April 7, 1862 (for Shiloh) ; major, Dec. 31, 
 1862 (for Stone River) ; lieutenant-colonel 
 and colonel, March 13, 1865, for gallant 
 and meritorious services during the Civil 
 War. He was in the volunteer service as 
 brigadier-general. U. S. Volunteers from 
 May 4, 1898, to Oct. 31, 1898. Address: 5 
 East 124th Street, New York City. 
 
 GUERBER, Helena Adeline: 
 
 Teacher and author; educated in Paris. 
 She taught one year in Wykeham Hall. 
 Toronto, Canada; three years in Miss L. B. 
 Masters' School at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. ; two 
 years at Miss E. J. Mackies School, New- 
 burgh, N. Y., and is now engaged in giving 
 private lessons. Miss Guerber has devoted 
 herself largely to literary work, and is au- 
 thor of thirty-two volumes, some dealing 
 with history, myth and legend, and others 
 being French and German text-books. 
 Among the best known of these are: Myths 
 of Greece and' Rome; Myths of Northern 
 Lands; Legends of the Middle Ages; Leg- 
 ends of the Rhine; Legends of Switzerland; 
 Legends of the Virgin and Christ; Stories 
 of the Wagner Operas; Stories of Famous 
 Operas; Story of the Chosen People; story 
 of the Greeks; Story of the Romans; Story 
 of the English; Story of the Thirteen Colo- 
 nies; Stoi-y of the Great Republic; Story of 
 Old France; Empresses of France; Contes 
 et Legendes (French Reader) ; Miirchen und 
 Erzahlungen (German Reader) ; Yourself 
 (Manual of Physiology) ; Stories of Popular 
 Operas; Cupid and Psyche (French com- 
 position); How to Prepare for Europe — a 
 Standard Guide. Address: 150 Piermont 
 Avenue, Nyack, N. Y. 
 
 GUERTIN, George Albert: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Manchester. N. H. ; 
 born in Nashua. N. H., Feb. 17, 1869; son 
 of George and Louise (Lefebvre) Guertin. 
 He was educated in the College of St. 
 Charles Borromeo, Sherbrooke, Can., St. 
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 iryacinllio (Can.) College, and St. John's 
 St'uiiuarv. Brighton, Mass. He was or- 
 (hiiucd to llie jiricsthood. 1892, and' after 
 serving as assistant priest at churches in 
 Manchester and Lebinon, N. H., for eight 
 years became in 1900. pastor of St. An- 
 tliony's Parish in East 'Manchester until 
 Ma It'll lit. 1907. when he was consecrated 
 l)islin;i. Address: Mnnchester, N. TT. 
 
 GUGGENHEIM, Daniel: 
 
 Smelter, capitalist; born in Philadelphia, 
 1856; son of Meyer and Barbara (Myers) 
 Guggenheim. He began his business career 
 as buyer for a mercantile liouse in Switzer- 
 land, and afterward joined his brothers in 
 their smelting and mining activities. He is 
 a member of the firm of M. Guggenheim's 
 Sons; president and director, of the Guggen- 
 heim Exploration Company; president of 
 the board of directors, American Smelters' 
 Securities Company; president and director 
 of the American Smelting and Refining Com- 
 pany; vice-president of the Federal Lead 
 Company; director of the National Bank of 
 Commerce, ilorton Trust Company, Na- 
 tional Lead Company, American Smelters 
 Steamship Company, the Continental Rub- 
 ber Company of America and other corpora- 
 tions. He married Florence Schloss. Resi- 
 dence: 12 West 54th Street. Office: 71 
 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 GUGGENHEIM, Isaac: 
 
 Capitalist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
 June 7, 1854; son of Meyer and Barbara 
 (Myers) Guggenheim. He was graduated 
 from the Philadelphia High School. He is 
 president of the Mexican Union Railroad; 
 managing director of the Guggenheim Ex- 
 ploration Company; treasurer and director 
 of the American Smelting and Refining Com- 
 pany; director of the American Smelters 
 Steamship Company, National Park Bank, 
 International Banking Corporation, Plaza 
 Bank, American Smelters Securities Com- 
 pany, and Western Mining Company, and 
 second vice-president of the United States 
 yers. Lotos and Criterion Clubs of New 
 yers. Lotos and Criterian Clubs of New 
 York City. Mr. Guggenheim married in 
 New York City, Nov. 15, 1876, Carrie Son- 
 
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 neborn. Residence: 763 Fifth Avenue. 
 Address: 71 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 GUGGENHEIM, Simon: 
 
 United States senator; born in Philadel- 
 phia, Dec. 30, 18G7 ; son of Meyer and Bar- 
 bara (Meyers) Guggenheim. He was gradu- 
 ated and studied languages two years in 
 Europe. He engaged in mining and smelt- 
 ing in the United States and Mexico, and 
 went to Pueblo, Colo., in 1888, later remov- 
 ing to Denver, of which place he has since 
 been a citizen and regular voter. He is a 
 director and member of the Executive Com- 
 mittee of the American Smelting and Refin- 
 ing Company, and mining director of the 
 Guggenlieim Exploration Company. He was 
 nominated for lieutenant-governor by the 
 Silver Republicans of Colorado; declined 
 nomination, although ticket was elected; 
 nominated by same party for governor of 
 Colorado, 1898, and endorsed by People's 
 Party, but withdrew from the ticket. He 
 was a presidential elector for Colorado in 
 1904, and was elected in January, 1907, 
 United States senator from Colorado, for 
 six year term expiring March 3, 1913. Sen- 
 ator Guggenheim is a member of the Law- 
 yers, and Harmonic Clubs of New York 
 City; Progress Club of Denver; Pueblo Club 
 of Pueblo, and Alta Club of Salt Lake City. 
 He married in New York City, Nov. 24, 
 1898, Olga Ilirsh. Address: 1555 Sherman 
 Avenue, Denver, Colo. 
 
 GUILD, Curtis, Jr.: 
 
 Former governor of Massachusetts; born 
 in Boston, Mass., Feb. 2, 1860; son of Curtis 
 Guild (publisher of the Boston Commercial 
 Bulletin), and Sarah C. (Cobb) Guild. He 
 was graduated from the Chauncy Hall 
 School in Boston and Harvard College, A.B., 
 1881, with highest honors. While an under- 
 graduate he was for a time editor of the 
 Harvard Crimson, and in his senior year 
 of the Harvard Lampoon. After graduation 
 he entered the ollice of the Boston Commerc- 
 ial Bulletin, was hiter admitted to the pub- 
 lishing firm, and in 1902 became sole owner 
 of the paper. He joined Troop A of the 
 First Battalion of Massachusetts Cavalry in 
 1891, was elected second lieutenant in 1895, 
 
 and in 1897 was appointed by Governor Wol- 
 cott inspector-general of rifie practice on his 
 stafi", with the rank of brigadier-general. 
 in April, 1898, the war with Spain having 
 begun he resigned to become adjutant in 
 the Sixth Infantry of Massachusetts Volun- 
 teers, with the rank of lieutenant, and in 
 May, 1898, he was appointed by President 
 McKinley as inspector-general on the staff 
 of General Fitzhugh Lee, Seventh Army 
 Corps, serving until the close of the war, 
 and reaching the rank of colonel, U. S. Vol- 
 unteers. He is an active Republican; was 
 elected lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts 
 in 1902, serving until 1905, and was elected 
 in 1905 and again in 1906 and 1907 governor 
 of Massachusetts, his last term expiring in 
 January, 1909. He has received honorary 
 degrees of LL.D. from Holy Cross College, 
 i.L.D. from W illiams College and Doctor of 
 Theology from University of Geneva. He 
 married in Boston, June, 1, 1892, Charlotte 
 H. Johnson. Residence: 124 Marlboro 
 Street. Office: 41 India Street, Boston. 
 
 GUINEY, Louise Imogen: 
 
 Author; born in Boston, Jan. 7, 1861; 
 only child of Brigadier-General P. R. Gu.ne\ . 
 of the Army of the Potomac, and of Janet 
 M. (Doyle) Guiney. Miss Guiney was edu- 
 cated in private schools in Boston, in Klin- 
 hurst, the Academy of the Sacred Heart in 
 Providence, R. I., and by private tutors. 
 Since 1885 she has been a contributor of 
 essays and poems to Harpers. Scribner's, 
 The Atlantic. McClure's, and other Ameri- 
 can magazines, and' has written and edited 
 much. She has li\i'(l over twelve years, 
 off and on, in England, three years con- 
 tinuously at one time, eight at another. 
 She is author of: Songs at the Start, 1883; 
 The White Sail and other poems, 1887; 
 Monsieur Henri, a Footnote to French His- 
 tory, 1892; A Little English Gallery, 1894; 
 Patrins (de La Rochejatiuelein i . 1897; A 
 lloadside Harp, 1893; " Eiighuid and Yes- 
 terday,"' 1898; The INlartyrs' Idyl and 
 Shorter Poems, 1899; Robert Enniutt ; liis 
 llel)cllion and his Romance. 1904; Ihuicll 
 Froude: Memoranda and {'ouiments, IIH)."); 
 The Blessed Edmund Campion. Miss (iuin- 
 ey has edited Selected Poems of Clarence 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Maiiyaii, of Mattlicw Aniold, Tlio JMuLcliless 
 Oriiula, and Tliomas ytaiiley; Dr. T. W. 
 rarsoiKs' TraiialaLiou of Tlie Divina Coni- 
 iiK'dia, 18i);j; llemy Vaughns Mount of 
 Olives, IDOii. Address: Uxford, England. 
 
 GUITERAS, Juan: 
 
 Physician and specialist on yellow fever 
 and other tropical diseases; born in Matan- 
 zas, Cuba, Jan. 4, 1852; son of Eusebio and 
 Josef a (Gener) Guiteras. He was gradu- 
 ated A.B. from La Empresa College, Matan- 
 zas, Cuba, 1SG7, and M.D. and Ph.D. from 
 the University of Pennsylvania, 1873, taking 
 first prize for thesis. He was active in 
 Cuban politics in the United States, prior 
 to the Cuban War and was attached to Gen- 
 eral Shafter's headquarters in the Santiago 
 campaign. He has paid special attention to 
 yellow fever and other tropical diseases and 
 is recognized as the chief authority of the 
 world on this subject. He was employed as 
 special expert by the United States and Cu- 
 ban Governments in yellow fever epidem- 
 ics; was the first to find filaria in the United 
 States and uncinaria in Cuba. He founded 
 the chair of tropical diseases in the Univer- 
 sity of Havana in 1900; also the Revista de 
 Medicina Tropical, the first journal of Tropi- 
 cal Medicine published in America, and is 
 author of papers on tropical medicine and 
 internal medicine in general. He was resi- 
 dent physician to the Philadelphia Hospital, 
 1873-1874; visiting phj-sician to same, 1876- 
 1880; member of the Havana Yellow Fever 
 Commission of the United States National 
 Board of Health, 1879 ; officer of the Marine 
 Hospital Service, 1880-1889; professor of 
 medicine in South Carolina Medical College, 
 1885-1889; member of the Executive Com- 
 mittee of the Sanitary Convention of the 
 American Republics, 1902-1905, and 1907; 
 professor of Pathology of the University of 
 Pennsylvania, 1889-1899; has been professor 
 of general and tropical pathology in the 
 University of Havana since 1900; director 
 of the Las Animas Hospital since 1903; 
 president, 1902-1909 and still member of the 
 Commission of Infectious Diseases of Ha- 
 vana; member since 1903 and since 1909 
 president of the National Board of Health 
 of Cuba, and since 1909 director of public 
 
 health of Cuba. He was president of the 
 Second Cuban National Medical Congress, 
 1908; is ex-president of tlie American Pub- 
 lic Health Association; member of the Asso- 
 ciation of American Physicians; Havana 
 Academy of Sciences; Sociedad de Estudios 
 Clinicos. He married in Mantanzas, Cuba, 
 May 5, 1883, Dolores Gener, and has a 
 daughter. Address: Havana, Cuba. 
 
 GUMMEY, Charles Francis: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Dec. 22, 
 1802, of a family, which came from England 
 to Virginia in 1035. He prepared for col- 
 lege at the Gerniantown Academy, and en- 
 tered the University of Pennsylvania from 
 which he was graduated in 1884, with the 
 degree of B.S. Mr. Gummey read law and 
 was graduated LL.B. from the same institu- 
 tion in 1888. He was admitted to the Phila- 
 delphia bar, June 16, 1888. He married 
 June 7, 1900, Florence, daughter of John 
 H. Catherwood, Esq. Residence: 2126 Lo- 
 cust Street, Philadelphia; country residence: 
 Gwynedd Valley, Pa. Office : Franklin 
 Building, 133 South 12th Street, Philadel- 
 phia. 
 
 c^UNN, Archie: 
 
 Artist; born in England in 1803; edu- 
 cated in England; studied art in London; 
 came to New York fifteen years ago and 
 was employed on various papers; is famous 
 as a drawer of posters, and has latterly 
 gained distinction as a painter. He is a 
 member of the Strollers' Club. Address: 
 Strollers' Club, 67 Madison Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 GUNNISON, Almon: 
 
 President of St. Lawrence University; 
 born in Hallowell, Me., March 2, 1844; son 
 of Nathaniel and Ann L. (Foster) Gunni- 
 son. He was prepared at Green Mountain 
 Institute, Woodstock, Vt., Dalhousie College, 
 Halifax, N. S., and was graduated from 
 Tufts College, and in divinity from St. 
 Lawrence University. The degree of D.D. 
 was conferred upon him by St. Lawrence 
 University, and the degree of LL.D. by 
 Union College and Tufts College. After 
 
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 completing his studies, he entered the Uni- 
 versalist ministry, settling first at Bath, 
 Me. Three years afterwards he was called 
 to All Soul's Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., where 
 he remained' twenty years, then to the First 
 Universalist Church of Worcester, Mass., 
 for ten years. From there he was called to 
 the presidency of St. Lawrence University, 
 Canton, which position he now occupies. He 
 is one of the editors of The Geographical 
 Magazine, and editorial writer for the Chris- 
 tian Leader; and was for ten years a trustee 
 of the General Convention of Universalists. 
 Dr. Gunnison has made eight tours abroad, 
 visiting Europe, Asia and Africa; has writ- 
 ten two books: Rambles Overland, and 
 ^^'ayside and Fireside Rambles ; has been 
 a frequent contributor to magazines, and 
 has lectured extensively. In politics, he is 
 a Republican. He is a member of the Zeta 
 Psi fraternity. He married at Canton, N, 
 Y., July 7, 18G8, Ella E. Everest, and they 
 have one son : Frederick E., lawyer and pres- 
 ident of the Home Trust Co., Brooklyn — 
 and a daughter, Mrs. Guy L. Harrington of 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. Address: Canton, N. Y. 
 
 GUNNISON, Royal Arch: 
 
 United States judge; born in Bingham- 
 ton, N. Y., June 24, 1873; son of Christo- 
 pher B. and Juliette (Turner) Gunnison. 
 He received a High School education at 
 Binghamton, was graduated from the Law 
 Department of Cornell University as LL.B. 
 in 189G, and after practising seven years in 
 Binghamton and served as a referee in bank- 
 ruptcy for six years, he was appointed by 
 President Roosevelt to his present olhce as 
 United States district judge for the First 
 Division of the District of Alaska, in which 
 office he is now serving. Address: Juneau, 
 Alaska. 
 
 GTJY, Charles L.: 
 
 Jurist; born in New York City, Jan. 6, 
 1856; son of Pierre A. and Sarah B. Guy. 
 He was graduated from the New York public 
 schools and entered the College of the City 
 of New York, and attended Columbia Law- 
 School. He was admitted to the bar, 18S1, 
 and actively practised law for twenty years; 
 
 IVIacKellar, Guy & Wells. He was law as- 
 sistant to the surrogate, 1892-1893; State 
 Senator, 1894-1898; and a prominent mem- 
 ber of the Senate Committee on Judiciary 
 and Codes. He was author of the School 
 Teachers' Pension Bill, and bills establishing 
 many public improvements in New York 
 City, such as the Cathedral Parkway, River- 
 side Drive Extension, Botanical and Zoolog- 
 ical Gardens, etc. He was school commis- 
 sioner, 1902-1903; assistant corporation 
 counsel of the City of New York, 1904-1906, 
 and was elected Nov. 6, 1906, justice of the 
 Supreme Court for the first department, for 
 the term expiring Dec. 31, 1920. Judge 
 Guy has been active in political affairs. 
 He stampeded Saratoga Convention in favor 
 of David B. Hill, in 1895; nominated Henry 
 George for United States Senator against 
 Hill, 1897; supported Seth Low for mayor, 
 1897, Edward M. Shepard, 1901, and George 
 B. McClellan. 1903. He is a member of the 
 Society Medical Jurisprudence and of the 
 Manhattan, National Democratic, St. An- 
 drew's Golf Clubs of New York City. He 
 married in Boston, May 16, 1888, Eliza M. 
 Bowen, and they have three daughters. Res- 
 idence: 335 Convent Avenue. Office: 
 County Court House, New York City. 
 
 GUY, Seymour Joseph: 
 
 Artist; born in Greenwich, England, Jan. 
 16, 1824; studied art in London; since 1854 
 resident in New York. He was made asso- 
 ciate in 1861, and in 1895 academician of 
 the National Academy of Design. He is 
 also a niombcr of the American Society of 
 1 'a inters in Water Colors. Mr. Guy mar- 
 ried Anna M., daughter of tlie late W. W. 
 Jiarber, of Philadelphia. Residence: 847 
 East 134th Street. Studio: 51 West lOtli 
 Street, New York City. 
 
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 HAAS, George Christian Frederick: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Philadelphia, May 5, 
 1854; son of John C. and Anna Margaret 
 (Schur) Haas. He was educated in Zion's 
 Lutheran Parochial School, the Protestant 
 
 former member of the law firm of Lexlow, i Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, the 
 
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 University of Pennsylvania, being graduated 
 A.B., witli first lionors and election to Phi 
 Beta Kappa, 187G, A.M., 1879; was gradu- 
 ated from the Evangelical Lutheran Tlieo- 
 logical Seminary of Philadelphia in 1880, 
 jind received the D.D. degree from Muhlen- 
 berg College in 1901. He taught in the 
 Protestant Episcopal Academy at Philadel- 
 phia, 1876-1877, was ordained in the minis- 
 try of the Lutheran Church in 1880, was as- 
 sistant pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran 
 Church, New York City, 1880-1882, and 
 since the latter date has been in full charge 
 of that church. He was president of the 
 Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of New 
 York, 1893-1896, 1899-1901, and was again 
 elected to that office in 1908; is a member 
 of the General Council Publication Board 
 and on its Church Book Committee and also 
 was for a time member of its Sunday School 
 Literature Committee; and he is also a 
 director of the Lutheran Theological Semi- 
 nary at Philadelphia, and vice-president of 
 the German Lutheran Emigrant House in 
 New York City. Dr. Haas is composer of 
 the Luther League Rally Hymn and other 
 hymn tunes, and co-editor of the Luther 
 League Hymnal. He married in April, 
 1882, Anna S. Hansen, daughter of Otto E. 
 Hansen, and they had three children, of 
 whom only one is living, George C. 0. Haas, 
 Ph.D. Dr. Haas lost his wife and daughter, 
 as well as many members of his congrega- 
 tion, in the General Slocum steamboat dis- 
 aster, June 15j 1905. He married again 
 in May, 1906, Clara M. Holthusen, daughter 
 of John Holthusen. Address: 254 West 
 13th Street, New York City. 
 
 HAAS, John Augustus William: 
 
 President of Muhlenberg College; born in 
 Philadelphia, Aug. 31, 1862; son of John 
 C. and Margaret (Schur) Haas. He was 
 graduated from the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, A.B., with first honor, 1884, A.M. 
 and B.D., 1887; took courses in theology in 
 tlie University of Leipzig, and in 1902 he re- 
 ceived the degree of D.D. from Thiel Col- 
 lege. He was ordained in the ministry of 
 the Lutheran Church, and was pastor of 
 Grace Lutheran Church in New York City, 
 1888-1896, securing a church building during 
 
 that pastorate; was pastor of St. Paul's 
 Lutheran Church, New York City, 1896- 
 1904, and was active in erecting the new 
 $80,000 church. In 1904 he was elected 
 president of Muhlenberg College, in which 
 position he continues. President Haas is 
 author of: A Commentary on St. Mark; 
 Bible Literatixre; Biblical Criticism; and 
 articles in church publications. He was 
 also co-editor and an extensive contributor 
 to the Lutheran Cyclopedia. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Pennsylvania Society of New 
 York. He married in New York City, Oct. 
 6, 1891, Charlotte W. R. Boschen. Address: 
 Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. 
 
 HAAS, Kalman: 
 
 Merchant; born in Germany, 1840. Mr. 
 tiaas founded in 1867 in San Francisco, the 
 firm of Haas Brothers, who have had a re- 
 markably successful career and now control 
 the quicksilver product of the United States. 
 He is also a director of the Beet Sugar Com- 
 pany, Haas Brothers, the Napa Quicksilver 
 Mining Company, the New Id'ria Quicksilver 
 Company, and the Mutual Alliance Trust 
 Company. Mr. Haas, in addition to his bus- 
 iness prominence, takes a deep interest in 
 charities, is president of the Mount Sinai 
 Training School for Nurses and a director of 
 the Mount Sinai Hospital. Mr. Haas mar- 
 ried in New York City, in 1883, Harriet 
 Fatman, and they have three children: 
 Edith, George and Robert Kalman. Resi- 
 dence: 7 East 69th Street. Address: 27 
 \Villiam Street, New York City. 
 
 HABBERTON, John: 
 
 Author; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Febru- 
 ary, 1842; son of J. J. and Esther E. (Peck) 
 Habberton. He was educated in public 
 and high schools. He learned the composi- 
 tor's trade in the printing office of Harper 
 and Brother, and was afterward in the 
 counting room of the same firm until he en- 
 listed in the Union Army as a volunteer, 
 serving first as a private, and afterward 
 becoming a lieutenant of U. S. Colored 
 Troops. After the war he returned to the 
 counting room of Harper and Brothers until 
 1872, when he started as a publisher on his 
 own account. He was literary editor of The 
 
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 Christian Union. 1874-1877. a staff editor of 
 the New York Herald. 1877-1802. literary 
 editor of Godey'? Macrazine. 1802-1804. on 
 the staff of the Tllnstrated American, 1806- 
 1807, and after that en^acred chiefly in lit- 
 erary work. His first hook. Helen's Bahies. 
 which was nuWished in 1876, made a wTPat 
 success, sellinjr over a quarter of a million 
 copies in the United States, hesides manv 
 editions in England, and in other countries 
 in many lanjniases. He is also author of: 
 All He Knew: Life of Oeorsrp Wnshinsrton; 
 Bnieton's Bavou: Caleh Wrisrht; Some 
 Boys' Doin?: The Tieer and the Insect and 
 many other hooks, and wrote a play, Deacon 
 Crankett. in 1880 which played over four 
 hundred times. He mnrried in Hartford. 
 Conn., Feb. 25, 1868, Alice L. Hastins^s, and 
 thev have two sons and two daughters. Ad- 
 dress: Care of Harper & Brother, New 
 York City. 
 
 HACKETT, Frank Warren: 
 
 Lawver: horn in Portsmouth, N. H.. April 
 11, 1841: son of William H. Y. Hackett. 
 He was educated in Phillips Expter Acad- 
 emy, Harvard Colleee. A.B.. 1861. A.M., 
 1864. and studied law in offices in Ports- 
 mouth and Philadelphia and' at Harvard 
 Law School. During the Civil War he was 
 an actins: assistant paymaster of the U. S. 
 Navy. He served' on the U. S. S. Miiiui and 
 was on honrd that vessel at Plvmouth, N. 
 C. in 1864. during the enjrasrement with 
 the Confeder-ito mm Alhemnrle in which 
 Lieutenant-Commander Chnrles W. Flusser 
 of the ;Minmi was killed. Mr. Hackett Ava^ 
 admitted to the Pockin'rhnm (N. H.I and 
 to the Suffolk bar. Boston, in 1866. lie 
 practised law there until 1871, and has 
 practised since 1873 in Washinirlon, D. C. 
 retainincr his lepal residence in New Hamp- 
 shire. He was private secretary to Caleb 
 Cushinp, while the latter was senior coimsel 
 for the United States before the Cenev' 
 Tribunal of Arbitr-ition in 1872. He w>- 
 assistant secretary of the Navy. 1001-1002: 
 then resijrned lo resume I'lw practice. Tie 
 served one year as represontati>'e fro- 
 Portsmouth in the New Hampshire Letris- 
 lalure. He is author of various legal and 
 historical bortks, addresses, etc. He married 
 
 in April. 1880. Ida Craven, daughter of the 
 late Rear-Admiral Thomas T. Craven, of 
 the United Slates Navy. Residence: 1418 
 1\I Street. Washington, and New Castle, N. 
 H. OfTiee: Union Trust Building. Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 HACKETT, James Keteltas: 
 
 Actor, manager; born in Ontario in 
 1860; son of Jniues Henrv Hackett, the 
 celebrated Ealstaff, and half-brother to 
 John Keteltas Hackett. recorder of the 
 Citv of New York for nineteen years. 
 After graduation from the College of the 
 City of New York in 1801, he studied law 
 for a brief period in the New York Law 
 School. He made his d'^bfit on the profes- 
 sional stage in Palmer's Stock Company in 
 Philadelphia in 1802; afterward became 
 leading man in New York Lyceum in 1805. 
 being the youngest leading man in the stage 
 history of New York City. He then made 
 notable successes in The Prisoner of Zenda, 
 Rupert of Hentzau, and The Pride of Jen- 
 nico. In 1001 he became his own manager, 
 producing successivelv Don Cfesar's Return, 
 The Chance Ambassador, The Crisis, John Er- 
 mine of the Yellowstone, the Crown Prince. 
 •^nd The W^alls of J°richo. and now eontrols 
 The Secret of Polichinelle, with William H. 
 Thompson. He is manager of Hackett's 
 Theatre, New York City, and is a mem- 
 ber of the Players', Alpha Delta Phi. Strol- 
 lers', Lambs', and New York Athletic Clubs. 
 Mr. Hackett married Mary Mannering, the 
 well known actress. Address: 38 East 33d 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 HADDEN, Crowell: 
 
 Capitalist; born in New York City, in 
 1840: son of Crowell and Fanny (Ludlow) 
 Hadden. He was educated in the Brooklyn 
 Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Hadden is vice- 
 president and' trustee of the Brooklyn Sav- 
 ings Bank, treasurer and director of the 
 Brooklvn Academy of Music, the New 
 Yoi-k and Lone Island Realty Company; 
 trustee of the Bj-ooklyn Eye and and Ear 
 Hospital, trustee and vice-president of the 
 Franklin Safe Deposit Company, trustee of 
 Franklin Trust Company, director of the 
 Brooklyn City Railroad Company, the Nas- 
 
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 sau National Bank, and the Realty Associ- 
 ation. He married in Brooklyn. May 29, 
 1866, Elizabeth Stevens. Residence: 60 
 Remsen Street, Brooklvn. OfTice: 164 
 Montajjue Street, Brooklyn. N. Y. 
 
 HADLEY, Arthur Twining: 
 
 President of Yale University; born in 
 New Haven. Conn., April 23. 1856; son 
 of the late James Hadlev. philoloarist and 
 professor in Yale University. After grad- 
 uation from Yale University as A.B. in 1876, 
 lie went abroad for study at Berlin, return- 
 inir to Yale as tutor, 1897-1883, lecturer, 
 1883-1885, professor of political economy. 
 1885-1899. and since the latter date presi- 
 dent of Yale University. President Hndley 
 received the T.L.D. degree from Harvard. 
 1899. Columbia, 1900, and from Johns Hop- 
 kins. 1902. He was commissioner of labor 
 statistics of the State of Connecticut. 1885- 
 1887. and president of the American Eco- 
 nomic Association, 1897-1899; appointed 
 Theodore Roosevelt professor of American 
 History and Institutions in the University 
 of Berlin, 1907-1908. Dr. JTadlev was editor 
 of the Railroad Gazette. 1886-1891 and is 
 author of various publications includins:: 
 Railroad' Transportation, its History and its 
 Laws, 1885; Connecticut Labor Reports, 
 1885-1886; Economics on Account of the 
 Relations between Private Property and 
 Public Welfare, 1896; The Education of the 
 American Citizen, 1901 ; Freedom and Re- 
 sponsibility, 1903: Baccalaureate Addresses. 
 1907: Standards of Public Morality, 1907. 
 President Hadley is a member of the Inter- 
 national Institute of Statistics and is a trus- 
 tee of the Carnegie Foundation, and' is a 
 member of the Century Association and the 
 University Club of New York City. He 
 married, June 30, 1891, Helen, daughter of 
 Governor Luzon B. Morris, of Connecticut, 
 and they have two sons and one daughter. 
 Address: 93 Whitney Avenue, New Haven. 
 Conn. 
 
 HADLOCK, Albert Emerson: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Amherst. N. H., Feb. 9, 
 1863 : son of John and Sarah Elizabeth 
 (Carlton) Hadlock. He was educated in 
 public schools, Phillips Exeter Academy, 
 
 Dartmouth College. A.B. and valedictorian. 
 1887. A.M., 1890; Harvard Law School. LL. 
 R. cum lande, and A.M. 1893. He taught 
 in G. W. C. Noble's School. Boston. 1887- 
 1890; law clerk in the office of Evarts, 
 Choatc and Beaman, 1893-1896: secretary 
 to the president of the Borough of Rich- 
 mond. 1898-1902; assistant corporation 
 counsel of the City of New York. 1902-1904, 
 and has been in general practice since 1904. 
 He was Republican candidate for county 
 iudije of Riclimond County in 1905, and 
 member of the Committee of One Hundred 
 on jiulicial nominations in the Second De- 
 uartment in 1906. Mr. Hadlock is a mem- 
 ber of the Association of the Bar of the 
 City of New York, the Psi Unsilon and 
 Phi Delta Phi fraternities and the Casque 
 and Gauntlet Society, third vice-president 
 of the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce, 
 and a member of the Staten Island Club. 
 He married in Burlington, Vt.. June 28, 
 1902. Marion Canfield, and they have two 
 sons. Residence: New Brighton, Staten 
 Island. Address: 63 Wall Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 HArrEN, Louis F.: 
 
 Civil and mining engineer; and president 
 of the Borough of the Bronx; born at Mel- 
 rose (Morisiana), Westchester County, N. 
 Y., Nov. 6. 1854. After a preparatory edu- 
 cation in the public schools he entered St. 
 John's College at Fordham, and after a year 
 there went from 1869 to 1871 to Niagara 
 University at Suspension Bridge. N. Y., re- 
 turning in 1871 to St. John's College, where 
 he was graduated as A.B., 1875. A.M.. 1877; 
 then took the engineering course at Colum- 
 bia University, with graduation as C.E. in 
 1879; and the degree of LL.D. was after- 
 ward conferred upon him by St. John's Col- 
 lege. He engaged in private practice and as 
 engineer and city siirveyor. 1880-1881 ; stud- 
 ied and practiced civil and mining engineer- 
 ing in the Far West in 1882; was engineer 
 of the Department of Public Parks, New 
 York City. 1883-1890; engineer in charge 
 and superintendent of the New York parks 
 of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth 
 Wards, and adjoining in Westchester Coun- 
 ty, 1890-1893; commissioner of street im- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 provements of the Twenty-third and Twenty- 
 fourth wards (the Bronx), 1893-1898, and 
 since 1898 has been president of the Borough 
 of the Bronx, elected successively six times. 
 ]\lr. Haffen has been Democratic leader in 
 the Bronx for the past sixteen years. Ad- 
 dress: Municipal Building, Crotona Park, 
 Borough of the Bronx, New York City. 
 
 HAGEN, Hugo Joseph von: 
 
 Railroad president and mine operator; 
 born in Germany, Feb. 3, 1866; son of 
 Theodor and Margaretha (von Struve) von 
 Hagen. After preparatory education in 
 German gymnasium and college in Diissel- 
 dorf, he attended the University of Heidel- 
 berg, from which he received the degrees of 
 A.M. and S.B. and then took a post-gradu- 
 ate course in the University of Chicago, 
 where he gained the degree of Ph.D. Mr. 
 von Hagen was general secretary of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association in St. 
 Louis, Brooklyn, and New York City for 
 fourteen years' total service; made four ex- 
 ploring trips in South America, and in 1902 
 built the North Shore Railway in New 
 Brunswick, Canada, of which he is still 
 president. He is also interested in Nova 
 Scotia coal mines, Ontario gold mines, and 
 oil wells in Pennsylvania. Mr. von Hagen 
 is a Republican in politics and cast his first 
 vote after naturalization for Harrison in 
 1888, and has been a member of the Ger- 
 man-American League for years, and 
 stumped the West and New York State and 
 City for McKinley and Roosevelt. He 
 served in the army of Emperor William I, 
 as a one-year volunteer, after having been 
 in the United States for two years, to keep 
 up the family record. Mr. von Hagen is 
 president of the Canadian Consolidated 
 Mines Co. ; president of the von Hagen Ex- 
 ploration Company; treasurer of the Sover- 
 eign Coal Mines Co.; president of the Gol- 
 conda Gold Placer Mining and Colchester 
 Coal and Railway Company; vice-president 
 of the Imperial Coal Company; president of 
 the North Shore Railroad Company and 
 Kent Coal Company; Great Northern Coal 
 Co.; president of the Northern Coal Com- 
 pany and president of the Bay of Fundy 
 Mining Company. He is a member of the 
 
 American Museum of Natural History, the 
 National Geographic Society, and the Ger- 
 man Hospital of New I'ork City. His fa- 
 vorite recreations are fencing, shooting, rid- 
 ing and driving. Mr. von Hagen married 
 at Lake Waccabuc, N. Y., June 7, 1893, Lu- 
 ella Narcissa Pardee, and they have four 
 children: Ilildegarde Rosalind, Roxj" Mar- 
 gai-etha, Hugo Pardee, and Elsie Mead. 
 Residence: Ridgefield, Conn. Address: 103 
 Park Avenue, Now York City. 
 
 HAGERMAN, Herbert J.: 
 
 Former governor of New ^Mexico; born in 
 Milwaukee, Wis., 1867; son of James J. 
 and Anna (Osborne) Hagerman. He was 
 prepared in Colorado College and in Europe, 
 and graduated from Cornell, A.B., 1894 and 
 LL.B., 1896. He practised law in Colorado 
 until appointed in 1899 second secretary of 
 the American Embassy at St. Petersburg, 
 returning to the United States in 1901 after 
 receiving from the Czar the Russian decora- 
 tion of the Order of St. Anne. He engaged 
 on a large scale as a stockman in Southern 
 New Mexico, being vice-president of the 
 Southspring Ranch and Cattle Company, 
 and of the Felix Irrigation Company. 
 He was sent as an alternate to the National 
 Republican Convention in Chicago in 1904; 
 was appointed Governor of New Mexico by 
 l*resideiit Roosevelt in 1906, and was suc- 
 ceeded by Go\-. ( 'urry in 1908. Governor 
 Hagerman is a iiicniber of the Denver Club 
 of Denver, the V.\ Paso Club of Colorado 
 Springs, Colo., the I'hicago Club of Chicago, 
 and the Roswell Club of Roswell. Address: 
 Roswell, N. Mex. 
 
 HAGGIN, James B.: 
 
 Capitalist, horseman; born in Frankfort, 
 Ky., in 1827. He was educated in the 
 schools of Frankfort, studied law, and prac- 
 tised in St. Joseph, Mo., and Natchez, Miss., 
 until 1849, when he went to California, and 
 became interested in large mining enter- 
 prises in California, Nevada and Montana. 
 He now owns a large interest in the mines 
 of the Anaconda Copper Company in Mon- 
 tana; owns large stock farms in Kentucky 
 and the largest stud of racing and trotting 
 stock in the United States. Mr. Haggin is 
 
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 president, treasurer and director of the 
 ITomestake Mininjj Company; president and 
 director of the Ccrro do Pasco Improvement 
 Company; vice-president and director of the 
 American Gar and Foundry Company, the 
 International vSteam Pump Company, Knick- 
 crbockor Trust Company, Louisville and At- 
 lantic Railway Company, Oriental Consoli- 
 dated' Minini^ Company, and Oyamel Com- 
 ]>any. He is a member of the Union, Tuxedo, 
 Kiding, Turf and Field, Metropolitan Clubs 
 of New York City. He married, first, Lewis 
 Sanders, of Natchez, Miss., Mrs. Haggin died 
 May 23, 1894, and he again married, at Ver- 
 saifles, Ky., Dec. 23, 1897, Pearl Voorhies. 
 Residence: 587 Fifth Avenue. Address: 
 15 Broad' Street, New York City. 
 
 HAGUE, Arnold: 
 
 Geologist; born in Boston, Dec. 3, 1840; 
 son of Rev. William Hague, D.D. and Mary 
 Bowditch (Moriarity) Hague. He was 
 graduated from Sheffield Scientific School of 
 Yale, Ph.B., 1863; attended the Universities 
 of Gottingen, 1861-1864, Heidelberg, 1864- 
 1865, and the Mining Academy at Freiberg, 
 1865-1866. He received the honorary de- 
 gree of Sc.D. from Columbia University in 
 1901, and of LL.D. from the University of 
 Aberdeen in 1906. He is author of various 
 books and' papers on geology and has writ- 
 ten extensively on the Yellowstone National 
 Park. He was attached to the United States 
 Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Par- 
 allel as geologist, 1867-1878, and since 1880 
 has been in the service of the Government as 
 geologist of the United States Geological 
 Survey. He was a member of the Forestry 
 Commission appointed by the National Acad- 
 emy of Sciences at the request of the .secre- 
 tary of the Interior to suggest a forestry 
 policy for the government, 1896, and since 
 1901, has been secretary of the National 
 Academy of Sciences. He is a fellow of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science; member of the American Society 
 of Naturalists, Geological Society of Amer- 
 ica, American Institute of Mining Engi- 
 neers, Washington Academy of Sciences, 
 London Geological Society, and others. Ad- 
 dress: 1724 I Street, Washington, D. C. 
 
 HAID, Leo: 
 
 Roman Catliulic bishop and abbot; lioni 
 in Latrobc, Pa., July 15, 1849. He joined 
 the Benedictine Order in 1869; was ordained 
 priest in 1872; chaplain and professor of 
 St. Vincent's Abbey, 1872-1885, and since 
 tlien has been abbot of St. Mary Help Ab- 
 bey. Bishop Ilaid was blessed mitred abbot, 
 Nov. 26, 1885; and appointed in 1887, vicar 
 postolic of North Carolina, and titular bish- 
 op of Messene. He was consecrated July 1, 
 1888. Address: Mary Help Abbey, Bel- 
 mont, N. C. 
 
 HAIGHT, Albert: 
 
 Jurist; born at Ellicottville, Cattaraugus 
 County, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1842. He was edu- 
 cated in the Spring\'ille (N. Y.) Academy, 
 studied law, and in 1863 was admitted to 
 the bar. He was elected supervisor of Erie 
 County, 1870-1872, county judge of Erie 
 County, 1872-1876, and resigned Dec. 31, 
 1876, having been elected, Nov., 1876, jus- 
 tice of the Supreme Court of New York. 
 He was appointed associate justice of the 
 General Term in 1884, by Governor Cleve- 
 land; appointed associate judge of the 
 Court of Appeals of the Second Division 
 in 1889, by Governor Hill; reelected justice 
 of the Supreme Court in 1890, and reap- 
 pointed associate judge of the Second Divi- 
 sion by Governor Hill, reappointed associ- 
 ate justice of the General Term in 1892, 
 by Governor Flower; and resigned as as- 
 sociate justice of the General Term and 
 as justice of the Supreme Court, Dec. 31, 
 1894, having been elected associate judge 
 of the Court of Appeals in Nov., 1894, for 
 a term of fourteen years. Judge Haight 
 is now the senior judge, in point of service, 
 in the State. He married Nov. 20, 1864, 
 Angeline Waters of West Falls, Erie Coun- 
 ty, N. Y. Address: Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 HAINES, John Peter: 
 
 Humanitarian; born in New York City, 
 Dec. 17, 1851. He was educated at Colum 
 bia College., special course. He married 
 at Lyndhurst, Irvington-on-Hudson, 1873, 
 Mary, daughter of George Merritt. He has 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 been prominently identified with humane i 
 and benevolent movements for many years; 
 from ISS!) until April 15, 1906 (when he 
 resigned ) ; he was president American So- 
 ciety for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 
 Under his presidency, the operations of The 
 American Society, the parent society for 
 the protection of animals, liave been ex- 
 tended, new laws for protection of animals 
 enacted, notorious resorts where animals 
 were made to fight have been broken up, 
 reforms in transportation of animals insti- 
 tuted, brutal and demoralizing " sports " 
 suppressed, and }nany forms of cruelty 
 checked or done away with entirely. Owner 
 of the celebrated Cranmoor Farm, Toms 
 River, N. J. Life member American Society 
 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (was 
 editor Our Animal Friends, oflicial organ 
 of the society) ; life member American Geo- 
 graphical Society, American Museum of 
 Natural History, Society of American Au- 
 thors, New York Genealogical Society, 
 American Jersey Cattle Club, American 
 Bible Society; life director American Tract 
 Society. Clubs: Manhattan, Automobile 
 of America, Larchmont Yaclit^ Lakevvood 
 Country Life, New York Yacht, Church 
 Club. Residence: 20 Fifth Avenue. Ad- 
 dress: 80 William Street, New York City. 
 
 HAINS, Peter Conover: 
 
 Brigadier-General United States Army, 
 retired; born in Philadelphia, July 6, 1840. 
 He was appointed from New Jersey as a 
 cadet in the U. S. Military Academy July 
 1, 1857; was commissioned second lieuten- 
 ant and first lieutenant in the Second Ar- 
 tillery, June 24, 1861 ; transferred to Engi- 
 neers, March 3, 1863; captain July 18, 
 1863; major Sept. 22, 1870; lieutenant- 
 colonel Sept. 16, 1866; colonel Aug. 13, 
 1895; brigadier-general of Volunteers May 
 27, 1898; honorably discharged from Volun- 
 teers Nov. 30, 1898; brigadier-general U. S. 
 Army April 21, 1903, and was retired by 
 operation of law July 6, 1904. He served 
 with efficiency and gallantry throughout 
 the Civil War; was brevetted captain May 
 27, 1862, for gallant and meritorious service 
 in tlie battle of Hanover Court House, Va., 
 
 major, July 4, 1863, for gallant and meri- 
 torious service during the siege of Vicks- 
 burg, Miss., and lieutenant-colonel March 
 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious serv- 
 ices during the war. General Hains is a 
 companion of the Military Order of the 
 Ix)yal Legion. Address: 1523 K Street, 
 N. W., Washington, D. C. 
 
 HALE, Clarence: 
 
 United States judge; born at Turner, 
 Me., April 5, 1848; son of James Sullivan 
 and Betsy (Staples) Hale. After gi-adu- 
 ation from Bowdoin College in 1869, he 
 studied law in the office of his brother (now 
 United States senator), Eugene Hale, and 
 was admitted to the bar in 1871, practising 
 in Portland, Me., until 1902. He was city 
 solicitor of Portland, 1879-1882, a member 
 of the Maine Legislature, 1883-1886, and 
 in 1902 was appointed by President Roose- 
 velt to his present office as U. S. district 
 judge for the District of Maine. Address: 
 Portland, Me. 
 
 HALE, Edward Everett, Jr.: 
 
 Professor of English; born in Boston, 
 Feb. 18, 18G3; son of the Edward Everett 
 and Emily Baldwin (Perkins) Hale. He 
 was educated in the Roxbury Latin 
 School, Harvard College, A.B. in 1883, and 
 from the University of Halle received the 
 Ph.D. degree in 1892. He was instructor 
 in English, 1886-1889, and acting assistant 
 professor of English, 1889-1890, at Cornell; 
 Harris fellow of Harvard University, 1890- 
 1891 ; professor of English in the State Uni- 
 versity of Iowa, 1892-1895; and after that 
 professor of rhetoric and logic there, 1893- 
 1903. Since 1903 he has been professor of 
 English in Union College. Dr. Hale is au- 
 thor of: Lowell, 1899; Dramatists of To- 
 day, 1905. Dr. Hale is president of the City 
 JNIission of Schenectady, a member of the 
 Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and of the 
 Century Association of New York City. 
 He married, June 15, 1893, Rose Postle- 
 thwaite Perkins, and they have three chil- 
 dren. Address: Union College, Schenec- 
 tady, N. Y. 
 
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 HALE, Eugene: 
 
 U. S. senator; born in Turner, Oxford 
 County, Me., in 1836. He received an aca- 
 doniic education; studied law in a country 
 law office, and began practice at the age of 
 twenty. He was county attorney of Han- 
 cock County, Me., for nine years, and after 
 tliree terms in the Maine Legislature was 
 elected to the Forty-first Congress, and has 
 been a member of every Congress since that 
 time, either as a representative or a sen- 
 ator. That Senator Hale has consistently 
 chosen a career as a legislator is evidenced 
 by his declination of posts in the Cabinets 
 of successive Presidents. He was offered 
 the postmaster-generalship by President 
 Grant, and the secretaryship of the Navy 
 by President Hayes, both of which he de- 
 clined. He took a leading part in the 
 investigation which followed the election of 
 1876, and was chairman of the Republican 
 Congressional Committee for the Forty-fifth 
 Congress. No outside interest has, however, 
 interfered with his consistent pursuit of his 
 duties as a legislator or with his services 
 in the Senate in behalf of the Navy of the 
 United State. It is in this latter capacity 
 that Senator Hale is best known to the 
 country. As chairman of the Senate Com- 
 mittee on Naval Affairs, it has been his 
 part to very largely shape the naval policy 
 of the United States. Opposing sudden in- 
 fluxes of large expenditure, he has stimu- 
 lated interest in the naval arm at times 
 when that interest on the part of the people 
 generally was at a low ebb, and is recog- 
 nized as the foremost naval authority of 
 the United States in matters relating to 
 the means for the support of the Navy 
 and on questions of legislation referring 
 to its materiel and personnel. While he 
 has always been a staunch supporter of the 
 Republican party and a recognized factor 
 in its councils, Senator Hale has never 
 surrendered his independence of thought, 
 and notably, at the ' time of the impending 
 war with Spain and of the discussion of 
 questions relating to the Philippines, was 
 outspoken in his views. Residences: Ells- 
 worth, Me.; and Sixteenth and K Streets, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 HALE, Frank Judson: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in Newton Upper 
 Falls, Mass., Aug. 14, 1862; son of Amos 
 Lamson and Tamson C. Hale. He was grad- 
 uated from the Newton High School in 
 1880, and, while still a pupil, worked in 
 the machine shop of Otis Pettoe & Company, 
 at Newton Upper Falls, while not at school. 
 He has continued with the same establish- 
 i ment under its various changes of name, 
 pud is now president and a director of the 
 corporation, Saco & Pettee Machine Works, 
 with shops at Saco, Me., as well as at New- 
 ton Upper Falls, Mass. His other direc- 
 torates include the Laurens Cotton Mills, 
 Laurens, S. C; Drayton Mills, Spartan- 
 burg, S. C; the Bay State Cotton Co. and the 
 Hunt-Spiller Manufacturing Corporation, 
 Boston; Lincoln Manufacturing Co. and the 
 Davis Mills, Fall River, Mass.; the Gaines- 
 ville Cotton Mills, Gainesville, Ga. ; and 
 the Eastern Machinery Company, Newton 
 Center Trust Company, Newtonville Trust 
 Company, and Newton Center Savings Bank, 
 all of the City of Newton. Mr. Hale served 
 as a member of the Common Council of 
 Newton, 1888-1889, and of the Newton 
 School Board, 1890-1900. His club affilia- 
 tions include the Home Market Club, of 
 Boston, the ilanufacturers' Club of Char- 
 lotte, N. C, and the Newton and Brae Burn 
 Country Clubs of Newton, Mass. Mr. Hale 
 married Grace Ella Herrick, and they have 
 two children: Marjorie and Roger D. Res- 
 idence: 1141 Walnut Street, Newton High- 
 lands. Office: Newton Upper Falls, Mass. 
 
 HALE, George Ellery: 
 
 Astronomer and astrophysicist; born in 
 Chicago, June 29, 1868; son of William E. 
 and Mary S. Hale. He was graduated from 
 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
 S.B., 1890; was a student in Harvard Col- 
 lege Observatory, 1889-1890, and in the Uni- 
 versity of Berlin, 1893-1894. He was di- 
 rector of the Kenwood Observatory, 1890- 
 1896; professor of astrophysics in the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago, 1892-1905; and has been 
 non-resident professor of that University 
 from 1905. He was director of the Yerkes 
 Observatory at Lake Geneva, Wis., from its 
 
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 organization until 1905, when he undertook 
 the organization of the Solar Observatory 
 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 
 at Mount Wilson, Calif., of which he is 
 director. He invented and developed the 
 spectroheliograph. and has made researches 
 in solar and stellar physics and in general 
 spectroscopy. He has received the hono- 
 rary degrees of Sc.D. from the Western 
 University of Pennsylvania, 1897; LL.D. 
 from Beloit College. 1904; Sc.D. from Yale, 
 1905, and from the Victoria University of 
 Manchester. England, 1907; from Oxford. 
 England, 1909, the Janssen, Rumford, and 
 Draper medals and the gold medal of the 
 Royal Astronomical Society. Dr. Hale is for- 
 eign member of the Royal Society of London ; 
 correspondent of the Paris Academy of Sci- 
 ences ; a fellow and foreign associate of the 
 Royal Astronomical Society of England ; for- 
 eign member of the Sociota degli Spettrosco- 
 ])isti Italiann ; member National Academy 
 of Sciences, Astronomische Gesellschaft, So- 
 ci€t6 Frangaise de Physique ; fellow of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science ; associate fellow of the American 
 Academy of Arts and Sciences ; member of 
 the American Philosophical Society, Amer- 
 ican Physical Society, the International 
 Union for Cooperation in Solar Research, 
 and the Solar and Radiation Commissions 
 of the International Meteorological Com- 
 mittee. Dr. Hale is coeditor with E. B. 
 Frost of the Astrophysical Journal, and has 
 contributed numerous pajjers on spectro- 
 scopy and solar and stellar physics in the 
 Astrophysical Journal, publications of the 
 Yerkes Observatory, publications of the 
 Carnegie Institution, and others. Dr. Hale 
 married, in 1890, Evelina S. Conklin, of 
 Brooklyn, and they have a son and a daugh- 
 ter. Address: Mt. Wilson Solar Observa- 
 tory, Pasadena, Calif. 
 
 HALE, Ellen Day: 
 
 Artist, painter; Ixini in Worcester, M'as^., 
 Feb. 11, 1855; dauglitoi- of the late Rev. 
 Edward Everett and Emily Baldwin (Per- 
 kins) Hale. She was privately educated, 
 and received her art education from teach- 
 ers in the United States ami in Paris, ami 
 
 establishing lior sludio in Boston where she 
 lias since been continuously engaged in 
 painting portraits, landscapes and genre 
 pictures. Her pictures have appeared in 
 numerous exhibitions and she is represented 
 in numeious private collections. Address: 
 .S9 Highland Street, Roxbury, Mass. 
 
 HALE, Irving: 
 
 Soldier and electrical engineer; born at 
 North Bloomfield, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1861 ; son 
 of Horace Morrison and Eliza (Hunting- 
 ton) Hale. The family removed to Colo- 
 rado in 1865, and he attended school there 
 until appointed to the U. S. Military Acad- 
 emy, from which he was graduated with 
 high honors in 1884; and he ser\^ed' in the 
 Engineer Corps until 1890, and was during 
 his service engaged upon the various duties 
 of an engineer officer, and for a time in- 
 structor of engineering at West Point. He 
 resigned in 1890 to enter into civil life 
 in the practice of electrical engineering, in 
 which he attained marked distinction, and 
 became manager for the Rocky Mountain 
 District of the General Electric Company 
 at Denver. He also became an active officer 
 in the Colorado National Guard and was 
 brigadier-general when, at the beginning 
 of the war with Spain, he was commissioned 
 colonel of the First Regiment of Colorado 
 Infantry in the U. S. Volunteers. This 
 regiment was engaged in the Philippines, 
 and led the army at the capture of Manila, 
 and President McKinley commissioned him 
 as brigadier-general of U. S. Volunteers for 
 gallant and distinguished service, and he 
 afterward commanded the Second Brigade, 
 Second Division of the Eighth Army Corps 
 until the return of the volunteers in 1899. 
 He was wounded in battle at Meycauayan, 
 March 26, 1899, and was recommended for 
 the brevet rank of major-general of Volun- 
 teers for gallant and meritorious services 
 throughout the campaign against the Fili- 
 pino Insurgents, and distinguished gallantry 
 in action near Calumpit, Luzon, April 25, 
 1899. He was honorably discharged from 
 tlie Volunteer service Oct. 1, 18:i9, and 
 resumed his position as manager at Denver 
 for the General Electric Company. Gen- 
 
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 eral Hale is a life member of the Executive 
 Committee and was formerly national pres- 
 ident of the Society of the Army of the 
 rhilippines. He is also a member of vari- 
 ous scientific and engineering societies, and 
 received honorary degrees of E.E. from the 
 Colorado State School of Mines, and LL.D. 
 from the University of Colorado. He mar- 
 ried, June 14, 1887, Mary Virginia, daugh- 
 ter of Lieutenant-Colonel William R. King, 
 U. S. Army. Residence: 1430 Franklin 
 Street. Office : Kittredge Building, Denver. 
 
 HALE, Ledyard Park: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Canton, N. Y., May 17, 
 1854; son of Horace W. and Betsey R. 
 (Lewis) Hale. After attending public 
 schools and Canton Academy, he entered St. 
 Lawrence University, where he was grad- 
 uated as B.S. in 1876; then attended the 
 Law School of the University of Wisconsin, 
 graduating as LL.B. in 1878, following 
 which he was admitted to the bar in June, 
 1878, in Wisconsin, and in Sept., 1881, in 
 New York. He was assistant district at- 
 torney of St. Lawrence County, 1882-1887, 
 supervisor of Canton, 1890-1893; district 
 attorney of St. Lawrence County, 1894- 
 1899; was appointed county judge in Oct., 
 
 1902, and elected to the same position in 
 
 1903. He was a member of the Board of 
 Education of Canton High School for 
 eighteen years, and president of the board 
 for eight years; has been a trustee of St. 
 Lawrence University since 1884, and is a 
 member of the Executive Committee of that 
 institution. He was the successful pros- 
 ecutor in the Burt murder case, a remark- 
 able case of circumstantial evidence which 
 attracted State-wide attention, in 1897- 
 1898. Mr. Hale is a Republican in politics 
 and was appointed commissioner of the 
 State Board of Charities by Governor 
 Hughes in May, 1907, and served until 
 April, 1908, when he was appointed counsel 
 to the Public Service Commission, Second 
 District, and he is now serving in that 
 office. He is a director of the First Na- 
 tional Bank of Canton; member of Beta 
 Theta Pi, and the National Geographic So- 
 ciety. He married, Canton, N. Y., May 21, 
 
 1879, Ettie BachcUer, and has two children. 
 Address: Capitol, Albany, N. V. 
 
 HALL, Adelaide S.: 
 
 Art connoisseur and promoter; born in 
 Westmoreland. N. Y., Nov. 2, IS.'')?; daugh- 
 ter of Schuyler and Susan (Waldo) Wade. 
 After completing her general education in 
 the Normal School at Buffalo, she pursued 
 studies in oil and water color painting. She 
 married in Buffalo, April 13, 1876, Herman 
 J. Hall. Mrs. Hall has resided in Chicago 
 since her marriage, and has taken an active 
 part there and nationally in the promotion 
 of art, especiallj' in parks and public places. 
 She founded in 1888 the Arclio Club of 
 Chicago and was its president until 1897, 
 excejit one year, and founded in 1900, the 
 Woman's Auxiliary of the American 
 Park and' Outdoor Art Association, which 
 has been one of the most active factors in 
 promoting improved conditions in public 
 art, and was for the first three years its 
 president. Mrs. Hall has served as chair- 
 man of the Art Committee of the General 
 Federation and also of the Illinois State 
 Federation of Women's Clubs; is an hon- 
 oiary member of the California Out- 
 door League, honorary member of the Park 
 Board of Audubon Park in New Orleans, 
 and has been an officer of Chicago Chapter 
 of the Daughters of the American Revolu- 
 tion; now curator Chicago Academy of Fine 
 Arts. Mrs. Hall is author of: Two 
 Women Abroad, and of articles on art 
 and travel. Address: 558 Dearborn Ave- 
 nue, Chicago. 
 
 HALL, Arthur Crawshay Alliston: 
 
 Bishop of Vermont; born at Binfield, 
 Berkshire, England, April 12, 1847; son of 
 Major William Thomas and Louisa Astley 
 (Alliston) Hall. He was graduated (from 
 Christ Church) at the University of Ox- 
 ford, England, B.A., 1869, receiving M.A. 
 in 1872. The degree of D.D. (honoris 
 causa) was conferred upon him by the Uni- 
 versity of Oxford, 1893, by Trinity College, 
 Hartford, Conn., 1894, and by Bishop's Col- 
 lege, Lenoxville, Canada, 1894. He also 
 
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 received the degree of LL.D. in 1904 from 
 the University of Vermont. In 1870 he 
 took the orders of deacon of the Church 
 of Enghind as a member of the Society of 
 St. John the Evangelist, and priest's orders 
 a year later, both ordinations being by 
 Bishop Mackarness of Oxford. For two 
 years following his ordination to the priest- 
 liood he was a licensed preacher of the Dio- 
 cese of Oxford, England, coming thence, in 
 1873, to the United States, to become as- 
 sistant at the Church of the Advent, Bos- 
 ton, Mass. In 1881 he became priest in 
 charge of the Mission of St. John the Evan- 
 gelist. In 1891 he returned to England and 
 for two years occupied his first position at 
 Oxford. In 1894 he became Bishop of Ver- 
 mont, being consecrated Feb. 2, by Bishops 
 Neely, Niles, Coleman, Grafton, Lawrence 
 and Lewis (Archbishop of Ontario). Bishop 
 Hall is author of: Meditations on the 
 Creed, 1876; Confession and the Lambeth 
 Conference, 1879; The Virgin Mother, 1894; 
 charge on The Church's Discipline Concern- 
 ing iMarriage and Divorce, 1896; charge on 
 Prohibited Degrees, 1899; Companion to 
 the Prayer Book, 1902; charge on Ecclesi- 
 astical Discipline, 1904; Notes on the Use 
 of the Prayer Book, 1906; Christ's Tempta- 
 tion and Ours {Baldwin Lectures, 1896) ; 
 The Use of Holy Scripture in the Public 
 Worship of the Church (Paddock Lectures, 
 1903) ; The Christian Doctrine of Prayer 
 (Bohlen Lectures, 1904); The Relations of 
 Faith and Life (Bedell Lectures, 1905) ; 
 Confirmation (in the Oxford Library of 
 Practical Theology), 1904; The Example of 
 Our Lord, Especially for His Ministers, 
 1906; Facts Alhrmed by the Creed, 1907; 
 charge on The Eucharist, 1907; and other 
 publications. Address: Burlington, Vt. 
 
 HALL, Benjamin Mortimer: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in Fairfield County, 
 S. ('., Jan. 31, 1853. He was gradu 
 ated from Georgia University, B E., 1876 ; 
 C. and. M.E., 1885; 1876-1880, professor 
 of mathematics in the North Georgia 
 Agricultural College; 1880-1900, active in 
 development of mines, quarries and water 
 powers in Georgia and adjacent States; 
 1890-1902, s-nifir iiiciiiber of the firm of 
 
 Hall Brotliers, consulting engineers, Ad'nla; 
 1896-1903, hydrographer and consulting 
 engineer United States Geological Sur- 
 vey; 1904 to June, 1907, supervising 
 engineer United States Reclamation Service 
 for New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma; 
 Then to Feb. 29, 11)08. consulting engineer 
 United States Reclamation Service, and 
 since INIarch 1, 1908, cliief engineer of the 
 Porto Rico Irrigation Service. He is a mem- 
 ber of the American Society of Civil En- 
 gineers, and American Institute of Mining 
 Engineers. He married Kate Chamberlin, 
 and has two sons and a daughter. Address : 
 United States Reclamation Service, Wash- 
 ington, D. C, and Guayama, Porto Rico, 
 Temple Court, Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 HALL, Bolton: 
 
 Counsellor-at-lavv and author; born in 
 Armagh, Ireland, Aug. 5, 1854; son of Rev. 
 John Hall (D.D.) and Emily (Bolton) 
 Hall. He was graduated from Princeton, 
 A.B., 1875, A.M., 1878, and from Columbia 
 Law School, LL.B., 1886. Mr. Hall is a 
 lecturer on fundamental reforms and au- 
 thor of: Things as They Are; Game of 
 Life; Monkey Shines (children's stories) ; 
 Free America; Three Acres and Liberty (on 
 intensive farming) ; A Little Land and a 
 Living; and numerous contributions to mag- 
 azines. He is treasurer and managing di- 
 rector of tile Berkeley Heights Real Estate 
 Association; was treasurer of the Longshore- 
 men's Union, in 1896; founder and vice- 
 president of the New York Tax Reform 
 Association, and founder and treasurer of 
 the New York Vacant Lots Gardens for 
 the Unemployed. In political views he is a 
 Single Taxer, and by religious connection 
 a Presbyterian; and he is a member of the 
 University Club of New York City. He 
 married, Feb. 6, 1884, Susie Hurlbut Scott, 
 and they have two children. Residence: 33 
 East 01st Street. Address: 56 Pine Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 HALL, Charles Martin: 
 
 Manufacturer and inventor; born at 
 Thompson, Ohio, Dec. 6, 1863; son of Rev. 
 Heman B. and Sophronia (Brooks) Hall. 
 
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 He was graduated from Oberlin College, 
 A.B., 1885, and A.M., 1893. Mr. Hall in- 
 vented in 18SG the process for manufactur- 
 ing aluminum now in universal use, being 
 the process known in Europe as Heroult 
 process, invented by Paul Heroult about 
 the same time. This material, formerly as 
 costly as silver, and little used, is now bulk 
 for bulk cheaper than any other metals, 
 except iron, zinc and lead. He commenced 
 the manufacture of aluminum with the 
 Pittsburgh Reduction Company (now the 
 Aluminum Company of America), and has 
 been vice-president of that company since 
 1890. The validity of his patent was at- 
 tacked, but was sustained by a decision of 
 the U. S. Circuit Court in 1893. Mr. Hall 
 is vice-president of the St. Lawrence River 
 Power Company, Northern Aluminum Com- 
 pany of Canada, and director of the Power 
 City Bank of Niagara Falls, N. Y. He is 
 a member of the American Institute of Min- 
 ing Engineers, American Philosophical So- 
 ciety, American Electrochemical Society, 
 Institute of Engineers of Great Britain, the 
 Chamber of Commerce of the State of New 
 York; trustee of Oberlin College, and pres- 
 ident and trustee of the Niagara Falls 
 Memorial Hospital. Mr. Hall was one of 
 the one hundred " captains of industry " 
 invited to meet Prince Henry of Prussia 
 in New York City in Feb., 1902. He is a 
 member of the University Club of Buffalo, 
 and the University Club of New Y'ork City. 
 Address: Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
 
 HALL, Edward Hagaman: 
 
 \\riter and lecturer; born in Auburn, 
 N. Y., Nov. 3, 1858; son of Chief Justice 
 Benjamin F. and Abigail Farnam (Haga- 
 man) Hall. Ho is of old English and 
 Dutch ancestry. He was graduated from 
 Auburn Academic High School as saluta- 
 torian (Classical Honor) in 1877. He re- 
 ceived the honorary degree of Master of 
 Letters from New York University in 1908. 
 Mr. Hall was editor of the Norwich Morn- 
 ing Bulletin, 1877-1888, the Waterbury 
 (Conn.) Republican, 1888-1889, and was 
 correspondent of the New York Tribune 
 several years prior to 1890, and later for a 
 short time with its business department in 
 
 I New York City. He was engaged as pub- 
 lisher, printer and writer in New York City, 
 I 1890-1900, and has been a writer, lecturer 
 I and executive secretary since 1900; is au- 
 thor of numerous books and monographs 
 relating to American history, scenery, arch- 
 a-ology and biography; was special agent 
 of the New York Commerce Commission, 
 1898-1899. He is now secretary of the 
 American Scenic and Historic Preservation 
 Society, and the Association for the protec- 
 tion of the Adirondacks. He is also a 
 trustee and the assistant secretary of the 
 Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. In 
 his politics he is a Republican, and in 
 religion an Episcopalian. He is the gover- 
 nor of the New York Society of the Order 
 of Founders and Patriots of America, and 
 past deputy governor-general of the order; 
 a governor of the National Arts Club of 
 New York; second vice-president of the City 
 History Club; past vice-president of the 
 Sons of the American Revolution; captain 
 of the Washington Continental Guards; 
 sachem of the Society of Cayugas; vice- 
 president of the American Flag Association; 
 member of the Municipal Art Society, of 
 the New York Historical Society, etc. Mr. 
 Hall's favorite recreations are historical 
 study on original sites in England, Holland 
 and America, and archaeological work ia 
 the field. He married in Philadelphia, Feb. 
 7, 1893, Irene Gilbert Gazzam, and they 
 have a daughter, Edwina Gazzam Hall. 
 Residence: 60 Manhattan Avenue. Office: 
 Tribune Building, New York City. 
 
 HALL, Florence Marion Howe: 
 
 Lecturer and author; born in Boston, 
 Aug. 25, 1845; daughter of Dr. Samuel 
 Gridloy and Julia (Ward) Howe, both emi- 
 nent philanthropists. She was privately 
 educated, and in 1871 she M'as married to 
 David Prescott Hall, a New York lawyer. 
 She became a lecturer on her personal recol- 
 lections of distinguished people, on the 
 Amciican Woman in the Twentieth Century, 
 on manners, and art subjects, and has also 
 written extensively, being author of the vol- 
 umes: Social Customs; The Correct Thing; 
 Social Usage at Washington; and Flossie's 
 Playdays. She is also joint author with 
 
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 her sister, Maud IIowo. of: Laura llridff- 
 mau. Dr. Howe's Famous Pupil. Mrs. Hall 
 was tlie first chairman of correspondence 
 for New Jersey of the General Federation of 
 Women's Clubs; has been vice-president, di- 
 rector and chairman of the department ot 
 education of the New Jersey Federation of 
 Women's Clubs. Like her parents, ^Irs. 
 Hall is an able champion of the cause of 
 equal suffrage, was for seven years presi- 
 dent and is now honorary president of the 
 New Jersey Woman .Suffrage Association. 
 Address: 'Plainficld, N. J. 
 
 HALL, Frieda P. C: 
 
 riaywright and composer; born in Ber- 
 lin, Germany, Nov. 15, 1879; daughter of 
 Morris and Antoinette (Von Nye) Cohen. 
 Her education was cliiefly by private in- 
 struction, but she also studied in Leipzig, 
 Germany, and was graduated from the Ur- 
 suline Convent at Chatham, Ont.. and re- 
 ceived two medals for music. She married 
 at Baton Rouge, La., Feb. 1, 1904, Arson 
 Loftin Hall, dramatic critic of the Chicago 
 Journal. Mrs. Hall is said to have been 
 the first woman opera writer in the world, 
 being the composer of " The Voyagers," of 
 which she wrote the book, lyrics and mu- 
 sic, also superintending the staging, design- 
 ing costumes and rehearsing sixty chorus 
 girls and supervising all details pertaining 
 to its production at the La Salle Theatre, 
 Chicago. She is composer and author of 
 live hundred published compositions, sketch- 
 es (musical and dramatic), newspaper and 
 magazine articles and teacher of piano. She 
 also fills frequent engagements for the ar- 
 ranging for amateur entertainments for so- 
 cieties, sororities, clubs, etc. Besides work 
 in Iier own name she uses the pen names of 
 Paul Langly and 0. L. Potter. Address: 
 4:i4 East G5th Street, Chicago. 
 
 HALL, Gertrude: 
 
 Author; born in Boston, Sept. 8, 186;5. 
 Slie was educated in Florence, Italy, and 
 lias pubiisiied several volumes of verse, in- 
 cluding: Verses, 1890; Far from Today, 
 1892; Allegretto, 1894; Foam of the Sea, 
 189G; The Age of Fairy Gold, 1899; April's 
 
 Sowing, 1900. She is also author of The 
 Hundred, and Other Stories, 1898 ; Tiie Wag 
 nerian Romances, 1907 ; and translations 
 into Engli.sh of Rostand's Cyrano de Ber- 
 gerac, and of the poems of Paul Verlaine; 
 and she is a contributor of poems and short 
 stories to magazines. Address: 1425 
 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 HALL, Granville Stanley: 
 
 President of Clark University; born in 
 Ashfield, Mass., Feb. 1, 1840; son of Gran- 
 ville Bascom and Abigail (Beals) Hall. 
 He was graduated from Amherst College. 
 A.B., 1867, A.M., 1870; and subsequently 
 studied philosophy and psychology in the 
 Universities of Bonn, Berlin, Heidelberg and 
 Leipzig. He was professor of psychology 
 Antioch College, Ohio, 1872-1876, and at 
 various periods was lecturer on psychology 
 in Harvard and Williams; became professor 
 of psychology at Johns Hopkins University, 
 1881-1888, and since 1888 has been president 
 and professor of psychology of Clark Uni- 
 versity. He founded and is editor of the 
 American Journal of Psychology, and is 
 also editor of The Pedagogical Seminary 
 and of the American Journal of Religious ■ 
 Psychology and Education. President 
 Hall's original investigations in the field 
 of psycliology have been extensive and es- 
 pecially valuable, this being especially true 
 vvitii reference to his researches in the psy- 
 cliology of adolescence, in which special 
 subject his two volume work. Adolescence, 
 published in 1904, has taken foremost place 
 as authority. Among his earlier books are: 
 Aspects of German Culture. 1881; Hints 
 Toward a Select and Descriptive Bibli- 
 ography of Education (with John ^1. Mans- 
 field),' 1886; The Contents of Children's 
 Alinds on Entering School, 1894; and a 
 latei- book is Youth: Its Education, Regi- 
 men and Hygiene, 1907. Address: Worces- 
 ter, Mass. 
 
 HALL, Harry Alvan: 
 
 Jurist and author; born in Karthaus, 
 Pa., Oct. 7, 1861; educated at Dickinson 
 Seminary, University at Lewisburg, St. 
 Gregory College, and Yale University j holds 
 
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 the degrees of A.B. and LL.B. ; was admit- 
 ted to the bar in June, 1881. Elected a 
 inombor of the Pennsylvania Senate in 1890; 
 uppointcd United States attorney for the 
 Western District of Pennsylvania in 1893; 
 reappointed in 1897 iind resigned the same 
 year. INIustered into the United States serv- 
 ice for the Spanish-American War, May 10, 
 1898, as captain of Company II., Sixteenth 
 Pennsylvania Infantry, United States Vol- 
 unteers; served as judge advocate-general 
 of the First Corps on the staff of General 
 Wilson; was promoted major of his regi- 
 ment for distinguished gallantry on the 
 field at the battle of Coamo, Porto Rico, 
 Aug. 9, 1903, and by general orders of 
 Lieutenant-General Miles was sent to Wash- 
 ington to present the Spanish flags captured 
 in that action to President McKinley. He 
 was vice-commander-in-chief of the National 
 Association of Spanish-American War Vet- 
 erans; and commander-in-chief of the Na- 
 tional Commandery, Naval and Military 
 Order of the Spanish-American War; was 
 delegate to Democratic Conventions of 1884 
 and 1888, and delegate-at-large in 1892; he 
 was for thirteen years general counsel for 
 the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the King- 
 dom of Italy in the United States, and was 
 knighted by the Emperor of Austria with 
 the officers' cross of the Order of Francis 
 Joseph in 1905. Has been general counsel 
 for several railroads, and made a specialty 
 of railroad, corporation and international 
 law; during his term as United States at- 
 torney was chosen by the Inter-State Com- 
 merce Commission to try the test cases 
 under that act. He was elected president 
 judge of the Twenty-fifth Judicial District 
 of Pennsylvania in 1906. He is an author, 
 linguist and traveler. He married, June 
 10, 1886, Currin, daughter of the late Colo- 
 nel R. C. McNairy, of Nashville, Tenn. Ad- 
 dress: Ridgway, Pa. 
 
 HALL, James Parker: 
 
 Dean of the University of Chicago Law 
 School; born in Frewsburg, N. Y., 1871; 
 son of Edward L. and Charlotte (Parker) 
 Hall. He was graduated from Cornell Uni- 
 versity, A.B., 1894, and from the Law 
 School of Harvard University, LL.B., cum 
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 l;ui(lc. in 1SII7. lie was admitted to tlie 
 New York bar in 1897; practised at Buffalo, 
 1897-1900; was lecturer in Buffalo Law 
 School, 1898-1900; associate professor of 
 law at Leland Stanford, Jr., University, 
 1900-1902, and has been professor of law 
 in the University of Chicago since 1902, and 
 its dean since 1904. In politics he is an 
 Independent Republican. Mr. Hall is a 
 member of the American Bar Association, 
 the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and the 
 Quadrangle, City and Law Clubs of Chicago. 
 He married at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1900, Eve- 
 lyn H. Movius, and they have two children. 
 Address: 202 Forest Avenue, Jamesto\vn, 
 N. Y., or University of Chicago Law School, 
 Chicago. 
 
 HALL, Ruth: 
 
 Author; born in Schoharie, X. Y. ; daugh- 
 ter of Joseph B. and Margaret (Donaldson) 
 Hall. She Avas educated in a private school 
 in Catskill, N. Y. Miss Hall's first books 
 were for boys, including: In the Brave 
 Days of Old; The Boys of Scrooby; and The 
 Golden Arrow. She is also author of the 
 novels: The Black Gown; The Downrent- 
 er's Son, and The Pine Grove House, and 
 of much magazine work. She is a member 
 of The Authors' League of the Committee; 
 of One Hundred. Address: Catskill. 
 G'reene County, N. Y. 
 
 HALL, Violette: 
 
 Author; born in Schoharie. N. Y. ; daugh- 
 ter of Joseph B. and Margaret (Donaldson) 
 Hall. She was educated in a private school 
 at Catskill, N. Y. She is author of Chan- 
 ticleer; and is a contributor of stories to 
 the magazines. Address: Catskill, Greene 
 County. N. Y. 
 
 HALL, William Phillips: 
 
 Inventor, signal engineer, business-man, 
 evangelist; born, Stamford, Conn., Feb. 1, 
 1864; son of Thomas Shepard and Sarah 
 Catharine Hall; educated in public schools; 
 prepared for college course, but did not 
 enter. Learned trade of electrical machin- 
 ist; was oce of the first railway signal 
 engineers in United States; organized pres- 
 
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 ("lit Hall Signal Company, in Oct., 1889, and 
 became its president; under his supervision 
 the company has instituted many of the 
 most important block signal installations 
 on the railroads of the United States, not- 
 ably that on the Illinois Central Railroad 
 for the Columbian Exposition traffic in the 
 city of Chicago, where, during the six 
 months of the exposition, 19,500,000 pas- 
 sengers were carried under the protection 
 of the system without an accident. He is 
 president of the Hall Signal Company, di- | 
 rector of the Continental Hall Signal Com- ] 
 pany, of Brussels, Belgium, director of New 
 York Real Estate Security Co. Republican. 
 Member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 Director Long Island Assembly; director 
 Montrose Bible Conference. Member of the 
 American Railway Signal Association, 
 American Railway Appliance Association, 
 New York Board of Trade and Transpor- 
 tation, etc.; past master Acacia Lodge, No. 
 85, F. and A. M., Greenwich, Conn., Ritten- 
 house Chapter, No. 11, Stamford, Conn., 
 Palestine Commandery, No. 18, Knights 
 Templar, New York City ; president of the 
 American Tract Society; Bible League of 
 North America; vice-president World's 
 Christian Endeavor Union; manager of the 
 American Bible Society, Methodist Episco- 
 jjal Hospital, Brooklyn; president of the 
 Evangelistic Commission, New York East 
 Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church; 
 member of the Advisory Committee of the 
 Commission on Evangelism, Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church. He married, at Bristol, 
 Conn., Oct. 4, 1887, Charlotte Sophia Hol- 
 lister. Children: William Phillips, Jr., 
 Lyman Hollister, Melville Phillips, Theo- 
 dore Dana, Thomas Shepard, Dorothy Cath- 
 erine, Mary Phillips, Charlotte Hollister, 
 Margaret Frances. Address: 25 Broad 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 HALL, William Preble: 
 
 Brigadier-General U. S. Army; born in 
 Missouri, June 11, 1848. He was appointed 
 from Missouri as cadet at the U. S. Mili- 
 tary Academy, Sept. 1, 1864, was graduated 
 and commissioned second lieutenant of the 
 19th Infantry, June 15, 1808. He was as- 
 signed to the Fifth Cavalry, July 14, 1869, 
 
 promoted first lieutenant, July 1, 1876; cap- 
 tain, March 8, 1887; major and assistant 
 adjutant-general, Nov. 6, 1893; lieutenant- 
 colonel, assistant adjutant-general, Sept. 11, 
 1897; colonel, assistant adjutant-general, 
 April 18, 1901; and promoted brigadier- 
 general. April 23, 1904, and assigned to duty 
 as one of the military secretaries. During 
 the earlier j^ears of his service he was en- 
 gaged against Indians on the frontier, in- 
 cluding the Apaches in Arizona under Crook 
 in the early seventies, the Sioux campaign 
 in Northern Wyoming, the Big Horn and 
 Yellowstone Expedition of 187G and others; 
 and was awarded the Congressional Medal 
 of Honor for most distinguished gallantry 
 in action near camp on White River, Colo., 
 Oct. 20, 1879, when, as first lieutenant of 
 the Fifth Cavalry, in command of a recon- 
 noitering party of three men, and while 
 going to the rescue of a brother officer who 
 had been attacked bj' Indians, was himself 
 attacked by about thirty-five warriors. Dur- 
 ing the engagement he several times exposed 
 himself in order to draw the fire of his 
 assailants and locate their position so that 
 his small party could reply with effect. He 
 was adjutant-general of Porto Rico in 1899 
 and 1900. General Hall is a distinguished 
 marksman and has won various prizes for 
 marksmanshii). Address: Adjutant-Gen- 
 eral's Department, Washington. 
 
 HALL, Winfield Scott: 
 
 Physician, author, teacher and lecturer; 
 born at Batavia, 111., Jan. 5, 1861; son ol 
 Albert Nelson and Adelia (Foote) Hall. 
 He was graduated from Northwestern Uni- 
 versity, B.S. in 1887. ]\I.D., 1888; from the 
 University of Leipzig, M.D., 1894, A.M., 
 Ph.D., 1895. He was interne of Mercy Hos- 
 pital, Chicago, 1888-1889; instructor of biol- 
 ogy, Haverford College, Pa., 1889-1893; 
 student in Leipzig, 1893-1895; professor of 
 physiology at the Northwestern University 
 Medical School since 1895, and junior dean 
 of the faculty since 1901. He is lecturer 
 on dietetics, digestion and metabolism in 
 Mercy Hospital, Chicago, and in Wesley 
 Hospital; also lecturer on the physiology 
 of muscular exercise at the Young Men's 
 ('hri^^lian Association Inslitute and Train- 
 
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 iiii;- Scliool. He is author of: Tcxt-JJook of 
 I'liysiology; IManuixl of Experiiiu'iital Physi- 
 iilouy; Reproduction and Sexual Hygiene, 
 ill 1006. Dr. Hall is a follow of the Amer- 
 ican Academy of Medicine, American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science, Chi- 
 cago Academy of Sciences; member of the 
 American IMedical Association, American 
 Physiological Society, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi 
 licta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Nu Sigma Nu, and 
 Al])lia Omega Alpha fraternities. He mar- 
 ried at Juniata, Neb., Oct. 11, 1888, Jean- 
 nclle Winter, and they have four children: 
 Ktiiel, Albert Winter, Reymond Ludwig, and 
 Muriel. Residence: 31H0 Ivison Avenue, 
 Ucrwyn, 111. OlTice: Nortlnvestern Univer- 
 sity ^ilcilical School, Chicago. 
 
 HALLS, William, Jr.: 
 
 Hanker; born in Brooklyn, Aug. 4, 1858; 
 son of William and Lavinia INI. (Plows) 
 Halls. He was educated in the German 
 Commercial Institute, Brooklyn. ]\Ir. Halls 
 was formerly vice-president of the Hanover 
 National Bank,, and' is still a director, but 
 resigned as vice-president (rose from mes- 
 senger in bank to vice-president). He was 
 for a short period, 1881-1882, with the 
 stock brokerage firm of Prince & Whiteh'. 
 He acquired with others, the Union College 
 lioldings of real estate in Long Island City 
 in 1898 and organized the New York Land 
 and Warehouse Company; reorganized tlie 
 Klyton Land Company of Birmingham, Ala., 
 and established the Birmingham Realty 
 Ccmipany. He is a director of the Irving 
 National Exchange Bank, and Flatbush 
 Trust Company; vica-presideiit and director 
 of The Summit (N. J.) Bank, the Birming- 
 liain (Ala.) Realty Company; president 
 and director of tlie New York Land and 
 ^^'arehouse Company; viee-])resid'ent ani 
 manager of tlie P.rooklyn ^letliodist Epis- 
 copal Hospital, lie is a Ropnlicnn and 
 a Methodist. Mr, Halls is a ii:eml)cr of the 
 New York City Chamber of Couiiiicrcc, the 
 Lawyers', and Canoe Brook Chil). niul thr 
 Highland (N, J.) Club, He married in 
 Brooklyn. Oct. 14. 1S79, Sarah W. Whitaker. 
 Residence: 2 IVekman Road. Summit, New 
 Jersev. 
 
 HALSEY, Francis Whiting: 
 
 JOdilor and author; l>orn at Unudilla, N. 
 Y., Oct. 15, 1851; son of Gaius Leonard 
 and Juliet (Carrington) Halaey. He was 
 educated in Unadilla Academy, and Cornell 
 University, being graduated B.S. with a 
 prize for an essay in English literature, 
 Mr, Halsey was assistant editor of the 
 Binghamton Times, 1873-1875; assistant 
 day editor of the New York Tribune, 1875- 
 1880; foreign editor of the New York Times, 
 1880-1891; literary editor of the New York 
 Times, 1891-1896; editor of the New York 
 Times Saturday Review from its first num- 
 ber, Oct. 10, 189G, until June, 1902. He 
 was literary adviser of D. Appleton and 
 Company, 1902-1905, and has been literary 
 adviser of the Funk and Wagnalls Company 
 since 1905. Mr. Halsey is author of: Two 
 Months Abroad, 1878; The Old New York 
 Frontier, 1891; Virginia Isabel Forbes (me- 
 moir of his wife), privately printed, 1900; 
 Our Literary Deluge, 1902; The Pioneers of 
 Unadilla Village, 1902. He is also editor of 
 American Authors and Their Homes, 1901; 
 Authors of Our Day in Their Homes, 1902; 
 W'omen Authors of Our Day in Their Homes, 
 1902; of the Making of a Book, 1904; Mrs. 
 Row-son's Charlotte Temple, 1905; Richard 
 Smith's Tour of Four Great Rivers, 1905; 
 associate editor of The World's Famous Ora- 
 tions, 10 volumes, 1906 (of which William J. 
 Bryan was editor-in-chief), of which 1,650,- 
 000 volumes have been printed; associate 
 editor of The Best of the World's Classics, 
 10 volumes (of which Henry Cabot Lodge 
 was editor-in-chief), 1909. Mr. Halsey has 
 lectured before the New Y'ork and New Jer- 
 sey Historical Societies, the Students of Co- 
 lumbia and Princeton Universities, hautau- 
 qua, and other bodies, on literary and his- 
 torical subjects, and delivered historical an- 
 niversary addresses at Coopertown, the Wy- 
 oming Massacre IMonument and other places. 
 He is a trustee of the American Scenic 
 and Historic Preservation Society, the City 
 History Club, and the New York State His- 
 torical Association; is a member of the 
 American Historical Association, the New 
 Y^ork Library Association, Municipal Art So- 
 ciety, Otsego Society and the Century, Au- 
 
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 thors, National Arts, and Cornell University 
 Clubs. He married in New York City, De- 
 cember, 18S3, Virginia Isabel Forbes, who 
 died Jan. 13, 1899. Club Address: 7 West 
 43d Street. Office: 44 East 23d Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 HALSTEAD, Albert: 
 
 Consul, journalist; born in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, Sept. 10, 1867 ; son of the late Murat 
 Halstead, the distinguished journalist, and 
 of Mary (Banks) Halstead. After a care- 
 ful preparatory education he entered Prince- 
 ton University, from which he was gi-aduated 
 as A.B. in the class of 1889. He was Wash- 
 ington correspondent of the Cincinnati Com- 
 mercial Gazette, 1891-1896; editor of the 
 Springfield Union, of Springfield, Mass., 
 1896-1899; Washington correspondent of the 
 Brooklyn Standard Union, and the Philadel- 
 phia Evening Telegraph, 1900-1906, and 
 writer on various magazines and periodicals. 
 He was colonel and aide-de-camp on the 
 staff of Governor William McKinley, of 
 Ohio, and took an active part in Ohio poli- 
 ties as a Republican. On tlie resignation of 
 his brother, Marshall Halstead, on April, 
 1900, of the position of consul to Birming- 
 ham, England, which he had held for nine 
 years, Albert Halstead was appointed to suc- 
 ceed him to that post, which he still holds. 
 He is a member of the Chevy Chase Club of 
 Washington, D. C, and the Cosmopolitan 
 Club of Birmingham, England. Mr. Hal- 
 stead married in Washington, Dec. 8, 1900, 
 Aline Wilcox, and they have three children. 
 Address: American Consulate, Birming- 
 liani, England. 
 
 HALSTEAD, Albert Edward: 
 
 Surgeon; born in Ottawa, Ont., April 21, 
 18C8; son of William S. and Sara (Gibbons) 
 Halstead. He was graduated from the 
 schools of his native place and chose the med- 
 ical profession. He entered the Northwestern 
 University Medical School and was grad- 
 uated with the d.-gree of :M.D. in 1890. Im- 
 mediately after his graduation he received 
 the appointment of interne in the Cook 
 County Hospital, serving as such for two 
 years. He established himself in general 
 
 practice in the City of Chicago, where he has 
 been continuously since, having become a 
 specialist in surgery. He has been the at- 
 tending surgeon of the Cook County Hospi- 
 tal for fifteen years ; was formerly professor 
 of anatomy and surgery in the Northwestern 
 University Medical College, and is now pro- 
 fessor of surgery in the Northwestern Uni- 
 versity Medical School, and attending sur- 
 geon in the Cook County, St. Luke's Hospi- 
 tals. He was made a life member of the 
 Chicago Medical Society, and president and 
 fellow of the Chicago Surgical Society. He 
 married at Sturgeon Bay, Wis., Feb. 1, 1893, 
 ]\Iary S. Cochems, and has two daughters; 
 Lucille Maria, and Alice Dorothea. Resi- 
 dence: 2937 Indiana Avenue. Office: 103 
 State Street, Cliicago. 
 
 HAMERSLEY, William: 
 
 Jurist; born in Hartford, Conn., Sept. H. 
 1838; son of William James and Laura S. 
 (Cooke) Hamersley. He was graduated from 
 Ti'inity College, Hartford, 1858, and has re- 
 ceived its degrees of ]\I.A. and LL.D. He 
 Avas admitted to the Hartford County Bar in 
 1859; was State's attorney for Hartford 
 County, 1868-1888; judge of the Superior 
 Court. 1893-1804; associate justice of the 
 Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut 
 1894, until Sept.. 1908. when he retired un- 
 der constitutional age limitation. He is a 
 Democrat and an Episcopalian. He married 
 in Old Saybrook. Conn., Oct. 25, 1882, Jane, 
 daughter of John Allen, and has a daughter 
 and a son. Residence: ISO Farinington 
 Avenue. Office: 739 Main Sdccl. Ilirtford. 
 Conn. 
 
 HAMILL, Charles Humphrey: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Chicago, 111., March 20, 
 1808; son of Cliarles Davisson and Susan 
 (Walbridge) Hamill. After graduation 
 from Y'ale University as A.B. in 1890, he re- 
 mained there as Larned and Clark Scholar, 
 1890-1891, and then attended the Law School 
 of Northwestern University, graduating as 
 LL.B. in 1893. He began his legal work 
 with Williams, Holt and Wheeler (lawyers), 
 I 1891-1897; was in practice alone May-De- 
 icember, 1897; member of the firm of Hub- 
 
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 bard and Hamill, 1897-1898, Hamill and Mc- 
 Laren. June-Dccenibor. 1S98; then of Deneon 
 and Hamill from December, 1898, to Octo- 
 ber, 1905 (his partner being Cliarles S. 
 Deneen, now governor of Illinois), and' since 
 tlien of Rosenthal and Hamill, his partner 
 being Lessing Rosenthal. He is a member of 
 tlie bar of the Supreme Court of the United 
 States. Mr. Hamill is a member of the 
 American Bar Association, Illinois State 
 Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, 
 and Chicago Law Institute; is a trustee 
 of the Orchestral Association (Chicago 
 Orchestra) ; member of the Psi Upsilon 
 fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa Society, and 
 Scroll and Key (Yale). He is president of 
 the Second Ward Republican Club, and is 
 attorney for the Illinois Insurance Depart- 
 ment. He is a member of the Chicago, Uni- 
 versity, Hamilton, Law, Chicago Golf, South 
 Shore Country, and City Clubs of Chicago, 
 and the Graduates' Club of New Haven. 
 Residence: 2227 Prairie Avenue. Office: 
 I'M Monroe Sti'eet, Chicago. 
 
 HAMILTON, Allan McLane: 
 
 Physician; born in Brooklyn, Oct. 6, 184S; 
 son of Philip Hamilton (youngest son of 
 Alexander Hamilton of Revolutionary fame) 
 and Rebecca (McLane) Hamilton. He was 
 graduated from the Medical Department of 
 Columbia University, M.D., 1870. Dr. Ham- 
 ilton was president of the New York Psychi- 
 atrical Society and is professor of mental 
 diseases in Cornell University Medical Col- 
 lege, and specialist in mental and nervous 
 diseases. His opinion has been sought in the 
 past twenty-five years in determining the 
 sanity of many noted criminals, notably in 
 the cases of Guiteau and Czolgosz, the as- 
 sassins of Garfield and' McKinley, and the 
 more recent Harry Thaw case. He is con- 
 sulting neurologist to Manhattan State Hos- 
 pital. Dr. Hamilton is a member of the 
 American Neurological Association; fellow 
 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a 
 member of the University and Manhattan 
 Clubs. He married in Sioux Falls, S. Dak., 
 in 1902. May C. Tonilinsou. and they liave 
 (MIC sun. Address: 2.') ^ladisnn Avenue, 
 New York City. 
 
 HAMILTON, John William: 
 
 MeUiodist Episcopal bishop; born at 
 Weston, Va., IMarch 18, 1845. He was grad- 
 uated from Mount Union College, Alliance, 
 Ohio, 18G5; then entered upon the conference 
 studies of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, 
 and entered the ministry in the Pittsburgh 
 Annual Conference in April, 18G8, as deacon 
 and was appointed to the Newport (Ohio) 
 charge. The same year he was transferred 
 to the New England Conference, and he 
 was ordained elder in 1870. He was a stu- 
 dent in the Theological Department of Bos- 
 ton University while filling preacher ap- 
 pointments, and was graduated in 1871; and 
 afterward filled various pulpits in that con- 
 ference. He founded the People's Church 
 in Boston, of which he was pastor for nine 
 years, and in 1892 he was elected secretary 
 of the Freedman's Aid and Southern Edu- 
 cation Society and editor of the Christian 
 Educator. He was elected by the General 
 Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church to the office of bishop in 1900. He 
 has been a member of each of the quadren- 
 nial general conferences of his church from 
 and including that of 1884; was a member 
 of the Ecumenical Methodist Conferences in 
 Washington in 1891 and London in 1901, 
 and fraternal delegate to the English and 
 Irish Conferences in 1898. Bishop Hamil- 
 ton is an extensive contributor to the litera- 
 ture of the church. He married at Cov- 
 ington, Ky., in 1873, Julia Elizabeth Bat- 
 telle, who died in 1883, and in 1888 he mar- 
 ried at Buffalo, N. Y., Emma Lydia Battelle. 
 Address: 435 Buchanan Street, San Fran- 
 cisco, Calif. 
 
 HAMLIN, Alfred Dwight Foster: 
 
 Architect, professor of architecture; born 
 at Rebek, near Constantinople, Turkey, in 
 September, 1855; son of Cyrus (D.D. LL.D.) 
 and Harriet Martha (Lovell) Hamlin. He 
 was educated in Robert College, Constanti- 
 nople (preparatory course), Amherst, B.A., 
 1875, j\LA., 1S85, Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology, 1876-1877; £cole des Beaux 
 Arts, Paris, 1878-lSSl. Since 1883 he has 
 been engaged in teaching and in the prac- 
 tice of architecture; and is consulting ex- 
 
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 pert to many public boards, institutions and 
 other bodies. iSince 1883, in School of Arch- 
 itecture, Columbia University as special as- 
 sistant, 1883, assistant, 1887-1889, assistant 
 professor, 1889-1891, adjunct professor, 
 1891-1904, and since 190-4 professor history 
 of architecture and head of School of Archi- 
 tecture. He is author of : History of Archi- 
 tecture, 1896; European and Japanese Gar- 
 dens (in collaboration with others), 1902; 
 Cyrus Hamlin, Missionary, 1903; alss num- 
 erous articles in magazines and encyclope- 
 dias, technical and general. Mr. Hamlin is 
 a corresponding member of the American In- 
 stitute of Architects; honorary member of 
 the Society of Columbia University Archi- 
 tects; Alpha Delta Phi (Amherst chapter), 
 and the Century Association of New York 
 City. He married in Hartford, Conn., June 
 4, 1885, Minnie Florence Marston; and they 
 have two sons and two daughters. Address: 
 105 Morningside Avenue, East, New York 
 City. 
 
 HAMLIN, Charles: 
 
 l-awyer and volunteer brigadier-general; 
 born at Hampden, Me., Sept. 13, 1837; son 
 of Hannibal Hamlin, who was vice-presi- 
 dent of the United States 1801-1805. After 
 graduation from Bovvdoiu College in 1887 
 lie engaged in the practice of law until the 
 Civil War began, when he engaged in re- 
 cruiting service. In August, 1802, he was 
 commissioned major in the 18th Maine In- 
 fantry, and later held that rank in the 1st 
 Maine Kegiment of Heavy Artillery ; re- 
 signed to go into the lield, and was ap- 
 pointed assistant adjutant-general of U. S. 
 Volunteers; was assistant adjutant-general 
 of the Second Division of the Third 
 Corps, participated in Gettysburg and var- 
 ious other battles and was brevetted briga- 
 dier-general of volunteers, remaining in tlie 
 service until the close of the war. After 
 that he resumed the practice of law in Ban- 
 gor, Me., where he continues. He is a 
 Republican in politics, was twice elected 
 to the Maine Legislature, and was speak- 
 er of that body in 1885. He has been city 
 solicitor of Bangor, reporter of tlie Maine 
 Supreme Court and for many yeai's regis- 
 ter in bankruptcy, becoming a special ex- 
 
 pert in that branch of the law and writing a 
 work on the Insolvent Laws of Maine. 
 General Hamlin is chairman of the Execu- 
 tive Committee of the Maine Gettysburg 
 Commission; is a member and has been 
 commander of the Maine Commandery of the 
 .Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and he 
 is president of the Eastern Maine General 
 Hospital. Address: Bangor, Me. 
 
 HAMLIN, Charles Summer: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Boston, Aug. 30, 18G1; 
 sou of Edward Summer and Anna Ger- 
 trude (Conroy) Hamlin. He was graduated 
 from Harvard, A.B., 1883, A.M., 1886, and 
 received from \\'ashington and Lee Univer- 
 sity the degree of LL.D. in 1895. Mr. 
 Hamlin was assistant secretary of the U. S. 
 Treasury from 1893 to 1897; special com- 
 missioner of the United States to Japan in 
 1897; U. S. delegate to the Convention be- 
 tween Russia, Japan and the United States 
 to consider the Fisheries of the North Pa- 
 cific Ocean in 1897; and U. S. delegate to 
 the convention between Great Britain, Can- 
 ada, and the United States on the Fisheries 
 dispute in 1897. He was a member of the 
 Paris Exposition commission from Massa- 
 eiiusetts and was a lecturer on government 
 at Harvard University, 1902-1903. lie i-^ 
 a trustee of the Massachusetts School for the 
 l'"ecble Minded, and a member of the Pa- 
 trons of Husbandry (Grange). Mr. Ham- 
 lin married in Albany, N. Y., June 4, 1898, 
 Jluybertie l^ansing Pruyn, and they have a 
 (hiugliter. Residence: 2 Raleigh Street. 
 Ollice: 14 Beacon Street, Boston. 
 
 ilAMMERSTEIN, Oscar: 
 
 Thealricnl iiiaiiagL'r and operatic impres- 
 sario; horn in Berlin, Germany, in 1847. 
 He eanic to America in 1803 and made his 
 living as a cigar maker, inventing and pat- 
 iiiliug many labor-saving devices in this 
 industry. In 1808 he wrote three one-act 
 comedies and tliey were successfully pro- 
 duced at one of the German theatres in 
 New York, in 1870 he started as a the- 
 atrical manager, unsuccessfully, however, 
 from a linancial point of view, lu 1880 he 
 built the Harlem Opera House. J^ater he 
 built the Columbus Theatre in Harlem, the 
 
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 Manhattan Oi)eia House, which afterwards 
 became Koster and Bial's Music Hall, and 
 the Olynipia, now the New York music hall, 
 which was taken from him by the New 
 York Life Insurance Company on a mort- 
 gage for $900,000. Since then he has built 
 four more theatres in New York, the Vic- 
 toria, which he now manages, the Belasco 
 Tlieatre and the New Opera House where he 
 inavigurated annual seasons of grand opera 
 with much success in the winter of 190G- 
 1U07. He inaugurated the enterprise of 
 building a home for grand opera in Phila- 
 elclphia in a magniticent building which is 
 now nearing completion, and has also ar- 
 ranged a Chicago season. Address: Ham- 
 merstein's Theatre, New York City. 
 
 HAMMOND, John Hays; 
 
 Mining engineer; born in San Francisco, 
 March 3, 1855; son of Richard and Sarah 
 Elizabeth (Hays) Hammond. He was grad- 
 uated from the Sheffield Scientific School, 
 Yale, Ph.B., 1876 (A.M., Yale) ; took a 
 mining course at Royal School of Mines, 
 Freiburg, Saxony; and has received the 
 lionorary degrees of Doctor of Engineering, 
 Stevens Institute of Technology, 1890, and 
 LL.D., St. John's College, June, 1907. Mr. 
 Hammond was engaged as a special ex- 
 pert on the U. S. Geological Survey, 1880, 
 examining California gold fields; later in 
 J\iexico. He has exiuniiied properties in 
 all parts of the world; became consulting 
 engineer for Barnato Brothers, 1893, and 
 later for Cecil Rhodes, of whom he became 
 a strong supporter; was consulting engi- 
 neer of the Consolidated Gold Fields of 
 South Africa, British South Africa Com- 
 pany, and the Randfontein Estates Gold 
 .Mining Company. Mr. Hammond was one 
 of the four leaders in tlie reform movement 
 in the Transvaal, 1895-1896. After the 
 Jameson Raid, an incident of the reform 
 movement of which he was one of the lead- 
 ers, but with which raid he was not in sym- 
 pathy, he was arrested and sentenced to 
 death; sentence was afterward commuted to 
 lifteen years in prison, and he was later re- 
 leased on payment of line of $125,000. 
 He went to London and become interested in 
 many large mining companies; returned to 
 
 the United States and has traveled extensive- 
 ly, examining mines in tlie United States 
 and Mexico. He took a prominent part in 
 the political campaign of 1908, was promi- 
 nently mentioned for the vice-presidency and 
 was one of the leaders and advisers in the 
 conduct of the Taft candidacy for the presi- 
 dency. He has lectured at Columbia, Har- 
 vard, also Johns Hopkins Universities and 
 thu Stevens Institute of Technology; and is 
 a contributor to scientific maga/.inus. He 
 was on tlie Advisory Committee of tlie ^Sa- 
 tional Republican organization in 1908, and 
 is chairman of the Conuuittee on Organ- 
 ization of the National Civic Federation. 
 He is a fellow of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science, and a mem- 
 ber of the Metropolitan, Century, Engineers', 
 Explorers', Racquet and Tennis, University, 
 and New York Yacht Clubs of New York 
 City, Chevy Cliase, Cosmos, and Metropoli- 
 tan Clubs of Washington; Country Club of 
 Lakewood, N. J., University and Denver 
 Clubs of Denver; Union and University 
 Clubs of Boston; University Club of Salt 
 Lake City; University, and Pacific Union 
 Clubs of toan Francisco; the University Club 
 of Chicago, and tJie Carlton Club of Lon- 
 don. He married, Jan. 1, 1880, Natalie 
 Harris, of Mississippi, and they have four 
 sons and a daughter. Residence: Glouces- 
 ter, Mass. Office: 71 Broadway, New York 
 City. 
 
 HAMMOND, Winfield Scott: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Southboro, Mass., Nov. 
 17, 1863; son of John W. and Ellen (Hard- 
 ing) Hammond. He was graduated from 
 Dartmouth College in 1884, and was admit- 
 ted to the bar in 1891, after being principal 
 of the high school at Mankato, Minn., 1884- 
 1885, and superintendent of schools at Ma- 
 delia, Minn., 1885-1890. He was Democratic 
 candidate for Congress in 1892, but was de- 
 feated by J. T. McCleary, in the Second 
 Minnesota District. Mr. Hammond has 
 2:)ractised law in Watonwan County, Minn., 
 irom the date of his admission, and is now 
 in partnersliip with R. H. Burns. He was 
 county attorney for \\ atonwan County, Min- 
 nesota, 1894-1896, and 1901-1905, and has 
 been a member of the Minnesota State Nor- 
 
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 nial School Board since 1899. He was 
 elected a niomber of the Sixtieth Congress 
 in 190G, and reelected in 1908 to the Sixty- 
 first Congress. He is a Democrat in politics. 
 Address: Park Hotel, St. James, Minn. 
 
 HANCHETT, Henry Granger: 
 
 Pianist and teacher of music; born in 
 Syracuse, N. Y. Aug. 29, 1853. He attended 
 the Syracuse Classical School and the Medi- 
 cal Department of Syracuse University, 
 graduated as M.D. from the New York 
 Homoepathic Medical College in 1884, and is 
 the author of: The Elements of Modern 
 Domestic Medicine ; Sexual Health and other 
 Medical publication. He studied music un- 
 der Dr. Mason, A. K. Virgil and other prom- 
 inent teachers, and since 187G has been en- 
 gaged in teaching music and lecturing in a 
 large number of institutions. He invented 
 the Sostenuto Pedal for pianos in 1873. He 
 was the founder, with Gerrit Smith, and or- 
 ganizing secretary, of the American Guild 
 of Organists, in 1896. He is the author of 
 '■ Tlie Art of the Musician " and " Teaching 
 as a Science." He is Fellow of New York 
 Academy of Anthropology, professor in Met- 
 ropolitan College of Music of the University 
 of the State of New York, professor in 
 Adelphi College, New York, and professor in 
 the National Park Seminary, Washington. 
 He is a member of the Music Teachers' Na- 
 tional Association, the New York County 
 and State Homoepathic Medical Societies, 
 the Sons of the Revolution, American His- 
 torical Association, and the Manuscript So- 
 ciety. He was married in Dover, Del., June 
 22, 1886, to Ophelia Murphey. His second 
 marriage, to Grace Mather, took place in 
 New York on Feb. 22, 1898. He has tliree 
 children. Residence: 2231 Q Street, N. W., 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 HANCOCK, James Colt: 
 
 Pliy.sician; born in Fulton, N. Y., in 1865; 
 son of Cliauncey Ji. and J.ciina (Colo) Han- 
 cock, lie was graduated from the College of 
 I'liysieiaiis and Surgeons (Columbia I iii- 
 versity), ,M.l).. iS.Sij. lie was in Cliaiiibcrs 
 Street Hospital a resident surgeon, 1889, 
 New York Eye and Ear Inliniiary, resident 
 surgeon, 1890-1892; assistant surgeon. New 
 
 I York Eye and Ear Hospital to June, 1896. 
 He began private practice in 1893. Dr. 
 Hancock is a member of American Medi- 
 cal Association, New York State Medical 
 Society, Kings County Medical Society, 
 Brooklyn Ophthalmological Society (chair- 
 man 1908). Brooklyn Neurological Society, 
 Associated' Physicians of Long Island (sec- 
 retary). Long Island Medical Society 
 (ex-secretary), Brooklj-n Pathological So- 
 ciety, Medical Society of Greater City of 
 New York, Brooklyn Medical Library Asso- 
 ciation (charter member). Society Alumni 
 New York Hospital, Alumni of the Omega 
 Club of the College Physicians and Sur- 
 geons; life member of the Crescent Athletic 
 Club, Brooklyn, and member of the Society 
 of Sons of the Revolution. Dr. Hancock is 
 professor of Diseases of the Eye at the 
 Brooklyn Post-Graduate Medical School, 
 Ophthalmic Surgeon to the ^Villiamsburg 
 Hospital and the Long Island State Hospi- 
 tal (Brooklyn), Consulting Opthalmic Sur- 
 geon to the Howard Orphan Asylum and 
 the Bedford Dispensary. He has contrib- 
 uted to medical journals articles on Head- 
 aches Due to Eye strain; Glaucoma; Trach- 
 oma; Ocular Haemorrhage; Diseases of the 
 Eye of Interest to the General Practitioner 
 and the Eye Symptoms of Bright's Disease, 
 successful operation for the removal of a 
 dislocated lens. Dr. Hancock invented trach- 
 oma forceps. He married, Aug. IS, 1905, 
 Florence Stevens Biddle, of New York. Ad- 
 dress: 43 Cambridge Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 HANECY, Elbridge: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Wisconsin, March 15, 
 1852; son of William and Mary (Walls) 
 Haneoy. After completing his education in 
 common schools and academy, he studied 
 law, and was admitted to practice in Illi- 
 nois. He engaged in the general practice 
 of law in Chicago until elected judge of 
 tlie Circuit Court of Illinois in Cook Coun- 
 ty in December, 1893, and he was reelected 
 in June, 1897, his term expiring in 1903. 
 lie was appointed judge of tlie Superior 
 Court in January, 1904, afterward resum- 
 ing the practice of law in whicli he is now 
 engaged. Judge Hanecy is a prominent and 
 active Republican, and in religious affilia- 
 
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 tion is an Episcopalian. He is a member of 
 I ho Union League Club, Chicago Athletic 
 Association, ^Midday Club, South Shore 
 Country Club, Chicago Commercial Associ- 
 nlion and the Gentleman's Riding and Driv- 
 ing Club. , He married in Chicago, March 1, 
 1876, Sarah Barton, and they have seven 
 children. Residence: 3116 Michigan Ave- 
 nue. Office: First National Rank Building, 
 Chicago. 
 
 HANLY, J. Frank: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-governor; born in St. Jo- 
 seph, 111., April 4, 1863; son of Elijah and 
 Anna E. Hanly. He was educated in the 
 public schools of Champaign County, 111., 
 and afterward engaged in teaching country 
 schools in Indiana. He was admitted to 
 the bar April 6, 1889; elected to the State 
 Senate, 1890, serving one term; elected to 
 congress in 1894; was elected governor of 
 the State of Indiana, 1904, for the term 
 which expired Jan. 19, 1909, and resumed 
 the practice of law. Address: Indianapolis, 
 Ind. 
 
 HANNA, Meredith: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Oct. 27, 
 1874; son of William B. and Mary V. 
 (Hopper) Hanna. After his graduation 
 from William Penn Charter School, in Phil- 
 adelphia in 1891, he entered the University 
 of Pennsylvania, where he received the de- 
 gree of B.S. in 1895 and that of LL.B. in 
 1898. He enlisted in Battery A, Pennsyl- 
 vania Volunteer Artillery in June, 1898, 
 served in Porto Rico under General Fred D. 
 Grant in the Army of Occupation, and was 
 nuistered out in November, 1898. Since 
 tlien he has been practising law in Phila- 
 delphia. He is a member of the Pennsyl- 
 \ania Bar Association, and the Law Asso- 
 ciation of Philadelphia; ti-easurer of the 
 Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind Men, 
 solicitor for the Young Women's Christian 
 Association of Philadelphia, clerk and trus- 
 tee of Epiphany Baptist Church; a member 
 of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, the Pennsyl- 
 vania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, 
 3«'etlierlands Society, St. Andrew's Society, 
 the Sharswood Law Club and Lodge 51, F. 
 
 and A. M., and the Penn and University 
 Clubs of Philadelphia. lie married, April 
 20. inos. Minion Wiltbank Clark. Resi- 
 dence: 2414 Spruce Street. Office address: 
 1420 Cliestnui Street. Philadrlidiia, Pa. 
 
 HANSBOROUGH, Henry Clay: 
 
 United States senator; born in Prairie du 
 Roehter, Randolph County, 111., Jan. 30, 
 1848; son of Eliot and Sarah (Ilagen) 
 Hansborough; a descendant of John Hans- 
 borough who came from England and set- 
 tled in Virginia in 1040. His parents moved 
 from Kentucky to Illinois in 1840; and the 
 son was brought up upon the farm, and edu- 
 cated' in the common schools. He removed 
 with his parents to California in 1866, 
 learned the trade of a printer in the office 
 of the San Jose Mercury, and was a partner 
 in publishing a daily paper in San Jose in 
 1869. He was employed in the printing de- 
 partment of the San Francisco Chronicle, 
 1870-1872, was telegraph editor and' later 
 assistant managing editor of the same paper, 
 1872-1879, engaged in newspaper work in 
 Wisconsin in 1880, and in 1880 went to Da- 
 kota Territory. There he continued in ac- 
 tive newspaper work until 1888. He Avas 
 elected the first representative from North 
 Dakota, in the Forty-first Congress, 1889- 
 1891, was elected U. S. senator, Jan. 23, 
 1891, and he was reelected in 1897 and in 
 1903; his last term expired in 1909, as he 
 was defeated for reelection in the primaries 
 of 1908. He was a delegate to the National 
 Reijublican Convention of 1888, and was 
 National Committeeman from North Dakota, 
 1888-1890. Senator Hansborough has been 
 twice married, first to Josephine Orr, who 
 died in January, 1895, and second, in 1897, 
 to JNIary Berri Chapman, of Washington, D. 
 C. Residence: Devils Lake, N. Dak. 
 
 HANSEN, George: 
 
 Landscape architect; born in Hildesheim, 
 Germany, April 15, 1863. He was graduated 
 from the Royal Horticultural College at 
 Potsdam, Berlin. Mr. Hansen was the first, 
 and so far the only one to classify the 
 Orchid Hybrids, a work considered monu- 
 mental by its critics; and is author of: 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Wlm) i< n Kiiidcrfrnrlon?. soiling forth 
 iliat Ainon'oa owps the Avorld llio siipplp- 
 Tuoniinp- of tlio "Froohpl Onrtoii. In- llip nctunl 
 sotliiifr of n Kindorunrton homo in jrardon 
 siin-oinidingrs. Ho has piolurod tho fust one 
 thousand days of the lifo of a natural ohild 
 in throo thousand nhotooraphs ; proving that 
 it is tho adult who luars "His imasro and' 
 likonoss " to whioh a ohild is horn. Theso 
 pioiiiros dopiet moods of tho ohild. hoinsr sots 
 of ahout twolvo photographs. Tlio child up 
 to that ase was never interfered with and 
 never instructed, merely having the example 
 of his parents before him. Address: Roonic 
 Tract . Borkoloy. Calif. 
 
 HANSON. James Christian Meinich: 
 
 Librarian: born in Norway. "March 13. 
 186.0. He was educated at Luther Collofre, 
 Deoorah, Towa. A.B.. 1882. He pursued a 
 course of study at Concordia Seminary. St. 
 Louis. 1882-1884. and at Cornell University, 
 where he held the Andrew T). White Fellow- 
 ship in History from 1880 to 1800. Tn that 
 year he was appointed to a position in the 
 Newberry Library in Chicapfo, and was sub- 
 sequently in charsre of the catalosr depart- 
 Tnont of the Library of Wisconsin. He was 
 appointed chief of the Catalog Division of 
 the Library of Congress in 1807. which posi- 
 tion he now holds. He has been chairman 
 of the Catalojj T?iiles Committee of the 
 American Library Association since 1000. 
 and edited' the Ansrlo American Code of Cat- 
 alofr Rules in IOCS, this publication consti- 
 tutincr the first international aprreoment on 
 matters of catalojrininr. Tio was dele^ato of 
 the American Library Association to the 
 Conference of the British Association at 
 Olasffow in 1007. He is a member of the 
 Amerioan Library Association and the Amer- 
 ican Bibliofjraphical Sooiety. boinw a mem- 
 ber of the council of the latter society. He 
 is also a member of the Kappa Sijrma fra- 
 ternity. He jnarried at Chicago in 1892. 
 Sarah Nelson, and has five .sons. Address: 
 1244 Monroe Street. Brookland. D. C. 
 
 HANUS, Paul Henry: 
 
 Profes.sor of education : born in Cermany, 
 March 14. 1855; son of Gustaf Haniis aiid 
 Ida (Aust) Hanus. He was teacher of 
 
 Denver TTi.oh School. District No. 1. 1878- 
 1870: instructor in the University of Col- 
 orado. 1870-1880; professor of mathematics. 
 ISSl-lSSfi; principal of the Denver Hifrb I 
 School. District No. 2. 1886-1800: pro- 1 
 fossor of pedagogy. State Normal School 
 (Colorado). 1800-1801; assistant professor 
 of education. Harvard University, 1891- 
 1901; professor since 1001. Professor Ha- 
 nus is a member of the National Society of 
 College Teachers of Education. New Eng- 
 land Society of College Teachers of Educa- 
 tion; chairman of the Massachusetts State 
 Commission on Industrial Education (for 
 five years from 1006) ; secretary of the 
 Harvard Teachers' Association since 1892; 
 Advisory Committee for the Young Men's 
 Christian Association Preparatory School. 
 Boston, and Boston Trade School for Girls. 
 He is a member of the Boston City and 
 Economic Clubs of Bo.ston. Cambridge Club, 
 Oakley Country Club of Watertown. Mass., 
 and the Massachusetts Schoolmastors' Club. 
 He is author of; Elements of Determinants. 
 1886; Geometry in the Grammar School. 
 1893; Educational . Aims and Educational 
 Values, 1809; A Modern School, 1904. Be- 
 ginnings in Industrial Education (Houghton 
 Mifflin & Co., 1908), and is a contributor to 
 current periodicals and advisory editor of 
 the School Review, Chicago. He married in 
 Denver, Aug. 10, 1881. Charlotte Hoskins, 
 and' they have one daughter. Residence: 
 2 Berkeley Street, Cambridge, Mass. Office; 
 Harvard ITnivorsity. Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 HAPGOOD, Hutchins: 
 
 Journalist, author; born in Chicago. May 
 21, 1869; son of Charles H. and Fanny 
 Louise (Powers) Hapgood. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of Illinois, a year 
 at University of ^Michigan and Harvard, 
 A.B.. 1S02, A.M.. 1897. He taught at Har- 
 vard. 1893; spent three years abroad, mostly 
 in Germany; resided a short time in Japan; 
 made a tour around' the world ; returned to 
 America and became instructor at Harvard, 
 and later in the University of Chicago. 
 Since the fall of 1897, he has been occupied 
 as journalist and writer; has contributed to 
 many newspapers, magazines and reviews; 
 and was on staff of New York Morning Tele- 
 
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 jrrii|i1i, anil lie aftnward bcoMinc flramntio 
 ciilic riiic(M(i iMoniiip Post. TTo is author 
 of: Fail] Jones, 1901; Tlic Spirit of the 
 nhelto. 1002: Tlie Autobioofraphv of a Tliief, 
 1003: The Spirit of Labor, 1007; An An- 
 arcliist Woman, 1009 (DnfTiplcl & Co.). 
 Ifp marriofl. Mount Vernon, N. Y.. June, 
 ISOO, Neith Hoyce. Address: Care Dnffield 
 &. Co., 36 East' 21st Street, New York City. 
 
 HAPGOOD, Isabel Florence: 
 
 Aiidior: l)(irn in TJo^ton. Nov. 21. 1851; 
 dauclitev of .\sa and Lydia (Crossley) Kap- 
 •Tood. She was educated in ]\Iiss Sarah 
 Porter's School, Farniino-toii. Conn. Miss 
 Hapffood is author of: The Epic Songs 
 of Rus.sia ; Russian Rambles; A SurA'ey of 
 Russian Literature. She is also translator 
 from Russian of L. N. Tolstoy's Childhood, 
 Poyhood. -Youth. Sevastopol. Life, What is 
 to be Done?; of N. B. Gogol's D?ad Souls. 
 St. John's Eve and Other Tales. Sonya 
 Kovalevsky; How Count Tolstoy Lives and 
 AVorks: A. V. Vereststehajiin's "At Home 
 and in War." ]\[axim Gorky's Foma Gor- 
 dveff: Orloff and His Wife: Works of Ivan 
 TursreniefT (16 vols.) She was also com- 
 inler and' translator of Service-Book of the 
 Holy Orthodox Catholic-Apostolic (Grseco- 
 Russian) Church, 1006; translator from 
 Itnlian of A. de Amicis' Cuore; from French 
 of Victor Hugo's Les Miserabiles: Notre 
 Dame of Paris ; The Toilers of the Sea ; The 
 ^lan Who Laui>-hs ; Canon Jo-eph Roux's 
 Tbouo-hts: The Recollections and Letters 
 of Ernest Renan : and Baron Pierre de Cou- 
 bertin's Evolution of France Tender the Re- 
 public: and from Spmish of Armando 
 Pnlacio-Valdes' Faith and Origin of 
 Thouplit. Address: Care of Cliarles Scrib- 
 iicr's Sons. Now York Cily. 
 
 HAPGOOD, Marshall Jay: 
 
 Financier, reformer and philanthropist; 
 born in Peru, Vt., Jan. 13, 1850; son of 
 Joseph Jackson and Hepsibah (Barnard) 
 Hapgood. He was educated in Williams 
 College, afterward taking an independent 
 course in Harvard University and Law 
 School. Since 1875 he has conducted a 
 general store in Peru. Vt. : he has been en- 
 gaged in extensive lumber operations, and 
 
 since 1903 he has owned and conducled Ihe 
 Bromley House, a hoi el lo which Mr. Hap- 
 good has aitached an outside llreplace — the 
 only one so attached known to exist. Mr. 
 Hapgood served as a member of the Ver- 
 mont House of Representatives in 1880. 
 1904 and 1906; was initiator of a plan for 
 an adjourned session for Ihe final passage 
 of bills, as a means for Ihe curtailment of 
 excessive and hasty legislation. He is chair- 
 man of a committee appointed by the Gov- 
 ernor and State Historical Society to de- 
 vise a suitable memorial for Seth Warner 
 and Remember Baker. ]\Ti-. Hapgood is a 
 great lover and protector of wild animals, 
 and is deeply interested in the preservation 
 of our forests, and he attended, by special 
 invitation, the three days' conference held 
 at the White House in May, 1908, in refer- 
 ence to the preservation of the country's 
 natural resources. He keeps a " lodge " in 
 the wilderness open the year round for pri- 
 vate use. He was a friend and fervent ad- 
 mirer of the late Rev. W. H. H. ( " Adiron- 
 dack " ) Murray, author, minister and lec- 
 turer, and is a director and the treasurer 
 of the " Adirondack " Murray Memorial As- 
 sociation, the object of which is to perpetu- 
 ate his memory as the leading exponent of 
 OTitdoor life and educate his children. Mr. 
 Hapgood believes in encouraging the native 
 sons and daughters of Vermont to remain in 
 the State, and he makes a deposit in a sav- 
 ings bank in Bennington, Vt., for every child 
 born in the town of Peru. He has offered 
 Mr. Bromley, a tract of 1,000 acres over- 
 hanging his native village to the State as a 
 forest preserve, providing that all hunting 
 be forbidden on the tract the year round. 
 Mr. Hapgood married in Dorset, Vt., in 
 June, 1875, Flora E. Huggins, and has two 
 grown daughters and a little adopted son. 
 Address: Peru, Vt. 
 
 HAPGOOD, Norman: 
 
 Author, journalist; born in Chicago. 
 March 28. 1808; son of Charles H. and 
 Fanny (Powers) Hapgood. He was gradu- 
 ated from Harvard as A.B. in 1890, and' A. 
 M. in 1893. and from Harvard Law School 
 as LL.B. in 1893. He served for several 
 years as dramatic critic of the New York 
 
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 Commercial Advertiser and The Bookman, 
 and has been editor of Collier's Weekly since 
 1903. He is axithor of: Literary States- 
 men, 1897; Daniel Webster, 1899; Abra- 
 ham Lincoln, 1899; The Stage in America, 
 1901, and George Washington, 1901. Mr. 
 Hapgood niarriod in Chicago, June 17, 1896, 
 Emiiie Biglow. Address: 107 East 73d 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 HARAHAN, James Theodore: 
 
 Eailway official; born in Lowell, Mass., 
 in 1843. He entered railway service in 1864 
 at Alexandria, Va., and was in the employ 
 of the Orange and Alexandria Kailroad for 
 one year; was in the employ of the Nash- 
 ville and Decatur Eailroad at Nashville, 
 Tenn., 1SG.3-18GG; and with the Louisville 
 and Nashville llailroad in vaiious capacities, 
 1866-1870. ^Ir. Harahan was in charge of 
 the Shelby Railroad, 1870-1872; roadmaster 
 of the Nashville and Decatur Railroad, 1872- 
 1879; siii)crintcndi'nt of the Memphis Line, 
 Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 1879- 
 1881; superintendent of the New Orleans Di- ) 
 vision, 1881-1883; general superintendent 
 of the same road south of Decatur, 1883- 
 1884; general manager of the entire line, 
 July 1, 1884 to Jan. 1, 1885. On that date 
 Mr. Harahan became general superintendent 
 of the Pittsburgh division of the Baltimore 
 and Ohio Railroad; from April 1, to Octo- 
 ber, 1885, was assistant general manager of 
 the Louisville and Nashville Railroad', and 
 after that was general manager of the same 
 road until October, 1888, and' then was suc- 
 cessively assistant general manager of the 
 Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, 
 general manager of the Chosai)eaki' and Ohio 
 Railway, and general manager of the Louis- 
 ville, New Orleans and Texas Railway, until 
 Nov. 1, 1890, from which date iie was sec- 
 ond vice-president of the Illinois Central 
 Railroad C()in|i;iii\ until Nov., 190U, from 
 which date hi' lias bien j)rcsi(lcnt (if tlie 
 .same road. Address: Illinois Crulral Itiiil 
 rdiiil r'niiipnny. ('hica;;u. 
 
 HARAHAN, William Johnson: 
 
 Assistant to the president of the Erie 
 Railroad; born in Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 
 
 22, 1867; son of James Theodore and Mary 
 B. (Kehoe) Harahan. He was educated in 
 St. John's College, New Orleans, and entered 
 the service of the Louisville and Nashville 
 Railroad in 1883 and served in minor posi- 
 tions until 1889. He was engineer of main- 
 tenance of way with the Chesapeake and 
 Ohio Railroad, 1889-1890; engineer of 
 bridges, Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern 
 Railroad, 1890-1891; with Illinois Central 
 Railroad, 1891-1907, as successively train- 
 master, assistant superintendent, superin- 
 tendent, chief engineer, assistant general 
 manager, general manager and vice-presi- 
 dent. Since 1907 he has held the office of 
 assistant to president of the Erie Railroad. 
 He is a member of the American Society of 
 Civil Engineers, American Railway Engi- 
 neering and Maintenance of Way Associa 
 tion. New York Railway Club, Central Rail- 
 way Club, Traffic Club of New Y'ork and 
 Traffic Club of Chicago. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Engineers and Railroad Clubs of 
 New York, Chicago and Midday Clubs of 
 Chicago, Tennessee Club of Memphis, IVIont- 
 clair and Upper Montclair Country Clubs 
 of Montclair^ N. J. Mr. Harahan married 
 in Nashville, Tenn., June 10, 1890, Susan 
 Smith, and has nine children. Residence: 
 111 South FuUert-on Avenue, Montclair, N. 
 J. Office: 50 Church Street, New York 
 Citv. 
 
 HARBEN, William Nathaniel: 
 
 Author; born in Dalton, Georgia, July 
 5, 1858; son of Nathaniel Parks and' Myra 
 (Richardson) Harben. Mr. Harben was ed- 
 ucated in the Crawford College and private- 
 ly; traveled several years abroad and stud- 
 ied in Paris and London; was associate edi- 
 tor of The Youth's Companion, 1891-1893, 
 and contributed short stories to the Century, 
 Harper's Magazines ; Saturday livening Post. 
 Mr. Harben is author of: White Marie, 
 1889; Almost Persuaded, 1890; A Mute 
 Confessor, 1891; The Land of the Changing 
 Sun, 1894; From Clue to Climax, 1901; The 
 Caruthers Affair, 1898; The North Walk 
 Mystery, 1899: Tlie Woman Who Trusted, 
 1901; Westerfelt, 1901; Abner Daniel, 1902; 
 The Substitute, 1903; The Georgians, 1904; 
 
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 Pole Baker, 1!)05; Ann Boyd, 1906; Mam' 
 Linda, 1907; Gilbert Neal, 1908. He is a 
 nionibcr of the Authors Club. Mr. Harben 
 married in Dalton, Georgia, July 3, 1896, 
 Maybellc Chandler, and they have two sons. 
 Address: Care Harper and Brothers, New 
 York City. 
 
 HARDIN, Willett Lepley: 
 
 Director and member of the Executive 
 Committee of the Mexican National Gas 
 Company; born in Lima, Ohio, Dec. 8, 1868; 
 son of John and Elizabeth (Jacobs) Hardin. 
 He was graduated from Buchtel College, 
 B.S., 1893, and from the University of Penn- 
 sylvania, Ph.D., 1896; was instructor in 
 chemistry and physics at Buchtel College, 
 1893-1894; senior fellow in chemistry arfd 
 lecturer in physical chemistry in the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, 1896-1899; instruct- 
 or in physical and technical chemistry in the 
 same university, 1899-1900. He was gen- 
 eral manager of the Symmes Creek Coal 
 Company, 1903-1907. He is author of : The 
 Rise and Development of the Liquefaction of 
 Gases (Macmillan Company), 1899; trans- 
 lated Traube's Physico-Chemical Measur- 
 ments (P. Blackiston's Sons & Company), 
 and has written articles in scientific jour- 
 nals, on The Atomic Masses of Silver, Mer- 
 cury, Cadmium, Tungsten and Palladium, 
 and on Derivatives of Palladium with Or- 
 ganic Bases. Dr. Hardin is a member of the 
 American Chemical Society, and the Na- 
 tional Geographic Society. He married in 
 Greenwood', Miss., July 9, 1903, Isabella 
 ]\Ioore Green, of Akron, Ohio. Residence: 
 Mexico City, 1). V.. ^lexico. 
 
 HARDING, John William: 
 
 Editor: bprn in London, England, 1864. 
 and educated in London and Paris. He be- 
 gan his newspaper career in Paris on 
 Galigani's Messenger. He was on the edi- 
 torial staff of the New York Times, 1897- 
 1907; and editor of the Discovery Maga- 
 zine since the latter date. He is the author 
 of: An Art Failure, 1896; The Strolling 
 Piper of Brittany, 1897; A Conjurer of 
 Phantoms, 1898; and The Gate of the Kiss, 
 1902. Besides being the author of the last 
 named, he is a frequent contributor of short 
 
 stories to the diflferent magazines, and is 
 tile translator of the French volumes : Fac- 
 ing the Flag, by Jules Verne, 1897; Me- 
 moirs, Victor Hugo, 1899; and tlie Sacrifice 
 of Silence, by Edouard Rod, in 1899. Resi 
 dence: 122 West 91st Street. Office: 259 
 West 44th Street, New York City. 
 
 HARDWICK, Thomas William: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Thomas- 
 ville, Ga., Dec. 9, 1872; son of Robert Wil- 
 liam and Zemula Schley (Matthews) Har- 
 wick. He was graduated from Mercer Uni- 
 versity in 1892, and Lumpkin Law School, 
 University of Georgia, in 1893. He served 
 two terms in Georgia Legislature; was 
 elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth 
 Congress without opposition, and reelected 
 to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first 
 Congresses from the Tenth Georgia District. 
 He married, April 25, 1894, Maude Eliza- 
 beth Perkins. Address : Sandersville, Ga. 
 
 HARDY, Alpheus Holmes : 
 
 Merchant ; born in Boston, Mass., March 
 14, 1840; son of Hon. Alpheus Hardy and 
 Susan Warner (Holmes) Hardy. He was 
 prepared for college in the Boston public 
 schools. Tower's Latin School and Phillips 
 Academy, Andover, Mass., and was gradu- 
 ated from Harvard, A.B., 1861. After hav- 
 ing served in the Civil War as first lieuten- 
 ant of the 45th Massachusetts Volunteer 
 Infantry, 1862-1863, he was engaged in busi- 
 ness in India, returning to Boston two j^ears 
 later; and in 1866 he entered into partner- 
 ship with his father in the mercantile house 
 of Alpheus Hardy & Company, becoming 
 the head of the firm in 1873. He was made 
 vice-president of the Boston Board of Trade 
 in 1881, and president in 1884, president 
 of the Commercial Club of Boston, 1888- 
 1890; chairman of the Merchants' Municipal 
 Commission; member of the Commission for 
 the Protection of the Adult Blind ol the 
 Cape Cod Board of Commissioners. In 
 1886 he became a trustee of Phillips 
 Academy, Andover, Mass., its treasurer in 
 1889, and a trustee and treasurer of Welles- 
 ley College in 1894. He retired from active 
 business July 1, 1890. He is a member of 
 the Military Historical Society of Massa- 
 
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 chusetts. Mr. Hardy married, Aug. 26, 1862, HARDY, Edwin Noah 
 -Mary Caroline Sunnier and lias five chil- 
 dren: Alplieus Sumner, Susan White, 
 Eleanor, Mary Caroline and Ro,s>er Sumner. 
 Address: 1107 Tremont Building, Boston. 
 
 HARDY, Arthur Sherburne: 
 
 Diplomat and author; born in Andovcr, 
 Mass., Aug. 13, 1847; son of Alpheus and 
 Susan W. (White) Hardy. He was pre- 
 pared at the Andover (Mass.) Academy, was 
 a student at Amherst College, and afterward 
 at the United States Military Academy, 
 where he was graduated in 1869; was in- 
 structor at West Point, and then, after a 
 year's service in the Tliird lleginient of U. S. 
 Artillery, he resigned from the Army. Later 
 he studied at the ficole des Fonts et Chaus- 
 sees, Paris. He was professor of civil en- 
 gineering at Iowa College and later at 
 Dartmouth College; professor of mathemat- 
 ics at Dartmouth ; editor of the Cosmopoli- 
 tan Magazine; American minister and con- 
 sul-general to Persia, 1897-1899; envoy ex- 
 traordinary and minister plenipotentiary of 
 the United States to Greece, Roumania and 
 Servia, 1890-1901, to Switzerland, 1901- 
 1902, and to Spain, 1902-1905. Mr. Hardy 
 received the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. from 
 Iowa and Dartmouth Colleges. He has visit- 
 ed Europe ten times and has traveled in the 
 J3alkans, the Caucausus, Persia, Algeria, 
 Japan, etc. He is author of the novels: 
 But Yet a Woman, The Wind of Destiny, 
 Passe Rose, and His Daughter First; also 
 of Songs of Two (poems) ; The Life and 
 Letters of Joseph H. Neesima (biography), 
 and of the mathematical volumes: Elements 
 of Quaternions; Elements of Calculus; Ele- 
 ments of Analytic Geometry; New Methods 
 of Surveying, and Imaginary Quantities. 
 Mr. Hardy is a fellow of the National 
 Academy of Arts and Sciences. He re- 
 ceived the decoration of the Grand Cross of 
 the Lion and Sun from Persia; is a trustee 
 of Woodstock Academy, and is a member of 
 the Authors Club and the Century Associa- 
 tion of New York City. Mr. Hardy married, 
 in Athens. Greece, March 9, 1898, Grace As- 
 liinwall Bowen. Address: Casa de Cainpo, 
 Woodstock, Conn. 
 
 Clergyman and author; born in Nelson, 
 N. H., March 1, 1861. He was educated in 
 Amherst College, in the class of 1887, and 
 in Hartford Theological Seminary. He is 
 an M.A. and B.A. of Amherst College, and 
 a Ph.D. of Boston University. He was or- 
 dained to the Congregational ministry Nov. 
 6, 1890, and has made a specialty of the 
 study of the relation of men to the churches, 
 having one of the largest collection of works 
 on this subject and being a nationally known 
 authority. lie has been pastor of Bethany 
 Church, Quincy, Mass., since 1895. Dr. 
 Hardy is author of: The Churches and Ed- 
 ucated Men; and the Story of The English 
 Bible, and is a lecturer on various phases 
 of New England history. He married at 
 Westboro, Mass., Oct. 22, 1890, Nellie M. 
 Severy, and has one son and one daughter. 
 Address: 15 Foster Street, Quincy, Mass. 
 
 HARE, Hobart Amory: 
 
 Physician; born in Philadelphia, Sept. 20, 
 1862. He was graduated' from the Universi- 
 ty of Pennsylvania, B.Sc, 1885, and M.D., 
 1884; and later in 1893 from Jefferson Med- 
 ical College. At the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania in 1890 he was professor of children's 
 diseases, and since that time has been pro- 
 fessor of therapeutics at Jefferson Medical 
 College, and physicians to the Jefferson Hos- 
 pital. He is the author of a Text-book of 
 Practical Therapeutics (thirteenth edition) ; 
 a Text-book of Practical Diagnosis (sixth 
 edition) ; a Text-book of the Practice of 
 Medicine (second edition) ; The Medical 
 Complications and Sequellse of Typhoid Fe- 
 ver (second edition). Various Universities 
 and Medical Societies both American and 
 foreign have awarded him prizes for medical 
 essays. He is a member of the College of 
 Physicians, Philadelphia; Association of 
 American Physicians. He is a member of 
 the Philadelphia, Union League, University, 
 Corinthian Yacht, and The Rabbit Clubs. 
 Address: 1801 Spruce Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 HARE, V/illiam Hobart: 
 
 Bisliop of South Dakota; boni at L'rince- 
 ton, N. J., May 17, 1838; son of Rev. Dr. 
 
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 (JtMiruc Mnilcii and I'Mi/alul li ('. (llobarl) 
 Hare, lie sluilicd at the I iiiversity ot 
 rcims.vKaiiia, ri'Cfivcd tlu' degree of D.D. 
 tnnii ( nhniibia University, Trinity College, 
 Hart I mil. Conn., and fruni Kenyon College, 
 ill IS7-. lie was ordered deacon of IheEpis- 
 eopal L'liiireli by Bishop Bowman in 1859, 
 and was ordained priest in 1862 by Bishop 
 
 A. Potter. He accepted a call as assistant 
 in St. Luke's Cliurch, riiiladelphia; after- 
 waid beeoMiing rtctor of St. Paul's Church, 
 (liestiiul Hill. Philadelphia, 18G1-186;5. 
 lie was locum tenens of St. Luke's Church 
 again, 18G3-1864, curate of the Cliurch of 
 the Ascension, Philadelphia, 1864-1870. In 
 1870 he was appointed secretary and' general 
 agent of the Foreign Committee of the Do- 
 mestic and Foreign Missionary Society, hold- 
 ing this office until he was made bishop in 
 1873. He was consecrated by Bishop Ben- 
 jamin Bosworth Smith, Alfred Lee, T. 
 Williams, Odenheimer and Stevens. His 
 jurisdiction was first Niobrara, but later the 
 boundaries of his jurisdiction were changed 
 and he became Bishop of South Dakota. 
 Bishop Hare married', in 1861, Mary Amory 
 Howe, daughter of Bishop M. A. De Wolfe 
 Howe. He is author of numerous mission- 
 ary reports, addresses and sermons. Ad- 
 dress: Sioux Falls, S. Dak. 
 
 HARE-POWEL, Robert Johnston: 
 
 Lawyer; born Newport, R. I., May 4, 
 1855; son of Samuel and Mary (Johnston) 
 Powel ; on paternal side descended from 
 Hare-Powel, Hare, Willing and Shippen 
 families of Philadelphia; from de Veaux 
 and Barnwell families of South Carolina; 
 Verplanck, Beekman. Provoost, Van Cort- 
 landt and Schuyler families of New York; 
 on maternal side, from the Johnston, Gil- 
 bert, Taylor and Hind families of Jamaica, 
 W. L, and of Scotland and England. Edu- 
 cated hy tutors in Philadelphia and New- 
 port until 1872, after that at Mr. Fay's 
 School, Newport, and Harvard, B.A., 1878. 
 He was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, 
 Nov. 18, 1882, entering law office of uncle- 
 in-law. John G. Johnson ; removed to New 
 York City in 1886. and became partner, 
 successively, of Crosby & Crosby { William 
 
 B. Crosby and Ernest H. Crosby), 1886- 
 
 1890, Crosby &, Powel (E. 11. Crosby retir- 
 ing), 1890-1891, Powel and Kropf, 1892- 
 1898, and since then practising alone. His 
 practice has been largely in management 
 of estates, acting as trustee, executor, ad- 
 ministrator, etc. lie is an Alpha member 
 of Delta Kappa Epsilon, also member of 
 the Institute of 1770, Athletic Association 
 and Kille Club, all of Harvard (class of 
 1878. Director and formerly counsel for 
 the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hos- 
 pital of New York; member of the Associ- 
 ation of the Bar of the City of New York, 
 and Pennsylvania Historical Society, and of 
 the Ardsley Club, and formerly member of 
 several Philadelphia clubs. He married in 
 JMorristown, N. J., June 1, 1887, Elisabeth, 
 daughter of John P. Crosby of New York 
 City. Residence: Dobbs Ferry-on-Hudson, 
 N. Y. Office: 120 Broadway, New York 
 City. 
 
 HARKINS, Matthew: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Providence; born in 
 Boston Nov. 17, 1845. He was educated in 
 the Boston Latin school and at Holj' Cross 
 College, Worcester, Mass.; took up his di- 
 vinity studies in the English College at 
 Douay. and at the Seminary of St. Sulpice, 
 Paris, for six years; was ordained to the 
 priesthood in 18G9. and after a curacy in 
 the Church of the Immaculate Conception 
 in Salem, Mass., bceame lector of St. 
 Malachy's Church, Arlington, Mass., in 1876, 
 from which he was transferred to St. James 
 Church in Boston where he served' until 
 consecrated in 1887. l)isho[) of Providence. 
 Address: Pio\ ideuce, R. 1. 
 
 HARLAN, Henry David: 
 
 Jurist; born at Churchville, Md., Oct. 
 23, 1858; son of Dr. David Harlan, medical 
 director U. S. Navy, and Margaret Rebecca 
 (Herbert) Harlan. He was graduated from 
 St. John's College, Annapolis. Md., A.B., 
 1878; and received from that college the 
 degrees of A.M. in 1884 and LL.D. in 1894; 
 was graduated from the University of Mary- 
 land. LL.B., 1881. Mr. Harlan was admi\- 
 ted to the bar and engaged in the practice 
 of law in Baltimore until elected in 1888 
 
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 chief judge of the Supreme Court of Balti- 
 more, in wliich office he continues. He has 
 been since 1883 of the Law Faculty of the 
 University of Maryland, Avhere he is now 
 professor of constitutional law; and is pres- 
 ident of the Board of Trustees of Johns 
 Hopkins Hospital, and a trustee of Johns 
 Hopkins Universitj'. Judge Hailan is a 
 Democrat in politics. He married in Phil- 
 adelphia, Dec. 19, 1889, Helen Altemus. 
 Residence: 9 West Biddle Street. Office: 
 1062 Calvert Building, Baltimore. 
 
 HARLAN, James S. : 
 
 Lawyer; born at Evansville, Ind., Nov. 
 24, 1861; son of Hon. John M. Harlan, 
 now of the U. S. Supreme Court, and of 
 Malvina (Shanklin) Harlan. He was grad- 
 uated from Princeton University in 1883; 
 studied law in the Columbian University 
 Lav.' School, and in the office of ilelville W. 
 Fuller, Chicago (now chief justice of the 
 United States) ; was admitted to the bar 
 in 1886, and was member of the law firm 
 of Gregory, Booth and Harlan, and later 
 of Harlan and' Harlan of Chicago. He was 
 attorney-general of Porto Rico, 1901-1903, 
 and is now a member of the Interstate Com- 
 merce Commission. Address: 1720 Rhode 
 Island Avenue, \\'ashington, D. C. 
 
 HARLAN, John Marshall: 
 
 Associate justice of the U. S. Supreme 
 Court; was born in Boyle County, Ky., June 
 1, 1833. He was graduated from Center 
 College, Ky., in 1850; studied law at Tran- 
 sylvania University; practised his profes- 
 sion at Frankfort; was elected county judge 
 in 1859; was the Whig candidate for Con- 
 gress in the Ashland district in 1859; was 
 elector on the Bell and Everett ticket; re- 
 moved to Louisville in 1861, and formed 
 law partnership with Hon. W. F. Bullock. 
 In 18G1 he raised the 10th Kentucky In- 
 fantry Regiment and served in General 
 (Jeorge H. Tliomas's division. Owing to 
 the death of his father in the spring of 
 1863, although his name was before the 
 Senate for confirmation as brigadier-general, 
 he felt compelled to resign; was elected 
 attorney-general by the Union party in 1863 
 
 and filled that office until 1867, when he 
 returned to active practice in Louisville. 
 He Avas the Republican candidate for gov- 
 ernor in 1871; and his name was presented 
 by the Republican convention of his State 
 in 1872 for the vice-presidency. In 1875 
 he was again the Republican candidate for 
 governor; was chairman of the delegation 
 from his State to the National Republican 
 Convention in 1876; declined a diplomatic 
 position as a substitute for the attorney- 
 general, to which, before he reached Wash- 
 ington, President Hayes intended to assign 
 him; served' as a member of the Louisiana 
 Commission; was commissioned an asso- 
 ciate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court 
 Nov. 20, 1877, and took his seat Dec. 10, 
 1877. Justice Harlan has received the de- 
 gree of LL.D. from Bowdoin College and 
 the University of Pennsylvania. He was 
 vice-moderator of the General Assembly of 
 the Presbyterian Church in the United 
 States of America in 1905. He has been 
 for many years a lecturer on constitutional 
 law in the Law Department of George Wash- 
 ington University. Justice Harlan married 
 Dee. 23, 1856, Malvina F., daughter of John 
 Shanklin, of Evansville, Ind. Address: I4th 
 Street and Euclid Place, N. W., Wasliington. 
 D. C. 
 
 HARLAN, John Maynard: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 21, 
 1864; son of John Marshall Harlan, asso- 
 ciate justice of the Supreme Court of the 
 United States since 1877, and Malvina 
 (Shanklin) Harlan. He was graduated 
 from Piinceton, A.B., 1884, and Columbian 
 University Law School, Washington, LL.B., 
 1888. He then went to Chicago and was 
 alderman of Chicago, I896-I898. He was 
 Independent candidate for mayor of Chicago 
 in 1897 and Republican candidate in 1905. 
 He is a member of the Chicago Bar Associ- 
 ation, and Illinois State Bar Association, 
 and of the University, Chicago, Chicago 
 Athletic, Marquette, Hamilton, Saddle and 
 Cycle, Chicago Golf, and' Mid-Day Clubs. 
 He married in Yonkers, N. Y., 1890, Eliza- 
 beth P. Flagg. Residence: 574 East Divi- 
 sion Street. Office: 1132 Marquette Build- 
 ing, Chicago. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 HARLAN, Richard Davenport: 
 
 Clergyman, educator; born in Evansville, 
 Ind., Nov. 14, 1859; son of Hon. John 
 Marshall Harlan (now associate justice of 
 the Supreme Court of the United States) 
 and Malvina French (Shanklin) Harlan. 
 Prepared in the Louisville (Ky.) High 
 School; graduated from Princeton Univer- 
 sity with the degree of A.B. in 1881, and 
 A.M. in 1884: Princeton Theological Sem- 
 inary in 1885, D.D. from Princeton Univer- 
 sity in 1901, and LL.D. from Union Uni- 
 versity in 1904. Pastor of " Old First" 
 Presbyterian Church, New York City, from 
 1886 to 1891; took special studies in Berlin 
 University in 1891; pastor of the Third 
 Presbyterian Church of Rochester from 1894 
 to 1901; president of Lake Forest College, 
 Lake Forest, 111., from 1901 to 1906. In 
 April, 1907, he was appointed by the trus- 
 tees of the George Washington University 
 as the special representative of " The George 
 Washington L'niversity Movement," to assist 
 the president in directing the enlargement 
 of that university into a great university 
 for graduate work, in accordance with the 
 essential features of the plan outlined in 
 George Washington's last will and testa- 
 ment. Dr. Harlan is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Whig Society of Princeton, Military 
 Order of the Loyal Legion, Cosmos Club 
 (Washington), American Society of Inter- 
 national Law, American Association for 
 Advancement of Science, National Educa- 
 tional Association. He married in Geneva, 
 N. Y., June 5, 1889, Mrs. Augustus M. 
 Swift (nee Margaret M. Prouty). Resi- 
 dence: 1310 Connecticut Avenue, Washing- 
 ton, D. C. Business address : George Wash- 
 ington LTniversity, Washington, D. C. 
 
 HARNED, Virginia: 
 
 Actress; born in Boston, married, 1896, 
 Edward H. Southern. Miss Harned first ap- 
 peared in New York in A Long Lane, or 
 Green Meadow, Fourteenth Street Theatre, 
 1890; later was loading lady under the man- 
 agement of Daniel Frohman; starred in the 
 role of Trilby at the Park Theatre, Boston, 
 1895. Slie i^layed for a few seasons in E. 
 11. Southern's Company; more recently has 
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 stiuri'd in l.a JtcJic .Mar.^eillaisc, The Love 
 Letter anil ollui- play-. Address: IfT West 
 (IDtli SI reel. New \in'k City. 
 
 HARPER, Charles Spang: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Pittsburgh. March 5, 
 1853; son of John and Lydia Electa (Met- 
 calf) Harper. He was educated in the 
 Western University of Pennsylvania (now 
 the University of Pittsburgh), A.B., 1873, 
 A.M., 1876, Harvard, LL.B., 1876, New York 
 Univer.sity, LL.M., 1896. He read law in 
 Pittsburgh with George Shiras, Jr., afterward 
 one of the justices of the Supreme Court 
 of the United States. Mr. Harper was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in Nov., 1876, at Pitts- 
 burgh, where he practised until Feb., 1889, 
 when he was admitted to the bar in New 
 York City, and has since then practised in 
 all the State and Federal courts. While in 
 Pittsburgh he was one of the managers of 
 the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, a di- 
 rector of the Northern Liberties Bridge 
 Company, and for a short time a director 
 of the Bank of Pittsburgh, and was a mem- 
 ber of the Allegheny County Bar Associa- 
 tion. He is now a member of the Associa- 
 tion of the Bar of the City of New York, 
 the Society of Medical Jurisprudence, the 
 Harvard Law School Association, General 
 Alumni Association of the University of 
 Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Society of New 
 York, and the University, Republican and 
 Salmagundi Clubs of New York City. Mr. 
 Harper has traveled extensively in Europe 
 and Egypt, Turkey (Europe and Asia), 
 Canada, and the United States. He married 
 in Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 26, 1882, Julia 
 Azuba Murfey, and they have a married 
 daughter. Residence: 646 North Broad- 
 way, Yonkers, N. Y. Office: 120 Broadway, 
 New York City. 
 
 HARPER, Ida Husted: 
 
 Author; born in Fairfield, Ind., of New 
 England parents. She entered Indiana Uni- 
 versity, but married at the end' of the 
 Freslunan year. She afterward finished her 
 college course in the I^dand Stanford Uni- 
 versity. During her married life she wrote 
 a "real deal in a dilettante wav, but after 
 
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 becoming a widow she took up writing as i 
 a profession. She was editorial writer for 
 several years on the IndiaJiapolis News; 
 prepared a monograph on The Organized 
 Work of Indiana Women for the Columbian 
 Exposition, and read several pai)ers be- 
 fore its Congresses and received a diploma 
 of honorable mention. She is author of: 
 Life and WOik of Susan B. Anthony (three 
 volumes I ; was joint author, with Miss An- 
 tliony of Tlie History of Woman Sullrage 
 and \Voman's Progress to the Close of the 
 Century ; and lias written for leading maga- 
 zines and ii('wsp:ipers in the United States. 
 .Mis. Harper lias been speaker and delegate 
 to the International Council of W^omen in 
 London, 1899, Berlin. 1904. and Geneva, 
 1907 ; and to the International Woman 
 Suffrage Alliance in Copenhagen, 1906, and 
 Amsterdam, 1907. She is also a member 
 of the Daughters of the American Revolu- 
 tion. Address: Everett House, New York 
 City, 
 
 HARRIGAN, Edvi^ard: 
 
 Actor; born in New York City, Oct. 26, 
 1845. He appeared in nearly all principal 
 variety theaters of the country, and' sub- 
 sequently accepted an offer from Tony Pas- 
 tor to appear at his theater in New York 
 City. After leaving Pastor's he was on 
 the road for three years; and later assumed 
 the management of the Theatre Comique, 
 and after several seasons secured control 
 of the Globe Theater in 1881. In Dec, 
 1884, the Globe was destroyed by fire, after 
 which he played at the Fourteenth Street 
 Theater, and later opened a theater on 
 West Thirty-fifth Street, which he continued 
 until 1890, when he retired until 1905. He 
 then returned to the stage in Old Lavender. 
 Mr. Harrigan is author of the plays: 
 Chowder; Surprise; Mulligan's Silver Wed- 
 ding; The Major; The Grip; The Doyle 
 Brothers; Under Cover, and others. He is 
 a member of the Players' Club of New York 
 City. Address: 210 Park Place, Brooklyn, 
 N. V. 
 
 HARRIMAN. Edward Henry: 
 
 Financier, railway oflicial ; born in Hemp- 
 stead, L. I., Feb. 25, 1848; son of Rev. Or- 
 
 lando Harriman, Episcopal clergyman. He 
 was educated in a district school and two 
 years in a church (Episcopalian) school. 
 Mr. Harriman began business life as a clerk 
 in a Wall Street house; later started as 
 a stock broker on his own account; and 
 bought a seat on the New York Stock Ex- 
 change, Aug. 13, 1870. He became a di- 
 rector of the Illinois Central Railroad, 1883, 
 and its vice-president, 1887. He has been 
 especially active in railroad operations since 
 1897; since 1898 president, chairman of the 
 Executive Committee, and a director of the 
 Union Pacific Railroad Company; now also 
 chairman of the Executive Committee and 
 director of Wells, Fargo and Company; 
 president and director of the Central Pacific 
 Railway, Louisiana Western Railroad Com- 
 pany, Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Rail- 
 road and Steamship Company, Oregon and 
 California Railroad Company, Oregon Rail- 
 road and Navigation Company, Oregon Short 
 Line Railroad Company, Pacific Mail Steam- 
 ship Company, Portland and Asiatic Steam- 
 ship Company, Railroad Securities Com- 
 pany, South Pacific Coa.st Railway Company, 
 Southern Pacific Company, and Texas and 
 New Orleans Railway Company; member of 
 the Board of Managers of the Delaware 
 and Hudson Company; director Baltimore 
 and Ohio Railroad Company, Brooklyn 
 Heights Railroad Company, Chicago and 
 Alton Railroad Company, Colorado Fuel and 
 Iron Company, Erie Railroad Company, 
 Illinois Central Railroad Company, Ilwaco 
 Railway and Navigation Company, Leaven- 
 wortli, Kansas and Western Railroad Com- 
 pany, Nassau Electric Railway Company, 
 New York, Susquehanna and Western Rail- 
 road Company, Orange County Road Con- 
 struction Company, Pacific Coast Company, 
 Pere Marquette Railroad Company, San 
 Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad 
 Company, Union Pacific Land Company, 
 Wells-Fargo-Nevada National Bank, West- 
 ern Union Telegraph Company, Guarantee 
 Tiust Company of New York, International 
 I'janking Corporation, Mercantile Trust Com- 
 pany, National City Bank, Night and Day 
 Bank. He equipped, financed and managed 
 the Harriman Alaska Expedition, which was 
 very fruitful in topographical, biological 
 
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 and other scientiiie results. He is a member 
 of tlie .St. Nicholas yocicty, the Republican, 
 Tuxedo, iMetropolitan, Seawanhaka-Corintbi- 
 au Yacht, Whist, Automobile of America, 
 New York Yacht, Racquet and Tennis, and 
 the New York Athletic Clubs of New York 
 City. ]Mr. Harrimun married Mary Averill 
 of Rochester, N. Y., and they have five 
 children. Country estate: Arden, Tuxedo, 
 N. Y. Residence: 11 East 62d Street. 
 Address: 120 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 HARRINGTON, Purnell Frederick: 
 
 Rear-admiral U. S. Navy; born at Dover, 
 Del., June U, 1844; son of Samuel M. Har- 
 rington, cluincellor of Delaware, and Mary 
 (Lolland) Harrington. He was appointed 
 to the U. 8. Naval Academy as midshipman, 
 Sept. 10, 1863; ordered into active service 
 in Sept., 1863, promoted acting ensign, Oct. 
 1, 1863, and was ordered to the Ticonderoga 
 and attached to the Monongahela, 1864- 
 1865. He served in the battle of Mobile 
 Bay, Aug. 5, 1864, and in all actions against 
 the Confederate defences of Mobile Bay dur- 
 ing the summer of 1864. He was promoted 
 master, May 10, 1866; lieutenant, Feb. 21, 
 1807; lieutenant-commander, March 12, 
 1868; commander. May 28, 1881; captain, 
 March 1, 1895; rear-admiral, March 21, 
 1903, and retired by operation of law in 
 1906. He filled many positions as a naval 
 officer between the Civil War period and the 
 Spanisli-American War, in which he com- 
 manded the Puritan in the blockade of 
 Cuban ports, and in the action at Matanzas 
 forts. Afterward he was from 1899 succes- 
 sively commandant of the Portsmouth, New 
 York and Norfolk Navy Yards until retired. 
 Address: Wilmington, Del. 
 
 HARRIS, Abram Winegardner: 
 
 President of Northwestern University; 
 born in Philadelphia, Nov. 7, 1858; son of 
 James Russell and Suzanna (Reed) Harris. 
 He was educated in the Friends' Central 
 School at Philadelphia, and Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity, A.B., 1880, A.M., 1883. He did 
 post-graduate work at the Universities of 
 Berlin and Munich; and the degree of Sc.D. 
 has been conferred upon him by Bowdoin 
 
 College, and that of LL.D. by Wesleyan 
 University and the Universities of Maine 
 and New Brunswick. He lias been con- 
 secutively instructor in mathematics at 
 Dickinson Seminary, Williamston, Pa., in- 
 structor in mathematics and history at 
 Wesleyan University, assistant director and 
 director in the office of Experiment Station 
 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture at 
 Washington; president of the University of 
 Maine, director (president) of the Jacob 
 Tome Institute, Fort Deposit, Md., and he 
 was elected in 1906 to the presidency of 
 Northwestern University, in which position 
 he continues. Dr. Harris is a member of 
 the Board of Education, and the Southern 
 Education Society of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, is a member of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science, 
 Association for the Advancement of Engi- 
 neering Education, National Educational 
 Association, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alpha 
 Delta Phi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Alpha Delta 
 Tau fraternities; the Sons of the American 
 Revolution, the ^Masonic order, the Univer- 
 sity Clubs of Bangor, Me., Boston, Balti- 
 more, Washington, Chicago and Evanston, 
 111., and the Literary Club of Chicago. He 
 married in Pliiladelphia, Feb. 28, 1888, 
 Clara Virginia Bainbridge, and they have 
 one son. Address: 1745 Chicago Avenue, 
 Evanston, 111. 
 
 HARRIS, George: 
 
 President of Amherst College; born in 
 East Machias, Me., April 1, 1844. He was 
 graduated from Amherst. A.B., 1866, and 
 received the degree of D.D. there in 1883, 
 from Harvard, 1899, and from Yale in 1901; 
 LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1899, and also 
 was graduated from Andover Theological 
 Seminary in 1869. He was pastor of the 
 High Street Congregational Church, Auburn, 
 Me., 1869-1872, Central Congregational 
 Church, Providence, R. L, 1872-1883; pro- 
 fessor of Christian theology in Andover 
 Theological Seminary, 1883-1899; preacher 
 to Dartmouth College, 1894-1899, and to 
 Harvard, 1897-1899. President Harris is 
 author of: Moral Evolution; Inequality 
 and Progress, and was one of the editors 
 of the Andover Review from 1884 to 1893. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 In 1873, he niariied Jane A. Viall at Prov- 
 idence. Address: Amherst, Mass. 
 
 HARRIS. George William: 
 
 Librarian ; born Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 
 1840; son of John F. and Margaret Grace 
 (Johnson) Harris. He was educated in 
 Pictou Academy, and Cornell University, 
 Ph.B., 1873. Assistant librarian, 1873-1883; 
 acting librarian, 1SS3-1S90, and librarian 
 since 1890, Cornell University. He was 
 editor of the Library Bulletin of Cornell 
 University, 1883-1896, and of Cornell Uni- 
 versity IVn-Year Book. 1888: and is a con- 
 tributor to the New York Nation, Library 
 Journal and other periodicals. Mr. Harris 
 is a life member of the Bibliographical 
 Society of London, Pomological Society of 
 America ; and is a member of the American 
 Library Association, and the Gutenberg 
 Gesellschaft. He is a member of the Town 
 and Gown Club of Ithaca, N. Y. He married 
 in Campbellton, N. B., June 26, 1895, Annie 
 Smith, and they have one daughter. Ad- 
 dress: 3 Grove Place, Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 HARRIS, John Howard: 
 
 I'loident of Bucknell University; born 
 in Indiana, Pa., in 1847; son of Rees and 
 Isabel (Coleman) Harris. He was gradu- 
 ated from Bucknell University as A.B. and 
 A.M., and' from Lafayette College as Ph.D.; 
 and the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon 
 him by Dickinson College and Colgate Uni- 
 versity. He served in the Civil War eighteen 
 months; was a student at law, two years; 
 was principal of Keystone Academy for 
 twenty years, and has been president of the 
 Bucknell University since 1889. He is an 
 in<l<'|)cn(k'iit Republican in politics, and' in 
 leligiriii a Baptist. President Harris mar- 
 ried in ],a PluiDc. I'a.. 1S«1. I.iicy Bailey. 
 Address: l?iicknell I iiiv( rsity. I.cwisburg. 
 P.i. 
 
 HARRIS, Joseph Smith: 
 
 Kailway ufliciiil ; born in Frazer, Chester 
 County, Pa., April 29, 1836. He entered' the 
 service of the North Pennsylvania Railroad 
 in April, 1853, and was an officer of the 
 U. S. Coast Survey, 1854-1864, He was 
 
 assistant astronomer of the Northwest 
 Boundary Survey, 1857-1864, attached to 
 Farragut's Mississippi Squadron in 1862, 
 as first officer, and later in command of 
 United States steamer Sachem. He prac- 
 tised as civil and mining engineer in Potts- 
 ville, Pa., 1864-1868; chief engineer of 
 the Morris and Essex Railroad, 1868-1870; 
 engineer Philadelphia and Reading Coal and 
 Iron Company, 1870-1877; superintendent 
 and engineer, Lehigh Coal and Navigation 
 Company. 1877-1880; general manager Cen- 
 tral Railroad of New Jersey, 1880-1882; 
 president of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation 
 Company, 1882-1893; receiver, and after- 
 ward vice-president of the Philadelphia and 
 Reading Coal and Iron Company, 1892; re- 
 ceiver and president of the Philadelphia and 
 Reading Railroad Company and Philadel- 
 phia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, 
 1893-1896; president, 1896-1901, of the 
 Reading Company, Philadelphia and Read- 
 ing Railway Company, and Philadelphia 
 and Reading Coal and Iron Company; mem- 
 ber of the executive committee of the several 
 Reading companies, the Central Railroad 
 Company of New Jersey, and the Lehigh 
 Coal and Navigation Company. He is also 
 a director of numerous corporations and has 
 been trustee since 1886 of the University of 
 Pennsylvania. Mr. Harris is a member of 
 the American Philosophical Society. Penn- 
 sylvania Historical Society, and the Ger- 
 mantown Cricket Club of Philadelphia. He 
 is a trustee of the Protestant Episcopal 
 Divinity School, of Philadelphia. He re- 
 ceived' the degree of Doctor of Science from 
 Franklin and Marshall College, 1903. Mr. 
 Harris is author of: Record of the Harris 
 Family, 1903; Record of the Smith Family, 
 1906; Collateral Ancestry of Stephen Harris 
 and Marianne Smith, 1908. Address: 
 Reading Terminal, Philadelphia. 
 
 HARRIS, William Torrey: 
 
 Former United States commissioner of 
 education; born at North Killingly, Conn., 
 Sept. 10, 1835; son of William and Zilpah 
 (Torrey) Harris, and descendant of Thomas 
 Harris, Roger Williams, William Torrey, 
 and other prominent early settlers of New 
 England, lie was educated in Phillips Ex- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 etor Academy, and in Yale College for over 
 two years. He received from Yale the hon- 
 orary degrees of A.M., ISGO, LL.D., 1895; 
 also LL.D. from the University of INIissouri, 
 1870, University of Pennsylvania, 1894, and 
 rrinceton, 1896; Ph.D. from Brown Univer- 
 sity, 1893, and the University of Jena, Ger- 
 many, 1899. From 1857 until 1880 he was 
 engaged in educational work in St. Louis, 
 Mo., as teacher, principal, assistant super- 
 intendent, and, from 1868, as superintendent. 
 For his published reports during that 
 period, which were contributed to the Amer- 
 ican Educational Exhibit at the Paris Expo- 
 sition Universelle in 1878, he received from 
 the French Government the title of Officier 
 de I'Academie. He represented the LTnited 
 States Bureau of Education at the Interna- 
 tional Congress of Educators in Brussels in 
 1880, and then went to Concord, Mass., 
 wliere he became an active member of the 
 School of Philosophy. He represented the 
 U. S. Bureau of Education at the Paris 
 Exposition of 1889, and received from the 
 French Government the title of Officier de 
 rinstruction Publique; and in the same year 
 he was appointed U. S. commissioner of 
 education, in which office he continued until 
 1900. He is a member of the American His- 
 torical Association; fellow of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science; 
 was founder of the Philosophic Society of 
 St. Louis in 1866; president of the National 
 Educational Association, 1875; and for fif- 
 teen years an officer of the American Social 
 Science Association. Dr. Harris edited the 
 Journal of Speculative Philosophy, which 
 he founded ; was on the editorial stafi of 
 Johnson's Universal Cyclopoedia ; editor of 
 Appleton's International Education Series; 
 editor-in-chief of Webster's International 
 Dictionary; and is author of: Introduction 
 1o the Study of Philosophy, 1890; Hegel's 
 Logis, 1890; The Spiritual Sense of Dante's 
 Divina Commedia, 1891; Psychologic Foun- 
 dations of Education, 1898; and edited the 
 A. E. Kroeger Translation of Fichte's Sci- 
 ence of Ethics, published in London, in 
 1897. Dr. Harris married at Providence, 
 U. I., Dec. 27, 1858, Sarah T. Bugbee. Resi- 
 dence: l;]Ot; Fairmont Street, Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 HARRIS, William Welton: 
 
 Editor; bc)rn at Hudson, Lenawee County, 
 ]Mich., Feb. 10, 1866; son of Caleb H. and 
 Eliza (Durling) Harris. He was graduated 
 from the Jackson (IMich.) High School in 
 1885, and from the University of Michigan, 
 Ph.B., 1889. He was a commercial traveler, 
 1887-1888; reporter on the Detroit News 
 in 1890, and on the Chicago Inter-Ocean 
 and Chicago Tribune, from 1891 to 1895; 
 copy reader, night city editor and assistant 
 night editor of the New York Journal, 1890- 
 1901; telegraph editor of the New York 
 Herald, 1901-1904; managing editor of the 
 New York Evening Telegram, 1904-1907, and 
 became, in 1907, Sunday editor and then 
 niglit editor of the New York Herald. Mr. 
 Harris was a member of the Jackson Greys 
 Regiment of Michigan Militia, 1886-1889. 
 He is a member of the Collectivist Society, 
 University of Michigan Association, Inter- 
 collegiate Socialist Society, and the Psi 
 Upsilon fraternity, and the Dunwoodie 
 Country Club. Mr. Harris married in Jack- 
 son, Mich., Jan. 25, 1893, Jessie Elizabeth 
 Brown, and they have four daughters. Ad- 
 dress: Lowerre Summit, Yonkers, N. Y. 
 
 HARRISON, Alfred Craven, Jr.: 
 
 Explorer; born in Philadelphia, Dec. 14, 
 1875; son of Alfred C. and Kate DeForest 
 (Sheldon) Harrison. He was educated in 
 the Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia, St. 
 Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and received 
 the honorary degree of B.S. from the Uni- 
 versitj^ of Pennsylvania. Since 1896, he has 
 been occupied in scientific research in arch- 
 aeology, anthropology and geography; went 
 on an exploration in 1890 to Spanish Hon- 
 duras to view the ruins of Copan. He went 
 on explorations to Borneo, 1897-1899, and 
 from Pekin to St. Petersburg, by way of 
 China, through the Gobi District, Mongolia, 
 and Siberia; in 1900 explored the Nega 
 Hills and traveled through India, Afghanis- 
 tan, Cashmere, Upper and Lower Burma, 
 Cochin China and Japan, and investigated 
 the Ved'dahs of Ceylon. He made explora- 
 tions in Sumatra, 1901-1902. Mr. Harrison 
 is a member of the Anthropological Insti- 
 tute of Great Britain, Academy of Natural 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Soiencps. riiil;u1fl))liia. Socioto do Geojiva- 
 pliie dc France, Philadclpliia Geographical 
 Society. Photographic Pocicty. Poyal Geo- 
 irraphical Society. Asiatic Society of Japan, 
 and the Philadelphia. Kittenhonse, Univer- 
 sity and Philadelphia Coimty Clubs. Ad- 
 drc^-; F.ii<ciii(ln do Arora. rulvi. 
 
 HARRISON. Carter Henry: 
 
 Lawyer, ex-maynr: horn i!i rhicacro. 
 April 2.3. 1860; son of Carter TT. Harrison, 
 five times mayor of Chicafjo. and of an 
 early Vircinia and' pioneer Kentucky family, 
 and of Sophonisha Grayson (Preston) Har- 
 rison. After a preparatory education in the 
 public schools of Chieajro and a German 
 jrymnasium. he entered St. T.fjnatius Collesre, 
 Chicago, from which he was graduated P. A., 
 in ISSl. and received the degree of LL.D. 
 in 1000: and from there he went to the 
 Yale Law School, from which he was grad- 
 uated as LL.B. in 1883. He engaged in 
 the practice of law in Chicago from 1SR3 
 to 1800. then in the real estate business 
 until 1801. when, in association with his 
 brother, William Preston Harrison, he be- 
 came publisher and editor of the Chicago 
 Times, which they sold in 1804. l\Tr. Har- 
 rison early became active in the politics of 
 Illinois as a Democrat, and particularly 
 in the political affairs of the city of Chi- 
 cago, with the problems of which he became 
 familiar during his father's incumbency of 
 ten years in the mayoralty of Chicago. In 
 1807 he was elected mayor of the city for a 
 two-year term, and he was reelected in 
 1800, 1001, 1003, serving until April, 1005, 
 He has been delegate to several State and 
 National Conventions; and was chairman 
 of the Resolutions Committee in the State 
 Dejnocratic Convention of Illinois in 1000. 
 Mr. Harrison is a member of the Masonic 
 order, the Sons of the Revolution, Sons of 
 the American Revolution, Society of the 
 War of 1812, Society of Colonial Wars, So- 
 ciety of the Cincinnati, Chicago Historical 
 Society, and' the Chicago, Iroquois and Sad- 
 dle and Cycle Clubs. His favorite recrea- 
 tions are hunting and fishing, and he is also 
 a member of the Swan Lake Club of Henry, 
 111., and the Huron Mountain Hunting and 
 Fishing Club of Marquette, Mich. Mr. Har- 
 
 rison married. Dec. 14. 1887. Edith Ogden 
 of New Orleans, who is the author of some 
 charming books of juvenile fiction, and they 
 have two children. .\ddres<: Virginia Ho- 
 lel. Chicago. 111. 
 
 HARRISON, Charles Custis: 
 
 Provost of the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania; born in Philadelphia, May 3, 1844; 
 son of George Leib and Sarah Ann (Waples) 
 Harrison, and a descendant of Thomas Har- 
 rison of Carlisle, England, who visited 
 America before the Revolution and there 
 espoused the cause of the Colonies at the 
 cost of the sacrifice of his English estate. 
 On his mother's side he is descended from 
 the famous Custis family, of ■^HrGrinia. whose 
 name he bears. He was educated' in the 
 Episcopal Academy and the University of 
 Pennsylvania, and intended to make the 
 law his profession, but the late John Welsh 
 proposed to his father to establish their 
 two sons, with Walter S. Newhall. in the 
 sugar-refining business, under the firm name 
 of Harrison. Newhall & Welsh. Yo\ang Har- 
 rison entered actively into the business 
 formed for him. His brothers and brother- 
 in-law subsequently entered the firm, which 
 became known as Harrison, Frazier & Co.. 
 and later as the Franklin Sugar Refining 
 Company. In 1802. when the refinery was 
 sold, it was doing the largest business in 
 value of products of any manufactory in 
 Pennsylvania. He was elected a trustee of 
 the University of Pennsylvania in 1870. and 
 on the death of John Welsh succeeded him 
 as chairman of the Committee on Ways and 
 Means. In 1804. on resignation of Provost 
 Pepper. Mr. Harrison was requested to 
 accept this office. He at first declined, but 
 was finally induced to accept it and was, in 
 June, 1805, installed as provo.st. A few 
 days previously he had established, in honor 
 of his father, "The George L, Harrison 
 foundation for the encouragement of liberal 
 studios and the advancement of knowledge," 
 endowing it with $500,000. Its purpose was 
 io establish scholarshi]is and fellowships for 
 men of exceptional ability, increase the 
 library, and aid professors to devote them- 
 selves to special work. Mr. Harrison is 
 president of the Society for the Protection 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 of Cliildion from Cruelty; member of the 
 Poiinsylvaiiia Aearlomy of tlio Fine Arts, the 
 American Philosopliieal Society, tlie His- 
 torical Society of rcinisylvania, the Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society and the Universiiy 
 Club. Tte married. Feb. 23, 1870, Ellen 
 Nixon Wain, and they have three sons and 
 three danirhters. Address: 400 Chestnut 
 Sh-eet. Philadelphia. 
 
 HARRISON. Constance Gary (Mrs. Bur- 
 ton Harrison) : 
 
 .Author: born ai Vaucluse. Va., April 2'i. 
 1S46; dauphlcr of Archibald and Mominia 
 (Fairfax) C'aiy. She was educated by pri- 
 vate fjovernesses, and after the Civil War 
 she stiulied music and lanfjuapes in Europe, 
 where she lived for some years with her 
 widowed mother. She married in 1867, 
 Burton Norvell Harrison, who had been 
 private secretary to Jeflferson Davis and 
 became a member of the New York bar; and 
 who died March 2fl, 1904. Mrs. Harrison is 
 author of: Golden Rod. 1880. Helen Troy. 
 1881; Woman's Handwork: Old Fashioned 
 Fairy Book. 1884; Folk and Fairy Tales. 
 1885; Bar Harbor Days. 1887; The Anslo- 
 maniacs, 1887: A Dausjhter of the South. 
 1892: Sweet Bells Out of Tune. 189.3; An 
 Errant Wooing, 1895; A Son of the Old 
 Dominion. 1897; A Merry Maid of Arcady 
 and other stories, 1897 : Cood Americans, 
 1898; A Princess of the Hills, 1901; Latter 
 Days Sweethearts, 1906: and other books, 
 and also of plays, chiefly adapted from the 
 French. Summer residence: Bar Harbor. 
 Me. Address: 4.3 East 29th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 HARRISON. Edith Ogden (Mrs. Carter 
 Harrison) : 
 
 Autlior : born in New Orleans, daughter 
 of Hon. Robert Nash and Sarah (Beatty) 
 Ogden. She was educated in the Con- 
 vent of Sisters of ]\Iercy and in the Peabody 
 Pligh School in New Orleans. She married 
 in New Orleans. Dec. 14. 1887. Carter H. 
 Harrison (mayor of Chicago. 1897-1905). 
 Mrs. Harrison is author of: Prince Silver- 
 wings, 1902; The Star Fairies, .1903; The 
 Moon Princess, 1905, and The Flaming 
 
 Sword. 1908. She is a meiidx-r of llif Or- 
 der of Colonial Danics, amV llic Fortnigldlv, 
 Saddle iiid Cycle and Twriil i.( li ('.■iihiry 
 Club-, .if Cliii-iuo. Ad. Ire--: COT Biisli 
 Slr.'.'l. (1ii,';ig(). 
 
 HARRISON, Francis Burton: 
 
 Lawyer, member of Congress; born in 
 New York City, Dec, 18, 1873; son of Bur- 
 ton and Constance (Cary) Harrison. He 
 was graduated from Yale, B.A.. 1895, and 
 from New York Law School, as LL.B. in 
 1897. He has been practising law since 
 1897; is a member of the firm of Harrison, 
 Saasongwood and Edwards; vice-president 
 and director of the McVicar Realty Trust 
 Company, and the Empire Trust Company. 
 Mr. Harrison served in the Spanish-Amer- 
 ican War as private in Troop A, New York 
 Volunteer Cavalry, from May 19 to June 20, 
 1898 ; Avas promoted captain and assistant 
 adjutant-general of U. S. Volunteers, and 
 served until Jan. 31, 1889. He was nomi- 
 nated' by the Democratic party and elected 
 to the Fifty-eighth Congress from a district 
 which was, under normal conditions, Repub- 
 lican by several thousands majority. He 
 resigned his seat before the expiration of 
 this term, having accepted the Democratic 
 nomination for lieutenant-governor, but was 
 defeated. Mr, Harrison was elected to the 
 Sixtieth Congress from the Sixteenth New 
 York District in Nov., 1906. He is a life 
 member of the American Museum of Natural 
 History; trustee of the New York Ortho- 
 pedic Hospital, trustee of the Institution 
 for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes, 
 and is a member of the Knickerbocker, Uni- 
 versity, Racquet and Tennis, Manhattan, 
 New York Athletic, City, Midday, Union, 
 Metropolitan, Tuxedo and Psi Upsilon Clubs 
 of New York City, and of the Metropolitan 
 Club of Washington, D. C. Mr. Harrison 
 married on June 7, 1900, Mary, daughter of 
 Charles P. Crocker of San Francisco (now 
 deceased), and he has two children. Resi- 
 dence: 876 Fifth Avenue. Office: 43 Cedar 
 Street, New York City, 
 
 HARRISON, Joseph Le Roy: 
 
 Librarian; born in North Adams, Mass., 
 Oct. 12, 1862; son of John Le Roy and Ellen 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ;Mari.a (Hawks) Harrison. After a prepar- 
 atory odiication at Drury Academy, North 
 Adams, Jlass., and the Cascadilla School 
 and Cornell L nivcrsity. Ithaca. N. Y.. Uni- 
 versity of Heidelberg (Germany), and the 
 New York State Library School at Albany, 
 receiving the degree of B.L.S., conferred by 
 the University of the State of New York. 
 Mr. Harrison worked in the city staff of 
 the Commercial Advertiser of New York 
 City, 1885-1888; was assistant correspondent 
 of the Commercial Advertiser at Washing- 
 ton, 1888-1889; was a student and traveling 
 in Europe, 1889-1893; sub-librarian for Leg- 
 islation in the New York State Library, 
 1893-1894; and has been librarian of the 
 Providence Athenaeum, at Providence, R. I., 
 since 1894. Mr. Harrison is editor of: Cap 
 and Gown, some College verso (Boston), 
 1893; With Pipe and Book, a collection of 
 college verse (Providence), 1897; In College 
 Days, recent 'varsity Averse (Boston), 1901. 
 He is a member of the American Library 
 Association, the Rhode Island Library Asso- 
 ciation, IMassachusetts Librai-y Club, New 
 Y'ork State Library School Association, 
 Rhode Island IIi.storical Society, Rhode Is- 
 land School of Design, the Psi Upsilon fra- 
 ternitj', and the Hope, Agawam Hunt, Psi 
 Upsilon and Art Clubs of Providence. Res- 
 idence: East Greenwich, R. 1. Ollice: The 
 Providence Athemcum, Providence, R. I. 
 
 HARRISON, Mary Lord: 
 
 n<iiii in 1 loiu'sdali'. Pa., (laughter of Uu-;- 
 scll l':inili;iiii and Elizabeth (Scott) Lord. 
 Slu; was educated in Mrs. .MolVatt's Sclio:il 
 ill I'riiu'eton, X. .1.. and I'Miiiira College, N. 
 ^'. Slic married in Scranlon. Pa., Oct. 22, 
 ISSI, Waller l^iskine DiuiniicU, who died 
 •Jan. IG, 1S.S2: and married, seeontl, April 
 (», 1S9G, Benjamin Harrison, Tweiily-third 
 J'residenI of the I niled States, wlio died 
 Alarch 12, I'.IOI, ami lias by this second 
 muriiage a daughter, l']li/.abelh, born Feb. 
 21, 1S97. Address: 1214 North Di'hiware 
 Sti'eet. hMliana|i(dis. Ind. 
 
 HARRITY, William F.: 
 
 Lawyi'r; hom in Wilmin^lnn, Pel.. Oct. 
 1!). ISoO. He attended llie public schools. 
 Chirksoii Taylor's Academy, and St. Mary's 
 
 College, ^^"ilminglon, Del., and was gradu- 
 ated from La Salle College, Philadelphia, 
 1870; taught Mathematics, Latin, etc., in La 
 Salle College, 1870-1871; received A.M. de- 
 gree, 1871; was admitted to Philadelphia 
 Bar, 1873, practices law in Pennsylvania. 
 He received the degree of LL.D. from St. Jo- 
 seph's College, Philadelphia, 1902; and re- 
 ceived a similar degree from Christian 
 Brothers' College, St. Louis, Mo., 1904. Mr. 
 Ilarrity has practised law in Pennsylvania 
 since 1873, and is of the law firm of Ilar- 
 rity, Thompson and Haig. He was chair- 
 man of the Democratic City Executive Com- 
 mittee of Philadelphia, 1882; delegate-at- 
 large to the Democratic National Conven- 
 tion, 1884; postmaster at Philadelphia, 
 188o-1889; chairman of the Democratic 
 State Central Committee of Pennsylvania, 
 1890; secretary of State of Pennsylvania, 
 1891-1895; chairman of the Democratic Na- 
 tional Committee, 1892, when Grover Cleve- 
 land was elected President for a second 
 time; and continued as chairman of the 
 Democratic National Committee until 189G. 
 He was tendered a position in President 
 Cleveland's Cabinet, but declined, preferring 
 to serve out his ternr as secretary of State 
 of Pennsylvania ; was delegatc-at-large to 
 the Democratic National Convention. 1896; 
 eluiirnian of the Pennsj'lvania delegation to 
 the Democratic National Convention of 189G, 
 and temporary chairman of that Convention. 
 In the Democratic National Convention of 
 1890 Mr. Ilarrity received twenty-one votes 
 for vice-president, delegates from Connecti- 
 cut, Delaware, Rhode Island and South Da- 
 kota voting for him, although he was not a 
 candidate for the position. The sixty-four 
 votes of l^ennsylvania would also have been 
 cast for him had not ]\Ir. Llarrity himself 
 (who was chairman of the delegation,) re- 
 quested otherwise. It is authoritatively 
 stated that prominent free silver leaders de- 
 idared lliaf if Mr. Ilarrity were willing to 
 stand upon the platform adopted he would 
 receive their support for the Vice-Presidency 
 and be nominated. Mr. Ilarrity advised 
 against such action being taken, not being 
 in accord with the platform adopted by the 
 Convention. He is director of the Equitable 
 Trust Comjiany, Franklin National Baid'C, 
 
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 and Market Street National Bank, all of 
 Philadelphia ; the Philadelphia Electric 
 Company: American Railways Company; 
 Distilling Company of America; The Kan- 
 sas City Soutliern Railway Company; Le- 
 high Valley Transit Company, Midland Val- 
 ley Railroad Company; Mutual Life Insur- 
 ance Company of New York; and other bus- 
 iness corporations. He is also a trustee of 
 La Salle College, Philadelphia, and a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Public Education, Phila- 
 delphia. Mr. Harrity is a member of the 
 American Bar Association; Law Association 
 of Philadelpliia; Lawyers', Art, Orpheus, 
 Racquet, Merioa Cricket, Overbrook, Phila- 
 delphia Country, and Overbrook Golf Clubs 
 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Society of 
 New York, Hibernian Society, Catholic Club 
 of Philadelphia; American Catholic Histori- 
 cal Society, Five O'Clock Club, Livingston 
 Club of Allentown, Pa., and other social or- 
 ganizations, and is a member of the Na- 
 tional Geographic Society. He married Rose 
 M. Devlin, in 1883 and has four children. 
 Residence: 6310 Sherwood Road, Over- 
 brook, Philadelphia. Office: 2015 Law Ti- 
 tle Building, Pliiladelphia. 
 
 HARSHA, William Mclntire: 
 
 Physician and surgeon; born in Harsha- 
 ville, Ohio. June 15, 1855; son of William 
 B. and Rachel (Mclntire) Harsha. He re- 
 ceived his education in the public schools of 
 Ilarshaville, the North Liberty Academy, 
 and at the National Normal University of 
 Lebanon, Ohio, where he obtained the de- 
 grees of B.S. and A.B. He studied medi- 
 cine one year in the University of Michigan 
 and finished his studies at the Chicago 
 Medical College, from which he was grad- 
 uated in 1883. He practised his profession 
 in Cerro Gordo and Decatur, 111.,, until 
 1890, when he removed to Chicago, where he 
 has since been continuously engaged. He 
 has been professor of operative clinical sur- 
 gery in the Chicago College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons, now the College of Medicine 
 of the University of Illinois, since 1896, and 
 is also a member of the board of directors 
 of that institution. He is a member of the 
 American Medical Association, the Ameri- 
 can Academv of Medicine, the Illinois Medi- 
 
 cal Society, the Mississippi Valley Medical 
 Association, and the Chicago Medical and 
 Surgical Societies. He acts with the Repub- 
 lican party in National affairs, but is in- 
 dependent on local issues. He is medical 
 director of the order of Columbian Knights, 
 of which he is a trustee, and is a member 
 of the Physicians', University, Press and 
 Hamilton Clubs. He married in Lebanon, 
 Ohio, June 1, 1880, Adelia S. Hutchinson, 
 and has two children. Address: 103 State 
 Street. Residence: Grand Boulevard, Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 HART, Francis Russell: 
 
 Banker; born at New Bedford. Mass., 
 Jan. 16, 1868; son of Thomas Mandell Hart 
 and Sarah Davis (Watson) Hart. He was 
 graduated from the Friends Academy, New 
 Bedford, Mass., 1885, and from the Massa- 
 chusetts Institute of Technology, 1889. Mr. 
 Hart was engaged in engineering in the 
 West Indies, 1889-1891; was general man- 
 ager of the Cartagena-Magdalena Railway, 
 Colombia, South America, 1891-1892; vice- 
 president and general manager, 1892-1893, 
 and president, 1893-1906 of the same road, 
 and has been vice-j^resident of the Old Col- 
 ony Trust Company since 1896. He is a di- 
 rector of the American Trust Company, Dal- 
 las Electric Corporation; president and di- 
 rector of the Lowell Electric Light Corpo- 
 ration; vice-president and director of the 
 Northern Railway Company of Costa Rica; 
 treasurer of the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology; director and member of the ex- 
 ecutive committee of the United Fruit Com- 
 pany; also director of the Bay State Trust 
 Company, Elders and Fyftes, Limited (of 
 London), Marlborough and Westborough 
 Street Railway Company, the Pairpoint Cor- 
 poration, Planters' Compress Company, Dal- 
 las Electric Corporation; Tropical Fruit 
 Steamship Company, Limited (London), 
 Nipe Bay Company of Cuba, and the United 
 Electric Securities Company. He is trustee 
 of iVlilton Academy, the Milton (Massachu- 
 setts) Savings Bank, and the Worcester 
 Railways and Investment Company, and vot- 
 ing trustee of the New England Brick Yards 
 Company. Mr. Hart is a life fellow of the 
 Royal Geographical Society of London, a 
 
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 member of the Society of Arts of Boston, 
 the Society of Natural History of Boston 
 and various historical and geographical so- 
 fieties in various places. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the St. Botolph and Excliange Clubs 
 of Boston, the Country Club of Brookline, 
 Milton Club of Milton, Hoosic W'hisick Club 
 of Canton,, Wamsulta Club of New Bedford, 
 the National Arts Club of New York City, 
 and others. He married at Northampton, 
 ^lass., June 4, 1896, Helen Bronson Hobbey, 
 and they have three children. Residence: 
 •■ Nonquitt," South Dartmouth, Mass., (sum- 
 mer), and " Cragwold," Milton, Mass., (win- 
 ter). OHice: Ames Building, Boston. 
 
 HART, Samuel: 
 
 Clorgyman and professor; born in Say- 
 brook, Conn., June 4, 1845; son of Henry 
 and Mary A. (Witter) Hart. He was grad- 
 uated from Trinity College, Hartford, A.B. 
 witli optimus, 18tilJ, M.A., ISGi), and from 
 the Berkeley Divinity School in 18ti9. The 
 honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon 
 him in 1885, and the degree of D.C.L. in 
 1899 by Trinity College; and the honorary 
 degree of D.D. in 19U2 by Yale University. 
 He was ordered deacon in the ministry of 
 the rrotestaut Episcopal Cliurch, and or- 
 dained priest in 1870. He was tutor, 1808- 
 1870, assistant professor in mathematics, 
 1870-1873, professor of mathematics, 187o- 
 1883, and professor of Latin, 1883-1889, in 
 Trinity College. He has been vice-dean and 
 professor of doctrinal theology and the 
 i'rayer Book since 1899 at tlie Berkeley Di- 
 vinity School; and acting librarian in both 
 institutions. Professor Hart was secretary 
 of tlie American i'hilological Association 
 for live years, and was its president in 1892. 
 Since 1890 lie has been president of the Con- 
 necticut Historical Society; was president 
 of tile Connecticut Library Association in 
 1894; lias been registrar of tlic Diocese of 
 Connecticut since 1874; and has been cus- 
 todian of tlie Standard Brayer Book of the 
 Brote.'stant Lpisco^jal Churcli since 188U, and 
 secretary of tlie House of Bisliops of the 
 Brote&tant Episcopal Church since 1892; 
 secretary of the Connecticut Beta of Bhi 
 Beta Kappa, since 1870, senator of the Na- 
 liijiial Council of I'hi Beta Kappa since 
 
 1892; i)rcsident of the Good Will club of 
 Hartford; vice-president of tlie Church Mis- 
 sions Bublishing Company, and chaplain of 
 the Guild of St. Barnabas. He is also hon- 
 orary member of the New Haven Colony 
 Historical Society, the New London County 
 Historical Society, and is trustee of the 
 Wadsworth Athenseum, Watkinson Library, 
 the Colt Bequest of Hartford, and the Rus- 
 sell Library of Middletown. He is a mem- 
 ber of Psi Upsilon fraternity, Phi Beta Kap- 
 pa Society, American Oriental Society, 
 American Historical Association, American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science, 
 Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, 
 and the Egyptian Exploration Fund. Ad- 
 dress: Berkeley Divinity School, Middle- 
 town, Conn. 
 
 hART, Thomas Norton: 
 
 Banker and ex-mayor; born at North 
 Reading, Mass., Jan. 20, 1829; resident of 
 Boston since 1842. His education was pro- 
 cured at country schools, and after that he 
 engaged' in business pursuits in Boston; be- 
 Company. until he retired and became pres- 
 ident of the Mount Vernon National Bank 
 of Boston. Mr. Hart has for many years 
 been a leading Republican of Boston; was 
 elected a member of the Boston Common 
 Council in 1879 and 1881, and of the Boston 
 Board of Aldermen in 1882, 1885, and 1880. 
 He was Republican nominee for mayor of 
 Boston in 1887 and 1888; was elected mayor 
 in 1889, 1890, 1900 and 1901, and was post- 
 master of Boston under appointment of 
 President McKinley, 1897-1900. Address: 
 298 Coinnionwealtli Avenue, Boston. 
 
 HARTER, George Abram: 
 
 President of Delaware College; born in 
 Leitersburg, Md., Nov. 7, 1853; son of Peter 
 Koontz and Mary (Porter) Harter. He was 
 educated in public schools, the National 
 Normal School, Lebanon, Ohio, St. John's 
 College Annapolis, A.B., 1878, A.M., 1880, 
 and received the Ph.D. degree 1892. He was 
 instructor in Delaware College, 1878-1880; 
 principal of the Leitersburg Grammar 
 School, 1880-1881, principal of school at 
 llagerstown, Md., 1881-1885, and in 1885 be- 
 came professor in mathematics and modern 
 
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 languages at Delaware College, becoming in 
 1S8S, professor of mathematics and physics, 
 lie was elected in 1896 president of the Col- 
 lego. He is a member of the State Board of 
 Education and of various societies of a sci- 
 entific and educational character. He is 
 also a member of tlie Philadelphia Univer- 
 sity and Church CluJjs. He married at An- 
 napolis, Md., April 26, 1882, Ellen Studdi- 
 ford Graff, and has one daughter. Address: 
 Newark, Del. 
 
 HARVEY, Alexander: 
 
 Editor; born in Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 
 25, 1868; son of Alexander Arthur and 
 Mary (Cameron) Harvey, both Americans. 
 He was educated in the public schools of 
 Philadelphia, and began his journalistic 
 career as a reporter on the Philadelphia 
 Press, and after that on the Philadelphia 
 United Press, and the New York Telegram, 
 tlien successively associate editor of the 
 Bacheller Newspaper Syndicate, editor of 
 The Twentieth Century, secretary to the dip- 
 lomatic agent and consul-general of the 
 United States in Egypt, assistant Sunday 
 editor of the New York Herald, foreign 
 editor of the Literary Digest; now associate 
 editor of Current Literature and editor of 
 The Bang; also associate editor of The Book- 
 lovers' Shakespeare. He has translate^ 
 Nietzsche's '• Human, All too Human '' 
 (published by C. H. Kerr & Co.,) and is the 
 author of: "The Make-Believers" a novel 
 (lUOS) a "Life of Robert Louis Stevenson" 
 (19()(i) and "Literary History of Treasure 
 Island," (1906) published by The Current 
 Literature Co. He has resided in Egypt in 
 service of the United States Government, 
 a]id journeyed in France, Italy and England. 
 .Mr. Harvey has written for magazines, 
 sueh as Tne Cosmopolitan; has been asso- 
 ciate editor on the staff of The Warner Li- 
 brary of the World's Best Literature; com- 
 piled, with H. W. Warner, a Dictionary of 
 Authors, and acted as associate editor on 
 the encyclopedia staff of J. A. Hill and 
 Company, and the University Society. He 
 •is a KepuUlican in politics, a Presbyterian 
 in his religious views, and is a trustee of 
 the Palisade Avenue United Presbyterian 
 Church, of W est Hoboken, N. J. Mr. Har- 
 
 vey is a member of The Vagabonds' Club, 
 and of the National Arts Club. He married 
 in Jersey City, N. J., April 7, 1895, Eva 
 Augusta Schubert, and they iiave two sons: 
 Julian Harvey, born in 1896 and Herbert 
 Harvey, born in 1901. Residence: 105 
 Shippen Street, Weehawken Heights, N. J. 
 Office address: 41 West 25th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 HARVEY, George: 
 
 Editor, publisher; born in Peacham, Vt., 
 Feb. 16, 1864; son of Duncan and Margaret 
 S. (Varnum) Harvey. He was graduated 
 from Peacham Academy; and he received 
 from Erskine College the degree of LL.D. in 
 1904. He was reported for the Springfield 
 Republican, Chicago News and New York 
 World, and managing editor of the New 
 York World; constructor and president of 
 various electric railroads, and he bought in 
 March, 1899, the North American Review, 
 of which he has since been editor. He be- 
 came president of Harper & Brothers, in 
 1900, and since then has been editor of Har- 
 per's Weekly; and he was elected trustee of 
 the Stevens Institute in 1903. In politics he 
 is a Democrat. He is a member of the New 
 York Lotos, Turf and Field, Racquet, Met- 
 ropolitan, Lawyers' Clubs of New York, De- 
 vonshire and Savage Clubs, London, and 
 Travelers' Club, Paris. Mr. Harvey mar- 
 ried in Peacham, Vt., Oct. 13, 1887, Alma A. 
 Parker. Residence: Deal, N. J. Address: 
 Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New 
 lork City. 
 
 HARWOOD. Herbert Joseph: 
 
 ^lauufacturer of assembly chairs; born at 
 Littleton, Mass., Sept. 6, 1854; son of Jo- 
 seph Alfred and Lucy Maria (Hartwell) 
 Harwood. He was educated in the public 
 schools of Littleton, 1860-1869; at the Lan- 
 caster, Mass., Academy, 1869-1 870, Phillips 
 Exeter Academy 1870-1873, and at Harvard 
 College until 1877, when he received the de- 
 gree of A.B. After leaving college he was 
 in the employ of the Montague Paper Com- 
 pany, Turner's Falls, Mass.; of J. A. and N. 
 Harwood, and the Harwood Manufacturing 
 Company, both of Boston, and of R. W. Keid 
 and the Andrews-Deniarest Sealintr Com- 
 
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 pany, both of New York, for whom he was 
 the Boston representative. On Jan. 1, 1899, 
 he wont into business for himself in Boston, 
 as a manufaeturer of assembly chairs; and 
 he is also director of the National Fibre 
 Board Company. lie was lientenant-colonel 
 and assistant adjutant-general on the stafT 
 of Governor John D. Long in 1882 and was 
 a member of the Massachusetts House of 
 Representatives in 1899. He is also trus- 
 tee of the l^romfield School at Harvard, 
 Mass.; was trustee of the public library at 
 Littleton for twenty-one years until 1!)06; 
 and was a member of the School Committee, 
 1893-1906. :Mr. Harwood is a member of 
 the New England Historic-Genealogical So- 
 ciety; of the Essex Institute, the Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society of Harvard, and was an origi- 
 nal member of the University Club of Bos- 
 ton from which he has resigned. While at 
 Exeter Academy he was a member of the 
 Golden Branch Society; and while at Har- 
 vard was a member of the Institute of 1770, 
 the Delta Kappa Epsilon and the Hasty 
 Pudding Club, and he is also a Mason. His 
 favorite recreation is farming on the 222 
 acre estate and local history. He traveled 
 in New Brunswick, England, and in France 
 in 1809 and made various trips through the 
 middle and west parts of the United States 
 and in Canada. He is a Republican in poli- 
 tics and a member of the Unitarian Church. 
 Mr. Harwood has written articles on Little- 
 ton, in Drake's History of Middlesex County, 
 Mass., and in Hurd's History of Middlesex 
 County, and has written and publislied His- 
 torical sketch of Littleton; and he is on 
 a committee to publish the vital records of 
 Littleton. He married at Lancaster, Mass., 
 Oct. 15, 1879, Emelie Augusta Green and 
 tlieir children are: Joseph Alfred, born in 
 1880; Helen Diman, born in 1883; Marga- 
 ret, born in 1885; Richard Green, born in 
 1880; Herbert Edward, born in 1889; Emelie 
 Minerva, born in 1891; Jonathan Ilartwell, 
 born in 1892, and Robert Walker, born in 
 1897. Residence: Littleton, Mass. OHice: 
 •220 l)f\oMsiiire Street, Boston. 
 
 HASKELL, Charles Nathaniel: 
 
 (ioveniiir uf Oklnlioiiiii ; l^orn in riitiuini 
 
 ('<>lllil\, Ollio. lS(i(); wa-, ic:lic(l nil ;l l;irili; 
 
 taught school, and read law. In 1881 he 
 was admitted to tlie bar. and began ])rac- 
 tieing at Ottawa, Ohio. He engaged in 
 railw-iy building and other construction 
 work in 1888, and went to Muskogee, Indian 
 '!'( rrilory, in 1001 where he built many lines 
 of railioad. Governor Haskell was a mem- 
 ber of the Oklahoma Constitutional Conven- 
 tion, and was elected 1st governor of the 
 State of Oklahoma in 1907. He was se- 
 lected as treasurer of the national campaign 
 committee of the Democratic party in 1908 
 but resigned in order to oai-ry on the con- 
 troversy with President Roosevelt which 
 was one of the features of that campaign. 
 In 1881 he married Lucie Pomeroy, who died 
 in 1888, and his second wife was Lillie E. 
 (Jallup. Address: Muskogee, Okla. 
 
 HASKELL, Edward H. : 
 
 Paper manufacturer; born in Gloucester, 
 Mass., Oct. 5, 1845; son of William H. and 
 Mary S. Haskell, and was educated in the 
 public schools of Gloucester. Colonel Has- 
 kell served in the Civil War as signal officer 
 with Burnside in North Carolina in the cam- 
 paign of 1861-1862; was in the campaign 
 of the Army of Virginia and Tennessee, 
 1862-1^63; with Sherman in Georgia in 
 1864; assistant adjutant-general on Gover- 
 nor Long's staff, 1880-1883. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Massachusetts Legislature, 1877- 
 1878; a member of the Governor's Council, 
 1882-1885; served as delegate to the Repub- 
 lican National Convention in 1880 and 1884, 
 and was secretary of the latter convention. 
 Colonel Haskell was president of the Boston 
 Paper Trade Association, and is now presi- 
 dent of the Haskell-Dawes Machine Com- 
 pany. 1)1' tlie New I'liiglaiid ISaptist Hospital, 
 and llie American Bal)li-^t Home ^lission 
 Society. Colonel Jlaskell nianieil at (ilou- 
 cester in 1866 Hattie J. Munsey and has 
 three children. Residence: 888 Beacon 
 Street. Newton Center, Mass. Office: 176 
 Federal Sheet, I'.nston. 
 
 HASKELL, William Edwin: • 
 
 I'ldiinr and ])ul)lisber; born in Cliarles- 
 
 Inwii Mass.. June 18, 1862; son of Edwin 
 
 liiadlmrv and Celia (Hill) Haskell; grand- 
 
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 son of Jonas and Joanna (Hubbard) Hill, 
 and of Moses Greenleaf and Rosilla 
 (Haines) Haskell, and a descendant of Sam- 
 uel Haines, who came from England to 
 Portsmouth, N. H., in 1640; and of Wil- 
 liam Haskell, who came from England to 
 Gloucester in 1635. Mr. Haskell was grad- 
 uated at Harvard with the class of 1884. 
 Ho acquired a half interest in the Minneapo- 
 lis tribune and conducted the paper 1884- 
 188S; became part owner of the Minneapolis 
 Journal in 1885, his father being chief 
 owner of the paper, and he was editor-in- 
 chief and general manager, 1894-1900, and 
 on May 1, 1900, became proprietor of the 
 INIinneapolis Times, retaining the ownership 
 after he left the city of Minneapolis in or- 
 der to take charge of the Boston Herald as 
 its proprietor. He was a member of the 
 staff of Governor Merriam with the rank of 
 colonel, 1889-1893; and a member of tlie 
 personal staff of Governor McGill, 1887- 
 1889. He removed to Boston, a few years 
 later, and assumed the proprietorship of 
 tlie Boston Herald, of which his father was 
 publisher and a chief owner from 1869, up 
 to the time of his death in 1907. His as- 
 sumption of the direction of the affairs of 
 the Herald was followed by a marked im- 
 provement in its affairs in every respect and 
 a resumption of its position in the New 
 England newspaper world which had been 
 to a degree threatened by the active compe- 
 tition in the newspaper business of Boston. 
 Address: Boston Herald, Boston. 
 
 HASKINS, Caryl Davis: 
 
 Electrical engineer; born at Waltham, 
 Mass., May 23, 1867; son of John F. and 
 Helen P. (Davis) Haskins. He was edu- 
 cated at Allison Towers and Rosindale 
 Schools (England), London University 
 (Tuition System), London, England; and 
 has received the degree of E.E. from the 
 Universitj- of Vermont. Mr. Haskins be- 
 gan his career with Haskins, Davis and 
 Company, engineers, London, 1887; S. Z. 
 de Ferranti and Company, engineers, of 
 London, 1888; Thompson Electric Welding 
 Company, 1889; Thompson-Houston Electric 
 Company, and its successor, General Elec- 
 tric Company, since 1889, and is now mana- 
 
 ger of the lighting department. He has 
 been granted about twenty-five patents for 
 electrical and other inventions. He com- 
 manded tlie Boston Battalion of the Volun- 
 teer Electrical Corps, U. S. Army, in the 
 Spanish-American War, 1898. He is a mem- 
 ber of the American Institute of Electrical 
 Engineers, American Society of Mhcealvcina 
 Engineers, American Society of Mechanicixl 
 Engineers, U. S. Naval Institute, Military 
 Service Institution, National Geographic 
 Society. He is author of: Transformers, 
 1889; joint author of Questions and An- 
 swers About Electricity, 1889; also about 
 forty technical jjapcrs and essays. Al<o of 
 fiction: For the Queen in South Africa, 
 1899; and about ten stories, sketches and 
 essays. Mr. Haskins is a member of the En- 
 gineers' Club of New York City, the Mo- 
 hawk, and Mohawk Golf Clubs of Schenec- 
 tady; and the Aulters Golf Club of Amster- 
 dam, N. Y. He married in Wakefield, 3Iass., 
 November, 1894, Frances J. Parker. Ad- 
 dress : Schnectady, N. Y. 
 
 HASKINS, Kittredge: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Dover, Vt., April 8, 
 1836. He was educated in the public schools 
 and by a private tutor; read law and was 
 admitted to the bar of the State Courts 
 in April, 1858. and of the Supreme Court 
 of the United States in January, 1885; was 
 State's attorney for Windham County, 1870- 
 1872; U. S. attorney for the district'of Ver- 
 mont, 1880-1887; served as first lieutenant 
 of Company I, 16th Regiment, Vermont 
 Volunteers, in the Union Army. In 1869 he 
 was appointed colonel and chief of staff to 
 Governor Peter T. Washburn; is a member 
 of the Grand Army of the Republic and of 
 the Loyal Legion; served on the Republican 
 State Committee for the Second Congres- 
 sional district, 1876-1884; represented Brat- 
 tleboro in the legislature, 1872-1874, and 
 again 1896-1900; was speaker of the house 
 at the special war session in May, 1898, and 
 again of the regular session, 1898-1900; was 
 State senator from Windham County from 
 1892-1894; is a member of the board of trus- 
 tees of the Norwich University; was elected 
 from the Second Vermont District to the 
 Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth 
 
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 and Sixtieth Congresses, his services expir 
 inof in 100!t. Address: Brattleboro, Vt. 
 
 HASTINGS, Hugh: 
 
 Tax commissioner of New York City; 
 born in Albany, N. Y., July 22, 1856; son 
 of Col. John and Margaret Hastings. He 
 was educated in the public and private 
 schools of Albany, and removed to New 
 York City in Marcli, 1874. He was attached 
 to the Commercial Advertiser, May, 1874, 
 as Wall Street reporter; established a rep- 
 utation as a political and military writer; 
 was with the New York World, 1885-1888, 
 as chief political correspondent; and with 
 the New York Times in the same capacity, 
 1888-1895; appointed, April 25, 1895, as 
 State historian, an office created for him by 
 Governor Morton; reappointed, 1899, by 
 Governor Roosevelt, and 1903, by Governor 
 Odell. He resigned' in Jul}% 1907, to accept 
 the position of tax commissioner of New 
 York City, offered to him by Mayor ]McClel- 
 lan. Mr. Hastings edited and published An- 
 cient American Politics, written by his un- 
 cle, Hugh J. Hastings, Franklin Square Li- 
 brary (Harper's) Series 1886; also in his 
 official capacity, two volumes of Colonial 
 Records and Muster Rolls; three volumes 
 of Military Papers of Governor Daniel D. 
 Tomjjkins; eight volumes of Public Papers 
 of Governor George Clinton ; six volumes of 
 Ecclesiastical Records of New York; four 
 volumes of Military ;Minutes of Council of 
 Appointment of New York; one volume of 
 New York and the War with Spain. He 
 ]jrepared for publication six volumes of the 
 Public Papers of Sir William Johnson, and 
 two volumes of the Military Papers of Col. 
 Peter Gansevoort. Mr. Hastings is a mem- 
 ber of the Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of 
 the Revolution. Sons of the American Revo- 
 lution (honorary member). Military Order 
 of the Loyal Legion of the United States 
 and the New York Athletic, and Transporta- 
 tion Clubs of New York City, Albany Club 
 of Albany, and tiie Army and Navy Club of 
 Washington, ]). C. He married in Cliarles- 
 ton, S. C, April 5, 1883, Lillie R. Finley, 
 daughter of Dr. George Dock of Harrisburg, 
 Pa. Address: 31 Cliambers Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 HATCH. John Leffingwell: 
 
 I'iivrtician ami surgeon; Ijorn in Rochester, 
 N. Y., Sept. 8, 1863; son of Cliarles Bacon 
 and Sarah Adelaide (Leffingwell) Hatch. 
 He was educated in the University of 
 Rochester and the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, receiving the degree of B.Sc. and 
 M.D. ; and he received the Medical News 
 Prize and the George B. Wood gold medal at 
 the L^niversity of Pennsylvania in 1888. He 
 also studied abroad in Germany, France and 
 England, receiving the degree F.R.M.S. 
 (London). Dr. Hatch engaged in the prac- 
 tice of medicine in New York City, with a 
 specialty in genito-urinary surgery. He was 
 sanitary inspector of the port of Antwerp, 
 Belgium, in the U. S. Marine Hospital Serv- 
 ice during the cholera epidemic of 1892 and 
 1893. He was formerly lecturer on bacteri- 
 ology and' demonstrator of morbid anatomy 
 in the University of Pennsylvania; pathol- 
 ogist of the Philadelphia Hospital, adjunct 
 professor of laryngology in the New Y'ork 
 Clinical School of jMedicine; assistant in the 
 Genito-Urinary Clinic of the Post-Graduate 
 hiospital of New York City. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Delta Kappa Epsilon and T.N.E. 
 Pathological Society of Philadelphia; fellow 
 of the Royal IMioroscopical Society of Great 
 Britain; member of the American Society of 
 Tropical Medicine, American Society of 
 Urology, and the Reno- Vesicle Society of 
 New York. Dr. Hatch has contributed 
 largely to medical literature in magazine ar- 
 ticles, monographs, brochures, etc., and has 
 written short stories, poems and the libretto 
 of a comic opera. He married in Hoboken, 
 N. J., July 8, 1902, Nancy Elmer Gasser, 
 and' has one son. Address: 52 West 37th 
 Street, New Yoik ( 'itv. 
 
 HATFIELD, Charles Albert Phelps: 
 
 Colonel of tlio Thirteenth (Cavalry, United 
 States Army: licnii in Dayton, Ala., Dec. 
 9, 1850; soil of Henry Phillips and Stella 
 (Phelps) llatlield. He was graduated from 
 the U. S. Military Academy, in June, 1872. 
 He was on tlie cavalry raid into Coahuila, 
 Mexico, in May, 1873, "and on May 18, 1873, 
 in an engagement with hostile Indians at 
 Remalino, Mexico, and on Oct. 27 and 29, 
 
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MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 1S74, was in an engagement with Comanche 
 Indians in the Pan-Handle of Texas. On 
 jNIay 15, was in an engagement with the 
 Geronimo Apaches, in Sonoro, Mexico, and 
 was brevetted major for this action. He 
 :ilso served in Cuba from July, 1889 to May, 
 1901, and in the Philippines from Septem- 
 ber, 1901, to April, 1905. After his gradu- 
 ation he served as second and first lieutenant 
 and captain in the 4th U. S. Cavalry from 
 June, 1872, to October, 1898; as major of 
 the 8th U. S. Cavlary from October, 1898, 
 to April, 1901; as lieutenant-colonel of the 
 5th Cavalry from April, 1901, to March, 
 1903, and colonel of the 13th Cavalry since 
 March, 1903, being for some time in com- 
 mand of the important post at Fort Myer, 
 Va., before returning with his regiment to 
 the Philippines. He traveled in Japan in 
 1905 and China in 1906. Colonel Hatfield 
 married in Colorado, Oct. 4, 1880, Frances 
 Ellen Blackmore, and has two children. Ad- 
 dress: ]\Ianila, P. I. 
 
 HAUGEN, Gilbert N.: 
 
 Congressman; born in Rock County, Wis., 
 April 21, 1859. Since the age of fourteen, 
 and prior to his election to Congress, he was 
 actively engaged in various enterprises, 
 jirineipally real estate and banking; was 
 treasurer of Worth County, Iowa, for six 
 years; was elected to the Iowa Legislature, 
 serving in the Twenty-fifth and Twenty- 
 sixth General Assemblies; was elected to 
 the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth 
 and Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses 
 and reelected to the sixty-first Congress 
 from the Fourth Iowa District, on the Re- 
 publican ticket. He married in Winneshiek 
 County, Iowa, Oct. 25, 1885, Bertha Elise 
 Evensen. Address: Northwood, Iowa. 
 
 HAVEMEYER, John Craig: 
 
 Merchant, sugar refiner; born in New 
 York City, 1833; son of William F. and 
 Sarah A. Havemeyer; educated at private 
 schools and prepared for college at Colum- 
 bia College Grammar School, but owing to 
 failing eyesight, was unable to complete 
 college course. Traveled in Europe, Syria 
 and Egypt, 1852-1853; in 1854 assumed 
 responsibility of office work at sugar refin- 
 
 ery of Havemeyer and Moller; in iS5(i estab- 
 lished sugar refinery in Brooklyn and com- 
 menced business for himself, but later sold 
 out and became connected with Havemeyer 
 & Moller again, under firm of Havemeyer 
 Bros. & Co.; in 1871 engaged in sugar 
 refining business in Greenpoint, Long Is- 
 land; continued until 1880, when failing 
 health obliged liim to retire. In past years 
 has been trustee and director in railroad 
 and other corporations and various benevo- 
 lent societies. Writer and speaker on po- 
 litical, moral and religious topics; wrote 
 monographs on: The Relation of the 
 United States to Armenia; Why I Vote 
 for Hancock; Various Studies of Labor 
 Unions; Labor, Accumulation of Wealth 
 and connected subjects; Patriotism and the 
 American Flag; Shall We Prepare for War 
 in Times of Peace?; Logic of Sabbath Ob- 
 servance; Railroad Excursions on Sunday; 
 Ministers with Titles; Various Discussions 
 of Cliurch Work and Religious Methods; 
 The Needs of the Church from a Layman's 
 Standpoint; What is Love of Country? 
 IMarried, 1872, Alice Alide Francis. Ad- 
 dress : Yonkers, N. Y. 
 
 HAVEMEYER, William F.: 
 
 Capitalist; born in New Y''ork City, 
 March 31, 1850; son of William F. and 
 Sarah Agnes (Craig) Havemeyer. After 
 receiving his education in private schools, 
 he engaged in business. He is a trustee of 
 the North River Savings Bank; director of 
 the Century Realty Company, Chelsea Re- 
 alty Company, Colorado Eastern Railway 
 Company, Corn Exchange Bank, Fifth 
 Avenue Estates, National Bank of North 
 America, New York Mortgage and Secur- 
 ity Company, Nineteenth Ward Bank, Title 
 Insurance Company of New Y^^ork, Union 
 Ferry Company of New Y'ork and Brook- 
 lyn, United States Realty and Improve- 
 ment Company;, Van Norden Safe Deposit 
 Company, and Van Norden Trust Company. 
 He is treasurer of the Council of New 
 York University and is a member of the 
 Union League, Metropolitan, Century, 
 Down Town, Grolier, National Arts and 
 Ardsley Clubs. Mr. Havemeyer married in 
 New York City, April 3, 1877, Josephine 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Ilannon, and they have four children. 
 Residence: 10 East 57th Street. Address: 
 .'{'2 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 HAWES, Harriet Boyd: 
 
 Archa'oloui.st ; horn in ]?o.-^ton. Oct. 11, 
 1S71: (laujihtor of Alexander and Harriet 
 l-'ay ( W hi'i-k-r ) Boyd. She was graduated 
 from Smith College. A. 13., 1892. A.M.. IHOl. 
 Slie married in Washington, D. ('.. .March 
 ;?, 1900, Charles Henry Hawes, ALA., of 
 Cambridge. England, and has a son. Eollovv- 
 ing her graduation she tauglit for four years, 
 and then became a student in the American 
 School of Classical Studies in Athens, and 
 an army nurse in the Greco-Turkish War 
 in Thessaly, 189G-1897; Red Cross nurse in 
 tiie Spanisli-.Vmerican War at Tampa, 1898; 
 fcihiw in the American Sciiool at Athens, 
 iS'.iS-liMKi. She then took up her successful 
 career as an arclueological ex])lorer. exca- 
 \ated Early Iron Age houses and tombs 
 (date circa lOUO 15. ('.) . for the American 
 School, at Karousi, Crete, 1900; excavated 
 Bronze Age City (date circa 1700-1500 B. 
 C. ) for tlie Exploration Society of Phila- 
 delphia (University of Pennsylvania), 1901- 
 1904: was instructor in archa;ology in 
 Smith College, 1900-1905. She .studied 
 again in Crete, 1905. Mr. Hawes, her hus- 
 band, who is author of in the Uttermost 
 East, is now a lecturer in Anthropology in 
 the University of Wisconsin. Mrs. Hawes. 
 before her marriage wrote several articles 
 for the American Journal of Archaeology 
 and the Transactions of the University of 
 Pennsylvania, describing her lii-coveries, 
 and is autiior of a folio volume on (iournia 
 and other Preliistoric Sites on tlie isthmus 
 of Hierapetra, Crete. She lectured for the 
 American Institute of Archajology in 1901, 
 at Bo.ston, Yale, New York, Johns Hopkins, 
 Wasliington, Cleveland. Chicago, Detroit 
 :ind tlie Universities of Wisconsin, Iowa and 
 Missouri, being the first and only woman 
 to lecture in this way for this Institute, of 
 whicii she is a member. She is also mem- 
 ber of the Society for the Promotion of 
 Hellenic Studies of lOngland. and of the 
 .\l]jlia Society of Smith College. She was 
 decorated l)y Queen Olga, of Greece, in June, 
 
 1S99, for service in the Greek War, 1897. 
 Address: 419 Sterling Court. Aladison. Wis. 
 
 HAWLEY. Edvpin: 
 
 Railway ollicial; born in Chatham, Co- 
 lumbia County, N. Y., in 1850. He began 
 his railway service in June, 1867, as clerk 
 with the Erie Railroad; was clerk and 
 ticket agent of the Ohio and Mississippi 
 Railroad, 1868-1870; clerk and later con- 
 tracting agent of the Rock Island Route, 
 1870-1874; contracting agent, 1874-1875, 
 and general eastern agent, 1875-1883, of 
 the California Fast Freight Line ; general 
 eastern agent of the Galveston, Harrisburg 
 and San Francisco Railway and Southern 
 Pacific Railway, from 1883 and also from 
 1885 of Morgan's Louisiana and Texais 
 Railroad and Steamship Company, Houston 
 and Texas Central Railroad, Texas and 
 New Orleans Railroad, Louisiana Western 
 Railroad and Mexican International Rail- 
 road, and after those were amalgamated, 
 March, 1890, became assistant general traffic 
 manager of the Southern Pacific Company, 
 at New York City, until he resigned, in 
 1902. Mr. Hawley became vice-president, 
 Oct., 1894-1896, and president, since 1899, 
 of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway; 
 also, since June, 1900, president of the 
 Iowa Central Railway. In 1906 he was 
 elected president of the Great Western 
 Power Company of California. Mr. Hawley 
 is a member of the Lawyers', Metropolitan, 
 Merchants', City Midday, Riding, and Coun- 
 try Clubs of New York Cit3% the Automobile 
 Club of America, and Bay Shore Golf Club. 
 Address: 25 Broad Street, New York City. 
 
 HAWLEY, Willis Chatman: 
 
 Congressman and college president; born 
 near Monroe, Benton County, Ore., IMay 5, 
 1864; son of Sewell Ransom and Emma 
 Amelia (Noble) Hawley. He was grad- 
 uated from the Williamette University, 
 Salem, Ore., B.S., 1884, A.B., and LL.B., 
 1888, A.M., 1891. He was principal of 
 Umpqua Academy, Wilbur, Ore., 1884-1886; 
 j)rofessor of history and economics at Wil- 
 liamette University, 1891-1907. Mr. Haw- 
 ley was president of the Oregon State 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Nmniiil ScIk.oI ill Drain, Ore., 1888-1891, 
 of Williaiuctlc Inivi'vsily, 18!):M'J()-2. llo 
 is alsii proiiKul (if (he Williiuiiotti" Valley 
 ('liautaiii|iia. at Orcutm City since ISi)!), and 
 cliaii'inau ni' liie I'.iiard of Manaiicrs of 
 the I'acilic .1 iirisdict ion of Woodmen of 
 tlie World. He was elected in 1906 as a 
 I'veimblican representative to the Sixtieth 
 Congress and reelected in 1908 to the Sixty- 
 first Congress. He is a member of the 
 American Historical Association and of the 
 Oregon Historic il Society; also of the Pa- 
 cillc .lurisdictiou. Women of ^^'oodcraft ; 
 and is a Koyal Arch Mason. He married 
 at Albany. Ore.. Aug. I'.t. 1S85, Anna Mar- 
 tha Oeisendorfer. and has three childreii. 
 Address: Salem. Ore. 
 
 HAWTHORNE, Julian: 
 
 Novelist, journalist, historical writer and 
 biographer; born in Boston, Mass., June 
 22, 1846; son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the 
 novelist, and Sophia (Peabod'y) Hawthorne. 
 He lived in Europe, 1853-1860; Concord 
 and Cambridge, Mass., 1860-1868; Dresden, 
 1808-1869; in New York as hydrographic 
 engineer in the Dock Department, 1869- 
 1871; Dresden, 1871-1873; London and 
 neighborhood, 1874-1881; New York, 1881- 
 1889; Europe in 1889; New York. 1890- 
 1894; Jamaica, West Indies, 1894-1897; 
 India in 1897; and' in New York since 1898. 
 He has not practised engineering since 1871. 
 but has followed authorship exclusively. 
 He is author of: Saxon Studies, 1874; 
 Garth, 1875; Archibald Malmaison, 1878; 
 Sebastian Strome, 1879; Dust, 1882; For- 
 tune's Fool, 1883; Sinfire, 1885; Biography 
 of Natlianiel Hawthorne, 1885; Fool of 
 Nature, 1897 (ten thousand dollar prize 
 novel) ; Love is a Spirit, 1898; and many 
 others, besides early novels and stories. 
 ]\lr. Hawthorne was receiver on the London 
 the New York World', 1885; and corre- 
 spondent in the Indian plague and famine 
 in 1S97. of the Cosmopolitan Magazine; 
 literary critic of the North American, Phil- 
 adelphia, 1901-1903; and is now engaged 
 in mining affairs. He married in New 
 York, Nov. 15, 1870, Minnie Amelung, and 
 they have seven children. Address; 49 
 Arthur Street, YonkerSj N. Y. 
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 HAY, Henry Hanby: 
 
 Teacher, lecturer and poet; liorn in Doug 
 las. Isle of Man, Oct. 26, 1849; son of 
 John and Sarah Ann (Hanby) Hay. lie 
 was educated in Glen Lyon House, Isle of 
 Man, and was prepared for college, but 
 never entered. He has long resided in 
 Pliiladelphia, where he has been engaged 
 in educational and literary work. He has 
 done much in literary criticism, and has 
 written on Shakespearean subjects, but is 
 best known as a poet, and of his poems 
 two volumes. Created Gold, and Trumpets 
 and Shawms, have been published. His 
 play. The Flight of the Dutchess, was pro- 
 duced at the South Broad Street Theater, 
 Philadelphia, in 1902. By recpiest he wrote 
 for the Britons of Philadelphia an Ode for 
 the Diamond' Jubilee, which received the 
 thanks of Queen Victoria; another ode 
 received the thanks of the King of Italy, 
 and odes on Shakespeare and Girard, writ- 
 ten for public occasions, have received much 
 praise; and his Civic Ode, on the opening 
 of Founders' W^eek, 1908, was delivered 
 in the Academy of Music to a great audi- 
 ence. He is also well known as a lecturer 
 and after-dinner speaker ; and is editor of 
 the Household Magazine. ^Ir. Hay is a 
 member and vice-president of the Browning 
 Society of Philadelphia ; and a director of 
 the Pliilobiblon Society. He is an Episco- 
 palian in religious connections and is a 
 member of the St. George Society, the Jew- 
 ish Literary Society, and the Howstrake 
 and The Mermaid Clubs. He was also the 
 founder of Tlie Club, an organization for 
 special literarj' work, composed of leading 
 literary men of Philadelphia. Mr. Hay 
 married in New Castle. Del., April 12, 1898. 
 Sophia Booth Rodney. Address: The Lans- 
 downe, 41st Street and Parkside Avenue, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 HAY, Louis Condit: 
 
 Stock broker; l)orn in Oran.;('. X. •!.. Nov. 
 29. 1859; son of Silas Condit and Eliz-ir- 
 beth Caroline (Piatt) Hay. He was edu- 
 cated in J. H. Morse's School, New York 
 Citv. and was graduated from Williston 
 
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 ^ri'N OF A^TF.RICA. 
 
 Sciiiiiiaiy. lv(stli;mi]itciii. Ma--.. IS77. aiul 
 Val(> University. A.I'... ISSl. lie wa.s en- 
 ^i'iijii'il in ri'al I'stalc ()|i('ratii)iis. cliiody in 
 Xew York ('it>. 1SS4-1S!»7; was an t-xpoil 
 InnibiT n:«M(lian( i!i I.onilon. lS!t7 I'.MKS; ro- 
 turncil to New \'>yk ( ity. and is now a 
 nn'n-.l)cr of tlic Nrw \nv]< Slmk l-AC'lianfrc 
 lirni of Hay ami r.nyiitnn. Mr. May is a 
 I'epubiican. and w i> one <d' llir miuinaloi's 
 and chairman ul tin i^xccntixc I nmniittcc 
 of the Tafl Oijianization of the Slate of 
 New \'oik. which was fornictl in .Maicli. 
 i!(OS. to intlncncc ]nil)lic o|dnion in favoi' 
 of the ii(iininati(in of William 11. Tafl for 
 tlic Pic-idcncy. lie lia> Iravcllrd cxtcnsive- 
 l\ in (ircil r.rilain and Indand. (icrmany. 
 France, Italy. Holland, j'.eluium. Austria 
 and lvii~>ia. lie i> a mcmlier of the Royal 
 (Jcoiirajdiieal Society and of Hie ('hand)er 
 of Conuneree of London, is xrcrelaiN of the 
 iMljjrinis Society of ilie I iiiti'd Stales, di- 
 rector of the L'. S. .Xavy League, and or- 
 <>anize(t ami founded the London section 
 of tlic same: memher of the Sons of tile 
 Ivcvolution of New ^■ork. the Ceidury .\s- 
 sociation. the rniscr-ity and ^ale Cluhs 
 of New ^■ork (ity and the Devonshire t'lub 
 of I.onchm. .Mi. Hay married in Saginaw, 
 .Mich.. Nov. 2. 1887, .Jennie Kloise Burt, 
 and they have one son. Wellington Burt 
 Hay. Ilc-idenee: 20.1 We-1 .")7th Street. 
 (Mlice; (iU I'.idadwav. New Ndrk C'it\-. 
 
 HAYDEL, Abner J.: 
 
 Architect ; horn in St. John the Baptist 
 Parish, La.. 18C8. He wa.s educated in the 
 College of Bay St. Louis, Miss., took the 
 architectural course at Cornell University, 
 1887-1889; studied architecture at the ficole 
 (les Beaux Arts, Paris, France, 1889-1892. 
 He has been architect of numerous build- 
 ings, the more notable of which are the 
 Shepard I^lemorial Chuich and (Irey Craig 
 Castle, Newport, R. F; in I'.iOl traveled in 
 Kuiope to study castles for Howard CJould, 
 and was subsequently employed as archi- 
 tect in the construction of Mr. Gould's 
 (.'astle Gould, on J^ong Island; exhibited at 
 Paris Exhibition, 19U(J, the Shepard Me- 
 morial Chuich, and received medal. He 
 
 has been much abroad, particularly in Italy, 
 where he remained for long periods study- 
 ing medieval architecture and decoration. 
 Mr. Haydel is a member of the Architec- 
 tural League of New York; charter mem- 
 ber of the Beaux Arts Society of Architects 
 of New York, and a member of the Cornell 
 Alumni Association, and' the City Club of 
 New York. Address: 156 Fifth Avenue, 
 New "S'ork City. 
 
 HAYDEN, Charles: 
 
 Banker; born in Boston, July 9, 1870; 
 son of Josiah W. Hayden and Emma A. 
 (Maxwell) Hayden. He was graduated 
 from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
 nology as B.S. Mr. Hayden is trustee and 
 a member of the executive committee of 
 the Boston and Worcester Electric com- 
 panies ; treasurer and director of the Con- 
 tinental Zinc Company; director and' mem- 
 her . of the executive committee of the 
 Lamson Consolidated Store Service Com- 
 pany; and of the Shannon Copper Com- 
 pany; and is director of the National 
 Shawmut Bank of Boston, Goldfield Con- 
 solidated Mines Company, Utah Copper 
 Company, the Nevada Consolidated Com- 
 pany, the Nevada Northern Railway Com- 
 pany, the Twin City Rapid Transit 
 (Company, and the American Pneumatic 
 Service Company; and he is treasurer and 
 director of the United Telegram Company. 
 He was major and aide-de-camp of the 
 general staflf of the Massachusetts Volun- 
 teer Militia and disbursing officer for the 
 United States Government in Massachusetts, 
 and is now paymaster-general, Massachu- 
 setts Volunteer Militia. He is a member 
 of the Theta Xi fraternity and of the Uni- 
 versity, Algonquin, Boston Athletic, Art, 
 Country, Exchange, and Nahant Clubs; the 
 New York Yacht Club; Eastern Yacht 
 Club, Boston Yacht Club, and the IVIassa- 
 chusetts Automobile Club; and is steward 
 of the National Steeplechase and Hunt As- 
 sociation, and a member of the Metropolitan 
 Club of Washington, D. C, and the Mctro- 
 ])olitan Clnh of New York. Residence: 
 Nahant Cluh. Nahant. Office: 87 Milk 
 Street, lioslon. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 HAYES, Everis Anson: 
 
 Congressman; I)orn at Waterloo, Wis., 
 Mnrc'h 10, ISiir). lie entered the University 
 of Wisconsin at Madison in 1873 and was 
 gradnated from both the literary and' law 
 (h'i)artnients of that institution, receiving 
 the degrees of B.L. and LL.13., the latter 
 ill 1879. He began at once the practice of 
 Ills profession at Madison; in 1883 moved 
 to Asliland. Wis., and while engaged in the 
 practice of law at Ashland he became in- 
 terested in iron mines on the Gogebic Range 
 in nortliern Wisconsin and Michigan, and 
 since 1885 much of his time has been de- 
 voted to the personal management of the 
 business of these properties. In 1887 he 
 removed to Santa Clara County, Calif., 
 and there has been engaged in fruit rais- 
 ing and mining, and, with his brother, is 
 publisher and proprietor of the San Josft' 
 Daily Morning Mercury and Evening Her- 
 ald. He was for two years an alderman 
 of the city of Madison and' for one year 
 member of the board of supervisors of 
 Gogebic County, Mich. He was elected, as 
 a Republican, to the Fifty-ninth and Six- 
 tieth Congresses, and reelected in 1908 to 
 the Sixty-first Congress. Address: San 
 Jose, Calif. 
 
 HAYES, John Russell: 
 
 Author and librarian of Swarthmore Col- 
 lege; born in West Chester, Pa., June 25, 
 1866; son of William M. and Rachel H. 
 (Russell) Hayes. His ancestors on both 
 sides were of old Chester County and Lan- 
 caster County Quaker stock. He was grad- 
 uated from West Chester High School, 
 1884; Swarthmore College, 1888; and Har- 
 vard University, 1889. He studied law with 
 his father, and at the University of Penn- 
 sylvania Law School, and was graduated 
 LL.B., 1892. He practised law, 1891-1892; 
 studied English literature at Oxford and 
 Strassburg, 1892-1893; taught in the Eng- 
 lish Department of Swarthmore College, 
 1893-1906. He is author of: The Old- 
 Fashioned Garden and Other Verses, 1895; 
 The Brandy wine, 1898 (second edition, 
 1899); Swarthmore Idylls, 1899; In a 
 Brandywine Harvest Field, 1903; The Shep- 
 herd's Hour Glass (songs and reveries be- 
 
 side the Brandywine), 1904. Mr. Hayes 
 has written odes for the twenty-fiftli anni- 
 versary of Swarthmoie College, the West 
 Chester Centennial, etc. He is a member 
 of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and con- 
 tributor to Book News Monthly. Mr. 
 Hayes married June 30, 1892. Emma 
 Gawthrop of Wilmington, Del. Address: 
 Swarthmore, Pa. 
 
 HAYES, John W. : 
 
 Labor leader; born in Philadelphia, Doc. 
 24, 1854. His education has been acquired 
 entirely through his own efforts and study. 
 When a youth he entered the service of the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad' as a brakeman, and 
 while serving thus lost his right arm. Sub- 
 sequently he learned telegraphy and was 
 employed as such until the general strike of 
 1883. Since 1884 he has been connected 
 with the Knights of Labor and prominent 
 in labor organization, first as a member 
 of the General Executive Board, 1884-1888; 
 as general secretary-treasurer, 1888-1902; 
 and since November of that year general 
 master workman. He is also editor of the 
 Journal of the Knights of Labor. Address: 
 43 B. Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 
 
 HAYES, William Van Valzah: 
 
 Physician; born Lewisburg, Pa., Sept. 22, 
 1867; son of Hon. Alfred and Mary (Van 
 Valzah) Hayes. He was graduated from 
 Bucknell College, Ph.B., 1888; student in 
 Berlin and Paris, 1888-1889; was gradu- 
 ated from the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons ( Columbia medical department ) , 
 1893 (one of ten Harsen Prize men) ; grad- 
 uate of New York Hospital, Sloane Ma- 
 ternity Hospital, and New York Found- 
 ling Hospital. Since completing his hos- 
 pital service he has been in private prac- 
 tice in New York City, giving his attention 
 chiefly to diseases of the gastro-intestinal 
 tract; and was elected professor of dis- 
 eases of the digestive system at the New 
 York Polyclinic School and Hospital in 
 1904. Dr. Hayes is attending physician 
 of the New York Polyclinic Hospital; mem- 
 ber of the American and New York Acad- 
 emies of Medicine; American Medical 
 Association, Medical Society of the County 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 of New York, iltdical Association of the 
 Greater City of New York, Medical Society 
 State of New York, Society of Alumni of 
 New York Hospital, Society of Alumni 
 of Sloane INIaternity Hospital. Clinical So- 
 ciety of New York Polyclinic, Men's Asso- 
 ciation of the Brick Church, and Delta 
 Upsilon fraternity, and of the Quill and 
 Students' Clubs. He married in Altoona, 
 Pa., Sept. 9, 1903, Mary Coulbourne Con- 
 ner. Address: 34 West oOth St^t, New 
 York City. 
 
 HAYNES, Irving Samuel: 
 
 Physician; born in Saranac, N. Y., Ausr. 
 29, 1861; son of Samuel and Phoebe 
 (Ayres) Haynes; educated Plattsburg (N. 
 Y.) High School; graduated Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity, Ph.B., 1885 (honor in chemistry 
 and the J. Brown Goode Prize for original 
 researcli in biology) ; medical department. 
 New York University, M.D., 1887. Junior 
 and senior assistant and house surgeon. 
 Bellevue Hospital, 1887-1888; assistant 
 demonstrator of anatomy, New York Uni- 
 versity Medical College, 1888, demonstrator 
 anatomy, 1889: adjunct professor anatomy, 
 1894; professor practical anatomy, Cornell 
 University Medical College. 1898; attend- 
 ing surgeon outdoor department Chambers 
 Street Hospital. 1888-1890; assistant at- 
 tending surgeon. New York Orthopaedic 
 Hospital and Dispensary, 1891-1899; visit- 
 ing surgeon to the Harlem Hospital since 
 1895. Independent in politics. Methodist. 
 ]\Iember Bellevue Alumni Society, New 
 York County and New York State ^led- 
 ical Societies, American Medical Asso- 
 ciation, Association of American Anato- 
 mists, New York Academy of Medicine, 
 Harlem Medical Association, New York 
 Surgical Society. Author: Guide to Dis- 
 section; ^Manual of Anatomy, and numerous 
 papers on medical topics. Recreations: 
 Country life, fishing, etc. Clubs: Lauren- 
 tides Fish and Game, Graduates'. Married, 
 first, Plattsburg, N. Y., 1890, Charlotte E. 
 Scribner (died Dec. 7, 1897); second, East 
 Beekmaijtown, July 5, 1899, Laura E. 
 Marsh; children: Harriet M. (born Sept. 
 4, 1900). Dorothy (born Dec. 29, 1902), 
 Irving Samuel, Jr. (born Sept. 11, 1908). 
 
 Address: 1125 Madison Avenue, New York 
 City. 
 
 HAYS, Charles Melville: 
 
 Second vice-president and general man- 
 ager of the Grand Trunk Railway; born in 
 Rock Island, 111., May 16, 1856. " He began 
 his railway career as a clerk with the 
 Atlantic and Pacific Railroad at St. Louis, 
 in 1873; became secretary to the general 
 manager of the Missouri Pacific Railway, 
 1877-1884, and' to the general manager of 
 the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific, in 1884. 
 He became assistant general manager in 
 1886; general manager of the Wabash West- 
 ern in 1887; vice-president of the Wabash 
 Railroad from 1894 until Jan. 1, 1896, 
 when he became general manager of the 
 Grand Trunk, serving as such until Jan. 
 1, 1901. when he was chosen president of 
 the Southern Pacific Railway. He retired 
 from that office later in 1901 to return to 
 the Grand Trunk Railway in his present 
 position of second vice-president and general 
 manager, which office he still holds. He is 
 also president of the Grand Trunk Pacific 
 Railway, Central Vermont Railway. Detroit, 
 Grand' Haven and Milwaukee Railway, To- 
 ledo. Saginaw and Muskegon Railway, 
 Michigan Air Line Railway, Chicago, De- 
 troit and Canada Grand Trunk Junction 
 Railroad, Detroit and Toledo Shore Line, 
 Canadian Express Company, St. Clair Tun- 
 nel Company, International Bridge Com- 
 pany, Montreal Warehouse Company, Port- 
 land Elevator Company, and New England 
 Flevator Company; and represents the 
 Grand' Trunk Railway as director of the 
 Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad, 
 and the Belt Railway of Chicago. Office: 
 Grand Trunk Railway, Montreal, Quebec, 
 Canada. 
 
 HAYS, Willet Martin: 
 
 Assistant secretary of Agriculture; born 
 near Eldora, Iowa, Oct. 19, 1859. His 
 early life was spent on his mother's farm in 
 Iowa, his father having died when he was 
 six years of age. He attended Oskaloosa 
 College and Drake University, and subse- 
 quently attended the Iowa Agricultural Col- 
 
William Hamiki.I'ii IlKAiisr 
 I'rojuictnr (if New \nrk Aiiiciican 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 lege, from which he was graduated in 1885. 
 In 1886 he was made assistant in agrieul- 
 tnral experiments in the Iowa Agricultural 
 College, where he condncted important in- 
 vestigations, demonstrating the Avide extent 
 and character of the roots of corn; was 
 associate editor on the Prairie Farmer, Chi- 
 cago, 1887-1888; assistant in agriculture, 
 1888-1890, and professor of agriculture, 
 1800-1892, in the College of Agriculture, 
 University of INIinnesota, and agriculturist 
 of the Experiment Station in the university. 
 In 1892 Professor Hays removed to North 
 Dakota, where he held similar positions in 
 the North Dakota Agricultural College and 
 Experiment Station. He began there a 
 series of experiments in farm management, 
 especially crop rotation and statistics in 
 relation to tlie cost of farm products, 
 .ind also the theoretical investigation of 
 l)lant and animal breeding. In 1894 
 he returned to INIinnesota and resumed his 
 former place as professor of agriculture in 
 the University of Minnesota, and agricul- 
 turist of the Experiment Station. Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt appointed him assistant 
 secretary of Agriculture Dec. 19, 1904. Pro- 
 fessor Hays was active in the organization 
 of the American Breeders' Association in 
 1903, and is its secretary and executive 
 officer. His writings have been mainly 
 along the lines of plant and animal breed- 
 ing, agricultural engineering, farm manage- 
 ment, agricultural economics, and' the or- 
 ganization of agricultural education, and he 
 is author of text-books on Agriculture. 
 In 1885 Professor Hays married Clara Shep- 
 ]ierd, of Clinton, Iowa, who died in 1893, 
 leaving two children. He married again, 
 1897, Miss Ellen Beach, and two children 
 have been born to them. Address : Depart- 
 ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
 
 HAZARD, Caroline: 
 
 President of Wellesley College; born in 
 Peace Dale, R. I., June 10, 185(5; daughter 
 of Rowland' and Margaret (Rood) Hazard. 
 She was educated by private governesses and 
 afterward in Miss Shaw's School in Provi- 
 dence, R. I., followed by private study 
 aluoad. She was elected president of Wel- 
 leslev College in 1899, and has received the 
 
 degrees of A.M. from the U'niversity of 
 Michigan, and Litt.D. from Brown Univer- 
 sity, 1899, and LL.D. from Tufts College. 
 1905. She is author of: Narragansett Bal- 
 lads, 1894; The Narragansett Friends' Meet- 
 ing, 1899 ; and other Imoks. She is a mem- 
 ber of the Colonial Dames of America, the 
 Rhode Island Historical Society, Massachu- 
 setts State Board of Education, and other 
 learned societies. Address: Wellesley, 
 Mass. 
 
 HAZEL, John Raymond: 
 
 United States judge; boi'n in Buffalo, 
 in Dec, 1860; son of John K. and Adelaide 
 Hazel. After completing his education in 
 the schools of Buffalo he studied law, and 
 was admitted to the bar in April, 1882, 
 practising law in Buffalo until appointed 
 by President McKinley, in 1900, to the 
 office of judge of the "U. S. District Court 
 for the Western District of New York, in 
 which he continues. Judge Hazel admin- 
 istered the constitutional oath of office to 
 President Roosevelt, Sept. 14, 1901. after 
 the death of President McKinley. He is a 
 member of the New York, Republican, Buf- 
 falo, and Ellicott Clubs. Address: 37 
 Hodge Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 HEALEY, John J.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Chicago, Oct. 28, 1865; 
 son of Maurice J. and Mary Healey. He 
 was educated in the Lincoln public school 
 and at North Division High School of Chi- 
 cago, studied law and was admitted to the 
 Illinois bar in 1886. He engaged in general 
 practice and attained prominence in his 
 profession. In 1904 he was elected to suc- 
 ceed Charles S. Deneen, the present gov- 
 ernor of the State, as State's attorney of 
 Cook County, serving until 1909. He has 
 always been prominent in Republican pol- 
 itics. He is a member of the Chicago Ath- 
 letic and Union League Clubs. He married 
 in Chicago, June 21, 1900, and has three 
 children. Address: 2291 Sheridan Road, 
 Chicago. 
 
 HEARST, William Randolph: 
 
 Newspaper proprietor, publicist; born in 
 San Francisco, Calif., 1863; son of U. S. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 senator CIcoi<tc Hearst and' Phoebe (Apper- 
 son) Hearst. He was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of San Francisco and at Harvard. 
 He became editor and proprietor of the 
 San Francisco Examiner in 1S86; in 1895 
 purchased and became editor of the New- 
 York Journal, and in 189G established the 
 New York ]*]vening Journal ; founded the 
 Chicago American in 1900, and the Chicago 
 Examiner in 1902; and in 1902 changed 
 the name of the morning issue of the New 
 York Journal to New Y'ork American. He 
 also publishes the Los Angeles (California) 
 Examiner and papers in Boston and Denver. 
 He was president of the National Associa- 
 tion of Democratic Clubs; was elected as 
 Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and reelected 
 to the Fifty-ninth Congress, from the 
 Eleventh New York District; candidate for 
 mayor of New Y'ork City on municipal 
 ownership ticket, 1905, and was defeated 
 by only a few hundred votes, according to 
 the returns; nominee of the Independence 
 League and the Democratic party for Gov- 
 ernor of New Y'ork, 1906, but defeated. Mr. 
 Hearst has been active in legislation, liti- 
 gation and other efforts to curb the power 
 of corporate combination, and was chief 
 mover in the formation of the Independence 
 League, which nominated a Presidential 
 candidate in 1908, as a measure of opposi- 
 tion to both the Republican and Democratic 
 parties. He inaugurated early and eifective 
 relief measures at times of distress at Gal- 
 veston and San Francisco. Mr. Hearst mar- 
 ried in New Y'ork City, April 28, 1903, 
 Millicent, daughter of George II. Wilson. 
 Address: 76 West Twelfth Street, New 
 Y'ork City. 
 
 HEATON, Augustus George: 
 
 Artist and author; born in Philadelphia, 
 April 28, 1844; sou of Augustus Heaton 
 and Kosabella (Crean) Heaton. He was 
 educated in I'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 
 which he was the first American to enter 
 (lH^j^.i), under Cabanel and studied later 
 under Bonnat. Mr. Heaton exhibited in 
 the Paris Salon in 1879, 1880, 1882, 1883, 
 and in Pome. His painting, The llecall of 
 Columbus, was bought in 1883 for the Unit- 
 
 ed States Capitol, and he received a medal 
 for it in Chicago in 1893. Others of his 
 notable pictures are: Washington at Fort 
 Duquesne (Union League, Philadelphia, of 
 wliich Mr. Heaton was long a member) ; 
 Bishop Bowman (Cornell College, Iowa) ; 
 Promoters of the New Library of Congress; 
 Tulane and Gibson group (Tulane Univer- 
 sity, New Orleans) ; portrait of Miss Win- 
 nie Davis; and many portraits in many 
 cities; also the painting. Baron Steuben at 
 Valley Forge, 1777, exhibited at the James- 
 town Exposition in 1907, and handsomely 
 engraved in Vienna for New Y'ork publish- 
 ers, a print being received with kindest ap- 
 preciation by the Emperor \\'illiam II. He 
 is an associate of the Pennsylvania Acad- 
 emy of Fine Arts and member of the Na- 
 tional Society of Fine Arts. He was pres- 
 ident of the Philadelphia Sketch Club in 
 1867; secretary of the Pen and Pencil Club, 
 Paris, 1864; is a member and was president 
 in 1888 of the American Numismatic Asso- 
 ciation; was secretary of the Literary So- 
 ciety of Washington in 1886, and vice-pres- 
 ident of the Washington Society of Artists, 
 and was long a member of JNIetropolitan 
 Club of Washington. He is a member of 
 the National Geographic Society, the Amer- 
 ican Archa'ological Society, and the Cosmos 
 Club of ^^'ashington, The Lotos Club of New 
 York, The Salmagundi Club of New Y'ork, 
 The Sons of the Revolution, The Sons of the 
 American Revolution, life member Pennsyl- 
 vania Historical Society, life member Amer- 
 ican Numismatic Society, councillor of the 
 Actors' Church Alliance. ]\Ir. Heaton has 
 been an extensive traveler in Europe and 
 the North American continent. In Nov., 
 1863, he was the bearer of complimentary 
 documents from the Union League of Phila- 
 delphia to John Bright and Richard Cob- 
 den in England; and he was presented at 
 the Italian Court to Queen IMarguerite in 
 1882. He is author of: The Heart of 
 David, 1900; and Fancies and Thoughts in 
 N'crse, 1!M)4, which was praised by the late 
 John Hay. In politics he is a Republican, 
 and in religious connection an Episcopalian. 
 He mariied in New York City, Dec. 24, 1874, 
 Adelaide Greswold, and has three sons: 
 
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 C'niiiini>~ii/iic'i 1)1' I'ulilir ( Inu il ic-. New \'()rk City 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Augustus, born in 1875; Harry, born in 
 1877, and Perry, born in 1884. Address: 
 Carnegie Hall. New York City. 
 
 HEATON, John Langdon: 
 
 Ivlilor; born in Canton, N. V., Jan. 29, 
 lS(iO; son of Ira Wilmarth and Lucindn 
 (Langdbn) Heaton. He was graduated 
 from St. Lawrence University, A.B., 1880, 
 later A.M. Editorial writer on Brooklyn 
 Times, 1882-18!)2; founder of the Providence 
 (K. I.) News, 1892; on editorial staff of 
 New York Recorder, 1894-1896; editor on 
 New York Sunday World, 1897-1899; edi- 
 torial writer on New Y^ork World since 
 1899. He is author of: The Story of Ver- 
 mont; Stories of Napoleon; The Book of 
 Lies; The Quilting Bee. Mr. Heaton is a 
 member of the Board of Trustees of the 
 Pulitzer Scholarship Fund, and of the Uni- 
 versity Club of Brooklyn. He married in 
 Uanvers, Mass., Aug. 22, 1882, Eliza Osborn 
 Putnam, and has one son. Address: 131 
 Westminster Road, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 HEBBERD, Robert William: 
 
 Commissioner of public charities of New 
 York; born in New Y'ork City, Oct. 31, 
 1857 ; son of Gilbert C. and Isabella Lennox 
 llebberd; descended' from Robert Hebberd, 
 who came from Salisbury, England, and 
 settled in Salem, Mass., in 1635, and from 
 Oliver and Soutliwick Hebberd, Revolution- 
 ary soldiers. He was educated in Mynderse 
 Academy, Seneca Falls, N. Y. He began 
 liis long connection with charities with the 
 New Y'ork Association for Improving the 
 Condition of the Poor; was connected with 
 The Charity Organization Society of the 
 City of New York, 1882-1896, and was its 
 superintendent, when appointed secretary of 
 the State Board of Charities of New York, 
 Oct. 15, 1896, remaining until Jan. 1, 1906, 
 when he was appointed Commissioner of 
 i'ublic Charities, which office he now holds. 
 He was president of the Fifth New York 
 State Conference of Charities and Correc- 
 tion in 1904. Mr. Hebberd is compiler of: 
 Charity Legislation in New York from 1609 
 to 1900, published by the State Board of 
 ( harities and Correction. He is a member 
 ijf tlio National Conference of Ciiarities and 
 
 Conccfion. ilic Xcw Ynvk Stale Confcrciici' 
 of Cliuiities and ((irrcction. Mr. Hebberd 
 is president of tlie Monday Club; member tii.- 
 American Political Science Association, and 
 American Economic Association; is a Scot- 
 tish Rite iMason, Kniglit Templar, and is 
 trustee of Bellevue and Allied Hospitals. 
 The Charity Organizalion Society of New 
 York City, the New York Juvenile Asylum, 
 and the New York Infant Asylum, lie is 
 a lecturer in the extension course of the 
 State Board of Charities and in the course 
 of the School of Philanthropy of The Char- 
 ity Organization Society of the City of New- 
 York; and is a member of the City Club 
 of New Y^ork. He married at Seneca Falls, 
 Nov. 29, 1882, Harriet Metcalf. Address: 
 26 Gramercy Park, New York City. 
 
 HECKMAN, Wallace: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Moscow Mills. ^Mcngan 
 County, Ohio, May 22, 1851; son of Philip 
 and Sarah Ann Heckman. He was gradu- 
 ated from Hillsdale College, Mich., in 1874. 
 He studied law and was admitted to the 
 Illinois bar June 1, 1876, and to practice 
 before the United States Supreme Court in 
 1896. He is a member of the tirm of Heck- 
 man, Eldson & Shaw; is counsel and busi- 
 ness manager of the Chicago University, 
 vice-president of the Merchants' Safe De- 
 posit Company and of the National Stor- 
 age Company, a director of the Hamilton 
 National Bank, the Merchants' Building 
 Company, and of the West Chicago Street 
 Railway Company. i\Ir. Heckman is a mem- 
 ber of the LTnion League, Kenwood, Law, 
 Hamilton and Quadrangle Clubs of Chicago. 
 He married in Schenectady, N. Y., Nov. 16, 
 1881, Tillie C. Howe, and has one daughter. 
 Address: 135 Adams Street. Residence: 
 4505 Ellis Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 HEDGES, Job E. : 
 
 Lawyer; born at Klizabeth, N. J., May 10, 
 1862; son of Job Clark and Elizabeth Wood 
 (Elmer) Hedges. He was graduated from 
 Princeton, A.B., 1884 ; A.M., 1887 ; and from 
 Columbia Law Sdiool as LL.B. in 1886; 
 and engaged in the [iraclicc of law in Xew 
 York Citv in 18S6. Mr. Hedges was secre- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 tary to Mayor Stionjj:. 1S05-1897, city magis- 
 trate, ;May-Dect'niber, 1897. and deputy at- 
 torney-<reneral of the State of New York 
 in lltOO. He is a Republican in politics, and 
 a member of the American Bar Association, 
 the N<>\v York State Bar Association, the 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York. Sons of Veterans, Sons of the Ameri- 
 can Revolution, and the Union League, Uni- 
 versity, Frincetou. and Lawyers' Clubs. Ad- 
 dress: 141 Broadway. New York City. 
 
 HEFELBOWER, Samuel Grlng: 
 
 President of Pennsylvania College; born 
 in Newville. Pa.. Nov\ 11, 1871; son of Sam- 
 uel and Anna Elizabeth (Gring) Hefelbow- 
 vv. He attended tlie Dickinson Preparatory 
 School of Carlisle. Pa., 1885-1887. and was 
 graduated from Pennsylvania College, A.B., 
 1891, A.M., 1894. Thence he entered Gettys- 
 burg Seminary; his studies being carried 
 on further at the Leipzig University, Ger- 
 many, 1895-1896 and at Leipzig and Halle, 
 1901-1902. The honorary degree of D.D. was 
 conferred upon him by Dickinson College in 
 1905. On his return from Europe in 1896, 
 he accepted a call to the pastorate of the 
 Lutheran Church at Manheim, Pa., and af- 
 ter three years went to Frostburg, Md., as 
 pastor of the Lutheran Church. Here he 
 officiated until 1901, and in 1902 became 
 professor of German at Pennsylvania Col- 
 lege. In 1904 he was elected by the trus- 
 tees president of the college. Dr. Hefelbower 
 is a member of the General Synod of the 
 Evangelical Lutheran Church, and of Phi 
 Beta Kappa of Dickinson College. He mar- 
 ried first, at Troy, Pa., May 6, 1897, Edna 
 May Loomis; second at Frostburg, Md., 
 Sept. 25, 1902, Anna Eaton llitchins; he has 
 one daughter. Edna Elizabeth. Address: 
 Gettysburg, Pa. 
 
 HEFLIN. James Thomas: 
 
 (oiigrcssiiian and lawyer; born in Louina, 
 Rau<loiph County, Ala., April 9, 1869; son 
 of J3r. W. L. and Levicie Catherine 
 (Phillii)rt) llclliii. lie was educated in the 
 Southern University, Greensboro, Ala., and 
 tile Agricultural and Mechanical College. 
 .Auburn, Ala. studied law at Lafayette, Ala., 
 under Judge N. D. Denson, and was admit- 
 
 ted to the l);u-, Jan. 12, 1893. He was 
 elected mayor of Lafayette, Ala., March 16, 
 1893, and reelected, holding this office two 
 terms ; was register in chancery two years, 
 resigning in 1896 to accept the Democratic 
 nomination from Chambers County to the 
 Legislature; was elected in 1896 and re- 
 elected to the Legislature in 1898; was a 
 member of the Democratic State Executive 
 Committee from 1896 to 1902; was a dele- 
 gate in the constitvitional convention of 
 Alabama in 1901 ; was elected secretary of 
 State in November, 1902. for a term of 
 four years; resigned that office May 1, 1904; 
 was elected May 19, 1904, to fill the unex- 
 pired term of Hon. Charles W. Thompson, 
 deceased, in the Fifty-eighth Congress, with- 
 out opposition, and Nov. 8, 1904. reelected 
 as Representative in the Fifty-ninth Con- 
 gress, also to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first 
 Congresses from the Fifth Alabama District. 
 In politics he is a Democrat. He married 
 at Lafayette. Ala.. Dec. 18. 1895, Minnie 
 Kate Schuessler. Address : Lafayette, Ala. 
 
 HEINZE, Arthur P.: 
 
 Lawj'er and capitalist; born in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y.,'Dec. 18, 1864; son of Otto and Lida 
 (Marsh) Heinze. He entered Columbia 
 College, wliere he was graduated with high 
 honors in 1885. He returned to Leipzig, 
 wliere he had received a portion of his pre- 
 paratory education, continued his studies 
 there for some time, and afterward at 
 Heidelberg, and traveled on the Continent. 
 On his return he entered the Law School of 
 Columbia. University and was graduated in 
 1888. After settling his father's estate in 
 1891 he made an extended foreign tour thert 
 joined his youngest brother, F. Augustus 
 Heinze who had cast his fortunes in the 
 Western country, and was located at Butte, 
 Montana, where be had engaged in the cop- 
 ])er mining industry. 11(> joined his brother 
 in organizing tlie .Montana Ore Purchasing 
 Com])any, wliich. in a short time, ranked 
 till 111 ill tlic coiipo'i-iiroducing companies 
 ol' the State, disliursing more than twelve 
 liuiidred thousand dollars in four years. 
 During the ])roliated legal struggle over the 
 interests of the ore company, which pro- 
 foundly atl'ected the history of the State, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 ]Mr. Tloiiize looked after and managed the 
 fiiuincial ends of his brother's copper min- 
 \ng Mild railroad enterprises in British Co- 
 liinibia. where the latter had built an exten- 
 sive railroad and a smelter, and had re- 
 ceived a subsidy of four million acres of 
 land from the Canadian Covernment. This 
 investment proved of immense value, and 
 was subsequently sold to the Canadian Pa- 
 cific Railway Company. Mr. Heinze then 
 transferred the immediate supervision of 
 liis Western interests to other hands and 
 returned to New York City, where the old 
 firm of his father, Otto Heinze & Co., whole- 
 sale dry goods and commission merchants, 
 is located, and in which concern he still re- 
 tains a large interest. He is still vice- 
 president of the United Copper Company, 
 president of the Aetna Indemnity Company, 
 and a director in the Nipper Consolidated 
 Copper Company, besides holding a similar 
 position in several banking concerns. He is 
 a member of numerous social organizations 
 and clubs, including the Hamilton, the Cres- 
 cent Athletic Club of Brooklyn, the German 
 Club and the Downtown Association of New 
 York City, the Silver Bow Club of Butte, 
 Mont., and the Karleuhensia Society of 
 Heidelberg, Germany. Mr. Heinze married 
 in 1S!)9, Paith IMeiklejohn Noyes, daughter 
 of John Noyes, one of the most prominent 
 pioneer citizens of Montana. Residence : 
 220 Madison Avenue. Office: 31 Nassau 
 Street. New Y'ork City. 
 
 HEINZE, F. Augustus: 
 
 Capitalist; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Dee. 
 5, ISGO; son of Otto and Lida (Marsh) 
 Heinze. He was graduated from the Co- 
 lumbia College School of Mines, M.E., 1889, 
 then spent a year in the best scientific 
 schools of Germany. In 1890 he became con- 
 nected with the Boston and Montana Cop- 
 per Comjiany at Butte, j\Iont., as a mining 
 engineer, and' two years later he started a 
 mining entei'prise of his own. His first op- 
 erations were , confined to mining under 
 leases and concentrating ores so produced 
 in a mill at ]\leaderville. Later he pur- 
 chased this mill, and shortly afterward ar- 
 ranged to construct his own smelter. On 
 Oct. 27, 1892, construction was begun, and 
 
 inside of sixty-eight days the works produced 
 copper matter; in 18!t:5 tlie Montana Ore 
 Purchasing Company which became one of 
 the largest copper producing properties in 
 the country. \\ hen the claims around Hutte 
 got so thick and clo.se to each other that 
 the operators began to clasli, Eastern capi- 
 tal interested in the mines and Western 
 operators conceived a plan of amalgama- 
 tion, and the Copper Trust was formed, 
 under the name of tlie Amalgamated Cop- 
 per Company. Mr. Heinze has been active 
 in other localities than Montana, erecting in 
 1895 large smelting works at Trail. British 
 Columbia, and connecting the same with 
 Rossland l)y the first railroad entering that 
 town. He also connected Trail with Rob- 
 son by a railway, which comprises part of 
 the Columbia and Western Railway Com- 
 pany. Mr. Heinze is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Institute of Mining Engineers; the 
 Down Town, Strollers', Larchmont, Seawan- 
 haka, Columbia University, Deutscher Ver- 
 ein of New York City, the Crescent Athletic 
 Club of Brooklyn, IMontana Club of Helena, 
 Silver Bow Club of Butte, University Club 
 of Salt Lake and the St. James Club ol 
 Montreal. Residence: Butte, Mont. Ad- 
 dress: 42 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 HEINZ, Henry J.: 
 
 jNIanufacturer ; born in Pittsburgh, Oct. 
 11, 1844; educated in the public sciiools and 
 local business college. As a young man, he 
 engaged part of the time in operating a gar- 
 den in the vicinity of Pittsburgh and in 
 disposing of the product in the city market ; 
 assisted his father in conducting the brick 
 and contracting business; in 1869, gave his 
 entire time and energj^ to the pickling and 
 preserving business, now one of the notable 
 business successes of this country, and the 
 largest of its kind in the world. The organ- 
 ization now has its ramifications, in both 
 production and distribution, in almost every 
 country in the civilized world. The parent 
 plant is reinforced' by twelve branch factor- 
 ies, sixty odd salting stations, or depots for 
 the assembling of raw products and their 
 partial preparations; twenty-five branch 
 warehouses in commercial centres, including 
 one in London, and fifty-two agencies. Four 
 
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 MKN OF AMERICA. 
 
 thousaiul people are employed rep;ulaily ; 
 the products of 30.000 acres annually, and 
 the labor of 40.000 people to tend and' har- 
 vest these croi)s are required. Aside from 
 a thorouirli familiarity with every detail of 
 liis husiness. ^fr. Heinz sives much time to 
 other interests. In Pittsburph he is a di- 
 rector of the Western Insurance Company. 
 Union Xationnl Bank, president of the Cen- 
 tral .\ccident Insurance Company, president 
 of the Aspinwall Land Company, vice-presi- 
 dent of the Western Pennsylvania Exposi- 
 tion Society, and a director of the Chamber 
 of Commerce. He is president of the Wi- 
 nona Interurban Railway of Indiana. In 
 educational work his interest is shown ! 
 throusrh his relation to these institutions: 
 The Kansas City ITniversity. of which he is 
 a trustee and for years was Tirosident of 
 the board : the Winona Agricultural Insti- 
 tute, of Winona. Indiana, and the Winona 
 Technical Institute. Indianapolis. "Mr. Heinz 
 19 a leader in Sunday School work and has 
 devoted much time and' money to associated 
 Sunday School work in the United States. 
 Canada and Japan, under tlie auspices of 
 the International and World's Sunday 
 School Associaticm. in both of which he is a 
 prominent member of the Executive Com- 
 mittee. Address: Pittsburgh. Pa. 
 
 HEISLER. John C: 
 
 Physician and professor of anatomy; Phil- 
 adelphia : ])orn at Jersey Shore, Lycominfr 
 County. Pa.. Feb. 27. 1862. He was grad- 
 uated from the Philadelphia College of 
 Pharmacy in 1883 and from Medical 
 School of l^niversity of Peimsylvania in 
 1887. was interne at St. Mary's Hospital. 
 Philadelphia. 1887-1888; began the private 
 practice of medicine in Philadelphia in 
 1888; teacher in Medical School of Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania in various capacities 
 from 1888 to 1807 — assistant demonstrator 
 of obstetrics, assistant demonstrator of ana- 
 tomy. ])rosecutor to the Chair of .\natomy, 
 iiistniclor in diseases of the chest in the 
 Pliila<lelphia Polyclinic. 1880-1801: profes- 
 sor of anatomy in the Mcdico-Chirurgical 
 f'oUege since 1807. Il<' is a member of 
 the I'liiladelphia County ^redical Society, 
 Philadelphia Pediatric Society, Pennsyl- 
 
 vania State ]\lcdical Society. .Xmorican Med- 
 ical Association. Association of American 
 Anatomists, fellow of the College of Physi- 
 cians of Philadelphia. Dr. Heisler is au- 
 thor of: A Text-Book of Embryology, of 
 which there have been three editions. He 
 married in 1802. .Anna M. Beardon. Ad- 
 dress: 3820 Walnut Street. Philadelphia. 
 
 HEMENWAY, James Alexander: 
 
 X'niled States senator: born l\Iarch 8, 
 1860. at Boonville. Tnd'. He was educated in 
 the common schools: commenced the prac- 
 tice of law in 188.5; in 1886 and again in 
 1888 was elected prosecuting attorney of the 
 Second Judicial Circuit of Indiana : in 
 1800 was selected as the member on the 
 Bepubliean State Committee from the First 
 District; was elected to the Fifty-fourth, 
 Fifty fifth. Fifty-sixth. Fifty-seventh. Fifty- 
 eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses, resign- 
 ing from the latter before taking his seat 
 in the House of Representatives; was elected 
 to the United States Senate Jan. 18. 1005. 
 to succeed Hon. C. W. Fairbanks, chosen 
 vice-president on the ticket with Theodore 
 Roosevelt, and took his seat March 6. 190.5. 
 I His term of service expired March 3, 1909. 
 During the greater part of his service in the 
 House of Representatives he was one of the 
 chief members of the Committee on Appro- 
 priations and became its chairman on the 
 election of Sjjeaker Cannon as Speaker of 
 the House. In the Senate Mr. Hemenway 
 became a member of the Committee on Ap- 
 l)ropriations and one of the leading partici- 
 pators in its works, performing a large 
 part of the laborious duties incident to the 
 contiol of the fiscal affairs of the Federal 
 (government. The Indiana Legislature of 
 1000 being Democratic, he was not rfelected. 
 .Address: Boonville. Ind. 
 
 HENCKE. John William: 
 
 Cashier. LT. S. Custom House of Cleveland, 
 Ohio; born in Akron, Ohio. Oct. 21. 1868; 
 son of John Nicholas and .Eliza (Smith) 
 Hencke. After receiving his education in 
 the Cleveland i)ublic schools he became sten- 
 ograi)her for the Standard Oil Company; 
 later secretary and treasurer of the Ohio 
 Electric Works which marketed a number 
 
MKN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 nf ploctrir novoltios nricfinntofl by liis firm, 
 fiiiioiiiif tliom tlio cloflvie pocket flnsli liffht. 
 r.ciiiL; a staiinoli l\oi)ubliean lie dcvotorl much 
 lime and enevjiy to the famous IMeKinloy 
 f'nmpaisrn of ISO.'i. in wliioli tlio Tippccanop 
 Club of Clovobuul took such a prominent 
 part. TT(> was mad'o secretary of tliat or- 
 i;ani/a1ion and it was hir^ely throufjh his 
 efforts iliat the Tippecanoe Club won ils na- 
 lional reiuitation. His political affiliations 
 landed liim in his present federal office. As 
 easliier he has won a reputation as expert 
 on counterfeit money. Mr. Hencke is of an 
 inventive turn of mind. He has recently 
 Iieen granted letters patent on Folding Com- 
 fort Chairs and various automatic toys. He 
 is juiblic spirited and as an officer in local 
 improvement bodies, secured for his com- 
 munity many benefits; he is active in the 
 present popular movement to establish hy- 
 gienic playgrounds for children. In IflOl 
 Mr. Hencke was honored' by Hon. Theodore 
 E. Burton, chairman of the national rivers 
 and harbors committee, when he chose him 
 as his private secretary on an inspection 
 trip of the waterways and harbors of the 
 Southern, Western and Alaskan coasts of 
 the United States, traveling over fourteen 
 tliousand miles and visiting many of the 
 ])rincipal cities. He is a member of the 
 Tyrian Lodge, 370, Free and Accepted Ma- 
 sons. Eesidence: 3009 Clark Aveniie. S. 
 W.. Cleveland, Ohio. Office address: Wil- 
 shire Buildinsr. Cleveland. 
 
 HENDERSON, Charles Richmond: 
 
 Professor of sociology; born in Covington, 
 Ind., Dec. 17, 1848; son of Albert and Lo- 
 rana (Eichmond) Henderson. He was grad- 
 uated from the old University of Chicago, 
 A.B., 1870, A.M., 1873. and from the Bap- 
 tist Union Theological Seminary, B.D., 1873. 
 (D.D., 1885), and the degree of Ph.D. was 
 conferred' upon him in 1901 by the Uni- 
 versity of Leipzig. He was pastor at Terre 
 Haute, Ind.. 1873-1882; at Detroit, Mich., 
 1882-1892; has been professor of sociology 
 at the University of Chicago since 1892 and 
 is head of the Department of Ecclesiastical 
 Sociology. Professor Henderson is a trustee 
 of Kalamazoo College, Mich.; life member 
 
 of the execulive conuniltcr' uf llie National 
 Conference of Churities and Correction, 
 member of the .\merican Economic Associ- 
 ation, American Sociological Society. So- 
 ciete Cenerale des Prisons, Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society, Psi Upsilon and Beta Theta Pi 
 fraternities, and of the Quadrangle Club 
 of Chicago. He has recently published At- 
 beiterversicherung in den Vereinigten Staat- 
 en von Nord Amerika: and is author of 
 other books, including: Social Elements, 
 1898; which was translated' into Japanese 
 by Professor T. Takebe of Tokyo University, 
 and published in Japan. He married at 
 La Fayette, Ind.. May 14, 1873, Eleanor 
 Levening, and they had one son. who died in 
 1880. Pvesidence: 573G Washington Ave- 
 nue. Office: Tile University of Chicago, 
 Chicago. 
 
 HENDERSON, John J.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Allegheny County, Pa.. 
 Sept. 23, 1843 ; son of an eminent Methodist 
 clergyman of that locality. He was educated 
 in Meadville Academy and' Allegheny Col- 
 lege, and after graduation took part in the 
 Civil War, 18G2-1SC5. On his return he 
 stTidied law at Meadville and was admitted 
 to the bar of Crawford County in 1867. In 
 1872 he was elected district attorney of the 
 county, serving for one term, and in 1887 he 
 was elected president judge of the Thirtieth 
 Judicial District, serving for the full term 
 of ten years. He resumed the practice of 
 law in 1897, and in March, 1903 was select- 
 ed by the Government to fill a vacancy upon 
 the bench of the Supreme Court of the State, 
 which position he now occupies. He is noted 
 for his eloquence and ability as a public 
 spe:iker. Address: Meadville. Pa. 
 
 HENDRIX, Eugene Russell: 
 
 Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 South; born at Fayette, Mo., IMay 17. 1847. 
 He entered Central College at Fayette, but 
 on account of the Civil War he did not re- 
 main to complete his course, going instead, 
 to the Wesleyan University of Middletown, 
 Conn., where he was graduated in 1867. 
 Thence he took up the study of theology at 
 the Union Theological Seminary, where two 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 years later he was graduated from Union 
 Theological Sennuary, B.D., 186!), and the 
 honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon 
 him by Emory College, 1878, Wesleyan, 1903, 
 LL.D. University of Missouri, University of 
 North Carolina, 1888, Washington and Lee 
 University, 1892. After his ordination to 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 
 1870, was pastor of the churches in Macon 
 and St. Joseph, Mo., until 1878. when he 
 was elected president of Central College. In 
 1886 he was elected to the bishopric of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church South, and gave 
 up the college presidency. He has made of- 
 ficial visits to Brazil, Mexico, Japan, China 
 and Korea, and founded the mission of his 
 church in the latter country. He was fra- 
 ternal messenger to the British Conference 
 in 1900. Bisliop Hendrix is a trustee of 
 Vanderbilt University, of Woman's College 
 of Baltimore, of Central College, Missouri, 
 of the Scarritt Bible and Training School, 
 and of Paine Institute. He is author of: 
 Around the World. 1878; Skilled Labor for 
 the Master, 1900; The Religion of the Incar- 
 nation, 1903; The Personality of the Holy 
 Spirit, 1904. He married at Kansas City, 
 Mo., June 20, 1872, to Annie E. Scarritt, 
 and has four children. Address: 3242 Nor- 
 ledge Place, Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 HENEY, Francis Joseph: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Lima, N. Y., March 17. 
 1859; son of Richard and Julia (Schreiber) 
 Heney. He removed to San Francisco in 
 1804, and received his education in the 
 schools of that city, was in the University 
 of California for a year and later attended 
 for one year the Hasting's Law School in 
 San Francisco. He was admitted to the bar 
 in 1883; was a cattle-man and Indian trader 
 in Arizona, 1885-1889, and a lawyer in 
 Tucson, Ariz., 1880-1895; since then prac- 
 tising in San Francisco. ?Ie was active in 
 politics as a Democrat in Arizona, and while 
 there became prominent in connection with 
 reforms in territorial administration. He 
 was territorial attorney-general. 1893-1894. 
 After his removal to San Francisco he con- 
 fined his practice to civil matters for sev- 
 eral years, but in 1903 was ajipointed by 
 Attorney-General Knox as special counsel 
 
 for the prosecution of the land fraud cases 
 against Senator IMitchell and others, and 
 unearthed the complicity of John II. Hall, 
 U. S. attorney, whose indictment and re- 
 moval he procurred, and secured several con- 
 victions. He had charge of the prosecu- 
 tions of Mayor Schmitt and Abe Ruef in 
 San Francisco and has also had charge of 
 a number of land fraud prosecutions and 
 has been one of the foremost and most con- 
 spicuous figures in the " War on Graft " in 
 San Francisco and in connection with the 
 acquisition of public lands belonging to the 
 United States. Address: Kohl Building, 
 San Francisco. 
 
 HENNESSY, John Joseph: 
 
 Catholic liishd]) of Wieliila; lioiii in Coun- 
 ty Cork, Ireland. July 19, 1847; s^on of 
 Michael and Ellen (Cronin) Hennessy; res- 
 ident of the L^nited States from early child- 
 hood. After graduation from the Chris- 
 tian Brothers College in St. Louis in 1862 
 he entered upon his theological course at 
 the Salesianum, IMilwaukee. following with 
 a course in jiliilosophy at Cape Girardeau 
 College, Mo. In 1869 he was ordained priest 
 under a special dispensation from the Holy 
 See, being under canonical age. He labored 
 as a missionary in the Iron INIountain re- 
 gion of Missouri until 1880, founding mean- 
 while, in 1871, the Railroad "Slew's Benevo- 
 h'nt Union, established an Ursnline Con- 
 vent in Arcadia, ilo.. and liuill eliurches' at 
 live places in his territory. He became pro- 
 curator and vice-president of the Board of 
 Managers of the St. Louis Protectory, 1878- 
 1886, and in addition wa-. editor of the 
 Youth's JMagazine of St. I.ouis, 1880-1886; 
 rector of St. John's Chuich, St. Louis from 
 1880 until consecrated Nov. 30. 1888, bishop 
 of Wichita. Address: Wichita. Kan. 
 
 HENRI, Robert: 
 
 Artist; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1865; 
 son of John and Theresa Henri. He was ed- 
 ucated in the ]niblic schools of New York 
 City, Cincinnati, and Denver; student of 
 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Phila- 
 delphia, 1886-1888; Academic Julien and 
 ftcole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1888-1891; 
 1 later studied in France, Spain, and Italy. 
 
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 His pifture. La Noigo, was purchased from 
 the Salon, 189!), by French (Hovernment for 
 Ihe Lnxenibourp: Gallery; picture, Girl in 
 White Waist, purchased by Carnegie Insti- 
 lutp, Pittsburgh, for permanent collection, 
 
 1904. He was awarded' silver medals by the 
 Pan-Alnerican Exposition, Buffalo, 1901, 
 and Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. 
 Loui.s, 1904; Harris prize of $500, Chicago 
 Ai't Institute, 1905. Mr. Henri is repre- 
 sented in the permanent collection of Spar- 
 tanburg, S. C, by his Girl With Red Hair. 
 He is an academician of the National Acad- 
 emy of Design, member of the Society of 
 American Artists, member of the National 
 Institute of Arts and Letters and the Fel- 
 lowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of 
 Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Address: 135 
 East 40th Street, New York City. 
 
 HENRY, Aurelia: 
 
 Teacher and writer ; born in San Fran- 
 cisco, 1877; daughter of William Warner 
 and Mary Rogers (Merritt) Henry. She 
 was graduated from the University of Cali- 
 fornia. B.A., 1898, and Yale University, 
 Ph.D., 1905. She was a Yale fellow in 
 English, 1901-1903, foreign fellow. Associa- 
 tion Collegiate Alumnae, 1905-1906, Eng- 
 lish Department of the University of Idaho, 
 1898-1901, and English Department of the 
 State Normal School, Lewiston, Idaho, 1903- 
 
 1905, and 1906-1908. She is author of: 
 The De Monarchia of Dante (Alighieri), 
 translated with introduction and notes, 
 1904; and Epicoene, The Silent Woman, 
 edited with introduction, notes and glos- 
 sary, Yale Studies in English, XXXI; and 
 of miscellaneous articles in American peri- 
 odicals. JNIiss Henry is a member of the 
 Dante Society, and of the Concordance So- 
 ciety. Address: 1809 Euclid Avenue, 
 Berkeley, California. 
 
 HENRY, John A.: 
 
 Lawyer; born on a farm near Sidney, 
 Shelby County, Ohio, May 29, 1848; son of 
 David and Margaret (Maxwell) Henry. 
 He was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan 
 University, A.B., 1868, A.M., 1871; studied 
 law and was admitted to the bar at Sidney, 
 Ohio, in 1871. He removed to Indianapolis 
 in 1873, and was elected city attorney of 
 
 that city in 1879, serving for three years. 
 In 1883, he was appointed law clerk of the 
 Postofhce Department under Judge Gres- 
 ham, serving until March, 1885, when he 
 removed to Chicago, where he has since 
 practised his profession. In 1887, he was 
 appointed special master to sell the Lake 
 Erie and Western Railroad, which had been 
 placed in the hand's of receivers. Later he 
 was attorney for the receiver of the Chi- 
 cago and Atlantic Railroad. He was at- 
 torney for Cook County in 1891-1892. He 
 was one of the counsel in the litigation 
 which followed the attempt in 1893 to for- 
 feit the charters of the gas companies of 
 Chicago under the anti-trust law. He is 
 a member of the Hamilton Club, the Ma- 
 sonic order, and of the Sigma Chi college 
 fraternity. He married in Sidney, Ohio, in 
 1871, to Ella C. Carey, and has two children. 
 Residence: 6601 Stewart Avenue. Office: 
 Tacoma Building, Chicago. 
 
 HENRY, Nelson Herrick: 
 
 Adjutant-general, State of New York, and 
 physician; born on Staten Island, N. Y., 
 April 27, 1855; son of Joshua J. and Maria 
 Caroline (Herrick) Henry. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools and College of the 
 City of New York; College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons, M.D., 1879; has served in the 
 National Guard twenty-three years, filling 
 consecutively positions of distinction; join- 
 ed Twelfth Regiment in 1883; was assistant 
 surgeon-general under General Joseph D. 
 Bryant and General Marshall 0. Terry, 
 1893-1898. In 1898 under the reorganiza- 
 tion, he was made chief surgeon of National 
 Guard of New York, with rank of colonel 
 on the staff of the Major-General Charles 
 F. Roe, commanding the National Guard; 
 served as major and chief surgeon of Di- 
 vision, LT. S. Volunteers, in Spanish-American 
 Wfa-; member of the General Assembly of 
 New York, 1899-1901; served as adjutant- 
 general of the State of New York, 1902-1904, 
 during administration of Governor B. B. 
 Odell, Jr.; 1905-1906, Governor Frank W. 
 Higgin.s, ; and in 1907 was appointed for a 
 fourth term by Governor Charles E. Hughes. 
 He is a member of the Militarj' Order of 
 Foreign Wars, Spanish-American War "Vet- 
 erans, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and the Army 
 
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 MEN OF A^IERICA. 
 
 and Navy Clubs, Republican and Graduate 
 Clubs. He married, April 30, I'JOl, Sarah 
 Kodgers Sloan. Address: 59 West 9th 
 Street, Xew York City. 
 
 HENRY, Philip Walter: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in Scranton, Pa., 
 March 24, 18(i4; son of Eugene Thomas and 
 Emma E. (Walter) Henry. He was gradu- 
 ated from the JJensselacr Polytechnic Insti- 
 tute, C.E.. 1887 ; was on the engineering 
 corps of the Delaware. Ijiickawanna and 
 Western Railroad, 1880-1883, on location 
 and construction between Binghamton and 
 Buffalo: and with the Barber Asphalt Pav- 
 ing Company, 1887-1902 ; for a time as vice- 
 president and general manager. In 1893 he 
 made surveys for a tramway and pier in 
 Trinidad for facilitating the transportation 
 of asphalt; made surveys of Asphalt Lake, 
 establishing the rate of subsidence; and 
 made the only borings ever made in the 
 lake. Mr. Henry is now practising as a 
 consulting engineer, chiefly in the organ- 
 ization of the operating and construction 
 departments of railway and industrial cor- 
 ])orat.ions, and as an expert on asphalt and 
 asphalt pavements. He is president and 
 director of the South American Construc- 
 tion Company; vice-president and director 
 of the Pan American Company, and vice- 
 president and' director of the A. L. Barber 
 Asphalt Company. Mr. Henry has traveled 
 in Venezuela, Mexico, and the West Indies, 
 and has also made several trips to Evirope. 
 lltj is a member of the American Society of 
 Civil Engineers, Sons of the Revolution, and 
 of the Engineers, Union League, Century and 
 University Clubs. He married at Chicago, 
 Jan. 22, 1906, Clover Cox. Residence: 981 
 Madison Avenue. Oihce address: 90 West 
 Street. New York City. 
 
 HENRY, William Arnon: 
 
 Professor of agricultural ; born at Nor- 
 walk, Ohio, June Hi, 1850; .son of William 
 and Martlia (Condict) Henry. He received 
 Ills education in tlie Ohio Wesleyau Univer- 
 sity and at Cornell University, receiving from 
 the latter the degree of B.Agr., 1880. He 
 also received (he honorary degrees of D.Agr. 
 fn.iii the University of Illinois. 1904; D.Sc. 
 Iroiii the University of Vennunl at its Centen- 
 
 nial celebration in 1904; and from the Mich- 
 igan Agricultural College at its Centennial 
 celebration in 1907 the degree of D.Sc. 
 He was professor of botany and agriculture 
 in the University of Wisconsin in 1880, pro- 
 fessor of agriculture in the same institution 
 in 1883; and director of the Agricultural 
 Experiment Station of Wisconsin since 1887. 
 In 1891 he was made dean of the College of 
 Agriculture in the University of Wisconsin, 
 wliicli has had great progress under his ad- 
 ministration. This position he resigned to 
 lake effect June 30, 1907, when the Regents 
 appointed him emeritus professor of agri- 
 culture. He is associate editor of Hoard's 
 Dairyman; staff corresjjondent of the Breed- 
 ers' Gazette; and lecturer on animal nutri- 
 tion in the University of California in 1902. 
 Professor Henry married at Batavia, N. Y., 
 in August, 1881, Clara R. Taylor, who died 
 duly 5, 1904, and he has a son. Address: 
 Agricultural Experiment Station, Madison, 
 Wis. 
 
 HEPBURN, A. Barton: 
 
 President of the Chase National Bank 
 of New Y'ork; born in Colton. N. Y''., July 
 24, 1846; son of Zina Earl and Beulah 
 (Gray) Hepburn. He was graduated' from 
 Middlebury (Vermont) College. A.B., 1871, 
 later receiving the degree of LL.D. ; St. Law- 
 rence University, D.C.L., 1906. He was in- 
 structor of mathematics, St. Lawrence Acad- 
 emy; principal of Ogdensburg Educational 
 Institute; practised law at Colton, N. Y. ; 
 member of the New York State Assembly, 
 1875-1880; superintendent of the Banking 
 Department, State of New York, 1880-1883; 
 United States Banli Examiner for New 
 York, 1888-1892; Comptroller of the Curren- 
 cy, 1892-1893; president of the Third Na- 
 tional Bank of New York, 1893-1897; vice- 
 president of the National City Bank of New 
 York, 1897-1899; since 1899 president of the 
 Chase National Bank. Mr. Hepburn is a 
 director of tlie Bankers' Trust Company, Co- 
 lumbia Trust ('()ini)any. Fidelity Trust Com- 
 pany (Newark), Maryland Trust Company 
 ( J?altimore), New York Life Insurance Com- 
 pany, First National Bank. Eirst Security 
 ('()ni))any. Chase National Hank, American 
 Car and Foundry Company, American Agri- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 cultural Cheniieal Company, American Cot- 
 ton Oil Company, Safety Car Heating & 
 Lighting Company, Union Typewriter Com- 
 pany, United Cigar jNIanufacturers Company. 
 He is author of: The History of Coinage 
 and Currency; Artificial Waterways & Com- 
 mercial Development; also contributor to 
 magazines and reviews. Mr. Hepburn is 
 trustee and treasurer of the Children's Aid 
 Society, member of the New York Chamber 
 of Commerce, of the New England Society 
 of New York, the St. Andrews' Society, 
 Burns Society, and Germanistic Society, 
 Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Academy 
 of Political Science and of the University, 
 Metropolitan, Union League, Barnard, Econo- 
 mic City, Automobile, Camp Fire, Blooming 
 Grove Hunting and Fishing, and Long Is- 
 land Country Clubs. He married', first, at 
 St. Albans, Vt., Dec. 10, 1873, Hattie A. 
 57th Street. Office: 83 Cedar Street, New 
 Fisher; second, Montpelier, Vt., July 14, 
 1887, Emily L. Eaton; children: by first 
 marriage, Charles Fisher Hepburn, now re- 
 siding in Minneapolis, Minn. ; by second 
 marriage, Beulah Eaton and Cordelia Susan, 
 born Dec. 30, 1894. Residence: 205 West 
 York City. 
 
 HEPBURN, William Peters: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born at Wells- 
 ville, Columbiana County, Ohio, Nov. 4, 
 1833; was taken to Iowa (then a Territory) 
 in April, 1841. He was educated in the 
 schools of the Territory and' in a printing 
 office; was admitted to pi'actise law in 1854; 
 served in the Second Iowa Cavalry as cap- 
 tain, major, and lieutenant-colonel during 
 the Civil War. Colonel Hepburn was a del- 
 egate from Iowa to the Republican National 
 Conventions of 1860, 1888, and 1896; was a 
 presidential elector-at-large from the State 
 of Iowa in 1876 and in 1888; served as so- 
 licitor of the Treasury during the adminis- 
 tration of President Benjamin Harrison; 
 was elected to the Forty-seventh, Forty- 
 eighth, Forty-ninth, Fifty-third, Fifty- 
 fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-sev- 
 enth, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congres- 
 es, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress 
 from the Eighth Iowa District. Address: 
 Clarinda, Iowa. 
 
 HERBERT, Hilary A.: 
 
 J.awycr; born in J^aurensvillc, S(juth Caro- 
 lina, March 12, 1874; son of Thomas E. and 
 JDorothy T. Herbert. He received his educa- 
 tion in the Universities of Alal)ama and Vir- 
 ginia. He was colonel of the Eighth Ala- 
 bama Confederate \'olunleers and was dis- 
 abled at the Battle of the Wilderness. Mr. 
 Herbert practised law al Greenville and 
 Montgomery, Ala.; was for sixteen years 
 representative in Congress from Alabama; 
 and was secretary of the Navy of the United 
 States from 1893 to 1897, in the .second ad- 
 ministration of President Cleveland. Since 
 that time he has practised law in \\asliing- 
 ton and has been the legal adviser of im- 
 portant interests in Departmental and Court 
 practice. He is author of: Why the Solid 
 South?; A History of Reconstruction; and 
 magazine articles. Mr. Herbert married in 
 Selma, Ala., in 1867, Ella B. Smith, who 
 died in 1885. Address: 1419 G Street, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 HERBERT, John: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Wentworth, tJrafton 
 County, N. H., Nov. 2, 1849; son of Samuel 
 and L. Maria (Darling) Herbert; grandson 
 of John and Sally (Allen) Herbert and of 
 Benjamin and Susan (Reed) Darling and a 
 descendant of James Herbert who came from 
 London, England', to Salisbury, Mass., about 
 1720. He was graduated from Dartmouth. 
 A.B., 1871, and A.M. in course; was princi- 
 pal of Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, N. 
 H.. 1871-1874; and after leaving New Ips- 
 wich studied law and was admitted to the 
 bar in New Hampshire in 1875. In the 
 fall of 1875 he went to Andover Theological 
 Seminary, and he was pastor of the Congre- 
 gational Church. Stoughton, Mass., 1876- 
 1878. He established a law office in Boston, 
 in 1880, and has been admitted to the bar in 
 Massachusetts, and the Supreme Court of 
 the United' States. He is, or has been, presi- 
 dent of the E. T. Cowdrey Company, the 
 Eastern Forge Company, Multiple Phono- 
 graph Company; and the Bear Creek Oil 
 Company. He is ]>resident of the Somer- 
 ville Municipal League, and of the Somer- 
 ville Citizens Company; director of the Som- 
 erville Young Men's Christian Association; 
 
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 I\rF.N OF AMERfCA, 
 
 ami Merchants' Coiiperalive Bank, of Bos- 
 ton ; president of the Boston Congregational 
 Club of the Appalachian Mountain Club and 
 of the Appleton Academy Association. He 
 is a member of the Congregational Sunday 
 School and Publishing Society and president 
 of its Board of Directors; president of the 
 Mystic \'alley Club, organized to secure 
 clean politics; moderator of the ^Yinter 
 Hill Congregational Church Corporation 
 and a member of the Twentieth Century 
 Club and Economic Clubs of Boston. He 
 married. .Aug. 1, 1872, Alice, daughter of 
 Chest ci- and JJd.xaniia Guy, and by her had 
 two ciiiiiheii. Mr. Herbert married, second, 
 June 24, 1895, Blanche E., daughter of 
 Chester and Rosanna Guy, and by her has 
 one son. Hesideiice: Somerville, ]\Iass. Of- 
 lice: 1!) Milk Street, Boston. 
 
 HERBERT, Victor: 
 
 Musician, composer; born in Dublin. Ire- 
 land, Feb. 1, 1859; grandson of Samuel 
 Lover, the popular Irish novelist; educated 
 by private tutors in Germany; musical edu- 
 cation covered complete range, but he spe- 
 cialized in the violoncello and was solo 'cel- 
 list in the Court Orchestra of the Kingdom 
 of Wiirttemberg at Stuttgart and en tour 
 in various European cities. In that capacity 
 came to New York City, 1886, as solo 'cel- 
 list at ^letropolitan Opera House; afterward 
 appeared in the same capacity with tlie 
 leading orchestra ; when Gilmore died and 
 the question of securing a conductor for the 
 Twenty-second Begiment Band, who would 
 be a worthy successor of that famous con- 
 ductor, became important, lie was chosen 
 as the leader, and held the position for 
 twelve years. Was for some time conductor 
 of the Pittsburgh Orchestra, and for the 
 past few years has been at the head of his 
 own New York organization. Author of 
 many comic operas, in eluding Prince Ana- 
 nias; The Ameer; Babes in Toyland; It 
 Happened in Nordland, etc. ; of the cantata 
 The Captive, and of numerous compositions 
 for band and orciiestra, as well as many vo- 
 <-al iiuinbci>. Address: ;52 1 West lOSth 
 Slieet. .New \(irk Citv. 
 
 HERING, Carl: 
 
 I'Mcctrical engineer; born in Philadelphia, 
 1860; son of the late Dr. Constantine tier- 
 ing, the well known father of homeopathy 
 in America. He studied mechanical engi- 
 neering at the University of Pennsylvania, 
 being graduated B,S. in 1880, and later M.E. 
 He studied at Darmstadt, Germany, under 
 Professor Kittler and became his assistant. 
 He was assistant electrician at the Interna- 
 tional Electrical Exhibition in Philadelphia 
 in 1884. In 1886-1887 he taught electrical 
 eiigiiieeriiig in the l'iii\cisity nf Pennsylva- 
 nia, tie was a member of t lie -Iniy of Aw ird-; 
 or scientific commission, at Exposition at 
 Vienna, 1883, Philadelphia, 1884, Paris, 1889 
 and 1900, St. Louis, 1890, Frankfort Ger- 
 man}', 1891, Philadelphia Export Exposition, 
 1899, Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, 
 1901, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 
 1904; and at the Jamestown Exposition, 
 1907. becoming member of the highest or 
 superior jury at some of them. The French 
 '(lovernment conferred' upon him the decora- 
 tion of Officier de I'lnstruction Publique in 
 1889 and in 1900 that of the Cross of the 
 Legion d'Honneur. He was also representa- 
 tive of the United States Government, the 
 American Institute of Electrical Engineers 
 and of the Franklin Institute to various in- 
 ternational electrical congresses and meet- 
 ings. He became, in 1892, technical editor 
 of the Electrical ^^'orld. He was a member 
 of the committee to prepare the preliminary 
 programme for the Chicago International 
 Electrical Congress of 1893; is past presi- 
 dent of the American Institute of Electrical 
 Engineers, of the American Electro-chemical 
 Society, of the Engineers' Club of Philadel- 
 phia, and of the Electrical Section of Frank- 
 lin Institute; honorary member of the New 
 York Electrical Society; American delegate 
 of the International Society of Electricians, 
 whose headquarters arc in Paris; honorary 
 nu-mber of the International Engineering 
 Congress at Glasgow, Scotland. From 1893 
 to 1903 he ])repared a weekly digest of the 
 current electrical literature, both foreign 
 and American. He has contributed many 
 papers to scientific and engineering soci- 
 eties, and is the autlioi- of ''Conversion 
 
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 Tables," 1904 (John Wiley & Sons). He 
 has obtained nnnierous patents for electrical 
 inventions. Since 188U he lias been prac- 
 tising as a consiilting electrical engineer in 
 I'liiladelpliia, being engaged chiefly with 
 tests, reports, patent litigations, and acting 
 as consulting electrical engineer for com- 
 panies. Address : 929 Chestnut Street, 
 Plii]a(lcli)hia. 
 
 HERING, Daniel Webster: 
 
 Dean of Graduate Faculty, New York 
 University; born at Smithbiirg, Md., March 
 23, 1850; son of Joshua and Susanna (Har- 
 mon) Hering. He was educated in the 
 public schools of Johnsville, Md., and in 
 18(il received a teacher's certificate of qual- 
 ification to teach at Frederick, Md. ; was 
 a student in ^Vestminster Seminary, 1866- 
 1867; principal of the Preparatory Depart- 
 ment and teacher in mathematics at West- 
 ern Maryland College, 1867-1869; and was 
 graduated from the Sheffield Scientific 
 School of Yale, 1872. He was division 
 engineer of the Berks County Railroad, 
 1873-1874; fellow in engineering in Johns 
 Hopkins University, 1876-1878; assistant 
 engineer of the Baltimore and Cumberland 
 Valley Railroad, 1878-1880; professor of 
 mathematics in the Western Maryland Col- 
 lege, 1880-1884; professor of physics in the 
 Western University of Pennsylvania in 1884 
 and 1885; and has been professor of physics 
 at New York University since 1885. He 
 has been dean of the Graduate Faculty, New 
 York University, since 1902. In 1895 he 
 received the degree of Ph.D. from Western 
 Maryland College and. in 1907, LL.D., from 
 the Western University of Pennsylvania. 
 Dr. Hering is author of numerous papers in 
 scientific and educational periodicals. He 
 is a fellow of the American Association foi 
 the Advancement of Science; fellow of the 
 New York Academy of Sciences, charter 
 member of the American Physical Society; 
 member of the American Geographical 
 Society; was a member of the First Coun- 
 cil of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 
 Sciences in its reorganization under its 
 jiresent director, and was for several years 
 president of the Department of Physics 
 in the same institution. He married at 
 
 Baltimore. Nov. 23, 1881, Mary Hollis Web- 
 ster, and tliey have two children. Residence: 
 128 West 129tl> Street. Office: University 
 Heights, New York City. 
 
 HERING, Rudolph: 
 
 Hydraulic engineer, sanitary expert; born 
 in Philadelphia, Feb. 26, 1847; son of Con- 
 stantino and Theresa (Buchheini) Hering. 
 Educated private schools of Philadelphia; 
 graduate Royal Polytechnic Colkge, Dres- 
 den, Germany, C.E., 1867. Assistant city 
 engineer, Philadelphia, Pa., 1872-1880; com- 
 missioner of National Board of Health, re- 
 porting on sewerage works of Europe, 1881 ; 
 constructing and consulting engineer for 
 water supply and sewerage works in United 
 States, Canada, and South America, includ- 
 ing New York City, Philadelphia, Balti- 
 more, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, 
 BufFalo, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, 
 Atlanta, Montgomerj^ New Orleans, Los 
 Angeles, Tacoma, Victoria, Winnipeg, Otta- 
 wa, Toronto, and others; since 1901, mem- 
 ber of firm of Hering and Fuller, consulting 
 engineers. He is a member of the American 
 Society of Civil Engineers, Canadian So- 
 ciety Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil 
 Engineers of Great Britain, Engineers' Club 
 of Philadelphia, Boston Society Civil Engi- 
 neers, Western Society Civil Engineers, 
 American Water Works Association, Amer- 
 ican Public Health Association, honorary 
 member of New England Water Works As- 
 sociation, fellow American Academy of 
 Sciences, New York Municipal Art Associa- 
 tion, Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (Berlin), 
 Century Club of New York. He married, 
 first, 1873, Fanny Field Gregory, and sec- 
 ond, 1894, Hermine Buchheim, and has five 
 eliildren. Residence: 40 Lloyd Place, Mont- 
 clair, N. J. Address: 170 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 HERRESHOFF, John B.: 
 
 Shipbuilder; born in Bristol, R. I., April 
 24, 1841; son of Charles Frederick and 
 Julia Ann (Lewis) HerreshofT. He at- 
 tended schools in Bristol until failing eye- 
 sight compelled him to abandon his studies, 
 and since fifteen years of age he has been 
 totally blind. In spite of this disadvantage 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 lio built up a large business as a builder 
 of steam and sailing yachts, the firm now 
 being known as the Herreshoff Manufactur- 
 ing Company, of which he is president. The 
 list of craft of moderate size built by the 
 HerreshoHs includes not only several of the 
 defenders of the America Cup, but a large 
 number of fine private yachts and of tor- 
 pedo vessels of high speed for the United 
 States and foreign countries. For years 
 the Herreshoff sho])s were the leaders in 
 the designing and building of high speed 
 motive powei's and their application to 
 marine travel and may be said to be the 
 pioneers in the United States in the develop- 
 ment of the small, high powered motive 
 units, which play so considerable a part in 
 movement, afloat and ashore, at the present 
 time. As well as the most noted private 
 yachts, they have also built many vessels 
 for the United States, Britisli and foreign 
 governments. Address: Bristol, R. I. 
 
 HERRESHOFF, Nathaniel Greene: 
 
 Vaclit designer; born in Bristol, R. I., 
 in 1848. He received a special technical 
 education in engineering in the Massachu- 
 setts Institute of Technology, and' became 
 connected with the Herreshoff Manufactur- 
 ing Company, of which he is now superin- 
 tendent. The company are builders of steam 
 and sailing yachts and also of torpedo 
 boats and other naval vessels, of which he is 
 the designer, and yachts from his designs 
 and the Herreshofi' yards have won the high- 
 est honors in races. Mr. Herreshoff is the 
 most distinguished of American naval arch- 
 itects in the designing of vessels of these 
 classes. He is a member of the Institute of 
 Naval Architects and Marine Engineers of 
 Xew York, and the Institute of Naval Arch- 
 itects of England. Address: Bristol, R. I. 
 
 HERRICK, Charles Judson: 
 
 I'rofessor of neurology; born in Miime- 
 apolis, Oct. (5, 1808; son of Henry Nathan 
 and Anna (Strickler) Herrick. He at- 
 tended Denison University, 1888-1889, and 
 received from it the degree of M.S. in 
 1895; was graduated from the University j 
 "f Cincinnati, as B.S., in ISitl; and from I 
 Columbia University as Ph.D. in 1900. He I 
 
 was instructor in Granville Academy, 1891- 
 1892; professor of natural science in Otta- 
 wa University, 1892-1893; professor of zo- 
 ology, Denison University, 1898-1907; and 
 has been professor of neurology in the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago since Oct., 1907. He 
 was associate in comparative neurology at 
 the Pathological Institute of the New York 
 State Commission in Lunacy, New Y'ork 
 City, 1897-1901; and has been managing 
 editor of the Journal of Comparative Neu- 
 rology and Psychology since 1894. Dr. Her- 
 rick was secretary of the Zoological Section 
 of the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, 1903-1907, vice-presi- 
 dent of the same in 1908, and president of 
 the Ohio Academy of Sciences in 1903. Dr. 
 Herrick is author of over seventy-five scen- 
 tific articles on comparative neurology and 
 allied subjects. He is a member of the 
 American Society of Zoologists, Association 
 of American Anatomists, and' American So- 
 ciety of Naturalists. He married at Gran- 
 ville, Ohio, Aug. 17, 1892, Mary Elizabeth 
 Talbot, and they have one daughter, Ruth, ■ 
 born in 1895. Address: University of Chi- 
 cago, Chicago. 
 
 HERRICK, D. Cady: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Esperance, N. Y., April 
 12, 1846; educated Albany Classical Insti- 
 tute, and Albany Law School. Admitted to 
 the bar in 1868; elected district attorney 
 of Albany County in 1880; appointed cor- 
 I)oration counsel City of Albany in 1886; 
 elected judge of the Supreme Court of the 
 State of New York in 1891; api)ointed asso- 
 ciated justice of the Appellate Division of 
 tile Supreme Court of the State of New 
 York in 1894; unsuccessful candidate for 
 governor, 1904; member of Democratic State 
 Committee, 1885-1892; now practising law 
 in Albany and New York Citj. Married, 
 Nov., 1875, Orissa H. Salisbury. Address: 
 452 Broadway, Albany, N. Y.; 5 Nassau 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 HERRICK, John Jacob: 
 
 Lawyer; l)orn in llillsboro. 111.. May 25, 
 1845; son of Dr. William B. Herrick, the 
 first president of tlie Illinois State Medical 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Society, and Martha (Seward) Herrick. 
 He was jjrepared for College at the Lewistou 
 Falls (Maine) Academy, and was gradu- 
 ated from Bowdoin College in 1866. Imme- 
 diately after graduation ho removed to Chi- 
 cago, where he taught in the Hyde Park 
 School for two years. He became a student 
 in the Union College of Law in Chicago, 
 and was also in the law offices of Higgins, 
 Swett and Quigg. He was graduated from 
 the law school in 1868 as the valedictorian 
 of liis class. He was admitted to the Illinois 
 bar upon his graduation, but remained in 
 the office of Higgins, Swett and Quigg until 
 1871, when he began practice on his own 
 account. He continued to practice alone 
 until 1878, when the firm of Dexter, Her- 
 rick and .Allen was formed, which contin- 
 ued until the death of Mr. Dexter, in 1890. 
 In 1893, I. K. Boyesen was admitted to 
 the firm and in 1896, Horace H. Martin, 
 the firm now being Herrick, Allen, Boyesen 
 and Martin. Mr. Herrick is a member of 
 the Chicago Bar Association, the Law Insti- 
 ,tute, the Citizens' Association, and the Chi- 
 cago, Chicago Literary, and University 
 Clubs. He married in New Yoi'k City, June 
 28, 1883, Julia T. Dulon. Residence: 2221 
 Prairie Avenue. Office: 107 Dearborn 
 Street, Chicago. 
 
 HESLIN, Thomas: 
 
 Citholic l)isli()p of Xutche/. ; born in 
 County Longford. Ireland. April, 1847; won 
 of Patrick and Catherine (Ilnghes) Heslin. 
 He began his education in Iri'liind; came 
 to the United States and stu(ii;'(l philosop'iy 
 and theology in the Bouligny Seminary in 
 New Orleans; taught in St. Marj^'s Coliege, 
 .rcM'erson. La., and in the parish school at 
 ("arrollton. La.; was ordained to the priest- 
 hood in 1S()9; served as curate until 1874 in 
 New Orleans and pastor of St. Michael's 
 Parish, New Orleans from 1874 until he 
 was consecrated, in 1889, bishop of Natchez. 
 Aildnss: Natchez, Miss. 
 
 HESTER, William: 
 
 i'ulilishcr : born in I'ouglikeepsie, N. Y., 
 Dec. 7, 1835; son of Samuel Wood and Jane 
 (Van Anden) Hester. He was educated in 
 Poughkeei^sie, and the Rhinebeck Academy. 
 
 President and director of the Brooklyn 
 Daily Eagle Association (for Ihirly-one 
 years) ; trustee of the Brooklyn Trust Com- 
 pany, and director of the Eagle Warehouse 
 and Storage Company. He is a member of 
 the New York Cliauiber of Commerce and 
 Manufacturers' Association, the Automol>iie 
 Club of America, and the Metropolitan, New 
 \'ork Yacht, Atlantic Yacht, Larclimont 
 Yacht, Nassau Golf, and Shelter Island 
 Y'acht Clubs, and the Crescent Athletic 
 Brooklyn, and Hamilton Clubs of Brooklyn. 
 He married in Brooklyn, Feb. 25, 1858, The- 
 odosia Ward. Residence: 158 Remsen 
 Street. Address: Eagle Building, 307 
 Washington Street. Brooklyn. 
 
 HEWITT, Peter Cooper: 
 
 Electrical engineer; lioin in New York 
 City, March 5, 1861; son of Abram Stevens 
 and Sarah A. (Cooper) Hewitt. He was 
 educated in Stevens Institute of Technology, 
 Hoboken, N. J., and Columbia University; 
 and received the lionorary of Sc.D. from 
 Columbia in 1903. He is a member of 
 the firm of Cooper, Hewitt & Company, and 
 director of the Greenwood Lake Railway. 
 Mr. Cooper is engaged in Experimental 
 work in mechanics, physics, and especially 
 in electricity. He is best known as the 
 inventor of the Cooper Hewitt arc light, 
 consisting of a longtube in which the elec- 
 tric arc passes through the vapor of mer- 
 cury, producing a greenish light more fav- 
 orable to the eyesight of night-workers than 
 the usual night illuminant, but which has 
 not become of general use notwithstanding 
 its great economy on account of its contrast 
 to other illiuninants. Its use, however, 
 where there is necessity for continuous labor 
 by night is very general in place of the 
 older forms of ;nc lights giving red and 
 yellow rays. Mi. Hewitt is a member of the 
 American Physical Society, American In- 
 stitute of Electrical Engineers, New Y'ork 
 Electrical Society, New York (iencral Soci- 
 ety of Mechanics and Tradesmen; and of the 
 ITnion, Knickerbocker, Manhattan, Metro- 
 politan, Racquet and Tennis, The Brook, 
 Lambs', Turf and Field, Automobile of 
 Amcric;i, Tuxedo. Players'. Century, and 
 En"ineer>.' Clubs. He married in New Y^ork 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 City. Liioy Work. Residence: 11 Lexing- 
 ton Avonnc. Address: 17 Burling Slip, 
 New ^'(ll■k (itv. 
 
 HEWSON. Addinell: 
 
 •Surgeon: born in Philadelpliia. Sept. 2, 
 1855; son of Dr. Addinell and Rachel Ma- 
 comb (Wethcrill) Hewson. He was edu- 
 cated in the Protestant Episcopal Academy 
 of Philadelphia, 1867-1872, the University 
 of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1876, A.M., 1879; 
 and at Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- 
 phia. M.D., 1879, engaging in the practice 
 of medicine in Philadelphia. Dr. Hewson 
 was clinical assistant in the Surgical De- 
 partment. 1879-1882, in the Ophthalmic 
 Department, 1882-1884: and from 1890 to 
 1894 was chief of the Surgical Department 
 of Jefferson Medical College Hospital. He 
 was connected with the chair of anatomy 
 in Jefferson Medical College, 1879-1906, as 
 assistant demonstrator, 1879-1886, prosec- 
 tor, 1886-1889. demonstrator, 1889-190G, and 
 assistant professor, 1902-1906. Ho was dis- 
 pensary surgeon at St. Mary's Hospital, 
 1879-1888, and at the Episcopal Hospital, 
 1887-1904; has been surgeon to St. Timo- 
 thy's Hospital at Roxburgh since 1894, pro- 
 fessor of anatomy at the Philadelphia Poly- 
 clinic College for Graduates 'in ^Medicine 
 since 1897; and physician to the Philadel- 
 pliia Or])han Society, 1886-1900. Dr. Hewson 
 was editor of the first and second editions 
 of Holden's Dissector; has been secretarj- 
 of the State Anatomical Board since 1899, 
 and surgeon and trustee of the American 
 Oncologic Hospital of Pliiladelphia since 
 1!)05. He is a member of the Philadelphia 
 County Medical Society, Pennsylvania State 
 Metiical Society, Academy of Surgery, Path- 
 ological Society, Obstetrical Society; fellow 
 of the College of Physicians; member of 
 the American Association of Physicians and 
 Surgeons, American Association of Anato- 
 mists, American Medical Association, the 
 Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. Alpha Kappa 
 Kappa niedieal fraternity, and the Univer- 
 sity Club of Philadelphia. He married in 
 IMiHadelphia, Sept. 4, 1883, Lucy Clabaugh, 
 and they have four children. Address: 2120 
 Spruce Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 HEYBURN. Weldon Brinton: 
 
 Foniu-i I'. S. senator; born in Delaware 
 County, Pa., May 23, 1862. His parents 
 were Quakers, of English descent. Mr. Hey- 
 burn received an academic education; was 
 admitted to the bar in 1876, and has prac- 
 tised law continuously since that time. In 
 the winter of 1883-1884 he moved to Sho- 
 shone County, Idaho, and has resided there 
 ever since. He was a member of the con- 
 vention which framed the constitution of 
 the State of Idaho, and was chairman of 
 the Judiciary Committee in that body. Mr. 
 Hey burn has always voted and supported 
 tile Republican ticket; was a delegate to 
 till' Republican National Conventions of 
 1888, 1892, and 1900; was not affected by 
 the silver movement of 1896, and was 
 largely instrumental in maintaining the 
 Republican organization in Idaho during 
 that campaign and since, which resulted in 
 tiie sweeping Republican Aactory in 1902. 
 lie was the nominee of the Republican 
 party of Idaho for Congress in 1898, but 
 was defeated by a fusion of the Democrats, 
 Populists, and Silver Republicans; was 
 elected to the United States Senate. Jan. 
 13, 1903, receiving the entire Republican 
 vote of the Legislature, to succeed Henry 
 Ifeitfeld, Democrat, for the term beginning 
 Marcli 4, 1903. His term of office expired 
 March 3, 1909. Address: Wallace, Idaho. 
 
 HIBBARD, H. Wade: 
 
 Mechanical engineer and professor; born 
 in Moulinein, Burmah, Sept. 10, 1863; son 
 of Rev. Charles and Susan Ann (Robinson) 
 llibbard. He was graduated from Brown 
 L'niversity, A.B., 1886; Cornell University, 
 M.K., 1891 (first Sibley prize, 1890; elec- 
 tion to Society Sigma Xi, 1891), A.M., 
 Brown University, 1889. He was engaged 
 in the sliops of the Rhode Island Locomotive 
 Works, 1886-1889; engineer with the gen- 
 eral superintendent of motive power of the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad, engaged in design- 
 ing, testing and research, 1891-1894; exam- 
 ination and report on foreign railway me 
 clianieal engineering four months in Eu- 
 rope, 1892; with Lehigii Valley Railroad in 
 charge of mechanical engineers' department. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 HJl 
 
 1894-1805; there designing several classes 
 of locomotives, tenders, cars, shop machin- 
 ery, boilers, standardizing motive power, 
 rolling stock and general eqnijmient, and 
 betterment of shop methods. Assistant pro- 
 fessor machine design and locomotive engi- 
 neering (initiating latter). University of 
 Minnesota, ISOfj-lSOS; made tests of five 
 classes of single-expansion and compound 
 locomotives for Minneapolis, St. Paul and 
 Sault Ste. Marie Railway, 1896; since 
 1898 professor in Sibley College, Cornell 
 University, in charge of the Department of 
 Railway Mechanical Engineering, orgajiizing 
 the same. Investigating railway practice, 
 four months in Europe, 1900; expert me- 
 chanical examiner, New York State Civil 
 Service Commission, 1904, 1905; occasional 
 railway consulting practice. President of the 
 Cornell Cooperative Society, 1903-1905, di- 
 rector since 1905. He is a member of the 
 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 
 American Railway Master Mechanics' As- 
 sociation, Master Car Builders' Association, 
 Society for the Promotion of Engineering 
 Education, and the New York City, Buffalo, 
 Pacific Coast, and Northwest Railway Clubs. 
 He is author of: Discipline and Manage- 
 ment of Men in Shops; also many articles 
 in engineering publications. Mr. Hibbard 
 married, first, in Richford, Vt., 1891, Mary 
 P. Scofield (died, 1895); one daughter; 
 married, second, at Walpole, N. H., 1896, 
 Mary C. Davis, and by that marriage he 
 has two children. Address: Cornell 
 
 Heights, Itluicu. X. Y. 
 
 HIGGINS, Edwin Waiter: 
 
 Congressman and, lawyer; born July 2, 
 1874, at Clinton, Conn. He was educated 
 in the schools of Norwich and graduated 
 from the Yale Law School in 1897, receiving 
 the degree of bachelor of laws; and has 
 been engaged in the active practice of the 
 law since his admission to the bar in 1897. 
 In 1899 he represented Norwich in the Gen- 
 eral Assembly, and served on the Committee 
 on Judiciary; has been corporation counsel 
 of Norwich, a deputy judge of its City 
 Court, and health officer for the County of 
 New London; has served on the Republican 
 State Central Committee since 1900, and was 
 
 a delegate to the last Rei)ublican National 
 Convention, representing ('onneetic\it on the 
 Committee on Resolutions. At a special 
 election beld Oct. 2, 190."), he was elected 
 to the Fifty-nintii Congress, to fill tlie un- 
 expired term of Hon. Frank B. Brandegee, 
 elected to the United States Senate and wa« 
 reelected to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Con- 
 gresses from the Third Connecticut District, 
 lie married Sept. 1, 1904, Alice M. Nefl. 
 Address: Norwich, Conn. 
 
 HIGGINS, Milton Prince: 
 
 Manufacturer and mechanical engineer; 
 born in Standish, Me., "Dec. 7, 1842; son of 
 Lewis and Susan (Whitney) Higgins. 
 After being graduated from Dartmouth Col- 
 lege as B.S., in 1868, he became superin- 
 tendent of the Washburn shops of the Wor- 
 cester Polytechnic Institute for twenty- 
 eight years ; and he is now president of the 
 Norton Company, of the Worcester Pressed 
 Steel Company; Worcester Plunger Elevator 
 Company, Gem Manufacturing Company of 
 Boston, Mass., and the Manchester Supply 
 Company, of Manchester, N. H. ; director of 
 the Mechanics' National Bank of Worcester, 
 Mass. Mr. Higgins is especially interested 
 in the subject of industrial education, and 
 is chairman of the Executive Board of the 
 National Education Association. He is a 
 member of the American Society of Me- 
 chanical Engineers, the National Society 
 for the Promotion of Industrial Education; 
 trustee of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 
 and is a member of the Worcester Club. 
 Mr. Higgins married in Manchester, N. H., 
 June 15, 1870, Katharine E. Chapin, and 
 they have four children. Residence: 228 
 West Street. Office: Norton Company, 
 Worcester, INIass. 
 
 HIGGINSON, Thomas Wentworth: 
 
 Author; born in Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 
 22, 1823; son of Stephen and Louisa (Stor- 
 row) Higginson. He was graduated from 
 Harvard College, A.B., 1841, from the Di- 
 vinity School in 1847, and received from 
 Harvard the degree of A.M. in 1869, and 
 LL.D. in 1898, and also received the LL.D. 
 degree in 1896 from the Western Reserve 
 University at Cleveland, Ohio. He entered 
 
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 MF.N OF AMERICA. 
 
 tlip ITnion scrvioo as oa])iiun in tlip 51st 
 Massachusetts Epfrimc-iit in 1862, and. Ropt. 
 25, 1SG2. was rommissionod rolnnol of tho 
 First South Carolina (I^nion^ Voluntoprs. 
 aftorward the Tliirty-third PveLrimont of 
 TTnitod States Colored Troops, tlio first hlaek 
 rejriment enlisted in the serviee durinjr the 
 Civil War. an<l eommanded it until 1864, 
 when he resigned because of disability from 
 wound received at Wiltown Bluff, S. C. 
 July 10, 1863. After the war he devoted 
 himself to literature. Colonel TTi^jrinson 
 was a meniher of Massachusetts House of 
 Representatives. 1S80-1881. of the military 
 staff of the irovernnr of IVfassachusetts, 
 'I88O-I88I. and of tlie Massachusetts 
 Hoard of Fducntion, 1881-1884. Tn po- 
 lilical \ lews Colonel TTiiiirinson is Demo- 
 crat ic and liid('|)('ndent ; and' he has taken 
 a leadinir part in independent movements 
 in jiolitics and relio;ioii. Tie has been 
 an extensive traveler in tlie .\zores, Eng- 
 land. Scotland, Ireland. France. Cermany. 
 Switzerland aTid Italy. He is president of 
 the Old Planters' Society of Salem, Mass,; 
 president of the Old Colored Women's 
 Home. Boston ; vice-president of the Cam- 
 bridge Historical Association. Colonel Hiij- 
 {jinson is a member of the Grand Army of 
 the Republic, companion of the Military 
 Order of the Foyal Lea^ion of the United 
 States, memlx'i- of the American Academy 
 of Arts and Sciences, the Massachusetts His- 
 torical Society, Royal Society of Canada. 
 American Oriental Society. New Enpfland 
 Historic Cenealogical Society. He is au- 
 thor of: Atlantic Essays; Out-door Papers; 
 Army Life in a Black Regiment; Malbone; 
 Oldport Days; Young Folks' History of the 
 United States ; I^arger History of the United 
 States ; Common Sense about Women ; Trav- 
 elers and Outlaws; The New World and 
 the New Book; The Monarch of Dreams; 
 The Procession of the Flowers; The After- 
 noon I-andscay)e f]ioems) ; Book and II(>art; 
 Clieerfnl Yesterdays; Tales of tlie Enchant- 
 ed Islands; Old Cambridge; Contempora- 
 rie.s; Life of Longfellow; Life of Whittier; 
 Life of Francis Iligginson; Life of St(>i)hen 
 Iligginson; and a translation of I^pictetus; 
 Collected Works (revised edition), seven 
 volumes, publi.shed by Houghton, Mifflin and 
 
 Company in IflOO; Part of a "Man's Life, 
 ]'M)'y. He is an ex-]5resident of the Colonial 
 Club of Candu'idge; vice-president of the 
 Authors' Club of Boston, and member of 
 th(? Autliors' Club of New York, Colonel 
 Iligginson married' at West Newton, Mass.. 
 Feb. 0, 1879, Mary Potter Thacher, and 
 they have a daughter, Margaret Waldo 
 (Higginson) Barney. He has a summer 
 residence. " Climpsewood," at Dublin, N. 
 IT.. Address: 20 Buck-inghaiii Street. Cam- 
 l)ri(lge, TVTass, 
 
 HILL, Albert Ross: 
 
 President of the l^niversity of Missouri ; 
 born in Nova Scotia. Oct. 4. 1869; son of 
 Daniel and E.sther (Davison) Hill. He was 
 educated' in countrv schools. Pictou Acad- 
 emy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N. S,, 
 A.B., 1802, Cornell TTniversity, Ph.D., 1895; 
 Graduate stiulent in the universities of 
 Heidelberg. Berlin and Strassburg. 1893- 
 1804. Clark University, summer of ISHG, 
 and he received the d^'Trce of LT.D. frniii 
 flu" Universitv of Sdiilli Cardlitn. lOO.'i.D'l- 
 liousie Universitv. 1000, and \\'('~<inii)-;lcr 
 College, 1000. He began tcichiiig in II10 
 <clioo]s of Nova Scotia. 1 SS.")-! SS7 : was ]ivo- 
 fcssor of psyclH)log\' and rducitiou in 
 tlie Slate Noianal College. O^hkosh. Wis.. 
 1805-1897; associate professor of p'lilnso- 
 nliy. 1807-1808. professor of philnsnpbv and 
 director of ivsychologieal hiboratoi'ies. 
 1808-100.3. in the l^niversity of Nebras- 
 ka : professor of educational psvchol- 
 o'iv and dean of Teachers' College, Univer- 
 sity of Missouri, 1903-1007; professor of 
 (lie philosophy of education, director of the 
 School of Education, and dean of the Col- 
 lege of Arts and Sciences, Cornell Univer- 
 sity, 1007-1008; since 1908 president of 
 (lie I'niversity of Mi.ssouri, He is a member 
 of the National Council of lOducation, Na- 
 tional Educational Association, Society of 
 College Teachers of Kducatioii, American 
 Philosophical Association. Wc-t cni Pliil- 
 osDphical Association ( si'i-nt ir\- and cx- 
 pi'esidcnt). Society of Sinuia \i. aii:l I'hi 
 Beta Kajijia Society, lie iiianiid in Itali- 
 fax, \. S.. in ls!l(i. A^ncs S. I'.axdT. .\(i- 
 di'css: (nliiiiiliia. .Mo. 
 
ATKN OF AATERICA. 
 
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 HILL, David Bennett: 
 
 Lawyer: horn ai, TTavanna, N. Y., Aiip. 
 20, 1843; son of Caleb and Eunice Hill. Ho 
 was pduoated at Elniira Academy; admitted 
 to tlie bar in 1864, and in the same year was 
 appointed eity attorney of Elmira. He took 
 an active part in politics; was a delegate 
 to tbe Democratic State Convention in 
 ISfiS: olccied in 1870 and reelected in 1871 
 member of tbe New York Assembly. In tbe 
 Legislature of 1872 be was elected one of 
 tlie managers of tbe prosecution before tbe 
 Senate of rinc: judges in scandals exposed 
 at tbit time in New York City. Mr. Hill 
 was appointed in 1875, by Governor Tilden, 
 member of tbe commission to provide a 
 uniform cbarter for the cities of tbe State; 
 was chairman of tbe Democratic State Con- 
 ventions in 1877, 1881 and 1894; alderman, 
 1880-1881. and mayor in 1882, of Elmira, 
 N. Y. ; was elected lieutenant-governor in 
 Nov., 1882, and in 1884 succeeded Orover 
 Cleveland in the governorship be bad left 
 to become President of tbe LTnited States, 
 nnd was reelected in 1885 and 1888, and 
 was elected' to tbe United States Senate 
 from tbe State of New York, 1801, serving 
 from 1801 to 1807, For a number of years 
 after tbe close of President Cleveland's sec- 
 ond term David B. Hill was regarded as 
 the active leader of the Democratic party in 
 the United States, but retired before the 
 growth of tlie influence of the radical wing. 
 He was a Presidential possibility in 1806, 
 but that year saw tbe apex of his influence 
 and be retired from politics within a few 
 years. He was tbe especial champion of 
 regularity in party politics, and bis motto, 
 " I am a Democrat," was meant to express 
 the emphasis he placed on party loyalty. 
 Address: Albany, N. Y. 
 
 HILL, David Jayne: 
 
 Amba-istdor and educator: born in Plain- 
 field, N. J,, June 10, 1850; son of Daniel 
 T. and Lydia Ann (Thompson) Hill. He 
 was graduated from Bucknell University, 
 A.B., 1874, A.M., 1877; from tbe University 
 of Berlin, and ficole Libre des Sciences, 
 Politiques, Paris. He received the degree 
 of LL.D. from Colgate University, 1884, 
 Union University, 1002, University of Penn- 
 
 sylvania, 1002; and Hie Degree of Dnctcur 
 es Lcitres from the Uni versify of Ceiicva, 
 1007. He was president of Bucknell T'ni- 
 versity. 1870-1888; of tbe TTniversily of 
 Rocbesier. 1888-1806; and professor of di- 
 plomacy in Columbian T^niversily. Wash- 
 ington. D. C, 1800-100.3. He has traveled 
 much in Europe and made researches 
 in various libraries and archives. Hp 
 was first assistani secretary of State of 
 the Ignited Slalcs, m!)S-1003: en-oy ex- 
 traordinary and minister plenipotentiary 
 of tbe United States to Switzerland. 1003- 
 1005, and to the Netherlands, 1005-1008. 
 and since July 1. 1008 has been American 
 ambassador to Cermany. Dr. Hill was del- 
 egate plenipotentiary of the United States 
 to tbe Second Peace Conference at Tbe 
 Hague. 1007. He is author of: Life of 
 Washington Irving; Life of William Cullen 
 Bryant, 1878; Elements of Psychology, 
 1886: Social Influence of Christianity. 1888: 
 Principles and Fallacies of Socialism, 1888; 
 rxenetic Philosophy, 1893; The Conception 
 and Realization of Neutrality, 1002: Tlie 
 Life and Work of Hugo Grotius, 1902; 
 The Contemporary Development of Diplom- 
 acy, 1904 ; and is engaged' upon A History 
 of Diplomacy in the International Develop- 
 ment of Europe (Longmans), of which two 
 volumes have appeared; The Struggle for 
 Universal Empire, 1905, and The Establish- 
 ment of Territorial Sovereignty, 1006. In 
 politics be is a Republican. He is a fel- 
 low of the American Association for tbe 
 Advancement of Science, a member of tbe 
 Sons of the Revolution, and of tlie Century, 
 Metropolitan and Authors Clubs of New 
 York City, Cosmos Club of Washington, D. 
 C, Genesee Valley Club of Rochester. He 
 married in Williamsport. Pa., June 6, 1886, 
 Jiiliet Lewis Packer. Address : American 
 Embassy, Berlin, Germany. 
 
 HILL, Ebenezer J.: 
 
 Congressman; born in Redding. Conn., 
 Aug. 4, 1845. He was educated in a pub- 
 lic school at Norwalk and' entered Yale 
 in the class of 1865. In 1892 he received 
 fiom Yale University the honorary degree 
 of M.A. In 1S63 he Joined the army as a 
 civilian, and remained until the close of 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 the war. He was engaged in enibusssh 
 the war. lie was engaged in business from 
 that time until elected to the Fifty-fourth 
 Congress;, lie has held the commercial po- 
 sitions of secretary and treasurer of the 
 Norwalk Iron Works, president of the Nor- 
 walk Street Railway Company, president 
 of the Xorwalk Gaslight Company, and is 
 now vice-president of the Norwalk ]\Iills 
 Company and vice-president of the National 
 Bank of Norwalk. He is a past grand mas- 
 ter and past grand representative of the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Con- 
 necticut; has served twice as burgess of 
 Norwalk, twice as chairman of the board of 
 school visitors; was the Fourth district 
 delegate to the National Republican Con- 
 vention of 1884; was a member of the Con- 
 necticut Senate for 188G-18S7: served one 
 term on the Republican State Central Com- 
 mittee; was elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fif- 
 ty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty- 
 eightli. Fifty-ninth, and Sixtietli Congresses. 
 and he was reelected in 1908 to the Sixty- 
 first Congress, from the Fourth Connecticut 
 District. Address: Norwalk. Ctniu. 
 
 HILL. Frank Pierce: 
 
 Librarian of the Brooklyn Public Li- 
 brary; born in Concord, N. H., Aug. 22, 
 18.55: son of Cyrus and Nancy Long 
 (Walker) Hill. Educated local public 
 school ; graduated Dartmouth College, B.S., 
 1876; Litt.D., 1906. He was elected librar- 
 ian of the Lowell Public Library, 1881; 
 called to Patterson, N. J., 1885, and there 
 organized (under the act of 1884) the first 
 free library in New Jersey; later inaugu- 
 rated the Salem (Mass.) Public Library, 
 and in 1889 became librarian of the 
 first free public library in Newark, N. J., 
 until 1901, when called to his present po- 
 sition as librarian of the Brooklyn Public 
 Liluary. He was secretary of American 
 Liljrary Association for five years, succeed- 
 ing Melvil Dewey, its first secretary; presi- 
 dent of same, 1905-1906. He married. May 
 17, 1880, Annie :^I., daughter of Robert 
 Wood, of Lowell. Address: Public Library, 
 Brevoort I'lace, Urooklj'n, N. Y. 
 
 HILL, Frederick Trevor: 
 
 Lawyer, author ; born in Brooklyn. N. Y., 
 May 5,^ 1866; son of Edward and Mary Hill. 
 He was educated in the Brooklyn Polytechnic, 
 was graduated from Yale, B.A., 1887; Co- 
 lumbia Law School, LL.B., 1889, honorary 
 M.A., conferred by Yale, 1907. He is au- 
 thor of: Minatures from Balzac (with S. 
 P. Griffin), 1893; The Case and Exceptions 
 (short stories), 1900; The Care of Estates 
 (law), 1901; The Minority, 1902; The 
 Web, 1903; The Accomplice, 1905; Lincoln 
 the Lawyer, 1900 (Century) ; Decisive Bat- 
 tles of the Law, 1907; also various contri- 
 butions to magazines since 1901. He is a 
 member of the New Y'ork Bar Association 
 and Century, Authors, Plaj'ers', Ardsley 
 and Down Town Clubs. He married in 
 1895, Mabel Wood. Residence: 29 Wash- 
 ington Square, West. Address: 56 Wall 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 HILL, George William: 
 
 Astronomer; Ikuu in New York City. 
 March 3, 1838. He was graduated fiom 
 Rutgers College, A. 15., 1859, Ph.D., 1872; 
 and he received the honorary degree of Sc.D. 
 from Cambridge University, England. 1892: 
 LI..D., Columbia. 1894, ' Princeton. lS9(i. 
 lie was assistant in the ollice of the Ameri- 
 can Ephemcris and Nautical Almanac, 1861; 
 received the medal of the Royal Astron- 
 omical Society of England', 1887, and also 
 received the Damoiseau prize of the Paris 
 Academy for researches in celestial mechan- 
 ics, and the Schubert prize of the St. Peters- 
 burg Academy in 190."). lie is a lecturer in 
 celestial nieclianic-^. ('(ilinnbia Cniversity; 
 member (if liic Natiduai .\*-:uh>iuy of Sci- 
 ences, Astroiioniic;il and .\strophysical So- 
 ciety of Americ.i. Americin Mathematical 
 Society (jjrcsideiit . 1894-1890), American 
 l'hilo>()i>hical Society associate fellow of 
 tlie American Academy of Sciences; meinber 
 of Die New York Ac^ulemy of Sciences; for- 
 eign associate of the Royal Astronomical So- 
 ciety of England; foreign member of tlie 
 Ivoyal Society of l^ngland. Cambridge (Eng- 
 land) PJulosopiiical Society. .Manchester 
 (England) Literary and IMiihisopliical So- 
 ciety; corresponding iiieinhcr of tlie Paris 
 
.JA.MKs Jkko.me Hill 
 li-.iilroad Proidciit 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 825 
 
 Aciulpiiiy of Sciences, lie is nulhdr of much 
 work on ni;itlietu;iticiil suhjcets. puijli.slied 
 as Coliectod Malhoniatical Works and con- 
 trilintor to niathonintical and astronoinifal 
 jonrniiis. .Vddi'ess: \N'csl Xvaok. N. Y. 
 
 HILL, Henry Wayland: 
 
 Lawyer: born in Isle La Motte, Vt., Nov. 
 13, 1853; son of Dyer and Martha P. 
 (Hall) Hill. He was graduated from the 
 University of Vermont, A.B., 1876, A.M., 
 1881, LL.D., 1900. He was principal of 
 Swanton (Vt.) Union School. 1877-1879; 
 Chateangay (N. Y.) Academy, 1879-1883; 
 admitted' to the New York State Bar at 
 Albany, Jan. 24, 1884 ; has been in general 
 practice at Buffalo since 1884; member of 
 New Y'ork Constitutional Convention, 1894. 
 State Assembly, 1896-1900; State senator, 
 1901-1908. Senator Hill is vice-president 
 Buffalo Historical Society, secretary and 
 treasurer of the Board of Managers of the 
 State Normal School, one of the Commis- 
 sioners on the part of the State of New 
 Y'ork known as the Lake Champlain Tercen- 
 tenary Celebration Commission and its secre- 
 tary, first vice-president of New York State 
 Waterways Association, trustee of the En- 
 dowment Fund of the Commercial Univer- 
 sity of Vermont, Alpha Chapter of Ver- 
 mont of Phi Beta Kappa Society, the Bib- 
 liophile Society of Boston. He was chair- 
 man of the delegation to the New Y'ork 
 State Bar Association, to the American Bar 
 Association at St. Paul, Minn., 1906; mem- 
 ber board of managers of Buffalo Historical 
 iSoeiety of the Masonic order (Knights 
 Templar, Scottish Rite Consistory), Knights 
 of Pythias. Delta Psi fraternity of Uni- 
 versity of Vermont. He has private li- 
 brary of rare and valuable books. He is 
 autlior of : The Develoi^ment of Constitu- 
 tional Law in New York; article on Water- 
 ways in the Encyclopedia Americana; con- 
 tributor to the Bibliophile edition of the 
 Odes and Epodes of Horace, and also wrote 
 an Historical Review of Waterways and Ca- 
 nal Construction in New Y^ork. Senator Hill 
 is author of several amendments to the 
 State Constitution, and was one of the prin- 
 cipal advocates of the 1,000-ton barge ca- 
 nal. He is a member of the LTniversity Club 
 
 of Buffalo. He married at Swanton, Vt., 
 Aug. 11, 1880. Harriet Augu.sta Smith. 
 Address: 471 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, 
 N. Y. 
 
 HILL, James Jerome: 
 
 Railroad jiresident and financier; son fif 
 James and Anne (Dunbar) Hill. He is of 
 Scotch and Irisli descent, and was born near 
 Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario, Cana- 
 da, Sept. 16. 1838. From his seventh to his 
 fifteenth year he attended Rockwood Acad- 
 emy, a Quaker school, where he was care- 
 fully instructed in mathematics and Latin. 
 Tlie death of his father in 1853 prevented 
 his studying for the medical profession, as 
 had been intended, and he secured employ- 
 ment in a country store. Early in 1856 he 
 made a tour of the United States, from 
 IMaine to ^linnesota. and decided to settle 
 in St. Paul. Here lie engaged as shipping 
 clerk with J. W. Bass & Compan}', agents 
 for the Dubuque & St. Paul Packet Com- 
 pany's line of Mississippi River steamboats, 
 and used the opportunity afforded him by 
 this position to carefully study all subjects 
 relating to river transportation; especially 
 that of fuel. In 1865 he took the agency of 
 the Northwestern Packet Company's line of 
 Mississippi River steamboats; and when 
 this line was merged' with the Davidson 
 line, in 1867, he engaged in a general trans- 
 portation and fuel business. In the mean- 
 time, the First Division of the St. Paul 
 & Pacific Railroad Company had built and 
 put into operation a portion of its railroad, 
 beginning near the steamboat landing in St. 
 Paul and running westward, through Min- 
 neapolis, to the prairie region beyond, with 
 a branch up the Mississippi River toward 
 St. Cloud, and Mr. Hill had become its 
 station agent at St. Paul. In this way his 
 career as a railroad man began. In 1869 
 lie formed the fuel and warehousing firm 
 of Hill, Griggs &, Company, and in 1870 
 the Red River Transportation Company, 
 for operating a line of steamboats on the 
 Red River of the North, between points in 
 the United States, and the province of 
 INIanitoba. Mr. Hill was the first to place 
 mineral coal on the market at St. Paul. 
 In 1872 the first regular through transpor- 
 
826 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 tation service between SI. Paul and Winni- ] opinion. The system also has two large 
 peg — then Fort Garry — was established sized and swift passenger steamers on the 
 by him. In 1875, together with E. N. Saun- (ireat Lakes, connecting Duluth and Chica- 
 ders, C. W". Ciriggs, and \Vm. Rhodes, he go with the Lake Erie ports. Mr. Hill is 
 formed the Northwestern Fuel Company ; a nieniber of the Union, Metropolitan, Down 
 but three years later sold all his interests in Town. Larchniont Yacht, New York Y'acht, 
 the fuel and steamboat companies. In 1877 Manhattan and Jekyl Island Clubs. He 
 Mr. Hill and his associates obtained control married Mary T. Mahegan, and they have 
 of the St. Paul &. Pacific Railroad Com- five children. Residence: 240 Summit Ave- 
 pany and the first division of the St. Paul nue, St. Paul, Minn, and 763 Fifth Avenue, 
 & Pacific Railroad Company, and in 187!) New York City. Address: St. Paul, Minn, 
 reorganized it under the name of St. Paul, 
 
 Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Com- HILL, James Langdon: 
 pany, of which Mr. Hill became general (^.i^.^^^man, lecturer, author; born at 
 manager. He became vice-president ^ ^,^^.^^^^^..-jj^ ^^^^..^^ ^^^.^^.^.j^ ^^^ ^g^g He was 
 1882, and president in 1883, and was the , .^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ j^^^,^ ^^^^^„^ -^ Ig^l (Dj, 
 first to propose^a railway ^''0™ ^he Great , ^^.^^^^ ^^^^j. .^^ j^^^^ College, 1872; gradu- 
 ated from Andover Theological Seminary, 
 
 Lakes to the Pacific Coast, through the 
 great region lying between the International 
 boundary line on the North and the North- 
 ern Pacific Railroad on the South. The ex- 
 tension of the Hill lines toward the Pacific 
 Coast began in 1880; and by 1893 they had 
 reached Pugefs Sound, with a branch start- 
 ing from the main line in Central Montana 
 and running southwest, through Great Falls 
 and Helena, to Butte. The St. Paul, Minne- 
 apolis and Manitoba organization being 
 deemed inadequate for an extensive trans- 
 continental and international transporta- 
 tion system, in 1890 the railway and prop- 
 erties of that company were taken over by 
 the Great Northern Railway Company, 
 which has since operated or controlled them ; 
 Mr. Hill all tliat time having been its pres- 
 ident, for the better handling of the 
 Asiatic lr;i(lc. a line of steamships, under 
 the name ut (iical Northern Steamship Com- 
 pany, was established, for which were con- 
 structed, in an American yard, two of the 
 largest and most capacious steamships ever 
 planned up to that time. The experiment 
 was not, however, successful. One of the 
 vessels was lost and for reasons having to 
 do with llie disadvantages of American own- 
 ership of sea-going vessels tlie attempt to 
 carry on an Asiatic trade has not been 
 pushed. During the past few years Mr. 
 Hill lias taken a il<'<|) iiilcrcsl in adairs 
 aU'ecting the coniim rcial ucll'arc of the 
 United States and liis public nllerances liave 
 hud material weight in shaping public 
 
 1875. Before his graduation he was called 
 to the North Congregational Church in 
 Lynn, Mass. He was one of four clergymen, 
 in 1891, to make addresses and to plant So- 
 cieties of Christian Endeavor in England; 
 and he founded the Society at Old Boston, 
 England. Dr. Hill has made addresses in al- 
 most all the States from one ocean to the 
 other; and he has single lecturers which he 
 has given more than a hundred times. He 
 is a trustee of Iowa College and has been 
 a trustee, from the beginning to now, of the 
 United Society of Christian Endeavor. Dr. 
 Hill was one of four who secured control 
 of the Golden Kiilc. a religious paper, and 
 established it as a champion of the Socie- 
 ties of Endeavor. He is author of: The 
 Growth of Government, wliicli was publish- 
 ed by vote of the Legislature of Massachu- 
 selts, and of: ^Modern Methods of Chris- 
 tian Nurture; The Superlative Vacation; 
 A Decade of History; Seven Sorts of Suc- 
 cessful Sunday Evening Services, and his 
 leallets and newsjjaper articles are very 
 numerous. He married in 1878, Lucy B. 
 JJunham, daughter of the chaplain of the 
 ; Massachusetts Senate. Address: 325 La- 
 1 fayelte Street, Salem, Mass. 
 
 HILL, Joseph Morrison: 
 
 .lmi>t; lidiii in \iHlh Caroliua, Sept. 
 :2, lS(i4; educated at tiie I'liiversity of Ar- 
 ! kansas and was graduated from Lebanon 
 
MEN ()]- AMI-KICA. 
 
 827 
 
 (Tennessee), Law School, in 1883. One of 
 the authors of Sand'cls & Hill's Digest of 
 the Statutes, 1S94. Ho is eliief justice of 
 (he Su]>r('ino Court of Arkansas, elected as 
 such Sc|)((Mnlier, 1004. Address : l,ittle 
 Koek, Aik. 
 
 HILL, William Henry: 
 
 Baidcer; horn in Boston, July 14, 18.18; 
 son of William Hill and Abby (Reniick) 
 Hill. After completing his educational pre- 
 paration in tlie Roxbury High School, he 
 engaged in 1855 as clerk in a publishing 
 house which developed into the firm of 
 Chase, Nichols and Hill, in which he was 
 a partner for two years, then was in busi- 
 ness for himself for eight years as a pub- 
 lisher and bookseller until in 1869 he be- 
 came a member of the present banking firm 
 of Richardson, Hill and Company, now 
 one of the most prominent on the Boston 
 Stock Exchange. Mr. Hill is also a mem- 
 ber of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, 
 the Boston Real Estate Exchange and other 
 commercial organizations, and his firm is 
 constantly identified with large monetary 
 operations and the financing of large en- 
 terprises in the New England States. Mr. 
 Hill is trustee of some large estates, is a 
 director of the First National Bank of 
 Boston, the Boston Insurance. Company and 
 various other corporations; and he is a 
 member of the Bunker Hill Monument As- 
 sociation, the Bostonian Society, Algonquin 
 Club, Boston Art Club, Colonial and Coun- 
 try Clubs of Boston. He married in Bos- 
 ton, Jan. 8, 1802, Sarah E. May. Resi- 
 dence: Brookline, Mass. Office: 50 Con- 
 gress Street, Boston. 
 
 HILLIS, Newell Dwight: 
 
 Clergyman, author; born in Magnolia, 
 Iowa, Sept. 2, 1858. He was educated in 
 Lake Forrest University, M.A., Iowa College, 
 and the .McCormick Theological Seminary, 
 Chicago (D.D., Northwestern University). 
 He entered the Presbyterian ministry, 1887, 
 and was pastor at I'eoria, 111., three years, 
 ana at Evanston, 111., four years; succeeded 
 the hit.' Professor David Swing as pastor of 
 ('(iilral Church, Chicago (an independent 
 church), 181)4-1899; and since 1899 has been 
 
 l)astor of Plymouth Cliureh, Brooklyn, Con- 
 gregationalisl, (succeeding Dr. Lyman Ab- 
 bott. Dr. llillis is autlior of: A Man's 
 Value to Society; How tlic Inner Liglit bail- 
 ed ; Investment of Influence; (ire.at Books 
 as Life Teachers; Foretokens of Hnmortal- 
 ity; Iiilhience of Christ in .Modern Life; 
 Qiiest of Happiness; Success Tiirough Self- 
 llelp; Building a Working Faitli; The 
 Quest of Joiin Chapman; Tlie Fortune of 
 the Republic. He married in Cliicago, April 
 ^4, 1887, Annie Louise Patrick, and they 
 have three children. Residence: 31 Grace 
 Court, Brooklyn. Address: Plymouth 
 Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 HILLS, Alfred Kimball : 
 
 Pliysician; born at Hudson, X. 11., Oct. 
 23, 1840; son of Alden and Nancy Currier 
 (Kimball) Hills. He was educated in sci- 
 entific and medical courses at Harvard Uni- 
 versity, 18G8; medical course, M.D., 1868- 
 1869; Hahnemann (Pennsylvania) Medical 
 College, 1870. He is president and editor of 
 the Medical Times; fellow of the Academy 
 of Medicine of New York, American Medi- 
 cal Association, Medical Societies State and 
 County of New Y'ork, the American Associ- 
 ation for the Advancement of Science, mem- 
 ber of National Geographical Society, Amer- 
 ican Social Science Association, American 
 Museum of Natural History, New York 
 Zoological Society, the Founders and Pa- 
 triots of America, New England Society, 
 Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Charity 
 Organization Society; consulting physician 
 to the jNIetropolitan Hospital, department 
 of charities, and member of the L^nion 
 League Club. He married in Philadelphia, 
 Pa., June 11, 1887, Ida Virgina Creutzborg. 
 Address: 541 ^^'est End Avenue, New \''ork 
 City. 
 
 HILLS, Joseph Lawrence : 
 
 Dean of the University of \ermont; born 
 in Boston, ^larcii 2, 1861; son of Thomas 
 and Amelia Ellen (Drew) Hills. He was 
 graduated from tlie Massachusetts Agricul- 
 tural College and received the B.Sc. in 1881, 
 and from Boston University, B.Sc. the same 
 year, honorary Sc.D. from Rutgers College 
 in 19Uo. He served as assistant cliemi&t of 
 
828 
 
 MEN OF AIVIERICA. 
 
 the Massachusetts Experiment Station, 1882- 
 1SS4, of the New Jersey Experimental Sta- 
 tion. 1884-1885: was chemist of the Phos- 
 phate Mining Company, Limited, of Beau- 
 fort. S. C, 1885-1888; chemist. 1888-1900, 
 and director of the Vermont Experiment 
 Station, since 1893. Mr. Hills has been pro- 
 fessor of agronomy since 1893, and dean of 
 the Department of Agriculture since 1898 in 
 the University of Vermont. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Society for the Promotion of 
 Agricultural Science, the Association of 
 American Agricultural Colleges and Experi- 
 ment Stations. He married at New Bruns- 
 wick, N. J., Sept. 11, 1888, Kate Conover, 
 and they have one son. Address: 59 North 
 Prospect Street, Burlington, Vt. 
 
 HILPRECHT. Herman Volrath: 
 
 Assyriologist and arclux'ologist ; born at 
 Hohenerxleben. Germany, July 28, 1859. 
 He was graduated from Herzogl Gpnna- 
 sium, of Bernburg. Germany, 1880; stud- 
 ied theology, philology and law at the Uni- 
 versities of Leipzig, w^hence he received' the 
 degree of Ph.D. in 1883, and was an in- 
 structor in Old Testament theology in the 
 University of Erlangen, 1885-1886; received 
 the degree of D.D. from tlie University of 
 Pennsylvania, 1894, and LL.D. from Prince- 
 ton Univeisity in 1896. Dr. Hilprecht has 
 l)een professor in the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania since 1886, and was appointed Clark 
 Research professor of Assyriology and pro- 
 fessor of Semitic philology in the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania in 1902; is curator of 
 Babylonian and General Semitic section of 
 the museum. University of Pennsylvania, 
 containing over 30,000 original cuneiform 
 documents, and for the greater part pre- 
 sented by him. He was first Assyriologist 
 and later scientilic director. University of 
 Pennsylvania expedition to Nippur, Baby- 
 lonia, 1888-1900. and is editor-in-chief of its 
 ])ublieations. He reorganized the Babylon- 
 ian section of the Imperial Ottoman Mu- 
 seum', Constantinople, 1893-1907, and has 
 jnade frequent scientific explorations in 
 Asia i\Iinor and Syria. Dr. Hilprecht is an 
 honorary memlwjr of the Philosophical So- 
 ciety of Great Britain, 1892; Palestine Ex- 
 ploration Fund, London, 1897; Greek Syl- 
 
 logos, Constantinople, 1897; Geographical 
 Society of Philadelphia. 1900 : knight of the 
 first class, 1893, and commander, 1898, 
 Albrecht der Baer (German decoration) ; 
 commander Turkish Osmanie Order, 1895; 
 comtliur with star of the same, 1898; com- 
 mander of the Danish Order of Danebrog, 
 1S!)S; (German) Order Frederika, 1901; 
 Lucy Wharton Drexel Medal, 1902; Golden 
 Liakat (Turkish). 1905; and is author of: 
 Old Babylonian Inscriptions, Chiefly from 
 Xip])ur (two parts) ; Business Documents 
 of ;Murashu Sons, of Nippur, Dated' in the 
 Rnign of Artaxerxes I (with A. T. Clay) ; 
 Mathematical, Metrological and Chronologi- 
 cal Texts from the Temple Library of Nip- 
 l)ur: Frisbrief Nebukadnezar's I; Assyriaca, 
 VAne Nachlese auf dem Gebiete der As- 
 syriologie; Pvccent Researches in Bible 
 Lands (with a number of other scholars) ; 
 Explorations in Bible Lands During the 
 Nineteenth Century (with four German 
 scholars ) , eighth edition ; Die Ausgrabungen 
 in Bel-Tempel zu Nippur (also English edi- 
 tion) ; Ausgrabungen in Assyrien und 
 Babylonien; and numerous contributions to 
 scientific journals. Address: 807 Spruce 
 Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 HIMMELWRIGHT. A. L. A.: 
 
 Civil engineer, author; born in Milford 
 Square. Bucks County, Pa., Feb. 7, 1865; 
 son of Charles R. and Susan (Artman) 
 Hinnnelwright. He was graduated from 
 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. N. 
 \.. 1888; was transitman and topographer 
 on railroad surveys for Northern Pacific 
 Railroad, in Idaho, 1888-1889; assistant 
 engineer of the Ronie, Watertown & Ogdens- 
 l)uig Railroad, 1889-1900; in charge of en- 
 gineering operations for W. A. Engeman, 
 Moortield, West Virginia, in development of 
 limestone i)roperty, etc., 1890-1891; exam- 
 ination, purchase and development of phos- 
 phate properties in Florida ; location and 
 construction of branch railroad, Williston 
 to .Montbrook, and now i)art of Plant sys- 
 tem, 1891-1892; designing and constructing 
 operating plant of Columbia Granite Com- 
 pany. :\Iiddletown. Conn.. 1892-1895; mana- 
 ger department lire-proof construction for 
 John A. Roebling's Sons Company, New 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 S-J!t 
 
 York City, 1S95-1899; general manager of 
 the Roebling Construction Company since 
 1899. He is author of: In the Heart of 
 the liittcr Root Mountains, 1895; Tests, 
 1898; The Jialtimore Fire, 1904; The San 
 Francisco Earthquake and' Fire, 190G; The 
 Pistol and Revolver, 1908; contributor to 
 North American Review, Engineering Mag- 
 azine, etc. President of United States Re- 
 volver Association (life member; director 
 New York State Rifle Association; mem- 
 ber of American Society of Civil Engineers, 
 American Geographical Society (life mem- 
 ber). National Geographical Society, Man- 
 hattan Rifle and Revolver Association, Chi 
 Phi and Sigma Xi fraternities. For amuse- 
 ment and recreation in 1903, he made an 
 original map and survey of the central por- 
 tion of Idaho, between the middle fork and 
 the headwaters of the Salmon River, em- 
 bracing an area of 600 square miles. Re- 
 creations: Capturing big game, mountain 
 scenery photography, pistol and revolver 
 shooting. He is a member of the Engineers' 
 Club, of New York. He married in Al- 
 bany. N. Y., Jan. 2.1, 1895. Harriet Sage 
 Hamlin, and has a son, Kenneth Hamlin. 
 Residence: Stockholm, N. J. Address: 
 949 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 HINDS. John I. D.: 
 
 Professor of chemistry, and dean of Pea- 
 body College for Teachers; born in Guilford 
 County, N. C, Dec. 13, 1847; son of John 
 and Rhoda (Webb) Hinds. He was grad- 
 uated from Cumberland University, A.B., 
 later A.M., C.E. and LL.D.; and he took 
 post-graduate work in chemistry at Har- 
 vard, and in the University of Berlin. He 
 was professor of chemistry at Cumberland 
 University, 1873-1899, and since 1899 has 
 been professor of chemistry in the Univer- 
 sity of Nashville. Dr. Hinds is a member 
 of the American Chemical Society, the 
 Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft, and tlie 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science; and he is a contributor to sci- 
 entific and literary journals, and author of 
 two works on chemistry. He is a 32d-degree 
 Mason and Knight Templar. Address: 
 Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 HINDS, Warren Elmer: 
 
 Economic entomologist; born at Town- 
 send, Mass., Sept. 20. 187G; son of Warren 
 D. and Mary P. (Colljy) Hinds. He was 
 educated in the Massachusetts Agricultural 
 College, Amherst, Mass., and Boston Uni- 
 versity, 1895-1899, and did post-graduat<- 
 work at the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 
 lege, 1899-1902, receiving the degree of Ph. 
 D; He assisted at the Hatch Experiment 
 Station, Mass., 1899-1900; had a lecture 
 coui'se in entomology at the Maryland Ag- 
 ricultural College Summer School in 1901, 
 and was special assistant of the United 
 States Department of Agriculture Bureau 
 of Entomology, Washington, D. C, in the 
 summer of 1901. Dr. Hinds became a spec- 
 ial field agent of the Bureau of Entomol- 
 ogy, July 1, 1902, and was in charge of the 
 Cotton Boll Weevil Laboratory of the Bu- 
 reau of Entomology from July 1, 1903, to 
 Sept. 30, 1907. He has published several 
 bulletins of the Bureau of Entomology upon 
 the Mexican Cotton Boll Weevil. He has 
 been professor of entomology in the Ala- 
 bama Polytechnic Institute, and entomolo- 
 gist to the Alabama Agricultural Experi- 
 ment Station since Oct. 1, 1907. He is a 
 fellow of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science; member of the 
 Washington Entomological Society; the As- 
 sociation of Economic Entomologists ; Ento- 
 mological Society of America ; Committee 
 of 100 on Public Health; the Phi Kappa Phi 
 and College Shakespearean Clubs of the 
 Massachusetts Agricultural College. He 
 married at Templeton, ]\Iass., March 4, 1903, 
 Edith Goddard Gray. Address: Auburn. 
 Ala. 
 
 HINITT, Frederick William: 
 
 President of the Central University of 
 Kentucky; born at Kidderminster, England, 
 Nov. 2, 18G6; son of John and Selina (Wil- 
 liams) Hinitt. He was graduated from 
 West Minster College, :Missouri, B.S.. 1889, 
 B.A.. 1890, A.M. in 1892. llie degrees of 
 Ph.D.. 189(). and D.D., 1902, were conferred 
 upon him by the University of Wooster. as 
 well as that of D.D. by his alma mater in 
 1904. He became pastor of the Presbyter- 
 
830 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ian Cluirch at Warrenslmrg. Mo., 1892-1805, i in New York City; then for several years 
 pastor of tlie First Pn-sbyterian Church of was teacher at the National Conservatory 
 Ottumwa. Iowa, 1895-1900, and in the latter Of Music. Now York City; director of iini- 
 year became ])resident of Parsons Colle,i,'o, sic at Colinnl)ia University and Metropoli- 
 "I'airli.'ld. Iowa, ait.l in 1004 was elected : tan Opera House, New York C^ily ; and la- 
 ], resident ot (Vulral Liiiversity of Kentucky, , ter managed, at Philadelphia, Hinriohs' 
 at. Danville, lie is trustee of the Presby- | Opera Company, which was for 
 terian Theological Seminary, and of the 
 
 Central University of Kentucky; is a mem- 
 ber of Phi ]:)elta Theta fraternity. He mar- 
 lied at Fulton, Mo., June 29, 1802, Elfie 
 Hampton Humphreys, and has three chil- 
 dren. Address: Danville. Ky. 
 
 HINKLEY. 
 
 John: 
 
 
 
 
 i/awyer : 
 
 Imiii in 
 
 r.alti 
 
 more. 
 
 March 1, 
 
 1804; son 
 
 (if l-ldwan 
 
 1 Oti 
 
 -^ an( 
 
 1 Anne M. 
 
 (Keemle ) 
 
 ilinkley. 
 
 He 
 
 \va^ 
 
 graduated 
 
 from .liilin-- 
 
 Ilupkiii^ I 
 
 'iiivc 
 
 I'-ity. 
 
 A.B., 1884. 
 
 fiom tlie liiixi isity of Maiyland, 188G, was 
 admitted to tlie l)ar in ISSt;. and since 1889 
 has been a member of the law tirm of Hink- 
 ley and Morris, Baltimore. He has been 
 secretary of the American liar Association 
 since lSi):5: i- a nieuilier of the .Maryland 
 State Bar Association, the Bar Association 
 of Baltimore City; is a director of the Fe- 
 male House of Refuge and the Friendly Inn. 
 He served as captain in the Fifth Maryland 
 Regiment of l". S. Volunteer Infantry in 
 the S])anisli Anieriian War. and i~ now 
 major of the j^'ifth Regiment of Infantry 
 in the .M;ir>land National (iuavd. He i- a 
 Democrat and a Suedenborgian ; and he is a 
 mend)er of the University, .Johns Ho])kins. 
 Seedbrook I'ark (iolf. Baltimore Country 
 and Baltimore Whist Clubs. Residence: 
 54 West Biddle Street. OlHce: 21.") NorHi 
 diaries Street, Baltimore. 
 
 years a 
 favorite organization, and first introduced 
 the operas I Pagliacci and Cavalleria 
 Rusticana in America; and also produced" 
 Onteora, three-act romantic grand opera, of 
 which Mr. Hinrichs was composer. He 
 is also composer of several manuscript pro- 
 ductions for orchestra, voice, chorus, etc., 
 which have been produced. Mr. Hinrichs is 
 a Lutheran in his religious connections. He 
 married in San Francisco, Dec. 17, 1896, 
 Katherine Fleming. Address: 138 Fifth 
 Avenue, New A'ork City. 
 
 HINSHAW, Edmund Howard: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born at Greens- 
 boro, Ind., Dec. 8, 1860. He lived on his 
 father's farm until he was sixteen, and be- 
 gan teaching school and continued in that 
 [)rofession for ten years, attending college 
 intermittently, and in 1885 graduated from 
 Butler College, Indianapolis; the last year 
 he taught he removed to Fairbury, Neb., to 
 accept the superintendency of the public 
 schools; declined a reelection, and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1888; immediately be- 
 ginning the practice of law; has held va- 
 rious municipal and county ofTices, and in 
 1898 was nominated for Congress by the 
 Republicans, but was unable to overcome 
 the Fusion plurality; in 1901 was a candi- 
 date for United States Senator; was again 
 in 1902 nominated for Congress after a 
 sjjirited contest, and elected to the Fifty- 
 
 I eighth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty- 
 HINRICHS, Gustav: 1 ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. Address: 
 
 Musical conductor; born at Ludwigslust, Fairbury, Neb. 
 Mccklenberg, Germany, Dec. 10, 1850; son 
 
 HIRSCHBERG, Michael Henry: 
 
 .(mist; horn in Newburgh, N. Y., April 
 12. 1847; son of Henry and Fanny 
 (Francks) Hirschberg. He was graduated 
 
 of August and • Sophia (Havekross) Ilin 
 richs. He was graduated from Ludwigs- 
 lust Gymnasium, and studied music in 
 Hamburg under Angelo Reissland and Ed- 
 ward Marxsen. He came to the United , from Newburgh Free Academy, 1862. He 
 States in 1870; and engaged as a teacher 1 Practised at Newburg until elected justice 
 of music, later' with Theodore Tliomas as of the Supreme Court ; was a meiid)er of the 
 associate conductor of the National Opera I Newburgh Board of Education, 1871-1883; 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 831 
 
 special coiiiily jiulfjo of Orange County. 1875- 
 1878; (lisliict. attorney of Orange County, 
 1889-1895; State delegate to Constitutional 
 ( 'oinciiiioii, 1894; elected Justice Supreme 
 ('(lint of Stale of New York, 1896; assigned 
 to the Appellate Division, Second Depart- 
 ment, Brooklyn, 1900; appointed presiding 
 justice, Janiuiry, 1904, for the term expiring 
 Dec. 31, 1910. Justice Hirsehberg is a 
 member of the Republican, Manhattan, Law- 
 yers', Hamilton, Brooklyn, Powellton, New- 
 hurgh City Clubs. He married in New York 
 City, March 16, 1878, Lizzie McAUes, and 
 has four children. Residence: Newburgh, 
 N. Y. 
 
 HISCOCK, Frank: 
 
 Lawyer; l)i)rn in Ponipey, N. Y., Sept. 
 ti, 1834; son of Richard' and Cynthia (Har- 
 ris) Hiscock. He was educated in Pom- 
 pey (New York) Academy; was admitted 
 to the New York bar 1851, became a mem- 
 ber of the firms of L. H. and F. Hiscock, 
 Hiscock, Doheny & Gifford, and Hiscock, 
 Doheny, Williams & Cowie. He was district 
 attorney of Onondaga County, N. Y., 1860- 
 1863; member of the New York State Con- 
 stitutional Convention, 1867; representative 
 in Congress 1877-1887; U. S. senator from 
 New York, 1887-1893. In 1876 he was a 
 delegate to National Republican Conven- 
 tion; in 1880 was a delegatfe-at-large to the 
 Republican National Convention; in 1884 
 was delegate-at-large to the Republican Na- 
 tional Convention, and presided in part at 
 this convention; in House of Representa- 
 tives was a member of Committee on Elec- 
 tions, of the Potter Investigating Commit- 
 tee to investigate the election of President 
 Hayes; the chairman of the Committee on 
 Appropriation, and a member of the Com- 
 mittee on Ways and Means; in the Senate 
 was a member of the Committee on Finance, 
 Interstate Commerce, Coast Defenses and 
 Patents; and on a Special Coumiittee on 
 the Reports of the Pacific Railroad Commis- 
 sioners and the President's Message there- 
 on. Director of Syracuse Savings Bank; 
 Trust and Deposit Company, of Onondaga; 
 State Bank of Syracuse. He married at 
 Tully, N. Y., Nov. 23, 1859, Cornelia King; 
 
 and has two children. Address: 401 West 
 
 Onondaga Street, Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 HISCOCK, Frank Harris: 
 
 Lawyer and justice of tlie Suprenu> Court; 
 born in Tully. X. V., ;V])ril 16, 1856. He 
 was graduated from Cornell University, 
 A.B. in 1875, and is a member of Kappa 
 Alpha fraternity. In 1878 he was admitted 
 to the bar. ]\lr. Hiscock was a member of 
 the Republican State Committee, 1894-1895, 
 and has been justice of the Supreme Court 
 since 1896. He was a member of the Fourth 
 Appellate Division, 1901-1905; acting as- 
 sociate judge of the Court of Appeals .since 
 January, 1906. He is trustee of Cornell 
 University; director of the State Bank of 
 Syracuse, and the Trust and Safe Deposit 
 Company of Onondaga ; also of Whitman 
 and Barnes Manufacturing Company. 
 Judge Hiscock married in Syracuse, N. Y., 
 in October, 1879, Miss Barnes. Address: 
 Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 HITCHCOCK, Mary E. (Mrs. Roswell D.): 
 
 Author, explorer; horn in Virginia, daugh- 
 ter of Thomas A. Higgins, of Norfolk, Va., 
 and Cecelia (Fitzgerald) Higgins. Her ed- 
 ucation was secured in Lawrence Academy 
 from which she received academic honors. 
 She married Commander Roswell D. Hitch- 
 cock, U. S. N., and has one daughter, Mrs. 
 Harriman. Mrs. Hitchcock accompanied 
 Commander Hitchcock to the Vienna E.xpo- 
 sition in 1873, Paris Exposition of 1878, 
 and to Japan, 1882, where his ship remained 
 two years, and again in 1892, when Com- 
 mander Hitchcock was captain of U. S. S. 
 Alei't. After the death of the commander 
 she made a tour of tlie world. In 1898 
 Mrs. Hitchcock went to Klondike, climbing 
 Skagway Pass on foot before the days of 
 the railroad, and was so impressed' with 
 the mining and agricultural possibilities 
 of that re>ion that she returned to spread 
 the knowledge she had gained in lectures, 
 which added largely to funds for churches 
 and hospitals. She returned' to the Golden 
 Xortli, where she staked more than 100 
 claims and became so deeply interested 
 financially that she spent the greater part 
 
832 
 
 MEN OF ABERICA. 
 
 of tivf years tlicri'. Mr-;, llitchcnck is au- 
 tlior of: I'wo W iHiicii in t!ic i\loiuliki^ 
 ( I'litiiaiiis ) . and Talt-s Out of Si'liool About 
 Xayal Oincors by <i Woman Who Has Lived 
 on a Man-of-War. Slio organized in I'HU 
 and is president of The Kntertainuicnt (lull 
 of Xew York, uieetiniis of wliicli. at the 
 Wablorf-Astoria. have been spoken of by lli; 
 "ifreat dailies as the nraicst approaeh to a 
 Salon this city has e\ci- kimwu. .Mrs. Hiteh- 
 eock is a fellow of tlii' Auk rican (Jeoirraph- 
 ical iSociety and a uhuiIi.t of the Daun'hters 
 of the Confederacy. She was seleeted' in 
 1!)()!) for a seeret mission to the Orient. 
 Address: 44 West 4.'')tli Street. Xew York 
 City. 
 
 HITCHCOCK, Ripley: 
 
 Author, editor; born at Fitchburg, Mass., 
 July 3, 1857; son of Alfred Hitchcock (A. 
 M.. ^r.D. ) . a distinguished surgeon and 
 publicist, and Aurilla Phebe (Wellman) 
 llitchcock, who was for a time professor of 
 Latin at Mt. Holyoke College. He was 
 graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1877. He 
 has been engaged in literary work in New 
 York City from 1879 ; was special corres- 
 pondent of the New York Tribune in Mex- 
 ico, the West, and Northwest, in the sum- 
 mers of 1882, 1883; art critic for the New 
 York Tribune. 1882-1800; literary adviser 
 fnv I). Appleton and Company, 1890-1002; 
 and now associated with Harper and Broth- 
 ers. He is a contributor to magazines, a 
 writer upon topics of art and literature, 
 American history, and life out of doors; and 
 has delivered many lecturers and addresses 
 upon art and literary subjects. He is au- 
 thor of: An American Landscape Painter, 
 C.eorge Inness; Etching in America; The 
 Western Art Movement; Representative 
 Etchings; The Madonna in Art; Water 
 Color i'ainting in America; Thomas De 
 C^uineey. .\ Study; The Louisiana Purchase 
 and the liuilding of the West; The Lewis 
 and Clark Expedition. He has also edited 
 numerous volumes, including: Tlu> Life of 
 an .\rtist (by Jules Breton) ; The Art of 
 Ihr World Illustrated in the Paintings, Stat- 
 uary and the Architecture of the World's 
 Columbian Exposition (with an introduc- 
 tion and much other text) ; The ytory of the 
 
 West Series (The Story of the Indian, The 
 Story of the Mine, The Story of the Cowboy, 
 The " Story of the Railroad, The Story 
 of the Soldier, The Story of the Ti'ap- 
 per). with introductions; Recollections 
 I in Kichard Henry Stoddard); The Trail 
 .Makers — A Library of History and Explo- 
 ration, published in seventeen volumes; and 
 other books and series. Mr. Hitchcock is 
 a member of the American Historical Asso- 
 ciation; the New Y^ork Historical Society; 
 and the X^ew England Society in New Y'ork, 
 the (_"entury Association and the Authors, 
 X"ew York Athletic and Harvard Clubs of 
 X^ew York City, Harvard Union of Cam- 
 bridge, Mass., and the National Club of 
 London. He married in Springfield, Mass., 
 May 23, 1883, Matha Wolcott Hall, who 
 died Sept. 1, 1903; and he has two sons. 
 Residence: The Strathmore, 1674 Broad- 
 way. Office: Harper and Brotliers, Frank- 
 lin Square, X"ew York City. 
 
 HOARD. William Dempster: 
 
 Journalist and farmer ; born at Stock- 
 bridge, N. Y., Oct. 10, 1836; son of Rev. 
 William Bradford and Sarah Catherine 
 (White) Hoard. After receiving an edu- 
 cation in common schools, he became a pri- 
 vate in the Civil War, of the Fourth Wis- 
 consin Infantry and First New York Light 
 Artillery. He started his first paper, the 
 Jefferson County Union. INIarch 17, 1870, 
 and Hoard's Dairyman, November, 1885. 
 He was president of the Northwestern 
 Dairyman's Association, and the Wisconsin 
 Dairyman's Association; president of the 
 Wisconsin Editorial Association; and com- 
 mander of the Department of Wisconsin of 
 the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. 
 Hoard was governor of Wisconsin. 1889- 
 1891; president of the National Dairy Un- 
 ion, and is now president of the Board of 
 Regents of the University of Wisconsin. 
 He is the owner of a large farm and herd of 
 pure^bred Guernsey cattle, lie is a nieni- 
 ber of the Wisconsin Consistory of Masons, 
 and of the Hamilton Club of Chicago. Mr. 
 Hoard married at Lake Mills, Wis.. Feb. 
 9, 1860, Agnes Elizabeth Bragg, and they 
 luive three sons. Address: I'ort Atkin-^mi, 
 Wis. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 HOBAN, Michael John: 
 
 Bishop of Scnintoii; horn in Waterloo, 
 N. J., June 0, 1853; son of Patrick and 
 Bridgid Allies (IIennij;an) Iloban. He 
 studied at Holy Cross College, Worcester, 
 Mass., lS(iS-1871, and attended the Amer- 
 ican College, Rome, Italy, 1875-1880. He 
 was ordained priest in Eome by Cardinal 
 ]\Ionaco La Valletta, May 22, 1880; was 
 consecrated bishop of Alalis, and coad- 
 jutor of Scranton, in Scranton, by Cardinal 
 Salolli, March 22, 1896; and' he succeeded 
 Bishop O'Hara as bishop of Scranton, Feb. 
 ."i, 18!)9. Bishop Hoban is a trustee of the 
 Pennsylvania Oral School, Scranton Public 
 Library, Sanatorium for Consumptives, and 
 St. Patrick's Orphan Asylum, etc. Address: 
 315 Wyoming Avenue, Scranton, Pa. 
 
 HOBART, George Vere: 
 
 Humorist and playwriglit; born in Cape 
 Breton, Nova Scotia, Jan. 16, 1867; edu- 
 cated in public schools. He engaged iu 
 newspaper work, first at Cumberland, Md., 
 and afterward at Baltimore, becoming 
 locally notable as a humoi'ist some time 
 liefore his Dinkelspiel papers attracted out- 
 side attention. Since 1899, writing for the 
 New York American and' Journal and the 
 other Hearst papers, and has published 
 many volumes of Dinkelspiel productions. 
 He is also a writer of plays, including: 
 The Ham Tree; Mrs. Black is Back; and 
 many others. He married in Baltimore, 
 Md., July 14, 1897, Sarah H. De Vries. 
 Residence: Pelham Manor, N. Y. Address: 
 Care New York American, New York City. 
 
 HOBBS, Franklin Warren: 
 
 Treasurer of the Arlington Mills, Law- 
 rence; born Roxbury, Mass., Sept. 24, 1868; 
 son of William and Mary (Cogswell) 
 Hobbs; grandson of Francis and Mary 
 (Marland) Cogswell. His immigrant an- 
 cestors included Joseph Hobbs of Bristol, 
 England, who came to Watertown, Mass., 
 in 1685, and John Cogswell, who came from 
 England to Ipswich in 1635. He was gi-ad- 
 uated at the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology, S.B., 1889. He was instructor 
 in mechanical engineering M.I.T. 1889-1891 
 53 
 
 and in 1891 began his practical work as 
 an engineer in the Arlington Mills, and 
 in 1902 he was elected treasurer of the 
 corporation, William Whitman having re- 
 signed that odice to assume the presidency. 
 He is a member and director of the Home 
 iMarket Club of Boston; a member of the 
 National Association of Wool Manufac- 
 turers; an original trustee and one of the 
 State trustees of the Lowell Textile School ; 
 a director of the Arkwright Mutual Fire 
 Insurance Company, and' a member and 
 vice-president of the National Association 
 of Cotton Manufacturers. He is a member 
 of the Arkwright, Technology and Union 
 Clubs of Boston and of the Country Club 
 of Brookline, and is president of the Epis- 
 copalian Club. He is a trustee of the 
 Cemetery of Mount Auburn. He married 
 May 31^ 1892, Jane Hallett, daughter of 
 William and Jane (Hallett) Whitman of 
 Brookline, and they have four children. 
 Residence: 78 Upland Road, Brookline, 
 Mass. Office: 78 Chauncy Street, Boston, 
 Mass. 
 
 HOBSON, Richmond Pearson: 
 
 Congressman, late naval constructor, U. 
 S. Navy; born in Greensboro, Ala., Aug. 
 17, 1870. At the age of twelve years he 
 entered the Southern University, where he 
 remained for three years. On ]\Iay 21, 1885, 
 he received the appointment of cadet at 
 the Naval Academy, Annapolis, and he was 
 graduated with high honors in 1889. He 
 also studied at the ficole d'Application du 
 Genie Maritime in Paris. He received his 
 appointment as assistant naA-al constructor 
 on July 1, 1891, and was promoted to the 
 grade of constructor on Jime 3, 1898, and 
 as such was on active duty with the North 
 Atlantic Squadron at the breaking out of 
 the Spanish- American War, on board the 
 flagship New York. He rendered efficient 
 service at the bombardment of Matanzas 
 and in the expedition against San Juan, 
 Porto Rico. When the Spanish fleet under 
 Admiral Cervera exitered the harbor of 
 Santiago de Cuba, and' was blockaded by 
 the combined fleets of Admirals Sampson 
 and Schley, it was determined by the com- 
 manding officer to attempt to cfTectually 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 stop the pjrrcss of the fleet from the harbor 
 by placing obstructions in the channel. 
 With this purpose in view the collier Mer- 
 riniac was selected, and Constructor Hobson. 
 having tendered his services, was selected 
 by Admiral Sampson to carry into effect 
 this perilous enterprise. Selecting a crew 
 of eight men from the hundred's who were 
 eager to share with Hobson the danger 
 and the glory of the expedition, on the 
 night of June 2, 1898, he entered the har- 
 bor with the vessel. No sooner had he 
 approached tlie spot designated for the 
 sinking of the Merrimac than its presence 
 was discovered by the enemy, and imme- 
 diately a concentrated fire from the forti- 
 fications at the mouth of the harbor en- 
 sued, by which the work of placing the 
 obstruction in mid-channel was so seriously 
 interfered with as to render the enterprise 
 only partially successful. Captain Hobson 
 and his crew, having attached themselves 
 to a life raft which had been provided for 
 the emergency, were picked up by the 
 S])aniards and made prisoners. After the 
 Spanish fleet was destroyed in its attempt 
 to escape from the harbor, it was deter- 
 mined by the authorities to endeavor to 
 float some of the vessels, with a view to 
 their reconstruction. To this arduous task 
 Captain Hobson was assigned, but the de- 
 struction of the ships had been so thor- 
 oughly accomplished, that but one of them 
 was raised, the ]\Iaria Teresa, which was 
 subsequently lost in an attempt to tow her 
 to an American harbor. At the close of 
 the war Captain Hobson was sent to Hong 
 Kong to supervise the reconstruction of 
 three Spanish gunboats which had been 
 partially destroyed at the battle of Manila. 
 He was, at the conclusion of this duty, 
 placed in chaige of the construction depart- 
 ment of the Navy Yard at Cavit6, P. I. 
 He returned to the United States in 1902, 
 and was for a brief period superintendent 
 of naval construction at the Crescent ship- 
 yards, Elizabeth, N. J. In Feb., 1903, he 
 tendered his resignation from the Navy. 
 Captain Hobson successfully opposed the 
 renoniination of the Hon. John Hollis Bank- 
 head in his home district of Alabama, and 
 was elected to the Sixtieth Congress from 
 
 the Sixth District, and was reelected' in 
 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress. In Con- 
 gress he has become nationally famous as 
 a champion of an enlarged Na-\y. He was 
 elected Democratic elector-at-large of Ala- 
 bama ill 1904. Tlie Southern University 
 conferred upon him the degree of LL.D.. 
 He is a member of the Kappa Alpha fra- 
 ternity. Phi Chapter, is a member of the 
 Metropolitan and Army and Navy Clubs of 
 Washington, the Seawanhaka-Corinthian 
 Yacht Club, and the Army and Navy Club 
 of New York. He married at Tuxedo Park, 
 N. Y., May 25, 1905, Grizekla Houston Hull. 
 Address: Fayette, Ala., and 2117 S Street, 
 N. W., Washing-ton, D. C. 
 
 HOCH, Edward Wallis: 
 
 Former governor of Kansas ; born at Dan- 
 ville, Ky., March 17, 1849; son of E. G. 
 and Elizabeth (Stout) Hoch. He was edu- 
 cated in Center College, Danville, Ky., went 
 to Kansas, and since 1874 has been editor 
 of the Record at Marion, Kan. He has 
 long been prominent as a leader in the 
 Republican party of his State, was a mem- 
 ber, 1889-1890 and 1893-1894. and speaker 
 pro tem. in 1893-1894 of the Kansas House 
 of Representatives. He was nominated by 
 acclamation in the State Republican Con- 
 ventions of 1904 and 190G for the office of 
 governor of Kansas, and elected', and served 
 the two terms from 1905. Governor Hoch 
 is a prominent layman of the ]\Iethodist 
 Episcopal Church. Address: Topeka, Kan. 
 
 HODGE, Henry Wilson: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in Washington, D. 
 C, April 14, 1865; son of Ledyard and 
 Susan Savage (Wilson) Hodge. He re- 
 ceived his preparatory education at Emer- 
 son Institute, Washington, and was gradu- 
 ated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 
 Troy, N. Y., as C.E. in 1885. He is con- 
 sulting engineer, member of the firm of 
 Boiler and Hodge, specialist in designing 
 bridges and structures; has designed some 
 of the most prominent railroad and mon- 
 umental bridges in the country; has acted 
 as consulting engineer to many prominent 
 railroad corporations, the National Gov- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 835 
 
 eminent and city governments ; and is 
 president of the Porterfield Construction 
 Company. He is a member of the Institute 
 of Civil Engineers of Great Britain, and 
 tiie American Society of Civil Engineers; 
 veteran of the Seventh Regiment of the 
 National Guard of New York, and is a 
 member of the Century and University 
 Clubs. ;Mr. Hodge married in Savannah, 
 Ga., Dee. 14, 1897, Sarah C. Mills. Ad- 
 dress: 51 East 82d Street, New York City. 
 
 HODGE, Richard Morse: 
 
 Clergyman, teacher; ■ born in Mauch 
 Chunk, Pa., 18G4; son of Rev. J. Aspin- 
 wall and Charlotte G. (Morse) Hodge. He 
 was educated in the public schools; grad- 
 uated .at Princeton University and" Prince- 
 ton Theological Seminary, A.B., 1886; A. 
 M., 1889; D.D., University of Nashville, 
 1901. His traveled through Egypt and Pal- 
 estine; director of extension courses for lay 
 students Union Theological Seminary, 1901- 
 1907 ; lecturer in Biblical literature, at 
 Teachers' College, Cohnubia University, 
 1902-1907, and in Extension Teaching, Co- 
 lumbia University, since 1907. He is a 
 member of the Society of Biblical Litera- 
 ture and Exegesis. Dr. Hodge is author of: 
 Historical Atlas of the Life of Christ, 1898; 
 Hodge Historical Maps, 190G; New Testa- 
 ment Authors and Their Books, 1909; has 
 written several pamphlets on Biblical liter- 
 ature and religious education. He married 
 at Glencoe, Md., 1888, Alice Austen, and 
 they have tw^o children. Residence: 552 
 West 113th Street, New York City. 
 
 HODGES, Harry Marsh: 
 
 Captain U. S. Navy; born in Carrollton, 
 111., June 21, 1855; son of Charles Drury 
 and Ellen (Hawley) Hodges. He was grad- 
 uated at the Naval Academy in 1875, and 
 on his retirement had the longest and most 
 continuous man-of-war sea service of any 
 officer of his rank in the Navy. In 1900 
 Captain Hodges completed the submarine 
 survey for the Trans-Pacific cable, incident- 
 ally discovering the greatest known ocean 
 depth. From 1901 to 1902 he was super- 
 visor of the Harbor of New York, and in 
 1904 he was promoted to the rank of com- 
 
 mander. He was hydrographer of the Navy, 
 1904-190G, and retired voluntarily, in 1903, 
 with the rank of captain. Captain Hodges 
 is a member of the Naval Order of the 
 United States, the Permanent International 
 Association of Navigation Congresses, and 
 the National Geograpiiic Society. He is 
 also a member of the Army and Navy Club, 
 of Washington, and the Universitj:, New 
 York Yacht, Manhattan, and Larchmont 
 Yacht Clubs of New York. He married in 
 New York City, Sept. 5, 1901, Laura George 
 Muir-Drew. Address: Care of the United 
 States Dispatch Agent, 4 Trafalgar Square, 
 London, England. 
 
 HODGES, Nathaniel Dana Carlile: 
 
 Librarian; born in Salem, ]\Iass.. April 
 19, 1852; son of John and Mary Osgood 
 (Deland) Hodges. He was graduated ironi 
 Harvard College, A.B., 1874, and took post- 
 graduate work in the University of Heidel- 
 berg. He became assistant in the physical 
 laboratory of Harvard University, 1877- 
 1881; assistant editor from Feb., 1883, to 
 Oct., 1885, and then editor until Feb., 1894, 
 of Science. He was assistant in the Public 
 Library of New York, 1895-1897, in the 
 Library of Harvard University, 1897 to 
 1900; and since April, 1900, has been libra- 
 rian of the Public Library of Cincinnati. 
 He was elected a fellow of the American 
 Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1879, fel- 
 low of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science in 1882; is a di- 
 rector of the Theological and Religious 
 Library Association of Cincinnati ; trustee 
 of the Cincinnati Library Society for the 
 Blind. Mr. Hodges married in Cincinnati, 
 May 13, 1886, Ad&le Louise Goepper. Ad- 
 dress: Public Library, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 HOE, Robert: 
 
 Manufacturer, inventor; born in New 
 York City, March 10, 1839; son of Robert 
 Hoe (2d). He was educated in private 
 schools of New York City. Mr. Hoe has in- 
 vented many improvements on the printing- 
 press; is head of the firms of R. Hoe & 
 Company, New York City and London, Eng- 
 land. He has always resided in New York 
 City; possesses one of the finest libraries 
 
836 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 in tlic world ; nml he has a summer resi- 
 dence at Lake \\accabu, N. Y. Mr. Hoe was 
 one of the founders of the Metropolitan 
 Museujn of Art; and founder and first pres- 
 ident of the Orolier Club of New York, and 
 ho is a member of the Union League, Cen- 
 tury, Players', Fencers', and' Engineers' 
 Clubs of New York City. Residence: 11 
 East Thirty-sixth Street. Address: 504 
 Grand Street, New York City. 
 
 HOFF, John Van Rensselaer: 
 
 Colonel, assistant surgoon-gcnoral. United 
 States Army; born at ]\Iount INIorris, N. Y., 
 April 11, 1848; son of Brevet Colonel Alex- 
 ander H. Hoff and Ann Eliza (Van Rensse- 
 laer) Hoff. He was graduated from Union 
 University as A.B., A.M., and M.D.; and 
 from Columbia University as M.D. in 1874; 
 LL.D., Bucknell, 1907; was a matriculant 
 at the University of Vienna, and was ap- 
 pointed first lieutenant assistant surgeon of 
 the U. S. Army, Nov. 10, 1874. He was 
 promoted cai)tain in 1879, major, surgeon 
 1891; lieutenant-colonel, deputy surgeon- 
 general, 1901 ; colonel assistant surgeon- 
 general, 1905. He organized the first de- 
 tachment of the Hospital Corps and com- 
 pany bearers in the U. S. Army at Fort 
 Reno, Indian Territory, in 1887, and the 
 first Company of Instruction, Hospital 
 Corps, at Fort Riley, Kan, in 1891. He 
 was chief surgeon of the first autumn ma- 
 noeuvers in the United States Army, held 
 in Oklahoma in 1888; those at Chilocco, 
 Oklahoma Territory, 1889, and at Fort 
 Riley, 1902-1900. He was recommended for 
 brevet and medal of honor in the Sioux 
 campaign of 1890 and 1891. Dr. Hoff was 
 chief surgeon of the Third Corps in the 
 Spanish-American War, 1898, and chief 
 surgeon in Porto Rico, 1898-1900. He was 
 organizer and president of the Superior 
 Board of Health and Board of Charities, 
 Porto Rico; and was in charge of hurricane 
 relief work following disaster of Aug., 1899. 
 He was detailed as chief surgeon of the 
 China Relief Expedition, Aug., 1900; on 
 duty in the surgeon-general's office of the 
 U. S. Army, 1900-1902; military observer 
 wiih the Itussian Army in Manchuria, dec- 
 orated by Tzar with Order of St. Anne 2d 
 
 class; was chief surgeon of tlie Department 
 of the Missouri, 190G, chief surgeon in the 
 Philippines in 1907. He served as instruc- 
 tor in ophthalmology, etc., in the University 
 of California, 1885; professor in the Army 
 ]\ledical School, 1901-1902; instructor in 
 Military Hygiene, General Service and 
 Staft" College, 1903-1905; professor of mili- 
 tary sanitation at the University of Ne- 
 braska, 1906. He is author of: The Most 
 Practicable Organization for the Medical 
 De|)artment of the United States Army in 
 Active Service; Outline of the Military 
 Sanitary Organizations of Some of the 
 Great Armies of the World; Military Sani- 
 tary Organization on the Lines of Com- 
 munication and at the Base; A Scheme of 
 Military Sanitary Organization; Some Sug- 
 gestions for the Organization and Interior 
 Economy of a State Medical Military Sub- 
 Depot in War Time; etc. He was president 
 of the Association of Military Surgeons of 
 the United States in 1901-1902; member of 
 the New York Academy of INIedicine, Society 
 of the War of 1812, Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion, Society of the Dragon, Sons 
 of the Revolution, and Society of Colonial 
 Wars. He married, June 22, 1875, Lavinia 
 Day. Address: Care of WaTr Department, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 HOFFMAN, Samuel Verplanck: 
 
 Trustee of real estate; born in Brooklyn, 
 May 12, 18G6; son of Eugene A. and Mary 
 C. (Elmendorf) Hoffman. He was educated 
 in Stevens Institute, M.E, 1888; Columbia 
 (College of Physicians and Surgeons), 
 Johns Hopkins University (fellow). He is 
 a director of the ]-]mpire City Fire Insur- 
 ance Companj% North River Fire Insurance . 
 Company; a fellow of the Royal Astronom- 
 ical Society; the Seventh Regiment of the 
 National Guard, New York, Holland Soci- 
 ety, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Co- 
 lonial Wars, St. Nicholas Society, New 
 York Historical Society (president). Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, Delta Phi, and American 
 Scenic and Historic Preservation Society. 
 He is a trustee of the General Theological 
 Seminary, the New York College of Dentis- 
 try, and the Hudson-Fulton Tercentenary 
 Committee; and he is a member of the 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 837 
 
 Century, Metropolitan, University, Army 
 and Navy, and Grolier Clubs of New York 
 City. Ho married, April 17, 1895, Loiiisa 
 N. Smith; children: Louisa V., born 1896, 
 Margaret E., born 1899, l<]ugenc A., born 
 1902. Address: 258 Broadway, New York 
 City. 
 
 HOGAN, John Joseph: 
 
 Catliolie bishop of Kansas City; born in 
 BrulT, County Limerick, Ireland, I\Iay 10. 
 1829; went to St. Louis, Mo. in 1848 and 
 was educated in the theological seminary 
 there, receiving his ordination to the priest- 
 hood in 1852. He was pastor of churclies at 
 Old Mines and Potosi, Mo., and later of St. 
 Michael's Church, St. Louis, which he built 
 in 1855. He was afterward missionary in 
 cliarge of the district of Northwestern Mis- 
 souri until he was consecrated, Sept. 13, 
 1808, bisliop of St. Joseph, Mo., administer- 
 ing that see until transferred. Sept, 10, 
 1880, to the new sec of Kansas City, of 
 which he became the first bishop. Address: 
 Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 HOLCOMBE, Chester: 
 
 Diplomatist, author, lecturer; born in 
 Winfield, N. Y., Oct. 16, 1844; son of 
 Cliester and Lucy (Tompkins) Holcombe. 
 He was graduated from Union College, 
 Schenectady, N. Y., A.B., 1861, A.M., 1864. 
 He was interpreter and secretary of the 
 U. S. Legation at Peking, 1871-1885; act- 
 ing minister, 1875-1876, 1878-1879, 1881- 
 1882; member of the commission for nego- 
 tiating new treaties with China, 1880; as- 
 sisted in negotiating treaty with Korea, 
 1882; appointed U. S. minister to Colombia, 
 1884, but declined. In 1896 he prepared for 
 the Chinese authorities, in Chinese and 
 English, documents for a government loan 
 of $100,000,000, and also prepared, in both 
 languages, tlie plans in detail for the con- 
 struction of double track railways about 
 3,000 miles in length, and for securing 
 funds amounting to $240,000,000 for build- 
 ing the same, and a project for the inaug- 
 uration and maintenance of schools for the 
 instruction of Chinese students in methods 
 of construction and maintenance of rail- 
 
 roads. He was Lowell Institute lecturer in 
 Boston, Feb., 1902. He translated the 
 Declaration of Independence into Chinese, 
 and wrote, in same language, a Life of 
 Christ and a manual of Mental Arithmetic. 
 He is autlior of: Travels in Western China, 
 1875; Practical Effect of Confucianism 
 Upon the Chinese Nation, 1882; Catalogue 
 and Hand-book of Antique Chinese Porce- 
 lains, 1890; The Real Chinaman, 1895; The 
 Real Chinese Question, 1900; also a writer 
 in newspapers, magazines and reviews upon 
 Far Eastern topics. Address: Rochester, 
 N. Y. 
 
 HOIDEN, Edward Singleton: 
 
 Librarian and astronomer; born in St. 
 Louis, Nov. 5, 1846; son of Edward and 
 Sarah Frances (Singleton) Holden. He was 
 graduated' from Washington University, B. 
 S., 1866, and from the U. S. Military 
 Academy in 1870; and he received the de- 
 grees of Sc.D. from the University of the 
 Pacific, and LL.D. from the University of 
 Wisconsin and Columbia College. He was 
 lieutenant of engineers U. S. Army, 1871- 
 1873; professor of mathematics in the U. S. 
 Navy, 1873-1881; president of the Univer- 
 sity of California, 1885-1888; director of 
 the Washburn Observatory, Wis., 1881-1885, 
 and of the Lick Observatory, 1888-1898. 
 He is a member of the National Academy 
 of Sciences; an honorary member of the 
 Royal Astronomical Society in London; the 
 Astronomical Society of France; the Ital- 
 ian Spectroscopic Society, and many others. 
 Mr. Holden is author of: Bastion System 
 of Fortification, 1872; Index Catalogue of 
 Nebula-, 1877; Life of Sir William Her- 
 scheld, 1881; Astronomy (with Simon New- 
 comb), 1887; Handbook of the Lick Obser- 
 vatory, 1888; Briefer Astronomy (with 
 Simon Newcomb), 1892; The Mogul Em- 
 perors of Hindustan, 1895; Mountain Ob- 
 servatories, 1896; Memorials of W. C. and 
 G. P. Bond, 1897; Pacific Coast Earth- 
 quakes, 1898; Earth and Sky, 1898; Our 
 Countr^-'s Flag, and Primer of Heraldry, all 
 in 1898; Elementary Astronomy, isQQ; 
 Family of the Sun, 1899; Essays in As- 
 tronomy, 1900; Stories of the Great As- 
 tronomers, 1900. He is editor of the Pub- 
 
838 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 lication of Waslibiirn Observatory, in four 
 A-olumcs, from 1881 to 1885; of the Lick 
 Observatory, in three volumes, from 1888. 
 Dr. Holden i.s a Knight Commander of 
 the Ernestine Order of Saxony; Knight of 
 the Royal Order of Dannebrog of Denmark, 
 etc., and is a member of the Century Club. 
 He married in 1871, Mary Chauvenet, and 
 they have one son and two daughters. Ad- 
 dress: U. S. Military Academy, West Point, 
 X. V. 
 
 HOLDEN, Liberty Emery: 
 
 Owner and publisher of the Cleveland 
 Phxin Dealer; born in Raymond', Me., June 
 20, 1833; son of Liberty and Sally (Cox) 
 Holden. He was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, A.B., 1858, A.M., 1861. 
 He was avmitted to the bar in 1862, moved 
 to East Cleveland in 1866; was manager of 
 the Pittsburgh and Lake Angeline Mines, 
 1872; interested in silver mines in Utah, 
 1876-1893; now proprietor of the Hollenden 
 Hotel and president of the Hollenden Hotel 
 Company, the Plain Dealer Publishing Com- 
 pany, the Union Club Company, Maple 
 Leaf Land' Company, Hub Transfer and 
 Storage Company; and director of the First 
 National Bank of Cleveland, Cleveland 
 Transfer and Carriage Company, Western 
 Reserve Insurance Company, Haskins Re- 
 alty Company and Lennox Realty Company. 
 Mr. Holden is vice-president of the Western 
 Reserve Historical Society, trustee of West- 
 ern Reserve University, Adelbert College 
 and I^ike View Cemetery Association; chair- 
 man of the Building Committee of the Cleve- 
 land Museum of Art; member of the Na- 
 tional Municipal League, Municipal Associ- 
 ation of Cleveland, and' American Institute 
 of Mining Engineers, the Rowfant, Univer- 
 sity and Country Clubs of Cleveland, and 
 the Alta Club of Salt Lake City. He mar- 
 ried in Kalamazoo, Mich., Aug. 14, 1860, 
 Delia E. Bulkley. Residence: Loch Ilame, 
 Lake Shore Boulevard. Bratenahl, Oiiio. 
 Ollice: 2 Plain Dealer Building, Cleveland. 
 Ohio. 
 
 HOLGATE, Thomas Franklin: 
 
 Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, 
 Northwestern University; born in Hastings 
 
 County, Ontario, April 8, 1859; son of 
 Thomas and Eleanor (Wright) Holgate. 
 He w'as graduated from Victoria College of 
 the University of Toronto, A.B., 1884, A.M., 
 1889. He was a fellow of Clark University, 
 Worcester, Mass., 1890-1893, receiving his 
 doctor's degree in 1893. The Univer- 
 sity of Illinois conferred upon him the de- 
 gree of LL.D. in 1905. He was master in 
 mathematics in a preparatory school in On- 
 tario, Canada, 1884-1890; instructor in 
 mathematics in Northwestern University, 
 1893-1894, and has since remained in the 
 faculty of that university as professor of 
 applied mathematics, 1894-1905, professor 
 of mathematics since 1905. Since 1902 he 
 lias also been dean of the college of Lib- 
 eral Arts, and was acting president of 
 Northwestern University, 1904-1906. Dr. 
 Holgate is a member of the American Math- 
 ematical Society, and was secretary of its 
 Chicago section, 1897-1905. He is also a 
 member of the Deutsche Mathematiker 
 \'ereinigung. Among his published works 
 are: Translation of Reye's Geometry of Po- 
 sition, 1898; Elementary Geometry, 1902 
 and numerous mathematical articles in sci- 
 entific journals. He is a member of the 
 University Club of Chicago. Dr. Holgate 
 married at Newburgh, Ont., July 23, 1890, 
 Georgiana Angela Burdette. Address: 617 
 Library Street, Evanston, 111. 
 
 HOLLAND, Edmund Milton: 
 
 Actor; born in New York, 1848; son of 
 George and Catherine Holland. He was ed- 
 ucated in the public schools of New York 
 ('ity. He has played leading roles in Social 
 Highwayman, 1896-1897; Eben Holden, 
 1901-1902; Pope Pius X in the Eternal City, 
 1902-1903; in 1903-1905, Captain Bedford 
 the Detective in Riidics; in 1907, he starred 
 in vaudeville in The Phantom Highwayman. 
 He also played The Bishop in The Duel with 
 Otis Skinner, etc. He married in New- 
 York, 1875, Mary E. Seward. Address: 
 Lambs' Club, New York City. 
 
 HOLLAND, James William: 
 
 Physician, author, dean of the Faculty 
 of Jeflerso]! Medical College since 1887 j 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 born in Nashville, Tenn., 1849; son of Rob- 
 ert C. and Elizabeth Holland. He was 
 graduated from University of Louisville, 
 1S()5, A.]\r.. M.D., Jefferson Medical College, 
 Pliiladelpliia, 18G8. He is professor in the 
 Medical Department of the University of 
 Louisville, 1872-1885; editor of the Louis- 
 ville Medical News, 1880; professor of med- 
 ical chemistry and toxicology at Jefferson 
 Medical College, 1885-1904. He is a mem- 
 ber of the College of Physicians, University 
 Club (Philadelphia), American Philosophi- 
 cal Society, Council on Medical Education 
 of the American jNIedical Association. Dr. 
 Holland is author of: Diet for the Sick, 
 1880; Common Poisons and the Urine, 1887; 
 chapter on Mineral Poisons in Saunders' 
 Text-book of Toxicology Medical Jurispru- 
 dence; Medical Chemistry and Toxicology; 
 also many papers on medical subjects. He 
 married, in 1877 Mary Rupert. Address: 
 2006 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 HOLLAND, William Jacob: 
 
 Presbyterian clergyman, educator, natur- 
 alist, artist, and author; born, Aug. 16, 
 1848, in Jamaica, West Indies. Gradu- 
 ated at Amherst, B.A., 1869; M.A., 1872; 
 D.D., 1888; Princeton Theological Semi- 
 nar}', 1874; Ph.D. Washington and Jeffer- 
 son!^ 1886. Sc.D., 1902; LL.D., Dickin- 
 son, 1906; New York University, 1897; St. 
 Andrews', Scotland, 1905. He was chancel- 
 lor of the Western University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, 1891-1901; since 1897 managing di- 
 rector of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; 
 vice-president of Carnegie Hero Fund Com- 
 mission since 1904; vice-president Board 
 of Trustees Western Theological Seminary 
 since 1889 ; director Chamber of Commerce 
 of Pittsburgh. He was naturalist of the 
 United States Eclipse Expeditions to Japan, 
 1887, and Africa, 1889; and is regarded as 
 an authority upon zoology, paleontology, 
 and museum administration. President En- 
 tomological Society of Western Pennsyl- 
 vania ; fellow Zoological and Entomological 
 Societies of London, member Entomological 
 Societies of Washington, New York, London, 
 Germam', France, etc. ]\Iember of the Penn- 
 sylvania Historical Society; fellow Ameri- 
 can Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
 
 ence; honorary member of the Anthropologi- 
 cal and Geograpliieal Society of Sweden, and 
 many other learned societies in Europe and 
 America. OfFicier de la Legion d'Honneur 
 de France; Ritter des Konig Preuss, Kroneu 
 Ordeus. Member of the Union and Univer- 
 sity (Pittsburgh), Cosmos (Washington), 
 and Authors (New York) Clubs. Author 
 of: The Butterfly Book, 1898; Tlie :Moth 
 Book, 1903; and many scientific papers 
 (225 titles), published by the United States 
 Government, tlie Zoological Society of Jjon- 
 don, etc. He was married, Jan. 23, 1879, to 
 Carrie T. Moorhead, youngest daughter of 
 Jolin Moorliead, an iron manufacturer of 
 Pittsburgh. Address: Carnegie Institute, 
 Schenley Park, Pittsburgh. 
 
 HOLM, Charles P.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New Y'ork City, IMarch 
 8, 1862; son of Carl and Marie (Martiens- 
 sen) Holm. He was educated in the high 
 school of Schwerin, Germany, and the Co- 
 lumbia College Law Scliool, whence he was 
 graduated LL.B., 1882. Mr. Holm organ- 
 ized the first cooperative trade companies in 
 New Y'ork City, among them the Consumers 
 Brewing Company of New York, United 
 Wine and Trading Company, Consumers' 
 Pie-Baking Company, Excelsior Brewing 
 Company, Ferd. Miinch Brewing Company, 
 American Exchange Cigar Company and 
 about ten others with assets in the aggre- 
 gate of over fifteen million dollars. He also 
 organized the Hudson Trust Company of 
 New York City of which he is counsel and 
 director, and he is also counsel for the com- 
 panies above named. He organized also the 
 Brockville, Westport and North Western 
 Railroad of Canada. He was captain of Com- 
 pany C of the 14th Regiment, National 
 Guard of New York, of Brooklyn, until 
 1903. He is a member of the New Y'ork 
 County Lawyers' Association, and the Mon- 
 taidc and Riding and Driving Clubs of 
 Brooklyn. Residences: Sea Cliff, L. I. 
 (summer) ; 944 President Street, Brooklyn. 
 Ollice: 35 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 HOLMES, George Kirby: 
 
 Statistician and investigator of economic 
 and social subjects ; born in ^Massachusetts, 
 
840 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 May 10,1856. Is chief of the Division of Pro- 
 duction and Distribution, and member of the 
 Crop Reporting Board, in the Bureau of 
 Statistics, U. S. Department of Agriculture; 
 Delegate from the United States to the Gen- 
 eral Assembly of the International Insti- 
 tute of Agriculture, at Eome; aiithor of 
 numerous monographs in government re- 
 ports, proceedings of learned societies, mag- 
 azines and encyclopedia; had charge of in- 
 vestigations of Eeal Estate ^Mortgages and 
 Farm and Home Tenure in the Census of 
 1S!)0. Address: Washington, D. C. 
 
 HOLMES, Joseph Austin: 
 
 Geologist, testing expert; born in Lau- 
 rens, S. C, Nov. 23, 1859. He received his 
 education in Laurens Academy and Holmes 
 School, and was graduated from Cornell 
 University in 1881. He was professor of 
 geology and natural history at the Univer- 
 sity of North Carolina, 1881-1891; lecturer 
 on geology at the same institution and 
 North Carolina State geologist, 1891-1903. 
 He was chief of the Department of Mines 
 and Metallurgy, at Louisiana Purchase Ex- 
 position in 1904, and has been in charge 
 of the United States Geological Survey 
 laboratories for testing fuel and structural 
 materials since 1905. He became expert in 
 charge of Technologic Branch of the United 
 States Geological Survey in 1907. In re- 
 ligion he is a Presbyterian. He is a fel- 
 low of the American Geological Society, and 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science, and a member of the American 
 Institute of Mining Engineers, of the St. 
 Louis Club, and the Cosmos Club of Wash- 
 ington, D. C. Residence: 2137 LcRoy 
 Place, Washington. Address: United 
 States Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 
 
 HOLMES, Oliver Wendell: 
 
 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court 
 of the United States; born in Boston, 
 March 8, 1841; son of the novelist and 
 poet of the same name. Ho joined the 
 Fourth Battery of Infantry at the beginning 
 of the Civil War; and served with the 
 Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry. He was 
 present at the Battle of Balls BlufT; at An- 
 tietam and at the Battle of Marye's Hill, 
 
 being wounded in three battles. In 18G2 he 
 was made captain; and was provost-marshal 
 of Falmouth, Va., and lieutenant-colonel in 
 18(53. He was aide-de-camp on the staff of 
 Brigadier-General H. G. Wright in 1864. He 
 entered the Harvard Law School and was 
 graduated as LL.B. in 1864; was admitted 
 to the SuflFolk Bar in 18G7; taught constitu- 
 tional law in Harvard College, 1870-1871; 
 was university lecturer on jurisprudence, 
 1871-1872; professor in Harvard Law 
 School in 1882; associate justice of the Su- 
 preme Court of Massachusetts, 1882-1889; 
 chief justice of the Supreme Court of Mas- 
 sachusetts, 1899-1902, when he was appoint- 
 ed to the United States Supreme Bench. 
 He edited the twelfth edition of Kent's Com- 
 mentaries in 1873; and is author of: The 
 Common Law, 1881; Speeches, 1891 and 
 1900; and articles in law reviews and was 
 editor of The American Law Review, 1870- 
 1873. Justice Holmes married at Cam- 
 bridge, Mass., in 1872, Fanny, daughter of 
 Epes Sargent Dixwell. Address: 1720 I 
 Street, W^ashington, D. C. 
 
 HOLMES, William Henry: 
 
 Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnol- 
 ogy ; born in Harrison County, Ohio. Dec. 
 1, 1846; son of Joseph and Mary (Heber- 
 ling) Holmes. He was graduated from the 
 McNeely Normal College, B.S., 1870. and 
 became instructor in physical geography anil 
 natural history in that college, 1871-1872. 
 in 1872 he became an assistant in the U. S. 
 (Jcological Survey of the Territories, and 
 assistant geologist, 1875-1879. He was con- 
 nected with the U. S. Geological Survey, 
 1880-1888; archaeologist of the Bureau of 
 American Etlinology, 1888-1894; curator of 
 tiie Department of Anthropology of the 
 Field Columbian Museum, 1894-1S97; pro- 
 fessor of anthropic geology in the Univer- 
 sity of Chicago, 1894-1897; head curator 
 of tlie Department of Anthrojjology in the 
 L". S. National i\Iuse\un, 1897-1902; since 
 1902 chief of the Bureau of American Eth- 
 nology. Professor Holmes also ha.s been 
 lionorary curator of the Division of Pre- 
 historic Archaeology in the U. S. National 
 .Museum since 1903. Ho was in charge of 
 Government exhibits at the Centennial Ex- 
 
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 position, lS7(i; Worlil's Coluiiiliian Exposi- 
 tion, 18i>:5; Onialia Exposition, 1808; Pan- 
 American Exi)osition, 1000; Charleston Ex- 
 position, 1901 ; Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 
 tion, 1904. Professor Holmes is a member 
 nf llic National Aciidcmy of Sciences; niem- 
 1k r of tlie International Congress of Ameri- 
 ciuiists (vice-president, 1904) ; fellow of 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science (secretary of Section 4, 
 1891, vice-president, 1892), American An- 
 thropological Association (vice-president, 
 1902), National Geographic Society, Amer- 
 ican Philosophical Society, Washington 
 Academy of Sciences (vice-president, 1900- 
 1902), Wasliington Anthropological Society 
 (president, 1900-1902). Professor Holmes is 
 author of many publications on anthropo- 
 logical and archaeological subjects. Ad- 
 dress: 1444 Belmont Street, ^Yashington. 
 
 HOLT. George C: 
 
 Jurist; born in Mexico, N. Y., Dec. 31, 
 1843. He was graduated from Yale Univer- 
 sity, A.B., 18G(J, received from that Univer- 
 sity the degree of LL.D., 1894; and was 
 graduated from Columbia Law School, LL. 
 B., 1869. He practised law at the New 
 York bar until 1898; was referee in bank- 
 ruptcy, 1898-1903; and since then has been 
 judge of the United States District Court 
 for the Soutliern District of New York. Mr. 
 Holt is a Pepublican in polities, and is a 
 member of the Fine Arts Society, the New 
 York Bar Association, and the Sons of the 
 llevolution. He is also a member of the 
 Yale, Century, and Lawyers' Clubs of New 
 York City. He married in 1871, Mary 
 Louisa Bowen. Address: Federal Build- 
 ing, New York City. 
 
 HOLT, Hamilton: 
 
 Managing editor; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 Aug. 19, 1872; son of Judge George C. and 
 Mary Louise (Bowen) Holt. He was grad- 
 uated from Yale, A.B., 1894, and took post- 
 graduate work in sociology and economics 
 for three years at Columbia University. Af- 
 ter graduation from Yale he entered the 
 editorial department of The Independent, 
 and lias been the managing editor for the 
 
 past six years. He is a member of the Ex- 
 ecutive Conuniltee of tiie Citizens' I'niiiii. 
 He was president of tlie Citizens' Protective 
 League that urged the Recount Bill in 
 1907. He is cliairman of the Press com- 
 mittee of the National Peace and Arl)itra- 
 tion Congress; ex-president of the Brooklyn 
 Guild Association, trustee of Hie Woman's 
 Trade Union League; member of the Dra- 
 matic Department of tlie People's Institute; 
 member of the Executive Committee of Tlie 
 Japan Society of America and' of the Friends 
 of Russian Freedom, and the New York 
 Peace Society. j\Ir. Holt is also a member 
 of the American Branch of the International 
 Conciliation, and of the Psi Upsilon frater- 
 nity. Mr. Holt married in Baltimore, Md., 
 Feb. G, 1899, Alexina C. Smith, and they 
 have three children. Residence: 176 West 
 87th Street. Address: 130 Fulton Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 HOLT, Henry: 
 
 Publisher, author; born in Baltimore, 
 Md., Jan. 3, 1840; son of Daniel and Ann 
 Eve (Siebold) Holt. He was graduated 
 from Yale University, A.B., 1862, Columbia 
 Law School, LL.B., 1864, and received the 
 LL.D. degree from the University of Ver- 
 mont, 1901. He is president of the pub- 
 lishing corporation, Henry Holt & Co.; was 
 first chairman of tlie New York University 
 Settlement Society; first chairman of the 
 LTniversity Club Library; trustee of the 
 American Geographical Society; fellow of 
 the New York Academy of Political Sci- 
 ence; member of tlie American Political 
 Science Association, American Economic 
 Association and Sons of the Revolution. He 
 is author of: Calmire — Man and Nature, 
 1892 (sixth edition, 1906) ; Talks on Civics, 
 1901 (third edition) ; On the Civic Relations, 
 (1907); Sturmsee — Man and Man, 1905 
 (tliird' edition, 1906), and sundry review 
 articles. Mr. Holt is a member of the Au- 
 tiiois. Century, University and City Clubs 
 of New York. He married, first, June 11, 
 18G3, IMary Florence West (died :\Iarcli 7, 
 1879), and second, Dec. 2, 1886, Florence 
 Taber. He has six children. Address: 29 
 West 23d Street, New York City. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 HOLT, Holand: 
 
 Publislier: born in New York City, Dec. 
 18, 1SG7: son of Henry and Mary Florence 
 (West) Holt. He was educated at various 
 New York schools, chiefly the Berkeley 
 School, Yale, A.B., with honor in English, 
 1800. At Yalo. he was one of editors of 
 Courant and for a time dramatic critic New 
 Haven Palladium. In 1800 went into Henry 
 Holt & Company, and on its incorporation, 
 1903, became vice-president. Author of: 
 The Operatic Situation (Theatre, July, 
 1002) and A vSymphony for Everyone; 
 Tschaikowsky's Pathetic (Musician, Janu- 
 ary, 1004). Traveled in Europe, summers 
 of 189G and 1001. Was president Citizen's 
 Union Club, Twenty-ninth Assembly Dis- 
 trict, 1898, and has since been member Cit- 
 izens' Union Executive Committee, Twenty- 
 ninth Assembly District. Cleveland Demo- 
 crat. Member Sons of Pvevolution, Civil 
 Service Pveform Association. Recreations : 
 Reading, tennis, theatre, opera, orchestral 
 concerts, ^fr. Holt is a member of the City 
 and Yale Clnhs. Address: 29 West 23d 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 HOLT, Winifred: 
 
 Sciil|iti)r : Ihhii in Xew York City 
 
 dau' 
 
 tcr nt lleiirv Unit. Ilie ]iulili-lier and Mary 
 KhircMce (West) Holl. She was educated 
 in private seliools. finishing at the IJrearly 
 School in New Yoik City; studied art in 
 Florence, Italy, and elsewlieic in I'-urope 
 and Anieriea. iier ]n-ineip-,il wniks in 
 xMilptnic have been ])oitrait-. and lias re- 
 liefs, including those of Misses Helen Kel- 
 ler and Mary Sinclair, the Hon. Carl Schurz 
 and Herr Anton Seidl. :Miss Holt has ex- 
 liibited at tlie Architectural League and the 
 Nationtil Sculpfuic Society, New York City, 
 iuul a1 I'.iilin and l-'lorenee. She i- lUiinder 
 and secretary of the Xew VorU Asxieiation 
 for tlie Uliiid. Incorporated; founded in 
 lOOf), Eondon 'iicket Bureau for the Blind; 
 founded in lOOli, the Butlalo Association for 
 the I'.lind. In lOOS she went as delegate 
 from .\ew ^■nlk In the International Con- 
 vention of Workers for the I'diml at Man- 
 chester, England, speaking <mi thf I'reven- 
 lion of i'.lindni'ss, and The linn->ing (pf the 
 
 iilind. ^liss Holt is a member of the Ly- 
 ceum Club, 128 Piccadilly. London. Ad- 
 dress: 44 East TSth Street. Xew \'ork City. 
 
 HOLTON, Henry Dwight: 
 
 Physician; born in Rockingham, Yt., July 
 24, 1838; son of Elihu and N'ancy (Grant) 
 llolton. He was prepared in Saxton River 
 Seminary and was graduated from the ]Med- 
 ical Department of the University of New 
 York, M.D., 1800; and he received the A.M. 
 degree from the University of Vermont in 
 1873. Dr. Holton is engaged in the prac- 
 tice of medicine in Brattleboro, Vt.; and is 
 also professor of ]iathology and therapeutics 
 in the University of Vermont. He was 
 a member for twelve years and secretary 
 and executive officer of the Vermont State 
 Board of Health. He was president of the 
 American Congress of Tuberculosis, 1901; 
 is a member and was president, 1002, of the 
 American Public Health Association, 1002; 
 chairman of the trustees and executive com- 
 mittee of the Pan-American Congress, 1893; 
 is a member of the American Medical Asso- 
 ciation, and the American Academy of Med- 
 icine. He has written many articles in 
 medical journals, and monographs on medi- 
 cal subjects, and is author of Posological 
 Tables, which is now in its second edition. 
 Dr. Holton is a trustee of the University of 
 Vermont; president of the Leland and (4ray 
 Seminary of Brattleboro, Vt.; member of 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, American Academy of Po- 
 litical and Social Science, National Geo- 
 graphic Society, and the New England Edu- 
 cation League; and he is president of the 
 X'ermont Society of Sons of the American 
 Pvevolution. He is a Republican in politics, 
 was State senator in 1884 and a member of 
 the Vermont House of Representatives, 
 1888; and was a didegate-at-large from Ver- 
 mont to the National Republican Conven- 
 tion in St. Louis, 180(i. Dr. llolton mar- 
 ried in Kockingham, Vt., Nov. 19, 18G2, 
 lOllen lldit. Address: Brattleboro, Vt. 
 
 HONORS, Lockwood: 
 
 Jurist; born in Chicago, 111., Sept. 7, 
 ISO;"); son of llenrv Hamilton and Eliza 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 843 
 
 (Carr) Honors. He was prepared" for col- 
 lege at the Phillips Exeter Academy, and 
 was o-raduated from Harvard, A.B., 1888, A. 
 M., 1891, Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1891. 
 He was admitted to the Illinois bar in the 
 same year and was engaged in general prac- 
 tice imtil 190.3, when he was elected judge 
 of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Hli- 
 nois, taking the seat formerly occixpied by 
 .ludge Hauofv upon that bench. Judge 
 Honore is a member of the University, 
 Chicago, Saddle and Cycle, Union, Iroquois, 
 and Chicago Golf Clubs. He married at 
 Brewster, Mass., Aug. 12, 1902, Beatrice C. 
 Richardson, and has one daughter. Resi- 
 dence: 68 Cedar Street. Office: County 
 Building, Chicago. 
 
 HOOD. John: 
 
 Commander U. S. Navy; born in Florence, 
 Ala., Dec. 3, 1859; son of John Murray and 
 Mary Cornelia (Heslep) Hood. He was ap- 
 pointed from Alabama and was graduated 
 from the U. S. Naval Academy, June 10, 
 1879, being second in his class and one of 
 the four star members; commissioned mid- 
 shipman, June 10, 1881; ensign, junior 
 grade, March 3, 1883; ensign, June 26, 
 1884; lieutenant (junior grade), Dec. 5, 
 1890; lieutenant, April, 1895; lieutenant 
 commander, Sept. 22, 1901 ; commander, 
 July 1. 1906. He has served' on various du- 
 ties and stations as a naval officer, and, 
 among the notable events of his career, was 
 wrecked in the U. S. S. Kearsarge, Feb. 2, 
 1894; and blown up in the U. S. S. Maine, 
 Feb. 15, 1908. He had command of the U. 
 S. S. Hawk during the Spanish-American 
 War; made the survey for the Pacific Cable, 
 1899-1900, and the charts and data on which 
 the cable was laid. He commanded the U. 
 S. S. Elcano in Chinese Waters, 1903-1905; 
 commanded the U. S. S. Tacoma, 1907-1909; 
 now commanding the U. S. S. Severn. Com- 
 mander Hood is a member of the Army and 
 Navy Club of Washington, D. C, and of 
 the Army and Navy Club of IManila. He 
 married in Annapolis, Md., Jan. 28, 1890, 
 Rosalie Caswell. Home: Florence, Ala. 
 Address: Care of the Navy Department, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 HOOK, William Gather: 
 
 United States circuit judge; born in 
 Waynesburg, Pa., Sept. 24, 1857; son of 
 Enos and Elizabeth D. Hook. He went to 
 Kansas in his boyhood and was educated 
 in tlie public and high schools of Leaven- 
 worth; was graduated in law from the 
 St. Louis Law School in 1878. He prac- 
 tised law fi-om that time imtil appointed 
 by President McKinley in 1899 judge of 
 the U. S. District Court for the District 
 of Kansas; and in 1903 he was promoted 
 by President Roosevelt to his present office 
 of judge of the United States Circuit 
 Court for the Eighth Judicial Circuit. He 
 married in Leavenworth, Oct. 31, 1882, 
 Louise Dickson. Address: Leavenworth, 
 Kan. 
 
 HOOKER. Edward Beeoher: 
 
 Physician; born in Hartford, Conn., Feb. 
 26, 1855; son of John and Isabella (Beeeh- 
 er) Hooker, and grandson of Rev. Lyman 
 Beecher, D.D. He was educated at the 
 ficole de Medecine, Paris, France, and the 
 Boston University School of Medicine, from 
 which he was graduated, M.D. ; and since 
 gi'aduation has practised medicine in Hart- 
 ford, He was, in 1907, president of the 
 American Institute of Homoeopathy; is a 
 member of the Connecticut Homceopathic 
 INIedical Society, American Homoeopathic 
 Ophthalmdlogical, Otological and Laryngo- 
 logical Society, and is a trustee of Hopkins 
 Grammar School, Hartford. Dr. Hooker is 
 a member of the Hartford, Twilight, T\ven- 
 tieth Century and Hartford Golf Clubs. He 
 married in Hartford, Sept. 18, 1879, Martha 
 Clarke Kilbourne, and they have three chil- 
 dren. Residence: 70 Farmington Avenue. 
 Office: 721 :^rain Street, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 HOOKER, Frank A.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Hartford, Conn., Jan. 16, 
 1844; son of James Sedgwick Hooker and 
 Camilla (Porter) Hooker. After his gradu- 
 ation from the University of ^lichigan, LL. 
 B., 1865, he engaged in the practice of law 
 at Bryan, Ohio, for a year, and after that 
 continued practice at Charlotte, Mich., until 
 elected to the bench iu 1878. He was coun- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ty superintendent of schools of Eaton Coun- 
 ty for two years, justice of the peace for two 
 years, and prosecuting attorney for four 
 years. In 1878 he was elected judge of the 
 Fifth Judicial Circuit of Micliigan, in which 
 office he continued until he took his seat, 
 January, 1803, on the Supreme Bench of 
 Michigan, of which he has been a member 
 ever since. His present term will expire 
 in Januar\% 1914. Address: Lansing, Mich. 
 
 HOOKER, Warren Brewster: 
 
 Jurist; born in Perrysbnrg, N. Y., Nov. 
 24, 1856; son of Jolni and Pliilema (Water- 
 man) Hooker. He was educated in Forest- 
 ville (New York) Free Academy, and re- 
 ceived degree of LL.D. from Hamilton Col- 
 lege in 1899. He engaged in the practice 
 of law at Fredonia, N. Y., until 1898; was 
 elected to Congress fi'om the Thirty-fourth 
 Congressional District of New York in 1890, 
 and four times reelected; resigned from 
 Congress in November, 1898, and was ap- 
 pointed judge of the Supreme Court and 
 elected to the same bench for a term of 
 fourteen years in 1899. Judge Hooker was 
 designated by the governor, associate judge 
 of the Appellate Division, Second Depart- 
 ment, State of New York, in December, 
 1902. Mr. Hooker married in Fredonia, N. 
 Y., Sf'iit. 11, 1884, Etta Elizabeth Abbey, 
 and they have two children. Address: 
 Fredonia, N. Y. 
 
 HOOPER. Franklin W.: 
 
 Dircclor of llie Brooklyn Institule of Arts 
 and Sciences; born in Walpole, N. 11., Feb. 
 11, 1851; son of ^\■illiam and Elvra (I'ulsi- 
 fer) Hooper. He was educated in district 
 schools of Walpole, N. H., Antioch College 
 Preparatoiy School, Ohio, 1867-1871; en- 
 tered the sophomore class of Harvard' 1872, 
 A.B., Harvard, 1875; honorary A.M., 1897. 
 He served on the scientific expedition to 
 Florida Keys for the Smitlisonian Insti- 
 tution, 1875-1876; was princijjal of the high 
 school, Keene, N. 11., 1876-1880; professor 
 of chemistry and geology, Adeli)hi College, 
 New York City, 1880-1889; director of the 
 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 
 since 1889 (triistee since 1887) ; lecturer on 
 geological subjects. He is a trustee of the 
 
 Brooklyn Art Association since 1890; trus- 
 tee of Brooklyn Public Library, 1895-1903; 
 of Antioch College, since 1898; president of 
 the Board of Trustees, Antioch College, 
 1902-1906; member of the Board of Educa- 
 tion of Brooklyn, N. Y., 1892-1893, Brook- 
 lyn Young Republican Club, 1881-1884; 
 Brooklyn League, 1884-1892 (chairman 
 council of league, 1886-1892) ; director and 
 treasurer of the New England Society of 
 Brooklyn, since 1892. He delivered the one 
 hundred and fiftieth anniversary address 
 of the founding of the town of Walpole, 
 1903. Dr. Hooper is a fellow of the Ameri- 
 can Association for the Advancement of 
 Science; vice-president of the American Bi- 
 son Society; member of the American Fores- 
 try Association, American Committee on 
 Lectures on the History of Religions, Amer- 
 ican Oriental Society, National Geographic 
 Society, and of the Hamilton, University, 
 Montauk, Harvard Union, and Unity Clubs. 
 He married in Augusta, Ga., May 3, 1876, 
 Martha S. Holdcn; and they have three chil- 
 dren. Address: 502 Fulton Street, Brook- 
 lyn. 
 
 HOPKINS, Albert J.: 
 
 Lawyer and former U. S. senator; born 
 in Dekalb County, 111., Aug. 15, 1846. He 
 was graduated from Hillsdale, (Micliigan) 
 College in June, 1870; studied law and com- 
 menced' practice at Aurora, 111.; was State's 
 attorney of Kane County, 1872-1876; was a 
 member of the Republican State Central 
 Committee, 1878-1880; was presidential 
 elector on the Blaine and Logan ticket, 
 1884; was elected to the Forty-ninth, Fifti- 
 eth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second^ Fifty-third, 
 Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and 
 Fifty-seventh Congresses; was nominated 
 for the United States Senate in State Con- 
 vention and elected to succeed William IL 
 IMason, Republican, and took his seat March 
 4, 1903. His term of service expired 1909, 
 the Legislature elected William Ixirimer as 
 his successor. Address: Aurora, 111. 
 
 HOPKINS, Alphonso Alva: 
 
 Editor, author, lecturer; born in Burling- 
 ton Flats, Ostego County, N. Y., March 4, 
 1843; son of Alvah and Mercy Hopkins. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Ho was educated in the district school in 
 West Exeter, N. Y., Hamilton, (N. Y.) 
 Academy, and received the degree of Ph.D., 
 ])ro merifo from the American Temperance 
 University, Tennessee. He edited Moore's 
 Rural New Yorker, Rochester, 1867-1870; 
 Aiuericau Rural Home, Rochester, 1871- 
 1884; American Reformer, New York City, 
 1882-1884. The Facts Elmira, 1897-1898. 
 Ho was professor of economics in the Amer- 
 ican Tcmi)eranco Univorsit.y, 181)1-1893. Dr. 
 Hopkins is author of Asleep in the Sanctum 
 and other Poems; Our Sabbath Evening; 
 His Prison Bars; Sinner and Saint; Waifs 
 and their Authors ; Geraldine ; Ballads of 
 Brotherhood; Wealth and Waste; Profit 
 and Loss in ]\Ian. As a lecturer he has 
 traveled widely throughout the United 
 States and Canada. He was a Republican 
 as a young man, and held a clerkship in a 
 State department at Albany, but has been 
 a Prohibitionist since 1871. He was candi- 
 date of the Prohibition Party four times for 
 Congress; once for State comptroller, once 
 for Secretary of State and' once (1882) for 
 governor. He has presided over several 
 State conventions, and has written many 
 State and national platform of the party. 
 He married, first, in Rochester, IST. Y., 1867, 
 Adelia R. Allyn, and second, Hornellsville, 
 N. Y., 1897, Emma M. Santee; and had one 
 daughter, by his first marriage. Address: 
 Horncll, N. Y. 
 
 HOPKINS, Margaret Briscoe: 
 
 Author; born in Baltimore, Dec. 7, 1864; 
 danghtor of S. W. and Cornelia Dushane 
 (Blacklock) Briscoe. She was educated by 
 private masters. She married in New York 
 City, in 189,j, Professor Arthur John Hop- 
 kins of Amherst College, and has one daugh- 
 ter. Mrs. Hopkins is author of: Perchance 
 to Dream and' Other Stories, 1892; Links in 
 a Chain, 1893; Jimty and Others, 1898; The 
 Sixth Sense and Other Stories, 1897; The 
 Change of Heart, 1903. Address : Amherst, 
 Mass. 
 
 HOPPER, De Wolf: 
 
 Comedian; born in New York in 1858; 
 son of John and Rosalie (DeWolf) Hopper. 
 He was with Daniel Frohman's Madison 
 
 Square Company as Pittacus Creen in Hazel 
 Kirk and oilier rOles, the McCaull Opera 
 Company, Weblter and Fields Company. He 
 lias been starring in his own company from 
 1880 with the exception of the two years 
 at Webber and Fields, Mr. Hopper is a 
 member of the Lambs', Players', Suburban, 
 Riding and Driving Clubs of" New York City, 
 and of the Green Room Club and Eccentric 
 Club of London, England. Address: Care 
 Lambs Club, New York City. 
 
 HORNBLOWER, William B.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Paterson, N. J., May 13, 
 1851; son of Rev. William H. (D.D.) and 
 Matilda (Butler) Hornblower. He was 
 graduated from Princeton University, A.B., 
 1871, from Columbia University Law School, 
 LL.B., 1875, and received the honorary de- 
 grees of A.M., 1874, and LL.D., 1895, from 
 Princeton University. He was admitted to 
 the bar of New York in 1875; and was a 
 member of the commission appointed under 
 act of Legislature in 1890 to propose amend- 
 ments to State Constitution Judiciary Ar- 
 ticle. Mr. Hornblower was appointed by 
 President Cleveland a justice of the United 
 States Supreme Court, in September, 1893, 
 to succeed Justice Blatchford, but the nom- 
 ination was rejected by the Senate in Janu- 
 ary, 1894, owing to the political opposition 
 of Senators Hill and ]\Iurphy, of New York. 
 He is now head of the law firm of Hornblow- 
 er, Miller & Potter. He is a member of the 
 American Bar Association, the New York 
 State Bar Association (president, 1902), 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, Sons of tlie Revolution, and the Uni- 
 versity, Century, Metropolitan, Manhatt^in, 
 City, Reform, Riding, and Princeton Clubs 
 of New York City. He married, first, in 
 New York City, April 26, 1882, Susan C, 
 daughter of William E. Sanford, of New 
 Haven, Conn., (died April 27, 1886) ; and' 
 second, in New York City, Jan. 31, 1894, 
 Emily S. Nelson, daughter of William E. 
 Sanford, and widow of Lieutenant-colonel 
 A. D. Nelson, U. S. Army. Mr. Hornblower 
 has two sons, Lewis W., born April 15, 1883, 
 Princeton, A.B., 1904, and George S., born 
 June 19, 1884, Princeton, A.B., 1904, Co- 
 lumbia Univ'.'rsity Law School, LL.B., 1907; 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 and had a daughter, Susan Sanford, born 
 April 19, 188G, died June 16, 1900. Resi- 
 dence: 5 East 89th Street. Address: 24 
 Broad Street, New York City. 
 
 HORNER. Junius Moore: 
 
 Bishop of Asheville; born at Oxford, N. 
 C, July 7, 1859; son of James H. and So- 
 phronia (Moore) Horner. He took the 
 academic course at Hopkins Institute, grad- 
 luiting B.A. in 1885, and thence entering the 
 General Theological Seminary, graduated 
 with the degree of B.D. in 1892. He re- 
 ceived an honorary D.D. from the Univer- 
 sity of the South in 1899. He was ordered 
 deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1890, and 
 was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop 
 Lyman in 1891. Following this he was 
 for several years associate principal and 
 instructor in the Horner School, Oxford, 
 N. C. He became Bishop of Asheville, N. C, 
 in 1898, and was consecrated by Bishops 
 Cheshire, Watson, Capers and Gibson. 
 Bishop Horner was married at Augusta, Ga., 
 in 1892, to Eva Harker. Address: Ashe- 
 ville, N. C. 
 
 HORSFORD, Cornelia: 
 
 Archaeologist ; born in Cambridge, Mass., 
 Sept. 25, 1861; daughter of Trofessor Eben 
 Norton and Phoebe (Gardiner) Horton. 
 She was educated in private schools in Cam- 
 bridge and Boston. She continued her 
 fatlicr's arcliieological explorations after 
 iiis death, and added original investigations 
 of her own. She organized an archaeologi- 
 cal ex])edilion to examine ruins of the Saga 
 period in Iceland, in 1895, and also, 1895- 
 1897, to the British Isles to make examina- 
 tion of the remains of forts and open-air 
 ampiiitheatres of prehistoric times; she was 
 also director of researches among the works 
 of tlic iiali\c races of North America in con- 
 nection «itli research into the Norse dis- 
 covery of tlie continent of America. Miss 
 Horsfoid is a fellow of the American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science; 
 member of the National (Jeograpliic Society, 
 Ihc Prince Historical Society. American 
 Folk Lore Society, Icelandic Anti(piarian So- 
 ciety, Irish Texts Society; is vice-])resident 
 of tlie \'iking Club of London and president 
 
 of the Shelter Island Public Library. She 
 is author of: Graves of the Northmen; 
 An Inscribed Stone; Ruins of the Saga- 
 Time; also numerous contributions to sci- 
 entific journals. Address: 27 Craigie 
 Street, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 HORTON, George: 
 
 Consul, author; born at Fairville, N. Y., 
 November, 1859; son of Peter Davis and 
 "Slaiy Sophia Horton. He was graduated 
 from the University of Michigan, A.B., 1878. 
 From the time of leaving college he engaged 
 in literary pursuits and in 1893 he was ap- 
 pointed consul to Athens, Greece, by Presi- 
 dent Cleveland, serving until 1898. He was 
 for some years literary editor of the Times- 
 Herald at Chicago, and in 1901 became edi- 
 tor of the literary supplement of the Chica- 
 go American. In 1904 he was again ap- 
 pointed, by President Roosevelt, American 
 consul at Athens, Greece, and was made, in 
 1906, American Consul-general at the same 
 place, where he is still serving. Mr. Hor- 
 ton has contributed much to the best maga- 
 zines, in verse and prose, and is author of 
 several volumes, including: Songs of the 
 Lowly; In Unknown Seas; Aphroessa; 
 Constantiile ; A Fair Brigand; Like Anoth- 
 er Helen ; ]\Iodern Athens ; The Tempting of 
 Feather Anthony; The Long Straight Road; 
 In Argolis; The Monk's Treasure; The Edge 
 of Hazard, etc. In 1903 he received the de- 
 gree of doctor of letters from George Wash- 
 ington University. Address: The American 
 Consulate-(!encral, Athens, Greece. 
 
 HORWITZ, Orville: 
 
 Surgeon ; born in Washington, D. C, 
 June 26, 1860; son of Phineas J. Horwith, 
 M.D., medical director U. S. Navy, and' Car- 
 oline (Norris) Horwitz. He was graduated 
 from tlic I'niversity of Pennsylvania, B.S., 
 1881, and from JefTerson Medical College, 
 M.U., 1883, and was awarded a gold medal 
 for his thesis at his graduation in medicine. 
 He is professor of genito-urinary surgery, 
 Jefferson ;Medical College, surgeon to the 
 Jefferson Hospital, St. Agnes' Hospital and 
 State Hospital for the Insane; consulting 
 surgeon to the Jewish Hospital. He is a 
 fellow of the College of Physicians oi Phil- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 adelphia; member of the American Surgi- 
 cal Association, Association of Gcnito-Uri- 
 nary Surgeons, Philadelphia Medical, Penn- 
 sylvania State Medical and American Medi- 
 cal Associations. He is author of the Sur- 
 gical Quiz Compend besides articles in medi- 
 cal journals. Address 1721 Walnut Street, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 HOSKINS, William: 
 
 Chemist; born in Covington, Ky., in 1863. 
 He received his education by private in- 
 struction and' in the Chicago High School. 
 He has been a member since 1880 and is 
 now sole proprietor of the business of 
 Mariner and Hoskins, Chicago; engaged in 
 general chemical and assaying practice. He 
 is a fellow of the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science; member of 
 the American Chemical Society, and is past 
 vice-president and chairman of the Chicago 
 section of the latter; is a member of the 
 Society of Chemical Industry, the Ameri- 
 can Electrochemical Society; the Ameri- 
 can Institute of Mining Engineers, tlw; 
 American ]\Iicroscopic Society, the Western 
 Society of Engineers, the Franklin Institute 
 of Philadelphia, and the Chicago Academy 
 of Sciences. JNIr. Hoskins introduced the 
 use of liquid' fuel for furnaces ; used partic- 
 ularly by chemists and assayers; developed 
 processes now extensively used in the manu- 
 facture of turpentine and other products 
 from the waste and fallen timber of the 
 South, and has been actively connected with 
 Transfer and Sarriage Company, Western 
 the development of chemical and electrical 
 industries of various kinds during the past 
 twenty-five years. He is a director in the 
 Hoskins ]\lanufacturing Company of Detroit, 
 Mich., manufacturers of byrometers and in- 
 dustrial and other electrical heating appli- 
 ances. Residence: 49 Sixth Avenue, La 
 Grange, 111., Office address: 81 South Clark 
 Street, Chicago, 111. 
 
 HOSMER, Samuel Monroe: 
 
 President of the Southern University; 
 born in Tuscaloosa County, Ala., July 22, 
 1846; son of Silas and Easter Ann (Cow- 
 ley) Hosmer. He served as a private in the 
 Confederate Army for eighteen months, and 
 
 began his education in 1870, atten<ling the 
 Southern University, Greensboro, Ala., from 
 which he received the degree, Ph.B., 1884, 
 and D.D. in 1894. He was a minister of the 
 North Alabama Conference until 1899, when 
 he was appointed president of the Southern 
 University. He is a member of the board of 
 trustees of that institution, and is also a 
 member of the General Board of Cliurch Ex- 
 tension, of the Metiiodist Episcopal Church, 
 South, and a member of the General Board 
 of Insurance of that Church. He is chair- 
 man of tlie Publishing Committee of the Ala- 
 bama Christian Advocate. He married, 
 Dec. 11, 1867, Frances Louvenia Parsons, 
 and has six children. Address : Greens- 
 boro, Ala. 
 
 HOUGH, Charles M.: 
 
 United States district judge for the 
 Southern District of New York. He was 
 graduated from Dartmoutli College in 1879, 
 studied law and was engaged in the prac- 
 tice of law in New York City, with an of- 
 fice in Wall Street, until appointed by Pres- 
 ident Roosevelt in 1906, to his present 
 judgeship. Judge Hough is a member of 
 the University Club. He married Ethel 
 Powers. Residence: 550 Park Avenue, Of- 
 fice: Post Office Building, New York City. 
 
 HOUGH, Emerson: 
 
 Aiithor and magazine writer; born in 
 Newton, Iowa, June 28, 1857; son of Jo- 
 seph Bond Hough and Elizabeth H. Hough. 
 He was graduated from the State University 
 of Iowa in 1880. He practised law at White 
 Oaks, New Mexico 1882; was in newspa- 
 per work, 1889-1903, and was Western man- 
 ager of Forest and Stream of New York. 
 Mr. Hough has traveled much in the West; 
 has killed big game; crossed Yellowstone 
 Park on ski in the winter of • 1894-1895; 
 and has a long and thorough knowledge of 
 many phases of Western and out of door 
 life. He is author of: The Girl at the 
 Half-way House; The Mississippi Bubble; 
 Heart's Desire; The Law of The Land; The 
 Way of a Man; The Story of the Cowboy; 
 The Story of the Outlaw; Singing Mouse 
 Stories; 54-40 or Fight; and is a contribu- 
 tor to leading magazines. He is a member 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 of the Phi Beta Kii|>pa Society and of the 
 University, Press, Cliff Dwellers, Southern, 
 and American Canoe Clubs of Chicafjo. Mr. 
 Housrh married in Chicago, Oct. 26, 1807, 
 Charlotte A. Cheesebro. Residence: 6140 
 Woodlawu Avenue. Address: 1808 Com- 
 mercial National I'ank J5uildiiiiX, Chicago. 
 
 HOUGH, Warwick: 
 
 Lawyer, jurist; born in Ivoudoun County, 
 Va., Jan. 26, 1836; son of George W. and 
 Mary C. (Shawen) Hough. He is a de- 
 scendant of lAichard Hougli, who came from 
 Cheshire, England, under the auspices of 
 William Penn, in the ship Endeavor, land- 
 ing in Philadelphia in 1683, and of his 
 grandson, John Hough, who moved to Vir- 
 ginia from Bucks County, Pa., about the 
 year 1750, and settled in Loudoun County, 
 where he married Sarah Janney, also from 
 Bucks County, Pa. Mr. Hough moved with 
 his parents from Virginia to ]\Iissouri, in 
 1838, and the family settled at Jefferson 
 City, Mo. He entered the State University 
 at Columbia, from which he was graduated 
 with the degree of A.B. in 1854 and re- 
 ceived the degree of A.M. in 1857. He was 
 appointed, by Governor Sterling Price, 
 assistant State geologist, and on Dec. 29, 
 1856, he was elected a corresponding mem- 
 ber of the Academy of Science, of St. Louis, 
 of which he is now an active member. Be- 
 fore attaining his majority he was chief 
 clerk in the office of the Secretary of State, 
 and was Secret<iry of the State Senate dur- 
 ing the sessions of 1858-1859, 1859-1860 and 
 1860-1861. He was commissioned first lieu- 
 tenant in the Governor's Guards of Mis- 
 souri, Jan. 17, 18()0. Meanwhile he had 
 studied law, and in 1859 was admitted to 
 the bar, and in 1860 he formed' a law 
 partnership)- with J. Proctor Knott (then 
 attorney-general of Missouri and afterward 
 governor of Kentucky), which continued 
 until Jan., 1861, when he was appointed 
 adjutant-general of Missouri by Governor 
 (Jlaiborne F. Jackson, with tlie rank of 
 brigadier-general. He had ])reviously com- 
 manded the Governor's Guards in the South- 
 west E.xjjedition in the fall of 1860 under 
 General D. M. Erost. After the death of 
 
 Governor Jackson he was appointed' secre- 
 tary of State of IMissouri by Governor 
 Thomas C. Reynolds, resigning in Dec, 
 1863, to enter the army of the Confederate 
 States, in which he was commissioned a 
 captain in llio inspector-general's depart- 
 ment. He was assigned to the staff of 
 Licutcnant-General Leonidas M. Polk, and 
 after liis death was on the staff of Lieu- 
 tenant-Gcneral Stephen D. Lee, and later on 
 the staff of Lieutenant-General Dick Taylor, 
 with whom he surrendered to General E. R. 
 S. Canby, May 10, 1865. Being debarred 
 from practice in IMissouri by the provisions 
 of the Drake Constitution, lie jiractised at 
 Memphis, Tenn., until 1867, when, upon 
 the repeal of the test oath of attorneys in 
 ^Missouri, he located in practice at Kansas 
 City, attaining great distinction at the bar. 
 He was elected to the Supreme bench of 
 Missouri in 1874, and after ten years' serv- 
 ice, during two years of which he was chief 
 justice of that court, he returned to prac- 
 tice, locating at St. Louis, where he built 
 up a large and lucrative practice. He Avas 
 appointed in 1893 one of the receivers of 
 the Sioux City and Northern Railroad and 
 so continued until Jan., 1000, when the 
 receivers were discharged, after having paid 
 every current obligation, rehabilitated the 
 road and its rolling stock and turned over 
 about one hundred thousand dollars to the 
 court. He was nominated without his solic- 
 itation, and elected, in 1900, judge of the 
 Circuit Court of the city of St. Louis, and 
 since Jan. 7, 1907, has resumed the prac- 
 tice of law. as counsel with the firm of 
 Klein and' Hough at St. Louis. Tlie State 
 University of Missouri conferred upon 
 Judge Hough the degree of LL.D. in 1881. 
 PoliticiiUy he has always affiliated with the 
 Democratic party, and he is also prominent 
 in the Masonic fraternity as a thirty-second 
 degree Scottish Rite Mason. He married 
 in May, 1861, Nina E., daughter of Hon. 
 Benjamin F. Massey (then Secretary of 
 State of Missouri) and of Maria (Withers) 
 Massey, and they have two sons. \\'ar\\ick 
 .Massey lloiigli of I lie St. Louis I'.ar and 
 I.ouis lloiiyli. M.l).. of l)('n\ci-. Colo., 
 and three daughters. Address: Kialto 
 IJuihling, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
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 l!c<<)i(lcr. Mililiirv Order of l.oval Legion. M ilwaukce 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 HOTJGHTELING, James Lawrence: 
 
 IJaiikcr ami niaiiufactiircr ; bora in Chi- 
 cago, Nov. 29, 1855; son of William DoZeng 
 and' Marcia, E. (Stockbridge) Houghtoling. 
 lie was graduated from Yale, Pb.B., 1870, 
 and received tlie honorary degree of M.A. 
 in 1901. Since 1882 be bas been a member 
 III' I lie baidcing bouse of Peabody, Hongbtel- 
 ing & Company, establisbed in 1805; secre- 
 tary of the Menominee Kiver Lumber Com- 
 pany; treasurer and president of tbc Macki- 
 naw Linnber Companj^; and is president of 
 several otbor lumber companies and otber 
 industrial corporations. He is one of tbe 
 founders of tbe Municipal Voters' League 
 of Chicago and' was the first chairman of its 
 Finance Committee. He is a trustee of the 
 Chicago Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion (was its president three years and 
 treasurer fifteen years) ; was founder of 
 tbc Brotherhood of St. Andrew (tbe prin- 
 cipal men's society in the Anglican Com- 
 munion), and for many years was president 
 of its council. He is a member of the Chi- 
 cago, University, Commercial and Onwentsia 
 Clubs. Mr. Hougbteling married in Chicago, 
 Sept. 20, 1879, Lucretia Ten Broeck Peabody, 
 and they have six children. Residence: 
 Winnetka, 111. Address: 181 La Salle 
 Street, Chicago. 
 
 HO'UGHTON, George Clarke: 
 
 Clergyman; born in New York City, Dec. 
 17, 1850; son of Frederick E. and Anna E. 
 (Dawson) Houghton. After graduation 
 from St. Stephen's College, Annandale, N. 
 Y., in 1867, he entered the General Theo- 
 logical Seminary in New York, from which 
 he was graduated in 1870, in the same 
 year receiving the M.A. degree from St. 
 Stephen's College, which afterward (in 
 1895) honored him with the degree of D.D. 
 He took deacon's orders in tbe ministry 
 of the Episcopal Church in 1870, and was 
 ordained to the priesthood by Bishop 
 Horatio Potter in 1871. He was for some 
 years curate of Trinity Church in New 
 York and afterward of St. Chrysostom's 
 Church, also in Trinity Parish, until 1879, 
 wlien he was called, as rector, to Trinity 
 Church, Hoboken, N. J., in whicli he re- 
 mained until 1S97. Dr. Houghton was 
 
 elected by tlie State Board of Education 
 of New .Jersey, in 1S85, superintendent of 
 Public Instruction for Ifndson County, N. 
 J., and held that odice until 1897. In 1887 
 be organized tbe New Jersey Industrial 
 Kducation Association, and founded tbe 
 Manual Training College, of which he wjus 
 president and a director for ten years. In 
 1897 Dr. Hougbttm was called to tbc Cliurcb 
 of the Transfiguration as vicar, bis uncle. 
 Dr. Houghton, being then tbe rector of 
 the parish, and upon tbc death of tbe latter 
 be succeeded him as rector. In this church, 
 lovingly known as The Little Church 
 Around' the Corner, he bas faithfully min- 
 istered ever since. The name thus applied 
 to the church arose when George Holland, 
 a well known actor, died and Mr. Joseph 
 Jeflerson applied to a neighboring church 
 for its services in performing the funeral 
 rites. The request was refused and the 
 distinguished applicant was referred to a 
 Little Church- Around tbe Corner. Dr. 
 Houghton is author of: Sermons of the 
 Festivals ; ^lanual of Devotions ; History 
 of tbe Church of the Transfiguration; The 
 Life of the First Rector and Founder of 
 the Church of the Transfiguration. He is 
 a member of the New York Historical So- 
 ciety, tlie American Museum of Natural 
 History, the National Geographic Society, 
 the Church Choral Society, the Municipal 
 Art Society, Society of the Sons of the 
 Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars, 
 and the Calumet, the Catholic, the Players', 
 the Graduates', the Salmagundi, and Na- 
 tional Arts Clubs. Dr. Houghton married, 
 in 1871, Mary C. Pirsson, daughter of Tal- 
 bot Pirsson, of New York. Address: 1 
 East 29th Street, New York City, 
 
 HOUSTON, A. Ross: 
 
 Was born in Middletown, Orange Coim- 
 ty, N. Y., IMarch 20, 1847; son of A.nthony 
 and Mary (Ross) Houston, whose ancestors 
 were of the early families of ihe county, 
 of Scotch and Irish descent, and" having 
 had representatives in the military service 
 in the Wars of the Revolution and 1812. 
 Captain Houston received bis early educa- 
 tion under private tuition and at the \\'al- 
 kill Academy in Middletown, N. Y. He 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 entered the army at the age of sixteen, at 
 wliich time he was preparing to accept iui 
 appointment as Cadet at the Xaval Acad- 
 emy of the United' States. He was com- 
 missioned second lieutenant, Fourth Regi- 
 ment of Engineers, Corps d'Afrique, in 
 Sept., 1SG3, and ordered to report at New 
 Orleans. He was promoted to first lieu- 
 tenant, Feb. 25, 1864, and was assigned to 
 duty as aide-de-camp at the headquarters 
 of the Engineer Brigade, New Orleiins, 
 wliile the organization was being completed. 
 He was appointed aide-de-camp at the head- 
 quarters of the Department of the Gulf, 
 General Banks commanding, in March, 1864, 
 and served during the Red River, La., cam- 
 paign, being in the engagements and bat- 
 tles of Natchitoches, March 20; Crump's 
 Hill, A))ril 2; Compte, April 4; Wilson's 
 Fariii. April 7; Sabine Cross-Roads, April 
 8; Pleasant Hill, April 9; Monete's BluflF, 
 Cane River, April 23; Alexandria, April 
 26; (Jovernor Moore's Plantation, May 2; 
 Dunn's Bayou, May 5; and ]\Iansura, May 
 14 and 16. Being young, alert, and' a good 
 lior.seman, his duties were continuous and 
 severe during the whole campaign; while 
 escaping himself the bullets of the enemy, 
 two horses were shot under him in the 
 terrific battles of Sabine Cross-Roads and 
 Pleasant Hill, and another horse killed 
 when tlie headquarters were stampeded by 
 the enemy firing on them from trees and 
 elevations across the river below Alexan- 
 dria. Captain Houston was picked up for 
 dead, being badly injured by being dragged 
 by his wounded horse and trodden on by 
 the cavalry escort. In this campaign Cap- 
 tain Houston received special commenda- 
 tion for his ride, after the battle at Monete's 
 BluH", outside the lines of the Army, 
 tinoiigh country occupied by the enemy, to 
 Alexandria, to notify General Grover of the 
 safety and approach of tlie retreating Army, 
 and of the early relief of General Grover's 
 forces from -attacks already begtm. In 1865 
 Ca])tain Houston served at the headquarters 
 of General E. R. S. Canby, during tiie cam- 
 l)aign against Mobile, in the siege and cap- 
 ture of Spanish Fort aiul Blakely, March 
 26 t<) April !), and the surrender of Mobile, 
 April 11. He was retained in service after 
 
 the close of the war by special order of 
 the secretary of War. In the winter of 
 1865-1866 he was on duty as provost-mar- 
 shal, and Freedmen's Bureau Agent in 
 charge of the imrishes of Iberville and 
 \Nest Baton Rouge, La. In Nov., 1865, he 
 was appointed captain of Independent Com- 
 pany of Pontoniers (white), Department of 
 the Gulf. After his war service was over 
 he entered the employment of the Engineer 
 Department, U. S. Army, and has remained 
 continuously engaged in this department 
 up to the present time, serving on the 
 New England Coast and on works connected 
 with the Great Lakes and rivers of the 
 Northwest, living at Newport, Rhode Is- 
 land, Chicago and Milwaukee. Captain 
 Houston is a companion of the Military 
 Order of the Loyal Legion of the United 
 States, through the Commandery of Wis- 
 consin, and has served as member of coun- 
 cil, chancellor, and junior vice-commander, 
 and as recorder from May, 1889, until the 
 present time. He is president of the Mil- 
 waukee Country Club, and a member of the 
 Milwaukee Club; the Chicago Club; and 
 the Army and Navy Club of New York. 
 Address: Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 HOVEY, Edmund Otis: 
 
 Geologist; born in New Haven, Conn., 
 Sept. 15, 1862; son of Horace and Helen L. 
 (Blatchley) Hovey. He was graduated 
 from Yale University, A.B., 1884, Ph.D., 
 1889, and studied at Heidelberg, Germany, 
 1890-1891. He was principal of schools of 
 Janesville, Minn., 1884-1885; Elk River, 
 Minn., 1885-1886; assistant in the Mineral 
 Laboratory of Sheffield Scientific School, 
 Vale, 1886-1887; assistant principal of Wa- 
 terbury, (Conn.) High School, 1889-1891; 
 principal of same, 1891-1892; superintendent 
 of the Missouri IMineral Exhibit, Columbian 
 Exposition, 1892-1893; assistant on the U. S. 
 Geological Survey, 1890 and 1903-1906; as- 
 sistant curator of the geological department 
 of the Anuu-ican Museum of Natural His- 
 tory, 1894-1900, and associate curator from 
 1901. He has traveled in Russia, includ- 
 ing Russian Armenia; the Lesser Antilles 
 for special study of the eru])tion of ]\It. 
 P6lee and the Soufriijrc, 1902-1903; in Mex- 
 
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 ico and in other regions. He is a corres- 
 ponding member of the Soeiediid Cientifica 
 Antonio Alzate, Mexico ; fellow of the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science (secretary Section E, 1903, 1904- 
 1907), Geological Society of America (sec- 
 retary from 1907), Association of Ameri- 
 can Geographers, American Institute of Min- 
 ing Engineers; fellow of the New York 
 Academy of Science (A'ice-president, 1905- 
 190(5, recording secretary from 1907) ; mem- 
 ber of the Seismological Society of America, 
 National Geographic Society, New York 
 Mineralogical Club (president, 1906) ; del- 
 egate to the International Geological Con- 
 gress, 1897, 1903, 1906. Dr. Hovey is par- 
 ticularly interested in vulcanology and gen- 
 eral geology and is author of many papers 
 on geological subjects. He is a member of 
 the Century Association of New Y'ork. He 
 married in New Haven, Conn., Sept. 13, 
 1888, Esther A. Lancraft. Address : Amer- 
 ican Museum of Natural History, New York 
 City. 
 
 HOWARD, George Eliot: 
 
 University professor and author; born in 
 Saratoga, N. Y^., Oct. 1, 1849; son of Isaac 
 and Margaret (Hardin) Howard. He was 
 educated in the State Normal School of 
 Nebraska and University of Nebraska, A. 
 B., 1876, Ph.D., 1894. He became professor 
 of history there, 1870-1891; head professor 
 of history at Leland Stanford University, 
 1891-1901; professor of history in the sum- 
 mer session of Cornell University in 1902 ; 
 professorial lecturer in history in the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago, 1903-1904; since then 
 at the University of Nebraska, where he 
 is head professor of political science and 
 sociology. Professor Howard is author of: 
 Local Constitutional History of the United 
 States, 1889; Develojjment of the King's 
 Peace, 1891 ; History of Matrimonial Insti- 
 tutions, three volumes, 1904 ; Preliminaries 
 of the devolution, 1905; Social Control and 
 the Function of the Family in the Inter- 
 national Congress of Arts and Science, VII, 
 1906 (Houghton, Mifflin & Company) ; and 
 many articles in encyclopedias and periodi- 
 cals. Professor Howard is a member of 
 the American Political Science Association, 
 
 American Historical Association, and Amer- 
 ican Sociological Society. Address: 1910 
 E Street, Lincoln, Neb. 
 
 HOWARD, John Raymond: 
 
 Publisher, book editor; born in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., May 25, 1837. He was graduated 
 from the University of Rochester, 1857, 
 A.B.; 1860, A.M. Traveled in America, 
 1858; instructor Brooklj'n Polytechnic In- 
 stitute, 1859; traveled and studied in Eu- 
 rope, 1859-18C1; served during Civil War, 
 captain and aide-de-camp, Volunteers, Aug., 
 1861, to Feb., 1865; editor of reports with 
 Adelberg and Raymond, mining engineers, 
 1865; editorial writer New York Times and 
 New Y^ork Examiner and Chronicle, 1866- 
 1867; since Dec, 1867, partner and editorial 
 manager in publishing business (J. B. Ford 
 & Company and Fords, Howard & Hubert). 
 Author of : Henry Ward Beccher — A 
 Study; Fremont in the Civil War; sundry 
 lectures and many articles, chiefly in the 
 Outlook. He is editor of: Patriotic Ad- 
 dresses by H. W. Beecher; Bible Studies 
 by H. W. Beecher; Sermon Briefs by H. W. 
 Beecher; revised and enlarged edition of 
 Bryant's Library of Poetry and Song; re- 
 arranged and enlarged edition of Dr. John 
 Lord's Beacon Light of History; Educa- 
 tional Nuggets; Patriotic Nuggets; His- 
 torical Nuggets; A Treasury of Illustration, 
 by H. W. Beecher (with T. J. Ellinwood) ; 
 Prose You Ought to Know; One Hundred 
 Best American Poems; and as managing 
 editor (with Bliss Carman and others) of 
 the World's Best Poetry (10 volumes). He 
 married in 1871, Susan R. Merriam, of 
 Springfield, Mass. Address: Montclair, 
 N. J. 
 
 HOWARD, Leland Ossian: 
 
 Entomologist; born at Rockford, 111., 
 June 11, 1857; son of Ossian Gregory and 
 Lucy Dunham (Thurber) Howard. He was 
 graduated from Cornell University, B.S., 
 1877, M.S., 1883, and from Georgetown 
 University, Ph.D., 1896. As an undergrad- 
 uate he worked with Professor Comstock 
 in the Department of Entomology', and, 
 1878-1886, was an assistant entomologist in 
 the U. S. Department of Agriculture. He 
 
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 was made first assistant in 1886, and since 
 1S94 has been cliicf of the Burean of En- 
 tomology in tlie Department of Agriculture. 
 He is distinguished for his special studies 
 of the parasitic hymenoptera and their 
 habits and host relations, numerous investi- 
 gations in economic entomology, and an 
 especially exhaustive investigation in tlic 
 ecology of mosquitoes. He has been hon- 
 orary curator of the United States National 
 Museum since Oct. 31, 1895, and consulting 
 entomologist of the United States Public 
 Health and' Marine Hospital Service since 
 1!)02. Dr. Howard is author of: ISIosqui- 
 toes — How They Live, etc., 1901; The In- 
 sect Book, 1902 (Doubleday, Page and Com- 
 pany), and of many Government publica- 
 tions and monographs; and contributor in 
 entomology to the Century Dictionary, 
 Standard Dictionary, and New Interna- 
 tional Encyclopedia. Dr. Howard is per- 
 manent secretary of the American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science. He 
 is a member and was president in 1894 
 of the Association of Economic Entomolo- 
 gists; member and' was president in 1897 
 and 1898 of the Biological Society of Wash- 
 ington, and member of many other Amer- 
 ican and foreign scientific societies. He is 
 also a member of the Delta Upsilon fra- 
 ternity and of the Cosmos Club of Washing- 
 ton. Dr. Howard married in Washington, 
 D. C, April 28, 1886, Marie T. Clifton, and 
 they have three children. Address: Cos- 
 mos Clulj, Washington. 
 
 HOWARD, Oliver Otis: 
 
 Major-General of the United States Army, 
 retired; born at Leeds, Me., Nov. 8, 1830; 
 son of Rowland Bailey and Eliza (Otis) 
 Howard. He was educated in the academies 
 at Yarmouth and Monmouth, Me., and 
 I'.owdoin College, A.B., 18.j0; and later re- 
 ceived the degrees of A.M. and LL.D. from 
 Bowdoin, and LL.D. from Waterville Col- 
 lege, ShurtlefT College, and Gettysburg 
 Theological Seminary. He entered West 
 Point an a cadet, 1850, was graduated, 
 1834, and promoted second lieutenant in 
 the Ordnance Department. He was sta- 
 tioned first at Watervliet Arsenal, N. Y., 
 and in 1885 was in command of Kennebec 
 
 Arsenal, Me.; chief of ordnance in the 
 field against the Seminole Indians, under 
 General Harney, 1850-1857; promoted first 
 lieutenant July 1, 1857; instructor in math- 
 ematics at the U. S. Military Academy, 
 1857-1861; resigned and was elected, in 
 May, 1861, colonel of the Third Maine 
 Volunteers, Avhich he organized and took 
 to Washington, when he was directed by 
 (Jeneral ]\lcDo\vell to select three other 
 regiments besides his own; selected the 
 Fourth and Fifth Maine and Second Ver- 
 mont regiments, and commanded this bri- 
 gade in the first battle of Bull Run; pro- 
 moted to brigadier-general of volunteers 
 Sept. 3, 1861; organized' a new brigade and 
 eouniianded it through the winter and 
 spring of 1861-1862 and with it had his 
 first independent expedition to Rappahan- 
 nock under General Sumner; then with 
 McCIellan's Army, back to Alexandria and 
 by water to the Peninsula, in the battles of 
 Yorktown, Williamsburg and at Fair Oaks, 
 where ho was twice wounded' and had two 
 iiorses shot vmder him, receiving for this 
 the Medal of Honor. His arm being ampu- 
 tated he was on leave for two months, 
 sjjending the period of convalescence raising 
 volunteers in Maine and filling the quota 
 of that State; returned to the field, was 
 assigned to command the Second Brigade 
 of the Second' Division, commanded it in 
 the second battle of Bull Run, and at An- 
 tietam, and when his division commander. 
 General Sedgewick, was wounded, he suc- 
 ceeded to the command of the Second Di- 
 vision, Second Corps, to the completion of 
 the battle, and also in the battle of Fred- 
 ericksburg, with other divisions storming 
 Mario's Heights, and commanded that di- 
 vision and sometimes the Second Corps, 
 during the Avinter of 1862-1863; promoted 
 major-general of volunteers, Nov. 29, 1862; 
 assigned to command of Eleventh Army 
 Corps, was at Chancellorsville and at Get- 
 tysburg, where, the first day, he selected 
 the battleground and held it, keeping a 
 superior force in check from General Rey- 
 nolds till near night and participated with 
 credit in remainder of the battle; after- 
 ward in the Army of the Cumberland, 
 commanding corps at the battles of Wau- 
 
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 hatchio. Missionary Ridge, and relief of 
 Knoxville; commanded Fovirth Army Corps 
 from April, 1804, in the battles of Dalton, 
 Resaca, Adairsville, Kingston and Cassville, 
 New Hope Church, Picket's Mill, Muddy 
 Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, Smyrna Camp 
 Ground, Peach Tree Creek, Ezra Church, 
 Jonesboro and Lovejoy Station, and after 
 the battle of Atlanta, in which General Mc- 
 Pherson was slain, General Howard com- 
 manded the Army of the Tennessee. For 
 services in the battle of Jonesboro, General 
 Howard was brevetted ma;jor-general in 
 the regular army, March 13, 1865. He 
 commanded the Army of the Tennessee 
 through the battles and marches of the last 
 year of the war to Johnston's surrender. 
 He was made a brigadier-general in the 
 regular army, Dec. 21, 1865. From May 12, 
 1865, he was for seven years commissioner 
 of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedraen and 
 Abandoned Lands, and accomplished a most 
 successful work in alleviating the sufi'ering 
 of Freedmen, and especially in the educa- 
 tional features, having founded many per- 
 manent institutions of learning, such as 
 Howard Institute, Hampton Institute, At- 
 lanta University, Lincoln, Fiske, Straight 
 and other universities. He was appointed 
 in 1872 as a commissioner to make peace 
 with the Chiricahua Indians, and to settle 
 difficulties with other tribes in New Mexico 
 and Arizona, which he accomplished with- 
 out arms ; commanded the Department of 
 the Columbia, 1874-1880, and passed through 
 the Nez Perc6 War of 1877 and the Plate 
 and Bannock War of 1878; in 1879, a tribe 
 known as the Sheepeaters becoming re- 
 bellious near Salmon River, he sent out 
 and captured them en masse, brought them 
 in as prisoners, put them at work at Van- 
 couver, and put their children in school. 
 He was superintendent of the U. S. Mili- 
 tary Academy, 1880-1882; commanded' the 
 Department of tlie Platte from 1882 until 
 his promotion to major-general in the regu- 
 hir army, March 19, 1886. He commanded 
 tlie Military Division of the Pacific, 1886- 
 1888, then the Military Division of the 
 Atlantic and later the Department of the 
 East until his retirement Nov. 8, 1894. He 
 organized the Lincoln jMemorial University 
 
 at Cumberland Gap, Tenn., for the educa- 
 tion of the mountaineers, of which he was 
 managing director, and is now i)residont 
 of the Board of Trustees. During the Span- 
 ish-American War he was constantly in 
 tile field in the interest of the Young Men's 
 Ciiristian Association, giving addresses in 
 all camps from Chickamauga to Cuba, 
 General Howard is author of several works 
 on historical subjects, as well as articles on 
 subjects of current interest and on military 
 topics in various journals. He married in 
 Portland, Me., Feb. 14, 1855, Elizabeth 
 Ann Waite, and they have had seven chil- 
 dren. Address: Burlington, Vt. 
 
 HOWARD, William Marcellus: 
 
 Congressman; born in Berwick City, 
 La., Dec. 6, 1857; of Georgia parents. He 
 was graduated from the University of 
 Georgia; began the practice of law in Feb., 
 1880; was elected solicitor-general of the 
 Northern Circuit of Georgia by the State 
 Legislature in 1884; reelected to that office 
 in 1888 and in 1892; was elected to the 
 Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty- 
 eighth, and Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Con- 
 gresses, and reelected to the Sixty-first Con- 
 gress, from the Eighth Georgia District. 
 Address: Lexington, Ga. 
 
 HOWE, Charles Summer: 
 
 President of Case School of Applied Sci- 
 ence; born at Nashua, N. H., Sept. '29, 
 1858; son of William R. and Susan D. 
 (Woods) Howe. He was graduated from 
 the IMassachusetts Agricultural College and 
 from Boston LTniversity, B.S., 1878, taking 
 a post-graduate course at Johns Hopkins 
 University, 1882-1883; and the degree of 
 Ph.D. was conferred upon him by the Uni- 
 versity of Wooster, 1887, that of D.Sc. by 
 the Armour Institute of Technology' in 
 1905, and LL.D. by Mount Union College, 
 1908. After graduation in 1878 he went 
 West, becoming principal of the Albu- 
 querque (N. Mex. ) Academy, 1879-1881. 
 Then followed the year at Johns Hopkins, 
 after which he was professor of mathematics 
 and astronomy at Buchtel College, Akron, 
 Ohio, 1883-1889. In 1889 he was olTcred 
 the chair of mathematics and astronomy in 
 
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 the Case School of Applied Science, and in 
 1902 was elected to the presidency of that 
 institution. Tie married at North Amherst, 
 Mass, :\lay 22, 1882. Abbie A. Waite, and 
 has three cliiklren. Address: 20G0 Cornell 
 Road. Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 HOWE, Henry Marion: 
 
 Consulting metallurorist and professor of 
 metallurgy; born in Boston, Mass., March 
 2, 1848; son of Samuel Gridlcy and Julia 
 (Ward) Howe. He was graduated from 
 the Boston Latin School in 1865, from Har- 
 vard College, A.B., 1869, A.M., 1872, LL.D., 
 1905; and also received the LL.D. from La- 
 fayette College, 1905. He designed and 
 built the works of the Orford Nickel and 
 Copper Company at Capelton and at Eustis, 
 Canada, and at Bergen Point, N. J., 1880- 
 1882; practised in Boston as consulting 
 metallurgist and expert in metallurgical 
 patent causes and as lecturer on metallurgy 
 at ^Massachusetts Institute of Technologj', 
 1883-1897; professor of metallurgy at Co- 
 lumbia University since 1897. In 1890 he 
 introduced into this country the manufac- 
 ture of manganese steel and of the Iladfield 
 projectiles. He was a member of the jury 
 in the class of mining and metallurgical 
 processes in the Paris Exposition in 1889 
 and 1900; president of jury of awards on 
 mines and mining at the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition, 1893. He has been pres- 
 ident of the American Institute of Mining 
 Engineers, and three terms president of the 
 Alumni Association of the Massachusetts 
 Institute of Technology; is a Knight of the 
 Order of St. Stanislas of Russia, Chevalier 
 of the L6gion d'Honneur of France, hon- 
 orary member of the Russian Imperial 
 Technical Society, the Soci6t6 d'Encourage- 
 ment pour I'lndustrie Nationale of France, 
 British Institution of ^Mining and Metal- 
 lurgy, Dallas Hi.storical Society, and Royal 
 Swedisli Academy of Science. He is non- 
 resident fellow of the American Philosophi- 
 cal Society. His [Metallurgy of Steel, pub^ 
 lished in 1890, and translated into French 
 brought him recognition by scientific soci- 
 eties at home and abroad, and among other 
 tilings the Cordan Bleu of metallurgists, 
 llif. I'..--emfT f;ol.l Mfdal, the 2,500 francs 
 
 ]M-ize awarded' by the French Soci6t§ d'En- 
 couragement pour I'lndustrie Nationale, a 
 gold medal by the Verein zur Beforderung 
 des Gewerbfleisses of Germany, and the 
 I'ranklin Institute of Philadelphia. After 
 Ills ^Metallurgy of Steel his most important 
 works are: Copper Smelting; Metallurgi- 
 cal Laboratory of Notes, the first text-book 
 for the metallurgical laboratory ever writ- 
 ten, translated into French, and Iron, Steel 
 and Other Alloys, which has been translated 
 into Russian; besides these he has pub- 
 lished' more than 100 professional papers. 
 He is second vice-president of the Taylor 
 Iron and Steel Company. jMr. Howe is a 
 member of the Engineers', Century, Har- 
 vard, and Technology Clubs. He married 
 at Troy, N. Y., April 7, 1874, Fannie Gay. 
 Address: Green Peace, Bedford Station, 
 N. Y. 
 
 HOWE, Mark Antony DeWolfe: 
 
 Editor and writer; born in Bristol, R. I., 
 Aug. 28, 1864; son of Rt. Rev. M. A. De 
 Wolfe and Eliza (Whitney) Howe. He 
 was graduated from Lehigh University, 
 B.A., in 1886; from Harvard University, 
 A.B., 1887, A.M., 1888. He was associate 
 editor of the Youth's Companion, 1888-1893, 
 assistant editor of The Atlantic ^Monthly, 
 1893-1895; and has been again associate 
 editor of the Youth's Companion since 1899. 
 lie is author of: Sliadows, 1897; American 
 P.ookmen, 1898; Phillips Brooks, 1899; 
 15oston — The Place and the People, 1903; 
 and Life and Letters of George Bancroft, 
 1908; editor of The Memory of Lincoln, 
 1899, and the Beacon Biographies (twenty- 
 nine volumes). He is a member of the 
 Tavern and Lhiion Boat Clubs of Boston, 
 of the Chi Phi fraternity, and of the IMas- 
 sachusetts Historical Society. Mr. Howe 
 married in Boston, Sept. 21, 1899, Fanny 
 Huntington Quincy, and they have three 
 cliildren. Residence: 26 Brimmer Street. 
 Odice: 201 Columbus Avenue, Boston. 
 
 HOWE, Marshall Avery: 
 
 ]5otanist and editor; born at Newfane, 
 \'t., June 0, 1867; son of Marshall Otis 
 and Gertrude I. (Dexter) Howe. He was 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 (Tiadiiatpfl from <he University of Vermont, 
 Ph.B., 18*10, Columbia University, Ph.D., 
 ISnS; instniclor in cryptojjamic botany, 
 T'niversity of California, 1801-1806; cura- 
 tor of the herbarium, Columbia University, 
 1890-1901; assistant curator of the New 
 York Botanical Garden, 1901-1906; curator 
 of the nnisoum of same, since 1906. Dr. 
 Howe was editor of Torrey, 1901-1908; 
 and has been editor of the Bulletin of the 
 Torrey Botanical Club since 1907. He has 
 served' as a member of scientific expedi- 
 tions to Newfoundland and tlie West Indies, 
 1001-1009, and makes a special study of 
 file marine alfi'.Te. He is a fellow of the 
 New York Academy of Sciences, the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science; member of the Botanical Society 
 of America, National Geof^raphic Society. 
 Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi and Phi Delta 
 Theta. He has written various papers and 
 monographs on botanical subjects. Ad- 
 dress: New York Botanical Garden, Bronx 
 Park, New York City. 
 
 HOWELL, Benjamin Franklin: 
 
 Congressman; born in Cumberland', N. J., 
 Jan., 1844; in 18G2 enlisted in the Twelfth 
 New Jersey Volunteers and served until 
 the close of the war; was elected surrogate 
 of Middlesex County in 1882, and reelected 
 for a second term in 1887; was elected to 
 the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, 
 Fifty-seventli, Fifty-eiglith, Fifty-ninth and 
 Sixtieth Congresses, and was reelected in 
 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress from the 
 Third New Jersey District. Mr. Howell is 
 a Republican in ])olitics. Address: New 
 Brunswick, N. J. 
 
 HOWELL, Clark: 
 
 Editor; born in Barnwell County, S. C, 
 Sept. 21, 1863; son of Evan P. and Julia 
 A. Howell; since early childhood a resident 
 of Atlanta. He was graduated from the 
 University of Georgia, A.B., 1883. He en- 
 gaged in newspaper work on the Atlanta 
 Constitution, of which his father was editor- 
 in-chief. He succeeded Henry Grady as 
 managing editor in 1880, and succeeded his 
 father as editor-in-chief in 1807, and since 
 1901 has also been president of the Atlanta 
 
 Constitution Publishing Coiiii)any. Mr. 
 Howell was for several years a meml)er of 
 the Georgia General Assembly, as speaker 
 of the House and president of the Senate; 
 member for the ])ast ten years of the Na- 
 tional Democratic Executive Committee 
 frouT Georgia, and is a member of the Board 
 of Directors of the Associated Press. Mr. 
 Howell has l)een twice married'; first, in 
 
 1887, to Harriot Glascock Barrett, who died 
 in 1898, and second, in 1900, to Annie 
 Combe of Savannah, Ga. Address: At- 
 lanta, Ga. 
 
 HOWELL, Joseph: 
 
 Congressman ; born in Boxelder County, 
 Utah, Feb. 17, 1857. He attended common 
 schools and studied in Utah University. 
 He is a merchant by occupation; was for- 
 merly mayor of Wellsville. and' a member 
 of tlie board of regents of Utah University. 
 He is a Republican in politics; served three 
 terms in the Territorial Legislature and 
 one in the State Senate; was elected to the 
 Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth 
 Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-first 
 'Congress. He married, Oct. 24, 1878, Mary 
 IMaughan. Address : Logan, Cache County, 
 Utah. 
 
 HOWELL, William Barberie: 
 
 U. S. general appraiser; born in Free- 
 hold, Monmoutli County, X. J., July 5, 
 ISIi.i; son of William H. and Josephine V. 
 (Tiirockmorton) Howell. He was educated 
 in private schools in New Jersey, and was 
 graduated from Spencerian Piusiness Col- 
 lege, Washington, D. C, Columbia l>;iw 
 School, Washington. D. C, LL.]\I. He is a 
 menJjer of the Bar of the District of Co- 
 lumbia, was assistant secretary of the 
 United States Treasury, 1807-180!), appoint- 
 ed in March, 1880, U. S. genera] appraiser. 
 He married in Washington. I). C.. .hine 13, 
 
 1888, Isabel S. Lauck, and has two sons. 
 Address: 641 Washington Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 HOWELLS, William Dean: 
 
 Author; born at Martin Ferry, Ohio, 
 March 1, 1837; son of William Cooper and 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Mary (Dean) Howells. He has received 
 the dejjiee of A.M., Harvard, 1877. Yale, 
 1885, Litt.D.. Yale, 1901, D.Litt., Oxford, 
 1904, LL.D., Adelbert Colle«re, 1904, Litt.D., 
 Cohiinbiii, 190."). He worked as compositor, 
 correspondent and editor in his fatlier's and 
 other OIjIo newspaper ollices; was corre- 
 spondent of tlie Cincinnati Gazette, 185G; 
 News editor of Ohio State Journal, 1859; 
 U. S. consul at Venice, 1861-1805; editorial 
 writer on the New York Times, and regular 
 contributor to New York Nation, 1805- 
 18CG; sub-editor and editor Atlantic 
 Monthly, 1808-1881; editorial contributor 
 to Harper's [Magazine, 1880-1891, and was 
 for a short time editor of the Cosmopolitan 
 [Magazine. He contributed poems to Ohio 
 papers and the Atlantic Montldy before the 
 war period, many of which were included 
 in Poems of Two Friends, which was pub- 
 lished in collaboration with John J. Piatt. 
 He wrote a Campaign Life of Lincoln in 
 1800. During his consular residence in 
 Venice he engaged in writing books. IMr. 
 Howells is author of: Venetian Life; 
 Italian Journeys; Suburban Sketches; No 
 Love Lost; Their Wedding Journey; A 
 Chance Acquaintance; A Foregone Conclu- 
 sion; Out of the Question; A Counterfeit 
 Presentment; Poems; Lady of the Aroos- 
 took; the Undiscovered Country; A Fear- 
 ful Pvcsponsibility, and Other Tales; Dr. 
 Breen's Practice; A Modern Instance; A 
 Woman's Reason; Three Villages; The Kise 
 of Silas Lapham; Tuscan Cities; Tlie [Min- 
 ister's Charge; Indian Summer; Modern 
 Italian Poets; April Hopes; Annie Kilburn; 
 A Hazard of New Fortunes; The Sleeping 
 Car and Other Farces; Tlie Mouse Trap 
 and Other Farces ; The Shadow of a Dream ; 
 An Imperative Duty; A Boy's Town; Crit- 
 icism and Fiction; The Quality of Mercy; 
 A Little Swiss Sojourn; Christmas Every 
 Day; The World of Chance; The Coast of 
 Boliemia; A Traveler from Altruria; [My 
 IJterary I'assions; The Day of Their Wed- 
 ding; A I'arling and a Meeting; lm|)res- 
 sions and Kxperiences; Stops of ^'arious 
 Quills; 'J'lic Landlord at Lion's Head; An 
 Open-Eyed ( 'uns|)iracy ; Stories of Ohio; 
 'J'lie Story of a J'lay; IJagged Lady; Tlieir 
 
 Silver Wedding Journey; Literary Friends 
 and Acquaintances; A Pair of Patient 
 Lovers; Heroines of Fiction; The Kentons; 
 Literature and Life; The Flight of Pony 
 Baker; Questionable Shapes; Miss Bellard's 
 Inspiration; London Films; Certain De- 
 lightful English Towns; Through the Eye 
 of the Needle; Between the Dark and the 
 Daylight. Editor: Choice Autobiographies, 
 with essays (eight volumes) ; Library 
 of Universal Adventure. He married' in 
 Paris, 1802, Elinor G. Meade. Mr. Howells 
 is a member of the Century Association of 
 New York City. Address : Care Harper 
 & Brothers, New York City. 
 
 HOWLAND, Alfred C: 
 
 Artist; born at Walpole, N. H., 1838; 
 son of Aaron P. and Huldah (Burke) How- 
 land. He was educated in the Walpole 
 High School and Academy, and he first 
 studied art in Boston, 1850-1857, and was 
 afterwards for three years in New York. 
 In 1860 he went to Europe, studying in 
 the Royal Academy at Diisseldorf and lat- 
 er in the private atelier of Professor Al- 
 bert Flamm ; went to Paris and studied im- 
 der Emil Lambinet. In 1865 he opened a 
 studio in New York City where he has since 
 been identified with the art of this coun- 
 try, winning distinction as a genre and 
 landscape painter. He was elected an 
 academician of the National Academy of 
 Design in 1882, and has served two terms 
 of three years each on its Council ; and he 
 is also a member of the Artists' Fund So- 
 ciety. He has exhibited yearly at the Na- 
 tional Academy of Design, at many of the 
 leading galleries in the City, throughout the 
 United States and at Munich and Paris. 
 Examples of his work are included in the 
 permanent collections of the Layton Gal- 
 lery at [Milwaukee, Yale University and 
 the Century Association of New York. 
 Mr. Howland is a mend)er of the Century 
 Club of New York City. He married at 
 Williamstown, [Mass., Clara Ward, of New 
 York City, and they have a son and a 
 daughter." Address: 7 West 43d Street, 
 Xew York Citv. 
 
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 HOWRY, Charles Bowen: 
 
 Jurist; horn in Oxford, Miss., May 14, 
 1844; son of Judge James M. Howry. He 
 was educated in the University of Missis- 
 sippi before and after the Civil War, and 
 was graduated as LL.B. in 18G7. He 
 served as private and second and first lieu- 
 tenant in the Twenty-ninth Mississippi In- 
 fantry of the Confederate States Army 
 and was severely wounded at the battle 
 of Franklin. After the war he practised 
 law, was elected to several terms in the 
 ^lississippi Legislature; trustee of the State 
 University of Mississippi, 1882-1894, U. S. 
 Attorney for the District of Mississippi, 
 1885-1889, assistant attorney-general of the 
 United States, 1893-1896; since 1896 asso- 
 ciate justice of the U. S. Court of Claims. 
 The University of Mississippi conferred 
 upon him the LL.D. degree in 1896. Resi- 
 dence: 1728 I Street, Washington, D. C. 
 
 HOXIE, Richard L.: 
 
 Lieutenant-colonel of Engineers, U. S. 
 Army; born in New York City, Aug. 7, 
 1844; son of Joseph Hoxie, Jr., and Jacque- 
 line (Barry) Hoxie. He was educated in 
 private and public schools, and the Univer- 
 sity of Iowa. He enlisted, June 13, 1861, 
 in the First Iowa Volunteer Cavalry; re- 
 enlisted January, 1864; and' was mustered 
 out to accept the appointment of cadet at 
 the U. S. Military Academy, June 10, 1864. 
 He was graduated into the Corps of Engi- 
 neers, U. S. Army, as second lieutenant 
 June, 1868 ; promoted first lieutenant, 
 1870 ; assistant engineer on jjublic works 
 in the harbor at Boston, 1870-1872; was 
 under orders of Lieutenant Wheeler as as- 
 sistant engineer on Western exploration, 
 1872-1874; chief engineer of the District 
 of Columbia, 1874-1878; promoted captain, 
 1882 ; in charge of various river and' harbor 
 improvements, suiweys, etc., in Georgia, 
 Florida and Alabama, 1883-1889; in com- 
 mand of engineer company, and instruc- 
 tor in military engineering in the School of 
 Application, WilleUs Point, N. Y., 1889- 
 1801; major, March 31, 1895; lieutenant- 
 colonel, April 23, 1904. Lieutenant-colonel 
 Hoxie is a member of the American Society 
 
 of Civil Engineers, !Mililary Order of the 
 Loyal Legion. Sons of the American IJevo- 
 lution. National Geograjdiic Society, and is 
 a member of the jNIctropolitan Club of 
 Washington, the University Club of Balti- 
 more, and the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh. 
 He married. May 28, 1878, Vinnie Ream 
 (the sculptor), and thej' have one son. Ad- 
 dress: 1632 K Street, N.W., Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 HOYNE, Thomas Maclay: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Galena, 111.. July 17, 
 1843; son of Thomas and Leonora (Tem- 
 ple) Hoyne. He was educated in Chicago 
 public and high schools, studied law in the 
 office of his father's firm in Chicago for 
 three years, and in the law school of the 
 old Chicago University, from which he was 
 graduated in 1866. The following year he 
 became a member of his father's firm, the 
 style becoming Hoyne, Horton & Hoyne. 
 On the death of his father in 1883 the firm 
 was changed to Horton & Hoyne, which 
 continued until 1887, when Mr. Horton was 
 elevated to the bench. ISIr. Hoyne then be- 
 came associated with George A. Follansbee 
 and' John O'Connor, under the style of 
 Hoyne, Follansbee & O'Connor, which con- 
 tinued until 1899, when the firm was changed 
 to Hoyne, O'Connor & Hoyne, Maclay Hoyne, 
 his son, becoming the junior partner. The 
 firm is engaged in general practice, but has 
 made a specialty of commercial, real es- 
 tate and proI)ate law. Mr. Hoyne was one 
 of the foimders of the Democrat Club, the 
 name of which was changed in 1881 to the 
 Iroquois Club, of which he was president, 
 1907, and is still a member. In 1903, act- 
 ing under the provisions of the law of July 
 1, 1901, each party nominated three pro- 
 visional candidates for additional circuit 
 judges of Cook County, and ;Mr. Hoyne re- 
 ceived three thousand four hundred and 
 seventy-seven more votes than the next' 
 highest candidate, but the Supreme Court 
 declared the election invalid. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Illinois State and Chicago Bar 
 Associations, the Chicago Law Institute, 
 and the Law Club. He married in 1871 to 
 Jeannie T. Maclay, daughter of ]\Ioses B. 
 Maclay of New York City, and has four 
 
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 sons and two (laughters. Residence: 3364 
 Cahunet Avenue. Office: Stock Exchange 
 Building, Chicago. 
 
 HOYT, Herbert W.: 
 
 Physician ; born in WellsviHo. X. Y., July 
 3, 18G3; .son of Julius and Martha Hoyt. 
 He was graduated from Genesco State Nor- 
 mal School, 1884, University of Kochestei', 
 A.B., 1888, J5oston University School of 
 Medicine, M.D., 1891 and took post-gradu- 
 ate study in New York City and in Europe, 
 1897-1898. He is a member of the Monroe 
 County HonuKopathic Medical Society, New 
 York Stale llonioobpathic Medical Society, 
 and .\iu('ricau Institute of Homoeopathy, 
 and secretary of the American Homceoputli- 
 ic Ophtlialmological, Otological and Laryng- 
 ological Society. Dr. Hoyt is a member 
 on the staff of Rochester Homoeopathic 
 Hospital, and Batavia Hospital. He is a 
 mendjer of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Club 
 of Rochester. He married in Lancaster, N. 
 H., in 1891, Mary M. Moore. Residence: 
 225 Culver Road. Olfice: 84 East Avenue, 
 Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 HRDLICKA. Ales: 
 
 Anthropologist; born at Humpolec, Bo- 
 hemia. :\larch 30, 18G9; son of Maxmilian 
 and Karoliua llrdlicka. He was educated 
 ill iiiiiniKiii and liigh schools in Bohemia, 
 gratluatcd from the New York Electric Med- 
 ical College, M.D., 1892, New York Homoeo- 
 pathic Medical College, 1894; Medical 
 Allopathic State Board, Maryland, 1894; 
 courses at ficole de INIedicine and ficole 
 d'Anthropologie, Paris lS9(i. Dr. llrdlicka 
 was interne of the Middletown N. Y. State 
 Hospital, 1894-189G; associate in Anthro- 
 pology of the Pathological Institute of the 
 State Hospitals of New York, 189G-1899; 
 in charge of ])hysical aiil liinpology, Hyde 
 Expedition, American Mii-cuni of Natural 
 History, New York City, 1899-1903; assist- 
 ant curator, in charge of the Division of 
 Physical Anthropology, U. S. National Mu- 
 seum, since 1903. He made antiiropological 
 expeditions to ilexico, the Southwest and 
 Florida, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1905 and 
 190G; to northern and' northwestern United 
 States 1908; and to Egypt 1908-1909. He 
 
 is author of over seventy papers and works 
 on anthropology (children, skull, bones, 
 brain, antliropoids, Indians, antiquity of 
 man in North America). Dr. Hrdlicka is 
 a foreign associate of the Paris Anthro- 
 pological Society, medical and physiologi- 
 cal observation. Corresponding member of 
 the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences, 
 Bohemian Ethnological Society. He is (ex- 
 president of the Anthropological Society of 
 Washington; fellow member of the Ameri- 
 can Association for the Advancement of 
 Science; of the Society of American Anato- 
 mists, American Anthropological Associa- 
 tion, and Washington Biological Society. 
 Residence: 2501 Pennsylvania Avenue. 
 Office: U. S. National Museum, Washing- 
 ton, D. C. 
 
 HUBBARD, Elbert: 
 
 Author, journalist, banker, lecturer; born 
 at Bloomington, 111., June 19, 1856; son 
 of Dr. Silas and Julia F. (Read) Hub- 
 bard. He was educated in the public schools 
 and acquired a taste for classical literature 
 which has had much to do with shaping 
 his later career, and later his attainments 
 in literature were recognized by the award- 
 ing to him by Tufts College, of the degree 
 of A.M. in 1899. Mr. Hubbard engaged in 
 journalism, first as a reporter on the New 
 ^'ork Sun and the Chicago Times, and later 
 was superintendent of the Larkin Soap Com- 
 pany. He afterward established and is 
 editor of The Philistine, Little Journey, and 
 the Era Magazine. He is also proprietor 
 of the Roycroft Shop, devoted to the pro- 
 duction of classics in befitting typographi- 
 cal dress and binding. The quality and 
 originality of the work done by this estab- 
 lishment has met wide recognition, and the 
 work of the Roycrofters has a fame and 
 prestige with bibliophiles analagous to that 
 enjoyed by the productions of William 
 Morris in England, and the name Raycroft 
 lulition is a recognized synonym for unique 
 merit in Ixjok-making. The Philistine has 
 a place all alimc in literature, and is 
 original and virile in its point of view, as 
 well as delightful in its literary flavor. Mr. 
 llul)bard is also proprietor of the Roycroft 
 Bank. Mr. Hubbard is the author of the fa- 
 
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 nious ]\Iessage to Garcia, a booklet which 
 has probably had a wider circulation in the 
 same time than any other book ever writ- 
 ten. He is author of: No Enemy but 
 Himself; Little Journeys to Homes of Good 
 Men and Great; Little Journeys to the 
 Homes of American Authors; Little Jour- 
 neys to the Homes of Famous Women; 
 Little Journeys to the Homes of American 
 Statesmen; Little Journeys to the Homes 
 of Eminent Painters; All Baba of East 
 Aurora; As It Seems to Me; A Message 
 to Garcia; Time and' Chance; The Legacy; 
 Forbes of Harvard; One Day; A Tale of 
 the Prairies; Contemplations; John Bur- 
 roughs; Consecrated Lives; Chicago 
 Tongue; The Man of Sorrows; and others 
 making thirty-two books to date. Mr. Hub- 
 bard is also well known and popular on 
 the lecture platform. He has traveled ex- 
 tensively over Europe and America. Among 
 the other pursuits of this many-sided man 
 is that of farmer and raiser of saddle 
 horses, in which he finds much delight. Ad- 
 dress: East Aurora, N. Y. 
 
 HUBBARD, Henry W.: 
 
 Treasurer of the American Missionary As- 
 sociation; born at Elgin, 111., May 17, 1844; 
 son of William G. and Charlotte (Wright) 
 Hubbard. He was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan in 1866 and received its 
 degree of M.S. in 1872. He attended the 
 Law School of the University of Michigan 
 for one year; and was admitted to the bar 
 in Illinois in 1868. Mr. Hubbard was pro- 
 fessor of mathematics and acting treasurer 
 of Fisk Universitj^, Nashville, Tenn., 1871- 
 1873; in the New York office of the Ameri- 
 can Missionary Association since 1873; was 
 appointed its assistant treasurer in 1876 
 and has been its treasurer since 1879. He 
 is also treasurer of the Board of Trustees of 
 Talladega (Alabama) College, Straight Uni- 
 versity, New Orleans, and Tongaloo Univer- 
 sity, Miss. He is a veteran of the Civil 
 War, having served in the 134th Illinois 
 Volunteers. He is a member of the New 
 England Society, Psi Upsilon fraternity, 
 and Grand Army of the Republic, and is 
 also a member of the Quill Club and of the 
 University of Michigan Club. Residence: 
 
 HI Madison Avenue. Office: 287 Fourth 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
 HUBBELL. Alvin Allace: 
 
 Physician and o])lithalmologist; born in 
 Conewango, N. Y., 1846; son of Schuyler P. 
 and Hepzibah (Farnsworth) Hubbell. He 
 was educated in public schools at Conewan- 
 go and at Randolph Academy; was gradu- 
 ated as M.D. fronj the University of BufTalo 
 in 1876, and received from Niagara Uni- 
 versity the Ph.D. degree in 1893. He is 
 professor of clinical oplithalniology and otol- 
 ogy in the University of Buffalo, and oph- 
 thalmic surgeon to the Charity Eye, Ear 
 and Throat Hospital, and other hospi- 
 tals of Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Hubbell is a 
 member of the American INIedical Associa- 
 tion, American Ophthalmological Society, 
 Buffalo Academy of Medicine and New 
 York Academy of Medicine; was president 
 of the New York State Medical Association 
 in 1902, and chairman of the Section of 
 Ophthalmology, of the American Medical 
 Association, 1909. He is author of the 
 Section on Disease of the Eye, in Dr. 
 Schweinitz' American Text-book of Dis- 
 eases of the Eye, Philadelphia, 1899, the 
 Development of Oiihthalmology in Amer- 
 ica: 1800-1870, Chicago, 1908; and 
 many contributions to medical journals; 
 and was former associate editor of the 
 Buffalo Medical Journal. He married in 
 1872, Evangeline Fancher, and they have 
 one daughter. Residence: The Lenox Ho- 
 tel. Office: 212 Franklin Street, Buffalo, 
 N. Y. 
 
 HUFF, George Franklin: 
 
 Congressman; born at Norristown, Pa., 
 July 16, 1842. He received his education 
 in the public schools at Middletown and 
 later at Altoona, where, after learning a 
 trade in the car shops of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Company, at an early age he en- 
 tered the banking house of William ^M. 
 Lloyd & Company. In 1867 he removed to 
 Westmoreland County to engage in the 
 banking business. He was a meniber'of the 
 National Republican Convention in 1880, 
 where he was one of the Three Hundred 
 and Six who followed the lead of Roscoe 
 
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 Conklin in the cfTort to nominate General 
 U. S. Grant for the Presidency. Mr. Huff 
 is president of the Keystone Coal and Coke 
 Company, one of the largest producers of 
 gas and steam coal in the United States; 
 is largely engaged in many other business 
 industries in various ])arts of Pennsylvania, 
 together with the banking business in 
 Greensburg, in Avhicli he has been constantly 
 engaged since his youth; is president of the 
 \\'estmoreland Hospital Association. He 
 was elected to the Pennsylvania Senate in 
 18S4 and represented the Thirty-ninth Sen- 
 atorial District four years; was elected 
 to the Fifty-second Congress from the 21st 
 Pennsylvania District, then composed of the 
 counties of \\'estmoreland, Indiana, Arm- 
 strong, and Jefferson and was elected con- 
 gressman at large from Pennsylvania to the; 
 Fifly-fourth Congress. Mr. Huff was elect- 
 ed from the 22d Pennsylvania District to the 
 Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Con- 
 gresses, and reelected in 1908 to the Sixty- 
 lirst Congress. He married' in 1871, Hen- 
 rietta, daughter of the late Judge Jeremiah 
 M. Burrell, of Pennsylvania, afterward 
 United States District Judge and Chief Jus- 
 tice of Kansas by the appointment of Presi- 
 dent Franklin Pierce. Address: Greens- 
 burg, Pa. 
 
 HUGHES, Charles Evans: 
 
 Governor and lawyer; born in Glens 
 Falls, N. Y., April 11, 1802; son of Rev. 
 David Charles and Mary Catherine (Con- 
 nelly) Hughes. He was a student at Col- 
 gate University, 1870-1878; was graduated 
 from Brown University, A.B., 1881, and 
 from Columbia Law School, LL.B., 1884; 
 and tlic degree of LL.D. was conferred upon 
 him by Brown University in 1900 and by 
 Columbia University, Knox College, and La- 
 fayette College in 1907. He was admitted to 
 tlie bar, June, 1884, and practised law in 
 New York City, 1884-1891 and 1893-1900. 
 Governor Hughes Avas jn-ofessor of law at 
 Cornell University, 1891-1893, special lec- 
 turer pn law, 1893-1895, also at the New 
 York I^aw School, 1893-li)00. He was coun- 
 sel for Slovens Gas Committoe of the New 
 York Legislature in 1905, and for the Arm- 
 
 strong Insurance Committee, 1905-1900; and 
 was special assistant to the United States 
 attorney-general in the coal investigation of 
 1900. He was nominated for office of may- 
 or of New York City by the Republican Con- 
 vention in 1905 but declined, and was nom- 
 inated for governor by the Republicans in 
 1900 and elected. In 1908 he was consider- 
 ed as a presidential possibility, but his 
 name was not pressed, largely owing to the 
 opposition to him in his own State result- 
 ing from his earnest insistence on the pas- 
 sage of bills putting an end to race-track 
 gambling in New York. For the same rea- 
 son his renomination as governor was op- 
 posed, although unsuccessfully. Governor 
 Hughes being reelected for the term expir- 
 ing in 1911. He is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Bar Association, New York State Bar 
 Association, Association of the Bar of the 
 City of New York, and is trustee of Brown 
 University. He is also a member of the 
 University, Republican, Lawyers', Brown, 
 Cornell, Delta Upsilon, and Nassau Country 
 Clubs. Governor Hughes married, Dec. 5, 
 1888, Antoinette Carter and they have four 
 children. Address : Executive Mansion, Al- 
 bany, N. Y. 
 
 HUGHES, Donnel: 
 
 Physician; born in Philadelphia, ]\Iarch 
 1, 1858; son of Isaac W. Hughes, M.D., 
 and Alice E. (Donnel) Hughes. He was ed- 
 ucated in the Academic Department of the 
 LTniversity of Pennsylvania, and he was 
 graduated from the Medical Department, 
 M.D., 1879. He was assistant demonstrator 
 of anatomy, 1878-1879. Since graduation 
 ho has been continuously engaged in the 
 practice of medicine and surgery in Phila- 
 delphia. He was elected gynecologist to the 
 Philadelphia Hospital in 1883. Dr. Hughes 
 is a member of the American ]\Iedical Asso- 
 ciation, INIcdical Society of the State of Penn- 
 sylvania, Philadelphia County Medical So- 
 ciety, Philadelphia Pediatric Society, and 
 the American Geographical Societj'; and 
 is also a inoiubor of the IMasonic order and 
 of the Piiiladolpliia Medical Club. He mar- 
 ried in Piiiladolphia, Nov. 19, 1884, Sarah 
 Soiiuners, daii<rhter of Rev. Gideon J. Bur- 
 
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 ton, and they have a son. Residence: 2022 
 Locust Street. Office: 4003 Chestnut 
 Street, Phihulelphiu. 
 
 HUGHES, Edwin Holt: 
 
 IJisliop of the ]\Iethodist Episcopal 
 Cliurch; born in ]\Ioundsville, W. Va., Dec. 
 7, 18GG; son of Rev. Thomas B. and Louisa 
 Hughes. lie was graduated from Ohio Wes- 
 leyan University, A.B., 1889, A.M., (honor- 
 ary) 1802; and from the Theological School 
 of* Boston University, S.T.B., 1892; and he 
 has received the degrees S.T.D. from Syra- 
 cuse LTniversity, 1903, D.D. from Ohio Wes- 
 leyan University, 1904, LL.D., DePauw Uni- 
 versity, 1908. He was ordained in the min- 
 istry of the ]\Iethodist Episcopal Church, 
 1892; pastor at Newton Center, Mass., 1892- 
 189G. Maiden, Mass., 1896-1903. He became 
 president of DePauw University, Greencas- 
 tle, Ind., in 1903, continuing until elected, 
 in May, 1908, a bishop of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. He was a trustee of the 
 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement 
 of Teaching; and' he is a member of the Phi 
 I?eta Kappa Society, the Delta Tau Delta 
 fraternity, and the University Club of In- 
 dianapolis. He married in Atlanta, Ga., 
 Jxme 8, 1892, Isabel Baker Ebbert, and has 
 six children. Address: San Francisco, 
 Calif. 
 
 HUGHES, James Anthony: 
 
 Congressman ; born in Ontario, Canada, 
 Feb. 27, 1861; son of James W. and Ellen 
 Hughes. In July, 1873, he removed with 
 his parents to Ashland, Ky., where he enter- 
 ed on a business career; was elected to rep- 
 resent the counties of Boyd' and Lawrence 
 in the Legislature of Kentucky for the years 
 1887 and 1888; the bulk of his business in- 
 terest having drifted to the adjoining State 
 of West Virginia, necessitated the removal 
 of liis residence to that State also. Here, as 
 in Kentucky, he was called on to be a rep- 
 resentative in the Legislature, the Sixth 
 Senatorial District having by a large ma- 
 jority sent him, the first Republican sena- 
 tor, to represent it in the term of 1894-1898. 
 He has always been an active and an inter- 
 ested Republican, identifying himself with 
 all the movements and aspirations of his 
 
 party; was elected to the Fifty-seventh Con- 
 gress by the largest Republican vote ever 
 given in the Fourth District, and to tlie 
 Fifty-eighth, Fifty-nintli and Sixtieth Con- 
 gresses, and reelected to tlie Sixty-first Con- 
 gress from the Fifth West Virginia District. 
 He married in Cercdo, W. Va., Dec. 28, 
 1885, Belle Vinson. Address: Huntington, 
 W. Va. 
 
 HUGHITT, Marvin: 
 
 Railway ollicial ; I)orn in Genoa Town- 
 ship, Cayuga County, N. Y., Aug. 9, 1837. 
 He was educated in the public schools and 
 removed, while yet a youth, to Chicago, 
 where he became a telegrapher and was in 
 the employ of the Chicago and Alton and 
 the Illinois Central Railroads. With the 
 latter road he was successively trainmaster, 
 assistant general superintendent and gener- 
 al superintendent. He was assistant general 
 manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. 
 Paul Railway in 1870-1871; general man- 
 ager of the Pullman Palace Car Company, 
 1871-1872. He entered the service of the 
 Chicago and North- Western Railway as gen- 
 eral superintendent in 1872, and was its 
 general manager, 1876-1880. On June 2, 
 1880, he was appointed vice-president and 
 general manager of the Chicago and Noi'th- 
 western Railway, which position he retained 
 until 1887, when he became president. He 
 is also president of the Chicago St. Paul, 
 Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company, 
 tlie Tremont, Elk Horn and Missouri Valley 
 Railroad Company, the St. Paul Eastern 
 Grand Trunk Railway, and the Sioux City 
 and Pacific Railroad Company. He is a di- 
 rector of the Union Pacific Railroad Com- 
 pany, the Northern Trust Company, and the 
 Equitable Life Assurance Society of the 
 United States. Address: 22 Fifth Avenue. 
 Residence: 2828 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, 
 and Lake Forest, 111. 
 
 HULBERT, Homer Bazaleel: 
 
 Author of works on Korea; born in New 
 Haven, Vt., Jan. 26, 1863; son of Calvin 
 B. and Mary E. (Woodward) Hulbcrt. 
 He was educated in Dartmouth College, 
 (A.M.) and Union Theological Seminary. 
 In 1884 he was selected bv the State De- 
 
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 partniont as one of the force of teachers for 
 the Korean Government. He was especially 
 successful in his mission, and remained in 
 Korea until 1007. Having won the confi- 
 dence of the government, he acted as special 
 agent of the Korean Emperor in 1905 in 
 appealing to the United States Government 
 against the movements of Japan, and in 
 IDOT came again to the United States to 
 present the cause of Korea before the Amer- 
 ican public. He is now engaged in journal- 
 istic work. He is the author of : The Passing 
 of Korea; The History of Korea; A Compar- 
 ative Grammar of Korean and Dravidian; 
 A Search for the Siberian Klondike; The 
 Sign of the Jumna; Korean Folk Lore; The 
 Hulbort Series of School Textbooks in the 
 Korean Language. He was editor of The 
 Korea Eeview, 1901-1900. Mr. Hulbert is 
 a member of the Chicago Folk Lore Society; 
 fellow of Koyal Geographical Society; char- 
 ter member of the Korea Branch of Royal 
 Asiatic Society, and was decorated by the 
 Emperor of Korea, with the Order of the 
 Crown. He married in New York City, 
 Sept. 18, 1888, May B. Ilanna, and has two 
 sons and two daughters. Address: 30 Ma- 
 rengo Park, Springfield, Mass. 
 
 HULINGS, Willis James: 
 
 Oil and mine operator; born in Clarion, 
 Pa., Jul}' 1, 1850. He received an academic 
 education, studying law at the conclusion 
 of his academic course; was admitted to 
 practise in the courts of Pennsylvania, West 
 Virginia and Arizona; member of the Penn- 
 sylvania Legislature, 1881-188G, and pro- 
 cured passage of the bill to prohibit unjust 
 discriminations in railroad freight rates. 
 He enlisted in the National Guard of Penn- 
 sylvania in 1870, serving through various 
 grades until elected colonel in February, 
 1887; served in the railroad riots, 1877, 
 Homestead riots, 1891, and Walston riots, 
 1892; volunteered with entire regiment May 
 10, 1898, for service in Spanish-American 
 War and served in Porto Rico; and was pro- 
 moted Sept. 20, 1898, to brigadier-general 
 of tlie United States Volunteers for gallant 
 and meritorious conduct at the battle of 
 Coamo. Aug. 9, 1898; discharged Jan. 1, 
 1899. Commander-in-chief of tiie National 
 
 Association of the Spanish-American War 
 Veterans; member of the Sons of the Amer- 
 ican Revolution; brigadier-general, Nation- 
 al Guard of Pennsylvania; State senator 
 from the Forty-eighth District of Pennsyl- 
 vania; engaged in mining and large Mex- 
 ican enterprises. Address: Oil City, Pa. 
 
 HULL, John Albert Tiffin: 
 
 Congressman and manufacturer; born in 
 Sabina, Clinton County, Ohio, May 1, 1841. 
 He removed with his parents to Iowa in 
 1849; was educated in the public schools, 
 Asbury (now DePauw) University, and 
 Iowa Wesleyan College, at Mount Pleasant; 
 and was graduated from the Cincinnati 
 Law School in the spring of 1862. He en- 
 listed in the Twenty-third Iowa Infantry 
 July, 1862; was first lieutenant and cap- 
 tain; was wounded in the charge on in- 
 trenchments at Black River, May 17, 1863; 
 resigned on account of w^ounds, October, 
 1863; was elected secretary of the Iowa 
 State senate in 1872 and reelected' 1874- 
 1876, and 1878; was elected secretary of 
 State in 1878 and reelected in 1880 and 
 1882; was elected lieutenant-governor in 
 1885, and reelected in 1887. He is engaged 
 in farming and banking. He was elected 
 to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third', Fifty- 
 fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-sev- 
 enth, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth 
 Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-first 
 Congress, from the Seventh Iowa Distriit. 
 Address: Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 HUMPHREY, James Otis: 
 
 liilted Slates district judge for the 
 Southern District of Illinois; born in Mor- 
 gan County, 111., Dec. 30, 1850; son of Wil- 
 liam Humphrey and Sarah (Stockcr) iruiu- 
 phrey. After completing his general edu- 
 cation in Shnrtleir College, he was engaged 
 in teaching school while stud'ying law for 
 two years. He was admitted to the bar by 
 the Supreme Court of Illinois in 1880, then 
 was a legal clerk in the ofilce of the Rail- 
 road and Warehouse Commission of the 
 j State of Illinois, in Springfield, until 
 ! 1883, then engaged in i)rivate practice. He 
 I was actively identified with politics as a 
 1 Republican. He was a presidential elector 
 
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 in 1884, and was a member of the National 
 Ilopublicau Convention at St. Louis in 
 18!)G. He was appointed' by President Mc- 
 Kinley in 1897, to the office of United 
 States attoniev for the Southern District 
 of Illinois, and when his term in that office 
 expired in 1901, was appointed to the judge- 
 ship which lie now holds. He came into 
 National prominence in 1906 by his deci- 
 sion in the cases of the United States 
 against the beef packers, declaring that they 
 had secured imnuinity from prosecution by 
 testimony given before the Commissioner of 
 Corporations. Address: Springfield, 111. 
 
 HUMPHREY, William E.: 
 
 Congressman; born March 31, 1862, near 
 Alamo, Montgomery County, Ind. He at- 
 tended the common schools and was grad- 
 uated from Wabash College, Crawfords- 
 ville, Ind., 1870. He was admitted to the 
 bar in 1887, and practised' law at Crawfords- 
 ville to 1893; in 1893 moved to Seattle, 
 Wash., where he has since practised his 
 ]uofession; in 1898 he was elected to the 
 office of corporation counsel of the city of 
 Seattle; was reelected to that office in 1900; 
 was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth 
 and Sixtieth Congresses, and reelected to 
 the Sixty-first Congress on the Republican 
 ticket, from tlie First Congressional District 
 of Washington. Address : Seattle, ^^'ash. 
 
 HUMPHREYS, Benjamin Grubb: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Clai- 
 borne County, Miss., Aug. 17, 1865; son 
 of Brigadier-General Benjamin G. Hum- 
 ])hreys. Confederate States Army, and gov- 
 ernor of Mississippi from 1865 to 1868, 
 when he was forcibly ejected from the ex- 
 ecutive mansion by Federal soldiers under 
 the command of Brigadier-General Adelbert 
 Ames, U. S. Army, who succeeded him as 
 military governor; his mother was Mildred 
 Hickman Maury, of Tennessee. He was 
 educated at the University of Mississippi, 
 in the class of 1885, but left before grad- 
 uation, having completed the junior year; 
 he engaged in mercantila pursuits, and 
 subsequently studied law, and was admitted 
 to the bar in November, 1891. He was ap- 
 pointed' superintendent of education for 
 
 Leflore County in .lanuary, 1S92, for a term 
 of four years. He was selected messenger 
 by the Presidential electors in 1892 to de- 
 liver the electoral vote of Mississijjpi ; in 
 1895 he was elected district attorney for 
 the Fourth Circuit Court District of Mis- 
 sissippi, and was reelected without opposi- 
 tion in 1899. When war was declared 
 against Spain, in April, 1898, he raised a 
 company at Greenwood and was elected' first 
 lieutenant; he offered to resign the office 
 of district attorney in order to join the 
 army, but U. S. Senator A. J. McLaurin, 
 wlio was then governor of Mississippi, re- 
 fused to permit it, and gave him a leave of 
 absence instead. He served in the Second 
 Mississippi Volunteer Infantry, under Ma- 
 jor-General Fitzhugh Lee in Florida, d'uring 
 the entire war, being mustered out with 
 his regiment at Columbia, Tenn., Dec. 22, 
 1898. He was elected as a Democrat to the 
 Fifty-eighth Congress, and reelected to the 
 Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first Con- 
 gresses from the Third Mississippi District. 
 He married, Oct. 9, 1889, Loui-<e Yerger, of 
 Greenville, Miss. Address : Greenville, 
 Miss. 
 
 HUNT, Edward Living'ston: 
 
 Physician; born in New Orleans, La., Feb. 
 2, 1871; son of Cai'leton and' Georgine 
 (Cammack) Hunt. He was educated in 
 Phillips Exeter Academj'^, Harvard Univer- 
 sity, A.B., College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons, Columbia Universitj', M.D. He is in- 
 structor in neurology in the College of Phy- 
 sicians and Surgeons of Columbia Univer- 
 sity, neurologist to the New York City 
 Home for the Aged; senior attending physi- 
 cian to the Hospital for Nervous Diseases 
 of the City of New Y''ork. He is engaged in 
 the practice of medicine, with a specialty in 
 neurology. He is a member of the New 
 York Academy of Medicine, New Y'ork Neu- 
 rological Society, New Y'ork County Medical 
 Society, American ^ledical Association, Nu 
 Sigma Nu Medical fraternity, and the Uni- 
 versity and Harvard clubs of New Y'ork 
 City. Dr. Hunt married in Austin, Texas, 
 Oct. 8, 1902, Margaret Tobin, and they have 
 one son. Address: 54 West 50th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
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 HUNT, Emory William: 
 
 PrpsidV'Tit of Dciiison University; boin iit 
 Clarence, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1802; son of the 
 Rev. Harrison Perry and Caroline (Holmes) 
 Hunt. He was graduated from the Univer- 
 sity of Rochester, A.l?., 1S84, and from Cro- 
 zer Thcolofiiciil Seminary. B.D., 1887. llie 
 honorary de.irree of D.D. was conferred \ipon 
 him by Dcnison University in 1901, and 
 that of LT>.D. by tlie University of Roches- 
 ter in 1902. He entered the ministry of the 
 Bajitist Church and was pastor of the Ash- 
 land Avenue Baptist Church of Toledo, 
 Oliio, 1887-1900. In 1900 he took charge of 
 the Clarendon Street Baptist Church at 
 Boston, but in 1902 resigned to become pres- 
 ident of Denison University. Dr. Hunt 
 is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
 the Alplia Delta Phi fraternity, and the 
 Trilun Fish and Game Club of Quebec. He 
 was married at Waltham, ]\Iass., Aug. 24, 
 1892, Elizabeth Olney, and has three daugh- 
 ters. Address : Granville, Ohio. 
 
 HUNT, Richard Howland: 
 
 Arcliitect; born in Paris, France, 18G2; 
 son of Richard INIorris Hunt. He was edu- 
 cated' in the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology'; and finished his studies at the 
 ficole des Beaux Arts, with view to follow- 
 ing liis father's profession. From a small 
 sketch left by father he completed the new 
 East wing for ISIetropolitan Museum of Art, 
 and of individual works may be mentioned: 
 Quintard Hail and HolTman Hall. Univer- 
 sity; of tlie South; Kissam Hall at Vander- 
 bilt University; Schmid House; Idle Hour, 
 for W. K. Vanderbilt; and the Schieffelin 
 mansion. Devotes attention to arcliitectural 
 designs for large office buildings. ]\Ir. Hunt 
 is a member American Institute of Arclii- 
 tects. Architectural League, Beaux Arts So- 
 ciety, and till' I'layers' and Century Clubs. 
 He married, lirst, Pearl, daughter of Francis 
 D. Carlcy, and, second, in 1891, Margaret 
 l^ivingston Watrous, daughter of S. Otis 
 Livingston, and he has three sons. Ad- 
 dress: 28 East 21st Street, New York City. 
 
 HUNT, Theodore Whitefield: 
 
 University professor; born at Metuchen, 
 X. J., Feb. 19, 1844; son of HoUoway W. 
 
 and Henrietta (IMund'ay) Hunt. He was 
 graduated from Princeton University with 
 first honor in 18G5 and from Princeton 
 Tlieological Seminary in 1869; from Lafay- 
 ette College he received a Ph.D. in 1880, 
 and from Rutgers an L.H.D. in 1890. He 
 was tutor in English in Princeton Uni- 
 versity, 18G8-1S73; adjunct professor of 
 Knglish, 1873-1881, and has been professor 
 of English in the same institution from 
 1881. He has published: Ciedmon's Exo- 
 dus and Daniel, 1883; Principles of Written 
 Discourse, 1884; English Prose and Prose 
 Writers, 1887 ; Studies in Literature and 
 Style, 1890; Ethical Studies in Old English 
 Literature, 1894; American Meditative 
 Lyrics, 189G; English Meditative Lyrics, 
 1899; Literature — Its Principles and Prob- 
 lems, 190G; and has contributed to the 
 leading American reviews, literary and 
 philological. He married at Camden, N. J., 
 June 29, 1882, Sarah Cooper Reeve, now 
 deceased. Address: 48 Library Place, 
 Princeton, N. J. 
 
 HUNTER, William Dulany: 
 
 Consular ofiicial; born in tlie District of 
 Columbia. Pie was api^ointed clerk Dec. 
 13, 1888, and served in the consulate at 
 Liverpool, June, 1889, to Nov., 1890, in 
 the consulate-general at Paris from Feb., 
 1891, to Oct., 1892; appointed vice and 
 deputy consul-general at Shanghai. Ju«e 
 23, 1893, and was in charge of the con- 
 sulate-general from Nov., 1893, to May, 
 1894, resigned as vieo and deputy consul- 
 general May 8, 1895. He was appointed 
 vice-consul to establish a consulate at Har- 
 ])ut, Turkey, June, 189.^; was attached to 
 the legation at Constant ino])le, Dec, 1895, 
 to Jan., 189G; was designated to make an 
 inspection of consulates in the West Indies 
 and certain consulates to South America, 
 Nov. 20, 189G, appointed deputy consul- 
 general at Cairo June, 1898, vice-consul- 
 general at Cairo, ]May 23, 1899, retired as 
 vice-consul-general and as deputy consul- 
 general at Cairo, July 10, 1902, and he was 
 ap|)oiute(l consul at Nic<', March 30. 1907, 
 which ])ositi()n he luiw liolils. .Vddress: 
 Nice, France. 
 
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 HUNTINGTON, Henry Edwards: 
 
 Railway oflicial; born in Oneonta, N. Y., 
 Feb. 27, 1850; son of Solon and Harriet 
 (.Saunders) Huntington. He was educated 
 in the public schools; was superintendent 
 of construction of the Huntington (Central 
 Pacific) lines between Louisville and New 
 Orleans, especially the construction of the 
 Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Rail- 
 road, from 1880 until the roads were com- 
 pleted in 1884; superintendent, 1884-1885, 
 and receiver, 1885-1886, of the Kentucky 
 Central Railroad', of which, after its sale 
 in 1886, he was vice-president until the 
 road was sold to the Louisville and Nash- 
 ville in 1890; vice-president and general 
 manager of the Elizabethtown, Lexington 
 and Big Sandy and Ohio Central Railways. 
 He was also superintendent of construction 
 of the Maysville and Big Sandy Railroad 
 and had charge of the construction com- 
 pany which built the lines through Coving- 
 ton, Ky., and Cincinnati, including the Ohio 
 River Bridge. He was first assistant to 
 the present Southern Pacific Company, 
 1892-1900 (representing the president at 
 San Francisco) ; second vice-president, 
 March- June, 1900; first vice-president, 
 1900-1904, and is now president of the 
 Pacific Electric Railway Company of Los 
 Angeles, the Los Angeles Railway Com- 
 pany, Los Angeles-Interurban Railway 
 Company (comprising over 685 miles of 
 trolley lines in Southern California), and 
 is chairman of the board of directors of 
 the Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding and 
 Dry Dock Company, of which he is half 
 owner). He is a director of the Southern 
 Pacific Company, Newport News Light and 
 Water Company, Old Dominion Land Com- 
 pany (Newport News), International Bank- 
 ing Corporation, Wells, Fargo and Com- 
 pany Express, Minneapolis and St. Louis 
 Railway Company, Iowa Central Railway 
 Company, Toledo, St. Louis and Western 
 Railway Company, Huntington Land and 
 Improvement Company, Los Angeles Land 
 Company, Pacific Light and Power Com- 
 pany, Safety Insulated Wire Company and 
 Cable Company, and about forty-five other 
 companies. Mr. Huntington is a member 
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 of the California, Jonathan, San CabricI 
 Valley Country, Pasadena Country, and 
 Bolsa Chica Gun Clubs, all of California; 
 Union League, Metropolitan and City Mid- 
 day Clubs of New York City, and 'Oneonta 
 Club of Oneonta, N. Y. He has four chil- 
 dren. Residence: Metropolitan Club, New 
 York City. Office: 25 Broad Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 HUNTINGTON, William Edwards: 
 
 President of Boston University; born at 
 Hillsboro, 111., July 30, 1844; son of Wil- 
 liam P. and Lucy (Edwards) Huntington. 
 He was graduated from the University of 
 Wisconsin, A.B. and A.M. degrees in course, 
 and' received from Wisconsin the honorary 
 degree of LL.D. ; also D.D. from W^sleyan 
 University and Syracuse University, and 
 LL.D. from Tufts College. He served in 
 the Civil War as a private in the Fortieth 
 Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry 
 in 1864, and as first lieutenant in the 
 Forty-ninth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry 
 in 1865. Dr. Huntington was a minister 
 in the New England Conference of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, 1871-1882; 
 dean of the College of Liberal Arts of 
 Boston University, 1882-1904, and has been 
 president of Boston University since Jan., 
 1904. President Huntington is a member 
 of the University and Ministers' Clubs of 
 Boston, and the Neighbors' and Newton 
 Golf Club of Newton Centre, Mass. He 
 married at Newton, Mass., May 10, 1881, 
 Ella M. Speare, and they have three chil- 
 dren. Residence: Ne^^i;on Centre, Mass. 
 Office: 688 Boylston Street, Boston. 
 
 HURD, Arthur William: 
 
 Physician; born in Galesburg, 111,, Dec. 
 26, 1858; son of Henry Sterling and Elea- 
 nor Eunice (Hammond) Hurd. He was 
 graduated from Knox College. Galesburg, 
 111., A.B., 1880, A.M., 1883; and from the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, New 
 York City, M.D., 1883. He served as as- 
 sistant physician at the Buffalo State Hos- 
 pital, 1885-1894; and has been its superin- 
 tendent since 1894. He was formerly 
 professor of insanity in the University of 
 
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 BufTalo; and president of the Buflfalo Acad- 
 emy of ^Medicine. Dr. Hurd is author of 
 numerous j)apers on medical subjects, es- 
 pecially on insanity and kindred topics, and 
 is a member of many professional bodies. 
 He was married in Bufi'alo, X. Y., June 20, 
 1895, Mary Wheeler. Address: BufTalo 
 State Hospital, Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 HURD. Henry Mills: 
 
 rhysician; born in Union City, Mich., 
 May '3, 1843; son of Dr. Theodore Canfield 
 and Ellen E. (Hammond) Hurd. He was 
 educated in Knox College, and' the University 
 of Michigan, A.B., 18G3, M.D., 1866; later 
 receiving from that institution the degrees 
 of A.M., 1870, and LL.D., 1895. Dr. Hurd 
 was assistant physician in the Michigan 
 Asylum for the Insane at Kalamazoo, 1870- 
 1878; and assistant superintendent in the 
 same in 1878. He was superintendent of 
 the Eastern Michigan Asylum at Pontiac, 
 1878-1889; and since 1889 has been super- 
 intendent of Johns Hopkins Hospital in 
 Baltimore, Md. He has also, since 1889, 
 been editor of the Johns Hopkins Hos- 
 pital Bulletin' and the Johns Hopkins Hos- 
 pital Reports, and since 1895 one of the 
 editors of the American Journal of Insan- 
 ity. Dr. Hurd was also, 1889-1906, pro- 
 fessor of psychiatry in Johns Hopkins 
 University. He has written extensively on 
 medical and psychological subjects, particu- 
 larly as to the treatment of the insane; 
 also as to hospital and nurses' training 
 school management, and is joint author 
 with Dr. John S. Billings of: Hospitals, 
 Dispensaries and Nursing, and' of Hints 
 to Hospital Visitors. He is member and 
 ex-president of the American Medico-Psy- 
 chological Association, member of the Asso- 
 ciation of American Physicians, American 
 Academy of Medicine, American Medical 
 Association, and American Public Health 
 Association. Dr. Hurd is a member of 
 the University and Johns Hopkins Clubs 
 of Baltimore, and the Baltimore Country 
 Club of Roland Park. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Maryland Lunacy Commission. 
 Address: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 
 Baltimore. 
 
 HTJRLBUT, Byron Satterlee: 
 
 Professor of English and dean of Har- 
 vard College; born at Shelburne, Vt., Feb. 
 10, 1865; son of Hiram Fuller and Roxcy 
 Jane (Satterley) Hurlbut. He was edu- 
 cated in public schools of Lynn, Mass., 
 and Harvard College, from which he was 
 graduated A.B., 1887, A.M., 1888. He was 
 assistant in English, 1890-1891; instructor 
 in English, 1891-1901; recording secretary 
 of Harvard University, 1895-1902; assist- 
 ant professor of English, 1901-1906; profes- 
 sor of English since 190G, and dean of Har- 
 vard College since 1902. He married at 
 Beverly, Mass., July 12, 1904, Eda Adams 
 Woolson, and they have two sons. Ad- 
 dress: 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 HURRY, Edmund Abdy: 
 
 Lawyer; born New York City, Aug. 8, 
 1839; son of Edmund and Elizabeth M. 
 (Flanagan) Hurry. He was graduated 
 from Columbia, A.B., 1860, A.M., 1862; 
 Columbia College of Law, LL.B., 1862. 
 Captain's clerk and aide to his uncle, by 
 marriage, Captain (afterward Commodore) 
 Homer C. Blake, U. S. Navy, on U. S. S. 
 Eutaw, 1863-1864. He was under fire at 
 Chapin's Bluil; was wounded at Bermuda 
 Hundreds; on volunteer picket duty above 
 Xewbern, X. C., blockading off Fort Fisher; 
 bearer of dispatches to the Hartford at 
 Pensacola, Fla., on pontoon bridge at Cross 
 of the James River by U. S. Army at 
 City Point; present at reception given by 
 President Lincoln in the Blue Room to the 
 admiral and officers of the Russian fleet, 
 and had the pleasure of conversing with 
 President Lincoln. He was a volunteer 
 muse of our wounded and sick soldiers in 
 New York City in the early summer of 
 1863. He practised law in New York City 
 for some years; now retired from prac- 
 tice. Mr. Hurry is a director of the United 
 States Fire Insurance Company. He has 
 been much abroad in Europe; visited Crete, 
 Turkey, Greece, Egypt; was present at Vat- 
 ican at the beatification of two saints dur- 
 ing the pontificate of Leo XIII, and present 
 at otiier interesting ceremonials there and 
 elsewhere. Member (formerly trustee and 
 
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 secretary) of the New York Genealogical 
 and Biographical Society, and has written 
 on genealogical and semi-historical subjects 
 for New York papers and other publica- 
 tions; also has made addresses in public 
 in New York and other places. He was 
 formerly trustee of the Eastern Dispensary 
 and treasurer of the Babies' Hospital. Mr. 
 Hurry is a vestrj-man of Trinity Church 
 (Episcopal) at Saugerties, N. Y. ; is a 
 member of the St. Nicholas Society, St. 
 George's Society, New York Genealogical 
 and Biological Society, Metropolitan Mu- 
 seum of Art, American Geographical So- 
 ciety, and of the Union League, University, 
 and Church Clubs of New York City, and 
 the Saugerties Club, of Saugerties, N. Y. 
 He married in New York City, Nov. 17, 
 1868, Emily Ashton Renwick, daughter of 
 William Rhinelander Renwick; and they 
 Iv.u'e seven children. Residence (summer) : 
 Clifton, Barclay Heights, Saugerties-on- 
 Hudson, N. Y. Address: 122 East 39th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 HURST, Carleton Bailey: 
 
 Consul ; born in Bremen, Germany 
 (where his parents were temporarily re- 
 siding), Aug. 16, 1867; son of Bishop 
 John Fletcher Hurst, of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church of the United States, and 
 of Catherine (La Monte) Hurst. He was 
 educated at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. 
 H., at Harvard College (where he was 
 editor of the Daily Crimson, and of the 
 Harvard Advocate), and' at the University 
 of Tubingen, Germany, receiving from the 
 latter the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. He 
 entered the consular service of the United 
 States in 1892 under appointment of Pres- 
 ident Harrison as consul at Catania, Italy, 
 was transferred to Crefeld, Germany, in 
 1893, to Prague, Bohemia, in 1895, to 
 Vienna, Austria, in 1897, to La Guaira, 
 Venezuela, in 1904; and in 1905 was trans- 
 ferred to his present post as American 
 consul at Plauen, Saxony. Mr. Hurst has 
 written much for the magazines on subjects 
 of travel, as well as short stories in fiction. 
 He married, Aug. 1, 1892, Harriette Ham- 
 lin Strobridge, daughter of Rev. George E. 
 
 Strobridge, D.D. Address: American Con- 
 sulate, Plauen, Saxony, Germany. 
 
 HUSS, George Martin: 
 
 Architect; born Newark, N. J., July 23, 
 1853; son of George J. and Sophie R. 
 (Holden) Huss; graduated College of the 
 City of New York, B.S., 1873. Was one 
 of the four successful competitors for de- 
 signs for the Cathedral of St. John the 
 Divine; one of three selected as supervis- 
 ing architect of United States Treasury 
 Department at Washington; has translated 
 from the French the article " Construction," 
 from Viollet-le-duc's Dictionnaire Raisonn6, 
 now published' by The Macmillan Company 
 as " Rational Building." He is a retired 
 member, first class, of the Mendelssohn 
 Glee Club; member New York Architec- 
 tural League, New York Athletic Club 
 (life member) National Geographic Society, 
 Washington, D. C. He married, June, 1902, 
 Del Kearney Fisher, and has one daughter 
 and one son. Address: 65 Morningside 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
 HUTCHINGS, Richard Henry: 
 
 Physician; born Clinton, Ga., Aug. 28, 
 1869; son of Richard H. and Cornelia 
 (Greaves) Hutchings. He was educated in 
 Middle Georgia Military College, certificate 
 1887; University of Georgia, special course, 
 1887-1888; Bellevue (New York) Medical 
 College, M.D., 1891. He was house physi- 
 cian in the almshouse and incurable hos- 
 pital. Blackwell's Island, 1891-1892; ap- 
 pointed fourth assistant physician St. Law- 
 rence State Hospital, after competitive 
 civil service examination, 1893; subse- 
 quently promoted to third, second and first 
 assistant, and in Sept., 1903, was appointed 
 superintendent of that institution. Dr. 
 Hutchings is lecturer on psychiatry in Syra- 
 cuse University (Medical Department). 
 He has been a frequent contributor to cur- 
 rent medical literature, particularly relat- 
 ing to nervous and mental diseases; is 
 interested in all that pertains to the care 
 and treatment of the insane and the pre- 
 vention of insanity, and in nursing and 
 training schools for nurses, particularly 
 
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 MEN OF AA'IERICA. 
 
 those connected with hospitals for the in- 
 sane. He is a member of the American 
 Medical Association, the American IMcdico- 
 Psychological Association, the Medical So- 
 ciety of New York State, and other scien- 
 tific societies, and of the Century Club of 
 Ogdensburg. He married in Milledgeville, 
 Ga., in 1893, Lillie Beall Compton, and has 
 two sons. He has a summer home near 
 Saranac Lake, Adirondacks. Address: 
 Ogdensburg, N. Y. 
 
 HUTCHINSON, Winfield S.: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Buckfiekl. Me., May 
 27, 1845; son of Stephen Drew and Mary 
 (Atkinson) Hutchinson. He was gradu- 
 ated from Bowdoin College, A.B., 1867, 
 A.M., 1870. He engaged in general prac- 
 tice of law, 1876-1892; then entered the 
 service of the American Bell Telephone 
 Company in a professional capacity and 
 withdrew from other practice. He is vice- 
 president of the Western Telephone and 
 Telegraph Company, and director of the 
 Central Union Telephone Company, the 
 Duluth Telephone Company, the New Eng- 
 land Telephone and Telegraph Company, 
 Northwestern Telephone Exchange Com- 
 pany, Southwestern Telegraph and Tele- 
 phone Company, and the Wisconsin Tele- 
 phone Company. He is a member of the 
 Corporation of the Sarah Fuller Home for 
 Deaf Children at West Medford, Mass., 
 the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, Hunnewell 
 Club, and was the first president of the Uni- 
 tarian Club of Newton, Mass. He mar- 
 ried at Brunswick, Me., Jan. 1, 1870, 
 Adelaide L. Berry, and they had one son, 
 now deceased. Residence: 44 Billings 
 Park, Newton, Mass. Office: 125 Milk 
 Street, Boston. 
 
 HUTCHINSON, Woods: 
 
 riiy.->ician; born in Selby, Yorkshire, 
 England, Jan. 3, 1862; son of Charles and 
 Elizabeth (Woods) Hutchinson. He was 
 educated in Quaker schools in Yorkshire, 
 Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, A.B., 1880, 
 A.M., 1883, and the Medical Department 
 of the University of Michigan, M.D., 1884. 
 Dr. Hutcliinson has been practicing medi- 
 cine since 1884; professor of anatomy, 
 
 State University of Iowa, 1891-1896; pro- 
 fessor of comparative pathology, London 
 ^ledical Graduates' College, and lecturer 
 on biology in the Extension Department 
 of London University, 1899-1900. He was 
 State health officer of Oregon, 1903-1905, 
 and has been lecturer on clinical medicine 
 in the New York Polyclinic since 1907. 
 Dr. Hutchinson is author of: The Gospel 
 According to Darwin, 1898; Studies in 
 Human and Comparative Pathology, 1901; 
 Play as an Education, 1904; Acromegaly 
 and Gigantism, 1900; Instinct and Health, 
 1!)08. He is editor of: Vis Medicatrix, 
 1890-1891; The Polyclinic (London), 1899- 
 1900; and is a contributor to the North 
 American Review, Contemporary Review 
 ( London ) , Harper's Monthly, and other 
 periodicals. He is a member of the Asso- 
 ciation of American Anatomists, Associa- 
 tion of American Naturalists, a fellow of 
 the American Academy of Medicine, and 
 a member of the City Club of New York. 
 He married in Des Moines, Iowa, May 15, 
 1893, Cornelia M. Williams, and has one 
 son. Address: 38 East 49th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 HUTT, Henry: 
 
 Illustrator; born Chicago, HI., Dec. 18, 
 1875. He was educated in the public 
 schools and Art Institute of Chicago. He 
 began work as illustrator in the West, but 
 for the past few years has been a resident 
 of New York City and regularly employed 
 on the New York Magazines, through 
 which the Hutt women have attained a 
 fame almost parallel to that of the Gibson 
 Girl. He has also illustrated several of 
 the recent popular works of fiction. He 
 married in New York City, Jan. 17, 1903, 
 Edna Garfield Delia Torre. Residence: 
 :>02 Riverside Drive. Address: Life Build- 
 ing, 19 West 31st Street, New York City. 
 
 HYDE, James Hazen: 
 
 Former vice-president of the Equitable 
 Life Assurance Society of the United 
 States; born in New York City, June 6, 
 1876; son of Henry B. Hyde (founder and 
 late president of the society) and Annie 
 
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 F. Hyde. He was educated in New York 
 City, and was o;raduated from Harvard as 
 A.B., 1808. He was elected second vice- 
 president Nov. 2, 1898, and vice-president 
 ]\ray 10, 1899, of the Equitable Life, from 
 which he resigned in 1005. He was several 
 years president of the Alliance Francais; 
 gave $30,000 to the Cercle Frangais of Har- 
 vard for the Promotion of the study of 
 French literature, and the French Govern- 
 ment recognized his munificence by confer- 
 ring on him the cross of the Legion of 
 Honor; and he is now director of the Fed- 
 eration of French Alliances in the United 
 States. Mr. Hyde is vice-president of the 
 Mercantile Safe Deposit Company, the Na- 
 tional Bank of Commerce, Coney Island 
 and Brooklyn Railroad Company, and di- 
 rector in many other companies. He is a 
 member of the LTnion, University, Lawyers', 
 Press, Metropolitan, Racquet and Tennis, 
 Turf, Grolier, Century, Tuxedo, South Side, 
 Riding, Fencers', Meadow Brook, and Auto- 
 mobile Clubs. Address: 120 Broadway, 
 New York City. 
 
 HYDE, William De Witt: 
 
 President of Bowdoin College; born in 
 Winchendon, Mass., Sept. 23, 1858; son of 
 Joel and Eliza (DeWitt) Hyde. He received 
 his education at Phillips Exeter Academy, 
 Harvard College, A.B., 1879, and Andover 
 Seminary, and has received the D.D. degree 
 from Harvard and the LL.D. degree from 
 the University of Syracuse. He has been 
 president of Bowdoin since 1885. He is 
 author of: Social Theology; Practical 
 Ethics; Practical Idealism; God's Educa- 
 tion of Man; Jesus' Way; From Epicuris 
 to Christ; and the College ]\Ian and the 
 College Woman. President Hyde married, 
 in 1883, Prudence M. Phillips. Address: 
 Brunswick, Me. 
 
 HYSLOP, James Harvey: 
 
 Author and professor; born in Xenia, 
 Ohio, Aug.l8, 1854; son of Robert Hyslop. 
 He was graduated from Wooster (Ohio) 
 L'niversity in 1877, received the degree of 
 Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 
 1887. He formerly taught in Lake Forest 
 
 r;nivorsity, Smith College, Bucknell Uni- 
 versity, and Columbia, where he was pro- 
 fessor of logic and ethics, resigning in 1002, 
 to become secretary of the American Soci- 
 (>ty of Psychical Research. He is author 
 of: The Elements of Logic; Ethics of Hume; 
 Elements of Ethics; Democracy; Logic and 
 Argument; Syllabus of Psychology; Science 
 ■nul a Futuie Life; Enigmas of Psychical 
 Research ; Borderland of Psychical Re- 
 seurcli; Problems of Piiilosopiiy ; also pub- 
 lications in Proceedings of the Society for 
 Psychical Research. Professor Hyslop mar- 
 ried in Philadelphia, in 1891, Mary Fry 
 Hall. Address: 519 West 149th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 IDDINGS, Lewis M.: 
 
 Diplomatic officer; born in Ohio; ap- 
 pointed secretary of the Embassy at Rome 
 Aug. 3, 1897; secretary of Embassy, Jan. 
 14, 1898; diplomatic agent and consul- 
 general at Cairo, March 23, 1905. Address: 
 American Diplomatic Agency, Cairo, Egypt. 
 
 IDE, Fannie Ogden: 
 
 ATitlior; born in Brooklyn: daughter of 
 Jonathan and' Abigail (Murphey) Ogden. 
 After attending private schools in Brook- 
 lyn, she married, in 1875, Charles W. Ide 
 (who died in Nov., 1903), and she has a 
 daughter, Alice Steele Ide. Mrs. Ide has 
 written extensively under the pen-name of 
 " Ruth Ogden," as contributor of verse and 
 prose to magazines, and is author of the 
 books: His Little Royal Highness; A 
 Loyal Little Redcoat; Courage; Homespun; 
 A Little Queen of Hearts; Loyal Hearts 
 and True; Tattine, Friendship. Address: 
 43 Remsen Street, Brooklyn. 
 
 IDE, George Elmore: 
 
 Rear-Admiral, U. S. Navy; born in 
 Zanesville, Ohio, Dec. 6, 1845; son of Dr. 
 William E. and Angelina (Sullivan) Ide. 
 He was appointed to the U. S. Naval 
 Academy in 1861, and graduated in 18G5. 
 
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 In the summer of 1862 and" 1864, while mid- 
 shipman, cruised after Confederate steam- 
 ers Tallahassee and Florida; in 1870, went 
 to Greenland on Juniata in search of Po- 
 laris survivors, and same year took Vir- 
 ginius filibusters from Santiago, Cuba, to 
 New York. Served on various ships, includ- 
 ing the Kenosha, which, in 1871, escorted 
 English battleship Monrach to Portland, 
 Me., carrying remains of George Peabody, 
 philanthropist; commanded' steamer Justin 
 off Santiago, during Spanish War; took 
 United States steamer Yosemite to Guam, 
 
 1899, carrying governor of island and sur- 
 veying the harbor, in view of making it a 
 cable and coaling station in 1900; com- 
 manded United States steamship New Or- 
 leans, on Manila Station; thence to Navy 
 \''ard. Mare Island, California, as captain 
 of yard until retired' as rear-admiral, Sept. 
 26, 1901, after forty years' service. Rear- 
 Admiral Ide is a member of the Metropoli- 
 tan, City, New York Athletic and New 
 York Y^acht Clubs of New Y^ork City. He 
 married at Fortress Monroe, Va., July 28, 
 1889, Alexandra Louise Bruen. Address: 
 1128 Madison Avenue, Now York City. 
 
 IDE, Henry Clay: 
 
 IJiplomat, lawyer; born in Bavnet, Vt.. 
 Sept. 18, 1884; son of Jacob and Lodoska 
 (Knights) Ide. He was graduated from 
 Dartmouth College, A.B., 18G6 (head of 
 class) ; received LL.D. from that institution, 
 
 1900, and from Tufts' College in 1903. He 
 was admitted to the bar in 1870, and prac- 
 tised in St. Johnsbury, "Vt., and has been 
 successively member of the law firms of 
 Belden and Ide, Ide and StafTord, and Ide 
 and Quinby. He was State's attorney of 
 Vermont, 1878-1880; State senator, 1882- 
 1885; president of the Kepublican State 
 Convention of Vermont, 1884; a delegate 
 to the Repubican National Convention, 
 1888. In 1891 he was made U. S. commis- 
 sioner to Samoa, and by joint a])pointment 
 of the powers interested in the government 
 of those islands was appointed chief justice 
 in 189;j, serving until 1897. In 1900 he 
 was appointed one of tlic Philippine com- 
 missioners, serving successively as secretary 
 
 of finance and justice, vice-governor and 
 governor-general, terminating his service in 
 the Pliilippines, after having made ;i bril- 
 liant record, in 1906. In April, 1909, he 
 was appointed, by President Taft, envoy 
 extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary 
 to Spain, which position he now holds. 
 He was president of the DuPont Manu- 
 facturing Company, director of the First 
 National Bank, trustee of the Pas- 
 sumpsie Savings Bank and director of the 
 Ely Hoe and Fork Company, of St. Johns- 
 l)ury. Vt., the Tredegar National Bank, 
 and Jacksonville Oil Mill Company of 
 Jacksonville, Ala., and the Upper Coos and 
 Coos Valley Railroad Company of Vermont. 
 Following the financial difficulties of the 
 Knickerbocker Trust Company of New 
 York City, he was appointed receiver, 1907, 
 and had much to do with the reorganization 
 ami reopening of that great institution. 
 Jn 1!)()7 he was alscj elected a director of 
 the American Ice Company of New York. 
 He is a member of tlie Vermont Bar Associa- 
 tion, the Philippine Bar Association, and 
 the University and Columbia Clubs of 
 •Manila, P. J., and is also a member of the 
 ^letropolitan Club, of Washington, 1). C. 
 He married at Stoughton, Mass., Oct. 14, 
 1871, :\rary :\l. Melcher, who died April 1,'], 
 1892. Address: St. Johnsburv, Vt. 
 
 ILES, Robert S.: 
 
 Lawyer; born iu Alexandria, Ky.. Jan. 
 30, 1848; son of Nicholas and Martha 
 (Smith) lies. He received his education 
 through instruction from his jiarents until 
 he was seventeen years of age. He taught 
 school for a time and entered the North 
 Missouri State Normal School at Kirks- 
 \iih'. .Mo., from w liicli lu; was graduated 
 in ]S7r), Inking a post-graduate course 
 later ami receiving the degree of A.M. He 
 was superintendent of schools at Hiawatha, 
 Kan., 1 87.')-] SSI, studying law during the 
 same period. Jle went to the Black Hills 
 of Dakota in 1881 and engaged in cattle 
 rancliing. He was admitted' to the Dakota 
 bar iu 1S82, but removed to Chicago, 111., 
 in the same year^ where he engaged in 
 
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 general practice. He was county attorney 
 of Cook County, 1894-1900. He is a Re- 
 jmblican, and was a member of the Cook 
 County Central Committee from the Thirty- 
 iirst Ward, 1891-1895. Mr. Hes is senior 
 member of the firm of lies & Martin. He 
 was Supreme Archon of the Royal League 
 three terms and is now supreme president 
 (i| the North American Union. He is 
 a member of the Hamilton and Colonial 
 ( lubs. He married, in 1876, Althea I. 
 Davis of Butler, Mo., and has one daugh- 
 ter. Bertha. Residence: 669 Forty-eighth 
 Street. Office: 59 Clark Street, Chicago. 
 
 ILLOWAY, Henry: 
 
 Physician; born in Kolin, Bohemia, Nov. 
 29, 184S; son of Rev. Bernard and Kath- 
 crine (SchitT) Hloway. He was educated in 
 public schools and by private tutors, and 
 his medical education was received in the 
 Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 Dr. llloway was resident physician to the 
 Cincinnati Hospital, 1869-1870; professor 
 (if the diseases of children in the Cincinnati 
 College of Medicine and Surgery, and visit- 
 ing physician to the Jewish Hospital in 
 the same city. He is author of: Constipa- 
 tion in Adults and Children, With Special 
 Reference to Habitual Constipation and Its 
 Most Successful Treatment by the Mechan- 
 ical Methods (Macmillan) ; The Summer 
 Diarrhoeas of Infants (E. R. Pelton, New 
 York) ; one of the collaborators on The 
 American Text-Book of the Diseases of 
 Children (Saunders) ; contributor to med- 
 ical literature through the New York Med- 
 ical Journal, New York Medical Record, 
 American Journal of Medical Sciences, and 
 other journals of this country and Ger- 
 many. Dr. llloway is a member of the 
 Academy of Medicine, New York County 
 Medical Society, Society of Medical Juris- 
 prudence, German Medical Society, Harlem 
 Medical Society, State Medical Society, and 
 several others. Address: 1113 Madison 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
 INGALLS, Melville Ezra: 
 
 Chairman of Board of Directors of the 
 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. 
 
 Louis r,ailway; born on a farm in I lie tdwn 
 of Harrison, Me., Sept. 6, 1842. At six- 
 teen he passed an examination a.s leaclicr 
 in the minor branches and for three win- 
 ters taught a country school, working on 
 a farm in the s\uiimer monllis as Itcforc, ami 
 cai'efully saving his earnings to provide 
 for his further education; lie spent .sonic 
 time at tlie academy at Bridgetoii, Me., 
 and at Bowdoin College, but iiis moderate 
 resources led him to abandon liis ambitions 
 for a complete college course, and to enter 
 at once upon his professional training, 
 which he took at the Harvard Law School, 
 from which he was graduated in IHCui. 
 After practising for u short time al (Jray, 
 in Cumberland County, Me., he removed to 
 Boston, where he soon became successful in 
 a practice which became specialized along 
 the line of the law of transportation. The 
 stockholders of the Indianapolis, Cincin- 
 nati and Lafayette Railroad Company en- 
 gaged him to straighten out the legal tan- 
 gles in which that property had become 
 involved, electing him president in 1870, 
 and as the result of the litigation which 
 followed, he was selected by the court in 
 1871, as receiver, to take charge of the 
 property; but it again went into his hands 
 as receiver as the result of litigation in 
 1876. In Nov., 1880, the road was reorgan- 
 ized as the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. 
 Louis and Chicago Railway, and he became 
 its president, the popular name of Big Four 
 dating from that reorganization. In 1889 
 the road, with the Cleveland, Columbus, 
 Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway (the 
 Bee Line) were consolidated under the 
 present name of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, 
 Chicago and St. Louis Railway, of which he 
 was president until Feb. 1, 1905, when he 
 became chairman of the Board of Directors. 
 From Oct. I, 1888, to Feb. 1, 1900, he was 
 also iiresidcnt of the Chesapeake and Ohio 
 Railway, which he thoroughly rehabilitated; 
 and from January, 1881, to October, 1883, 
 he was also president of the Kentucky Cen- 
 tral. As a citizen of Cincinnati irom 1871, 
 he has been a leader in efforts for the ad- 
 vancement and improvement of the city, in 
 the building of the Exposition Buildings, the 
 beautiful Art Museum, and the founding of 
 
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 the Art School of Cincinnati, and in other 
 measures for the material welfare of the 
 city of his home. Politically he is a Demo- 
 crat of the Sound !Money School. He vas 
 president of the National Civic Federation 
 in l!t05. r.esidenfe: Ka<t Walnut Hills. 
 Cincinnati. 
 
 INGALLS, Melville E., Jr.: 
 
 J.,a\vyer: born in IJoston. Oct. 10, 1S70; 
 son of Melville K. and Abbie (Stimson) In- 
 galls. He was graduated from Harvard Col- 
 lege. A.B.. 18!)2; Harvard Law School. LL. 
 B., 1802; was admitted to the New York 
 bar and practised in the law office of Stet- 
 son, Jennings & Russell, after leaving the 
 law school, and in April, 1900. formed a 
 partnersliip with John S. Shcppard. under 
 the name of Sheppard & Ingalls ; later be- 
 came associated with Judge William Rum- 
 sey, late Judge of the New York Appellat;' 
 Division, under name of Rumsoy, Sheppard 
 & Ingall-J. Upon the death of Judge IJum- 
 sey his son was admitted to the firm. !Mr. 
 Ingalls has travelled much over tlie United 
 States and Canada, and has visited Alaska, 
 Cuba, England, Germany, France, Austria, 
 Sweden, Norway, Russia and Switzerland. 
 He is vice-president and a director of the 
 Virginia Hot Springs Company, also a 
 director and counsel for the Seaboard 
 Transportation Company. He is a member 
 of the New Y'^ork City and State Bar Asso- 
 ciations, of the Board' of Managers of the 
 J. Wood Wright Hospital, and of the Univer- 
 sity, Harvard, City Lunch, and Knollwood 
 Country Clubs. Residence: 44 West 44th 
 Street.' OlTice: 26 Liberty Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 INGALLS, Walter Renton: 
 
 ^Mining and metallurgical engineer, edi- 
 tor; born in Lynn. Mass., Oct. 25, 18(5."); son 
 of Jerome and Emma (Renton) Ingalls. 
 He was graduated from the Massachusetts 
 Institute of Technology, S.B., 188G; engaged 
 in mining at Leadville, Col., 1886-1890; as- 
 sistant olitur l^nginccring and Mining Jour- 
 nal, 1890-1892; mining and metallurgical 
 engineer rittsbnrgli and Mexican Tin Min- 
 ing Company, Durango, Me.\ico, 1892; con- 
 sulting mining engineer New Y''ork City, vis- 
 
 iting, professionally, various mining dis- 
 tricts in the United States, Canada, Bel- 
 gium, Germany and Poland, especially in 
 connection with the metallurgy of zinc, 1893- 
 1894; metallurgist Gold and Silver Extrac- 
 tion Company, Limited, Denver and Crip- 
 ple Creek, Col.. 1895; superintendent Quien 
 Sabe Smeltery, Durango, Mexico, 1896; con- 
 sulting engineer. New Y'ork City, and as- 
 sistant editor. The Mineral Industry, 1897- 
 1899; metallurgical engineer for American 
 Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company, Colum- 
 bia Lead Company, and Laharpe Zinc Smelt- 
 ing Company, 1899-1904; chief Canadian 
 Zinc Commission, 1905-190G; since July 1, 
 1905, he has been editor of the Engineering 
 and Mining Journal and of The ]\Iineral In- 
 dustry. Mr. Ingalls was a member of the 
 jury at the St. Louis Exposition, 1904. He 
 is a member of the American Institute of 
 Mining Engineers, Institution of Mining 
 and IMetallurgy, American Chemical Society, 
 Society of Chemical Industry, American 
 Electrochemical Society, Mining and Metal- 
 lurgical Society of America. He is author 
 of: Production and' Properties of Zinc, 
 1902; Metallurgy of Zinc and Cadmium, 
 1903; Notes on Metallurgical Mill Construc- 
 tion, 1906; Lead Smelting and Refining, 
 190G; Economic History of Lead and Zinc 
 in the United States. Mr. Ingalls is a mem- 
 ber of the Lawyers', Engineers', and Tech- 
 nology Clubs. He married at Stapleton, 
 Stat en Island, Oct. 26, 1898, Ella Gordon, 
 and has three daughters. Residence: West 
 New Brigliton, Staten Island. Ollice: 505 
 Pearl Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 INGALS, E. Fletcher: 
 
 Physician; born in Lee County, 111., Sept. 
 29, 1848; sou of Charles Francis and Sarah 
 (Hawkins) Ingals. He was graduated from 
 Rush Medical College, M.D., 1871. He be- 
 gan the teaching of medicine in 1871, and 
 has taught several months annually ever 
 since; in the Northwestern Woman's Med- 
 ical School for several years, and continu- 
 ously in Rush Medical College. Dr. Ingals 
 has been honored by the presidency of the 
 Illinois State Medical Society, American 
 Laryngological Association, American Clim- 
 atoloyical Association, the Laryngological 
 
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 Sedion of Pan-Aiiicrican Congress, and also 
 of the American Medical Association, and 
 of the Chicago Larj'ngological Society. He 
 lias been president of the Chicago Citizens' 
 Association, was director of the Chicago 
 Athletic Association three years, and trustee 
 of the Journal of the American Medical As- 
 sociation for six years. Dr. Ingals is a 
 member of the Chicago Athletic, University 
 Club, Homewood Country, Quadrangle, and 
 Reynolds Clubs. He married in Chicago, 
 Sept. 5, 1876, Lucy Storrs Ingals, and they 
 have fc)ur children. Residence: 5540 Wood- 
 lawn Avenue. Office: 34 Washington 
 Street, Chicago. 
 
 INGRAHAM, Darius Holbrook: 
 
 Lawj-er; born in Camden, Me., Oct. 14, 
 1837; son of Samuel P. and Mary (Adams) 
 Ingraham. He was educated in the schools 
 of IMaine and the United States Naval 
 Academy. He was admitted to the bar of 
 Maine in ISofl, and was a member of the 
 Maine Legislature in 1879, and has continu- 
 ously been in Democratic politics in Maine. 
 He entered the consular service of the 
 United States in 1885 as consul to Cadiz, 
 Spain, where he served until 1889; was sent 
 to ^Morocco by the State D.^partnient to in- 
 vestigate the affairs of the American Consu- 
 late at Tangier, and received the thanks of 
 the Department. He was mayor of Port- 
 land, Me., 1892-1893; Democratic candi- 
 date for Congress in 1892, and was Ameri- 
 can consul-general at Halifax, N. S., 1893- 
 1S97. Mr. Ingraham was the Democratic 
 candidate for mayor of Portland, 1898, 1902 
 and 1903. He is a member and was former- 
 ly president of the Cumberland Club of 
 Portland. Address: Portland, Me. 
 
 INGRAHAM, George L.: 
 
 Jurist; born in New York in 1847; son 
 of Daniel P. and Mary (Landon) Ingraham. 
 He was graduated from Columbia Law 
 School, LL.B., 1869; admitted to bar, 1869; 
 judge of the Superior Court of the City of 
 New York, January, 1883; appointed May, 
 1891, and elected November, 1891, justice of 
 the Supreme Court, for the First New York 
 District, and reelected November, 1905, for 
 term expiring Dec. 31, 1919; justice of the 
 
 Appellate Division of the Supreme Court 
 since January, 189(). He is a Democrat in 
 politics, and a member of the Century, Man- 
 hattan, Metropolitan, New York Yacht, and 
 Tuxedo Clubs. Mr. Ingraham married, Dec. 
 4, 1872, Georgina Lent, and has a son and 
 a daughter. Address: 80 Irving Place, 
 New York City. 
 
 INGRAHAM, Henry C. M.: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Aiiiciii i. \. "Y. May 2. 
 1838; son of George and Mary (Michelle) 
 Ingraham. He was educated in Willbraham 
 Academy, 1858-1800; was graduated from 
 Wesleyan University, A.B., 1864, and after- 
 ward received the degrees of M.A., and LL. 
 D. He was president of the Brooklyn Bar 
 Association, 1899-1903; counsel of the Wil- 
 liamsburg Bridge Company to 1898; three 
 years chairman of the Committee on Moral 
 Character for Admission to the Bar in Sec- 
 ond Department, State of New York; trus- 
 tee of the Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn ; 
 director of Glen Cove Bank. I\lr. Ingraham 
 is trustee and president of the board of trus- 
 tees of Wesleyan University; trustee of Pe- 
 kin University, China; manager of the 
 Board. of Education of the IMethodist Epis- 
 copal Church; manager of the American Bi- 
 ble Society ; member of the Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society and of the Hamilton Club of Brook- 
 lyn. He married at Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 
 3, 1873, Winifred E. Andrews, and has four 
 sons and three daughters. Address: 16 
 Court Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 INGRAM, Henry Atlee: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Feb. 8, 
 1858; son of Thomas Robinson Ingram and 
 Caroline Eugenia Girard (Hempkill) In- 
 gram. He was educated at Friends' Cen- 
 tral School. Phil:i(leli)hia; Hill School, 
 Pottstown, Pa.; Hallowell High School, 
 Philadelphia ; Swarthmore College, and the 
 University of Pennsylvania, Towne Scientific 
 School; was a law student with Francis 
 Rawle, Esq., and' later with Charles Gib- 
 bons, Jr., Esq., of Philadelphia; and was 
 graduated from the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania Law School, with degree of LL.B. in 
 1881. He was admitted to the bar of Phila- 
 delphia, 1881, and is a member of the bars 
 
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 of Supreme and Superior Courts of Pennsyl- 
 vania, as Avell as the various lower covirts, 
 and of the United States Circuit and' Dis- 
 trict Courts. He is actively ensraged in the 
 practice of law in Philadelphia ; general 
 counsel for the American Steel Corporation 
 and its subsidiary companies; director of the 
 Delaware and Lnckawanna Steel Company. 
 He is author of: The Life and Character 
 of Stephen Girard, IMariner and ^Merchant 
 (1884), used in Girard Collefre. Philadel- 
 phia; Jean Girard de Montbrun (1886); 
 Illustrated Girard College. From time to 
 time has contributed articles, prose and 
 verse, to various standard publications, in- 
 cluding a number of translations from the 
 French. After extensive travel in Europe, 
 the United States and Canada, he was in 
 1888 elected secretary of the Pennsylvania 
 Club, later a member of its Board of Gover- 
 nors, and ch'urman of its Elective Com- 
 mittee, ilr. Ingram was a member ot the 
 Committee which induced the late Mr. 
 Blaine to reconsider his determination not 
 to enter the State of Pennsylvania, in the 
 celebrated State campaign of 1890. Mr. 
 Ingram was president of the Franklin Sci- 
 entific Societj^ of the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, 187G. He is a member of the Union 
 League of Philadelphia; of The Law Associ- 
 ation; and of the Corinthian Lodge of Ma- 
 sons. Mr. Ingram married, July 27, 1899, 
 at St. Asaph's Church, Bala, Pa., Jennie 
 Isabel Bell, and they have three children. 
 Address: l^airiicre, Cynwyd, Montgomery 
 County, Pa. 
 
 INNESS, George, Jr.: 
 
 Artist, painter; born in Paris, France, 
 Jan. 5, 1854; son of George Inness, cele- 
 brated American artist and' Elizabeth 
 (Hart) Inness. He studied with his father 
 at Rome, Italy, 1870-1874, and with Bon- 
 nfit in Paris in 1875; lived in Boston 1876- 
 1878; came to New York City, 1878; resided 
 at Montclair, N. J., 1879-1894, at Paris, 
 1894-1899 exhibiting at the Salon each year 
 (mention lionorable, 1893, gold medal, 
 1899). He was made associate, 1894 and 
 academician 1898, of the National Academy 
 of Design and exhibits at the National Acad- 
 emy annually. Mr. Inness is an officer 
 
 d'Academie, Paris; and a member of the 
 Society of American Artists. He married 
 in New York City, in 1879, Julia Roswell 
 Smith. Residence: Cragsmoor, Ulster 
 County, N. Y. Studio: 51 Washington 
 Square South, New York City. 
 
 INSULL, Samuel: 
 
 President of electric corporation ; born in 
 London. England, Nov. 11, 1859; son of 
 Samuel and Emma (Short) Insull. After 
 completing his education in public scliools. 
 Mr. Insull entered the employ of a firm of 
 auctioneers and real estate agents first as 
 office boy and was afterwards promoted to 
 the position of stenographer. He later be- 
 came the private secretary of Colonel George 
 E. Gouraud, then the London representative 
 of Mr. Edison, who was engaged in orgnn- 
 izing the telephone business in England. 
 Mr. Insull came to the United States in 
 1881, and became private secretary to Mr. 
 Thomas A. Edison, and for years had ac- 
 tive chai'ge of Mr. Edison's business alTairs. 
 He built and managed for Mr. Edison the 
 plant of the Edison Machine Works at 
 Schenectady, N. Y., and was connected with 
 the management of the Edison Lamp Com- 
 pany and Electric Tube Company. On the 
 consolidation of the A^arious Edison interests 
 with the Edison Electric Light Company, 
 he became second vice-president of the Edi- 
 son General Electric Company in charge of 
 the manufacturing and selling departments, 
 which same office he held in the General 
 Electric Company, which company was 
 formed to consolidate the Edison and Thom- 
 son-Houston Companies. Mr. Insull re- 
 signed that position in June, 1892. to be- 
 come president of the Chicago Edison Com- 
 ])aiiy. He also became president of the 
 Commonwealth Electric Company on its 
 formation and is now president of the con- 
 solidated company known as the Common- 
 wealth Edison Company. He is also presi- 
 dent of the Nortli Shore Electric Company 
 and the Economy Light and Power Com- 
 jiany, which together witli the Common- 
 wealtli Edison Company control practically 
 llie entire electric lighting interests of Clii- 
 cago and its vicinity. He is also an officer 
 and director of various electrical corpora- 
 
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 tions in other cities. Tie is a UK'inher of 
 the American Institute of Klectiical En- 
 gineers. He married in New NOrk City 
 iMay 24, 189!), Margaret A. Bird. Resi- 
 dence: 23 Lake Sliore Drive, Chicago. Of- 
 lice: III!) Aihuns Street, Cliicago. 
 
 IRELAND, John: 
 
 Anldiishop of St. Paul; born in Ireland, 
 Sept. 11, 1838; emigrated to America in 
 1S4!) with liis parents and settled in St. 
 Paul, Minn. He was educated in the Cathe- 
 dral School of Saint Paul, and the Petit 
 Seminaire at IMeximeux, and in divinity at 
 the Grand Seminaire at Hyferes, France, 
 from which he was graduated in 18G1. He 
 was ordained priest by Bishop Grace at 
 St. Paul, Dec. 21, 1861; was appointed 
 chaplain of the Fifth Minnesota Volun- 
 teers and went with the regiment to the 
 front, and after a service of two years re- 
 turned to St. Paul and was appointed rec- 
 tor of the Catliedral and secretary of the 
 diocese, holding both these positions until 
 his consecration as titular bishop of Ma- 
 ronea and bishop coadjutor to Bishop Grace, 
 Dee. 1, 1875. He organized the first to- 
 tal abstinence society in Minnesota, in 186!), 
 and founded a regular system of temper- 
 ance societies in connection with the var- 
 ious parishes. He worked especially for the 
 colonization of the Northwest and was a di- 
 rector of the National Colonization Society, 
 settled nine hundred Catholic colonists in 
 Minnesota in 1876, and many afterward. 
 He succeeded to the see of St. Pavil on the 
 resignation of Bishop Thomas Grace, July 
 31, 1884, and when, four years later, his 
 diocese was raised to a metropolitan see he 
 was made its first archbishop. Archbishop 
 Ireland was for several years president of 
 the Minnesota State Historical Society. He 
 is author of: The Church and Modern So- 
 ciety, 1896, and of many important contri- 
 butions to church and secular journals. Ad- 
 dress: St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 IRVIN, Elihu C: 
 
 President of tlie Fire Association of Phil- 
 adelphia; born near Harrisburg, Pa., May 
 22, 1839. Receiving an ordinary school ed- 
 ucation, he was for a time school teacher at 
 
 Duncannon, and afterward entered the Dun- 
 cannon Iron Works, in which his ability and 
 activity led to his being made manager of 
 the works. He entered the fire insurance 
 business in 1869 as agent for Pennsylvania 
 ()f tlie Germania Fire Insurance Company of 
 New York, continuing with this company 
 till 1874, when he became general agent of 
 the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, of 
 Hartford, Conn. He then made Philadel- 
 phia his place of residence, and' has since 
 dwelt in that city. His field of action was 
 a wide one, covering nearly the whole At- 
 lantic section of the United States. In 1884 
 he was offered and accepted the vice-presi- 
 dency of the Fire Association of Philadel- 
 phia, and in 1891 was elected its president. 
 This position he still fills. Mr. Irvin has 
 done much to develop the resources and 
 business of this company, which dates back 
 to 1817, but has gained a new activity under 
 his control, and has now a large surplus, 
 while paying excellent dividends. Resi- 
 dence: 1900 North 13th Street. Office: 
 407 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 IRVING, George W. : 
 
 Merchant and banker; born in Woodstock, 
 N. B., Aug. 24, 1860; son of Robert and 
 Elizabeth (Beacon) Irving. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of Presque Isle, 
 Me. Mr. Irving served two terms in the 
 Maine Legislature and the Maine Senate, 
 1901-1907. He is president and director of 
 the Caribou National Bank, the Caribou 
 Water, Liglit and Power Company, Caribou 
 Sewer Company, Caribou Hydraulic Stone 
 Company, and the Irving and Ricker Com- 
 pany and he is director and treasurer of the 
 Aroostook Realty Company. He is a Knight 
 Templar, Shriner, Odd Fellow, and a mem- 
 ber of several beneficiary societies. Mr. Irv- 
 ing is identified with the Republican party, 
 and is a member of the Universalist Church. 
 Address : Caribou, Aroostook County, [Me. 
 
 IRWIN, Agnes: 
 
 Dean of Iladcliffe College; born in Wash- 
 ington, D. C, Dec. 30, 1841; daughter of 
 Hon. William W. Irwin, j\I. C, and Sophia 
 A. (Bache) Irwin, of Pittsburgh. Miss Ir- 
 win was educated in private schools and 
 
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 afterward cnuagod in educational work, first 
 in the private school of Mrs. HofTnian in 
 New York City, and afterward conducting 
 a private school of her own in Philadelphia 
 until called in 1894 to her present position 
 as dean of RadcliiTe College, Cambridge. 
 Mass. She has received the honorary degree 
 of LL.D. from the Western University of 
 Pennsylvania (now University of Pitts- 
 burgh ) and from the University of St. An- 
 drews'. Scotland'; and the degree of Litt.D. 
 from the University of Pennsylvania ; was 
 a member of the Massachusetts Commission 
 to the Paris Exposition of l!)00 and is a 
 member of the Massachusetts Commission 
 on the Adult Blind. Address: Cambridge. 
 Mass. 
 
 IRWIN, James Clark: 
 
 Railroad engineer; born in Cheyney, Pa., 
 Sept. 3, 1868, son of William Henry and 
 Catherine Browning (Clark) Irwin. He 
 was ediicated in the Protestant Episcopal 
 Acadenu' of Philadelphia and the University 
 of Pennsylvania, B.S., 1890, and C.E., 1891. 
 During his college course he was engaged in 
 railroKl work, in wliich ho has s])ent ii o>it 
 of his life. His earlier work also included 
 terms of service with the Atlantic Refining 
 Company of Philadelphia, and of instruction 
 in the University of Pennsylvania. He lias 
 been with the New York Central and Hud- 
 son River Railroad since 1892, having con- 
 structed the block signal system from Al- 
 bany to Bufi"alo ; reconstructed the Mohawk 
 and Adirondack Divisions; was general as- 
 sistant to the chief engineer and engineer of 
 signals; assistant to the general superin- 
 tendent ; and superintendent of the Lake 
 Erie Elliance and Wheeling Railroad. In 
 1903 he became attached to the stall" of the 
 vice-president of the New York Central and 
 Hudson River Railroad; was superintendent 
 of construction of the Electric Zone, 190()- 
 1907; from 1907 to date has been resident 
 engineer of the Grand Central Terminal im- 
 provements, lie is a member of the Ameri- 
 can Society of Civil Engineers, the Ameri- 
 can Railway Engineering and Maintenance 
 of Way Association, tlic New York Railroad 
 Club, the Railway Signal Association, the 
 National Geographic Society, and the Amer- 
 
 ican Forestry Association. He is also a 
 member of the Committee of Management of 
 the Railroad Y. M. C. A. in New York. He 
 married in West Chester, Pa., June 5, 1895, 
 !''riinecs Smith Monaghan, and has four sons. 
 Residence: Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y. Of- 
 fice: Grand Central Station, New Y^'ork 
 City. 
 
 IRWIN, William Henry: 
 
 Journalist, author; born in Oneida, N. Y., 
 Sept. 14, 1873; son of David S. and Edith 
 Emily (Greene) Irwin. He was graduated 
 from Denver High School, 1892; Leland 
 Stanford University, A.B., 1899. He was on 
 the staiT of the San Francisco Wave as as- 
 sistant editor and editor, 1899-1901; on staff 
 of San Francisco Chronicle, 1901-1904; re- 
 porter. New Y^ork Sun, 1904-1905; managing 
 editor, McClure's Magazine, 1906; staff 
 writer Collier's from 1907. Mr. Irwin is 
 author of: Stanford Stories (with C. K. 
 Field), 1900; The Reign of Queen Isyl 
 (with Gelett Burgess), 1903; The Picaroons 
 (with Gelett Burgess), 1904; The Hama- 
 dryads (verse), 1904; The City That Was, 
 1906; The Untamed Warrior, 1909; The 
 Confessions of a Con ]\Ian, 1909; and he is 
 a frequent contributor of fiction and articles 
 to magazines. Mr. Irwin is a member of the 
 Bohemian Club of San Francisco, CliflF Dwel- 
 lers Club of Chicago, and The Players, New 
 York City. Residence: 111 East 23d 
 Street. Ollicc: 44 East 23d Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 ISAACS, David: 
 
 Hotel proprietor ; born in New York City, 
 in 1848; enlisted at the age of 13 and dur- 
 ing Civil War served' in Union Army as 
 bugler in the Fifth New York Cavalry. Be- 
 gan business career with Erie Railway at 
 Niagara Falls and later in charge of com- 
 pany's general ticket office in ]3uffalo. New 
 York; resigned position and opened Pros- 
 I)cct House at Niagara Falls on Canadian 
 side; conducted business there fourteen 
 years, when tliat site was taken by the 
 Canadian Government for Niagara Falls 
 Park, 1887, built the new Prospect House 
 on the American side, of which he still owner 
 and director. President of the Cataract and 
 
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 International Hotels Company; special cor- 
 respondent for several important newspa- 
 pers. Was railroad contractor and built 
 several miles of Canadian Pacific Railroad 
 in the Kocky IMountains, and many miles 
 of Grand Trunk Railway in Muskoka; ex- 
 president of tlie First National Bank of Ni- 
 af;ara Fulls; vice-president of the New York 
 Hotel Association; director of the Board of 
 Colonial and' Foreign Governors of Hotel 
 Piotoctive Society of England; member of 
 tlie Buffalo Exempt Volunteer Firemen's As- 
 sociation, having served seven years as ac- 
 tive member and trustee of Eagle Hose 
 Company No. 2, in the Buffalo Volunteer 
 Fire Department, winning gold badge of 
 merit; now active fire commissioner of Ni- 
 agara Falls paid Fire Department ; formerly 
 harbor commissioner. Mason, Knight Temp- 
 lar and member of the Mystic Shrine; past 
 junior vice-commander of the Department 
 of New York, Grand Army of the Republic, 
 witli rank of general; companion of first 
 ckiss Military Order Loyal Legion; ex-pres- 
 ident of the Fifth New York Veteran Volun- 
 teer Cavalry Association; honorary member 
 of the Veteran Association, Forty-second 
 Separate Company, National Guard of New 
 York. Mr. Isaacs is a member of the Adi- 
 rondack Shooting, North Channel Shooting, 
 Toronto Shooting (Long Point, Canada), 
 Winnipeg Gun Clubs. Address: Niagara 
 Falls, N. Y. 
 
 ISELIN, Charles Oliver: 
 
 Banker, yachtsman; son of Adrian and 
 Eleanora (O'Donnell) Iselin. He was grad- 
 uated from Columbia University, LL.B., 
 1877. Owner of racing yacht Vigilant and 
 managing owner of the Columbia and other 
 cup defenders in recent races. Mr. Iselin is 
 a member of the banking firm of A. Iselin 
 & Company. He is a member of the Union, 
 Country, Knickerbocker, Larchmont Yacht, 
 New York Y'acht, New York Athletic, Tuxe- 
 do, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, Racquet 
 and Tennis, and Turf and Field Clubs and 
 and the Automobile Club of America. He 
 married, first, Frances, daughter of the late 
 Thomas Garner, Jr., and second, Hope, 
 daughter of Colonel \^'illiam Goddard, o! 
 Providence, R. I., and has two daughters 
 
 and two sons. Residence: New Rochelle, 
 N. Y. Address: 3G Wall Street, New York 
 
 City. 
 
 ISELIN, Columbus O'Donnell: 
 
 Banker; son of Adrian and Eleanora 
 (O'Donnell) Iselin. He is a member of the 
 firm of A. Iselin and Com])any; president 
 and director of the New Rochelle Water 
 Company; vice-president and director of the 
 New Rochelle Homestead Company, New 
 York Dock Company; trustee New York 
 Life Insurance and Trust Company; treas- 
 urer and director of the Allegheny and West- 
 ern Railway Company, Buffalo, Rochester 
 and Pittsburgh Railway Company, Clear- 
 field and Mahoning Railway Company, Hel- 
 vetio Realty Company, Jefferson and Clear- 
 field Coal and Iron Company, Johnsonburg 
 and Bradford Railroad' Company, Mahoning 
 Valley Railroad Company, Manhattan Stor- 
 age and Warehouse Company, Reynoldsville 
 and Falls Creek Railroad. Mr. Iselin is a 
 member of the Union, Seawanhaka-Corinth- 
 ian Yacht, Down Town, University, Knick- 
 erbocker, Metropolitan, Country, Larchmont 
 Yacht, New York Yacht, and Riding. He 
 married Edith C. Jones. Residence: 3 
 West 52d Street. Office: 36 Wall Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 ISELIN, William E. : 
 
 Dry goods commission merchant; born in 
 New York City, Jan. 11, 1848; son of Ad- 
 rian and Eleanora (O'Donnell) Iselin. He 
 was graduated from Columbia College, A.B., 
 1869. Mr. Iselin is a member of the firm 
 of William Iselin & Company; director of 
 the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Rail- 
 way Company, and the New Rochelle Water 
 Company. He is prominent in club life as 
 a member of the Union, Delta Phi, Seawan- 
 haka-Corinthian Yacht, City, Knickerbocker, 
 Eastern Yacht, Larchmont Lacht, New York 
 Yacht, Metropolitan, Riding, Country, Cath- 
 olic, and Merchants' Clubs and the Automo- 
 bile Club of America. He married in New 
 York City, April 5, 1877, Alice Rogers 
 Jones, and has three sons. Residence: 745 
 Fifth Avenue. Office: 1 Greene Street, 
 New York City. 
 
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 MEN OF A^IERICA. 
 
 ISHAM. Ralph: 
 
 Kcal L'siate; born in ChicajiO, Feb. 13, 
 ISCi."): son of Ralph N. and Katlierine E. 
 ( Snow ) Isham. After being graduated from 
 Harvard in 1889, he became connected with 
 the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad 
 Company, in 1890. He was with the Illinois 
 Steel Company, 1890-1899; secretary of the 
 Cliicago Union Transfer Railway Company, 
 1899-1905; and has been in the real estate 
 business since 1905. He is a Republican in 
 politics and a Presbyterian in religious be- 
 lief. He is a member of the Sons of the 
 Revolution of the State of Illinois (vice- 
 president), the National Geographic So- 
 ciety, National Forestry Association, Delta 
 Kappa Epsilon; and is also a member of 
 the University, Chicago Athletic, Onwentsia, 
 Saddle and Cycle, and South Shore Country 
 Clubs of Chicago. Mr. IsIkuii was married 
 in Rochester, New York, tn :\!:iry Louise 
 Otis, and they have one son, Albert Keep 
 Lsham, born Jan. 9, 1894. Address: 11 
 Ritcliic riacc. Chicago. 
 
 ISHAM, Samuel: 
 
 Artist; born in New York City, May 12, 
 1855; son of William Bradley and Julia 
 (Burhans) Isham. He was educated in 
 Phillips Andover Academy, and graduated 
 from Yale University, B.A., 1875. After 
 graduation he traveled and studied abroad 
 for three years; returned to New York City, 
 studied law and was admitted to the bar; 
 in 188.3 went to Paris and entered' the Acad- 
 emic Julian, and studied painting under 
 Boulanger and Lefebvre. Since 1887 he has 
 followed his profession in New York City. 
 He is a member of the Society of American 
 Artists; academician of the National Acad- 
 emy of Design; was a member of the jury 
 of the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition and 
 was awarded the silver medal of the Louisi- 
 ana Purchase Exposition, 1904. Mr. Isham 
 is author of: History of American Paint- 
 ing, 1905 (Macmillan). He is a trustee of 
 the American Fine Arts Society and a mem- 
 ber of the Century, Metropolitan, Riding. 
 University, Players', and Salmagundi Clubs 
 of New York City. Address: 5 East 61st 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 ISRAELS. Charles Henry: 
 
 Arcliiloct; l)orn in New York City, Dec. 
 23, 1865; son of Lehman and Florence Z. 
 (Lazarus) Israels. He was educated in the 
 Irving Institute, Tarrytown, N. Y., and Art 
 Students' League, Paris, France. He travel- 
 ed in Europe, 1889-1890, for study, took two 
 trips to the West Indies, 1902-1903; and is 
 now a member of the firm of Israel and Har- 
 der, architects. The firm has designed many 
 notable structures, among them the Hudson 
 (N. Y".) Theatre, Hahnemann Monument, 
 Scott Circle, Wasliington, D. C. Hotels: 
 The Devon, Warrington, Arlington, Walton, 
 Howard, Hampton and Holland hotels. New 
 York City; Lord & Taylor's Fifth Avenue 
 store, the Silo Building, etc. Mr. Israels 
 has been active in politics in the Republican 
 and Citizens' Union organizations, and was 
 five years member of the executive commit- 
 tee of the West Side Republican Club. He 
 was for three years member of the executive 
 committee of the Architectural League of 
 New York; charter member of the INIunicipal 
 Art Society; director of the West Side Mu- 
 tual Building Loan and Savings Associa- 
 tion; member of the New York Chapter of 
 the American Institute of Architects, ]Mili- 
 tary Order of the Loyal Legion, Municipal 
 Art Society (chairman of committee on 
 Street Fixtures, Building Code Revision 
 Commission. He is a member of the Repub- 
 litan. West Side Republican, and National 
 Arts Clubs. He married in New York City, 
 Xov. 9, 1903, Belle Linder, and has a son 
 and a daughter. Address: 179 West 97th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 IVERSON, Samuel G.: 
 
 State auditor of Minnesota; born in Rush- 
 ford, .Minn.. Ajiril 21, 1859; son of John 
 and Gunhild (Gunderson) Iverson. He was 
 educated at the Law College of the Univer- 
 sity of Minnesota, was admitted to the bar, 
 and practised successfully. He was appoint- 
 ed postmaster at Rushford, Minnesota, in 
 1881; elected a member of the INlinnesota 
 Legislature in 1886, and the following year 
 entered the State auditor's oflice as account- 
 ant, was appointed deputy State treasurer, 
 1891, and deputy State auditor in 1895, his 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 record in that office winning liini the elec- 
 tion of State auditor in 1902, and reelection 
 in 190G tor the term expiring in 1911. He 
 has a national reputation as an expert in 
 state accounts. He is a Mason, an Odd Fel- 
 low, a Knight of Pj^thias, a Red ilan. 
 an Elk, and a JModern Woodman, and 
 is a member of the Conunercial and Norden 
 Clubs of St. Paul. He married' in Rushford, 
 Minnesota, April 4, 1900, Calista B. Retel. 
 Residence: 098 Marshall Avenue. Ollice: 
 State Capitol, St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 IVES, Brayton: 
 
 Capitalist; born in Farmington, Conn., 
 1840. He was graduated from Yale Uni- 
 versity, 1861. He served in the Civil War, 
 being honorarbly mustered out in 1865, with 
 the rank of brevet brigadier-general. Gen- 
 eral Ives has been vice-president and presi- 
 dent of the New York Stock Exchange. He 
 is president and director of the Standard 
 Milling Company, Metropolitan Trust Com- 
 pany, Hecker-Jones-Jewell Milling Company, 
 Kanona and Prattsburgh Railway Company, 
 Metcalf Land Company; chairman of the 
 Board of Directors of the W^estinghouse 
 Eelectric and Manufacturing Company; di- 
 rector of the Atlantic Safe Deposit Com- 
 pany, National Bank of Commerce, United 
 States Guarantee Company. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Military Order of the Loyal Le- 
 gion, the Century, Grolier, Metropolitan, 
 Turf and Field, New York Yacht, The 
 Brook, Union League, University, and' Law- 
 yers' Clubs. Residence: 33 East 39th 
 Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 IVES, Frederick E.: 
 
 Inventor, manufacturer; born in Litch- 
 field, Conn., Feb. 17, 1856; son of Hubert 
 I. and Ella A. (Beach) Ives. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools; became printer's 
 apprentice, 1SU9-1871; printer and amateur 
 photographer, 1871-1873; in charge of the 
 photographic laboratory of Cornell Univer- 
 sity, 1874-1878; inventor of the first success- 
 ful process { and the name ) of " half-tone " 
 photo-engraving; also of the half-tone pro- 
 cess now imiversally employed, and of the 
 half-tone tri-chromatic process; inventor of 
 the Kromskop system of color photography, 
 
 the parallax stereogram, glass sealed spec- 
 troscope gratings, the multiple slit diffrac- 
 tion chronoscope, etc.; has taken out about 
 thirty patents and been awarded sixteen 
 medals by scientific societies at home and 
 abroad for original work, and inventions, 
 chiefly in applied optics. He has lectured 
 before the principal scientific bodies in Eng- 
 land and the United States. He is a fellow 
 of the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, Royal Photographic 
 Society, Royal JMicroscopical Society; mem- 
 ber: Franklin Institute, American Micro- 
 scopical Society; honorary member of the 
 Photographic Society of Philadelphia, etc.; 
 consulting expert of the Ives Inventions 
 Company of New York City. He married at 
 Milford, N. Y., Mary E. Olmstead (died 
 April 7, 1904) and has one son. Address: 
 Woodcliflf-on-Hudson, Weehawken, N. J. 
 
 IVINS, William Mills: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Freehold, N. J., April 
 16, 1851 ; son of Augustus and Sarah 
 (]Mills) Ivins. He removed in early child- 
 hood to Brooklyn, and was one of the first 
 graduates of Adelphi Academy in that city. 
 After his graduation he was for a time in 
 the employ of D. Appleton & Company, pub- 
 lishers, but left their employ to enter Co- 
 lubia Law School. He was admitted to the 
 bar of New York in 1873, and the United 
 States Supreme Court in 1879. He began 
 practice in Brooklyn as a member of the 
 firm of Bergen and Ivins. He was soon ac- 
 tive in politics and took part in the move- 
 ment headed by General Slocum against the 
 Brooklyn ring. In 1879 he conducted the 
 prosecution of the O'Reilly cases, resulting 
 in the imprisonment of the Brooklyn 
 Board of Aldermen for contempt of court. 
 He was jjrivate secretary to Mayor Grace, 
 of New York, in 1881; was a school commis- 
 sioner of the City of New York, 1SS3-1S86; 
 city chamberlain of New York, 1885-1889, 
 during the administrations of Mayors Grace 
 and Hewitt. He was judge-advocate general 
 of the State of New York, 1886-1888; was 
 counsel for the Senate Committee on Cities 
 in 1891, and took an active part in the move- 
 ment for ballot reform which culminated in 
 the general adoption of the Australian bal- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 lot. Amon<^ his most interest clients were 
 the late Mme. Blavatsky, and the late Gen- 
 oral Garcia. lie has traveled widely 
 throufrhout South America, and is an ex- 
 pert in tlie rubber business. As a lawyer, 
 Mr. Ivins lias had charge of numerovis cases 
 of international importance, and he is now 
 head of the firm of Ivins, Mason, Wolff 
 and Iloguct. He Avas the Eepublican can- 
 didate for mayor of New York City in 1905. 
 In 1907, after the passage of the bill to es- 
 taglish the New York City Utilities Cora- 
 mission, he was appointed special counsel of 
 the commission, and conducted the investi- 
 gation of the Metropolitan Street R;iilway 
 System. He is a member of the Association 
 of tlie Bar of the City of New York and of 
 the ^Manhattan, Union League, Republican, 
 Down Town, New York Yacht, Lawyers', 
 Hiding and Barnard Clubs of New York 
 City, and the St. Steplien's Club of London. 
 He is a member and chairman of the New 
 York Charter commission, recently appoint- 
 ed by Governor Hughes. Mr. Ivins married, 
 in 1879, Enuna L. Yard, of Frceholil, N. J., 
 and he has two sons and two daughters, 
 iiesidence: 55 East 25th Street. Oflice: 
 27 ^^'illiam Street, New York City. 
 
 JACCACI, August F.: 
 
 Painter, author, editor; born in Paris, 
 in 1857. He was educated abroad; became 
 a citizen of the United States in 1SS8; was 
 one of tlie editors of McClure's Magazine 
 at its foundation, and for several years art 
 editor of Scribner's Magazine. He is the 
 author of: On the Trail of Don Quixote, 
 1S9G (Scribner's); and coeditor with John 
 La Farge of Noteworthy Paintings in Amer- 
 ican Private Collections. He is a member of 
 tlie Century and Grolier Clubs. Address: 
 Locust Valiey, L. I., and 7 West 43d Street, 
 Now York City. 
 
 JACKSON, Abraham Valentine Williams: 
 
 Educator, Orientalist and archajologist ; 
 born in New York City, Feb. 9, 1862; son 
 of David Sherwood and Elizabeth Sand ford 
 (Williams) Jackson. 'He was graduated 
 
 from Columbia College, A.B., 1883 at head 
 of class; received prize fellowship in letters 
 at Columbia, held it for three years, 1883- 
 1S8C; instructor in Anglo-Saxon and Iran- 
 ian languages in Columl)ia, 18S(i-1887; stu- 
 dent, University of Halle, Germany, 1887- 
 1S89, devoting special attention to Oriental 
 languages, as well as to Anglo-Saxon. He 
 was instructor, 1889-1891; adjunct professor 
 of English language and literature, 1891-1895, 
 and was appointed in 1895 to fill the newly 
 founded chair as professor of Indo-Iranian 
 languages at Columbia, which he stills holds. 
 Professor .Jackson has lectured much in pub- 
 lic on subjects relating to the Orient and 
 to English literature. He has traveled in 
 the East for purposes of study and research, 
 visited India and Ceylon, 1901, receiving 
 special attention from the Parsis, and made 
 an extensive journey through Persia and 
 Central Asia in 1903 and again in 1907, for 
 archaeological investigations the result of 
 which have since been published. He is au- 
 thor of: A Hymn of Zoroaster, 1888 
 (Stuttgart) ; An Avesta Grammar in Com- 
 parison with Sanskrit, 1892 (Stuttgart); 
 An Avesta Pveader, 1893; Zoroaster, the 
 Prophet of Ancient Iran, 1898 ; Die iranische 
 Religion, 1900, 1904 (Strassburg) ; Persia 
 Past and Present, 1906 ; also various Iran- 
 ian and Sanskrit studies in learned journals 
 at home and abroad. He also edited a His- 
 tory of India, nine volumes, 1906-1907. 
 Since graduation from college he has been 
 a member and is now a director of the 
 American Oriental Society. He has been a 
 trustee of the Board of Education of Yonk- 
 ers, N. Y., 1898-1909, and a trustee of the 
 Yonkers Public Library. Professor Jackson 
 is a iiicinlicr of I lie Century Association of 
 New York anil tlie Psi Upsilon fraternity, 
 also Royal Arch ]Mason and Knight Templar. 
 He married at Yonkers, N. Y.. June 25, 1889, 
 Dora 1^'lizabeth, daughter of John P. Ritter 
 of the New York Clearing House. Resi- 
 dence: 10 Highland Place, Yonkers, N. Y. 
 Ollice: Culumbia University, New York 
 City. 
 
 JACKSON. Charles Eben: 
 
 Banker; l)orn at Middletown, Conn., Jan. 
 5, 1849; son of Ebcnezer and Hannah Sage 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 (Hubbard) Jackson. He is a descendant of 
 Coneral Micliaol Jackson, of Newton, Mass., 
 wlio, with liis five sons, served all through 
 the llevolufionary War as officers, thus giv- 
 ing Mr. Jackson's family six memberships 
 in the Society of the Cincinnati, an unequal- 
 led record in that society. He is also de- 
 scended from the Fcnwicks and' Uraytons of 
 South Caiolina. He received an education 
 in private schools and at St. Paul's School, 
 Concord, N. H. Mr. Jackson is president 
 of the Jackson Company, vice-president of 
 the Middlesex Banking Company, and trus- 
 tee and treasurer of the trustees of the 
 Berkeley Divinity School since 1869. He is 
 member of the Connecticut Historical So- 
 ciety, the Middlesex County Historical Soci- 
 ety, trustee of the Missionary Society of 
 Connecticut, and Indian Hill Cemetery As- 
 sociation, member of the Massachusetts So- 
 ciety of the Cincinnati, and one of the Stand- 
 ing Committee of that society, the St. Nich- 
 olas Club of New York, and the Church 
 Club of Connecticut. Mr. Jackson married 
 in Stamford, Conn., June 12, 1873, Evelyn 
 Quintard, daughter of Edward A. Quintard, 
 and they have seven children. Residence: 
 392 Washington Street. Office: 163 Court 
 Street, Middletown, Conn. 
 
 JACKSON, Daniel Dana: 
 
 Sanitary engineer and chemist; born in 
 Gloucester , ]Mass., Aug. 1, 1870; son of Dan- 
 iel and Lucy Agnes (Langsford) Jackson. 
 He was graduated from Gloucester High 
 School; Allen's English and Classical 
 School, West Newton, Mass., and Massa- 
 chusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., in 
 1893. He was successively chemist of the 
 Boston Water Works, biologist of the Mas- 
 sachusetts State Board of Health, bacteriol- 
 ogist of Worcester, Mass., lecturer at the 
 ^Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chief 
 chemist of the Brooklyn Water Supply. He 
 is now director of the Laboratories of the 
 Department of Water Supply, Gas and Elec- 
 tricity of New York City and is also in 
 general practice as sanitary engineer and 
 chemist and expert on water supply and sew- 
 age disposal. He is the author of numerous 
 papers and reports on sanitary engineering, 
 chemistry, microscopy and bacteriology. 
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 Mr. Jackson is a member of the Society of 
 tho Cincinnati of Massachusetts; of the 
 Advisory Committee of One Hundred to the 
 borougli president of Brooklyn and special 
 Committee on Pul)lic Health; of the Mer- 
 chants' Association's Special Committee on 
 Pollulion of the Waters of New York, the 
 International Zoological Congress; Boiird 
 of Directors; was Municipal Engineer of 
 New York City; American Public Health 
 Association; American Microscopical Soci- 
 ety; American Chemical Society; Society of 
 Chemical Industry; Prospect Heights Citi- 
 zens' Association; New England Water 
 Works Association, and Society of Arts. He 
 is also a member of the Chemists', Brooklyn 
 Engineers', Montauk and Washington Clubs. 
 He married in Brooklyn, Nov. 26, 1902, Ella 
 Howard Phillips, and they have one son. 
 Address: 941 President Street, Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. 
 
 JACKSON, Douglas V.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Muscatine, Iowa, Nov. 
 17, 1859; son of Peter and Christiana 
 (Sinclair) Jackson. He was graduated 
 from Northwestern University as B.L. in 
 1879, and from the State University of 
 Iowa in 1881. He began to practise law in 
 Muscatine, Iowa, in 1881; was elected 
 county attorney in 1894 and declined re- 
 election; was elected judge of the District 
 Court in 1902 and reelected in 1906. He 
 is vice-president and director of the First 
 National Bank and is a director of the 
 Muscatine Savings Bank. He served as 
 colonel in the Second Eegiment of Iowa 
 National Guard, and as colonel in the Fif- 
 tieth Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry 
 during the Spanish-American War. Judge 
 Jackson is a trustee of the Hershey Memo- 
 rial Hospital of Muscatine. He married in 
 Muscatine, Iowa, Sept. 14, 1885, Alberta C. 
 Jackson, and tliey have two children. Resi- 
 dence: 513 West Third Street. Address: 
 Court House, Muscatine, Iowa. 
 
 JACKSON, Dugald C: 
 
 Engineer, educator; born at Kennett 
 Square, Pa.. Feb. 13, 1865; son of Josiah 
 and Mary Detweiler (Price) Jackson. He 
 was educated in the Hill School at Potts- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 town, Pa., the Pennsylvania State College, 
 civil engineering course, and graduated as 
 B.S. in 1S85 and C.E. in 1887. He was 
 a fellow and instructor in electrical engi- 
 neering at Cornell Universitj', 1885-1SS7. 
 Mr. Jackson was connected with the Sprague 
 Electric Railway and Motor Company and 
 other Edison interests, in important engi- 
 neering and administrative positions, 1887- 
 1891 ; became professor of electrical engi- 
 neering at the University of Wisconsin, in 
 tlie fall of 1891 upon the establishment of 
 that chair, and remained at the head of 
 that strong department until recently. He 
 is now professor of electrical engineering 
 and head of the department of electrical 
 engineering at the Massachusetts Institute 
 of Technology. Mr. Jackson is also a con- 
 sulting engineer, and senior member of the 
 engineering firm of D. C. and ^\■illiam B. 
 Jackson, Chicago and Boston; and is in- 
 ventor and patentee of numerous devices. 
 He is a director of the Central Wisconsin 
 Trust Company, Madison, and the Cutler 
 Hammer Clutch Company, of Milwaukee, 
 Wis. He is chairman of the engineer com- 
 mission now advising the City of Chicago 
 on the telephone franchise situation. Mr. 
 Jackson is a member of the American So- 
 ciety of Civil Engineers, American Society 
 of Mechanical Engineers, American Insti- 
 tute of Electrical Engineers, Western So- 
 ciety of Engineers, and Franklin Institute; 
 president of the Society for the Promotion 
 of Engineering Education, member of Sigma 
 Xi and' of the Phi Kappa Sigma, and Tau 
 Beta Pi fraternities; the Union League and 
 Engineers' Clubs of Chicago, the Milwaukee 
 Club, and the Maple Bluff Golf Club of 
 Madison, Wis. lie married at Orouo, Me., 
 Sept., 1889, Mabel A. Foss, and they have 
 two children. Residence: Brookline, Mass. 
 OflBce: Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 
 ogy, Boston. 
 
 JACKSON, Frank D.: 
 
 Ex-governor; born in Arcade, N. Y., Jan. 
 20, 1854; son of Hiram W. Jackson and 
 Marion (Jenks) Jackson. He removed to 
 Iowa in boyhood; was educated in the 
 public schools of Jessup, Jowa, and tlie 
 Iowa State Agricultural College, and was 
 
 graduated from the law department of Iowa 
 State University in 1874. He was secretary 
 of the State Senate for two terms, and 
 secretary of State for three terms, and was 
 governor of Iowa, 1894-1896. He was 
 elected, in 1899, president of the Royal 
 Union Life Insurance Company of Des 
 .Moines. Address: Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 JACKSON, Gabrielle Emilie: 
 
 Author; born in New York City, Oct. 
 I'S, 1861; daughter of Isaac Snow, eighth 
 in direct descent from Stephen Hopkins, 
 one of the signers of the compact signed 
 and drawn at Provincetown, ]\Iass., Nov. 
 11, 1620, and of Anna Amelia (Brush) 
 Snow. She was graduated from Carlisle 
 Institute in New York City, 1879, and she 
 was married at Nyack-on-Hudson, N. Y., 
 Dec. 15, 1886, to John William Jackson, 
 and has a daughter, Eloise Denise, born 
 Jan. 5, 1889. Mrs. Jackson began her lit- 
 erary work by writing for St. Nicholas, in 
 which her first story was published in 1895, 
 followed by serials, and she has also writ- 
 ten for many other magazines, juvenile and 
 adult. She is author of: Denise and' Ned 
 Toodles; Another Year with Denise and 
 Ned Toodles; More Ned Toodles Tales; 
 Pretty Polly Perkins; Big Jack; Little 
 Comrade; The Colburn Prize; Caps and 
 Capers; Doughnuts and Diplomas; Little 
 Miss Sunshine; A Blue Grass Beauty; 
 Three Graces; Three Graces at College; 
 Sunlight and Shadow; Little Miss Cricket; 
 Little Miss Cricket's New Home; Little 
 Miss Cricket at School; Adventures of 
 Tommy Postoflice; Mother and Daughter; 
 Dont's for Mother; Dawn of Womanhood 
 lOssaj's; Wee Winkles and Wideawake; Wee 
 Winkles at the Mountains. Mrs. Jackson 
 is a member of the Woman's Club of Orange. 
 Address: 42 State Street, East Orange, 
 N. J. 
 
 JACKSON, George Thomas: 
 
 Physician; born in New York City, Dec. 
 19, 1852; son of George T. and Letitia J. A. 
 (Macauley) Jackson. He was educated 
 juivate and public schools of New York 
 City, and through the freshman class of 
 the College of the City of New Yorkj was 
 
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 jfiadiiatcd from the C'ollt'j;i' (if IMiysieians 
 and Surgeons (Columbia), M.D., 1878; 
 member stafl', Charity Hospital, 1877-1878; 
 post-graduate work in Berlin, Vienna and 
 Strassburg, 1878-1880. Dr. Jackson has 
 been engaged in the practice of medicine 
 in New York City since 1880, and is a 
 specialist in dermatology. He is author of: 
 Diseases of Hair and Scalp, 1887, second 
 edition, 1894; Ready Reference Handbook 
 of Skin Diseases, 1892, sixth edition, 1908; 
 also many papers in medical journals. Dr. 
 Jackson is a member of the New York 
 State Medical Society, New Y''ork County 
 Medical Society, American Medical Asso- 
 ciation, New Y^ork Academy of Medicine, 
 American Dermatological Association, New 
 Y'ork Dermatological Society, Alumni Asso- 
 ciation City Hospital and Presbyterian Hos- 
 pital. He is consulting dermatologist to 
 the Presbyterian Hospital, and to the New 
 Y'ork Infirmary for Women and Children. 
 He is professor of dermatology in the med- 
 ical department, Columbia University (Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons ) . He is 
 a member of the Century Association, Met- 
 ropolitan ^Museum of Art, and American 
 Museum of Natural History. He married 
 in Montclair, N. J., Oct. 30, 1878, Caroline 
 G. Weid'emeyer ; they have three children. 
 Residence : 092 ^A'est End Avenue. Office : 
 11 East 48th Street, New York City. 
 
 JACKSON, George Washington: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in Chicago, July 
 21, 1801. He was educated in the public 
 schools of Chicago and at Oxford, England. 
 He became a civil engineer and has been 
 engaged in engineering and contracting 
 since 188,3. Prominent among the works 
 on which he has been engaged are the 
 Strickler Tunnel through Pike's Peak, the 
 fourteen-foot subway at Reading, Pa., 
 the pneumatic tube system at Chicago for 
 the Associated Press, the Wentworth Avenue 
 drainage system of Chicago, a large per- 
 centage of the underground systems for the 
 Chicago Telephone Company, the Postal- 
 Telegraph-Cable Company and the Western 
 Union Telegraph Company, besides similar 
 systems in Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis, 
 Muscatine, Iowa; Philadelphia, and other 
 
 cities. He was the engineer and contractor 
 for the entire sj'.steni of tunnels in Chicago 
 for the Illinois Telephone Construction 
 Company, and was the consulting engineer 
 for the transportation committee of Chi- 
 cago in working out the traction problem. 
 Me was also the hydraulic engineer for the 
 high pressure water commission of the city 
 of Chicago. He is president of the contract- 
 ing company of George W. Jackson, Incor- 
 jiorated. i\Ir. Jackson is a member of the 
 Western Society of Engineers, and of the 
 fraternal organizations of Masons and 
 Klks. He married' in C liicago. in 1883, Rose 
 Tracy Casey, and has two children. Resi- 
 dence: ,5.309 Washington Boulevard. Of- 
 fice: 10!) to 179 West Jackson Boulevard, 
 Chicago. 
 
 JACKSON, Holmes Condict: 
 
 Physiological chemist and educator; born 
 in New Y'ork City, Feb. 18, 1875; son of 
 William PTolmes and Jane E. (Freeman) 
 field Scientific School of Y''ale University, 
 Jackson. He was graduated from the Shef- 
 Ph.B., 1890, Ph.D., 1899. He was instructor 
 in physiological chemistry in the Sheffield 
 Scientific School, Y^ale, 1897-1900; studied 
 at Berne, Switzerland, in physiology, with 
 Kronecker, and at Strassburg with Hof- 
 meister, 1900-1901. He was instructor, 
 1901-1903, assistant professor, 1903-1905, 
 of physiological chemistry in New York 
 University and Bellevue Hospital Medical 
 School; adjunct professor of experimental 
 physiology and physiological chemistry, and 
 director of the laboratories in Albany Med- 
 ical College, 1905-1909, and consulting phys- 
 iological chemist to the New Y'ork State 
 Department of Health, 1907-1909. In 1909 
 Dr. Jackson returned to the New Y'ork 
 University and Bellevue Hospital Medical 
 College as professor of physiology. He is 
 a member of the Society of American Natu- 
 ralists, American Physiological Society, 
 American Society of Biological Chemists, the 
 Harvey Society of New Y'ork, Society for 
 Experimental Biology and' Medicine (char- 
 ter member) ; fellow of the American Asso- 
 ciation for ihe Advancement of Science; 
 member of the Association of Pathologists 
 and Bacteriologists, Association of Official 
 
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 Agricultural Chemists, Theta Delta Clii, 
 Siguia Xi. aud Yale Club of New York City. 
 He married in Newark, N. J., Dec. 18, 1901, 
 Mary .\l>bey Read, and they have two chil- 
 dren. Address: 400 Riverside Drive. Of- 
 fice: 33S Ea.-;t 2Gth Street, New York City. 
 
 JACKSON. James H.: 
 
 Physician; born Petersboro, N. Y., June 
 11. 1841; son James Caleb and Lucrctii 
 l^dgerton (Brewster) Jackson. He received 
 a seminary education at Dansvillc, N. Y., 
 and was graduated from Bellevue Hospital 
 Medical College, New Y''ork City. 'He was 
 manager of the Jackson Health Resort. 
 18(51-1895; chief of its medical staff since 
 1S76, and is president of The Jackson San- 
 atorium Company. He succeeded his father, 
 James Caleb Jackson, the founder, in 1858, 
 of the famous Jackson Health Resort, as 
 medical director of the same, and' for forty- 
 six years has been identified with its de- 
 velopment and great success. He was the 
 first to use the word Sanatorium in the 
 country, and he has seen the inception and 
 complete growth of the great Health Resort 
 movement as related to institutional life 
 and the practice of the healing art. Dr. 
 Jackson is editor of Laws of Life and Jour- 
 nal of Health. He is a Republican, and' 
 mayor of Dansville; the first Republican 
 to hold that office; and is a member of the 
 Christian Union. Dr. Jackson is a member 
 of the Livingston County Medical Society, 
 New York State Medical Society, Amer- 
 ican Medical Association ; is a Royal Arch 
 Mason, and a member of the Sons of Amer- 
 ican Revolution, Society Mayflower Descend- 
 ants, and the Society of Colonial Wars. 
 He married in Dansville, N. Y''.. Sept. 13, 
 1804, Kate Johnson, of Sturbridge, Mass., 
 and has one son. Address: Dansville, Liv- 
 ingston County, N. Y. 
 
 JACKSON, John BrinckerofF: 
 
 niplf)mat; l)orn in Newark, N. J., Aug. 
 19, 1802; son of F. Wolcott and Nannie 
 (Nye) Jackson. He was graduated from 
 the U. S. Naval Academy, 1883, and then 
 cruised for two years in European waters, 
 being for part of tlie time junior aide to 
 the commander-in-chief of the European 
 
 Squadron. He passed his final examination 
 in 1885, and was commissioned ensign, IJ. 
 S. Navy, July 1, 1885. He attended the 
 course at the Torpedo Station at Newport, 
 R. I., and was afterward stationed at the 
 Ordnance Proving Grounds at Annapolis, 
 Md. He resigned from the Navy, June 30, 
 1886, engaged in the study of law in New 
 York City, and was admitted to the bar 
 of the State of New York, Feb. 14, 1889. 
 He entered upon his diplomatic career upon 
 his appointment, Dec. 30, 1890, as second 
 secretary of the American Legation to Ber- 
 lin. He was promoted to secretary of the 
 embassy, Nov. 15, 1894, and while there, 
 frequently served as charge d'affaires. In 
 1902 he was offered the post of minister to 
 Chili and accepted same, but was appointed 
 Oct. 13, 1902, envoy extraordinary and 
 minister plenipotentiary to Greece, Rou- 
 mania and Servia, and, on June 5, 1903, 
 diplomatic agent in Bulgaria in addition. 
 He represented the United States at the 
 Coronation of King Peter of Servia, Sept. 
 21, 1904. On March 6, 1905, he was ap- 
 pointed envoy extraordinary and minister 
 plenipotentiary to Greece and Montenegro, 
 and diplomatic agent in Bulgaria, and in 
 1907, envoy extraordinary and minister 
 plenipotentiary to Persia, where he is now 
 serving. Mr. Jackson received the honorary 
 degree of A.M. from Princeton in 1896. 
 He was a delegate to the International Con- 
 ference on Maritime Law, held at Hamburg 
 in 1902, and to the International Archseo- 
 logical Congress at Alliens in 190"). He was 
 American i-epresentativo at the Olympic 
 games in Athens in 1906. He is a member 
 of the Association of the Bar of the City of 
 New York, the Union League, University, 
 Army and Navy, and Lawyers' Clubs of 
 New York, the Rittenhouse Club of Phil- 
 adel])hia. National Geographic Society, New 
 Jersey Historical Society, Society of Inter- 
 national Law, the Metropolitan Club of 
 Washington, the Casino of Berlin, and the 
 Imperial Yacht Club of Kiel, Gesellschaft 
 fiir Krdkunde, Kolonial Gesellschaft, Goethe 
 Gesellschaft, and Shakespeare Verein, of 
 Germany. Mr. Jackson married at Phila- 
 delphia, April 26, ISSCi, Florence A. Baird, 
 daughter of the late Matthew Baird. Ad- 
 
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 JACKSON, Richard Arbuthnot: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Ricliniond, Ind., Sept. 
 5, 1858; son of Richard and Anna M. 
 (Knott) Jackson. He was graduated from 
 tlie I'niveisity of VirLiinia, LL.l?., 1S7!». He 
 was admitted to the bar in 1880, practised 
 at Fort Wayne, Ind., and was prosecuting 
 attorney tlicre four ys ars ; in general prac- 
 tice until 1902; since then general solicitor 
 and first vice-president of the Chicago, 
 Rock Island and Pacific Rjiihvay Company. 
 He is a niembt'r of tlie Cliicago, Cniversity. 
 Union League, Midday and South Shore 
 Country Clubs. Residence: Hotel Metro- 
 pole. Office: 14-4 Van Buren Street, Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 JACKSON, Samuel Macauley: 
 
 Editor and educator; born in New York 
 City, June 19, 1851 ; son of George T. and 
 Letitia Jane Aiken (Macauley) Jackson. 
 He was graduated from the College of the 
 City of New York, A.B., 1870, A.M., 1876; 
 student in Princeton Theological Seminary, 
 1870-1871; graduated Union Theological 
 Seminary. 1873; traveled and studied 
 abroad, 187-3-1875. He received the degrees 
 of LL.D. from Washington and Lee Univer- 
 sity, 1892, and D.D. from New York Uni- 
 versity, 1893. He was pastor of the Pres- 
 byterian Church of Norwood, N. J., 1876- 
 1880; and has been professor of church his- 
 tory in New York University since 1895. He 
 assisted the late Philip Schatf, 1878-1880 (on 
 his Bible Dictionary, 1878-1880, on the 
 Schaff-Herzog Encyelopa?dia, of which lie was 
 managing editor, 1880-1884, and on the En- 
 cyclopaedia of Living Divines, of which he 
 was joint editor, 1885-1856. Dr. Jackson is 
 editor of: The Concise Dictionary of Re- 
 ligious Knowledge, 1891; Heroes of the 
 Reformation series, nine volumes (contrib- 
 uting the biography of Huldreich Zwingli, 
 1901); Handbook for Practical Workers in 
 Church and Philanthropy (nine volumes) ; 
 Selections from Zwingli, 1901; The New 
 Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia, preparing since 
 1903, of which throe volumes have been 
 issued ; The Source of " Jerusalem the Gold- 
 
 en," and Other Pieces Attributed to Ber- 
 nard of Cliiiiy, 1909. Uf is a vice-president 
 of the Cliarity Organization Society, record- 
 ing secretary of the Prison Association. 
 As chairman of the Publication Committee 
 of the Huguenot Society of America, he 
 brought out, in 1900, its volume commemo- 
 rative of the Tercentenary of the Edict of 
 Nantes, and other volumes in 1903 and 
 1904. Although not a Huguenot, he was, 
 in 1906, elected an honorary fellow of the 
 Huguenot Society of London. In 190G he 
 took the lead in reviving the American So- 
 ciety of Church History, originally founded 
 by Philip Schaflf in 1888, and became its sec- 
 retary. He has been a meml)or since 1901, 
 and president since 1905 of the Board of 
 Trustees of the Christian College of Can- 
 ton, China. He is a member of the Cen- 
 tury, City, National Arts. Phi Gam- 
 ma Delta and Chi Alpha Clubs, and secre- 
 tary of the latter since 1901. Address: 692 
 West End Avenue, New York City. 
 
 JACKSON, Theodore Frelinghuysen: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Rockaway, N. J., Nov. 
 13, 1830; son of William and Susan D. 
 (Halsey) Jackson. He Avas educated in 
 public and private schools, was admitted 
 to the bar in 1852, and retired from active 
 practice in 1890. Mr. Jackson was registrar 
 of arrears in Brooklyn, 1882-1886; city 
 comptroller of Brooklyn, 1890-1892; is a 
 director of the First National Bank of 
 Brooklyn; trustee of the Long Island Loan 
 and Trust Company; director of the Title 
 Insurance Company of New York; president 
 of the New York and East River Ferry 
 Company; director of the Union Ferry Com- 
 pany and the Brooklyn Ferry Company. 
 He is a member of the New York Historical 
 Society, Long Island Historical Society, the 
 Bar Association of New York City and 
 Brooklyn, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 
 New York Zoological Society, New York 
 Botanical Gardens, Sons of the American 
 Revolution, Order of Founders and Patriots 
 of America, Municipal Art Society; also 
 the Racquet, Riding, and National Arts 
 Clubs of New York City, and the Brooklyn, 
 Hamilton and Hanover Clubs of Brooklyn. 
 Mr. Jackson married in Brooklyn, in 1861, 
 
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 Cornelia Burr. Residence: West Hampton ] 
 Beach, L. I. Omee: 260 Broadway, Brook- 
 lyn, X. Y. 
 
 JACKSON, William: 
 
 Civil eniiiiieer; born in Brighton. Mass., 
 March 13. 184S; son of Samuel and Mary 
 (Field) Jackson; a descendant of Edward 
 .TiU'kson of New Town. Mass.. 1040. He was 
 educated in the public schools of Brighton 
 and attended tlie Massachusetts Institute 
 of Technologj', Boston, 1865-1868. but was 
 not graduated. He began professional life 
 as a rodman in the Boston City Engineers' 
 Office, in May, 1868, was assistant engi- 
 neer of the city of Boston, 1809-1885, and 
 city engineer since 1885; was chief engineer 
 of Harvard Bridge, 1887-1891; chief engi- 
 neer of Charlestown Bridge, 1896-1900; 
 chief engineer of Cambridge Bridge from 
 1898 to date. He is a member of the 
 Society of Colonial Wars of Massachusetts, 
 the New England Historic-Genealogical So- 
 ciety, the Bostonian Society, the Society of 
 Art's of the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology, the Technology Club, Union 
 Club, Boston City Club; American Society 
 of Civil Engineers, and the Boston Society 
 of Civil Engineers. He married, April 27, 
 188(5, ]Mary Stuart, daughter of James Stu- 
 art and Julia L. JMacCorry, of Boston, and 
 their son, William Stuart Jackson, is their 
 only living child. Address: City Engi- 
 neer's Office, .50 City Hall, Boston. 
 
 JACOBI, Abraham: 
 
 Fliysic'iaii ; born in llartuiii, ^\'esl])halia, 
 Cermany, May G. 1830. He was educated 
 in the (Jymnasium of ^Nfinden, and the Uni- 
 versities of (iriefswald, Gottingen and Bonn. 
 M.IX, 1851, and received the degree of LL.D. 
 from the University of :Michigan, 1898, Co- 
 lumljia, 1900, Yale, 1905, Harvard, 1900. 
 Dr. Jacobi was professor of diseases of chil- 
 dren in New York Medical College, 1800- 
 isd.'), in tlie Medical ]>partment of New 
 York University, 1805-1870, College of 
 Pliysicians and Surgeons (Columbia), 1870- 
 1903; professor emeritus since 1902. He is 
 consulting physician to the German Dis- 
 pensary and llnspitnl of Ihe Women's In- 
 
 firmary, Bellevue Babies' Orthopa?die, Mount 
 Sinai and other hospitals. Dr. Jacobi is 
 ex-president of the New York Obstetrical 
 Society, New York Pathological Society, 
 Medical Society of the State of New York, 
 of the New York Academy of ^Medicine, 
 Association of Americrin Physicians, Amer- 
 icaji IVdiatric Society, and the Amer- 
 ican Climatological Association; hon- 
 orary fellow of the medical societies of 
 Wurzburg, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Budapest, 
 St. Petersburg, Kiew; Pediatric Society of 
 <;ennany, ]\ledical Society of Philadelphia, 
 Boston, Louisville. Brooklyn. etc. Dr. 
 .Jacobi is author of: Dentition and its De- 
 rangements, 1802; Treatise on Diphtheria, 
 1S80; Therapeutics of Infancy and Child- 
 hood, 1890, 1900, 1903. He is an independent 
 in ])olitics and was twice a member of the 
 (Dnunittee of Seventy in New York City. 
 He is a member of tlie Century, and City 
 Clubs of New Yoi'k. Dr. Jacobi married in 
 1873 Dr. Mary C. Putnam, who died June 
 10, 1900. Address: 19 East 47th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 JACOBUS, David iSchenck: 
 
 Mechanical engineer; born in Ridgefield, 
 N. J., Jan. 20, 1862. He was graduated 
 from Stevens Institute of Technology, M.E., 
 1884, and received the honorary degree of 
 Doctor of Engineering, in 1900. He was 
 instructor and assistant professor of ex- 
 perimental mechanics at Stevens Institute 
 of Technolog}\ 1884-1898. professor of ex- 
 jierimental mechanics and engineering phys- 
 ics, 1898-1903, in charge of Carnegie Lab- 
 oratory of Engineering, 1900-1900; profes- 
 sor of experimental engineering, 1903-1900. 
 He has been advisory engineer of The Bab- 
 cock and Wilcox Company, and special 
 lecturer in experimental engineering at 
 Stevens Institute, since 1906. He is a fel- 
 low of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, and was secretary 
 of Section D, in 1893, and vice-president in 
 1904; member of the American :Mat]iemat- 
 ical Society, American Society of Mechan- 
 ical Engineers (manager, 1900, and vice- 
 president, 1903), American Institute of 
 .Mining Engineers, Society for the Promotion 
 of Engineering Education, Society of Naval 
 
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 Architects and Marine Engineers, American 
 Institute of Electrical Engineers, Society 
 of Refrigerating Engineers, of which he was 
 director in 1004, and president in 1907, the 
 Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, and the 
 New York Railroad Club. Residence: 70 
 Summit Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. Office: 
 85 Liberty Street, New York City. 
 
 JACOBY, Harold: 
 
 Astronomer, educator; born in New York 
 City, March 4, 1865; son of Max and Eve 
 M. (Jackson) Jacoby. His father is a 
 native of Germany, came to the United 
 States in 1865, and is a retired New York 
 merchant; and his mother was a native of 
 New York City. He was educated in 
 private schools in New York City and was 
 graduated from Columbia University, A.B., 
 1885, Ph.D., 1896. He was assistant astron- 
 omer of the U. S. Eclipse Expedition to 
 West Africa, 1889-1890; volunteer assistant 
 at Cape of Good Hope Observatory, 1890; 
 adjunct professor of astronomy, 1894-1904, 
 Rutherford professor of astronomy since 
 1904, and head of Department 'of Astron- 
 omy, since 1903, Columbia University. He 
 is the author of Practical Talks by an 
 Astronomer, 1901 (Scribner's) ; contributor 
 of technical papers to American and' foreign 
 scientific journals and to the publications 
 of the Royal Astronomical Society of Lon- 
 don, Academic des Sciences of Paris; Soci- 
 etas Scientiarum Fennica, Helsingfors, As- 
 tronomische G^sellschaft, Leipzig, and a 
 large number of popular articles on astron- 
 omy in newspapers and magazines. He is 
 a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society 
 of London ; member of the Astronomische 
 Gesellschaft of Leipzig, Astronomical and 
 Astrophysical Society of America (council- 
 lor and editor from 190G to 1908); Amer- 
 ican Mathematical Society (former treas- 
 urer and editor Bulletin) ; fellow of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science; New York Academy of Sciences 
 (former councillor and secretary), and the 
 Century Club of New York City. He mar- 
 ried, Dec. 28, 1890, Annie, daughter of the 
 late George Maelear, astronomer at the 
 Royal Observatory, Capetown, South Africa, 
 
 and they have two children. Address: 333 
 ^^'est 7Gth Street, New York City. 
 
 JAEGERS, Albert: 
 
 Sculptor; born in Elberfeld, Gcrmanv, 
 March 28, 1868; son of Albert and Eliza- 
 beth (Loser) Jaegers. He was educated in 
 Germany and the United' States and he has 
 been engaged, since 1890, as sculptor, ex- 
 ecuting many private monuments, busts, 
 and other works in marble, bronze, etc., in- 
 cluding works which have won in competi- 
 tions; statuary for the Pan-American Ex- 
 position, Buffalo, 1901, Louisiana Purchase 
 Exposition, St. Louis, 1904, the new Cus- 
 tom House, New York City, etc.; now 
 engaged in executing the Baron von Steuben 
 -Monument for Washington, D. C, won in 
 competition, and many other works of im- 
 portance. Mr. Jaegers is a Unitarian in 
 n^ligious belief. He is a member of the Na- 
 tional Sculpture Society, Municipal Art 
 Society of New York City, and Cincinnati 
 Art Club. He married in Richmond, Va., 
 July 8, 1890, Matilda Iloldt. Address: 
 Suffern, N. Y. 
 
 JAGGAR, Thomas Augustus: 
 
 Protestant Episcopal bishop; born in New 
 York City, June 2, 1839. He was gradu- 
 ated from the General Theological Seminary 
 in New York City and took holy orders in 
 18G0 as deacon, and made priest in 1863. 
 He was the founder of the Riverside Hos- 
 pital, Yonkers, N. Y. ; was rector of Anthon 
 ?*Iemorial Church, New York City, 1864- 
 1868; St. Johns, Yonlcers, N. Y., 1868-1870, 
 and of Holy Trinity Church, Philadelphia, 
 1870-1875. He was consecrated bishop of 
 Southern Ohio, in 1875. He retired from 
 active charge of the diocese in Oct., 1905, 
 but retains his seat and vote in the House 
 of Bishops; and' he is morning preacher in 
 St. Paul's Church, Boston. Bishop Jaggar 
 is author of: The Man of the Ages; The 
 Ministry of Phillips Brooks; Bohlen Lec- 
 tures for 1900 — The Personality of Truth; 
 Duty of the Clergy in Relation to Modern 
 Skepticism. He married at Flushing, N. Y., 
 in 1862, Anna L. Lawrence. Address: 282 
 Marlborough Street, Boston. 
 
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 JAMES, Arthur Curtiss: 
 
 Morcliant, philanthropist; born in New 
 York City, June 1, 1867; son of D. Willis 
 and Ellen S. (Curtiss) James. He was 
 graduated from Amherst. A. 15., 1SS9; i-; 
 a member of the firm of Phelps, Dodge and 
 Company; director of the American Brass 
 Company, El Paso and Southwestern Rail- 
 road Company, United Globe Mines, New 
 York Trust Company. Mr. James is a mem- 
 ber of the Chamber of Commerce, American 
 Institute jSlining Engineers, American Geo- 
 logical iSocioty, New York Botanical Garden, 
 New York Zoiilogical Society; Metropolitan, 
 University, Century, Riding, New York, 
 Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht. Atlantic 
 Yacht, and Amherst Clubs. He married 
 Harriet Eddy Parsons. Residence: 92 
 Park Avenue. Address: 99 John Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 JAMES, Clinton R.: 
 
 Capitalist; son of John F. and Mary E. 
 James. He was educated in the Polytechnic 
 Institute, Brooklyn. Mr. James is first 
 vice-president and director of the I'.rooklya 
 Real Estate Exchange (Limited), New 
 York Mortgage and Security Company; 
 trustee of the Brooklyn Savings Bank; di- 
 rector and treasurer of the Kings County 
 Mortgage Company, director of the Pros- 
 pect Park Bank of Brooklyn, Title Insur- 
 ance Company of New York, United Cities 
 Realty Corporation. He married in New 
 York City, in 189G, Evelyn M. Betts. Ad- 
 dress: 193 Montague Street, Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. 
 
 JAMES, Edmund Janes: 
 
 President of tlie University of Illinois; 
 born in .lacksonville. 111., May 21, lSr)5; sou 
 of Rev. Collin D. and Amanda Keziah 
 (Casad) James. He was ediicaicd in the 
 Illinois State Normal Scliool and at North- 
 western University, Harvard, A.M., Halle, 
 I'll.!).. 1S77; also receiving the degree of 
 I^L.i). from Cornell College, Iowa, 1902, 
 VVesleyan University, 1902, and Queens Col- 
 lege. He was principal of the Evanston 
 (111.) High School, 1S7S-1879; ]\Iodel High 
 S,li..ol, Xc.niial. 111., 1879-1882; professor 
 
 of public finance and administration in the 
 Wharton School of Finance and Economy, 
 University of Pennsylvania, 1883-1895; also 
 l)rofessor of political and social science in 
 the University of Pennsylvania. 1884-189.5; 
 professor of public administration and di- 
 rector of the Extension Division, University 
 of Chicago, 1896-1901; president of North- 
 western University, 1902-1904; president of 
 the University of Illinois since 1904. He 
 was president of the American Academy of 
 I'olitical and Social Science, 1889-1901, "and 
 several years editor of its Annals; and is 
 author of numerous books and monographs 
 on subjects of political economy, finance, and 
 administration. Dr. James married Aug. 
 22, 1879, Anna ^Margaret Lange, of Halle, 
 Prussia. Address : Urbana, 111. 
 
 JAMES, Francis Bacon: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Cincinnati, June 10, 
 1864. He was educated in the public schools 
 and the Cincinnati College Law School, was 
 graduated as LL.B. in 1886, and has been 
 practising law ever since, and his most not- 
 able achievements in cases of a national 
 scope are U. S. vs. Kech, Kramer vs. 
 Peebles, and Uri vs. Levi. He is a mem- 
 ber of the law firm of Jones and James, 
 engaged chiefly in a commercial practice in 
 the State and Federal courts and before the 
 Interstate Commerce Commission, and is a 
 member of the Law Faculty of the Univer- 
 sity of Cincinnati. He has written on the 
 subject of Expert and Non-Expert Opinion 
 as Evidence under the Laws of Ohio, and 
 a Collection of Cases on the Construction of 
 Statutes, as well as other contributions to 
 the literature of the law, and commerce, 
 some of which have been published under 
 the title of Advertising and Other Addresses. 
 I\Ir. James is a member of the American 
 Bar Association, and is of its General Coun- 
 cil and chairman of the Committee on Pub- 
 licaliou and iiiciiiber of the Coininiltee on 
 Uniform State Laws and of the Committee 
 on Commercial Law, and is also a member 
 of the American International Law Asso- 
 ciation, Ohio State Bar Association and 
 the Cincinnati Bar Association; and is 
 president of the Ohio State Board in the 
 movement for securing uniformity of laws 
 
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 in the several States, and chairman of the 
 Committee on Commercial Law of the Com- 
 missioners on I'niforni JState ]>a\vs in 
 National Conference. Mr. James was for- 
 merly dean of the Cincinnati College of 
 Finance, Commerce and' Accounts. He is 
 Assistant general counsel of the Ohio State 
 Board of Commerce. He is a Pvcpubli- 
 can in politics. Mr. James is a member of 
 the Queen City, University, Country, Rid- 
 ing. Coif, Tennis, and Business Men's 
 Clubs of Cincinnati, and of the Columbus 
 Club of Columbus, Ohio. Residence : East 
 Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. Office: Mercan- 
 tile Library Building, Cincinnati. 
 
 JAMES, George Wharton: 
 
 Lecturer and writer; born in Gainesbor- 
 ough, Lincolnshire, England', Sept. 27, 1858; 
 son of John and Ann (Wharton) James. 
 He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Gram- 
 mar School, at Gainesborough, England. 
 He has devoted years to geographical, geo- 
 logical, ethnological, and archfeological re- 
 searches in the Western part of the United 
 States, especially in the regions of the 
 Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, and 
 the Colorado Desert in Southern California; 
 and among Navaho, Zuni, Hopi, Apache, 
 Acoma, and' other tribes of Pueblo Indians. 
 He has also traveled among the various 
 tribes of California. Professor James is a 
 contributor to leading magazines, and a 
 lecturer on his travels, his lectures being 
 accompanied with stereopticon views of his 
 travels. He is a member of the Havasupai 
 tribe, and a fellow of the Royal Historical 
 Society; the Royal Astronomical Society; 
 The Royal Microscopical Society, The 
 Royal Geological Society, and the Victorian 
 Institute, all of England. He is also a 
 member of the Astronomical Society of the 
 Pacific, and the Southern California Acad- 
 emy of Sciences, of America. He is the 
 author of: The Lick Observatory, 1888; 
 Tourists' Guide to Southern California; 
 Nature Sermons ; Scenic Mount Lowe ; Pic- 
 turesque Southern California; The Missions 
 and Mission Indians of California; In and 
 Around the Grand Canyon, 1900; Indian 
 Basketry, 1900; How to Make Indian and 
 Other Baskets, 1903; The Indians of the 
 
 Painted Desert Region, lf)03; Travelers' 
 Handbook to Southern California; Practi- 
 cal Basket Making; In and Out of the Old 
 Missions, lOOo ; Tlie Story of Scraggles, 
 1906; The Wonders of tlie Colorado Desert, 
 1906; The Facts and Fictions of Ramona; 
 jNIission Architecture; and Living the Radi- 
 ant Tiife. Professor James married, Nov. 
 12, 1895, Emma George Farnsworth. Ad- 
 dress: 1098 North Raymond Avenue, Pasa- 
 dena, Calif. 
 
 JAMES, Henry: 
 
 Author; born in New York City, April 
 15, 1843; son of Rev. Henry James, a dis- 
 tinguished theologian. His early education, 
 directed by his fatiier, was acquired chiefly 
 in France and Switzerland, and he took 
 a partial course in Harvard' Law School, 
 1802-1864. He began literary work as a 
 contributor to various periodicals in 1803, 
 and has continued in the profession of 
 literature ever since. After 1869 he made 
 liis residence in Europe, chiefly in Italy 
 and England. His work is characterized 
 by literary finish, keen analysis and psy- 
 chologic insight, and include: Transat- 
 lantic Sketches, 1875; A Passionate Pil- 
 grim and Other Tales, 1875; Roderick 
 Hudson, 1876; The American, 1877; Watch 
 and Ward, 1878; French Poets and Novel- 
 ists, 1878; Daisy Miller, 1878; The Euro- 
 peans, two volumes, 1878; An International 
 Episode, 1879; The Madonna of the Future, 
 and Other Tales, two volumes, 1879; Haw- 
 tliorne, 1879; A Bundle of Letters, reprinted 
 from the Persian, 1880; Confidence, 1880; 
 The Diary of a Man of Fifty, 1880; W\^sh- 
 ington Square, 1880; The Portrait of a 
 Lady, 1882; The Siege of London, 1883; 
 Portraits of Places, 1883; Tales of Three 
 Cities, 1884; A Little Tour in France, 1885; 
 The Art of Fiction, 1885; Stories Revised, 
 two volumes, 1885; The Author of Bel- 
 traffio, 1885; The Bostonians, 1886; The 
 Princess Cassamassima, 1886; Partial Por- 
 traits, 1888; The Aspern Papers and Other 
 Stories, 1888; The Reverberator, 1888; A 
 London Life, 1889; The Tragic Muse, two 
 volumes, 1890; The Lesson of the Mas- 
 ter, 1892; The Real Thing and Other Tales, 
 1893; Picture in Text, 1893; The Private 
 
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 Life, 1893; Essays in London and Else- 
 where, 1893; Theatricals, two volumes, 
 1893; The Wheel of Time, 1894; Termina- 
 tions, 1895; The Other House, 1896; The 
 Spoils of Poynton, 1897; Saint Eva, 1897; 
 What Maisie Knew, 1897; In the Cage, 1S98; 
 The Awkward Age, 1899; The Soft Side, 
 1900; A Little Tour in France, 1900; The 
 Sacred Fount, 1901; The Wings of the 
 Dove, 1902; The Better Sort, 1903; The 
 Ambassador, 1903; The Question of Our 
 Speecli, 1904; The Lesson of Balzac, 1905; 
 The Golden Bowl, 1905; English Hours, 
 1905; and many contributions to magazines, 
 etc. He is a member of the Athenajum Club 
 of London. Eesidence: Rye, Isle of Wight, 
 England. Address: The Athemuum Club, 
 London, England. 
 
 JAMES, James Alton: 
 
 Professor of history; born in Hazel Green, 
 Wis., Sept. 17, 1864; son of John R. and 
 Mary A. (Alton) James. He was gradu- 
 ated from the University of Wisconsin, 
 B.L., 1888; from Johns Hopkins University, 
 Ph.D., 1893, and won a scholarship and 
 fellowship in history. He was professor of 
 history in Cornell College, loAva, 1893-1897; 
 and has been professor of history in North- 
 western University since 1897. Dr. James 
 is autlior of numerous monographs on his- 
 torical subjects. He is a member of the 
 American Historical Association, American 
 Political Science Association, the Council 
 of the Northwestern University Settlement 
 Association, and is a Mason. He is a mem- 
 ber of the University Club of Evanston. 
 Professor James married in Platteville, 
 Wis., Sept. 28, 1892. Jennie Tlionias, and 
 they have two children. Address: 2127 
 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, 111. 
 
 JAMES, Louis: 
 
 Actor; born ;il TreniOMl. ill., in 1842; 
 son of Benjamin F. and Almira H. James. 
 Beginning liis stage career with the stock 
 company of McAuley's Theater at Louis- 
 ville, Ky., in 1804, he went the following 
 year to Philadelphia, where he was for five 
 years a member of tlie famous stock com- 
 ])iiny in Mrs. John Drew's Arch Street The- 
 ater, and while there became a great favo- 
 
 rite socially and professionally in that city. 
 In leading theaters of New York, San Fran- 
 cisco, Baltimore, and Boston he played lead- 
 ing parts, and from the Boston Theater 
 stock company went, in 1881, to be leadinjj 
 man with Lawrence Barrett, alternating 
 with that great actor as lago and Othello, 
 and playing the other principal supporting 
 roles in the Barrett repertoire. After star- 
 ring for himself, 1886-1889, he played with 
 Joseph Jefferson a year and then for three 
 years starred jointly with Frederick Ward 
 in legitimate tragedy; since 1895 he has 
 been starring individually, and in 1908 he 
 succeeded the late Mr. Mansfield in Peer 
 Gynt. Mr. James married in 1871, in Phil- 
 adelphia, Lillian Scanlan, who died in 1876; 
 and Dec. 24, 1892, he married, in Philadel- 
 phia, Aphie Hendricks. Address: 723 Wy- 
 andotte Street, Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 JAMES, Ollie M.: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Crit- 
 tendon County, Ky., July 27, 1871; son of 
 L. H. and Elizabeth J. James. He was a 
 page in the Kentucky Legislature, session 
 of 1887; studied law under his father, L. 
 H. James, and' was admitted to the bar 
 in 1891. He was one of the attorneys for 
 Governor Goebel in his celebrated contest 
 for governor of the State of Kentucky; del- 
 egate to the Democratic National Conven- 
 tion at Chicago, 1896, and delegate from 
 the State-at-large to the Democratic Na- 
 tional Convention at St. Louis, 1904, and 
 elected chairman of the Kentucky delegation 
 at both. He served as chairman of the 
 State Convention in Kentucky in 1900, 
 wliieh sent delegates to the Democratic Na- 
 tional Convention at Kansas City. Mr. 
 James was elected to the Fifty-eighth and 
 i^'ifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses, and 
 reelected to the Sixty-first Congress from 
 the First Kentucky District. He married, 
 Dee. 2, 1903, Ruth Thomas of Marion, Ky. 
 Address: jMarion, Ky. 
 
 JAMES, William: 
 
 Psychologist and philosopher; born in 
 New York City, Jan. 11, 1842; son of Rev. 
 Henry James, distinguished theologian and 
 of Mary R. (WalsiiJ James; and he is a 
 
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 brother of Henry James, the novelist. Mr. 
 James was educated in private schools and 
 by tutors in New York and Europe; in 
 Lawrence Scientific School, of Harvard, and 
 Harvard Medical School, M.D., 1870. He 
 lias received honorary degrees of LL.D. from 
 Princeton, 1890, Edinburgh, 1!)02, and Yale, 
 1906, and that of Ph.ct Litt.D. from Padua 
 in 1893. Dr. James became an instructor 
 and later assistant professor of comparative 
 anatomy and physiology in Harvard, 1872- 
 1880; assistant professor, 1880-1885, and 
 professor of philosophy, 1885-1889; profes- 
 sor of psychology, 1889-1897, and professor 
 of philosophy, 1897-1907. He was GiflTord 
 Lecturer on Natural Religion in the 
 University of Edinburgli, 1899-1901. Pro- 
 fessor James is a member of the National 
 Academy of Sciences, corresponding member 
 of L'Institut de Paris and' of the Royal 
 Prussian Academy of Sciences, and he was 
 president of the American Philosophical As- 
 sociation in 1906. He is author of: Ths 
 Principles of Psychology, two volumes, 
 1890; Psychology — Briefer Course, 1892; 
 The Will to Believe and Other Essays, 1897; 
 Talks to Teachers on Psychology, and to 
 Students on Life's Ideals, 1898; Human 
 Immortality, 1899; The Varieties of Re- 
 ligious Experiences, 1902; Pragmatism — A 
 New Name for some Old Ways of Thinking, 
 1907; A Pluralistic Universe (lectures de- 
 livered under the title of " Tlie Present Sit- 
 uation in Philosophy " on the Hibbert Foun- 
 dation at Oxford, 1908), 1909. He married 
 in Boston in 1878, Alice H. Gibbens, and 
 they have three sons and a daughter. Ad- 
 dress: 95 Irving Street, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 JAMIESON, Egbert: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Castleton, Vt., April 29, 
 1846; son of Egbert and Caroline M. (Wood- 
 ward) Jamieson. He was educated in Ra- 
 cine College, Wis., the family having re- 
 moved' to Racine in his youth. He learned 
 the printing trade in the office of the Racine 
 County Democrat, after which he was for a 
 time engaged in editorial work on the Mil- 
 waukee Daily News. In 1866 he took up 
 his residence in Chicago, where he began 
 the study of law in the office of E. S. Smith. 
 He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1869 
 
 and was associated in practice with Judge 
 James H. Knowlton until 1871, after which 
 for two years he was in partnership with 
 Emory S. Storrs. He was elected city at- 
 torney in 1873, following this with a term 
 as corporation counsel, during which he 
 Inade the successful fight in the Hoyne- 
 Colvin mayoralty contest. He was elected' 
 judge of tlie Superior Court of Cook Coun- 
 ty in 1886 and served until 1890. He was 
 the presiding judge in the noted conspiracy 
 ca.ses, involving a majority of the county 
 commissioners as defendants. He resigned 
 his judgeship to become the general coun- 
 sel for the West Chicago and North Chica- 
 go Street Railway Companies, which he 
 retained until 1897. He was a member of 
 the Lincoln Park Board, 1893-1897. He has 
 always been independent in politics. He 
 married in Chicago, Dec. 2, 1873, Mary A. 
 Daniels. Residence: 38 Stratford Place. 
 OHiec: New York Life Building, Cliicago. 
 
 JAMIESON, Thomas N.: 
 
 Wholesale druggist; born in the County 
 of Grey, Ontario, Canada, Feb. 29, 1848; 
 son of James and Agnes (Robertson) Jamie- 
 son. He was educated in the public schools 
 of Ontario, and was a druggist's apprentice, 
 1862-1866. He removed to Chicago, where 
 he was a drug clerk until he entered' busi- 
 ness for himself in 1870. He was president 
 of the Chicago Retail Drug Association for 
 three years, and president of the Illinois 
 Board of Pharmacy five years. He was the 
 founder of the Chicago Veteran Druggists' 
 Association. He is a Republican and was 
 chairman of the Cook County Central Re- 
 publican Committee in 1890. He was sec- 
 retary of the Republican State Central Com- 
 mittee in 1892, and chairman of the State 
 Central Committee in 1894. He was the 
 Illinois member of the Republican National 
 Committee, 1896-1900. He was for a time 
 clerk of tlie Appellate Court of Chicago, 
 Illinois District, and has been naval officer 
 of the Port of Chicago since 1904. Mr. 
 Jamieson was vice-president and treasurer 
 of the Automatic Switch and Signal Com- 
 pany. He is a member of the Chicago Ath- 
 letic and Press Clubs. He married in Chi- 
 cago. 1887, Anna M. Biiiyliani. Resi- 
 
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 dence: 4508 Woodlawn Avenue. OfiSce: 
 Post Office riuildinu, Chicago. 
 
 JANEWAY. Edward Gamaliel: 
 
 Pliysician; born in INIiddlosex County, N. 
 J.. Aug. 31. 1841. He was graduated from 
 Rutgers College, A.B., 1860, afterward re- 
 ceiving from that college the degree of 
 LL.D. ; and was graduated from the Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons (Colum- 
 bia), ]\r.D.. 1804. Dr. Janeway was acting 
 medical curator, U. S. Army Hospital, New- 
 ark, N. J., 1SG2-1863. He served as curator, 
 1866-1872. visiting physician 1872-1892. pro- 
 fessor of pathology and anatomy, 1872- 
 1876, demonstrator of anatomy, 1876-1879, 
 Belle^^le Hospital Medical College; now pro- 
 fessor metlicine and dean of University and 
 Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Dr. 
 Janeway was visiting pliysician lo the Char- 
 ity Hospital, 1868-1871, Mount Sinai Hos- 
 pital since 1885; consulting physician, to 
 the Presbyterian Hospital, since 1888; con- 
 sulting pathologist to the Hospital for Rup- 
 tured and Crippled since 1875. He was a 
 member of the Commission of Conference, 
 Health Department and Academy of Medi- 
 cine, 1887; member of the Advisory Com- 
 mittee of tlie Cliamber of Commerce, during 
 the cholera of 1892. He is author of Path- 
 ological Report of Autopsies ^Made in Belle- 
 vue Hospital; Lcucocythaimia ; and numer- 
 ous other papers. He was commissioner of 
 health of the City of New York, 1875-1881. 
 He has served as president of the Patholog- 
 ical Society, the New York Academy of 
 Medicine and the Association of American 
 Physicians. Address : 36 West 40th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 JANSSEN, John: 
 
 Bishop of Belleville; born in Kcppeln, 
 Diocese of Miinster, Prussia, M;ircli '.i. 
 1835. He was educated for the priesthood, 
 and before he finished his course was in- 
 duced by Bishop Juncker, of Alton, HI., to 
 remove to the United States. After fin- 
 ishing his theological preparation he was 
 ordained by Bishop Juncker in the Cathe- 
 dral of Sts. Peter and Paul at Alton, was 
 given missionary work for a time in the 
 city of Si)ringfield', and afterward served 
 
 as secretary and assistant in parochial work 
 to Bishop Juncker in the city of Alton, 
 and on the death of that bishop, Oct. 2, 
 1868, he continued in his position until the 
 consecration of Bishop Baltes, Jan. 23, 
 1870; he was made vicar-general, and after 
 the death of Bishop Baltes, Feb. 15, 1886 
 was administrator of the diocese until the 
 consecration of Bishop Ryan, May 1, 1888. 
 Meanwhile, on Jan. 7, 1887, the Diocese of 
 Alton was divided and the Diocese of Belle- 
 ville created and he was appointed its first 
 bishop, Feb. 28, 1888; and he was consecrat- 
 ed in St. Peter's Cathedral, Belleville, HI., 
 April 25, 1888, by Archbishop Feehan, as- 
 sisted by Bishop Hogan of Kansas City and 
 IMshop Fink, of Leavenworth; and his dio- 
 cese has greatly prospered under his admin- 
 istration. Address: Belleville, 111. 
 
 JANVIER, Charles: 
 
 President of Sun ^Mutual Insurance Com- 
 pany of New Orleans; born in New Orleans, 
 Sept. 8, 1867; son of Charles A. and Zelime 
 (Coiron) Janvier. He was educated at the 
 College of the Immaculate Conception at 
 New Orleans. After several years passed 
 in the office of an exchange broker, he en- 
 tered the service of the Sun Mutual Insur- 
 ance Company, as solicitor, Feb. 15, 1890. 
 He was elected secretary, February, 1891, 
 and succeeded the late Mr. Finley, on his 
 death, as president of the company, June 
 12, 1894. He is also manager of the South- 
 ern Department of the Palatine of Manches- 
 ter, England, having jurisdiction over ten 
 States. Mr. Janvier is an administrator of 
 the Tulane Educational Fund, a director 
 in the Canat Bank and Trust Company, of 
 the Provident Savings and Safe Deposit 
 Bank and president of the Citizens' League 
 of New Orleans. He married, Oct. 3, 1883, 
 Josephine Celeste Bush, who died Jan. 8, 
 189!). Residence: 1445 Webster Street. 
 Office: 308 Camp Street, New Orleans, La. 
 
 JANVRIN, Joseph Edward: 
 
 Pliysician; born in Exeter, N. II., Jan. 13, 
 1839; son of Joseph Adams and Lydia Ann 
 (Colcord) Janvrin. He was educated in 
 Phillips Exeter Academy, and College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia), M.D., 
 
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 1804, and has practised as physician and 
 surgeon in New York City since 18G5. Dr. 
 Janvrin was actinj^ assistant sur.iicon, Sec- 
 ond New Hampshire Volunteers, May, 1861, 
 to December, 1862; assistant surgeon. Fif- 
 teenth New Hampshire Volunteers, Decem- 
 ber, 1862, to August, 1863; acting assistant 
 surgeon, U. S. Volunteers, July, 1864, to 
 January, 1865. He is a member of the New 
 York Academy of INIedicine, New Y'ork State 
 Medical Society; ex-president of the Ameri- 
 can Gynecological Society, New Y^'ork Ob- 
 stetrical Society; and he is one of the 
 founders of the International Gyneco- 
 logical Society ; corresponding member of 
 the Boston Gynecological Society ; member 
 of the Society ]\Iayflower Descendants, Sons 
 of Colonial Wars, Descendants of Colonial 
 Governors, Military Order of the Loyal Le- 
 gion, and George Washington Post, Grand 
 Army of the Republic. He married at Eas- 
 ton, Pa., September, 1881, Laura L. La Wall, 
 and they have two children. Dr. Edmund 
 Janvrin and Marguerite L. Janvrin. Ad- 
 dress: 191 Madison Avenue, New Y'ork 
 City. 
 
 JAQUES, William Henry: 
 
 Engineer and naval architect; born in 
 Philadelphia, Dec. 24, 1848. He was grad- 
 uated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 
 1867, and remained in the service until 
 1886, when he resigned as lieutenant to en- 
 ter civil life. He had during his service 
 come to be regarded as especially prom- 
 inent as an ordnance expert, and after his 
 resignation inaugurated the manufacture of 
 heavy ordnance and armor in the works of 
 the Bethlehem Iron Company; and he has 
 introduced into this country many improved 
 processes in the manufacture of steel ord- 
 nance, and also has gained much distinc- 
 tion as a naval architect. He has served on 
 various boards and expert commission hav- 
 ing to do with ordnance matters, and re- 
 ceived from the Mikado the Japanese deco- 
 ration of The Rising Sun. He is a member 
 of the American Society of Naval Archi- 
 tects and Marine Engineers, the United 
 States Naval Institute, British Institution 
 of Naval Architects, American Society of 
 Civil Engineers, American Society of Me- 
 
 chanical Engineers, and other cnginroring 
 societies, American and British, and is au- 
 thor of various works on ordnance, armor 
 and kindred subjects. He is a mcnil)cr of 
 the Metropolitan and Army and Navy Clul)s, 
 of Washington, Essex Club of Portsmouth, 
 N. H., and Lotos and Metropolitan Clubs 
 of New York Citv. Address: Little Hoar's 
 Head, N. H. 
 
 JARVIE, William: 
 
 Retired dentist; born in Manchester, Eng- 
 land, July 14, 1841; son of William and 
 Isabella (Newbegin) Jarvie. He was edu- 
 cated in England and in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 received the degree of M.D.S. and practised 
 in Brooklyn until he retired. Dr. Jarvie 
 is ex-president of the Dental Society of 
 the State of New York; of the New York 
 Odontological Society of the Second Dis- 
 trict Dental Society, and the Brooklyn 
 Dental Society. At various times he 
 has traveled in England, Scotland, Norway, 
 Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Bel- 
 gium, France, Germany, Swit;^erland, Aus- 
 tria, Italy, Egypt, Soudan, Palestine, Tur- 
 key and Greece; has ascended Mont Blanc 
 and several others of the highest snow- 
 capped mountains in Switzerland and has 
 motored extensively in Great Britain, Ire- 
 land, France, Germany, Switzerland, Aus- 
 tria and Italy. Dr. Jarvie is director of 
 the Cooperative Law Company, and a mem- 
 ber of the National Dental Association, the 
 Academy of Dental Science, and the Odonto- 
 logical Society of Great Britain and is 
 president of the Bass Rocks Improvement 
 Association. He is a member of the Hamil- 
 ton, Rembrandt, Heights Casino, Dyker 
 Meadow Golf Club of Brooklyn and the 
 Nassau County Club and is also vice-presi- 
 dent of the Bass Rocks Golf Club. He mar- 
 ried in Brooklyn, Sept. 10, 1867, Ameli:i 
 C. McHenry and they have had four chil- 
 dren. Address: 10.5 Clinton Street, Brook- 
 lyn. X. Y. 
 
 JARVIS, Samuel M.: 
 
 Banker; born in McDonough County, 111., 
 Jan. 31, 1853; descendant of the early 
 settlers of Virginia. He was admitted to 
 the bar in 1870, but soon turned his atten- 
 
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 tion to finance and became closely identi- 
 fied with developments of the West. He 
 was one of the organizers and first presi- 
 dent of the North American Trust Com- 
 pany. Immediately on American occupa- 
 tion of Santiago, during the Spanish-Amer- 
 ican War, he opened there a branch of the 
 Trust Company and rendered important as- 
 sistance to United' States Government; was 
 offered the post of fiscal agent of the United 
 States in Cuba by President McKinley, but 
 asked and obtained the appointment for the 
 company instead. Later he accepted pres- 
 ent position as vice-president of the Na- 
 tional Bank of Cuba, fiscal agent and gov- 
 ernment depositary of the Republic of Cuba; 
 and depositary of United' States Government 
 in Cuba. He is connected witli many im- 
 portant corporations. He is a member of 
 the Southern Society, Kentucky Society, 
 American Museum of Natural History, Met- 
 ropolitan ^luseum of Art, and of the La\y- 
 yers', and Larchmont Yacht Clubs of New 
 York City, ^\utomobile Club of America, 
 American Club of Havana and The Pil- 
 grims' (London). He married, in 1873, 
 Priscilla Wear. Address: 1 Wall Street. 
 New Y'ork Citv. 
 
 JASTROW, Joseph: 
 
 Professor of psychologj'; born in Warsaw, 
 Poland, Jan. 30, 1863; son of Marcus and 
 Bertha (Wolfsohn) Jastrow. He was grad- 
 uated from the University of Pennsylvania, 
 A.B., 1882, A.M., 1885, and from Johns 
 Hopkins University, Ph.D., 1886. He was 
 in charge of the Department of Psychology 
 at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chi- 
 cago, in 1893; and is now professor of psy- 
 chology at the University of Wisconsin. He 
 is author of : Fact and Fable in Psychology, 
 1900; The Subconscious, 1900; and numer- 
 ous articles on psychology and education in 
 all leading, popular and scientific periodi- 
 cals. He is a member of the American 
 Psychological Association (president, 1900), 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science (vice-president, 1891), American 
 Society of Naturalists, Phi Beta Kappa and 
 Sigma Xi^ and received a medal at the 
 World's Fair in 1893. He is a member of 
 
 the University Club of Madison, Wis. Pro- 
 fessor Jastrow married in Baltimore, Aug. 
 2, 1888, Rachel Szold. Residence: 237 
 Langdon Street. Address: University of 
 Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 
 
 JASTROW, Morris, Jr.: 
 
 Professor of Semetic languages and' librar- 
 ian of the University of Pennsylvania; born 
 in Europe, Aug. 13, 1861 ; son of Marcus 
 and Bertha Jastrow. He was graduated 
 from the University of Pennsylvania, 1881 ; 
 received the degree of Ph.D. from the Uni- 
 versity of Leipzig, 1884; also studied in 
 other universities of Germany and France. 
 Dr. Jastro is an authority on Semetic reli- 
 gions, languages and literature. He is au- 
 tlior of: Religion of the Babylonians and 
 Assyrians, 1898; Two Grammatical Treatise 
 of Abu Zakarijya Hayyug, 1897; A Frag- 
 ment of the Babylonian Dibbarra Epic, 
 1891; The Study "^of Religion, 1902; Die 
 Religion Babyloniens und Assyriens, 1902- 
 1905; and numerous papers in technical per- 
 iodicals. He married, Feb. 28, Helen Bach- 
 man, Philadelphia. Address: 248 South 
 23d Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 JAYC02, Walter Husted: 
 
 Jurist; born at Wassaic, N. Y., Sept. 3, 
 1863; son of Lorin H. and Hannah (Darl- 
 ing) Jaycox. He was educated in the com- 
 mon schools; studied law in the office of 
 Wilmot M. Smith at Patchogue, N. Y., and 
 was admitted to the bar Sept. 13, 1889. He 
 was elected in 1893 and reelected 1896, dis- 
 trict attorney Suffolk County, N. Y^., serv- 
 ing six years. He was appointed in Janu- 
 ary, 1902, and elected November, 1902, county 
 judge of Suffolk County, serving four years; 
 ajjpointed April, 1906, and elected' Novem- 
 ber, 1906, justice of the Supreme Court New 
 Yol1v, for the Second Judicial District, fpr 
 term expiring Dec. 31, 1920. He married 
 I lie/. Leaming. Address: Patchogue, N. Y''. 
 
 JEFFERY, Edward Turner: 
 
 Railway president; born in Liverpool. 
 England, April 0, 1843; came to United 
 States, 1850. He began railway service, 
 1850, with the Illinois Central Railroad, 
 
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 as office boy to the superintendent of ma- 
 chinery, advancing until he became its gen- 
 eral superintendent, 1877-1885, general man- 
 ager, 1885-1889, resigned. He was appoint- 
 ed a commissioner to the Paris Exposition, 
 1889, on behalf of an executive committee 
 of citizens of Chicago, for the purpose of 
 studj'ing and reporting upon the exposition, 
 and was chairman of the Grounds and 
 Buildings Committee of the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition, Chicago, until September, 
 1891. Mr. Jeffery has been president since 
 Oct. 1, 1891, of the Denver and Rio Grande 
 Railroad, also president of the Rio Grande 
 and Western Pacific Railway; also since 
 Oct. 18, 1905, chairman of the Board of 
 Directors of the Wabash Railroad, and pres- 
 ident of the Western Pacific Railway Com- 
 pany. He married, in 1877, Virginia Os- 
 borne Clarke. Address: 195 Broadway, 
 New York City. 
 
 JELLETT, Edwin C. : 
 
 Florist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 
 22, 1860; is of Scotch-Irish extraction. He 
 removed to Liunberton, Burlington County, 
 N. J., and from there to Limerick, ]Mont- 
 gomery County, Pa.; since 1873 at German- 
 town, Pa.; educated at private and public 
 schools. He was trained a florist, but for 
 several years has followed steam engineer- 
 ing. He is a member of the Board of Di- 
 rectors of the Site and Relic Society, of 
 Germantown, of the executive committee of 
 the Mermaid Club, of the board of managers 
 of the Workingmen's Club; of the Board 
 of Council of the City History Club; vice- 
 ])resident of the Germantown Horticultural 
 Societj-; life member of the jMontgomery 
 County (Pa.) Historical Society, American 
 Botanical Society, Academy of Natural Sci- 
 ences of Philadelphia, Geographical Society 
 of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania Forestry 
 Association. He is a correspondent of scien- 
 tific and literary papers and magazines. 
 Mr. Jellett is author of: The Mermaid of 
 the Past, 1892; Ferns of Germantown, 1896; 
 The Mermaid' Club, its Past and Future, 
 1897; Personal Recollections of William 
 Kite, 1901; Winter Flora of Germantown, 
 1901; German-Towne: Its Founders and 
 Their Progenitors, and What We Owe Them, 
 
 1903; A Flora of Germantown, with Notes 
 of Nature and Nature Lovers, 1903; Ger- 
 mantown, Old and New: Its Rare and Nota- 
 ble Plants, two editions published in 1904, 
 and of other works privately printed. Ad- 
 dress: 118 Hermann Street, Germantown, 
 I'a. 
 
 JELKS, "William Dorsey: 
 
 Editor and ex-governor; born in Russell 
 County Ala., Nov. 7, 1855; son of J. W. D. 
 and Jane Goodrum (Frazier) Jelks. After 
 his graduation from Mercer University, A. 
 B., 1876, he engaged in newspaper work, 
 and was for over twenty years editor of the 
 Eufaula Times. Ilis alma mater conferred 
 upon him tlie degree of A.M. He was for 
 several terms a member of the State Senate, 
 and was president of the Senate and acting 
 lieutenant-governor when Governor William 
 J. Samford died in June, 1901. He suc- 
 ceeded to the governorship, and in the gen- 
 eral election of 1902 he was elected for a 
 full term, which expired in January, 1907. 
 Address: Eufaula, Ala. 
 
 JENKINS, James Graham: 
 
 Jurist; born at Saratoga Springe, N. Y., 
 July 18, 1834; son of Edgar and Mary E. 
 (Walworth) Jenkins, of New York City; 
 grandson of Reuben H. Walworth, the last 
 chancellor of the State of New York. He re- 
 ceived a thorough education and was ad- 
 mitted to the New York State bar; removed 
 to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1857, and practised 
 there until he was appointed to the Federal 
 bench. He was city attorney of Milwaukee, 
 1863-1867; was Democratic nominee for gov- 
 ernor of Wisconsin in 1879; and received 
 the Democratic vote in the Legislature for 
 the United States Senate in 1881. He was 
 appointed by President Cleveland as U. S. 
 judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin 
 in 1888, was promoted to the circuit bench 
 in 1893, in the Seventh Circuit, and was 
 presiding judge of the V. S. Court of Appeals 
 from 1901 until he retired in 1905. Ad- 
 dress: ^Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 JENKINS, John J.: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Wey- 
 mouth, England, Aug. 20, 1843; settled in 
 
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 Baraboo, Wis., June, 1852, and was edu- 
 cated in the schools of that place. He 
 served during the Civil War in Company 
 A, Sixth Wisconsin Infantry; was a member 
 of the State Assembly from Chippewa Coun- \ 
 ty, and county judge of Chippewa County. | 
 He was appointed U. S. attorney for the | 
 Territory of Wyoming by President Grant, 
 in ;March, 187G; was elected to the Fifty- 
 fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-sev- 
 enth, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congress- 
 es, and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress 
 from the Eleventh District, but failed of re- 
 nomination in 1908. ]\Ir. Jenkins is a Re- 
 publican, and during his service in Congress 
 was distinguished by his service on the Com- 
 mittee on tlio Judiciary, liaving licen for 
 several Congresses its chairman. Address: 
 Chippewa Falls, Wis. 
 
 JENKS, Almet Francis: 
 
 Jurist; born in Brooklyn. N. Y., May 21, 
 1853; son of Greenville T. and Persis 
 (Smith) Jenks. He was graduated from 
 the Phillips Academy, Andover, 1871; Yale, 
 A.B., 1875; Columbia LL.B., 1877. Admit- 
 ted to the New York bar 1877; assistant dis- 
 trict attorney of Kings County, 1884-1886; 
 corporation counsel of Brooklyn, 1886-1898; 
 judge advocate-general of New York, 18!U- 
 1895; member of the Constitutional Conven- 
 tion, 1895; assistant corporation counsel of 
 Greater New York, 1898; elected justice of 
 Supreme Court of New York for Second Dis- 
 trict, 1898, for the term expiring Dec. 31. 
 1912; appointed in 1900 to the Appellate 
 Division, in which he is now serving. Jus- 
 tice Jenks is a Democrat. He is a member 
 of the Hamilton, Brooklyn, and Dyker 
 Meadow Golf Clubs. He married, Apiil 29, 
 1891, Lena Barre. Address: 8 Picrrepont 
 Street, Brooklj'n, N. Y. 
 
 JENKS, Jeremiah Whipple: 
 
 Economist; l)orn in St. Clair, Mich., Sept. 
 2, 1850; son of Benjamin Lane and' Amanda 
 (Messer) Jenks. lie was educated at the 
 University of Michigan, from which he was 
 graduated A.B., 1878; A.M., 1879; LL.D., 
 1903. He is also a Ph.D. of the University 
 of Halle, Germany, of the year 1885. He 
 studied law and was admitted to the Mich- 
 
 igan bar, but has been engaged in teaching 
 political economy, social science, and simi- 
 lar topics since 1886. In 1899-1901 he was 
 ex])ert agent of the United States Industrial 
 Commission, and' consulting expert of the 
 U. S. Department of Labor on trusts and in- 
 dustrial combinations. In 1901-1902 he was 
 a special commissioner of the War Depart- 
 ment to investigate questions of currency, 
 labor, internal taxation and police in the 
 Orient, his researches being utilized in con- 
 nection with the government of the Phillip- 
 pines. He was appointed special expert on 
 currency reform of Government of Mexico 
 in 1903, and was a member of the U. S. 
 Commission on International Exchange in- 
 vestigating and reporting on the proper 
 mot hod for the reform of currency in China, 
 1903-1904. In 1907 he was appointed a 
 member of the U. S. Immigration Commis- 
 sion, in the work of which he has taken 
 an active part. He is professor of po- 
 litical economy and politics in Cornell 
 University, and is a member of American 
 Economic Association, American Association 
 for Labor Legislation, American Society of 
 International Law, American Health 
 i^eague, American Academy of Political and 
 Social Science, American Political Science 
 Association, American Asiatic Association, 
 Royal Asiatic Society (Shanghai, China) ; 
 lionorary member of the American Associa- 
 tion of China, and member of the Century 
 and National Arts Clubs of New York City, 
 Cosmos Club of Washington, and the Town 
 and Gown and Country Clubs of Ithaca, N. 
 Y. He married at Mt. Morris, 111., Aug. 28, 
 1884, to Georgia Bixler, and has two sons 
 and one daughter. Residence: 2 South 
 Avenue. Office: Cornell University, Itha- 
 ca, N. Y. 
 
 JENKS, John Story, Jr.: 
 
 Banker; born in Philadcljihia, in 1876; 
 son of William H. and Hannah M. (Hacker) 
 Jenks. He received his education in Haver- 
 ford College. He is a member of the firm 
 of Bertron, Griscom & Jenks, bankers, of 
 New York and Philadelphia, and is a di- 
 rector of the Girard Trust Company, Fidel- 
 ity Trust Co., and Penn IMutual Life Insur- 
 ance Company of Philadelphia. He is a 
 
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 member of the Rittenhonse Club of Philadel- 
 phia and of the Union and Metropolitan 
 Clubs of New York. Mr. Jenks married Is- 
 abella F. G. Morton, and they have two chil- 
 dren; Thomas Story Jenks, born in 1904, 
 and Morton Jenks, born in 1007. Resi- 
 dence: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. Ad- 
 dress: Land Title Building, Philadelphia. 
 
 JENKS, Tudor: 
 
 Writer; born in Brooklyn, N. Y.. May 
 7, 1857; son of Grenville Tudor and Persis 
 Sophia (Smith) Jenks. He received his 
 education in the Polytechnic Institute in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., and was graduated from 
 Yale University as B.A. and from Columbia 
 Law School as LL.B. He practised law, 
 1881-1887; was on the editorial staff of St. 
 Nicholas Magazine, 1887-1902 and has been 
 engaged in writing since 1902. He is author 
 of: The Century World's Fair Book, 1893; 
 Imaginotions, or Truthless Tales ; Boys' 
 Book of Exploration, 1900; Galopoff, 1902; 
 Gypsy, 1902; Defense of the Castle, 1903; 
 Making a Start, 1903; A Little Hough Rid- 
 er, 1904; Great Writers, series, five volumes, 
 on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Scott, 
 Goldsmith, 1904-1907; When America Was 
 New, 1907; Electricity for Young People, 
 1907; Captain John Smith, 1904; Captain 
 Myles Standish, 1905; and has written for 
 magazines, etc., for many years. Mr. Jenks 
 married in Brooklyn, Oct. 5, 1882, Mary 
 Donnison Ford, and they have three chil- 
 dren. Address: Bronxville, N. Y. 
 
 JENNEY, Charles Albert: 
 
 Publisher; born New Bedford, Mass., Oct. 
 18, 1841; son of Sanford and Julia Ann Jen- 
 ney. He was educated in the public schools, 
 and became commissary of the United States 
 Hospital, 1864 and 1865. He was engaged 
 in dry good's business at Waupun, Wis., 
 1865-1875; secretary of the Statistical Bu- 
 reau of the National Board of Fire Under- 
 writers, 1875; was special agent of the 
 Tenth Census of the United States, having 
 charge of the Division of Fire Insurance; 
 special agent of the Eleventh Census, hav- 
 ing supervision of all insurance statistics ; 
 since 1883, with the Underwriting Printing 
 and Publishing Company, of which he is 
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 now president and treasurer; also presi- 
 dent and publisher of the Weekly Under- 
 writer and Record of Fire Insurance by 
 States, and president of the Unity Press. 
 He is a member of the American Trade Press 
 Association; fellow of tlie American Statis- 
 tical Association, American Academy of Po- 
 litical and Social Science; fellow of the Roy- 
 al Statistical Society of England, Society 
 of American Authors (member of the Board 
 of IManagers) ; is a member of the Board of 
 Managers of the Underwriters' Club and 
 member of the Press Club of New York City, 
 Union League Club of Brooklyn; and he is 
 treasurer and chairman of the Executive 
 Committee of the Tuscarora Club of Grant 
 Mills, N. Y. Mr. Jenney married, D:'C. 4, 
 1865, Mary Frank Smith. Residence: 29 
 MoDonough Street, Brooklyn. Address: 58 
 William Street, New York City. 
 
 JENNINGS, Edward H.: 
 
 President of the Columbia National 
 Bank; born at Brady's Bend, Armstrong 
 County, Pa., Aug. 10, 1852. After complet- 
 ing a practical course of education, he join- 
 ed his father, Richard Jennings, in the pro- 
 duction of oil. His first experience was ac- 
 quired at Armstrong Run. The Jennings 
 family removed from Brady's Bend to 
 Queenstown, where they resided up to the 
 time of the elder Jennings' death, in 1891. 
 It was at the time of his father's death that 
 the present firm of E. H. Jennings & Bros. 
 was organized. In addition to being senior 
 member of this concern, he is president of 
 the Columbia Bank and the Pennsylvania 
 Title and Trust Company, a director in 
 the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, and, 
 with his brothers, is the principal stock- 
 holder of the Kanawha Oil Company. He 
 is also a member of the oil producing firm 
 of M. Murphy & Co., and' Jennings. Guffey 
 & Co. In 1879 Mr. Jennings married to 
 Mary Colwell. of Kittanning, Pa. Address: 
 Columbia National Bank, Pittsburgh. 
 
 JENNINGS, Frederic Beach: 
 
 Lawyer: born in Bennington Centre, ^'t., 
 Aug. 6, 1853; son of Isaac and Sophia 
 (Day) Jennings. He was graduated from 
 Wilfiams College, S.B., 1872, A.M., 1875; 
 
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 Harvard La\v Sc-hool, LL.B., 1874, New 
 York University Law School, 1875. Mr. 
 Jiimingri was admitted to the New York Bar 
 in 187;). and is a member of the law firm of 
 Stetson. Jennings and Russell. He is in- 
 terested as oflicer or director in various cor- 
 porations, including the Chicago and Erie 
 Railroad Company, New Y'ork Trust Com- 
 pany, International Paper Company, Ameri- 
 c.m Trading Company, Hudson and Manhat- 
 tan Railroad Compam-, Hudson companies, 
 ilr. Jennings is vice-president of the Associ- 
 ation of the Bar of the City of New Y^ork; 
 member of the Metropolitan Museum of 
 Art, New Y'ork Zoological Society, New 
 England Society, Williams Alumni Associa- 
 tion; trustee of Williams College and Barn- 
 ard College. He is a member of the Cen- 
 tury, University, Union League, Metropoli- 
 tan. Itacquet and Tennis, New Y'ork Ath- 
 letic, City, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Down 
 Town, and City ]\Iidday Clubs of New York 
 City and the Westchester Country, St. An- 
 drew's Golf, Garden City Golf and Country 
 Clubs. He married, July 27, 1880, Lila Hall 
 i'ark. of North Bennington, Vt., and has a 
 daughter and three sons. Residence: 86 
 Park Avenue. Address: 15 Broad Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 JENNINGS, Herbert Spencer: 
 
 Professor of experimental zoology, Johns 
 Hopkins University; born at Tonica, 111., 
 .\pril 8, 18(58; son of George N. and Olive 
 (Jeuks) Jennings. He was graduated from 
 the University of Michigan, B.S., in 1893; 
 Harvard University, A.M., 18!J5, Ph.D., 
 1896; attended the University of Jena, Ger- 
 many, in 1897 ; Morgan fellow at Harvard, 
 1895-1890; Parker traveling fellow of Har- 
 vard, 1896-1897. He was assistant profes- 
 sor of botany in the State Agricultural Col- 
 lege of Texas, 1888-1889; professor of bota- 
 ny in Montana State Agricultural College, 
 1897-1898; instructor in zoijlogj' at Dart- 
 mouth College 1898-1899; instructor in zo- 
 ology, 1899-1901, assi.stant professor of zo- 
 ology 1901-1903, University of Michigan. 
 In 1902 ilr. Jennings had charge of the Bi- 
 ological Survej' of tlie Great Lakes, carried 
 on by the U. S. Fish Commission. He was 
 assistant profes.sor of zoology, University of 
 
 Pennsylvania, 1903-190G; research assistant 
 of the Carnegie Institution 1903-1904; asso- 
 ciate professor, 1900-1907, and professor of 
 experimental zoology since 1907, Johns Hop- 
 kins University. He is author of numerous 
 scientific papers in various zoological jour- 
 nals and in the publications of the Carne- 
 gie Institution; also of the Book: Behavior 
 of the Lower Organisms, 1906; and is joint 
 author with Jacob Reighard of Anatomy of 
 the Cat, 1901. He is associate editor of the 
 Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psy- 
 chology, and of the Journal of Experimental 
 Zocilogy. Mr. Jennings is a member of the 
 American Society of Naturalists; American 
 Society of Zoologists, American Physiologi- 
 cal Society, American Psychological Associ- 
 ation, American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, Philadelphia Acad- 
 emy of Natural Sciences, American Philo- 
 sophical Society; honorary fellow of the 
 Royal Microscopical Society of Great Brit- 
 ain; trustee of the Marine Biological Lab- 
 oratory at Woods Hole, Mass., president of 
 the American Society of Zoologists, 1909- 
 1910, and is a member of Johns Hopkins 
 Club. He married at Tecumseh, Mich., June 
 18, 1898, Mary Louise Bur ridge. Resi- 
 dence: 2442 North Calvert Street. Office: 
 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 
 
 JENNINGS. William Sherman: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-governor; born in Cen- 
 tralia, 111., March 24, 1803; son of Joseph 
 W. and Amanda (Couch) Jennings. He 
 was educated in public schools, the Southern 
 Illinois Normal University at Carbondale, 
 and the Union College of Law, Chicago. He 
 went to Florida in 1885, practised' law; 
 was appointed circuit court commissioner 
 in May, 1887 ; was elected county judge of 
 Hernando County, Fla.; member of the Leg- 
 islature 1892, speaker 1895; presidential 
 elector of Floriila, elected on tlie Di'iiioeratie 
 tiekit, 189(); ehaiiiuan of the Democrat- 
 ic State Convention in 1898; elected gover- 
 nor in 1900, and served 1901-1905. Since 
 h'aving the gubernatorial chair he has re- 
 sumed Ills law practice; is general counsel 
 of the Internal Improvement Fund' of the 
 State of Florida, and the Board of Drainage 
 Conunissioners of Florida; first vice-presi- 
 
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 dent and general counsel of the Florida 
 Bank and Trust Company; president of the 
 Leesburg State Bank; director of tlie Indian 
 River State Bank, the Barnes and Jessup 
 Company, and Naval Stores Company of 
 Jacksonville. Governor Jennings is trus- 
 tee of the John B. Stetson University; vice- 
 president of the Florida Baptist Convention, 
 and is a member of the Knights of Honor, 
 Knights of Pythias and Elks orders. He 
 married at Tallehassee, Fla., May 12, 1891, 
 May Mann, and they have a son. Address: 
 184.5 Main Street, JacksonviUe, Fla. 
 
 JEROME. William Travers: 
 
 Lawyer and jurist; born in New York 
 City, April 18, 1859; son of Lawrence K. 
 Jerome, popularly known as " Larry," a 
 noted wit, whose fame was by no means 
 confined to Manhattan Island. Until 1877 
 young Jerome was under the instruction of 
 private tutors. He then began a course of 
 study at the Williston Preparatory School, 
 at East Hampton, Mass. In the autumn of 
 1878 he entered' Amherst College. In 1881 
 he left Amherst with the highest honors, 
 though in ill-health from overwork in his 
 studies. He stood highest in mathematics, 
 but took a deep interest in metaphysics, the 
 sciences and languages, particularly in 
 Greek and Latin. In 1881 Mr. Jerome, en- 
 tered the law department of Columbia Col- 
 lege, and after taking the usual two years' 
 course decided to remain another year, and 
 was graduated with the class of 1884, receiv- 
 ing the degree of LL.D. After serving the 
 required time with the law firm of Stanley, 
 Clark & Smith, he was admitted to the bar 
 at the June term of the Supreme Court, 
 after passing a brilliant examination. He 
 opened his first office with Mr. Daniel Nason, 
 his college chum, who had graduated and 
 passed with him, as his partner. This re- 
 lation continued unchanged for some time. 
 In 1888 District Attorney John R. Fellows 
 appointed Mr. Jerome one of his assistants. 
 In the fall of 1899 the latter supported Mr. 
 Goff for the district attorneyship against 
 De Lancy Nicoll, and upon the election of 
 Mr. Nicoll he retired from the office and re- 
 turned to private practice. After leaving 
 the district attorney's office Mr. Jerome ap- 
 
 peared as counsel in the celebrated Carlyle 
 W. Harris case, and in connection with Mr. 
 Go(T in the equally celebrated Gardner case. 
 Mr. Jerome joined the reform movement 
 which inspired the appointment by the 
 Legislature of an investigating committee, 
 wiiich was headed by State Senator Clar- 
 ence Lexow. John \V. Goff, counsel for the 
 committee, selected him as one of his assist- 
 ants in that historic investigation, at the 
 close of which tiie great political campaign 
 for reform in the city's affairs began, witli 
 Mr. Jerome as counsel for the famous Com- 
 mittee of Seventy and manager of the cam- 
 paign against Tammany, which resulted in 
 the election of William L. Strong as Mayor 
 and John W. Goff as Recorder. In the fol- 
 lowing year Mayor Strong appointed Mr. 
 Jerome judge of the Court of Special Ses- 
 sions, giving him tlie eight year term. He 
 was elected November, 1901, district attor- 
 ney of the County of New York, and re- 
 elected in November, 1905, after an exciting 
 campaign in which Mr. Jerome successfully 
 defended his official acts. He continued his 
 work of purging New York of gambling and 
 otlier forms of protected vice in the abuse 
 of which he forced the purification of New 
 Y'ork's police system. In 1908 charges were 
 made against his official conduct, were 
 thoroughly investigated and resulted' in a 
 complete vindication of Mr. Jerome on every 
 point, and in hearty approval of his mea- 
 sures for the administration of justice. 
 INIr. Jerome is a member of the Bar Associ- 
 ation of New York, and of many social 
 clubs. Residence: 3 Rutgers Street. Coun- 
 try residence: Lakeville, Conn. Address: 
 Criminal Court Building, New York City. 
 
 JESSE, Richard Henry: 
 
 Former president of the University of 
 Missouri; born on the Ball Farm (home of 
 Washington's mother) in Lancaster County, 
 Va., March 1, 1853; son of W. T. and' Mary 
 (Claybrook) Jesse. He was educated in 
 Hanover Academy, Va., the University of 
 Virginia, 1873-1875, and part of 1878; in- 
 structor in French and mathematics in 
 Hanover Academy in 1S7G; dean of the 
 Academic Department in the University of 
 Louisiana, 1878-1885; studied in Europe, 
 
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 1S85 and 1890; Avas professor of Latin in 
 Tulane University. La., 1884-1801; and in 
 1891 was called to the presidency of the 
 University of Missouri. He received the 
 degree of LL.D. from Tulane University, 
 1892, University of Wisconsin, 1004, South 
 Carolina College, 1905, Missouri Valley 
 College, 190G, Washington University, St. 
 Louis, 1907. President Jesse was chairman 
 of the Section of Higher Education of the 
 National Educational Association in 1898, 
 and became a member of its Committee 
 of Ten in 1891-1892. He was a member of 
 tlie Administrative Board of the Congress 
 Of Arts at the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 
 tion, St. Louis, in 1904, and was awarded 
 by that Exposition a commemorative di- 
 ploma and medal in recognition of distin- 
 guished services to education. He contrib- 
 uted largely to the consolidation of Tulane 
 University with the State University of 
 Louisiana. In 1908 he resigned the presi- 
 dency of the University of Missouri and 
 entered upon the Carnegie Foundation. He 
 was president of the National Association 
 of State Universities, 1905-1906; delegate 
 from the United States to the First Inter- 
 national Congress of Piadiology in Belgium 
 in the summer of 1905. He was president 
 of the National Baptist Congress in 1900. 
 He is joint author (with E. A. Allen) of 
 Missouri Literature; and is also author of 
 pamphlets and various papers in society 
 transactions and periodicals. He married, 
 in 1882, Addie Henry Polk, of Princess 
 Anne, Md. Address: Columbia, Mo. 
 
 JEWETT, Charles: 
 
 Physician ; born in Bath, IMe. ; son of 
 George and Sarah (Hale) Jewett. He was 
 graduated from Bowdoin College. A.B.. 
 1864; A.M., 1867, Sc.D., 1894; College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia), 
 M.D., 1871. He has been engaged in the 
 practice of medicine in Brooklyn, from grad- 
 uation. He was professor of obstetrics, 
 1880-1900; professor of gynecology and ob- 
 stetrics since 1900, and gynecological sur- 
 geon to Long Island College Hospital ; 
 consulting obstetrician to Kings County 
 Hospital; consulting gj'necologist to Bnsh- 
 wick Ho.spital, Swedish Hospital, and Ger- 
 
 man Hospital, Brooklyn, and consulting 
 surgeon to St. Christopher's Hospital. He 
 is the author of: Essentials of Obstetrics; 
 Manual of Child-bed Nursing; editor of 
 Practice of Obstetrics, by American au- 
 thors; contributor of chapters on his spe- 
 cialty to various text-books. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Brooklj-n Pathological Society, 
 Medical Society of the County of Kings, 
 Hrooklyn Medical Society, Brooklyn Gyne- 
 cological Society, New York Obstetrical So- 
 ciety, New York Academy of ^Medicine, 
 Medical Society of the State of New York, 
 American ]\Iedical Association, American 
 Gynecological Society, American Academy 
 of Medicine, Medical Association of Greater 
 New Y'ork, Associated Physicians of Long 
 Island, Gynecological Section of the Royal 
 Society of Medicine of Great Britain, Inter- 
 national Periodical Congress of Obstetri- 
 cians and Gynecologists, Long Island Col- 
 lege Hospital Alumni, Long Island Hos- 
 pital Alumni. Bowdoin Alumni of New 
 York, Alumni of Columbia Universit}\ 
 He is a member of the Hamilton, and Uni- 
 versity Clubs of Brooklyn, Delta Kappa 
 Epsilon Club of New York, and Long Island 
 Automobile Club. He married, in 1868, 
 Abbie E. Flagg. They have two children: 
 Harold F., (jM.D.) and Mrs. Alice H. Jewett 
 Schwarte, of Saratoga Springs. Address : 
 .'530 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y". 
 
 JEWETT, Charles Sherman: 
 
 Physician ; born Moravia, Cayuga Cotinty, 
 N. Y., March 16. 1865; son of Dr. Charles 
 Carroll and Ellen (Burroughs) Jewett. 
 He was graduated from Yale. Ph.B., 1887, 
 Columbia. M.D.. 1890; graduate student 
 Universities of Berlin, Vienna, Prague and 
 Graz. Attending physician, Erie County 
 Hospital; clinical pathologist, Buffalo Hos- 
 pital Sisters of Charity: practising physi- 
 cian in Buffalo since 189.3; member resident 
 staff of Charily (now City) Hospital, 
 Blackwell's Island. 1890-1891." In Europe 
 doing graduate work, 1892-189.3, and 1898- 
 1899 in various clinics and universities. 
 He is a member of the American Medical 
 Association, American Academy of Medicine, 
 New York State Medical Association, 
 Erie County Medical Society; president 
 
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 Buffalo Academy Medicine, 1906-1907. 
 Member Buffalo Yale Alumni Association, 
 Buffalo Association Medical Alumni of Co- 
 lumbia. Club: Saturn (dean, 1907). Ad- 
 dress: 892 Main Street, Buffalo. 
 
 JEWETT, Edgar Boardman: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in Ann Arbor, Mich., 
 son of John Cotton and Priscilla (Board- 
 man) Jewett. He received his education 
 in the schools of Buffalo. Mr. Jewett 
 served as sergeant in Company C of the 
 Seventy- fourth Regiment of New York vol- 
 unteers in the Civil War and brigadier- 
 general of the National Guards of New 
 York in 1884. He is president of the John 
 C. Jewett Manufacturing Company; the 
 Jewett Refrigerator Company; and vice- 
 president of the Cary Safe Company. Po- 
 lice commissioner in 1894 and mayor of 
 the City of Buffalo, 1S95-189S. He is a 
 member of the Sons of American Revolu- 
 tion; Order of Founders and Patriots of 
 America and of the Buffalo Club. General 
 Jewett married, Oct. 3^ 1865, Elizabeth Fos- 
 ter Danforth, of Ann Arbor, who died Aug. 
 9,1905. Address: Hotel Touraine, Buffalo. 
 
 JOCELYN, Stephen Perry: 
 
 United States Army officer; born in 
 Brownington, Vt., March 1, 1843; son of 
 William and Abigail Nims (Wilder) Joce- 
 lyn. He received his education at Barton 
 Academy, Barton, Vt., and entered the U. 
 S. Military service in 1863, serving as a 
 lievitenant of volunteers throughout the 
 Civil War. He took part in the operations 
 before Richmond, Va., and was present at 
 the occupation of that city on April 3, 
 18G5. He entered the regular army as lieu- 
 tenant of the 6th Infantry in 1866, being 
 promoted to the rank of captain in 1874 in 
 the same regiment, and serving in the same 
 position in the 21st Infantry, until 1897, 
 when he was appointed major of the 19th 
 Infantrj'. He had previously received the 
 brevet rank of major " for conspicuous gal- 
 lantry " in the Nez Perce Indian campaign 
 in 1877. In 1899 he was promoted to lieu- 
 tenant-colonel of the 25th Infantry, and in 
 1901, colonel of the 14th Infantry', serving 
 in that position and on the general staff 
 
 unlil inon. when he was appointed brigadier- 
 general. He served in the Pliilippincs in 
 1900. and again in 190:5. comiiiaiidiii'/ in 
 the island of Samar. From 1904 to 190(), 
 the period embracing important work of 
 tile Army incident to tlie eartlupiake and 
 lire in San Francisco in tlie latter year, he 
 was on duty in that city as chief of staff 
 of the Paciiic Division, being later assigned 
 to command of the Department of the 
 Columbia. General Jocelyn retired from 
 active service, IMarch 1, 1907. He is a 
 member of the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion, the Society of Colonial Wars, and 
 the Buffalo (New York) Historical Society, 
 besides the Army and Navy Clubs, of New 
 York and Washington, D. C., and the Al- 
 gonquin Club, of Burlington, Vt. He mar- 
 ried at St. Louis, Feb. 2, 1886, Mary 
 Chamberlain Edgell, and they have three 
 children. Residence: 83 Summit Street, 
 Burlington, Vt. 
 
 JOHANNSEN, Albert: 
 
 Geologist and petrographer ; born in Belle 
 Plaine, Iowa, Dec. 3, 1874. He was grad- 
 uated from the University of Illinois, B.S., 
 1894, and from the University of Utah in 
 1898. The degree of Ph.D. was conferred 
 upon him in 1903 by the Johns Hopkins 
 University, in which he was fellow, 1902- 
 1903. He was geological assistant on the 
 Maryland Geological Survey, 1901-1903, and 
 has been assistant geologist on the U. S. 
 Geological Survey since 1903, having been 
 acting chief of the Section of Petrology 
 since 1907. He is a fellow of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science, 
 the Geological Society of Washington, the 
 Geological Society of America, and the 
 Washington Academy of Science, and is a 
 Phi Beta Kappa, a 32d degree Mason, and 
 a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. Dr. Johann- 
 sen has made many petrographical reports 
 on rocks collected in different parts of the 
 country, which have been embodied in var- 
 ious publications of the United States Geo- 
 logical Survey, and is the author of: A 
 Key for the Determination of Rock-forming 
 Minerals in Thin Sections, published by 
 Jolin Wiley and Sons in 1908, and Igneous 
 Rocks of Western Arizona, 1908. He mar- 
 
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 ried at Radford, Va., Nov. 16, 1904, Anna- 
 belle Scott, and has a son, Albert, Jr. Ad- 
 dress: United .states (jcological .Survey, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 JOHNSON, Alba Boardman: 
 
 Fartner of Burnham, Williams &. Com- 
 pany, proprietors of Baldwin Locomotive 
 Works, Philadelphia. Born in Pittsburgh, 
 Feb. 8, 1858, of New England ancestry, 
 being descended from Lieutenant Timothy 
 Johnson, wlio came to Massachusetts Bay 
 about 1677; educated in Philadelphia pub- 
 lic schools and was graduated from Central 
 High School, June, 1876. He was employed 
 at Edge Moor Iron Company, Wilmington, 
 Del., 1878-1879. Mr. Johnson is a trustee 
 of Jell'erson Medical College and Hospital; 
 member of the Merion Cricket Club, Geo- 
 graphical Society, Contemporary Club, 
 Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolu- 
 tion, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 
 Penn Club, New England Society of Penn- 
 sylvania, Lawyers' and Railroad Clubs of 
 New York, lie married, April 30, 18S3, 
 Elizabeth T. Biddle Reeves, who died April 
 2, 1908. Residence: Rosemont, Montgom- 
 ery County, Pa. 
 
 JOHNSON, Burges: 
 
 Editor; born in Rutland, Vt., Nov. 9, 
 1877; son of James Gibson and Mary A. 
 (Rankin) Johnson. He was graduated as 
 B.A. from Amherst College in 1899; en- 
 gaged in reportorial work on the Commer- 
 cial Advertiser and Evening Post, 1899- 
 1900; literary adviser of G. P. Putnam's 
 Sons, 1900-1903; on literary stall' Harper <fc 
 Brotliers, 1903-1906; as.sistant editor of Ev- 
 erybody's Magazine, 1906; managing editor 
 of Uulmg Magazine from 1907. He is tlie 
 autlior of: Rhymes of Little Boys, 1905 
 (Crowell) ; Pleasant Tragedies of Child- 
 hood, 1905 (Harper) ; Beastly Rhymes, 
 1906 (Crowell). Has lectured to some ex- 
 tent, and is a constant contributor of verse 
 and prose to magazines. He is a member 
 of the Amherst Association of New York, 
 Helta Kappa Epsilon Association, and the 
 Port Washington Yacht Club. He married 
 in New York City, in 1904, Constance F., 
 dauyliter of the Hon. Everett P. Wheeler. 
 
 Address : Port Washington, Long Island, 
 N. Y. 
 
 JOHNSON, Charles Rensselaer: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Dana, Mass., Dec. 28, 
 1852; son of Theodore Wilder and Emily 
 Sears (^liller) Johnson. He was graduated 
 from Worcester High School in 1871 and 
 from Harvard College, A.B., 1875. He was 
 a member of the Worcester school Com- 
 mittee, 1877-1878, 1892-1894 and since 
 1896; member of the JIassachusetts House 
 of Representatives, 1898-1899; master of 
 chancery of Worcester County in 1882, and 
 has been a member of the State Board of 
 Charities of Massachusetts since 1904. In 
 politics he is a Republican. He is a life 
 member of the Worcester Society of An- 
 tiquity; corresponding member of the West- 
 ern Reserve Historical Society; director of 
 the Free Public Library of Worcester, since 
 1906; member of the Royal Arcanum, Im- 
 proved Order of Red Men, Order of Unit- 
 ed American Mechanics, and of the Wor- 
 cester Economic and Congregational Clubs 
 of Worcester. Mr. Johnson married first 
 at Maynard, Mass., Aug. 8, 1882, Mary 
 McGovvn, who died Dec. 6, 1887 ; and sec- 
 ond at Davenport, Iowa, May 29, 1889, 
 Susie Servey, and he has three children. 
 Residence: 3 Norwood Street. Address: 
 704 State Mutual Building, Worcester, 
 Mass. 
 
 JOHNSON, Charles "Willison: 
 
 Zoologist; born in Morris Plains, N. J., 
 Oct. 26, 1863; son of Albert Fletcher and 
 Sarah Elizabeth (Willison) Johnson. He 
 received his education in public and ^jrivate 
 scliools; moved to St. Augustine, Fla., in 
 1880, continuing studies in natural history 
 and making large collections of insects, 
 mollusca and fossils, tliroughout the South- 
 ern States; was curator of the Museum of 
 the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Phil- 
 adelpliia, 1888-1903, and has been curator 
 of tiie Boston Society of Natural History 
 since 1903, and associate editor and man- 
 ager of the Nautilus, since 1890. He is a 
 member of the Academy of Natural Sci- 
 ences, Philadelphia, American Entomologi- 
 cal Society of Washington, American Asso- 
 
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 ciation for the Advancement of Science, 
 Malacological Society of London, Concho- 
 logical iSociety of Great Britain and Ireland. 
 His researches have been chiefly in inverte- 
 brate biology, and particularly in relation 
 to mollusca and diptcra, concerning which 
 he has contributed papers to various scien- 
 tific journals. Mr. Johnson married in 
 Phila(lc'lplii:i, Jan. 14, 1S'J7, Carrie \V. Ford. 
 Residence: Brookline, Mass. Address: 
 Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. 
 
 JOHNSON, Clarke Howard: 
 
 A.ssociatc justice of the Supreme Court 
 of Rhode Island; born at Foster, R. I., 
 Nov. 18, 1851; son of Elisha Johnson and 
 Matilda (Howard) Johnson. He received 
 his education in the public schools of Fos- 
 ter, R. I., Lapham Institute, North Scitu- 
 ate, R. I., and was graduated from Brown 
 University, A.B., 1877. He was admitted 
 to the Rhode Island bar in 1879. He was 
 a member of the Rhode Island House of 
 Representatives, 1879-1880, and 1899-1903; 
 clerk of the Rhode Island House of Rep- 
 resentatives, 1881-1887; justice of the Dis- 
 trict Court of the Eighth Judicial District 
 of Rhode Island, 1886-1903; associate jus- 
 tice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island 
 from April 30, 1903. He is a Republican in 
 politics. Mr. Johnson married in Provi- 
 dence, R. I., Dec. 21, 1889, Ida Susan Har- 
 rington. Address: Supreme Court House, 
 Providence, R. I. 
 
 JOHNSON, Elias Finley: 
 
 Jurist; born at Van Wert, Ohio, June 
 24, 1801; son of Abel Johnson. He re- 
 ceived his education in the National Uni- 
 versity at Lebanon, Ohio, and in the law 
 department of the University of Michigan, 
 and engaged in practice in his native place. 
 He was elected as a Republican to the 
 Ohio Legislature, serving four years; and 
 in 1888 he removed to Ann Arbor, Mich., 
 becoming a professor of law in the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, until appointed in 
 Feb., 1901, by President McKinley, to his 
 present position as judge of the Supreme 
 Court of the Philippine Islands. Judge 
 Johnson had previously been for four years 
 a member of the State Board of Education 
 
 of IMicliigan. He is author of a text-book 
 on 15ills and Notes, and has edited editions 
 of otiier legal text-books; and is a con- 
 tributor to the legal press. Judge John- 
 son married, Sept. (i, 1883, Clara A. Sniitli. 
 Address: Manila, Philippine Islands. 
 
 JOHNSON, Frederick Foote: 
 
 Assistant bishop of South Dakota; born 
 in Newtown, Conn., April 23, 18GG; son of 
 Ezra L. and Jane E. (Camp) Johnson. He 
 was graduated from Trinity College, Hart- 
 ford, B.A., 1894, M.A., 1897, and studied 
 theology at Berkeley Divinity School, Mid- 
 dletown. Conn. He was ordered deacon of 
 the Episcopal Church in 1896, by Bishop 
 White, acting for the bishop of Connecticut, 
 and ordained to the priesthood the next 
 year by Bishop Spalding. Following his 
 entry to the ministry he was assistant at 
 St. Stephen's Church, Colorado Springs, 
 Colo., for one year, and later rector of 
 Trinity Church, Redlands, Calif. In 1904 
 he became Diocesan Missionary of \\'estern 
 Massachusetts, and a year later was made 
 assistant bishop of South Dakota. Ad- 
 dress: Sioux Falls, S. Dak. 
 
 JOHNSON, George K.: 
 
 President of the Penn Mutual Life In- 
 surance Comjjany; born in Bucks County, 
 Pa., Dec. 11, 1848, of Quaker parentage. 
 He was educated in the Friends' Academy 
 and at the Friends' Central School in Phil- 
 adelphia, from which latter institution he 
 was graduated in 1866. He began his bus- 
 iness career as a clerk in a Philadelphia 
 manufacturing house, and in 1880 started 
 in business for himself as a member of the 
 firm of Belknap, Johnson and Powell, man- 
 ufacturers of umbrellas, wliicii becanie the 
 largest concern in that trade in the United 
 States. Mr. Johnson became a member of 
 the Board of Trustees of The Penn Mutual 
 Life Insurance Company, many years ago, 
 was elected vice-president of the company 
 in April, 1897, and continued in that olfice 
 until the death of Mr. Harry F. West, when 
 he succeeded him in the presidency of the 
 company, in which ofiice he continues. ^Ir. 
 Johnson is a director of the Camden Na- 
 tional Bank and a trustee of many large 
 
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 estates. He is a member of the Union 
 League Club of Philadulpliia. Residence: 
 Langhorne. Pa. Ollice: Fenn Mutual Life 
 Insurance Company, Philadelphia. 
 
 JOHNSON, Helen Kendrick: 
 
 Author, editor; boru in Hamilton. N. Y., 
 Jan. 4, 1843; daughter of Asabcl C. and 
 Anne (Hopkins) Kendrick. She was edu- 
 cated at the Oread, Worcester, Mass., and 
 she married in 186!), Kossiter Johnson. 
 Mrs. Johnson was editor of the American 
 Woman's Journal, 1803-1894; sole founder, 
 in 18S(i, of Tlie Meridian, a woman's club 
 that meets at midday. She is author of: 
 The Nutshell Series; Poems and Songs for 
 Young People; Our Familiar Songs; Tears 
 for the Little Ones. Author: The Koddy 
 Books; Raleigh Westgate; Woman and the 
 Republic. JMrs. Johnson is a member of the 
 Association Opposed to the Extension of 
 Sull'rage lo Women; founder, 1908, and 
 president of the Guidon, an anti-suffrage 
 educational study club. Address: 34 Un- 
 ion Square, New York City. 
 
 JOHNSON, Henry Abert: 
 
 Consular oflicer; born in the District of 
 Columbia; ajipointed consul at Venice, 
 March 29, 1886; consul at Valencia, May 1, 
 1903; consul at Liege, March 30, 1907. Ad- 
 dress: American Consulate, Liege, Belgium. 
 
 JOHNSON, Isaac: 
 
 Jurist; born in Delaware County, Pa.; 
 served through the Civil War, which he 
 left with the rank of captain; made the 
 law his profession, after serving for many 
 years as prothonotary and clerk of the 
 courts of Delaware County. Captain John- 
 son had the distinction of being the only 
 man ever admitted to the county bar with- 
 out :i formal exiniiinution. Jud^'e Ci:iyton 
 admitting him to practice on tlie motion of 
 ex- Judge Broomall, who said' that Mr. John- 
 son's qualifications for legal practice were 
 too well known to render an examination 
 necessary. He became very successful as a 
 lawyer and highly popular as a public 
 speaker, especially on patriotic themes, and 
 on the death of Judge Clayton, in Jan., 
 
 1900, he was appointed by Governor Stone 
 to succeed him as president judge. He 
 Wiis elected to this office in the Nov. election 
 for the ten years' term. Address : INIedia, 
 Pa. 
 
 JOHNSON, James: 
 
 Consular official; born in England; ap- 
 pointed consul at Sheffield, July 29, 1897; 
 consul at Palermo, Aug. 25, 1900; consul- 
 general at Hankow, Dec. 13, 1904; consul 
 at Algiers, Feb. 2, 1905. Address: Amer- 
 ican Consulate, Algiers, Algeria. 
 
 JOHNSON, Jesse H. : 
 
 Consular official; born in W^est Virginia; 
 appointed consul at Coaticook, Nov. 16, 
 1899; consul at Santas, Sept. 20, 1901; 
 consul at Swansea, March 30, 1907. Ad- 
 dress: American Consulate, Swansea, 
 Wales. 
 
 JOHNSON, John A.: 
 
 Journalist, governor; born in St. Peter, 
 Minn., July 28. 1861. He was educated in 
 the public schools, and received the degree 
 of LL.D. from the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania in 1907. He was State senator from 
 1898 to 1902; elected governor of Minne- 
 sota in 1904, on the Democratic ticket, and 
 reelected in 1906. His election to the gov- 
 ernorship of a normally strong Republican 
 State, together with his strong personality, 
 attracted national attention and he was re- 
 garded as a Presidential possibility in 1908, 
 especially on the ground of his strength 
 with the great Scandinavian population of 
 the Northwest. He was a prominent figure 
 in the Democratic campaign of the j'car and 
 is regarded as one of the ablest of the 
 younger men of the party; chairman of 
 inter-State conference to investigate insur- 
 ance problems in 1900; member and vice- 
 president of the International Policyhold- 
 ers' Committee in 1906. He married in 
 Rochester, Minn., in 1895, Nora Preston. 
 Residence: St. Peter, Minn. Address: The 
 Argus. St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 JOHNSON, John G.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
 about 1840, and all his life a resident of 
 
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 that oity. IIo received a common school 
 education, graduating at the Central High 
 School in its thirtieth class, and subse- 
 quently entering the office of William F. 
 Judson, a well-known member of the Phil- 
 adelphia bar, for the study of law. He 
 was admitted to the bar, Feb. 7, 1863, and 
 continued in association with Mr. Judson, 
 making steady and rapid progress in his 
 profession, and became the special counsel 
 of various large corporations. On the 
 death of Mr. Judson he was chosen to suc- 
 ceed him as counsel for the Pennsylvania 
 Company for Insurance on Lives and Grant- 
 ing Annuities, a corporation having busi- 
 ness connections in every part of the United 
 States. Among the numerous great cases 
 in which Mr. Johnson has been prominently 
 concerned is that of the Northern Securi- 
 ties Company, and he made the leading 
 argument for the defendants in the Com- 
 modities Clause case heard in June, 1908, 
 and decided in favor of the defendants in 
 the Circuit Court. He might have attained 
 to the highest honors, such as that of 
 attorney-general of the United State-;, or 
 Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 
 tenders of both those high offices being made 
 him, but he has steadily declined, and the 
 only office he has held is the minor one of 
 a commissioner of Fairmount Park. Mr. 
 Johnson's one recreation is that of enjoy- 
 ment of art and the study and purchase of 
 noted pictures, of which he has gradually 
 acquired a large and highly valuable col- 
 lection. His reputation as a jvidge in art 
 is only second to that of his skill in law, 
 and other collectors have eagerly availed 
 themselves of his aid in adding gems to 
 their galleries. This has been especially 
 the case with the fine collection of P. A. B. 
 Widener, which was chosen under his as- 
 sistance and advice. The city of Philadel- 
 phia has availed itself of his judgment in 
 the selection of pictures for the well-chosen 
 Wilstack gallery in Memorial Hall, Fair- 
 mount Park. Mr. Johnson married ]\Irs. 
 Morrell, a daughter of John Hare Powell, 
 and long a leader of fashion in Philadelphia. 
 He has no children, but his stepson, Mr. 
 Edward de V. Morrell, has occupied a prom- 
 inent position, having attained the position 
 
 of brigadier-general in the National Cuard 
 of Pennsylvania, and represented Pliiladcl- 
 j)iiia in the Fiftj'-sixth, Fifty-eiglith an.l 
 Fifty-ninth Congresses. Residence: 40(i 
 South Broad Street. Office address: Land 
 Title Buihliiig. Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 JOHNSON, John Quincy Adams: 
 
 Lawyer; I)orn at Washington, D. C, Feb. 
 12, 1858; son of William Clarkson and 
 Mary Louisa (Adams) Johnson. He was 
 educated in Newbury port (Mass.) High 
 School, Yale, A.B., 1878, Columbia Liiw 
 School, LL.B., 1880. He has been engaged 
 in the practice of law in New York City 
 from graduation; was partner with Fred- 
 erick Potter (Yale, 1878) in firm of Pot- 
 ter & Johnson, from 1888 until Mr. Potter 
 withdrew from active practice in 1894; 
 since then practising alone. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, Sons of 
 the Revolution ( New Y^ork ) , Society of 
 Colonial Wars, Order of Runnemede, St. 
 Andrew's Golf Club, Chauncey, N. Y., and 
 Palisade Boat Club, Yonkers, N. Y. He 
 married in Yonkers, N. Y., Jan. 23, 1884, 
 Caroline Curtiss, and they have five sons 
 and four daughters. Residence: 87 High 
 Street, Yonkers, N. Y. Office: 38 Park 
 Row, New York City. 
 
 JOHNSON, Joseph Esrey: 
 
 Iron master; born in Montgomery Coun- 
 ty, Pa., Feb. 5, 1843 ; son of Alexander and 
 Sarah Peterman (Esrey) Johnson. He was 
 educated in the public schools of Delaware 
 and Montgomery Counties, Pa., and the 
 private school of Edward B. Wetherill. He 
 enlisted in the Fourth Regiment of Penn- 
 sylvania Infantry, at Washington, D. C, 
 June-July, 1861, and in Aug., 1861, he was 
 appointed second lieutenant in the 5Sth 
 Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, of which 
 he later became first lieutenant and captain, 
 receiving commission as major, Jan., 18G6; 
 and he was brevetted major for special gal- 
 lantry at tlie capture of l-'oit Harrison. 
 Va., Sept. 29, 1864. In 1866, in connection 
 with General Cecil Clay, now of Washing- 
 ton, he built the first boom on James River, 
 and established a merchant sawmill. In 
 
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 1S72 ho becnmp manafipr of the Longdala 
 Iron Company, Lonpdalo, Va.. and still 
 holds the jiosition. He is a director of the 
 I^nijdnle Iron Company of Virfiinia, the 
 Harvey Coal and Coke Company, the Dun- 
 loup Coal and Coke Company, and the 
 Prudence Coal and Coke Company. He is 
 a member of the American Institute of 
 ]Minin,fr Enffineers. the United Service Club 
 of Philadelphia, Military Order of Loyal 
 Legion, and tlie Medal of Honor Lejjion. 
 He married in Baltimore, Nov. 5, 1865, 
 IMary Catherine Roche, and they have two 
 sons. Address: Lonj^dale. Allegheny Coun- 
 ty. Va. 
 
 JOHNSON, Joseph French: 
 
 Educator and economist; born in Hard- 
 wick, ]\Ia.ss., Aug. 24, 1853; son of Gardner 
 Nye and Eliza (French) Johnson. He was 
 graduated from Harvard as A.B. (Phi Beta 
 Kappa), 1878. and took one year of post- 
 graduate study in history and political 
 economy in Germany. He has received the 
 honorary degree of Doctor of Commercial 
 Science from Union College. Mr. .lohnson 
 is treasurer of the Economic Club of New 
 York, and was secretary of the Special Cur- 
 rency Committee of the New York Chamber 
 of Commerce in 1906. He was engaged in 
 journalism until 1803; first with the Spring- 
 field (Mass.) Republican, and later as 
 financial editor of the Chicago Tribune; 
 establi.shed the Spokane (Wash.) Spokes- 
 man in ISOO, sold his interest in 1803 and 
 became professor of finance until 1901, in 
 the University of Pennsylvania, where he 
 also conducted a pioneer course in journal- 
 ism on original lines, which have since 
 been followed by other institutions in the 
 I'nited States and Europe. He was lecturer 
 on finance in Coluiiibiim University, 1900- 
 1903, and' since 1901 has been professor of 
 jKilitical ccoTiomy and from Jan. 1, 1903, 
 and dean of the School of Commerce at 
 New York University. Mr. Johnson is au- 
 thor of: Money and Currency, 1900; also 
 various contril)utions to financial journals 
 and leading reviews upon eurrcucy, econom- 
 ics, connnerce and iclafcd sul)jects. He is 
 a menil)er of the Board of Directors of the 
 Merchants' As.sociation of New York, a 1 
 
 member of the American Academy of Polit- 
 ical and Social Science; the American Eco- 
 nomic Association and of the Harvard Club 
 of New York City. Mr. Johnson married 
 at Aurora, 111., Aug. 4, 1884, Caroline Tem- 
 perance Stolp, and' has three children. Ad- 
 dress: 32 Waverly Place, New York City. 
 
 JOHNSON, Joseph Horsfall: 
 
 Bishop of Los Angeles; born in Schenec- 
 tady, N. Y., June 7, 1847; son of Stephen 
 Hotchkiss and Eleanor Johnson. He was 
 graduated from Williams College, B.A., 
 1870, and from the General Theological 
 Seminary, New York City, in 1873. He 
 received the degree of D.D. from the 
 Nashotah (Wis.) Theological Seminary, 
 1895. He took orders as deacon of the 
 Episcopal Church in 1873 and the following 
 year was ordained priest by Bishop A. Pot- 
 ter. Until his election to the episcopate, 
 he filled' the rectorship of various churches 
 in the East and North, being curate of 
 Holy Trinity Church, Highland, N. Y., 1873- 
 1879, rector of Trinity Church. Bristol, R. 
 I., 1879-1881, of St. Peter's Church, West- 
 chester. N. Y., 1881-1886, of Christ's 
 Church, Detroit, Mich., 1886-1896. He be- 
 came bishop of Los Angeles, Calif., in 1896 
 and was consecrated by Bishops Davies, 
 Worthington, W. A. Leonard, Talbot. A. 
 Leonard, Nicholson and Gailor. He mar- 
 ried, at Worcester, Mass.. Isabel Greene 
 Davis, in 1881. Address: 523 South Olive 
 Street. Los Angeles, Calif. 
 
 JOHNSON, Joseph Travis: 
 
 Congressman ; born in Brewerton. S. C, 
 Feb. 28, 18.")8. He was graduated from 
 Erskine College, July 2, 1870, and admitted 
 to the practice of the law in all the courts 
 of Sauth Carolina "May 30, 1883. He never 
 held ofiice until elected to the Fifty-seventh 
 Congress; was reelected to the Fifty-eighth, 
 Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses and to 
 the Sixty-first Congress from the Fourth 
 South Carolina District. Mr. Johnson in 
 politics is a Dniiocrat . .\ddress: Spartan- 
 burg, s. r. 
 
 JOHNSON, Lewis Jerome: 
 
 Iviuc-itor and consulting civil engineer; 
 born in Milford, Mass.. Sept. 24, 1867; son 
 
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 of Napolpon Bonapartp and Mary Tufts 
 (Stone) Johnson. He was pradnnted from 
 Milford Hi,fi;h School, 188.3, Harvard Collep;e, 
 A.B., 1887, and from Lawrence Scientific 
 School of Harvard. C.E., 1888. He studied 
 in Euroi)o, 1888-1890, chiefly at the Federal 
 Polytechnic School in Zuricli, and 1800- 
 I'JOG, witli an interval of two years, ho was 
 instructor and assistant professor, and 
 since 1900, professor of civil enfjineering, at 
 Harvard. He was connected with the Illi- 
 nois Steel Company, 1892-1894, and in the 
 past ten years has been connected with 
 numerous constructions in steel and rein- 
 forced' concrete, including the Harvard Stad- 
 ium. He is autlior of: Statics by Algebraic 
 and Graphic Methods, 1903, 1908; writer 
 on technical and civic subjects. He is 
 a member of the American Society of Civil 
 Engineers, the American Society for Testing 
 Materials, the Boston Society of Civil En- 
 gineers; and of several organizations for 
 civic improvement. He is also a fellow of 
 the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 
 ences. He married in Evanston. 111., June 
 27, 1893, Grace Allen Fitch, and has 
 two sons. Residence: 90 Raymond Street. 
 Office: 309 Pierce Hall,' Cambridge, 
 Mass. 
 
 JOHNSON, Martin Nelson: 
 
 United States senator; born in Wisconsin 
 in 1850; son of Nelson and Anna (Selheim) 
 Johnson. His parents moved to Iowa in 
 the year of his birth, and he was graduated 
 from the Iowa State University, 1873. He 
 taught for two years in the California Mili- 
 tary Academy, Oakland, Calif., studied law 
 and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He 
 served a term each in the Iowa House of 
 Representatives and the Iowa State Senate; 
 was a Hayes elector for the Dubuque dis- 
 trict in 1876. He moved to Dakota, 1882, 
 and took up Government land ; was district 
 attorney for two terms; member of the Con- 
 stitutional' Convention of North Dakota, 
 1889; chairman of the first Republican 
 State Convention, 1889. He was elected to 
 the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth 
 and Fifty-fifth Congresses, retiring from 
 Congress in 1899 and engaging in farming 
 and the grain trade. He was an unsuccess- 
 
 ful candidate for U. R. senator before the 
 North Dakota Legislature in 1889 and 1890; 
 was nominated by the Republican primary 
 and elected U. S. senalnr in l!l()!( for lli,- 
 term expiring March 3. 1!)1.'>. Aildics-: 
 Petersburg, X, Dak. 
 
 JOHNSON, Mary Hannah: 
 
 Librarian; born in Xashville. Tenn.; 
 daughter of George S, and Hannah (Payne) 
 Johnson. She received an academic educa- 
 tion in her native city and in 1890 took up 
 library work, afterward taking a technical 
 course in the LTniversity of Chicago. She 
 began and developed the free library system 
 in Nashville and is librarian of the Carnegie 
 Library in that city ; and she has been one 
 of the most active and prominent factors in 
 the rapid development of library work in 
 the south, especially in connection with the 
 public schools. She is secretary of the Ten- 
 nessee Library Association. Address: Car- 
 negie Library', Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 JOHNSON, Owen: 
 
 Author ; born in New York City, Aug, 
 27, 1878 ; son of Robert Underwood and 
 Katherine (McAIahon) Johnson. He was 
 educated at Lawrenceville School and Yale, 
 A.B., 1900; was founder and first editor of 
 the Lawrenceville Literary Magazine, and 
 chairman of the Yale Literary Magazine 
 for the class of 1900. Mr. Johnson is au- 
 thor of the novels : Arrows of the Al- 
 mighty, 1901; In the name of Liberty, 1905; 
 Max Fergus, 1906; The Eternal Boy, 1909; 
 and of the play, The Comet, plaj'ed' for two 
 years by Mme. Nazimova. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Players'. New York City. Mr. 
 Johnson married. May 25, 1901, Mary Gait 
 Stockly, of Lakewood, N. J. Address: 
 Stockbridge, Mass. 
 
 JOHNSON, Robert Underwood: 
 
 Editor; born in Washington, D. C, Jan. 
 12, 1853; son of Nimrod Hoge and Catherine 
 (Underwood) Johnson. He was educated at 
 Centroville (Ind.) Collegiate Institute, and 
 Earlliam College, Richmond, Ind., and was 
 graduated B.S., 1871, and later honorary 
 Ph.D.; also honorary A.M. from Yale in 
 
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 1891. In 1889 he originated and with John 
 Muir planned and forwarded the establish- 
 ment of the Yosemite National Park, cre- 
 ated in 1890; he was supported with voice 
 and pen causes of international copyright, 
 forest conservation, free art, civil service re- 
 form and low tariff. He has been a member 
 of the editorial staff of the Century ^Maga- 
 zine since 1873, and associate editor since 
 1881: co-editor with C. C. Buel of Battles 
 and Leaders of the Civil War (the Century's 
 War series enlarged to four volumes), and 
 is author of: The Winter Hour and Otlier 
 Poems; Songs of Liberty and Other Poems; 
 Poems (collected). He was decorated Chev- 
 alier de la Legion d' Honneur in 1891; Cav- 
 alier della Corona d'ltalia in 1895. Since 
 1888 and during international copyright 
 campaign of 1891 has been secretary of the 
 American Copyright League (authors) ; 
 member and secretary 1903-1909, of the Na- 
 tional Institute of Arts and Letters; mem- 
 ber and secretary of the Academy of Arts 
 and Letters; originator of the Keats-Shelley 
 ^Memorial in Rome (secretary of the Amer- 
 ican Committee). Mr. Johnson is a mem- 
 ber of the Phi Beta Kappa, New York Civil 
 Service Reform Assoeiation, American For- 
 estry Association, Citizens Union, the Cen- 
 tury, Players and Authors Clubs, and honor- 
 ary member of the Sierra and MacDowell 
 Clubs. He married in Washington, D. C, 
 Aug. 31, 187G, Katherine McMahon, and 
 they have two children. Address: 327 
 Lexington Avenue, Now York City. 
 
 JOHNSON, Rossiter: 
 
 Aulhor, cdilor; ])orn in Rochester, N. Y., 
 Jan. 27, 1840; son of Reuben and Almira 
 Alexander Johnson. He was graduated 
 from the University of Rochester, A.B., 
 1863, Ph.D., 1888, LL.D., 1893. He was as- 
 sociate editor of the Rochester Democrat, 
 18(J4-18G8; editor of the Concord (N. H.) 
 Statesman. 18G9-1872; associate editor of 
 the American Cyclopaedia, 1873-1877; man- 
 aging editor Cyclopaidia of American Bi- 
 ography, 188G-1888; associate editor of 
 Standard Dictionary, 1892-1894; editor of 
 the Authorized History of the World's Co- 
 lumbian Exposition, 189G, Appletons' An- 
 nual Cyclopajdia, 1883-1902, The Literary 
 
 Querist in The Lamp (formerly Book-Buy- 
 er), 1888-1904; Universal Cyclopsedia and 
 Atlas since 1901. Supervising editor of re- 
 vised editions of Velasquez' Spanish Dic- 
 tionary and Adler's German Dictionary, 
 1901-1903; devised and edited the series of 
 Little Classics (eighteen volumes) and also 
 Liber Scriptorum, the book of the Authors 
 Club. Mr. Johnson is also editor of: Works 
 of the British Poets, with Biographical 
 Sketches (three volumes); Playday Poems; 
 Famous Single and Fugitive Poems; Fifty 
 Perfect Poems (with Charles A. Dana) ; The 
 World's Great Books (forty volumes) Dic- 
 tionarj^ of Notable Americans (ten vol- 
 umes) ; The Great Events by Famous His- 
 torians (twenty volumes) ; The Literature 
 of Italy (with Dora Knowlton Ranous) 
 (sixteen volumes) ; The Authors' Digest 
 (twenty volumes). Author: Phaeton Rog- 
 ers; The End of a Rainbow; History of 
 the War of 1812; History of the French 
 War; History of the War of Secession; 
 Idler and Poet (poems) ; The Hero of ]\Ia- 
 nila ; Morning Lights and Evening Shadows 
 (poems) ; The Alphabet of Rhetoric; The 
 Story of the Constitution of the United 
 States; The Blank-Cartridge Ballot; also 
 wrote the Whispering-Gallery series in the 
 Overland Monthly, and contributed to var- 
 ious magazines. Mr. Johnson is a lecturer 
 on historical subjects. He is ex-president of 
 the New Y^'ork Association of Phi Beta Kap- 
 pa, Society of the Genesee, Quill Club, Delta 
 Upsilon fraternity, and founder, and presi- 
 dent since 1898 of the University Extension 
 Society. He has been successively secretary, 
 chairman and treasurer of the Autliors 
 Club and is a member of the Century As- 
 sociation, lie iiun-ried. in 18G9, Helen Ken- 
 drick. Residence: Amagansett, L. I.. Of- 
 fice: 34 Union Square, New York City. 
 
 JOHNSON, Tom Loftin: 
 
 Mayor of Cleveland; born in Georgetown, 
 Ky., July 18, 1854; son of Albert W. and 
 Helen (Loftin) Johnson. After attending 
 the public schools of Georgetown he found 
 employment in a rolling mill, and after- 
 ward enteied the ollice of a street railway 
 ill which he was soon advanced to the po- 
 sition of secretary. In 1872 he invented 
 
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 an improvement in steel rails, known as 
 Johnson's car-rail, and engaged in its man- 
 ufacture. He attained street railway in- 
 terests in Indianapolis, and' also in Cleve- 
 land, and acquired a large fortune; and he 
 erected a large plant for the manufacture 
 of steel rails in Cleveland. He was nomi- 
 nated in 1888 as Democratic candidate for 
 the Fifty-first Congress from tlie Twelfth 
 District of Ohio, but was defeated; but was 
 elected to the Fifty-second' and Fifty-third 
 Congresses, serving 1891-18!)5. He was 
 elected mayor of Cleveland in 1901, and has 
 been thrice reelected, his present term ex- 
 piring Jan. 1, 1910. Although his own for- 
 tune has been largely acquired through 
 the medium of franchise privileges, Mayor 
 Johnson is recognized as one of the ablest 
 advocates of the municipal ownership of 
 public utilities, and one of the most force- 
 ful exponents of the single-tax theoi-y of 
 Henrj' George, and his policy as mayor has 
 been directed toward the securing of lower 
 street railway fares, and in other ways 
 lightening the burden imposed upon the 
 people by special privileges. Address: 
 Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 JOHNSON, William Mindred: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Newton, Sussex County. 
 N. J., Dec. 2, 1847; son of Whitfield S. 
 Johnson, who was secretary of State of 
 New Jersey, 1861-1865, and "Ellen (Green) 
 Johnson. He was educated in the Model 
 School at Trenton, N. J., and' Princeton 
 University, A.B., 1867, and later A.M. He 
 was admitted to the bar of the State of New 
 Jersey in 1870; and has since practised law 
 at Hackensack, N. J. Mr. Johnson was 
 elected to the Senate of New Jersey and 
 served 1895-1900, and was elected president 
 of that body in 1900. While so serving he 
 was acting governor of New Jersey during 
 the absence of Governor Voorhees in Europe 
 in May and June, 1900. Later in 1900 he 
 was appointed first assistant postmaster- 
 general of the United States, which office 
 he held until 1902, when he returned to 
 the practice of law in New Jersey. He was 
 a delegate to the National Republican Con- 
 ventions of 1888 and 1904, and was chair- 
 man of the New Jersey State Republican 
 
 Conventions of 1900 and 1904. Mr. John- 
 son of the donor to Hackensack of its 
 Public Library. He is a member of tlic 
 Lawyers' anil rrinccton Cluljs of New York 
 and of the Holland Society. He married ia 
 1872, Maria E. White. Address: Hacken- 
 sack, N. J, 
 
 JOHNSON, Willis Fletcher: 
 
 Editor, author and lecturer, and president 
 of Civic Service Commission; born in New 
 York City, Oct. 7, 1857; son of William and 
 Alathea Augusta (Coles) Johnson. He re- 
 ceived his education in the Pennington Sem- 
 inary and New York University, from which 
 he afterward received the degree of L.H..\I.; 
 and the A.M. and L.H.D. degrees were con- 
 ferred upon him by Dickinson College. He 
 was school principal, 1870-1877; has been 
 a member of the editorial stafi" of the New 
 York Tribune since 1880 and of the lecture 
 staff of the New York City Board of Edu- 
 cation since 1902. In 1904 he traveled in 
 Panama to inspect the canal and other 
 things. In :May, 1908, he was appointed 
 for a term of four years a Civil Service Com- 
 missioner of the State of New Jersey and 
 was elected president of the Commission. 
 Mr. Johnson is author of: A Century of 
 Expansion, 1903 (Macmillan) ; Four Cen- 
 turies of the Panama Canal, 1906 (Henry 
 Holt and Company) ; Henry Livington, a 
 Memoir, 1907 (The DeVinne Press) ; was 
 the biographical editor of the History of 
 New York University and editor of Songs 
 of New York University. He is a member 
 of the American Geographical Society, Na- 
 tional Geographic Society, New York His- 
 torical Society, National Institute of Civics, 
 Psi Upsilon fraternity, the National His- 
 toric and Scenic Preservation Society, and 
 National Civil Service Reform Association; 
 member of the Council of the New York 
 University and president of the Board of 
 Trustees of the Pennington Seminar}-, of 
 Pennington, New Jersey. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Psi Upsilon, National Arts, and 
 Quill Clubs of New York City. Mr. 
 Johnson married at Tuckerton, N. J., in 
 1878, Sue Rockhill. Residence: Firleigh 
 Hall, New Providence, N. J. Office: 154 
 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 JOHNSTON, James Steptoe: 
 
 Jiishop of Western Texas; born in Church 
 Hill, Miss., June 9, 1843; son of James 
 Steptoe and Louisa C. B. Johnston. He at- 
 tended the University of Virginia, 1860- 
 ISCl, and served four years in the Army 
 of the Confederate (States, most of the time 
 in Lee's Army; first as a private in Hood's 
 Division, afterwards as lieutenant in 
 Stuart's Cavalry. He was ordered deacon 
 of the Lpiseopiil Church in 1869, and in 
 1S71 was orilained to the priesthood by 
 Bishop Green. He was connected with St. 
 James' Church, Port Gibson, Miss., 1870- 
 1876, with the Church of the Ascension, Mt. 
 Sterling, Ky., 1876-1880, with Trinity 
 ChurclC Mobile, Ala., 1880-1888. In 1888 
 he became bishop of Western Texas, and was 
 consecrated by Bishops Wilmer, Dudley. 
 Harris, Gallagher, and Thompson. Received 
 the degree of D.D. from the University of 
 the Soutli, Sewanee, Tenn. Bishop Johnston 
 is author of numerous reports, appeals, ad- 
 dresses, and sermons. Address: San An- 
 tonio, Texas. 
 
 JOHNSTON, Joseph Forney: 
 
 United States senator; born in Lincoln 
 County, N. C, in 1843; son of Dr. William 
 and Nancy (Forney) Johnston. He left 
 school to enter the Confederate States Army 
 in ]\Iarch, 1861; served until the end of the 
 war, being four times wounded and reach- 
 ing the rank of captain. Since the war he 
 has resided in Birmingham, Ala., where he 
 was engaged as a practising lawyer seven- 
 teen years and as a banker ten years. He 
 was elected in 1896 and reelected in 1898 
 governor of .Alabama. He was elected by 
 the Alabama Legislature, Aug. 6, 1908, to 
 fill out the unexpired term of Hon. E. W. 
 Pettus, deceased, as U. S. Senator from 
 Alabama for the term which ended March 
 3, 1909, and also for the term which will 
 expire March 3, 1915. Address: Birming- 
 ham, Ala. 
 
 JOHNSTON, Russell M.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Albany, N. Y., July 6, 
 1864; son of Colonel Robert C. S. A. (West 
 Point, 1850), and Catherine S. (Van Rensse- 
 
 laer) Johnston. He was educated at Ge- 
 neva (N. Y.) High School, Hobart College, 
 B.S., 1884, Albany Law School, LL.B., 1887. 
 He is an estate lawyer, and has been five 
 times to Euroj)e, and througli the W Cst In- 
 dies as far south as Trinidad. He has 
 traveled extensively in the United States; 
 has been to the Pacific Coast and in thirty 
 States and territories. He is director of 
 the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Al- 
 bany, X. Y. He is a member ot the State Bar 
 Association (Grievance Committee), and 
 was a member of the sub-committee of the 
 Grievance Committee which investigated the 
 charges against Justice Warren B. Hooker. 
 He is a member of the Albany County Bar 
 Association, Fort Orange Club (ex-secretary 
 and trustee). University Club (was first 
 president), and the Albany County, and 
 Burns Clubs of Albany. Residence: 20 
 Elk Street. Office: 38 Tweddle Building, 
 Albany, N. Y. 
 
 JOHNSTON, William Agnew: 
 
 Jurist; born in Oxford, Ont., July 24, 
 1848; son of Mathew and Jane (Agnew) 
 Johnston. He was educated in the schools 
 of Ontai'io, and Illinois, studied law, went 
 to Kansas and in 1872 was admitted to the 
 bar' of that State and engaged in the prac- 
 tice of law. He became active in politics 
 as a Republican, was elected to the State 
 House of Representatives in 1875, to the 
 Senate in 1876; was appointed assistant U. 
 S. attorney for the District of Kansas in 
 1879, elected attorney-general of Kansas, 
 1880-1884. Then was elected to the Supreme 
 bench of the State, on which lie served as 
 associate justice until 1902, when he be- 
 came chief justice of that court, in which 
 olliee he is still serving. Judge Jolinstou 
 married in 1875, Lucy Brown. Address: 
 Topeka, Kan. 
 
 JOHNSTONE, Edward Robert: 
 
 Fditor-in-chief of the Cleveland Leader; 
 born in Utica, N. Y., April 30, 1849; son 
 of Mervin E. and Julia E. Johnstone. He 
 was graduated from Dickinson College in 
 1870. IMr. Johnstone served in Indian cam- 
 paigns in 1877, 1880 and 1881; was on the 
 editorial staff of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 1882-1802; city and county assessor at St. 
 I'aul, JMinn., 18!)2-1S'J5; served with the As- 
 sociated Press, 18!}7-189S, in New York 
 City; editor of the Minneapolis Times, 1898- 
 1903; and nian:ij,nujr editor of the New York 
 Commercial Advertiser in 1903- 19U4. He 
 also served in charge of a fleet of dispatch 
 boats in the Spanish- American War, at 
 Key West, in the Havana and Santiago 
 blockades, and in Porto Rico. Mr. John- 
 stone is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society, Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. Sons 
 of the American Kevolution, and the Amer- 
 ican Social Science Association, and is sec- 
 retary of the Porto Rican Expedition Asso- 
 ciation. He married in Boston, Jan. 27, 
 1887, Ida Louise Abell. Address: The 
 Leader, Clevehuid, Ohio. 
 
 JOLINE, Adrian Hoffman: 
 
 Lawyer; lioin in Siii'4- Sinji, N. Y.. June 
 30, 1850; son of Colonel Charles 0. and 
 Mary (Hoffman) Joline. He was educated 
 in Mount Pleasant Academy. Princeton, A. 
 B., 1870, A.M., 1873, Columbia Law School, 
 LL.B., 1872, Princeton, LL.D., 1904. He 
 was admitted to the bar in May, 1872; was 
 member of the law firm of Butler, Stillman 
 & Hubbard, 1881-1896; of Butler, Notman, 
 Joline & Mynderse, 1896-1905; since 1905, 
 of Joline, Larkin & Rathbone. He was 
 chairman of the Board of Directors and 
 president of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas 
 Railway Company, 1906. In 1907 he was 
 selected as receiver of the Metroi^olitan 
 Street Railway Co., of New York City and 
 performed the ardous duties of that position 
 with marked success. He is a member of 
 the American Bar Association, Association 
 of the Bar of the City of New Yoi'k, New 
 York State Bar Association, New York, New 
 Jersey, Virginia and American Historical 
 Societies. He is author of: IMeditations 
 of an Autograph Collector, 1902; Diversions 
 of a Book Lover, 1903. Mr. Joline is a 
 member of the Century, University, Grolier, 
 Princeton, Nassau, Barnard, Morristown, 
 Down Town; St. Elmo and City Clubs of 
 New York City and the Caxton Club of 
 Chicago. He luarried, in 1876, Mary E., 
 daughter of Francis Larkin. Address: 54 
 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 JONAS, Johannes Benoni Eduard: 
 
 Professor of Cermanic languages; born 
 at Ahnapee (now Algoma), Wis., April 21, 
 1873; son of Hcinrich Eduard and Emma 
 Christine (LelUer) Jonas. lie was edu- 
 cated in the public and high schools of Bea- 
 ver Dam, Wis., Concordia College, Milwau- 
 kee, (a German gynmasium), graduating in 
 1893; the University of Wisconsin, A.B., 
 1894, A.M., 1895; fellow in Germanics in 
 the University of Chicago, 1896-1899, Ph.D. 
 1899; and studied in Berlin, Germany, 1897. 
 He became instructor in German in the 
 University of Wisconsin, 1894-1895, while 
 working for the degree of A.M.; was in- 
 structor in German at Morgan Park Acad- 
 emy, Chicago, 1895-1896, and in the sum- 
 mer quarter of 1896; instructor in German 
 in Purdue University, 1899-1901; assistant 
 professor of Germanic languages and liter- 
 atures in Brown University, 1901 ; and act- 
 ing head of the department, 1904-1905; now 
 professor of Germanic languages. Brown 
 University. Mr. Jonas has contributed to 
 Modern Language Notes, the Publications of 
 INIodern Language Association, School Re- 
 view, and Journal of Theologj*. He is a 
 member of the Modern Language Associa- 
 tion of America, American Dialect Society, 
 and the Barnard Club of Providence, R. I. 
 Address: 7 Barnes Street, Providence, R. L 
 
 JONES, Andrew IT.: 
 
 Merchant ; born in Whallonsburgh, N. Y., 
 May 19, 1840; son of Benjamin G. and 
 Almira E. (Morhous) Jones. He was edu- 
 cated in a country school ; served seven 
 years in the National Guard of the State 
 of New York. He is treasurer of the Hud- 
 son Valley Paper Company, Incorporated; 
 trustee of the Albany County Savings Bank ; 
 director of the Albany County Bank. He is 
 also a trustee of the INIohawk and Hudson 
 Humane Society, and a member of the Al- 
 bany Country Club. He married in Pal- 
 myra, N. Y., Nov. 8, 1871, Alice Louise 
 Tucker, and has four cliildren. Address: 
 32 Elk Street, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 JONES, Burr W.: 
 
 Lavrs^er; born in Evansville, Wis., March 
 9, 1846; son of William and Sarah M. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Jones. He was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of Wisconsin, A.B., 1870, LL.B., 
 1871. He has been engaged in the practice 
 of law in Madison, Wis., since 1871, and 
 since 1885 has also been a professor in the 
 Law School of the University of Wisconsin. 
 He was district attorney of Dane County, 
 Wis., 1872-1876, and was elected to the 
 Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses. 
 He was chairman of the Democratic State 
 Convention of Wisconsin in 18!)2; was a 
 dflegato to tlie (gold-standard) National 
 Dcniocratic Convention which met in In- 
 dianapolis in 1896, and presented the name 
 of General Bragg to the convention as a 
 candidate for President. Mr. Jones was 
 jirosident of the Wisconsin State Bar Asso- 
 ciation, 1907-1908, and has served as presi- 
 dent of the Dane County Bar Association. 
 He is author of a text-book on The Law of 
 Evidence in Civil Cases, in three volumes. 
 Mr. Jones married, in December, 1873, Olive 
 L. Hoyt, who died in 1906. Residence: 
 112 Langdon Street. Office: Badger Block, 
 Madison, Wis. 
 
 JONES, Charles Henry: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Beverly, N. J., Sept. 13, 
 1837; son of Hon. J. Glancy and Anna 
 (Rodman) Jones. He was educated in Rens- 
 selaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. 
 He was counsel for the Commissioners of 
 Fairmount Park, counsel for the Centennial 
 Exhibitors Commission in 1876; and' coun- 
 sel for the Democratic Party. Mr. Jones 
 was Democratic candidate for city solicitor 
 of Philadelphia; and has been counsel in 
 many important public and political cases. 
 He was vice-president of the Trust Com- 
 pany of North America ; was formerly spec- 
 ial deputy collector of customs, and at- 
 tache of the American Legation at Vienna, 
 Austria. Mr. Jones is author of: A Pedes- 
 trian Tour Through Switzerland; Recol- 
 lections of Venice; A Trip to the Ncusied'ler- 
 see; Memoir of William Rodman; Sketch of 
 Old St. Peter's Church; Early Settlements 
 on the Delaware; Digest of Park Laws and 
 Ordinances; Uavault's Mills, a novel; His- 
 tory (jf the Campaign for the Conquest of 
 Canada in 1770; Genealogy of the Rodman 
 Family; The Cauip of the Neshauiiny; 
 
 Sketch of the Services of Captain Gustavus 
 Conyngham; and Life and Public Services 
 of Hon. J. Glancy Jones. He is chairman 
 of the Board of Managers of Christ Church 
 Hospital; vestryman of Old St. Peter's 
 Church; deputy to the Diocesan Convention; 
 president of the Colonial Society of Penn- 
 sylvania and chairman of the Board of 
 Managers of the Sons of the Revolution. 
 Mr. Jones married in Philadelphia, April 
 20, 1872, Kate Evelyn Sank, and they liave 
 three children. Residence: Rydal, Pa. Of- 
 fice: 1301 Commonwealth Trust Building, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 JONES, Charles Reading:: 
 
 Chairman of the National Committee of 
 the Prohibition Party since January, 1905; 
 born in Philadelphia, Nov. 9, 1802; son of 
 Charles and Esther (Harding) Jones. Af- 
 ter receiving his education in the public 
 schools of Philadelphia, and a business col- 
 lege, he became a member of the firm of 
 Charles Jones and Sons, 1880-1890; secre- 
 tary and manager of tlie Frink, Barcus and 
 Jones Manufacturing Company. Philadel- 
 phia, 1890-1893; head of a department in 
 John Wanamaker's store, Philadelphia, 
 1894-1895; president and founder of the As- 
 sociated Prohibition Press since 1905. Mr. 
 Jones was chairman of the Prohibition Par- 
 ty of Philadelphia, 1892-1897, the Prohibi- 
 tion Party of Pennsylvania, 1897-1905, and 
 of the Prohibition Party of the United 
 States since 1905. He is a Methodist Epis- 
 copalian, an Odd Fellow, a 32d'-degree Ma- 
 son, member of the ]\Iystic Shrine, member 
 of the National Union, and of the Order of 
 the Golden Cross. He married in Philadel- 
 phia, Bertha I. Hoar, and they have five chil- 
 dren. Residence: 1458 Maple Avenue, 
 Evanston, 111. Office: 92 La Salle Street, 
 Chicago. 
 
 JONES. Edward Franc: 
 
 Scale manufacturer; born in Utica, N. Y., 
 June 3, 1828; son of Lorenzo Baldwin and 
 S()i)hronia (Chapman) Jones. He was edu- 
 cated at Leicester, IMass. He served in the 
 Civil War as colonel, Sixth Massachusetts 
 N'olunteer Regiment (first regiment to enter 
 the field) ; the regiment was attacked in 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Baltimore, and reached Washington in time 
 to save the capital from falling into the 
 hands of the Confederates; became colonel 
 of the Twenty-sixth Massachusetts Volun- 
 teers, October, 1801 ; brevetted brigadier-gen- 
 eral, U. S. Volunteers. At the close of the 
 war he established scale works at liingham- 
 ton, N. Y., which he has since conducted 
 under style of Jones of IMnghamton, in con- 
 nection with which he coined and' populariz- 
 ed the expression : " Jones, He Pays the 
 Freiglit." ]\Ir. Jones was a member of the 
 Massachusetts Legislature, 1865; resident 
 of Binghamton from October, 1865, and 
 held various local offices there ; lieutenant- 
 governor of New York, 1886-1891. Demo- 
 crat. He is a member of the Grand Army 
 of the Republic, Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion, Sons of the American Revolution, 
 Society of Founders and Patriots of Amer- 
 ica. He is author of: Richard Baxter; 
 LTncle Jerry; The Origin of the Flag. He is 
 a member of the United Service and Army 
 and Navy Clubs of New York City. He 
 married, first, in 1850, Sarah Antoinette 
 Tarbell, and second, in 1863, Susan Annie 
 Brown. Address: Binghamton, N. 1^. 
 
 JONES, Edward Groves: 
 
 Physician; born in Chattooga County, 
 Ga., Jan. 14, 1874; son of John A. and 
 Margaret (Kendrick) Jones. He was grad- 
 uated from Emory College, Oxford, Ga., A. 
 B., 1895, and from Atlanta College of Phy- 
 sicians and Surgeons, M.D., 1900, and did 
 post-graduate work in Johns Hopkins Uni- 
 versity, 1900. He is a practising physician 
 of Atlanta, Ga., and is proctor and professor 
 of surgery in the Atlanta School of Medi- 
 cine. He is a director of the Realty Com- 
 pany of the Atlanta School of Medicine. 
 Ur. Jones married in Columbia, S. C, Nov. 
 7, 1900, Lillian Taylor. Address: Atlanta, 
 Ga. 
 
 JONES, Edward N.: 
 
 Principal of the New York Training 
 School for Teachers ; born at Oneida County, 
 N. Y., Jan. 2, 1854; son of Edward T. and 
 Rebecca (Evans) Jones. He was graduated 
 from Hamilton College, A.B., 1883. He was 
 superintendent of schools of Saratoga 
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 Springs, 1883-1892; principal of the State 
 Normal Scliool, Plattsburgh, N. Y., 1892- 
 1898; first assistant of the New York Train- 
 ing School for Teachers, 1898-1904; princi- 
 pal since 1904. He was president of tlie 
 Xew York State Teachers' Association, 1894- 
 1895, and is a member of the Board of Ed- 
 ucation of \\hite Plains, N. Y. He is a 
 member of the National Educational Asso- 
 ciation, Phi Beta Kappa Society and Delta 
 Upsilon fraternity. He married at Hamil- 
 ton, N. Y., Aug. 10, 1882, Elizabeth Tomp- 
 kins, and they have four children. Address: 
 220 West 120th Street, New York City. 
 
 JONES, Francis Coates: 
 
 Artist; born in Baltimore, July 25, 1857. 
 He was a student at ficole des Beaux Arts 
 under Yvon, Lehmann, Boulanger and Lefeb- 
 yre; and he has had a studio in New York 
 City since 1882. He was awarded the 
 Clarke prize, and National Academy of De- 
 sign, 1885; silver medal at Pan American 
 Exposition, 1901. Mr. Jones is an academi- 
 cian of the National Academy of Design ; 
 member of the Society of American Artists, 
 American Water Color Society. Architectur- 
 al League, Society of Mural Painters, Amer- 
 ican Fine Arts Society, Municipal Aid So- 
 ciety, Fine Arts Federation, and Century 
 Club. Address: 253 West 42d Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 JONES, Frank Smith: 
 
 JMerchant; born in Stamford, Conn.. Aug. 
 19, 1847; son of Isaac S. and Francis J. 
 (Weed) Jones. He was educated in Stam- 
 ford schools and Eastman's Business Col- 
 lege, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He began his 
 business career as bookkeeper and later 
 became confidential clerk with A. J. John- 
 son, publisher of Johnson's Universal Cyclo- 
 pedia, In 1872, with his brothers, Cyrus D. 
 and Charles F., he opened a tea and coffee 
 store at Scranton, Pa. After retirement of 
 his brother, Charles F., the Grand Union 
 Tea ('om])any was organized, of which Frank 
 S. Jones was president, 1893-1903. and is 
 still a director, the business extending until 
 tlie company now has 200 branch stores in 
 many cities of the United Stixtes and head- 
 quarters in New York City. He is also mem- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ber of the firm of Jones Brothers of Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., who also own the Anchor Pot- 
 tery at Trenton, N. J. He is a director of 
 Sidney (N. Y.) Kovelty Company, and is 
 larj^ely intcresied in liinbcr laud and the 
 manufacture of lumber in Pennsylvania 
 and Mississippi, and in coal lands in Penn- 
 sylvania and West Virginia. In 1898 he 
 presented the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 
 and ISciences with the Gebhard Geological 
 Collection, and the Neumoegen Entomologi- 
 cal Collection; gave $-10,000 to the Bedford 
 Branch of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation, Brooklyn. Mr. Jones is a trustee 
 of W'csleyan University, Brooklyn Institute 
 of Arts and Sciences, and the Central Con- 
 gregational Church. He is a member of the 
 New York Chamber of Commerce, and the 
 ^lanufacturers' Association. He is also a 
 nuMubor of the National Arts, Brooklyn, 
 Union League, Crescent, Hiding and Driv- 
 ing and Congregational Clubs. He married 
 in New York City, June 4, 1879, Mary 
 Louise Granbery, and they have two chil- 
 dren: Henrietta Jones .Simons, and Maude 
 Virginia Jones. Address: 790 St. Mark's 
 ,\\eiiu('. r>riiiiklyii, N. Y. 
 
 JONES, Gardner Maynard: 
 
 Librarian; born at Charleston, Mass., 
 Jxme 27, 1850; son of Nahum and Lucy 
 (Blake) Jones, and a descendant of Lewis 
 Jones who came from England to Koxbury, 
 Jlass., before 1640. After graduation from 
 the high school at Dorchester, Mass., in 
 180(5, Mr. Jones was an employee of var- 
 ious book stores in Boston. 1867-1887, then 
 attended the School of Library Economy of 
 Columbia College, and in February, 1889, 
 became librarian of the Public Library at 
 Salem. ]\liiss. lie i^ author of: List of 
 Subject Headings for use in Dictionary Cat- 
 alogues, 1895; Hough Subject Inde.x to the 
 Pul)lications of the Essex Institute, and 
 various contributions to library publica- 
 tions. He is a member of the American Li- 
 brary Association, and its treasurer from 
 1897-1906; member and' ex-president of the 
 Massachusetts Library Club; member, and 
 formerly treasuref, vice-president and pres- 
 ident of the Appalachian Mountain Club. 
 Mr. Jones married, June 30, 1897, Kate Em- 
 
 ery Sanborn, of Franklin Falls, N. H. Ad- 
 dress: Salem, Mass. 
 
 JONES, Harry Clary: 
 
 Chemist; born in New London, Md., Nov. 
 11, 1865; son of William and Joanna C. 
 Junes. He was graduated from Johns Uoi)- 
 kins University, A.B., 1889 ; university 
 scholar, 1889-1891; fellow, 1891-l8!)-2; Ph.D., 
 1892 ; studied at the Universities of Leipzig, 
 Stockholui and Amsterdam, 1892-1894. He 
 is professor of physical chemistry in Johns 
 Hoi)kins University; associate editor of the 
 Journal de Chimie physique and of the 
 Physikalish-chemisches Centralblatt and au- 
 thor of various text-books on physical and 
 inorganic chemistry (Macmillan). He has 
 published about eighty scientific papers in 
 American, German, French and English sci- 
 entific journals; two monographs on his 
 own investigations in the series being pub- 
 lislied by the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 
 ington. Address: Johns Hopkins Univer- 
 sity, Baltimore. 
 
 JONES, Horace C: 
 
 Manufacturer; born June 16, 1857. He 
 was educated in the Scientific Department 
 of the University of Pennsylvania; entered 
 the firm of E. D. & E. Jones, large lumber 
 dealers, to represent his father's interest, 
 continuing in it till 1880, when he organ- 
 ized the firm of H. C. Jones & Co.; took 
 the Schuylkill Woolen Mills, and since then 
 has devoted himself to this flourishing en- 
 terprise. His first partner in this was Stan- 
 ley Lees, but he retired in 1885, and was 
 succeeded by John Booth, who became man- 
 ager of tlie mills. In addition to his active 
 labors in the development of the Schuylkill 
 i\lills, Mr. Jones has become prominent in 
 otlier concerns, being a director of the 
 Conshohocken Woolen and Gas Light Com- 
 panies, and of the First National Bank of 
 Conshohocken and the Norristown Title and 
 Trust Company, and is secretary and treas- 
 urer of the Electric Light and Power Com- 
 pany of Conshohocken. He gives his chief 
 attention, however, to the Schuylkill Woolen 
 Mills. He is a member of the Union League 
 uTid tlie Manufacturers' Clubs of Philadel- 
 jiliia. Address: Conshohocken, Pa. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 JONES, Hugh Bolton: 
 
 Artist; born in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 20, 
 1848. He was awarded a medal (third 
 class) at the Paris Exposition, 1889 medal 
 of the Columbian Exposition, 1893 ; bronze 
 medal of the Paris Exposition, 1900; Webb 
 prize of the Society of American Artists, 
 1902; Shaw Fund prize. Society American 
 Artists, 1902; and received a gold medal 
 from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 
 1904. He is an academician of the Nation- 
 al Academy of Design, and a member of the 
 Society of American Artists; American 
 Water Color Society; American Fine Arts 
 Society ; Municipal Aid Society, and the 
 Clubs: Century and Salmagundi Clubs. 
 Address: 253 West 42d Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 JONES, Ira B.: 
 
 Jurist; born at Newberry, S. C. Dec. 29, 
 1851; son of Charles M. Jones and Mary J. 
 (Neel) Jones. After graduation in 1870 
 from Erskine College (from which he has 
 received the A.M. degree), he studied law 
 and was admitted to the bar in 1873. In 
 1875 he located in the practice of law at 
 Lancaster, S. C, where he has since resided, 
 and there also became prominent in political 
 matters as a representative Democrat. He 
 was three times elected a member of the 
 House of Representatives of South Caro- 
 lina, and was for two terms speaker of the 
 House, was a member of the Constitutional 
 Convention of 1895. In 189G he was elected 
 to tlie Supreme bench of the State, on which 
 lie is still serving as associate justice. 
 Judge Jones married at Newberry, S. C, 
 Jan. 21, 1875, Rebecca H. Wyse. Residence: 
 Lancaster, S. C. Ollieial address: Colum- 
 bia, S. C. 
 
 JONES, John H.: 
 
 President of the Pittsburgli-Rullalo Coal 
 Company; l)oni in Greenock, Allegheny 
 County, Oct. 7, 18(5(). He was educated in 
 tlie public schools of Monongahela, finish- 
 ing with a business education in Pittsburgh. 
 When he was seventeen years old he was 
 made a mine foreman ; was next promoted 
 to general superintendent, and by the time 
 
 lie attained liis majority he was manager 
 of his father's extensive mining interests. 
 In 1890, he was instrumental in forming 
 the James Jones and Sons Company, wliicli 
 was absorbed by the jMonongaheia combine 
 in 1899. Tlie Pittsburgli and iJuflalo Com- 
 pany was formed later and has been an 
 important factor in the Uestern Pennsyl- 
 vania coal trade. He is also treasurer of tlie 
 Johnetta Coal Company and the Wasliington 
 and Greene Railroad Company; he was ac- 
 tive in the organization of the Monongahela 
 River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company 
 and became one of its leading ollicers. Ad- 
 dress: Frick Building, Pittsburgh. 
 
 JONES, Leonard Augustus: 
 
 Jurist and author; born in Templeton, 
 Mass., Jan. 13, 1832; son of Augustus Ap- 
 jiieton and Mary (Partridge) Jones. He 
 was graduated from Harvard College, A.B., 
 1855, LL.B., 1858. He began the practice of 
 law in Boston in 1858. In 187(» Mr. .rones 
 began writing on leading subjects of the 
 law, and for about thirty years devoted 
 his time lai'gely to this work. He has been 
 chief judge of the Land Court of Massachu- 
 setts since 1898. Judge Jones is author of: 
 A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages of 
 Real Property, six editions; Treatise on the 
 Law of Corporate Bonds and Mortgages, 
 three editions; Treatise on the Law of Mort- 
 gages of Personal Property, four editions ; 
 Treatise on the Law of Pledges, including Col- 
 lateral Securities, two editions ; Treatise on 
 the Laws of Liens, Common Law, Statutory, 
 Equitable and Maritime, two editions; 
 Forms in Conveyancing, live editions; An 
 Index to Legal Periodical Literature, two 
 volumes; Treatise on the Law of Easements, 
 one volume; Treatise on the Law of Landlord 
 and Tenant, one volume; and he has been as- 
 sociate editor of the Americ;in Law Review, 
 1885-1904, editor-in-chief, 1904-1907, when 
 he resigned. Mr. Jones married in Temple- 
 ton, Mass., Josephine Lee. Residence: 89 
 Mount Vernon Street. Address: Pember- 
 ton Building, Boston. 
 
 JONES, Lewis Ralph: 
 
 Professor of botany; born at Brandon, 
 Wis., Dec. 5, 1864; son of David and Lucy 
 
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 (Knapp) Jones. He began his education in 
 Ripen College, Wis., and was graduated 
 from the Universitj' of Michigan, Ph.B., 
 
 1889, Ph.D., 1004. He spent one year in re- 
 search, dividing his time between botanical 
 laboratories of the United States Depart- 
 ment of Agriculture in Washington, and 
 various European laboratories, especially 
 those of Berlin. He was a teacher in natur- 
 al science at Mt. Morris (Illinois) College, 
 1887-1888; instructor in natural science, 
 1890; assistant professor, 1891, and profes- 
 sor of botany since 1892 in the University 
 of Vermont. He has also been botanist in 
 the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
 tion since 1890, and collaborator of the Bu- 
 reau of Plant Industry of the United' States 
 Department of Agricultural since 190-t. Mr. 
 Jones is a member of the Vermont Botanical 
 Club, the New England Botanical Club, 
 fellow of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, member of the So- 
 ciety for the Promotion of Agricultural Sci- 
 ence, Vermont Forestry Association (presi- 
 dent) and the Botanical Society of America. 
 He married in La Crosse, Wis., June 24, 
 
 1890, May Bennett. Residence: 46 North 
 Prospect Street. Address: University of 
 Vermont, Burling'ton, Vt. 
 
 JONES, Richard Lloyd: 
 
 Editor of Collier's Weekly; born Janes- 
 ville. Wis.. April 14. 187.? ; son Jenkin 
 Lloyd and Susan (Barber) Jones. He was 
 educated in the University of W^isconsin 
 and University of Chicago, LL.B., LL.M., 
 1897. He was a member of the Chicago 
 bar, practising one year; came to New York 
 City to enter journalism; edited daily ]niper 
 at Stamford, Conn., 1899; organized and 
 was contributor to the Independent Dem- 
 ocratic Syndicate Service, 1900; Eastern 
 representative and editorial contributor to 
 the Pilgrim Magazine, and special editorial 
 writer Washington Times, 1900-1902; asso- 
 ciate editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, 
 1902-190:i; since 1903, associate editor of 
 Collier's Weekly. He organized, with Rob- 
 ert J. Collier and Clarence H. Mackay, the 
 Lincoln Farm Association (of which he is 
 secretiiry), a patriotic organizaton of Amer- 
 can citizens to make a national park of 
 
 the farm in Kentucky on which Abraham 
 Lincoln was born. He is a member of the 
 City, National Arts, Players' and Phi 
 Gamma Delta Clubs of New York City. 
 Address: 41G West 13th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 JONES, Thomas Goode: 
 
 Jurist, ex-governor; born in Macon, Ga., 
 Nov. 26, 1844; son of Samuel G. and 
 Martha Ward (Goode) Jones. His parents 
 removed in 1850 to Montgomery, Ala., of 
 which place he has ever since been a res- 
 ident. He was graduated from the Virginia 
 Military Institute in 1862, and thereafter 
 served in the Confederate Army of North- 
 ern ^'irginia until the end of the war. be- 
 coming major on the staff of General John 
 B. Gordon, in which capacity he carried 
 one of the flags of truce sent out by General 
 Gordon to General Sheridan's lines at Ap- 
 pomattox Court House. April 9, 1865. He 
 became a planter after the war; studied 
 law and was admitted to the bar in 1866, 
 and after that practised law at Montgom- 
 ery, Ala. He was a member of the City 
 Council of Montgomery, 1875-1884; served 
 in the Alabama Legislature four years and 
 was speaker of the Alabama House of Rep- 
 resentatives, 1886-1888; was Supreme Court 
 reporter of Alabama for ten years, and as 
 such prepared and published eighteen vol- 
 umes of Supreme Court Reports; was 
 colonel of the Second Regiment of Alabama 
 State Troops, 1880-1890, and commanded 
 the troops in the suppression of riots in 
 1883 and 1888, at Birmingham. He was 
 governor of Alabama, 1800-1894, and per- 
 sonally commanded the State troops in the 
 suppression of the railroad riots in 1 894 ; 
 was delegate to the Constitutional Conven- 
 tion of Alabama in 1901. and was appointed 
 by President Roosevelt, Oct. 9, 1901, U. S. 
 district judge for the Middle and Northern 
 Districts of Alabama. In the summer of 
 1907 he attracted national attention by en- 
 joining the State officials of Alabama from 
 executing a law passed by the Legislature 
 ;of Alabama, fixing passenger rates on rail- 
 I ways in that State, on the ground that the 
 I law was unconstitutional. Judge Jones 
 'married in Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 20, 1866, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Gcna C. Bird'. Address: Montgomery, Ala. 
 JONES, Wesley L.: 
 
 U. S. sciintor; Ijorii nvAV r.ctliiniy. III., 
 -Oct. 9, 1863. He was graduatod from the 
 Southern Illinois College at Enfield, studied 
 law, removed to the State of Washington 
 and engaged in practice. He was elected to 
 the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth 
 and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and' was re- 
 elected to the Sixtieth Congress, from the 
 State of Washington at large, as a Repub- 
 lican. He was nominated at the primary 
 election and elected to the U. S. Senate for 
 the term expiring March 3, 1915. He mar- 
 ried in Enfield, 111., Oct. 13, 1886, Minda 
 Nelson, and he has two children, a boy and 
 a girl. Address: North Yakima, Wash. 
 
 JONES, William Albert: 
 
 Brigadier-general of the United States 
 Army; born at St. Charles, Mo., June 26, 
 1841; son of Stillman and Ann Jane 
 (Perkins) Jones. He received his educa- 
 tion in public and' private schools at Car- 
 rollton. 111., and Reading, Mass.; and at 
 the United States Military Academy, where 
 he served as cadet until June 13, 1864, 
 when he was appointed first lieutenant of 
 the Corps of Engineers. He served in the 
 Sixth Corps, Army of the Potomac, in the 
 War of the Rebellion; served at the U. S. 
 ]\Iilitary xlcademy. West Point, N. Y., as 
 acting assistant professor of engineering, 
 and of law and ethics ; instructor in prac- 
 tical military engineering; treasurer of the 
 Academy, and commander of Company A, 
 Battalion of Engineers. He was engaged 
 in the construction of fortifications, ocean 
 harbors, river improvements, canals, locks 
 and dams, and lighthouses on the South 
 Atlantic and C4ulf Coast. W^as chief engi- 
 neer of the Military Division of the Pacific, 
 and' Departments of Dakota and The Platte. 
 Was retired from active service in 1905, 
 with rank of colonel of engineers and brig- 
 adier-general, U. S. A. He commanded the 
 U. S. Military Exploring Expedition of 
 Northwestern Wyoming and Yellowstone 
 Park. W^as consulting engineer for State 
 of California, Golden Gate Park, San Fran- 
 
 cisco; Great Northern R. R. locating its 
 route across the Cascade Mountains; rail- 
 road from Seattle, Wash., to New West- 
 minster, B. C; St. Anthony Falls Water 
 Power Co.; power dam on Cloquet River, 
 Minn.; lock and dam on Galena River, 111.; 
 Commonwealth of ^Massachusetts, Charles 
 River dam and ^Marine Park. ?Ie is mem- 
 ber of the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion, of the Grand Army of the Republic, 
 of the American Geographic Society, and 
 the University Club of Philadelphia. His 
 present occupation is that of a specialist 
 in hydraulic mining and lighthouse engi- 
 neering and oyster planter. He married at 
 Chicago, 111., Nov. 25, 1873, Louisa V. Test, 
 and they have a daughter, Martha Irwin, 
 wife of Captain W. T. Bates, 27th U. S. 
 Infantry. Address: Nassawadex, "Va. 
 
 JONES, William Atkinson: 
 
 Congressman; born in Warsaw, "Va., 
 March 21, 1849; son of Thomas and Annie 
 S. T. Jones. In the winter of 1864-1865 
 he was a student in the Virginia Military 
 Institute, where he remained until the 
 evacuation of Richmond, serving, as occa- 
 sion required, with the cadets in the de- 
 fense of that city. After the close of the 
 war lie studied at Coleman's School ia 
 Fredericksburg, until Oct., 1868, when he 
 entered the academic department of the 
 University of Virginia, from which insti- 
 tution he was graduated, B.L., in 1870. 
 He was admitted to the bar in July, 1870, 
 and has continued to practise law since. 
 jNIr. Jones was elected to the Fifty-second, 
 Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth. Fiftv- 
 sixth. Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth, Fifty- 
 ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, and re- 
 elected to the Sixty-first Congress. He was 
 one of the delegates-at-large from Virginia 
 to the National Democratic Convention of 
 1896 and chairman of his delegation. He 
 was also delegate-at-large to the Kansas 
 City Convention in 1900. Mr. Jones was 
 the author and first advocate of the reso- 
 lution adopted by the Democratic party in 
 Virginia to nominate Democratic candidates 
 for United States Senators at party pri- 
 mary elections. Address: Warsaw, Va. 
 
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 JONES, Woodruff: 
 
 Chcniicul ]ii:inufactiirer; born in Phila- 
 delphia, Dec. 13, 1S41; grandson of Isaac 
 C. Jones, a Pliiladelphia merchant in the 
 East India trade. He was educated in 
 several Philadelphia schools, and Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania, where he was gradu- 
 ated, A.B., 1860. He then took a position 
 with Crew, Rogers & Crew, manufacturing 
 chemists, at the same time attending lec- 
 tures in the Pliiladelphia College of Phar- 
 macy. During the war he was second lieu- 
 tenant in the First Philadelphia Battery, 
 and served through the Antietam and Get- 
 tysburg campaigns. Subsequently he en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of chemical and 
 pharmaceutical preparations imtil 1878, 
 when he entered the white lead, oil and 
 color factory of John T. Lewis & Brother, 
 of which company he became secretary and 
 treasurer on its incorporation in 1889. and 
 in 1007 was elected vice-president and treas- 
 urer, ^fr. Jones was one of the founders 
 of the Science and Art Club of German- 
 town. Address: 5503 Germantown AA-enuf, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 JORDAN, Chester B.: 
 
 Law^yer and ex-governor; born at Cole- 
 brook.' Coos County, N. H., Oct. 15, 1839; 
 son of Johnson and Minerva (Buel) Jor- 
 dan. He was educated in the public schools 
 and the Kimball Union Academy, Plain- 
 field, N. H. After his graduation he en- 
 gaged in newspaper work, and from 1808 
 was for six years clerk of the Supreme 
 Court for Coos County, N. H. While filling 
 that office he studied law, and in 1875 he 
 was admitted to the bar. He engaged in 
 practice at Lancaster, N. H., and became 
 one of the leaders at the Coos County bar, 
 and also prominent in political affairs as a 
 licpublican. He was elected to the House 
 of Representatives of New Hampshire and 
 was its speaker in 1881, to the State Senate 
 and became its president in 1897, and in 
 1900 he was elected governor of New Hamp- 
 shire, serving 1901-1903. Governor Jordan 
 received the degrees of A.^T., 1881, and 
 IJy.D., 1901, from Dartmouth College and 
 of M.Sc. from the New Hampshire College 
 of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in 
 
 1901. He is a prominent member of the 
 State and local bar associations of New 
 Hampshire. Address: Lancaster, N. H. 
 
 JORDAN, David Starr: 
 
 President of Stanford LTniversity ; born 
 in Gainesville. N. Y., Jan. 19, 1851; son of 
 Hiram and Huldah Lake (Hawley) Jordan. 
 He was graduated from Cornell University, 
 M.S., 1872, and the degree of LL.D. was af- 
 terward conferred upon him by the same 
 university, and by Johns Hopkins Univer- 
 sity. He also received the degrees of M.D. 
 from the Indiana University, and Ph.D. 
 from Butler College. He served as pro- 
 fessor of natural history at Lombard Uni- 
 versity, 1872-1873; was principal of the 
 Appleton Collegiate Institute, of Appleton, 
 Wis., 1873-1874; teacher of science in the 
 Indianapolis High School, 1874-1875; pro- 
 fessor of biology in Butler University, 1875- 
 1879; professor of zoology in Indiana Uni- 
 versity, 1879-1885; president of the Indiana 
 University, 1885-1891; and since 1891 has 
 been president of the Leland Stanford, Jr., 
 University. Dr. Jordan is a fellow of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science (of which he is president), Amer- 
 ican Philosophical Society; National Edu- 
 cational Association, and the Carnegie 
 Foundation for the Advancement of Teach- 
 ing (of which he is vice-chairman), and 
 many others; and he was elected to mem- 
 bership in the National Academy of Sci- 
 ences in 1909. He has been almost con- 
 tinuously connected with the United States 
 Fish Commission and liis travels in the 
 United States and in tlie Pacific have been 
 in carrying out investigations of this bu- 
 reau. He is author of a number of books, 
 notably, A Manual of Vertebrates; Synopsis 
 of Fishes of North America (with Professor 
 ('. H. Gilbert); Fishes of North and ISIid- 
 dle America (with Dr. B. W. Everman) ; 
 A Guide to the Study of Fishes; Science 
 Sketches; Care and Culture of Men; Foot- 
 notes to Evolution; Imperial Democracy; 
 Tlie Blood of the Nation; Evolution and 
 Animal Life; The Philosophy of Hope; The 
 Human Harvest; Tlic Fate of Ichodorum ; 
 College and the INIan ; The Innumerable 
 Company, and scientific papers in maga- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 zines nnd procepd'in<rs of societies, nprpre- 
 gatinfj about fivp hundred titles. He is also 
 a menibor of Delta ITp.silon fraternity, the 
 Sigma Xi Society. Phi Beta Kappa, and 
 the University, Bohemian and Sierra Clubs 
 of San Francisco. He married, first, at 
 Hinsdale, Mass., in 1875, Susan Bowen, 
 by whom he has two children. He married, 
 second, at Worcester, Mass., in 1887, Jessie 
 L. Knifjht, by whom he has two sons. Ad- 
 dress: Stanford University, Calif. 
 
 JORDAN, Edwin Oakes: 
 
 Professor of bacteriolofiy, University of 
 Chicago; born in Thomaston, Me., July 28, 
 1866. He was graduated from the Massa- 
 chusetts Institute of Technolo.gy, S.B., 1888, 
 and as Ph.D. from the Clark University 
 in 1802. He is editor of The Journal of 
 Infectious Diseases; president of the Amer- 
 ican Society of Bicteriologists. Dr. Jordan 
 has published Translations of Hueppe's 
 Bacteriology; A Text-Book of General Bac- 
 teriology and special monographs in the 
 Journal of Experimental Medicine. Journal 
 of Hygiene, etc. He married, in 1893, Elsie 
 Fay Pratt, and has two sons and one daugh- 
 ter. Address: I'uivcr'^ity <if Chieago, Chi 
 cago. 
 
 JORDAN, Elizabeth: 
 
 Editor and author ; born in Milwaukee, 
 Wis.. :May 9. 1867: daugliter of tlie Inte 
 William Francis Jordan and Margarita 
 (Carver) Jordan. She was educated at tlie 
 convent of Notre Dame, in Milwaukee, from 
 which she graduated with high honors at 
 the age of seventeen. She holds the Cross 
 of Honor of Xotre Dame. At tlie age of 
 twenty Miss Jordan came to New York and 
 entered upon her professional career, having 
 been offered a position on the World by 
 Colonel John A. Cockerill. then editor-in- 
 chief. She remained for ten years with the 
 World, one year as reporter and nine years 
 on the editorial staff, during which time 
 she made for herself a brilliant journalistic 
 record, probably vinequaled by that of any 
 other American woman. She was assistant 
 editor of the Sunday World for three years, 
 associated with Arthur Brisbane, then the 
 editor of the Sundav World. During this 
 
 time Miss Jordan "made up" the entire 
 edition of the Siinday World. She resigned 
 from the World. Jan. 1, 1900, to aecopt 
 the editorship of Harper's Bazaar, offered 
 her by Colonel Ceorge Harvey, the new 
 president of Harper and Brothers. This 
 position she still holds. Miss Jordan is the 
 author of five books: Tales of the City 
 Room, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 
 during her experience on the World, and 
 largely a chronicle of those experiences. 
 Her other books are: Tales of Destiny, 
 Tales of the Cloister, May Iverson — Her 
 Book, and Many Kingdoms, all published 
 by Harper and Brothers during the past 
 nine years. She is also joint author of 
 The Whole Family, a novel she wrote in 
 collaboration with William Dean Howells, 
 Henry James, Henry Van Dyke, Elizabeth 
 Stuart Phelps, Alice Brown, and several 
 other authors. In 1898 Miss Jordan made 
 a special study of tenement conditions in 
 New York, and published the results of her 
 investigations in the New York World 
 under the title, The Submerged Tenth. 
 Subsequently she made a close study of 
 tenement conditions in London and Paris. 
 In 1902 she took a course of lectures at the 
 Sorbonne, in Paris. She is a member of 
 the National Arts Club of New York and 
 of the American Committee of One Hundred. 
 She is al-o a member of Ihe Xotre Dame 
 Alumnae Association of the Northwest. Her 
 work appears in the leading American mag- 
 azines and in tho.se of England, where it 
 is as well known as in America. Miss 
 Jordan is an excellent musician. She was 
 a well-known amateur pianist in Milwaukee 
 and Chicago before beginning her profes- 
 sional career in New York, iliss Jordan 
 has traveled extensively in Europe, studying 
 social conditions in England, Scotland, Ire- 
 laml. Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, 
 Holland, Belgium, Austria and Spain. Res- 
 idence: .14 (Jramercv Park. Office: Har- 
 per & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York 
 City. 
 
 JORDAN, James Henry: 
 
 Chief justice of Indiana; born at Wood- 
 stock, Shenandoah County, Va., Dec. 21, 
 1842; son of Charles B. and Elizabeth 
 
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 Rhoads (Burke) Jordan. His paternal 
 grandfatlier, David Jordan, came from Ger- 
 many to \'ir2ini:i about 1784, and his ma- 
 ternal grandfather was a relative of the 
 famous statesman, Edmund Burke. He has 
 been a resident of Indiana since 185.S; 
 served three years in the Army of the Po- 
 tomac in the Forty-fifth Indiana Volunteers, 
 participatin<j in all the important battles 
 of that army. After the war he went to 
 the State University of Indiana, graduat- 
 ing therefrom as A.B., 1808, LL.B., 1871; 
 and the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon 
 him by Wabasli College in I!)07. He was 
 admitted to the bar in 1869, before his 
 graduation in law, and practised at Clinton, 
 Mo., and Martinsville, Ind. He was ap- 
 pointed prosecuting attorney in 1872, judge 
 of the Circuit Court, tru.stee of the State 
 University of Indiana, 1891-1895, and' was 
 elected judge of the Supreme Court of In- 
 diana in 1894. He has continued on the 
 Supreme bencli by successive reeleetions in 
 1900 and 190G, and is now chief justice. 
 Judge .Jordan was elected a member of the 
 Kepublican State Committee of Indiana in 
 1880 and its chairman in 1882. He is a 
 prominent member of the Grand Army of 
 the Republic, and was formerly judge ad- 
 vocate of the Department of Indiana. Res- 
 idence: Martinsville. Ind. Office: State 
 House, Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 JORDAN, John Woolf: 
 
 Librarian ; born in Philadelphia. Sept. 
 14, 1840; son of Francis and Emily (Woolf) 
 Jordan. He received his education in 
 private and Moravian schools and received 
 the degree of LL.D. from Lafayette College. 
 He is librarian of the Historical Society of 
 Pennsylvania and has been editor of the 
 Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Bi- 
 ography since 1880. He served as com- 
 missary sergeant in Starr's Battery, at- 
 tached to the Thirty-second Regiment of 
 Pennsylvania Militia, and he served" through- 
 out the Gettysburg cami)aign. Dr. .Jordan 
 is a commissioner of the Pennsylvania State 
 Archives, and of the Valley Forge Park 
 of Penn.sylvania ; registrar of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Society of the Sons of tlie Revolution, 
 and vice-president of the Colonial Society 
 
 of Pennsylvania. Dr. Jordan married in 
 Philadelphia, Anne Page, and they have 
 tliree children. Residence: 800 North 41st 
 Street. Oflice: 1:500 Locust Street, Phil- 
 adelphia. 
 
 JOSSELYN, Edgar Alonzo: 
 
 Architect; born in Boston, July 2, 1801. 
 He won the Rotch Traveling Scholarship 
 (architecture) in 1887, and entered the 
 Ecolc des Beaux Arts, Paris, in 1888. He 
 completed his course there and has since 
 l)ractised architecture in New York City. 
 Among the more important buildings exe- 
 cuted from his designs are the Horace Mann 
 School, and Speyer School, Columbia Uni- 
 versity ; the Clarkson School of Technology 
 at Potsdam, N. Y. ; Charlton School, Staui- 
 toid (Conn.) Town Hall and New Canaan 
 (Conn.) Town Hall. Mr. Josselyn is a 
 member of the Society of Beaux Arts Arch- 
 itects (of which he was secretary, 1895- 
 1898) ; and associate of the American In- 
 stitute of Architects and a member of the 
 New York Chapter of the same ; and a 
 member of the Architectural League 'of New 
 York City. Residence: 144 East 22d 
 Street. Office: 3 West 29th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 JOURDAN, James: 
 
 President and director of the Brooklyn 
 Union Gas Company, Central Union Gas 
 Company, director New Amsterdam Gas 
 Company, Northern Union Gas Company, 
 East River Gas Company of Long Island 
 City, Mechanics' Bank (Brooklyn), People's 
 Trust Company, National Copper Bank, In- 
 terborough Rapid Transit Company, Rapid 
 Transit Subway Construction Company, 
 New York and Long Island Traction Com- 
 pany, Long Island Electric Railway Com- 
 l)any, New York and Queens County Rail- 
 way Company, New York and New Jersey 
 Telephone Com]iany. Subway Realty Com- 
 pany, Century Realty Company, Brooklyn 
 and Canarsie Realty Company. Residence: 
 174 Washington Park. Address: 180 Rem- 
 sen Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 JOYCE, William B.: 
 
 President of the National Surety Com- 
 pany; born in Utiea, N. Y., 18G5; son of 
 
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 Henry Manwaring Joyce. He was educated 
 in public scliools in Micliigan. Mr. Joyce 
 was formerly an insurance agent; since 
 Feb., 1904, president National Surety Com- 
 pany. He is reputed to have written (as 
 agent) the largest amount of surety bonds 
 of any agent in the world. He is origi- 
 nator of the Fidelity Insurance Policy, and 
 the Automobile Bail Bond Power of Attor- 
 ney. He is a Democrat and has had some 
 political experience in St. Paul, Minn., 
 where he ret-ains his legal residence. He is 
 a member of the Arkwright Club of New 
 York City, Minnesota Club of St. Paul, and 
 Minneapolis Club of Minneapolis. Mr. 
 Joyce married Lucy Natalie Curley, of 
 Louisville, Ky., and has two sons. Resi- 
 dence: 50 West 77th Street. Office: New 
 York Life Building, New York City. 
 
 JOYCE, William Thomas: 
 
 Lumber merchant; born in Salisbury, 
 Conn., Jan. 2, 1860; son of David and 
 Elizabeth F. (Thomas) Joyce. He engaged 
 in tlie lumber business with his father at 
 Clinton, Iowa, when he was twenty years 
 of age, and succeeded to his father's inter- 
 ests in 1895, which had in the meantime 
 become greatly enlarged. He is now pres- 
 ident of the W. T. Joyce Company, William 
 T. Joyce Company Southern Investment 
 Company, Tremont Lumber Company, Winn 
 Parish Lumber Company, Trinity County 
 Lumber Company, Joyce Lumber Company, 
 Itasca Lumber .Company, Joyce- Watkins 
 Company, Deer River Lumber Company, 
 Tremont and Gulf Railroad, Minneapolis 
 and Rainy River Railroad' Company, Man- 
 istee and Grand Rapids Railroad Company, 
 president of the Louisiana Lumber Co., 
 and of the Garland Hotel Co.; and is a 
 director in the Mississippi River Logging 
 Company, the St. Paul Boom Company and 
 other corporations. He is a member of the 
 Masonic Order and of the Protective Benev- 
 olent Order of Elks, and of the Union 
 League, Chicago Athletic, Chicago Yacht, 
 and Medlothiam Clubs of Chicago. Mr. 
 Joyce married at Clinton, Iowa, Oct. 15, 
 1884, Clotilde Gage, and they have two 
 children. Residence: 4614 Woodlawn Ave- 
 nue. Office: 208 La Salle Street, Cliicago. 
 
 JUCH, Emma Antonia Joanna (Mrs. 
 Francis L. Wellman): 
 
 Operatic singer; born in \i(iiiia, .Inly 4, 
 IS6:3; daughter of Justin Juch (music pro- 
 fessor, who was a native of Vienna l)ut wlio 
 became a citizen of the United States at 
 Detroit) and Augusta (liahn) Juch; born 
 during visit of parents in Vienna. When 
 she was two years old, lier parents returned 
 to the United States, making tiieir lionic in 
 New York City. She was educated in tlie 
 public schools and graduated from Normal 
 School. Miss Juch married in Stamford, 
 Conn., June 25, 1894, Francis L. Wellman, 
 of the New York City Bar. Her father was 
 opposed to her entering professional life and 
 did not encourage her to cultivate her musi- 
 cal talents, so she pursued the musical 
 studies in secret as a pupil of Mme. Murio- 
 Celli; made her debut in concert in Chick- 
 ering Hall, at which her father was pres- 
 ent, scoring complete success; her fatlier 
 then encouraged her studies. Slie was en- 
 gaged by Colonel ^Mapleson, in May, 1881, 
 to sing leading soprano roles in London, 
 and made her debut at Her Majesty's Grand 
 Italian Opera as " Felina " in Mignon, June, 
 1881, and appeared in other leading soprano 
 roles of Italian grand opera for three .sea- 
 sons ; then refused to renew her engage- 
 ment. She then shared the work of Nilsson 
 and Materna in the Wagnerian tour in the 
 U. S. under management of Theodore Tliom- 
 as and sang alternate nights with Nilsson 
 as " Elsa " in Lohengrin; was the first 
 artist engaged when the American Opera 
 Company was formed, and in that company 
 sang six roles and 164 times; for about five 
 3'ears sang in festivals, symphonic concerts 
 and at the head of the Emma Juch Grand 
 English Opera Company, imtil her marriage. 
 Mrs. Wellman was made an honorary mem- 
 ber of the Aschenbroedel Verein of Profes- 
 sional orchestra musicians in recognition of 
 her service in aid of the society's Circle 
 Fund. Address: 12:5 East 37th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 JUDD, Charles Hubbard: 
 
 Professor of psychology, Yale; born at 
 Bareilly, India, Feb. 20, 1873; sou of 
 
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 Charles Wesley and Sarah (Hubbard) Judd. 
 He was graduated from Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity, A.B., 1894, and from Leipzig, Ph.D., 
 1896. He became instructor in philosophy 
 in Weslcyan University, 1896-1898, profes- 
 sor of experimental psychology in New 
 York University, 1898-1901; professor of 
 psychology and pedagogy in tlie University 
 of Cincinnati, 1901-1902; since then in Yale 
 University as instructor, 1902-1904; as- 
 sistant professor, 1904-1907, and professor 
 of psychology from 1907. He was director 
 of the Yale Summer School, 1906-1907; 
 editor of Monograph Supplements to the 
 Psycliological Review, and of tlie Yale Psy- 
 chological Studies, and is author of: Gene- 
 tic Psychology for Teachers (Appleton) ; 
 and of a Series of Psychological Text-Books 
 (Scribner's). Mr. Judd is a fellow of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science, member of the Council of the 
 American Psj'chological Association; and 
 member of the American Philosophical As- 
 sociation, the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra- 
 ternity, and the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma 
 Xi honor societies. He is also a member 
 of the Graduates' Club of New Haven. Mr. 
 Judd married at Binghamton, N. Y., Aug. 
 23, 1898, Ella Le Compte, and they have 
 one daughter. Address: 318 Willow Street, 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
 JUDSON, Harry Pratt: 
 
 President of the University of Chicago; 
 born in Jennestown, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1849; 
 son of Lyman Parsons and Abigail Cook 
 (Pratt) Judson. He was graduated from 
 Williams College, A. B., 1870, A.M., 1883, 
 and received its degree of LL.D. in 1893; 
 and tlie degree of LL.D. was also conferred 
 upon him by the Queens University, 1903, 
 State University of Iowa, 1907, and Wash- 
 ington University, 1907. He was teacher 
 and principal of the Troy (N. Y. ) High 
 School, 1870-1885; professor of history in 
 the University of Minnesota, 1885-1892; 
 has been professor and liead of department 
 of political science at the University of Chi- 
 cago since 1892, and afterward became dean 
 of faculties of arts, literature and science; 
 and he was elected president, in 1907, of 
 tlie University of Chicago. He is a member 
 
 of the American Historical Association, 
 American Political Science Association; 
 Order of the Crown (second class), from 
 the German Emperor; trustee of the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago, the Lewis Institute of 
 Chicago, the Bradley Polytechnic Institute 
 of Peoria, 111.; the General Education 
 l5oard of New York, and a member of the 
 Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and Phi 
 Beta Kappa. Presidt-nt Judson is a mem- 
 ber of the Union League, University, City, 
 Hamilton and Homewood Country Clubs of 
 Ciiicago. He married in Troy, N. Y., Jan. 
 14, 1879, Rebecca A. Gilbert, and they have 
 one daughter. Residence: 505 59th Street, 
 Chicago. Office: The University of Chi- 
 L-ago, Chicago. 
 
 JUDSON, William Bosworth: 
 
 Journalist; born in Syracuse, N. Y"., May 
 17, 1849; son of John F. and Maria (Bos- 
 worth) Judson. He received his education 
 in the public schools of Clienango County. 
 He was a local writer on the Miami Valley 
 News at Piqua, Ohio, in 1867-1868, and was 
 engaged in the insurance business at Bay 
 City, Mich., 1868-1871. He was employed 
 for a few months in the office of the Lum- 
 berman's Gazette, at Baj' City, that paper 
 being the first one established in the direct 
 interest of the lumber trade. In 1873 Mr. 
 Judson established' the INIichigan Lumber- 
 man at Grand Rapid's, Midi., but removed to 
 .Muskegon after the first issue, and in Jan., 
 1874, to Chicago, at tlie same time chang- 
 ing the nime to the Nortliwestern Lum- 
 berman, wliich was for many years regarded 
 as among the leaders of its class. In 1899 
 the Northwestern Lumberman was consoli- 
 dated with the Timberman, under an incor- 
 jjoration, of which Mr. Judson is tiie pres- 
 ident and general manager. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Union League and Hamilton 
 Clubs of Chicago. He married at Roclicster, 
 X. v., in 1872, Grace King, and has three 
 children. Residence: 4231 Michigan Ave- 
 nue. Office: 315 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 
 
 JUDSON. William Voorhees: 
 
 Major Curj)s of Engineers, U. S. A.; born 
 in Indianapolis, Ind., Eeb. 16, 1865; son of 
 Charles E. and Abby (Yoorhees) Judson. 
 
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 He was educated at Harvard two years, and 
 was apjjoiiited to, and ^'tiduated from, West 
 Point, and attended the United States En- 
 gineer School for three years. He is espe- 
 cially known for his work in connection 
 ^\■itll the inijjrovement of Savannah Harbor, 
 and has also distinguished himself in work 
 in connection with Mississippi River im- 
 provements. He has been instructor of en- 
 gineering at the United States Military 
 Academy, assistant to chief of engineers, 
 and was military attache with the Russian 
 Army, in the Russo-Japanese War. He is 
 now in charge of lake and harbor improve- 
 ments and lighthouse construction on Lake 
 Michigan. Major Judson was married at 
 Lexington, Ky., April 22, 1891, to Alice 
 Carneal Clay, and they have one son. His 
 address is: Care of Adjutant-General, United 
 States Army, ^^■aslling•ton. 
 
 JTJHRING, John C: 
 
 Merchant; born in New York City; son 
 of John C. Juhring, successful real estate 
 operator, and Lena (Stuke) Juhring. Mr. 
 Juhring was educated in the public schools, 
 and Mount Washington Collegiate Institu- 
 tion, from which he was graduated in 18(3.3. 
 lie entered the employ of Francis H. Leg- 
 gett & Comjmny in 1873, and in 1902 was 
 admitted to partnership. In 1902, when 
 the firm was ciianged to a corporation, he 
 was chosen as its vice-president and secre- 
 tary. He was one of tlie charter members 
 of the Merchants' Association of New York, 
 and at its first meeting, in 1897, was 
 elected its vice-president. Mr. Juhring is 
 recognized as a public-sjiirited citizen, and 
 one who always has in mind the welfare 
 and best interests of the city of his birth. 
 He takes a commendable pride in setting 
 forth the unapproached advantages of New 
 York City as the great trading center. On 
 Feb. 15, 1905, the Evening Mail, in a de- 
 partment of that journal called " j\len of 
 Atfairs," published a picture of Mr. Juhring, 
 and entitled it, the Rromoter of Gotham's 
 Advantages. Mr. Juhring said, on a recent 
 occasion: '"The reasons for New York's 
 great predominance are numerous. It is the 
 focal point of commerce, manufactures and 
 distribution. There are, of course, other 
 
 great trade centers, but they cannot become 
 the great focal points upon wliicli the great 
 currents of international trade converge. 
 The commerce of a nation is its interchange 
 of commodities with other nations, and be- 
 cause we can and do furnisli va»t quanti- 
 ties of food products as well as manufac- 
 tured goods to otiier nations, and must in 
 turn buy tea, coffee, spices and innumerable 
 other necessities that foreign countries pro- 
 duce, naturally there must always be great 
 trade currents setting to and from our 
 shores. New York is the main port of entry 
 for the whole country, and therefore the 
 greatest distributing center. Hence the 
 principal steamship lines converge here to 
 a greater extent than in any other port on 
 this continent. It is this concentration that 
 has made New York the great center that 
 it is, and so soon to be the metropolis of 
 the world. It is also significant that more 
 than seventy per cent of the merchandise 
 that the United States imj^orts for business 
 purposes passes through the port of New 
 Vork, and it follows as a logical sequence 
 that these goods can be procured here to 
 better advantage than in any other market. 
 These are a few of the reasons for New 
 York's commercial supremacy, and they in- 
 dicate why the metropolis towers above all 
 other American cities." Mr. Juhring is a 
 director of the Coal and Iron National Bank 
 of New York City, a trustee of the Citizens' 
 Savings Bank and a director of other com- 
 mercial institutions. He is a member of the 
 Merchants' Club of New York. He mar- 
 ried at the Hotel Majestic, New York City, 
 Oct. 19, 1901, Miss Frances Bryant Fisher, 
 and they have a son, John C, 3d, born Aug. 
 30, 1902. They have a country home in 
 Ardsley Park. Residence: 311 West 86th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 JUILLIARD, Augustus D.: 
 
 Capitalist, lie is the senior n. ember of 
 A. D. Juillard & Comiiany; president and 
 diieetor of the Cossit Lanu Company; trus- 
 tee of the Mutual Life Insurance Company; 
 of the New York Life Insurance and Trust 
 Company; of the Title Guarantee and Trust 
 Company; of the Central Trust Company; 
 of the Fifth Avenue Trust Company; of the 
 
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 Greenwich Savings Bank; also a director 
 of the Bank of America; of the Chemical 
 National Bank: of the Girard Trust Com- 
 pany of Phihulclphia; Guaranty Trust Com- 
 pany of New York; Metropolitan Opera and 
 Real Estate Company; Morton Trust Com- 
 pany; National Bank of Commerce; North 
 British and Mercantile Insurance Company 
 of London and Edinburgh (United States di- 
 rector) ; North British and Mercantile In- 
 surance Company of New York; Realty As- 
 sociates. He is a member of the Metropoli- 
 tan, Union League, Republican, Merchants', 
 Tuxedo Clubs. Residence: 16 West Fifty- 
 seventh Street and Tuxedo Park. Address: 
 70 \Vorth Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 JTINKIN, Francis Thomas Anderson: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Virginia, Feb. 3, 1864; 
 son of Rev. William Finney Junkin, D.D., 
 LL.D., and Anna Aylett (Anderson) Junkin. 
 His father was son of Rev. George Junkin 
 (founder of Lafayette College, president of 
 Washington and Lee University, Virginia, 
 and father-in-law of " Stonewall " Jackson) ; 
 and his mother was daughter of Hon. Fran- 
 cis Thomas Anderson, for many years and 
 until his death justice of tlie Supreme Court 
 of Appeals of Virginia. lie is descendant 
 through his mother's side from the earliest 
 settlers of Virginia, a direct ancestor being 
 Gov. Jolin West, lirst governor of Virginia, 
 son of Lord De La Warr II. Mr. Junkin 
 was graduated from Kenyon College, A.B. 
 and A.M., 1884; and from Columbia Univer- 
 sity Law School, New York, LL.B., 1887. 
 He started his professional career in the 
 offices of Joseph H. Choate, William M. 
 Evarts, and Charles C. Beaman, New Y^ork, 
 and he practised law in Wall Street many 
 years. He has broad experience in corpora- 
 tion and especially railroad practice, being 
 active as one of the counsel for the Farmers' 
 Loan and Trust Company in most of the 
 imjiortant foreclosures and reorg:mi/.at ions 
 of railroad systems, 1893-1897. Mr. Junkin 
 is a member of the association of the Bar 
 of the City of New York; American Bar 
 Association; National Geograpiiic Society; 
 American Forestry Association; Society 
 of Colonial Wars, Southern Society, and the 
 Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He is 
 
 also a inembor of the University Club 
 of New York; the L'niversity Club of 
 Chicago; Democratic Club of New York; 
 Union Club of Chicago; Chicago Club; 
 Onwentsia and Saddle and Cycle Clubs of 
 Chicago. Address: Union Club, Chicago, 
 and the Railway Exchange, Chicago. 
 
 JUNKIN, Joseph de Forest: 
 
 LaAvyer; born in Philadelphia, April 16, 
 1855; son of George and Jeanie de Forest 
 Junkin. He attended the school of John W. 
 Faires until 1870; was graduated from Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, 1874, M.A., 1877. 
 He was admitted to the bar in 1877, and has 
 been in active practices in Philadelphia 
 since then, representing large corporate in- 
 terests in all parts of the United States. He 
 is a member of the Board of Directors of the 
 Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia, 
 Jefferson Medical College, Lafayette College 
 and Lawyers' Club. Mr. Junkin is a mem- 
 ber of the Union League, Art, and Lawyers' 
 Clubs, Law Association, Penn Club, and 
 Bachelors' Barge Club of Philadelphia, New 
 York Y'acht Club, Sons of the Revolution, 
 St. Andrew's Society, Orpheus Club and 
 Country Clul). Address: Real Estate Trust 
 Building, Philadelj^hia. 
 
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 KAHN, Julius: 
 
 Congressman; born at Kuppcnheini, 
 Grand Duchy of Baden, (Germany. Feb. 
 28, 18GI. He came to (";ilifovnii with 
 iiis parents in 18(i6; and was educated 
 in the public schools of San Francisco. 
 After leaving school lie followed the 
 theatrical profession for ten years, playing 
 with Edwin Booth. .Joseph JeflFerson, 
 Tomasso Salvini, Mr. and jMrs. W. J. Flor- 
 ence, Clara Morris, and other well-known 
 stars. He returned to San Francisco in 1890 
 and began studying law; in 18D2 was elected 
 to the Legislature of the State of California. 
 In January, 1894, he was admitted' to the 
 bar by the Supreme Court of California. 
 He was elected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty- 
 seventh Congresses, and reelected to the 
 i'ifty-ninth and Sixtieth C'ongres-^es from 
 the Fourth California District, and was re- 
 
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 elected in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress 
 as a Republican. lie married in San Fran- 
 cisco, Marcli 19, 1899, Florence Prag. Ad- 
 dress: San Francisco. 
 
 KAHN. Otto H.: 
 
 Banker; born in Mannheim, Germany, 
 Feb. 21, 18G7; son of Bernhard and Emma 
 (Eberstadt) Kahn. He was educated in the 
 schools of IMannheim. Mr. Kahn served a 
 year in the German Armj% then became con- 
 nected for five years with the London branch 
 of the Deutsche Bank, and in 1873 came to 
 tlie United Slates. He was with the bmkinj- 
 liouse of Speyer & Co. in New York for two 
 years, and since Jan. 1, 1897 has been a 
 member of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., 
 bankers. He is a director of the National 
 Bank of Commerce, the Equitable Trust Com- 
 pany, Morristown Trust Company, Metro- 
 ]iolitan Opera Company and New Theatre 
 Company. ]\Ir. Kahn married in New York 
 City, Jan. 8, 1896, Addie Wolff, and they 
 have three daughters and' a son. Residence: 
 8 East (i8th .Street. Office: 54 William 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 KALANIANAOLE, Jonah Kuhio: 
 
 Congressman: horn at Koloa, ishmd of 
 Kauai, Hawaii, March 26, 1871. He was 
 educated in Honolulu, the United States and 
 England. He is a capitalist; was employ- 
 ed in the office of minister of the interior and 
 in the custom house under the monarchy; 
 is cousin to the late King Kalakaua nnd 
 Queen Liliuokalani, monarchs of the then 
 Kingdom of Hawaii, and nephew of Queen 
 Kapiolani, Consort of Kalakaua; was cre- 
 ated' prince by royal proclamation in 1884; 
 was elected delegate to the Fifty-eighth 
 and Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses, 
 and reelected to the Sixty-first Congress. 
 He married Elizabeth Kahanu Kaauwai, 
 daughter of a chief of the island of Maui, 
 Oct. 8, 1896. Address Waikiki, Honolulu. 
 
 KA.SSON, John Adam: 
 
 Diplomat; born at Charlotte, Vt., Jan. 
 11, 1822; son of John Steel and Nancy 
 (Blackman) Kasson. He was graduated' 
 from the University of Vermont, A.B., 
 1842, and afterward studied law at Wor- 
 
 cester, Mass.; practised at New Bedford, 
 Mass., 1844-1849, at St. Louis, 18.30-18.56, 
 and in IS.')? locah'd in the practice of law 
 at Des Moines, Iowa. He was a Free-soiler 
 in politics (delegate to the Free-soil Con- 
 vention at Bufl'alo in 1848), and one of the 
 original members of the Republican Party; 
 Ciiairman of the Republican State Commit- 
 tee of Iowa, 1858-1860; a member of the 
 Republican National Convention at Chiaigo 
 in 1860, and a member of the Committee and 
 Rub-Committee on Resolutions of tliat body. 
 He was appointed by President Lincoln fir.st 
 assistant postmaster-general of the United 
 States, serving 1861-1863; was the special 
 U. S. Commissioner to the International Pos- 
 tal Conference at Paris, 1S63; was member 
 of the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Forty- 
 third, Forty-fourth, Forty-eighth and Forty- 
 ninth Congresses ; was U. S. Minister to 
 Austria, 1877-1881, and to Germany, 1884- 
 1885; member of the Congo International 
 Conference, 1885, Samoan International Con- 
 ference, 1893, member of the American- 
 Canadian Joint High Commission in 1898, 
 and U. S. special commissioner plenipotenti- 
 ary to negotiate reciprocity treaties, 1897- 
 1901. Address: 1726 I Street, Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 KATJFMAN, Abraham Charles: 
 
 Red Cross official; born in Charleston, 
 S. C, Sept. 10, 1839: son of Abraham and 
 Anna Dorothea (Faber) Kaufman. He wis 
 graduated from the College of Charleston, 
 A.B., A.M., March, 1860. Mr. Kaufman was 
 prominent in building the Spartanburg and 
 Asheville Railroad, now a part of the South- 
 ern Railway, a link connecting Charleston 
 and the Great West, begun in 1873. Mr. 
 Kaufman is also prominent in the Red Cross 
 movement, is president of the South Caro- 
 lina branch of the American National Red' 
 Cross, and is a member of the Central Com- 
 mittee of the National Red Cross. Mr. 
 Kaufmann was appointed by President Mc- 
 Kinley a member of the Board of Visitors 
 to the U. S. Military Academy at West 
 Point, 1900; and was appointed by Gover- 
 nor McSweeney to represent South Caro- 
 lina at President McKinley's funeral. He 
 was also appointed by Governor Ileyward, 
 
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 and again by (Jovernor Ansel, to represent 
 South Carolina at the River and Harbor and 
 other Conjfrcsses of a similar nature at 
 Washington, D. C. ; and he was a Republi- 
 can candidate for presidential elector-at- 
 large for South Carolina in 1!)0S. Mr. 
 Kaufman is a trustee of the College of 
 Charleston, the Avery Normal Institute, 
 the Hospital and Training School for Nurses 
 and the Star Gospel Mission. He is a 
 member of St. Philip's (Protestant Epis- 
 copal) Church in Charleston, now more than 
 225 years old. He is a member of the Sons 
 of the Revolution, German Friendly So- 
 ciety, Clianiber of Conuiierce of Charleston, 
 Commercial Club and German Rifle Club. 
 Address: Charleston, S. C. 
 
 KAVANAGH, Marcus: 
 
 .luri>t; liorii in Dcs Moines. Iowa, Sept. 
 3, 1859; son of Marcus and ^lary (Hughes) 
 Kavanagh. He attended the public schools 
 of Des Moines and was graduated from Ni- 
 agara University in 1S7G, and from the Law 
 Department of the Iowa Slate I'niversity, 
 LL.J^., 1878. He was admitted to the Iowa 
 bar in the same year and engaged in general 
 practice in his native city. He was elected 
 in 1880 and reelected 1882, city attorney of 
 IJes Moines; he was elected district judge 
 of the Ninth Judicial District of Iowa in 
 1885 but resigned the position in 1889 and 
 removed to Chicago, where he became asso- 
 ciated in practice with Judge John Gibbons, 
 under the style of Gibbons & Kavanagh, 
 which later was changed to Gibbons, Kava- 
 nagh &, 0"Donnell. Judge Gibbons retired 
 from the firm upon his elevation to the 
 bencli, and the llrm continued as Kavanagh 
 & O'Donnell until at the election in 1899 Mr. 
 Kavanagh was chosen for the judge of the 
 Superior Court of Cook County, the po- 
 sition which he now holds. While residing 
 in Des Moines he was major and afterward 
 lieutenant-colonel of the Third Regiment of 
 Iowa National Guard. He was elected lieu- 
 tenant-colonel of the Seventh Regiment, Illi- 
 nois National Guard, in 1894 and promoted 
 to colonel in 189(5. He served with distinc- 
 tion in the Spanish-American War as colonel 
 of the Sevenlli X'oluiiteer Infantry. He is 
 
 a Republican in politics. Address: 1518 
 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 KEAN, Hamilton Fish: 
 
 Banker; born in Ursino, N. J., Feb. 27, 
 1862; son of John and Lucy (Halstead) 
 Kean. He is a member of the firm of Kean, 
 Van Courtland & Co.; president and di- 
 rector of the First National Bank of Poarl 
 Amboy, N. J.; vice-president and director 
 of the Kean, Van Courtland & Co. Realty 
 Company; director of the Elizabethtown Gas 
 Light Company; Elizabethtown Water Com- 
 pany; Federal Trust Company of Newark, 
 N. J.; Hackensaek Water Company.; Na- 
 tional State Bank of Elizabeth, N. J.; North 
 American Exploration Company, Limited; 
 Pocahontas Collieries Company; Rahway 
 Gas Light Company, and West Hudson 
 County Trust Company, of Harrison, N. J. 
 Mr. Kean is a member of the Union, Knick- 
 erbocker, Metropolitan, ^lidday, St. An- 
 thony, DoMU Town, New York Athletic, and 
 Riding Clubs of New York, and the Metro- 
 politan Club of Washington, D. C. He mar- 
 ried in New York City, Jan. 12, 1888, Kath- 
 arine Wintlirop, and they have two sons, 
 John and Robert Wintlirop. Residence: 25 
 East 37th Street. Gllice: 30 Pine Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 KEAN, John: 
 
 L'uited States Senator; born in Ursino, 
 X. .J., Dec. 4, 1852; son of Jolin and Lucy 
 Kean. He entered Yale College in the class 
 of 187G; did not graduate, but left to study 
 law, and was graduated from Columbia 
 College Law School, LL.B., 1875, and was 
 admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1877. 
 He was selected' to the Forty-eiglitli and 
 I'^ifticl h Congresses ; was chairman of the Re- 
 publican State Committee, 1891-1892, and 
 Republican candidate for governor, 1892; 
 received the degree of M.A. from Y^ale Uni- 
 versity in 1890; wMs a member of llu- coiu- 
 mittee to revise the judiciary system of the 
 Slate. He is president of the National State 
 i5ank of Elizabeth, N. J., and vice-president 
 (if the Manhattan Trust Company, of New 
 York. Ho was nominated by acclamation 
 hv the Kciiiiblican caucus, and elected to 
 
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 the U. S. Senate, Jan. 25, 1899, to succeed 
 James Smith, Jr., IJcmocrat; and' was re- 
 elected in 1905. His term of service will ex- 
 pire March .3, 1911. Address: Ursino, 
 near Elizabeth, N. J. 
 
 KEANE, John Joseph: 
 
 Arclibishop of Dubuque; bom at liallv- 
 shannon. County Donegal, Ireland, Sept. 12, 
 1839; and was brought to the United States 
 by his parents in 1840. He was graduated 
 from St. Charles College, Ellicott City, Md.. 
 and studied theology at St. Sulpice and St. 
 Mary's Seminary iu Baltimore. After his 
 ordination to the priesthood by Archbishop 
 Spalding in ISGG he was assistant to the 
 permanent rector of St. Patrick's Church, 
 Wasiiington, D. C, until he was consecrated, 
 Aug. 25, 1878, bishop of Richmond, Va. This 
 oUice he resigned in August, 1888, received 
 the titular see of Ajasso, and was rector ot 
 the Catholic University of America, 1888- 
 189(i. lie was sunnnoned to Home, and was 
 made titular Arehbisliop of Damascus, Jan. 
 9, 1897. served as assistant at the pontifical 
 throne, canon of the Lateran and' consultor 
 to the Propaganda, with residence at the Ca- 
 nadian College, Rome. In July, 1900, he 
 was elevated to the metropolitan see of Du- 
 buque. Address : Dubuque, Iowa. 
 
 KEASBEY, Henry Miller: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in Newark, N. J., 
 Jan. IG, 1859; son of Anthony Q. and Ed- 
 wina L. (Miller) Keasbey. He was edu- 
 cated in private schools and the Newark 
 Academy. He commenced business with the 
 Mutual Life Insurance Company at the 
 age of seventeen, remaining three years; was 
 manager of a bank in Colorado for two 
 years; and in 1882 he became associated 
 with the Raritan Hollow and Porus Brick 
 Company, of Keasbey, N. J., as secretary and 
 treasurer; and afterward became succes- 
 sively vice-president and then president of 
 the company. In 1902 he became vice-presi- 
 dent and Eastern manager of the National 
 Fire Proofing Companj'; also president of 
 the Federal Clay Manufacturing Company; 
 the American Vitrified Conduit Company 
 and Eastern manager of the H. B. Camp 
 Company. Mr. Keasbey is a member of the 
 
 Lawyers' and the Essex County Country 
 CJlubs. He married at Newark, N. J., April 
 18, 1883, Charlotte Condit Lewis, and they 
 have three daughters. Country Home': 
 " Holmwood," Oiange, N. J. Ollice: 949 
 l^roadvvay. New York City. 
 
 KEASBEY, Lindley Miller: 
 
 Professor of political science; born in 
 Newark, N. J., Feb. 24, 1807; son of An- 
 thony Quinton and Edwina Louisa (Miller) 
 Keasbey. He graduated from Harvard, A. 
 B., 1888, Columbia, A.M., 1889, Ph.D., 1890, 
 Kaiser Wilhelm Universitiit, Strassburg, 
 (Jermany, R.P.D., summR cum laude, 1892. 
 Dr. Keasbey was professor of political sci- 
 ence in the University of Colorado, 1892'^ 
 1895; professor of political science in Bryn 
 Mawr College, 1895-1905; professor and 
 head of the school of Political Science in 
 the University of Texas, since 1905. Dr. 
 Keasbey is president of the Hackensack Inn 
 Company, of New Jersey. He is a member 
 of the American Philosophical Society, 
 American Economic Association, American 
 Sociological Association, American Political 
 Science Association, and the American As- 
 sociation for the Advancement of Science. 
 His favorite recreation is farming and stock- 
 raising on " Inshallah," a small irrigated 
 farm near Austin, Texas, devoted to fancy 
 vegetables, flowers, fruits and stoc. Profes- 
 sor Keasbey married in Louisville, Ky., June 
 8, 1892, Cornelia Graham Sumrall, and has 
 two daughters. Residence: Inshallah. Of- 
 fice: University of Texas, Austin, Texas. 
 
 KEARNEY, Belle: 
 
 Lecturer and writer; born at Vernon, 
 Miss., in 1803; daughter of Colonel Walter 
 G. and Sue (Owens) Kearney. She was ed- 
 ucated in Mississippi, was engaged in teach- 
 ing for six years and since 1889 has been on 
 the lecture ])latform as speaker for the 
 National Woman's Christian Temperance 
 Union and for Chautauquas. Miss Kearney 
 has made numerous temperance, prohibit imi 
 and ])opular addresses in all parts of the 
 United States, Canada and the British Isles, 
 as well as on the continent of Europe, and 
 she has traveled around the world, lecturing 
 
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 and wrltinfT for a syndicate of nowspapers. 
 Her family wore wealtliv planters of 
 the old reffinie, with large estates and many 
 slaves, though Miss Kearney herself is often 
 spoken of as a ty])ioal enibodinient of the 
 New South. Her autobiographical book, A 
 Slaveholder's Daughter has had a wide cir- 
 culation. Address: Balfour, Madison 
 County, Miss. 
 
 KEATOR, John Frisbee: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Roxbury, Delaware 
 County, N. Y., April IG, 1850; son of 
 Abram Johnson and Ruth (Frisbee) Keator. 
 His parental ancestors were from Holland 
 descent and his mother was of Scotch de- 
 scent; and in his direct lines of ancestry are 
 John Keator, who was killed' by Indian 
 allies of the British while serving as a 
 soldier in the Revolutionary War, and 
 John Frisbee, a soldier in the War of 1812. 
 Mr. Keator was educated in public schools 
 and afterward taught country school, pre- 
 pared for college at Williston Seminary, 
 Easthampton, Mass., and w'as graduated 
 from Yale as A.B.. 1877, and' from the Law 
 Department of the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania at Philadelphia as LL.B., 1879. He 
 was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 
 1879 and has since been engaged in prac- 
 tice there, and' since 1890 has been a mem- 
 ber of the bar of the Supreme Court of the 
 United States. He is head of the law firm 
 of Keator & Johnson and is trustee and 
 counsel for various charities and benevo- 
 lent institutions in Philadelphia. He is a 
 Republican of the anti-machine type, repre- 
 senting his district two terms in the Penn- 
 sylvania Legislature, and has been identified 
 with efforts for good government in State 
 and City. He is a master Ma.son and Knight 
 Templir. and a member of leading clubs of 
 Philadelphia and the Yale Club of New 
 \<nk. Mr. Keator iiiurried, Feb. 10, 188.5, 
 Anna \\ . Sweat man. and they have three 
 living children, the eldest of whom, Rachel, 
 is now (1909) a sophomore in Wellesley 
 College. Residence: 218 West ^Valnut 
 Lane, Philadelphia. Office: 1020-1029 Ste- 
 phen (Jirard Building, Phihulelpliiu, Penn- 
 sylvania. 
 
 KEELER, Harriet Louise: 
 
 Educator, botanist, author; born at South 
 Kortright, Delaware County, N. Y., in 1846; 
 daughter of Burr and Elizabeth A. (Bar- 
 low) Keeler. She was educated in Dela- 
 ware Academy, Delhi, N. Y., and Oberlin 
 College, A.B., 1870, A.M., 1900. Miss 
 Keeler was a teacher in Central High 
 School, Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1871; super- 
 intendent of primary instruction, Cleveland, 
 1871-1879; assistant principal of Central 
 High School, Cleveland, since 1879. Miss 
 Keeler is author of: Our Native Trees and 
 Our Northern Shrubs, both published by 
 Charles Scribner's Sons; and joint author 
 (with Emma C. Davis) of studies in Eng- 
 lish Composition, and (with Mary E. Ad- 
 ams) of High School English, both pub- 
 lished by Allyn & Bacon. She is a member 
 of the Advisory Council of W^estern Reserve 
 University, member of various educational 
 associations and of the Fortniglitly (musi- 
 cal). College and Colonial Clubs. Address: 
 1953 East 59th Street, Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 KEEN, Gregory Bernard: 
 
 Curator and secretary of the Council of 
 the Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; 
 born in Philadelphia, March 3, 1844; son 
 of Joseph Swift and Lucy Ann (Hutton) 
 Keen. He wns graduated as A.B. from the 
 University of Pennsylvania, 1861, and re- 
 ceived the degree of AM., in 1864, and LL.D. 
 from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1907. 
 He was graduated at the Divinity School 
 of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Phil- 
 adelphia and ordained deacon of the Church 
 in 186(); resigned this office and became a 
 Catholic in 1808; and during 1809-1870 he 
 traveled in Europe. He attended lectures in 
 the I\Iedical De])artment of tlie University 
 of Pennsylvania, 1870-1871; was professor 
 of mathematics in the Theological Semi- 
 nary of St. Charles Barromeo at Overbrook, 
 Pa., 1871-1872, and for several years de- 
 voted himself to the study of Greek litera- 
 ture. He was corresponding secretary of 
 the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1880- 
 1898; librarian of the University of Penn- 
 sylvania, 18S7-1897; and librarian of the 
 Historical Society of Pennsylvania from 
 
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 1898 to 1903, when he became curator of 
 that society. As executor of Professor 
 (Jcorge Allen, LL.D, he prepared a catalogue 
 of his famous Chess Library, printed in 
 1878; edited the Pennsylvania Magazine of 
 History and Biography, 1883- 1884, contrib- 
 uting translations of various Dutch and 
 Swedish manuscripts and pami)hlets relat- 
 ing to the early Swedish colony on the Del- 
 aware, as well as a series of articles on 
 The Descendants of Jiiran Kyn, the founder 
 of Upland, his first American ancestor; 
 wrote the chapters on New Sweden and' New 
 Albion in the Narrative and Critical His- 
 tory of America, edited by Justin Winsor; 
 prepared the catalogue of the Collection of 
 Autographs formed by Ferdinand Julius 
 Dreer, privately printed in 1890-1893. He 
 was delegate to the Columbian Catholic Con- 
 gress at Chicago in 1893 and has been his 
 toriographer of the Alumni Society of the 
 College Department of the University of 
 Pennsylvania since 1890. Dr. Keen is a 
 member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, 
 the American Philosophical Society, the 
 American Catholic Historical Society, the 
 Peinisylvania Society of Sons of the Revolu- 
 tion, the Society of the War of 1812, regis- 
 trar of the Colonial Society of Pennsyl- 
 vania, and historian of the Pennsylvania 
 Society of Colonial Wars. He married in 
 1885 Stella Maria, daughter of John Mar- 
 shall and Hanna Martina (Gunwalsen) 
 Watson of New York. Address: 1300 Lo- 
 cust Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 KEEN, William Williams: 
 
 Surgeon; born in Philadelphia, Jan. 19, 
 1837; son of William Williams and Susan 
 fl'ndil) Keen. His rncestor J(iran (i. e. 
 George) Kyn came from Upland, Sweden, 
 in 1G42, in the expedition of Governor 
 Printz. He was graduated from Brown 
 University in 1859, and from Jefferson Med- 
 ical College as M.D. in 1862; received the 
 degree of LL.D. from Brown University, 
 1892, Northwestern University, 1903, Uni- 
 versity of Toronto, 1904, University of Edin- 
 burgh, 1905, and Yale, 1906, and the hon- 
 orary degrees of M.D. from Greifswald, 1906, 
 and Ph.D. from the University of Upsala, 
 1907. Before his graduation in medicine he 
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 was appointed assistant surgeon of the Fifth 
 Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment in ISOI ; 
 was acting assistant surgeon, U. S. Army, 
 1862-1804; studied in Europe, 18«4-18(}h, 
 and since then has practised surgery in 
 Philadelphia. Dr. Keen was lecturer on 
 pathological anatomy in Jefferson Medical 
 College, 18G6-1875; professor of artistic 
 anatomy in the Pennsylvania Academy of 
 Fine Arts, 1876-1890; professor of surgery 
 in the Woman's IMedical College, 1884-1889; 
 and professor of surgery at JcfTerson Medi- 
 cal College from 1889 until 1907, when he 
 resigned his chair and was made professor 
 emeritus. Dr. Keen is a member of many 
 medical and other scientific societies; was 
 president of the American Surgical Associa- 
 tion, 1898, of the American Medical Associa- 
 tion, 1899. the College of Physicians of Phil- 
 adelphia, 1900, and the Congress of Amer- 
 ican Physicians and Surgeons in 1903. 
 Since 1894 he has been a foreign correspond- 
 ing member of the Socigte de Chirurgie de 
 Paris, Societe Beige de Chirurgie and the 
 Clinical Society of London; and he is an 
 honary fellow of the Royal College of Sur- 
 geons of England, Royal College of Surgeons 
 of Edinburgh and the Deutsche Gesellschaft 
 fiir Chirurgie, and is president of the Amer- 
 ican Philosophcal Society for the years 1908- 
 1909. He is author of several works on 
 surgery, the latest of which is Keen's Sur- 
 gery (five volumes), 1907. In politics he is 
 a Republican, and in his religious faith a 
 Baptist; and he is author of the Histoiy 
 of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia. 
 He is a member of the University, Brown 
 University and City Clubs of Philadelphia. 
 Dr. Keen married at Fall River, Mass.. Dec. 
 11, 1867, Emma Corinna Borden, who died 
 in 1886, leaving four children. Address: 
 1729 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 KEENE, Francis Bowler: 
 
 American consul at Geneva; born in Mil- 
 waukee, Dec. 11, 1856; son of Rev. David 
 and Susan Elizabeth (Bowler) Keene. He 
 was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1880, 
 served in the en;.'in or covp-; of the Chicago. 
 Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad and was 
 afterward in newspaper life in ^lilwaukee 
 on The Sentinel and Evening Wisconsin and 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 later as financial and commercial editor of 
 the Jlilwaukee Journal. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Wisconsin Legislature, 1899-1902. 
 He was American consul at Florence, 1903- 
 1905, and was appointed, March 23, 1905, 
 American Consul at (icneva. lie is a mem- 
 ber of the Sons of the American Revolution, 
 the American Society of International I^vw, 
 the American and Wisconsin Historical As- 
 sociation and the Press and Harvard Clubs 
 of Milwaukee. Address: American Consu- 
 late, Geneva, Switzerland. 
 
 KEENE. Foxhall: 
 
 Banker; son of James R. Koone, Wall 
 Street linancier, and Sara (Daingerfield) 
 Keene. He has been associated with liis 
 father not only in business, but also on the 
 turf, where they have been leaders for many 
 years. He is known in the United States 
 and abroad as one of the most accomplished 
 and successful of American riders, and he 
 is one of the most prominent members of the 
 Rockaway Hunt Club; also a member of 
 the Racquet and Tennis, Turf and Field and 
 Meadow Brook Clubs and the Automobile 
 (lull uf America. Address: Westbury, 
 L. J., X. Y. 
 
 KEELEY, James: 
 
 Editor; born in London, England, Oct. 
 14, 1867; came to the United States and 
 was educated in the public schools. He be- 
 gan his newspaper career with the Chicago 
 Tribune as a reporter and has continued 
 witli that paper ever since, being successive- 
 ly pronioted to night city editor, city editor, 
 and, in 1898, to his present position as 
 managing editor. He added to his many 
 laurels of journalistic enterprise by planning 
 and executing the series of cou[)s by which 
 Paul 0. Stensland the absconding president 
 of the Milwaukee Avenue State Bank of Chi- 
 cago, was tracked (by Mr. Keeley and Harry 
 Olsen, since elected chief justice of the Mu- 
 nicipal Court of Chicago) to Tangier, Mo- 
 rocco, taken back to Chicago and sent to 
 J(diet penitentiary for forgery. Mr. Keeley 
 married in Chicago, June 5, 1895, Gertrude 
 E. Small. Residence: 86 Astor Street. Of- 
 fice: The Tribune, Chicago. 
 
 KEENE, James Robert: 
 
 Capitalist; born in London, England, in 
 1838; went as a boy to California, where, 
 as a miner, he laid the foundation of a large 
 fortune. He was for some time president 
 of the San Francisco Stock Exchange; but 
 has, since 1877 carried on operations in New 
 York. Mr. Keen is an active member of the 
 Rockaway Hunt Club and of the leading 
 Jockey Clubs here and abroad. For years 
 he has been a generous supporter of the 
 Turf, and horses of his breeding and train- 
 ing have won in different years nearly all 
 the classic races held in England and 
 France. Residence : Cedarhurst, L. I. Ad- 
 dress: 30 Broad Street, New York City. 
 
 KEEP, Chauncey: 
 
 Capitalist;' born at Whitewater, Wis., 
 Aug. 20, 1853; son of Henry and Phebe 
 (McCluer) Keep. He received' his education 
 in the Chicago public schools. He was en- 
 gaged in the lumber business, 1878-1883, 
 and the Raymond Lead Company, 1888-1903. 
 Mr. Keep is vice-president and director of 
 the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank ; di- 
 rector of the Merchants' Loan and Trust 
 Company of Chicago, Chicago Telephone 
 Company, Northwestern Elevated Railroad 
 Company, The Pullman Company, the Chi- 
 cago and Northwestern Railway Company, 
 The Union Bag and Paper Company, and 
 the Calumet and Chicago Canal and Dock 
 Company; trustee of the New Y'ork Trust 
 Comi)any and of the United States Trust 
 Company of New Y^ork, and is executor and 
 trustee of the estate of Marshall Field, He 
 ! is a member of the Chicago Historical So- 
 ciety, the Chieigo Home lor Incurables. Old 
 People's Home of Chicago, and Hahnemann 
 Hospital and College. In politics he is a Re- 
 publican; and he is a member of the Epis- 
 copal Church. He has traveled extensively 
 in ]"]urope, Egypt, Mexico, the West Indies 
 and many other countries. His favorite re- 
 creations ar«; golf and horseback riding. Mr. 
 Keep is a member of the Chicago and Union 
 League Clubs of Chicago, 1 he Chicago Atlilet- 
 ic Associalion. Cliicago Coif Club ( \\ hcaton, 
 J 11.), Chicago Literary Club, Onwentsia Golf 
 Club (Lake Forest, 111.), Homewood Golf 
 
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 Club (Floosmore, 111.), Sad'dle and Cycle, 
 University and Midday Clubs of Chicago, 
 and the Railroad Club of Chicago. He 
 married at Chicago, Jan. 19, 1888, Mary H. 
 Blair, and their children are: Margaret, 
 Henry B., and Kathcrine F. Keep. Resi- 
 dence: 2825 Prairie Avenue. Office: 135 
 Adams Street, Chicago. 
 
 KEEP, William John: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in Oberlin, Ohio, 
 June 3, 1842; son of Rev. Theodore John 
 and Mary A. (Thompson) Keep. He was 
 graduated from Union College, C.E., 1865. 
 J\lr. Keep has been engaged as a stove man- 
 ufacturer ever since 1865 and is now of the 
 Michigan Stove Company; also a manu- 
 facturer of testing machines. In 1885 he 
 discovered the relation between the shrink- 
 age and chemical composition of cast iron, 
 devised the system of Keep's Test, which he 
 later named Mechanical Analysis. He is 
 author of: Cast Iron (John Wiley and 
 Sons), and is a contributor to various tech- 
 nical journals. Mr. Keep is a member of 
 the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 
 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 
 Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain, 
 International Association for Testing Mater- 
 ial, American Foundrymen's Association, 
 Franlin Institute of Philadelphia, Detroit 
 Engineering Society; fellow of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science; 
 honorary member of the Rensselaer Society 
 of Engineers and of the Foundrymen's Asso- 
 ciation of Philadelphia, and is a member of 
 the Sons of the American Revolution and 
 of the New England Society. Mr. Keep 
 married in Oberlin, Ohio, Frances S. Hender- 
 son, and they have two cliildren, Helen 
 Elizabeth and Henry. Residence: 753 Jef- 
 ferson Avenue. Address : Michigan Stove 
 Company, Detroit, Mich. 
 
 KEIFER, Joseph Warren: 
 
 Lawyer, soldier and congressman; born 
 on a farm in Big Bethel Township, Clark 
 County, Ohio, Jan. 30, 1836; son of Joseph 
 and Mary (Smith) Keifer. He was edu- 
 cated in Antioch College, Ohio, studied law 
 and was admitted to the bar Jan. 12, 1858, 
 and has since practised law at Springfield, 
 
 Ohio, except when engaged in public duty. 
 He was commissioned in April, 18G1, major 
 of the Third Ohio Infantry, promoted lieu- 
 tenant-colonel Feb. 12, 1862; commissioned 
 colonel 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Sept. 
 30, 1862; bre vetted brigadier-general, Nov. 
 30, 1804, and assigned to duty as brigadier- 
 general, Dec. 29, 1864; brevetted major-gen- 
 eral, July 1, 1865. He was mustered out 
 of service June 27, 1865. During his service 
 lie was four times wounded, and severely at 
 the battle of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864. 
 He was a member of the Ohio Senate, 1868- 
 1869; member of the Forty-fifth, Forty- 
 sixth, Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Con- 
 gresses, I877-I885, and was speaker of the 
 Forty-seventh Congress, Dec. 5, 1881 to 
 March 4, 1883. He was elected to the Fifty- 
 ninth Congress, 1904, and reelected in 1906 
 and 1908 to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Con- 
 gresses. He served as major-general in the 
 Sj^anish-American War. He was a delegate- 
 at-large from Ohio to the Republican Na- 
 tional Conventions of 1876 and 1908. He 
 was vice-commander-in-chief of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic, 1872-1873; first com- 
 mander-in-chief or bpamsh War Veterans, 
 1900-1901; commander of the Ohio Com- 
 mandery of the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion, 1903-1904. He was trustee of the 
 Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, 1870-1878, 
 and again, 1903-1904; trustee of Antioch 
 College since 1873. He is president of the 
 Lagonda National Bank of tepriiigfield. 
 General Keifer is author of : Slavery and 
 Four Years of War, 1900. He married, 
 March 22, 1860, Eliza Stout, who died March 
 12, 1899, and has three children. Address: 
 Springfield, Ohio. 
 
 KEILEY, Benjamin J.: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Savannah; born in Pe- 
 tersburg, Va., Oct. 13, 1847. After complet- 
 ing his preparatory education he went to 
 the American College at Rome, and he was 
 ordained to the priesthood Dec. 31, 1873. 
 He filled pastorates at New Castle and Wil- 
 mington, Del., until 1886, then at Atlanta. 
 Ga., until 1896. and after tliat at Savannah, 
 Ga., until consecrated by Cardinal Gibbons, 
 June 3, 1900. as bishop of Savannah. Ad- 
 dress: Savannah, Ga. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 KEIM, DeBcnneville Randolph: 
 
 Editor, author and Washington cor- 
 respondent; born in Reading, Pa., Jan. 1, 
 1841; son of Jolin High (Hoch) Koiiii, of 
 Pennsylvania and .Martha Elizabeth (Kan- 
 dolpli) Keim, of. Virginia. lie was edu- 
 cated by private tutors and scliools, the 
 Pennsylvania ]\lilitary Institute, Reading, 
 Pa., Antony Bolman's West Chester (Pa.) 
 Academy and Beloit (Wis.) College. He 
 taught scliool in Dubuque, Iowa, 1859; 
 served in tlie Surveyor-General's Ollice, Har- 
 risburg, Pa., 18G0-18C1. In 18G0 he became 
 cajitain of the Harrisburg Rilles; captain 
 First City Zouaves (now City Grays, Na- 
 tional Guard of Pennsylvania) ; correspond- 
 ent for newspapers in Philadelphia; assisted 
 in raising a Zouave regiment ; resigned, and 
 declined captaincy of infantry or lieutenancy 
 of artillery. He was war correspondent at 
 St. Louis of the New York Times and Phila- 
 delphia Inquirer. In Oct., 18G2, he became 
 war correspondent of the New York Herald, 
 in wliicli capacity he was with Gen. Grant 
 in both Vicksburg campaigns to the finish. 
 In 18G3, witli Banks' cimpaign against 
 Matagorda liay, Tcvas; in 18G4, on tlie 
 Slierman Meridian (.Mi^s.) ILxpedition, .Mc- 
 Pherson's marcli to Cli.-.tlanooga and At- 
 lanta campaign until that commander was 
 killed; and also reported the Confederate 
 raid into Maryland and Pennsylvania; after- 
 ward in the Herald editorial office in New 
 York, und I8G0-I8GG Herald correspondent 
 to the Suez Canal, Egypt, Red Sea Coast, 
 India, Ceylon, Australasia, and afterward 
 Herald Washington correspondent. Duiing 
 1S08-18G0, he went for the Herald with 
 Sheridan's winter campaign on the Plains; 
 declined the consulate to Foochow, China, 
 and' went as Herald Commissioner lo Sanio 
 Domingo in favor of annexation, and Cuba 
 in insurrection against Spain. He was re- 
 called to aeconii)any President (J rant in 
 tour lo Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massx 
 chusetts, White .Mountains, and Saratoga, 
 and after that alwaj's accompanied him. In 
 1870-1872 he was agent of the United Stales 
 to examine consulates in Asia, Africa, Cen 
 tral and South America and Europe, and 
 his reports were published by Congress. 
 Mr. Keim from 1873 was engaged contin- 
 
 uously as Washington correspondent, repre- 
 senting at diiTerent times the Philadelphia 
 Press, Times, Inquirer and Telegraph; 
 Pittsburgli Commercial (later Commercial 
 (Jazette), St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Albany 
 Journal, New York Iron Age, Harrisburg 
 Telegraph, and syndicated news and letters 
 to Chicago and New York, Tribune, Wash- 
 ington Evening Star and newspapers in 
 other metropolitan cities. He was appointed 
 first chief examiner of the Civil Service, but 
 preferred journalism and withdrew. Mr. 
 Keim is author of many works, including: 
 Santo Domingo; Sheridan's Troopers on the 
 Borders; Gazetteer of the Philippine Is! mds 
 (Senate Document No. 280, Fifty-seventh 
 Congress), Sherman Statue Memorial (Sen- 
 ate Document No. 320. Fifty-eighth Con- 
 gress). Rochambeau Statue Commemoration 
 (Senate Document No. 537, Fifty-n;nth 
 Congress); also the dramas: LaFayctte; 
 Frederick the Great, and Monmouth, and 
 many others in manuscript; and he has 
 written many magazine and syndicate ar 
 tides. He is a life member of the Historical 
 Society of Pennsylvania; member of the So- 
 ciety of the War of 1812. He is a stalwart 
 Republican and a member of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Republican Club of Washington. He 
 married in Hartford, Coim., June 25. 1872, 
 Jane A. Sumner Owen, and they have 
 two daughters. Residence : ' Edgeraount,"' 
 Reading, Pa. Office: Washington, D. C. 
 
 KEITH, Charles Penrose: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadelphia. March 15, 
 1854; son of Washington Keith and Anne 
 Mathews (Penrose) Keith. He was gradu- 
 ated from the University of Pennsylvania 
 as B.S. in 1873. He taught school ; "was li- 
 brarian pro tern of the Historical Society 
 of Pennsylvania in 1876, and was title ex- 
 aminer of the Real Estate Title Insurance 
 and Trust Company of Philadelphia, for 
 ten years. He was chief clerk of the United 
 States Appraiser's Office, Philadelphia, 188!)- 
 18!>o.- He is autlior of: The Provineial 
 Councillors of Pennsylvania from 1733 to 
 177G and their Descendants, 1883; and The 
 Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison and Notes 
 on Families Related, 1893. In polities he is 
 an Independent and in religion an Episco- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 palian, and he is a vestryman of old Christ 
 Church, Philadelphia. He is a member of 
 tlie Philadelphia Club and' the Gennantown 
 Cricket Club. Mr. Keith married in Phila- 
 delphia, Dec. 18, 1883, Elizabeth Harvey 
 Wister. Residence: 321 South Fourth 
 Street. Address: 308 Walnut Street, Phil- 
 adelphia. 
 
 KEITH, Minor C: 
 
 Capitalist: born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 1848; 
 son of Minor Hand and Emily Meiggs Keith, 
 lie was edncuted at Stanford, Connecticut. 
 He is president and director of the Abanga- 
 rez Gold Fields of Costa Rica, Costa Rica 
 Esperanza Mining;' Conipanv. Baltimore 
 Bridge Company, Guatemala Railway Com- 
 pany, Northern Railway Company of Costa 
 Rica, and Banco Comercial de Costa Rica; 
 vice-president and director of the Belize Roy- 
 al Mail and Central American Steamship 
 Company, United States Company (Boston), 
 director of the Fruit Dispatch Company, the 
 Nipe Bay Company, and' United Mines 
 Company. ^Mr. Keith is a member of the 
 Metropolitan, New York Athletic, and City 
 Midday Clubs of New York City. Resi- 
 dence: Babylon, L. I. Office: 17 Battery 
 Place, New York City. 
 
 KELCEY, Herbert: 
 
 Actor; born in England, Oct. 10, 1855. 
 He was intended for the army, but joined 
 a provincial theatrical company and made 
 his first appearance at the Theatre Royal, 
 Brighton, in 1877, and continued in the pro- 
 vinces until Aug. 6, 1881, when he created 
 the part of " Captain Lord Loverton " in 
 Youth, in which he made his London debilt 
 at the Drury Lane Theatre. He first ap- 
 peared in America at Wallack's Theatre, 
 New York, as " Philip Radley " in Taken 
 from Life, Sept. 9, 1882. He has created 
 many notable parts ; was a member of the 
 Madison Square Company, 1884-1885, after 
 that with the Wallack Stock Company, and 
 in October, 1887, leading man in Daniel 
 Frohman's Lyceum Stock Company, in 
 which he first appeared as " John Ruther- 
 ford " in The Wife, and continued with that 
 company until 1800, when he supported 
 
 ]\frs. Leslie Carter, in The Heart of Mary- 
 land. After that he became a star, playing 
 " Edward Fletciier," in The Motli and ^The 
 Flame, with Effie Shannon as leading wom- 
 an, and has continued to star in various 
 other plays, at the head of his own company. 
 Address: Care of Low's Exchange, 1123 
 Broadway, New York CitJ^ 
 
 KELIHER, John A.: 
 
 Congressman and real estate agent; born 
 in Boston, Nov. 0, 1800; son of John Keli- 
 her and Joanna (Shea) Keliher. He re- 
 ceived his education in the public schools; 
 was a member of the Massachusetts House 
 of Representatives, 189G-1897, and of the 
 Massachusetts Senate, 1899-1900. He was 
 elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and re- 
 elected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Con- 
 gresses from the Ninth INIassachusetts Dis- 
 trict. He is a Democrat in politics. Ad- 
 dross : Boston. 
 
 KELLER, Benjamin Franklin: 
 
 United States judge ; born at Boalsburg, 
 Pa., April 21, 1857; son of Henry and Mar- 
 garet Keller. He was graduated from Penn- 
 sylvania State College, B.S., 1870, M.S. in 
 1879, then entering the Law Department 
 of Columbian (now George Washington) 
 University, from which he was graduated 
 LL.B., 1882; and he received from that 
 University the LL.D. degree in 1903. He en- 
 gaged in the practice of law in West Vir- 
 ginia until appointed by President McKin- 
 ley, July 1, 1901, judge of the newly formed 
 Southern District of West Virginia. Ad- 
 dress: Bramwell, W. Va. 
 
 KELLER, Emil Ernest: 
 
 Engineer and manufacturer ; born in New 
 York City, Oct. 16, 18G3; son of John B. 
 Keller and Susan (Brueck) Keller. He 
 was educated in public schools of New Y''ork 
 City, Miss Shaw's private school and' public 
 schools in Rochester, until 1875; German- 
 American Institute, Rochester, N. Y., until 
 1878; self-educated in engineering lines 
 while earning his living. lie learnid tiie ma- 
 chinist trade with Yawman & Erbe, Roches- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ter, X. Y., becoming foreman of a depart- 
 ment in 18S3; entered into partnership in 
 machine work, 1885; burned out, in 1886; 
 took position as superintendent of the Clark 
 Novelty and ilachine Works, Rochester, un- 
 til 1888; removed to Pittsburgh, Pa., Janu- 
 ary, 1888 engaging in construction work 
 with the Westinghouse interests on electri- 
 cal work; placed in charge of all Pittsburgh 
 construction, and contracting in April, 1888; 
 appointed manager of the Chicago territory 
 in November, 1888; resigned to take ap- 
 pointment of electrical engineer of the De- 
 partment of Electricity, World's Columbian 
 Exposition, in 1891; resigned July, 1892, to 
 accept position of manager and general su- 
 perintendent, covering all work connected 
 with carrying out contract of the Westing- 
 house Electric and JManufacturing Company 
 for lighting, power and exhibits at the Expo- 
 sition. He was (.1 eted vice-jn-e-idcnt and 
 director of the Westinghouse Machine Com- 
 pany, and removed to Pittsburgh, January, 
 1894. He was also vice-president and di- 
 rector of the Pittsburgh Meter Company, 
 and director of the Westinghouse Foundry 
 Company, Security Investment Company, 
 Xernst Lamp Company, and the Westing- 
 house Interworks Railroad Company, all 
 Westinghouse interests located at Pitts- 
 burgh; also president Detroit Insulated 
 Wire Company, Detroit, and director On- 
 tario Nickel Company, Worthington, Ont. 
 He was appointed Oct. 23, liiOT, i- coiver and 
 general manager of the Westinghouse Ma- 
 chine Company, and April 1, 1908, turned 
 the entire property back to the stockholders 
 in reorganized conaition, and severed his 
 connection with the company to take up 
 the management of his personal interests. 
 He has traveled in the United States, Can- 
 ada, and Europe, ilr. Keller is a member 
 of the American Society of Mechanical En- 
 gineers, American Institute of Electrical 
 Engineers, Engineers' Society of Western 
 Pennsylvania, .salionul As.-^ociation oj Man 
 ut'aeturers of tlie L nitcd Stiles Eraiikliii 
 Institute, National Civic Federation, Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science, National Geographic Society. He 
 is a member of the Duquesne Club of Pitts- 
 burgh, Oakmont Country Club, Oakmont, 
 
 Pa., Automobile Club of Pittsburgh, and 
 Engineers' Club of New York City. He 
 married, Oct. 23, 1884, Ella, daughter of 
 A. F. and Martha Miller, of Attica, N. Y. 
 Residence: 201 Murtland Avenue, Pitts- 
 burgh. Address: East Pittsburgh. 
 
 KELLER, Helen Adams: 
 
 Author; born in Tuscumbia, Ala., June 
 2, 1880; daughter of Arthur H. and Kate 
 (Adams) Keller. She is a- descendant, 
 through her father, from Alexander Spotts- 
 wood, colonial governor of Virginia, and 
 through her mother from the Massachu- 
 setts Adams and Everett families. Miss 
 Keller has been deaf and blind since the 
 age of eighteen months. She was educated 
 bj- Mrs. Annie Sullivan Macy, prepared for 
 college by private school and tutor, and 
 was graduated from Radcliffe College, A.B., 
 1904. Miss Keller is regarded as the high- 
 est example of the possibilities of education 
 of the deaf blind. She is author of two 
 books: The Story of My Life, and Opti- 
 mism — an Essay, and various magazine 
 articles. Miss Keller is a member of the 
 Massachusetts Commission for the Blind; 
 trustee of the New England Home for the 
 Deaf. Her recreations are walking, read- 
 ing, cards and riding tandem bicycle. Ad- 
 dress: Wrent ham, Mass. 
 
 KELLER, Hermann A.: 
 
 Mining engineer; born in Philadelphia, 
 March 23, 1860; son of Dr. William C. C. 
 and Augusta (Cramer) Keller. He received 
 his education in the Grand Ducal Gym- 
 nasium at Darmstadt, Germany, and was 
 graduated from the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania as B.S., 1881. Mr. Keller has been 
 engaged in managing and examining mines 
 and metallurgical works since 1882; and 
 is now in practice as an independent con- 
 sulting engineer. He was instructor in 
 geology in the University of Pennsylvania, 
 1881-1882. He is a member of the American 
 Institute of Mining Engineers and of the 
 Engineers' and Jolly Mariners' Clubs of 
 Sew York City, and the University Club 
 of Denver, Colo. Address: Engineers' 
 Club, 374 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
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 KELLEY, Florence (Mrs.): 
 
 Secretary of the National Consumers' 
 League; born in Philadelphia in 1859; 
 daughter of Hon. William D. Kelley, M.C., 
 and Caroline Bartram (Bonsall) Kelley. 
 yhe was educated in Cornell University, 
 B.Litt., 1882, the Universities of Zurich 
 and Heidelberg, 1885-1886, Northwestern 
 I'niversitj- Law School, LL.B., 1895. Mrs. 
 Kelley wai? a special agent of the U. S. De- 
 partment of Labor, 1892-1893; chief in- 
 spector of factories of the State of Hlinois, 
 1893-1890; American editor of the Archiv 
 fiir Sozialcgezetzgebung und Statistik, 1897- 
 1899; secretary of the National Consum- 
 ers' League since 1899. She is also editor of 
 the Child Labor Uejjartment of The Survey 
 (formerly "Charities"). Mrs,. Kelley is 
 author of: Some Ethical Gains Through 
 Legislation, 1895 (Macmillan) ; also of tlu' 
 Reports of the Illinois State Department of 
 Factory Inspection, 1893-1897. Mrs. Kelley 
 is a trustee of the National Child Labor 
 Conuiiittee, and vice-president of the Na- 
 tional American Woman Suffrage Associa- 
 tion. Address: 105 East 22.d Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 KELLEY, Leverett M.: 
 
 Deputy commissioner of pensions; born 
 at Schenectady, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1841 ; of 
 Scotch-Irish and Dutch-American ancestry. 
 He removed with his father to Kane County, 
 ill., in 1845, and was educated in the 
 schools of that county and Beloit College 
 at Beloit, Wis. He was a student in the 
 latter institution when he enlisted in July, 
 1861, as a private in Company A, pf the 
 Thirty-sixth Kegiment of Illinois Volunteer 
 Infantry, which was mustered into United 
 States Service at Camp Hammond, HI., 
 Aug. 22, 1861. He served as corporal, ser- 
 geant, Urst lieutenant and captain of the 
 regiment, until mustered out in Oct., 1865. 
 He was an active participant in the battles 
 of Pea Kidge, Perryville, Stone River, 
 Chickamauga, JNIissionary Ridge, Dalton, 
 Resaca, Adairville, Dallas, Kennesaw jNIoun- 
 tain. Peach Tree Creek, Lovejoy Station, 
 Jonesboro, Columbia, Spring Hill, Fi'anklin 
 and Nashville. When sergeant of Company 
 
 A, at Missionary Ridge, calling upon com- 
 rades to follow, he rushed forward in face 
 of an incessant and deadly lire, and was 
 among the lirst over tiie works on the sum- 
 mit, wliere he compelled the surrender of 
 a Confederate officer and received liis sword. 
 After the war he returned to Illinois, and 
 he was sherill" of Kane County in 1867, 
 1868 and 1874, and he was Indian Mgciit at 
 Standing Rock and Los Pinos Agencies in 
 1878, in which capacity lie cniisuiiunaU-d an 
 important treaty with the Indians. He 
 became chief of a division of the Pension 
 Bureau at Washington, 1889-1893, and 
 since 1897 has been deputy comuiisiioner of 
 jjensions. He is a Republican in politics, 
 and is a member of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic, Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion, and the Medal of Honor Legion of 
 the United States. Residence: The Cecil, 
 Washington. Official address: Bureau of 
 Pensions, \\ asliington, D. C. 
 
 KELLEY, William D.: 
 
 Civil engineer; born at Kelley "s Island, 
 Erie County, Ohio, Alay 11, 1859; sou of 
 William D. and Marcella (Dean) Kelley. 
 He was graduated from Cornell University, 
 B.S., 1880, C.E., 1881. He followed civil 
 engineering professionally until 1893 with 
 tile New Vork and New England Railroad 
 in Boston, with the Catskill Mountain Rail- 
 road, on location and construction; the 
 South Pennsylvania Railroad as assistant 
 engineer on surveys, location and construc- 
 tion; served four years as special assistant 
 engineer on the northern half of the New 
 Croton Aqueduct, New York City. In 
 1891-1892 lie was engineer in charge of the 
 Third Corps Intercontinental Railway for 
 United States Government and Pan-Amer- 
 ican Governments, surveying and exploring 
 from Quito, the capital of Ecuador, to 
 Puuo, Peru, a distance, including side lines, 
 of about 3,000 miles in the plateau and 
 Amazon countries of the Andes. Since 
 1893, he has been engaged in engineering, 
 building and contracting in New York City. 
 Mr. Kelley is president and director of Kel- 
 ley and Kelley, engineers, builders and con- 
 tractors; president and director of Cowdeu 
 
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 and De Young, Incorporated, electrical con- 
 tractors; president and director of the Bois 
 Slieet Metal \\'orks. Inc., and of the F. W. 
 Waeponer Co., Inc. (heating, ventilating and 
 ])luiiibing) ; vice-president, secretary and 
 director of the Leonia Heights Land Com- 
 pany of New York and New Jersey. 
 He is a nionibor of the American So- 
 ciety of Civil Engineers, National Geo- 
 grajjhic Society, and the American Associ- 
 ation for the Advancement of Science, and 
 the Cornell University Club. He married 
 in Tarrytown, N. Y., in 1894, Isabelle Sil- 
 ver; and they have one son. Address: 45 
 East 42d Street, New Y^ork City. 
 
 KELLOGG, Charles Day: 
 
 Founder and secretary of the Women's 
 Hotel Company; born in Troy, N. Y'., June 
 4, 1828; son of Day Otis and Ann Eliza 
 Smith. He is descended in a direct line 
 from John and Priscilla Alden. He re- 
 ceived his education in private schools in 
 Lenox, JIass., and Boston; began commer- 
 cial business in Boston in 1850; and at 
 the beginning of the Civil ^\'ar, in ISO I, 
 he was appointed quartermaster-general's 
 storekeeper, and had charge of equipping 
 the first twenty-seven regiments sent by 
 Massachusetts to the front. He was for 
 several years a director of the Y'oung Men's 
 Christian Association, and treasurer of Em- 
 manuel Protestant Episcopal Church in 
 Boston. In 1865, he removed to New Y'^ork 
 City, and in Dec, 187.'5, was one of the 
 founders of the Reformed Episcopal Church. 
 For thirteen years he was secretary to its 
 General Council, and since 1883 has been 
 trustee and treasurer of its Sustentation 
 Fund. He was in business in New York 
 City until 1878, when he was invited to be- 
 come general secretary of tlie Philadelphii 
 Society for organizing Charity, then being 
 inaugurated; he remained in Philadelphia 
 till 1882, when he was called to become 
 general secretary of the Charity Organiza- 
 tion Society in New York Cit}% then form- 
 ing, and remained in charge until 1896. In 
 1891, he was invited' by President Harrison 
 to take charge of the newly created olRce 
 uf superintendent of charities in the Dis- 
 trict of Columbia, but feeling obliged to 
 
 decline, was asked to select the appointee. 
 In 1900 he originated the Woman's Hotel 
 Company, to found high-grade hotels for 
 the exclusive accomodation of business and 
 professional women and the reception of 
 transient guests, except that its restaurants 
 are equally open to men. The first hotel, 
 the Hotel Martha Washington, was opened 
 in New York in ]\Iarch, 1903. Address: 
 lOr. East 22d Street, New York City. 
 
 KELLOGG, Edward B.: 
 
 Physician; born at Sheboygan, Wis., 
 Aug. 21, ISoO; son of Eliot Eaton and 
 Hannah Barrett (Foster) Kellogg. He 
 received his early education in a district 
 school in Jamaica, Vt., in a grammar school 
 in Boston^ the Burr and Burton Seminary, 
 Manchester, Vt., and' Nunda, N. Y., Acad- 
 emy. He went to Jacksonville, Fla., where 
 he remained nine years as one of the editors 
 and proprietors of the Jacksonville Union; 
 and returning to Boston, in 1878, he began 
 the study of medicine. Subsequently, in 
 1882, he graduated from the Medical School 
 of Maine, Bowdoin College, as M.D. Dr. 
 Kellogg is now assistant medical director 
 of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insur- 
 ance Company. He is a member of the 
 ^Massachusetts Medical Society, American 
 Medical Association, Boston Medical Li- 
 brary Association, Society of Mayflower 
 Descendants, the Algonquin, Bowdoin, "Ver- 
 mont and Middlesex Clubs. He married 
 in Gardner, Me., Jan. 17, 1879, Minnie W. 
 Bradbury, and they have one son. Address: 
 854 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 KELLOGG, Frank B.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Potsdam, N. Y., Dec. 
 22, 18.56; son of Asa F. and Abigail (Bil- 
 lings) Kellogg. His parents removed, in 
 1865, to a farm in Olmstead County, Minn., 
 where he worked in summers and attended 
 school winters. lie studied law in offices 
 in Rochester, Minn., 1876-1878; was admit- 
 ted to the bar and practised, 187S-18S7, in 
 Rochester, Minn., where he was for three 
 years city attorney, and for five years was 
 county attorney of Olmstead County. He 
 has practised at St. Paul, Minn., since 1887, 
 and was a partner with U. S. Senator Cush- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 nn: 
 
 man K. Davis and Cordenio A. Severence, 
 in tlie firm of Davis, Kellogg and Severence, 
 until the death of Senator Davis in 1900, 
 since wiiich, with the other partners has 
 continued the business, vvlich is largely 
 taken up with corporation law. Mr. Kel- 
 logg argued successfully the Great North- 
 ern stock issue case, involving sixty mil- 
 lion dollars, the State of Minnesota demand- 
 ing an explanation of the use to which this 
 money was 1o be put, and also won on 
 behalf of the leaseholders, the ]\Iineral Lease 
 case, involving fifty million dollars, and was 
 also counsel in the case involving the re- 
 ceivership of the Northern Pacific Railway. 
 He is now special counsel of the Northern 
 Pacific Railway, general counsel of the Chi- 
 cago Great ^^'estern Railroad, the Diiluth 
 and Iron Range Railroad, and the Duluth, 
 Messabe and Northern Railroad, and attor- 
 ney for a large number of iron mining com- 
 panies in Minnesota, and other corpora- 
 tions. He has been employed by the 
 United States Department of Justice in 
 several suits against trusts and illegal com- 
 binations, dissolved the General Paper Com- 
 pany, commonly known as the Western 
 Paper Trust, having charge of the case 
 from its inception, and through the United 
 States Supreme Court; was special coun- 
 sel for the Interstate Commerce Commis- 
 sion in the Investigation of the Union Pa- 
 cific-Chicago and Alton operation of E. 
 H. Harriman and associates; and in Nov., 
 1906, after some months of preparation, in- 
 stituted the suit for the Government in the 
 United States Court at St. Louis, to dis- 
 solve the Standard Oil Company of New 
 Jersey. He is also counsel for the Govern- 
 ment in the cases of The United States v. 
 Union and Southern Pacific Railway Com- 
 panies, to dissolve the combination of these 
 two companies. Mr. Kellogg was a delegate 
 to the National Republican Conventions of 
 1904 and 1908, and since 1904 has been a 
 member of the National Republican Commit- 
 tee. He is a member of the ^Minnesota Club 
 of St. Paul, Chicago Club of Chicago, Law- 
 j-ers' and Transportation Clubs of New York 
 City, and the Kitchi Gammi Club of Du- 
 luth, Minn. Residence: 633 Fairmount 
 
 Avenue. Office : Merchants' National Bank 
 
 Huilding, St. Paul, :\Iinn. 
 
 KELLOGG, Frederic Rogers: 
 
 Lawyer; boin at Middlebiny, Vt., May 
 (i, 1SG7; son of Brainard and Julia (Cut- 
 ler) Kellogg. He was graduated from the 
 Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1885, 
 and from Columbia Law School, LL.B., 
 second honor man of class and cum laude 
 in political science, 1888. He has been 
 engaged in the practice of law since 1888; 
 was Eastern counsel for the United Copper 
 Company and Subsidiary companies in its 
 extensive litigation with the Amalgamated 
 Copper Company; and counsel for Comp- 
 troller Coler in his fight against O'Brien 
 and Clark. He is senior member of the 
 law firm of Kellogg, Beckwith and Emery, 
 is a member of the Association of the Bar 
 of the City of New York, and New York 
 State Bar Association; trustee of the Poly- 
 teclmic Institute of Brooklyn. Me mariied 
 at Dover, N. J., June 24, 1903, Cornelia 
 Van Wyck Halsey. Address: 52 Broad- 
 way, New York City. 
 
 KELLOGG, Henry T.: 
 
 Jurist; he was engaged in the practice 
 of law at Plattsburg, N. Y., until elected, in 
 1903, on the Republican ticket to his pres- 
 ent office of justice of the Supreme Court 
 of New York for the fourteen-year term 
 expiring Dec. 31, 1917. Address: Platts- 
 burg, N. Y. 
 
 KELLOGG, James C: 
 
 Consular oflicor; born in Mississippi. Ap- 
 pointed consul at Stettin, March 21, 1890; 
 retired Sept., 1893 ; appointed consul at 
 Barranquilla, Feb. 3, 1905; appointed con- 
 sul at Colon, May 27, 1905. Address: 
 Colon, Panama. 
 
 KELLOGG, John Morris: 
 
 Jurist ; born in Taylor, Cortland County, 
 N. Y., 1851; son of Stephen and Nancy 
 (Dillenbeek) Kellogg. He was educated in 
 Cornell University and Albany Law School, 
 LL.B., 1873. He was admitted to the bar, 
 
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 1873, and then encjaped in the practice of 
 law at 0<rdonsbm-fr. N. Y. He is vice-pres- 
 ident of the National Bank of Ofjdensbiiro:. 
 He held' the office of recorder of Ocrdens- 
 hurof and later was county jud^e of St. 
 Lawrence County, N. Y., and judge of the 
 Court of Claims of the State of New York. 
 He was appointed, Oct., 1902, justice of 
 the Supreme Court of the State of New 
 York and elected, Nov., 1003, for full terra 
 expiring Dec. ^1, 1017. Justice Kellogg is 
 a Re])ul)lican in polHics. He married Hen- 
 rietta C^uost ^^lalhows. Address: Ogdens- 
 burg, N. Y. 
 
 KELLOGG, Theodore H. : 
 
 riiysician; son of Rev. Ezra 13. Kel- 
 logg, D.D., and grandson of Judge Jason 
 Kellogg. He received his education at 
 Kenyon College, Ohio, and the degrees of 
 A.B. and A.M. from Norwich University, 
 Vt. He studied medicine four years in 
 Europe, at Paris, Berlin and Vienna, and 
 was graduated from Bellevue Hospital Med- 
 ical College, i\r.D., 1865. Dr. Kellogg has 
 made a specialty of nervous and mental 
 diseases; was resident physician of the New 
 York Lunatic Asylum, 1865-1871 ; physi- 
 cian-in-chief of the New York City Asylum 
 for the Insane, 1872-1875; first assistant 
 physician of the Hudson River State Hos- 
 pital, 1888-1801; physician in charge of 
 Sanford Hall (private hospital) , 1801-1802; 
 superintendent of the Willard State Hos- 
 pital, 1802-1805; and, since 1807, physician 
 in charge of Dr. Kellogg's House, Riverdale- 
 on-Hudson, New York City (licensed by the 
 State for the care of nervous and Tnental 
 diseases). He is author of: Text-Book on 
 Mental Diseases, 1897; and of numerous 
 monographs on nervous and mental dis- 
 eases. He is a writer on subjects of popu- 
 lar science, such as English Phonology; 
 Song of Birds; and Physiology of Vowel 
 Sound. Dr. Kellogg is a veteran officer of 
 the Civil War; was first lieutenant of the 
 Seventh Squadron of the Rhode Island 
 Cavalry and is numbered among the Col- 
 lege Cavaliers of the Military University 
 of Northficld, Vt. Address: Riverdale-on- 
 Hudson. N. Y. 
 
 KELLY, Edmond: 
 
 Lawyer and author; born in Toulouse, 
 Haute-Garonne, France, May 28, 1851 ; son 
 of Robert Edmond and Sarah (Palache) 
 Kelly. He was graduated from Columbia 
 College, A.B., 1870, A.M., LL.B., 1877; 
 from Cambridge, England, as M.A., 1881, 
 and from the ficole de Droit, Paris, Licencifi 
 en Droit. 1883, and he is a fellow of the 
 Geological Society of London. He prac- 
 tised in New York, 1877-1879, in Paris, 
 1870-1881, New York, 1801-1899, and again 
 in Paris, 1899-1907. He has now aban- 
 doned practice in Franco and is iiractising 
 as counsel in New York City. Mr. Kelly 
 has written: Evolution and Eflfort; Gov- 
 ernment or Human Evolution; Practical 
 Programme for Workmen; the French Law 
 of ^Marriage. He is a chevalier de la Legion 
 d'Honneur; was a member of the Faculty 
 of Political Science of Columbia College, 
 1895-1890, and lectured on Municipal Pol- 
 itics and History of the State of New York. 
 iSIr. Kelly is a member of the Phi Beta 
 Kappa. Society, and the Delta Phi fra- 
 ternity. He is also a member of the Cen- 
 tury Association and City Club of New 
 York, the Savile and Alpine Clubs of Lon- 
 don, and the Artistique et Litteraire, 
 Puteaux and American Clubs of Paris. He 
 married in Paris, Dec. 10, 1880, Frances 
 Bartow, and of that marriage two children : 
 Kathleen, born in 1883, wife of F. J. Wylie, 
 Oxford, England, and Shannon, born in 
 1884. He again married, Aug. 22, 1905, 
 Edith Tliuresson. Residences: 175 Second 
 Avenue, New York City; Coucy le Chateau, 
 Aisne; Cabinscourt, Pagoda, Routt County, 
 Colo., and Sunny Brook Farm, Nyack, N. Y. 
 Ollice: 52 William Street, New York City. 
 
 KELLY, Florence Finch: 
 
 Author; born in Girard, 111., IMareh 27, 
 1858; daughter of James Gardner and IMary 
 Ann (Purdom) Kelly. She was graduated 
 from the University of Kansas, A.B., A.M., 
 and immediately after graduation entered 
 newspaper work. She was engaged upon 
 editorial and special writing, and art and 
 literary criticism on leading papers in Bos- 
 ton, New York San Francisco, and other 
 
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 cities. She married in Boston, in 1884, 
 Allen Kelly, and lias a son. Mrs. Kelly has 
 traveled much in the United States, espe- 
 cially on the Pacific Coast, in the Sierra 
 Nevada Mountains and the Sonthwest, and, 
 in 1905, visited Australia and New Zealand 
 to study economic and social conditions. 
 She has published several majrazine arti- 
 cles on social and economic conditions in 
 Australia and New Zealand; many short 
 stories in magazines and newspapers, and 
 a large number of critical articles upon 
 American art and artists in leading mag- 
 azines, and is author of the books: Hoops 
 of Steel, and Tlie Dela field Affair. She is 
 member of the Pi Beta Phi fraternity, the 
 New York Union of the University of Kan- 
 sas, and the Women's University Club of 
 New York City. Address: 328 West 96th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 KELLY, John Forrest: 
 
 Electrical engineer and inventor; born 
 at Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland, March 28, 
 1859; son of Jeremiah and Kate (Forrest) 
 Kelly. He took a special course and was 
 graduated from the Stevens Institute of 
 Technology in 1878, with the degree of 
 B.Sc, and received the degree of Ph.D. in 
 1881. He was chemist in the laboratory of 
 Thomas A. Edison in 1879; electrician in 
 the New York factory of the Western Elec- 
 tric Company. 1879-1882; became assistant 
 electrician in 1882 and chief electrician in 
 1886 of the United States Electric Lighting 
 Company, and electrician of the Newark 
 shops of the Westinghouse Electric Com- 
 pany until Jan., 1892. He was partner in 
 the Stanley Laboratory Company, 1892- 
 1905. and consulting engineer of the Stan- 
 ley Electric ^Manufacturing Company and 
 the Stanley Instrument Company until 
 1905. Mr. Kelly is president of the Tel- [ 
 electric Company of Pittsfield, Mass., and 
 the Cokel Company. He has taken out 
 about ninety United States patents for ap- 
 paratus for generating, transmitting, dis- 
 tributing and measuring electricity, and has 
 led in many important branches connected 
 with the commercial utilization of clectricitv. 
 He is a member of the Institute of Electri- 
 cal Engineers, American Statistical Society, 
 
 .Aniericnn Economic Association. Academy 
 of Political Science, .American .Association 
 for the Advancement of Science, British In- 
 stitution of Electrical Entrineers, tlie Lon- 
 don Society of Arts, Socir-t^ Internationale 
 des Electriciens, American Irish Historical 
 Society, and the Irish Texts Society of 
 England. Mr. Kelly married in New York 
 City, in 1892, Helen Tischer. Residence: 
 284 West Housatonic Street, Pittsfield, 
 Mass. Address : Care Telelectric Company, 
 299 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 KELLY, William: 
 
 Mine manager; born in New York City, 
 April 17, 1854; son of Robert and Arietta 
 A. (Hutton) Kelly. He was graduated 
 from Yale, B.A., 1874, and from Columbia, 
 E.M., 1877. He was chemist of the Him- 
 rod Furnace Company, Youngstown, Ohio, 
 in 1878; superintendent of the Kemble Coal 
 and Iron Company, Riddlesburg, Pa., 1881- 
 1885; superintendent of Glamorgan Iron 
 Company, Lewistown, Pa., 1885; and again 
 superintendent of Kemble Iron Company, 
 Riddlesburg, Pa., 1886-1889. He is gen- 
 eral manager of Penn Iron Mining Com- 
 pany, and Republic Iron Company; treas- 
 urer of the Penn Store Company, and 
 director of the Commercial Bank, Iron 
 Mountain, Mich. He was president of the 
 Board of Examiners of Bituminous Mine 
 Inspectors of Pennsylvania, 1885-1889. 
 Since June, 1897. Mr. Kelly has been i mem- 
 ber of the Board of Control of the ilichigan 
 College of Mines, and since 1904 chairman 
 of the board. ]Mr. Kelly is chairman of the 
 Township Board of Education and has held 
 other local offices. He is a member of the 
 Institution of IMining and ^Vfet'llurEry of 
 London, England, American Institute of 
 Mining Engineers, Mining and Metallurgi- 
 cal Society of America, Lake Superior 
 Mining Institute. Society for the Promotion 
 of Engineering Education, American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science, 
 American Forestry Association, and Na- 
 tional Geographic Society. He is a member 
 of the University Club of New York, Uni- 
 versity Club of Chicago. Pine Grove Golf 
 Club of Iron Mountain, Mich., and Hough- 
 ton Club of Houghton, Mich. He married 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 at Hopewell. Pa., June 24, 188G, Annie L. 
 Ashconi, and they had one son, \\'illiam A.. 
 now dec'oastd. Address: Vulcan, Mich. 
 
 KELLY. William Joseph: 
 
 Jurist; born in Brooklyn, April 13, 1860; 
 son of William and Mary Kelly. He was 
 educated in the Brooklyn public and private 
 schools. He was admitted to the New York 
 bar, 1881, and engaged in general practice 
 in New York City and Brooklyn, 1881- 
 1903, and he was elected, in 1903, justice 
 of the Supreme Court of the State of New 
 York for the Second District, for the term 
 expiring Dec. 31, 1917. Justice Kelly is a 
 Democrat. He married in Brooklyn, in 
 1883, Elizabeth Scott. Residence: 292 St. 
 James Place. Address: County Court 
 House, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 KELSEY, Albert: 
 
 Architect; born in St. Louis, April 26, 
 1870; son of A. Warren and Jannette Garr 
 (Washburn) Kelsey. He received most of 
 his education abroad. His architectural 
 ability was tested and developed by con- 
 stant work in the T-Square Club competi- 
 tions in Philadelphia, where he was a 
 frequent prize-winner. After having won 
 the highest average for one year's woi'k, he 
 was elected to every ofTice, until he became 
 president of the club. He won the Fourth 
 Traveling Scholarship in Architecture of 
 the University of Pennsylvania and traveled 
 extensively. While his duties as an archi- 
 tect occupy most of his time, he finds op- 
 portunities to take part in many municipal 
 conferences and is recognixe:! as nn au- 
 thority. Mr. Kelsey was elected president 
 of the Architectural League of America at 
 the Cleveland Convention in 1899. He was 
 also a delegate to the Fourth International 
 Congress of Architects in Brussels in 1897 
 and to another in London in 1906. As 
 chairman of the Committee of Experts of 
 the Art Federation of Philadelphia he has 
 long been identified with the movement 
 which culminated a few years ago in the 
 enactment of legislation insuring the con- 
 struction of a parkway from the public 
 buildings to Fairmount Park. Mr. Kelsey 
 is architect for the reorganizing and re- 
 
 building of Chautauqua, N. Y. In 1003, as an 
 officer of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 
 Coinpany, he was sent abroad to study the 
 Dresden Municipal Exposition. He was in 
 charge of the Division of Municipal Im- 
 provement at the World's Fair in 1904, and 
 architect of three buildings on the Fair 
 grounds. He is founder and editor of the 
 Architectural Annual. Mr. Kelsey married 
 Henrietta Latitia Allis, of New York City. 
 Address: 1524 Chestnut Street, Philadel- 
 phia. 
 
 KEMMERER, Edwin Walter: 
 
 Economist; born in Scranton, Pa., June 
 29, 1875; son of Lorenzo D. and Martha 
 (Courtright) Kemmerer. He was gradu- 
 ated from Wesleyan University, Conn., A. 
 B., 1899, with honors and election to Phi 
 IJeta Kappa. He was University fellow in 
 economics and finance in Cornell University, 
 1899-1901, Ph.D., 1903. During the sit- 
 tings of the U. S. Industrial Commission, 
 1900-1901, he was assistant to the expert 
 on trusts and industrial combinations, and 
 the following two years was instructor in 
 economics and history at Purdue Univer- 
 sity. In 1903 he was appointed financial 
 advisor to the United States Philippine Com- 
 mission, with especial reference to the work 
 of establishing the gold standard for the 
 Philippine Islands. In 1906 he was appoint- 
 ed special commissioner of the War Depart- 
 ment and of the Philippine Government to 
 visit Egypt with a view to reporting upon 
 the subjects of agricultural credit and bank- 
 ing in that country. From 1906 until Aug., 
 1909, he was assistant professor of political 
 economy in Cornell University. He is now 
 managing editor of The Economic Bulletin. 
 Dr. Kemmerer is a member of the American 
 Economic Association, the Piii Beta Kappa 
 Society, the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, 
 and the Cosmopolitan Club. He is author 
 of: iloney and Credit Instruments in Tlieir 
 Relation to General Prices ; Report on the 
 Advisability of Establishing an Agricultural 
 Bank in the Philippine Islands; and Re- 
 jiort on the Agricultural Hank of Egypt; 
 also numerous contributions to economic 
 magazines. He was married at Iligganuni, 
 ('nun., Dec. 24, 1901, to M. Racliel Dickele, 
 
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 and' has one son. Residence: Cornell 
 Heights. Office: Room 233 Goldwin South 
 Hall, Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 KEMPNER. Otto: 
 
 Lawyer; born iu Austria, July 5, 1858. 
 He was educated in the public schools of 
 New York City and at Cooper Union. Mr. 
 Kempner was elected to the General Assem- 
 bly of New York from the Tcntli District of 
 New York City in 1892 and 1894 as an in- 
 dependent Democrat ; and became known as 
 a staunch opponent of Tammany bossism 
 by his record in the Legislature and by his 
 pamphlet entitled : Boss Croker's Career. 
 He was nominated for sheriff by the Com- 
 mittee of Seventy in 1896, but declined the 
 nomination, removed to Brooklyn in 1897, 
 and was commissioner of public works under 
 Borough President Swanstrom's administra- 
 tion in 1902-1904. He is president and 
 director of the King and Queens County 
 Real Estate Exchange; and director of the 
 Home Trust Company, of New York. Mr. 
 Kempner is regent of Dauntless Council, 
 Royal Arcanum, and a member of the 
 Mimicipal Club of Brooklyn. Address: 53 
 Linden Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 KEMPTON, Charles Walter: 
 
 Mining engineer; born in Fairhaven, 
 Mass., Jan. 30, 1847; son of Captain 
 Charles Wilson and Lucinda (Tripp) Kemp- 
 ton. He was graduated from the High 
 Scliool. in Faiihaven, JNlass., in 1864; stud- 
 ied engineering in the office of J. Herbert 
 Sheld and Company, in Boston, with spec- 
 ial instruction in the mining branches. Mr. 
 Kempton served on the staff of the Essex 
 Water Power Company, Lawrence, Mass., 
 1870-1874; was in charge of exploration 
 with the diamond drill in Eastern States, 
 1874-1876, mining operations in the East- 
 ern States and Canada, 1877-1880, mining 
 operations and explorations in the United 
 States, Mexico, Cuba and Columbia, South 
 America, 1883-1892; manager of a gold 
 mine in Arizona, 1892-1897; explorations 
 in Darien Isthmus, 1902, and explorations 
 in Santo Domingo, 1904. He is now senior 
 member and consulting engineer of Kempton 
 and McCoy, mining engineers; director, gen- 
 
 eral manager and chief mining engineer of 
 the American Smelters' Exploration Min- 
 ing Company of Arizona; director and vice- 
 president of tlie Andes Mining and Tunnel 
 Company of New York City. Mr. Kempton 
 is a member of tlie American institute of 
 Mining Engineers, the National Geographic 
 Society, the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, and the Engineers' 
 Club. Address: 29 Broadway, New York 
 City. 
 
 KENDALL, Margaret: '^ 
 
 Artist; born in Staten Island, N. Y., 
 1871; daughter of Albert Stickings and 
 Elizabeth Weston. She was educated in the 
 Brearley School, New York City. She mar- 
 ried in New York City, Feb. 17, 1896, Wil- 
 liam Sergeant Kendall, painter and sculptor, 
 and they have three children. Mrs. Ken- 
 dall received a medal from the Louisiana 
 Purchase Exposition, 1904. She is a mem- 
 ber of the American Society of" Miniature 
 Painters. Address: Barrytown-on-lludson, 
 N. Y. 
 
 KENDALL, William Sergeant: 
 
 Artist, painter and sculptor; born in 
 Duyvil, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1869; son of Ben- 
 jamin Franklin and Elizabeth Anne (Ser- 
 geant) Kendall. He was educated in the 
 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the 
 Art Students' League of New York, and at 
 the Ecole des Beaux Art, Studio of L. 0. 
 Merson, and Academic Julian, Paris. He 
 received mention honorable from the Paris 
 Salon, 1891; medal from the World's Co- 
 lumbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893; Lippin- 
 cott prize, Philadelphia ; bronze medal, 
 Pittsburgh; silver and bronze medals, Buffa- 
 lo; Shaw prize and Shaw fund Purchase, 
 Society of American Artists; bronze medal, 
 Paris Exposition, 1900; gold medal, Louisi- 
 ana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. 
 He is represented in the permanent collec- 
 tions of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 
 New York City; Pennsylvania Academy of 
 Fine Arts, Philadelphia and Corcoran Gal- 
 lery, Washington. He is a member of the 
 Society of American Artists, National Acad- 
 emy of Design, and academician of the Na- 
 tional Institution Of Arts and Letters. Mr. 
 
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 Kendall married in New York Cit}% Feb. 
 17, ISUG, Margaret Weston Stickney, and 
 they have tliree daughters. Residence: 
 Barrytowji-on-lludson, N. Y. Address (stu- 
 dio) : 2G West Stli Street. New York City. 
 
 KENDRICK, John Mills: 
 
 Missionary lii-h.i]) of \e\\ .Mexico and Ari- 
 zona; born al Ganibier, Ohio, May 14, 18."i(J ; 
 son of John and Julia G. Kendriek. He was 
 graduated from .Marietta College, Marietta. 
 Ohio, with the degree of B.A., receiving later 
 the M.A. and D.D. degree. He was ordered 
 deacon of the EpioC.;pai Church in 1864, being 
 ordained to the priesthood the following 
 year by Bishop Mcllvaine. Since his entry 
 to the ministry, he was consecutivelj^ deacon 
 at Piit-in-Bay, Ohio, rector of St. Andrew's 
 Church, Fort Scott, Kansas, of St. Paul's 
 Church, Leavenworth, Kan., and of the 
 Church of the Good Shepherd, Columbus, 
 Ohio. He then became superintendent of 
 City Missions of Cincinnati, and general 
 missionary of the Diocese of Southern Ohio. 
 He was consecrated bishop in 1889 and made 
 missionary bishop of New Mexico and Ari- 
 zona. .\ddr('ss: I'lioeuix. Ariz. 
 
 KENDRICK, John William: 
 
 Railway oliicial ; born in Worcester, 
 Mass., Oct. 14, 1853. He was graduated 
 from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute 
 in 1873; was engaged in general engineering 
 work for six years; and since 187!) has been 
 engaged in railway service, beginning as a 
 levelman with a construction party on the 
 Yellowstone Division of the Northern Pa- 
 cific Railro.id, and rem lined until 1880 in 
 the location of the Yellowstone and Mis- 
 souri Divisions, and from 1880 in charge 
 of the construction of one hundred and 
 sixty miles of those divisions until 1883. 
 He was chief engineer in charge of construc- 
 tion of the main line of the St. Paul and 
 Northern Pacific Railway between Staples 
 and Braincrd, through Minneapolis nnd St. 
 Paul, and the terminals and shops in con- 
 nection with the same. He became chief 
 engineer of the Northern Pacific Railroad 
 and lea.sed lines, 1888-1893; general man- 
 ager for the receiver* of that road and for 
 
 the reorganized road, the Northern Pacific 
 Railway, 18!)3-i8!)9 and second vice-president 
 of the same road, in charge of operation, 
 1899-1901. On June 5, 1901, Mr. Kendriek 
 became connected with the Atcliison, Topeka 
 and Santa F6 Railway as third vice-presi- 
 dent in charge of ojieration, and was pro- 
 moted to second vice-president in 1905, 
 which office he still holds. Mr. Kendriek 
 married at Gloucester, .Mass., Jan. 14, 1880, 
 Elizabeth Foster Dolliver, and has four 
 children: Residence: 4G0 North State 
 Street. Office: Railway Exchange Build- 
 ing, Chicago. 
 
 KENNAN, George: 
 
 Author and lecturer; born in Newark, 
 Ohio, Feb. IG, 1846; son of John and Mary 
 Ann (Morse) Kennan. He received a high 
 school education, became a telegraph opera- 
 tor and manager with the Western I'nion 
 Telegraph Company, and in 18G5 went to 
 Northeastern Siberia as an explorer and 
 telegraphic engineer, later became superin- 
 tendent of construction of the Middle Di- 
 vision of the Russo-American Telegraph 
 Company until 1868. He explored the 
 Eastern Caucasus region, 1870-1871. was 
 night manager of The Associated Press at 
 Washington, 1877-1885. He then returned 
 to Siberia for a year and investigated the 
 Russian exile system, and from 1889 to 
 1898 lectured in the United States and 
 Great Britain upon that subject with the 
 result that on a subseqiumt visit to Russia 
 in 1901 he was expelled from the country 
 by order of the minister of the interior. He 
 was special correspondent of The Outlook 
 in 1898, reporting tlie Spanish-American 
 War, was Washington correspondent in 
 \\'asliington, 1901-1903, for the same jour- 
 nal and represented it in Martinique, re- 
 porting tlie eruption of ]\Iount Pelee and the 
 destruction of St. Pierre, and special corres- 
 liondeiit of The Outlook in the Far East, 
 1904-1906; afterward staff writer on Mc- 
 Clure's iSlagazine. He is author of: Tent 
 Life in Siberia, 1871; Siberia and the Exile 
 System, 1891; Campaigning in Cuba, 1899; 
 l''olk Tales of Napoleon, 1902; The Tragedy 
 nf Pel(5e, 1902; translator of General Kuro- 
 patkin's Memoirs, and has contributed ex- 
 
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 tensivi'ly to magazines. He married in 
 1879, Emelinc Weld. Address: Care Crane, 
 Tarris & Co., \\ asliington, D. C. 
 
 KENNARD, John Hanson: 
 
 Lawyer; born on the Elleray Plantation, 
 ^^'ilkinson County, Miss., in 1862; son of 
 John Hanson and Ann McGehce (Burruss) 
 Kennard. He is a descendant on his moth- 
 er's side of Captain James Jack, who, in 
 1775, cartied the Mecklenburg (N. C.) Dec- 
 laration of Independence to Phihxdelphia 
 and presented it to John Hanson (paternal 
 ancestor) tlien president of the Continental 
 Congress. Mr. Kennard was educated in 
 the University High School, New Orleans; 
 lloanoke College, Va., and the University of 
 Louisiana, where he was awarded five or six 
 medals given by that university (Latin, 
 mathematics, ancient history, English es- 
 say, and elocution), and the degree of A.B. 
 in 1882; then attended Johns Hopkins Uni- 
 versity where he was one of the Seminar of 
 Historical and Political Science of 1884; 
 and' was graduated from the Law Depart- 
 ment of Tulane University of Louisiana, LL. 
 B., 1886. Mr. Kennard was assistant in- 
 structor in mathematics in the Tulane Uni- 
 versity of Louisiana, 1885-1886; was ad- 
 mitted to the Louisiana bar, and to bar of 
 the United States Courts in 1886; practised 
 in New Orleans until 1898 and was master 
 in chancery of the U. S. Circuit Court in 
 the receivership of the Texas and Pacific 
 Railway Company. He was critic of French 
 opera for the New Orleans Daily States, 
 1893-1898; secretary of the Municipal Im- 
 provement Association of New Orleans; 
 president of the Southern League of Build- 
 ing and Loan Associations, 1891-1897, and 
 Dresident of the Interstate League of Build- 
 ing and Loan Associations, 1894-1898. He 
 removed to New York City in December, 
 1897, to become editor of the Savings and 
 Loan Review; and was admitted to the New 
 York Bar in 1905. Mr. Kennard is a mem- 
 ber of the Maryland Society of New Y'ork, 
 Japan Society of New York, the New York 
 Alumni of Sigma Chi, the Albany Burgesses 
 Corps, and the Lotos Club of New York 
 City. Address: 149 Broadway, New York 
 City. 
 
 KENNARD, Joseph Spencer: 
 
 Lawyer, author ; lidrii in liridgctnn. N. ./., 
 1859. He was educated at the Colgate Uni- 
 versity, Columbia University l^w School, 
 Cliicago University, the Sorbonne, Paris, 
 and the Instituto di Belie Arte at Florence, 
 and has received the degrees of A.M., LL.B., 
 Ph.D., Litt.D., L.ll.D., D.C.L., and lioiliur 
 es lettres. Mr. Kennard has given his atten- 
 tion chiefly to the practice of corporation 
 and railroad' law before the U. S. Supreme 
 Court and tiie Supreme Court of New York, 
 Pennsylvania, and Illinois; and in Europe 
 in cases of International law. He is an 
 amateur artist and his paintings have re- 
 ceived honorable mention in Europe and 
 America, and he has several times been a 
 juror of awards on paintings, and was a 
 commissioner to the Paris Exposition in 
 1900. Mr. Kennard is a member of many 
 learned societies and clubs in Europe and 
 America, is an hereditary member of the 
 Society of the Sons of the Revolution and 
 of the Society of Colonial Wars. He is a 
 member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon frater- 
 nity and of the Masonic orders and others. 
 AJr. Kennard is author of: The Friar in 
 It'iction; The Fanfara of the Bersigilari; 
 Studi-Danteschi; Memmo-One of the People; 
 The Fallen God; A Liberal Education: 
 De Deo Lapso Commcntarius; Some early 
 Printers and Their Colophous; Italian Ro- 
 mance Writers; Entro un Cerchio di Fcrro; 
 La Paura del Ridicolo; La Femme dans le 
 Roman Italien, Les Confessions d'un Octo- 
 genaire; and others. He is a lecturer at the 
 Sorbonne, Paris; associate editor of the 
 Encyclopedia Americana, and contributor to 
 the North American and other reviews. He 
 married in 1889; Isabelle D. Brandreth. 
 Addresses: Tarrytown, N. Y., and 74 Rue 
 Notre Dame de Champs, Paris, France. 
 
 KENNEDY, James: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Poland 
 Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, Sept. 3, 
 1853; one of seven sons of T. W. Kennedy, 
 the pioneer furnace builder of that section. 
 The father constructed his iirst furnace at 
 Haselton, the lines of which furnished the 
 model for all subsequent like structures. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Mr. Kennedy prepared for college at Polland 
 Union Seminary, was graduated A.B. at \\ e-t- 
 minster College, Pa., 1876; studied law 
 with General T. W. Sanderson, of Youngs- 
 town, and was admitted to the bar in March, 
 1S79. He never held public position until 
 elected to Congress ; was elected as a Re- 
 publican to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and 
 reelected to the Fifty-niutli, Sixtieth and 
 Sixty-first Congresses, from the Eighteentli 
 Ohio District. He married Phcbo Erwin, 
 and they have one diughtcr. Address: 
 Yoiiiigstown, Oliio. 
 
 KENNEDY, Sara Beaumont: 
 
 Born in Somerville, Tenn. ; daughter of 
 Dr. Robert Hines and Nora (Devereux) 
 Cannon, both from North Carolina. She is 
 a lineal descendant of Governor Pollack, 
 colonial governor of North Carolina, of 
 William Samuel Johnson, of Connecticut, 
 a framcr of the U. S. Constitution, and 
 of Jonathan Edwards of Princeton College. 
 Her father died during her early infancy, 
 and her mother returned to her father, 
 Thomas Pollock Devereux, who had been 
 the wealthiest man in North Cardlina, and 
 in whose beautiful home part of the child- 
 hood of Mrs. Kennedy was spent. She was 
 educated in St. Mary's Episcopal School 
 at Raleigh, N. C. She married in Somer- 
 ville, Tenn., Jan. 10, 1888, \\'alker Ken- 
 nedy, author and journalist, now editor of 
 the I\Iemphis Commercial Appeal. Mrs. 
 Kennedy is author of two novels: Jocelyn 
 Cheshire, and The Wooing of Judith ; also 
 of short stories in McClure's, Harper's 
 ilonthly, Everybody's, Cosmopolitan, La- 
 dies' Home Journal, and other leading mag- 
 azines, and poems in many publications. 
 She is a member of the Colonial Dames 
 and Daughters of the Revolution, and of 
 the Nineteenth Century Club of Memphis, 
 the leading woman's Club of the South. 
 Address: 1029 Rayburn Boulevard, Mem- 
 phis. 
 
 KENNEDY, Walker: 
 
 Editor of the Memphis Commercial-Ap- 
 peal; born in Louisville, Ky., Jun^ 8, 1857; 
 son of James and Kate E. Kennedy. On 
 leaving the public schools he began news- 
 
 paper work on the Courier-Journal at 
 Louisville, 1878-1881, and in the latter year 
 went to The Appeal at jNIemphis, remain- 
 ing with that paper and its successors ever 
 since, except for one year as chief editorial 
 of the Nashville American. Since 189G 
 he has been editor of the Memphis Commer- 
 cial-Appeal. Mr. Kennedy is also an au- 
 thor of novels: In the Dwellings of Si- 
 lence; Javan ben Seir; The Secret of the 
 ^^"et ^\'oods ; and of short stories and other 
 contributions to magn/iiies and rcviewH. 
 He married at Somerville, Tenn., Jan. 10, 
 
 1888, Sara Beaumont Cannon. Mrs. Ken- 
 nedy is a well known novelist, magazine 
 writer and poet. Residence: 1029 Ray- 
 burn Boulevard, Memphis, Tenn. 
 
 KENNEDY, Walter: 
 
 Consulting engineer; born in Poland, 
 Ohio, in 1861; attended the same school as 
 did President McKinley and early became 
 apprenticed to the blast furnace building 
 business as workman. His first position 
 was with the Carnegie Steel Company, and 
 here he made a thorough study of chemis- 
 try and at different plants held various po- 
 sitions of trust and for three years was su- 
 perintendent of the Lucy furnaces. In 
 
 1889, he became connected with the Moore- 
 head-McClain Company, later manager of 
 the JefTerson Iron Company, Steubenville, 
 Ohio, and in 1891 was made superintendent 
 of the Buffalo Furnace Company, owned by 
 M. A. Hanna and Company. In 1897 he 
 was engaged to do railroad work in China, 
 and later was employed by the Cliinese Gov- 
 ernment and was appointed first secretary 
 of the Chinese Imperial Railway, and techni- 
 cal director and general manager of the iron 
 and steel works at Han Yang. Returning 
 to this country he took up his work and has 
 gained prominence in this line of business. 
 Address: 611 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh. 
 
 KENNY, William John: 
 
 Roman Catholic bishop of St. Augustine, 
 Fla.; born at Delhi, N. Y., Oct. 9, 1853. He 
 was graduated from St. Bonaventure's Col- 
 lege, in 1875; ordained priest, 1879, and 
 consecrated bishop may 18, 1902; and he is 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 the third bishop of St. Augustine. Address : 
 St. Augustine, Fla. 
 
 KENT, Edward: 
 
 Chief Justice of the Siiprcn:e Court of Ari- 
 zona; born in Lynn, Mass., Aug. 8, 
 1862; son of Edward Kent who was elected 
 as a Whig governor of Maine in 1838 and 
 1840. He was graduated from Harvard, 
 A.B. in 1883 and', from Columbia Law 
 School, LL.B., 1887. He practised in New 
 York City until ISHG, then in Denver until 
 appointed by President Roosevelt in 1902 
 chief justice of the Supreme Court of Ari- 
 zona. Address: Phoenix, Ari. 
 
 KENT, Jacob Eord: 
 
 Brigadier-General U. S. Army; born in 
 Philadelphia, Sept. 14, 1836; son of Ro- 
 dolphus and Sarah (Derby) Kent. He was 
 g,ppointed a cadet of the U. S. Military 
 Academy, July 1, 1856; graduated' May 6, 
 1861, and was appointed second lieutenant 
 of the Third Infantry May 6, 1861; first 
 lieutenant July 31, 1861; captain Jan. 8, 
 1804; major Fourth Infantry July 1, 1885; 
 lieutenant-colonel, acting inspector-general 
 January and August, 1865. He was bre- 
 vetted major May 3, 1863, for gallant and 
 meritorious services in the battle of Spottsyl- 
 vania, Va., brevetted colonel of Volunteers, 
 Oct. 19, 1864, for faithful and meritorious 
 services in the field during the campaign be- 
 fore Richmond', Va. He served in Civil War, 
 1861-1865. He took part in the battle of 
 Bull Run, July 21, 1861; was three times 
 wounded and captured; was exchanged in 
 September, 1802; the battle of Fredericks- 
 burg, Va., December, 1862; Marye's Heights, 
 May, 1863, Gettysburg, Pa., July, 1863; the 
 Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Tolopotomy and 
 Cold Harbor, Va., in 1864; was again cap- 
 tured at Petersburg, Va., and was present at 
 the surrender of Lee in 1865. After the war 
 he served on frontier duty in various depart- 
 ments until 1877, on recruiting service, 
 1877-1878; in Montana, 1885; at Fort Oma- 
 ha, Neb. to July, 1886, then at Fort Spo- 
 kane, Wash.; he was promoted lieutenant- 
 colonel of the Eighteenth Infantry, Jan. 15, 
 1891; colonel Twenty-fourth Infantry, April 
 25, 1895; brigadier-general of Volunteers, 
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 May 4, 1898; and assigned to the command 
 of the First Division, Fifth Army Corps, 
 and was promoted to major-general of Vol- 
 unteers, July 8, 1898. General Kent served 
 in the. campaign against Santiago, Cuba, in 
 1898; was honorably discharged from the 
 Volunteer service Nov. 30, 1898; commis- 
 sioned brigadier-general U. S. Army, Oct. 4, 
 1898; and retired Oct. 15, 1898. Address: 
 Watorvliet Arsenal, Watervliet, N. Y. 
 
 KENT, Robert D.: 
 
 Banker; born at Wilmington, Del., Oct. 
 24, 1855; son of James and Janet (Scott) 
 Kent. He attended the public schools, Phil- 
 adelphia, and was a bank clerk in that 
 city, 1874-1880; cashier of the Atlantic City 
 National Bank, Atlantic City, 1881-1886; 
 cashier of the Passaic National Bank, P.iss lic, 
 N. J., 1886-1899; president of ^Merchants' 
 Bank of Passaic; vice-president of the Staple- 
 ton National Bank of Stapleton, N. Y., 
 Roekland County Trust Company, Nyack, 
 N. Y., and Metuchen National Bank, 
 Metuchen, N. J. He is a director of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association; mem- 
 ber of the Presbyterian Union, St. Andrew's 
 Society, and the Hardware Club. Mr. Kent 
 married, first, in Philadelphia, Oct. 24, 
 1880, Ella R. King, and, second, at Wood- 
 bury, N. J., Dec. 15, 1886, Caroline Earl 
 Riddle; and he has two children. Address: 
 31 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 KENT, William: 
 
 Real estate and live stock dealer; born in 
 Chicago, 111., March 29, 1864; son of Albert 
 Emmett and Adaline Elizabeth (Dutton) 
 Kent. His preliminary education was re- 
 ceived at private schools in California and 
 at the Hopkins Grammar School in New 
 Haven, Conn. He entered Yale College in 
 1883 and was graduated with the degree of 
 A.B. in 1887. Immediately after his gradu- 
 ation he went to Chicago, where he entered 
 the office of his father, who was a large 
 operator in real estate. In 1890 he was 
 taken into partnership with his father, the 
 firm being known as A. E. Kent and Son. 
 Since the death of his father, in 1901, Mr. 
 Kent has managed the business and has 
 added' to holdings of land and buildings in 
 
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 the States of Nebraska, California, Nevada, 
 Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Kansas. 
 He is a director of the American Trust and 
 Savings Baidi, a member of the firm of Kent 
 and Jiurkc, cattle feeders, and president of 
 the Golconda Cattle Company, of Nevada. 
 He is an Independent in politics, and was a 
 member of the Chiciigo City Council, 18"J5- 
 1897 J president of the Municipal Voters' 
 League, 1899-1900, on the executive Com- 
 mittee of the same, lS97-190-t, and was also 
 for a time on the Executive Committee of 
 the Citizens' Association, lie is a meiuber ot 
 the Illinois Civic Service Association, the 
 Civil Service Reform League, All Soul's 
 Church, and the Union League, University, 
 Quadrangle and City Clubs of Chicago; Bo- 
 hemian and University Clubs of San Fran- 
 cisco, Yale and City Clubs of New York 
 and Graduates' Club of New Haven. He 
 married at Ojai Valley, Calif., Feb. 26, 1890, 
 Elizabeth Thaclier, and has seven children: 
 Albert, Emmett, Thomas Thacher, Elizabeth 
 Sherman, William, Adaline Dutton, Sher- 
 man, and Roger. Residence: 5112 Kim- 
 bark Avenue. Address: 12 Sherman Street, 
 Chicago. 
 
 KENT, William Patton: 
 
 Consul general; born in Wytheville, Va., 
 March 8, 1857; son of Robert C. and Eliza- 
 beth (Patton) Kent. He was graduated 
 from William and Mary College, Ph.D., 
 1876, and the University of Virginia, LL. 
 B., 1880. He was admitted to the bar in 
 1880, and practised law until 1890, when he 
 became editor of newspapers, serving in this 
 capacity until 1900. He served as captain 
 in the Spanish-American W'ar in the Seventh 
 Army Corps under General Fitzhugh Lee. 
 In 1906 he was appointed consul-general of 
 the United States at Guatamala City, 
 Guatamala, which position he now holds. 
 Mr. Kent was a delegate to the Republican 
 National Convention at St. Louis in 1896, 
 and was the Republican nominee for lieu- 
 tenant-governor of Virginia in 1905. He 
 married at Staunton, Va., Aug. 23, 1905, 
 Annie Hendren Patrick, and they have one 
 daughter. His home is in Wytheville, Va. 
 Official address: American Consulate Gen- 
 eral, Guatamala City, Guatamala. 
 
 KENYON, Ralph Wood: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Brooklyn, N. Y. ; 
 son of Cajitaiu Ralph Watson and Julia 
 (Waterman) Kenyon. He was educated in 
 the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; gradu- 
 ated from Columbia College as B.A., with 
 English Seminary prize, in 1878, and M.A. 
 in 1881; and from the Ejiiscopal Theological 
 School, of Cambridge, Mass., S.T.B., 1881. 
 He received from the University of New 
 York the degree of LL.B., 1898 and from 
 St. John's College that of U.D. in 1899. He 
 was ordered deacon in 1881 and ordained 
 priest in 1882, by Bishop Littlejohn, in the 
 Episcopal ministry. He served as assistant 
 in St. Luke's Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., in 
 1881; rector of Holy Innocents' Church, Al- 
 bany, N. Y., 1881-1887; associate and rector 
 of the Church of the liol}* Sejjulchre, New 
 iork City, 1887-1889; assistant St. Ann's 
 Church, Brooklyn, 1889-1892; rector of the 
 Church of the Arcliangel, New York City, 
 1892-1899. He has been professor of apolo- 
 getics and Christian ethics, and secretary of 
 the faculty of Amity Theological Schools, 
 JSlew York City, since 1902. He was chap- 
 lain of the Master's Lodge of Masons (Al- 
 bany), 1882-1887; and delegate to the Fed- 
 erate Council of the Episcopal Church rep- 
 resenting the Diocese of Albany, 1884-1887. 
 Dr. Kenyon is a writer of editorials, essays, 
 sermons and papers on ethical ana 
 sociological topics. He is a life member of 
 the Alumni Association of Columbia Uni- 
 versity of Columbia University; member 
 of the society of Colonial Wars, the Society 
 of Mayflower Descendants, and of the Cam- 
 bridge Club of New York and Boothbay 
 Harbor Yacht Club of Maine. He married 
 in 1891, Elise C. Rathbone, and they have 
 one daughter, Theda. Address: 43 Halsey 
 Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 KENYON, William Houston: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Hartford, Conn., Jan. 
 5, 1850; son of Robert and Jean (Houston) 
 Kenyon. He was graduated from the Col- 
 lege of the City of New York, A.B., 1876, 
 A.M., 1883; and from Columbia College, 
 Ll^.l!., 1879. Mr. Kenyon has been engaged 
 in the practice of law in New York City 
 from graduation, with a specialty in patent 
 
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 law, and is now senior member of the firm 
 of Kenyon and Kenyon. He has been identi- 
 fied witli much of the important patent liti- 
 gation of the last twenty-five years; and 
 is author of the present Design Patent 
 Law of tiie United States. He served in 
 the Seventh Keginient, National Guard of 
 New York, 187 7- 1884. Mr. Kenyon has 
 been active in reform movements; and was 
 chairman of the Committee of Fifty-three, 
 1807-18U8, which secured the passage of the 
 Primary Law of the State of New York. 
 He is a member of the American Bar Asso- 
 ciaton. New York State Bar Association, 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, American Geographi- 
 cal Society, American Society of Electrical 
 Engineers, American Electro-chemical So- 
 ciety, the National Civil Service Association, 
 Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society. He is a member of the 
 University, Engineers, Republican, and 
 West Side Republican Clubs of New York 
 City, and the University Club of Philadel- 
 phia. Mr. Kenyon married, in Cincinnati, 
 April 21, 1887, Maria Wellington Stanwood, 
 who died June 25, 1905; and he has three 
 children. Address: 49 Wall Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 KEOGH, Martin Jerome: 
 
 Jurist; born in Ireland, in 1855; son of 
 John Keogh and Margaret Keogh. He re- 
 ceived his education in the public schools 
 and was graduated from New York Uni- 
 versity, LL.B. in 1876; and the degree of 
 LL.D. was conferred upon him by the same 
 university in 1906. He was admitted to the 
 bar in 1876; was presidential elector on 
 the Democratic ticket in 1886, and was 
 elected by the votes of both leading parties, 
 as justice of the Supreme Court of New 
 York in 1895, for the term expiring 1909. 
 Judge Keogh married at New Rochelle, N, 
 Y'., in 1894, Katherine Temple Emmet. Ad- 
 dress: New Rochelle, N. Y. 
 
 KEPPEL, Frederick: 
 
 Importer of pictures, art writer and lec- 
 turer; born in Tullow, Ireland, March 22, 
 1845. He was educated in Entrland and at 
 
 Wesley College, Dublin. He is senior mem- 
 ber of the firm of Frederick Keppel and 
 Son. Mr. Keppel is a writer on art topics 
 for current periodicals in New York City; 
 and the Studio and Pall Mall Gazette of 
 London. He has been a lecturer on art, at 
 Yale, Columbia and Joiins Hopkins Univer- 
 sities, and also at the Metropolitan Museum 
 of Art and the G rollers Club of both of 
 which organizations he is a member. He 
 married in Cork, Ireland, in 1875, Fannie 
 McVickery. Residence: 2;J9 East 17th 
 .•street. Office: 4 East SOth Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 KEPPLER, Rudolph: 
 
 Banker and broker; born in Constanz, 
 Germany, in 1843, son of Karl and' Marie 
 Keppler. He was educated in New Y''ork 
 City. He is president of the New Y''ork 
 Stock Exchange; a member of the firm of 
 Rudolph, Keppler and Company; and a di- 
 rector of the New Y^ork Stock Exchange 
 Building Company and South Porto Rico Su- 
 gar Company. He is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Geographical Society, Fine Arts So- 
 ciety, the Scientific Alliance, the New York 
 Academy of Sciences, the Metropolitan Mu- 
 seum of Art, the American Museum of Nat- 
 ural History and of the Union League Club 
 and the Deutscher Verein. Mr. Keppler 
 married in New York City, 1868, Elise 
 Gramm. Residence: 28 West 70th Street. 
 Office: 25 Broad Street, New York City. 
 
 KERENS, Richard C: 
 
 Capitalist ; horn in Killbcn y. County 
 Meath, Ireland, in 1842. He came to the 
 United States in early childhood, and was 
 educated in the public schools of Iowa. He 
 served in the Union Army as a private 
 from 1861 to the end of the war. After 
 the war he was a resident of Arkansas 
 and became an extensive mail route con- 
 tractor, and afterward was largely engaged 
 in railway construction, with residence at 
 St. Louis after 1876. Mr. Kerens became 
 active in politics as a Republican and par- 
 ticularly as the personal and political friend 
 of the late James G. Blaine, and was the 
 member from ^Missouri of the National Re- 
 publican Committee, 1892-1904. He was a 
 
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 commissioner froni ^Missouri to the World's | 
 Columbian Expofsition. He is a member of 
 the St. Louis Club of St. Louis, and the 
 Union Leayue Club of New York. Resi- 
 dence: ;5t) Vandeventer Place. Office 214 
 Rialto Building. St. Louis. 
 
 KERKER, Gustave Adolph: 
 
 (onduc'tor and cauii'oscr: born in ITor- 
 ford, Germany, Feb. 28. 1867; son of Gus- 
 tave Adolph and Elizabeth Kerker. His 
 parents were both musicians and his first 
 instructors in music. He has been conduc- 
 tor at the New York Casino since 1889. Mr. 
 Kerker is the composer of The Pearl of 
 Pckin, and The Belle of New York, and 
 others. Address: 115 Manhattan Avenue, 
 New York City. 
 
 KERNAN, Walter W.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Utica, N. Y^, March 20, 
 1864; son of Francis and Hannah (Dever- 
 eux) Kernan. He was graduated from 
 Georgetown College in 1885 and is a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Kernan and Kernan. 
 He is also a member of the Transporta- 
 tion and University Clubs of New York 
 City. Office : Devereaux Block, Utica, N. Y. 
 
 XERR, James Manford: 
 
 Ljiw autlior; born near Tippecanoe City, 
 Ohio, Dec. 30, 1851 ; son of Jonathan 
 Thompson and IMatilda (Wcstlake) Kerr. 
 He was reared on a farm, attended the local 
 schools and tlie National Normal University 
 at Lebanon. Ohio, and' then studied law and 
 was admitted to the bar in 1877. Tie be- 
 came prominent as a law writer and as an 
 editor of legal publications and law books, 
 was editor of the Ohio Law Journal, The 
 American Lawyer, ^^■est's System of Re- 
 porters, and was founder and editor of the 
 American Law Journal. He has edited edi- 
 tions of standard legal text-books, including 
 Benjamin on Sales (two volumes), 1888; 
 Before and at Trial. 1889; Crocker on Sher- 
 iffs (tiiird edition), and others. He is au- 
 tlior of the rewritten second edition of Wilt- 
 sie on Mortgage Foreclosures, 1890; Busi- 
 ness Corijorations, 1890; Homicide, 1891; 
 Heal Property (tliree volumes), 1895; Sup- 
 plement to Wiltsie on Mortgage Fore- 
 
 closures, 1897; Attachment, 1899; Injunc- 
 tions, 1900. For several years past Mr. 
 Kerr's efforts have been principally devoted 
 to cyclopedic work in connection with the 
 codes of California, upon which he has pub- 
 lished several volumes, including the Cyclo- 
 pedic California Civil Code, two volumes, 
 1905 ; Cyclopedic California Penal Code, 
 1906; Cyclopedic California Political Code, 
 1906; Cyclopedic California Code of Civil 
 Procedure (2 vols.). 1907; Annotated Pock- 
 et Codes of California (4 vols.), 1909; An- 
 notated General Laws of California, 1909, 
 etc. Address: 7SG Ellis Street, San Fran- 
 cisco. Calif. 
 
 KERR, John B.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Newburgh, N. Y., Feb. 
 1, 1851 ; son of George W. and Margaret 
 T. L. Kerr. He was educated in the pub- 
 lie schools of Newburg, N. Y., and Trinity 
 Sciiool, New York City, and was admitted 
 to the bar in 1872, after studying law in 
 the office of E. A. Brewster at Newburgh. 
 He practised there vmtil 1882, when he be- 
 came attorney for the New York, Ontario 
 and Western Railway Company, and re- 
 moved to New York City, where he has since 
 resided, and during that time has been con- 
 tinuously connected with the management 
 of that company, of which he is now vice- 
 president and general counsel. He is also 
 vice-president of the Scranton Coal Com- 
 pany. For four years he was recorder 
 of the city of Newburgh and he was trus- 
 tee of the New Amsterdam Eye and Ear 
 Hospital of New York City. Mr. Kerr is 
 a member of the Association of the Bar 
 of the city of New York, and of the Down 
 Town Club. He married at Newburgh, N. 
 Y., Nov. IG, 1881, Elizabeth R. Case, and 
 they have three children. Address: 56 
 Beaver Street, New York City. 
 
 KERSTEN, George: 
 
 Jurist; born in Chicago, March 21, 1853; 
 son of Joachim and Sophia (Eisner) Kers- 
 ten. He received his education in Captain 
 Standon's German-American Institute, the 
 Franklin School, and Eastman's Com- 
 mercial College, whence he was graduated 
 in 1809. He was engaged in various em- 
 
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 ployments until 1880, when he was made 
 clerk of the Police Coui^t of Chicago, and 
 shortly afterward was elected a justice of 
 the peace. Eventually lie was appointed one 
 of the police justices of the City of Chica- 
 go, a position which he retained for a num- 
 ber of years. In 1903 he was elected judge 
 of the Circuit Court of Cook County. He 
 is a member of the Masonic order, the Mys- 
 tic Shrine, the Order of Foresters, Knights 
 of Pythias, the Knights of Columbus, and 
 the Royal Arcanum. He is also a member 
 of the North Side Turner's Societj', and was 
 one of the organizers, its first secretary 
 and later president of the Cook County 
 Democratic Club. He is prominent as a 
 sharpshooter, and is a member of several 
 gun clubs and of the Germania and Iro- 
 quois Clubs. He married, Sept. 4, 1875, 
 Julia Baierle, and has one living child: 
 Lilian. Residence: 418 Belden Avenue. 
 Address : County Building, Chicago. 
 
 KERWIN, James C: 
 
 Justice of the Supreme Court of Wiscon- 
 sin; born at Menasha, Wis., May 4, 1850; 
 son of Michael and' Mary (Buckley) Ker- 
 win. He was graduated from the law de- 
 partment of the University of Wisconsin as 
 LL.B. in 1875 and practised law at Neenah, 
 Wis., and Milwaukee untii elected to the 
 Supreme bench for the term beginning in 
 January, 1905. He married at Menasha, 
 Wis., in 1877, Helen E. Lawson. Resi- 
 dence: Neenah, Wis. Office: Madison, 
 Wis. 
 
 XETCHAM, Henry B.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Dover Plains, N. Y., 
 Aug. 8, 1SG5; son of John H. and Augus- 
 ta A. (Belden) Ketcham. He was gradu- 
 ated from Yale, A.B., 1887 and from Co- 
 lumbia Law School, LL.B., 1889. Since 
 1890 he has been a member of tlie law fir.i! 
 of Reid, Esselstyn and Ketcham. He is a 
 director of the Livingston Realty Company. 
 Mr. Ketcham was the Republican candidate 
 for Congress in the Second Congressional 
 District of Kings County in 1900, defeated 
 by two hundred and seven votes in a district 
 normally Democratic by five thousand; and 
 was an unsuccessful candidate on the Re- 
 
 publican ticket for districl atlorney in 
 Kings County in 1904. Mr. Kcteliaiii is 
 a member of the Association of the Bar of 
 the City of New York, the Psi Upsilon fra- 
 ternity, and the Yale Club of New «York 
 City, the Hamilton, Oxford, Crescent, Ath- 
 letic Clubs of Brooklyn and the Dyker 
 Meadow Golf Club. He married at Engle- 
 wood, N. J., Sept. 12, 1889, Sal lie Bray 
 Hohnan, and they liavc three cliildrcn. 
 Address: 2 Rector Street, New York City. 
 
 KEY, Joseph Staunton: 
 
 Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 South; born at LuCJrange, (!a., July 18. 
 1829; son of Rev. Caleb Witt Key, for more 
 than fifty years a Methodist minister in 
 Georgia, and Martha (Hames) Key. He 
 was graduated from Emory College as A.B., 
 1848, A.M., 1851, and received the D.D. 
 degree from the University of Georgia in 
 1867. After graduation he entered the min- 
 istry, and served in various pastorates of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 
 in the Georgia Conference until elected bish- 
 op by the General Conference in 1886. He 
 married, in 1892, Lucy Kidd. Address: 
 Shci'man, Texas. 
 
 KEYES, Edward Lawrence: 
 
 Surgeon; born at Fort Moultre, Charles- 
 ton Harbor, S. C, Aug. 28, 1845; son of 
 Major-General Erasmus Keyes, U. S. Army, 
 and Caroline M. Keyes. He was graduated 
 from Yale, A.B., 1863, A.M., 1806, from 
 the ]\Iedical Department of the University of 
 New York, M.D., 1866 and later received 
 the degree of LL.D. from St. Francis Xavier 
 College, New York City. He also took spec- 
 ial courses in France. Dr. Keyes was lec- 
 turer, 1871-1872, and professor of genito- 
 urinary surgery, 1872-1890, at Bellevue Hos- 
 pital Medical Collige, and since thsMi has 
 been consulting surgeon to Bellevue Hospi- 
 tal. He is vice-president of the Academy 
 of ^ledicine; n eu.bre do Association d'Uro- 
 logie de France; and has been president at 
 various times of several medical societies, 
 local and National. He is author of: 
 Tonic Treatment of Sj'jihilis; Vtnereal Dis- 
 eases; Surgery of the Kidney, Bladder and 
 the Genitalia in the Male. Dr. Keves is a 
 
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 member of the ^Fetropolitan Museiim of 
 Art, the Century. Association and Metro- 
 politan Clubs of Xew York City, and the 
 Meadow Golf Club of Southampton : Shin- 
 necock Golf and Tuxedo Clubs. He mar- 
 ried at Georgetown, D. C, Sarah M. Lough- 
 borough. Kesidence: Tuxedo Park, N. Y. 
 Address: 109 East 34th Street, Now York 
 City. 
 
 KEYSER, Cassius J.: 
 
 ^fnfliemntieian and educator; born in 
 Rawson, Ohio, in 1862; son of J. B. and 
 Margaret J. (Ryan) Keyser. He was grad- 
 uated from the Ohio Normal University. 
 B.S. in 1S83: studied law at Ann Arbor. 
 Mich., and Kenton, Ohio. 188.3-188'). Was 
 graduated from the University of Missouri. 
 B.S., 1892; was a student at the Summer 
 School of the University of Michigan. 1894; 
 was a graduate scholar in mathematics. 
 189.5-1896. fellow 189fi-1897, and received 
 the degrees of A.M. in 1896 and Ph.D. in 
 1901 from Columbian University. Dr. Key- 
 ser was principal and superintendent of 
 public schools in Ohio and Missouri. 1885- 
 1890; instructor in mathematics. Univer- 
 sity of Missouri, 1891-1892. professor of 
 mathematics at the State Normal School at 
 New Paltz, N. Y., from 1892-1894; in- 
 structor in mathematics at Smith Academy, 
 Washington Universitv. St. Louis. 1894- 
 189.5. and at Barnard Collenre. 1897-1900. 
 He became instructor in mathematics, 1897- 
 190.3, adjunct professor, 1903-1904 and since 
 then Adrain professor of mathematics in 
 Colimibia University. Professor Koyser is 
 editor of the department of mathematics 
 in the Encyclopedia Americana, has been 
 American editor of the Hibbert Journal 
 since 1904. and is a contributor to var- 
 ious scientific and philosophic journals. He 
 is a member of the American Mathematical 
 Society, Circolo Matematico di Palermo; a 
 fellow of the American A.ssociation for the 
 Advancement of Science, and member of 
 the Columbia University Club. He mar- 
 ried at Ridgeway. Ohio, in 1885, Ella Maud 
 Crow, and has one daughter, Eva Blanch 
 Keyser. Address: Columbia University, 
 New York Ci(v. 
 
 KEYSER, Ephraim: 
 
 Sculptor; born in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 
 
 6. 1850; son of Moses and Betty (Preiss) 
 Keyser, both of German birth. He was ed- 
 ucated in the Baltimore public schools, and 
 a year in the ]\Laryland Academy of Arts; 
 then studied for four years in the Academy 
 of Fine Arts in Munich. Bavaria, receiving 
 the silver medal for his bronze statue The 
 Page. In 1876 he was a pupil of Albert 
 Wolff in Berlin, where he modeled his stat- 
 ute of Psyche, for which he received" the 
 Michall-Beer prize, a year's tuition in Rome, 
 Italy, 1870-1877. He had studios in Rome 
 and New York until 1893; since then in 
 Baltimore, where he is professor of sculp- 
 ture in the Academy of Fine Arts of the 
 Maryland Institute. His works include: 
 The Pet Falcon, Titania, Ye Olde Storye. 
 The Rose, A Duet, the ^Memorial to Presi- 
 dent Chester A. Arthur in Rural Cemetery. 
 Albany, N. Y. ; bronze monument of Baron 
 DeKalb at Annapolis; portrait busts of 
 Cardinal Gibbons, Henry Harland, Dr. D. 
 C. Oilman, Sidney Lanier and others. Ad- 
 dress : 2408 Linden Avenue. Baltimore. 
 
 KIBBEY, Joseph H.: 
 
 Governor of Arizona; born in Centerville. 
 Ind., March 4, 1853. He was educated in 
 Earlham College, Richmond, Ind., practised 
 law in Indiana from 1875 to 1888, and after 
 that in Arizona. He was appointed by 
 President Harrison in 1889 an associate 
 justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona 
 and serving until 1893. He resumed prac- 
 tice, became active in the politics of the Ter- 
 ritory as a Republican and was a member 
 of the Territorial Council from 1902 to 1904. 
 He was appointed attorney-general of Ari- 
 zona in 1904, and was commissioned jNIarch 
 
 7. 1905, governor of Arizona, niulcr :>])- 
 poiutuient from President Roo-cvi'lt. Ad- 
 thess: I'liociiix. Ari:--. 
 
 KIEKHOEFER, H. J.: 
 
 Piesident of Northwestern College; born 
 in Germany, Aug. 10. 1849; son of F. H. 
 and Minnie (Lerman) Kiekhoefer. He was 
 educated at Galesville. Ihiiversity. North- 
 western College and in Germany, and has 
 
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 received the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. Af- 
 ter several years' service as professor of 
 ancient languages at Galesville University, 
 ho became coiiTipcted witli \ho \\'iscon=iin 
 Conference of the Evangelical Association 
 until 1885, when he was appointed profes- 
 sor of systematic and biblical theology at 
 the Union Uiblical Tnstilufe. ti>aching there 
 nntil 1800, when he was appointed presi- 
 dent of Northwestern College, Illinois, 
 which position he has ever since held. He 
 married in Menomonie, Wis., April 11. 1878, 
 to Sarah S. Scholz, and has four children. 
 Address: Naperville, 111. 
 
 KILBURN, Frederick Douglas: 
 
 Lawyer and superintendent of banks; 
 born in Clinton County, N. Y., July 25, 
 1850; son of Henry Gardiner and Sophrona 
 (Evans) Kilburn. He was educated in 
 Franklin Academy and Albany Law School. 
 He practised law, 1874-1885. He was vice- 
 president, director and manager of the 
 People's National Bank. Malone, N. Y., 
 1885-1896; president of the Malone Light 
 and Power Company; director of the Ma- 
 lone Shirt Company; Symonds and Allison 
 Company. County treasurer six years; 
 State senator two years ; superintendent of 
 banks since Jan., 1896. Mr. Kilburn is 
 trustee of the Northern New York Insti- 
 tution for Deaf Mutes. He is a member 
 of the Republican Club of New York City, 
 and the Fort Orange, and Albany Clubs of 
 Albany. He married Clara M. Barry, July 
 21, 1875, and they have four children. Ad- 
 dress: Malone, N. Y. 
 
 KILDAHL, John Nathan: 
 
 College president ; born in Norway, Jan. 
 4, 1857; son of Johan and Nicolina (Bu- 
 varp) Kildahl. He was graduated from 
 Luther College, A.B., 1879, and graduated 
 from Luther Seminary in 1882. He was 
 pastor of Vaug and Urland Churches, Good- 
 hue County, Minn., 1882-1889, of Bethle- 
 hem Lutheran Church, Chicago, 1889-1899, 
 and has been president of the St. Olaf 
 College, Northfield, Minn., since 1899. Dr. 
 Kildahl married in Goodhue County, Minn., 
 July 11, 1882, Bertha Soine, and they have 
 
 four children. Address: Saint Olaf Col- 
 lego. Northfield, Minn. 
 
 KILIANI, Otto George Theobald: 
 
 Surgeon; born in Munich. Bavaria. Sept. 
 5. 1863; son of .Judge Herman and Carola 
 (Faulstock) Kiliani. Ho was graduated 
 from the University of Munich, 1886; the 
 University of Hallo, 1888, and from the 
 University of Leipzig, ;M.D., 1888. He was 
 surgeon of the Third Royal Artillery Regi- 
 ment in 1890; passed the Now York State 
 examination in 1891 and has been in prac- 
 tice as surgeon in New York City since 
 then. Dr. Kiliani is author of: Surgical 
 Diagnosis; and many surgical papers; is 
 a contributor to Ashhurst's Encyclopedia 
 of Surgery, and to the Twentieth Century 
 Practice of Medicine. He received the 
 order of St. Michael of Bavaria. Dr. Kiliani 
 is surgeon to the German Hospital. New 
 York City, and to the Imperial German 
 Consulate General. He is a member of the 
 New York Academy of Medicine; the New 
 York County Medical Society; the German 
 Med'cal Society; Medico-Surgical Society; 
 Physicians' Medical Aid Association ; and 
 New York Surgical Society; and is a 
 life member of the Surgical Society of 
 Berlin. He married, Aug. 12, 1887, Lilian 
 Bayard Taylor, and they have one son. Ad- 
 dress: 116 East 57th Street. New York 
 City. 
 
 KILLMASTER, George B.: 
 
 Consular official ; born in Canada ; ap- 
 pointed commercial agent at Port Rowan, 
 April 2, 1894; appointed consul June 22, 
 1906 : appointed consul at Newcastle. New 
 South Wales, Australia, Jan. 9, 1908. Per- 
 manent address : Killmaster, Alcona Coun- 
 ty, Mich. Official address: American Con- 
 sulate, Newe:\stlo. N. W. S.. Australia. 
 
 KIMBALL, Dexter Simpson: 
 
 ^Mechanical engineer; born at New River, 
 New Brunswick, Can., in 1865; son of 
 William H. and Jane (Patterson) Kimball. 
 He was graduated from Leland Stanford, 
 Jr., University, A.B., 1896. He served ap- 
 prenticeship with the firm of Pope and 
 
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 Talbot, Port Gamble, Wash., 1881-1887; 
 in the machine shop, 1887-1893, and draft- 
 injr-room. 1S9G-1S98, of the Union Iron 
 Works, San Francisco; dosio:ning engineer 
 for the Anaconda Mining Company, Mon- 
 tana, in 1898; assistant professor of ma- 
 chine design in Sibley College, Cornell Uni- 
 versity, 1898-1901 ; works manager of the 
 Stanley Electric Manufacturing Company, 
 Pittsfield, Mass., 1901-1904; professor of 
 mechanic arts, 1904-1905, and since then 
 professor of machine design and construc- 
 tion in Sibley College, Cornell University. 
 He is a member of the American Society 
 of Mechanical Engineers and the Sigma Xi 
 Society. Professor Kimball married' in San 
 Francisco, in 1898, Clara Evelyn Woodner, 
 and they have two children. Residence: 
 23 East Avenue. Office: Sibley College, 
 Cornell Univcrsitj', Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 KIMBALL, George Albert: 
 
 C_i\il I'ligincer: born iu Littleton. ^lass., 
 May 14, 1850; son of William and Mary 
 A. (Lawrence) Kimball. He received his 
 education in the public schools of Littleton, 
 and at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, 
 N. H. He practised civil engineering, hav- 
 ing commenced in 18G9 as rodman iu Som- 
 erville, jNIass. ; was city engineer of Somer- 
 ville, 1876-1887; member of the Massachu- 
 setts Grade Crossing Commission, 1S88; 
 member of the Massachusetts Metropolitan 
 Sewerage Commission, 1896-1901; and he 
 has been chief engineer of Boston Elevated 
 Raihvaj' Company, since 1896. Mr. Kim- 
 ball was a member of the Somerville Board 
 of Aldermen, 1888-1889, of the Somerville 
 Board of Health, 1880-1887, and the Somer- 
 ville Water Board, 1891-1900. He is a 
 member of tlie American Society of Civil 
 Engineers, Boston Society of Civil Engi- 
 neers, and New England Water Works As- 
 sociation; director of tlie Somerville Co- 
 operative Bank, Knights of Honor and the 
 Royal Arcanum. He is also a member of 
 the New England Street Railway Club, and 
 the Winchester Country Club. He married, 
 Feb. 29, 1872, Lizzie E. Robbins. Resi- 
 dence: 336 Mystic Street, Arlington, Mass. 
 Office: 101 Milk Street, Boston. 
 
 KIMBALL, Grace Niebuhr: 
 
 IMiysician; born in Dover, N. H., May 10, 
 1855; daughter of Judge Richard and Eliz- 
 abeth (Hale) Kimball. She was graduated 
 from the ^Medical College of New York In- 
 firmary, M.D., 1892. She was a missionary 
 for six years at Van, Asiatic Turkey, 1882- 
 1888. and a medical missionary at the same 
 station, 1892-1896; and conducted extensive 
 industrial relief work during the period of 
 the Armenian massacres. She returned to 
 the United' States in 1896, was associate 
 physician of Vassar College until 1900, and 
 since then has practised medicine in Pough- 
 keepsie, N. Y. Dr. Kimball is a corporate 
 member of the American Board of Commis- 
 sioners for Foreign Missions, and is presi- 
 dent of the Young Women's Christian Asso- 
 ciation of Poughkeepsie. She is a member 
 of the Board of Health of Poughkeepsie, the 
 American INIedical Association, Dutchess 
 County jMedical Society, and New York 
 State Medical Society. Address : 337 Mill 
 Street, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
 
 KIMBALL, Ingalls: 
 
 Publisher; born in West Newton, Mass., 
 April 2, 1874; son of Hannibal Ingalls and 
 Mary (Cook) Kimball. He was graduated 
 from Harvard University in 1894. He 
 founded, as a member of the publishing 
 firm of Stone & Kimball, The Chap Book 
 in 1894; published the Stedman-Woodlierry 
 edition of Poe's Works; also publisher for 
 R. L. Stevenson, Harold Frederic, and Gil- 
 bert Parker, and established Tlie Chelten- 
 ham Press in 1897. He is president of The 
 Cheltenham Press, The Engraving Machine 
 Company, The Neucraft Company, and the 
 Clieltenham Press, Limited, of London. Mr. 
 Kimball is a member of the Players', Har- 
 vard', and Grolier Clubs. He married in 
 W inchester, Va., Nov. 22, 1894, Nancy Vir- 
 ginia Allen, and they have two children. 
 Address: 150 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 KIMBALL, William C: 
 
 .Manufacturer of silks and ribbons; born 
 in Boxford, ]\Iass., Feb. 11, 1847; son of 
 Jefleraon and Mary (Griffin) Kimball. He 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 received his education in the common 
 schools and at Putnam Academy, Nevvbury- 
 port, Mass. Early in life he went into 
 business in Boston; removed to New York 
 City in 1808, was associated with the Wil- 
 cox Silver Plate Company, and later with 
 H. F. Barrows and Company. In 1888 he 
 was connected with Strange and Brother, 
 and is now vice-president of the William 
 Strange Company, manufacturers of silks 
 and ribbons, with mills at Patcrson, N. J.; 
 director of The Read and Lovatt Manufac- 
 turing Company, of New York, Hobart 
 Trust Company of Passaic, N. J., and pres- 
 ident of the American Transformer Com- 
 pany of Newark, N. J. He was treasurer 
 of the Jewelers' Eepublican Club in the 
 Blaine campaign and also treasurer of the 
 Central Division Dry Goods Republican 
 Club, 1896-1900, and in 1904. Mr. Kim- 
 ball is a member of the New England So- 
 ciety, Jewelers' League, and president of 
 the Board of Trustees of the Passaic Public 
 Library. At the request of the New Jersey 
 Library Assnoiatinn. he liad a bill ]irepnro(l 
 for the Legislature, appointing a Public 
 Library Commission, which, after consid- 
 erable efforts on the part of those inter- 
 ested, Avas passed by the Legislature. He 
 Avas appointed by Governor Voorhees as 
 one of the commissioners and upon the 
 organization of the committee was made 
 chairman of the New Jersey Public Li- 
 brary Commission, which office he still 
 holds. He is a member of the Merchants' 
 Central Clubs. Mr. Kimball married at 
 Mt. Kisco, N. Y., June 4, 1873, to Blanch 
 L. Read, and they have two sons. Address: 
 Passaic, N. J. 
 
 KIMBER, Robert Bootman: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Flushing, L. I., 1871; 
 son of Rev. Joshua and Mary (Gove) Kim- 
 ber. He was graduated from Columbia Col- 
 lege, B.A., 1891, General Tlieological Sem- 
 inary, B.D., 1894. He was ordered deacon 
 in 1894, by Bishop Littlejohn, and ordained 
 priest, 1895, by Bishop Whitehead, in Epis- 
 copal ministry. He was formerly rector 
 of Trinity Church, Seymour, Conn., 1894- 
 1900; local secretary of the Board of Man- 
 agers of Domestic and Foreign Missionary 
 
 Society, 1900-1902; superintendent of the 
 New York Protestant Episcopal City Mis- 
 sion Society since 1902. He is a mendjcr 
 of the City Club, and Pennsylvania So- 
 ciety. ]Mr. Kimber married in Richmond 
 Hill, L. I., in 1894, Genevieve L. Tyler. 
 Address: 38 Blecckcr Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 KING, Charles: 
 
 Soldier and novelist; born Albany, N. Y., 
 Oct. 12, 1844. He was educated at Colum- 
 bia College and West Point. Began his 
 military career in 1861 and retired finally 
 in 1899. He served in the Artillery and 
 Cavalry, was instructor at West Point to 
 1871; aide-de-camp to General Emory to 
 1874; served in Apache campaign, 1874; 
 Sioux campaign, 1876; Nez Perces cam- 
 paign, 1877, and retired for wounds, 1879. 
 He was at the University of Wiseon'^in. 18S0- 
 1882; aide-de-camp to Governors Rusk and 
 Hoard, 1882-1891; inspector-general, Wis- 
 consin National Guard, 1883-1889; com- 
 manded the Fourth' Wisconsin Infantry, 
 1890-1892; commandant of cadets, ;Michigan 
 Military Academy, 1892; adjutant-general 
 of Wisconsin, 1895-1897; served in the Phil- 
 ippines as brigadier-general, U. S. Volun- 
 teers, 1898-1899. He is author of: Famous 
 Battles; The Colonel's Daughter; Between 
 the Lines; The General's Double; Under 
 Fire, and many others. lie married a daugh- 
 ter of Captain Yorke, of Carroll Parish, 
 La., and they have one son and two daugh- 
 ters living. Address: Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 KING, C. F.: 
 
 Capitalist; born in North Carolina, in 
 1807. He is the ]>r()prietor of the I'o-ton 
 Daily Tribune, and King's Financial Bulle- 
 tin; is president and director of the Alton 
 Manufacturing Company, of the King- 
 Crowther Corporation and the Norton Oil 
 Company, and is treasurer and director of 
 the Ehrman Manufacturing Company. He 
 is publisher and author of The Light of 
 Four Candles. Mr. King is a member of 
 the Masonic Order, and of the Point Shir- 
 ley, Winthrop Yacht, Cottage Park Yncht, 
 and Chicago Athletic Clubs, and The South- 
 ern Society of New York. Residence: 
 
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 Brookline, ]\Iass. Office addresses: St. 
 James Building, New York City, and Jour- 
 nal Building, Boston, Mass. 
 
 KING, David Bennett: 
 
 Lawyer, writer; born in Mt. Pleasant, 
 Westmoreland County, Pa., June 20, 1848. 
 He was graduated from L;if;iyctti' Collcg.' 
 in 1871; and successively tutor, adjunct 
 professor, and professor of Latin at Lafay- 
 ette College. 1S71-1886. Mr. King was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1883; since then in 
 practice of law in New York City. He is 
 author of: Latin Pronunciation; The Irish 
 Question; and also many articles on land 
 tenure, parliamentary representation and 
 economics in reviews and encyclopedias. He 
 is a member of the Association of the Bar 
 of the City of New York, The Pennsylvania 
 Society, and Lafayette Alumni Association. 
 He is a member of the Railroad, Authors', 
 Lawyers', University, Essex County, and 
 Union League Clubs. Residence: 67 West 
 49th Street. Address: 165 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 XING, Hamilton: 
 
 Diplomat; born at St. Johns, Newfound- 
 land, June -1, 1852; son of William and 
 Maria King. He was graduated from the 
 Olivet (Mich.) College, A.B., 1878, and 
 A.M., 1881; was a student of the Chicago 
 Theological Seminary, 1878-187'J, the Uni- 
 versity of Leipzig, 1883-1884, and of the 
 American School at Athens, Greece, 1884. 
 He was principal of the Preparatory De- 
 partment of Olivet College, Mich., 1879- 
 1898, and also was a lecturer and preacher. 
 He became active also in the Republican 
 party of that State and well known as an 
 ellective political speaker, and was a dele- 
 gate from Michigan to the National Repub- 
 lican Convention at St. Louis in 1896. In 
 Jan., 1898, he was appointed by President 
 McKinley as minister resident and consul- 
 general in Siam, and April 27, 1903, he 
 was advanced to his present rank as envoy 
 extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary 
 of the United States to Siam. Mr. King is 
 author of a Greek Reader, and of Outlines 
 of United States History. He married, in 
 1884, Cora Lee Seward, who is a member 
 
 of the famous old New York Seward family. 
 Home: Olivet, Mich. Address: American 
 Legation, Bangkok, Siam, or care of State 
 Department, Washington, D. C. 
 
 KING, Henry Churchill: 
 
 President of Oberlin College; born at 
 Hillsdale, Mich., Sept. 18, 1858; son of 
 Henry J. and Sarah (Lee) King. He was 
 graduated from Oberlin College, A.B., 1879, 
 D.B., 1882; A.M. from Harvard, 1883, and 
 he received the degree of D.D. from Oberlin, 
 1897; from the Western Reserve Univer- 
 sity, 1901. and Yale University, 1904; 
 S.T.D. from Columbia University, 1909, and 
 the degree of LL.D. from the University of 
 Illinois, 1908, and from Miami University, 
 1909. Dr. King was tutor in Oberlin 
 Academy, 1879-1882; student of Harvard 
 University, 1882-18S4; associate professor 
 of mathematics in Oberlin College, 1884- 
 1890; associate professor of philosophy, 
 1890-1891. Professor of philosophy, 18'.ll- 
 1897, in Oberlin College; student of the 
 University of Berlin, 1893-1894; and he has 
 been professor of theology and philosophy 
 in Oberlin Seminary and College since 1897, 
 and president of Oberlin College since 1902. 
 President King is author of: Reconstruc- 
 tion in Theology; Theology and the Social 
 Consciousness; Personal and Ideal Elements 
 in Education; Rational Living; The Seem- 
 ing Unreality of the Spiritual Life; The 
 Laws of Friendship; Htiman and Divine; 
 Letters to Sunday School Teachers on the 
 Fundamental Truths of the Christian 
 Faith; The Appeal of the Child. He is a 
 Republican and a Congregationalist. He 
 married at Brecksville, Oliio, July 7, 1882, 
 Julia ilarana Coates, and they have four 
 children. Address: Oberlin, Ohio. 
 
 KING, Herbert Maxon: 
 
 Physician; born in Adams, N. Y., Aug. 
 11, 1804; son of Horace lirigham and 
 Adelaide (Maxon) King. He was educated 
 in the Massachusetts public schools, Dart- 
 mouth College, and the University of the 
 City of New York, receiving the degree of 
 M.D. from the latter in 1880. Dr. King 
 practised medicine in New York City until 
 1890, in wliicli year he commenced two 
 
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 years' service in the Marine Hospital Serv- 
 ice. In 1892 he resumed his practice in 
 Michigan, having in the meantime studied 
 abroad. He was in private practice until 
 1902, wlien he was appointed physician-in- 
 cliicf of the Loomis Sanitorium, which po- 
 sition lie now holds. Dr. King is a mem- 
 ber of the National Association for the 
 Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, the 
 American Climatological Association, the 
 American Association of Pathologists and 
 Bacteriologists; and is a fellow of the In- 
 ternational Conference on Tuberculosis, and 
 the New York Academy of Medicine. He is 
 also a director of the Liberty Light and 
 Power Company, and a member of the St. 
 Anthony Club of New York. Dr. King 
 married at Milford, Pa., Feb. 1, 1893, Lucy 
 Maples Pinchot, and they have two children, 
 Constance Pinchot and Adelaide Maxon. 
 Address: Loomis (Liberty), N. Y. 
 
 KING, horatio Collins: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Portland, Me., Dec. 22, 
 1837; eldest son of ex-Postmaster-General 
 Horatio King and Anne (Collins) King. 
 He removed to Washington City in 1839; 
 was graduated from Dickinson College, Pa., 
 A.B. and A.M., and received the degree of 
 LL.D. from Allegheny College in 1897. 
 He studied law with Edwin M. Stanton; 
 removed to New York City, and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1861. He entered the 
 Union Army, Aug., 1862, as captain and 
 assistant quartermaster, and was honorably 
 discharged, Uct., 1865, with brevets of major, 
 lieutenant-colonel, and colonel, and was 
 awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor 
 for conspicuous bravery near Dinwiddle, 
 Va., March 29, 1865. He resumed the 
 practice of law in New Y'ork City, in 1865;- 
 was associate editor of tue ^Ncw iork otar 
 and publisher of the Christian Union and 
 Christian-at-V\ork, 1871-1876; returned to 
 the practice of law in 1877 and was admit- 
 ted to the United States Supreme Court 
 in 1890. In 1883 he was appointed judge 
 advocate-general of the State of New York, 
 on the stafT of Grover Cleveland. General 
 King was a member of the Brooklyn Board 
 of Education, 1883-1894; resigned to accept 
 the trusteeship of the New York State 
 
 Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, and was re- 
 appointed trustee in 1897, and resigned in 
 Feb., 1900. He has been secretary of the 
 Army of the Potomac since 1877, and was 
 its president in 1904. He was the Demo- 
 cratic candidate for secretary of State in 
 1895; delegate to the National Convention 
 a>t Indianapolis in 1896. He is clerk of 
 Plymouth Church, of Brooklyn; was a 
 member of the New York Commission on 
 Laws' Delays, 1903; is a trustee of Dickin- 
 son College; cliairman of the Fredericks- 
 burg National Park Association; member 
 of tlie Lake Mohonk Arbitration Confer- 
 ence and the International Law Association. 
 General King is author of: King's Guide 
 to INgimcntal Conrt-Martiul, 1871; Silver 
 Wedding Anniversary of Plymouth Church, 
 1873; The Great Congregational Council 
 in Plymouth Church, 1876; Life and Writ- 
 ings of Horatio King, ex-Postmaster-Gen- 
 eral, 1895; Songs and Glees; History of 
 Dickinson College, 1898; Songs of Dickin- 
 son; Songs of Phi Kappa Sigma; is a 
 frequent contributor to newspapers and 
 magazines, and composer of many musical 
 compositions; also orator, poet, lecturer and 
 post-prandial speaker. He is a member of 
 the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, 
 Grand Army of the Republic, Medal of 
 Honor Legion, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
 the Masonic and Elks orders. Thirteenth 
 Regiment Veterans, Sons of the American 
 Revolution, and the Brooklyn Club. He 
 married, first, in 1862, Emma C. Stebbins, 
 who died in 1864, and second, in 1S66, Esther 
 A. Howard. He has had ten cliildren, of 
 whom five survive, and fifteen grandchil- 
 dren. Address : 44 Court Street, Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y. 
 
 KING, Pendleton: 
 
 Consular official; born in North Carolina. 
 Appointed secretary of the Legation at Con- 
 stantinople, ^larch 9, 1886; served as 
 charg6 d'Aff'aires ad interim at various 
 times; retired June 5, 1S90; appointed chief 
 of the Bureau of Indexes and Archives, 
 June 1, 1894; appointed consul at Aix la 
 Chappelle, Dec. 12, 1905. Address: Aix 
 La Chappelle, Prussia, Germany. 
 
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 KING, Rockwell: 
 
 Manufacturer, capitalist; born in Chi- 
 cairo. Fob. 7. IS.")."?: son of Charles Bobain 
 and Jane (Rockwell) King. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of Chicago, Phil- 
 lips Andover Academy, and Harvard Uni- 
 versity. For one year after leaving college 
 he was in the employ of the Adams & 
 Westlake Company. He then established 
 the firm of King & Andrews, foundrymen, 
 wliich was later incorporated as the King 
 &. Andrews Company, of which he is the 
 president. In 1S9S he was selected as the 
 president of the Western Cold Storage Com- 
 pany, which is the most extensive plant of 
 its kind in the world. He is treasurer of 
 the Harrington-King Perforating Company 
 and a director of the Adams &, Westlake 
 Company. Mr. King is still actively en- 
 gaged in business and gives his personal 
 direction to his various enterprises. As a 
 young man he was a member of the First 
 Regiment, Illinois National Guard. He is 
 a member of Chicago, University, Saddle 
 and Cycle, Harvard, and Merchants' Clubs. 
 He married in Chic.igo, Jan. G, 1881, 
 Lucy Wolcott Andrews, and has four chil- 
 dren. Residence: G3 Hawthorne Place. 
 Oflice : 39 Xorth State Street, Chicago. 
 
 KING. William Fletcher: 
 
 President emeritus of Cornell College, 
 Iowa; born near Zanesville, Ohio, Dec. 20, 
 1830; son of James J. and Mariam (ColT- 
 man) King. Ho was prepared for college 
 in the Zanesville High School, was gradu- 
 ated from Ohio Wesleyan University, A.B., 
 1857, A.M., 18G0; received the D.D. degree 
 from Illinois Wesleyan University, 1870, 
 and LL.D. from the State University of 
 Iowa and Ohio Wesleyan in 1887. On grad- 
 uation in 1857 he was appointed tutor 
 Ohio Wesleyan University, and in ISGi 
 resigned to take the chair of Latin in Cor- 
 nell College at Mount Vernon, Iowa. At 
 the close of tlie first year, on tiie death of 
 the president, he was chosen acting pres- 
 ident and two years later, in 1865, was 
 chosen president of the college. He is, in 
 lengtli of service, the oldest college jjresidcnt 
 now in office in this country, and on re- 
 
 signing the presidency, in June, 1908, he 
 was elected president emeritus. President 
 King has devoted his life to the building up 
 of Cornell College, and having accunuilated 
 one hundred and sixty thousand dollars he 
 lias given it in support of the college: one 
 hundred thousand dollars to endow in per- 
 petuity a scholarship in each of the one 
 hundred counties in Iowa, available for 
 worthy, aspiring youth; and these scholar- 
 ships are in memory of President King's 
 deceased wife. Of the remainder, fifty 
 thousand dollars was given to endow the 
 President's chair, in memory of his daugh- 
 ter. Dr. King has been in every State 
 but two in this country, to Alaska, the 
 W'est Indies and South America, and has 
 been four times to Europe, one of his trips 
 including Scandinavia, and others extend- 
 ing into Egypt and Palestine. He was 
 appointed by President Harrison a National 
 Commissioner of the World's Columbian 
 Exposition; was a delegate to the Congress 
 of Higher Education at the Paris Exposi- 
 tion of 1900; member of the Methodist 
 Ecumenical Conference in London in 1901, 
 and has five times been elected to the Gen- 
 eral Conferenc'3 of the Metliodist Episcopal 
 Church. He has been for many years a 
 member of the Council of Education of the 
 National Education Association, and also 
 of the Board of Education of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. He is a Republican in 
 politics. President King married at Chilli- 
 cothe, Ohio, Aug. 3, 1865, Margaret M. 
 INIcKell, now deceased, and they had one 
 daughter, Lucy Hayes King, born April 1, 
 1870, died April 12, 1887. Address: Mount 
 \'ornon, Iowa. 
 
 KINGSBURY, Benjamin Freeman: 
 
 Piofessor of physiology- ; born in St. 
 Charles, Mo., Nov. 18, 1872; son of B. B. 
 and Sarah R. (Freeman) Kingsbury. He 
 was graduated from Buchtel College (Ak- 
 ron, Ohio), A.B., 1893; from Cornell Uni- 
 versity, Ph.D., 1895; from the University 
 of Freiburg, Baden, Germany, M.D., 1903. 
 He was assistant professor of histology and 
 embryology, 1898-1902; assistant professor 
 of piiysioiogj^ 1902-1908; and since 1908 
 
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 lias been professor of histology and embry- 
 ology in Cornell. lie inarriod at Moadville. 
 Pa., June 22, 1904, j\Iargucrite Ilonipstcad, 
 and has two ehildren. Address: Itliaca, 
 X. Y. 
 
 KINGSBURY, Howard Thayer: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Kome, N. Y., April 1, 
 1870; son of Rev. Howard and' Sophia 
 Howard Thayer Kingsbury. He was edu- 
 cated in Everson and Halsey's School, New 
 York City, 1879-1887, Yale, B.A., 1891 
 (editor Yale Literary Magazine, awarded 
 DeForest medal) ; New York Law School, 
 LL.B.. 1893, first prize and prize fellowship, 
 . 1893-1895. Mr. Kingsbury served a clerk- 
 .ship with Coudert Brothers, was admitted to 
 the New York bar in June, 1893; associated 
 with Lee and Lee, 1893-1900; returned to 
 Coudert Brothers, 1900, and has been a 
 member of the firm for several years; ad- 
 mitted to the bar of the U. S. Supreme 
 Court, Jan., 1904. He is a member of the 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, and the American Society of Inter- 
 national Law. Mr. Kingsbury is a director 
 of the Garden City Company. He trans- 
 lated Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, 1898 
 (used by Richard Mansfield, and published 
 by Lamson, Wolff & Co., Boston). He is a 
 member of Phi Beta Kappa, Zeta Psi, Sons 
 of the Revolution, the University, Century, 
 Down Town and Yale Clubs, Manhasset 
 Bay Yacht and Sands Point Golf Clubs, 
 and the Graduates' Club of New Haven. 
 He married, April 22, 1902, to Alice Cary, 
 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abram Bussing 
 of New York, and has two children, Howard 
 Thayer, Jr., and Ruth Oliver. Residence: 
 24 East 61st Street, New York City, and 
 Port Washington, L. I. Office: 2 Rector 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 KINGSLEY, Darwin Pearl: 
 
 President of the New York Life Insurance 
 Company; born in Alburgh, Vt., May 5, 
 1857; son of H. P. and Celia (La Due) 
 Kingsley. He was graduated from the 
 University of Vermont in 1881. He was 
 State auditor and superintendent of insur- 
 ance in Colorado, 1887-1888 j superintendent 
 
 of agencies of the New York Life Insur- 
 ance Company, 1892-1898; trustee and vice- 
 president, 1898-1907; since June 17, 1907, 
 president of the New York Life Insurance 
 Company. He is a trustee of the University 
 of Vermont; director of the Citizens' Cen- 
 tral National of New York, and of the 
 Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Mr. 
 Kingsley is author of: The First Business 
 of the World, chiefly addresses and papers 
 on life insurance. Mr. Kingsley is a mem- 
 ber of the University, Union League, Mer- 
 chants' and St. Andrews' Clubs. He mar- 
 ried, first, June 19, 1884, Mary M. Mitchell; 
 and second. Dec. 3, 1895, Josephine I. Mc- 
 Call. Residence: Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. 
 Y. Office: 346 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 KINGSLEY, Florence Morse: 
 
 Author; born in Poe, Ohio, July 14, 
 1859; daughter of Rev. Jonathan Bradley 
 and Eleanor (Ecob) Morse. Her father 
 was a Presbyterian clergyman, but failing 
 health caused him to leave the ministry 
 and turn his attention to painting, which 
 had always been a passion with him, and he 
 established his family at Utica, N. Y. Mrs. 
 Kingsley was educated' in the Whitestown 
 (N. Y.) Seminary, and Wellesley College, 
 then studied art and music at Utica. She 
 expected to become an artist, and studied 
 under various masters, among whom was 
 George Waters, N.A. She married in Utica, 
 band (who is now pastor of a Union Evan- 
 N. Y., July 12, 1882, Rev. Charles Rawson 
 Kingsley, and has four sons and a daughter. 
 During their earlier married life her hus- 
 band (who is now pastor of Union Evan- 
 gelical Church) was president of a Young 
 Lady's Scliool in Rochester. N. Y., ami 
 Inter president of ^IHwaukee College, Wis. 
 Mrs. Kingsley assisted by superintend- 
 ing the Art Department, as well as in the 
 home duties. In her thirty-fifth year she 
 wrote Titus, a Comrade of the Cross, pub- 
 lished 1895. This story which won a prize 
 of $1,000, was afterward translated into 
 nineteen foreign languages, and over two 
 million copies were sold in the L'nited 
 States. She is also author of: Prisoners 
 of the Sea, 1896; Stephen, 1897; Paul, 
 1898; The Cross Triumphant, 1900 j The 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Transfiguration of Miss Philura, 1000; Un- 
 der the Star, An Unrecorded ]\Iiracle, Kind- 
 ly Light (collections of short stories), 1901; 
 The Needle's Eye. 1002; Wings and Fetters. 
 190.3; The Intellectual Miss'^ Lamb, 1904; 
 The Singular Miss Smith, 1905; Those Queer 
 Browns, 190(i; Tor, 1906; Truthful Jane, 
 190(5; Balm in Gilead, 190G; The Princess 
 and the Ploughman, 1907; The Resurrec- 
 tion of :\Iiss Cynthia. 1907; And so They 
 Were :Married, 1908; The (Jlass House. 1909. 
 She is a member of the Zeta Alpha Society 
 of Welleslcy College, and the Wellesley Club 
 of New York. Address : \\'esterleigh, 
 Staten Island, N. Y. 
 
 KING-SLEY, John Sterling: 
 
 Zoologist; born at Cincinnatus, N. Y., 
 April 7, 1854; son of Lewis and Julia A. 
 (Kingman) Kingsley. He was graduated 
 from Williams College, A.B., 1875, Prince- 
 ton LTniversity, and at the University of 
 Freiburg, Germany (Sc.D., Princeton, 1885) . 
 He occupied tlie chair of zoology in Indi- 
 ana University, 1887-1889, and the same 
 chair in the University of Nebraska, 1889- 
 1891; and has been professor of biology 
 in Tufts College since 1892. Dr. Kingsley 
 was editor of the Standard Natural His- 
 tory, 1882-1886, and was editor of the 
 American Naturalist, 1887-1896. He is a 
 member of the Anatomische Gesellschaft of 
 German}^ Washington Academy of Sciences, 
 Philadelphii Academy of Natural ^cence, 
 Boston Society of Natural History, Amer- 
 ican Society of Zoologists, and American 
 Society of Anatomists. He is author of: 
 Popular Natural History (Estes and Lau- 
 riat) ; also of Comparative Zoiilogj', Verte- 
 brate Zoology, Hertwig's Manual of Zool- 
 ogy, and Guide for .V^ertebrate Dissections 
 (Henry Holt and Company). Dr. Kingsley 
 is a member of the Naturalists' Club and 
 City Club of Boston. He married at 
 Salem, Mass., July 31, 1882, Mary Emma 
 Read, and they have one daughter. Ad- 
 dress: Tufts College, Mass. 
 
 KINGSTON, Henry H.: 
 
 Railway ollicial ; born in Philadelphia, 
 July 7, 1854. He was educated at the 
 Gerniantown Academy and University of 
 
 Pennsylvania. Mr. Kingston entered rail- 
 road service in 1870, under his father, the 
 general freight agent of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad; and, in 1890, was made general 
 manager, and afterward appointed receiver 
 of the Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie & Bos- 
 ton Railroad; in 1895 he was appointed 
 general traffic manager of the Lehigh Val- 
 ley Railroad, from which he retired on 
 June 20, 1903, to take the presidency of 
 the Investment Company of Philadelphia, 
 in which he continues, and he is also vice- 
 president of the Dry Fork Railroad, and a 
 director in many companies. He married, 
 Sept. 9, 1875, Frances Allan Hunter, of 
 Philadelphia. Residence: Chestnut Hill. 
 Office: North American Building, Phila- 
 delphia. 
 
 KINKAID. Moses P.: 
 
 Congressman; born in Monongalia Coun- 
 ty, W. Va., in 1854. He was graduated 
 from the Law Departnjent of the University 
 of Michigan, and was president of his class 
 in his senior year. He practised law first 
 in Henry County, 111., afterward, for a year, 
 in Pierre, S. Dak., and since 1881 prac- 
 tising in Holt County, Neb. He served in 
 the Nebraska State Senate, and was made 
 chairman of the Committee on the Judi- 
 ciary; held the office of district judge for 
 three terms and ran for judge of the Su- 
 preme Court of the State in 1896, when 
 the Republican ticket was defeated. Mr. 
 Kinkaid was elected to the Fifty-eighth 
 Congress in his third successive candidacy 
 in the Sixth Nebraska District, and re- 
 elected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and 
 Sixty-first Congresses, from the Sixth Ne- 
 braska District. He is the first Republican 
 to represent his district. Address: O'Neill, 
 Nob. 
 
 KINKEAD, Eleanor Talbot: 
 
 Novelist; lioni in Kentucky: daughter of 
 the late Judge William Bury Kinkead and 
 of Elizabeth Fontaine (Sliclby) Kinkead. 
 Siie is descended from the ancient Scottish 
 family of Kincaid which has had its seat 
 in Stirlingshire since the days of Edward 
 I; and also on the paternal side is a de- 
 sc<'ndant from the old Euiilish families of 
 
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 Pryor and Blaokhnrn, distinguished in Vir- 
 ginia, and Kenluc'kj- history. On her moth- 
 er's side she is descended from Isaac Shelby, 
 Revolutionary hero and tirst governor of 
 Kentucky and from the Fontaines of Vir- 
 ginia who trace back to Count d'e la Fon- 
 taine, one of the first martyrs to the cause of 
 Protestantism in France. Miss Kinkead was 
 educated at the Kentuckj' State College and 
 under the direction of her father who was 
 an eminent classical scholar. She is author 
 of the novels: The Invisible Bond, and The 
 Courage of Blackburn Blair. Address: 
 423 Second Street, Lexington, Ky. 
 
 KINNEY, Francis Sherwood: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in New Brighton, 
 Staten Island, N. Y., Oct. 16, 1839. He 
 was graduated from the public schools; 
 went to sea and rose to be mate, but tiring 
 of a sailor's life became interested in rail- 
 roads. In 18G9 he began to manufacture 
 tobacco, founding the firm of Kinney 
 Brothers. Mr. Kinney has invented valu- 
 able mechanical appliances. Residence : 
 Butler, N. J., and 19 West 54th Street. 
 Office: 135 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 KINNEY, Margaret West: 
 
 Illustrator; born in Peoria, 111., June 11, 
 1872; daughter of John Ackroyd and' Mar- 
 garet (McMillan) West. She was educated 
 in the Peoria High School, the Art Students' 
 League of New York City, 1891, and in 
 France, 1892-1896; under instruction of 
 Lefebvre, Fleury, Collin and Mercon. For 
 some years after her return from abroad 
 she exhibited in the Pennsylvania Academy 
 of Fine Arts, Society of Western Artists and 
 Chicago Artists' Exliibitions. She lived' in 
 Chicago, 1896-1902; since then in New York 
 and during recent years her time has been 
 entirely occupied in illusti'ation, for the 
 leading magazines and publishers. She mar- 
 ried in Chicago, June 9, 1900, Troy Kinney, 
 artist and illustrator, and they have a son. 
 Her work is chiefly done in collaboration 
 with her husband under the joint signature 
 of " The Kinneys," which has been attached 
 to the illustrations of many of the most 
 noteworthy books of recent years. Address: 
 16 West 67th Street, New York City. 
 
 KINNEY, Troy: 
 
 Illustrator; born in Kansas City, Mo., 
 Dec. 1, 1871; son of William C. and Mary 
 (Troy) Kinney. He was graduated from 
 Yale, A.M., 1896, and studied in tlic Yale 
 Art School and the Chicago Art In-titute. 
 He was engaged in newspaper work in Bal- 
 timore and Chicago, 1896-1897; since then 
 in illustration of books and magazines, lic- 
 tion, etc., in collaboration with his wife 
 over the signature " The Kinneys,'' in The 
 Century, Saturday Evening Post and for 
 Harpers', McClurg, IMacniillan, McClure, 
 Dodd, Mead & Co., Doubleday Page & Co., 
 and others. He has also done important 
 work in natural decoration. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, 
 the Yale Club of New York City and Elihu 
 Club of Yale UniversitJ^ He married in 
 Chicago, June 19, 1900, Margaret West, and 
 they have a son. Address: 16 West 67th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 KINNICUTT, Francis Parker: 
 
 Physician; born in Worcester, Mass., 
 July 13, 1846. He was graduated from 
 Harvard, A.B., 1868, and A.M., 1870, and 
 from the College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons (Medical Department of Columbia 
 University), M.D., 1871. He is professor 
 of chemical medicine. Medical Department 
 of Columbia University; physician to St. 
 Luke's Hospital, Hospital for Ruptured and 
 Crippled, Babies', and Woman's Minturn 
 Hospitals, Morristown Memorial Hospital, 
 and Vassar Brothers' Hospital at Pough- 
 keepsie. Dr. Kinnicutt is a member of the 
 Advisory Board of the Commissioner of 
 Health, New York City; of the Advisory 
 Board of the Port officer of the State of 
 New York; and of the board of directors of 
 the Cancer Hospital. He was joint editor 
 (with Dr. N. B. Potter) of Sahli's Chem- 
 ical Diagnosis, 1905. Dr. Kinnicutt was 
 president of the Association of American 
 Physicians, 1906-1907; is a member of the 
 American Medical Society, New York Acad- 
 emy of Medicine, American Museum of 
 Natural History, of the Century Associa- 
 tion, and the Harvard', University, City, 
 and Whippany River Clubs. He married 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 in New York City, in 1873, Ekonora Kis- 
 sel, and has two children. Address: 39 
 East 35th Street, New York City. 
 
 KINSOLVING, Arthur B.: 
 
 Ck'rj,n'niaii ; educated at the University of 
 Virginia and Theological Seminary of Vir- 
 ginia ; ordered deacon in 1886, and ordained 
 priest in 1887 by Bishop Whittle in the 
 Episcopal ministry. He was at St. John's 
 Church, Warsaw, Va., 1886-1889, Christ 
 Church, Brooklyn, 1889-1906, since which 
 time he has been rector of St. Paul's Cliurch. 
 Baltimore. Address: 24 West Saratoga 
 Street, Baltimore. 
 
 KINSOLVING, George Herbert: 
 
 Bishop of Texas; born in Bedford Coun- 
 ty, Va., April 28, 1849; son of Rev. Dr. 
 Ovid A. and Julia Heiskell (Krauth) Kin- 
 solving. He was educated in Griswold Col- 
 lege, Davenport, Iowa, and at the Virginia 
 Theological Seminary, being graduated from 
 the latter in 1873. He received from the 
 University of the South the degree of D.D. 
 He took the orders of deacon of the Episco- 
 pal Church in 1874, and a year later was 
 ordained priest by Bishop Whittingham. 
 After his ordination to the priesthood he 
 became rector of St. INIark's Church, Bal- 
 timore, being later rector of St. John's 
 Church, Cincinnati, and of the Church of 
 the Epiphany, Pliiladelphia. He was made 
 bishop of Texas, and was consecrated in 
 1892 by Bishops R. H. Wilmer, Quintard, 
 Whltaker, Wingfield, Dudley, Jaggar, Ran- 
 dolph, Johnston, Kendrick, Davics, Nichols, 
 Hale and Jones (Newfoundland). Bishop 
 Kinsolving married at Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 Grace Jaggar, sister of Bishop Jaugar, of 
 SoMllicni Oliio. Address: Austin, Texas. 
 
 KIRBY, Thomas E.: 
 
 Managing director of the American Art 
 Galleries of New York City; born in Phila- 
 delphia, Nov. 14, 1846; son of William Kitts 
 and Mary (Sothorn) Kirby. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools, and began his 
 business career at tlie age of twelve years 
 with ^I. Thomas & Sons, auctioneers, of 
 Pliiliidclphia, remaining with the firm and 
 
 working through all the departments for 
 eighteen years; and in 1876 became con- 
 nected with the firm of George A. Leavitt 
 & Company, the leading art auctioneers of 
 New York City. Later he became a partner 
 of John Ortgies, conducting sales of ori- 
 ental porcelains, pictures and other art ob- 
 jects; in 1882 he joined in the reorganiza- 
 tion of the American Art Galleries as the 
 American Art Association, of which he is 
 now the active partner and managing di- 
 rector, and he has personal!}^ managed and 
 conducted the most important art sales 
 lield in the United States, amounting since 
 1883 to a grand total of over sixteen mil- 
 lion of dollars. He is a member of the 
 American Geographical Society, the Nation- 
 al Geographic Society; of the Society of 
 Arts and the Japan Society, both of Lon- 
 don, England; of the Cliamber of Com- 
 merce, Sons of the American Revolution, 
 Pennsylvania Society of New York, of which 
 he is vice-president; and is a Mason. He 
 is also an honorary member of the United 
 Typothetae of New York ; a sustaining mem- 
 ber of the INIetropolitan Museum of Art, and 
 a member of the Union League and Republi- 
 can Clubs of New York, and the Bedford 
 Golf and Tennis Club. He married in Phil- 
 adelphia, Feb. 7, 1871, Isabplle C. Town, 
 they have two children. Address: Amer- 
 ican Art Galleries, 6 East 23d Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 KIRCHHOFF, Charles William Henry: 
 
 Editor of the Iron Age; born in San 
 l''rancisco, March 28, 1853; son of Charles 
 and Virginia (Siemsen) KircliliofV. He was 
 graduated' from the Royal School of iMines, 
 Clausthal, Germany, 1874. He was engaged 
 with the Delaware Lead Refinery, Philadel- 
 phia, as chemist, 1874-1877; assistant editor 
 of the Metallurgical Review, 1S77-1S78; as- 
 sistant editor of The Iron Age, 1878-1881; 
 managing editor of the Engineering and 
 Mining Journal, 1881-1884; since 1884 again 
 with the Iron Age as associate editor, 1884- 
 1889, and editor-in-chief from 1880; now 
 also vice-president and manager of publica- 
 tions of David Williams Company. Mr. 
 KirchhofF was a special agent of the U. S. 
 Geological Survey, 1883-1907, for collection 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 of statistics of production of lead, copper 
 and zinc. Mr. KirchliolV wns author of: 
 Notes on Some European Iron Districts, 
 1900. Ke is a member of the American 
 Institute of IMining Enirincers (president 
 1898-189!)), Iron and Steel Institute of 
 Great Britain, Verein Deutscher Eisenhuet- 
 tenleute, American Society of Mechanical 
 Engineers, Eranklin Institute of Philadel- 
 phia (honorary), and the Century, Engi- 
 neers and Hardware Clubs of New York 
 City. Residence: 422 West End Avenue. 
 Address: 14-16 Park Place, New York City. 
 
 KIRCHWEY, George Washington: 
 
 Professor of law; born in Detroit, Mich., 
 July 3, 1855. He was graduated from Y''ale, 
 A.li., 1879; studied law in Albany, N. Y.; 
 was admitted to the bar in 1881 and prac- 
 tised law in Albany from I881-I89I. Pro- 
 fessor Kirchwey was editor of Historical 
 ]\lanuscripts of the State of New York, 1887- 
 1889; professor of law at Union University, 
 and dean at the Albany Law School, 1889- 
 1891; and has been professor of law since 
 ISni, Kent professor of law since 1902 and 
 dean of the School of Law of Columbia Uni- 
 versity since 1901. He is author of: 
 Reading in the Law of Real Property; Se- 
 lect Cases and other Authorities on the 
 Law of Mortgage and articles on law in 
 legal periodicals ; and he is editor of the 
 Department of Law. in the New Inter- 
 national Encyclopedia. He is a member of 
 tlie Association of the Bar of the City of 
 New York, the Century Association, and 
 Columbia University and Yale Clubs. Pro- 
 fessor Kirchwey married at \\'ilmington, 
 Del., Dora Child Wendell. Address: 908 
 St. Nicliolas Avenue, New York City. 
 
 KIRK, Ellen Olney: 
 
 Author; born at Southington, Conn., Nov. 
 0, 1842; son of Jesse Olney (geographer, 
 educator, legislator. State comptroller of 
 Connecticut. author) and Elizabeth 
 (Barnes) Olney. She was educated at home 
 and in a private school in Stratford, Conn. ; 
 and she married at Stratford, Conn., in 
 1879, John Foster Kirk (author of History 
 of Charles the Bold, editor of Prescott Works 
 
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 and of the Supplement lo AUibone's Dic- 
 tionary of Authors), ik- died in 1904. 
 Mrs. Kirk has written criticisms, es.suyn 
 and short stories, and many novels which 
 have attained nmcli popularity, including: 
 A Lesson in Love; A Midsummer .Madness; 
 The Stoiy of Margaret Kent; Sdus and 
 Daughters; (,)ueen .Money; A Daugliter of 
 Eve; Walford; Ciphers; Maidens Clioosing; 
 Tlie Story of Lawrence Giarthe; Tlie Revolt 
 of a Daughter; Dorothy Deane; Dorothy 
 and Her Friends; Our Lady Vanity; A 
 Remedy for Love; The Apology of AylifTe; 
 Cood Bye, Proud World; Marcia. and otlier 
 books. Some of her earlier work appeared 
 vuider the pen-name of "Henry Ilayes." 
 Address: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. 
 
 KIRK, Milton W.: 
 
 ^Manufacturer; born in Utica, N. Y., Feb. 
 18, 1846; son of James S. and Nancy A. 
 Kirk. His parents, in 1860, moved to Chi- 
 cago, where he was educated' in the public 
 and high schools. Soon after leaving school 
 lie entered the soap manufacturing estab- 
 lishment of James S. Kirk & Company, of 
 which his father was the founder and head. 
 He became actively identified with the con- 
 duct and management of the business, 
 which, after the death of his father, was 
 incorporated, and of which he is to-day 
 president and director. He served as presi- 
 dent of the village board of Evanston, 111., 
 before its incorporation as a city, and was 
 a member of the board of directors of the 
 World's Columbian Exposition. He is a 
 Republican, and a Mason, and a member of 
 the Chicago, Chicago Yacht, Fellowship, Un- 
 ion, Illinois Athletic, and South Shore Coun- 
 try Clubs of Chicago. He married first, 
 Alice Florence Thompson, to whom was 
 born three children. Married, second, Ethel 
 Lucy Kirkman; and third, Buffalo, N. Y., 
 Sept. 1, 1902, Josephine Mary Cunningham. 
 Residence: 3139 Michigan Avenue. Office: 
 360 North Water Street, Chicago. 
 
 KIRKLAND. James Hampton: 
 
 Cliancellor of Vanderbilt University: born 
 in Spartansburg, S. C, Sept. 9." 1859; 
 voungest child of the Rev. W. C. Kirkland 
 
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 and Viririnia L. (Galluchat) Kirklniul. }]o\ 
 was graduated from WofTovd ColUixi'. S. C, 
 A.B.. 1877, A.:M.. 1878; studird in the Uni 
 versity of Loipxig, Pli.D., 188;), and Berlin. 
 He was tutor, 1877-1880, assistant professor 
 1880-1S82, profes.sor of Creek, 1882-1883 in 
 WoHord College; studied abroad in 1883- 
 1880, has been professor of Latin in Vander- 
 bilt University since 1886 and cliancellor of 
 the University since 1803. He has written 
 articles in the Quarterly Review, American 
 .lournal of Philology, Classical Review and 
 edition of Satires and' Epistles of Horace. 
 The University of North Carolina conferred 
 upon him the LL.D. degree, 1894 and the 
 University of the South, that of D.C.L. in 
 1000. He married, Mary, the daughter of 
 Judge W. A. Henderson and they have one 
 daughter. Address: Vanderbilt University, 
 Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 KIRZPATRICK, William Sabring: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Easton. Pa.. Ai)ril 21, 
 1844; .son of Newton and Susan (Sebring) 
 Kirkpatrick. He was graduated from La- 
 fayette College, A.B., 1863, A.M., 1872, and 
 afterward' received the degree of LL.D. from 
 Washington and JelFerson College, and from 
 Pennsylvania College. He studied law with 
 H. D. Maxwell, president judge of the Third 
 District of Pennsylvania, and was admitted 
 to the bar of Norlhami)ton County, Pa., 
 October, 18()5; lecturer on munieii>al law 
 in Lafayette College; admitted to practice 
 by the Supreme Court of the United' States 
 in 1887. lie was president judge of the 
 Third Judicial District of Pennsylvania, 
 1874-1875; solicitor of Easlon, Pa.; oliair- 
 man of the IJepublican State Convention. 
 1882; delegate to the National Convention, 
 Chicago, 1884; attorUv-y-general of Penn- 
 sylvania, 1887-1801; member of the Fifty- 
 fifth Congress from the Eighth Congression- 
 al District of Pennsylvania, 1807-1800. He 
 is a trustee and was actin;,^ ])resident of 
 Lafayette College, 1002-1003; president of 
 .\lumni of Lafayette College, 1874: is a 
 member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and 
 the Zeta Psi fratiiiiity; al~o a monbei' of 
 the Union l.,eague (Jul) of New NOrk City; 
 Union League, and Iniversity Clubs of Phil 
 udelphia, and Ponfret Club of Easton, He 
 
 married in Easton, Pa., ]\Iay 25, 1873. Eliza- 
 beth H. Jones, and they have two sons. Ad- 
 dress: Easton, Pa. 
 
 KISER, Samuel Ellsworth: 
 
 Journalist and' author; liorn in Sliippen- 
 ville. Pa., Feb. 2, 1862; son of Samuel and 
 Charlotte (Black.stone) Kiser. He was ed- 
 ucated in the common schools of Pennsylvan- 
 ia and Ohio, and entered in the newspaper 
 business in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1890, as re- 
 porter. In 1806, Mr. Kiser began furnish- 
 ing daily columns of humorous sketches 
 and verses for the Cleveland Leader. Since 
 then he has contributed to many newspa- 
 pers and' magazines, and since 1900 has 
 been on the editorial staflF of the Chicago 
 Times-Herald and the Chicago Record-Her- 
 ald. Mr. Kiser is author of the books: 
 Bud Wilkins at the Show, and Other "Verses, 
 1808; Georgie, 1890; Love Sonnets of an 
 Office Boy, 1902; Ballads of the Busy Days, 
 1903; Charles the Chaufl'eur, 1905; Thrills 
 of a Bell Boy, 1006, and has had consider- 
 able success as a reader of selections from 
 his own writings. He is a member of the 
 Evanston Golf, Evanston L'niversity, Chica- 
 go, Little Room, and Chicago Wayfarer.^, 
 Clubs. jNIr. Kiser married, at Cleveland, 
 Ohio, Mildred M. Palmer, and they have 
 twx) children. Residence: 726 Clifton Place, 
 Evanston, 111. Office: The Record-Herald, 
 Chicago. 
 
 KISSAM, Henry Snyder: 
 
 Arcliitect; born in New ^'oik City, Feb. 
 22, 1866; son of Benjamin Adrian and Sara 
 A. (Snyder) Kissam. lie was educated in 
 public schools and by private tutor, and was 
 graduated' from Cohnubus University in the 
 architectural course with the degree of B.S., 
 1886, and studied in Paris. 1886-1888. Mr. 
 Kissam practised architecture in Washing- 
 ton State. 1888-1802, and since 1802 has 
 pracli-^ed in New York City. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Architectural League of New 
 York City; president of the Society of Co- 
 hunbia University .Vicliitects and mendier 
 of the Board of (iovernors; member of the 
 Alumni Association of the School of Mines 
 of Columbia University and of its Board of 
 (iovernors. He is also a member of the Psi 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Upsilon fraternity. Cyclope, Society of Co- 
 lonial Wars, Order of Founders and Patriots 
 of AmericA and of Tlie University. Psi Upsi- 
 lon and Columbia University Clubs of New 
 York City. Address: 37 Liberty Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 KISSEL, Gustav Edward: 
 
 Banker; born in New York City. Sept. 
 .')(), 1854. lie was educated in tlie schools 
 of Charlier and Morse, New York City, 
 Lausanne, Switzerland, and Heidelberg Uni- 
 versity. He is the senior member of the 
 firm of Kissel, Kinnecutt and Company, 
 bankers; a director of the Commercial Trust 
 Company of Jersey City, Morristown Trust 
 Company, State Street Trust Company of 
 Boston, United States Casualty Company, 
 United States Mortgage and Trust Company, 
 and The Brearley School. He is a member 
 of the Children's Aid Society, president of 
 the People's Symphony Concert Society, di- 
 rector of the American Geographical So- 
 ciety, and New Y'ork Institute for the 
 Blind. Mr. Kissel is a member of the 
 New England Society, Chamber of Com- 
 merce, the Union, Century, Knickerbocker, 
 Racquet, Down Town, New Y^ork Coaching. 
 City, Morristown Golf and New York Y'aclit 
 Clubs. He married Caroline Thorn. Resi- 
 dence: Morristown. N. J., and' 15 West 16th 
 Street. Office: 37 Wall Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 KITCHEL, Cornelius Porter: 
 
 Law\er; born in East Liverpool, Ohio. 
 Oct. 7, 1875; son of Farrand De Forest and 
 Flora (McDonald) Porter. He was gradu- 
 ated from Yale, A.B., 1897, LL.B., magna 
 cum laude, 1901. He was secretary to Hon. 
 Robert C. Morris, president of the Republi- 
 can County Committee of New York County. 
 1901-1903; chief attorney of the Legal Aid 
 Society, 1906-1906; in private practice since 
 1906. He is also a director of the Homer 
 Laughlin China Company. He is a member 
 of the Association of the Bar of the City of 
 New York; member of the Advisory Board 
 of the Wilson Industrial School : member 
 of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alpha Delta 
 Phi, Chi Delta Theta, Phi Delta Phi, and 
 the Yale Club of New York. Residence: 
 
 028 West 114th Street. 
 Street, New York Citv. 
 
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 KITCHIN, Claude: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman ; born mar Scot- 
 land Neck, Halifax County, N. C, March 
 24, 1869; son of Hon. William H. Kitcliin 
 (member of the Forty-sixth Congress) and 
 Maria F. Kitcliin. He was gra<liiated from 
 Wake Forest College, N. C, in 1888; was 
 admitted to the bar in September, 1890. 
 and has since practised law in Scotland 
 Neck. He never held public office until 
 elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventli 
 Congress, from the Second North Carolina 
 District. He was reelected to the Fifty- 
 eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first 
 Congresses. He married, at Wake Forest. 
 N. C, Nov. 13, 1888, Kate Mills. Address- 
 Scotland Neck, N. C. 
 
 KITCHIN, William Watson: 
 
 Governor of North Carolina ; born near 
 Scotland Neck, Halifax County, N. C, Oct. 
 9, 1866; son of Hon. William H. Kitchin 
 (member of Congress, 1879-1881) and Ma- 
 ria F. Kitchin. He was graduated from 
 Wake Forest College, N. C, in the class of 
 1884; studied law in his father's office; ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1887 ; and he has since 
 graduation practised law at I'oxboro, N. C. 
 He has been active in Democratic politics 
 ever since becoming a voter; was chairman 
 of the Democratic Executive Committee of 
 Person Count}^, N. C, in 1890, was nominat- 
 ed for the State Senate in 1892; was elected 
 in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and re- 
 elected to tlie Fifty-sixtli. Fifty-seventli. Fif- 
 ty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congress- 
 es, serving 1897-1909. He was elected in 
 1908 governor of North Carolina for the 
 term expiring in January, 1913. Home: 
 Roxboro, N. C. Official address: Raleigh, 
 N. C. 
 
 KITTREDGE, Alfred Beard: 
 
 Lawyer, former U. S. Senator; born in 
 Cheshire County. N. H.. March 28, 1861. 
 He was graduated from Yale ColleofG in 
 1882. and from the law school of that in- 
 stitution in 1885; and iunuedialcly began 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 the practice of law at Sioux Falls, S. Dak. 
 He was member of the Republican National 
 Committee from South Dakota, lS'.t2-18nG. 
 He was appointed' to the United States Sen- 
 ate, July 11, 1901, to fill the vacancy caused 
 by the death of the Hon. James H. Kyle, 
 and took his seat Dec. 2, 1901; was elected 
 by the Legislature in 1903 to succeed him- 
 self. His term of service expired March ',]. 
 1909. Address: Sioux Falls, S. Dak. 
 
 KLEIN, William: 
 
 T^awyer; born in New York City. Oct. 
 13. 1876; son of Adolph and Rosie "^(Prop- 
 per) Klein. He was educated in the Col- 
 lege of the City of New York and' New York 
 University Law School, LL.B., ISOG. In 
 1896 he brought about the consolidation of 
 the theatrical programme printers; in 1905 
 represented and formed the Sam S. and Lee 
 Shubert Incorporated Companies, wliich was 
 the opposition to the Theatrical Trust, and 
 was elected its counsel and director, and in 
 1907 was elected counsel of the U. S. Amuse- 
 ment Company. He is secretary and' di- 
 rector of the Shubert-Anderson Company, 
 controlling the New York Hippodrome; 
 counsel and director of the ^Yilber-Shube^t 
 Theatre Company and of Wolf & Carrillo. 
 Incorporated ; counsel of the Comstock 
 Amusement Company; director of the Amer- 
 ican Carbon & Chemical Company of New 
 Jersey, Auto Robe and Rubber Company, 
 Charles E. Evans Company. Henry Miller 
 & Company, Independent Five and Ten Cent 
 Stores, Lincoln Surety Company of Dela- 
 ware, Sara Bernhirt Realty Coinpany, Sel- 
 wyn & Company, Shubert Realty Company, 
 Shubert Theatrical Company, Shubert-Hold- 
 ing Company. Miller-Shubert Company. 
 Manhattan Producing Company, F. Ray 
 Comstock Comjjany, Casino Theatre Com- 
 jjany, Lyric Theatre Company, Jefferson De- 
 Angelis Opera Company, De\Yolf Hopper 
 0[)era Company and of the Nouvcate Pro- 
 ducing Company. He is a member of the 
 Advisory Board of the ?Iebrew Orphan Asy- 
 lum, of the Montifiore Home and of the Ed- 
 ucational Alliance. Residence: 200 West 
 112th Street. Office: 346 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 KLOPSCH, Louis: 
 
 Journalist; born in Germany, March 26, 
 1852. He was educated' in the New York 
 public schools. He was proprietor of th;^ 
 Daily Hotel Reporter, 1877-18S0; of tlie 
 Pictorial Association Press, 1884-1890, and 
 of the Talmage Sermon Syndicate, 1885- 
 1903. Dr. Klopscli went to Palestine, and 
 on his return in 1890 became interested in 
 The Christian Herald, of which he became 
 proprietor, 1892. Through The Christian 
 Herald he has conducted large philanthro- 
 pies, raising and distributing over $4,000,000 
 in charities, including the Russian famine 
 relief, 1892 (for which he was received by 
 Czar), Indian famine relief, 1896, aggregat- 
 ing $400,000. He was appointed in 1898 
 by President McKinley, one of three U. S. 
 commanders charged' with the relief of the 
 starving reconcentrados in Cuba (for which 
 purpose he raised $200,000') ; visited the 
 famine and cholera districts of India; 1900, 
 wlien through The Christian Herald, he 
 raised, in six months nearly $700,000 to re- 
 lieve distress there. He supported for seven 
 years 5,000 Indian famine orphans, at an 
 expense of about $100,000 per annum; sent 
 $80,000 for starving people of Sliensi, China. 
 1901, went to Sweden and' Finland to visit 
 the famine-stricken districts, for the relief of 
 which he had caliled $125,000. He was then 
 received in private audience by Queen Alex- 
 andra, King Christian of Denmark, the King 
 and Queen of Sweden and Dowager Empress 
 of Russia; raised $250,000 in 1906 for re- 
 lief of famine sufferers in Northern Japan, 
 in recognition of which President Roosevelt 
 wired him a message of congratulation. In 
 1907 he raised over $500,000 for China 
 famine relief; and in the spring of 1909 he 
 liberally supported the operations of Queen 
 Helena in relieving the distress of widowed 
 mothers and homeless orphans in the earth- 
 quake district, and in May of the same 
 year was received by King Victor Emman- 
 uel and presented with inscribed' and autho- 
 graphed pictures of their Majesties in recog- 
 nition of such services. He received from 
 King Edward.- 1904, the gold Kaiser-I-Hind 
 medal of tlie first class, being the only non- 
 resident of India thus distinguished ; and 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Avas decorated by the Emperor of Japan 
 with the order of the Rising Sun. 1007. 
 Dr. Klopsch is the originator of the Red 
 Letter Bibles ; Founder and president of the 
 Christian Herald Children's Home. Nyack. 
 N. Y., in which over >S,OUO tenement-house 
 children are annually given a 10 days' out- 
 ing. He is president of the Bowery Mission. 
 in New York City. Dr. Klopseh is denom- 
 inationally a Jlethqdist. He married in 
 New York City in 1886, May E., daughter 
 of Rev. Stephen Merritt. Address: 100 
 East 17th Street, New York City. 
 
 KLOTZ, Hermann Gustav: 
 
 Physician; born in Rochlitz, Saxony, Ger- 
 many, Aug. 21, 1844; son of Karl and 
 Emilie (Schmidt) Klotz. He was educated 
 at private schools, the Royal Gymnasium 
 (Furstenschule) , Grimma, Saxony; the 
 University of Leipzig, 1863-1866; the Uni- 
 versity of Wiirzburg, 1866-1867; Heidelberg 
 University, 18G7 ; University of Leipzig, 
 1867-1868, M.D. After serving as surgeon 
 on various steamers of the Hamburg-Ameri- 
 can Line, he settled in practice in New Y^ork 
 City. He was connected with the German 
 Dispensary, 1872-1904 is attending physi- 
 cian for skin and venereal diseases in the 
 German Hospital since 1879; and was a con- 
 sulting physician of Isabella Heimath Hos- 
 pital. He is a Lutheran. Dr. Klotz is a 
 member of the Medical Society of the Coun- 
 ty of New York, the Academy of Medicine 
 of New York, the American Dermatological 
 Association, the Dermatological Society of 
 New York, German Medical Society, Amer- 
 ican Medical Association, American Society 
 of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, New 
 Yoi'k State Medical Society, New York Phy- 
 sicians' Mutual Aid Association, New YorK 
 Society for the Relief of Widows and Or- 
 phans of Medical Men, German Dermatologi- 
 cal Society, and' an honorary member of the 
 Medical Society of Kings County, N. Y. 
 He is also a member of the German Society 
 of the City of New York, and the Metropoli- 
 tan Museum of Art. He is co-editor of 
 Archiv fiir Dermatologie and Syphilographie 
 (of Vienna) ; and a contributor of numer- 
 ous papers on skin diseases, syphilis, etc., 
 to the American Journal of Cutaneous Dis- 
 
 eases, the New York Medical Journal, the 
 Medical News, the New York Monatsehrift 
 and to German dermatological perodicals. 
 He married in New York City, Dec. 4, 187:5, 
 Marie C. Schwedler, and they liave five chil- 
 dren: Walter C. (M.D.), Edward H., Mrs, 
 Lillie E. Breitwieser, Mrs. Gertrude M. Ar- 
 dagh, and Robert G. Residence: White 
 Plains, N. Y. Office: 616 Madison Avenue, 
 New York City. 
 
 KNABENSHUE, Samuel S.: 
 
 Consul, journalist; born near Lancaster, 
 Ohio, Nov. 1, 1845; son of Joseph N. and 
 Nancy (Prentice) Knabenshue. He was ed- 
 ucated in the public schools; went to work 
 in a printing office at the age of thirteen, 
 and after having learned the trade was em- 
 ployed as a compositor in Cincinnati, until 
 his health broke down from tlie confinement 
 incident to that occupation. He then re- 
 turned to Lancaster, Ohio, taught country 
 school, then became for ten years principal 
 of a grammar school. He became editor and 
 part proprietor of The Republican, at Mount 
 Vernon, Ohio, 1876-1878; superintendent of 
 the public schools at Lancaster, 1878-1881; 
 night editor of the Ohio State Journal, Co- 
 lumbus, 1881-1883, and political writer on 
 the Toledo Blade, 1884-1905. Since 1905 
 Mr. Knabenshue has held' his present posi- 
 tion as American consul at Belfast, Ireland. 
 He is a member of the Ohio Archaiological 
 and Historical Society. Mr. Knabenshue 
 married at Lancaster, Ohio, in 1871, Salome 
 Matlack, and they have their home at To- 
 ledo, Ohio. Address : American Consulate, 
 Belfast, Ireland. 
 
 KNAPP, Charles: 
 
 Professor of classic philologj': born in 
 New York City, June 22, 1868; son of Mi- 
 chael and Mary Josephine (Rennett) Knapp. 
 He Avas educated in public schools and in 
 Trinity School, New York City, Columbia 
 University, A.B.. 1887, A.M.. 1888, Ph.D., 
 1890; and tutorial fellow there, 1890-1891. 
 He was instructor in Latin and Greek, "Bar- 
 nard College, Columbia University, 1891- 
 1902; adjunct professor of classical philol- 
 ogy in the same, 1902-1906; professor of 
 classical philology and head of the depart- 
 
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 ment since 1906. Professor Knapp is a 
 member of the American Philological As- 
 sociation, and secretary-treasurer of the 
 Chissical Association of the Atlantic States. 
 He is editor of: Stories from Aiilus Gel- 
 lius, 1S94; joint editor of selections from 
 Viri Konup, 1895; and editor of an elaborate 
 school edition of Virgil's Aeneid 1-Vl, with 
 selections from Vll-Xll, 1901. He is man- 
 aging editor of The Classical Weekly, and is 
 author of numerous articles in various 
 learned periodicals on subjects connected 
 witli classical literature, especially Latin. 
 He married in New York City, June 24, 
 1889, Therese Isabel Shaw, and they have 
 one son. Address : Columbia University, 
 New York City. 
 
 KNAPP, Charles Luman: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Harris- 
 burg, Louis County, N. Y., July 4, 1847. 
 He was educated in Lowville (N. Y.) Acad- 
 emy, and in Eutgers College, N. J., A.B., 
 18G9; studied law and was admitted to the 
 bar, and began practice of his profession 
 in Lowville in 1873. In 1885 he was elected 
 to the State Senate from the district con- 
 sisting of Lewis, St. Lawrence, and Frank- 
 lin countries; served in the Senate, 1886- 
 1887 on the conunittee on Judiciary, Rail- 
 roads, and Miscellaneous Corporations, and 
 was chairman of the committee on Litera- 
 ture and Public Education. In 1889 he was 
 appointed by President Harrison consul-gen- 
 eral to Montreal, and served during Harri- 
 son's term and until September, 1893, when 
 he returned to Lowville and resumed the 
 practice of his profession. He was elected 
 to the Fifty-seventh Congress, Nov. 5, 1891, 
 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of 
 Hon. A. D. Shaw, and to the Fifty-eightli 
 Congress, and was reelected to the Fifty- 
 ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses 
 from the Twenty-eighth New York District. 
 He married. June 26, 1887, Sarah, daughter 
 of Hon. Daniel G. Dorrance of Oneida Cas- 
 tle, N. Y. Address: Lowville, N. Y. 
 
 KNAPP, Charles 'Melbourne: 
 
 Editor and publisher; born in St. Louis, 
 Mo., Jan. 23, 1848; son of Colonel John and 
 Virginia (Wright) Knapp, and' grandson 
 
 of Edward Knapp. He was graduated from 
 St. Louis University, A.B.. 1S65, A.M., 
 1867, and from the University of Ken- 
 tucky, LL.B., 1867. After his graduation 
 he entered the office of the Missouri Repub- 
 lican, now the St. Louis Republic and served 
 in the various business and cdilorial de- 
 partments, and was for several years Wash- 
 ington correspondent of the paper. Since 
 1887 he has been president and general man- 
 ager of the corporation publishing the paper, 
 and also its editor-in-chief. He has been a 
 director since 18S9, and from 1895 to 1899 
 was president of the American Newspaper 
 Publishers' Association; has been a director 
 since 18U2, and in 1900 was president of the 
 Associated Press. St. Louis University con- 
 ferred iipon him the degree of LL.D. in 1904. 
 Mr. Knapp married Frances Shackelford, 
 and they have a daughter. Address: The 
 Republic, St. Louis. 
 
 KNAPP, Martin Augustine: 
 
 (liaiiinan of tli(> interstate Commerce 
 Connuission; born in Spofford, N. Y., Nov. 
 6, 1843; son of Justice Norman and Polly 
 (McKay) Knapp. He was graduated from 
 Wesleyan University, A.JS,, 1868, A.M., 
 1871, LL.D.. 1892; and he also received the 
 honorary degree of A.]\I. from Syracuse 
 University, 1892. He was admitted to the 
 New York Bar in 181)9; practised law at 
 Syracuse, N. Y., 1877-1891. He has been a 
 member since 1891, and chairman since 
 1898 of tiio interstate Commerce Commis- 
 sion. He is a member of the Transportation 
 and Union League Clubs of New York City. 
 Residences: 714 James Street, Syracuse, N. 
 Y., and Stoneleigh Court, Washington. Of- 
 iice: Sun Building, Uashington, D. C. 
 
 KNAPP, 'Wallace Percy: 
 
 Lawyer : born in Connecticut, Aug. 7, 
 1863. He was graduated from Yale Uni- 
 versity, A.B., 1886, Columbia University, 
 LL.B., 1888; University of New York, M. 
 L., 1898. He has been engaged in the prac- 
 tice of law in New York City since 1888. 
 Mr. Knapp is a member of the New York 
 City Bar Association and Psi Upsilon fra- 
 ternity; and trustee of The Boys' Club. He 
 is a member of the University, Racquet and 
 
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 Tennis, Ridings, and the Skull and Bones 
 Clubs. He married in New York City, 1894, 
 Caroline Duncan Miller; they have two chil- 
 dren. Address: 15 William Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 KNAPP, Walter H.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Hopewell, Ontario Coun- 
 ty, N. Y., March 23, 1856; son of B. Frank- 
 lin and' Harriet (Warner) Knapp; educated 
 at Canandaigua Academy from 1871 to 1874. 
 He was graduated from Amherst College, 
 A. B., 1879; teacher at Placerville, (Calif.) 
 Academy, 1879-1883, and Canandaigua 
 (N. Y.) Academy, 1883-1885. He was ad- 
 mitted to practise law in the Supreme Court, 
 1885; elected county judge in 1896; reelect- 
 ed in 1902; was frequently a delegate to 
 judicial conventions. He is a member of 
 the Canandaigua Scientific Association; 
 member of the Session of the Presbyterian 
 Church; Masonic Order (past master) . Mr. 
 Knapp is a member of the Kanandarque 
 Club, and of the Genesee Valley Club, 
 Rochester. He married in Manchester, N. 
 Y'., Aug. 3, 1879, Mary Cole, and they have 
 four children. Address: 5 Hallenbeck 
 Building, Canandaigua, N. Y''. 
 
 KNAPP, Wilniot E.: 
 
 Lawyer ; born at Springfield, Bradford 
 County, Pa., Nov. 26, 1857; son of Elisha 
 and Philinda (Guthrie) Knapp. He Was 
 educated in the public schools of Wellsburg, 
 N. Y., studied' law in offices in Elmira, N. 
 Y., was admitted to the bar in 1883, and 
 has since been in general practice at El- 
 mira. He was elected district attorney at 
 Chemung County in 1904 and reelected 1907 
 for another term. He is president of the 
 Kanaweola Cycle Club. He married at 
 Austinville, Pa., Nov. 6, 1897, Alice Teeter, 
 and they have two children. Address: 401 
 Grove Street, Elmira, N. Y. 
 
 KNAPPEN, Loyal Edwin: 
 
 U. S. district judge; born in Hastings. 
 Mich., Jan. 27, 18r)4; son of Edwin and 
 Sarah M. (Nevins) Knappen. He Avas 
 graduated from the University of Michigan. 
 A.B., 1873, A.M., 1876. From 1873 to 1875 
 
 he studied law in an office in Hastings, 
 Midi., was admitted to the bar in lh75, 
 and practised tlicrc until 1888, then at 
 Grand Rapids until 1906. He was prosecut- 
 ing attorney for Barry County, Mich., 1879- 
 1883, and U. S. connnissioner at Hastings, 
 Mich., 1880-1888. He was commissioned 
 Dec. 13. 1900, judge of the U. S. District 
 Court for the Western District of Michi- 
 gan. Judge KnapjK'u has been a regent of 
 the University of Miciiigan since .January, 
 1904. He is a member of tlie Kent County 
 t'lub of Grand Rapids. He married at Hast- 
 ings, Mich., Oct. 23, 1876, Amelia Isabelle 
 Kenyon. Address: Grand Kapids, Mich. 
 
 KNIGHT, Albion Williamson: 
 
 Missionary bisliop of Cuba; born in White 
 Springs, Fla., Aug. 24, 1859; son of Augus- 
 tine and Martha (Demere) Knight. He 
 was educated in the University of the 
 South; took the orders of deacon in the 
 Episcopal Church in 1881 and in 1883 was 
 ordained priest by Bishop Young. He was 
 missionary of South Florida, 1881-1884; 
 rector of St. Mark's Church at Palatka, 
 Fla., 1884-1886; rector of St. Andrew's 
 Church, Jacksonville, Fla., 1886-1893; dean 
 of the Cathedral, Atlanta, Ga., 1893-1904. 
 In 1904 he was consecrated bishop by Bish- 
 ops Tuttle, Nelson and Weed, having been 
 elected Missionary Bishop of Cuba. Bishop 
 Knight was delegate to the General Con- 
 ventions of 1889, 1892, 1895, 1898, 1901, 
 and 1904. He was president of the Stand- 
 ing Committee of Georgia and is alumni 
 trustee of the University of the South. He 
 married, at Jacksonville. Fla., Aug. 27, 1889, 
 Elise Nicoll Hallowes. Address: Havana, 
 Cuba. 
 
 KNIGHT, Augustus S.: 
 
 Medical director of life insurance; born 
 in Manchester, Mass., Nov. 21, 1864; son of 
 John and Deborah (Carleton) Knight. He 
 was educated at Phillips' Andover Academy, 
 and was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 
 1887. M.D., 1891. He is medical director 
 of the IMetropolitan Life Insurance Com- 
 pany, also director of the Federal Trust 
 Company. He is a member of the New York 
 
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 Academy of Medicine, the Harvard Medical 
 Society of New York City; the Harvard and 
 Tiie Manhattan Clubs. He married at Bos- 
 ton, Oct. 1, 1891, Abbie F. Knight. Ad- 
 dress: 1 Madison Avenue, New York City. 
 
 KNIGHT, Charles Huntoon: 
 
 Physician; born in Easthampton, Mass., 
 Nov. 22, 1849; son of Horatio Gates and 
 Mary Ann (Huntoon) Knight. He was 
 graduated from Williston Seminary, 1867, 
 from Williams College, A.B.. 1871, A.M., 
 1886; Medical Department of Columbia Uni- 
 versity, M.D., 1874. He is professor of 
 laryngology in Cornell University Medical 
 College; and surgeon to the ]\Ianhattan 
 Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, of which he 
 is a director; and he is consulting laryn- 
 gologist to the New Y'ork State Hospital for 
 Crippled and Deformed Children, and to 
 Stony Wold Sanatorium. Dr. Knight is a 
 member and ex-president of tlie American 
 Laryngological Association, American jNIed- 
 ical Association, American Society of 
 Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology, Amer- 
 ican Therapeutic Society, American Acad- 
 emy of Medicine, Delta Psi fraternity. 
 Sons of the Revolution, New England 
 Society; and of the University, Mendels- 
 sohn Glee, and Hospital Graduates' Clubs. 
 He married in New Y'ork City, June 28, 
 1893, Lucy Ellen Tolford. Address: 120 
 \Vcsl r)7th Street, New York City. 
 
 KNIGHT, Erastus Cole: 
 
 Ex-mayor of IJufTalo; born in Buffalo, N. 
 Y., March 1, 1857. He was educated in the 
 public schools. Mr. Knight was a commis- 
 sion merchant, 1880-1887, and since then has 
 been engaged in the real estate business, 
 He was a supervisor, 1889-1895, and chair- 
 man of the Board of Supervisors, 1894 ; 
 comptroller of City of Buffalo from 1895 
 to 1900; comptroller of State of New York, 
 1901; mayor of Buffalo, 1901-1905. Mr. 
 Knight is president and general manager 
 of the Isle of Pines Home and Plantation 
 Company. He was Grand Commander of 
 Knights Templar in the State of New York, 
 1905-1906. He married in Buffalo, May 
 14, 1881, Mary Elizabeth Cowles. Address: 
 Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 KNIGHT, Newell Clark: 
 
 Dealer in municipal and corporation 
 bonds; born in St. Louis, April 25, 1862; 
 son of Augustus and Fanny (French) 
 Knight. He was educated in the public 
 schools, the Academy of the Washington 
 University, St. Louis, and Yale University, 
 B.A., 1884. After his graduation he took 
 a course in bookkeeping. Electing to be- 
 come a shoe manufacture, he entered the 
 Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company's factory 
 and obtained a practical knowledge of the 
 business by working at the bench and on 
 the machines. He retired from the factory 
 after two years' work, and became secretary 
 of an investment company at Wichita, Kan., 
 later establishing, with his brother, a busi- 
 ness in the handling of mortgages and com- 
 mercial paper. This business was discon- 
 tinued in 1893, when he removed to Chi- 
 cago, and in association with Reuben H. 
 Donnelley established the firm of Knight, 
 Donnelley & Company, bond and stock bro- 
 kers, but now in business alone as Newell 
 C. Knight & Cum]iany. He was a Cleveland 
 Democrat, but on the gold' issue was an ac- 
 tive advocate of the election of Mr. McKin- 
 ley in the campaigns of 1896 and 1900, and 
 of Roosevelt in 1904. He was elected pres- 
 ident of the Four Mile League of Evanston, 
 111., in 1899, and was appointed chief of 
 police of that city without compensation, 
 in order that he might enforce the anti-sa- 
 loon law. He married in 1886, Annie 
 Louise Sloss of St. Louis, Mo., and has five 
 children. Residence: Evanston, 111. Of- 
 fice: Royal Insurance Building, Chicago. 
 
 KNIGHT, Ora Willis: 
 
 f'liomist and' microscopist; born in Ban- 
 gor, Me., July 15, 1874; son of George Wil- 
 lis and Nellie Ada (Blood) Knight. He at- 
 tended public schools in Bangor, Me., and at 
 San Diego and Santa Barbara, Calif., and 
 took a course in chemistry at the Maine 
 State College, graduating as B.S. in 1895. 
 In the sophomore year he shared with a 
 classmate the scholarship prize. He was en- 
 gaged as an assistant in natural history in 
 the University of Maine, 1895-1897; a.ssist- 
 ant chemist of the Maine Exi)eriment Sta- 
 tion, 1897-1903, and has been in business for 
 
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 liimself as a chemist and microscopist since 
 liJO;}. He lias also been since 1D02, State 
 assayer of IMaine. Mr. Knight has been 
 called into service in connection with many 
 noted criminal cases in the courts of Maine, 
 and his investigations secured the lirst new 
 trial ever granted to a person convicted of 
 murder in tlmt state. lie is a member of 
 the American Chemical Society, the Entomo- 
 logical Society of America, the Main* 
 Ornithological Society, Josselyn Botanical 
 Society (president) the American Ornith- 
 ologist' Union, and the Phi Kappa Phi So- 
 ciety. He is author of: List of Birds of 
 Maine; Birds of IMaine, and of various ar- 
 ticles relating to the botany and ornithology 
 of Maine. His chief recreations are the 
 study of plants, bird's and insects, and hunt- 
 ing and fishing. Mr. Knight is a Republi- 
 can and a Unitarian. He married in Ban- 
 gor, Me., Aug. 14, 1899, Minnie Gertrude 
 MacDonald. Address: 84 Forest Avenue, 
 Bangor, Me. 
 
 KNOPF, S. Adolphus: 
 
 Physician; born in Halle-on-the-Saale, 
 Germany, Nov. 27, 1857 ; son of Adolphus 
 and Nanina Knopf. He was educated in the 
 Municipal High School at Halle; came . to 
 New York City and later went to Los Ange- 
 les, Calif.; taught languages and attended 
 the University of Southern California until 
 1886; was graduated from Bellevue Hospi- 
 tal Medical College, 1888, practised in Los 
 Angeles; went to France, 1890, was gradu- 
 ated from the University of Paris (Sor- 
 bonne), 1895; made special studies of san- 
 atorium treatment of consumptives, being 
 assistant physician to Professor D'jttweiler 
 of the Falkenstein Sanatorium. He was 
 made laureate of the Academy of Medicine 
 of Paris, 1896, for his doctorate thesis : Les 
 Sanatoria, Traitment et Prophylaxie de la 
 Phtisie Pulmonaire. He has been engaged 
 in practice in New York City since 1896; 
 has been interne, assistant and visiting phy- 
 sician to several French and American spe- 
 cial hospitals; is associate director of the 
 Clinic for Pulmonary Diseases in the New 
 Y'ork Health Department; visiting physician 
 of Riverside Sanatorium for Consumptives; 
 consulting physician to sanatoria at Ga- 
 
 briels, N. Y., Binghaniton, N. Y., and to 
 consumptive hosjiitals at Scranlon, Pa., and 
 Denver, Colo.; and is professor of phthisio- 
 therapy at the Now York Post-fJradiiate 
 Medical School and Hospital; was honorary 
 vice-president of the British Congress of 
 Tuberculosis, London, 1901; chairman of 
 the Committee on Sick Poor of the New 
 York State Conference of Charities, 1902; 
 U. S. Government delegate to the Interna- 
 tional Tuberculosis Congress in Paris, 1905; 
 vice-president of Sociological Section of In- 
 ternational Tuberculosis Congress, Washing- 
 ton, D. C, 1908. He has become distin- 
 guished as a writer on tuberculosis; was 
 made laureate by the College of Physicians 
 of Philadelpliia, 1898, for his book on: Pul- 
 monary Tuberculosis — Its Modern Prophy- 
 laxis and the Treatment in Special Institu- 
 tions and at Home. His essay. Tuberculosis 
 as a Disease of the Classes, and How to Com- 
 bat It, has been published in twenty ditTer- 
 ent languages, and was awarded a prize by 
 the International Congress for the Study 
 of Tuberculosis, 1889. He is a member of 
 the American Academy of Medicine (ex-vice- 
 president) ; fellow of the New Y^ork Acad- 
 emy of Medicine and' American Academy of 
 Arts and Sciences, American Medical As- 
 sociation, New York State Medical Associ- 
 ation, New York County Medical Associa- 
 tion, Society of Medical Jurisprudence; hon- 
 ary fellow of the Maine Academy of ]\Iedi- 
 cine and Science, Sociedad Cientifico An- 
 tonio Alzate, Mexico; corresponding mem- 
 ber of German and French Societies for tlie 
 Prevention of Tuberculosis; former vice- 
 president of Pennsylvania Society for Pre- 
 vention of Tuberculosis ; director of the 
 National Association for the Study and Pre- 
 vention of Tuberculosis ; member of the Tu- 
 berculosis Committee of the New Y'ork Char- 
 ity Organization Society. He married in 
 Los Angeles, Calif., Oct. 19, 1889, Pearle 
 Nora, daughter of Harrison Gray Dyar, 
 Address: 16 West 95th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 KNOWLAND, Joseph Russell: 
 
 Congressman; born in Alameda, Calif., 
 Aug. 5, 1873; son of Joseph and Hannah 
 Knowland. He was educated in jjublic and 
 
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 private schools mid in tlie University of the 
 Pacific. Mr. Knowland is associated with 
 his father. Joseph Knowland, in the whole- 
 sale lumber and shipping business; and is 
 a director and member of the finance com- 
 mittee of the Alameda Savinjjs Bank and 
 Bank of Alameda. In 1898, at the age of 25, 
 he was elected' to the lower house of the 
 State legislature; was reelected in 1900; 
 in 1902 was elected to the State Senate, re- 
 signing in 1904, after serving one session, 
 having in the meantime received the Re- 
 publican nomination to fill the unexpired 
 term in the Fifty-eiglith Congress of Hon. 
 Victor H. Metcalf, appointed Secretary of 
 Commerce and Labor, and also for the Fifty- 
 ninth Congress; was elected for both terms, 
 and reelected to the Sixtieth and Sixty- 
 first Congresses. He married in Tacoma, 
 Wash., April 2, 1804. Ellie J. Fife. Ad- 
 dress: Alameda, Calif. 
 
 KNOWLES, Edward Randall: 
 
 Journalist and author; born at North 
 Providence, 1!. I., Jan. 10, 1801; son of 
 Edward P. and Alice (Randall) Knowles. 
 He was graduated from Princeton Univer- 
 sity, A.B., 1881, and received from the Ar- 
 kansas Normal College the degrees of Sc.D. 
 and LL.D. in 1!)01. He is a litterateur, 
 journalist, author and publicist, is author 
 of: The Supremacy of The Spiritual, The 
 True Christian Science, Songs of The Life 
 Eternal, Ecce Regnum and other poems, and 
 The Doific Life. He is commander of the 
 Ottoman order of Medjidieh, commander 
 of the Venezuelan Order of the Liberator, 
 corresponding fellow of the Royal Society 
 of Geography of Lisbon, and' a member of 
 many learned societies. He married, in 
 Boston, Dec. 10, 1879, Jennie Earl of Provi- 
 dence; and they have had five children (one 
 now deceased). Address: Taunton, Mass. 
 
 KNOWLES, William Hyer: 
 
 Banker; born in Pensacola, Fla., Dec. 27, 
 1857; son of Peter and Josephine (Hyer) 
 Knowles. He attended Pensacola's private 
 schools and the University of the South, at 
 Sewanee, Tenn., and has been connected 
 with banks as clerk and officer ever since 
 leaving school. He is president of the 
 
 First National Bank of Pensacola, of the 
 Pensacola Investment Company, and' of 
 Knowles Brothers, and is one of the manag- 
 ing directors of the Pensacola Lumber Com- 
 pany. He is an Independent Democrat, 
 an Episcopalian, a Mason, Knight Templar 
 and Shriner. His favorite recreation is 
 golf. Mr. Knowles is a member of the 
 Army and Navy and Lawyers' Clubs of New 
 York City, and of the Osceola and Pensa- 
 cola Country Clubs of Pensacola. He mar- 
 ried in Nevvbern, N. C, Nov. 24, 1885, ]\Iary 
 Daves Ellis (eldest daughter of Governor 
 John W. Ellis, who was governor of North 
 Carolina in 1800), and they have five chil- 
 dren. Residence: " Harbourview," Pensa- 
 cola. Office: First National Bank, Pen- 
 sacola, Fla. 
 
 KNOWLTON, Marcus Perrin: 
 
 Chief justice of Massachusetts; born in 
 Wilbraham, ]\Iass,, Feb. 3, 1839; son of 
 Merrick and Fatima (Perrin) Knowlton. 
 He attended ]\Ionson Academy, was gradu- 
 ated from Yale, A.B., 1800, a/.d the degree 
 of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Yale 
 University in 18i)5 and by Harvard' Uni- 
 versity in 1900. He practised law in 
 Springfield, Mass., 1802-1881, was justice 
 of the Superior Court, 1881-1887, associate 
 justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, 1887- 
 1902, and' chief justice of the Supreme 
 Judicial Court since 1902. He was di- 
 rector of tlie Springfield and New London 
 Railroad Company, and of the City Na- 
 tional Bank of Springfield, was trustee of 
 the Springfield Institution for Savings and 
 is director of the Massac'.-iusetts Mutual 
 Life Insurance Company. He was president 
 of the Common Council of Springfield, 1872- 
 1873; member of the Massachusetts House 
 of Representatives, 1878; and' of the Massa- 
 chusetts Senate, 1880-1881. He is a Re- 
 publican and Unitarian. He was formerly 
 trustee and treasurer of Springfield City 
 Hospital and is now director of the City 
 Library Association; member of the Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society, and a member of the 
 Union Club of Boston and of tlie Nayasset 
 and Country Clubs of Springfield. Mr. 
 Knowlton has twice married: first in 
 Springfield, Mass., July 18, 1867, Sophia 
 
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 Ritchie; second, May 21, 1891, Rose M. 
 Liuid, and lie has two cliihlren, Marcus L. 
 Ivnowlloii and Elizabeth Knowlton. Resi- 
 dence: Sprinji'field. ^Ntass. Official address: 
 Court Hou^;e, Boston. 
 
 KNOX, Philander Chase: 
 
 Secretary of State; born in Brownsville, 
 Pa., May 6, 1853; son of David S. and 
 Rebekah (Page) Knox. He was graduated 
 from Mt. Union College, Ohio, in 1872, was 
 admitted to the bar in 1875, and in 1876- 
 1877 occupied his first and only public 
 office until he became attorney-general of 
 the United States. He was for that year 
 assistant U. S. district attorney for the 
 Western Division of Pennsylvania, resign- 
 ing in 1877 to form with James H. Reed, 
 Esq.. the law firm of Knox & Reed, which 
 came to represent the interests of many of 
 the large industrial corporations of Pitts- 
 burgh, including the great Carnegie Steel 
 Company. In 1901, upon the earnest solic- 
 itation of the President, and in view of the 
 very great questions affecting the corporate 
 interests which were impending, Mr. Knox 
 left private life and accepted a position in 
 President McKinley's Cabinet. During the 
 succession of President Roosevelt, the ques- 
 tion of the opei'ations of the so-called trusts 
 under the Federal statutes on the subject 
 became still more advanced, and it was 
 Senator Knox's part as attorney-general to 
 prepare the groundwork of the successive 
 processes taken before the greatest judicial 
 tribunal of the country, for the purpose of 
 determining how far the great aggregations 
 of capital referred to were within the law, 
 and how far, if at all, encroachments had 
 been made upon the common rights of the 
 people. While in the midst of the suc- 
 cessful prosecutions and inquiries and court 
 proceedings involved, a senatorship from 
 Pennsylvania became vacant by the death 
 of Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, and 
 the attorney-general of the United States 
 was appointed by the Governor of Pennsyl- 
 vania to fill the vacancy, taking his seat 
 in the Senate at the beginning of the 
 second session of the Fifty-eighth Congress 
 and being elected to serve a full term by 
 the Pennsylvania Legislature of 1905. In 
 
 the Pennsylvania Republican Convention of 
 1907 Senator Knox was declared to be 
 Pennsylvania's choice for the Republican 
 nomination for President, and' he was one 
 of those prominent before the National 
 Convention of 1908, and after the election 
 of President Taft, Senator Knox was so 
 strjDngly urged to become secretary of State 
 in the new administration that he resigned 
 his seat in the Senate to acci-pt that posi- 
 tion. One of the most conspicuous argu- 
 ments on the subject of railroad rate regu- 
 lation was made by Senator Knox, whose 
 constitutional argument in the spring of 
 1906 has taken its ])lace among th'e notable 
 exemplifications of the fundamental docu- 
 ment of the United States Government. He 
 is a member of the Lawyers' and Union 
 League Clubs of New York, of the Duquesne 
 and Americus Clubs of Pittsburgh, having 
 been president of the Duquesne for three 
 years, and is also a member of the Lawyers' 
 Club of Philadelphia. Home address: 
 Pittsburgh. Official address: Department 
 of State, Washington, D. C. 
 
 KOBBe, George C: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, Sept. 
 27, 1852; son of William August (born 
 in Duchy of Nassau, Germany; many years 
 Nassovian consul-general of the United 
 States) and Sarah Lord (Sistare) Kobb6 
 (born in New London, Conn.). He was 
 graduated from the schools of art. Colum- 
 bia College, A.B., 1874, Law School of Co- 
 lumbia College, LL.B., 1876, and in the 
 same year was admitted to the bar. He 
 is now in active practice and is a member 
 of the firm of Roosevelt and Kobb6; pres- 
 ident and director of the Brooklyn Bridge 
 Freezing and Cold Storage Company; di- 
 rector of the Harrison Street Cold Storage 
 Company, and United States Casualty Com- 
 pany. He is a member of the Society of 
 Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey, 
 Sons of Revolution in the State of New 
 York, the Union, St. Anthony, Down Town 
 and Baltusrol Golf Clubs. Mr. Kobb6 mar- 
 ried Alice, daughter of Henry S. Leavitt, 
 of New York, and they have five children. 
 Residence: 109 East 29th Street. Office: 
 44-46 \\all Street, New York City. 
 
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 KOBBe Gustav: 
 
 Author, journalist; born in New York 
 City, March 4, 1857; son of William Au- 
 gust and Sarah Lord (Sistare) Kobb6. He 
 attended the public schools of New York 
 City, and of Wiesbaden, Germany, and was 
 wraduated from Columbia College, A.B. iii 
 1877, A.M., 1879, and Columbia Law School, 
 LL.B. in 1879. He began in journalism 
 as one of the editors of Musical Review 
 until 1881; on stafT of New York Sun, 1881- 
 1882; sent to Bayreuth in the summer of 
 1882, by the New York World, as cor- 
 respondent at the production of Parsifal; 
 and after a few years of newspaper work, 
 he became a magazine contributor. He 
 wrote for The Century an article on Life 
 on the South Shoals Lightship, and five 
 articles in The Heroes of Peace series; 
 also many articles on music and drama to 
 that magiizine, Scribner'.s, The Forum, 
 North American Review, and other maga- 
 zines. He is author of: Signora, a Child 
 of the Opera House; Miriam, a Story of 
 the Lightship; Some Famous Actors and 
 Actresses in Their Homes; Opera Singers; 
 A\'agner's Life and Works (two volumes) ; 
 \\'agner's Music Dramas Analyzed; Wagner 
 and His Isolde; Loves of the Great Com- 
 j)osers; How to Appreciate Music; Famous 
 American Songs ; The Pianolist ; and My 
 Rosary, and Otlier Poems. He married in 
 1882, Carolyn, daughter of George Minor 
 Wheeler, of Scarsdale, N. Y., and they 
 have five children. Address: New York 
 Herald, New York City. 
 
 KOBBe, Walter: 
 
 Dry goods mercliant; born in New York 
 City, Aug. 1, 1850; son of William A. and 
 Sarah Lord (Sistare) Kobb<5. He was edu- 
 cated in the Columbia Grammar School, and 
 at Wiesbaden, Prussia, and Bonn-on-the- 
 Rhine. He has been thirty years in the 
 dry goods conmiission business; has made 
 ninety-eight crossings to Europe, being one 
 of the oldest regular European travelers; 
 has visited all i)rincipal countries of Eu- 
 rope, and for twenty-two years made four 
 crcssings a year. He is resident partner 
 and head 'of the New York house of C. J. 
 Bonnet, Kobb6 and Company, American 
 
 branch of ,Les Petits fils de C. J. Bonnet 
 and Company, Lyons, France, manufac- 
 turer of the widely known Bonnet silks. 
 He was for eleven years member of Com- 
 ))any K, Seventh Regiment; resigned as 
 first lieutenant and acting captain; has 
 honor medal decoration. He is a member 
 of the Holland Lodge of Masons; and of 
 the Union and Merchants' Clubs and' pres- 
 ident of the Central Club. He married 
 Elizabeth W., daughter of V . Munford 
 Moore. Address: 412 West End Avenue, 
 New York City. 
 
 KOBBe, William A.: 
 
 Major-general, U. S. Army, retired; born 
 in New York City, May 10, 1840; son of 
 William A. and Sarah Lord (Sistare) 
 Kobbe. He attended the common schools 
 of New York, took a collegiate course in 
 Germany, and' a course of mining engineer- 
 ing at the academies of Freiberg and Claus- 
 thal, Germany, and later was graduated 
 from the U. S. Artillery School. He en- 
 listed as a private in the volunteer service 
 in 1862; served through the Civil War until 
 discharged as captain of the 178th New 
 York Volunteers, March 1, 1866; appointed 
 to the regular service, INIarch 17, 1866, serv- 
 ing on the frontier until 1872, when he 
 was transferred to Artillery and to the sea 
 coast. As major of the Third Artillery, 
 lie was ordered to the Philippines in com- 
 mand of a battalion of that regiment and 
 served throughout the Philippine Insurrec- 
 tion. He was appointed brigadier-general 
 of Volunteers and later promoted to brig- 
 adier-general, U. S. Army; was military 
 governor and commanding the Department 
 of Mindanao and Jolo until Sept., 1901; 
 then commanding the Department of Da- 
 kota until Jan., 1904, when he was pro- 
 moted major-general, and retired Jan. 4, 
 1904. He was instructor in military sci- 
 ence in the U. S. Artillery School, 1885- 
 1896. General Kobb6 is a member of the 
 California Academy of Sciences. He mar- 
 ried in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., June 26, 
 1867, Isabella, daughter of JSIajor-General 
 William HofTman, and they have four chil- 
 dren. Address: Care of War Department, 
 \\ asliington, D. C. 
 
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 KOHLSAAT, Christian Cecil: 
 
 U. S. Circuit judge; born at Albion, 111., 
 Jan. 8, 1844; son of Reiiuer and Sarah 
 (ITall) Kohlsaat. He was educated in the 
 public schools of Galena, 111., and in the 
 old University of Chicago ; studied law and 
 acted as law reporter for the Chicago Jour- 
 nal; served as one of the clerks in the 
 Count}^ Court of Cook County, 111., and was 
 admitted to the bar. He practised law in 
 Chicago and took an active part in politics 
 as a Republican; and was the Republican 
 nominee for County judge of Cook County 
 in 1881. He was appointed by Governor 
 Shelby M. Cullom a member of the Board 
 of West Park Commissioners in 1880 and 
 served' until elected, in 1890, on the Repub- 
 lican ticket, as probate judge of Cook Coun- 
 ty, in which office he distinguished himself, 
 not only by judicial ability, but also by his 
 fostering care of the estates under the di- 
 rection of his court. He was continued in 
 this office by reelections in 1884 and 1888, 
 but resigned in 1899 upon his appointment 
 by President McKinley to the office of 
 judge of the U. S. Court for the Northern 
 District of Illinois, from which he was 
 promoted b^^ President Roosevelt, in March, 
 1905, to his present office as judge of the 
 U. S. Circuit Court for the Seventh Cir- 
 cuit. Judge Kohlsaat is a member and 
 ex-president of the Union League Club. 
 He married, in 1871, Frances Smith. Res- 
 idence: 239 Ashland Boulevard. Office: 
 Federal Building, Chicago. 
 
 KOHLSAAT, Herman Henry: 
 
 Capitalist, publisher; born at Albion, Ed- 
 wards County, 111., March 22. 1853; i=on of 
 Reimer Kohlsaat (native of Germany) and 
 Sarah (Hall) Kohlsaat, native of Eng- 
 land. The family removed' from Albion 
 to Galena, 111., and he was educated in 
 the public schools there until 1865, and 
 after that in the Chicago public schools. 
 He Avorked as a boy in a dry-goods estab- 
 lishment, then became traveling salesman 
 for a wholesale baker until 1880, when he 
 established in business for himself in the 
 same line, also starting bakery lunch rooms 
 of high grade in various locations in Chi- 
 
 cago, now conducted by H. H. Kohlsaat & 
 Company, Incorporated. Of these he made 
 a great business success, and lie also ac- 
 quired valuable real estate interests. He 
 had a controlling interest in the Chicago 
 Inter-Ocean, 1891-1893, l)ecamo owner and 
 publisher of the Chicago Times-Herald in 
 1894 and continued with its successor, the 
 Record-Herald, until 1902, and also owner 
 of the Chicago Evening Post, 1894-1901. 
 In 1891, he presented the city of Galena 
 with a statue of General Grant, who was 
 long a citizen of that place. Mr. Kohlsaat 
 was a delegate to the National Republican 
 Conventions of 1888, 1892 and 1896. Ad- 
 dress: 120 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. 
 
 KOLLEN, Gerrit J.: 
 
 College president; born in the Nether- 
 lands, Aug. 9, 1843; son of Gerrit J. 
 Kollen and Egberdina (Scholten) KoUen. 
 He was graduated from Hope College, A.B., 
 1868, A.M. in 1871, and received the hon- 
 orary degree of LL.D. from Rutgers College 
 in 1894. He was appointed assistant pro- 
 fessor, 1871, professor, 1878, and has been 
 president since 1893 of Hope College, at 
 Holland, Mich. He has been director of 
 the First State Bank of Holland, Mich., 
 since 1892. In politics he is a Republican 
 and is a member of the Reformed Church 
 in America. He was knighted with the 
 order of Orange Nassau by Queen Wilhel- 
 mina in 1906; and he is a member of the 
 Board of Education of the Reformed Church 
 in America. Dr. Kollen married in Hol- 
 land, Mich., in 1879, Mary W. Van Raalte, 
 who died' in 1905, and he has one daughter. 
 Address: Holland, Mich. 
 
 KONKLE, Burton Alva: 
 
 Author and historian; born in Albion, 
 Ind., April 25, 1861; son of Simon Kenton 
 and Cornelia G. (Andrews) Konkle. He 
 was educated in Albion High School, Lake 
 Forest (111.) College, 1882-1887, McCormick 
 Theological Seminary, 1889-1892, Univer- 
 sity of Chicago, 1896, arid received the hon- 
 orary degree of A.M. in 19(t8. He was 
 teacher, instructor and principal of schools, 
 1876- 1881, and 1883-1884; writer of sketch- 
 
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 es and' short stories, editor; organizer of 
 mission work in the McCormick Theological 
 Seminary, 1SS9-1892; ordained Presbyterian 
 minister by the Chicago Presbytery, 1894; 
 pastor in a suburb there in 1893, and in 
 Georgetown, Colo., 1894. His health failing, 
 he became a writer and editor at Philadel- 
 phia, 1897; organizer and director of the 
 historical work of the Pennsylvania State 
 Bar Association, 1900-1902; special writer 
 for the Ledger, Press, Legal Intelligencer and 
 other publications; author of the original 
 Pennsylvania State Archives Act, 1903; 
 special lecturer at Swarthmore College, 
 1907-1908; is the only layman who ever 
 addressed the Law Academy of Philadelphia, 
 the most ancient legal society in America. 
 He suggested, and was chairman of the com- 
 mittee of organization of the Pennsylvania 
 History Club, a society of authors, 1908. 
 He was the originator, organizer and secre- 
 t;iry of the James Wilson Memorial, a 
 national event at Philadelphia in Nov., 1906, 
 and his address on " James Wilson and 
 the Constitution," which, as the annual ad- 
 dress before the Historical Society of 
 Pennsylvania. Avas the opening address in 
 the series of events constituting that 
 memorial. It was also delivered before 
 and published by the Law Academy of 
 Philadelphia in 1907. He is author of: 
 The Life and Times of Thomas Smith 
 (1745-1809), a Pennsylvania Member of 
 the Continental Congress, 1904; The Life 
 and Sjieeches of Thomas Williams (1806- 
 1872), a Founder of the Whig and Republi- 
 can Parties (two volumes), 1905; Life of 
 Chief Justice Ellis Lewis (1798-1871), of the 
 First Elective Supreme Court of Pennsyl- 
 vania, 1907 ; and has in preparation simi- 
 lar publications concerning the lives and 
 times of William Wilkins, James Wilson 
 (seven volumes), and David Lloyd. He has 
 written for The Outlook (New York), The 
 Interior (Chicago), and other periodicals. 
 The students' missionary organization, 
 which he worked' out in the IMcCormick 
 Seminary was, in 1896, recommended to 
 all seminaries by the Inter-Seminary Mis- 
 sionary -Mlianee of the World. He is a 
 member and councillor of the Pennsyl- 
 \;iiiia llistorv Club; member of the His- 
 
 torical Society of Pennsylvania, American 
 Historical Association, American Academy 
 of Political and Social Science, New York 
 Alumni Association of Lake Forest College, 
 and from its graduation has been secretary 
 of the class of 1892 of McCormick Theo- 
 logical Seminary. He married in Chicago, 
 June 28, 1900, Susie Montague Ferry, 
 and they have one daughter. Address: 
 Swarthmore, Pa. 
 
 KONTI, Isidore: 
 
 Sculptor; born in Vienna, Austria, July 
 9, 1802; son of Ignatz Lajos Konti. At 
 the age of fifteen he entered the Imperial 
 Academy of Arts in Vienna and obtained 
 a scholarship enabling him to study in 
 Italy, where he pursued his studies in 
 Rome, Florence, Naples and Venice. In 1891 
 he came to the United States, making his 
 home in Chicago. He assisted in the execu- 
 tion of some groups for the Agricultural 
 and Administrative Buildings of the World's 
 Columbian Exposition. In 1893 he settled 
 in New Y'ork City. Among his works are 
 the group " West Indies," and the spandrels 
 " North " and " East " Rivers for the Dewey 
 Arch, the Soldiers' ]\lemorial, Syracuse, N. 
 Y. ; group for the Temple of Music and the 
 esplanade, Pan-American Exposition; the 
 two side cascades of the great fountain at 
 the St. Louis Exposition, for which he was 
 awarded a gold medal, besides a special 
 gold medal ; a number of ideal figures and 
 groups., such as " ]ns]nratJon." " The Btook,"' 
 a fountain executed in marble in Greystone, 
 Yonkers, " The Despotic Age," in the Met- 
 ropolitan Museum of Art ; " Orpheus," 
 " The Awakening of Spring," have been 
 shown in exhibitions throughout the United 
 States. i\lr. Konti is vice-president of the 
 National Sculpture Society. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Architectural League, and the 
 Salmagundi Club, also a director of the 
 Municipal Art Society. Mr. Konti was 
 elected associate to the National Academy 
 of Design in 1906, and academician in 1909. 
 Among his important later works are the 
 McKinley monument in Philadelphia, ex- 
 ecuted after the sketch by the late Charles 
 Lopez; figures of Justinian and Alfred the 
 Great for the Court House in Cleveland, a 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Frieze of festival procession for the Gains- 
 borougli iStudios in New York, group rep- 
 resenting South America, and a historical 
 relief for the International Bureau of 
 the American Republics Building, Wash- 
 ington, lie lias d(signiMl cdmnHMnorative 
 and otlier medals. Address: 292 River- 
 side Avomie, Yonkers, N. Y. 
 
 KOOPMAN, Harry Lyman: 
 
 Librarian ; born in Freeport, Me., July 
 1, 1860; son of Charles Frederick and Mary 
 Brewer (Mitchell) Koopman. He was grad- 
 uated from the Freeport High School, 1876, 
 from Colby College, A.B., 1880, A.M., 1883, 
 and from Harvard University, A.M., 1893. 
 He was assistant in the Aster Library, New 
 York City, 1881-1882; cataloguer at Cor- 
 nell University Library, 1883-1884, at Co- 
 lumbia University Library, 1884-1885, at 
 Rutgers College Library, 1885-1886, at the 
 University of Vermont Library, 1886-1892; 
 was a graduate student in English at Har- 
 vard University, 1892-1893, and has been 
 librarian of Brown Liniversity since 1893, 
 and professor of bibliography since 1908 in 
 Brown University. He is author of: Ores- 
 tes and Other Poems, 1888; Woman's Will, 
 with Other Poems, 1888; Mastery of Books, 
 1896; Morrow Songs, 1898; Catalogue of 
 the Marsh Library, University of Vermont, 
 1892 ; Historical Catalogue of Brown Uni- 
 versity, 1895; At the Gates of the Century. 
 1905; The Librarian of the Desert, and 
 Other Poems, 1908. He is a fellow of the 
 American Library Institute, and a member 
 of the Rhode Island Historical Society, 
 the Boston Society of Printers, the Amer- 
 ican Library Association, and the Rhode 
 Island' Library Association (president, 
 1904-1907), Barnard Library Club and 
 Massachusetts Library Club (president, 
 1900-1901). ]\Ir. Koopman married' in 
 Burlington, Vt., June 27, 1889, Helena 
 Luise Mayser, and they have two children. 
 Residence: 57 East Manning Street. Of- 
 fice: Brown University Library, Provi- 
 dence, R. I. 
 
 KOPLIK, Henry: 
 
 Physician; born in New York City, Oct. 
 28, 1858. He was graduated from the Col- 
 
 lege of the City of New York, A.H., 1878, 
 and from Columbia University, M.I)., 1881. 
 During the year 1885-1886 he traveled, 
 attending European clinics; attending phy- 
 sician of the Good Samaritan Dispensary, 
 New York City, 18861900, and of Mount 
 Sinai Hospital since 1900. Dr. Koplik was 
 the discoverer of an early sign in measles 
 by which the disease is recognized before 
 the eruption appears on the body (now 
 known to the medical world as " Koplik's 
 Spots") ; and he also discovered a bacillus 
 which causes whooping cough. He first 
 established milk depots for the distribution 
 of sterilized milk from medical dispensaries 
 for the poor, in 1890. He is a member of 
 the Association of American Physicians, 
 the New Y'ork Academy of Medicine, the 
 American Pediatric Society, of which he was 
 at one time president, and of the New York 
 County Medical Society. His specialty is 
 the diseases of infancy and childhood. He 
 is the author of: Diseases of Infancy and 
 Childhood. He married, in 1902, Stephanie 
 Schiele. Address: 30 East 62d Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 KOST, Frederick W.: 
 
 Landscape artist; born in New York City. 
 He was educated in the public schools and 
 studied art in the schools of the National 
 Academy of Design in New Y^ork City. He 
 received honorable mention in the Paris 
 Exposition of 1900, and was elected an 
 academician of the National Academy of 
 Design in 1906. He is a member of the 
 Artists' Fund Society, the Society of Land- 
 scape Painters, and the Brooklyn Society 
 of Arts and Crafts. Residence: 558 Fifth 
 Avenue. Studio: 146 West 55th Street, 
 New Y''ork City. 
 
 KRACKE, Frederick John Henry: 
 
 Naval officer. Port of New York, mer- 
 chant; born in New Y'ork City, July 11, 
 1868; son of Henry and Henrietta (Hoff- 
 man) Kracke. He was educated at the 
 public schools and Collegiate High School. 
 New Y'ork City; is produce merchant in 
 Washington Market, under his own name; 
 also in granite construction for cemetery 
 and memorial purposes. He was formerly 
 
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 assistant commissioner of agriculture of j 
 the State of New York for ten years. ^Ir. ! 
 Kracke is a member of the Republican State 
 Executive Committee and General Commit- 1 
 tee; also of the Executive Committee of 
 the Kings County Republican Committee. 
 He has represented the State of Now York 
 in National Agricultural Conventions by 
 commission from various governors in 
 States from Maine to California, and South 
 to Texas. He is president of the Tayntor 
 Construction Company; director of the 
 Tayntor Granite Company; also director in 
 several other financial and commercial in- 
 stitutions. Mr. Kracke is a member of the 
 New York Mercantile Exchange, Maritime 
 Exchange, Kings County Masonic Lodge, 
 Clinton Commandery, Knights Templar, 
 Mystic Shrine; Patrons of Husbandry 
 (Granger) ; also of the Union League, Mid- 
 wood, Cortelyou, Jolly ^Mariners, Mercantile, 
 Roosevelt, and' Republican Clubs; also asso- 
 ciate member of Grant Post, Grand Army 
 of the Republic. He is a widower, mar- 
 ried in Brooklyn. 1S90, to Florence Tayntor, 
 and has two children. Address: 11 Ken- 
 more Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 KRANS, Horatio Sheaf e: 
 
 Editor and author; born in Boston, Dec. 
 9, 1872; son of Rev. Edward II. and Char- 
 lotte (Sheafe) Krans. He was educated 
 in private schools, and Columbia L^niver- 
 sity, A.B. and Ph.D. :Mr. Krans is engaged 
 in literary work for magazines and reviews 
 and in editorial work; and' is literary ad- 
 viser to G. P. Putnam's Sons, in New York 
 City. He is author of: Irish Life in 
 Irish Fiction, 1903 (Macmillan) ; William 
 Butler Yeats and the Irish Literary Re- 
 vival (Contemporary ^len of Letters 
 Series, 1904) (:McClure, Phillips and Com- 
 pany) ; Oliver Goldsmith: A Critical Bi- 
 ography (iiv Volume I of The Turk's Head 
 edition of The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, 
 published by G. P. Putnam's Sons), 1907; 
 and is editor of the American section of 
 The World's Wit and' Humor (ten vol- 
 umes), Review of Reviews Company; of 
 (Jporge Withers' Christmas Carrol, with 
 Introduction, 1907 (Putnam); The Lin- 
 coln Triloite Book (Putnam, 1909); and 
 
 of English Love Poems (Putnam. 1909). 
 Address: Care G. P. Putnam's Sons, 27 
 West 23d Street, New York City. 
 
 KRAUSS, William C: 
 
 Physician: born in Attica, N. Y., Oct. 
 15, 1863. He was graduated from Attica 
 Union School in 1880 (valedictorian) ; 
 Cornell University, B.S., in 1884, with two- 
 year certificate of extra work done in 
 medical preparatory course; and from 
 Bellevue Hospital Medical College, il.D., 
 in 1886 (second in honor class) ; studied 
 in European universities, 1886-1889 (M.D., 
 summa cum laude, Berlin, 1888). He has 
 practised medicine in Buffalo since 1890, 
 confining his work to diseases of the mind 
 and nervous system. He was professor of 
 pathology, 1890-1895; professor of nervous 
 diseases since 1895, of the Medical Depart- 
 ment of the Niagara University; and he 
 delivered a course of lectures at Cornell 
 University in 1890. Dr. Krauss is asso- 
 ciate editor of the Buffalo ]\Iedical Jour- 
 nal, and contributor to other American and 
 European medical journals, and author of 
 over one hundred scientific papers; is edi- 
 tor of a Text-Book on Insanity; fellow of 
 the Roj-al ^Microscopical Society of London 
 and of the American Neurological Associ- 
 ation. He is a member of the American 
 Microscopical Society (secretary, 1895, 
 president, 1898), Bufl'alo ^Microscopical So- 
 ciety (presid'ent, 1892-1893), Newi York 
 State Medical Society, Medical Association 
 of Central New York (president, 1897) ; 
 Lake Erie iSIedical Society, Erie County 
 Medical Society (president, 1904) ; was 
 one of the founders in 1892 of the Buffalo 
 Academy of Medicine (secretary for sev- 
 eral years) ; member of the BulTalo Obstet- 
 rical Society (secretary. 1890-1892) ; neu- 
 rologist to the Erie County Hospital, Buf- 
 falo General Hospital, and Asylum and 
 Hospital Sisters of St. Francis; president 
 of the Board of Managers of the Buffalo 
 State Hospital ; medical superintendent of 
 the Pro\idence Retreat. Dr. Krauss is a 
 member of the Buffalo Association of Cor- 
 nell Alumni, and of the IMedical, Buffalo, 
 and University Clubs. He married in Sal- 
 amanca, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1890, Clara Krieger. 
 
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 Address: 479 Dt'l;nvaip Avcrmp, BufTalo. 
 N. Y. 
 
 KREHBIEL, Henry Edward: 
 
 Editor, musical critic, lecturer; born in 
 Ann Arbor, ■\fich., March 10, 1854; son of 
 Rev. J. and Anna IVIaria Elizabeth (Haake) 
 Krehbiel. He was educated in the public 
 schools of Ohio. Was musical critic for 
 the Cincinnati Gazette, 1874-1880, and for 
 the New York Tribune, since Nov., 1880. 
 He was a member of the International 
 Jiiry of the Exposition Univorselle at Paris 
 in 1900 (musical section), and is of the 
 Beethoven Haus Verein at Bonn, Germany; 
 decorated by France with the Cross of the 
 Legion d'Honneur (Chevalier). Jan., 1901. 
 Mr. Krehbiel was editor of the Musical 
 Review of New York City, 1880-1881. He 
 is the author of: An Account of the 
 Fourth IMusical Festival held at Cincinnati, 
 1880; Notes on the Cultivation of Choral 
 ]Music, 1884; Review of the New Y'^ork 
 Musical Season (five volumes, 1885-1890); 
 Studies in the Wagnerian Drama, 1891 ; 
 The Philharmonic Society of New York, a 
 Memorial, 1892 ; How to Listen to INIusic, 
 1897; Music and Manners in the Classical 
 Period in 1898. He was the reviser and 
 continuator of Lavignac's Music and Mu- 
 sicians in 1877; editor and translator of 
 The Technics of Violin Playing (Courvoi- 
 sier), in 1880; translator and annotator 
 of Mozart, The Man and Musician ; Beet- 
 hoven, The Man and Musician (Kerst), in 
 1905 ; American editor of Grove's Diction- 
 ary of Music and Musicians (second edi- 
 tion); also consulting editor of Music of 
 the Modern World. He is a member of 
 the Authors' Club. He married, first, at 
 Birmingham, Conn., in 1877, Helen Vir- 
 ginia Osborne ; second, at Brooklyn, in 
 1896, Marie Van, and he has one daughter. 
 He spends his summers at Blue Hill, Me. 
 Address: 152 West 105th Street,. New 
 York City. 
 
 KROEZE, Barend H.: 
 
 President of Whitworth College : born 
 
 in Kampen. the Netherlands, in 1809; son 
 
 of Henry J.' and Nellie (Do Brink) Kroeze. 
 
 He was educated in Grand Rapids High 
 
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 School, was graduated' from the T'niversily 
 of Michigan, A.B., 1S94; did graduate work 
 in 1895, attended McCorniick Theological 
 Seminary, 1895-1898; was a graduate stu- 
 dent in the Universit}' of Chicago in 1901, 
 and received the degrees of A.M. from 
 Lenox College, 1904, and' of D,D. from Coc 
 College, 190G. He was pastor of the Cen- 
 tral Presbyterian Church, Austin, Minn.; 
 was called to the vice-presidency of Lenox 
 College, and after three years' service tlierc 
 was called to the presidency of Whitworth 
 College, Tacoma, Wash. AVhile a student 
 in the Cniversity of Michigan he was sec- 
 retary of the Tappan Presbyterian Asso- 
 ciation. He is a member of the Holland 
 Society of Washington and is a Mason. 
 President Kroeze married in Preston, 
 Minn., Nov. 30, 1904, Nettie :Muzetta Gray, 
 and' they have one son. Residence: 3722 
 North Proctor Street. Office: Wliitworth 
 College, Tacoma, Wash. 
 
 KROUT, Mary Hannah: 
 
 Journalist and author; born in Craw- 
 fordsville, Ind. ; daughter of Robert Ken- 
 nedy and Caroline Van Cleve (Brown) 
 Krout. Her maternal grandfather was 
 Professor Ryland T. Brown, professor of 
 natural sciences in Butler College, Indian- 
 apolis, and State geologist of Indiana; her 
 paternal great-great-grandfather, Thomas 
 Kennedy, was one of the first settlers of 
 Kentucky and one of five men chosen by 
 Washington to locate the capital of that 
 State. She was educated at home and in 
 private schools, engaged in journalism and 
 was ten years on the staff of tlie Chicago 
 Inter-Ocean. She was correspondent in 
 Hawaii in 1893, in Australia and New 
 Zealand, 1894, and' in London, 1895-1898; 
 represented a syndicate of eiglit leading 
 papers in China, 1899-1900; returned to 
 Australia and New Zealand, 190G; writing 
 and traveling in Hawaii, 1907-1908. She 
 delivered a course of letters on Asiatic 
 Geography in New York, 1901-1902; course 
 of lectures in Australia on American po- 
 litical institutions, and in New Zealand, on 
 American . customs and home life; and de- 
 livered lectures in Honolulu on English 
 writers, Jan., 1907, and Oct., 1908. Miss 
 
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 Krout is an honorary member of the His- 
 torical yociety of Hawaii, a Uaugliter of 
 the Revolution and a member of the Chi- 
 cago Woman's Club. She is also an hon- 
 orary member of tin- Woman's Club of 
 Sydney, N. S. W., and of the Sandringham 
 Club of London. She is author of: Hawaii 
 and a Revolution. 1898; Alice in the Ha- 
 wiian Islands, 1899; A Looker-on in l^n- 
 don, 1900; Two Girls in China, 1901; 
 completed Biography of General Lew Wal- 
 lace, 1905; Memoirs of Bernice Pauahi Bish- 
 op, 1908. Address: 218 West College 
 Street, Crawfordsvillc, Ind. 
 
 KRUSE. Frederick "W.: 
 
 Judge; born June 25, 1852, in Germany, 
 and brought to this country when one year 
 old. He received his education in the com- 
 mon schools and at Grillith Institute, 
 Springville, X. Y. He worked on farms, 
 in factory, and in a store, and at the age 
 of seventeen taught school. In 1877 he 
 Avas admitted to the bar and practised law 
 in Arcade and Clean, N. Y. He was a 
 member of the New York Assembly, 1884- 
 1887, and a member of various State com- 
 missions. In 1887 he was member of a 
 commission to revise the general excise 
 laws, and in 1895 of a commission to pre- 
 pare charters for third class cities. In 
 1890 he was special commissioner to in- 
 vestigate the Federal census frauds, and 
 rcenumcrated the city of Minneapolis. He 
 was county judge of Cattaraugus County. 
 1897-1900. Governor Roosevelt appointed 
 him justice of the Supreme Court, Jan. 1, 
 1900; and in Nov.. 1900, he was elected' to 
 the full term expiring Dec. .31, 1914. He 
 was a.ssigned to the Appellate Division, 
 Fourth Department, in Jan., 1906, where 
 he is still serving. He married, in 1878, 
 Julia V. Engle. Address: Olcan, N. Y. 
 
 XUHNE, Percival H.: 
 
 Bankci ; born in New York City, April 6. 
 IHOl ; son of Frederick and Ellen Josephine 
 (Miller) Kuline. He is descended from an 
 ancient German family, who trace their an- 
 cestry back to famous hindcil proprietors in 
 Madgeburg and the vicinity of lliil faniou."* 
 city. He was educated in llic Colliijc of th- 
 
 City of New York and tlio University of 
 Leipzig. Germany. lie returned to New 
 York and enterrd his father's banking house, 
 ami, on tlie death of the latter in 1S90, be- 
 came head of the firm. He is trustee of the 
 Colonial Trust Com])any. the Lincoln Safe 
 Deposit Company, trustee and membrr of 
 the finance ccunmittee of the Citizens' Sav- 
 ings Bank, a member of the Chamber of 
 Commerce, vice-president and director of thi; 
 Kegina Music Box Company, and director 
 of tile Aetna Indemnity Company, the Mu- 
 tual Alliance Trust Company and of the 
 Dalisades Trust and Guarantee Compaiiy 
 of Englewood, N. J. Mr. Kuhne is a uieni- 
 ber of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, tlie 
 New York Botanical Garden, the New York 
 Zoological Garden, and of the Union, Metro- 
 politan, Union League, Calumet and Down 
 Town Clubs of New York City. He married, 
 Jan. 31, 189;}, Lillian B. Kerr. Residence: 
 7 East 78th Street. Office: l.j William 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 KUNZ, George Frederick: 
 
 Gem expert ; born in New York City, Sept. 
 29, 1856; son of J. G. and Maria Ida' (Wid- 
 mer) Kunz. He was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools and Cooper Union, New Y'ork; 
 and he has received the degrees of A.M. 
 from Columbia 1898, Ph.D. from the Uni- 
 versity of Marburg. 190:3; D.Sc. Knox Col- 
 lege, 1907. He is president of the American 
 Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, 
 president of the New Y'ork ^lineralogical 
 Club; late vice-president of the American 
 Institute of ]\Iining Engineers; was juror 
 of the Nashville Ex))ositioii; special ngent 
 of the U. S. Geological Survey. 1882-1909; 
 honorary curator of precious stones in the 
 American Aluseum of Natural History; hou- 
 orary member of the Uralian Natural His- 
 tory Society of the Ural Mountains, lie is 
 third vice-president and gem expert of 
 Tiffany and Company. He is chevalier of 
 the Legion d'lloniieur of France, and olRcier 
 d'lnstruetioii rul)]i(iue de Franci'; honorary 
 member of the Chamber of Commerce of Pre- 
 cious Stones, Paris, honorary member of the 
 Columbia Alumni Association, member 
 American Institute Mining Engineers, fel- 
 low New ^'ork Aeadeni\- of Sciences; and 
 
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 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science; juror of the Jamestown Expo- 
 sition of 1907; member of the JNletropoI- 
 itan Museum of Art; Knight of St. Ohif of 
 Norway; chairman Honorary Committee 
 Berlin E.xposition of 1910; Chairman .Suh- 
 Committee on Scientific and Historical E.x- 
 hibits, Hudson- Fulton Celebration Commis- 
 sion; Vice-President New York. City History 
 Club; Fellow of Geological Society of Amer- 
 ica; Juror Nashville E.xposition of 1898; 
 Senior Editor " Book of the Pearl." Dr. 
 Kunz is a member of the Century Associa- 
 tion and of the Union League, Grolier, Na- 
 tional Arts, and ^Mineralogical Clubs. He 
 married in New York, Oct. 29, 1881, Sophia 
 Leore Handforth, and they have two daugh- 
 ters. Residence: 601 Cathedral Parkway. 
 Office: 401 Fifth Avenue, New Y'ork City. 
 
 LACEY, Edward Samuel: 
 
 Banker; born in Chili, N. Y.. Nov. 26, 
 1835; son of Edward D. and Martha C. 
 (Pixley) Lacey. He was taken by his par- 
 ents to Eaton County, Mich., in 1842, and 
 was educated in the public schools and Oli- 
 vet College. After leaving college he was 
 in business pursuits at Kalamazoo, Mich., 
 until 1857, when he removed to Charlotte, 
 Midi., was register of deeds there, 1860- 
 1864; engaged in private banking, 1859- 
 1871, when the bank was reorganized as the 
 First National Bank of Charlotte, of which 
 he was at first cashier and afterward presi- 
 dent. He was interested in the building of 
 the Grand' River Railroad in 1868. Mr. La- 
 cey was elected the first mayor of Char- 
 lotte in 1871; trustee of the Michigan Asy- 
 lum for the Insane. 1874-1880; delegate to 
 the Republican National Convention, 1876; 
 Chairman of the Republican State Central 
 Committee of Michigan, 1882-1884; elected 
 in 1880, from the Third District of Michigan 
 to the Forty-seventh Congress, and re- 
 elected to the Forty-eighth Congress in 
 1882, serving until 1885: candidate before 
 the Republican Legislative Caucus for U. S. 
 Senator. 1886. He was appointed tomp- 
 troller of the currency by President Harri- 
 
 son in April, 1889, and resigned in 1892 
 to accept the presidency of the newly or- 
 ganized Bankers' National Bank of Chi- 
 cago, in which position he has ever since 
 continued. ]\lr. Lacey married, Jan. 1, 1861, 
 Annette C, daughter of Hon. Josepli .\lus- 
 grave of Charlotte, Mich., and they have two 
 daughters and a son. Residence: Evanston, 
 111. Ollice: Bankers' National i5ank, Mar- 
 quette Building, Chicago. 
 
 LACEY, John Fletcher: 
 
 Ex-congressman and lawyer; born at New 
 Martinsville, Va., (now W. Va.), May 30, 
 1841; removed to Iowa in 1855. He enlisted 
 in Company H, Third Iowa Infantry, in 
 May, 1861, and afterwards served as a 
 private in Company D, Thirty-third Iowa 
 Infantry, as sergeant-major, and as lieu- 
 tenant in Company C of that regiment; was 
 promoted to assistant adjutant-general on 
 the staff of Brigadier-General Samuel A. 
 Rice, and after that officer was killed in 
 battle was assigned' to duty on the staff 
 of Major-General Frederick Steele. He 
 served in the Iowa Legislature one term, 
 in 1870; was temporary chairman of the 
 Iowa Republican Convention, 1898; served 
 one term in the City Council and one term 
 as city solicitor of Oskaloosa. He is a 
 lawyer and author of Lacey's Railway Di- 
 gest. He served as a representative from 
 the Sixth Iowa District in the Fifty-first 
 Congress. 1889-1891 and from the Fifty- 
 third to the Fifty-ninth Congresses, 1893- 
 1907. After leaving Congress he resumed 
 the practice of law and has taken a promi- 
 nent part in many important cases, notably 
 in cases brought under the land laws. He 
 took a prominent part in the Republican 
 campaign of 1908. Address: Oskaloosa, 
 Iowa. 
 
 LACEY, John Wesley: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Randolph County, Ind., 
 Oct. 13, 1848; son of Rev. Heniy J. Lacey, 
 Methodist clergyman, and of Elizabeth 
 (Thompson) Lacey. He was graduated from 
 Depauw University, 1871; studied law in of- 
 fices; was admitted to the bar in 1876, and 
 practised at Marion, Ind., until 1884, when 
 
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 he was appointed by President Arthur chief 
 justice of the Territory of Wyomin;:, hold- 
 ing tlmt office until 1886, when he resumed 
 practice at Cheyenne. Judge Lacey is a 
 Kepulilican, and is a ineniber of the INIetho- 
 dist l">i)iscopal Church; and was a delegate 
 to the General Conference of that church 
 in 1S8S. lie married at Marion, Ind., Oct. 
 10, 1878, Elizabeth Van Dev enter. Address: 
 Clicyciinc, ^\'vo. 
 
 LACHMAN, Samson: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, jNlay 
 2, 1855; son of Samuel and Babette 
 (Hirscli) Lachman. He was graduated 
 from the College of the City of New York 
 as A.B. He is engaged in the practice of 
 law in New York City and is now a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Lachman and Goldsmith. 
 He was justice of the District Court of the 
 Sixth District of New York City, 1888-1894. 
 Judge Lachman is a member of the New 
 Y'ork Bar Association, the American His- 
 torical Society, the Association of tlie Car 
 of the City of New Y'ork, the kaw Insti- 
 tute, and the Phi Beta Kappa Society; 
 a fellow of the American Geographical So- 
 ciety, and a trustee of the Aguilar Free 
 Library. He is also a member of the Har- 
 monie, Lawyers', and City College Clubs 
 of New York City. He is a Democrat in 
 politics. Address: 313 West lOGtli Street, 
 New Y'ork City. 
 
 LACOMBE, Emile Henry: 
 
 Jurist; born in New Y'ork City, Jan. 29, 
 1846; sou of Emile H. and Elizabeth E. 
 (Smith) Lacombe. He was educated in Co- 
 lumbia Grammar School, Columbia College, 
 A.B., with honors, 1863; Columbia Law 
 School, LL.15. (prize essay on Constitutional 
 L;iw), 18()i); and received the LL.D. degree 
 from Columbia in 1894. lie was engaged in 
 the private practice of his profession until 
 appointed to a position in the City Law De- 
 j)artinent in 1875. He rose thiough various 
 grades and was ai)pointed corporation coun- 
 sel in 1884. and July 1, 1887, he was ap- 
 pointed by President Cleveland to his pres- 
 ent position as L'. S. Circuit Judge. Judge 
 Lacolnbe was a niemljer of the Seventh Reg- 
 
 iment, National Guards of New York, 1862- 
 1869; and was present with the regiment 
 at Baltimore and Frederick City. 1862-1803. 
 He is a member of the University, Metro- 
 politan, Delta Phi and Richmond County 
 Country Clubs. He married in 1873, Eliza- 
 beth TjTon, who is now deceased, and he 
 has two children. Residence: Coxsackie, 
 N. Y. Oflice: United States Circuit Court, 
 Now ^'oik City. 
 
 LADS, George Edgar: 
 
 Geologist, metallurgist, educator; born 
 in Haverhill, Mass., July 23, 1864; son of 
 George W. and Eliza A. (Priest) Ladd. He 
 was educated in Dummer Academy, Byfield, 
 Mass., Harvard University, A.B., 1887, A.M., 
 1888, Ph.D., 1894, and University of Mu- 
 nich, Bavaria. He was employed as a geolo- 
 gist on the United States Geological Sur- 
 vey, Texas Geological Survey, jMissouri 
 Geological Survey, and Georgia Geological 
 Survey; was superintendent of the Massa- 
 chusetts Mineral Exhibit in the World's Co- 
 lumbian Expedition, Chicago, 1893; super- 
 intendent of the Missouri Mining and Metal- 
 lurgical Exhibit in the Louisiana Purcha>e 
 Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. He was di- 
 rector and professor of mining and geology 
 in the Missouri School of Mines and Metal- 
 lurgy, at Rolla, Mo., 1897-1907, and made 
 this school one of the foremost of its kind in 
 the world'. Dr. Ladd is now president of the 
 Oklahoma School of IMines and ^Metallurgy, 
 at Wilburton, Okla. He is also president 
 of the INIidnight Mining Company; manager 
 of Engineering and Assaying. OlKce: Jop- 
 lin, Mo., and manager of several mining 
 companies. He is a member of the Geologi- 
 cal Society of America, National Geographic 
 Society, American liistitute of Mining En- 
 gineers, Mining and JNletallurgical Society 
 of America, Association of Harvard Engi- 
 neers, Society of Sons of the Revolution, 
 Missouri Game Protective keagiu^ Theta 
 Delta Xi and Tan i!i'l;i I'i fraternities and 
 sexeral counnercial ilulis and National Re- 
 form Associations. He married in Bradfonl, 
 Mass., in :\lay, 1889, Mary Oci'ana llam- 
 ond, and they have live sons and one daugh- 
 ter. Address: Wilborton, Okla. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 lADD, Scott M.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Sharon, Wis.. June 22, 
 1855; son of John and Sarah (W'ilmarth) 
 Ladd. He was educated in Boloit Colle<7e. 
 Wis., and Carthap;o College, 111., and was 
 graduated from the Scientific Department 
 of the latter in 1870. and' from the Law De- 
 partment of the University of Iowa in 1881. 
 locating in that year in the practice of law 
 at Sheldon, Iowa. He became active in pol- 
 itics as a Republican, was elected district 
 judge in 1887, and since 1897 has been on 
 the Supreme bench of Iowa as associate jus- 
 tice. Address: Sheldon, Iowa. 
 
 LADEW, Edward E,.: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in 'Now York City. 
 Feb. 18, 1855; son of the late Harvey Smith 
 Laden. He was educated in Charlier Insti- 
 tute and Anthon Grammar School and after 
 leaving school became his father's partner 
 in the firm of J. B. Hoyt and' Company, af- 
 terwards Fayerweather and Ladew. manu- 
 facturers of leather, of which he is senior 
 partner. He is also vice-president of the 
 United States Leather Company. Mr. La- 
 dew is a member of the Chamber of Com- 
 merce and of the Union League, Lawyers', 
 Carteret Gun, New York Yacht, Larchmont 
 Yacht, Lambs', Salmagundi, Riding and 
 Driving, Collie and Liederkranz Clubs. He 
 married in 188G, Louise B. Wall, daughter 
 of Charles Wall, of New York City. Resi- 
 dence: .3 East (i7th Street. Office: 91 
 Liberty Street, New York City. 
 
 LA FARGE. Bance: 
 
 Artist, designer of cut glass windows and 
 mural decorations ; son of John and Marga- 
 ret (Perry) LaFarge. He is a member of 
 the Sons of the Revolution, Arch INIundy So- 
 ciety, the Century Association and St. An- 
 thony Club. He married Mabel Hooper. 
 Residence: 31 West 10th Street. Office: 
 51 West lOtli Street, New York City. 
 
 LA FARGE, John: 
 
 Artist; born in New York City, jMarcli 
 31, 1835; and studied under Couture and 
 William M. Hunt. He married ^Margaret 
 Perry. Early paintings and' mural works 
 
 were largely religious subjects; his in- 
 ventions in the niaking of stained glass 
 windows have revolutionized the art; in this 
 branch he has attained world-wide recogni- 
 tion. He has been an academician of the 
 National Academy of Design, since ISGO; is 
 a member of the ^Metropolitan Museum of 
 Art, Society of Mural Painters, American 
 Fine Arts Society and an officer in the Le- 
 gion d'Honneur of France. He is author of: 
 Lectures on Art; Letters from Japan; Con- 
 siderations on Painting; Great Masters, etc. 
 Mr. La Fargo is a member of the Century, 
 Lotos, Grolier, Brooks, and Authors Clubs. 
 Residence: Newport, R. I. Address: 51 
 ^^'est lOth street. New York City. 
 
 LAFAYETTE-SAVAY, Norbert: 
 
 Lawyer and publicist, born in New Or- 
 leans, La., Nov. 27, 1874; son of Raphael 
 and Louise (Lafayette) Savay; great-grand- 
 son of General Lafayette on mother's side. 
 He was educated in the Universities of Vi- 
 enna, Paris, Oxford and Y'ale, A.M., LL.B., 
 D.C.L. He is a member of the firm of At- 
 water & Cruikshank; formerly personal 
 counsel to Marcus Daly; corporation and 
 mining lawyer tor many prominent con- 
 cerns during five years' successful practice 
 in the West. He is author of: Theory and 
 Practice; First Principle in Self-Govern- 
 ment, emancipation. Theory of Progressive 
 Government, etc. He is foimder and execu- 
 tive of American Civil Alliance, a civic or- 
 ganization the membership of which includes 
 many of the foremost men and women of the 
 country. Mr. Lafayelte-Savay fought for 
 the liberation of Cuba, and was one of the 
 aides to the late Gen. Maceo. He has lived 
 in Russia, Germany, France and Switzer- 
 land and speaks eleven languages. He is a 
 mountain climber; went to the top of Mont 
 Blanc; climbed to tlie ])eaks of Caucasus 
 and of the Himalayas; and is an athlete 
 and all-round out-of-door sport. Address: 
 43 Cedar Street, New York City. 
 
 LAFEAN, Daniel Franklin: 
 
 Congressmiui and manulacturer : born in 
 York, York County. I'a., Feb. 7, ISUL He 
 was educated in the public and high schools 
 of his native city. Mr. Lafean has been ac- 
 
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 lively ptifjiifred in iho manufacturino; busi- 
 ness upward of twenty years, beinu- con- 
 nected witb a number of local manufactur- 
 ing concerns, as well as president of the 
 Security Title and Trust Company, a lead- 
 injr financial institution of Philadelphia; 
 and is a director of the Gettysburg Col- 
 lege and trustee of the Gettysburg Semi- 
 nary of Gettysburg. Pa. He was tendered 
 a unanimous Republican nomination and 
 elected to the Fifty-eighth. Fifiy-ninth. and 
 Sixtieth Congresses and reelected to the 
 Sixty-first Congress, from the Twentietli 
 Pennsylvania District. He married', in 1882, 
 Emma B. Krone, and they have three chil- 
 dren. Address: York. Pa. 
 
 LAFFAN, William M.: 
 
 Editor of the Xew York Sun: born in Dul)- 
 lin, Ireland, Jan. 22, 1848; son of Michael 
 and Ellen Sarah (Fitzgibbon) Laffan. 
 He was educated by tutors and at H. T. 
 Humphrey's School at Blackrock. French 
 College at Booterstown, Dublin I'niversity 
 and St. Cecilia's School of IMedicine; artist 
 to the Pathological Society of Dublin. He 
 was newspaper reporter, managing editor 
 of the San Francisco Bulletin, 1870; editor 
 and half owner of the Daily Bulletin, Balti- 
 more, and owner of the Baltimore Bulletin 
 and Sunday Bulletin ; general passenger 
 agent of the Long Island Railioad; manag- 
 ing director of the Long Beach Improvement 
 Company, and Eastern Steam Navigation 
 Company. He became connected as general 
 writer with The Sun in 1877; in 1881. 1882 
 and 1883, art editor of Harper Brothers, 
 and agent in I^ndon of that house, 1S81- 
 1883; in 1884, elected i)ublisher of the Sun. 
 In 1887 he was elected trustee of the Sun 
 Printing and Publishing Association, and in 
 1887 founded the Evening Sim. In 1900 
 he purchased the interests of the estate of 
 Charles A. Dana in the Sun Printing and 
 Publishing Association, and' became its pres- 
 ident; also vice-president of Lanston ^lono- 
 type Company. He is a trustie of the Met- 
 ropolitan Museum of Art and a member of 
 the Arts Club of London. Chicago Club of 
 Cnicago, and the Union, New York Yacht, 
 and PLac(|uet and Tennis Clubs of New York 
 Cify. lie ininiid in Ualliiiiore, 1872, 
 
 Georgiana Tompkins EatclifT, daughter of 
 .Judge Daniel RatclifT, of Washington. D. C. 
 Ilesidence: 335 Lexington Avenue, and 
 LafTan House, Lawrence, L. I. Office: 170 
 Nassau Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 LA FOLLETTE, Robert Marion: 
 
 United States senator; born at Primrose. 
 Dane County, Wis., June 14, 18.5.5; son of 
 Josiah Mary (Furgeson) La Follette. He 
 was graduated from the University of Wis- 
 consin in 187!), and won the Interstate Col- 
 legiate Oratorical contest. In February, 
 18S0, he was admitted to the bar. and in thj 
 following November was elected district at- 
 torney of Dane County, and reelected in 
 1882. He was elected to Congress from the 
 Third Wisconsin District in 1884. reelected 
 in 18SG and' 1888. and served through the 
 Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty-first Con- 
 gresses, but was defeated for reelection in 
 1800 and returned to the practice of law 
 in Madison in 1891. He became the leader 
 of a reform element in the Republican 
 party and secured a devoted and ineieasing 
 following, and' although an unsuccessful can- 
 didate for the nomination for governor 
 in the State Conventions of 1890 and 1898 
 he was elected to that office in 1900 and re- 
 elected in 1902 and' 1904, resigning the of- 
 fice at the end of 1905 to take his seat in 
 tile United States Senate to which he had 
 been elected for tlie term expiring IMarch .S, 
 191 1. He secured, while he was governor, 
 laws providing for nominating all candidates 
 by diiect ballot, for taxing railroid property 
 on the same basis as all other property, and' 
 for the State control of railroad rates with- 
 in its borders. He is widely known also as 
 an orator and successful lecturer and a 
 forceful executive whose earnestness and per- 
 sistence make his work eft'ective for the 
 causes he advocates. In the United States 
 Senate he has become famous for his effec- 
 tive championship of laws for railroad regu- 
 lation and' the limiting of corporate activity 
 and for his successful opposition to combi- 
 nations in that body intended to prevent 
 solitaiy action along these lines. Senator 
 La I'^ollette married at Baraboo, Wis., Dec. 
 31, 1881, Belle, daughter of Anson T. Case. 
 Address: .Madison, Wis. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 LAIRD, Frank Livingston: 
 
 Editor; l.nrn :il ]lui,rhcsvillo. Pa.. Oct. 2S, 
 1S72; soil of .ToliTi ('. and Sophia S. (Tall- 
 man) Laird. Ho was educated' in Pennsyl- 
 vania Colle<Te. CJettyslmrfj. Pa., and in the 
 Wharton School of Finance of the l^niver- 
 sity of l^ennsylvania. from which he was 
 •rraduated. Ph. P. in lPfl3. He entered news- 
 paper life as a reporter on the Philadelphia 
 Times, later hecame New York correspond- 
 ent of tlie Philadelphia Inquirer, and is now 
 manajiin;? editor of the New York Commer- 
 cial. He is a memher of the Phi Delta Theta 
 fraternity. Address: 8 Spruce Street. New 
 York City. 
 
 LAKE, Everett John: 
 
 Merchant, former lieutenant-governor ©f 
 Connecticut; horn in Woodstock. Conn., Feb. 
 8, 1871; son of Thomas A. and Martha A. 
 (Cockinjrs) Lake. He was graduated from 
 the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, P.S.. 
 1890 and from Harvard, A.B., 1892. He is 
 president and treasurer of The Hartford 
 Lumber Com]>any. and of The Tvnnel Co:\l 
 Company: director of the Hartford National 
 Bank, Hartford Life Insurance Company 
 and of the Riverside Trust Company. Hr 
 was school visitor of the City of Hartford, 
 from 1900 to 1903; member of the Connecti- 
 cut House of Representatives in 1903-1904 
 and of the Connecticut State Senate, 1905- 
 1900: lieutcn;int-governor of the State of 
 Connecticut 1907-1909. He is a nu^mber of 
 the St. John's Lodge of Masons, the Keeney 
 Lodge of Foresters, the Union League and 
 Republican Clubs of New Y'ork, Union League 
 and Graduate Clubs of New Haven ; Hartford 
 and Hartford Coif Clubs of Hartford, and 
 of the Country Club of Farmington, Conn. 
 He married' in Rockville, Conn., Sept. 2.5, 
 1895, Eva L. Sykcs. and they have two chil- 
 dren. Residence : 553 Farmington Avenue. 
 Address 17 Albany Aveiuie. Hartford, Conn. 
 
 LAKE, Richard Conover: 
 
 Banker (retired); born on a farm 
 in :Montour County, Pa., July 20, 1846; son 
 of James and Hannah (Dye) Lake. He re- 
 ceived his education in the public schools 
 of his native county and througli jirivate 
 
 instruction. He entered l)u-ini-.-i a-< an 
 employee of Fowler and ('reveling, :it Espy, 
 Pa., and afterward' with Howorlh Hrotliers, 
 at Central ( ity. Colo. He bec.inie a member 
 of the firm of Roworth & Lake, at Cmtral 
 City, Colo.. 1S(;9-1877, tlien he removed to 
 Deadwood. S. Dak., where he carried on a 
 mercantile business. He w:is made president 
 of the First National Bank of Deadwood, 
 187!); ])resident of the First National Bank 
 of Rapid City, S. Dak.. 1884; president of 
 the Bank of Chadron, Neb., in 188G; second 
 vice-president of the L'nioii National Bank 
 of Chicago, in 1894. and |)resident of tin? 
 Masonic Fraternity Temi)le Association, Chi- 
 cago, in 189G. He has retired from all these 
 positions, but retains a financial interest in 
 several of these nionied institutions. He is 
 a director and a member of the important 
 committ^ees of the Commercial National 
 Bank of Chicago, a director in the State 
 Bank of Evanston. 111.; and' director of the 
 Diamond Rubber Company of Akron. Ohio. 
 He is president of the Evanston Public Li- 
 brary and was formerly a member of the 
 Evanston City School Board. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Union League Club of Chicago, 
 Evanston Club, Country Club of Evanston, 
 and Glen View Golf Club. He married, 
 first, at Central City, Colo.. Sept. 14, 1871, 
 Mary Randolph, who died in 1894, leaving 
 six children; his second marriage was at 
 Evanston, 111., Feb. 9, 1899, to Hellen 
 Kitchell. Residence: Evanston. 111. Otfice: 
 Marquette Building. Chicago. 
 
 LAMB, Charles Rollinon: 
 
 Artist and architect: born in New York 
 City; son of Joseph and Eliza (Rollinson) 
 Lamb. He was educated in the College of 
 the City of New York. He is a specialist in 
 memorial and historical art and was archi- 
 tect of the De>vey Arch, erected in ^Madison 
 Square, New York City, in 1899. :Mr. 
 Lamb is a member of the Fine Arts Federa- 
 tion ; trustee of the Public Art League; a 
 member and ex-vice-i)resident of the Ameri- 
 can Arts Society; the National Sculpture So- 
 ciety, and of the Architectural league, and 
 a member and ex-president of the Art Stu- 
 dents' League. He is pnsident of the Mu- 
 nicipal Art Society; mend)ei and trustee of 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 llie Society of Mur.il Painters, Sons of tlie 
 American llevulution. Merchants Associa- 
 tion; Trustee of the Hudson-Fulton Cele- 
 bration C'oniniittte, of the Koheit Fulton 
 Monument Association, ami president of 
 the Arts Realty Comi).iny. Mr. Lamb is 
 also a mend)er and trustee of the National 
 Arts, Reform and Cluirch Clubs and a mem- 
 ber . of the Nineteenth Century Club. He 
 married in New York City, Ella Condie. 
 Studio: 3G0 West 22d Street. Summer 
 studio: Cresskill, N. J. Ollice: 27 Sixth 
 Avciuic, New York City. 
 
 LAMB, Frederick Stymetz: 
 
 Arli>t ; horn in New Y'ork City, June 24, 
 18()3; sou of Joseph and Eliza (Rollinson) 
 Lamb. He received his preliminary educa- 
 tion at the Art Students' League, studying 
 under William Sartain. J. Carroll lieckwith 
 and others ; was a pupil of Lefebre and 
 Roulanger, Paris; studied modeling under 
 M. Millet and took the first place in com- 
 petition in composition. He received honor- 
 able mention at the World's Columbian p]x- 
 ])osition. Chicago. 189.3; the gold medal at 
 tile Atlanta Kxpositon, 189o; was one of 
 the four glass workers invited to represent 
 tile I lilted States at the Paris Exposition in 
 1900 and received a medal from the French 
 Government. He is a lecturer and writer 
 on civic art and nuinicipal testhetics. Mr. 
 Lamb is trustee of the American Scenic and 
 Historic Preservation Society; ex-secretary 
 of the ^lunicipal Art Society of New York; 
 cx-vice-president of the Architectural League 
 of New York, ex-president of the Architect- 
 ural League of America and secretary of 
 lli(! National Society of Craft-snien. . He is a 
 member of the Art Students' League, Na- 
 tional Scul])ture Society, the National So- 
 ciety of Mural Painters, the American Civic 
 Association and of the National Arts Club, 
 in wliicii lie is a member (jf the Jioard of 
 (iovcrnors. Address: 14 and 1.') Cramercy 
 Talk, N'lu ^'(J^k City. 
 
 LAMB, John: 
 
 Congressman; lioni in Sussex County, 
 \'a.. .Imir 12, 1S4U. lie was eilucated by 
 his fat 111 r. who taught a private school; 
 served lliroiigii liie Civil War in Company 
 
 ]), Thiiil \'irgnia Cavalry, Confederate 
 States Army : commanded his company 
 three years, and was wounded several times. 
 After the war he engaged largely in busi- 
 ness; served as sheriff, trersurer, and sur- 
 veyor in his county; was elected as a Demo- 
 crat to the Fifty-fifth. Fifty-sixth, Fifty- 
 seventh. Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Six- 
 tieth Congresses, and was reelected to the 
 Sixty-first Congress from the Third Virginia 
 District. Address: Richmond, Va. 
 
 LAMB, Robert B.: 
 
 Physician and suj^crintendeiit ; born in 
 Jamestown, N. Y., Aug. 4, 1869; -on of 
 Henry L. and Elizabeth (Brock way) Lamh. 
 He received his education in the pulilic 
 schools, Lansingburgh Ac •-< 'ny, ami tne 
 Medical De])artment of Union L'niversity at 
 Albany, M.D., 1891; and took post-graduate 
 study in New York City and Edinburg, 
 Scotland. He entered the State Hospital 
 Service in 1891, as interne; was promoted 
 to junior assistant physician in 1893 ; senior 
 assistant in 1896 and medical superintend- 
 ent in 1900. He is also medical superin- 
 tendent of the Matteawan State Hospital 
 and consulting physician to the Highland 
 Hospital at Matteawan, N. Y. He is a 
 member of the Dutchess County ^ledical 
 Society. Medical Society of the State of 
 New York, the Newburg Bay Medical So- 
 ciety; the American Medico-Psychological 
 Association of New York and the New York 
 Psychiatrical Society. Dr. Lamb has a 
 summer camp " Onawaawek,'" at Chazy T>ake 
 in the Adirondacks. Address: Fishkill-on- 
 Hudson, N. Y. 
 
 LAMBERT, John: 
 
 ]Maniifai-tur( r : lorn in Ihinterdon Coun- 
 ty, N. .)., .Jan. 12, 1847. After the usual 
 course in the common schnol-. he entered 
 business life and in 1874 went West, locat- 
 ing at .loliet, where in 1879 he engaged in 
 llie manufacture of fencing wire, luitil 1892, 
 when he became associated with Isaac L. 
 Ellwood. .lohn W. 'Gates and other manu- 
 facturers ill the organization of the Consoli- 
 dated Steel and Wire Company, of which he 
 was vice-president and gi'iieral manager, and 
 Ihis in turn, was merged in the American 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Sleel and Wiro ronipnny, orrranizcd in 
 1890, of wliich lie lioi'mnc jircsident, and 
 whieli is iidw a ]i:ni nl' llic United States 
 Stcol Corporation, lie is now i)resident of 
 tlio Mines Company of America, the Dolores 
 ■Mines Company, and other corporations. 
 He is a IJepiihlican in polities and was a 
 colonel on tlie stafT of (Governor Tanner of 
 Illinois. 1S!)7 l!i(il. Address: The Ameri- 
 ean Steel and \\ ire Company, The llookery, 
 Chicago. 
 
 LAMBERT, John S.: 
 
 Jurist ; born at Johnsonville, X. Y., Feb. 
 4, 1851. He was educated in the public 
 schools and the Academy of Greenwich, N. 
 Y., and after that studied liw. He was ad- 
 mitted to practice in 1877, and the following 
 year settled in practice in Fredonia, N. Y. 
 He was elected county judge of Chautauqua 
 County in 1882, and served in that office 
 until elected, in 1889, on the Republican 
 ticket, judge of the Supreme Court of the 
 State of New York ; and in 1903 he was re- 
 elected for a second term, which will ex- 
 pire Dec. 31, 1917. Judge Lambert mar- 
 ried at Cassadega, N. Y., in 1891, Winnifred 
 Phillips. Address: Fredonia, N. Y. 
 
 LAMBERT, Louis A.: 
 
 Catholic priest and editor; born in Char- 
 leroi, Pa., April 13. 1835; son of William 
 and Lydia (Jones) Lambert. He was edu- 
 cated in St. Vincent's College. Pa., and the 
 Archdiocesan Seminary, St. Louis, where he 
 received the degree of LL.D. He was or- 
 dained priest in the Diocese of Alton, 111., 
 in 1859; served in the Civil War, 18G1-1862 
 as chaplain of the Eighteenth Illinois Volun- 
 teers; was instructor in moral theology and 
 philosophy, at the Paulist Novitiate, New 
 York City; and filled pastorates at Cairo, 
 111.. Seneca Falls and Waterloo, N. Y, He 
 founded the Catholic Times, 1874, and was 
 its editor until 1880; was editor of the 
 Philadelphia Catholic Times, and is now 
 editor-in-chief of the New York Freeman's 
 Journal. Dr. Lambert is avithor of: The- 
 saurus Biblicus, or Handbook of Scripture 
 Reference; Notes on Ing^rsoll ; Comments 
 on Ingorsoll's Christmas Sermon ; and he 
 has translated The Christian Fathers; and 
 
 Instructions on fJospels of ilie Sundays of 
 the Year. lie nlso edited Catholic lieliof. 
 Father Lamliert i> a member of the Vic- 
 toria Institution of (Jreat Britain. .Ad- 
 dress: Scottsville. N. 'S'. 
 
 LAMBERT. William H.: 
 
 Life insuraiu'e manager; born in Heading. 
 Pa., May 9, 1842; son of James and Susani 
 (Keen) Lambert. JNlajor Liimbert was grad- 
 uated from the Central High School, Phila- 
 delphia, in 1859, and began the .study of 
 law. He enlisted, Aug. 18, 1802, as a pri- 
 vate in the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, 
 from which he was discharged Nov. 24, 18G2, 
 to accept a connuission as a lieutenant and 
 adjutant of the Twenty-seventh New Jeisey 
 Volunteers. Upon the expiration of the 
 term of that regiment he was appointed 
 first Jieutenant and adjutant of the Twenty- 
 tliird New Jersey Volunteers; was connnis- 
 soned captain, Jan. 13, 1864; brevetted ma- 
 jor, March 13, 1865, and mustered out July 
 17, 1865. He participated in the battles 
 of Antietam, Fredericksburg, the battles 
 around Chattanooga, the campaign for the 
 relief of the force under General Burnside 
 at Knoxville, the engagement at Pine Hill, 
 Sherman's march to the sea, and through 
 the Carolinas to the surrender of General 
 Joseph E. Johnstons's Army. He was 
 awartl'ed the Congressional nudal of honor 
 for distinguished services duiing the war. 
 After the war he became connected with tiie 
 Philadelphia general agenc\' of the Mutual 
 Life Insurance Company of New York, was 
 a partner in the agency, 1872-1887; then 
 was made general agent, and in 1901 was 
 made manager. ]\Iajor Lambert retired from 
 active business in 1!)06. He is a member 
 of the Pennsylvania Commandery of the 
 Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and of 
 the (xrand Army of the Republic, and he 
 is distinguished as an orator. es))ecially at 
 military reunions. He was president of the 
 department of lliarities and Correction 
 of Pliiladelphia, 1892-1899; member of the 
 Board of Directors of City Trusts since June. 
 1899; director of the Union League of Phil- 
 adelphia, 1901- 1904, and its secretary. 1903- 
 1904: mendDcr of the council of the Histori- 
 cal Society of Pennsvlvania; member of the 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ]5oaid of Trustees of tlic Free Library of 
 I'liiladelphia. and director of tl\e Philadel- 
 [iliia Trust, Safe Deposit and Insurance Com- 
 pany. His favorite recreation is the colhc- 
 lion of Lincoln and Thackeray literature. 
 JIajor Land)ert married in Philadcljjhia. 
 Oct. 15, 1874, Hcrniinia V'an llaagen. Ad- 
 dress: (ierniantown, Pliiladelpliia. 
 
 LAMM. Henry: 
 
 Justice of the .Supreme Court of Missouri; 
 born at IJurbank, Ohio, Dec. 3, 184G; son of 
 William and Catherine Lannn. He was 
 jrradualcd from the University of Michigan, 
 187!), studied law at Sed'alia, Mo., and af- 
 ter his admission to the bar was engaged in 
 practice there. II.' has hem an active He- 
 ])ublican. was a iiu'iuhcr of the State Com- 
 mittee and delegate to State and National 
 Conventions; seived as circuit clerk and af- 
 terward as prosecuting attorney of P.ettis 
 County, and was elected in 1904 as an asso- 
 ciate justice of the Supreme Court of Mis- 
 souri for tlie term beginning .Jan. 1, 
 1905, being the only Republican on the 
 Missouri Supreme bench. Add're->s: Se 
 dalia. Mo. 
 
 LAMONT, Thomas William: 
 
 15ankoi-; Idiii in Clavcrack. X. \'., Sept. 
 oO, 1870; sou of Thomas and Caroline 
 (Jayne) Lamont. He was graduated from 
 Phillips Exeter Academy in 188S and from 
 Haivard, A.B., 1892. He is vice president 
 of the i'irst National J?ank; president of La- 
 iiionl. ( orii-s and Company; director of 
 tlu' Astor Trust Compuny, iiankcrs' Trust 
 Company, J. (i. White and Company, in- 
 corporated ; til!' Crowcll Publisliing Com- 
 ]> my : ,ind of Dullield and Com|)any. He is 
 a trustee of tlu- Englewood Hospital .Asso- 
 ciation, and a memlier of the .Metropolitan. 
 Players', City, Harvard. Lniversity, Union 
 League, Lawyers', Englewood Glolf and En- 
 glewood Clubs. He married in Englewood, 
 N. J., Oct. :n, 1895, Florence Haskell Cor- 
 li.ss, and they have three children. Kesi- 
 dence: Beecli Koad, Englewood, N. .1. Of- 
 fice: -2 Wail Street, New York City. 
 
 LAMPTON, William James: 
 
 .\utlior ami Joiniialist ; iiorn in l.awiencc 
 County. ()iii(j; >on of Willian: II. and i-:iinor 
 
 Fairfa.x (Miller) Lampton. He was edu- 
 cated in Ashland Academy and private 
 schools in Kentucky and Marietta College 
 Ohio (honorary A.M. from Marietta). He 
 engaged in the iron business in 1870 with 
 W'. H. Lampton for three years; after tliat 
 for three years in the iron commission bus- 
 iness in St. Louis. In 1877 he began news- 
 pa])er work as editor and proprietor of the 
 Ashlan.i' (Ky.) Review; in 1878 became con- 
 nected with The Times, Cincinnati; in 1879 
 with the Stcubenville (Ohio) Herald as 
 " funny man; " in 1882 to the Courier- 
 Journal, Louisville, Ky., in 1883 The Mer- 
 chant Traveller, Cincinnati, and in 1886 
 with The Critic, Washington, D. C. as " funny 
 man," and while there created for that paper, 
 " Jcdge W'axem, member of Congress from 
 W'ayback"; in 1889 to Wa.shington Star, 
 founding its '• Shooting Stars" department; 
 1892 to the Detroit Free Press, succeeding 
 '• M Quad," in 1895 free-lance doing 
 "Yawps " for the New York Sun. Since 
 1898 in New York City as general writer 
 and verse for 1 lie Woild, Times, Sun, Her- 
 ald, Press, and the magazines. .Mr. Lamp- 
 ton is author of the books: Mrs. Brown's 
 Opinions; Confessions of a Husband; Y'awps 
 and Other Things; The Trolley Car and the 
 Lady; Jedge Waxem's Pocket Book of Poli- 
 tics. Address: 1U9 West .")4th Street, New 
 Y'ork City. 
 
 LAND, Alfred Dillingham: 
 
 Justice of tlu- Su])iem(' Court of Louisi- 
 ana; born in Holmes County, ^liss., ,Ian. 1.'), 
 1842; son of Tlionuis Thompson and Mary 
 Eliza (Dillingiiam) I,nul. lie was edu- 
 cated in the Lniversity of \irgina and the 
 law <h'partment of the lniversity of Louisi- 
 ana, and liad just been graduated from that 
 institution in 18(11 when the Civil War be- 
 gan, and he entered the Confederate Army, 
 serving in the Seventh Louisiana Infantry, 
 Twenty-eiglith .Mississippi Cavalry, and Har- 
 vey's Scouts. After the war he engaged in 
 the practice of law at Shreveport, La., until 
 elected district judge in 1894. He served 
 in that oHice until elected in 1903 associate 
 justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. 
 -Vddress: 2235 Carondelet Street, New Or- 
 leans, La. 
 
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 LANDIS, Charles B.: 
 
 lOx-ooiii^rcssiiian, jouinalist, lecturer; born 
 at Millville, Butler County, Ohio, July 9, 
 ISoO; son of Abraham H. and Mary Lanilis. 
 He was graduated from ^Vabash Collej^e in 
 18815, and at once became editor of the Lo- 
 j-ansport Journal, remaininji; there until 
 1S87, when he became editor of the Journal 
 at Delphi, Ind. He became prominent in Re- 
 publican politics, was ]^r.csident of the Indi- 
 ana Republican Kditorial Association, 1894- 
 1895, and in 189(i was elected as a Republi- 
 can to the Fifty-fifth Congress, from the 
 Ninth Indiana District; was reelected to the 
 Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fif- 
 ty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, and in 
 1908 was renominated as the Republican 
 eauilidate for the Sixty-first Congress, but 
 was defeated in the election. Mr. I.and'is is 
 also well known on tlie lecture platform, 
 and is a favorite in many of the best lyce- 
 nms and the leading Chautauqua courses 
 of the Middle Western States. Address: 
 Delplii, Ind. 
 
 LANDIS, Kenesaw Mountain: 
 
 Cnited States Judge; born at Millville. 
 Butler County, Ohio, Nov. 20, 1806; son of 
 Abraham H. and jVIary K. Landis. He re- 
 moved' with his parents to Logansport, Ind., 
 in 187G and attended the public schools of 
 that city. He was graduated from the Un- 
 ion College of Law of Chicago as LL.B. in 
 1891, and engaged in the practice of law 
 in Chicago, immediately after graduation. 
 Mr. Landis was private secretary to Judge 
 Walter (). Gresham, secretary of State at 
 Washington, 189;M895, and after that he 
 resumed the practice of law in Chicago until 
 appointed by President Roosevelt, March 
 28. 1905, to his present position as judge 
 of the U. S. District Court for the Northern 
 District of Illinois. Judge Landis presided 
 in the trial which resulted in the impositon 
 of a fine of over twenty-nine million dollars 
 against the Standard Oil Company for ille- 
 gal rebating in 1907, which decision was, 
 however, subsequently reversed by the Cir- 
 cuit Court of Appeals. Residence: 4830 
 Madison Aenue. Office address: Federal 
 Building, Chicago. 
 
 LANDON, Francis Griswold: 
 
 Lx-assemblymaii ; Ijorn in New York (,'ity, 
 Aug. 20, 1859; son of Charles (Iriswold 
 and Susan If. Landon; descendant of John 
 Leverett, governor of the Colony of .\lassa- 
 cluisetts from 1673 to 1G79, and of Captain 
 David Landon, of the Army of tlio Itcvolu- 
 tion. j\lr. Landon was graduated from the 
 Joiui C. Creen School of Science, Princeton 
 University, in 1881. He is a member of 
 the Seventh Regiment of New York City, and 
 for four years was its adjutant; in 1895 he 
 became captain of Company I, and in 18Uy, 
 witii associate officer, went to Fngland to 
 represent the Seventh Regiment and tlie Na- 
 tional Guard of tlie State; he resigned and 
 received full and honorable disefiarge in 
 1902, but in December, 1908, rejoined the 
 regiment having been elected' major. He 
 is a Republican and an Episcopalian. He 
 was elected to the General Assembly of the 
 State of New York, in 1900, and was reelected 
 in 1901 and 1902; was a presidential elector 
 for the State of New Y'ork in 1904; ap- 
 pointed by President Roosevelt third secre- 
 tary of the American Embassy at Berlin 
 in January, 1905, and second secretary of 
 tne American Embassy at Vienna, May, 
 1905; resigned from the diplomatic service, 
 June 1, 1907 ; appointed by Governor 
 tlugjies member of the Commission to in- 
 quire into the condition of the National 
 Guard and Naval Militia State of New 
 York in May, 1907. He was elected, Sept. 
 12, 1907, chairman of the Republican Coun- 
 ty Committee of Dutchess County, N. Y. 
 He is a member of the .Metropolitan, Univer- 
 sity, Princeton, New York Athletic, New 
 York Yacht, and Union Clubs of New Y'ork 
 City. He married in New Y'ork City, May 
 20, 1897, Mary (Hornor) Toel, and they 
 have two daughters. Address: Mansewood, 
 Staatsburg-on-Iludson, N. Y. 
 
 LANDON, Melville De Lancey ("Eli Per- 
 kins") : 
 
 Humorist and journalist; born in Eaton, 
 N. Y"., Sept. 7, 1839; son of John and Nancy 
 (Marsh) Landon. He received his educa- 
 tion in Madison University, to the sopho- 
 more vear, and was graduated from Union 
 
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 College. A.B.. 18G1. In the same year he 
 was appointed to olliee in tiie U. S. Treas- 
 ury ; assisted in organizing and served' in 
 the Clay Battalion; and served in the Civil 
 War on the stall' of General A. 1^. Chetlain, 
 at Memphis, Tenn. He resigned from the 
 army in 18(54 and engiged in eotlon plant- 
 ing in the States of Arkansas and Louis- 
 ana. In 18G7 Mr. Landon went abroad, 
 traveling over Europe into Russia, and he 
 was selected by General Cassius M. Clay, 
 then minister to Russia, as secretary of the 
 legation to St. Petersburg, Mr. Landon re- 
 turned to the United States in 1870 and 
 wrote a history of the Franco-Prussian War. 
 Since then he has been engaged in autlior- 
 ship and newspaper woik. His humorous 
 writings, in the Commercial Advertiser, the 
 New York Sun and Grapliic in 1872 gained 
 him wide repute, and called him into the 
 humorous lecture field. He is nnw president 
 of the New York \ews Association. Mr. 
 Landon is auilmr of: A Biography of 
 Artemus \Aard; Thirty Y'ears of Wit; Kings 
 of Platform and Pulpit, and other works. 
 He is a member of the Colonial Club of 
 New York. lie married at New Y'ork City, 
 in 1875, Emily Louise Smith. Address: 
 Landon or '" Eli Perkins," 300 Central Park 
 West, New York City. 
 
 lANDRETH, Burnet: 
 
 Seed merchant; born in Philadelphia. Dec. 
 30, 1842. He was educated at the Ejjiscopal 
 Academy and Polytechnic College, Philadel- 
 phia. He served as an officer during the 
 (;ivil War, being attached to the Army of 
 the Potomac. Since the war has been in the 
 house, established in the 18th century, of D. 
 I^^ndreth & Sons, and' is now head of the 
 firm. He was chief of the Bureau of Agri- 
 culture, Centennial Exhibition, Philadel- 
 phia: director in chief of the American Ex- 
 liibition, London; chevalier and ollicier du 
 Merite Agricolc de France; founder and 
 president of Association of Centenary Firms 
 of the United States; vice-president of the 
 Philadel])hia Society of Agriculture; presi- 
 dent of the Pennsylvania Fore.-try Societj'. 
 Mr. Landreth is a member of I'liiliulclpliia 
 Piiilosophical Society, Philadeljihia Horti- 
 cultural Society, Pennsylvania State Agri- 
 
 cultural Society; honorary member of So- 
 ciety of Arts, London ; Society of Agricul- 
 ture, Chili and Mexico; Royal Society of In- 
 dia, Royal Academy of Sweden, Imperial 
 Society of Japan, Horticultural Society of 
 London, Society Agriculture de France and 
 many other foreign scientific societies. Ad- 
 dross: Bristol, Pa. 
 
 LANDRETH, Lucius Scott: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Pliiladelphia. April 20, 
 18.50; son of Oliver and Harriett Rea (Lin- 
 ton) Landreth. He was graduated from the 
 University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1870, A. 
 M., 1879, and LL.B., 1880 He is church 
 advocate of the Protestant Episcopal Dio- 
 cese of Pennsylvania; was formerly vice- 
 president of the Law Academy of Philadel- 
 phia; is a member of the Board of Trustees 
 of Philadelphia Divinity School and for- 
 merly member of the Board of Govei'nors of 
 the Trades League of Philadelphia. Ad- 
 dress: 512 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 LANDRETH, Olin Henry: 
 
 Civil engineer and professor of engineer- 
 ing; born in Addison. Steuben County, N. 
 Y., July 21, 1852; son of Rev. James and 
 Adelia (Comstock) Landreth. He was edu- 
 cated at tlie Union School, Rushville, N. Y., 
 academies at Sodus, Penn Yan, Dundee 
 and Canisteo, N. Y., then in 1874 entered 
 Union College, where he received the de- 
 gree of C.E., 1870, A.B., 1877, A.M., 1881, 
 and D.Sc, 1905. Mr. Landreth held vari- 
 ous engagements in railroad engineering, 
 1809-1874; was assistant astronomer at the 
 Dudley Observatory, Albany, N. Y., I877- 
 1879, professor of engineering at N'anderbilt 
 University, Nashville, Tenn., 1879-1894; 
 dean of the engineering department there, 
 1880-1894; professor of engineering in 
 L'nion College, since 1894. He was consult- 
 ing engineer of the New "i'ork State Board 
 of Health, 1896-1900; member of the New 
 York Stat(! Water Storage; Connnission, 
 1902-190:5; of the New York Bay Pollution 
 Commission, 190;M905, and of the Metro- 
 politan Sewerage Conunission of New York, 
 1900-1908. He has contributed articles on 
 ])rofessional engineering subjects and on 
 engineering education to numerous profes- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 sional journals and to the transactions of 
 the various technical societies. Dr. Lan- 
 drolh is a nioiuber of the Society for the 
 I'romotion of Engineering Education, past 
 ])resident of the Society of Engineers of 
 Eastern New York; member of the Delta 
 Upsilon fraternity and' the Sigma Xi So- 
 ciety; member and past director of the 
 American Society of Civil Engineers ; mem- 
 ber and past vice-president of the American 
 Society of IVlechanical Engineers; a fellow 
 and past vice-president of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science; 
 past president of the Schenectady Techni- 
 cal Association. He married, in 1879, Eliza, 
 daughter of William B. and Eliza Taylor, 
 of C'anisteo, N. Y., and' they have six chil- 
 dren. Address: Union College, Schenec- 
 tady, N. Y. 
 
 LANE, Annie Eichberg: 
 
 Author; born in Geneva, Switzerland; 
 daughter of the late Julius Eichberg, the 
 dislinguished violinist and composer, of 
 Boston, and of Sophie (Merteus) Eichl)erg. 
 She was educated in the Girls' High School 
 and Gannett's Institute, in Boston. She 
 married' first in Boston, Feb. 26, 1884, Tyler 
 Batcheller King, and second, in England, 
 Aug. 13. 1898, John Lane, the London pub- 
 lisher. Mrs. Lane is the avithor of: "To 
 Thee, Country" (national hymn), and of 
 the books: Brown's Retreat; Kitwyk; Tlie 
 Champagne Standard. Address : 8 Lancas- 
 ter Gate Terrace, Hyde Park, London, W.; 
 England. 
 
 LANE, William Coolidge: 
 
 Librarian: born in Newton, Mass., July 
 29, 1859; son of \^'illiam H. and Caroline 
 M. (Coolidge) Lane. He was graduated 
 from Harvard University, A. B. (Phi Beta 
 Kappa), 1881. He began his connection with 
 the library of Harvard College in 1881 as 
 an assistant, was in charge of the cata- 
 logues, 1884-1893, and assistant librarian, 
 1887-1893; then became librarian of the 
 Boston Athenffium, 1893-1898, and in the 
 latter year was elected librarian of Harvard 
 to succeed Dr. Justin Winsor. Mr. Lane 
 is a member of the American Library As- 
 sociation, was secretary and later chair- 
 
 man of its ])ublishing board from its organ- 
 ization in lSS(i until 1907. and' jiriHident 
 of the association, 1899-1900; has been sec- 
 retary of Aljilia of iMassachnsetts (Har- 
 vard) Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society since 1889; president of the Amer- 
 ican Jiildiograi)hical Society since 1904; 
 and librarian of the Dante Society since 
 1888; also member of the American Acad- 
 emy of Arts and Sciences, the American 
 Antiquarian Society, the Colonial Society of 
 -Massachusetts, and the Literary and His- 
 torical Society of (Quebec. He is author of: 
 The Dante Collections in the Harvard Col- 
 lege and Boston Public Libraries, 1890; 
 Index to the Subject Catalogue of Har- 
 vard College Library, 1891; and other bibli- 
 ographical publications; also contributions 
 to the Proceedings of the Colonial Society 
 of Massachusetts. He edited the A. L. A. 
 Poitrait Index, published by the Library 
 of Congress. He married at Andover. ^lass., 
 May 12, 1903, Bertha Palmer. Address: 
 Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 LANE, Wolcott Griswold: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Sandusky. Ohio. .Tan. 
 24, 1806; son of Willam G. and Elizabeth 
 D. (Griswold) Lane. He was graduated 
 from St. Paul's School, Concord', N. H.. 
 1884, Yale. A.B., 1888, Columbia Law 
 School, LL.B., 1891. He was admitted to 
 the New York bar in 1891, and engaged in 
 practice, and has been a member of the 
 law firms of Tracy and Lane, 1893-1902, 
 Lane and Trafford, 1903-1900. and since 
 1900 of Miller, King, Lane and Trafford. 
 He is a member of the Association of the 
 Bar of the City of New York, the Amer- 
 ican Geographical Society, the Metropolitan 
 Museum of Art and the University. Yale, 
 and Lawyers' Clubs of New York City. 
 He is a Republican and' Episcopalian. He 
 married in Lyme, Conn., Sept. 15, 1896, 
 Edith G. Perkins. Residence: 353 West 
 84th Street. Office: 8 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 LANG, Margaret Ruthven: 
 
 Composer of music; born in Bo>ton, Nov. 
 27, 1867; daughter of the late Benjamin 
 Johnson Lang, distinguished musician, and 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 of Frances Morse (Burrage) Lang. She 
 was educated in private schools in Boston, 
 began the study of the pianoforte under one 
 of her father's pupils and continued it 
 under liis direction; later she studied the 
 violin with Louis Sclniiidt in Boston, con- 
 tinued under Drechsler and Abel in ^Munich, 
 and while there, 188G-18S7, studied com- 
 position with Victor Gluth; and she after- 
 ward studied orciiestration with Chadwick 
 and MacDowell. Her orchestral composi- 
 tions are: Dramatic Overture (op. 12), 
 first performed by the Boston Symphony 
 Orcliestra under Nikisch, April 8, 18!)3; 
 Overture, '" Witichis " (op. 10), first per- 
 formed in Chicago under Theodore Thomas 
 by an orchestra of 100, in July and Aug., 
 1893; also Overture, " Totila " (op. 23); 
 three arias, " Sappho's Prayer to Aphro- 
 dite," for alto; " Armida," for soprano, and 
 " Phcebus," for baritone; a Cantata for solo, 
 chorus and orchestra; a string quartette, 
 and pieces for violin and piano. Miss Lang 
 has also published many songs, part songs, 
 one Te Deum, and seven piano-forte pieces, 
 published by Artliur P. Schmidt, Boston, 
 and numerous miscellaneous publications. 
 She is an active member of the New York 
 Manuscript Society. Miss Lane is an Epis- 
 copalian. Address: 8 Brimmer Street, Bos- 
 ton. 
 
 LANGE, J. Chris: 
 
 Physician; born in Bremen, Germany, 
 Feb. 24, 1847; son of J. Chris Lange! 
 He was graduated from the Bellevue Hos- 
 pital Medical College as M.D. in 1876. Dr. 
 Lang is profes.sor of medicine at the West- 
 ern University of Pennsylvania ; dean of 
 the Western Pennsylvania Medical College 
 and is ex-president of the Allegheny County 
 Medical Society. Ih' is autiior of many 
 ))apers, among them being: Wliy Oxygen 
 Absorption is not Increased by Oxygen In- 
 halation; Studies of the Typhoid State; 
 Tlic Likeness of the Lesions and Symptoms 
 ill all the Acute Infections, lie is a mem- 
 ber of the Allegheny Coimty .Medical So- 
 ciety, Medical Society of tlie State of Peun- 
 .sylvania and of the Anicricm Medical 
 Association ; trustee of the Western Penn- 
 syhania .Medical Collc;j;c ;nid of the Western 
 
 University of Pennsylvania ; consulting phy- 
 sician to Mercy, St. John's, South Side, 
 and Reinemann Maternity Hospitals. He 
 is a member of the University and Union 
 Clubs of Pittsburgh. Dr. Lange married 
 in Pittsburgh, in 1875, Katherine M. Smith, 
 by whom he has three sons. She died in 
 1895, and in 190(5 he married Edith Clark 
 Rich, widow of Rev. W. C. Rich of Wil- 
 liamsport. Pa. Address: Hotel Annex, 
 Pittsburgh. 
 
 LANGTON, Daniel Webster: 
 
 Landscape architect; born in Kempei' 
 County, Miss., May 5, 1864; son of Daniel 
 Webster and Emma (Nelson) Langton. He 
 was graduated from the University of Ala- 
 bama, A.B., 1882, and received its Ph.D. 
 degree in 1891. He was on the Geological 
 Survey of Alabama, 1883-1889, and became 
 consulting geologist for the Chesapeake and 
 Ohio Railway in 1893. He has been a fel- 
 low of the Geological Society of Americi 
 since 1889, and is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Society of Landscape Architects, and 
 the Engineers' Club of New York. Mr. 
 Langton is author of: Report on the Geol- 
 ogy of Southeast Alabama, also geological 
 papers in Silliman's Journal and the Bul- 
 letin of the Geological Society of America. 
 He married at New Haven, Conn., in 1896, 
 Bernice Francis. Residence: " Great Oaks," 
 Morristown, N. J. Office: 347 Fifth Ave- 
 nue, New Yoi-k City. 
 
 LANGWORTHY, Charles Ford: 
 
 Ciiemist; born in IMiddlebury, Vt., Aug. 
 9, 18G4; son of Charles Parker and Ann 
 Elizabeth (Ford) Langvvorthy. He was 
 graduated from .Middlebury College, A.B., 
 1887, A.M., 1890, Emperor William's Uni- 
 versity, Strassburg, Germany, Ph.D., 1893. 
 He was inslnictor in chemistry in Wes- 
 leyan L'^^niversity, Middletown, Conn., 1894- 
 1895, where he was associated with Profes- 
 sor W. O. .\t Wider ill llie development of 
 st\uli(w (if humuii luiliitioii. Since 1895 he 
 has been engaged in editorial and other 
 literary work in Office of Experiment Sta- 
 tions, Dei)artment of Agriculture; now ex- 
 jiert in nutrition in charge of Government 
 studies of liiiinaii imlritioii problems. He is 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 a member of the American Association for 
 tlie Advancement of Science, American 
 (liemical Society, American Forestry Asso- 
 ciation, W'asliin^ton Academy of Sciences. 
 American Home Economics Association, 
 Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the 
 Cosmos and University Clubs of Washing- 
 ton. Residence: 1604 Seventeenth Street. 
 Office: U. S. Department of Ajiriculture, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 LANIER, Charles: 
 
 Banker; born in Madison, Ind., Jan. 19, 
 1837. He was educated at New Haven, 
 Conn., and in 18C0 he became a member of 
 the firm of Winslow, Lanier & ('o., of which 
 he is now the senior member. Mr. Lanier 
 is president of the Massillon and Cleve- 
 land Kailroad Company and the Pittsburgh, 
 Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway Company ; 
 director of the American Cotton Oil Com- 
 pany; the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Rail- 
 road Company; the Western Union Tele- 
 graph Company; director of the Central and 
 South American Telegraph Company, Na- 
 tional Rank of Commerce, New York, Cen- 
 tral Trust Company, the Southern Railway 
 Company. Mr. Lanier is also treasurer of 
 the American Museum of Natural History. 
 He is a member of the Union League, Jekyl 
 Island, Century, Metropolitan, New York 
 Yacht, Tuxedo, Union, Knickerbocker, and 
 Lawyers' Clubs. Residence: 30 East 37th 
 Street. Office: 59 Cedar Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 LANMAN, Charles Rockwell: 
 
 Orientalist and professor of Sanskrit; 
 born at Norwich, Conn., July 8, 1850; son 
 of Peter and Catharine (Cook) Lanman. 
 After graduation from the Norwich Free 
 Academy in 1867 he entered Yale, from 
 wliich he was graduated, B.A., 1871; re- 
 mained there as a student of Sanskrit and 
 linguistic science under Professor Whitney 
 until 1873, when he received the degree 
 of Ph.D.. after whicli he pursued furtlier 
 studies in the same branches at the Uni- 
 versities of Berlin, Tiibingen and' Leipzig. 
 He received the LL.D. degree from Y'ale in 
 1902 and from Aberdeen University in 1906. 
 He was instructor in Sanskrit in Johns Hop- 
 
 kins University. 1876-18S0. and since tlien 
 has been profes-^or of Sanskrit in Harvard. 
 In 1898 Professor Lanman gave the Itclure.s 
 of the Percy Turnbull Memoriil lecture- 
 ship of Poetry at .lolins Hopkins University, 
 the subject of his course being Tiie Poetry 
 of India, and lu- has also lectured in the 
 Lowell Institute of Boston. He is author 
 of: A San-;krit Reader with Vocabulary 
 and Notes, and of various contribution ^ to 
 philological and oriental ])ui)lications, has 
 been joint editor of the Journal of the 
 American Oriental Society, and is editor, 
 with the cofiperation of various scholars, of 
 the Harvard Oriental Series. He is an hon- 
 orary member of the Asiatic Society of 
 Bengal, the Royal Asiatic Society of Lon- 
 don, tlie North China Brancli of the same 
 (Shangliai). the Finnisii-Ugrian Sociity 
 (Helsingfors) , and Soci^te Asiatique of 
 Paris; a foreign member of the Royal Bo- 
 hemian Society of Sciences at Prague, cor- 
 responding member of the Royal Society of 
 Sciences at Gottingen, Prussia; Royal Acad- 
 emy of Sciences at Bologna, Italy; Imperial 
 Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Pete.s- 
 burg, and' of the Institute of France (Acad- 
 emic dcs Inscriptions et Bollcs-Lettrcs; is 
 a member, and was elected president in 
 April, 1D07, of the American Oriintal So- 
 ciety; member of the American Philosophi- 
 cal Society, and of the Soci6te de Linguis- 
 tique, Paris, and fellow of the American 
 Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston. He 
 has traveled extensively in India. Professor 
 Lanman married at Beach Bluff, Mass., 
 July 18, 1888, IMary Billings Hinckley, 
 lineal descendant of Governor Thomas 
 Hinckley of Plymouth Colony, and they 
 have six children. Address: 9 Farrar 
 Street, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 LANNING, William Mershon: 
 
 Judge of tlu' Lniled State.-. District Court; 
 born in IMercer County. N. J., Jan. 1, 1849. 
 He received his education in the famous 
 Lawrenceville School, and' afterward taught 
 in district schools and in the old Trenton 
 Academy until 1S7S. wlien he began the 
 systematic study of law in an office at 
 Trenton, N. J. He was admitted as an 
 attorney in 1880, and as counsellor at law 
 
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 in 18S3; was city solicitor of Trenton, 1883- 
 18S7, and after "that jndge of the City Dis- 
 tiict Court of Trenton until 1891. He was 
 clt'ctt'il to the I'ifty-eiohth Consiress in 
 I'.'OJ. lull ifsiiriu'd ujion liis a|)pointment, 
 June 1. r,l04, to liis pre.-ent ollice aa judge 
 of the District Court of the United States 
 for the District of New Jersey. Judge Lan- 
 ning is a prominent Presbyterian layman; 
 ineniber of tiie Hoard of Trustees of the 
 ({eneral Assembly of tlie Presbyterian 
 Clnircli. a director of the Princeton Theo- 
 logical Seminary and a trustee of the Law- 
 reiu'cvillc Scliool. lie married, Aug. 3, 
 ISSl. .Icnnie Hemenway of St. Lawrence 
 County. X. Y. Address: Trenton, N. J. 
 
 LANSING, James: 
 
 Juiist: l)oni in D.catur. X. V.. May 9, 
 1S34. He was graduated from tlie Albany 
 Law School in 18fi4. Mr. Lansing was 
 surrogate of Rensselaer County, 1890-1895, 
 and is a professor in the Albany Law School. 
 He married. July 4. 1857, Sarah A. Richard- 
 son (if i'oultnev, Vt. Residence: Troy, 
 X. Y. 
 
 LANSING, Robert: 
 
 Lawyer; liorn in Watortown. X\ Y.. Oct. 
 17, 1SG4, .son of Jolin and Maria L. (Dodge) 
 Lansing. He was educated in the \Yater- 
 town High School and at Amheist Coll(>g'. 
 He was associate counsel for the United 
 States in the Behring Sea Arbitration, 1892- 
 1893; counsel for the United States before 
 the Behring Sea Claims Commission, ISHG- 
 1897; solicitor for the United States before 
 the Alaskan Boundary Tribunals in 1903; 
 solicitor for the United' States in the North 
 Atlantic Coa.st Fisheries, Arbitration at The 
 Hague. 190!); and counsel for the Mexican 
 and Cliinese legations at various times. ^Ir. 
 Lansing is a director of the City National 
 Bank of Watertown and the Eager Electric 
 Company. In ])olitics he is a Democrat; 
 and he is an elder in the Presbyterian 
 (Church. He is a member of the Executive 
 Committee of the American Society of In- 
 ternational Law, the New York State Bar 
 Association, National Geographic Society; 
 editor of the American Journal of Inter- 
 national Law; corresponding secretary of 
 
 tiie Jefl'er.son County Historical Society; 
 tiu.stee of the R. P. Elower Memorial Li- 
 brary and a member of the Black River 
 Valley Club of Watertown. N. Y. Mr, 
 Lansing married at Washington, D. C, July 
 15. 1890, Eleanor, daughter of Hon. John 
 W. Foster. Address: 116 Washington 
 Street, Watertown, N. "S'. 
 
 LANZA DI BROLO, Clara (Marquise): 
 
 Author; born in Fort Riley, Kan.; daugh- 
 ter of Surgeon-General William A. and 
 Helen (X'^isbet) Hammond. She was edu- 
 cated in New York City, in Mrs. Williames' 
 Private Academy, and by tutors hi home. 
 She married in New York City, in 1877. 
 Marquis jNIanfredi Lanza di Brolo, of 
 Palermo, Sicily, who died in 1895 in Wash- 
 ington, D. C, and she has three sons. Cap- 
 tan Conrad, U. S. A., Lieutenant Manfredi, 
 U. S. A., and Dr. Anthony, of the Marine 
 Hospital Service. In 1900 she became a 
 convert to the Catholic faith. She is au- 
 thor of: Mr. Perkin's Daughter; A Right- 
 eous Apostate; Tales of Eccentric Life; 
 Basil Morton's Transgression; A Golden 
 Pilgrimage; A ]\Ioderu Marriage; Horacs 
 Everett; also contributions to many mag- 
 azines and daily journals. Address: The 
 Roehambeau, H Street, ^\■aslungton, D. C. 
 
 LAPEYRE, George Fortune: 
 
 Lawyer: born in X"ew Orleans. La.. Oct. 
 18, 1864; .son of Jean ^lartial Lapeyre. 
 and Angeiine Avegno. His father, native of 
 Aseain, Lower Pj'renees, France, was for 
 years a prominent merchant of New Or- 
 leans; president, both before and after the 
 Civil War, of the Louisiana State Bank, 
 and a mc mber of the private banking house 
 of I'ike, Lajicyre and Brother, and his 
 mother was of Italian- French ancestry, a 
 descendant of the famous Colonna family of 
 Rome. He was educated in the Jesuit Col- 
 lege. New Oilcans; at Spi-ing Hill College, 
 Mobile. Ala., wlience he was graduated, 
 A. 15., 1882; Harvard University, A.B., 1886; 
 C(jlumbia College Law School. LL.B., 1889. 
 lie engaged in tiie practice of law, first in 
 X"ew Y''ork City, and subsequently in his 
 home city. New Orleans, where he has taken 
 a prominent position at the bar. He ha^ 
 
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 traveled' very extensively in North and 
 South America, Europe and the Orient. Mr. 
 Lapeyro married in New Orleans, April Z'S, 
 1890, Jeannette Wauj^h, of distinguished 
 South Carolina lineage. Address: 392-1 St. 
 Charles Avenue, New Orleans, La. 
 
 LARKIN, Edgar L.: 
 
 Director of Lowe Observatory, Calif.; 
 Born La Salle County. 111., April 5, 1847; 
 son of Tieman I. and Jane Larkin. He has 
 been a director of astronomical observatories 
 since 18S0, having successively opened the 
 new Windsor, 111., observatory and the 
 Knox College observatory, at Galesburg, 111., 
 and iiaving been director of the last-named 
 for eight years. He was elected director 
 of Lowe Observatory, Echo Mountain, Calif., 
 in 1900. He has contributed extensively to 
 astronomical and general scientific journals, 
 ))esides being the author of: Radiant En- 
 ergy and Its Analyss, and ]\Iodern Elec- 
 tricity and Its Application. He is a fellow 
 of the American Associaton for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science; member of the South- 
 ern California Academy of Science, Los An- 
 geles, Illinois Natural History Society, 
 Springfield, 111., the Astronomical Society of 
 the Pacific, and the Astrophysical Society 
 of America. He married at Earlville, 111., 
 April 29, 1869, Alice A. Everman. Address: 
 p]clio ]\Iountain. Calif. 
 
 LARNED, Charles William: 
 
 Colonel, L'. S. Army, and professor in the 
 U. S. Military Academy; born in New York 
 City, March 9, 1850; son of '^llliam and 
 Mary (Sherwood) Lamed. He was gradu- 
 ated from the U. S. Military Academy, June 
 15, 1870; commissioned second lieutenant 
 Seventh U. S. Cavalry, 1870, and on duty 
 with his regiment in Kansas; on reconstruc- 
 tion duty in Kentucky, 1871-1873; on the 
 expedition against the Sioux Indians under 
 Sitting Bull, with Stanley and Custer, and 
 combat of Big Horn River, 1873; on duty 
 in the office of the secretary of war, 1873- 
 1874; on duty as instructor in the U. S. 
 Military Academy. 1874-1870, lieutenant- 
 colonel and professor, U. S. Military Acad- 
 emy, 1876, colonel, 1886. Colonel Larned 
 is a frequent contributor to periodical litera- 
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 ture upon edueaf iniml, religions and mili- 
 tary to])ies, art and soeiology. Ho is a 
 member of the Architectural League of Now 
 York, the Century, Cnion League, and Draw- 
 ing Room Clui)s, Seventh Cavalry Mess an I 
 West I'oint Ariiiv .Mess. Address: West 
 Point, X. Y. 
 
 LARREMORE ,Wilbur: 
 
 Lawyer and editor; born in New York 
 City, in 1855; son of Riclianl L. iuid Caro- 
 line E. (Livermore) Larremore. Ho was 
 graduated from the College of the City of 
 New York, A.B.. 1875, Columbia Law- 
 School, LL.B., 1877. Since then lie has been 
 practising law, and in later years has 
 largely been engaged in trying cases as ref- 
 eree. Mr. Larremore has bc-n editor of the 
 New York Law Journal since 1891. He has 
 delivered addresses before bar associations 
 and law schools anil has wiitten on legal 
 topics in the Harvard Law Review, the 
 American Law Review, and other legal 
 periodicals, and on legal, political, literary, 
 and miscellaneous subjects in the North 
 American Review, The Forum, The Atlantic 
 Monthly, and other magazines. He ha.s 
 also contributed verse to many magazines. 
 Mr. Lariemore is a member of the New 
 York City and State Bar Associations and 
 of the Century Association, the L'niversitj' 
 Club, and Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He 
 married, in 1886, Susan Armitage. and they 
 have one son, Thomas A., born in 1889. 
 Address: 32 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 LASKER, Emanuel: 
 
 Chess champion of the world ; born in 
 Berlinchen, Germany, Dec. 24. 1808. He 
 was educated in the LTniversities of Berlin, 
 Gottingen. and Heidelberg; receiving the 
 Ph.D. degree. He studied mathematics, 
 1888-1891 and 1890-1897. He won the chess 
 championship of England in 1892: of Amer- 
 ica in 1893; and of the world in 1894; 
 return matches. 1890 and 1907; first prize 
 in the chess tournaments of London in 
 March and April, 1892; New York, 1893; 
 St. Petersburg, 1895; Nuremberg. 1896; 
 London, 1899; Paris, 1900. .Mr. Lasker is 
 author of: About a Certain Class of 
 Curved Lines (Nature, Oct. 17, 1895) ; 
 
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 Metrical Relations (Nature, Aug. 8, 1895); 
 Common Scn^e in Chess, 1S9G; An Essay 
 on the Geometrical Calculus; tjber Reihcn 
 auf d'er Convergenzgreuve, 1901 ; Zur Tlie- 
 orie der ^lodeln und Ideale, 1904; Lasker'.s 
 Chess Magazine, founded in 1904, and a 
 jjliilcsophic hook, Struggle, dealing with the 
 prineiples of strategy. Address: 116 Nas- 
 sau Street, New York City. 
 
 LASSITER, Francis Rives: 
 
 Lawyer and congressman; born in Peters- 
 burg, Va., Feb. 18, 1SG6; son of Daniel 
 William Lassiter, M.D., and' Anna Rives 
 (Heath) Lassiter. He was graduated from 
 the University of Virginia as LL.B., and 
 has since been engaged in the practice of 
 law. He was attorney for the City ot 
 Petersburg time terms, and has been United 
 States attorney for the Eastern District of 
 \'irgini-.i. He was major of the Fourth Reg- 
 iu.ent of Virginia Volunteers in 1891; Pres- 
 idential elector in 1892; supervisor of the 
 Twelfth Census, and was elected representa- 
 tive from the Fourth Virginia District to 
 the Fifty-sixth Congress, as a Democrat, in 
 1898, and tlie Fifty-seventh Congress in 
 1900. In 190G lie was elected to the Six- 
 tieth Congress, and reelected in 1908 to the 
 Sixty-first Congress. He is a member of 
 the Bar Association of Virginia, the His- 
 torical Society of Virginia ; Sigma Chi fra- 
 ternity, and the Masonic order, and the 
 Westmoreland Club of Ivicluiiond, Va. Mr. 
 Lassiter is a widower. Address: Peters- 
 burg. Va. 
 
 LATHROP, Francis: 
 
 Arti-t; born at sea, near the Hawaiian 
 Islands, June 22, 1849; son of Dr. (ieorge 
 Alfred and Frances M. Lathrop. He was 
 ediieated in Dresden, Germany, 1867-1870; 
 afterward in I^ondon, under Hurne-Jones 
 and Madox Brown. Since 1873 he has given 
 his attention to portrait painting, mural 
 painting and stained glass windows. Mr. 
 Lathrop is a member of the M\inicipal Art 
 Sf)ciety, the New York Zoidogical Society; 
 fellow and associate of tiu' National Acad- 
 emy of Design ; member of the Architectural 
 League, Society of American Artists, the 
 American Fine Arts Society, Sons of the 
 
 Revolution and the Century Club. Address: 
 29 Washington Square, New York City. 
 
 LATHROP, John: 
 
 Jurist; born in Boston, Feb. 8, 1835; 
 son of Rev. John P. Latlirop, Protestant 
 Episcopal cleigyman, and Maria -Margaretla 
 (Long) Lathrop; and a lineal descendant of 
 Rev. John Lathrop, who emigrated from 
 England in 1634 and was the first minister 
 of Scituate and Barnstable, Mass. After 
 attending the Boston public schools he en- 
 tered Burlington College, N. J., from which 
 he was graduated, A.B., 1853, A.M., 185(j, 
 and from ILirvard Law School as LL.B. in 
 1855; and in 1890 he received the degree 
 of LL.D. from Williams College. lie was 
 admitted to the Sutl'olk bar in 1856 and to 
 the bar of the Supreme Court of the United 
 States in 1872; served as reporter of the 
 decisions of the Supreme Court of Massa- 
 chusetts, 1874-1888, justice of the Superior 
 Court of Massachusetts, 1888-1891, and jus- 
 tice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Mas- 
 saciiusetts, 1891-1900. He was lecturer on 
 law in Harvard University, 1871-1872, and 
 in Boston University in 1873 and again, 
 1880-1883. He married, June 24, 1S75. Eliza 
 Davis, daughter of Richard G. and Mary 
 Ann (Davis) Parker. Address: 10 Glouces- 
 ter Street, Boston. 
 
 LATHROP, Lorin Andrews: 
 
 Consular ollieer; born in Ohio; appointed 
 consul at Bristol, July 18, 1882; retired 
 Oct. 31, 1889; reappointed Feb. 28. 1891; 
 ai)pointed' consul at CardifT, Aug., 1907. 
 Address: Cardiff, Wales. 
 
 LATHROP, Rose H.: 
 
 Author, artist; born in Lenox, ^Mass., May 
 20, 1854; youngest child of Nathaniel Haw- 
 thorne, the novelist. She studied art in 
 Dresden, Germany, in 1870, and in London 
 and married in London, 1871, George P. 
 Lathrop the author. Mrs. Liithrop first en- 
 gaged in painting, but later took up litera- 
 ture and is author of: Along the Shore 
 (poems), 1888; Memoirs of the Hawthorne, 
 1897; also short stories and sketches for the 
 magazines and sliort sketches for the lit- 
 
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 He folks, in Wide Awake and' St. Nicliolas. 
 She has since 1890, conducted a lionie for 
 destitute cancer sufTerers. In 1900, she be- 
 came a Dominican Religieuse, taking the 
 name of Mary Alphonsa and in 1901, in ad- 
 dition to the home for tlie destitute cancer 
 patients in Cherry Street, tliat order ob- 
 tained a second home at the ViUage of Haw- 
 thorne, N. Y., where both sexes thus afflict- 
 ed are nursed. Address : 426 Cherry 
 Street, New Yori^c City. 
 
 lATHROP, William Langston: 
 
 Artist ; born in Warren, 111., March 29, 
 1859, son of Byron P. and Isabella (Lang- 
 son) Latlirop. After completing the courses 
 of the Painesville (Ohio) Academy, he de- 
 voted his attention to art, in which lie is 
 self-taught, and he soon attained for him- 
 self a place of prominence, winning in com- 
 petition the W. T. Evans prize, the Webb 
 prize and the gold medal of the Philadelphia 
 Art Club ; prizes at Worcester, Mass., and 
 at the Carnegie Institute. He is represent- 
 ed by pictures in leading permanent collec- 
 tions and in 1907 he was elected academi- 
 cian of the National Academy of Design. 
 He is also a member of the Water Color 
 Club of New York City. Mr. Lathrop mar- 
 ried, Nov. 1888, Annie Burt, of Oxford, 
 England. Address : New Hope, Bucks 
 County, Pa. 
 
 LATROBE, Ferdinand Claiborne: 
 
 I>awyer ; born in Baltimore. Oct. 14, 1833; 
 son of John Hazlehurst Boneval and Char- 
 lotte Virginia Latrobe. After completing 
 his education in the College of St. James 
 in jSIaryland he engaged for a time in a 
 commercial house, studied law and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1860. He prac- 
 tised at first with his father in Baltimore 
 and later alone. He was judge-advocate- 
 general on the staffs of Governors Swann, 
 Bowie, Groome, White and Carroll of Mary- 
 land ; member of the Maryland House of 
 Delegates for three terms and its speaker 
 in 1870; and at the extra session of the 
 Legislature in 1900; and mayor of Balti- 
 more for seven terms from 1875. He is 
 president of the Consolidated Gas Company 
 of Baltimore. llesidence : 906 North 
 
 Charles Street. Ollice: 2i)r> St. Paul Stre.-t. 
 IJalliinore. 
 
 LATTA, John: 
 
 Lawyer and r\ lie ui cnniit ;:ii\cninr; bor» 
 in Westmoreland Coimty. I'a., March 2, 
 1S3() ; educated in neigliboring academies 
 and read law under D. H. llazen of Pitts- 
 burgli, continuing his studies at Yale Uni- 
 versity; was admitted to tlie bar of West- 
 moreland' County in 185:). He engaged in 
 the practice of law at Greensburg, wiiere, 
 also, for many years he has served as a 
 school director. He has been prominently 
 active in tlie Democratic Party since ISiiO. 
 serving as a delegate to the Democratic 
 National Conventions of 18()4 and 1872; 
 in the latter he voted against the nomina- 
 tion of Horace Greeley but supported liim 
 at the general elclion. He was nominated 
 for the Pennsylvania State Senite in 1863. 
 and was elected to represent the counties 
 of Westmoreland and Fayette. He was a 
 member of the House of Representatives 
 during the session of 1872 and 1873, and in 
 1874 was elected and served a term as lieu- 
 tenant-governor of Pennsylvania. Since the 
 end of his term he has devoted himself to 
 his legal practice. Address: Greensburg, 
 Pa. 
 
 LAIIBER, Joseph: 
 
 Artist (mural painter) ; born in West- 
 phalia. Germany; son of Conrad L. and 
 Therese (Wigge) Lauber. He was educated 
 in public and private schools, the Cooper 
 Institute and' the Art Students' League of 
 New York. He also studied sculpture un- 
 der Karl Miiller, later painting with Shir- 
 law and Chase; assisted John La Farge 
 for a while and then traveled abroad for 
 study. He executed a series of mural paint- 
 ings, in the Appellate Court of New York; 
 windows and paintings in Ascension Church, 
 St. Andrew's, Lafayette Avenue Presbyter- 
 ian (Brooklyn), Trinity Church at l^ancas- 
 ter and many others, and a jiainting of 
 Christ in competitive exhibition. Mr. Lau- 
 ber is author of some etchings and exhibi- 
 tor in current exhibitions. He has served 
 on various committees tending towards the 
 beautification of the city; and on the Ad- 
 
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 visory Committee of color scheme at tlie 
 Pan American Exposition, Buffalo. He 
 was vice-president of the Architectural 
 Leafrue, 1905-1!)07. a delegate to the Fine 
 Arts Federation; is a member of the Na- 
 tional Society of Mural Painters; trustee 
 of the Artists' Aid tSoeiety. and a member 
 of the Salmagundi Club. He married, in 
 1S92, Ida M. Crow, and they have one son. 
 Kesidence: Montclair, N. J. Studio: 123 
 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 LATTER, Edgar J.: 
 
 Lawytr; born in New York City, Nov. 
 10, 1871; son of William E. and Cecilia 
 (Hornthal) Lauer. He was educated in 
 the Columbia Grammar School, the School 
 of Political Science, Columbia, and School 
 of Law of Columbia University, LL.B., 1891. 
 In 1892 he was admitted to the bar of New 
 York State. He was secretary to James 
 A. Blanchard' as justice of the Supreme 
 Court, 1900 1903; and was elected, Novem- 
 ber, 1905, justice of the Municipal Court 
 of the City of New York for the Fourteentli 
 (now N'intli) District, Eorougli of Man- 
 hattan, wliiili oflice he now holds. Judge 
 Lauer is a juember of the Association of 
 tiie Bar of the City of New York, and of 
 the Republican and Harmonic Clubs. Ad- 
 dress: 709 Madison Avenue, New York 
 City. 
 
 LAUGHLIN, Clara Elizabeth: 
 
 Author and editor; Ijorn in New York 
 City, Aug. 3, 1873; daugliter of Samuel 
 Wilson and Elizabeth (Abbott) Lauglilin. 
 Siie was graduated from the North Division 
 High School, Chicago, 1900; became literary 
 editor of The Interior (Presbyterian week- 
 ly) .June 1, 1902 and has held the position 
 ever since. In the meantime she has con- 
 tributed to nearly every important maga- 
 zine, and has been editorial adviser to sev- 
 eral leading Eastern publisliing houses. She 
 is a member of The Little Pioom, Chicago. 
 Miss Lauglilin is author of: The Evolu- 
 tion of a Cirl's ideal, 1902; Stories of Au- 
 thors' Loves, 1902; Miladi, 1903; Divided, 
 1904; Wiien Joy Begins, 190.); Felicity, 
 1907; The Lady "in Gray, 1908; The Death 
 of Lincoln, 1909. Kesidence: 3711 Pine 
 
 Grove Avenue. Office: Tlie Interior, 328 
 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 LAUGHLIN, Frank C: 
 
 Jurist; born in Newstead, N. Y., .Tuly 20, 
 1859. He was educated in the Lockport 
 (N.Y. ) Union School and then studied law; 
 was admitted to the bar in 1882; was as- 
 sistant city attorney and city attorney of 
 Buffalo. 1S86-1891; corporation counsel of 
 P>uf]'alo in 1893; justice of the Supreme 
 Court of New York, sitting in the Eighth 
 District, 188.0, and the Appellate Division, 
 Rochester and' New York City and his pres- 
 ent term will expire Dec. 31, 1909. Jus- 
 tice Laughlin is a member of the Manhat- 
 tan, Catholic and Republican Clubs. He 
 married, in 189(5, Mrs. Martha Taylor Bart- 
 lett of Buffalo. Address: ButTalo. N. Y. 
 
 LAUT, Agnes C: 
 
 Aullior; born in Ontario, Canada, Feb. 
 11, 1871; daughter of John and Eliza 
 (George) Laut. She went to \Yinnii)eg in 
 childhood and was educated in Manitobx 
 University. She entered journalism and' 
 was editorial writer on the Manitoba Free 
 Press at Winnipeg, 1895-1897; later corres- 
 pondent of American, Canadian and Eng- 
 lish papers, and later contributor to maga- 
 zines lA New York City. Miss Laut is au- 
 llior of: Lords of tiie North; Heralds of 
 Kmpirc; Story of the Trapper; Pathfinders 
 of the \\'est; Vikings of the Pacific: Con- 
 quest of the Great North West ; The Empire 
 of tlie Noith. Address: Wassaic, N. \'. 
 
 LAUTERBACH, Amanda Friedman: 
 
 Born in Green Bay, Wis.; daughter of Ar- 
 nold and Wilhelmina (Straubel) Friedman. 
 Her early girlhood was spent in Paris, 
 France, wliere she began her education, and 
 slu' afterward attended and was graduated 
 from Mrs. Sylvanus Reed's School in New 
 York City. She married there, Jan. 12, 
 1871, Edward' Lauterbach, a distinguished 
 meudier of the New York bar, and they 
 iiave four adult children: Alfred, Edith, 
 l''lorence and Alice. The New York Times, 
 in a recent article thus summarizes the 
 her personality and activities; "Mrs. 
 
Amanda Friedman Lauterbacii 
 Philanthropist 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Lauterbacli. n friond of many frieiids. pos- 
 sesses a persdirility iliat is wonderfully re- 
 freshinjr. She is a skilled musician, and has 
 made her well-trained voice serve to the ad- 
 vanlnfTP of the charities in which she is in- 
 terested. She is one of those rare women 
 who can be beautiful and youtliful and 
 wealthy and still work hard for tho^e who 
 are beneath the wheel of Fortune. Through 
 her indefatigable efforts she has helped se- 
 cure the passage of several philanthropic 
 laws, .such as the INIercantile bill, the new 
 Tombs, the Public School bill, the Prison 
 bill, and the Anti-Sweaters' bill regulating 
 beneficially the employment of certain in- 
 dustrial classes." Mrs. Lauterbacli is vice- 
 president of the Women's Philharmonie So- 
 ciety; vice-president of the Women's Suf- 
 frage League ; directress of the Women's 
 Auxiliary of the New York Lying-in Hos- 
 pital : first vice-president of the Consum- 
 ers' League; was first vice-president of the 
 first Kindergarten organized in New York 
 (the late Mrs. Charles P. Daly, President) ; 
 directress in Stony Wold No. 9 (for the 
 treatment of tuberculosis) ; directress of 
 Little Mothers Public Education Society; 
 also a member of other philanthropic and 
 charitable institutions. Mrs. Lauterbach is 
 a member of St. James Lutheran Church. 
 Her favorite recreations are music and read- 
 ing, and she is particularly fond of house- 
 keeping and of entertaining in her luxur- 
 ious home. Address: 761 Fifth Avenue, 
 New York City. 
 
 LAUTERBACH, Edward: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New Y^ork City, Aug. 
 12, 1844; son of Solon and Mina (Rosen- 
 bauni) Lauterbach. He was educated in 
 the College of the City of New York, where 
 hd received the degree of A.B. in 1864, tak- 
 ing first prize in declamation, and later 
 A.M. and LL.B. and LL.D. He engaged 
 in the practice of law and has been leading 
 counsel in many noted legal contests, and 
 also connected with the organization of 
 many large financial undertakings. He is 
 now a member of the firm of Hoidly, 
 Lauterbach and Johnson. Mr. Lauterbach 
 is one of the State Board of Regents; has 
 I been chairman of the Republican County 
 
 Committee, and was formerly prp<«idcnt of 
 the Board of Trustees of the College of 
 the City of New York : and has been a dele- 
 gate to all the National and State Hepubli- 
 can conventions for years past. He mar- 
 ried, in New York City, Jan. 12, 1871, 
 Amanda Freedman. Address: 22 William 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 LAVARON, Leonide Cecilia: 
 
 Designer and liandicrafter ; born in New 
 York City; daughter of Ernest and Anna 
 (Fricke) Lavaron, and is of French de- 
 scent. She removed to Chicago in girlhood 
 and after procuring her general education 
 in the public and high schools of that city 
 she applied herself to artistic studies and 
 to art handicraft, with the result that she 
 has obtained distinction for her original de- 
 signs and workmanship as a jeweler and in 
 metals. She has applied her skill as jiainter, 
 chemist and metalsmith to the production 
 of work of exceptional beauty in gold, silver 
 and copper. In copper she has by long 
 chemical experiment been able to produce 
 iridescent surface eflfects which have created 
 great distinction, and the " Lavaron cop- 
 per " wdth the original and artistic de- 
 signs in which she has formed it, is now 
 a well-known specialty in art metal work; 
 and in precious stones and jewels her work 
 is notable for originality of conception and 
 artistic combination of color, and sh6 is 
 recognized as one of the foremost exponents 
 of an art-craft only recently cultivated by 
 women. She is a member of the Boston 
 Arts and' Crafts Society and the National 
 Society of Craftsmen, New York City. Ad- 
 dress: 414 Fine Arts Building, Chicago. 
 
 LAW, Charles Blakeslee: 
 
 Lawyer and member of Congress ; born 
 in Hannibal, N. Y.. Feb. 5, 1872; son of 
 Eli B. and Mary Louise (Payne) Law. 
 He was graduated from Colgate Academy, 
 1891; studied at Colgate University and 
 Amherst College, and was graduated', B.S., 
 1895. He was admitted to the bar in No- 
 vember, 1897. and is now a member of the 
 law firm of Law and Mackay. Mr. Law was 
 a member of Congress from the Fourth 
 New York District, elected in 1904, served 
 
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 in the Fifty-ninth Congress and was re- 
 elected in inOG and 1008 to the Sixtieth and 
 Sixty-lirst Congresses. He is a member of 
 the Kings County rLepublican County Com- 
 mittee, and the Union League Club and 
 Brooklyn Clubs of Brooklyn. He married 
 at Gloucester. :\rass.. Nov. 20, 1001, lima 
 Best. Address: 16 Court Street, Brooklvn. 
 X. Y. 
 
 LAWLER, Thomas Bonaventure: 
 
 rulili.-.hcr; born in Worcester. Mass., July 
 14, 1864; son of Tlionias and Eliza (Malier) 
 Lawler. He was graduated from Holy Cross 
 College A.B., 18S5, A.M., 180.3; and is 
 now a member of the firm of Ginn and Com- 
 pany, educational publi-shers. ;\Ir. Lawler 
 has traveled three times around the globe. 
 He is author of: E'^sentials of American 
 History; Primary Hi-tory of tlie L'nited 
 States; The Story of Columbus and' Ma- 
 gellan. Mr. Lawler is a member of the 
 American Oriental Society, and of the Uni- 
 versity Club and Papyrus Club of Boston. 
 He married in New York City, in 1899, Mar- 
 garet A. Brrnnan. Kesidenco: 102 West 
 84th Street. Office: 70 Fifth Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 LAWRENCE, Abram B.: 
 
 Lieutenant-c(donil. U. S. N'olunteers; 
 born at Warsaw, N. Y. He is of New Eng- 
 land parentage and a lineal descendant 
 from Sir Robert Lawrence, crusader, of 
 Lancashire, Knghmd, wIid was knighted by 
 Richard Canir de Lion. After receiving an 
 education in public schools, lie engaged in 
 mercantile pursuits; erected and operated 
 the Warsaw Gas Light Works, and the 
 Foundry and Machinery I'uilding. When 
 the Civil War began he entered the Union 
 Army, as quartermaster of what was later 
 designated as the ].'50th New York Volun- 
 teer Infantry, known as First Xew York 
 Dragoons, which became famous under ('.en. 
 Sheridan. In 1862, he was placed on de- 
 tached service in the commissary and quar- 
 termaster's department. Peck's Division, 
 Seventh Army Corps; subsequently assigned 
 to duty in Sheridan's Calvary Corps as 
 quartermaster of regular cavalry brigade; 
 j)roiiioted to ciiptain and assistant (luarter- 
 
 master. U. S. Volunteers and assigned' to 
 the headquarters of the Eighteenth Army 
 Corps; later became chief quartermaster, 
 with rank of major in the quartermaster's 
 dci)artnient, serving in tlie Tenth, Eight- 
 eenth, and Twenty fifth Corps. Upon re- 
 organization and consolidation of troops 
 of the Ninth, Tenth and Eighteenth Corps, 
 constituting Twenty-fourth Army Corps, he 
 became its chief quartermaster and was 
 promoted to lieutenint-colonel. During the 
 cam])aign which ended with the surrender 
 of General Lee, he was appointed by General 
 Grant chief quartermaster of the Army 
 of the James; was assigned by order of 
 General Grant to receive surrender and 
 make disposition of property of Army of 
 Northern Virginia, and to act as chief quar- 
 termaster of the U. S. forces at Appomat- 
 tox Court House, Va. In the fall of 18(i5 
 he was assigned to duty in vicinity of the 
 Rocky Mountains, and in 186G, upon ap- 
 plication for muster-out, returned to War- 
 saw, where he received an honorable dis- 
 charge with brevet commissions for faithful 
 and' meritorious services during the war. 
 He was one of the organizers of the National 
 Guard Association of the State of New 
 York; member of its Executive Committee, 
 and its recording secretary for ten succes- 
 sive years; member of the Grand Army of 
 the Republic, and was for several years com- 
 mander of Gibbs Post of Warsaw, N. Y., 
 which he organized. He is a member of the 
 Military Order of the Loyal Legion: hon- 
 orary member of the Military Service Insti- 
 tution of the United States; member of the 
 Masonic fraternity; an Odd Fellow, and of 
 the higher grades of Masonry. He was for 
 five years jjresident of the Wyoming Coun- 
 ty Agricultural Society, and assisted in or- 
 ganizing the New York State Association 
 of Agricultural Societies, and for four years 
 was its ])r('-i(]eiit. Address: Warsaw, N. Y. 
 
 LAWRENCE, Abraham Ricker: 
 
 duri-t: horn in Xew "^I'ork City. Sept. 10, 
 18.32; son of Hon. John L. and Sarah .\u- 
 gusta Lawrence. He was educated in pri- 
 vate .schools, Ballston Spa Law School and 
 in the offices of his father and Judge W. 
 (Jilberl. He was admitted to the bar in 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ni)9 
 
 1853; and was assistant corporation coun- 
 sel, 1853-185(5 and 1857-1858. He served 
 as a member of the Constitutional Conven- 
 tion of the State of New York in 18157, Dem- 
 ocratic candidate for mayor, in 1872; elected 
 justice of the Supreme Court in 187;i; re- 
 elected in 1887 and served until Dec. 31, 
 11)01, liaving occupied tlie bench for twenty- 
 eight years. He is author of: A Compila- 
 tion of the Tax Laws of the State of New 
 York with notes of cases. Judge Lawrence 
 was president of the St. Nicholas Society 
 for two terms, 1882-1883, and is a member 
 of the Association of the Bar of the City of 
 New York, New York State Bar Association, 
 Society of Colonial Wars and the St. Niclio- 
 his Society and of the Union, Manhattan 
 and Century Clubs. He married Eliza, 
 daughter of Dr. William Miner of New York 
 City. Residence: 09 Washington Place. 
 OlHce: 135 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 flTwRENCE, Amory Appleton: 
 
 Merchant and manufacturer; born in Bos- 
 ton, April 22, 1848; son of Amos Adams 
 Lawrence and Sarah E. (Appleton) Law- 
 rence and a descendant from John Law- 
 rence, the immigrant, 1635, and of Samuel 
 Appleton, 1635. He was graduated from 
 Harvard as A.B. in 1870; was clerk and 
 partner in the commission house of Law- 
 rence and company; director of the Massa- 
 chusetts National Bank from 1873, the Na- 
 tional Union Bank from 1887; president 
 Sahnon Falls Manufacturing Company; Ips- 
 wich Mills and Cilniorton Mills, director in 
 above and also Pacific Mills and Dwiglit 
 INIanufacturing Company; treasurer of the 
 Groton Water Works Company; and presi- 
 ilent of Boston ^Merchants' Association from 
 PJOl. He was also treasurer of the Epis- 
 copal Charitable Society; chairman of the 
 committee of Harvard Class of 1870; one of 
 the committee of three appointed in 1903 to 
 arbitrate the difficulties between the team- 
 sters and merchants, which was settled after 
 one conference with the leaders of the strike. 
 He married, tirst, June 1, 1871, Emily Fair- 
 fax Silsbee, a descendant of Henry Silsbey, 
 the immigrant, Salem, 1639; and their chil- 
 dren are: Amos Amory, born in 1874, John 
 Silsbee, born in 1878, Editli, born in 1879 
 
 (married Harold JefTerson Coolidge), Emily 
 F. (Silsbee) Lawrence, died April 4, 1895. 
 Mr. Lawrence again married .June 12, 1901), 
 Certrude ^lajor Rice, who died in 1907. Of- 
 fice address: Lawrence & (,'o., Franklin 
 Street, Boston. 
 
 LAWRENCE, George Pelton: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Adams, 
 Mass., May 19, 1859. He was gruluated 
 from Drury Academy, 1876, and Amherst 
 College, 1880, and studied law at Cohmibia 
 Law School. He was adii:itted to the bar 
 in 1883, has since practised law at North 
 Adams; was appointed judge of the district 
 court of Nortliern Berkshire in 1885; re- 
 signed in 1894 upon being elected lo the 
 JNIassachusetts Senate; was a member of the 
 Massachusetts Senate in 18!)5, 189(5. and 
 1897 ; was president of that body in 1896 
 and 1897, being elected each year by unani- 
 mous vote; was elected from the First Mas- 
 sachusetts District to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty- 
 sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty- 
 ninth and Sixtieth Congresses and reelected 
 to the Sixty-first Congress in wliich he is 
 now serving. Address: North Adams, 
 Mass. 
 
 LAWRENCE, William: 
 
 Bishop of Massachusetts; born in Boston, 
 May 30, 1850; son of Amos Adams and 
 Sarah Elizabeth (Appleton) Lawrence. He 
 was graduated from Harvard'. A.B.. 1871, 
 going thence to Andover Seminary and the 
 Pliiladelphia Divinity School, and liter en- 
 tering the Episcopal Theological School at 
 Cambridge, Mass.. where he was graduated 
 B.D., 1875. The degree of S.T.D. was con- 
 ferred upon him by Hobart College, 1890 
 and by Harvard University, 1893, LL.D. by 
 Princeton University, 1904 and Cambridge 
 University, England, 1908; S.T.D. Durham 
 University, England, 1908. He was ordered 
 deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1875, 
 and ordained priest by Bishop Paddock in 
 1876. He became assistant of Gnue Church, 
 Lawrence, :Mass., 1876 and rector 1877-1S84. 
 He was i)rofcssor of homileties in the Epis- 
 copal Theological School. Canduidge. 1884- 
 1893, and dean of siime, 1886-1893. He be- 
 came bishop of Massachusetts in 1893 and 
 
1000 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 \v:is consecrated by Bishops Williams, Clark, 
 Wiiipple Potter and Doinc. Bi>liop Law- 
 rence is author of: Life of Amos A. Law- 
 rence, 18SS; Visions and Service. 1896; 
 Address on Phillips Brooks: Life of Roger 
 Wolcott, (all i)iiblished by Houghton, Mif- 
 flin & Conipaii}-). Address: 122 Common- 
 wealth Avenue, Boston, Mass. 
 
 LAWRENCE, William Van Duzer: 
 
 Manufacturer; born near Elmira, N. Y., 
 Feb. 12, 1842; son of Robert D. and Cather- 
 ine (Van Du/.er) Lawrence. He was edu- 
 cated in Michigan; removed' to New York 
 Citj' when nineteen years old and was em- 
 ployed for five years by S. R. Van Duzer 
 and Company, wholesale druggists. In 1866 
 he went to Canada to establish a branch 
 house, representing several American manu- 
 facturers of proprietary medicines, including 
 Perry, Davis and Company of Providence, 
 R. L, and' conducting it for twenty-one 
 years, and in 1887 the business merged 
 into the Davis and Lawrence Company of 
 Montreal, which had been established tliere 
 in 18S4. That company, in 1895, bought out 
 the business of Perry, Davis and Sons, of 
 Providence, R. 1., and all its proprietary 
 interests, and hiter a branch corporation, 
 the Davis and Lawrence Company of New 
 York, was organized in Xpw York City and 
 since 1900 the head office of tiie business has 
 been located there, Mr. Lawrence being i)res- 
 ident of both companies: also of the Fellows 
 Manufacturing Company of New York City 
 and ^lontreal and of the Wavcrly Realty 
 Company of New York City. He is owner 
 of Lawrence Park, Bronxville, N. Y., and is 
 a member of the Union League Club of New 
 York City and the St. James" Club of 
 Montreal, Canada. He married in 1807, 
 Sarah Bates of Monroe, ^Mieli., and they 
 liave two sons and two daughters. Address: 
 900 Fiftli Avenue. New York City. 
 
 LAWRENCE, William Watson: 
 
 Manufacturer; born at Huntington. Pa., 
 April 22, 1859; .son of John Jacol) and Anna 
 Flizalu'th (Watson) Lawrence. He was 
 graduated from Princeton as A.B. in 1878. 
 He became connected with the firm of Suy- 
 dam and Company, 1878-1884; established 
 
 the firm of W. W. Lawrence and" Company, 
 in 1884, and Sterling ^^ hite Lead Company 
 in 1893. He is vice-president of the Na- 
 tional Lead Company of New York; di- 
 rector of the National Lead Company. United 
 J.,ead Company. National Bank of Western 
 Pennsylvania. W. W. Lawrence and Com- 
 yiixny. Mr. Lawrence is a member of the 
 American W'iiig Society of Princeton, Penn- 
 sylvania Society of New York, Military 
 Order of the Loyal Legion, the Society of 
 Colonial Wars, and University, Metropolitan, 
 Riding, Westchester Country, Princeton, 
 and Lawyers' Clubs of New York, Maryland 
 Club of Baltimore, Duquesne Club of Pitts- 
 burgh, and the Automobile Club of America. 
 Residence: 749 Fifth Avenue. Office: 111 
 Brodwa}-, New York City. 
 
 LAWSON, Thomas William: 
 
 Banker and author; born in Charlestown. 
 Mass., Feb. 20, 1857: son of Thomas and 
 Anna Maria (Loring) Lawson. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of Cambridge, 
 Mass., and since April, 1870 has been in 
 business as a banker and broker. He is an 
 independent Republican in politics, and an 
 extensive contributor to magazines, formerly 
 of poems and short stories, but in the past 
 few years chiefly of caustic criticisms of 
 modern financial methods, overcapitalization, 
 and the like. Mr. Lawson is an enthusiastic 
 yachtsman and author of a handsome 
 quarto volume on the History of the Ameri- 
 ca's Cup, which he had printed for private 
 distribution in 1902. His most notable re- 
 cent publications are: Frenzied Finance, 
 1905; Friday the Thirteenth (novel), 1900. 
 Mr. Lawson is a member of the Boston Stock 
 Exchange and the New York Stock Ex- 
 change. He married in Cambridge, Mass., 
 1878, Jennie August i Coodwillie (now de- 
 ceased). Address: 33 State Street, Boston. 
 
 LAWSON, Victor Fremont: 
 
 Newspaper publisher; born in Chicago. 
 Sept. 9, 1850; son of Iver and Malinda 
 (Hender.son) Lawson. He was educated at 
 Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and af- 
 ter leaving school took charge of an interest 
 of his father's estate in a printing estab- 
 lishment. He bouglit the Chicago Dailv 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1001 
 
 News in 1876 and with Melville E. Stone 
 as partner made it the leading evening pa- 
 per of Cliieago. In 1881 thcj' started a 
 morning edition and in 1888 Mr. Lawson 
 I)()ught out tlie interest of Mr. Stone, be- 
 eoniing sole proprietor of both papers. He 
 changed the name of the morning paper 
 to the Chicago Record, and" in 1901 it was 
 merged with the Chicgo Times-Herald into 
 its present style of the Record-Herald. The 
 Chicago Daily News was the pioneer of one- 
 cent journalism in Chicago. Mr. Lawson, in 
 connection with liis paper established the 
 Daily News Fresh Air Fund, which has for 
 years maintained the Lincoln Park Sanitar- 
 ium for sick poor children and is one of the 
 most benificent of the charitable institutions 
 of Chicago, and has also taken active part 
 in many other philanthropic operations. He 
 has been president of the Associated Press 
 and greatly promoted the usefulness of that 
 organization as a news-gathering agency, 
 is a life member of the Chicago Press Club, 
 and is a member of the Chicago, Union 
 League, Chicago Athletic, Union, Commer- 
 cial, University, Onwentsia Golf and Fel- 
 lowship Clubs of Chicago. Residence: 317 
 La Salle Avenue. Address: The Chicago 
 Daily News Chicago. 
 
 LAWYER, George: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, Sept. 
 24, 1864; son of James and Eliza J. (Irwin) 
 Lawyer. He was graduated from Hamilton 
 College, A.B., 1885. A.M., 1888, and from 
 the Albany Law School LL.B. 1887. He was 
 admitted to the bar in May, 1887, and' be- 
 gan the practice of law in Albany in April, 
 1890. In 1897, he formed a copartnership 
 with Charles J. Buchanan, under the firm 
 name of Buchannan and Lawyer, and the 
 firm is now Buchanan, Lawyer and Wha- 
 len. He was counsel for the New York 
 State Bar Association in the trial of Jus- 
 tice Warren B. Hooker before the State 
 Legislature in 1905. i\Ir. Lawyer is author 
 of: Syllabus on the Law of Contracts, 
 1907; editor of Smith on Personal Property 
 (second edition) 1907, and author of numer- 
 ous articles on legal topics in law journals 
 since 1890. He has been lecturer on the law 
 of contracts and personal property in Al- 
 
 bany Law SqIiooI since 1905. He was one 
 of tlie organizers of Troop A. of New York 
 City in 1889, and has been judge advocate 
 of the Third Brigade of the National Cuard 
 of New York since Fel). 1001. He is a 
 Presbyterian, and trustee of llie Presbytery 
 of Albany. He is a member of the New 
 York State Bar Association, American F'.ar 
 Association. Society of International Law. 
 Wasliington, D. C, Albany County Bar As- 
 sociation, Association of Trooj) A of New 
 York City, Theta Delta Chi fraternity and 
 Phi Beta Kajipa Society at Hamilton Col- 
 lege, Phi Delta Phi at Albany Law School, 
 and Sons of the Revolution. He is also 
 member and past-master of Temple Lodge 
 of Masons at Albany, and of the Fort Or- 
 ange Country, University, and JefTerson 
 Clubs of Albany. He married' in New York 
 City, Feb. 9, 1*892. Agnes, daughter of Da- 
 vid B. Pershall, and they have three c'lil- 
 dren. Residence: 4.37 State Street. Office: 
 79 Chapel Street, Albany. 
 
 LAY, Julius Gareche: 
 
 Consul-general; born in Washington, D. 
 C, Aug. 9, 1872; son of Richard G. Lay 
 (lieutenant-colonel U. S. Army), and Caro- 
 line Y. (Kimball) Lay. He was educated 
 in public schools and by private tutors, and 
 afterward at the Columbia Grammar School, 
 New York City, until 1889. He began bis 
 consular service as clerk in tlie American 
 consulate at Ottawa, Canada, 1889-1891, be- 
 came vice-consul there, 1891-1896; consul at 
 Windsor, Ont.. Canada, 1896-1899; consul- 
 general at Barcelona, Spain, 1899-1904; con- 
 sul-general at Canton, China, 1904-1906, and 
 in 1900, was appointed to his present posi- 
 tion as consul-general of the United States 
 at Cajje Town, South Africa. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Sons of the American Revolution 
 of the ^letiopolitan Club at Washington, 
 and the Civil Service and City Clubs of Cape 
 Town, South Africa. He married in New 
 York City, Dec. 10, 1904, Annie Howard. 
 Address: American Consulate-General, 
 
 Cape Town, South Africa. 
 
 LEA, Henry Charles: 
 
 Publisher and author; born in Philadel- 
 phia, Sept. 19, 1825; son ui Isaac and 
 
1002 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Frances Ann (Carey) Ijca. He was edu- 
 cated privately and received from the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, from Harvard and 
 from Trinoeton the decree of I.L.D., and 
 from (lie rniversity of (iiessen tliat of S.T.D. 
 He was in business as a book publisher, 
 1843-1 SSI. but has since retired. Mr. Lea is 
 author of: Superstition and Force, first edi- 
 tion in lS(i6; fourth edition in 1892; Histor- 
 ical .Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy, first edi- 
 tion. 18(57. second, 1884, and' third edition 
 in 1007: Studies in Church History, first 
 edition in 1809. second edition, 1883; His- 
 tory of the Inquisition of the ^liddle Ages. 
 1888; Chapters from the Religious History 
 of Spain. 1800: A Formulary of the Papal 
 Penitentiary in tlie Tliirteenth Century, 
 1892; History of Auricular ('onfession and 
 Indulgence. 1806; The Morescos of Spain, 
 their Cnn\oision and Expulsion, 1901; His- 
 tory of the Spanish Inquisition, 1906 and 
 1!I07; The Inquisition in the SpLinish De- 
 pendencies, 1908; also niunerous pamphlets 
 and articles in periodicals ; a chapter on 
 The Eve of the Reformation in the Cam- 
 bridge Modern History ; French Translation 
 of Inquisition of Middle Ages by Solomon 
 Picinach. Paris. 1899; and (ieriiian trans- 
 lion of the same, edited by d. Hansen and 
 II. llnii].1. Poun. ino,-) and I'.IDli; also Ital- 
 i;iii t rnnshition of tlic same by Professor 
 Damenico P>attaiiii. l!M)!i. ^Iv. Loa married, 
 in 1S50. Anna ( '. .laiiildu. and they liave 
 two sons and one daught( i'. Address: 2000 
 Walnut Street. Philadelphia. 
 
 LEA, Preston: 
 
 i-'iirmei' (iovernor of Delaware: born in 
 ^\■i!ming1on. Del., Nov. 12, 1841: son of 
 William and Jaiii> Scott ( l.ovclt ) Lea. 
 After c()m|)li'l iiiL; his cdiicat ioii at tlio i.aw- 
 renceville School. N. .1.. lie became con- 
 nected with his falhn'* iiiilliiig busi- 
 ness, in which he cDiitimicd ever since. 
 iiDW being president of William Lea and 
 Sons ('omj):iny, and' is al-t) presiilent of tlu' 
 I'nion Xaliomil I'.ank and i.tlier corpora- 
 tions. Me is a liepubiican in ])olitics and 
 in .\<j\.. 1904. was elected goxernor of Del- 
 aware; foi- a four-year teim, which expired 
 in .Fiinnary, 1909. Address: Wilmington, 
 D.l. 
 
 lEACH, Albert Ernest: 
 
 Chief of the U. S. Food Inspection Lab- 
 oratory, Denver; born in Boston. April 7, 
 lSfi4: son of John Brooks and Mary P. 
 (Bellows) Leach. He was graduated from 
 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
 S. B.. 1880: was expert in patent causes 
 from 1S80-1S92; assistant analyst in the 
 :Massachusetts State Board of Health. 1892- 
 1899, and chief analyst, 1899-1907. He is 
 author of many technical papers on food 
 and drug analysis in the journals, and of 
 Food Inspection and Analysis, 1905 (John 
 Wiley and Sons). He is a member of the 
 American Chemical Society, the Association 
 of Official Agricultural Chemists and of the 
 Society of Arts. He married at St. Johns- 
 bury, Vt., Sept. 2, 1890, Martha H. Thomp- 
 son, and they have four children. Office: 
 Room 518 Tabor Opera House Building, 
 Denver, Colo. 
 
 LEAL, John Laing: 
 
 Physician and surgeon; boim in Andes, 
 N. Y., j\Iay 5. 1858; son of John R. Leal, 
 M.D., and INIary E. (Laing) Leal. He was 
 graduated from Princeton. A. B., 1880, and 
 A.:\I., 1883. and from Columbia as M.D.. 
 and afterward studied at the New York 
 Post-graduate Medical School. He was in- 
 terne at the Elizabeth (N. J.) General Hos- 
 pital, and attending surgeon, and now con- 
 sulting surgeon at the Pat^rson (X. J.) 
 (general Hospital. He was health officer, 
 attending and city physician of the Passaic 
 Couidy Insane Asylum, Paterson. N. J.; 
 and is sanitary adviser of the East Jersey 
 Water Company, and the Jersey City Wa- 
 ter Su|)])ly Company. He is ex-president 
 of the Passaic County IMedical Society; of- 
 lieer of the New Jersey State ^ledical So- 
 ciety; mendier of the American ^ledical 
 Association; ex-vice-president of the Amer- 
 ican Public Health Association; ex-presi- 
 deid of tlie New Jersey State Sanitary As- 
 sociation, etc. He is also a niend)er of the 
 Hamilton and X'orth Jersey Country Cliib«i 
 of I'aterson, the Acquachanonk Club of I'as- 
 saic. ]']sse.x Club of Newark, Union League 
 Club of Jer.sey City, Ihiiversity Club of 
 Hudson (bounty, N. J., and the Princeton 
 anil Lcpublican Clubs of New York. Dr. 
 
CiiAULES A. Leai.k, :M. D. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 100.1 
 
 T>eal niariicd in Yunkers. X. V.. in Feb., 
 
 1888, Amy I.. Arrowsniith. who died in 
 
 li)03. and "has one son. Address: 158 Elli- 
 son Street, Paterson, X. J. 
 
 LEALE, Charles A.: 
 
 Physician : horn in New York City. March 
 2(i, 1842; son of Captiin W. P. aiid A. M. 
 Leale. He was jjraduated from Bellevue 
 Hospital Medical 'Collei;e. M.D.. Feb. 1865, 
 and took post-graduate studies in Europe in 
 ISGO. He was medical cadet in tlie United 
 States Army: assistant surgeon and brevet 
 captain of U. S. Volunteers; surgeon in 
 cluirge of the commissioned oHicers' ward 
 in 1S()5: executive officer of the U. S. Army 
 General Hosjjital, Washington; was first 
 surgeon to reach President Lincoln after liis 
 assassination and was consulting physician 
 at the last illness of President Garfield. 
 Dr. Leale investigated Asiatic cholera in 
 Europe and America; devoted his life to the 
 ]>oor in the epidemic of 186tJ; studied' the 
 e;)idemic of cerebro-spind meningitis in 
 1874 and many epidemics and causes of 
 typhoid fever in Brooklyn and New York 
 City. He devised a system by which, in 
 mid summer, thousands of mothers and sick 
 children of New York City were daily given 
 salt water baths on trips of a floating hos- 
 ))ital to the waters of the Atlantic Ocean; 
 conceived the idea and urged the construc- 
 tion of recreation piers in New York City; 
 suggested and jdanned summer hospitals for 
 ciiildren on the superstructure of wharves; 
 urged doubling the area of Bellevue Hos- 
 pital and its reconstruction in 1895 and 
 devoted' fifteen summer vacations to gratuit- 
 ous care of poor mothers with sick children. 
 He is author of: Chronic Diseases Among 
 Children of New York City; Prenatal Dis- 
 eases; Surgery of the Lungs; Sunstroke of 
 Infants; Observatories in Asiatic Cholera j 
 also various papers before medical associa- 
 tions and others. Dr. Leale is a member 
 of the Alumni Association of Bellevue Hos- 
 pital Medical College (president, 1875); 
 tile New York County Medical Associ.ition 
 (president, 1885-1887) ; the New York So- 
 ciety for the Pvclief of \Vidows and Or- 
 l)hans of Medical Men (president, 1895- 
 1898) ; St. John's Guild' (president, 1891- 
 
 189:5) ; was a member of the Council of the 
 International Medical Congress, 18S7, and 
 is a member of tlie Grand Army of the 
 Republic and Loyal Legion. He is con- 
 sulting physician at Bellevue Hospital and 
 to the New York Institution for Instruc- 
 tion of the Deaf and Dumb. He married 
 in 18G7 Rebecca Medurn Copcutt. Address: 
 ()04 ^Madison Avenue, New York City. 
 
 LEAKING, Jeremiah: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Ca])e .May. N. J.. Jan. 
 20. 18;U ; son of Jeremiah and Abigail 
 (Faulkenburg) Learning. He was educated 
 •in the public schools and at Princeton Col- 
 lege, A.B., 1853. He studied law at Bor- 
 dentown, N. J., and was admitted to the 
 bar of that State in 185G. He removed to 
 Illinois immediately after his admission to 
 tlie bar, locating at Bloomingtnn, wliere he 
 formed the acquaintance' and friendship of 
 Abraham Lincoln, and jiracticed in the 
 court over wliich David Davis presided as 
 judge. He remained in Blooniington until 
 18(j7, when he removed to Chicago, where 
 he has since practised. He was for sev- 
 eral years a master in chancery of the Cir- 
 cuit Court of Cook County. He is a Demo- 
 crat and a member of tlie Reformed ]"]pis- 
 copal Churcli. He is a member of the La\T 
 Institute of Chicago, of whicli he was at 
 one time president, and of the Iroquois 
 Club. Mr. Learning married, in 1856, Har- 
 riet Scovel. daughter of the Rev. Alden 
 Scovel of Bordentown. N. J. Residence: 
 3869 Ellis Avenue. Address: 59 Clark 
 Street, Chicago. 
 
 LEAMING, Thomas: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, May 29, 
 1858; son of Robert Wain and Julia (Scott) 
 Leaming. He was educated in the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, and has since been 
 engaged in the active practice of law in 
 Philadelphia. He is a member of the Penn- 
 sylvania Bar Association, Law Associ tion 
 of Philadelphia, Law Academy, Pennsylva- 
 nia Society of the Sons of the Revolution. 
 the Historical Society, and of the I'hila- 
 delphia, Rittenhousc. Philadelphia Country. 
 Lawyers' and Down Town Clubs. Mr. 
 Leaming married in rhil.idelidiia. June 18, 
 
1004 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1888, Joseiihino Lea Brown. Kesidences 
 (winter): llf) South 21st Street, Philadel- 
 phia; (summer): "Brentwood," Wayne, 
 Delaware County, Pa. Address: 1306 
 Land Title Buikling. Pliiladcljjhia. 
 
 LEARNED, Marion Dexter: 
 
 Professor of lany:uage and literature; 
 born near Dover. Del.. July 10. 1857: son 
 of Hervey Dexter and Mary Elizabeth (Grif- 
 fith) Learned. He is descended from a 
 family that settled in Massachusetts in 
 1624, and whose members were active in 
 the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, 
 and later wars. He graduated in 1876 from< 
 the Wilmington Conference Academy. 
 Dover, and in 1880 from Dickinson College, 
 Carlisle, Pa., and after teaching languages 
 for four years in Williamsport, he took a 
 year of study at Johns Hopkins University; 
 then entered the University of Leipzig, re- 
 turning later to take up his studies at .Johns 
 Hopkins, receiving its Pli.D. degree in 1887. 
 He was instructor in (lerman at Johns 
 Hopkins, 1880-1889; appointed, 1889, asso- 
 ciate in German; in 1892, associate pro- 
 fessor in German, and in 189.5 left Johns 
 Hopkins to take his present chair as pro- 
 fessor of German language and literature 
 in the University of Pennsylvania. Profes- 
 .sor Learned is connected with a large num- 
 ber of literary and scientific societies, and 
 in 1889-1900 was president of the Nation- 
 alen Deutsch-Amerikanischen Lehrerbund. 
 He founded and is editor of the Quarterly 
 Journal American Germanica (now German 
 American Annils), and has written various 
 tcratises, literary and scientific. He is a 
 member of the American Philosophical So- 
 ciety, the Franklin Inn Club, and other so- 
 cieties of Philadelphia; was director (with 
 Albert Cook Myers) of the Pennsylvania 
 History l'l\hibit at the Jamestown Exposi- 
 tion, 1007. Address: 4214 Spruce Street, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 LEAVITT, Charles Wellf ord, Jr. : 
 
 Civil and landscape engineer; born at 
 Riverton, N. J., March 13, 1871; son of 
 Charles VNellford and Sara (AUibone) 
 Leavitt. He was educated' in the Gunnery 
 
 School, Washington, Conn., finishing at 
 Cheltenham (Pa.) Military Academy. He 
 was assistant engineer in charge of the con- 
 struction of the East Jersey Water Com- 
 pany ; in charge of the construction of Cald- 
 well Railway, and engineer for the town of 
 Essex Falls, including water, sewers and 
 roads. He directed and supervised the lay- 
 ing out and construction of the estates of 
 William C. Whitney, Foxhall Keene, Daniel 
 S. Lament, the Empire City Race Track, 
 and the race tracks at Saratoga, Belmont 
 Park, Toronto and Montreal ; engineer of 
 the Palisades Inter-State Park Commission, 
 and has superintended the laying out of 
 numerous grounds, public and private, in 
 various parts of the country. Mr. Leavitt 
 is a member of the American Society of 
 Civil Engineers, American Society of Land- 
 scape Architects, Architectural League and 
 the Union. National Arts, Adirondack 
 League, and Transportation Clubs of New 
 York City. He married at Essex Fells, N. 
 J., Oct. 26, 1899, Clara Gordon White, and 
 they have three children, Gordon, Kent and 
 Charlotte. Address : JNIeadow Farm, Harts- 
 dale, N. Y. 
 
 LEAVITT, Julius Adalbert: 
 
 President of Ewing College; born at 
 Gouverneur, N. Y., March 4, 1852; son of 
 Halsey C. and Romanda (Leach) Leavitt. 
 He was graduated from Brown University, 
 A.B., 1875; studied for the ministry at the 
 Newton Theological Seminary, and on May 
 24, 1876, was ordained to the Baptist min- 
 istry. Tlie degree of D.D. was conferred 
 upon him in 1896, by Brown University. 
 From his ordination to the ministry until 
 1884, he held ])astorates at (irafton and 
 Essex, Vt., and Beloit and Leavenworth, 
 Kan. He was Sunday School superintend- 
 ent for the Baptists of Illinois. 1884-1890, 
 in which latter year he was called to the 
 presidency of Ewing College at Ewing, HI. 
 Dr. Leavitt is a fellow of the Royal (Jeo- 
 graphical Society. He married, first, at 
 Providence, R. I., iMay 30, 1876, Isabelle 1. 
 Brown; second at Collinsville. 111., Dec. 
 29, 1880, Lillie L. Lcmen, ;ind lie has two 
 sons. Address: Ewing. 111. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 LEAYCRAFT, J. Edgar: 
 
 Real estate broker; born in New York 
 City, March 15. 1849; son of Anthony D. 
 and Hannali (Thompson) Leaycraft. Ho 
 was cducalcd in the public schools. Mr. 
 Leaycraft was, during its existence, director 
 and treasurer of the Real Estate Exchange 
 and Auction Room. Limited', and is a mem- 
 ber of the Real Estate Board of Brokers. 
 He was appointed State Tax Commissioner 
 by Governor Roosevelt in 189'J and re- 
 appointed by Governor Odell, serving five 
 years, and was appointed a member of the 
 Board of Examiners and Appraisers of the 
 New Barge Canal, for a terra of four years. 
 Mr. Leaycraft is a member of the Repub- 
 lican County Committee; a member of the 
 Chamber of Commerce of the State of New 
 York; member and director of the New 
 York Board' of Trade and Transportation ; 
 a member and former treasurer of the West 
 End Association; a member of the Mer- 
 chants' Association; president and treasurer 
 of the J. Edgar Leaycraft & Co. ; trustee 
 and treasurer of the Franklin Savings 
 Bank; director and president of the Leay- 
 craft Realty Company; director and treas- 
 urer of the Library Square Realty Com- 
 pany ; director of the New Netherland Bank, 
 City of New York Fire Insurance Com- 
 pany and' tlie New York Plate Glass In- 
 surance Company. He is a prominent 
 Methodist layman; was lay delegate to the 
 (jfeneral Conference of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church at Los Angeles in 1904, and 
 Baltimore, 1908. Mr. Leaycraft is a mem- 
 ber of the Revolution, the Society of Colon- 
 ial Wars, a thirty-second' degree Mason and 
 member of the Mystic Shrine, treasurer 
 of the New York City Church Extension 
 and Missionary Society of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church, American Bible 
 Society, member and treasurer of the 
 Board of Education of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, member of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association, Board of Di- 
 rectors ; trustee of the Wesleyan University 
 at Middletown. Conn., of Hahnemann Hos- 
 pital, New York City. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Union League, Republican, Law- 
 yers Quill, West Side Republican and Al- 
 dine Clubs. He married in Ossining, N. 
 
 Y., Nov. 25, 1874, Caroline Crawford and 
 they have two children. Residence: :U I 
 West End Avenue. Odice: 17 West 4i:d 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 LE BARON, John Francis Patch: 
 
 Civil and mining engineer and geologist; 
 born in Boston, Sept. 28, 1847; son of John 
 Patch, lawyer, and Margaret Ann Oiirlev 
 (Poor) Patch. His name was changed by 
 act of court while a minor, by petition of 
 his father, for reasons of a property in- 
 heritance. He was educated in the Ips- 
 wich (Mass.) High School and the Law- 
 rence Academy. Groton,- Mass., whence he 
 was graduated second in class with saluta- 
 tory oration, in 1860. He studied civil en- 
 gineering three years in the office of J. 
 Herbert Shed'd, and in 1868 was employed 
 on surveys for sewerage and street lines in 
 Taunton. Mass., and on the water works 
 for Providence, R. I. He then became 
 transit man on the IMassachusetts Central 
 Railroad, and in two years rose from that 
 position to chief engineer and assistant to 
 the president of the Fitchburg Railroad 
 (Hoosac Tunnel Line), at Boston, when 
 only twenty-six years old, and at the same 
 time was associate city engineer of Charles- 
 town, INIass., and of Middlesex County, 
 Mass. He later became U. S. deputy sur- 
 veyor and afterward U. S. mineral sur- 
 veyor in the U. S. Land Office. In 18S1 he 
 entered the engineer service of the U. S. 
 Army, on statT of Major General Q. A. Gil- 
 more, and designed and was in charge of 
 numerous surveys and construction of 
 works for improvement of rivers and har- 
 bors on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, and 
 the canalization of rivers, for nearly four 
 years. In 1887 he was appointed a transit 
 man on the Nicaragua Canal, and' in two 
 years, after four promotions, became en- 
 gineer in charge and chief field engineer; 
 and he was afterwards a commissioner of 
 the Nicaragua Canal. Mr. Le Baron has 
 also been chief engineer of over twenty- 
 five railways, water works, etc. He was 
 the discoverer of the immense phosphate 
 of lime deposits in Florida while employed 
 as a U. S. engineer on the reconnaisance of 
 Peace River, and he made extensive arch- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 aeological studies in Floriil'a for the Pea- 
 body Museum of 1 larva id University and 
 for the Smithsonian Institution at Wasliinj;;- 
 ton. also jreolojjicil survey-; and pahieonto- 
 lojrieal reconnaisances in l-loriila for tlie 
 iSmitiisonian Institution. Mr. ]>eBaron is 
 author of over lifty pulili^licd books, arti- 
 cles and memoirs on technical subjects, and 
 he is a recognized expert on land drainage 
 and reclamation, diking, and river and har- 
 bor improvenunts, with an international 
 reputation. His foreign travels have ex- 
 tended to the Eastern, Middle and Southern 
 States, IJritish Honduras, Spanish Hon- 
 duras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, 
 Panama and Jamaica. He raised a com- 
 pany of Immunes in three days for the 
 Spanish-American War, which was mus- 
 tered in the Tenth Regiment. U. S. Army, 
 as Company L, and was appointed its cap- 
 tain by President ^IcKinley, but failed to 
 pass tlie medical examination on account 
 of partial deafness. He is a fellow of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science, elected for his memoir on the Ge- 
 ology of Honduias ; a founder, secretary, 
 18S.3-1S87, and director, 18!)0-1897. of the 
 Southern Societj' of Civil Engineers; mem- 
 ber of the National Geographic Society. 
 American Society of Civil Engineers, Amer- 
 ican Institute of ^Mining Engineers. U. S. 
 Naval lii-lil lite. American Forestry Asso- 
 ciation. ( i\-il l']iiuiiieers' Society of Cleve- 
 land, and the Franklin Institute. He is a 
 Mason, a member of the Florida Society of 
 Sons of the Revolution, being descended in 
 both lines from Revolutionary and' colonial 
 ancestry, who fought at Eexington and 
 Runker's Hill and the Colonial Wars. Hs- 
 nuirried first, at I])swicli. Mass., Nov. 28, 
 1872, Mary B. Kinsman, by whom he has 
 three children; second, at Mandarin, Fla., 
 Dec. 26, 1885, Pliilomena E. (B.own) 
 Manucy. by whom he has a daughter; and 
 agiin married at Ipswich, Mass., April 21), 
 I!»0]. Carrie Louise Lakeman. Residence: 
 Chardon, (J. Ollice: 812 Park Jiuilding, 
 Cleveland. O. 
 
 LE BOUTILLIER, William G.: 
 
 rhy-ici.iii ; liuni in New York City, Dec. 
 21, 185!(; son of Thomas and Margaret 
 
 (GaJlicr) Le Boutillier. He was educated 
 in private schools and Columbia College, 
 A.B.. 1880. and the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons Medic il Department of Co- 
 lumbia I'niversity. ^I,D., 1S8,S. He was vis- 
 iting surgeon to the J. Hood Wright Hos- 
 pital; acting assistant surgeon in the U, 
 S. Army, Sept. 1898, to March, 189'J ; sur- 
 geon of the Twelfth Regiment, National 
 Guard of New York, 1!)02-1906, ami' since 
 then has been surgeon on the staff of Major 
 (General Charles F. Roe. commanding the 
 National Guard of New York. Dr. Le Bou- 
 tillier is a member of the New York Acad- 
 emy of Medicine, the Surgical Society and 
 of the Union League and University Clubs. 
 Address: 45 AVest 50tli Street, New York 
 Cily. 
 
 LEDERER, George W.: 
 
 Tiuatrie;il manager: born in Wilkes- 
 Barre, Pa., in 1861. He has b;>en manager 
 of the New York Casino and of Lillian Rus- 
 sell since 1803; also manager and director 
 of the New York Theatre, Prince of Wales 
 Theatre. London; has also an interest in 
 the Shaftesbury Theatre. London. London 
 oflice: Avenue Mansions, Ki Shaftesburj' 
 Avenue. West. American address: The 
 Casino, Broadway and 'J'liirly-ninth Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 lEDOUX, John Walter: 
 
 Civil engineer; l)orn al St. Croix Falls. 
 Wis., Aug. 28, 1860; son of Jolm and Al- 
 mina (Knox) Ledoux. He was graduated 
 from Lehigh University, C. E., 1887. He 
 has made reports on water supplies and 
 water powers in nearly every state in the 
 Union, as well a> in Porto Rico. Mexico and 
 British Colunil)ia ; has been chief engineer 
 of the American Pipe Manufacturing Com- 
 pany of Philadelphia sine;' 1891, and chief 
 engineer of approximately fifty water works 
 systems costing over $36,000,000. Some of 
 the ])rojccts designed by him and constructeil 
 under his supervision are the S])ringfield 
 water system, supplying the suburbs of 
 Philadelphia ; Octorara Water Companys 
 system, supplying the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 fioin Downiiigtown to Lancaster; the 
 Rochester and Lake Ontario water works 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ioo;i 
 
 system, supplj'ing railroads and iiiaiinfacto 
 ries in Rochester and its suburbs ; Syracuse 
 Suburban Water Company, supplyinj; rail- 
 roads, suburbs and towns adjacent to Syra- 
 cuse, N. ^'. ; the C'liarleston, S. C, water 
 works system; the Ilaj^erstown, l\Id., water 
 storage system ; the Depew and Lake Erie 
 water works system, supplying the suburbs 
 of Buffalo; the Cireenville, S. C, water sys- 
 tem ; the New York Interurban and Consoli- 
 dated Water Company of Suburban New 
 York, supplying the suburbs of New Y'ork 
 in Westchester County. He has also had 
 charge of the design and engineering of the 
 great water supply undertaking, 1003-1907, 
 between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, com- 
 prising thirty water companies, which works 
 were constructed largely in the interest of 
 the Pennsylvania Railroad. Mr. Ledoux is 
 the inventor of numerous water works de- 
 vices, among which are various and useful 
 parts for mechanical and slow sand filters, 
 regulating valves, rate controllers for filters, 
 etc., meters for large pipes, and an auto- 
 matic air valve. He is a contributor to the 
 Engineering News, Engineering Record, 
 Philadelphia Engineers' Club Proceedings, 
 and other jniblications; among his papers 
 are: A Sand Eilter Plant; A Deep Well 
 Pumping Plant; Water Supply of Philadel- 
 l)hia; Water Supi)ly of Charleston, S. C. ; 
 Description of a Regulating Valve for Con- 
 trolling the Level of Reservoirs and Stand- 
 pipes; Descri])tion of the Simplex Water 
 Meter, etc. Mr. Ledoux has been a member 
 of the American Society of Civil Engineers 
 since 1895, and is a member of the Franklin 
 Institute, the American Water Works Asso- 
 ciation, the Engineers' Club of Pliiladelphia, 
 and the Athletic Club of Phihid'elphia. l»es- 
 idence : Ogden Avenue and Walnut Lane. 
 Swarthmore, Pa. Office: 112 North Broad 
 Street, PhiladelpJiia. 
 
 XEDYARD, Henry Brockholst: 
 
 Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mich- 
 igan Central Railway; born in Paris, 
 France, Feb. 20, 1844, of American parent- 
 age, his father being secretary of the Amer- 
 ican Legation there. He was appointed at 
 large to the U. S. Military Academy, from 
 which he was graduated in the class of 1865, 
 
 and was commissioned as first lieutenant, 
 U. S. Artillery, serving until January, ISTtl, 
 when he resigned to enter the enu'iiieei ing 
 department of tlie Northern Pacific Riiilroad. 
 In July, 1870, he became a clerk in tlic of'- 
 fice of the division superintendent of the 
 Chicago, Burlington ami Quincy Riilroad, 
 in 1872 assistant superintendent and in 
 1873 and 1874 superintendent of the East- 
 ern Division of the same road. Since 1874 
 he has been with tiie Micliigan Central Kail- 
 road, as assistant general superintendent 
 until 1870, general superintendent, 187()- 
 1S77, general manager, 1877-1883, presi- 
 dent until January, 1905, and since then 
 cliairman of the Board of Directors. He 
 married, Oct. 15, 1SG7, Mary R. L'llom- 
 medieu, who died March 30, 1895. Address: 
 579 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 
 
 LEDYARD, Lewis Cass: 
 
 Lawjer; born in Detroit. Mich., April 4, 
 1851; son of Henry and ^latilda Frances 
 (Cass) Ledyard. He was graduated from 
 Harvard College, A.B., 1872, Harvard Law 
 School, LL.B., 1875, Harvard University. 
 A.M., 1875. He is first vice-president of 
 the American Express Company ; vice-pres- 
 ident and secretary of the National Express 
 Company; director of the National Park 
 Bank, the Metropolitan Trust Company, the 
 United States Trust Company, the New 
 York, New Haven and Hartford Bailroad 
 Company, the New England Navigation 
 Company, the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and 
 Chicago Railroad Company, the Northern 
 Pacific Railroad Company, the Atlantic Mu- 
 tual Insurance Company, and tlie (ireat 
 Northern Paper Company. Mr. Ijcd'yard is 
 a member of the Association of the Bar of 
 the City of New York, trustee of the New 
 York Public Library; president and trustee 
 of the Lying-in Hospital of New York City. 
 Mr. Ledyard was formerly for some time 
 member of tlie Rapid Transit Commission 
 of New Y'ork City and is a member of the 
 Knickerbocker, L'uion, ^Metropolitan, Cen- 
 tury. Harvard, Down Town, Lawyers', Uni- 
 versity, New York Yacht, and the Larch- 
 mont Yacht Clubs. He married tTcrtrudn 
 Prince. Address: 54 Wall Street, New 
 York City. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 LEE, Albert: 
 
 Editor and autlior; born in New Orleans. 
 La.. May 11, 18G8; son of General Albert 
 L. Lee. He was graduated from Yale in 
 1891, editor of Yale Literary Magazine, 
 1S90-1S!)1. and successively on the editorial 
 staff of the New York Sun, Harper's Round 
 Table. ifcClure's Magazine and' Harper's 
 Weekly. Mr. Lee was associate editor of 
 Collier's Weekly, 1901-1002 and is now 
 the managing editor. He is author of: 
 Tommy Toddles; Track Athletics in De- 
 tail; The Knave of Hearts; Four for a 
 Fortune; He, She and They; Tlie Pie and the 
 Pirate. He is a member of the Yale Club 
 of Xew York. Pvcsidence: 119 West 45th 
 Street. Oflice: 416 West 13th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 LEE, Benjamin : 
 
 Physician; born in Norwicli. Conn., Sept. 
 20, 183.3; was giailuated from the University 
 of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1852, A.M., 18.55. and 
 Ph.D., 1873: from the New York Medical 
 College, 1856. He took a post-graduate course 
 in Europe, and upon his return to tliis coun- 
 try established practice in New York City. 
 He was surgeon of the Twenty-second New 
 York National Guard, in service of the 
 United States, 1862-1863; and was a mem- 
 ber of the New York County and State 
 Medical Societies. He removed to Phila- 
 delphia in 1865; was long treasurer of the 
 Medical Society of the State of Pennsyl- 
 vania; secretary of the Pennsylvania Stute 
 Board of Health, 188."')-in05 ; itppr.inted as- 
 sistant to the Commissioner of Health of 
 Pennsylvania, 1905; president of tlie Amer- 
 ican Academy of Medicine, 1884; ])rcsident 
 of Conference of State and Provincial Boards 
 of Health of North America, 1898; presi- 
 dent of the American Public Health Asso- 
 ciation, 1898; honorary member of the So- 
 ciety of Hygiene, Paris; member American 
 Aledical Association, Congress of American 
 Physicians and Surgeons, Philadelpliia 
 County Medical Society, Philadelphia So- 
 cietj' for Organizing Charity; president 
 American Orthopedic Association. 1891-1892; 
 secretary of the Pennsylvania State Quar- 
 antine Board, 1893-1905; professor of or- 
 thopedics, Pliiladelphia Polyclinic, 1895- 
 
 1896; health officer of Philadelphia 1898- 
 1899; sanitarian to the State Board of Ag- 
 riculture of Pcnn.sylvania ; member of the 
 American Association for tlie .Advancement 
 of Science, 1902; member of the Philadel- 
 phia Medical Club and the Philadelphia 
 A.ssociation for Organizing Charity. Dr. 
 Lee practises as a specialist in orthopedic 
 surgery and nervous diseases. He is author 
 of: Correct Principles of Treatment for 
 Angular Curvature of the Spine, 1872; and 
 Tracts on Massage (translated from Or- 
 man), 1885; editor of the American Medi- 
 cal Monthly. Dr. Lee married, April 5, 
 1859, Emma Halo White, daughter of Dr, 
 Norman White of New York City. Ad- 
 dress: Harrisburg, Pa. 
 
 LEE, Blewett: 
 
 Lawyer; born near Colundnis, ]\Iiss., 
 March 1, 1867; son of Lieutenant-general 
 Stephen Dill Lee of the Confederate States 
 Army and Regina (Harrison) Lee. He was 
 graduated from the Agricultural and Me- 
 chanical College of Mississippi, B.S., 1883. 
 He studied at the University of Virginia, 
 1883-1885; then went to Harvard College 
 from which he was graduated A.M., LL.B., 
 1888, and afterward studied in the Univer- 
 sities of Leipzig and Freiburg, Germany. 
 Returning to America he became private 
 secretary to Justice Horace Grey of the Su- 
 preme Court of the United States, in 1890, 
 and practised law in Atlanta, Ga., 1890- 
 1893. He has held professorships in North- 
 western University and the University of 
 Chicago, and' he has practised his ]irofes- 
 sion in Chicago ever since 1893, Mr. Lee 
 was elected a member of the American Bar 
 A.ssociaiion in 1894 and is also a member 
 of the Illinois State Bar Association and the 
 Ciiicago Bar Association; and is the author 
 of various articles in legal jjcriodicals. He 
 is now general solicitor of the Illinois Cen- 
 tral Railroad Company. Mr. Lee is a mem- 
 l)er of the Chicago, University and South 
 Shore Co\intry Clubs of Chicago. He mar- 
 ried in Ciiicago, Feb. 9, 1898, Frances, 
 daughter of John J, and Frances (^Macbeth) 
 (Jlessner; and they have three children. 
 Residence: 5557 Washington Avenue. Of- 
 fice: Central Station, ChicaifO, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 LEE, Duncan Campbell: 
 
 Editor and publisher; l)orn in I'loviua 
 Center, Delaware County, N. Y., March 4, 
 1869; son of Rev. James B. and' Jane Isa- 
 bella (Cani))bell) Lee. He was jiradualed 
 from the Dehnvare Academy, Delhi, N. Y., 
 valedictorian, 1887 and from Hamilton Col- 
 lege, A.B., (salutatorian), ISni, A.M.,1804. 
 He was teacher in secondary schools, 1891- 
 1893; professor of oratory and debate in 
 Cornell University. 1893-1904; editor of 
 the Ithaca Daily News since 1899; presi- 
 dent of the llhaea Piiblishinij Company 
 since 1900; traveled abroad, 1901-1902. Mr. 
 Lee was the author of the anti-icc-triist reso- 
 lution in the Democratic Convention of 1900; 
 was party nominee for State Regent, 1902; 
 prominently mentioned for Democratic nom- 
 ination as lieutenant-governor in 1904; per 
 manent chairman of the Democratic State 
 Convention, 1904; and took an active part 
 in the State Campaign of 1906. Mr. Lee is 
 an elder of the First Presbyterian Church. 
 He is a director of the Ithaca Business Men's 
 Association, and the Ithaca \''oung Men's 
 Christian Association; a member of the 
 Theta Delta Chi, and Delta Chi fraternities, 
 and Phi Beta Kappa Society; also member 
 and officer of the ^Masonic and Elks Orders. 
 He is active in religious education, in which 
 field he has written several text-bnoks; and 
 a frequent lecturer on literary, political and 
 historical themes. Mr. Lee is founder of 
 the Ithaca Bible High School. He is au- 
 thor of: Thomas Jeflferson. as a Scholar 
 and Educator; also addresses: University 
 Life at Oxford; Shakespeare, and his Art; 
 Predecessors of Shakespeare, and others. 
 He married at Ithaca, N. Y., June 8, 1889, 
 Eliz-abeth Williams, and they have two 
 children. Address: Ithaca, N. Y". 
 
 LEE, Elmer: 
 
 Physician; born at Piqua, Ohio, March 
 12, 1856; son of Jonathan and Nancy Lee. 
 He was educated in the public schools and 
 Ohio Wesleyan University, A.B., 1877, and 
 A.I\I. in 1880, from the Medical Department 
 of Washington University. St. Louis, M.D., 
 1882; and from St. Louis University, Ph.B., 
 1886. He was house physician to St. Louis 
 City Hospital, teacher and principal in the 
 64 
 
 St. Louis public schools, and a<<ai'<tant edi- 
 tor of the St. Louis Age of Steel. Ho was 
 surgeon of the Santa ¥^ Railway, resident 
 physician at llie Palmer House, Chicago, 
 to which city he removed in 1888; physician 
 in Russian and Oerman Hospitals in the 
 epidemic of cholera in 1892; supported and 
 connnended by Professor Virchow, presi- 
 dent of the L'niversity of Berlin. In 1806 
 he moved to New York, where he is lecturer 
 for the New York City Board of Education, 
 and lecturer to the Society of First Aid to 
 the Injured. Dr. Lee was assistant sur- 
 geon in the war with Spain, and is an an- 
 nual guest of hc)nor at the Society of the 
 Cincinnati of Rhode Island. He is contrib- 
 utor of more than one lumdred essays ; has 
 been three times chairman and secretary of 
 departments in the American Medical As- 
 sociation; vice-president of the American 
 Academy of Medicine; secretary of the 
 Amercian Social Science Association; origi- 
 nator of the medical liquid soap and is 
 deeply interested in solving the question 
 of economic housing and feeding human 
 beings, affirming that the basis of a true 
 human progress is proper shelter and food. 
 He has designed model homes and apart- 
 ments and prepared a competition sketch 
 for the Tuberculosis Hospital that was erect- 
 ed in England by the King in 1904. Dr. 
 Lee takes a deep interest in, and is exponent 
 of, natural and simple living, and an advo- 
 cate of fruit diet and plant foods. He is a 
 member of the New Y'ork Medical Society, 
 Medical Association of Greater New York, 
 the American Aledical Association, the 
 American Academy of ^Medicine, and the In- 
 ternational Medical Congress, and a lecturer 
 on medical and social questions. Address: 
 127 \^'est 58th Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 LEE, Frederick Schiller: 
 
 Physiologist and educator; born in Can- 
 ton, N. Y., June 16, 1859; son of John Steb- 
 bins and Elraina (Bennett) Ivee. Many of 
 his ancestors on his father's side were ac- 
 tive Indian fighters during the French and 
 Indian wars at Deerfield, Mass., and along 
 the Connecticut Valley. He was educated 
 in the Canton public schools, f5t. Lawrence 
 University, A.B., 1878, and A.M., 1881; 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D.. 1885, and 
 lield tliore a University Scholarship and Uni- 
 versity fellowship in succession; went to the 
 University of Leipzig, 1885-188G, and did re- 
 search work in physiology under Ludwig 
 and von Frey. Dr. Lee was instructor in 
 biology at St. Lawrence University, 1886- 
 1887 ; instructor, 1887-1888, and associate, 
 1888-1891, in physiology and histology at 
 Bryn Mawr College. Since lSi)l he has been 
 demonstrator in ])liy^iology, 181)1-1895, ad- 
 junct professor, 18'.)5-1!I04, and professor of 
 physiology since 1904 in Columbia LTniver- 
 sity. Dr. Lee is author of: Physiology, 
 — The Vital Processes in Health (i)ublished 
 in "In Sickness and In Health'"); Repro- 
 duction ( in " An American Text-book of 
 Physiology"); The School of Medicine (in 
 "History of Columbia University"'); Fa- 
 tigue (in "Harvey Lectures); and numer- 
 ous papers on physiological topics in scien- 
 tific journals. He is translator and editor 
 of : General Physiology — An Outline of 
 the Science of Life, by Professor IMax Ver- 
 worm ; reviser and editor of Lessons in 
 Elementary Physiology, by Professor T. H. 
 Huxley; is a member of the Editorial Board 
 of the American Journal of Physiology, and 
 of tlie Columbia University Quarterly. He 
 is a member of the American Society of 
 Naturalists, American Physiological Society 
 (former secretary and treasurer). Society 
 for E.xperimental Biology and .Medicine 
 (president), Hai-vey Society (former treas- 
 urer), Vermont Botanical Club, New York 
 State Science, Teachers' Association, the 
 American Geographical Society, School Hy- 
 giene Association of America; associate fel- 
 low of the New York Academy of Medicine; 
 fellow of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, American Eth- 
 nological Society, and New York Academy of 
 Sciences; and is a scientific director of the 
 New York Botanical Garden. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi 
 honor societies, the Beta Theta Pi fra- 
 ternity, and' the Century Association of 
 New York. He married in New York City, 
 June 5, 1901, Laura Billings, daughter of 
 Frederick Billings, formerly president of the 
 Northern Pacific Railroad and they have 
 two children. Residence: (summer) Wood- 
 
 stock, Vt.; (winter) 125 East 65th Street. 
 Ollice: 437 West 59th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 LEE, Gordon: 
 
 Congressman; born May 29, 1859, on a 
 farm near Ringgold, Catoosa County, Ga. 
 He received his primary education in the 
 country schools; was graduated from Emery 
 College, Oxford, Ga., 1880. He is a farmer 
 and manufacturer; served' as a member of 
 the House of Representatives of the State 
 Legislature, 1894-1895, and in the Senate in 
 1902, 1903, and 1904; and was appointed by 
 Governor Atkinson as member of the State 
 Memorial Board. He was elected to the 
 Fifty-ninth Congress and reelected to the 
 Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses from 
 the Seventh Georgia District, as a Demo- 
 crat. Address: Chickamauga, Ga. 
 
 LEE, Guy Carleton: 
 
 Educator, author and critic. He was 
 graduated from the Law Department of 
 University of North Carolina, LL.B., 1894; 
 from Dickinson College as A.B., 1895. A.M., 
 1897, Dickinson School of Law, LL.M., 1896, 
 Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D., 1898. He 
 was admitted to the bar of North Carolina, 
 1895, of Pennsylvania in 1896, and of Mary- 
 land in 1897; was professor of English his- 
 tory and common law at Dickinson College ' 
 in 1895; and has been lecturer on compara- 
 tive politics since 1900 at Columbian (now 
 George Washington) LTniversity. Mr. Lee 
 has been a memter of the historical faculty 
 of Johns Hopkins University from 1897: 
 literary editor of the Baltimore Sun since 
 1901; managing editor of the International 
 Literary Syndicate since 1900. He was stail 
 lecturer on history and literature for the 
 American Society for the Extension of Uni- 
 versity Teaching; lecturer on liistory for the 
 ]?oard of Educiition, New York City, lecturer 
 in politics to the League for Political Edu- 
 cation, People's Institute and Brooklyn In- 
 stitute. He is a member of the Phi Beta 
 Kaiii)a Society, American Historical Associa- 
 tion, National Geographic Society, Americaa 
 Sociological Society, and the American Po- 
 litical Science Association. He is author 
 
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 of: Hincinar, An Introduction to the Study 
 of the Church in tho Ninth Centnrj, 1898; 
 Public Six-akinj;, IS!)!); Historictl Jurispru- 
 dence, 1900; Sourco Hook of Enj,dish Hi-i- 
 torv, 1!)00; True History of the War be- 
 tween the States, 1903. He is also editor-in- 
 chief of: The World's Orators (ten vol- 
 umes), 1900; A History of England, 1!)01 ; 
 History of Woman (ten volumes), 1902; 
 The History of North America (twenty 
 volumes), 1904; and contributor on legal, 
 historical, political and sociological subjects 
 to reviews and journals. He is a member 
 of the City Club of New York, the Franklin 
 Inn Club of Philadelphia ; also of tho Press 
 Club of Cliicago. and of the Baltimore 
 Yacht Club of Baltimore. Address: Johns 
 Hopkins University, Baltimore. 
 
 LEE, Homer: 
 
 Engraver, artist, inventor; born in Mans- 
 field, Ohio; son of John and Elizabeth Lee. 
 He studied under his father and Robert 
 Mackintosh in Toronto, Canada, and after- 
 wards studied abroad. He received honor- 
 able mention from the Vienna World's Fair 
 in 1873; designed the Arms of tlie United 
 States which surmounted the entrance to 
 the American Pavilion at Vienna, and re- 
 ceived the first class medal from the State 
 of Ohio. He is president and founder of 
 The Homer Lee Bank Note Company; vice- 
 president and director of Franklin-Lee Bank 
 Note Company, New York City. Mr. Lee 
 received lionorable mention from the Paris 
 Exposition in 1900 for his picture, l^uilding 
 of the Skj'scraper, bought by tlie French 
 Government ; is represented in tne Lotos 
 and Salmagundi Clubs of New York City 
 and elsewhere; was an exhibitor at the 
 Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, in 1901 ; 
 received a medal from Charleston (South 
 Carolina) Exposition. 1902, and from the 
 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 1904. He 
 is a member of the Sons of American Revo- 
 lution; vice-president of Ohio Company of 
 Associates; member Municipal Arts So- 
 ciety; commissioner on decoration of pub- 
 lic buildings; founder of St. John's Guild 
 Floating Hospital; member of the com- 
 mittee on liturgy appointed by the General 
 Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of 
 
 the United States of America, and a found- 
 er of Oluo Society of New York. He is in- 
 ventor of llie Homer I.ee Steel I'hite I'rint- 
 ing system, togetlier with mechanical devices 
 used l)y tlu; United States (iovernment and 
 abroad; also of many improvements in lino- 
 type composing macmnes. He is a memlxT 
 of the Colonial, Columbia Yaclit. i^jtos and 
 Salmagundi Clubs of New York City. Mr. 
 Lee married at Glen Riddle, Pa., 1891, 
 Ciiarlotte R. Riddle. Residence: 551 West 
 End Avenue. Address: Tribune Building, 
 New ^ork City. 
 
 LEE, James Wideman: 
 
 Clergyman; bom in Rockbridge, Ga., 
 Nov. 28, 1849 ; son of Zachary J. Lee and 
 Emily H. Wideman. He was educated in 
 Bawsville Academy, (Jrantville High School 
 and Emory College, Oxford, Ga. He was or- 
 dained to the ministry of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, South, in ISTfi; was pas- 
 tor of churches in Georgia at Rockmart, 
 Long Cane, Carrollton, Dalton, Rome, and 
 Atlanta; transferred in 1898 to St. Louis, 
 becoming pastor of St. John's Church. Mr. 
 Lee was head of an expedition to Palestine 
 in 1894 and was sent out in company With 
 the artist R. E. M. Bain to secure material 
 for an illustrated book on the Earthly Foot- 
 steps of Christ and His Apostles. He was 
 presiding elder of the St. Louis District, 
 1897-1901, pastor of St. John's, secoml time, 
 1901-1905, and has been pastor of Trinity 
 Methodist J]piscopal Church, South Atlanta, 
 Ga., since 1905. He is author of: The 
 Making of a Man, 1892 (translated in Japa- 
 nese in 1893 and Chinese in 1904); Ciirist 
 the Reason of the Universe, in an Address 
 before the World's Parliament of Religions, 
 held in Chicago in 1893; The Earthly Foot- 
 steps of the Man of Galilee, 1895; Henry W. 
 Grady, Editor. Orator, and Man, 1897; :Mr. 
 Lee edited and illustrated The Self-inter- 
 preting Bible. 1897; and is author of: Illus- 
 trated History of Methodisni, 1900; History 
 of Jerusalem, 1904; The Religion of Science, 
 1905. Dr. Lee marriid in 1875, Emma 
 Eufaula, daughter of Rev. L. L. Ledbetter of 
 Cedartown, Ga., aiid they have three sons 
 and three daughters. Address: 33 Coluni- 
 liia Avenue, Atlanta, Ga. 
 
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 LEE, Jennette: 
 
 Writer and college professor; born in 
 Bristol, Conn., Nov. 10. 1S60; daughter of 
 Philemon Franklin and Mary (Barbour) 
 Perry. She was graduated from Smith 
 College. A.B., 188G; and was married at 
 CoUinsville, Conn., in June, 1896, to Gerald 
 Stanley Lee, and she has a daughter, Geral- 
 dine. She was a teacher of English in 
 Vassar College, 1890-1893 ; professor of 
 English in the College for Women of 
 the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 
 Oliio, 1S!);MS9G; since 1904 processor of 
 Engjish language and literature in Smitli 
 College. Mis. Lee has been a writer ever 
 since her graduation from college, her first 
 published work being a story in The Inde- 
 pendent in 1886. Her first book was Kate 
 Wetherell. i)u])lished in 1900, the others 
 being: A Pillar of Salt, 1901; The Son 
 of a Fiddler, 1902; Uncle William, 1906; 
 Simeon Tet low's Shadow, and The Ibsen 
 Scent, 1907. Address: 88 , High Street. 
 Northampton, Mass. 
 
 LEE, Joseph W. J.: 
 
 Diplomat: horn in Maryland, Oct. 9, 
 1870; son of Charles O'Donnelf and' Ma- 
 tilda (Jenkins) Lee. He was educated in 
 the University of Maryland. ]\Ir. Lee was 
 in Brazil in 1884, and again in 1887 and 
 1900, and went three thousand miles np the 
 Amazon in connection with a rubber con- 
 cession. He was appointed secretary of le- 
 gation at Panama, March 31. 1904; became 
 consul-general March 1, 190.3; envoy ex- 
 traordinary and minister pleni])otentiary to 
 Ecuador, Sept. 18, 1905, to Guatemala and 
 Honduras, Jan. 10, 1007 and since July 1, 
 1907 has been Americin minister to (Juate- 
 mala. Mr. Lee is author of a volume of 
 poems, entitled Ropes of Sand. He is a 
 member of the National Geographic Society, 
 and a fellow of the Royl Gcograpliical So- 
 ciety of Great Britain. Address: Guate- 
 mala City, Guatemala. 
 
 LEE, Margaret: 
 
 Author; born. New York City; daughter 
 of Joseph and Mary Gcorgina Lee; was edu- 
 cated by private tutors, and later graduated 
 from public school, and received a (Jrade A 
 
 certificate qualifying her to teach in the 
 public schools. In 1865 James G. Bennett, 
 of New York Herald, offered a prize of 
 $1,000 for a distinctively American novel, 
 and her first book was awarded the inoney, 
 whieli was published serially in the Weekly 
 Herald, under the title of " Armold's 
 Choice." Author: Dr. Wilmer's Love, 
 1SG8; In Bonds of Wedlock; Marriage; Liz- 
 zie Adriance; The Missing Marriage Certi- 
 ficate; Since First I Saw Your Face (the 
 prize story under a new title), 1883; Di- 
 vorce reviewed by Gladstone for the Nine- 
 teenth Century, Feb., 1889, and pub- 
 lished in England at his request by the 
 Macmillian Company under the title, chosen 
 by Mr. Gladstone, of "Faithful and Un- 
 faithful;" (1889). A Brighton Night, 
 1884; A Brooklyn Bachelor, 1886; The 
 Story of a Story, 1883; One Toiich of Na- 
 ture, 1892; This Man and This Woman, 
 1894; Romance of The Russells, 1896: Sepa- 
 ration, 1902; The Tongue of the Woman, 
 1902; Lorimer and Wife, 1903; The Master 
 Chivalry, 1903; A Broken Engagement, 
 1904; The D'Estimanvilles, 1905. In 1889 
 Miss Lee circulated a petition for perpetual 
 copyright among authors and as a result 
 Senator Lodge presented a bill for perpetual 
 copyright in Senate, 1900, and Hon. W. H. 
 Driggs introduced it in the House. She is 
 a member of the Writers' Club of Brooklyn, 
 and Society of American Authors. Address: 
 344 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 LEE, Thomas George: 
 
 Professor of Anatomy: lioin in .lacksou- 
 ville, N. Y., Nov. 27, i860; son of Horace 
 Cooper and Sarah Lovina (Shaw) Lee. He 
 was educated in secondary schools in Ithaca ; 
 was graduated from the University of Penn- 
 sylvania, B.S., M.D. in 1886 and from Har- 
 vard University, B.S., 1892. He was an as- 
 sistant in histology and embryology at the 
 University of Pennsylvania, 1884-1886; lec- 
 turer in histology and embryology and di- 
 rector of the laboratory at Yale, 1886-1891; 
 assistant in liistolngy at Radclill'e College, 
 1891; professor of histology and embryology 
 and director of the Laboratory in the Uni- 
 versity of Minnesota, 1892-1909, and pro- 
 fessor of anatomv and director of the In- 
 
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 stitute of Anatomy since 1909. Dr. Lee i-s 
 secretary of tlie College of Medicine and Sur- 
 gery, and librarian of the Department of 
 Medicine at the University of Minnesota. 
 He is associate editor of the Anatomical 
 Eecord, and a member of the American So- 
 ciety of Zotdoo'ists and American Society 
 of Naturalists and' secretary of the Central 
 Branch of the Naturalists; member of the 
 American Society of Anatomists; fellow of 
 the American Association for llie Advance- 
 ment of Science, member of the Deutsche 
 Anatomisohen (lesellschaft, American jNIedi- 
 cal Association, ^linnesota Academy of Med- 
 icine and of Minnesota Academy of Science. 
 I'rofessor Lee married in West Bloomfield, 
 N. Y., Dec. 21, 1887, Emma Louise Shaw. 
 Residence : 509 River Road. S. E. Address : 
 University of INlinnesota. ^Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 LEEDOM, Joseph: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Plymouth INIeeting, Mont- 
 gomery County, Pa., Aug. 23, 1853; son of 
 Edwin C. Leedom, a noted medical writer 
 and scientist, having designed the first 
 orrery. Mr. Leedom's mother was a daugh- 
 ter of Peter Lukens, a direct descendant 
 of Jan Luckin, one of the earliest settlers 
 of Germantown. He was educated in the 
 public schools of Philadelphia, and was 
 graduated from the Central High School, 
 A.B.. 1871; read law with David Webster, 
 of Philadelphia ; attended the law school of 
 the University of Pennsylvania, being grad- 
 uated LL.B., and admitted to the bar in 
 September, 1874. He was admitted to tlie 
 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and shortly 
 thereafter to the U. S. Courts. He was one 
 of the counsel of the Chestnut and Walnut 
 Street Passenger Railway Company, and as- 
 sistant solicitor of the Adams Express Com- 
 pany and tried, for that company, its case 
 against Morrell; and he has been retained 
 in important cases outside of the State, 
 particularly in New Jersey. Ohio and Vir- 
 ginia. He was chairman of the Senatorial 
 convention which first nominated the Hon. 
 Boies Penrose as senator and made the nomi- 
 nation speech in the Controllers' convention 
 on behalf of Gen. James S. Stewart, the 
 candidate for that office. He is an honorary 
 member of the Republican Invincibles; a 
 
 member of the Union League, of I'liiladel- 
 ))hia. and of the Law Association, and a 
 Mason; president of the Philadelphia and 
 Tonawanda Land Company; late a director 
 in the Kenilworth inn Company of Bilt- 
 more, N. C. ; formerly director of tlie Trades- 
 men's Trust and Safe Deposit Company, 
 and one of the original stockholders of the 
 Commonwealth Title Insurance and Trust 
 Company. Mr. Leedom is married and has 
 one son. Address: 25 Nortli .Funijier 
 Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 LEEDS, Theodore Edward: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadelphia; son of 
 Theodore Churchill and Mary Ann Leeds. 
 He received his education under private 
 tutors in Boston. He was admitted to the 
 bar of Massachusetts at Boston and' in 1876 
 to the bar of New York. He represents ex- 
 tensive inteiests as trustee and acts as coun- 
 sel for corporations, banks, and family es- 
 tates. He is trustee of several charitable 
 institutions and is a life member of the 
 New York State Bar Association : member 
 of the New England Genealogical-Hi-toric 
 Society of Massachusetts and a member of 
 the Union League, Lawyers', Stock Exchange 
 and Luncheon Clubs. Mr. Leeds married 
 in Brooklyn, in 1886, Mary E., daughter of 
 Malcom and Jane (Sanger) Bronson. Resi- 
 dence: 20 Fifth Avenue; Olhce: 3 Broad 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 LEEMING, John: 
 
 Physician and surgeon; born in Brant- 
 ford," Can., March 17, 1859; son of Henry 
 B. and Janet (Whitaker) Iteming. He 
 was graduated from the Collegiate Insti- 
 tute of Brantford. 1879. For several years 
 after leaving school he was employed as a 
 clerk in a grocery store in Brantford and 
 then went to Chicago, where he was in the 
 employ of Schere, Shirk and Company, 
 wholesale grocers. After traveling two yeais 
 for the New York firm of Thomas Leeming 
 & Company he began the study of medicine 
 in the medical department of the University 
 of Toronto, Canada, and was graduated in 
 1886. After a year's additional study at 
 the College of Physicians and Surgeons. On- 
 tario, and at the College of Physicians, Lon- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 don, England, ho settled' in Chicafjo, where 
 he has been since in penoral ])ractice, now 
 chiefly confined. He has been connected 
 with the Xorthwestern University Medical 
 School for ten years as a member of the 
 faculty and professor of materia medica. He 
 was attending: jihysician at various hospitals 
 for several years, was attendinp; surgeon 
 at Lakeside Hospital and ('hicapo Hospital, 
 and' is now attending' surgeon to the Chicago 
 baptist Hospital and the Cook County Hos 
 pital. He is a member of the American 
 Medical Association, the Chicago Medical 
 Society, the Illinois State Medical Society. 
 and the Chicago Athletic, Physicians' and 
 Colonial Clubs. He married in Chicago, 
 July 16. 1S90, Margaret Sibley, and has six- 
 children. Address: 3541 Indiana Avenue, 
 Chicago. 
 
 LEFENS, Thies Jacob: 
 
 Dealer in and' owner of real estate; born 
 in Hamburg, Germany, March 4. 1S46; son 
 of Jacob and I\feta (Stremann) Lefens. He 
 was educated in tlie schools of Germany. 
 He was apprenticed lo a ])roduce merchant 
 in his native place, at which business he 
 served, ISfil-lSOo. wiien he came to America 
 and took up liis residence in Chicago. Ill, 
 He engaged in tiie juoiluce commission busi- 
 ness, which he carried on. 1S05-1S78. when 
 he became the secretary and treasurer of the 
 Seipp Brewing Company, remaining with the 
 company until its interests were sold' to th^ 
 Chicago Consolidated Brewing and Malting 
 Company, in 1!)()2. He has since been en- 
 gaged in the real estate business. He is 
 president of tiie Traders' Insurance Com- 
 pany; vice-president of the South Side Ele- 
 vated IJailway Company and of the Audi- 
 torium A.ssoeiation, and a director in the 
 Mereliants' Loan and Trust Company. He 
 is a member of the Chicago, Commercial, 
 Tolleston, and (iermau Miinnerchor Clubs. 
 He married in Chicago, l-'el). 12. 1S78, Marip 
 Seipp, and has four cliildren. Residence: 
 2020 Micliigan Avenue. Address: Teutonic 
 l>iii]<liiig, Chicago. 
 
 LEFFERTS, George Morewood: 
 
 Surgeon; horn in I'.idoklyn. N, Y., Feb, 
 24, ISir;. lie iitlcnded the' College of the 
 
 City of New York, class of 1867; received 
 the honorary degree of A,M. from Dickinson 
 College. 1800; was graduated from the Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons. New 
 York, M.D., 1870; honorary M.S., Columbia 
 University, IDOL He was chief of clinic 
 in the Imperial University of Vienna, 1872- 
 1873; professor of laryngology at Columbii 
 University, in 1870; and became ejueritus 
 professor in 1004. He is honorary fe'low 
 of the Laryngolouic;il Society of Berlin. 
 1001 ; Laryngological Society of London. 
 1894; fellow of the Academj- of ^Medicine. 
 New Y^'ork; American editor of Internation- 
 ales Centralblatt fiir Laryngologie (Berlin) ; 
 formerly editor of The Archives of Laryn- 
 gology, New Y^ork, and coeditor of Archives 
 d'e Laryngologie (Paris) ; also collaborator 
 in other professional publications and au- 
 thor of medical works. He is a member of 
 the University and Riding Clubs. Dr. Lef- 
 ferts married at Albany, N, Y"., 1801, Annie 
 Cuyler Van Vechten. Address: 212 Mad- 
 ison Avenue. New Y'ork City. 
 
 LEFFINGWELL, Albert: 
 
 Physician, author; born in Aurora, N. Y., 
 Feb. 13, 1845; son of Dr. Elisha and Jane 
 (Jasckson) Lelfingwell. He entered Hamil- 
 ton College and received its honorary de- 
 gree; taught seven years at the Polytechnic 
 Institute, Brooklyn. X. Y"., and was gradu- 
 ated from Long Island' College Hospital, 
 M.D., 1874. He was engaged in scientific and 
 literary work in Europe from 1875-1870, and 
 afterward for several years travelled. Dr. 
 Letting well ws one of the founders and pro- 
 prietors of the Dansville (X. Y.) Sina- 
 torium, 1882-1888; founder and diiector of 
 the Vivisection Reform Society; vice-presi- 
 dent. 1889-1004, and president 1004-1005, 
 of the American Ilunuine Association: vice- 
 l)resident of the ^lasschusetts Society for 
 the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; life 
 member of the Long Island Historical Society. 
 He has written much in favor of the legal 
 regulation of vivisection. Dr. Lelfingwell is 
 author of: Rambles in .Japan Without a 
 Guide; Suicide in American Cities; Influ- 
 ence of Seasons upon Conduct; The Morality 
 of Tendon; Illegitimacy; N'ivisection in 
 .\meiica ; The N'ivisection (^U(->tion; Tlu; 
 
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 Leffingwell Record; American Meat and the 
 ruhlic Health. He married, first. Dec. 23, 
 1871, Mary C. Hathaw-iy, who died Sept. 28. 
 1886: and. second, Dec. 1. 1892, Elizabeth 
 Fear, il.D.. and ha.s three sons. Ad- 
 dress : Aurora, X. Y. 
 
 LE GALLIENNE, "Richard: 
 
 Journalist and author; born in Liverpool, 
 Enoiand. Jan. 20. 1806 ; son of John and Jane 
 LeOallienne. He received his education in 
 Liverpool College. He was engaged in com- 
 mercial ])ursuits for several years, but af- 
 terward in journalism and literature in Eng- 
 land and the Ignited States. He is one of 
 the most brilliant of the younger school of 
 authors ; has lately become a resident of 
 New York and is a constant contributor to 
 Harper's Monthly and other leading maga- 
 zines. ]\Ir. Le Gallienne is author of: My 
 Ladies' Sonnets (privately printed), 1SS7; 
 Volumes in Folio, 1888; George Meredith, 
 1888; George Meredith, 1890; The Book- 
 Bills of Narcissus, 1801; English Poems. 
 1892; The Eeligion of a Literary Man. 1893; 
 Prose Fancies, 1st series, 1894; Robert 
 Louis Stevenson, and Other Poems, 1895; 
 Retrospective Review, 1896; Prose Fancies. 
 2d Series, 1896; The Quest of the Golden 
 Girl, 1896; If I Were God, 1897: Omar 
 Khayyam, a Pharaphrase, 1897; The Ro- 
 mance of Zion Chapel, 1898; Young Lives. 
 1899; Worshipper of the Image, 1900; 
 Travels in England, 1900; The Beautiful Lie 
 of Rome, 1900; The Life Romantic, 1900; 
 Sleeping Beauty, 1900; An Old Country 
 House, 1902; Odes from the Divan of Hafiz. 
 1903; Painted Shadows, 1904; Little Din- 
 ners with the Sphinx, 1907. Edited an edi- 
 tion of Izaak Walton's *' Tlie Complete 
 Angler." Hazlett's *' Liber Amoris " and 
 Hallam's Remains. He married, first, in 
 1891, Mildred Lee, who died in 1894, and 
 second, in 1897, Julie Norregand. Address: 
 59 West 45th Street, New York City. 
 
 lEGARE, George S.: 
 
 Congressman and la^^yer; born in Rock- 
 ville, S. C, 1870. He was graduated with 
 honors from the Porter Academy, of Charles- 
 ton, aftei which he attended the University 
 of South Carolina for two years, then went 
 
 to the Georgetown University Law School, 
 Washington, D. C, from which he was 
 graduated, LL.B.. 1893. He has been en- 
 gaged in the practice of law in Charleston 
 since 1893; was elected corporation counsel 
 of Charleston and' held that position until 
 1902. In the latter year he was elected on 
 the Democratic ticket from the First Dis- 
 trict of South Carolina to the Fifty-eighth 
 Congress. He was reelected to the Fifty- 
 ninth, and, in 1908 to the Sixty-first Con- 
 gress, which he is now serving. Mr. Legate 
 is married and has four cliildren. Address: 
 Charleston, S. C. 
 
 LEHMAN, George Mustin: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in Lebanon, Pa., ^lay 
 13. 1862; son of Benjamin r.ringhurst and 
 Susanna (Mustin) Lehman. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools and at the Epis- 
 copal Academy, Lebanon, Pa. Mr. Lehman 
 was aid, assistant and topographer of the 
 Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. 1882- 
 
 1889. He was the chief assistant in engi- 
 neering surveys for the extension of the 
 Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad from 
 G-ettysburg. Pa., to Washington, D. C. 
 and the Brooklyn, Bath and West End Rail- 
 way, N. Y. ; served on the topoirraphic and 
 geologic survey of Navassa Island, West In- 
 dies, making a relief map of the same. 1889- 
 
 1890. He was engineer of location and con- 
 struction of the Great Falls Water Power 
 and Improvement Company's canal and 
 town, (now Roanoke Rapids, N. C), 1890- 
 1893; was chief assistant engineer of the 
 surveys for the ship canal from the Delaware 
 River to Baritan Bay. in 1894: principal 
 assistant engineer of the surveys for the 
 Lake Erie and Ohio River Shii> Canal, froii\ 
 Pittsburgh to Lake Erie. 1895-1896, and 
 made inspection and report for the perma- 
 nent United States U. S. Army camp sites, 
 in Conewago Valley and at Somerset, Pa.. 
 1896-1903. :Mr. Lehman constructed a large 
 relief map of Pittsburgh and vicinity for 
 the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, for 
 which he received a gold medal' from the 
 i>ouisiana Purchase Exposition, in 1904. 
 He was engineer of the parks of Pittsburgh 
 in 1905; since then an incorporator and thr 
 chief engineer of the Lake Erie and Ohio 
 
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 M£N OF AMERICA. 
 
 River Ship Canal Company. He is a mem- 
 ber of the National Geographic Society, 
 American Institute of Mining Engineers, 
 Pennsylvania Forestry Association, Pitts- 
 burgh Chamber of Commerce, and' engineer 
 member and secretary of the Flood Com- 
 mission of Pittsburgh ; member ot the Leb- 
 anon County Historical Society, Pittsburgh 
 Sesqui- Centennial Committee, and the Civic 
 Club of Pittsburgh. Mr. Lehman is a 
 contributor to periodicals on scientific sub- 
 jects. He married in Philadelphia, Nov. 
 12, 1891, Corinne ilay Stockton and they 
 have one son. Residence: 4523 Center 
 Avenue. Office: 1551 Frick Building An- 
 nex, Pittsburgh. 
 
 LEIGHTON, Joseph Alexander: 
 
 College professor and clergyman; born at 
 Orangeville, Ont., Dee. S, 1870; son of James 
 and Jane (Speers) Leighton. He was edu- 
 cated" at Orangeville High School, gradu- 
 ated from Trinity College, Toronto, B.A., 
 with honors in science and philosophy, and 
 received the governor general's medal in 
 1891; Sage scholar and fellow, in philoso- 
 phy, 1891-1894, Cornell University Ph.D. in 
 1894, Episcopal Theological School. Cam- 
 bridge, Mass., B.D., 1806; student in 
 Berlin and Erlangen Cnivcrsities in 
 Germany, 1897. He was assistant in 
 Grace parish. New York City, 18!)6-1897; 
 chaplain and' professor of philosophy 
 and psychology in Ilobart College, since 
 September, 1897. He has been University 
 preacher since 1900 in Cornell University. 
 He is author of many articles and reviews 
 in philosophical journals, and of the books: 
 Typical Modern Conceptions of Cod. 1901; 
 Jesus Christ and the Civilization of To-day, 
 1907; The Field of Philosophy, 1909. Dr. 
 Leighton is a member of the American 
 Psychological Association, American Philo- 
 sophical Association, Phi Beta Kappa So- 
 ciety, and of the Kanadassaga Club of Ge- 
 neva, N. Y. He married in New York City, 
 April 4, 1809, Victoria E. Paul, and they 
 have two sons. Address: G.iO South Main 
 Street, ricncva, N. Y. 
 
 fllGHTON, Marshall Ora: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in Corinna, Me., 
 May 1, 1874; son of Llewellyn Morse Leigh- 
 
 ton and Annie (Stone) Leighton. He was 
 educated in the public schools of Portland, 
 Me., and IMassachusetts Institute of Tech- 
 nology, B.S., 189G. He was superintendent 
 of Health at Montclair. N. J., 1896-1902; 
 was resident hydrographer, 1902-1903, chief 
 of the Division of Hydro- Economics, 1903- 
 1905, and has been chief hydrographer since 
 190G, of the U. S. Geological Survey. He 
 also became consulting hydrographer of the 
 U. S. Inland \Yaterways Commission in 
 1907; has been flood commissioner of the 
 State of New Jersey since 1903, and was 
 special expert of water investigations of the 
 United States Reclamation Service, 1904- 
 190G. His professional specialties are public 
 hygiene, sewage disposal, water purification 
 and economics and vital statistics relating 
 thereto, and hydraulic engineering. He is 
 author of: Papers on the Pecuniary Value 
 of Life; Sewage Pollution in the Metro- 
 politan Area; The Passaic Floods of 1902 
 and 1903; Sewage Pollution of Lake 
 Champlain; Pollution of the Illinois 
 and Mississippi Rivers; and Normal and 
 Polluted Waters in the United States. He 
 is an associate member of the American So- 
 ciety of Civil Engineers, member of the 
 American Public Health Association, Wash- 
 ington Society of Engineers, New England 
 Water Works Association, and of the Uni- 
 versity Club of Washington, D. C. Mr. 
 Leighton married iu Portland, Me., Oct. 1, 
 1896, Maud Augusta Hawkins, and they have 
 one daughter. Residence: The Mendota. 
 Office: U. S. Geological Survey, \\'ashing- 
 ton, D. C. 
 
 LEISHMAN, John G. A.: 
 
 Ambassador; born in Pittsburgh, Pa.. 
 March 28, 1857. He was educated' in the 
 public schools of Pittsburgh. While still 
 a boy he entered the office of Slioenberger 
 and Company, iron and steel manufacturers, 
 in 1881 he entered the iron and steel brok- 
 erage business at Pittsburgli with a partner, 
 under the firm name of Leishman and 
 Snyder, and a few jears later entered the 
 firm of Carnegie Brothers and Company as 
 vice-president. Later, when that firm united 
 with the other Carnegie interests under the 
 name of the Carnegie Steel Company, he 
 
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 was elected president of that corporation, 
 whieli position he lield until June, 1897. 
 when he resigned, in order to accept tlic 
 position of envoy e.xtraordinary and minister 
 plenipotentiary of the United States to 
 Switzerland. He held that position until 
 1901, when he was transferred to Constan- 
 tinople, and in 190G his olliee was raised 
 to ambassadorial rank and he was appointed 
 the first ambassador extraordinary and plen- 
 ipotentiary to the court of the Sultan. Air. 
 Leishman, in his mission to the Golden 
 Horn, has represented the Government in 
 many complicated and difficult negotiations, 
 which he has conducted with great skill. 
 He married, in 1880, Julia Crawford, and 
 they still have their home in Pittsburgh. 
 Address: American Embassy, Constanti- 
 no])le, Turkey. 
 
 lEIAND, Arthur S.: 
 
 Banker; born in Boston; son of Emersoi 
 and Mary ^\. (Seaver) Leland. He was 
 educated in Chauncey Hall School and the 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He 
 is a member of the firm of Arthur S. Leland 
 and Company, bankers and brokers, of New 
 York City and Boston. Mr. Leland is a 
 member of the New England Society and of 
 the Ardslej', New York Athletic, and Repub- 
 lican Clubs of New York City, and the 
 Algonquin Club of Boston. Residence : Wal- 
 dorf-Astoria Hotel. Office: 40 Exchange 
 Place, New York City. 
 
 LELAND, Lester: 
 
 Capitalist; vice-president and director of 
 the Meyer Rubber Company of New Bruns- 
 wick, N. J. ; president and director of the 
 American Commerce Company, New York ; 
 vice-president and director of the Rubber 
 Goods Manufacturing Company, New York; 
 2d vice-president, director and member of 
 the Executive Committee of the United 
 States Rubber Company; vice-president and 
 member of Executive Committee of the Gen- 
 eral Rubber Company; director of the 
 American Dunlop Tire Company. Goodyear 
 India Rubber Glove Manufacturing Com- 
 ))any. Mechanical Rubber Company, Peerless 
 Rubber Manufacturing Company. Single 
 Tube Automobile and Bicycle Tire Company, 
 all of New York; and also director and 
 
 member of Executive Committee of the 
 American Trust Conipimy; director of the 
 American Rubber Company, .Atlantic Coast 
 Liunber Corporation. Georgetown, S. C. ; 
 Boslon Ruliber Company. (Jeorgetowii and 
 Western Railroad. Industiial Mutual In-iur- 
 ance Company, New York Belting and J'ack- 
 ing Company (Limited), State National 
 Bank; also the United States Rubbor Com- 
 l>any (Limited), Wm. Symington and 
 Company (Limited), and Peerless Rubber 
 ^Manufacturing Company (Limited) of Lon- 
 don ; the Fabric Fire Ho-se Company, the 
 Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Company, 
 Hartford Rubber Works Company, L. Can- 
 dee and Company, all of Connecticut; the 
 G. and J. Tire Company, and Indianapolis 
 Rubber Company, of Indiana; India Rubber 
 Company, of New Jersey; Lycoming Rubber 
 Company, of Pennsylvania; Morgan and 
 Wright Company, of Michigan; Sawyer Belt- 
 ing Company, of Ohio; Stoughton Rubber 
 Company, and Bay State Rubber Company, 
 of Massachusetts; treasurer, general man- 
 ager and director of the Boston Rubber 
 Shoe Company. Address: 101 Milk Street, 
 Boston. 
 
 LELAND, Lorenzo: 
 
 Banker, lawyer; born in Ottawa, 111., 
 Oct. 17, 1852; son of Lorenzo and Martha 
 (Holbrook) Leland. He was educated in 
 Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.. and Yale 
 College. He was admitted to the bar of 
 Illinois in 1S7G; practised law and was 
 city clerk in El Dorado, Kan., 1877-lSSO; 
 practised law at Ottawa, 111., 1880-1893; 
 became president of the First National Bank 
 of Ottawa in 1894, and still holds that posi- 
 tion. He is vice-president of the King and 
 Hamilton Manufacturing Company; and 
 treasurer and director of the Ottawa Build- 
 ing Homestead and Savings Association. 
 He traveled in Mexico, China, Japan, the 
 Hawaiian Island's and in Europe. He is 
 a trustee of the Ottawa Township High 
 School. Mr. Leland married in Ottawa. 
 111., Oct. 9, 1878, Fannie C. Hamilton, and 
 they have one son. Address: Ottawa, 111. 
 
 LENIHAN, Mathias C: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Great Falls; born at 
 
 Dubuque, Iowa, Oct. 6, 1854; son of Ed- 
 
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 mvind and Mary (Donavan) Lenihan. He 
 wa'i educated in the Grand Seminary, Mont- 
 real ; received minor orders from Bishop 
 Hennessy of Dubuque; was ordained deacon 
 by Archbishop Bourget of ^lontrcal, and 
 priest by Bishop Lefevre of Montreal. He 
 was consecrated, by Most Rev. J. J. Keane, 
 D.D., archbishop of Dubuque, at Dubuque 
 CathedraL Sept. 21. 1904, bishop of Great 
 Falls. Address: Great Falls, Mont. 
 
 LEONARD, Edgar Cotrell: 
 
 iMerchant; born in Albany, N. Y., May 
 28. 1862; son of Daniel and Mary E. (Cot- 
 rell) Leonard. He was educated in tlie 
 public schools, the Albany Boys' Academy 
 and Williams College, B.A.. 1886. In 1887 
 he became a member of the firm of Cotrell 
 and Leonard, whose business was established 
 by his maternal grandfather in 1832. He 
 is a director and treasurer of the Albany 
 Safe Deposit Company, and of the Mutual 
 Fire Insurance Company of Albany, N. Y. 
 Mr. Leonard served five years in the Na- 
 tional Guard of New York; and is a mem- 
 ber of the Albany Water-front Improvement 
 Commission. He is a Presbyterian; di- 
 rector (president. 1809-1904) of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association and a member 
 of its State Committee, and u director of 
 the Auburn Theological Seminary. He is a 
 member of the American Civic Association. 
 National Geographic Society, American In- 
 stitute of Mining Engineers, the Albany 
 Historical and Art Sociefj'; is a Mason, a 
 member of the Delta Psi fraternity, Sons 
 of the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, 
 and is president of Albany Chapter of the 
 Society of Mayllower Descendants. He is 
 also a member of the University, Fort 
 Orange, Country, and Polo Clubs of Albany, 
 and The Sanctum, of Litchfield, Conn. He 
 married in Albany, Oct. 15, 1890, Bessie 
 Woolworth, and' they have two daughters. 
 Residence: 44 Willctt Street. Oflice: 472 
 I'.roadway, Albany, N. \'. 
 
 LEONARD Gardner Cotrell: 
 
 Merchant and manufacturer;- born in 
 West Springfield, Mass., Oct. 16, 1865; son 
 of Daniel and Mary Elizabeth (Cotrell) 
 Leonard. He was graduated from Albany 
 Academy, 1882, Williams College, A.B., 
 
 1887 (with philosophical oration and elec- 
 tion to Phi Beta Kappa Society). He has 
 been since 1888 with Cotrell and Leonard, 
 of Albany, and a partner since 1890. Mr. 
 Leonard was the originator and director 
 of the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic 
 Costume, incorporated by the Regents of 
 the University of the State of New York in 
 1902. He served in the New York Na- 
 tional Guard, 1888-1893, including service 
 at Buffalo during the strike of 1892. He is 
 director of the Mutiuxl Fire Insurance Com- 
 pany. Mr. Leonard is a member of the 
 Albany Institute and Historical and Art So- 
 ciety (formerly vice-president) ; editor of 
 Songs of Williams, 1898; member of the 
 Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revo- 
 lution, Williams Alumni Association of 
 Northern New York (formerly president), 
 and he is a Mason. He is a member of the 
 University Club of New York City; of the 
 LTniversity, Fort Orange. Albany. Country 
 and Unconditional Clubs of Albany, and of 
 the Delta Psi fraternity. Mr. Leonard mar- 
 ried in Albany, N. Y., Feb. 18, 1903, Grace 
 Watson Sutherland, and they have a son 
 and a daughter. Address: 42 Willett 
 Street, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 LEONARD, William Andrew: 
 
 Bishop of Ohio; born at Southport, Conn., 
 Jul}' 15, 1848; son of William Boardman 
 and Louisa (Bulkley) Leonard. His early 
 ancestors came to Taunton, Mass., in 1653. 
 He was educated in Phillips Academy, An- 
 dover, Mass., St. Stephen's College, Annan- 
 dale, N. Y., B.A.; Berkeley Divinity School, 
 Middletown, Conn., B.D. ; and he received 
 the degree of D.D. from Washington and 
 Lee University 1885, and from St. Stephen's 
 College, 1888. He was ordered deacon in 
 the Episcopal Church in 1871 and ordained 
 to the priesthood by lUsho]) ^^■illiams in 
 1873. After entering the ministry he be- 
 came assistant at Holy Trinity Church, 
 Brooklyn; and in 1873 was made rector 
 of the Church of the Redeemer, Brooklyn. 
 After nine years of activity he was called 
 to the rectorship of St. John's Parish, Wash- 
 ington, D. C, serving until 1889, when ho 
 was elected Bishop of Ohio. He was con- 
 secrated by r.islini)s W'illiaiiis, Wliipple, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 KM!) 
 
 Dome, Whitehead, Paret, Vincent and 
 Courtney (of Nova Scotia), in St. Tliomas' 
 Church," New York, Oct. 12, 1S89. He is 
 president of trustees of Kcnyon College; 
 member of the University and Church Clubs 
 of Cleveland; Society of Colonial Wars, 
 and' is chaplain of the Ohio Society of New 
 York. He is author of: Via Sacra, or 
 Footprints of Christ, 1875; IJrief History 
 of the Cliristian Church (sixtli edition), 
 18S2; A Faithful Life: The Witness of the 
 American Church to Pure Christianity 
 (Bedell Lectures, 1893); and Cliurch Club 
 Lectures of Now York. Bishop Leonard 
 married in Brooklyn. April 17, 1873, Sarah 
 L. Sullivan. Address: 30.34 Euclid Avenue, 
 Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 LESTER, George Bacon: 
 
 Lawyer: lioru in Seneca Falls, N. Y., July 
 12, 1872; son of Elias and Caroline (Foote) 
 Lester. He was educated in Mynderse Acad- 
 emy, and was graduated from New York 
 Law School as LL.B. He is director 
 and general counsel of Fleischmann Manu- 
 facturing Company; general counsel of The 
 Fleischmann Company. He is a member of 
 the Law Institute and Association of the 
 Bar of the City of New York. Mr. Lester 
 is a member of the Apawamis Club of Rye, 
 N. Y., of the Orange County Coif, Auburn 
 City, and Auburn Country Clubs; of the 
 Lotos, City, and St. Nicholas Clubs, and 
 Down Town Association of New York, and 
 the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club of Port 
 Washington, L. I. He married' Josephine 
 Knapp. Address: 34 West Tentii Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 LESTER, James Westcott: 
 
 Lawyer ; born in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., 
 Sept. 8, 1859; son of Charles Smith and 
 Lucy L. (Cooke) Lester. He was educated 
 in the L'nion Classical Institute, Union Col- 
 lege, A.B., 1881, and Columbia College Law 
 School. He served in the National Guard 
 of New York, entering as private, in the 
 Twenty-second Separate Company, Nov. 25, 
 1884; promoted sergeant, Jan. 24, 1885; 
 captain, Jan. 15, 1892; became major of 
 the Second Begiment, Nov. 18, 1898; lieu- 
 tenant-colonel, March 31, 1899; colonel of 
 the Second Begimont. Dec. 11, 1903. He 
 
 served' in the United States .Xrmy as major 
 of the Second l\egim«'nt, New York Volun- 
 teers, May 2, 1H9H, to Oct. 25, 1898. Colonel 
 Lester is a member of the firm of C. S. 
 and C. C. Lester; secretary of llie United 
 States Hotel Company, member of the New 
 Yoik State Bar Associatinn, and of the 
 Saratoga and Elks' Cluits of Saratoga 
 Springs, N. ^'.. and .\rmy and Navy Club 
 of New York ( ity. He married in Saratoga 
 Springs, June 13, 1888, Bertha North Diiwd, 
 and they have four sons. Address: Sara- 
 toga Springs, N. ^'. 
 
 LETCHWORTH, Ogden Pearl: 
 
 Manfacturer and merchant; burn in Au- 
 burn, N. Y., 1851; son of George J. and 
 Charlotte Pearl (Letchworth) . He was 
 educated in the Auburn \\\<s\\ School and 
 W'illiston Seminary. Mr. Letchworth is 
 ])resident of the Pratt and Letchworth Com- 
 pany, United States Home Company; vice- 
 ])resident of the Frazer and Jones Company, 
 and the Solvey Foundry Company ; director 
 of the Great Lake Engineering Works, Man- 
 ufacturers' and Traders' Bank, Erie County 
 Savings Bank, Lumber Insurance Company, 
 and the Adirondack Fire Insurance Com- 
 pany. ^Ir. Letchwortli is a member of the 
 Lodge of Ancient Landmarks; tru.stee of 
 the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
 to Cliildren. BuiTalo Historical Society, Wy- 
 oming Benevolent Institute, the Buffalo, 
 Ellicott, Country Park, and Bulfalo Yacht 
 Clubs of BuHalo: Boyal Canadian Yacht 
 Club of Toronto; Trans])ortation Club of 
 New York City, the Brantforil Club of 
 Brantford, Ont., and Hamilton Club of Ham- 
 ilton, Out. He married in Buffalo, 1876, 
 Laura Strong, and they have one daughter. 
 Address: BulValo, N. Y. 
 
 LEVENTRITT, David: 
 
 Jurist; born in Winnsboro, S. C, Jan. 
 31, 1845; son of George M. and Betty Leven- 
 tritt. He was graduited from the Free 
 Academy of New York City as salutatorian 
 in 1864; and then took a law course in 
 New York University. He was admitted 
 to the bar in 1871 and engaged chiefly in 
 commercial litigation and as counsel for 
 corporations; also special coun-el to the 
 eitv of New York in condemnation proceed- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 inp^s. until he was clpctod. in 1898, as 
 justice of the Supreme Court of the First 
 District, for the term expirino^ Dec. 31, 
 1912. Judge Leventritt is director nf IVIt. 
 Sinai Hospital. 8t. Mark's Hospital. Leb- 
 anon Hospital. Hebrew Orphan Asylum, 
 Montofiore Home. Hebrew Technical Insti- 
 tute. Home for Aged and Infirm, Educational 
 Alliance, (iuild for Crippled Children and 
 the Young Men's Hebrew Association. He 
 married, in 1868, Matilda Lit. Address: 
 ;!4 West 77th Street, New York City. 
 
 LEVER, Ashbury Francis: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Spring- 
 hill, Lexington County, S. C. ; son of Wash- 
 ington and Elvira (Derrick) Lever. He 
 was graduated from Newberr.y College, with 
 the honors of his class in 1895. After grad- 
 uation he taught school until he was selected 
 as the private secretary to the late Hon. 
 J. \Villiam Stokes, whom he succeeds .in 
 Congress. He graduated in law from the 
 Georgetown University, 1899, and the same 
 year was admitted' to practice in his State 
 by the Supreme Court. He was a member 
 of the State Democratic Conventions in 
 1896 and 1900, and in 1900 was elected 
 to the State Legislature from f.exington 
 County, holding that position until his 
 resignation to enter the race to fill the 
 unexpired term of the Hon. J. William 
 Stokes in the Fifty-seventh Congress, and 
 he was reelected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty- 
 uintli, Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses. 
 from tlie Seventh South Carolin;i District. 
 Address: Lexington, S. C. 
 
 lEVERETT, Frank: 
 
 G('()l()gi-t; born in Denmark, Iowa, March 
 10. 1859; son of Ebenezcr Turner and 
 Rowena (Houston) l^verett. He was edu- 
 cated in the Iowa State College of Agricul- 
 ture and Mechanical Science, 1884-1885. and 
 leceived the degree of B.S. from that insti- 
 tution. He entered the U. S. Geological 
 Survey in 1886, and was successively pro- 
 moted, being appointed geologist in 1901, 
 which position he still holds. He was ap- 
 pointed hclurcr in geology in the Univer- 
 sity of Micliigan. in 1908. He is a special- 
 ist in the study of glacial formations, hav- 
 ing devoted twenty-four years almost entire- 
 
 ly to this study in the northern, central and 
 eastern States and a year in Europe. He 
 has also prepared professional papers for 
 the U. S. Geological Survey on the water 
 resources of Hlinois, Indiana, Ohio and 
 Michigan, and various monographs on gla- 
 cial formations. He is a member of the 
 American Association for Advancement of 
 Science ; fellow of the Geological Society 
 of America, fellow of State Academies of 
 Science in Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan ; 
 member of the Geological Society of Wash- 
 ington. National Geographic Society, Amer- 
 ican Forestry Association. Mr. Leverett 
 married at Denmark, Iowa, Dec. 18, 1895, 
 Dorothy C. Park. Address: 312 North 
 Thayer Street, Ann Arbor, Mich. 
 
 LEVERMORE, Charles Herbert: 
 
 President of Adelplii College; born in 
 Mansfield, Conn., Oct. 15, 1856; son of Rev. 
 Aaron Russell and Mary Gay (Skinner) 
 Levermore. He was graduated from Yale 
 College. B.A., 1879, and from Johns Hop- 
 kins University, Ph.D., 1886. President 
 Levermore is a member of the American 
 Historical Association, Board of Trustees 
 of Adelphi College, the New England So- 
 ciety of Brooklyn, Adelphi Academy, Hack- 
 ley School and a member of the Century, 
 Delta Kappa Epsilon, the Y^ale Club of New 
 York City, and the University Club of 
 Brooklyn. He married at New Haven, 
 Conn., Sept. 4, 1884, Mettie Norton Tuttle, 
 and they have five children. Address: 30 
 St. James Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 LEVEY, Edgar J.: 
 
 President of the Title Insurance Com- 
 l)aiiy of New Y^ork; born in New Y'"ork 
 City, Nov. 4, 1863; son of Isaac and Anne 
 E. (Lemon) Levey. He was graduated from 
 Columbia University as A.B., 1883, and 
 from Columbia Law School as LL.B. in 
 1886. For several yrars after leaving col- 
 lege, he was engaged in journalism, mak- 
 ing a specialty of musical criticism. In 
 1891 he became secretary to the comptroller 
 in the Dejjartment of Finance of New York 
 City; was appointed assistant deputy comp- 
 troller in 1893, and deputy comptroller in 
 1899. He served many years as secretary 
 of the Sinking Fund Commission of New 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 York City. His ina<j.ax.ino articles on tlie 
 New York Sinkinfj Funds caused the thor- 
 ough-goinff reformation wliich this hranch 
 of New York's tinance has recently received. 
 In 1899 he was appointed by Theodore 
 Roosevelt, then governor of . New York, as 
 a member of the commission to revise the 
 (Greater New York Charter; appointed' by 
 ]\Iayor McClellan. in 190o, cliairman of the 
 commission on Taxation and Finance, hav- 
 ing for its object reformation of New York 
 City's finances. The legislative recommen- 
 dations of the commission in regard to 
 uncdlleetable arrears of taxes were enacted 
 l)y tlie State Legislature in 1006. In 1902, 
 with John D. Crinnnins, Charles T. Barney. 
 James A. Deering and others, he organized 
 the Title Insurance Company of New York 
 and the New York IMortgage and Security 
 Company, of which corporation he is pres- 
 ident. He is regarded as a leading author- 
 ity on matters of municipal finance. ISIr. 
 Levey is also a director of the Knicker- 
 bocker Trust Company, and the Century 
 Realty Company; vice-president of the 
 Chelsea Realty Company; president of the 
 Lawyers', Engineering and Surveying Com- 
 pany: director of the Bush Terminal Com- 
 pany, and chairman of the Tuberculosis 
 Committee of Charity Organization Society. 
 He is a member of the Manhattan, Colum- 
 bia University, and Brooklyn Yacht Clubs. 
 ]\Ir. Levey married, first, Julia P. Harrison, 
 who died Feb. 24, 1904; and second, Amelia 
 H. Speed. Address: 1.35 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 LEVY, Charles Emanuel: 
 
 ^>anker and cotton merchant ; born in 
 Lexingion, Miss., Sept. 20, 1860; son of 
 Moses and Rosa (Hertz) Levy. He was 
 graduated from the College of the City of 
 New York, B.S. He was on the Board of 
 Eucation of the State of Louisiana for ten 
 years. Mr. Levy is now a member of the 
 firm of M. Levy and Sons. He is president 
 and director of the Interstate Securities 
 Company; director of the Borough Bank 
 of Brooklyn, The Guardian Trust Company, 
 the Gulf and Chicago Railroad, the Mobile. 
 Jackson and Kansas City Railroad' Com- 
 pany, The Oriental Bunk and the Union 
 
 Trust Company of New Jersey. Mr. Ijpvv 
 is a member of many Clubs in New OrienuH. 
 Residence: ilargrave Hotel. Ollice: :{(» 
 Broad Street, New ^ork City. 
 LEWI, Emily: 
 
 I'liysieian; born in New York City in 
 1867; daughter of David and Julia (Sea- 
 man) Lewi. She was educated in public 
 schools, then prepared for college in Mrs. 
 Braekett's School, was graduated from Vas- 
 sar College, A.B., 1888, with honors, and 
 from the ^Voman's iledical College of New 
 York Infirmary, M.D., 1891. Dr. I^wi was 
 house physician at the Babies' Hospital, 
 I89I-I892, and after that worked in various 
 clinics, and pul)]ished several articles in 
 various medical magazines ; and she has 
 read papers before the New York Academy 
 of i\Iedicine. Among her more notable pub- 
 lications are those on The !\Iilk Supplj' of 
 New York, and on the Quantitative Estima- 
 tion of Fat in Mother's Milk. She is a 
 member of the New York Academy of Med- 
 icine, New Y^ork County Medical Society, the 
 Woman's Medical Association, Woman's 
 University Club, and the State Federation 
 of \\'oman's Clubs of New York. Address: 
 35 Mi. ]\lorris Park, West New York City. 
 LEWI, Maurice J.: 
 
 Physician; born in Albany, N. Y.. Dec. 
 1, 1857; son of Joseph and Bertha 
 (Scliwartz) I^wi. He attended Albany 
 High School, Albany INledieal College. Hei- 
 delberg and Vienna Universities. He was 
 formerly a teacher at Albany Medical Col- 
 lege, and was professor of medical juris- 
 prudence in Albany Law School ; is ex- 
 president of the Albany County Medical 
 Society, and of the Northern Medical As- 
 sociation; ex-president of the New York 
 Alumni Association of Albany Medicsil 
 College; and is now, and for tiie past six- 
 teen years, has been secretary of the New 
 York State Board of ^Medical Examiners. 
 Dr. Lewi is a member of the Board of Gov- 
 ernors of the Albany Society of New York, 
 and member of the Yonkers City Club and 
 the Union University Club of New York 
 City. Summer residence: Far Rockaway, 
 N. Y. Address: 1133 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 LEWIS, Arthur Franklin: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Trumbull Conn., Feb. 
 29, 1872: son of Frank B. and Georgia 
 F. (Ambler) Lewi.*;. He was graduated 
 from Yale. B.A., 1892; was ordered deacon 
 in 1896 and' ordained priest the same year 
 by Bishop Brewer in the Episcopal ministry. 
 He was formerly in charge of St. Andrew's 
 Church at Phillipsburg, Mont., 1890-1897; 
 at 8t. Andrew's, Centerville, Butte, Mont., 
 1897-1898; in charge of the church at Del- 
 ware City, 1898-1900; rector of All Saints- 
 Church, Ltonia. X. J., 1900-1903, and of 
 the church at Unionville, Conn., since 1903. 
 He is vice-president of the I^oard of Man- 
 agers of the Masonic Home at Wallingford, 
 Conn. He married at Bridgeport, Conn., 
 June 2, 1896. Edith KajTior Thompson, and 
 they have one son. (Jeorge Birdseye Lewis, 
 born S('))l. 20, 1807. Address: Unionville, 
 Conn. 
 
 LEWIS. Charles L.: 
 
 .Furi>l; born in Ottawa, 111.. March 8, 
 1852. He was prepared for college in the 
 Ottawa High School and the old University 
 of Chicago, and was graduated from Ober- 
 lin College, A.B., 1876. He .studied law 
 111 Chicago, and after his admission to thi' 
 Illinois b:ir, removed to Minnesota, practised 
 at Fergus Falls and' afterward at Duluth. 
 and was elected, in 1892, judge of tlie Dis- 
 trict Court for the Eleventh Judicial Dis- 
 trict of Minnesota, serving a term, and 
 in 1898 was elected on the Republican ticket 
 to the Supreme Court of Minnesota, in 
 which he is still serving as associate justice. 
 Address: 62 South Dale Street, St. Paul, 
 Minn. 
 
 LEWIS, Daniel: 
 
 I'liysician; born at Alfred. N. V., Jan. 
 17. 184G; .son of Alfred and Lucy (Lang- 
 worthy) Lewis. He was graduated from 
 Alfred University, A.B., 1869, and received 
 its degree of A.M., 1872, Ph.D., 1886, and 
 LL.D., 1902. He was also graduated from 
 the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
 (Columbia), M.D., 1871. He served in the 
 U. S. Navy, 1864-1865; was commissioner 
 of health for the State of New York ; med- 
 ical director of the (Jrand Army of the 
 Pcpublic, Uepartmcnt of Now York, 1888; 
 
 and president of the American Congress of 
 Tuberculosis. He is editor and proprietor 
 of the Medical Review of Reviews. Dr. 
 Lewis is a fellow of the New York Academy 
 of Medicine; member of the New York 
 Physicians' Mutual Aid Association, Society 
 of Medical Jurisprudence, Medical Society 
 of the County of New York, Medical Society 
 of the State of New York, and the Repub- 
 lican and L'nion League Clubs. He mar- 
 ried, in 1872, Achsali D. Vaughan. Resi- 
 dence: Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y. Office: 616 
 Madison Avenue, New York City. 
 
 LEWIS. Daniel F.: 
 
 Railway odicial; born in Brooklyn, ]\Iarch 
 28, 1849. He was educated in the public 
 -chools. was in the service of the Brooklyn 
 City Railway for many years and its pres- 
 ident, 1886-1895, also president of the 
 Brooklyn Heights Railway Company, the 
 Knickerbocker Steamboat Company; the Bay 
 Ridge Park Improvement Company, and 
 interested as officer and director in the U. 
 S. Title Guaranty and Indemnity Company, 
 New York and Long Island Realty Com- 
 pany, J]quity Land and Development Com- 
 pany, Brooklyn and Canarsie Realty 
 Company, Canarsie and Jamaica Bay Ferry 
 Company, Canarsie Amusement Company, 
 and the Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach 
 Railroad Company. Mr. Lewis is a mem- 
 ber of the Hamilton, Crescent Athletic. 
 Brooklyn, and Park Driving Clubs. Resi- 
 dence: Hempstead. Long Island, N. Y. 
 Office address: 180 Montague Street, Brook- 
 lyn, N. V. 
 
 LEWIS, Franklin Crocker: 
 
 Superintendent of the Ethical Culture 
 Schools; born in Centreville, Cape Cod, 
 Mass., 1877; son of Joseph Freeman and 
 Emma Caroline (Hinckley) Lewis. He re- 
 ceived his education in the Barnstable High 
 School, at Hyannis, ISIass., was graduated 
 from Dartmouth College, A.B., 1900, and 
 from Harvard College, A.M., 1901. He was 
 instructor of mathematics and science at 
 Hanover High School during his senior year 
 in college. 1900; took a European trip in 
 the summer of 1900; at Harvard as a grad- 
 uate student. Iil00-1!)02; instructor in ped- 
 agogy at Dartmouth, 1!I02-1906; assistant 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 superintendent of the Ethical Culture 
 Schools, Feb. to July, 1!)06; and superin- 
 tendent of same since July, 1!)06. He is 
 a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society and 
 Chi Phi fraternity. Mr. Lewis married at 
 Denver, Colo., June 20, 1903, Ellen Ander- 
 son, and they have two daughters. Address: 
 33 Central Park West, New York City. 
 
 LEWIS, G. Griffin: 
 
 Physician; born at Avoca, N. Y., Dec. 
 17, ISGo; son of Sylvester and Margaret 
 E. (Clute) Lewis. He attended Worcester 
 Academy at Worcester, Mass., and Union 
 University (Medical Department) ; and took 
 post-graduate courses in Paris, Berlin and 
 New York. He })ractisos as oculist, aurist, 
 rliinologist and laryngologist; is oculist to 
 tlie Hospital of the Good' Sheplierd, to the 
 Syracuse Free Dispensary, oculist and aurist 
 to St. Mary's Maternity Hospital, St. Vin- 
 cent's Asylum, the House of Providence, and 
 to the Syracuse public schools; special 
 United States pension examiner, and oculist 
 and aurist to the New Y'ork Central and 
 Hudson River Railroad. He is a member 
 of the American Medical Association, New 
 York State Medical Society, Western New 
 York Medical Society and' the Onondaga 
 County Medical Society; fellow of the Amer- 
 ican Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto- 
 Laryngology and of the Syracuse Academy 
 of Medicine, and member of the Association 
 of United State Pension Examining Sur- 
 geons. He is also a member of the Beta 
 Theta Pi fraternity, and of the Citizens' 
 Club of Syracuse. Dr. Lewis married at 
 Syracuse, Feb. 6, 189G, Marian Foster Arger- 
 singer, and they have two children. Resi- 
 dence: 308 Waverly Avenue. Office: 600 
 University Block, Syracuse, N. Y'. 
 
 LEWIS, John Frederick: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Sept. 10, 
 1860; son of S. Weir and Caroline A. 
 (Kalbfus) Lewis. He was graduated with 
 highest honors from Central High School, 
 A.B., 1879, and received the degree of A.M. 
 from same in 1884; studied law under 
 Hon. George M. Dallas, and was admitted 
 to the bar in 1882; practised with Hon. 
 Charles Gibbons & Son in the courts of 
 Admiralty. He is president of the Mercan- 
 
 tile Library Company of Philadelphia. 
 treasurer of the (Jenealogical Society of 
 Pennsylvania; autlior of nionogra|)h. Gen- 
 ealogical Obstacles Considered; jjrcsidcnt of 
 the Young American ilunmne Union; hon- 
 orary curator of the Prints and president 
 of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; 
 author of several monographs on the art of 
 engraving: Schrottbliitter; TeigdrUcke; 
 William Hogarth, etc. Mr. Lewis is pres- 
 ident of the Philadelphia Skating Club and 
 Humane Society; one of the vice-presidents 
 and member of the Council of the Historical 
 Society of Pennsylvania; librarian and 
 member of the Numismatic and Antiquarian 
 Society of . Philadelphia, and is author of 
 a History of Skating. He is a director of 
 the Farmers' and ]\Ii'chanics' National Bank 
 of Philadelpliia ; was one of the organizers 
 and is solicitor of tlie Philadelphia Bourse; 
 solicitor for the Philadelphia Maritiim- 
 Exchange; vice-president of Philadeli)hia 
 Trans-Atlantic Line; solicitor of the North- 
 ern Home for Friendless Children; secretary 
 of the Pennsylvania Institution for the D&if 
 and Dumb, member of the Archaeological 
 Department of the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, and one of the advisory managers 
 and member of the Pliiladelphia Country 
 Club, Farmers' Club of Chester County, 
 Franklin Institute, and Merion Cricket 
 Club. He has held the office of U. S. Com- 
 missioner for many years, and his practice 
 as a lawyer is chiefly in admiralty and 
 maritime cases, upon which branch of the 
 law he is special lecturer at the University 
 of Pennsylvania. He married in Philadel- 
 phia. May 23, 1895, Anne H. Rush Baker, 
 daughter of Alfred G. and' Henrietta Rush 
 (Fales) Baker. Residence: (winter), 19U 
 Spruce Street, (summer) Morstein, Chester 
 County, Pa. Address: G22 Bourse Build- 
 ing, philadelpliia. 
 
 LEWIS, Margaret Cameron : 
 
 Author; born in Ottawa, 111.. 1S07: 
 daughter of Alexander T. and Nancy A. 
 (Nelson) Cameron. She was educated in 
 the public schools of Santa Barbara, Calif., 
 the San Francisco School of Design; and 
 under private tutors. She married in New 
 ' York City, Sept. 16, 1903, Harrison Cass 
 
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 Lewis. From 1876 to 1884 she lived in (San- 
 ta Barbara, Calif., then in Oakland, Calif., 
 until 190.3; since then in New York City. 
 She was a teacher of piano and accompanist 
 while in California until she began writing 
 in 1899, and was associated with many 
 musical organizations and with The Spin- 
 ners, and she is now a member of the Na- 
 tional Arts Club of New York City. Mrs. 
 Lewis who uses her maiden name " ^largaret 
 Cameron " as a pen-name is author of : 
 The Involutary Chaperon, The Cat and the 
 Canary, and Tlie Bachelor and the Baby, 
 (all Harpers) ; Comedies in Miniature (Mc- 
 Clure, Phillips & Co.; also The Klepto- 
 maniac, The Burglar, The Piper's Pay and 
 The Teeth of the Gift Horse (S. French), 
 and many short stories in Harper's maga- 
 zine. Address: 567 West 113th Street, 
 New Yoik City. 
 
 LEWIS, Merton Elmer: 
 
 Lawyer ; born in Webster, Monroe Coun- 
 ty, N." Y., Dec. 10, 1861 ; son of Charles 
 Chadwick and Rhod'a Ann (Willard) Lewis. 
 He was edticated in the Webster LTnion 
 School. He has practised law continuously 
 since his admission to tlie bar in 1S,S7 and 
 is now a member of llu' law hiiu of Lewis 
 and McKay. He was elected alderman of 
 the city of Rochester, 1890; member of the 
 New York State Constitutional Conven- 
 tion, 1894 ; president of the Common Coun- 
 cil of Rochester. 1893-1895; acting mayor of 
 the city of Rochester, 1895; a moinber of 
 the Assembly of New York State in 1896, 
 
 1898, 1899 and 1900: a member of the Sen- 
 ate of New York State in 1901, 1902, 1903. 
 1904 and' 1905, was Republican nominee for 
 State comptroller of New York in 1900. He 
 is a Mason. Knight of Pythias and a mem- 
 ber of the Masonic Club. Mr. Lewis mar- 
 ried, first, at Webster, N. Y., Jan. 2, 1886, 
 Adaline Louise Moody, who died June, 1894, 
 and second, at Rochester. N. Y., Nov. 8, 
 
 1899, Eva J. Gates, and he has four chil- 
 dren: Address: Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 LEWIS, Richard Anthony: 
 
 Retired meicliant; born in Worcester 
 County, Mass., Sept. 14, 1830; son of Thom- 
 as and Betsey Eddy (Anthonyj Lewis. He 
 
 was educated in the common schools. Mr. 
 Lewis is president of the Mercantile Benefi- 
 cial Association; treasurer and director of 
 New Church Book Association; secretary 
 and manager of the House of Refuge, and' 
 director of the Delaware Insurance Com- 
 pany of Philadelphia. He is a member of 
 the New England Societj' of Pennsylvania, 
 the Union League Club of Philadelphia. 
 Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadel- 
 phia Museum and Industrial Art Associa- 
 tion, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine 
 Arts. He married in Providence, R. I., 
 March 7, 1855, Sarah Patterson Hail, and 
 they have had' seven children, two of whom 
 are deceased. Residence: 1909 Green 
 Street. Office: 902 Chestnut Street. Phila- 
 delphia. 
 
 LEWIS, Richard V.: 
 
 Merchant; born in Wales, Dec. 23, 1841; 
 son of Richard Vaughan and Elizabeth 
 Vaughan (born Lewis). He received his 
 education in the Mechanics' Institute School 
 of New York City. He entered the employ 
 of J. and C. Berrian in 1850; succeeded as 
 p.irtner, with Henry C. Conger to the busi- 
 ness in 1868, and' is now president of the 
 firm of Lewis and Conger. Mr. Lewis en- 
 listed as a private in the Ninth Regiment 
 of the New York Volunteer Infantry and 
 served until the close of the Civil War, 
 1862-1865. He is a member of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic, and of the Republi- 
 can Club. He married in England in 1S83, 
 Miriam Ellis, and they have six children. 
 Residence: Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y. Of- 
 fice: 130-132 Uest 42d' Street. New York 
 City. 
 
 LEWIS, Robert, Jr.: 
 
 Physician, otologist and rhinologist; born 
 in New York City, March S, 1862; son of 
 Robert and Catherine (Monks) Lewis. He 
 received his education in private and public 
 schools of New York City; the College of 
 the City of New York; the College of Physi- 
 cians and Surgeons (Medical Department of 
 Columbia University). M.D., 1885. He was 
 on the house staff of Randall's Island Hos- 
 pitals, 1885-1886; first house surgeon of the 
 Harlem Braucli of Bellevue Hospital, 1887; 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 nml in general ])raetioe in Harlem, 1888- 
 1S!)2. He was appointed assistant surgeon 
 in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary in 
 1889; and' surgeon in the Aural Department 
 (if the same since 1901; clinical assistant 
 in the Department of Otology, in the Van- 
 derbilt Clinic, College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons, 1888- 189G; instructor in the same 
 and chief of clinic, 1896-1908; professor of 
 clinical otology, 1908. He associated with 
 Dr. Albert H. Buck (retired in 1902) in 
 1892 and has been engaged since then in 
 the special practice of otology and rhinol- 
 ogy. Dr. Lewis was visiting aurist to Ran- 
 dall Island Hospital; is now consulting au- 
 rist to Flushing and St. Francis' Hospitals. 
 He was delegate from the New York County 
 ]\ledieal Society to the State Medical So- 
 ciety in 1900 and 1901 ; censor in 1901 ; sec- 
 ond vice-president in 1902; member of the 
 council and Executive Committee of the 
 Alumni Association of the College of Physi- 
 cians and Surgeons. He is a contributor 
 to The Reference Handbook of the INIedical 
 Sciences of articles on: The Mastoid Opera- 
 tions; Affections of the Auricle; Anatomy 
 and Physiology of the Auricle ; to the Amer- 
 ican Practice of Surgery on Surgical Dis- 
 eases and' Wounds of the Ear; the chapter 
 on Affections of the Nasal Cavities and 
 Vault of the Pharynx in Buck's Treatise on 
 Diseases of the Ear; also a contributor to 
 the journals on otological subjects. He is 
 a member of the New Y'ork Otological So- 
 ciety, American Otological Society. Ameri- 
 can Rhinological, Laryngological and Otol- 
 ogical Society, American Medical Associa- 
 tion, New York Academy of Medicine, New 
 York County, and State Medical Societies, 
 Hospital Graduates' Club, American Society 
 of Moral Prophylaxis, Public Health De- 
 fence League, National Association for the 
 Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, Har- 
 vey Society, Xi Graduates' Chapter, Phi 
 Gamma Delta ; and of the Columbia Univer- 
 sity, Sound' Beach Golf and Country Clubs, 
 The Phi Gamma Delta Club and the Lauren- 
 tian Club. Dr. Lewis married in New York 
 City in 1892, Lillie B. Graham, and they 
 have three children. Country Residence: 
 Sound Beach, Conn. Residence: 48 West 
 40th Street, New York City, 
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 LE'WIS, Robert Edgar: 
 
 Jurist ; born in Cass County. .Mo., April 
 3, 18r)7; son of Warner and Sarah M. 
 (Griinth) Lewis. He received his educa- 
 tion in Westminster College, Mo.; was ad- 
 mitted to the bar, and' practised law at 
 Clinton, Mo., until 1897. He was prosecut- 
 ing attonrney of Henry County, Mo., 1883- 
 i887; Republican candidate for governor of 
 Missouri, 1890; removed to Colorado and 
 became judge of the Fourth Judicial Dis- 
 trict of that State in 1903, serving until 
 appointed by President Roosevelt, in No- 
 vember, 1906, judge of the District Court 
 of the United States, for the District of 
 Colorado. He married in Clinton, Mo., May, 
 13, 1885, Ella C. Avery. Residence: 1118 
 Downing Avenue. Address: Federal Build- 
 ing, Denver, Col. 
 
 LEWIS, Willis L.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Potter County, Pa., in 
 1852. He was graduated from Alfred Uni- 
 versity, Ph.D., 1876; stxulied law under Olm- 
 sted and Larrabee and was admitted to the 
 bar of Potter and McKean Counties, Pa., 
 in 1878. He opened an office at Duke Cen- 
 ter, ]McKean County, and practised there 
 till 1882, when he went to Coudersport, Pot- 
 ter County, and there in 1883 became a 
 partner of his preceptor, Hon. D. C. Larra- 
 bee. Mr. Larrabee died in 1889, and in 
 1892 Mr. Lewis entered into partnership 
 with F. C. Leonard, former U. S. marshal 
 of the Middle District of Pennsylvania. In 
 1894 Potter and Clinton Counties indorsed 
 his name as a candidate for Congress, but 
 after a deadlock of two months he and his 
 opponent withdrew from the contest, and 
 his partner, Mr. F. C. Leonard was nomi- 
 nated and elected. In September, 1906, 
 Mr. Lewis became general counsel for the 
 Tidewater Pipe Company (Limited). He 
 formed a partnership with A. F. Jones and 
 R. R. Lewis, who carry on the business at 
 Coudersport, Mr. W. I. Lewis being in New 
 York City a large part of the time. Ad- 
 dress: Coudersport, Pa. 
 
 LIEB, John William, Jr.: 
 
 Electrical engineer; born in Newark. N. 
 J., Feb. 12, I860. He Avas graduated from 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Stevens Institute of Technolojiy, IM.E.. 18S0. 
 He entered the employ of the Kdi-on Klcc- 
 tric Liglit Company, X. Y., in 1881, and in 
 1882 was put in charjje by ]\Ir. Edison of the 
 installation of the electrical equipment of 
 tlie historic Pearl Street' Station. He was 
 sent by Mr. Edison, in 1882, to superin- 
 tend the installation of the Milan Edison 
 plant, of which he became director and chief 
 en{,nneer of tlie company, in <rcneral charge 
 of its technical department, engaged in the 
 manufacture of electrical apparatus and 
 the constructing and operating of lighting 
 and' power plants in Italy; returned to the 
 service of Edison Electric Illuminating 
 Company of New York in 1894, advancing 
 to third vice-president and general manager. 
 On the consolidation of the various lighting 
 interests in New York City, under the corpo- 
 rate name of The New York Edison Com- 
 pany, ap])ointed to third vice-president and 
 associate general manager. He is president 
 of the Electrical Testing Laboratories and 
 director in several electrical corporations. 
 He is jJast president of the American Insti- 
 tute of Electrical Engineers ; vice-president 
 of the American Society of jMechanical En- 
 gineers; member of tlie American Society of 
 Civil Engineers; past president of the Asso- 
 ciation of Edison Hluminating Companies 
 and the New York Electrical Society; mem- 
 ber of the Associazione Elettrotecnica Ital- 
 iana, Franklin Histitute, Philadelphia and 
 Engineers' Club. Address: 869 West End 
 Avenue, New Yoik City. 
 
 LIGGETT, Sidney B.: 
 
 Secretary of tlie I'ciUHyhaiii:! Lines West 
 of Pittsliurgh ; born on Fifth Avenue, Pitts- 
 burgh, May 10, 1849; son of John Liggett 
 and' Catherine ( Button ) i.iggett. He was 
 educated in public seliools and Western Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. He is 
 a member of tlie Board of Managers of Penn- 
 .sylvania Society, Sons of Ihc llevoliitioii, 
 and a member of (lie Society <if Colonial 
 Wars of I'cmisylvaiiia. lie iiianied in 
 I'ittsbiirgli. Now l."); 1S7U, JMiima Catlieriiie 
 Stevenson, and they have four children: 
 Dudley S., Sidney S., Mr^. Laurii I-iggelt 
 Suydam, :ind Joiin I). .Vdilicss: More- 
 wood Place, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 
 IILLIS. Thomas F.: 
 
 Catholic bislio]) ; lioin in Lexington, j\Io.. 
 March :i. 1802; son of .James and' ^Lxrgaret 
 (Jordan) Lillis. He was graduated from 
 Niagara University, then took the divinity 
 course in St. Benedict's College at Atchi- 
 son, Kan., and was ordained to the priest- 
 hood in 1885. He served in pastorates in 
 the Diocese of Leavenworth, and Dec. 27, 
 1904 was consecrated bishop of Leaven- 
 worth. Address: 1228 Sandusky Street, 
 Leavenworth, Kan. 
 
 LINCOLN, Charles Z.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Grafton, Vt., Aug. 5, 
 1848; son of Pratt and Harriet (Whitcomb) 
 Lincoln. He was educated in the schools 
 of Vermont and East Otto, N. Y., and in the 
 Chamberlain Institute, Randolph, N. Y. He 
 was teaching, 1807-1872; began the study of 
 law, first, in 1871, with Joseph R. Jewell, at 
 Little Valley, N. Y., and afterwards with 
 Hon. Charles S. Cary at Olean, N. Y.; was 
 admitted to the bar at Rochester, April 10, 
 1874; practised at Little Valley, 1874-1894, 
 and the following six years was chairman of 
 the New York Statutory Revision Commis- 
 sion and legal advisor to Governors Morton, 
 Black and Roosevelt. He opened an olilce 
 in Albany in November, 1901, and continued 
 ])ractice until 1904. In January, 1!)01, he 
 began collecting material for a Constitu- 
 tional History of New ^'ol■k, which was 
 jiubiished in 1900. in July, ino;"). he was 
 apjioinled editor of the governor's mes- 
 sages, uiider the new law jirovidiiig for an 
 annotated editi(m of the governor's com- 
 munications to the legislature from the or- 
 ganization of the Colonial Assembly in KiSS, 
 to and including 1904, and is still engaged 
 on that work. ]\Ir. Lincoln, in 1893, wrote 
 the History of the Bench and Bar of Cat- 
 taraugus County and he is a contributor t;> 
 legal and other ]jeriodieals. lie is also th;' 
 author of a rt'cent book on: The l''unda- 
 meiitals ul' American (!ovi rniiieiit . including 
 the four great (locuiiKiils on wliieli AhmmI- 
 ean institutions are IouikI.iI: Magni 
 Cliarta, the Declaration o| Independence, 
 the .\rtieles of Confederation, and the Con- 
 stitution ol' I he liiitnl Stales; and also thi> 
 statutes relatiii'j- to initmali/.ation and ex- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 patriation. -with an introduction and pxplan- 
 utory notes. Tlie boolv is di'sioiicd priuiarily 
 for the use of foroignors intending to be- 
 come American citizens, lie was \\y dele- 
 gate to the Methodist Episcopal (Jeneral 
 Conference, at Los Angeles, Calif., 1!)04; 
 has been president, trustee and attorney of 
 the Vilhige of Little Valley; was for seven 
 years a member of the Board of Education; 
 supervisor, 188G-1889; delegate to the Con- 
 stitutional Convention, 1894, serving as a 
 member of the committee on apportionment, 
 privileges and elections and civil service, 
 lie married' in East Otto, Nov. 12, 1874, Lu- 
 setta Bonfsteel and they have one son. Ad- 
 ress: 103 South Swan Street, Albany, 
 N. Y. 
 
 LINCOLN, Joseph Crosby: 
 
 Autlior; born in Brewster, Mass., Feb. I'A, 
 1870; son of Joseph and Emily (Crosby) 
 Lincoln. He attended schools at Brewster 
 and at Chelsea, Mass., and was afterward 
 bookkeeper for the Somerville Desk Com- 
 l)any, of Boston, 1894-1895; but left there 
 to study illustration with Henry Sandham, 
 the Boston artist. Mr. Lincoln was assist- 
 ant editor of the Bulletin of the League of 
 American Wheelman, 1896-1899; and' then 
 began writing verse and short sketches, 
 mostly of a humorous nature; came to 
 New York as a free lance in July, 1899. 
 He is author of: Cape Cod Ballads, 1902; 
 Cap'n Eri, 1904; Partners of the Tide, 
 1905; Mr. Pratt. 1900; The Old Home 
 House. 1907; Cy Whitaker's Place, 1908; 
 Our Village, 1909; Keziah Caffin, 1909; and 
 is a contributor to various magazines. He 
 is president of the New Jersey Unitarian 
 Mens' Club, and of the Salmagundi Club of 
 New York City. Mr. Lincoln married in 
 Chelsea, Mass., May 12, 1897, Florence El- 
 lery Sargent, and they have one son. Ad- 
 dress: Summit Avenue, Hackensack, N. J. 
 
 LINCOLN, Robert Todd: 
 
 President of The Pullman Company: born 
 in Springfield, 111., Aug. 1, 1843; eldest son 
 of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of 
 the United States and Mary (Todd) Lin- 
 coln. He was graduated' from Harvard Col- 
 lege, A.B., 1864, and entered Harvard I>aw 
 School, but left in order to enter the army. 
 
 in which he served an a captain on tlie stair 
 of General U. S. Grant. Wiien tlic war end- 
 ed he completed his law studies and engaged 
 in practice in Chicago. In 18SI he entered 
 the cabinet of President (iarfhdd an Secre- 
 tary of War, and retained that portfolio un- 
 der the administration of President .\rlhur. 
 In 1884 he was strongly mentioned for the 
 presidential candidate. I>ul lie refused to op- 
 pose President Artiiur in tlie Convention. 
 During the administration of President Ben- 
 jamin Harrison he was envoy e.xtiaordinary 
 and minister jjlenijiotentiary of the United 
 States to Great Britain, from 1889 to 1893. 
 After that he was special counsel for Tlie 
 Pullman Co^ipany until the death of Georg*! 
 M. Pullman, when he was elected president 
 of the company. He is also vice-president 
 of the Commonwealth Edison <^"ompany, 
 and a director in various corporations, lie 
 is a member of the Union, University, and 
 Harvard Clubs of New York, and Chicago 
 Golf and other clubs of Chicago, ilr. Lin- 
 coln married', Sept. 24, 1868, Mary Harlan, 
 daughter of James Harlan, senator from 
 Iowa and secretary of the Interior in Lin- 
 coln's second cabinet. They have two daugh- 
 ters: Mrs. Mary Ishani and Mrs. Jessie 
 Beckwith. Residence : 00 Lake Shore 
 Drive. Office: Pullman Building. Chicago. 
 
 LIND, John: 
 
 Lawyer and former governor; born in 
 Kanna, Smaland, Sweden, :\Iarcli 25, 18S4. 
 His family came to the United States in 
 18()8 and' settled at Goodhue, Minn. Large- 
 ly by his own efTorts, Mr. Lind secured an 
 education at the University of Minnesota, 
 and was admitted to the bar in 1877, and 
 has been a practising lawyer since that time, 
 except during the necessary interruption 
 of holding public olfice. As early as the 
 1^'iftieth Congress he was elected a member 
 of the House of Representatives from the 
 second District of Minnesota, serving in the 
 Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and' Fifty-second Con- 
 gresses, and was elected from the Fourth 
 District to the Fifty-eighth Congress. Dur- 
 ing the Spanish-American War he was first 
 lieutenant of a company of the Twelfth Min- 
 nesota Infantry. Mr. Lind has been, 
 throughout his career, a consistent Demo- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 crat. and was elected Governor of Minnesota 
 on the Democratic ticket in 1899, for the 
 term 1890-1900. He also took a prominent 
 part in the Democratic campaign of 1908. 
 He married at Mankato, Minn., Oct. 1, 1879, 
 to AUice A. .Shepard, and has two s^ons and 
 two daughters. Residence: 1775 Colfax 
 Avenue, South Minneapolis. Ollice: New 
 Voik Life Building, ^Minneapolis. 
 
 IINDBLOM, Robert: 
 
 Commission merchant; l)orn in Nerikc, 
 Sweden, Nov. 17, 1844; son of Nils and 
 Lovisa (Tolf) Lindblom. He was educated 
 by private tutors, took a course in an agri- 
 cultural and business college, and also a 
 course in civil engineering. He came to this 
 country in 1864 and settled at Milwaukee, 
 Wis., wliere he engaged in business. He met 
 with considerable success, and' since 1873 
 has been engaged as a Board of Trade com- 
 mission merchant, under the style of Robert 
 Lindblom & Company, in Chicago. He was 
 on the staff of Governor Altgeld, 1893-1897 
 and was president of the Civil Service Com- 
 mission of Chicago from Feb. 18, 1898, to 
 July 1, 1902, and member of the Board of 
 Education. He was most instriimental in 
 bringing the World's Fair to Chicago. He 
 was one of the World's Columbian Exposi- 
 tion directors, the Swedish Royal Commis- 
 sioners to that exposition, and he was 
 kniglited by the King of Sweden for his dis- 
 tinguished services in tliat connection. He 
 is secretary of the Farmers' National Ex- 
 change Companj'. He is a member of the 
 Union League and Swedish Clubs of Chica- 
 go, and' of the Milwaukee Club of Milwau- 
 kee. He married in Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 
 17, 1874, Hattie Lewis, now deceased, and 
 they had three children, one now deceased. 
 Residence: 078 La Salle Avenue. Oflice: 
 I'o-tal 'I'clcL'iapli ]?nilding, Chicago. 
 
 IINDENTHAL, Gustav: 
 
 Civil engineer; Ijorn in lirniui. Austria, 
 May 21, 1850; son of Dominik and Fran- 
 ciska (Schmutz) Lind'entlial. He took sci- 
 entific studies at colleges in Brunn and Vi- 
 enna from 18G4 to 1870. He was employed 
 on surveys and construction of railroads 
 and bridges in Austria and Switzerland till 
 1874, wlieu he came to the United States; 
 
 engineer at the Centennial International Ex- 
 hibition, Philadelphia, 1874-1877; thereafter 
 consulting engineer in the construction of 
 Western Railroad, with the main office at 
 Pittsburgh. He removed to New York City 
 in 1892; was originator, chief engineer and 
 architect of the proposed bridge over the 
 North River at Twenty-third Street, with a 
 single span of 3,100 feet. He is contributor 
 of papers and essays, mostly on engineering 
 subjects, to scientific journals and engi- 
 neering societies; was commissioner of 
 bridges in the City of New York, 1902-1903, 
 during the administration of Seth Low; 
 completed the construction of the Williams- 
 burg Bridge and made plans for the Black- 
 well's Island Bridge and Manhattan Bridge; 
 also prepared plans for the reconstruction 
 of Brooklyn Bridge, and for a great monu- 
 mental bridge terminal and municipal build- 
 ings combined. Mr. Lind'enthal was a mem- 
 ber of the board of six consulting engi- 
 neers, which planned the tunnels and ter- 
 minal of the Pennsylvania Railroad under 
 the North and East Rivers in New York; 
 is engineer and architect of Hell Gate 
 Bridge over the East River for the New 
 York Connecting Railroad, which, when 
 completed, will be the bold'est and longest 
 steel arch bridge in the world. He is presi- 
 dent of the North River Bridge Company; 
 a member of the British Institution of Civil 
 Engineers; Canadian Society of Civil Engi- 
 neers; American Society of Civil Engineers; 
 a fellow of the American Association for tliL^ 
 Advancement of Science; a member of Ver- 
 ein Deutscher Maschinen Ingenieure in Ber- 
 lin; Hudson-Fulton Celebration Committee, 
 Municipal Art Society; Arion Society (pres- 
 ident) ; and a member of the Manhattan 
 and' City Clubs. He married in New "S'ork 
 City, July 10, 1902, Gertrude Weil, who 
 died Oct. 21, 1905. Address: 45 Cedar 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 LINDSAY, George Henry: 
 
 Congressman; born in New York City; 
 removed to Brooklyn with his parents in 
 1S43; he was educated in the jmblic schools 
 and for many j^ears engaged in the hotel 
 business; was elected to the State Assem- 
 bly from the Seventh District, comprising 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 the Sixteenth Ward of Brooklyn, in 1882, 
 18S3. 1884, 1885, and 1886; in 18S6 was 
 elected coroner for the Second District of 
 Kings County and served six years, being re- 
 elected in 1881); in 1808 was appointed as- 
 sistant tax commissioner in the Department 
 of Taxes and Assessments of the City of New 
 York. He was elected to the Fifty-seventh, 
 Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Con- 
 gresses, and reelected to the Sixty-first Con- 
 gress, as a Democra.t from the Second New 
 York District. Address: 244 Bushwick 
 Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y'. 
 
 IINDSAY, John D.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New Y^ork City. Dec. 
 31, 1865; son of Dr. William Francis and 
 Sarah A. (Vredenburgh) Lindsay. He was 
 educated in the public schools and at the 
 New Y'ork University Law School in 1887. 
 He entered the district attorney's office as 
 clerk in 1882; was admitted to the New 
 York bar in 1887; was made deputy assist- 
 ant district attorney in 1887; serving as 
 such till 1893; assistant district attorney, 
 1893-1898; and has been in practice since 
 then as a member of the firm of Nicoll. 
 Anable and Lindsay. He has been president 
 of the New Y^ork Society for the Prevention 
 of Cruelty to Children, since 1903; is a 
 member of the American Society of Inter- 
 national Law, the American, New Y'ork 
 City and State Bar Associations, St. Nicho- 
 las Society, the New Y^ork Historical So- 
 ciety, the Society of INIedical Jurisprudence, 
 Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of Revolu- 
 tion, Alumni Association of the New Y'ork 
 University Law School, vice-president and 
 chairman of the Law Committee of the New 
 York State Convention of Societies for the 
 Prevention of Cruelty. He is also a member 
 of the Manhattan and Calumet Clubs of 
 New Y'ork City, and the Fort Orange Club 
 of Albany. He married in St. Louis, June 
 3, 1895, Stella Gregory. Address: 34 
 West nth Street, New York City. 
 
 LINEHAN, John C: 
 
 Insurance commissioner of New Hamp- 
 shire; born at Macroom, County Cork, Ire- 
 land, Feb. 9, 1840; son of John and Marga- 
 ret (Foley) Linehan, and came to the 
 United States in 1849. He served in the 
 
 Civil Wnv in the Union Army, and was a 
 merchant at. Pcnacook. X. H.. ISsfilHliO. 
 Colonel Linehan has l)epn in both briinchcs 
 of the Concord city government and was a 
 member of the fiovernor's Executive C'ouncil 
 one term. He was appointed insurance coni- 
 missioner in 1890. and rcappninled for a 
 second term of three years in lS!t3, and has 
 conlinucd in tliat office by successive reap- 
 I)ointnients. He was elected president of llic 
 National Convention of Insurance Depart- 
 ment Commissioners at the meeting in 1892. 
 He was one of llie directors of the Ccttys- 
 burg Battlefield Memorial Association, 18S5- 
 1895; has been a trustee of New Hampshire 
 Industrial School since 1884, and president 
 of tlie Board; trustee of the Loan and Trust 
 Savings Bank of Concord; a member of the 
 New Hampshire Historical Society and 
 treasurer of the American-Irish Historical 
 Society. Colonel Linehan married in Pena- 
 cook, then Fishcrville. N. IL, Jan. 2, 1864, 
 Mary E. Pendergast. Besidence: Penacook, 
 N. li. Office address: Concord, N. H. 
 
 LINES, Edwin Stevens: 
 
 Jiishop of Newark; born at Naugatuck, 
 Conn., Nov. 23, 1845; son of Henry \V. and 
 Harriet Lines. He was graduated from 
 Yale, B.A., 1872, and received' its degree of 
 D.D. in 1897; and from the Berkeley Di- 
 vinity School the degree of S.T.D. in 1904. 
 He was ordered deacon and priest of the 
 Episcopal Church in 1874 by Bishop Wil- 
 liams of Connecticut. After his ordination 
 to the ministry became rector of Christ 
 Church, West Haven, Conn. In 1879 he be- 
 came rector of St. Paul's Church, New 
 Haven, Conn., officiating there until 1903. 
 when he was elected bishop of Newark and 
 was consecrated Nov. 18, 1903, by Bishops 
 Tuttle, Doane, Potter, Scarborough. Brew- 
 ster, Coleman, Talbot and Whitehead'. Bish- 
 op Lines married on May 4, ISSO, to :Mary 
 L. Morehouse. Address: Newark, N. J. 
 
 LINN, William Alexander: 
 
 Author, banker, lawyer; born at Sussex, 
 N. J., Sept. 4, 1846; son of Dr. Alexander 
 and Julia (Vibbert) Linn. He was edu- 
 cated in Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 
 Y'ale College, B.A., class of 1868. of which 
 he was class poet, and was also editor of the 
 
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 Yale Literary Magazine. He was admitted 
 to the bar of the .State of New York but 
 made journalism his profession, and was a 
 member of the editorial staff of the New 
 York Tribune, 1SG8-1S71 and of the New 
 York Evening Post, 1871-1900. He is presi- 
 dent of tlie People's National Bank of llack- 
 ensack, N. J., of the llackensack Mutual 
 Uuihling and Loan Association, and a di- 
 rector in the North River Insurance Com- 
 pany. ]\Ir. Linn, who is a Republican, is 
 a commissioner of the Palisades Interstate 
 Park Commission, appointed by the gover- 
 nor of New Jersey, which rescued the Palis- 
 ades from destruction, and he is a trustee 
 of the Johnson Public Library at Hacken- 
 sack. He is author of: The Story of the 
 Mormons, 1902 (Macmillan) ; Rob and his 
 Gun, 1902 (Scribner's) ; and Horace Gree- 
 ley, 1903 (Applotons), and also of numerous 
 contributions to periodical literature. He 
 is a widower. Mr. Linn is interested in 
 liorticultural subjects, owning a fruit and 
 dairy farm in Sussex County, N. J. Ad- 
 dress: llackensack, N. J. 
 
 LINSLEY, George Thomas: 
 
 Clergyman; born in New Haven, Conn., 
 Sept. 4, 1864; son of Frederick H. and 
 Sarah M. (Smith) Linsley. He was gradu- 
 ated from Hillhouse High School, 1882, at 
 Yale University, B.A., 1885, Berkeley Di- 
 vinity School, 1888. Mr. Linsley was order- 
 ed deacon in 1888 and ordained jjriest in 
 1889 by Bishop Williams; was minister in 
 cliarge of Calvary Church at Round Hill 
 and Enunanuel Church, Glenville, 1888-1890, 
 and of St. John's Chapel, Byram, 1889- 
 1890; rector of Trinity Churcli, Newtown, 
 1890-1902, and rector of Church of the Good 
 Sliepherd, since 1902. He was secretary of 
 Fairfield Archdeaconry, 1896-1902; Church 
 Scholarship Society, since 1902, and member 
 of the standing committee of the Diocese of 
 Connecticut, since 1898. He was president 
 of Newtown Academy Association, 1890- 
 1902, and of the Newtown Library Associa- 
 tion, 1890-1902. Mr. Linsley is a member 
 of the Gamma Delta Psi fraternity. He 
 married in New York City, Jan. 10, 1895, 
 Mary Renshaw Cliauncey. Address: 92 
 Wethcrslield Avenue, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 LINSON, John J.: 
 
 Lawj'er; born in Sullivan County, N. Y., 
 Nov. 29, 1830; son of John J. and Emily 
 Fidelia (Jordan) Linson. He was educated 
 in the Monticello Academy and the State 
 Normal School, Albany. In January, 1872, 
 he was admitted to the bar, became a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Schoonmaker and' Linson, 
 in January, 1876, and has practised in 
 Kingston, N. Y^., ever since. He was corpo- 
 ration counsel of Kingston, 1883-1887; 
 State Senator, 1888-1891, commissioner of 
 statutory revision, 1892-1895; commissioner 
 to reconnnend changes in legislative proced- 
 ure, 1895 ; special counsel for New Y'ork 
 City in charge of condemnation proceedings 
 for the Catskill Water Supply, 1907. Mr. 
 Linson is vice-president and attorney for 
 the National Ulster County Bank, and trus- 
 tee and attorney of the Kingston Savings 
 Bank. He is a member of the New A'ork 
 State, New York City and Ulster County 
 Bar Association ; trustee and treasurer of 
 the Kingston City Library; a member of 
 the Masonic order. Knights Templar, 
 Knights Pythias and of the Reform Club of 
 New York City and the Kingston Club of 
 Kingston. He married in Monticello, Oct. 
 10, 1872, Ida Mapledoram, who died Feb. 
 23, 1902, and he has four sons. Address: 
 Kingston, N. Y. 
 
 LIPPINCOTT, Craige: 
 
 Publisher; born in Philadelphia, Nov. 4, 
 1840; son of Joshua B. and Josephine 
 (Craige) Lippincolt. He received his edu- 
 cation in the school of Rev. James G. Lyons 
 in Philadelphia, and in tlie University of 
 Pennsylvania, class of 1866. He entered in 
 1800, the publishing liouse of J. B. Lippin- 
 cott & Company, which in 1885 changed to 
 the J. B. Lippincott Company, and in 1886 
 succeeded his father as president oi that 
 Company. He is also a director in the 
 Farmers' and Mechanics' National Bank of 
 Piiiladelpliia, and in the Pennsylvania Com- 
 pany for tlie Insuring of Lives and Granting 
 Annuities. Mr. Lippincott is a member of 
 the Delta Psi fraternity, and of llie Union 
 League, Rittcnhousc, Ail. i'liiladelphia 
 Country, Huntington Valley Country, Rac- 
 (juet, and Bachelors' Barge Clubs. He mar- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 ried in Philadelphia, April 13, 1871, Sallie 
 E. Buc'kiicll, and they have three cliiidren. 
 Residence: 218 \\'est Rittenhoiise Square. 
 Ollicc: 227 East Washington Square, Phil- 
 adelphia. 
 
 LIPPINCOTT, Henry C: 
 
 INIanager of agencies for the Penn Mu- 
 tual Life Insurance Company; born in Phil- 
 adelphia, April 12, 1844. lie was graduated 
 from the Central High School of that City; 
 was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 
 May, 1865, and practised law until 1869, 
 when he removed to Colorado,* where he 
 taught school and' wrote for newspapers. 
 He entered the insurance business in the 
 employ of the Penn Mutual in February, 
 1874, and served in various capacities until 
 he was appointed manager of agencies in 
 January, 1888. He is active in everything 
 that pertains to life insurance. His con- 
 tributions to the business have been many I 
 and influential, and he has been in frequent 
 requests as a speaker by various associa- 
 tions. He has made the excellent canvassing 
 material of the Penn Mutual, and has had 
 njuch to do with its development as a com- 
 pany. Address: 1421 North 17th Street. 
 Philadelpliia. 
 
 LIPPINCOTT, Joseph Barlow: 
 
 Hydraulic engineer; born in Seranton, 
 Pa., Oct. lU, 1864; son of John A. Lippin- 
 cott, LL.U., and Harriet Phillips (Barlow) 
 Lippincott. After attending Dickinson Col- 
 lege for two years he went to the University 
 of Kansas, from which he was graduated 
 as P.S. in 1886. After graduation he was 
 connected with the Atchison, Topeka and 
 Santa Fe Railroad until 1888; was top- 
 ographer of the U. S. Geological Survey 
 four years, and after that engaged in 
 various irrigation enterprises. He was hy- 
 drographer of the U. S. Geological Survey, 
 1895- 1U02, and supervising engineer- of the 
 U. S. Reclamation Service, 1902-1906. Mr. 
 Lippincott was a lecturer at the University 
 of California, and consulting engineer for 
 various cities; was appointed civil service 
 commissioner of Los Angeles, Calif., in 1904 
 and is now assistant chief engineer of the 
 Los Angeles Aqueduct. He has twice been 
 
 president of the Southern California Engi- 
 neers' and Architects' Association; is a 
 member of the American Society of Civil 
 Engineers; vice-president of the California 
 Water and Forest Association; honorary 
 member of the Sempervirens Club and mem- 
 ber of the California Club of Los AngeU-Ji. 
 He has made a special study of the probUins 
 of storage of water on tiie (iila River of 
 Arizona, and Kings' River, Calif., tlic de- 
 velopment and application of water in 
 Southern California and California hydro- 
 graphy in general, and the results of these 
 investigations have been published as Water 
 Supply papers by the United States (ieo- 
 logical Survey. Mr. Lippincott married at 
 Beverly, N. J., Josephine Phillips Cook. 
 Address: 1400 Union Trust Building, IjOs 
 Angeles, Calif. 
 
 LIPPINCOTT, Joshua Bertram: 
 
 Publisher; born in Montgomery County, 
 Pa., Aug. 24, 1857; son of Joshua Ballingor 
 Lii)pincott, the well known Philadelphia 
 publisher and bookseller. Mr. Lipjjincott 
 received his preliminary education at the 
 Penn Charter School, was prepared for col- 
 lege at the Episcopal Academy of IMiiladel- 
 phia, and entered the University of Penn- 
 sylvania in the class of 1878. He left, how- 
 ever, in 1875, at the end of his freshman 
 year, to enter his father's establishment, 
 and has since been engaged in the booktrade. 
 He became a mend)er of the firm in January, 
 1884, and after the incorporation of the 
 business in 1887, and the death of his father 
 in 1886, he became the vice-president of the 
 J. B. Lippincott Company, which position he 
 still holds. Mr. Lippincott has been active 
 in the details of the business. He is a trus- 
 tee of the University of Pennsylvania, a di- 
 rector of the Academy of Music, and a mem- 
 ber of the Union League, the Art Club, Uni- 
 versity Club, Geographical Club, and various 
 other clubs and social organizations of 
 Philadelphia and other cities. Address: 
 Logan. Philadelphia. 
 
 LIPPINCOTT, Martha Shepard: 
 
 Author: iiorn in Mooiestown, N. J.; 
 daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (Holmes) 
 Lippincott. She was educated in the public 
 
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 schools, Moorestown Friends' High School 
 and Swart hniore College. Miss Lippincotl 
 began writing poetry when a school girl in 
 1SS6, and since 18!)5 has made it a life work. 
 She has had poems book reviews and prose 
 articles ])ublished in the largest cities in 
 nearly every State in the United' States and 
 some in Canada, Alaska and the Hawaiian 
 Islands, in magazines, newspapers, religious 
 and reform pa])ors. Miss Lippincott writes 
 more poetry than anything else, and, being 
 a member of the Society of Friends she is 
 often called " The Quaker Poetess." Of the 
 sixteen hundred poems she has written, a se- 
 lection has been ])ublished in a volume en- 
 titled Visions of Life. She has had thirtj' 
 hymns and songs set to music, and twenty- 
 five more accepted by various composers. 
 Miss Lippincott has been reviewing books 
 since 1900. Her poems are optimistic in 
 outlook, with high and altruistic ideals. 
 Address: Station 0., 10th Street and Co- 
 lumbia Avenue, Philadelphia. 
 
 LIPPINCOTT, Walter: 
 
 Publisher; born in Philadelphia in 1849; 
 educated in the Thomas Baldwin School and 
 the University of Pennsylvania, class of 
 18G8. He left the University in his sopho- 
 more year and after a years' traveling in 
 Europe went into business in his father's 
 publishing and bookselling establishment, 
 the J. B. Lippincott & Company house. In 
 this he showed extraordinary activity, so 
 great indeed that he broke down from 
 over-work about 1881 and was obliged to 
 withdraw from active labor in the establish- 
 ment. His interest in the concern contin- 
 ued, however, and on the reorganization of 
 the firm into an incorporated company in 
 1885 he became a director in the company. 
 Since then his services have been of an ad- 
 visory character, his health not permitting 
 an active participation. Mr. Lippinrott is 
 a member of the Union League, Rittcnhouse, 
 University, Art, Racquet, Country, Franklin 
 Inn, and Mcrion Cricket Clubs, and May- 
 flower Society. He married Elizabeth T. 
 Horstmann, in 1879, and has one daughter. 
 Address: 2101 ^Valnut Street, Philadel- 
 phia. 
 
 LIPPINCOTT, William Henry: 
 
 Artist; born in Philadelphia, Dec. 6, 
 1849 ; son of Isaac and Emily Lippincott. 
 He commenced the study of art at the 
 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and 
 became an illustrator for publications and 
 later a scenic artist, practising that branch 
 of art for six years, at the same time, con- 
 tinuing to paint easel pictures. In 1874 
 he went to Europe to study as a pupil of 
 Leon Bonnat of Paris; and remained in 
 Paris until 1882. He then returned to the 
 L^nited States and established a studio in 
 New York City. He was professor of paint- 
 ing at the National Academy of Design, for 
 three years; was made an associate in 1887 
 and an academician in 1896. He is a paint- 
 er of portraits, figures, compositions and 
 landscapes, has exhibited at the Paris Salon 
 and a regular contributor to the American 
 art exhlLliions. He devoted a portion of his 
 time to scenic painting, having painted the 
 scenerj' for Salambo, La Boheme, Manru 
 and other operas. Some of his most im- 
 portant oil and water color pictures are 
 Un Jour de Conge (Paris Salon 1879) ; 
 The Duck's Brakfast, Centennial (Exposi- 
 tion 1876); Pink of Old Fashioned (Water 
 Color Society 1882) ; Helena (National 
 Academy of Design) ; infantry in Arms; 
 Love's Ambush; Pleasant Reflection. Ad- 
 dress: 7 West 43d Street, New York City. 
 
 LIPPMANN, Julie Mathilde: 
 
 Author, poet and critic; born in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., daughter of Adolph and Marie (Pol- 
 lock) Lippmann. She was educated by pri- 
 vate governess, mainly, though she also at- 
 tended private schools in Brooklyn. ' She 
 studied music for two winters under Dr. 
 William INIason, and is an honorary member 
 of the class of 1909 of the American Col- 
 lege for girls at Constantinople, Turkey. 
 Miss Lippmann has been an extensive trav- 
 eler in Creat Britain, the continent and the 
 East (Egypt, the Holy Land and Syria), 
 and camj)ed out in the Holy Land for five 
 weeks, riding horseback through the country 
 from Hebron to Beirut. She is author of: 
 Miss Wildfire; Dorothy Day; Dearie, Dot 
 and the Dog; Sweet Peas; Jack o' Dreams; 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 I'iVoryday Girls, and many stories and mis- 
 cellaneous writings in Tlic Century, Ifar- 
 ])ers, The Atlantic and other leading maga- 
 zines. Address: 17 West 84th Street, New 
 >ork City. 
 
 LITTATJER, Lucius Nathan: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in Gloversville, N. 
 Y., Jan. 20, 1859; son of Nathan and 
 Harriet (Sporborg) Littauer. He was edu- 
 cated in Charlier, N. Y., and Harvard Col- 
 lege, A.B., 1878. He succeeded to the glove 
 manufacturing business of his father in 
 1 SS2 and now extensively engaged therein, 
 lie was elected to the U. S. Congress in 
 1S9G and served five terms, but refused 
 unanimous renomination in 1900. Mr. Lit- 
 tauer has been a member of the National 
 and State Conventions of the Eepublican 
 party since 1890; was a member of the 
 committee on ajipropriations, while in Con- 
 gress; had charge of bills, legislative, exec- 
 utive and judicial; urgent deficiencies, gen- 
 eral deficiencies and fortifications. He is 
 president of the Gloversville Knitting Com- 
 ))any, Fonda Glove Lining Company, Met- 
 ropolitan Sewing Machine Company of Ny- 
 ack, Parkes ^Machine Company; treasurer of 
 the ]\[onroe-Eckstein Brewing Company; di- 
 rector of the Fulton County Bank of Glov- 
 ersville, The State Bank of New York, the 
 Adirondack Trust Company of Saratoga, 
 and manager of Nathan Littauer's Hospital 
 at Gloversville. He is a member of the Met- 
 ropolitan Club of ^Yashington, and of the 
 Harvard Club of New York City. Address: 
 Gloversville, N. Y. 
 
 LITTLE, Adelbert Pierson: 
 
 Manufacturer of typewriter ribbons, car- 
 bon paper, etc.; born in Riga, N. Y^., in 
 1847; son of Marshall E. and Sabrah R. 
 Little. He received his education in the 
 Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and was grad- 
 uated from the University of Rochester, 
 A.M., 1872. He was Supreme Court re- 
 porter for twenty-one years and' since 1885 
 has been a manufacturer and conducts his 
 business alone with offices at Rochester, 
 New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, 
 Cleveland, and London, England. Mr. Lit- 
 tle is director and trustee of the Mechanics' 
 
 Savings Bank of Rochoslcr. He is a mem- 
 ber of Tliela Helta Clii fraternity and of 
 tlie W'iiisf, Oak Hill, Country and (ient-Bco 
 Clubs. We married in 1S77, Kranron A. 
 Munn, now d('('('a--e<l. Address; l{oolici<ler, 
 N. V. 
 
 LITTLE, Edward Porter: 
 
 Clergyman; born in IJrooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 
 19, 1853; son of William Henry and Car- 
 oline Frances (Cobb) Little. He attended 
 the Pingry School, Eli/.abetli, X. J., was 
 graduated from Knox College, A.B. and 
 A.M., and from the General Theological 
 Seminary, S.T.B. He was ordered deacon 
 in 1878, ordained priest in 1879 in the 
 ministry of the Episcopal (Miureh, wa.s rec- 
 tor of Pittsfield; 111., until Oct.. 18S0, Lan- 
 caster, N. H., until ISSO, Nantucket, Mass., 
 1887-1893; and has been rector of Hannibal, 
 Mo., since 1893, and rural dean of Hanni- 
 bal since 1903. He is a member of the 
 Phi Delta Theta fraternity, Society of Co- 
 lonial Wars, Descendants of Colonial Gov- 
 ernors, and the Old Colony Historical 
 Society. Mr. Little married in Pittsfield, 
 111., May 9, 1882, Henrietta Nevin Grim- 
 shaw, who died April 27, 1900, and has four 
 children. Address: Trinity Church Rec- 
 tory, Hannibal, Mo. 
 
 LITTLE, George Thomas: 
 
 Librarian; born in Auburn. INIe., May 
 14, 1837: son of Edward T. and Lucy Jane 
 (Bliss) Little. Pie was graduated from 
 the Edward Little High School at Auburn 
 in 1873, from Bowdoin College. A.B., 1877; 
 studied in Paris. France, 1877-1878, and 
 received' from Bowdoin the degrees of A.M., 
 1880, and Litt.D., 1894. He was instructor 
 in Latin in Thayer Academy, Braintree. 
 Mass., 1878-1882; professor of Latin in 
 Bowdoin College, 1882-1886, and has been 
 librarian of Bowdoin College since 1883. 
 He is also president and treasurer of the 
 Agawam Manufacturing Company. Dr. 
 Little was chairman of the State Library 
 Commission of Maine, 1899-1!)02. He is 
 author of: Descendants of George Little 
 of Newbury, Massachusetts, 1040; Histor- 
 ical Sketch of Bowdoin College; Longfellow 
 Bibliography, and' is an occasional contrib- 
 
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 MEN OF A:\1ERTCA. 
 
 iitor to Tho Nation. Dr. Littlo is a mem- 
 ber of the .\mericin T.ibraiy Association. 
 Maine Historical Society, Minnesota His- 
 torical Society, Maine (Jenealonfical Society; 
 and is trustee and clerk of the Edward 
 Little Institute of Auburn. ;Me. lie is a 
 nieinl)er of the American Alpine Club, Appa- 
 lachian Mountain Club, Delta Kappa Epsi- 
 lon fraternity, and Phi Beta Kappa Society. 
 He married in Braintree. Mass., Dec. 18, 
 1884, Lilly Thayer Wrij^ht-Lane. and they 
 liave four children. Eesidenc^: 8 College 
 Street. 'Office: Bowdoin College Library, 
 Brunswick. ^le. 
 
 LITTLE, John Mason: 
 
 ^^ferchant and trustee; born in Boston. 
 July 14. 1848; son of James Lovell and 
 Julia Augusta (Cook) Little. His immi- 
 grant uncestors included: Thomas Little, 
 Plymouth. 1G.30; and Bichard ^Moore, May- 
 flower. 1020. He was a pupil in the Bos- 
 ton public schools, including Chauncey Hall, 
 the English High School, and in the ]\Ias- 
 sachusetts Institute of Technology. He 
 learned the dry goods conuuission business 
 and became a leading merchant in that 
 line of trade. He served as president of 
 the Mercliants' Club and of the Beal Es- 
 tate Club; is a member of the Executive 
 Committee of the Bo.ston Associated Board 
 of Trade, and has been its president. He 
 is a director of the American Bank Note 
 Company; of the Boston Ports and Sea- 
 man's Aid Society; and of the Good Gov- 
 ernment Association of Boston; and he is 
 also treasurer of the New England Civic 
 Federation ; vice-president of the Real Es- 
 tate E.Kcliange and Auction Bf)ard; was 
 chairman of tlie Commission on Revision 
 of the Building Laws of the Conunonwealth 
 by appointment of Governor Bates. He is 
 a directoi- of the American I'nitarian Asso- 
 ciation, chairman of tlie Prudential Com- 
 mittee of tlie Arlington Street Church 
 since 1888. Mr. Little is a member of the 
 Algonrjuin and Tedcsco CouTitry Clubs and 
 of till- Merchants' Association. He mar- 
 ried, .i.ni. 14. 1872, Helen, daughter of 
 James II. and .Judith Heal, ot" I'.oston. .\d 
 dress: Boston. 
 
 LITTLE, John Sebastian: 
 
 (lOvernor of Arkansas; born at Jenny 
 Lind, Sebastian County, Ark., March 15, 
 1853. He was educated at Cane Hill Col- 
 lege. Av'-.; was admitted to the bar in 
 1874: in 1877 was elected district attorney 
 for tlie Twelfth Circuit of Arkansas, com- 
 posed of Sebastian. Scott, Crawford, and 
 Logan counties, and' was reelected for four 
 successive terms. He was elected a rep- 
 resentative to the Legislature in 1884; in 
 188G was elected circuit judge for a term 
 of four years; in 1803 was chosen as chair- 
 man of the State Judicial Convention; and 
 in Sept.. 1894, was elected, without opposi- 
 tion, to fill the unexpired term of C. R. 
 Breckinridge in the Fifty-third Congress; 
 was elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, 
 Fifty-sixth. Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth 
 Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-ninth 
 Congress. He was elected Governor of Ark- 
 ansas in 1006. on the Democratic ticket, 
 for the four-year term expiring in 1010 and 
 he resigned from Congress Jan. 14. 1007. 
 Address: Greenwood, Ark. 
 
 LITTLEFIELD, Charles Edgar: 
 
 Lawyer and former congressman ; born 
 in Lebanon. York County, Me.. June 21, 
 18.11 ; received a common school education 
 and studied law. He was admitted to the 
 bar in 187G; was a member of the Maine 
 Legislature in 1885. and speaker of the 
 House in 1887; was attorney-general of the 
 State, 1889-1803; was elected to the Fifty- 
 sixth Congress June 19, 1899. to fill the 
 vacancy caused by (Ih^ deatli of Nelson 
 Dingley. and lo the Fifty-seventh, Fifty- 
 eight li and Fifty-ninth Congresses, from 
 the Second INIaine District, and he was re- 
 elected in 190() to the Sixtieth Congress, 
 but resigned in 1908 lo take uji tho ])rac 
 tice of law in New York Cily. wlure he 
 took a promiuenl jiositiou from the first. 
 being appointed icceiviM- in the eelebrnted 
 Stock Exchange Case of tlie A. O. lirowu 
 (Company. Mr. Litllelield is a f(H-eeful or- 
 ator and was for years one of the most 
 elfective campaign speakers of the Repub- 
 li<Mn paity in MaiiU' and throughout the 
 <<iunt ry. Address: Rockland, Me. 
 
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 LITTLEFIEID, Nathan Whitman: 
 
 Lawyer; born at East T?ridn;e\vator, 
 Mass., May 21, 1846; spn of Eufus Ames 
 and Abin'Til Russel (Whitman) Littlefield. 
 He is a descendant of John Alden and other 
 Plymouth pilgrims. He was graduated 
 from Phillips Academy, Andover. 1865, 
 from Dartmouth College as valedictorian 
 in 1860, and from the Boston X^niversity 
 Law School in 1876. He was principal of 
 Newport High School, 1871-1873; principal 
 of Westerly High School and superintendent 
 of schools" of Westerly, E. I., 1873-1874. 
 Mr. Littlefield was admitted to the Mas- 
 sachusetts bar at Boston in May, 1876, 
 and to the Rhode Island bar in Providence, 
 Jan., 1877. He was appointed by tlie 
 Supreme Court, standing master in chan- 
 cery in 1890, and by the U. S. District 
 Court referee in bankruptcy in 1898; a 
 member of the commission for revising the 
 judicial system of Rhode Island in 1905. 
 He has lectured frequently on political and' 
 historical subjects and has traveled exten- 
 sively in this country and abroad ; and 
 was orator at the two hundred and fiftieth 
 anniversary of the founding of Bridgewater, 
 Mass., in 1006. He is a director of the 
 Providence Realty Company. Stewart Street 
 Land Company: and member of the law 
 firm of Littlefield and Barrows. Mr. Lit- 
 tlefield was a member of the School Com- 
 mittee of Pawtucket for several years; 
 State senator, 1807-1898; Democratic can- 
 didate for governor of Rhode Island in 
 1900. He is a member of the Rhode 
 Island Bar Association, the American 
 Bar Association, and National Municipal 
 League; lionorary member of the Bridge- 
 water (Mass.) Historical Society, Rhode 
 Island Historical Association, Old Colony 
 Historical Society ; president of the Beth- 
 any Home of Rhode Island, and member 
 of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Pi 
 chapter. He is also a member of the To 
 Kolon Club of Pawtucket, R. L. and the 
 Rhode Island Congregational Club. Mr. 
 Littlefield married' at Ellsworth, :Me., Aug. 
 13, 1873, Arietta V. Redman, by whom he 
 has a son ; married, second, at Pawtucket, 
 1889, Mary Wheaton Ellis, and they have 
 a son. Residence: 29 Cottage Street, Paw- 
 
 tucket. R. I. Omce: 87 Wcybossct Street, 
 
 I'rovidcnce. ]\. I. 
 
 LITTLETON, Martin Wilie: 
 
 Lawyer; hoiii ii(;ir Kiti'.'^ton, Roane 
 County, Tcini., Feb. 12. 1S72; son of 
 Thomas JcfTerson and Hannah (Ingraham) 
 Littleton. He is self-educated; went to 
 Texas at the age of lifteen and began the 
 study of law at Weatlierford', Texas, nt 
 the age of eighteen. He was admitted to 
 the bar in July, 1891; was assistant prose- 
 cuting attorney of Parker County, Texas, 
 and later of Dallas County, Texas; came to 
 New York in 1806, was assistant district 
 attorney of Kings County, N. Y., and while 
 so engaged, tried the case of People against 
 William F. IMiller, charged with larceny 
 of over $11,000,000; tried the case of Peo- 
 ple against Doody, charged with corrupting 
 the old' City of Brooklyn. He was pres- 
 ident of the Borough of Brooklyn, 1904- 
 1005; chairman of the Democratic State 
 Convention of New York, in 1900; nomi- 
 nated Edward M. Sliepard for mayor of 
 New York City, in 1901; nominated Judge 
 Alton B. Parker for President of the United 
 States at the Democratic National Conven- 
 tion, St. Louis, 1904. Mr. Littleton is a 
 member of the Association of the Bar of 
 the City of New York, and of the Law- 
 yers', National Democratic and Manliattan 
 Clubs of New York City, National and 
 Brooklyn Clubs of Brooklyn, Garden City 
 Golf Club, Oakland (Long Island) (iolf 
 Club, and Manhasset Bay Yacht Club. He 
 married at Dallas, Texas. Die. 1, 1896, 
 Maude Elizabeth Wilson, and they have two 
 sons. Address: GO Wall Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 LIVINGSTON, Leonidas Felix: 
 
 Congressman and fanner: born in New- 
 ton County, Ga., April 3. 1S32; of Scotch- 
 Irish descent. His grandfather emigrated 
 to this country from North Ireland, and 
 .served under General Washington during 
 the Revolutionary War. Mr. Livingston 
 is a farmer by occupation and has always 
 lived on his farm. He was a private 
 soldier in the Confederate Army, 18G1-1S65; 
 was for two terms a member of the House 
 
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 of Representatives and one term a member 
 of the State Senate; was chairman of the 
 Committee on Agriculture in both tlie 
 House and Senate; was vice-president of 
 the Georgia State Agricultural Society for 
 eleven years and president of the same for 
 four years. He was president of the 
 Georgia State Alliance for three years, but 
 resigned when elected to Congress; and has 
 been prominent in all political struggles in 
 his State for many years. Mr. Livingston 
 was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sec- 
 ond, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, 
 Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fif- 
 ty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, and re- 
 elected to the Sixty-first Congress from the 
 Fifth Georgia Dstrict. Address: Coving- 
 ton, Ga. 
 
 LLOYD, Arthur Seldon: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Mt. Ida, Alexandria 
 County. Va., in 1857; son of John Janney 
 and Eliza Armistead (Selden) Lloyd. He 
 was educated in the Virginia Polytechnic 
 Institute, the University of Virginia, the 
 Theological Seminary in Virginia, as D.D., 
 and Roanoke College. He entered the min- 
 istry of the Episcopal Church, in 1880, 
 was missionary in the Diocese of Virginia, 
 1880-1884; rector of St. Luke's Church, 
 Norfolk, Va., 1884-1899; secretary of the 
 Board of Missions from 1899. He was 
 elected bishop of Mississippi, Jan. 20, 1903; 
 elected bishop of Kentucky, Sept. 21, 1904, 
 and' of Southern Virginia, Xov. 8, 1905; 
 but declined all these elections. He was 
 elected professor of ecclesiastical history at 
 the Virginia Seminary in 1896 and is now 
 general secretary of the Board of Missions 
 of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary 
 Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church ; 
 general secretary of the American Church 
 Missionary Society and trustee of the Edu- 
 cational Society of Virginia and the Amer- 
 ican Building Fund Commission. Mr. 
 Lloyd married at The ileadows, Washington 
 County, Va., in 1880, Lizzie Robertson 
 Blackford, and has five children. Address: 
 281 Fourtli Avenue, New York City. 
 
 LLOYD, Curtis Gates: 
 
 15ol;iiiist; born in Florence, Ky., July 
 17, 1859; son of Nelson Marvin and Sophia 
 
 (Webster) Lloyd. He was educated priv- 
 ately. He is in the wholesale druggist 
 and pharmacy business and" he is a partner 
 in the firm of Lloyd Brothers, wholesale 
 druggists and manufacturing pharmacists 
 and is trustee of the Lloyd Library. Mr. 
 Lloyd has traveled extensively in Mexico, 
 West Indies, Sandwich Islands, Samoan 
 Islands, Egypt and Europe. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Cuvier Club. Residence: 224 
 West Court Street, New York City. 
 
 LLOYD, Henry: 
 
 Ex-governor of Maryland; born near 
 Cambridge, Md., Feb. 21, 1852; son of 
 Daniel and Kitty (Henry) Lloyd. He was 
 brought up on farm, educated in private 
 schools, taught school and after 1880 en- 
 gaged in the practice of law. He was 
 elected to the Maryland Senate in 1880 and 
 in 1884 became president of that body. 
 He became cx-officio acting governor of 
 Marj'land on the appointment of Governor 
 McLane as minister to France in 1885, and 
 was elected by the legislature to complete 
 the term which expired in 1888. Since 
 1892 he has been judge of the Circuit 
 Court of Maryland. Judge LIojtI is a 
 Democrat in politics. Address: Cam- 
 bridge, ^Id. 
 
 LLOYD, Henry Albert: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Doylestown, Pa., Nov. 
 12, 1849; son of E. Morris and Julia Dun- 
 lap (Hendrie) Lloyd. He was graduated 
 from Princeton College, 18G9; admitted to 
 the bar at Philadelphia, Oct., 1871, and 
 practised his profession there and in ad- 
 joining counties until ]\Iarch, 1884, when 
 he received the appointment of assistant- 
 general claim agent, of the Gould South- 
 western System of Railways, and removed 
 to St. Louis. Lie was appointed general 
 claim agent of the ^\"abasll Railroad 
 Company in June, 1884. and subsequently 
 assistant secretary. He resigned the posi- 
 tions there April, 1899, and removed to 
 New York City, being admitted to the bar 
 of New York, Sept., 1899. Mr. Lloyd is 
 president and director of the Brazoria Land 
 and Cattle Company; treasurer and director 
 of tlie Cleveland Grains Drying Company, 
 
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 and director of the Guardian Trust Com- 
 pany of Kansas City; president of the 
 Athmtic Export Company. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Now York Produce Exchange, 
 Sons of Revolution, and the New York 
 Athletic Club. lie married at Detroit, Mich., 
 in 1871, Cornelia P. Voorhces. Address: 
 32 r>road\vny. New Y'ork City. 
 
 LLOYD, Herbert Marshall: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, N. Y'., March 
 29, 1SG2; son of Henry H. and Anna 
 (Badger) Lloyd. He was graduated from 
 Harvard. A.B., in 1883; and from Columbia, 
 LL.B., in 1885. He was a member succes- 
 sivelj' of the law firms of Murphy, Lloyd 
 and Boyd, ^Murphy and Lloyd and now of 
 Lloyd and JNIaddox; secretary-treasurer and 
 director of the American Paper Goods Com- 
 pany; secretary and director of the Webb 
 Wire Works. Mr. Lloyd is a member of 
 Phi Beta Kappa; member and secretary 
 of the Board of Managers of the New Jer- 
 sey State Geological Survey; member of the 
 Board of Health, Montclair, N. J., and of 
 the City, Midday, Harvard Clubs of New 
 Y'ork City, and Harvard Club of New 
 Jersey. He married in New York City, Oct. 
 19, 1893, Anna Lord. Residence: 24 Lloyd 
 Road, Montclair, N. J. Office: 92 William 
 Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 I LLOYD, Horatio G.: 
 President of the Commercial Trust Com- 
 ^ pany, Philadelphia; born in Mid'dJetown, 
 Del., Jan. 14, 1867; educated in private 
 schools and University of Pennsylvania 
 Law School; admitted to the bar in 1888, 
 but never practised. He entered the Phil- 
 adelphia Trust Company as a clerk; and 
 was made assistant secretary in in 1894. In 
 Jan., 1900, he went to the Commercial Trust 
 Company as treasurer; made vice-president 
 July, 1900, and president of the Commercial 
 Trust Company in Dec. 1902. He is also 
 director of several corporations. He is a 
 member of the Radnor Hunt, Markham and 
 Merion Cricket Clubs. Mr. Lloyd married. 
 May 6, 1897, Mary Helen Wingate, daughter 
 of General George W. Wingate of New 
 York. Residence: Haverford, Pa. Office: 
 Arcade Building, Philadelphia. 
 
 LLOYD, James Tighlman: 
 
 Congressman; born at Canton, i-owin 
 County, Mo., Aug. 28, 1857. lie was grad- 
 uated from Christian I'niversity at Can- 
 ton. j\Io., in 1878; taught school for a few 
 years thereafter; was admitted to the bur, 
 and then practiced iiis profession in Lewis 
 County until 1885, when lie located at his 
 present home, where he has since re.sidcd. 
 He had held no office, except that of jiros- 
 ecutiug attorney of his county, 1889-1893, 
 until his election, as a Democrat, to the 
 Fifty-fifth Congress, to till a vacancy; and 
 he was elected to tiie Fifty-si.xtli, Fifty- 
 seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Six- 
 tieth Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty- 
 first Congress, from the First Missouri Dis- 
 trict. He married, March 1, 1881, Mary B. 
 Graves. Address: Shelbyville, Mo. 
 
 LLOYD, John: 
 
 Banker; born at HoUidaysburg, Pa., in 
 April, 1842. He was educated in Lafay- 
 ette College. Mr. Lloyd is presiderit of the 
 First National Bank of Altoona ; president 
 of the Edison Electric Light Company, Al- 
 toona Gas Company, Altoona Coal and 
 Coke Company, Henrietta Coal Mining Com- 
 pany, Altoona and Logan \'alley Street 
 Railway Company. He married, in Jan., 
 1806, Caroline B. McCord. Address: Al- 
 toona, Pa. 
 
 LLOYD, John TJri: 
 
 Manufacturing chemist and author; born 
 in West Bloomfield, N. Y., April 19, 1849; 
 son of Nelson Marvin and Sophia (Webster) 
 Lloyd. He was educated' in jtrivate schools 
 in Kentucky, and received the degree of 
 Phar.M. from the Philadelphia College of 
 Pharmacy in 1890; Ph.D. from Ohio Uni- 
 versit}% 1897, and LL.D. from Wilberforce 
 University. Dr. Lloyd was apprenticed at 
 the age of fifteen to W. J. M. Gordon, a 
 pharmacist in Cincinnati. At the age of 
 twenty-two he became mmager of the 
 laboratory of J. M. :Merril and Co., Cincin- 
 nati. Upon the retirement of the senior 
 partner of this firm, the name was changed 
 to Thorpe and Lloyd Brothers, and, in 
 1885, to its present style of Lloyd Brothers. 
 
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 lie was professor of clieiiiistry in the Cin- 
 cinnati College of Pharmacy, 18S3-1S87, 
 and in the Eclectic Medical Institute, 1878- 
 1!I04. being also president of that institu- 
 tion, 181IG-1904. He has received several 
 gold medals for scientific work from the 
 United iStates Government. He is pres- 
 ident of the Lloyd Library and Museum, 
 devoted to botany, pharmacy, materia med- 
 ica, and allied sciences. Dr. Lloyd is a 
 member of the American riiarmaccutical 
 Association, Uiiio Pharmaceutical Associa- 
 tion, Ohio Eclectic Medical Association, and 
 National Eclectic Medical Association. He 
 is also a member of the Authors' Club, of 
 New York, the Franklin Inn, of Philadel- 
 phia, Sons of the American Pevolulion, 
 Sons of the Revolution, and the Society 
 of Colonial Wars, and of the Business 
 Men's, Literary, Cosmic and Cuvier Clubs 
 and Folk Lore Society of Cincinnati. He 
 has contributed profusely to current peri- 
 odicals in chemistry and pharmacy, and is 
 author of the scientific works: Chemistry 
 of Medicines, 1881; Drugs and Medicines 
 of North America, 1894 (with C. G. 
 Lloyd) ; Revision of King's American Dis- 
 pensatory, 1898 to 1900 (Felter and 
 Lloyd) ; Elixirs and Their History and 
 Preparation, 1892; and A Study in Phar- 
 macy, 1895. Dr. Lloyd is also author of 
 the following works of fiction: Etidorpha, 
 the End of Earth, 1895; The Right Side 
 of the Car, 1897; Stringtown on the Pike, 
 1900; Warwick of the Knobs, 1901; Red 
 Head, 1903, and Scroggins, 1904. He mar- 
 ried, first, Dec. 27, 187G, Adeline Meader; 
 and, second, June 10, 1880, Emma Rouse, 
 and has three children. Residence: Lafay- 
 ette Avenue, Clifton, Cincinnati. Office: 
 Lloyd Brothers, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 LLOYD, William Supplee: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in La Crosse, Wis., 
 Feb. 12. 1860; son of William Jones and 
 Ann Elizabotli (Custer) Lloyd'. He w^as 
 educated in tiie Rugby Academy and the 
 University of Pennsylvania. He was a 
 member of the firm of Lloyd & Supplee 
 Hardware Company, and of the William J. 
 Lloyd Manufacturing Company, and is now 
 proprietor of the Stratford Knitting Mills, 
 
 Wayne Junction, Philadelphia. He was 
 foinierly major in the National Guard of 
 Pennsylvania. He is a Republican and in 
 religion an Episcopalian. Mr. Lloyd is a 
 member of the Sons of the Revolution, Co- 
 lonial Society of Pennsylvania, Historical 
 Society, the Franklin Institute and other 
 societies, and of the Union League and 
 Germantown Cricket Clubs. He married 
 in Philadelphia, April 27, 1893, Ida Cros- 
 key Mustin. Residence: 5901 Wayne Ave- 
 nue, Germantown. Office: Wayne Junc- 
 tion, Philadelpliia. 
 
 LLWYD, John P. Derwent: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Manchester, England, 
 June 7, 1861; son of Rev. Thomas Llwyd, 
 D.C.L., archdeacon of Algoraa, and Emma 
 (Plummer) Llwyd. He is a graduate of 
 Trinity University, Toronto, as B.D. and 
 D.D. He also attended INIontreal Theolog- 
 ical College. He was rector of St. Paul's 
 Church, Riverside, 111., 1887-1889; rector 
 of the Church of tlie Good Shepherd, Oma- 
 ha, Neb., 1889-1897, and rector of St. 
 Mark's Church, Seattle, Wash., 1897-1909. 
 He is now vice-provost of Trinity Univer- 
 sity, Toronto. Mr. Llwyd is a member of 
 the American Arclupological Society; was 
 for several years member and at one time 
 president of the Board of Library Trustees 
 of the City of Seattle; was also president 
 of the Associated Charities of that city, 
 1897-1899. He has been twice elected dep- 
 uty to the General Convention of the Epis- 
 copal Church in the United States. He is 
 the author of a small volume of poems, en- 
 titled The Song of the Breakers, and of 
 a monograph on Indian life, entitled The 
 Message of an Indian Relic. Dr. Llwyd' 
 married in INIilwaukee, ^Vis., Dec. 28, 1886, 
 Mary Emilie Thomas, and they have five 
 children. Address: Trinity University, 
 Toronto, Canada. 
 
 LOBDELL, Charles Wesley: 
 
 Banker, manufacturer, retired merchant; 
 born in Victor, Ontario County, N. Y., Feb. 
 27, 1834; son of George A. and Alniira 
 (Preston) Lobdell. His father was a direct 
 descendant of the Simon Lobdell who settled 
 in Mill'ord, Conn., in 161G. Mr. Lobdell 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 obtained his ochtcafion in the public schools 
 and becaiiic a sludcnt of law. lie was ad- 
 inittt'd to I ill' l)ar in 1X5!) ami ])ractis('d 
 his jirofcssion lor (liict' years, when he de- 
 cided to en^aL,^!' in a Inisiness career. He 
 wont to iMolinc, 111., where he was active 
 as a merchant, banker, and manufacturer 
 until 18S8, wlien he removed to Chicago, 
 where he was prominent in business circles 
 for many years, but has now retired. He 
 is a iiiemlier of the Chicago Stock Ex- 
 change; a tiepublican, and a member of 
 the Reformed Episcopal Church. He mixr- 
 ried at Moline, 111., Oct. 22, 1864, Hen- 
 rietta M. Shaw, and has three children. 
 Address: ;!8(il Lake Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 LOBINGIER, Charles Sumner: 
 
 Jurist, author, lecturer; born at Lanark, 
 111., April 30, 18()(); son of George and' Ada 
 (Stewart) Lobingier. He was graduated 
 from Nebraska State University, B.A., 1888, 
 receiving later the degrees of A.M., LL.M., 
 ;ind Ph.D., from the same University. He 
 was assistant State librarian and reporter 
 of the Supreme Court, 1888-1892, and hav- 
 ing in the meanwhile been admitted to the 
 l)ar in 1890, located at Omaha, and was 
 there engaged in active practice for more 
 than a dozen years. In the year 1891 he 
 ])repared' the official edition of the Consoli- 
 dated Statutes of Nebraska. In 1900-1903, 
 lie was professor of law at the University 
 of Nebraska, and member of the Nebraskan 
 Supreme Court Commission, 1902-1903. In 
 the latter year he became United States 
 judge of the Court of First Instance in 
 the Philippine Islands, where he still is. 
 In 1907 lie was appointed chairman of a 
 commission to codify the Philippine laws, 
 and in 1909 was made one of the Philip- 
 pine representatives of the National Con- 
 ference of Commissioners on Uniform Laws. 
 He is the author of the present law gov- 
 erning justices of the peace courts in the 
 Philippines, has written many articles on 
 legal and historical topics for the maga- 
 zines and has been a contributor to every 
 legal encyclop:edia now published in Amer- 
 ica, having written more than 30 titles 
 and treated such subjects as Constitutional 
 Law, Equity, Evidence, Territories, etc. He 
 
 is likewise the author of: The Peoples' 
 Law, or Popular i'articipalion in I.,iiw- 
 iMaking (iMacinilian, i!l09) ; Philippine 
 Practice (2(1 edition, 1907). lie was pres- 
 ident of the Nebraska Sons of the .\iMcricaii 
 Revolution, and first vice-president of Hie 
 Nebraska State Historical Society ; is a mem- 
 ber of the American Society of Jnternalional 
 Law, the American JJar Association, the 
 American Political Science Association, the 
 National (ieographical Society, the V\\i 
 Beta Kappa, the I'hilippine Academy, and 
 the Columbia Club of Manila, and several 
 Masonic organizations. Achlress: Manila, 
 P. 1. I'eriuanent residence: Omaha, Neb. 
 
 LOCHREN, William: 
 
 .(mist; horn in ('omity TyroMc, Irtliirui, 
 April 3, 1832. He removed in infancy to 
 Erankliu County, Vt.. and was educated 
 in the schools there, and then took up the 
 study of law. He was admitted to the Ver- 
 mont bar at St. Albans, in 18.56, and went 
 at once to St. Anthony, Minn, (now Minne- 
 apolis). When the Civil War began in 
 1861, he enlisted' at once in the First Min- 
 nesota Volunteers, and was mustered out as 
 first lieutenant in 1865. He was elected 
 to the State Senate of Minnesota in 1868, 
 and judge of the District Court for the 
 Fourth Judicial District of ^Minnesota in 
 1881, serving until appointed in May, 1893, 
 by President Cleveland, to the office of Com- 
 missioner of Pensions, serving until ap- 
 pointed, May 20, 1896. judge of the United 
 States Court for the District of .Minnesota, 
 retiring in 1908. Judge Lochren has always 
 been a Democrat in politics. lie married 
 first in Sept., 1871. Martha A. Demmon, 
 who died in Jan., 1879; and marritd. sec- 
 ond, April 19, 1882, :Mary E. Abbott. Ad- 
 dress: 422 Tenth Avenue, S. E., Minneap- 
 olis, Minn. 
 
 LOCKE, Charles Edward: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Pittsburgh. Sept. 
 9, 1858; son of William Henry and Mar- 
 garet Ellen (Loor) Locke. He was grad- 
 uated from Allegheny College, A.B., A.M., 
 and D.D. He began his ministry in the 
 Western Reserve of Ohio; has served in 
 Smithfield Street Church, Pittsburgh, First 
 
1040 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, Portland, 
 Ore.; Central Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 San Francisco; Delaware Avenue Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, Bufl'alo, and the Hanson 
 Place Methodist Episcopal Church, Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y. He is now pastor of the First 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, 
 Calif., which, with over two thousand mem- 
 bers, is the largest ^Methodist Church on 
 the Pacific Coast. He was the pastor con- 
 ducting the funeral services of President 
 ]\lcKinley at Buftalo. Dr. Locke has trav- 
 eled extensively in Europe, Asia and Africa. 
 In politics he is a Republican. He is a 
 member of Phi Beta Kappa Society, Delta 
 Tail Delta fraternity, and a Thirty-second 
 Degree !Mason. He is author of: Free- 
 dom's Next War for Humanity. He mar- 
 ried at Pittsburgh, Dec. 27, 1882, Alina J. 
 Wood, and their children are : Lucile, 
 Iluth, Lydia Margaret and Charles Edward, 
 Jr. Address: 728 Berendo Street, Los An- 
 geles, Calif. 
 
 LOCKE, James William: 
 
 Jurist; born in Wilmington, Vt., Oct. 
 20, 18.S7; son of Rev. William Sherburne 
 and Caroline Dame (Tibbetts) Locke. After 
 completing his high scliool course he began 
 the study of law in an office at ^Manchester, 
 N. H., and practised until 1861, when he 
 entered the United States Navy as a volun- 
 teer officer, serving through the Civil War 
 until mustered out in 1865. He practiced 
 at Key West, Fla., 1805-1868; was ap- 
 pointed county judge of Monroe County. 
 Fla., 1868, elected to the State Senate of 
 Florida in 1870, and in 1872 was appointed 
 by President Grant to his present office as 
 judge of the United States Court for the 
 Southern District of Florida, in which he 
 is still serving. Judge Locke married at 
 Kittery, Me., Oct. 5, 1860, Alvina C. Neal. 
 Address: Jacksonville, Fla. 
 
 LOCKWOOD, Belva Ann Bennett: 
 
 Aliorney and solicitor; born in Royalton. 
 Niagara County,' N. Y., Oct. 24, 1830; 
 daughter of Lewis Johnson and Hannah 
 Priest (Green) Bennett. She was gradu- 
 ated from Genesee College, Lima, N. Y., 
 1857, Syracuse University, A.M., 1870; Na- 
 
 tional University Law School, Washington, 
 LL.B., 1873, and she took a course in Uni- 
 versity Extension at Oxford, England, 1890. 
 She has been twice married, first at Royal- 
 ton, N. Y., Nov. 4, 1848, to Uriah McNall 
 (who died in 1853), and second, in 1869, to 
 Dr. Ezekiel Lockwood, who died in 1877. 
 She has had two daughters, one by each of 
 these marriages, but both are now deceased. 
 Mrs Lockwood was preceptress of the Union 
 School, Lockport, N. Y"., 1857-1861; Gaines- 
 ville Female Seminary, Hornellsville, N. Y.. 
 1861-1802; Owego (N. Y.) Female Semi- 
 narj-, 1862-1865, and tauglit school in Wash- 
 ington, D. C, 1866-1870. She was admitted 
 to practice by the Supreme Court of the Dis- 
 trict of Columbia in 1873, and by the U. S. 
 Supreme Court and U. S. Court of Claims 
 in 1879. Mrs. Lockwood took a prominent 
 place at the bar and as a lecturer, having 
 visited nearly all the States in her career of 
 eight years on the lecture platform. She 
 has been connected with many law cases, the 
 most important of which was that of East- 
 ern and Emigrant Cherokees vs. The United 
 States in Avhich a jiidgment was given to 
 her clients for about $5,000,000. :Mrs. Lock- 
 wood has been one of the most prominent of 
 the workers for the securing of equal politi- 
 cal and legal riglits without distinction of 
 sex, and also much engaged in temperance 
 and humanitarian work and as an advocate 
 of universal peace. She was nominated by 
 the Equal Riglits Party, at San Francisco, 
 Aug. 23, 1884, and again in 1888, as its 
 nominee for the office of President of the 
 United States. She was sent by the State 
 Dojiartment to represent the United States 
 at the Congress of Charities and Corrections 
 in Geneva, Switzerland, 1896. Mrs. Lock- 
 wood secured the passage of the bill to ad- 
 mit women to the U. S. Supreme Court and 
 all Federal Courts, in February, 1879; of 
 tile bill to give women employes of the Gov- 
 ernment the same pay as men, in 1890; bill 
 securing the appropriation for bounties for 
 sailors and marines, in 1875; and was one 
 of the committee who changed the law of 
 descent for the women of the District of Co- 
 lumbia. She has been a member of the 
 Universal Peace Union for the past thirty- 
 one years; and is now vice-president and 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 correspondino- secretary; was elected a mem- 
 ber of the International Peace Bureau at 
 Berne, Switzerland, in 1892, and has been 
 annually reelected ever since, and for the 
 past fifteen years has been secretary in 
 charge of the branch bureau at Wasliington, 
 and has attended the Universal Peace Con- 
 gresses annually since 1889. Mrs. Lock- 
 wood compiled The Peace Treaties of the 
 United States, 1893, has been associate edi- 
 tor of The Peacemaker, Philadelphia, since 
 1875, and has published numerous pam- 
 phlets in favor of international peace and 
 arbitration. She has served two terms as 
 president of the Woman's National Press 
 Association, and two terms as president of 
 the District Woman Suffrage Association. 
 Address: 619 F Street, N. W., Washing- 
 ton, D. C. 
 LODEK, Percival E.: 
 
 Physician; born at Allentown, Pa., July 
 13, 1853; son of Alexander W. and Mary 
 A. (Yeager) Loder. He attended Strouds- 
 burg (Pa.) Academy, 1868-1869; was grad- 
 uated from Jefferson Medical College, M. 
 D., 1875, and' from the Pennsylvania Col- 
 lege of Dental Surgery, D.D.S.", 1885. He 
 was demonstrator of anatomy in the Penn- 
 sylvania College' of Dental Surgery for 
 nineteen years, and has been professor 
 of anatomy in the Pennsylvania Col- 
 lege of Dental Surgery for the past eight 
 years. He was surgeon of the Second Bri- 
 gade of the National C4uards of Pennsyl- 
 vania, 1877-1878, and has been assistant 
 police surgeon of Philadelphia for the past 
 twenty years. He is a member of the Phil- 
 adelphia County ]\Iedical Society, Pennsyl- 
 vania State Medical Society and American 
 Medical Association, and' trustee of the 
 First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia; 
 is an Odd Fellow, and a member of the 
 Knights of hte Golden Eagle, and of the 
 Union Eepublican Club of Philadelphia. He 
 married in Philadelphia, Sept. 23, 1880, 
 Hannah Pvose, and they have had three chil- 
 dren, all now deceased. Address: 517 
 South 8th Street. Philadelphia. 
 
 LODGE, Henry Cabot: 
 
 United States senator, autlior; born in 
 Boston,, May 12, 1850; son of John EUer- 
 
 ton Lodge. He was gr'^^'^ated from Har- 
 vard College, A.B., 1871; studied law at 
 Harvard Law School and was gradiiato<l 
 LL.B., 1875, and in 187(5. lie received llie 
 degree of Ph.D. from Harvard I'niversity 
 for his tiiesis on Tiie Land Law of tlie An- 
 glo-Saxons. He was admitted 1o tlie Suf- 
 folk Bar in 1870. He is aullior of Life and 
 Letters of George Cabot, 1877; Short His- 
 tory of the English Colonies in America, 
 1881; Life of Alexander Hamilton. 1882; 
 Life of Daniel Webster, 1883; Studies in 
 History, 1880; Life of Washington, two 
 volumes, 1889; History of Boston (in tlie 
 Historic Towns Series, published by the 
 Longmans), 1891; Historical and Political 
 Essays, and a volume of selections from 
 speeches, 1892; author, in conjunction with 
 Theodore Roosevelt, of Hero Tales from 
 American History, 1897; author of Certain 
 Accepted Heroes, and' Other Essays, 1897; 
 Story of the Revolution, two volumes, 1888 ; 
 Story of the Spanish War; A Fighting Fri- 
 gate, and other essays, 1897; A Frontier 
 Town and other essays, 1906; and he edit- 
 ed the works of Alexander Hamilton, in 
 nine volumes, in 1885. Senator Lodge is 
 a member of the Massachusetts Historical 
 Society, of the Virginia Historical Society, 
 the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 
 ences, the New England Historic and 
 Genealogical Society, and of the American 
 Antiquarian Society. He has received' the 
 degree of LL.D. from Williams College, 
 Clark University, Yale University, and Har- 
 vard University; was permanent chairman 
 of the Republican National Convention 
 which met in Philadeli)hia, June 19, 1900; 
 chairman of the committee on resolutions 
 of the Republican National Convention of 
 1904 at Chicago; permanent chairman of 
 the Republican National Convention of 
 1908; was a member of the Commission on 
 Alaskan Boundary, appointed by President 
 Roosevelt; regent of the Smithsonian Insti- 
 tution during the service in the House of 
 Representatives and appointed Rtgent 
 again in 1905. He served two terms as 
 member of the House of Representatives 
 of the Massachusetts Legislature; was 
 elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty- 
 second and Fifty-third Congresses; and was 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 elected to the Senate, Jan. 17, 1S9.'5, to suc- 
 ceed Henry L. Uuwes. He resigned his seat 
 in the House and took his seat in the Sen- 
 ate ^larcli 4, 1S!)3, and he was reelected 
 in 181)1) and 1!)03. His term of service will 
 expire March 3, 11)11. He is chairman of 
 the Committee on the IMiilippines and chief 
 spokesman on the floor of the iSenate for 
 the Committee on foreign aii'airs which 
 deals with all the international relations 
 of the United States. Senator Lodge mar- 
 icd, April (i. 1872, Anna Cabot David and 
 tlifv lia\e three chiUlren: Constance Davis, 
 honi ill 1S72; (icorgc Cabot, born in 1873, 
 ilifd in I'.iOli ami John Ellerton, born in 
 187(J. IJcsitlciice: Nahant, Mass. Address: 
 United States Senate, Washington, D. C. 
 
 LOEB, Adolph: 
 
 Fire insurance manager; born at Uingen, 
 Cermany, March 9, 1839; son of Ludwigand 
 Helen (Brandeis) ]>oeb. He was educated 
 in the scliools of Bingen, and was graduated 
 from the Normal School. He came to this 
 country in his youth and began life as a 
 bookkeeper, at which he continued until 
 1869, when lie established a fire insurance 
 agency at Memphis, Tenn. In 1873 he re- 
 moved to Chicago, where he estiblislied a 
 fire insurance agency, which is still con- 
 ducted under the style of Adolph Loeb & 
 Son. He has been manager since 1893 for 
 the United States of the North German Fire 
 Insurance Company of Hamburg, Germany, 
 and of the Trans- Atlantic Fire Insurance 
 Company of Hamburg. He is jjresident of 
 the North (Jerman Fire Insurance Com- 
 pany of New York, and local agent of the 
 German of Freeport and New Hampshire of 
 Manchester, and general agent of the 
 Anchor Fire Insurance Company of Cincin- 
 nati, and of the Atlanta-Birmingham Fire 
 Insurance Comjjany, of Atlanta, Cia. He is 
 ex-president of the Chicago Sinai Congrega- 
 tion, president of the Jewish Agricultural 
 Aid Society, ex-president of the District 
 Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of 
 B'nai B'rith, and trustee of the Cleveland 
 Orphan Asylum. He married in Cincinnati, 
 Oliio, in 18G4, Lucille Hart. Address: 159 
 La Salle Street. Residence: Grand Boule- 
 vard, Chicago. 
 
 LOEB, Jacques: 
 
 Trofessor of ])liysiology; born April 7, 
 1859, and was educated in the Ascanisches 
 Gymnasium, Berlin, the Universities of Ber- 
 lin, Munich and Strassburg, where he re- 
 ceived the degree of M.D. in 1884. He was 
 assistant in physiology at the University 
 of Wurzburg, 1886-1888; at Strassburg, 
 18S0-1890; Stazione zoologica, at Naples, 
 1890-1891; associate in biology at Bryn 
 Mawr College, Pennsylvania, 1891-1892; as- 
 sistant professor of pliysiology in the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago, 1892-1895; associate pro- 
 fessor, 1895-1900; professor, 1900-1903, and 
 since then head of the Department of Physi- 
 ology, University of California. He is au- 
 thor of: Animal Heliotropism and its 
 Identity with the Heliotropism of Plants, 
 1890; Physiological Morphology, Part I.; 
 lleteromorphosis, 1891 ; Physiological Mor- 
 phology. Part II.; Organization and Growth, 
 1892; Papeis on Developmental Mechanics, 
 Physiological EfTects of Ions, Artificial 
 Parthenogenesis, Comparative Physiology, 
 Hybridization, etc.; Comparative Physi- 
 ology of the Brain and' Comparative Psy- 
 chology, 1900; Studies in General Physiol- 
 ogy, 1905 ; The Dynamics of Living Matter, 
 1906; Untersuchugen fiber Kunstliche 
 Parthenogenese, 1906; Die chemische Ent- 
 wicklungserregung dcs thierischen Eies, Ber- 
 lin, 1909. Professor Loeb married in 1890, 
 Anne L. Leonard, and they have two sons 
 and one daughter. Address : University of 
 California, Berkley, Calif. 
 
 LOEB, James: 
 
 Banker; born in New York City, Aug. 6, 
 1867; son of Solomon and Betty (Gallen- 
 berg) Loeb. He was graduated from Har- 
 vard University, A.B., 1888. After- his 
 graduation he engaged in the banking busi- 
 ness in New Y'ork City in the firm of Kuhn, 
 Loeb and Company until he retired in 1901. 
 He is a member of the Chamber of Com- 
 merce, the Metropolitan ^luseum of Art, 
 the American Museum of Natural History, 
 the American Institute of Archaeology, the 
 I'lnglish Society for the Prevention of 
 Hellenic Studies, the New York Botanical 
 (iarden, the Municipal Art Society and a 
 member of the Lotos, Lawyers', Players', 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 104 :{ 
 
 City, Grolier, Harvard, St. Andrew's CJolf 
 and the Colonial Club of Caiubridj;c, Mass. 
 Residence: 37 East 38tli Street. Ollice: 
 52 \N'illiara Street, New York City. 
 
 LOEB, William, Jr.: 
 
 Collector of customs at New York; born 
 in Albany, N. Y., Oct. 9, 1866. He received 
 his education in common and liigs schools. 
 In 1888 he was stenographer of New York 
 State Assembly; afterward was law and 
 general reporter and acted as i^rivate sec- 
 retary to various public ollicials, amon^^ 
 them the president pro tempore, of tlie New 
 York State Senate, speaker of the Assem- 
 bly and lieuteant-governor. In 1894 he was 
 a member of the stenographic corps in the 
 New York State Constitutional Convention; 
 in 1895 was grand jury and district attor- 
 ney's stenographer of Albany County; sten- 
 ographer and private secretary to Governor 
 of New Y'ork, Jan. 1, 1899; secretary to 
 the vice-president of the United States, 
 March 4, 1901, and was appointed Sept. 
 25, 1901, assistant secretary to the Pres- 
 ident, and Feb. 18, 1903, secretary to the 
 President, which position he held to the 
 end of the Roosevelt Administration. He 
 was appointed by President Taft, in 1909, 
 collector of customs at New Y^ork. Ad- 
 dress ; U. S. Custom House, New Y'ork City. 
 
 LOGAN, Frank Granger: 
 
 Commission merchant, retired; he was 
 born on a farm in Cayuga County, N. Y".. 
 Oct. 7, 1851; son of Simeon Ford and 
 Phebe (Hazen) Logan. He was educated 
 in the public schools of Cayuga County 
 and at the Ithaca Academy. He went to 
 Chicago in 1870 and entered the dry goods 
 establishment of Field, Leiter & Company 
 as a clerk, remaining in this employment 
 five years. He was then for one year with 
 a Board of Trade firm, after which he 
 entered into business on his own account 
 in the commission grain trade, as a mem- 
 ber of the firm of F. G. Logan & Company. 
 The beginnings of the firm were on a mod- 
 est scale, but in time the house became one 
 of the leading ones operating on the Chi- 
 cago Board of Trade. Mr. Logan is an 
 archaeologist of some note, and has a fine 
 
 collection of specimens, wliich lie ixhiliilud 
 in tile anthropological departineut of tlic 
 World's Columbian Ivxposition. He lius 
 also made a collection of interesting n-lics 
 relating to the lives of Abraliuni l^inculn 
 and John Brown, which he cxliibited in 
 the Illinois Building at the Kxposilioii. 
 He is a member and ollieer of I'lyiiiouth 
 Church, a director of Ihe City .Mi■^.>iona^y 
 Society, and a member of the L'nion League 
 Club. He was married in Cliieago, in 1887, 
 to Josie Hancock. Residence: 2911) Prairie 
 An'ciuk'. .Vddrcss: Board of Trade, Chicago. 
 
 LOMBARD, Isaac Gross: 
 
 Banker; liorn at Truro, Mass., Sept. 9, 
 1835; son of Lewis and Sarah (Gross) Lom- 
 bard. He was educated in the public 
 schools and at tlie Davis Academy, Truro. 
 He was secretary of the Union Insurance 
 and Trust Company of Ciiicago, 1857-1863, 
 having removed to that city in the former 
 year. He was cashier of the Fifth National 
 bank of Chicago, 1863-1883, and president 
 of the National Bank of America, 1893- 
 1900. He has been director of the Corn 
 Exchange National Bank since 1900, and 
 was chairman of the Clearing House Com- 
 mittee, 1880-1900. He is a member of the 
 New England and Mayflower Societies, and 
 of the Bankers' and Union League Clubs. 
 He was married in Boston, Dec. 24, 1857, 
 to Margaret Baker, and has two children. 
 Residence: 1819 Indiana Avenue. Ad- 
 dress: Corn Exchange Bank, Chicago. 
 
 LONDON, Jack: 
 
 Author; born in San Francisco, Jan. 12, 
 1876; son of John and Flora (Wellman) 
 London. He was educated at the Oakland 
 (Calif.) High School and the University 
 of California. He became, in turn, a sal- 
 mon fisher, an oyster pirate, a schooner 
 sailor, a fish patrolman, a longshoreman 
 and general bay- faring adventurer; when 
 he was seventeen he shipped before the 
 mast as able seaman ; went to Japan and 
 seal hunting on the Russian side of Bering 
 Sea. among other things, and served at 
 divers times in various forecastles. He 
 became possessed of an interest in sociology 
 and economics. Swayed partly by this and 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 partly by the fascination of the enterprise, 
 he tramped over the United States and 
 Canada, many thousands of miles, and had 
 more than one jail experience. Later he 
 repeated his vagabond career in the East 
 End of London. He went over Cliilcoot 
 Pass with the first of the Klondike rush 
 of 1897. He went as a war correspondent 
 to Japan, Korea and Manchuria in 1904; 
 and in 1907 started on a seven years' cruise 
 aroimd the world in a fifty-foot Ketch-rig 
 yacht, which enterprise was terminated be- 
 cause of lack of stirring incident. He is 
 author of: The Son of the Wolf; The 
 God of His Fathers; A Daughter of the 
 Snows; The Children of the Frost; The 
 People of the Abyss; The Cruise of the 
 Dazzler; The Call of the Wild; The 
 Kempton-Wace Letters; The Faith of Men; 
 The Sea-Wolf; The War of the Classes; 
 The Game; Tales of the Fish Patrol; Moon- 
 Face; White-Fang; Love of Life; Before 
 Adam; The Iron Heel; The Road. Mr. 
 London married, first in Oakland, Calif., 
 in 1900, Bessie Maddern, by whom he has 
 two daughters and second, in Chicago, in 
 1905, Charmian Kittredge. Address: Glen 
 Lllcn, Sonoma County, Calif. 
 
 LONG, Chester I.: 
 
 United States Senator; born in Perry 
 County, Pa., Oct. 12, 1860. He moved 
 with his parents to Daviess County, Mo., 
 in 186.5, where he resided until 1879, when 
 he moved to Paola, Kan. ; received an, 
 academic education; was admitted to the 
 bar at Topcka, Kan., in 188.5, and located 
 at Medicine Lodge, where he has since re- 
 sided. He was elected to the State Senate 
 in 1889; was elected to the Fifty-fourth, 
 Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth 
 Congresses. Before his term as Represen- 
 tative in the Fifty-eighth Congress began, 
 he was elected as a Republican to the 
 United States Senate to succeed William 
 A. Harris, Democrat, for the term begin- 
 ning March 4, 1903. His term of servicn 
 will expire Marcli 3, 1909, as he was 
 defeated for reelection in the primaries of 
 1908. Senator Long is one of the most 
 active and painstaking of the members of 
 the Senate and has achieved a position 
 
 of real value to the nation when his politi- 
 cal career was interrupted. Address: Med- 
 icine Lodge, Kan. 
 
 LONG, Eli H.: 
 
 Phjsiciiin; born in Clarence, N. Y., July 
 24, 1860; .son of David and Mary (Miller) 
 Long. He was educated in the public 
 schools of Williamsville, N. Y., and was 
 graduated from the University of Buffalo, 
 Medical Department, as M.D., in 1882; fol- 
 lowing with post-graduate courses in the 
 University of Pennsylvania in 1882. Since 
 then he has practised medicine in Buffalo. 
 He was professor of materia medica in 
 Pharmacal Department, 1889-1899, dental 
 department since 1893, medical depart- 
 ment since 1899 at the University of 
 Buffalo; is also assistant attending physician 
 at tlie Buffalo General Hospital. He is au- 
 thor of: Table for Doctors and Drug- 
 gists; Dental Materia Medica and' Thera- 
 peutics. Dr. Long is medical examiner 
 of the Provident Life and Trust Com- 
 pany, secretary and treasurer of the medical 
 department and dental department of the 
 University of Buffalo ; secretary of medical 
 staff' of the Buffalo General Hospital; a 
 member of Church of Christ (Disciples), 
 member of the American Medical Associ- 
 tion, American Therapeutic Society, Med- 
 ical Society of the State of New York, 
 Buffalo Academy of JMedicine, and a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Managers of the New 
 York Christian Missionaiy Society. He 
 married in Buflalo, in 1884, Alice Eggert, 
 and they have four children. Address : 
 133.5 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 LONGDEN, Aladine Cummings: 
 
 Professor of ])liysics; l)t)i-ii at Leesvillc, 
 Ohio, Feb. 19, 1857; son of Samuel and 
 Adaline M. (Cummings) Longden. He was 
 graduated from De Pauw University with 
 first honors in mathematics, A.M., 1884, 
 and Ph.D. from Columbia in 1900. He was 
 instructor in physics and chemistry at the 
 State Normal School, Westficld, Mass., 
 from 1888 to 1897, and has been professor 
 of ])liysics at Knox College since 1901. He 
 has made researches and publislied articles 
 on electrical subjects. He is a member of 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Ktir, 
 
 the American Physical Society, Soci6t<5 
 Beige d'Astrononiie, and the National Geo- 
 graphic Society; fellow of tiie American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science, 
 and a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fra- 
 ternity. He married in Buffalo, N. Y., 
 Dec. 24, 1884, Jeanie 1. Humble. Address: 
 643 West North Street, Galesburg, HI. 
 
 LONGFELLOW, Alexander Wadsworth: 
 
 Architect; born at Portland', Me., 1854; 
 son of Alexander W. and Elizabeth (Por- 
 ter) Longfellow. He was graduated from 
 Harvard College, in the class of 1876, and 
 was a special student at the Massachusetts 
 Institute of Technology and the ficole des 
 Beaux Arts, Paris. He worked for four 
 years as assistant in the office of the late 
 H. H. Eichardson in Brookline, and in 
 1887 established the firm of Longfellow, 
 Alden and Harlow, designers of the Car- 
 negie Library, Pittsburgh, and the Cam- 
 bridge City Hall, and other works; dis- 
 solved in 1895. He then formed another 
 firm with his brother, R. K. Longfellow, 
 and the.y are the architects of Phillips 
 Brooks House and Semitic Museum, Har- 
 vard College, and Grace Eliot Hall, Ber- 
 tram Plall and Agassiz House, Radcliffe 
 College; and have carried on general prac- 
 tice mostly in Massachusetts and in jNIaine, 
 where they have designed the Brunswick 
 and Yarmouth jNIemorial Library. Mr. 
 Longfellow is active in the Arts and Crafts 
 movement, is a trustee of the Boston 
 Athenajum and the Museum of Fine Arts, 
 and a member of the Art Commission of 
 the City of Boston; a fellow of the Amer- 
 ican Institute of Architects, and' member 
 of the Boston Society of Arcliitects, the 
 Somerset, Tavern and LTnion Clubs of Bos- 
 ton, India \Yharf Rats Club of Boston, 
 and the Cumberland Club of Portland, Me. 
 Address : 12 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston. 
 
 LONGFELLOW, Ernest Wadsworth: 
 
 Artist; born in Cambridge, j\Iass., in 
 1845; son of the poet. He was a pupil 
 of Couture, Paris. Some of his works are: 
 Old Mill at Manchester, Mass.; Italian 
 Pines; Love Me, Love J\Ty Dog; Misty Morn- 
 
 ing; John and Priscilla, and others. Ad- 
 dress: Century As.soeiation, 7 West 4.'id 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 LONGFELLOW, William Pitt Preble: 
 
 Architect; horn in Portland, Me.. Oct. 
 25, 1836; son of Stephen Longfellow. He 
 was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1855, 
 B.S., 1859. He was engaged in the prac- 
 tice of architecture in Boston, 1860-1879, 
 and retired from practice in 1879. He was 
 assistant architect of the Treasury Depart- 
 ment of the United States, under tiie first 
 Grant Administration. He is a fellow of 
 the Society of American Architects. He 
 was the first editor of The American Arcli- 
 itect, and is author of various works 
 on architectural subjects. Address: 479 
 Broadway, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 LONGINO, Andrew Houston: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-governor; born in Law- 
 rence County, Miss., May 16, 1855; son 
 of John Thomas and Annie (Ramsey) 
 Longino. He was graduated from Missis- 
 sippi College in 1876, and immediately 
 thereafter became clerk of the Circuit and 
 Chancery Courts of his native county, serv- 
 ing until 1880. He was admitted to the 
 bar, was a State senator, 1880-1884, L'. S. 
 district attorney for the Southern District 
 of Mississippi, 1888-1800; chancellor of the 
 Seventh District of IMississippi, 1894-1899, 
 and in 1899 was elected governor of Mis- 
 sissippi, in which office he served from .Ian., 
 1900, to Jan., 1904. Governor Longino 
 married at Jackson, Miss., in 1887, Marion 
 Buckley. Address: Jackson, Miss. 
 
 LONGWORTH, Nicholas: 
 
 Congres-num and lawyer; born in Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio, Nov. 5, 1869; son of Nicholas 
 and Susan (\Yalker) Longworth. He waa 
 graduated from Harvard University, A.B., 
 in 1891. After that he spent one year 
 in the Harvard Law School, then went to 
 the Cincinnati Law School, from wliich he 
 was graduated, LL.B., 1894, and in the same 
 year he was admitted to the bar. Mr. Long- 
 worth was a member of the School Board 
 of Cincinnati in 1898; elected to the 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Ohio TTou<?p of Rpprespntativcs. 1S99; and 
 to the Ohio Senate. 1001. In 1002 he was 
 elected from the First Ohio District to the 
 Fifty-eighth Conwress, ?nd he was reelected 
 to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, 
 and in 1008 to the Sixty-first Congress. He 
 is a member of the Queen City and Blaine 
 Clubs of Cincinnati. Somerset Club of Bos- 
 ton, and ^Metropolitan Club of Washington. 
 D. C. Mr. Tx)ngworth married. Feb. 17, 1006. 
 Alice Roosevelt, daughter of President 
 Roosevelt. Address: Crandin Road, Cin- 
 cinnati. 
 
 lOOMIS, Archibald Gilbert: 
 
 Banker; born in Hartford, Conn., June 
 20. 1848; son of Pascal and Martha Jones 
 (Greenfield) Loomis. He was educated in 
 the district and' high schools of Hartford. 
 He entered the Aetna National Bank of 
 Hartford as a messenger in IVIarch, 1865; 
 was promoted to discount clerk the same 
 year, teller next year, acting cashier. 1871, 
 cashier. 1887, director. 1800, president, 
 1801, and in April, 1890, resigned to ac- 
 cept the position as vice-president of the 
 National Bank of New York City, but 
 resigned Jan., 1005; moved' to San Fran- 
 cisco, in Dec, 1005, and he became vice-pres- 
 ident of the Union Trust Company of Provi- 
 dence, R. I., in January, 1007. Mr. Loomis 
 is a member of the Bohemian Club of San 
 Francisco. ]Mr. Loomis married. May 18, 
 1892. Ellen Seymour Hanson. Residence: 
 2.34 Wayland Avenue, Providence, R. I. 
 
 LOOMIS, Charles Battell: 
 
 Writer and reader; born in Brooklyn, N. 
 Y., Sept. 16. 1861; son of Charles Battell 
 and Mary ( Worthington) Loomis. He was 
 educated at the Juvenile High School and 
 at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 
 and left at the end of tlie academic course. 
 Mr. Loomis is author of: Cheerful Amer- 
 icans; A Bath in an Fnglisli Tub; "Mi- 
 nerva's Manoeuvers ; A Holiday Touch ; 
 The Knack of It; Just Irish; and seven 
 other books. He toured the United States 
 as reader with Jerome K. Jerome; has 
 traveled across the continent, visited every 
 State but two, and' has been three times 
 to Etirope. Mr. Loomis is a momber of 
 
 the Salmagundi and Authors' Clubs of New 
 York City. He married in Brooklyn, Feb. 
 14, 1888, Mary Charlotte Fullerton. and 
 they have three children. Address: Le- 
 onia, N. J. 
 
 LOOMIS, Edward Eugene: 
 
 Railroad official ; born near Ilion, N. Y., 
 in 1865; son of Chester and Esther Loomis. 
 He received a college education. He en- 
 tered the railroad service in the law de- 
 partment of the Denver and Rio Grande 
 Railway Company; was appointed, in 1894, 
 superintendent of the Tioga Division of 
 the Erie Railroad, also superintendent of 
 the Blossburg Coal Company, in charge of 
 their bituminous coal and lumber interests. 
 Mr. Loomis was appointed, in 1808, general 
 su])erintendent of New York, Susquehanna 
 and Western, and the Wilkesbarre and 
 Eastern railroads, and became superintend- 
 ent of the Coal Mining Department of the 
 Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail- 
 road, in June, 1899, and in :March. 1002. 
 manager of the entire coal department with 
 charge over mining, shipping and sales of 
 that company's production of anthracite 
 coal. Since April, 1902, he has been vice- 
 president of the same road; and since Aug. 
 1, 1009, president and director of The Dela- 
 ware, Lackawanna and Western Coal Com- 
 pany. Mr. Loomis is also president 
 of the Bangor and Portland Railway, Lack- 
 awanna and iMontrose Railroad. Glen Alden 
 and Lackawanna Valley Coal Company, 
 and Arnot Water Company; vice-president 
 of the Hoboken Ferry Company, the Morris 
 and Essex Railroad Company, Syracuse, 
 Binghamton and New York Railroad Com- 
 pany, and Utica, Chenango and Susque- 
 hanna Valley Railroad Company ; director 
 of the Mark-Twain Company, and also di- 
 rector of the Coal and Iron Bank of New 
 York. He is a member of the American 
 Institute of Mining Engineers, the Lawyers' 
 Club of New York City, Westmoreland 
 Club of Wilkesbarre, Pa., the City and 
 Country Clubs of Scranton, and the City 
 Club of Elmira, N. Y. He married, in 
 Nov., 1902, Julia Olivia Langdon, daughter 
 of General C. J. Langdon of Elmira, N. Y. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Address: IfiO West riOth Street. New York 
 City. 
 
 LOOMIS, Elmer Howard: 
 
 Professor of physics; born in Verniilion, 
 N. Y.. INIay 24, 1861 : son of .Tiram War- 
 ner and .\daline (Sayles) Loomis. He was 
 educated in the public schools of New York, 
 and ^Mexico Academy, and was rrraduated 
 from Colgate University, A.B., in 1883, and 
 from Strassburg University, Germany, as 
 Ph.D. He taught physics and chemistry 
 in Colgate Academy, 1883-1890; has been 
 engaged in the department of physics at 
 Princeton University since 1894, and since 
 1897 has been professor of physics. He is 
 a member of the American Physical Soci- 
 ety; fellow of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science; member 
 of Princeton Science Club; trustee of Mc- 
 Kinley Hospital ; director of the New Jer- 
 sey Association for Prevention of Tuber- 
 culosis, and is a member of Delta Upsilon 
 fraternity. Mr. Loomis married in Mexico. 
 N. Y.. June 23,' 1885, Mary Bennett, and 
 thev have one son. Address: Princeton, 
 N. J. 
 
 LOOSE, Jacob L.: 
 
 Manufacturer ; born in Franklin County. 
 Pa., June 17, 1850; son of Isaac and Ella 
 (Schull) Loose. In 1870 he removed to 
 Sangamon County, 111. He^ finished his 
 schooling in the Dec-atur (HI.) High 
 School ; worked a short time in a Decatur 
 dry goods store, and afterward in a store 
 conducted at Chetopa, Kan., by two of 
 his brothers. One of these he later bought 
 out, the firm becoming D. A. and J. L. 
 Loose, who started a branch house at Jop- 
 lin. Mo., which his brother later took over, 
 while he continued the Kansas business 
 alone. With his brother, .Joseph S. Loose, 
 he bought, in 18S2, the controlling interest 
 in the Corle Cracker and Confectionery 
 Company, Kansas City, which became Loose 
 Brothers Manufacturing Company and was 
 greatly enlarged'. Mr. Loose organized in 
 1890, and was president for seven years 
 of the American Biscuit and Manufacturing 
 Company, consolidating all the Western 
 
 ])akers for muiunl protection and in oppo- 
 sition to the New York Biscuit Company. 
 Because of ilMieallh he retired in 1897 and 
 went to Kuro|ie. During hi-! nt)«encp the 
 American Biscuit and ^fanufacturing Com- 
 pany was merged with others to form the 
 National Biscuit Compjuiy, much against 
 his wishes, and from wliich lie withdrew 
 his interests. When his liealtli was restored 
 he, with his lirother, J. S. T^oose. and 
 others, organized the Loose-Wiles Cracker 
 and Candy Company, Kansas City; Works 
 Biscuit Company. Minneapoli-; ; Brown 
 Cracker and Candy Coiiii)any, Dallas; and 
 Manewal-Lange Biscuit Company, St. 
 Louis; also acquiring tlie Cliicago I'iscuit 
 Company, Chicago; Austin Biscuit Com- 
 pany, and Hazen Confectionery Company, 
 Boston; also organized the North American 
 Biscuit Company, all direct competitors of 
 the National Biscuit Company. Mr. Loose 
 is a member of the Chicago and Union 
 League Clubs of Chicago, and the Kan-<as 
 City and Kansas City Country Chd-;s. He 
 married, in 1878, Ella Clark of Carthage, 
 Mo. Address: 507 R. A. Long Building, 
 Kansas City, ]\Io. 
 
 LORAINE, Robert: 
 
 Actor; born at Liscard, Cheshire, Eng- 
 land, Jan. 14, 1876; son of Dr. Heniy and 
 Ellen (Baylis) Loraine. He attended New 
 Brighton High School. Cheshire, England. 
 He acted romantic roles in London : ap- 
 peared in America first in 1901, again in 
 the winters of 1902. 1903, and 1904; on 
 Sept. 5. 1906, he made his first appear- 
 ance as John Tanner in ^[an and Superman. 
 He served as trooper in the Ninth Imperial 
 Yeomanry, during the Boer War, 1899-1900, 
 and recciA-ed the South African war medal, 
 with three bars. Mr. Loraine is a member 
 of the Lambs', and Players' Clubs, New 
 York City. Address: Care of C. B. Dil- 
 lingham, 1402 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 LORD, Chester Sanders: 
 
 Editor; born in Ronnilus, N. Y., :March 
 18, 1850; son of Rev. Edward and Mary 
 Jane (Sanders) Lord. He was graduated 
 from Hamilton College, A.B. and A.M., in 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 is:;?, nntl received Iho LL.D. from llie St. 
 ]^a\vrence University. In 1870 lie Avas asso- 
 ciate editor of the Oswego (N. Y. ) Ad- 
 vertiser; managing editor of the New York 
 Sun, lSSO-1007. He was regent of the Uni- 
 versity of the State of New York, 1897- 
 1904; and is a niember of the New Eng- 
 land Society, Sigma Phi fraternity, and of 
 the Union League, Universitj"-, Lotos Clubs, 
 of which latter he was secretary, 1894-1905, 
 and has since been vice-president; member 
 of the Long Island Country, Barnard, and 
 Dyker IMeadow Golf Clubs. He married 
 in Adams, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1871, Katherine 
 M. Bates, and they have two sons. Ad- 
 dress: 57 South Portland Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 LORD, George P.: 
 
 Pietired banker; born in Barrington, N. 
 Y., July 25, 1831; son of Benjamin ]\I. 
 and Elizabeth (Fleming) Lord. He was 
 educated in the Lima Seminary, and Ho- 
 bart College, A.M., 1850, also with diploma, 
 from the State Normal School. He was 
 school commissioner for Yates County, 
 18G0-1867; a member of the State Assem- 
 bly, 1871-1872, and of the State Senate, 
 1879-1883; and was State Civil service 
 commissioner during the terms of Gover- 
 nors Morton and Black. He is a Republi- 
 can and a member of the Episcopal Church 
 and built the Episcopal Church in Dundee, 
 N. Y., in memory of his deceased wife. 
 He is a member of the Dundee Board of 
 Education and Aljiha Delta Plii Society. 
 Mr. Lord' married, March 2. 1859, Eliza 
 Bunce. Address: Dundee, Yates Cniiutv. 
 N. Y. 
 
 LORD, Jolin Brackett: 
 
 Jlanufacturer ; born at Newton Upper 
 Falls, Mass., June .SO, 1843; son of Ihackett 
 and Clarissa Williams (Winslow) Lord. 
 He was educated in the public schools of 
 Newton, Mass., and at t!ie Wesleyan Acad- 
 emy, Wilbraham, iliss. His father was 
 engaged in the i!;rain and flour business, 
 and when tlie son left scl.ool he entered 
 liis fatlier's establislin;ent. where lie re- 
 mained until 1S72. wlien he removed to the 
 town (jf Kan-. IS, li!., where he f wnea a 
 
 largo grain wareliouse, of which he took 
 charge. He was a general buyer and ship- 
 per of grain throughout Central Illinois, 
 1875-1882; in the railroad lumber supply 
 business, in association with C. ^Y. Powell, 
 of Paris, 111., 1882-1884, and in the same 
 business in Chicago, 1884-1893, when the 
 firm dissolved; since 1893 of the Ayer & 
 Lord Tie Company, said to be the largest 
 dealer in oak ties for railroads in the 
 United States. He is a member of the 
 Chicago, Kenwood and Ilomewood' Clubs. 
 He married, in 1874, to Annie E. Steele, 
 of Grand View, 111., and has four children. 
 Residence: 4857 Greenwood Avenue. Of- 
 fice: Railway Exchange, Chicago, 111. 
 
 LORD, William Paine: 
 
 Ex-governor of Oregon; born in Dover, 
 Del., in 1838. After serving through the 
 Civil \Yar as major of a Delaware Cavalry 
 Regiment in the Union Army, he studied 
 law, was commissioned as lieutenant in 
 the Regular Army, and served in Alaska 
 until 1868, when he resigned from the army 
 and began the practice of law at Salem, 
 Ore., of which he has ever since been a 
 citizen. He became prominent in the Re- 
 publican party of Oregon, was for fourteen 
 years a judge of the Supreme Court of 
 Oregon; governor of Oregon, 1895-1899, and 
 minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraor- 
 dinary of the Lfnited States to the Argen- 
 tine Republic, 1899-1903. Address: Salem, 
 Ore. 
 
 LORE, Charles Brown: 
 
 Jurist; born at Odessa, Del., ]\Iarch 10, 
 1831; son of Eldad C. and Priscilla Lore. 
 He was graduated' from Dickinson College, 
 A.B., 1852. He afterward studied law and 
 engaged in practice at Wilmington, Del., 
 until 1893. He was attorney-general of 
 Delaware, 18G9-1874; was elected to the 
 Forty-eighth Congress as a Democrat in 
 1882 and to the Firty-ninth Congress in 
 1884; was elected Presidential elector on 
 the Hancock ticket in 1880 and the Cleve- 
 land ticket in 1892, and since 1893 has 
 served' in his present office of chief justice 
 of Delaware. Address: Wilmington, Del. 
 
IVfEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 LOREE, Leonor Fresnel: 
 
 Railway ollicial ; born in Fulton City, 
 11. 1, April 2.3, 185S. He was educated in 
 Rutledge C'olleji;e; and began railway serv- 
 ice in 1877, as assistant in the engineer 
 coi'ps of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He 
 was transitnian in the Engineer Corps of 
 the U. S. Army, 1879-1881; leveler, transit- 
 man and topographer on the preliminary 
 survey and location of the Mexican Na- 
 tional Railway, from the Rio Grande 
 River to Salti'llo, Mexico, 1881-1883. In 
 1883 he began his long connection with the 
 Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburgh, as 
 assistant engineer of the Chicago division, 
 1883-1884; engineer maintenance of way, 
 various Western divisions, 1884-1889; sup- 
 erintendent of the Cleveland' and Pitts- 
 burgh Division, 1889-1896; general mana- 
 ger 1890-1901, and fourth vice-president, 
 from Jan. to June, 1901, of the Pennsyl- 
 vania lines west of Pittsburgh. He became 
 president of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- 
 way, 1901-1904; of the Rock Island Com- 
 panj' of New Jersey, Jan. to Oct., 1904; 
 president of the Delaware and Hudson Com- 
 13any, in April, 1907. He has been since 
 1907, chairman of the Executive Committee 
 of the Kansas City Southern Railway; 
 trustee of the Equitable Trust Company 
 of New York; director of the National 
 Railroad Company of Mexico and' of the 
 Underground Electric Railways Company 
 of London, Limited. Mr. Loree is a mem- 
 ber of the Century, Midday, Oakland and 
 Maidstone Golf Clubs of New York, the 
 Automobile Club of America, the Union 
 Club of Cleveland, Ohio, and the Ritten- 
 house Club of Philadelphia. Residence : 
 Hoffman House. Office: 25 Broad Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 LORIMER, George Horace: 
 
 Editor; born in Louisville, Ky., Oct. 
 6, 18G8; son of Rev. George Claude Lori- 
 mer, D.D., distinguished Baptist divine, and 
 Belle (Burford) Lorimer. After complet- 
 ing a liigh school course in Chicago he 
 studied at Colby University and later at 
 Yale; engaged in journalism and in 1899 
 became editor-in-chief of the Saturday 
 Evening Post, of Philadelphia. ]Mr. Lori- 
 
 mer is author of: Behind the Veil of Isis; 
 Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His 
 Son, 1902; Old Gorgon Graham, 1904; Jack 
 Spurlock — Prodigal, 1907. He married, 
 June 6, 1893, Alma Viola Ennis, daughter 
 of Alfred and Almarinda (Baldridge) En- 
 nis of Chicago. Residence: Wyncote, Pa. 
 Office: Curtis Publisliing Companj', Phil- 
 adelphia. 
 
 LORIMER, William: 
 
 U. S. Senator; born in Manchester, Eng- 
 land, April 27, 1861; resident, since 1870, 
 of Chicago, where he attended the public 
 schools. He began work at twelve and 
 continued in various trades until 1886, 
 when he became a real estate agent, later 
 entering the contracting business. He was 
 superintendent of the Water Department 
 of the City of Chicago for two years. Mr. 
 Lorimer has been prominent in Chicago 
 politics for years as an active Republican. 
 He was elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty- 
 fifth, Fifty sixth. Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, 
 and Sixtieth Congresses, and reelected to 
 the Sixty-first Congress, from the Sixth 
 Illinois District; but resigned from the 
 House of Representatives upon his election 
 by the Legislature of Illinois, as U. S. 
 Senator from Illinois to succeed Hon. Al- 
 bert J. Hopkins, for the term expiring 
 March 3, 1915. Address: 1183 Douglas 
 Park Boulevard, Chicago, 111. 
 
 LORING, William Caleb: 
 
 Jurist; born at Beverly, Mass., Aug. 24, 
 1851; son of Caleb William and Elizabeth 
 Smith (Pea body) Loring. He was grad- 
 uated from Harvard Law School, LL.B., in 
 1874, and received the A.M. degree, 1875, 
 and LL.D. degree, 1901, from Harvard Uni- 
 versity. He was assistant attorney-general 
 of Massachusetts, 1875-1879, and after that 
 engaged in private practice until 1899, 
 when he became one of the associate jus- 
 tices of the Suiireme Judicial Court of 
 Massachusetts, in which office he continues. 
 Judge Loring is a Republican. He mar- 
 ried, in 1884, Susan Mason Lawrence. Ad- 
 dress: Court House, Pemberton Square, 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 LOTT, Edson Schuyler: 
 
 Casualty insurance underwriter; born in 
 Yates County, N. Y., Nov. 10, 1S58; son 
 of Jesse T. and Sarah M. (Wheeler) Lott. 
 He was educated in the public schools and 
 in tlie Academy at Penn Yan, N. Y. He 
 engaged in newspaper work. Later he be- 
 came interested in the insurance business; 
 and upon the organization of the United 
 Stiites Casualty Company, was made assist- 
 ant secretary, afterwards being elected sec- 
 retary, then general manager and director, 
 and later president, the position he now 
 liolds. Mr. Lott was elected president of the 
 International Association of Accident Under- 
 writers in 1903, and reelected in 1904; 
 elected member of the Executive Committee 
 of the Board of Casualty and Surety Un- 
 derwriters in 190G. and president of that 
 body in 190S. In I lie same year he was 
 elected vice-president of the Casualty and 
 Surety Men's Social Club of New York. 
 He has been vice-president of the Alliance 
 Against Accident Fraud since its organiza- 
 tion in 1905. He was president of the 
 Yates County Society in the City of New 
 York four years, 1900-1904. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Editorial IJoard of the Interna- 
 tiiiiial Insurance Eiuyelopedia. He has 
 w rill (11 and lectured extensively on casualty 
 insurance topics. Mr. Lott is a member 
 of the Underwriters', Lawyers', Down Town 
 and Republican Clubs of New York City. 
 He married Emma A. Cowl, and they have 
 a son, Frederic 1!. Address: 141 JUuad- 
 way. New York City. 
 
 LOUD, George Alvin: 
 
 Congi-essmau ; Ijoim at I'.iaeebridge, Ge- 
 auga County, Ohin, .liinc IS, 1852; son of 
 Henry M. and NilliUa (Kile) Loud. He 
 was graduated from Ami Arbor (Mich.) 
 Higii School, 18(j9. He lias been engaged 
 in the lumber business for thirty years, in 
 connection with liis fatlier and brothers. 
 Ho was elected as a Kepubiican to tlie 
 Fifty-eiglitli Congress and rec'leeted to the 
 Fifty-ninth and Sixtietii and Sixty-first 
 Congresses from the Tenth Michigan Dis- 
 trict. He married, Dec. 5, 1888, Klizabeth 
 Clunnic. Address: Au Sable, Mich. 
 
 LOUD, John S.: 
 
 Lieutenant-colonel, U. S. A. ; born in 
 New York, April 12, 1842. He entered 
 the Union Army as a private in Company 
 E of the Seventh New York National 
 Guard, May 25, 1862, from which he was 
 discharged Sept. 5, 1862. He was com- 
 missioned first lievitenant of the 12th New 
 York Volunteer Cavalry, Jan. 5, 1863, and 
 promoted to captain, Jan. 25, 1864, and lie 
 was lionorably mustered out, June 24, 1865. 
 He served in the field during the Civil War 
 in North Carolina, afterward with the 8th 
 corps in the Army of the James, and was 
 brevetted first lieutenant and captain, 
 March 2, 1867, for meritorious services dur- 
 ing the war. He was commissioned second 
 lieutenant of the 9th U. S. Cavalry, Jan. 
 22, 1807, first lieutenant, July 31* 1867, 
 captain, Jan. 13, 1880, and major 3d U. S. 
 Cavalry, June 29, 1897, retired June 30, 
 1898, and was promoted to lieutenant- col- 
 onel, U. S. A., retired, April 23, 1904. 
 His service in the Eegular Army was on 
 the Texas frontier from 1867 to 1875, in 
 New Mexico from 1876 to 1882, and on 
 various frontier posts and Indian campaigns 
 from 1882 until his retirement. Address: 
 3209 Thirteenth Street, N. W., Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 LOUDENSLAGER, Henry Clay: 
 
 Congressman; born in Mauricetown, N. 
 J., May 22, 1852; reared on farm at Pauls- 
 horo, (Jkiiieestcr County, \. .1.. from 1856. 
 After h-aviiig the iiome farm he engaged 
 in business in Piiiladelphia, in 1872, and 
 continued in it ten years, then returned to 
 Paulsboro. He was elected county clerk 
 of (jloucester County, in 1882, and re- 
 eh'cted in 1887; was elected to the Fifty- 
 third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, 
 Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eiglitli, Fifty-ninth, and 
 Sixtieth Congresses, and' reelected in 1908 
 to the Sixty-first Congress from the First 
 New Jersey District, as a Kepubiican. Ad- 
 dress: Paulsboro, N. J. 
 
 LOUGEE, Willis Eugene: 
 
 Secretary of the International Committee 
 of the Young Men's Cliristian Association; 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1051 
 
 born in Chelsea, Vt., May 2, 1857; son of 
 John C. and Maicia H. Lougce. lie re- 
 ceived his education at Ciluianton Acad- 
 emy, N. H. lie was formerly president 
 of the Presbyterian Union, Manhattan, 
 trustee of the McAuley Mission, and of 
 Madura College, India; director of the New 
 York Christian Home for Intemperate Men; 
 a member of the Board of Governors of 
 White Plains Hospital Association and Jen- 
 nie Clarkson Home for Children; was for- 
 merly business manager of the Interna- 
 tional Conmiittee of the. Young Men's 
 Christian Association; closely identified 
 with J\lr. bloody in Northfield work; raised 
 a large amount of money for the Young 
 Men's Christian Association work in the 
 army during the Spanish-American War; 
 had much to do with securing the endow- 
 ment fund for the International Committee 
 and recently elected associate secretary of 
 the Congregational Home Missionary Soci- 
 ety. He was the executive secretary of 
 the Joint Missionary Campaign for secur- 
 ing funds for clearing off the debts of the 
 three great Congregational societies. He 
 married at Eau Claire, Wis., March 17, 
 1895, Ella J. Keed. Address: l2S7 Fourth 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
 LOUNSBTJRY, Phineas Chapman: 
 
 Banker and ex-governor; born in Ridge- 
 lield. Conn., Jan. 10, 1844. He was educated 
 in the public schools, and during the Civil 
 War was a private in tlie Seventeenth Kegi- 
 ment of Connecticut Yoluntecr Infantry, but 
 was compelled to retire from the service by 
 serious illness. After the war he engaged 
 in business, and also became active in poli- 
 tics as a Republican, was a member and 
 speaker in the House of Representatives 
 of the Connecticut Legislature, and was 
 governor of Connecticut, 1887-1889. Gover- 
 nor Lounsbury has for years been president 
 of the Merchants' Exchange National Bank 
 of New York City, is president of the Pre- 
 ferred Accident Insurance Company, and an 
 olhcer and director in various corporations. 
 He is a member of the New England Society 
 in New Yoi'k, and of the Union League and 
 Republican Clubs of New York City. Resi- 
 dence: Kid"etield, Conn. Ollice; Mer- 
 
 chants' Exchange National Bank, 2.17 Broad- 
 way, New York City. 
 
 LOVE JOY, Francis Thomas Fletcher: 
 
 Iron manufacturer; born in Baltimore, 
 July 21, 1854. He was educated in the 
 public schools of Washington, Ohio, taking 
 instruction in Telegraphy while attending 
 school. He was employed at Washington, 
 Oliio, and Pithole, Pa. as telegrapher, 1870- 
 18S0; employed by American Union Tele- 
 graph Company, Pittsburgh, 1880; entered 
 tile service of the Carnegie steel interests as 
 clerk and telegrapher, June, 1881; he be- 
 came auditor in April, 1889, of Carnegie 
 Brothers & Company, Limited, and of Car- 
 negie, Phipps & Company, Limited, becom- 
 ing also a member and stockholder, of these 
 concerns; elected secretary of Carnegie 
 Brothers & Company, June, 1889; elected 
 member of the Boards of Managers of both 
 associations, 1891; in 1892, took active part 
 in their consolidation, becoming secretary 
 and manager of the Carnegie Steel Company, 
 Limited, July 1, 1892; selected by the 
 board of managers and by Henry C. Frick 
 to give information to newspapers during 
 the Homestead strike, 1892; resigned posi- 
 tions, 1900, refusing to join attack by ma- 
 jority of stockholders upon Mr. Frick, chair- 
 man of the Board of Managers. He con- 
 ducted all the compromise negotiations, 
 wrote the agreement under which the new 
 company was to be formed and was ap- 
 pointed one of the committee to carry out 
 the provisions of the agreement. He is now 
 largely interested in Western mining enter- 
 prises, and local banks and insurance com- 
 panies and is a member of various clubs. 
 JNIr. Lovejoy married, June 22, 1892, Jane 
 Clyde Fleming, and has three children: 
 Francis, born 1894; Kenneth, born 1896, 
 and Marjory, born 1899. Address: Brad- 
 dock Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 
 LOVELAND, John 'Winthrop: 
 
 Lawyer; born in West Pittston, Pa., Oct. 
 1, 186U; son of John and Helen M. (Strong) 
 Loveland; descended from the colonial fami- 
 lies of Buckingham, Strong and Deming. 
 He was educated at the Pennsylvania Mili- 
 tary College, Yale University and Columbia 
 
1052 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Law School. lie is a specialist in patent, 
 trade-mark and copyright causes; is patent 
 coun.sel for the Linen Thread Company, Har- 
 rison Safety Boiler Works, Barbour Broth- 
 ers Flax Company, Naval Electric Com- 
 pany and many others. Mr. Loveland 
 was a member of Squadron A of the 
 National Guard of New York ; Troop A, 
 U. S. Volunteers, serving in the Porto Rico 
 campaign in 1898, in the Spanish-American 
 War ; was second lieutenant of the Fourth 
 Regiment of New Jersey; first lieutenant 
 and adjutant of the Fifth Regiment of New 
 Jersey Infantry. He is a Republican in pol- 
 itics and a deacon of the Presbyterian 
 Church of Englewood, N. J. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Association of the Bar of the 
 City of New York, American Society of 
 Mechanical Engineers, National Geographic 
 Societj% United States Infantry Associa- 
 tion, Pennsylvania Military College Alumni 
 Association; trustee of the Pennsylvania 
 Military College. Ilis favorite recreations 
 are yachting, canoeing, automobiling, riding 
 and shooting. In 1889 he was a member 
 of the Berkeley Athletic Club and anchored 
 the lightweight tug-of-war team that won 
 the championship of the United States; is 
 an expert military rifle and revolver shot. 
 Mr. Loveland is a member of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Society, Y'ale, Lawyers', and' Engle- 
 wood Field Club. Lie married at Elmira, 
 N. Y., June 5, 1890, Florence Lee Partridge, 
 and they have a son and two daughters. 
 Residence: Englewood, N. J. Office: 149 
 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 LOVELL, Leander Newton: 
 
 Senior partner of the llrm of Borden and 
 Lovell; born at Fall River, ilass., in 1835; 
 son of Leander P. and Ariadne B. Lovell. 
 He was educated in Fall River. Mr. Lovell 
 is president of Borden Mining Company, 
 Lovell Coal Mining Company, Northern In- 
 surance Company of New York, Eastern 
 Coal and Coke Company, director of the 
 Ohio and Kentuckj' Railway Company and 
 in I.Jike Superior and subsidiary corpora- 
 tions; trustee of the Atlantic Mutual Insur- 
 ance Company ; chairman of the Executive 
 Committee of Bituminous Coal Association. 
 He is an elder of the Crescent Avenue Pres- 
 
 byterian Church of Plainficld, N. J.; also 
 president of the Plainfield Board of Educa- 
 tion; life member of the New Y'ork Y^'oung 
 Men's Christian Association; one of the 
 managers of the Life Savings Benevolent As- 
 sociation of New York City. Mr. Lovell is 
 governor of the New Jersey Society of 
 ]\Iayflower Descendants; member of the 
 Society of Colonial Wars, the New Y'ork 
 Society of Sons of American Revolution, 
 ^Metropolitan Museum of Art. New England 
 Society of New Y^ork, and the New York 
 Chamber of Coiftmerce. He married in Fall 
 River, Mass., 1SG7, Phebe Borden Durfee, 
 and' they have eight children. Residence: 
 Plainfield, N. J. Office 17, Battery Place, 
 New York City. 
 
 LOVEMAN, Robert: 
 
 Author; born in Cleveland, Ohio. April 
 11, 18G4; son of David R. and' Esther 
 (Schwartz) Loveman. He was graduated 
 from the University of Alabama, IM.A. He 
 has published: Poems, 1889; Poems, 1890; 
 Poems, 1896 (Lippincott) ; A Book of 
 Verses, 1900; The Gates of Silence, 1903 
 (Putnam) ; Songs from a Georgia Garden, 
 1904, (Lippincott) ; Echoes from the Gates 
 of Silence (Lippincott), 1905; and has been 
 a contributor to leading magazines. Ad- 
 dress: Dalton, Ga. 
 
 LOVERING, William C: 
 
 Congressman; born in 1835, in Rhode Is- 
 land. He was educated in the Cambridge, 
 (INIass.) High School and the Hopkins Class- 
 ical School. He has been engaged in cotton 
 manufacturing nearly all his life, and is 
 now president of the Whittenton ^Manufac- 
 turing Company. He is interested in many 
 other manufactories, in which he is presi- 
 dent, director and manager; served for a 
 short period in the war as engineer at 
 Fort IMonroe; retired from the service an 
 invalid. He was State senator for two 
 years, 1874-1875; was a delegate to the Na- 
 tional Republican Convention that nomi- 
 nated Garfield in 1880; was nominated by 
 acclamation in the Congressional convention 
 of the Twelfth Massachusetts District, Sept. 
 22, 1890, and elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fif- 
 ty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, reelect- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1063 
 
 ed to the Fifty-ninth Congresses, and was 
 reelected in 190G and 1908 to the Sixtieth 
 and Sixty-first Congresses from the Four- 
 teenth Massachusetts District as a Republi- 
 can. Address: Taunton, Mass. 
 
 LOVETT, Eldon H.: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Lincoln. Penobscot 
 County, Me., 1852; son of Alfred L. and Ju- 
 lia A. (Jordan) Lovett. He was graduated 
 from Colgate University, A.B., 1877 and 
 from Hamilton Theological Seminary in 
 1885, and received the degree of D.D. in 
 1900, from the same institution. He was 
 pastor of West Baptist Church, Oswego, N. 
 Y., five years, of Calvary Church, Davenport, 
 Iowa, six years, and since 1898 has been en- 
 gaged in evangelistic work and in raising 
 money for Baptist educational institutions. 
 He was secretary of Colgate University for 
 two years, and of various philanthropic in- 
 stitutions; and has traveled extensively. He 
 raised $65,000 for Cook Academy; large 
 sums for colleges at Des Moines, Iowa and 
 Sioux Falls, S. Dak.; $85,000 for Ottawa 
 University and $30,000 for Hiawatha Acad- 
 emy, in Kansas; $50,000 for Colby Academy, 
 New London, N. H., over $125,000 for Col- 
 gate University, $30,000 for South Jersey 
 Institute, Bridgeton, N. J., and is in much 
 demand today for this kind of work. He 
 has baptised one thousand candidates in his 
 pastorate. He is a member of the Beta 
 Theta Pi Society. Dr. Lovett married in 
 Alton, 111., 1871, Martha G. McGlauffin, and 
 they have four children. Address 14G South 
 Portland Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 LOW, Seth: 
 
 Merchant, educator and philanthropist; 
 born in Biooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 8, 1850; son of 
 Abiel Abbot and Ellen (Dow) Low. He was 
 prepared in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Insti- 
 tute, entered Columbia College and was 
 graduated as A.B., 1870. He received the 
 LL.D degree from Amherst College, 1889; 
 from the University of the State of New 
 York, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, 
 and Trinity College in 1890, from Princeton, 
 1896 and from Yale, 1901. After his grad- 
 uation in 1870 he took an extended foreign 
 tour, then became a clerk in the mercantile 
 
 house of his father and uncles, A. A. Low 
 and Brothers, in which he became a partner 
 in 1875. He was made the first president 
 of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, and 
 was ofllcially and otherwise associated with 
 other philianthropic institutions and reform 
 niovements in his city. He took active part 
 as a Republican in local and national poli- 
 tics, and was one of the organizers of the 
 Young Republican organization in Brooklyn. 
 He was elected mayor of Brooklyn in 1881, 
 and was reelected in 1883, serving until 
 1885. He was president of Columbia Uni- 
 versity, 1890-1901, and it was mainly 
 through his efforts that the University was 
 removed to its present commanding site on 
 Morningside Heights, to the fund for which 
 he personally contributed a million dollars. 
 Mr. Low became an independent candidate 
 for mayor of Greater New York in 1897, but 
 was defeated; and in 1899 he was selected 
 by President McKinley as one of the repre- 
 sentatives of the United States Government 
 at the Hague Peace Conference, in the de- 
 liberations of which he took a prominent 
 part. He was elected mayor of Greater 
 New I'ork on the Fusion ticket in 1900, 
 serving 1901-1903. Mr. Low has been presi- 
 dent of the Geographical Society of New 
 York and the New York Academy of Politi- 
 cal Science, and he is now president of the 
 National Civic Federation. He is vice-presi- 
 dent of the New Y'ork Academy of Sciences ; 
 honorary member of the Chamber of Com- 
 merce of New Y^ork; member of the Society 
 of ]\layflower Descendants, the Century As- 
 sociation, University, Union League, :Metro- 
 politan. City, Republican. New Y^ork Yacht, 
 Down Town, Authors, National Arts, Barn- 
 ard and Columbia University Clubs of New 
 York City, and the Hamilton Club of Brook- 
 lyn. Mr. Low married, Dec. 9, 1880, Annie, 
 daughter of Judge B. R. Curtis. Address: 
 30 East 64th Street, New York City. 
 
 LOW, Will Hicok: 
 
 Artist; born in Albany, N. Y., May 31, 
 1853. He studied art under G&rome and 
 Carolus Duran, Paris. He was in charge 
 of the life classes in schools of Cooper 
 Union, 1882-1885, in the National Academy 
 of Design, 1889-1892; and visiting instructor 
 
1054 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 of the Chicago Art ln>tituto, in 1902. His 
 work includes, besides portraits and illus- 
 trations, mural paintings in Hotel Waldorf 
 and many private residences and public 
 buildings. He was awarded medals at 
 various expositions: Paris, 1889; Chicago 
 in 1893. Mr. Low has been academician of 
 National Academy of Design since 1890. He 
 is a member of the Society of American 
 Artists (a founder), Fine Arts Federation, 
 National Societj'^ of Mural Painters and of 
 Century and Lotos Clubs. Mr. Low mar- 
 ried in Paris, 1875, Berthe Eugenie Marie 
 Julienne. Address: Lawrence Park, Bronx- 
 ville. N. Y. 
 
 LOWDEN, Frank Orren: 
 
 Lawyer, member of Congress ; born at 
 Sunrise City, Minn., Jan. 20, ISGl ; son of 
 Lorenzo Orren and Nancy Elizabeth (Breg) 
 Lowden. His boyhood was spent at Point 
 Pleasant, Iowa, where he attended the pub- 
 lic school in the winter months, working on 
 the farm in the summer season. He attend- 
 ed the Iowa State University at Iowa City, 
 and graduated as valedictorian of his class, 
 in 1885, then went to the Union College 
 of Law in Chicago, distinguishing himself 
 there also, being the valedictorian of the 
 class of 1887, and receiving first prizes 
 for oration and scholarsliip. He was ad- 
 mitted to the bar of Illinois in September. 
 1887, and immediately engaged in the prac- 
 tice of law at Chicago, taking for himself a 
 place of prominence at the bar. In 1899, in 
 addition to his practice, he became a profes- 
 sor of law at the Northwestern I^niversity 
 l..aw School, and in 1898 he was elected 
 president of the Law Club of Chicago. He 
 was for a time director of the National 
 Bank of the Republic. National Biscuit 
 Companj', Central Trust Company, Ameri- 
 can Radiator Company, the Pullman Com- 
 jjany, and vaiious other corporations. As a 
 belicvrM- in the jiriiiciples and jxilicies of the 
 Ri'[)uhiieaii ])arty Mr. T.,owden has been ac- 
 tive in its councils in llic State of Illinois 
 and in the Nation. He was a delegate to 
 tli(! National Republican Convention at Phil- 
 adelphia, 1900, and Chicago. 1904. In the 
 Stale Convention of 1904 he was a strong 
 candidate for (Jovernor in the triangular 
 
 contest which deadlocked the convention 
 for several weeks at Springfield, and he 
 was elected and is now serving as the Na- 
 tional Committeeman from Illinois, and was 
 a member of the Republican Executive Com- 
 mittee for the Roosevelt Campaign of 1904. 
 He was nominated and elected, at the No- 
 vember election in 1906, as successor to the 
 late Robert R, Hitt for the unexpired por- 
 tion of the Fifty-ninth Congress, and for 
 the Sixtieth Congress, from the Thirteenth 
 Congressional District of Illinois. He has 
 also been prominent in the affairs of the 
 National Guard, and was commissioned in 
 1898, as lieutenant-colonel of the First In- 
 fantrj' Regiment. Illinois National Guard. 
 Colonel Lowden is a member of the Ameri- 
 can Bar Association, Illinois State Bar As- 
 sociation and Chicago Bar Association, and 
 is a member of several leading clubs in Clii- 
 cago and elsewhere. He married in Chicago. 
 April 29, 1896, Florence, daughter of the 
 late George M. Pullman, president of the 
 Pullman Palace Car Company. They have 
 a magnficent home and farm in the most 
 picturesque portion of the beautiful Rock 
 River Country, near Oregon, the county 
 seat of Ogle County, 111, Addiess: Oregon. 
 Ill, 
 
 LOWE, Parley: 
 
 Lumberman: boin in I^evant, ]\le., Dec. 6, 
 1845; son of William G. and Susan (Moor) 
 Lowe. He attended the public scliools at in- 
 tervals while working on his father's farm, 
 and acquired a liberal education. In 1864 
 he enlisted as a private in the first Maine 
 Cavalry, and served under General Phil 
 Sheridan until the close of the war. After 
 being mustered out he taught school in his 
 native State. In 1867 he went to Chicago, 
 where he worked in various lumber yard's, 
 gradually acquiring suflicient means to en- 
 ter business on his own account, which he 
 did in 1875 as a member of the firm of 
 Thompson Brothers & Lowe, which con- 
 tinued utilil 1S79. when it was changed to 
 Kcliey. I.owc \ ('()mi)any. Since 1889 the 
 style of llic linn has been Perley I-owe & 
 Company, lie was for several terms a di- 
 rector, later vice-president and in 1886 pres- 
 ident of the Lumbermen's Exchange of Chi- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1055 
 
 cago. He is a member of the IVIethodist 
 Episcopal Chinch, and is distinguished for 
 his activity as a layman. He has been 
 greatly interested in the success of the Hal- 
 stead Street Mission and was a lay delegate 
 from the Rock River Conference to the Gen- 
 eral Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church of Los Angeles, Calif., in 1004. He 
 is president of the Wesley Hospital Associa- 
 tion and a trustee of the Northwestern Uni- 
 versity. Mr. Lowe is a member of the West- 
 ward Ho and Chicago Golf Clubs. He mar- 
 ried in Chicago, 1873, Eliza Templeton, and 
 has four daugliters. Residence: 599 Wash- 
 ington Boulevard. Address: Railway Ex- 
 change IJuilding, Chicago, 111. 
 
 LOWELL, Abbott Lawrence: 
 
 President of Harvard University; born in 
 Boston, Dec. 13, 1856; son of Augustus and 
 Katharine Bigelow (Lawrence) Lowell. He 
 obtained his preparatory training at schools 
 in Paris, France, and Boston, was gradu- 
 ated from Harvard, A.B., 1877, and LL.B., 
 1880, and continued his professional studies 
 in the otiice of Russell and Putnam, in 
 Boston. In 1880 he began the practice of 
 law with Francis C. Lowell, and in 1891 
 F. J. Stimson became associated with the 
 Messrs. Lowell in the firm. Mr. Lowell was 
 for some years a member of the Boston 
 School Committee; became a lecturer at 
 Harvard, 1897-1898, and in 1900 became 
 professor of the science of government in 
 Harvard University. He succeeded his 
 father in 1900 as a trustee of the Lowell In- 
 stitute, and also became a member of the 
 Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute 
 of Technology. In 1909 he became presi- 
 dent of Harvard University, to which office 
 he was elected upon the resignation of Dr. 
 Charles W. Eliot. He was joint author, 
 with Francis C. Lowell, of a book on The 
 Transfer of Stock in Corporations, 1884; 
 and is author of Essays on Government, 
 1889; Governments and Parties in Conti- 
 nental Europe (two volumes), 1890; Os- 
 cillations in Politics, 1898; Colonial Civil 
 Service (with Professor ISIorse H. Stephens) , 
 1900; The Inlluence of Party Upon Legisla- 
 tion in England and America, 1906; and 
 also contributions to magazines and reviews. 
 
 He is a member of llic American Academy 
 of Arts and Sciences. He married in Bos- 
 ton, June 19, 1879, Anna Parker Lowell, 
 daughter of George Gardner and Mary Ellen 
 (Parker) Lowell. Address: Harvard Uni- 
 versity, Cambridge. Mass. 
 
 LOWELL, Francis Cabot: 
 
 Judge of the U. S. Circuit Court; born 
 in Boston, Jan. 7, 1855; son of George (J. 
 and Mary Ellen (Parker) Lowell. After 
 his graduation from Harvard College as 
 A.B., 1876, he attended Harvard Law 
 School; and in 1880 he was admitted to the 
 bar, and practised law in Boston until 1898. 
 He became interested in politics as a Repub- 
 lican; was a member of the Common Coun- 
 cil of the City of Boston, 1889-1802; and of 
 the House of Representatives in the General 
 Court of Massachusetts, 1805-1898. He was 
 appointed in 1898 judge of the District 
 Court of the United States for the District 
 of Massachusetts, and served in that ca- 
 pacity until promoted to the Circuit bench 
 in 1905, now serving in the Circuit Court 
 of the United States for the First Circuit. 
 Judge Lowell is author of a work on Joan 
 of Arc, published in 1890, and is a con- 
 tributor to magazines. He married in New 
 York City, Nov. 27, 1882, Cornelia Prince 
 Baylies. Residence: 159 Beacon Street, 
 (Hfice: Post olfice Building, Boston. 
 
 LOWELL, Percival: 
 
 Author, astronomer; born in Boston. 
 March 13, 1855; son of Augustus and Kath- 
 arine Bigelow (Lawrence) Lowell. He was 
 graduated from Harvard as A.B. cum laude 
 in 1876, and received the degree of LL.D. 
 from Amherst College in 1007. He was 
 counsellor and foreign secretary to the Ko- 
 rean Special Mission to the United States. 
 1883 ; guest of the Korean Governnu'ut at 
 Seoul in 1883, and lived in Japan at inter- 
 vals; established the Lowell Observatory in 
 1804; undertook with Todd, the Eclipse Ex- 
 pedition to Tripoli in 1000; and sent an ex- 
 pedition to the Andes to ])hotograph the 
 planet JNIars in 1907. He is author of: 
 Choson, 1885; The Soul of the Far East, 
 1S80; Noto, 1801; Occult Japan, 1894; 
 
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 MEN OF A^IERICA. 
 
 Mara, 189;); Annals of tlie Lowell Observa- 
 tory, Vohune I, 1898. Volume II, 1900 and 
 Volume III, 1905; The Solar System, 1903; 
 Mars and Its Canals, 1906; also numerous 
 contributions to learned societies. He is a 
 fellow of the American Academy of Arts 
 and Sciences; member of the Royal Asiatic 
 Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Ameri- 
 can Philosophical Societj-, Soci6t6 Astrono- 
 mique de France, Astronomische Gesell- 
 schaft, Soci«5te Beige d'xVstronomie ; honor- 
 ary member of the Sociedad Astronomica de 
 ]\Iexico; Janssen medalist of the Soci6t6 As- 
 tronomique de France in 1904 for researches 
 on Mars; member of the Corporation of the 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology; non- 
 resident professor of astronomy at the Mas- 
 sacliusetts Institute of Technology since 
 1902, and director of the Lowell Observatory 
 at Flagstafl', Ariz., since 1894. Dr. Lowell 
 has traveled around the world several times. 
 He is a member of the Somerset, L^nion, St. 
 Botolph Clubs of Boston, Century and Aero 
 Clubs of New York, the Imperial Tokyo 
 Club of Tokyo, and of the Grosvenor Club 
 of London. Residence: 11 West Cedar 
 Street. Office address: 53 State Street. 
 Boston. 
 
 LOWREY, William Tyndale: 
 
 President of Mississippi College and Bap- 
 tist clergyman; born near Booneville, INIiss., 
 :\Iarc]i 3? 1858; son of General M. P. and 
 Sarah (Holmes) Lowrey. He was gradu- 
 ated from Mississippi College, B.A., 1881, 
 and M.A., 1884; stiulied at the Southern 
 Baptist Theological Seminary, 1881-1885, 
 and received the degree of D.D. from Kcachi 
 College in 1892, and L.L.D. from Union Uni- 
 versity in 1904. On March 3, 1885, IMr. 
 Lowrej' accepted the presidency of Blue 
 ^Mountain College, and served in that position 
 izntil 1898, when he was elected president 
 of the Mississippi College, in which position 
 ho has remained until tlie present time. 
 Since June 1, 1900, Dr. Lowrey has also 
 been president of llillman College (for 
 young ladies), Clinton, Miss. He mar- 
 ried at Dardenelle, Ark., Sept. 1, 1886, 
 Miss Theodosia Searcy, and has five chil- 
 dren. Address: Clinton, Miss. 
 
 LOWRY, Hiram Harrison: 
 
 Clergyman and college president; born in 
 Zanesviile, Ohio, May 29, 1843; son of Hi- 
 ram and Margaret (Speare) Lowry. He 
 was educated in Ohio Wesleyan University, 
 Delaware, Ohio, from which he has received 
 the degrees of A.B., A.M. and D.D. He 
 served as a private in the Ninety-seventh 
 Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, Aug. 11, 1862, 
 to Feb. 25, 1863. After leaving college he 
 was ordained as a minister in the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church ; was appointed a mission- 
 ary to China in 1867; located at Foochow, 
 1807-1869, and at Peking since 1809. He 
 was superintendent of North China Mission 
 for twenty years, and is now president of 
 Peking University, and chairman of the 
 General Board of Education in China. He 
 married at Delaware, Ohio, Feb. 28, 1867, 
 Parthenia E. Nicholson, and they have four 
 children. Address : Peking, China. 
 
 lOWRY, Robert: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-governor; born in South 
 Carolina in 1830. After completing his ed- 
 ucation in the ordinary schools he studied 
 law and was admitted to the Mississippi 
 bar, and practised in Jasper County until 
 the Civil War, when he enlisted as a private 
 in the Sixth Mississippi Regiment, of which 
 he was elected major. Later he was pro- 
 moted to colonel and in 1864 to brigadier- 
 general. He served at Shiloh and through 
 the heaviest campaigns in Georgia, Tennes- 
 see and Mississippi. After the war he re- 
 sumed practice; served in the Mississippi 
 House of Representatives and Senate, and 
 in 1882 was elected governor; and he was 
 reelected in 1886, serving eight years, after 
 that resuming the practice of law in Jack- 
 son, IMiss. He married in 1849, Maria M. 
 Gammage. Address: Jackson, Miss. 
 
 LOWRY, Thomas: 
 
 Railway official; born in Logan County, 
 111., Feb." 27, 1843; son of Samuel R. and 
 Rachel (Bullock) Lowry. After completing 
 his general education at Lombard Univer- 
 sity, Galesburg, 111., he studied law, and after 
 his admission to the bar lie engaged in prac- 
 tice at Minneapolis. He became interested 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 in the local street railways and finally be- 
 came sole owner of all the street railways of 
 Minneapolis and 8t. Paul. These lie reha- 
 bilitated and reorganized into one compact 
 system under the name of the Twin City 
 Rapid Transit Company, of which he is pres- 
 ident. He is also president of the Minneap- 
 olis. Saint Paul and Sault Sainto ]\larie 
 Railroad, and is intciested in various banks 
 and other corporations of the Twin Cities 
 and elsewhere. Address: ^Minneapolis, 
 IMinn. 
 
 LUCAS, Frederick Augustus: 
 
 Curator, osteologist; born in Plymouth, 
 Mass., March 25, 1852; son of A. II. and 
 Eliza O. Lucas. He was educated in Ply- 
 mouth High School ; became assistant in 
 Ward's Natural Science Establishment, 
 Rochester, N. Y., 1871-1872. He was osteol- 
 ogist 1882-1887; assistant curator, 1887- 
 1898, and curator, 1897-1904, in the Division 
 comparative Anatomy in the U. S. Natural 
 ^Museum of Wasliington and since Ma,v, 1904, 
 curator in chief of the museum of Brooklyn 
 Institute, Arts and Sciences. Mr. Lucas 
 was a member of the commission to investi- 
 gate the condition of the fur seal herd of 
 Pribilof Islands; and he is a fellow of the 
 American Ornithologists', LTnion, New York 
 Academy of Sciences, Museum Association 
 of Great Britain, American Association of 
 Museums, Biological Society of Washington, 
 and American Bison Society. He has writ- 
 ten various papers on the osteology of birds ; 
 museum methods, and fossil vertebrates 
 and particularly on the structure and spec- 
 ies of stegosaurs. He is author of: Ani- 
 mals of the Past, 1901; Animals of Before 
 Man in North America, 1902. Mr. Lucas 
 married, Feb. 13, 1884, Annie J. Edgar. 
 Address: 827 President Street, Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. 
 
 LUDINGTON, Charles H., Jr.: 
 
 Magazine ]iuliiislier : born in New York 
 City, 180G; son of Charles II. and Josephine 
 L. (Noyes) Ludington. He attended St. 
 Paul's School for five years and Yale Uni- 
 versity, B.A., 1887, M.A., 1888. He is secre- 
 tary-treasurer and director of The Curtis 
 Publishing Company of Philadelphia, and 
 67 
 
 director of the Home pattern Company of 
 New York. Mr. Ludington is a Mienii)er of 
 the American Academy of Political Science, 
 American Geographic Society, Anu^rican 
 Civic Association, Octavia ilill Association, 
 New England Societ}', Vale Alumni Associa- 
 tion, the University Club of New York, the 
 Itacquet and Down Town Clubs of Philadel- 
 phia, Merion Cricket Club of Bryn Mawr 
 and the Polo Club. He married in Brook- 
 lyn, April 24, 1895, Ethel Mildred Saltus, 
 and they have three children. Residence: 
 Ardmore, Pa. Address: 425 Arch Street, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 LUDLAM, Charles Stewart: 
 
 Certified public accountant ; born in Chi- 
 cago, Nov. 11, 186G; son of James D. and 
 Isabel (Stewart) Ludlam. He was educated 
 in Chicago public schools. He began work 
 with The Pullman Company, as office boy at 
 fourteen jears of age; remained two years, 
 advancing to bookkeeper of its capital stock 
 accounts and records ; resigned and went to 
 Albuquerque, N. Mex., on account of health; 
 worked several years in the accounting de- 
 partment of Atlantic and Pacific Railroad 
 Company, at Albuquerque; left there to go 
 to Colorado as general bookkeeper in the 
 treasurer's office, Colorado Midland Rail- 
 way; then for several years with J. J. Hag- 
 german, a capitalist of Colorado, and gener- 
 al accountant and auditor of seventeen 
 different railroad, construction, mining, irri- 
 gation and land companies; then went to 
 Eddy (now Carlsbad) N. i\Iex., as auditor 
 of the Pecos Valley Railway, now a part of 
 the Santa F6 System, and left that road to 
 become associated with Haskins &. Sells ; now 
 a member of that firm, who are certified 
 public accountants, of New York City, Chi- 
 cago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and 
 London, England. In politics he is a Repub- 
 lican. He is a member of the American .As- 
 sociation of Public Accountants, New York 
 State Society of Certified Public Account 
 ants, Illinois Society of Certified Public Ac- 
 countants, Ohio Society of Certified Public 
 Accountants, Missouri Society of Puglic 
 Accountants, American Economical Associa- 
 tion, American Academy of Political and So- 
 cial Science, and American Automobile As- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 sociation. His favorite recroation is auto- 
 niobiling. He is a incmber of the Manliat- 
 tan and Lawyers' Clubs of New York City 
 and of Chicago Athletic Club. I\Ir. Ludhim 
 married in New York City, Aug. 30, 1904, 
 Anna Cately. Address: 30 Broad Street, 
 Xi-w York City. 
 
 LTJKE, Arthur Fuller: 
 
 Banker; born in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 
 28, 1853, of an old Massachusetts family. 
 He was educated in public schools, and at 
 seventeen went to work in a wholesale cloth- 
 ing house in Boston, but six months later 
 he became messenger and general clerk in 
 First National Bank, Cambridge, remaining 
 one year ; then in National Bank of the Com- 
 monwealth, Boston, until 1878; national 
 bank examiner for the Boston District, 1878- 
 1880; cashier of the National Bank of 
 Nortii America, Boston, 1880-1890; assist- 
 ant treasurer 1890-1893, treasurer 1890- 
 1899, of the National Tube Works Company, 
 McKeesport, Pa. ; treasurer of National 
 Tube Company of New York, 1899-1901, 
 treasurer of the United States Steel Corpo- 
 ration, April. 1901, to Jan. 1, 1902; since 
 then of the banking house of Darr, Luke 
 & Moore, Pittsburgh and New York City. 
 He is a member of the Metropolitan Law- 
 yers, New York Riding and New York Ath- 
 letic Club. Mr. Luke married, Dec. 18, 
 1878, Eliza W. Brown. Residence: 1 West 
 92d Street. Office: 115 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 LUKE, John Guthrie: 
 
 Paper manufacturer; born in Springfield, 
 Mass., April 29, 1857; son of William and 
 Rosa Tiiompson (Lindsay) Luke. He was 
 educated in the public schools of Delaware, 
 and Taylor & Jackson's Academy, Wilming- 
 ton, Del. He is president and director of 
 West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, 
 and director of the Irving Exchange Na- 
 tional Bank. He is a member of tlie New 
 England Society of New York, and of Union 
 League, Ardsley, New York Athletic and 
 Arkwright Clubs. Mr. Luke married, first. 
 in Greenville, Del., July 27, ISSO, Klla Hope 
 Green; second, Feb. 27, 1907, Grace P. Buck- 
 
 ley, and he has four children. Address: 
 194 Riverside Drive, New York City. 
 
 LUKEMAN, Henry Augustus: 
 
 Sculptor; born in Richmond. Va., Jan. 
 28, 1871. He was educated in the National 
 Academy of Design, New York City and 
 ficole des Beaux Arts, Paris. His works in- 
 clude, beside numerous busts and bas-reliefs, 
 " Manu " for the Appellate Court House, 
 New York City; statue of Robert Livings- 
 ton for St. Louis, Statue of McKinley, for 
 Adams, Mass., statue of Columbus, for the 
 Custom House, New York; group of Music, 
 St. Louis Exposition; bronze sculpture 
 doors and four colossal statues in marble for 
 Royal Bank of Canada at Montreal and 
 four colossal statues for the Brooklyn Insti- 
 tute. He was awarded a medal at the St. 
 Louis Exposition. Mr. Lukenian is a mem- 
 ber of the National Academy of Design, So- 
 ciety of American Artists, National Sculp- 
 ture Society, Architectural League of Na- 
 tional Arts Club. Residence: Stockbridge, 
 Mass. Office: 145 West 55th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 LUKENS, Edward Fell: 
 
 Lawyer; lioru in Philadelphia, April 29, 
 1870; son of Ezra L. and Maria Fell (Mad- 
 dock) Lukens. He was educated in the 
 Friends' Central School, Philadelphia, and 
 graduated from University of Pennsylvania 
 as B.L. He is member of the firm of Gaz- 
 zam, Wallace and Lukens; secretary-treas- 
 urer and director of The Schwarzwaelder 
 Company, and notary public of the Quaker 
 City National Bank. He is a member of the 
 Union League Club of Philadelphia. Mr. 
 Lukens married in Philadelphia, Jan. 31, 
 1893, Margaret Ration, and they have two 
 children. Residence: 147 West School 
 Lane, Germantown. Office: 707 Bailey 
 Building, Philadelphia. 
 
 LTJRTON, Horace Harmon: 
 
 Jurist; born in Newport, Ky., Feb. 26; 
 1844; son of Lycurgus L. and Sarah (Har- 
 mon) Lurton. He was graduated from Cum- 
 berland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1807, 
 and' then studied law and practised until 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 1875. He was elected in 1874 chancellor 
 of the Sixth Dsitrict of Tennessee, servin_<j; 
 until 1878, and then re-!unied practice un- 
 til 1886, when he was eletted :i justice of 
 the Supreme Court of Tennessee, lie be- 
 came chief justice of that court in January, 
 1803, but on March 20 of tliat year he was 
 appointed by President Cleveland judge of 
 the Circuit Court of the United States for 
 the Sixth Judicial Circuit, which office he 
 continues to hold. Address: Nashville, 
 Tenn. 
 
 LYDECKER, Charles Edward: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, May 
 26. 1851; son of John A. and Julia (Kent) 
 Ivvdecker. He was graduated from the 
 College of the City of New York, B.S., 
 1871; fellow of Columbia College. 1872, 
 LL.BL, 1873. He has been engaged in 
 various will contests and litigations, in- 
 cluding those of the Leland Stanford es- 
 tate, California, Eugene Cruger will. New 
 York, Howard Paul, London; also in com- 
 mercial and corporation law; also in case 
 sustaining the visitational powers of the 
 State Commissioner in Lunacy. He was 
 public administrator of New York, 1889- 
 1892; chairman of the Committee of the 
 Independent Political Club, which printed 
 and distributed ballots and obtained a suc- 
 cessful vote by which the last Constitutional 
 Convention was held in New Y^ork. He is 
 major of the Seventh Regiment of the Na- 
 tional Guard' of New York ; president of the 
 National Guard Association of the State of 
 New York; member of the Council, of the 
 Military Service Institution of the United 
 States; member of the Veterans of the 
 Seventh Regiment of the National Guard 
 of New York; received brevet commission 
 and long-service decoration of the State of 
 New York. He is a member of the New 
 York State Bar Association. Association of 
 the Bar of the City of New York, Holland 
 Society, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Beta Kappa, 
 and the Manhattan, New York Athletic, Re- 
 form, Lawyers', and Hackensack Golf. He 
 married in New York City, Jan. 19, 1882, 
 Ella Voorhis, who died in 1889, leaving 
 three children; and was again married in 
 1907, to Josephine B. Pond. Re^^idence: 
 
 11 East 81st Street. Office: 2 Rector 
 Street. New York City. 
 
 LYFORD, Frederic E.: 
 
 Banker: born in Watcrville, Me.; son of 
 Albert and Phebe (Bates) Lyford. He was 
 educated at Waverly (N. Y.) Academy. 
 Mr. Lyford has been thirty-five years in 
 First National Bank of Waverly, N. Y., of 
 which he is now president, director, and ac- 
 tive officer, and he is also president of the 
 York State Realty Company, vice-president 
 of the National Bank of Sayre, Pa., member 
 of the firm of F. E. Lyford and Company, 
 real estate and insurance, and director of 
 the Valley Telephone Company, and the 
 Consolidated Telephone Company. He was 
 formerly also connected with the Waverly 
 Electric Company, Sayre Land Company, 
 Sayre Water Company, Cayuta Wheel and 
 Foundry Company, of Sayre, Pa., and di- 
 rector of the First National Bank of Whit- 
 ney Point. Mr. Lyford was vice-president 
 of the New York State Bankers' Associa- 
 tion; trustee and president of the village 
 and trustee and president of the School 
 Board of Waverly, N. Y., is a member of 
 the Waverly Lodge of Masons; trustee of 
 Robert Packer Hospital, and' Athens His- 
 torical Association, and member of the City 
 Club of Elmira, N. Y. Mr. Lyford married, 
 first, at Waverly, N. Y., in '1877, Cora B. 
 Lorman (deceased), and second in 1801, 
 Jane Lemon, and he has five children. Ad- 
 dress: Waverly, N. Y. 
 
 LYFORD, Will Hartwell: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Waterville. Me., Sept. 
 15, 1858; son of Oliver S. and Lavina A. 
 (Norris) Lyford. He was graduated from 
 the Cleveland (Ohio) High School. 1875, 
 from IColby University, Waterville, Me., 
 A.B., 1870; later A.M. He has been in 
 the service of the Chicago and Eastern 
 Illinois Railroad Company since 1880; five 
 years in different subordinate capacities as 
 assistant engineer, stenographer and clerk 
 in general manager's office and other de- 
 partments, and three years in law depart- 
 ment; general counsel since January, 1888. 
 He is a member of the law firm of Calhoun, 
 Lyford and Sheean, Chicago. Mr. Lyford 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 i3 a member of tlie Association of Bar of 
 the City of New York, La\vyers', Club of 
 New York, Chicago, and Union Leagiu^ 
 Clubs and Chicago Athletic Association of 
 Chicago. He married at Nebraska City. 
 Neb., April 28, 1886, Mary Lee MacComas, 
 and tliey have two children, Gertrude 
 Wells and Calhoun. Address: 115 Broad- 
 way, New York City, and The Kookery, 
 Chicago. 
 
 LYMAN, Arthur Theodore: 
 
 Merchant and manufacturer; born in Bos- 
 ton, Dec. 8. 1832; son of George Williams 
 and Anne (Pratt) Lyman, and a descendant 
 of Richard Lyman, Charlostown, Mass.. 
 1C38, and Hartford, Conn., 1638. He was 
 graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1853. A.M., 
 1857. He engaged in the East Indian trade 
 from Boston in 1856, on completing a tour 
 of Europe for study and observation. He 
 was treasurer of the Appleton Company, 
 1861-1803; of the Hamilton Manufacturing 
 Company, 1860-1863; Lowell Manufacturing 
 Company, 1881-1000; and is president the 
 Pacific Mills, Bigelow Carpet Company. 
 Merrimack Manufacturing Company, Bos- 
 ton Manufacturing Company; Massachu- 
 setts Cotton Mills, ^Massachusetts Mills 
 in Georgia, and of the Locks and Ca- 
 nals on Merrimack River. He served for a 
 time as partner in the firm of J. W. Page 
 & Conipanj', selling agents for several cot- 
 ton mills, and as treasurer of the Hadley 
 Company, 1866-1889. He is president of 
 the Provident Institution for Savings in 
 Boston ; director of the Massachusetts Hos- 
 pital Life Insurance Company; president of 
 the Boston Athenaeum ; was formerly a mem- 
 ber of the corporation of the Massachusetts 
 Institute Teclinology, and now of tlie Massa- 
 chusetts Historical .Society. He served on 
 the staff of Governor Rice, as aide-de-camp 
 with the rank of colonel, 1876-1879; and 
 was an overseer of Harvard, 1892-1899. He 
 married, April 8, 1858, Ella, daughter of 
 John Amory and Elizabeth Cabot (Put- 
 nam) Lowell, and they had seven children, 
 and of that number six are living. Ad- 
 dress: 50 State Street, Boston. 
 
 LYMAN, Hart: 
 
 Editor; born in Plymouth, Conn. Dec. 8, 
 1851; son of Rev. Ephraim and Hannah D. 
 (Richards) Lyman. He was graduated 
 from Yale, 1873 and took special courses at 
 the University of Berlin and Heidelberg. 
 He has been editorial writer on the New 
 York Tribune, since 1876 and editor-in- 
 cliief since March, 1905. He is a member 
 of the University and Graduates' Clubs. 
 Mr. Lyman married at Englewood, N. J., 
 in 1881, Marion Torrey. Address: The 
 Tribune, 154 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 LYMAN, Henry D.: 
 
 President of the American Surety Com- 
 pany of New York; born in Parkman. Ohio, 
 April 12, 1852; son of Darius and Betsey C. 
 (Converse) Lyman. He was educated in 
 common schools. He was special agent at 
 Post-Office Department ; chief clerk of the 
 contract office, Post-Oflice Department; sec- 
 ond assistant postmaster-general at thirty- 
 two years of age, under the administration 
 of President Arthur; vice president and 
 later president of the American Surety 
 Company of New York; director of the 
 North River Savings Baiik of New York. 
 He is a member of the Ohio Society of New 
 York, and of the Union League and' Lotos 
 Clubs. Mr. Lyman married twice; first, in 
 Boston, Jan. 13, 1887, Laura M. Stevens, 
 who died Dec. 31, 1902; second. June 7, 
 1907, Louise C. Davis. Address: The 
 Plaza, New York City. 
 
 LYMAN, Joseph: 
 
 Landscape and coast painter; born in 
 Ravenna, Ohio, July 17, 1843; son of Jo- 
 seph and Mary (Clark) Lyman. He was 
 educated in schools of Cleveland, Ohio; 
 studied art in New York City. He is as- 
 sociate member of the National Academy of 
 Design. He was awarded a bronze medal 
 by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at 
 St. Louis. He is a member of the Cen- 
 tury Club. Residence: 621 Fifth Avenue. 
 Address: 7 West 43d Street, New York 
 City. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 LYMAN, Ronald Theodore: 
 
 Treasurer of the Eostoii IManufacturing 
 Company; born in Waltham, Mass.,; younn;- 
 est son of Arthur Theodore Lyman and 
 Ella (Lowell) Lyman. He became, in 1901, 
 treasurer of the \\'altham Bleachcry & Dye 
 Works, and in 1905, treasurer of the Boston 
 IManufacturing- Company. The Boston Man- 
 ufacturing Company was incorporated in 
 1813 and Mr. Lyman's father had been 
 treasurer and is president of the corpora- 
 tion. The mill began the spinning and 
 weaving of cotton cloth in 1814, having the 
 first mill in the United States that took 
 raw cotton, and spun it and wove it into 
 cloth on power looms. Address: Waltham, 
 Mass. 
 
 lYON, Ernest: 
 
 Diplomat, clergyman; born at Belize, 
 British Honduras, Oct. 22, I860; son of 
 Emanuel and Ann F. (Bending) Lyon. He 
 was educated at Gilbert Industrial Insti- 
 tute, La Teche, La., for three years, Straight 
 University, New Orleans, and at New Or- 
 leans LTniversity, graduating from the latter 
 as A.B., 1888, and later A.M. He also took 
 a special course at the University Theologi- 
 cal Seminary at New York, and later re- 
 ceived' the degree of D.D. from Wiley Uni- 
 versity, Marshall, Texas. He joined the 
 Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church in 1882, was given his first 
 charge, at La Teche, La., in 1883, was af- 
 terward pastor in New Orleans, in charge 
 consecutively of the Mallalieu Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, 1886, the Thompson 
 Church, 1889, and the Simpson Church, 
 1891. He was appointed Sunday School 
 Agent of the Louisiana Conference in 1894 
 and special agent of the Freedman's Aid 
 and Southern Educational Society in 1895. 
 Dr. Lyon was pastor of St. Mark's Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church at New York City, 
 1896, and of the John Wesley :\Iethodist 
 Episcopal Church in Baltimore, IDOl, and 
 he founded the ISIaryland Industrial and 
 Agricultural Institute for the education of 
 colored youths, at Laurel, Md. Dr. Lyon 
 has always been an ardent and active Re- 
 publican in his politics, and was appointed. 
 
 in 1S9G, an auxiliary iucinl)or of the Na- 
 tional Republican Committco, to whojn all 
 matters pertaining to the colored vote of 
 the East were referred; and lie was also 
 a member of the Advisory Board iip|)oinlcd 
 by the National Re|>ul)li('aii roniiiiittee in 
 1900. In 1903 Dr. Lymi was appointed by 
 President Roosevelt to his present position 
 as minister resident and consul-general of 
 tlie ITnited States to Liberia. He married 
 at Wilmington, Del., June 16, 1893, Clara 
 F. Bacchus. Address: Monrovia, Liberia. 
 
 LYON, Henry Ware: 
 
 Rcar-Admiral, U. S. Navy, retired; born 
 in Massachusetts, Nov. 8, 1845. He- was 
 appointed to Naval Academy from Massa- 
 chusetts, Oct. 7, 1862, and was graduated, 
 ISOG. On graduation he was attached to 
 the Sacramento, until that vessel was lost 
 ofT the coast of India in 1807; promoted to 
 ensign, April, 1868; on ordnance duty at 
 Boston, 1868; on the storeship Guard, Med- 
 iterranean Squadron, 1S()9; promoted to 
 master, July 26, 1869; steam sloop, Rich- 
 mond, European Fleet, 1869; commissioned 
 as lieutenant, ]\Iarch 21. 1870; Wabash, 
 1872-1873; frigate Franklin, North Atlantic 
 Fleet, 1873; special ordnance duty, 1874; 
 Tennessee, flagship, European Squadron, 
 1875-1877; special ordnance duty, 1877- 
 1880; Galena, European Station, 1880-1883; 
 ordnance duty at Washington, D. C, 1883; 
 promoted to lieutenant-commander. Nov.. 
 18S4; assigned to duty at South Boston 
 Iron Works, 1882-1886; Trenton, Pacific 
 Station. 1886-1889; commanding Nipsic, 
 Pacific Station, 1889-1890; the passage of 
 the Nipsic from Samoa to Honolulu, where 
 she was repaired, was made with a jury 
 rudder, deformed screw, all outside keel 
 gone and leaking; at Torpedo Sti\tion, 1890- 
 1893; commanding Yantic, Jlay-Dec, 1893. 
 Promoted to commander, Oct. 1, 1893; 
 Naval War College. June-Oct., 1894; at 
 Navy Yard, Boston, 1894-1897; command- 
 ing Dolphin. 1897-1899; Naxy Yard, New 
 York, 1899-June, 1901. Promoted to cap- 
 tain, March 27, 1900; on duty in con- 
 nection with fitting out the United States 
 Steamer Olympia, and was afterward her 
 commander until Dec, 1903; commandant 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Naval Station, Hawaii, l'JU4-li)0G. Tro- 
 motcd rear-adniiial, Feb. 19, 1906, and 
 commandant ilare Island Navy Yard, Calif., 
 until retired by operation of law, Nov. 8, 
 1907. Address: Paris, Me. 
 
 LYON, George F.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Barker. X. V., July 1.'5, 
 1849; son of Harry and Paniclia A. (Liv(!r- 
 more) Lyon. He was jiraduated from 
 Binghamton Academy, 1867: from Hamil- 
 ton College. A.B., 1872, and received from 
 that college the degree of LL.D. in 1904. 
 He was admitted to the New York State 
 bar, 1875; was member of the law firm 
 of Chapman & Martin, 1876-1877; and of 
 Chapman & Lyon, from 1877 to 1890. He 
 was a member of the New York State Con- 
 stitutional Convention in 1894, and was 
 elected justice of the Supreme Court on 
 the nomination of both Republican and 
 Democratic parties in 1895, for the term 
 ending Dee. 31, 1909. and has since served 
 in the Sixth Judicial District. Justice 
 Lyon married in 1884, Elizabeth R. Ma- 
 ther, of Binghamton. Address : Bingham- 
 ton, N. Y. 
 
 LYONS, Timothy Augustine: 
 
 Captain, U. S. Navy, retired; born in 
 Ireland, March 25, 1845; son of Timothy 
 and Margaret (Langford) Lyons. He was 
 educated in the public schools of JNIassachu- 
 setts and Minnesota, and at the U. S. 
 Naval Academy, from which he was grad- 
 uated in Oct., 1865. In Nov., 1865, he was 
 ordered to the Monongahcla, ^Yest India 
 Squadron, and was attached to her until 
 1867, when she was driven ashore and 
 wrecked on the Island of Santa Cruz by a 
 liuge wave from the open sea, following 
 immediately u])ou an eartliquake. He 
 afterward served in the De Soto, of the 
 same squadron; was promoted ensign in 
 1866 and master in 1868; was attached 
 to the Idaho and Unadilla, Asiatic Squad- 
 ron, and was on the former vessel at 
 Yokohama, when the British steamer Bom- 
 bay ran down ;\nd sank (with great loss 
 of life) the U. S. S. Oneida in (he Cull 
 
 of Yeddo, and was immediately connected 
 with the rescue of the survivors. He was 
 promoted to lieutenant, 1869; instructor at 
 the Naval Academy, 1871-1873; on the 
 llagship Pensacola, Pacific Squadron, 1873- 
 1876; at the Hydrographic ollice, Washing- 
 ton, D. C, 1876-1879, and while there sys- 
 tematized the collection of wind and 
 weather observations at sea and published 
 therefrom a series of meteorological charts 
 of the ocean — an extension and' amplifica- 
 tion of those devised by Commander M. F. 
 Maury; attached to the Constellation and 
 Trenton, 1879-1881; promoted to lieutenant- 
 commander, 1880; superintendent of com- 
 passes in the Bureau of Navigation, 1881- 
 1885; on leave on account of sickness, 1885- 
 1880, executive officer of the Tennessee and 
 the Richmond, each successively flagship 
 of the North Atlantic Squadron. 1880- 
 1889; promoted commander. 1889, and then 
 until 1892 member of the Board for Inspec- 
 tion of Merchant Vessels at New York; 
 afterward commanded the LT. S. Training- 
 ship Monongahela, having on board naval 
 apprentices, during a cruise to Lisbon and 
 return to New York, via the West Indies; 
 and later commanded the Alliance in the 
 Pacific. From 1894 to 1897 he was on 
 tours of duty at New York and the War 
 College, in Newport, alternating with peri- 
 ods of sick leave, and in May, 1897, was 
 placed on the retired list at his own request 
 on account of physical disabilities long 
 previouslj^ incurred in the line of duty. In 
 1898 he was on duly in \\'as!iington in 
 the office of the superintendent of com- 
 passes. He was promoted to captain on 
 the retired list in June, 1906. Captain 
 Lyons, since his retirement, has been en- 
 gaged in literary work in New York, the 
 chief product of which is two volumes 
 under the title of: A Treatise on Electro- 
 magnetic Phenomena, and on the Compass 
 and its Deviations Aboard Ship — Mathe- 
 matical, Theoretical and Practical. He 
 married in New York City, Sept. 14, 1871, 
 Marie Blanche Humbert, and tliey had two 
 daughters, both now dcccaNcd. Address: 
 Hotel San Remn, Cmtral Park West and 
 71th Street. New \ork (it v. 
 
WlI.I.IAM (ilL'MS .McAdoo 
 
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MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 MABIE, Hamiton Wright: 
 
 As.-ociatc editor of The Outlook ; born 
 at Cold Springs, N. Y., Dec. 22, 1846. He 
 was graduated from Williams College as 
 A.B., and later received the A.M. and 
 L.H.D. degree from that college; from Co- 
 lumbia as LL.B. and he has received the 
 LL.D. degrees from Union University, 
 Washington and Lee University, and West- 
 ern Reserve University. He is a trustee 
 of Williams College; and president of New 
 York Kindergarten Association. Mr. Mabie 
 is one of the foremost of American writers 
 on literature and is author of: Norse 
 Stories Retold from the Eddas, 1882; Na- 
 ture in New England, 1890; My Study Fire, 
 first series, 1890; Short Studies iji Litera- 
 ture, 1891; Under the Trees and Elsewhere, 
 1891; Essays in Literary Interpretation, 
 1892; My Study Fire, second series, 1894; 
 Nature and Culture, 1897; Books and Cvil- 
 ture, 1897; Work and Culture, 1898; The 
 Life of the Spirit, 1899; William Shake- 
 speare, Poet, Dramatist and Man, 1900; 
 Works and Days, 1902; Parables of Life, 
 1902; In Arcadj% 1903; Backgrounds of 
 Literature, 1903; The Great Word, 1905; 
 Christmas To-day, 1908. He is editor of: 
 Myths Every Child Should Know, 1905; 
 Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know, 
 190."); Heroes Every Child Should Know, 
 1906. He is also a constant contributor on 
 literary topics to numerous magazines and 
 periodicals. Residence : Fernwood Road, 
 Summit, N. J. Address: 287 Fourth 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
 »TilLcADOO, William Gibbs: 
 Lawyer, railway official; born near Mari- 
 etta, Ga., Oct. 31, 1863; son of William 
 Gibbs and Mary Faith (Floyd) McAdoo. 
 He received his education at the Univer- 
 sity of Tennessee at Knoxville. He was 
 appointed deputy clerk of the United States 
 Circuit Court for the Southern Division of 
 the Eastern District of Tennessee in May, 
 1882; studied law; was admitted to the 
 bar in 1885; practised law at Chattanooga; 
 was division counsel in Tennessee for the 
 
 Centra! Railroad and Hanking Coiiipany, 
 and the Richmond and Danville Railroad 
 Company; and came to Now York City, 
 1892. He wa.-» elected in 1902, and is now 
 l)resident and director of Hudson and Man- 
 hattan Railroad Company, which is build- 
 ing the Hudson River tunnel system, and 
 whicli completed, March 8, 1904, the first 
 tunnel under the Hudson River. Tlie (ir.st 
 Hudson River tunnels were opened for pub 
 lie use Feb. 25, 1908, l)etween Hoboken X. 
 J. and 19tli St. and Sixtii Avenue. N. Y. 
 President Roose\clt al Waisiiington t«>uched 
 tlie button whicii set the first electric train 
 in operation, (iov. Hughes of New York 
 ami Gov. Fort of New Jersey, went through 
 the tunnel, on the first train, with Mr. 
 Mc.Xdoo and many distinguished men. The 
 fourth tunnel under the Hudson was com- 
 pleted by Mr. McAdoo's conii)any March 
 11, 1909. He is a member of the Metro- 
 politan Railroad, Ardsley, City Automo- 
 bile, and St. Andrew's Golf Clubs, and is 
 president of the Southern Society. He 
 married at Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 18, 
 1885, Sarah Houstoun Fleming, and they 
 have six children. Address: Hud.-on 
 Terminal, 30 Church Street, New York (.'ity. 
 
 McAFEE, Lowell Mason: 
 
 President of Park College; born in l-'ul- 
 ton, Mo., June 6, 1860. Son of John A. 
 and Anna \^'. (Barley) McAfee. He was 
 educated in Highland University, Kan., and 
 Park College, ^lo., and has taken graduate 
 and professional studies at McCormick 
 Theological Seminary and the University 
 of Chicago, and has received the degrees of 
 A.B. and A.M., and L.L.D. (Kno.\ College). 
 He has been connected with Park College 
 ever since his graduation in 1880, and in 
 1902 was ap])ointed to its presidency. Pres- 
 ident McAfee has been secretary of the 
 Presbyterian College Union of the Mid- 
 dle West since 1901. He is a Presbyterian. 
 He married at Wheaton, Kan., Sept. 28, 
 1887, Carrie E. Canfield, and has three sons 
 and one daughter. Address: Park- 
 ville, ]Mo. 
 
 MacALISTER, James: 
 
 President of Dre.xel Institute, Philadel- 
 phia; born in Glasgow, Scotland, April 
 
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 2l), 1840. He was <jraduatcd from Brown 
 University, A.B., A.M.; stiulied law in the 
 I'niversitj' of New York and was graduated 
 LL.B. He was superintendent of public 
 schools in Milwaukee, 1874 1883; Kegent 
 of Xormal Schools, Wisconsin, 1873-1883; 
 first superintendent of public schools in 
 Philadelphia, 1883-1891, when he resigned 
 to become president of the Drexel Institute, 
 which position he still holds. He was 
 trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, 
 18S5-1897; was elected a member of the 
 American Philosophical Society in 1886. 
 In 1889 Brown University conferred upon 
 him the honorary degree of LL.D., and in 
 1890 he received from the French Gov- 
 ernment the appointment and decoration 
 of Officer d'Acad^mie. In 1895 he was 
 appointed a member of the Jury of Awards 
 in the Atlanta Interstate and International 
 Exposition, and in 1903 a member of the 
 Advisory Board of Education in the Louisi- 
 ana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. 
 He is a member of the Board of Trustees 
 of the Fairmount Park Art Association, 
 Philadelphia, and of other public bodies. 
 He has been lecturer on history and in- 
 stitutes of education in Johns Hopkins 
 University' and on the history of education 
 in Xew York University. He was invited 
 to read a paper in the International Educa- 
 tional Conference, held in London in 1884, 
 and was selected to read a paper in the 
 Educational Congress in the Exposition 
 Universclle, Pari.s, 1900. He was one of 
 the first advocates of manual training in 
 education in the United States. When the 
 Drexel Institute was ojjcned, the scheme, as 
 oi'ganized by him, included the newer forms 
 of technical education, some of which had 
 few or no precedents either in this coun- 
 try or in Europe. He has published numer- 
 ous addresses, reports and papers on edu- 
 cation. Address: Drexel Institute, Phila- 
 (Iflpliia. 
 
 McAllister, James Gray: 
 
 Clergyman and educator; born in Cov- 
 ington, Va., Nov. 27, 1872; son of A. 
 Addams and Julia Ellen (Stratton) Mc- 
 Allister. He was graduated from Hampden- 
 Sidney College, A.B., with honor, 1894, 
 and as B.D. from the Union Theological 
 
 Seminary, Richmond, Va., 1901; and the 
 degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by 
 \\'ashington and Jefferson College, Pa., and 
 by the Central University of Kentucky in 
 1906. He was editor of Bath News, Warm 
 Springs, Va., 1894-1895; business manager 
 of the Central Presbyterian, Richmond, 
 1895-1898; fellow Union Theological Sem- 
 inary, Richmond, 1901-1902; assistant pro- 
 fessor of Hebrew in same, 1902-1903; pas- 
 tor of the Farmville (Va.) Presbyterian 
 Church, 1903-1904; adjunct professor of 
 Hebrew in Union Theological Seminary, 
 Richmond, 1904-1905, and president of 
 Hampden Sidney College, 1905-1908. Dr. 
 McAllister was quartermaster-general of 
 the Sons of Confederate Veterans for one 
 year, and is a member of the Pi Kappa 
 Alpha fraternity. He is a Democrat and a 
 Presbyteri:iii. Uc married at Winchester, 
 Va., May 18, 1904, Meta E. Russell. Ad- 
 dress: Hot Springs, Va. 
 
 McAllister, James W.: 
 
 Insuianep company president : liorn in 
 Philadelphia, May 15, 1836. He was edu- 
 cated in the Central High School of Phila- 
 delphia vnitil 1853, when he entered the 
 service of the Franklin Fire Insurance 
 Company of Philadelphia, with which he 
 has ever since been connected, and of wiiich 
 he is now president and director. He is 
 also treasurer and director of the Fire In- 
 surance Patrol ; and a director of the Penn- 
 sylvania Salt Manufacturing Company, and 
 of the American Academy of Music. Mr. 
 McAllister has traveled extensively, in busi- 
 ness trips all over the United States, and 
 frequent visits to Europe. He is treasurer 
 of the Hahnemann Medical College and 
 Hospital of Philadelphia; a life member 
 of the Academj^ of Sciences of Philadel- 
 ])hia, and of the Art Club. Philadelphia. 
 Residence: 1603 Green Street. Office: 421 
 Walnut Street. Philadelphia. 
 
 McALVAY, Aaron Vance: 
 
 Chief justice of the Supreme Court of 
 Michigan; born in Ann Arbor. Mich., July 
 19, 1847; .son of Patrick Hamilton and 
 Sarah (Drake) McAlvay. He was gradu- 
 ated from the University of Michigan, A.B., 
 1868, and from the Law School of the same 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 institution, LL.B., 1869. He practised law 
 at Manistee, ]\Iich., and became a leader at 
 born in Springfield, ]\Iass., June 2, 1845; 
 (be IManistoo County bar. He was circuit 
 judge for four years prior to bis election in 
 ]n04 to tbe Supreme bench of Michigan, 
 wliich he now occupies as chief justice. He 
 was for some years a member of the Faculty 
 of Law in the University of Michigan. 
 Judge McAlvay is a Republican. Address: 
 Lansing, Mich. 
 
 MacARTHTIR, Arthur: 
 
 Lieutenant -geiuTal, LT. S. Army, retired; 
 son of Arthur and Aurelia (Belcher) Mac- 
 Arthur. His military service began when, 
 in August, 1862, the 24th Wisconsin In- 
 fantry was organized and mustered into 
 the United States service, and he, a boy of 
 seventeen, was its adjutant and a first lieu- 
 tenant. The regiment was first engaged 
 Oct. S, 1862, at Chaplin Hills, and at 
 Stone River, the colonel being sick and the 
 lieutenant-colonel having resigned the regi- 
 ment was led by its major and young Mac- 
 Arthur. At Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, 
 the color-bearer of the regiment fell, but 
 the colors w-ere at once seized by Mac- 
 Arthur who bore them, at the same time 
 encouraging the men to follow him up the 
 ridge. For his coolness and conspicuous 
 bravery on this occasion he was awarded 
 the Congressional Medal of Honor. He 
 was promoted major Jan. 25, 1864, acted as 
 lieutenant-colonel of his regiment at Kene- 
 saw Mountain, and led his regiment at the 
 battle of Franklin, where he was wounded 
 and served through the Atlanta campaign. 
 He was brevetted colonel March 13, 1865, 
 promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the 24th 
 Wisconsin Infantry, May 18, 1865, and 
 lionorably mustered out June 10, 1865. He 
 Avas appointed second and first lieutenant 
 of the 17th Infantry in the Regular Army, 
 Feb. 23, 18(iG; captain of the 36th In- 
 fantry, July, 1806, and transferred to the 
 13tl/ Infantry July 5, 1870. He served 
 through various Indian campaigns and in 
 the Southern States until he was made an 
 assistant adjutant-general, July 1, 1889, 
 with the rank of major; and promoted 
 lieutenant-colonel and assistant adjutant- 
 general in 1896. At the beginning of the 
 
 Spanish-American War ho was conimis- 
 sionod, May 27, 1898, brigadier-general of 
 volunteers. He went to tlie I'liilippiiifs with 
 the First E.vpedition, in 189S, and coin- 
 uianded the Division of tlie Phili|)|)incs nt 
 Manila; was ])ronioted to major-general of 
 volunteers Aug. 13, 1898, brigadier-general 
 in the regular service Jan. 2, 1900, major- 
 general. Feb. 5. 1901, and lieuteiiaiil-gcneral. 
 Sept. 15, 1906. After several year.s of most 
 effective service in the Pliili|)pines as eom- 
 niander-in-ehief of the forces there, he re- 
 turned to the United States, and com- 
 manded the Department of tlie Lakes until 
 he became lieutenant-general; and he wa.<» 
 letired by operation of law June 2, 1909. 
 He married in Norfolk, Va., May 19, 1875, 
 Mary Pinkney Hardy. Address: Colby- 
 Abbott Building, Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 MacARTHUR, Robert D.: 
 
 I'liysiciau : born in Glengarry, Out., 
 Canada. Aug. 1, 1843; son of John and 
 Margaret (MacMartin) MacArthur. He 
 was graduated from the Willianistown 
 Grammar School in 1863 and from tlie 
 medical department of McGill University at 
 :\lontroal, ?*I.D.. 1867. He was engaged in 
 the practice of medicine in Canada for 
 two years, when he removed to Chicago, 
 where he has since resided. He was ap- 
 pointed professor of skin and venereal 
 diseases at the Chicago Polyclinic in 18S!t, 
 and in 1890 became attending physician in 
 dermatology^ at the Presbyterian and St. 
 Joseph Hospitals, Chicago. Dr. MacArthur 
 is a member of the Chicago Medical Col- 
 lege, the Chicago Dermatological Society, 
 and the American Medical Association. He 
 is a member of the Union and Midday 
 Clubs. He nuvrried in Montreal. Can., 
 Sept. 27, 1871, Minnie Beattie. and has 
 one daughter, Ida Belle. Residence: 414 
 Dearborn Avenue. Ollice: 204 Dearborn 
 Street, Chicago. 
 
 MACBETH, George Alexander: 
 
 Glass manufacturer; born at Urbana, 
 Ohio, in 1845; son of James Eced and 
 Frances Ann (Bayard) Macbeth. After 
 completing his studies in the Urbana pub- 
 lic schools, he was engaged in the drug 
 business as clerk and proprietor until 1872, 
 
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 and sinoo tlion has bpon identifiod with the 
 maniifactiiro of j^lass in Pittsburgh, and 
 for years past at the head, as president, of 
 the Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, with 
 factories in Pittsburgh and at Charleroi, 
 Pa. He is also president of the First Na- 
 tional Bank of Charleroi and of the Char- 
 leroi Savings and Trust Company. He was 
 a commissioner from Pennsylvania to the 
 World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago 
 and is a trustee for life of the Carnegie 
 Free Library of Pittsburgh. :\Tr. Macbeth 
 is a member of the New Church (Sweden- 
 borgian ) . He is a member of the National 
 Arts Club and other art organizations in 
 New York, of the Grolicr Club of New 
 York. Rowfant Club of Cleveland, and other 
 organizations of book lovers; and was for- 
 merly president of the Pittsburgh Art So- 
 ciety. ^Ir. ^raol)eth has had a leading 
 shai-e in Ihc jirogress of the American glass 
 industry, was Ihe first in this country to 
 make optical glass, and received a medal 
 from the World's Columbian Exposition 
 for the first exhibit ever made of optical 
 glass of American maiuifacture. He mar- 
 ried in Pittsburgh in ISSO. Katharine Duff. 
 onic.-: Empire P.uilding. Pittsburgh. 
 
 McBRIDE, Henry: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-governor; born in Ut^h 
 in 185G. He was educated in the public 
 schools and in Trinity College, Hartford, 
 Conn., to the end of the junior year. He 
 studied law and was admitted to the bar 
 in 1804, and engaged in practice at Blount 
 Vernon, Wash. He was elected prosecuting 
 attorney of Skagit County, Wash., in 1888. 
 In 1801 he was appointed by Governor 
 Elisha P. Ferry to the office of judge of 
 the Suj)erior Court for Skagit and Island 
 Counties to fill a vacancy and in Novem- 
 ber, 1892. was elected to the same office 
 ff)r a four-year term, upon the expiration 
 of wliicli he resumed the practice of law. 
 lie was elected lieutenant -go\'<rnor of \\'ash- 
 ington in November, 1900, and became gov- 
 ernor upon the death of Governor John R. 
 Rogers in December, 1901, until the end 
 of the term in January, 1905, when he re- 
 sumed practice at Seattle, where he is at 
 the head f)f the firm of McBride, Stratton 
 ami Da It on. (iovernor McRride is a Re- 
 
 pul)lican and an Episcopalian. He mar- 
 ried at Coupeville, Island County, Wash., 
 in 1884, Alice Garrett. Address:" Seattle, 
 Wash. 
 
 McCALI, Edward Everett: 
 
 Jurist : engaged in practice of law in 
 New York City until elected on the Demo- 
 cratic ticket in November, 1902, a justice 
 of the Supreme Court of New Y'ork for 
 the term expiring 1916. He is a member 
 of the Association of the Bar of the City 
 of New York, Society of Medical Juris- 
 prudence, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and 
 also of the ^Manliattan, Lawyers', New Y^'ork 
 Athletic, Catholic, National Democratic, 
 Tilden, Lotos and the Columbia Yacht 
 Clubs. Residence: 321 West 86th Street. 
 Address : .346 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 McCALL, John Etheridge: 
 
 U. S. judge; born in Clarksburg Tenii., 
 Aug. 14. 1859; son of Henry and Rebecca 
 Frances (Bowlin) McCall. After graduation 
 from the L^niversity of Tennessee in the 
 class of 1881, he engaged in law, journal- 
 ism, business and politics, becoming one of 
 the leaders of the Republican party in his 
 State. He edited the Tennessee Repub- 
 lican at Lexington, Tenn. ; was for four 
 years a member of the Tennessee House of 
 Representatives, a member of the Fifty- 
 fourth Congress, and Republican candi- 
 date, in 1900. for governor of Tennessee. 
 He was appointed collector of internal 
 revenue in 1902, and in January 1905, was 
 appointed to his present office as judge of 
 tlie United States Court for the Western 
 District of Tennessee. He is president of 
 tlie Bank of Lexington. Residence: Lex- 
 ington. Tenn. Office: U. S. Court, Mem- 
 ])his, Tenn. 
 
 McCall, Samuel Walker: 
 
 Congressman ; was born in East Provi- 
 dence, Pa., Feb. 28, 1851; graduated from 
 the New Hampton (N. H.) Academy, 1870, 
 and from Dartmouth College, A.B., 1874. He 
 was admitted to the bar, practising in 
 Boston; served as editor-in-chief of the 
 Boston Daily Advertiser; was a member 
 of the Massachusetts House of Representa- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 lives of 1888, lS8n. and 1892; was a dele- 
 i^ate to tlio Ropiiblioan National Conven- 
 tions of 1888 and 1900. He is the author 
 of Iho Biof^rapli_y of Thaddeus Stevens in 
 tlie American Statesmen Series. He was 
 eleeted to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth. 
 Fifty-fifth. Fifty-sixth". Fifty-Seventh. Fifty- 
 eighth. Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Con- 
 presses and reelected in 1908 to the Sixty- 
 first Congress from the Eighth Massa- 
 chusetts District. Address: Winchester, 
 ]\rass. 
 
 McCALLA, Bowman Hendry: 
 
 Rcar-Admiral, United States Navy; born 
 in Camden, N. J., June 19, 1844. He 
 was api^ointed a cadet in the United States 
 Naval Academy, Nov. 3, ISOl. remained at 
 the Academy until the end of 18C4. After 
 passing through the intermediate grades 
 he conunanded the Enterprise on the 
 European station, 1887-1890; then after 
 over three years' service as equipment of- 
 ficer at the Mare Island Navy Yard and 
 several months at the Naval War College 
 was appointed to command the protected 
 cruiser Marblehead, in which he served 
 with the North Atlantic Squadron during 
 the Spanish-American War. His service in 
 the war wa.s markedly brilliant and his 
 landing at Guantanamo to establish a base 
 for naval and land operations was one of 
 the most notable of the events of the war. 
 He was commissioned captain Aug. 10, 
 1898; was captain of the Norfolk Navy 
 Yard until September, 1899, when he was 
 placed in command of the Newark which 
 he took from San Francisco to Manila. He 
 commanded a division of six cruisers and 
 gunboats on the North and West Coasts of 
 Luzon. In December. 1899, with a force of 
 two hundred and fifty, officers and men, 
 he marched to the relief of the city of 
 Vigan, four miles inland, held by a small 
 force of the 33d Volunteer Infantry, and 
 six days later received the surrender of all 
 the insurgent forces in the provinces of 
 Isabella and Cagayan and in the Batan 
 Islands. In June, 1900, with one hundred 
 and twelve, officers and men, from the 
 Newark formed part of the column of the 
 International forces which, under Viee-Ad- 
 miral Seymour marched to the relief of 
 
 I lie Legal ion.s at Peking, lie wax advanced 
 for service in war with Spain, mlvanced 
 three numbers for service with the Peking 
 Relief Cohnnn. He commanded the battle- 
 ship Kearsarge, 1901-1902; commanded the 
 Naval Training Station at San Francisco 
 in 1902; promoted rear-admiral Oct. 11, 
 1903, and commanded the Mare Islan<l 
 Navy Yard and Station in 1904. liH)-) and 
 190G, retiring June 19, 1900. Address: 
 2420 Upper Carden Street. Sanl:i Harbara. 
 Calif. 
 
 McCARREN, Patrick H.: 
 
 State Senator; imrn in Cambridge. Ma-<. ; 
 resident of Brooklyn, from age of eight ; 
 he was educated in tlie public schools of 
 Brooklyn. He was elected to the Assembly 
 three times, and was one of the leaders 
 on the floor of the House in 1889, the year 
 before he first entered the Senate; elected 
 to Senate in 189.-). 1898. 1900. 19(^2. 19(t4. 
 1906, and 1908. He has been identified 
 with much important legislation, and it was 
 chiefly through his efTorts that free text- 
 books are now supplied in the public 
 schools; also led in securing passage of 
 original bill for a second bridge over East 
 River, for the benefit of the Eastern Dis- 
 trict of Brooklyn. He. is the Democratic 
 leader of the Borough of Brooklyn. Ad- 
 dress: 4 Court Square. Brooklyn. N. Y. 
 
 McCARTY, William Murdock: 
 
 Chief justice of the I'tali Supreme Court; 
 born at Alpine, Utah, May 15, 1S.")9: reared 
 on farm, attended country schools, and 
 afterward worked in mines. He studied 
 law in an office at Monroe, Utah, was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1887 and engaged in 
 practice. He was appointed assistant U. S. 
 attorney for Utah in 1889; elected for two 
 terms as county attorney of Sevier County, 
 under the Territorial organization: was 
 elected at the first State election in 1895 
 and reelected in 1900 as judge of the Dis- 
 trict Court for the Sixth Judicial District 
 of Utah, serving in that oflTicc until elected 
 to the Supreme Bench in 1902. in wiiich 
 he was associate judge until 1900 and since 
 then has been chief justice. He is a Re- 
 publican. Judge McCarly married at 
 Marysville, Utah, Oct. 7, 1893, Lavina L. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Murray. Address: 
 U\ke City, Utah. 
 
 1053 Third Street, Salt 
 
 M'CATILEY, Calvin Hudson: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Elk County, Pa., in 
 July, 1S50. He had a common school edu- 
 lation and afterward entered Bucknell Uni- 
 versity at Lewisburg, Pa. He began his 
 career by teacliing school at the age of 
 seventeen, and entered upon the study of 
 law a year later ; was admitted to the bar 
 of Elk County in 1872, and later to that 
 of the State Supreme Court, the United 
 State Circuit Court, and the Supreme Court 
 of the United States. In 1875 he was 
 elected district attorney of Elk County 
 on the Democratic ticket. When Ridgway, 
 in 1881, was incorporated as a borough, 
 he became a member of its council, and 
 for three years was president of that body; 
 he was reelected in 1888, and served as 
 president for three years more. He is so- 
 licitor for the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts- 
 burgh Railroad Company, district solicitor 
 for the Pennsylvania and the Erie Rail- 
 roads, and is an acknowledged expert in 
 railroad and corporation law. In 1893 he 
 organized the Penn, the Elk and the Union 
 Tanning Companies, and was prominent in 
 the organization of the United States 
 Leather Company ; and he is now general 
 solicitor for the Elk Tanning Company; 
 solicited for the United States Leather 
 Company, and general solicitor for its 
 affiliated companies in Pennsylvania. In 
 recent years he lias organized a large num- 
 ber of industrial corporations, all of which 
 he now represents as general counsel. Ad- 
 dress: Ridgway, Pa. 
 
 McCAULEY, Charles Adam Hoke: 
 
 Colonel and assistant quartermaster-gen- 
 eral, U. S. Army; born in Middletown, 
 Md., July 13, 1847. He was an honor 
 graduate of the Reading (Pa.) High 
 School, 1805; was appointed to the U. S. 
 Military Academy in 1806; was graduated 
 in 1870, and appointed 2d lieutenant. 
 Third Artillery, June 15, 1870; transferred 
 to Third Cavalry, Oct. 7, 1878; promoted 
 first lieutenant May 5, 1870; appointed 
 captain and assistant quartermaster, Feb. 
 
 18, 1881; major and quartermaster, Aug. 
 8, 1894 ; lieutenant-colonel and deputy 
 quartermaster-general, July 13, 1899; 
 colonel and assistant quartermaster-general, 
 Feb. 24, 1903. He served with the Red 
 River Expedition, Staked Plain of Texas 
 and Indian Territory as a volunteer, May- 
 June, 1876; voluniieered for transfer to 
 Seventh Cavalry after Custer Massacre. 
 In charge of San Juan Reconnaissance in 
 Southwest Colorado and New Mexico, 1877; 
 with Ute Indian Commission, 1878, as en- 
 gineer officer and in command of escort; 
 assistant engineer. Department of the Mis- 
 souri, 1877-1879; in charge of courier line 
 and transportation in the field, Ute Indian 
 campaign, 1879, as a volunteer. Depot 
 quartermaster, Rawlins, Wyo, 1881-1882; 
 Ogden, Utah, 1882-1883; Omaha, Neb., 
 1883-1887, Chicago, 1887-1890; volunteered 
 for Sioux campaign, 1890; in charge of 
 building Fort Sheridan, 111., to July, 1891; 
 depot quartermaster, Portland, Ore., 1891- 
 1890; assistant to depot quartermaster, 
 Philadelphia, and in charge of transporta- 
 tion, 1896-1901; sailed for Philippines from 
 San Francisco, July 16, 1900. arrived at 
 Manila, Aug. 12, 1901. Chief quarter- 
 ma.ster, Dejiartment of Southern Luzon, 
 Manila, to Dec. 1, 1901; Department of 
 South Philippines, at Cebu, Island of Cebu, 
 P. I., 1o Oclober, 1902; Department of the 
 visayas, at Iloilo, Panaq, P. I., to Sept. 
 2, 1903; returned to U. S., and was in 
 charge of the General Depot of the Quar- 
 termaster's Department at JoflFersonville, 
 Ind., Nov. 30, 1903, to July 17, 1904. Chief 
 quartermaster. Department of the Colorado, 
 Denver. 1904-1908; Department of the 
 East, March-November, 1908; in charge of 
 Pittsburgh Storage and Supply Depot from 
 Feb. 15, 1909. Colonel McCauley is a fel- 
 low of the American Association for the 
 ,\dvancement of Science : member of the 
 Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia, 
 and Nuttall Ornithological Club, Cambridge, 
 Mass. He is author of: The San Juan 
 Reconnaissance; Ornithology of the Staked 
 Plain of Texas; and various reports and 
 l)apers on military and Scientific subjects. 
 Address: Care of War Department, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
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 McCAULEY, Lena May: 
 
 Journalist and lecturer on art; born in 
 Hagerstown, Md., in 1859; dautjhter of 
 James and Lena (Rowland) ]\IcCauley. 
 She was educated in Dearborn Sominarj', 
 Chicago, followed by special work one year 
 in the University of Illinois, one year in the 
 University of Wisconsin, three years in the 
 University of Chicago, and also in the Art 
 Institute of Chicago and music schools. 
 Miss McCauley was a teacher in the public 
 scliools, 1885-1900; was appointed assistant 
 literary editor and art critic of the Chi- 
 cago Evening Post, 1900, and is now serv- 
 ing as editorial writer on that paper. She 
 has lectured on art in the Art Institute of 
 Chicago since 1904, and also before women's 
 clubs in Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, and 
 Illinois. Her editorial work is concerned 
 with education, art and reform, and Miss 
 McCauley is now probably the only pro- 
 fessional woman editorial writer in Chi- 
 cago. She is a member of the Municipal 
 Art League of Chicago; was connected with 
 the Forward Movement Settlement Work, 
 1898-1907, is a member of the Chicago 
 Woman's and Lake View W^oman's Clubs 
 of Chicago, and ex-officio, and by comple- 
 mentary membership associated with all 
 the important woman's clubs and art asso- 
 ciations of Chicago. She is author of: 
 Seventeen English Cathedrals; Letters from 
 Sylvia (musical), and The Joys of Gardens 
 (all published serially by the Chicago 
 Evening Post and printed for private cir- 
 culation; also monographs: Etchers of 
 Architecture ; Painter-Etcher Series — Don- 
 ald Shaw McLaughlan, Herman Webster, 
 John Marin, Otto Schneider, Olsson Nord- 
 felt, Cadwallader Washburn; and also con- 
 tributor of short stories to the. Young Peo- 
 ple's Weekly, and articles to The Crafts- 
 man, The World To-Day, and the Fine Arts 
 Magazine. Residence: 248-1 Xorth Clark 
 Street. Office: Editorial Rooms, Chicago 
 Evening Post, 160 Washington Street, 
 Chicago. 
 
 McCAUSLAND, William Clifton: 
 
 Director and treasurer of the Carnegie 
 Steel Company; born in Pittsburgh, Aug. 
 9, 1861; son of W. A. and Margaret (Mack- 
 
 rcll) McCausland. lie atten<led tin- Fourth 
 Ward Public Scliool in Alleglicny, I'a., 1809- 
 1876. lie was succer^sively cashier of the 
 if. C. Friek Coke Company, of Carnegie, 
 Phipps and Company, and of the Carnegie 
 Steel Company, Limited, then assistant 
 treasurer of the Carnegie Steel Company; 
 and is now director and treasurer of llie 
 Carnegie vSteel Company, and of tlie ("hiir- 
 ton Steel Company; treasurer of the United 
 Steel Company and director of the Pitts- 
 burgh Life and 'I'riist Company. He is a 
 member of tlie Pennsylvania Society, and 
 of the Duquesne, and Country Clubs of 
 Pittsburgh. Mr. McCausland married in 
 Pittsburgh, Feb. 9, 1893, Margaret Alice 
 Crouch. Residence: 411 Graham Street, 
 Pittsburgh. Summer residence: Cedar 
 Clifl". Wolfe Island. Ontario. Onice: 1117 
 Carnegie Building, Pittsburgh. 
 
 McCAITSTLAND, Elmer James: 
 
 Civil and mining engineer; born in 
 (^lincy, Wis., Jan. 9, 1864; son of James 
 and Luannia (Winn) MeCaustland. He 
 was educated in Cornell College. Mt. 
 Vernon, Iowa, B.C.E., 1892, C.E., 1895, 
 Cornell University, M.C.E., 1897. He was 
 engaged as U. S. deputy mineral surveyor 
 for Oregon, 1890 1896; instructor in Cor- 
 nell University, 1897-1900; assistant chief 
 engineer, Chicago Transfer and Clearing 
 Company, 1900-1902; assistant professor of 
 civil engineering, Cornell University, 1902- 
 1907; professor of mining engineering, Uni- 
 versity of Alabama, 1907-1908; professor 
 of municipal engineering, University of 
 Washington, Seattle, since 1908. He is a 
 member of the American Society of •Civil 
 Engineers, American Institute of Mining 
 f?]n"-incers, Pacific Northwest Society of 
 Engineers, American Society for Testing 
 Materials, Society for the Promotion of En- 
 gineering Education; and a fellow of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science. Residence: 5264 Nineteenth 
 Avenue, N. E. Office: University of Wash- 
 ington. Seattle, Wash. 
 
 McCAWLEY, Charles Laurie: 
 
 Lieutenant-colonel, U. S. Marine Corps; 
 born in Boston, Aug. 24, 1865; son of 
 Charles Grynies McCawley, a distinguished 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 officer of the same corps, and Elizabeth 
 M. (Colgate) McCawley. lie was educated 
 at private schools in Washington, D. C, 
 and in the law department of Columbian 
 University. He was appointed captain and 
 assistant quartermaster of the Marine 
 Corps, June 27, 1897. He landed with a 
 battalion of marines at Guantanamo, 
 Cuba, Juno 10, 1898, taking jjart in various 
 engagements witli Spanish troops; was 
 brevetted major for distinguished conduct; 
 present at the bombardment of Manzanillo. 
 Cuba, and after his promotion to be major 
 served in the Philippines, Since 1902 he 
 has been on duty at Headquarters, U. S. 
 Marine Corps at Washington, and until 
 July, 190U, he was the President's aid in 
 charge of oflicial ceremonies at the White 
 House, where he showed marked tact and 
 ability in the conduct of this difficult posi- 
 tion. On -May 13, 1908, he was promoted to 
 be lieutenant-colonel. He is a member of 
 the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, of 
 the Military Order of the Carabao; the 
 Sons of the Revolution, and the Aztec 
 Club; also the Metropolitan, Country, 
 Chevy Chase and Alibi Clubs of Washing- 
 ton, Country and University Clubs of 
 Philadelphia, and the Knickerbocker Club 
 of New York, He has received the West 
 Indian Campaign Medal of 1898, Spanish 
 War Badge, 1898, and Philippine War 
 Badge, 1899, He married in \\'ashington, 
 D, C, July 24, 1906, Sarah Helen Freling- 
 huysen Davis, and resides at 1610 New 
 Hampshire Avenue. Address: Headquar- 
 ters U. S. Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. 
 
 MacCHESNEY, Clara Taggart: 
 
 Artist; born in Brownsville, Calif.; 
 daughter of J. B. and Sura'h ( Jcwett) Mac- 
 Chesney. She was a pupil of Virgil Wil- 
 liams and at the San Francisco School of 
 Design ; H. Siddons Mowijray, J, Carroll 
 Beckwith and at the Gotham Art School, 
 New York City; Girardot, Courtois and 
 at the Colarossi School, Paris, Her art 
 is represented l)y e.\ami)li's in the Public Li- 
 brary, Erie, Pa,, the Boston Art Club, and 
 the Union J^eague Club of Chicago, Mi.ss 
 MacChesney was awarded three medals at 
 the Colarossi School; two medals at the 
 World's Columbian E-vposition, Chicago, 
 
 1893; the Dodge Prize of the National 
 Academy of Design, 189-1; gold medal of 
 the Art Club of Philadelphia, 1900; second 
 Ilallgarten ])ri/c of the N-^.tional Academy 
 of Design, 1!)()1; bronze medal of the Pan 
 American Exposition, 1901 ; silver medal 
 of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. 
 Louis, 1904, ]\Iiss MacChesney is a mem- 
 ber of the Municipal Art Society, Consum- 
 ers League, Equality League of Self-Sup- 
 porting Women, and of the National Arts, 
 New Y*ork Water-Color, Barnard and Art 
 Uorkers' Clubs of New Y'ork and the Ly- 
 ceum Club of London, Address: 27 West 
 3.3d Street, New York City, 
 
 MacCHESNEY, Nathan William: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Chicago, June 2, 1878; 
 .3on of Lieut. -Col, Alfred Brunson MacChes- 
 ney, United States Army (A.M., M.D.) of 
 Ohio, and Henrietta (Milsom) MacChes- 
 ney, M.D., of London, England. The Mac- 
 Chesneys are of Scotch origin, .settling in 
 Virginia in Colonial times. Col, MacChes- 
 ney was educated in the public schools of 
 Chicago, University of the Pacific, 1898, 
 University of Arizona, 1899, special stu- 
 dent in the Inland Stanford, Jr., Univer- 
 sity, University of Denver and University 
 of Chicago. He studied law at North we.-t- 
 ern University, 1899-1900, University of 
 ^liehigan, LL.B., 1902, and post graduate 
 work in Northwestern University Law 
 School, 1902-1903. He was engaged as a 
 lecturer on American constitutional his- 
 tory for Chautauqua circles in Arizona, 
 California and Minnesota, 1899; press cor- 
 respondent in California, Arizona and New 
 Mexico, 1897-1899; associated with his 
 father in business, 1899-1903, He has been 
 admitted to the bar in Illinois, Michigan, 
 New York, to' the U, S, Supreme Court 
 and Federal Courts, and is senior member 
 of the law linn of MacChesney, Becker 
 and Bi-adlcy; his partners being H, E, 
 Bradley and F, W, Becker, succei'ding the 
 firm of Carter & Becker, established in 
 ISoS; and partner in the linn of Holt, 
 MacChesney and Cheney, real estate and 
 bonds, owner and agents of the Manhat- 
 tan Building, He is counsel for The Chi- 
 cago Real Estate Board; general counsel 
 and director of the Owners' Realty Com- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 pany, and general counsel of tlie National 
 Association of Real Estate Exchanges; 
 secretary and director of the Building 
 Managers' Association of Chicago; director 
 of the Grover Cleveland Memorial Associa- 
 tion. He was chairman of the Public Ser- 
 vice Committee, 1903-1906, and is member 
 of the Joint Committee on High Pressure 
 ^^■ater System, in which connection he was 
 appointed by the mayor of Chicago a com- 
 missioner to investigate the high pressure 
 service of New York City. He is secretary 
 and a director of the E.xcelsior Printing 
 Company and the Hilton Lithographing 
 Company; director of the E. C. Frady 
 Manufacturing Company, and treasurer of 
 the Northwestern University Law Publish- 
 ing Association. He is author and editor 
 of : Abraham Lincoln — The Tribute of a 
 Century, 1909 (A. C. McClurg). He is a 
 member of the Hyde Park Presbyterian 
 Church, of Chicago, active in settlement 
 work and other philanthropic and relig- 
 ious movements; was chairman of the 
 committee on organization for the Presby- 
 terian Brotherhood of Chicago, and trus- 
 tee and vice-president of South End Center, 
 a social settlement in South Chicago. He 
 is donor of the MacChesney prizes at North- 
 western University Law School ; one of the 
 founders and associate editor of the Illi- 
 nois Law Review ; also frequent contribu- 
 tor to other technical magazines on legal 
 and other subjects connected with property 
 and corporation management. Col. Mac- 
 Chesney has given a natural history col- 
 lection to Knox College; has one of the 
 line private collections of the city of oils 
 and etchings, and takes a keen interest in 
 educational matters. He finds his recrea- 
 tion in yachting at his summer place, in 
 riding horseback and in farming. He was 
 a delegate to the Universal Congress of 
 Lawyers and Jurists at St. Louis in 1904 ; 
 as a commissioner on uniform State laws 
 to the National Conference; and elected 
 secretary of the Illinois Commission, and 
 is secretary of the Committee of Organi- 
 zation of the National Conference of Crim- 
 inal Law and Criminology. He has been 
 a member of the National Guard of Ari- 
 zona, volunteer for the Spanish-American 
 
 War, doing garrison duty on the Pacific 
 Coast, and is a lieutenant-colonel and jutlge- 
 advocate of the First Brigade, Illinois Na- 
 tional Guard; niemiier of the National 
 Guard and Naval Reserve Association, lie 
 is a member of the American Society of 
 International Law, American .Vssociation 
 for the Advancement of Science, American 
 Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Associa- 
 tion, Chicago Bar Association, Ciiicago 
 Law Institute, honorary meml)er, Building 
 Managers' Association, Geographic Society 
 of Chicago, Chicago Association of Com- 
 merce, Sons of Veterans, U. S. A. (com- 
 mander Illinois State cam])), and also of the 
 Masonic order. Royal 'Arcanum. I'hi Delta 
 Phi fraternity, Michigan Liiioii ot Ann 
 Arbor, Stanford Club of Chicago (presi- 
 dent). Men's Club of Hyde Park (presi- 
 dent) ; Irish Fellowship Club, Southern 
 Club, Michigan Engineers' Club, and of tiie 
 University, Union League, City, Hamilton, 
 Illinois, Chicago Literary, Twentieth Cen- 
 tury, Chicago Yaclit, and South Shore 
 Country Clubs of Chicago. He is an ac- 
 ti\e Republican, taking a pionuncnt part 
 in campaigns as speaker throughout the 
 country; is chairman of the Seventh Dis- 
 trict Republican Club of Chicago, and com- 
 mitteeman in the Sixth Ward. He is ac- 
 tive in all civic matters, taking a leading 
 part in public discussions on franchises, 
 taxation and revenue matters, as well as be- 
 ing a frequent writer on these topics. He 
 was appointed by the mayor of Chicago, 
 secretary of the Committee of One Hun- 
 dred in chai"ge of the Lincoln Centennial 
 Memorial, and to his untiring elTorts the 
 successful development of the plan is large- 
 ly due. He married, Dec. 1. 1904, Lena, 
 daughter of W. E. Frost of Riverside, 111. 
 Mrs. MacChesney is a graduate of the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, 1901; was a student 
 of the University of Berlin, 1901-190-2. 
 She is a member of the College, Chicago 
 South Side and Michigan Alumnae 
 Clubs and of the Association of Collegi- 
 ate Alumnae. Residence: 4526 Lake 
 Avenue, Chicago. Illinois. Offices: 108 
 La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois, and 231 
 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York 
 City. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 McCLATCHY, Charles Kenny: 
 
 Newspaper editor; born in Sacramento, 
 Calif.. Nov. 1, 1858; son of James Mc 
 Ciatchy, founder and editor of the Sacra- 
 mento Bee. After completing his course at 
 Santa Clara College, Calif., he entered the 
 olTice of the Bee, which his father had made 
 one of the leading papers of the Pacific 
 Coast. After being thoroughly trained in 
 the news and editorial departments, he 
 succeeded his father in January, 1884, as 
 editor of the paper in which position he 
 continues. He married Ella Kelly in 1885. 
 Residence: 1015 Street. Office: The 
 Bee, Sacramento, Cajif. 
 
 McCLEARY, James Thompson: 
 
 Puhlici-st; born at Ingersoll, Canada, Feb. 
 5, 1853; son of Thompson and Sarah (Me- 
 Cutcheon) ilcCleary. He was educated in 
 the high school of Ingersoll, Can., and 
 McGill University, Montreal. He was a 
 teacher in Wisconsin, 1871-1881; county 
 superintendent of schools of Peirce County, 
 Wis., 1879-1881; conductor of State Teach- 
 ers' Institute of Minnesota, 1881-1892; pro- 
 fessor of history and civics in the State 
 Normal School of Mankato, Minn. He took 
 an active interest in politics as a Repub- 
 lican and in 1892 he was elected to the 
 Fifty-third Congress from the Second Min- 
 nesota District, and was biennially elected 
 up to and including the Fifty-ninth Con- 
 gress, and in 1907, he was appointed by 
 President Roosevelt second assistant post- 
 master-general of the United States, which 
 he resigned in 1908 to become again a 
 candidate for the Sixty-lirst Congress, 
 in which, however, he was unsuccessful. 
 During his Congressional career, Mr. Mc- 
 Cleary was distinguished as a tarifT ex- 
 pert and as the chairman of tlie Commit- 
 tee on the Library, MJiich has much to do 
 with the beatification of Washington. He 
 was also a prominent member of the Com- 
 mittee on Appropriation. He is a life mem- 
 ber of the Minnesota State Historical So- 
 ciety. Mr. McCleary is especially fond of 
 travel and has made three trips to Europe, 
 covering most of that continent, and one 
 trip to Hawaii. He married at Maiden 
 Rock, Wis., June 4, 1874, Mary Edith Tay- 
 
 lor, and they have one son. Residence: 
 Mankato, Minn. 
 
 McCLELLAN, George Brinton: 
 
 Mayor of New York; born in Dresden, 
 Saxony, Nov. 23, 1865; son of General 
 George B. McClellan, commander-in-chief of 
 the Union Army during the first year of 
 the Civil War, and of Ellen (Marcy) Mc- 
 Clellan. He was educated in the schools 
 of Trenton, N. J., dviring the term of his 
 father as governor of New Jersey, three 
 years in a military school at Ossining, N. 
 Y., and at Princeton University, where he 
 received the degrees of A.B., 1886, A.M., 
 1889, and LL.D. He also received the de- 
 gree of LL.D. from St. John's College, 
 Fordham, in 1905, and from Union Uni- 
 versity in 1906, also becoming honorary 
 chancellor of the last-named institution in 
 1906. After his graduation he engaged in 
 newspaper work as a reporter for New York 
 dailies, and in 1889 was appointed treasurer 
 of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, 
 studying law while so occupied, and in 1892 
 he was admitted to the bar. He was 
 nominated and elected, in 1892, president 
 of the Board of Aldermen of New York 
 City, the youngest man ever elected to that 
 office. He was elected in 1894 from the 
 Twelfth New York District to the Fifty- 
 fourth Congress, and reelected in 1896, 
 1898, 1900 and 1902, resigning in 1903, 
 when he was elected mayor of New York 
 City on the Democratic ticket, and he was 
 reelected mayor in 1905. Mayor McClellan 
 is a member of the JNIilitarj' Order of the 
 Loyal IjCgion, of Lafayette Camp, Sons of 
 Veterans, of the Aztec Club (Mexican War 
 organization), and of the Sons of the Revo- 
 lution. He served as a member of the 
 I'lighth Regiment of the New York National 
 Guard and was three years first lieutenant 
 in that regiment, and was also on the staff 
 of Governor Hill with the rank of colonel. 
 He is an honorary member of the Friendly 
 Sons of St. Patrick and the Irish Brigade. 
 Mayor McClellan is author of a book: The 
 Oligarchy of Venice, published in 1904. 
 He is a member of the Union, Authors and 
 Cliurch Clubs of New York City, the Auto- 
 mobile Club of America and the Metro- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1073 
 
 politan and Army and Na\y Clubs of Wash- 
 ington. Residence: 10 Washington Square, 
 North. Ofiice: City Hall, New York City. 
 
 McClelland, Thomas: 
 
 College jiiosident; born in Quilly, County 
 Derry, Coleraine, Ireland, May 1, 1846; 
 son of William and Margaret (Smiley) 
 McClelland. He was educated in Den- 
 mark Academy. Denmark, Iowa; was 
 graduated from Oberlin College, A.I3., 1875, 
 A.M., 1883, studied theology in Oberlin in 
 1876-1877, Union Theological Seminary 
 New York, 1877-1878, Andover (Mass.) 
 Theological Seminary, 1880, Tabor Col- 
 lege, D.D., 1891; University of Illinois, 
 L.L.D., 1905. He was professor of phi- 
 losophy, Tabor College, 1880-1891, president 
 of Pacific University, 1891-1900, and of 
 Knox College since 1900. Dr. McClelland 
 is trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for 
 the Advancement of Teaching, and mem- 
 ber of the University Club of Chicago. 
 He inarried in Denmark, Iowa, Aug. 19, 
 1880, Harriet C. Day, and has three chil- 
 dren. Residence: 656 North Prairie 
 Street. Office: Knox College, Galesburg, 
 111. 
 
 McCLTJNG, Samuel A.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Plum Township, Alle- 
 gheny County, Pa., March 2, 1845; son of 
 Rev. Samuel M. McClung. He was gradu- 
 ated in 1863 from Washington (now Wash- 
 ington and Jefferson) College, and began 
 the study of law under John M. Kirkpatrick 
 and John Mellon, obtaining admittance to 
 the Allegheny County bar in 1868. He re- 
 ceived in May, 1891, the Governor's ap- 
 pointment as a judge of the No. 3 Court 
 of Connnon Pleas of Allegheny County, 
 and in November of the same year he was 
 elected to this position for the ten-year 
 term; he was again elected to the bench 
 in 1901, and is now serving his second 
 term. Address: Allegheny County Court 
 House, Pittsburgh. 
 
 McCLURE, James Gore King: 
 
 President of the McCormick Theological 
 
 Seminary; born in Albany, N. Y., Nov. 24, 
 
 1848; son of Archibald and Suzan Tracey 
 
 (Rice) McClure. He was graduated from 
 
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 Albany (N. Y.) Academy, 1865; and Phil- 
 lips Andover Academy, 186C, taking lii.s 
 entrance examinations for Yale University 
 in the latter year. In 1870 he was gradu- 
 ated from Yale, A.B., and entered the 
 Princeton Theological Seminary from which 
 he was graduated in 1873. The degree of 
 D.D. has been conferrerl upon liim by the 
 Universities of Princeton, Lake Forest and 
 Yale and that of LL.D. by Illinois College. 
 Following his ordination to the ministry of 
 the Presbyterian Cluirch in 1874, he be- 
 came pastor of the Presbyterian Church of 
 New Scotland, N. Y., until 1879; was pas- 
 tor of the Presbyterian Church of Lake 
 Forest, 111., 1881-1905; and was president 
 of Lake Forest University, 1897-1901. In 
 1905 he was elected president of the Mc- 
 Cormick Theological Seminary at Chicago. 
 Dr. McClure is a trustee of Lake Forest 
 University, a director of the McCormick 
 Theological Seminary, and member of the 
 College Board of the Presbyterian Churcli 
 in the United Stales. He is author of va- 
 rious books, among which are: The Great Ap- 
 peal, 1898; Living for the Best, 1903; Loy- 
 alty, the Soul of Religion, 1905. Dr. Mc- 
 Clure is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society, the Onwentsia Club of Lake Forest, 
 111. He married at Westerly. R. I., Nov. 
 19, 1879, Annie P. Dixon, and they have 
 five children. Address: 1070 North Hal- 
 stead Street, Chicago. 
 
 McCLURE, Samuel Sidney: 
 
 Editor and publisher; born in County 
 Antrim, Ireland, Feb. 17, 1857; son of 
 Thomas and Elizabeth (Gastron) McClure. 
 He was graduated from Kno.x College, A.B., 
 1882, and A.M., 1887. He established a 
 newspaper syndicate in November, 1SS4, 
 which is now the S. S. McClure Comjiany, 
 of which he is pre.-'ident; founded Mc- 
 Clure"s Magazine in 1893 and the publish- 
 ing lirm of McClure, Phillips and Company 
 in 1900. He is a trustee of Knox College, 
 Galesburg, 111.; and is a member of the 
 National Geographic Society and of the 
 Union League Club. Mr. McClure married 
 Harriet Hurd, and they have four children, 
 Robert, Eleanor, Elizabeth and [Mary. Ad- 
 dress : 44 to 60 East 23d Street, New York 
 City, N. Y. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 McCOMAS, Louis Emory: 
 
 Jurist; born in Wasliington Count}', Md., 
 Oct. 28, 1846; son of Frederick C. and 
 Catharine A. MeConias. After his gradua- 
 tion from Dickinson College, he titudied 
 law and was admitted to the bar, and on- 
 gaged in practice in 1868 in Maryland and 
 at Washington, D. C. He was elected as 
 a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress 
 in 1882 and reelected to the Forty-ninth, 
 Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses. In 
 1892 he was appointed by President Har- 
 rison as associate justice of the Supreme 
 Court of the District of Columbia and 
 served until elected by the Maryland Lcgis 
 lature, in 1899, to the office" of United 
 States Senator. He served until his term 
 expired in 1905, when he was appointed to 
 his present office of associate justice of the 
 Court of Appeals of Maryland. He for- 
 merly held the chair of international law 
 in Georgetown University Law School. 
 Judge McComas married, Sept. 23, 1875, 
 Leah M. Humrichouse. Residence: Wil- 
 liamsport. Md. Address: 1628 K Street, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 McCOOK, Anson George: 
 
 JJiigadiir-general of U. S. Volunteers; 
 born in Steubenville, Ohio, Oct. 10, 1835; 
 son of Dr. John and Catherine (Sheldon) 
 McCook. He was educated in the public 
 schools of Lisbon, Ohio. In 1861 he was 
 admitted to the Ohio bar; served in the 
 Civil \\'ar, participating in the first battle 
 of Bull Run, as captain of the Second 
 Ohio infantry; served in the Army of Cum- 
 berland, and in the Atlanta camjjaign un- 
 der Sherman, and was brevetted brigadier- 
 general. He was United States assessor of 
 internal revenue at Steubenville, Ohio, 1866- 
 1872;, member of Congress, 1877-1883, from 
 the Eighth New York District; secretary 
 of the U. S. Semite, 1884-1893, and city 
 chamberlain of New York from 1895 to 
 1897. Brigadier-general McCook is presi- 
 dent and director of the New York Law 
 Publishing Company; director of the Iron 
 Silver Mining Company and of the Pub- 
 lic Accountant Corporation. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Ohio Society, the Military Order 
 of the I^oyal Legion, and of the Union 
 League, New York Athletic, Hardware and 
 
 Kopublican Clubs. He married in New 
 York City in 1886, Hettie B. McCook, and 
 they have two children. Residence: 33 
 West 54th Street, New York. Office: 319 
 Uroadway, New York City. 
 
 McCOOK, Henry Christoplier : 
 
 Clergyman, entomologist; born in New 
 Lisbon, Ohio, July 3, 1837; graduated from 
 Jefl'erson College in 1859, subsequently re- 
 ceiving the degrees of D.D. and Sc.D. from 
 Lafaj'cttc College, and LL.D. from Wash- 
 ington-Jeflferson. He entered the army at 
 the breaking out of the Civil War as a 
 lieutenant in the Forty-first Illinois Volun- 
 teers, and afterward became chaplain of 
 the regiment; was chaplain in Pennsylvania 
 Connnandery of the Loyal Legion and chap- 
 lain Second Regiment National Guard of 
 Pennsylvania, with which he entered the 
 Spanish-American War, serving in Cuba by 
 special order of President McKinley and 
 Secretary of War, He founded the Na- 
 tional Relief Commission and was for thirty- 
 three years active pastor of the Tabernacle 
 Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. He is 
 prominent as an entomologist; president 
 of the American Entomological Society; 
 vice-president of the Academy of Natural 
 Sciences, Philadelphia; and is now presi- 
 dent of the American Presbyterian Histor- 
 ical Society. Dr. McCook is author of: 
 Agricultural Ants of Texas; Honey and 
 Occident Ants; American Spiders and 
 Their Spinning Work; Tenants of an Old 
 Farm; Old Farm Fairies; Women Friends 
 of Jesus; The Gospel in Nature; Object 
 and Outline Teaching; Ecclesiasiical Em- 
 blems ; The Latimers, a Scotch-Irish Ilis- 
 loric Romance of the \\estern Insurrec- 
 tion; IMartial Graves of Our Fallen Heroes 
 in Santiago de Cuba ..a Record of the S])an- 
 ish American War; The Senator, a tribute 
 to ]\Iarcus Hanna, a schoolmate; and Na- 
 ture's Craftsmen, his last book. He mar- 
 ried, Sept. 11, 1861, Emma C. Herter, and 
 June 27, 1899, Mrs. Eleanor D. S. Abbey. 
 Address: " Brookcamp," Devon, Pa. 
 
 McCOOK, John James: 
 
 Lawyer; l)oni at Carrollton, Ohio, May 
 25, 1845. He entered Kenyon College, but 
 left at the end of the first year to serve 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1075 
 
 in the Civil War; enlisted in Hie Fifty- 
 second Oliio Infantry; was subsequently 
 (oniniissioned first lieutenant of the Sixth 
 Oliio Cavalry, and captain and aide-de- 
 camp of U. S. Volunteers. He served in 
 the campaigns of Perryville. Stone River, 
 Tullahoma, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, 
 with the Western armies, and in General 
 (irant's campaign with the Army of the 
 Potomac; was severely wounded in the bat- 
 tle of Spott^ylvania Court House; mustered 
 out as brevet-colonel of Volunteers; re- 
 entered Kenyon College, and was graduated 
 as A.B. in I8G6; and from Harvard as 
 LL.B. in 1869; received the honorary A.M. 
 degree from Princeton University, in 1873, 
 and LL.D. from the University of Kansas 
 in 1890, and from Lafayette College in 1893. 
 He is senior member of the firm of Alex- 
 ander and Green; and counsel for railroad, 
 financial and insurance corporations. He 
 was invited to a place in President Mc- 
 Kinley's first cabinet; was chairman of the 
 Army and Navy Christian Commission dur- 
 ing the war with Spain; is a trustee of 
 Kenyon College, Ohio, and director of 
 Princeton Theological Seminary; president 
 of the Ohio Society of New York, and of 
 the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni of New York. 
 He is a member of the University, Union, 
 and Union League Clubs of New York, the 
 Somerset Club of Boston, and the Metro- 
 politan Club of Washington. Eesidence: 
 10 West 54th Street. Office: 120 Broad- 
 way, New York City. 
 
 Mccormick, Alexander Agnew: 
 
 Editor; born in Philadelphia, Feb. 21, 
 1863; son of Alexander and Katherine 
 (McQuiston) McCormick. He was em- 
 ployed in the publishing department of 
 A. C. McClurg Company, Chicago, 1888- 
 1895; in which latter year he became gen- 
 eral manager of the Chicago Times-Herald 
 and Evening Post. He was general man- 
 ager of the Record-Herald, 1901-1903, and 
 editor of the Chicago Evening Post, 1904- 
 1906. Mr. McCormick has been editor of 
 the Indianapolis Star, Muncie Star, and 
 Terre Haute Star, since 1906. He was sec- 
 retary of the campaign that secured the 
 adoption of the Civil Service Law in Chi- 
 cago, and is ex-president of the Chicago 
 
 Civil Service Keforni Association. Il<- was 
 vice-prcsidenl of tiie American Newspaper 
 Publishers Association, 1903 1904, and 
 cliairmaii of (lie Arbitration CoMiiiiittoe, 
 1906-1907. lie is the author of Iho present 
 arbitration agreement lietweeii tlie news- 
 papers and their emi)h)yee-. .Mr. Mc- 
 Cormick is a member of tiie University, 
 Columbia, and Miiniwrclior clubs of In- 
 dianapolis; the I'nion Lea;,'ue (of which 
 he is aN(i ex |iii'^idciil i . Iniversily, 
 Oiiwentsia, ('(iininereiai, AtliN'tie, and .Mid- 
 day elubs, of Ciiicago; and The Players and 
 City clubs of New Yoik City, lie married 
 at Lake Forest, 111., .luiir 1. is'.i.-), Maud 
 Warnei-, and they iiave two children. Re.s- 
 idcuee: 1435 North Meridian Street. Of- 
 lice: The 1 ndiaiia puiis Star. Indianapolis, 
 lad. 
 
 Mccormick, Andrew Phelps: 
 
 U. S. circuit judge; born in Brazoria 
 County, Texas (then in Mexico), Dec. 18, 
 1832. His father,, Joseph Manson Mc- 
 Cormick. was one of the pioneers of Ameri- 
 can settlement in that region and took part 
 in the organization of the Republic of 
 lexas three years later. The son's early 
 education was in private schools in Bra- 
 zoria, and he then went to Centre College, 
 Danville, Ky.. from which he was graduated 
 in 1854, then studied law and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar at Brazoria, and began 
 practice. lie served a.s probate judge, 
 1S05-1876; was elected member of the State 
 Conslitntional Convention in 1866 and 
 ISdS; judge of llie District Court, 1871- 
 187(): member of the Texas Legislature, 
 1876-1879. He was appointed in April, 
 1879. U. S. district judge for the Northern 
 District of Texas, which office he filled 
 until appointed by President Harrison to 
 his present office of U. S. circuit judge on 
 the Fifth Circuit. Address:- Dallas, Texas. 
 
 McCORMICK, Cyrus Hall: 
 
 President of the International Harvester 
 Company; born in Wa.shington. D. C. May 
 16, 1859; son of Cyrus Hall McCormick, 
 inventor of the McCormick reaper. He 
 was graduated from Princeton University, 
 A.l?.. 1879. then became coiuiccted with 
 the McCormick Harvesting Machine Com- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 pany at Chicago, serving in various ca- 
 pacities until his father's death in 1884, 
 when he became president of tlie company. 
 When the company with other harvester 
 manufacturers, consolidated their interests 
 in the organization of the International 
 Harvester Company in September, 1902, he 
 was elected president of that company. Mr. 
 McCormick is a member of the Chicago, 
 Union League, University, Commercial and 
 Chicago Atlilctie Clubs of Chicago, and the 
 Metropolitan and University Clubs of New 
 York. He married in Chicago, ]\Iarch 5, 
 188!), Harriet Bradley Hammond. Resi- 
 dence: 321 Huron Street. Office: 234 
 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 Mccormick, Harold rowler: 
 
 -Maiintacturor ; born in Chicago, 111., 
 May, 1872; son of Cyrus Hall and Nettie 
 (Fowler) McCormick. He was graduated 
 from Princeton in 1895. Mr. McCormick 
 spent nnich of his vacation time during his 
 college years in the works of the Mc- 
 Cormick Harvesting Machine Company, 
 and with the local agents, familiarizing 
 himself with the duties that he was des- 
 tined to assume at a later date. He was 
 the general agent of the company at Coun- 
 cil Blufls, Iowa, 1896-1897. and since 1902 
 has been vice-president of the International 
 Harvester Company. He is a trustee of 
 the Univeisity of Chicago, of the McCor- 
 mick Theological Seminary, and of the 
 Chicago Exchange Building. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Cliicago, Merchants'. University, 
 Chicago Athletic and Onwentsia Clubs of 
 Cliicago, and of the University, Racquet 
 and Tennis, Strollers' and Princeton Clubs 
 of New York City. Mr. McCormick mar- 
 ried in New Y'ork City, Nov. 26, 1895, 
 Edith, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, 
 and they have had live children, two of 
 wliom are now deceased. Residence: 88 
 Bellevue Place. Office: 7 Monroe Street, 
 Chicago. 
 
 Mccormick, John Newton: 
 
 l{isho[) of Western Micliigan; born in 
 Ricliniond, Va., Feb. 1, 1863; son of Jolin 
 and Virginia (Newton) McCormick. Ho 
 was graduated from Randolph-Macon Col- 
 lege, B.A., 1883, taking a post-graduate 
 
 course at Johns Hopkins University which 
 he completed in 1886. The degree of D.D. 
 was conferred upon him by the University 
 of the South in 1903. He was ordered dea- 
 con of the Episcopal Church in 1892 and 
 ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Ran- 
 dolph a year later. Following his entry 
 to the ministry, he was missionary in 
 Southern Virginia, 1892-1893, being called 
 to the rectorate of St. Paul's Church, Suf- 
 folk, Va., in 1893. Two years Jater he be- 
 came rector of St. Luke's Church, Atlanta, 
 Ga., and after officiating for three years, 
 became, in 1898, rector of St. Mark's 
 Church, Grand Rapids, in the Diocese of 
 Western Michigan. This rectorship he 
 filled until 1906 when he was elected bishop- 
 coadjutor of Western Michigan; and he 
 became bishop of the Diocese of Western 
 Michigan on the death of the diocesan in 
 March, 1909. He is author of the follow- 
 ing works: Distinctive Marks of the Epis- 
 copal Church; The Litany and the Life 
 (Young Churchman Company) ; Pain and 
 Sympathy, Longmans, Greene and Com- 
 l^any. Bishop jNIcCormick was married at 
 Baltimore, Md., in 1889, to Bessie Chapman 
 Tucker. Address: 285 East Fulton Street, 
 Grand Rapids, Mich. 
 
 Mccormick, Robert Laird: 
 
 Capitalist; born in Clinton County, Pa., 
 Oct. 29, 1847; son of Alexander and Jane 
 Hayes (Laird) McCormick. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools and in Saun- 
 ders' Institute, Philadelphia. In 1874 he 
 went to Minnesota and engaged in the lum- 
 ber business. This he continued, also ac- 
 quiring extensive timber and mineral prop- 
 erties in Minnesota and the Northwest, and 
 acquiring extensive interests in the grain 
 trade. He became associated with Freder- 
 ick Weyerhaeuser in extensive purchases of 
 timber lands in the State of Washington, 
 and in 1903 removed to Tacoma, where he 
 is secretary of the Weyerhaeuser Timber 
 Company, president of the Lumberman's 
 National Bank of Tacoma, and the Lum- 
 berman's State Bank of Hoquiam, Wash- 
 ington. He is also interested as officer and 
 director in other large corporations. He 
 was elected member of the State Senate of 
 Minnesota in 1880, and was a delegate from 
 
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 Wisconsin to the National Republican Con- 
 vention at Philadelphia in 1900. He mar- 
 ried in Seneca County, Ohio, Sept. 11, 1870, 
 Anna E. Goodman. Residence: 421 North 
 Yakima Avenue. Office: Northern Pacific 
 lft'a(i(iuarters linilding, Tacoma, Wash. 
 
 McCORMICK, Robert Sanderson: 
 
 Ex ambassador; born in Rockbridge 
 County, Va.; son of William Sanderson 
 McCormick and Mary Ann (iirsby. He re- 
 ceived his education in the University of 
 Virginia. He was secretary of the United 
 States Legation, London, from 1889 to 
 1892; official representative in London of 
 the World's Columbian Exposition in 1892 
 and 1393; United States Minister to Aus- 
 tria-Hungary, in 1901 and 1902, when 
 laised to rank of ambassador; was Ameri- 
 can ambassador to St. Petersburgh, from 
 1902 to 1905, and American ambassador to 
 France, from 1905 to 1907. He is a mem- 
 ber of the St. James' Club of London; of 
 Chicago and Chicago Golf Clubs of Chi- 
 cago; of Union, University, and Players' 
 Clubs of New York; of Metropolitan and 
 Country Clubs of Washington, and of 
 Cercle de^ I'Union Club of Paris. Mr. Mc- 
 Cormick married in 187G, Katharine Medill 
 daughter of Joseph Medill, editor of the 
 Chicago Tribune. Address: Chicago Club, 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 McCORMICK, Samuel Black: 
 
 Chancellor of the University, of Pitts- 
 burgh; born in Irwin, Westmoreland Coun- 
 ty, Pa., May 6, 1858; son of James Irwin 
 McCormick, M.D., and Rachel Long 
 (Black) McCormick. He was graduated 
 from Washington and Jefferson College, 
 A.B., 1880, A.M. in 1883, and received its 
 degrees of D.D. in 1897, and LL.D. in 1902. 
 After graduation he taught in Canonsburg 
 Academy, 1880-1881; taught Greek in 
 Washington and Jefferson College, 1881- 
 1882. In 1879 he was admitted to sttuly 
 law in the office of H. H. McCormick of 
 Pittsburgh and admitted to the Allegheny 
 County bar in July, 1882. He practised 
 law in Pittsburgh, 1882 1883, and in Den- 
 ver, Colo., 1883-1887. He attended the 
 Western Theological Seminary, 1887-1890, 
 and was ordained as Presbyterian minister, 
 
 April 30, 1890. lie was pastor of the Cen- 
 tral Presbyterian Church at Alleylieny, 
 1890-1894; the First Presbyterian CliurcJi, 
 Omaha, Neb., 1894-1897; president of Coe 
 College, Cedar Rapids. Iowa, 1897-1904, 
 and since then chancellor of the Univer- 
 sity of Pittsburgli. Dr. McCorniick hiLs 
 traveled several times over the United 
 States and twice in Europe. His favorite 
 recreations are golf and farming. He i.s 
 a mcnd)er of the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science, the College- 
 University Council of Pennsylvania, Iho 
 University Extension Society, Phi Ganuna 
 Delta fraternity, the Chamber of Commerce 
 of Pittsburgh, and the Pennsylvania Society 
 of the Sons of the American Revolution. 
 He is also a member of the Duquesne, Uni- 
 versity, Athletic, and Oakmont County 
 Clubs of Pittsburgh, the University Club 
 of New Y'ork, and the Pennsylvania Club 
 of Washington, D. C. He married in 
 Carnegie, Pa., Sept. 29, 1882, Ida May 
 Steep, and they have four cliildren. Of- 
 fice: 802 Home Trust Ruilding. Pitls- 
 burgli. 
 
 McCOTIGH, H. Gordon: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Pliiladelphia, Oct. 1, 
 1855; son of William and Josephine 
 (Kramer) McCouch. He was graduated 
 from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., B.A., 
 1875, studied law, was admitted to the bar 
 and has ever since been engaged in the 
 practice of law in Philadelphia, now be- 
 ing of the law firm of Dickson, Beibler 
 and McCouch. He is a member of the 
 Pennsylvania State Bar Association, the 
 Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the 
 Delta Psi fraternity. He is a trustee of 
 the Starr Savings IBank and of the Chest- 
 nut Hill Academy. I^Ir. ilcCouch is a 
 member of the University, City and Down 
 Town Clubs of Philadelphia. He married 
 in Philadelphia, Nov. 11, 1884. Virginia 
 Mallet-Prevost. and they have three sons. 
 Residence: St. Martin's Lane, Chestnut 
 Hill. Office: 750 Bullitt Building, Phila- 
 delphia. 
 McCREA, James: 
 
 President of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company; born in Philadelphia. May 1, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1848; son of Dr. James Aloxander and 
 Ann B. (Foster) McCrea. He was educated 
 in Rev. Jolin W. Fairies' School, and the 
 IVnnsylvania Polytechnic College, Phila- 
 delphia. He beijan railroad service in 1865, 
 as rodnian of the Connellsvillo and South- 
 ern Pennsylvania Railroad; was rodman 
 on construction of the Wilmington and 
 Reading Railroad, in 1867, assistant engi- 
 neer of the Allegheny Valley Railroad, 
 1868, principal assistant engineer of the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1871; 
 transferred to assistant engineer of the 
 I'hiladelphia Division, in 1874; superin- 
 tendent of Die :\li(ldlc Division. lS7o: su- 
 perintendent of tile Xew Yolk Division. 
 1878; manager of the Southwest Sys- 
 tem of the Pennsylvania Comjjany. 1882; 
 general nuinager of all Pennsylvania lines 
 west of Pittsburgh. ISS.'. : and fourth 
 vice-president of same in 1SS7: second 
 vice-president. Mareli. ISDO; and first 
 \i('e pie-^idcut in ]\lay. 1S!)1 ; was made 
 director of Die Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company in June. 1898, and January 2, 
 1907. was elected president of the Pennsyl- 
 vania. Railroad Company. He is also presi- 
 dent of the Xorlhern Central Railway Com- 
 pany, Pliiladelphia. Baltimore, and Wash- 
 ington Railroad Company, West Jersey and 
 Seashore Railroad Company, and the Pitts- 
 burgh. Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis 
 Railroad. He is a member of the Phila- 
 delphia Club. Merion Cricket Club, and 
 Penn (Jul) <if I'hiladelphia. the Union 
 League Club of New 'S'luk. Chicago Club 
 of Chicago, and the Pittsburgh Club of 
 Pittsburgh. He married, Feb. 12, 1873, 
 .Ada M. Montgonu'iy. and they have two 
 sons anil a (iauglilci-. I'vesidcnce : Ard- 
 moi-e. i'^r. Olllcc: liioad Street Station. 
 I'liiladelplii.'i. 
 
 McCREA, James Alexander: 
 
 'iencriil sii|)ciiiitciiii(iit of the Long 
 JslaTid Railroad: Imni in I'll iladdpliia. May 
 26, 1875; .son of .hmns and Ada (Mont- 
 gomery) ISIcCrea. lie was graduated from 
 llio Slicdicld Scienlidc School, Yale, Ph.B., 
 1895. Civil engineer by profession; has 
 l)ecn with tlie Penn.sylvania Railroad and 
 Pennsylvania Lines since 1895, first in en- 
 gineering and later in operating depart- 
 
 ments; now general superintendent of the 
 Long Island Railroad, Ocean Electric Rail- 
 way, Huntington Railroad, Nassau County 
 Railroad, Northport Traction Company, 
 Clencove Railroad; vice-president of the 
 Montauk Water Company. He is an asso- 
 ciate member of the American Society of 
 Civil Engineers; member of the Delta Psi 
 fraternity; the Rittenhonse Club of Phila- 
 delphia: Rockaway Hunting, and St. An- 
 thony Clul)s of New York City. He mar- 
 ried, in Pittsburgh. Dec. 15, 1897, Mabel 
 Clarke. They have two children. Address: 
 Care Long Island Railroad, Tx)ng Island 
 City, N. Y. 
 
 McCREARY, George Deardorflt: 
 
 Congressman; born in York Springs Vil- 
 lage, Adams County, Pa., Sept. 28, 1846. 
 His infancy and early youth were spent in 
 the anthracite coal regions at Tremont, 
 Taniaqua, and auch Chunk, where his 
 father, the late John B. McCreary, one of 
 the pioneer coal operators, was engaged in 
 coal mining. In 1864. with his parents, he 
 removed to Philadelphia and entered the 
 University of Pennsylvania, remaining until 
 his junior year, 1867, when he left to take 
 a position in the Honey Brook Coal Com- 
 pany, of which his father was president. 
 He began his independent business career 
 in 1870, when he became a member of the 
 newly organized coal firm of Whitney, Mc- 
 Creary and Kemmerer, retiring from the 
 film in 1879 to take charge of his father's 
 estate. In 1882 he became interested in 
 municipal affairs of the city of Philadel- 
 phia, and was an original member of the 
 Committee of One Hundred, serving on the 
 important committees; wa.s elected treas- 
 urer of the city and county 6i Philadelphia 
 in November, 1891; and during his term of 
 office, from 1892 to 1895, reorganized the 
 finances of the city, introducing and carry- 
 ing out many needed measures, which have 
 resulted in large financial gains to the city 
 and safety in the transaction of its finan- 
 ces. He is an. officer in and director of 
 a number of successful financial, mining, 
 ami business companies, and is also asso- 
 ciated in church and philanthropic institu- 
 tions; has traveled extensively in this and 
 foreign countries; was elected to the Fifty- 
 
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 1079 
 
 eijThtli and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and re- 
 elected to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Con- 
 gress from the Sixth Pennsylvania District 
 as a Eepublican. He married, June 18, 
 1878, Kate E. Howell. Address: Phila- 
 delphia. 
 
 McCREARY, James B.: 
 
 Lawyer and former U. S. .senator; born 
 in Madison County, Ky., July 8, 1838. He 
 was graduated from Centre College, Dan- 
 ville, Ky., in 1857; commenced the study 
 of law the same year, and was graduated 
 from the law department of Cumberland 
 University, Tennessee, with the first honor 
 in a class of forty-seven, in 1859, and in 
 ISOO commenced the practice of law at 
 Richmond. He entered the Confederate 
 army in 1862; and was lieutenant-colonel 
 of the Eleventh Kentucky Cavalry at the 
 close of the war; was selected a Presiden- 
 tial elector on the Democratic ticket in 
 1868, but declined; was then elected a dele- 
 gate to the National Democratic Conven- 
 tion held in New York, July 4, 1868; was 
 elected a member of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives of Kentucky in 18G9, 1871, and 
 1873, and was elected speaker of the house 
 in 1871, and reelected speaker in 1873. 
 He was nominated as Democratic candi- 
 date for governor in May, 1875, and elected, 
 serving from August, 1875, to September, 
 1879; received the degree of LL.D. from 
 Centre College in 1879; was appointed, 
 under an act of Congress, by the President 
 of the United States and served as a dele 
 gate to the International IMonetary Con- 
 ference held at Brussels, Belgium, in 1892, 
 where twenty nations were represented. 
 Colonel McCreary was elected as a Demo- 
 crat to represent the Ei^litli district of 
 Kentucky in the Forty-nintli Congress in 
 1884, and reelected to the Fiftieth. Fifty- 
 first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty- 
 fourth Congresses as a Democrat; was 
 elected a delegrate from the State at large 
 to the National Democratic Convention held 
 at Kansas City in 1900, and was cliairman 
 of the State Democratic Committee in the 
 campaign of 1900; was elected a delegate 
 from the State at large to the National 
 Democratic Convention held in vSt. Louis 
 in 1904; was elected to the United States 
 
 Senate as a Democrat in 1902 to succt-ed 
 William J. DcIkm', Republican, for the 
 teiiii which expired Marcii 3, 1909. Ad- 
 
 drc~>: Richmond. Ky. 
 
 McCREERY, Fenton Reuben: 
 
 Diplomat; l)orn in Flint, Mich.. .April 
 21, 1866; son of William Barker and Ada 
 Birdsall (Fenton) McCreary. He was e<lu- 
 catcd in the Michigui .Military .Xcadciny 
 and the University of Midiigan, class of 
 1888. He was appointed clerk in the U. 
 S. Consulate in 18!I0, and .secretary of the 
 United States Legation to Chile in 1891 ; 
 charg6 d'afTaircs in Chile in 1893. His serv- 
 ice in Chile was during the Revolution of 
 1891. and the .settlement of the Baltimore 
 AtTair. He was secretary of the .Amorican 
 Kmbassy in Mexico, 1897-1906. During tliin 
 period he was charge d'affaires for nearly 
 three years. He was appointed minister- 
 resident and consul-general to the Domin- 
 ican Republic, Jan. 10, 1907, which post 
 he still occupies. He spent three years in 
 Northern New Mexico and California, and 
 he has traveled extensively in Euroj)e, and 
 in every country of Central and South 
 .America, with the exception of Venzuela 
 and the Guianas. He has also visited every 
 island in the West Indies: Residence: 
 I'lint, Mich. Ollice address: Santo Do- 
 mingo, Dominican Republic. 
 
 McCTJLIOIIGH, Edgar Allen: 
 
 Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; 
 born in Trenton, Tcnn., Aug. 1, 1861: son 
 of Dr. Phillip D. and Lucy A'irginia (Bur- 
 rus) McCuUoch. After completing the 
 public school course he studied law and he 
 was admitted to the bar of Arkansas in 
 1883 and practised law at Marianna. Lee 
 County, Ark., until elected in 1904 to his 
 present office as associate justice of the 
 Supreme Court of Arkansas, for an eight- 
 year term. He married at Trenton, Tenn., 
 Nov. 30, 1887. Hattie Louise HasscU. Ad- 
 dress: The Capitol, Little Rock. Ark. 
 
 McCULLOUGH, John Griflitli: 
 
 Capitalist and ex-governor: born near 
 Newark, Del., Sept. 16, 1835; son of Alex- 
 ander and Rebecca McCullough. He was 
 <naduated from Delaware College, A. B., 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1855, from the Law Department of the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania. Ho went to 
 California in 1859, practised law in 
 ^lariposa County and afterward in San 
 I'-rancisco, and was a State Senator in 
 California. He removed to Bonnin<Tton, 
 Vt., and became interested in railroad and 
 other interests. He was vice-president 1874- 
 1883, and president 1883-1SS8, of the Pana- 
 ma Eailroad; director of the Central Ver- 
 mont Railroad, 1873-1874; vice-president 
 1877-1883, and president, 1883-1900. He 
 was a member of the Vermont Senate, 1898; 
 governor of Vermont; 1902-1904. He is 
 now president and director of the First 
 National Bank of North Bennington, Vt. ; 
 vice-president and director of the Chicago 
 and Erie Railroad Company; and is a 
 director of The Atchison. Topeka and Santa 
 Fe Railway Comi)any, Butlalo Creek Rail- 
 road Company, Central Vermont Railway 
 Company, Erie and Wyoming Valley Rail- 
 road Company, Erie Railroad Company, 
 Hudson and ^Manhattan Railroad Company, 
 ?kIiddletown, Unionville and Water Gap 
 Railroad Company, New Jersey and New 
 York Railroad Companj-, New York and 
 Greenwood Lake Railway Company, New 
 York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad 
 Company, Northern Railroad of New Jer- 
 sey, Pere jNIarquette Railroad Company, 
 Tlie Lackawanna Steel Company, New York 
 and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, New 
 York, Susquehanna and Western Coal Com- 
 pany, Pennsylvania Coal Company, the 
 Honduras Syndicate and the Stark Paper 
 Company. He is also a director of the 
 Bank of New York (National Banking 
 Association), The Fidelity and Casualty 
 Companj^ and the National Life Insurance 
 Company. Governor McCullough is a 
 member of the Metropolitan, Union League, 
 Midday, University and Lawyers' Clubs of 
 New York. He married Eliza Hall Park, 
 and they have two children. Residence: 
 88 Park Avenue. Oflice 2 Cortland Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 McCULLOUGH, Myrtle Reed: 
 
 Aullior; \i()vn in Cliicago, Sept. 27, 1874; 
 son of Hiram V. and Elizabeth (Arm- 
 strong) Jioed. She was educated in the 
 Chicago jiublic schools, and began writing 
 
 for the press soon after her graduation 
 from the West Division High School. She 
 married iri Grand Haven, Mich., Oct. 22, 
 190(), James Sydney McCullough, but re- 
 tains her maiden name of "Myrtle Reed" 
 as a pen-name. She is author of:- Love 
 Letters of a Musician; Later Love Letters 
 of a Musician; The Spinster Book; Laven- 
 der and Old Lace; The Shadow of Victory; 
 The Master Violin; The Book of Clever 
 Beasts; At the Sign of the Jack o'Lan- 
 tern; A Spinner in the Sun; Love Affairs 
 of Literary Men; Flower of the Duok; Old 
 Rose and Silver. Mrs. McCullough is a 
 member of the Illinois Woman's Press As- 
 sociation, and of The Little Room. Ad- 
 dress: 2281 Kenmare Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 McCUMBER, Porter J.: 
 
 United States senator; born in Crete, 111., 
 Feb. 3, 1858; son of Orlin and Ann E. Mc- 
 Cumber. His parents removed to Rochester, 
 ;\Iinn., the year of his birth, and he was 
 brought up on a farm and educated in the 
 district schools and after that in the city 
 schools. He taught school for a few years, 
 and later took the law course in the Univer- 
 sity of Michigan, from which he was gradu- 
 ated LL.B., 1880. He removed in 1881 to 
 Wahpeton, N. Dak., where he has since 
 resided, and engaged in the practice of law. 
 Me also became active in politics as a Re- 
 publican, and was elected a member of the 
 Territorial Legislature of Dakota, 1885- 
 1887, and afterward served as State's attor- 
 ney of Richland County, N. Dak. He was 
 elected in 1899 and reelected in 1905 by the 
 Legislature of North Dakota to the office of 
 U. S. Senator, and his present term will 
 end in 1911. He married. May 29, 1889, 
 Jennie Shorning. Address: Wahpeton, 
 N. Dak. 
 
 McCURDY, Charles W.: 
 
 Osteopathic ])hysi('ian ; Ixirn in Ossian, 
 Livingston County, N. Y^, Nov. 2G, 1856; 
 son of David and Lydia (Lemen) McCurdy. 
 He was educated in the Genesee (N. Y.) 
 State Normal School. Michigan State Col- 
 lege, i;..S., 1881, M.S. in 1885, and the Uni- 
 versity of Wooster, A.M., 1894, and Ph.D., 
 1895; received the degree of Sc.D. (honoris 
 causa) from Milton College, 1892; and 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1081 
 
 he was graduatod with the degree of D.O. 
 (Doctor of Osteopathy) by the Phihulclphia 
 College of Osteopathy in 1903. lie was 
 head of Department of Science at the high 
 school in Winova, Minn., 1888-1893; pro- 
 fessor of chemistry at the University of 
 Idaho and State chemist of Idaho, 1893- 
 1900; and has been professor of physiolog- 
 ical chemistry, toxicology and therapeutics, 
 lecturer on dietetics and hygiene, and late 
 (lean and president of faculty at the College 
 of Osteopathy, Philadelphia, 1900-1907. He 
 was acting jjrcsident of tlie University of 
 Idaho and director of the Experiment Sta- 
 tion in 1898; special agent of the United 
 States Sugar Beet Investigations in Idaho, 
 1898-1899; secretary and member of the 
 Board of Trustees of Philadelphia College 
 and Infirmary of Osteopathy. He was ed- 
 itor of the Philadelphia Journal of Osteo- 
 pathy. He has made investigations and 
 written pa]iers on the soils of Idaho, sugar 
 beets in Idaho, therapeutics, hygiene and 
 dietetics and miscellaneous subjects. He 
 was president of a Division Association 
 of the Twenty-seventh Ward of Philadel- 
 phia. 1905-1906; he is a Republican and a 
 Presbyterian. He is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Chemical Society; fellow of the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science; fellow of the Research Society; 
 member of the American Osteopathic As- 
 sociation; and of the Delta Tau Delta, 
 Masonic fraternities. Dr. McCurdy married 
 in Winona, Minn. Aug. 16, 1893, Eva A. 
 Woodruff, and they have, two daughters. 
 Residence: 5051 Walton Avenue. Office: 
 331-332 Witherspoou Building, Philadel- 
 jjhia. 
 
 MacCURDY, George Grant: 
 
 Anthropologist; born in Warrensburg, 
 Mo., April 17, 1863; son of William J. 
 and Margaret (Smith) MacCurdy. He 
 was graduated from the State Normal 
 School, Warrensburg. Mo., 1887, Harvard, 
 A.B., 1893, A.M., 1894, and attended the 
 Universities of Vienna, Paris (School of 
 Anthropology-) and Berlin, 1894-1898, Ph.D. 
 Yale, 1905. He was instructor in anthro- 
 pology, 1898-1900, lecturer and curator of 
 anthropological collections in Yale Uni- 
 versity since 1902; vice-president, 1906- 
 
 1907, and sceiclary 190119(»2. and 1908- 
 1913 of the American .\ssocintion for the 
 Advancement of Science; secrclnry of the 
 American Ant]iro])ological .Association since 
 1903. He is author of: The Kolithic Proh 
 lem, 1905; Some Pha.se.s of Prehistoric 
 Archirologj', 1907; Some Recent Paleo- 
 lithic Discoveries. 1909. Dr. MacCurdy is 
 a member of the Antliropological Societiefl 
 of Paris, Berlin and Brussels, tlie Xalional 
 Ceographic Society, Connecticut .Academy 
 of Sciences. Archa-ological Institute of 
 America, American Ethnological Society, 
 American Anthropological Association; fel- 
 low of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science; corres|)onding 
 member of the Coimbra (Portugal). School 
 of Anthropology (Paris), Anthropological 
 Society (Washington, D. C). Missouri His- 
 torical Society; is a member of Sigma Xi 
 (Yale), and of the Graduates and Country 
 ('lubs of New Haven. Residence: 237 
 Church Street. Office: Yale University 
 .Museum. Xew Haven, Conn. 
 McCURDY, Irwin Pounds: 
 
 Clergyman; born near Livermore, West- 
 moreland County, Pa., March 23, 1856; 
 eldest son of Alexander Jackson and Sarah 
 (Pounds) McCurdy. His father was a de- 
 scendant of the Clan of MacKurerdy of 
 Scotland, through Pethric iMacKirdy, of the 
 Isle of Bute, Scotland, who was a descend- 
 ant of James IV, King of 'Scotland, and 
 was a Convenanter who in 1666 escaped 
 from religious persecution in Scotland 
 to County Antrim, Ireland, and his wife 
 Margaret Stewart, who was a descendant 
 of Robert II, King of Scotland, and their 
 son, John McCurdy and his wife (of Mc 
 Quillan descent from Irish kings) who set- 
 tled in €hester County, Pa., in 1705. His 
 mother is a descendant of Thomas Pound. 
 who came from England to Plymouth Col- 
 ony in 1035, and all his lines of ancestry 
 over two hundred years ago were American. 
 including three (Bradford, Doty, and 
 Sampson) who came on the Mayflower in 
 1620; and his eight great-grandparents 
 were all pioneer settlers in Westmoreland 
 County. He was educated in ' public 
 schools, normal school at "New Derry. and 
 state normal schools at Edinboro and In- 
 
1082 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 diana. Pa., rccoivinjr the dej^recs of B.E. 
 (with first honor), 1876, M.E. and M.E.D., 
 1878, Pennsylvania State Normal, Indiana, 
 Pa.; was a law student in Indiana, Pa.; 
 student at Washington and Jeflerson Col- 
 lege, the University' of Woo-^ter, and La- 
 fayette College from which he was grad- 
 uated as A.B. (with highest jirize honor), 
 1880, A.M., 1883, Litt.D., 1890; was a stu- 
 dent at Princeton Tiieological Seminary, 
 1880-1882, and took graduate courses at 
 Lafayette, Princeton, and Johns Hopkins, 
 receiving additional degrees in course and 
 on examination, — L.D., Hanover College, 
 1890; Ph.D. cum laude, Bellovuc' College, 
 1890; Sc.D., College of Science, 1890; 
 L.H.D., Maryville College, 1891; H.L.D., 
 Lenox College, 1891; Philol.D., Grove City 
 College, 1891; J.U.D. suriuna cum laude, 
 Potomac University, 1909; also honorary 
 degrees of D.D., New Windsor College, 
 1885; LL.D.. llulhcrford College, 1898; 
 D.C.L., Potomac University, 1908; S.T.D., 
 Kansas City Universitj', 1908. Dr. Mc- 
 Curdy was teacher and principal of public 
 schools, 1873-1878, and received a life cer- 
 tificate as teacher from the Commonwealth 
 of Pennsylvania, 1878; was i)rofessor of 
 Greek and higher mathematics in Frederick 
 City (Md.) Female Seminary, 1881-1884; 
 private instructor of students for the min- 
 istry, Philadelphia, 1885-1891. Licensed 
 to preach by Presbytery of Kittanning, Pa., 
 April 27, 1881; ordained in Presbyterian 
 inini.-itry by Presbytery of Baltimore, July 
 8, 1881; pastor of Presbyterian Church, 
 Frederick City, Md., 1881-1884; pastor 
 Southwestern Presbyterian Church, Phila- 
 delphia, 1884-1895, and since then honorary 
 pastor for life; pastor-elect St. Andrew's 
 Presi)yterian Church, Boston, 1890; pastor- 
 elect Presbyterian Church, Shrewsburj', N. 
 J., 1897 ; pastor Fifth Presbyterian Churcli, 
 Kansas City, Mo., 1897 1900; supplied pul- 
 pits of several ciiurches, 1900-1903; asso- 
 ciate pastor of Hope Presbyterian Church, 
 Philadelphia, 190:! 1 907. lie was left a for- 
 tune by Miss S:ii:ili Alice Wliilf, one of 
 the leading members of llic iliurcli at 
 Frederick City, and was an iM'culor of the 
 While Fstale, Harmony (;n.ve, Md.. 1894- 
 1S97. lie was a nieniijer of t lie Presbyte- 
 
 lian Board of Education, 1887-1898; Execu- 
 tive Council, Presbyterian Historical So- 
 ciety, 1888-1896; secretary Presbyterian 
 (jleneral Assembly Centennial, 1887-1888; 
 delegate to Pan-Presbyterian Council, Lon- 
 don, 18S8; president Board of Managers, 
 Philadelpliia Evangelical Alliance, 1889- / 
 1894; financial secretary, Lafayette Col- 
 lege, 1891-1892; acting stated clerk, Synod 
 of Pennsylvania, 1893. He was editor of 
 the Southwestern Observer, 1885-1897; The 
 Amendment, 1889; The Weekly Reminder, 
 1897-1899. He is author of: A Philologi- 
 cal Discussion of the Works, Style and 
 Language of Edgar Allan Poe, 1880 (a prize 
 essay); The Successful Teacher, 1881; Sa- 
 cra Trinitas, 1881 (a Latin Thesis) ; Char- 
 ter and Constitutions, 1886; Evangelistic 
 \Vork, 1888; Centennial Hymns, 1888; 
 Lovely Lafayette and other Poems, 1889; 
 The .■5axon and Norman Elements in our 
 Language and Literature, 1890; The Causes 
 of the Intellectual Development of the Eli- 
 zabethan Age, 1890; Christmas Carols and 
 New Year Hymns, 1893; Our Country's 
 Glory, 1901; Patriotic Poems, 1907; Re- 
 gina-Saquehanna, 1907; and many address- 
 es, reports, contributions, poems, etc. Dr. 
 McCurdy is a member of the American Acad- 
 emy of Political and Social Science, Na- 
 tional Geographic Societj-, Department of 
 Archtcology of the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, Historical Societj' of Pennsylvania, 
 Presbyterian Historical Society, Spelling 
 Reform Association, Presbyterian ^Ministers' 
 Social Union, etc. ; Pennsylvania Society of 
 Sons of the Revolution (representing twelve 
 ancestors), Mayflower Descendants, Descend- 
 ants of Colonial Governors, Pilgrim So- 
 ciety, Colonial Wars, War of 1812, Mili- 
 tary Order of Foreign Wars, Scotch-Irish 
 Society, etc. Dr. McCurdy is an independ- 
 ent Republican in politics; president Four- 
 Leaf Clover Club, Pliiladelphia ; manager 
 Ocean Grove (N. J.) Tennis Club. He has 
 traveled several times over liie United 
 States and in eleven countries of Europe. 
 Me married at Irwin, Pa., Nov. 29, 1877, 
 Rachel Long Ewing, daughter of William 
 and JMary Kyle (Black) Ewing, and they 
 have had ten children. Address: 538 
 South 49th Street, Philadelphia. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1083 
 
 McCURDY, Richard Aldrich: 
 
 Ex president of the Mutual Life Insur- 
 ance Company of New York ; born in New 
 York City in 1835; son of the late Robert 
 H. IMoCurdy, many years a ])r()mincnt di 
 rector of the company. He was r;raduated 
 from llic Law Scliool of Harvard Univer- 
 sity, LL.B., in 1806. He practised law in 
 New York with Lucius Eobinson, after- 
 ward oovernor of New York; was appointed 
 attorney for the Mutual Life Insurance 
 Company in 1860; elected vice-president in 
 1865; and president in 1885, on death of 
 President Winston, serving until 1900, when 
 he resigned. He is a member of the Metro- 
 ])olitan, Lawyers', Morristown, and Morris 
 County Golf Clubs. He married Sarah E. 
 Little and they have one son, Robert H., I 
 born May 26, 1859. Address: Morristown, 
 N. J. 
 
 McCURDY, Robert H.: 
 
 Banker (firm of McCurdy, Henderson & 
 Co.) ; born in New York City, May 26, 1859. 
 He was graduated from Harvard College 
 in 1881. He entered the service of the Mu- 
 tual Life Insurance Company in 1881 ; was 
 superintendent of the Foreign Department 
 of the Company from 1886 to 1903, and 
 General Manager and a trustee of the Com- 
 pany until 1905. He is a director of the 
 . ^^■indsor Trust Company, Casualty Com- 
 pany of America, O'Rourke Engineering 
 Construction Company, International Bell 
 Telephone Company, and First National 
 Bank of Morristown. Address: 24 Nas- 
 sau Street, New York City. 
 
 M'CUTCHEON, George Barr: 
 
 Author; born on a farm near South 
 Raub, Ind., July 26, 1866; son of John 
 Barr and Clara (Glick) McCutcheon. He 
 received his education at Purdue Univer- 
 sity. He was city editor of the Lafayette 
 Evening Courier from 1893-1901. He is 
 author of: Graustark; Castle Craneycrow; 
 The sherrods; Brewster's Millions; The Day 
 of the Dog; Beverly of Graustark; The 
 Purple Parasol; Nedra; Cowardice Court; 
 Jane Cable; The Flyers; The Daughter of 
 Anderson Crow; The Husbands of Edith; 
 The man from Brodney's; and various mag- 
 
 azine stories and serials. lie married, in 
 1904. Marie \aii Antwerp Fa.v. Addreh!,: 
 57 Cedar Street, Ciiicago, ill. 
 
 McCUTCHEON, John Tinney: 
 
 .Artist, join iialist and lecturer; born on 
 a farm in Tippecanoe County. Imliana, 
 May (), 1870; son of John Barr and Clarii 
 (Glick) ]\IcCutc]i(on. The family removed 
 to Lafayette, hid. in 1H7<>. and he was edu- 
 cated tliere in tiie public .schools and at 
 Purdue University, from which he was grad- 
 uated in 1889. He studied art and began 
 in newspaper work with the Chicago Rec- 
 ord in 1889, and remained with it and 
 its successor. The Chicago Reconl-llerald 
 until 1903, when he becanu- cartoonist of 
 the Chicago Tribune, in which position ho 
 continues. He started on the trip around 
 the world on the dispatch boat McCulloch, 
 in January, 1898, and so was on that vessel 
 in Asiatic waters diirin;^ the war with 
 Spain. It thus happened that he was an 
 eye witness of the Itattle of Manila Bay, 
 his detailed account of wliicli, sent to the 
 Chicago Record, was one of the most nota- 
 ble events of journalism in connection with 
 the war. lli- visited many places in the Ori- 
 ent, and iu tl:e Pliillipi)ines during the in- 
 surrection in the interests of his paper, and 
 was with the Boer Army, as correspondent 
 for the Record, in 1900. returning for serv- 
 ice as political cartoonist for the paper in 
 the fall of tliat year. lie is author of: 
 Stories of Philipino Warfare, and several 
 series of his cartoons have been i)ublishcd 
 in bound volumes. Mr. McCutcheon is also 
 one of the most popular lecturers in lyceum 
 and Chautauqua courses. He is a member 
 of the Chicago Art Society, the Chicago 
 Athletic Association and Chicago Press 
 Club. Residence: 300 Schiller Street. Of- 
 (ice: 203 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 McDANIEL, Henry Dickerson: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-governor, born in Monroe. 
 Ga., Sept. 4, 1837; son of Ira Oliver and 
 Rebecca J. (Walker) McDaniel. He was 
 graduated from Mercer University, A.B., 
 1856, A.M., 1859. He was a delegate to the 
 Secession Convention of the State of Geor- 
 L;ia in 1861, and served from first lieutenant 
 
1084 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 to major in the Eleventh Georgia Regiment, 
 Confederate States Army, 1861-1865. He 
 was a memher of the Georgia Constitutional 
 Convention of 1865, served in the Georgia 
 House of Representatives, 1873-1874, and 
 the State Senate, 1874-1883; and was gov- 
 ernor of Georgia, 1883-1886. He has prac- 
 tised law at Monroe, Ga., ever since the 
 war period, and he is a director of the 
 Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, 
 and a director in several cotton mills, oil 
 manufacturing ajid other corporations in 
 Walton County, Ga. Governor McDaniel 
 is a Democrat and a Baptist, and is chair- 
 man of the Board of Trustees of the Univer- 
 sity of Georgia. He man-icd at IMonroe, 
 Ga. Dec. 20, 1865, Hester Felker. Address: 
 ^Monroe, Ga. 
 
 McDANIEL, Walton Brooks: 
 
 Professor, I'nivorsity of Pennsylvania; 
 born in Cambridge, Mass., March 4, 1871; 
 son of Samuel Walton and Georgiana 
 Frances (Brooks) McDaniel. He was grad- 
 uated from Harvard University, A.B., 
 magna cum laude, 1893, A.M., 1894, and 
 I'h.D., 1899, and was assistant in Greek 
 and Latin at that University, 1895-1896. 
 He was instructor in tlie same studies at 
 Harvard, 1899-1901, and at Radcliffe Col- 
 lege, 1900-1901, and now holds the chair 
 of assistant professor in classical philology 
 at the University of Pennsylvania. Por- 
 fessor ^IcDaniel is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Phijologic-al Association, The Classical 
 Association of the Atlantic States, the 
 Philadelphia Classical Club, the Oriental 
 Club of Philadelphia, Harvard chapter of 
 Phi Beta Kappa, and the Delta Upsilon 
 fiaternity. He married at St. Joseph, Mo., 
 Aug. 2, 1899, Alice Corrinnc Garlichs. 
 Ollice: College Hall, University of Penn- 
 sylvania, Philadelphia. 
 
 McDERMOTT, James Thomas: 
 
 Congressman and telegraph operator; 
 born in Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb, 13, 1872; 
 .son of Jolin and Anna (Horan) McDermott. 
 He was educated in St. Andrew's Cathedral 
 Sciiool at Grand Rapids; learned telegraphy 
 and engaged as an operator. He is a mem- 
 ber of the commercial Operator's Union, af- 
 filiated with the American Federation of 
 
 Labor. INIr. MoDerniott has been active in 
 Chicago politics as a Democrat, and in 
 1906 he was elected to the Sixtieth Congress 
 from the fourth Illinois pistrict, and re- 
 elected in 1908 to the Sixty first Congress. 
 Mr. ]McDermott is a member of the Modern 
 W'oodmen of America, the Catholic Order of 
 Foresters, Knights of Columbus, Select 
 Knights of America, United Irish Societies 
 and Ancient Order of Hibernians. Address: 
 4524 Union Avenue, Chicago, 111 
 
 McDOEL, William Henry: 
 
 Railway president; born at Goffstown, 
 N. H., March 28, 1841; son of Joseph and 
 Ann (Clogston) McDoel. He was educated 
 in the common schools, and entered railway 
 service Sept. 7, 1860, as check freight clerk 
 of the Great Western Railway of Illinois, 
 which he afterward served as acting agent 
 at Danville and agent at Tolono, 111., until 
 Doc, 1863. He went to the Toledo, Wabash 
 and western Railway in January, 1864, as 
 agent at State Line, Ind., was general agent 
 of the same road at Keokuk, Iowa, 1865- 
 1875, and from 1875 to 1877 was western 
 agent 'of the Blue Line at Keokuk, Quincy, 
 Burlington and other points. 1875-1877; 
 was general freight agent of the Hannibal 
 and St. Joseph Railroad, 1878-1884; south- 
 western freight agent of the Ciiicago, Bur- 
 lington and Quincy Railroad at Kansas 
 City, Mo., May- July, 1884. On Aug. 1, 
 1884 he began his long connection with the 
 Monon Route as general freight agent of 
 the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago 
 Railway, of which he became trafiic manager 
 Nov. 1, LSS6, general manager April 15, 
 isni. and also vice-president April 24, 1894. 
 lie was appointed receiver of the road Aug. 
 24, 1896, and on its reorganization as the 
 Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Rail- 
 way, July 1, 1897, became vice president 
 and general nianager until April 25, 1899, 
 since which date he has been president and 
 general manager of that road. Since 1899 
 he has also been president of the Indiana 
 Stone Road, and president of the Kentucky 
 and Indiana Bridge and Railroad Company; 
 and 1889-1890, was chairman of the Chicago 
 and Ohio River Traflic Association. Mr. 
 McDoel is a director of the American Trust 
 and Savings Bank of Chicago. He is a 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1085 
 
 member of tlie Chicago, Union Ijcague, Chi- 
 cago Ciolf and Midlothian Clubs. He mar- 
 ried, first, at 8tate Line, Ind., Sept. 12, 
 1865, Rebecca Lucas, by whom he has one 
 daughter, and married, second, at Kenosha, 
 Wis., Dec. 27, 1898, Katherine R. NelT. 
 Residence: Geneva, 111. Office: 198 Cus- 
 tom House Place, Chicago. 
 
 MacDONALD, Arthur: 
 
 Social pathologist, autlior; born in Cale- 
 donia. N. Y., July 4, 1856; son of Angus 
 and Virginia (Dibble) MacDonald. He was 
 educated at the University of Rochester, 
 A.B. 1879, A.M. 1883; studied law from 
 1879-1880; graduated from the Union Theo- 
 logical Seminary, New York, 188.3; took 
 post-graduate courses in philosophy, meta- 
 physics and theology, 1883-1885, at Harvard 
 University, and was appointed " Fellow in 
 Psychology " in 1885, at Johns Hopkins 
 University. He pursued studies in medi- 
 cine and in subjects relating to criminal 
 anthropology' psychophysics at Berlin, Leip- 
 zig, Paris, Zurich and Vienna, and was at 
 Clark University a-, docent ("advance be- 
 yond the doctorate") 1889-1891. In 1892 
 he became connected with the U. S. Bureau 
 of Education as specialist in education as 
 related to the abnormal and weakling 
 classes, remaining connected with this work 
 until 1903, during which time he carried 
 on some experiments relating to the 
 pathologj' of abnormal phenomena in hu- 
 man beings, spending much time and study 
 in reformatories, prisons, alms houses, in- 
 sane asylums, inebriate asylums and. other 
 institutions. He designed a new algometer 
 calculated to secure more accurate results 
 in measurements of pain. He has been for 
 years in close touch with European investi- 
 gations and discussions on the subjects in 
 which he has specialized, having been U. 
 S. delegate to various international, psycho- 
 logical and criminological congresses 
 abroad. He is the author of ten works: 
 including Man and Abnormal Man; Cri- 
 minologj'; Le Criminel-Type ; Education and 
 Patho-Social Studies; Emile Zola (a psy- 
 cho-physical study of Zola's persoiiality) ; 
 Experimental Study of Children. Mr. Mac- 
 Donald is a member of the Soci6t6 d'Hyp- 
 nologie de Paris j was honorary president 
 
 of the Third International CongreBR of 
 Criminal Anthropologj' of Europe, is a 
 member of the Delta Psi fraternity and the 
 Harvard University Club of Washington. 
 Ho married in Washington Sept. 20, l!li»4, 
 Margaret J. Porterficld, an artist. .VddrcMs: 
 127 A Street, N. E., Wasliington, D. C. 
 
 MACDONALD, James Allen: 
 
 Capitalist; he was graduated from Co- 
 lumbia College in 1863. He i.s extensively 
 engaged in mining and other enterprises as 
 partner of Senator W. A. Clark, of Mon- 
 tana : and lie is the president, treasurer 
 and director of the Henry-Bonnard Bronze 
 Company; vice-president of the United 
 Verde Copper Company, the Butte Electric 
 Railway Company, the Clark Coal Com- 
 ])any, the Equator Mining and Smelting 
 Company, the Waclark Realty Company, 
 Waclark Wire Company; first vice-presi- 
 dent, treasurer and director of the United 
 Verde and Pacific Railway: member of the 
 Conunittee of Management of the Royal 
 insurance Company of England; treasurer 
 and director of the American Stone Com- 
 pany; director of the Commercial Trust 
 Company of New Jersey, Erie and Kala- 
 mazoo Railroad Company, and of the 
 Queens Insurance Company, He is a mem- 
 ber of the University, Players", Down Town 
 and Metropolitan Clubs of New York. He 
 married Clara Crooke and they have one 
 daughter. Residence: Flushing. L. I. Of- 
 fice: 49 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 McDonald, Jesse F.r 
 
 Kx-governor of Colorado, mine operator; 
 born in Ashtabula. Ohio. June 30. 1858; 
 son of LjTnan M. and Caroline (Bond) Mc- 
 Donald, He was brought up on a farm and 
 educated in the country schools and at 
 an academy, and cjigaged in civil engineer- 
 ing work. At the age of twenty-one ho 
 went to Colorado, and practised as civil 
 and mining engineer. Since 1888 he has 
 been engaged in mining on his own account, 
 being owner of the Penrose and Harvad 
 mines at Leadville, Colo., where also he is 
 vice-president of the Eli Mining and I^nd 
 Company, treasurer of the Argus Gold and 
 Silver Mining Company and vice-president 
 of the American National Bank. He has al- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ways been attivc in politics as a Repub 
 lican, was mayor of l^eadville, 1899-1905; 
 elected State senator in 1902 and lieutenant- 
 {jovernor in 1904; he was Governor of 
 Colorado. 190.1 and 1906, his term expiring 
 in Jan., 1907. Address: Leadville, Colo. 
 
 Mcdonald, joim b.: 
 
 Iwiihoad contractor and bnildcr; born in 
 Ireland, Nov. 7, 1844; son of Bartholomew 
 and Mary MacDonald. He was educated 
 in the public schools. He is a self-made 
 man. inning begun life as a poor boy; be- 
 came a foreman, next a contractor. Has 
 built railroads in the United States and 
 Canada, and one of his most noted under- 
 takings was the building of the Baltimore 
 and Ohio llailroad tunnel under City of 
 Baltimore through rock. Mr. McDonald is 
 now in charge of construction of the New 
 York subways. He married, in 1869, Geor- 
 gia A. Strong. Residence : 1 West 72d 
 Street. OfTice: 90 West Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 MACDONALD, Loren Benjamin: 
 
 t lergynian ; born in Newport, Nova 
 Scotia, .Jan. 21, 1858; son of Edward and 
 Mathilda (). (INIosher) MacDonald. He was 
 graduated from Harvard University, S.T.B., 
 1881, A.B., 1880, and has received the de- 
 gree of S.T.D. He has been settled over 
 Unitarian churches in Ellsworth, ]\Iaine, 
 Wolfboro, N. H. and Boston, and has been 
 pastor of the First Unitarian Church in 
 Concord, Mass., since 1895. He was three 
 times in Europe and in Porto Rico at the 
 time of Spanish-American War. He is a 
 incmber of the Social Circle in Concord, 
 founded in 1782; and is a Royal Arch 
 ]\[a^on. Dr. ^lacDonald married in Cam- 
 bridge, Ma.ss., June 7, 1905, Mary Josephine 
 Bygrave, and they have one son. Address: 
 Concord, Mass. 
 
 MacDONALD, Pirie: 
 
 l'li(ilngra|)licr dl' nicii ; Ijorn in Cliiciago, 
 Jan. 27, 1867; son of Dr. George and Mar- 
 garet (Reilly) MacDonald. He has been 
 engaged in the photographic business since 
 1883; photographer of men exclusively, 
 since 1890, and has made photographs of 
 many notables. He has received many 
 
 prizes from the pliotographors' Association 
 of America, Cramer grand prize cup, grand 
 prize for portraiture, diamond decoration, 
 laurel wreath, seven gold and two silver 
 medals; bronze trophy, Boston; special 
 silver medal and later gold medal at In- 
 dianapolis; diamond medal from Omaha; 
 gold medal at Philadelpliia; gold medal 
 from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 
 also medals in London. Birmingham, Bel- 
 fast, Trier, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Amster- 
 dam, Brussels, Nancy, Paris. He is a mem- 
 ber and was the first and third president of 
 tlie Professional Photographers' Society of 
 New York ; member of Chambre Syndicale 
 de la Photographie de France; decorated 
 ofHcier d'Academie, 1906. Mr. MacDonald 
 married, in 1890, Emily Van Deusen. Res- 
 idence: 701 St. Nicholas Avenue, New 
 York City. Studios: 576 Fifth Avenue, and 
 141 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 MACDONALD, Theodore H,: 
 
 Insurance commissioner for Connecticut; 
 born in New Haven, Coian,, March 11, 1802; 
 son of William D. and Harriet W. (Nims) 
 MacDonald. He has been deputy collector 
 of internal revenue, chief clerk of the Board 
 of Assessors, member of the Board of As- 
 sessors, and of the Insurance Commission 
 of the State of Connecticut. He was chair- 
 man of the Republican Committee of New 
 Haven for eight years, lieutenant of the 
 New Haven Grays, and colonel and quarter- 
 iuastcr-g"neral of the State of Connecticut 
 on tlic staff of Governor Henry Roberts. 
 He is a member of the America Lodge, 
 Knights of Pythias, Order of United Work- 
 men, Maccabees, Ancient Order of Foresters, 
 (governor's Foot Guard, and of the Sons of 
 the American Revolution. He is also a 
 member of the Union League and Republican 
 Clubs of New Haven, and the Army and 
 Navy Club of New ^'()rk City. He married 
 in New Haven. Nov. 10, 1897, Flora L. 
 Hitchcock, and tiny have one son. Ad- 
 dress: 17 1 Slirrni:i:i Avenue, New Haven, 
 ( 'onn. 
 
 MacDONALD, -William: 
 
 l'i()f('ss(n' of American liistory; born in 
 Providence, R. I., July 31, 1863; son of 
 William and Frances (Jordan). He was 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1087 
 
 fjiadiinted from Harvard University, A.B., 
 1S02. and received tlie lionorary degrees of 
 Ph.D. from Union University, 1895, and 
 IJj.D. from the University of New Bnins- 
 wick. 1!)00. He was professor of history 
 and political economy at Worcestor Poly- 
 teclinic Institute, 18!)2-18{)3; professor of 
 history and political science at Bowdoin 
 College, 1893-1901; has been profe.ssor of 
 history at Brown University since 1901. 
 Dr. MacDonald has been a member of the 
 summer school faculties at Harvard, Cor- 
 nell, University of Chicago, University of 
 Kansas and University of California; and 
 in 1908-1909, was lecturer in American 
 history and government at Harvard. He 
 is author of: Jacksonian Democracy; His- 
 tory of the United States (with T. W. Hig- 
 ginson) ; History and Government of 
 Maine; editor of Select Documents Illustra- 
 tive of the History of the United States ; 
 Select Charters; Select Statutes; Burke on 
 Conciliation ; Johnston's High School His- 
 tory of the United States; and Docu- 
 mentary Source-book of American History. 
 He was chairman of the Rhode Island Cit- 
 izens' Union 1904-1906, and has been a 
 member of the Executive Committee of the 
 Lincoln Union of Rhode Island since 1906. 
 In politics he is an Independent and in re- 
 ligion an Episcopalian. He is a member of 
 the American Historical Association and 
 American Antiquarian Society; and vice- 
 president of the Rhode Island Historical 
 Society. He is a member of the University 
 and Art Clubs of Providence. Professor 
 MacDonald married in Lawrence, Kansas, 
 Nov. 24, 1887, Harriet B. Haskell. Ad- 
 dress : Brown University, Providence 
 R. I. 
 
 McDonnell, Charles E.: 
 
 Catholic bishop of Brooklj-n ; born in 
 New York City, 1854; studied at Christian 
 ]3rothers School, St. Francis Xavier's Col- 
 lege, and the American College at Rome. 
 He was ordained to priesthood, 1878 ; was 
 assistant in St. Mary's Church, New York 
 City, 1878, St. Stephen's, 1879; master of 
 ceremonies, in the New Y^ork Cathedral, 
 1879-1884; secretary to Cardinal McClos- 
 ky; secretary to Archbishop Corrigan, and 
 appointed in 1890, one of the private cham- 
 
 berlains of Pope Ijoo XIII; was conseorntpd 
 l)isiiop. April, 1892. AddrosH: 307 CIcr 
 mont Averuic, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 MacDOUGAL, Daniel Trembly: 
 
 Botanist; born at Liberty, Ind., March 
 10, 1865; son of Alexander and .\niandii 
 (Showaltor) ]\IacDongal. He was educated 
 at De Pauw University, B.S. and A.M., 
 1892; Purdue University, M.S., 1891, Ph.D., 
 1897. He was instructor in biologj- at Pur- 
 due University, 1890-1893; instructor and 
 assistant professor of botany at the Univer- 
 sity of Minnesota, 1893 1899; director of 
 laboratories and assistant director of the 
 New York Botanical Garden, 1899-1905; 
 and is now director of the Department of 
 Botanical Research in the Carnegie Institu- 
 tion at Washington. He was special agent 
 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
 making explorations in Arizona and Idaho, 
 1891-1892. He made explorations in Sone- 
 ra, Baja-California and other parts of Mex- 
 ico, Montana California and elsewhere, for 
 the New York Botanical Garden, 1899-1905. 
 He was a member of the committee in 
 charge of the Desert Botanical Laboratory 
 at Tucson, and is now director of same. 
 made special investigations at Leipzig and 
 Tiil)ingen, Germany. Dr. MacDougal is au- 
 thor of several books and many scientific 
 papers dealing with botonical subjects, and 
 editor of various journals and books. He 
 is a life member of tlie Botanical Society 
 of America. Torrey Botanical Club, the 
 Horticultural Society of New Y'ork; hon- 
 orary member of the Barnard Botanical 
 Club; foreign member of Hollandsche !Mat- 
 schappij der Wetenschappen ; member of 
 the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity; the Century, 
 Explorers', and National Arts Clubs of New 
 York, and Cosmos Club of \Vashiiigton. He 
 married at Cincinnati, Jan. 24, 1893, Louise 
 Fisher, and they have one daughter, Alice, 
 horn in 1894. Address: Tucson, .Ariz., and 
 Carnegie Inslitntion. Washington, D. C. 
 
 MacDOUGALL, Clinton Dugald: 
 
 lUitcd Stales iiiarshnl; Imrn in (ila-gow, 
 Scotland, June 14, 1839; son of Dugald and 
 Margaret (MacKeiultick) MacDougall. He 
 was educated in Canada, was graduated 
 
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 from Jordan Academy in 1853; served in 
 llie Civil War, and was brevetted brigadier- 
 general of Volunteers, Feb., 1865, for gal- 
 lantry. He commanded brigade and divi- 
 sion, in the Army of the Potomac. After 
 the war lie engaged in manufacturing 
 agricultural implements, and is now presi- 
 dent of the New Birdsell Company of Au- 
 liuru. X. Y. He was post-master of Auburn, 
 from 1869-1873; member of Congress, 
 1873-1877; presidential elector in 1888; 
 U. S. marshal of the Nortliern District of 
 New York, 1877-1885 and since Jan. 9, 
 1901. General MacDougall is a Eepublican 
 in politics. He married Eva Sabine. Ad- 
 dress: 108 South Street, Auburn, N. Y. 
 
 McDOWELI, George Washington: 
 
 Physician; born in New York City, June 
 17, I860; son of Thomas and Catherine 
 (Foster) ^McDowell. He was educated in 
 the New York schools, and graduated from 
 tlie College of the Citj^ of New York, as 
 A.B. in 1882. and A.M. in 1886, and the 
 New York Homoeopathic Medical College 
 and Hospital, M.D., 1886; and he studied in 
 the College of New York Ophthalmic Hos- 
 pital, 1889. He is professor of otology in 
 the New York Ilomceopathic Medical Col- 
 lege and Hospital; consulting aurist to 
 Flower Hospital ; surgeon of the New Y'ork 
 0])hthalmic Hospital; consulting aurist of 
 the Laura Franklin Free Hospital for Chil- 
 dren; aurist of St. Gregory's Hospital; oc- 
 ulist and aurist of the Protestant Half-Or- 
 phan Asylum, and the Methodist P]piscopal 
 C'hurch Home. He is a member of tlie 
 American Institute of Homoeopathy, Amer- 
 ican Ophthalmological, Otological and 
 Laryngological Society, New York State and 
 County Honiu'opathic Medical Societies, 
 and of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Associa- 
 tion, and the Chiron and Clinical Clubs 
 of New York City. He married at Newark, 
 X. J. June 5, 1889, Lettie Belle Bolen. and 
 they have one daughter. Address: 1 West 
 34t"li Street, New York City. 
 
 McDowell, Henry Clay: 
 
 U. S. district judge; born in Louisville, 
 Ky., Aug. 24, 1861; .son of Henry Clay and 
 Anne (Clay) McDowell. After graduation 
 fioni Yale as B.A., 1884 and attending the 
 
 Law Department of the University of Vir- 
 ginia in 1885 he practised law until ap- 
 l^ointed by President Roosevelt, Nov. 14, 
 1901, U. S. district judge for the Western 
 District of Virginia, which office he now 
 tills. He is a Republican in politics. He 
 married, July 5, 1892, Louise Clay. Ad- 
 dress: Lyncliburg, Va. 
 
 Mcdowell, Wllliam Eraser: 
 
 Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church since 1904; born at Miller.sburg, 
 Ohio, Feb. 4, 1858; son of David A. and 
 Rebecca (Fraser) McDowell. He was 
 graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, 
 Delaware, Ohio, B.A., 1879, M.A., 1882, and 
 received its degrees of Ph.D. in 1891 and 
 S.T.D. in 1894; was graduated from Boston 
 University, S.T.B., 1882, and received the 
 degrees of D.D. from Wesleyan University, 
 1903, and LL. D. from Baker University, 
 ount Union College, Cornell College and 
 Denver University, 1904; and from North- 
 western University in 1905. He was Meth- 
 odist pastor, 1882-1890 at Lodi, Oberlin, 
 and Tiffin, Ohio; chancellor of the Univer- 
 sity of Denver, 1890-1899; member of the 
 Colorado State Board of Charities and Cor- 
 rections; corresponding secretary of the 
 Board of Education of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, 1899-1904; member of the 
 (General Conference of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church, 1900-1904, and elected and con- 
 secrated bishoj) at the latter Conference at 
 Los Angeles. He is a member of the Inter- 
 national Committee of the Yoiuig ]\Ien's 
 Christian Association; president of the Re- 
 ligious Education Association, 1905-1906; 
 president of the Board of Trustees of North- 
 western University, since 1906; and he is a 
 member of the University Club of Chicago. 
 He married, in 1882, Clotilda Lyon, and 
 they have one daughter. Address: 57 
 Wnsliington Street. Chicago. 
 
 McENERY, Samuel Douglas: 
 
 l^. S. senator; born at Monroe, La., May 
 28, 1837. He was educated at Spring Hill 
 College, near Mobile, Ala., the U. S. Naval 
 .\cadcmy, and the LTniversity of Virginia; 
 was graduated from the State and National 
 Law School, Poughkeepsie. N. Y.. served in 
 the Confederate Army, in the war between 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 the States, a« lieutoiiniit , in Vivfijini.a, under 
 Magrnder, and in the Trans-Mississippi 
 Department. Tie is a lawyer by profession; 
 was nominated by the Democratic party 
 and elected lientenant-governor, with L. A. 
 VViltz as governor in 1879. On the death 
 of Governor Wiltz, in Oct., 1881, he suc- 
 ceeded him in the executive office; was 
 nominatecl by the Democratic party for gov- 
 ernor and elected in 1884; was a candidate 
 for renomination and was defeated by Gen- 
 eral Francis T. Nicholls for the nomination; 
 (Jeneral Xicholls was elected in 1888 and 
 appointed his opponent, S. D. McEnery, to 
 be associate justice of the Supreme Court 
 in 1888 for the term of twelve years. He 
 was nominated by the Democratic party in 
 1 892 for governor and defeated by the Anti- 
 Lottery party; was nominated by the Dem- 
 ocratic caucus for senator at the session of 
 the Legislature in 1896, and elected to the 
 Senate for the term beginning March 4, 
 1897, to succeed the Hon. H. C. Blanchard, 
 ]\Iay 28. 189G ; and he was reelected in 
 1902 and 1908. His term of service will 
 expire March 3, 1915. Address: 1233 St. 
 Mary Street, New Orleans, La.. 
 
 MACFARLAND, Charles Stedman: 
 
 Clergyman traveler, and author; born in 
 Boston, Dec. 12, 186G; son of Daniel and 
 Sarah Abigail (Crafts) Macfarland. He 
 was educated in the Chapman School, Bos- 
 ton high School and Yale University, where 
 he received the degrees of B.D. and Ph.D. 
 He entered business at the age of seventeen 
 and at twenty-one he became general man- 
 ager of T. 0. Gardner and Company, man- 
 ufacturers and commission merchants. He 
 was a general secretary of the Young ]Men's 
 Christian Association 1892-1893; and as- 
 sistant pastor of the Maverick Congrega- 
 tional Church of Boston, 1893-1894. In 
 1899 and 1900 he was instructor in 
 Yale University, pastor of the ]\Iaple- 
 wood Congregational Church at Maiden, 
 Mass., 1900-1906; and since 1906 has been 
 pastor of the Congregational Church at 
 South JSTorwalk, Conn. He is a lecturer at 
 Yale University, and a member of the Ad- 
 visory Committee to the faculty of Yale 
 Divinity School. He is president of the 
 Travel Club of Boston and London. Dr. 
 69 
 
 Macf;irhnid i-; a member of (he American 
 Orienlal Society, Society of Bildical Liter- 
 ature and Exegesis, and the National Geo- 
 graphic Society; fellow of the .Xmerican 
 Academy of Political and Social Science and 
 a member of the Masonic Order. Dr. Mac- 
 farland was some time examiner for Went 
 Point and Annapolis. He is a incml)er of 
 tlie Yale and Congregational Clubs of New 
 York, and the Yale Clul) of Boston. He is 
 author of: Tlie Spirit tlliri.stlike: Jesus 
 and the Prophets; The Old Puritanism and 
 the Xew Age; The Infinite Atlection; and 
 tlic Christian Ministry and the Social Or- 
 der. He married in Andover, Mass., March 
 9, 1904, Mary Perley Merrill, and they have 
 one son and one daughter. Address: The 
 Congregatif)nal ParsonnL'c. South Xorwalk, 
 Conn. " 
 
 MACFARLAND, Henry B. F.: 
 
 Tresidcni of tlic Board of Commissioner.s 
 of the District of Columbia; born in Phil- 
 adelphia, 1861, but living from 180.") in 
 ^^'ashington. where he was educated and 
 read law. He was appointed by President 
 McKinlej-, commissioner of the District 
 of Columbia in May, 1900, when he was 
 not a candidate and rehictantly consented 
 to serve, and was reappointed twice by 
 President Roosevelt in 1903 and 1906. both 
 times long before his term expired and 
 without his being a candidate. During 
 tiiese six years, he has been president of 
 the Board of Commissioners, which board 
 succeeded to the powers and duties of the 
 Governors of the District of Columbia in 
 1878. He was urged by President :McKin- 
 lev to take the place because of his known 
 interest in the civic afTairs of the District 
 and activity in all movements for its im- 
 provement, especially with respect to social 
 conditions. He was chainuan of the Na- 
 tional Capital Centennial Conunittee in 
 1900. delivering the Centennial address at 
 the White House, Dec. 12. 1900. and taking 
 an active part in the celebration, out of 
 which grew the Senate Park Commission 
 and its plans for the beautification of the 
 District, which was then designed to he 
 the monument of the Centenial Celebration. 
 The psysical improvement of the National 
 Capital, including the railway terminal 
 
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 work. iinohiiiL; llio atiolitioii of i;i';i(lo cross- 
 ings iiiul a new union station, ihc tilt rat ion 
 plant and sewajje disposal >ysicni. tho Dis- 
 trict Government hiiildinii-, the new bridges 
 and parks, and the tinaneinj,' of the Dis- 
 trict's siiare of one-half of the cost have 
 enj^aged his attention as have all questions 
 of ])ul)lic art and architecture. He has de- 
 voted niueli time to the improvement of 
 the departments of the District service un- 
 der his supervision. The public charity 
 system has been very largely reorganized 
 and modernized by the Board of Charities, 
 and the Health Department made more ef- 
 fective, and others under his supervision 
 have been advanced by his direction. Pub- 
 lic education and the public library and 
 playground projects have had his constant 
 support, and his lifelong interest in 'social 
 and philanthropic work has been seen in 
 his support of the measures which became 
 law in the Fifty-ninth Congress, most of the 
 bills being prepared under his direction, 
 for a juvenile court and probation system, 
 condemnation of insanitary buildings, com- 
 pulsory education, abatement of nuisances, 
 restriction of the sale of drugs and poisons, 
 regulation of employment agencies, gov- 
 ernmental supervision of savings banks, 
 conversion of alleys into minor streets, and 
 other similar propositions. Mr. Macfarland 
 delivered an address on District of Colum- 
 i)ia Day. at the Pan American Exposition 
 at Buflalo, .Sept. 3, 1901, at the Louisiana 
 Purchase E.xposition, Oct. 19, 1904, and at 
 the Jamestown E.xposition, June 11, 1907. 
 He was president of the International Con- 
 vention of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciations in 1904. Residence: The Marl- 
 borough, \\ashington, D. C. Oiruc address: 
 District Building. Washington, 1). C. 
 
 McGEE, Anita Newcomb: 
 
 Physician: born in Washington. D. C. 
 1«04; daughter of t lie late Professor I .Ad- 
 miral) Simon Xcuconil). I'. S. N.. the dis- 
 tinguished astrononur, and .Maiy Caroline 
 (Ilassler) Newcomb. She was cducatc(i in 
 private school and at home; at schools in 
 Europe, and was grailuated from Colum- 
 l)ian (now George Washington) University, 
 M.D., 1892, with a post-graduate course in 
 gynecology in Jolms Hopkins University. 
 
 She married in Washington, D. C, 
 Feb. 14. 1SS8. W J McGee (q.v.) and 
 lias a daughter and a son. Dr. Mc- 
 (tCc ])ractised in \\'ashington. 1892-1890. 
 As vice-president general of the Na- 
 tional Society of the Daughters of the 
 American Revolution Dr. McGee took up in 
 April. 1898, work in connection with the 
 Spanish-American War as director of the 
 D. A. R. Hospital, and from 1898 to the 
 end of 1900 was acting assi.-^tant surgeon 
 in the U. S. Army, and assigned to duty 
 " in charge of the Army Nurse Corps," di- 
 rectly under Surgeon-General Sternberg. 
 She selected about two thousand women 
 nurses for military service, and organized 
 them into the Nurse Corps, which Congress 
 made a permanent part of the U. S. Army, 
 and she continued her Army service after 
 the Spanish War, through the Philippine 
 Insurrection and the Boxer Campaign. As 
 president of the Spanish-American War 
 Nurses and as representative of the Red 
 Cross of Philadelphia. Dr. ^NIcGee took a 
 party of trained nurses to Japan in 1904 
 for a period, of six months of work in the 
 army hospitals of that country. Going 
 without compensation, as all of the party did, 
 they were welcomed as guests of the Jajia- 
 nese nation, and assigned to posts of honor as 
 nurses in the most important hospital of the 
 army at Hiroshima, and on the finest 
 hospital ships. The minister of war ap- 
 pointed Dr. McGee sujjervisor of nurses, 
 which gave her rank of ollicer in the Jai)an- 
 ese Army, and she was sent to inspect and 
 report on various hospitals in Japan aiul 
 on the Yalu River (Manchuria). The Em- 
 peror of Japan bestowed upon Dr. McGee 
 the Order of the Sacred Crown, a very rare 
 honor, the Tlussian War medal, and the 
 Special Decoration of the Red Cross of Ja- 
 pan, and from the Empress the Russian 
 War Red Cross medal. She has been sur- 
 geon-general, librarian-general, vice-presi- 
 dent general ami historian general (d' the 
 Daughters of the American Revolution: is 
 iionorary president for life of the S])anish- 
 .Vmerican War Nurses; ex-dei)artmcnt sur- 
 geon of Si)anisli War N'eterans (only woman 
 mendier of that organization) ; member of 
 the Association of Military Surgeons of the 
 United States. Dr. McGee is author of vari- 
 
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 ous contributions in The Contuiv, Collier's 
 and The Trained Nurse and Hospital 
 Review. At present engaged in pre- 
 paring a biography of her father. 
 Her favorite recreation is genealogy and 
 history, having made extensive researches 
 in the United States, Canada, England, 
 France, Germany and Switzerland. Ad- 
 dress: 1G20 P Street, Washington, D. C. 
 
 McGEE, W J: 
 
 U. S. Inland Waterways Commissioner; 
 born in Dubuque County, Iowa, April 17, 
 1853; son of James and Martha (Ander- 
 son) McGee; attended common schools in 
 Iowa for a short time, but his education 
 has been chiefly acquired by private study; 
 engaged in farm work at ten to twenty 
 years of age and during that period studied 
 Latin, astronomy, the higher mathematics, 
 law and surveying; appeared as attorney 
 in justices courts and engaged in land sur- 
 veying, 1874-187G; interested in manufactur- 
 ing, inventing and patenting agricultural 
 machinery, and working at forge and bench, 
 lS77-188i. While thus engaged, and after- 
 ward, made a study of geology and archa?- 
 oIogj% and 1877-1881, made a geological and 
 topographical survey of Northeastern Iowa, 
 the most extensive ever executed in Ameri- 
 ca without State or National Aid ; examined 
 and reported upon the building stones of 
 Iowa for the Tenth Census; geologist with 
 U. S. Geological Survey, 1882-1893, and 
 from 1885 had charge of an important di- 
 vision of that survey ; surveyed and mapped 
 300,000 square miles in the southeast- 
 ern section of the United States and com- 
 piled geologic maps of the State of New 
 York and of the United States. He made an 
 investigation and wrote many monographs, 
 reports and articles on geologic subjects for 
 scientific journals during that period. In 
 1893 he was appointed ethnologist-in-charge 
 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 
 which he resigned in 1903 to become chief 
 of the Department of Anthropology in the 
 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis. 
 Under his direction there was collected the 
 most comprehensive and diversified assem- 
 blage of the world's peoples ever brought 
 together in an exhibit and no feature of 
 
 spread and interpsted atterilion. When, 
 therefore, the St. Ix)nis Pulilic MuHeuin was 
 established as a perniaiient result of llie 
 Exposition, in 1005, Dr. M((!ee was cho^'ell 
 as its director, and continued in that jiosi- 
 tiou until Maich, 1907, when, on tlie ereu 
 tion of the Inland Waterways ('oinniission 
 by President Roosevelt, he was appoint«-<l a 
 member of the conuiiission, and at, the name 
 time was apjjointed soil expert in the United 
 States Department of .\grieulturc; and at 
 the first meeting of the Conuiiission lie was 
 elected as secretary. He received the de- 
 gree of LL.D. from Cornell College, Iowa, 
 in 1898. He has been an important and 
 constant contributor to science in tlie <h- 
 partments of ethnology, anthropology, geol- 
 ogy and an^heology; has been United Slates 
 commissioner on the International Arche- 
 ological and Ethnological Commission since 
 1902; studied, in 1894 and 1895, on Tiburon 
 Island, a savage tribe never before scien- 
 tifically studied, and h:w made various im- 
 portant researches in the ethnology, lan- 
 guage, and archa?ology of various native 
 American tribes, accounts of which have 
 been presented in books, articles and scien- 
 tific memoirs. He was a member of the 
 editorial board of Science, edited the De- 
 ])artment of Anthropologj' in the Interna- 
 tional Encyclopedia; is associate editor of 
 the American Anthropologist and of the Na- 
 tional Geographic Magazine. Dr. McGee 
 has been one of the most effective advo 
 cates and promoters of organized effort 
 among scientific men. He became a mem- 
 ber, 1878, and a fellow. 1882, of the Ameri- 
 can Association for the Advancement of 
 Science, was secretary of Section E (geol- 
 ogy and geography), 1891, vice-president 
 of Section H (Anthropology-). 1S97, and 
 acting president of the Association, 1897- 
 1898. He is a member of the American 
 Society of Naturalists, member and past 
 president of the American Anthropological 
 Association, and the Anthropological So 
 ciety of Washington; member of the (leo- 
 logical Society of America and first editor 
 of" its Bulletin ; member of the American 
 Geographical Society. Archaeological In- 
 stitute of America (vice-president. 1902- 
 1905), National Geographic Society (past 
 
 that World's Fair attracted more wide- ' president), Society of American Geograph- 
 
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 ers, the Explorers" Club, Washinn;toii Aca- 
 demy of Sciences (past vice-president) ; a 
 member of all the scientific societies of 
 Washington; Ic.iding foimder of the Colum- 
 bia Historical Society; honorary member 
 of the Missouri Historical Society, and 
 president of the Missouri Folk-Lore Society. 
 He was senior speaker for the Department 
 of Anthropology at the World's Congress 
 of Arts and Sciences, held at St. Louis in 
 1904, and chairman of the Organizing Com- 
 mittee for the International Geographic 
 Congress, St. Louis, 1904. He was one 
 of the organizers and recording secretary 
 of the Conference of Governors in the White 
 House in May, 1908, and edited the volume 
 of Proceedings; and he was made a mem- 
 ber of the National Conservation Commis- 
 sion appointed pursuant to the Conference. 
 There is probably no man in tliis country 
 who has a wider personal acquaintance 
 among men of science than Dr. McGee. He 
 has been a constant and valued contributor 
 to scientific literature in the form of books, 
 reports and papers in scientific magazines 
 and the proceedings of scientific societies. 
 He married, in 1888, Anita, daughter of 
 Professor Simon Xewcomb, the distin- 
 guished astronomer, and herself a noted 
 physician and scientist. Address: U. S. 
 Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. 
 C. 
 
 McGEHEE, Edward lamed: 
 
 Physician: l)orn in \\'ilkonson County. 
 Miss., April 4. 1852; son of Charles G. and 
 Stella (McXair) McGehee. He was edu- 
 cated in schools in Woodville, Miss., in 
 Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., the 
 Southern University, at Greensboro, Ala., 
 B.S. in 1871; and the Medical Department 
 of the University of Louisiana, M.D., 1874. 
 He practised in Mississippi for eighteen 
 years after his graduation, and since then 
 in New Orleans. He was a member of the 
 Mississippi State l?oard of Health, and of 
 the Mississij)pi State Board of Medical PLx- 
 aminers, and was president of the Missis 
 sippi State Medical Society, and is now a 
 member of the State Board of Medical Ex- 
 aminers in Louisiana. He was professor of 
 physiology, hygiene and ]>athology in the 
 New Orleans College of Medicine; waa resi- 1 
 
 dent student of the Charity Hospital, and 
 president of Charity Alumni Association, of 
 the Louisiana Anti-Tuberculosis League, and 
 of the Ilayno Memorial Home. He is phy- 
 sician in charge of the Poydras Orphan 
 Asylum; president of St. Tammany Health 
 Homes Company, and of the Glady's Min- 
 eral and Oil Company of Calcasieu Parish, 
 La.; also partner in the Hammond (La.) 
 Sanatorium. He is a member of the Or- 
 leans Parish Medical Society, the Louisi- 
 ana and Mississippi State [Medical Associa- 
 tions, American Medical Association and 
 the National Health Association. Dr. Mc- 
 Gehee married in Greensboro, Ala., March 
 4. 1875, Anna O. Webb, and they have five 
 sons. Residence: 1502 Webster street. 
 Office: Maeheca Building, Canal Street, 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 McGIFFERT, Arthur Cushman: 
 
 Professor of church history; born in Sa- 
 quoit, N. Y., March 4, 1861; son of Joseph 
 Nelson and Harriet Whiting (Cushman) 
 McGiffert. He was educated in public 
 schools of Ashtabula, Ohio; was graduated 
 from the Western Pveserve College, B.A., 
 1882, M.A., 1885, with honors; Union Theo- 
 logical Seminary, New York, 1885, and 
 studied in Berlin, Paris and Rome, and 
 Marburg, 1885-1888, receiving the degree of 
 Ph.D., from Marburg, 1888, D.D., from the 
 Western Reserve University, 1892, and 
 Harvard University, 1906. He was an in- 
 structor in church history, Lane Theological 
 Seminary, Cincinnati, 1888-1890, professor, 
 1890 1893, and professor in Union Theologi- 
 cal Seminary, New York, since 1893. He 
 is author of various books entitled: Dia- 
 logue Between a Christian and a Jew, 1888; 
 Translation of Eusebius' Church History, 
 1890; A History of Christianity in the 
 Apostolic Age, 1897; The Apostles' Creed, 
 1902, and (joint author) Christian Point 
 of View, 1902. He was also a Dudleian 
 lecturer at Harvard, 1901. and 1909, and 
 Soutliworth lecturer at Andover Theological 
 Seminary, 1909. Professor McGiffert is a 
 nicinber of the American Historical Asso- 
 ciation, American Society of Cliurch His- 
 tory, Society of Biblical Literature and 
 Exegesis, and the New York Pliilosoi.hical 
 Ciub, member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 fialernity, Iho Phi Beta Kappa Society, Chi 
 Alpha and the Theta Clerical Cluba, Man- 
 hattan Conorcfrational Association, and the 
 Century Club of New York. He married 
 first in Cleveland, Ohio, June 9, 1885, Eliza 
 Isabelle King, and second in East Orange, 
 N. J., Nov. 12, 1891, Gertrude Huntington 
 Boyce, and he has three children. Resi- 
 dence: 700 Park Avenue, New York 
 City. 
 
 McGILVARY, Evander Bradley: 
 
 Professor of philosopsy ; born in Bang- 
 kok, Siam, July 19, 1864; son of Daniel 
 McGilvary, D.D., and Sophia Royce (Brad- 
 ley) McGilvary. He attended Bingham 
 School, N. C, 1876-1880, and was gradu- 
 ated from Davidson College, A.B., 1884, 
 from Princeton University A.M., 1888, and 
 from the University of California, Ph.D., 
 1897. He was translator in Siam, 1891- 
 1894; instructor in English in the Univer- 
 sity of California, 1894-1895, logic and 
 psychology, 1895-1897, assistant professor 
 of logic and epistemology, 1897-1899; Sage 
 professor of ethics at Cornell University, 
 1899-1905, and has been professor of phi- 
 losophy at the University of Wisconsin 
 since 1905. He is director of the Univer- 
 sity Clubhouse Association of Madison, 
 Wis. Dr. McGilvary has made special re- 
 searches, in Hegel's logic, the psychic proc- 
 ess of knowledge, and the psychology of the 
 moral life, and is author of papers on the 
 theory of moral value and other philosoph- 
 ical subjects. He is a member of the 
 American Philosophical ^Association, Amer- 
 ican Psychological Association, Western 
 Philosophical Society, Kappa Alpha, South- 
 ern Order, and the University Club of Mad- 
 ison. Professor jNIcGilvary married in East 
 Orange, N. J., June 16, 1891, Elizabeth Al- 
 len Paton and they have two children. 
 Residence: 1902 Arlington Place, Madison. 
 Address: Univei'sitj^ of Wisconsin, Madi- 
 son, Wisconsin. 
 
 MacGINNISS, John: 
 
 Smelting and mining engineer; born in 
 Homer, Iowa, in 1867 ; son of John and 
 Mary (Brandon) MacGinnis. He was edu- 
 cated in the Chicago public schools. He 
 
 oi'g;uii/('<l ilie I'nitcd Copper ('niiiii:niy in 
 1902. with a iMpilMl uf .$:)0,0()().(l()(), i)uilt 
 anil liiiancc<l I lie ('nliiMil)ian &, Western 
 Railway in British Coluinbia; also Snieiler 
 at Trail. Ore., lS!)6-18nS; smeller iit Po- 
 laris. Mont., in 19(1(1; organized Santa Rohu 
 Mining and SnieHing Company in Mexieo 
 in 1902; defeated by two votes for II. S. 
 senator in IMontana Jjcgislature. 1901, l)y 
 W. A. Clark, after sixty days' voting; mem- 
 ber of the Montana legislature, Seventh, 
 Eighth, and Ninth sessions, member of 
 Democratic Natiomxl Conmiitlee in 1900; 
 mayor of Butte, Mont., 1905-190(>. He i.s 
 vice-president and director of United Cop- 
 per Company, Oppenheimcr Institiite, Aetna 
 Indemnity Company; president of Silver 
 Bow National Bank, Silver Fi.ssure Mining 
 Company; and is a member of the Montana 
 Society of Engineers. He is a member of 
 the Lawyers' and Democratic Clubs of New 
 York City, of the Silver Bow and Country 
 Clubs of Butte, Mont., and of the Montana 
 and Lambs' Clubs of Helena, Mont. Ad- 
 dress: 42 Broadway, New York City, and 
 Butte, j\Iont. 
 
 MacGRATH, Harold: 
 
 A\i11ior; liorn in Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 
 4. 1872; son of Thomas H. and Lillian 
 (Spurlock) MacGrath. He entered journal- 
 ism in 1890 and nine years later published 
 his first book, and within a short time was 
 one of the best known of younger fiction 
 writers of the United States. He has writ- 
 ten a large number of popular successes, 
 and is the author of: Arms and the Wom- 
 an; The Puppet Crown; The Grey Cloak; 
 The Man on the Box; The Princess Elopes; 
 Enchantment; Hearts and JIasks; Half a 
 Rogue; The Lure of the Mask; The Wat- 
 teau Shepherdess (operetta) ; The Best 
 Man; The Goose Girl, etc. He is a con- 
 tributor to the leading magazines. He 
 married in Bridgeport, Conn., April 17, 
 1905, Alma Kenyon. Address: ."{04 Kel- 
 logg Street, Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 McGUIRE, Bird Segle: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Belleville. Illinois, in 
 18(i4, and when but a child of two years 
 his parents, Joel and Rachel McGuire, 
 
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 moved to Randolph County, north central 
 Missouri, wliere they resided upon a farm 
 until the spring of 1881, at which time they 
 moved to Ciiautauqua County, Kan.; after 
 i-emaining there a few months Mr. McGuire 
 left home and lived for three years in dif- 
 ferent parts of the Indian Territorj-, a part 
 of which is now Oklaiioma, being engaged 
 a greater portion of the time in the cattle 
 business. Having been able to save a small 
 sum of money, he returned home and en- 
 tered the State Normal School at Emporia, 
 Kan., remaining two years; then taught 
 school several terms and entered the Law 
 Department of the university at Lawrence, 
 remaining one year and again returning 
 home to Chautauqua, Kan. In the fall of 
 1890 he was elected county attorney of that 
 county, and served four years. In 1895 he 
 moved to Pawnee County, Okla., where he 
 practiced law, and in 1897 he was appoint- 
 ed assistant U. S. attorney for Oklahoma 
 Territory, in which capacity he served until 
 after his nomination for Congress. He was 
 elected delegate to the Fifty-eighth Con- 
 gress and reelected to the Fifty-ninth Con- 
 gress, serving 1903-1907. Address: Paw- 
 nee, Okla. 
 
 McGTJIRE, James Clark: 
 
 Ci\il engineer and contractor; born near 
 Ellicott City, ^laryland; son of Joseph D. 
 and Anna (Chapman) McGuire; is great- 
 great-nephew of President James Madison; 
 lineally descended from the Plantagcnet line 
 of England; also a lineal descendant from 
 eighteen of the twenty-five surety barons 
 who signed the Magna Charta on the field 
 of Runnymede. He attended Rittenhonse 
 Academy, Washington, D. C, 1881 1882, 
 Emerson In.stitute, Washington, 1883, and 
 was graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic 
 Institute, Troy, N. Y., as C.E., 1888. He 
 was engaged on the U. S. Geological Survey 
 in the West one year after graduation; was 
 assistant engineer of the Nicaragua Canal 
 one year; engineer of Phoenix Bridge Com- 
 pany three years; the Treasury Depart- 
 ment, Washington. D. C, three years, and 
 has been conducting business on his own 
 account as engineer and contractor since 
 1896. He is president of James C. McGuire 
 & Company; vice-jjresident and general 
 
 manager of the Porterfield Construction 
 Company, Markenfield Construction Com- 
 pany, Huntingfield Construction Company, 
 Mayfield Construction Company. He is a 
 member of the Institution of Civil Engi- 
 neers of Great Britain, American Society of 
 Civil Engineers, Society of Naval Architects 
 and .Maiine Engineers, Society for Testing 
 Materials, Society of the Cincinnati, So- 
 ciety of Colonial Wars, Sons of Revolution, 
 Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and is a 
 member of the University and Down Clubs 
 of New York City and of the Metropolitan 
 Club, \A"ashington, D. C. Address: 26 
 Coi-tlaiKJt Street, New York City. 
 
 McGTJIRE, Joseph Hubert: 
 
 Architect; born in New York City, Jan. 
 21, 1866; son of Joseph and Catharine 
 (Rorke) McGuii-e. He was educated in 
 private and public schools, in St. Francis 
 Xavier College, Metropolitan Arts Schools 
 of New York City and in the ficole des 
 Beaux Arts, France. Among his principal 
 works are the Catholic Cathedral at Rich- 
 mond, Va., churches of St. Rose of Lima, 
 Holy Trinity and St. ]\lalachy. New York 
 City; the chapel and Assembly Hall at 
 Westchester Protectory. St. Elizabeth's Hos- 
 pital ; also many school buildings, hospitals, 
 commercial buildings and private resi- 
 dences. He was a member of tlie Fine Arts 
 Federation ; and is a member of the Ameri- 
 can Institute of Architects, Society of 
 Beaux-Arts Architects, the Architectural 
 League, and of the Catholic and Wykagyl 
 Country Clubs. Mr. McGuire married, in 
 I'hiladelphia, Harriet Mein, and thej' have 
 four children. Residence: Beechmont, 
 New Rochelle. N. Y. oOice: 45 East 42d 
 S1re(>t. Now \nvk City. 
 
 McINTIRE, Albert Washington: 
 
 Lawyer, ex-governor of Colorado; horn in 
 Pittsburgh, Jan. 15. 185:^; son of dosepli 
 Philli^)s and Isabella A. iWUU) :McIntire. 
 lie attended the iMiblic schools lo ] 866 ; 
 the ])re]iaratoiy scIkioI of NCwi'irs Insti- 
 tute. Pittsburgh, III IS(;!l: was graduated 
 frnin Vale College, I!. A.. IST.'!. Vale Law 
 School. LL.P... 1S75. lie was admitted to 
 the bai- of llic Connecticut Supreme Court, 
 1875; the i'lttsburgh bar in 1875; removed 
 
MEN OF AMKRICA. 
 
 U):k 
 
 to Colorado in Dccenilu'r, 1S7() aiul ostab- 
 lislicd in practice. He was jud<;e of the 
 County Court, 18881886, adjudicated water 
 ri.ulits in the 20th District. 18S!)-1891 ; dis- 
 trict judge, 12th Judicial District of Colo- 
 rado, 1891-1894; governor of Colorado, 
 1S9.T-1897, as Republican, defeating Davis 
 11. Waitc, Populist, who was a candidate 
 for reelection. He removed to Puget 
 Sound, Washington, in December, 1900. 
 Since 1901 he has been engaged in develop- 
 ing copper mining property in Washington, 
 and in the practice of law. Mr. Mclntire 
 read a ])aper on the Copper Deposits of 
 Washington before the American Mining 
 Congress in Denver, 1906. He is president 
 and general manager of the Foss River Con- 
 soliilated Copper Company of Everett, 
 Wash. ; president of the Washington State 
 Mining Association; vice president of the 
 American jNIining Congress; member of the 
 Committee of the American Mining Con- 
 gress to devise methods to prevent 
 fraudulent mining schemes, and is also 
 a member of the American Bar Asso- 
 ciation. He married first, in New Haven, 
 ( onn., July, 1873, Florence Johnson, and 
 they had two children, one now deceased; 
 lie married again, Jan. 26, 1899, Ida Noyes 
 Beaver, M.D." Ollicc: Haller Building, Se- 
 attle. Wasli. 
 
 McINTYRE, Robert: 
 
 Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church; born in Selkirk, Scotland, Nov. 20, 
 1851; son of Charles and Elizabeth (An- 
 derson) I\lclntyre. He was educated in -^ihe 
 Philadeli)hia public schools and at Vander- 
 bilt University, Nashville, Tenn., and has 
 received the degree of D.D. from the Uni- 
 versity of Denver and of LL.D. from the 
 University of Southern California and 
 Hamline University. He entered the pas- 
 torate of the :\Iethodist Episcopal Church 
 and served in charges in Chicago, Denver 
 and Los Angeles until he was elected bishop 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church by the 
 (ieneral Conference at Baltimore in 1908. 
 He is a trustee of the University of South- 
 ern California. Bishop Mclntyre is au- 
 tlior of: Poems at Early Candle Light, 
 1899; A ]\Iodern Apollos, 1900. He mar- 
 ried, in Quincy, 111., Dec. 31, 1877, Ella 
 
 Cliattcii, anil has one son and two (hiii^fh- 
 ters. Residence: 'llii' AiigM<, St. I'aiil, 
 Minnesot;t. 
 
 MACK, Norman Edward: 
 
 l']ditoi-, publisher; born in West Wil- 
 liams, Ontario, Can.. July 24. IS.l."); he wu« 
 educated at schools near his honie. He 
 started the Bnll'alo Sunday Times in 1879. 
 and during the campaigns of 1884, 1SS8 ami 
 1892 he and his paper gave generoii- sup- 
 port to the candidacy of (Jrovcr Cleveland. 
 In 1892, he was alternate delegate to the 
 Chicago Convention, and later re|)resenta- 
 tive from New York State on committee to 
 notify Mr. Cleveland of his nomination. He 
 has been a member of the National Demo- 
 cratic Committee since 1900, and was n)ade, 
 in 1908, chairman of the Democratic Na- 
 tional Committee, which olHce he now holds. 
 He married at Butlalo, X. Y.. Dec. 22. 1891, 
 Harriet B. Taggart. Residence: llOU Dela- 
 ware Avenue. Olfice: 193 Main Street, 
 Butlalo. X. Y. 
 
 MACK, William: 
 
 Lawyer; editor; born in Sumter County, 
 S. C, Oct 24, 1865; son of Rev. Dr. Joseph 
 Bingham and Harriet Hudson (Banks) 
 MacK. He was graduated from Davidson 
 College, N. C, as A.B., and later A.M., and 
 received its degree of LL.D in 1907. He 
 was graduated from Missouri State Univer- 
 sity, LL.B., 1887. He is secretary and edi- 
 tor-in-chief of the American Law Book 
 Company, ilr. Mack is a member of the 
 Missouri Society, Southern Society. Sigma 
 Ali)lia Epsilon fraternity, and the Masonic 
 order, is a Knight Templar, and member of 
 .kismet Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is au- 
 thor of IMack's Digest of American State 
 Rpi)orts; joint author of Riipalje & Mack's 
 Digest of R;iil\vay Decisions, seven volumes; 
 and editor-in-chief of Cyclope<lia of Law 
 and Procedure and of Encyclopedia of 
 Forms and Precedents. ^Ir. Mack married 
 at Port Jetlerson. X. Y.. June I. 1899. Min- 
 nie Frank Bayles, and they have one son. 
 Address: 00 Wall Street, Xew York City. 
 
 MACKAY, Clarence Hungerford: 
 
 Capitalist; iiorn in San I-'ranei>eo. Calif.. 
 April 17, 1874; only .son of John W. 
 
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 Mackay. oiio of the most famous mining 
 operators of the Pacific Coast, a financier 
 of great ability and joint founder with 
 James (Jordon Bennett of the Commercial 
 I'ablo Com])aiiy and the Postal Telegraph 
 Cable Com])any. Clarence II. Mackay re- 
 ceived his early instruction at home, but 
 was educated chiefly abroad, attending the 
 V'angirard College in Paris and Beaumont 
 College, Windsor, England. In 1894 he en- 
 tered his father's oflice, where he familiar- 
 ized himself with the great business enter- 
 l)rises of which he is now the liead. He 
 was elected president of the American For- 
 cite Powder Company in 1S9G and held that 
 office about three years. He became a di- 
 rector in 189G, vice-president in 1897, and 
 since his father's death in 1902 has been 
 president of the Commercial Cable Com- 
 pany and the Postal Telegraph Cable Com- 
 pany. He is also a director of the Ameri- 
 can Exchange National Bank, the Equitable 
 Trust Company, United States Mortgage 
 and Trust Company, the Conuuercial Cable 
 Company of Cuba, and completed in 1902 
 the cable connection between San Francisco 
 and the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands. 
 Mr. ^Mackay is an enthusiastic sportsman 
 and fond of athletics, and formerly owned 
 a large .stable of thorouglibreds. but dis- 
 posed of his racing stable in 1902. He has 
 a large estate, Harbor Hill, near Roslyn, L. 
 1., where he has erected a magnificent coun- 
 try residence. Mr. Mackay is a member of 
 the N'ew York Yacht, Atlantic Yacht, Un- 
 ion, Lawyers' and Metropolitan Clubs of 
 Xew York, and many other clubs of this 
 country and IDurope. He married. May 17, 
 1898, Katherine Alexander Duer. Resi- 
 dence: Hempstead, L. I. Office: 25.3 Broad- 
 way, Xew ^'ork City. 
 
 MACKAY, George Devereux: 
 
 Banker; born in Brooklyn, X. Y., Sept. 
 28, 1^54; .son of John Sutherland and 
 ]\r.ary Wilson (Devereux) Mackay. He wa.s 
 educated in the public schools and Poly- 
 technic Institute in Brooklyn. He has been 
 a member of the Xew York Slock Exchange 
 since 187'); was of the firm ot ^'(•rmilye and 
 Company, 18S0-190.'), and of Mackay and 
 (Jompany since 1905. JNIr. Mackay is vice 
 president of tiie Tri-City Railway and Light 
 
 Company: secretary and treasurer of the 
 Georgia Coast and Piedmont Railroad; 
 president Acme Ball-bearing Caster Com- 
 ])any, and Acme Sales Company. He is 
 a member of the Board of Managers of the 
 Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum; member 
 of tlie Knights of Columbus; also of the 
 Metropolitan, Catholic, Xew York Athletic, 
 Republican and the American Yacht Clubs. 
 He married, Feb. 5, 1880, Annie R. Barnes, 
 and they have six children. Address: Xas- 
 sau and Pine Streets, Xew York City. 
 
 MacKAYE, Percy Wallace: 
 
 Dramatist; born in Xew York City, 
 March IG, 1875; son of Steele and Mary 
 (iledbery) MacKaye. He was educated at 
 Harvard College, A.B., 1897, and studied at 
 the University of Leipzig, 1899-1900. He 
 began writing plays in college, and is the 
 author of: The Canterbury Pilgrims, a 
 Comedy. 1903; Fenris the Wolf, a Tragedy, 
 1905; Jenne dArc (a tragedy), produced 
 by E. H. Southern and Julia ;\IarIowe in 
 America and England, 190G-1907; Sappho 
 and Phaon (a tragedy), 1907, produced by 
 Harrison Gray Fiske, Xew York; The 
 Scarecrow (a tragedy of the ludicrous), 
 1908; ]\Iater (comedy, produced by Henry 
 Miller in San Francisco, Xew York and 
 Loudon, 1908-1909. He also wrote The 
 Canterbury Tales of Geoilrey Chaucer, a 
 iModern Rendering into Prose, 1904 (pub- 
 lished by Fox. Dulfield &, Co.). He is also 
 the autlior of the poems: Prologue to the 
 Saint-Gaudens Masque [given at Cornish, 
 i\. IL, 1905]; The Sistine Eve, an oratorio; 
 Ode to the Ainerican Universities [read be- 
 fore the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard 
 College, 1908, and ])ublislied 1909]; Ode on 
 the Centenary of Abraham Lincoln [read 
 before the Brooklyn Institute, Feb., 1909, 
 and jjublishcd 1909]; Ticonderoga. a ballad 
 [read at the Tercentenary celebration of 
 tlie discovery of Lake Champlain, Fort Ti- 
 conderoga, iV. ^ .. July, 1909, and pub- 
 lished in a viiluuic of poems entitled. Ticon- 
 deroga And other I'oems. 1909]; a volume 
 of essays culitlcil. The Playhouse and the 
 Pliiy. 1909; and lie lias contributed articles 
 anil jxjcnis to llie principal magazines. In 
 1909, The Canterbury Pilgrims was acted 
 in the open air by the Coburn Players at 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1(»!»7 
 
 Ihnvaid. Yale and some tliirty otlior uiii- 
 Ncrsitios, ami A\\<x. '4. lOO!) was porforincd 
 by the same iilaycrs, at (jloiiceslor. ]\rass.. 
 in luiiirir of I'rcsident '.raft, as a civic pa- 
 U'cant. willi liflotMi hniulrcd citizens and 
 cliildrcii as snpcnniiiioraries before an aii- 
 dieuce ot twenty live thousand people, 
 lieiiin' a suecessful i)lay wrif^ht lie lias lec- 
 1 lived on the American drama at various 
 universities and liefore civic societies, 
 lie is a member of the National Institute 
 of Arts and Letters, and an honorary mem- 
 l)er of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Har- 
 vard College. He married in Shirley, Mass., 
 Oct. 8, 18!)8, Marion Homer Morse, and 
 has one son and one daughter. Residence: 
 Cornish, N. H. Post Oflicc address: Wind- 
 sor, Vt. 
 
 MacKAY-SMITH, Alexander: 
 
 ]>islio])-coad jutor of Pennsylvania; born 
 in New Haven, Conn.: educated at St. 
 Paul's School, Concord, N. H., Trinity Col- 
 lege, Hartford, and partly in England and 
 Germany; studied theology partly at the 
 General Theological Seminary in New York, 
 and partly in private. He was ordained 
 deacon in December, 1876, by Bishop Wil- 
 liams, of Connecticut, and priest in De- 
 cember, 1877, by Bishop Paddock, of Massa- 
 chusetts. He received the degree of D.D. 
 in 1889 from Trinity College, and of S.T.D. 
 from Hobart College in the same year. He 
 was in charge of Grace Church, South Bos- 
 ton, 1877-1880, afternoon preacher at St. 
 TJiomas's Church, New York City, 1880- 
 1887; archdeacon of New York, 1887-1893, 
 and rector of St. John's Church, Washing- 
 Ion. 1893-1902, as well as archdeacon of 
 Washington 1900 1902, in conjunction with 
 his rectorship. He was elected bishop-co- 
 adjutor of Pennsylvania, and consecrated in 
 llie Church of Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, 
 on May 1, 1902. In 188G he was elected 
 bishop-coadjutor of Kansas, but declined the 
 oflice. He was also a delegate to the Gen- 
 eral Convention of the Churcli in 1898 and 
 1901. Address; 2.11 Soufh 22d Street, 
 IMiihidelphia. 
 
 McKEE, Frank: 
 
 Theatrical manager, iiroiuielor of the 
 Savov and the (Jarrick theatres. He is man- 
 
 ager for .Miss Mary M iiiiieriug and oilier 
 stars. For many years, and up to the ileutti 
 of Charles II. lloyt in ]'M{) he was u nicni- 
 l)er of the lirm of lloyt nnil .McKee. In liis 
 early lif(! he was with lla\erly-s niiii^lrols, 
 and among his associates in tiiat orj^anizii- 
 tion were Charles l-'rohinan, Alfred Hay- 
 man and Peter Daly. He is married and 
 has one daughter. .\d(lress: Savoy 'I'lu- 
 alre. New York City. 
 
 McKEEN, James: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Brunswick, Maine. D«'C. 
 o, 1844; son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Far- 
 ley) McKeen, and grandson of the first 
 president of Bowdoin College. He wa.s 
 graduated from Bowdoin College, B.A., 
 1804 and later received the degrees of A.M. 
 and LL.D. He was admitted to the New 
 York Bar in 1867 and engaged in practice 
 in Brooklyn. He was a member of the 
 Old Board of Education of Brooklyn; was 
 member of the commission to revise the 
 charter of Greater New York; of counsel 
 to t!ie Armstrong Committee; in charge of 
 the Brooklyn oflice of the Law Department. 
 during the Low administration, in 1902; 
 Kei)ul)lican candidate for justice of the Su- 
 preme Court, 1903; senior partner of the 
 firm of ]McKeen Brewster & Morgan, and 
 general counsel of the Mutual Life Insur- 
 ance Company since 1906. ;Mr. McKeen is 
 a director of the Long Island Historical 
 Society; trustee of Packer Collegiate Insti- 
 tute, Brooklyn Public Library; member of 
 the New York Prison Association; over- 
 seer of Bowdoin College; member of the 
 Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society and a member, and for eight 
 years president of the Hamilton Club of 
 Brooklyn ; and is also a member of the 
 rniversity Club. Mr. ;McKcen married, 
 Ajuil 2r>. 1871. Mary Ellen Lewis, daughter 
 of .Joseph J. Lewis of Pennsylvania, and sis- 
 ter of the late Charlton T. Lewis, and they 
 have three children. Address: .'tS Clark 
 Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 McKELLAR Peter: 
 
 Milling and real estate operator: born in 
 Middlesex Co. Ontario, .\pril 27. 1838; >on 
 of Dniiean MeKellar and Margaret ( Bro- 
 die) MtKellar of Argyle.-hire, Scotland. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 He liad throe hrotlier-;. John, flic chlcr. first 
 Mnyor of Fort \\"illi:un. Donald ami Archi- 
 l)ald; and six .sisters. Susan (^Irs. A. Mc- 
 Laren). Katie (I\[rs. V. ('. Perry). Mar 
 waret (Mrs. Ed. Deacon), and ]\rary. Janet 
 and EfHe. Peter. Donald, and Susan, Mary, 
 Katie and Margaret are still livin<j:. He 
 was educated in the public schools of On- 
 tario and self-educated in suiveying, min- 
 ing, engineering and geology. He gained 
 pi'ominence as a mines e.\])lorer; he was 
 in charge of a party under Dr. Bell of the 
 Canadian Geological Survey, 18fi9-1870. 
 He is a pioneer in mining explorations on 
 the north sliore of Lake Superior. In 
 that region lie discovei-ed the first sil- 
 ver mine. The Thunder Bay Silver ]\Iine, 
 and the first gold. The Huronian Gold 
 Mine. His l)rothers and partners, John and 
 Donald ^IcKellar. discovered in the same 
 region the first zinc mine, The Zenith Mine. 
 ami the fiist iron mine. The Atikokan 
 -Mine, and the firm of McKellar Brothers 
 have made, besides these, many import- 
 ant mining discoveries. He was superin- 
 tendent of the Huronian Gold mine from 
 1SS2 1884, superintendent of exploration 
 and development work of the Toronto and 
 Western ^Hnes Development Company, in 
 the Seine River and Lake of the Woods 
 districts, in 1897 and 1808, and since then 
 engaged extensively in mining and real es- 
 t;ite business in the firm of ^IcKellar 
 I'.iothers. He serxcd as coiniciljor in flie 
 first municipal organization in Thniider 
 Bay, the Shuniah Municipality, lie also 
 served for some years as council lor and 
 reeve in fhe Xeebing Municipality. He has 
 traveled over the eastern, southern and 
 western States, and Canada from Quebec 
 to Victoria. In company with a parly of 
 tiie American Association for the .Vdvance- 
 
 nient of Science he spent t w< nths in 
 
 the Yellowstone Park ami the Hawaiian 
 Islands. He also traveled in Kngland, Scot- 
 land, Ireland. France, Italy and Switzer- 
 hind. :Mr. McKellar invenfed n rock break- 
 er, and a rock pulverizer anil, jointly with 
 A. Murray, a rotary engine. He has written 
 jiamphlets and papers on mining and geol- 
 'W> 't'iKl Ix'fore scientific societies, indud 
 ing: Mining on the? North Shore of Lake 
 Supcrioi-, IS74; C.irrclation of the .\niniiki 
 
 and Hnionian Rocks of Lake Superior, 
 1S88; The Gold-bearincf Veins of Bag Bay, 
 Lake of the Woods, 1899; Pot Holes.' North 
 Shore of Lake Superior, 1890; The Sil- 
 ver Fomiation of Thunder Bay, 1893. In 
 politics Mr. McKellar is a Liberal, and in 
 religion he is a Presbyterian; is a devotee 
 of music, and has served as president and 
 honorary president of local musical socie- 
 ties. He was president and honorary presi- 
 dent of the Fort William Curling Club. He 
 is a member of the Kaministikwia Club 
 and Canadian Club of Fort William, also a 
 member of the Board of Trade. He is a 
 life fellow of the Geological Society of 
 London and also of America. He is a 
 member of the National Geographic So- 
 ciety and the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science ; also a member of 
 the Royal Society of Arts, London. ]\Ir. 
 ^IcKellar was chairman of the Building 
 Committee and had the honor of laying- the 
 corner stone of the beautiful $70,000 St. 
 Andrew's Presbyterian Church of Fort Wil- 
 liam. He is the first president of the Thun- 
 der Bay Historical Society. He married 
 Carlotta Burgess Spence. daughter of the 
 late William Spence and Grace (Burgess) 
 Spence of Toronto, Sept. 11. 1907. She is 
 a lady of culture and education and is 
 proficient in vocal and instrumental music. 
 Address: I'oit William. Ontario. Canada. 
 
 McKELWAY, St. Clair: 
 
 Ivlitoi of Brooklyn Daily Eagle; born in 
 ('oluml)ia, Boone Countv, Mo., March 15, 
 1S45; .son of Dr. Alexander J. and Mary 
 Ann (Ryan I McKclway. He is of Scotch 
 ancestry on his father's anil Irish decent 
 on his mother's side. He i-cmo\cil \\\{h his 
 parents to New Jersey in IS.')."}; was edu- 
 cated at Blackwood Academy and by ])ri- 
 vate tutors and he has received the degrees 
 i>i A..M. from Colgate University, LL.D. 
 from I'rinceton. Syracuse and the T'niver- 
 sity of Missouri; L.H.D. from liiion Uni- 
 versity, and D.C.I.. from St. Lawrence Uni- 
 versity. He liecame city ediloi- of the 
 Trenton Monitor in ISti;!; began the study 
 ol law in lS(i4: was admitted to the bar 
 in Istiti; assistant editor of the New York 
 World in ]8(i7; associate editor of Brook- 
 Is ii l':aule in ISO!), editor in chief of AI- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1009 
 
 lanj' Ar<jus in 1S7S and sinco 18S5 he has 
 been editor-in-ohiof of tlie Brooklyn Eagle. 
 He was elected regent of the University of 
 the State of New York in 1883. He has 
 given many public addresses, among which 
 are: The Press and the Pulpit; Need of 
 Reform in Expert Testimony : The Lawyer 
 and the Times, and Plea for Old-Fashioned 
 Preaching. He is a member of the Long 
 Island Historical Society, SufTolk County 
 Historical Society, Society of j\[odical Juris- 
 prudence, the Albany Institute. American 
 Academy of Science; corresponding mendier 
 of the British Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science; director of the American 
 Social Science Association ; member of the 
 Phi Betta Kappa (Rochester University 
 Chapter) and of Clio Hall, Princeton. He 
 is a companion of the Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion in succession to his father, 
 who was a surgeon in the United States 
 Army during the Civil War. Mr. McKel- 
 way is also a member of the Metropolitan 
 Club of New York City and the Hamilton 
 Club of Brooklyn. He has been twice mar- 
 ried : first, to Eleanor Hutchinson of Boone- 
 ville, jNIo., who died in 1SS4, and second, in 
 1888, to Virginia Brooks Thompson, of New 
 York City. Residence: 21 Monroe Place. 
 OITice: Eagle Office, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 McKENNA, Joseph: 
 
 Associate justice of the Suiircme Court 
 of the United States; born in Philadelphia, 
 Aug. 10, 1843; attended St. Joseph's Col- 
 lege of his native city until 185.5, when he 
 removed with his parents to Benica, Calif., 
 where he continued his education at the 
 ])ublic schools and the Collegiate Institute, 
 at which he stiulied law. He was admitted 
 to the bar in 18(io; was twice elected dis- 
 trict attorney for Solano «.;ounty, begin- 
 ning in March, 1860; served in tne lower 
 house of the Legislature in the sessions of 
 187") and 1870; was elected as a Republi- 
 can to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first 
 and Fifty second Congresses; resigned from 
 the last-named Congress to accept the posi- 
 tion of United States circuit judge, to which 
 he was appointed by President Harrison in 
 1893; resigned that office to accept the 
 place of attorney-general of the United 
 States in the Cabinet of President McKin- 
 
 ley : and was nppnjiitcd, ])>■(•. 10. 1H!I7, an 
 assoiialc justice of the Supreme Ccjurt of 
 the United States to succeed .luHtice I'icM, 
 retired, and took his seat Jan. 20. 1898. 
 Home: San Francisco, Calif. .\ddre«8: 
 170"> Iviidile Island .\\ciini-, Washington, I). 
 C. 
 
 McKENZIE, John Hey ward: 
 
 Hector <if Howe School; born at iWnirne- 
 ville. Ohio, May 31, 1802; son of Henry B. 
 and Ella A. ((iregg) McKen/.ie. He was 
 graduated from Mount I'nion College, A.B.. 
 18S3, and from Bo>ton University. -A.M., in 
 1884, and received from Kenyon College tlie 
 honorary degree of L.H.D. in 1!I0."). He wa.s 
 ordained priest by Bishop Viiu'cnt. He was 
 president of Hillsborough College. 1S8H- 
 1800; president of Belmont College and 
 Ohio Military Institute, 1 800-1 S94, and Ints 
 been rector of Howe Scliool. Lima. Ind.. 
 since 180.1. He is examining chaplain of 
 the Diocese of Michigan City: jiresident of 
 the Standing Cnininittee of the Diocese of 
 Mieliigan Cily. and was a deputy to the 
 General Convention of the Episcopal Church 
 in 1808. 1001. 1004, and 1907. Dr. Mc- 
 Kenzie is a Republican in polities. He is 
 a trustee of Akeley Hall (school for girls, 
 at Grand Haven. Mich.), and of Xashotah 
 House (theological seminary). He is a 
 mendier of the University Chib of Chicago. 
 Address: Howe School, Liina. Ind. 
 
 MACKEY, Charles William: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Fraid<lin. Pa.. Nov. 10. 
 1842; son of Cliarles W. and Julia .\nn 
 (Fagundii-.) Mackey. lie was educated in 
 public schools. Franklin, Pa. Served dur- 
 ing the Civil War, 1861-1803. participating 
 in many battles, including Gettysburg: spe- 
 cial agent U. S. Treasury for Kastern Vir- 
 ginia, and North Carolina District, 1SC3- 
 ISO.l. He was admitted to the Pennsylva- 
 nia bar in LStio. and afterward to otlier 
 courts including the Supreme Court of tlie 
 United States, and engaged in the practice 
 of law at Franklin. Pa., where he is .still 
 head of tlie law tirin of Mackey, Forbes and 
 Hughes, although he spends the greater part 
 of his own time in the olliee which he has 
 long maintained in New York City. He has 
 projected and organized several railroads, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 manufacturing and other corporations. TTo 
 is president and director of the Franklin 
 Rollins: ^lill and Foundry Company. Frank- 
 lin Steel Casting Company, Hutchinson 
 Stair Elevator Company, Jacksonville Water 
 \\'orks Con'pany (111.); vice-president and 
 director of the Franklin Drug and Chemi- 
 cal Company, Greene Gold Silver Company, 
 Reydel Ore Mining Company (solicitor) ; 
 director of the Almada Sugar Refineries 
 Company, American Axe and Tool Com- 
 pany, and chairman of the Executive Com- 
 mittee of the International Telephone Com- 
 panj^; also a director in many other large 
 corporations. He was a Republican candi- 
 date for Congress in the Twenty-seventh 
 Pennsylvania District in 1884, and 1888, 
 and has always been an active Republican. 
 Mr. Mackey was a cajjtain in the Pennsyl- 
 vania National Guard, 1872-1873, is a past- 
 commander of the Grand Army of the Re- 
 public, a member of the Military Order of 
 the Loyal Legion, and a member of the 
 Army and Navy, New York, Manhattan, 
 Lawyers', Colonial, Hardware, and other 
 clubs of New York City; the American 
 Geographical Society, the New York Medico- 
 Legal Societj', the Grosvenor Club of Lon- 
 don, the Duquesne Club of Pittsburg and 
 the Nursery Club of Franklin. He is a 
 past comnumder of Kniglits Templar, dis- 
 trict deputy-grand master of Masons of 
 Pennsylvania, and district deputy grand 
 high priest of Royal Arch Masons of Penn- 
 sylvania. He married May, 9, 1867, Lau- 
 retta B. Fay, daughter of the late Cyrus 
 Paige Fay, of Columbus, Ohio, and has 
 six children. Residence: 119 West 45th 
 Street. Oflice: 253 Broadwav, New York 
 City. 
 
 McKIM, Alexander Rice: 
 
 Arcliilcct ; boiii in ]>o--1oii, lS(i;!; so!i of 
 Judge John \V. and Margaretta Fisher 
 (Prettyman) McKim. He was graduated 
 from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
 nologj', S.]}; from the Department of Archi- 
 tecture, Columbia University, A.M., and at- 
 tended four terms at the Technische Hoch- 
 schule, Berlin, Germany. He has been as- 
 sociated with most of the prominent New 
 York architects on their larger works, es- 
 pecially those having structural problems. 
 
 He was architect for B. and E. Edgwater 
 Plant, Davies Coal Pockets and other manu- 
 facturing plants; expert for the City of 
 New York recreation piers and other dock 
 work ; consulting concrete expert for the 
 Numismatic, Stanford, Municipal and other 
 concrete buildings, and expert in nimierous 
 building litigations. He was chairman of 
 the Board of Election Inspectors of the Mu- ^ 
 tual Life Insurance Company, 190G, and is 
 a member of the Architectural League of 
 New York (Ex. Com.), and American So- 
 ciety of Civil Engineers; also of the Na- 
 tional Arts Club (governor), University 
 Club, Technology Club (president), Colum- 
 bia University Architects' Club (building 
 code committee) , and of the Thuringia 
 Club of Berlin, Germany (vice-president). 
 Address: 11(5 28tli Street, New York City. 
 
 McKIM, Charles Follen: 
 
 Architect ; born in Chester County, Pa., 
 Aug. 24, 1847. He was graduated from 
 Harvard Scientific School, 1868, and studied 
 at £cole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1867-1870. 
 He is a member of the firm of McKim, 
 Mead & White, architects of numerous not- 
 able buildings; awarded the royal gold 
 medal by King Edward for jJi'omotion of 
 architecture, 1903. Designed the Univers- 
 ity Club; also recent improvements of and 
 additions to the White House. He is a 
 member of the Municipal Art Society, 
 American Institute of Architects, Metro- 
 politan Museum of Art, American Fine Arts 
 Society, Pennsylvania Society, Architectur- 
 al League, and a member of tlie University, 
 Lambs', The Brook, Metropolitan, (warden 
 City Golf, City, clubs of New York City, 
 Somerset, and St. Botolph clubs of Boston 
 and tlie Metropolitan Club of Washington. 
 Residence: East 35th Street. Address: 
 1(10 Fiflli Avenue, New York City. 
 
 McKIM, John: 
 Missionary bisliop of Tokyo; born at Pitts- 
 field, Mass.. July 17, 1852. He was edu- 
 cated at (^.riswold College. Davenport, 
 Iowa, and was graduated from the Na- 
 sliotah Theological Seminary, Wis., in 1879. 
 I he honorary degree of D.D. was conferred 
 upon him in 1893 by Nasiiotah and by 
 Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. He was 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 ordered deacon of llie Epi.'^copal Church in 
 1S78 and was ordained to the priesthood a 
 year later by Bishop H. Brown. He was 
 lirst connected with the diocese of Chicago, 
 I)eing later sent as missionary to Japan. 
 In 1893 he was made missionary bishop of 
 'i'okyo, Japan, and was consecrated by 
 Bishops Littlejohn, Lyman, Dudley, Scar- 
 l)orouoh, Kinsolving and Barry (of Aus- 
 tralia). He married at Nashotah, Wis., 
 Sept. 1(5,^1879, Miss E. A. Cole. Address: 
 ;!S Tsukiji. Tokyo. Japan. 
 
 McKIM, William Duncan: 
 
 Physician; born in Baltimore, Md., Feb. 
 14, 18.55; .son of Haslett and Sally (Birck- 
 hoad) ]\IcKim. He was graduated from 
 Columbia College, A.B., 1875; from the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, M.D., 
 1S7S, and from the University of Leipzig, 
 Germany, Ph.D., 1895. After taking the 
 degree of M.D. he was interne at Bellevue 
 Hospital, New York City, for a year and 
 a half; then spent two years in profes- 
 sional study abroad, at Vienna, Paris, 
 Wiirzburg and London. On his return he 
 practiced his profession in New York City, 
 1882-1892. He was lecturer on operative 
 surgery, in the New York Post-Graduate 
 Medical School, 1883-1884, and professor in 
 the same chair. 1884-1885. He was also 
 visiting physician and surgeon in the 
 French Hospital, New York City, 1888- 
 1892. He engaged in scientific study 
 abroad, 1892-1895, having retired from 
 practice and since occupied with literary 
 work. ■ He is a member of the New York 
 Academy of Medicine, the National Geo- 
 graphic Society, the Archaeological Society 
 and the Fine Arts Society of Washington, 
 D.C. He is also a member of Delta Phi 
 fraternity, the Union Club of New York 
 City, and the Cosmos, Metropolitan Uni- 
 versity and Chevy Chase Clubs of Washing- 
 ton, D. C. He is author of : Heredity and 
 Human Progress, 1899. He married, first, 
 in Boston, Nov. 22, 1882, Roge Coolidge of 
 Boston, and second, in New York City, April 
 20, 1900, Martha Moran Jones. Address: 
 1701 18th Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. 
 
 McKINLAY, Duncan E.: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Orilla, 
 Ontario, Can., Oct. 6, 1862; son of Dun- 
 
 can and Mary (Millard) McKinlay. 1 It- 
 was cdiicateil in the schools of his nutivu 
 city, then learned the trade of rarria^^e 
 l)ainting and worked in Flint, Mich. At 
 twenty-one years of age he removed to San 
 Francisco and worked at hi.s trade until 
 1884, when he went to Sacramento, where 
 he stayed for a year, then moved to Santu 
 Rosa, where he engaged in the paintinjr 
 business and studied law. lie was ad- 
 mitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of 
 Calnornia in 1892; in ilcKinley's first 
 Presidential campaign in 1890, he was nom- 
 inated elector-at-large on the Republican 
 ticket; in 1901 was appointed by President 
 ]\lcKinley as assistant U. S. attorney at 
 San Francisco; was elected to the Fifty- 
 ninth and Sixtieth Congresses and reelected 
 to the Sixty-lirst Congress, from tlie Sec- 
 ond California District. He married in 
 Santa Rosa, Calif., Dec. IG, 1892, Nannie 
 V. Hcndlcy, and they have four children. 
 Residence: Santa Rosa, Calif. Oflicc: Call 
 Building, San Francisco, Calif. 
 
 Mckinley, WllUam Brown: 
 
 Congres.sman and electric railway presi- 
 dent; born in Petersburg, 111., Sept. 5, 185G; 
 son of George and Hannah (Finley) Mc- 
 Kinley. He was educated in the common 
 schools and spent two years in the Uni- 
 versity of Illinois. He is a farmer and 
 banker; and is a trustee of the University 
 of Illinois. He was elected to the Fifty- 
 ninth and Sixtieth Congresses and reelected 
 to the Sixty-first Congress, from the 
 Eighteenth Illinois District, and he is one 
 of the managers of the works of the Na- 
 tional Republican Congi-essional Committee. 
 He has large interests in street railway sys- 
 tems in Illinois and other western states. 
 He married in Chicago, February, 1881, 
 Kate Frisbee. Address: Champaign, 111. 
 
 McKINNEY, James: 
 
 CunurcBsiiian, banker; born at Ocjuawka, 
 111., April 14, 1852; son of John McKin- 
 ney, one of the earliest settlers of wistern 
 Illinois. He was graduated from Mou- 
 nioulii College in 1874, and receiving the 
 degree of A.M. several years later. Upon 
 leaving college he joined his father in busi- 
 ness, and upon the death of the latter was 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 elected president of the Aledo bank, whicli 
 position he still holds. He has been a mem- 
 ber of the Illinois State Republican Com- 
 mittee since 1894, and was chairman of its 
 Executive Committee in 1904. He was ap- 
 pointed by Governor Yates in 1901 a mem- 
 ber of the State Railroad and Warehouse 
 Commission, but resigned in 1902. Mr. Mc- 
 Kinney was elected to the Fifty-ninth Con- 
 gress at a special election held Nov. 7, 1905, 
 to till the vacancy caused by the death of 
 Hon. B. F. ilarsh, and reelected to the 
 Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses from the 
 Fourteenth Illinois District. Address: 
 Aledo. 111. 
 
 McKINNEY, Kate Slaughten ("Katy- 
 did ") : 
 
 Poet, song writer, novelist; born in Lon- 
 don, Ky., Feb. 6, 1859; daughter of James 
 Love and Lucinda J. (Price) Slaughten. 
 She was graduated from the Daughter's Col- 
 lege, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, ranked first 
 in bellet-tres over one hundred and fifty 
 pupils when a girl, in analysis. She mar- 
 ried in Richmond, Ky., May 7, 1878, James 
 I. McKinney. She published her first book 
 of poems called Katydids' Poems, in 1882; 
 wrote the song: The Green Kentucky Pas- 
 tures, sung to open the Kentucky Building 
 at the St. Louis World's Fair; published 
 her first novel: The Silent \Mtness in 1907, 
 which combines the high spirited Kentuek- 
 ians and social leaders most successfully; 
 and of the songs: The White Rose, Loves 
 Dreaming Song. Eventide, Down in the Jew- 
 eled Deep, Tliere are no Eyes Like Thine, 
 and Whar de Watermyluns Grow. She' is 
 also interested in all movements to protect 
 dumb animals and trees. Address: 519 
 Monroe Street, Montgomeiy, Ala. 
 
 MACKINTOSH, Alexander: 
 
 Arcliilci-i ; born in Louduii, iMigland, 
 (Jclober, 1801; son of Alexander and Eliza- 
 beth (Smith) Mackintosh. He studied ar- 
 chitecture in prominent English and Scotch 
 architects' offices, 1878-1892; traveled 
 tliroiigii Italy and France in 1892; was ad- 
 niiltcd to the Royal Academy of Arts, Lon- 
 don, in 1888, wimiing two j)reminms for de- 
 signs in 1889 and 1890; silver medallist; 
 
 also winner of Sir William Tite's prize, 
 Royal Institute of British Architects, in 
 1S90 and 1801; elected as.sociate of the 
 Royal Institute of British Architects, by 
 examination, in 1892; American Institute 
 of Architects in 1904. He was a member 
 of Troop C, National Guard of New York, 
 1897-1904. Mr. Mackintosh is vice-presi- 
 dent of the Brooklyn Chapter of American 
 Institute of Architects, and member of the 
 Architectural League of New \oyk. He is 
 architect of the Colt Building, Patterson, 
 N. J, All Angels' Church, Twilight Park, 
 N. Y.J and numerous fine private resi- 
 dences; also designed the architecture of 
 the Empire Building, New York City. He 
 is a member of tlie Hamilton Crescent Ath- 
 letic, Barnard and Dyker Meadow Golf 
 Clubs of Brooklyn and of the British 
 Schools and Universities Club. St. An- 
 drew's Society, and National Arts Club, 
 of New York City. Address : 55 Bible 
 House, Aster Place, New York City. 
 
 Mcknight, Alexander: 
 
 /ice-president of the Fidelity Mutual 
 Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia; 
 born Aug. 25, 185G; educated in the city 
 pul)lic schools. He took up the study of 
 shorthand and associated himself with J. 
 M. Lingle. under the firm name of Lingle 
 & McKniglit, in the establishment of the 
 first school of shorthand writing in Penn- 
 sylvania; the firm was successful, but Mr. 
 iMcKnight, becoming interested in life in- 
 surance, gave u]) school work in 1S,S4, and 
 accepted the position of superintendent of 
 agents for the above named company. In 
 1894 ho was elected vice-president, and has 
 since held that position. He is a member 
 of tile Board of Public Education of Phila- 
 delphia and is an active Mason. Address: 
 4(M) North Fortietli Street, Philadelpliia. 
 
 McLACHLAN, James: 
 
 Congressiiian and lawyer; born August, 
 1852, in .Vrgy 11 shire, Scotland. At the age 
 of three years he removed with his parents 
 lo Toiii])kiii.> County, N. Y., wliere he was 
 reared (ui n tanii and educated in tlic pub- 
 lic sclionls. lie began teaching in the pub- 
 lic schools at tile age of sixteen years, and 
 while engaged in that work prepared him- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1103 
 
 solf for college, and was graduated from 
 llaiuilton C'olleg(! in 1878. lie was admit- 
 ted to practice in the Supreme Court of 
 JSew York fState in 1880, and counnenced 
 uie practice of the law in 1881 at Ithaca, 
 where he remained until 1888, when he re- 
 moved to Pasadena, Calif., and there con- 
 tinued tlie practice of his profession. In 
 1877 he was elected on the Republican tick- 
 et to the ofhce of school commissioner of 
 Tompkins County, N. Y., and in 1890, was 
 elected district attorney of Los Angeles 
 County, Calif.; was elected to the Fifty- 
 fourth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty- 
 ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, and reelected 
 to the Sixty-first Congress from the seventh 
 California District. In politics he is a 
 llepublican. He married in Cortland, N. 
 Y., Dec. 26, 1887, Minnie J. Jones. Ad- 
 dress : Pasadena, Calif. 
 
 McLANE, John: 
 
 Former go\ernor of New Hampshire; 
 horn in Lennoxtown, Scotland, Feb. 27, 
 1852. He came in early childhood to New 
 Hampshire and was educated in the public 
 schools of Manchester, served an appren- 
 ticeship to the cabinet-making trade and 
 afterward established for himself. He spe- 
 cialized in the manufacture of special fur- 
 niture and equipments, in which he built 
 up a large trade covering the entire coun- 
 trj', and is still at the head of that business 
 as president of the McLane Manufacturing 
 Company. He is also president of the 
 Souhegan National Bank and a director in 
 other corporations. He has for years been 
 jjrominent in politics as a Republican; was 
 elected to the New Hampshire House of 
 Representatives in 1885, and to the State 
 Senate from the Sixteenth District, 1891 
 and 1893, and president of the Senate at 
 both sessions; and he was a delegate to the 
 National Republican Convention of 1900. 
 He was elected in 1904 governor of New 
 Hampshire for a two-year term, which he 
 served. Governor McLane is a thirty-third 
 degree Mason and was Grand Master of 
 New Hampshire Masons in 1898. He was 
 married at Milford, New Hampshire, in 
 1880, to Miss Ellen L. Tuck. Address: 
 Milford, New Hampshire. 
 
 McLaughlin, Chester B.: 
 
 Jurist; burn in Moriali. N. Y., Feb. 10, 
 1857; son of Lyman and Harriet C. Mc- 
 Laughlin. He was graduated from the 
 University of Vermont in 1879 ; an<i troin 
 Middlebury College received the degree of 
 LL.D. in 1901. He was admitted to the 
 bar in 1881 ; county judge and surrogate of 
 Essex County. New York, 1H9I-I8!t5; llieii 
 was elected justice of tlie Supreme Court of 
 New York, for the term expiring in 1909. 
 J..C served in the General Term, 1S9G-1S98; 
 was appointed in 1898, as.sociutc justice of 
 the Supreme Court, Appelhite Division of 
 the Fir^t Department, Jan. 1, 1898. He 
 is a member of the University of Vermont 
 ^-ilumni Association, and of tlie University, 
 Century, Lotos, West Side Republican, and 
 Manhattan Clubs. He married in Port 
 Henry, N. Y^, 1866, Lucy Warner. Resi- 
 dence: 393 West End Avenue, New Y'ork 
 City. 
 
 McLAURIN, Anselm Joseph: 
 
 U. S. senator from Mississipjii ; born in 
 Brandon, ^Miss., ^March 26, 1848; son of 
 Lauclilin and Ellen Caroline (Tullus) Mc- 
 Laurin. He studied at Summerville Insti- 
 tute, Noxabee, Miss., until his junior year; 
 entered the Confederate States Army when 
 sixteen years old, and served until the 
 close of the war. He was admitted to the 
 Mississippi bar in 1868. and located in 
 Raleigh, Miss.; was elected district attor- 
 ney, 1871; representative in the Legisla- 
 tuie. 1880: presidential elector, 1888; a 
 delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 
 1890; and U. S. Senator in 1894. Upon 
 the* expiration of his first term in the 
 United States Senate. Senator McLaurin 
 was elected governor of the State of Mis- 
 sissippi, in 1896, serving until 1900. He 
 was elected United States Senator again 
 in 1901, and reelected upon the expiration 
 of that term. His present term expires in 
 1913. Senator McLaurin married at Tren- 
 ton, Miss., Feb. 22, 1870, Miss I^ura 
 Bauch, and tliey have seven children. Ad- 
 dress : Brandon, Miss. 
 
 McLAWS, Emily Lafayette: 
 
 Author; born at "The Hill," Augusta, 
 Ga.; daughter of Major Hugucnin and Sa- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 rail (Twiirnfs) ;McLa\V8. Slic was odncalod 
 in private schools in Georgia and the New- 
 England Conservatory in Boston. She is a 
 great-groat-granddanghter of ilaj.-Gen. 
 John Twiggs of the Revolution who was 
 called by \Yashington " the savior of Geor- 
 gia;" the great-grandniece of Maj.-Gen. 
 David Emanuel Twiggs, U. S. A. and later 
 C. S. A.; the niece of Maj.-Gen. Lafayette 
 McLaws, named for Gen. Lafayette and his 
 wife Emily Taylor, who Avas a niece of 
 Zachary Taylor. Miss McLaws is author 
 of: My.stery of Mr. Cain, 1899; When the 
 Land Was Young, 1901; Jezebel, 1902; 
 :Maid of Athens, 1905; The Welding, 1907; 
 In the Tail of the Comet, 1909. Address: 
 The Hill. Augusta, Ga. 
 
 McLEAN, Charles B.: 
 
 President of the Lincoln National Bank, 
 of Pittsburgh; also president of the Alle- 
 gheny Plate Glass Company. When seven- 
 teen years old he moved to Allegheny and 
 was employed in the old Masonic Deposit 
 Savings Bank, now Lincoln National Bank, 
 as messenger and general utility man. He 
 rose rapidly through the various positions. 
 In 1880 he became cashier and in 1888 
 president. ]\Ir. McLean is interested in 
 outside industries; was treasurer of the 
 Art Society and the Pittsburgh Orchestra 
 Guarantor's Fund, and is now a director 
 of the West Penn Hospital, in linaucial and 
 manufacturing afli'airs in the Consolidated 
 Ice Company, and is now a director of the 
 Glassmeie Land Company and the Am- 
 bridge Trust Company. Address: Lincoln 
 Xatioiinl ]5aiik. Pittsburgh. 
 
 MacLEAN, Charles F.: 
 
 Juiist; ])orn at New Ilailfoni. X. Y., in 
 18;i7; son of Charles and Harriet (^Vatcrs) 
 MacLean. After graduation at Yale in 
 18G4, and post-graduate studies in the Uni- 
 versity of Berlin, he was admitted to the 
 bar and practised in New Y^ork City. He 
 was active in political affairs, as a Demo- 
 crat, and .served at different times as police 
 commissioner, president of the Police Board, 
 park commi^>sioner and health conunissioner 
 of New 'i'ork City. In 1895 he was elected 
 justice of the Suj)reme Court of New Y'ork 
 for the term expiring in 1909. Judge Mac- 
 
 Lean is a member of the Association of the 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 Y'ork. and of tlie Yale Alumni Association, 
 and is a member of the Manhattan, Na- 
 tional Democratic, Lawyers', Barnard, Lo- 
 tos. Eeform. New York Press, and Ger- 
 man Press Clubs of New Y^ork City. Ad- 
 dress; -J] 22 Fifth Avenue. New York City. 
 
 McLean, George Edwin: 
 
 President of the State University of 
 Iowa; born Kockville, Conn., Aug. 31, 1850; 
 son of Edwin W. and Julia H. (Ladd) Mc- 
 Lean. Lfe was graduated from Williams 
 College. B.A., M.A. (LL.D.), from Yale 
 Theological Seminary, B.D., University of 
 Leipzig, Ph.D., 1883, and has studied at 
 the University of Berlin. He entered the 
 Presbyterian ministry and has been pro- 
 fessor of English language and literature 
 at the Universit}' of Minnesota, and was 
 chancellor of the L'niversity of Nebraska, 
 from 1895 until he was elected president of 
 the State University of Iowa, in August, 
 1899, which position he still holds. He is 
 the author of "A Chart of English Litera- 
 ture, with References, 1892; Old and Mid- 
 dle English Reader, with Introduction Notes 
 and Glossary. 1893; A Decade of Develop- 
 ment in American State Universities, 1898; 
 The Ne.Yt Stages in the Educational De- 
 velopment of Nebraska, 1898; and a num- 
 ber of articles and reviews for periodicals. 
 Professor ]McLean has edited: '' Aelf ric's 
 Anglo Saxon Version of Alcuini Interro- 
 gationes Sjgewulfi Presbytcri in Genesin, 
 1883; An Old and Middle English Reader, 
 by Zupitza, 1889; An Introductory Course 
 in Old English, prepared by Professors Wil- 
 kin and K. C. Babcock, 1888. llid i< a Fel- 
 low of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, and a member of 
 English and American philological soci- 
 eties. He married at Great Barrington, 
 Mass., May 20, 1874, Clara Stanley Taylor. 
 .VdmcNs: Iowa City. Iowa. 
 
 McLEAN, John Roll: 
 
 Newspaper publisher: born in Cincinna- 
 ti, Ohio, Sept. 17, 1848; son of Washington 
 Mcdvcan. He was educated in the Cincin- 
 nati public schools and at Harvard Uni- 
 versity. He bought the interest of his fa- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1105 
 
 thor in llio Cincinnati ICnqniior and after- 
 ward purchased the shares ot the otiier 
 members, beeoniing the sole owner of tlie 
 ])aper, wliieli lias always been remarkable 
 for the comprehensive completeness of its 
 news of the Ohio Valley region. He is also 
 tiie proprietor of the Washington Post and 
 lias large interests in the gas supplying 
 company and other public service com- 
 ])anies of Washington, D. C. Mr. McLean 
 lias taken a prominent jiosition in the 
 Democratic politics of Ohio and tlie Nation, 
 and was for years the Ohio member of the 
 National Democratic Committee. He was 
 Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio 
 in 1899. Summer residence: "Friendship," 
 near Washington; winter residence, loth 
 and I streets and Vermont Avenue, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 MACLEAN, Samuel Richter: 
 
 Banker, foreign negotiator of American 
 issues: born in Pittsburgh, April 5, 1842; 
 son of Samuel Maclean, Jr. He was grad- 
 uated from Phillips Academy, Andover, 
 Mass., in 1861 and attended Yale two j-ears. 
 He is a member of Samuel ]Ma clean and 
 Company, bankers, Pittsburg; assistant 
 linancial editor of Wall Street Journal and 
 the Albion of New York. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Yale Alumni Association and of 
 the ]\Ierchants' Club of New Y'^ork City, 
 Apawamis Club of Rye, New York, and of 
 the Junior Carlton and City Clubs of Lon- 
 don. Mr. IMaclean has been married twice; 
 tirst in 1863 to Henrietta Thornton Wood; 
 and second in' 1892 to Ester Clarke Schoon- 
 maker of Pittsburgh, who died Nov., 1905. 
 Address: 39 Broad Street, New Y^ork City, 
 and 68 Lombart Street, E. C, London, 
 England. 
 
 MacLENNAN, Frank Pitts: 
 
 Editor; born in Springfield. Ohio, March 
 1, 1855; son of Kenneth and Adelia (Bliss) 
 jNIacLennan. He was educated at the Uni- 
 versity of Kansas, from which he received 
 the degrees of B.S. and M.S. He has been 
 in the newspaper business in Kansas since 
 1880, having been part owner of the Em- 
 poria News 1880-1885. In the latter year 
 he bought the Topeka State Journal, and 
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 has ((iiKlucicd it since, making it a iiewH- 
 l)a])er ot ])redominaling inlluoncr in KanHas 
 and of natioinil rci)utalion. lie i-s a mem- 
 ber of the Beta Tiieta I'i fratcrnit}', and 
 the 'lopeka and Topeka Country Clubs. 
 Besides lis valuable newspaper property, 
 he has a country place, " Cedarcrest." live 
 miles west of Topeka. Jle married in Em- 
 poria, I\aii.. May 29, 1890, Anna (loddiird, 
 and lias luic daughter. Hesidcticc: lOl'J 
 Topeka Aveniie. Ollicc: soo Kansas .\ ve- 
 nue, TofX'ka Kan. 
 
 Mclennan, Peter Balllie: 
 
 .Jurist : lioni in Lyndon. Cattaraugus 
 County, N. Y., 1850; son of Colin and Ann 
 (Frazer) McLennan. He was graduate<l 
 from Alfred University, A.B., 1873 and 
 later received the degrees of Ph.D. and 
 LTv.D. He was admitted to the bar in 1876; 
 elected justice of the Supreme Court of 
 New Yoik in 1892; assigned to Appellate 
 Division. I'ouith Department, in 1898; was 
 designated as presiding justice by Governor 
 Odell in 1903. the designation expiring Dee. 
 31, 1900; reelected Nov.. 1906. as justice 
 of the Supreme Court for the term expir- 
 ing Dec. 31, 1920, and was redisignated as 
 presiding justice by Governor Hughes in 
 1907, the designation expiring Dec. 31, 1920. 
 In politics he is a Republican. Judge Mc- 
 Lennan married in Addison, N. Y., in 1881, 
 Bella Barron. Address: Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 MACLEOD, Frederick Joseph: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Prince Edward Island. 
 Canada, June 30, 1870; son of Hector and 
 Melinda (Douglas) Maeleod. He was 
 graduated from Dalhousie University, B.A., 
 1890, from Harvard University, A.B., 1S91, 
 A.M., 1892. and LL.B., 1890. He became 
 instructor in the L'niversity of Nebraska, 
 1895-1890; was expert agent on corporation 
 laws and taxation for the Massachusetts 
 Commission for the Revision of the Corpo- 
 ration Laws in 1902. Mr. Maeleod was 
 State senator, representing Cambridge. 
 1906-1907, as a Democrat. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Citizens Trade Association, 
 Economy, Intercolonial and Boston City 
 Club.^. the Colonial Club of Cambridge, the 
 Fir>t Corps Cadets Massachusetts Volun- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 teer Militia, ami tlic (Jood Governinciit 
 League. Kesidcnee: 110 Oxford Street, 
 C'aiubridgo, Mass. Ofllce: 15 Beacon Street, 
 ]5(ist()ii. 
 
 McMAHAN, Anna Benneson: 
 
 Author and lecturer ; lioru in (^)uincv, 111., 
 July 24, 1840; daughter of Robert S. and 
 Electa Ann (Park) lienne^on. She was 
 educated at Hockland Institute, Nyack, N. 
 Y. She married in Quincy, 111., Nov. 19, 
 1868, Dr. Robert William McMahan, and 
 has two daughters. JMrs. Mcj\lahan is au- 
 thor of: The Study Class, Florence in the 
 Poetry of the Brownings, With Shelley in 
 Italy, \Vith Wordsworth in England, Shake- 
 speare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess, 
 Shakespeare's Love Story, and With Byron 
 in Italj'. She is a member of the Ly- 
 ceum Club of Paris, and the Woman's Club 
 of Chicago. Address: Care A. C. Mc- 
 Clurg ami Company, Chicago. 
 
 McMAHON, Fulton: 
 
 Lawyer; horn in Ohio in 1803. He was 
 graduated from Princeton University, A.B., 
 1884. A.M., 188(i. and from Columbia Law 
 School, Li^.B. lit! traveled and studied 
 abroad; then engaged in general law prac- 
 tice in New York City. He is an Inde- 
 pendent Democrat in national politics; and 
 active in the efforts for securing a non- 
 partisan business administration of city 
 affairs. ^Mr. MeMahon is a member of the 
 Association ot the l>ar of the City of New 
 York and the New York State Bar As.so- 
 ciation. He is trustee of the Skin and Can- 
 cer Hospital, and is a member of tiie Uni- 
 versity, City and Princeton Clubs. Resi- 
 dence: 28 West 39th Street. Address: 
 'A William Street, New Yoik City. 
 
 McMICHAEL, Thomas Hanna: 
 
 President of Moiunouth College; born at 
 ]5elli)rook, Ohio, July 7. 1863; .son of Jack- 
 son B. and Mary (Hanna) McMicheal. He 
 was graduated from Monmouth College, A. 
 B., 1886 and A.M.. 1889. After his grad- 
 uation from Monmouth College he began to 
 study for the ministry at the Xenia Theo- 
 logical Seminary, graduating from it in 
 1890. The honorary degree of n.D. was 
 conferred ujion him by \\'e>t niini--ter Col- 
 
 lege in 1903. After his ordination to the 
 ministry of the United Presbyterian Church 
 in 1890, he became pastor at Spring Hill, 
 J 11(1. In 1892 he resigned from this pa.stor- 
 ate to tiike charge of the First United 
 Presbyterian Church in Cleveland. Ohio, 
 where he officiated for eleven years. In 
 1903 he was elected president of Monmouth 
 College, which positioii he now holds. He 
 married at Burlington, Iowa, May 21, 1890, 
 Minnie E. Mac Dill, and has two children. 
 Address: ]\lonmouth, 111. 
 
 McMILLIN, Benton: 
 
 Kx-goveiiior of Tennessee; born in Mon- 
 roe County, Ky., Sept. 11, 1845; removed 
 to Tennessee in boyhood. He was educated 
 in jjrivate schools and academies, and after 
 studying law in offices he began practice 
 at Carthage, Tenn., in 1871. He became 
 active in politics, and in 18/4 was elected 
 to the House of Representatives of the 
 Tennessee Legislature, and the following 
 year he was apijointed a special commis- 
 sioner to treat with the State of Kentucky 
 for the purchase of Territory. He was a 
 presidential elector on the Tilden and Hen- 
 dricks ticket in 1876; was appointed a spec- 
 ial judge of the Circuit Court of Tennessee 
 in 1877 and in 1878 was elected to the 
 Forty-sixth Congress, and was biennalUy 
 reelected to subsequent Congresses up to 
 and including the Fifty-fifth, serving from 
 1879 to 1899. He gained distinction as one 
 of the leading mendiers on the Democratic 
 side of the House, and was a member of 
 the Ways and Cleans Committee during the 
 latter part of his service. He was governor 
 of Tennessee. 1899-1903. Address: Car- 
 thage, Tenn. 
 
 McMillan, Duncan James: 
 
 Cleri;\niaii; Ixini at I'lilaski, Tenn.. .Tune 
 2, 184(); .-on of Rev. Ijlwaril and .Mary Ann 
 (]5rown) McMillan. lie was graduated 
 from Blackburn l^niversity as A.B., S.T.B., 
 1870, and A.M., 1873; and received the 
 D.D. degree from Washington and Jeffer- 
 son College in 1883. He was superintendent 
 of public schools at Carlinville, 111., 1870- 
 1872; pastor of the Walnut Grove Prcsby- 
 leiian Church ol' Canollton. ill.. 1872-1875. 
 He was I'oundcr of Wahsalch Academy, Mt. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Pleasant, Utah, in 1875; and the originator 
 and .sui)erinteiulent of the system 
 of Presbyterian scliools in Utah and Mon- 
 tana. He was founder and lirst president 
 of the College of Montana, secretary of the 
 Presbyterian Board of Home jNlissions, 1890- 
 1898; and has been pastor of the New 
 York Presbyterian Church, New York City, 
 since 1899. He was regimental orderly of 
 the Thirty-second Illinois Infantry in 1862; 
 .'ind a private of Company K of the Seventh 
 Illinois Mounted Infantry in 1SG5. He was 
 alderman of Deer Lodge, Mont., in 1888; 
 and declined a nomination to the U. S. 
 Senate in 1890. Dr. McMillan is a direc- 
 tor of the Presbyterian Board of Church 
 Erection. He is a member of the Chi Alpha 
 fraternity, the British Philosophical Soci- 
 ety; is a Mason, a member of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic, and a trustee of the 
 University of Texas. He married at God- 
 frey, 111., June 18, 1879, Emily Kent John- 
 ston, and they have two children. Address: 
 •Z-H\ West liZUtli Street, New York City. 
 
 McMILLIN, Emerson: 
 
 Banker; born in Ewington, Ohio, April 
 lU, 1844. He received his education in the 
 public schools. He served in the Union 
 Army during the Civil War, and subse- 
 (juently became connected with a firm build- 
 ing gas works at Ironton, Ohio, and on 
 their completion, 1869, was made their 
 manager; later manager Columbus Gas 
 Company, president St. Louis Gas Company 
 and many smaller properties. In 1891 he 
 went to New York, establishing the bank- 
 ing firm of Emerson McMillan and Com- 
 l)any. He is president and director of the 
 American Light and Traction Company, 
 Binghampton Gas Works, Consolidated Gas 
 Company of New Jersey, St. Joseph Gas 
 Company, St. Paul Gas Light Company, San 
 Antonio Gas and Electric Company, San 
 Antonio Traction Company, Western Gas 
 Company, Grand Rapids Gas Light Com- 
 pany ; vice-president and director of the 
 IMuskegon Traction and Lighting Company; 
 chairman of the Board of Directors of the 
 Denver Gas and Electric Company, Jacques 
 Cartier Water Power Company; director of 
 the American Coal Products Company, Cap- 
 ital City Bank, Consolidated Rubber Tire 
 
 Company. IJncoln (Jas an<l Klrctric Li;4iit 
 Company, Miciiigau l^iglit t'onipaiiy, ami 
 National Surety Conipany. Mr. .McMillan la 
 a meml)er of tiio Union I.,eague, l/iwyers", 
 Army and Navy, and Engineers' ClubH of 
 New York. Itesidencc: 320 Riverside Ave- 
 nue. Office: 49 Wail Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 MacMONNIES, Frederick William: 
 
 Sculptor; iiorn in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 
 20, 186:3; son of William and Juliana Eu- 
 dora (West) MacMonnies. He was a stu- 
 dent of Augustus St. Gaudens and in tlie 
 classes of the National Academy of De- 
 sign and Art Students' League in New 
 York, later studying in Munich and under 
 Falguifere in the ficole des Beaux Arts in 
 Paris, and as a private student of Antonin 
 Mercie. He received the first prize of the 
 National Academy of Design in 1884, and 
 the Prix d'Atelier (highest award open to 
 foreigners at Paris), 1886; several awards 
 from the Paris Salon, and the first class 
 gold medal at Antwerp, 1894; grand prize 
 of honor from the Paris Exposition Univer- 
 selle. 1900, and medals from many American 
 Exhibitions. Mr. :MacMonnies is the sculp- 
 tor of many noteworthy portrait statues 
 and ideal figures and groups. His colossal 
 fountain at the World's Columbian Exposi- 
 tion, with 27 figures, was a most notable 
 feature of that great White City, and other 
 notable works are the statues of Nathan 
 Hale in City Hall Park, the Washington 
 Arch in New York; statues of James S. T. 
 Stranahan and General Slocum. and the 
 Army and Navy groups for the Soldiers 
 and Sailors' Monument, all in Brooklyn, as 
 well as many others in these ami other 
 cities. He has received the decorations of 
 Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur of 
 Prance, Chevalier of the Order of St. 
 Michael of Bavaria; is an academician of 
 the National Academy of Design, a mem- 
 ber of the National Sculpture Society and 
 the Architectural League of New York. 
 Address: Giverny Vernon, Eure, France. 
 
 McMORRAN, Henry: 
 
 Congressman and merchant ; born in Port 
 Huron" Mich.. July 11, 1844; son of Robert 
 \\ . and Isabella McMorran. He has been 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 engaged in the grocery business, milling, 
 grain and elevated trade, and is connected 
 with numerous eomniercial, manufacturing 
 and tran.--portalion companies. He was 
 general manager of the Port Huron and 
 Xorthwestern Railway, 1878-1800. when it 
 was sold to the Flint and Pere Marquette 
 Company. Mr. McMorran has always been 
 an active Rei)ublican and prominent in 
 party a flairs. He has been alderman and 
 city treasurer of Port Huron, Mich., and 
 a member of the Canal Commission. He 
 was elected in 1902 to the Fifty-eight Con- 
 gess, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth, Six- 
 tieth and Sixty-first Congress from the 
 Seventh Michigan District. He married 
 Oct. 11, 1866, Emma C. Williams, daugh- 
 ter of Myron Williams of Marysville, Mich, 
 and he lias a son who is engaged in bus- 
 iness with him, and two daughters. Ad- 
 dress: Port Huron, Mich. 
 
 MacMULLEN, Wallace: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Dublin, Ireland, 
 Aug. 31, 1860; son of David and Annie T. 
 (Smith) MacMullen. He was educated in 
 the Brooklyn schools, and at Drew Theo- 
 logical seminary and received the degree of 
 S.T.D. from Weslcyan University. Dr. 
 ZMacMullen was pastor of the Springfield, 
 ]\Iass., Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 1888-1893, when he left to become pastor 
 of tlie Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 at Philadelphia. Leaving this church in 
 1898, he became pastor of the Park Avenue 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, 
 where he stayed until 1902, when he was 
 chosen pastor of the Madison Avenue Metli- 
 o<list Episcopal Church, in New York City, 
 where he remains. He is a trustee of the 
 Centenary Collegiate Institute, Hackensack, 
 N. J., the Drew Theological Seminary, Mad- 
 ison, X. J., is a member of the board of 
 Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church, and a trustee of the Deacon- 
 ess Home, in New York City. He married, 
 first, Miss Annie Hutchinson, at Brooklyn, 
 New York, .Iniir I'.i, 1SS8, and second. 
 Miss Laural iv .\eal, of Philadelphia, Pa., 
 June 7, 1899, and has four children. 
 Address: 46 East 60th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 MacMURPHY, Jesse Gibson: 
 
 Clergyman ; born in Derry, N. H., April 
 8, 1845; son of Alexander MacMurphy, Jr., 
 and Sarah Atwood (Gibson) MacMurphy. 
 He was educated at Pinkerton Academy, 
 Derry, 1859-1863, Dartmouth College, B.S., 
 1868, and later M.S. ; and was graduated 
 from Nashotah Theological Seminary, B.D., 
 1873. He was ordered deacon by Bishop 
 Whitehouse in 1873 and ordained priest by 
 Bishop Armitage in 1874, in the ministry 
 of the Episcopal Church. He was in charge 
 of St. Peter's Church, Sheboygan Falls, 
 Wis., one year; rector of Immanuel Church, 
 Racine, Wis., four years; teacher in St. 
 Paul's School for Boys, Baltimore, 1877- 
 1888; associate rector of the Church of St. 
 John the Evangelist, San Francisco, 1881- 
 1884; master in Racine College and rec- 
 tor of the Church of the Holy Innocents at 
 Racine, for three years; rector and pro- 
 prietor of the MacMurphy Home School in 
 Racine, 1887-1897; since Aug. 6, 1900 
 (when services were begun) rector of the 
 Church of the Transfiguration, at West 
 Derry, N. 11., which he built up, erecting 
 a new church which was opened in March, 
 1907. He is a musician of ability; has 
 translated for publication from German, 
 French, Italian, Spanish and Latin; as an 
 author furnished historical articles for Wil- 
 ley's Book of Nuffield, and about a dozen 
 original maps to show the location of the 
 homesteads of the first settlers of the old 
 town of Londonderry, N. H. He fur- 
 nished an original map of London- 
 derry, N. H., to ilr. Charles G. Hanna 
 of New Y^'ork for his " Scotch-Irish 
 in America; " and he has furnished 
 a sermon for weekly publication in the Der- 
 ry Enterprise. He is interested in real es- 
 tate, owns several ancestral farms inherited 
 from his father, grandfather and great- 
 grandfather; has fifteen to twenty tenants 
 and makes loans on real estate. He still 
 owns property, also, at Racine, Wis. Mr. 
 MacMurphy is a member of the New Hamp- 
 shire Historical Society, New England (Je- 
 nealogical Society, Confraternity of the 
 Blessed Sacrament, Society for the Promo- 
 tion of Christian Unity. He is a 32-degree 
 Mason, high priest of Bell Chapter Royal 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Arcli Masons in Dorry and a iiicmber of the 
 Order of High Priests throughout the 
 Worhl; Tliriee Illustrious Master of Mt. 
 Nebo Council Koyal and Select Masters, 
 Derry, N. K. ; Knight Templar and member 
 of the Mystic Shrine; member of Derry 
 (i range, Patrons of Husbandry, and the 
 Derry Board of Trade, is a trustee in the 
 Nutfield Savings Bank, and a director in 
 llie iMrst National Bank of West Derry. 
 :Mr. MacMurphy married, April 23, 1870, 
 ]\lary Lucy James, daughter of Captain 
 Joseph Wan-en James and Harriet Neely 
 (Hoyt) James of Deerfield, New Hamp- 
 shire, and they have had three children, of 
 whom two are living: Sarah Russell Mac- 
 Alurphy and Jerome Case MacMurphy. Ad- 
 dress : Derry, N. H. 
 
 McMURRAY, James Henry: 
 
 ['resident of Lincoln College; born at 
 Tuscarawas, Ohio, in 1871; son of E. G. 
 and Lydia (Van Lehn) McMurray. He 
 was graduated from Oberlin College A.B., 
 1897. He took post-graduate study at the 
 L'niversity of Chicago in the summer fol- 
 lowing and received from Harvard Univer- 
 sity in 1900, the degree of A.M. Following 
 his graduation from Oberlin in 1897 he was 
 appointed to the chair of science in Central 
 College and holding that position until 
 1902, when he was elected to the presi- 
 dency of the same college. In 1905 he re- 
 signed to become the head of Lincoln Col- 
 lege, a position he still holds. In the sum- 
 mer of 1901 he did work in connection with 
 the United States Fish Commission. He 
 married at Tuscarawas, Ohio, August 25, 
 1897, Kathryn Romig, and has two child- 
 ren. Address: 22G Latham Street Lin- 
 coln, 111. 
 
 McNALLY, James Clifford: 
 
 United States consul; born May 12, 1805; 
 educated in the public schools of Allegheny, 
 Pa.; was graduated from St. Vincent's Col- 
 lege at Latrobe, Pa., M.A., and from the 
 University of Michigan, law dejiartment, 
 LL.B., 1891. He was admitted to the bar of 
 Michigan and Utah, practising at Salt Lake 
 City; was appointed United States conmiis- 
 sioner, and later probate judge at Salt Lake 
 City, by President Cleveland, holding the 
 
 same until (he nilniission of Utali a^ ii 
 State. Mr. McNTally was appointed secre- 
 tary of legation and consul general ni tin? 
 Uniled Stales at Bogota. Columbin. Veh. 14. 
 1898; a])])oin(ed secretary of legation and 
 consul-general of the United States at Ciiut- 
 emahi City, Oct. 27, 1S99; appointed con- 
 sul-general May 17. 1900, to take efTect 
 July ], 1900; appointed consul nt Liege, 
 Belgium, Nov. 5. 1902. While secretary of 
 legation and consul-general at Bogota, Co- 
 hnnbia, he was selected by the dii)lonmtio 
 representatives of Great Britain, (iermany, 
 France and Italj', an the one hand, and 
 Columbia, on the other hand, to act as 
 um])ire on the Arbitration Board selected 
 to ])ass upon the claims of Cerruti and his 
 creditors against the Republic of Columbia; 
 both representatives failing to agree, the 
 burden of the decision rested upon the uni- 
 ])ire, who decided the same. Address: 
 United States Consul, Liege, Belgium. 
 
 MacNEIL, Hermon Atkins: 
 
 Sculptor and teacher; born at Everett. 
 Mass, in 18GG; son of John Clinton and 
 Mary Lash (Pratt) MacNeil. He was edu- 
 cated at the Massachusetts Normal Art 
 School. Academic Julien and ficole des 
 Beaux Arts, Paris, holding the Roman Rine- 
 hart scholarship for four years in Rome. 
 He taught at the Art Institute of Chicago, 
 and at Cornell University, Pratt Institute 
 and Art Students' League, New York City. 
 and is now teacher at the National Acad- 
 emy of Design, New York City. He exe- 
 cuted important decorative work at the 
 Paris Exposition in 1900. including the 
 sjiandrills on the United States buildings. 
 At the Pan American Exposition, 1001, he 
 sculptured the group: Despotism, and made 
 the tympanum of the Ethnological Build- 
 ing. At St. Lotiis Ex])Osition in 1904. main 
 cascade; and otiiers of his works nre the 
 McKinley Memorial at Columbus, Ohio; 
 Heroic Indian group. Coming of the White 
 Man: Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial at 
 Wiiitinsvijle, Mass., and other works located 
 at the Art Institute, Chicago; Peabody In- 
 stitute. Baltimore: Cornell University; 
 Portland. Ore., Chicago, and ;M{mtclair. N. 
 J. He received the Designers' medal at 
 Chicago, 1893; silver medal at Paris, 1900, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 and the Charleston E\'po>itioii in 1002; and 
 gold medal at the Pan American Exposi- 
 tion, 1!)02. He was a member of the In- 
 ternational .Tiiiy, and received the com- 
 memorative yold medal of the Louisiana 
 Purchase Exposition in 1904. Mr. MacNeil 
 is an academician of the National Academy 
 of Desion : member of the National Arts 
 Club, Society of American Artists, National 
 Sculpture Society, Architectural League, 
 Municipal Art Society, and is a member of 
 the Century Association of New York City. 
 He married in Chicago, in 1895. Carol 
 Louise Brooks. Residence and studio: Col- 
 lego Point, L. ]., N. Y. Address: Manhat- 
 tan Studio, ■^r^ West 22(1 Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 McNEIR, George: 
 
 Merchant. He is vice-president and di- 
 rector of ^V, & J. Sloane: of McCleary, 
 Wallin & Crouse, Amsterdam, N. Y., of the 
 Bank of the ^Metropolis. New York City, and 
 of Oldham Mills, Philadeljjhia ; director of 
 the American Seeding-Machine Company, 
 Springfield, Ohio, Nairn Linoleum Com- 
 pany, Kearney, N. J., Ossining National 
 Bank and Shutt Icworth Brothers Company, 
 Amsterdam, N, \.: and is a trustee of the 
 Bowery Savings Bank of New York. Ad- 
 dress: SS4 Broadway. New York City. 
 
 McNIECE, Robert Gibson: 
 
 Clergyman and college dean; horn at 
 Topsham, Orangi; County, \'t., Jan. 10, 
 18.39; son of Joiin and Lydia (Hivoll) Mc- 
 Niece. He was graduated from Dartmouth 
 College, A. B. in 1867, and from Princeton 
 Theological Seminary. 1877; and lie re- 
 ceived the degree of D.D. from Kn(x\ Col- 
 lege, and Wabash College, 188:5. He was 
 [iiiiiciiiai of the high school at Fort \\ayne, 
 hid., 1807-1870; editor of the Fort Wayne 
 Daily (Jazettc, 1870-1873; pastor of the 
 First Presbyterian Cliincli oi Sail Tvake 
 City, 1877-1897. and since April 1. 1S97, 
 dean of Westminister College, Salt Lake 
 City, of which he is also a ti'ustee. Dr. 
 -McNiece has taken an adivc |i.irl in the 
 work of .\iiiericanizing and Clirist iani/.ing 
 I'tali. lie is a lepnblican in |)olitics; is 
 one (jf I lie loading Presbyterian divines of 
 
 the Pacific Slope, and is a member of the 
 Salt Lake I\Iinisterial Association. He mar- 
 ried at Galesburg, 111., Aug. 4, 1881, Sara 
 J. Irwin, a graduate of Knox College, and 
 they have two sons, both graduates of 
 Princeton University. Residence: 1136 
 Blaine Avenue. OfHce address: Westmin- 
 ister College, Salt Lake City. 
 
 MACON, Robert Bruce: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born near Tren- 
 ton, Phillips County, Ark., July 6, 1859. 
 He was educated in local schools, studied 
 law and was admitted to the bar in 1891; 
 became a member of the State Legislature 
 in 1882 and w'as reelected; was also two 
 terms clerk of the Circuit Court of Phillips 
 County, and four years prosecuting attor- 
 ney of the First Judicial District of Arkan- 
 sas. He was elected as a Democrat to the 
 Fifty-eighth Congress without opposition, 
 and to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and re- 
 elected to the Si.xtieth and Sixty first Con- 
 gresses from the Firt Arkansas District. 
 Address: Helena. .\rk. 
 
 McOWEN, Frederick: 
 
 <'apitalist; lie is treasurer of the Ber- 
 wind-White Coal Mining Company; director 
 of the Merchants' National Bank, Common- 
 wealth Title Insurance and Trust Com- 
 pany, Lake Superior Corporation, Cam- 
 boia ^Mining &. Manufacturing Comjiany and 
 llie DcLong Hook & Eye Company. Ad- 
 dress; 305 Betz r.uilding, Pliila'dclphia, 
 Pa. 
 
 Mcpherson, John Bayard: 
 
 Jurist; liorii in llarrisbnrg, Pa., Nov. 5, 
 lS4(i; son of William C. and Elizabeth 
 (Wallace) IMePherson. He was graduated 
 from Princeton as A.B.. 18()6, and A.M., 
 1809. anil icccivcd from that university in 
 1899, and tiom the University of Penn- 
 sylvania and Fianklin and Marshall Col- 
 li'ge in the same year, the degree of LL.D. 
 Ill' luacliMMJ law at Harrisburg, Pa., 1870- 
 1SS2, and .^ciNcd as district attorney for 
 several years, lie was selected judge of the 
 Court of Common Pleas in 1882, and served 
 in thai ollice until appointed by President 
 MrKinhy, March 13, 1899, as judge of the 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 UiiittMl Slalcs District Court for tlip East- 
 ern District of Pennsylvania. Address: 
 2-J1(i Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 Mcpherson, smith: 
 
 Jurist ; boiii in ^Morjian County. Ind., 
 Feb. 14. 1S4S. He entered the law depart- 
 in<>nt of the University of Iowa, and in 
 1S70 was admitted to the bar. He prac- 
 tised law at Red Oak, Iowa, until his ap- 
 jiointinent to the bench. Meanwhile he was 
 active politically as a Republican; was 
 district attorney for six years, attorney- 
 "cneral of Iowa for four years, and in 
 ISDS was elected from the Ninth Iowa Dis- 
 trict to the Fifty-sixth Conffress, servinjr 
 until June, 1900. when he resigned his 
 seat to accept appointment to his present 
 office of judfje of the United States District 
 Couit for the Southern Distiict of Iowa. 
 Address: Red Oak. Iowa. 
 
 McQUAID, Bernard John: 
 
 Catholic Bishop of Rochester ; born in 
 New York City, Dec. 15, 1823. He was 
 educated at Chambly College, near Mon- 
 treal, Can., and at St. John's College, Ford- 
 liam, N. Y. After completing his classical 
 course, was tutor at St. John's College for 
 three years; studied theology and was or- 
 dained priest Jan. 16, 1848. He was pastor 
 ill New Jersey; founded and was for ten 
 years rector of Seton Hall College and 
 Seminary, and part of the time also rector 
 of Newark Cathedral; consecrated July 12, 
 1SG8, first bishop of the Diocese of Roches- 
 ter, N. Y.. in which he is still serving. Ad- 
 dress: 70 Frank Street, Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 McRAE, Milton A.: 
 
 Xewspaper publisher; born in Detroit, 
 :\Iich., June 13, 1858; son of Duncan B. and 
 INIargaret Helen (Stevenson) McRae. He 
 received his education in public schools of 
 Detroit and a general academic training. 
 He has been for many years joint owner of 
 The Scripps McRae League of Newspapers, 
 being president and general manager; also 
 president of the United Press Association, 
 New York. He resided in Cincinnati for 
 twenty-five years, and returned to Detroit 
 in 1008; retired from active management 
 
 in lOOS. young nieii now managing the 
 business of the pajXMs of The Scripjis Mc- 
 Rae Leagiie: The Cincinnati PoHf, CIcve 
 land Press, Toledo News-Bee, CohiinbiiH 
 Citizen, the Des Moine.s News, and ninny 
 others. ^Mr. McRae is a Ilepiihlican and 
 does a considerable amount of public speak- 
 ing in campaigns. He is a director in 
 many charitalde, educational and public in- 
 stitutions, is a 32-degree Mason, and a 
 member of all the leading clubs of Cin- 
 cinnati. He married in Toronto. <)nt.. .\iig. 
 II. 1880, Victoria Wallis. and ho has four 
 children. Address: ['nited Hank i'.uild- 
 ing, Cincinnati. 
 
 McSURELY, William Harvey: 
 
 Juri.st: born at Oxford. Ohio. Jan. 27. 
 1805; son of Rev. William Jaspar Mc- 
 Surely. D.D.. and Hulda (Taylor) Mc- 
 Surely. Tie received his earlu education in 
 the i)ul)lic scliools. attended the South Sa- 
 lem (Ohio) Academy, and entered the I'ni- 
 versity of Wooster. Ohio, from which he 
 was graduated. A.B.. 188(5. and A.M.. 188n. 
 He removed to Chicago in 1887. and en- 
 gaged in the practice of law there in 1880. 
 In 1S!)7 li(> became a member of the firm 
 of Hnrhy and ^IcSui'ely, which connection 
 continued until he went upon the bench. 
 He has taken an active part in political 
 atVairs as a Republican; was elected to 
 the General Assembly of Illinois, in 1004. 
 and in l!t()7 he was elected fo his jiresent 
 odii-e as judge of the Siiperior Court of 
 llliiidis. .fudge ISIcSurely is a Presbyterian 
 in Ills church relations and is a trustee 
 of the University of Wooster. He is a 
 member of the Illinois State Bar Associa- 
 tion, the Chicago Bar A.ssociation and the 
 Chicago Law Club, and is also a member 
 of (he Union League, University. Hamilton, 
 and llomewood Country Clubs of Ciiicago. 
 He married in Chicago.'Oct. 18. LS02. Kliza- 
 l)elh Cadman. .\ddress: 5037 Washing- 
 ton .\\cnue. Chicago. 
 
 MacVEAGH, Franklin: 
 
 SecKlaiv of tile Treasury; born on a 
 farm luar i'lioenixville, Chester County. 
 Pa. lie was gradiuited from Yale as B..\. 
 in 18(i2. and from Cohuubia l*iw School. 
 
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 Xcw York, ill 1S(U. and l)Of;nn prarticp with 
 his brother. Wayne MacVoap-h, but his 
 health failing he abandoned the law and 
 went ^^'est. Shortly after he established 
 in ("liicaji'o the wholesale Jirocery house of 
 Franklin MacVeagii and Company, which 
 lias for many years been one of the largest 
 in tlie country, and of which he was at the 
 head as president until early in 1909, when 
 he disposed of his mercantile interests in 
 order to accept the oflice of secretary of the 
 Treasury in the Cabinet of President Taft. 
 He was also a director of the Commercial 
 National Bank and of other Cliicago Cor- 
 porations, ilr. ■\IacVeagh is distinguished 
 in Chicago not only as a most successful 
 merchant, but especially for his active work 
 in behalf of civic progress and reform. He 
 was president of the Citizens' Association 
 of Chicago in 1S74 and several years after- 
 ward and made it the means of important 
 political reforms. He was nominated in 
 convention by the Democracy of Illinois, 
 for the U. S. Senate, and made a canvass 
 of tlie State, but was defeated in the Legis- 
 lature. In 1896 and 1900 he supported 
 McKinley for President and after that 
 Roosevelt and Taft. At the head of the 
 Bureau of Ciiarities he added greatly to 
 the efl'ectivcness of that organization, and 
 as chairman of the ;Municipal Art League 
 and otherwise he has been a faithful worker 
 for the beautifying of Chicago, by extension 
 of the boulevard system and in many other 
 ways. He also has taken an active part 
 in the work of the National Civic Federa- 
 tion. He married Miss Emily Eames. 
 Home: 103 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. 
 Onielal address: Treasury Department, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 MacVEAGH. Wayne: 
 
 l''i>i iiici- liiitcd Stales Adoincv Ceneral ; 
 liorn on a farm near Plueiiixville. Chester 
 Connfy. l^i., April 19. 1S.S.3. He was 
 graduated from Yale in \H'r.i, and was ad- 
 mitted fo llie bar at West Chester, Pa., 
 in isr)(i. From 185!) to 18G4 he was dis- 
 trict attorney of Chester County; and 
 served as captain of infantry in 1862 and 
 of eavalry in lH(i.i wlien i'ennsylvania was 
 Ihreatened with invasion. He Ijccame one 
 of the Jtejtiiblican leaders of. Pennsylvania 
 
 and was elected chairman of the Repub- 
 lican State Central Committee in 186.3. 
 He also attained great distinction as a 
 lawyer. He was United States minister to 
 Turkey in 1870 and 1871, and in the lat- 
 ter year led the fight in Republican State 
 politics against Simon Cameron, his father- 
 in-law. In 1872 and 1873 he was a prom- 
 inent member of the Constitutional Con- 
 vention of Pennsylvania. He was chairman 
 of tha MacVeagh Commission, sent by- 
 President Hayes to represent him unof- 
 ficially in Louisiana and secure an amic- 
 able adjustment of the political difl'erences 
 in that State. He was appointed attorney- 
 general of the United States in March, 
 ISSl. by President Garfield, but resigned 
 upon tiie accession of President Arthur. 
 He sui)ported Cleveland for the Presidency 
 in 1892, and was ambassador to Italy from 
 1893 to 1897; but in 189G and since then 
 has supported Republican candidates. Ho 
 was chief counsel of the United States in 
 1903, in the matter of the VeJiezuelan arbi- 
 tration before the Hague Tribunal. Resi- 
 dence: Bryn Mawr. Pa. Ofiice address: 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 MeVEY, Frank Le Rond: 
 
 Educator and economist; born in Wil- 
 mington, Ohio, Nov. 10, 1869; son of Al- 
 fred H. and Anna (Holmes) McVey. He 
 was educated in public schools of Toledo, 
 Ohio, Des Moines, la., Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
 versitj- and received the degree of A.B., 
 1893;"^ Ph.D., 1895, from Y^ale University. 
 He was editorial writer in New York City, 
 1895, instructor of history in the Teaclicrs 
 College of Columbia University, 1896, in- 
 structor and professor of economics, Univer- 
 sity of Minnesota, 1896-1907; chairman of 
 the Minnesota Tax Commission, 1907-1909, 
 and president of the University of North 
 Dakota, 1909. He is a member of the 
 American Economic Association, American 
 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
 ence, National Conference of Charities and 
 Corrections; president of tiie Minneapolis 
 Associated Charities, 1898-1909, mend)er of 
 tlie Executive Committee of the National 
 Conference of Charities and Correction, 
 secretary of the ]\Iinnesotp. Academy of 
 Social Science, and member of the Phi Gam- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 111.-! 
 
 ma Delta fratoniity, the Chicago City, 
 (Iraiul Forks Country, and the (irand Forks 
 Commercial Clubs. He married in Minne- 
 apoliis, Sept. 21, 1898, Mabel Moore Sawyer, 
 and has three eliildren. Address: Univer- 
 sity, N. Dak. 
 
 MacVICAR, John: 
 
 Secretary of the l.cague of American ]Mii- 
 nicipalitics; lioin in Gait, Ont., July 4, 
 1859; son of John and Mary (McEwen) 
 ]MacVicar. He was educated in public 
 schools, Erie, Pa.; moved to Iowa. He 
 was elected recorder of the town of North 
 Des Moines, Iowa, 1888, and mayor of same 
 municipality, 1889; mayor of the City of 
 Des Moines for two terms, 1896-1900, and 
 lie has since held the position of super- 
 intendent of the Department of Streets and 
 Public Improvements in that city. He took 
 an active part in the organization of the 
 League of the American Municipalities, and 
 was elected its president at its first meet- 
 ing at Columbus, Ohio, 1897; president of 
 the League of Iowa Municipalities, 1898; 
 secretary of the League of American ]\Iuni- 
 cipalities since 1900, and editor of the 
 American Municipalities, the organ of the 
 I^eague. He married in Des Moines, Iowa, 
 June 18, 1884, Nettie M. Nash, and they 
 have three children. Address: Des Moines, 
 Iowa. 
 
 McVICKAR, Edward: 
 
 Keal estate operator; born in Boston, in 
 18()9. He was educated at boarding school 
 and one year at the ]\Iassachusetts In- 
 stitute of Technology; then entered the 
 Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, from which 
 he was graduated as engineer in 1892. 
 Soon after graduation he became interested 
 in stock farming at his country place, the 
 A'ickerage Stock Farm, in Lewis County, 
 X. Y., and since 1898 he has been engaged 
 in the real estate business. He organized, 
 in 1901, the Real Estate Security Com- 
 pany of New York; in 1902, the McVickar 
 Company; and in 1904, wath others, the 
 Shippau Point Land Company. He is 
 largely interested in suburban development, 
 as well as transacting a general real es- 
 tate business in the city. He is a member 
 
 of the LTnion, Di-lla I'lii. i:ac(|Mcl and 'i'oii- 
 iiis. Calumet, City .Midday and Larchmunt 
 Yacht Clubs. lie married, in IS'.MI. Edith 
 Lawren(<'> Spoyers. dau/^liter of Albert (Jeor^rc 
 Pigot Speyers, of Xew York City. lioxi- 
 dence: 112 East .Ititli Street. Ollit-e: 200 
 Broadway. Xew York City. 
 
 McVICKAR, William Neilson: 
 
 Bisliop of Bliddc Island: Ixirn in Xew 
 York City. Oct. 19, 184:5 : son of Dr. dohn 
 A. ^IcVickar. He was graduated from 
 Columbia University, A.B., 18fi.'), and A.M.. 
 18GS. Having taken up in the meanwhile 
 theological studies at thr. Ceneral Tlieo- 
 logical Seminary, New York City, he was 
 gnuluated in 18G8. The degree of D.D. 
 was conferred upon him by Kenyon Col- 
 lege in 188o, and by the University of 
 Pennsylvania in 1898. He received that 
 of S.T.D. from Columbia in 1898. and LL.D. 
 from Brown University in 1904. He was 
 ordered deacon of the Episcopal Cliurch in 
 1807 and tlie following year was ordained 
 to the priesthood by Bishop H. Potter. 
 During his diaconate he was assistant at 
 St. George's Church, X'ew York City, be- 
 ing in 18G8, made rector of the Holy Trin- 
 ity Church in Harlem (Xew York City). 
 After seven years of activity in this sta- 
 tion, he was called to the rectorship of 
 Holy Trinity Church at Philadelphia, Pa., 
 remaining there until his consecration to 
 the episcopate in 1898. He was bishop- 
 coadjutor of Rhode Island from 1898 to 
 lOO;^. becoming bishop of the same diocese 
 in the latter year. He is an elected mem- 
 ber of the Board of Missions of the Pro- 
 testant Episcopal Church and a mendx-r of 
 the Inter Church Conferences on Marriage 
 and Divorce. Address: Bishop's H<msc, 
 Providence, K. I. 
 
 McWHORTER, Henry Clay: 
 
 President judge of the Supreme Court of 
 Appeals of West Virginia : born in Marion 
 County, Ohio, Feb. 20, 1830. He entered 
 the I'nion Army as captain in ISGl. and 
 served until com])elled by a wound to leave 
 active field service in 1SG3, continuing until 
 1865 as chief clerk of the provost mar-haTs 
 enrollment oflice. From 18GG until 1897 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 lit' practised law at Chailostoii, \\'. Va. He 
 was actively identified witli ])(di1ies in his 
 State as a Republican, and was four terms 
 a member of the West Virj^inia House of 
 l\ei)resentatives, and its speaker in 1808; 
 prosecuting attorney, 1861)1873; again a 
 mend)er of the West Virginia House of 
 Representatives, 1885-1887, and postmaster 
 of Ciiarleston. W, Va., 1891-18i)3. He be- 
 came an associate ju.stice of the Supreme 
 Court of West Virginia in 1897. and since 
 1!)03 lias been president-judge of tiiat court. 
 His religious affiliation is with the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church, and he was a mem- 
 ber of the (ieneral Conference of that 
 Cliurch ill 1!)U4. Address: Charleston. 
 W. Va. 
 
 MADDEN, Eva Anne: 
 
 Writer and journalist; horn in Kentucky. 
 1SI)3; daughter of Frank and Anne Louise 
 (McKenzie) Madden. She received her 
 education in Louisville public schools, and 
 lionor from the Alethean Literary Society. 
 Miss Madden first taught, then began as 
 newspaper and magazine writer. She is au- 
 thor of: Two Royal Foes, Little Queen, 
 Soldiers of the Duke, Little Crusaders, and 
 1 Can School, also a writer for the Century, 
 Harj)er's Bazaar, Atlantic, Craftsman maga- 
 zines; is an Italian representative of Cur- 
 tis, Brown and ]\Iassie, and Florence cor- 
 respondent of the Paris edition of the New 
 York Herald. She is a member of the 
 l.yceiim Club of Florence. Address: 30 
 \ la di Seivi. l-'Iorence. Italy. 
 
 MADDEN, Martin Barnaby: 
 
 Congressnuui; bnin in Darlingldn. Fng- 
 land. March •>(). is.")."): son of -folui and 
 Elizabeth INLadden. He was educated in 
 the public schools and business colleges; 
 was a member of I lie Cliicauo City Coun- 
 cil. 1S89-1807; pr.sjding ollicer of that 
 l)ody. 1891-1S9;}. and chairman of tlie Fi- 
 nance Committee. 1892-1897. lie was a 
 cliainran of the Rei)ublican Stile Conven- 
 tion in ]89(i. and delegate \<> the National 
 Conventions of Isliii .nid I'.mki. Mr. Mad 
 den is ])residenl ol ijie \\'e-,li'rii Stone 
 Comjiany of Cliicago and a director of the 
 Metropolitan Trust and Savings Bank of 
 
 Chicago. He was elected to the Fifty-ninth 
 and Sixtieth Congresses and reelected to 
 the Sixty-first Congress from the First 
 Illinois District. He married at Downer's 
 Grove, 111., in 1878, Josephine Smart. 
 Residence: 3829 Michigan Avenue. Of- 
 fice: 320 Chamber of Commerce Building, 
 Cliicago. 
 
 MADDOX, Samuel T.: 
 
 Jurist; admitted to bar and was en- 
 gaged in practice of law in Brooklyn and 
 New York City until November, 1896, when 
 he was elected to his present position as 
 justice of the Supreme Court of New York, 
 for the term expiring Dec. 31, 1910. Ad- 
 dress: 87 Bainbridge Street, Brooklvn, 
 N. Y. 
 
 MADEIRA, Easton Earl: 
 
 Clergyman; born in St. I^uis, Mo.. Jan. 
 8, 1868; son of Rev. Addison Da.shiell and 
 Marie Loui.se (Isette) Madeira. He was 
 graduated from St. Stephen's College, B.A., 
 18!)1. and M.A., 1899, received honors in 
 logic in 1890 and in psychology in 1891 ; 
 and was senior prize essayist in 1891; and 
 was graduated from the General Tlieo- 
 logical Seminary in 1894. He was ordered 
 deacon in 1894 and ordained priest in 1894; 
 was rector of Grace Church, Chillicothe, 
 Mo., 1894 189(i, of ClirLst Church, Water- 
 loo, Iowa, 189(5-1900, and has been rector 
 Christ Church, St. Paul, Minn., since 1900. 
 lie is aiitlior of: ^lission of the Anglican 
 Ciiuicli to file Twentieth Century. He is 
 director of the Children's Home Society of 
 Minnesota; member of the Masonic, Royal 
 -Vrcanum, Sigma Alplia ICpsilon fraterni- 
 ties. He is a member of the commercial 
 and St. Paul Automobile Clubs. Mr. 
 Madeira married, Dec. 22. ISDd. Marie 
 Louise Indand, daughter of Jnlm li. Ireland 
 and Adelia Duane (Pell) Ireland, of New 
 ^'ork City, ami they liax'e tlirec children. 
 Residence: 1.").") West Fourth Street. Ad- 
 dress; Christ Church, St. Paul. .Minn. 
 
 MADEIRA, Louis Childs: 
 
 (o.ii miller and sliip|ier; born in Rliila- 
 didphia. .luiic 2. IS.").'!; son of Louis Cejihas 
 Madeira and Adeline Laura (Powell) 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 jSTadcira. He was prejiarod in the Episco- 
 j)al Academy of Pliiladclpliia and graduated 
 from the Unixersity of Pennsylvania as P.S. 
 ill the class of 1872. Ho was employed 
 as civil engineer, on the Wilmington and 
 Northern Railroad, 1872-1874, the Bound 
 Brook Railroad, 1874-1877; entered the 
 firm of Louis C. Madeira & Sons, insurance 
 agents, in 1877, and became an oflicer of 
 Madeira, Hill and Company, miners and 
 shippers of anthracite and bituminous coal, 
 in 1902. and is now its secretary. Mr. 
 ]\Iadeira is secretary and director of George 
 B. Newton & Company, Incorporated; treas 
 urer of the Saltsburg Coal Mining Com- 
 ])aiiy, the INIadeira, Hill, Clark Coal Com- 
 ])any, treasurer and director of the 
 Thomas Colliery Company, and is director 
 of the Standard Ice Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, the C4eneral Accident Company, and 
 Insurance Company of State of Pennsyl- 
 vania. In politics he is a Republican. He 
 has been a member of the Committee of 
 Seventy since 1905; member of the School 
 Board 21st section, and in his church re- 
 lations he is an Eposcipalian. He has been 
 a trustee of the Episcopal Academy since 
 1899. His favorite recreations are golf, 
 rowing, riding, cricket and tennis, and he 
 has been active in all outdoor sports; was 
 vice-commodore, 1886-1888, and commodore, 
 1890-1891, of the Schuylkill Navy; a di- 
 rector of the Athletic Association of the 
 Liniversity of Pennsylvania, 1891-1905. He 
 is a member of the Rittenhouse, University, 
 Pliiladelphia Country, Corinthian Yacht, 
 Cermantown Cricket, and Philadelphia 
 Barge Clubs. Mr. Madeira married in 
 Philadelphia, Oct. 10, 1890, Marion Clark, 
 and they have three children. Residence: 
 West School House Lane, Germantown. 
 Address: 900 North American Building, 
 Pliiladelphia. 
 
 MAGEE, John: 
 
 President of Fall Brook Coal Company; 
 l)orn in ^^■atkins, N. Y., Dec. 2, 18G7; son 
 of George J. and Emma S. (Slothoff) 
 Magee. He was educated at Lawrenceville 
 (New Jersey) School. He was engaged for 
 years as miner and shipper of coal; and is 
 now president of the Fall Brook Coal Com- 
 pany, Fall Brook Railway Company, and 
 
 Morris Pun Coal Mining <'ompany; and a 
 director of the Syracuse, (Jeneva and Corn- 
 ing Railway Company, Pine Crw-k Kail way 
 Coiiipany, Bcecli Creek Coal and Coke 
 Comi)any, Pocaliontas Collieries Company, 
 Kean, Van Cortlandt and Company (n-alty 
 company). Knickerbocker Trust Conipany. 
 Albany Trust Company, Sdienectady Tru.st 
 Conij)any, Chenning (/anal Trust Comjiany, 
 Atlantic Terra Cotta Company, Cliest Oeek ' 
 Land and Improvement Company, Philadel- 
 phia and Reading Dock and Terminal Com- 
 pany, and Tioga Improvement Company. 
 He served as aide-de-camp on Governor 
 Flower's staff. He is a member of the 
 Union, Racquet and Tennis, Turf and 
 Field, Strollers', Midday Lunch, and Jekyl 
 Island Clubs, Automobile Club of America, 
 C'wrrituck Shooting Club, and the Travel- 
 ers' Club and Cerclc de Bois de l^ologne, 
 Paris. He married in Elmira, N. Y., Nov. 
 4, 1901, Florence Wetmore Seeley. Resi- 
 dence: Corning, N, Y. Address: 13 West 
 ;57th Street, New York City. 
 
 MAGILL, George Ernest: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Melbourne. Quebec, 
 Canada, June 7, 1860; son of Rev. George 
 John Magill, who was for twenty-two years 
 rector of Trinity Church, Newport, R. I., 
 and Sarah McDonald (Tait) Magill, sister 
 of Sir Melbourne Tait, chief justice of 
 Montreal. He received his education in 
 church schools, and was graduated from 
 Trinity College. B.A,. 1884. M.A.. 1887; 
 attended the General Theological Seminary, 
 New York City, 1884-1885, and Berkeley 
 Divinity School, ]Middletown, Conn., 18S5- 
 1887. He was made deacon in Holy Trin- 
 ity Cinirch, Middletown, Conn., by Rt. 
 Rev. John Williams, D.D., June 1, 1887; 
 and was ordained priest in Trinity Church. 
 Newport, R, I., by Rt, Rev, Thomas March 
 Clark, DD,, on June 11, 1888. He was 
 curate at St. James" Church, Philadelphia, 
 1887-1889. at Trinity Church, New York 
 City. 1889-1893; rector of St. Paul's Church, 
 Yoid^ers. N, Y.. 1893 1896. and has been 
 rector of the Church of the Holy Inno- 
 cents, Hoboken. N. J., since 1890. He is 
 a trustee of Christ Hospital antl of St. 
 Kaliierine's Home, Jersey City, N. J.; and 
 the Widows" Home, Hoboken, N. J.; mem- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 bor of Psi Upsilon fraternity and the 
 Chureli Clerical Union of New York City. 
 Address: Holy Innocents' Rectory, 311 
 .^ixtli St reel, Hobokcn. N. J. 
 
 MAGILL, Samuel Edward: 
 
 Consular ofliccr : l)orn in Erie, Pa., Feb. 
 18, 1861; son of William E. and Louisa 
 J. Magill. He was graduated from La- 
 * fayette College, A.B., 1881. He was a 
 clerk in llie American consulate at Car- 
 donas. Cnlja. Oct. 1881 to August. 1882; 
 was engaged in the coal and real estate 
 business in Chicago. 1882-1897; became 
 American Consul at Tampico. Mexico, 1807- 
 1007; consul general at San Salvador, 1907- 
 1908; since then consul at Guadalajara, 
 Mexico. He is a member of the Delta 
 Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Mr. JMagill 
 married in Chicago, June 30, 1887, Julia 
 Groves. Address: American Consulate, 
 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. 
 
 MAGONIGLE, Harold Van Buren: 
 
 Architect; born at Bergen Heights. N. 
 J., Oct. 17, 1867; son of John Henry and 
 Catherine Celestine (Devlin) Magonigle. 
 He was educated in the public schools; 
 studied in the office of Vaux & Radford, 
 Charles C. Haight, McKim, Mead & White, 
 Rotch and Tildeu; was awarded a gold 
 medal by Architectural League of New 
 Yoik in 1891, Rotch traveling scholarship, 
 1S94-1896; won competitions for Cornell 
 Alumni Hall, National Maine Monument, 
 Gales Avenue Court House, McKinley Na- 
 tional Memorial, and others. He served as 
 first lieutenant and battalion adjutant, 
 lOOlh Regiment, National Guard of the 
 State of New York. He is a member of the 
 American Institute of Architects and New 
 York Chapter of same. He married in 
 New York City, in 1900, Edith Marion 
 Day. Address: 40 Washington Square, 
 New "S'oik Cily. 
 
 MAGOON, Charles E.: 
 
 P'oiMicr governor of Cuba, born in Minne- 
 sota, Dec. .), 1861. After graduating from 
 the high school at Owatonna, Minn., he 
 j)ursued a course of studies at the Univer- 
 sity of Nebraska, lie was admitted to the 
 
 bar in 1882, and engaged in the general 
 practice of law at Lincoln, Neb., and lu.' 
 became judge advocate of the Nebraska Na- 
 tional Guard. On March 21, 1899, he was 
 appointed law officer of the Bureau of Insu- 
 lar Affairs and in that place had an im- 
 ])ortant part in formulating and putting in 
 force the procedures and regulations in con- 
 nection with the new problems thrust upon 
 the Government of the United States as the 
 result of the War with Spain. In this re- 
 sponsible position he remained until July 1, 
 1904, when he was appointed general coun- 
 sel of the Isthmian Canal Commission, an- 
 other place in which the problem to be en- 
 countered required not only legal ability, 
 but also gifts for initiative judgment. He 
 remained in that office until April 1, 1905, 
 when he was appointed a member of the 
 Isthmian Canal Commission, in addition to 
 which he became May 25, 1905, governor of 
 the Canal Zone, with official headquarters 
 at Ancon, Canal Zone, Panama, and on July 
 7, 1905, was also appointed envoy extraor- 
 dinary and minister plenipotentiary of the 
 United States at Panama. Upon the es- 
 tablishment of intervention in Cuba, Secre- 
 tary of War Taft acted as provisional gov- 
 ernor from September 29, until a man of 
 the requisite experience and qualifications 
 could be found. The choice fell upon Gov- 
 ernor Magoon who was appointed provision- 
 al governor of Cuba, by President Roosevelt, 
 and assumed the duties of the office Oct. 
 13, 1006, rapidly restoring peace throughout 
 the island and establishing an orderly gov- 
 ernment, and remaining at the head of that 
 government until it was restored to the re- 
 organized Cuban Government. Gov. ]Ma- 
 goon is author of a legal work on The Law 
 of Civil Government under Military Occupa- 
 tion, which was published by the War De- 
 partment of the United States in 1002. 
 The degree LL.D. was conferred u]ion him, 
 June 8, 1905, by Monmouth College. Illi- 
 nois. He is a member of the Metropolitan, 
 Alibi, Cosmos and Chevy Chase Clubs of 
 Wasliington, and a governor of the latter. 
 .\(](li-css: Havana, Cuba. 
 
 MAGRATH, William: 
 
 Artist; born in Cork, Ireland, March 20, 
 1838; and came to the United States in 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 ISoo. Ho has hcon an academician of tlie 
 National Academy of Dpsit^n since 1870, 
 and a member of the Society of Painters in 
 Water Colors, New York City. Address: 
 11 East 14th Street, New York City. 
 
 MAGRUDER, William Thomas: 
 
 Professor of mechanical engineering; 
 horn in Baltimore, Md., April 22, 1801; son 
 of W. T. Magruder, U. S. A. and C. S. A., 
 and Mary Clayton (Hamilton) Magruder. 
 He was educated in St. John's School, Siriff 
 Sing, N. Y. Peekskill Military Academy, 
 Stevens Institute of Technolooy, M.E., 
 1881, and took graduate work at Johns 
 Hopkins University, 1886-1887. He began 
 his career as draftsman and designer with 
 the Campbell Printing Press and Manu- 
 facturing Company, of Taunton, Mass., 
 1881-1886. and was chief chemist for the 
 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in 1887. He 
 became instructor, 1887-1888, and adjvmct 
 professor, 1888-1890, of mechanical engi- 
 neering in Vanderbilt University ; and since 
 1896 has been profes.-or of mechanical en- 
 gineering at The Ohio State University. He 
 has made a specialty of gas engineering, 
 and was chief of machinery of the Ten- 
 nessee Centennial Exposition, in 1890. He 
 is a member of the American Society of 
 Mechanical Engineers; the American As- 
 sociation for the Advancement of Sci- 
 ence (secretary of Section D since 1902), 
 Engineers' Club of Columbus, Ohio (presi- 
 dent, 1904-190.5. and director. 1905-1907) : 
 the Ohio Society of Mechanical Engineers 
 (vice-president, 1904-1905, president, 1905- 
 1907) ; National Society for the Promotion 
 of Industrial Education, and has been coun- 
 cilor, secretary and vice-president of the 
 Society for the Promotion of Engineer- 
 ing Education. Professor Magruder rnar- 
 ried at Nashville, Tenn., June IS, 1891, 
 Ellen Fall Malone, and they have two sons. 
 Residence: 342 West 9th Avenue. Of- 
 fices: Ohio State University, Columbus, 
 Ohio. 
 
 MAHAN, Alfred Thayer: 
 
 Rear-admiral, V. S. Na^y, retired: born 
 at West Point, N. Y., Sept. 27. 1840; son 
 of D. H. Mahan, who was professor of 
 
 mililniy engineering at the ['. S. Mililiiry 
 Academy. He was appointed from .N'pw 
 York as cadet at the U. S. N'avni Acadfiny 
 in 1856 and was graduated in 1859. He 
 received tlie honorary degrees of D.C.L. 
 from the University of Oxford, and LI.. I). 
 from the University of Cambridge. Eng- 
 land. 1894; from Harvard. 185!t; from 
 Yale, 1897; from MefJill I'nivprsity. Mon- 
 treal, 1900; Columbia. 1900. He served on 
 the U. S. S. Congress. Brazil, 1859-1801; 
 Pocahontas, Soutli Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron, 1861-1862; was commissioned 
 lieutenant Aug. 31. 1861; served at the 
 Naval Academy, 1862-1863; on the steam 
 sloop Seminole, Western Gulf Squadron. 
 1863-1864; on the James Adgar. South At- 
 lantic Squadron, from 1864-1865. After 
 serving in the various grades on all the 
 naval stations he was promoted to captain 
 in 1885; served at the Naval War College, 
 1886-1889; president of commission for se- 
 lecting a site for a new navy yard on the 
 Northwest Coast, 1889; on special duty in 
 the Bureau of Navigation, 1889 1892; presi- 
 dent of the War College and Torpedo 
 School, 1892-1893; commanded the Chicago. 
 1893-1895; retired upon his own application 
 after fort,y years of service, Nov. 17, 1890. 
 In May, 1898, he was« ordered to duty as 
 a member of the Naval War Board ; and 
 was a delegate to the Hague Conference 
 in 1899. In 1906 he was advanced to the 
 grade of rear admiral retired, and ordered 
 to duty in connection with the Naval War 
 College at Newport, R. I., 1908. liear-ad- 
 miral ]\Iahan is the leading naval historian 
 and commentator on naval afTairs in the 
 United States. His works have opened a 
 new epoch in the consideration of naval 
 history, and he is as well the leading naval 
 strategist of the United States if not of 
 the world, his service in connection with 
 the Spanish American War having given 
 him an international reputation in this re- 
 spect. His works include: The (Julf and 
 Inland Waters; The Influence of Sea 
 Power Upon Plistory, 1600 1873; Influence 
 of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution 
 and Empire. 1793-1812; Life of Admiral 
 Farragut; Life of Nelson; The Interest of 
 tlie United States in Sea Power: Lessons 
 of the Spanish Warj The Problem of Asia; 
 
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 Tlio Sduili Alrican War; Types of Naval 
 Ollicers; Kcliospoct and Prospect; Sea, 
 Power ill Its Relation to tlie War of IS 12; 
 From Sail to Steam: Some Neglected As- 
 pects of War, and others bearing on po- 
 litical histoiy as eti'ected by naval and com- 
 mercial power. He is a member of tlie 
 University, Century and Church Clubs of 
 New York City. Address: Quogue, N. Y. 
 
 MAHAN, Dennis Hart: 
 
 Commodore U. S. Navy, retired; born at 
 \\'est Point, New York, March 28, 1849; 
 son of Dennis Hart Mahan, who was pro- 
 fessor of military engineering in the U. 
 S. Military Academy. He was gradu- 
 ated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 
 July, 18U5; commissioned ensign, July, 
 1870; master, February, 1S73; lieutenant, 
 September, 1877; lieutenant-commander. 
 May, 1898: commander, March, 1901; cap- 
 tain, July 1, 1905. He served on the Sa- 
 bine, 1869-1870; the Tennessee, on special 
 service on the San Domingo Expedition, 
 1871; Wachusett, Shenandoah and Con- 
 gress, in European Squadron, 1871-1874; 
 Plymouth, North Atlantic Squadron, 1874- 
 1875; the Supply, on special duty, 1870- 
 1877; training shijj Minnesota, 1877-1878; 
 receiving ship Independence, 1879-1880; the 
 Alert, Asiiuelot and Richmond, Asiatic 
 Squadron, 1880 1883; Pcnsacola, special 
 service, 1883-1884; training ship Minnesota, 
 1885; at the Naval Academy, 1886-1888; 
 War College, 1888; Coast Survey, 1888- 
 1890; Alert, special service, 1890-1893; on 
 duty in the Hydrographic Office, 1893-1896; 
 C. S. steamer Machias, 1890-1898; Yumuri, 
 .\|iril. 1898; Badger, May, 1898-1899; 
 Brooklyn. 1899-1900; ordnance duty at the 
 Wasliington Navy Yard. 1900; NaNy Yard, 
 Puget Sound. 1901-1902; commanding 
 Monadnock, 1902-1904, Asiatic Fleet; ord- 
 nance ollicer Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., 
 1!)05-1906; commanding the Indiana, North 
 Atlantic Fleet, 1906-1907. During this 
 comiiiand lu; was directed to land a force 
 and take possession of tlie penitentiary at 
 Kingston, Jamaica, during the earthquake 
 disaster in .lanuarv. 1907. 'i'lic Indiana's 
 crew quelled tlic inci|iiciit iiiulin\' and gave 
 j)rotection to (Jovernor Swctteiiliam duiing 
 the administration of justice to mutineers 
 
 in tlic piison; captain of the yard, Navy 
 Yard. I'uget Sound, 1907-1909; retired 
 June 30, 1909, with rank of commodore. 
 .\(hlress: ^^'arronton, Ya. 
 
 MAHON, Thaddeus Maclay: 
 
 Ex congressman and lawyer; born at 
 Greenvillage, Franklin County, Pa. He 
 received a common school and academic edu- 
 cation ; enlisted as a private in Company 
 A, 126th Pennsylvania Volunteers in Au- 
 gust, 1862: after a term of .service in this 
 regiment he reenli.sted as a veteran in Jan- 
 uary, 18()4, in the 21st Pennsylvania 
 Cavalry; served until September, 1865; 
 participated in most of the engagements 
 with the Army of the Potomac, Fifth 
 Corps; was seriously wounded at Boydton 
 Plank Road, Va., Nov. 4, 1864. He' read 
 law, and was admitted to practice in 1871, 
 and has been in active practice ever since. 
 Mr. Mahon was a member of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Legislature, 1870-1871; served as 
 chairman of the General Judiciary Com- 
 mittee; is president of Baltimore and Cum- 
 berland Valley Railroad, president of St. 
 Thomas Bank ; a member of the commis- 
 sion having charge of the soldiers' orphan 
 schools of Pennsylvania, and was a candi- 
 date for Congress in the Eighteenth District 
 in 1876, and was defeated by Hon. W. S. 
 Stenger (w'ho received the support of the 
 Ureenbackers) by the small majority of 
 forty-nine. He has always been a Repub- 
 lican and has always taken an active part . 
 in State and National politics; was elected I 
 to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-lifth, I 
 Fifty-sixtli, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth 
 Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth 
 Congress, serving until March 3, 1907. Ad- 
 dress: Chambersburg, Pa. 
 
 MAIN, Hubert Piatt: 
 
 Composer, editor, music I)ooks: born in 
 Uidgelield, Conn., Aug. 17. 1839; eldest son 
 of Syhcstei- and Susan Main. He was (>du- 
 cated in the district school of IJidgcfield. 
 Conn.: went to New ^'o^k City. 1854: was 
 a clcik in a niciTs turnisliiiiL; house, 1850- 
 1S.")7; with a ])ianofort(' house, 1858-1864: 
 with l"hili|. IMiillips, 1864-18(i6; with Wil- 
 liam H. Bradbury, 18()7; since 1868 with 
 Bigelow & Main, and the Bigelow & Main 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Illii 
 
 Company, of wliich lio is now (icasurcr. 
 Since 185.5 he lias composed mu^ic, com- 
 piled and edited song books for cluuches, 
 singing sciiools, Snnday scliools, and col- 
 lege collections. He is author and com- 
 piler, and compiler for authors, of: Sun- 
 (l;iy School Lute, 1856; New Lute of Zion, 
 Jo5G; Methodist Hymns and Tunes, 1857; 
 The Dayspring. 1859; Cottage Melodies, 
 1S5!); Bradbury's Anthem Book, 1860; 
 Hallowed Songs, 1SG4; Sacred Lute, 1864; 
 ^lusical Leaves, 1864; Home Songs, 1865; 
 Singing Pilgrim, 1866; New Methodist 
 Hymn and Tune Book, 1866; Chapel Mel- 
 niiies. 1868; The Victory, 1869; ]?ible Harp, 
 l,S(i9; Bugle Notes, 1871; The Coronation, 
 1872; Christian Songs, 1872; Temple An- 
 thems, 1873; Winnowed Hymns, 1873; 
 Book of Praise, 1875; Chautauqua Collec- 
 tion, 1875; Songs for Little Folks, 1875; 
 Imperial Harmony, 1876; Ka Lei Alii, 
 1878; Glee Circle, 1879; Sterling Gems, 
 1880; The Alleluia, 1880, 1884; New Alle- 
 luia, 1886; Church Praise Book, 1881; 
 Hoku ao Xani, 1882; Little Pilgrim Songs, 
 1883; Our Treasury of Song, 1883; Hymns 
 of Praise, 1884; Buk in Al, 1886; Sterling 
 Anthems, 1886; Ripples of Song, 1887; 
 New Organ Folio, 1887; Trumpet Notes, 
 1888; Church Hymnary, 1890; Songs of 
 Psi Upsilon, 1891; Garnered Gems, 1892; 
 Songs of Harvard, 1892; Augsburg Songs, 
 No. 2, 1893; Phi Kappa Psi Song Book, 
 1893; Songs of Alpha Phi, 1893; Select 
 Songs, No. 2, 1893; Harvest Gems, 1896; 
 The Hymnal of the Church, 1897; Anene 
 :Mu B'ana, 1897; Book of Worship, 1898; 
 The Hosanna, 1898; Gems of Song for the 
 Sunday School, 1901; Gloria Deo, 1901; 
 Leo Hoonani. 1902; Devotional Songs, 1903; 
 Songs of Alpha Phi, enlarged, 1904; Bap- 
 tist Hymn and Praise Book, 1904; Bixby's 
 Home Songs Complete, 1909; also numerous 
 carols for Christmas and Easter; May an- 
 niversary songs. Thanksgiving services and 
 Floral Praise services for Children's Day, 
 from 1883 to 1898. He has assisted in 
 the compilation of several church hymnals 
 and the various publications of the Biglow 
 & Main Company, since 1808, and is author 
 of the popular songs: We Shall Meet; 
 Tiie Bright Forever; O, How He Loves; 
 Christ My All; Blessed Homeland; My 
 
 l'«'id an. I I : jl,,. |!!i-M-d II.mU: What a 
 Slii.ut Was I lean! : Man tin- Life IVwt ; <» 
 Little Town of Hcllih'liciii; I Stii.nl ()iil>idc 
 (he (iale; ISright (Jiory Land; I'm Wailing 
 for ihee; 'Ihe Sweet Voice; Bye, Baby, 
 Bye; Good-night. .My Darling; When Mary 
 Was a Lassie, and others; in all over 000 
 piU)lislied songs. He .served as organist 
 in dillerent churches, lS5(i-l.S78. .Mr. 
 Main is a Methodist and a Kepubliean. 
 He is a nainber of tiie Clef Club. Me mar- 
 ried in New York City, Sept. 18, I8(i5, 
 (). Louise De Groff. Residence: 12 North 
 9th Street, Newark, N. J. Addros: l.-,6 
 Fifth Avenue, New York ( ily. 
 
 MALONE, -Walter: 
 
 ,Juii>t and author; born in J>e Soto 
 County, Miss., Feb. 10, 186U; son of Franklin 
 Jeflerson and Mary Louisa (Hardin) .Malone. 
 He was graduated from the University of 
 Mississippi, 1887. Mr. Malone practj.sed 
 law in Memphis, Tenn., 1887-1897: lived 
 in New York, 1897-1900, engaged in liter- 
 ary work, and in the practice of law, 1900- 
 1905, in Memphis. He was appointed judge 
 of the Second Circuit Court at Memphis, 
 Tenn.. March 29, 1905, and has held this 
 position ever since. He is author of: 
 Claribel and Other Poems, 1882: The Out- 
 cast anil Otiier Poems, 1885; Xarcis-us 
 and Other Poems, 1892; Songs of Dusk 
 and Dawn, 1895; Songs of December 
 and June, 1896; The Coining of the 
 King, 1897; Songs of North and South, 
 1900; Poems. 1904; Songs of Ea.st and 
 West, 1906; and a contributor to periodi- 
 cals. He is a member of the Sigma Chi 
 fraternity, and of the Authors Club of 
 New Y'ork, and the Business Men's Club 
 of Memphis. Address: Court House, Mem- 
 phis, Tenn. 
 
 MALONEY, Andrew P.: 
 
 OlFicial of public utilitiis and imiustrial 
 corporations; was born in Scranton. Pa.. 
 March 16, 1861; son of John Maloney and 
 Catherine Maloney. He was educated in 
 the public schools and business college. 
 Mr. Maloney is president of the State Con- 
 struction Company, and of the Coast Gas 
 Company; vice president of Maloney Land 
 Improvement Company; secretary of the 
 
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 Lakewoofl Oas Coinpniiy; lieasxupr of ihc 
 X('\vl)ol(l lini)ioveinent Company, City Gas 
 Liglit Company and Shore Gas Com- 
 pany; director of tlie North Philadelpliia 
 Trust Company, secretary and treasurer 
 of the Hygeia ice and Cold Storage Com- 
 pany, Philadelphia, and of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Iron Works Operating Company. 
 He is married and has six children. Resi- 
 dence: 1504 Tioga Street. Office: irVAQ 
 Land Title ]?iiilding, Philadelphia. 
 
 MALTBIE, Mile Roy: 
 
 Member of the Public Service Commis- 
 sion for the First District of New York ; 
 born at Hinckley, 111.. April 3. 1871; son 
 of Henry ]\Iunson and Harriet S. (Delano) 
 Miiltliie. He was graduated from Upper 
 Iowa University, Ph.B., 1892. Northwestern 
 University, Ph.M., 1893, and from Colum- 
 bia University, Ph.D., 1897. He was sec- 
 retary of tlie Reform Club Committee on 
 City 'Affairs. 1897-1902. Mr. Maltbie was 
 editor of ^luiiicipal Affairs, 1897-1903; sec- 
 retary to Art Commission of the City of 
 New York, 1902-1907; investigated muni- 
 cipal conditions in Europe for the Reform 
 Club. 1899; stiperintended the inquiry into 
 nuinicipal ownership of public utilities in 
 Great I?ritain for the National Civic Fed- 
 eration, 190G; was delegate to the Inter- 
 national Congress on Housing, 1902. He 
 is a member of the American Political Sci- 
 ence Association, American Economic As- 
 sociation. Municipal Art Society, Metro- 
 politan Parks Association, Economic Club 
 and City Club, of New York City. He 
 is author of: English Local Government 
 of To-Day; A Study of the Relations of 
 Central and Local Government ; Muni- 
 cipal Functions; Street Railways of Chi- 
 cago. He has contributed to many economic 
 journals and prepared numoious reports 
 upon nuinicipal matters for llic U. S. gov- 
 ernment, various cities, and private or- 
 ganizations. He niairied at Mt. Morris. 
 HI., July 11. 1901. Lucia McCosh. Resi- 
 dence: 593 Riverside Drive. Oflice ad- 
 dress: Tril)Une Ruilding, New York City. 
 
 MAN, Ernest A.: 
 
 Consular oflicer; born in Pennsylvania in 
 1849 J educated in private schools. lie was 
 
 appointed consul at (lollienlnirg. Feb. 22, 
 1887; retired Dec. 5, 1890; ap])ointed con- 
 sul at Bergen, May 15, 1896; retired Aug. 
 4, 1898; appointed consular agent at 
 Schiedam, Oct. 27, 1898; consul at Breslau, 
 March 8, 1901; consul-general at Copen- 
 hagen, June 24, 1906; consul at Leghorn, 
 Italy, .since June 24, 1907. Address: Leg- 
 horn, Italy. 
 
 MANIERRE, Alfred Lee: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, May 
 4, 1861; son of Benjamin F. and Caroline 
 ( Flynn ) ^lanierre. He received his educa- 
 tion at Columbia College, in the class of 
 1883. He was Prohibition candidate for 
 mayor of New York City in 1900, and for 
 governor of New York State in 1902. ]\Ir. 
 iNIanierre is a Presbyterian ; and an elder 
 of the Scarborough Presbyterian Church. 
 He is a member of the Association of the 
 Bar of the City of New York, and the 
 Alpha Delta Phi fraternity; trustee of the 
 National Temperance Society; trustee and 
 treasurer of the New York Red Cross Hos- 
 pital; and member of the Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society. He is also a menrber of the City, 
 Alpha Delta Phi and Barnard Clubs. He 
 married in New York City, Nov. 10, 1897, 
 Cornelia P. Lockwood, and they have three 
 children. Residence: 330 West 76th 
 Street. Office: 31 Nassau Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 MANN, Cameron: 
 
 Missionarj' bishop of North Dakota ; born 
 in New York City in 1851; son of Rev. 
 Duncan and Caroline Brother (Schuyler) 
 .Maini. He was graduated from Hobarl. 
 B.A., 1870, M.A., 1870; and the degree of 
 ]).D. was conferred upon him in 1889 by the 
 General Theological Seminary in New York. 
 He took orders as deacon of the Episcopal 
 Church in 1873. and was ordained priest 
 l)y Bisliop Coxe in 1876. He was rector at 
 Brancliport, N. J., 1873 1875. St. Peter's 
 Church, Albany, N. Y.. 1875; of St. James' 
 Church. Watkins, N. Y., 1875-1882. and of 
 Grace Church. Kan.sas City. Mo., 1882-1901. 
 He was elected missionary bishoj) of North 
 Dakota and was consecrated liy Bishops 
 Tuttle. Talbot. Atwill, Brooke, Millspaugli, 
 Edsall, and Morrison (Iowa). Bishop 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Mann married, in 1882, Mary Le Cain. He 
 is author of: Future Puni.shment. 1888; 
 Conuncnts on the Cros.s, 1803. Address: 
 I'^argo, N. D. 
 
 MANN, James E..: 
 
 ("ousjressnian and lawyer; born on a farm 
 in .McLean County, 111., Oct. '20, 1856. He 
 moved with his family lo Iroquois County, 
 111., when eleven years old; received his 
 early education in the public schools, and 
 lie afterward attended the University of 
 Illinois, from which he was graduated A.B., 
 1S76. and completed the law course of the 
 Union Collejjo of Law with the degree of 
 LL.B. in 1881. Since then he has been 
 enoa<ied in law practice in Chicago, and 
 is head of the law firm of IVIann and Mil- 
 ler. He has been attorney for Hyde Park 
 and the South Park commis-sioners of Chi- 
 cago; was for four years a member of the 
 City Council of Chicago; was chairman of 
 the Illinois State Republican Convention in 
 1894; and chairman of the .Republican 
 County Convention in Chicago in 1895. and 
 again in 1902; was elected to the Fifty- 
 fifth, Fifty-.sixth. Fifty-seventh, Fifty- 
 eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Con- 
 gresses, and reelected to the Sixty-first Con- 
 gress in 1908, from the Second District of 
 Illinois. Residence: Hyde Paik, Hotel. 
 Office: Ashland Block, Chicago. 
 
 MANN, Louis: 
 
 Actor; born in New York City, 1865; 
 son of Daniel and Carolina Mann, His first 
 appearance on the stage was at three years 
 of age, in a children's production of Snow 
 Flake, a Christmas pantomime in German, 
 at the old Stadt Theater, on the Bowery. 
 He went to California with liis parents 
 A\hen he was twelve years of age. He was 
 educated in the New York public schools 
 and took a partial course in the University 
 of California. He did not complete his col- 
 lege course, but joined the McCullough & 
 Barrett Stock Company and played boy 
 parts, and on Sundays appeared with the 
 Cierman Stock Company under Ottillie 
 Genee. He returned, with his parents, to 
 the East and was inducetl to go to a 
 private school, but at seventeen was again 
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 on the stage, where he lias cotit iiiii<-d. Mr. 
 Mann ai)peared with Bixith, Salvini. .Marie 
 Prescott and Tvowis Morrison, and other fa- 
 mous actors, and finally licade<l lii^ own 
 company as " Kol.crl .\ndley " in I.iidy 
 Audley; " Orniand Dnval " in Caniille; 
 ■ Rolado ■' in The Honeymoon; " .MiiNlcr 
 Waller" in The Ilunehlmek; later in The 
 Clenienceau Case, and in Incog; later made 
 his first essay as a Cernnin dialect comed- 
 ian as "Rothschild liolVmeister " in The 
 Passing Regiment ; tor)k his own company 
 to the Pacific Coast and back, jjlaying Tlw 
 Laughing Girl (of which he was joint au- 
 thor with Mrs. D. F. Vonlenal) ; since that 
 has created the rOles of " Hcrr von Moser " 
 in The Strange Adventures of Miss lirown ; 
 "Hans, the Innkeeper" in The Girl from 
 Paris; "Hans Xix. Inspector of Tele- 
 phones" in Tlie Telephone Girl; '• U-bardy, 
 Chocolate Manufacturer," in The Girl in 
 the Barracks; " Hochstuhl " in All on Ac- 
 count of Eliza ; then was for a season with 
 Weber & Fields; starred as "Leopold'" in 
 The Second Field; since then, for last and 
 the present season, playing " Papa Poti jol " 
 in Julie Bonbon, written by Clara Lipnian. 
 He married Clara Lipninn, actress and 
 playwright. Address: ;!l(i W. lOl.-t Street. 
 W'w ^'ol■k City. 
 
 MANN, Matthew Derbyshire: 
 
 Physician; born in Utica, X. Y.. July 
 12, 1845; son of Charles Adison and Emma 
 (Bagg) !Mann, He was educated in the 
 )niblie schools of L'tica ; was graduated 
 from Yale University, A.B.. 1867. .\.M.. 
 
 1870, and fiom Cohunbia University. .M.D.. 
 
 1871. He practised medicine in New York 
 City until 1879; moved to Hartford, Conn., 
 and practised there until 1882: and since 
 1882 has been practising in BulTalo; and 
 is professor of obstetrics and gynecology 
 and dean of the ^ledical Faculty in the 
 University of Buffalo. He has traveled in 
 Euroi)e five times; also extensively in this 
 coinitrv. He is a fellow of many local. 
 State and national medical societies, and 
 has held nmny important office^ in so- 
 cieties. Dr. Mann is a fellow ami ex-presi- 
 dent of the American Gynecological So- 
 ciety; and he is a member of the .\nn'iican 
 Civic Federation, and Psi Upsilon frater- 
 
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 iiity ; ))iesident of tlie Giiitlo Chorus, mem- 
 ber of the Society of Colonial \\'ars; and 
 president of St. Margaret School Associa- 
 tion; member of the University Clubs of 
 Bull'alo. Dr. ^lann married in St. Paul, 
 Minn.. Nov. 11, 1869, Elizabeth Pope, and 
 tliey Jiavc had seven chililren. Address: 
 37 Allen Street. Buffalo, X. Y. 
 
 MANN, William D'Alton: 
 
 Soldier, inventor and editor; born in 
 Sandusky, Ohio, Sept. 27, 1839; son of Wil- 
 liam R. and Eliza (Ford) Mann. He was 
 educated as a civil engineer, and at the 
 outbreak of the Civil War, entered the army 
 as captain of the First I\lichigan Cavalry. 
 In 1862 he organized the first Mounted 
 Rifles, afterward known as the Fifth Michi- 
 gan Cavalry. Immediately following, at 
 the urgent request of the governor, he or- 
 ganized and commanded in the field the 
 Seventh Michigan Cavalry. Colonel Mann 
 received patents for valuable accoutrements 
 for troops. After the war, he settled in 
 Mobile, Ala., and engaged as a manufac- 
 turer of cottonseed oil and in railroad pro- 
 motion and construction, and was proprie- 
 tor of Mobile Register. He was elected to 
 Congress from the Mobile District in 1869, 
 by an overwhelming majority, but was re- 
 fused a certificate by the Reconstruction 
 ollicials. In January, 1872, he patented the 
 lioudoir car and spent the ne.\t ten years 
 in Europe introducing it there; in 1878 he 
 l)atented a platform on railway cars con- 
 stituting the vestibuled trains now in uni 
 versal use. Tie returned in 1883, settled 
 in New York City and established the 
 Mann Boudoir Car Company, which after- 
 ward sold out to the Pullman Company. 
 Colonel Mann became owner and editor of 
 Town Topics in 1891; in I'.KIO founded Tiie 
 Smart Set iSIagazine; and in 1905, the 
 'i'rans-Atlantic Tales Magazine. He is a 
 member of the Military (lider of Ihe Loyal 
 I.,egion; niembei- <>{ the Soutlicrn Sociely. 
 Ohio Society, and life mcnihcr of the Al- 
 Itany Burgesses Corps; iiifmbcr of the 
 Lotos, Manhattan, Army and Navy, Na- 
 tional Democratic, Press, and Transporta- 
 tion Clubs and the Old Guard. He mar 
 ried Sopjiia Hartog, of New York City. Ad- 
 
 dress: 309 West 72d Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 MANNERS, Edwin: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Jersey City, March 6, 
 1855; son of David S. and Deborah Philips 
 (Johnes) Manners. He received his pre- 
 paratory education in the Hasbrouck In- 
 stituue, Jersey City, and at Mount Pleasant 
 Military Academy, Ossining-on-Hudson; was 
 graduated from Princeton University as 
 A.B. in 1877, and A.M. in 1880, and from 
 v^^olumbia University as LL.B. in 1879. He 
 was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an 
 attorney in 1880, and as a counsellor in 
 1883, and has practised his profession in 
 his native town. He has large real estate 
 interests in Jersey City and stock holdings 
 in several business corporations. He is 
 of literary tastes and inclinations and con- 
 tributes occasionally to the press, in both 
 verse and prose. In politics he is a Demo- 
 crat and in religion an Episcopalian. Mr. 
 Manners is a member of the Hudson Coun- 
 ty Bar Association, Society of the Sons 
 of the American Revolution, historical and 
 other associations. He has traveled widely. 
 He is a member of the Princeton Club of 
 New York and of the University and Palnia 
 Clubs of Jersey City. Country house: Har- 
 lingen, near Princeton, N. J. Residence: 
 287 Barrow Street, Jersey City. Address: 
 1 .Montgomery Street, Jersey City, N. J. 
 
 MANNING, William T,: 
 
 Clergj^man; born in England in 1866; 
 son of John Manning. ?Ie was educated at 
 tiie University of the South, receiving the 
 degree of B.IX in 1893; the degrees of D.D. 
 from the University of Nashville in 1901, 
 S.T.D. from Columbia University in 1905, 
 and D.D. from the University of the South 
 in 1906. He was rector of Trinity Church, 
 Rcdlands, Calif., in 1891 ; professor of dog- 
 matic tlu'ology in the University of the 
 South in 1893; rector of St. John's Church, 
 ivansdowne, Pa., in 1896; rector of Christ 
 Clnucli. Nashville, Tenn., 1898; vicar of 
 St. Agnes' Chapel, Trinity Parish, New 
 York, 1903; was elected bishop of Harris- 
 burg in 1904. but declined; was made as- 
 sistant rector of Triiiilv Parish, l!t04, and 
 
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 elected rector of Trinity Parish, New York 
 City, in 1908. Residence: 27 West 25th 
 Street. Office: 187 Fulton Street, New 
 ^■(irk City. 
 
 MANSFIELD, Howard: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Hamden, Conn., July 2, 
 1849; son of Jesse Merrick and Julia (Tut- 
 lle) Mansfield. He was graduated from 
 Yale, A.B., 1871, A.M., 1874, and from Co 
 lumbia as LL.B., 1874. He was admitted to 
 the bar in 1874, and is now senior member 
 of the law firm of Lord, Day and Lord. 
 Mr. Mansfield has been counsel at diiTerent 
 times for numerous corporations as well 
 as individuals, including the West Shore 
 Railroad Company, Pullman Company, St. 
 Louis and San Francisco Railway Com- 
 pany, New York, Ontario and Western 
 Railway Company, Western New York and 
 Pennsylvania Railway Company, Omaha 
 Water Company, Cuba Company and Cuba 
 Railroad Company. He has been a member 
 of the Art Commission of the City of New 
 Yoik; and is a director and the general 
 counsel of the Omaha Water Company, and 
 a director and the vice-president and 
 the general counsel of the Cuba Company 
 and a director and the general counsel 
 of the Cuba Railroad Company; and 
 a trustee of the People's Institute. Mr. 
 Mansfield is a collector of modern etch- 
 ings, especially the works of Whistler, 
 Haden, ]Meryon, Millet, Bracquemond, 
 Legros, Daubigny, Lalanne, Gaillard, and 
 collector of Japanese works of art. He is 
 a member of the Metropolitan Museum of 
 Art, Ameiican Museum of Natural History, 
 and of the Century, University, Yale, Gro 
 lior (ex-president), Barnard, National Arts, 
 Players', Lawyers', Down Town, and Mac- 
 Dowell Clubs of New York City, St. Bo- 
 tolph Club of Boston, the Graduates' Club 
 of New Haven, and the Caxton Club of Chi- 
 cago. He married at Narragansett Pier, 
 Sept. 12, 1895, Helen Coolidge Tuttle 
 (Todd). Address: 49 Wall Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 MANSFIELD, Robert E.: 
 
 Consular olhcer ; born in Indiana. June 
 13, 18G6; son of Robert Goble and Margaret 
 
 (Tliornburg) Mansfiehl. After coinpletinf^ 
 his pui)lic school education lie ongaKed in 
 newspaper work in Indiana in 1HH4, and 
 he was owner ami cditijr of tlie Marion 
 News, lS97-l!)(l(t. lie was elected .-ecretury 
 of th(! Republican Slate committee of In- 
 diana in 1896. He was appointed consul at 
 Zanzibar, May 25, 1899; retire<l Jan. 10, 
 liidl; was appointed con-ul at X'alparaiso, 
 March 27. 1!»()1 ; consul at Lucerne, June 
 22. iniKi. eonsul at St. Gall, Switzerland, 
 June 10, 1908, consul-general at Zurich, 
 Switzerland, I-'eb. 17, 1909. He is author 
 of: Country Life in Chile, and is a con 
 tributor to magazines and periodicals. Mr. 
 Mansfield married in Rushville, Ind., April 
 17, 1906, Fanny Gowdy. His home is in 
 Marion, Ind. Official address: American 
 Consulate-general. Zurich, Switzerland. 
 
 MANTELL, Robert Bruce: 
 
 ■|rag('(li;in; boin in Jrxine, Ayrshire, Scot- 
 land, Feb. 7, 1854; son of James and Eliza- 
 beth Mantell. He began stage life as the 
 •' Sergeant " in Arrah-na-Pogue at Roclidale. 
 England, in 1876. His first appearance in 
 America was with Mme. Modjeska, in 1878. 
 Soon after coming to the United States, he 
 attracted attention by playing the charac- 
 ter of " Romeo " in an engagement in which 
 six star actresses (including Marie Wain 
 wriglit) alternated in the character of "Ju- 
 liet," during recent years he has been at the 
 head of his own company, appearing prin- 
 cipally in Shakespearean roles. Address: 
 Lambs Club, New York City. 
 
 MANTON, Benjamin Dyer: 
 
 United States consul; born in Providence. 
 R. 1., May 10, 1829; .son of Au.stis Salma 
 and Anstis Manton. He is eighth in 
 descent from Roger Williams, and also from 
 Mary Dyer, who was hanged for her 
 Quaker principles on Boston Common. Jum- 
 1. 1660. He was educated in the common 
 schools, went to sea in 1844 and in 1840 
 sailed for California, via Cape Horn. Later 
 he commanded some of the finest clipper 
 ships from the port of New York, in the 
 China and Australian trade, his fir>t com- 
 mand being the barque Le Coc<|, in which 
 he went to Montevideo in 1852; in 1S5G he 
 commanded the clipper Haidee, in the China 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 trade, and in 1857 in conimand of the sliip 
 Messenger, of the Bhick Ball Line, he made 
 the voyage lo Melbourne from Liverpool in 
 seventy-one days; after that he returned 
 to the China trade and at the beginning 
 of the Civil Wiir he was appointed one 
 of the sixteen volunteer lieutenants author- 
 ized by Congress and commanded the mor- 
 tar brig Sea Foam and tlie ship Relief in 
 Dui)ont's and Farragufs Squadrons. After 
 the war he built two steamships, and, en- 
 tering the employ of tlie Brazilian Gov- 
 ernment, carried about sixteen thousand 
 troops from Rio de Janiero and other ports 
 to the war then raging between Paraguay 
 and tlie three neighboring countries of Bra- 
 zil, Argentina and Uruguay. He built in 
 1868, at Colonia, Uruguay, the first dock 
 for repairing vessels on the River Plate, 
 and since 1869 has been United States con- 
 sul at Colonia. He was the first to intro- 
 duce the telephone into Argentina and Uru- 
 guay, and 1800 he also introduced the elec- 
 tric light into Uruguay, supplying the town 
 of Colonia; and he has extensive vineyards 
 at San Benito, near Colonia. lie is a mem- 
 ber of the (Jrand Army of the Republic, the 
 ^filitary Order of the Loyal Legion of the 
 United States, the California Pioneers, Far- 
 ragufs Veterans, and the Sons of the Revo- 
 lution. Ho married in Providence, R. I., 
 Feb. 1, 1855, Julia 1). Gladding. Address: 
 Villa Real, Colonia, Uruguay. 
 
 MAPES, Victor: 
 
 .iullKji', jjhiy Wright; born in New York 
 City, March io, 1870; son of Charles V. 
 and Martha Mapes; nephew of Mary Mapes 
 Dodge. He was graduated from Columbia 
 University, A.B. (first in class), 18!)1; 
 studied literature and the drama at the 
 Sorbonne, Paris, 1892 1893. He resided in 
 Paris, 1892-1896. His first play. La Com- 
 tesse de Lisne, was produced at Tlieater 
 Mondain, Paris, and was pronoiiiK rd a suc- 
 cess; while in Paris he was a correspond- 
 ent of the New York Sun. On his return 
 to the United States in 1897 he became 
 stage manager for Daniel Frohman at the 
 Lyceum Theater. His first play, produced 
 in Xew Yoik City, was a one-act play, 
 A Flower of Yeddo, at the I'hnpire Theater. 
 He was dramatic critic of tlie New York 
 
 World, 1898-1899; manager of the Globe 
 Theater, Boston, 1903-1904; director of the 
 N'ew Theater (endowed) of Chicago, 1906- 
 1907. Among his later plays are: The 
 Tory's Guest (produced, 1900) ; Don 
 CiBsar's Return (1901); Captain Barring- 
 ton (1903); and The Undercurrent (Chi- 
 cago, 1907); The Detective (1908). He is 
 author of a novel. Partners Three (1909); 
 Duse and the French; and a contributor 
 of short stories to magazines. He is a 
 member of the Phi Beta Kappa and P.^i 
 Upsilon fraternities. He is also a member 
 of the University, The Lambs', Columbia 
 University, The Players', and Psi Upsilou 
 Clubs of New York City, and University 
 Club, of Chicago. He married in Washing- 
 ton, June 5, 1900, Anna Louise Hoeke, 
 and has one son, James Jay Mapes, born 
 Oct. 3, 1902. Residence: Short Hills, N. 
 J. Address: 60 West Fortieth Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 MARBLE, Manton: 
 
 Editor, author, diplomat ; born at Worces- 
 ter, Mass.. Nov. 16, 1834; son of Joel and 
 Nancy Chapin (Coes) Marble: she a 
 descendant of Thaddeus Chapin and Lucy 
 Whitney, he a descendant of Samuel and 
 Freegrace Marble, after whom IMarble 
 Ridge was named near Andover, Mass., and 
 son of Deacon Solomon ]\Iarble (at Bunker 
 Hill, Saratoga, Yorktown) and Jerusha 
 (Greenwood) Marble, both of Millbury, 
 Mass. He was educated chiefly by his 
 father, was graduated from Albany Acad- 
 emy, 1853, and from Rochester University, 
 1S.")5. After seven years service with Bos- 
 ton and New Y'ork journals (under Wil- 
 liam Cullen Bryant, 1S58 1860, journey To 
 Red River and Beyond, 1859; The \Vorld 
 under Mr. Si)alding. 1860 1862) ; was then, 
 1862-1876, the proprietor and editor of the 
 New York World, thiough the War and 
 Reconstruction pciiixi. He was chairman 
 of the Executive Committee of the National 
 Democratic Committee in 1864. Mr. Marble 
 gave early publicity in the United States 
 to the writings of Herbert Spencer on the 
 maintenance of justice, as the chief, if not 
 sole legitimate domestic function of gov- 
 ernment wielding the coercive ))ower of the 
 whole body of citizens. He luddj in oppo- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 sition to the Peace Demoerats, that after 
 Fort Sumter war was ineluctable for re- 
 sisting the disruption of the Union and the 
 subversion of its Constitution, while, at 
 the same time, he opposed exorbitances of 
 executive power and usurpings of ungranted 
 power, as likewise its subversion ; he op- 
 posed the warping of Custom House taxa- 
 tion, touching all, into profit machines for 
 a few; opposed income-taxing as equipping 
 tlie Government-Fetish with poisoned claws, 
 and unapportioned Federal income-taxing 
 as direct taxes faithless to a compromise 
 and false to the terms of the Constitution. 
 He opposed greenbacks as an ever-injurious 
 substitute for money, doubling the cost of 
 the war then waging, thus redoubling our 
 own calamitous colonial experience, which 
 had caused the shaping of the Constitution 
 to make such issues lawless. He opposed 
 Negro-suffrage and the impeachment of 
 I'resident Johnson. Obstructing a misuse 
 for partisan advantage of issues so mo- 
 mentous, he urged and supported pro- 
 cedures consummated in the Washington 
 Treaty, the Geneva Arbitration, and the 
 Alabama Award, deeming the explicit 
 avowal of regret from the source over- 
 seas of our greatest injury to be the best 
 close of old antagonisms and the only be- 
 ginning of subsequent peace. He began the 
 assault against the Tweed King which 
 linally purged the city government for a 
 season and elected Samuel J. Tilden gov- 
 ernor of New York. He wrote the Syracuse 
 Democratic State Platform of 1874, upon 
 which Mr. Tilden stood for the governor- 
 ship of New York, also the St. Louis Na- 
 tional Democratic Platform of 1876, upon 
 which he stood for the Presidency of the 
 United States; most of the platform of 
 
 1884, upon which Mr. Cleveland stood for 
 the Presidency, and a pamphlet, in 1878, 
 disclosing that Mr. Tilden was not respon- 
 sible for the Electoral Commission Laws. 
 He was sent by President Cleveland, in 
 
 1885, as a special envoy to the Governments 
 of Great Britain, France, and Germany, 
 and, after conferences with Prince Bis- 
 marck, with MM. Freycinet and Carnot, and 
 also with Cernuschi (the classic authority 
 upon international bimetallism), with Mr. 
 
 Goschon, Lord Iddpslcigh and Mr. Glad- 
 stone, he ascertained and advised the PrCHi 
 dent that resumjjtion of free bimetallic coin- 
 age by any European power was condi- 
 tioned, sine qua non, upon British co- 
 operation, which neither Tory nor Liberal 
 ministries were prepared for (Mr. Glad- 
 stone doubtless prefening, even then, the 
 closure of the Indian mints to continuing 
 tlieir free coinage of silver), and linally 
 that our own United States Treasury pur- 
 chases of silver should cea.se. Mr. Marble 
 is author of: A Letter to Abraliain Lin- 
 coln, 18G4; The Presidential Counts. 1877; 
 A Secret Chapter of Political History, 
 1878; Memoir of Alexander G. Mercer, 
 D.D., prefixed to his Bil)le Characters, 1885. 
 and Notes of an Outlook on Life, collected 
 from the Mercer manuscripts, 18!)!). He 
 has been a member of the Century Asso- 
 ciation of New York since 1862; honorary 
 member of the Cobden Club (London) since 
 1872. of the Round Table (New York) 
 since 1878; was a founder of the Manhat- 
 tan (Jlub in 1865, its first secretary and, 
 1884-188!), its president; is a life member 
 of the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, and of the American 
 Academy of Political and Social Science 
 (Philadelphia), the American Scientific 
 Alliance, American Geographical Society, 
 and the New England Society, of New 
 York. Address: Bedford, N. Y. 
 
 MARCH, Alden: 
 
 Editor; born in Easton, Sept. 29, 1869; 
 son of Francis A. March, LL.D., L.H.D.. 
 and Mildred Stone (Conway) March. He 
 was graduated from Lafayette College, A.B., 
 1890, A.M., 189.1. He has been connected 
 with the Philadelphia Press since 1891, in 
 various capacities, news editor and city 
 editor, and Sunday editor since 1897. He 
 is author of: The Conquest of the Phil- 
 ippines, and Our Other Island Possessions 
 1899, A Darling Traitor, 1904, and of short 
 stories. He is a member of the Delta Kap- 
 pa Epsilon fraternity. University Cluh. 
 Residence: Four thousand four hundred 
 and twenty-four T^irchwood Avenue. Of- 
 fice: The Press, Seventh and Chestnut 
 Streets, Philadelphia. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 MARCUS, Louis William: 
 
 Jurist; born in Buffalo. X. Y., j\lay 18, 
 1863; son of Leopold and Amelia Marcus. 
 He was graduated from Cornell University, 
 LL.B., 1889. He was admitted to the bar 
 and enjj^aged in the general ]u-actice of law 
 ill Buffalo until elcc-ted surrogate of Erie 
 County, 1895, for six years; reelected, llJOl; 
 appointed November. 1905, and elected No- 
 veinlier, 190G, justice of the Supreme Court 
 of New York, term expiring Dec. 31, 1920. 
 ilr. Marcus married in Buffalo. Nov. 19, 
 1889, Ray D. Dahlman. Address: Hotel 
 Lenox, Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 MARCUS, George Elder: 
 
 Jeweler; born in New York City, 1859; 
 son of Herman and Margaret (Elder) Mar- 
 cus. He was educated in the Brooklyn 
 Polytecluiic In.stitute, and abroad at 
 Lausanne. Switzerland, and Heidelberg. 
 (Tennany. He is secretary, treasurer and 
 director of Marcus and Company; and di- 
 rector of the International Pearl Com- 
 pany. He is a member of tlie American 
 (ieograpliical Society and of the Lotos, 
 New York Riding, New ^'()rk Athletic, 
 Knoll wood Country, Apuwaiiiis, Barnard, 
 and Northward Ho Golf Clubs. Mr. Mar- 
 cus married, June 2, 1880. Anna R. Hand, 
 and they have one son. Addr(>s-: 544 
 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 MARCUS, William Elder: 
 
 Jeweler; h.avn in Xew ^'(uk' City, Axig. 
 28, 1S57: son of Herman and Margaret 
 (Elder) Marcus. He \\as educated in the 
 schools of New York City, at Ijjiusanne. 
 Switzerland. mikI in Heidelberg, Cermany. 
 He founded, in 1S7S. the firm of Jaques 
 and Marcus, wliicii changed in 1902 into 
 Marcus and Company. Incorporated, of 
 wliicli he is president. He is uNo vice- 
 ])resident of tlie international I'earl Cimi- 
 pany. He served in the Seventh Regiment 
 of the National Guard of New York, nine 
 years. He is a member of the Lotos. New 
 York Athletic. City. Montclair Golf and 
 Baltusrol Golf Clubs. M,-. Marcus mar- 
 ried in 1881, Mary Ward ( haiuii. and they 
 iiave three children. Residence: Mont- 
 clair. X. J. .Address: 544 Fifth Avenue. 
 New '\'ork Cit\'. 
 
 MARCY, Henry Orlando: 
 
 Surgeon: born in Otis, Mass.. June 23, 
 1837; son of Smith and Fanny (Gibbsl 
 j\Iarcy. He was educated at Wilbraham 
 Academy and Amherst College, A.INI. ; and 
 was graduated from the Medical School of 
 Harvard University, M,D., 18(53. In April, 
 1SG3, he was commissioned assistant sur- 
 geon of the 43d Massachusetts Volunteers, 
 and in November, 1863, was commissioned 
 surgeon of the First Regiment of Colored 
 Troops, recruited in North Carolina. In 
 1864 he was appointed medical director of 
 the Dejiartment of Florida, and served on 
 the staffs of General Van ^\'yek. Potter and 
 Hatch, resigning his commission in June, 
 1865. liis last special service being the 
 snnitarv renovation of Charleston, S. C. 
 He returned to ]\Iassachusetts and practised 
 in Cambridge until 1869, when he went to 
 Euro])e. and in that and the following year 
 he studied in the University of Berlin as 
 a special student of Professors Martin and 
 Virchow, then visited hospitals in several 
 h]uro])ean cities, spending the summer of 
 1870 in London and Edinburgh and in the 
 latter city becoming the first American pu- 
 pil of Professor Lister, whose antiseptic 
 treatment of wounds, aided by private in- 
 vestigations made in a laboratory of his 
 own in l^oston. he introduced in his pri- 
 \ate and hospital practice. He established, 
 in 1880, a private hosjiital in Cambridge 
 for the treatment of the surgical diseases, 
 of women, which hos])ital is still continued. 
 To Dr. Marcy is due the credit of introduc- 
 ing into America the methods of antiseptic 
 wound treatment, and his researches and 
 discoveries have contributed in a valuable 
 degree to the effect ivencss of modern surg- 
 ery. He was a member of the Seventh 
 (]>ond(m. 18S1). and vice-jiresident of the 
 gynecoh)gical section of the Ninth (^Yash■ 
 ington. D. C, 1887), International Medical 
 Congresses; is a member of the American 
 Medical Association (president. 1891) and 
 of the American Academy of Medicine 
 (president, 1884). Wesleyan University 
 conferred u))on liim the iionorary degree 
 of LL.l). in 1887. He has been a very ex- 
 tensivip contributor to the literature of 
 medicine and surgery; and author of several 
 works on surgerv. Dr. Marcv married at 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 II: 
 
 Sonicisworth, N. H., Oct. 14, 1863, Sarah 
 E. Wendell, and they have a son, Henry 
 Orlando Marey, Jr., A.B., M.D., assistant 
 in anatomy in Harvard University. Ad- 
 dress: 180 t'onimonwealth Avenue, Boston. 
 
 MARDEN, Orison Swett: 
 
 Founder and editor of the Success Maga- 
 zine, and vice-president of The Success 
 Company; born in Thornton, N. H. He 
 was graduated from Boston University, 
 A.B.; School of Oratory, B.O. ; Boston Uni- 
 versity Law School, LL.B. ; Harvard Med- 
 ical School, M.D. He is author of: Push- 
 ing to the Front, 1894 (which has gone 
 through 100 editions, is publish in Great 
 Britain, (lermany, and Japan, and is used 
 as a text book in both English and Jap- 
 anese in the Government Schools of tlie 
 latter country) ; Rising in the World, or 
 Architects of Fate, 1895; published also 
 in England; How to Succeed, 1890; Suc- 
 cess, 1897; The Secret of Achievement, 
 1S98; Character the Grandest Thing in the 
 World, 1899; Cheerfulness as a Life 
 Power, 1899; The Hour of Opportunity, 
 1900; Good Manners and Success, 1900; 
 Winning Out, 1900 (published also in Eng- 
 land and Japan) ; Elements of Business 
 Success, 1900; Talks with Great Workers, 
 1901; How They Succeeded, 1901; Economy, 
 1901; Stepping Stones, 1902; Stories from 
 Life, 190.5; The Making of a Man, 1905; 
 Choosing a Career, 1905; Every Man a 
 iving, 1906 (also published in England and 
 Germany); Success Nuggets, 1906; The 
 Power of Personality, 1900; The Optimistic 
 Life, 1907; He Caii Who Thinks He Can, 
 1908; Why Grow Old, 1909; and Peace, 
 Power and Plenty, 1909 (published also in 
 England and Germany). He married, in 
 1905. Clare L. Evans, and has a son and 
 a daughter. Address: Success Magazine 
 Building, 29 East 22d Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 MARKHAM, Edwin: 
 
 Poet and lecturer; born in Oregon City, 
 Ore., April 23, 1852; son of Samuel and 
 Elizabeth (Winchell) ]\Iarkham. He passed 
 his early years on a ranch in Central 
 California, where the circumstances of his 
 
 life were such as to create a stronp pot-tic 
 bent. In 1871 he entered the Slnte .N'ormul 
 School at San Jo.se, and afterward took 
 a classical course at Cliristian ('<)lh'(!«», 
 Santa Rosa, Calif. He read law but lias 
 never practised at the l)ar, having Ik-ch 
 superintendent and principal of hcIiooIh iit 
 various places, and for a lunnbcr of years 
 was head master of the Tompkins Observa- 
 tion School at Oakland, connected witii the 
 University of California. For years he 
 was a writer of verse, i)ut thislied into in 
 ternal iiUKil tame on the publication of liis 
 s])lcndi(i poem "The Man with ilie lloe," 
 wbicli was inspired by Millet's painting of 
 that name. His poems have been collecteil 
 in two volumes; The Man with the Hoe, 
 ami Other Poems; and Lincoln, and Other 
 Poems; and he has a third vohune of poems 
 in course of publication; also his first vol- 
 ume of prose, to be called "The Poetry of 
 Jesus.'" Mr. Markham is also editing (for 
 early ])ublication) several volumes to be 
 called ■■ Remarkable Pages from Thomas 
 l^ike Harris." the man whom William T. 
 Stead calls " the greatest seer since Sweden- 
 borg." Since his work has attracted in- 
 ternational attention he has been able 
 to devote more time to literary ende;ivor, 
 and is the author of numerous articles and 
 poems, and he has been engaged for years 
 on a lyric epic, embodying his thought 
 upon man and his destiny. He has also 
 delivered numerous addresses on literary, 
 educational and sociological questions. He 
 married in San Francisco, in 189S, Anna 
 Catherine .Murphy, and has one son. Virgil. 
 Address: Weslerleigh P:nk. West New 
 Brighton. \. V. 
 
 MARKLEY, Alfred C: 
 
 Brigadier-general. U. S. Army, retired; 
 born at Doylestown, Pa.. April 18. 1843; 
 son of John Sorvor and Eliza (Collins) 
 Markley. He was educated in private and 
 public schools in Philadelphia, and after- 
 ward had a business education with Brown- 
 ing and Brothers. Philadeli)hia. until the 
 Civil War; entered upiui his military career 
 as private in the 25th Pennsylvania In- 
 fantry (State militia), in which he >erved 
 from Sept. 1 to 15, 1802; afterward was 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 corporal in the o2d Ponnsylvania infantry 
 (State Militia), July 9 to Sept. 1, 1863, 
 both in the service of the United States. 
 He was sergeant of Company K, 197th 
 Pennsylvania Infantry, July 11 to Sept. 
 
 5. 1S()4; second lieutenant r27th U. S. 
 Colored Infantry, Sept. 9, 1S64; first lieu- 
 tenant, March 5, 1865; honorably mustered 
 out. Oct. 20, 1865; second lieutenant 41st 
 Infantry, July 28, 1860; adjutant, Dec. 
 25, 1866, to June 14, 1867; tirst lieutenant, 
 March 31, 1868; transferred to 24th In- 
 fantry, Nov. 11, 1869; captain March 20, 
 1879; major Eleventh Infantry, April 26, 
 1898; transferred to 24th Infantry, Aug, 
 
 6, 1898; lieutenant colonel, 22d Infantry, 
 June 9, 1900; transferred to 24tli Infantry, 
 Aug. 7, 1900; colonel 13th Infantry, Oct. 
 5, 1901; brigadier-general, March 2, 1907, 
 and retired April 18, 1907. General Mark- 
 ley served with much distinction in the 
 Spanish-American War, conspicuously in 
 his command of the yellow fever hospitals 
 at Siboncy, Cuba, July 15-Aug. 26, 1898. 
 which was one of the notable incidents "in 
 the history of the United States Army. 
 General Marklcy is a companion of the 
 IMilitary Order of the Loyal Legion. He 
 Miarried in Philadelphia, April 23, 1868, 
 
 ebecca C. Morgan, and they had one son, 
 c'aptain Edward Browning Markley, U. S. 
 Vohuiteers, who died in the hospital at 
 Santiago, Cuba, in 1899, Address: Rad- 
 noi-, Delawaic County, Pa. 
 
 MARLAND,, Ernest Whitworth: 
 
 President of the Pittsburgh Securities 
 and Guarantee Company; born in Pitts- 
 burgh, May 8, 1874. He was graduated 
 from Rugb}'- College and the University of 
 Micliigan; road law and was admitted to 
 the bar in Allegheny County in June, 1895. 
 At the age of twenty one years he was 
 elected a director, and in 1902 made gen- 
 eral counsel of the Pittsburgh Securities 
 and Guarantee Company; in 1903 he was 
 elected president of that institution; and 
 he is an organizer and financier of corpo- 
 rations. Mr. Marland married in Novem- 
 ber. 1903, Mary Virginia Collins, of Phila- 
 delphia. .Address: 'I'lie Hucl-ciiigliaiii, ('raft 
 Avenue, Pittsburgh. 
 
 MARLING, Alfred E.: 
 
 Pieal estate; born in Toronto, Canada, 
 1858; son of Rev. Francis H. and Marina 
 C. (Macdonald) Marling. He is president 
 of the corporation of Horace S. Ely & 
 Companj^; director of Fulton Trust Com- 
 pany; trustee of the Mutual Life Insur- 
 ance Company, of New York; Hanover 
 (tire) Insurance Company; New York 
 Plate Glass Insurance Company; City of 
 New York Insurance Company; Madison 
 Avenue Company, and trustee of the 
 United States Savings Bank. In politics 
 he is a Republican. He is vice-president 
 and director of the New York Juvenile 
 Asylum; vice-chairman of the International 
 Committee of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association, and a member of the Union 
 League, Metropolitan, Down Town, City, 
 Lawyers', Army and Navy, Republican, and 
 New York Yacht Clubs and Railroad, and 
 City Lunch Clubs. JNIr. JNIarling mar- 
 ried in New York City, Jan. 10, 1884, Har- 
 riet W. Philips. Residence: 35 West 47th 
 Street. Office: 21 Liberty Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 MARLOWE, Julia (Sarah Frances Frost): 
 
 Actress; born in Caldbeck, Cumberland, 
 England, Aug. 17, 1870; came to the United 
 States at the age of five, and lived in Kan- 
 sas and Ohio. She was educated in public 
 schools of Cincinnati. She made her first 
 appearance on the stage in the chorus of a 
 juvenile Pinafore company, was prepared 
 for tlie stage by Miss Ada Dow, and at 
 the age of si.\teen appeared in a Shake- 
 spearean part. Her first appearance as a 
 star was in Now London, Conn., A])ril 27, 
 1887. \\li('ii she adopted the name of Julia 
 Marlowe; she a])peared as " Parthcnia " in 
 Ingomar, and all the standard dramas in 
 1891; later starring with E. H. Sothern. 
 Address: Lyric Theatre, New York City. 
 
 MARSH, Horace Wilmer: 
 
 Educator; born in Susquehanna County, 
 J'a., Aug. 24, 1863; son of Jorod and Han- 
 nah Ann (Southworth) Marsh. He was 
 educated at Keystone Academy, Factory- 
 ville. Pa., being valedictorian upon gradua- 
 tion in 1833; Lafayette College, A.B., with 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 hi<?hest honors, 1889, A.M., 1893. lie was 
 ii graduate student in education and phi- 
 losophy at Columbia University, 1898-1904. 
 He became principal of TaHadega College, 
 afterward professor of Latin and Anglo- 
 Saxon in the College of Emporia ; then be- 
 came connected with tlie Pratt Institute of 
 Brooklyn, as head of the Department of 
 ^Mathematics, whicli position he has held 
 since 189G. Professor Marsh is the author 
 of a new method of teaching mathematics 
 as embodied in the following books, the 
 essential features being, first, the construc- 
 tive and development text, and, second, the 
 work-book kept by the student : Essential 
 Elements of Shop Mathematics; Essential 
 Elements of Algebra; Essential Elements of 
 Geometry; Essential Elements of Trigono- 
 metry; Essential Elements of Analytics; 
 and Essential Elements of Calculus. He is 
 a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
 National Geographic Society, the Associa- 
 tion of Mathematics Teachers of Middle 
 States and Maryland, the Brooklyn Insti- 
 tute of Arts and Sciences, the American 
 Mathematical Society, the American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science, 
 American Academy of Political and Social 
 Science, the Societj^ for the Promotion of 
 Engineering Education, and the National 
 Society for Promotion of Industrial Educa- 
 tion. Professor Marsh married at Susque- 
 hanna, Pa., Jan. 4, 1888, Annie Griswold 
 Fordyce. Residence: 233 A, Willoughby 
 Avenue. Office: Pratt Institute, Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y. 
 
 MARSHALL, George W.: 
 
 Physician; born in Georgetown, Del., 
 Aug. 31, 1854; son of William Marshall, 
 M.D., and Hester Angelina (McColley) 
 Marshall. He was graduated from Dela- 
 ware College as A.B. and A.M., and from 
 Jefferson jNIedical College as M.D. He was 
 secretary and later president of the Dela- 
 ware State Medical Society; is a member 
 of the American Medical Association, and 
 for two years represented Delaware in the 
 House of Delegates of that Association, at 
 the Atlantic City and New Orleans meet- 
 ings: was elected, 1901, and 1905, super- 
 visor of insurance and banking in Dela- 
 ware. He has been a trustee of Delaware 
 
 College, Newark. Del., for twenty-five 
 years, and trustee of tlie State Collppe for 
 Colored Students, near Dover, for sixteen 
 years. He was formerly colonel of (he Na- 
 tional Guard of Delaware for six years. 
 He is president of the Republican I>onniie 
 of Clubs of ]3elaware; was a dele;,'ale to 
 (he National Republican Convention at 
 Miiuieapolis in 1892, and altcrna(e to (ho 
 National Republican Convendons at S(. 
 Louis, 189G, and Cliicago in 1904; and was 
 for seventeen years chairman of llie Kent 
 County Republican Commi((ee; and he was 
 latrt'ly conmiissioned a member of the 
 Division of Recoids, looking (o the jireser- 
 vation of all old reeord.s in the State pre- 
 vious to the year 1800. He was grand 
 master of Masons of the State of Delaware, 
 1S8S-1S89. He married, in Newark, Del.. 
 1878, Mary Louise Donnell. and they h:ive 
 four sons. Address: Milford. Del. 
 
 MARSHALL, John Augustine: 
 
 Juii>t : li(ini in i-"iiii(|nier ('oiinty. \'a., 
 Sept. 5, 1854; son of John Marshall and 
 Rebecca B. (Smith) Marshall. He was 
 educated in the Shenandoah Academy and 
 the University of Virginia; went to Utah 
 and practised law in Salt Lake City from 
 1878. He was probate judge of Salt Lake 
 County, 1888-1889; served in the Territorial 
 Legislative Assembly in 1892. and was ap- 
 pointed, Feb. 4, 1896, by President Cleve- 
 land, U. S. district judge for the Dis(rict 
 of Utah, in which office he is now serving. 
 Judge Mar>hall married, in 1888. Jessie 
 Kirkpatrick. Address: Salt Like City, 
 Utah. 
 
 MARSHALL, Rouget D.: 
 
 Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court; 
 born at Nashua, N. IL, Dec. 27. 1847. He 
 received his education at the Delton Acad- 
 emy, Baraboo Collegiate Ins(itu(e and 
 Lawrence University; and received the de- 
 gree of LL.D. from the University of Wis- 
 consin in 1905. The Marshalls came to 
 this country from England in ICX) and 
 se((led in Boston. Mr. Marshall has re- 
 sided in Wisconsin since 1854. He com- 
 menced the study of law at (he age of seven- 
 teen, which he continued with his school 
 work (ill he was twenty four, and after 
 
\uo 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 that tiiTip was aetively Piifrajjotl in the pro- 
 fession, lie was county jiidn;e of Chip- 
 pewa County, 187(5-1883; member of the 
 Board of Regents of the University of Wis- 
 consin. 1884-1880; elected circuit judge of 
 tlie Eleventh Circuit in April. 1888; and 
 reelected in April, 1894. He was ajipointed 
 justice of the Supreme Court in August, 
 IS!).'), and was elected to tlio Supreme 
 V.ench in April. 1896, for tlie unexpired 
 term of Chief Justice Oiton, deceased, and 
 was reelected April 6, 1897, and April 2. 
 1007. Hp married in 1869, Mary E. Jen- 
 i<ins, of Barahoo. Wis. Residence: Chip- 
 pewa Falls. \\is. Office: ^Madison, Wis. 
 
 MARSHALL, Thomas R.: 
 
 (.'overnor uf Indiana; elected on the 
 Democratic ticket in November, 1908, for 
 the four-year term expiring in January, 
 1013. Address: Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 MARSTON. Edwin S.: 
 
 ('ai)italist; ])r('sident and director of the 
 Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, De- 
 troit. Hillsihiie and Southwestern Railroad 
 Company, Fort Wayne and Jackson Rail- 
 road Com])any; vice-president and director 
 of Uie Franklin Trust Company; trustee of 
 the Franklin Safe Deposit Company and 
 of the Mutual Life Insurance Company; 
 director of the Citizens' Mutual Gas Com 
 pany, National City Bank of New York, 
 New Amsterdam Gas Company, New York 
 .Mutual Gas Light Company, Queen Insur- 
 ance Company of America, Standard Gas 
 Light Comi)any of the City of New York, 
 the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad 
 Company, East River Gas Company, Broad- 
 wav and Second Avenue Railroad Company, 
 and Lackawanna Steel Company. Me is a 
 member of the Metropolitan. Garden City 
 fJolf. ]}altusiol Golf and Manhattan Clubs. 
 Residence: South Orange, N. J. Address: 
 •22 William Street, New York City. 
 
 MARTIN, Clarence Augustine: 
 
 Professor of architecture; born in ^Medina 
 County, Ohio, Sept. 29, 1862; son of Joseph 
 F. and Sarali E. (Fretz) Martin. He was 
 graduated from Cornell University, 1888. 
 He is professor of architecture, and director 
 
 of the College of Architecture. Cornell L^ni- 
 versity. Professor Martin is a fellow of 
 the American Institute of Architects, mem- 
 ber of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and 
 member of the Town and Gown ciub of 
 Ithaca. He married in Ithaca, June 30, 
 1896, Gertrude Shorb, Ph.D., and has two 
 children. Residence: Edgecliff, Ithaca. 
 Office: Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 MARTIN, Eben Wever: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-congressman ; born in 
 Maquoketa. Jackson County, Iowa, April 
 12, 1855; son of Captain James W. and 
 Louise (Hyde) Martin. He was grad- 
 uated from Cornell College, B.A.. 1879, 
 A.M.. 1882; attended the law school of 
 the University of Michigan, and was there 
 president of his class; was admitted to 
 the bar in the spring of 1880, after which, 
 in the sunmier of the same year, he moved 
 to Dead wood, S. D., and has since prac- 
 tised law continuously in the various States 
 and Federal courts of that region. He 
 was a member of the Territorial Legisla- 
 ture of Dakota. 1884-1885; was for sev- 
 eral years president of the Board of Edu- 
 cation of the city of Deadwood ; is a mem- 
 ber of the Sons of the American Revolu- 
 tion, South Dakota Chapter, and of the 
 Iowa Commandery of the Loyal Legion, 
 the latter by inheritance from his father. 
 Captain James W. Martin, of Company I, 
 Twenty-fourth Iowa Volunteers, now de- 
 ceased. He was elected from the State of 
 South Dakota-at-large, as a Republican, to 
 the Fifty seventh and Fifty-eighth Con- 
 gresses, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth 
 Congress. He was succeeded in the Sixtieth 
 Congress by Hon. William H. Parker, but 
 after Mr. Parker's death in .luiU". 1908, 
 Mr. Martin was elected to tlie Sixtieth 
 Congress to fill the vacancy thus made, 
 and was reelected to the Sixty-first Con- 
 gress. He married at Cedar Falls, Iowa, 
 June 13. 1883, Jessie A., daughter of George 
 N. Miner, and they have three sons and 
 Iwo daughters. Address: Deadwood. S. 
 Dak. 
 
 MARTIN, Frederic Roy: 
 
 Editor; born in North Stratford, N. IL, 
 Nov. 17, 1871; son of John Douglass and 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1131 
 
 Caroline (Thompson) Martin. He was 
 graduated from Harvard, A.B.. 1893, and 
 received the honorary degree of A.]\I. from 
 Brown College in lfl02. He began newspa- 
 l)er work on the editorial stafl' of the Bos- 
 ton Journal with which he served 1893-1898. 
 and was its special correspondent in Porto 
 Rico, during the Spanish-American War. 
 He was also Boston correspondent of the 
 New York Tribune from 1896 to 1897. Since 
 1898 he has been with the Providence 
 Journal as associate editor until 1904, and 
 since then its editor. Mr. Martin is a mem- 
 ber of the Harvard Club of New York City, 
 Colonial Club of Cambridge, Mass., St. 
 Botolph and Papyrus Clubs of Boston, and 
 the Hope, University, and Agawam Hunt 
 Club of Providence. Residence: 69 College 
 Street. Office: The Journal. Providence. 
 R. I. 
 
 MARTIN, James: 
 
 ^Managing editor. New York Tribune; 
 born in Lochee. Dundee. Seotbiud, Dec. 
 K), 1862; son of Peter and Margaret Mar- 
 tin. He was educated in the common schools 
 in Scotland, settled in the United States 
 in 1884. He has been continuously engaged 
 in the newspaper profession ; for manj- 
 years reported legislative proceedings of the 
 New Jersey State Legislature in Trenton, 
 N. J., helped to expose the corruption and 
 misgovernment which drove the Democratic 
 jiarly from power, and v.orked hard for the 
 election of Governors Griggs. Voorhees, 
 :Murphy and Stokes ; always fought dis 
 honest politicians of all parties; and has 
 been connected with The Tribune since 
 189.5. He is the author of: Essays on Mu- 
 nicipal Government — arguing for non- 
 partisanship in local affairs. He married 
 in 1889, Helen T. B. Welsh. Address: 41 
 Westcott Street, East Orange. N. J. 
 
 MARTIN, James loren: 
 
 U. S. Judge; born at Landgrove, Vt., 
 Sept. 13. 1846; son of James and Lucy 
 (Gray) Martin. He was educated in the 
 Schools of Londonderry, Vt., and Marlow, 
 X. H., and was graduated from the Albany 
 Law School in 1869. He was admitted to 
 the bar in 1869, and practised law in Lon- 
 
 donderry, Vt., until 1SS3. wlieii he Ideated 
 at Bratlhl)oi(). lie \v,is a mcinbcr of the 
 Cieneral Assemldy of Vt-rniont in 1H74, 
 1876. 1878. 1880* and 18S2. from Uindon- 
 derry. and in 1892 from Brattleboro. and 
 was speaK'cr of the House of Representa 
 fives of Vermont in 1878. 1H80 and 1882; 
 was State's attorney for Windham Counly, 
 from 1874 to 1876, and State conimissioiier 
 of taxes. 1890-1892. He was ai>pointe(l 
 by President MiKinley in 1898. and reap- 
 pointed by I'rc-ident Roosevelt in 1902, 
 U. S. attorney for the District of Vermont, 
 and held tliat position until 1906. when 
 lie was appointed to his jjresent office as 
 judge of tlie l-. S. District Court for the 
 District of Vermont. Address: Brattle- 
 'oro, Vt. 
 
 MARTIN, John Calvin: 
 
 Coal o])erator and i)hilanthropist ; born 
 in Millersville. I'a.. Xov. 13. 184.'): son of 
 Barton B. and Catherine C. (Uohrer) 
 Martin. He was educated in the public 
 schools of Lancaster, Pa., in i)rivate schools 
 and by private tutors until in 1862, when 
 17 years old, he entered the Union Army, 
 as first lieutenant of Company D. 17'>tli 
 Pennsylvania Volunteers. serving until 
 honorably discharged in 1864. at Fairfax 
 Court House, Va.. on resignation, for dis- 
 ability. Since 1869 he has been engaged in 
 the manufacture of lumber and the mining 
 of coal in Cand>ria County, Pennsylvania, 
 where he has accumulated a very large 
 estate, upon which are ten extensive col- 
 lieries, producing annually over one million 
 tons of semibituminous coal of the highest 
 grade. He is jjresident of the :Martin Coal 
 ^'omjuxny, which includes all his coal min- 
 ing interests in Cambria County, president 
 of'tlie :\rartin Realty Company, a corpora 
 tion for iiolding his real estate interests 
 in Cambria County, and treasurer, of the 
 Penn Realty Company, incorporated under 
 New York Laws for holding real estate in 
 the State of New York. He is also presi- 
 dent of the Martindale Water Company, 
 of Cambria County, Penn., wliicli supplies 
 pure water to all the mines on his property, 
 and also to Portage, a thriving and enter- 
 prising town built up through the opera- 
 tion of his works. He owns all the stock in 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 these corporations except the aiiioiint in 
 other liands sufficient to make up the cor- 
 poration. He is also interested in hanks 
 and other companies. For several years lie 
 has resided in New York, conducting from 
 there his extensive husiness interests. ~\Ir. 
 Martin has always heen active along philan- 
 thropic and educational lines, and in 1889 
 founded the John C. Martin Educational 
 Fund, a comprehensive and practical phi- 
 lanthropy designed to promote intellectual, 
 ethical and Christian education in the 
 United States and dependencies, a leading 
 feature being made of the erection, in the 
 curricula of collegiate institutions, of de 
 partments devoted to Bible teaching as a 
 regular course of instruction. Such depart- 
 ments have been established on the John 
 C. Martin Foundation in several Western 
 and Southern Colleges, and in addition a 
 large and fruitful work has been estab- 
 lished by tlie Fund in the negro colleges 
 and institutions of the South, and con- 
 ferences, institutes, etc., are being held, 
 based on the Bible, for aiding in the ethical 
 and spiritual elevation of the negro, and 
 especially of the teachers and preachers 
 of the race. At Portage, Pa., where many 
 of his interests center, Mr. Martin, in 1908, 
 made definite plans for important public 
 benefactions, heading, the subscription for 
 a liospital there, giving it a .site, and in 
 addition, duplicating the subscriptions of 
 others to the fund, and employing arch- 
 itects, landscape engineers and other ex- 
 perts to plan the hospital and grounds in 
 accordance with the best modern ideas. 
 TTie institution is to be known as The 
 Ennlie D. Martin Hospital and Training 
 School for Nurses. He ahso includes in 
 his plans for the benefit of Portage, the 
 building of a temperance liotel on the main 
 .street of the town, and, chief of all. a large 
 technical school where practical trades may 
 be taught to young men, and domestic 
 science to girls, this institution being tlie 
 outgrowth of M. Martin's conviction that 
 the most important educational need of 
 yoimg men .and women is tlie ojjportunity 
 for training for useful vocations. These 
 plans are now all being pushed to practical 
 realization. ]Mr. Martin, who is a member 
 of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Cliurcli, 
 
 has always been an active Christian worker 
 along undenominational lines, and is a 
 strong temperance man. He is a Repub- 
 lican in politics, but independent, and is a 
 seeker after civic righteousness for the 
 whole people. He is a member of the Mil- 
 itary Order of the Loyal Legion, and the 
 Pennsylvania Society of New York; and 
 is a trustee of the Society for the Suppres- 
 sion of Vice, of New York City. He mar- 
 ried, in May, 1867, Emilie, daughter of the 
 late Adrastus Doolittle, M.D. of New York 
 Citv. Address : 1 Broadwav, New York 
 City. 
 
 MARTIN, Newell: 
 
 Lawyer; born in China in 18.34; son of 
 Rev. iv. A. P. Martin, D.D., and Jane 
 (Vansant) Martin. He was graduated 
 from Yale as B.A., 1875 and from Colum- 
 bia Law School, LL.B., 1877. Mr. Martin 
 is a member of the Association of the Bar 
 of the City of New York, and the Century, 
 Lniversity, City Midday and City Clubs 
 of New York City. He married in New 
 York City, in 1886, Laura Grinnell, and 
 they liave three children. Residence: 
 Audubon Park. Office: 25 Broad Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 MARTIN, Thomas Commerford: 
 
 Editor of Electrical World since 188."^, 
 author, lecturer; born in London, England, 
 July 22. 1856; son of Thomas and Cath- 
 arine (Commerford) Martin. He received 
 his general education in England and later 
 studied divinity. He was associated with 
 Edison in his laboratory, 1877-1879, and 
 lias been special expert of the U. S. Census 
 Office since 1000. Tic is autlior of: The 
 I'^iectric Motor aiul its Ajiplications ; Inven- 
 tions, Researches and Writings of Nikola 
 Tesla. He is a member and past president 
 of the American Instiliilc of Electrical 
 Engineers and the New ^'ork Electrical 
 Society; director of the Society for the 
 Suppression of Unnecessary Noises; mem- 
 ber of the Committee of the Robert Fulton 
 Monument Association; life member of the 
 Iron and Steel Institute; honorary member 
 of the National Electric Light Association; 
 member of English Institution of Electrical 
 i'jigineers, New York Academy of Sciences, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1133 
 
 Frnnklin Instituto of Pliiladolphia, ISInnic- 
 ipal Art Society, National Civic Federation; 
 member and on the mechanical advisory 
 board of the American Museum of Safety 
 Devices : and member of Executive Com- 
 mitte of the American Institute of Social 
 Service. He is a member of the Automobile 
 Clul) of America and the Engineers' Club, 
 and is past president of the latter. Mr. 
 Martin has been made an Oflicer de I'lns- 
 truction Piiblique by the French govern- 
 ment. He married in Kingston, Jamaica, 
 1880, Elizabeth Gould. Residence: 40 
 Morningside Avenue. Address: 239 West 
 30th Street, New York City. 
 
 MARTIN, Thomas Staples: 
 
 U. S. senator; born in Scottsville, Va., 
 July 29, 1847. He was educated in the 
 Virginia Military Institute and the Uni- 
 A'ersity of Virginia, and while a cadet at 
 the Military Institute was for a large part 
 of the time in the Military Service of the 
 Confederate States. After leaving the Uni- 
 versity he studied law in offices, and he 
 was admitted to the bar in 1869, and en- 
 gaged in practice at Charlottesville, Va. 
 He was elected as a Democrat Dec. 19, 1893, 
 to the office of U. S. senator from the 
 State of Virginia for the term beginning 
 March 4, 1895, was reelected in 1899 and 
 1905, and his present term will expire 
 March 4, 1913. Senator Martin is a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Visitors of the Miller 
 Manual Labor School of Albemarle County, 
 Va., and was formerly on the Board of Visi- 
 tors of the University of Virginia. Ad- 
 dress : Charlottesville, Va. 
 
 MARTIN, William: 
 
 Consul general; born in Exeter, England, 
 1848. He came to America when a child 
 and received his education at the East 
 Greenwich Seminary, Greenwich, R. I. and 
 the Chamberlain institute, in Cattaragus 
 County, N. Y. Mr. Martin was a minister 
 of the gospel for ten years. He invented 
 a method of heating cars by steam from the 
 locomotive, in 1882, and organized and was 
 president of the Martin Anti-fire Car 
 Heating Co., 1883-1897. He was mayor of 
 Dunkirk, N. Y., 1891. and was appointed 
 
 American consul nf f'hiiikiang in 1K07, 
 .American consul at Nanking. 1902, and 
 consul-general at Hankow, China, Feb. 3, 
 1905 which posHif»n he n<tw holds. He is 
 a Mason and a member of tlie Hankow Club, 
 and the Recreation Club of Hankow. Mr. 
 .Martin marricil at Dunkirk, N. Y. in June 
 1872, Frances ]-:ilen Cary and they have 
 four cliildren. .\d(iress: Aineriean Con- 
 sulate (iciu'iiil. IhiiiUow, Ciiiiia. 
 
 MARVIN, Frederic Rowland: 
 
 Chigyiiiaii, iiiillior: Ixnn in Troy, N. \., 
 Sept. 23, 1847; son of Rev. IJriah and Mar 
 garet Jane (Stevens) Marvin. He was 
 educated in Union College, Schenectady, 
 N. Y.; Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons of Co- 
 lumbia University, M.D., 1870; and he was 
 graduated from the Theological Seminary 
 of the Reformed Church at New Bruns- 
 wick, N. d. He was j)rofessor in the New 
 York Free INIedical College for Women. 
 1S72-1875; pa.-<tor of the First Congrega- 
 tional Church of Middletown, N. Y., 1879- 
 1883; pastor of the First Congregationiil 
 Church of Portland, Ore., 1883-188G; First 
 Congregational Church of Great Barring- 
 ton, Mass., 1887-1895. Dr. Marvin is au- 
 tlior of: Literature of the Insane; Death 
 in the' Light of Science; Christ Among the 
 Cattle; Last \Nords of Distinguished Men 
 and Women; Flowers of Song from Many 
 Lands; The Companionship of Books; Con- 
 secrated Womanhood; Poems and Transla- 
 tions, 1907. He traveled in Europe and 
 lived some time in Italy and in Germany. 
 He is vice-president of General Alumni 
 Association of Union College; member of 
 the National Geographic Society. Medico- 
 Legal Society, Hudson River Association 
 of Congregational Ministers and Churches; 
 of the Fort Orange Club of Albany, and 
 of the Authors Club of New York City. 
 Dr. ]\Iarvin married in New York City. 
 Persis Ann, daughter of Samuel Rowell, 
 of Lancaster, N. IL Address: 537 West- 
 ern Avenue, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 MARVIN, William E.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Portsmouth. N. IL, Jan. 
 1. 1872; son of William and Eliza S. (An- 
 
1134 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ilerson) Marvin. He was educated in the 
 public .schools at Portsmouth, and Harvard 
 Univeroity, LL.B., 189:1. He was admitted 
 to the Xew Hampsliire bar in 1894: entered 
 /mrtnersliip willi lion, dohn S. 11. Krink. 
 Sept.. 1S!)4. and euntinuc^d sneli till llie 
 death of Mr. Frink in Sept., 1905; since 
 then he has continued in practice under the 
 firm name of Frink, ]\Iarvin and Batchelder 
 He is trustee of the Portsmouth Savings 
 Bank; director of the National ^Mechanics" 
 and Traders' Bank and of the Portsmouth 
 Harbor, Land and Hotel Company. He 
 was mayor of Portsmouth, 190o-19t)6; and 
 was urged but declined to run as Dem- 
 ocratic and anti-railroad candidate for 
 governor of New Hampshire in the cam- 
 paign in 190G. He is a mend)er of the New 
 Hami)shire Bar Association, Soutliern New 
 Hamjjshire Bar Association, Rockingham 
 County Bar Association, Knights of Pythias 
 and of Portsmouth Athenaeum. He is a 
 mendjer of the Portsmouth Country, Ports- 
 mouth Athletic, Warwick and Piscataqua 
 Yacht Clubs. :\Ir. Marvin married in Way- 
 land, :\Jass.. .Tune 24. 189(1, Susan Roby 
 Bent, and tlicy have live childien. Resi- 
 dence: .5 I'icasant Slrecl. Addiess: 14 
 Middle Stred. I'ort.Mnoulh. N. II. 
 
 MASON, Amos Lawrence: 
 
 l'liy.-.ician ; born at Salem. Mass. in 1842; 
 son of Charles Mason, I).l).. and Susan 
 (Lawrence) Mason, .\fter being graduated 
 from llai\ard as A. 15. in 18().3, and ]M.U. 
 in 1872. he was admitted to practise in Bos- 
 ton, and is now consulting ))hysician to the 
 Bo.-.ton (^ity Hospital. Dr. Mason was 
 formerly associate professor of clinical 
 medicine at Harvard Medical School. He 
 married in Boston, Sept. 30, 1874, Louisa 
 Blake Steedman, who died Aug. •^. 1908. 
 They have one daughter: Marion Steed 
 man Wilson, wife of Richard T". \\ ilson, Jr., 
 of New York City. .Xddrcss: 2(;.") Claren- 
 don Street, I'oslon. 
 
 MASON, Frank H.: 
 
 Con.^ul-gcnerai ; liorii al .\iles. Oliio, 
 April 24, 1840; .son of Dean K. and nerllia 
 (Holeondj) Ma.son. lie was eduialed in 
 tlie jMiblic schools of Niles, Ohid, and took 
 
 a partial cour.se at Heram College. He 
 enlisted as a private in the Forty-second 
 Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry in 
 July, 1861, and July 3, 1863, at Vicksburg, 
 was promoted captain and aide-de-camp, 
 seiving until Nov. 2;!, 1805, when he was 
 mustered out as caplain in the Twelfth 
 Cavalry. After the war he engaged in 
 newspaper woik, first as reporter, later 
 editorial writer and finally as managing 
 editor of the Cleveland Leader, until 1880, 
 when he began his career in the consular 
 service on his appointment as United States 
 Consul at Basle, Switzerland. He served 
 there for four years, was then consul at 
 Marseilles, 1884-1889; consul general at 
 Frankfort-on-the-Main. 1889-1899; at Ber- 
 lin, 1899 1905, and since March 6, 1905, 
 has been consul-general of the United States 
 at Paris. Address: American Consulate- 
 Geneial. Paris, France. 
 
 MASON, Newton Eliphalet: 
 
 Chief of Bureau of Ordnance. U. S. Navy, 
 with rank of rear-admiral ; born in ]\lon- 
 roeton, Bradford County, Pa., Oet. 14. 
 1850; son of (Jordon Fowler and ]\Jary .\nn 
 Mason. He attended the Su.^quchiyrna Col- 
 legiate Institute at Towonda, Pa., until ap- 
 pointed, July 24. 1805 to the U. S. Naval 
 Academy fioni wliich he was graduated in 
 the class of 1809; then was on a special 
 cruise in the Sabine, 1809 1870. He was 
 promoted ensign, 1870; torpedo intruction, 
 1871 ; served on \X'abasli, European Squad- 
 ron, 1871-1872; ))roinotcd to master, 1872; 
 Manhattan (ironclad). North Atlantic 
 Station, 1873; Kansas, sanie station, 1874- 
 1875; commissioned lieutenant, 1874; Cat- 
 skill (ironclad). North Atlantic Station, 
 1875-1S7G; Ossii)ce, same station. 1876- 
 1877; receiving-ship St. Louis, 1878-1880; 
 U. S. S. Constellation on Irish Relief Serv- 
 ice; Monocacy, Asiatic Station, 1883 1884; 
 ordnance duty. Navy Yard, Washington, 
 1884-1885; ]5uicaii <it' Ordnance 1885-1889; 
 Petrel, North Allantic Station. 1889-1891; 
 .Miantonomah. Xorlh Allantic Station, 
 1891-1892; liureau of Ordnance, 1892, 
 June, 190.3; inspi'clor of ordnance, in 
 charge of \a\al Ordnance Proving 
 (J rounds, 189;! I8!)(;. He was Commissioned 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1135 
 
 licutcnant-conimandpr, Nov. 1896; served 
 on the Brooklyn, 1890 1899; inspector of 
 ordnanee, League Island Navj' Yard, Feb.- 
 Oct., 1899; inspector of ordnance in charge 
 of Naval Torpedo .Station, 1899-1902; pro- 
 moted commander, Nov. 1899; coiiimaiidcd 
 Cincinnati on home and Asiatic Statimis, 
 1902-1904; chief of Bureau of Ordnance, 
 Aug. 1, 1904, promoted captain, Sept. 30, 
 1904. During Rear-Admiral Mason's ad- 
 ministration, great changes have occurred 
 an., are occurring in ordiuxnce matters ; and 
 he has kept his service fully abreast of the 
 times in every way. His duty has been not 
 only of great responsibility, but of the most 
 exacting nature. One of the many things 
 that have commended him to the afl'ection 
 of the service, is his absolute impartiality, 
 and his success in selecting the best men 
 as his subordinates, afloat and ashore, 
 Address: Navy Department, Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 MASSON, Thomas Lansing: 
 
 Managing editor of Life sinee 1894; born 
 at Essex, Conn., July 21, 1866; son of 
 Captain Thomas L. (famous ship captain) 
 and :\Ia]vina M'. Masson. He was educated 
 in the public schools of Hartford, Conn. 
 He was in business in New York City and 
 St. Louis up to 1885; began literary career 
 then as news editor of the American Press 
 Association, and contributor to New York 
 Sun; afterwards, until 1894, assistant man- 
 aging editor and humorous editor of the 
 American Press Association. He is editor 
 of: The Masterpieces of American Humor, 
 190.3; and author of: The Yankee Navy, 
 1899 (Life Publishing Company) ; In 
 Merry Measure. 1905; A corner in Women, 
 1905; The Von Blumers, 1906 (Moffat, 
 Yard and Company) ; The Humor of Love, 
 1906 (Moflfat, Y'ard and Company) ; and A 
 Bachelor's Baby, 1907. He married at 
 Hartford, Conn., Oct. 24, 189.3, Fanny 
 Zulette Goodrich. Residence: 162 Ridge- 
 wood Avenue, Glen Ridge, N. J. Office: 
 17 West 31st Street, New York City. 
 
 MATHER, Robert: 
 
 Lawyer, railway official ; born in Salt 
 Lake City, Utah,' July 1, 1859; son of 
 
 .lame- and Miir-arct I Holt) Malin-r. He 
 was gradnatiil tinni Knox College, (Jale.i- 
 burg, 111., A.r... 1SS2, and reeeivcfl the 
 degrees of A.M. in 1885, ami Li..l). in 1907. 
 lie was admitted to Illinois bar, at Cliicago, 
 in 1S86; was appointed local attorney of 
 tlic Cliicago, Rock Island & Pacilie Kailway 
 ('iiMip:iiiy in 1889; a.ssistant general atlor- 
 111 y ill 1S94, general attorney. 1894- 1902 
 and genera! coiiiixl >iii«i' IMiiJ. lie is now 
 president of I lie IJock 1-laiid ('oin|)any; 
 tirst vice-i)resident and genital eouuM-l of 
 the St. l^uis & San Kranci.-co Railroad 
 Company, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Rail- 
 road Company, Evansville &. Terre Haute 
 Railroad Company; director of the National 
 ]'>ank of the Reimblic, Chicago. Mercan 
 tile Trust Coni|)any, New York, ami of the 
 Havana Kleetric Railway Company. Mr. 
 Mather is a i;ii)iil)lican and an Episco- 
 palian, lie is a member of the Chicago 
 liar Association, Illinois Bar Association, 
 and American Bar Association: and a trus- 
 tee Knox College, CJalesburg. 111. He is a 
 member of the Chicago, Union League, and 
 Law Clubs of Chicago and of the Metro- 
 politan, University, and Lawyers" Clubs of 
 New York City. He married in Detroit, 
 Mich., April 23, 1S!I2, Alice Caroline, 
 daughter of Horatio Jell. Address: 115 
 15roa(hvay. New York City. 
 
 MATHESON, William John: 
 
 Merchant and manufacturing chemist; 
 horn at Elkhorii. \\al worth County. Wis.; 
 son of Finlay and Anna Meigs ( Lightball I 
 Matlieson. lie attended St. Andrew's I'ni- 
 versity, Scotland. He began business in 
 1876 as a chemist in the application of 
 coal tar dyes, forming a connection witii 
 a large German firm of manufacturers of 
 coal tar dyes, of which he is now the Amer- 
 ican jiresident i)artner. He is president 
 and director of William J. Matlieson and 
 Company. Limited^ and of Five-forty Park 
 Avenue; vice-president and director of the 
 Cassella Color Company. Corn Products 
 Company. Corn Products Refining Com- 
 pany, and New York Gluco-e Company; 
 director of the Bank of New York, the 
 Billings-Clapp Company, the Continental 
 Insurance Company, the Fidelity and 
 Casualty Company, and the Read Phosphate 
 
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 Company ; Inisloo of llip Title Guaranlep 
 and Trust Company. He is president of the 
 Biolofjical Laboratory at Cold Sjiring Har- 
 Ixir, \j. I., and the American Mosquito Ex- 
 Iciiiiination Society; trustee of the Iloag- 
 land Laboratorj' of Long Island ('ollcge; 
 member of the (Society of Ciieinical Indus- 
 try, American Chenucal Industry, American 
 Chemical Society, and is also a member of 
 the Hamilton, llend)randt Clubs, Twentieth 
 Century Club of Brooklyn; and the Down 
 'i'own. Union I^eague, Metropolitan, New 
 York Yacht, Seawanhaka Y''acht, and Chem- 
 ist Clubs, and the Century Association of 
 New York. He married in 1881, Harriet 
 Torrey, and they liave three children. Res- 
 idence: Fort Hill, Lloyd Neck, Hunting- 
 ton. N. Y. Ollice: 184"^ Front Street, New 
 Y'ork City. 
 
 MATHEWS, Charles Thompson: 
 
 Author and architect; born in Paris. 
 France, March 31, 1863; son of Charles 
 Drellinoourt and Rebecca (Thompson) 
 Mathews, and grandson of William Edmund 
 and Anna (Loree) INIathews. He is a 
 direct descendant, on maternal side, of 
 Anthony Thompson, who married Dorothy 
 Honeywood of lloyton Manor, came to 
 America in 1637, and founded New Haven 
 with Mr. Davenport and Governor Eaton in 
 1638, one of his paternal ancestors was 
 j\Iajor Dirke Wesselse Ten Broeck, who 
 came to Beverwyck (now Albany) in 1662, 
 was the first recorder of the city in 1680, 
 and mayor, 1696-1608. Mr. Mathews re- 
 ceived his preparatory education at St. 
 Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and in Paris 
 and Nice, -France. He then entered Y^ale, 
 from which he graduated A.B., 1886 and 
 A.M.. 1892, and from the Columbia School 
 of Mines, Ph.B., 1889. After studying ar- 
 chitecture in Paris, he exhibited drawings 
 at the World's Columbia Exhibition, Chi- 
 cago, 1893, and was made fellow of the 
 American Institute of Architects. Mr. Mat- 
 thews, in 1891, won the competition for 
 remodelling the Church of the Holy Trinity, 
 'Saw York City; introduced under the re- 
 quirements of the New Y'^ork Building De- 
 partment, an innovation in. fireproof con- 
 .st met ion; and in 1901 won the competition 
 
 for remodelling the east end of St. Patrick's 
 Cathedral, New York City, the competitors 
 being architects from France, England, 
 Canada,, and America. Mr. Mathews wrote: 
 The Renais.sance under the Valois, 1893; 
 and the Story of Architecture, 1896. The 
 Renaissance under the Valois was very 
 favorably reviewed by Brunetiere in the 
 Revue des deux Mondes, and the Minister 
 of Public Instruction wrote an official Com- 
 mendatory letter concerning it to the Amer- 
 ican ambassador. Mr Mathews is a mem- 
 ber of the Tuxedo, Racquet, Metropolitan 
 and University Clubs of New York City. 
 Address: 30 West 57th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 MATHEWS, Frances Aymar: 
 
 Author; born in New Y'ork City, daugh- 
 ter of Daniel and Sara Eayres (Webb) 
 Mathews. She was educated at home. She 
 is a writer of novels, plays, some trans- 
 lated into Norwegian, Spanish, Italian, Por- 
 tuguese, Russian and French. Miss Mathews 
 is author of: My Lady Peggy Goes to 
 Town, Little Tragedy at Tientsin, The Un- 
 defiled, Billy Duane, The Marquise's Mil- 
 lions, The Staircase of Surprise, and of the 
 plays: If David Knew, Pretty Peggy, Joan 
 d'Arc, A Dakota Divorce, Up Y^onder, The 
 Flame Dancer, and also many short stories 
 and poems. Address : Care of Shubert 
 Brothers, New York City, New York. 
 
 MATHEWS, John Alexander: 
 
 Metallurgist; lioni in Wasliington, Pa., 
 May 20, 1872; son of William Johnston and 
 Frances Sage (Pelletreau) Mathews. He 
 was educated in the Washington and Jef- 
 ferson College, B.S., 1893, M.S., and 1896, 
 and Sc.D., causa honoris, in 1902; received 
 from Columbia L^niversity the M.A. degree 
 in 1895, and Ph.D. in 1898. He was throe 
 years instructor in (•heiiiistry at Columbia 
 Universit}'; some time university fellow in 
 cliemistry, and Barnard fellow of Colum- 
 bia University; received the Andrew Car- 
 negie Researcli Scholarship of tlie Iron and 
 Steel Institulc df <:rcat Britain; and was 
 the first recipiciil of Andrew Carnegie Gold 
 Medal for Research by the Iron and Steel 
 Inslitiite. He was honorary assistant to' 
 
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 tlie late Piofossor Sir W. C. Eoberts- 
 Aiisteii, in the Royal School of Mines, Lon- 
 don University. In 1902 Dr. Mathews left 
 Columbia and became metallurgist of the 
 Crucible Steel Company of America, and 
 was for three years assistant muiuiger of 
 one of the constituent plants of the Cru- 
 cible Steel C()m]tany of America. In 1908 
 lie became operating manager and director 
 of the Holcomb Steel Co. He was twice 
 member of the United States Assay Commis- 
 sion, in 1900 and 1905: Mr. Mathews is 
 author of many papers on chemical and 
 inetallurgical subjects and one of the spe- 
 cial contributors on steel to the Encyclope- 
 dia Americana in 1907. He is a member 
 of the American Chemical Society, Amer- 
 ican Society for Testing Materials, Society 
 of Chemical Industry, Iron and Steel In- 
 stitute of Great Britain; fellow of the 
 American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science; member of the Phi Delta 
 Theta and Sigma Xi fraternities. The 
 Citizens, University, and Syracuse Country 
 Clubs of Sj^racuse and the Engineers Club 
 of New York. He nuxrried at Columbus, 
 Ohio, Jan. 29, 1903, Floi'ence Hosmer King, 
 and they have a daughter, and a son. 
 Address: 1813 West Genesee Street, 
 Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 MATHEWSON, Albert McClellan: 
 
 .lurist; born in Woodstock, Conn., Oct. 
 19, I860; son of William Williams and 
 Harriet Augusta Mathewson. He is de- 
 scended from John and Priscilla Alden and 
 Governor William Bradford of the May- 
 flower, and from Governor Jonathan Trum- 
 bull, William Williams and Gen. Samuel 
 McClellan of Revolutionarj' times. He re- 
 ceived his education in Woodstock Academy, 
 and was graduated from the Yale Law 
 School in 1884, and received the Master 
 of Laws degree in 1891. He engaged in the 
 practice of law and is now judge of tlic 
 City Court of New Haven. Jle was former- 
 ly a member of the New Haven Grays. In 
 ]X)litics he is a Republican, and in religion 
 a Congregationalist. In addition to his 
 judicial duties, he is engaged in the active 
 practice of his profession in New Haven. 
 He is a member of the Connecticut Bar As- 
 aQciation, Mayflower Descendants, Desceud- 
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 ants of (lie Signers of tlie Derlaralinn of 
 Indepenilence (First President), .Vationsil 
 Geogiaphic Society, Anicrieaii Forestry A.s- 
 sociation of New Haven, Young Men's Re 
 pul)lican. Union |jeagU(;, Country and Grad- 
 uates' Clul)s. Mr. Mathewson inariicd 
 June 13, 1S88. Mary E. Foster. Kesi.lenee: 
 ().')7 Orange Street. Ollieo: 8ti.") Chapel 
 Street, New Haven, Conn. 
 
 MATHEWSON, Charles Frederick: 
 
 Lawyer; born in P>ai(()ii, VI, May 3, 
 ISGO; son of Azro B. and Amelia (Siasj 
 Dartmouth College, A.B. in 1882 (as 
 valedictorian for first scholarsliip, with 
 prize awards in Greek, Latin, matlieniatics 
 and oratory, and Phi Beta Kappa honors) ; 
 was graduated from Columbia University 
 Law School as LL.B. in 1885, and received 
 the Honorary A.M. from Dartmouth, 1907. 
 He was admitted to the bar of New York 
 in 1885, and has been in continuous prac- 
 tice there ever since, largely in corporation 
 law ; and he is now member of the firm 
 of Harmon & ^Mathewson. He is a director 
 of the Cohunbia Trust Company and 
 Caledonian-American Insurance Company : 
 and is a member of the New York Institute, 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, New York State Bar Association 
 and American Bar Association. Mr. 
 Mathewson has been prominently identilied 
 with college and amateur interests and 
 sports before and since graduation. He 
 was juesident of the Dartmouth College 
 Association of New York, 1895-1897; and 
 has been alumni trustee of Dartmouth Col- 
 lege from 1894, having been twice reelected; 
 president of the ^letropolitan Association, 
 Amateur Athletic Union; and a member 
 of the New England Society of New York 
 and the Vermont; Society of the City of 
 New York, and Phi Beta Kappa Society of 
 New York. He is a member of rhc Dart- 
 mouth Club and was its first pre-ident, 
 and also a member of the University Club, 
 Down Town Association, and the Delta 
 Kappa Epsilon, Baltusrol Golf, St. An- 
 drew's Golf and Apawamis Clubs of New 
 York, and the University Club of Boston. 
 Mr. :Mathewson married. Dec. 8, 1886, Jeanie 
 Campbell Anderson, of Portland, Maine, 
 and they have one son, Samuel Anderson 
 
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 Mattlicwson, born in ISSfl. Address: 40 
 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 MATSON, Roderick Nathaniel: 
 
 .linisl; born in hMoridavillo, N. Y.. Nov. 
 1, 1871; son of William Tovvndsent and 
 Sara Jane (Brackett) Matson. He was 
 l)rcpared in the Hannibal (New York) 
 llij,rli School, was graduated from Franklin 
 College, New Athens, Ohio, A.B., 1894, 
 with first honors; also received from the 
 same college the degree of A.M. in 1897, 
 and in the same year was graduated from 
 Syracuse University Law School, LL.B. 
 and president of the class. Mr. Matson 
 practised in Syracuse, N. Y., from gradua- 
 tion until Feb." 1, 1901. In 1898 he formed 
 a partnership with T. Blake Kennedy, who 
 was a graduate from the same schools as 
 Mr. Matson, and in Feb., 1901, they re- 
 moved to Cheyenne, Wyo., on account of 
 Mr. Kennedy's fear of pulmonary trouble 
 if he should remain in Syracuse, and the 
 partnership contiiuied until ^larch 1, 1906, 
 when Mr. ^Matson was appointed judge of 
 the First Judicial District of ^^■yoming, 
 to fill a vacancy, and in 1006 he was elected 
 to the same position. Judge Matson was 
 president of the New Athens Republican 
 Club at New Athens, Ohio, while in college; 
 member of the House of Repi'esentativcs 
 of Wyoming, 1903-1904, and was chairman 
 of the Judiciary Committee and member of 
 the Committees on Rules and on Sanitary 
 and ^Medical Affairs. He introduced and .se- 
 cured the pas.sage of the Inheritance Tax 
 Law and other important measures. He 
 has been a speaker in all political cam- 
 paign.s since 1892. Judge Matson is a 
 thirty-second degree Mason, and member 
 of the Mystic Shrine; exalted rule of the 
 Cluyenne Lodge of Elks, member of Phi 
 Delta Phi (legal fraternity), the Industrial 
 Club of Clieyenne, Young Men's Literary 
 Club, Elks Club, Masonic Club, C. B. C. 
 Athletic Association and the Pioneer Hook 
 and Ladder Company. Residence: 115 
 West Nineteenth Street. Oflice: Court 
 ]|()U~c. Clicyciiiic, Wyo. 
 
 MATTHEW, William Diller: 
 
 Muxinii curator; born at St. John, New 
 Brunswick, Feb. 19, 1871; son of George 
 
 F. and Katherine M. (Diller) Matthew. 
 He was educated in St. John public school, 
 the University of New Brunswick, A.B. in 
 1889, and Columbia, Ph.B. in 1893; M.A., 
 1894, Ph.D., 1895. He was assistant in the 
 American Museum of Natural History, 
 1895-1898; assistant curator, 1899-1901; 
 associate curator since 1902. He has been 
 engaged during the summers, upon various 
 geological field work, and since 1894 upon 
 collecting fossils in the Western Bad 
 Lands; and during the remainder of the 
 year upon the exhibition, study and de- 
 scription of the extinct vertebrates in the 
 American Museum of Natural History. He 
 is a fellow of the Geological Society of 
 America, and the New York Academy of 
 Sciences; member of the American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science, Na- 
 tional Geographic Society, American For- 
 estry Association, and of the Beta Theta Pi 
 fraternity (Columbia chapter). He mar- 
 ried in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 15, 1905, Kate 
 Lee, and they have one daughter. Resi- 
 dence: Hastings-on-Iiudson, N. Y. Oflice: 
 American Museum of Natural History, New 
 York City. 
 
 MATTHEWS, Albert: 
 
 Writer; born in Boston, June 26, 1860; 
 son of Natlian and Albertine (Bunker) 
 Matthews. He was educated in the j)rivate 
 school of G. W. C. Noble in Boston, and 
 Harvard, A.B., 1882. He is engaged in lex- 
 icographical etymological and historical 
 studies and has written many pamphlets 
 on such subjects. Mr. Mathews is editor 
 of publications of the Colonial Society of 
 Massachusetts. He is a Democrat in pol- 
 itics, and a member of the Massachusetts 
 Ilistorial Society, American Association 
 for the advancement of Science, etc. Ad- 
 dress: Hotel Oxford, Boston. 
 
 MATTHEWS, Brander: 
 
 Author, educator; born in New Orleans, 
 La., Feb. 21, 1852. He was educated in the 
 private schools of New York City, and Co- 
 lumbia College, from which he was grad- 
 uated A.B., 1871, A.M., 1874, and from 
 Columbia Law School, as LL.B., 1873. He 
 received from the University of the South 
 
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 the degree of D.C.L. in ISOn, from Yale 
 University that of Litt.l). in ItlOl, and 
 LL. D. from Columbia in 1004. He re- 
 ceived the decoration of the I/'ginn d'Hon- 
 neur from the French Government in I'.IDT. 
 Mr. IMatthews was admitted to the bar in 
 1873; and acted for several years as private 
 secretary to his father, Edward Matthews, 
 one of leading business men of New York 
 Citj. He published his iirst book in 1879; 
 was called to Columbia as lecturer in Eng- 
 lish, 1891 ; appointed professor of liter- 
 ature in 1892, and has been profe.-sor of 
 dramatic literature in that university since 
 1899. In 1902 he lectured on the English 
 Drama before the Royal Institute of Great 
 Britain; and in 1905 he served as managing 
 editor of the Columbia University Quarter- 
 ly. Professor Matthews was one of the or- 
 ganizers of the Authors Club. New Y'ork 
 City, 1882; The Kinsmen, New York City, 
 1882, London, 1883; American Copyright 
 League, 1882; the Dunlap Society, 1885; 
 The Players', 1889; the Columbia Univer- 
 sity Press. 1893; National Institute of Arts 
 and Letters, 1899, and the Simplified Spel- 
 ling Board of which he was the chairman 
 in 1906. He is author of (plays): Mar- 
 gery's Lovers, produced in 1884; A Gold 
 Mine (with George H. Jessop), produced in 
 1887; This Picture and That, produced in 
 1887, published in 1894; On Probation 
 (with George H. Jessoj)), produced in 
 1889; The Decision of the Court, produced 
 and published in 1893; Peter Stuyvesant, 
 Governor of New Amsterdam, produced in 
 1899. He is also author of fiction: In 
 Partnership (with H. C. Bunncr). 1884; 
 The Last Meeting, 1885; A Secret of the 
 Sea and Other Stories, 1889; With My 
 Friends — Tales Told in Partnership. 1891; 
 In the Y'estibule Limited, 1892; A Tale of 
 Twenty -five Hours (with George H. Jes- 
 sop), 1892; Tom Paulding, 1892; The 
 Story of the Story and Other Stories, 1893; 
 Vignettes of Manhattan, 1894; The Royal 
 Marines. An Idyl of Narragansett Pier. 
 1894; His Father's Son, 1895; Tales of 
 Fantasy and Fact, 1890; Outlines in Local 
 Color, "l897; A Confident To-morrow, 1899; 
 The action and the Word, 1900: also of 
 many works in essays and criticisms, in- 
 cluding: French Dramatists and of the 
 
 Xincleeiilh ((iitiiry, llirec cdiiitin.". 18S1, 
 1890. 1901; l'arl> of Speech — EHsnys on 
 iMiglish. I'.iOl; 'I he Developnu'iil of the 
 l)i;iiii;i, 190.3; Diversions of an Antliologjst, 
 l'.)OJ; Iminiries and Opinion^, 1007; ami 
 numeidus piimphlets and I)ookli"t>. of which 
 the nK)sl recent are Tlie Spi-lling of Yester- 
 day and tlie S|»clling of Tomorrow, lOOrt; 
 American (lianicter. 1007. He has cflited 
 Iwehc l)()oks, furnished prefaces an<l in- 
 troductions to many |)iil)lications and con- 
 tril)nted cliapters to important works on 
 lit«'rary nud educational topics. He is a 
 niemluT nf the Authors, Century, Player.'* 
 Clubs of New York City, and the Athe- 
 naMiiii and Savile Clubs of London. Ad- 
 dress: (iSl West End Avenue, New ^■<>rk 
 City. 
 
 MATTHEWS. Ferdinand Schuyler: 
 
 Artist and autlKU'; l)orn in New Brighton, 
 S. I., New York City, May 30. 1854; son 
 of Ferdinand Schuyler and Frances (Cof- 
 fin) Matthews. He studied drawing at the 
 Cooper Institute of New York, and art in 
 Florence and Rome, making a specialty of 
 decorative design. He was connected with 
 the art department of TifVany & Company of 
 New York, and with Lewis Pray & Com- 
 pany, lithographers, Boston. After a period 
 of independent work he became connected 
 with tlie staff of Gray Herbarium at Har- 
 vard College, as botanical artist. He is also 
 a designer of special illuminative work and 
 bookjilates, and is celebrated for his render- 
 ings of birds in the Japanese style. He is 
 also a well known writer on nature, flowers 
 and birds, and is the author of: Fieldbook 
 of Wild Flowers, and Fieldbook of Wild 
 Birds and Their Music. Mr. Matthews is 
 also a well known and popular lecturer on 
 birds, dowers and art subjects. He is a 
 mend)er of the New England Botanical So- 
 ciety. He married at Morrislown, N. .1., 
 Nov. 17, 188G. Caroline Augusta Maynard, 
 and has a son and a daughter. Address: 
 17 Frost Street. Canduidge, Mass. 
 
 MATTHEWS, George Edward: 
 
 Editor of Bullalo E.xpress since 1889; 
 born March 17. 1855; son of J. N. Mat- 
 thew-. He was graduated from Yale as A. 
 B., 1S77. M. Matthews is president of 
 
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 Uhe ilatthews-Xoithnip Works, printers 
 and publishers. Kosidence: Falconwood. 
 Grand Island, near BiiOalo. Address: 179 
 Washington Street, Bufl'alo, N. Y. 
 
 MATTHEWS, Paul Clement: 
 
 Lkr^ymaii; born in Glendale, Ohio. 
 Dec. 25, 18G6; son of Thomas Stanley and 
 Mary Ann (Black) Matthews. He was edu- 
 cated in St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., 
 in Princeton Universily and in the General 
 Theological Seminary. lie was ordered 
 deacon by Bishop Vincent, 1S!)0; ordained 
 priest by Bishop Worthington, 1891; was 
 associate missionary at Omaha, Neb., 1891- 
 189G; rector of St. Luke's Church, Cin- 
 cinnati, 1896-1904, and has been dean of 
 St. Paul's Cathedral, Cincinnati, since 1904. 
 He was elected bishop coadjutor of Mil- 
 waukee in 1905, but declined it. He has 
 visited Egypt, the Nile, the Holy Land 
 and Europe. He is a member of the Mil- 
 itary Order of the Loyal Legion, and of the 
 University and Business Men's Clubs. Dr. 
 MatthcMS married in Glendale, Ohio, May 
 11, 1897, Elsie Procter, and they have four 
 children. Address: 220 West Seventh 
 Street, Cincinnati. 
 
 MATTISON, Richard V.: 
 
 -Manufacturing chemist; born in Sole- 
 bury, Bucks County, Pa., Nov; 17, 1851; 
 son of Joseph Jones Mattison and Mahala 
 (van Zeelust) Mattison. He attended coun- 
 try school, Philadelphia College of Phar- 
 macy, and the University of Pennsylvania 
 Medical Department, receiving the degree 
 of M.D. He has for thirty-four years been 
 most successfully engaged as a manufac- 
 turing chemist. He erected the well known 
 Church of the Beautiful Windows. Trinity 
 Memorial Protestant Episcopal Church, at 
 Ambler, Pa., and presented it to the Diocese 
 of Pennsylvania. The church is said to 
 have the most harmonious collection of 
 church windows in the United States. l]f 
 is president of the First National Bank of 
 Andjler, of the Philadelphia Diiig Exchange, 
 vice-president of the Philadelpliia College of 
 Pharmacy; president of the Keasbey and 
 Mattison Company, ]\Iagnesia Covering 
 Company, Asbestos Shingle, Slate and 
 
 Sheathing Company, The Bell Asbestos 
 Mines. Thetford, P. Q., Canada, the Asbes- 
 tone Company. Asbestos i\Ianufacturing 
 Company, the Ambler Electric Light Com- 
 pany. The Ambler Spring Water Company, 
 The Upper Dublin Water Company, etc. 
 He is a Republican in politics, and an 
 Episcopalian in religion. Dr. Mattison is 
 a member of various scientific societies, 
 and of the Union League Club. He married 
 in Hightstown. N. J., Nov. 4, 1873, Esther 
 Dafter of Cranbury, N. J., and they have 
 had three children. He has a summer 
 home, " Bushy Park," at Newport, R. I., 
 and his "Lindenwood " estate, at Ambler, 
 is one of the most beautiful in Pennsyl- 
 vania. Address: Ambler, Montgomery 
 County, Pa. 
 
 MAURICE, Arthur Bartlett: 
 
 Editor; born in Rahway, N. J., April 10, 
 1873. He was educated in public and pri- 
 vate schools in Rahway, at Paris, France, 
 and New York City; at Mount Pleasant 
 Military Academy, Ossining, Richmond Col- 
 lege and Princeton University. He was 
 editor of the Woodbridge (N. J.) Register, 
 in 1895; city editor of Elizabeth (N. J.) 
 Daily Herald, in 1896; special writer of 
 New York Commercial Advertiser, 1897- 
 1898; joint editor, with Professor Harry 
 Thurston Peck, of The Bookman, from 
 Sept., 1899, to Jan., 1906. and has been 
 joint editor of The Bookman with Frank 
 Moore Colbj' since Jan., 1906. He is au- 
 thor of: New York in Fiction, 1900; The 
 History of the Nineteenth Century in 
 caricature (with Frederic Taber Cooper, 
 190.3) ; International Wit and Humor, 1906. 
 He is a niember of the Authors and Players' 
 Clubs of New York City, and of the Colonia 
 Country Club of Colonia, N. J. Residence: 
 16 Gramercy Park. Address: Thirty-fifth 
 Street and Fiftli Avenue. New York City. 
 
 MAXEY, Thomas S.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Brandon, Miss., Sept. 1, 
 1846; son of Robert and Harriot Virginia 
 ilaxey. His general education was ri.»ceive(l 
 in the University of Mississippi, inter- 
 rupted bj' a year's service in the Confeder- 
 ate Army from 1864 to 1865, and his legal 
 
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 ediuatioii in (lie University of Virginia, 
 from which he was gradnated as LL.B. 
 in 1809. Tlie followin<j; year he went to 
 Texas, engaging' in the practice of law and 
 soon taking an influential position at tlie 
 Texas bar, which he lield until appointed 
 l>y President Cleveland, in 1888, to his pres- 
 ent position as judge of the U. S. District 
 Court for the Western District of Texas. 
 Address : Austin, Texas. 
 
 MAXIM, Hudson: 
 
 Inventor, mechanical engineer; born at 
 Orneville, Piscataquis County, Maine, Feb. 
 3, 1853; son of Isaac and Hai-riet Boston 
 (Stevens) Maxim. He was educated at 
 Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kent's Hill, Me. 
 He engaged as a printer and publisher of 
 subscription books, Pittsfield, Mass., 1883; 
 since 1888, engaged as inventor and man- 
 ufacturer of ordnance and explosives; was 
 the first maker of smokeless powder in the 
 United States and the first to submit 
 samples to the United States Government 
 for trial; built dynamite factory and 
 smokeless powder mill at Maxim, New 
 Jersey (named for him), 1890; sold smoke- 
 less powder inventions to E. I. du Pont de 
 Xemours & Company, Wilmington, Dela- 
 ware, 1897, and since then has been con- 
 sulting engineer and expert in experi- 
 mental department of that company. Joint 
 inventor (witli Dr. Robert Schupphaus) of 
 the Maxim Scliupphaus smokeless powder, 
 adopted by United States Government; in- 
 vented and sold to United States Govern- 
 ment, 1901, the formula of Maximite, 
 which was the first liigh explosive to be 
 fired through heavy armor plate; more re- 
 cently perfected a smokeless powder pro- 
 ducing ballistic results far superior to any 
 other, which he has named Stabillite: more 
 recent experiment has been on the Hudson 
 Maxim automobile torpedo, driven by a 
 new, self -combust ive material of his own 
 invention, which he has named Motoritc. 
 Inventor of i:)rocess and apparatus for 
 manufacturing multi-perforated powder 
 grains; improvements in smokeless powder 
 grains; safety detonating fuses, arid num- 
 erous other inventions; has fifty or mora 
 United States patents now pending. Mr. 
 
 Maxim is a member of the Military Service 
 Institute, Cliemists' Club, Society of ChiMni- 
 cil Industry, American .Association for tho 
 Advancement of Science, and the .N'ew Kii;^- 
 land Sdcii'ly. He married in London. Knj,'- 
 land, Marili \H\, ISOli. Lillian Diirlmn. 
 Country residence: Maxim Park, at Ijinil- 
 ing. X. J. Address: 09S St. Mark's Ave- 
 nue, Ur<ioklyn, N. Y. 
 
 MAXWELL, William H.: 
 
 City superintendent of schools of New 
 York City; born at Stewartstown, Ireland, 
 March 5, 1852; son of Rev. John Maxwell, 
 pa-tor of the Presbyterian Church at 
 Brigh, Ireland. He received his early edii- 
 cation in the local Xational School, and 
 studied classics, modern languages and 
 mathematics with his father and the Rev, 
 George Macloskie, a well-known educator, 
 and at Queens College, Galway, winning 
 the first place in classics and in English, 
 and being graduated as B.A. in 1872 with 
 lionors in classics and as prizeman in meta- 
 physics and English literature : and he re- 
 ceived the M.A. degree in 1874 with honors 
 in ancient classics. Mr. Maxwell began 
 teaching in 1872, as sub-master in the 
 Royal Academical Institution of Belfast, 
 Ireland, where he gave instruction in Eng- 
 lish and classics, and at same time was lec- 
 turer in English literature in the Ladies' 
 Collegiate Institute at Belfa.st. He came 
 to America in 1874, and was reporter on 
 the Xew York Tribune and Xew York Her- 
 ald; later associate editor of The Metro- 
 politan Weekly newspaper, and afterward, 
 for five years, was manager of the Brook- 
 lyn Times; during the last two years of his 
 editorship he entered the educational field 
 as a teacher and lecturer in Evening High 
 Scjiools of Brooklyn. He was elected asso- 
 ciate superintendent of schools by the 
 Brooklyn Board of Education in 18S2; 
 elected superintendent of schools of Brook- 
 lyn in 1887, and three times reelected: and 
 was elected city superintendent of schoids 
 of Xew York City under the revised char- 
 ter in 1898. He received the honorary de- 
 gree of Pli.D. from St. Lawrence Univer- 
 sity; and, in 1901, that of LL.D. from Co- 
 lumbia Universitv. Dr. Maxwell has been 
 
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 president of the National Eduoalional As- 
 sociation; president of the State ("onncil of 
 Superintendents, and head of the Depart- 
 ment of Superintendence of the National 
 Educational Association: served on the 
 Committee on English of the Association of 
 Colleges and High Schools of tlic ^liddle 
 States and Maryland; chairman of the 
 Committee of Fifteen, appointed by the Na- 
 tional Department of Superintendence; and 
 was appointed in 1903 chairman of the 
 Committee on Instruction in Municipal 
 Government in American Educational In 
 stitutions under authority of the National 
 ^Municipal League. He has been a trustee 
 and fellow of Brooklyn Institute of Art 
 and Sciences. Dr. Maxwell is author of: 
 First Book in English; Introductory Les- 
 sons in English Grammar; Elementary 
 English Grammar and School Grammar; 
 and is joint author, with George J. Smith, 
 of Writing in English, and, with Miss 
 Kiiinia L. Johnston, of School Composition. 
 He was one of the founding editors and as- 
 sociate editor until ISOG of the Edticational 
 I'eview. Dr. ^Maxwell married in Brook- 
 lyn, in 1877, Marie A. Folk. Address: 
 Park A\';'nu(' and l-'ifly-nintli Street. New 
 York City. 
 
 MAY, Calvin Sloane: 
 
 Physician : born in Naugatuck, Conn., 
 June 1, 1848; son of James Wilson ^lay 
 and Abigail P. (Hotchkiss) i\iay. He was 
 graduated from Naugatuck High School 
 and from tlie Medical Department of Yale 
 University, M.D. in 1873. He was house 
 surgeon at the New Haven Hospital. 187.3; 
 assistant physician and acting superintend- 
 ent of the Connecticut Hospital for the 
 Insane. 1873 1870; superintendent of tlie 
 State Hospital for tlie Insane at Danvers. 
 ]\Iass.. 187!)-1882. lie In a fellow of the 
 New York Academy of Medicitie. :i mem- 
 ber of the New York County and State 
 ^ledical Societies, and a member of the 
 American Medical Association. Dr. May 
 married in St. John, New Brunswick, Feb. 
 24, 1878, Rebecca P. Gushing, and they 
 have one daughter. Address : The Os 
 borne, 205 West 57tli Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 MAT, Charles Henry: 
 
 Physician; born in Baltimore, 1801; son 
 of Henry and Henrietta May. He was 
 educated in public and private schools and 
 in the College of the Citj' of New York. 
 1877. He is consulting ophthalmic surgeon 
 to the Gouverneur, French, Italian and 
 Red Cross hospitals. New York City; at- 
 tending ophthalmic and aural surgeon in 
 the New Y'ork City hospitals. Randall's Is- 
 land and Mt. Sinai Hospital. He is a 
 member of the American Academy of ]\Iedi- 
 cine, New York Academy of ]\Iedicine, New 
 Y'ork County and State ^Medical Societies. 
 American Medical Association, American 
 Ophthalmological Society. American Oto- 
 logical Society, New York Otological So- 
 ciety. Metiopolitan Medical Society, Ameri- 
 can Medical Editors' Association, and the 
 Medical Society of Greater New York. Dr. 
 IMay is author of: May's ^lanual of Dis- 
 eases of the Eye, and is a contributor to 
 the International Encyclopaedia, and to 
 the Reference Handbook of the Medical 
 Sciences. He married in New York City, 
 in 1803. Rosalie Allen. Address: 698 
 Madison Avenue. Now York City. 
 
 MAYER, Henry: 
 
 Artist; born at Worms-on-Rhine, Ger- 
 many, July 18, 1863; son of Herman and 
 Helen Mayer. He was educated in Eng- 
 land, where his father was a London mer- 
 chant, and at the Gymnasium at Worms- 
 on-Rhine: went to England, and was for 
 a time engaged in business there; went to 
 Mexico in 1885, then came to the United 
 States in 1886 ; has resided in New York 
 since 1893; he is a contributor of carica- 
 tures to luimerous journals and magazines 
 of prominence: Fliegende Blatter, Life, 
 Judge, Punch, Le Figaro, Illustr^, Le Hire, 
 Black and White, and the New York 
 Times. He is author and illustrator of: 
 A Trip to Toyland; In Laughland ; Fan- 
 tasies in Ha Ha; Autobiography of a 
 Monkey ; Adventures of a Japanese Doll ; 
 and illustrator of The Real New York, 
 lie has traveled extensively in Europe and 
 .\merica. For the sentiment expressed in 
 his cartoons during tlu' Japanese-Russian 
 \\'ai-, lie was j)i-eseiited liy tlie l^npeior of 
 
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 Japan with two silver raised Cloissonn# 
 vases bearing tlie Imperial crest. He is a 
 nioniber of the Salmagundi, and Lambs' 
 Clubs. Address: The Lambs' Club, New 
 ^'oik City. 
 
 MAYNARD, Charles Johnson: 
 
 Xaluralist. author; born in West New- 
 Ion. Mass.. May 0, 1845; son of Samuel 
 and Emeline (Sanger) Maynard. Without 
 a collegiate education, he studied nature 
 from his earliest youth, and has made 
 notable investigations of the vocal organs 
 of birds and discovered the vocal organs of 
 the American bittern. He has made a 
 number of explorations in Florida, the 
 Bahamas and the West Indies, and carried 
 on a series of special studies on certain 
 land shells of the West Indies (Cerion). He 
 was the originator and one of the first edi- 
 tors of tlie Nuttall Bulletin. Mr. Maynard 
 is the author of: Naturalists' Guide; Birds 
 of Eastern North America ; Butterflies of 
 New England ; Eggs ' of North American 
 Birds; Contributions to Science (3 vols.) ; 
 Bahama Fruit Finch ; Manual of North 
 American Butterflies; Sparrows and Finches 
 of New England ; Nature Studies No. 2, 
 "Sponges;" Warblers of New England; 
 jNIonograph of the Genus Cerion ; Manual of 
 Taxidermy; Methods in Mo.-s Study; Birds 
 of Eastern Massachusetts ; Field Dictionary 
 to the Birds of Eastern North America ; 
 Atlas to the Directory of the Birds of 
 Eastern North America ; Dawn in New 
 England; and Records of Walks and Talks 
 with Nature (two volumes). Mr. Maynard 
 is a member of the Boston Society of Nat- 
 ural History, Newton Natural History So- 
 ciety (president), and New York Academy 
 of Natural Sciences. He married in Som- 
 erville, Mass., Oct. 30, 1888, Elizabeth B. 
 Cotter, and has one daughter. Address: 
 447 Crafts Street, West Newton, Mass. 
 
 MAYNARD, George Willoughby: 
 
 Artist, painter; born in Washington. D. 
 C, March 5, 1843; son of Edward and Ellen 
 Sophia (Doty) Maynard. He was edu- 
 cated in the National Academy of Design, 
 New York City, Royal Academy, Antwerp, 
 Belgium. He received the Temple gold 
 medal, the medal of the American Art As- 
 sociation, medal as one of the designers of 
 
 the World's Columbian Exposition, silver 
 medal from the I'an-.Xmerican Exposition, 
 Evans Prize, Shaw Prize. Was with the 
 Overland Telegraph Expedition in British 
 Cohmibia. ISO.'); Government Expedition in 
 18G3. Mr. Maynard travcdcd in Knglaml. 
 France, (Germany. Holland. Belgium, Swit 
 zerland, Italy, .\ustria, Hungary, Uouinania, 
 Russia. Turkey, Greece, and Xiraragun. 
 He is an academician and librarian of the 
 National Academy of Design, member of 
 the American Water Color Society. Artists' 
 Aid Society, and the Century Club. Ho 
 married in New York City, Dec. 20, 1007. 
 Louise Brownell. Address: 150 East 30th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 MAYNARD, Harry Lee: 
 
 Congressman; horn in Portsmouth, \'a.. 
 June 8, 18G1; son of John W. Mayiianl. 
 He received his education in the Virginia 
 Polytechnic Institute, and has since been 
 identified with business interests in Ports- 
 mouth. Virginia, where he is president 
 of the Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport 
 News Railroad, and officer and director in 
 various local enterprises. After serving 
 for four years in the Virginia House of 
 Delegates and six in the State Senate, Mr. 
 Maynard was elected in 1000 as a Demo 
 crat, to the Fifty-seventh Congress, from 
 the Second District of Virginia. He has 
 since been reelected biennially, and is now 
 serving in the Si.xty-first Congress. He 
 married, Aug. 5, 1885, ilary Eleanor 
 Brooks. Address: Portsmouth. Vn. 
 
 MAYNARD. Richard Field: 
 
 Artist; born in Chicago. April 23, 1875; 
 son of Isaac N. and Margaret (Field) May- 
 nard. He entered Cornell University, 1803. 
 went to Harvard, 1805, and graduated. Har- 
 vard, A.B., 1808; New York School of Art 
 and Art Students' League, pupil of William 
 Chase, Irving R. Wiles, Joseph DeCamp, 
 Robert Blum and others. He exhibited at 
 the Society of American Artists, the New 
 York Water Color Club, the National Acad- 
 emy of Design, the American Water Color 
 Society, the National Arts Club, the Cor- 
 coran Art Gallery in Washington and held 
 a " one man " exhibition in the gallery of 
 the Utica Public Library. He received a 
 first prize at Cowles Art School, 1898; 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 scliolarsliip, Art Students' League, 1899; 
 and is a member of the University Club. 
 Address: 33 \^est 67th Street, New York 
 (Mty. 
 
 MAZET, Robert: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Pittsburgh, May 15, 
 1857; son of William and Melsena (Wes- 
 sell) Mazet. He was educated in Pitts- 
 burgh High School and was graduated from 
 Columbia University, LL.B and A.B. He 
 was deputy attorney-general for the prose- 
 cution of violations of the State agricul- 
 tural law; chairman of the Board of Trans- 
 fer Tax Apprai-ers of New York; member 
 of the State Assembly of New York, 1897- 
 1899; member of special committee to in- 
 vestigate trusts in 1897; chairman of Cities 
 Committee of the State Assemblj^; chair- 
 man of the committee to investigate the 
 government of the City of New York in 
 1899, and was captain of Company D, 
 Seventh ^icgiment. National Guard of New 
 York. Is a Republican and a Presbyter- 
 ian. He is a member of the Pennsylvania 
 Society, Chi Phi fraternity, and of the 
 Republican and West Side Republican 
 Clubs. Mr. Mazet married Elsie S. Moore 
 (deceased), daughter of Rear Admiral 
 John W. Moore, and they have two children. 
 Address: 257 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 MEAD, Albert Edward: 
 
 Lawyer, ex-governor; born at Manhattan, 
 Kan., Dec. 14, 1861; son of William and 
 Harriet (Carlton) Mead. He was educated 
 in the public schools of Kansas, Iowa and 
 Illinois, and in the Southern Illinois Nor- 
 mal University at Carbondale, Illinois, and 
 after his graduation studied in the Union 
 College of Law at Chicago. He practiced 
 in Kansas from 1885 to 1889, and since 
 tlien in the State of Washington. He has 
 been active in the Republican party of 
 that State ever since he began his citizem- 
 ship there, and was mayor of ]?laine, Wash- 
 ington, ill 1892-1893. He afterward served 
 a term in the Washington House of Repre- 
 sentatives, and another as county attorney 
 of Whatcom County, and in 1904, was 
 elected governor of the State of Washing- 
 ton, for the term which ex])ired in Jan- 
 uary, 1909. Address: Bellingham, Wash. 
 
 MEAD, Edwin Doak: 
 
 Editor, author and lecturer; born at 
 Chesterfield, N. H., Sept. 29, 1849; son of 
 Bradley and Sarah (Stone) Mead. He 
 was brought up on a farm, attended the 
 local schools, and was for a time employed 
 in a village store until 1866, when he se- 
 cured employment with Ticknor and Fields, 
 Boston publishers. He attended English 
 and German Universities from 1875 for 
 four years, and on his return in 1879 en- 
 gaged in literary work and lecturing. Mr. 
 Mead is author of: Martin Luther — A 
 Study of the Reformation; The Philosophy 
 of Carlyle; The Intiuence of Emerson; The 
 Principles of the Founders; Organize the 
 World; and various essays and pamphlets. 
 He was editor of the New England Maza- 
 zine, 1889-1901, and long director of the 
 Old South historical work, and editor of 
 the Old Soutli Leatlets. He was for sev- 
 eral years president of the Massachusetts 
 Good Citizenship Society; and he is presi- 
 dent of the American Free Religious Asso- 
 ciation. He is especially prominent in the 
 movement for the promotion of universal 
 peace. He was delegate of the American 
 Peace Society to the Congresses at Glas- 
 gow, Rouen, Lucerne, Munich and London, 
 and was chairman of the E.xecutive Com- 
 mittee of the Thirteenth International 
 Peace Congress at Boston in 1904. He is 
 editor of the International Library, com- 
 posed of the best works published, incul- 
 cating the methods of reason in the set- 
 tlement of the diflferences between nations. 
 Mr. Mead married in Boston, Sept. 29, 
 1898, Lucia True Ames. Residence: 39 
 Newbury Street. Office: 20 Beacon Street, 
 Boston. 
 
 MEAD, Larkin Goldsmith: 
 
 Sculptor; born at Chcsteificld. N. H., 
 Jan. 3, 1835; son of Larkin Goldsmith and 
 Mary Jane (Noyes) Mead. The family re- 
 moved in his early boyhood to Brattleboro, 
 Vt., and there he received his education 
 in the public schools, and afterward became 
 a clerk in a local hardware store. While 
 engaged thus he evinced a predilection for 
 art. and took such opportunities as lie 
 could liiid to gratify his taste in lliis direc- 
 
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 lion. One cold winter lie iiiodelod in snow 
 the colossal figure of an angel, with sut-li 
 success that it became the talk ot' the 
 town and was commented on by the local 
 newspapers. This resulted in securing for 
 him the opportunity for an artistic educa- 
 tion. He worked in the studio of Henry 
 Kirke Brown in Brooklyn, N. Y., 1853-1855, 
 and after that began his career as a profes- 
 sional sculptor. He finished in 1857 the 
 colossal statue of Vermont on the dome of 
 the State House at IMontpelier, Vermont, 
 and in 18G1 the statue of Ethan Allen for 
 the portico of the same building. During 
 the consulate of his brother-in-law, Wil- 
 liam Dean Howells, at Venice, Mr. Mead 
 was attached to the consulate there and 
 improved his opportunities for study in 
 Italian art centers, and during the early 
 part of the Civil War he was for six 
 months at the front as an artist for Har- 
 per's Weekly, an experience of great value 
 for his after work in the designing of sol- 
 diers' monuments and ideal works in which 
 tiie soldier was the theme. He has exe- 
 cuted many famous groups, monuments, 
 portrait statues and ideal figures. His 
 portraits of Lincoln for the monument at 
 Springfield, Illinois, and of Ethan Allen for 
 the National Art Gallery at Washington, 
 are widely famous; Avhile in ideal or alle- 
 gorical statues. Echo, The Mississippi, and 
 others, the colossail marble group at Sacra- 
 mento, California, representing Columbus 
 appealing to Isabella, and the group The 
 I'eturned Soldier, are among the many 
 specimens of his art which have made for 
 liim a place in the forefront of Americau 
 art. Since 1862 he has resided chielly in 
 Florence, and there, in 1866, he married 
 Marietta di Benvenuti. Address: Flor- 
 ence, Italj'. 
 
 MEAD, Lucia Ames: 
 
 Lecturer and author; l)orn at Boseawcn, 
 N. H., May 5, 1856; daughter of Nathan P. 
 and Elvira (Coffin) Ames. She was educated 
 for five years in schools in Chicago and 
 Salem, Mass., the rest of her education be- 
 ing private. She moved from New Hamp- 
 shire to Illinois at the age of four, was 
 burned out in the Chicago fire at the age 
 of fifteen, and since then she has been a 
 
 resident of Ma>sachu.sctt8, and hin<e Iho 
 age of eighteen has lived in Boston. tShe 
 was a pupil of B. \\ . Lang in music, was 
 for some years an instructor on the piano, 
 then conducted classes in Nineteenth Cen- 
 tury thought, directing wonieu'.s study of 
 Emerson, Buskin, Carlyle. Ix)\ve|], etc.; 
 later lectured on social, economic and in 
 lernational (juestions. She married in 
 West Newton. Mass., (Jet. 29, 18!>S, Edwin 
 D. Mead, editor and lecturer. .Mrs. Mead 
 is now devoting her whole tinu! to lecturing 
 and writing on international peace. She 
 addressed the National J'eace Con^Mess at 
 Carnegie Hall, New York, in 1J)U7 ; went 
 as delegate to International Peace Con- 
 gresses at Glasgow, Rouen, Lucerne, Mun- 
 ich, and London, and took actice part, with 
 her husband, in the International Peace 
 Congress in Boston in 1904. She has lec- 
 tureu at Cornell, Syracuse, Michigan, and 
 I'ennsylvania Universities, and at Bryn 
 Mawr. Wellesley. Holyoke and other col- 
 leges. She has arranged, since its begin- 
 ning for tlie annual " New Voters' Festi- 
 val," at Faneuil Hall; for years a worker 
 in the Associated Charities, and always in- 
 terested in civic reforms and negro educa- 
 tion. She is author of Great Thoughts for 
 Little Thinkers; Memoirs of a Millionaire; 
 To Whom Much is Govern; Milton's Eng- 
 land ; Primer of the Peace Movement ; Pa- 
 triotism and the New Internationalism 
 (manual for teachci's) ; contributor to 
 newspapers and magazines. She is a direc- 
 tor of the American Peace Society; of the 
 Equal Sufl'rage Association for Good Gov- 
 ernment; cluiirman of the Peace and Arbi- 
 tration Departments of the National Coun- 
 cil of \\'omen and of the National American 
 Woman SuHrage Associations; president of 
 the Massachusetts Woman SulFragc Asso 
 ciatiou; mend)cr of the Massachusetts For- 
 estry Association, Massachusetts Civic 
 League, Consumers' League, Women's Edu- 
 cational and Industrial Union. Twentieth 
 Century Club of Boston and the Koxburghc 
 Club of Roxbury, Mass. Address: 39 
 Newbury Street, Boston. 
 
 MEAD, William Rutherford: 
 
 Architect; born in Brattleboro, Vt.. Aug. 
 20, 1846; son of Larkin Goldsmith and 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Mary Jane (Xoyes) Mead; brother of 
 Larkin G. Mead, the sculptor, and brother- 
 in-law of William Dean Howells. He was 
 graduated from Amherst College in the 
 class of 1867. studied architecture with 
 Kussell Sturgis in New York, and after- 
 ward for two years in Europe, then estab- 
 lished, with partners, in New York, the 
 firm of ]\Icl\im, Mead and \^'Ilite. who have 
 been architects of many of the most im- 
 portant buildings in New York City and 
 elsewhere throughout the country; among 
 tliem the buildings of Columbia University 
 on Morningside Heights, the Boston Public 
 Library, Rhode Island State Capitol. New 
 York Herald Building, the new additions 
 to the Wliite House at Washington and 
 many other public, oflice and residence 
 structures. He is a member of the Cen- 
 tury, University, Lambs, ]\Ietropolitan, The 
 Brook, and Garden City Coif Clubs. Mr. 
 Mead married Olga Kilenyi. Address: 
 KiO Fifth Avenue. New York City. 
 
 MEADE, Richard Worsam: 
 
 President of tlie Xew ^'ork Transporta- 
 tion Company; born at Cold Spring, N. Y.. 
 Feb. 7, 1870; son of Rear-Admiral Richard 
 Worsam Meade. U. S. Navy, and Rebecca 
 (Paulding) Meade. In 1S89 he entered the 
 railroad business as a clerk in the office of 
 liie piesident of St. Paul and Duluth Rail- 
 load Company in New York City; was sec- 
 retary to the general manager of the New 
 York and Nortliciii Uailway Company, 
 1891; secretary 1o llic gcinTal manager 
 of tile New York Central and Hudson River 
 Jiailroad Company, 181)4. He enlisted in 
 the U. S. Navy for (lie war with Spain, as 
 boatswain's mate of the C. S. S. Yankee, 
 isns, and served tiirough the war on tlie 
 soiilh coast of Cuba; was ajjpointed general 
 foreman of freiglit terminals of the New 
 Y'ork Central and Hudson River Railroad 
 Company, New York City. 18!)9; assistant 
 to president of the Metropolitan Street Rjiil 
 way Company, New York City, 1902; since 
 1904, president and general manager of the 
 New Y'ork Transportation Company, which 
 operates motorcab service in New York 
 City and Newport, !;. I. He introduced 
 the laxameter cab ami the (loiil)le-deck mo- 
 tor oiiiiiibu-, in New York. Mr. Meade 
 
 is also president and director of the Fifth 
 Avenue Coach Company, Park Carriage 
 Company, IMotor Cab Company of New 
 York, and the Metropolitan Express Com- 
 pany; vice-president and director of the 
 Metropolitan Securities Company; director 
 of the New Y^ork City Railroad Company, 
 Metropolitan Street Railway Company, 
 Third Avenue Railway Company, and other 
 subsidiary companies. He is a member of 
 the Society of Friendly Sons of St. Pat- 
 rick, ]\Iilitary Order of the Loyal Legion, 
 the LTnion Club, Automobile Club of Amer- 
 ica, and the New Y'ork Railroad and Trans- 
 portation Clubs. Address: Eighth Avenue 
 and 49th Street. New Y'ork City. 
 
 MEANY, Edward P.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Louisville, Ky.. May 13, 
 1854; son of Judge Edward A. and Maria 
 Lavenia (Shannon) Meany. He was edu- 
 cated in St. Louis University and St. Mary's 
 College, Kentucky. He is counsel of the 
 American Telephone and Telegraph Com- 
 pany ; director of the Trust Company of 
 New Jersey, Colonial Insurance Company 
 and director of several telephone com- 
 panies, forming part of the l>ell Telephone 
 System. He is judge-advocate-general of 
 New Jersey, with the rank of brigadier- 
 general. ]Mr. ]\Ieany is a member of the 
 Lawyers' and Morris County Golf Clubs, 
 the Automobile Club of America, Essex 
 County Country and Morristown Field 
 Clubs. (general Meany married Rosalie 
 Behr of St. Louis Mo., and they have one 
 son. Residence: Alnwick Hall, Convent 
 Station, N. ,). Ullicc: 15 Dey Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 MEARS, David Otis: 
 
 Clergyman; horn in Essex, Mass., Feb. 
 22, 1842; son of David Mcars. He was 
 educated in Phillips Academy, Andover, 
 Mass. ; was graduated from Amherst Col- 
 lege, A.B., 1865, A.M., 1808; studied theol- 
 ogy under the Rev. K. N. Kirk of Boston; 
 received D.D. from Iowa College, 1882. 
 lie was ordained to tlu' ministry, 1867; in- 
 stalled jiastor of the North Avenue Church, 
 Cambridge, Mass., 1867-1877, Piedmont Con- 
 gregational Church, Worcester, Mass., 1877- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 1S!)3, Calvary Prpsbvtcriau Clnirch, Clove- 
 land, Ohio, 1803-1S95, Fourth Prosbytorian 
 Church, Albari}', N. Y., since 1895. He was 
 the associate editor of the Golden Rule, 
 I'.oston, 1879-1880; edited Dr. E. N. Kirk's 
 Lectures on Revivals, and is author of: 
 Life of Edward Norris Kirk. D.D., 1877; 
 The Deathless Book, 1888; Oberliu Lectures, 
 1892; Inspired Through Sull'ering, 1895. 
 Dr. Mears married first in Amherst, Mass., 
 Sept. 11, 18G7, Fannie J. Lk>ntley (de 
 ceased), and second in Grinnell, Iowa, Sept. 
 6. 1882, Mary C. Grinnell, daughter of the 
 Hon. J. B. Grinnell. Address: 53 Ten 
 Brneck Street, Albany.. N. Y. 
 
 MEARS, Helen Farnsworth: 
 
 Sculptor; born in Oshkosh, Wis., 1878; 
 daughter of .John H. and Elizixbeth (Farns- 
 worth ) ]\Iears. She was educated in public 
 schools and the State Normal School of 
 Oshkosh ; studied art in New York City and 
 Paiis; while a school-girl made a success 
 with groTip The Genius of Wisconsin, ex- 
 hibited at the World's Columbian Exposi- 
 tion, Chicago, 1893. She has exhibited in 
 annual exhibitions in New Y''ork City and 
 Chicago, and at the Louisiana Purchase 
 Expo.^ition, 1904, where she was awarded a 
 medal for The Fountain of Life; executed 
 the marble statue of Frances E. Willard 
 placed in the Capitol at Washington, 1905, 
 and portrait reliefs of Edward Alexander 
 MacDowell, Louise Collier Willcox, and Au- 
 gustus St. Gaudens. Address: The Clin- 
 ton, 252 West 42d Street, New York City. 
 
 MEAES, Mary: 
 
 Autlior: born in Oshkosh, Wis.; daugh- 
 ter of John Hall and Elizabeth (Farns- 
 worth) Mears. She was educated in State 
 Normal College. Her mother Elizabeth 
 Farnsworth, was before her marriage a well 
 known writer of plays and stories of early 
 \\'isconsin life; she wrote under the pen 
 name of " Nellie Wildwood " and wrote the 
 jiopular song: When the Swallows Come 
 Again Nellie Wildwood. She is the sister 
 of Helen Farnsworth Mears, the sculptor. 
 Miss Mears is author of: Enuna Emma 
 Lou— Her Book; 1896, The Breath of the 
 Runners (a novel), 1906, and Rosamond — 
 The Second (a novelette), also short stories 
 
 in Harpers, Mcriiire, Munsey. and other 
 loading magazines. She is a inoniiier of the 
 MacDowell Club. Address: 253 West 42d 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 MEARS, Mary Grinnell: 
 
 I'xnii JM (iriiiuoll. Jowa : dangliler of e.\- 
 Congressman .Josiali B. and Julia Anna 
 (Chapin) Grinnell. She was {graduated 
 from Iowa College, 1881, as IJaehelor of 
 Literature, and she married in Grinnell, 
 Iowa. Sei)t. (i. 1882, Ivev. David (). Mears, 
 !).])., and they have two children, lioth in 
 college. Her father founded the town of 
 Grinnell. Iowa, and was the original per- 
 son to whom Horace Greeley said : " Go 
 West, young man ! " He was a descendant 
 of John and Priscilla Alden, and also of 
 Huguenot blood. Her mother, who was a 
 descendant of John Eliot, the " apostle to 
 the Indians," and of Samuel Chajjin, founded 
 the first Mothers' Meeting west of the Mis- 
 sissippi. Mrs. Mears, whose husband is a 
 Presbyterian clergyman, is an fjflicer in 
 many local. State and National church, 
 philanthropic and educational organizations. 
 She is first vice president of thi' National 
 Congress of Mothers, for seven years presi- 
 dent of the New York State Assembly of 
 Mothers; and is a member of the Society of 
 i\Iayilower Descendants in the State of New 
 York, Daughters of the American Revolu- 
 tion, the Chapin Family Association, etc. 
 Mrs. Mears is a contributor of short articles 
 to the press on religious, ])hilanthropie and 
 educational subjects, and gives fro(iuont ad- 
 dresses on missionary and philanthropic 
 to))ics, nil club work and methods and on 
 tile work of the National Congre.--s of Moth- 
 ers in all its branches. Address: 53 Ten 
 Broeck Street. Albany, N. Y. 
 
 MEEHAN, William Edward: 
 
 Coniiuissioiicr of Fisheries: Ixuii in Phil- 
 adelphia. Aug. 31. 1853; son of Professor 
 Thomas Mcehan. botanist, antl Catherine 
 Lmma (CoUlesh) Meehan. He attomled pri- 
 vate schools in Philadelphia. He was an 
 as-ociate editor of the Philadelphia Public 
 Ledger for fifteen years, botanist of the 
 Peary Relief Expedition to North Green- 
 land in 1892; writer for monthly and 
 weekly magazines of high class, lecturer on 
 
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 geographical subjects. He is author of: 
 In Arctic Seas. Part 2. 1S!>2; Mountain 
 Lakes of Pennsylvania, 1896; History of 
 Fish, Fishing and Fisheries of Pennsyl- 
 vania, 1894; joint author, with brother 
 editors of the Public Ledger of an outdoor 
 nature book, Saturday Jaunts, 1808; and 
 also writer and editor of all the aiuiual 
 reports of the State Fish Commission and 
 the Department of Fisheries since 1895. 
 He was a member of the Germantown 
 School Board, 1902-1905 and again since 
 1906; elected secretary and statistician of 
 the State Fish Commission in 1895 by the 
 Board, appointed fish commissioner by 
 Governor Stone in 1902. reappointed by 
 Governor Pennypacker in January, 1903, 
 and after the abolition of the Board of Fish 
 Connnission and the creation of the Depart- 
 ment of Fisheries in June, 1903, was ap- 
 pointed commissioner of fisheries by Gov- 
 ernor Pennypacker and reappointed June 
 1. 1907, by Governor Stuart. Under his di 
 rection Pennsylvania became foremost 
 among the States in fish culture, the num- 
 ber of fish hatcheries was increased from 
 three to eight, and the output vastly in- 
 creased, giving Pennsylvania more than 
 the aggregate of any two of the other 
 States, and one-fourth of that of the United 
 States Government. Two important fishery 
 industries have been restored and others 
 greatly improved. He was one of the foimd- 
 ers of the Germantown Scientific Society, 
 an Institution for boys, which flourished 
 1868-1876, and from Avhich were evolved 
 several distinguished scientific men; life 
 member of the Academy of Natural Sci- 
 ences of Philadelphia; vice-president, 1909, 
 of the American Fisheries Society, and pres- 
 ident for the year 1910 of the North Ameri- 
 can Fish and Game Association (an interna- 
 tional organization) ; honorary or active 
 member of nearly everv* fish protective asso- 
 cialion in Pennsylvania; one of the re 
 organizers and corresponding secretary of 
 the United Sportsmen of Pennsylvania ; 
 and he is also lionorarj' president and 
 one of the founders of the City His- 
 tory Club of Philadelphia, a member and 
 charter nieinl)er of the Site and Relic So 
 eiety of Philadelphia, and for one year a 
 
 director of Childhood Protective League of 
 Pliiladelphia. He married. June 3. 1879, 
 Linda Augusta Graham, and they have two 
 children. Address: Dorset Street, Mt. 
 Airy, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 MEEK, Edward Roscoe: 
 
 Jurist; born in Davenport, Iowa, Dec, 
 23, 1805; son of Aaron and Rhoda (Gard- 
 ner) Meek. He was educated in the Uni- 
 versity of Iowa, from which he received the 
 degrees of A.B., A.M., and LL.B. Since 
 1SS9 he has lived in Texas, and he was 
 general attorney of the Fort Worth and 
 Denver City Railway Company until ap- 
 pointed in July, 1898, to his present of- 
 fice as U. S. district judge for the Northern 
 District of Texas. He is a Republican in 
 politics. Judge !Meek married in Des 
 Moines, Iowa, in 1890, Elizabeth Clarkson, 
 daughter of the late Richard P. Clarkson, 
 editor and publisher of the Des Moines 
 Register. Address: Dallas, Texas. 
 
 MEEKER, Stephen J.: 
 
 Manvifacturer; born in Newark, N. J., 
 March 17, 1843. He was educated in a pri- 
 vate school at Newark, and after complet- 
 ing his education engaged in the foundry 
 business, which is being carried on by his 
 sons and nephew as the Meeker Foundry 
 Company. Mr. Meeker was president of 
 tlie New Jersey Commission to the World's 
 Columbian Exposition in 1893 at Chicago, 
 was a member of the Temporary Commis- 
 sion of Essex County Parks and a member 
 of the first Board of Permanent Commis- 
 sioners of the same. He is a Democrat in 
 politics, and since 1895 he has been a 
 member of the State Board of Assessors of 
 New Jersey. He is a member of the Wash- 
 ington Association of New Jersey, a gov- 
 ernor of the Essex County (N. J.) Coimtry 
 Club, and a member of the Lawyers' Club 
 of New York. Mr. Meeker has twice mar- 
 ried, first, Elizabeth P. Townley in 1808, 
 and second, Margaret Potter Co.x in 1886. 
 Address: 17 High Street, Orange, N. J. 
 
 MEERSCHAERT, Theophile: 
 
 Catliiilic hishnp ; liorn at Russignies, Bel- 
 gium, Aug. 24, 1847. He was educated in 
 the colleges of Renaix and Audenarde, Bel- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1149 
 
 gium, and in tlio American College of 
 Loiivain, Belgium, was ordained priest Dec. 
 'J3, 1871, and the following year came to 
 t he United States, taking up pastoral work 
 in the Diocese of Natchez, Miss., of which 
 he became vicar-general, and, for a time, 
 administrator. He was appointed in 1891 
 Ihe first vicar-apostolic of the Indian Ter- 
 litory, his vicarate comprising both Indian 
 Territory and Oklahoma, and titular bishop 
 of Sidynia, and upon the creation of the 
 diocese of Oklahoma with the same territory 
 became its first bishop with see located at 
 Oklahoma City. Address: Oklahoma City, 
 Okla. 
 
 MEGARGEL, Roy C: 
 
 Banker; born in Scranton, Pa., 1877; 
 son of I. F. and Gertrude J. (Jones) Me- 
 gargel. He was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, LL.B. He commenced 
 bainking business at Scranton, 1901, as 
 member of the firm of I. F. Megargel and 
 Company, and organized the present firm in 
 New York, 1906. He is president of the 
 Cameron Creek Coal Company, and vice- 
 president of the Gulf, Texas and Western 
 Railway Company. Mr. Megargel is a 
 member of the Lawyers, St. Nicholas, Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, and Beta Tlieta Pi 
 Clubs!^ the Dallas Club of Dallas, Texas, 
 and the Scranton Club, of Scranton, Pa. 
 He married in Richmond, Va., May, 1909, 
 Margery Knowles. Residence: 56 West 
 58th Street. Office: 5 Nassau Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 MEIGS, Montgomery: 
 
 U. S. civil engineer; born in Detroit, 
 Mich., Feb. 27, 1874; son of Major General 
 Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, U. S. 
 Army and Louisa (Rogers) Meigs. After 
 completing his public school course he took 
 uj) technical study at the Lawrence Sci- 
 entific School of Harvard University, and 
 then went to Wiirtemburg, becoming a stu- 
 dent in the Royal Polytechnic School at 
 Stuttgart. He was engaged on the sur- 
 veys and construction of the Noi'thern Pa- 
 cific Railroad; 1870-1873, and since 1894 
 lias been engaged as U. S. civil engineer, 
 attached to the U. S. Engineer Service; 
 
 since 1S74 engaged as a civil eiigiiicM-r in 
 Government service in foniicctioii with the 
 improvemonis of tlic Mississippi between 
 St. Paul and St. Louis, and for twenty- 
 seven years he has been superintendent of 
 (he U. S. Ship Caiuil at Keokuk. Iowa, and 
 in charge of Mississippi River improve- 
 menis. lie has inventeil ;in<l introduced 
 improvements in liydraiilic engineering. 
 Mr. Meigs married at Rotk Ishmd, HI., 
 in 1877, Grace ('. Lyn(b', since deccnsoil. 
 Address: (IIS Kniiikliii Stivi-t. Keokuk. 
 Io« a. 
 
 MELL, Patrick Hues: 
 
 I'n'sidcnt of Clemson Colicgc; liorn at 
 Penficid, (;a.. May 24, 1850; son of Patrick 
 Hues Mell, D.D.". LL.D., third chanc.-llor 
 of the University of Georgia, and Lurene 
 Howard (Cooper) Mell. He was gradu- 
 ated from the University of Georgia, A.H.. 
 1871, C.E. and M.E., 1872. Ph.D., 1880; 
 and received tlie LL.D. degree, in 1905. 
 from South Carolina University. He was 
 State chemist of Georgia. 1874-1877; pro- 
 fessor of geology and botany in the Ala- 
 bama Polytechnic Institute. 1878-1902; di- 
 rector of the Alabama Weatlier Service 
 1884-189:?. and director of the Alabama 
 Agricultural Experiment Station. 1898- 
 1902; and since 1902 president of Clenison 
 College, S.C. Dr. Mell has devoted his life 
 very largely to original researches in the 
 fields of geology, botany and meteorology, 
 and has written numerous scientific niono- 
 gra[)hs. notably du ore deposits and min- 
 ing in the South; auriferous slate deposits 
 in Southern regions; Southern soapstones 
 and free clays; the cotton plant; grasses 
 and forage plants; the flora of Alabama: 
 climatology of Alabama; Climatology of 
 the Cotton Plant (issued bv the United 
 States De))artment of Agriculture), liotani- 
 cal Laboratory tiuide; Biological I.^ibora- 
 tory Guide. He edited a revision of Meli's 
 Parliamentary Practice; was revisor of 
 White's Gardening for the South; and lias 
 written newspaper and magazine articles. 
 Dr. Mell invented the sy.>tein of weatlier 
 signals now used by the United States 
 Weather Bureau; and he received a medal 
 from the Paris exposition of 1900. He is 
 a fellow of tlio Auuricau As-^ocialion lor 
 
1150 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 the Advancement of Science, the Geological 
 Society of America, and the Association of 
 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Sta- 
 tions, (vice-president. 189S). He is also a 
 member of the National Geographic Society, 
 the Southern Historical Association, South 
 Carolina Historical Association, Alabama 
 Historical Association, the Sons of the Rev- 
 olution, and Sons of Confederate Veterans. 
 President Mell married, June 15, 1875, An- 
 nie R. Wliite. Address: Clemson College, 
 S. C. 
 
 MELLEN, Chase: 
 
 Lawyer: hoin in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 
 21, 18t)3; son of William and Ellen Sey 
 mour (Clark) Mellen. He was prepared at 
 Colorado College, Colorado Springs, and by 
 jjrivate tutors; entered Bra^enose College, 
 Oxford, Englantl. and was graduated from 
 Oxford University, B.A., 1887. He prac- 
 tised civil engineering in Colorado for two 
 years, with the Denver and Rio Grande 
 Railroad Company, and fourteen months in 
 Mexico with the Mexican National Railway 
 Company; came to New York City ill 1889; 
 studied law at Columbia College, and in 
 the otiice of Parsons, Shepard and Ogden. 
 He was admitted to the bar in Ajiril, 1892. 
 He was appointed assistant corporation 
 coun.sel I)y Hon. Francis M. Scott, April 1, 
 1895; ser\ed ds such also under Hon. John 
 Wiuxlen, and Hon. George L. Rives. He 
 resigned Decend)er 31, 1903, and resumed 
 private practice. He is a mend)er of the 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, New York State Bar Association, 
 and the American Bar Association. Mr. 
 Mellen is also a member of the University, 
 St. Anthony, Down Town and City Clubs 
 of New York City and of the Garden City 
 (jolf Club. He married in Augusta, Me., 
 June 7, 1893, Lucy Cony Manley. daughter 
 of Joseph Hoinan Manley. and tliey have 
 four cliihlren. Residence: Garden City, I.,. 
 I. Odice: 32 Nassau Street, New Vork 
 Ciiy. 
 
 MELLIN, Carl J.: 
 
 .Meeiianical engineer; born in W'estergot- 
 land, Sweden, Feb. 17, 1851; son of Sven 
 and Maria Elizabeth (Bjorn) Mellin. He 
 
 received a college and a technical education 
 in Sweden, embracing mechanical engineer- 
 ing and naval arciiitecture. He was me- 
 clianical engineer and naval architect in 
 Sweden and Scotland, 1877-1887, notably 
 with Robert Napier and Son, and the Cal- 
 edonian Locomotive Works, Glasgow, and 
 tiie Erikberg and Atlas Works, Sweden; 
 was mechanical engineer with the Dyna- 
 mite Gun Company, New York City, 1887- 
 1889; mechanical engineer, 1889-1894, and 
 chief engineer, 1894-1902, with the Rich- 
 mond Locomotive Works, Riclimond, Va., 
 and since 1902 he has been consulting engi- 
 neer to the American Locomotive Com- 
 pany. He was jjrominently connected with 
 designing the dynamite gun macliinery for 
 the U. S. cruiser Vesuvius; had chaige of 
 the designing and construction of machin- 
 ery of the U. S. battleship Texas; designer 
 and patentee of what is known as the 
 Richmond Compound Locomotive and Ar- 
 ticulate Compound Locomotive, built for 
 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which 
 was exhibited and awarded gold medal at 
 the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in 1904. 
 and received the highest award for a com- 
 pound locomotive at the Pan American Ex- 
 position at Buffalo in 1901. He was 
 knighted for commendable services by King 
 Oscar of Sweden in 1905. Mr. Mellin is the 
 originator of the introduction of the Wal- 
 schoert valve motion on the American loco- 
 motives, and was primarily responsible for 
 the introduction of the four-cylinder bal- 
 anced compouiul locomotive in this country. 
 He has contributed numerous technical arti- 
 cles on locomotive design to prominent rail- 
 road journals. Mr. Mellin is a member of 
 the American Society of IMechanical Engi- 
 neers, Society of Naval Architects and Ma- 
 rine Engineers, American Society of Naval 
 EngiiU'crs, American Railroad Master Me- 
 chanics' Association, American Society of 
 Swedish iMigineers. of the ]\Iohawk Club of 
 Schenectady. He married in New York 
 City, Dec. 31, 1889, Gertrude Alice Levie, 
 and they have two children. Address: 
 1005 I'nion Street, Schenectady, N. Y. 
 
 MELLON, James Ross: 
 
 Banker; horn in Pittsburgh, Jan. 14, 
 1840; son of Judge Thomas and Sarah 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1151 
 
 .fane (Xegley) Mellon. He received his 
 cthioation in JefTerson College, Cannons- 
 hurg, Pa. He has been successful in bank 
 ing and general business. He built and 
 owns the Ligomer Valley Railroad in West- 
 moreland County, Pennsylvania ; is presi- 
 dent of the City Deposit Bank, the Liberty 
 ]\Iarket Company and director of St. Clair 
 Incline Plane Company. He is also presi- 
 dent of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, 
 the IDixmont Insane Hospital, and of the 
 Western Pennsylvania Alumni Association. 
 He is trustee of the Athalia Daly House for 
 Young Working Girls ; and a member of 
 Theta Delta Chi Association. In politics 
 he is a Republican. Mr. Mellon is a mem- 
 l)er of the Union, Golf, Duquesne, Country 
 and University Clubs of Pittsburgh. He 
 married in Leavenworth, Kansas, June 3, 
 1807, Rachel Huey Larrimer, and they have 
 three children. Residence: 400 North 
 Negley Avenue, Pittsbvirgh. Office Mellon 
 National Bank, 514 Smithfield Street, Pitts- 
 burgh. 
 
 MELVILLE, George Wallace: 
 
 Rear-admiral, U. S. Navy; born in New 
 York City. July 30, 1841 ; son of Alexander 
 and Sarah jNIelville, and is of Scotch de- 
 scent. He served an apprenticeship in the 
 machine shop of James Binns, in East 
 Brooklyn, New York, until 1861, when he 
 entered the Navy as third assistant engi- 
 neer. He served in the North and South 
 Atlantic Squadrons and in Wilkes's Flying 
 Squadron, during the Civil War. He was 
 on board of the Wachusett in the harbor 
 of Bahia, South America, and took part in 
 the sinking of the Florida by that vessel. 
 His first voyage to the Arctic was as chief 
 engineer of the Tigress, in search of the 
 Polaris, and when the Jeannette Expedi- 
 tion was being prepared. Captain George 
 W. DeLong, who was his personal friend, 
 induced Melville to go with him. After the 
 wreck of the Jeannette the devotion of ]\Iel- 
 ville, his successful measures for the saving 
 of the crew of the whale-boat which he 
 commanded, his heroic search along five 
 hundred miles of ice-bound coast for the 
 crews of the other two boats, form one of 
 tlie most thrilling, of the momentous chap- 
 ters in the history of Arctic exploration. 
 
 He again went lo the Arctic an chief en- 
 gineer of the flagship Theti.s in the CJrcely 
 Relief Expedition. He was ajjpointed in 
 August, 1887. and reappointed in 1892, 
 1890 and 1900. engineer-in chief of the 
 United States Navy, and advanced to the 
 rank of rear-admiral, March 4, 1809; re- 
 tired in 1903. He was advanced fifteen 
 numbers by special act of Congress in 1S90 
 for his distinguished .services in the Arctic. 
 His ability as an engineer gave si)ecial 
 value to his services at the liead of the 
 Bureau of Steam Engineering, during a 
 period when the New Navy was being con- 
 structed, and for many of the vessels liuilt 
 during this period he himself prepared the 
 general designs of the machinery. He is 
 an interesting and forceful writer, and his 
 book of Arctic experience. In the I^ena 
 Delta, takes rank as one of the best written 
 records of real adventure. Rear-Admiral 
 Melville is a member and ex-president of 
 me American Society of Mechanical En- 
 gineers. Since his retirement he has been 
 markedly successful as a consulting engi 
 neer and his report on the turbine system 
 of steam propulsion attracted international 
 attention. Address: 1720 H Street. Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 MELVILLE, Henry: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Nelson, N. H., Aug. 2.5, 
 1858; son of Josiah H. and Nancy K. 
 (Ncsniith) Melville. He was graduated 
 from Dartmouth College, A.B., 1870, and 
 from Harvard University as A.M. and 
 LL.B., cum laude. in 1884. He was admit- 
 ted to the New York bar in 1885. He 
 served as ca])tain of Company .\. Eighth 
 Regiment, National (Uiard of New York, 
 and was captain of Company A. Eighth 
 Regiment, New York Infantry Volunteers, 
 during the Spanish-American War. He is 
 president of the New York State Board of 
 Managers of Reformatories ( having in 
 charge Elmira and Napanoch). He is a 
 memi)er of the Association of the Bar of the 
 City of New York, the Phi Beta Kappa So- 
 ciety, Society of Colonial Wars. Sons of 
 Revolution, and the Naval and Military 
 Order of the Spanish- American War. and is 
 a member of the University Club of New 
 York City and Republican and Dartmouth 
 
1152 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Chibs of New York City. Address: 120 
 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 MENDEL, Lafayette B.: 
 
 Piofi'ssor of pliysiological chemistry; 
 born in Delhi, N. Y., Feb. 5, 1872; son of 
 Benedict and Pauline (Ullnian) IMendel. 
 He was graduated from Delaware Academy, 
 Delhi; Yale University. B.A., and Ph.D., 
 and the Universities of Breslau and Frei- 
 burg. He has been successively assistant in 
 physiological chemistry, instructor, assist- 
 ant professor, and now professor in the 
 Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Univer- 
 sity; and was a lecturer in the Graduate 
 School of Agriculture, Ithaca, 1908. Pro- 
 fessor IMendel is a fellow of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science, 
 member of the American Society of Natural- 
 ists, American Physiological Society, Ameri- 
 can Society of Biological Chemistry, Ameri- 
 can Chemical Society, American Gastroen- 
 terological Society; American Association 
 of Home Economics, Connecticut Academy 
 of Arts and Sciences, associate member of 
 the American Medical Association, and 
 member of the Graduates Club of New 
 Haven. Address: 18 Trumbull Street, 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
 MENDENHALL, Walter Curran: 
 
 (icologisl; boiii in ^Marlboro. Ohio. Feb. 
 20, 1871; son of William King and Emma 
 Pierce (Garrigues) Mendenhall. He was 
 graduated from the Ohio Northern Univer- 
 sity, B.S., 1805, Harvard University, 189(5- 
 1897, and Heidelberg University, 1899-1900. 
 He was geologic aid and assistant geologist 
 to the U. S. Geological Survey, 1S94-1901, 
 and geologist since 1901 ; in charge of 
 Ground Wafer investigations since 1908. 
 ^ir. Mendenhall has done professional work 
 in the Appalachians, Cascades, Alaska, and 
 California, and is author of various publi- 
 cations in ollicial rejjorts and lechnical 
 journals. ?Te is a member of the Geologi 
 cal Society of America, Geological Society 
 of ^^'asllington, ^^'ashingtoll Academy of 
 Sciences, Washington Society of Engineers, 
 Harvard Engineers, National Geographic 
 Society, treasurer and director of the Los 
 Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1907-1908, 
 
 director of the Los Angeles Municipal 
 League, 1907, and is a member of the Co.s- 
 mos Club of Washington. Residence: Cos- 
 mos Club. Office: U. S. Geological Sur- 
 vey, 'Washington, D. C. 
 
 MERCER, Alfred Clifford: 
 
 Physician; born in Syracuse, N. Y., July 
 ."), 1855; son of Dr. Alfred and Delia (Lani- 
 phier) Mercer. He was graduated from 
 Syracuse University, M.D., 1878; attended 
 St. Thomas Hospital, London, England, 
 1878-1881 and Great Ormond Street Hos- 
 pital for Sick Children (London). 1890- 
 1891. He was professor of pathology, 18S(J- 
 1893, professor of clinical pediatrics, 1893- 
 1!)04, and has been j^rofessor of pediatrics 
 since 1904 at Syracuse University. He is 
 consulting physician of the children's clinic 
 at Syracuse Free Dispensary, and physician 
 to the Children's wards of the Syracuse 
 Hospital for Women and Children. Dr. 
 Mercer was health officer of Syracuse, 1883- 
 1S85; and is a contributor to medical, mi- 
 croscopical and photographic periodicals. 
 He is author of: An Experimental Study 
 of Aperture as a Factor in Microscopic 
 Vision, 189G. He devised the Syracuse 
 solid watch glass commonly used in micro- 
 scopical laboratories; the iconoscope, used 
 on hand cameras, and a double-bulb X-ray 
 tube, used with Tesla coils. He is chair- 
 man of the Milk Commission of the Onon- 
 daga Medical Society; and member of the 
 Anti-tuberculosis Committee of the Asso- 
 ciated Charities. Dr. Mercer is a fellow of 
 the Royal Microscopical Society, London ; 
 member of the American Microscopical So- 
 ciety (president 1896), American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science. Ameri- 
 can Medical Association, Onondaga ^ledical 
 Society, New York State IMedical Society, 
 Central New York Association ; fellow of 
 the Academy of ^Tcdiciuo nf Syracusf; 
 f ]))'e. ident, 1909); corrcspoiiiling nuMuber 
 of tiie Academy of Science. Kocliester, N. 
 Y. ; member of the Onondaga Historical So- 
 ciety; honorary member of tiic Syracuse 
 Botanical Clui) and is a imiuber of the 
 Tinirsday Night, Citizens' and I'^ort nightly 
 Clubs. Address: Three hundred and 
 twenty four I^Iontgomery Street, Syracuse, 
 New York. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 MERCHANT, Francis D.: 
 
 riiy.siciaii ; born in Wusliinglon, D. C, 
 Oct. 11, 180fi; son of Sil;is and Anna J. 
 (Shepherd) Merchant, lie roecived a pre- 
 ])aratory education in the ]>epartment of 
 Columbian University (now George Wash- 
 iniilon. Iht" College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons, graduating M.D., and the Colum- 
 bia University Medical School, New York 
 City. Dr. Merchant has been engaged in 
 the practice of his profession, since his 
 graduation. He is a medical director of the 
 Mutual Life Insurance Company, and di- 
 rector of the Batopilas Mining Company. 
 Dr. ^Merchant is a member of the County 
 and State Medical Society in New York, and 
 tlie New York Academy of Medicine. He 
 married in Batopilas, Mexico, May 7, 1901, 
 (hace Shepherd. Residence: 150 West 
 47ili Street. Office : 34 Nassau Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 MERRIAM, Clinton Hart: 
 
 Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey; 
 born in New York City, Dec. 5, 1855; son 
 of Clinton L. and Caroline (Hart) Mer- 
 riam. He was educated in Williston Sem- 
 inary, Easthampton, Mass., the Sheffield 
 Scientific School, Yale, and College of Phy- 
 sicians and Surgeons, New York City. M.D., 
 1879. He practised medicine until 1885 at 
 Locust Grove, New York, meanwhile con- 
 tinning his biological studies. He was 
 naturalist with Hayden's Survey, assistant 
 of the V. S. Fish Commission ; was sur- 
 geon of the Steamship Proteus, visiting the 
 Arctic Seal Fishery from Newfoundland; 
 and was U. S. Bering Sea commissioner, 
 engaged in the Fur Seal Investigations on 
 Pribilof Islands in 1891. Dr. Merriam is 
 a fellow and ex-president of the American 
 Ornithologists' Union ; member of the Na- 
 tional Academy of Sciences, the American 
 Philosophical Society, foreign member of 
 the Zoological Society of London, and a fel- 
 low of the American Association for tlie 
 Advancement of Science. He is author of 
 numerous work on zoijlogical. botanical and 
 ethnological subjects, contributor to the 
 scientific press and publications of the 
 United States Biological Survey. Address: 
 U. S. Biological Survey, ^^■ashington, D. C. 
 73 
 
 MERRIAM, George Spring: 
 
 Aiillior; born at Spriiiglicld. .Ma-.i.. .Inn. 
 13, 1843; son of (ieorgc and .\bliy (KiMko) 
 Merriam. He was gradualfti from Yak. 
 J5..V., 18(i4, and attended Yale 'riicologjcal 
 School, 18t)5-18(iH. lie was tutor in Vale 
 College, 18(i(i-18()8; ollicp editor of the 
 Christian Union, 187*1- 1S75. and since 1H78 
 has Dcen resident in S])ring(ield. Mas>. Il(^ 
 was connected with the |»nlilication of tiie 
 Webster International Dictionary, and hn.s 
 been mainly occupieil in literary work. He 
 is author of: A Living Faith. 187U; Tii^ 
 Way of Life. 1881 ; The Life and 'limes of 
 Sanuiel Bowles, 1885; The Story of Wil- 
 liam and Lucy Smith. 1889; Noah Porter. 
 1893; A Sym])hony of the Spirit (compila- 
 tion), 1894; The Chief End of Man. 1897; 
 Reminiscences and Letters of Caroline ('. 
 Briggs. 1897: The Negro and the Nation, 
 1900. .Mr. .Merriam married first at 
 Frankfort. Ky.. June 30. 18G8. Mrs. Fanny 
 Smith Post (died Jan. 13, 1878) ; married, 
 second, at Winchester, Mass., June 30, 1897, 
 Susan Adela Clajjp. Address: Crescent 
 Hill. Sprinslield, Mass. 
 
 MERRIAM, William Rush: 
 
 Banker, ex-governor of Minnesota; born 
 at Wadham's Mills, Essex County, New 
 lorK, in 1849; son of John L. and Mahala 
 (de Lano) Merriam. He has been a resi- 
 dent of St. Paul, Minn., since 1861, wa3 
 prepared in the schools of that place, grad- 
 uated from Racine College in 1871. and in 
 the same year became a clerk in the Mer- 
 chants' National Bank of St. Paul, of 
 which he became cashier in 1873, vioe- 
 ])resident in 1880 and has been president 
 since 1882; in addition to which he is a 
 director in various corporations. He was a 
 nuMuber of the Minnesota Legislature for 
 several years and its speaker in 1886; 
 elected governor of ^linnesota in 1888, and 
 served through the four-year term. l)egin- 
 ning in 1889. In 1898 he wa.s appointed by 
 President McKinley, director of the Twelfth 
 Census, and .served until 1903. During his 
 service the Census Bureau was established 
 as a permanent institution on plans de- 
 veloped by :\Ir. Merriam and put into opera- 
 tion by him. Governor Merriam has im- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 poiiaiit liusiiu'ss interosts in \'ii(rinia in 
 addition to tliose in the Nortliwcst, and 
 lie makes his liome in \\ ashiTijrton. Ad- 
 dress: 1414 Ek-venth Stici't. W asliinoton. 
 D. C. 
 
 MERRICK. Samuel Vaughan: 
 
 Retired; born in riiiladelpliia. Dec. 10, 
 1850; .son of William Henry and S. Maria 
 (Otis) ]\Ierrick. He was educated in the 
 University of Pennsylvania. JMr. INIerrick 
 is a Kepublican and an Episcopalian. He 
 is a member of the Historical Society of 
 Pennsylvania, a trustee of the Piiiladelphia 
 Orthopaedic Hospital, St. Christopher's 
 Hospital and is a member of the Phi Kappa 
 Sigma fraternity. He participates in most 
 of the outdoor recreations, and is a member 
 of the Philadelphia Club and the German- 
 town Cricket Club. Mr. Merrick married 
 in Philadelphia, April 15, 1880, :Mary Pvod 
 ney King, and they iuive four daughters 
 and one son. Address: 5219 Wayne Ave- 
 nue, Germantown, Philadelphia. 
 
 MERRICK, William Henry: 
 
 .Manager of The Piiiiailclphia Saving 
 Fund Society; born in Piiiladelphia, A])ril 
 27, 18:H ; .son of Samuel Vaughan and 
 Sarah (Thomas) Merrick. He was edu- 
 cated in Philadelphia High School and in 
 the University of Pennsylvania. In politics 
 he is a Republican and in religion an Epis 
 copalian.. He is a member of the American 
 Philosopliical Society and the Franklin In- 
 stitute and of The Pliiladcl])liia German- 
 town Cricket and Penn Clubs. Mr. Mer- 
 rick has been -married twice; first in 
 Piiiladelpliia, in 1855, to Sara Maria Otis, 
 and .second, in 18<JG, Helen i^ouise Smith, 
 and he has three children. Residence: 
 Venice, Italy. Address: School House 
 l.aiie. ( leniiaiilow II, IMiiladel|)liia. 
 
 MERRILL, Charles Edmund: 
 
 Publisher of eiliical ioiia 1 text -books ; l)orM 
 in Hanover. \. II.. Feb. 20. 1848; son of 
 I'hineas and Abigail (Rollins) Merrill, lie 
 was educated in Phillips .\eadeiiiy. And 
 over, Mass., and Dartmouth College in the 
 class of 1800. He was engaged in the 
 school book publishing business as Charles 
 
 F. Menill & Company, afterward bi'caiiie 
 proidenl of Maynard, Menill & Company 
 auil is now i)residenl of its successor, 
 Cliailes E. Merrill Company, publishers. 
 He i^ a member of the Central Council of 
 the Cluirity Organization Society of New 
 York ; trustee of the Brick Presbyterian 
 Church of New York City; life member 
 of the Xew England Society and a member 
 of the University, Century, Aldine and 
 Dartmouth Clubs of New York. Mr. Mer- 
 rill has been twice married, first in New 
 York City, 1874, to Lydia W. Brown, 
 second, in New York City, 1005. to Sally 
 C. Markoe, and he has three children. Ad- 
 dress: 44 to 00 East 23d Street, Xew York 
 City. 
 
 MERRILL, Edward Bagley: 
 
 Lawer; born in New Bedford. ^lass.. 
 Jan. 25, 1835; son of Edward and Mary 
 (Converse) Merrill. He attended Exeter 
 Academy 1851-1853; was graduated from 
 Bowdoin College, A.B., 1857 and A.M.. 1850 
 and from Harvard Law Shool in 1850. 
 He was admitted to the New York bar in 
 1800 and since then has been engaged in 
 practice of law in New York City. He is 
 vice president of the New York Coloniza- 
 tion Society, and member of the Executive 
 Committee of the New York Prison Associa- 
 tion, and of the University Club. Mr. Mer- 
 rill married in New Bedford. Mass., Sept. 
 12, 1801. Mary Elizabeth (Jibbs. and they 
 have one son. Address : 52 Broadway, 
 New York City. 
 
 MERRILL, Edwin Godfrey: 
 
 Banker: horn in Bangor. Maine, Nov. 21, 
 1873; son of Isaac Hobbs and Ada Frances 
 (Godfrey) Merrill. He was educated in 
 the Bangor High School. Philli])- Exeter 
 Academy, (graduated as honor iiian. 1801), 
 and Harvard College, A.l!.. 1S05. with hon- 
 orable uientioii in l'"reiieh hisloiy. He was 
 connected willi the iinii of .Menill and Coiii- 
 pan.v. Ban-or. lS0(i-1808; with Kountze 
 I'.rolhers. Xew ^Ork. Feb.-Sei)t.. 1808. and 
 with Estabrofik and ('omjiany. New ^'oI•k. 
 1808-1001. He was man igiiig i)artner of 
 Merrill and Coni])any. in Bangor, from 
 1001-1003; and he organized the Merrill 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 11.' 
 
 'I'l'iist, Company, of wliii'li lie liccaiuc ])rcsi- 
 (Icnt; .starting with $100,000 capital and 
 .$1,')2,800 dc])osits it lias yiown in loss than 
 four years to have $200, 000 cajjital and 
 $1,000,000 deposits, and tlic coiuijaiiy al^o 
 owns the Veazie National Bank, of which 
 Mr. Merrill was elected president in Nov., 
 IDO"). With the Veazie National deposits, 
 tlie Merrill Trust Company now controls 
 more commercial deposits than any bank 
 ill ]\Iaine outside of Portland. Mr. Merrill 
 is secretary, treasurer and director of the 
 Bangor Opera House Association, director 
 of the Stockton Springs Trust Company, 
 Merchants' Trust and Banking Company, 
 of Presque Isle, the Union Trust Company, 
 of Ellsworth, the Frontier Trust Company, 
 of Fort Fairfield, and of the European and 
 North American Railroad Company. ]Mr. 
 ^Merrill is a trustee of the Eastern 
 Maine General Hospital, Bangor Fuel 
 Society, the Good Samaritan Home of Ban- 
 gor, and the Home for Aged \\'omen at 
 Bangor. He is corresponding secretary of 
 tlie Citizens' League of Bangor, director of 
 the Meadow-brook Golf Cliil), member of 
 tlie Tarratine Club of Bangor. Harvard 
 Union of Cambridge, and the Harvard and 
 University Clubs of New York City. He 
 married at Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y., 
 Jan. 21. 1902, Adelaide Isabel Katte, and 
 they have two children. Residence: 219 
 French Street. Office: 2 Hammond Street, 
 Bangor, Maine. 
 
 MERRILL, William Bradford: 
 
 Journalist; born Salisbury. N. H.. Feb. 
 27, 1861; son of Rev. Horatio and Sarah 
 Bradford (Whitman) Merrill. He was edu- 
 cated in 'the Boston^ Latin School, and 
 finished his education under private in- 
 structors, in Paris, France, two years, 1877- 
 1878. He began journalism as a reporter 
 on the Philadelphia North American. 1879; 
 staff correspondent of the Philadelphia 
 Press in 1880; resigned to write books for 
 National Railway Publishing Company; 
 traveled over United States 1880-1881 ; re- 
 turned to the Philadelphia Press as tele- 
 graph editor, 1882, dramatic and Sunday 
 editor, 1883-1885; assistant managing ed- 
 itor 1885; managing editor, 1887-1891; 
 
 vice president and general manager of the 
 New \nvk Press, 1902-1904; maiuiging ed- 
 itor oi the New York World, iHO.'j 1901 ; 
 llnaiuial manager of tlie New York World, 
 1902-190G; trustee of S. S. MeClure (Mag- 
 azine) Company; resigned botli po-itions to 
 become, in Feb., 1907, inanager of tlie New 
 York American, directing liotii the busine»H 
 ami news departinents. He is a meiiiber of 
 tlie Players' Club. Mr. .Merrill married in 
 Pliiladeljihia, Sept. 12, 1SS2, Sara Ann 
 Ixiuise Taylor of Washington, 1). ('., and 
 they have three children. Residence: 
 Great Neck, L. 1. Address: New NOrk 
 American Oflice, New York City. 
 
 MERRITT, William Jenks: 
 
 Banker and broker; born at f!ti Mt. 
 V'ernon Street, in Boston: son of .b'rome 
 and Sarah .ludith (Jenks) Merritt. His 
 father, who was a wealthy mercliaiit and 
 shiji-owner. and wlm. in earlier years, as 
 civil engineer, assisted in >urveying the 
 second railroad built in the United States 
 
 (from Manch Chunk to Pottsville. Pa.). 
 was descended in the ninth generation from 
 Richard Willard, wiiose gran<lson, .Tacob 
 
 (.3), of Newton. Mass.. was a soldier in the 
 Narragansett E.xpedition, wiio>e great- 
 grandson, Jonathan (G) was lieutenant, and 
 the hitter's .son Ephraim (7), wa.s private 
 in the Revolutionary War, Ephraim'a 
 daughter, Martha, marrying Bernard Mer- 
 ritt, Mr. Merritfs grandfather. In mater- 
 nal ancestry, ^Ir. Merritt is of the ancient 
 Widsh family of Jenks. ( from Jenkyn — son 
 of John), and eiglitli in descent from .Joseph 
 Jenks. who came from Hammersmith, near 
 London, to Lynn. Mass.. in 164.1. was the 
 first brass founder in New England, and the 
 most distinguishect of the early ironworkers 
 of Lynn, patented and built the first .saw- 
 mill, 1648, made the dies for the "pine-tree" 
 silver money. 1652, built for Boston the 
 first fire-engine. 16.i4. patented the scytlie. 
 1()55, and made the first wire in the colonies. 
 1667. From him the line descends through 
 his second wife, Elizabeth to his son .lohn 
 
 (2), who was also a famous iron worker 
 of Lynn; to his son .John (3). captain of 
 a "company of horse;" to his >on .Tohn 
 
 (4) ; to his son Samuel (5), of Cambridge, 
 
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 who was the youngest captain of tlie Pro- 
 vincial Army serving in the 'i'iconderoga 
 and Canadian campaigns of 1759-1760; to 
 his son Rev. William Jenks (G), (Harvard 
 1797). D.D., LL.D., author of the 6-volume 
 Comprehensive Commentary of the Bible, 
 and one of the foremost American divines 
 and scholars of his day, and who was Mr. 
 Mcrritt's maternal grandfather, and was 
 chaplain on the stall" of Lieutenant Colonel 
 Reed. First Maine Regiment, War of 1812- 
 1S14. Mr. jSIerritt was educated in the 
 Chapman Hall (private) School in Boston. 
 When the Civil War began he became a 
 member and afterward second lieutenant in 
 the ]\Iassachusetts Rifle Club, from which 
 was formed the Second Massachusetts In- 
 fantry, and Mr. Merritt was elected first 
 lieutenant of Company C, the color company 
 of the regiment, and was commissioned by 
 Governor Andrew, Oct. 24, 1864, and sub- 
 sequently commanded the company. Mr. 
 Merritt entered business life as a clerk in 
 the banking house of W. F. Davis & Co., 
 in Boston, which position he left to enter 
 business on his own account as a bi^oker on 
 State Street, Boston, later becoming treas- 
 urer of the Boston Fuse Co., and officially 
 connected with various Lake Superior and 
 Xova Scotia mining companies; and later 
 he transferred his activities to New York 
 City where he is engaged as a banker and 
 broker, and as manager of several estates. 
 He became a director of the Mercantile 
 Library, 1885 and took an active part in 
 the extension of its usefulness; trustee and 
 vice-president of the ?Tahnemann Hospital; 
 and treasurer of tlie Atlas Improvement Co. 
 Mr. Merritt is a member of the Union 
 Ijeague. Lotos and Republican Clubs of 
 New York, and the Chamber of Commerce; 
 has served on the Governing Committee, 
 as chairman of the House Committee, and 
 chairman of the Lincoln Dinner Committee 
 of the Republican Club, and member of the 
 House Committee, Campaign Committee, 
 and Admission Committee, of the LTnion 
 League Club. Mr. Merritt married in May. 
 1S97, Nina, eldest daughter of Friend Pitts, 
 a merchant of New York City. Mrs Mer- 
 
 ritt's ancestor, Baruth Pitts, mayor of 
 Lyme Regis, England, had a son John, born 
 
 in 1668, who emigrated to Boston, where 
 
 he became a merchant and held several 
 offices, whose son James married Elizabeth, 
 sister of Governor Bowdoin, and was tho 
 (wecutor of the Governor's estate after his 
 death. James and Elizabeth Pitts had 
 three sons, who all fought in the Revolu- 
 tionary Army, of whom Lendall Pitts, prin- 
 cipal leader of the Boston Tea Party, waa 
 the ancestor of Mrs. Merritt. Address: 
 Union League Club, New York City. 
 
 MERRY, William Lawrence: 
 
 Diplomat; born in New York City, 1842. 
 After receiving a good academic education 
 he engaged in maritime life, going to sea 
 and eventually becoming commander of 
 steamships on the Atlantic and Pacific 
 Oceans engaged in California trade under 
 the American flag. He resigned from the 
 service of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com- 
 pany in 1874, and has ever since made his 
 home in San Francisco. He was for three 
 years general agent of the Central American 
 Transit Company and of the North Amer- 
 ican Steamship Company on the Nicara- 
 gimn Isthmus, and for one year was agent 
 of the U^nited States Mail Steamship Com- 
 pany on the Isthmus of Panama. He be- 
 came president of the North American 
 Navigation Company on the Pacific coast 
 and was for seven years president and for 
 several years trustee of the San Francisco 
 Chamber of Commerce, and was also con- 
 sul-general for Nicaragua on the Pacific 
 Coast of the United States. From ISSO ho 
 became an enthusiastic supporter of the 
 project for a canal across the Istlunus of 
 Nicaragua, and wrote a work entitled: 
 The Nicaragua Canal, the Gateway Between 
 the Oceans, and also wrote The .Problem of 
 Cheap Transportatiofn, and various papers 
 in support of the Nicaragua Canal project, 
 and of an increase of the American naval 
 force on the Pacific coast and the maritime 
 development of Pacific coast ports. In 1897 
 Mr. ^leriy was appointed by President Mc- 
 Kinley as envoy extraordinary and min- 
 ister plenipotentiary of Ihe United States 
 to Costa Rica, Nicaragua and San Salvador, 
 which position he has held ever since. He 
 married Blanche Hill, daughter of William 
 S. Hill of Scarsdale, N. Y. Address: 
 American Legation, San Jos6, Costa Rica. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 MERWIN, Henry Childs: 
 
 Lawyer and author; born in Piltsficld, 
 Mass., Aug. 5, 1853 ; son of Elias and Annie 
 (Childs) Merwin. He received his early ed- 
 lu-ation in a. private school and was grad- 
 vated from Harvard College as B.A. in 
 1874. He was formerly associate justice of 
 tlie District Court of Central ^liddlesex, 
 and was lecturer in the Law School of Bos- 
 ton University and at the Lowell Institute. 
 He is autlior of: ratciit-ability of Inven- 
 tions; Road, Track and Stable; Life of 
 Aaron Burr; Life of Thomas Jeflerson, and 
 numerous essays in Atlantic Monthly and 
 other magazines; editor of Merwin's Equity 
 (by Elias Merwin) and Curtis's Federal 
 Courts. He is president of the Boston 
 Work-Horse Parade Association; secretary 
 of Red Acre Farm (Home for Horses) and 
 director of the Animal Rescue League. Mr. 
 JMerwin married in Boston, April 22, 1884, 
 Anne Amory Andrews. Residence : 3 West 
 Cedar Street. Address: State House, 
 Boston. 
 
 MERWIN, Milton Hervey: 
 
 Jurist; born in Leyden, N. Y., June 16, 
 1832; son of Alanson and Amanda (Kim- 
 ball ) Merwin. He was educated in Oneida 
 Conference Seminary and Hamilton College, 
 A.B., 1852. He entered the office of Joseph 
 Mullin, at Watertown, N. Y., in the fall of 
 1852, to study law, and was admitted to 
 the bar at ^Vaterto\vn in 1S53. In Oct., 
 1874, he was appointed, and Nov., 1874, 
 elected justice of the Supreme Court; re- 
 elected in 1888j term expiring Dec. 31, 1902. 
 He was appointed to the General Term of 
 the Supreme Court, 1888; served till 1895; 
 Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, 
 1895-1901. Judge Merwin has been a resi- 
 dent of Utica since 1874. He married in 
 1858, Helen E. Knapp, of Middle Granville, 
 N. Y. Residence: 56 Rutger Street. Office: 
 INIanu Building, Utica, N. Y. 
 
 MESSENGER, Hiram J.: 
 
 Actuary of the Travelers Insurance Com- 
 pany; born in Canandaigua, N. Y., July 6, 
 1855; son of Hiram J. and Luana L. 
 (Heaton) Messenger. Among his ancestors 
 were, Nathaniel Heaton who came to Bos- 
 
 ton in lt):!4; Deacon Stf|ihfn llarl and 
 William Kelsey. wlio came to llarlffird witii 
 Hooker's party in 1635; and Deacon Sanuifl 
 Cliapin one of the founders of Spriiinfield, 
 Mass. He was graduated from the State 
 Normal School, Corthind. X. V., 1875, and 
 from Cornell I'niverNJIv, \.\\. iJ., 1880; was 
 mathematical fellow of Cornell, 1S86. 
 Ph.D.. Cornell, lSS(i; Institute of Actuaries, 
 London, I'^ngland, 1S90. Mr. Messt-nger was 
 professor of mathematics in thte .State 
 Normal School, Cortland, N. Y., 1881; pro- 
 fessor of matliematics, Napa (Calif.) Col- 
 lege, 1881-1883; acting associate professor 
 of mathematics, New York University, 
 188(i-189(); in the actuarial department. 
 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 
 1891-1898; non-resident lecturer on life, 
 accident, liability and health insurance. 
 Cornell LTnivcrsity. 1901. He is a fellow of 
 the Actuarial Society of America, of the 
 American Association for Advancement of 
 Science, and of the American Statistical 
 Society; IMendier of the connnittec of One- 
 Hundred on National Health of the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement 
 of Science; member of the American Mathe- 
 matical Society, Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
 Psi Upsilon, National Geographic Society, 
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
 City, American Museum of National His- 
 tory, New York City; trustee of the Amer- 
 ican Scenic and Historic Preservation So- 
 ciety; and is author of various pamphlets 
 on life and health insurance, including: 
 Health Insurance in the United Slates; The 
 Rate of Sickness; The Gain and Loss Ex- 
 hibit. Mr. Messenger is a member of the 
 Cornell Club of New York City, and tho 
 New England Cornell Club. Address: 
 Care Travelers Insurance Company, Hart- 
 ford, Conn. 
 
 MESSENGER, James Franklin: 
 
 I'rofi'ssor (if edvicatioii; born in B<'nton 
 County, Iowa, Jan. 30, 1872; son of James 
 J. and Mary Ann (Hamlin) Messenger. 
 He was graduated from the University of 
 Kansas, A.B.. 1895, from Harvard. A.M.. 
 1901; and he was fellow, 1901-1902, and 
 Ph.D. 1903. Columbia University. He was 
 instructor of psychologj' in the University 
 
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 of New Moxit'o. IS'.lOinOO; assistant in psy 
 cliolotry at Harvard, 1!)00 1!)01 ; instructor 
 in Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1902-190:}. and 
 at tlie State Xornial School of Minnesota. 
 190;M904; dean of the Iligliland Park 
 Xornial College, 1904-1905, professor of 
 psycludogy and edvication in the State Nor- 
 mal School at Farniville, Va., 1905-1909, 
 and since July 1, 1909, professor of 
 education in the University of Ver- 
 mont. He is a fellow of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of 
 Science; member of the American Psycho- 
 logical Association, National Educational 
 Association and the Sigma Nu Fraternity; 
 member of the Council of the Southern So- 
 ciety for Philosophy and Psychology. He 
 married at Lawrence, Kan., 1895, Tx)ra 
 Estelle Olds, and they have two children. 
 Address: University of Vermont. Burling- 
 ton. Vt. 
 
 MESTREZAT, Stephen Leslie: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Mapletown, Greene 
 County, Pa., son of Jean Louis Guillaume 
 and Mary Ann (Hartley) Mestrezat. He was 
 graduated from Waynesburg College, Pa., 
 A.B., and A.M., and LL.D.. also from the 
 Law Department of Washington and Lee 
 University, Virginia, B.L. j\lr. Mestrezat 
 was admitted to the bar at Uniontown, 
 Pa., in 1872, and practi-sed until 1894, 
 wiien he was elected law judge of the 14th 
 Judicial District of Pennsylvania for a 
 term of ten years, being elected November, 
 1893, but resigned Aug. 5, 1899, to accept 
 the ofTice of justice of the Supreme Court 
 of Pennsylvania; was nominated by the 
 Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention, 
 for justice of the Supreme Court of the 
 State in June, 1899, and the following No- 
 vember, elected for a term of twenty-one 
 years, commencing January, 1900. He was 
 chairman of the Democratic Committee of 
 Fayette County, Pa., several times a dele- 
 gate to the Democratic State Conventions, 
 delegate from Pennsylvania to the National 
 JJemocratic Convention at Chicago in 1890, 
 and actively supported President Cleve- 
 land's renomination. He is a member of 
 the Pennsylvania State Bar As.sociation, 
 and the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science. He married in Un- 
 
 iontown, Pa., Aug. 1, 1888, Eliza Willson 
 Ewing, died Jan. 15, 1890, and had a son, 
 now deceased. Addresses: Uniontown and 
 Pliiladelphia, Pa. 
 
 METCALF, Edwin D.: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in Smithfleld, R. I., 
 March 4. 1848; son of William and Nancy 
 E. (Crook) Met calf. He was educated in the 
 Westford (I\Iass.) Academy. He is presi- 
 dent of the Columbian Rope Company; 
 vice-president of D. M. Osborne & Company, 
 and the Cayuga Savings Bank ; director of 
 the Cayuga County National Bank ; presi- 
 dent of the Auburn and Northern Railroad; 
 and director of Aubiun and Syracuse Rail- 
 road, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance 
 Company of Massachusetts. He was a 
 member of the staff of Governor George D. 
 Robinson for three years, and assistant 
 quartermaster-general of Massachusetts 
 V^olunteers. He has served as mayor of 
 •Springfield, Mass., and as a member of the 
 Massachusetts House of Representatives 
 and Senate. He has been in Europe nine 
 times on business and for pleasure. In pol- 
 itics he is a Republican. Mr. Metcalf is a 
 member of the City and Cayuga Country 
 Clubs of Auburn, N. Y., Nayas.sett Club in 
 Springfield, Mass., and Citizens' Club, 
 Syracuse, N. Y. He married in Fall River, 
 Mass., Sept. 11, 187;i, Carrie \V. Flint, and 
 they have three children. Address: 8G 
 South Street, Auburn, N. Y. 
 
 METCALF, James A.: 
 
 Silversmith; born in Lowell, Mass., May 
 0, 1852; son of Isaac Newton and Nancy 
 (Aiken) Metcalf. He received his educa- 
 tion in the Highland INlilitary Academy, 
 Worcester, Mass. He has been engaged as a 
 silversmith for the past thirty years: with 
 tiie Meiiden Britannia Company and its 
 successor, the Intcninl ional Silxcr Com- 
 pany, t wcnly-t hi'ci' ycais; witli Siiii])soii, 
 Hall, Miller & Coiupany, three years, and 
 for the past seven years as president and 
 treasurer of The Metcalf Company of New 
 ^'ork City. He is a member of the New 
 ^'oi'k Yacht, Players', Church, and Men- 
 delsslion Glee Clubs. Residence: The 
 Oakdale. .SG West ;}5th Street. Ollicc : 1 
 West 3yth Street, New York City. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 METCALF, Lorettus Sutton: 
 
 Editor; born in Monnioutli, Maine, Oct. 
 17, 18:37; son of Muson J. and Hannah E. 
 (Welch) Metcalf. He received his educa- 
 tion in the public schools of Boston and 
 Maine, and by private teachers; received the 
 lionorary degree of LL.D. from Iowa Col- 
 lege, Iowa, and M.A. from Bates College, 
 JNIaine. When he was young, Mr. jNIetcalf 
 eoiitributeil to a considerable number of 
 journals, including the Coniinonwcalth, Con- 
 gregationalist, Zion's Herald, Boston Trav- 
 eler; later became the proprietor of five 
 local weekly papers published in the vi- 
 cinity of Boston; was managing editor and 
 business manager of the North American 
 Review, 1870-1885; founded the Forum in 
 1886, and continued in charge of it until 
 1891; established the Daily Florida Citizen 
 in 1893, and edited and published it till 
 1807, retiring from active business in 1898. 
 He is a member of the Authors Club. He 
 married in Bath, Maine, Sept. 2, 1861, 
 Amanda Ames Lemont, and has had two 
 children. Address: Bath, Maine. 
 
 METCALF, Victor Howard: 
 
 Former secretary of tlie Navy; born in 
 Utica, N. Y., Oct. 10, 1853; son of William 
 and Sarah P. Metcalf. He was graduated 
 from the Utica Free Academy, also from 
 RuftseH's Military Academy, New Haven. 
 Conn., and then entered the class of 1876 
 at Yale. During the college vacations he 
 studied law in the office of Senator Francis 
 Kernan, as also in tlie offices of Horatio 
 and John F. Seymour, at Utica, N. Y. ; 
 left the acadcniic depailment of Yale in his 
 Jiuiior year and entered the Yale Law 
 School, graduating therefrom in 1876. Mr. 
 :\letcalf was admitted to ])ractice in the Su- 
 preirie Court of Connecticut in June, 1876, 
 and in the Supreme Court of New York in 
 1877; practised biw in Utica, N. Y., for two 
 veins, then moved to California, locating in 
 Oakland. He formed a law partnership in 
 1881 with George D. Metcalf (who is also a 
 graduate of Yale) under the firm name of 
 Metcalf & ]\Ietcalf. He was elected to the 
 Fifty sixth. Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth 
 Congresses; was appointed secretary of 
 Conmicrte and Labor, July 1, 19U4, and 
 
 secretary of tin' Navy. I)<c. 17. l!Mt(l; re- 
 signing in 19(17. .Mr. .Metcalf married iit 
 Oakland, Cnlil.. .\|iril II, 1KH2. K. (oriiiin' 
 
 Nichols,,!!. .\(ldi.— Oakhuid. Calif. 
 
 METCALF. Wilde Stevens: 
 
 Lawyci' a!!d liiiaMtial agrni ; born in 
 .Milo, Maii!e, Sept. jfl, Is55; son of Inuac 
 Stevens and .Xnloiiict Ic 15. (IMitnani) Met- 
 calf. lie was graduated from Oberlin Col- 
 lege, A.B., 1878, and from Kairta.-^ State 
 University. LL.H., 1897. Me was in the 
 cheese and butter business, at Wrllington, 
 Ohio, 187S1887; loan iiroker, linaneiul 
 agent and lawyer, at Lawreiu-e, Kaiis., 1HH7- 
 189S; niajoi- and colonel of tlie Twentieth 
 Kansas Infant ly. C, S. N'olunteers, 1898- 
 1899; and brevettcd brigadier general, C. S. 
 Volunteers, serving in the I'iiillippino 
 Islands. Since 1902 he lias been U. S. pen- 
 sion agent of the Topeka. (Kan.^. ) Agency. 
 He was a delegate-at-large from Kan.sas to 
 the National Re])iibli(an Convention in 
 Philadelphia in 1900. (Jeneral Metcalf i.s 
 past president of the Army of the Bhillip- 
 pines and a member of the Military Order 
 of Foreign Wars; also a member of the 
 School Board of Lawrence, Kans., the Ma- 
 sonic order, and I'lii Ciamma Delta fra- 
 ternity, the Topeka Club of Topeka, the 
 University and Kan.sas City Clubs of Kan- 
 sas City, Mo., and the Army and Navy 
 Club of Washington, D. C. He married in 
 Wellington, Ohio, June 30, 1878, Mary E. 
 Crosier. Residence: 1230 Mas.sachusetts 
 Street, Lawrence. Kans. Office: Federal 
 i;i!il(ling. Tiip.'ka. Kans. 
 
 METZ, Herman A.: 
 
 Comptroller of New York City, merchant; 
 born in New York City, Oct. 19. 1867. 
 After graduation from the ])ublic .schools, he 
 became an office boy. at the age of fotirteen, 
 with P. Schulze-Berge, fcnmder of the cor- 
 poration of N'ictor Koechl and Company, 
 and while .so engaged .studied elieinistiy in 
 the evening classes of ( ooper Ciiion. lie 
 became successively laboratory assistant, 
 clerk, city salesman, traveling salesman, 
 Boston agent aiul manager, and in 1893. the 
 business was incorporated as the H. A. Met/. 
 C()ni])any. of which he was vice-president 
 and treasurer until 1899. and has since 
 
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 been president, the company being nianu- 
 faeturers and importers of chemicals and 
 dye stnfTs. He is al.-^o head of H. A. Metv. 
 and Company drugs, and of the Consoli- 
 dated Color and Chemical Company, man- 
 ufacturers at Newark, N. J. IMr. Meta 
 has served as a member of the Board of 
 Education of Greater New York, and is 
 now comptroller of the City of New York, 
 elected in 1905. He is ex-president of the 
 King's County Democratic Club, president 
 of the National Civic Club of Brooklyn, and 
 a member of the King's County Democratic 
 Committee. He is also a member of the 
 Society of Chemical Industry of London, 
 Verein Doutscher Chemiker of Dresden, 
 American Cliemical Society, Electro-chem- 
 ical Society, Chamber of Commerce of New 
 Y^ork, Chemists Club and Drug Club. He 
 is a director of the ^Merchants' Association, 
 the Board of Trade and Transportation, the 
 Manufacturers' Association of New Y'ork 
 and the National Association of Manufac- 
 turers, and is one of the founders and di- 
 rectors of the Brooklyn League. He is also 
 a member of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 
 and Sciences, INIetropolitan Museum of Art, 
 American Museum of Natural History, of 
 the Biding and Driving, Germania, Crescent 
 Athletic, Lincoln, Seymour and Bushwick 
 Clubs of Brooklyn, and the Salmagundi, 
 National Democratic, New York Athletic 
 and Wool Clubs of New York City. Besi- 
 dence: 253 Clinton AvenuC; Brooklj'n. Of- 
 fices: 122 Hudson Street, and Comptroller's 
 Office, 280 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 MEYER, Annie Nathan: 
 
 Author ; born in New Y'ork City, Feb. 
 19, 1807; daughter of Bobert Weeks and 
 Anne Augusta (Florance) Nathan. She 
 belongs to the earliest Hebrew family to 
 come to America (17th Century). She was 
 educated at home. She married in New 
 York City, P^eb. 15, 1887, Dr. Alfred Meyer, 
 and lias a daughter. Mrs. Meyer started 
 the movement that led to the founding of 
 Barnard College, New York, alTiliatod with 
 Columbia University, raising most of the 
 money that ran the college for the first 
 four years, and personally gathered togeth- 
 er tlic fir.st Board of Tru.stees. She was 
 
 author of the petition to the trustees of Co- 
 lumbia which was favorablj^ received, and 
 obtained all the signatures herself to the 
 petition. She is now a trustee of Barnard 
 College and was formerlj'- a trustee of the 
 Aguilar Free Library before it was taken 
 on by the New York Library. Mrs. INIeyer 
 is author of: Woman's Work in America; 
 Helen Brent, M.D.; My Park Book; Robert 
 Annys — Poor Priest; also wrote a play A 
 Dinner of Herbs (produced by the Sar- 
 gent School of Dramatic Art), and many 
 articles in leading magazines, art criti- 
 cisms, stories, essays, skits, addresses, edu- 
 cational articles, articles against women 
 suffrage, book reviews, nature sketches and 
 editorials. She is a director and vice-presi- 
 dent of the League for Civic Education ; 
 member of the Committee of One Hundred 
 for the Association Opposed to the Exten- 
 sion of the Suffrage. She is a member of 
 the Barnard Club of Nesv York, Adirondack 
 League Club, and the Lyceum Club of Lon- 
 don. Address: 785 Madison Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 MEYER, George von Lengerke: 
 
 Secretary of llie Xavy: honi in Boston, 
 June 24, 1858; son of the late George A. 
 INIeyer. His father Avas a native of New 
 York, and his mother, Grace Helen Parker, 
 a native of Boston, a granddaughter of the 
 late Bishop Parker. He was prepared at 
 Noble's School in Boston, entered Harvard 
 Col lego in the class of 1879, and on gradu- 
 ating went into the office of Al])lieus H. 
 Hardy & Co., remaining in this house 
 until 1881. wlioii he became a member of the 
 firm of LiiKlcr and Meyer, East India mer- 
 chants — a firm which his father had estab- 
 lished on India wliarf, Boston, in 1S4S, and 
 the present offices of which are at 89 State 
 Streel. .Mr. Meyer lias been a dirc^ctor in 
 numerous banks and manufacturing com- 
 panies. He has taken an active interest in 
 ])()litics. and in 1889 was elected on the 
 llepublican ticket to the Common Counsil, 
 in wliich he served two years. During this 
 time he was a member of the finance com- 
 mittee, the committee on water, on laying 
 out and widening streets, and on the 
 Charles Biver bridges. In the fall of 1890 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 iio was oloctcd to Ihc l?()anl of Aldi'iiiifii 
 fioiii the lM)iirtli District, rt'fL'iviny the 
 nomination of both tlio Democrats and Re- 
 imhlieans; and in 1S!)1 lip was elected on 
 the Republican ticket to the lower house 
 of the Legislature. In ISD.'J lie was chosen 
 speaker of the House and reelected for three 
 (onsecutive years. ISIr. ]\Ieyer was a member 
 of the Republican National Connnittee for 
 eight years; was appointed chairman of the 
 Massachusetts Paris Exposition managers 
 by C4overnor Walcott. Mr. Meyer was ap- 
 ])ointed American ambassador to Italy by 
 President McKinley in the fall of 1900; 
 was transferred from Rome to be ambas- 
 sador to Russia by President Roosevelt in 
 March. 1905, and recalled in Feb., 1907, to 
 t'uter the cabinet of President Roosevelt, 
 and took tlie oatli of office as poitmaster- 
 general on :March 4, 1907; holding that 
 post until March G, 1909, when he took the 
 oath of office as Secretary of the Navy in 
 the cabinet of President Taft. While in 
 college Mr. Meyer took an active part in 
 athtletics, and was on the winning class 
 senior crew of 1879. He is a member of the 
 St. Botolph. Somerset and Racket Clubs, 
 Roston; the Myopia Club of Hamilton, 
 :\Iafisachusetts; the Harvard and Knicker- 
 bocker Clubs, New York, and the ;Metropol- 
 itan Club of Washington. Mr. Meyer mar- 
 ried at Lenox. Mass., June 25, 1885, Alice 
 Appleton, and they have three children. 
 Residence: Hamilton. jNIass., Office: 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 MEYERS, James Cowden: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Columbia, Pa.. August 
 .30, 1869; sou of -James Alfred and Anna 
 ]\I. (Cowden) Meyers. He was graduated 
 from Princeton in 1891, and from the New- 
 York Law School in 189.3. He was ad- 
 mitted to the New York State Bar in 
 -Tune, 1893; elected alderman of the Thirty- 
 fourth District of New York City, 1901, 
 1903 and 1905; and during the term 1906- 
 1907 was Republican leader; chairman of 
 the Committee on Rules and Committee on 
 Salaries and Offices. Mr. ]\Ieyers is a mem- 
 ber of the New York State Bar Association, 
 the Association of the Bar of the City of 
 New York, and of Princeton Chapter of the 
 Phi Beta Kappa Society. In the summer 
 
 of I'.Hi,") he \\a> aiipoiiited Hpi'cliil a^^cnt of 
 tile L'. S. Interior l)c|)artintMit to iiivc^tij^uli' 
 conditions on tlie .Mhglniny and Catlariiu- 
 gus reservations of tin; Seneca Indiaim. In 
 1907 lie was appointed hy (iovernur Huglirit 
 a member of the New York City Charter 
 Revision Commission. lie is a nieMii)cr of 
 the City and Prinoeton Chil)s. Mr. Meyers 
 maiiic.i ill Soinerviile. N. .J., March 9. 1898, 
 Helen K. llendrickson an<l they have one 
 daughter. Address: .')27 Fifth Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 MICHAEL, William Henry: 
 
 Consular officer; born in Marysville, Ohio, 
 July 14, 1845; son of Munson lloyt and 
 Nancy Kincaid (Kezertn) Micliael. He 
 was mustered into the U. S. Volunteer 
 Infantry service, Sept. 21, 1801; honorably 
 discharged therefrom on account of injuries 
 sustained in and subsequent to the battle 
 of Shiloh, Oct. 23. 1862; reentered the serv- 
 ice in 1803. for duty in the Mississippi 
 Squadron. U. S. Navy, as master's mate; 
 was promoted in 1804 for gallant conduct 
 in action, and was honorably discharged 
 with the thanks of the Government in June, 
 1806. He took an irregular course in the 
 University of Iowa, 1800-1869; entered 
 newspaper work on the Sioux City (Iowa) 
 Journal, 1873, and afterward owned and ed- 
 ited several Nebraska newspapers, and later. 
 1887-1890, was Washington correspondent 
 for newspapers. He was clerk of Printing 
 Pecords in the U. S. Senate, and 
 became editor and compiler of the Con- 
 gressional Directory and the Abridg- 
 ment of Messages and Documents, 
 June. 1887. He served in that capacity 
 for six years, and was again, in 1895, 
 employed by the Senate as editor of the 
 Directory and Abridgment, and ]>erformed 
 that duty two years. Mr. Michael was ap- 
 pointed chief clerk of the Department of 
 State, May 20. 1897: and was appointed 
 Nov. 6, 1905 consul-general in Calcutta. 
 India, where he has served ever since. He 
 is author of: History of the Mi-^s- 
 issippi Squadron. 1886; Better Dead 
 than Homeless (2 editions) 1888-1900; 
 History of the Declaration of Indepemlence. 
 1895: " I'nited States Tariff Laws. 1778- 
 1897; The Homesteader's Daughter; 
 
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 Laws Relatiiiy in the Navy ami Marine 
 Corps, 18!)S: History of tlic Depart 
 Tiient of State. VMV.i. Mr. .Mieliael married. 
 Nov. 15. 1871, Emily J. Quinn. Home: 
 Wasliinfjton, D. C. Official address: Amer- 
 ican ('()n>.iilat(>-(;eneral. Calcutta. India. 
 
 MICHAUD, John Stephen: 
 
 Catholic archl)isli()p ; born in I'.urliiiLiton. 
 \'i.. Xov. 24, 184:5; son of Ste])licn and 
 Catherine (0'Rei.ran) Michaud. He was 
 firadualed from Holy Cross College, Worces- 
 ter, Mass.. in 1870, and after a tlieolo.oical 
 course at St. Mary's Seminary, Troy, N. Y., 
 was ordained priest June 7, 1873, He filled 
 pastorates in tlie diocese and offices at 
 the Cathedral of I'.uilingtini. \'t.. and June 
 2!), 18!)2, was consecrated hislioj) of Bur- 
 lintrton. Address: Burlington, Vt. 
 
 MICHENER. Harry Gorgas: 
 
 i!aid<er; horn in I'liiladelpliia. Aug. 1. 
 18r)2; son of Jolin Hanson and Sarali Key- 
 ser ((.'(Hgas) Micliener. He was educated in 
 the I'niversily of Pcmisylvania. lie is pres- 
 ident and director of the I'.ank of Xortli 
 .\n!eri(M. a)i(l Hie .\ational Optica! C.ini- 
 p.iny: diicelor of the American Surety 
 Coinpany, Lind 'lilh^ & 'j'lust Company, 
 and the IJ(daware Insurance (Company, and 
 is a member of the firm of J. H. Micliener 
 & Coinpany. lie married Lillie Atherton 
 Middleton. Address: '.!.")(; .NOrtli I'ront 
 Street. I'hilaih'lplii:!. 
 
 MICKS, Henry Rathbone: 
 
 Maniifacliircr ; hoi n at ('Union. N. C.. 
 duly 2.'). 18.14: son of Dr. William and Cor- 
 nelia (Ilathhone) .Mick>. lie was educated 
 ill L'liion College, was secretary and geneial 
 manager of La France Manuf.ict iii in ^ Com- 
 pany. l-;iniii-a. v. \'., jST.l-lST'.l: mcinlier of 
 till' linn of I'.oykin. ('anncr and ('oin])anv. 
 i'.alli-riore. |S7!I ISiK): and lia- lieen presi- 
 dent of i;uin>cy and Conijiany. Limited, 
 Seneca Falls, X. "i'.. ma nnfaet urers of 
 pumps, fire engine--, since I Slid. He is a 
 inemlier of the .\l|)ha Delia I'hi fralernit\. 
 and ol the Maryland ( ■|nli of I'.a 1 1 iiiiore. the 
 Seneca I'ajls Clnl, ,,f Sene.a l'all>. and I he 
 Al|)ha D.dta I'hi Cluh .,f .\,.„ >-,,rk Cily. 
 lie married at Senee:i l^'alN. N. ^ ., April |:i, 
 1S7(). .\iiana ituriisev. and I he\ ha\e live 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 chihlreii. Address: Seneca Falls. X. Y. 
 MIDDLEKAUFF, George Wiles: 
 
 I'hysicist; born on his father's farm 
 n-ar Leitersburg. Md., June 5, 18G9; son of 
 Hiram 1). and Lydia Ann (Wiles) Middle- 
 kaulL He was graduated from Franklin 
 and Marshall College. A.B., 1891; A. M., 
 1S!I4. In lS!)118n2 he was professor of 
 mathematics in Palatinate College, Myers- 
 town, Pa., wliich jiosition lie resigned in 
 1892 to take a year of po.^t-graduate work 
 in electrical engineering in Johns Hopkins 
 University. He was princijial of the 
 Leitersburg. i Md. ) schools. ]S!)()-1894; 
 principal and instructor in science and 
 mathematics of the Waynesboro High 
 School. I'a.. 1S94-1899. resigning to again 
 enter the dohns Hopkins University; where 
 he took a complete course in advanced phy- 
 sics. During this course he was awarded, 
 foi- two consecutive years, the I'niversity 
 Scholarsliip in pliysics ; and foi- one year 
 he was student assistant in tlie Physical 
 Laboratory. During the summer of 1902 
 he i)ursued a course in laboratory arts in 
 (lie Unixi'rdty of Chicigo. He was grad- 
 uated fiom the dohns Hopkins University. 
 PI:. 1).. l!Mt;;; the subject of his disserta- 
 tion being, '" Measuieincnt of Certain Wave- 
 Lengths in tlie Spark-Sp^ectra of Iron and 
 Titanium, logether with a study of tiu' 
 Possible I'dlcct of Cajiaeity and Sidf Indnc- 
 tioii in Ihe Spark Ciicuit." duly 1. l!»():i he 
 hecami' lahoralnry assistant in the Klec- 
 (rieal Divisi(ai of the I'.nrcaii of Standard-. 
 Washington. I). ('.. in liiix; l:r was pro^ 
 ii'oted to thi' podtion of assistant 
 physicist ill the Section of Pholom«dry 
 of the same P>nr<'au and at ])res- 
 eid lie lias (diarge of tlie standard photo- 
 metric work of the I'.iireaii. Dr. Middle- 
 kauir is a member (d' the .\meiicaii Physical 
 Society, the American iMigiiieering Society 
 and the l'hiloso]diical Society of Wash- 
 ington; fellow of the American Asso- 
 <-ialion for the Ad\ a iicciiKail of S(dence; 
 •Mid in l!)(l| he was a imanber of the In- 
 lenialional hllectrical Congress. St. Louis. 
 Mo. lie iiKiricd duly 2ti. 19(14. Anna 
 Marietta llarl.aiiLdi of Waynesboro. Pa. 
 itesideiice: l;i:!S New ton St.. N. W. Ollice: 
 iliiieau of Standards. \\ ashin-'ton. D. ( '. 
 
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 MIKELL, William E.: 
 
 Pi-oft'ssor of law; was l)()ni in Svnnter, 
 S. C, Jan. 20, 1S()8. He was j^iaduatod 
 from the Houth Carolina IMilitary Academy, 
 1890 he was principal of schooLs in Black- 
 stock, S. C, and Lincolnton, N. C, 1890- 
 1895 studyinjj; law while teachin<!:, and fol- 
 lowino- u]) with a law course in the Univer- 
 sity of Virginia. He was admitted to the 
 bar in South Carolina in 1894; practised 
 for one year in Sumter, then went to Phila- 
 (leli)]iia. wliere for a year he was engafjcd 
 in U'ljal literary work. In 1897 he was ap- 
 ])ointed instructor in law the University of 
 Pennsylvania, was made assistant ])rofessor 
 in 1899, and elected professor in 1902. He 
 is a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity 
 and an honorary member of the legal fra- 
 ternity of the Phi Delta Plii. He is the au- 
 thor of a work on criminal law; of the 
 Life of Chief Justice Taney in Great Amer- 
 ican Lawyers ; of the article on False Pre- 
 tense in the Encyclopedia of Law and Pro- 
 cedure, and is a contributor to several legal 
 and other periodicals. Address: 306 
 Church Lane, Germantown, Philadelphia. 
 
 MILBURN, George Roszelle: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Washington, D. C, Nov. 
 15, 1850; son of Benedict and Martha 
 (Page) Milburn. He was graduated from 
 Yale, A.B., 1872, and National University, 
 D. C, graduating LL.B., 1880. He was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in New Mexico, 1881 ; 
 elected first district judge of the 7th Dis- 
 trict of Montana, 1889, on admission of 
 State, reelected in 1892, served 1889-1897; 
 elected justice of the Supreme Court of 
 Montana, 1900, serving a si.x-year term. 
 Mr. Milburn is an Odd Fellow. He mar- 
 ried in Washington, D. C, Dec. 7, 1875, 
 J^Xigenie Prentiss Bliss, and has four chil- 
 dren. Address: Miles City, Montana. 
 
 MILLARD, Joseph Hopkins: 
 
 Banker and ex-l'nited States senator; 
 born in Hamilton, Canada, April, 1836. the 
 son of the natives of the United States tem- 
 porarily residing abroad. In childhood he 
 removed with his parents to Iowa, near 
 Sabula, Jackson County, and at eighteen 
 entered a store in Dubuque as clerk. Two 
 
 years later lie renirjvcd trj Onialia. wiiicli 
 has since iieeii his lionie; engaged in the 
 land business and later in banking, lieeoni- 
 ing a director of thi- Omaha National Bank 
 in July. 18G((, its casiiier, Jan. 1. 1S(J7, and 
 in 1885 its presitlcnt, still retaining liis 
 |)]ace at the head of the institution. He 
 served one term as mayor Omaha, was for 
 six years a (ioverinnent director of the 
 Union I'acitic Itailroad Coin|)any, and sub- 
 se(|uenlly xixcii tlie stockholder- of the 
 com]iany as one of their representatives 
 on the board for a period of seven years. 
 He was elected to the United States Senate, 
 March 28, 1901 succeeding John M. Thurs- 
 ton. Mr. Millard took his seat, Deeeinl)er 
 2, 1901, and his term of service expired 
 March 3, 1907. Aildre-s: Otnaha. Neli. 
 
 MILLER. Augustine A.: 
 
 President of Canisius C(dlege. .Jesuit 
 priest; born in Ut/nach, Switzerland, May 
 13, 1809; son of Augustine and Philomene 
 (Pircher) Miller. He was educated in the 
 high school and college of Feldkirch. Aus- 
 tria, studied philology in Wynandsraile. phil- 
 osophy in Exaeten, and theology in Valken- 
 burg, all in Holland. He was professor 
 of ancient languages at St. Ignatius Col- 
 lege. Cleveland, Ohio, 18931898, and 1903- 
 1905, and has been president of Canisi\is 
 College, Buffalo, N. Y., since 1005. Ad- 
 dress: Canisius College. BufTalo. X. Y. 
 
 MILLER, Charles Henry: 
 
 .\rtist. lanil-capc iiainter; liorii in New 
 York City. .Martli 20, 1S42: s..n of Jacob 
 and JaneM. (Taylor) Miller, lie attended 
 Mt. Washington Institute. New York City. 
 the art schools of the National Aeaileniy 
 of Design, New York City, and the lloyal 
 Academy of Bavaria at Munich, (iennaiiy. 
 lie first exibited his paintings at tiie Na- 
 tional Academy of Design, in 1800; took 
 the M.i). degree in 1803, and received his 
 diploma from tiu' hand of William Cullen 
 Bryant; made his first voyage to Europe 
 as surgeon of the packet sliip Harvest 
 Queen in 1804. visiting Paris. London and 
 Scotland. lie became academician of the 
 National Academy in 1875. Mr. Miller is 
 lie>t known foi- his paintings of l-ong Island 
 
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 scenes. He Avas five j-ears president of tlie 
 Art Club of New York; president of the 
 American Art Committee of the Interna- 
 tional Exposition at Munich, 1883; former 
 president of the Shakespeare Club of 
 Queens, L. I. He is a member of the Mu- 
 nicipal Art Society of New York, American 
 Geoiii-aphic Society, the Masonic order 
 (past master) ; and the Board of Education 
 of Queens Union Free School. He is au- 
 thor of: The Philosophy of Art in Amer- 
 ica; and is an artistic, poetic and philo- 
 sophical essayist, strongly advocating hu- 
 man reason and judicial sense in place of 
 arbitrary pacification. Mr. Miller is a 
 member of the Century, Lotos, and Republi- 
 can Clubs. He married at Queens, L. I., 
 October, 1900, Elizabeth Dorothea Mosback, 
 nee Herdfclder. Address: "Queens Court," 
 Queens, L. I., N. Y^. 
 
 MILLER, Charles Sumner: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Ilornellsville, N. Y'., 
 June 2, 1856; .son of Josiah Conger and 
 Emeline (Gibbs) Miller. He resided in 
 Eochester, N. Y., during boyhood. He was 
 graduated from Y^'ale, A.B. in 1877; and 
 from Columbia Law School, LL.B. in 1879. 
 He studied law in the office of Hon. Ernest 
 Hall, late justice of the Supreme Court; 
 and he has been engaged in general prac- 
 tice, since 1885, in New York City, and 
 is counsel for and director in several busi- 
 ness corporations. Mr. Miller was one of 
 the compilers of a History of the Class of 
 1877 in Yale College, published 1904; has 
 been a member and vice-president of the 
 Patria Club of New Y'ork City. He is a 
 member of the Yale Club of New 
 York, and the Crescent Athletic Club 
 of Brooklyn. Residence: 71 Columbia 
 Heights, Brooklyn. Office: 2 Rector Street, 
 Now York City. 
 
 MILLER, Cincinnatus Heine ("Joaquin 
 Miller ") : 
 
 Autlior;; born in the Wabash District, 
 Ind., Nov. 10, 1842. He removed with his 
 parents to Oregon in 1852; and afterward 
 mined in California. He was a volunteer 
 in Walker's Nicaragua Expedition of 1855, 
 after tliat lived with the Indiana of the 
 
 Pacific coast until 18G0, then studied law 
 for a while under George H. Williams after- 
 ward attorney-general of the United States 
 and 1863 edited a Democratic paper at 
 Eugene City, Ore., which was suppressed by 
 the authorities for disunion sentiments. 
 He eng-aged in the practice of law at Canon 
 City, Ore., in 1863, and was a district judge 
 in Oregon from 1866 to 1870. During this 
 period his poems began to attract some at- 
 tention, taking his pen-name of Joaquin 
 from Joaquin Murietta, a Mexican bandit 
 of whom he had written a defense. In 1870 
 he went to the Eastern States and in 1871 
 to London, where he gathered into a vol- 
 ume some of his poems which had been pub- 
 lished in the United States, and a few oth- 
 ers, under the title Songs of the Sierras. 
 The volume brought him great popularity. 
 He afterward did newspaper work in New 
 Y'ork, Washington and San Francisco, and 
 made his home in Oakland, Calif., until re- 
 cently; and he was correspondent of the 
 New Y''ork Journal and the San Francisco 
 Examiner in the Klondike in 1897 and 1898. 
 Among his volumes of verses are: Songs 
 of the Sunland; Songs of Italy; Songs of 
 the Mexican Seas; Chants for the Boer. 
 He is also author of: The Danites; In 
 the Sierras; '49 (novels), and of the plays 
 of the same names; and of several other 
 books and plays. Address: The Hights, 
 Dimond, Calif. 
 
 MILLER, Clifton Merideth: 
 
 Physician; born in Richmond, Va., April 
 21, 1873; son of William G. and Emma 
 H. ( Wiglesworth) Miller. He was edu- 
 cated in Richmond College, and was grad- 
 uated as M.D. from the Medical College of 
 Virginia, 1892. He was demonstrator of 
 anatomy in the Medical College of Virginia, 
 18961905, professor of anatomy, 1905-1906, 
 and has been professor of diseases of the 
 nose and throat since 1906. He was acting 
 assistant surgeon of the U. S. Marine Hos- 
 pital Service, 1893, and captain and sur- 
 geon of Richmond Light Infantry Blues 
 Battalion. 1896-1901. Dr. Miller was presi- 
 dent of the Alumni Society of the Medical 
 College of Virginia, 1903-1904; vice-presi- 
 dent of the Richmond Academy of Medicine 
 and Surgery, 1906; has been a member of 
 
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 the Executive Committee of the Medical 
 Society of Virginia since 1902; is surgeon 
 to the Department of Eye, Ear, Nose and 
 Throat diseases in Richmond City Dispen- 
 sary, and laryngologist and rliinologist to 
 the Memorial Hospital. Dr. Miller mar- 
 ried at Wilmington, Va., Sept. 2, 1902. 
 Mary Ashley Bell, and tliey have two 
 children. Address: 217 Ea.st Grace Street, 
 Riclimond, Va. 
 
 MILLER, Elmer Pliny: 
 
 Clergyman ; born at Saranac Lake, N. Y., 
 Feb. 28, 1860; son of Van Buren and 
 Sarah E. (^Malbone) Miller. He was grad- 
 uated from Middlebury College, 1884, and 
 from the General Theological Seminary, 
 1889. He was missionary of All Saints' 
 Church, Hudson, N. Y., and Trinity 
 Church, Claverack, N. Y., 1889-1891, and 
 has been rector of St. Luke's Church, Cat- 
 skill, N. Y''., since 1891. Mr. Miller mar- 
 ried in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 14, 1890, 
 Sarah L. Barrett, and they have one sou. 
 Address: Catskill, N. Y. 
 
 MILLER, Francis Trevelyan: 
 
 Author, editor, historian; born in South- 
 ington. Conn., Oct. 8, 1877; son of Elijah 
 Hutchinson and Jane (Hull) Miller; 
 grandson of Rev. Thomas Miller, Baptist 
 clergyman of New Y^ork, Michigan and 
 Ohio; descendant from Governor William 
 Bradford of Massachusetts, 1620 (May- 
 flower). He was educated in Lewis Aca- 
 demy, Southington, Conn., Trinity College, 
 Hartford law department of Washington 
 and Lee University, Virginia. He entered 
 journalism as correspondent of the Hart- 
 ford Courant, New York Sun. Philadelphia 
 Press, and special assignments for leading 
 American publications; was in the editor- 
 ial statr of the Bristol Press; State editor, 
 news editor and editorial writer of the 
 Hartford Globe; editor Connecticut Maga- 
 zine, 1902; made sociological investigations 
 in Greater Antilles, appearing in World's 
 Work, 190.3. Review of Reviews. Independ- 
 ent, World To-day, 1904; articles in Over- 
 land jMonthly, Outdoor Life, Motor, House- 
 keeper, etc.; founder and editor-in-chief 
 'Srournal of American History since 1906." 
 
 He is author of Martyrs on llw Altar of 
 Civilization, 1907; I'ortrait Life of Lin- 
 coln, 1!)09; managing editor of Coninion- 
 wealths History of the United Slates; now 
 in press, 40 volumes. Many honors Imvo 
 been bestowed upon Dr. Miller liy academic 
 institutions including the degree Lilt. 1). 
 He is a member of the .\inerienn .\cadoiny 
 of Political and Social Science, .Xinericnn 
 Historical Association; American Stati>ti- 
 cal Association; National Geographic So- 
 ciety; fellow of American Geographical So- 
 ciety; Society of American Authors; editor- 
 in-chief "American Heredity" series, 190'). 
 He is now president associated Publishers 
 of American Records. He is Historian- 
 General of the National Society of Sons 
 and Daughters of the Mayflower. He mar- 
 ried in ]\leriden. Conn., Sept. 7, 190.'i, Clara 
 E. Bickford. Residence: Hartford, Conn. 
 OfTice: .341 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 MILLER, Frank Ebenezer: 
 
 Physician; born in Hartford. Conn., 
 April 12, 1859; son of Ebenezer Bogue and 
 Mayett (Deniing) Miller: direct descen- 
 dant, in the eighth generation, from Wil- 
 liam Miller, of London, England, (who 
 settled at Ipswich, Mass., 1638, afterward 
 of the original settlers of Northampton, 
 .Mass., 1653, and of Northfield, Mass., 
 1671), and of his wife. Patience; descend- 
 ant, on maternal side, from Governor 
 Tryon of New York, and from the Standish, 
 Welles, and Deming families. He was pre- 
 pared in the Hartford High School, was 
 graduated from Trinity College. Hartford. 
 A.B., 1S81, :M.A.. 1SS6, and from the Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons. New 
 York, M.D., 1884, and was medical and 
 surgical interne at New York, Charity and 
 St. Francis Hospitals, 1884-1886. Dr. Mil- 
 ler became sanitary inspector for the New 
 York Board of Health. 1S86-18S9: then 
 served successively as assistant to Profess- 
 ors Orin Pomeroy, L. Enimett Holt of the 
 New York Polyclinic, John H. Ripley, 
 George M. Leflerts of the Vanderbilt Clinic. 
 Joseph Howe of New York University. John 
 Doming of the Post-Graduate Hospital, Dr. 
 W. P. Swift, Dr. Urban G. Hitchcock, and 
 Dr. R. P. Lincoln, distinguished throat 
 speciali.st. Dr. Miller was attending physi- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 cian to iho :Miiierva Home, 1S85-1SS8; to 
 the Wayside Nursery, 1886-1888; attending 
 physician St. Joseph Hospit^al, 1887-1897, 
 and now consulting physician to St. Fran- 
 cis Hospital; was appointed in 1906 visit- 
 ing physician to the New York Hospital, 
 and is now also a member of the Board of 
 Medical Directors of the Loomis Sanitar- 
 ium. He has specialized on diseases of 
 the nose, throat and ear, in which branches 
 he is recognized as a world-wide authority; 
 was throat surgeon at the Vauderbilt Clinic 
 and at the Bellevue Hospital Clinic, 1890- 
 1893. and has been laryngologist to the 
 Metropolitan College of Music sine 1890. 
 His private practice, begun in 1886, has ex- 
 panded until it is now, probably, the larg- 
 est individual practice in New York City, 
 his patients numbering from fifty to sixty 
 per day: and he has treated 88,000 in the 
 past ten years. While a student. Dr. Mil- 
 ler was solo tenor in the Glee Club of 
 Trinity College; and later he was solo 
 tenor of St. Thomas' Church. New York 
 City, also sang in church choirs in Hart- 
 ford, Conn.. Brooklyn and Manhattan. His 
 personal interest in music led him to an 
 exhaustive study of the voice and the vocal 
 organs, and he established a principal of 
 liollow space resonances which has gained 
 wide and authoritative recognition as the 
 nearest to a perfect theory of voice produc- 
 tion. He was the first to practically advo- 
 cate a regular standard for tone of voice 
 prodviction. by which any voice can be defi- 
 nitely measured and classified; also a Voice 
 Sifting Bureau. Many of the most promin- 
 ent singers of the country are among his 
 patients. Because Dr. Miller adds to his 
 distinction as a iiKMlical throat specialist 
 the qualifications of a liigh class singer 
 and musician, he was .selected by Mr. Oscar 
 Hammerstoin. the distinguished impres- 
 .sario, to pass upon the throats and vocal 
 organs of his artists, and a full page arti- 
 cle in the New York Sunday American of 
 Aug. .30, 1908. quotes Mr. ifanunerstein as 
 saying: "My innovation means a revolu- 
 tion in voice-training methods that ulti- 
 mately will Ijcnefit every young singer in 
 this country. Through the direct advan- 
 tage gained by applicants for positions in 
 my choru.s, other singers all over the coun- 
 
 try will benefit by personal knowledge of 
 the anatomical and scientific aspects of 
 their instrument and their art." Dr. Mil- 
 ler, in a paper written for the Frankel 
 Festschrift, and read before the American 
 Laryngological, Rhinological and Otologi- 
 cal Society at Kansas City, proposed a new 
 theory of the origin of nodules, from per- 
 sonal observation of 234 cases, and the first 
 scientific investigations conducted in the 
 New Surgical Laboratory of the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons of New York, 
 were a seiies of original experiments which 
 confirmed his theory. Dr. Miller is author, 
 in collaboration with Dr. James P. McEvoy 
 and Professor J. E. Weeks, of A Compend 1 
 of Nose, Throat and Ear Diseases, 1892; 1 
 and he has written numerous papers on the 
 voice and the vocal organs. He has also 
 made valuable investigations upon the care 
 of consumptives, especially in connection 
 with hygienic and dietetic treatment and 
 the thorough sterilization of milk, and has 
 published various papers pertaining to 
 these subjects. Dr. Miller is a member of 
 the American Medical Association, the 
 American Laryngological, Rhinological and 
 Otological Society, and of several state and 
 local medical societies; is a 32d-degree 
 Mason, Knight Templar, Shriner and mem- 
 ber of other Masonic bodies; also an Elk 
 and member of the Eastern Star; and he 
 is a member of the Hospital Graduates, 
 The Players, The Lotus, Mendelssohn Glee, 
 New York Yacht, Republican and i\lasonic 
 Clubs, and of the New England Society in 
 New York City. Dr. Miller married. April 
 28, 1892, Emily, dauglifcr of Edward 
 Weston, of Yonkers, N. Y.. and they have 
 two daughters, Laura and Frances. Ad- 
 dress: 22 West 31st Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 MILLER, Frank Ellsworth: 
 
 I'rofcssdi- of uiallicinatics ; born in I'^air- 
 field County. Oliio, April 17, 1802; .-on of 
 Martin P. aiul Josephine S. Miller. He 
 was graduated from Otterbein University, 
 A.B., 1887. A.M., 1890, Ph.D., 1891. He 
 was superintendent of public schools, 1887- 
 1888; professor of mathematics at North- 
 eastern College, Canfield, Ohio. 1S8S-1SS9; 
 president of the same college in 1889 and 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 1800, anil has been professor of niathe 
 inatics at Otterbein University since 18'.)0. 
 He is a ilircetor of the Bank of Westerville. 
 He is a Repnhlican and a member of Ihe 
 United Brethren Church. He has incmber- 
 .ship in tlie Ohio Teachers of Mathematics 
 and Science Association, International As- 
 sociation for the Promotion of Quarter- 
 nions; is a fellow of the American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science. Pro- 
 fessor iMiller married in Westerville, Ohio, 
 July 23, 18S9. Nellie S. Knox, and they 
 had a daughter, now deceased. Address: 
 Westerville. Ohio. 
 
 MILLER, Harriet Mann: ("Olive Thorne 
 Miller"): 
 
 Author; born in Auburn, N. Y., 1831; 
 daughter of Seth Hunt and Mary Field 
 (Holbrook) Mann. She received her edu- 
 cation in private schools. She married in 
 Rock Island, 111., Aug. 16, 1854, Watts 
 Todd Miller, and has four children. She is 
 aiitaor of: Little Folks in Feathers and 
 Furs, 1874; Nimps's Troubles, 1876; Queer 
 Pets at ]\Iarcy's, 1880; Little People of 
 Asia, 1882; Bird Ways, 1885; In Nesting 
 Time, 1888; The Woman's Club, 1891; Lit- 
 tle Brothers of the Air, 1892; The Bird 
 Lover in the West, 1894; Our Home Pets, 
 1894; Four-handed Folk, 1896; Upon the 
 Tree Tops, 1897; The First Book of Birds, 
 1899; The Second Book of Birds, 1901; 
 True Stories from my Note Book, 1903; 
 With the Birds in Maine, 1904; Kristy's 
 C,)ueer Christman, 1904 ; Kristy's Surprise 
 Party, 1905; Kristy's Rainyday, 1906; 
 What Happened to Barbara, 1907; Harry's 
 Runaway, 1907; The Bird Our Brother, 
 1908. Mrs. Miller is a member of the 
 American Ornithologists Union. Audubon 
 societies, and honoraiy member of many 
 bird societies, also a member of the New 
 York Sorosis, Brooklyn Woman's Club, New 
 York Meridian Club, and the Unitarian 
 Woman's League. Address: 5928 Hays 
 Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif. 
 
 MILLER, Henry B.: 
 
 Consular officer: born in Sidney, Ohio, 
 April 11, 1854; son of Albert S. and Cecilia 
 (Harris) Miller. He was graduated from 
 
 I lie high school at Toledo. Ohio, in 1R73, 
 and two years later went to Oregon, wiiere 
 he engaged in contracting, engineering and 
 lumbering operations. He was elected to 
 tne Oregon Senate, serving 1SH5-18S9, and 
 in the Oregon House of Representativen, 
 1891. Mr. Miller became president of the 
 Oregon State Agricultural College, 1S97- 
 1898, the Oregon State Hoard of Agricul- 
 ture. 1898-1900. He was appointed eonhui 
 a- Chungking. -March 6, 1!M)(I; consul at 
 Newchwang. March 20, litOl ; consul-gen- 
 eral May 12, 1904; appoint.-d .March 8, 
 1905, consul-general at Yokohama, where 
 he is .still serving. Address: American 
 Consulate (Jeneral. ^'okohaIIla. .Jajian. 
 
 MILLER, James Monroe: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born at Three 
 Sj)rings, Huntingdon County, i'a.; -om of 
 Jonathan and Christiana Miller. He wa.s 
 graduated from Dickinson Seminary, Wil- 
 liamsport. Pa., studied law and after ad- 
 mission to the Kiinsas Bar engaged in prac- 
 tice at Council Grove, Kan. He was elected 
 county attorney of ilorris County, Kan- 
 sas, in 1880 for a term of two years, and 
 reelected in 1884 and 1880. He was elected 
 a member of the Kansas Legislature in 
 1894; elected a Republican presidential 
 elector for Kansas in 1884. and was se- 
 lected by his colleagues to carry the vote 
 of Kansas to Washington. Mr. Miller is 
 a ^lethodist and was a delegate to the (Jen- 
 eral Conference of the ^lethodist Episcopal 
 Cliurch in 1890. He was elected to the 
 Fifly-si.xth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth. 
 Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, and 
 reelected to the Sixty-tir>t Congress from 
 the Fourth Kansas District. Address: 
 Cduncil (JroNC. Kan. 
 
 MILLER, John Anthony: 
 
 I'nifcssor (if nialhcuiatii-; :ind a-^troiiomv; 
 born in ( licciisl.iiig. hid.. Dec. l(i. 18.i9; 
 son of Jiruiio B. and Katherine (Arnold) 
 ]\liller. He was graduated from Indiana 
 University. A.B., 1890. received the degrees 
 of A.M. from Leland Stanford. Jr.. Uni- 
 versity. 1893. and Ph.D. from the Univer- 
 sity of Chicago, 1899. He was instructor 
 in mathematics. Indiana I'niversity. 1800; 
 instructor in Leland Stanford. Jr.. Univer- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 sity. 1S!)1-18!);) : assistant, professor of 
 inatlioinatics at Leland Stanford, Jr., Uni- 
 versity, 1893-1894; actinj; professor of 
 mathematics at Indiana University, 1894- 
 189.5; professor of mechanics and astron- 
 omy. 1S9(M90(); professor of matliematics 
 and astronomy at Swarthmore College 
 since 1906. He liad cliarge of the In- 
 diana l^niversity Expedition to observe 
 llic total solar eclipse in 190"). Dr. Mil- 
 ler has written a text-book on trigo- 
 nometry and has been a frequent contribu- 
 tor to tlie various astronomical journals 
 of this country and Europe and to the 
 leading mathematical journals of America. 
 He is a fellow of the American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science, Ameri- 
 can Mathematical Society, Astronomical and 
 Astrophysical Society of America, and of 
 the Scientific Society of the Sigma Xi fra- 
 ternity. He married at Kokomo. Ind., Dec. 
 24, 1880, Mary Katherine Goodwine, and 
 they have two children. Address: Swarth- 
 more College, Swarthmore, Pa. 
 
 MILLER, Nathan L.: 
 
 Jurist ; born in Solon, Cortland County, 
 N. Y., Oct. 10, 1868; son of Samuel aiid 
 Almira (Russell) Miller. He was grad- 
 uated from the Cortland Normal School, 
 1887 ; and was admitted to the New York 
 bar, Nov. 21, 1893. Mv. Miller was a mem- 
 ber of the law firm of Dougherty and Mil- 
 ler, Cortland, N. Y., 1893-1903, corporation 
 counsel of the city of Cortland, 1900-1901; 
 school commissioner of the First District, 
 Cortland County, 1894-1900; State comp- 
 troller, 1902-1903. He was appointed jus- 
 tice of the Snprcme Court. Nov. 10. 1903; 
 and elected in 1904 for the term expiring in 
 1918. He was designated and lias served 
 as assocmte justice of the Appellate Divis- 
 ion, .Second Department, since Dec. 19, 
 1904. He married at Marathon, N. Y., 
 Nov. 23, 1890. Elizabeth Davern, and they 
 have three children. Address: Cortland, 
 N. Y. 
 
 MILLER, Robert Morrison, Jr.: 
 
 Cotton manufacturer; born in Pleasant 
 \'alley, S. C, April 20, 18.")6; son of Robert 
 Aljorrlson and Ann Elizabeth (Cureton) 
 
 .Miller, lie was graduated from Davidson 
 College, N. C, in June, 1876, with the 
 degree of A.B. Mr. Miller is president and 
 treasurer of The Elizabeth Mills; secretary 
 and treasurer of The Buford Hotel Com- 
 pany; president of the Millerton Homes 
 Company; president of The Cotton Manu- 
 facturers' Association of North Carolina ; 
 President of the Southern Manufacturers' 
 Club, Charlotte; member of the Board of 
 Water Commissioners of the City of Char- 
 lotte; member of the Manufacturers' Club 
 of Philadelijhia; director of the Commer- 
 cial National Bank, of Charlotte; also a 
 director of several cotton mills. He is an 
 ex-president of the American Cotton Manu- 
 facturers' Association ; ex-vice-president 
 and tieasurer of the D. A. Tompkins Com- 
 pany and Atherton Cotton Mills. In poli- 
 tics he is a protection Democrat. He mar- 
 ried in Charlotte, N. C, Feb. 6, 1890, Es- 
 telle Ross, and they have one daughter, 
 Sara Elizabeth Miller, born March 19, 1899. 
 Residence: 406 Nortli Tj-ron Street. Of- 
 fice: Piedmont Insurance Building, Char- 
 lotte, ?N. C. 
 
 MILLER, Roswell: 
 
 Chairman of the Board of Directors of 
 the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail- 
 way Company; born at Hartford, Susque- 
 hanna County, Pa., Oct. 28, 1843. Previous 
 to May, 1882, he was secretary and general 
 superintendent of the Cairo and Vincennes 
 Railroad, then became second vice-president 
 and treasurer of tlie Chicago and Western 
 Indiana Railroad until April, 1883, when 
 he entered the service of the Chicago, Mil- 
 waukee and St. I'aul Railway Company in 
 which he has evci- since; contiinied. He was 
 assistant to the general manager until 
 Maich, 1884; assistant general manager 
 until April, 1885; general manager until 
 May. 1888; president until Se])tember, 
 1899, and since then has been president of 
 the Board of Directors. Residence: 19 East 
 (i2d Street. Oilier; 30 Broad Street. New 
 York City. 
 
 MILLER. Rudolph P.: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in New York City, 
 July 5, 1866; son of Anton W. and Matilda 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 lHl!t 
 
 E. (Schniali) Miller. Ho Avas {irachiatod 
 from the College of the City of New \'ork, 
 1?.S., 1885, and from Cohimhia University, 
 C.K. in ISSS. His early i)rofessioiial work 
 was as engineer on the Kiehniond and Dan- 
 ville Railroad and the Long Island J\ail- 
 road; he was ten years conneeted willi 
 l)c])artinent of Buildings, New Yoik Ci(y, 
 and during the la.st five years, was chief 
 cHjiineer in the Borough of Manhattan; and 
 he is now in private practice. He was ap- 
 jKiinted an expert to investigate into the 
 causes of failure of tlie Criminal Court 
 Building. Mr. Miller is a memher of the 
 American Society of Civil Engineers, and 
 of the Committee of Experts to Revise the 
 Building Laws of New York City; memher 
 of the American Society for Testing Ma- 
 terials, Society of Engineers of New York 
 City, National Fire Protection Association. 
 He is an authority on huilding laws and 
 tire protection and lecturer on such sub- 
 jects; and a contributor to technical litera- 
 ture, and is a member of the Engineers' 
 C!lub. He married at Widewater, Va., 
 LS02, Agnes Robinson Nelson, and they 
 have three children. Address: 141 East 
 4()th Street, New York City. 
 
 MILLER, Spencer: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in i^^'aukegan, 111., 
 April 25, 1859; son of Samuel Fisher and 
 Cliarlotte (Howe) Miller. He was grad- 
 uated from the Worcester (Mass.) Poly- 
 technic Institute, 1879. He is an inventor 
 and designer of cableways, notably the 
 marine cableways for life saving and for 
 coiiling warships at sea, traveling cable- 
 ways used on Chicago drainage canal, Sault 
 Ste. Marie Canali, and Panama Canal ; and 
 is chief engineer of cableway department 
 of the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company. 
 He is a member of the American Society of 
 Civil Engineers, American Society of Me- 
 chanical Engineers, Society of Naval Archi- 
 tects and Marine Engineers, Canadian In- 
 stitute of Mining Engiiieers, American 
 Institute of Mining Engineers; and trustee 
 of the South Orange Free Library. He is 
 a member of the Engineers' Club of New 
 York, the Essex County Country Club of 
 Orange, and the Metropolitan Club of 
 74 
 
 Washington. Ho married at W.ircvhter. 
 Mass., dan. 1, ls,s;>, llatlie .M. Kuggk"., und 
 they have three children. Uesideiiei- : 
 South Orange. .N. .1. Atidrcss: 'Iti Ijherty 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 MILLER, Warner: 
 
 Manul'acturcr and ex-U. S. Senator; lK)rn 
 at Hamilton, Oswego County, N. Y., An;,'. 
 12, 18.S8: son of Hiram, and ib'sccndant of 
 John Miller, who came from (ieniuiny. and 
 settled in Westchester County, N. Y., 1080. 
 He was graduated from I^nion College. 
 18Gt), and afterward received the degree of 
 LL.D. from Union and Syracuse Universi- 
 ties. After graduation he became jiro 
 fessor of Greek and Latin in the Collegiate 
 Institute at Fort Edward. N. Y.. but at 
 the beginning of the Civil War enlisted in 
 the Union Army as a private in the Fifth 
 New York Cavalry, in which he was soon 
 promoted to lieutenant. He was in active 
 service under Sheridan in the Shenandoah 
 Valley, and in the battle of Winchester was 
 severely wounded and confineil some time 
 in a Confederate hosi)ital. Receiving his 
 honorable discharge at the end of his term 
 of enlistment he went to Herkimer. N. Y., 
 and was employed in the mechanical de- 
 jiartment of a paper mill, of wliieh he in 
 time became superintendent. He took 
 great interest in the use of wood pulp as a 
 material for making printing paper, and 
 made many inventions of value in connec- 
 tion with that branch of manufacture. He 
 obtained a large interest in the mill at 
 Herkimer, established others at Palmer's 
 Falls and Lyon's Falls, and has long been 
 regarded as the leading and most success- 
 ful representative of that branch of the 
 paper industry. Mr. Miller was elected as 
 a Republican to the General Assembly of 
 New York in 1874 and 1S75; was elected to 
 the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Con- 
 gresses ; was elected to the U. S. Senate 
 in 1881 and served until 1887. He was the 
 author of the Alien Contract Labor Law. 
 He is a mend)er of the Lawyers' I'nion 
 League. Republican and University Clubs 
 of New York City. He married in 18G4. 
 Caroline Churchill. Addros: 100 Broad- 
 wav. New York Citv. 
 
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 MILLER, William Edward: 
 
 Ex-senator; horn at West Hill, Cumber- 
 land County. Pa., Fob. 5, 1836; son of A. 
 G. and Eleanor Miller. He was educated 
 in the common schools of Pennsylvania and 
 was en<jafj(Hl in farming when the Civil 
 War began. He enlisted Aug. 8. 1861, in 
 Company H of the Third Pennsylvania 
 Cavalry Regiment and before being mus- 
 tered out was elected second lieutenant of 
 the company, was commissioned as such 
 and served in that company until Aug. 27, 
 1804, participating in thirty-seven engage- 
 ments. He was promoted to captain for 
 gallantry at Antietam, where he opened the 
 figiit with his command, and at Gettysburg 
 he won the Congressional Medal of Honor 
 for bravery, and was wounded in that bat- 
 th'. In 186.5 he removed to Carlisle, Pa., 
 and was engaged in mercantile pursuits 
 until 1898, when he was elected to the 
 Pennsylvania Senate from the 32d District, 
 serving in the sessions of 1899 and 1901. 
 He has also served as chief burgess of tlie 
 City of Carlisle, and as secretary of the 
 Board of Trade. He is a member of the 
 Military Order of the Loyal Legion and 
 was the original commander of Post 201, 
 Grand Army of the Republic of the Depart- 
 ment of Pennsylvania, and has served as 
 quartermaster since 1887. He is also a 
 member of the Medal of Honor Legion of 
 the United States, and is a vestryman of 
 the K|)iscopal Church. He married, first, 
 in 1S.)G, Elizabeth Ann Hocker, who died 
 in 1859, and by whom he had two daugh- 
 ters, one of whom died while he was in the 
 Army; and in 18()8 he married Anna D. 
 Bush, daughter of J. S. Bush of Tioga 
 County, Pa. Address: Carlisle, Pa. 
 
 MILLET, Francis Davis: 
 
 (Jen re |)a inter, war corresj)ondent and 
 author; born at Mattapoisett, Mass., Nov. 
 3, 1846; son of Dr. Asa Millet, a physi- 
 cian of East Bridgewater, Mass. He was 
 graduated from Harvard, A.P... 1S69 and 
 later A.M. He took part in the war as a 
 drummer and assistant surgeon; and after 
 leaving Harvard was a student in the Royal 
 Academy of Fine Arts at Antwerp, and also 
 studied in France and Italy, at the same 
 
 time writing illustrated articles for Ameri- 
 can periodicals, and visiting the Vienna 
 Exposition of 1873, where he was secretary 
 to the Massachusetts Commission. He was 
 a correspondent of the New York Herald 
 and the London Daily News, attached to 
 the staff of Geiierals Skobeteff and Gousko 
 in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, 
 receiving several militaiy crosses and med- 
 als, and later the Legion of Honor of 
 France, and the first class order of the 
 Sacred Treasure of Japan. He was direc- 
 tor of decorations during the constructive 
 period and director of functions during the 
 fair, at the W^orld's Columbian Exposition. 
 He was special correspondent of the London 
 Times with the expedition to the Philip- 
 pines in 1898. He is best known as a 
 painter of genre subjects of England in the 
 Eighteenth Century and of classic Rome 
 and Greece in which costumes and interiors 
 are studied with much detail. He is an 
 academician of the National Academy of 
 Design, member of the Institute of Paint- 
 ers in Oil Colors, London, and honorary 
 memlter of the American Institute of Arch- 
 itects; member of the New York Municipal 
 Art Commission; member of the Niagara 
 Falls Commission; commissioner general to 
 the Tokj'o exposition. He has a summer 
 residence in the village of Broadway, Wor- 
 cestershire, England. Studios: 6 East 
 23d Street, New York City, and 1256 Wis- 
 consin Avenue, Wasliington, D. C. 
 
 MILLIKEN, Charles F.: 
 
 I'lcsideut of tile New York State Civil 
 Service Commission; born in Canandaigua, 
 N. Y., Aug. 27, 1864; son of Nathan J. 
 and Orline O, (Sutton) ^lilliken. He was 
 educated in Canandaigua Academy. He 
 lias devoted his life to ne\vs|)aper work; is 
 part owner and editor of the Ontario 
 County Times, founded by his fatlier in 
 isr)2. lie was chairnuui of the Ontario 
 County Republican Conunittee, 1887-1888; 
 was alternate to National Republican Con- 
 vention, in 1900; was appointed member of 
 State Civil Service Commission in 1903, 
 and has been its president since January, 
 1905. He is manager of the busiiu>ss of 
 C. F. & R. B. :Milliken. He is a trustee 
 of Frederick Ferris Thomjison Hospital; 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 president of Clark Manor House, Tloiiie for 
 Old People; and president of the Ontario 
 County Historical Society. Mr. Milliken 
 married in Canandaigua, N. Y., June 18, 
 1895, Margaret Townley, and they have 
 three children. Address: Canandaigua, 
 N. Y. 
 
 MILLIKEN, James Foster: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Lewiston, Pa., July 19, 
 1847; son of Samuel and Mary (Porter) 
 Milliken. He was educated in Lewistown 
 Academy, Tuscarora (Pa.) Academy, Penn- 
 sylvania Military Academy and Iron City 
 College. He ran away from the Pennsylva- 
 nia Military Academy in 1863 and entered 
 the Union Army as a member of Company 
 A, Independent Battalion, Pennsylvania 
 Volunteers. He was admitted to the bar of 
 Blair County in 1868; was elected district 
 attorney of Blair County in 1874, and went 
 to J^gypt in 1877, for the purpose or en- 
 tering the Egyptian military service cur- 
 ing the Turko-Russian War. and was ap- 
 pointed by Loring Pasha (General W. W. 
 Loring) lieutenant-colonel on his staff, but 
 was not commissioned, as soon afterward 
 all Americans in the service of the Khedive 
 were relieved from .duty. He remained in 
 Egypt six years. He was elected colonel 
 of the Fifth Regiment of the National 
 Guard of Pennsylvania in 1874. He is a 
 member of the Sons of Revolution, the Ma- 
 sonic order, and the Knights of Pythias. 
 Mr. Milliken married at Ilollidaysburg, 
 Pa., Feb. 10, 1869, Fannie Caldwell, aiul 
 they had a daughter (now deceased), and 
 a son. Address: 287 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 MILLS, Albert Leopold; 
 
 Brigadier-General, United States Army; 
 born in Washington Heights, New York 
 City, May 7, 1854; son of Abiel Buckman 
 and Annie (Warford) Mills. He was ap- 
 pointed to the U. S. Military Academy 
 from which he was graduated in the class 
 of 1879. On graduation he was commis- 
 sioned second lieutenant of the First United 
 States Cavalry, June 1.3, 1S79; promoted 
 through the various grades and commis- 
 sioned captain U. S. Cavalry, Oct. 24, 1898; 
 
 brevetted major and liciilfnaiit-colfinci for 
 gallantry in battles of Law (;uaHiinuH and 
 Santiago de Cuba, July 1, 1898; jjroinoled 
 brigadier-general of U. S. Army, .May 7, 
 1904. Mis rcginiciital service was broken 
 by a tour of duty as profes.sor of military 
 science and tactics at the Soutii Carolina 
 Military Academy. Ciiarleston, «n<l as in- 
 structor in. strategy, cavalry and tactics at 
 the United States Infantry and Cavalry 
 Officers' School, Fort Jjcaven worth, Kan.; 
 was on duty at latter school when the war 
 with Spain was declared. He participated 
 in tlie Santiago campaign and engaged 
 in the battles of Las Guasimas and San- 
 tiago de Cuba, being commended for gal- 
 lantry in the former and very seriously 
 wounded in latter. He was awarded the 
 Congressional Medal of Honor for most dis- 
 tinguished gallantry in action near San- 
 tiago de Cuba, July' 1, 1898. General Mills 
 was appointed superintendent of the U. .'^. 
 Military Academy, Aug. 22, 1898, and wa.-» 
 at its head until Aug. 31, 1900. when he 
 was relieved from duty and placed in com- 
 mand of tlie Department of the Visayas, 
 Philippine Islands. He married, Nov. 15, 
 1883, Alada Thurston Paddock of Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., eldest daughter of Right Rev. 
 John Adams Paddock. D.l)., and he has a 
 daughter and a son. Addros: Manila, 
 Piii]i])pine Islands. 
 
 MILLS, Benjamin Fay: 
 
 Clergyman and lecturer: born in Rah- 
 way, N. J., June 4. 18.37; son of Tliornton 
 A. and Anna C. Mills. He was educated at 
 the Phillips Academy (Andover), Lake 
 Forest University, A.B., 1879. and A.:M., 
 1881, and offered the degree of D.D. by Iowa 
 College, in 1893, which was declined. He 
 was ordained a minister of the Congrega- 
 tional Church in 1878, and was pastor of 
 the Rutland, Vt.. Evangelist Church. 1SS6- 
 1897. He withdrew from the orthodox 
 church on account of his liberal views, in 
 1897, and conducted independent religious 
 movements in the Boston Music Hall ami 
 the Hollis Street Theatre, 1897-1899. Dr. 
 Mills was minister of the Fir.-t Unitarian 
 Church at Oakland, Calif., 1899-1903, and 
 was the founder and first permanent min- 
 ister, in 1905, of the Los Angeles Fellow- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ship, wliich has now crown to The Greater 
 Fellowship, of which he is president, a re- 
 ligious organization which has attracted na- 
 tional and international attention. He is 
 editor of the Fellowship Magazine, having 
 been in that ])osition since 1905, and au- 
 thor of: The Divine Adventure, 1905; 
 The New Spiritual Era, 1908. He married 
 at Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 31, .1879, Mary 
 Russell Hill, and they have six children. 
 Address: 232 South Hill Street, Los An- 
 geles, Calif. 
 
 MIIIS, Charles Karsner: 
 
 Physician: born in Philadelphia. Dec. 4, 
 1845; son of James and Lavinia A. (Fitz- 
 gerald) Mills. He was graduated from 
 Central High School of Philadelphia, 1864, 
 and the University of Pennsylvania. M.D., 
 18(J9, and Ph.D., 1871. He has interested 
 himself in neurologj' since a few years after 
 his graduation; has had numerous official 
 and teaching jjositions. the most important 
 being: president of the Philadelphia County 
 Medical Society, American Neurological As- 
 sociation. Philadelphia Neurological Socie- 
 ty, and the Medical Jurisprudence Society 
 of Philadelphia. He is at present pro- 
 fessor of neurology in the University of 
 Pennsylvania, and is connected with many 
 hospitals in and near Philadelphia. Dr. 
 Mills is author of many monographs and 
 articles on neurology and allied subjects, 
 and of a book on the Nervous System and 
 Its Disea.ses published in 1898.' He is a 
 member of the American Medical Associa- 
 tion, American Neurological Association, 
 Pliiladelphia Neurological Society, the 
 Philadelphia County Medical Society, and 
 the University Club, and the Medical Club 
 of Philadelphia. He married in Philadel- 
 phia, Nov. 6, 1873, Clara E. Peale, and 
 has four children. Address: 1909 Chest- 
 nut Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 MILLS, Darius Ogden: 
 
 FiuaiK-icr ; born at North Saloiu. Wesit- 
 ehester County, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1825, fifth 
 son of James Mills. He was educated in 
 North Salem Academy and Mount Pleasant 
 Acarlemy at Sing Sing, and at the age of 
 seventeen he secured a clerkship in New 
 York City. In 1847 he went to Buflfalo, 
 
 and was appointed cashier of the Merchants' 
 Bank of Erie County; and thence went to 
 San Francisco in 1849. He engaged in 
 trade with the mining districts; later set- 
 tled in Sacramento and engaged in general 
 mercantile business, while also buying gold 
 dust and dealing in exchange on Ng^ York 
 City. In November, 1849, he closed out 
 his business and returned to Buffalo, where 
 ho disposed of all his interests in the East, 
 returning to Sacramento again, and found- 
 ing there the house of D. 0. Mills and 
 Company, which quickly became and has 
 since continued the leading bank of interior 
 California. In 1864 he became president 
 of the Bank of California, a new institution 
 which began business that year with a 
 capital of $2,000,000 and remained con- 
 nected with it till 1873, when he resigned 
 the presidency and retired from business. 
 After it Avas wrecked by his successor he 
 was summoned again to the bank and re- 
 sumed the presidency, subscribed personally 
 to the bank capital $1,000,000, raised in all 
 nearly $7,000,000 and within six weeks 
 enabled it to resume payment. In three 
 years he again left it, after having firmly 
 reestablished its financial standing; subse- 
 quently came East, and became a resident 
 of New York City, and erected the great 
 Mills Building in Broad Street. His in- 
 terests are now divided between New York 
 and California, and he is director of many 
 large financial, railway and industrial or- 
 ganizations. On leaving California, he en- 
 dowed with $75,000, since raised to $150.- 
 000, the Mills Professorship of moral and 
 intellectual philosophy in the University 
 of California, and donated to the State the 
 handsome group of marble statuary, Colum- 
 bus Before Queen Isabella, by Larkin G. 
 Mead. ]Mr. Mills has brought his practical 
 knowledge of affairs to works of philan- 
 thropy, notably in the construction in New 
 York of hotels where lodging and food of a 
 superior character may be obtained for the 
 actual cost of supplying them. He is a 
 member of the Century Association and 
 the I\Ietro])olitan, X^nion. Union Eeiigue and 
 Knickerbocker Clubs. He married, Sept. 
 5. 1854, Jane T.. daiighter of James Cun- 
 ningham, and they have a son, Ogden, and 
 a daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Whitelaw 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Reid, ambassiidor to Cireat Britain. Resi- 
 dence: 634 Fiftli Avenue: Ollico : I') 
 Broad Street, New York City. 
 
 MILLS, Edmund M.: 
 
 Cierfrynian ; l)orn at Ottawa, Canada, 
 July 17, 1848; son of Andrew J. and Caro- 
 line D. Mills. He was oraduated from 
 Wesleyan University, Middletovvn, Conn., 
 A.B., 1872, A.M., 1875, and received its de- 
 gree of D.D. in 1888, and Ph.D. from Syra- 
 cuse University in 1877. He traveled 
 170.000 miles while corresponding secretary 
 of the Twentieth Century Thank OlFering 
 Commission, from 1899 to 1902, wliich con- 
 ducted a campaign in which $21,799,000 
 was raised as a thank offering; and trav- 
 eled extensively in Europe in 1884 and 
 1901. He has visited every State in the 
 Union. He was delegate to the General 
 Conference of the INIethodist Episcopal 
 Church, in 1888. 1892. 189(5, 1900, and 
 1904; and delegate to the Methodist Ecu- 
 menical Conference in London in 1901. 
 From 1906 to 1908 was field secretary of 
 the Educational Society of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. He is now pastor of 
 the First JNIethodist Episcopal Church of 
 Towanda, Pa. He is a member of the 
 Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society, Mystical Seven, St. 
 John's Lodge of Masons, Coming Consis- 
 tory (thirty-second degree) and St. Omer's 
 Commandery, Knights Templar, and trus- 
 tee of Wesleyan University, Middletown, 
 Conn. He is author of: Only a Profes- 
 sion, volume of sermons. He married, 
 Aug. 23, 1875, Emily Rexford Adams, who 
 died March 14, 1904; and March 11, 1908, 
 he married Mrs. Sadie B. Allright. Ad- 
 dress: 103 Main Street, Towanda, Brad- 
 ford County, Pa. 
 
 MILLS, Isaac Newton: 
 
 Jurist; born in Thompson, Windham 
 County, Conn., September 10, 1851; son of 
 Isaac and Susan (Arnold) Mills. He was 
 graduated from Providence Conference 
 Seminary, East Greenwich. R. L, 1870, Am- 
 herst College, A.B. (valedictorian), 1874; 
 Columbia Law School, LL.B., 1876. He 
 practised law at Mt. Vernon, N. Y., 1876- 
 
 19U7. and was elected in Ndv. 1!»0G, juHlice 
 lU' I 111' Supreme Court of N'uw York, for the 
 Iniii expiring Dee. 31, 11(20. He wnn 
 county judge of WesteheHter County, N. V., 
 two terms, 1884-1895, inclusive; wuh New 
 Y^ork State Senator, iy()l-l!)02. Ju.sliee 
 ^lills is a mendjer of the New York State 
 Bar Association, Westchester County Bar 
 Association, Association of I lie Bar of the 
 City of New York, is a Mason and Kni^l't 
 Tem])iar; associate of Farnswortii Post, (J. 
 A. R., the New England Society of New 
 York City, Sons of the Revolution of New 
 York, Society of Medical Jurisjirudencc, 
 New York City; Amherst Alumni Associa- 
 tion, New York, Delta Kappa Ejtsilon fra- 
 ternity (Sigma Chapter), and Delta Kaiijia 
 Epsilon Association of New York; Megan- 
 tic Fish and Game Corporation; Alumni 
 Association of Law School of Columbia 
 University; Westchester County Hi>torical 
 Society, and the Union League and Repiib- 
 lican Clubs of New York City. He mar- 
 ried in Webster, Mass., Dec. 18* 1876. Clara 
 Maria Burnett, and they have four children. 
 Address: North Columbus Avenue, Mount 
 Vernon, N. Y. 
 
 MILLS, Mary Russell: 
 
 Author and minister; born in Minneapo- 
 lis, June 24, 1859; daughter of Henry and 
 Mary Lucy (Mills) Hill. She married in 
 Minneapolis, Oct. 31, 1879, Benjamin Fay 
 Mills, and she has six children. She was 
 ordained to the ministry of the Fellowship 
 in 1905, and was minister of The Los .\n- 
 geles Fellowship, 1905-1908. She is author 
 of: The Art of Living, 1904: The Fellow- 
 ship Religion, 1908, and associate editor of 
 the Fellowship Magazine since 1905. Ad- 
 dress: IjOs Angeles, Calif. 
 
 MILLS, Ogden: 
 
 Capitalist; son of Darius Ogden Mills. 
 He was graduated from Harvard Univers- 
 ity, A.B.. 1878. He is president and di- 
 rector of the Tribune Association: vice- 
 president and director of the Mergenlhalcr 
 Linotype Company: trustee of the German 
 Savings Bank; director of the Atlantic 
 Coast Steamship Company, Chicago. Rock 
 Island & Pacific Railway Company, Erie 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Elevator Conipnny, International Paper 
 Conipany, Xew York, Continental Jewell 
 Filtration Conipany. North Atlantic Steam- 
 ship Company. Oriental Consolidated Min- 
 in<j Company. I'aoific Mail Steamship Com- 
 pany, Portland Railway Company, Rock 
 Island Company. Southern Pacific Company, 
 Windsor Trust Company, National Typo- 
 frra])hic Association, New York Fire Proof 
 Tenement Association. He is a member of 
 the Metropolitan. University, Harvard, Un- 
 ion, I'nion Leaoue, Racquet and Tennis. 
 Hudson River Ice Yacht. Turf and Field, 
 and Xew York Yacht Clubs. He married 
 Ruth Livingston, and they have three chil- 
 dren: Beatrice, Gladys and 0<Tden D. 
 Residence: 2 East 69th Street. Office: 
 1") I',ro;i(l Street. New York City. 
 
 MILLS, Walter Sands: 
 
 Physician ; born in New York City, 
 May 17. 1805; son of Robert J. and Mary 
 Frances (Reed) Mills. He was educated 
 in Columbia College A.B., Harvard Col- 
 lege, and in the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons of New York City and was grad- 
 uated from New York Homeopathic Medical 
 Coilege and Hospital. M.D., 1889. He is 
 attending pliysician of the Tuberculosis In- 
 firmary. Metropolitan Hospital. Department 
 of Public Charities and of Flower Hospital; 
 lecturer on the practice of medicine at the 
 New York Homoeopathic ^Medical College 
 and Hospital; president of tlie Homoeo- 
 pathic Medical Society of Hie County of 
 New York; and associate editor of North 
 American Journal of Homoeoiiathy. He is 
 a member of the Sons of the Revolulion. 
 ire .served six years in Seventh Regiment of 
 the National (,'uard of New York, and is 
 a member of the Harvard Clul). Dr. Mills 
 married in New York City. Oct. i>."). 189;i. 
 Sylvie Laure de Long, daughter of Lieu- 
 lenant-Connnander G. W. de Long, arctic 
 explorer; and they have two cliildicn. Ad- 
 .Iress: .S24 West 89th Street. Xew ^•ork 
 City. 
 
 MILLSPATJGH, Charles Frederick: 
 
 I'.ntani-t : Imrii in llliaca. New Yoik. 
 June 20. 18;>4; son of Joliii Hill and Marion 
 E. (Cornell) Millsi)augli. He was grad- 
 
 uated from Cornell University. 187.'). and 
 from New Y^ork Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
 lege, M.D., 1881. He was professor of bo- 
 tany at the University of West Virginia, 
 1891-1892; has been curator of the Depart- 
 ment of Botany at the Field Museum of 
 Natural History. Chicago, since 1894; and 
 professorial lecturer on botany in the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago, since 1895. He has also 
 been professor of medical botany at the 
 Cnicago Homoeopathic Medical College 
 since 1896. Dr. Millspaugh is author of: 
 American Medicinal Plants; The Flora of 
 West Virginia; Contributions to North 
 American Euphorbiaceae; Plantte Yuca- 
 tanjB ; Plantae Insulae Ananasensis ; Flora of 
 St. Croix, PlantiE Utowanae; Pra^muncise 
 Bahamenses; and Flora of the Sand Keys 
 of Florida ; and he was editor of Homoeo- 
 pathic Recorder. 1889-1890. His special 
 fields of research are the Flora of Yucatan; 
 the medicinal plants of American Indians; 
 North American Euphorbiacese ; flora of the 
 Bahamas and limits of the Greater Antil- 
 lean flora. He is a fellow of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
 ence, of the Faculdad de IMedicina, Mexico, 
 and of the Faculdad do Medicina, Brazil; 
 honorary member of the Homeopathic So- 
 ciety of Binghamton, and of the Bingham- 
 ton Academy of Science; member of the 
 Torrey Botanical Club, of the Central So- 
 ciety of Naturalists, charter member of the 
 Explorers' Club of New York, and of the 
 Sigma Xi Society. Professor Millspaugh 
 married in Waverly, N. Y.. Sept. 19, 1877, 
 Maiy Louisa Spaulding. and has one son, 
 Basil Spaulding Millspaugh. basso, grand 
 opera. Germany. Residence: IM^ East 
 ruth Street, Chicago. Oflice: Field Mu- 
 seum of Natural History. Cliicagn. 11]. 
 
 MILLSPAUGH, Frank Rosebrook: 
 
 Bishop of Kansas; born at Xieliols. N. 
 Y. ; he was educated at the Shattuek Scliool. 
 graduating in 1870. and studied theology 
 at the Seabury Divinity Seliool, Faribault, 
 Minn. He was graduated from the semin- 
 ary with the degree of 15. D. in 187.3, receiv- 
 ing that of D.D. in 189.'i. He was ordered 
 (leacoji of the Episcopal Church in 187.S and 
 a yrar later was ordained priest by Bishop 
 W hippie. For tliree years he was mission- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 arv in Miiiiiosota. He was dean of tlie 
 Cathedral of Omaha, Neb., 187()-188(i, and, 
 until his election to tlie e])iseopate, rector 
 of St. Paul's Church, at Minneapolis, Minn., 
 and afterward dean of Grace Cathedral. 
 'J'opeka, Kan. He has represented his dio- 
 cese in the General Convention every ses- 
 sion but one, from 1897. He was made 
 bishop of Kansas in 1895, being consecrated 
 by Bishops Whipple. Spauldintr, Tuttle, At- 
 \\ill. and Brook. Bishop Mills])augh mar- 
 ried, Oct. 20. 1SS2. :\Iary C. Clarkson, of 
 Nebraska. He is author of various ad- 
 dresses ajul sermons. Address; Topeka. 
 Kan. 
 
 MILLWARD, Russell Hastings: 
 
 Journalist and traveller; born in Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio. April 5th, 1877; son of Captain 
 Frank Milhvard, U. S. Commissioner to 
 Paris, 1S78, and prominent international 
 lawyer. After attending public school and 
 Bartholomew Academy in Cincinnati, Rock- 
 ville Academy (Maryland), and Emerson 
 Institute, Washington, D. C, he engaged in 
 business life. He was the youngest electric 
 light contractor in Ohio, being but eighteen 
 years of age when he completed contracts 
 approved by the State Board of Under- 
 writers. He was appointed' in the Loans and 
 Currency Division, U. S. Treasury Depart- 
 ment (Spanish War Loan), June, 1898; 
 Secretary to Col. George K. McGunnegle, 
 U. S. Army, Nov., 1898; Secretary to 
 Colonel J. H. Oilman, U. S. Army, Feb., 
 1899; attended Illinois College of Law, Chi- 
 cago, 1900 and 1901; and Columbia Univer- 
 sity, New York (School of Political Science 
 anil International Law), 1901 and 1902. He 
 wrote and ])ublished the first Arizona Min- 
 ing Directory and Handbook in 1903 ; and 
 was engaged in newspaper work in New 
 York. Philadelphia and Washington, until 
 May, 1904, when he was appointed in the 
 National Bank of Commerce in New York. 
 In March, 1906, he was appointed General 
 Manager of the New Jersey Touring Com- 
 pany; on Nov. 27th, 1906, American Vice 
 Consul General at Boma, Kongo Free State, 
 Africa; Jan. 31, 1907, American Vice Con- 
 sul at Durban, Natal, Africa; and Aug. 13, 
 1907, American Vice Consul at Tampico, 
 IMexico. In Aug., 1908, he resigned from 
 
 the Consular Service, since when he hiiH 
 been engaged in special writing for the In- 
 ternational Bureau of .American liepuhlics. 
 Mr. Milhvard conlribut«-s to many newspa- 
 pers and magazines and has made a special 
 ty of writings of geographic and scientific 
 interest. He is a member of tlie Lambda 
 Epsilon (Legal) Fraternity; Sigma Clii 
 Fraternity at Columbia I'niversity; Lin- 
 coln Society; Ohio Society; Military Order. 
 Loyal Legion of the United States; Nation- 
 al Geographic Society; Army and Navy 
 Club, Washington; Colonial Club, Tamj)ico. 
 Mexico; Post Graduate Club; Americ^in So- 
 ciety International Law, and the Sigma Chi 
 Ahuuni Associations in New York and I'liil- 
 adelphia. Address: Care of the Ibdland 
 House, New York City. 
 
 MILNE, David: 
 
 Manufacture!-; Iioin in IMiiladcllpliia. 
 July 24. 18.19; son of Caleb .1 . and Mar- 
 garetta (Shea) ^lilne. He was graduated 
 from the L'liiversity of Pennsylvania .\.B.. 
 
 1881. A.:\I.. 1883, and Ph.B. "in 1885. He 
 was member of the wiiniing college crew in 
 the Sclniylkill Navy Kegatta in 18S1. He 
 was connected witii tlie banking house of 
 Robert Glendinning and Comj)any. ISSl 
 
 1882, and since then has been a manufac- 
 turer of fine textiles. He is trustee of tlie 
 ]\redico-Chirurgical College; treasurer of 
 the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital; mendier 
 01 the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 
 Academy of Natural Sciences. American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science. 
 Franklin Institute. Numismatic aifd .Anti- 
 quarian Society, (ieographical Society, and 
 is also a member of the University. Rac- 
 quet. Union League. Art. Penn. Corintliian 
 Yacht, Country, Germantown Cricket, and 
 the Merion Cricket Clubs. Address; 2030 
 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 MINER, George Roberts: 
 
 Ktiitor; itorn in Manchester. \'l.. Aug. 
 17, 18G2: son of A. L. and Susan S. (Rob- 
 erts) Miner. He wa>' educated in the pub- 
 lic schools, and the Burr and Burton S«Mn 
 inary at Manchester. Vt., and was 
 graduated from Norwich I'niversity. North- 
 field. Vt.. as B.S.. M.S.. C.E.. and M.A. 
 He en<»*aged in news|)a]ier work for many 
 
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 MEN OF AxMERICA. 
 
 years as ri'i>orfcr, dianiatit' editor, assistant 
 city editor, and European correspondent 
 and Sunday editor of the New i'ork Her- 
 ald; Sunday editor and news editor of the 
 New Yoric World; editor of the Cosmopoli- 
 tan Magazine; Sunday editor of the Phihi- 
 (Udphia Press: editor and ])roprietor of the 
 Bangor (Maine) Daily News, and is now 
 Euroj)ean correspondent of the New York 
 Herald. He served as first lieutenant and 
 captain and aide-de-camp in the National 
 Guard of Vermont. He is a member of the 
 Alpha Sigma Pi fraternity, and of tlie 
 Douglaston Country Club. He married at 
 Salem, Mass., June 10, 1886, Mary S. Up- 
 ton, and tliey have one daughter. Address: 
 Herald Office, New York City. 
 
 MINER, Henry Clay: 
 
 President of corporations; born in Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y.. May 2."), 18(16: son of Hon. 
 Henry Clay and Julia Lucinda (Moore) 
 Miner. He was educated in Starr's Mili- 
 tary Institute, Port Chester, N. Y., and in 
 the Friends' Seminary, New Y^ork City, 
 he is president of the Estate of Henry C. 
 Miner, Incorporated. He is assistant in- 
 spector of small arms practice of the Twen- 
 ty-second Regiment of Engineers, of New 
 York, and a distinguished rifle expert. He 
 is a member of the Green Room, Red Bank 
 Yacht and Brooklyn Y^acht Clubs. Mr. 
 Miner married in Savannali, Ga., Nov. 26, 
 180.5. Mary Anna Blun, and they have two 
 children. Address: 1402 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 MINOT, James Jackson: 
 
 Physician; born in Boston, Oct. 11, 1852; 
 son of (I'eoige Richards and Harriet (Jack- 
 son) ]\Iinot. He was graduated from Har- 
 vard, A.B., 1874, and M.D.. 1878. He was 
 pliysician of the Boston Dispensary and of 
 Carney Hospital; and he is now physician 
 of llic Massachusetts General H()s])ital and 
 of tlie Long Island Hospital. He is a 
 member of the Massachusetts Medical So- 
 ciety, American .Modicil Association. Bos 
 ton Society of ^h'dical Improvement, va- 
 rious scientific and socifdogical societies, 
 National Association of Tuberculosis, and 
 is Trustee of the Boston Consumptives Hos- 
 
 pital. He married at Milton, Mass., Oct. 
 ;50, 1884, Elizabeth Whitney, and they have 
 three sons. Address: 188 Marlborough 
 Street, Boston. 
 
 MINOTT, Frederic Shepard: 
 
 ^lanufactuier and merchant; born in 
 Orange, N. J., Jan. 4, 1868; son of Joseph 
 Albert and Mary (Mandeville) Minott. He 
 was graduated from Princeton B.A., 1880. 
 Mr. Minott is president and director of the 
 Goodyear Rubber Insulating Company; sec- 
 retary and director of the Goodyear Rub- 
 ber Company; the Lambertville Rubber 
 Company, and the Rubber Clothing Com- 
 ])any; and director of the Orange Water 
 Company and the East Orange Safe Deposit 
 and Trust Company. He is a member of 
 the Metropolitan IMuseum of Art, the Whig 
 Hall Society of Princeton University, and 
 of the University and Princeton Clubs of 
 New lork, and the Ivy Club of Princeton. 
 Mr. Minott married in Florence, Italy, Feb. 
 1], inOo, Marion Lowry, daughter of Com- 
 modore R. B. Lowry, of the U. S. Navy. 
 Residence: Mt. Kisco, New York. Ofiica 
 addresses: 787 Broadway, and 105 East; 
 KHst Street, New York CUy. 
 
 MITCHELL, Charles Bayard: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Allegheny City, Pa., 
 Aug. 27. 1857; son of Rev. Daniel P. and 
 Annie E. (Baker) ■Mitchell. He received 
 his preparatory education in Mount Union, 
 Ohio, and was graduated from Allegheny 
 College, with the degree of A.B., afterward 
 receiving the A.M., Ph.D. and D.D. degrees. 
 He began his ministry in Kansas and has 
 been j)astor at Coyville, Burrton, Marion, 
 Leavenwortli, Kans., the Smithfield Street 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, Pittsburg, the 
 Grand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church 
 in Kansas City, Mo., at Plainfield N. J. 
 Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal 
 Church in Minneapolis, Minn., seven years 
 l)aslor of the First Methodist Episcopal 
 Church of Cleveland, Ohio. And is at pres- 
 ent pastor of St. James' Church, the 
 leading Methodist Episcopal Chuicli in 
 Chicago. He was a delegate to tlie 
 Third Ecumenical ^lethodist Conference 
 in London, in 1901, and was a mem- 
 
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 ber of the Coneral Conference of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church in 1904, and 
 1908. Dr. Mitcliell is a member of tlie 
 Delta Tail Delta fraternity and Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society, and is a thirty-third de- 
 gree Mason. While in Cleveland he built 
 at the corner of Euclid Avenue and East 
 Thirtieth Street, which is regarded as the 
 finest Methodist Episcopal Church in any 
 part of tlie world, costing $350,000 exclu- 
 sive of the costly memorial features. He 
 has traveled extensively in every European 
 country, except Portugal; also in Egypt, 
 Palestine, Asia ]Minor and Turkey. Dr. 
 Mitchell has published one volume of 
 travel, a volume of sermons, and contrib- 
 utes largely to his denominational press. 
 He also lectures in all parts of the United 
 States during the lecture season. Dr. 
 Mitchell married in Pittsburgh, July 6, 
 1882, Clara AuU. Address: 4611 Ellis 
 Avenue, Chicago, 111. 
 
 MITCHELL, Edmund: 
 
 Novelist; born in Glasgow, March 19, 
 1801; son of John and Margaret (Milne) 
 Mitchell. He was educated in the Elgin 
 Academy, Glasgow, and at Aberdeen Uni- 
 versity, where he received the degree of 
 M.A. and was gold medalist for English lit- 
 erature. He followed the profession of 
 journalism in India, Australia, and Amer- 
 ica, and has traveled widely as special cor- 
 respondent and expert writer on industrial 
 topics. Ho is now a director of several 
 large industrial companies, being vice-presi- 
 dent of the Murray Marine Steady-Floating 
 Steel Structures Company, and vice-presi- 
 dent and treasurer of the JNIason Smokeless 
 Combustion Company, and of the Pacific 
 Exploration Company. He is author of: 
 Tlie Temple of Death, 1894; Towards the 
 Eternal Snows, 1890; Chickabiddy Stories, 
 1899; Plotters of Paris, 1900; The Lone 
 Star Rusli, 1901; Only a Nigger, 1901; 
 The Belforts of Cubben. 1902; The De- 
 spoilers, 1904; In Desert Keeping, 1905; 
 all novels, also a play: The Telephone, 
 1901. He married in 1886, and has four 
 sons and one daughter. Address : 426 
 South Spring Street, and 1710 Ilobart 
 Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. 
 
 MITCHELL, Edwin Knox: 
 
 Professor church history; born in lyjrke, 
 Oliio, Dec. 23, 1854; son of Spencer and 
 Harriet N. (Howard) Mitchell. He wa^ 
 graduated from Marietta College, B.A., 
 1878, D.D.. 1890, Berlin University, 1884- 
 1885, 1891-1892, Giessen University, 1883, 
 and Gottingen University, 1885. He wa.s 
 installed pastor of the Memorial Presbyter- 
 ian Church, St. Augustine, Fla., 1886 1890; 
 profes>or of the Gra-co-Boman Church His- 
 tory, Hartford Theological Seminary, Hart- 
 ford, since 1892. Professor Mitchell is a 
 nicniber of the American Historical Asso- 
 ciation, American Oriental Society, Society 
 of Biblical Literature, Hartford Arclia- 
 ological Society, National Geographic So- 
 ciety; trustee of Marietta College and 
 George Junior Republic of Connecticut, 
 member of the Delta Psi Fraternity, and 
 Phi Beta Kappa Society, the Hartford Golf 
 (president). University, Twentieth Century, 
 Get-Together, and Congregational Clubs of 
 Hartford, and the ^Municipal Art Society. 
 He married in Brooklyn, Jan. 20. 1887, 
 Hetty Marquand Enos, and they have three 
 children. Residence: 57 Gillette Street. 
 Office: Hosnier Hall, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 MITCHELL, James Tyndale: 
 
 Jurist; born at Belleville. 111.. Nov. 9. 
 1834. He was educated in the public 
 schools of Philadelphia, and in Harvard 
 College, A.B., 1855 A.M.. 1857. and received 
 the LL.D. degree in 1901, and he was grad- 
 uated from the Law Department of the 
 University of Pennsylvania in 1858, an<l re- 
 ceived from Jeflerson Medical College the 
 honorary degree of LL.D. in 1S72. He 
 Ijcgan tlie practice of law in Philadelphia 
 in 1857; was assistant city solicitor. ISCO- 
 1863. He has been continuously on the 
 bench from 1871. as judge of the District 
 Court until 1875, then of the Court of Com- 
 mon Pleas luitil 1889, when he became an 
 associate justice of the Supreme Court of 
 the State of Pennsylvania, of which he ha.s 
 been chief justice since 1!)03. Chief Justice 
 Mitchell is a jurist of great distinction, and 
 a valued contributor to legal literature a-; 
 author of several treatises, addresses and 
 contributions to law periodicals, and he 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 was foniu'ily for t wo iity five years editor- 
 in-eliicf of tlie American Law Register at 
 Philadel|)liia. Address: 1722 Walnut 
 ytreet, I'liiladelphia. 
 
 MITCHELL, John: 
 
 Labor leader; l)orn at IJraidwood. 111., 
 Feb. 4, 1S70; son of Robert and Martha 
 Mitchell. He attended the public schools 
 of Braidwood until he was ten years old 
 and after that added to his education by 
 night study. He began to work in coal 
 mines at the age of thirteen, and in 1885 
 became a union man and a member of the 
 Knights of Labor; he traveled in the West, 
 mining coal in various districts, 1885-1890; 
 became secretary-treasurer of a sub-district 
 of the United Mine Workers of America 
 in 1895. and has been an organi/er of the 
 National body since 1897, was elected its 
 vice-president in 1898, and since 1899 has 
 been president by annual reelections. Haa 
 organizing ability, has never been surpassed 
 in the history of the organized labor move- 
 ment in America. He directed the strike 
 of the anthracite mine workers in 1900 
 and 1902, and has also been active in the 
 work of the National Civic Federation. 
 Residence: Spring \'alley, 111. Ollice: 
 State Life Buikling, Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 MITCHELL, John Ames: 
 
 Jvlitor: born in New York Ciy, Jan. 17, 
 1845. He was educated at Exeter, N. H., 
 Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, and 
 afterward studied architecture in Bo.^ton, 
 and at Paris. 1*^07 1870, in ficole des Beaux 
 Arts. He practised as architect in Boston 
 and was engaged in artistic and decorative 
 work, until 187G when he again went to 
 Paris for study and remained four years; 
 studied in Atelier Julian, and afterward 
 witli Albert Magn;ui; porduced several etcli- 
 ings publislied by I'Art, and received hon- 
 orable mention at the Paris Exposition; 
 returned to United States, in 1880; was al- 
 ways much interested in black and white 
 drawings, and, feeling that there was a 
 field in America for an artistic satirical 
 journal, started Life, Jan. .'5. ISS.'i. whicli he 
 has successfully conducted. lie is author 
 ol : ( roi|ui- (jc FFxposition, Paris; The 
 SuniHHT Scliool of Philosophy at Mount 
 
 Desert, 1881; The Romance of the Moon. 
 1886 ; The Last American, 1889 ; Life's Fairy 
 Tales, 189.3; Amos Judd, 1895; The First 
 Atrair. 1890; Gloria Victis, 1897; The 
 Pines of Lory, 1901; The Villa Claudia, 
 1904; The Silent War, 1906. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Century alid City Clubs. Mr. 
 jSIitchell married in Salem, ]\Iass.. June, 
 1885, Mary Hodges Mott. Residence: 20 
 West 4Gth Street. Oflfice: 17 West 31st 
 Street. New York City. 
 
 MITCHELL, John L.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Hooksett, N. H.. Feb. 
 1, 1873; son of Abram and Angeline D. 
 (Eastman) Mitchell. He was graduated 
 from Dartmouth College. A.B., 1895. He 
 was a member of the School Board of Ports- 
 mouth, 1904-1906, city solicitor in 1906; 
 chairman of the Democratic City Com- 
 mittee and member of the State Democratic 
 Committee. He is a member of the Kappa 
 Kappa Kappa Society and of the Warwick 
 Club. Residence: 34 Lincoln Avenue. Of- 
 fice: 1 Congress Street, Portmouth, N. H. 
 
 MITCHELL, Mason: 
 
 Actor, soldier; born in Hamilton. New 
 York, 1859; son of David J. Mitchell. He 
 was educated in St. John's School, Manlius, 
 N. Y., and Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H. 
 At the age of eighteen he adopted the stage 
 as a profession, and became a member of 
 the company at the Old Broadway Thea- 
 tre, New York City. He rose rapidly and 
 became the supporter of such stars as John 
 McCullough, Edwin Booth and Lawrence 
 Barrett ; also supported as leading man 
 Madame Modjeska; and in 1883 accom- 
 panied Mary Anderson to England, playing 
 at the Lyceum Theatre, London. He was 
 leading man at the Drury Lane Theatre, 
 the only American in the company; re- 
 turned to America in 1885. and while play- 
 ing at Winniiieg, in the Northwest the Riel 
 Rebellion broke out. His adventurous spirit 
 caused him to leave his comjjany and enter 
 the service of the Canadian (lovernment as 
 a scout; rendered valuable service and was 
 highly commended and decorated for same; 
 traveled extensively through South America 
 and the South Sea Islands, writing and 11- 
 
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 lustrating articles on those countries, es- 
 pecially in rof^ard to Samoa, where he re- 
 mained some time in company with Robert 
 Louis Stevenson, the novelist. Subsequent- 
 ly he visited the Fiji, Ellis, Gilbert, i\Iar- 
 shall and Caroline groups of islands; and 
 returning to America he became manager of 
 the Garrick Theatre. New York City, and 
 acted in support of Mrs. James Brown Pot- 
 ter. He served in the Spanish-American 
 War as a member of the Rough Riders, and 
 was desperately wounded at the battle of 
 Santiago; accompanied Theodore Roose- 
 velt in his gubernatorial campaign, mak- 
 ing many effective speeches; returned to 
 the stage for a brief period, and in lfl02 
 was appointed consul to Zanzibar. While 
 at this post he distinguished himself in 
 hunting for big game, and several museums 
 and his club in New York bear testimony 
 to his skill in this respect. On leaving Zan- 
 zibar was decorated by the Sultan with the 
 Order of The Brilliant Star of Zanzibar. 
 He was recently appointed consul at Chung- 
 king, China. He married in San Francisco, 
 Calif., Nov. 25, 1895, Edna Ellis. Address: 
 C'liungking, China. 
 
 MITCHELL, Samuel Chiles: 
 
 College president; born in Coffeeville, 
 Miss., Dec. 24, 1864; son of IMorris Ran- 
 dolph and Grace Anna (Chiles) Mitchell. 
 He was graduated from Georgetown Col- 
 lege, Kenteucky, M.A., 1888, University of 
 Virginia, graduate student 1891-1892, the 
 University of Chicago, Ph.D., 1899, and 
 Hampden-Sidney College, Va., LL.D. He 
 was profes.sor in Mississippi College, 1889- 
 1891, in Georgetown College, 1891-1895; 
 in Richmond College, 1895-1908, and 
 president of the University of South 
 Carolina, since 1908. Dr. Mitchell was the 
 first president of the Virginia Anti-Saloon 
 League; sometime rector of the Virginia 
 Normal and Industrial Institute; member 
 of the Executive Committee of the Virginia 
 Historical Society, and the Board of Trus- 
 tees of Virginia Union University, also a 
 member of the Southern Education Board, 
 the Jeanes Fund, American Historical As- 
 sociation and' Phi Beta Kappa Society. He 
 edited the volume on Social Life in the 
 
 South, in tiie Building of tiie Nation SericH. 
 He married in I»uisville, Ky., .hincf .'(0, 1891, 
 Alice Virginia Broadus. Address: Coiuin- 
 
 bia, S. C. 
 
 MITCHELL, Silas Weir: 
 
 Physician and author; born in Philadel- 
 phia, Feb. 15, IH.id; his father, .lohn K. 
 Mitchell, being a pominent physieinn of 
 I'liiladelphia, and for many years a jiro- 
 fessor in Jetierson Medical College. He 
 was educated in the I'niversity of Pennsyl- 
 vania, leaving in his senior year on account 
 of illness. In 1850 he graduated as M.D. 
 from Jetierson ^ledical Collegt-, rec-eiving 
 the same degree as an honor from the I'ni- 
 versity of Bologna in 1888. Dr. .Mitchell 
 has had an extensive hospital practice, 
 being pliysician to various liosjjitals at dif- 
 ferent periods, and during the Civil War 
 serving as sanitary inspector and acting as- 
 sistant surgeon, and treating injuries and 
 diseases of the nervous s\'stein in Turner's 
 Lane Hospital. in his practice he has 
 made a specialty of nervous complaints, and 
 is tiie originator of the system of rest treat- 
 ment, known as the Weir Mitchell treat- 
 ment. He has written many medical trea- 
 tises, especially on nervous diseases, and 
 has twice been president of the Philadelphia 
 College of Physicians, and an otHcer of nu- 
 merous other medical associations both at 
 home and abroad, while he is also a mem- 
 ber of various social clubs. Aside from his 
 reputation as a physician. Dr. Mitchell is 
 widely known as an anthor. he being a 
 poet of tine powers, a skilled novelist and 
 an able essayist. His iirst literary produc- 
 tions were stories for children: The Chil- 
 dren's Hour, written for the l)enetit of the 
 Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia, and ^hort 
 stories written for the Children's Hospital. 
 His other literary works, beginning in 1880, 
 include: Hephzibah Grinncss; Thee and 
 You; the Hill of Stones and other Poems; 
 In War Time; Roland Plane; A Masque 
 and other Poems; Prince Littleboy and 
 other Tales; Characteristics; When all the 
 Woods are Green; Far in the Forest: The 
 Adventures of Francois; and Hugli Wynne. 
 Free Quaker, the last named l)eing especial 
 ly popular and widely read: al-o: Auto- 
 biography of a Quack ; A Comedy of Con- 
 
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 science; Circumstance: The Youth of Wash- 
 ington; Dr. North and Hia Friends; New 
 S-^maria; Constance Trescot, and many 
 others. Dr. Mitchell is a member of the 
 ^Military Order of the Loyal Legion and of 
 various medical and otlier societies; presi- 
 dent of tlie Franklin Club, and member of 
 the Contemporary and other clubs. Ad- 
 dress: 1.1-24 WafiHit Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 MITCHELL. William: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, May 11, 
 1850; son of Hon. William Mitchell, justice 
 of the Supreme Court of New York, 1850- 
 1858, and Mary P. (Berrien) Mitchell. He 
 was graduated from Columbia Grammar 
 School, Columbia College, A.B., 1868, A.M., 
 1871, and Columbia Law School, LL.B., 
 1871 (valedictorian). He was admitted to 
 the bar in 1871, and has been engaged in 
 the general practice of law since 1872; and 
 he is a member of the law firm of Mitchell 
 and Mitchell, being a partner with the Hon. 
 Edward ^liteJiell since 1872. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Huguenot Society of America, 
 Psi Upsilon fraternity, and the Union 
 League and New York Athletic Clubs, and 
 the Down Town Association. He married 
 in Newark, N. J., Nov. 8, 1890, Elizabeth 
 E. daughter of Theodore P. Howell of New- 
 ark. Residence: Bryn Mawr Park, Yonk- 
 ers, N. Y. Oflice: 44 Wall Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 MODJESKI, Ralph: 
 
 Consulting civil engineer; was born in 
 Cracow, Poland, Jan. 27, 1861; only son 
 of Gustav Modzejewski and Helena, his 
 wife; came to the United States in 1870 
 with his mother, and for i)urposes of Amer- 
 ican naturalization the name was changed 
 to Modjeski (of which Modjeska is the 
 feminine form according to Polish gram- 
 matical usage), his mother being the dis- 
 tingui.shed tragedienne, Ihc late Helena 
 Modjeska. lie was sent to tlic ficole des 
 Ponts et Chauss<5ps at Paris, from which he 
 was graduated at the head of his class, in 
 1H85, with the degree of Civil Engineer. 
 The same year, having returned to America, 
 he became assistant engineer of the bridge 
 over the Missouri at Omaha, Nebraska, for 
 
 two years; then was emploj'ed as shop in- 
 spector at the works at Athens, Pennsyl- 
 vania, for the superstructures of the Wil- 
 lamette Bridge at Portland, Oregon, the 
 Nebraska City and Sioux City bridges 
 across the Missouri, and the Cairo Bridge 
 across the Ohio for the firm of Morison and 
 Corthell, engineers for those noteworthy 
 bridge structures; afterward became chief 
 draftsman at the New York office of that 
 firm, and after that in the office of Mr. 
 Morrison, of the same firm in Chicago, 
 until, in 1890, he became assistant engineer 
 and chief inspector of the Memphis (Ten- 
 nessee) Bridge across the IMissisippi. and 
 later of the bridge at Winona, Minn. Since 
 1892 he has been in practice as a consult- 
 ing engineer, with office at Chicago. He 
 has gained a special distinction as a bridge 
 engineer, having in that department de- 
 signed and built for the United 
 States Government its new bridge at Rock 
 Island, 111., as well as numerous 
 bridges for railway companies, partic- 
 ularly the Northern Pacific Railway, and 
 from 1903 to 1906 was a member of the 
 firm of Noble & Modjeski, who built the 
 great bridge over the Mississippi at Thebes, 
 111. As consulting engineer both for the 
 City of Chicago and the numicipal corpora- 
 tion known as the Sanitary District of Clii- 
 cago, Mr. Modjeski has been prominently 
 identified with the building of bascule 
 bridges over the Chicago River and the 
 Sanitary Canal. While specializing chiefly 
 in l)ridge engineering, Mr. Modjeski has 
 also executeil other important engineering 
 work, notably the designing and construc- 
 tion for tiie United States of a large fire- 
 proof warehouse in the government arsenal 
 at Rock Island, 111. Mr. Modjeski is a 
 mond)er and past director of the American 
 Society of Civil Engineers, past president 
 of the Western Society of Engineers, of tlie 
 Association Amicale des Ingenieurs Civils 
 des Ponts et Chaussees de France, and 
 other engineering societies, and of the Art 
 institute, of Chicago. He was married, in 
 1885, to Felicie Benda, a Polish compatriot. 
 Residence: 5041 Washington Aveiuif, Chi- 
 cago. Olllcc aildr(!ss: Mi)n;ulnock Block, 
 Chicairo, 111. 
 
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 MOELLER, Henry: 
 
 Catholic archbishop; born in Cincinnati, 
 Dec. 11, 1840; son of Bernard and Teresa 
 (Witte) Moeller. His general education 
 was received in the parochial schools and 
 St. Xavier's College in Cincinnati, and his 
 philosophical and theological studies in 
 Rome where he received the degree of D.D. 
 from the Propaganda in 187G and was or- 
 dained priest. He was for a year pastor 
 of St. Patrick's Church, at Bellefontaine, 
 Ohio, professor in Mt. St. Mary's Sem- 
 inary, Cincinnati, three years, acting 
 secretary to Bishop Chatard of Indian- 
 apolis, and afterward secretary and 
 chancellor of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati 
 until consecrated, Aug. 25, 1900, bishop of 
 Columbus, Ohio. He was appointed coad- 
 jutor and bishop of Cincinnati, April 27, 
 1903, became archbishop of Cincinnati Oct. 
 31, 1904, and was invested with the pal- 
 lium Feb. 15, 1905. Address: 636 West 
 Eighth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 MOELLER, Louis Charles: 
 
 Artist; born in New York, Aug. 5, 1856; 
 educated in city schools. He served ap- 
 prenticeship of three years to his father, 
 who was engaged in New York City as a 
 decorative painter, then pursued art studies 
 in iSew York City and Munich, Bavaria. 
 Opened a studio in New York City, and has 
 gained distinction as a painter of genre 
 subjects; was awarded the Halgarten prize 
 of the National Academy of Design. He 
 was an associate in 1884, and academician 
 since 1895 of the National Academy of De- 
 sign. Address: Wakefield, N. Y. 
 
 MOFFAT, David H.: 
 
 Banker ; born in Washingtonville, Orange 
 County, N. Y., in 1839. He was a mes- 
 senger boy for the New York Exchange 
 Bank, New York, 1854-1855; became clerk 
 with A. J. Stevens and Company, bankers 
 in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1855; later clerk 
 and cashier with a bank in Omaha ; started 
 a bank in Denver in 1860; cashier in 1866; 
 and soon after president of tlie First Na- 
 tional Bank, Denver; promoter of and pres- 
 ident 1884-1891, Denver and Rio Grande 
 Railroad; built Florence and Cripple Creek 
 
 Railroad, connoetin^j (.'ripple Creek niinM 
 with Dcnxcr and Ivii) (Iriinde syhlcm. .\d- 
 dress I7<h; i.iricnlii Avcmic, Dcmmt, Colo. 
 
 MOFFAT, R. Burnham: 
 
 {..awycr; born in I'rooklvn, N. \ ., .Jan. 7, 
 1S61; son of Dr. Reuben (Curtis and Kli/a 
 beth Virginia (Barehiy) MofTat. He waH 
 graduated fioni Harvard ITniverHity, B..\., 
 1883, and from Columbia l.'nivcrHity Law 
 School, Tdj.B. in 1SS5. He is a nipinlier of 
 (he law firm of Rand, MolTal & Webb. Ho 
 is a member of the Association of the Bur 
 of the City of New York, New York Stale 
 Bar Association, American Bar Association, 
 Historical Society of New York, and .So- 
 ciety of Colonial Wars, and is a member «)f 
 the University. Century, Down Town, Har- 
 vard and Democratic Clubs. Mr. MftfTat 
 married in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 5. 1895, 
 Ellen Low Pierrepont, and they have three 
 children. Address: 12 East GGth Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 MOFFIT, John H.: 
 
 Banker; born at Cha/y, N. Y., Jan. 8, 
 1843. He was educated in the public 
 schools, and at the beginning of the war he 
 enlisted April 27. 1861, in tlie New York 
 Volunteer Infantry, in which he renniined 
 until the muster-out of his regiment, as pri- 
 vate corporal and sergeant. For heroism at 
 C.aines' Mills and great gallantry at CJettys- 
 burg he was awarded the Congressional 
 :\Iedal of Honor. After the war lie was 
 for several years deputy collector of cus- 
 toms at Rouse's Point. N. Y. He becjime 
 actively identified with political affairs as 
 a Republican and he was elected in 1880 
 and reelected in 18S8 member of Congresn 
 from the Twenty-first Congressional Dis- 
 trict of New Y"ork. serving in the Fiftieth 
 and Fifty-first Congresses from 1887 to 
 1891. Since the close of his last term in 
 Congress he has been identified with busi- 
 ness^ interests at Plattsburgh. X. Y.. and 
 he is now president of the Plattsburgh 
 National Bank. He is s companion of the 
 Medal of Honor Legion of the Ignited States 
 and a member of other military and patri- 
 otic organizations. He married. Oct. 7, 
 1884, Alice H. Myers, and they have one 
 son. Address: Plattsburgh, N. Y. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 MOLLENHAUER, J. Adolph: 
 
 Capitalist; born in New York City, Feb. 
 10, 1S57; son of John and Doris (Seinies) 
 Mollcniiauer. Ho received his education in 
 j)ublic scl;ools and in Deghuee College, lie 
 ■was associated with his father in organizing 
 and conducting the Mollenhauer Sugar 
 Kefining Company, and until 1900 was the 
 vice-president and general manager of the 
 company. He is now investor in sugar 
 porpertics and real estate, and travels much 
 abroad and in United States. He was one 
 of the organizers of Second Battalion of the 
 Naval Reserves, holding the positions of 
 lieutenant and paymaster; during the Span- 
 ish American War he was commander of 
 the dispatch boat presto, forwarding dis- 
 patches to naval reserve men on the south 
 shore of Long Island, paying all expenses 
 from his own funds; and he received a set 
 of complimentary resolutions from his 
 subordinates upon retirement. He is advis- 
 ory member of the MoUcnhauer Sugar Re- 
 fining Company; director of the St. Regis 
 Paper Company, Brooklyn Academy of Mu- 
 sic, Long Island Auto Highway, Brooklyn 
 Institute of Arts and Sciences; trustee of 
 the Manufacturers' National Bank, Title 
 Guarantee and Trust Company, German 
 Savings Bank, Brooklyn Bureau of Char- 
 ities, Brooklyn Hospital and Dispensary. 
 He is a member of the P]ngineers' Club of 
 Brooklyn, and of the Penataquit Corinthian 
 Yacht Club (commodore), the New York 
 Yacht, Atlantic Yacht and Hanover Clubs. 
 Mr. Mollenhaucr married in Brooklyn, New 
 York. 1882, Anna Dick. Address: 84 
 Broadway, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 MONDELL, Frank Wheeler: 
 
 ( ongicssmaii ; Ijorn in St. Louis, Mo., 
 Nov. (i, 1800. Botli of his parents died 
 before he reached his sixtli year, and he 
 went to live with friends in Iowa, residing 
 on a fiiiii until eighteen years of age. lie 
 attench'il tlic local district schools, and re 
 ceived instruction in the higher brandies 
 from a private tutor; engaged in mercantile 
 I)ursuits, stock raising, mining, and railway 
 construction in various Western States and 
 Territories. andsclUcl in Wyomingin 1887, 
 and engaged in Ihr <l<'vclopment of coal | 
 
 mines and oil property at and in llie vicin- 
 ity of Newcastle and Cambria. He took 
 an active part in the establishment and 
 building of the town of Newcastle and the 
 development of the Cambria mines; was 
 elected mayor of Newcastle in 1888, and 
 served until 1895; was elected a member 
 of the first State Senate in 1890, served 
 as president of that body at the session 
 of 1892; and was a delegate to tlie Repub- 
 lican National Convention in Minneapolis 
 in 1892. He was appointed assistant com- 
 missioner of the General Land Office, Nov. 
 15, 1897, and served until March 3, 1899; 
 was elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-sixth. 
 Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eigiith, Fifty-ninth, and 
 Sixtieth Congresses and reelected to the 
 Sixty-first Congress from the First Wyo- 
 ming District. Address: Newcastle, 
 Wyo. 
 
 MONEY, Hernando De Soto: 
 
 United States Senat(n' ; born in Holmes 
 County, Miss., Aug. 20, 1839 was educated 
 at the University of Mississippi. He is a 
 lawj-er and planter; served in the Confeder- 
 ate Arm}' from the beginning of the war 
 until Sept. 26, 1804, when he was forced to 
 retire from service by defective eyesight. 
 He was elected to the House of Representa- 
 tivs in the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty- 
 sixth, Forty-seventh. Fory-eighth, Fifty- 
 third, and Fifty-fourh Congresses; in Jan., 
 1890, was elected to the Senate for the term 
 beginning March 4, 1899; was appointed to 
 the U. S. Senate, October 8, 1897, to fill the 
 vacancy caused by the death of Hon. J. 
 Z. George on August 14, 1897; in January, 
 1898, elected by the Legislature to fill out 
 the unexpired term ending :March 3. 1899. 
 Was renominated by the Democratic party 
 in primary, Aug. 6, 1903, and elected to 
 succeed himself for llie term beginning 
 March 4, 190"). and ending .Maicli 3, 1911. 
 Address: Carrolltoii, Miss. 
 
 MONNOT, John Ferreol: 
 
 Metallurgical and mining engineer: born 
 at Classon Poiid. Westchester County, N. Y., 
 May 13, 18()4; son of John B. and Louise 
 K. (Ponsot) IVlonnot. He was educated in 
 Paris, France, and was graduated from the 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 lis:{ 
 
 ftcole Siiperi6ure des Mines de Paris. He 
 made several scieutiilc and mining explora- 
 tions in South America; and invented many 
 valuable poreesses, among others one for 
 extracting rubber from the bark and leaves 
 of trees, improvements in steam heating and 
 electric lighting systems, a process for mak- 
 ing compound metals, known as Alonnot 
 metals; and he is president of the Duplex 
 Metals Company, and a director of the 
 Hudson Wire Company. He is a member 
 of the Association of Mining Engineers of 
 Paris. Mr. Mannot married in New York 
 City, 1895, Claire Broni Yso, Comtesse de 
 Ijaredo. A<^^.ress: 208 Fifth Avenue, New 
 ^ orK City. 
 
 MONROE, Harriet: 
 
 Writer of poems, plays and essays; born 
 in Chicago, Dec. 23, 1860; daughter of 
 henry Stanton and Martha (Mitchell) 
 Monroe. She was prepared in Chicago 
 schools and was graduated from the Acad- 
 emy of the Visitation, Georgetown, D.C. 
 Miss Monroe was chosen to write the text 
 for a Cantata which was used for the open- 
 ing of the Chicago Auditorium in Dec, 
 1889; and wrote tlie ode for the dedicatory 
 ceremonies of the World's Columbian Ex- 
 position, on the quadricentennial anniver- 
 sary of the discovery of America, Oct. 21, 
 1892. She is author of: Valeria and 
 Other Poems, 1893; The Columbian Ode, 
 1893; John Wellborn Root, a Memoir, 
 1890; The Passing Show — ^ Five Modern 
 Plays in Verse, 1904. She is a member 
 of the Fortnightly and Friday Clubs of 
 Chicago, and the Lyceum Club of London. 
 Address: 208 East Erie Street, Chicago. 
 
 MONTAGUE, Andrew Philip: 
 
 President of Howard College; born in 
 Virginia, Essex County, Va., Sept. 27, 
 1854; son of Rev. H. W. and Columbia 
 (Broaddus) Montague. He began his edu- 
 cation at the University of Virginia in 
 1873, studying there until 1875. when he 
 entered Columbian University, Washington, 
 D. C, from which he received the degree 
 of A. M. and later that of Ph.D. The de- 
 gree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by 
 Richmond (Virginia) College. Upon leav- 
 
 ing tlic L'niversily in 1>I7.'). he ucccptcd 
 while also shidying there, (he position «if 
 instructor in the College Department of 
 the Coluiul)iaii I'niversity later being ad- 
 vanced to the position of assistant pro 
 fessor, professor and tinally of dean, retain- 
 ing his connection with the college until 
 1897, when he resigned to accept the presj 
 dency of K>irman I'niversity, at (Jreeiiville. 
 Soutli Carolina. In 1902 he was eleeted 
 president of Howard College. Mirminghain, 
 Ala., is a member of the Masonic fraternity. 
 He married at Kichmond, Va., Nov. 3, IHHl. 
 INIay Christian (deseased) ; and he has two 
 chudien. He was married, second, to Flor- 
 ence Wood, of Birmingham, Alabama. Ad- 
 dress: l^ast Lake Station. Birmingham. 
 Ala. 
 
 MONTAGUE, Margaret Prescott: 
 
 Autlior: born in W'iiite Suljiliur Sjuings 
 \V. Va.; daughter of Russell W. and Har- 
 riet Ann (Cary) Montagne. She was edu- 
 cated at home and in schools in Richmond 
 and Washington. ^Hss Montague has con- 
 tributed poems and short stories to Mag- 
 azines, and is author of the novels: The 
 Poet, Miss Kate and I, 1905; The Sowing 
 of Alderson Cree, 1907; In Calvert's Valley, 
 1908. Address: While Suli-hur Springs, 
 W. Va. 
 
 MONTGOMERY, Edmund: 
 
 Physician. l)i()logist and philosophical 
 writer: l)()rM in Edingburgli, Scotland, 
 March 19, 1835. He was eilucated in the 
 University of Heidelberg, 1852-1854. Berlin 
 1855, Bonn 185G, Wurzbiirg 1857. the Uni 
 versify of Prague where he was graduated 
 as M.b. in 1858, University of Vienna 18.')9. 
 and becanu' a member of the Royal College 
 of Physicians, London, in ISOl. He was 
 resident jdiysician of the German Ho-ipital. 
 London. 1800-1861, medical attendant in 
 Beriuondsey Dispensary and Poor District, 
 1861-1862. and pathologist of St. Thomas" 
 Hospital, London. 1861-1864. He was a 
 practicing physician at Madeira, Mentone 
 and Rome, 1S65-1870, and at Hempst.-ad, 
 Texas, since 1872. Dr. Montgomery in ad- 
 dition to his medical practice, has been ex- 
 tensivelv engaged in original investiga- 
 
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 tions in biology nml pliilosophy. partic- 
 ularly in regard to the vital functions and 
 the organization of the living substance, 
 protoplasm, and the biological explanation 
 of pliih)sopiHcal problems. He is author 
 of: Refutation of the Kantean Theory of 
 Knowledge. 1871, articles in leading scien- 
 tific and philosophical periodicals, and lec- 
 tures before the Concord School of Philoso- 
 phy,; The Vitality and Organization of Pro- 
 toplasm, 15)0.5; Philosophical Problems in 
 the Light of Vital Organization, 1907. He 
 is a member of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science, the Texas 
 Academy of Sciences (of which he was 
 president in 1903). and honorary member 
 of the London Aristotelian Society. Ad- 
 drps-^: noiii]istead, Texas. 
 
 MONTGOMERY, George Redington: 
 
 Clergyman and author; born in Marasli. 
 Turkey, June 17, 1870; son of Giles 
 Foster and Emily (Redington) Mont- 
 gomery. He was educated in Yale Univer- 
 sity and Boston LTniversity, A.B., 1892, 
 LL.B., 1894, D.D., 1900, Ph.D., 1901. He 
 was engaged in law and newspaper work in 
 Constantinople; was war correspondent for 
 the London Standard in the Turco-Greek 
 War; lecturer in philosophy in Yale, 1900- 
 1904; professor of pliilosophy in Carleton 
 College, Minn.. 1904-1905; assistant minis- 
 ter of ]\Iadison Square Presbyterian Church 
 since 1905. He is author of: Talking 
 English. 1898; Translation of I^ibniz's 
 "Metaphysics." 1902; Tlie Place of Values, 
 1904; and numerous philosopliical articles 
 and papers. He is a member of the Amer- 
 ican I'hilosophical Associalioii, ilie Amer- 
 ican Psychological Association, the Book 
 and (iavel and Phi Gamma Helta frater- 
 nities. Address: East 24ih Street. New 
 York City. 
 
 MONTGOMERY, Henry: 
 
 j'rofessor of geohigry ; Iwrn in Cartwright, 
 Ont., Nov. 11, 1848. He was educated in 
 the University of Toronto, receiving first 
 class honors, prizes, scholarship and medal, 
 B.A. degree in 1876 and the M..\. degree in 
 1877; attended the University "Medical 
 School 1877- 1879. received the B.S. degree 
 from Victoria College, 1880; attended Jolins 
 
 Hopkins University. 1882, and received from 
 Illinois Wesleyan University the degrees of 
 Ph. B., 1887* and Ph.D., " 190.3. He was 
 master in science at the Toronto Collegiate 
 Institute 187G-1881, lecturer on zoology in 
 the Toronto School of Medicine, 1879-1884; 
 professor of natural science and curator of 
 the museum in the University of Nortli 
 Dakota, 1884-1889; professor ' of natural 
 science in the State Normal School, Cort- 
 land, X. Y.. 1889-1890; professor of geology 
 and mineralogy and curator of the Museum 
 in the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 
 1890-1894; professor of natural science, ex- 
 aminer in geology and curator of IMuseum 
 in Trinity Coflege. Canada, 1894-1906; 
 curator of the new museum in the Uni- 
 versity of Toronto since 1904. He was ex- 
 aminer in biology in the University of 
 Toronto, 1882-1884, chairman of the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee of St. Hilda's College, 
 Toronto, 1901. Dr. Montgomery is a fel- 
 low of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science; fellow of the Geo- 
 logical Society of America ; Fellow of the 
 American Ethnological Society, New York; 
 member of the Anthropological Society of 
 Washington, D. C, American Anthropolog- 
 ical Association, National Geographic So- 
 ciety, and charter member of the American 
 ]\Iuseum's Association; honorary member of 
 the Toronto Natural History Society (pres- 
 ident 1879-1881) corresponding member of 
 the Montreal Society- of Natural History; 
 fellow of the London Society of Letters 
 and Science. He has made nnvny original 
 investigations in geology, paleontology and 
 anthropology. Among his publications are: 
 Indian Remains ui Simcoe and Muskoka 
 (Remains of the Huron Indians in Onta- 
 rio) ; Some Observations on Menobranchus 
 Maculatus (Necturus lateralis) ; A Blas- 
 toid Found in the Devonian Rocks of On- 
 tario (illusl rated) ; The University Ques- 
 tion; .Aboriginal Monuments of North 
 Dakota (illustrated); Science Teaching in 
 the Public Schools, 1892; The So-called 
 Sands of Great Salt Lake; A New Hydrous 
 Aluminum Phosphate Found in litah; 
 Prehistoric Man in Viah (Illustrated), 
 1894; Volcanic Dust in Colorado and Utah; 
 A large Crystal of Sjiodumene; Prehistoric 
 Man in the United States and Canada (II- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 lis; 
 
 lustratcd), 1903; A Catalogrue of a Pala- 
 contoloyical Collection in the Biological De- 
 partment of the University of Toronto; Re-^ 
 mains of Prehistoric Man in the Dakotas 
 (illustrated by many plates), lOOG, an ac- 
 count of Dr. Montgomery's fieldwork and 
 other investigations in the mounds and 
 other earthworks of prehistoric peoples in 
 South and Norm Dakota, extending over 
 a period of seven years; Prehistoric Man in 
 Aianitoba and Saskatchewan, 1908. Ad- 
 dress: University of Toronto, ;Tbronto, 
 ('au;)(l;i. 
 
 MONTGOMERY, John Knox: 
 
 ['resident of Muskingum College ; born 
 at Belfast, Tenn., Aug. 4, 18G1, son of the 
 Kev. A. S. and Grace (Tate) Montgomery. 
 He was educated at the Enfield (Illinois) 
 College, and at the Indiana State Univer- 
 sity, later studying theology at the Xenia 
 '1 lieological Seminary, and receiving the de- 
 gree of D.D. from Cooper College. After 
 Ills ordination to the ministry in 1887, he 
 was called successively to pastorates at 
 Cincinnati, Chicago, and Charlotte, N. C. 
 In 1904 he was elected president of ^luskin- 
 gum College, which position he still holds. 
 Dr. Montgomery is connected in politics 
 with the Prohibition party anu is a member 
 of the United Presbyterian Church. He is 
 a trustee of the Allegheny Theological 
 Seminary and a member of the Phi Gamma 
 Delta fraternity. He married at Harshas- 
 ville, Ohio, Dee. 25, 1889, Emma Zetta 
 Patton, and has six children. Address: 
 New Concord, Ohio. 
 
 MONTGOMERY, Thomas Harrison: 
 
 I'residfiit of The American Fire Insur- 
 ance Company; born in Philadelphia, Feb. 
 •Si, 1830; a younger son of Rev. James 
 jNlontgomery, D.D. and ]\Iary Harrison 
 White. He was educated in private schools, 
 and at the age of seventeen he entered the 
 drug house of Charles Ellis & Company. 
 He was graduated from the Philadelphia 
 College of Pharmacy, 1851; after a few 
 years entered the fire insurance business. 
 In 1859, upon the organization of the En- 
 terprise Insurance Company, he became as- 
 sistant secretary, secretary and vice-presi- 
 dent. He resided in New York as general 
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 agent of tlie National Board of Fire Under- 
 writers 18721S79; was .■jected in ISSO, 
 vice-i)n'sident of the American Fire Insur- 
 ance Company, and it.s president in April, 
 1882, in which duty lie still eontinuct*. 
 W iiile witli tlic insurance Company of 
 North .\merica he was a^ked by tla? presl- 
 dent, Mr. Charles Piatt, to write the liin. 
 tory of this venerable institution, and tlii-i 
 was issued in 1885. He is a nienilter of the 
 New York Historical Societ}', the Historic- 
 al Society of Pcnn.sylvania, Chester Coun- 
 ty Historical Society, the Pennsylvania So- 
 cieties of the Sons of the Revolution and of 
 Colonial Wars, and the Colonial Society of 
 Pennsylvania. He married Anna, daughter 
 of Samuel (Jcorge Morton. M.U. (Penn- 
 sylvania and Edinburgh), the distinguished 
 ethnologist, and president of the Academy 
 of Natural Sciences. Address: 308 Wal- 
 nut Street, Philadelphia. Pa. 
 
 MONTGOMERY, Thomas Harrison, Jr.: 
 
 Professor of zoology: born in New 
 York City, March 5, 1873 ; son of Thomas 
 H. and Anna (Morton) Montgomery. He 
 was educated in the Piotestant Episcopal 
 Academy at Philadelphia and the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania and was graduated 
 from University of Berlin, Ph.D., 1894. 
 He was assistant professor of zoology in 
 the University of Pennsylvania, 1898 1903; 
 profes.sor of biology and director of the 
 Museum of the Wagner Institute of Phila- 
 delphia, 1898-1903; profes.sor of zoology at 
 the University of Texas. 1903 1908; pro- 
 fessor of zoologj' in the University of Penn- 
 sylvania, since 1908. He is vuthor of: 
 Analysis of Racial Descent in Animals; 
 and of iVIemoirs on Comparative Anatomy 
 and Embryology. Cytology, and the Habits 
 and Classification of Animals. He is a 
 member of the American Philosophical So- 
 ciety. Philadelphia Academy of Natural 
 Science. American Society of Zoologists, 
 Entomological Society of America, Phi Beta 
 Kappa, and Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity; 
 and a trustee of Woods Hole l?iologicul 
 Laboratory. He is a member of the Uni- 
 versity Club of Austin. Mr. Montgomery 
 married in Crosswicks, N. J., 1901, Pris 
 cilia Braislin, and they have two children. 
 Address: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
 
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 MONTGOMERY, Thomas Lynch: 
 
 Librarian; horn in Philadelphia, March 
 4, 180:2; son of Oswald Crathorne and 
 Catherine Gertrude (Lyncli) IMontgoniery. 
 He was graduated from the Episcopal Acad- 
 emy of Pliiladelphia, and the University of 
 Pennsylvania. A.B., 1884. He was actuary 
 in the \\'agner Free Institute of Science, 
 1886-1903, and has been State Librarian of 
 Peiiiisyivania, since 1903. Mr. Montgomery 
 is a member of the American Library As- 
 sociation Library A.ssociation, National As- 
 sociation of State Libraries, Association of 
 I^jxw Libraries, American Historical Asso- 
 ciation Pennsylvania Historical Society, 
 Dauphin County Historical Society; trus- 
 tee ot the Free Library of Philadelphia, 
 and is a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma 
 fraternity, the University, and Philobiblon 
 Clubs of Philadelphia and Harrisburg Club. 
 He married in Philadelphia, Oct. 16, 1889, 
 Brinca G. Gilpin. Residence: 904 Clinton 
 Street, Philadelphia. Office: State Libra- 
 ry. Harrisburg, Pa. 
 
 MOODY, William Henry: 
 
 A>sociate justice of the Supreme Court 
 of the United States; born at Newbury, 
 Mass., Dec. 23, 18^3 ; son of Henry L. and 
 Melissa A. Moody. He was graduated from 
 I'hillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 1872, 
 and from Harvard College, A.B., 1876. He 
 studied law and was admitted to the bar, 
 and in 1890 was appointed by President 
 Harrison to the office of district attorney 
 of the United States for the Eastern Dis- 
 trict of Massachusetts, serving until 1895, 
 in which year he was elected as a Repub- 
 lican to the Fifty fourth Congress from the 
 Sixth Massachusetts District to fill a va- 
 cancy, and was elected to the Fifty-fifth, 
 Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses, 
 resigning from the latter, IMay 1, 1902, to 
 accept the office of secretary of the Navy 
 in the cabinet of President Roosevelt. He 
 remained in that office until .Inly 1. 1904, 
 wlien he was transferred to the Depart- 
 ment of Justice as attorney-general, serv- 
 ing until appointed, in 1906, to his preM'nt 
 office as associate justice of the Supreme 
 Court of the United States. The degree of 
 JJv.D. was conferred upon him by Amherst 
 
 College and by Tufts College in 1904. Ad- 
 dress: The Connecticut, Washington, D. C. 
 
 MOON, John Austin: 
 
 Congressman aiul lawyer; born in Albe- 
 marle County, Virginia, April 22, 1855. 
 His early boyhood was spent in Bristol, Va., 
 and in 1870 the family removed to Chat- 
 tanooga, Tenn. He was educated in King 
 College at Bristol, Tenn., afterward study- 
 ing law and being admitted to the bar at 
 Lebanon, Ala., 1874, and in the same year 
 at Chattanooga, Tenn., where he was city 
 attorney, 1880-1881. He was three times 
 appointed and twice elected judge of the 
 Fourtn Judicial Circuit of Tennessee;, w&k 
 elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fiffh, 
 Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty eighth and 
 Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, and 
 was reelected to the Sixty-first Congress 
 from the Third Tennessee District. Mr. 
 Moon married at Jonesboro, Tenn., Oct. 8, 
 1884, Addie M. Deaderick, daughter of the 
 late Chief Justice James W. Deaderick, of 
 Tennessee. Address: Chattanooga,, Tenn. 
 
 MOON, Reuben Osborne: 
 
 Congressman and lavyj'er ; born in New 
 Jersey; son of Aaron Moon, one of the most 
 successful teachers of that State; de- 
 scendant of John Moon, one of the earliest 
 judges of the State of Pennsylvania. He 
 was educated under his father's instruction, 
 supplemented by a college course, graduat- 
 ing in 1874. He taught school, and later 
 was a professor in a prominent institution 
 of learning in Philadelphia ; engaged in the 
 educational lecture field; studied law, being 
 admitteu to the bar in 1884, to the Supreme 
 Couj-t in 1880. and to the United States 
 courts in 1890. He was president of the 
 Columbia Club, and is also a member of the 
 Union League, Penn Club, the Lawyers' 
 Club, the Historical Society of Pennsylva- 
 nia, and other prominent Pennsylvania as- 
 sociations. He was elected as a Republican, 
 to the Fifty-eighth Congress, Nov. 2, 1903, 
 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of 
 Hon, Robert H. Focrderer, and reelected to 
 the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and sixty-first Con- 
 gresses from the Fourth Pennsylvania Dis- 
 trict. He married, in 1876, Mary A. Pred- 
 
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 more, of Bainegiit, X. J., and they liavo two 
 children. Residence: Aldine Hotel. Of- 
 fice: 405 Pennsylvania 15uilding, Philadel 
 
 jdiia. 
 
 MOORE, Charles Arthur: 
 
 Merchant, manufacturer; born in West 
 Sparta, Livingston County, N. Y. ; son of 
 William Ropes and Caroline M. (Van 
 Ness) Moore. He was educated in public 
 schools of Rochester, N. Y., and Lynn, Mass. 
 Early in life he was engaged as nianufac- 
 liirer of steam specialties in Bo.ston, and 
 in 1880 he joined with H. S. Manning & 
 Company in the formation of the firm of 
 Manning, Maxwell & Moore, becoming in 
 1905, Manning, Maxwell & Moore, Incor- 
 porated. Mr. Moore accompanied President 
 McKinley on his trip to the Pacific Coast; 
 being the only guest outside of the Cabinet. 
 He was presidential elector for McKinley 
 and Hobart. and was appointed messenger 
 to deliver the electoral vote of New York 
 State. He is president of Manning, Maxwell 
 & Moore, Licorporated. The Shaw Electric 
 Crane Company, the Consolidated Safety 
 valve Company, Ashcroft Manufacturing 
 Company, Hayden & Derby Manufacturing 
 Company, Hancock Inspirator Company, 
 the United Injector Company, Windsor Ma- 
 chine Company, Windsor, Vermont ; director 
 of the Casualty Company of America, Con- 
 tinental Insurance Company, Liberty Na- 
 tional Bank, United Bank Note Corpora- 
 tion and National Machinery Company of 
 Tiitln. Ohio. He is a chevalier of the Le- 
 gion of Honor of France, president of the 
 American Protective Tarif!" League; mem- 
 ber New Y'ork Civic Federation (ex-presi- 
 dent) ; truetee of Adelphi College and St. 
 John's Guild ; member of the American 
 Chamber of Commerce (Paris), Chamber 
 of Commerce of the State of New York, 
 National Association of Manufacturers, Na- 
 tional Civic Federation, New York Board of 
 Trade and Transportation, American So 
 ciety of Mechanical Engineers, New Eng- 
 land Society of Brooklyn, New England 
 Society of New York, Ohio Society of New 
 York, Society of the Genesee, St. Andrew's 
 Society, the Pilgrims of the United States, 
 the Sons of the Revolution. Pie is a member 
 of the Republican, Union League, Army and 
 
 Xavy, Eiiginccis' aiici Transpurtatiun ('lul)s, 
 Autoni()i)ilc Club of America, I'liirlii-ld 
 County Golf, Hainilton, Imlian Harbor 
 Yacht. Montauk, New York Hilling, Hem- 
 brandl and Lotos Chil)s of New York Cily; 
 Metro|)olitan Ciul), Washington. 1). C. Cen- 
 tury Ciui) of Muski'gon, Mich., Tnurinf^ 
 Club of France, and Auto Club of Milan, 
 Italy. Mr. Moore married in Xorwalk, 
 Ohio, Mary C. Campl)ell, and they hnve 
 four children. Address: 85 Liberty Street, 
 New ^'ork City. 
 
 MOORE, Charles Forrest: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Dunuiore, \V. Va., Jan. 
 28, 1863; son of Isaac and Alcinda H. 
 (Arbogast) Moore. He was educated in 
 Vanderbuilt University and in the Univer- 
 sity of Virginia. He practised law after 
 •iraduation until 1804; was elected judge 
 for the counties of Allegheny and Crnig, 
 W. Va., from Jan. 1, 1894, and resigned 
 to become counsel for the West Virginia 
 Pulp and Paper Company, in 1898. He 
 removed to New York City in 1902, where 
 he is still special counsel for the pulp com- 
 pany. Judge iloore has always been active 
 in politics as a Democrat taking a promi- 
 nent part in all political campaigns; and 
 is popular as an after-dinner speaker. He 
 is author of Moore's Historj' of the States, 
 United and Otherwise; and is editor-in- 
 chief of Freight, The Shipper's Forum. He 
 is a member of the Southern Society, So- 
 ciety of Medical Jurisprudence, Kappa 
 Alpha fraternity, and The Virginians. 
 Judge Moore has been twice married: first, 
 in Huntsville, W. Va., Sept. 27, 1887. to 
 Mollic Beard and second, in Orange, Va., 
 Oct. 30, 1895, to Janie Slaughter; and he 
 has two children. Address: 309 Broadway, 
 New York City. 
 
 MOORE, Charles Harry: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in Baltimore, Dec. 
 9, 18G3: son of Charles Cadwallader and 
 Ro.sa Virginia (Killin) Moore. He was 
 crraduated from Lafayette College, B. S., 
 1884. Mr. Moore was treasurer and vice- 
 president of the Bethlehem. Pa. Silk Com- 
 pany; first assistant engineer of tlie Erie 
 Railroad Company, Chicago & Erie Riiilroad 
 
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 Company, New York, Susqueluiuiui & West- 
 ern Railroad Company; director of the 
 Edgewater & Fort Lee Railroad Company; 
 maae a reconnoisance and survey for con 
 nccting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans 
 tratlic \ ia Amazon River and railroad 
 across the Andes Mountains, through the 
 Republic of Ecuador; is engineer of grade 
 crossing of the Erie Railroad Company, 
 Chicago and Erie Railroad ..ompany, New 
 York, ibusquchanna & Western Company; 
 chief and consulting engineer of the Fer- 
 rocarril al Curaray Republic of Ecuador; 
 vice-president of the North Buttle. He is a 
 member of the American Society of Civil 
 Engineers, American Railway Engineering 
 and Extension Development Company; 
 ^laintenance of Way Association, the Na- 
 tional Geographic Society, Metropolitan Mu- 
 seum of Art, Zeta Psi fraternitj-, the Mason- 
 ic order, Military Order of the Loyal Le- 
 gion ; Sons of Veterans, New York, and of 
 the Engineers' Club of New Y'ork City, the 
 Art Club of Philadelphia and tlie Tungura- 
 hua Club of Ambato, Ecuador. Mr. Moore 
 married in Pottsville, Pa., April 1897, Mar 
 tha Fletcher Lee. Address: 50 Church 
 Street, New Y^ork City. 
 
 MOORE, Charles Herbert: 
 
 Professor of art; born in New Y'^ork City, 
 April 10, 1840; son of Charles and Jane 
 M. (Benson) Moore. He received from Har- 
 vard tlie honorary degree of A. M. in 1890. 
 He was appointed instructor in drawing 
 in 1871, assistant professor of fine arts in 
 1891, and has been professor of art and 
 director of Fogg Art Museum since 1896 
 at mo Harvard University. He is author 
 of: Development and Character of Gothic 
 Architecture, London, 1890, second edition 
 in New Y'ork 1899; Character of Rcnais- 
 .sance Architecture. New York, 1905. Pro- 
 fessor Moore married first, in Schenectady, 
 N. Y'., July 19, 1803, Mary Jane Tomlinsoii; 
 and second, Dec. .30, 1881, Elizabeth F. Hew- 
 ins, and he has one daughter. Address-: 
 Harvard Univer.-^ity, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 MOORE, Charles Leonard: 
 
 Author; l)orn in Philadelphia, March IG, 
 1854; son of Joseph and Mary E. (Brown) 
 
 Moore. He was educated in the public 
 schools; trained in railroad work by 
 Thomas Collins one of the great old-time 
 contractors; was one of the managers of the 
 unfortunate Madeira and Mamorg Railroad 
 Expedition of 1878-1879, and in that con- 
 nection was U. S. consular agent at San 
 Antonio, Brazil, for nearly two years; was 
 afterwards on other railroad work, and with 
 the Florida Land and Improvement Com- 
 pany. Mr. Moore is author of thr published 
 books; Atlas; Poems Antique and Modern; 
 Banquet of Palacios, a comedy ; Odes ; 
 Book of Day Dreams; Ghost of Rosdalys, 
 a tragedy; Red Branch Crests, a trilogy. 
 He has been a contributor of critical essays 
 to the Chicago Dial for fifteen years. Ad- 
 dress: 1501 Pine Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 MOORE, David Hastings: 
 
 Bishop of the Methodist Episcopil 
 Church; born in Athens, Ohio, Sept. 4, 
 1838; son of Hon. Eliakim Hastings and 
 Amy (Barker) Moore. He was educated in 
 Ohio State University, A.B., 1860, A.M., 
 1863; and he received the degree of D.D. 
 from that University, 1838, and of LL.D. 
 from Mt. Union College, Ohio, 1896, and 
 from the University of Denver, 1899. He 
 served from private to lieutenant-colonel of 
 Ohio Volunteers in the Civil War, after his 
 ordination to the Methodist ministry in 
 1860. He was pastor in Columbus, Cincin- 
 nati, and other Ohio charges; was presi- 
 dent of the Cincinnati Wesleyan College, 
 1875-1880; president of Colorado Seminary, 
 and chancellor of the University of Den- 
 ver. 1880-1889; editor of the Western Chris- 
 lian Advocate, 1889-1900. He was elected 
 bisho]) in 1900; stationed at Shanghai with 
 jurisdiction over the Methodist missions in 
 China, Japan and Korea until 1904; then 
 at Portland, Ore., 1904-1908; since then at 
 Cincinnati. Address: Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 MOORE, Francis C: 
 
 Insurance i)resident, retired; born in 
 Houston, Texas, in 1842 ; son of Dr. Fran- 
 cis C. and Flizabi'th M. (Wood) :\roore. 
 lie was educated in the I'hilailclplua Higli 
 School and the law department of the Uni- 
 versity of rennsylvunia. He was for many 
 
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 years president of the Continental Fire In- 
 surance Company and is now retired. Mr. 
 Moore is a member of the Metropolitan 
 Club. He married, in 1868. Cora W. Taylor. 
 Address: 20 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 MOORE, Frank Gardner: 
 
 Professor of Latin in Trinity College; 
 born in West Chester, Pa., Sept." 2.5, 1865; 
 son of Rev. William E. Moore, DD., LL.D., 
 and Harriet (Foot) Moore. He was grad- 
 uated from Yale, B.A.. 1886, Ph.D., 1800; 
 was student at Berlin. 1890-1891; tutor in 
 Latin in Yale. 1888 1893; assistant pro- 
 fessor, 189.3-1900, and associate professor of 
 Latin, 1900-1908, in Dartmouth College; 
 since then professor of Latin in Trinity Col- 
 lege. Professor Moore has traveled in Italy 
 and Greece. He has been secretary of the 
 American Philological Association since 
 1904, and is a member of the Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society. He married in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., Jan. 4, 1897, Anna Barnard White, 
 and has two sons and a daughter. Address: 
 irinity College, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 MOORE, Henrietta Greer: 
 
 Universalist minister; born in Newark, 
 O. ; daughter of Oliver Perry and Lucinda 
 Denton (Parsons) Moore. She was edu- 
 cated principally under private tutors. She 
 became a teacher for twelve years, during 
 seven years of which she was principal of a 
 grammar school; entered the ministry of 
 the Universalist Church, and also became 
 active in the temperance and equal suffrage 
 causes, for which she has lectured in all of 
 the States and Territories of the United 
 States. She has been pastor of the Church 
 of the Good Shepherd (Universalist) at 
 Springfield. Ohio, for the past ten years, and 
 is also pastor of the Church of Divine Love 
 (Universalist) at Dayton, Ohio, which she 
 organized from the beginning and for which 
 a chapel was built and dedicated in 1907 
 to house the congregation and promote all 
 departments of church work. She was 
 elected in 189.5 to the School Board of 
 Springfield, Ohio, from the Forth Ward of 
 tliat city in 1895. Miss Moore is president 
 of the Women's Universalist Missionary 
 Alliance of Ohio; of the Executive Board 
 
 of the Woman's National TTniversiili-,t Mis- 
 sionary -Association, and is presidi-nt of the 
 Equal SufTrage Club of Springfleld, and 
 connected with various other organizations, 
 religious and social. Address: The High- 
 lands, Springfield, Ohio. 
 
 MOORE, James W.: 
 
 Dean of the Pardee School of Science, 
 Lafayette College ;born in Kastf>n, Pa., June 
 14, 1844. He was graduaterl from Easton 
 High School, I860; Lafayette College, A. 
 B., 1864. A.M., 1867; M.D. from the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania 1869. Professor Moore 
 has been a member of the Faculty of J^ 
 fayette College since Jan., 1866; tutor, 
 1866-18GS; adjunct professor, 1868-1872; 
 professor of mechanics and exi)eriniental 
 philosophy since 1872. The Departments of 
 Physics and Electrical Engineering were or- 
 ganized under his direction. He is a mem- 
 ber of the American Philosophical Society; 
 fellow of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, American Academy 
 of Medicine, Pennsylvania State Me<lical 
 Society and on its Legislative Committee; 
 and of the Sons of the Revolution; historian 
 general of the Founders and Patriots of 
 America. 1607-1657; member of the Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society and Delta Kappa Ep- 
 silon fraternity. He is author of: Electro- 
 dynamic Plienomena, 1888; Notes on a 
 Course of Lectures on Light, 1889; The 
 Elements of Natural Philosophy for the Use 
 of Engineering Students, 1891 : The Ele 
 ments of Natural Philosophy for the Use 
 of Junior Students in College, 1891 ; 
 Methods of Investigation and Record 
 Book of Experiments in Physics, 1892; 
 Instruments and Methods of Physics for the 
 :\tedical Profession, 1892 (Bulletin No. 17 
 of tlie American Academy* of Medicine); 
 Simple Harmonic Motion, 1894; .\n Attempt 
 to Analyze the Statistics of Diphtheria in 
 Easton, 1888-1894 inclusive, 1894 (Lehigh 
 Valley Medical Magazine) ; Some Sanitary 
 Questions (Transactions of the Pennsylva- 
 nia State Medical Society) : American An- 
 cestral Chart of a Branch of the Family of 
 Rev. ./ohn Moore, of Newton. L. I., which 
 settled in Pennsyplvania. 1897: Records of 
 the Kin^wood Monthly Meeting of Friends, 
 
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 Hunterdon County. N. J., 1000; Rev. John 
 Moore, of Newton, L. I., and Some of His 
 Descendants, 1903. Dr. Moore married at 
 Pottstown, Pa., July 30, 1874, Rachel Phil- 
 lips Fhinnery, daughter of Rev. James Flan- 
 nerv. Address: Easton. Pa. 
 
 MOORE, John Bassett: 
 
 Profc.-.sor of international hnv and dipln- 
 macy at Columbia University ; born in 
 Smyrna, Del., Dec. 3, ISGO; son of Dr. John 
 A. and Martha A. (Ferguson) Moore. He 
 was educated in the University of Virginia, 
 and the honorary degree of LL.D. was con 
 ferred upon him by Yale and Columbian 
 univer.sities, and by Delaware College. 
 Leaving college, he studied law in Wilming- 
 ton, Del., 1880-1883. He was admitted to 
 the bar of Wilmington, in 1883; entered the 
 Department of State, Washington, as law 
 clerk in ISS.i ; was third assi-^tant secretary 
 of State in 1886; resigned in 1891 to become 
 professor of international law and diploma- 
 cy at Columbia University. He was sec 
 retary to the Fisheries Conference, 1887- 
 1888; to the American Peace Commission at 
 1887; assistant secretary of State in 1898, 
 resigning to become secretary and counsel 
 to the American Peace Commission at 
 Paris; agent of the United States before 
 the United States and Dominican Mixed 
 Commission, 1903 1904; member of the 
 Institut Colonial International ; associate 
 Institut de Droit International ; member 
 of Massachusetts Historical Society. He is 
 author of: Report of Extraterritorial 
 Crime, 1887; Report on Extradition. 1890; 
 Treatise on Extradition and Interstate Ren- 
 dition, two volumes. 1891 ; American Notes 
 on the Conflict of Laws, 189(i; History and 
 Digest of International Arbitrations, six 
 volumes, 1898; 'A Digest of International 
 I^iw, eight volumes. 19()(). Mr. Moore is 
 one of the editors of the Political Science 
 Quarterly, and of the Journal du Droit In- 
 ternational Priv(^. He is a member of the 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, and is a member of the Century As- 
 sociation of New York City and the Cosmos 
 Club of Washington. D. C. He married, in 
 1890, Helen Frances Toland. Address: Co- 
 lumbia rnivcrsitv. New York City. 
 
 MOORE, John Howard: 
 
 Teacher and author; born in Linden, Mo., 
 Dec. 4, 1862; son of William A. and Mary 
 (Barger) Moore. He was educated in Os- 
 kaloosa (Iowa) College, 1881-1885, and the 
 University of Cliicago, 1894-1898, A.B., 
 1898. He taught school near Cawker City, 
 Kansas, 1887-1891; was on the lecture 
 I)latform, 1891-1894, and then for four 
 years doing graduate work in the Univer- 
 sity of Chicago. Since 1898 he has been 
 an instructor in Chicago High Schools, now 
 in the Crane Technical High School, Chica- 
 go. Mr. I\Ioore is author of: Better World 
 Philosophy, 1899; The Universal Kinship, 
 1904; The New Ethics, 1908; NapOlcon 
 Bonaparte-Genius and Head-hunter, 1909. 
 He is a socialist in political belief. Ad- 
 dress: 62G0 Jackson Park Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 MOORE, John Matthew: 
 
 Congressman; born at Richmond, Fort 
 Bend County, Texas, Nov. 18. 1862; son of 
 Dr. Matthew A. and Henrietta (Huddles- 
 ton) Moore, who removed from Greenwood, 
 Alabama, to Texas, in 1852. He was edu- 
 cated in the common schools of Richmond, 
 and attended two sessions of the Agricul- 
 tural and Mechanical College at Bryan, 
 Texas, obtained his business training in the 
 mercantile, banking, stock raising, and farm- 
 ing businesses, and is now a cattle raiser 
 ■ind planter. Mr. Moore was elected to the 
 State legislature from the Forty-first dis- 
 trict in 1896; .served on the Finance and 
 other committees; declined a renomination ; 
 was Democratic chairman of the Tenth Con- 
 gressional District in 189S, and a delegate 
 to the Democratic National Convention at 
 Kansas City in 1900. He was ei(>cted to 
 the Fifty-ninth Congress, Jtine 0, 1905, to 
 till the unexi)ired term of the Hon. .lolm 
 M. Pinckney, deseased, and reelected to tiie 
 Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses, from 
 the Eight li Texas District. He married in 
 1883, Lottie Dyer. Address: Kicliniond, 
 Texas. 
 
 MOORE, Joseph Hampton: 
 
 Congressman ami jnuiiialist ; hoi-ii at 
 Woodlnirv, N. J., March 8, 1S64; son of 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Joseph B. Moore aiul ^lary J. (Doiff) 
 Moore. He was educated in tlie comnion 
 .schools. Mr. Moore married in (Janiden, 
 N. J., Jan. 16, 188i), Adelaide Stone. He 
 wa.s a law ollice boy and student in Pliila 
 dclphia, 1887-1S80; a reporter in the courts 
 and on the Public Ledger in Philadelphia, 
 1SS1-1S94; chief clerk to city treasurer, 
 Philadelphia, 1894-1897; editor and pub- 
 lisher, 1898- 1899; secretary to the mayor, 
 1900; city treasurer, 1901-1903; appointed 
 by President Roosevelt first chief of the 
 Bureau of Manufactures, Department of 
 Commerce and Labor, Jan., 1905 ; resigned 
 June 1, 1905, to accept the presidency of the 
 City Trust, Safe Deposit and Surety Compa- 
 ny of Philadelphia, but on the discontin 
 uance of its business he was appointed by 
 the court June 24, 1905, receiver of the 
 companj'. He was president of the Allied 
 Republican Clubs of Philadelphia, 1900- 
 1906 ; president of the Pennsylvania State 
 League in 1900, and reelected in 1901; was 
 elected president of the National Repub- 
 lican League, at Chicago, in 1902, and re- 
 elected at Indianapolis in 1904. Mr. Moore 
 was elected as a Republican to the Fifty- 
 ninth Congress for the unexpired term of 
 the late Hon. George A. Castor and to the 
 Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses. Ad- 
 dress: Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia. 
 
 MOORE, Miles C: 
 
 Banker and ex-governor; born at Rix- 
 Mill, Ohio, April 17, 1845; son of Amos 
 L. and Mary (Monroe) Moore. He was ed- 
 ucated in the Bronson Institute, Wisconsin, 
 went to Washington Territory, and was a 
 member of the firm of Paine Brothers and 
 ,Moore, general store, Walla Walla, Wash., 
 1869-1878; since then of M. C. Moore & 
 Co., grain dealers, of which he was man- 
 ager; later a member of the grain firm of 
 C. and M. C. Moore, and he is president of 
 the Baker-Boyer National Bank of Walla 
 Walla, and of M. C. Moore & Sons, a cor- 
 poration. He was elected Mayor of Walla 
 Walla in 1877, and was the last governor of 
 Washington Territory, before it acquired 
 Statehood in 1889. He is a Republican. 
 Governor Moore is a member of the Arling- 
 ton Club of Portland, Ore., and of tlie Union 
 
 Club of Taconia, W'asii. lie married in 
 Walla Walla, .Mareli 23, 1S73, Mary Kli/ 
 ibetli J5aker, and they iuive three sous. Ail 
 
 dres^: Walla Walla, 'Wa>h. 
 
 MOOREHEAD, John, Jr.: 
 
 Proideiit <if the .Monrhi-ail IJrother.s ami 
 Company iron mills, Sliarp>i)Uig, l*a.; Imrn 
 in Pittsburgh ami prepared for college at 
 the Western L'niveisity, and I'iiiilips Acad- 
 emy, Andover, Mass. in 1880 lie was gradu- 
 ated from "S'ali' University and waN atlmit- 
 ted into tiie ])arlnership of Moorheul 
 Brothers & Company, and was soon after 
 placed in complete charge of tiie niaiiage- 
 ment of the compaii}'. Mr. Moorlu-ud lias 
 been active and is connected in various ca- 
 pacities with many of the city's large busi- 
 ness concerns. He is a director Kxdiange 
 Bank, Monongahela Water Com|)any. Stand- 
 ard Underground Cable Company. Ktna &. 
 Vesuvius Coal Company, and otlier corpora- 
 tions. He has been for years a guarantor 
 of the Pittsburgh Orchestra ami a member 
 of the Union, Pittsburgh, Duquesne, Alle- 
 gheny Country, and Duque-ne Kennel Clubs 
 of Pittsburgh; the University, Vale and 
 Brook Clubs, New York, and of the Essex 
 Country Club, Manchester, Maas. ; member 
 of tlie Academy of Science and Art and the 
 Art Society. Mr. Moorhead married Ajjril 
 7, 1881, Annie D. Alston of Chicago, and 
 they have two sons and two ilaughtcrs. 
 Address: 928 Ridge Avenue, Allegheny, 
 Pa. 
 
 MOORES, Charles Washington: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Indianapolis. Fob. 15, 
 1862; son of Charles Washington and 
 Julia Dumont (Merrill) Mooro. He re- 
 ceived his preparatory education in the 
 public schools of Indianapolis and r.uth-r 
 College and was graduated from Wa- 
 bash College, with the degrees of A.B. and 
 A.M. and from the Central Law School, 
 with the degree of LL.B. in 188:3. He was 
 admitted to the bar at Indianapolis in 
 1883; and has been lecturer in the Indiana 
 Law School on Illegal Contracts, Sales and 
 Constitutional law. He has been a United 
 States Commissioner since 1888. He was 
 elected in 1899 a member of the Indianap- 
 
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 olis Board of School Commissioners for two 
 years; reelected in 1901 for four years and 
 again in 1905 for four years; vice-president 
 of that board 1902 to 1908 and since that 
 date lias been its president. He is a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Pickens, ]Moores, Davidson 
 and Pickens, attorneys, Indianapolis. Mr. 
 Moores is a Republican and a Presbyterian. 
 He is a member of the Indianapolis Bar As- 
 sociation, the State Bar Association of 
 Indiana, the American Bar Association, the 
 National Geographic Society, Indiana His- 
 torical Society, Sigma Oni fraternity, Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society; also the Society 
 of the Sons of American Revolution, the 
 Sons of the Revolution, and Society of 
 Colonial Wars. He is joint author, \vit\' 
 W. F. Klliot, of Indiana Criminal Law, 
 189.3: author of an article on Trusts and 
 Trustees in the American and English En- 
 cyclopedia of Law (first edition), and is 
 author of articles in the same work on 
 Specific Performance (first edition). Banks 
 and Banking, Bj^-Laws, and contracts (sec- 
 ond edition), of Caleb Mills ana the Public 
 School System, 1905; Life of Abraham 
 Lincoln for Boys and Girls, 1909 (Houghton 
 ]\Iiillin Co.) and has been a lecturer in the 
 Indiana Law School since 1890. Mr. Moores 
 is a director of Butler College, University 
 of Indianapolis, and director of the Indian- 
 apolis Art Association, 1909, and is a mem- 
 ber oi the University Club of Indiana, the 
 Indianapolis Literary Club, the Contempo- 
 rary Club and the Lawyers' Club, of Indian- 
 apolis. He married in Philadelphia, Oct. 
 5, 1890, Elizabeth Nichols, and they have 
 two children: Emily Bishop Moores, and 
 Charles Washington Moores, III. Resi- 
 dence: 1918 North Pennsylvania Street. 
 Office: 1031 Lemcke Building, Indianapolis, 
 Ind. 
 
 MORA, F. Luis: 
 
 Artist, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, 
 July 27, 1874; son of Domingo and Laura 
 (Gaillard) Mora. He was educated in pub- 
 lic schools of New York City and Boston, 
 an art education in the Museum of Fine 
 Arts School, Boston; Art Students' League, 
 New York City and abroad ; took the Sears 
 prize for drawing and composition at Bos- 
 
 ton, and Rothschild prize at the Art Stu- 
 dents League. Mr. Mora has devoted much 
 of his time in early professional career to 
 illustrating for magazines, and teaching 
 in New York School of Art; did important 
 work for Lynn (Massachusetts) Public Li- 
 brary and for the Missouri State Building, 
 Louisiana Purchase Exposition; has been 
 represented in the leading art expositions ; 
 won a gold medal for painting, Philadelphia 
 Art Club, 1901; two bronze medals for 
 decoration and painting, Louisiana Pur- 
 chase Exposition, 1904; first Hallgarten 
 prize for painting in the National Acad- 
 emy of Design, 1905; also represented in 
 permanent collections of the Boston Art 
 Club, National Academy of Design, Lotos 
 Club, Columbia College, and Salmagundi 
 Club, New York City, the Highland Club 
 of Summit, N. J., and Exeter Academy, 
 N. H. He is an academician of the Na- 
 tional Academy of Design, member of the 
 Water Color Society, Architectural League, 
 Municipal Art Society, Society of Illustra- 
 tors, and member of the Lotos, Salmagundi 
 and Water Colors Clubs. Mr. Mora mar- 
 ried in Perth Amboy, N. J., Sept. 12, 1900, 
 Sophia B. Compton. Address: 142 East 
 18th Street, New York City. 
 
 MORAN, Thomas: 
 
 Artist; born in Bolton, Lancashire, Eng- 
 land, Jan. 12, 1837; son of Thomas and 
 Mary Moran ; came with his parents to 
 the United States at the age of 7. He 
 received his education in the public schools 
 oi Philadelphia; served apprenticeship to 
 a wood engiavor, and afterward took up art, 
 studied under James Hamilton, and in 
 Italy. He began his professional career as 
 illustrator and landscape artist, obtaining 
 distinction in both departments; went with 
 the U. S. Exploring Expedition to the 
 Yellowstone region, in 1871, and in 1873 
 again went to the Far West, painting the 
 large canvases the Grand Canon of the Yel- 
 lowstone and Chasm of the Colorado, which 
 were purchased by Congress and are now in 
 the U. S. Capitol. He has painted many 
 landscapes and is represented in the most 
 important public and private collections. 
 He has been academician in the National 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Academy of Design, since 1884. Mr. Moran 
 married in April, 18G2, Mary Nimnio. 
 Address: The Clinton, 253 West 42d Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 MORE, Paul Elmer: 
 
 Editor of the Nation ; born in St. Louis, 
 Mo., Dec. 12, 1864. He was educated in 
 Washington University, St. Louis, A.B., 
 1887, A.M., 1891, Harvard, A.M., 1893. 
 He was assistant in Sanskrit, Harvard Uni- 
 versity for one year, associate in Sanskrit 
 and classical literature, Bryn Mawr Col- 
 lege for two years; literary editor of The 
 Independent, 1901-1904; literary editor of 
 The Evening Post since 1904, also associate 
 editor of the Nation from 1906, of which 
 he became editor, May 20, 1909. He is a 
 member of the American Philological As- 
 sociation. Mr. More is author of: Helena 
 and Occasional Poems ; The Great Refusal ; 
 A Century of Indian Epigrams; The Judg- 
 ment of Socrates; A Translation of the 
 "Prometheus Bound" of ^'Eschylus; Life 
 of Benjamin Franklin; The Jessica Letters 
 (with Mrs. L. II. Harris), 1904; Shelburne 
 Essays ( six volumes ) . He is a member 
 of the Century Club. Residence : 260 West 
 99th Street. Address: 20 Vesey Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 MOREHEAD, John Alfred: 
 
 College president ; born in Pulaski Coun- 
 ty, Va., Feb. 4, 1867; son of James Wil- 
 liam and Barbara (Yonce) Morehead. He 
 was graduated from Roanoke College, A.B., 
 1889, A.M., 1892, D.D.. 1902, from Luth- 
 eran Theological Seminary, Mt. Airy, Phil- 
 adelphia, 1892; was instructor in Roanoke 
 College, 1889-1890; president of the Theo- 
 logical Seminary, Charleston, S. C, 1898- 
 1903; student in the University of Berlin, 
 1901-1902, and president of Roanoke College 
 since 1903. He married in Wytheville, Va., 
 1892, Eleanor Virginia Fisher, and has one 
 daughter. Residence : High Street. Of- 
 tice: Roanoke College, Salem, Va. 
 
 MORELAND, William Hall: 
 
 Missionary bishop of Sacraiuento : born at 
 Charleston, "s. C, April 9. 1861; son of E. 
 M. and Caroline (Hall) Moreland. He was 
 graduatea at the University of the South in 
 
 1881 with the dcgroe.s of B.S., B.l.it. and 
 M. A., and received its honorary U.l). in 
 1899; also D.D. from Uorkcloy Divinity 
 School, 1900. He was ordered deacon in 
 1884 by liishop Williams, and ordained to 
 the priestiiood 188.') by Bishop W. B. W. 
 Howe. He was assistant at Clirinl Cluircli. 
 Hartfort, Conn., 1884-1885, tlien becunnf 
 rector of the Church of tlic (Jood Shepherd, 
 Nashua, N. H. After eight years of notiv- 
 ity in this parish, he l)ecanie rector of St. 
 l>uke"s Church, San Francisco. Calif., IS'l.'l. 
 He was made bishop of Sacramento in 18!t!i, 
 being consecrated by bishops Nichols, S. L. 
 Leonard. Keiulrick, Barker, Perrin (of 
 British Columbia), and Johnson. Bi>liop 
 Moreland is author of: What is Cliristian- 
 ity? 1886: and The Church of the Churches, 
 \\"hi(h 1894. Address: Sacramento, Calif. 
 
 MORGAN, Anna: 
 
 Founder of the Selionl of Kxi>res>i()n : 
 born in Auburn, N. Y. : daugliler of .Allen 
 Dennison Morgan (Hamilton College grad- 
 uate, 1848, member of the New York State 
 Legislature in 1860), and of Mary Jane 
 Ihornton, daughter of Stephen Thornton of 
 Fleming, N. Y. Her paternal grandfather 
 was Nathan Gallup Morgan, a member of 
 the New York Legislature in 1840. Miss 
 ^lorgan began her professional career as a 
 reader in Chicago in 1879, in connection 
 with Mrs. Scott Siddons. She was placed 
 at the head of the dramatic department of 
 wie Cliicago Conservatory in the Auditorium 
 in 1883, where she remained until 1S97, 
 when she foimded The Anna Morgan School 
 of Expression, with studios in The Fine 
 Arts Building. Chicago. In 1893 Miss Mor- 
 gan was prominent in the Cohimbian 
 Worlds Fair at Chicago as an exponent of 
 lier system of natural expression in dramat- 
 ic art. In her numerous trips abroad she 
 has visited at the homes of Maeterlinck and 
 George Bernard Siiaw and has given first 
 American productions of some of their 
 plays as well as of other foreign and native 
 dramatists. Miss Morgan has lecttired in 
 London and before the National School of 
 Italy at Florence. Miss ^Morgan has always 
 taken an active part in furthering literature 
 and the arts and is the author of various 
 works on the art of expression. She is a 
 
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 member of the Woman's Club, the Twen 
 tieth Century and The Little Room Club of 
 Chicago. Address: 203 Michigan Boule- 
 vard, Cliicngo. 
 
 MORGAN, Daniel Nash: 
 
 Mercliant and hanker; l)orn in New- 
 town. Conn.. Aug. 18, 1844; son of Ezra and 
 Hannah (Xash) Morgan. He received his 
 (>dncation in Newtown Academy and Bethel 
 Institute, in addition to its district scliools. 
 He was engaged in the dry goods and car- 
 pets business at Bridgeport, Conn.. 18G9- 
 1880; president of the City National Bank 
 of Bridgeport. 1879-1803; president of the 
 ^Mechanics' and Farmers' Savings Bank of 
 Bridgeport for ten years and trustee for 
 twenty-nine years and was president of the 
 United States Trust Company at Washing- 
 ton. D. C. 1007. He was director of the 
 Wlieeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company, 
 Avas vice-president and is now director of 
 the Consolidated Rolling Stock Company; 
 member of tlie firm of Morgan & Booth of 
 Newtown, Conn., and of Birdsey & Morgan, 
 and of Morgan Ilopson Company of Bridge- 
 port, Conn. He was councilman, 1873-1874; 
 member of the Board of Education, 1877- 
 1878 and 1898-1004; mayor of Brdigeport, 
 1880, and 1884; mendier of the Legislature 
 of Connecticut, 1883; member of the Con- 
 necticut Senate. 1885, 1886 and 1893; treas- 
 urer of the United States, 18031897; Dem- 
 ocratic candidate for governor of Connecti- 
 cut, 1808 and candidate for the U. S. Sen- 
 ale in ISOO in the Connecticut Legislature. 
 Mr. Moigan was parish clerk of Trinity 
 J'rolestant Episcopal Cliurch, Bridgeport; 
 then junior warden and afterward senior 
 waden until his removal to Wasliington. D. 
 C. in 1803. He was a mendx'r of tlie 
 Bridgeport Scientific and Historical So- 
 ciety; was president of the Bridgeport Hos- 
 pital, president of the Free Kindergarten 
 Association; director of the NOiiiig Men's 
 f'hristian Association, anil lu- is a Mason. 
 Knight Templar and Shriner; was a mem- 
 ber of the Sea Side Club of Bridgeport, and 
 is vice-president of tlu- Sons of the Rev- 
 olution in Connecticut. Mr. Morgan mar- 
 ried in Huntington, (Unn.. .Imic 10. ISfiS. 
 Medora Hugancn Judson. and they have two 
 cliildrcn. .\(hlress: liridgeport. Conn. 
 
 MORGAN, Dick Thompson: 
 
 Lawyer an<l congressman; born at Prairie 
 Creek, Ind., Dec. 6, 1853; son of Valentine 
 and Frances (Thompson) Morgan. He was 
 graduated from the Union Christian College, 
 Merom, Ind., M. S., 1870. and from the Cen- 
 tral Law School, Indianapolis, Ind., LL.B., 
 1880. He practised law in Terre Haute, 
 Ind.; removed to Garden Citj, Kans., 1885, 
 where he was attorney for the Atchison, 
 Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. Mr. Morgan 
 was a pioneer in Oklahoma, having gone to 
 Guthrie. Okla., at the first opening of lauds, 
 .\pril 22, 1880. He has attained promi- 
 nence as an authority on public land laws, 
 and he is author of: Morgan's Manual of 
 U. S. Homestead Laws; also of INIorgan's 
 Digest of Oklahoma Statutes and Supreme 
 Court Decisions. 1808. He has always been 
 an active Republican; was a member of the 
 Indiana Legislature, 1881 ; register of the 
 U. S. Land Office at Woodward, Okla., 1904- 
 1908, and in Nov. 1908 he was elected as a 
 Republican to the Sixty-first Congress from 
 the Second Oklahoma District. He is a 
 member of the Disciples of Chri.st, or Chris- 
 tian Church; is a trustee of the Oklahoma 
 Christian University at Enid, Okla., and 
 he was president for seventeen years of 
 the Oklahoma Christian Missionary Society. 
 He married in Merom, Ind., May 30, 1878. 
 Ora, daughter of Rev. A. R. and Mary 
 Heath. He has a son. Porter H. Morgan, 
 an attorney of Oklahoma City, Okla. Ad- 
 dress: Woodward, Okla. 
 
 MORGAN, Edward M.: 
 
 Postmaster of New Vnik ; lie lias sjjcnt 
 tliirty-four years in the service of the New 
 "S'ork Post Office. At the age of sixteen 
 years he became a carrier in New York 
 City. By successive steps he rose to tlie 
 position of general superintendent of de- 
 livery and afterward assistant postmaster. 
 After the appointment of former Post- 
 master Willcox as chairman of the Public 
 Service Commission. Mr. ^Morgan served 
 as acting postmaster, and in August. 1007, 
 was appointed postmaster of New York, in 
 succession to William R. Willcox, resigned. 
 He is the Republican loader in the Assembly 
 District (if Washiiiglon Heights. Residence: 
 
John Pikrpont AIok<;a.\ 
 Banker 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 583 West 14(itli Street. Ollicial address: 
 Post Ollu-e. New Yovk City. 
 
 MOEGAN, Edward Vernon: 
 
 Diplomat ; horn at .\urora. X. Y., Feb. 
 22. 1865; son of Henry A. and Marj^aret 
 (Bo<>art) Mor<jan. He was graduated from 
 Harvard College, A.B., 1890, A.M., 1891, 
 afterward l)eing a student at the Univer 
 sity of Berlin, 1801-1892 and 1894-1895. 
 Mr. Morgan was an assL^tant in history at 
 Harvard Unversity, lS!)2-18n4. and* in- 
 structor in history at Atlelbert College, 
 Cleveland, Ohio, 1895-1898. before entering 
 upon his diplomatic career. In April, 1899. 
 he was appointed secretary to the Sanioan 
 High Commission, became secretary to the 
 American Legation at Seoul, Korea, and 
 vice and deputy counsul general of the 
 Ignited States at Seoul, in 1900. He was 
 tranferred to the American Embassy at 
 St. Petersburg as second secretary, in 1901, 
 ajipointed confidential clerk to the third as- 
 sistant secretary of State at Washington, 
 in 1902, so serving until 1904, when he was 
 appointed consul at Dalny, Manchuria. In 
 1905 he was appointed envoy extraordinary 
 and minister plenipotentiary rf the United 
 States to Korea, and transfei .ed in 1906 to 
 his present post as envoy extraordinary 
 and minister plenipotentiary and of the 
 United States to Cuba. Mr. Morgan has 
 received from the Government of France 
 the decoration of Chevalier of the Legion 
 d'Honneur. He is a member of the Met- 
 ropolitan Club of Washington, D. C. Ad- 
 dress: American Legation. Havana, Cuba. 
 
 MORGAN, Henry Hays: 
 
 Consular ollicer; born in New Orleans. 
 La., Dec. 24, 1860; son of Phillip Hickey 
 ami Beatrice Leslie (Ford) Morgan. He 
 was educated in Brussels, Belgium, and 
 r>onn, (Germany) and afterward studied 
 law in New York with his father. He was 
 appointed secretary of the Legation at the 
 City of Mexico, Sept. 27, 1882; retired June 
 0, 1885; consul at Horgen, June 8, 1897; 
 consul at Aarau. May 25, 1898; consul at 
 Lucerne, May 15, 1902; consul at Stuttgart, 
 June 22, 1906; consul at Amsterdam, April 
 29. 1907. He married in New York City 
 June 29, 1897, Laura Kilpatrick, Daughter 
 
 of General Judsnii Kilpatii.k of .\»-w .Icr 
 i'V. Aihlress: American Consulale, 
 
 .\iMsl(M<lain, The .\cl hcrhinds. 
 
 MORGAN, John Buck: 
 
 Dry goods merchant and niUMufaeturer; 
 born in Philadelphia, Jan. 10, 1«47: **«» o( 
 Charles K. and Jane P. (Buck) .M«>r},'un. 
 He was graduated from the Univ»?rsity of 
 Pennsylvania as A.B. (class orator) in 
 1866, and later receiveit the A..M. degree. 
 Mr. ^lorgan is president and director of 
 the Berkshire Manufacturing ('(HM|)any, 
 limited, cotton and woolen goods; trustee 
 of the Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance 
 Company; director of the Germantown 
 Trust Company; The Reliance Insurance 
 Company and the Provident Life and Trust 
 Com))any. He is manager of the Penn- 
 sylvania Hospital, a member of the Penn- 
 sylvania Society, of Societj' of Sons of the 
 Revolution, the Union League and German- 
 town Cricket Clubs of Philadelidiia, and 
 Merchants and University clubs of New 
 York. He married Sarah I-Tsher Corlies of 
 Philadelphia. Re.--idence: 157 West Chel- 
 ton Ave., Germantown. Ottice: 235 Che.st- 
 nut Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 MORGAN, John Pierpont: 
 
 Banker; born at Hartford. Conn., A])ril 
 17. 1837; son of .lunius Spencer and Juliet 
 (Pierpont) Morgan. He is a descendant 
 in |)aternal line of Captain Miles Morgan, a 
 native of \Vales. who came to Boston in 
 1637, married Prudence Gilbert, a fellow 
 passenger on the voyage, and who was the 
 'eader in the defense of Springfield. Mass.. 
 in the early Indian wars: in maternal lines 
 lie is grandson of Rev. John Pierpont. 
 of Boston, and great-grandson of Rev. 
 James Pierpont, one of the founders of 
 Yale College. He was gradmUed from the 
 English High School. Boston, and studied 
 higher branches at the University of (iiit- 
 tingen. He began his business career in 
 the banking house of Duncan. Sherman 
 ■ind Company, in 1857: in 1860, became 
 agent and attorney in the United States for 
 George Peabody and Company of London 
 (his father's house) ; in 1864. junior mem- 
 ber of the firm of Dabney, Morgan and 
 Company, and later of Dre.xcl, Morgan and 
 
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 Company, of which, bv the death of part- 
 ners, he eventually became head under the 
 prosonl name of J. P. Morgan and Com- 
 pany. The house, under his personal direc- 
 tion, has been identified with many of the 
 greatest financial operations; he floated the 
 $(i2,(>U().000 United States bonds issued by 
 the Cleveland administration to buy gold, 
 which saved the United States Treasury 
 from a silver basis; has reorganized and 
 consolidated many of the largest railway 
 systems; has organized and financed many 
 ot the largest industrial corporations, not- 
 ably in the anthracite and bituminous coal 
 industries and in the organization of the 
 United States Steel Corporation, with capi- 
 tal now aggregating to $1,400,000,000. He 
 secured the subscription in the United 
 States of $50,000,000 of the British War 
 Loan in 1901, the largest foreign bond sub- 
 scription ever made in America. He is 
 senior partner of the London banking house 
 of J. S. Morgan and Company, and has 
 large investments in English corporations. 
 His benefactions include nearly $1,350,000, 
 given to the purchase of the present site 
 and erecting and equipping the present 
 buildings of the New York Lying-in Hos- 
 pital; $1,250,000, for the Medical College 
 of Harvard University; half a million dol- 
 lars to the New York Trade Schools; a 
 like sum toward the building of the Cathe- 
 dral of St. John the Divine; large dona- 
 tions to the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation, to the Palisades Park Connnission 
 and to many other objects of charitable, re- 
 ligious, educational and personal character. 
 He is distinguislied also as an art connois- 
 seur and bibliophile; his collections of 
 books, manuscripts, paintings and objects 
 d'art are widely famous, and, in addition, 
 he has made valuable gifts of collections to 
 the public, such as the Bement Collection of 
 ten thousand mineral specimens and the 
 Tiffany exhibit of gems and pearls to the 
 American Museum of Natural History, the 
 Ford collection of books and manuscripts 
 to the New York Public Library, large 
 gifts of money and paintings to the Metro 
 politan Museum of Art, and others. In his 
 religious faith, he is an Episcopalian; war- 
 den and active member of St. George's 
 Church, in connection with which he built 
 
 the large Memorial Building, and to the 
 work of which he has been a constant sup- 
 porter. He has for the last twenty years 
 been a deputy from the Diocese of New 
 York to the General Convention of the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church. His favorite 
 recreation is yachting, beginning in 1881 
 with the Corsair, an iron steam yacht, suc- 
 ceeded in 1891 by Corsair II, which was 
 sold to the United States Government at 
 the breaking OTit of the Spanish-American 
 War, and rechristened Gloucester, and Cor- 
 sair III, his present yacht. He was com- 
 modore of New York Yacht Club for three 
 years; built the cup defender Columbia, 
 which twice defeated Sir Thomas Lipton's 
 Shamrock in the international races for the 
 America's Cup, in 1899 and 1901. He is 
 a member of the Union, Knickerbocker, 
 Union League. Metropolitan, Century, New 
 York Yacht. Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, 
 Ttixedo, Racquet and Tennis, Riding, 
 Church, City, Midday, Players'. Grolier, 
 Jekyl Island, and Turf Clubs of New York 
 City, and the Metropolitan Club of Wash- 
 ington. He married first in 1861, Amelia 
 Sturges (died in 1862) ; second, in 1865, 
 l<'rances Louisa Tracy; and he has five chil- 
 dren: Louisa Pierpont who married, in 
 1900, Herbert Livingston Satterlee ; John 
 Pierpont, Jr. ; Juliet Pierpont, who mar- 
 ried in 1891, William Pierson Hamilton; 
 and Anne Tracy Morgan. Residence: 219 
 Madison Avenue. Office: 23 Wall Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 MORRELL, Edward de Veaux: 
 
 Ex-congressman; born at Newport, R. I., 
 Aug, 7, 1862. His ancestors were old-time 
 Philadelphians and were prominent in the 
 history of that city. He was graduated 
 from the University of Pennsylvania. A.B., 
 with high honors, in 1885; studied law at 
 the same institution and received the de- 
 grees of M.A. and LL.l^. in 1887. He was 
 admitted to the bar in 1887; was elected to 
 the Select Council of Philadelphia in 1891. 
 serving three years; has been active in tlie 
 business world of Philadelphia, and in llie 
 development of that section of the city in 
 which he resides. He has held various com- 
 missions in the National Guard of Penn- 
 sylvania, and he is now judge advocate gen- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 eral. Mr. Morrcll was elected as a Re- 
 publican to fill the vacancy in the Fifty 
 sixth Congress caused by the death of the 
 late Hon. A. C. Harnier, and to the Fifty- 
 seventh and Fifty-ciglith Congresses, and re- 
 elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress. He 
 married in t8S9, Louise Bouvier, daughter 
 of the late Francis A. Drexol. Address: 
 Torresdale, Philadelphia. 
 
 MORRILL, Austin Winfield: 
 
 Fntoniologist ; bom in Tewksbury, Mass., 
 Sept. 11, 1880; son of James and Elvira 
 (Webster) Morrill. He was graduated 
 from the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 
 lege and Boston University, B.Sc, 1900, 
 Massachusetts Agricultural College, Ph.D. 
 in 1903, graduate student there 1900-1903. 
 He was appointed field agent of the Bureau 
 of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agri- 
 culture, June, 1903; connected with Cotton 
 Boll Weevil Investigations, 1903-1906; in 
 field charge of Citrus White Fly investi- 
 gations with headquarters at Orlando, Fla., 
 July, 1906, to Aug., 1909; appointed ento 
 mologist of the Arizona Horticultural Com- 
 mission, and entomologist of the Arizona 
 Experiment Station, Sept., 1909. He is au- 
 thor of papers on entomology and reports 
 of entomological investigations published 
 in the Canadian Entomologist, Entomologi- 
 cal News, Psyche, American Naturalist, 
 Bulletins of the Massachusetts Experiment 
 Station, and of the United States Depart- 
 ment of Agriculture, Proceedings of the 
 Florida State Horticultural Society, and 
 several in Agricultural and Horticultural 
 periodicals. He is a Royal Arch Mason, 
 member of Phi Sigma Kappa general col- 
 lege fraternity; fellow of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science; 
 active member of the Association of Econo- 
 mic Entomologists, and member of the En- 
 tomological Society of America. He mar- 
 ried, April 29, 1908, Florence Hall Mc- 
 Cormick (Wellesley College, 1905), daugh- 
 ter of U. S. Circuit Judge A. P. McCor- 
 mick and Mrs. (Lula Bell) McCormick, of 
 Dallas, Texas. Address: Tucson, Arizona. 
 
 MORRILL, Henry Hurlbert: 
 
 Clergyman; born at Durham, Maine, Jan. 
 6, I860; son of William Francis and Sarah 
 
 Nevins (Newell) Morrill. He vras grad- 
 uated from Harvard, B.A., 1882, am! from 
 Kansas Tlicological Seininiirv, B.D., 1880. 
 He was ordered deacon in 18SH, and or- 
 dained priest in 1880 by the Bishop of Kan- 
 .sas. He is now rector of St. Pawl'-s Church, 
 Ilolyoke, Mass. Mr. Morrill was formerly 
 chaplain of St. .John's Scliool, Sulina, Kan., 
 ISSS 1890; rector of Springfield. .Mo., 1891- 
 1895; rector of St. Jolin's Cliurch, Clinton, 
 Iowa, 1896-1900. Dr. Morrill is rhapliiiii 
 of the Sons of Veterans, and i.s u member of 
 (he Massachusetts Division. He married at 
 Cambridge. Mass., Nov. 16, 1884, Caroline 
 Emily Barrington, and they have one dauRh- 
 ter. Address: Appleton Street, Ilolyoke, 
 Mass. 
 
 MORRILL, John Adams: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Auburn, Maine. June 3, 
 1855; .son of Nahum and .\nna Isabella 
 (Littlefield) Morrill. He was graduated 
 from Bowdoin College, A.B., 1876, A.M., 
 1879. He was admitted to practice in the 
 courts of Maine, 1880, in the U. S. Circuit 
 Court, 1886; and was appointed by the 
 Legislature of Maine, March 21, 1901, sole 
 connnissioner to revise and consolidate the 
 ])ublic laws of the State, and prepared the 
 Fifth Revision of the Public Laws of 
 Maine (Revi.sed Statutes, 1903). He has 
 been a member of the State Board of Ex- 
 aminers of Applicants for Admission to the 
 Bar, since 1900; trustee of Auburn Savings 
 Bank since January, 1885. and its president 
 since January, 1906. He was a delegate 
 to tiie Universal Congress of Lawyers and 
 .Jurists, St. Louis, 1904. Mr. Morrill is a 
 member of the Maine State Bar Association, 
 Maine Historical Society, and Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society; trustee of Auburn Public 
 Library since 1891; treasurer since 1902 
 and a member of the Board of Overseers 
 of Bowdoin College since 1888. He mar- 
 ried in Melrose, Mass.. Nov. 1, 1888, Isa- 
 bella Olive Littlefield, and they have two 
 children. Address: Auburn, Maine. 
 
 MORRIS, Edward Lyman: 
 
 Curator; born at Monson. Ma.ss.. Oct. 23. 
 1870: son of the late Edward Franklin 
 and Louise Janette (Clapp) Morris. He 
 
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 attended tlie Monson Academy; was grad- 
 uated from Amherst College, A.B., 1891, 
 A.M., 1895, and Harvard Graduate School, 
 1892-1893. He was laboratory assistant 
 and instructor in biology at Amherst Col- 
 lege. 1893-1895; instructor in botany and 
 chemistry in the Western High iSchool of 
 Washington, D. C, 1895-1896, biology 
 and chemistry, 1896-1898; director of bo- 
 tanj-, Washington high schools, 1898-1900; 
 head of the Department of Biology, 1900- 
 1907; and has been curator of Natural 
 Science in the Museum of the Brooklyn 
 Institute of Arts and Sciences, since July, 
 1907. Mr. Morris has been special plant 
 expert of the U. S. National Herbarium, 
 and the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
 since 1898; was field assistant of the U. 
 S. Fish Commission, in 1900 ; associate 
 editor of School Science, 1901; associate 
 examiner of the College Entrance Examina- 
 tion I'.oard, 1:)02-190.S. He is a member 
 of tlic Cosmos Club, the Biological So- 
 ciety of Washington, the Washington Bio- 
 logists' Field Club, and the Torrey Bo- 
 tanical Club. He niarried at Charlton, 
 Mass., Sept. 9, 1896, Florence Syvret who 
 died Dec. 12, 1903, and again married at 
 Washington, D. C, Sept. 13, 1907, Mary 
 E. Bedell. Address: Museum of the 
 BrooKlyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 
 Eastern Parkway. Brooklyn. N. Y. 
 
 MOEEIS, Effingham Buckley: 
 
 Lawyer; born in l'liila(lcl])hia. Aug. 23. 
 1856; son of Israel Wistar and Annie 
 (Buckley) Morris. He was graduated 
 from the University of Pennsylvania, as 
 A.B. in 1875, A.M. "in 1878; Lsxw Depart- 
 ment of the University of Pennsylvania, 
 LL.B. in 1878. He was general attorney of 
 the Lehigh Valley Railroad, 1881-1887; 
 member of Councils of Philadelphia. 1880- 
 1881; trustee for Philadelphia City Bonds 
 secured on Gas Works, 1882 1887; counsel 
 ot the Girard Trust Company, 1880-1887; 
 jjresident of the (Jirard Trust Company 
 since 1887; trustee of the Estate of An- 
 thony J. Drexcl. He is a director of the 
 Pennsylvania P^ailroad Company, Philadel- 
 phia National Bank, Fourth Street Na- 
 tional Bank, Franklin National Bank, Phil- 
 adelphia Saving Fund and various other 
 
 corporations; chairman of tlie Pennsylvania 
 Steel Company, and the Cambria Steel Com- 
 pany. He is a member of the Philadelphia 
 Club, Kittenhouse Club, University, Union 
 l.,eague, Merion Criket, Radnor Hunt, and 
 the Brj'u Mawr Polo Clubs. He married 
 in Philadelphia, Nov,, 1879, Ellen Douglas 
 Burroughs, and they have four children. 
 Address: Girard Building, Philadelphia. 
 
 MORRIS, Elizabeth Woodbridge: 
 
 Author; born in Brooklyn. N. Y.. in 
 1870; daughter of Charles Lester and Irene 
 (Cartwright) Woodbridge. She was grad- 
 uated from Vassar College, A.B., 1892, and 
 from Yale University, Ph.D., 1898. She 
 married in 1899, Charles Gould Morris, and 
 has two daughters and three sons. She is a 
 contributor, under the pen name of Eliza- 
 beth Woodbridge of articles, chiefly light 
 essays to The Outlook, the Atlantic (Con- 
 tributors' Club), and Scribner's (Point of 
 Veiw). She is author of: Studies in Jon- 
 son's Comedy (Yale doctrine thesis), 1898; 
 The Drama — Its Law and Its Technique, 
 1899. She is also joint author with Pro- 
 fes.->or Gertrude Buck, of: A Course in Ex- 
 pository Writing; and of A Course in 
 Narrative Writing. Mrs. Morris is a member 
 of Phi Beta Kappa (Vassar Chapter), and 
 of the ^Modern Language Association of 
 America. Address: Mrs C. G. Morris, 
 230 Prospect Street, New Haven, Conn. 
 
 MORRIS, George Perry: 
 
 Journalist : hoin in ]\loiitriair. N. J., I'Vb. 
 18, 1864; son of Charles B. and ]\Iary (Per- 
 ry) Morris. He received his education in 
 Rutgers College, and Johns Hopkins Uni- 
 versity. Mr. Morris was on the editorial 
 stall" of the New York Mail and Express, 
 1888-1890; on the editorial stafl" of The 
 Congregationalist, Boston, 1891 1907; and 
 since then has been on tlu> editorial staff 
 of the Boston Herald. He is a member of 
 the Delta Upsilon fraternity and the Pud- 
 dingstone Club of Boston. He married in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., May 5, 1892, :\lartha 
 Turner, and they have three children. Res- 
 idence: 27 Waverly Street, Brookline, 
 Mass. Olfice: Boston Herald, Tremont 
 Street, Boston. 
 
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 MOERIS, Harrison Smith: 
 
 Chairman Committee on Ways and 
 Means of The National Academy of Design, 
 New York. President, Wharton iSteel Co. 
 Philadelphia; born in Philadelphia, Oct. 
 4, 185G; son of George W. Morris. He 
 was educated in the private and public 
 sciiools in Pliiladelphia. ]Mr. ]\Iorris was 
 engaged in the Treasury Department of the 
 Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron 
 Company, 1873-1893, leaving as assistant 
 cashier; was editor of Lippincott's Mag- 
 azine, 1899-1905; managing director of the 
 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 
 1893-1905. He is author of: A Mosaic, 
 1891; Where Meadows Meet the Sea, 1892; 
 In the Yule-Log Glow, 1892; Tales from 
 Ten Poets, 1893; Tales from Shakespeare, 
 a continuation of Lamb's 1893; The Madon- 
 na and Other Poems, 1894. Lyrics and 
 Landscapes, 1908. He is an honorary mem- 
 lier of the Phi Beta Kappa Society; mem- 
 ber of the American Philosophical Society, 
 antl was member of Board of Public Educa- 
 tion of Philadelphia, 1902-1905. He is a 
 mendoer of the Franklin Inn Club of Phila- 
 dclpliia, and of the Players" Club of New 
 York. Addiess: Oak Lane Post Office, 
 Pliiladelphia. 
 
 MORRIS, Henry Lewis: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, 1845; 
 son of Henry and Marj' N. (Spencer) Mor- 
 ris. He was graduated from Columbia Col- 
 lege Law School, LL.B. in 1868. He was 
 admitted to bar in 1868 and since then 
 lias been engaged in the practice of law 
 "in the City of New Y^ork. He is warden of 
 St. Bartholomew's Church, New York City; 
 and trustee of the Board of Missions of the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church. He is a 
 member of the Board of Trustees of the es- 
 tate and property of the Diocesan Conven- 
 tion of New York; trustee and vice-pres- 
 ident of the Home for Old Men and Aged 
 Couples and of the American Church In- 
 stitute for Seamen. He is one of the gov- 
 ernors of the Metropolitan Club; a member 
 of the Association of the Bar of the City 
 of New York, and of the Metropolitan, 
 Lawyers', Down Town, Church and City 
 Clubs. Mr. Morris married Anna Ruther- 
 
 fiird Uiisscll, and tlu-y have two children. 
 Addivss: 12 Wfsl .');td Street, New York 
 
 ( ily. 
 
 MORRIS, James Craik: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Louisville, Ky., 
 1870; son of .1. 11. .M. and Fanny (Craik) 
 .Morris. He was graduated from the l"ni- 
 versify of the Sontli, .M.A., 1891 Ixjuisville 
 Law School, LL.I?., 1892. He was ordered 
 deacon in 1896 by Bishop Dudley, and or- 
 dained priest the same year by Bishop 
 Garretl. He is dean of St. Mary's Cathe- 
 dral, Memphis, Tennessee, and was for- 
 merly assistant of St. Matthew's Cathedral, 
 Dallas, Texas, and St. James' Church, 
 BrooKiyn, N. Y. Address: Memphis, Ten- 
 nessee. 
 
 MORRIS, John Baptist: 
 
 Catholic bislioj); born in lleniiersonville, 
 Tenn., June 29, 1866; son of John and 
 Annie (Morrisey) Morris. After gradua- 
 tion from St. Mary's College, Kentucky, 
 he went to Rome for philosophical and ili- 
 vinity courses in the North American Col- 
 lege, and was ordained priest there in 1S92. 
 He became pastor of the Cathedral at Nash- 
 ville, Tenn., and 1900 1906 was vicar gen- 
 eral of the diocese of Nashville. He was 
 consecrated coadjutor bishop of Little Rock, 
 June 11, 1906, and became bishop of the 
 same diocese, Feb. 21, 1907. Address: Lit- 
 tle Rock, Ark. 
 
 MORRIS, John T.: 
 
 Capitalist; born in Pliiladclpiiia, 1S47; 
 son of Isaac P. and Rebecca (ThonipMiu) 
 Morris. He was educated at Haver ford Col- 
 lege. Mr. Morris was a member of the lirm 
 of 1. P. Morris & Company until its dissolu- 
 tion on account of the death of his partner. 
 John J. Thompson, in 1875, and the for- 
 mation in 1876 of I. P. Morris Company, of 
 which he was president, 1876-1891. He 
 is a manager of The Philadelphia Saving 
 Fund Society, chairman of The Philadel- 
 phia Contributionship for the Insurance of 
 Houses from Loss by Fire (1752). and of 
 the Board of Trustees, Franklin Institute; 
 trustee of the Fairmount Park Art A.sso- 
 ciation, and the Pennsylvania Museum and 
 
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 School of Inchistiial Art; overseer of The 
 Public School chartered by William Penn 
 in 1711; councillor of Tlie Historical So 
 ciety of Pennsylvania. He is also ex-presi- 
 dent of the Numismatic and Antiquarian 
 Society of Pennsylvania; and the Chestnut 
 Hill Horticultural Society; ex-vice-presi- 
 dent of the Pennsylvania Institution for 
 the Deaf and Dumb; of the Pennsylvania 
 Museum and School of Industrial Art, and 
 ex-manager of Haverford College. Mr. 
 Morris is a member of the Society of 
 Iricnds, and a Republican in politics. He 
 is a member of the American Philosophical 
 Society, the Academy of Natural Sciences 
 and the Union League Club of Philadelphia. 
 Address: 876 Drexel Building, Philadel- 
 phia. 
 
 MORRIS, Page: 
 
 Jurist; born in Lynchburg, Va., June 30, 
 1853. He received' his education in the 
 W illiam and Mary College, and the Vir- 
 ginia Military Institute, and was gradu- 
 ated in 1872, from the latter institution 
 where he remained a year as assistant pro- 
 fessor of mathematics. He was for three 
 years professor of mathematics in the Texas 
 .Military Institute until 1876, then professor 
 of applied mathematics in the Agricultural 
 and Mechanical College of Texas until 
 
 1879, when he returned to Lynchburg, Va. 
 He was admitted to the Virginia bar in 
 
 1880, and in 1884 was the Republican nom- 
 inee for Congress in the Sixth Virginia 
 District. In 188G he removed to Duluth, 
 Minn, where he has since then resided. He 
 was appointed municipal judge of Duluth 
 in 1889; city attorney of Duluth until 
 1884; district judge for the Eleventh Ju- 
 dicial District of Minnesota in Aug., ISltf), 
 but resigned in Sept., 1806. upon his 
 nomination as the Repuulican candidate 
 for Congress from the Sixth Minnesota 
 District. He was elected to the Fifty-lifth 
 Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-sixth 
 and Fifty-seventh Congresses. In March, 
 1903, he was appointed U. S. judge for the 
 District of Jlinnesota, which office he still 
 holds. He married, Feb. 21, 1877, Eliz- 
 abeth Statham, of Lyiicliburg, Va. Ad- 
 dress: Duluth, Minn. 
 
 MORRIS, Robert Tuttle: 
 
 Physician; born in Seymour, Conn., May 
 
 14, 1857. He was educated in Cornell Uni- 
 versity, biological course, in the class of 
 18bu, received the honorary degree of A.M. 
 from Center College of Kentucky and was 
 graduated from the Medical Department 
 of Columbia, M.D., 1882. He has been en- 
 gaged in the practice of medicine since 
 1882 ; is professor of surgery in the New 
 York Post-Graduate Medical School and 
 Hospital, and visiting surgeon to same 
 institution. Dr. Morris is a fellow of New 
 \ork Academy of Medicine, American As- 
 sociation of Obstetricians and Gynecolo- 
 gists; member of American Medical Asso- 
 ciation and New York State and County 
 Medical Societies; and is author of books 
 and monographs on surgical topics. He is 
 a member of the Sons of the Revolution, 
 American Geographical Society, Linnaean 
 Society of Natural History, and the Metro- 
 politan, Cornell University, and Alpha 
 uelta Phi Clubs. Dr. Morris married June 
 4, 1898, Mrs. Almes Reynaud Mazergue. 
 Address: 616 Madison Avenue, New York 
 City. 
 
 MORRIS, Theodore Wilson: 
 
 Merchant; born in New York City, Jan. 
 
 15, 1842; son of James and Sarali (Whit- 
 lock) Morris. He was educated in the 
 Mechanics' Institute and College of New 
 York. He is senior member of Theodore 
 W. Morris and Company, glass merchants; 
 director of the People's Bank of New York; 
 and vice-president of National Safe Deposit 
 Company. He was adjutant of the Thirty- 
 seventh Regiment of the National Guard 
 of the State of New York, and major on the 
 stair of (Jeneral William Hall, Third Bri- 
 gade, National Guard of the State of New 
 York and commissary of the Seventy-first 
 Regiment of the National (^uard of the 
 State (if N'cw 'S'ork, with a brief service in 
 the Civil War 1862-1863. Mr. Morris is a 
 member of the Sons of the American Rev- 
 olution, \\'ashington Association; president 
 of the ]\Ionmouth Battle Monument Associa- 
 tion; member of tlie Metropolitan Museum 
 of Art, ^Municipal Art Society, Musgum of 
 Natural History, Chamber of Commerce; 
 
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 trustee of the Northern Dispensary, mem- 
 ber of the General Society of Mechanics 
 and Tradesmen, and the Veteran Associa- 
 tion of the Seventy first Resjimcnt of tlic 
 \ational Guard of the State of New York; 
 member and ex-president of the Wool Club 
 and member of the New York Athletic Club. 
 Mr. Morris married in New York City, 
 April 2, 1867, Fannie Schanck, and thej 
 have three children. Residence: 20 Fifth 
 Avenue. OlVice: 4.36-444 Canal Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 MOBHIS, Thomas John: 
 
 Jurist; born in Baltimore, Sept. 24, 1837. 
 He was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 
 1856; and practised law in Baltimore until 
 appointed by President Hayes to the office 
 of U. S. judge for the District of Maryland, 
 which he has held ever since. He is a 
 member and has been vice-president of the 
 American Unitarian Association, and a 
 member of the American Bar Association. 
 Residence: 708 Park Avenue. Office: U. 
 S. Court House, Baltimore. 
 
 MORRISON, Andrew J.: 
 
 Educator; born at Bucks County, Pa., 
 Feb. 14, 1844; son of Joseph and Eleanor 
 (Addis) Morrison. He was educated in 
 the Philadelphia public schools, the Central 
 High School and Tennent Academy. He 
 began teaching at Pleasantville, Bucks 
 County; was subsequently principal of Till- 
 yer. Wheat Sheaf, and Landreth Schools, 
 Philadelphia; Kaighn School, Camden, N. 
 J.; Irving School, and Northern Liberties 
 School, in Philadelphia ; professor of mathe- 
 matics at the Central High School, 1881- 
 1883; assistant superintendent of public 
 schools in Philadelphia, 1883-1898; acting 
 superintendent of public schools, 1891; 
 and has been principal of the North- 
 east Manual Training High School since 
 1898. He is an active member of 
 the National Educational Association. 
 Philadelphia Teachers' Organizations, Penn- 
 sylvania Historical Society, and Bucks 
 County Historical Society. He married 
 in Bucks County, Pa., March 9, 1865, 
 Julia H. Jones, and they have five children. 
 Residence: 2205 West Venauga Street. 
 Office: Northeast Manual Training High 
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 Schools. Lehigh Avenue and Kiglith Street, 
 
 Phila.iel|)hia. 
 
 MORRISON, Charles King: 
 
 Lawyci ; born in New York City, .luiie 
 24, 1807; son of George Au.slin and Lucy 
 Anne (King) Morrison. He was gnuluuteJ 
 from Harvard University, A.B., 1H91, and 
 from Columbia College I^iw School, LL.B., 
 1S94. He was admitted to New York bar 
 in 1890 and has since then been engaged in 
 practice in New York City. He is partner 
 in the law firm of Morrison and ^[orri.son. 
 Mr. ilorrison is a member of the Son.s of 
 Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, St. 
 Andrew's Society, St. George's Society, and 
 of the Metropolitan, Westchester Country 
 and Harvard Glubs. Address: 591 Fifth 
 Avenue. New York City. 
 
 MORRISON, James Dow: 
 
 Bisliop of Duluth; born at Waddington, 
 N. Y. ; son of Rev. John and Mary (Dow) 
 Morrison. He was graduated from ilcGill 
 University, Montreal, B.A., 1865, M.A., 
 1868; LL.D. in 1880; also received its D.D. 
 from Union College in 1879. He was or- 
 dained deacon of the Church of England 
 at Quebec, in 1869, and the following year 
 was ordained priest at Montreal. He offi- 
 ciated as deacon and afterwards priest in 
 churches at Magog, Canada, loOy, Hem- 
 mingford, Quebec. 1869 1871, and of Epis- 
 copal churches at Herkimer, N. Y., 1871- 
 1875, Ogden=.burg, 1875-1897. He was ex- 
 amining chaplain to the bishop of Albany, 
 1873-1897, and archdeacon of Ogdenburg 
 1881-1897. He was a deputy of the General 
 Convention 18S2-1S97. He became bishop 
 of Duluth, Minn., in 1897 and was conse- 
 crated by Bishops Doane, Huntington and 
 Gilbert. He is author of: Rcconlirmation 
 of Romanists. 1895; Fundamental Church 
 Principles (Paddock Lectures, 1899). 
 Bishop Morrison married in 1809, Harriet 
 M. Townsend of Montreal, Can. Address: 
 Dulutli. :\Iinn. 
 
 MORRISON, John Tracy: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-governor: bom in Jef- 
 ferson' Count v, Pa., Dec. 25, 1860; son of 
 
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 -John and Sopliia Elizaliofli (Tracy) ^lor- 
 rison. He was graduated from the Univer- 
 sity of Wooster, Ohio, A.B., 1887, and A.M., 
 18li0, and from Cornell University LL.B., 
 1890. He was admitted to the bar of 
 Idaho in 1800, and practised in Caldwell. 
 He became active in the politics of the State 
 as a Republican, was secretary in 1896, 
 and chairman, 1897-1890, of the State Re- 
 publican Committee, and governor of Idaho, 
 190;M905. Since then he has practised 
 law at Boise. Governor Morrison is a 
 prominent layman of the Presbyterian 
 Church, and has been three times a com- 
 missioner from the Presbytery of Idaho to 
 the General Assembly of that Church. He 
 married at Jamestown, N. Y., July 8, 1880, 
 Grace Darling Mac-key. Address: Boise, 
 Idaho. 
 
 MORRISON, Theodore Nevin: 
 
 Bishop of Iowa; l)0rn at Ottawa, 111., 
 Feb. 18, 18.50; son of Rev. Theodore Nevin 
 and Ann Eliza (Howland) Morrison. He 
 was graduated from Illinois College, A.B., 
 1870, and from the General Theological 
 Seminary, New York City, B.D., 1873. The 
 tlegree of D.D. was conferred upon him by 
 Illinois College in 1895, the degree of 
 S.T.D. by the Western Theological Semi- 
 nary in 1905. He was ordered deacon of 
 the Episcopal Church in 1873 by Bishop 
 Whitehouse and ordained priest by Bishop 
 ]\IcLaron in 1876. During the years 1874 
 1o 1870, he was connected with St. Paul's 
 Church, Pekiu, 111.; in 1876 he took charge 
 of the Churcli of tlie Epiphany, Chicago, 
 officiating in that church until 1S99 when 
 he was made Bishop of Iowa. Address: 
 Dasciipoit, Iowa. 
 
 MORRISON, Thomas A.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Plcasantville, Pa., May 4, 
 1840. His paternal grandparents came 
 from the North of Ireland, and his fathei-, 
 ^\'i]liam Morrison, was born in Centre 
 County, Pa., in 1804; his mother was 
 Elizai)eth McMaster, of Scottish descent. 
 He received a common school and academic 
 education at Plcasantville; courses at Penn- 
 sylvania State Normal School of Edinboro, 
 Pa., and Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and at one 
 
 time he taught school. In July, 1862, he 
 enlisted as a private in Company A, 121st 
 Pennsylvania Volunteers, and lost his left 
 arm and received a severe wound in the 
 left knee at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 
 1862. He spent the winter of 1862-18G3 in 
 Armory Square Hospital, at Washington, 
 D. C. ; was discharged in April, 1863. He 
 filled the office of justice of the peace at 
 Plcasantville, Pa., 1864-1865; was treas- 
 urer of Venango County, 1868-1869; deputy 
 internal revenue collector of Oil City, Pa. 
 He read law and was admitted to the bar 
 in Venango County, and practised his pro- 
 fession at Pleasantville, until 1879, when 
 he removed to Smethport and was in active 
 practice there until September, 1887, when 
 he was appointed by Governor Beaver judge 
 of the 48th Judicial District; in November 
 of the same year elected to the same judi- 
 cial office for a term of ten years from 
 January, 1888; in 1897 was reelected for 
 another term of ten years. During his 
 second term McKean County was made a 
 separate judicial district, and on Sept. 10, 
 1901, he was commissioned president judge 
 of the 48th District. He served on the 
 bench until December, 1902, when he was 
 appointed a judge of tlie Superior Court of 
 Pennsylvania by Governor Stone, to fill the 
 vacancy caused by the retirement of Judge 
 John I. Mitchell; on December 30, 1902, 
 he was commissioned a judge of the Super- 
 ior Court until the first Monday of Jan- 
 uary, 1904; was nominated bj' the Repub- 
 lican party of Pennsylvania, for a ten-year 
 term on the bench of the Superior Court, 
 and in November, 1903, was elected and 
 commissioned by the governor to serve term 
 of ten years from Jan., 1904. He married 
 at Warsaw, N. Y., March 31, 1870, Helen 
 S. Gardner. Address: Smethport, Pa. 
 
 MORROW, Dwight Whitney: 
 
 Lawyer; born in llunliiigton, W. Va., 
 Jan. 11, 1873; son of James E. Morrow, 
 and Clara (Johnson) Morrow. He was 
 graduated from Amherst, B..\. in 1895, and 
 Columbia, LL.B., 1899. Mr. Morrow is a 
 member of the firm of Simpson, Thacher 
 and Bartlett, and director of the Montreal 
 Locomotive Works. He is a member of 
 
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 the American Bar Association, New York 
 State and City Bar Associations, also of the 
 Railroad, City, Englewood, and Coif Clubs. 
 He married in Cleveland, Ohio, June 16, 
 1903, Elizabeth Keeve Cutler, and they have 
 three children. Residence: Englewood, N. 
 J. Office: 02 Cedar Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 MORROW, William W.: 
 
 Jurist; born on a farm in Wayne County, 
 Ind., July 15, 1843; son of William and 
 Margaret (Hood) Morrow. The family re- 
 moved to Illinois in 1845, and from there 
 to California in 1859. He was educated 
 in the public schools of Illinois and Califor- 
 nia, afterward studied law and engaged in 
 practice, 1869-1891. He became distin- 
 guished at the bar, was assistant U. S. at- 
 1;orney for California, 1870-1874, and special 
 counsel for tlie United States before the 
 Frencn and American claims Commission, 
 1882-1885. He was appointed U. S. District 
 judge for the Northern District of Califor- 
 nia Dy President Harrison in 1891, and in 
 1897 was appointed by President McKinley 
 to his present office of U. S. circuit judge 
 for the Ninth Circuit. Judge Morrow mar- 
 ried, June 18, 1865, Margaret Hulbert. 
 Residence: San Rafael, Calif. Office: 
 Post-Office Building, San Francisco. 
 
 MORSCHAUSER, Joseph: 
 
 Jurist; born in Hyde Park, Dutchess 
 County. N. Y., March 30, 1863; son of Jo- 
 seph and Henrietta (Rottman) Morschauser. 
 He was educated in common .schools and by 
 private tutors. He was admitted to the bar 
 of New York State, 1884, and engaged in 
 practice of law at Poughkeepsie. He was 
 justice of the peace, 1886-1892; also civil 
 service commissioner, Poughkeepsie, 1889- 
 1890; recorder of Poughkeepsie, 1899-1900; 
 city judge, 1902-1906; elected November, 
 1906, justice of the Supreme Court of New 
 York for the Ninth District, for term ex- 
 piring Dec. 31, 1920. He married in Rough 
 keepsie, N. Y., Jan. 27, 1889, Katherine W. 
 Bauer. Address: Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
 
 MORSE, Bushrod: 
 
 Jurist ; born in Sharon, Mass., Aug. 24, 
 1837; son of Willard and Eliza (Glover) 
 
 Morse. He i.s a lineal descendant of Sam- 
 uel Morse, who eanie to DorchcHlcr, ManH., 
 in 1634; and among liis collateral aiicchturH 
 are Professor Samuel ]•'. IJ. .Mor^c, the in- 
 ventor of the electric telf)rru|ili ; iienjainin 
 Franklin, patriot and (lii)loniut ; and Chief 
 Justice Kent. Judgi- Morse attended the 
 public schools of his native town, the Provi- 
 dence (R. 1.) Conference Seminary, and the 
 Pierce Academy at Middleboni. Massachu- 
 setts, and in 1856 entered Andiersl Collej^c. 
 Ill health linally compelled him to abandon 
 a cherished collegiate cour.se, and after re- 
 ciii)erating he took up the study of law, 
 first in North Easton, .Mass., afterward in 
 Boston. He was admitted to the SulTolk 
 bar, Nov. 5, 1864, and since then has been 
 engaged in active practice in Boston, and 
 during recent years he has given his at- 
 tention chieliy to a large probate and in- 
 solvency business, in 1864 (Jovernor An 
 drew appointed him a justice of the peace, 
 wiiich oilue he has ever since held, and on 
 May 13, 1S91. Governor Russell appointed 
 him the first sjx'cial justice of the IJistrict 
 Court for Southern Norfolk, which he also 
 still holds. He has continuously resided in 
 Sharon on the old Morse homestead, a pii-- 
 tures(jue estate lu ar Lake Massajioag, which 
 descended to him and his brothers from 
 their great-grandfatiier, Gilead Moi>e, an 
 English soldier under General Wolfe, who 
 bought it on his return from the French 
 War in 1764, until 1900 wht-n he became 
 a resident of Brnokline, Mass. Judge Morse 
 was chairman of tlie Sharon Schot)l Com- 
 mittee for a long lime and served in the 
 Massachusetts Legislature in 1870, 1883, 
 and 1884. He was formerly a member of 
 the Democratic State Central Committee; 
 delegate to the National Democratic Con- 
 vention at Cincinnati. 1S8U, and candidate 
 for presidential elector in 1884 and 1888. 
 in JS86 and 1890 he was the Democratic 
 candidate for Congress in the Second Mas- 
 sachusetts district. Address: 27 School 
 Street, Boston. 
 
 MORSE, Charles H.: 
 
 Dirci-tor of mu-ic in Dartmouth College; 
 born in Bradford, Mas.-.. Jan. 5, 1853; son 
 of P:ben D. Morse, and Mary A. (Blaisdell) 
 Morse. He received his education in the 
 
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 New England Conservatory of Music, and 
 Boston University College of Music, from 
 which he received the degree of B.M. He 
 was professor of music, and director of the 
 College of ]\Iusic, Wellesley College, 1875- 
 18S4; founder and director of the North- 
 western Conservatory of Music, Minneapo 
 lis, Minn., 1885-1891; organist and choir- 
 master of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, 
 1891-1899; president of the New York State 
 Music Teachers Association, 1895-1897, and 
 director of music in Dartmouth College, 
 since 1901. Mr. Morse is a concert organ- 
 ist, conductor, teacher of piano, organ, voice 
 and theory, and a composer and editor. He 
 is a founder of the American Guild of Or- 
 ganists; a member of the Appalachian 
 Mountain Club of Boston; conductor of the 
 Connecticut Valley Choir Union. He mar- 
 ried in West Fairlee, Vt., Dec. 24, 1874, 
 Frances S. N. Kimball, and has two chil- 
 dren. Address: Dartmouth College, Han- 
 over, N. H. 
 
 MORSE, Horace J.: 
 
 Banker and broker; bofn in Norwalk, 
 Ohio, 1838; son of Charles A. and Lauretta 
 Morse. He was educated in Lockport, N. 
 Y., and Cambridge, Mass. He was adju- 
 tant-general of the State of Connecticut 
 during the Civil War. Mr. Morse has been 
 a member of New York Stock Exchange 
 since May 8, 1809; is senior member of the 
 firm of A. M. Kidder and Company, and 
 vice-president of the People's Trust Com- 
 panj'. He is a member of the Sons of the 
 American Revolution, Oliio Society of New 
 York, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci- 
 ences, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
 to Children, and of the Hamilton and Rem- 
 brandt Clubs of Brooklyn. Mr. Morse mar- 
 ried in Hartford, Conn., 1862, Frances E. 
 Trask. Summer residence : Greyl edge, Dark 
 Harbor, Maine. Residence: 820 St. Mark's 
 Avenue, Brooklyn. Office: 18 Wall Street, 
 New "N'ork City. 
 
 MORSE, Richard Gary; 
 
 (.cneral .-.etretary of the International 
 Young Men's Christian Association; born 
 in Hudson, N. Y., Sept. 19, 1841; son of 
 Richard C. and Sarah L. (Davis) Morse. 
 
 He was graduated from Y'^ale, B.A., 1862, 
 A.M., 1865, and studied theology at the 
 Princeton and Union Theological Seminaries 
 until 1867. He was assistant editor of the 
 New York Observer, 1867 1868; was or- 
 dained to the ministry of the Presbyterian 
 Church, in January, 1869, and has been 
 general secretary of the International Com- 
 mittee of Y^oung Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion of North America, with headquarters 
 in New York City, since June, 1869; and 
 honorary American secretary since 1878 of 
 World's Committee of Y'oung Men's Chris- 
 tian Association, with headquarters at 
 Geneva, Switzerland. He has also been an 
 American member since 1896 of the Manag- 
 ing Committee of the World's Student 
 Christian Federation, a member since 1885 
 of the Graduate Committee of Yale Univer- 
 sity Young Men's Christian Association. 
 He is advisory director of the New York 
 City Young Men's Christian Association ; 
 and member of the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni 
 Association. He is author of: Young 
 Men's Christian Association, as it is, 1872, 
 1877; Young Men United, 1886; State Work 
 of the Y^oung Men's Christian Association, 
 1891; Life of R. R. McBurney, 1899; Polity 
 of the Young Men's Christian Association ; 
 Fifty Years of Young Men's Christian As- 
 sociation Federation, 1905; Relation to the 
 Churclies of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association Federation, 1905; Relation to 
 the Churches of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association. Mr. Morse married in Brook- 
 lyn, 1883, Jane E. Van Cott. Address: 3 
 West 29th Street, New York City. 
 
 MORSE, Robert M.: 
 
 Lawyer; Born in Boston, Aug. 11, 1837. 
 lie was graduated from Harvard College in 
 1857. After graduating he studied at the 
 Harvard Law School, and was admitted to 
 tlie bar in Januarj^ I860; and since that 
 time he has been in practice in Boston. 
 lie rose rapidly to success in his profession 
 and for the last forty j-ears he has been 
 retained in a large proportion of the im- 
 portant cases which have come before tlie 
 Massachusetts courts; and has been en- 
 gaged also in the United States Circuit 
 and Supreme Courts. Mr. Morse has rarely 
 
J.KVi Parsons Morion 
 Ex-Vice President of the United (States 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 i2or 
 
 undertaken any jjublic work outside of his 
 profession. In 18GG and 18G7, he was a 
 member of the State Senate, and in 1880 of 
 the House of Roprosontatives. In the 
 former body he drafted and introduced the 
 bill for the repeal of the usury laws, which 
 became a law. In 1880 he was chairman 
 of the House Committee on the Judiciary 
 and leader of the House. Mr. Morse is 
 one of the most prominent members of the 
 legal profession, both as a general coun- 
 sellor and as an advocate. Address: Bos- 
 ton, Mass. 
 
 MOKTON, Levi Parsons: 
 
 Former vice-president of the United 
 States, and former governor of New York; 
 Born in Shoreham, Vt., May 16, 1824; 
 youngest son of Rev. Daniel Oliver Morton 
 and Lucretia (Parsons) Morton; direct de- 
 scendant of George Morton, of Bawtry, 
 Yorkshire, England, one of the Pilgrim 
 fathers who landed at Plymouth, Mass., 
 from the ship Ann in 1623. He was edu- 
 cated at Shoreham Academy ; and he re- 
 ceived the degree of LL.D. from Dartmouth 
 College, July 14, 1891, and from Middle- 
 burg College in 1892. On completion of 
 tiis academy course, he engaged in mer- 
 cantile business, and when twenty years old 
 began business at Hanover, N. H., continu- 
 ing about five years. In 1849 he became 
 connected with the house of James M. 
 Beeue and Company, Boston, as clerk; 
 joined the firm later as partner, and after 
 about five years came to New York City 
 and established the wholesale dry goods 
 commission house of Morton and Grinnell. 
 In 1863 he went into the banking business, 
 establishing the house of Morton, Bliss and 
 Company, and in connection with Sir John 
 Rose, who was late financial minister of 
 Canada, founded the house of Morton, Rose 
 and Company, London. He made a careful 
 study of the financial transactions of the 
 United States Government, and his firm was 
 one of the syndicates which successfully 
 assisted in funding the national debt and 
 made the resumption of specie payments 
 possible at a fixed rate. The London firm 
 were the first fiscal agents of the United 
 States Government, from 1873 to 1884, and 
 were again appointed in 1889. In the ne- 
 
 gotiation of the United Slates bondM, and 
 the payment of the (icnevii .Award of $!.'>.• 
 r)()0.()00, and the Halifax Kislior awanl of 
 $5,500,000, his firm was axsociatod witli 
 Messrs. Rothschilds and othrr London bank- 
 ers. The firm of Morton. Bliss an<l Com- 
 pany was dissolved, Oct. 1, ISitl), and was 
 succeeded by tin; Morton Trust Company, 
 of which he has ever since been president ; 
 and he also continued at head of the London 
 houses of Morton, Rose and Company until 
 its dissolution. Governor Morton was ap- 
 pointed in 187S, by President Havf^. hon- 
 orary connnissioner of the United Stales to 
 the Paris Exposition; was elected in 187S 
 and 1880, to the Forty-sixth and Forty- 
 seventh Congresses, serving from 1870 to 
 1883, and was influential in financial legis- 
 lation, and strongly opposed the iinliniited 
 coinage of silver in 1879. He was also 
 deeply interested in international politics 
 and the relations of the United States with 
 other countries, and was member of the 
 Foreign Affairs Committee of the Forty- 
 sixth Congress. He was informally tendered 
 the Republican nomination for vice presi- 
 dent at the Chicago Convention in 1880, but 
 declined it, preferring to remain in Con- 
 gress; subsequenth' he was given choice 
 between a place in the Cabinet as secretary 
 of State, Secretary of the Navy or the 
 French mission, and chose the latter, serv- 
 ing from 1881 to 1885. While in that 
 position ho was able to secure the removal 
 of restrictions upon the Importation of 
 American pork to France, and the recogni- 
 tion of American corporations in that coun- 
 try. He drove the first rivet in the Bar- 
 tholdi Statue of Liberty Enlightening the 
 World, and had the honor of aciepting it 
 for his Government; represented the United 
 States at the Paris Electrical Exposition, 
 and at the Submarine Cable Convention; 
 was nominated for vice-pre>ident of the 
 United States by the Republican party in 
 1888, at the Chicago Convention, and was 
 elected on the presidential ticket with Ben- 
 jamin Harrison, serving from 1880 to ISO.'J, 
 and discharging with ability and in an im 
 partial manner the duties of presiding of- 
 ficer of the Senate; and in 1804 he was 
 elected governor of New York, serving from 
 1895 to 1897. He is president and director 
 
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 of tlie Morton Trust Company; president 
 and director of the Fifth Avenue Trust 
 Company and a director of the Bank of 
 Commerce, of the Equitable Life Assurance 
 Society, of tlie Home Insurance Company, 
 of tlie Washington Life Insurance Company 
 and of the Guaranty Trust Company. He 
 is president of the New York Zoiiiogieal 
 Society; member of the New England So- 
 ciety. Sons of the American Revolution, 
 the Colonial Society of American and May- 
 flower descendants, and is president and 
 director of the INIetropolitan Club, and also 
 a member of the Union, Union League, Law- 
 yers' and Republican Clubs. Governor Mor- 
 ton married twice; first to Lucy Kimball, 
 wlio died in 1871; second, in 1873, to Anna 
 Livingston, daughter of W. L. Street and 
 granddaughter of General Randolph S. 
 Street, and descendant of the Livingstons, 
 Van Rensselaers and Schuylers, old Man- 
 hattan families, and he had five children by 
 his second wife, three of whom are living: 
 Edilh Livingston, who married, A])ril 30, 
 1!)0(), William Corcoran Eustis; Helen, who 
 married in London, October, 1901, the Comte 
 (le Peiigord, now IJnc De Valencery; and 
 Alice, who married, February, 1902, Win- 
 throp Rutherford. Country home: Ellcs 
 lie, Rhineclifl", Rhinebeck-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
 Residence: G81 Fifth Avenue, New York 
 City. 
 
 MOSCHOWITZ, Paul: 
 
 .\iii>t; bdiTi in Giralt. Hungary. March 
 4, 1876; son of Maurice and Rose (Baum- 
 garten) Mosehowitz. He was educated by 
 private tutors in Hungary, and at public 
 schools and evening high schools in New 
 York City. He is an associate of the Na- 
 tional Academy of Design, New York; and 
 instructor in portrait painting, at Pratt In- 
 stitute, Brooklyn, N. Y. He is a trustee 
 of the Artists' Aid Society. New York. Mr. 
 Mosehowitz is a portrait and landscape 
 j)ainter, studied with IT. S. Ombray, New 
 York City, and with Constant, Laurens and 
 Wliistler, in Paris. He has exhibited at 
 the Academy of Design and Society of Am- 
 erican and the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 
 tions; was awarded silver medal at Louis 
 iana Purchase Exposition in 1904. Mr. 
 
 Moscliowitz married in New York City, 
 •July 15, 1905, Madeline M. Raab. Address: 
 114' East 22d Street, New York City. 
 
 MOSENTHAL, Philip James: 
 
 Insurance, fire prevention expert; born at 
 Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, March 1, 
 1SG4; son of Herman and Marie Elise 
 Mosenthal. He was graduated from the 
 College of the City of New York, B.S., 1883, 
 M.S., 1889. He became a member of the 
 firm of H. Mosenthal and Son, founded in 
 1808; makes a specialty of advising with 
 owners and architects in building construc- 
 tion for safety and low insurance cost; has 
 made plans as to fire prevention and ex- 
 tinguishing for Manhattan and Belmont ho- 
 tels. The New Theatre, Saks and Company, 
 and B, Altman and Company's department 
 store, Steinway and Sons piano factories, 
 •John Stephenson Company's car works, Eli- 
 zabeth, New Jersey, Carnegie Hall and 
 other important structures. These struct- 
 ures are considered the safest of their kind 
 and carry the lowest rates of insurance of 
 any similar fire risks, possibly, in the United 
 States. He has been active in the People's 
 Municipal League, Good Government Clubs 
 and Citizens' Union. He was member of 
 governing bodies of these organizations, dis- 
 trict and general; has worked with the 
 Reform Club's tariff committees. He was 
 one of the founders of the University Set- 
 tlement, and for twelve years actively at 
 work in it. He is a member of the Na- 
 tional Fire Protection Association, Natural 
 Historical Association, American Numis- 
 7natic Society, National Geographic Society, 
 .\merican Forestry Association, National 
 Society of Craftsmen (treasurer), Metro- 
 politan Museum, aiul American Fine Arts 
 Society. He is also a member of the Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society and the National Arts, 
 Underwriters, Reform and Licderkranz 
 Clubs. Address: 95 William Street, New 
 \'ork City. 
 
 MOSES, Raphael J.: 
 
 Lawyer; horn in A]iala(hicola, Fla., Dec. 
 11, 1844; moved with family in 1849 to a 
 fruit farm (wliich he and his sisters now 
 own) wliicli !iis father bouglil, six miles 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 east of Colunihus, Ga. He received his 
 education in private schools. He entered 
 the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, 
 Md., September, 1860; rcsif^ned, January, 
 1861; joined the Georgia Navy, February, 
 1861: and tlio Confederate Provisional 
 Xavy, April, 1861. He was with Tatnall 
 at tiic battle of Port Royal, S. C., and went 
 with him to the Merrimac (called the Vir- 
 ginia by the Confederate Government) ; was 
 on lior when she burned on James River 
 when tlie Confederate Army evacuated the 
 Peninsula. He was on staff of General 
 Robert Toombs during the Seven Days' Bat- 
 tle around Richmond in 1862, and on the 
 stafl" of General Benning of Georgia, on the 
 retreat from Richmond, surrcndeiing with 
 General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court 
 House. He was a prisoner in 1864 and 
 January and February, 1865, in Fort Dela- 
 ware, ran the blockade outward, March, 
 1863, as a Confederate midshipman, to go 
 on the Laird Rams, then being built at 
 Liverpool : ran back again on the Helen 
 Wilmington; and went out from Charles- 
 ton. He was admitted to the bar in May, 
 1866, in Columbus. Ga. ; practised there six 
 years, and since January, 1872, has been 
 practising in New York City, with a spe- 
 cialty in insurance law and receiverships, 
 i-ince 1900, he has refused all new law busi- 
 ness and is devoting his time exclusively to 
 closing the old cases and studying the prin- 
 ciple of aerodynamics, especially in relation 
 to aeroplanes. In politics he is a Democrat 
 and in religion a Hebrew. He is a member 
 of the American Bar Association, New York 
 State Bar Association, Association of the 
 Bar of the City of New York, United Con- 
 federate Veterans, and a member of the 
 Lotos Club and Aero Club of America. 
 Mr. Moses married in Liverpool, England, 
 1865, Georgina Samuel, and they have three 
 sons living: Arthur S. Luria (name 
 changed to keep up extinct family name), 
 Laurence H. Moses and Percival R. Moses, 
 and two daughters. Address: 46 West 
 Ninety-seventh Street, New York City. 
 
 MOSHER, Robert Brent: 
 
 Consular otlicer ; born in the District of 
 Columbia. He was appointed clerk in the 
 Department of State at $1,000, on proba- 
 
 tion, under Civil Service rulcH, July 19, 
 1890; jicrnumeiitly, class one, Jan. 19, 1891 ; 
 class tliree Nov. 4, 1895; class four .Ian. 
 6, 1896; designated to act as appointment 
 clerk, Jan. 2:5, 1897; a|)poiiited chief of the 
 Bureau of Appointments July 7, 1898, ihir- 
 ing wliicli time he edited and puhlislicd the 
 "E.xecutive Regi-^ter of the United States, 
 1789-1902," and was a contributor to the 
 Encyclopedia Americana. He was apixtintcd 
 consul at Collingwood, March 10, 1905; 
 api)ointed consul at Port Elizabeth, Nov. 
 21, 1906. Address: Port Eli/abrlli. Caju- 
 of Good Hope, Africa. 
 
 MOSLER, Henry: 
 
 Genre i)ainter; born in New York City, 
 June 6, 1841; son of Gustav and Soi)hii' 
 (Wiener) Mosler; removed to Cincinnati in 
 1851. He studied in Cincinnati under .1. 
 H. Beard; went with the Western Army as 
 artist correspondent for Haiper's Weekly, 
 in 1862 and 1863; and was appointed on 
 the staff of General R. W. Johnson. He 
 afterward studied in Paris under II6bert. 
 lie lived in Paris and had a studio for 
 many years and received prizes and medals 
 from tlie Paris Salon and the Paris Exposi- 
 tions, and from the Royal Academy at 
 Munich. He was made chevalier of the 
 Legion d'Honncur and officer d'Acad(''mie in 
 1892. His picture Le Retour (1879) was 
 purchased by the French Government for 
 the Museum of the Luxendjourg. Mr. Mos 
 ler was the winner of the Clarke prize of 
 the National Academy of Design in 1896. 
 His picture Wedding Morning was bought 
 by tlie Museum of Sidney, Au.stralia, and 
 he has pictures in many other permanent 
 collections. Mr. Mosler is a companion of 
 the Military Order of tlie Loyal Legion. 
 Address: 42 West 88th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 MOSS, Frank: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Cold Spring. N. Y., 
 :\Iarc]i 16, I860; son of John R. and Eliza 
 (Wood) Moss. He was educated in private 
 and public schools in New York City. Mr. 
 Moss was president of the New York City 
 Police Board in 1897: director and counsel 
 for the Society of Prevention of Crime; 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 leader in the reform movements in New 
 York City; associate counsel in the Lexow 
 Investigation; leading counsel in the Mazet 
 Investigation. He is active in city cam- 
 paigns on reform issues, making speeches in 
 all parts of the city and serving on com- 
 mittees. As president of the City Vigilance 
 League, and as director in and counsel for 
 the Society for the Prevention of Crime; 
 lie has directed movements for the preven- 
 tion and suppression of crime and of alli- 
 ances between criminals and corrupt of- 
 ficials. Mr. Moss is professor of medical 
 jurisprudence and a member of the faculty 
 of the New York Medical College and Hos- 
 pital for Women ; director of the New Y'^ork 
 City Church Extension Societj% and of the 
 Fedei^ation of Churches. He is avithor of: 
 The American Metropolis — a history of 
 New York City, and pamphlets and maga- 
 zine articles on civic subjects. In politics 
 he is a Republican and in his religious 
 affiliation a Methodist. Mr. Moss is a mem- 
 ber of the Association of the Bar of the 
 Citj^ of New York, the New York Law In- 
 stitute, the New York Historic Association, 
 the Society for the Prevention of Crime, the 
 City Vigilance League, the Citizens' Union 
 Executive Committee, the Epworth League 
 and other societies of the Union League 
 and Republican clubs. He married in New 
 York City, in 1883, Eva E. Bruce, and they 
 have two children. Address: 299 Broad- 
 A\ay, New York City. 
 
 MOSS, Eoswell Eaudall: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, Oct. 16, 
 1845; son of Reuben E. and Harriet N. 
 (Randall) Moss. He was educated in pub- 
 lie schools in New Y'^ork City and Brooklyn, 
 and attended high school two winters in 
 Elmira, N. Y. He was admitted to the bar 
 in 1874, and has been in active practice 
 since; member of the law firms of Youmans 
 and Moss, and Youmans, Moss and Knipp; 
 and practising alone since the death of Ed- 
 ward B. Youmans in 1898. He has been 
 referee in bankruptcy, 1898-1900, in the 
 Jsorthern District; since 1900 in the West- 
 ern District of New York. Mr. Moss has 
 served as a member of Board of Education ; 
 is a member of Sons of the American Revo- 
 
 lution, the New Y'ork State Bar Association, 
 National Association of Referees in Bank- 
 ruptcy, National Civic Federation, Elmira 
 Academy of Sciences, and is a member of 
 the Century and Country Clubs of Elmira. 
 He married in Elmira, N. Y''., June 7, 1876, 
 Anna D. Mason, daughter of George W. 
 and Elizabeth (Collingwood) Mason, and 
 they have two children. Address: Elmira, 
 N. \^ 
 
 MOSSMAN, John Malcolm: 
 
 Manufacturer of safes and locks; born 
 in New York City, June 9, 1846; son of 
 Malcolm and Christina (Watson) Mossman. 
 He was educated in the public schools. He 
 is president of the J. M. Mossman Com- 
 pany, safes and locks, and president of 
 Rogers Land Company, Paterson, N. J. He 
 designed and superintended the construction 
 of the vaults of the New Y^ork Clearing 
 House,, New Y^ork Stock Exchange, Union 
 Trust Company, United States Trust Com- 
 pany, Central Trust Company, Manhattan 
 Trust Company, Metropolitan Trust Com- 
 pany, Chemical National Bank, Bank of 
 America, Bank of New Y^ork, J. P. Morgan 
 and Company, Mechanics' National Bank, 
 Equitable Life Assurance Society, Mutual 
 Life Insurance Company, Metropolitan Life 
 Insurance Company. Washington Life In- 
 surance Company, Knickerbocker Trust 
 Company, Bank of Montreal, Montreal, 
 (Canada. He is a member of the Dutch Re- 
 formed Collegiate Church at 77th Street 
 and West End Avenue. He is a member 
 of the New York Historical Society, Gen- 
 eral Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, 
 and American Institute; trustee of Hahne- 
 mann Hospital, the North Western Dis- 
 pensary, Maiden Lane Savings Bank and 
 Fidelity Trust Com]^any. and is a member 
 of the New York Athletic Club. _ :Mr. Moss- 
 man married, Nov. 9, 1887, Evelyn Angus, 
 and they have one son. Address: 55 
 Maiden Lano. New York City. 
 
 MOTT, Frank Henry: 
 
 Lawj'cr; born in Russell, Warren County, 
 Pa., Feb. 9, 1873; son of Aaron Van Rens- 
 selaer and Flora (Russell) Mott; his an- 
 cestors being among tlie pioneer settlers of 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 the Hudson Rivor Valloy and of Rhode Is- 
 land, as well as Noil Invest orn Pennsylvania 
 and Chautauqua County, N. Y. He re- 
 ceived his education in the village schools 
 of Russell, Pa., in the public \n<^\\ school of 
 Jamestown, N. Y., and in BulTalo Law 
 School. He is engaged in the general i)rac- 
 tice of law in Jamestown and professionally 
 represents important interests. He was 
 Democratic candidate for secretary of State 
 in 1902, and citizens' candidate for mayor 
 of Jamestown in 1906, being nearly elected 
 in each instance ; delegate to the Democratic 
 National Convention of 1900, and on the 
 committee representing New York, formally 
 to notify Mr. Bryan of his nomination ; and 
 has been a delegate from Chautauqua 
 County to State Conventions for past ten 
 years. Ho was a member of the Board of 
 Education of City of Jamestown for four 
 years, resigning Jan. 1, 1907, to accept ap 
 pointment as deputy attorney-general of 
 New York State under Attorney-General 
 Jackson. He is a frequent speaker on pa- 
 triotic, memorial, literary, industrial and 
 economic subjects. He is a member of the 
 Elks, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias; 
 member, secretaiy and treasurer of James- 
 town Chapter of the Sons of the Revolution, 
 and a member of the State Bar Association 
 and Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. Resi- 
 dence: 910 Main Street. Address: Fen- 
 ton Building, Jamestown, N. Y. 
 
 MOTT, John R.: 
 
 Secretary of the International Committee 
 of the Young Men's Christian Association; 
 born at Livingston Manor, New York, Mny 
 25, 1S65; son of John S. and Elmira 
 (Dodge) Mott. He was graduated from 
 Cornell University, A.B. in 1888 and re- 
 ceived the honorary degree of M.A. from 
 Y'ale. He has been secretary of the student 
 Young Men's Christian Association since 
 1888; chairman Student Volunteer Move- 
 ment since 1S88; general secretary of 
 World's Student Christian Federation since 
 1895; secretary of the Foreign Department 
 of the International Committee, Young 
 Men's Christian Associations since 1898; 
 and associate general secretary of the In- 
 ternational Committee since 1901. He made 
 
 a tour of world. 1895-1807. in intiTPst of 
 the student Christian niovoinc-nt ; n^nin in 
 190i, special tours to all parts of Europe, 
 South Afriea, South America, and .\u>*trnl- 
 asia on a similar mission. Ho i« author of: 
 Strategic Points in the WorM's Conqiicsl, 
 1897; Evangelization of tlie WorJil in 'l"hi^ 
 Generation, 190(t; Pastor and Modern Mis- 
 sions, 1904; Cliristians of Realty (published 
 in Shanghai), 1902; The Future Lcader- 
 sliip of the Church, 190H; also numerous 
 brochures and magazine articles. He is a 
 member of Phi Beta Kappa and was elected 
 fellow of the Royal (Jeogra])liical Society in 
 1903. Mr. Mott married in Wooster, Oliio, 
 Nov. 26, 1891, Leila Ada White, and they 
 have four children. Address: 124 East 
 28th Street, New York City. 
 
 MOTT, Luther W.: 
 
 Banker; born in Oswego, N. Y., Nov. .30, 
 1874; son of John T. and Alice J. (Wright) 
 i\Iott. He was educated in Oswego High 
 School, and was graduated from Harvard 
 College, A.B. in 1890. He was engaged in 
 newspaper work for one year, and since that 
 time has been in the banking business, being 
 vice-president and cashier of the First Na- 
 tional Bank of Oswego, trustee of the Os 
 wego City Savings Bank, Auburn Trust 
 Company, Auburn, Syracuse Trust Com- 
 pany, Syracuse, Howard Thermo-tat Com- 
 pany, and the Oswego Cliamber of Com- 
 merce. Mr. Mott was vice-president of the 
 Republican League of the United States, 
 1902; superintendent of banks, N. Y. 
 State, 1907, but resigned on account of ill 
 health; delegate of the Republican National 
 Convention. 1908. and president of the Os- 
 wego Chamber of Commerce 1905-1908. He 
 is a member of the executive council, of the 
 American Bankers Association, vice-presi- 
 dent of New York State Bankers' As.socia- 
 tion. New York Genealogical and Biographi 
 cal Society, American Civic Association, 
 trustee of the Oswego Orphan Asylum, and 
 Young Men's Christian Association. He is 
 a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, 
 Founders and Patriots, and Sons of the 
 American Revolution, the City. Fortnightly. 
 Yacht, Pleasant Point, and Country Club.'^ 
 of Oswego, Harvard Club of New York City, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Fort Orange Club of Albany, and the Uni- 
 versity and Harvard Clubs of Syracuse. 
 Mr. Mott married in Oswego, Dec. 10, 1902, 
 Ruth \V. Johnson, and has three children. 
 Residence: 73 West Schuyler Street. Ad- 
 dress: First National Bank, Oswego, N. 
 Y. 
 
 MOTTET, Henry: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Germany, May 20, 
 1845; son of Joseph and Phillipine Mottet. 
 He was educated in the public schools, the 
 College of the City of New York, A.B., and 
 in the General Theological Seminary, and 
 has received the degree of D.D. from Hobart 
 College. He was a public school teacher in 
 New York City for five years. He was 
 made deacon in the ministry of the Prot- 
 estant Episcopal Church in 1873, and or- 
 dained priest in 1874. While a boy he be- 
 came a member of the Church of the Holy 
 Communion more than fifty years ago, and 
 since taking Holy Orders he has continu- 
 ousl}' ministered in that church, where he 
 became assistant minister in 1873 and was 
 elected rector in 1879. Since 1889 he has 
 raised nearly $250,000 for endowment, mak- 
 ing it possible for this free church to retain 
 its down-town position and steadily to de- 
 velop its usefulness in a section of the city 
 abandoned by the churches; and the church 
 membership is now larger than ever in the 
 past. Dr. Mottet is a trustee of St. Luke's 
 Hospital and of St. Johnland; president of 
 the Federation of Churches in New York 
 and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa So- 
 ciety and of the National Arts Club. He 
 married in New York Ci1\' in May, 1895, 
 Jeanie Gallup. Address: 47 West 20tli 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 MUCKLE, Mark Richards: 
 
 Ni'W.-paj)cr manager; born in Pliiladol- 
 phia, Sept. 10, 1825; the son of a notable 
 wood-carver and clock-maker, of German 
 birth. In 1842 he was engaged in the office 
 of the Public Ledger as errand l)Oj', later as 
 counter clerk and cashier and ullimatelj- 
 for forty years the general manager. He 
 was offered a commission of second lieuten- 
 ant in the Mexican War, and in 1853 was 
 ajipoiiitcij (jn tlic stall' of Govcnior P>ig]er, 
 
 with the rank of colonel. Was one of the 
 first to suggest the Centennial Exposition 
 held in Philadelphia, seven years prior to 
 its taking place. He joined tne German 
 -ociety iii 1853, and for thirteen years was 
 its vice president, and in 1860 was one of 
 the founders of the German Hospital, whose 
 vice-president he has been for many years. 
 He was made treasurer of the Relief Society 
 durnig the Franco-German War, forwarding 
 to Germany nearly $50,000 for the relief of 
 widows and orphans of soldiers; and subse- 
 quently was active in collecting contribu- 
 tions of books for the Imperial University 
 at Strassburg, ruined during the war. He 
 forwarded in all over 13,000 volumes in re- 
 ward for which the Emperor of Germany 
 conferred on him in 1874 the Order of the 
 Crown, and in 1883 the Military Order of 
 the Red Eagle. He has been treasurer of 
 various relief funds and has distributed 
 large sums of money to the suffering. He 
 was one of the organizers of the American 
 District Telegraph Company and was made 
 secretary and treasurer, and has been presi- 
 dent of the German- American Title and 
 Trust Company since its origin. Colonel 
 Muckle has long since risen to the highest 
 posts in the orders of Odd Fellows and Ma- 
 sons and is a member of the Art Association 
 of the Masonic Temple. He organized the 
 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
 Animals, and has served in it as president. 
 Mr. Muckle was married in 1850, and ha^ 
 two sons and one daughter living. Ad- 
 dress: 1722 Pine Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 MUDD, Sydney Emanuel: 
 
 Congri'ssman and lawyer; born in Charles 
 County, Md., Feb. 12, 1858. He was edu- 
 cated at Georgetown College and at St. 
 John's College, Annapolis, Md., graduating 
 from the latter in 1878; read law privately 
 and attended the Law Department of the 
 University of Virginia. He was admitted to 
 the bar in 1880, and has practised since; 
 was elected to the State House of Delegates 
 in 1879 and reelected in 1881; was an 
 elector on the Garfield and Arthur ticket in 
 1880; was elected to the Fifty-first and 
 defcaled foi- the Fifly-second Congress; was 
 elected ti) tiie State House of Dele<rates in 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 1805, and was spoakor of that body; was 
 (k'logato to tlic National Kopuhlican Con- 
 vention of 189(5, 1900. 1904 and 1908 and 
 was chairman of the Maryland dclcfjation in 
 all of said conventions. Mr. Mudd was 
 .■Icc.ed to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fi.xty- 
 seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth and 
 Sixtieth Congresses, and reelected, in 1908 
 to the Sixty-first Congress, from the Fifth 
 Maryland District. Address: La Plata, 
 Md. " 
 
 MUELLER, George H,: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Holstcin, Germany. 
 March 25, 1857; son of H. C. and Anna 
 (Rohwer) IMueller. He was educated in 
 the Realschule at Itzehoe, Holstein, and in 
 the Seabury Divinity School at Faribault. 
 ]\linn. He was orderetl deacon and or- 
 dained priest by Bishop Whipple in 1881; 
 was rector of All Saints' Church, North- 
 tield, Minn., 1888 1892, of St. John's. Moor- 
 head, Minn., 1892-1897, St. Peter's, St. Paul, 
 Minn.. 1897-1900 and since then rector of 
 Christ Church at Albert Lea, Minn. Mr. 
 Mueller is a member of the Standing Com- 
 mittee of the Diocese of Minnesota, and a 
 trustee of the Albert Lea College for 
 Women. He has been twice married, first 
 at Shakopee, Scott County, Minn., in 1884, 
 to Ida Sencerbox, and second, at Coopers- 
 town, N. Y., 1902, to Emma B. Nelson. Ad- 
 dress: 417 Grove Street, Albert Lea, Minn. 
 
 MUIR, John: 
 
 Explorer and naturalist; born in Dunbar, 
 Scotland, April 21, 1838; son of Daniel and 
 Anne (Gilrye) Muir. He was educated in 
 a grammar school in Dunbar and in Uni- 
 versity of Wisconsin, from which he has 
 received the degree LL.D. He has also re- 
 ceived the degree of A.M. from Howard. 
 He made long journeys afoot, mostly, and 
 alone in Canada, the Eastern and Southern 
 United States. California, and Alaska. In 
 1903 and 1904 he traveled in Europe, Rus- 
 sia, the Caucasus, Siberia, ;Manchuria. 
 Japan. China, India. Egypt, Australia and 
 New Zealand, interested chiefly in botanical 
 and geological studies. He visited the Arc- 
 tic Regions in 1880, on the United States 
 steamer Corwin in search of the De Long 
 
 expedition; and lalmriMl many yoar>* in 
 cause of forest |)reservat ion. lie in the (li»- 
 coverer of the fauKKiH Muir (ihiiier. Mr. 
 Muir is author of: The Mountains of Cali- 
 fornia; f)ur National Parks, and nunuTOiDi 
 articles dii llu- natural history of the Pacific 
 coast and Alaska; and editfd Picture>w|ui- 
 California. He is a member of the NViihh- 
 ington Academy of Science; fellow of the 
 .American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science; ])resideiit of .Surra Club; vice- 
 president of American Alpine Club, and a 
 member of the University Club oi >an 
 '•'rancisco. Mr. Muir marrie«l in 1870, 
 Louise, daughl<'r of Dr. John Strent/cl of 
 California. Addros: Martinez, Calif. 
 
 MULHOLLAND, St. Clair Augustus: 
 
 United States pension agent; born at 
 Lisburn, Ireland, April 1, 1839; .son of 
 Henry and Georgina (St. Clair) Mulhol- 
 land. He came to the United Stales in boy- 
 hood and was educated in Pennsylvania 
 schools. He married first, in 18(54, Mary 
 Dooner, by whom he had four children: 
 Agnes. Mrs. Ludwig E. Faber. Edward (died 
 in infancy), Frances H., Mrs. .Toseph E. 
 Comba, and Mary St. Clair. He married 
 second, Mary Josephine Heenian. and by 
 her has two daughters: Genevieve and 
 Clare. During the first year of the Civil 
 War. lie was an active member of the Na- 
 tional Guard of Pennsylvania, and n.ssisted 
 in recruiting, as first lieutenant, two coni- 
 ])anies for the front. He wa.s appointed 
 lieutenant-colonel of the llGth Regiment of 
 Pennsylvania Infantry, June 11. 1862. but 
 in February, 1863, the regiment being re- 
 duced in numbers was consolidated into a 
 battalion of four companies, and he was 
 retained in command but with the reduced 
 rank of major. Six companies were added 
 later and the battalion again became a regi- 
 ment, of which he was promoted to colonel. 
 May 3, 1864; commandiHl Fourth Brigade, 
 First Division, Second Corps from October, 
 1864. and continued in command until hon- 
 orably mustered out. June 3. 1S6.'>. He was 
 iirevetted brigadier-general. l"nite<l States 
 Vohuiteers. March 13, 186.'>, for gallant and 
 meritorious services, and major-general, 
 March 13, 1865; for gallant and meritorious 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 services in the battle of Boydton Plank 
 Eoad, Virginia, Oct. 27. 1864. He was 
 awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, 
 for having held the enemy in check all 
 night to cover the retreat of the army at 
 the battle of Chancellorsville, Va., May 4 
 and 5, 1S63. He was chief of police of 
 Philadelphia, 18691871, and since 1892 has 
 been pension agent at Phihideiphia. He is 
 a Companion of the Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion, Medal of Honor Legion, and 
 other military organizations. Address : 
 Post Oflfice Building, Philadelphia. 
 
 MULLALY, John: 
 
 Journalist, author, lecturer, inventor; 
 born in Belfast, Ireland; honorary LL.U. 
 of St. John's University, Fordham, N. Y., 
 and Lit.Doc. of the Cliristian Brothers Col- 
 lege of St. Louis, Mo. He acquired the 
 profession of journalism on the New York 
 Tribune under the Horace Greely regime, 
 and later city reporter on the New York 
 Evening Post under the editorship of Wil- 
 liam Cullen Bryant. He was six years on 
 the New York Herald, and its special corre- 
 spondent on the expedition to lay a sub- 
 marine cable across the Gulf of St. Law- 
 rence from Cape Ray, Newfoundland, to 
 Cape North, Cape Breton, and during the 
 first three Atlantic telegraph expeditions 
 of 1857 and 1858, and while on these ex- 
 ])editions was gviest of the officers on the 
 United States steam frigate Niagara. Al- 
 though three hundred and sixty-six dis 
 ])atches of more or less importance were 
 sent through the cable after its submersion, 
 Aug. 5, 1858, hardly four weeks elapsed 
 before the electrical connection ceased al- 
 together. The success of the enterprise, 
 however, was assured, so that now there are 
 two hundred and seventy-nine thousand 
 seven hundred and sixty-seven miles of sub- 
 marine cable in operation tliroughout the 
 world. During these expeditions he also 
 temporarily officiated as secretary to Pro- 
 fessor Morse and to Cyrus W. Field. He 
 afterward edited and published for fourteen 
 years The Metropolitan Record, official or- 
 gan of Archbishop Hughes, of New York, 
 was commissioner of health one term, mem- 
 ber of the Board of Assessors two terms; 
 
 member of the New York Press Club over 
 twenty years; member of the United States 
 Catholic Historical Society; originator of 
 the idea and founder of the new system of 
 parks and parkways north of the Harlem 
 River, and active participator in the seven 
 years' movement bj' which nearly four thou- 
 sand acres were acquired by the city, and 
 which includes Van Cortland, Pelham Bay, 
 Bronx, Crotona, Cla.remont and St. Mary's 
 Parks, Mosholu, Bronx and Pelham, and 
 Crotona Parkways, devoting his attention 
 during the seven years to this project which 
 was assailed by every municipal administra- 
 tion from the first introduction of the bill 
 until the final decision in its favor by the 
 Court of Appeiils. He was the discoverer of 
 the peculiar properties of aluminum, their 
 application to lithography, and inventor of 
 aluminography, the new system of surface 
 ]5rinting : is president of the United States 
 Aluminum Printing Plate Company. Mr. 
 iSIullaly made an extensive and exhaustive 
 investigation into the subject of the milk 
 supply of the metropolis, finding that more 
 than one-half of the milk supply of New 
 York and Brooklyn consisted of adulterated 
 and swill-milk, and made an exposure of 
 the nefarious business which resulted after 
 years of persistent agitation in a marked 
 reform in the trade. He is author of: The 
 Laying of the Cable, or The Ocean Tele- 
 graph; A Trip to Newfoundland to Lay the 
 (4ulf of St. Lawrence Cable; The Milk Trade 
 of New Y^ork City, Exposing Its Adultera- 
 tions; Moi'e Public Parks, Lungs for the 
 Meti'opolis; report to the Legislature of 
 1884 of the commission to select the sites 
 for the six new parks and three new park- 
 ways in the Borough of the Bronx ; His- 
 tory of tlie Seven Years' Contest to Ac- 
 (piire and Secure Said Parks and Parkways; 
 Biographical Sketch of Archbishop Hughes; 
 editor of Journal of the Fair, daily illus- 
 tiated publication of sixteen pages, issued 
 from new St. Patrick's Cathedral, and com- 
 prising over 250 large folio pages; aggre- 
 gate proceeds of the Fair held from October 
 23, to November 29, 1878, amounted to 
 $175,000; The Seminary, monthly illus- 
 trated periodical, which was designed to 
 aid construction of new St. Joseph's Semin- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Uis 
 
 aiy at Duinvoodio, Soptciiiber, 1892, to Sep- 
 tember, IS'JG, and eontaining over 850 folio 
 pages. Address: 223 East 41)th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 MUMFORD, James Gregory: 
 
 Physician; born in Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 
 2, 1863; son of George Elihu and Julia 
 Emma (Hills) Mumford. He was educated 
 in St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., 1878- 
 1881, and was graduated from Harvard, 
 A.B., 1885, and M.D., 1890. After grad- 
 uating as house-surgeon from the Massa- 
 chusetts General Hospital in 1890, he began 
 the practice of surgery in Boston, where he 
 has resided ever since. He was appointed 
 surgeon to Carney Hospital, 1892; out-pa- 
 tient surgeon to the Massachusetts General 
 Hospital. 1894, assistant in surgery. Har- 
 vard Medical School, 1896, instructor in 
 surgery. Harvard Medical School, 1903, and 
 visiting surgeon of the Massachusetts Gen- 
 eral Hospital, 1905. He was surgeon of the 
 Massachusetts Naval Brigade, 1892; sur- 
 geon of Medical Reserve Corps U. S. A., 
 since 1908. Dr. Mumford is a fellow of the 
 America Surgical Association, American 
 Medical Association, and Massachusetts 
 Medical Society, member (secretary) of the 
 American Society of Clinical Surgery, Bos- 
 ton Society of Medical Improvement, Boston 
 Society of Medical Sciences, and Boston 
 Surgical Club; trustee of the Home for 
 Aged Women, Boston, president of the 
 Alumni Association of St. Paul's School, 
 Concord, N. H., member of the A.D., Zeta 
 Psi, O. K., Hasty Pudding, and Institute 
 Clubs, and of the Boylston Society of Har- 
 vard university, Somerset. City, Economic, 
 and Republican Clubs of Boston, of the 
 University Club of New Y'ork City, and the 
 Genesee Valley Club of Rochester, N. Y. 
 He is author of: Mumford Memoirs, 1900; 
 Narration of Medicine in America, 1903; 
 Surgical Aspects of Digestive Disorders, 
 1905; editor, History of the Harvard Med- 
 ical School, 1905; author: Narrative of 
 Surgery in Iveen's System of Surgery, 1900; 
 Surgical Memoirs and Other Essays, 1908; 
 and in addition, 55 surgical and historical 
 articles in scientific journals. Dr. Mum- 
 ford married in Troy, N. Y., Jan. 6, 1892, 
 
 Helen Slierwood Ford. Addrofw: 29 Com- 
 mon wealtii Avenue, JJoston, Mush. 
 
 MUMFORD, George Saltomtall: 
 
 Banker; born at Koehestcr, N. Y.. .\upu*t 
 18, 1866; son of George Elihu and .Julia 
 (Hills) Mumford. lie wn» e<luc-at«-d in St. 
 Paul's School, Concord. \. II., and Har- 
 vard College, in the class of 1SS7. He 
 was electrical manufacturer in New York 
 City, 1887-1893; since 1901 secreUirj- of the 
 City Trust Company, Boston, Masa. He jh 
 a member of the University Club of New 
 Yoik, and the Somerset, und Kacquet and 
 Tennis Clubs of Boston. He married in 
 Boston, Dec. 7, 1895, Isabella M. Lee, and 
 they have two children. Residence: Chest- 
 nut Hill. Mass. Oflice: 50 Stati- StriK-t. 
 Boston. 
 
 MUNDY, Ezekiel Wilson: 
 
 Clergyman, librarian; born in Metiiehen, 
 N. J., June 10, 1833; son of Luther Blo<im- 
 field and Frances Eliza (Martin) Mundy. 
 He was graduated from the University of 
 Rochester, A.B., 1800 and A.M.. 1863. from 
 Rochester Theological Seminary in 1803 and 
 from Syracuse University as Litt. D. in 
 1904. He was pastor of First Baptist 
 Church of Syracuse, 1863-1866, of the In- 
 dependent Cliurch, Syracuse, 1866-1879, and 
 of St. Mark's Church (Episcopalian), Sy- 
 racuse, 1883-1892. Since 1880 he has been 
 Public Lil)rarian of Syracuse. He is a 
 menilicr of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
 Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, the American 
 Historical Association, National (Jeograph- 
 ic Society, New England Historic-Genealog- 
 ical Society, Onondaga (Jenealogical Society. 
 Onondaga Historical Association, and of the 
 University Club of Syracuse. Dr. Mundy 
 married in Syracuse, 1873, Emily Kendall, 
 and they have three children. Address: 
 Puldic IJbrary. Syracuse. N. 'S'. 
 
 MTJNGER, William Henry: 
 
 Jurist : born on a farm at Brrgeii. N. Y. 
 Oct. 12, 1845; son of Elbert and Anna 
 Munger. He was educated in the public 
 sehnols, and in 1865 went to Clevolajid. 
 Ohio, where he became a dry gooUa clerk. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 devoting his leisure hours to the study of 
 law with such good effect that in 1SG8 he 
 was admitted to the Ohio bar. He removed 
 in the same year to Fremont, Nebraska, 
 where he was in continuous practice until 
 appointed in Feb., 1897, by President Cleve 
 land, U. S. judge for the District of Ne- 
 braska. Address: Omaha, Nebraska. 
 
 MUNSEY, Frank A. : 
 
 I'ulilisher ; horn in .Morcier, Maine. Aug. 
 21. 1854. He came txj New York City in 
 18S2 . and started the Golden Argosy, juve- 
 nile weekly. He is now proprietor of six 
 widely circulated magazines — Munsey's, the 
 Argosy, the All-Story, the Scrap Book, the 
 Railroad Man's Magazine, and the Cavalier; 
 and of four daily newspapers — the Boston 
 Journal, the Baltimore News, the Washing- 
 ton Times, and the Philadelphia Evening 
 Times. He is author of: Derringforth, and 
 other novels, and of widely quoted addresses 
 on publishing and advertising. He is a 
 member of the Union League, New York 
 Yacht, Lambs', Riding and Ardsley Clubs. 
 Residence: 524 Fifth Avenue. Office: 
 Flatiron Building, Fifth Avenue and 23d 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 MUNSON, C. La Rue: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Bradford, N. Y., July 
 2, 1854; son of Edgar and Lucy Maria 
 (Curtes) Munson. He was educated in 
 Cheshire Academy, 1868-1871, Yale Uni- 
 versity Law Department, 1873-1875, grad- 
 uating LL.B., and received the honorary de- 
 gree of M.A. in 1892. He has been en- 
 gaged in the practice of law since gradua 
 tion, being a member of the firm of Can- 
 dor and Munson since 1875; president of 
 the Savings Institution of Williamsport, 
 E. Keeler Company, Williamsport Iron and 
 Nail Company, Williamsport Passenger 
 Railway Company, director of the Lycoming 
 National Bank, American Wood Working 
 Machinery Company, National Silk Dye- 
 ing Company, Scranton Life Insurance 
 Company, Williamsport Water Company, 
 Lycoming Foundry and Machine Company, 
 Royal Braid Company, and the Williams- 
 port Wire Rope Company. He has been 
 lecturer in Yale Law School since 1891; was 
 
 nominated for the Supreme Court of Penn- 
 sylvania, 1909. He is author of: Manual of 
 Elementary Practice, 1897 ; president of 
 the Pennsylvania State Bar Association, 
 1902-1903, director of the James V. Brown 
 Public Library. He married in Rome, N. 
 Y., Minnie Wright Tuller. and has two sons. 
 .-\ddresses: Williamsport, Pa., and 27 Wil- 
 liam Street, New York City. 
 
 MUNSON, John P.: 
 
 Zoologist author and educator; born in 
 Jolster, Sunfjord, Feb. 21, 18G0; son of 
 Peter and Elizabeth (Dvergsdal) Munson. 
 He was prepared at the Northwestern Col- 
 lege and Milton College for the University 
 of Wisconsin, from which he was graduated 
 Ph.B., then did two years of graduate work 
 in Yale, chiefly in zoology, receiving the 
 B.S. and M.S. degrees. He was four years 
 a fellow in zoology in the University of 
 Chicago, devoting the entire time to the 
 investigation of the egg of the king crab, 
 and in recognition of his scientific discov- 
 eries that university conferred upon him 
 the Ph.D. degree. He was made an honor- 
 ary fellow in biology in Clark University; 
 has been an investigator at the Marine Bio- 
 logical Laboratory, Wood's Hole, Mass., 
 and director of zoology at the seaside sta- 
 tion of the University of Minnesota Port 
 Renfrew, B. C. ; and is now a lecturer at the 
 Puget Sound Marine Station, Friday Har- 
 bor, and a member of the Governing Coun- 
 cil of that institution. He is an investi- 
 gator on the Elizabeth Thompson Science 
 Foundation, and a collaborator on the 
 American Journal of Anatomy. Dr. Mun- 
 son was for two years a master of English; 
 two years a master in natural science and 
 since 1898 professor of biologj-. He is au- 
 thor of: Education Through Nature (Vol. 
 XXI of Teachers' Library) ; also of several 
 monographs as results of investigations in 
 anatomy and cytology, including: The 
 Ovarian Egg of Limulus, a contribution to 
 the problem of the centrosome and yolk- 
 nucleus (Journal of Morpholbgy) ; Orgene- 
 sis of the Tortoise, Clemys marmorala 
 (Ajnerican Journal of Anatomy; Spermato- 
 genesis of the Butterfly, Papilo rutulus 
 (Proceedings of the Boston Society of Nat- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 IJ1& 
 
 ural History) ; Analomy of OpliioMflyplia 
 siusii, observations on tlie generation and 
 degeneration of sex-cells (Proceedings of 
 the Seventh International Zoological Con- 
 gress). He is an associate and contrihntor 
 to the Norse Library of History, Biography 
 and Literatiije, and anthor of a method of 
 teaching science. He has made numerous 
 contributions to journals and proceedings. 
 Dr. Munson was a member of the Seventh 
 International Zoological Congress; is a 
 member of the Association of American 
 Anatomists, American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science, Washington Philologi- 
 cal Society, Association of Doctors of Phil- 
 osophy of the University of Chicago, Na- 
 tional Child Labor Committee, British 
 Medical Association of Toronto, American 
 Medical Association, American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science, and of 
 several university associations. Professor 
 Munson married in Sioux Falls, S. Dak., 
 Dec. 30, 1897, Sophie Josephine, daughter 
 of Rev. Prof. A. Mikkelsen. Address: El- 
 lensburg. Wash. 
 
 MUNSON, Samuel Lyman: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in Huntington, 
 Mass., June 14, 1844; son of Garry and 
 Harriet (Lyman) Munson. He received his 
 education in Williston Seminary, East 
 Hampton, Mass. For forty years he was 
 a shirt and collar manufacturer in Albany 
 under a single management the entire pe- 
 riod. He is vice-president of the Home 
 Savings Bank of Albany; member of the Al- 
 bany Advisoiy Board, of the United States 
 Fidelity Guaranty Company; and former 
 director of the National Exchange Bank. 
 He is an extensive traveler, frequent lec- 
 turer and was a presidential elector in 1900. 
 He is a member of the Dutch Reformed 
 Church, and vice president of trustees of 
 Madison Avenue Church of Albany. He is 
 president of the Weekapaug Chapel Society, 
 Weekapaug, R. I. ; vice-president of the Ma- 
 sonic Veterans' Association of Albany ; life 
 member of the New England Society of New 
 York, governor of Albany Chapter of the 
 Society of Founders and Patriots, is a Ma- 
 son and Knight Templar; and regent of 
 Philip Livingston Chapter, and a manager 
 
 of tlie State Society of (lio Skmn of thf Rev- 
 olution. He is a member of the Fort 
 Orange and Country Clubn of AUmny. the 
 \\atervliet Golf Club, and the Reptiblioan, 
 West Side Kepublicnn and .VrkwrJKht ('\\i\,t 
 of New York Cily. Mr. .Munson mnrrie.l 
 in Albany. N. Y.. May 21. 1S0«, Susan Il:il.- 
 cock Hopkins, and tliey have seven children. 
 Address: Aliiaiiy, N." Y. 
 
 MUNSTERBERG, Hugo: 
 
 Professor uf psychulugy ; born at Dan/.ig, 
 (ierniany, June 1, 18(5;{. He was graduati-<i 
 from tile Gymna.sium of Danzig, in ISHJ, 
 attended the University of Geneva, Swit/er 
 land; was graduated from the University of 
 Leii)/ig as Ph.D. in 1885, and from the I'ni- 
 vcrsity of Heidelberg as M.D. in 1887. He 
 was instructor in philosophy at the Univer- 
 sity of Freiburg, from 1887 to 1891; an- 
 sistant professor in 1891, and has been pnj- 
 fessor of psychology at Harvard University 
 since 1892. He was chairman of the Har- 
 vard Department of Philosophy, 1900-1907; 
 and has been director of the Harvard Psy 
 chological Laboratory, since 1906. Dr. 
 Miinsterberg has written sixteen volumes 
 and about three hundred e.s.says and articles, 
 including: The Principles of Psychology 
 (German) ; Psychology and Life; American 
 Traits; and is editor of Harvard Psycholog- 
 ical Studies. He is a member of the P-y- 
 cliological Associati(m (pre-ident in 1899), 
 Philosophical Association, Boston Academy, 
 Washington Academy, the German Order 
 of the Red Eagle, of the III. Class, the 
 German Order of the Crown, II. Class; 
 vice-president of the International Congress 
 of Arts and Sciences at the St. Louis 
 World's Fair, and he is a member of the 
 Thursday Evening Club, Boston Authors 
 Club, and New York City Club. He has re- 
 ceived the honoraiy degrees of Litt.D. and 
 LL.D. Professor Miinsterberg, married at 
 Strassburg, Germany, in 1887, Selma Op- 
 pler, and they have two daughters. Ad 
 dress: 7 Ware Street, Cambridge. Mass. 
 
 MUR'ALT, Carl Leonard de: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in Brooklyn, X. \ .. 
 Jan. 29. 1873; son of Carl and Lily (Weg- 
 mann) de Muralt. He studied at the uni- 
 
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 versities of Munich and Dresden, Germany 
 and Zurich, Switzerland, graduating as 
 M.E., and E.E. He entered the employ of 
 the General Electric Company, Schenectady 
 in 1895; was sent to their German branch 
 in Berlin in 1897, as engineer of Light and 
 Power Department; built many important 
 electric power plants and power transmis- 
 sion lines in Europe; in 1900 he entered 
 the employ of Brown, Boveri and Com- 
 pany, Baden, Switzerland, did original 
 work in three-phase alternating current 
 electi'ic trunk line construction, and in 1903 
 returned to America and opened an office 
 as consulting engineer in New York; spe- 
 cialist in high tension transmission and 
 railway electrification work; now building 
 110.000 volt transmission line 300 miles 
 long for the Hydro-Electric Commission of 
 Ontario, Can. He is a member of Muralt 
 and Company, engineers; member of Amer- 
 ican Society of Civil Engineers; American 
 Institute of Electrical Engineers, and The 
 Players. He married, Schenectady, N. Y., 
 Dec. 10, 1898, Jeanette Lathrop, and has 
 four children. Residence : Dobbs Ferry. 
 Ullioo: 114 Liberty Street, New York City. 
 
 MURDOCH, John: 
 
 Zmilogist, librarian; born in New Or- 
 leans, July 9, 18.52; son of John and Eliz- 
 abeth (Smith) Murdoch. He attended Rox- 
 bury Latin School, and was graduated from 
 Harvard College as A.B. in 1873, and A.M. 
 in 1876. He was trained in zoology at the 
 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard ; 
 was acting professor of zoology at the 
 University of Wisconsin, 1880-1881; nat- 
 uralist and observer of the U. S. Inter- 
 national Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, 
 Arctic Alaska, 1881-1883; librarian of the 
 Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1892; and 
 since Nov., 1890, employed in the catalogue 
 department of the Boston Public Librai-y, 
 and is now first assistant. He is a fellow of 
 tlie American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, member of the American 
 Ornithologists' Union; founder of tlie Amer- 
 ican Anthropological Association, and is a 
 memlKjr of the Boston Society of Natural 
 Histoiy; trustee of the Fellowcs Athena;inn 
 of Iloxbury, and member of the fhi Beta 
 
 Kappa Society. He married at Higliland 
 Park, Illinois, July 23, 1884, Abby Do 
 Forest Stuart, and they have three sons. 
 Residence : 19 Wendell Street, Cambridge, 
 ]\lass. Office : Public Library, Boston. 
 
 MTJRDOCK, Victor: 
 
 Congressman and journalist; born at Bur- 
 lingame, Kans., March 18, 1871; son of 
 Marshall M. and Victoria (Mayberry) Mur- 
 dock. After completing the courses in the 
 public schools, he attended Lewis Academy 
 at Wichita, Kans.; became a newspaper re- 
 porter at fifteen years of age, and in 1891 
 became a reporter on Chicago newspapers, 
 returned to Wichita in 1894, and became 
 managing editor of the Wichita Daily Eagle 
 until elected in 1903, to fill a vacancy in the 
 Fifty-eighth Congress from the Seventh 
 Kansas District. He was reelected from the 
 same district in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth 
 Congress: and in 1906 was elected from the 
 new Eiglith Kansas District to the Sixtieth 
 Congress, and reelected in 1908 to the Sixty- 
 first Congress, in which he is now serving. 
 Mr. Murdock is a Republican in politics. 
 He married in 1890, M. P. Allen. Address: 
 Wichita., Kans. 
 
 MURPHREE, Albert Alexander: 
 
 College president; born in Walnut Grove, 
 Ala., April 29, 1870; son of Capt. J. E. 
 and Helen (Cornelius) Murphree. He was 
 educated in Walnut Grove College, Peabody 
 College for Teachers, L. I., University of 
 Nashville, A.B., with first honors of class, 
 also A.M. and LL.D., from Rollin Col- 
 lege, Florida. He was superintendent of 
 city schools of Cullman, Ala., Blomitsville, 
 Ala., principal of High School, Cleburne, 
 Texas; professor of Greek and mathematics 
 in West Florida Seminary, Tallahassee, 
 Fla. ; president of West Florida Seminary; 
 president of Florida State College, 1897- 
 1905, president of the State College for Wo- 
 men, 1905 1909, and of the University of 
 Florida, Gainesville, since July 1, 1909. 
 He is a member of the American Academy 
 of Political and Social Science, National 
 Educational Association, Florida Educa- 
 tional Association, Kappa Alpha frateniily, 
 member of the Masonic Lodye, and the Elks 
 
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 liiissee, July 27, 1897. Jcniiio lIcndiTson, 
 
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 MURPHY, Franklin: 
 
 Manufacturer, cx-govcnior ; lioni iu .Icr- 
 sey City, N. J., Jan. 3, 184(). lie was edu- 
 cated at Newark Academy, Newark, N. J., 
 aiul was still a .student tlu^ro in 1802, when, 
 at the age of sixteen he enlisteil as a 
 jirivate in the Thirteenth Keginient of New 
 -lersey Volunteers, in A\hieh he served in 
 the Army of the Potomac until mustered 
 out at the close of tlie Civil ^Var in 180.5, 
 witli tile rank of first lieutenant. Imme- 
 diately after leaving the army he estab- 
 lished upon a small scale as a varnish man- 
 ufacturer, the business steadily increasing 
 luitil the firm of Murphy and Company, of 
 Avliich he is the heiid, is now one of the 
 most extensive producers in that line in 
 tlie world. Wliile thus successfully prose- 
 cuting his business, he has given nuich time 
 and elHcient service to public interests, and 
 was elected on the Republican ticket and 
 served from 1902 to 1905 as governor of the 
 State of New Jersey. Governor Murphy 
 has served as chairman of the Republican 
 State Committee since 1892, and is also a 
 member of the National Republican Execu- 
 tive Committee and is a man of initiative 
 and much infiuence iu his party. He was 
 a member of the- United States Commission 
 to the Paris Exposition of 1900. He is 
 a member and was formerly president gen- 
 eral of the National Society of the Sons of 
 the American Revolution, is a member of 
 tlie Society of the Cincinnati, the Society 
 of Colonial Wars and the Grand Army of 
 the Republic. Governor ^lurphy married 
 iu 1868, Janet Colwell. Address: 1027 
 Broad Street, Newark, N. J. 
 
 MURPHY, George H.: 
 
 Consular ofllcer ; born in North Carolina. 
 He was appointed consular clerk, June 22, 
 1886; appointed vice and de]nity consul at 
 Chemnitz, Sept. 7, 1886; deputy eousul- 
 general at Berlin, March 7, 1889; vice and 
 77 
 
 deputy consuigc-iieral, April 8, 18!>0; con- 
 sular agent at Hanover. Dec. 2.'J. 1S!((); vice 
 connnereial agent at Luxeniburf,', June 'Mt, 
 189:5; retired as viceconuMerciiil a^jeiit, Kelt. 
 Ki. IS'MI. Ill, was appointed viev coniiil 
 at Colon. .Ian. 17. 1.S9H; desjgiuitiil to 
 ins|)e(t consulates on the West CuiK^i of 
 Colond)ia. Central Aiiieriea. and .Mexico. 
 Maicli 17, 1898; retiretl us viu'CoiiHii), 
 April 18, 1S98, and was designated to in- 
 spect certain consulates in .Mexico, Nov. 
 19. 1898; appointed vice and dej)\ily cohmuI 
 at lircincii. Sept. 20, 1S9!»; vice and deputy 
 consul at .Magdeburg, Feb. 5, 1900; vice 
 and deputy consul-general at Frankfort, 
 Dee. 1, 1900; designat<'d to inspect certain 
 consulates in Germany, Nov. 18, 1904; ap- 
 pointed consular agent at St. Catherines, 
 March 13, 190.5; api)ointed consul general 
 at large, :\Iay 23, 190G, to tJike efTect July 
 1, 1900. Address: Department of State, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 MURPHY, Hermann Dudley: 
 
 Artist; born in Marlboro. Mass., August 
 2;5, 1867; son of Daniel F. and Ellen 
 (Ladd) Mur])hy. He was etlucated in 
 Chauucy Hall School of Boston, Museum 
 of Fine Arts of Boston, Acad^ Julian of 
 Paris and ficole des Beaux Arts de Paris. 
 He was artist of the Nicaragua Canal Con- 
 struction Company in 1887; illustrator for 
 newspapers, magazines and books; exhib- 
 itor in Salon of Champs de Mars. Paris. 
 the Society of American Artists, Pennsyl- 
 vania Academy of Fine Arts and Carnegie 
 Institute, and was awarded medals at tiie 
 Pan-American Exposition and St. Louis 
 Exposition. He is instructor in Hanard 
 University; member of the Society of 
 Arts and Crafts, the Copley Society, 
 American Art Association of Paris. Water 
 Color Club of Bo.ston and Water Color Club 
 of New York and American Can<K' Asso- 
 ciation. His favorite recreation i> canoe 
 sailing. He is a member of the St. Botolph 
 (lub of Bo.ston, the Salmagundi, and of the 
 Winchester Boat Club. Mr. Murphy mar- 
 ried in New York. November 15, 1.S05, 
 Caroline Bowles, and they have two chil- 
 dren. Residence: Winchester, Ma-s. Of- 
 fice: Copley Hall. Boston. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 MURPHY. James R.: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Boston, July 29. 1853; 
 son of James and Catherine Mnrphy. He 
 was graduated from Georgetown Univer- 
 sity, A.B.. 1872. the Loyohi College, A.M. in 
 1873, and from tlie l?o~lon University, 
 LL.B.. 1S71). He was for three yea,rs in- 
 struetor in Latin in I^oyola College at Bal- 
 timore. ^Id., and in Seton Hall. X. J. In 
 the meantime he read law privately, and in 
 1875 entered the law oihce of Judge J. G. 
 Abbott in Boston. He was admittetl to the 
 Suffolk bar at the close of the same year, 
 and has practised alone ever since. He is 
 in general practice, and his clientage is 
 composed largely of building contractors. 
 He was coun.sel in the Frye murder case, 
 the I'^lorence Street murder case, in the first 
 important case tried under the new Em- 
 ployers' Liability Act. and in many other 
 important cases. In politics he is a Dem- 
 ocrat, and independent in local affairs. In 
 his religion he is a Catholic, and has been 
 instrumental in the organization of the 
 Young ]Men's Catholic Associations. He is 
 a member of the Catholic Union, the Royal 
 Arcanum, and the order of United Work- 
 men. Mr. Murphy marrie<l in ^Maryland, 
 Nov.. 22, 1881, Mary Randall, and they 
 have two daughters. Residence : Hotel 
 Buckminster. Uffice: 27 School Street, 
 Boston. 
 
 MURPHY, Starr Jocelyn: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Avon. Hartford County. 
 Conn.. June 17, I860; son of Rev. Elijah 
 Douglas Murphy D.D. and Harriette Luce- 
 annah (Jocelyn) Murpliy. He was grad- 
 uated from Amherst College. B.A., 1881 and 
 from Columbia University Law Sclund. 
 LL.B. (cum laude) in 1883. He practised 
 law in New York City since 1883; and 
 since 1904 has been e.xchisively engaged as 
 advi.scr and re])resentative in iK'nevolent 
 matters of John 1). Rockefeller. He is di- 
 rector of tlic Aiiicrican l^in.seed Company; 
 director of the Colorado Fuel and Iron 
 Comj)any. and of otiier e()rj)orations. Mr. 
 Mur])hy is a member of the General Edu- 
 cation Board. Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Up- 
 silon fraternity, and of the Hardware Club. 
 Mr. Murpliy married in Monlclair, N. J., 
 
 June n. 1887. Julia Bnisli Dnnblcday. Res- 
 idence: M(intcl:iir. X. J. Address: 2G 
 Broadway. New \'ork City. 
 
 MURPHY, Thomas Edward, (S. J.): 
 
 President of Holy Cross College; born in 
 New York. Jan. 27, 1856. He was educated 
 in the New York public schools. College of 
 St. Francis Xavier in New York, and ^Vood- 
 stock College, Maryland. He was profes- 
 sor of Latin and Greek in Georgetown Uni- 
 versity, Washington. D. C. 1882 1887; 
 vice-president, 1891-1893. president of the 
 College of St. Francis Xavier, 1894-1900; 
 prefect of studies in Holy Cross College, 
 Worcester, INIass., 1900-1906. and president 
 since 1906. He has been a member of the 
 Worcester Economic Club since its organi- 
 zation, and president, 1908-1909. Address: 
 Holy Cross College, Worcester. ^lass. 
 
 MURRAY, Charles H.: 
 
 Jurist ; born in San Francisco, Jan. 2, 
 1855; son of Henry Kennedy and Abbie 
 Sheldon (Billings) ^lurray. He was gradu- 
 ated from Mount Pleasant Academy, Ossin- 
 ing-on Hudson, and studied law; was ad- 
 mitted to the bar. 1876, and since then en- 
 gaged in law practice. He became repub- 
 lican leader of the Eightii Assembly Dis- 
 trict; president of the Lincoln League; ex- 
 ecutive member of the I'cpiiblican County 
 Committee; chairman oi the Xinth Con- 
 gressional Committee; niciiilni' of tlie IJe- 
 publiean State Commiltce. 1S94 lS9(i, 1901- 
 1904. 1904-190(1 and 1907-1'.H)S: member of 
 the Executive Conuiiiltee ot tlie lve])ubliean 
 State Committee from 1904-1900; delegate 
 to all Re])ublican National coincntions from 
 1888, and all Republican State conventions 
 from 1886, Has be<'n Repid)lic;in eaiulidate 
 for mend)er of Assriiil)ly. KcpuMiiaii can- 
 didate for district aitoriicy. ( onnly of Xcw 
 York, 1893; couiisrl to l. S. marshal; po- 
 lice eommissioiiiT of Xcw ^■|llk City, 1894; 
 aciuwluct coininis-ioncr. 1S<,17: (piarantine 
 conunissioiici-. I'.Kll 190."): pir^idcnt of the 
 Hepublican County ( oiiiinit 1 it. 19(14: judge 
 of the Xcw ^■o|■k Court of Chiiuis. 1005- 
 1906, He is a meitdier of tlie Society of 
 Colonial Wars; charter member ami deputy 
 goxcrnor-general. Sons of the KcNoiution; 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 I'Jlft 
 
 iiKMiilu'r of the .Sons of the Amcrjcan Revolu- 
 tion. Society of Foreign Wars (ohailer 
 member), Hociety of the War of 1S12 (eliar- 
 ter member and ju(lge-ailvoeal('-<^eneral) , 
 l.oyal Legion, St. Niehohis Society, Ilngne- 
 not Society. ]\Ir. Murray is a member of 
 the Rei)ublican and New York Athletic 
 Clubs. He married in Worcester, Mass., 
 Feb. 11, 1893, Grace Peckliam. Residence: 
 Hotel Seymour. 50 West 45tli Str(>et. Of- 
 fice: 62 William Street, New York City. 
 
 MUSSER, John Herr: 
 
 Professor of clinical medicine; born in 
 Strassburg, Lancaster County, Pa.. June •22. 
 185G; descended from three generations of 
 pliysicians, he forming the fourth. After 
 attending public and normal schools he 
 studied medicine in the University of Penn- 
 sylvania, graduating in 1877. He was 
 medical register of the University Hospital 
 1879-1882, and chief of the Medical Dis- 
 pensary from 1881 to 1887. He was pathol- 
 ogist to the Presbyterian Hospital, 1883- 
 1887, since when he has been physician to 
 tliat institution. In 1881 he was elected 
 instructor in clinical medicine at the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, in 1889 was made 
 assistant professor, and since 1899 has been 
 professor of that branch. For the past 
 fifteen years he has been physician to the 
 Philadelphia Hos])ital. Dr. Musser was 
 president of the Philadelphia Pathological 
 Society, 1893-1897; of the County Medical 
 Society, 1899-1900; of the Philadelphia 
 Medical Club, 1897, of the American 
 Medical Association in 1904, and is a mem- 
 l)er of many other medical associations. He 
 has delivered many uotalde addresse.-; befoi'e 
 these societies and has written numerous 
 treatises on medical subjects, has published 
 a book on Diagnosis, which has reached its 
 lifth edition. Address: 1927 Chestnut 
 Hill. Philadelphia. 
 
 MUSSEY, Ellen Spencer: 
 
 I>awyer; born in Geneva, Ohio; daughter 
 of Piatt R. and Persis Duty Spencer. Slie 
 was educated in the Geneva (Ohio) High 
 School, Lake Erie College, Ohio. Rockford 
 College, Illinois, and studied law in the 
 office of R. D. Mussev and at Cornell, LL.IM. 
 
 Slic married in \\ UHhinf,'ton, I). (".. .Imif 
 14, 1871, Iveiilien Delnvan MuwHey, br«'Vft 
 brigadier general of VoliinleiTH. U. S. A., 
 and lias liad two sons, of wlioiii tlie eldtT in 
 now deceased. She is member of tlii* 
 bar of the U. S. Supreme Court, Su- 
 preme Court of llie District of ('i)litiiibiii, 
 and tne U. S. Court of ClaiinM. She in 
 dean and founder of the Washington CoUe}»f 
 of Law, being the only woman who over 
 held such a position, and is attorney for 
 the Swedish and Norwegian Legations*. Ah 
 agent of the American National Red Ctohh 
 Mrs. Mussev establislied diet kitchens ut 
 Fort Myer, Va., Camp Alger, Va., and the 
 Arsenal, during the Spanish-American War, 
 and went to Galveston, Texas, during the 
 Flood there. She is local chairman of a 
 committee from the General Federation of 
 Women's Clubs for National Legislation. 
 Sne was the author of the '' Mussey Act," 
 which first gave married women in the Dis- 
 trict of Columbia the right to their own 
 earnings; also secured the first appro])rirt- 
 tion tor free kindergartens in the District, 
 and has largely inlluenced legislation to 
 compel school attendance and establi-h nn 
 graded schools. Slic is a member of the 
 lioard of Directors of tlie American Play- 
 grounds Association; member of the Board 
 of Education of tlie District of Cohnnbia: 
 ex-vice-president-general of I>aughters of 
 the American Revolntion. ex-president of 
 the League of Loyal Women; National 
 counsellor of the Ladies' Union Veteran 
 Legion; meml)er of the National Geograpliic 
 Society. Address: 1317 New York Ave- 
 nue, Washington, D. C. 
 
 MYERS, Theodore W.: 
 
 Banker and broker; born in New York 
 City. dan. 11. 1844; son of Lawrence Myers, 
 a prominent merchant. He was educat4Hi in 
 the schools of New York City. Frani-e and 
 Germany, iiut ill health obliged him to give 
 up a collegiate course. He Ix'canie in 1804, 
 clerk in tiie banking house of Camblos 4 
 :\Iyers. then later in business under his own 
 name; afterward special partner in the 
 banking house of ^L E. De Riva- & Coni- 
 panv. and in 1884 organizeil the banking 
 house of Theodore W. Myers & Company. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 and in lS!t8 was i)i-esi(leTit of the present 
 banking house of 'J'hcodore ]\Iyers & Son; 
 continues head with l)raiK'l)o.s in Boston, 
 IMiihidelpliia, Baltimore, Cliicago aiul other 
 cities. During the Civil War Mr. Myers 
 was active in organizing Sickles' Brigade, in 
 which lie served as cajjtain of the Third 
 Keginient. For many years afterward he 
 was connected with the City Guard and 
 later became an oilieer in the Ninth Regi- 
 ment of the National Guard of New York. 
 He was a member and the treasurer of the 
 Park Commission in 1887; comptroller of 
 the City of New York from 1887 to 1893. 
 Wa.s several years president of the Business 
 IVIen's Association of New York City and a 
 member of the New York Historical Society 
 and of the American Geographical Society. 
 He is also a member of the jNIanhattan, New 
 York, Rockaway Hunt, National Hunt, Dem- 
 ocratic, New York Yacht, Reform, New 
 York Athletic and Thirteen Clubs. He mar- 
 ried in 1870, Rosalie Hai't, and they have 
 one son. Residence: 21 West 46th Street, 
 Address: 20 Broad Street, New York City. 
 
 MYERS, William Shields: 
 
 (lit'iiiist: bom in Albany, N. Y.. Doc. 
 ]'). lS(i(i: son of licnjamin F. and Elizabeth 
 (Shields) Meyers. He was educated in 
 Albany Academy, 1881-1885, and was grad- 
 uated from Rutgers College as B.Sc. in 1889 
 and :M.Sc. in 18!)0. He studied at Munich. 
 Berlin and London, (pupil of Sir William 
 Ramsey) from June, 1890, to Aug., 1892, 
 becoming fellow of the Chemical Society 
 (F.C.S.) of London in 1892; D.Sc. Rutgers, 
 June, 1908. !Mr. Meyers was assistant 
 chemist of the New Jersey Experiment Sta- 
 tion, 1888-1889; chemist of the Lister Ag- 
 ricultural Works, 1892; New Jersey State 
 Agricultural College, 189.3 1901; director of 
 the Nitrate Propaganda for the United 
 States and Colonies, since 1901 ; trustee of 
 Rutgers College^ 1902-1908. Mr. Meyers 
 was author of the I)ill which organized the 
 Department of Ceramics in Rutgers Col- 
 lege, whieli ])a-ssed the New Jersey Legisla- 
 ture in 1902. He was mayor of New Bruns- 
 wick. N. J., ]903-190.'5; president of the 
 Excise Board of Now Brunswick, New Jer- 
 sey, 1905-1908. He has contributed papers 
 
 to the Anu'rican Chemical Society and tech- 
 nical Journals on water, soils and clays of j 
 New Jersey; editor and publisher of mono- ■ 
 gra])hs on Scientific I'dlilization and Water 
 Transportation, one of the few seientifie 
 men of America asked to read Scientific 
 Paper at the Pan-American Scientific Con- 
 gress in Chili 1908. He is a member of the 
 Chemists' Club, and Drug and Chemical 
 Club of New York City; is a life member of 
 the Societj- of Chemical Industry of Great 
 Britain, London Chemical Society, Amer- 
 ican Chemical Society, American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science, 
 British Association for the Advancement of 
 Science; secretary of Rutgers College 
 Alumni Association; editor of Alumni 
 I'Jdition of the ^Monthly Rutgers Targum. 
 He is also a member of the Chi 
 Phi fraternity, and of the Union, Young 
 ^Nlen's Republican and Golf Ckibs of New 
 Bi'unswiek, New Jersey, and was president 
 of the latter from 1902-1905 and is also a 
 member of the Cosmos Club of San Fran- 
 cisco. He married at New Brun.swick, N. 
 J., Sept. 11, 1889, Annie Taylor Lanibert, 
 and they have one son. Address: 71 Nas- 
 sau Street, New York Citv. 
 
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 NACHTRIEB, Henry Francis: 
 
 Professor of zoology ; born near Gallon, 
 Ohio, May 11, 1857. He was educated in 
 the German Wallace College and Baldwin 
 University, Berea, Ohio; was graduated, 
 B.S., from the University of Minnesota, 
 1882; fellow at Johns Hopkins University, 
 1884-1885. He was instructor in zoiilogy 
 at the University of Minnesota. 18S5-1887, 
 head professor of tlie Department of Ani- 
 mal Biology and' curator of the Zoological 
 Museum since 1887; president of the Gen- 
 eral Alumni Association since its organiza- 
 tion, and zoologist of the Minnesota Geo- 
 logical and Natural History Survey since 
 1887, He is author of: Ivliinoderms of 
 Beaufort; Permanent rrcfiarat ion^ In ller- 
 metically Sealed Tubes; The Lateral Uue 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1221 
 
 System of Polyodon ; nml other seiciitific 
 articles niul reviews, lie is a ineniber of 
 tile Association of American Anatomists, 
 the American Society of ZoiJlopists, the 
 American Society of Natnralists, .American 
 Association of IMnseums, Ainerican Breed- 
 ers' Association, Washington Academy of 
 Sciences, and fellow of the American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science. 
 He is a member of the honor societies Phi 
 Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi and the frater- 
 nity Psi Upsilon. Address: 905 Si.xth 
 Street, S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 NAGEL, Joseph Darwin; 
 
 Physician; born in Galgocz, Hungary, 
 Nov. 20, 1867; son of Adolph and Therese 
 (Eisler) Nagel. He was graduated from 
 the Lutheran Gymnasium of Budapest, A. 
 B., and from the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons, N. Y., as M.D., receiving the 
 Harzen Prize, 1889. He was appointed 
 resident physician of the French Hospital, 
 1890, then advanced' to visiting physician. 
 1895, and now consulting physician. He 
 was visiting physician to Pvcd Cross Hos- 
 pital of New York, honorary member of 
 the Societe Royale de Belgique, member of 
 International Congress on Tuberculosis, In- 
 ternational Medical Congi-ess (Budapest, 
 1909), where paper on "Physiologic Gas- 
 tric Juice " read. Dr. Nagel is a mem- 
 ber of the New York Academy of INIedicine, 
 County jMedical Society, Red Cross Medical 
 Society, Physicians' Aid, is a Mason, medi- 
 cal examiner-in-chief of Loyal Association, 
 also a member of the Belle Haven Casino 
 Club of Greenwich, Conn., and the Cercle 
 de L'Harmoine Club of New York. He mar- 
 ried in New York, June 14, 1892, Dolly 
 Adelaide Rogers, and they have two chil- 
 dren. Address: 61 West 35th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 NALLY, Edward Julian: 
 
 Vice-president, general manager and di- 
 rector of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Com- 
 pany; born in Philadelphia, April 11, 1859; 
 was educated in the public schools. In 
 1875, at the age of sixteen, he began his 
 business career as a messenger boy with 
 the Western Union Telegraph Company at 
 
 St. Tx)iiis, Mo. T.nter lio was promoted to 
 clerk in the ollice of Col. I{. C. riowry. 
 then di.stricl siiperinlcndoiit. with head- 
 quarters in St. Louis, and in 1SR2 wnn 
 transferred to Minneapolis, n« chii-f clerk 
 to the superintendent, eighth dinlriet, n^inic 
 company. In 1890 he entered the HiTvice 
 of tlic Postal Telegraph-C'ahlo Company, 
 as assistant to the general nuporintenileiit 
 of the Western Division, in Chicago; was 
 promoted assistant general .superintendent 
 and in 1901 was made genenil superin- 
 tendent of the \\'eslern Division with juris- 
 diction over the lines and ofJices in twenty- 
 two States. In Sept., 1906. lie was elected 
 vice-president and director, with headquar- 
 ters in New York City, and on Ai>ril 11, 
 1907, made vice-president and generul man- 
 ager. He is a member of the National 
 Geographic Society, Union League Club. 
 the Caxton Club, of Chicago, the Magnetic 
 Club, the Pennsylvania Society, of New- 
 York, the Flushing Country Club of Flush- 
 ing, N, Y., and vice-president of the Na- 
 tional Business League of America. Mr. 
 Nally married in Lexington, Ky., June 10, 
 1897, Lee \\arren Redd, and they have two 
 children. Address: Postal Telegraph Build- 
 ing, 253 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 NASH, Edwin A.: 
 
 Jurist; born at Bedford, Canada, Oct. 20, 
 1836; son of Adolphus Nash, of American 
 descent. He was educated in district 
 schools and Genesee Weslcyan Seminary. 
 Lima, N. Y. ; was admitted to the bar in 
 1801; and practised law until 1878, when 
 he went to Avon, where he has since re- 
 sided. He was district attorney of Living- 
 ston County for two terms, being elected 
 in 18G9 and 1872; elected county Judge in 
 1878; reelected in 1884 and 1890; and in 
 1895 Avas elected justice of the Supreme 
 Court and was associate justice of Appel- 
 late Division of the Fourth Deimrtment. 
 when his term expired by constitutional 
 limitation, Dec. 31. 1906, Address: Avon, 
 N. V. 
 
 NASH, George Williston: 
 
 Kducitor; born in Janesville, \\ i>., Dec. 
 22, 1809; son of Newman Curtis and Jennie 
 
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 ^lEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 E. (Williston) Xash. Ho was graduated 
 from Yankton College, in ISOl, receiving 
 the degrees of S.D., B.S., and M.S.; and 
 pursued graduate courses in the University 
 of Leipzig, and State University of Min- 
 nesota. He was teacher of mathematics, 
 Augustana College. Canton, S. Dak., 1891- 
 1893; principal of Yankton College Acad- 
 emy, 1893-1890, professor of mathe- 
 matics and astronomy, Yankton College, 
 1890-1902; State superintendent of public 
 instruction of South Dakota, 1903-1905, 
 l)rcsident of the State Normal and Indus- 
 trial School. Aberdeen, S. Dak., since 1905. 
 Mr. Nash married in Pierre, S. Dak., Nov. 
 17, 1903, Adelaide M. Warburton. Resi- 
 dence: 015 Lincoln Street, S. E., Aberdeen. 
 Address: State Normal and Industrial 
 School, Al)erd'een, S. Dak. 
 
 NASH, John McLean: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, Aug. 
 0. ] 848 ; son of Stephen P. and' Catherine 
 (McLean) Nash. He was graduated from 
 Columbia College, A.B., 1868, A.M., LL.B., 
 1870. i\Ir. Nash is a member of the law 
 firm of Nash and Jones; trustee of the New 
 York Life Insurance and Trust Company; 
 treasurer of Columbia College since 1885; 
 member of the Association of the Bar of the 
 City of New Y'ork, f^aw Institute of New 
 York City, Delta Phi fraternity, and Co- 
 lumbia University Alumni Association. He 
 is a member of the Union. Ccntviry, Uni- 
 versity, and Columbia University Clubs. 
 Residence: GO West 48th Street. Address: 
 03 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 NASH, Paul Cleveland Bennett: 
 
 American consul-general at Budapest; 
 born in Geneva, N. Y., April 28, 1877; 
 son of Francis Philip and Catherine Cleve- 
 land (Co.\e) Nash. Hi; was educated by 
 private tutors and at Hobart College, and 
 the Boston Institute of Technology, and 
 studied international law, etc., in ])repara- 
 tion for diplomatic service, in Paris and 
 at the Colimibian University, Washington. 
 He traveled one ye-ar, 1894-1895, in the 
 Far East, and six years in I'.urnpi'. 1S97- 
 1902. studying industrial :iiiil (•onmiercial 
 conditions, Uic languages, etc.; w:is secre- 
 
 tary of the legation and consul-general at 
 Bangkok, Siam, 1903-1904; appointed con- 
 sul at Venice, Italy, Oct., 1904; consul at 
 Vladivostok. March 30, 1907; consul at 
 Rhemis in March, 1908, and consul-general 
 at Budapest, Hungary, since June 3, 1908. 
 He is a member of the Sigma Phi fraternity 
 and the Metropolitan Club, ^\'ashington, 
 D. C. He married in Venice, Oct. 2, 1905, 
 the Baroness Margherita Mayneri. Address: 
 American Consul-General, Budapest, Hun- 
 gary. 
 
 NASH, William Alexander: 
 
 Banker; born at Hudson. N. Y., Jan. 
 18, 1840; son of Thomas P. and Sarah J. 
 Nash. He was educated im the public 
 schools of Brooklyn. He is president and 
 director of the Corn Exchange Bank, 
 Lykens Railway and Coal Company. New 
 York and East River Ferry Company; vice- 
 president and director of the Audit Com- 
 l)any of New York, International Elevating 
 Company; director of the Home Life In- 
 surance Compan3% Lloyds Plate Glass In- 
 surance Company, Queens Insurance Com- 
 pany of America ; trustee of the American 
 Surety Company, the Bowery Savings Bank, 
 and New Y'ork Produce Exchange. Mr. 
 Nash is a member of the Union League and 
 Metropolitan Clubs of New York, life mem- 
 ber of the New Y'^ork Athletic and member 
 of the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn. He 
 married. Jan. 14, 1869, Alice J. Peters, 
 and they have two cliildren. Residence: 
 19- West' 73d Street. Address: U ^\illiam 
 Street. New York City. 
 
 NASON, Charles Pickney Holbrook: 
 
 American consul at Grenoble, France; 
 born in Newbnryport, Mass.. Sept, 7, 1842; 
 son of Ri'v. l"]lias Xason, author. He was 
 graduated froir. \\illiams College, 1862; 
 with Army of the Potomac as volunteer 
 aide. Artillery Brigades. Fifth Army Corps, 
 and in ( JdNcriinicnt service, Washington 
 (|iri\ate sccri'turv at Capitol. ISOIMSGo); 
 in business, Cliicago, 1S65-1868; resumed 
 studies and iinished course at the Theologi- 
 cal Seminary, Andover, Mass.. 1872. He 
 was acting ])astor of Lafayette Street Pres- 
 byterian Cluireh, BufTalo, 'n. Y., 1872-1874, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 \2i:i 
 
 Central Congiogational Church, Chelsea. 
 Alass., 1S74-18S7, Second Presbyterian 
 C'liurcli. Gerniantown, Philiidclpliia, 1SS7- 
 1!)01. He was appointed l)y President Mc- 
 Kinley as consul at Grenoble, France, July 
 5, li)01, where he now represents- the Depart- 
 ments of Iscre, Savoy and Upper Savoy. 
 In 1899 served as * acting pastor of the 
 American Church in Paris; received the 
 degree of D.D. from William College the 
 Slime year and until lUOl was president 
 of the Pennsylvania Alumni Association of 
 that College. He was one of the first pro- 
 moters of the Site and Relic Society of 
 Cerniantown; member of tlie Pennsylvania 
 Historical Society. New England Historic- 
 Genealogical Society, New EnglaTid Society 
 of Pennsylvania, and Foreign Students' 
 Committee of the University of Grenoble. 
 Dr. Nason has been a public lecturer on 
 Joan of Arc, the Heroine of France, and 
 other subjects, and is author of many pub- 
 lications. He married, Nov. 17, 1870, 
 Helen Augusta Pliipps, daughter of Hon. 
 Dudley Eli Bond, of Cleveland, Ohio. 
 Address: American Consulate, Grenoble, 
 France. 
 
 NAVE, Frederick Solomon: 
 
 Jurist; born in Ecwis Center, Ohio, Jan. 
 7, 1873; son of Orville J. and Anna E. 
 (Semans) Nave. He as educated at Ohio 
 Wesleyan University, A.B., 1895; and 
 Northwestern University Law School, LL. 
 B., 1897. He was instructor in Greek and 
 Latin in Northwestern University Acad- 
 emy, 1895-1896, when he went to Chicago. 
 wlH>re he was a law clerk until Jan., 1898, 
 when he removed to Arizona. He was 
 clerk of the Code Revision Commission of 
 Arizona until 1901. and was also district 
 attorney of Santa Cruz County from 1900 
 until 1902. when he was appointed attor- 
 ney for Arizona. In Nov., 1905, he became 
 associate justice of the Supreme Court of 
 Arizona, which position he retained until 
 April 1, 1901, when he established' himself 
 in practice at Globe, Ariz. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Phi Gamma Delta College fra- 
 teinity. Delta Chi law school fraternity, 
 and is a Mason. Knight of Pythias and an 
 Elk. and a member of Saguaro Club of 
 
 (ilobe, Ariz. Judge Navp wns married in 
 Xogales, Ariz., March iO, 11)01. to KIhIc W. 
 Jones, and lias one son. .\ddre.HH: (iloU-, 
 Ariz. 
 
 NEECE, William Martin: 
 
 Stock grower; born in .'^[>riiig(lold, .Mo., 
 April 24, 18.39; son of Ellis and Ann 
 (Reese) Neecc. He tauglit sehcxd in 1H(5(); 
 enlisted in the Federal .\rniy in June, ISOl, 
 as private, and .served till Feb., 18(1.'), in 
 the Sixth Missouri Volunteer Cavalry. He 
 was promoted to lieutenant in .\pril, lHO:i; 
 and was wounded at Sabine Cross Roads. 
 April 8, 1804. He sold dry goods and 
 groceries from 18()5 to 18(»9; moved to 
 Fort Collins, Colo., in 187'2, and niov*-*! to 
 Thermopolis. Wyo.. in 1897. He was siii)er- 
 intendent of Big Horn. Hot Springs. 1904- 
 1907. Mr. Neece married in Springfield. 
 !\lo., July 12. 18(i5, and has three cliildrtn. 
 Address: Thermoimlis. Wyo. 
 
 NEEDHAM, Charles Austin: 
 
 Artist; born in Buflalo. N. Y.. Oct. :{0. 
 1844. He began his art education in Art 
 Students' League and with August Will. New 
 York City. Has been represented in many 
 exhibitions, and landscajjes by him are in 
 various important collections. Mr. Ne«-dham 
 was awarded honorable mention and iiiedal 
 by the Atlanta Exposition, 1895; first hon- 
 orable mention New York State Agricul- 
 tural Exposition. Syracuse. 1S9S; bronze 
 medal. Paris Exposition. 19()(): silver medal, 
 Charleston Exposition. 1902. He is a mem- 
 ber of the New York \Yater Color Society 
 and of the American Water Color Society. 
 Mr. Needham married in New York City. 
 1808, Fannie Montross. Address: 145 East 
 2;{d Street. New York City. 
 
 NEEDHAM. James Carson: 
 
 Congre.ssnuin and lawyer; born in Carson 
 City Nev., Sept. 17. lS(i4. in an emigrant 
 wagon, his parents being at the time en 
 route across the plains to California. His 
 early educ.it ion was receivwl in the public 
 schools of California, and he was graduale<l 
 from the San Jose High School, and sub- 
 sequently took a collegiate course at the 
 
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 Universitj' of the Pacific at Sail Jose. <rrad- 
 iiating, Ph.D., 1886; ho then entered the 
 law department of the University of Michi- 
 gan and spent one year, at the end of which 
 time lie was appointed, under civil service 
 rules, to a clerkship in the adjutant -gen- 
 eral's office at Washington, D. C. Resign- 
 ing from the War Department, he returned 
 to the University of Michigan and com- 
 pleted his law course, graduating, LL.B., 
 1889. He began the practice of law in 
 Nov., 1889, at Modesto. Calif., where he 
 has ever since resided. In 1890 he was 
 nominated by the Republican party for 
 .State senator, but the district being over- 
 whelmingly Democratic, was defeated. He 
 has been chairman of tlie Republican Coun- 
 ty Committee, member of the State Central 
 Committee, and member of the Congres- 
 sional committee. He was elected to the 
 Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth 
 and Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses 
 from the Sixth California District, and re- 
 elected in 1908 to tlie Sixty-first Congress. 
 Address: Modesto, Calif. 
 
 NEIDIG, William Jonathan: 
 
 Author; born in Western College, Iowa; 
 son of Abram Hershey and Lucyna (Davis) 
 Neidig. He was graduated from Stan- 
 ford University, A.B., 1896; graduate stu- 
 dent in the University of Chicago, 1904- 
 1905; fellow in English, 190o. He was 
 editor of Tlie Railroad Gazateer, San Fran- 
 cisco, 1897-1898; sub-editor of The Argo- 
 naut, 1898-1899; book editor of The Wave, 
 1899-1900. He was instructor in English 
 in Stanford University, 1901-1904; instruc- 
 tor in English in the University of 
 Wisconsin since Sept., 1905. Mr. Neidig 
 was president of the Stanford Alumni 
 Association, 1904-1905. He is a contribu- 
 tor of short stories to The Century, Youth's 
 Companion and other magaines, and is 
 author of The First Wardens, poems (nom- 
 inated for the Nobel prize in idealistic 
 literature), 1905 (published by The Mac- 
 millan Company). He is a member of the 
 Jlodern Language Association of America, 
 the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, and 
 the West End Club. Address: 435 Haw- 
 thorne Place, 3Iadison, Wis. 
 
 NEILSON, Lewis: 
 
 Secretary of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company; born at Florence, N. J., Sept. 
 30, 1800; son of Thomas Neilson, president 
 of the Elmira and Wiliiamsport Railroad 
 Company, and Sarah Claypoole (Lewis) 
 Neilson; and is the .grandson of Robert 
 Neilson, w'ho was at one time judge-advo- 
 cate of the West Indies by appointment 
 of the Crown, and of William David Lewis, 
 a prominent Philadelphia merchant, bank 
 ofTicer. and collector of customs at the Port 
 of Philadelphia. Mr. Neilson was educated 
 in the Protestant Episcopal Academy, Phil- 
 adelphia, and the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, A.B., 1881. On June 20, 1861, lie 
 entered the service of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad C'omi)any, and filled various cleri- 
 cal positions until he was. May 1, appointed 
 chief clerk to the secretary, and June 1, 
 1898, was appointed assistant secretary of 
 the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and 
 of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal- 
 timore Railroad Company; June 27, 1898, 
 appointed to fill the same position with the 
 Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Rail- 
 road Company, and was elected secretary of 
 the Manor Real Estate and Trust Company. 
 In 1901 he was elected secretary of the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Company and of 
 the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti- 
 more Railroad Company, to fill tiie vacancy 
 caused by death of Mr. John C. Sims; 
 also succeeded him as secretary of the 
 Philadelphia and Baltimore Central and 
 the Junction Railroad Companies ; and on 
 March 7, 1902, he was elected secretary of 
 the Arcade Real Estate Company. He be- 
 came the superintendent of the Employes' 
 Saving Fund on June 1, 1906. Mr. Neilson 
 served for several years, prior to 1894, as 
 a director and' treasurer and secretary suc- 
 cessively of the Athletic Association, and, 
 later, as a member of the Board of Direc- 
 tors and I'Aifulive Coniniittee of the Gen- 
 eral Aluiniii Socicly of the University of 
 Pennsylvania, as well as its secretary and 
 treasurer, lie is a niriiilu'r of the Orpheus, 
 Rittenhouse, and Meriun Cricket Clubs. 
 Mr. Neilson married, Feb. 8, 1893, Clara 
 A. Rosengarten. daughter of Harry B. 
 Rosengarten, of Philadelphia. Address: 
 
"MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 I'cnnsylvaiii:! i;;nlioair Coniiiaiiy, I'liiladcl- 
 I)liiM. 
 
 NELSON, Charles Alexander: 
 
 Libiarinn, aullior; boni in Calais, Mo., 
 April 14, 1S:59; son of Israel Totter and 
 Jane (e'ainii) Nelson. He was <>railuatod 
 from Harvard, A.13., 18G0, AM., ISd.".; be- 
 i;aii library work at Gorliani (Mo.) ^falo 
 Aoadoniy, ISoo; was assistant at the Har- 
 vard College Library and student of library 
 ooonomy, 1S57-1SG0, and lS(i3-lSG4; Law- 
 rence Scientific School, 18(51-1862; teacher 
 in classics and niatheinatics, 18G0-18G1, 
 1SG;MSG4. and 1873-1874; civil ongine(jr 
 and' draughtsman in the Quartermaster De- 
 partment, V. S. Army at Ncwbern, N. C, 
 lSG4-18Go; and at the same place was 
 superintendent of refugees, justice of the 
 iseace, and superintendent of schools, 18G5- 
 1873. Mr. Nelson was in the book business, 
 and in literary and library work in Boston. 
 1874-1881; catalogue librarian of the Astor 
 Library, New York City, 1881-1888; libra- 
 rian of Howard Memorial Library, New 
 Orleans, 1888-1891; assistant librarian of 
 the Newberry Library, Chicago, 1891-1893; 
 lecturer in Columbia College Library 
 School, 1887; at New York State Library 
 School and the Pratt Institute Library 
 School, 1894-1898; deputy librarian and 
 head reference librarian at Columbia Uni- 
 versity since 1893. He is a member and' 
 ex-secretary of the American Library Asso- 
 ciation; charter member and ex-secretary 
 and twice president of the New York Li- 
 brary Club ; ex-member of the Library 
 Council of the State University ; member 
 of the! American Historical Association, 
 Bibliographical Society of America, Ciiicago 
 Literary Club, Booksellers' League, the 
 Round Table, and Corda Fratres; trustee 
 of Leland LTniversity, New Orleans, since 
 1890. He is author of: Waltbam, Past 
 and Present, and Its IndiLstries ; Tlie ]\tan- 
 uscripts and Early Printed Books Be- 
 queathed to the Long Island Historical 
 Society by S. B. Dui-yea; compiler and 
 editor of the Astor Library Catalogue, four 
 volumes; Catalogue of the Avery ^lemorial 
 Library; Books on Education in the Li- 
 braries of Columbia L'niversitv; Libraries 
 
 of Creator New ^ork, Manual and llintori- 
 cal Sketch of the New York Library Club; 
 Catalogue Raisonnf"', Works on BoukbiiidinK. 
 Examidos of Bookbimling of tlio Sixt.entli 
 to Xinotoentli Conturie-,; Index to tlie Edu- 
 cational Review, voluines 1 to XXV; In«l«'x 
 to iliuutes of the Coimimom Council «if New 
 York City, from l(i7o to 1770; |{il»liof,'ra. 
 phy of Columbiana, from 17.')4 to 191)4; 
 and numerous professional articles in en- 
 cyclopaedias, annuals and the Library .Jour- 
 nal; one of the collaborators on PooU-'h 
 Index, the Annual Lii)rary Index, and the 
 American Library Association Index to 
 Essays. Address: 400 West 153d Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 NELSON, Cleland Kinlock: 
 
 Bishop of Georgia; born in Albemarle 
 County, Va., ^[ay 23. 1852. He was grad- 
 uated' from St. John's College. Annapolis. 
 Md., A.B., 1872; studied in private and 
 for a short time at the Berkeley Divinity 
 School, and received the degree of D.I). 
 from St. John's College. 1S91, and from 
 the University of the South, 1892. He was 
 ordered deacon of the Episcopal Church 
 in 187") by Bishop Pinekney, and ordained 
 to the priestliood the next year by Bishop 
 Stevens. Following that he bei-ame rector 
 of the Church of St. John the Baptist. (Jer- 
 mantown, Pa.; and rector of the Church of 
 the NativitJ^ South Bethlehem. Pa., 1882- 
 1892. In 1892 he was elected Bishop of 
 Georgia, and was consecrated by Bishops 
 Quintard, W. B. W. Howe, Lyman, White- 
 head, Rulison. Coleman. Jackson and Wat- 
 son. Bishop Nelson married, June 12. 1877. 
 M. Bruce Matthews. Address: 7n5 Peach- 
 tree Street. Atlanta. Ca. 
 
 NELSON, George Francis: 
 
 Clergyman; born at Cranville. Ohio. Pec. 
 11 1842; .son of Franklin and Elizabeth 
 Jane (Asher) Nelsim. He was a student 
 of Yale, 1859-18G1; of the University of 
 Chicago, where he was graduated as LL.B. 
 in 1871; aiul received the degree of D.D. 
 from Trinity College, and St. Stephen'-- 
 College, in 189G. He was in the V. S. 
 military service, 1862-1877; in the field, 
 18G2-18GG; at General Sherman's head- 
 
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 quarters. St. Louis. 1806-1808; at Cencral 
 Sheridan's headquarters. Cliicajio, ]8()8- 
 187.5; at General Rucker's headquarters. 
 Philadeli)lua. 1875-1877. He was ordered 
 deacon in 1877, by Bishop Stevens and 
 ordained priest in 1879 by Rishop Rierce. 
 acting for Bishop Stevens, in tlie Episcopal 
 ministry. He was fornierly assistant of 
 St. Andrew's Church. Rhiladelphia, 1877- 
 1879; assistant of Grace Church, New York 
 City. 1879-1885; rector of the Churcli of 
 the Nativity, New York City, 1881-1883; 
 vicar of Grace Chapel, New York City. 
 188.3-1895: secretary to the Bishop of New 
 York, 1883-1908; assistant secretary of the 
 House of Bishops since 1883; registrar of 
 the Diocese of New York, since 1887; as- 
 sistant secretary of the Diocesan Conven- 
 tion of New York. 1887-1903; superintend- 
 ent of the New York Protestant Episcopal 
 Church Missionary Society, 1894-1902; vice- 
 president since 1902; archdeacon of New 
 York since 1902. He is a member of the 
 Century Association and of tlie Pennsyl- 
 vania Society of New York. Address : 
 Diocesan House, 41G Lafayette Street. New 
 York City. 
 
 NELSON, John Mandt: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer : born in the 
 town of Burke, Dane County, Wis.. Oct. 
 10, 1870. He was graduated from the 
 University of Wisconsin, A.B.. 1892; was 
 elected superintendent of schools in Dane 
 County in 1802 and reelected in 1894; re- 
 signed' to accept the position nf bookkeeper 
 in the office of the Secretary of State. 
 where he served, 18941897; edited The 
 State, 1897-1898; correspondent in State 
 treasury. 1898-1902; was graduated from 
 the law department of the State University. 
 LL.B.. 1890; pursued post-graduate studies 
 at the State University, 1901-1903; and 
 has since practised law. He was for four 
 years a member of Ihe Republican State 
 Central Committee: niul lie was elected to 
 the Fifty-ninth Congress from llie Second 
 Wi.seonsin District. Sept. 4, 1900. to fill the 
 vacancy caused by the dratli ni' Hon. II. ('. 
 Adams, and rci'lcctcd to the Sixljctli and 
 Sixty-lirst Congresses. Address: Madison. 
 Wis." 
 
 NELSON. Knute: 
 
 I'. S. Senator: born in Norway. Feb. 2, 
 1843; came to the United States in July, 
 1849, and resided in Chicago until the fall 
 of 1850. when he removed to the State of 
 \N'isconsiii. and from tlieie be i-emovcd to 
 Minnesota in July, 1871. He was a private 
 and non-commissioned officer in the Fourtli 
 Wisconsin Regiment during the Civil ^^■ar, 
 and was wounded and taken prisoner at 
 Port Hudson, La., June 14, 1863. He was 
 admitted to the bar in the spring of 1867; 
 was a member of the Assenddy in 
 the Wisconsin Legislature, 1808-1809: was 
 cminty attornej' of Douglas County, INlinn., 
 in 1872, 1873 and 1874; was State senator 
 in 1875, 1870, 1877 and 1878; presidential 
 elector in 1880, and was a member of the 
 Board of Regents of the State University, 
 1882-1893. He was a member of tlie Forty- 
 eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Con- 
 gresses from the Fifth District of INlinne- 
 sota ; was elected governor of ^linnesota in 
 the fall of 1S92 and reelected in the fall 
 of 1894; was elected U. S. Senator for 
 ^Minnesota, Jan, 23, 1895, for tlie term com- 
 mencing ]\Iarch 4, 1895. ami reelected in 
 1901, and again in 1907. for the term expir- 
 ing :\Iarch 3. 1913. Address: Alexandria, 
 Minn. 
 
 NELSON, Nelson 0.: 
 
 ^lanufacturer and social reformer; born 
 in Norway, Sept. 11, 1844; son of Anders 
 and Gertrude Nelson. He ctme with' his 
 parents to the United States in (aily child- 
 hood, settling on a farm in Buchanan Coun- 
 ty. :\lo. He attended the schools of th.- 
 county, and' afleiward engaged in mechan- 
 ic;>l ])ur-uit-. and in 1872 established on a 
 small scale as a manut'acturei' of i)liimbers' 
 and steam-lilt rrs" sn]i])lies. This imsiness 
 he expanded: tbc |iri'<ent lirm of \. O. 
 Nelson ^la lui fact n ring ('om]):uiy. having its 
 offices and prin'cii)al salesrooms at St. 
 Louis, lias large factories at Leclaire (sub- 
 \irb of IMwai ilsville ) . 111., and at Bessemer, 
 .Ma. Mr. .Xrlsdn lia^ always been a close 
 sludeid of fciinoniie ,iml social problems, 
 and was one of the earliest su])porters of 
 the single-tax |)hilosopliy of the late Henry 
 George, whose per.sonal friend he was; and 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 122; 
 
 hp has been identified witli social reform 
 in a practical way. for over twenty years. 
 He was a pioneer in profit-sharing in this 
 country, which he began with the employes 
 of his firm in 188G, and in 1890 he estab- 
 lished the cooperative village of Leclaire, 
 where the works are located and where a 
 large proportion of the workmen in the fac- 
 tories have their homes, .\hout five years 
 ago Mr. Nelson bought a desert ranch in 
 Indio, Eiverside County, Calif., on which he 
 established' a Consumptives' Camp, which 
 he opened for occupancy at Christmas in 
 1902. Mr. Nelson is an occasional contrib- 
 utor to periodicals and magazines on ques- 
 tions of economic and social reform. He 
 married at St. .Joseph, Mo., in 1868, Al- 
 meria Posegate. Residence: Edwardsville, 
 111. Office: Tenth and Chestnut Streets, 
 St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 •NELSON, Richard Henry: 
 
 Bishop coadjutor of Albany: born in New 
 York City, Nov. 10, 1859; "son of Edward 
 Delavan and Susan Blanchard (^lacdonald) 
 Nelson. He was graduated from Trinity 
 College, Hartford, Conn., A.B., 1880; stud- 
 ied at the University of Leipzig, 1880-1881, 
 and at the Berkeley Divinity School at 
 Mid'dletown, Conn,, for two years. He was 
 ordered deacon in 1883 and ordained priest 
 in 1S.S4:, in the ministry of the Episcopal 
 Church, and was curate of St. John's 
 Church, Stamford, Conn., 1883-1884. He 
 was rector of Grace Church, Waterville, 
 N, Y., 1884-1887, of Christ Church, Nor- 
 wich, Conn,, 1887-1897; then rector of St. 
 Peter's Church, Philadelphia, until lie was 
 consecrated bishop-coadjutor of Albany 
 May 19, 1904, Bishop Nelson is a member 
 of the Delta Psi fraternity. He married at 
 Stamford, Conn,, Jan, 20, 1885, Harriet 
 Schuyler Anderson, and they have two sons. 
 Address: 25 Elk Street, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 NESBIT, Wilbur Dick: 
 
 Author and journalist; born in Xenia, 
 Ohio, Sept. IG. 1871; son of John Harvey 
 and Isabel (Fichthorne) Nesbit. He was ed 
 ucated in the public schools and then went 
 into newspaper work, first as a reporter, but 
 subsequently doing feature work for news- 
 
 papers ill Indinnnpolis, Baltimore iind Chi- 
 cago, now l)cing on the stalT of the Chicajjo 
 Evening Post. Mr. Ne<.bit linH writen tlie 
 lyrics for .several miiHieai coniedieH. it a 
 contributor of short stories and [mioikh to 
 various magazines, and is antlior of: The 
 Trail to Boylaml; The Land of MnkeBe- 
 lieve; and The (ientleman Ragmnn, Mr. 
 Nesbit is a member of the Indiana So<-iety 
 of Chicago, and tlie Forty, Press and Little 
 Room Chd)s. He married, in 1S9!», .Mary 
 Lee Jenkins, aTid they have two sons. Res- 
 idence: Evanston, 111, Ollice: The Even- 
 ing Post, Chicago, 
 
 NETTLETON, Walter: 
 
 Landscaj)e painter; horn in New Haven, 
 Conn,, June 19, LStil: son of William Al- 
 fred and Eliza Lyman Norton (Thomson I 
 Nettleton, He was educated in Williams 
 Aeaderiiy, Stockbridge, in Hopkins (Jrammar 
 School and was graduated from Yale Uni- 
 versity as B.A., 1SS3 and received the hon- 
 orary degree of B,F.A, He .studied art in 
 Paris under Pioulanger and Lef^bre. Car- 
 olus-Duran, and Alexander Harrison : re- 
 ceived several prizes at the Academic .Jul- 
 ian; honorable mention at the Paris .Salon 
 in 1892 and was awarded the silver medal 
 of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. St. 
 Louis, in 1904. He is president of the .'stock- 
 bridge Golf Club (Incorporated). He is chief- 
 ly known for New England winter scenes, 
 and is exhibitor in all the principal .\mpr- 
 ican and French exhibitions, Mr, Nettle- 
 ton is a member of the Society of Ameri- 
 can Artists; Associate of the National 
 Aciidemy of Design ; member of New Haven 
 Paint and Clay Club, the Psi I'psilon fra- 
 ternity, the Players" Club of New York 
 City and of the Lenox Club at I,K>nox. Ma.-*.s. 
 Address: Stockbridge, Mass, 
 
 NEWBERRY, Truman Handy: 
 
 Former assistant secretary of the Xavy ; 
 born in Detroit, Mich,. Nov. .'). 18(54: son 
 of John S. and Helen Parmelee (Handy) 
 Newbrry. He was graduated from Yale, Ph. 
 B., 1885. He was an official of the Detroit. 
 Bay City and Aljjcna Railway, 1885-1887, 
 Since 1887. when his father died, leaving a 
 large estate, has had entire management of 
 
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 it, including besides real estate, lieavy inter- 
 ests in several important corporations. He 
 was president and treasurer of tlie Detroit 
 Steel and Spring Company. 1S87-1!)01; is 
 a director of the Union Trust Company, and 
 the State Savings' Bank, vice-president of 
 the jMichigan Telephone Com])any and a di- 
 rector and officer in many other important 
 ^Michigan corporations. Mr. Newberry was 
 one of the organizers of the INIichigan State 
 Naval Brigade and was lieutenant and 
 Navigator in that organization when the 
 Spanish-American \Yar began; and he was 
 commissioned lieutenant (junior grade) in 
 the U. S. Navy in I\Iay, 1898. and served 
 through the war on the U. S. steamer Yose- 
 mite. In 1899 he was commissioned in the 
 ilicliigan National Guard as colonel and 
 aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Pin- 
 gree. In 1905 he was appointed assistant 
 secretary of the Navy, in wliich office he 
 served until the end of the Roosevelt ad- 
 ministration, March 4, 1909, and' during 
 the la.st few months of that administration 
 was acting secretary of the Navy. He mar- 
 ried in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 7,' 1888, Har- 
 riet Josephine Barnes. Residence; 481 
 Jefferson avenue, Detroit, ]Mich. 
 
 NEWBROTJGH, William: 
 
 Civil and mining engineer; born in Phila- 
 delphia, Dec. 15. 1860; son of John B. and 
 Rachel (Turnbull) Newbrougli. He was 
 graduated from Columbia University, receiv- 
 ing successively tlie degrees of A.B., A.M., 
 and E.^I., and was being elected to Phi Beta 
 Kappa. He was with the Atchison, Topeka 
 and' Santa Fe Railroad, 1888; ])rofessor of 
 engineering of the State College of Kentucky, 
 1.SS9; employed by the U. S. Government, 
 1890, and since 1890 he has been in private 
 practice. He is the general manager and 
 chief engineer of Narrow Reservoir, con- 
 siilting engineer of the Kemmerer Coal 
 Company, of Kemmerer, Wyo.. and of the 
 Gunn Quealy Coal Co. of (.'nun, Wyo., city 
 engineer of Evanston. Wyo., and jiresident 
 of tlie State Board of Examining Engineers 
 of Wyoming. His specialties are irrigation, 
 liydraulics and coal mining, and he has 
 constructed' large irrigation works and 
 equipped coal mines, and has the largest 
 
 private business in the State of Wyoming. 
 He is a member of the American Society of 
 Civil Engineers, president of the Wyoming 
 Society of Engineers and Surveyors, and a 
 member of tlie Phi Beta Kappa Society, and 
 of the Evanston Commercial Club. He mar- 
 ried in Brooklyn, N. Y.. Jan. 27, 1897, Ger- 
 trude Veeder Sturtovant. Addres*: Evans- 
 ton, Wyo. 
 
 NEWBURGER, Joseph E.: 
 
 Jurist; born in New York City. He was 
 graduated from Columbia College Law School 
 and admitted to the bar in 1874; practised 
 law in New York City until elected a jus- 
 tice of the City Court, 1890; elected a judgn 
 of the Court of General Sessions in 1895, 
 and elected on Democratic and Republican 
 tickets a justice of the Supreme Court for 
 the term expiring Dec. 31, 1919. Residence: 
 1 West 70th Street. Official address: Su- 
 preme Court, County Court House, New 
 York City. 
 
 NEWCOMB, Harry Turner: 
 
 Railroad expert and lawyer; liorn in 
 Owosso, Mich., Jan. 4, 1807; son of Henry 
 Martin and Lucia (Turner) Newcomb. He 
 was educated' in the public schools and 
 George Washington University, L.L.INI., 
 1891. He began his career with the Chica- 
 go, jNIilwaukee and St. Paul Railway in 
 1881, and in 1888 became connected with 
 the Interstate Commerce Commission, serv- 
 ing until 1895. He was chief of the Section 
 of Transportation, Department of Agricul- 
 ture, 1895-1899, and left that di-partmcnt 
 to take a position as expert chief of a division 
 in the Census Office. In 1901 he was ap- 
 pointed editor of tlie Railway ^^'orld, and 
 in 1902-1903 Avas counsel for'^the Pliiladel- 
 pliia and Reading Coal and Iron Company 
 in tlie Anthracite Coal Strike Arbitration, 
 lie has been in the active practice of law 
 since 1902, and is now senior member of 
 the firm of Newcomb, Churchill and Frey, 
 and is also a frequent writer on economic 
 subjects. He is the author of: Riilway 
 Economics; The Postal Deficit; The Work 
 of the Interstate Commerce Commission; 
 Some Recent Phases of the Labor Prob- 
 lem; Municipal Socialism; Public Own- 
 
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 orsliip ;\nd tlic Wnge Earner; Railway Cap- 
 italization; Reasonable Maxini\ini Rates; 
 Trusts, a Study in Industrial iOvolulion; 
 and The Spoils System in Tlu-ory and Prac- 
 tice, etc. He is a member of the American 
 Economic Association; American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science; American 
 Political Science Association; American Sta- 
 tistical Association; Royal (British) Sta- 
 tistical Society; Washington ICconomic So- 
 eicly, the Society of Colonial Wars; the 
 Cosmos, Washington Coimtry and Univer- 
 sity Clubs of Washington, and the City 
 Club of New York. He married in Owosso, 
 :Mich., Oct. 11, 1893, Lucy Theodora Com- 
 stock, and has two boys and five girls. 
 Residence: Bethcsda, Md. Olfice: Nation- 
 al Metropolitan Bank Building, Washing- 
 tun, D. C. 
 
 NEWELL, Lyman Churchill: 
 
 College professor; boin in Pawtucket, R. 
 L, 1807; son of George W. and Ellen 
 (Read) Newell. He was graduated from 
 Brown University, Ph.B., 1890; A.M.. 1891; 
 from Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D., 1895. 
 He was a teacher in a high school, Paw- 
 tucket, 1890-1892, in Somerville, Mass., 
 1895-1898, at the Normal School, Lowell. 
 1898-1904, professor of chemistry in Bos- 
 ton University since 1904. He is author 
 of: Experimental Chemistry, 1900, De- 
 scriptive Chemistry, 1903, Inorganic Chem- 
 istry for Colleges, 1909, and pamphlets and 
 articles in chemistry and education; asso- 
 ciate editor of School Science. Professor 
 Newell is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society, Delta Upsilon fraternity, Ameri- 
 can Chemical Society, New England Asso- 
 ciation of Chemistry Teachers, and the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science. He married in Wakefield, Mass., 
 Sept. 7, 1898, Carolyn E. Strong. Resi- 
 dence: 226 Clifton Street, ISlalcl'en, IMass. 
 Business address: 688 Boylston Street, 
 Boston. 
 
 NEWLAND, David Judson: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Lawrenceville, St. Law- 
 rence County, N. Y., July 8, 1841; son of 
 Peabody and Eliza (Chase) Newland; di- 
 
 rect (h'scenilant of Juhn and I'riBcil!:i Allm. 
 tiirougli Daniel (irinnell, of (Joniuctioit. 
 lie was graduated from .Middltliurs «'ul- 
 lege as A.B. and viih'dicloriaii in 1SG.'», 
 and from < ulunibiu liiiviTHity um LL.Il. in 
 1868. lie is a ni(Mil)er of the I'lii U«Ui 
 Kap|)a Society, Delta Kappu Kp-siloii fra- 
 ternity. He was originator of tlie uiut-nd- 
 ment of the law as to evidence in ca^cs of 
 disputed liandwriting (in 1880) by which 
 specimens of genuine handwriting can Ikj 
 introduced' witii wiiielk to loinpare a for- 
 gery, altliongli not in the case already for 
 other purposes; secretary of the Welling- 
 ton Typewriter Company ; |)resident of 
 Highland Spring Water Company. He is 
 a member of the Association of the Bar 
 of the City of New York, and trustee of 
 the Baptist Church of the Epiphany. .Mr. 
 Newland married in Haddonlield, N. J., 
 Sept. 26, 1883, Mary Nicholson, and they 
 have three daughters. Address: ^."lO West 
 113th Street, New York City. 
 
 NEWLANDS, Francis Griffith: 
 
 U. S. senator; born in Natchez, Miss., 
 Aug. 28, 1848; son of James Birney and 
 Jessie (Bartland) Newlands. He entered 
 the class of 1867 at Yale College and re- 
 mained until tlie middle of his junior year; 
 and later on attended the Columbian Col- 
 lege Law School at Washington, but prior 
 to graduation was admitted to the bar by 
 the Supreme Court of the District of Colum- 
 bia and went to San Francisco, where he 
 entered upon the practice of law and con- 
 tinued in the active practice of his profes- 
 sion until 1888, when he became a citizen 
 of the State of Nevada. He was elected 
 to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-lifth, 
 Fifty-sixth," and Fifty-seventh Congresses, 
 and served on the conunittees on irrigation. 
 Foreign Affairs, Banking and Currency, 
 and Ways and Means; and was electcil to 
 the U. S. Senate as a Democrat to succeed 
 John P. Jones, Republican, for the term ex- 
 piring :March 3, 1909; he was elected by 
 popular vote in 1908 and afterward by the 
 Nevada Legislature for another term ex- 
 piring March 3, 1915. He is a Democrat 
 in politics. Address: Reno. Nev. 
 
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 NEWMAN, Angie F. Thurston: 
 
 i'oot, aiillior and lecluitT; born in Mont- 
 pelier. \'t.; daiigliter of Daniel Sylvester 
 und Matilda (Benjamin) Thurston. She 
 was educated in the Montpelier Academy, 
 and bef>an teaching in Montpelier at the 
 age of fifteen years; she was afterward 
 graduated from J^awrence University Apple- 
 ton, ^^"is. She first married Frank Kil- 
 gore, who was a brother-in-law of Bishop 
 Henry \\'. \\arrcn. Mr. Kilgore lived only 
 a few months after their marriage, and 
 three 'years later she married David New- 
 man, a dry goods merchant, of Beaver Dam, 
 Wis., where they resided several years, then 
 removing to Lincoln. Neb. Mr. Newman met 
 his death by railroad accident in 1893. 
 Mrs. Newman has been an extensive trav- 
 eler, and after a year in Europe, Egypt and 
 Palestine, 1896-1897. with her daughter, 
 she gave a series of lectures on themes as- 
 sociated with the tour. She also wrote a 
 book 0)1 the novel experience of " the Mc- 
 Kinley Button," which she and her daugh- 
 ter wore on the entire trip, under the title 
 of " MeKinley Carnations of Memory." She 
 also wrote: "An Italian Winter," and 
 " The Sacrifice of Iphigenia," having stud- 
 ied her themes in Italy and Greece. She 
 is also author of a monograph " Heathen at 
 Home," for the Missionary Societies with 
 which she was connected, having been West- 
 ern secretary' eight and nine, years re- 
 spectively of the Woman's National Foreign 
 and Home Missionary Societies of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Cluirch, and during 
 that period lectured for those societies in 
 all Northern and many Southern States, 
 During the Spanish-American War she was 
 appointed liospital inspector for San Fran- 
 cisco, the Hawaiian Islands and Manila, 
 was absent eight months and executed' an 
 important commission. During four ses- 
 sions of the U. S. Congress she represented 
 the Gentiles of Utah, and before each ses- 
 sion was accorded a hearing before the 
 Congressional Committees, and her speeches 
 were printed by order of Congress; and her 
 argument against the admission of Utah as 
 a State was by special request of Senator 
 Edmunds to the Senate, printed in full in 
 the Congressional Record. In response to 
 
 her memorials, which were presented to the 
 Senate appropriations amounting to $80,- 
 000 were granted for an Industrial Home 
 for Mormon Women who wished to abandon 
 polygamy, and Congress also made appro- 
 priations for the maintenance of the Home 
 for the succeeding six years until Statehood 
 was granted'. Mrs. Newman engaged for 
 several years in preparation of her book. 
 The Tragedy of Christianity or the Vital Is- 
 sues of Mormon Propagandism. She has 
 served as superintendent of jail and prison 
 and flower mission work in the State of 
 Nebraska for 25 years, for the NVoman's 
 Christian Temperance Union; is ai; active 
 member of the National Council of Women 
 and the Woman's Relief Corps, and was 
 for several years vice-president general of 
 the Daughters of the American Revolution. 
 jNIrs. Newman was the first woman delegate 
 ever elected to the Quadrennial General 
 Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, and' the session at New York after 
 debating the question for six days, decided 
 against the admission of women by a ma- 
 jority of one. This led to the submission of 
 the question to the church, which was set- 
 tled by the admission of women delegates 
 to the Conferences of 1904 and 1908. Ad- 
 dress: 1724 L Street, Lincoln, Neb. 
 
 NEWMAN, Horatio Hackett: 
 
 Professor of zoology; born near Scale, 
 Ala., March 19, 1875; son of Albert Henry 
 Newman, D,D., LL.D., and' ]\Iary Augusta 
 (Ware) Newman. He was graduated from 
 McMaster University, Toronto, Canada. B. 
 A., 1896, University of Chicago, Ph.D., 1905, 
 and was a fellow in zoology in the Univer- 
 sity of Chicago. Professor Newman was 
 instructor and assistant professor of zool- 
 ogy in the University of iMicliigan, 1905- 
 1908; since 1908 professor of zoology in the 
 University of Texas. He is a member of the 
 Sigma Chi fraternity, an associate member 
 of the Phi Chi Medical Fraternity, and mem- 
 ber of the Sigma Xi Society. Professor New- 
 man is autlior of: The Significance of 
 Scute and Plate Abnormalities in Chelonia; 
 The Habits of Certain Tortoises; On the 
 Pcrmeamility of the Egg ^Membrane to tlie 
 Sperm; Spawning Behavior and Sexual 
 
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 Dinioipliism in r'unduliis Heteroclitus and 
 Allied Fish: The Process of Heredity as Ex- 
 hibited by the Development of Funduhis 
 Hybrids; A .Sijiiiitieant Case of lleniia- 
 phrudit ism in Fish; On the i;es]>iiatioii of 
 the Heart; Contact Orj^an in Killilisiies; 
 identical Quadruplets in the Armadillo, :uul 
 luimi'rous other zouloyieal writings. He 
 mairied at ^^'()(Kls Hall, Mass., Aug. 1, 
 1!)07. Isabel Currie Marshall and they have 
 one child. Kesidence: l!)l,j San Antonio 
 Street. Ollice: University of Texas, Aus- 
 tin, Texas. 
 
 NEWMAN, William H.: 
 
 Former presidint of the New York Cen- 
 tral and Hudson Kiver Railroad; born in 
 Prince William County, Vii., 1847. He en- 
 tered railway service, July 1, 1869, begin- 
 ning as station agent, Texas & Pacific Rail- 
 way, Shreveport, La., 1869-1872; general 
 freight agent, same road, lS72-18So; tralTic 
 manager Southwestern system lines in Texas 
 and Louisiana, including Texas and Pacific, 
 Hiternatioual and Great Northern. Galves- 
 ton, Houston and Henderson and Missouri, 
 Kansas and Texas Railways, 1883-1885; 
 trallic manager, 1885-1887, third vice-presi- 
 dent, 1887-1889, Missouri Pacific System; 
 third vice-president Chicago and North- 
 \Yestern Railway, 1SS9-1896; second vice- 
 president C4reat Northern Railway, 1896- 
 1898; since May, 1898, president of Lake 
 Shore and Michigan Southern Railway ; and 
 from 1901 to 1908 president of New York 
 Central and Hudson River Railroad; also 
 1905-1908 president of Michigan Central 
 Railroad, and Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chica- 
 go & St. Louis Railway, Indiana Harbor 
 Railroad. Lake Erie and \Yestern Railroad 
 and Indiana, Illinois and' Iowa Railroad. 
 Address: Grand Central Station, New Y'ork 
 City. 
 
 NEWMAN, Willie Betty: 
 
 Artist; born in Murfreesboro, Tenn. ; 
 daughter of Col. W. F. jM. Betty and Sophie 
 (Rucker) Betty. She was graduated from 
 Greenwood Seminary, and Cincinnati Art 
 School, and studied with Bougureau in 
 Paris, Benjamin Constant, and J. P. Lau- 
 rens. Mrs. Newman first exhibited in the 
 
 Salon in 1891, in the Salons in 18!I3, 1«94, 
 1895, 1S90, 1S!(7, IHJ»8, and HtOd. uIho rx- 
 liibited at tlie Paris Kxpositiun, I'.dH). She 
 received honorable inrntioii in I'.tOtl. jjivcn 
 by the Governnn-nl of Friinep. Iler priiici 
 pal works are: Le Pain Henit. P«Min»yl 
 vania Museum; .Museum Kii Penit«-nw; 
 Foolisii Virgin (owned by Williiini V. Fb-it- 
 man); Instant Kepose (owind by (Jburlen 
 11. Schwab) ; l.a Fille du .Marin (owned by 
 the Cincinnati Art .Muhcuim); IJevrie (own 
 ed by the Philadelphia Art Club), nnd 
 Dreams. Mrs. Newnnm has traveled ex- 
 tensively in France. Italy, Holland, Switz- 
 erland, Belgium, and has lived ten years in 
 Furojie, painting among the jieusant^. .\d- 
 dress: Xaslnille. Tenn. 
 
 NEWMAN, William Truslow: 
 
 V. S. judge; born in Kno.wille, Tenn.. 
 June 23, 1843; .son of Henry 15. and .Martha 
 A. Newman. He served as private an<l lieu- 
 tenant in the Second Tennesse<,' Cavalry, 
 in the Army of the Confederate States, 
 was once cajitured, imprisoned and exchang- 
 ed, and twice wounded, losing right arm in 
 battle near Jonesboro, (ia., in July, 1864. 
 After the war he .studied law at Atlanta. 
 G:x.. and after his admission to the bar in 
 1866 practised law there for twenty year^. 
 He served as city attorney of Atlanta for 
 twelve years. He was actice in politics as 
 a Democrat, and in August, 1886, he was 
 ajjpointed by President Cleveland to his 
 present olhce as U. S. judge for the North- 
 ern District of Georgia. Judge Newman 
 married in Knoxville. Tenn.. September. 
 1871, Fannie Alexander. Address: 54 For- 
 est Avenue, Atlanta. (Ja. 
 
 NIBLACK, Albert Parker: 
 
 Commander. I". S. .\a\y; born in Vineon- 
 nes, Ind., July 25, 1859; son of Hon. \V. E. 
 and Eliza A. (Sherman) Xiblack. He en- 
 tered the U. S. Naval Academy in 1876. 
 and was graduated in 1880. During his 
 early service he took part in the successful 
 expedition for the survey and exploration 
 of Alaska, and is author of a publication 
 on the Coast Indians of Alaska and North- 
 ern British Columbia. He took part in the 
 Alaska Boundary Survey of 1893, and in 
 
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 1S95-1896 Avas inspectoi* of naval militia of 
 the United States. He was naval attache 
 at Rome, Berlin and Vienna in 18'J6-1S97, 
 and during the Spanish-American War was 
 on the blockade of the north coast of Cuba. 
 He had a brilliant service during the Philip- 
 pine insurrection, and took part in the Box- 
 er expedition in China. In 1901-1002 lie 
 was inspector of target practice of tho 
 navy, and inaugurated the methods which 
 have been developed into the modern system 
 of gun practice. Owing to ill health he was 
 compelled to take up less active duties in 
 connection with the navy, but in 1908 re- 
 turned to the Atlantic coast and was as- 
 signed to duty as instructor at the Naval 
 Academy. He has been chiefly instrumental 
 in tlie development of the present system of 
 signalling used in the navy, and is known 
 as an international expert on signalling and 
 tactics. He is a member of tlie Naval In- 
 stitute; associate member of the Society of 
 Naval Architects and Marine Engineers; 
 the Army and Navy and Metropolitan Clubs 
 of Washington, Chevy Chase Club of ]Mary- 
 land. Army and Navy Club of New York 
 and the New York Yacht Club, a member 
 of the Geographical Society. He married 
 in San Francisco, Nov. 24, 1903, Mary A. 
 Harrington. Address: Care Navy Depart- 
 nienl, Washington, T). C. 
 
 NICHOLAS, Francis Child: 
 
 Mining and economic, geologist; born in 
 Elizabeth, X. J., Dec. 7, 1802; son of George 
 \\". and Jane Lawrence (Child) Nichols. 
 He was prepared ly private tutors, took 
 the Columbia University geological course, 
 received the degree of M. Sc. and Ph.D. from 
 Kiclimond College, Ohio, and, in order to 
 better care for tlie men and officers during 
 exploring expeditions under liis command, 
 he took a course in medicine, receiving the 
 degree of M.D. from the Universidad His- 
 pano-Americana. ]^r. Nichols has served 
 as consulting engineer in relation to min- 
 ing geology during tlie past twenty years 
 for many mining enterpri-ics and corpora- 
 lions. Up is j)rcsident of the American Ad- 
 ministration of Mining Securities, and pres- 
 ident of tlie American Financial Agency 
 Company, and has beca identified' with 
 
 other financial and mining corporations. He 
 traveled for about ten years in continued 
 explorations in Central and Northern South 
 America. Dr. Nicholas is author of: Min- 
 ing Investments and How to Judge Them ; 
 Across Panama and Around the Caribbean; 
 The Power Sui)reme ; and of numerous sci- 
 entific papers and pamphlets. He has re- j 
 coived the decorations of the Cross of Malta ■ 
 Educativa, Star and Cross of Science, and ■ 
 Spanish- American Cross; is an honorary 
 fellow of the American Museum of Natural 
 History ; honorary corresponding member 
 of the New York Academy of Sciences, and 
 of the Institute of Jamaica, B.W.I. ; is dele- 
 gate from the Spanish American Univer- 
 sity in the United States ; and is a mem- 
 ber of the Masonic fraternity. Address : 
 Care of J. Edward' Mastin & Co., bankers, 
 3 Broad Street, New York City. 
 
 NICHOLL, James Craig: 
 
 Artist; born in New York City, Nov. 22, 
 1846; son of John W. and Elizabeth P. 
 (Craig) Nicoll. He was educated at the 
 Quakenbos School in New York City and 
 studied art under M. F. II. de Haas and 
 Kruseman van Elten. He was founder, for 
 ten years secretary and is now president 
 of the American Water Color • Society, and 
 has been a member and secretary of the 
 National Academy of Design for several 
 years. He belongs, besides to the Century 
 Club and the leading art organizations in 
 New York City. ]Mr. Nicoll is the recipient 
 of awards at various local and foreign art 
 exhibitions. He was married at New York 
 City in 1873, to Cora A. Noble, and has had 
 four children. Residence: The Sonoma, 
 1734 Broadway. Address: 51 West Tenth 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 NICHOLLS, Francis Tillou: 
 
 Jurist; born at Donaklsonville, La., Aug. 
 20, 1834; son of Thomas Clarke and Louisa 
 IT. (Drake) \ioholls. His father was a 
 judge of the District Court and later senior 
 Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals 
 of Louisiana. He was apj)ointed to the U. 
 S. Military Academy, from which he was 
 graduated in the class of 1855. He was 
 commissioned second lieiiteiiaiil and assign- 
 
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 ed to tlic Third Artillery, served against the 
 Seminole Indians and was afterward on 
 duty on the Western frontier, but rosij^ned 
 liis commission, was admitted to the I.ouisi- 
 anii bar in 1887, and practised law at Na- 
 poleonville, La., until 1801, wlien he entered 
 the Army of the Confederate (States as cap- 
 tain in the Eighth Louisiana Uegiment of 
 wliich lie became lieutenant-colonel. In 
 18G2 he was transferred to tlio Fifteenth 
 Louisiana Regiment, as colonel, and later 
 in tho same year was promoted to briga- 
 dier-general, Confederate States Army. He 
 lost an arm at the battle of Winchester 
 and a foot at Chanccllorsville, and during 
 the last year of the war he was superin- 
 tendent of the Conscript Bureau of the 
 Trans-Mississippi Department. After the 
 war General Nicholls practised law in As- 
 cension Parish, until he was elected, in 
 1876 on the Democratic ticket, as governor 
 of the State of Louisiana, inaugurating the 
 freeing of Louisiana from carpet-bag rule. 
 After the close of his term in 1880, he en- 
 gaged in the practice of law at New Or- 
 leans. He was appointed by President 
 Cleveland in 1886 member and president 
 of the Board of Visitors to West Point. In 
 1888, he was again elected governor for an- 
 other four-3'ear term, during which he 
 vetoed the bill renewing the charter of the 
 Louisiana Lottery, leading to its suppres- 
 sion. In 1893 he became chief justice of the 
 Supreme Court of Louisiana, serving as 
 such until 1904, and since then as associate 
 justice. Address: 1436 Josephine Street, 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 NICHOLLS, Rhoda Holmes: 
 
 Artist; born in Coventry, England; 
 daughter of the Rev. William Groome 
 Holmes and Marian (Cooke) Holmes. She 
 received' her education by governesses and 
 in private school, Kensington, London. She 
 married in Lyminister, Sussex. England, 
 1884, Burr H. Nicholls. Miss Holmes re- 
 ceived the Queen's Scholarship, from the 
 School of Art, London. She exhibited in all 
 large exhibitions. She received medals at 
 the Mechanics Association. Triennial Exhi- 
 bition, Boston; World's Fair, Chicago; Pan- 
 American, Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, 
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 Interstate. fJold Medal Prize Fund, New 
 York, ami ll\e LnuiHiana Purchase Exhibi- 
 tions. Mrs. Nicholls was ii nieinlNT of tlic 
 Circola .Xrtistieo and the .Societn drgll 
 Artist!. Rome; is m<nd)er of the Nntionul 
 Arts Club, Water Color Society, Wiiter Color 
 Clul), Woman's Art Club, Pen and Ilnmh 
 Clul>, Woman's Art Associatioji, Cainulii, Art 
 ^^'orkers Club, and three years a niPiiilH-r 
 of the Miniature Society, and Barnard Club. 
 She is a co(>di(or of The Palctti- an<l Hench 
 and an instructor at the Art Students' 
 League; has written for Tlie Art Inter- 
 change, Art Amateur and Keraniie Studio. 
 Address: 39 West 07th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 NICHOLS, Acosta: 
 
 Bunker; bcnn in I'rooklyn. X. Y., June 
 19, 1872; son of George L. and Christina 
 (Cole) Nichols; he was educated in tho 
 Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1899. and 
 Williams College, 1893. He is a member 
 of the firm of Spencer, Trask & Company; 
 director Conquista Coal Railway Company. 
 John Lane Company, Mexican Coal and 
 Coke Company, Mexican ^liiu'ral Railway 
 Company, Somerset Coal Company; a life 
 member and recording secretary of the New 
 York Historical Society; member of St. 
 Nicholas Societj-, Society of Colonial Wars, 
 Society of the War of 1812. Long Island 
 Historical Society, New York Zoological So- 
 ciety, American Museum of Natural His- 
 tory, Sons of the Revolution, Society of 
 Foreign Wars, Williams Alumni Associa- 
 tion, ^letropolitan Museum of Art: veter.in 
 of Company K, Seventh Regiment. National 
 Guard of the State of New York; meniber 
 of Kappa Alpha fraternity. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Metropolitan. Down Town, Coun- 
 try and National Arts Clubs. Residence: 
 30 East .)8th Street. Address: .Vi William 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 NICHOLS, Edward Leamington: 
 
 Professor of jdiysics; born in Teaming- 
 ton, England (of American |virentngc), 
 Sept. 14. 1854; son of Edward W. and Ma- 
 ria (Watkinson) Nichols, lie was gradti- 
 ated from Cornell University. B.S.. 1875; 
 Gottiniren, Ph.D., 1879. I'niversity of Penn- 
 
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 sylvania, LL.D., 1906; was wilh Thomas A. 
 Edison at Menlo Park, N. J., 1881-1883; 
 professor of jdiysics and chemistry, Central 
 University, iventucky, 1881-1883; physics 
 and astronomy, University of Kansas, 1883- 
 1887 ; professor of physics, Cornell Univer- 
 sity, since 1887. Professor Nichols is a 
 member of the National Academy of Sci- 
 ences, American Academy of Sciences, Amer- 
 ican Philosophical Society, American Asso- 
 ciation for Advancement of Science (secre- 
 tary of Section, 1889; vice-president, 1893; 
 president, li)0(i-in07) ; American Physical 
 Society, American Institute of Electrical 
 Engineers, etc.; member of Delta Upsilon 
 and Sigma Xi fraternities. He is the au- 
 thor of several treatises on physics and of 
 numerous papers in scientific journals, etc.; 
 founder (1893) and editor-in-chief of the 
 Physical Review; editor of the Department 
 of Physics, Johnson's Universal Encyclope- 
 dia and' Webster's Dictionary. He married 
 at South Dover, N. Y., May 25, 1881, Ida 
 Preston, and they have two children. Ad- 
 dress: Coniell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 NICHOLS, Ernest Fox: 
 
 President of Dartmouth College ; born in 
 Leavenworth, Kan., June 1, 1869; son of 
 Alonzo Curtis and Sophronia (Fox) Nichols. 
 He was graduated from tlie Kansas Agricul- 
 tural College, B.S., 1868, Cornell Univer- 
 sity, M.S., 1893, D.Sc, 1897; and he also 
 received the lionorary degree of D.Sc. from 
 Dartmouth College, 1905; was a student in 
 the University of Berlin, 1894-1897, and in 
 Cambridge University, England, 1904-1905. 
 He was Erastus Brooks fellow in Cornell, 
 1891; associate jjrofessor of physics 1892 
 and professor 1893-1898 in Colgate Univer- 
 sity ; professor of physics in Dartmouth Col- 
 lege, 1898-1903; professor of experimental 
 pliysics in Columbia University, 1903-1909; 
 also Ernest Kempton Adams research fellow 
 in Columbia University, and research asso- 
 ciate in Mt. Wilson Solar Observatory, 1905- 
 1907. In 1909 he was elected president of 
 Dartmouth College. Dr. Nichols has made 
 oiiginal contributions to tlie science of phj's- 
 ics. When at Dartmouth as professor of 
 physics he made the first measurements of 
 the heat received from several of the bright- 
 
 est stars and planets by using a radiometer 
 of his own invention, and in 1901, in col- 
 laboration with Assistant Professor Hall 
 he discovereil the pressure of a beam of 
 liglit, and he has made other experiments 
 and discoveries of importance. He was 
 elected a member of the National Academy 
 of Sciences in 1908; is a fellow and was 
 vice-president in 1903 of the American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science; 
 member of the American Astronomical and 
 Astrophysical Society, American Physical 
 Society, and American Philosophical Society. 
 He is a collaborator on the Astrophysical 
 Journal and is a Rumford medalist of the 
 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 
 1904. Dr. Nichols is author of numerous 
 papers, published in this country and 
 abroad, on various researches in physics, 
 chiefly in the field of radiation. He mar- 
 ried "in Hamilton, N. Y., June 16. 1894, 
 Katharine Williams West, and has one 
 daughter. Address: Dartmouth College, 
 Hanover, N. II. 
 
 NICHOLS, George Livingston: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 9, 
 1860. He was graduated from Williams 
 College, A.B., 1881; Columbia Law School, 
 LL.B., 1883. He is a member of the firm 
 of Masten & Nichols; was city civil service 
 commissioner of Brooklyn for four years; 
 and is now the vice-president and director 
 of Chickering & Sons; secretary and director 
 of the Southern Improvement Company of 
 New York, Tin Plate Decorating Company; 
 director of Borden's Condensed ]\Iilk Com- 
 pany, Empire Trust Company, Lalance and 
 Grosjean ^Manufacturing Company, United 
 States Bobbin and Shuttle Company. WW- 
 liam C. Casey Company, Woodhaven Water 
 Supply Company, Phoenix National Bank. 
 He is a member of the Saint Nicholas, New 
 York Historical, Zoological, Long Island 
 Historical and New York Geographical So- 
 cieties, American Association. Bar Associa- 
 tion of the State of New York, Association 
 of the ]5ar of tlie City of New York, Wil- 
 liams College, Alumni Association, Sons of 
 the Revolution, Society of Foreign Wars, So- 
 ciety of the War of 1812, Melrojiolitan Mu- 
 seum of Art, Botanical Gardens, and Amer- 
 
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 ican Museum of Natural History. lie is 
 a member of the Union, Metropolitan, Gro- 
 licr, University, Down Town and Uamillon 
 (Brooklyn) Clubs. Residence: (l(i East 
 5Gth Street. Address: 4'J Wall Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 NICHOLS, Henry Hobart: 
 
 Artist; born in Washinglon, D. C, May 
 1, 18G9; son of Henry Hobart Nicliols, and 
 Indiana (Jay) Nichols. He received' his ed- 
 ucation in public schools, and Media Acad- 
 emy; studied art at the Art Student>i 
 League, later in Paris, under Casteluchio. 
 and at the Academic Julian. Mr. Nichols 
 was awarded the Parsons prize, Corcoran 
 Gallery of Art, 1902, 1904, 2d Corcoran 
 prize, 1901, and Corcoran prize in 190G. 
 He was second assistant director of fine 
 arts, of the United States Commission to 
 the Paris Exposition, 1900. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Society of Washington Artists. 
 Washington Water Color Club, New York 
 Water Color Club, Cosmos Club of Washing- 
 ton, and tlie Salmagundi Club of New York. 
 Mr. Nichols married in Washington, D. C, 
 April 20, 1895, Wilhelmina von Stosch, and 
 has two daughters. Address: Tuckahoe. 
 N. Y. 
 
 NICHOLS, Henry Sargent Prentiss: 
 
 Lawyer; son of Joseph Darwin Nichols 
 and Emily IDarrah; born in Columbia, Lan- 
 caster County, Pa., He was graduated 
 from the University of Pennsylvania A.B., 
 1879. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, 
 the University Club, Historical Society of 
 Pennsylvania, Presbyterian Historical So- 
 ciety, Presbyterian Board of Relief for Dis- 
 abled ]\Iinisters, Law Association of Phila- 
 delphia, Pennsylvania State Bar Association 
 and American Bar Association and is a 
 trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital. Ad- 
 dress: Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. 
 
 NICHOLS, William Ford: 
 
 Bishop of California; born at Lloyd, N. 
 Y"., June 9, 1849; son of Charles H. and 
 Margaret E. Nichols. He was graduated 
 from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., B.A., 
 1870, M.A., 1873; and from Berkeley Di- 
 
 vinity School, 1873; he- received the honor- 
 ary degree of D.D. from Trinity Collrjje unci 
 from Keiiyon College ill IHSH. ( |ton hin 
 gradual ioM from the ni'iiiinary, wuh ordiTcd 
 deacon. 1873, and orduiiied prie»l, 1874. in 
 the ministry of the Kpi.seojial Cliiireh by 
 liishop Williams of Coniieclicut. lie was 
 curale at .Middletown, Conn., following; hiit 
 ordination. :iii(l thriiee consecutively rector 
 of St. James' {'liurcli. West iliirtford. Conn., 
 (iraee Church, Newinglon, Conn., CliriMt 
 Cliureh, Hartford, and St. .laiiM-s' Church. 
 IMiiladelpiiia. He was also professor of 
 Church iiistory at the Berkeley Divinity 
 School. In 1888 lie was electe<l assistant 
 bishop of Ohio, but declined and was two 
 \ears later consecrated to the assistant 
 bishopric of California by Bishops John Wil- 
 liams, Quintard, Neely, Littlejoiin. Whit- 
 aker, Niles, Adams, Scarborough. White- 
 head and H. C. Potter. In I8'.t:{ he »)e- 
 came on the death of Bishop Kip, Bishop of 
 California. Bishop Nichols is author of: 
 On Trial for Your Faith, 1895; Apt and 
 Meet, 1909; and various sermons, addresses 
 and pastorials. Address: 1215 Sacramento 
 Street, San Francisco, Calif. 
 
 NICHOLS, William Henry, Jr.: 
 
 Chemical manufacturing and mining engi- 
 neer; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 14, 
 1873; son of William H. and Hannah W. 
 (Bensel) Nichols. He was educated in the 
 Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and Colum- 
 bia School of Mines, graduating in 1894. 
 Mr. Nichols is director, chairman of the 
 Executive Committee, and gi-neral manager 
 of the General Chemical Company, director 
 and auditor, Nichols Copper Company, di- 
 rector and secretary. Chemical Trading 
 Company, and iladoc .Mining Company, di- 
 rector and president of the San Carlos Cop- 
 per Company, and Linares and (iulf Rail 
 way, and director and vice-president of the 
 Pulaski :\Iining Company. Thomsen Chem- 
 ical Company. Baker and Adaiiison Chemi- 
 cal Company, fieneral Chemical Company of 
 Pennsylvania. Virginia Mining Company. 
 Nichols Chemical Company, Limited. He is 
 a member of the Society of Chemical In- 
 dustry, American Institute of Mining En- 
 
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 ^lEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 gineers, American Chemical Society, trus- 
 tee of the Brooklyn Childrcns Aid Societ\', 
 First Presbyterian Church, Brooklj'n Eye 
 and Ear Hospital; member of the Phi Kap- 
 pa Psi Society, Columbia Rowing Associa- 
 tion, Hamilton and Heights Casino Clubs 
 of Brooklyn, Down Town, Columbia, and 
 Chemists Clubs of New York, and the Nas- 
 sau Country Club. He married in Brook- 
 lyn, Oct. 28, 18!)G, Rose Tilden, and has 
 two children. Residence: liGl Clinton Ave- 
 nue, Brooklyn. Office: 25 Broad Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 NICHOLS, William Wallace: 
 
 P^ngincer; born in XcAy York City, Nov. 
 17, 1860; son of Edward' E. and Anna 
 (Mac-auley) Nichols. He was graduated 
 from Yale University, Ph.B.. 1884, M.E., 
 1886. He was in the motive power depart- 
 ment of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincin- 
 nati and Indianapolis Railroad, Cleveland, 
 Ohio, 18S5-188(); assistant master of me- 
 chanics and superintendent telegraph, of 
 the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail- 
 road', 1886-1890; superintendent of the Chi- 
 cago Telephone Company, 1890-1893; in- 
 structor in mechanical engineering at Y^ale, 
 1893-1900; assistant manager of the Balti- 
 more Copper Smelting and Refining Com- 
 pany, 1900-1904; vice-president of the Allis- 
 Chalmers Companj-. Since 1904 he has been 
 director of the Allis-Chalmcrs-Bullock Com- 
 pany, Limited, and the U. S. Trenching Ma- 
 chine Company. lie is a member of the 
 American Society of ."Mechanical Engineers, 
 and of the Yale, Lawvers', Engineers, and 
 New York Railway Clubs. j\Ir. Nichols 
 married at St. Louis, April 6, 1896, Mary 
 Elizabeth Hill, and they have one daughter. 
 Address: 71 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 NICHOLSON, John Page: 
 
 Soldier and editor; born in Philadelphia, 
 July 4, 1842; sou of James B. and Adelaide 
 B. Nicholson. He received the degree of 
 A.M. from Marietta College, in 1882. He 
 enlisted as private in the 28th Pennsylvania 
 Infantry J\ily 3, 1861, and was sergeant 
 from July 20, 1861 ; regimental commissary 
 sergeant, Aug. 2, 1861; was discharged for 
 promotion, July 21, 1862; first lieutenant of 
 
 the 2Sth Pennsylvania Infantry, July 21, 
 1862; first lieutenant and quartermaster, 
 Sept. 19, 1862; honorably mustered out, 
 Sept. 1, 1865; In-evetted captain of U. S. 
 Volunteers, March 13, 1865, for faithful and 
 meritorious services; captain, March 13, 
 1865, for faitliful and meritorious services 
 during the war; major, March 13, 1865, 
 for gallant and meritorious services in the 
 Savannah and Carolina campaigns, lieuten- 
 ant-colonel, March 13, 186.1, for gallant and 
 meritorious services during the war. He 
 served in and with Army of West Virginia, 
 Banks' Corps; Armies of Virginia, tliie 
 Potomac, the Cumberland and Georgia from 
 Bolivar, Va., 1861, to Sherman's March to 
 the Sea and' through the Carolinas, to the 
 final surrender of the Confederate forces. 
 He is a member of the Historical Societies 
 of Pennsylvania, Maine, Virginia, Maryland 
 and Tennessee and the Ohio Historical and 
 Archaeological Society. He is recorder-in- 
 chief of the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion, since 1879; recorder of the Com- 
 mandery of the State of Pennsylvania since 
 1879; chairman of the U. S. Gettysburg 
 National Park Commission ; secretary of the 
 Pennsylvania Gettysburg Commission; vice- 
 president of the Valley Forge Commission, 
 Hanover Pennsylvania ^Monument Commis- 
 sion; chairman of the General Wayne Mon- 
 ument Commission; trustee of the Soldiers 
 and Sailors and' Sailors Home, Erie, Pa., 
 and Pennsylvania Militiiry Academy, Ches- 
 ter, Pa.; member of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic, and ^Military Service Instittition 
 of the United States. He is the translator 
 and editor of: Tlu; History of the Civil 
 War in America (by the Comte de Paris), 
 four volumes; editor and compiler of Pt'un- 
 .sylvania at Gettysburg, two volumes. Ad- 
 dress: 1124 North 41st Street, I'liiladd- 
 phia. 
 
 NICHOLSON, John Reed: 
 
 ( liaiiccllor (if l)ela\\:irc: boi-n in Dover, 
 Del., .May 19, 1SJ9; .son of John Anthony 
 and Angelica Killen (Reed) Nicholson, and 
 a descendant of William Killen. the first 
 chancellor of Delaware. He was graduated 
 from Yale, A.B., 1870, and from Columbia 
 Law School, New York, LL.B., 1873. He 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 was connocled with the paleontoloiricixl ex- 
 pedition conducted by Dr. Otlinicl C. Marsh 
 iliioiii;li the Rocky Mountains and' the Great 
 I'lains ill 1S70. On graduation in law lie 
 established in practice in New York City in 
 1873; but in 1876 returned to Dover. Del., 
 and engaged in i)ractice. He was town so- 
 licitor, 1885-1892, attorney-general of Dela- 
 ware. 189-2-18nr): and in November, 1895, 
 became chancellor of Delaware, whicli office 
 he has held ever since. ITe is a Democrat 
 in politics. Chancellor Nicholson married 
 in Lancaster, Pa.. June 3, 1884, Isabella 
 Hayes Hager. Address: Dover, Del. 
 
 NICHOLSON, Watson: 
 
 Teacher and author; born in Pendleton, 
 Ind., Sept. 23, 18(16; son of Abraham and 
 Maria C. (Davis) Nicholson. He was edu- 
 cated in the Indiana public schools, Indiana 
 University, through the junior year, Leland 
 Stanford Jr. Universitj^ A.B., (class ora- 
 tor), 1892; Harvard University, A.M. (Uni- 
 versity Scholar), 1895; Yale University, fel- 
 low in English, Ph.D., 1903. He was teach- 
 er in the public schools of Indiana. 1884- 
 1888; superintendent of schools, Dundas, 
 Minn.. 1890-1891; assistant teacher of his- 
 tory. Harvard University, 1895-1897; Board 
 of Harvard Examiners, 1895-1897; head of 
 the Department of English, Pvcdlands 
 (Calif.) High School, 1897-1901; lecturer 
 in literature for the American Society for 
 the Extension of University Teaching, 1903- 
 1905; instructor in English in Y'ale Univer- 
 sity, 1905-1908. He is a member of the 
 Southern California Teachers' Association, 
 Harvard Teachers' Association, jNIodern 
 Language Association, the National Edu- 
 cational Association, Phi Beta Kappa So- 
 ciety, the Sigma Chi fraternity, and the 
 Southern California School Masters' Club. 
 Mr. Nicholson has been identified with lit- 
 erature as well as educational work; was 
 the founder and first editor-in-chief of 
 Sequoia, the first Stanford Magazine, and is 
 author of: The Struggle for a Free Stage 
 in London, 1906 (Houghton. :Mifflin & Co.), 
 and numerous educational articles and re- 
 views ; and he is now at work on a book on 
 The Influence of the Censor of Plays on the 
 Acted Drama in London. Mr. Nicholson 
 
 married in Fort Wayne, Ind., Sept. 1, 1897, 
 Florence Emily Beaver. AddresR: 2106 
 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 NICHOLSON, William R.: 
 
 I'liysiciiui; liorn in lloslon. I'el). 26, 1S68; 
 son of lit. Rev. William Riifus Nidiolson, 
 D.D.. and Katlierine Stanley (Parker) 
 Nicholson. He Avas graduated for tlie Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, Ph.B., 1890, M.D., 
 
 1893. He is a fellow of the College of Phy- 
 sicians of Philadelphia; Associate in Ob- 
 stetrics of University of Pennsylvania, and 
 gynecologist to Polyclinic Hospital, and is a 
 member of the Phi Alpha Sigma and Phi 
 Kappa Psi fraternities and of the Univer- 
 sity Club of Vhiladelphia. Dr. Nicholson 
 married in Pliiladelphia, July 14. 1904, 
 Celia J. Bolles. Address: 350 Soutii l.'.th 
 Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 NICOLL, DeLancey: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Shelter Island, N. Y., 
 June 24, 1854; son of Solomon Townsend 
 and Charlotte Ann (Nicoll) Nicoll, cousins. 
 His father was a successful East India tea 
 merchant of New York City. ilr. DeLancey 
 Nicoll was educated in the Flushing (N. 
 Y.) Institute, Cheshire (Conn.) Academy, 
 St. Paul's School. Concord, N. H., Prince- 
 ton College from whihc he was graduated 
 A.B., with high honors in 1874, and Colum- 
 bia Law School, LL.B., 1876. He was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1876 and he formed a 
 partnership with Walter D. Edmund's. He 
 was assistant district attorney of New Y'ork 
 City, 1885-1888. under Randolph B. Mar- 
 tine. Mr. Nicoll has been the un-<uccessful 
 candidate for the office of district attorney 
 on the Republican and Independent tickets 
 in 1887, but at the next election he was the 
 nominee on the Democratic ticket, and was 
 elected, serving as district attorney, 1S92- 
 
 1894. Upon retiring from office, his law 
 firm was Nicoll, Anable and Lindsay, which 
 continues to the present time (1909). Mr. 
 Nicoll was a member of the constitutional 
 convention in 1894. Among the important 
 cases that Mr. Nicoll has handled success- 
 fully are: The Alderdmanic prosecution for 
 bribery connected with the Broadway rail- 
 road franchise; People v. Jahne; People v. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 O'Xeil; People v. McQuadc : People v. 
 Sharp: The Richardson Will case; the Will 
 of General Samuel Thomas; the Will of 
 Russell Sage ; the defence of all proceedings 
 against the American Tobacco Company by 
 the United States, including Hale v. 
 Henkle; the litigation of the Inlerborough 
 Rapid Transit Company in New York. He 
 is a member of the Union, Metropolitan. 
 Tuxedo. Racquet. Riding, University. Man- 
 hattan. Princeton and Democratic Clubs of 
 New York. Mr. Nicoll married. Dec. 11, 
 1890, at Ossining, N. Y.. :\raud. daughter 
 of Richard Cuyler Churchill, lieutenant of 
 the Fourth Artillery, U. S. Army, and has 
 one son. and one daughter, , Residence 23 
 East 39th Street. Office: 31 Nassau Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 NICOLL, James Craig: 
 
 Artisl; born in Xew York City, Nov. 22, 
 1846; son of John W. and Elizabeth P. 
 (Craig) NicoH. He was educated in the 
 Quackenbos School in New York City, stud- 
 ied art under M. F. H. de Haas and' Kruse- 
 man van Elten. Mr. Nicoll has painted 
 many scenes along the Atlantic coast, both 
 in oils and water colors. He made his first 
 exhibit at the National Academy of Design 
 in 18G8, and since then at many exhibitions. 
 He received a gold medal from the New Or- 
 leans Exposition in 1885, awards from the 
 Paris Exposition of 1900, the Boston Prize 
 Fund, and others. He was elected associ- 
 ate in 1880 and academician, 1885, of the 
 National Academy of Design, of which he 
 was formerly secretary and is now a mem- 
 ber of the Council. He was one of the found- 
 ers, ten years secretary and is now president 
 of the American Water Color Society; is a 
 member and was president in 1887 of the 
 Artists' Fund Society, and is a member and 
 ex-secretary of the Artists' Etching Club 
 and member of the Artists' Aid Society. He 
 was secretary of the Jury of Award on 
 Painting in the World's Columbian Exposi- 
 tion in Chicago in 1893. Mr. Nicoll mar- 
 riid in New York City, in 1873, Cora A. 
 Noble, now deceased, and' he has four chil- 
 dren. Residence: The Sonoma, 1734 Broad- 
 way. Studio: 51 West 10th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 NIEDRINGHAUS, Thomas Key: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in St. Louis, Mo., 
 Oct. 21, 1860; son of F. G. and Dena (Key) 
 Xiedringhaus. He was educated in Wash- 
 ington University, St. Louis, and Wesleyan 
 University. Middlolown, Conn. After com- 
 pleting his education in 1880, he entered 
 the St. Louis Stamping Company, con- 
 trolled by his family, a large enterprise 
 engaged' in the manufacture of the famous 
 Granite enameled ware, as secretary of the 
 company, and so continued until that and 
 other leading companies in the same line 
 were consolidated into the present National 
 Enameling and Stamping Company, of 
 which he is vice-president and a director ; 
 and he is also connected as officer and di- 
 rector with other corporations. Mr. Nied- 
 ringhaus is an active Republican, was Re- 
 publican caucus nominee for U. S. Senator 
 from Missouri in 1905, and is chairman of 
 the Republican State Committee of Missouri. 
 He married in St. Louis, April 18, 1888, 
 Hennie Brown Johnson, and they have a 
 daughter and a son. Residence: 79 Vande- 
 venter Place. Office: Cass Avenue and 
 Sooonil Street, St. Louis. ~S\o. 
 
 NIEHAUS, Charles Henry: 
 
 Sculptor; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 
 24. 1855; son of John Conrad and Wilhel- 
 mina (Block) Niehaus. He was educated 
 in the McIMieken School of Art, Cincinnati 
 (first prize) ; Royal Academy, Munich, Ba- 
 varia (first prize, medal and diploma) ; 
 studied in Rome, Italy, four years ; one 
 year in ]\Ianchester, England, after three 
 years spent in Royal Academy, Munich; 
 elected associate in 1892, and academician 
 in 1906, of the National Academy of De- 
 sign; member Architectural League of 
 America. Xalional Arts Club, National 
 Sculptor Society; medals \\ere awarded to 
 him in Chicago; gold medals, Buffalo, 1901; 
 Charleston, 1902; St. Louis, 1904. His 
 more important works are the Hahneman 
 .\[onument (Washington); Statues: In- 
 galls, Garfield. Allen, IMorton (in rotunda of 
 eapitol), Drake Monument (Titusville, 
 Pennsylvania); Forest equestrian (Mem- 
 phis, Tenn.) ; Trinity Historical Doors 
 (Xew York City); Pediment Appellate 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Courl (Xcw York City) ; Louis IX. oqucs- 
 
 tiiaii (St. I.Dui-. Md.i) stntiirs of McKin- 
 li'V. l.iiicDlii and l'"arr:iL:nt (Muskegon, 
 jMic'li.); McKiiilcy for tomb (Canton, 
 Ohio) : llnnisoii ( 1 lulianapolis, Ind.) ; Louis 
 IX (St. I.oiii-): ]>,Mnni('nt, Kentucky State 
 Cajiitol. Ill' iiiani('<l in Now York City, 
 Any'. ;i. I'.iOO, i;i',ui'ia Armstrong. Address: 
 New Koc-lu'lle, N.' Y. 
 
 NIES, James Buchanan: 
 
 Clprjjymaii; horn in Newark, N. J., 1856; 
 son of Simon X^ies and Antoinette F. Lan- 
 dano. He was graduated from Columbia, 
 B.A.. 1882, M.A.. 1887. Ph.D., ISSS, and 
 from the General Theological Seniin;iry. 
 ISSo. He was ordered deacon in 1885, and 
 ordained priest in 1886. hy Bishop Henry 
 C. Potter. He was formerly in charge of 
 Holy Trinity Chapel, New York City, 1885- 
 1886; vSt. John's Church, Tuckahoe, N. Y'., 
 and St. John's Upper New Rochelle, N. Y., 
 1880-1887; vicar of Christ Chapel, Brook- 
 lyn. lSS7-18i12; rector of the Church of the 
 Epiphany. Brooklyn, 1803-18!)8; Oriental 
 traveler and explorer, 1808-1905; rector of 
 Christ Church, Sharon, Conn., 11)05-1907. 
 He is a member of the American Oriental 
 Society, American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, American Archseo- 
 logical Institute, American Anthropological 
 Society. American Numismatic Society, Co- 
 lumbia University Club, Society for Biblical 
 Literature and Exegesis, the Deutsche Ori- 
 ents Gesellschaft. Der Verein Zur Erfor- 
 scliung Paliistinas. and the Palestine Ex- 
 ploration Fund of England. He married, 
 Sept, :?, ISni. in Brooklyn, N. Y., Jeanie 
 Dows Orr. Address: Hotel ^Margaret, Co- 
 lumbia Heights, lirooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 NILES, Henry Clay: 
 
 U. S. judge; born at Kosciusko, Miss., 
 Oct. 21. 1850; son of Hon. Jason Niles, a 
 prominent member of the INIississippi bar, 
 and Harriet Xiles. He was educated in 
 the schools of Kosciusko, and studied law 
 there, and was engaged in the private prac- 
 tice of law at Kosciusko from 1872, until 
 appointed, in 1890, U. S. attorney for the 
 Northern District of :Mississippi. In 1892 
 he was appointed, by President Harrison, 
 
 judge of the U. S. District Court for the 
 Xorthcrn ami Southern l^istricts of .Missis- 
 sippi, .ludge Xih's was a member of On; 
 House of Iteprescnliitives of .Missis.si|)pi in 
 1878, and again in 18H(i, and' iuis always 
 been a Republican in poli1i<'<. Addre**'*: 
 Kosciusko, Miss. 
 
 NILES, William Henry: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Oxford, X. H., Dec. 22, 
 1839; son of Samuel Wales and Kunice 
 (Newell) Niles. He was educated in ])ul)- 
 lic schools and under private tuition, and 
 three years at the Providence Conference 
 Seminary, East Greenwich, P. I. He read 
 law in the ofTice of Caleb Blodgett. Jr. 
 (afterward' judge of the Su])erior Court of 
 ]\Iassachusetts) , and was admitted to the 
 Massachusetts bar in March, 1870; since 
 which time he has carried on a general 
 law practice ; and he is now head of the 
 law firm of Niles, Stevens, Underwood and 
 JNIayo, at Lynn. He is also a director of 
 the Manufacturers' National Bank of Lynn, 
 and is counsel for several banks and 
 for many of the large corporations in Lynn 
 and vicinity. ^Ir. Niles was a member of 
 the School Board of Lynn for four years; 
 president of the Lynn Bar Association ten 
 years; and is now and for the past seven 
 years has been president of the Essex Bar 
 Association. He married at Bristol, N. H., 
 Sept. 19, 1865, Harriet A. Day, and they 
 have three married daugliters. Residence: 
 215 Ocean Street. Olliee: 333 Union 
 Street, Lynn, Ma.ss. 
 
 NILES, William Woodruff: 
 
 Bishop of New Hampshire; born at Hat- 
 ley, Lower Canada, now Province of Que- 
 bec, May 24, 1832; son of Daniel Swit and 
 Delia (Woodrufl') Niles. He was graduated 
 from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., 1857, 
 and from Berkeley Divinity Scliool. 1861. 
 He received from Trinity College the de- 
 gree of D.D. and LL.D.. also D.D. from 
 Dartmouth College, and from Bishop's Col- 
 lege, Lennoxville. Canada, the degree of 
 D.C.L. in 1898. He was ordered deacon of 
 the Fpiscojial Church by Bishop Williams 
 in 1801 and' the following year was ordaineil 
 to the priesthood by Bishop Burgess, of 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Maine. Tic was rector of St. Pliilip's 
 Church, W'iscassct, Me., for several years; 
 was professor of the Latin language and 
 literature at Trinity College, 18G4-1870. 
 and rector of St. John's Church at \\'are- 
 house Point, Conn., 1S6S-1870. In the lat- 
 ter year he became P>ishop of New Hamp- 
 shire, and was consecrated by Bisho])s B. 
 B. Smitli. Williams, Neely, Doane, and Bis- 
 scll, together with J. W. Williams, Bishop 
 of. Quebec. He has written numerous ad- 
 dresses, sermons and pastorals, and arti- 
 cles in encj-clopedias, and was one of the 
 early editors of The Churchman. Bishop 
 Niles was many years a member of the 
 commission for Revising tlie Prayer Book, 
 of the commission for revising the marginal 
 Readings in the English Bible, and of the 
 commission for Revising the Lectionary of 
 the Cliureh: also for many years a mem- 
 ber of llie Managers of the Domestic and 
 Foreign Missionary Society of the Episco- 
 pal Church. He has been more than thirty 
 years chairman of the Committee on Edu- 
 cation in the General Convention of the 
 Episcopal Church. He has long been pres- 
 ident of the trustees of St. Paul's School 
 at Concord, of Holderness School for Boys, 
 and of St. Mary's School for C4irls, and is 
 the senior member of the Corporation of 
 Trinity College. He married in Hartford, 
 Conn., June 5, 18G2, Bert ha Olmsted. Ad- 
 dress: Concord, X. H. 
 
 NIXON, George S.: 
 
 U. S. Senator: l>oni in Placer County, 
 Calif., April 2. 18(i(). lie was ocVucated in 
 the puljlic schools, worked on his father's 
 farm until 19 years of age. when he entered 
 the enijjloy of a railroad company and 
 studied telegraphy. In 1881 he was trans- 
 ferred to Nevada, where he served three 
 years as a telegrapli o])eral()r, and in 1884 
 accepted a clerical position in :\ liank at 
 Reno. He is now largely interested in 
 banking, mining, stock raising, and farm- 
 nig; served' as a member of Hie Nevada 
 Legislature as a i;ei)Viblii an in 18!)1; was 
 elected to tlie L'. S. Senate, Jan. 25, lOOf), 
 to succeed linn. Williuii .M. Stewart for the 
 term beginninvf Manli 4. litO"). His term of 
 
 service will expire ^Marcli .'i. 1011. Address: 
 Winnemucca, Nev. 
 
 NIXON, lewis: 
 
 Xa\al ai'chitcet and sliipbuihler ; liorn at 
 Leesburg, Va., April 7, 1801; son of Colonel 
 Joel Lewis and I\Iary Jane (Turner) Nixon. 
 He was educated at Leesburg Academy, and 
 the L'nited States Naval Academy, grad- 
 uating No. 1 in the class of 1882 and then 
 attending the Royal Naval College of Lon- 
 don, England. After graduation as mid- 
 shipman in 1882, he served in the line 
 of the Navy until 1884, when he was trans- 
 ferred to the Construction Corps. He de- 
 signed the battleships Oregon, ]Massachu- 
 setts and Indiana in 1800, then resigned 
 from the Navy to become superintending 
 constructor of Cramp's Shipyard at Phil- 
 adelphia; opened the Crescent Shipyard in 
 1895, and built vessels for all departments 
 of the Government of the United States, and 
 for foreign governments. He is president 
 of the Standard JNIotor Construction Com- 
 pany, director of the Donald Steamship 
 Company, and sole owner of Lewis Nixon's 
 shipyard; built eleven men-of-war for the 
 United States Navy, sixteen vessels for the 
 Russian Navy, two for the Mexican Navy, 
 five vessels for Cuba and four for Santo 
 Domingo, and for the United States and 
 foreign countries has built every known 
 type of vessels. He built the Gregory, the 
 first motor boat to cross the ocean; and 
 built the first submarine torpedo boats for 
 the United States Navy. He has been pre- 
 sented' to the King of England and received 
 in special audience by Pope Pius X and 
 the Czar Nicholas of Russia. He was pres- 
 ident of the East River Bridge Commission 
 by a])])ointment of ^layor Van Wyck, of 
 New York City, 1807; and leader of Tam- 
 many Hall, succeeding Richard Croker, in 
 1902; chairman of the Democratic Con- 
 gressional Finance Committee, 1902 to 1903; 
 commissioner from New York to the St. 
 Louis World's Fair, by' appointment of 
 Governor Odell ; member of the Board of 
 Visitors to the U. S. Naval Academy, in 
 lOO.*}. by appointment of President Roose- 
 velt; delegate to the National Democratic 
 Conventions at Kansas Citv and St. Louis 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Ill 
 
 and was cliainiKui of tlio Dcinnoratic State 
 Couventioii, at IJull'alo, in IDOG. He is a 
 member of the Tammany Society, is mem- 
 ber of the Council and Executive Commit- 
 tee of the Institution of Naval Architects 
 and Marine JCnoinoors ; of tlie Executive 
 Committee of the Institution of Naval 
 Architects, and a fellow of the American 
 GeofTraphical Society; member and trustee 
 of Webb's Academy and Home for Sliip- 
 huilders. Mr. Nixon is a member of the 
 Union, Brook, National Democratic, Law- 
 yers', Seneca, Conej' Island Jockey, New 
 York Yacht, Atlantic Yacht, Columbia 
 Yaclit, Richmond County Country, and 
 Westchester Country Clubs, tlie Automobile 
 Club of America, Automobile Club of 
 Staten Island', Staten Island Club and 
 Motor Boat Club of New York City, the 
 Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia, and the 
 Metropolitan and Army and Navy Clubs of 
 Washiufiton. D. C. He married at \^■ash- 
 ington, D. C, Jan. 29, 1891, Sally Lewis 
 \Nood, a direct descendant of the Colonial 
 general, Andrew Lewis of Virginia, and 
 they have one son. Address: Tompkins- 
 ville, Staten Island, N. Y. 
 
 NIXON, William Penn: 
 
 Journalist; born at Fountain City, Ind., 
 March 19, 1833; son of Samuel and Rhoda 
 Hubbard (Butler) Nixon. He was gradu- 
 ated from Farmer's College, Ohio, and the 
 University of Pennsylvania, LL.B., 1859. 
 He practised law after graduation, locating 
 in Cincinnati and continuing in the law 
 until 1868. He was president of the ('in- 
 cinnati Mutual Life Insurance Company, 
 1800-1871. He began his newspaper career 
 in 18G8. wlien with his brother. Dr. Oliver 
 W. Nixon, he established the Dail}' Cin- 
 cinnati Chronicle, of which he was at first 
 commercial editor and later publisher and 
 general manager until 1872, when the paper 
 was consolidated with the Cincinnati Times. 
 He then sold his interest and removed to 
 Chicago, where he became business manager 
 of the Chicago Inter Ocean, until 1875, 
 and after that for twenty-two years its 
 general manager and editor-in-chief. He 
 sold his controlling interest in 1897, but 
 continued to be secretary and treasurer of 
 
 tlie liiliT Ocriii ( oiiiiiiiny. In pulitics Mr. 
 Nixon has always been an aclive and in- 
 fluential Republican. He was a mcinh'-r of 
 the Ohio Legislature, 18(!4-lSf;7; was del- 
 egate-at-large fron) the State of Illinois to 
 the Xiitionul Repul)lican Convention at St. 
 Louis in 189(); was appointed a Lincoln 
 Park Commissioner in 1890, and president 
 of the board in 1897: appointed collector 
 of the port of Chicago in 1897, and rc- 
 apjiointed in 1901, serving until 1900. Mr. 
 Nixon lias been twice married, first at 
 Cincinnati, in 1801, to Mary, daughter of 
 He/.ekiali and Rutli (Ferris) Stites, wiio 
 died in 1802; and in 1869. he married Eliz- 
 abeth, daugliter of Charles and Sarah E. 
 DufTield, of Chicago. Address: 74.'} North 
 Clark Street, Cliicago. 
 
 NOBLE, John: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Dover, N. IL, .\\)t\\ 14, 
 1829; son of Mark and IMary Carr (Copp) 
 Noble; grandson of John and Sarah (Chad- 
 bourne) Noble and of George W. and Sarah 
 (Palmer) Copp and a descendant of Lazarus 
 Noble. Portsmouth, N. IT., before 1080; 
 William Chadbourne, Strawberry Bank, 
 N. H., 1031; William Copp, Boston, 1035. 
 Mr. Noble was brought up in the town 
 of Somersworth, N. II. ; was educated in 
 Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., and Har- 
 vard, A.B., 1850, LL.B., 1858, and received 
 the honorary degree of LL.D. from Dart- 
 mouth in 1902. He was sub-master of the 
 Boston Latin School, 1850-1856; tutor in 
 Greek, Harvard College, 1858; lawyer in 
 active practice, 1858-1875; clerk of the Su- 
 perior Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 
 1875-1900. lie was elected an overseer of 
 Howard University in 1898, and reelected 
 in 1904. Mr. Noble is a member of the 
 Colonial Society of Massachusetts; Massa- 
 chusetts Historical Society. Bostonian So- 
 ciety, New England Historic Genealogical 
 Society, American Antiquarian Society. 
 American Historical Association, Bunker 
 Hill Monument Association, American For- 
 estry Association. He married, June 11. 
 1873, Katherine Williams, daughter of Wil- 
 liam and Catherine (Williams) Slielden of 
 Dcerfield, Mass., and they have two chil- 
 dren. Address: Court House, Boston. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 NOEL. Edmund Favor: 
 
 Governor of Mississippi ; born in Holmes 
 Count}-, Miss., March 4, 1850; son of Le- 
 land and Margaret (Saunders) Noel. He 
 \\as educated in the j)ublic schools of 
 llohnes Comity, Miss., and Louisville 
 (Ky.) High (School; studied law in Louis- 
 ville, Ky., under his uncle, and was admit- 
 ted to the bar at Lexington, Miss., in March, 
 1877. He practised law in that city, 1877- 
 1908, in wliieii year he was elected and in- 
 augurated as governor of ^lississippi. Pre- 
 vious to that lie had been active politically 
 and he was elected representiitive in the 
 Lgislature in 1881, district attorney, in 
 1887, and State senator in 1895. As a 
 Legislator, he was author of the Compulsory 
 rriniary Llection Law and other important 
 reform measures. He is a thirty-second 
 degree Mason, and a Woodman of the 
 World. He married at Pickens, Miss., 
 Sept. 12, 1905, Mrs. Alice Tye Neilson. 
 Address: Jackson, Miss. 
 
 NOLEN, John: 
 
 Landscape archilect. city phiniier, and 
 lecturer; born in Philadeljihia, in 1869; 
 son of John ( '. and Matilda (Thomas) 
 Nolen. He was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity- of Pennsylvania, Pli.B., 1893; stud- 
 ied ill tlie Cni versify of Municli, 1901-1902; 
 ami i larval il, 1903-1905, receiving the de- 
 gree of A.M. lie was landscape architect 
 for Charlotte, X. C; Sa\aiinah, (ia. ; Poa- 
 noke, Va.; Madi.son, Wis.; La Crosse, Wis.; 
 San Diego, Calif.; Montclair, N. J.; Glen 
 Ridge. X. J., and Reading, Pa. Now chiefly 
 occupied in the iire])arali()n uf comprehensive 
 town and city plans. He is a lecturer on 
 Out-Door Art, ('ivic Improvement, and City 
 Planning. Author of magazine articles and 
 editor of Kepton's " Art of Landscape 
 (hardening.'' Mr. Nolen is a member of the 
 American Society of Landscape Architects. 
 He has made frcipiciit trips Id iMigland. 
 l-'raiicc. (Iciiiiaiiy. Switzerland, and Italy. 
 He married in Philadelphia, in 189(), Bar- 
 bara Shatte, and has three children, John, 
 Barbara and Ldward. Rcjsidence: G Avon 
 Place. Ofliice: Harvard Square, Cam- 
 bridge, Mass. 
 
 NOLL, Arthur Howard: 
 
 Clergyman, author and University official; 
 born in Caldwell, N. J., Feb. 4, 1855; son 
 of Arthur E. Noll and Mary (Hamil- 
 ton) Noll. ]\Ir. Noll was educated in 
 his father's schools and was admitted 
 to the New Jersey bar, practising in New- 
 ark, N. J., until 1882. He engaged in rail- 
 roading in Mexico and was cashier of the 
 Mexican Central Railway in the City of 
 Mexico, but resigned in 1885 and prepared 
 for the ministry of the Episcopal Church at 
 the University of the South. He was or- 
 dained priest in 1888, and held several 
 parishes in Texas, Mississippi. Louisiana 
 and Tennessee until 1902, when he became 
 registrar of The University of the South. He 
 is also a popular lecturer on anthropology, 
 delivering scries of lectures on primitive sur- 
 vivals in modern life and the origins of 
 society. He is a member of the American 
 Historical Association, of the Mississippi 
 and Tennessee Historical Societies and is 
 corresponding member of the New Jersey 
 Historical Societj-, member of the New Jer- 
 sey Society of Sons of the American Revo- 
 lution, and of the Delta Tau Delta frater- 
 nity. He is the author of historical and 
 other works, among them: A Short History 
 of Mexico, 1890, revised and extended edi- 
 tion, 1903; History of the Church in the 
 Diocese of Tennessee, 1900; From Empire 
 to Republic, Story of the Struggle for Con- 
 stitutional Government in :Mexico, 1903; 
 The Peruvians. 1907; General Kirby-Smitli, 
 1908. lie edited and extended P.ishop 
 Quintard's Memoirs of the War; Wilson 
 Gregg's Life of Bishop Gregg (in ]irepara- 
 ti(m) ; Memorabilia Fragmenta of Dr. 
 Thomas Dunn English, author of Ben Bolt 
 (in prejjaration) ; The Little Giant and 
 other wonder tales by Thomas Dunn Eng- 
 lish, and in addition has written many 
 book re\ie\\s. monographs, ami other pub- 
 lications on \arious subjects, religious, sci- 
 entific and literary; and he is the man- 
 aging editor of the Forensic Quarterly. Mr. 
 Noll married at Newark, N. J., Oct. 26, 
 1887, Florence, daughter of Dr. Thomas 
 Dunn iMiglish. a well known wiiter. Resi- 
 dence: Sew a nee, Tenn. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 NOLLEN, John Scholte: 
 
 rrcsident of Lake Forest College; born 
 in Pclla, Iowa, Jan. 15, 18(5!); son of John 
 Nollen and' Johanna (Scholte) Nollen. lie 
 was graduated from the Central College 
 of Iowa as A.B. in 1885, and from tlie 
 State University of Iowa in 1888; did grad- 
 uate work in the Universities of Ziirieh, 
 Leipig, Berlin and Paris, and received the 
 degree of Ph.D. from the University of 
 Leipzig in 1893. He was an instructor in 
 the Central College of Iowa, 1885-1887; 
 tutor at Cham, Switzerland, 1888-1890; 
 professor of modern languages in Iowa 
 College, 1893-1903; professor of German in 
 Indiana University, 1903-1907, and from 
 1907 president of Lake Forest College. He 
 is editor and author of various t^wt-books 
 and monographs on German literature and 
 education, contributor to literary and philo- 
 logical journals and while abroad wrote 
 foreign correspondence for the Boston 
 Evening Transcript. President Nollen is a 
 member of the Modern Language Associa- 
 tion, the Bibliographical Society of Amer- 
 ica, the Goethe-Gesellschaft, Schwiibischer 
 Schillerverein, Deutsche Bibliographische 
 Gesellschaft, the American Peace Society, 
 and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Dr. Nol- 
 len is a member of the University Club of 
 Chicago, and the Onwentsia Club of Lake 
 Forest. He married at Barrington, R. I., 
 Sept. 11, 1906, Emeline Barstow Bartlett. 
 Address: Lake Forest, 111. 
 
 NORRIS, Edwin L.: 
 
 (iovernor of Montana; elected in Novem- 
 ber, 1908, on the Democratic ticket, gover- 
 nor of ^Montana for the four-year term ex- 
 piring in January, 1913. Address: Helena, 
 Mont. 
 
 NORRIS, Frederic William: 
 
 Clergyman; born at Bradford, England, 
 1862; son of William and Mary Elkins 
 Norris. He was graduated from St. Steph- 
 en's College, B.A., 1888; ordered deacon, 
 1890, and ordained priest, 1891, by Bishop 
 A. Leonard, in tlie Episcopal ministry. He 
 was formerly assistant at St. Clark's Ca- 
 thedral, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1890-1891, 
 
 O.\ford I'niversitv. Ent'land. 1894-1895; 
 rector of Trinity Church, South Xorwalk, 
 Conn., 1895-1!)0(); rector of St. Matthew's 
 Churcli, Brooklyn, since 1900. Ilu niarriod 
 Mary E. Clierry in 1S90. .\ddress: 180 
 Macon Street, Ihooklyn, \. V. 
 
 NORRIS, George William: 
 
 Congressman and lawyn-; bdin on a farm 
 in Sandusky County, Ohio, July 11, ISGI, 
 and his early life was spent on the farm 
 where he was horn. His father died when 
 he was a suiall cliild; his only brother was 
 killed in I he war of the rebellion, and hi.s 
 mother was left in straitened circumstances; 
 was compelled (o work out among the 
 neighboring fanners l)y the day and month 
 during tlie summer, and attended district 
 school during the winter; afterwards 
 taught school and earned the money to de- 
 fray expenses for a higher education ; at- 
 tended Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio. 
 and the Northern Indiana Normal Sciiool, 
 Valparaiso; studied law while teaching, and 
 afterwards finished the law course in law 
 school. He was admitted to the bar in 
 1883; removed to Nebraska in 1885; was 
 three times prosecuting attorney, twice by 
 apijointment and' once by election, refusing 
 a second nomination for the position; was 
 elected district judge of the Fourteenth 
 District in 1895, and reelected to the same 
 position in 189!), which position he held 
 when he was nominated for Congress by 
 the Republican convention. He was elected 
 to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth and the 
 Sixtieth Congiesses from tlie Fifth Nebras- 
 ka District, and reelected in 1908 to the 
 Sixty-first Congress. Address: McCook, 
 Neb. 
 
 NORRIS, Henry Hutchinson: 
 
 Professor of electrical engineeiing; born 
 in Philadelphia. April 26, 1873; son of 
 Samuel W. andMary R. (Hutchinson) Nor- 
 ris. He was educated in Johns Hopkins 
 and Cornell L'niversities, receiving the de- 
 gree of M.E. from the latter institution 
 in 1896, with election to Sigma Xi a year 
 later. After successful practice of elec- 
 trical engineering in shop and laboratory 
 
 in charge of same, 1891-1894; student at work, he became an instructor in Cornell 
 
1244 
 
 ^lEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 University in 1896, was appointed an as- 
 sistant professor in 1900, and professor of 
 electrical engineering in 1905; and head of 
 the department in 1909. lie was su- 
 perintendent of llic Electrical Railway 
 Test Commission at the Louisiana Purchase 
 Exposition, at St. Louis, in 1904, and was 
 a memher of the International Jury of 
 Award of that exposition. He is a mem- 
 ber (manager. 1909-1912) of the American 
 Institute of Electrical Engineers; member 
 and secretary of the Society for the Pro- 
 motion of Engineering Education; member 
 and chairman of the Educational Committee 
 of the American Street and Interurban 
 Railway Association; director of tlie Cor- 
 nell Cosmopolitan Club, and member of the 
 Town and Gown Club of Ithaca, N. Y. He 
 was married to Annie T. Ruse at Balti- 
 more, Md., Dec. 24, 1899, and has two 
 daughters. Residence: 103 College Ave- 
 nue. Office: Franklin Hall, Cornell Uni- 
 versity, Ithaca, X. Y. 
 
 NORRIS, Mary Harriott: 
 
 Author; born in Boonton, N. J., March 
 IG, 1848; daughter of Charles Bryan and 
 Mary L. (Kerr) Norris; and she is of 
 Colonial ancestry from Thomas Hard}', 
 1G51-1676, of Captain Crowell's Dragoons, 
 killed in the Sudbury fight, 1G76, and who 
 was a resident of Roxbury, Mass. ; from 
 Sergeant John Booth of Stratford, Conn., 
 1G5.'M72S, wbo served under Captain See- 
 ley, King Philip's War, deputy. 109G; from 
 Lieutenant James Trowbridge, 16;5G-1717, 
 of Newton, Mass., lieutenant in King Phil- 
 ip's, 1G75, deputy from Cambridge, 1700- 
 1703; from Major-General Hiunplirey Ath- 
 erton, 1010- IGGl. of Dorchester, 'Mass., 
 depiity, 1G38, et seq., speaker, 1653, gov- 
 ernors' assistant, 1G54-1GG1. Miss Norris, 
 through Richard Booth of Haitford, Conn, 
 (born in Ciiester, England, 1607), comes of 
 a distinguished ancestry in England, Scot- 
 laiiil and' Ireland; she is also descended 
 from Richard Stout, one of the original 
 patentees of a tract extending from Sand}- 
 Hook to Raritan; also from Captain James 
 Kent of New Jersey, captain in ^laxwell's 
 Brigade, Revolutionary Army. Miss Norris 
 was graduated from Vassar College, 1870, 
 
 with the highest honor granted by the Fac- 
 ulty. She was founder and principal of 
 a private school in New York, 1880-1896, 
 and dean of women. Northwestern Univer- 
 sity. 1898-1809. Miss Norris is author of: 
 Friiulein Mina, 1872; Ben and Bentie 
 Series, 1873-1870; Dorothy Dclafield, 1S86; 
 A Damsel of the Eighteenth Century, 1889 ; 
 Phebe, 1890; Afterward, 1893; The Nine 
 Blessings, 1894; John Applegate, Surgeon, 
 1894; Lakewood, 1895; The Gray House of 
 the Quarries, 1898; The Grapes of Wrath, 
 1901; The Story of Christina, 1907; The 
 Veil, 1908. She is also editor of editions 
 of English classics, including Silas Marner, 
 INIarmion, Evangeline, Kenilworth, and 
 Qucntin Durward, and is a contributor to 
 magazines. Address: Colbath House, Mor- 
 ristown, N. J. 
 
 NORRIS, William: 
 
 Actor; born in New Y^ork City, June 15, 
 1872; son of Elias Black and Harriet 
 Maye. He received his education in the 
 Boys' High School, San Francisco. His first 
 important success was " Baverstock " in His 
 Excellency the Governor, followed by 
 •' Adonis the Jester " in the Palace of the 
 King, The Burgomaster; King Dodo; 
 '• Pinchas " in Children of the Ghetto; origi- 
 nating all these parts ; then " Pepe the 
 Jester " in Francesca Da Rimini, " Barry " 
 in A Country Girl, " Chanibuddy Ram " in 
 The Cingalee, " Alan " in Babes of Toyland, 
 " Benjamin Partridge " in Tom Jones, " Me- 
 phisto " in The Soul Kiss, and " Augustus " 
 in Fluffy Ruffles; and for the season 1909- 
 1910, the leading comedy role in The King 
 of Cadonia. He is a ISIason, and a member 
 of the Players and Lambs Clubs. Address: 
 IG Gra mercy Park, New York City. 
 
 NORRIS, Zee Anderson: 
 
 Writer; born in Harrodsburg, Ky. ; 
 daughter of Henry T. and Henrietta (Duck- 
 er) Anderson. She was graduated from 
 Daughters" College, Harrodsburg, Ky. She 
 married in Harrodsburg, Ky., S. W. Norris. 
 She is author of: The Color of His Soul, 
 The Quest of Polly Locke, Twelve Kentucky 
 Colonel Stories, copied from the New Y^ork 
 Sun : also a writer of short stories for the 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1245 
 
 Smart Set, Tlie Woman's Home Companion, 
 Munsey, Everybody's, Ainslie's, People's, 
 The Bohemian, Argosy, The Sunday JNfaga- 
 zine and Current Literature, her specialty 
 being on The East Side and the Slums of 
 New York City. Mrs. Norris is also a 
 writer for the New York Sun, New York 
 Herald, The New York Press, The Globe, 
 The Times, and other newspapers. She has 
 lived in West Kansas, and Colorado; has 
 traveled nearly all over the United States; 
 lived abroad for several years; now resident 
 of New York City. She is a member of the 
 Woman's Press Club, Waldorf Astoria. Ad- 
 dress: The Xcw York Sun, New York City. 
 
 NORTH, Frank Mason: 
 
 Clergyman ; born in New York City, Dec. 
 3, 1850; son of Charles Carter North and 
 Eliabeth (Mason) North. He was grad- 
 uated from Wesleyan University, A.B. 
 (Phi Beta Kappa), 1872, later receiving 
 the degrees of A.M. and D.D. He was a 
 member of the New York Conference, 1873- 
 1887, and since then of the New York East 
 Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. Dr. North filled pastorates at 
 Florida, N. Y., 1873; Amenia, N. Y., 1874- 
 1876; Cold Spring, 1877-1878; Church of 
 the Saviour, New York City, 1879-1881; 
 White Plains, N. Y., 1882-1883; Calvary 
 Church, New York City, 1884-1887, Mid- 
 dletown. Conn., 1887-1892; since 1892 cor- 
 responding secretary of the New York City 
 Church Extension and Missionary Society 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is 
 also editor of The Christian City. He is 
 corresponding secretary of the National 
 City Evangelization Union; a manager of 
 the Board of Foreign ]\Iissions and of the 
 Board of Home Missions and Church Ex- 
 tension of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; 
 delegate to the Ecumenical Methodist Con- 
 ference, London, 1902, and to the General 
 Conference of the ilethodist Episcopal 
 Church in 1908; vice-chairman of the 
 Executive Committee and chairman of sec- 
 retaries of the Inter-Church Conference on 
 Federation. 1905; member of the Inter- 
 Church Council ; chairman of the Commit- 
 tee on the Church and INIodern Industry, 
 Philadelphia, 1908; chairman of the Stand- 
 
 ing Commission on the Church iind Social 
 Service of the Federal Council of tiie 
 Churches of Christ in America; member 
 of the Executive Committee of the Na- 
 tional Federation of Churches and Ciiris- 
 tian Workers, and of the Methodist Fed- 
 eration for Social Service; trustee of Wes- 
 leyan University and of Drew Theological 
 Seminary ; member of the Advisory Board 
 of the Home for the Friendless, St. Chris- 
 topher's Home, Industrial Christian Alli- 
 ance; director Christodora House, Evange- 
 listic Committee of New York City; 
 American Bible Society, New York Fed- 
 eration of Churches and Christian Organ- 
 izations, The Society for the Prevention of 
 Crime, the Ethical-Social League. Dr. 
 North is a member of the Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society of New York, the Sigma 
 Chi fraternity and the Quill Club of 
 New York City. He married, first, in 
 Philadelphia, Fannie L. Stewart, who died 
 in 1878, and second, at Wellesley, Mass., 
 1885, Louise J. McCoy, and he has two 
 sons. Residence: 121 West 122d Street, 
 New York City. Office: 150 Fifth Avenue, 
 New York City. 
 
 NORTHROP, Cyrus: ^ 
 
 President of the University of Minne- 
 sota; born at Ridgefield, Conn., Sept. 30, 
 1834; youngest child of Cyrus and Polly 
 B. (Fancher) Northrop. He was graduated 
 from Yale, B.A., LL.B., and LL.D. He was 
 clerk of the Senate and House of Represen- 
 tatives of Connecticut, 1860-18G2; editor 
 of New Haven Daily Palladium, 1862-1863; 
 professor of rhetoric and English litera- 
 ture in Yale College, 1863-1884; and since 
 1884 has been president of the University 
 of Minnesota. He is a member of the Con- 
 gregational Club. IMr. Northrop married, 
 in 1862, Anna Eliabeth, daughter of Joseph 
 D. Warren of Stamford, Conn., and they 
 have one son and one daughter. Address: 
 Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 NORTHROP, Harry Plnckney: 
 
 Catholic bishop; born in Charleston. S. C. 
 May 5, 1842; son of C. B. and Hannah E. 
 (Anderson) Northrop. He was educated in 
 Georgetown (D. C.) College, and in Mt. St. 
 
1246 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Mary's College and Seminary in Emmits- 
 burg, Md., whence he went to the North 
 American College in Rome, and was or- 
 dained priest. 1865. He was assistant in the 
 Church of the Nativity in New York City 
 for a year after ordination, then for two 
 years assistant pastor of St. Joseph's Church 
 in Charleston, S. C, and for four years mis- 
 sionary priest in North Carolina, located 
 at Newbern. N. C, was assistant pastor of 
 the procathedral, pastor of St. Patrick's, 
 Charleston, 1878-1882, and he was conse- 
 crated Jan. 8, 1882, titular bishop of Rosa- 
 lia, and made vicar apostolic of North Caro- 
 lina, from which duties he was, by papal 
 brief transferred, Jan. 27, 1883 to the see of 
 Charleston. Address: Charleston, S. C. 
 
 NORTON, Charles Ledyard: 
 
 Soldier, author, journalist; born in Farm- 
 ington. Conn., June 11, 1837; son of John 
 Treadwell and Elizabeth (Cogswell) Norton. 
 He was educated in public and private 
 schools in Farmington, Conn, and Albany, 
 N. y. ; was graduated from Yale College, 
 1859. He was colonel, U. S. Volunteers, Civil 
 War (78th U. S. Colored Infantry). He is a 
 moinber of the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legron, and of the University, and Authors 
 Clubs. He married fir.st in Farmington, 
 Conn., Sept. 1, 1863. Electa Melanie Rich- 
 ards (deceased), and second, in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., 1903. A. E. Phillips, and has one 
 daughter. Address: Sandwich, Mass. 
 
 NORTON, Eliot: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Cambridge, Mass., July 
 1, 1863; son of Charles Eliot and Susan 
 Ridley (Sedgwick) Norton. He was edu- 
 cated in private schools and public schools; 
 graduated from Harvard University, B..\., 
 in 1885, AM., 1888, and from Harvard 
 Law School, LL.15., 1888. He was admitted 
 to the bar in 1889: sinee then has been 
 engaged in Uic praclicc of law in New York 
 City, lie is :i iiiciiihiT (if Hie Association 
 of the Bar of the City of New York; cava- 
 lier of the Order of Saints Maurizio and 
 Lazzare; and member of the University, 
 Grolier and Lawyers' Clubs. He married 
 at Oyster Bay, l! I., Sei)t., 1S91, Margaret 
 
 Palmer Meyer, and they have one son. Ad- 
 dress: 2 Rector Street, New York City. 
 
 NORTON, George W.: 
 
 Editor Evening Express ; born in Strong, 
 Me., Aug. 25, 1855; son of Jeremiah Rice 
 Norton and Amanda F. (Stevens) Norton. 
 He was graduated .from Farmington Nor- 
 mal School, 1876; given honorary A.M. by 
 Colby College, 1908. He studied law, after 
 graduating, with the Hon. Hannibal Belcher 
 of Farmington. He taught school for sev- 
 eral years ; was principal at Bridgton from 
 1878"l883, and at Westbrook, 1883-1888; 
 went into the newspaper business as re- 
 porter for the Express in 1888, and was 
 made editor in 1892, and has remained 
 such since that time. Mr. Norton was 
 delegate-at-large from Maine to the Repub- 
 lican National Convention in 1900; is a 
 member of the Masons. Royal Arch Chapter, 
 Knight of Pythias, Sons of the American 
 Revolution, the Maine Society of Mayflower 
 Descendants, Portland Country Club, and the 
 Portland Club. He married in Portland, 
 Me., Dec. 22, 1894, Hattie L. Conant of 
 Westbrook, Me. Residence: 172 Neal 
 Street, Portland. Office: 13 Monument 
 Square, Portland, Me. 
 
 NORTON, John Pease: 
 
 Professor of ])olitical economy; born in 
 Suffield, Conn., July 28, 1878; son of John 
 Hughes Norton and Annie Lord (Lombard) 
 Norton. He attended the West Middle 
 Scliool, Hartford, Conn., 1891, Los Angeles 
 Higli School, 1895, gi'aduated from Yale 
 College as A.B. in 1899, and Yale Univer- 
 sity as Ph.D. in 1901. He was instructor 
 in ])olitical economy from 1901 to 1904; 
 assistant professor of political economy and 
 railroads since 1905, actuary for Fisk and 
 Robinson, since 1904; secretary of the De- 
 partment of Economic Institutions, of the 
 Internal iniial Congress of Arts and' Sci- 
 ences, St. Louis, 1904; secretary of Section 
 1 of the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, 1906; chairman of 
 the Connnittee on Publicity and member of 
 the executive connnittee of One Hundered 
 for Establisliing the National Department 
 (if Hcnlflu liHXi, Mr. Norton is author uf: 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1247 
 
 Statistical Studies' in the New York Money 
 Market, 1001 (Macmillan) ; Theory of Loan 
 Credit in Relation to Corporation Econom- 
 ics, American Economical Association. 1002, 
 Economic Advisability of Establishiiij^ a 
 National Dci)ar1nient of ilealtli, Deprecia- 
 tion of Cold. Yale Review, 1900. He is a 
 member of the American Economic Asso- 
 ciation, Sociological Society of Great 
 Britain, American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, Connecticut Civil 
 Service Reform Association, National Civil 
 Service Reform Association, American For- 
 estry Association, National Geographical 
 Society, National Municipal League, Amer- 
 ican Political Science Association, and is 
 also a member of the Graduates', New 
 Haven, Y'^ale, and Law^yers' Clubs of New 
 York City. Residence: 551 Orange Street, 
 New Haven, Conn. Address: Fisk and 
 Robinson, 35 Cedar Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 NORTON, Thomas Herbert: 
 
 Consul, chemist and university professor;- 
 born at Rushford, N. Y., June 30, 1851; 
 son of Rev. Robert and Julia (Horsford) 
 Norton. He was graduated from Hamilton 
 College, A.B. (valedictorian), 1873; pur- 
 sued graduate studies at the Universities 
 of Berlin, Paris and Heidelberg, Ph.D.. 
 1875; also received the degree of Sc.D. 
 lionoris causa, from Hamilton College in 
 1895. Dr. Norton was the manager of 
 extensive chemical works at Paris, France, 
 1878-1883; returned to the United States 
 and took the chair of chemistry at the Uni- 
 versity of Cincinnati, which he held until 
 1900. He was appointed by President Mc- 
 Kinley in May, 1900, to establish the new 
 American Consulate at Harput, Turkey, and 
 remained there until 1905, when he was 
 transferred' to Smyrna, and was consul at 
 the latter place until 1906, when he was 
 appointed to his present position as consul 
 of the United States to Chemnitz, Saxony. 
 Dr. Norton is a chemist of much distinction, 
 who has gained for himself prominence in 
 the scientific world by his original re- 
 searches into the chemistry of the rarer met- 
 als, making important discoveries as to tlieir 
 special properties and preparation, and also 
 has written various papers and articles on 
 
 these subjects, and u])on resenrclies in or- 
 ganic and technical chemistry. He is a 
 fellow of the xAmerican Association for the 
 Advancement of Science; was secretary of 
 the Chemical Section, 1891, member of the 
 council, 1892, general secretary in 1893, 
 vice-president in 1894, and librarian of the 
 Association in 1897. He is also a member 
 and was a covmcillor from 1892 to 1898 of 
 tile American Chemical Society, a member 
 of the Society foi* Chemical Industry, fellow 
 of the London Chemical Society, member 
 of the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft, the 
 Russian Chemical Society, and of the Soci6t6 
 chemique de Paris. He was also trustee and 
 secretary of the Lane Theological Seminary, 
 1895-1900, trustee of the Miami Medical Col- 
 lege, of Cincinnati, 1893-1900, of the Laura 
 Memorial Medical College, 1894-1900, and 
 trustee and secretary of the Presbj'terian 
 Hospital, 1894-1900. He is a member of the 
 Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and the 
 Phi Beta Kappa Society, and various 
 American iiatriotie and hereditary societies. 
 Dr. Norton married at Lockport, N. Y., 
 Dec. 27, 1883, Edith Eliza Ames, and they 
 have one son. Address: American Con- 
 sulate, Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany. 
 
 NORTON, William E.: 
 
 Artist; born in Boston, June 28, 1843; 
 son of Daniel and Mary (Carr) Norton. He 
 began art study at Lowell Institute, and 
 with George Inness of Boston. He studied 
 in Paris under Jacciuesson de la Chevreuse 
 and A. Vollon, and at the ficole des Beaux 
 Arts. He was awarded three gold medals in 
 America; honorable mention, Paris Salon, 
 1895; Osborne prize in 1905; and again in 
 190G at New York. He was apprenticed 
 to a house, sign and decorative painter; 
 afterwards went to sea as a sailor; and 
 at the age of twenty-two he began his 
 career as an artist in Boston; made two 
 more voyages as a sailor ; went to Europe 
 for study in 1877, and returned in 1902. He 
 is honorary member of the Gilbert-Garret 
 Sketching Club, and the Blackheath Art 
 Club ; and member of the Boston Art Club, 
 and of the Salmagundi Club of New York. 
 For many years a regular exhibitor at 
 the principal galleries in Europe and 
 
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 America. Mr. Norton married in New 
 Brunswick. 18G8, Sarah D. Ryan, died in 
 1904, and he has two daughters: Gertrude 
 Maude and Florence Edith. Address: 1931 
 Broadway, New '^k'ork City. 
 
 NOSTRAND, Peter Elbert: 
 
 Consulting engineer, city surveyor; born 
 at Brooklyn. N. Y., June 15, 1856; son 
 of John L. and Ellen (De Bevoise) Nos- 
 trand. He was graduated from the Brook- 
 lyn Polytechnic, B.S., 1875. He was assist- 
 ant engineer and, in part, designed and su- 
 pervised the construction of first elevated 
 railroad in Brooklyn; was supervising engi- 
 neer of the work done in 1880, and com- 
 menced the construction of the Cape Cod 
 Ship Canal, Mass., made extensive exami- 
 nations of mining properties in jSIexico for 
 foreign capital; was chief engineer of the 
 contractors, J. T. and T. E. Crimmins, dur- 
 ing the construction of the Broadway and 
 Third Avenue cabel railroads in New York 
 City; and since 1890, chief engineer of the 
 Ramapo Water Company; as consulting en- 
 gineer and city surveyor he has advised re- 
 garding the foundations and proper form of 
 construction, or has located many of the 
 largest buildings in New Y'ork City, among 
 Avhich are the Columbia college buildings 
 and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; 
 trustee of the Bushwick Savings Bank, 
 Brooklyn; member of the American So- 
 ciety of Civil Engineers, and the University 
 Club. Mr. Nostrand married in Brooklyn, 
 Dec. 27, 1881, Ella Frances Arcularius, and 
 they have two children. Residence: 235 
 Stuyvesant Avenue, Brooklyn, and ^Vest 
 Neck Park, Shelter Island, N. Y. Address: 
 14!) Broadway, New York City. 
 
 NOXON, Frank Wright: 
 
 Journalist; born in Syracuse, N. Y'., 
 March 25, 1873; son of the late Judge 
 James N. and Sarah ^l. (Wright) Noxon. 
 He was graduated from Syracuse High 
 School, 1890, and attended Syracuse Uni- 
 versity, 1890-1891, and Harvard, 1893-1894. 
 He was a reporter for the Syracuse Herald, 
 1892-1893; dramatic critic, Boston Record, 
 1893-1900; managing editor for the Provi- 
 dence News, 1900, Boston P.epublic, 1902- 
 
 1903. Boston Trader, 1903-1905, secretary 
 to Henry M. Whitney, 1905; editorial 
 writer to the Boston Herald since 1906. 
 He is a contributor to the Congregation- 
 alist, Philistine, and Smart Set; critic to 
 the World's Work, and Printing Art; course 
 lecturer to the Boston Public High School 
 of Commerce, on " Choosing a Business," 
 1901, and identified with movement for 
 industrial and commercial education. ]Mr. 
 Noxon married in Boston, Mass., June 18, 
 1895, Georgie Elizabeth Mitchell, and they 
 have two children. Residence: 17 Sacra- 
 mento Street, Cambridge, ]\Iass. Business 
 address: Boston Herald, Boston. 
 
 NOYES, Arthur Amos: 
 
 Chemist, educator; born in Newburyport, 
 Mass., Sept. 13, 1866; son of Amos and 
 Anna Page (Andrews) Noyes. He was edu- 
 cated in the Newburyport, High School and 
 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
 S.B., 1886. S.:\I.. 1887; and at the Univer- 
 sity of Leipzig, Ph.D., 1890. He has been 
 connected with the Massachusetts Institute 
 of Technology since 1887, successively hold- 
 ing the positions of: assistant in analyti- 
 cal chemistry, 1887-1888; instructor in 
 same, 1890-1S92; assistant professor in or- 
 ganic chemistry, 1890-1894; associate pro- 
 fessor, 1897-1899; professor of theoretical 
 chemistry, 1899-1907; director of the Re- 
 search Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, 
 1903-1907; acting president of the Institute, 
 July, 1907, to -June, 1909. He is a member 
 of the National Academy of Sciences, and 
 American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 
 was president of the American Society in 
 1904. He is author of: Qualitative Chem- 
 ical Analysis; Class Reactions and Identi- 
 fication of Organic Compounds; General 
 Principles of Physical Science; and numer- 
 ous chemical and educational papers. Ad- 
 dress: IMassachusetts Institute of Tech- 
 nology, Boston, Mass. 
 
 NOYES, Carleton Eldredge: 
 
 Author; born in Boston, Oct. 1, 1872; 
 son of Increase E. and Henrietta (Atwood) 
 Noyes. He was graduated from Harvard 
 College, A.B., 1895, A.M., 1896, Berlin Uni- 
 versity, and Sorbonne, Paris. He was as- 
 
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 sistant in English, at Harvard University, 
 189C-1897, instructor in English, 1899-1904, 
 at the Chautauqua .Sumnior School, 1901 ; 
 lecturer to the American Society for Ex- 
 tensive University Teachino;, 1904-1906. He 
 was the editor of Coleridge's Ancient Marin- 
 er (Globe School Book Company, N. Y. ) 
 1900, and is author of: The Enjoyment of 
 Art (Houghton-Mifllin and Company), 1903, 
 The Gate of Appreciation. 1907. Mr. Noyes 
 is trustee and vice-president of the North 
 End Savings Bank, Boston, member of the 
 Boston Autliors Club, St. Botolph Club of 
 Boston, and the Harvard Club of New York. 
 He married in June, 1907, Mary Charlotte 
 !Metcalfe, of Toronto, Canada. Address: 30 
 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 NOYES, Charles S.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, Nov. 8, 1858; 
 son of Charles H. Noyes and Jane R. 
 (Dana) Noyes. He attended Adelphi Acad- 
 emy, Brooklyn, Montclair High School, and 
 was graduated from Amherst College, B.A., 
 and from Columbia Law School, LL.B. Mr. 
 Noyes engaged in the practice of law, was 
 connected with much important Queens 
 County litigation, and counsel for property 
 owners in the case of Summerfield against 
 Norton, tried in the Supreme Court of 
 Queens County in 1906, involving titles to 
 a large part of Kockaway Beach. Mr. 
 Noyes is a member of the Delta Upsilon fra- 
 ternity. Phi Beta Kappa Society, and the 
 Congregational Club of New York. He mar- 
 ried at INIontclair, N. J., April 14, 1892, 
 Ella E. Shafer, and they have one son. Res- 
 idence: 249 West ' 164th Street. Ottice: 
 198 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 NOYES, Frank Brett: 
 
 Editor J born in Washington, D. C. July 
 7, 1863; son of Crosby S. Noyes. one of the 
 founders of the Washington Star, and of 
 Elizabeth S. (Williams) Noyes. He was 
 educated in high school and in the Prepara- 
 tory Department of Columbia University. 
 He entered the office of the Washington 
 Star, in 1881, and continued as its manager 
 until 1901, and in 1902 he became editor-in- 
 chief of the Chicago Record-Herald, in 
 which position he continues. He has also, 
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 since 1900, been president of the Associated 
 Press, and he has been a member of its E.\- 
 cutive Committee since 1894. He lias by 
 natural abilities and a lifelong training 
 taken a. foremost i)lace as a newsi)ai)er man- 
 ager. He is a member of the Cliicago, City 
 and Chicago (Jolf Clubs of Chicago, and the 
 Chevy Chase Club of Washington. Mr. 
 Noyes married in Washington, D. C., Sep- 
 tember 17, 1888, Janet Thurston Newbold. 
 Address: The Record-Herald, Chicago. 
 
 NOYES, Walter Chadwick: 
 
 U. S. Circuit judge; born in LATne, Conn., 
 Aug. 8, 1865; son of Richard and Catherine 
 (Chadwick) Noyes. He was educated in 
 Cornell University and' was for ye:irs en- 
 gaged in practice of law at New London, 
 Conn., and for twelve years judge of the 
 Court of Common Pleas of that State, until 
 appointed by President Roosevelt in Septem- 
 ber, 1907, as judge of the United States Cir- 
 cuit Court for the Second Judicial Circuit, 
 to succeed the late Judge William K. Town- 
 send. Judge Noyes is an eminent authority 
 on corporation law, author of: The Law of 
 Intercorporate Relations, and of American 
 Railroad Rates. From 1904 until his ap- 
 pointment as circuit jvidge was jn-esident of 
 the New London, Northern Railroad Com- 
 pany. He married in New London, Conn., 
 Oct. 22, 1895, Luella Shapley Armstrong. 
 Address : New London, Conn. 
 
 NOYES, William Albert: 
 
 Professor of chemistry; born in Independ- 
 ence, Iowa, Nov. 6, 1857; son of Spencer W. 
 and Mary (Packard) Noyes. He received 
 the degree of A.B. and B.S. from Iowa Col- 
 lege, 1879, Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins Uni- 
 versity, 1882 ; student in the University of 
 ]\Iunich, 1889; received LL.D. from Clark 
 University in 1909. He was instructor in 
 chemistry at the University of Minnesota. 
 1S82-1883, professor of chemistry. Univer- 
 sity of Tennessee, Knoxville. 1883-1886, pro- 
 fessor of chemistry. Rose Polytechnic Insti- 
 tute, Terre Hautei^ 1886-1903, chief chemist, 
 Bureau of Standards. 1903-1907. and pro- 
 fessor of chemistry and head of the Depart- 
 ment of Chemistry, University of Illinois, 
 since 1907. Professor Noves received the 
 
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 H. C. P. Weber the Xiehol's medal of tlie 
 New York section of the American Chemical 
 Society, for a paper on the Atomic Weight of 
 Chlorine in 1907. He has been editor of the 
 Journal of the American Chemical Society 
 since 1902, and is author of: Qualitative 
 Analysis, Organic Chemistry for the Lab- 
 oratory, Text Book of Organic Chemistry, 
 Lehrbucli der organischen Cliemie, and a 
 considerable number of scientific papers. 
 Ho married in Harlan, Iowa, Dec. 24, 1884, 
 Flora E. Collier, and of that union there 
 are three children, married second, Minneap- 
 olis, Minn., June 18, 1902, Mattie Elwell 
 Noyes, and of that marriage there is one 
 child'. Residence: 1005 Nevada Street, Ur- 
 bana. Business address: University of Illi- 
 nois, Urbana, 111. 
 
 NTJELSEN, John Louis: 
 
 Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church; born in Ziirich, Switzerland, Jan. 
 19, 1867; son of Henry and Rosalie (Mul- 
 ler) Xuelsen. He was educated in gymna- 
 sia at Karlsruhe and Bremen, Germany; 
 came to the United States in 1886; attended 
 Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J., 
 B.D., 1890, and the Universities of Berlin 
 and Halle; and he has received the degrees 
 of A.M. from Central Wesleyan College, 
 \\'arrenton, i\Io., and D.D. from the Univer- 
 sity of Denver, 1903. He was ordained in 
 the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church in 1890, and after a short pastorate 
 in Sedalia, !Mo., became professor of ancient 
 languages in St. Paul's College, Minn., 1890- 
 1892, professor of Biblical languages in Cen- 
 tral Wesleyan College, 1894-1899; profes- 
 sor of exegetical theology in the Nast The- 
 ological Seminary at Berea, Ohio, 1899- 
 1908, until elected by the General Confer- 
 ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
 Baltimore, 1908, to the oflke of bishop. 
 Bisliop Neulsen was, from 1897, editor of 
 Die Deutseh-Amerikanische Zeitschrift fiir 
 Theologie und Kirche; also a contributor 
 to the Realencyklopiidie fiir Theologie und 
 Kirche, Leipzig; and American correspond- 
 ent of Tlieologischer Literatur Bericht, Ger- 
 many. He is author of: Die Bedeutung 
 des Evangeliums Johannes; Das Leben Jesu 
 im Wortlaut dor vier Evangelien; John Wes- 
 
 ley's Ausgewiihlte Predigten ; Luther, the 
 Leader; Kurzgefasste Geschichte des Metho- 
 dismus; Recent Phases of German Theol- 
 ogy, etc. Bishop Nuelsen is a trustee of the 
 Nebraska Wesleyan University and the 
 Drew Theological Seminary. He married in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y.. in 1896, Luella Strocter, 
 and they have three sons. Address : Oma- 
 ha, Neb. 
 
 NYCE, Benjamin Markley: 
 
 President of Talladega College; born in 
 Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 5, 1869; son of Rev. 
 B. M. and Melissa (Hamilton) Nyce. He 
 attended Cleveland High School, Oberlin 
 College, and Princeton University, from 
 which he was graduated as A.B. in 1891, 
 Berlin University, and McCorniick Theo- 
 logical Seminary. He was pastor of the 
 First Presbyterian Church, W^arsaw, Ind., 
 1894-1895, Lockport, N. Y., 1896-1904; and 
 since 1904 he has been president of Talla- 
 dega College. Mr. Nyce married in Shelby- 
 ville, Ind., Dec. 27, 1894, Ursula Strong, 
 and they have two children. Address: Tal- 
 ladega, Ala. 
 
 NYE, George Hyatt: 
 
 Manufacturer, banker; born at Auburn, 
 N. Y., Dec. 2, 1854; son of Lorenzo Ward 
 and Caroline E. (Beardsley) Nye. He was 
 educated at academies at Burlington, N. J., 
 Aurora, N. Y., and at Phillips Academy, 
 Exeter, N. H. He is president of the Nye 
 and Wait Carpet Company; vice-president 
 and treasurer of the American Axminster 
 Industry; president of the Cayuga County 
 National Bank ; trustee of the Auburn Sav- 
 ings Bank, and interested in many other 
 corporations. He was for many years ac- 
 tive in politics as a Democrat of the Tild'en 
 and Cleveland School. He married in New 
 York City, 1881, Mollie A. Wilson. Resi- 
 dence: Auburn, N. Y. 
 
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 OAKMAN, Walter George: 
 
 Capitnlist; born in Philadelphia, May 
 10. 1845; son of John and Harriet Sykes 
 (Campbell) Oakman. He was graduated 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 from the University of Pennsylvania, A.M., 
 1864, and afterward enga<fed in banking 
 business in New York City. He is now 
 the president and' director of the Hudson 
 Companies, Hudson Improvement Company, 
 lnterboro-^^Jetropolitau Company, New Jer- 
 sey Terminal Dock and Improvement Com- 
 pany; chairman of the Board of Directors 
 of the Guaranty Trust Company of New 
 York; vice-president and director of the 
 Hudson and [Manhattan Railroad Company, 
 Jefferson and Clearfield Coal and Iron Com- 
 pany, Rapid Transit Subway Construction 
 Company, Subway Realty Company; direc- 
 tor of the Alabama Great Southern Rail- 
 road Company, American Car and Foundry 
 Company, Brooklyn Heights Railroad Com- 
 pany, Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, Buf- 
 falo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Com- 
 pany, Fairmont Coal Company, Hudson 
 Street Railroad Company, Interborough 
 Rapid Transit Company, Kings County and 
 Fulton Elevated Railroad Company, Long 
 Island Consolidated Electrical Companies, 
 Long Island Railroad Company, Louisville 
 & Nashville Railroad Company, Morristown 
 Trust Company, Morton Trust Company, 
 Mutual Trust Company of Westchester 
 County, National Bank of Commerce, New 
 Y'ork & New Jersey Railroad Company, 
 New York & Queens County Railway, New 
 York City Interborough Railway Company, 
 Reynoldsville & Falls Creek Railroad, Rich- 
 mond Light and Railroad Company, Rogers 
 Locomotive Works, Sloss-Sheflfield Steel and 
 Iron Company, and Somerset Coal Com- 
 pany. He is a member of the Union, 
 Riding, Turf and Field, Automobile of 
 America, Midday, Garden City Golf, Uni- 
 versity, ^letropolitan. Century and Down 
 own Clubs of New York City. He married 
 Eliza C, daughter of Hon. Roscoe Conk- 
 ling, U. S. senator from New York; and 
 they have one son, Walter G., Jr. Resi- 
 
 dence: 512 P'ifth Avenue. Address: 
 Cedar Street, New York City. 
 
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 OATMAN, Edward Le Roy: 
 
 Ophthalmic surgeon; born in Southbury, 
 Conn., July 4, 1853; son of George B. Oat- 
 man and Francis (Canfield) Oatman. He 
 was graduated from Bellevue Hospital Med- 
 
 ical College, 1871). lie engaged in practice 
 in Brooklyn, N. Y'., where he makes a spe- 
 cially of ophthalmic surgery. Dr. Oatman 
 is a member of the New York Academy of 
 Medicine, American ISIedical Association, 
 Kings County Medical Society, surgeon and 
 director of the Manhattan Eye, Ear and 
 Throat Hospital; pathologist to the Brook- 
 lyn Eye and Ear Hospital; also a mem- 
 ber of the Rembrant Society, and the Ham- 
 ilton Club. He married in Brooklyn, Dec. 
 2, 1885, Jean F. Hinman, and they have one 
 child. Address: 82 Remsen Street, Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y. 
 
 OBERLY, Henry Harrison: 
 
 Clergyman; born at Easton, Pa.; son of 
 Benjamin and' Ann Elizabeth (Yard) 
 Oberly. He was graduated from Trinity 
 College, Hartford, Conn., B.A., 1865, M.A.. 
 1868, D.D., 1899, and studied in the Berk- 
 eley Divinity School Middletown, Conn. He 
 was curate of the Church of the Nativity, 
 South Bethlehem, Pa., 18G7; of Trinity 
 Church, New York, 1868-1869; rector of 
 Holy Cross Church, Warrensburgh, N. Y.. 
 1869-1873; Grace Church. Cherry Valley, 
 N, Y., 1873-1874; of Trinity Church, West 
 Troy, N. Y., 1874-1879, and of Christ 
 Cluirch, Elizabeth, N. J., since 1879. Dr. 
 Oberly was a member of the Standing Com- 
 mittee of the Diocese of New Jersey. 1892- 
 1906; deputy to the General Convention, 
 1901 and 1904; is a member of the Perma- 
 nent Committee of the Inter-Church Con- 
 ference; and of the Executive Committee 
 of the Church Congress. He is author of 
 a series of Lessons on the Church Cate- 
 chism; a volume. The Testimony of the 
 Prayer Book to the Continuity of the 
 Church : numerous essays and published 
 sermons and contributions to magazines and 
 newspapers. He is a member of the Cor- 
 poration for the Relief of Widows and 
 Orphans of Clergymen of New Jersey, also 
 the Charity Organization Society of Eliza- 
 beth, N. J. He is a member of the Catholic 
 Clerical Union of New York City, and the 
 Psi Upsilon Club of New York City. Dr. 
 Oberly married in New York City, Oct. 2, 
 1871,' Jane Averell Laidley. and of that 
 union there were three children, all now 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 deceased. Address: 1064 East Jersey 
 Street. Elizabeth. N. J. 
 
 OBERMAYER. Charles J.: 
 
 Banker; born Nov. 8, 1869; son of Charles 
 G. and Amelia (Moses) Oberniayer. He 
 attended the public schools, the College of 
 the City of New York, and studied law 
 three years. He was secretary and treas- 
 urer of the German-American Title Guar- 
 antee Company of New York City, for 
 tweh'e years; is president and director 
 of the Narragansett Finishing Company; 
 president and trustee of Gi"eater New York 
 Savings Bank ; director and chairman of 
 the Executive Committee of the Home Title 
 Insurance Company of Brooklyn ; and mem- 
 ber of the Advisory Committee of the Fifth 
 Avenue Branch of the Mechanics' Bank. 
 He is a member of the Dutch Reformed 
 Church, the Bibliophile Society of Boston, 
 National Geographic Society, American His- 
 torical Association, and American Forestry 
 Association. He is a Eoyal Arch Mason. 
 Knight Templar and Shriner ; member of 
 the Royal Arcanum, Heptasophs, South 
 Brooklyn Board of Trade; Brooklyn Insti- 
 tute of Arts and Sciences; chairman of the 
 Advisory Committee of the Brooklyn Nurs- 
 ery and Infants' Hospital. He is a member 
 of the Twelfth Assembly District Republi- 
 can Club, Brooklyn League, and of the 
 Prospect Heights Citizens' Association. Mr. 
 Obermayer is ex-prosident of the League 
 of American Wheelmen in the United 
 States. He is also a member of the Auto- 
 mobile Club of Americii, Crescent Athletic, 
 and Long Island Automobile Clubs of Brook- 
 lyn, and the Boston Bicycle Club. Mr. 
 Obermayer married in Brooklyn, June Hi, 
 1892, Ida Bell Sabin. Address: 498 Fifth 
 Avenue. Brooklyn. N. Y. 
 
 O'BRIAN, John Lord: 
 
 United States attorney; born in Buflfalo, 
 N. Y.. Oct. 14, 1874; son of John and Eliza- 
 beth (Lord) O'Brian. He was graduated 
 from Harvard College, A.B., 1896; and 
 from the University of Ihiflalo Law School, 
 LL.B., 1898. Mr. O'Brian was chief counsel 
 for presentors in the trial of the Rev. A. S. 
 Crapsey, of Rochester, 1906 before the ec- 
 
 clesiastical courts. He is professor of med- 
 ical jurisprudence in the Buffalo Medical 
 School; church advocate of the Diocese of 
 Western New York Episcopalian ; member 
 of the Executive Committee of the Buffalo 
 Civil Service Reform Association; member 
 of Council (trustee) University of Buffalo; 
 trustee of Margaret's School for Girls; 
 member of the Faculty of the University 
 of Buffalo Law School. He served as Re- 
 publican member of the General Assembly 
 of New Y''ork, 1907, 1908, and 1909; from 
 the Second District of Erie County, and 
 was appointed', ]\Iarch 4, 1909. U. S. attor- 
 ney for the Western District of New York. 
 He is a member of the Delta Upsilon (Har- 
 vard) and Phi Delta Phi (Buffalo) fra- 
 ternities and of the University and Saturn 
 Clubs of Buffalo. He married in Buffalo, 
 Sept. 17, 1902, Alma E. White; they have 
 two daughters. Residence: 187 Anderson 
 Place. Office: 117 Erie County Bank 
 Building. Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 O'BRIEN, Edward C: 
 
 Diplomat, merchant; born at Fort Ed- 
 ward, N. Y. He was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Fort Edward and graduated 
 from the Granville Military Academy. He 
 was for several years engaged in the com- 
 mission flour trade, Plattsburg, N. Y., and 
 became interested in shipping and trans- 
 portation matters. He was prominent in 
 movements in favor of the development of 
 deep-water commerce and an advocate of 
 a large bai'ge canal connecting the Great 
 Lakes with the Hudson River at Albany; 
 was chairman of the International Deep 
 Waterways Convention at Cleveland, Ohio, 
 Sept., 1890; was appointed commissioner of 
 navigation by President Harrison and served 
 1889-1893. He became associated with the 
 Davis Coal and Coke Company of Vir- 
 ginia, as a director; was appointed by 
 Governor ^Morton as conmiissary general 
 of subsistence of the National (lUard of 
 the State of New York, with rank of 
 brigadier-general, but resigned on his ap- 
 pointment by Mayor Strong as commis- 
 sioner of docks of New York City, of which 
 he was elected president, serving until 1897. 
 During his udministratioa the great im- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1253 
 
 pvovement in tlio water front of the North 
 River was undertaken, and six well-known 
 recreation piers constructed, and at the close 
 of his administration the shipping and com- 
 mercial men of the city gave a banquet in 
 his honor. He was appointed by President 
 Roosevelt, in 1905, envoy extraordinary and 
 minister plenipotentiary of the United 
 States to Paraguay and Uruguay. General 
 O'Rrien organized the International Ex- 
 press Company and the Cuban and Pan- 
 American Company, both of which he be- 
 came president. He is a member of the 
 New York Chamber of Commerce, the Mari- 
 time Association and the Board of Trade 
 and Transportation, and is also a member 
 of the Union League and Lawyers' Clubs 
 of New York City. Address: United 
 States Legation, Montevideo, Uruguay. 
 
 O'BRIEN, Miles M.: 
 
 Banker; born in Ireland in 1852; son 
 of Dr. Miles and Fannie (Casey) O'Brien. 
 He was educated in private schools. Chris- 
 tian Brothers and Model Schools, and he 
 received the degree of LL.D. from St. John's 
 University, Fordham, N. 1^. He is the pres- 
 ident of the New Amsterdam National 
 Bank; vice-president of tlie Mercantile 
 National Bank; director in numerous other 
 banks and savings institutions; director of 
 the American Ice Company. Mr. O'Brien 
 was first vice-president of the School Board 
 of Greater New Y^ork, after consolidation, 
 for two terms, and served twenty years 
 on the Board of Education. He estab- 
 lished free lectures for the people, the High 
 School of Commerce, and baths for the 
 children in the schools, and' advocated and 
 helped to pass laws to pension school teach- 
 ers. Mr. O'Brien is a member of the Lotos, 
 Democratic and Catholic Clubs. He mar- 
 ried in New Y'^ork City, Thomasina E. 
 Leahy, and they have four children. Resi- 
 dence: 320 West 89th Street. Address: 
 195 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 O'BRIEN, Morgan Joseph: 
 
 Jurist; born in New Y^ork City, April 
 28, 1852. He was graduated from St. 
 John's College, Fordham, N. Y., A.B., 1872; 
 St. Francis Xavier's College, New York 
 
 City, A.M., 1873; Columbia Law School. 
 Ll^.B., 1875; and' received the degree of 
 LL.D. from St. John's College, 1887; Co- 
 lumbia, 1904. He was engaged in practice 
 of law in New York City, 1875-1877; was 
 for several years trustee of the public 
 schools of New York City ; later cori)ora- 
 tion counsel of New York City, which posi- 
 tion he held when, in 1887, he was elected 
 justice of the Supreme Court of New York; 
 reelected unanimously, 1901, but resigned 
 in 1905. He was designated to the Appel- 
 late Division by Governors Hill, Morton 
 and Odell, and since June, 1905, has been 
 trustee of the Equitable Life Assurance So- 
 ciety of the U. S. Justice O'Brien is a 
 trustee of the New York Public Library, 
 Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Jus- 
 tice O'Brien is one of the most influential 
 Democrats of New York and' is a prominent 
 Catholic layman. He is a member of the 
 Manhattan, Century, Metropolitan. New 
 York Athletic, Catholic, City Midday Gar- 
 den City Golf, Turf and Field, and Lotos 
 Clubs of New York. He married in New 
 York City, Rose M. Crimmins. and they 
 have nine children. Address: 524 Fifth 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
 O'BRIEN, Thomas J.: 
 
 Diplomat and lawyer; born at Jackson. 
 Mich., July 30, 1842; son of Timothy and 
 Elizabeth (Lander) O'Brien. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of Michigan, and 
 the law department of the University of 
 Michigan, LL.B., 1865. He engaged in the 
 practice of law, first at Marshall, ]\Iich.. 
 but in 1871 he removed to Grand Rapids. 
 Mich., where he continued to practice with 
 success. He at once became assistant gen- 
 eral counsel for the Grand Rapids & Indi- 
 ana Railway Company, and in 1883 became 
 general counsel, in which capacity he con- 
 tinued until 1905, wdien he was appointed 
 envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo- 
 tentiary to Denmaik. He served at this 
 post, with genuine satisfaction to his Gov- 
 ernment, until May 18. 1907, when he was 
 appointed by President Roosevelt to be 
 ambassador extraordinary and plenipoten- 
 tiary to Japan. Mr. O'Brien is a Repub- 
 lican; in 1883 he was the candidate of his 
 
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 party for justice of the Supreme Court of 
 the State of ^lichigan. but in that year 
 the State went to the Democracy. He has 
 never been active in politics, but was a 
 delegate-at-large to tlie National Conven- 
 tion at St. Louis in 1896, which nominated 
 INIcKinley. and was again a d'elcgate-at-large 
 and chairman of his delegation to the Chi- 
 cago Convention of 1904, which nominated 
 Roosevelt. In 1908 he was honored by the 
 University of ^lichigan with the degree of 
 LL.D. Mr. O'Brien married. Sept. 4, 1873, 
 Delia Howard, daughter of the Hon. Wil- 
 liam A. Howard, formerly of Detroit, and 
 they have one daughter and one son. The 
 family home continues at Grand Rapids. 
 Mich. Address : Americiin Embassy, Tok- 
 yo, Japan. 
 
 O'BRIEN, William H.: 
 
 Banker: born in Lawrencc.burg, Ind., 
 Aug. 22, 1855; son of Cornelius O'Brien, 
 a lawyer, and a native of Kilkenny County, 
 Ireland, and Harriet Jane Hunter, born in 
 Lawrencebiirg. He was educated in the 
 public schools of his native town and went 
 through the sophomore yeivr at DePauvv 
 University, and on May 9, 1882, was mar- 
 ried to Harriet Hunter, a native of Mexico. 
 Mo. yiv. O'Brien was a member of the 
 Indiana State Senate, 1902-1900; mayor of 
 Lawrenceburg, 1885-1894, and 18(18-1902. 
 He was chairman of the Democratic State 
 Committee of Indiana, 1902-1908; district 
 delegate to tlie Democratic National Con- 
 vention, 1900, at Kansas City, Mo., and 
 delegate from that State at large to the 
 Democratic National Convention in St. 
 Louis, 1904. Address: L;nvrfiicel)urg, Ind. 
 
 O'CALLAGHAN, Daniel J. M.: 
 
 Lawyer: boiii at Worcester. Mass., June 
 12, 1855; son of Peter and Margaret 
 (O'Sullivan) O'Callaghan. lie was grad- 
 uated from the Milford (Mass.) High 
 School, 1871, and from Harvard College in 
 1877. He was admitted to the Massachu- 
 setts and New York State bars, and has 
 })ractised since 188:3 in New York City. 
 Mr. O'Callaghan is editor and proprietor 
 of the Political Liberty Herald, :im inde- 
 pendent periodical, founded in I'.tOl; was 
 
 a Democrat until ISSO; became member of 
 the Anti-Poverty Society and the United 
 Labor Party; supported Henry George in 
 1886 for mayor, and in 1887 for Secretary 
 of State; voted for the presidential elec- 
 tors of same party in 1888; voted with the 
 Republican party after 1888. until 1900, 
 when he voted with Democratic party; be- 
 came a member of the Political Liberty So- 
 ciety, upon its organization in 1900; con- 
 tinued voting with the Democratic party 
 until 1904; since then member of the 
 Political Liberty party, organized that year, 
 and is secretary and treasurer of its Na- 
 tional Committee. He is a Catholic in 
 religion, is a member of the New Y'^ork Law 
 Institute, and the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni 
 Association of New York. Address: 116 
 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 OCHS, Adolph S.: 
 
 Journalist, publisher; born in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, March 12, 1858. His father came to 
 America in 1844, and before he had' been 
 in the country a sufficient length of time to 
 gain a citizenship he enlisted in the army. 
 He took part in the war with Mexico and 
 proved himself a valiant soldier. A little 
 more than a decade after the close of the 
 jNIexican War he again entered the army, 
 this time as an officer, and as captain of a 
 company in the Fifty-second Ohio Volun- 
 teers he won distinction for his bravery 
 and efficiency throughout the four years' 
 struggle for the preservation of the Union. 
 Upon the termination of the war Mr. 
 Ochs, with his family, moved to Knoxville, 
 Tenn. There the son attended the public 
 schools and made rapid progress in all 
 Die fundamental branches. At the age of 
 eleven years he was a carrier boy on the 
 Knoxville Daily Chronicle, supplementing 
 his scliool hours by earning something on 
 Ids own ac<-()unt. This was the beginning 
 of liis life in the iiewspaper world, which 
 was in linic to grow into such vast pro- 
 portions. To his course in tlie public 
 sciiools he added a short term in a business 
 college. He then made a brief sojourn be- 
 hind the counter in a drug store, this being 
 his only evasion of llie ])rinting business, 
 a business which liad unusual charms for 
 
Adolph Ochs 
 Proprietor of Xew Yoik Times 
 
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 the embryo publisher. In 1873, when he 
 was but fifteen, he went back to the Kno.x- 
 ville Chronicle, where he was " devil " and' 
 copy boy, until his earnest solicitation to be 
 put at case was granted. Here he developed 
 rapidly and quickly, became one of the best 
 compositors in Knoxville. Desiring to widen 
 his knowledge of the art, he left his position 
 in Knoxvville and went to the job oflice of 
 the Louisville Courier-Journal, where he 
 studied that branch of the business indus- 
 triously for a year. He then returned to 
 Knoxville to accept the position of general 
 utility man on the Daily Tribune, on which 
 he served as writer and later assistant busi- 
 ness manager. He was connected with the 
 Chattanooga Dispatch in 1877 and 1878; 
 then resigned and engaged in the publica- 
 tion of the Chattanooga City Directory. 
 Some time after that the Chattanooga Dis- 
 patch failed, and Mr. Ochs was appointed 
 receiver and paid off the entire debt of tlie 
 paper. He bought the Chattanooga Times, 
 then a not very prosperous property, July 
 1, 1878, and it prospered greatly under his 
 management. Mr. Ochs ran the first special 
 news train in Tennessee, an event which 
 was appropriately celebrated. On July 1, 
 1888, a jubilee number of the Times was is- 
 sued, in wliich the business lyen of the city 
 manifested great interest. In 1890 was be- 
 gun tlie erection of a handsome office build- 
 ing, which was completed at a cost of two 
 hundred thousand dollars. Upon its inaugu- 
 ration the citizens of Chattanooga showed 
 their appreciation of his enterprising spirit 
 by presenting Mr. Ochs with a handsomely 
 illuminated address, accompanied by a 
 beautiful and costly souvenir. In 1896 the 
 publishers of the New York Times found 
 themselves in need of the services of a man 
 who would rescue the paper from its de- 
 clining fortunes, and the successful career 
 of Mr. Ochs impressed them with the be- 
 lief that he was the one to accomplish the 
 task. The matter was presented to him, 
 and after mature deliberation he consented 
 to assume the management of The New 
 York Times, of which he is now the pub- 
 lisher and controlling owner. His admin- 
 istration has been attended with wonderful 
 success, both financially and in the prestige 
 
 of The Times as an exponent of what is 
 best and cleanest in journalism, and in 
 1905 the office and plant of the paper re- 
 moved from its old position on Park Kow 
 to one of the finest newspaper structures 
 in the world, at Forty-second Street and 
 Broadway (now Times Square). In 1901 
 Mr. Ochs obtained tlie controlling interest 
 in the Pliiladel[)hia Times and tlie Philadel- 
 phia Public Ledger and, combining the two 
 journals, placed them under the business 
 management of his brother, George W. Ochs. 
 The investment in these two well-known 
 journals has been attended with excellent 
 results. Mr. Ochs has always been prom- 
 inent in the editorial and' publishers, asso- 
 ciations of the country, and from 1891 to 
 1897 he was secretary of the Southern Asso- 
 ciated Press, and when the Associated Press 
 was reorganized he was made a charter 
 member and treasurer of the new organiza- 
 tion. He is still the principal owner of the 
 Chattanooga Times, though its management 
 is in other hands. Address: Times Oilice, 
 Times Square, New York City. 
 
 OCHS, George Washington: 
 
 Journalist, publisher; born in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, Oct. 27, 1861; son of Julius Ochs and 
 Bertha (Levy) Ochs. He attended the Uni- 
 versity of Tennessee, at Knoxville. Mr. 
 Ochs was twice mayor of Chattanooga, 
 Tenn., 1893-1897; declined renomination; 
 president of the Chattanooga Chamber of 
 Commerce in 1901 ; president of the Chat- 
 tanooga Board of Education, 1898-1!)00; 
 delegate from the Third Congressional Dis- 
 trict of Tennessee to the National Demo- 
 cratic Convention in 1896; chosen to second 
 the nomination of Grover Cleveland at that 
 convention; delegate from the State-at-large 
 to the Palmer and' Buckner convention, 
 1896; president of the Chattanooga Library 
 Association, 1894-1897; vice-president of 
 the National Municipal League, 1896-1900; 
 president of the Jewish Chautauqua Asso- 
 ciation of the United States; director of 
 the New York Times Comjiany. Times Print- 
 ing Company of Chattanooga. Tenn. ; Public 
 Ledger Company of Philadelphia ; Trades- 
 man Publishing Company of Chattanooga, 
 Tenn. ; publisher and general manager of 
 
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 the Philadelphia Public Ledger. lie pub- 
 lished the Exposition Edition of the New 
 York limes in Paris in 1900, and' was 
 decorated by the French Government with 
 the Cross Chevalier of the Legion d'Hon- 
 neur. He is a member of the American 
 Academy of Political and Social Science, 
 the City, Art. ^lorcantile, Franklin Inn and 
 Southern Chilis, and the Nameless Clubs 
 of Philadelphia. Address: Public Ledger, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 OCHTMAN, Leonard: 
 
 Artist : Ixnn at Zonnemaire. Holland. Oct. 
 21, 1854; son of John and Hcndrika (Fon- 
 taine) Ochtman. He was educated in the 
 common schools of Zonnemaire, Holland, 
 and Alban}', N. Y., where, coming to Amer- 
 ica with his parents in 1866, he had settled. 
 In his sixteenth year, he entered a wood 
 engraving establishment as draughtsman 
 and remained there seven years, devoting 
 his leisure hours to the study of nature. 
 He had a studio in Albany for two years, 
 and finally opened one in New York City. 
 In his specialty as a landscape painter he 
 is self-taught. He first exhibited at the 
 National Academy in 1882, and has ever 
 since been represented there as well as at 
 all important exhibitions throughout the 
 country. He was elected associate member 
 of the National Academy of Design in 1899, 
 and' admitted to full membership in 1904. 
 Mr. Ochtman received a prize from the 
 Brooklyn Art Club, 1891, a medal from the 
 Columbian Exposition, 1893, gold medal 
 from the Philadelphia Art Club, 1894, and 
 a silver medal from the Pan-American Ex- 
 position, BufTalo, 1901, and the Charleston 
 Exposition, 1902; Inness Gold Medal from 
 the National Academy, 1903; the Webb 
 Prize from the Society of American Artists 
 and two gold medals for oil and water-color 
 at the Univcrsial Exposition at St. Louis, 
 1904; 'also various prizes from the Salmn- 
 gundi Club in 1902, 1903, 1906 and the 
 Evans prize in 1907, the Shaw prize from 
 the Society of American Artists, 1902, Sec- 
 ond Corcoran prize, \\'ashington Society of 
 Artists, and others from prominent associ- 
 ations. He is a member of the National 
 Institute of Arts and Letters, Society of 
 
 American Artists, American Water Color 
 Society, Society of Landscape Painters, 
 Artist Fund Society, the Artist Aid Society, 
 New York Water Color Club, Brooklyn Art 
 Club, Salmagundi and Lotos Clubs. He was 
 married at Laconia, N. H., June 23, 1891, 
 Mina M. Fonda, and has had three children. 
 Residence : '" Grayledge," Coscob, Conn. 
 Address. Carnegie Hall, New York City. 
 
 O'CONNELL, Joseph F.: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Bos- 
 ton, Dec. 7. 1872; son of James and Eliza- 
 beth O'Connell. He was educated in St. 
 Mary's Parochial School, Boston College and 
 Harvard University; was admitted to the 
 Suffolk bar, March 19, 1897, and he Was 
 been practising in the State and' V. S. 
 Courts continuously since. He was elected 
 in 1906, as a Democrat, to the Sixtieth Con- 
 gress, and reelected in 1908 to the Sixty- 
 first Congress from the Tenth Jlassachu- 
 setts District. He is a member of the 
 Boston Bar Association and of the Knights 
 of Columbus, and is <a member of tlie Bos- 
 ton, City, Catholic, Economic, Ashmont and 
 Young !Men"s Democratic Clubs. Residence: 
 13 Bovvdoin Street, Dorchester, Mass. Ad- 
 dress: 53 State Street, Boston. 
 
 O'CONNELL, William Henry: 
 
 Catliolic archbishop of Boston; born in 
 Lowell, Mass., Dec. 8, 1859. He was grad- 
 uated from Boston College, and in 1881 went 
 to the North American College in Rome, 
 Italy, where he completed' his eccelsiastical 
 studies, and was ordained priest June 8, 
 1884. ?Ie continued with the North Amer- 
 ican College, of which he became director 
 in Nov.. 1895; was appointed domestic 
 prelate to the Pope, June 9, 1897; ap- 
 pointed bisliup of Portland, Me., April 22, 
 1901, and was consecrated bishop in the 
 Church of St. John Lateran, in Rome, May 
 19, 1901. He was special papal envoy to 
 tlie Em])eror of Japan in Aug., 1905, and 
 was decorated by the Emperor of Japan 
 with the Grand Cordon of the Sacred Treas- 
 ure in Dec, 1905. He was made titular 
 arclibishop of Constance by the Holy See in 
 ISIarch, 1900, and made coadjutor to the 
 archbisliop of Boston, and upon the death 
 
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 of Archbishop Williams succeeded him as 
 metropolitan. Address: 12 Union Park, 
 Boston. 
 
 O'CONNOR, John Joseph: 
 
 Catholic; bishop of Newark ; born in New- 
 ark, N. J., June 11, 1855; son of Thomas 
 and Catherine O'connor. On completing the 
 courses of the parochial schools he entered 
 Seton Hall College at South Orange, N. J., 
 whence, after six years, he was graduated 
 A.B. and A.M., 1873, then for four years 
 more he pursued his divinity studies in the 
 American College at Rome and the Univer- 
 sitj^ of Louvain, Belgium. He was ordained 
 to the priesthood in 1877, and took up pas- 
 toral work in the diocese of Newark, of 
 which he was appointed' and consecrated 
 bishop in 1901. Address: South Orange, 
 N. J. 
 
 O'CONOR, Joseph Francis Xavier: 
 
 Clergyman, educator; born in New York 
 City, Aug. 1, 1852; son of Daniel and Jane 
 (Lake) O'Conor. He was graduated from 
 St. Francis Xavier College, New York City, 
 A.B., 1872; literary studies in England, 
 philosophical studies in Louvain, Belgium; 
 theology at Woodstock, ^Maryland; Oriental 
 studies at Johns Hopkins University. He 
 became a member of the Society of Jesus, 
 1872; and was ordained priest in 1885. He 
 was successively professor of literature in 
 Georgetown University, Boston College, St. 
 Francis Xavier College, New York City; 
 professor of mental philosophy in Fordham 
 University, St. Francis Xavier, New York 
 City, St. Joseph's College, Philadelphia. He 
 was formerly director of the Alumni So- 
 dality of Philadelphia; former secretary of 
 the Catholic Historical Society of Philadel- 
 phia; lecturer, musician, author of words 
 and composer of music of Dear Lord; Jesus 
 the All Beautiful ; lectured on Cuneiform 
 Assyrian before any school of that language 
 had been founded in America; vice-president 
 of St. Francis Xavier College N. Y., and 
 Gonzaga College, Washington; Founder of 
 the Alumni Association of St. Ignatius 
 Parochial School, New York, member of 
 , ;,, Authors' Society, New York, Oriental 
 fj.ik:^ Society of Vienna, founder of Brooklyn 
 
 Alumni Sodality, founder of Intercollegi- 
 ate Alumni Society of Jesuit Colleges. 
 Founder and is now president of Brooklyn 
 College. He is author of: Lyric and Dra- 
 matic Poetry, 1883; Babylonian Inscriptions 
 of Nebuchadnezzer in 1885 ; Garucci's Chris- 
 tian Art, 1885; Three Holy Lives, 1888; 
 Pearls of a Year, 1889; Practice of Humil- 
 ity. 1890; Life of St. Aloysius, 1892; Read- 
 ing and the Mind, 1904; Sacred Scenes and 
 Mysteries, 1898; Rhetoric and Oratory, 
 1898; Facts About Bookworms, 1898; Christ 
 and' the Man God, 1900; Autobiography of 
 St. Ignatius, 1900; Education in the Schools 
 of New York, 1901; Dante, 1905. He is 
 author and composer of the words and music 
 of the operetta Land of the Sunrise Sea, 
 1907; discoverer of the laws of transition 
 from Early Babylonian Cuneiform to Assyr- 
 ian Cuneiform, 1907. His lectiires, deliv- 
 ered in many parts of the country, have 
 been on art, poetry, music, educational and 
 historical subjects; lecturer on education, 
 pedagogy, and art; director of St. Ignatius' 
 School. Address : Brooklyn College, Crown 
 Heights, 1125 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. 
 
 O'DEA, Edward John: 
 
 Catholic bishop. He was consecrated 
 Sept. 8, 1896, third Bishop of the Diocese 
 of Nesqually, which comprises the State of 
 Washington. Address: The Cathedral, Van- 
 couver, Wash. 
 
 ODELL, Benjamin B., Jr.: 
 
 Ex-governor, merchant; born in New- 
 burgh, N. Y., Jan. 14, 1854; son of Benja- 
 min B. Odell. He was educated at Bethany 
 College, W. Va., and took partial course in 
 Columbia College. In 1875 he engaged with 
 his father in business at Newburgh; sub- 
 sequently became interested in vai'ious other 
 enterprises, becoming president of the New- 
 burgh Electric Light Company and treas- 
 urer of the Central Hudson Steamboat Com- 
 pany. He was active in Republican politics 
 from his earliest voting years, but in his 
 first nomination, that for State Senator, 
 was defeated; was elected in 1894 and 1S9G, 
 and served in the Fifty-fourth and Fifty- 
 fifth Congresses, and declined nomination 
 
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 for the third term. He was elected, in 
 1!)00, and reelected in 1902. governor of the 
 State of New York. For several years he 
 was on the Republican State Committee, 
 and for a time its chairman. He was a 
 member of the National Guard for eight 
 years, and has held prominent positions in 
 the Masonic and Odd Fellows orders. He 
 married, first, in 1877, Estell Cristee; sec- 
 ond. Mrs. Linda C. Traphagen, sister of his 
 first wife. Address: Newburgli, N. Y. 
 
 O'DONAGHUE, Denis: 
 
 Auxiliary bishoj) of Indianapolis; born in 
 Daviess County. Ind.. Nov. 30, 1848. He 
 was educated in ^leinrad's College and St. 
 Thomas Seminary, Bardstown, Ky., and 
 pursued his divinity studies in the Grand 
 Seminary at ^Montreal. After his ordination 
 as priest in 1874, he served as assistant 
 priest of St. John's Church, Indianapolis, 
 and was afterward, for twenty-one years, 
 chancellor of the Diocese of Vincennes; 
 made permanent rector of St. Patrick's 
 Church, Indianapolis, in 1887, and April 
 25, 1900, was consecrated titular bishop of 
 Pomario, and appointed auxiliary bishop of 
 the Diocese of Vincennes (now Indianapo- 
 lis). Address: Indianapolis. Ind. 
 
 O'DONOVAN, William Rudolf: 
 
 Sculptor, painter and writer ;born in Pres- 
 ton County, Va., March 28, 1844; son of 
 Col. James Hays and Mary (Bright) O'Dono- 
 van. He was educated in the Green Acad- 
 emy, Pennsylvania; self-taught in art. He 
 served in Staunton (Va.) Artillery, in the 
 Confederate States Army in the war between 
 the States, from April 17, 1801, to the sur- 
 render at Appomattox, as private and non- 
 commissioned oflicer. After the war, he was 
 professionally engaged as sculptor in New 
 York City. He executed statues of Washing- 
 ton for the Trenton Battle IMonument, for 
 the monument commemorating the Peace at 
 Newburgh, N. Y.. and one for Caracas, Vene- 
 zuela ; equestrian statues of Lincoln and 
 drant for the Soldiers and Sailors Arch in 
 Prospect Park, Brooklyn; statue of Arch- 
 bishop Hughes at Fordhain I'niversity, New 
 York; statue to the captors of Major Andre 
 at Tarrytown, N. Y. ; statues of General 
 Wagner for the Saratoga Battle Monument 
 
 and of General Wagner, Charleston, S. C. ; 
 bust of the late Judge Charles P. Daly, for 
 the New Y^ork Geographical Society; por- 
 traits of Edmund Clarence Stedman, Theo- 
 dore Filton, Generals R. E. Lee, " Stone- 
 wall " Jackson, and Joseph Wheeler, Helena 
 P. Blavatzkey. Walt Whitman, Bayard 
 Taylor (Cornell University), Winslow 
 Homer, N. A., William Page, N. A., and 
 Thomas Eakins, N. A. (National Acad- 
 emy of Design), and others. Since 1900 
 he has devoted his time to painting and 
 literature. Mr. O'Donovan is associate 
 of the National Academy of Design, mem- 
 ber of the Society of American Artists, 
 American Sculpture Society, Architectural 
 League, Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commis- 
 sion, which was really put into shape by the 
 late Robert B. Roosevelt and himself. He 
 married in New York City, 1894, Mary Cor- 
 coran. Address: 2923 Atlantic Avenue, 
 Brooklyn. N. Y. 
 
 OGDEN, George W.: 
 
 Author; born in Kansas, Dec. 9, 1871; 
 son of Ambrose and Gibbs (Charlotte) Og- 
 den. He received his education in public 
 schools of Kansas. He has been engaged 
 in general as reporter, editor, editorial 
 writer, etc., and is author of short stories 
 published in leading magazines, and of the 
 novel: Tennessee Todd, 1904. He married 
 in Kansas City. 1894, Mary Eleanor No- 
 lan. Address: 3117 Wayne Avenue, Kan- 
 sas City, Mo. 
 
 OGDEN, Robert Curtiss: 
 
 Merchant ; born in Philadelphia, June 20, 
 1836; son of Jonathan Ogden. who died at 
 a very advanced age in 1893. In his nine- 
 teenth year he took up his residence in New 
 York City, where he finally became con- 
 nected with the famous clotliing firm of 
 Devlin & Company. His splendid business 
 qualifications soon earned him a partner- 
 ship in the concern, which he retained until 
 1878, when he disposed of his interest and 
 returned to Philadelphia, to become a lead- 
 ing member of the house of John \\ana- 
 maker, and later established and managed 
 the New York store of the liouse. Mr. Og- 
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 early in 1907, when he retired. He is a 
 Republican in politics and lie is one of the 
 leadinjr laymen of the Presbyterian Church. 
 He was a member of the conference of Lib- 
 eral Presbyterians, Cleveland, Ohio. Nov., 
 1893; was a signer of the Cleveland Decla- 
 ration, and served on the committee for its 
 dissemination. He was closely associated 
 with Ceneral Armstrong in the Work of 
 the Hampton Institute and lias, for a long 
 time, been president of the Board of Trus- 
 tees. For twenty-five years and more he has 
 been a member of the Citizens' Permanent 
 Relief Committee, of Philadelphia. In 1892 
 he was made chairman of the Finance Com- 
 mittee for the relief of the famine sufferers 
 in Russia. In the educational field Mr. 
 Ogd'en has been particularly active in the 
 South, and he is the president of the South- 
 ern Education Board and' a member of the 
 General Education Board. Yale has con- 
 ferred the degree of M.A. and Tulane Uni- 
 versity that of LL.D. upon Mr. Ogden and 
 Union College that of L.H.D. When the 
 invasion of Pennsylvania by General 
 Lee's army, in 1863, occurred, Mr. 
 Ogden joined the Twenty-third Regi- 
 ment of tlie New York National Guard and 
 performed active service in that memorable 
 campaign. He continued with the regiment 
 in tlie field until it was ordered home in 
 connection with the suppression of the draft 
 riots. He was a commissioned officer, and 
 was, for some time, on the staff of the 
 commander of the Eleventh Brigade. He 
 is a member of LaFayette Post of 
 the Grand' Arm,y of the Republic. Mr. 
 Ogden is a director of the Union Theo- 
 logical Seminary of New York ; trustee of 
 the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.; pres- 
 ident. Conference for Education in the 
 South ; honorary member Clio Society of 
 Princeton University. Address: 125 East 
 SGth Street, New York City. 
 
 O'GORM AN, James A. : 
 
 Jurist; born in New Yoik City, May 5, 
 1860; son of Thomas and Ellen O'Gorman. 
 He was educated in grammar schools and 
 the College of the City of New York; was 
 graduated from the Law Department of the 
 University of the City of New York LL.B., 
 
 1882; aud lie has rcci'i\('il the degi'ee of 
 LL.D. from the Colhgc of St. Thonia.s of 
 Vellanova, Pa.. 1!I04, and from Fordham 
 University, 1908, and from New York Uni- 
 versity in 1909. He was admitted to the 
 bar in 1882; practised law in New York; in 
 1893 became a justice of the District Court 
 of New York; and was elected in 1899 a 
 justice of the Supreme Court of New York 
 for the term expiring Dec. 31, 1913. He 
 married in New York City, Jan. 2, 1884, 
 Anna M. Leslie. Address: 318 West 108th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 O'GORMAN, Thomas: 
 
 Catholic bisliop of Sioux I"'alls; born in 
 Boston, May 1, 1843; attended schools in 
 Chicago and in St. Paul, Minn.; pursued 
 collegiate studies in France, being graduated 
 in 1863, and received the degree of D.D. di- 
 rectly from Pope Leo XIII in 1893. He 
 was ordained to the priesthood in 1867, be- 
 coming pastor at Rochester, Minn., until 
 1878, wlien he became a member of the 
 Paulist Community until 1882; pastor at 
 Faribault, IMinn.. 1882-1885; was the first 
 president of the College of St. Thomas at 
 Merriam Park, St. Paul, ^linn., where he 
 also occupied' the chair of dogmatic the- 
 ology, 1886-1890; and he was then for five 
 years professor of modern church history in 
 the Catholic University at Wasliington. He 
 was consecrated, April 19, 1896, bishop of 
 Sioux Falls; was ecclesiastical councillor to 
 Mr. Taft, the governor of the Philippine 
 Islands, in his negotiations with Leo XIII 
 in regard to the Friars' Lands. Address : 
 Sioux Falls, S. Dak. 
 
 OHMANN-DUMESNIL, Amant Henry: 
 
 Physician; born in Paris, France, Sept. 
 30, 1857; son of Francis L. and Marie Ce- 
 lestine (Dumesnil) Ohmann. He was edu- 
 cated in the Academy of the Christian Broth- 
 ers in St. Louis, Mo., the University of Mis- 
 souri, Washington University, St. Louis, and 
 the Universities of Paris, London, Berlin, 
 Leipzig, and Lyons, receiving the degrees of 
 B.A,, B.L,, B.S., M.A., M.S., Ph.D., M.E., 
 and M.D. He is engaged in practice in St. 
 Louis, and is a specialist in dermatology. 
 He is ijrofessor of dermatology and 
 
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 syphilology in the St. Louis College for 
 Medical Practitioners, St. Louis College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons, and Marion-Sinis 
 College of Medicine; and he is consulting 
 physician to the St. Louis City Hospital, the 
 Female Hospital, Aims-House and several 
 private hospitals. Dr. Ohmann-Dumesnil is 
 a prolific writer of books and monographs 
 on skin diseases and syphilis. He is a mem- 
 ber and officer in the St. Louis Medical 
 Society, Missouri State Medical Association. 
 the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, 
 American Medical Association, Pan Ameri- 
 can Medical Congress, International Medical 
 Congress, International Congress of Der- 
 matology, and other professional societies, 
 and he has received the French Cross of the 
 Legion d'Honneur for military services. He 
 is a Scottish Pvite Mason, a member of the 
 Knights of Pythias, and other orders. He 
 married in St. Louis, May 4, 1904, Elizabeth 
 A. Loring. Residence: 1454 South Grand 
 Avenue. Office address: 3553 Park Ave- 
 nue, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 OLCOTT, Chauncey: 
 
 Actor; born in Buffalo. N. Y.. July 21, 
 1869, and was educated in the public schools 
 of that city. At the age of nineteen he be- 
 came connected with a minstrel troupe as 
 ballad singer; went to Europe at the age 
 of twenty-three, and returning became man- 
 ager and treasurer of the Standard Theatre. 
 San Francisco. He soon after joined Den- 
 man Thompson in Old Homestead, then the 
 Duff Opera Company; and a year later in 
 :\lcCaull's Opera Company. He went to 
 London and studied for two years, while 
 playing at the Prince of Wales and Cri- 
 terion theatres; and made his appearance .as 
 a star at the Fourteenth Street Theatre. 
 New York City, in 1893. His greatest suc- 
 cesses have been in Mavourneen, The Irish 
 Artist and Sweet Inniscarra, and he played 
 in The Road to Kenmare during the season 
 of 1900 and 1907. He is a member of the 
 Dramatic, Lambs' and Players' Clubs of 
 New York City and the BufTalo Club of 
 Buffalo. Mr. Olcott married in San Fran- 
 cisco, September 28, 1897, Margaret Don- 
 ovan. Address: Fruitvale, Cal., and Sara- 
 toga, N. Y. 
 
 OLCOTT, George M.: 
 
 ^Merchant, manufacturer ; born in Brook- 
 lyn, Aug. 23, 1835; son of Charles M. and 
 Maria C. (UnderhiU) Olcott. He was edii- 
 cated in private schools in Brooklyn and at 
 Columbia College Grammar School. He be- 
 came clerk with Osgood and Jennings, whole- 
 sale druggists, in 1851; with Dodge and Col- 
 vill, importers of drugs, in 1854, in which 
 he was admitted to partnership in 1856. 
 Upon the retirement of Mr. Colvill in ISGl, 
 tlie firm became Dodge and Olcott, incor- 
 porated 1904, of which he is president. He 
 is also president of the First National Bank 
 of Ridgefield. Conn.; vice-president of 
 Lloyds Plate Glass Insurance Company; di- 
 rector of the Market and Fulton National 
 Bank. Federal Insurance Company. Franklin 
 Safe Deposit Company, and Safe Deposit 
 Company of New York; trustee of the 
 Franklin Trust Company. He was trustee 
 of the Bowery Savings Bank. 1882-1895. and 
 was president of the Phenix Chemical Works 
 until the dissolution of that company. He 
 is a member of the Brooklyn Institute of 
 Arts and Sciences, Board of Trade and 
 Transportation, and a member of the 
 Down Town Club. Mr. Olcott married at 
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y., June 10, 1858; and has 
 three children: Cornelia A. (Mrs. Dr. J. 
 Arthur Booth), Mary, and Dr. George N. 
 Olcott. profe. sor of Latin in Columbia Uni- 
 versity. Address: 87 Fulton Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 OLCOTT, Jacob Van Vechten: 
 
 Lawyer and member of Congress; born 
 in New York City, May 17, 1856; son of 
 John H. and Euphemia H. (Knox) Olcott. 
 lie was graduated from the New York pub- 
 lic schools. 1870; College of the City of 
 New York, 18-75; Columbia Law School, as 
 LL.D. in 1877; St. Steplien's College, An- 
 nandale, New York, LL.D., 1892; Kenyon 
 College, Gambler, Ohio, LL.D. in 1905. 
 He was admitted to the New York bar in 
 1877, and has since been engaged in the 
 practice of law in New York City. He is 
 also a director in many corporations. Mr. 
 Olcott served as a member of the Board 
 of Civil Service Commissioners of the City 
 of New York from 1895 to 1897; was elected 
 
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 as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress, 
 1904, and reelected 1906 and 1908 to the 
 Sixtieth and Sixty-lirst Congresses, from the 
 Fifteenth New York District. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Association of the Bar of the City 
 of New York, the Sons of the Revolution, 
 and the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, the 
 American Bar Association ; of the Union 
 League, Republican, Tuxedo, South Side 
 Sportsmen's, Alpha Delta Plii, Manhattan, 
 Church and Merchants' Clubs of New Y^ork 
 City, and the Metropolitan and Chevy Chase 
 Clubs of Washington, D. C. Mr. Olcott 
 married in New Y^ork City, Laura I. HofT- 
 man, a daughter of Rev. Charles F. Hoff- 
 man. Rft^idencfs: 31 West 72d Street, 
 New York City, and 2223 R Street, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. Address: 34 Nassau Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 OLCOTT, Richard Morgan: 
 
 Capitalist, mine owner; born in New 
 Rochelle, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1801; son of 
 Henry S. and" Mary E. (Morgan) Olcott. 
 He was educated in schools of England, 
 Germany and America. He is president and 
 director of the Olcott Coal and Iron Com- 
 pany, the Orinoco Steamship Company, the 
 National Cellular Steel Company, the Black 
 Band Colliers Company; president, treasur- 
 er and director of the Coal River and Lum- 
 ber and Coal Company. He is a member of 
 the Sons of the Revolution, and has received 
 the decorations of Bust of Bolivar, from 
 Venezuela, and' Knight of the Order of Wasa 
 from Sweden. His chief recreation is yacht- 
 ing. Mr. Olcott is a member of the Larch- 
 mont. Republican, Atlantic Y'acht, Manhat- 
 tan, and New Y'ork Athletic of New York 
 City, and the Metropolitan Club of Wash- 
 ington, D. C, and the Lakewood Country 
 Club, of Lakewood, N. J. He married in 
 New York City, June 1, 1892, Alice Marie 
 Handley, and they have one son, J. Van 
 Vechten. Olcott. Address: 27 William 
 Street, New Y^ork City. 
 
 OLCOTT, William M. K.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New Y^'ork City, August 
 27, 1862; son of John N. and Euphemia H. 
 (Knox) Olcott. He was graduated from 
 the College of the City of .Nev?, York, A.B., 
 
 1881, A.M., 1883, and from Columbia Col- 
 lege, LL.B., 1883. He was district attorney 
 of New York County, 1896-1898; judge of 
 the New York City Court. 1898-1899; and 
 is noAV senior member of the firm of Olcott, 
 Gruber, Bonynge and 2klc.Manus. Mr. Olcott 
 is a trustee of the Maiden Lane Savings 
 Bank; director and treasurer of the SuiTolk 
 County National Bank; director and vice- 
 president of the Lawyers' Surveying and 
 Engineering Company. He is a member of 
 the Republican, J^awyers', and City College 
 Clubs. Mr. Olcott married in New York 
 City, 1888, Jessie A. Baldwin, and they have 
 one son. Address: 58 West 84th Street, 
 New Y'ork City. 
 
 OLDER, Cora Miranda: 
 
 Novelist; born in New Y'ork; daughter of 
 Peter and Margaret (Sibley) Baggerly. 
 She received her education by private teach- 
 ers, and in Syracuse University. She mar- 
 ried Fremont Older, editor of the San Fran- 
 cisco Bulletin, and member of the Interna- 
 tional Policy Holders Association. Mrs. 
 Older is author of: The Socialist and the 
 Prince, and The Giants. Address: The 
 Fairmont, San Francisco, and San Rafael, 
 Calif. 
 
 OLDHAM, William Fitzjames: 
 
 Methodist Episcopal bishop; born in 
 Bungalore, India, Dec 15, 1854; son of 
 James and Mary Elizabeth (Burling) Old- 
 ham. His preparatory education was se- 
 cured in Madras, India, and he then came to 
 the United States, and attended Allegheny 
 College and Boston University, and was 
 graduated A.B. 1883, receiving from that 
 institution the D.D. degree in 1890. He 
 was ordained in the ministry of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church in 1883, went to In- 
 dia and in 1884 founded the Malaysia mis- 
 sion of the :Methodist Episcopal Church, at 
 Singapore, and the following year founded 
 there the Anglo-Chinese School, which now 
 has an enrollment of more than one thou- 
 sand students. He founded and was first 
 professor of the chair of missions and com- 
 parative religions in Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity, 1895-1900; was assistant secretary 
 of the Missionary Society of the Methodist 
 
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 Episcopal Church, l!)00-190-i; and in 1904 
 was elected by the General Conference at 
 Los Angeles missionary bishop of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church for Southern Asia. 
 Bishop Oldliani has written inucli for the 
 religious press on missionary and other sub- 
 jects. Address: Singapore, Straits Settle- 
 ment, East Indies. 
 
 OIIN, Stephen Henry: 
 
 Lawyer: born in Middletown, Conn.. 
 April 22, 1847; son of Rev. Stephen (D.D., 
 LL.D.) and Julia (Lynch) Olin. He was 
 graduated from Weslej'an University, A.B., 
 1866, A.M., 1869, and from Albany Law 
 School, LL.B., 1867 ; and he has received 
 from Weslej'an University the degree of 
 LL.D. He was admitted to the Xew York 
 Bar in 1869 and engaged in practice in 
 New York City. He was a trustee of the 
 Astor Library, 1888-1895; since then of New 
 York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Til 
 den Foundations ; trustee of Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity, and president of the University Set- 
 tlement Society. He is a member of the 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York (vice-president, 1898-1899). He served 
 in the National Guard as major and judge- 
 advocate of the First and' Second Brigades, 
 1882-1889; lieutenant-colonel and assistant 
 adjutant-general, First Brigade, 1889-1898; 
 colonel and assistant adjutant-general, 1898- 
 1903. He is a fellow. of the American Acad- 
 emy Political and Social Science; member 
 of the Society of Colonial Wars, and of the 
 Centuiy, University, City, Down Town and 
 Players' Clubs. He married, first, Oct. 23, 
 1879, Alice, daughter of S. L. M. Barlow 
 (died Nov., 1882) ; second, March 21, 1903, 
 Emiline Dodge, daughter of Oliver Harri- 
 man, and he has two (Uiughtors. Residence: 
 Rhunebeck, N. Y. Office: 34 Nassau Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 OLIVER, George Tener: 
 
 r. S. Senator; honi in Couiily Tyrone, 
 Ireland, Jan. 26, 1848; wliile his parents 
 (who were then residents of Allegheny City, 
 Pa., were visiting that country), and is son 
 of Henrv W. and Margaret (Brown) Oliver. 
 Hq was educated in the ])ublic schools of 
 Allegheny, Pa., and in Bethcny College, W. 
 
 Va., whence he was graduated in 1868. His 
 first occupation was that of a lawyer, hav- 
 ing been admitted to the bar of Allegheny 
 County in 1871. He practised his profes- 
 sion with success for ten years, but retired 
 in 1881 to engage in the wire business. He 
 was first the vice-president and afterwards 
 president of the Oliver Wire Company until 
 1899, when that company sold its plants 
 and wound up its business. He was presi- 
 dent of the Hainsworth Steel Company from 
 1889 until its merger in 1897 with tlie Oli- 
 ver and Snyder Steel Company, of which he 
 was also president until he disposed of 
 several manufacturing interests in 1901. In 
 June, 1900, he purchased ^the Pittsbgurh 
 Gazette, the oldest paper west of the Al- 
 leghenies, and later acquired the controlling 
 interest in the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele- 
 graph, tlie oldest afternoon i)aper in Pitts- 
 burgh. In 1906 the Pittsburgh Gazette and 
 Pittsburgh Times were consolidated under 
 the name of the Gazette-Times, and he is 
 principal owner of both papers. Mr. Oliver 
 has always been an active Republican, but 
 never held public office except that of presi- 
 dent of the Central Board of Education 
 which he held 1881-1884. and then resigned. 
 He was presidential elector in 1884, and a 
 delegate to the Republican National Con- 
 vention in 1904. He was elected by the 
 Pennsylvania Legislature, ]\Iarch 17, 1909, 
 to the U. S. Senate to fill out the unexpired 
 term of Hon. Philander C. Knox, who had 
 resigned to become Secretary of State. ]\Ir. 
 Oliver's term will expire March 3, 1911. 
 He is a member of all tlie leading clubs in 
 Pittsburgh and of the Union League and 
 University Clubs of New York. He married 
 in 1871, Mary Kountze, of Omaha, Neb. 
 Address: 337 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh. 
 
 OLIVER, Jean Nutting: 
 
 Artist and art writer under nom de plume 
 of " John Nutting " ; born in Lynn, Mass. ; 
 daughter of Stephen and Jane Briggs 
 Oliver. She was educated in the Museum 
 of Fine Arts, and in private schools. 
 She exhibited in the Boston Art Club, 
 Copley Society of Boston, Pennsylvania 
 Academy, New York ^liniature Society, 
 Worcester Art Museum, Twentieth Century 
 
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 Club of Boston, Toledo Art Museum, the 
 Chicago Art Institute, Poland Springs Art 
 Exhibition, jNlaine, and the Providence Art 
 Club. She has made a specialty of portrait 
 and miniature painting, within the last five 
 years, and has a studio at East Gloucester, 
 Mass., where she spends lier summers. Miss 
 Oliver is a member of Copley Society of 
 Boston. Residence: 21 Copley Hall. Stu- 
 dios: 198 Clarendon Street, Boston. 
 
 OLIVER, Martha Capps: 
 
 Author; born in Jacksonville, 111., daugh- 
 ter of Joseph Capps and Sarah A. H. 
 (Reid) Capps. She is an alumnae of Illi- 
 nois Woman's College in the classical 
 course. She married in Jacksonville, 111., 
 Dec. 28, 1865, William A. Oliver. Mrs. Oli- 
 ver is author of from 500 to 1,000 poems, 
 including hymns, songs, cantatas and an- 
 thems, and of many booklet poems ; also 
 author and compiler of: A Year of Sacred 
 Song, A Year's Good Wishes, Round the 
 Year with the Poets. Among her booklets 
 are included: Lift Me Higher, Heath- 
 er-bells, The Keynote, Lincoln, Easter 
 Legend, Resurgan, Christmas Legend. Many 
 of her poems have been published in Lon- 
 don, and Toronto, Can. She is a member 
 of the Belles Lettres Society. Address: 
 Jacksonville, 111. 
 
 OLIVER, Robert Shaw: 
 
 Assistant secretary of War; born in Bos- 
 ton, Sept. 13, 1847. He was graduated from 
 Churchill's Military School, Sing Sing, N. 
 Y. ; commissioned second lieutenant, 5th 
 Massachusetts Cavalry, Oct. 13, 1864; Aide 
 de Camp, Cavalry Brigade, 3rd Division, 
 25th Army Corps, Feb. 3, 18G5; assistant 
 adjutant general, 3rd Division, 25th Army 
 Corps, Sept. 3, 1865; honorably mustered 
 out Oct. 31, 1865; commissioned second lieu- 
 tenant, 17th U. S. Infantry, Feb. 23, 1866; 
 second lieutenant, 8th U. S. Cavalry, July 
 28, 1866; first lieutenant, 8th U. S. Cavalry, 
 March 7, 1867; regimental commissary of 
 Subsistence, Aug. 26, 1867; resigned Oct. 
 31. 1869. He moved to Albany, N. Y., 1870; 
 was stove manufacturer, Rathbone, Sard 
 and Company, 1870-1903; colonel of the 10th 
 Infantry, of the National Guard of New 
 
 York, Aug. 25, 1873; assistant adjutant 
 general, 9th Brigade, July 11, 1878; briga- 
 dier general and inspector general, State of 
 New York, Jan. 1, 1880; brigadier general, 
 otli Brigade, Jan. 10, 1883; brigadier gen- 
 eral 3rd Brigade, Dec. 30, 1890; honorably 
 retired at liis own request to accept the office 
 of Assistant Secretary of War, Aug. 30, 
 1903.. Mr. Oliver was civil service com- 
 missioner, City of Albany, INIay 28, 1894 to 
 Jan. 1, 1895; ])olice commissioner. City of 
 Albany, June 1, 1895-1898; Assistant Secre- 
 tary of War, Aug. 31, 1903. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Grand Army of the Republic; 
 Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Mili- 
 tary Order of Indian Wars; Society of the 
 Army of the Potomac, Fort Orange Club of 
 Albany, ^Metropolitan Club, Army and Navy 
 Club, Chevy Chase Club, and the Aero Club 
 of Washington. He married Marion Rath- 
 bone, and their children are: John, Eliza- 
 beth (Mrs. Francis K. Stevens), Cora (Mrs. 
 Joseph H. Choate, Jr.), and Marion. Ad- 
 dress: Washington. 
 
 OLMSTED, Charles Sanford: 
 
 Bishop of Colorado; born at Olmstedville, 
 N. Y^, Feb. 8, 1853; son of Levi Olmsted 
 and Maria (Beach) Olmsted; descendant 
 of Richard Olmsted, one of the settlers 
 of Hartford, Conn. He was educated in St. 
 Stephen's College, 1869-1873, and after grad- 
 uation from the General Theological Semi- 
 nary in 1876 was ordered deacon by Bishop 
 Horatio Potter, and the following year was 
 ordained priest by Bishop Doane, in the 
 ministry of the Episcopal Church. He re- 
 ceived the degree of D.D. from Hobart Col- 
 lege in 1895, and from the General The- 
 ological Seminary in 1901, He was rector 
 of Trinity Church, Morely, N, Y., 1876-1884; 
 rector of Christ Church, Cooperstown, N. 
 Y., 1884-1896, and while there was also for 
 ten years archdeacon of Susquehanna, in the 
 diocese of Albany; and he was rector of St. 
 Asaph's at Bala, Pa., 1896-1902. He was 
 elected bishop-coadjutor of Coloi-ado, Jan. 8, 
 1902, but on ]March 2, before his consecra- 
 tion. Bishop Spalding died, and on May 1, 
 1902, Dr. Olmsted was consecrated in St. 
 Paul's Cathedral, Denver, as the second 
 bishop of Colorado, by Bishop Tuttle of 
 
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 Missouri, assisted by Bishops Johnston, 
 Leonard, Coleman, Graves, White, Brown, 
 Williams and Taylor. He was a deputy 
 from the diocese of Pennsylvania to the 
 General Convention of 1901. Bishop Olm- 
 sted is author of: Docomber musings and 
 Other Poems; The Discipline of Perfection; 
 Ordination Sermon. He married at Fort 
 Edward. X. Y.. IMay 24, 1877, Mary M. 
 Deuel. Address: Denver, Colo. 
 
 OLMSTED, Charles Tyler: 
 
 Bishop of Central New York; born in 
 Cohoes, N. Y., 1842; son of Charles A. and 
 Ardelia (Wilkinson) Olmsted. He was 
 graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, 
 Conn., in 18G5; later studied theology at 
 Saint Stephen's College, Annandale, X. Y. ; 
 professor of mathematics, St. Stephen's Col- 
 lege, 1S6G-1S68. He was ordered deacon in 
 1867, and ordained priest in 1868 in the 
 ministry of the Episcopal Church; was as- 
 sistant of Trinity Parish, New York City, 
 1868-1884; rector of Grace Church, Utica, 
 1884-1899; vicar of St. Agnes' Chapel, Trin- 
 ity Parish, New York City, 1899-1902; con- 
 secrated Oct. 2, 1902; bishop coadjutor, and 
 July 11. 1904, became bishop of Central 
 New York. He married in 1876, Catherine, 
 daughter of Joseph Lawrence of New York. 
 Address: Utica, N. Y. 
 
 OLMSTED, John Charles: 
 
 Land:^cape architect; born of American 
 parents in Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 14, 
 1852; son of John Hull and Mary C. B. 
 (Perkins) Olmsted. He attended' the 
 Eagleswood ^lilitary Academy, Cherbulicz's 
 Academy, New York; Knapp's Academy of 
 Plymoufh, ^lass., and Yale (Scientific 
 School) of Ph.B. in 187o. He designed, 
 with partners, the South Parks in Chicago, 
 and parks in Buffalo, N. Y., Brooklyn, 
 Louisville, Charleston, S. C, Fall River, 
 Hartford, Holyoke, Cambridge, l^oston, 
 Brookline, North Easton, Bridgeport, Niag- 
 ara Falls, INIontclair, Orange, Newark, 
 Roclicster, Seattle, Watertown, New Orleans, 
 Detroit, Milwaukee and other cities. In ad- 
 dition to public parks, he has advised as to 
 improvements of the grounds of universities, 
 colleges, schools, churches, asylums, libraries. 
 
 city halls, town halls, factories, railroad sta- 
 tions, expositions, residences, cemeteries, ho- 
 tels and numerous land subdivisions and as 
 to the improvement of city street plan^;. Mr. 
 Olmsted has been successively a member of 
 the firm of F. L. and J. C. Olmsted; F. L. 
 Olmsted and Company; Olmsted, Olmsted 
 and Eliot; and Olmsted Brothers. Mr. Olm- 
 sted is a member of the American Society 
 of Landscape Architects, the American As- 
 sociation of Park Superintendents, the Bos- 
 ton Society of Civil Engineers, an asso- 
 ciate member of the Boston Society of Arch- 
 itects, and the Massachusetts Horticulture 
 Society; also a member of the American 
 Civic Association, the American Free Trade 
 League, the American Forestry Association, 
 the Massachusetts Forestry Association, the 
 Massachusetts Free Trade Association, :Mas- 
 sachusetts Anti- double Taxation League, 
 the American League of Civic Associations, 
 the Appalachian Mountain Club, Yale Uni- 
 versity Alumni Association, Boston Fine 
 Arts Museum Association, the American As- 
 sociation for the Advancement of Science, 
 the American Social Science Association, 
 and a member of the Century, Reform, and 
 National Arts Club of New York. He mar- 
 ried in Brookline. :\Iass., Jan. 18, 1899, So- 
 phia Buckland White, and they have two 
 daughters. Residence: 16 Warren Street, 
 Brookline. Office: 99 Warren Street, 
 Brookline, Mass. 
 
 OLMSTED, Marlin Edgar: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Ulysses 
 Township, Potter County, Pa. He M-as ed- 
 iicated in the common schools and Coud'ers- 
 port Academy. At an early age he was ap- 
 pointed assistant corporation clerk by Audi- 
 tor-General (afterwards Governor) Hart- 
 ranft; and one year later was promoted to 
 corporation clerk, in charge of collection of 
 taxes from corporations, Pennsylvania's pe- 
 culiar revenue system. He was continued 
 in the same position by Harrison Allen, 
 auditor-general ; read law with Hon. John 
 W. SimontoM (late president judge of the 
 Twelfth Judicial District) at Harrisburg; 
 was admitted to the bar of Dauphin County, 
 Nov. 25, 1878, to the bar of the Supreme 
 Court of Pennsylvania, May 16, 1881 and to 
 
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 the bar of the Supreme Court of the United 
 States Nov. 12, 1884. Mr. Olmsted was 
 elected to repicsent Daviphin County in the 
 proposed constitutional convention in 1891; 
 received the lionorary decree of LL.D. from 
 J.ebanon Valley Collej^e in 1903. and from 
 Dickinson College in 1905. He was elected 
 to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty- 
 seventh Contjiesses from the Fourteenth, 
 and elected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty- 
 ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses 
 from the Eighteenth Pennsylvania District. 
 He is a Republican in politics. He married. 
 Oct. 26, 1899, Gertrude, daughter of the 
 late Major Conway R. Howard of Richmond, 
 Va. Address: Harrisburg, Pa. 
 
 OLNEY, George W.: 
 
 Journalist, statistician; born in Charles- 
 ton, S. C, June 5, 1835; son of George W. 
 and Olive (Bartlett) Olney. He received a 
 preparatory education in Charleston schools, 
 and the University Grammar School, Provi- 
 dence, R. I., and was graduated from Har- 
 vard University, LL.B., 1855. He entered 
 journalism as one of the publishers of the 
 New York Daily Day Book, 1858; returned 
 to the South at the beginning of the Civil 
 War, and was war correspondent for the 
 Charleston Courier and Richmond Enquirer, 
 from 1861 to 1864; dramatic writer for the 
 New York Herald, 1866 ; editorial writer for 
 the New York World. 1868-1876; entered 
 insurance journalism, 1873, as editor of the 
 Spectator and in 1879 became managing edi- 
 tor of the Weekly Underwriter (New York) , 
 and has been its editor since 1899; editor 
 of The World Almanac, published by the 
 New York World, since 1871; vice-president 
 of the Underwriter Printing and Publishing 
 Company; fellow of the American Statistical 
 Association; National Geographic Society; 
 Harvard Law School Association; secretary 
 of the Society of the Cincinnati in Rhode 
 Island; member of the Sons of the Revolu- 
 tion in New York. Society of Colonial Wars, 
 Military Order of Foreign Wars, Society of 
 the War of 1812, and Veteran Corps of Ar- 
 tillery of New York. He is author of sev- 
 eral statistical works. He married Jose- 
 phine Whitteraore Vallette. Address: 58 
 William Street, New York City. 
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 OLNEY, Peter B.: 
 
 Lawyer; burn in Oxford, Mass., July 21, 
 1843; son of Wilson and Eliza L. (Butler) 
 Olney. He was graduated from the Andover 
 Academy, 1860; Harvard College, A.B., 
 1864; Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1866. 
 He has practised law in New York City 
 since his admission to the bar in November, 
 1866; served with George Bliss and William 
 C. ^^'hitney as a connnission appointed un- 
 der a law of the State, to revise the laws 
 of. the State afTccting public interests in the 
 State of New York, 1879-1881; district at- 
 torney of New York County, 1883-1885. He 
 was formerly a member of the firm of Bar- 
 low, Hyatt and Olney, later Barlow and Ol- 
 ney, and since 1897 of Olney and Corn- 
 stock. He is a Democrat, and was a dele- 
 gate to the National Conventions of 1876 
 and 1880. Mr. Olney is a member of the 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York and of the New York State Bar As- 
 sociation, and a trustee of Teachers' College 
 of New Y^ork. He is a member of the Cen- 
 tury Association and of the. Harvard, Law- 
 yers', and Blooming Grove Hunting and 
 Fishing Clubs. He married at Quincy, 
 Mass., Nov. 12, 1879, Mary Sigourney But- 
 ler, and they have four sons. Address : 68 
 \\'iiliam Street, New York City. 
 
 OLNEY, Richard: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-cabinet official ; born in 
 Oxford, Mass., Sept. 15, 1835; son of Wil- 
 son Olney; descended from Thomas Olney, 
 who came to America in 1635 from Saint 
 Albans, Hertfordshire, England ; on mother's^ 
 side descended from Andrew Sigourney, a 
 French Hugenot. who came to America in 
 1687 on the revocation of Edict of Nantes. 
 He was educated at the Leicester, Mass., 
 Academy and was graduated from Brown 
 University, A.B., 1856; Harvard Law School, 
 LL.B.. 1858, and received the degree of 
 Lli.D. from Harvard University, 1893; 
 Brown University, 1894; Yale University, 
 1901. He was admitted to the bar of the 
 Supreme Judicial Court of Suflfolk Coun- 
 ty, ISlass.. in 1859; served one term in the 
 Massachusetts Legislature in 1874; was at- 
 torney-general of the United States, IMarch, 
 1893, to June, 1859; and secretary of the 
 
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 State of the United States, June 10, 1895, 
 to jNlarch 4, 1897, during which time he 
 conducted the negotiations with England 
 growing out of the Venezuelan situation. 
 On the completion of ]Mr. Cleveland's sec- 
 ond term, !Mr. Olney resumed the practice 
 of law in Boston. He is a member of the 
 Somerset Club of Boston. He married 
 Agnes Park Thomas in 1861. Address: 
 710 Sears Building, Boston, Mass. 
 
 OLNEY, Warren: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Iowa, March 11, 1841; 
 son of William Olney and' Eliza (Green) 
 Olney. He was educated in the Cential 
 University of Iowa until the Civil War be- 
 ban in 1861, when he enlisted in Company 
 B, Third Iowa Infantry, May 21, 1861. He 
 was mustered into U. S. service, June 8, 
 1861, as private, and served continuously 
 until mustered out, Aug. 15, 1865, with the 
 rank of captain. After the war he entered 
 the University of Michigan and remained 
 three years, and was graduated from the 
 Law Department as LL.B. in 1868. He be- 
 gan the practice of law in San Francisco in 
 1869, and has continued in pratcice there 
 ever since, now being a member of the law 
 firm of Olney and 01nej\ He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Directors of the Western 
 Pacific Railway Company and of the Cali- 
 fornia Title Insurance and Trust Company, 
 and other companies. He has been a di- 
 rector in many institutions, educational and 
 public, and is now a director of Mills Col- 
 lege. In politics he is a Mugwump, but 
 in 1903 was nominated by acclamation for 
 'iuayor of the City of Oakland, by the Re- 
 publican Convention, the Democratic Con- 
 vention and the Municipal League Conven- 
 tion, was elected and served two yeaars. He 
 is a member and ex-president of the San 
 Francisco Bar Association. .Mr. Olney is 
 also a member of the University Club, Ber- 
 keley Club, Unitarian Club (ex-president) 
 Claremount Country Club, the Sierra Club 
 and others. He married in Washington, 
 Iowa, Sept. 11, 1865, Mary Craven, and they 
 have five children. Residence: 481 Twen- 
 ty-ninth Street, Oakland, Calif. Office: 
 The Merchants' Exchangi; Building, San 
 Francisco, Calif. 
 
 OLSSONjSEFFER, Pehr Hjalmar: 
 
 Botanist ; born at Ekenas, Finland, Sept. 
 14, 1873; .son of Pehr Olsson, and Alma Ma- 
 ria (Rothstrom) Olsson. He was educated 
 at the Swedish Classical Lyceum, Abo, Fin- 
 land, 1883-1892; Helsingfors University, 
 1892-1897, and 1898-1899; Upsala Univer- 
 sity, Sweden, 1897; in Russian and German 
 Universities, 1896, and, 1899-1900; and re- 
 ceived the degree of Ph.D. from Leland 
 Stanford, Jr., University, 1904. He was in- 
 structor in Swedish in Mariehamn College, 
 1896, in botany at Helsingfors College, 1895- 
 1899; was journalist and founder of a news- 
 paper in Finland, 1895-1899; press corres- 
 pondent in Russia, Sweden and England; 
 in advisory work on colonization to the gov- 
 ernments of Queensland and Western Aus- 
 tralia, 1900-1902; instructor in systematic 
 botany, Leland Stanford Jr. LTniversity, 
 Calif., 1903-1905; professor of biologj-, San 
 Francisco Veterinary College, 1904-1905; es- 
 tablished a botanical station for rubber in- 
 vestigations in tropical Mexico in 1905 ; 
 director of La Zacualpa Botanical Station 
 and Rubber Laboratory, 1905-1908; director 
 of Tezowapa Botanical Station, Mexico, 
 since 1908. As commissioner of the Gov- 
 ernment of Mexico he investigated conditions 
 of tropical agricultural in the Orient, 1906- 
 1907; editor of the Department of Tropical 
 Agriculture in the Mexican Investor, from 
 1906 to 1908; editor of American Journal of 
 Tropical Agriculture, since 1908; also edi- 
 tor of Practical Handbooks on Tropical Ag- 
 riculture, published by the Macmillan Com- 
 pany. He is president of the Tezonapa Val- 
 ley Plantation Company, of Mexican Cara- 
 vonica Cotton Company, of the Tropical Ag- 
 riculture Publishing Company of Mexico, 
 of the Mexican Agricultural Inspection and 
 Consultation Bureau, and vice-president of 
 the Pan-American Cotton and Industrial 
 Company. He is also director of the Mex- 
 ican Banana Company and of the Standard 
 Castilloa Rubber Company of London. He 
 .serves as technical adviser on agriculture 
 to numerous plantation companies. Dr. 
 Olsson-Sefler has traveled extensively 
 through (liU'creut parts of the world. He is 
 author of: Queensland, the land of future 
 in .\ustralia (in Swedish) ; Letters on Trop- 
 
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 ical Agriculture, 1907 ; Rubber and Coffee i 
 in the Orient and Mexico, 1907; Agricultura 
 en varies paises tropicales, 1908; India Rub- 
 ber or Caoutchouc, 1908; Government Re- 
 ports (in Swedish and Spanish); botanical, 
 geological, geographical and agricultural pa- 
 pers in technical journals in Europe, Amer- 
 ica, Australia and the Orient, numerous ar- 
 ticles in American, Australian, Swedish, 
 Finnish and Mexican magazines and newspa- 
 pers. Dr. Olssen-Seffer is a member of the 
 Swedish Societj' for Anthropology and 
 Geography; Geological Society of Stock- 
 holm; Finland Geographical Society; Na- 
 tional Geographic Society; Association In- 
 ternationale des Botanistes; American As- 
 sociation for the Advancement of Science ; 
 American Forestry Association ; Sociedad 
 Cientifica Antonio Alzate, Sociedad Mexi- 
 cana de Geografia y Estadistica; Soci6te 
 d'Etudes d'Agriculture tropicale, and of the 
 University Club and Country Club of 
 Mexico. He married, first, in Helsingfors, 
 Finland, in 189G, Lullu Sergeeff, by 
 whom lie has one daughter and one 
 son; and he married, second, at San 
 Bernardino, Calif., 1905, Helen Waterman 
 Rolfe. Residence: 74 Calle Cordova, Mex- 
 ico City; and 1488 27th Avenue, Fruitvale, 
 Calif. Mail address: Apartado 133 Bis, 
 Mexico City. 
 
 OLYPHANT, Robert Morrison: 
 
 Capitalist, railway official. He was grad- 
 uated from Columbia in 1842. He is chair- 
 man of the Executive Committee and mana- 
 ger of The Delaware and Hudson Company; 
 director of the New York and Canada Rail- 
 road Company, Chateaugay and Lake Placid 
 Railway Company, Cooperstown and Char- 
 lottee Valley Railroad Company, Champlain 
 Transportation Company, Lalce George 
 Steamboat Company, Cherry Valley and Al- 
 bany Railroad Company, Chateaugay Ore 
 and Iron Company, and president and di- 
 rector of the Bluff Point Land Improvement 
 Company. He is a member of the Sons of 
 the Revolution, Saint Andrew's Society, 
 American Geographical Society, Metropoli- 
 tan Museum of Art, National Academy of 
 Design, and American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science. Residence : 160 Madi- 
 
 son Avenue. Address: 32 Nassau Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 O'MEARA, Stephen: 
 
 Police commissioner of Boston; born in 
 Charlottctown, Prince Edward Island, July 
 26, 1854; son of Stephen and Maria 
 (Meade) O'Meara. He was educated in the 
 Boston public schools; mid lie received the 
 honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth 
 College in 1889. In 1874 he became con- 
 nected with the Boston Journal as a reporter 
 and continued witli it successively as city 
 editor, news editor, general manager and 
 editor and publisher until 1902, when he 
 sold the paper, and retired. ]\Ir. O'Meara 
 was appointed in inuc liy the Governor of 
 Massachusetts, and is ikmv serving as po- 
 lice commissioner foi- tlic City of Boston, 
 for a term of five years. He is a Republi- 
 can and a Roman Catholic. He is a trustee 
 of the Massachusetts State Library, a mem- 
 ber of the Bostonian Society, New England 
 Catholic Historical Society, American Cath- 
 olic Historical Society (Philadelphia), 
 American Social Science Association, and 
 the Algonquin, Exchange, St. Botolph, Press, 
 Union and Boston Clubs of Boston. Mr. 
 O'Meara married in Boston, April 5, 1878, 
 Isabella M. Squire, and has three daughters. 
 Residence: 585 Beacon Street. Office: 29 
 Pemberton Square, Boston. 
 
 O'NEILL, James: 
 
 Actor; born in Ireland. Oct. 14, 1847; son 
 of Edmond O'Neill. He came with his par- 
 ents to the United States in 1850, settling 
 in Buffalo, N. Y. ; was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools. In 1865 he studied under an 
 actor playing in the National Theatre, Cin- 
 cinnati. He made liis fir.st appearance in 
 The Colleen Bawn at the National Theatre; 
 in 1870 he was playing leading parts in 
 Baltimore; in 1871 he was engaged as lead- 
 ing man at the Academy of ^Music in Cleve- 
 land, Ohio; went to Chicago in 1871, under 
 management of J. H. McVicker; in 1874 
 formed the Hooley Comedy Company, Chi- 
 cago; in 1876 he becan.e leading man at the 
 Union Square Theatre, New York City; in 
 1881 appeared at Booth's Theatre, New 
 York, in Enoch Ardi ii : in 1^82 produced An 
 
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 American King; in 1883, Monte Cristo; has 
 also produced: When Greek jNIeets Greek, 
 The Dead Heart, and Fontenelle; besides re- 
 viving Hamlet, The Three Guardsmen and 
 Virginius. Residence: New London, Conn. 
 Address: Players' Club, New York City. 
 
 OPDYKE, Stacy B., Jr.: 
 
 Civil engineer and contractor; born in 
 Camden, X. J., 1851; son of Stacy B. and 
 Mary S. (West) Opdyke. He was gradu- 
 ated from the Polytechnic College at Phil- 
 adelphia, as C.E. in 1870, and M.C.E. in 
 1873. Soon after leaving college, he engaged 
 in railroading; was designer and computer 
 for the Keystone Bridge Company at Pitts- 
 burgh, in 1878-1879; superintendent of the 
 New Haven and Northampton Railroad ; 
 bridge engineer of the New York, New 
 Haven and Hartford Railroad; general su- 
 perintendent of the Poughkeepsie Bridge 
 route; in business on own account, 1891- 
 1902; vice-president of the Levering and 
 G^rrigues Company, 1902-1906, then resumed 
 his business of general contracting. He is 
 a member of the American Society of Civil 
 Engineers, Engineers and Art Clubs of Phil- 
 adelphia, and the Engineers' Club of New 
 York City. He married at Philadelphia, in 
 1878, Belle F. Van Dusen and they have 
 three children. Address: 1931 Broadway, 
 New York City. 
 
 OPERTI. Albert (Jasper Ludwig Rocca- 
 
 bigliers) : 
 
 Arctic historical painter, scenic artist; 
 born in Turin, Italy, March 17, 1852; son 
 of Guiseppe Operti, pianist to Victor Em- 
 manuel, 11., King of Italy. He was edu- 
 cated in the high schools of Dublin, Ireland, 
 and Glasgow, Scotland; graduated from the 
 Naval School at I'ortsmouth, I':ngland, and 
 entered the British Naval Marine, resigning 
 therefrom in 1868; began the study of paint- 
 ing and sculpture; a few years later came to 
 the United States, becoming caricaturist and 
 scenic artist in New York theatres. He 
 made two voyages to the arctic regions with 
 Lieutenant R. E. Peary (now commander U. 
 S. Navy). He made for the New York Mu- 
 seum of Natural History the first casts of 
 
 North Greenland Eskimos. Among his more 
 important historical paintings are: Farth- 
 est North, and Rescue of the Greeley Party, 
 for the Navy Department at Washington ; 
 the Schwatka Search; Finding De Long in 
 the Lena Delta. Among the more prominent 
 works he has illustrated are: White World; 
 Peary's Northward Over the Great Ice; Dr. 
 Cook's Antarctic Night; Snowland' Folk; 
 Fiala's Fighting the Polar Ice, and Peary's 
 Nearest the North Pole. He received a dec- 
 oration from the Grand Duke Alexis of Rus- 
 sia. He is a member of the American Geo- 
 graphical Society and the National Geo- 
 graphic Society, the Kane Lodge of Masons; 
 honorary member of the Indian War Vet- 
 erans of California, Universal Brotherhood, 
 Arctic and Explorers Clubs, and is presi- 
 dent of the Shields Art Club. He married 
 at Albion, N. Y., 1881, Martha S. Green. 
 Address: 05 West 36th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 OPIE, Thomas: 
 
 Physician; born in Martinsbvirg, W. Va., 
 May 14, 1842; son of Hierome Lindsay and 
 Anne Stephenson (Locke) Opie. After at- 
 tending the academic department of the Uni- 
 versity of Virginia, and the medical depart- 
 ment of the same institution, he went to 
 the University of Pennsylvania, from which 
 lie was graduated as M.D. in 1861. He en- 
 listed as a private in the 25th Virginia 
 Regiment of the Confederate Army, in 1861, 
 but was soon after appointed assistant sur- 
 geon and later surgeon of the regiment, with 
 which he served in the Army of Northern 
 Virginia until the surrender in 1865. He 
 then settled in the practice of medicine in 
 Baltimore, where he has obtained great dis- 
 tinction as a gynecologist and abdominal 
 surgeon. He was one of the founders of the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons of Bal- 
 timore in 1872, and has been dean of that 
 institution ever since, and he held the chair 
 of obstetrics until 1892, and since then the 
 chair of gynecology. He is gynecologist 
 to the Baltimore City, Bayview and Hebrew 
 hospitals of Baltimore. Dr. Opie is a 
 member and was one of the founders of the 
 American Association of Obstetricians and 
 
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 Gynecologists, and is a member of the 
 American Medical Association. Address: 
 14 West Franklin Street, Baltimore. 
 
 OPPER, Frederick Burr: 
 
 Artist; born in Madison, Lake County. 
 Ohio. Jan. 2, 1857; son of Lewis Opper and 
 Aurelia Opper. He was educated in the 
 public schools of Madison, Ohio. Mr. Opper 
 was special and humorous artist for Frank 
 Leslie, 1877-1880; with Puck, 1880-1899, 
 and has been doing humorous illustrative 
 work on W. R. Hearst's New York papers 
 since 1899. He has illustrated many hu- 
 morous books; and visited Europe in 1887. 
 He is a member of the Players' Club. ]\Ir. 
 Opper married' in New York City, in 1881, 
 Nellie Barnett, and they have two children. 
 Residence: 147 West 78th Street, New 
 York City and Turn-of-River, Stamford, 
 Conn. Address: New York American. 
 New York City. 
 
 ORCUTT, Calvin B.: 
 
 Capitalist and shipbuilder; born in Wyo- 
 ming, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1847; son of Phineas 
 and Sophronia Orcutt. He was educated at 
 Middlebury Academy, Wyoming, N. Y. His 
 first employment was in a wholesale drug 
 store in New York City, later entering the 
 banking house of Fisk and Hatch. In 1878 
 he was placed by the Chesapeake and Ohio 
 Railway Company in charge of the market- 
 ing and shipment of its coal, and subse- 
 quently was put in charge of C. P. Hunting- 
 ton's interests at Newport News, the East- 
 ern terminal of the railway. Under his di- 
 rection there was established at this point 
 one of the finest shipbuilding ])lants in the 
 world. He organized the Newport News 
 Light and Water Company and is now its 
 president, also is president of the Newport 
 News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, 
 of the Chesapeake Coal Agency Company 
 and of the Old Dominion Land Company. 
 He organized the First National Bank of 
 Newport News and is a director. He is a 
 member of the Lawyers', Congregational, 
 Thousand Island' Yacht and Chippewa Yacht 
 Clubs. He married in 1872, Harriet M. 
 Willet of South Granville, N. Y. Residence: 
 Elizabeth, N. J. Address: 1 Broadway, 
 New York City. 
 
 ORB WAY, Samuel Hanson: 
 
 Lawyer ; born in New York T'ity, June 
 8, 1800; .son of Aaron Lucius and Frances 
 Ellen (Hanson) Ordway. He was graduated 
 from Brown University, A.B., 1880; and 
 from Harvard University. A.M.. LIj.B. in 
 1883. He was admitted to the New York 
 City bar in 1884; has been practising his 
 profession in that city ever since ; was as- 
 sistant district attorney of New York Coun- 
 ty in 1901; member of the commission to 
 revise the tax laws of New York State, 1900 ; 
 member of the law firm of Stickney and 
 Shepard, 1887- 1890; Stickney. Spencer and 
 Ordway, 1890-1903; Spencer. Ordway and 
 Wierum since 1903. In 1906 he received a 
 nomination for justice of the Supreme Court 
 of the State of New Y^ork from the Repub- 
 lican party and from the Judiciary Nomi- 
 nators, representing the bar of New A'ork 
 City. He was appointed by Governor 
 Hughes a member of his Commission to in- 
 vestigate speculation in securities and com- 
 modities, 1909. Mr. Ordway is a member 
 of the Association of the Bar of the City of 
 New York, the University, Century, Har- 
 vard, and Brown University Clubs of New 
 York City, and the Hope Club of Providence, 
 R. I. He married in New York City, May 
 30, 1894, Frances Hunt Throop, and they 
 have one son. Residence: 123 East 71st 
 Street. Address: 27 William Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 O'REILLY, Charles J.: 
 
 Catholic bisho]); formerly a parish priest 
 and archdiocesan official in the Archdiocese 
 of Oregon City, and editor of the Catholic 
 Sentinel at Portland, Ore. He was conse- 
 crated in 1903 bishop of Baker City. Ad- 
 dress: Baker City, Ore. 
 
 O'REILLY, Mary Boyle: 
 
 Philanthropist, author, lecturer; born in 
 Boston, May 18, 1873; daughter of John 
 Boyle and Mary (Smiley) O'Reilly. She 
 was educated in the Convent Sacre Coeur. 
 Miss O'Reilly is a student of social problems, 
 particularly in Women in Industry, Women 
 in Prison, Prison Reform, and Child Life in 
 Great Cities. She was a member of the 
 President's Conference on Dependent Chil- 
 
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 dren, called by Mr. lioosevelt at \Yashin,ston, 
 January, 1909. She is author of Cliildren's 
 Stories (Harpers). Socioloijical Studies, 
 and Charities and an editorial writer for tlie 
 Boston Transcript. She is a trustee of tlie 
 Children's Institution Department, Boston, 
 member of the Board of Prison Commission- 
 ers Alassacliusetts. Address: Jamaica 
 Plain, Mass. 
 
 O'REILLY, Robert M.: 
 
 Surgeoii-iieneral. V . S. Army, retired; 
 born in Philadelphia, dan. 14, 1845; son of 
 John and Ellen Maitland O'Reilly. He was 
 educated in the schools of Philadelpliia and 
 entered the Medical Department of the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania. He was appointed 
 a medical cadet in the U. S. Army, Jan. 7, 
 1864, serving until Sept. 23, 1865.' He was 
 graduated from the University as M. D. in 
 1866 ; appointed assistant surgeon, U. S. 
 Army, May 14, 1867; captain assistant sur- 
 geon. May 14. 1807; major surgeon, Nov. 1, 
 1886; lieutenant-colonel, deputy surgeon- 
 general, Feb. 21, 1900, colonel assistant sur- 
 geon-general, Feb. 14. 1902, and brigadier- 
 general surgeon-general, Sept. 7, 1902, and 
 he was retired from active service by opera- 
 tion of law Jan. 14. 1845, with the rank of 
 major-general. During the Spanish-Amer- 
 ican War lie was appointed lieutenant-colo- 
 nel and chief surgeon, May 9, 1898, serving 
 until honorably dischai'ged' from volunteer 
 scrvici'. May 12, 1899, after having greatly 
 distinguished liimself in connection with the 
 medical problems of that war. He is a 
 companion of the Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion, member of the Pacific Union 
 Club of San Francisco, and of the Metro- 
 politan, Chevy Chase and University Clubs 
 of Washington. He married Miss Pardee, 
 of Oswego, X. Y., ill 1S77. Address: Office 
 of the Surgeon-tJeiicral, War Department, 
 ^^'a«hington. 
 
 ORMAN, James Bradley: 
 
 Capitalist and ex-governor; born in Mus- 
 catine, Iowa, Nov. 4, 1849; son of John 
 Orman and Sarah Josephine (Bradley) Or- 
 man. His boyhood activities were divided 
 between work on his father's farm and at- 
 tending thf i)ul)lio schools. In 1869 he be- 
 
 came associated with his brother, William 
 A. Orman. as a contractor for railroad and 
 irrigation work, and they filled large con- 
 tracts in the construction of the principal 
 railway lines and irrigating canals of Colo- 
 rado and the Rocky Mountain territories. 
 He became a citizen of Pueblo, Colo., and 
 has been a leader in the development of that 
 city, was five years president and is still 
 director of the Pueblo Street Railway Com- 
 jiaiiy, operating an electric railway, has ex- 
 tensive real estate interests in Pueblo and 
 Denver, coal lands, gold mining interests. 
 He served in the City Council of Pueblo, and 
 one term as mayor in 1897 and 1898. He is 
 a Democrat in politics, was elected to the 
 Colorado Legislature, serving 1880-1884; re- 
 ceived twenty-seven votes on joint ballots 
 (three less than a majority) for United 
 States senator in the Legislature of 1883, 
 in which there were only twenty-two Demo- 
 cratic votes. In 1900 he was nominated by 
 the Democrats and endorsed by the Populists 
 and Silver Republicans for governor of Colo- 
 rado, and elected, his term expiring Jan. 
 10, 1903. He married in Pueblo, Sept. 27, 
 1877, Nellie Martin. Address: Pueblo, 
 Colo. 
 
 ORR, Alexander E.: 
 
 Retired merchant; born at Strabane, 
 County Tyrone, Ireland, March 2, 1831. He 
 was educated by private tutor; came to New 
 York City in 1851. He began his business 
 career in New Y''ork City in the employ of 
 William Ralph Post, shipping and commis- 
 sion merchant; later in same capacity with 
 the firm of Wallace and Wickes; became 
 connected in 1858, with David Dows &, Com- 
 pany, shipping and commission merchants 
 (founded 1825) and member of the firm in 
 1801; retiring from active business several 
 j'ears ago. Member of the Produce Ex- 
 change 1859, was secretary of its Building 
 Commission when its present great building 
 was erected, and later, for several terms, its 
 president ; was connected with the Arbitra- 
 tion Commission and the Benefit Assurance 
 Company of the exchange, and was one of 
 the organizers of the Produce Exchange Gra- 
 tuity System, whereby each member pays 
 three dollars into a fund at the death of a 
 
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 fellow-member, and which controls over I line Elizabeth (Atwood) Orvis. He re- 
 
 $1,000,000. He was a member of the canal | moved in boyhood to Bellefonte in Center 
 
 commission appointed by Governor Tilden, 
 
 1872, which exposed the canal ring frauds, 
 
 leading to the placing of the canals in charge 
 
 of the State Superintendent of Public 
 
 Works. He was president and trustee of 
 
 the New York Life Insurance Company 
 from 1905 until 1007 when he retired from 
 the presidency; and he resigned as trustee 
 in 1908. Mr. Orr aided in organizing the 
 Citizens Movement, which led to the election 
 of Seth Low for mayor of Brooklyn in 1881 ; 
 was for several years a member of the civil 
 service commission of Brooklyn; member 
 from organization, now president, of the 
 Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners of 
 the City of New York; president and trustee 
 New York Produce Exchange State Deposit 
 and Storage Company; vice-president .and 
 member of the Board of Managers of the 
 Delaware and Hudson Company; vice-presi- 
 dent of the Mechanics' National Bank; di- 
 rector of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 
 Railway Company, Erie Railroad, Associated 
 Merchants' Company, Bond & ;Mortgage 
 Guarantee Company, Brooklyn Academy of 
 Music, Continental Insurance Company. Fed- 
 eral Insurance Company. Fidelity & Casu- 
 alty Company, Harper & Brothers, Queen 
 Insurance Company of America, Realty As- 
 sociates, Trustee of South Brooklyn Sav- 
 ings Institution, United States Trust Com- 
 pany, Greenwood Cemetery, Trustee of the 
 New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and 
 Tilden foundations; member of the Board of 
 Managers of the American Bible Society; 
 president of the Long Island Historical So- 
 ciety. He is a member of the Hamilton of 
 Brooklyn, Century and Down Town Clubs. 
 He married first in New York City in 1857, 
 Juliet B., daughter of Ammi Dows (died, 
 1872); second in 1873, Margaret S. Lu- 
 quer. Residence: 102 Remsen Street, 
 Brooklyn. Office: 102 Produce Exchange 
 Building. New York City. 
 
 ORVIS, Ellis Lewis: 
 
 President judge of the Forty-ninth Judi- 
 cial District of Pennsylvania; born in Lock 
 Haven, Clinton County, Pa., Nov. 16, 1857; 
 son of Judge John Holden Orvis and Caro- 
 
 Coimty, P., was prepared in the academy 
 there and was graduated from the Pennsyl- 
 vania State College, A.B., in 1876 after re- 
 ceiving the junior oration prize in 1875, 
 and received the degree of A.^M. in course 
 in 1879. He studied in a law olTice in 
 Bellefonte, Pa., was admitted to the bar in 
 1880, practising until elected, in 1905, pres- 
 ident judge of the Forty-ninth District for 
 the term expiring in 1915. He was a dele- 
 gate to the Democratic National Convention 
 at Indianapolis, which nominated Palmer 
 and Buckner in 1890. He is a member of 
 the Christian (Disciples) Church. Judge 
 Orvis is a trustee of the Pennsylvania State 
 College and of Bellefonte Academy; a mem- 
 ber of the Pennsylvania Society of New 
 York City, the National Geographic Society, 
 and the Philobiblon Club of Philadelphia. 
 Address: Bellefonte, Pa. 
 
 OSBORN, Frank Chittenden: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in Greenland, Mich., 
 Dec. 18, 1857; son of Reuben Howard and 
 Livonia (Chittenden) Osborn. He was 
 graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic 
 Institute, Troy, in 1880, with the degree of 
 C.R. He entered the employ of the Louis- 
 ville Bridge and Iron Company, Louisville, 
 Ky.. in 1880. as assistant engineer, and in 
 September of the same year became prin- 
 cipal assistant engineer, retaining that 
 position until ]\Iarch, 1885, resigning 
 to accept a similar position with the 
 Keystone Bridge Company, later a constitu- 
 ent company of The Carnegie Steel Com- 
 pany, Pittsburgh. He became a member of 
 G. W. G. Ferris and Company, Pittsburgh, 
 in 1887, inspectors and designers of struc- 
 tural steel work for bridges and buildings, 
 and remained with this firm until 1889; 
 became special assistant to Mr. j\I. J. Becker 
 (now deceased and a past president of the 
 American Society of Civil Engineers), chief 
 engineer of the Ohio Connecting Railway, 
 in 1889, resigning in four months to accept 
 the position of chief engineer of The King 
 Bridge Company of Cleveland, resigning in 
 1892 to embark in private practice as con- 
 sulting and designing engineer. He entered 
 
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 into partnership with A. Lincoln Hyde in 
 1894, under the name of The Osborn Coni- 
 panj', and on termination of partnership 
 in 1896 bought partner's interest, the bus- 
 ness continuins; under the same name until 
 1900, when it was organized and incor- 
 porated as The Osborn Engineering Com- 
 pany, of which he is president. He is 
 also vice-president of the American Art 
 Stone Company, director of the Lake Shore 
 Banking and Trust Company. Air. Osborn 
 is author of: Tables of Moments of Inertia 
 and Squares of Radii of Clyration, five edi- 
 tions. He is a member and ex-president of 
 the Cleveland Engineering Society, member 
 of the Board of Managers of the Association 
 of Engineering Societies, member of the 
 American Society of Civil Engineers, Amer- 
 ican Society for Testing Materials, Associ- 
 ation of Railway Superintendents of Bridges 
 and Buildings, Institution of Civil Engi- 
 neers of Great Britain. National Geographic 
 Society, American Forestry Association, 
 Chippewa University, Athletic and Masenic 
 Clubs, and the Cleveland Chamber of Com- 
 merce. He is a member of the Commission 
 having in charge the construction of the 
 new Cuyahoga County Court House. He 
 married in Calumet, Mich., Oct. 27, 1880, 
 Annie Paull. Residence: 8117 Hough Ave- 
 nue, X. E., Cleveland. Office : Osborn 
 Building, Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 OSBORN, Henry Fairfield: 
 
 Paleontologist, educator; born at Fair- 
 Hold, Conn.. Aug. 8, 1857 ; son of William 
 Henry and Virginia Reed (Sturges) Osborn. 
 He was educated in Lyons Collegiate Insti- 
 tute, New York City, Princeton, 1877; Col- 
 lege of Phj'sicians and Surgeons and the 
 Bellevue Aledical Scliool, 1878-1880; and 
 studied biology under Balfour in Cambridge, 
 Iluxley in London, and Zittel in Alunich. 
 He received the degrees of A.B., Sc.D., and 
 LL.D. from Princeton ; LL.D. from Trinity 
 College; LL.D., Columbia University, and 
 D.Sc. from Cambridge University. He is 
 president and curator of veitebrate paleon- 
 tology, in the American Museum of Natural 
 History, New York City; Da Costa profes- 
 sor of zoology in Columbia University since 
 June, 1900 ; geologist and paleontologist of 
 
 the L'nited States Geological Survey since 
 1900. He was vertebrate paleontologist of 
 the Canadian Geological Survey, 1900-1904; 
 president of the American Society of Natu- 
 ralists, 1891; vice-president of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science, 
 1892; second vice-president of the New 
 York Academy of Sciences, 1897 ; president 
 of the American Morphological Society, 
 1897; and of the Marine Biological As- 
 sociation, 1898-1900; president and trustee 
 of the New York Zoological Society, and 
 was active in founding the New York Zo- 
 ological Park; president and trustee of the 
 Brearley School, New York City. Dec. 4, 
 1906, Dr. Osborn was elected Secretary of 
 tlie Smithsonian Institution, which office he 
 declined. He is a member of the National 
 Academy of Sciences. Philadelphia Academy 
 of Sciences, British Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, Geological Society of 
 London, Zoiilogical Society of London, Lit- 
 erary and Philosophical Society of Man- 
 chester, England, Cambridge Philosophical 
 Society, England; honorary fellow of the 
 Royal Society of Edinburgh ; honorary mem- 
 ber of the Royal Society of Sweden ; Im- 
 ]3erial Society of Moscow, Royal Society of 
 Bohemia. He has carried on annual ex- 
 plorations in \Yestern United States for 
 vertebrate fossils since 1891. He is author of : 
 From the Greeks to Darwin (two editions), 
 1894 and 1897, Evolution of Mammalian 
 Molar Teeth (1907); also over two hun- 
 dred scientific and educational jDapers, ad- 
 dresses and memoirs on zoology, paleontol- 
 ogy, comparative anatomy and psychology. 
 He is a member of the University. Century, 
 and Boone and Crockett Clubs of New York 
 City, and the Cosmos Club of Washington. 
 He married, Sept. 29, 1881, Lucretia Thatch- 
 er Perry, and they have two sons and two 
 daugliters. Address: American jMuseum 
 of Natural History, 771h Street and 8th 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
 OSBORNE, Edward William: 
 
 Bishop of Springfu'ld, 111.; born in Cal- 
 cutta, India, in 1845; son of John Francis 
 and Louisa Osborne. He was graduated 
 fi-om Gloucester College, England, in 1869, ;', 
 and tlie same j-ear Avas ordered deacon in iRtS'i 
 
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 the Clmrch of England, and the followin<? 
 year was advanced to the priesthood'. He 
 was curate of Hifrhworth, Wiltshire, Eng- 
 huid, 1860-1872, and of Kenn, Devonshire, 
 1872-1875. He became mission priest of the 
 Anglican order of St. John the Evangelist 
 in 1875, attached to the mission house in 
 Oxford, England, until 1878, then became 
 connected with the house of the Society of 
 St. John the Evangelist in Boston, as as- 
 sistant and missioner until 1889, when he 
 was transferred to Capetown, South Africa, 
 as superior of the mission there, chaplain 
 of St. George's Home and priest-in-charge 
 of St. Phillip's Church. He returned to 
 Boston in 1898 as provincial superior of the 
 Society of St. John the Evangelist in 
 America, which office he held until conse- 
 crated, Oct. 23, 1904, as bishop-coadjutor of 
 Springfield, 111., and since the death of 
 Bishop Seymour, Dec. 8, 1906, has been 
 Bishop of the same diocese. Bishop Os- 
 borne is author of: The Children's Saviour, 
 1882; The Saviour King, 1888; The Chil- 
 dren's Faith, 1889. Address: Springfield, 
 111. 
 
 OSBORNE, Loyall Allen: 
 
 Mechanical engineer; born in Newark, 
 N. J., June 22, 1870; son of Frederick 
 Allen and Eliza J. (Rathbone) Osborne. 
 He was graduated from Cornell University, 
 with the degree of M.E. He was assistant 
 superintendent of the Westinghouse Electric 
 and ^Manufacturing Company, 1896, assist- 
 ant to the vice-president, 1897, manager of 
 works, 1900, fourth vice-president. 1902. 
 third vice-president, 1904, second vice-pres- 
 ident, 1906, his last position involving di- 
 rection of the engineering -and sales depart- 
 ments of the company. Mr. Osborne is also 
 second vice-president and director of the 
 Canadian Westinghouse Company, Limited, 
 director of the R. D. Nutall Company, East 
 Pittsburgh Savings and Trust Company, 
 and the W^estern Pennsylvania Amusement 
 Company, treasurer and director of the 
 Laurenlede Mica Company, Limited. He is 
 a member of the American Society of Elec- 
 trical Engineers, American Electro Chem- 
 ical Society, American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, American Geo- 
 
 graphical Society; director and president 
 of the Chatham School Association, member 
 of the Kappa Alplia Societj', ]>awyers' and 
 lOngineers' Machinery Clubs of New York, 
 and the Duquesne, Pittsburgh, Country, 
 Oakmont, Country, Golf, and Union Clubs 
 of Pittsburgh. Mr. Osborne married in 
 Newark, N. J., Nov. 27, 1895, Emma Louise 
 nines, and they have four children. Res- 
 idence: " Woodholm," Woodland Road, 
 Pittsburgh. Business address: P. 0. Box 
 911, Pittsburgh. 
 
 OSBORNE, Oliver Thomas: 
 
 Phj^sician ; born in New Haven. Conn.. 
 Nov. 14, 1862; son of Oliver S. and Ellen 
 L. (Sturges) Osborne. He took a classical 
 course in the New Haven High School, was 
 graduated M.D. from Yale ^Medical School 
 in 1884; was a post-graduate student in 
 medicine at the University of Leipzig, 1884- 
 1885, and received the degree of M.A. from 
 Yale University, 1899. He was assistant in 
 tlie medical clinic, 1888-1891, in Yale Med- 
 ical Scliool, where he has since been instruc- 
 tor, 1891-1892, assistant professor, 1892- 
 1895, and professor, 1895-1906, of materia 
 medica, therapeutics, and professor of clin- 
 ical medicine since 1906. He is director or 
 Elm City Sanitarium Corporation; was 
 chairman of the section on materia medica 
 and therapeutics of the American Medical 
 Association in 1904; chief of medical clinics. 
 New Haven Dispensary; chairman of the 
 Medical Board of the Gaylord Farm Tuber- 
 culosis Sanitorium ; president of the Yale 
 Medical Alumni, 1904; chief of medical 
 clinic. New Haven County Medical Associa- 
 tion in 1899; of the American Therapeutic 
 Society in 1905. He is also director of the 
 New Haven County Anti-tuberculosis Asso- 
 ciation, the National First Aid Association 
 of America. He is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Therapeutic Society, the National Asso- 
 ciation for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, 
 Academy of Arts and Sciences, Yale ^led- 
 ical Alumni Association, the Connecticut 
 Medical Society, the New Haven Medical 
 Association, the New Haven County Medi- 
 cal Association, the American Medical As- 
 sociation, a Mason, and a member of the 
 Graduates' Club of New Haven. Dr. Os- 
 
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 borne married in New Haven, April 18, 
 1888, Mary W. Tyler, and they have one 
 daughter. Address: 252 York Street, New 
 Hnven, Conn. 
 
 OSBORNE, (Samuel) Duffield: 
 
 Author; horn in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 
 20, 1858; son of Samuel Smith and Eosalie 
 Willoughby (Duffield) Osborne. He was 
 graduated from Columbia College, A.B., 
 1879. A.M., 1882; from Columbia Law 
 School, LL.B., 1881. He was admitted to 
 the New York bar and practised law in New 
 York City, 1881-1893; and was member of 
 the law firm of Adams, Valentine and Os- 
 borne. He traveled for nearly two years 
 in Italy, Sicily, and other parts of Europe; 
 was assistant secretary and' later acting sec- 
 retary of the Brooklyn Department of City 
 Works, 1893-1895; member of the Phi Beta 
 Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternities. 
 Mr. Osborne is author of: The Spell of 
 Ashtaroth, 1888; The Robe of Nessus, 1890; 
 The Secret of the Crater, 1900; The Lion's 
 Brood, 1902; The Angels of Messer Ercole, 
 1907; and also of many short stories, poems 
 and essays in magazines. He is editor of 
 Livy's Roman History, 1898; Macaulay's 
 Lays of Ancient Rome, 1901. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Authors' Salmagundi, and Na- 
 tional Arts Clubs. Address : Tower of 
 Madison Square Garden, New York City. 
 
 OSBORNE, Thomas Mott: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in Auburn, N. Y., 
 Sept. 23, 1859; son of David Munson and 
 Eliza (Wright) Osborne. He was educated 
 in the public scliools of Auburn, Adams 
 Academy, Quincy, Mass., Harvard College, 
 A.B., 1884, and received the degree of 
 L.H.D. from Hobart College in 1905. He 
 began his business career as clerk to D. M. 
 Osborne & Company, manufacturers of 
 agricultural implements, in 1894, and ui)on 
 the death of his father was made president 
 of the company. He is also president of 
 the Auburn Publisliing Company, the Buf- 
 falo Transparent Products Company; vice- 
 president of the Eagle Wagon Works and 
 tlie Columbian Rope Company, and director 
 of the Auburn Iron Company. Mr. Osborne 
 has made numerous trips abroad; went 
 
 around the world in 1877-1878, and to the 
 West Indies in 1904. He is a Democrat 
 in politics ; was a member of the Auburn 
 Board of Education, 1885-1888, and 1893- 
 1896; mayor of Auburn, 1902-1905; and 
 was appointed public service commissioner 
 by Governor Hughes in June, 1907. He was 
 a delegate to the Democratic National Con- 
 vention, 1896; candidate on the Citizens' 
 Union (independent) ticket for lieutenant- 
 governor, 1898. Mr. Osborne is a trustee of 
 the George Junior Republic, and of Wells 
 College; member of the University Club of 
 Chicago, the Tavern Club of Boston, and 
 the University, Harvard, City and Reform 
 Clubs of New York City. He married in 
 Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 27, 1886, Agnes 
 Devens, who died March 26, 1896, leaving 
 four children. Address: Auburn, N. Y. 
 
 OSBOURNE, Lloyd: 
 
 Author: born in San Francisco. Calif., 
 April 7, 1868; son of Samuel and Fanny 
 Van de Grift. He was educated in private 
 schools and at Edinburgh University, his 
 mother having, after his father's death, 
 married Robert Louis Stevenson. He was 
 being trained for a civil engineer, but a 
 defect of sight compelled him to abandon 
 that study, and he traveled with his step- 
 father from 1887 to 1894, and was appointed 
 American vice-consul-general to Samoa, 
 during his residence there with Mr. Steven- 
 son. In collaboration with Mr. Stevenson, 
 he was autlior of: The Wrong Box; The 
 Wrecker; and the Ebb Tide. Mr. Osbourne 
 is also sole author of; The Queen versus 
 Billy; Love, the Fiddler; The Motorman- 
 iacs'; Baby Bullet; Schmidt; The Tin Disk- 
 ers; The Adventurer; Infatuation and in 
 collaboration with Austin Strong, wrote the 
 dramas: The Exile, and The Little Father 
 of the Wilderness. He married, in 1896, 
 Kaiherine Durham. Address, summer: 
 Santa Barbara Country Club, Santa Bar- 
 bara, Calif.; winter: Lambs' Club. New- 
 York City. 
 
 OSGOOD, William Fogg: 
 
 Professor of mathematics; born in Bos- 
 ton, Mass., I\Iarch 10, 1864; son of William 
 and Mary Rogers (Gannett) Osgood. He 
 
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 attended the Boston Latin School, 1877-1882, 
 Harvard College, 1882-1887, receiving the 
 degree of A.B., 1886. and A.M., 1887; was 
 a student at the Universities of Guttingen, 
 1887-1889, and Erlangen, 1889-1890, receiv- 
 ing the degree of Ph.D. in 1890. He was 
 instructor in mathematics at Harvard Col- 
 lege. 1890-1893; assistant professor, 1893- 
 1903, and professor since 1903. Professor 
 Osgood is a member of the Deutsche Math- 
 ematiker Vereinigung, Circolo Matematico 
 di Palermo; ex-president and member of 
 the American ^Matliematical Society, a mem- 
 ber of the National Academy of Sciences 
 and the Delta Upsilon fraternity. Professor 
 Osgood is author of: Infinite Series, 1897; 
 Lehrbuch der Funktionentheorie, Volume I, 
 1905, 1907, and Differential and Integral 
 Calculus, 1907. He married in Gottingen, 
 Germany, July 17, 1890, Therese Ruprecht, 
 and' they have two sons and a daughter. 
 Address: 74 Avon Hill Street, Cambridge, 
 Mass. 
 
 OSTRANDER, Fannie Eliza: 
 
 Author ; born in North Haven, Conn. ; 
 daughter of John Milton and Mary Ann 
 (Ladd) Ostrander. She was graduated 
 from a State Normal School, and studied 
 under private teachers. Miss Ostrander 
 taught for four and a half years, was critic 
 editor and writer in a Chicago publishing 
 house, 1899. She is author of a series of 
 magazine articles called New Lines of 
 Thought, writer of many small single books 
 for order work, and contributor of prose and 
 verse to papers and magazines. She is also 
 author of: When Hearts are True, 1897; 
 Beautiful Bible Stories, 1899; Baby Goose; 
 His Adventures, 1900; Frolics of the A. B. 
 C. 1901; the Gift of the Magic Staff, 1902; 
 Little Pixies Abroad, Goose Family Tales, 
 1905; Little White Indians. 1907; and (the 
 sequel to Little White Indians) The Boy 
 Who Won, ( in preparation ) . Address : 506 
 Elm Street, New Haven, Conn. 
 
 OSTRANDER, Russell Cowles: 
 
 Supreme judge; born in Ypsilanti, Mich., 
 Sept. 1, 1851; son of Simon and Ellen 
 Gardner (Cowles) Ostrander. He removed 
 in boyhood to Lansing, Mich. After gradu- 
 
 ation from the high school there he entered 
 the Law School of the University of ilich- 
 igan, from which he was graduated, LL.B., 
 1876. He engaged in the practice of law 
 at Lansing, Mich., in 1877, becoming one 
 of the leaders at the Ingham County bar, 
 and also prominent politically as an active 
 Republican. He was court commissioner 
 for Ingham County three j^ears, prosecuting 
 attorney two years, and mayor of Lansing, 
 1896-1897. In Nov., 1904, he was elected 
 one of the justices of the Supreme Court 
 of ^Michigan for the term expiring Dec. 31, 
 1911. Judge Ostrander married, in 1878, 
 Dora Porter, and after her death again mar- 
 ried', in 1892, Lou S. Davis. Address: Lan- 
 sing, Mich. 
 
 OTERO, Miguel Antonio: 
 
 Ex-governor of New Mexico ; born in 
 St. Louis. Oct. 17, 1859; son of Don Miguel 
 Antonio Otero, and descendant of an old 
 Spanish family settled in New [Mexico for 
 many generations. He was educated in St. 
 Louis University and the L^niversity of 
 Notre Dame, Ind.. and in 1880 became cash- 
 ier of the San Miguel National Bank, of 
 las 'Vegas. N. Mex., serving for five years; 
 and he has always been identified with large 
 mercantile and financial enterprises there. 
 He was city treasurer of Las Vegas, 1883- 
 1884; clerk of San Miguel County, 1889- 
 1890; clerk of the District Coui-t for the 
 Fourth Judicial District of New ^Mexico, 
 1890-1893. and he was appointed by Pres- 
 ident McKinley, June 7, 1897, governor of 
 New Mexico, and served by reappointment 
 of President Roosevelt until 1906. Gover- 
 nor Otero is an ardent Republican and was 
 a member in 1892 and chairman in 1900 and 
 1904 of the New Mexico delegations in the 
 Republican National Conventions of those 
 years. He married, Dec. 19, 1888. Caroline 
 V. Emmett. daughter of L. Emmett, former 
 chief justice of Minnesota. Address: Las 
 Vegas. N. Mex. 
 
 OTIS, Edward Osgood: 
 
 Physician; born in Rye. N. H.. Oct. 29, 
 1848; son of Rev. Israel Taintor and Olive 
 (Morgan) Otis. He is a descendant from 
 John Otis, who came to America in 1635, 
 
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 and is grandson of a Revolutionary soldier. 
 He was educated in Phillips Kxeter Acad- 
 emy, was graduated from Harvard College. 
 A.B.. in 1871. and from Harvard Medical 
 School, M.D., 1877. He has been engaged 
 in practice, since graduation, in Boston. 
 His specialty is diseases of tlie lungs and 
 climatology; and he has done much work 
 in the crusade against tuberculosis. He 
 founded the Tuberculosis Department of 
 Boston Dispensary, the first of its kind in 
 the United States, and is its senior physi- 
 cian ; is professor of diseases of the lungs 
 and of climatology in Tufts College Med- 
 ical School, and visiting physician of tlie 
 Massachusetts State Sanatorium for Tu- 
 berculosis. He was formerly president of 
 the American Climatological Association, is 
 a director of the National Association for 
 tlie Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis; 
 president of the Boston Association for the 
 Relief and Control of Tuberculosis; mem- 
 ber of the Public Health Association, the 
 American Academy of Medicine, American 
 Medical Association, Boston Society of 
 Medical Improvement, Boston Medical Li- 
 brary Association; and he is a correspond- 
 ing member of the International Anti-tu- 
 berculosis Association. He has written 
 many articles, published in various medical 
 journals, upon tuberculosis and climate; 
 and wrote a series of articles upon climate 
 and health resorts for Wood's Handbook 
 of Medical Sciences, second edition. Dr. 
 Otis is a trustee of the Montgomery (Ala.) 
 Industrial School. In politics he is a Re- 
 publican, and he is a deacon in the Con- 
 gregational Church. Dr. Otis is a member 
 of the Massachusetts Society of Sons of the 
 American Revolution, and of the University 
 Club of Boston. He married in Boston, 
 June G, 1894, Marion Faxon, and they have 
 five children. Address: .'iSl Beacon Street, 
 Boston. 
 
 OTIS, Elwell Stephen: 
 
 M-i jor-gcneral, U. S. Army, retired; born 
 in Frederick City, Md., March 25, 1838; 
 son of \A'illiam Otis and Mary A. C. Otis. 
 He was graduated from the University of 
 Rochester. A.B., 1858, and from Harvard 
 Law School, LL.B., 1861. He entered the 
 
 army as a captain in the 140th New York 
 V^olunteers, Sept. 13, 1862; was promoted 
 to lieutenant-colonel in 1863 and later to 
 colonel. He was incapacitated' on account 
 of wounds, and mustered out, Jan. 24, 1865, 
 having been brevetted brigadier-general, for 
 gallantry and distinguished services. He 
 was appointed lieutenant-colonel in the Reg- 
 ular Army, March 2, 1869; promoted colo- 
 nel of the Twentieth Infantry, Feb. 8, 1880; 
 brigadier-general, Nov. 28, 1893 ; major- 
 general of U. S. Volunteers, May 4, 1898; 
 major-general, U. S. Army, June 16, 1900. 
 He was assigned to duty in San Francisco, 
 May 19, 1898, mobilizing and shipping 
 troops to the Philippines; departed for the 
 Philippines, July 15, 1898, and relieved 
 Major-General Merritt as. commanding gen- 
 eral of the United States Philippine forces 
 and governor of the islands, Aug. 29, 1898. 
 Major-General Otis conducted operations 
 against the insurgents and performed duties 
 of military governor until May 5, 1900. 
 He was a member of the U. S. Philippine 
 Commission in 1899. Subsequently he was 
 assigned to conunand of the Department of 
 Lakes and to temporary command of the 
 Department of Dakota, a position he occu- 
 pied until March 25, 1902, when he was 
 honorably retired at the age limit. Address: 
 Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 OTIS, Harrison Gray: 
 
 Brigadier general. United States Volun- 
 teers, and editor of the Las Angeles Times; 
 born in Washington County, Ohio, Febru- 
 ary 10, 1837; son of Stephen Otis and Sarah 
 (Dyar) Otis. He enlisted as private in the 
 Twelfth Ohio Volunteers, June 25, 1861; was 
 promoted iirst sergeant, March 1, 1862, sec- 
 ond lieutenant, Nov. 12, 1862. first lieuten- 
 ant. May 30, 1863, captain July 1, 1864, on 
 which date he Avas transferred to the Twen- 
 ty-third Ohio Veteran Volimteers (of which 
 Rutlierford B. Hayes was colonel and Wil- 
 liam McKinlcy a major). In the winter of 
 1864-1865 he was assigned, as the senior 
 captain i)resent for duty, to the command of 
 his regiment at Cumberland. Maryland, and 
 led it up the Shenandoah Valley to Har- 
 risonl)urg, where he was provost marshal 
 up to the close of the war, when he was 
 
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 brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel for 
 gallant and meritorious services and hon- 
 orably discharged Aug. 1, 1865. He became 
 owner of a small newspaper and printing 
 plant at Marietta, Ohio, in 18(15; was fore- 
 man of the Government Printing Office at 
 Washington, 1869-1870; chief of a division 
 in the ^United States Patent Office, 1871- 
 1876; editor and publisher of the Santa 
 Barbara Press, March, 1876; principal 
 United States Treasury agent in charge of 
 the Seal Islands of Alaska from 1879-1881. 
 He became a fourth owner in the Los An- 
 geles Times, Aug. 1, 1882. and in Oct., 
 1884, joined in the organization of the 
 Times-Mirror Company for its publication, 
 and has been its president and general man- 
 ager since 1886. He is also president and 
 director in land companies and other enter- 
 prises. In 1898 he served in the Spanish- 
 American War, and in 1899 in the Filipino 
 Insurrection, as brigadier-general of Vol- 
 unteers, having been appointed by President 
 McKinley, May 27, 1898, and assigned, first, 
 to the Independent Division, Philippine 
 Islands Expeditionary Forces, at Camp Mer- 
 ritt, Calif., then to the command of the 
 second section of the fourth sea expedition 
 to the Philippines, and subsequently to the 
 Eighth Corps at Manila, where he com- 
 manded the First Brigade of the First Di- 
 vision, and then the First Brigade of the 
 Second Division, holding the left of the 
 American line on the northern front of 
 Manila. He was present, in command of 
 his brigade, at the Filipino outbreak on the 
 night of Feb. 4, 1899, and' participated with 
 his command, constantly on the advance 
 line, in all its subsequent actions, up to 
 and including the capture of Malolos, March 
 31, 1899. On April 2, 1899, Brigadier-Gen- 
 eneral Otis was relieved of his command 
 at his own request, and returned to the 
 United States, where he was honorably dis- 
 charged from the military service, July 2, 
 1899; and he was brevetted major-general 
 for meritorious conduct in action at Caloo- 
 can, March 25, 1899. General Otis is an 
 Independent Republican in politics. He was 
 official reporter of the Ohio House of Rep- 
 resentatives in the session of 1866-67; was 
 a delegate from Kentucky to the National 
 
 Republican Convention at Chicago, which 
 nominated .Ahraliam Lincoln for President 
 in 1860; and delegate to the Soldiers' and 
 Saihjrs' Convention at Chicago, 1868, wliich 
 first nominated General U. S. Grant for 
 the Presidency. He is president of the 
 Board of Trustees of the projected Women's 
 Ojllege of the Pacific, president of the 
 Board of Trustees of the King's Daugh- 
 ters Day Nurserj'; member of the Ameri- 
 can Academy of Sciences, Associated Press 
 and American Newspaper Publi.shers' As- 
 sociation; also a member of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic, Military Order of 
 the Loyal Legion, Society of the Army of 
 the Potomac, Military Order of Foreign 
 Wars, United Spanish War Veterans, Na- 
 tional Society of the Army of the Philip- 
 pines, Veteran Army of the Philippines, 
 Manila, Landmarks Society for the Pres- 
 ervation of Old Missions, Sequoia League, 
 Citizens' Alliance of Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia Club and Jonathan Club. He mar- 
 ried at Lowell, Ohio, September 11, 1859, 
 Eliza A. Wetherby, who died November 
 1904; and who was associated with her 
 husband in journalism for more than a 
 quarter of a century. Residence: the Biv- 
 ouac, Westlake, Los Angeles: Office ad- 
 dress: The Times Building, Los Angeles, 
 Calif. 
 
 OTJEN, Theobold: 
 
 Ex-congressman, lawyer; born in West 
 China, St. Clair County, Mich., Oct. 27, 
 1851. He was educated in the Marine City 
 (Mich.) Academy and in a private school 
 in Detroit. He was employed as foreman 
 in the rolling mill of the IMilwaukee Iron 
 Company at Milwaukee, 1870-1872; entered 
 the law department of the University of 
 Michigan, was graduated LL.B., 1875, and 
 was immediately admitted to the bar at Ann 
 Arbor. He practised law in Detroit until 
 the fall of 1883. when he moved to Milwau- 
 kee, where he has since resided, and is en- 
 gaged in the practice of law and in the real 
 estate business. He was elected a member 
 of the Common Council of the City of Mil- 
 waukee in April, 1887, and was reelected 
 for three successive terms, serving seven 
 years in all; was a trustee of the Milwaukee 
 
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 Public Library, 1887-1891, and a trustee of 
 the Milwaukee Public Museum, 1891 to 
 1894. He was nominated as the Republican 
 candidate for Congress in 1892 and ran 
 against Hon. John L. Mitchell, formerly 
 Senator, but was defeated; was again the 
 l\ei)ublican candidate in 1893 for the seat 
 in Congress made vacant by the election of 
 Mr. Mitchell to the Senate, but was again 
 defeated; was elected to the Fifty-fourth, 
 Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth. Fifty-seventh, and 
 Fifty-eighth Congresses, and reelected to the 
 Fifty-ninth Congress, from the Fourth Dis- 
 trict of Wisconsin, serving until March 'A, 
 1907. Address: :\lilwaukee. Wis. 
 
 OTT, Isaac: 
 
 I'hysician; born in Northampton County, 
 Pa., Nov. 30, 1847; son of Jacob and Sarah 
 A. (La Barre) Ott. He attended Lafayette 
 College, receiving the honorary degree of 
 A.M. and graduated M.D., from the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, 1869. He is profes- 
 sor of physiology at the Medico-Chirurgical 
 College of Philadelphia, and also consulting 
 neurologist to the Norristown Asylum. Dr. 
 Ott is author of: Text-Book of Physiology, 
 3d edition, also contributor to Physiology 
 and Pathology of Nervous System, eighteen 
 parts, containing over a thousand pages oc- 
 tavo. He is a member of the American 
 Physiological Society. American Neurologi- 
 cal Society, Society for Experimental Biol- 
 ogy, and Medicine; ex-fellow in biology, 
 Johns Hopkins University. He is a Mason, 
 and a member of the Philadelpliia Medical 
 Club. Dr. Ott married in Belvidere, N. J., 
 188G, Katherine Kennedy WyckofT. Resi- 
 dence: 18 North Fourth Street, East on, Pa. 
 Business address: Medico-Chirurgical Col- 
 lege, Philadelphia. 
 
 OVERMAN, Lee Slater: 
 
 U. S. Senator and lawyer; born in Salis- 
 bury, N. C, Jan. 3, 1854; son of William 
 and Mary E. Overman. He was graduated 
 from Trinity College, N. C, A.B., 1874, 
 A.M., 1876; taught school, 1875-1876; was 
 private secretary to Governor Vance, 1877- 
 1878, and to Governor Jarvis, in 1879, and 
 in 1878 was admitted to the bar. He was 
 a member of the North Carolina Legislature 
 
 in the biennial session from 1883 until 1893 
 and again in 1900; and was speaker of that 
 body in 1893. In 1895 he was candidate 
 for United States Senator; was president of 
 the Democratic State Convention in 1900; 
 l)residential elector in 1900, and was elected 
 U. S. Senator in 1903, and again in 1909, 
 for a second term, which will expire ilarch 
 3, 1915. In 1894 he was president of the 
 North Carolina Railroad, and he is now 
 ])resident of the Salisbury Savings Bank. 
 Senator Overman married, Oct. 31, 1878, 
 Marj' ^lerrimon. Address : Salisbury, N. C. 
 
 OVERSTREET, Jesse: 
 
 Congressman ; born in Johnson County, 
 Ind., Dec. 14, 1859. He received a common 
 school and collegiate education, and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1886; served as 
 secretary of the National Republican Con- 
 gressional Committee through the campaigns 
 of 1898, 1900, 1902 and 1904, 1906 and 
 1908, and has taken an active part in the 
 management of these campaigns; was 
 elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty- 
 sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty- 
 ninth Congresses and Sixtieth Congress 
 from the Seventh Indiana District. He was 
 chairman of the House Committee on Post 
 offices and Post Roads and made valuable 
 investigations into the details of Post Office 
 management. He was defeated for reelec- 
 tion in 1908. Address: Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 OVERTON, Gwendolen: 
 
 Writer; born in Fort Hays, Kansas, 1874; 
 daughter of Gilbert Edmond and Jane 
 Dyson (Watkins) Overton. She is author 
 of: Heritage of Lairest ; Captains of Tlie 
 World; Anne Carmel; Golden Chain; Cap- 
 tain's Daughter, and numerous magazine 
 and newspaper articles. Address: 2827 
 Harvard Boulevard, Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 OWEN, Charles Lorin: 
 
 Anthrojiologist; born in Union Station, 
 Ohio, Se])t. 3, 1861; son of Thomas W. 
 Owen and Elizabeth (Bishop) Owen. He 
 was graduated from Denison University, 
 Granville, Ohio, as A.B., 1885, graduate 
 student of Peabody Museum, Harvard Col- 
 
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 lege, 1893. He was civil engineer, 1885- 
 1893; assistant curator, Division of Arch- 
 ajologj', Field Museum of Natural Histoiy, 
 since 1901. He was in charge of the Fourth 
 and Fifth Stanley McCorniick ArchiEological 
 Expeditions to the Southwest in 1900 and 
 1901, also various expeditions of Museum 
 to the Southwest. Mr. Owen is a member of 
 the American Folklore Society ; fellow of 
 the American Ethnological Society, Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science, charter member of the Anthropo- 
 logical Association, member Wisconsin Nat- 
 ural History Society and Wisconsin Archae- 
 ological Society; member of Local Advisory 
 Committee of the American Health League, 
 of Committee of One Hundred on National 
 Health, also a member of the Sigma Chi fra- 
 ternity. He married in W^ashington, Iowa, 
 Jan. 6, 1892, Sara McJunkin, and has two 
 sons and two daughters. Residence: 5823 
 Madison Avenue. Business address : Field 
 Museum Natural History, Chicago. 
 
 OWEN, Mary Alicia: 
 
 Author; born in St. Joseph, Mo.; daugh- 
 ter of James Alfred and Agnes Jeanette 
 (Cargill) Owen. She was educated in pri- 
 vate schools by tutors, and in Vassar Col- 
 lege. Miss Owen has taken a deep interest 
 in historical and anthropological research, 
 and particularly in folk-lore, and is author 
 of the books: Voodoo Tales; The Daughter 
 of Alouette; Folk-lore of the Musquakie In- 
 dians; An Ozark Gypsy; The Sacred Coun- 
 cil Hills; papers for International Folk-lore 
 Congresses, the Congress of Religions, En- 
 cyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics; also 
 poems, tales, letters of travel, biographical 
 and historical sketches, etc. She is presi- 
 dent of the Missouri Folk-Lore Society; 
 councillor and life member of the American 
 Folk-Lore Society; honorary member of the 
 English Folk-Lore Society; member of the 
 Gypsy-Lore Society (Edinburgh) ; honorary 
 member of the INIissouri Historical Society 
 (St. Louis), and of the Missouri State His- 
 torical Society (Columbia) ; member of the 
 British Association for the Advancement of 
 Science, American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science. Miss Owen is first 
 vice-president of the Board of Sheltering 
 
 Arms, an institution for the care of desti- 
 tute and mistreated little children; and a 
 life member of the Humane Society. She is 
 honorary member of the St. Louis Chapter 
 of Daughters of the American Revolution; 
 member of the American Civic Alliance; 
 honorary member of the Wednesday Club 
 of St. Louis and the Shakespeare Club of 
 Clinton, Mo. Address: 30G North 9th 
 Street, St. Joseph, Mo. 
 
 OXNARD, Benjamin A.: 
 
 Beet sugar refiner; born in New Orleans, 
 December 10, 1855. He was graduated from 
 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 
 1875, and after that devoted himself to the 
 sugar refining industry in Brooklyn, New 
 York, and latter in New Orleans, where he 
 is president of the Adeline Sugar Factory 
 Company; and he is also interested in other 
 factories both for cane and beet sugar pro- 
 duction, and has been actively identified 
 with the promotion of the beet sugar in- 
 dustry. Address: 1730 Palmer Avenue, 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 OXNARD, Henry Thomas: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in Marseilles, France, 
 June 22, 1860; son of Thomas Oxnard and 
 Louise Adeline (Brown) Oxnard. After 
 graduation from the Latin School of Rox- 
 bury, Mass., he entered Harvard College, 
 from which he was graduated as A.B. in 
 1882. Mr. Oxnard has devoted his energies 
 to the promotion of the beet sugar industry, 
 in which he is largely interested and is 
 vice-president and director of the American 
 Beet Sugar Company, and also a director 
 of the Oxnard Construction Company. He 
 is president of the American Beet Sugar 
 Association, a protective organization, the 
 membership of which represents all the beet 
 sugar factories in the L^nited States. He is 
 a member of the Union and University Clubs 
 of New York. Residences: Oxnard, Calif., 
 and Union Club, San Francisco. Office : 32 
 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 OZMUN, Edward Henry: 
 
 Consul-general ; born at Rochester, Minn., 
 Aug. 6, 1856; son of Abraham and Maria 
 (Schenck) Ozmun. He was educated in the 
 
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 Universities of Wisconsin and Michigan, 
 ffvaihiating from the latter in 1881, and 
 afterward studied law. and was admitted to 
 the Minnesota bar. He practised law at St. 
 Paul, Alinn., and for five years was counsel 
 to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. 
 He was president of the St. Paul Bar Asso- 
 ciation for seven years, secretary of the 
 Minnesota Bar Association for four years, 
 and for seven years was a member of the 
 State Board of Examiners in Law. He was 
 also active in the political affairs of his 
 State as a Republican, and was for four 
 years a member of the ilinnosota State Sen- 
 ate, and while in that position took an im- 
 portant place in legislation, and was author 
 of tile Corrupt Practices Act passed by the 
 Legislature of Minnesota in 1895. He was 
 appointed by President McKinley in 1897, 
 American consul at Stiittgart, C4ermany, 
 remaining there until promoted in May, 
 1906, to consul-general and transferred to 
 Constantinople, Turkey, where lie is now 
 serving. ]Mr. Ozmun is a member of the 
 Congress of Americanists, the Wiirtemberg 
 Geographic Society and the Stuttgart Art 
 Society, and he is also a member of the 
 Society of the Sons of the American Rev- 
 olution. Mr. Ozmun has traveled extens- 
 ively in the interiors of Egypt and Turkey, 
 making in Asia Minor many long journeys 
 in w'agons and on horseback where few 
 Europeans have ever been. Mr. Ozmun was 
 appointed by Secretary of State Elihu Root 
 a member of the Consular Reorganization 
 Board, which consisted of five of the older 
 Consuls General in tiie service and who were 
 called to Washington in June, 1906, to as- 
 sist the Department of State in reorganiz- 
 ing the Consular Service pursuant to the 
 act of Congress that year, classifying that 
 service and placing it on a permanent basis. 
 In the winter of 1908-9 Mr. Ozmun delivered 
 addresses before the commercial bodies of 
 tlie chief cities of the U. S. on the subject 
 of Foreign Trade, and at the larger univer- 
 sities of America upon the Diplomatic and 
 Consular Services of the United States. He 
 is a member of the Club de Constantinople. 
 Jle married at Weedsport, New York, Nov. 
 21, 1894, Clara B. Goodman, and they have 
 two children. Address: American Con- 
 sulate General, Constantinople, Turkey. 
 
 PADDOCK, Robert Lewis: 
 
 Bishop of Eastern Oregon ; born in Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., Dec. 24, 1869; son of Bishop 
 John Adams and Frances Chester (Fan- 
 ning) Paddock. He was educated in the 
 Brooklyn Polytechnic School, St. Paul's 
 School, Concord. N. H.. Trinity College, 
 Hartford, Conn. B. A., 1894; M.' A., 1897; 
 Barkely Divinity School, Middletown, Con- 
 necticut 1897 and took Holy Orders. He 
 was geneial travelling secretary of the • 
 Church Students' Missionary Association ; 
 was in charge of St. Paul's Church, South- 
 ington. Conn., St. Paul's Church, Cleveland, 
 Oliio. 1897-1898; vicar of the Pro-Cathe- 
 dral and canon of Cathedral of Saint John 
 the Divine, 1898-1902; rector of the Church 
 of the Holy Apostles, New York City, 1902- 
 1908. He was elected by the General Con- 
 vention of the Episcopal Church, Oct., 1907, 
 and in Jan., 1908 was consecrated in the 
 Church of tlie Holy Apostles, New York 
 City, as Bisliop of Eastern Oregon. While 
 rector of the Church of the Holy Apostle-s, 
 he was interested in the reform movement 
 which resulted in driving out Van Wyck, 
 Devery and Tammany and bringing in Seth 
 Low and Jerome. He helped organize the 
 Adelphi Club of Y'oung ministers (Inter- 
 tlenominational) ; also Chelsea Improve- 
 ment Committee; was president of the 
 Lower West Side Association of Pastors 
 aiul Other W^orkers, and in connection with 
 lii^^ church had a church settlement with 
 sevcm or eight resident \vork;'is. Address: 
 Baker City, Oic. 
 
 PADGETT, Lemuel Phillips: 
 
 Coniiressinaii and lawyer; horn in Colum- 
 bia, 'l\Min.. Nov. 28. IS.")."). He was adiieated 
 in i)rival(' seliools and at l>:rskine College, 
 Due West, S. C, being graduateil A.B., 1870. 
 He studied law in a law office, and was 
 licensed lo practise in ]\Tarcli. 1877. but did 
 not begin active practice until Jan.. 1879, 
 and has since continned therein at Colum- 
 bia. Mr. Podgett was one of the Democratic 
 Presidential electors in 1884; in 1898 was 
 elected to the State Senate and served dur- 
 
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 ing the term; was elected to the Fifty- 
 seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth and 
 Sixtieth Congresses and reelected to the 
 Sixty-first Congress from tlie Seventh Ten- 
 nessee District. He married, Nov. 11, 1880, 
 Miss Ida B. Latta of Columbia. Address : 
 Columbia, Tenn. 
 
 PAGE, Carroll Smalley: 
 
 U. S. Senator, ex-governor, banker and 
 merchant ; born in Westifield, Vt., Jan. 10, 
 1843; son of Russell Smith and Mary Mel- 
 >ina (Smalley) Page. He was educated in 
 Lamoille County Grammar School, Johnson, 
 Vt., People's Academy, ]\lorrisville, Vt., and 
 Lamoille Central Academy, Hyde Park, Vt; 
 and the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon 
 him by Norwich University, Northfield, Vt. 
 He is said to be the largest dealer in green 
 calfskins in this country, having been in 
 that business since 1855; is president of the 
 Lamoille County National Bank, Hyde 
 Park, and of the Lamoille County Savings 
 Bank and Trust Company, and is trustee 
 of the Lamoille Central Academy, Briglima 
 Academy and of the Vermont Sanitorium 
 (tubercular). He was a member of the 
 Vermont House of Representatives, 1869- 
 1872; the Vermont State Senate, 1874-1876; 
 was savings bank examiner for the State of 
 Vermont, 1884-1888; governor of Vermont, 
 1890-1892. He was elected to the U. S. 
 Senate, Oct. 21, 1908, to fill a vacancy 
 caused by the death of Hon. Redfield Proc- 
 tor, and his term of service will expire 
 March 3, 1911. Senator Page is a director 
 of the St. Johnsburg and Lake Champlain 
 Railroad Company; treasurer of the La- 
 moille Publishing Company; of the Morse 
 Manufacturing Company, the Hyde Park 
 Lumber Company. In politics he is identi- 
 fied with the Rei)ublican party. Governor 
 Page married at ]MoirisvilIe, Vt., April 11, 
 1865, ELen Frances Patch, and they have 
 three children. Address: Hyde Park, Vt. 
 
 PAGE, Edward Day: 
 
 Merchant; born in Haverhill, Mass., May 
 10, 1856; son of Henry A. and Maria 
 (Clarke) Page. He was graduated from 
 Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Univer- 
 sity, Ph.B., 1875. In 1884 he became a 
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 partner of the firm of Faulkner, Page and 
 Company, which was established in 1834; 
 and since 1900 has been senior partner. He 
 has been councilman of the Borough of Oak- 
 land, Bergen County, N. J., since 1902; is 
 president of tlie South Orange and Maple- 
 wood Traction Company; treasurer of the 
 .Monti'ose Realty and Improvement Com- 
 pany; and director of the \Vhittenton Man- 
 ufacturing Com])any. lie is a fellow of the 
 Royal Statistical Society of Great Britain; 
 member Soci6t6 de ficonomie Sociale of 
 Paris; the Chamber of Commerce, the New 
 York Historical Society, the American 
 Statistical Association, the American Eco- 
 nomic Association, the British Econom- 
 ic Association, the American Social Science 
 Association, the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science; presi- 
 dent of the Merchants' Protective Associa- 
 tion; director of the Merchants' Club, 
 and member of the Phi Gamma 
 Delta fraternity; director of the Crafts- 
 mens Society, the Municipal Art Society, 
 and of the People's Institute. In 1908 he 
 was appointed by Governor Hughes to be a 
 member of the committee to investigate the 
 methods of Investment and Speculation in 
 Commodities and Securities now (1909) in 
 session. He is a member of the Century As- 
 sociation and of the Mercliants', National 
 Arts, Tuxedo and North Woods Clubs. Mr. 
 Page married in South Orange, N. J., in 
 1883, Cornelia Lee; they have three chil- 
 dren. Address: 58 Worth Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 PAGE, Marie Danforth: 
 
 Portrait painter; born in Boston: daugh- 
 ter of John Nourse Danforth and Hannah 
 Maria (Rhodes) Danforth. She was edu- 
 cated in Gannett Institute, and the School 
 of Drawing and Painting of the Museum of 
 Fine Arts, Boston. She married in Boston, 
 June 10, 1896, Calvin Gates Page, M.D. 
 Mrs. Page is a member of the Copley So- 
 ciety of Boston. Address: 128 Marlbor- 
 ough Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 PAGE, Robert Newton: 
 
 Congressman; born in Cary, Wak« 
 County, N. C., Oct. 26, 1859; son of Allison 
 
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 Francis and Kate (Raboteau) Page. He 
 wa.s educated at Can' High School and 
 HiiiL;liain Military School; moved tx5 Moore 
 County in 1880. Mr. Page ha.s been for 
 more tlian twenty years actively engaged in 
 the lumber business and has been treasurer 
 of the Aberdeen and Asheboro Railroad 
 Carolina District. He married in Manly, 
 Company since 1890. He removed to Mont- 
 gomery County in 1897, and was elected 
 from that county to the Legislature of 1901. 
 He was elected to the Fifty-eighth and 
 Fifty-ninth Congresses and reelected to the 
 Si.xtieth Congress from the Seventh North 
 N. C, June 20, 1888, Flora Shaw, and they 
 have four children. Address: Bismarck, 
 N. C. 
 
 PAGE, S. Davis: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Sept. 22, 
 1840; son of William B. Page, an eminent 
 physician. In 1859 he was graduated from 
 Yale College; then read law in the office of 
 Peter MeCall, and at the Harvard Law 
 School and was admitted to the bar in 
 1864. Since that time he has been actively 
 engaged in the practice of law. Twenty 
 years after his admission he formed the 
 law firm of Page and Allinson, to which 
 Boies Penro.ie, now United States Senator, 
 was afterward admitted. The firm of Page, 
 Allinson and Penrose was dissolved on death 
 of ]Mr. Allinson in 1901, and is succeeded 
 by Page and Page, in which Howard W. 
 Page only is asso«ii)J:ed with his father. In 
 188.'} Mr. Page was made city controller, 
 serving nearly one year, in which he very 
 ably managed the city's affairs. He was 
 appointed assistant treasurer of the United 
 States at Philadelphia in 188(5, and adminis- 
 tered the office with very gneral satisfaction 
 till 1890. He also served in the Philadel- 
 phia Common Council from 1877 to 1881 
 and in 1882 and 188:{. wlieii lie resigned, 
 a tier (lie most active and valuable service 
 I)oth on important comMiittee.s and on the 
 floor of councils. In 1S7!) he was the Demo- 
 cratic candidate for city treasurer, and 
 again in 1882, and for city controller in 
 188."}. In 1891 he wa.s one of the commis- 
 sion api)ointed l)y tbe governor to investi- 
 gate the accounts of .loliii Bardslcy, derelict 
 
 city treasurer, with the Keystone National 
 Bank. In 1893, under commission by the 
 governor he delivered an address on Penn- 
 sylvania before the Bankers' Convention at 
 Columbian Exposition. Mr. Page is a di- 
 rector of the Quaker City National Bank, 
 and was its president iii 1890 and 1891. 
 He lias been a director of the Merchants' 
 Trust Company since its incorporation. He 
 is a member of tlie Historical Societies of 
 Pennsylvania and Virginia, of the Sons of 
 the Revolution, of the Colonial Wars 
 and Colonial Society, of the American 
 Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Associa- 
 tion, Law Association of Philadelphia, of 
 the Rittenhouse, University, City and Demo- 
 cratic Clubs, of Historical Societies of Penn- 
 sylvania. Married Isabel Graham, young- 
 est daughter of the late Win. Worth, of 
 Philadelphia, Sept. 25, 18G1, who died 
 March 23, 18G7, leaving three children: 
 Howard, Wurts, Wm. Byrd and Ethel Nel- 
 son Page, all sinc^ married. Address: 281 
 Fourth Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 PAGE, Thomas Nelson: 
 
 Author; born at Oakland Plantation, Va., 
 April 23, 1853; second son of Major John 
 Page (late Confederate States Army) and 
 Elizabeth Burwell Nelson. He was edu- 
 cated in 'Washington and Lee University 
 and the University of Virginia, and has the 
 degrees of B.L., D.L., and LL.D. He prac 
 ti-^ed law in Richmond, Va., 1875-1893; de- 
 livered lectures on subjects connected with 
 the history of the Soutihern States, and 
 wrote and published stories and essays. He 
 is author of: In Old Virginia, or Marse 
 Chan and Other Stories, 1887; Two Little 
 Conftvderates, 1888; On Newfound River, 
 1891; Among the Camps, 1891; The Old 
 South, Essays, Social and Historical, 1891 ; 
 KIsket, and* Other Stories, 1892; Befo' de 
 War, Poems in Negro Dialect, (with A. C. 
 Cordon). 1888; Pastime Stories, 1894; The 
 Burial of the (Juns. 1894; The Old Gentle- 
 man of the Black Stock, 189(i; Red Rock, 
 IHi)8; Santa Clans' Partner, 1899; Social 
 i^ife in Virginia Before the War, 1901; A 
 Captured Santa Claus, 1902; Gordon Keith, 
 1903: Bred in the Bone and Other Stories, 
 190 J; The \egro, the Southerner's Problem, 
 
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 1904; Bred in the Bone, lOO."); The Coast 
 of Bohemia (poems), liXHi; Under the 
 Crust 1907. ]Mr. Page is a member of the 
 Metropolitan, Cosmos and Chevy Chase 
 Clubs of \Vasiiington, D. C. ; Westmoreland 
 Club, Ilichniond, Va.; the Southern Society; 
 University, Century and Authors Clubs, 
 New York; and the Tavern Club, Boston, 
 Mass. Address: 1759 R Street, Washing- 
 ton, J). C. 
 
 PAGE, Walter H.: 
 
 Editor and publisher; born in Cary, N. 
 C, Aug. 15, 1855; son of A. F. Page. He 
 was graduated from Randoljih Maeon Col- 
 lege, and was a fellow of Johns Hopkins 
 University. He was editor of the Forum, 
 (New York), 1890-1895; of the Atlantic 
 Monthly, (Boston), 1896-1899 and of the 
 World's Work, since 1900, and he is author 
 of: The Rebuilding of Old Commonwealths. 
 He is a member of the firm of Doubleday, 
 Page and Company, publishers. Mr. Page 
 is a member of the University, and National 
 Arts Clubs. He married Alice Wilson, of 
 ^Michigan, and they have three sons and one 
 daughter. Address: 133 East Sixteenth 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 PAINE, Arthur Richards: 
 
 Physician; born in Holden, Mass., 1846; 
 son of Rev. William Pomeroy and Sarah 
 (Mack) Paine. He w^as educated in the 
 Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Williston 
 Seminaiy, East Hampton, Mass., Amherst 
 College, " A.B., 1871, A.M., 1874; and the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Co- 
 lumbia University, M.D., 1875. He was 
 house physician and surgeon of the Brook- 
 lyn Hospital, 1874-1875; attending surgeon 
 to the Brooklyn Orthopaedic Infirmary; at- 
 tending physician to the Helping Hand Dis- 
 pensaiy; also to the Atlantic Avenue Dis- 
 pensarv\1874-1880, and the Brooklyn Hos- 
 pital since 1879, and is now president of the 
 professional staflF. He is a member of the 
 council and consulting physician of the 
 Long Island College Hospital. Dr. Paine is 
 a member of the Kings County Medical So- 
 ciety, the New York State Medical Associa- 
 tion, the American Medical Academy, Phy- 
 sicians' Mutual Aid Association, the Brook- 
 
 lyn Pathol. igical Society; (nistco of the 
 Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, 
 Brooklyn; and a member of the Brooklyn 
 University Club, of which he is founder, 
 charter member and a member of the coun- 
 cil since its foundation. He married in 
 Brooklyn, Sept. 17, 1883, Carrie P. Ash- 
 mead, and they have one son. Address: 
 379 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 PAINE, Nathaniel: 
 
 Banker; born in Worcester, Mass., Aug. 6, 
 1832; son of Gardiner and Emily (Baker) 
 Paine, and a descendant of Stephen Paine 
 of Norfolk, England, who emigrated in 1638 
 to Hingham, jNIass., removing to Seekonk in 
 1643. He was brought up on his father's 
 farm; was an errand boy and clerk in the 
 ■Mechanics' Bank of Worcester; assistant 
 cashier in the City National Bank of Wor- 
 cester, 1854-1857, cashier, 1857 1898; presi- 
 dent, 1898-1906; and was vice-president of 
 the Worcester Trusti Company from the 
 merging of the bank with that company in 
 1903. He was treasurer of the Worcester 
 County Horticultural Society sixteen years ; 
 of the American Antiquarian Society forty- 
 four years, and of the American Historical 
 Association; member of council of the Mas- 
 sachusetts Historical Society; member of 
 the New England Historic-Genealogical So- 
 ciety, Worcester Society of Antiquity and 
 National Geographic Society. Mr. Paine is 
 vice president of the Worcester Five-Cent 
 Savings Bank; one of the founders of the 
 Worcester Art Society, and director of the 
 Art Museum Corporation and Free Public 
 Library eighteen years. His honorary mem- 
 bership with learned societies extends over 
 the world, and he is the author of valuable 
 historical and genealogical contributions to 
 current literature and to society proceed- 
 ings. He married, June 14, 1865, Susan M. 
 Barnes. Address. Worcester. Mass. 
 
 PAINE, Robert Treat, Jr.: 
 
 Real estate trustee; born in Waltham, 
 Mass., Aug. 9, 1866; son of Robert Treat 
 and Lydia Williams (Lyman) Paine. He 
 was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1888. 
 Mr. Paine is trustee of the Boston Suburban 
 Development Companies One and Two, of 
 
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 the Church Avenue Real Estate Association, 
 the Pelhara Associates, the People's Insti- 
 tute, the New York Suburbs Company; the 
 Wells Memorial Institute, the Winthrop De- 
 velopment Trust, the Wood-IIarmon Asso- 
 ciates, the Wood Harmon Real Estate Asso- 
 ciation, the Wood-Harmon Real Estate 
 Trustees, and director and secretary of the 
 Brooklyn Development Company, the Great- 
 er Xew York Development Company, direc- 
 tor of the Wood-Harmon Bond Company, 
 the Workingmen's Loan Association, the 
 ^Metropolitan Associates of New York and 
 clerk and director of the Workingmen's 
 Buihling Association. He is president of 
 the Robert Could Shaw Settlement House 
 for colored people; treasurer of the Boston 
 Home and School Association; member of 
 the executive committee of the Boston So- 
 ciety for the Relief and Control of Tubercu- 
 losis, of the executive committee of St. 
 John's Episcopal Church, Beverly Farms, 
 Mass., the executive committee of the Na- 
 tional Municipal League; president of the 
 Massachusetts Public Opinion League and 
 Massachusetts Direct Legislation League. 
 He was a member of the Boston School 
 Board 1902, 1903 and 1904; Democratic 
 candidate for governor, 1899 and 1900, and 
 captain of the Fifth Company Massachu- 
 setts Provisional Infantry, 1898. He mar- 
 ried in Washington, D. C, Dec. 7, 1898, 
 Marie Louise Mattingly, and their children 
 are: Dorothy and Robert Treat, 3d. Ad- 
 dress: 85 State Street, Boston. 
 
 PAINE, Robert Treat, 2d.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New Bedford, Mass.; 
 son of William Cushing and Hannah Hatha- 
 way (Perry) Paine. He was graduated 
 from Harvard. A.B., 1882. Mr. Paine is 
 president and director of the Railway and 
 Light Securities Company; treasurer and 
 director of the Workingmen's I^an Asso- 
 ciation; vice-president and director of the 
 Brooklyn Development Company, and of the 
 (greater New York Development Company; 
 trustee of the Boston and Worcester Electric 
 Companies, of the Central Aguirre Sugar 
 Companies, of the Milton Academy, of the 
 Staten Island Associates, the SufTolk Sav- 
 ings Bank for Seamen and others^ and the 
 
 AV'ood-harmon Real Estate Trustees; direc- 
 tor of the American Gas and Electric Com- 
 pany, the Boston Children's Aid Society, the 
 Brooklyn Associates, the City Trust Com- 
 pany, the Dallas Electric Corporation, the 
 Electric Bond and Share Company, the 
 Kingsboro Realty Company, the Northern 
 Texas Electric Company, the Old Colony 
 Trust Company, the Ponce and Guyama 
 Railroad, the Rutland Railroad, the Tacoma 
 Railway, and Power Company, the Tampa 
 Electric Company, the United Electric Secu- 
 rities Company, the United Shoe Machinery 
 Company, the United States Smelting and 
 Refining IMining Company, the Winona 
 Electric Company, and director and member 
 of the Executive Committee of the General 
 Electric Company, and a member of the 
 Corporation of Simmons College. Mr. Paine 
 married in Brookline, IMay 28, 1890, Ruth 
 Cabot. Address: GO State Street, Boston. 
 
 PALMER, Anna Campbell ("Mrs. George 
 Archibald ") : 
 
 Author; born in Elmira, N. Y., Feb. 3, 
 1854; daughter of James Barbour and Sally 
 Peck (Carpenter) Campbell. She was edu- 
 cated in public and private schools in El- 
 mira and Ithaca, N. Y., and was married 
 in Elmira, N. Y., Sept. 28,' 1880, to George 
 Archibald Palmer, and has two daughters. 
 Mrs. Palmer has held editorial positions on 
 the Elmira Telegram and Elmira Adver- 
 tiser, was editor of the Young Men's Jour- 
 nal (Young Men's Christian Association 
 magazine), and of the Key-Note, a musical 
 and social magazine, and has done a large 
 amount of work for newspapers of all sorts, 
 and contributed to Judge, The Youth's Com- 
 panion, Harper's Bazar, Ladies' Home Jour- 
 nal, Delineator and other publications. She 
 uses the pen-name, "Airs. George Archibald," 
 and is author of: The Sumraerville Prize, 
 1890; A Little Brown Seed, 1891; Lady 
 Gay, 1891; Lady Gay and Her Sister, 1892; 
 A Dozen Good" Times, 1893; Three Times 
 three (in collaboration); Joel Dorman 
 Steele (biography), 1900. Mrs. Palmer is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 and has been allied to various clubs and 
 philanthropies in Elmira, Address; El- 
 mira, N. Y, 
 
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 PALMER, Frederic: 
 
 Clcryyiiiau and author; born in Uoslon, 
 Mass., Aug. 6, 1848; son of Julius Auboy- 
 neau and Lucy Manning (Peabody) Palmer. 
 He was graduated from Phillips Academy, 
 Andover, 18G5, and Harvard University as 
 A.B. in 18G9j A.M., 1872, and the Andover 
 Theological Seminary, S.T.B., 1872. He was 
 pastor of tlie Congregational Church, Re- 
 vere, Mass., 1874-1878; ordained to the 
 ministry of the Episcopal Church, becoming 
 deacon Dec. G, 1878, and priest Dec. 18, 
 1879; assistant minister of Emmanuel 
 Church, Booton, 1878-1879, in charge of 
 Christ Church, Lonsdale, R. I., 1879-1880, 
 rector of the Church of Our Saviour, Jenk- 
 intown. Pa., 1880-1888, rector of Christ 
 Church, Andover, Mass., since 1888. He is 
 a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
 president of trustees of Punchard Free 
 School, Andover, instructor in biblical 
 literature in Bradford Academy, Bradford, 
 Mass., and a member of the Clericus and 
 Twenty Clubs of Boston. He is author of: 
 Studies in Theologic Definition, 1895, The 
 Drama of the Apocalypse, 1903, and a 
 contributor to the Andover Review, The 
 New World, and the Hibbert Journal. Mr. 
 Palmer married in Brookline, Mass., May 
 22, 1877, Mary Towle, and they have a son, 
 Frederic Palmer, Jr., dean of Haverford 
 College, Pn. Address: Andover, Mass. 
 
 PALMER, George Herbert: 
 
 Professor in Harvard University; born in 
 Boston, March 19, 1842; son of Julius 
 Auborneau and Lucy (Peabody) Palmer. 
 He was graduated from Harvard University 
 A.B., 18G4; was a student at the University 
 of Tubingen, 18G7-1869; graduated from 
 Andover Theological Seminary, 1870; and 
 has received the degree of LL.D. from the 
 University of Michigan, 1894, Union Uni- 
 versity, 1895, and Harvard University, 1905, 
 and that of Litt.D. from Western Reserve 
 University, 1898. He was a tutor in Greek 
 at Harvard, 1870-1873, assistant professor 
 of philosophj^, 1873-1883, professor of phil- 
 osophy, 1883-1889, and since 1889 Alford 
 professor of natural religion, moral phil- 
 osophy and civil polity. He made a trans- 
 lation of the Odyssey into English rhythmic 
 
 jnose, ])iil)li>hcd in 1891, and of the Anti- 
 gone of Soplincles, 1899. Professor Palmer 
 is author of: The New Education, 1887; 
 The Glory of tlio Imperfect, 1898; The Field 
 of Ethics, 1901; The Nature of Goodness, 
 1904; wrote and edited The Life and Works 
 of George Herbert (three volumes), 1905; 
 The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer, 1908; 
 The Teacher, 1908. He married, first, in 
 1871, Ellen Margaret Wellman, of Brook- 
 line, Mass., who died in 1879; and second, 
 in 1887, Alice Freeman, president of Welles- 
 ley College, who died in 1902. Address: 
 Cambridge, ]\Iass. 
 
 PALMER, Henry E.: 
 
 General underwriter; born in Lake 
 County, Ohio, July 31, 1841; son of Levi 
 S. and Elizabeth (Cowles) Palmer. He 
 was educated in a country school in Wis- 
 consin, 1853-1860. On March 7, 1860, he 
 left home and walked 1250 miles to Central 
 City, Colo., from Baraboo, Wis. He en- 
 listed as a private in the Union Army, July 
 31, 1861; was commissioned second lieuten- 
 ant Aug. 24, 1862; first lieutenant Dec. 31, 
 1862; captain Feb. 24, 1863; and was hon- 
 orably mustered out Nov. 2, 1865. He was 
 State agent and adjuster for Kansas, Ne- 
 braska, Colorado and the Territories for 
 the Home Insurance Company of New York 
 (fire), 1872-1889, since then in general in- 
 surance business in Omaha. He was de- 
 partment commander of the Nebra.ska Grand 
 Army of the Republic, 1884; grand high 
 priest of Masons, 1884-1885; fire and police 
 commissioner of Omaha, two years; park 
 commissioner of Omaha, five years; post- 
 master of Omaha, 1904-1908. He is presi- 
 dent of the Omaha Board of Trade Building 
 Company, and secretaiy of The Sheridan 
 Land Company of Sheridan, Wj^o. He is a 
 Republican and was chairman of the Execu- 
 tive Committee of the State Republican 
 Central Committee during the McKinley 
 Campaign in Nebraska; is a member of the 
 Board of Managers of the National Home 
 for Disabled Veteran Soldiers, for the term 
 1902-1910. He is a Mason, Knight Templar 
 and Shriner, Elk, Knight of Pythias, com- 
 mander of the Nebraska Commandery of the 
 Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and of 
 
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 tlie Unialia ami ('oininercial Clubs of Oma- 
 ha. He married in Plattsmouth, Neb., June 
 25, 1870, Laura Z. Case, and has one daugh- 
 ter. Kesidence: 1(J08 South 32d Avenue. 
 Ortlee : Brander's Block, Omaha, Neb. 
 
 PALMER, Henry Wilbur: 
 
 ( ouyres.sman and lawyer; born at Clif- 
 ford, Susquehanna County, Pa., July 10, 
 1839; son of (iideon W. Palmer. He was 
 educated nt \\'yoming Seminary, Kingston, 
 Pa., Fort Edward (N. Y.) Institute, and 
 the National J^aw School of Poughkeepsie, 
 N. Y., LL.B. in 1800. He was admitted to 
 the bar at Peekskill, N. Y., in 1860, and at 
 Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in 1861; served in the 
 pay department of the Union Army in the 
 Civil War at New Orleans, 1862-1863; was 
 a member of the Constitutional Convention 
 of Pemisylvania, 1872 1873, and attorney- 
 general of the State, 1879-1883. He was 
 elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh 
 Congress, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con- 
 gresses, in which he served until March 4, 
 1907. In 1908 he was again elected and is 
 now serving in the Sixty-first Congress from 
 the Eleventh Pennsylvania District. He 
 married at Plattsburg, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1861, 
 Ellen M. Webster. Address: Wilkes-Barre, 
 Pa. 
 
 PALMER, Leslie Richard: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Thompson Ridge, N. Y., 
 Feb. 20, 1877; sou of Richard H. and Anna 
 (Dickinson) Palmer. He was graduated 
 from Walden Higli School, 1892, Ithaca 
 High School, 1893, Cornell University, 
 I'll. 15.. and LL.B., 1897. He is president 
 (if I lie First National Bank of Croton-on- 
 tlie-lludson, Croton Docks Compajiy, Palmer 
 Realty Company; secretary of the Bruns- 
 wick Site Company, treasurer of the Com- 
 monwealth Securities Company, the Benefic- 
 ial Holding Company, and director of the 
 New York Architectural Terra Cotta Coni- 
 panj', the W. L. Sulphin Realty Company, 
 and of Wetiherbee ami Wood, Incor])orated. 
 He is a member of the New York County 
 Lawyers' Association, Phi Delta Phi frater- 
 nity, is a Mason, and member of the Army 
 and Navy Club of New York, Shattemuc 
 
 Yacht, Ecomimic, and Cornell University 
 Clubs. Residence: Army and Navy Club. 
 Oflice: 68 \\illiam Street, New York City. 
 
 PALMER, Lucia A.: 
 
 Author and artist; born in Dryden, 
 N. Y. ; daughter of Rockwell M. and Susan 
 Chapman. She was educated in Rushford 
 Academy, N. Y., the family school of her 
 uncle and guardian, Hon. William G. Angel. 
 When in Rushford Academy she met Dr. 
 Horatio Richmond Palmer, principal of the 
 Music Department, and two years later 
 married him. Dr. and Mrs. Palmer spent 
 nearly three years in the musical and art 
 centers of Europe, and at one time they 
 continued their travels to the Orient. Dr. 
 Palmer who was a native of Sherburne, 
 N. Y., and was educated in Rushford Acad- 
 emy, received the degi'ee of Doctor of Music 
 from the University of Chicago in 1882. 
 He gained much distinction as author, com- 
 poser and lecturer. He was in charge 
 of the Church Choral Union in New York 
 City for seven years, for fourteen years was 
 dean of the Chautauqua Summer Music 
 School and director of the Chautauqua 
 Choir, and was author and composer of 
 many of the most admired hymns, including 
 ■' Yield Not to Temptation," " Galilee, Blue 
 Galilee," " Come, Sinner, Come," " By and 
 By We Shall Meet Him," "The Rose of 
 Sharon," "■ Shall 1 Let Him In," and many 
 others, and author of works on: The 
 Theory of Music; Piano Primer; Dic- 
 tionary of Musical Terms; Biographical 
 13ictionary of Musicians, and fifty other 
 works on musical subjects, and held a dis- 
 (inguished place in the musical world until 
 liis death in 1907. Mrs. Palmer began in 
 art as a child, developing talent of a fine 
 order, and also attained practical knowl- 
 edge of art in architecture. The plans 
 for their beautiful home overlooking the 
 Hudson and commanding an extended view 
 of the ri\ci- and Palisades were drawn 
 entirely from lier dictation. She chose the 
 situation, watched the construction of the 
 house, laid out the grounds and superin- 
 tendetl the planting of the trees and shrub- 
 bery. She was a prize winner in the Paris 
 
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 Exposition of 1900, and lier exhibits in the 
 Decorative Art Exhibition at Turin, Italy, 
 in 1901, were praised by .Queen Margherita 
 and the Italian press. Mrs. Palmer began 
 her literary work as a correspondent of a 
 small up-State paper, afterward took up 
 foreign correspondence and book making. 
 She is author of: Grecian Days; Oriental 
 Days; and Money and iNIiserv. These books 
 have won her much distinction. Queen 
 Olga of Greece sent Mrs Palmer a pleasant 
 letter of acceptance of a volume of Grecian 
 Days, and that book and Oriental Days, 
 the bindings of which were designed by the 
 author, met with much praise from the 
 critics not only for literary merit, but also 
 as exquisite specimens of binding and book- 
 making. Mrs. Palmer is a press corre- 
 spondent and a member of the Woman's 
 Is'ational Press Association of Washington, 
 D. C. Address : 73 Highland Avenue, 
 Park Hill-on-Hudson, Yonkers, N. Y. 
 
 PALMER, Pauline: 
 
 Artist; born in McHenry, 111., daughter 
 of Nicholas and Franciska Lennards. She 
 was educated in the Chicago Art Institute, 
 and in Paris under Raphael Collin, Prinet, 
 Courtois and Simone. She married in Chi 
 cago. May 21, 1891, Dr. Albert Edward 
 Palmer. Mrs. Palmer exhibited in the 
 Paris Salon, 1903, 1905 and 1907, at the 
 Omaha Exposition. 1898,' St. Louis World's 
 Fair, 1904, and in Chicago, Philadelphia 
 and Biiflfalo. She received a bronze medal 
 at the Grande Chaumiere Academy in Paris; 
 silver medal at the Colarossi Academy; 
 bronze medal. St. Louis World's Fair, 1904; 
 Marshall Field Prize, Chicago, 1907; Young 
 Fortnightly prize, 1907; represented in the 
 permanent Art Collection of the West End 
 Woman's Club, Nike Club, Klio Association, 
 and Arche Club. She was a member of the 
 Jury of Awards, Art Exposition. State of 
 Minnesota, 1908, is a member and trustee, 
 Chicago Society of Artists ; member of the 
 Municipal Art League; honorary member of 
 the North Side Art Club, Lake View 
 Woman's Club, Chicago Water Color Club, 
 and a member of the Chicago Woman's 
 Club. Address: 5104 Winthrop Avenue, 
 Chicago. 
 
 PALMER, Stephen S.: 
 
 ('ajdtalist ; iiorn in New \'ork City, Dec. 
 7, 1853. He is president and director of the 
 Harvey Steel Company, New Jersey Zinc 
 Company, Prime Western Spelter Company, 
 St. Louis and Hannibal Railway Company, 
 Green Bay and Western Railway Company, 
 lola and Northern Rsiilway, Empire Zinc 
 Company, Kewaunee, Green Hay and \V'est- 
 ern Railroad, .McDonald 1-jind and iMining 
 Company, Palmer Water Company; vice- 
 president and director of the Colonial As- 
 surance Company, Detroit Hillside and 
 Soutliwestern Railroad Company, Fort 
 Wayne and Jackson Railroad Company, 
 Bertha Mineral Company; treasurer and di- 
 rector of the Cayuga antl Susquehanna Rail- 
 way, Mineral Point Zinc Company; director 
 of the Farmeis' Loan and Trust Company, 
 National City Bank of New York, New 
 York Edison Company, New York Mutual 
 Ga,s Company and director in many other 
 corporations. He is a member of the Union 
 League, Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Players', 
 Down Town, Century, New York Yacht, 
 City Midday, Turf and Field and Es.sex 
 County Clubs. Address: 52 Wall Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 PALMER, Walter Launt: 
 
 Artist; born in Albany, N. Y., Aug. 1, 
 1854; s»n of Erastus Dow and Mary (Sea- 
 man) Palmer. He was a pupil of F. E. 
 Church, Hudson, N. Y., and Carolus Duran, 
 Paris. He is best known as a painter of 
 winter scenes. He received the Hallgarten 
 prize, New York City, 1887 ; medal. World's 
 Fair, Chicago, 1893; gold medal. Philadel- 
 phia, 1894; Evans prize. New Y'ork City. 
 1895; first prize, Boston, 1895; second 
 prize. Nashville Centennial, 1897; honorable 
 mention, Paris, 1900; silver medal, Buffalo, 
 1901; silver medal, Charle-stown, 1902; sil- 
 ver and bronze medals, St. Louis, 1904. He 
 is a trustee and treasurer of tlu^ Albany 
 Hospital; trustee of the Albany ;N[e<lical 
 College, and the Albany Rural Cemetery. 
 Mr. Palmer has been an academician of the 
 National Academy of Design since 1897, 
 and is a member of the Society of American 
 Artists, American Water Color Society, and 
 the Century Club. He married, Dec. 26, 
 
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 IH'Jo, Zoe de V. Wyndhani, of Cockerniovith, 
 England, and they have one daughtei-. Ad- 
 dn'ss: 5 Lafayette .Street, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 PALTSITS, Victor Hugo: 
 
 State historian of New York; born in 
 New York City, July 12, 1867; son of Wil- 
 liam Thomas and yidonia Ida (Loose) Palt- 
 sits. He was educated in the public and 
 private schools of New York City, 1872- 
 1881; took a scientific course in Cooper In- 
 stitute, 1882 188(J, German, Latin, Greek, 
 Spanish and French at the high schools 
 and by private tuition, and Coptic at Colum- 
 bia University. He was connected with the 
 Lenox Library, 1888-1907; assistant in 
 reading-room in 1890, sub-librarian from 
 1893 to July, 1907, the title being changed 
 to assistant librarian. He was nominated 
 by Governor Charles E. Hughes as State 
 historian, on July 15, and commissioned on 
 July 24, 1907. Mr. Paltsits is editor of: 
 The Journal of Captain William Pote, Jr., 
 1745-1747; prejjared papers- for the City of 
 Charleston, relating to the Siege of Charles- 
 ton in 1780, published in 1898; Captivity 
 of Captain John Gyles, 1689 1697 (in pre- 
 paration) ; Rev. John Miller's New York 
 Considered and Improved, 1G95, published 
 in Cleveland, 1903; Captivity of Nehemiah 
 How, Cleveland, 1904. He was on the edi- 
 torial statr as bibliographical adviser of the 
 Jesuit Pvclations and Allied Documents, 73 
 volumes, published in Cleveland from 1896 
 to 1901 ; revised volumes three and five of 
 Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Bio- 
 graphy, edition of 1898, and furnished 
 eighty-eight biographical sketches for the 
 same. He is author of: Contributions to 
 Bibliography of the Lettres Ediliantes, pub- 
 lished in Cleveland, 1900; Bibliogi-aphy of 
 the Separate and Collected Works of Philip 
 Freneau, New York, 1903; Sclieme for the 
 Conquest of Canada in 1746 (Worcester, 
 1905), which was read before the American 
 Antiquarian Society; Tlie Dcpretlation at 
 Pemarjuid in August, 1689 (Portland 1905). 
 read before the JNIaine Historical Society; 
 The Almanacs of Roger Sherman (Wor- 
 cester, 1907), read before the American An- 
 tiquarian Society; Tlie Function of State 
 Historian of New York (Albany, 1909), 
 
 read before the New York State Historical 
 Association; exhaustive bibliographies of 
 the works of Father Louis Hennepin, of the 
 Lewis and Clark Expedition, and of edi- 
 tions of Lahontan's Voyages and of Nicolas 
 Denys; also articles in magazines and re- 
 views on liistorical and bibliographical sub- 
 jects; critical adviser on historical illustra- 
 tion for Avery's History of the United 
 States, volumes 1 to 4, which will be fifteen 
 volumes. As State historian he has edited 
 large volumes' of Minutes of the Commis- 
 sioners for Detecting and Defeating Con- 
 spiracies in the State of New York, 1778- 
 1781 (Albany, 1909), and Minutes of the 
 Executive Council of the Province of New 
 York, vol. 1: 1668 1673 (Albany, 1909). 
 Mr. Paltsits has cooperated extensively with 
 much of the bibliographical and historical 
 work done by others in the United States 
 and Canada. He is a member of the Ameri- 
 can Antiquarian Society, the American An- 
 thropological Association, the American As- 
 sociation for the Advancement of Science, 
 a fellow of the American Etluiological So- 
 ciety, of the American Historical Associa- 
 tion, the Bibliographical Society of America, 
 The Bibliographical Society of Engianu, 
 Gesellschaft! fiir Typenkunde des xv. Jahr- 
 Imnderts (Leipzig. Germany), the Maine 
 Historical Society, New York Historical So- 
 ciety, honorary member of Schenectady 
 County Historical Society, corresponding 
 member of Maine and New Jersey Historical 
 Societies, of the Prince Society of Boston, a 
 founder of Broirx Society of Arts and Sci- 
 ences; president of the New York Library 
 Club, 1907-1908; vice-president. 1906-1907; 
 and treasurer, 1905-1906; president of tlie 
 Bronx Sunday School Association, 1905- 
 1907; chairman of the Executive Committee 
 of tlie Park Republican Club (incorpor- 
 ated), 1904-1906; a member of the Connnit- 
 te(' on ]5ihliography of the American Histor- 
 ical Association, 1907, and of the Public 
 Archives Commission of the same society, 
 1908-1909; inul Publication and Bulletin 
 Committees of liibliogra])hical Society of 
 America, in 1906 1o 1909, and a member of 
 the Royal Arcanum. His favorite recrea- 
 tion is angling. Mr. Paltsits married in 
 New York City, July 21, 1891, and his 
 
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 children arc: Florence, born in 1802 and 
 Victor John, horn in LSlKi. Ke.sidence : 
 New York City. Address: The Capitol, 
 Albany, N. Y. 
 
 PARDEE, Don Albert: 
 
 Jurist; born in Wadsworth, Ohio, March 
 19, 1837; son of Aaron and Eveline (Eyle-s) 
 Pardee, and a descendant of George Pardee 
 who settled in New Haven, Conn., between 
 1637 and 1G42. He was appointed to tlie 
 U. S. Military Academy in 1854, but left in 
 1857 to study law with his father, and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1859. He began 
 practice at ]\Iedina, Ohio; was commissioned 
 as major of the Forty second Ohio Regi- 
 n:ent in 1861, promoted lieutenant-colonel 
 and participated in the battles of Chicka- 
 saw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, 
 Raymond, Champion Hill, and two assaults 
 on Vicksburg, serving during the siege as 
 inspector-general of the Thirteenth Army 
 Corps. He was mustered out in December, 
 1864, and on March 13, 1865, was brevetted 
 colonel and brigadier-general for gallant 
 services in the war. He practised law in 
 New Orleans, 1865-1868; was registrar in 
 bankruptcy for the Third Congressional Dis- 
 trict of Louisiana, 1867-1868, judge of the 
 Second Judicial District of Louisiana, 1868- 
 1881; member of the State Constitutional 
 Convention of 1879; Republican candidate 
 for attorney -geneial of Louisiana in 1880. 
 He was appointed in 1881 circuit judge of 
 the United States for the Fifth Judicial 
 Circuit, and in 1898 he removed his resi- 
 dence to Atlanta. Address: Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 PARDEE, George Cooper: 
 
 Ex-governor, oculist; born in San Fran- 
 cisco, Calif., July 25, 1857; son of Dr. M. H. 
 and Mary E. Pardee. He was graduated 
 from the University of California, Ph.B., 
 1879, M.A., 1882, "University of Leipzig 
 (Germany), as M.D., 1885. Dr. Pardee 
 was mayor, member of City Coinicil and 
 member of the Board of Health of Oakland ; 
 Regent of the State Universitj', and govern- 
 or of California, 1903-1907, elected on the 
 Republican ticket. He is a member of the 
 Alameda County Medical Society, State 
 Medical Society of California, Astronomical 
 
 Society of the Pacific, National Conserva- 
 (lion Commission, a Ma.son, member of the 
 Sons of tlie American Revolution, and the 
 Nile Club. Governor Pardee married in 
 Oakland, Calif., 1886, Helen N. IVnniman, 
 and tliej' have four children. Residence: 
 672 Eleventh Street, Oakland. Oflice: Oak- 
 land Bank of Savings Buildings, Oakland, 
 Calif. 
 
 PARDOW, William O'Brien: 
 
 Clergyman; horn in New York City, June 
 13, 1847; son of Robert and Augusta Gar- 
 nett (O'Brien) Pardow. He was graduated 
 from St. Francis Xavier's College as A.B. 
 in 1864, and took post-graduate courses in 
 Montreal and Woodstock College, Maryland, 
 also psychology and natural sciences in 
 England and France, 1875-1880, studying 
 Biblical criticism, Hebrew, theology and ora- 
 tory. He was president of St. Xavier's 
 College, 1889-1893; superior of Jesuits of 
 New York and Maryland, 1893-1896; lec- 
 tured in England and France, in Boston, 
 New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Bal- 
 timore, \Vashington, Los Angeles, and San 
 Francisco, also in the island of Jamaica, 
 West Indies. Address: St. Joseph's Col- 
 lege, Philadelphia. 
 
 PARET, William: 
 
 Bishop of ^Maryland; born at New York 
 City, Sept. 23, 1826; son of John and Hester 
 Paret. He was graduated from the academ- 
 ic course at Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., 
 1849, receiving from it the degree of D.D. 
 in 1867, and LL.D., 1886. He was ordered 
 deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1852 by 
 Bishop Chase, and ordained priest in 1853 
 by Bishop de Lancey. Since entering the 
 ministry he has been connected consecu- 
 tively with St. John's Church, Clyde, N. Y., 
 Zion Church, Pierrepont iSIanor, N. Y., St. 
 Paul's Church, East Saginaw, Mich., Trinity 
 Church, Elmira, N. Y., Christ Church, 
 Williamsport, Pa., and church of the 
 Epiphany, Washing-ton, D. C. He was 
 elected Bishop of Maiyland in 1884 and was 
 consecrated in 1885 bj' Bishops A. Lee, 
 Lay, Stevens, Neely, and ^^'hitehead. 
 Bishop Paret married in 1849, Maria G. 
 Peck, who died, and in 1900. married Mrs. 
 
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 Sarali Haskell. TTo is author of: St. Petpr 
 and tlie I'riiiiacy (New York Church Chib 
 I.^i'turw): Pastoral Use of the Prayer 
 Book, and ranoiiical <lif;ests. char<jes and 
 sermons. Addi('s>: 1110 Madison Avcmie, 
 Baltimore. Md. 
 
 PARK, Clara Cahill: 
 
 Portrait painter, writer and lecturer; 
 horn in Lansin,i,^ .Mich., July 2, 1868; 
 daughter of Edward Cahill, .judge of the 
 Supreme Court of ^lichigan and of Lucy 
 (Crawford) Cahill; and is of distinguished 
 Revolutionary Ancestry. After leaving the 
 high school she went to the Cincinnati Art 
 Academy in Eden Park, Cincinnati. After- 
 ward to the Art Students' League in New 
 York City, 1889-1890, studied in 1892 in 
 the Chicago Art Institute, and later in the 
 art galleries of Italy, and in Berlin and 
 Strassburg. She married in Lansing, Mich., 
 June 11, 1894, Robert Ezra Park, Ph.D., 
 and has two ;-ons and two daughters. Mrs. 
 Paik int<'nded to be a portrait painter, and 
 in liiat line has had some success, with pa.s- 
 tels as a medium. She has, however, 
 through her husband's work for the Congo 
 and for Tuskegee and other insjdiing ob- 
 jects, been drawn gradually into writing 
 and s])eaking. She has recently become 
 esjiecially interested, through a study of 
 Professor G. Stanley Hall's exhaustive work 
 on " Adolescence," in that subject, and hopes 
 to convey the valuable lessons derived from 
 this study in simple and untechnical lan- 
 guage to the people who are not; versed in 
 science. A series of Study Outlines on 
 Adolescence by Mrs. Park, ran in the Sep- 
 tember. 1909, and subsequent numbers of 
 The National Congress of IMothers ]Maga- 
 zine. Mrs. Park has written various short 
 magazine and newspaper stories; and 
 among her articles some of the more notable 
 arc one published in Harper's Young People, 
 Maich. 1S!)4, on How an Art Student May 
 Live in New York ; a pam})hlet for the 
 Peace Congress in Boston 1904; The Treat- 
 ment of Women and Children in the Congo 
 State; also a reply to The Feminization 
 of Bo.\'s, by (i. Stanle.v Hall, which answer 
 ajjpeared in The Sunday Magazine, March 
 1. 1908. The first of a number of little 
 
 -torics suggesting the poetrj* of everyday 
 life, " Being Married," appeared in The Sun- 
 day Ma.uazine for Aug. 15, 1909. ]Mrs. 
 Park is chairman of the Program Commit- 
 tee of the Quincy (Mass.) Woman's Club; 
 member of Education Committee of the Na- 
 tional Congress of ^Mothers, Parent Teacher 
 A.ssociation ; was member of the Local Art 
 Committee for the Biennial Convention of 
 the General Federation of Women's Clubs 
 held in Bo.ston in June, 1908; and she is 
 president of the Mother's Club of Wollas- 
 ton, Ma.ss. Address: Hillside Avenue, Wol- 
 laston. ]Mass. 
 
 PARK, Roswell: 
 
 Surgeon; born in Pomfret. Conn., ^lay 
 4, 1852; son of Roswell Park and Mary 
 jj. (Baldwin) Park. He was graduated from 
 Racine College, A.B., 1872, A.M., 1875, 
 Chicago Medical College, now Northwest 
 University, ]\I.D., 1870, lionorary M.D. 
 from Rush Medical College. 1892, honorary 
 A.M. from Harvard, 189.3, and LL.D. froi'n 
 Yale, 1902. He was denionstiator of anat- 
 omv at the Woman's ^ledical College, 1870. 
 made adjunct professor of anatomy, Chicago 
 ]\Iedical College, 1877, lecturer on surgery. 
 Rush Medical College, 1882, professor of 
 surgerv, ^ledical Department of the Univer- 
 :^it.v of Buffalo, 1883, which position he still 
 holds, and surgeon to the Buffalo General 
 Hospital since 188.3. He is also president 
 of the Spencer Lens Company; was for ten 
 .\ears brigade surgeon of the Fourth Bri- 
 gade, National Guard of New York, and was 
 on the Board of Visitors at West Point in 
 1907. appointed by President Roosevelt. He 
 is author of: Park's Modern Surgery, 1907, 
 History of Medicine, 1895, Miitter Lectures 
 on Surgical Pathology, and of the hundred 
 and fifty miscellaneous ])ai)ers, addresses, 
 essays and journal articles. Dr. Park is a 
 membci- of the American ^lilitary Science 
 institute. German, Italian, French, Inter- 
 national and American Surgical Associa- 
 tions, e.\ president American Surgical As- 
 sociation, and of the Medical Society of the 
 Stat-(* of New York, member of the Anu'r- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science, Buffalo Society of Natural Science, 
 Hu Halo Historical Society, ex-president 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Buffalo IMusical Assooiaiioii, prosidont of 
 the Pliilhaniionic Society; was medical di- 
 rector of tlie I'aii-Aniorioan Exposition, trus- 
 tee of Buffalo State Hospital for Insane, 
 and is a member of the Buffalo and Saturn 
 Clubs, University, Park, and Yacht Clubs 
 of Buffalo, and tlie University Club of New 
 York. He married in Chicago, June 1,1880, 
 Martha P. Durkee, who died in 1900, and 
 he has two children. Address: 510 Dela- 
 ware Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 PARKER, Alton Brooks: 
 
 Juri.st; born in Cortland, N. Y., May 12, 
 1852; son of John Brooks and Harriet F. 
 (Stratton) Parker. He was educated at 
 the Cortland Academy and the State Nor- 
 mal School at Cortland, and was graduated 
 from the Albany Law School, LL.B., in 
 1872 (honorary chancellor and LL.D. from 
 Union College in 1901). He was admitted 
 to the bar in 1872; became partner with W. 
 S. Kenyon, Jr., and practised at Kingston, 
 N. Y. He was elected in 1877, reelected in 
 1883, surrogate of Ulster Coiuity; refused 
 appointment as first assistant postmaster- 
 general in 1885 ; appointed by Governor 
 Hill, in 1885, justice of the Supreme Court 
 of New York, to fill vacancy; elected for 
 full term without opposition in 1886; ap- 
 pointed to Second Division, Court of Ap- 
 peals, 1889; assigned to General Term, First 
 Department (New York City), by Governor 
 March, 1897; elected in 1897 chief judge of 
 the Court of Appeals of New York ; resigned 
 in 1904. He is a Democrat; managed the 
 successful campaigns of David B. Hill for 
 governor in 1885, as chairman of the Dem- 
 ocratic State Committee. He was nomi- 
 nated by the Democracy, July 9, 1904, for 
 President of the United States, and on the 
 same day sent his famous " gold standard " 
 telegram; wa.s defeated in the election by 
 President Roosevelt; chosen president of the 
 American Bar Association, Aug., 1906; now 
 member of the law firm of Parker, Hatch 
 and >3neehan, New York City. Mr. Parker 
 is a member of the Century Association 
 and of the Metropolitan Manhattan and Na- 
 tional Democratic Chibs. He married, in 
 1873, Mary Louise, daughter of Moses I. 
 Schoonmaker, a descendant of Joachim 
 
 Scliooninnkei- one of ilie eaiiy nulcli set- 
 tlers in Ulster County. 'rin'y have one 
 daughter. Residence: .")74 Madison Ave- 
 nue, Xew '^Ork City. 
 
 PARKER, Edmund M.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Cambridge, Aug. 15, 
 1S5G. He was educated in private schools, 
 the Reading and Cambridge High Schools, 
 Harvard .College, and Harvard Law School, 
 from which he was graduated in 1882. He 
 was admitted to the bar, and has since 
 practised in Boston. Mr. Parker was a 
 commissioner on the revision of the Cam- 
 bridge city charter in 1890. He has been 
 lecturer on admini.-.trative law at Harvard 
 College since 1905; and is a member of the 
 Union, Exchange and Oakley Country Clubs, 
 and the Harvard Club of New York. ]\Ir. 
 Parker married, April 8, 1891, Alice Gray, 
 and they have two children. Address: 1.31 
 State Street, Boston. 
 
 PARKER, Edward F.: 
 
 Physician; born in Charleston, S. C, 
 Dec. 15, 1867; son of Francis LeJau and 
 Elizabeth (Frost) Parker. He was edu- 
 cated in the South Carolina Military Acad- 
 emy, the University of Virginia, the ]\Ied- 
 ical College of the State of South Carolina, 
 and spent one year abroad in London in the 
 study of a specialty, after five years gen- 
 eral practice. He is a specialist in diseases 
 of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and is 
 clinical professor of deseases of the eye, ear, 
 nose and throat and dean of the Faculty, 
 in the Medical College of the State of South 
 Carolina. He is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Medical Association, the American 
 Laryngological and Otological Society, and 
 tlie South Carolina INIedical Association. 
 Residence: 128 Tradd Street. Office: 70 
 Hasell Street, Charleston, S. C. 
 
 PARKER, Edward Melville: 
 
 Bishop-coadjutor of New Hampshire; 
 born in Cambridge, I\Iass. in 1855; son of 
 Henry Melville and Fanny Cushing (Stone) 
 Parker. He wa.s educated at St. Paul's 
 School. Concord, and the University of Ox- 
 ford. England, from which he was graduated 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 B.A., 1878 and M.A., 1881. lie was ordered 
 deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1879 
 by Bishop Niles, and in 1881 was ordained 
 to the priesthood by Bishop Neely. He was 
 master of St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., 
 1879-1905, becoming priest in charge of 
 Dunbarton, N. H., in 1880 and of East 
 Weare, N. H., in 1890. He was consecrated 
 bishop in 1906, and became bishop-coadjutor 
 of the Diocese of New Hampshire. Ad- 
 dress: Concord, N. H. * 
 
 PARKER, George F.: 
 
 Juurnalist ; born in Lafaj'cttc, Ind., Dec. 
 30, 1847; son of Thomas W. and Eliza Ann 
 (Kirk) Parker. He was educated in com- 
 mon schools of Iowa and the State Univer- 
 sity at Iowa City. He was chairman 
 of a district school in Iowa, 1871. Ed- 
 itor of papers in Iowa, Indiana, Washing- 
 ton, D. C, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania 
 and New York City; was the first managing 
 editor of the New York Press, 1887-1888; 
 has been a contributor to London Times 
 since 1896, and to many magazines both in 
 England and the United States. Mr. Par- 
 ker was secretary of the Democratic State 
 Committee of Iowa, 1874-1875; connected 
 with the Democratic State Committee of 
 Pennsylvania in 1884; connected with the 
 National Democratic Commit/tee, 1880, 1888, 
 1892 and 1904; assistant postmaster of 
 Philadelphia, 188,')-1887; U. S. consul at 
 Birmingham, 1893-1898; commissioner in 
 the United Kingdom for the Louisiana Pur- 
 chase Exposition, St. Louis, 1901-1904; 
 head of the firm of Parker and Lee; sec- 
 retary to the trustees of the Equitable 
 Life Assurance Society of the United States. 
 He is a member of the Iowa and Pennsyl- 
 vania, Societies in New York, and the 
 ( liiircli and Pilgrims' Clubs of New York 
 City. Address: 120 Broadway, New York 
 Cily. 
 
 PARKER, James Henry: 
 
 Mcichant and banker; born in Jolmston 
 County, N. C, Jan. 4, 1843; son of Matthew 
 and Martha Parker. He was educated in 
 private schools until the beginning of the 
 Civil War, in which he served as a cavalry 
 lieutenant in the Army of the Confederate 
 
 States. After the war he studied medicine 
 and engaged in practice in North Carolina, 
 but in 1870 went to Charleston, S. C, and 
 engaged as a merchant in the handling of 
 cotton and naval stores. He removed to 
 New York in 1882, became a large operator 
 in the New York cotton market, and since 
 1899 has been at the head of the cotton 
 commission firm of J. H. Parker and Com- 
 pany. Dr. Parker is also actively identi- 
 fied with the banking business as president 
 since 1891 of the United States National 
 Bank of New York, and director and vice- 
 president of the National Park Bank; and 
 he was president of the Produce Exchange 
 Trust Company of New York, 1898-1899. 
 He is a member and was two 'years presi- 
 dent of the New York Cotton Exchange. 
 He is a member and ex-president of the 
 Southern Society of New York, member and 
 former commander of the Confederate 
 Veteran Corps of New York, and is also 
 a member of the ISIanhattan, New York 
 Athletic and National Arts Clubs of New 
 York. He married in Charleston, S. C, 
 in 1877, Julia A. Jones. Residence: 18 
 East 69th Street, New York City. Office: 
 3(1 Cotton Exchange, New York City. 
 
 PARKER, Joseph Benson: 
 
 Physician; born in Carlisle, Pa., .June 20, 
 1841; son of Bev. Josepii and jNIary 
 (Sheerer) Parker. He was graduated from 
 Dickinson College, A.B. and A.INI. and stud- 
 ied and was graduated in medicine in New 
 York City. He served in the army six 
 months before entering the navy, where he 
 served as medical officer from 1862, until 
 liis retirement on June 20, 1903, with the 
 rank of rear-admiral, passing through all 
 Uw various grades. He is a member of va- 
 rious medical societies, the Masonic Order, 
 Society of Sigma Xi, and Belles Ijettres 
 Society, also a member of the Union League 
 of Philadelphia, and the Military Order of 
 the Ixiyal Legion, having served as senior 
 vice-commander one term. Dr. Parker mar- 
 ried in Salem, N. J., Oct. 15, 1868, Mar- 
 garet Johnson Yorke, and has two daugh- 
 ters, Mary Sheerer Beaman and Eleanor 
 Yorke Bell. Besidcncc: 4425 Spruce Street, 
 IMiiladelpliia. 
 
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 PARKER, Moses Greeley: 
 
 Physician and surgeon; burn at Dracut, 
 Mass", Oct. 12, 1842; son of Theodore and 
 Hannah (Greeley) Parker; grandson of 
 Peter and Bridget (Coburn Parker and of 
 Deacon Moses Greeley and Mary (Derby) 
 Greely and a descendant of Deacon Thomas 
 Parker, Lynn, Mass., 1635, and Andrew 
 Greeley, Salisbury, Mass., before 1640. He 
 was educated at Howe School, Billcrica, 
 Mass., Phillips Academy, Andover, Long 
 Island College Hospital, and Harvard Med- 
 ical School, M.D., 1864. He was assistant 
 surgeon of the Second U. S. Colored Caval- 
 ry, 1864-186.5; physician and surgeon St. 
 John's Hospital, Lowell, Mass., since 1889. 
 Dr. Parker has been a trustee of the Howe 
 School since 1877; director of the Lowell 
 District Telephone Company, 1879, New 
 England Telephone and Telegraph Com- 
 pany from its organization; treasurer Shaw 
 Stocking Company, Lowell, Mass.; trustee 
 Lowell General Hospital since 1898; trustee 
 and treasurer of the Ayer Home, Lowell, 
 Mass., council of the Society of Colonial 
 Wars since 1902; president of the Massa- 
 chusetts Society of Soils of the American 
 Revolution since 1905; member of the 
 board of the managers of National Society 
 of Sons of the American Revolution since 
 1905, and vice-president-general of the Na- 
 tional Society since 1906. Address: 11, 
 First Street, Lowell, Mass. 
 
 PARKER, Richard Wayne: 
 
 Congressman and Lavxyer; born in New- 
 ark, N. J., Aug. 6, 1848; eldest son of the 
 late. Cortlandt and Elizabeth Wolcott 
 (Stites) Parker, and a brotlier of Hon. 
 Charles W. Parker, a justice of the New- 
 Jersey Supreme Court. He was graduated 
 from Princeton College, 1867 and from the 
 Law School of Columbia College, 1869. He 
 was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 
 June, 1870; was a member of the House of 
 Assembly of New Jersey, 1885-1886; was 
 elected as a Republican, in Nov. 1894, to 
 the Fifty-fourth Congress, and has since 
 been biennially reelected, and is now serving 
 in the Sixty-first Congress. He has for sev- 
 eral years been an active member of the 
 Committee on Judiciary and the Committee 
 
 on ^Military Affairs. Address: Newark, 
 X. J. 
 
 PARKER, Winthrop: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Ware, Ma-ss., June 10, 
 1857; son of IMontgomery Davis and 
 Caroline Gilman (White) Parker. He was 
 graduated from New York University, 
 LL. B., 1881; was admitted to New York 
 bar in 1881 and to the U. S. Supreme Court 
 in 1896.. He has been engaged in practice 
 in New Y'ork City since 1881. Mr. Parker 
 is a member of the Association of the Bar 
 of the City of New York; member of the 
 Colonial Order, and also of the Knollwood 
 Country, Calumet and Barnard Clubs. He 
 married in Waterloo, N. Y., 1892, Susan 
 A. R. (Robinson) Birdsall. Summer cot- 
 tage: Spruce Camp, Christmas Cove, 
 Maine. Residence: 102 West 93d Street. 
 Office: 181 Broadway, New Y'ork City. 
 
 PARKHTJRST, Charles Henry: 
 
 Clergyman; born at Framingham, Mass., 
 April 17, son of Charles F. W. and Mary 
 (Goodale) Parkhurst. He was graduated 
 from Amherst College, A.B., 1868, A.M., 
 1869, D.D., 1880, LL.D., 1892. He was prin- 
 cipal of the Amherst High School, 1867- 
 1870; professor of Greek and Latin in 
 Willston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., 
 1870-1871; studied at Ilalle, Leipzig and 
 Bonn until 1873 (including special stiulies 
 in Sanskrit) ; pastor of the Congregational 
 Cliurch at Lenox, Mass., 1874-1880, and 
 since then has been pastor of the Madison 
 Avenue Presbyterian Church. In 1890 he 
 pi-eached a sermon on municipal politics 
 which attracted the attention of Dr. Howard 
 Crosby, president of the Society for the 
 Prevention of Crime, and induced him to 
 invite Dr. Parkhurst to become a member 
 and director of the society. He accepted, 
 and on April 30, 1891, after Dr. Crosby's 
 death, was elected president of the society. 
 He made a close study of the situation, and 
 in Feb., 1892, having fortified himself with 
 data, delivered a sermon on the corruption 
 of the municipal government of New Y'ork, 
 which struck fearlessly at men in high 
 places, and cresited a sensation all over the 
 English speaking world. In New York the 
 
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 effect was cyclonic. Dr. Parkhurst was 
 summoned before the grand jury, which 
 declared his charges against the police and 
 ollicials were without substantial founda 
 tion. He at once began to gather material 
 for an even more emphatic sermon; em- 
 ploy detectives and even made personal 
 visits to saloons, policy shops and houses 
 of ill-fame, where he witnessed scenes of 
 the lowest depravity, and gave the results 
 in another sermon. He was again sum- 
 moned before the Grand Jury in jSIarch, 
 1892, and convinced that body of the cor- 
 rectness of his charges, with the result that 
 the jury made a strong presentment, charg 
 ing the police authorities with incompetence 
 or corruption. From this resulted the fam- 
 ous Lexow Committee with its starling re- 
 port, and the defeat of Tammany Hall in 
 the election of 1894. He has continued 
 from time to time, as he has found relapses 
 on the part of the municipal authorities 
 into the former conditions, to make them 
 public. Dr. Parkhurst was a trustee of Am- 
 herst College, 1892-1902. He is author of:. 
 Forms of the Latin Verb, Illustrated by the 
 Sanskrit, 1870; The Blind Man's Creed and 
 Other Sennons, 1883; The Pattern in the 
 Mount and Other Sermons, 1885; Three 
 Gates on a Side, 1887; What Would the 
 World be Without Religion? 1888; The 
 Swiss Guide, 1889; Our Fight With Tam- 
 many, 1895; The Sunny Side of Christian- 
 ity, 1901; also many contributions to mag- 
 azines. He married, Nov. 23, 1870, Nellie, 
 daughter of Luther and Philena (Hawks) 
 Bodnian, of Williamsburg, Mass. Address: 
 133 East 35(h Street, New York City. 
 
 PARKS, Leighton: 
 
 Rector of St. J'.artlidloiiu'w'.s Protestant 
 Episcopal ( hurcli; burn in New York City. 
 Feb. 10, 1852; son of a clergyman. He 
 received a college and theological educa- 
 tion, and the degree of D.D. from St. 
 John's College, Harvard, 1900. He took an 
 eigiiteen months' trip around the world. 
 ,\t Geneva and Paris ho had charge of 
 English chapels for a time and then re- 
 turned to this country; became rector of 
 Kmmanuel Church, Boston, 1878-1904, and 
 since then rector of St. Bartlioloinow's 
 
 Church, New York City. Address: 344 
 Madison Avenue, New York City. 
 
 PARRISH, Maxfield: 
 
 Artist; born in Philadelphia, July 25, 
 1870; son of Stephen and Elizabeth (Ban- 
 croft) Parrish. He received his art educa- 
 tion in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine 
 Arts in Philadelphia, and as a pupil of 
 Howard Pyle. He first attained prominence 
 by his decorative posters and magazinje 
 covers, and later by his work in illustration, 
 including the illustrations for Kenneth 
 Grahame's The Golden Age, for JMother 
 Goose in Prose, and for Ivnickerbocker's 
 History of New York. He has exhibited 
 paintings at the principal expositions ; re- 
 ceived honorable mention from the Paris 
 Exposition of 1900, a medal from the Pan- 
 American Exposition at Buffalo, 1901 ; has 
 been a member of the Society of American 
 Artists since 1897, and an academician of 
 the National Academy of Design since 1906. 
 He married in Philadelphia, June 1, 1895, 
 Lydia Austin. Address: Windsor, Vt. 
 
 PARSONS, Edward Smith: 
 
 Dean and head professor of English; born 
 in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 9, 1863; son of 
 Charles Henry and Esther Rosetta (Smith) 
 Parsons. He was educated in the Brooklyn 
 Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, re- 
 ceiving a diploma in 1879, Amherst Col- 
 lege, A.B., 1883, A.M., 1886, LL.H.D., 1903 
 ( honorary ) , and Yale University, B.D., 
 1887. He was installed pastor of the First 
 Congregational Church, Greeley, Colo., 
 1888-1892, professor of English,* Colorado 
 College, since 1892, vice-president since 
 1898, dean of the College of Arts and 
 Sciences, Colorado College, since 1901 (act- 
 ing president, 1901-1902). He is a member 
 of the Cliild Labor Committee, American 
 Health League, American Institute of Civ- 
 ics, Concordance Society, director Colorado 
 Prison Association, State Committee, Colo- 
 rado Young Men's Christian Association, 
 member of the Chi Psi Fraternity, Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society, and the University Club of 
 Denver. He edited : ^Milton's ]\Iinor 
 Poems, and Tlie Earliest Life of jMilton. 
 He married in Cleveland, Ojiio, Dec. 4, 1889, 
 
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 Mary Augusta Ingersoll, and has six chil- 
 clron. Rosidoiicc: 1130 Woos Avenue. Of- 
 fice : Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 
 Colo. 
 
 PARSONS, Frank Sears: 
 
 Physician; horn iu Northampton, Mass., 
 Dec. 21, 1862; son of Enos Parsons a prom- 
 inent lawyer and Harriet Eliza (Sears) 
 Parsons. He was graduated from the 
 Northampton High School, attended Har- 
 vard Medical School two years, 1882-1884, 
 and was graduated from the University 
 of the City of New York, M.D., 1886. He 
 established himself in the Dorchester dis 
 trict of Boston and in Sept., 1886, began 
 the practice of his profession, and continued 
 to practise there until late in the spring of 
 18:)2, when he removed to Northampton, on 
 account of the death of his father, and in 
 1893 moved to Philadelphia, to assume the 
 editorship of the Medical Times and Regis- 
 ter, which position he held for two years. 
 In 1895 he returned to Dorchester where he 
 continues in general practice. Dr. Parsons 
 has for several years made a specialty of 
 diseases of children in connection with his 
 general practice. He was a lecturer on 
 diseases of children in the College of Phy- 
 sicians and Surgeons (now Tufts College 
 Medical Department), 1892, and has writ- 
 ten much for medical journals upon this 
 subject. He is author of: Rheumatism in 
 Children, 1890; Infant Dress, 1891; Pleu- 
 risy, 1893. Dr. Parson* was a member of 
 and visiting physician to the Suffolk Dis- 
 pensary from its organization to the time 
 of his removal to Northampton. He is a 
 member of the Massachusetts Medical So- 
 ciety, and the American Medical Association. 
 Dr. Parsons married, Sept. 8, 1891, Bertha, 
 daughter of M. Saxman, Jr., of Latrobe, 
 Pa., and they have three children. Address: 
 Dorchester, ]\Iass. 
 
 PARSONS, Harry de Berkeley: 
 
 Consulting engineer; born in New York 
 City, Jan. 6, 1862; son of William 
 Barclay and Eliza Glass (Livingston) 
 Parsons. He was graduated from Colum- 
 bia. College, B.S., 1882; and from vStevens' 
 Institute of Technology, M.E., 1884; since 
 
 then in general practice as consulting en- 
 gineer, lie has been professor of steam 
 engineering, Rcnselaer Polytwlinie Institute, 
 Ti'oy, N. Y., since 1892; is consulting ((Ugin- 
 eor for the Audit Comjiany of New York, 
 and the New York Zoological Society. He 
 is a member of the New York State Voting 
 Machine Conunission and Metro|)()litan Sew- 
 erage Commission of New York, has served 
 as consulting engineer for the district at- 
 torney, and corporation counsel ; for the 
 Departments of Street (Cleaning, Docks and 
 Ferries, Police and Fire. Mr. Parsons is au- 
 thor of: St(!am Boilers, their Theory and 
 Design; the Disposal of Municipjil Refuse. 
 He is a member of the American Society of 
 Civil Engineers, American Society of Me- 
 chanical Engineers, Society of Naval Ar- 
 chitects and ]\Iarine Engineers, Chamber of 
 Connnerce, and the Advisory Committee of 
 Bryson Day Nursery. He is a member of 
 the Union, Engineers', New York Yacht, 
 American Yacht (trustee), Country and 
 Apawamis Golf Clubs. He married in New 
 York City, Dec. 16, 1890, Francis T. 
 Walker; they have two children. Resi- 
 dence: 294 Madison Avenue. Office: 22 
 William Street, New York City. 
 
 PARSONS, Herbert: 
 
 Lawyer; member of Congress; born in 
 New York City, Oct. 28, 1869; son of John 
 E. and Mary D. (Mcllvaine) Parsons. He 
 was educated in St. Paul's School, Concord, 
 N. H., was graduated from Yale, B.A., 1890, 
 the University of Berlin, Germany, and 
 Harvard Law School. He was admitted to 
 the bar in 1894; and is now member of the 
 law firm of Parsons Closson and Mcllvaine. 
 In politics he is a Republican. He was al- 
 derman of New York City, 1900-1903; de- 
 feated for Congress, 1900; elected to the 
 Fifty ninth Congress in 1904 and reelected, 
 1906 and 1908 to the Sixtieth and Sixty- 
 first Congresses, from the Thirteenth New 
 York District. He was appointed by Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt a member of the National 
 Conservation Commission. He was elected 
 president of the Republican County Commit- 
 tee of New York County, 1905, and reelected 
 in 1906 and 1908. He is a member of the 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 
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 York, New York State Bar Association, 
 Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity; trustee of 
 Xew York Association for Improving Con- 
 dition of the Poor, Society for Reformation 
 of Juvenile Delinquents (House of Refuge), 
 Anti-Policy Society, and Manhattan Eye, 
 Ear and Throat Hospital. He is a member 
 of the University. Union League, Repub- 
 lican, IMetropolitan and City Clubs of New 
 York and of the Metropolitan Club of Wash- 
 ing-ton. Mr. Parsons married in Newport, 
 R. I., Sept. 1, 1900, Elsie W. Clews, and 
 they have two children. Address: 52 Wil- 
 liam Street, New York City. 
 
 PAKSONS, John B.: 
 
 Railway official; born in Sussex County, 
 Del., May 17, 1850; son of James A. Par- 
 sons. He was educated in the Salisbury 
 (Md.) Academy; worked in his father's 
 mercantile establishment 1866-1870; and in 
 1870 became clerk in the office of William 
 'W. Colket, then secretary and treasurer of 
 the chestnut and walnut Streets Railwaj^; 
 and in two years he was made division su- 
 perintendent of the road. In 1881 he was 
 elected president and general manager of the 
 Lombard and South Streets Railway, and 
 displayed an executive ability in the man- 
 agement of its affaii-s that attracted the at- 
 tention of the railway magnates of the coun- 
 tiy. He went to Chicago in 1887 as vice- 
 president and general manager of the West 
 Chicago Street Railway, and became there 
 an official of several other railway com- 
 panies ; he was also a trustee of the Presby- 
 terian Hospital of Chicago. Ten years 
 later he returned to Philadelphia to become 
 vice-president and general manager of the 
 Union Traction Company, and he proved 
 so efficient in this duty that in Sept., 1897, 
 he was elected a director of this company. 
 Since the formation of the Rapid Transit 
 Company, which has absorbed all the former 
 railway organizations of Philadelphiii, he 
 has been made president of this Company, 
 which position he now holds. Address: 
 201. S Si)ring Carden Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 PARSONS, John E.: 
 
 Lawyei-; l)orn in New York City, Oct. 
 24, 1829. lie was graduated from the Uni- 
 
 versity of the City of New York, 1848 and 
 was admitted to the bar in 1852. He is the 
 senior member of the law firm of Parsons, 
 Closson & Mcllvaine. He is one of the orig- 
 inal members and a former president of the 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, and was its counsel in proceedings 
 against Judges Barnard, Cardoza and Mc- 
 Cunn, and for the managers of the im- 
 peachment of Judge Barnard. He has been 
 president of the City (Reform) Club; vice- 
 president of the New York Law Institute; 
 president of the Cooper Union for the 
 Advancement of Science and Art, of the 
 Alumni Association of the University of the 
 City of New York and a member of its coun- 
 cil, and of the Board of Trustees of the 
 Brick Presbyterian Church; a member of 
 the Board of Home Missions of the Presby- 
 terian Church ; of the committee to revise 
 the creed of that church, of the committee 
 to prepare forms of service for it, and of its 
 committee to consider the subject of divorce 
 and remarriage and was a member of the 
 International Conference on that subject. 
 Mr. Parsons is also president of the Wom- 
 an's Hospital in the State of New York ; 
 one of the founders and president of the 
 General Memorial Hospital for the Treat- 
 ment of Cancer and Allied Diseases. He 
 gave the parish house to the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church at Lenox, Mass. (of which 
 he is a vestryman) ; built the memorial 
 stone church at New Lenox, Ma.ss., and 
 maintains St. Helen's Home, near Lenox, 
 Mass., for fresh air children ; built the stone 
 memorial public school at Rye, N. Y. ; and 
 also put a memorial window in the parish 
 church at Cubbington, \Varwickshire, Eng- 
 land, where, and in the adjoining parish of 
 Stoneleigh, his family lived for many gen- 
 erations. He is a member of the 
 Century, University, Riding, Metroi)olitan, 
 City, Players' Turf and Field, and Down 
 Town of New York City; American Yacht, 
 and Apawanis Golf Clubs of Rye, N. Y. ; 
 the Lenox Club (of which he is a governor), 
 a.nd the Golf and Boat Clubs of Lenox, 
 Mass. He married, first, I\Iarv Dumesnil 
 Mcllvaine, daughter of l^owes Ree<l Mcll- 
 vaine; second, Florence Van Cortlandt 
 Hishdii, dau'^litor of Boniamin 11. Field. 
 
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 He has four daughters, and one son, Her- 
 bert (now a member of Congress). He has 
 a large Country place Stoncover, at Lenox, 
 Mass., the greater part of the grounds of 
 which are open to the public and is a leader 
 in the social and civic activities of that 
 town, liesidence: 30 East 3Gth Street. 
 Office: ;")2 William Street, New York City. 
 
 PARSONS, Samuel: 
 
 Landscape architect; born in New Bed- 
 ford, Mass Feb. 8, 1844 ; son of Samuel 
 Parsons. He was educated in Haverford 
 College and Sheffield Scientific School of 
 Yale University, Ph. B., 1862. He is a 
 member of the firm of Samuel Parsons and 
 Company; and was superintendent of parks 
 of New York City for fifteen years. He 
 is landscape architect of parks of Greater 
 New York; designer of the new Washington 
 Park System, the San Diego (Calif.), Park 
 of fourteen hundred acres, and various other 
 parks, cemetries and country places in the 
 United States. He is president of the Amer- 
 ican Society of Landscape Architects and a 
 member of the Yale Alumni Association and 
 of the Century Association of New Y''ork. 
 Residence: Hotel San Remo. Address: 
 1135 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 PARSONS, Washington Everett: 
 
 Mechanical engineer; born in Salisbury, 
 Md., March 4, I860; son of Milton Alfred 
 and Caroline Travers (Williams) Parsons. 
 He Avas graduated from Salisbury High 
 School, 1876, and from Stevens Institute of 
 Technology, as IM.E. in 1887, and received 
 the first prize for mechanical drawing. He 
 was general business manager of the New- 
 ark Hygiea Ice Company, 1896-1903, and 
 has been in business for himself since, as 
 consulting engineer, with a specialty of ice 
 making and refrigeration. He helped to 
 organize the American Society, of Refriger- 
 ating Engineers in 1905, of which he is a 
 charter member, and was member of the 
 first board of directors, also one of the in- 
 corporators, and served as second president 
 1906-1907. Mr. Parsons has contributed 
 technical articles to Cold Storage and Ice 
 Tide Journal, N. Y. City, and was at one 
 time its technical editor. He is a member 
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 of the American Society of Mechanical En- 
 gineers, American Society of Refrigerating 
 Engineers, Cold Storage and Ice Association 
 of J-,on:don, International Congress of Re- 
 frigerating Industries, American Civic Alli- 
 ance, Stevens Institute Alumni Association, 
 and alvimnus member, of the Chi Psi fra- 
 ternity. He married in Baltimore, Md., 
 Nov. 7, 1889, Estelle Virginia Barnett, and 
 they have had four children, two of whom 
 are deceased. Residence: 134 Third Ave- 
 nue, Newark, N. J. Business address: 
 1639 Third Avenue, New York City. 
 
 PARSONS, William Barclay: 
 
 Engineer; born in New York City, April 
 15, 1859; son of William Barley and Eliza 
 (Livingston) Parsons. He was graduated 
 from Columbia University, A.B., C.E. Mr. 
 Parsons was chief engineer of the New Y'ork 
 Subway, 1894-1905; member of Isthmian 
 Canal Comiuission, 1904; member of the 
 Boird of Consulting Engineers of the 
 Panama Canal, 1905, Board of Advisory 
 Engineers to the Royal Commission on 
 Ix>ndon Traffic; chief of engineers and brig- 
 adier-general of the National Guard of the 
 State of New York in 1898. He is a trustee 
 of Columbia University; vestryman of Trin- 
 ity Church; member of the American So- 
 ciety of Civil Engineers, and Institution of 
 Civil Engineers of Great Britain. Mr. Par- 
 sons is author of: Turnouts, 1885; Track, 
 1885; American Engineer in China, 1900. 
 'Sir. Parsons married in New York City, 
 1884, Anna Reed, and they have two chil- 
 dren. Residence: 35 East 50th Street. Of- 
 fice: 60 Wall Street, N^w York City. 
 
 PARTON, Arthur: 
 
 Ai tist ; born in Hudson, N. Y., ilarch 26, 
 1842; son of George and Elizabeth (Wood- 
 bridge) Parton. He was educated in the 
 schools of Hudson, N. Y. and received his art 
 education in Pennsylvania Academy of Fine 
 Arts. He has made a specialty in land- 
 scapes, his first pictures being exhibited at 
 the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; 
 and lie wa,s later a regular exhibitor at the 
 National Academy Design. He has been 
 professionally engaged as artist in New 
 York Citv since 1865; was elected associate. 
 
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 1871 and has been an academician since 
 1884 of the National Academy of Design. 
 J\lr. Parton is a member of the American 
 Water Color .Society. He received the 
 mechvl of American Art Association, 1886; 
 Temple Medal, Philadelphia; honorary men- 
 tion Paris Exposition; bronze medal, St. 
 Louis, 1904. His pictures are included in 
 leading collections. Mr. Parton married in 
 Mystic, Conn., June 7, 1877^ Amia Taylor, 
 and they have five children. Residence: 
 Yonkers, N. Y. Address: 489 Fifth Ave- 
 nue, New York City. 
 
 PARTRIDGE, John Nelson: 
 
 ilctired; born in Leicester, Mass.; son of 
 Joseph Lyman and Zibiah Nelson (Wilson) 
 Partridge. He was graduated from Lei- 
 cester Academy. From 188G to 1897 he was 
 l)resident of the Brooklyn City and New- 
 town Railroad; was fire commissioner of 
 Brooklyn, 1882-1883; police commissioner of 
 Brooklyn, 1884-1885; superintendent of pub 
 lie works State of New York, 1899-1901 
 inclusive; police commissioner in New Y'ork 
 City 1902. He was colonel in the Twenty- 
 lliird Regiment, National Guard of New 
 York, 1880-1881, and also 1887-1894; and 
 lieutemint and captain of the Twenty fourth 
 ^lassachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1861- 
 1864. Colonel Partridge is director of the 
 Hamilton Trust Company of Brooklyn and 
 of the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company of 
 New York. In politics he is a Republican 
 and he is a member of the Episcopal 
 Church. He is a member of the Military 
 Order of Loyal Legion of United Stat&s, 
 and of the Hamilton and Riding and Driv- 
 ing Clubs of Brooklyn. He married, first, 
 in 1865, Sarah Howard Manning, now de- 
 ceased, and second, in 1906, Charlotte 
 Ix>ona Held; and he has one son. Nelson 
 Howard, born in 1869. Country address: 
 ^Vestport, Conn. Address: Hamilton Club, 
 Brooklyn, X. Y. 
 
 PARTRIDGE, Sydney Catlin: 
 
 Mis.-^ionary bishop of Kyoto; born in New 
 York City, Sept. 1, 1857; son of George 
 Sydney Partridge, Jr., and Helen Derby 
 (batlin) Partridge. lie was graduated 
 from Yale College, A.B., 1889, and from 
 
 Berkeley Divinity School, 1884, also receiv- 
 ing its degree of D.D. in 1900. He was 
 ordered de^xcon of the Episcopal Church in 
 1884, by Bishop Williams (of Connecticut), 
 and was ordained priest the following year 
 by Bishop Boone. He was connected with 
 St. John's College, Shanghai, China, 1884- 
 1887, and with Boone School, Wuchang, 
 China, 1887-1900. He was made missionary 
 bishop of Kyoto, Japan, in 1900. Bishop 
 Partridge is author of various booklets 
 and tracts in the Chinese language. He 
 married in Brooklyn, June 10, 1884, Char- 
 lotte Irene Mills, who died in 1886; and, 
 again married Nov. 27, 1900, Agnes Simp- 
 son. Address: Kyoto, Japan. 
 
 PASCO, Samuel: 
 
 Teacher, lawyer, soldier, senator; born in 
 London, England, June 28, 1834; son of 
 John Pasco (of Launeeton, England), who 
 settled in Prince Edward Island, 1842, and 
 moved to Boston, 1844. He was graduated 
 from Harvard College with honors, 1858; 
 and settled in JefTerson County, Fla., 1859; 
 was a principal of Waukeenah Academy 
 till 1861; entered the Confederate Army 
 and served in the ranks till close of war, 
 wounded at the battle of Missionary Ridge, 
 1863; remained a prisoner till just before 
 the final surrender; on liis return resumed 
 his place in the academy for a few months, 
 then studied law and was admitted to prac- 
 tise in 1869. Grand master of the Grand 
 Lodge of Florida. Masons, 1869-1871; chair- 
 man of the Democratic State Committee of 
 Florida, 1876 1888; member of the Dem- 
 ocratic National Committee, 1880-1900; 
 member and president of State Constitution- 
 al Convention, 1885; member and speaker 
 of Florida House of Representatives, 1887 ; 
 elected to the U. S. Senate as a Democrat, 
 1887, and again 1893 serving until 1899; 
 member Isthmian Canal Commission, 1899- 
 1904. He married, in 1869, Jessie, daughter 
 of ^^"illiam Denham of Monticello. Fla., and 
 they have three sons and two daughters. 
 Address: Monticello, Fla. 
 
 PATON, Alexander S.: 
 
 Manufacturer ; born on ilic banks of the 
 Clvde, Scotland, Nov. 20, 1854; son of the 
 
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 late James and Margaret (Sinclair) Paton, 
 whose family consisted of three children. 
 James Paton, his father, was a printer of 
 cloth by trade, an honorable and upright 
 man, and his death occurred at the early 
 age of thirty-five years; his wife sui'S'ived 
 many years, passing away in Scotland, in 
 1904, aged eighty-two years. In 1870, at 
 the age of sixteen, Alexander S. Paton came 
 from Scotland to New York City, and at 
 once proceeded to Leominster, Mass., where 
 he secured employment with a horn com- 
 pany. Later he was an employ^ of the 
 Union Horn Company, 1879, wlien he started 
 in the business for himself aud so suc- 
 cessful has the enterprise proved that a 
 frequent increase in the number of work- 
 men and increased mechanical facilities have 
 been needed to fill the contracts; he is now 
 (1909) owner and president of five horn 
 and celluloid companies in Worcester Coun- 
 ty, Mass. : The Paton Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, Visoloid Company, Horn and Supply 
 Company, Sterling Comb Company and Har- 
 vard Novelty Company. Mr. Paton Avas the 
 first president of the Leominster and Clin- 
 ton Street Railway Company, and has been 
 largely interested in other electric roads, 
 as a director in the Greenfield and Turner 
 Falls road, the Gardner road, the Leomin- 
 ster and Clinton, The Pawtucket Valley 
 road. Westerly, K. I., and the Georgetown 
 and Haverhill road. He was also president 
 of the new Worcester and Clinton Street 
 Railway, a director of the Columbian Life 
 Insurance Company of Massachusetts, a di- 
 dector of the National Bank of Leominster, 
 and has been moderator of the town meet- 
 ings in Leominster for nearly fifteen years. 
 He served three years on the Board of 
 Selectmen, being its chairman during his 
 last term. In 1897, he was elected as a 
 Republican to the Massachusetts Legisla- 
 ture, was reelected in 1899 and 1900, and 
 was chairman of the Committee on Banlcs 
 and Banking, 1898-1899. He is a chairman 
 of the County Republican Committee of his 
 part of the county, and a member of the 
 Republican State Committee of Massachu- 
 setts. He was president of the Town Im- 
 provement Society during its existence, and 
 served as vice-president of the Board of 
 Trade. He is a Mason, member of the 
 
 Mystic Shrine; has passed all the chairs in 
 the Odd Fellows Order; is past grand mas- 
 ter of the Improved Order of Red Men; 
 and member of the Knights of Pythias. He 
 is also president of the Leominster Club 
 and president of the Leominster Countiy 
 Club, lie is a member of the Unitarian 
 Church. In 1882, Mr. Paton married Clara 
 Somers, of an old Leominster family. Their 
 Children are: Phoebe S. (Mrs. Frederic 
 L. Perry), Somers, Agnes, Pauline P. and 
 Clara M. Paton. Address : Leominster, 
 Mass.. 
 
 PATRICK, Hugh Talbot: 
 
 Neurologist; born in New Philadelphia, 
 Ohio, May 11, 1860; son of Abraham W. 
 and Alary (Talbot) Patrick. He was edu- 
 cated in the University of Wooster, and in 
 the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, M.D., 
 1884, and studied in European universities, 
 1891-1894. He is clinical professor of ner- 
 vous diseases. North v/estern University; 
 professor of nervous and mental diseases, 
 Chicago Polyclinic; is neurologist to many 
 hospitals and is ex-president of the Ameri- 
 can Neurological Association, the Chicago 
 Neurological Society, and the Mississippi 
 Valley Medical Association, and is a mem- 
 ber of other medical societies, and is a di- 
 rector of the University Club, Chicago. He 
 married in Chicago April 28, 1896, Fannie 
 E. Gary, and has one son and two daugh- 
 ters. Residence: 1251 La Salle Avenue. 
 Office: 34 Washington Street, Chicago. 
 
 PATTERSON, Benjamin: 
 
 Lawyer; bom in Albany, N. Y. ; son of 
 Alfred' and Barbara (Sheeline) Patterson. 
 He received his education in the Albany 
 public schools and the Albany High School. 
 He was admitted to the bar in Albany Coun- 
 ty in 1881 and is engaged in the practice 
 of law in New York City. He has made 
 a specialty of constitutional questions and 
 of riparian rights, having been engaged as 
 counsel in many leading litigations involv- 
 ing riparian grants in and about the waters 
 surrounding ISIanhattan, Long Island and 
 Staten Island; is counsel for many labor 
 organizations; also represents many large 
 construction companies, defending and ad- 
 
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 justing negligence cases. He is the author 
 of several treatises on legal subjects, and 
 is a member of the New York State and 
 County Bar Associations, the New York 
 Press Club, the American Society of Inter- 
 national Law, and a member of several 
 clubs, societies and hospitals. His favorite 
 recreation is traveling. Address : 302 
 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 PATTERSON, C. Stuart: 
 
 Banker, lawyei, and author; born in 
 Pliiladelphia, June 24, 1842; son of Joseph 
 and Jane (Cuyler) Patterson. He was 
 graduated from the University of Penn- 
 sylvania in 18(50, A.M., then entered upon a 
 course of study of the law, and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar of Philadelphia in 1865. 
 He had some experience in the Civil War, 
 serving in 1862 and 1863, Landis's Battery, 
 and being wounded in the Gettysburg cam- 
 paign. His legal practice grew large and 
 important, and he became an authority 
 in real estate and constitutional law. He 
 was professor of the law^ and ^real estate 
 and conveyancing, and of constitutional law, 
 in the University of Pennsylvania, 1887- 
 1897, and till 1897 was dean of the Law De- 
 partment in that institution. He was in- 
 spector of the State Penitentiary at Phila- 
 delphia, 1884-1891. Mr. Patterson retired 
 from practice, in 1895, and since then has 
 been devoted to banking and railroad in- 
 terests, becoming in that year a director of 
 the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He 
 is also president of the Western Saving 
 I'und Society, and a director of the Com- 
 mercial Trust Company. In 1897 he pre- 
 sided over the Indianapolis Monetary Con- 
 vention, and was a member of the Monetary 
 Commission appointed by it. He is author 
 of treatises on : Railway Accident Law ; 
 Federal Restraints on State Action; and 
 many historical and political pamphlets. 
 ilr. Patterson is a member of the American 
 Philosophical Society, the Sons of the Revo- 
 lution, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the 
 Pliiladelphia Club, the Union League of 
 Philadelphia (president, 1896-1898) the 
 Century Association of New York and the 
 Contemporary Club. Residence: Chestnut 
 Hill. Office : 1000 Walnut Street, Phila- 
 delphia. 
 
 PATTERSON, Edward: 
 
 .Justice of tile Supreme Court; born in 
 New York City, in 1839. He was educated 
 in Williams College and the Columbia Law 
 School, and he received the LL.D. degree 
 from Williams, 1893, Hobart, 1898, Colum- 
 l)ia University, 1906. In 1860 he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar and engaged in the prac- 
 tice of law in New York City, until electetl 
 justice of the Supreme Court of the State 
 of New York. Since 1895, lie has been 
 serving in the Appellate Division for the 
 First Appellate District, of which he is now 
 presiding justice; his present term expires 
 Dec. 31, 1909. In politics he is a Demo- 
 crat. He is a member and ex-president of 
 the Law Institute of New York City; mem- 
 ber of the Association of the Bar of the 
 City of New York, Phi Beta Kappa Society 
 (Hobart Chapter), Alpha Delta Phi frater- 
 nity, the American Museum of Natural His- 
 tory, and the Century, Manhattan, Metro- 
 politan, New York Yacht, Alpha Delta Phi, 
 and Players' Clubs. He married] Isabel 
 Liddpn Cox, and they have three sons and 
 two daughters. Address: 124 East 39th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 PATTERSON, Flora Wambaugli: 
 
 Vegetable pathologist; born in Columbus, 
 Ohio, Sept. 15, 1847; daughter of Rev. A. 
 B. and Sarah (Sells) Wambaugh. She was 
 educated by private tutors, and in Antioch 
 College in I860', and was graduated from 
 Cincinnati Wesleyan* College, 1865, A.M., 
 1883, student at Radcliffe College, 1892- 
 1895, and graduated student at the State 
 University of Iowa, 1891-1892, and received 
 the degree of A.M., 1895. She married in 
 Cincinnati, Aug. 12, 1869, Captain Edwin 
 Patterson, now deceased, and has two sons. 
 She was assistant of Gray Herbarium, Har- 
 vard, 1895, instructor in biology, in a pri- 
 vate school in Boston, 1896, appointed as- 
 sistant pathologist in charge of Herbarium, 
 Division Vegetable Pathology and Phj'siol- 
 ogy of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
 1896-1901, and since 1901, mycologist, and 
 mycologist in charge. Pathological Collec- 
 tions, mycological exchange and inspection 
 work at the Bureau of Plant Industry. 
 Her special line of work is fungous diseases 
 of plants and insects, and systematic my- 
 
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 oology. Mrs. Patterson is a fellow of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science, member of the National Geo- 
 graphical Society, Biological Society of 
 Washington, Botanical Society of America; 
 section president in the Needlework Gnild 
 of America, member of the Daughters of the 
 American Revolution, Radcliffe Club, Lend 
 a-Hand Club, and Woman's National Press 
 Association. Address: The Decatur, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 PATTERSON, George Washington: 
 
 Professor of electrical engineering; born 
 in Corning, N. Y., Feb. l', 1804;"^ son of 
 George W. and Fi-anees D. (Todd) Patter- 
 son. He was graduated from Yale Univer- 
 sity, B.A., 1884, M.A., 1891; from the Mas- 
 sachusetts Institute of Technologj^ S.B., 
 1887; student at Harvard Law School, 
 1888-1889, and received the degree of Ph.D. 
 in 1899, from the University of Munich 
 ( Bavaria ) . He was assistant in mathe- 
 matics, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 
 ogy, 1887-1888; since then with the Univer- 
 sity of Michigan as instructor in physics, 
 1889-1892, assistant professor of physics, 
 1892-1898; junior professor of physics, 
 1898-1901: junior professor, 1901-1905, and 
 since 1905 professor of electrical engineer- 
 ing. His research work has chiefly related 
 the standards of electrical ciirrent and elec- 
 tro-motor force. Professor Patterson is ves- 
 tryman and treasurer of St. Andrew's 
 Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor; treasurer of 
 Psi Upsilon Guild, and trustee of the Ann 
 Arbor Cattle Company. He is a fellow of 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science; member of the American 
 Physical Society, American Electrochemi- 
 cal Society; associate member of the Ameri- 
 can Institute of Electrical Engineering, and 
 the Detroit Engineering Society. He is 
 vice-president of tlie Patterson Library of 
 Westfield, N. Y. Professor Patterson is 
 also a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity, 
 Hammer and Tongs Club, Society of Sigma 
 Xi, Tau Beta Pi fraternity, Ames-Gray Law 
 Club, the Arbor Club, University Club of 
 Detroit, Scientific Research, Golf and Out- 
 ing and Washtenaw Country Clubs. He 
 married in Adrian, Mich., July 2, 1890, 
 
 Merit Susan Rowley, and they have three 
 children. Residence: 814 Soiitli Univer- 
 sity Avenue. Office: University of Michi- 
 gan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 
 
 PATTERSON, Harry Jacob: 
 
 Director and chemist in the ^lanland 
 .Agricultural Experiment Station; son of 
 William Calvin and Adaline (.Mattcrn) 
 Patterson, lie was graduated from the 
 Pennsylvania State College, B.S., 188G. He 
 was assistant chemist of the Pennsylvania 
 State College Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
 tion, 18SG-1888; chemist of the Maryland 
 Agricultural Experiment Station, 1888; 
 vice-director, 1895, director, 1898, and 
 secretary of the Maryland State Board of 
 Agriculture, 1908. Mr. Patterson is a di- 
 rector of the Hyattsville First National 
 Baniv, is brevet first lieutenant of the Penn- 
 sylvania National Guard; fellow of the 
 American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, member of the American 
 Chemical Society, Society of Chemical 
 Industry .of London, and the Society 
 for Promotion of Agricultural Science. He 
 married in Washington, D. C, Oct. 25, 
 1895, Elizabeth Hayward Hutchinson, and 
 they have two children. Address: Col- 
 lege Park, INIaryland. 
 
 PATTERSON, James Kennedy: 
 
 President of the State College of Ken- 
 tucky; born in Glasgow, Scotland, March 
 26, 183.3; son of Andrew and Janet (Ken- 
 nedy) Pattei-son. He came to the United 
 States in 1842 with his parents and was 
 graduated from Hanover College, Ind., A.B., 
 1856, A.M., 1859, and received from it the 
 degree of Ph.D., 1875, and LL.D. from 
 Lafayette College, 1890. He was principal 
 of Greenville Presbyterian Academy, 185G- 
 1859; professor of Greek and Latin in 
 Stewart College, 1859-18G1 ; principal of 
 Transylvania High School, Lexington, Ky., 
 1861-1865; professor in the Agricultural 
 and Mechanical College of Kentucky, 18G5- 
 1869; since 1869 president of the State Col- 
 lege of Kentucky, and also professor of his- 
 tory and metaphysics therein. In 1880 he 
 secured from the State an endowment for 
 the college, and maintained that endow- 
 
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 nient. sinple-handed. aoainst all the denom- 
 inational coJlejif's which endeavored to have 
 the law repealed in 1882; and maintained 
 the constitutionality of the Act of 1880 in 
 the lower comls and in the Court of Ap- 
 peals, lie was a delegate to the Interna 
 tional Geographical Congress in 1875, to 
 the British Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science. 1875-1890; elected fellow 
 of the Royal Historical Society of Great 
 Britain. 1879; and the Antiquarian Society 
 of Scotland, 1880. He is a member and 
 former president of the American Asso- 
 ciation of Agricultural Colleges and Ex- 
 periment Stations, and the American Asso- 
 ciation of State Colleges and Universities. 
 Dr. Patterson married at Greenville, Ky., 
 Dec. 27, 1859, Lucelia W., daughter of 
 Captain Charles F. Wing, and they have 
 had' two children, both now deceased. Ad- 
 dress: State College, Lexington. Ky. 
 
 PATTERSON, James O'Hanlon: 
 
 Congrcssmjiii and lawyer; born in Barn- 
 well, S. C, June 25, 1857; son of Edward 
 L. and Sarah Louise (Myers) Patterson. 
 He was educated in private schools in Barn- 
 well and in Augusta, Ga. Mr. Patterson 
 was admitted to the bar in May, 1886; was 
 twice elected probate judge of Barnwell 
 County, and was a member of the South 
 Carolina Legislature, 1898-1904. He was 
 elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-ninth 
 Congress in 1904 and reelected in 190G and 
 1908 to the Sixtieth and Sixty- first Con- 
 gresses from the Second South Carolina Dis- 
 trict. He married in Barnwell, S. C, Nov. 
 •50, 1870, Hattie A. Holman. Address: 
 P.arnwcll, S. C. 
 
 PATTERSON, Malcolm Rice: 
 
 Ciovernor and lawyer; born at Somer- 
 ville, Ala., June 7, 1861; son of Josiah 
 and Josephine Patterson. He wa.s grad 
 uated from Christian Brothers CoHege, 
 Memphis, and studied at Vanderbilt Uni- 
 versity. He is a lawyer by profession, and 
 was attorney-general of Shelbv County, 
 Tenn., 1894-1900. He was elected to the 
 Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses. 
 and reelected to the Fifty-ninth Congress. 
 He was elected governor of the State of 
 
 Tennessee, Nov. 6, 1906, for a two year 
 term and reelected in 1908 for the term 
 expiring in January, 1911. Address: Nash- 
 ville, Tenn. 
 
 PATTERSON, Raymond: 
 
 Journalist; born in Chicago, Aug. 21, 
 1856; son of Eobert Wilson and Julia A. 
 (Quigley) Patterson. He was etlucated in 
 the Chicago High School ajid in Yale, class 
 of 1878 (non-graduate). Mr. Patterson has 
 been with The Chicago Tribune since 1878, 
 as reporter, telegraph editor, night editor, 
 Sunday editor, acting managing editor, and 
 since 1894 has been Washingipn and general 
 correspondent, writing daily signed Tele- 
 grahic correspondence, under the name of 
 "Raymond." for the first column of The Chi- 
 cago Tribune. He wrote a general series on 
 ^Municipal Ownership from Europe, and on 
 the Race Question, published in the New 
 York Herald, Chicago Tribune and other pa- 
 pers, and other series on Child Labor, 
 Women at W^ork, Immigration, Finance, the 
 Tariff, and many other questions, and is 
 author of "Taft's Training for the Presi- 
 dency." j\Ir. Patterson is a professional 
 political writer, participating as such in 
 every campaign since 1880, and having a 
 personal acquaintance with Garfield, Ar- 
 thur, Cleveland, Harrison, McKinley, Roose- 
 velt, Ta.ft and political leaders North and 
 South. His political letters are frequently 
 syndicated, and because of demonstrated ac- 
 curacy his political estimates and forecasts 
 have a high reputation. He is a member 
 of the Psi Upsilon fraternity and of the 
 Gi-idiron, National Press and Columbia Golf 
 Clni)s at Washington. He married in Val- 
 paraiso, Ind., Oct. 11, 1892, Mary Young 
 Hogan, and has a son and a daughter. 
 Residence: 1309 Kenyon Street. Otilce: 
 42 Wyalt Building, Washingion, D. C. 
 
 PATTERSON, Thomas MacDonald: 
 
 Former U. S. Senator; born in County of 
 Carlow, Ireland, Nov. 4, 1840; son of 
 James and Margaret (IMountjoy) Patterson, 
 who came to the United States in 1849. He 
 was educated in the common schools of New 
 York City and Astoria, L. I., until 1853, 
 when his paroiils moved to Crawfordsville, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Fiid. He worked in a printing office there 
 tliroe years, and at the bench as a watch- 
 maker and jeweler for five years. In 1S()2 
 he entered Ashury (now Ue rauw) Uni- 
 versity at Greencastle, Ind., and later Wa- 
 l)ash College. Crawfordsville, Ind., which he 
 attended until the end of his junior year. 
 He moved to Denver in 1872; was elected 
 city attorney in 1874; elected the last dele- 
 gate in Congress from the Territory of Colo- 
 rado, 1874, and was elected representative 
 in Congress from the State of Colorado in 
 187G. He was a member of the National 
 Democratic Committee, 1876-1892; delegate 
 to the National Democratic Conventions of 
 1870, 1880, 1888. and 1892, and was the 
 Democratic nominee for governor in 1888. 
 He refuseil to support Cleveland for presi- 
 dent in 1892, and aided in carrying Colo- 
 rado for General ^Yeaver. In 1893 he 
 united with the People's Party, and was 
 a delegate to the Populist National Con- 
 vention in 1890, and urged the nomination 
 of both Bryan and Stevenson by that body; 
 elected a Bryan Presidential elector in 1890; 
 WIS permanent chairman of the National 
 Populist convention of 1900; elected a Bry- 
 an Presidential elector in 1900; elected to 
 the U. S. Senate, January, 1901, by the 
 joint votes of Democrats, Silver Pepubli- 
 cans, and Populists, for the term beginning 
 March 4, 1901. His term of office expired 
 March .3. 1907. Mr. Patterson married in 
 Watertown. N. Y.. in 1863, Katherine Graf- 
 ton, who died July 10, 1902. Address: 
 Denver. Colo. 
 
 PAXTON, John Randolph: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Cannonsburg, Pa., 
 Sept. 18, 1843. He was educated in Jef- 
 fer.son College. Pa., until the end of the 
 junior year, 1802, when he entered the 
 140th Pennsylvania Volunteers, in which he 
 served as a private and 2d lieutenant, until 
 the Avar closed. He retairned to Jefferson 
 College from which he was graduated A.B., 
 1860; and was graduated from the Western 
 Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa.. 1869. 
 He was ordained in the Presbyterian minis- 
 try; pastor of Churchville, Md., 1871-1874; 
 Pine Street Church, Harrisburg, Pa., 1874- 
 1878; New York Avenue Church, Washing- 
 ton, D. C, 1878 1882; West Church, New 
 
 ^'ork City. 1882-1893; since flu'n pasfor 
 of New York Churcli, New York (^ity. He 
 is a. companion of the Military Order nf the 
 Loyal Legion, and mend)er of llie ('eiilury, 
 Union League Clubs of New Y'ork City. 
 Address: ol West 461 h Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 PAYNE, Oliver Hazard: 
 
 Capitalist; born in Clc\claiiil, Oliici. 1S42; 
 son of Judge and U. S. Senator Henry B. 
 and Mary (Perry) Payne. He was grad- 
 uated fiom Y'ale in 1863; and in the latter 
 part of the \\'ar served as officer in an 
 Ohio Regiment. He is a director of the 
 Standard Oil Company, American 'I'obacco 
 Company, Havana Tobacco Company, Cha.se 
 National Bank, New York Loan and Im- 
 provement Company; vice-pr(\sident of the 
 Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company, 
 Helena ^Mining Company and numerous oth- 
 er corporations. He aided in establishing 
 the Medical Department of Cornell Univer- 
 sity in New Y'ork City by a gift of half a 
 million dollars. ]Mr. Payne is a member of 
 the INIetropolitan, Knickerbocker, University 
 and the New Y'ork Y^acht, Clubs. Resi- 
 dence: Thomasville. Ga., and 852 Fifth 
 Avenue, New Y'ork City. Office: 32 Nas- 
 sau Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 PAYNE, Serene Elisha: 
 
 Lawyer; member of Congress; born in 
 Hamilton, N. Y., June 26, 1843; son cf 
 Hon. William Wallace Payne (farmer, mem- 
 ber of New Y^ork Legislature, 1838-1839) 
 and Betsy (Sears) Payne. He removed 
 with his family to the suburbs of 
 Auburn, N. Y'., and has since, resided in or 
 near Auburn. He was graduated from the 
 University of Rochester in 1864, and has 
 received the degree of LL.D. from both 
 Rochester and Colgate Universities. He 
 was admitted to tlie bar in 1800 and has 
 since practised law at Auburn, and is now 
 member of the law firm of Payne, Payne 
 & Clark. He has held local offices: city 
 clerk, 1868-1871. supervisor, 1871-1872. dis- 
 trict attorney of Cayuga County, 1873-1879, 
 member of the Board of Kducation. 1879- 
 1882; wa-s elected in 1882 to the Forty- 
 eighth Congress and has been reelecte<l 
 (witli e\'eei)tion of one term) biennially 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ever since; now being member of tlie Sixty- 
 first Congress. He was appointed member 
 of the American and British Joint High 
 Commission. January, 1899, by President 
 ^IcKinh-y. He was member of the Com- 
 mittee on ^\'ays and Means, and as one of 
 tlie majority, helped to frame the tariff 
 measures popularly known as the McKinley 
 Bill, and the Dingley Bill; since January, 
 1899, chairman of Committee on Ways and 
 ^Means and leader of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives. He has been a Republican from 
 early days of the party; stumped Cayuga 
 County for Abraham Lincoln in 1864, when 
 twenty-one years old, and has been on the 
 stump in every gubernatorial and presi- 
 dential campaign since, under . the auspices 
 of State and national campaign committees; 
 was a member of the National Republican 
 Conventions of 1896, 1900, 1904 and 1908. 
 Mr. Payne married in Auburn, N. Y., 187.3, 
 Gertrude Knapp, and they have one son, 
 ^Yilliam K. Payne, now partner in his fa- 
 ther's law firm. Address: 131 Genesee 
 Street, Auburn, N. Y. 
 
 PAYNE, William Morton: 
 
 AullKir. editor, teacher; born in Xew- 
 bury])ort, Mass., Feb. 14, 1858; son of Henry 
 ^lorton and Emma Merrill (Tilton) Payne. 
 He was educated in the schools of Nowbury- 
 port and Chicago, and received the LL.D. 
 degree from the University of Wisconsin in 
 1903. He was assistant librarian in Chi- 
 cago Public Library, 1874 1876, teacher in 
 Chicago High Schools, 187G-1909; lecturer 
 at' the University of Wisconsin, Kansas and 
 Chicago, 1900-1904; associate editor of The 
 Dial, 1892-1909, literary of various newspa- 
 pers, and is the author, editor and trans- 
 lator of many books, and contributor to 
 many periodicals. He is a member of the 
 Nati(mal Institute of Arts and Letters, Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society, New England Society 
 of Chicago, American Peace Society, vice 
 l)resident of the Anti-Imperialist League, 
 and a member of the Cliicago Literary, Chi- 
 cago Twentieth Ci'iiturv (secretary and 
 treasurer), the Cliff-Dwellers, and the 
 French Clubs of Chicago. Residence: 2246 
 Michigan Avenue. Business address: 733 
 Fine Arts Building, Chicago. 
 
 PEABODY, Charles Augustus: 
 
 I'resident of the ]\Iutual Life Insurance 
 Company; born in New York City, April 
 11, 1849; son of Charles A. and Julia C. 
 (Livingston) Peabody. He was graduated 
 from Columbia College, 1869; Columbia 
 Law School, 1871. He pi'actised as a law- 
 yer in New York City from 1871, and on 
 Jan. 1, 1906, became president of the Mu- 
 tual Life Insurance Company of New York. 
 He was a member of the General Assembly 
 of New York in 1876. Mr. Peabody is a di- 
 rector of the Astor Trust Company, Galla- 
 tin National Bank, National Bank of Com- 
 merce, Farmers Loan and Trust Company, 
 Illinois Central Railroad Company, Union 
 Pacific Railroad Company; vice-president 
 and member of the Board of Manager's 
 Delaware & Hudson Company; trustee Title 
 Guarantee and Trust Company. He is a 
 member of the Metropolitan, of the Asso- 
 ciation Bar of the City of New York; and 
 of the University, Down Town, Union 
 League, and Tuxedo, Clubs of New York. 
 Mr. Peabody married in New Yoi'k City. 
 Jan. 27, 1880, Charlotte A. Damon, and 
 has two sons and a daughter. Address: 
 32 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 PEABODY, Charles Jones: 
 
 Banker; born in Columbus. Ga.. A]iril 
 25, 1856; son of George H. and Elvira 
 
 (Canfield) Peabody. He was educated in 
 the public school and Deer Hill Institute 
 of Danbury, Conn. He is captain and aide- 
 de-camp. Third Brigade staff. National 
 Guards of the State of New York. Partner 
 in the banking firm of Spencer, Trask and 
 Company; trustee of the Franklin Trust 
 Company; director- of the American Beet 
 Sugar Company; treasurer, secretary and 
 director of the Broadway Realty Company; 
 treasurer and director of the Mexican Coal 
 and Coke Company, Coahuila Coal Rail- 
 road Companj'; director of the INIexican 
 Lead Company, Montezuma Lead Company, 
 Compania IMetalurgica IMexicana, Mexican 
 Northern Railroad Company. He is a 
 Democrat and a member of the Reformed 
 
 (Dutch) Church; member of the Albany 
 Society of New York ; trustee of the Brook- 
 lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and Long 
 
Charles A. TEABobY 
 President New York Mutual JJfe Jnsuranee Co. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Island Collego Hospital; member of the 
 Down Town, City, Hamilton, Crescent and 
 Heights Casino Clubs. He married in 
 Brooklyn, Dec. 7, 1882, Helen A. Hoyt,, and 
 they have two children. Residence: 128 
 Willow Street, Brooklyn. Address: 54 
 William Street, New York City. 
 
 PEABbDY, George Foster: 
 
 Kctired lianker and railroad financier; 
 born in Colinnbus, Ga., July 27, 1852; son 
 of George Henry and Elvira (Canfield) Pea- 
 l)ody. He was educated in Columbus, Ga., 
 and six months at Deerhill Institute, Dan- 
 burg, Conn. ; received the honorary A.M. 
 degree from Harvard; LL.D. from Wash- 
 ington and Lee University and the Univer- 
 hiity of Georgia. He began business life as 
 clerk with two wholesale dry goods firms, 
 18G6-1880, and from 1880 until he retired 
 he was in the banking business ; being a 
 partner of the firm of Spencer, Trask and 
 Company. He was director and vice-presi- 
 dent of many railroad and business cor- 
 porations until retiring in 1905 and 1906, 
 such as the St. Louis, Alton and Terre 
 Haute Railroad, INIexican National Railroad 
 Comjjany, Rio Grande Western Railroad, 
 Edison Electric Illuminating Company, 
 both of New York and Brooklyn, and the 
 General Electric Company. He is commit- 
 tee member of the New York Chamber of 
 Commerce; and was at one time a member 
 of the New York Stock Exchange. Since 
 1880 he has been active in Democratic poli- 
 tics. He was treasurer of the Democratic 
 National Committee in 1904; treasurer of 
 the American Free-Trade League, in 1880; 
 has been an advocate of the single tax on 
 land values, and of government ownership 
 of railroads and public franchise corpora- 
 tions since 1895. Mr. Peabody is active in 
 civil service reform associations; vice-presi- 
 dent of the American Civic Association; 
 life member of the Brooklyn Institute of 
 Arts and Sciences, ]\Ietropolitan Museum of 
 Art, American Museum of Natural History, 
 New York. He is also active in Y'oung 
 ]\len"s Christian Association work in the 
 city and United States; trustee of the In- 
 ternational Committee of the Y'oung Men's 
 Christian Association; also of Colorado Col- 
 lege; the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; 
 
 Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes and of 
 the University of Georgia; treasurer of the 
 Southern Education Board and (>eneral 
 li]ducation Board; deputy from tlie Diocese 
 of Long Island, to the General Convention 
 of the Episcopal Church. l\o is a mem- 
 ber of the Soul hern Society and the Century 
 Association, Reform, Metropolitan, City, 
 National Arts and City Chd)s, and the Down 
 Town Association of New York City, the 
 Hamilton Club of Brooklyn iiinl llie Cosmos 
 Club of Washington, D. C. Itesidences: 
 Abenia, Lake George, N. Y.. and 28 ^Monroe 
 Place, Brooklyn. Office: 2 Rector Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 PEABODY, John Endicott: 
 
 Banker; Ijorn in Salem, Mass., .Ian. 5, 
 1853; son of Sanuiel Endicott and Mari- 
 anne Cabot (Lee) Peabody. He was grad- 
 uated from Trinity College, Cambridge Uni- 
 versity, England, B.A. in October, 1871, 
 after a three years' course. He engaged in 
 mercantile business in Antwerp, Belgium, 
 and in the banking business with Drexel, 
 Morgan & Company, New York City, 1873- 
 1875. He had already studied art and after 
 1875 traveled extensively to Europe in the 
 interest of his art as a painter. He mar- 
 ried in Boston, Mass., Jan. 15, 1878, Ger- 
 trude, daughter of James and Elizabeth 
 (Prescott) Lawrence and granddaughter of 
 Willis Hickling Prescott, the historian, 
 died May, 2, 1883, leaving a son and daugh- 
 ter, and Mr. Peabody again married Aug. 
 25, 1887, Martha Prince, daughter of Wil- 
 liam M. and Anna Augusta (Nourse) Whit- 
 ney, and by her he has another son. Resi- 
 dence: Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 PEABODY, Josephine Preston (Mrs. 
 
 Marks) ; 
 
 Poet; born in New York; daughter of 
 Charles K. and S. Josephine (Morrill) Pea- 
 bodj'. She was educated in the Girls' Latin 
 School of Boston, and Radclifi"e College 
 1894-1890. She married in Cambridge, 
 Mas^., June 21, 190G, Lionel S. :Marks, pro- 
 fessor of engineering at Harvard Univer- 
 sity, and she has one daughter. Mrs. Marks 
 has written from childhood, all her literary 
 work being dramas and poetry. Many of 
 the poems from her first volume are in- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 eluded in Stedniau's American Antholog)', 
 and a great many of her shorter poems have 
 been set to music by various composers, 
 particularly poems from The Singing 
 Leaves; others have been translated into 
 (Jerniau, and a few into Japanese by Yone 
 Xoguchi. She is author of: The Wayfar- 
 ers, 1898; Fortune and Man's Eyes, 1900; 
 ^larlowe (Houghton and Mifflin), a drama; 
 Old Greek Folk-Stories ; The Wings, a dra- 
 ma: The Singing Leaves; Pan, A Choric 
 lilyl. for music; The Book of the Little 
 ra.st; The Piper (drama), and other poems 
 and plays. Mrs. Marks is a member of 
 the Boston Authors' Club. Fabian Associate, 
 Cambridge Political Equality Club, Ameri- 
 can Folk Lore Society. Copley Society of 
 Boston, and others. Address: Cambridge, 
 :\lass. 
 
 PEACOCK, Virginia Tatnall: 
 
 .Author, journalist: lioru in I'liiludelphia ; 
 daughter of .Jolin Brooks and Virginia T. 
 (Marshall) Peacock. She was educated in 
 Eden Hall. Torrestlale, Pa., and by private 
 tutors. She began newspaper work on the 
 Washington stafl' of Philadelphia Times, 
 December. 1897, and has been a member of 
 the editorial staff of the Washington Post 
 since July, 1907. She is author of: Fa- 
 mous American Belles of tlic Nineteenth 
 Century, published in 1901, and a contribu- 
 tor to articles in Lippincotts, ( 'osuiopolitan, 
 Woman's Home Companion, ami Donalioc's 
 Magazines, also the New "^'ork Tribune, 
 World, Sun, Philadelphia riiiics. Record, 
 the Washington Post, and Star. She is a 
 nu'mbei- of the Columbia Historical Society, 
 and the National Society of tlie Daughters 
 of the American Revolution. Address: 
 :^4(;(i Ontario {{oad. Wasliingtoii. I). C. 
 
 PEALE, Albert Charles: 
 
 i'liysician. geologist; l)orn in llccksher- 
 ville, Schuylkill County, Pa.. April 1, 
 1849; son of Charles Wilson and Harriet 
 (Freel) I'eaJc He was educated in public 
 schools of Cciitial Pennsylvania. Central 
 High Scliool of I'hiladcl|jhia, I'niversity 
 of Pennsylvania, graduating A.B., A.M., 
 and ;M.D.. 1871. He was a])[)ointed 
 mineralogist in the Havden United States 
 
 Geological Survey of the Territories, after- 
 wards assistant geologist, and geologist ; 
 geologist in the U. S. Geological Survey, 
 1883-1898; aid in charge of Fossel plants, 
 and the U. S. National Museum since 1898. 
 He is author of various geological papers, 
 also on mineral springs. He married in 
 Philadelphia, 1876, Emily S. Vyiswell, 
 daughter of Rev. G. F. Wiswell, D.D. Ad- 
 dress : U. S. National Museum, Washing- 
 ton, D. C. 
 
 PEARRE, George Alexander: 
 
 Congressman and lawjer; born in Cum- 
 berland, Md., July 16, 1800; son of Hon. 
 George A. and ]\Iary (Worthington) Pearre. 
 He was educated at St. James College, the 
 University of West Virginia, and Princeton 
 University; studied law and was admitted 
 to tlie bar in 1882, being graduated for the 
 law school of Maryland University, of Bal- 
 iimore, and has been in active practice ever 
 since. In 1890 he was elected to the State 
 Senate and served in the sessions of 1890 
 and 1892: in 189.5 was nominated prosecut- 
 ing attorney by the Republican party, and 
 was elected and held that office until elected 
 to the Fifty-sixth Congress in 1898; and he 
 was reelected to the Fiftj'-seventh, Fifty- 
 eighth, Fifty ninth. Sixtieth, and Sixty- 
 first Congresses from the Sixth IMaryland 
 District. He is president of the Princeton 
 Alunmi Association of Maryland, and a 
 mcMuber of the jMaryland Society of Sons 
 of the American Revolution. Address: 
 ( iinilicrland. jMd. 
 
 PEARSON, James John: 
 
 Consulting and advisory engineer: born 
 in Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Sept. 
 22, 1858; son of Rev. James and Frances 
 Pearson. He was educated in Elmfield Col- 
 lege, St. Peter's, York, England ; was an 
 engineer apprentice under Lord (then Sir 
 W. (;.) Armstrong, and was graduated from 
 I'^l.swick School of Technology, Newcastle, 
 and was medalist in all physics, 1879. Mr. 
 Pearson was teclinical and traveling corres- 
 pondent for Textile Manufacturer, !Mechani- 
 cal World, Sanitary Engineering, and 
 Chemical News, 1879-1881; chief engineer 
 for Palmers Ship & Iron Company, Jarrow- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 on Tyne, 1881-1884; assistant manager 
 afloat and guarantee engineer for Haw- 
 thorne, Leslie & Company, St. Peters-on- 
 T,yne, 1884-18SG; in ciiarge of machinery 
 construction on Austrian torpedo chasers, 
 Leopard and Panther; the figliting equip- 
 ment of the Chilian cruisers Blanco Encal- 
 ada and Almirante Cochrane; the steam 
 trials of the Italian cruiser Giovanni Bau- 
 san; macliinery construction in England and 
 Yokosuka Naval Station, Japan, of the 
 Japanese cruisers Naniwa-Kan and Tacka- 
 chiho-Kan, 18SG-1888; consulting and con- 
 tracting engineer, Yokohama, Japan, con- 
 structing and installing textile mills, ice 
 plants, bridges, steam vessels, arsenal equip- 
 nient. etc., 1888-1891; manager of Nassau 
 Electrical Company, New York City, 1892- 
 180.i; since then in independent practice as 
 a consulting engineer; and is especially dis- 
 tinguished as an arbitrator on industrial 
 value and trade organization issues. He 
 is a member of the Engineers' and National 
 Arts Clubs of New York City, and tlie 
 Houvenkopt Country Club, of Suftern, N. 
 Y. Residence: 144 Remsen Street, Brook- 
 lyn. Office: 40 ^^■all St., New York City. 
 
 PEARSON, Richmond: 
 
 Diplomat; born in Richmond Hill, N. C. 
 Jan. 2G, 1852; son of Judge Richmond 
 Mumford and JNIargaret (Williams) Pear- 
 son. He was graduated from Princeton 
 University, A.B., 1872, A.M., 1875, and was 
 admitted to the North Carolina bar in 1874. 
 Mr. Pearson was appointed consul at Ver- 
 viers ana Liege, June 19, 1874; resigned 
 April 22, 1877; appointed consul at Genoa, 
 Dec. 10, 1901 ; appointed envoy extraordin 
 ary and minister plenipotentiary to Persia, 
 Dec. 1/, 1902, and serving at Teheran until 
 appointed, in 1908, American envoy extra- 
 ordinary and minister plenipotentiary to 
 Greece and jNIontenegro. Address: Ameri- 
 can Legation, Athens, Greece. 
 
 PEARY, Robert Edwin: 
 
 Explorer, and civil engineer, U. S. Navy, 
 with rank of commander; born at Cresson, 
 Pa., May 6, 1856; son of Charles and Mary 
 (Willey) Peary; descended from a family 
 of Maine lumbermen. After his father's 
 
 death in 1858, he lived with his mother at 
 Portland, Maine, where he prepared for col- 
 lege. He was graduated fioiii I'.owdoin Col- 
 lege with second honors and Phi Beta 
 Kappa, 1877; was a land surveyor at Frye- 
 burg, Maine, 1877-1879, and was employed 
 in the Coast and Geodetic Survey at Wash- 
 ington, 1S79-1881. In 1881 he passed the 
 iSiavy Department examination for the ad- 
 mission of civil engineers, and was commis- 
 sioned as civil engineer, U. S. Navy, Oct. 
 2(), 1881, and is now civil engineer with 
 the rank of commander. He i)lanned and 
 built a pier at Key West, Florida, in 1881; 
 was sub-chief of the Inter-Oceanic Canal 
 ourvey, in Nicaragua, 1884-1885. In May, 
 18h(j, he obtained six months' leave of ab- 
 sence and made his first Arctic voyage, 
 penetrating farther into the interior of 
 Greenland than any white man had ever 
 gone before. He was engineer-in-chief of 
 the surveys of the Nicaragua Canal, 188G- 
 1888, and in 1888 was sent to superintend- 
 ent the building of the new dry dock at the 
 League Island Navy Yard in Philadelphia. 
 He started on his second expedition in June, 
 1891, accompanied by j\Irs. Peary and a 
 small party, and in the spring of 1892 
 started North with a single companion, 
 reaching the rocky northern shore of Green- 
 land, which no man had ever seen before, on 
 July 4, 1892, naming the bay beyond. Inde- 
 pendence Bay; and on that voyage he dis- 
 covered the land beyond Greenland, naming 
 Mellville Land and Heilprin Land, and he 
 determined the insularity of Greenland. 
 He made another Arctic voyage, 1893-1895, 
 and two others, 189G-1897, discovering and 
 bringing back the Cape Y^ork meteorites, the 
 lai-gest ever found, one of which weighed 
 forty tons. He started on his fifth expedi- 
 tion in 1899, roundetl the northern limit 
 of the Greenland Archipelago in 1900 and 
 attained the highest latitude ever reached 
 up to that time in the Western Hemisphere 
 (80 degrees, 50 minutes), made an unsuc- 
 cessful attempt to reach the pole in the 
 spring of 1901; encamped at Cape Sabine, 
 among the Eskimos, in the winter of 1901- 
 1902, and in the spring of 1802 made an- 
 other start for the pole; found Greeley's 
 outfit on his way and reached 84 degrees, 
 
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 17 miniitos north, Imt found it impossible 
 at tliat lime to proceed further. He named 
 the most northerly cape in the world, Cape 
 Morris Jesup, in latitude 83 degrees, 39 
 minutes. Following his return that year, 
 The Roosevelt, a sjDeeially designed ship, 
 Avas built, and he began his fifth voyage in 
 1905, and in 1906 he reached latitude 87 
 degrees, 6 minutes, planting the American 
 colors there at the highest point north ever 
 to that time reached by man. In the sum- 
 mer of 1908 he started in the Roosevelt on 
 another expedition which ended suecessftilly 
 by his reaching the North Pole April 6, 
 1909. Commander Peary has received many 
 medals and honors from American and for- 
 eign geographical societies. He married in 
 1888, Josephine Diebitsch, and they have a 
 daughter, ilarie, born in Greenland, in 
 1893. Residence: 2014 Twelfth Street, N. 
 VV., Wa.shington, D. C. Address: 15 West 
 81st Street, New York City. 
 
 PEATTIE, Elia Wilkinson: 
 
 Author, journalist and critic; born in 
 Kalamazoo, Mich., Jan. 15, 18G2; daughter 
 of Frederick and Amanda (Cahill) Wil- 
 kinson. She was educated in the public 
 schools of Michigan and Illinois. She mar- 
 ried in Chicago, in 1883, ivobert Bivcns 
 Peattie, and they have three sons and a 
 married daughter. Mrs. Peattie has been 
 for twenty-five years a practical newspaper 
 woman, beginning as a reporter and later 
 devoting her energies to editorial and criti- 
 cal work. For the last six years she has 
 been the literary editor of The Chicago 
 Tribune, meantime doing work for Colliers', 
 The Boston Transcript, the New York Sat- 
 urday Evening Post, and other publications. 
 She has written many stories and a few 
 poems for the magazines, and once wrote a 
 hundred stories for The Chicago Tribune, 
 which were printed in unbroken series. 
 The greater part of her fiction has dealt 
 with the West. Mrs. Peattie's sentiments 
 are democratic in the larger sense of the 
 word, and her writing has that tone. She 
 is author of: A Mountain Woman; Pip 
 pins and Cheese ; Ickery Ann ; The Shape 
 of Fear; Tlie Edge of Things; Castle 
 Kiiiglit and Troubadour; How Jaqucs Came 
 
 to the Forest of Arden; The Beleaguered 
 Forest. Mrs. Peattie is a member of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science, the National Geographic So- 
 ciety, The Fortnightly, The Little Room 
 and The Every Day Cltib, Chicago, and the 
 Lyceum, London. Address : 7GG0 Bond 
 Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 PECK, Bayard Livingston: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Hudson, N. Y., Aug. 16, 
 1869; son of Horace R. and Anna (Van 
 Deusen) Peck. He was educated in the 
 Hudson High School and Hamilton College 
 A.B., 18S1,"a.M., 1893. He was instructor 
 in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1891- 
 1893; clerk of the Surrogate's Court of 
 Columbia Covmty, N. Y., 1893-1896, and 
 engaged in the active practice of law in 
 New York City since 1896. Mr. Peck is a 
 trustee of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
 Commission ; a director of the Manganese 
 Steel Rail Company; member of the New 
 York County Lawyers' Association, Chi Psi 
 fraternity. Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity; 
 president of the Columbia County Associa- 
 tion in the City of New Y^ork, the Uni- 
 versity and Lawyers Clubs of Brooklyn. 
 He married in Brooklyn, Nov. 2, 1907, Eli- 
 zabeth Stuart Butler. Residence: 142 
 Willow Street, Brooklyn. Office: 26 
 Liberty Street, New York City. 
 
 PECK, Ferdinand Wythe: 
 
 Exposition official ; born in Chicago, July 
 15, 1848; son of Philip F. W. and Mary 
 Kent (Wythe) Peck. He received a pri- 
 vate education, was graduated from the 
 Cliicago University, then studied law and 
 was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1869. 
 His father left a large estate, of which he 
 and his brothers Walter L. and Clarence I., 
 had the management. He built several 
 business blocks in Chicago, and he organized 
 and was for several years president of the 
 Chicago Auditorium Association, which 
 built and owns the Auditorium Building, 
 hotel and theatre. He was vice-piesident, 
 and chairman of the Finance Committee of 
 the World's Columbian Exposition, and was 
 appointed by President McKinley in 1898, 
 and served as U. S. eommissioner-freneral 
 
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 to the Paris Exposition of 1000. Mr. Tcck 
 is a director of the American Trust and 
 Savings Bank of Chicago. He was one of 
 the founders of the Illinois Huniane Society 
 in 1S70; was for several years president 
 of the Cliicago AtTienaeuni, and was for 
 four years president of the Chicago Board 
 of Education. He received from the French 
 Government appointment as a grand officer 
 of the Legion d'Honneur. He married in 
 Chicago, in 1870, Tilla C. Spalding, and 
 they have six children. They have a sum- 
 mer home at Oconomowoc, Wis. Residence -. 
 182() jMichigan Avenue. Office: Monadnock 
 Block, Chicago. 
 
 PECK, George Record: 
 
 Lawyer and railway official; born in 
 Steuben Connty, N. Y., May 15, 1843; son 
 of Joel M. and Amand (Purdy) Peck. The 
 family removed to Wisconsin and he at- 
 tended tlie common schools of that State 
 until in 1861 he entered the Union Army 
 as a private in the First Wisconsin Regi- 
 ment of Heavy Artillery, and later became 
 a lieutenant and captain in the 31st Wis- 
 consin Infantry until the close of the war. 
 He studied law, was admitted to the Wis- 
 consin bar and in 1871 removed to Inde- 
 pendence, Kan., where he practised law vui- 
 til 1874, when he was appointed by Presi 
 dent Grant as U. S. attorney for the district 
 of Kansas, and removed to Topeka, holding 
 that office until 1879, and continuing in 
 practice at Topeka until 1893. He was 
 general solicitor of the Atchison, Topeka and 
 Santa Fe Railroad Company, 1881-1895, and 
 he declined an appointment to the United 
 States Senate to fill an unexpired term in 
 1892. He removed to Chicago in 1893, and 
 in 1895 he was appointed general counsel 
 of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul 
 Railway Company, which position he still 
 holds. Mr. Peek is a Republican in poli- 
 tics. He holds a distinguished place in the 
 legal profession and was president of the 
 American Bar Association, 1905-1906, and 
 he is also distinguished as an orator of 
 rare ability and has delivered many notable 
 addresses. He has been honored with the 
 LL.D. degree by the University of Kansas, 
 Union University, and Bethany College, 
 
 anil wit.li tlie A.M. degree by Milton Col- 
 lege. ^Mr. Peck married at Jancsville, 
 Wis., in 1869, Arabella Burdick, who died 
 March 5, 1896, and he has four children. 
 He has a summer home at Oconomowoc, 
 \^■is. Residence: Virginia Hotel. Office: 
 Railway Exchange Building, Chicago. 
 
 PECK, George Wilbur: 
 
 Ex governor of Wisconsin; born at Hen- 
 derson, Jefl'erson County, N. Y., Sept. 28, 
 1840; son of David B. and Alzina Peck. 
 He was educated in the public schools, went 
 to Wisconsin, and learned the printer's 
 trade in the printing office of the White- 
 water Register. He assisted in establishing 
 the Jefferson County Republican and was 
 later employed on the State Journal at 
 Madxson, Wis., until 1863, when he entered 
 the Union Army as a private in the Fourth 
 Wisconsin Infantry, later becoming a second 
 lieutenant and serving in Texas for a year 
 after the war. In 1866 he returned to 
 Wisconsin and established at Ripon, The 
 Representative, a weekly newspaper. Soon 
 after he went to New York and was one 
 of the editors of Pomeroy's Democrat, and 
 later edited the La Crosse (Wis.) Demo- 
 crat. In 1878 he established Peck's Sun in 
 ^Milwaukee, which gained a large circiilation 
 because of its humorous character, and es- 
 pecially for a series of papers written by 
 Mr. Peck and called Peck's Bad Boy and 
 His Pa, of which three series were after- 
 ward published in book form. He is a 
 Democrat in politics; was chief of police 
 of La Crosse, Wis., 1874-1875; chief clerk 
 of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1874; 
 mayor of Milwaukee, 1890-1891, and gover- 
 nor of Wisconsin, 1891-1895. He married 
 at Delavan, Wis., in 1800, Francena Row- 
 ley. Address: 190 Farwell Avenue, Mil- 
 waukee, Wis. 
 
 PECK, John Hudson: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Hudson. N. Y., Feb. 7, 
 1838; son of Hon. Darius Peck, for many 
 years judge of Columbia County, N. Y. ; 
 descendant of William Peek, an original set- 
 tler of New Haven, Conn. He was grad- 
 uated from Hamilton College, A.B.. 1859, 
 A.M., 1862, and received from that college 
 
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 liis l.L.D. in 1899. He was admitted to the 
 bar at Albam-, in December, 1861; is a 
 practising lawyer in the firm of Peck and 
 Behan, at Troy, and has been counsel for 
 numerous corporate interests and private 
 trusts. He became a trustee of Troy Fe- 
 male Seminary, 1883; was president of the 
 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1888-1900; 
 member of the Constitutional Convention of 
 the State of New York, 1894; chairman of 
 the New Court House Commission of Rens- 
 selaer County, 1894-1897; one of trustees 
 for the erection of the Hart Memorial Li- 
 brary, and member (original incorporation) 
 of the Scenic and Historic Preservation So- 
 ciety of New York ; and has for years been 
 a trustee of the Diocese of Albany. He is a 
 member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
 Chi Psi fraternity. Society of Colonial Wars 
 and Sons of the Revolution. Mr. Peck mar- 
 ried in 1883, Mercy P. Mann, of INIilton, N. 
 Y., a descendant of one of the original land 
 proprietors of Scituate, Mass. Address: 
 Troy, N. Y. 
 
 PECK, William Emerson: 
 
 Export mercliant; born in New Britain, 
 Conn., June 30, 1858; son of Charles and 
 ]\Iary Folger (Davis) Peck. He was grad- 
 uated from \Yilliston Seminary, East Hamp- 
 ton, Mass., 1877, and from Yale College, 
 1881. During the years 1881-1888, he trav- 
 eled e.Ktensively in South America, crossing 
 the Andes five times. He is president of 
 William E. Peck Company; vice-president 
 of the Colonial Trade Company; treasurer 
 of Hale Company, and the American Ex- 
 porters Association. He is a member of the 
 New Y'ork Chamber of Commerce, New Eng- 
 land Society, the Sons of Revolution and 
 of the National Geographic Society of 
 Washington; trustee of Mt. Meigs Colored 
 Institute of Alabama and the United States 
 Savings Bank of New York. He has con- 
 tributed iiiinicrnus articles on export trade 
 to various iniblications and the press and 
 delivered public addresses on similar topics. 
 He is a member of the Down "l^own Associa- 
 tion, University, Yale, Barnard and Xassau 
 Country Clubs of New York; of tlie New 
 Haven Yacht and Graduates' Clubs of New 
 Haven; Sachem's Head Yacht Club, of Sa- 
 chem's Head, Coiiii., and Tli(< I'ilgrims' 
 
 Club of London. ]Mr. Peck married in 
 Liverpool, England, Jan. 30, 1884, Bertha 
 Thompson Pierce and they have one daugh- 
 ter. Residence: 12 East 58th Street. Ad- 
 dress: 116 Broad Street, New Y^ork City. 
 
 PECKHAM, Elizabeth Giflford: 
 
 Writer; born in Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 
 19, 1854; daughter of Charles and Mary 
 Caroline (Child) Gifi'ord. She was grad- 
 uated from Vassar College, A.B., 1876, and 
 A.M., 1888. She married in Pine Lake, 
 Wis., Sept. 10, 1880, George Williams Pack- 
 ham, and has three children. She is joint 
 author (with her husband) of: Habits and 
 Instincts of Solitary Wasps, Wasps Social 
 and Solitary, Sexual Selection in Spiders, 
 and of numerous scientific papers. ]\Irs. 
 Peckham is a member of the Association 
 Collegiate Alumnae, and the Wisconsin Au- 
 dubon Society, also the Woman's Club of 
 Wisconsin. ' Address : 046 jMarshall Street, 
 Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 PECKHAM, George Williams: 
 
 Librarian, educator; born in Albany, N. 
 Y., March 23, 1845; son of George "^Wil- 
 liam, and Mary Perry (Watson) Peckham. 
 He was educated in Antioch College, Albany 
 Law School, and Michigan University, M.D., 
 and has received its degree of LL.D. He 
 was principal of Milwaukee High School, 
 and sviperintendent of the public schools of 
 Milwaukee, and is now librarian of the ]Mil- 
 wauKce Public Library. Mr. Peckham 
 served in the Civil War, 1863-1865, with 
 the First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, pri- 
 vate to senior first lieutenant. He is joint 
 author (with his wife) of: Wasps Social 
 and Solitary; Habits and Instincts of Soli- 
 tary \\'as|)s; Sexual Selection in Spiders; 
 and uumcrous scientific and educational 
 pai)('r>. lie is past president of the Wis- 
 consin Academy of Sciences of Arts and 
 Letters, past president of the Natural His- 
 tory Society of \\Msconsin; member of the 
 (rrand Army of the Republic, and the Loyal 
 Legion. He married in Pine Lake, Wis., 
 Sept. 16. 1880, Elizabeth Gifibrd. and they 
 have three children. Residence: 040 Mar- 
 shall Sir(><'1. Business address: I'ublic Li- 
 brary, Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
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 PECKHAM, Rufus Wheeler: 
 
 Associate juislifc of the Supreme Court 
 of the United iStatevS ; born in Albany, N. Y., 
 Nov. 8, 1838; sou of Judge Rufus Wheeler 
 Peekhani of the Court of Appeals of New 
 York who lost his life in the wreck of the 
 Ville de Havre, Nov. 22, 1873, and of Isa- 
 bella (Lacey) Peekhani. He was educated 
 at the Albany Academy and in Philadel- 
 ])hia ; studied law in liis father's office, and 
 was admitted to the bar in December, 1859. 
 On the election of his father to the Supreme 
 Bench in 1859, he formed a partnership 
 with the former partner of his father, under 
 tlie firm name of Tremain and Peckham, 
 wliich continuetl until the death of Mr. Tre- 
 main. in December, 1878. He was elected 
 district attorney of Albany County in 1868; 
 later corporation counsel of Albany City 
 and in 1883 was elected a justice of the 
 Supreme Court of New York. While serv- 
 ing as such he was elected in 1886 as asso- 
 ciate judge of the Court of Appeals of New 
 Yoriv .State, and while occupying a seat on 
 that bench was, in December, 1895, ap- 
 pointed by President Cleveland associate 
 justice of the Supreme Court of the United 
 States. He married in 1866, Harriette M., 
 daughter of D. H. Arnold, president of the 
 Mercantile Bank of New York City. Ad- 
 dress: 1217 Connecticut Avenue, Washing- 
 ton, D. C. 
 
 PEFFER, William Alfred: 
 
 Former U. S. Senator; born in Cumber- 
 land County, Pa., Sept. 10, 1831; son of 
 John and Elizabeth (Souder) Peffer. He 
 was educated in the public schools of Cum- 
 berland County, Pa., until 1846, then taught 
 in country schools until 1849. He went to 
 tlie California gold mines in 1850, remain 
 ing until 1852, came back Ea.st and engaged 
 in farming in St. Joseph County, Ind., in 
 1853, thence to Morgan County, Mo., in 
 1859, and from there to Warren County, 
 111., in 1862. He enlisted in that year as a 
 private in the 83d Illinois Volunteer In- 
 fantry serving with it until he was mus- 
 tered out with the rank of lieutenant in 
 June, 1865. After the war he engaged in 
 the practice of law in Clarksville, Tenn., 
 until 1870, when he removed to Kansas, set- 
 
 lied ou a claim in \\'ilson County, and es- 
 tablislied a law i)ractice. He afterward es- 
 tablished tlie Fredonia Jouinal and the (,'of- 
 fcy ville .Journal, and from ISSl was editor 
 of The Kansas Farmer for user ten years, 
 and editorial writer on Tupcka Daily Capi- 
 tal, seven years. He was active in the 
 Re])ublican ))uty, was elected to the State 
 Senate in 1874. and was a presidential elec- 
 tor for Garlield in 1880. He became ac- 
 tively identified with the People's party 
 movement, and its recognized leader in Kan- 
 sas, and that l)arty. gaining ])Ower in the 
 State, elected him United States senator for 
 the term, 1891-1897. He was Prohibition 
 candidate for governor of Kansas in 1898, 
 but was defeated, and in 1900, having re- 
 turned to the Republican party on the issues 
 growing out of the Spanish American War, 
 he took an active part in the campaign for 
 ]McKinley and Roosevelt. He married, Dec. 
 28, 1852, Sarah Jane Barber. Address: 
 Topeka, Kan. 
 
 PEGRAM, Henry: 
 
 Lawyer; born in London, England, Sept. 
 1, 1869; son of Orlando A. and Mary M. 
 (Sandford) Pegram (Americans) ; educat- 
 ed in the Institution Lavanoux, Nanterre, 
 France, 1877-1879, Holy Communion Church 
 Institute, Charleston, S.C., 1879-1885, Hobart 
 College, Geneva, N. Y^., A.B., (cum laude), 
 1889, A.M., 1892, and the Metropolis Law 
 School, 1893-1895. He was instructor in 
 classics, 1889 1895 in Columbia Institute, 
 New York City; Porter Academy, Charles- 
 ton, S. C. ; Georgia Military Institute, 
 Atlanta, Ga.; and Trinity School New Y'ork 
 City. He was admitted to the bar of the 
 State of New York, 1895, member of the 
 staff of the Law Department of Lawyers' 
 Title Insurance Company, from Sept. 1895 
 to March, 1897; in charge of the title de- 
 partment of Wilson M. Powell, from March 
 1897 to :March, 1903; in iiulependent prac- 
 tice since March, 1903. Mr. Pegram was 
 a member of the New York State Torrens 
 System Commission of 1907. and is author 
 of treatise in land title registration. ^Ir. 
 Pegram is a member of the Bar Association 
 of the City of New York, New Y'ork County 
 Bar Association, New York State Bar As- 
 
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 soeiation, American Bar Association, Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society, Plii Kappa Psi fra- 
 ternity (attorney general, 1900-1906), the 
 Southern Society, The Virginians, the Na- 
 tional (ieogra))hic Society, and the German 
 Liederkranz Club. Residence: 44 East 
 G3d Street. Ollice: 4 Hanover Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 PEIRCE, George: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Oct. 0, 
 1847; son of Judge William Shannon 
 Peirce, of the Court of Common Pleas of 
 Philadelphia County, and of Elizabeth Ir- 
 win (Baldwin) Peirce. His father was a 
 descendant of early settlers of Delaware, 
 holding grants from Sir Edmund Andros in 
 18G0, and his mother was great-grand- 
 daugliter of Andrew Irwin, sometime Royal 
 governor of the island of Grenada, West 
 Indies. INlr. Peirce was educated in the 
 Friends' Central School, Philadelphia, at 
 the United States Naval Academy at New- 
 port and Annapolis, 1862-1866, but resigned 
 to stiuly law. He pursued his legal studies 
 in the office of Edward Hopper of Philadel- 
 phia and in the Law School of the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania, was admitted to the 
 bar, and afterward attended lectures at 
 Harvard Law School with the class of 1871. 
 Since September, 1871, he has been con- 
 tinuously engaged in the practise of law in 
 Philadeli)hia, where he is counsel for im- 
 portant interests and organizations. He is 
 one of the Board of Council of the Penn- 
 sylvania Industrial Home for Blind Women; 
 member of the Zeta Psi fralciiiity. the Law 
 Association of Philadelphia, University 
 Club, Welsh Sociciy and Historical Society 
 of Pennsylvania. He married, Dec. 10, 
 1874, Lucy, daughter of Rev. John B. Spots- 
 wood and Sarah Peters Spotswood. Resi- 
 dence: New Castle. Dcla. Address: 920 
 Arcade Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 PEIRCE, Herbert Henry Davis: 
 
 Di|)lomat; boiii at Cambridge, Mass., 
 April 11, 1849; sou of Jienjaniin Peirce, 
 mathematician. He was educated in the 
 Cami)ridge schools, Phillips Exeter Academy, 
 and Harvard College, class of 1871; and af- 
 terward studied geolog\' at the Royal School 
 of ]\Iines in London, England. He entered 
 
 upon a diplomatic career in May, 1894, as 
 secretary to the U. S. Legation at St. Pe- 
 tersburg, and in 1898 he became first secre- 
 tary of the American Embassy there when 
 tlie mission was raised to that rank, re- 
 maining in that portion until 1901. He 
 was appointed special counsel for American 
 claimants and counsel for the U. S. Gov- 
 ernment in the arbitration cases between 
 the United States and Russia, which he pre- 
 pared and argued at the Hague, in French. 
 He was appointed, Nov. 15, 1901, third 
 assistant secretary of State of the United 
 States and served in that position until 
 1906. During this period he made two 
 tours of inspection commissioned by the 
 President to investigate and report upon the 
 condition of the American consulates in 
 Europe and in Far East, resulting in the 
 institution of many radical reforms in our 
 consular service, notably the entire aboli- 
 tion of the fee system of compensation of 
 salaried consuls and the establishment of a 
 U. S. court in China to take the place of the 
 consular courts. As third assistant secretary 
 of State Mr. Peirce acted several times as 
 the representative of the President in con- 
 nection with the visits to our country of 
 guests of the nation, on the last occasion, 
 in the summer of 1905, during the peace 
 negotiations at Portsmouth, N. H., between 
 Russia ajid Japan, the preparations for 
 which and the reception of the plenipoten- 
 tiaries were under his immediate charge, 
 receiving from the latter, on August 20, 
 for communication to the President, the an- 
 nouncement of peace. After the separation 
 of Norway from Sweden he was appointed 
 to his present post as the first envoy ex- 
 traordinary and minister plenipotentiary of 
 the United States to Norway. Mr. Peirce 
 received from the French Government May 
 1(1. 1902, the decoration of commandeur 
 of liie Legion d'Honneur, and in 1903 the 
 order of the Double Dragon from China. 
 He married at Portland, Maine, Helen N. 
 Jose. Address. American Legation, Chris- 
 tinnn. Norway. 
 
 PELL, Howland: 
 
 Insurance, real estate; born at Flushing, 
 L. I., March 19, 1856; son of William How- 
 land and Adelaide Schlcfi'elin (Ferris) 
 
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 . Pell. He was educated in public and pri- 
 1 vate schools; and the School of Mines of 
 Columbia College. He entered the service 
 of the Highlands Chemical and Mining 
 Company in 1877, engaged with the Com- 
 mercial Union Assurance Association as 
 cashier for ten years, and in 1888 was ap- 
 pointed local agent for that company, and 
 also for the Liverpool and London and 
 Globe Insurance Company, the agency 
 liaving been established in this countiy by 
 liis uncle, Alfred Pell, in 1848. He is a 
 veteran of Companies I and K, of the Sev- 
 enth Regiment of the National Guard of 
 New York; served six years in the Twelfth 
 Regiment as lieutenant and captain; vice 
 president of The Gaillard Insurance Com- 
 jjany; trustee of the Fulton Trust Com- 
 jiany; member of the New York Historical 
 (Society, New Y^ork Genealogical and Bio- 
 graphical Society, St. Nicholas Society, So 
 ciety of the War of 1812; vice-governor- 
 general of the Society of Colonial Wars; 
 cliairman of the Committee of the Society 
 of Colonial Wars that erected a monument 
 at Louisburg, 1895, and at Lake George. 
 1903; director of the House of Mercy and 
 of tlie Home for Destitute Blind. He is also 
 a member of the Union, Tuxedo, and New 
 York Yacht Clubs. Mr. Pell married in 
 New York City, April 12, 1887, Almy Geo- 
 let Gallatin, and they have two children. 
 Address: 7 Pine Street, New York City. 
 
 PENDLETON, Francis Key: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Ohio; son of the Hon. 
 George Hunt Pendleton (member of Con- 
 gress, 18.50-1865, Democratic candidate for 
 vice-president on ticket with Gen. George 
 B. McClellan, 1864, U. S. Senator from 
 Ohio, 1878 1885; minister to Germany, 
 1885-1889) and of Alice (Key) Pendleton, 
 daughter of Francis Scott Key (author of 
 The Star Spangled Banner, etc.) Mr. Pen- 
 dleton was graduated from Harvard College. 
 A.B., 1870, Harvard Law School, LL.B., 
 1875. He was admitted to the Ohio Bar, 
 1875; later coming to New Y^^ork City where 
 he ha-s since practised law. He was ap- 
 pointed by Mayor McClellan, Aug., 1907, 
 corporation counsel of the city of New Y^ork. 
 He is a member of the Society of the Cincin- 
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 nati and of tlie Knickerbocker, Union, Met- 
 ropolitan, Down Town, Turf and Field, 
 City Madday, Riding and Jleadow Brook 
 Clubs of New York. He married Elizabeth 
 La Montague. Address: 25 Broad Street, 
 i\ew York City. 
 
 PENDLETON, Louis (Beauregard) : 
 
 Author; born at Tebeauville, Georgia, 
 April 21, 1861; the seventh son of Philip 
 C. Pendleton and Catharine (Tebeau) Pen- 
 dleton. Attended primary ami higli schools 
 at Valdosta, Ga., and college in Phihidel- 
 phia. For years he has been a staff 
 writer of editorials on political and other 
 subjects to the Macon Daily Telegraph, and 
 has contributed serials to the Youth's 
 Companion and' short stories to many 
 magazines. He is author of: Life of 
 Alexander H. Stephens, 1908, and pre- 
 viously published novels and juveniles en- 
 titled: Bewitched, and Other Stories, In 
 the Wiregrass, a story of life 'in Southern 
 Georgia ; King Tom and the Runaway, the 
 story of Avhat befell two boys in a Georgia 
 swamp; The Sons of Ham, a story of the 
 race problem; The Wedding Garment, a 
 tale of the life after death; Corona of the 
 Nantahalas, and idyl of the North Carolina 
 mountains; In the Okefinokee, a boys' story 
 of the great Georgia swamp; Carita. a 
 Cuban romance; Lost Prince Almon, a 
 Biblical juvenile; In Assyrian Tents, the 
 story of Sennacherib's invasion of Judea; 
 In The Camp of the Creeks, a boy's story 
 of an Indian uprising in Georgia in 1836; 
 A Forest Drama (written after six summer 
 outing trips in the Canadian Wilds). Mr. 
 Pendleton is a member of the Franklin 
 Inn (Author's) Club of Philadelphia. Ad- 
 dress: Bryn Athyn, Pa. 
 
 PENFIELD, Edward: 
 
 Artist; born in Brooklyn, in ISOG. He 
 was educated in the Polytechnic Institute 
 and the Art Students' League; was art 
 director of Harper's Magazine. 1800-1900, 
 originator of the Poster in America. He 
 designed the famous Harper Posters. 1893- 
 1898, and has made numerous covers for 
 Collier's Weekly. Saturday Evening Post, 
 and many drawings in Holland and Spain 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 for Sorihncr'.s IMagazine. He decorated the 
 Breakfast Room of Randolph Hall, Cam- 
 bridge, i\Iass., and the Rochester County 
 Club. He has traveled in England, France, 
 tiermany, Holland and Spain. Mr. Pen- 
 field is a member of the American Water 
 Color Society, and the Salmagundi Club of 
 New York. Residence: Pellham Manor, N. 
 Y. Studio: 1G3 West 23d Street, New 
 York Cily. 
 
 PENICK, Charles Clifton: 
 
 Bishop of Cape Palmas, retired; born in 
 Cliarlotte County, Va., Dec. !), 1843; son of 
 Edward Anderson and Mary (Hammer) 
 Penick. He was graduated from the Theo- 
 logical Seminary of Virginia, 18G9, and re- 
 ceived the degree of D.D. from Kenyon Col- 
 lege, 1877. He was ordered deacon of the 
 Episcopal Church, 1869 and ordained priest 
 by Bishop Johns in 1870. He was suc- 
 cessively rector of parishes at Bristol and 
 Goodson, Va., Mt. Savage, Md., and the 
 Church of the Messiah, Baltimore. In 
 1877 he was consecrated bishop by Bishops 
 Atkinson, Whittle, Pinckney and Dudley 
 and made bishop of Cape Palmas and 
 parts adjacent, West Africa. In 1883 he re- 
 signed from the Bishopric of Cape Palmas, 
 and, coming to the United States became 
 rector of St. Andrew's Church, Louisville, 
 Ky., was later rector of St. Mark's Church, 
 Richmond, Va., and of Christ's Church, 
 Fairmount, W. Va., Bishop Penick repre- 
 sented the Commission for the Colored 
 People in the General Missionary Board. 
 He is author of: More than a Prophet; 
 Birth, Life, Reign, and Glory of Christ in 
 the Soul; Our Deeds, our Memories, our 
 Duties; Hopes, Perils, and Struggles of the 
 Negroes in the United States; The Call of 
 the Race; Social Factor in Life of Christ; 
 Everlasting Life. He married in 1881 
 ]\lary Hoge, of Wheeling, W. Va. Address: 
 lairmount, ^\'. Va. 
 
 PENNEWILL, Simon S.: 
 
 (JoNcrnor of Dehiware. He was elected to 
 the oflTice in the general election of Novem- 
 ber, 1908, on the Republican ticket, for the 
 four-year term expiring Jan. 21, 1913. Ad- 
 dress: Dover, Del. 
 
 PENNYBACKER, Anna J. Hardwicke: 
 
 'reachor, autlior, speaker; born in Vir- 
 ginia, 1861; daughter of John B. and Mar- 
 tiia (Drews) Hardwicke. She was gradu- 
 ated from Classical High School, Leaven- 
 worth, Kansas State Normal College of 
 Texas, receiving Highest honors in each 
 case, also had tutors in Greek, Latin, 
 French and German. She married in Ty- 
 ler, Texas, Oct. 1884, Percy V. Pemiybacker, 
 who died in may, 1899, and they have three 
 children. She was principal of high school 
 for ten years, president Lexos Federation of 
 Women's Clubs, 1901-1903; treasurer of the 
 General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1904- 
 1906, auditor and cliairman of the Program 
 Committee, General Federation of Women's 
 Clubs, 1906-1008. Mrs. Pennybacker is au- 
 thor of: History of Texas, which was 
 adopted by law for universal use in public 
 schools of Texa^s, during the last ten years, 
 and a contributor to various educational 
 journals. Address: 2606 Withis Avenue, 
 Austin, Texas. 
 
 PENNYPACKER, Galusha: 
 
 Army officer; born in Chester County, 
 Pa., June 1, 1844; son of Joseph J. and 
 Tamson Amelia (Workhizer) Pennypacker. 
 He was educated in the Classical Institute 
 at Phoenixville, Pa. He entered the Union 
 service in the 9th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 
 in April, 1801, ajid served with it as a non- 
 commissioned stafT officer, in the Shenan- 
 doah Valley, during its three months' serv- 
 ice; entered for the War as captain, 97th 
 Pennsylvania Volunteers, Aug. 22, 1861; 
 promoted to major, Oct. 7, 1861; served in 
 10th Corps, Department of the South, par- 
 ticipating in engagements at Forts Wagner 
 and Gregg, James Island, and siege of 
 Charleston, S. C; capture of Fort Pulaski, 
 Ga., and taking of Fernandina and Jackson- 
 ville, Fla. ; commanded regiment and post 
 at Fernandina until April, 1804, when reg- 
 iment was ordered with 10th Corps to Vir- 
 ginia ; promoted lieutenant-colonel, April 3, 
 1864, and colonel, June 23, 1804; partic- 
 ipated in action.s, at Swift's Creek, Drewey's 
 Bluff and Chester Station, in May, 1864, 
 and May 20 led his regiment in an assault 
 on the ennemv's lines at Green Plains, Ber- 
 
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 iniula Hundred, receiving three severe 
 wounds, iuid losing 175 men killed and 
 wounded out of 295 taken into the charge; 
 assigned to command 2d Brigade, 2d Divi- 
 sion, 10th Corps in September, 1864, and 
 September 2!t led brigade in successful as- 
 sault upon Fort Harrison, where he was 
 again wounded and had his horse shot from 
 under him; p;uticipated in actions at Chaf- 
 fin's Farm, October 7 : Darbytown Road, 
 Oct. 29; with first Fort Fisher expedition 
 under General Butler, Dec. 1-31, 1SG4; with 
 brigade, took part in the successful attack 
 on Fort Fisher, N. C, Jan. 15, 1895, where 
 he was severely wounded ; and he received 
 the Congressional Medal of Honor for dis 
 tinguished personal gallantry in this assault 
 and for gallant and meritorious services 
 during the war he received brevets and 
 promotions as follows: Brevet brigadier- 
 general, U. S. Volunteers, Jan. 15, 1865; 
 brigadier-general, U. S. V., Feb. 18, 1865; 
 brevet major-general, U. S. V., ]\Iarch 13, 
 1865; colonel, 34th (designation changed to 
 16th) Infantry, U. S. A., July 28, 1866; 
 brevet brigadier-general, U. S. A., March 2. 
 1867; brevet major-general, U. S. A., March 
 2, 1867; in active service until 1883, when 
 he was placed on the retired list because of 
 wounds received; promoted brigadier gen- 
 eral, U. S. A., April 23, 1904. He received 
 the Medal of Honor from Congress for brav- 
 ery at the battle of Fort Fisher. Address: 
 300 South 10th Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 PENNYPACKER, Isaac Rusling: 
 
 Journalist and author, born in Phoenix 
 ville. Pa., Dec. 11, 1852; son of Dr. I.saac 
 Anderson and Anna Maria (Whitaker) 
 Pennypacker. He was educated in Hill 
 School, Pottstown. He was proprietor and 
 editor of the Wilmington (Delaware) Morn- 
 ing News, 1880-1882, on the editorial staflT 
 of the Philadelphia Press and Inquirer, 
 1883-1899, ex-president of the Netherlands 
 Society of Philadelphia, elected member of 
 Haddonfield, N. J., town council, in March 
 1903; resigned in 1906. He is author of: 
 Gettysburg and Other Poems, Life of Gen- 
 eral Meade (Great Commanders Series, pub 
 lished by D. Appleton Co., New York), al.^o 
 of articles in Philadelphia, in Johnston's 
 Cyclopedia, and numerous historical papers; 
 
 contributor of reviews to the New York 
 Nation, and Chicago Dial. Mr. Penny- 
 packer is a director of llic Manufacturers 
 Kiibbcr Company, mul tlie Pennsylvania 
 Feldspar Company until 1907. He was for- 
 merly director of the Mt. Holly (New Jer- 
 sey) Library, and is a member of the 
 Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia, the E. 
 Q. B. Club of Sewanee, Teun., Camden 
 County Country Club, and the Montrose 
 (Pa.) Country Club. He married in Phila- 
 delphia, 1877, Charlotte Whitaker of Hart- 
 ford County, ^Maryland. Address: Had- 
 donfield, N. J. 
 
 PENNYPACKER, Samuel Whitaker: 
 
 Ex governor of Pennsylvania; born in 
 Phcenixville, Pa., April 9, 1843. His father 
 having been appointed to a professorship 
 in the Philadelphia Medical College, the 
 family moved to that city, and he was sent 
 to the Northwest Grammar School, from 
 which he was given a scholarship in Saun- 
 ders Institute, West Philadelphia. On the 
 death of his father, after several years' 
 residence in Philadelphia, he returned to 
 Phcenixville, where he attended the Grove- 
 mont Seminary. He prepared for Yale Uni- 
 versity, but was prevented from attending 
 In 1862 he took an examination for a teach- 
 er's certificate in Montgomery County, and 
 that winter taught school in Mont Clare. 
 In 1863 he enlisted and was sworn into a 
 Company F, of Pottstown, 26th Pemisyl- 
 vania Emeigency Regiment, which was the 
 first force to meet the Confederate forces at 
 Gettysburg. On his return from military 
 service he studied law in the Law Depart- 
 ment of the University of Pennsylvania 
 from which he was graduated LL.B., 1866, 
 and during the same period was a law 
 student in the office of Hon. Peter McCall. 
 He was admitted to the bar in 1866. practis- 
 ing in Philadelphia until he was appointed 
 judge of the Court of Common Pleas of 
 Philadelphia by Governor Beaver in 1889; 
 nnd later in the same year he wa.s elected 
 to the same position for a term of ten years, 
 and in 1899 was reelected for a similar 
 term; and while he was acting as president 
 judge of the Court of Common Pleas No. 2 
 of Philadelphia; he was elected governor of 
 Pennsylvania on the Republican ticket and 
 
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 served for the four year term whicli expired 
 in Jan. 1907. Governor Pennypacker is 
 president of the Historical Society of Penn- 
 .sylvania and of the Philobiblon Club; vice- 
 president of the Sons of the Revolution and 
 of the Colonial Society; past commander of 
 Frederick Taylor Post No. 19, Grand Army 
 of the Republic; member of the Society of 
 Colonial Wars and of the Society of the 
 War of 1812. He is also a trustee of the 
 University of Pennsylvania. For several 
 years he was a member of the Valley Forge 
 Commission. He is the author of: Penn- 
 sylvania Colonial Cases; Pennypackers Su 
 preme Court Reports; A Digest of the Com- 
 mon Law Reports; The Settlement of Ger- 
 mantown; Historical and Biographical 
 Sketches; and over fifty books and papers. 
 The University of Pennsylvania has con- 
 ferred upon him the degree LL.D. He mar 
 ried, Oct. 20, 1870, Virginia Earl, daughter 
 of Xathan B. Broomall, of Chester County, 
 and they have three daughters and a son. 
 Address : Pennypacker's Mills, Pa. 
 
 PENROSE, Boies: 
 
 United States senator; born in Philadel- 
 phia, Nov. 1, 1860; son of Dr. Ricliard A. F. 
 Penrose. He was prepared for college by 
 private tutors and in the schools of Phila- 
 del])hia; and was graduated from Harvard 
 College in 1881. He read law with Wayne 
 MacVeagh and George Tucker Bispham, and 
 was admitted to the bar in 188,3; and prac- 
 tised his profession in Philadelphia for sev 
 eral years. He was elected to the Pennsyl- 
 vania House of Representatives from the 
 Eighth Philadelphia District in 1884; was 
 elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate 
 from the Si.xth Philadelphia District in 
 1886, reelected in 1890, and again in 1894; 
 Avas elected president pro tempore of the 
 Senate in 1889, and reelected in 1891; 
 was a delegate to the Republican Na- 
 tional Convention of 1900 and 1904; 
 was chairman of the Republiciin State Com- 
 mittee in 1903-1905; was elected a 
 member of the National Republican Com- 
 mittee from Pennsylvania in 1904; and 
 wa-s elected to the United States Senate to 
 succeed J. Donald Cameron, and took his 
 .seat March 4, 1897. He was the unanimous 
 choice to the Republican caucus of both 
 
 houses and was reelected by the full party 
 vote in the legislature in 1903 and 1909. 
 His term of service will expire March 3, 
 1915. Residence: 1331 Spruce Street, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 PENROSE, Clement Biddle: 
 
 Jurist; born in Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 27, 
 1832. He attended several schools in Wash- 
 inglon, D. C- ; studied in Franklin College, 
 Lancaster, Pa., and in 1850 was graduated 
 A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania, 
 from which he received the LL.D. degree in 
 1901. He married, in 1857, Mary Linnard, 
 and has had eight children. He subse- 
 quently read law in the office of his father, 
 tlien a leading Philadelphia attorney, and 
 was admitted to practice in 1853. He fol- 
 lowed his profession with much success 
 until 1878, when he was appointed by 
 Governor Hartranft, a judge of the Phila- 
 delphia Orphan's Court to fill a vacancy. 
 He was regularly elected in November of 
 that year, was reelected in 1888 and again 
 in 1898, receiving the votes of both political 
 parties. He is one of the vice-presidents of 
 the Law Academy of Philadelphia, a mem- 
 ber of the Historical Society of Pennsylva- 
 nia, the American Academy of Political and 
 Social Science, and the St. Elmo Club. 
 He married in 1857, Mary Linnard, and has 
 had eight children. Address: 182 West 
 Chelten Avenue, Philadelphia. 
 
 PENROSE, Richard A. F., Jr.: 
 
 Geologist, mining engineer ; born in 
 Pliiladeiphia, Dec. 17, 1803; son of Richard 
 Alexander Fullerton and Sarah H. B. Pen 
 rose. He was graduated from Harvard, 
 with highest honors, in 1884, and received 
 the degrees of A.M., Ph.D., 1886. He was 
 geologist in charge of the survey of Eastern 
 Texas, for the Texas Geological Survey, 
 1888; appointed, 1889, by the Geological 
 Survey of Arkansas to make detailed re- 
 ports on the manganese and iron ore regions 
 of Arkansas; professor economic geology, 
 University of Chicago, 1892; gave course 
 lectui'cs on economic geo]og\', at Leland 
 Stanford, Jr., University, 1893; s])ecial 
 geologist II. S. Geological Survey. 1894, to 
 examine and report on gold districts of 
 Cripple Greek, Colo; director of the Ridge 
 
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 Avenue Passenger Railway Company of 
 Philadelphia ; member of the Board of Man- 
 agers of the Philadelphia, German town and 
 Norristown Railway Company. Dr. Penrose 
 is a fellow of the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science, and the Geo- 
 logical Society of America; member of the 
 American Philosophical Sociely, Academy 
 of iSTatural Sciences of Philadelphia, Wash- 
 ington Academy of Sciences, Geological So- 
 ciety of Washington, American Institute of 
 Wining Engineers, Colorado Scientific So- 
 ciety, National Geographic Society, and 
 others. He is author of : The Nature and 
 Origin of Deposits of Phosphate of Lime, 
 1888; Geology of the Gulf Territory of 
 Texas, 1889; Manganese, Its Uses, Ores, 
 Deposits, 1890; The Iron Deposits of Ar- 
 kansas, and other reports, papers, and 
 articles, in economic geology. Address: 
 460 Bullitt Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 PENTECOST, George Frederick: 
 
 Clergyman and author; was born in Al- 
 bion, 111., Sept. 23, 1842; elde.-,t son of Hugh 
 L. Pentecost of Virginia and Emma, daugh 
 ter of George Flower, of Herts, England. 
 He was educated at Georgetown College, 
 Washington, D. C. ; and has received the 
 degrees of D.D. from Lafayette College 
 LL.D. from the Central University of Ken- 
 tucky. He was private secretary to the gov- 
 ernor of the State of Kansas 1857 ; clerk 
 of the U. S. District Court, 1858; captain of 
 the Eighth Kentucky Cavalry, U. S. Army, 
 1862-1864; ordained to Gospel ministry, 
 1864; was pastor in Brooklyn, 1868-1871, 
 and Boston, 1880-1887; in evangelical work 
 in Scotland, 1887-1888; on a special mission 
 to English-speaking Brahmins in India, 
 18881891; minister of Marylebone Presby- 
 terian Church, London, England, 1891- 
 1897; minister of the Presbyterian Church 
 in Yoimkers, N. Y., 1897-1902; special com- 
 missioner of the American Board and Pres- 
 byterian Board of Foreign Missions to 
 China, Japan, and Phillippine Islands, 
 1902-1903; noAV devoted to evangelistic 
 work at large, and Biblical teaching. He is 
 the author of : In the Volume of the Book, 
 1884; Out of Eg:\'pt, 1885; A south Window, 
 1886; Bible Studies (10 volumes), 1881- 
 
 1891; Birth and Boyhood of Chri.st, 1896; 
 Forgiveness of Sin, 1896; Systematic Benef- 
 icence 1897; Precious Truth, 1900; Chris- 
 tian Imperialism, 1902. He married Ada 
 youngest daughter of Augustus Webber, 
 M.D., of Kentucky. Address: Norfield, 
 Mass. 
 
 PEOPLES, William Thaddeus: 
 
 Librarian; born in Wilmington, Del., Jan. 
 1, 1843; son of James and Catherine (Gal- 
 lagher) Peoples. He was graduated from 
 St. Mary's College, Wilmington, Del., 1862.. 
 He is librarian of Mercantile Library Asso- 
 tion of New York; secretary of the Clinton 
 Hall Association of New Y^'ork; trustee of 
 the American Institute of the City of New 
 Yoi'k. He was unsuccessful candidate for Con- 
 gress in the Sixth Congressional District 
 of New Jersey, on the Democratic (gold) 
 ticket in 1896. He is a member of the 
 American Economic Association, American 
 Library x\ssociation. New York Library As- 
 sociation, American Museum of Natural 
 History, and a member of the New York 
 Library Club. Mr. Peoples married in 
 New York City, Nov. 29, 1882, Kate 
 Neimj'^er. Address: Mercantile Library, 
 Astor Place, New York City. 
 
 PERINE, Edward Ten Broeck: 
 
 Auditor and accountant; born in Plain- 
 field, N. J., Oct. 19, 1870; son of James R. 
 and Maria V. (Ten Broeck) Ferine. He 
 was graduated from the Plainfield (N. J.) 
 High School, 1888; entered the Columbia 
 School of Arts, class of 1892, but did not 
 finish the course. He was an officer in the 
 Third National Bank of Jersey City until 
 1893; cashier, then treasurer of the United 
 States Mortgage & Trust Company, 1893- 
 1904; and is now president and a director 
 of The Audit Company of New York. He 
 has acted as receiver and assignee in con- 
 nection with important Wall Street fail- 
 ures; lecturer, expert and authority on ac- 
 counts, with experience in the larger ac- 
 counting problems in America and Europe; 
 expert witness in cases of important finan- 
 cial litigation; financial writer, and speaker 
 at recent conventions of the American 
 Bankers' Association. He is director of the 
 
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 First Xatioual Bank of Bayonne, N. J., the 
 ^leelianies' Tnist Company of Bayonne. 
 N. J., and the People.s' National Bank of 
 Westfielcl, N. J., and other corporations. 
 Mr. Ferine married, in 189 1, Xaney T. 
 Mapes, and they have two daughters, Elsie 
 and Riti. Address: 1G.5 Broadway. New 
 York City. 
 
 PERKINS, Frank Edson: 
 
 Architect; born in Bo-ston. Mass.. Sept. 
 O, 1870; son of Charles W. and H. A. 
 •(Edson) Perkins. He was graduated from 
 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
 1892, ficole des Beaux Art, Paris, 1898. 
 He was professor in charge of courses of 
 architectural design. University of Penn- 
 sylvania. 1898-1902; Patron Perkins Atelier 
 of Architecture, New York City. 1902 1905. 
 He received honorable mention at Paris 
 (Salon, 1899, and medals at Ecole des Beaux 
 Arts; traveled all through Europe making 
 restorations of ancient monuments and 
 Avorking drawings of modern buildings. 
 Among the buildings constructed by him 
 are:- the building of The Mutual Life In- 
 surance Company of New York at the Paris 
 Exposition of 1900; church in Paris. 
 France, New York store for John Forsytlie: 
 American Fisheries Company Building; 
 New York apartment houses and hotels; 
 Furman University, University library at 
 Greenville, S. C. ; various residences, etc. 
 He won in open competition (of 134 archi- 
 tects competing), a])i)ointmeiit as architect 
 of the Capitol of Porto Rico, wliicli will 
 contain the Senate, House of Representatives 
 and Supreme Court. He served as profes- 
 sional adviser to tlic Building Committee 
 of the Philadeli)hia City Troop of Cavalry. 
 Mr. Perkins is a member of the American 
 Institute of Architects, National Arts Club 
 of New York City. Arts Club of Philadel- 
 pliia, the Architectural League; Societe des 
 Architects Diplom^^s par le Gouvernement 
 Franca is, Beaux Arts Society of New York. 
 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 Alumni, and the University of Penir^ylvania 
 Alumni. He married in Philadelphia, April 
 20, lOOo, Emily Roberts Lewis, and has one 
 daughter. Address: 225 Fifth Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 PERKINS, George Clement: 
 
 U. S. senator ; born at Kennebunkport, 
 Maine, Aug, 22, 1839; son of Clement and 
 Lucinda (Fairchild) Perkins. He was 
 reared on a farm, and attended public 
 chool until his thirteenth year, when he 
 sliipped on board a sailing ship for New 
 Orleans, and followed the calling of a sailor 
 on ships engaged in the European trade. In 
 1855 he shipped "before the mast " on the 
 sailing ship Galatea bound for San Fran- 
 cisco, where he arrived in the autumn of 
 that year. Since that time he has been en- 
 gaged in the business of merchmdising. 
 banking, farming, mining, whale lisliery. 
 and steamship tran.-^portation. In 1SU9 he 
 was elected to the State Senate, serving 
 eight years ; has been president of the JNIer- 
 f>hants' Exchange in San Francisco; also of 
 the San Francisco Art Association; is a 
 director of tlii' California Academy of 
 Sciences and other public institutions. Has 
 been grand master of the Grand Lodge of 
 Free and Accepted Masons of California, 
 also grand conunander of the Grand Com- 
 mandery nf the Knights Tem])lar of Cali- 
 foiiiia. and is a meudjer of California Com- 
 iiiandcry of the Military Order Loyal Legion 
 of (lie United States. In 1879 he was 
 elected governor of California, serving until 
 Januaiy, 1883; was appointed, July 24, 
 1893, United States senator to fill, until the 
 election of his successor, the vacancy caused 
 by the death of Hon, Leland Stanford, and 
 took his seat Augu.st 8, 1893. In January, 
 1895, having made a thorough canvass be- 
 •"ore tlie people of his State, he was elected 
 by (he legislature on the first ballot to fill 
 the unexpired term and reelected in 1897, 
 1903 and 1909. His term of service will ex- 
 pire ]\[;n(li 3, 1915. Address; Oakland, 
 Calif. 
 
 PERKINS, George Walbridge: 
 
 Finaiicici-: l)(ini in Cliicago. Jan. 31. 
 1802. lie was educated in tlu' ]niblie 
 schools of Chicago. lie began business 
 life in tlic Cliicago Ollice of tlie 
 New \ityk Lite Insurance Con)i)any, 
 1877, as ,-1 bc)()l;l<;ccpcr. later becoming 
 successivily casliicr and iir-pcctor of agen- 
 cies. He was made superintendent of tlie 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1319 
 
 Western Department of the Company in 
 1889, and in 1892 third vice-president in 
 charge of the agency force, with headquar- 
 ters at the home oIKee in New York City; 
 promoted to 2d vice-president 1898, to vice- 
 president, 1903 and elected cliairman of the 
 Finance Committee of the company in 1900. 
 He has been a partner in the banking firm 
 of J. P. Morgan & Company since 1901. He 
 is chairman of the Executive Committee 
 and a director of the Chicago, Burlingion & 
 Quincy Railroad; cliairman of the Board of 
 Directors of the Cincinnati, Haijiilton & 
 Da}i;on Railroad, Pere Marquette Railroad 
 Company; president and director of the 
 Toledo Railroad and Terminal Company; 
 chairman of the Finance Committee and di 
 rector of the Internat Harvester Company; 
 vice-president and director of the Great Cen- 
 tral Dock Company; trustee of the New 
 York Trust Company ; director of the U. S. 
 Steel Corporation, Northern Pacific Rail- 
 way Company; National City Bank, The In- 
 ternat Mercantile Marine Company; Astor 
 Trust Company, Bankers Trust Company, 
 Dayton & Union Railroad Company, Ger- 
 man American Insurance Companj-. Mar- 
 quette & Bessemer Dock and Navigation 
 Company, Northern Securities Company. 
 Mr. Perkin is a trustee of Vassar College; 
 and he is a member of the Union League, 
 Metropolitan. New York Y'aeht, Country, 
 ^lerchants and Ardsley Clubs. He married 
 Evelyn Ball. Residence: 524 Fifth Ave- 
 nue, N. Y^ Address: 23 Wall Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 PERKINS, James Breck: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born at St. 
 Croix Falls, Wisconsin, November 4, 1847. 
 He was graduated from the University of 
 Rochester in 18G7; was admitted to bar in 
 December, 1868, and has since practised his 
 profession in Rochester. In 1874 he was 
 elected city attorney of Rochester for a term 
 of two years, and in 1878 was reelected 
 for a second term. Mr. Perkins lived in 
 Paris, engaged in work on French history, 
 1890-1895; in 1887 his France Under Mara- 
 zin was published; in 1892, France Under 
 the Regency; in 1897, France Under Louis 
 XV, and in 1900 a. Life of Richelieu as one 
 of the Heroes of the Nation Series. In 1897 
 
 he received the degree of LL.D. from the 
 University of Rochester. In 1895 Mr. Per- 
 kins returned to Rochester and in 1898 
 served in the New York State Assembly 
 from the first district of MonrcM; County ; 
 was a delegate to the Republican National 
 Convention in 1904; was elected to the 
 Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty ninth and 
 Sixtieth Congresses, and reelected in 1908 
 to the Sixty-first Congress, from the Thirty- 
 second New York District. He is a mem- 
 ber of the National Institute of Arts and 
 Letters. He married in 1878, May K. Mar- 
 tindale. Address: Rochester, N. V. 
 
 PERRIN, John William: 
 
 Librarian; sun of Williams Jasper and 
 Susan (Allen) Perrin. He was graduated 
 from Illinois Wesleyan University. A.B., 
 1887, received the A.ISI. degree from Wabash 
 College in 1889; was a graduate student in 
 history, economies and philosophy in Johns 
 Hopkins University, 1890 1892; at the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago as graduate student in 
 history, political science and sociology, 1892- 
 1893, and honorary fellow from Jan. to 
 July, 1893, receiving the Ph.D. degree from 
 the University of Chicago in 1895. Pro- 
 fessor Perrin was assistant principal of the 
 high school at Danville, 111., 1887-1888; su- 
 perintendent of city schools at Petersburg, 
 111., 1888-1889; a.ssistant superintendent of 
 schools of Cook County, 111., under Superin- 
 tendent A. G. Lane, 1889 1890. He was pro- 
 fessor of history and economics in the First 
 Wisconsin State Normal Scliool at Platte- 
 ville. Wis., 1893-1894; professor of history 
 and political science in Allegheny College, 
 1894-1898; also, while at Allegheny, lec- 
 turer in history for the American Society 
 for Extension of University Teaching, 1895- 
 1898; professor of history and economics, 
 Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts, 
 Chautauqua, N. Y. He was professor of 
 history, Adelbert College of Western Reserve 
 University, 1898-1904; Albert Shaw Lec- 
 turer on American diplomatic history in 
 Johns Hopkins University, 1904; lecturer on 
 American History, AUeglieny College, 1905; 
 librarian of the Case Library, Cleveland, 
 Ohio, since June, 1905. Professor Perrin 
 is a member of the American Historical As- 
 sociation, American Political Science Asso- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ciation; active member of the National Edu- 
 cational Association, elected secretary of the 
 Department of Higlier Education at the 
 Detroit meeting, 1901, for the Minneapolis 
 meeting, 1902. While at Western Reserve 
 University he organized, in 1899, the Con- 
 ference of Collegiate and Secondary School 
 Instructors of A\'estern Reserve University; 
 and he was the cliairman of Executive Com- 
 mittee of the Conference until 1903. He 
 has been president of the Northern Ohio 
 Alumni Association of the University of 
 Chicago since Feb. 1907. In October 1907 
 he was elected president of the Ohio Library 
 Association for 1908. He has contributed 
 articles and reviews to the American His- 
 torical Review, Educational Review, Jour- 
 nal of Pedagogy, Yale Review, Chautauquan 
 and other periodicals on historical, educa- 
 tional or biograpliical subjects. He mar- 
 ried April 16, 1890, Harriet Naylor Towle, 
 of Evanston, III., and they have three chil- 
 dren. Address: The Case Library, Cleve- 
 land, Ohio. 
 
 PERRY, Alfred Tyler: 
 
 President of Marietta College; born in 
 Geneseo, 111., Aug. 19, 1858; son of George 
 Bulkley and ilaria Louise (Tyler) Perry. 
 He was educated in Drury Academy, North 
 Adams, Mass., Williams College, receiving 
 the degree of B. A. in 1880, and prizes in 
 mathematics and orator}-, and M.A. in 1891, 
 in the Hartford Theological Seminary, 1885 
 and in 1901 received the degree of D.D. 
 from Williams College. He was assistant 
 pastor of the Memorial Church, Springfield, 
 188G, ordained to Congregational ministiy, 
 Dec. 29, 188G, pastor of the East Congrega- 
 tional Church, Ware, Mass., 1887-1891, li- 
 brarian and professor of bibliology, Hart- 
 ford Tiieological Seminary, 1891-1900, and 
 president of Marietta College, IMarietta, 
 Ohio, since 1900. He is a member of nu- 
 merous religious and educational organiza- 
 tions. He married in Hartford, Conn., 
 April 13, 1887, Anna Morris, and tl)ey have 
 two sons. Address: Marietta, Ohio. 
 
 PERRY, Bliss: 
 
 Author, professor of English literature 
 in Harvard University; born in Williams 
 
 town, Mass., Nov. 25, 1860; son of Professor 
 A. L. Perry, the political economist. He 
 was educated at Williams College, A.B., 
 1881, A.M., 1882, and at the Berlin and 
 Strassburg Universities, and he has received 
 the honorary degrees of L.H.D., Princeton, 
 1900, Williams, 1902; Litt.D., Bowdoin, 
 1904, LL.D., W'ake Forest, 1906. He was 
 professor of English at Williams College, 
 1886-1893; Princeton University, 1893-1900; 
 and has been editor of the Atlantic Monthly 
 since 1899. He is author of: The Brough- 
 ton House; Salem Kittredge, and other 
 stories; The Plated City; The Powers at 
 Play; A Study of Prose Fiction; The Ama- 
 teur Spirit; Walt Whitman; "Whittjer; 
 Park-Street Papers; and edited Little Mas- 
 terpieces (18 volumes), besides various 
 English and American authors for school 
 and college use. He is a member of the 
 Tavern and Oakley Country, Boston. He 
 married Annie L. Bliss, of New Haven, 
 Conn. Address : 4 Park Street, Boston. 
 
 PERRY, Enoch Wood: 
 
 Artist; born in Boston, Mass., July 31, 
 1831. He was educated in schools there; 
 went to New Orleans, La., in 1848; studied 
 art in Dusseldorf, Germany, Paris, Rome 
 and Venice, and then returned to the United 
 States. He established as painter of por- 
 traits in New York City, 1865, and has exe- 
 cuted portraits of many prominent people; 
 has also painted numerous genre pictures. 
 Mr. Perry was elected associate of the 
 Natural Academy of Design, 1868, and be- 
 came an academician in 1869 ; and he served 
 as recording secretary of the National Aca- 
 demy of Design, 1871-1873. Address: 333 
 4th Avenue, New York City. 
 
 PERRY, Roland Hlnton: 
 
 S(ul[)t()r and painter; born in New York 
 City, Jan. 2."), 1870; son of George and lone 
 (Winton) Perry. He was educated in pri- 
 vate schools and in art at the Art Students' 
 League, New York, 1885-1888, and in Paris 
 at Eeole des Beaux Arts, 1889 1890, Acade- 
 mic Julian, 1890-1893, Acadeniie Delacleuse, 
 1889-1894. He modeled the Fountain of 
 Neptune for the Congressional Library at 
 \Vasiiington in 189G; Lion in Love, 1899; 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1321 
 
 Circ^, 1808; Primitive Man. 1899; Lang- 
 don doors for the ]?nffalo Historical So- 
 ciety, 1901 ; Frieze for the New Amsterdam 
 Theatre, New York City, 1903; Statue of 
 Dr. Benjamin Rush, Washington, D. C, 
 1903; fountain for W. Gould Brokaw, 1904; 
 statue, "Pennsylvania," for the dome, of 
 the Capitol at Harrisburg, Pa., 1904; statue 
 of General Greene, 1905; Reconciliation, for 
 Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tenn., 
 1906; Lions on the new Connecticut Avenue 
 Bridge in Washington, D. C, 1908. He is 
 a member of the Architectural League (vice- 
 president, 1903-1904) ; a member of the 
 National Sculpture Society of New York, 
 the Municipal Art Society, and the Players' 
 Club. He married, first, in New York City, 
 in 1895, Irma Hinton, by whom he has a 
 daughter, and second in 1906, May Hanbury 
 Fisher, by whom he has a son. Address : 
 51 West Tenth Street, New York City. 
 
 PERSHING, John Joseph: 
 
 Brigadier Geneial, U. S. x\rmy; born in 
 Linn County, Mo., Sept. 13, I860; son of 
 John F. and Ann E. (Thompson) Pershing. 
 He was graduated from the State Normal 
 School, Kirksville, Mo., A.B., 1881. In 1882 
 he secured, through competitive examina- 
 tion, the appointment to the West Point 
 ^tilitary Academy, from which he was grad- 
 uated in 1886, and commissioned second 
 lieutenant of the Sixth Cavalry. He was 
 promoted first lieutenant in 1892. captain 
 First Cavalry in February, 1901, Fifteenth 
 Cavalry, August, 1901, and commissioned 
 lu'igadier-general U. S. Army, Sept. 20, 
 1906. He sei'ved in the latter part of the 
 Geronimo Campaign in Arizona under Gen- 
 oral ]\liles in 1886; in the Sioux Cam- 
 paign, 1890-1891; with the Indian Scouts 
 until September, 1891, when he was detailed 
 as military instructor at the University of 
 Nebraska, serving there until 1895. He was 
 instructor of tactics at the U. S. Military 
 Academy, 1897-1898; served in the Spanish- 
 American War, and was at Santiago with 
 the Tenth Cavalry until August, 1898. In 
 August, 1898, he was commissioned major 
 and cnief ordnance olTicer, U. S. Volunteers, 
 serving as such until May 15, 1899, and in 
 July, 1899, he was commissioned as major 
 
 and assistant adjutant-general, U. S. Vol- 
 unteers, serving a.s such until June 30, 1901. 
 He served as the first chief of the Bureau 
 of Insular Affairs until August, 1899, and 
 was in the Philippines, 1800-1903. He was 
 in the field in tlie Island of Mindanao from 
 April, 1002, to June, 1003, and there gained 
 great distinction. He conducted several ex- 
 peditions against the Moros about Lake Ln- 
 nao, suppressing the rebellion and pacify 
 ing the country. He became a member of 
 the General stafl". 1903 1905, and was mili- 
 tary attache of the American Legation at 
 Tokyo, 1905-1900. serving with the Japan- 
 ese Army in Manchuria. General Pershing 
 is a member of the IMetropolitan and Army 
 and Navy Clubs, of Washington, D. C, 
 Army and Navy Club, New York City, and 
 Hamilton Club of Chicago. He married in 
 Washington. D. C. Jan. 26, 1905, Frances 
 Warren, and they have a daughter. Ad- 
 dress: Care of Adjutant General's Office, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 PETERKIN, George William: 
 
 Bisliop of West Virginia ; born in Wash- 
 ington County, Md., March 21. 1841; son of 
 Rev. Joshua and Elizabeth (Hanson) Peter- 
 kin. He studied at the University of Vir- 
 ginia and served in the Confederate Army 
 through tlie war. He was graduated from 
 the Virginia Theological Seminary, 186S, 
 and the degree of D.D. was conferred upon 
 him by Kenyon College in 1878, the D.D. 
 and LL.D. degrees by Washington and Lee 
 University. He was ordered deacon of the 
 Episcopal Church by Bishop Johns in 1868, 
 and was ordained priest by Bishop Whittle 
 a year later. He was assistant of St. 
 James' Church, Richmond, Va.. 1868 1860. 
 rector of St. Stephens' Church. Cnl])opper, 
 Va., 1860-1873, and rector of IMemorial 
 Church, Baltimore, Md., 1873-1878. He was 
 elected the first bishop of West Virginia in 
 1878 and was consecrated by Bishops Be- 
 dell, Kerfoot. Whittle, Dudley and Jaggar. 
 Bishop Peterkin married, fir.st, Oct. 29, 
 1868, Constance Gardner Lee (died 1877), 
 and second, June 12, 1884, Marion Mcin- 
 tosh Stewart. He is author of: Records 
 of the Episcopal Church in West Virginia. 
 Address: Parkersburg, W. Va. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 PETERS, John Punnett: 
 
 (.'k'lgyiuaii; born in New York City, Dec. 
 10. 1852; son of Thomas McCluve and Alice 
 Clarissa (Richmond) Peters. He was edu- 
 cated in Hopkins Grammar School, New 
 Haven, Conn., and Yale, A.B., 1873, Ph.D., 
 187G. and received the degree of Sc.D. from 
 the University of Pennsylvania, 1895. He 
 was ordered deacon, 1876, and ordained 
 priest, 1877, in the ministry of the Episco- 
 pal Church; studied Semitic languages in 
 GkM-many, 1870 1883, and for part of that 
 time was minister in charge of St. John's 
 Cliurch, Dresden. He was tutor in Latin 
 and Greek at Yale, 1876-1879 ; professor of 
 Old Testament languages and literature in 
 the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School, 
 Pliiladelphia, 1884-1891; professor of He- 
 liri'W. University of Pennsylvania, 1885- 
 1S!».'5: explorer and director of the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania Expedition to Baby- 
 lonia, conducting the excavations at Xippur, 
 1888 1895, discovering the Temple of Bel 
 and tlie most ancient inscriptions found up 
 to that time. He spent the summer of 
 I'.Kiii in Palestine, with Professor H. 
 Thicrsrh. of Munich, and discovered some 
 remarkable painted tombs in a necropolis at 
 Marissia. He was assistant, 1893 1903, rec- 
 tor since 1903. of St. Michael's Church in 
 New York City; and has been canon resi- 
 dentiary of the Cathedral of St. John the 
 Divine, New York City, since 1904. He is 
 autlior of: Scriptures, Hebrew and Chris- 
 tian (Vols. I and II), 1886, 1889; Nippur, 
 or Explorations and Adventures on the Eu- 
 phrates (2 vols.), 1897; The Old Testament 
 and the New Scholarship, 1901 ; History 
 of Hither Asia, including Egy])t (in Vol. 32 
 of the Universal Anthology) ; Early Hebrew 
 Story, 1904; Some Tombs in the Necropolis 
 of Maiissa (with Dr. Hermann Thiersch), 
 I !•().-): .-Vnnals of St. Michael's, 1907. He 
 i-ditccl the Diary of David Met lure. 1899. 
 Dr. IVters also collaborated in: Ihe Bible 
 as Literature, 1896; Lauda Zion, 1896: His- 
 torians History of the World, Kncyclopedia 
 Americana, Encyclopedia Britannica, and 
 other works. He is a member of the So 
 ciety of Biblical Exegesis; .Vrchaeological 
 Institute of America, N'orderasiatische 
 Gesellschaft, Orient Gesellschaft, American 
 
 G^^ographical Society; member of the Board 
 of Directors of the American School for 
 Oriental Study and Research in Palestine. 
 He is a trustee of the Cathedral of St. 
 John the Divine, Hobart College, The Shel- 
 tering Arms, and House of Rest for Con- 
 sumptives; vice-i^resident of the Riverside 
 and Morningside Heights Association ; and 
 is a member of the Centui-y, City and Co- 
 lumbia Faculty Clubs. Dr. Peters married 
 in Berlin, Germany, Aug. 13, 1881, Gabriella 
 Brooke Forman, and they have six chiFdren. 
 Address: 227 West 99th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 PETERS, Thomas Willing: 
 
 Consul-general ; born in Philadelphia, 
 Nov. 4, 1855; son of Francis and ]Maria 
 (Miller) Peters. He was educated in pri- 
 vate schools in Philadelphia, and Russell's 
 jMilitflry School at New Haven, Conn., com- 
 pleting his education in Switzerland and 
 France. He returned to the United States, 
 and was engaged as a grower of live stock 
 in Wyoming Territory, 1878-1889. He be- 
 gan his career in the consular service of the 
 United States upon his appointment Dec. 
 9, 1889, as commercial agent at Plauen; 
 promoted consul, June 29, 1896; was consul- 
 general at St. Gall, Switzerland, March 18, 
 1903, to March 30, 1907. when he was ap- 
 pointed consul-general at Munich. He mar- 
 ried at Philadelphia, March 11, 1901, Anne 
 Bona Shober. Address: American Con 
 sulate-General, Munich, Bavaria. 
 
 PFEIFFER, Oscar Joseph: 
 
 Physician ; born in Portsmouth, N. H., 
 April 8, 1858; son of Joseph Sylvester and 
 Genevieve (Karche) PfeifTer. He was grad- 
 uated from Dartmouth, A.B., 1877, A.M., 
 1897, Harvard, M.D., 1884, member of the 
 Harvard Varsity Crew, 1881; member of 
 the Piii Beta Kappa Society of Dartmouth 
 in 1877. He was interne at the Massachu- 
 setts General Hospital, 1883-1884, chief sur- 
 geon of Union Pacific Railway System, 1884- 
 1891, and has since been engaged in general 
 practice in Denver, Colo. He was visiting 
 sui-geon to St. Luke's Hospital, Denver, 
 1891 1908. Dr. PfeifTer is a nuMuber of the 
 Massachusetts Medical Societv, Colorado 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1323 
 
 Stntc Mcilical Socicly. Denver Meilienl So- 
 ciety, Anierieau .Medical Association, ineni- 
 ber of the Board of Re^ent-s ( Kepublican) , 
 University of Colorado, lS!)0-inOS, inenibcr 
 of the Tri Kappa fraternity of Dart month. 
 1874-1877, honorary member of llie Hasty 
 Pudding Society of Harvard. ISSl. and a 
 member of the University ('lub of Denver. 
 He married in New York City, 1884. Annie 
 Male Folsom, and he has two children. 
 Residence: .')21 Colfax Avenue East. Of- 
 fice: S and n Barth l?lock. Denver. Colo. 
 
 PHELPS, Erskine Mason: 
 
 Merchant; born at Stonington. Conn., 
 March 31, 1830; son of Charles H. and Ann 
 (Hammond) Phelps. He was educated in 
 Williston Seminary, Easthampton. Mass., 
 until 1857. In that year he went to St. 
 Louis. Mo., where he was for two years 
 connected with the firm of Allan, Copp and 
 Xcsbitt, bankers. In 1850 he went to Bos 
 ton, where he engaged in the brokerage 
 business, imtil February, 1804, when he 
 went to ChicagOj and in ])artnership with 
 George E. P. Dodge, established in the 
 wholesale boot- and shoe busine-s, the style 
 of the firm changing in 1865, to Phelps, 
 Dodge and Palmer, under which name the 
 house attained the premier place in the 
 wholesale shoe trade of the Northwest. In 
 1800 the firm sold out to the Edwards Stan- 
 wood Shoe Company, in Avhich j\Ir. Phelps 
 is a director. He is also a director of the 
 INIerchants Loan and Trust Company, the 
 Chicago Edison Comi^any. the Common- 
 wealth Electric Company, and the Calumet 
 Insurance Company. He has been president 
 of the National Business League for the 
 last seven years. Mr. Phelps was one of 
 the earliest members of the Central Church, 
 of which the late Professor David F. Swing 
 was the minister until his death, and of 
 which Dr. F. W. Gunsnulus is now pastor, 
 and he is president of the Board of Trustees 
 of this church. He is also president of the 
 Hahnemann Hospital, and a dii'eetor in var 
 ious charita))le and public institutions. Mr. 
 Phelps is a Democrat; was one of the or- 
 ganizers and for seven years president, and 
 is still a member of the Iroquois Club of 
 Chicago. He took a vei-y active part in the 
 Tariff Reform propaganda, wliich was con 
 
 temjioraiicou^ willi llie ('le\elanil Adniinjs 
 tration. In ISSS he wa^ elected nienilper of 
 tlie National Democratic ( nniniiltec iKmi 
 Illinois, lie is a nienilier of the ('oniniei'- 
 cial Cluli of C'licago. the (hieago. Calumel. 
 and Soutli Shore Country C]ul)s. Saddh' 
 md Cycle Club. Baidvcrs' Club. Midday, and 
 Washington i'ark Clubs, lie is also a nioni- 
 ber of tlie ^lanhattan Club of Xew York, 
 the TemiJJe and Algonipiin Clubs of Bos- 
 ton, and the Thatched House Chib of Lon- 
 don. He married at Lancaster, Mass., Oct. 
 ■2(). 1865, Anna Wilder. Residence: 1703 
 Indiana Avenue. Office: 34 Waba.sh Ave- 
 nue, Chicago. 
 
 PHELPS, Helen Watson: 
 
 Artist; born in North Altleboro. Mass.; 
 daughter of Thaddeus Phelps, M.D.. and 
 Mary Spencer (Watson) Phelps. She was 
 educated in Bo.^ton. Mass., and Paris. 
 France, and received prizes from the BulTalo 
 Pan-American Exposition, and Woman's Art 
 Club, 1007. She is a member of the 
 Woman's Art Club, National Arts, Pen and 
 Brush, and the Providence Art Clubs. Ad- 
 dress : 58 West 57th Street, New York City. 
 
 PHELPS, John J.: 
 
 Capitalist; born in Paris. France. Sep- 
 tember, 1801; son of Hon. William Walter 
 and Ellen (Sheffield) Phelps. He was 
 graduated from Yale LTniversity, B.A. Mr. 
 Phelps cruised around the world in the 
 chooner yacht. Brunhilde. 1885-1887; and 
 drove a four-in-hand coach 1,515 miles in 
 the summer of "1000, being the record long- 
 distance drive. Mr. Phelps served in the 
 U. S. Navy during the Spanish-American 
 War, as watch and signal officer. He is 
 director of the Englewood Sewerage Com- 
 pany, the American Graphophone Company; 
 president of Strong and Trowbridge Com- 
 pany; the trustee of the United States Trust 
 Company: director of the Hackensack Trust 
 Company, Hackensack National Bank. Cayu- 
 g:a and Susquehanna Railroad, and Texas 
 Land Syndicate Numbers Two and Three. 
 In politics he is a Republican. He is a 
 member of the Founders and Patriots of 
 America, the New England Society, the 
 .American Geographical Society, the Na- 
 tional Ceogra])hie Society. Sons of the Revo- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 lution; Spanish War Veterans, Graduates' 
 Association, Phelps Guards, Military Order 
 of Foreign Wars (iSJew York and New Jcr 
 sey Chapters), Navy League of the United 
 States, and also a member of the Union 
 League, Universitj-, New York Yacht. Sea- 
 wanhaka-Corinthian Yacht. Yale, Sachem's 
 Head Yacht, New ITaven Yacht, Auto Club 
 of New Haven, Hackensack Driving, Ber- 
 gen County Automobile, Hamilton, Oritani 
 Field, Wantage Outing, Bogota Boat, New 
 Jersey Automobile, and Teaneck, Clubs, and 
 the American Automobile Association. He 
 married in New York City in 1888, Rose 
 Janet Hutchinson, and they have two daugh- 
 ters. Address: Red Towers. Hackensack, 
 N. J. 
 
 PHIIBIN, Eugene A.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, July 
 24. 1857; son of Stephen and Eliza (Mc- 
 Goldrick) Philibin. He was educated at the 
 College of Saint Francis Xavier, New York 
 City; Seton Hall College, Soutli Orange, 
 N. J. (LL.D., 1904), and Columbia Uni- 
 versity Law School, LL.B., 1885. He has 
 been engaged in the practice of law in New 
 York City since 1886, and is senior member 
 of the firm of Philibin, Beekman and Men 
 ken. He was commi'rsioner of the New 
 York State Board of Charities, 1899-1900; 
 appointed by Governor Roosevelt and served 
 December, 1900, and January, 1901, as dis- 
 trict attorney of New York County; mem- 
 ber of committee appointed by the governor 
 of New York to investigate the conditions 
 at tlie Emigrant Station on Ellis Island. 
 Mr. Philbin is a member of the New York 
 State Bar Association, the Association of 
 the Bar of the City of New York, Charity 
 Organization Society of New York. Saint 
 Vincent de Paul Society, Friendly Sons of 
 Saint Patrick, Irish Industrial Society of 
 America, Prisoners' Aid Association (di- 
 rector), State Charities Aid Society, and 
 Legal Aid Society. He is a member of the 
 Catholic, City, Merchants, Country and 
 Rockaway Hunt Clubs. He married, at 
 Cliicago, June 28, 1887, Jessie Holladay: 
 they have five children. Residence: 0.'^ 
 West 52d Street. Office: 54 William Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 PHILIP, James Powers: 
 
 Lawyer, banker; born in Catskill, N. Y., 
 Sept. 18, 1801; son of Jacob Sickler and 
 Jane Elizabeth (Brown) Philip. He was 
 graduated from Rutgers College, class of 
 1882 (M.A., Phi Beta Kappa), and Albany 
 Law School, LL.B., 1886. He is president 
 of the Catskill National Bank, and director 
 of the Catskill Mountain Railway Company, 
 Hudson River Ice Company, and the Cat- 
 skill Building and Loan Association. He 
 is a member of the American Geographic 
 Society, director Catskill Young Men's 
 Christian Association, member of the Chi 
 Psi fraternity, Crescent Athletic, Brooklyn 
 University, Long Island Country, and the 
 Rip Van Winkle Clubs. _ Mr. Philip mar- 
 ried in Catskill, N. Y., on June 15, 1898, 
 Sarah Louise Pruyn. Address: Catskill, 
 Greene County, N. Y. 
 
 PHILIPS, John P.: 
 
 United States judge; born in Thrall's 
 Prairie, Boone County, Mo., Dec. 31, 1834; 
 son of John G. Philips. He was graduated 
 from Center College, Ky., 1855 ; began the 
 practice of law at Georgetown, Mo., in 1857. 
 and continued until 1861, when he took his 
 stand for the Union and entered the Volun- 
 teer Army, in which he served until 1805, 
 as colonel of the Seventh Missouri Cavalry. 
 After the war he practised law at Scdalia, 
 Mo., until 1882. He has also been prom- 
 inent in politics as a Democrat; was a Bell 
 and Everett elector in 1861, and a delegate 
 to the National Democratic Convention in 
 New York in 1868, at which Seymour and 
 Blair were nominated. In 1876 he was 
 nominated and elected tn the Forty-fifth 
 Congress, and he was reelected to the Forty- 
 >ixth Congress in 1878, serving until 1881. 
 IIo was judge of the Kansas City Court of 
 Appeals from 1885, until appointed by Presi- 
 dent Cleveland to his present office as judge 
 of the United States District Court for the 
 Western District of Missouri. Judge Phil- 
 ijis is a prominent Presbyterian layman. 
 The degree of LL.D. has been conferred upon 
 him by Center College, Ky., the University 
 of ^lissouri and the Central College of Mis- 
 souri. Address: 1310 Linwood Avenue, 
 Kansas City, Mo. 
 
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 PHILLIPS, Alexander Hamilton: 
 
 Profes.sor of mincialogy ; boni in Law- 
 renceville, N. J., May 13, 18(5(5; son of 
 John Foaster and Hannah (Warne) Phil- 
 lips. He was giaduatcd from Princeton, 
 B.S., 1887, Sc.U., 1899. He was instructor 
 in biolojiy and mineralogy at Princeton, 
 18S9-189o', in mineralogy, 1895-1898; as- 
 sistant professor, 1898 190;?, and since then 
 professor of mineralogy at Princeton Uni- 
 versity. He is a member of the Society of 
 Naturalists and the American Chemical So- 
 ciety. His researches have been in the line 
 of petrology, chiefly the mineralogical struc- 
 ture and chemical composition of the trap 
 of Rocky Hill, N. J., radium in an American 
 ore, and the structures and origin of some 
 Patagonian rocks. Professor Phillips mar- 
 ried in New York City, Dec. 2, 1896, Mabel 
 Harriette Knight. Residence: 54 Hodge 
 Road, Princeton, N. J. 
 
 PHILLIPS, Alfred Edward: 
 
 CUvii engineer; born in Rouse's Point, 
 N. Y., June 18, 18(53; son of John and Jane 
 A. (Irwin) Phillips. He was graduated 
 from Union University, A.B. and C.E., 1887, 
 A.M., 1890, Ph.D., 1894, and was elected to 
 tlie honorary society, Sigiua Xi, in 1887. 
 He was professor of civil enginering at 
 Purdue University, 1887-1894; assistant en- 
 gineer of the New York State Board of 
 Health in 1888; in engineering practice, 
 1894-1899, making a specialty of water sup- 
 ply, sewer design and sewage disposal, 
 streets and pavements; acting professor of 
 bridge and hydraulic engineering in the 
 University of Wisconsin, 1895-1890, and pro- 
 fessor of civil engineering at Armour Insti- 
 tute of Technology since 1899. He is a 
 member of the American Society of Civil 
 Engineers, Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and 
 the University Club of Chicago. i\Ir. Phil- 
 lips married in LaFayette, Ind., June 19, 
 1895, Lizzie Langdon, and they have two 
 children. Residence: 407 33d Street. Ad- 
 dress: Armour Institute of Technology, 
 Chicago. 
 
 PHILLIPS, David Graham: 
 
 Writer; born in INIadison, Ind., Oct. 31, 
 1809; son of David G. and Margaret (Lee) 
 
 Pliillips. He was educated at the De Pauw 
 University, Greencastle, Ind., and graduated 
 from Princeton University, in 1887. He is 
 the author of: The Cost; The Plum Tree; 
 lae Second Generation, and other novels; 
 also of essaj's on public questions in leading 
 magazines. He is a member of the ]\Ianhat- 
 tan, Princeton, National Arts and Authors 
 Clubs. Address: 72 East 34th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 PHILLIPS, John S.: 
 
 Publisher; l)c)rii in ('oiiucil Jlinirs. Inwa, 
 July 2, 1861; son of Dr. E. L. Pliillips. He 
 was educated in Harvard College, A.B., 
 1885, and the University of Leipzig, Ger- 
 many. He was treasurer of the S. S. Mc- 
 Clure Company, publishers of McClure's 
 Magazine, and general manager of that peri- 
 odical, 1890-1906; also for some years vice- 
 president of jNIcClure, Phillips and Com- 
 pany, book publishers; from 1906, president 
 of the Phillips Publishing Company, pub- 
 lishers of the American Magazine. He is 
 a member of the Century, Players', Aldine, 
 and Harvard Chibs. He married in 1890, 
 Jane B. Peterson, daughter of Reuben Pe- 
 terson, of Boston; and they have four 
 daughters and one son. Residence: Gosh- 
 en, N. Y. Address: 341 Fifth Avenue, 
 New York City. 
 
 PHIPPS, Henry: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in Philadelphia, Sept. 
 27, 1839. At an early age he removed, with 
 his family, to Pittsburgh, where he attended 
 public schools. His first employment was 
 as office boy and afterward as bookkeeper, 
 with the manufacturing firm of Dihvorth 
 and Bidwell; in 1861 he formed the copart- 
 nership of Bidwell and Phipps, who were 
 agents in Pittsburgh of the Dupont Powder 
 Company; was eminently successful in busi- 
 ness ventures, and at an early period in 
 his career he became intei'ested in the manu- 
 facture of iron as junior member of the firm 
 of Kloman and Phipps. A year or more 
 later Mr. Thomas M. Carnegie became in- 
 terested, and in May, 1865, Andrew Car- 
 negie joined the firm. He succeeded in 
 building up a large fortune ; is now one 
 of the largest holder.'? of the U. S. Steel 
 
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 ^lEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Corporation; has traveled much during re- 
 cent few years, and has devoted a consider- 
 able portion of his means to charitable and 
 public institutions. He is a member of the 
 ^letropolitan, City and Riding Clubs. He 
 married, Feb. 6, 1872, Annie C. ShalTer, and 
 they have five children. Addresses: Pitts 
 burgh; and 1063 Fifth Avenue, New York 
 City. 
 
 PHOENIX, Lloyd: 
 
 Ex-officer, U. S. N. ; born in New York 
 City in 1841; son of I. Phillips and Mary 
 (Whitney) Phoenix. He ^vas graduated 
 from the Naval Academy, 1862. He be- 
 came lieutenant in 1862, served through 
 the entire war and in 1865 resigned his 
 commission. Since then he has been prom- 
 inent as a yachtsman. He became a mem- 
 ber of the New York Yacht Club, and has 
 spent much of his life on the water. He 
 is owner of the Intrepid, a three-masted 
 schooner, \vitli auxiliary screw, for use in 
 time of calms, witli which he has cruised in 
 many seas. While on one of his crui.^es Mr. 
 Pnoenix was enabled to render valuable as- 
 sistance in rescuing the officers and crew 
 of the wrecked United States manof-war 
 Kearsarge, -which had been driven on a 
 reef in the West Indies, during a storm, 
 and had become a total wreck. For this 
 humane act he was thanked by the author- 
 ities. When not cruising, Mr. Phoenix is 
 very fond of driving fast horses, of which 
 he is the owner of several fine specimens. 
 He is a connoisseur in ai"t, and has a val- 
 uable collection of paintings, bric-a-brac, 
 and objets d'art. He is a. member of the 
 ^Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and of 
 the Union, Knickerbocker, University, 
 Metropolitan, New York Yacht, Seawan- 
 haka-Corinthian Yacht. Larchmont Yacht, 
 Army and Nav}', and 'I'uif and Field Clubs 
 of New York City. Address: 21 Fast 33d 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 PICKEREL!, George H.: 
 
 Consular officer; born in Columbus, Ohio, 
 July 12, 1858. He was educated in the 
 public schools. He was appointed consul of 
 Sf. Michaels, Azores, Sept. 10, 1808; a]) 
 pointed consul at Para, INIay 2!), 1!)0<J. He 
 
 married in Warren, Ohio, Helen C. Darling. 
 \([dress: American Consulate, Para, Bra- 
 zil. 
 
 PICKERING, Edward Charles: 
 
 Director of the Astronomical Observa- 
 tory of Harvard College since 1877; born 
 in Boston, July 19, 1846; son of Edward 
 and Charlotte (Hammond) Pickering. He 
 was educated at the Boston Latin School; 
 Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard Uni- 
 versity, A.M., 1880; LL.D., California, 188G, 
 University of Michigan, 1887, Chicago, 
 1901, Harvard University, 1903, University 
 of Pennsylvania, 1906; D.Sc, Victoria Uni- 
 versity, England. 1900; Pli.D., University of 
 lieideloerg, 1903; member of the Institut de 
 France, Nova Lincei, and of the Royal So- 
 cieties of England, Russia, Prussia, Sweden 
 and Ireland. He was instructor in mathe- 
 matics, Lawrence Scientific School of Har 
 vard University, 1865-1867; Thayer pro- 
 fessor of physics, Massachusetts Institute 
 of Technology^ 1867-1877; and e.4ablislipd 
 the first physical laboratory in tiie United 
 States. Studies of light and spectra of the 
 stars have been special features of his work, 
 and he has made nioie than a million meas- 
 urements of the light of stars. By estab- 
 lishing an auxiliary station in Arequipa, 
 Peru, southern stars are also observed, ex- 
 tending the work from pole to pole. He is 
 the author of: Elements of Physical 
 Manipulation, and fifty volumes of annals 
 and other publications of Harvard College 
 Observatory. He is a member of the Cen- 
 tury Association of New Y^ork. Dr. Picker- 
 ing married in 1874 Lizzie Wadsworth, 
 daughter of Jared Sparks. Address: Har- 
 vard College 01>scrvatory, Cambridge. ^Mass. 
 
 PIER, Arthur Stanwood: 
 
 Ivlitfu-. and author; born in Pittsburgh, 
 1874; son of \\illiain Stanwood ami Alice 
 (Moore) Pier. He was educated in St. 
 Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and grad- 
 uated from Harvard University, .\.1'>. He 
 is author of: The Pedagogues, The Senti- 
 mentalists, The Triumph, The Ancient 
 drudge, Boys of St, Timothy's, Harding of 
 St. Timoihy's, The New Boy, and The Young 
 in Heart. He is a meudjcr of the Tavern 
 
iiSSji 
 
 Lloyd Phceivix 
 Yachtsman 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Club of Boston. Address; 
 Avenue, Boston. 
 
 201 Columbus 
 
 PIERCE, Charles Campbell: 
 
 Cleigyuiau; born in Salem, X. J.. Feb. 6, 
 1858; son of Charles C. and Ellen Toy 
 (Brown) Pierce. He was educated at the 
 New Jersey State Normal School, Shurtlcff 
 College, Illinois Wesleyan University, Cro- 
 zer Theological Seminary, and the Divinity 
 School of Shurtleff College and received the 
 degree of Ph.B., A.B., B.D., and D.D. He 
 has been pa.stor at Jacksonville, 111., Leav- 
 enworth, Kan., Lincoln, Neb., and Philadel- 
 phia. \Yhile serving in the Philippines he 
 founded the Episcopal Church in the Is- 
 lands, and served as rector in ISIanila and in 
 general oversight of the Avork of his church 
 in Luzon until his return to the United 
 States, 1898-1901. By appointment of the 
 commanding general, he organized, and for 
 two years supervised the system of the 
 identification of the dead in the Philippines, 
 thus making it possible for the Insular War 
 to close Avitliout a single instance of "un- 
 identified dead." Ill-health compelled a de- 
 clination of overtures from bishops to stand 
 for election as bishop of the Philippine 
 Islands in 1901. In the same year he was 
 electeil by the House of Bishops as bishop 
 of North Dakota to succeed Bishop Edsall, 
 but confirmation by the House of Deputies 
 was defeated by a tie-vote (a majority of 
 seven laymen in favor of confirmation being 
 ott'set by a minority of seven clergymen 
 voting against the same), owing to uncer- 
 tain information as to a question of health. 
 While a pastor in Lincoln, he was chaplain 
 of tlie Nebraska State Senate; represented 
 the War Department at the International 
 Prison Congresses at Pittsburgh and Balti- 
 more, 1892-1893. In Washington, he was 
 for seven successive seasons the special 
 preacher at the Open-Air Services on the 
 site of the Cathedral of Saints Peter and 
 Paul, by appointment of the Bishop of 
 Washington. He was appointed chaplain of 
 the Ninth U. S. Cavalry, December, 1882, 
 and resigned in June, 1884. After serving 
 in the pastorate for some years, he was re- 
 appointed to the army as a post chaplain, 
 his latest assignment being that of chaplain 
 
 of the Corps of Engineers, with whom he 
 served at Camp Columbia, Havana, Cuba, 
 as senior chaplain of the Army of Cuban 
 Pacification. He was promoted lo the grade 
 of major, as '"wortliy of special distinction 
 for exceptional efiiciency,"' June 14, 1904. 
 He retired from active service May 9, 1908; 
 and accepted a call as rector of St. Mat- 
 thew's Church, Piiiladelphia, in April, 1908. 
 He is author of: The Tagals, publisliod by 
 the National Social Science Association of 
 Philadelphia and republished in France, and 
 The Hunger of the Heart for Faith (two 
 editions), published by the Young Church- 
 man Company, ^Milwaukee. Dr. Pierce mar- 
 ried at Jacksonville, 111., Nov. 24, 1881, 
 Frances S. Rees, and they have one daugh- 
 ter, Miriam Rees Pierce. Residence: St. 
 Mattliew"s Rectory, 1731 Girard Avenue, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 PIERCE, Rice Alexander: 
 
 Lawyer and ex-congressman ; born on a 
 farm in Weakley County, Tenn., July 3, 
 1849; son of Thomas M. Pierce. He at- 
 tended the common schools until the Civil 
 War, enlisted in the Eighth Tennessee Cav- 
 alrj^ serving two years until he was wound- 
 ed and cajitured in a cavalry fight near 
 Jackson, Tenn., while serving under General 
 Forrest, and was kept a close prisoner luitil 
 the end of the war. After the war he at- 
 tended the high school at London, Ontario, 
 then went to Halifax, N. C, where he read 
 law and was admitted to the bar, then lo- 
 cated in the practice of law at Union City, 
 Tenn. He was elected attorney-general of 
 the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of Tennessee, 
 serving 1874-1883. He was elected as a 
 Democrat to the Forty eighth Congress and 
 afterward to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second 
 Congresses, and in 1896 was again elected, 
 servhig in the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth. Fifty- 
 seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses from 
 the Ninth Tennessee District. Judge Pierce 
 married at Hamburg, Mo., in April, 1873, 
 Mary Hunter. Address: Union City, Tenn. 
 
 PIERREPONT, Henry Evelyn: 
 
 Capitalist; born in Brooklyn, Dec. 9, 
 1845; son of Henry E. and Anna :Maria 
 (Jay) Pierrepont. He was educated in the 
 
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 Rectory School and Columbia College, A.B., 
 
 1867, A.M., 1870. He is trustee of the 
 Home Life Insurance Company, Fidelity 
 and Casualty Com])any, Franklin Trust 
 Company, Brooklyn Savings Bank, of the 
 Biooklyn Cit}' Dispensary and of General 
 Theological Seminary, warden of Grace 
 Cliurch, Brooklyn Heights and vice presi- 
 dent of the Brooklyn Hospital and of the 
 Brooklyn Association for Improving the 
 Condition of the Poor, and lie is a member 
 of tlie Hamilton Club of Brooklyn. Mr. 
 I'ierrepont married in Brooklyn, Dec. 9, 
 18(J!), Ellen A. Low, who died. Dee. 30, 1884, 
 and they have had six children, one now 
 deceased. Address: 216 Columbia Heights, 
 Brooklyn, X. Y. 
 
 PIFFARD, Henry Granger: 
 
 I'liysiciau; born in Pifl'ard, N. Y., Sept. 
 10, 1842; son of David and Ann Matilda 
 (Haight) Piti'ard. He received his educa- 
 tion in Churchill's School, Sing Sing, and 
 the New York University, A.B., 1862, A.M., 
 1865, LL.D. in 1899, and was graduated 
 M.D. in 1864, from the College of Physi- 
 cians and Surgeons. He has been engaged 
 in the practice of medicine in New York 
 City from 1864. Ho is emeritus professor 
 of dermatology of the New York University ; 
 consulting surgeon at the City Hospital; 
 fellow of the New York Academy of Medi- 
 cine. He is author of several treatises on 
 diseases of the skin and kindred topics. Dr. 
 X illard married in New York City, June 17, 
 
 1868, Helen Hart Strong, and they have 
 four cliildren. Address : 256 West 57th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 PILCHER, James Evelyn: 
 
 .Mili1a)y suigooii; born in Adrian. Mich., 
 March 18, 1857; sou of Elijah Holmes 
 Pilcher. He was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, A.B., 1879; Long Is- 
 land College Hospital, M.D., 1880, A.M. and 
 Ph.D. from the Illinois Weslcyan Univer- 
 sity, 1887 and L.II.D. from Allegheny Cob 
 lege, 1902. He became managing editor of 
 Annals of Anatomy and Surgery, Brooklyn, 
 1880-1883; entered the medical department 
 of the U. S. Army, as assislant surgeon in 
 1883 and passing through the grades of 
 
 lieutenant and captain in the regular service 
 and major and brigade surgeon in volunteer 
 service, and was retired for disability in- 
 curred in the line of duty in 1900. During 
 tnis period he was in active service in the 
 field against the Sioux, Crow and Cheyenne 
 Indians, and against Mexican insurrcctos. 
 He is author of the first system of drill for 
 tlie U. S. Army Hospital Corps, published 
 in the United States, and his work on First 
 Aid in Illness and Injury, first edition is- 
 sued in 1892, has ever since maintained its 
 position as the principal text-book for in- 
 struction in that subject. In 1896 he was 
 appointed assistant secretary of the Associa- 
 tion of Military Surgeons of the United 
 States, becoming secretary and editor in 
 1897, which position, witli an interval of 
 two years, he held until 1909. He estab- 
 lished the Journal of the Association of 
 Military Surgeons of the United States, 
 as a quarterly in 1901, as a monthly in 
 1902, and with title changed to The Mili- 
 tary Surgeon in 1907. Dr. Pilcher was sur- 
 geon of one of the first regiments of tlie 
 army to be ordered to the South at the 
 opening of the Spanish-i\merican War, and 
 served in that capacity at INIobile and 
 Tampa, going thence to Jacksonville as chief 
 surgeon of forces and medical supply officer 
 of the Seventh Army Corps under INIajor- 
 General Fitzhugh Lee, until the fall of 1898, 
 when he was detached and placed in com- 
 mand of the Army Medical Supply Depot, 
 established at Savannah, Ga., so continuing 
 until the failing of health required him 
 to reliquish active service. He has occu- 
 pied the chairs of military surgery in the 
 Ohio Medical University, Starling INledical 
 College and Creighton ^ledical College, also 
 was professor of sociology and political 
 economy in Dickinson College and professor 
 of medical jurisprudence at Dickinson f.aw 
 School. He directed the cataloguing of (he 
 libraries of the Military Service Institution, 
 1889, and of the State of Pennsylvania, 
 1899. He is a member of the Military Ser- 
 vice Institution of the United States; Sons 
 of the American Revolution; corresponding 
 member of tlie Society de IMgdicine Mili- 
 taire Francaise; an active ]\Tason and Elk; 
 president of the American Medical Editors' 
 Association, 1906-1907, of the Cumberland 
 
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 Valley Medical Association; niajor general 
 ana director general Nalional Volunteer 
 Emergency Service, 1908-1909, and is a fel- 
 low or member of numerous scientilic bodies. 
 Besides being author of tho book: First 
 Aid in Illness and Injury, he is autlior of: 
 Life and Liibors of Elijah H. Pilcher; Co- 
 lumbus Book of Military Surgeons; The 
 Seal and Arms of Pennsylvania and Tiie 
 Surgeon Generals of the U. S. Army, and 
 actual editor of the fourth series of Pennsyl- 
 vania Archives, in addition to being author 
 of many articles in the medical and general 
 press. Address: Richmondj Va. 
 
 PILES, Samuel Henry: 
 
 United States senator ; born in Living- 
 ston County, Ky., Dec. 28, 1858; son of S. 
 H. and Gabriclla (Lillard) Piles. He was 
 educated in private schools at Smithland, 
 Ky. After being admitted to the bar he 
 started for the West, and in 1882 located in 
 the Territory of Washington; opened a slaw 
 ollice in Snohomish, Wash., in 1883; in 188G 
 moved for a short time to Spokane, Wash., 
 and later in the same year to Seattle, where 
 he has 'ever since resided and practised law. 
 In 1887 and 1889 he was assistant prose- 
 cuting attorney for the district composed of 
 King, Kitsap, and Snohomish counties, 
 1887-1889, and was city attorney of Seattle, 
 1888-1889. In 1895 he was appointed gen- 
 eral counsel of the Oregon Improvement 
 Company, and when that company was reor- 
 ganized by the formation of The Pacific 
 Coast Company he was made general coun- 
 sel of the latter company, holding this posi- 
 tion until his election to the Senate. He 
 has laKen an active interest in Republican 
 politics in the Territory and State of Wash- 
 ington for the i^ast twenty years; Avas 
 elected Jan. 28, 1905, to the U. S. Senate, 
 to succeed Hon. A. G. Foster, and took 
 his seat March 6, following. His term of 
 office will expire March 3, 1911. He mar- 
 ried, in Henderson, Ky., Sept. 15, 1891, 
 Mary E. Barnard. Address: Seattle, Wash. 
 
 PILLSBURY, Albert E.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Milford, N. H., Aug. 19, 
 1849; son of Josiah Webster and Elizabeth 
 (Dinsmoor) Pillsbury; grandson of Oliver 
 84 
 
 and Anna (Smith) Pillsbury, and a de- 
 scendant from William Pillsbury, a native 
 of Derbyshire, England, who came to Dor- 
 chester, Mass., in 1G41, and settled later in 
 old Newbury; and from Jolin Dinsmoor, of 
 Scotch descent, who came from Ireland to 
 Londondeny, N. H., in 1724. He was 
 brouglit up on his father's farm and his 
 school training was at Appleton Academy, 
 New Ipswich, N. 11., and Lawrence Acad- 
 emy, Groton, Mass., where he was grad- 
 uated in 1807, and he matriculated at Har- 
 vard in the class of 1871, but did not com- 
 plete the course. He went to Illinois and 
 was admitted to the bar of that State in 
 1809, and to the Massachusetts bar in 1870, 
 beginning the practice of his profe,-.sion in 
 Boston in 1871; now practising principally 
 as counsel for cities and towns, street rail- 
 ways, gas and water supply companies. He 
 was a representative in the General Court 
 of Massachusetts for three terms, 1876- 
 1878; State senator, 1884-1886, and presi- 
 dent of that body, 1885-1886. He was at- 
 tornej'-general of the Commonwealth of 
 Massachusetts, 1891-1894. He received the 
 honorary degree of A.M. from Harvard in 
 1891. He was for many years lecturer on 
 Constitutional Law in Boston L^^nivcrsity 
 Law School, and is author of numerous 
 published addresses, and legal arguments, 
 and a contributor to various legal and other 
 periodicals. He is a member of the Ameri- 
 can and Boston Bar Associations, the Inter- 
 national Law Association, American Acad- 
 emy of Political and Social Science; the 
 Algonquin, Art, and University Clubs of 
 Boston; and of the Pi Eta of Harvard, be- 
 sides various social, professional and polit- 
 ical associations. He has served as presi- 
 dent of the Sons of New Ilamphsire in 
 Boston; the National Association of the 
 Pillsbury Family; of the Mercantile Library 
 i\ssociation of Boston; is vice-president of 
 the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
 Animals and a director of the American 
 Humane Educational Society. He is a trus- 
 tee of the Franklin Savings Bank and vice- 
 president of the United States Trust Com- 
 pany, and an oflioer in other business cor- 
 porations. Address: 6 Beacon Street, Bos- 
 ton. 
 
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 PILLSBTJRY, Walter Bowers : 
 
 Psychologist, educator; born in Burling- 
 ton, Iowa, July, 4, 1872; son of W. H. H. 
 and E. C. (Bowers) Pillsbury. He received 
 his education in the schools of Southeast- 
 ern Iowa, Penn College, Iowa, and was 
 graduated from the University of Nebraska, 
 A.B., 1892, and Cornell, Ph. D., 1896. He 
 was assistant in Cornell University, 1895- 
 1897: instructor in the University of Mich- 
 igan, 1897-1900, assistant professor 1900- 
 1905, and junior professor since 1905, non 
 resident lecturer in Columbia University 
 1908-1909, and director of the Psychological 
 Laboratory in the University of Michigan. 
 He is author of: L'Attention, 1906, Atten- 
 tion, 1908, and a contributor to technical 
 periodicals. He is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Psychological Association (member of 
 the Council ) , American Physiological So- 
 ciety, Western Philosophical Society (pres- 
 ident in 1906), the Phi Beta Kappa So- 
 ciety, Sigma Xi Society. He married in 
 Port Chester, N. Y., June 16, 1905, Margaret 
 M. Milbank, and they have a daughter. 
 Residence: 714 South State Street. Office: 
 University of :Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 
 
 PINCHOT, Gifford: 
 
 Forester; born in Simsbury, Conn., Aug. 
 11, 1865; son of James Wallace and Mary 
 J. (Eno) Pinchot. He was graduated from 
 Pliillips Exeter Academy in 1884 and from 
 Yale University, B.A., 1889. Studied for- 
 estry at L'Ecole des Eaux et Forets, Nancy, 
 France, and in Germany, Austria, and 
 Switzerland, and began the first systematic 
 forest work in the United States at Bilt- 
 more, N. C, January, 1892. Mr. Pinchot 
 was a member of the National Forest Com- 
 mission, appointed by the National Acad- 
 emy of Sciences in 1896, at the request of 
 the Secretary of the Interior, to investigate 
 and report upon the inauguration of a ra- 
 lional forest policy for the forested lands 
 of the United States. He afterward intro- 
 duced practical forestry in the Adirondack 
 Mountains. In 1898 he became chief of 
 the Forest Service (then Division of For- 
 estry) in the U. S. Department of Agri- 
 culture. He has received honorary degrees, 
 as follows: M.A., from Yale in 1901, and 
 
 from Princeton in 1904; D.Sc, from Michi- 
 gan Agricultural College, in 1907. He is 
 a member of the Committee on Organiza- 
 tion of Government Scientific Work, ap- 
 pointed by President Roosevelt, March 13, 
 1903; of the Commission on the Public 
 Lands, appointed Oct. 22, 1903; of the Com- 
 mittee on Department Methods, appointed 
 June -J., 1905, of the Inland Waterways 
 Commission, appointed March 14, 1907; and 
 chairman of the National Conservation 
 Commission, appointed June 8, 1908. At 
 the request of the President and secretary 
 of war he visited the Philippine Islands in 
 1902 LO investigate the forests and forest 
 work there. Mr. Pinchot is a member of 
 the Society of American Foresters, Ameri- 
 can Society of Civil Engineers, American 
 Society for Testing INIaterials, American In- 
 stitute ot Mining Engineers, American For- 
 estry Association, New York Academy of 
 Sciences, Washington Society of Engineers, 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science, Washington Academy of Sci- 
 ences, American Museum of Natural His- 
 tory, National Academy of Design, Ameri- 
 can Sculpture Society, and a member of 
 the Century, University and Yale Clubs of 
 New York City, the Cosmos, University and 
 INIetropolitan Clubs of Washington, and the 
 Graduates' Club of New Haven. Address: 
 1015 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D. 
 C. 
 PINGE.ee, Samuel Everett: 
 
 Lawyer, ex-governor; born at Salisbury. 
 N. H., Aug. 2, 1832; son of Stephen and 
 Judith (True) Pingree. He was graduated 
 fiom Dartmouth College, A.B., 1857; then 
 studied law and engaged in practice in 
 Vermont, but on the breaking out of the 
 Civil War enlisted May 8, 1861, as a private 
 in the Third Regiment ot Vermont Volun- 
 teer Infantry, in whicii he served in all 
 ranks up to lieutenant-colonel of the regi- 
 ment, seeing hard service and being awarded 
 the Congressional Medal of Honor for hero- 
 ism at Lee's Mills, April 16, 1862. He was 
 mustered out July 27, 1864. He reen- 
 gaged in the practice of law on leaving the 
 army,, was State's attorney of Windsor 
 County, Vt., and for forty-eight years has 
 been town clerk of Hartford, Vt. He was a 
 
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 delegate-at-large at the National Republiian 
 Convention at Chicago, whicli nominated 
 General Grant for president, was lieutenant- 
 governor of Vermont, 1882 1884, governor 
 1884-1880, and chairman of the State Rail- 
 way Commission of Vermont, 1880-181)4. 
 Governor Pingree is a member and has 
 served as judge-advocate of the Medal of 
 Honor Legion of the United States. He 
 married at Newport, Vt., Sept. 15, 1809, 
 Lydia M. Steele, and thoy have a son. Ad- 
 dress: Hartford, Vt. 
 
 PITAVEL, John Baptist: 
 
 Catholic bishop; educated and ordained 
 to the priesthood, with the degree of D.D. ; 
 served as vicar-general at Santa Fe, N. 
 Mex., and July 25, 1902, was consecrated 
 titular bishop of Sora, and made auxiliary 
 to Lhe archbishop of Santa V§. Address: 
 Santa Fe, N. Mex. 
 
 PLACE, Ira Adalbert: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, May 8, 
 1854; adopted son of Thomas and Elizabeth 
 (Burdick) Place. He was educated at Al 
 fred Academy and was graduated from Cor- 
 nell University, A.B., and immediately 
 thereafter studied law in the office of Vann. 
 McLennan & Dillaye, Syracuse, N. Y. He 
 was admitted to the bar at Buflfalo, and in 
 October, 1883, came to New York City with 
 Judge McLennan, who had then become gen- 
 eral counsel of New York, West Shore & 
 Buft'alo Railroad Company. Subsequent to 
 reorganization of the West Shore Railroad 
 Company, in March, 1880, he entered the 
 Law Department of the New York Central 
 and Hudson River Railroad Company, and 
 in 1905 was appointed general counsel for 
 all lines of the New York Central, east of 
 Bufl'alo; and Dec. 5, 1900, was appointed 
 vice-president of the New York Central 
 lines, east of Bufialo. He is a director of 
 the Carthage, Watertown and Sackets Har- 
 bor Railroad Company, the Tivoli Hollow 
 Railroad v^ompany, Troy Union Railroad 
 Company, Little Falls & Dolgeville Rail- 
 road Company, of the Detroit, Monroe & 
 Toledo Railroad Company, of the New York 
 & Ottawa Bridge Company, and of the Corn- 
 Wall Bridge Company. ]\ir. Place is a 
 
 member of the Association of the Bar of the 
 City of New York, New "S'ork State Bar As- 
 sociation, American l>ai' Association, Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society and Psi Upsilon fra- 
 ternity. He is a member of the University, 
 Transportation, Cornell. St. Andrew's Golf, 
 Adirondack Leagiie, I'nitarian and Fort 
 Orange Clubs. Mr. Place married at 
 Ithaca, N. Y.. Jan. 10. 1893, Katharine B. 
 Gauntlett, and (hey have three children. 
 Address: Grand (ciitra! Station, New 
 York City. 
 
 PIANTZ, Samuel: 
 
 President of Lawrence I'liiversity; born 
 at Gloversville. N. Y.. .Tunc 13, 1859; son of 
 James and Elsie (Stullu) I'lantz. He was 
 graduated from Lawrence University, A.B., 
 1880, A.:M., 1883; was graduated from Bos- 
 ton University, S.T.B., 1883, Ph.D., 1880. 
 In 1890 he went to Germany, where he 
 spent a year in study at tlie University of 
 Berlin. The honorary degree of D.D. was 
 conferred upon him by Albion College. 1894, 
 and of LL.D. by Baker University. 1905. 
 He was ordained to the ministry of the 
 Methodist Episco])al Chinch in 1885 and un- 
 til 1894 officiated in various churches of 
 that denomination. In 1894 he was elected 
 president of Lawrence University. He is a 
 trustee of Lawrence University, of the Ep- 
 worth Assembly, and of the Carnegie Foun- 
 dation for the Advancement of Teaching. 
 He was a delegate to the General Confer- 
 ences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 1900 and 1908, and member of the com- 
 mission to consolidate the benevolent or- 
 ganizations of the Methodist Episcoi>al 
 Church, 1904-1900. He is member of the 
 Victoria Institute, presiilent of the Wiscon- 
 sin Academy of Arts and Sciences; and 
 member of the Wisconsin State Historical 
 Association, Wisconsin Archeological So- 
 ciety, and the National Teachers' Associa- 
 tion. Dr. Plantz is a lecturer of much 
 merit and is author of: The Church and 
 the Social Problem. He is also a contribu- 
 tor to Hastings Dictionary of Christ and the 
 Apostles, and to various magazines and peri- 
 odicals. He married at Indianapolis, Sept. 
 16, 1885, Myra A. Goodwin, and has two 
 daughters. Address: Appleton, Wis. 
 
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 PLATT, Charles: 
 
 Physician; born in Montc-lair, N. J., 
 ;March 16, 1869; of an old American family 
 of founders and patriots, dating from 163S. 
 He was graduated from Lehigh University 
 in 1890, and pursued post-graduate course 
 at Oliio University, Johns Hopkins, the 
 University of Edinburgh (medallist in anat- 
 omy). Homeopathic Hospital, London, ficole 
 de Medicine. Paris, and Hahnemann Col- 
 lege, Philadelphia. He was assistant chem- 
 ist of the Cambria Iron Company, Johns- 
 town, Pa., and chief chemist for Thomas 
 A. Edison at the Llewellyn Park laboratory. 
 Since 1894 he has been professor of chemis- 
 tr}' and toxicology at Hahnemann Medical 
 College and Hospital, Philadelphia; some- 
 time lecturer at the Children's Homeopathic 
 Hospital, Philadelphia; for some time asso- 
 ciate editor of Science, New York. He is 
 author of a text-book on Qualitative Analy- 
 sis and Medical Chemistry, fourth edition, 
 1903; contributor to the engineering, chemi- 
 cal and medical journals. Dr. Piatt is a 
 fellow of the Chemical Society of London; 
 honorary fellow of the Society of Biolog- 
 ical Chemistry, London; member of the 
 American Chemical Society, Societe Chi- 
 mique de Paris, Medical Jurisprudence So 
 ciety, ]\Iedical and Surgical Society of Phila- 
 delphia, and of numerous other medical and 
 social organizations. Address: 3612 Bar- 
 ing Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 PLATT, Edward Truex: 
 
 Expressman; lioin in Owego, Tioga Coun- 
 ty, N. Y., Aug. 7, 1853; son of U. S. Sena- 
 tor Thomas C. and Ellen L. (Barstow) 
 Piatt. He was ediicated in the Owego 
 Academy. He was purser in the Pacific 
 Mail Steamship Company, 1875-1885, visit- 
 ing in oflicial capacity Rio de Janeiro, 
 Colon, Straits of Magellan, Panama, Mexi 
 can and Central American ports, Honolulu, 
 Auckland, New Zealand, Sydney, New South 
 Wales, Yokohama and Hong Kong. He is 
 now treasurer, director and superintendent 
 of the New York Division of the U. S. Ex- 
 press Company, treasurer of the U. S. Ex- 
 press Realty Company and director of the 
 Borough Express. He is a member of the 
 Chamber of Commerce and of the Union 
 
 League and Barnard Clubs. Mr. Piatt mar- 
 ried in 1891, Harriet J. Coit. Residence: 
 205 West 57th Street. Office: 2 Rector 
 Street. New York City. 
 
 PLATT, Frank Hinchman: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Owego, N. Y., in 1850; 
 sou of Hon. Thomas Collier and Ellen 
 (Barstow) Piatt. He was graduated from 
 Yale University, A.B., 1877; Columbia Law 
 School, 1879. He is a member of the firm 
 of O'Brien, Boardman, Piatt and Deming; 
 president and director of the U. S. Express 
 Realtj^ Company; secretary and director of 
 the Raht Jen's American Composition Com- 
 pany; director of the Central Hudson 
 Steamboat Company; and U. S. Express 
 Company. He was formerly assistant U. 
 S. district attorney. Mr. Piatt is a mem- 
 ber of the Ardsley, University, Union 
 League, Lotos and Yale Clubs. He married 
 in New York City, Nov. 1, 1881, Caroline E. 
 Livingston, and they have two children. 
 Residence: 242 West 74th Street. Office: 
 35 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 PLATT, Henry Barstow: 
 
 Transportation and insurance agent: born 
 in Owego, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1860 j fcon of U. 
 S. Senator Thomas C. and Ellen (Barstow) 
 Piatt. He was graduated from Yale Col- 
 lege in 1882. After graduation he was in 
 the manufacturing business for three years. 
 He was superintendent of coal properties 
 in Pennsylvania; later made superintend- 
 ent of the U. S. Express Company, which 
 position he still holds; also vice-president 
 
 01 the Fidelity and Deposit Company of 
 i\laryland; treasurer and director of the 
 Westboro Realty Company. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Lawyers', University, Yale. Ards- 
 ley, and Barnard Clubs. Mr. Piatt mar- 
 ried Grace Lee, daughter of John Phelps, of 
 \\'ilkes-Barre, Pa., and has three children. 
 Residence: 303 West 76th Street. Office: 
 
 2 Rector Street, New York Cily. 
 
 PLATT, James Perry: 
 
 United States judge; born in Towanda, 
 Pa., March 31, 1851; son of Orville H. 
 Piatt (T'nilod States senator from Con- 
 necticut), lie was graduated from Y^ale, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 B.A.. 1873, and from Yale Law Scliool. 
 LL.B., 1875. Fi-Diii that time until 1902. 
 he practised law in Meriden, Conn., in part- 
 ner.^ship with his father, until he went upon 
 the bench. He was judo;e of the City Court 
 of Meriden, 1893-1902, and in 1902 was ap- 
 pointed to his present office as U. S. judge 
 for the District of Connecticut. Judge 
 Piatt is a Republican in politics. He mar- 
 ried in ileriden. Conn., Dec. 2, 1885, Harriet 
 W. Ives. Residence: Meriden, Conn. Of- 
 fice: Hartford. Conn. 
 
 PLATT, Thomas Collier: 
 
 Former U. S. Senator from New York; 
 born in Owego, N. Y., July 15, 1833. He 
 was educated in Owego Academy; was a 
 member of the class of 1853 of Yale College; 
 but compelled to give up course in that in- 
 stitution because of ill-health ; and he re- 
 ceived the honorary degree of M.A., 
 from Yale, 1876. He began mercantile 
 life soon after leaving school and has 
 been in active business ever since; 
 was president of the Tioga National 
 Bank at its organization; became large- 
 ly interested in lumber in Michigan; 
 became secretary and director, 1879, has 
 been president since 1880, of the United 
 States Express Company. He was county 
 clerk of Tioga County, 1859-1801; member 
 of the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Con- 
 gresses, 1873-1877; appointed quarantine 
 commissioner of the Port of New York, 
 1880; elected U. S. Senator, Jan. 18, 1881; 
 resigned that office May 16, 1881, with Sena- 
 tor Roscoe Conkling, his colleague, because 
 President C4arfield did not defer sufficiently 
 to their wishes in making appointments in 
 New York. The immediate ground of their 
 resignation was the appointment by Presi 
 dent Garfield of W. H. Robertson as col- 
 lector of the Port of New York; in appeal 
 to the Legislature for reelection, they were 
 both defeated. Senator Piatt, however, be- 
 came later the controlling leader in the Re- 
 publican party in New York State; dele- 
 gate to every Republican National Conven- 
 tion from 1876 to 1904; was for years a 
 member of the National Republican Com- 
 mittee; was elected U. S. Senator, 1896; 
 took his seat March 4. 1897, and reelected 
 1903, for the term which expired March 4, 
 
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 Addres.s : 
 
 1909. He was twice married. 
 2 Rector Street, New York City. 
 
 PLATZEK, M. Warley: 
 
 .Jurist; lioni in N'ortli Carolina, .\ug. 
 27, 1854. He wa.s graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of New York, LL.B., 1876; and he 
 received the honorary degree of LL.D. from 
 Rutherford College, North Carolina, in 1899. 
 Flo was engaged in the practice of law in 
 Xew York City. 1876-1906, and also took a 
 part in political affairs, as an active Demo- 
 crat, and served as a member of the Con- 
 stitutional Convention of New York in 1894. 
 In November, 1906, he was elected to his 
 present office as a justice of the Supreme 
 Court of the State of New York, for the 
 First District, for the term expiring Dec. 
 31, 1920. Judge Platzek is an essayist of 
 merit, and is author, among others, of: 
 Trial by Jury; American Grit; and Israel 
 and Islam. He was formerly, for years, a 
 trustee of the College of the City of New 
 York. Address: 15 East 48th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 PLIMPTON, George Arthur: 
 
 Publisher; born in Walpole, Mass., July 
 13, 1855; son of Galvin Gay and Priscilla 
 (Guild, Lewis) Plimpton. He was edu- 
 cated in Phillips Exeter Academy and Am- 
 herst College, A.B., 1876; also attended 
 Harvard Law School, 1876 and 1877. He is 
 a member of the firm of Ginn and Company, 
 book publishers. Mr. Plimpton donated to 
 Wellesley College. 1904. in memory of his 
 wife, a library of early manuscripts and 
 first editions of nearly all Italian writers, 
 making it the best library of Italian litera- 
 ture in this country, and gave the Plimpton 
 Plajing Fields to Phillips Exeter Academy. 
 He is possesor of the most complete collec- 
 tion of early school books in the world. He 
 is a member of the College Board of the 
 Presbyterian Church, triistee of Amherst 
 and Barnard Colleges and Phillips Exeter 
 Academy; treasurer of Barnard College and 
 the Academy of Political Science; a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Jlanagers of the New 
 Yoi'k State Colonization Society, trustee of 
 the New York Infirmary for Women and 
 Children, director of the Union Exchange 
 Bank, and a member of Delta Kappa Ep- 
 
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 AIEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 silon fraternity. New England Society. 
 American Geographical Society, American 
 As.sooiation for the Advancement of Science, 
 the Ardsley, Century, Grolier University, 
 and Barnard Clubs of New York City, 
 and Union Club of Boston. He married in 
 Holyoke, Alass., in 1892, Frances Taylor 
 Pearsons. Kcsidence: 41 East 33d Street. 
 Office: 70 Fiftli Avenue. New York City. 
 
 PLUMLEY, Frank: 
 
 kawyer; born at P^den, Vt.. Dec. 17, 
 1844; son of William and Eliza Plumley. 
 He was educated in public schools and 
 jMicliigan University and was admitted to 
 the Bar. He was State's attorney of 
 Washington County, Va., 187G 1880: U; S. 
 attorney for Vermont, 1889-1804; member 
 of the House of Representatives of Ver- 
 montj 1882; member of the Senate (Ver- 
 mont) and president pro tempore, 1894; 
 delegate-at-large to the Republican Nation 
 al Convention of 1888. Mr. Plumley was 
 lunpire by appointment of President Roose- 
 velt of the IMixed Commissions of Great 
 Britain and Venezuela and of the Nether- 
 lands and Venezuela sitting at Caracas in 
 1903; umpire of the French Venezuela Com- 
 mission sitting at Northfield. Vt., by selec- 
 tion of the two countries in 1905; judge of 
 the Court of Claims, 1902; chief judge of 
 same 1904-1906. He is a member of the 
 American Society of International Law; 
 and is trustee of, and lecturer on Interna- 
 tional Law at, Norwich University from 
 which he has received the degrees of A.M. 
 and LL.D. He married at Eden, Vt., Aug. 
 9, 1871. Lavinia L. Fletcher, who died Jan- 
 uary 31, 1906, and they have two eliildren. 
 Address: Northfield, Vt. 
 
 PLUMMER, Mary Wright: 
 
 Director Pratt Institute Library School; 
 born in Riclimond, Ind., 1856; daughter of 
 Jonathan Wright and Hannah A. (Bal- 
 lard) Plummcr. Slie received her education 
 in Friends Academy, Richmond, Ind., and 
 became a special student in Wellesley Col- 
 lege, 1881-1882, and' Columbia College, 
 School of Library Science, 1887-1889. She 
 is autlior of: Verses, 1897, Contemporary 
 Spain, 1898, Hints lo Small Libraries, third 
 edition; Roj' and Ray in Mexico, 1907; 
 
 and Roy and Ray in Canada, 1908. 
 Miss Plummer is a member of the American 
 Library Association, New York Library As- 
 sociation, New York and Long Island Li- 
 brary Clubs, New York State Library 
 School Association. Address : Brooklyn, N.Y. 
 
 PLYMPTON, Eben: 
 
 Actor; born in Boston, Feb. 7, 1853; 
 son of John Bradlee and Elizabeth (Hol- 
 den) Plympton. He made his first appear- 
 ance on the stage in Saratoga; next ap- 
 peared with John McCullough; then at the 
 Park Theatre, Brooklyn, and afterward for 
 two years, members of a stock company 
 at Wallack's Theatre, New York City. In 
 1880 was leading man Avith Christine 
 Nielson; next season supported Lawrence 
 Barrett; afterwards was leading man with 
 ]\Iary Anderson during her farewell tour. 
 He ha.s also appeared with Julia Marlowe; 
 he is regarded to-day as one of the foremost 
 interpreters of Shakespearian rules. Ad- 
 dress: Plympton, Mass. 
 
 PLYMPTON, Gilbert Metier: 
 
 ]5anker; born at Fort Wood, Bedloe's 
 Island, New York Harbor, Jan. 15, 1835; 
 son of Joseph and Eliza Matilda (Living- 
 ston) Plympton. His father served in the 
 War of 1812 as lieutenant in the Seminole 
 War in Florida, as major, and in the ^lex- 
 ican War as lieutenant-colonel, receiving the 
 brevet of colonel for gallant service at the 
 battle of Cerro Gordo. His education was 
 begun at Fort Snelling, Minn., under the 
 chaplain of the post, and continued in a pri- 
 vate school at Sackets Harbor. During his 
 father's absence in Mexico, he was sent to 
 the house of his uncle, Gerard W. Livingston 
 in New Jersey, and studied there; entered 
 Sluirtleff College, Illinois, upon his father's 
 return and appointment to Jeffei'son l?ar- 
 lacks. Mo.; sul)se<iuently studied at Jolni 
 Sedgwick's School, New York City, and after 
 reading law was admitted to practice Nov., 
 1860; entered the Law Department of the 
 ITnivcrsity of New York and graduated 
 LL.B.,1863. He engaged in the general 
 practice of law, 1863. and bccaine identified 
 with important litigations, especially in 
 Federal Courts. In 1889. having earned a 
 foituiie. and finding his health iiii])ain'd by 
 
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 overwork, ho went abroad for some time, 
 and upon his return retired from active 
 practice. In 1802 he founded the banking 
 house of Redmond, Kerr & Company, and 
 later the present banking house of Plymp- 
 ton, Gardiner &. Company; and he is a di- 
 rector in several corporations. Mr. Plymp- 
 ton has been a frequent contributor to pe- 
 riodicals and is the author of several pam 
 phlets, among them a monograph upon the 
 life of his father and a sketch of the Plymp 
 ton family. He is a member of the Sons of 
 the Revolution, Sons of Colonial Wars, Met- 
 ropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Nat- 
 ural History, Chamber of Commerce, St. 
 Nicholas Society, American Historical As- 
 sociation and St. Andrew's Society, St. 
 Nicholas Club (was a founder and vice-presi- 
 dent), Union, Metropolitan, Riding, West- 
 chester County, and New York Yacht Clubs. 
 He married in 1863, Mary A., daughter of 
 Linus W. Stevens (well known New York 
 merchant and first colonel of the Seventli 
 Regiment ) , and they have one daughter. 
 He has country place, " Windtryst," at 
 Great Neck, L. I. Residence: 30 West 52d 
 Street. Office: 27 William Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 i»OLLOCK, John C: 
 
 United States judge; born in Belmont 
 County, Ohio, Nov. 5, 1859; son of Samuel 
 and Jane B. (Scott) Pollock. He was grad- 
 uated from Franklin College in 1882, and 
 after studying law at St. Clairsville, Ohio, 
 went to Newton, Iowa, where he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1884. Four years later 
 he established in practice at Winfield, 
 Kans., where he continued until IDOO. when 
 he became a justice of the Supreme Court of 
 Kansas, resigning upon his appointment, 
 Dec. 1, 1901, as judge of the U. S. Dis- 
 trict Court for the District of Kansas. 
 Judge Pollock is a Republican in politics. 
 He married at Lafferty, Ohio. Sept. 24, 1880. 
 Louise Lafferty. Address: Topeka, Kans. 
 
 POMEROY, John Norton: 
 
 Lawyer; born in South Orange, N. J., 
 May 7, 1866; son of John Norton Pomeroy, 
 LL.D., and Ann R. (Carter) Pomeroy. He 
 was graduated from Yale, A.B.. 1887, A.M., 
 1889, Columbia Law School, and the Uni- 
 
 versity of California Law School, Lf^.B., 
 1891. Mr. Pomeroy was editor of: Poiiin- 
 roy's Equity Jurisprudence, 2d edition (3 
 volumes), 1892, 3d edition (4 volumes), 
 190.'i; Pomeroy's Code Remedies, 3d edi(if)n, 
 1894, Pomeroy's Specific Performance. 2d ed- 
 ition, 1897, Annotated Codes of California 
 (in chief part, 3 volumes), 1901; Pomeroy's 
 Equity, Students' Edition (one volume), 
 1907; and is author of: Equitable Rem- 
 edies (two volumes), 1905-1906; articles, 
 Cancellation of Instruments, 1903 and Spe- 
 cific Performance, 1909 in Cyclopa>dia of 
 Law and Procedure ; Lives of Stephen J. 
 Field and John Norton Pomeroy in W. D. 
 Lewis's Great American Lawyers, 1909. 
 He is a member of the American Political 
 Science Association. San Francisco Bar As- 
 sociation, Psi Upsilon, Phi Delta Phi. Phi 
 Beta Kappa, and Sierra Club. He married 
 in Oakland, Calif., Aug. 17, 1899, Annie 
 Crevot Barrington, and they have one 
 daughter. Address: 2312 Gough Street, 
 San Francisco. 
 
 POOLEY, Robert Henry: 
 
 Clergj'man ; born at Rush, Jo Daviess 
 Covmty, 111., 1856; son of Sampson and 
 Martha (Moralee) Pooley. He was grad- 
 uated from Northwestern University. A.B. 
 (Phi Beta Kappa), 1882. and as B.D. in 
 1884, from Garrett Biblical Institute, and 
 received from Northwestern University the 
 degrees of A.M. and D.D. He joined Rock 
 River Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church 1884; held pastorates at Richards 
 Street Church, Joliet, 111.; Trinity Church, 
 Chicago; Appleton Church, Wis.; Wabash 
 Avenue Church, and Edgewater Church, 
 Chicago; First Church of Oak Park. 111., 
 Court Street Church, Rockford, 111., and is 
 now superintendent of the Joliet District. 
 Rock River Conference. He is a member of 
 the American In.stitute of Christian Philoso- 
 phy, of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and 
 Plii Beta Kappa Society. Dr. Pooley mar- 
 ried at Evanston. 111., Aug. 14, 1884. :\rar- 
 tha Gertrude Skelton (Northwestern Uni- 
 versity. 1884. Ph.M. ), and they have had 
 three daughters, Leila Jessica (now de- 
 ceased), Eleanor Gertrude (Northwestern 
 UnivoTsitv, 1900) , and Elizabeth Marguerite. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Address: 1434 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, 
 
 111. 
 
 POOR, Ruel W.: 
 
 President of the Garfield Bank; born in 
 New London, N. H., Sept. 20, ISGO. He was 
 educated in \Yilton (INIaine) Academy. He 
 is president and director of the Garfield 
 National Bank the Garfield Safe Deposit 
 Company. Mr. Poor is a member of the 
 New England Society, Chamber of Com- 
 merce, and the Lotos, New York Athletic 
 and Craftsmen's Clubs. Residence: 320 
 West 101st Street. Office: Fifth Avenue 
 15uilding, New York City. 
 
 POORE, Henry Rankin: 
 
 Artist: born at Newark, N. J., March 21, 
 1859; son of Daniel W. and Susan (Ellis) 
 Poore. He was graduated from the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania, 1883, studied art with 
 Peter Moran and at the Pennsylvania Acad- 
 emy of Fine Arts, National Academy of 
 Design, and with Lumenais and Bouguereau 
 in Paris. In 1891 he traveled for the U. S. 
 Government, writing and illustrating among 
 the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. In 1893 
 he made a tour of England painting hounds 
 and hunting scenes, and among others 
 ])ainted the Queen's stag hounds, at Ascot 
 Heath. He was director of the Art School 
 of Chautaiiqua, 189G-1902, and has been a 
 lecturer on pictorial composition at the 
 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts since 
 19C4. He received medals at the Buffalo 
 Pan-American Exposition, and the St. 
 Louis International Exposition; was award- 
 ed the Hallgarton prize from the National 
 Academy of Design, and a two-thousand-dol- 
 lar prize from the American Art Association 
 of New York. He is an associate of the 
 National Academy of Design. He is mem 
 ber of the Philadelphia Sketch Club (ex- 
 president), the Art Club, the Delta Phi 
 fraternity. Eta Chapter, and the Salma- 
 gundi and Lotos Clubs of New York City. 
 He is author of: Pictorial Composition; 
 The Critical Judgment of Pictures; and 
 Figure Composition, and of lectures and ar- 
 ticle on these and similar topics. He mar- 
 ried at Worcester, Mass., in June 1890. 
 Katherine Goodnow Stevens. Address: 4.5 
 Ridge Street, Orange, N. J. 
 
 POPE, Albert Linder: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in Newton, Mass., 
 July 14, 1872; son of the late Albert Augus- 
 tus and Abby (Linder) Pope. He received 
 his education at Chauncy Hall School, Bos- 
 ton, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Kings 
 School, Stamford, Conn. He enlisted as a 
 private in the First Corps Cadets, of the 
 Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, June 12, 
 1891, and remained there about three and 
 one-half years; transferred to the First 
 Brigade staff, as provost sergeant ; and was 
 promoted on the same staff to captain and 
 provost marshal under Brigadier-General 
 F. A. Matthews; and was first lieutenant 
 and quartermaster of the First Connecticut 
 Infantry in 1900. He is president of the 
 Pope Manufacturing Company; a director 
 of the National Association of Auto Manu- 
 facturers, and a member of the Executive 
 Committee, Welfare Department of the Na- 
 tional Civic Federation, of the New York 
 State Commandary of the Military Order of 
 the Loyal Legion, member and director of 
 the Sons of Revolution of Connecticut; Free 
 ^fason, Knight Templar and Shriner; and a 
 member of the Engineers' Club of New York 
 City and of the Hartford Club of Hartford, 
 and Country Club of Farmington, Conn. 
 He married, April 22, 1896, Amy Jaynes. 
 Address: Pope Manufacturing Company, 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 
 POPE, James Worden: 
 
 Colonel U. S. Army; born in Louisville, 
 Ky., June G, 1846; son of Edmund Pendle- 
 ton Pope and Nancy (Johnson) Pope. He 
 studied in the University of Indiana, 1862- 
 1864, and was graduated from the U. S. 
 Military Academy, June 15, 1864. He was 
 appointed second lieutenant of the Fifth 
 Infantry, Jan. 15, 1868; stationed in the 
 West and engaged in the Indian camiiaign 
 under General Carr in 18GS; under Gen- 
 eral Wood in 1869; under General Miles on 
 his staff in 1874, against the combined 
 tribes of Kiowas, Comanehes, Arrapalioes 
 and Cheyenncs, and again under (ioncral 
 Miles against Sioux and Northern Clicy- 
 ennes, 1876-1878; and against Bannocks in 
 1878. He was depot quartermaster at Tam- 
 pa in Ajjril, 1898; chief (piartcrmasicr un- 
 
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 der Merrill and Otis in the Philippines from 
 June, 1898, to Sept., 1899; chief quarter- 
 master Department of the Colorado, 1900- 
 1904; in command of the Philadelphia 
 Depot, 1904-1907, chief quartermaster of tlio 
 Department of the Gulf, 1907-1908; chief 
 quartermaster of the Department of the 
 Colorado, 1908-1909. He was commandant 
 of the U. S. Military Prison, 1887-1895; and 
 acting warden of the U. S. Penitentiary, 
 having organized and started it at Fort 
 Leavenwortth, Kans. He traveled through 
 China and Japan in 1879. Colonel Popi^ 
 is author of various articles on professional 
 subjects in the Military Service Journal, 
 Arena, Cosmopolitan, Review of Reviews 
 and other periodicals. He is a member of 
 the National Geographic Society, Virginia 
 Historical Society, American Academy of 
 Political and Social Science, Association of 
 Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy 
 at West Pointj Army Athletic Association, 
 Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Society of the 
 Cincinnati of Virginia, Sons of the Revolu- 
 tion, Military Order of Foreign Wars of the 
 United States, the W"ar of 1812, and Army 
 of the Pliilippines. Colonel Pope is also a 
 member of the University and Country 
 Clubs, of Denver, and others. He married, 
 in Leavenworth, Kans., Oct. 27, 1880, Mary 
 R. Lynch, and they have a daughter and a 
 son. Residence: 1143 Logan Avenue. Of- 
 fice: The Majestic, Denver, Colo. 
 
 POPE, William Hayes: 
 
 Jurist; born at Beaufort, S. C, June 14, 
 1870; son of Joseph James and Emily 
 Hayes ( Mikell ) Pope. He was graduated 
 from the University of Georgia, A.M., 1889, 
 LL.B., 1890. He was assistant attorney- 
 general of New Mexico, 1897-1898; assistant 
 U. S. attorney of the Court of Private Land 
 Claims, 1896-1902; U. S. attorney for the 
 Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, 1901-1902; 
 judge of the Court of First Instance 
 of the Philippine Islands, 1902-1903; as- 
 sociate justice of the Supreme Court of 
 New Mexico since 1903. He v/as a member 
 of the Capitol Commission of New Mexico. 
 1896-1900; traveled in Mexico in 1898; and 
 in the Philippine Islands, China and Japan, 
 1902-1903. Judge Pope is a member of the 
 
 Society of Colonial Wars. He married in 
 Athens, Ga., Nov. 29, 1905, Mary Nisbet 
 Hull. Address: Roswell, N. Mex. 
 
 PORTER, Eugene Hoffman: 
 
 Phjsician; born at Ghent, Columl)ia 
 Count J-, N. Y., Aug. 7, 185G; .son of Curtis 
 II. Porter; of old Dutch ancestry, connected 
 with the DePeyster, Van Bureii and Douw 
 families. He was educated at C'ortland Nor- 
 mal School, Claverack College, Cornell Uni- 
 versity, New York Homeopathic Medical 
 College, M.D., 1885, Rutgers College, 
 A.M., 1889. Dr. Porter was associate 
 editor, 18851892, and has been ed- 
 itor since 1892, of the North American 
 Journal of Homeopathy. He was professor 
 of phj'siological materia medica in New 
 lork Homeopathic Medical College and Hos- 
 pital; was also professor of medicine, chem- 
 istry and sanitary science for j'ears; and is 
 now a consulting physician of the Laura 
 Franklin Free Hospital for Children, and 
 the Hahnemann Hospital. He was one of 
 tne Advisory Committee on the Internal 
 Health Exposition held in New York City, 
 1898; appointed Commissioner of Health 
 for the State of New Y^ork by Governor Hig- 
 gins. May 8, 1905. He is honorary member 
 of the Societe Medicale Homeopathique de 
 France, British Homeopathic Society, mem- 
 ber of the American Institute of Homeo- 
 pathy, (general secretary, 1894-1901), New 
 \ork State Homeopathic Medical Society 
 (ex-president). New York County Homeo- 
 pathic Medical Society (served as vice-presi- 
 dent and chairman of the Legislative Com- 
 mittee), member of the Board of Trustees of 
 the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 
 member of Ihe New Y'ork Academy of 
 Sciences, American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science, National Geographic So- 
 ciety, New Y^'ork Museum of Natural His- 
 tory, American Public Health Association, 
 New Y'ork State Press Association, National 
 Kditorial Association, president of Columbia 
 County Association in the City of New 
 York; president of several business corpora- 
 tions. He is a member of the Unanimous, 
 Meissen, and Comnumipaw Clubs (all med- 
 ical) ; Republican Club (member of the 
 Board of Governors), Cornell University, 
 
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 Colonial, Twilight, and Quill Clubs of New 
 York Cit}- and the Fort Orange Club of 
 Albany. He married, in 1889, Alice A. Day, 
 of Upper Lisle, N. Y., and they have one 
 son. Address: 181 West 73d Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 PORTER, Frank Chamberlin : 
 
 riiciilooiiiii ; born in Beloit, Wis., Jan. 5, 
 1859; son of WiJiam and Ellen (Chapin) 
 Porter. He was graduated from Beloit, B.A., 
 1880, M.A., 1883, from Y^ale, B.D., 1880, 
 Ph.D., 1889, receiving the degree of D.D., 
 Beloit, 1895; Chicago Theological Seminary, 
 1881 1882, Hartford Theological Seminary, 
 1884-1885, and received the degree of B.D. 
 from Y''alc, 1886. He was instructor in Yale 
 Divinity School, 1889-1891, and Winkley 
 professor of biblical theology since 1891. 
 He is author of articles in Hastings Dic- 
 tionary, on Apocrypha Book of Revelation, 
 etc.; of articles in many theological reviews, 
 and Yale Bicentennial Volume; President 
 Wm. R. Harper Memorial Volume, and 
 Messages of Apocalyptical Writers. He is 
 a member of the Societe of Biblical Liter- 
 ature and Exegesis (president in 1908). He 
 married in New Haven, Conn., June 10, 
 1891, Delia W. Lyman, and they have two 
 children. Residence: 266 Bradley Street. 
 Office: 611 Y^ale Divinity School, New 
 Haven, Conn. 
 
 PORTER, Horace: 
 
 Diplomat, brigadier-general, C S. Army; 
 born in Harrisburg, Pa., April 15, 1837; 
 .son of David R. Porter, (governor of Penn- 
 sylvania) and Josephine (McDermet) Por- 
 ter. He was educated in Harvard Univer- 
 sity, and at the United States Military 
 Academy ; and received the LL.D. degree 
 from Union University, 1894, and from 
 Princeton University, 1900. He has been 
 president of several railway companies and 
 director in fourteen railway and financial 
 institutions. He is a brigadier-general, U. 
 S. Army; served in the field during Civil 
 War, the last year on General Grant's staff; 
 received six brevets for gallantry in battle; 
 received the Congressional ]\Ie(lal of Plonor, 
 lor a special act of gallantry at the battle 
 of Chickamauga; served as assistant secre 
 
 tary of war, and he was ambassador to 
 r'rance, from March, 1897 to May 1905. He 
 was delegate to the Hague Peace Confer- 
 ence; received from France the Grand Cross 
 oi the Legion d'Honneur, the first American 
 who had ever received it. On May 9, 1906 
 he received by unanimous vote of both 
 houses of Congress, thanks for the recovery 
 of the body of John Paul Jones. Having 
 after years of eflbrt and in the face of 
 many discouragements succeeded in locating 
 the burial place of the first American Ad- 
 miral by a series of imderground explora- 
 tions undertaken at his own expense. He is 
 a member of the Military Order, of the 
 Loyal Legion, Grand Army of the Republic 
 Society of Foreign Wars, Sons of the Amer- 
 ican Revolution, Society of the Cincinnati, 
 the Alliance Francis, the Union League, 
 Metropolitan, University, Century, National 
 Arts, Down Town, Lawyers', Players,' Au- 
 thors, Grolicr, Army and Navy, Lotos and 
 Republican Clubs of New Y'ork City and the 
 Cercle de I'Union Club of Paris. General 
 Porter married in Albany, N. Y., Dec. 23, 
 1863, Dophie K. McHarg, and they have two 
 children. Address: 277 Madison Avenue, 
 New York City. 
 
 PORTER, Valentine Mott: 
 
 Lawyer; born in j\lt. Vernon, 111., April 
 4, 1870; son of Samuel Smith Porter, M.D., 
 and Helen (Van Zandt) Porter. He was 
 graduated from Harvard University, as A.B. 
 in 1892, and Washingfon University, LL. B., 
 1894. He has engaged in the practice of 
 law at St. Louis, since 1894; was secretary 
 of the Bar Association of St. Louis, 1901- 
 1904; secretary of the Universal Congress 
 of Ijiiwyers and Jurists, St. Louis, 1904, 
 lu'ld under the auspices of the United States 
 Government, the American Bar Association 
 and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition; 
 also editor of the Official Report of the Con- 
 gress, published 1905. Mr. Porter served in 
 tlie Si)anish ^^■ar with Light Battery A, Mis- 
 souri Volunteers, participating in the Porto 
 Rico campaign, and is now first lieutenant 
 in Battery A, National Guard of Missouri. 
 He is a member of the American Bar Asso- 
 ciation, the American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science; chairman of the Com-^^^jJ 
 mittee on Municipal Discussions of the Civic 
 
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 League, St. Louis, vice-president of tlie Mis- 
 souri Historical Society since 1906, member 
 of the Phi Delta Phi iegal fraternity, Har- 
 vard Club of New York, University Club, 
 and Florissant Valley Club of St. Louis. 
 He married in Mackinac Island, ^Mich., vSept. 
 21, 1907, Susan Creighton Williams. Ad 
 dress: 919 Third National Hank r>uilding, 
 Sl. Louis, Mo. 
 
 PORTER, William David: 
 
 Judge of the Superior Court of Penn- 
 sylvania ; born at Porter's Landing, Hancock 
 County. W. Va.. Jan. 3, 1850. He was 
 educated in various academies and in the 
 Law Department of the University of Penn- 
 sylvania. He read law with Collier, Miller 
 & McBride, at Pittsburg, where he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1872. Was elected 
 district attorney of Allegheny County in 
 1883, and reelected in 188(i; was appointed 
 a judge of the Court of Common Pleas Num- 
 ber Three, of Allegheny County, in May, 
 1891, and elected to that office for the full 
 term in the following Nov. While serving 
 in that position he was, on July 4, 1898, 
 appointed a. judge of the Superior Court 
 of Pennsylvania, and his election for the 
 full term' followed in Nov., 1898. Judge 
 Porter is a member of the Duquesne Club of 
 Pittsburg. Address: Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 PORTER, William H.: 
 
 President of the Chemical National Bank; 
 born in Middlebury, Vt., Jan. 3, 1861. He 
 was educated in the Middlebury Academy 
 and Saratoga High School. He is presi- 
 dent and director of the Chemical National 
 Bank and a director of the Fifth Avenue 
 Bank, Bankers' Trust Company, Astor Trust 
 Company, Astor Safe Deposit Company, 
 Title Guarantee & Trust Company, United 
 States Life Insurance Company, the Mutual 
 Life Insurance Company, etc., and is trustee 
 of the Franklin Savings Bank. He is Treas 
 urer and a member of the Executive Com- 
 mittee of the Chamber of Commerce; mem- 
 ber of the American Geographical Society, 
 the American Institute of Mining Engineers. 
 New England Society, and of the Union 
 League. Metropolitan, Republican, New 
 York Athletic, Atlantic, Yacht, Transporta- 
 
 tion, Riding, Midday, City Lundi, Kailroad, 
 and Hardware Clubs of New York City. 
 Residence: 56 Ea.st 67th Street. Oirici' : 
 270 Bro:ulway, New York City. 
 
 PORTER, William Henry: 
 
 j'liysician; born in New ^Oik City, Sept. 
 4, 1853; .son of Frederick Edward and Eliz- 
 abeth Bradley (Aiken) Porter, his father 
 being a successful manufacturer of Nor- 
 wich, Conn. His paternal descent is traced 
 back to William de la Grand, a Norman 
 kniglit who came to England with William 
 I at the Conquest, in 1060, acquiring an 
 estate near Kenilwoith, Warwickshire, and 
 his son Ralph, wlio became " Grand Por- 
 tuer " to Henry I, whence the family name, 
 the first American ancestor being the " orig- 
 inal John Porter" (a cousin of the same 
 name arrived later), who came from Eng- 
 land and settled in Windsor, Conn., about 
 1028. Through his mother he is a descend- 
 ant of one of the prominent Atkinson fam- 
 ilies, of Scotland. He spent his early years 
 and received his primary education in the 
 public school of Litchfield, Conn., later 
 attended the Munson (Mass.) Academy, 
 Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., 
 special student in chemistry for one year 
 in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale 
 University, and later in the Medical Depart- 
 ment of Columbia University, from which 
 he was graduated M.D., 1877. He was a 
 substitute interne in Bellevue Hospital for 
 .,ix months before graduation, since which 
 time he has practised in New York City. 
 He was two years on the interne staff of 
 the Presbyterian Hospital, receiving its 
 diploma; curator and acting pathologist, 
 Presbyterian Hospital, 1878-1888, and also 
 in Beilevue Hos])ital. 1885-1887; professor 
 of surgical pathology and surgery in the 
 Columbia Veterinary College of New York, 
 1879-1883, and during those years made a 
 otudy of comjjarative ])athology, as a result 
 of which he was the first to declare (New 
 \ork Medical Journal, 1884) that the 
 parenchymatous clianges found in the 
 epithelial cells of the kidneys in Bright's 
 disease were not inlhunmatory but degen- 
 erative and secondary in their nature.. He 
 also, in association with Professor Salter- 
 
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 thwaitc made an extensive uiicroscoijic 
 study of one luindred cases of cancer, and 
 also an exhaustive study, based on hundreds 
 of postmortem examinations of pluro- 
 pneumonia. Dr. Porter has been connected 
 from its' origin in April 1882 with the New 
 York Post-Graduate Medical School and 
 Hospital, first as associate professor of 
 pathology, and for the past twenty-five 
 years as professor of pathology and general 
 medicine; al.-o attending physician to the 
 Post-Graduate Hospital and pathologist to 
 the North Eastern Dispensary. He is au- 
 thor of a book on Diseases of the Kidney 
 and Urinary Analysis, also of articles on 
 pathological subjects and on most diseases 
 of the heart, lungs, liver and digestive sys- 
 tem; has devoted much time to practical 
 dietetics and the disturbances of metabol 
 ism, and is a specialist of standard author- 
 ity on these conditions. He was editor-in- 
 chief of the American Medico-Surgical Bul- 
 letin, 18921897, and after that for a few 
 years assisted in the Editorial management 
 of The Post-Graduate. He is a member of 
 the American Therapeutic Society, Ameri- 
 can Urologieal Society, American Geograph- 
 ical Society, American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, American Medical 
 -Association, American Civic Alliance, 
 American Society of International Congress 
 of Tuberculosis, National Geographic So 
 ciety, New York State Medical Society, 
 New York County JNIedical Society, New 
 York Academy of Medicine, New York 
 Pathological Society, New York Urologieal 
 Society, New York Neurological Society, 
 Medical Association of ihe Greater City of 
 New York. Medico-Surgical Society of New 
 York, Northwestern Medico-Surgical So- 
 ciety, Mississippi Valley Medical Associa 
 tion, the Clinical Society of the New York 
 Post-Graduate :\Icdical School and Hospital, 
 Society of Medical Jurisprudence, Litch- 
 field County IMcdical Society, Litchfield 
 County University Club of Connecticut, 
 Norfolk Club of Norfolk, Conn., Kcpublican 
 Club of the City of New York, Twenty- 
 seventh Assembly District Republican Club 
 of New York, Patria Club of New York 
 City Sons of the Revolution, Columbia Uni- 
 versity Alumni Association, Medical De- 
 partment, Presbyterian Hospital Alumni 
 
 Association, Williston Seminary Alumni 
 Association, Navy League of the United 
 States, Mens League of Broadway Taber- 
 nacle (Congregationalist) Church. Dr. 
 Porter married, May 21, 1880, Margaret 
 Josephine Carroll, and they have two sons, 
 Frederick Phelps and William Carroll Por- 
 ter. Country house: Elm Court, Norfolk, 
 Conn. Residence: The Strathmore, Broad- 
 way and .52d Street, New York City. 
 
 PORTER, William Wagener: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, May 5, 
 1850; son of Hon. William A. Porter, judge 
 of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and 
 Court of Alabama Claims, Washington. His 
 grandfather was David Rittenhouse Porter, 
 twice governor of Pennsylvainia ; his great- 
 grandfather was Gen. Andrew Porter, chief 
 of engineers on the staff" of Washington 
 during the Revolution. He was educated in 
 private schools in Philadelphia; was gi-ad- 
 uated from the University of Pennsylvania, 
 A.B., 1875, A.M. 1878; read law with his 
 father, Hon. William A. Porter, and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1877. He practised 
 his profession in Philadelphia until 1897, 
 when he was appointed judge of the Supe- 
 rior Court of Pennsylvania, and subsequent- 
 ly elected to a full term, but resigned in 
 order to return to the practice of the law 
 in 1903. Judge Porter is the author of a 
 legal text book on : Bills of Lading, and sev- 
 eral brochures. He is a member of the 
 Society of the Cincinnati, Sons of the Rev- 
 olution, the L'nion League of Philadelphia, 
 and other social and charitable institutions. 
 He was the orator at the unveiling of the 
 great \Vasliington Monument in Philadel- 
 pliia, an occasion in which President Mc- 
 Kiiilev also participated. Address: 2025 
 Walnut Street. Pliihuielphia. 
 
 POSEY, William Campbell: 
 
 Physician; born in Philadelphia, July 5, 
 18()0; son of David Root Posey, M.D., and 
 Emily Jewel (Campbell) Posej'. He was 
 graduated from the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, .\.B., 188G, M.D., 1889. He is sur- 
 geon to the Wills Eye Hospital, and pro- 
 fessor of ophthalmology in the Philadelphia, 
 Polyclinic. He was editor of the Fifth 
 
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 American edition of Xctf leship's Diseases 
 of the Eye; and is author of: Posey and 
 Wright's Diseases of the Eye, Nose, Throat 
 and Ear; Posoy and Spiller, on Diseases of 
 the Eye; and author of numerous treatises 
 on opthalmological subjects. He is a 
 memher of the American Ophthalmological 
 Society. Address: 1835 Cliestnut Street, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 POST, George Browne: 
 
 Architect; born in New York City; son 
 of Joel B. and Abby M. Post. He was edu- 
 cated in the scientific Department of New 
 York University, and studied architecture 
 under Richard M. Hunt. He engaged in 
 ]nactice in New York City as an architect, 
 and attaining distinction in the profession. 
 He is a member and former president of the 
 American Institute of Architects; was 
 elected associate, and has been an academi- 
 cian since 1908 of the National Academy of 
 Design; member of the Architectural 
 League, the Fine Arts Federation; Amer- 
 ican Society of Civil Engineers. He has re- 
 ceived from the French Government the 
 decoration of chevalier of the Legion d'llon- 
 neur, and is an honorary corresponding 
 member of the Royal Institute of British 
 Architects. He is also a member and 
 former president of the National Arts Club, 
 and a member of the Century Association of 
 New York City. Mr. Post married in New 
 York City, Oct. 14, 1863, Alice M. Stone, 
 who died Feb. 21, 1909. Residence: 129 
 East 69th Street. Office: 341 Fifth Ave- 
 nue, New York City. 
 
 POST, George B., Jr.: 
 
 Banker, broker; born in New York City, 
 July 30, 1864; son of George B. and Alice 
 (Stone) Post; he was educated in St. 
 Mark's School, Southboro, Mass., and Co 
 lumbia University. He is a member of the 
 firm of Post and Flagg; governor of the 
 New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Post is 
 a member of the Delta Phi fraternity, Co- 
 lumbia University Alumni Association ; and 
 of the Union, Knickerbocker, St. Anthony. 
 New York Yacht, New York Athletic, Mor- 
 ristown, Somerset Hills Country. ISIorris- 
 town Golf, Midday, Garden City'Colf, Rac- 
 
 quet and Tennis, and Morris County Golf 
 Clubs. He married Julia Cotton Smith; 
 and has a son: George B., 3d. Residence: 
 18 East 37th Street. OfiTice: 38 Wall Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 POST, Louis Freeland: 
 
 Editor of Tiie Public; born in Vienna, 
 N. J., Nov. 15, 1849; son of Kugene J. and 
 Eliicabeth (Freeland) Post. He was edu- 
 cated in New Jersey village and New York 
 public schools; learned the printer's trade 
 at llackettstown, N. J.; afterward studied 
 law and was admitted to the New York bar 
 in 1870; he was a law clerk and 
 stenographer in South Carolina, 1871- 
 1872; assistant U. S. attorney in 
 New York, 1874-1875, editorial writer 
 on New York Daily Truth, 1879-1882, 
 returned to the practice of law, 1883- 
 1890, but has since been engaged in editorial 
 work. Mr. Post became interested in Henry 
 George and his teachings in 1881, and is 
 now one of the. foremost editorial exponents 
 of the Henry George philosophy. He was 
 a candidate for Congress on the Labor 
 ticket in 1882, for district attorney of New 
 York, on the George ticket, 1887, and has 
 since advocated the Single Tax and allied 
 economic reforms; edited The Daily Leader 
 (George campaign paper) in 1886; was 
 contributor to The Standard, 1886-1891, and 
 its editor, 1891-1892: editor of The Cleve- 
 land Recorder, 1896-1897, founded The Pub- 
 lic in Chicago in 1898, and has since been 
 its editor. He is author of: The George- 
 INdfandCeasabte:,! ters21a,s7S90$. .TAONl 
 Hewitt Campaign, 1887; The Single Tax, 
 1895; Success in Life, 1902; The Ethicj of 
 Democracy, 1905; The Prophet of San Fran- 
 cisco, 1905; Ethical Principles of ^Marriage 
 and Divorce, 1906. He is a Democrat in his 
 political relations and was a strong sup- 
 porter of the municipal ownership pro- 
 gramme of the Dunne administration in 
 Chicago, and a member of the Board of Edu- 
 cation from 1006-1909. He is a member of 
 the Manhattan Single Tax Club of New 
 York. Chicago Press Club, the City, and the 
 Literarv Clubs of Chicago. Tie married, 
 first, at llackettstown, N. J.. July 6, 1871, 
 Anna Johnson, who died Nov. 14, 1891, 
 
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 leaving two cliildren. Mr. Post again mar- 
 ried, Dec. 2. ISlKi, Alice Thacher, of Or- 
 ange, X. J. Residence: 1643 Xorth 
 Halsted Street. Oftice: Ellsworth Build- 
 ing, Chicago. 
 
 POST, Regis Henri: 
 
 Ciovernor of Porto Rico; born in New 
 York City, Jan. 28, 1870; son of Albert 
 Kintzing and Marie (de Trobriand) Post. 
 He was educated in St. Mark's School, 
 Southboro, j\Iass., Harvard College, A.B., 
 1891. He served as a member of the Gen- 
 eral Assembly of New York for second Dis- 
 trict; auditor of Porto Rico, May 1, 1903 
 to Sept. 1, 1904; secretary of Porto Rico, 
 Sept. 1, 1904 to April 18, 1907, governor of 
 Porto Rico, Since April 18, 1907. Was chief 
 of Bayport (N. Y.) Fire Department, 1900- 
 1903;"^ president of Bayport School Board. 
 1898-1903; member of the Republican 
 County Committee, Suffolk County, N. Y., 
 1894-1903. He is a director of the Oy.-^ter- 
 mans National Bank of Sayville, N. Y. He 
 was an Episcopal vestryman -and member of 
 St. Ann's Church, Sayville, N. Y., 1896- 
 1900; vestryman and treasurer of St. John's 
 Church, San Juan, Porto Rico, 1908. Gov- 
 ernor Post married in New York City 
 March 6, 1895 Carolyn Beatrice Post, and 
 has one son. Home: Bayport, L. I. Ad- 
 dress: San Jufln. Porto Rico. 
 
 POTHIER, Aram J.: 
 
 Governor of Rhoile Island; elected on the 
 Republican ticket in 1908, and elected gov- 
 ernor for the term from Jan. 1909 to Jan., 
 1910. Address: Providence, R. I. 
 
 POTTER, Edward Clark: 
 
 Sculptor; born in New London, Conn.; 
 son of Nathan Day and Mary (Clark) Pot- 
 ter. He received his academic education 
 in Amherst College, and studied sculpture 
 in Paris, where he was a pupil of Mercel 
 and Fremo in 1888-1889. He was associated 
 witli Daniel Chester French in sculpture for 
 the World's Columbian Exposition. 1892- 
 1903, and has since been identified with 
 notable work in equestrian statues in va- 
 rious cities, groups at the Pan-American 
 Exposition, 1901, and much public portrait 
 
 and ideal work. He was elected an acade- 
 mician of the National Acaaemy of Design 
 in 1906, and he is a member of the National 
 Sculpture Society, the Architectural League, 
 and the National Institute of Arts and Let- 
 ters. Address: Greenwich, Conn. He mar- 
 ried in Washington, D. C, Dec. 31, 1890, 
 May Duniont. Address: Greenwich, Conn. 
 
 POTTER, Elmer Carlton: 
 
 Lawyer and senator; born in Framing- 
 ham, Mass., Aug. 23, 1868; son of Edgar 
 and Mary (Hamilton) Potter. He was 
 graduated from Dartmouth College, A.B., 
 1892, and A.M., 1895. He was a teacher in 
 Peekskill, N. Y., 1892-1895, in Worcester, 
 1895-1898. and has engaged in the practice 
 of law since that date. He was a represent- 
 ative to the General Court of Massachusetts, 
 from Worcester, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 
 1907, and a senator for the term of 1908- 
 1909. He is a Mason, and a member of the 
 Worcestor Golf, Congregational, Economic, 
 and Dartmouth Clubs. He married in 
 Vvorcester, July 9, 1895, Anna L. Arnold, 
 and has two children. Residence: 913 
 Pleasant Street. OfTice: 340 IMain Street, 
 \Vorcester, ]\Iass. 
 
 POTTER, Frederick: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, July 19, 
 1856; son of Orlando B. and Martha Green 
 (Wiley) Potter. He was graduated from 
 Yale College, 1878. He is trustee of the 
 Title Guarantee and Trust Company, direct- 
 or of the Bond and Mortgage Guarantee 
 Company, Realty Associates Westchester 
 and Bronx Title and Mortgage Guaranty 
 Company; managing trustee of the estates 
 of Orlando B. Potter. He is a member of 
 the Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade 
 and Transportation, American Geographical 
 Society, New England Society. American 
 Bar Association, Association of the Bar of 
 Die City of New York, Metropolitan Mu- 
 seum of Art; also of the Lawyers', Univer- 
 sity, Yale and Ard'sley Clubs of New York 
 City. Mr. Potter married in Ossining, 
 N. Y., April 7, 1885, Helen Ward Brand- 
 reth ; they have five children. Residence: 
 Ossining, N. Y. Office: 71 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
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 POTTER, James Brown: 
 
 Merchant, banker; born in New York 
 City, May 17, 1853; son of Howard and 
 Mary Louisa (Brown) Potter. He was 
 graduated from Union College, B.A., 1S73. 
 He is president and managing director of 
 the 'ihihualilo Agricultural Company, Lim- 
 ited, of Mexico; trustee of the Mexican Cot- 
 ton Estates, of Tlahualilo First Mortgage 
 Bonds, and director of the Tlahualilo Com- 
 pany, Limited, of London ; president of the 
 Manchester Land Company; director of the 
 London and New York Investment Cor- 
 poration, Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail- 
 road Company (Executive Committee) ; 
 trustee of the English and American INIort- 
 gage and Investment Company. He is a 
 member of the New York Chamber of 
 Commerce; life member of the National 
 Academy of Design, Metropolitan Museum 
 oi Art; Union College Alumni Association; 
 member and governor of the Tuxedo Club; 
 life member of the New York Y'atch Club, 
 and member of the Down Town Club. He 
 married, first, in 1877, Cora Urquhart, 
 of New Orleans; second, in 1904, Mary 
 Handy, daughter of Captain Handy, U. S. 
 Navy; and he has one daughter, Anne Ur- 
 quhart, now Mrs. James A. Stillman. Ad- 
 dress: .59 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 POTTER, Paul M.: 
 
 Dramatist; born in Brighton, England, 
 June 3, 1853 (father was headmaster of 
 King Edward's School, Bath, and editor of 
 the Bibliotheca Classica). He was educated 
 in England; engaged in newspaper work; 
 was foreign editor, 1876-1883, London cor- 
 respondent, 1883-1884, and dramatic critic, 
 1885-1887, of the New Y^ork Herald, and 
 from 1888 1890 on the editorial staff of the 
 Chicago Tribune. He is author of many 
 plays, produced by leading companies, in- 
 cluding: The City Directory, 1889; The 
 Ugly Duckling, 1890; The World's Fair, 
 1891; The American Minister, 1892; Sheri- 
 dan, or The Maid of Bath, 1893; Our Coun- 
 try Cousins, 1893; The Pacific Mail, 1894; 
 The Victoria Cross, 1894; Trilby, 1895; The 
 Stag Party, with E. W. ("BiU") Nye, 
 1896; The Conquerors, 1898; Under Two 
 Flags, 1901; The Red Kloof, 1902; Notre 
 
 Dame, 1903; The School Girl, 1904; Nancy 
 Stair, 1905; Barbara's Millioms, 1900; 
 Twenty Days in the Shade, 1908; The Hon- 
 or of the Family, 1908; The Queen of the 
 Moulin Rouge, 1908; The Girl from Rec- 
 tor's, 1909. Mr. Potter was American rep- 
 resentative at tlie Congress of Dramatic Art 
 at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Address: 
 Empire Theater, New York City. 
 
 POTTER, William: 
 
 Lawj'er and diplomat ; born in Philadel- 
 phia, April 17, 1852; son of Thomas and 
 Adeline Coleman (Bower) Poiter. He was 
 educated in the University of Pennsylvania 
 in the class of 1874, but left college in order 
 to accompany his father, who was ill, to 
 Europe. He afterward studied law and' was 
 admitted to the Philadelphia bar, and he 
 was formerly vice president and is now a di- 
 rector and solicitor of Thomas Potter Sons 
 and Company, Incorporated. He is also a 
 member of the Board of City Trusts, which 
 has oversight of Girard College, the Benja- 
 min Ftanklin Fund and all other trusts 
 bequeathed to the City of Philadelphia ; is 
 president of Jefferson Medical College and 
 Hospital; trustee of the Pennsylvania In- 
 stitution for the Deaf and Dumb. He was 
 U. S. minister to Italy by appointment of 
 President Harrison, 1892-1894; was special 
 Government commissioner to London, Paris 
 and Berlin, to negotiate the system of 
 marine postoffices in 1890; delegate to the 
 Universal Postal Union at Vienna in 1891 ; 
 refused the tender of the post of ambassador 
 to Germany from President McKinley in 
 ]\Iarch, 1897; was National relief commis- 
 sioner to Porto Rico during the Spanish- 
 American War, and a member of the Per- 
 manent Relief Committee of Philadelphia. 
 Mr. Potter was chairman of the Advisory 
 Board of Citizens called to counsel Mayor 
 Weaver during 1905; and in Januarj-, 1907, 
 was nominated on a uniform primary by the 
 City and Democratic parties for mayor of 
 Philadelphia, and, though defeated, received 
 97,856 votes against the Republican organ- 
 ization. Mr. Potter is a member, and was 
 formerly secretary, of the Union League of 
 Philadelphia. He married, first at Chestnut 
 Hill, Pa., April 25, 1878, Jane Kennedy 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Vanuxem, who died Jan. 17, 1897, and of 
 that marriage there were four children. Mr. 
 Potter, after the death of his first wife, mar- 
 ried, at Chestnut Hill, Pa., May 16, 1899, 
 her sister, Hetty Vanuxem, who died Aug. 
 12, 1901. • Residence: Chestnut Hill, Pa. 
 Office: 1001 Chosnut Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 POTTER, William Plumer: 
 
 Jurist; liorn in Jackscin County, Iowa, 
 April 27, 1857; son of Rev. James H. and 
 Nancy 1. Potter. He was educated in Wis- 
 consin and Iowa public and high schools; 
 entered Lafayette College, class of 1879, but 
 did not complete course; received the degree 
 oi LL.D. from Lafayette College, 1907; en- 
 tered the banking business in Iowa; studied 
 law and was admitted to the Iowa bar. He 
 removed to Pittsburg, 1^81 ; was admitted 
 to the Pittsburg bar, 1883; practised until 
 appointed, Sept. 25, 1900, justice of the 
 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and was 
 elected Nov. 5, 1901, to the same position 
 for a term of twenty-one years, beginning 
 Jan. 1, 1902. Justice Potter is a member 
 of the American Association for the Ad 
 vancement of Science, Historical Society of 
 Pennsylvania, American Historical Society, 
 and Art Club of Philadelphia, and the 
 Country Club of Pittsburgh. He married 
 in 1884, Jessie L. Bacon. Residence: The 
 Schenley Hotel, Pittsburgh, and Swarth- 
 more. Pa. Official address: Room 458 City 
 Hali. Philadelphia. 
 
 POTTER, William Warren: 
 
 Physician; born in Strykersville, N. Y., 
 Dec. .•?!. 1838; son of Lindorf and Mary 
 Green (Blanchard) Potter. He was educat- 
 ed first at Arcade (N. Y.) Seminary, then at 
 Genesee Seminary and College, Lima, N. Y., 
 and at Buffalo University Medical College, 
 M.D., 18.59. He at once formed a partner- 
 ship in the practice of medicine with his 
 uncle, Dr. M. E. Potter, of Cowlesville, N. Y. 
 At the ])eginning of the Civil War. he of- 
 fered his services to the Government ; 
 pas.sed the examination of the Army Board 
 at Albany a few days after the surrender 
 of Fort Sumter; was commissioned, in the 
 summer of 18G1, assistant surgeon of the 
 49th New Yoik Volunteers; served in 
 the Armv of the Potomac under ]\[cClcllan 
 
 during the Peninsula and Antietam cam- 
 jiaigns and under Burnside in the Fred- 
 ericksburg disaster. He was left in charge 
 of wounded soldiers while the army was 
 retreating to Harrison's Landing; was 
 captured by Confederates, June 30, 1862, 
 and had an interesting interview with Stone- 
 wall Jackson. He was confined in Libby 
 Prison, but soon exchanged, and returned to 
 liis regiment; was promoted to surgeon, 
 Dec. IG, 1862; served with the 57th Regi- 
 ment, New York Volunteers, during the 
 Chancellorsville and Gettysburg campaigns; 
 soon after Gettysburg was assigned to 
 charge of the First Division Hospital, Sec- 
 ond Army Corps, continuing until mustered 
 out of service at the close of the war. He 
 was brevetted by the President, for faithful 
 and meritoriovis services as lieutenant col- 
 onel, L^^. S. Volunteers, and by the governor 
 of New York as lieutenant-colonel. New 
 York Volunteers. After the war he prac- 
 tised for some time at Batavia, N. Y., since 
 then at Buffalo, N. Y. Of late years he has 
 limited his practice to treatment of diseases 
 of women. Dr. Potter is a member of the 
 American Medical Association (chairman of 
 the Section of the Diseases of Women, 
 1890) ; Medical Society State of New York 
 (president, 1891), Medical Society of Erie 
 County (president, 1893), Buftalo Obstetri- 
 cal Society, 1884-1886; secretary of the 
 American Association of Obstetricians and 
 Gynecologists since 1888; president Section 
 of Gynecology and Abdominal Surgery, 
 First Pan American Congress, 1893; since 
 1891 president and examiner in obstetrics 
 and gynecology. New York State Board of 
 Medical Examiners; president of the Na- 
 tional Confederation of Medical Examining 
 and Licensing Boards, 1895-1899; and he 
 is consulting surgeon at the Bufialo Gen- 
 (>ral Hospital. Dr. Potter is an exten- 
 sive contributor to the medical press, es- 
 pecially in gynecology; editor of the 
 Buffalo ^Medical -Tounial since July, 1888; 
 also edits the annunl volume of the 
 Transactions of the American Association 
 of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He is 
 a com])anion of the Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion of the United States, and a 
 member of the Armv and Navv Club of 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1345 
 
 New York f'ity. lie niarriod Mnrcli 2:i, 
 18i5!), Kmily A. l^o.slwick of J^aiicii.ster, N. 
 Y., and has two daughters. Address: 238 
 Uehiware Aveiuio. P>uiralo, X. Y. 
 
 POTTHAST, Edward Henry: 
 
 Artist; horn in Cincinnati, 1S.")7; son of 
 Henry and ik-rnardina (Scheifers) I'ott- 
 iiast. ]Ie was educated in the Art Institute 
 of Cincinnati, and in Munich and Paris. 
 He was elected Academician of the National 
 Academy of Design, in 190G. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Salamagundi, and Lotos Clubs 
 of New York City. Address: 222 West 
 59th Street, New York City. 
 
 POTJ, Edward William: 
 
 Congressman ; born at Tuskegee, Ala., 
 Sept. 9, 1863; son of Edward William and 
 Ann Maria Pou. He was graduated from 
 the University of North Carolina; was 
 admitted to the bar of North Carolina, 
 Feb. 5, 1885, and has since practised law 
 at Smithfield. N. C. He has also been 
 active in politics as a Democrat; was presi- 
 dential elector in 1888; was elected solici- 
 tor of the Fourth Judicial District of 
 North Carolina in 1890, 1894 and 1898; 
 while serving his third term as solicitor 
 was elected to the Fifty seventh Congress; 
 and was reelected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty- 
 ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses 
 from the Fourth North Carolina District. 
 Mr. Pou is a member of the Alpha Tau 
 Omega fraternity. He married in Pitts- 
 boro, N. C, Oct. 18, 1887, Carrie Ihrie. 
 Addre.ss : Smithfield. N. C. 
 
 POUND, Cuthbert Winfred: 
 
 Jurist ; born in Lockport, N. Y., June 
 20, 18G4; son of Alexander and Almina 
 (Whipple) Pound. He was educated in 
 the schools of Lockport, and at Cornell 
 University; and studied law in the office 
 of his brother, Hon. John E. Pound, of 
 Lockport, N. Y. He was admitted to the 
 bar in June, 1886, and practised law at 
 Lockport until 1895 wdien he removed to 
 Ithaca, becoming a professor of law in the 
 College of Law of Cornell University, 1895- 
 1904. He resigned to resume practice at 
 Lockport as senior member of the firm of 
 85 
 
 Pound & Moore. He wa-^ city attorney of 
 Lockport, 1888-18!)!; elcded State senator 
 for the then Twenty ninth Senate District, 
 1893; appointed State civil service com- 
 missioner l)y Covernor Roosevelt, in June, 
 1900, and in June, 1903, l)ecaine pre>,ident 
 of the commission. He resigned in Jan- 
 uary, 1905, being a))p()inted by (Jovernor 
 Higgins as counsel to the (iovernor, wiiich 
 position he hehl until appointed in June, 
 1906, justice of the Supreme Court for the 
 Eightli Judicial District, and he was elected 
 Nov. G, 190G, to the same position for full 
 term exi^iring Dec. 31, 1920. He was a 
 member of the Lexow Committee to investi- 
 gate the government of New York City, 
 and he introduced the present Compulsory 
 Education Law. Judge Pound is a direc- 
 tor of the National Exchange Bank, of 
 Lockport, N. Y. He is a member of the 
 Cornell Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon, 
 the New York State Bar Association, the 
 Town and Gown Club of Ithaca, the 
 Buffalo and Saturn Clubs, of l^ufTalo, 
 and Town and Country Club of Lockport. 
 Address: Lockport, N. Y. 
 
 POWELL, Arthur Chilton: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Dayton. Ohio, July 
 22, 1854; son of John and Sarah (Latham) 
 Powell. He was graduated from Amherst 
 College, A.B., 1876, A.M., 1879; attended 
 Princeton Seminary, 187G1877, and the 
 Philadelphia Divinity School. 1877-1879; 
 and he received the- honorary degree of D.D. 
 from St. John's College, IMd., 1905. He 
 was ordered deacon in 1879 and ordained 
 priest in 1880 by Bishop Jaggar of South- 
 ern Ohio. He was rector of the Church of 
 \tonement. Riverside, Cincinnati, 1879- 
 1882; St. John's. York, Pa., 1882-1888; 
 dean of Convocation of Harrisburg. Pa., 
 1886-1888: rector of Grace Church, Balti- 
 more, since 1888. He is trustee of the 
 :^Iaryland Bible Society; president and trus- 
 tee of the Church Home and Infirmary. Bal- 
 timore, director and vice-president of the 
 Consumptive Hospital of Maryland. He is 
 a member of Chi Phi fraternity. Dr. 
 Powell married in Columbus, Ohio. Sept. 
 28. 1882, Helen Buttles Hardy, and they 
 have three sons. Residence: Grace Rec- 
 torv, Baltimore, ^Id. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 POWERS, Charles A.: 
 
 Physician and suryeon ; born in Law- 
 rcncp, Mass.. I"eb. 2. 18.)S; son of Cxeorge 
 Kliot and Mary (Stone) Powers. He was 
 j^raduated from Columbia. M.D., 1883, and 
 leceived the honorary dej^ree of A.M. from 
 the L niversity of Denver in 11)01. He was 
 attending- surj^eon to St. Luke's and Gen- 
 eral Memorial Hospitals, New York City, 
 18!)4; attending surgeon at St. Luke's and 
 Denver City Hospitals. Denver, 1896; and 
 is now professor of surgery in the L'ni 
 versify of Denver. He is author of mi- 
 merous papers on surgical subjects. Dr. 
 Powers is a fellow of the American Surgi- 
 cal Association ; member of the American 
 Medical Association; membre de la Societe 
 Internationale de Chirurgie; and also a 
 member of various local medical societies 
 and the University of Denver and Denver 
 Country Clubs. Residence : University 
 Club. Office: Fourteenth and Stout 
 Streets, Denver, Colo. 
 
 POWERS, James T.: 
 
 Actor; born New York City, April 26, 
 1867. He made his first appearance as 
 an actor in a minor part in Rice's Evange- 
 line; afterward was in several companies, 
 and met success both in America and Eng- 
 land; played "Rats" in Hoyt's comedy, A 
 Tin Soldier ; later in the Casino company 
 in leading i)arts in Erminie, Xadjy and 
 other light operas. For several years past 
 he has been at the head of his own com- 
 pany. Adilrc-is: Tile Phiyers, (Jranicrcy 
 l-ar'k. New \nrk City. 
 
 POWERS. Samuel Leland: 
 
 Lawyer; l)niii in Cnniisli. \. II.. Oct. 26, 
 1848; son iif Larned and Ruby (Barton) 
 Powers, lie was educated in Kimball LTn- 
 ion Academy. Phillips Exeter Academy, and 
 Dartmouth. .\.l!.. 1874; was admitted to 
 the bar in 187.'). and since then has prac 
 tised law in Roslon, now being senior mem- 
 ber of the law firm of Powers and Mall. 
 .Mr. Powei's was a didegate tKiiii .Massachu- 
 setts to 111!' International Treaty Conven- 
 tion in 1878. lie was a Republican nieni- 
 i)er of < ongiess from the Lh-venth Massa- 
 chii-ett'^ District, lltOl - 1 '.Ml,;, and from tiie 
 
 Twelfth IMassachusetts District. 1903 190.5. 
 He is a director of the Newton Street Rail- 
 way Com])any, the I^xington and Boston 
 Street Railway Company, the Newton and 
 Boston Street Railway Company, the Natick 
 and Cochituate Street Railway Company, 
 the Westboro and Hopkinton Street Railway 
 Company, the Norumbega Park Company, 
 the Waltham Gfas Liglit ('ompany, the 
 Shawmut Consolidated Copper Coinjiany, 
 the Municipal Signal Company, and tlie 
 Suburban IManufacturing Company. Mi'. 
 Powers is a member of tlie Boston Bar 
 Association, ^Middlesex Bar Association, Phi 
 Beta Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sons 
 of American Revolution of ^Massachusetts, 
 and trustee of Dartmouth College. He is 
 a member of the E.xchange, University and 
 City Clubs of Boston, the Newton Club 
 and the Hunnewell Club. Mr. Power.s mar- 
 ried in Dennis, Mass., .Tune. 1878, Eva 
 Crowell.and they have one son. Residence: 
 96 Arlington Street, Newton, Mass. Office: 
 101 Milk Street. Boston. 
 
 PRANG, Mary Dana Hicks: 
 
 Art educator: born in Syrat u -e. N. Y., 
 Oct. 7, 1836; daughter of .Major and Agnes 
 A. L. (.Johnson) Dana. She was educited 
 in the Allen Female Seminary at Rochester, 
 N. Y"., and took graduate courses in Har- 
 vard University. She was twice married, 
 first in Syracu.se, Oct. 7. 18.i(i. to Charles 
 S. Hicks, and second, in Boston, April 1."), 
 I9()(). to Louis Prang, who died .Tune 14, 
 1!)09. After art studies with private in- 
 structors and in the Museum of Fine Arts 
 at Boston she became identified with art 
 education; was president of tlie Social .\rt 
 Club of Syracii.se, 1875-1880: and director 
 of the Praiig Normal Art classes. 1884-1900, 
 and was supervisor of art instriution in the 
 Syracuse (N. Y.) public schools. 1868-1878; 
 she is author of numerous books on art and 
 art instruction, including: The L'se of Mod- 
 els. 188(i (with .Tohn S. Clark and Walter S. 
 Perry); The Prang ('(unplete (nurse in 
 Form Study and Drawinu. c(iin|iiising 
 tw(dve drawing-books with inanuals. 1889- 
 1894: 'The Piang Siiorter Course in T'orm 
 Study and Drawing, comprising six draw- 
 iiii;-bo()k> and niamnils. 1888; 'The I'rang 
 
 l']hMiicntarv Courst' 
 
 .\rt Instruction, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1347 
 
 twelve dra\vin<^- books witli iiiiuiiials, 1897- 
 1900; Suggestions for Color Iiistniction 
 (with John S. Clark and T^iiis Prang), 
 1893; Art Instruction for Children in Pri- 
 mary Schools, 2 volumes, 1000; and other 
 writings on art subjects. Mrs. Prang has 
 been an extensive traveler all over this 
 country; to Europe four times, and around 
 the world, 190()-1907. She is a member of 
 the American Park and Outdoor Associa- 
 tion, National ^Educational Association, the 
 Eastern Kindergarten Association, Eastern 
 Drawing Teachers' Association, !Massachu- 
 setts Floral Emblem Society ( president, 
 1898 1901), Western Art Teachers' Associa- 
 tion, ^Massachusetts Industrial Art Teachers' 
 Association, the Copley Society, Public 
 School Art League, Woman's Educational 
 Association, Woman's Educational and In- 
 dustrial Union, the Harvard Teachers' As- 
 sociation of Cambridge, Mass., the Egypt 
 Exploration Fund, Massachusetts Prison As- 
 sociation, National Consumers' League, 
 League for Social Service of New York, 
 Appalachian Mountain Club, Onandaga 
 County (N. Y. ) Historical Association, 
 Boston Athenaeum, Boston Business League, 
 Boston Equal Suffrage Association, Bos 
 tonian Society and the New England 
 V\ Oman's Unity Art and Wintergreen Clubs 
 of Boston. Address: 45 Centre Street, 
 Roxbury, Mass. 
 
 PRATT, Joseph Hyde: 
 
 State geologist, and a consulting min- 
 ing engineer; born in Hartford, Conn., Feb. 
 3, 1870; son of James Church and Jennie 
 (Peck) Pratt. He was graduated from 
 Hartford High School, and Yale University, 
 Ph.B., 1895, and Ph.D.. 1896. He was in- 
 structor in Yale LTniversity, 1890-1897, state 
 mineralogist of North Carolina. 1897-1899, 
 consulting mining engineer, since 1899; lec- 
 turer at the LTniversity of North Carolina, 
 1899-1904, professor of economic geology, 
 University of North Carolina, since 1905, 
 and State geologist of North Carolina, since 
 1906. He is director of the Chapel Hill 
 Realty and Investment Company, and the 
 William Bayley Company of Springfield, 
 Ohio. Mr. Pratt is president of the Chai)c] 
 Hill Board of Trade, member of the Min- 
 ing and Metallurgical Society of America, 
 
 American Institute of Mining Engineers, 
 Geological Society of Anieiica ; American 
 As-^ociation for the Advancement of Sci- 
 ence, New York Academy of Scienci', 
 North Carolina Academy of Science, Ameri- 
 can Chemical Society, Sigma Xi, and Alpha 
 Tau Omega fraternities, and Order of Oin- 
 ghoul, of the University of North Carolina. 
 He is a member of the Yale Club of New 
 York City, University Club of Washington, 
 Capitol Club of Raleigh, and the Country 
 Club of Chapel Hill. He married in 
 Springfield, Ohio, April 5, 1899, Mary Dic\is 
 Bayley. Address: Chapel Hill, X. C. 
 
 PRAY, James Sturgis: 
 
 Landscajie arcliilcct ; h(irn in Boston, 
 Mass., Fcl). -iC), 1871; son of Benjamin 
 Sweetser and Frances INIotley (Gavett) 
 Pray. After a preparatory education in 
 Chauncy Hall School, Boston, in 1891, he 
 entered Harvard College and later studied 
 in the Lawrence Scientific School, the Bus- 
 sey Institution, and the Arnold Arboretum, 
 and in 1898 was graduated from Harvard 
 " as of 1895." He was engaged with 
 Olmsted Brothers, Brookline, 1898-1903. in 
 the profession of landsca])e architecture, 
 and since 1903 has had an office in Boston. 
 He was of the firm of Pray and Gallagher, 
 1904-1906, and since 1906 has been of the 
 firm of Pray, Hubbard and White. Sept. 
 1, 1905, he became assistant professor of 
 landscape architecture, and since June. 
 1908, has been chairman of the Department 
 of Landscape Architecture in Harvard Uni- 
 versity. Professor Pray is a fellow of the 
 American Society of Landsca])e Architects, 
 a member of the Architectural League of 
 America, Architectural League of New- 
 York. National Municipal League. Amer- 
 ican Civic Association, National Education- 
 al Association, American Social Science 
 Association, Massachusetts Horticultural 
 Society, secretary of the Columbine Asso- 
 ciation of the United States, member of the 
 Appalachian Mountain Club, and about 
 fifty other organizations. Professor Pray 
 mairied in Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 30. 190i. 
 Florence 'M. Nichols, and they have two 
 children: Benjamin Sturgis and Frances 
 Motley. Residence : Cambridge, MasSs 
 Office: 15 Ashburton Place, Boston. 
 
1348 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 PREBLE, Robert Bruce: 
 
 Physician; born in Chicago, March 14, 
 ISOCi; son of Eber C. and Mary Kate 
 (Barnes) Preble. He was graduated from 
 the University of ]\Iichigan, A.B., 1889, 
 Northwestern University, M.D., 1891, and 
 did post-graduate work at the University of 
 Vienna. He was professor of medicine in 
 Northwestern University, and attending 
 physician to Cook County, St. Luke's, St. 
 Josc])lfs. and Wesley Hospitals. Dr. Pre- 
 ble is a member of the Association of Ameri- 
 can Piiysicians, American Medical Society, 
 Illinois Medical Society, Chicago Medical 
 Society, Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and the 
 University Club of Chicago. He married 
 in Chicago, June 12, 1889, Alice Hosmer, 
 and they have three children. Residence: 
 1518 Dearborn Avenue. Business address: 
 103 State Street, Chicago. 
 
 PRELLWITZ, Henry: 
 
 Artist; horn in New York City, in lS6o; 
 son of Rudolph and Margaretha (Mauer) 
 Prellwitz. He was educated in the public 
 schools of New York City, the College of 
 the City of New Y^ork, the Art Students' 
 League of New York, the Academic Julian, 
 Paris, and the .studio of T. W. Dewing, New 
 York City. He exhibited at the exhibitions 
 of the Society of American Artists, the 
 National Academy of Design, New Y^ork 
 City; also at Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, 
 Worcester and many other places. He won 
 the third Hallgarten prize of the National 
 Academy of De.>.ign in 1893; the bronze 
 medal of the Pan American Exposition. 
 Buffalo, 1901; the silver medal at the 
 Txiuisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 
 1904; and the Clarke prize at the National 
 Academy of Design, 1907, and studied in 
 Paris, 1887-1890. Mr. Prellwitz is a mem- 
 ber of the Society of American Artists (sec 
 retary, ]902-19()()) ; an associate of the Na- 
 tional Academy of Design, and instructor 
 of life classes in the Department of Art, 
 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. He married in 
 New York City, 1894, Edith Mitchill. and 
 they have one son, Edwin Mitchell Prell- 
 witz. Address: 247 West Seventy-first 
 Street, New York City, and Peconic, Long 
 Island, N. Y. 
 
 PRENDERGAST, Edmond Francis: 
 
 Catholic Bishop; born in Clonmel, Ire- 
 land, j\Iay 3, 1843. He came to the United 
 States at the age of IG, after beginning his 
 education in Ireland, pursiied his divinity 
 studies in the Ecclesiastical Seminary of 
 St. Charles Borromeo, Philadelphia, and 
 was ordained priest in 1805. He was as- 
 sistant at St. Paul's, Philadelphia, and later 
 at Susquehanna Depot; then rector at Al- 
 lentown. Pa.; rector of St. Malchy's, Phila- 
 delphia, three yearSj 1894-1897, and also 
 vicar-general of the archdiocese of Phila- 
 delphia, 1895-1897. He was consecrated 
 bishop in February, 1897, and made auxil- 
 iary to the Archbishop of Philadelphia. 
 Address: 1426 Warnock Street, Philadel- 
 phia. 
 
 PRESTON, Andrew Woodbury: 
 
 President of the tinitud Fruit Company; 
 born on a farm in Beverly, ]\lass., 1846; 
 son of Benjamin and Sarah (Poland) Pres- 
 ton. He received a common school educa- 
 tion, and continued on the home farm until 
 he was twenty-three years old, when he 
 entered the fruit business, in which he has 
 made an eminent success, now being presi- 
 dent and director of the United Fruit Com- 
 pany ; of the Belize Royal Mail and Central 
 American Steamship Company, the Fruit 
 Dispatch Company, the Hotel Titchfield 
 Company, the Nipe Bay Company, and of 
 the Pittsburg Fruit and Produce Ex- 
 change; is vice-president and director of 
 the Abangary Gold Fields of Costa Rica, 
 the Northern Railway Company, and the 
 Quartette ]\Iiniiig Company; treasurer and 
 director of the M. D. Cressy Company; di- 
 rector of the American Mail Steamship 
 Company, the City Trust Company, the 
 Elders and Fyffes. Limited, the Costa Rica 
 l"'si)eranza Mining Company, the First Na- 
 tional Bank of Boston. National Bank of 
 Cuba, and the Tropical Fruit Steamship 
 Company. Mr. Preston is a 32-degree Ma- 
 son, is a member of the New Algonquin, 
 Kxchange. ami City Clubs of Boston, New 
 ^'ork Yacht Club, Country Club of Brook- 
 line. Mass., Tedesco Country Club of 
 Swampscott. Mass., and Eastern ^^'u•ht Club 
 of Marblehoad, Mass. He married in \Vey- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1340 
 
 mouth, Mass., in 1S69, Francos E. Gutter- 
 son, and has a niarriecl daughter. Resi- 
 dence: "The Arches," Swanipscott, Mass. 
 Onice: LSI 8tate Street, Boston. 
 
 PRICE, Charles W.: 
 
 Editor of tlie l<'hTlrical Review: horn 
 on a farm near Barnesville, Belmont Coun- 
 ty, Ohio; son of Samuel and Charlotte 
 (Alder) Price. He was educated in the 
 couintry school and at Barnesville hijfh 
 school. He served in the office of the 
 Barnesville (Ohio) Enterprise, as, succes- 
 sively, devil, compositor and editor until 
 1878, when he went We.st. He assisted in 
 establishing the Topeka Daily Capital in 
 1879 and was one of its editors for several 
 years. Mr. Price became a student of elec- 
 trical matters and in 1885 was called to 
 New York City to take a position on the 
 staff of the Electrical Review, of which he 
 is now editor-in chief and the largest owner, 
 and he has also contributed extensively on 
 electrical subjects to magazines and news- 
 papers. He is a member of the American 
 Institute of Electrical Engineers, the New 
 York Electrical Society, the National Elec- 
 tric Light Association, ex-president of the 
 Kansas Society of New York ; a member of 
 the Ohio Society of New York, a member 
 and treasurer of the Lotos Club; member 
 of the Electrical Club; vice-president, mem- 
 ber and formerly chairman of the board of 
 trustees of the New York Press Club and 
 member of the Montauk Club. Mr. Price 
 married in Tokepa, Kan., March 16, 1882, 
 Minnie E. Gray, and they have two daugh- 
 ters. Address: 13 Park Row, New York 
 City. 
 
 PRICE, Ira Maurice: 
 
 Orientalist; born in Welsh Hills, near 
 Newark, Ohio, April 29, 1856; son of Thom- 
 as Davies and Sarah Jane (Jones) Price. 
 He was graduated from Denison University, 
 A.B., 1879, A.M., 1882, and from the Bap- 
 tist Union Theological Seminary, Chicago, 
 B.D., 1882; studied at the University of 
 Leipzig, receiving the degrees of Ph.D. and 
 A.M.. in 1886; and received the honorary 
 degree of LL.D. from Denison University. 
 1903. He is distinguished as an instructor 
 
 in the Semiiic languages as applied to 
 liible study and inlerprctatioii, liaviiig liegiin 
 his career as such an instructor at tlie 
 Wheaton Theological Seminary in 1882. He 
 was instructor in Harper's Hebrew Cor- 
 respondence Sciiools, 1882-1884; instructor 
 in Hebrew and cognate languages, Cliicagf) 
 Baptist Union Theological Seminary, 188(5- 
 1888; professor in .same, 1888-1892; asso- 
 ciate professor of Semitic languages and 
 literatures. University of Chicago, 1892- 
 1900; and professor in same since 1900. 
 He is associate editor of The Biblic-al W'orhl, 
 The American Journal of Theology, and 
 Tlie American Journal of Semitic Lan- 
 guages and Literatures, and is on the edi- 
 torial staff of The Standard Dictionary, 
 Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible, The .lew- 
 ish Encyclopedia, The Standard Bible Dic- 
 tionarj'. The Dictionary of Religion, and 
 other publications. He is the author of: 
 Introduction into the Inscriptions Discov- 
 ered by E. de Sarzec, Munich, 1887; Sylla- 
 bus of Old Testament History, 1890 '(7th 
 edition, 1907) ; Some Literary Remains of 
 Rim-Sin (Arioch) of Larsa, B.C., 22.50, 
 1905; The Great Cylinder Inscriptions A 
 and B of Gudea, Leipzig, Germany, 1899; 
 The Monuments and The Old Testament, 
 Chicago, .1899 (5th edition, 1907); and 
 The Ancestry of Our English Bible, Phila- 
 delphia, 1907. He is director of the Calu- 
 met Trust and Savings Bank, ^lorgan 
 Park, 111., and of the Chapman & Smith 
 Co., Chicago; secretary of the International 
 Sunday School Lesson Conunittee, and 
 chairman of the Executive Committee of 
 the Baptist Young Peoples' Union of Ameri- 
 ca and is a member of tiie Quadrangle 
 Club, University of Chicago. He married 
 at Granville, Ohio, June 13, 1882, Jennie 
 Rhoads (who died Sept. 23, 1905), and has 
 two sons and two daughters. Address: 
 0043 Ellis Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 PRICE, Silas Eber: 
 
 President of Ottawa University; born in 
 Newark, Ohio, Feb. 28, 1860; son of Thom- 
 as D. and Sarah J. (Jones) Price. He was 
 graduated from Denison University, A.B., 
 1884. and from the IMorgan Park Theologi- 
 cal Seminarv (now the Divinitv School of 
 
1350 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 the University of Chicago), B.D., 1887. 
 After his ordination to the Baptist ministry 
 lie occupied pastorates in La Crosse, Wis., 
 Minneapolis, Minn., Milwaukee, Wis., and 
 Ottawa. Kan. In June, 1906, he was 
 elected president of Ottawa University, Ot- 
 tawa, Kan. He has been director of tlie 
 Wisconsin Baptist State Convention and 
 the Kansas Baptist State Convention and 
 was trustee of Wayland University, Beaver 
 Dam, Wis. He married at Ontario, Wis., 
 Sept. 8, 1887, Nettie May Sandon, and has 
 a son and a daughter. Residence: 603 
 Cedar Street. Address: Ottawa Univer- 
 sity, Ottawa, Kan. 
 
 PRICKITT, William A.: 
 
 Consular ollicer; born in Monmouth 
 County, N. J., March 20, 1839; and was 
 educated in the public schools. He entered 
 the Union Army in 1862, as private and 
 later became corjjoral and sergeant of the 
 14th N*ew Jersey Volunteers, until in 1894, 
 he was commissioned captain of the 25th 
 U. S. Colored Infantry, so serving until 
 nuistered out in 1865. He engaged in finan- 
 cial and insurance business, 1868-1872; then 
 operated as a member of the New York 
 Stock Exchange, 1872-1876, after _ which he 
 engaged in farming near Lakcwood, N. J., 
 until appointed consul at Rheinis, Oct. 12, 
 1897: and was promoted to consul-general 
 at Auckland, Nov. 6, 1905. Address: 
 Auckland, New Zealand. 
 
 PRIME, Ralph Earl: 
 
 l.awyiT. autlmi-; lioni in Malteawan, N. 
 ^■., Marcli 29, IH4(t; sciu of Alanson J. 
 Trime, Al.l)., and Ruth Havens (ITigbio) 
 Prime. He was educated in |iul)lic scliools. 
 academy at White Plains, N. Y., medicine 
 and later studied law (D.C.L. and LL.D.). 
 and was admitted to the bar in 18(>1. He 
 served in Army in the Civil War. in llif 
 Fiftli New York Volunteer Infantry, from 
 Ainil 20, 1861; held four regimental com- 
 missions. He took part in the battles of 
 the Big Bethel; campaign on the eastern 
 shore of Maryland and Virginia; the siege 
 of Yorktown, Williamsburg. Hanover Court 
 House, seven days before Richmond, Me- 
 chanicsville, Gaines' Mill; White Oak 
 
 Swamp Bridge, Malvern Cliff (June 30) ; 
 Alaryland campaign. South ^lountain, An- 
 tietam, Shepardstown Ford and Blackford's 
 I^'ord. He was wounded severely in the 
 battle of Gaines' ]\Iill. He received notices 
 in general orders of, and was twice pro- 
 moted for bravery, gallantry and service at 
 the battle of Gaines' Mill ; and was nomi- 
 nateu, March 4, 1803, by President Lincoln, 
 to be brigadier-general. He has practised 
 law for more than forty years in Yonkers. 
 He has been for more than twenty years 
 a Presbyterian elder; was a delegate from 
 the Presbyterian Church in the United 
 States of America to the Pan-Pre.sbyterian 
 Councils, in Belfast, 1884, London^ 1888, 
 Glasgow, 1896, Washington, 1899, and Liver- 
 pool, 1904, and was chairman of the West- 
 ern Section of the Pan-Presbyterian Alli- 
 ance. He was nipderator of the Presbytery 
 of Westchester in 1894; moderator of the 
 Synod of New York in 1896. He is author 
 of monographs: Descendants of James 
 Prime; Under the Elms; Wanderings from 
 the Elms, Duties of Presbyterian Elders; 
 The Elder in His Ecclesiastical Relations; 
 The Elder an Ecclesiastic; Representation 
 in the Church Courts; Christian (iiving; 
 The Power of God's Word; The Elder Mod- 
 orator and the Ruling Elder; Inaccurate 
 Quotations by Authors; The Revolutionary, 
 Ante-Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary 
 Services of George Clinton; An Incident of 
 the Alabama Arbitration; Religious Situa- 
 tion in France in 1907; A Coincidence of 
 Admiral Farragut's Visit to Con.stantinople 
 and the Robert College Troubles; Sunday 
 Legislation; and Is This a Christian Coun- 
 try? He lias l>een tru.stee of Village of 
 Yonkers; city attoiney of City of Yonkers; 
 and dejiuty attorney-general of the State 
 of New York. He is a member of the New 
 \'ork Society, of the Military Order of 
 Loyal L(>gion, Emjiire State Society of Sons 
 of liic American Revolution, Order of Foun- 
 ders and Patriots of America (one of past 
 governors-general), a life fellow of the 
 Huguenot Society of London; president of 
 .\nierican Flag As.sociation. Mr. Prime 
 married Annie Richards-Wolcott. daughter 
 of Jacob Richards, M.D., and granddaugh- 
 ter and foster-daughter of Rev. Calvin Wol- 
 cott. Residence: 63 Hawthorne Avenue. 
 
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 Address 
 N. Y. 
 
 25 Waiburtoii Avt'iuic, Yonkcrs, 
 
 miMER, Sylvester: 
 
 Profeissor of Geniianic languages; born 
 at Geneva, Wis., Dee. 14, 1842; son of 
 Archibald and Eleanor (Jacoby) Primer; 
 and he removed to New York early in life. 
 He served in the Civil War in the Union 
 Army, first in the infantry, and was 
 wounded at the battle of Antietam and dis- 
 charged for wounds. He afterward joined 
 the cavalry, serving to the end of the war; 
 and he participated in twenty three battles, 
 including some of the hardest of the war, 
 serving in Cnster's brigade under Sheridan. 
 JNIr. Primer spent three years at the Lelloy 
 Academy and three years at Phillips Exe- 
 ter Ac.ulcniy, from which he was graduated, 
 then went to Harvard, where he was grad- 
 uated, A.B., with Phi Beta Kappa honors, 
 in 1874. From there he went to Germany 
 and studied at the Universities of Leipzig, 
 Gottingen and Strassburg, and received 
 from the latter college the degree of Ph.D. 
 in 1880, on a thesis on The Consonant 
 D.'clcnsion. \Ahile at Strassburg he taught 
 about a year in a military school, and re- 
 turned in the latter part of 1880 to the 
 United States. Dr. Primer was professor 
 of modern langunges at the College of 
 Charhston, S. C, 1880-1888; taught at the 
 Friends' School, Providence, R. I., one year, 
 then at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 
 in 1890-181)1, and since then has been pro- 
 fessor of Germanic languages in the Univer 
 sity of Texas. Professor Primer has edited: 
 Lessing's Minna von Barnhelni; Nathan 
 der \Veissc ; (Goethe's Egmont ; and Chamis- 
 so's Peter Schlemihl; for the Use of Schools, 
 and has made many contributions to lead- 
 ing ]ihilological journals. He is a Demo- 
 crat in politics, and a Methodist in religion; 
 is a member of the Modern Language Asso 
 ciation, the Dialect Society, Texas Academy 
 of Sciences, and the Texas Historical As- 
 sociation. He married at Summerville. S. 
 C, Sept. 17, ISO.}, Martha Louisa :Mucken- 
 fuss, and they have had two children: a 
 toy, born Nov. 2. 1898, who died in in 
 fancy; and Benjamin Anthony ^luckenfuss 
 Primer, born Mircli 25, 1900. Address: 
 2709 Rio Grande Street, Austin, Texas. 
 
 PRINCE, George W.: 
 
 Congressman; born in Tazewell County, 
 HI., March 4, 1854; son of Myron Prince. 
 He attended the public schools and was 
 graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, 
 ill., in 1878. He studied law and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1880; was elected city 
 attorney of Galesburg in 1881; was chair- 
 man of the Republican County Central crjui- 
 mittee of Knox County in 1884; was elected 
 a member of the lower licnise of llir General 
 Assembly of Illinois in 1888 ami was re- 
 elected in 1890. He was the candidate for 
 attorney-general of Illinois on the Republi 
 can ticket in 1892; and wa> elected to the 
 Fifty-fourth Congress to lill a vacancy 
 caused by the death of Hon. P. S. Post. He 
 was elected to the Fifty-fifth. Fifty-sixth. 
 Fifty-seventh, Fifty eighth. Fifty-ninth and 
 Sixtieth Congresses, and was reelected in 
 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress from the 
 Fifteenth Illinois District. Address: Gales- 
 burg, 111. 
 
 PRINCE, John Dyheley: 
 
 Professor of Semitic languages in Co 
 lumbia University; born in New York City. 
 April 17, 18(58; son of John Dyneley and 
 Anna Maria (Morris) Prince. He was edu- 
 cated in Columbia College, A.B., 1888, Uni- 
 versity of Berlin, Johns Hojjkins University. 
 Ph.D.^ 1892. He represented Cohunbia Uni- 
 versity on the expedition to Southern Baiiy- 
 lonia, sent out by the University of Penn- 
 sylvania, 1888-1889; fellow of .lohns Hop- 
 kins C niver.dty, 1890 1891 : i)rofessor in 
 New York University, ■l89;M9()2: d.-an of 
 .,ew York University Graduate Sdinol. 
 1895-1902; professor in Columbia I'ni- 
 versity since 1902. Professor Prince 
 has been active in New Jersey State 
 politics since 1903; was (dected presi- 
 dent of the Passaic ('(Uinty Federated 
 Boards of Education. 1905; elected to the 
 (Jeheral Assembly of New Jersey, 1905-190r>. 
 and 1907-1908. and speaker of the A-sem 
 biy in 1909. lie was author of the Crimes 
 and Dependency \ri of 1908. and the act 
 providing tenure of odice for public school 
 teachers, 1909. Prt)fessor Prince is author 
 ,,f: M,.,,,.. Mrne ■irkei Upharsin. ISii;;: 
 Ciitical Coniiiientniy on the Book of nanicl. 
 1899; Kulo-kap the .Master (with Charles 
 
1352 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Godfrey Leland), 1902; Materials for a 
 Sunierian Lexicon, in four parts, 1905; also 
 many contributions to technical philology, 
 in journals, proceedings of societies and 
 pamphlets; also stalf writer on the new edi- 
 tion of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the 
 Cheyne Dictionary of the Bible and Hast- 
 ings Dictionary of Religions; chielly writing 
 on the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylonia 
 and the Babylonian Literature. lie is a fel- 
 low of the New York Academy of Sciences, 
 190.3; treasurer of the Society of Biblical 
 Literature and Exegesis; member of the 
 American Oriental Society, American An- 
 thropological Association, Fifteenth Con 
 gress of Americanists at Quebec, Canada ; 
 trustee of the Home for Aged Women, at- 
 tached to the Church of the Holy Com- 
 munion, Xew York City. He is a member 
 of the Union, University and Columbia Uni- 
 versity and Tuxedo Clubs of New York; 
 and the Hamilton Club of Paterson, N. J. 
 He married in New York Cit}', Oct. 5, 1890, 
 Adeline Loomis, and they have one son. 
 llesidence: Eingvvood Manor, N. J. Ad- 
 dress: Columbia University, New Y'ork 
 City. 
 
 PRINCE, Le Baron Bradford: 
 
 Jurist ; born at Flushing, L. I., N. Y., 
 July 3, 1S40; son of William Robert Prince, 
 a distinguished horticulturist, and Char- 
 lotte Goodwin (Collins) Prince, and he is a 
 descendant of Governor William Bradford 
 of Plymouth Colony. He was graduated 
 from Columbia Law School, winning the 
 $200 prize in political science and the de- 
 gree of LL.B. "with special honor" in 
 18GG. He engaged in the practice of law, 
 and also became prominent in Republican 
 jjolitics in New York. He was for five 
 terms a member of the Legislative Assem 
 bly of New York, 1871-1875, serving a.s 
 chainnaii of the Judiciary Committee and 
 conducting the investigation of 1872 which 
 resulted in tlie impeacliment of Judges Bar- 
 nard, Cardozo and McCunn. He was a 
 member of the New York State Senate, 
 187G-1877. He declined the appointment, 
 offereil him by President Hayes, as territor- 
 ial governor of Idaho, in 1878, but accepted 
 that of chief justice of New Mexico, serv- 
 ing until 1882, when he resigned and was 
 
 elected president of the Trustees of the 
 University of New Mexico at Santa Fe. 
 He was appointed by President Harrison, 
 in 1889, governor of New Mexico, and 
 served initil 1893. He was president of 
 tne Trans-Mississippi Congress of 1892 and 
 1893, of the International Mining Congress, 
 1897, 1898, and again in 1901, and since 
 1883 has been president of the New Mexico 
 Historical Society of Santa Fe. Governor 
 Prince is an enthusiastic student of Ameri- 
 can archaeology, is vice-president of the 
 New Mexico Archaelogical Society, and an 
 honorary member of the New York Archae- 
 ological and Numismatic Society. He 
 has made a collection of ancient Ameri- 
 can stone idols which is probably the 
 most extensive in existence. He was 
 vice-president of the National Irriga- 
 tion Congress, 1900-1903; was juesi- 
 dent of the Board of Regents of the New 
 Mexico Agricultural College, 1899-1904, 
 and is an honorary member of the Wiscon- 
 sin Historical Society, Missouri Historical 
 Society and the Texas Historical Society. 
 Governor Prince is one of the mo.^t prom- 
 inent laymen of the Protestant Episcopal 
 Church, has been a member of every Gen- 
 eral Convention from 1877 to 1907, and 
 was the originator of the American Church 
 Building Fund. He received the degree of 
 LL.D. from Kenyon College and from Colo- 
 rado College. He is a member of the So- 
 ciety of Mayflower Descendants, Society of 
 ( olonial Wars, the Order of the Cincinnati, 
 the Sons of the Revolution, the Society 
 of the War of 1812, and the New Mexico 
 t^ioneers. Governor Prince compiled the 
 (Jeneral Laws of New Mexico in 1881, and 
 has written extensively on historical, po- 
 litical, economic and archaeological subjects. 
 Address: Santa Fd, N. Mex. 
 
 PRITCHETT, Henry Smith: 
 
 President of Carnegie Foundation for the 
 Advancement of Teaching; born in l^xyettc, 
 Mo., April 10, 1857; son of Carr Walter 
 and Elizabeth Susan (Smith) Pritchett. 
 He was graduated from Pritchett College, 
 Gla--;gow, Mo., A.B., from the L^ni versify 
 of Munich, Ph.D. ; and has received the 
 honorarj' degree of L.L.D. from Harvard, 
 Yale, .Julius Ijnjikiiis, tlie University of 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1353 
 
 Pcnnsylvniiia. Williams roUogc, the Univer- 
 sity of Michigan and Toronto University, 
 and Sc.D. from Tufts Collej^e. He was 
 profcssoi" ill ^Vashing■toll University, St. 
 Louis, 1884-1807, ; superintendent of the 
 United States Coast and (leodetic Survey, 
 1897-1000; president of Ma.ssaehusetts In- 
 stitute of Technology, 1001-1007, and lias 
 been president of the Carnegie Foundation 
 for the Advancement of Teaching, since 
 1006. He is a member of the United States 
 Light House Board, the Board of Direc 
 tors of the United States Bureau of Stand- 
 ards. He is a member of the Cosmos Club 
 of Washington, D. C, of the Century Club 
 of >.e\v ^Ork and <)i the Tavern Club of 
 Boston. Ih'. Pritchett married in Wash- 
 ington, June 0, 1901, Eva McAllister. 
 Residence: 22 Ea^t 01st Street, New York 
 City. Office: Carnegie Foundation, 57G 
 Fifth Avenue, Xew York City. 
 
 PRITCHARD, Jeter Connelly: 
 
 U. S. circuit judge; born in Jonesboro, 
 Tenn., July 12, 1857; son of William Hyder 
 and Elizabeth L. (Brown) Pritchard. He 
 is of ^^'elsh descent on the father's and 
 Irish descent on his mother's side. After 
 completing the course of the common 
 schools he learned the printer's trade in the 
 office of the Jonesboro Tribune-Herald. In 
 1873 he removed to Bakersville, N. C, 
 where he became part owner and joint 
 editor of the Roan Mountain Republican 
 until 1887, when he was admitted to the 
 bar and located in the practice of law at 
 Marshall, N. C. He became an active 
 Republican leader, was on the Garfield and 
 Arthur electoral ticket in 1880, and was 
 elected to the North Carolina Legislature 
 from Madison County in 1884, 1886 and 
 1890. He was the Republican candidate for 
 lieutenant-governor in 1888, nominee for 
 U. S. Senator in 1801; candidate for Con- 
 gress in 1802, and was U. S. Senator from 
 North Carolina. 1804-1903. At the close 
 of his term he was appointed by President 
 Roosevelt as an associate justice of the 
 Supreme Court of the District of Columbia ; 
 and in 1904 he was appointed judge of the 
 Ignited States Circuit Court for the Fourth 
 Judicial Circuit, which office he still fills. 
 In the summer of 1907 Judge Pritchard 
 
 attracted attention by his iniuiirlion sus- 
 pending tlie law passed by the Legislature 
 of North Carolina reducing railway fares, 
 and for his firm, yet conservative, attitude 
 in support of the prerogatives of the fed- 
 eral judiciary when appealed to under the 
 terms of the Constitution. Address: Ash- 
 ville, N. C. 
 
 PROCTOR, Alexander Phimister: 
 
 Sculijtor; born in Ontario, Can., Sept. 
 27, 1862; son of Alexander and Tirza 
 ( Smith ) Proctor. He was a member of the 
 Art Commission of New York City, 1902- 
 1905; also of the Sculpture Jury, Paris Ex- 
 position, in 1900; Jury of Selection and 
 Jury of Awards, Buffalo, Pan-American Ex- 
 position, Sculpture Jury, Louisiana Pur- 
 chase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. Mr. 
 Proctor is Academician of the National 
 AcadeniA^ of Design ; member of the National 
 Sculpture Society, American Water Color 
 Society, and Architectural League. He was 
 awarded medals at the World's Columbian 
 Exposition, Chicago. 1893; Paris Exposi- 
 tion (gold medal), 1900; St. Louis Expo- 
 sition (gold medal), 1904. He is a mem- 
 ber of the New York Zoological Society, 
 and the Century, and Boone and Crockett 
 Clubs. He married in Chicago, September, 
 1803, Margaret Gerow; they have four chil- 
 dren. Address: Century Association, 7 
 W>st 43d Street. New Yo'rk City. 
 
 PROCTOR, Fletcher Dutton: 
 
 Former governor of N'cnnont ; born in 
 Cavendish, Vt., Nov. 7, 1860; son of Hon. 
 Redfield and Emily J. (Dutton) Proctor, 
 late L^nited States Senator from Vermont, 
 he was graduated from Amherst College in 
 1882, and became interested in the ex- 
 tensive business operations conducted by 
 his famer, especially in the i|narrying of 
 marble. He is president nt' the Vermont 
 Marble Company. Governor Proctor was a 
 member of the House of Representatives in 
 1800, 1000 and 1904; and speaker of the 
 House ill the session of 1900. He was also 
 a member of the Senate in 1892, and was 
 elected on the Republican ticket in 1006, 
 to the office of governor of Vermont for 
 the term which expired in October, 1008. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 lie iiKinirMl in WcsHonl. VI.. M:iy 2a, ISSt!. 
 Minnie 1]. I{(>l)inM)n. Adtlretss: Proctor, 
 W. 
 
 PROCTOR, Thomas R.: 
 
 Hank president; Jjorn in Proctorville, Vt., 
 May 2."). 1844; son of Moody S. and Betsy 
 Xancy ( Rodfudd ) Proctor. He was edu- 
 catid in the Kii^disji High Scdiool, Boston; 
 at tlie outhreak of the Civil AYar he en- 
 tered tile I'. 8. Navy and served until 
 tlie close of tiie war; received the thanks 
 of the .secretary of the Navy for his services. 
 He is engagod in business at Utica, where 
 he is now president of the Second National 
 Bank, and of the American Hard Wall 
 Plaster Company; trustee of the Utica Sav- 
 ings Bank, Utica Trust Company, and Utica 
 Steam Cotton Mills. He is a member of 
 tlie Military Order of the Loyal T>egion, 
 Grand Army of the Republic, Sons of 
 tlie Revolution. New England Society, May 
 (lower Society. Society of Colonial Wars, 
 S(«ie1y of Founders and Patriots. Naval 
 Order of tlie I'nited States Naval League 
 and otlier societies. He is also a member 
 and president of the Fort Schuyler, Yah- 
 nvindasis Golf, and Sadaquada (iolf Clubs 
 of Utica; and the :Metropolitan, Army and 
 .\avy. Players', Republican and Pilgrim, 
 (■lul)s, of New York City. He married in 
 181)1, Maria \V. \Villianis. Address: 312 
 Genesee Street. Utica, N. Y. 
 
 PROSSER, William Farrand: 
 
 Kducator, surveyor, ])ioneer, miner, sol- 
 dier, legislator, farmer, news-paper pub- 
 lisjier and writer, public olficial, magazine 
 writer, historian; born in Lycoming County, 
 Pa.. .Maieli 10. 1S34; son of David and 
 Kacliel Williams Prosser. the latter dying 
 at .lohn^town. Pa. in 1S42. lie was edu- 
 cated in the cominoii school-, mid Johns- 
 lowii .\cadeiny, taught school, studied law 
 and survey<Ml until in isr)4, when twenty 
 year^ old. lie went l)y the overland trail 
 acn)ss the plains, with ox-teams, to Cali- 
 fornia. There lie mined, chiefly in Trinity 
 Coiinty ; was second lieutenant of the Trin- 
 ity Rangers, a vcdunteer company <>( the 
 Stale, organized 1o assist the regular 1r()(i])s 
 ill the Indian War, 1 S.')8-185!), in the llinii 
 
 holdt l)ay Count IV. and was mustered out 
 in April. ISoU. He was the first candidate 
 of the Republican Party in Trinity County, 
 for the California Legislatr.re in 1800. At 
 the beginning of the Civil ^^'ar in 1801 he 
 \\ ent east ; was tendered a conunission in 
 the regular army by President Lincoln, 
 which he declined. He enlisted as a private 
 from Cambria County, Penn., in the Ander- 
 son Troop, whicli served as General Buell's 
 Body Guard in the Shiloh campaign ; was 
 captured by Confederate Cavalry, near 
 Lawrenceburg, Tenn., and a jiaroled ]nis- 
 oner from June until Sept., 1802 at Annap- 
 olis, Md., when he was ordered to Car- 
 lisle, Pa. to assist in organizing the Fif- 
 teenth Penn. Cavalry. Shortly after the 
 battle of Stone River he was transferred 
 to the second Tennessee Cavalry, of which 
 he was commissioned major in ^larch, 1803, 
 lieutenant-colonel in ^larch. 1S04. and colo- 
 nel in June.. ISO.i. He took part in the 
 battles of Shiloh, Stone River. Chickamau- 
 ga, the Siege of Knoxville. and numerous 
 minor engagements; was in command of the 
 cavalry in the District of North Alabama 
 in the fall of 1804. and was nuistered out 
 with his regiment at Nashville. Tenn., July 
 6. 1805. P^ngaged in farming, seven miles 
 from Nashville after the war. was elected 
 to the House of Representatives of Tennes- 
 see, from Davidson County in 1807, elected 
 to the Forty-first Congress from the Nash- 
 ville District in 1808; was postmaster of 
 Nashville. 1872-1875; was appointed by the 
 Go\ernor of Tennessee in 1872, one of the 
 commissioners from the State of Tennessee 
 to the Centennial Exposition at Philadel- 
 phia, 1870, and was appointed on a com- 
 mittee to visit the Vienna Exposition in 
 1873, to take notes of detaiU and methods 
 there, with refei-ence to the Centennial Fx 
 position. He was for several years ])ub- 
 lisher of the Nashville Hepubliean. Colonel 
 Pi'osser was appointed in 1S7".'. sjiccial agent 
 for the General Land Ollice at Washington, 
 for the territories of Oregon. Washington 
 and Idaho, serving six yi'ais; was elected 
 auditor of Yakima County. Wash., for two 
 years, in 1880; was elected member of the 
 Constitutional Convention of the State of 
 Wasliiiii;l()n from the Cminties of Yakima 
 
William Farka.xd I'kos.skk 
 Treasurer of City of (Seattle 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1355 
 
 and Klickitat, whicli met at Olyiiipia. July 
 4. 1889; meniber and cliaiiman of the Board 
 of Harbor Line Coniinis>sioner.s of Wasliin;^;- 
 ton, 1890-1003; elected May, 1S93, mayor 
 of North Yakima, servinjj until 1905. Col- 
 onel Prosser was appointed by President 
 Roosevelt, in 1905, a member of the Board 
 of Visitors to the West Point Military 
 Academy. He located a homestead in 1882 
 in Yakima County, ^Yash., upon which he 
 subsequently founded the town of Prosser, 
 which was incorporated in 1890; and for 
 several years has been engaged in the real 
 estate business in Seattle. He is the author 
 of a History of the Puget Sound Country 
 in two octavo volumes, which was published 
 in 1903, and has been a frequent contribu- 
 tor to the newspapers and magazines, chielly 
 on military and historical subjects. He is 
 a companion and a past commaiuler of the 
 ^dilitary Order of the Loyal Legion of the 
 State of \Yashington; member of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic, the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen; the Arctic and Com- 
 mercial Clubs of Seattle, and is a life mem- 
 ber of the Washington State Historical So- 
 ciety. He has been a life-long Republican 
 in politics and is a member of the Protes- 
 tant Episcopal Church of which lie has been 
 a vestryman for about thirty years. In 
 i\Iarch, 1908, he was elected treasurer of 
 the City of Seattle, receiving for that office 
 over 20,000, out of a total of 25,000 votes. 
 He married at Seattle, Washington, April 
 6, 1880, Flora L. Thornton, a. daughter of 
 H. L. Thornton, a pioneer of Oregon and 
 Washington, and they have three children: 
 William Thornton, Margaret Helen and Mil- 
 dred Cyrenia Prosser. Address: 1006 East 
 Garfield Street, Seattle, Wash. 
 
 PROUTY, George H.: 
 
 Governor of \'ermont; elected at the Sep- 
 tember election, 1908, on the Republican 
 ticket, for the two-year term expiring in 
 October, 1910. Address: :Montpelier, Vt. 
 
 PRYOR, Roger Atkinson: 
 
 Justice Supreme Court of New York ; 
 horn in Dinwiddie County, Va., July 19, 
 1828; son of Rev. Theoderick Bland and 
 Lucy (Atkinson) Pryor. He was grad- 
 uated from Hampden-Sidney College in 
 
 1845, from the l'ni\iT>i(y of \'irginia in 
 1848, and he has received the LL.l). degree 
 from IlampdcnSidney College. He was the 
 editor, consccul i\cly of tlie Richmond En- 
 ([uirci-. The Soiilli iliclimond, \'a., Wash- 
 ington Union antl Washington States. Mr. 
 Pryor was special minister to (Jreece imder 
 President Pierce; member of Congress, 
 1858-1801. On April 10, 18G1. he delivered 
 a speech in Charleston, S. C, of which the 
 immediate effect was to compel Jell'erson 
 Davis, contrary to his inclination, to order 
 an attack on Fort Sumter, and the ultimate 
 result to precipitate the War of Secession. 
 He became a- member of the Provisional 
 and regular Confederate Congresses. He 
 entered Confederate service in 18G1 as 
 colonel ; was promoted to brigadier-general 
 in 1862; and was prisoner of war, 1864- 
 1805. After the war he .settled in Xew 
 York City in the practice of law, and was 
 judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 
 1890, Justice of Supreme Court of New 
 Y^ork in 1894. In 1889 he initiated the 
 first litigation in which the validity of 
 trust combinations was challenged, a litiga- 
 tion which culminated in a decision by the 
 New York Court of Appeals, that such 
 combinations were repugnant to the princi- 
 ples of the connnon law and sullicient cause 
 for the forfeiture of corporate charters. 
 He married in Charlottesville. Va., Nov. 
 8, 1848, Sara Agnes Rice, and they have 
 had seven children. Adilress: 8 West 
 G9th Street, New York City. 
 
 PTJJO, Arsene Paulin: 
 
 Congressnurn and lawyer; born Dec. 16, 
 1861, near Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, 
 La.; son of Paul and Eloise 'SI. (LeBleu) 
 Pujo. He was educated in the public and 
 I)rivate schools of Lake Charles, La.; was 
 admitted to the bar Oct. 23, 1886. by the 
 Supreme Court of Louisiana, and has fol- 
 lowed the law as a profession. He was a 
 member of the Louisiana Constitutional 
 Convention of 1898. serving on the judiciary 
 conuuittee of that body; was elected as a 
 Democrat to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth 
 and Sixtieth Congresses, and reelected in 
 1908 to the Sixty first Congress from 
 the Seventh Louisiana District. Address: 
 Lake Charles, La. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 PULITZER, Joseph: 
 
 Proprietor of New York World and St. 
 Louis Post Dispatch ; born in Hungary, 
 Al)ril 10, 1847. He was educated by pri- 
 vate tutors; came to the United States in 
 18G4; enlisted in the Lincoln cavalry and 
 served until the end of the war for the 
 Union. He went to St. Louis in 1865; in 
 1HG8 became reporter on Westliche Post, 
 a (xernian newspaper edited by Carl Schurz ; 
 soon became city editor and later manag- 
 ing editor and part proprietor. In 1878 he 
 bought the St. Louis Dispatch and united 
 it with the Post as the Post-Dispatch ; 
 studied law and was admitted to practise. 
 He Avas elected member of the Missouri 
 Legislature in 18G9; to the Missouri State 
 Constitutional Convention in 18G4; was a 
 delegate to the Democratic National Con- 
 vention in 1880 and a member of Platform 
 Committee for Missouri; in 1877, contrib- 
 uted political articles to the editorial page 
 of the New York Sun; later wrote a series 
 of European letters for the same paper on 
 ])olitical situation abroad. He bought the 
 New York World, May 10, 1883; was 
 elected as representative of the Ninth New 
 York District in the Forty-ninth Congress, 
 but resigned after a few months' service. 
 He was a delegate from Missouri to the 
 Cincinnati Liberal Republican Convention, 
 which nominated Horace Greeley for Presi- 
 dent; made seventy speeches in sixteen 
 States for Tilden, in 1876; was a strong 
 advocate of the nomination of Cleveland 
 in 1884 and 1892; opposed the election of 
 Bryan on the free silver issue in 1896. In 
 1887 broke down from overwork and has 
 since been an invalid, totally blind. In 
 1889 he established ten annual collegiate 
 scholarships for the poorest, brightest and 
 most deserving boy graduates of New York 
 pu.jlic schools, giving to the winners in 
 open competition two hundred :ind fifty 
 dollars annually for seven years for prepa- 
 ratory and college coui'se. He gave to Co- 
 lumbia University $100,000 to secure free 
 luition to prize winners; established thrcp, 
 free scholarships in Barnard College. In 
 190.3 he gave .$1,000,000 to Columbia Uni- 
 versity to establish and maintain a College 
 of Journalism, to rank with the similar 
 
 professional schools of law, medicine, en- 
 gineering and architecture, and agreed to 
 give $1,000,000 additional when the school 
 had been in successful operation three 
 years. He is a member of the Jekyl and 
 New York Clubs. Mr. Pulitzer married 
 Kate Davis, of Washington. City resi- 
 dence: 7 East 73d Street, New York City. 
 Summer residence: Chatwold, Bar Har- 
 bor, Maine, and winter residence: Jekyl 
 Island, Brunswick, Ga. Address: The 
 World Oflice, New York City. 
 
 PULITZER, Walter: 
 
 .Author, chess expert and musical com- 
 poser; was born in New York City, April, 
 1878; son of Albert and Fanny (Barnard) 
 Pulitzer, and nephew of Joseph Pulitzer. 
 He was educated by private tutors and in 
 various academies, and prepared for Har- 
 vard, but his course was interrupted by a 
 nervous breakdown. He is an extensive 
 contributor of humor, verse and short fic- 
 tion to the leading periodicals, and has 
 gained high rank as an epigrammatist. He 
 has an international reputation as a maker 
 of chess problems; is one of the founders of 
 the American Chess Magazine; and was 
 editor of American Tid-Bits, 1902. He is 
 author of: Chess Harmonies (original 
 problems), 1894; That Duel at the Chateau 
 Marsanac (novel), 1899; A Cynic's Medi- 
 tations (epigrams), 1904, which went 
 through seventeen editions; Cozy Corner 
 Confidences (epigrams), 1906; and Cupid's 
 Pack of Cards. He is vice-president of the 
 Theatregoers' Club of America. Summer 
 residence: Pinewood. Mt. Pleasant. Cat- 
 skill Mountains. N. Y. Address: Arling- 
 ton Hotel, 18 West 2r)th Street. New York 
 City. 
 
 PUMPELLY, Josiah Collins: 
 
 Lawyer, retired; born in Owego. Tioga 
 County. N. Y., Aug. 16, 1839; son of 
 (Tcorge James and Susan Isabella Puni])elly. 
 lie was graduated from Rutgers College, 
 A.I'... 1800, A.I\I.. 1863; and from Colum- 
 bia Law School, LL.B., 1863. During tlie 
 Civil War he recruited ai.d drilled men 
 for the Union Army. After some years of 
 traAel, lie set lied in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 
 
Joseph Pulitzer 
 Proprietor of New York \YorltI 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 and laid- at Morristown, N. J., ami in 1800 
 removed to New York City, where lie lia.s 
 been active in social betterment and phil- 
 anthropic work. He aided in founding the 
 Huguenot Society of America, the Patriotic 
 League, the National Society of Sons of the 
 American Revolution and its New Jersey 
 Branch, the New Jersey State Charities Aid 
 and Prison Reform Association and the New 
 York Peace Society. At the celebration of 
 the tercentenary of the signing of the Edict 
 of Nantes, 1898, he read a paper entitled: 
 the Huguenot Settlers of New Jersey. 
 Among his numy other published addresses 
 are: Washington, 1888; Fort Stanwix and 
 the Battle of Oriskany, 1888; Our French 
 Allies, 1889; Joseph Warren, 1890; Mah- 
 lon Dickerson, 1891; Paul Jones, 1892; In- 
 cidents in the Early History of Berkshire 
 Count}^ Mass., and the Pumpelly, Pixley, 
 Paterson, and Avery Families, 1896; The 
 Jumel Mansion, Its History and Tradi- 
 tions, 1903. Mr. Pumpelly has also given 
 nuich time and literary effort to the dis- 
 cussion in the public press of philanthropic 
 and oi social economic questions. In poli- 
 tics he is a Republican and he is a member 
 of the Episcopal Church. He is a member 
 of the Alumni Association of Columbia 
 College Law School and of the Rutgers Col- 
 lege Alumni Association; and is historian 
 of the Empire State Society Sons of the 
 American Revolution. He is a member of 
 the National Council of the Church Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of the Interests 
 of Labor; of the Board of Managers of the 
 New Jersey State Charities Aid and Prison 
 Reform Association, as well as of the Ad- 
 visory Board of the Manhattan Trade 
 School for Girls, and the Board of Publica- 
 tion of the New York Geological and Bio- 
 graphical Society. He is a member of the 
 New York Peace Society, the West End As- 
 sociation, the Optimist Club of America, 
 and is one of the veteran members of the 
 Union League Club. He married, first, 
 Margaret Lanier Winslow, who died in 
 1890; and, second, in New York City, May 
 20, 1896, Mary Amelia Harmer. Address- 
 es: The Devonshire, 542 West 112th Street, 
 and Union League Club, 1 East 39th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 PURDY, George S.: 
 
 Jurist; bfun in Paupack Township, 
 Wayne Couiily, l';i.. dan. 2-1, 1S39, being a 
 descendant on linlh si(h's of Baptist min- 
 isters residing in that cuinily. lie wa.s 
 educated in tlie pul)lic schools, and taught 
 for four years, part of this time as princi- 
 pal of the Providence graded school. He 
 was afterward bookkeeper in tanneries at 
 Ledgedale and ;Middle Valley; was commis- 
 sioner's clerk, 1866-1876, meanwhile reading 
 law and obtaining admission to the bar in 
 1873. He began practice in 1876, showing 
 an ability that soon gave him a leading po- 
 sition at the county bar. In his first con- 
 test for the judgosliip he was defeated, 
 out in 1893 tlie Democrats of Pike and 
 Wayne Counties united in again nominating 
 him, and he was then elected withovit op- 
 position, his opponent withdrawing from 
 the contest; and he was reelected, witliout 
 opposition, to succeed himself in 1903. In 
 addition to his judicial duties. Judge Purely 
 is concerned in several extensive business 
 enterprises. Address: Honesdale, Pa. 
 
 PURDY, Lawson: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Hyde Park, N. Y., 1863; 
 son of Rev. James S. and Frances H. (Car- 
 ter) Purdy. He was educated in St. Paul's 
 School, and was graduated from Trinity 
 College, B.A., 1884, M.A., 1887, and LL.D., 
 1908. He was treasurer of the New York 
 Bank Note Company, 1891-1896; secretary 
 of the New York Tax Reform Association, 
 1896-1906; appointed Nov. 10, 1906, pre.-,i- 
 dent of the Department of Taxes and Assess- 
 ments of the City of New York, which posi- 
 tion he still holds. He was secretary of the 
 Advisory Commission on Taxation and Fi- 
 nance, appointed by mayor of the city of 
 New York, 1905; member of the Commis- 
 sion to incpiire into the subject of Assess- 
 ment and Taxation for the State and local 
 purposes, appointed by Governor of the 
 State of New York, delegate to the National 
 Tax Conference, 1907-1908, 1909, by appoint- 
 ment of Governor of New York. :Mr. Purdy 
 is author of various articles and addresses 
 on Taxation. He is a member of the Na- 
 tional Municipal League, American Eco- 
 nomic Association, American Bar Associa- 
 
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 tion, New York County Lawj-ers Associa- 
 tion, Psi Upsilon fraternity, president of 
 the Trinity College Alumni Assoeiation, and 
 iiieinlier of the City Club. He married in 
 New York. ISS."). ■Mary J. jNIeCraekan, and 
 tliey have a daugliter. Resideiiee: 5:5.i 
 West lo2d Street, "oitice: Hall of Records, 
 Xew York City. 
 
 PURDY, Milton Dwight: 
 
 r. S. District judge ; born in Mogadore. 
 Ohio, Nov. 3, 1800; son of Milton C. and 
 Sarah Jane (Hall) Purdy. He was grad- 
 uated from the University of ^Minnesota, 
 A.B., 1891, LL.B., 1892; was admitted to 
 the Minnesota bar in 1892, and practised in 
 Minneapolis, where he was assistant city 
 attorney. 1893 1897; assistant county at- 
 torney of Hennepin County. Minn., 1897- 
 1898;' assistant U. S. attorney, 1898-1901, 
 and U. S. attorney 1901-1902, for the Dis- 
 trict of Minnesota. He was appointed as- 
 sistant attorney-general of the United 
 States, April 1. 1903, and assistant to the 
 attorney general of the United States, July 
 28. 190.'>. liolding that office until appointed 
 in 1908. U. S. judge for the district of 
 Minnesota. Judge Purdy married in Al- 
 bert Lea, Minn., Jan. 28, 1893, Belle M. 
 Morin. Address: U. S. District Court, 
 Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 PURRINGTON, William Archer: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Washington. D. C, 1852; 
 son of Tobias and Amelia Josephine (Arch- 
 er) Purrington. He was graduated from 
 Harvard College. B.A., 1873. Law School 
 (if ColuinhiMii University (now George 
 Wasliingtoii). LL.B. and LL.M., 1878, and 
 the Law ScIkm)! of the University of the 
 City of New York (now New York Univer- 
 sity), 1880. He has been engaged in gen- 
 eral practice of law, and counsel to the 
 State and County jNIedical and Dental So- 
 cieties; consular clerk at Rome, 1875, and 
 secretary of Legation and cliarge d'affaires, 
 ad interim in Brazil, 1875-1877. He is a 
 member of the American Bar Association, 
 New York State Bar Association, Associa- 
 tion of the Bar of the City of New York, 
 Xew York County Lawyers' Association; 
 trustee of the College of Dental and Oral 
 
 Surgery of New York, and lecturer on the 
 Relation of Law to Medical Practice, in the 
 University and Bellevue Hospital Medical 
 ('ollcge. He is a member of the Century, 
 University, Harvard, Richmond County 
 Country, and I^awyers' Clubs, and the 
 Southern Society. He married in New 
 York, Dec. 31, 1895, Anna C. Wheatly (nee 
 Russell). Residence: 43 West 42d Street, 
 Office: 78 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 PUTNAM, George Haven: 
 
 Publisher ; born in London, England, 
 1844; son of George Palmer and Victorine 
 (Haven) Putnam. He was educated at 
 Columbia University and the Universitie.3 
 of Paris and ( rottingen ; and returned from 
 Germany, August, 1802, to enlist, thus los- 
 ing prospect of (Jottingen degree. He se- 
 cured, in later life, the degree of M.A., from 
 Bowdoin, and of Litt.D. from University of 
 Pennsylvania. He is the president of the 
 publishing house of G. P. Putnam's Sons. 
 New York City and London; director of 
 the Knickerbocker Press ; president and 
 treasurer of Putnam's IMonthly Company. 
 He is the author of: Books and Their ]\Iak- 
 ers in the Middle Ages; Authors and Their 
 Public in Ancient Times; Authors and Pub- 
 lishers; Questions of Copyright; History 
 of Censorship and the Index. Mr. Putnam 
 enlisted in August. 18(52. in the 167th Regi- 
 ment, New Yoi-k State Volunteers. He 
 served as private, sergeant, quartermaster, 
 adjutant and major, and was discharged 
 Augu.st, 1865. In 1886 he organized Pub- 
 lisliers' Copyright League, and has since 
 served as its secretary and executive. In 
 1891 he received from the government of 
 France the Cross of the Legion d'Hcmneur 
 for .services to l''rance and to literature. 
 Mr. Putiuim is a member of the Loyal Le 
 gion, and of the Century, Authors and City 
 Clubs of New York City, and the Savilc 
 Club of London. He married, first, in 1809, 
 Rebecca K. Shepard of Boston; second, in 
 1899, Emily James Smitli. of Canandaigua, 
 N. Y. He had four children by his tirst 
 marriage, and one child by his second mar- 
 riage. Residences: 335 West 86th Street, 
 New ^()rk City, and Westhampton Beach, 
 L. I. Office: 27 West 23d Street, New 
 ^'ork City. 
 
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 PUTNAM, Herbert: 
 
 Liiiihriaii of Cougross, sincf 1,S!»1); l)()ni 
 in New York City, Sept. 20, 18(51; sou of 
 ({(■oiiic I'aliMcr iiiul N'ic'toriiu' (Haven) Put- 
 nam. He was (■(lueated in the i)ublic and 
 private schools of New York; Harvard 
 University, .\.i?., lSS:i. and Colinnhia Uni- 
 versity Law Sihool. lie was librarian of 
 the Minneapolis Athena>uni, 1884-1887; li- 
 brarian of the Minneapolis Public Library, 
 1887-1891; admitted to the Minnesota bar, 
 188(i; the bar of Suffolk County, Mass., 
 189-2; and practised law in Bo.^ton, 1892- 
 1895. He was librarian of the Boston Pub- 
 lic Library, 1895-1899; president of the 
 Massachusetts Library Club, 189G-1897; 
 president of the American Library Associa- 
 tion in 1898 and 1903-1904; member of the 
 Board of Overseers of Harvard University, 
 1902-1906. Mr. Putnam represented the 
 United States as a delegate to the Interna- 
 tional Library Conference, London, in 1897; 
 was a member of the Administrative Board 
 of the Congress of Arts and Science, Louis- 
 iana Purchase Exposition, and he received 
 the honorary degree of Litt.D. from Bow- 
 doin College in 1898; of LL.D., Columbian 
 University, 1903; University of Illinois, 
 1903; University of Wisconsin, 1904; and 
 from Yale University in 1907. He is the 
 author of various articles in magazines and 
 periodicals and in professional journals. 
 Mr. Putnam is a member of the Tavern 
 Club of Boston, City Club of New Y'ork, 
 and the Cosmos and Chevy Chase Clubs of 
 Washington. Address: Library of Con- 
 gress, Washington, D. C. 
 
 PUTNAM, Irving: 
 
 Publisher; born in Staten Island, New 
 York, Feb. 4, 1852 ; son of George Palmer 
 and Victorine (Haven) Putnam. He was 
 educated at John MacMullen's School in 
 New Y'ork City, Columbia Grammar School, 
 and Amherst College for three years, class 
 of 1872; but was not graduated, leaving 
 colleo-e to go into busine.ss. He entered 
 the house of G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1871 
 and has been there ever since, now being 
 secretary. He is director of the Knicker- 
 bocker Press. He is also a member of the 
 Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He is a 
 
 miiiiltcr of the Manhattan Club. He mar- 
 ried in New York City, -lune 2(>. 187S, Km- 
 ma Louise jirock. aiul they have five cliil 
 dren. Address: 27 West 23d Street, New 
 York Cily. 
 
 PUTNAM, John Bishop: 
 
 Publisher; born in Slateu l>lan(l. \. Y., 
 in 1847; son of (ieorgc Palmer and \'ic- 
 torine (Haven) Putnam. He received a 
 public school education. Mr. Putnam has 
 been a member of the ijublisliing firm of 
 G. P. Putnam's Sons, for thirty-seven years 
 and is now treasurer. In 18(17 he traveled 
 extensively in Europe, Japan and other 
 places. He is president of the Knicker- 
 ijocker Press. Mr. Putnam is a member of 
 the Typothetae, the Society of Mechanics' 
 and Tradesmen, and the Union, National 
 Arts, and American Yacht Clubs. He mar- 
 ried in New York City in 1882, Frances 
 Faulkner, and has three children. Resi- 
 dence: Rye, N. Y. Oflice: 27 West 23d 
 Street, New Y'ork City. 
 
 PUTNAM, William Le Baron: 
 
 U. S. circuit judge; born in Bath. Maine, 
 May 12, 1835. After his graduation from 
 Lovvdoin College as A.B. in 1855. he studied 
 law in Portland, Maine, where he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1858 and practised law 
 until 1892. He was appointed by Presi- 
 dent Cleveland in 1887, a commissioner to 
 negotiate with Great Britain in settlement 
 of the rights of American fishermen in 
 Canadian waters, and again by Prer,ident 
 Cleveland, in 1896. as a commissioner under 
 tne Treaty of Feb. 8,- 1896, between the 
 United States and Great Britain. He was 
 ajipointed in 1892, judge of the U. S. Cir- 
 cuit Court for the First Judicial Circuit, 
 which office he still holds. Judge Putnam 
 is a Democrat and was the candidate of his 
 party for governor of Maine in 1888. The 
 degree of LL.D. has been conferred upon 
 Judge Putnam by Brown University and 
 by Bowdoin College; and he is a trustee of 
 the latter. Address: Portland, Maine. 
 
 PUTNEY, Frank Howell: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Rockford. 111., (;)ct. 13, 
 1841; son of Foskett :\Iaynard Putney and 
 Clarissa (Howell) Putney. He received his 
 
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 education in the private schools at Wau- 
 kesha, the High School at Milwaukee, and 
 Carroll College at Waukesha. After admis- 
 sion to the bar he established in practice at 
 Waukesha, but having a fondness for jovir- 
 nalisni, he spent the years 1874 and 1875 
 in newspaper work in New York City. In 
 1876 he was^ appointed private secretary to 
 the Governor of Wisconsin, also military 
 secretary and aide-de-camp to the governor. 
 In 1878 he was made assistant secretary of 
 State of Wisconsin, and was reappointed in 
 1880; was elected county judge of Wau- 
 kesha County in 1882; appointed postmaster 
 at Waukesha and held that position four 
 years. He enlisted in 1861 as a private in 
 the Twelfth Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, 
 and rose through the various grades to 
 second lieutenant. He was wounded near 
 Atlanta, (Ja., served four years, part of the 
 time with his company; then as adjutant of 
 the regiment, and as acting assistant adju- 
 tant-general of the First Brigade, Third 
 Division, Seventeenth Army Corps, on the 
 staff of General Charles Ewing. He served 
 also in tiie memorable campaign of the 
 Army of the Tennessee and was present 
 at sixteen battles and engagements. He was 
 one of the organizers and promoters of the 
 Waukesha Electric Light Company ; and 
 is president of the Waukesha Gas and Elec- 
 tric Company; and was one of the founders 
 of the Wavikesha jNIalleable Iron Company, 
 which now employs about six hundred per- 
 sons. He has built and owns three of the 
 largest and best business blocks in Wauke- 
 sha, and has contributed nmch to permanent 
 improvement of the city. In politics he is 
 a Republican. He has traveled extensively 
 in (Jreat Britain and France. Mr. Putney 
 is vice-president and director of the WaxdvO- 
 sha National Bank and the Waukesha 
 Springs Sanitarium. He is member of the 
 National Geographic Society; the Wisconsin 
 Academy of Sciences, Wisconsin State His- 
 torical Society, Wisconsin Bar Association; 
 tru.stee of funds and properly of 1lic Epis- 
 copal Church in Wisconsin, aii<l a member 
 of the Standing Committee of the Dioce.se. 
 He is also a member of the Military Order 
 of the Loyal Legion;, the Grand Army of 
 the Republic, and of several ^Masonic bodies, 
 also of the Waukesha Club. Residence: 
 
 215 Wisconsin Avenue. Office: 602 Grand 
 Avenue, Waukesha, Wis. 
 
 PYLE, James Tolman: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in New York City, 
 Feb. 9, 1854; son of James and Esther A. 
 (Whitman) Pyle. He was educated in 
 schools of New York City. He is the man- 
 ufacturer of Pearline washing compound; 
 president of the James Pyle &, Sons (Incor- 
 porated) ; director of the Standard Gas 
 Company, and the New York and Queens 
 Electric Light Company. He is a member 
 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amer- 
 ican Institute of Social Service, New York 
 Zoological Society, People's Institute, Am- 
 erican Museum of Natural History, and 
 Exploration Society of Baltimore. He is 
 also a member of the Metropolitan, Grolier, 
 Riding, Lawyers' and Wool Clubs of New 
 York City ; INIorristown, Morris County and 
 Golf Clubs of Morristown, N. J., and Nas- 
 sau Club of Princeton. He married, Feb. 
 12, 1884, Frances Adelaide McAlpin ; they 
 have six children. Address: 073 Fifth 
 Avenue. New York City. 
 
 PYNE, M. Taylor: 
 
 Lawyer and trustee; lidrn in New York 
 City, Dec. 21, 1855; son of Percy Rivington 
 and Albortina (Taylor) Pyne. He was 
 graduated from Princeton, A.B., 1877, A.M., 
 1880, Law School of Columbia, LL.B., 1879; 
 honorary L.H.D., Columbia University, 1903. 
 ;\Ir. Pyne was admitted to the bar in 1880; 
 was general solicitor of the Deleware, 
 Lackawanna and Western Railroad, eleven 
 yeais. He is president of the Warren 
 Railroad Company, Cayuga and Susque- 
 hanna Rail mad Company, Lake Carnegie 
 Association and the Princeton Iiui Com- 
 pany; vice-president of the T'niversity 
 Power Company; director of llie National 
 (^ity Bank of New York, The I'^armers' 
 Loan and 'i'rust Company, llie Lacl-;awaiuia 
 Steel Comiiany. flie Laekawajina Iron and 
 Coal Comjiany, the Consolidated Gas Compa- 
 ny, the New Jersey Zinc Company, Prince- 
 ton Bank. Commercial Trust Comjimy 
 of Jersey City, tlie United Railroads of Xew 
 .Jersey, the Delaware, Lackawanna and 
 ^Ves(ern lliiilroad Coninanw tlie Newark 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 and l?I()oiiifiol(l K'nilrdiu! Company, IMorris 
 and Essex Ivailroad Coiupany. Sussex Rail- 
 road Company, ITtica. Chenango and Sus- 
 quehanna Valley llailroad Company, Val- 
 ley Railroad Company, Harvey Steel Com- 
 pany, New York, Laekawanna and West- 
 ern Railway Company, and the Passaic and 
 Delaware Railroad ('omi)any. He is trustee 
 and chairman of llu" Finance Committee of 
 Princeton University; trustee of the Law- 
 renceville School, N. .1.; trustee of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association of New 
 York and St. Luke's Hospital, New York 
 City; and president of The Princeton His- 
 toiical Society. He is a member of the 
 N(>w Jersey State Public Library Commis- 
 sion; and chairman of Princeton Township. 
 i\Ir. Pyne was elected a Republican Presi- 
 dential elector for the State of New Jersey, 
 1908. He is a member of the Union, Uni- 
 versity, Century, Metropolitan, Grolier, 
 Princeton, Down Town, and Midday Clubs 
 of New York City, the Tuxedo and West- 
 chester Country Clubs ; the Princeton Club 
 of Philadelphia, and the Nassau and Ivy 
 I'lubs of Princeton. He is also an honorary 
 member of the Bachelors, Cap and Gown, 
 Tiger Inn, Colonial, Elm, Cannon, Quad- 
 rangle, Campus, Tower, Charter, Terrace 
 and Key and Seal Clubs of Princeton. He 
 married, June 2, 1880, Margaretta Stock- 
 ton. Address: Drumthwacket, Princeton, 
 N. J. 
 
 PYLE, Howard: 
 
 Artist and author; born in Wilmington, 
 Del., 1853; son of William and Margaret 
 C. Pyle. He was educated in private schools 
 and the Art Students' League of New 
 York. He has attained distinction both in 
 art and literature, is one of the foremost 
 American representatives of the art of il- 
 lustration, and was elected an academician 
 of the National Academy of Design in 1907. 
 He is also a member of the American In- 
 stitiite of Arts and Letters, and of the 
 Century Association of New York. ]\Ir. 
 Pyle's own books, of which he is illustrator 
 as well as autlior are: The Merry Ad- 
 ventures of Pv,obin Hood; Pepper and Salt; 
 Within the Capes; The Wonder Clock; The 
 Rose of Paradise; Otto of the Silver Hand; 
 Men of Iron; A Modern Aladdin; Jack Bal- 
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 lister's Forluiics: The (iardcn licliind (lie 
 Mo(Ul ; 'I'wiliglil Land; Kcjcclcil ot' Men; 
 Tile S)(uy (if King ArUiiir and ills 
 Knights; SemjH'r Ideiii: 'I'lic Story of tlie 
 ('liani])ions of the Kuiind Talilc; The Story 
 of Sir Launceldl and Mis Companions; 
 Sldlcii 'frca-iirc. lie is mi extensive con- 
 tributor lidth of literary work and illustra- 
 tions 1(1 llic leading magazines, lie mar- 
 ried in Wellington, Del.. Ajiril 12. ISSl, 
 Anne Poole. Address: Wilinin-lon, Del. 
 
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 aUACKENBOS, John Duncan: 
 
 Physician; born in New Y'ork City, April 
 22, 1848; son of George Payn Quackenbos, 
 LL.D., the educational author and a direct 
 descendant of Pieter van Quaakenbosch, 
 who came from Holland to New Amster- 
 dam about 1660. He was educated at the 
 Collegiate School, New York City, of which 
 his father was rector, was graduated from 
 Columbia College, A.B., with the first honor, 
 in 1868, at the age of twenty (A.M., 
 1871), and the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons in New Y'ork City, M.D., 1871. 
 He was appointed tutor of rhetoric at Co- 
 lumbia College in 1870, adjunct professor 
 of English language and literature, 1884- 
 1891, professor of rhetoric in Columbia 
 University and in Barnard' College, 1891- 
 1894 and retired in 1894 from active serv- 
 ice at the University, retaining his con- 
 nection as emeritus professor. He has 
 since devoted himself to the practice of 
 medicine in New Y'ork City, specializing 
 in nervous and mental diseases, and in 
 psychotherapy, and is one of the leading 
 figures in connection with the reawakened 
 interest in the relations of the physical 
 body to mental phenomena. He is also 
 a lecturer on scientific and' literary sub- 
 jects, and is to be credited with having 
 brought to public notice the presence of 
 a fourth charr in New England waters, 
 viz. : the so-called Sunapee Lake trout, or 
 American saibling. This valuable food fish, 
 through his efforts, has been planted in 
 Lake George. He is a member of the Lon- 
 don Society for Physical Researcli, member 
 
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 of the New York Academy of Sciences, of 
 the Now York ^Medical Association, of the 
 American Medical Association and the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science. He is a fellow of the New 
 York Academy of Medicine and of the 
 New Hampshire Medical Society. Ad- 
 dress: 331 West jiSth Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 QUARLES, Joseph Very: 
 
 .Jurist; born in Kenosha, \\ls., Dec. IG, 
 1843. After graduation from the high 
 school in 18G1, he entered the University 
 of ^Michigan, but left to go to the War, 
 serving in the Thirty-ninth Wisconsin In- 
 fantry as first lieutenant of Company C. 
 When his enlistment expired he returned 
 to the University of Michigan from which 
 he was graduated as A.B. in 186G. lie stud- 
 ied law in offices and after his admission 
 to the bar in 1868 began practice at Keno- 
 sha, where lie served as district attorney 
 and as mayor of Kenosha, lie removed to 
 Racine and practised law there until 1888, 
 after that in Milwaukee, where he became 
 not only distinguished as a lawyer, but 
 also prominent as a leader in the Eepubli- 
 can party. He was elected to the U. S. 
 Senate from Wisconsin, 1899-190.5, and on 
 March G, 1905, he was appointed by Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt to his present position as 
 judge of the United States Court for tlio 
 Eastern Division of Michigan. Address : 
 28G Juneau Avenue, ]\Iilwaukee. 
 
 QUAYLE, William A.: 
 
 Rishop of the Metliodist Episcopal 
 Cliurch; born in Parkville, Mo., June 25, 
 ISGO; "Son of Tliomas and Elizabeth (Gale) 
 (^uaylc. He was graduated from Baker 
 University, A.B., 1885, and later received 
 from that university the degrees of A.IM. 
 and Litt.D. ; and he has also received the 
 degrees of Ph.D. from Allegheny College, 
 and of D.D. from DePauw University. He 
 was ordained in the ministry of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church in 188G, and was 
 pastor at Kansas City before removing to 
 Chicago, where he was pastor of St. James' 
 Metliodist Episcopal Church until elected 
 by the General Conference of the Metliodist 
 
 Episcopal Church, as one of the bishops of 
 that church. Dr. t^)uayle was sent by the 
 Church as a fraternal delegate to the Eng- 
 lish Wesleyan Churcli in 1902, and he has 
 frequently delivered addresses before An- 
 nual Conferences and special gatherings. 
 He is distinguished as an orator and lec- 
 turer and is author of: The Poet's Poet 
 and Other Essays; A Hero and Some Other 
 Folks; The Blessed Life; In God's Out-of- 
 Doors; The Prairies and the Sea; and other 
 volumes. He married in 1886, Allie Han- 
 cock Davis. Address: Oklahoma City, 
 Okla. 
 
 aUEEN, Emmet: 
 
 President of the Great Lakes Coal Com- 
 pany; born in 1854 in Queenstown, Pa., 
 and in the early seventies became actively 
 interested in oil. He was a successful oper- 
 ator and in 1883 associated himself with J. 
 M. and W. S. Guffey, and is still active in 
 the oil business, the firm being now Guffey 
 & Queen. In 1902 he associated himself 
 with a number of the prominent partners 
 of the Carnegie Steel Company in the 
 formation of the Company of which he 
 is now jnesidcnt. Preparations were made 
 for the opening of the mines and the ac- 
 commodation of the workmen, and to-day 
 it is one of the most important independent 
 coal enterprises of Western Pennsylvania. 
 Address: Carnegie Building, Pittsburgh. 
 
 QUEREAU, Edmund Chase: 
 
 Geologist and educator; born in Aurora, 
 111., ]\Iarch 18, 18G7; son of George W. and 
 Susan H. (Smith) Quereau. He was grad- 
 uated from Jennings Seminary, Aurora; 
 Northwestern University. Ph.B., 1884, Ph. 
 M., 1888; and from Freiburg LTniversity, 
 Ph.D., 1893. He was instructor and fel- 
 low at the University of Chicago, 1893- 
 1895; jjrofessor of geology and geography, 
 University of Syracuse, 1895-1900; super- 
 visor of the Chicago and Noi'thwestern Rail- 
 way, 1900-1907. and retired since 1907. He 
 is a fellow (if tlie Geological Society of 
 Ameriei, and a member of the Beta Theta 
 Pi fraternity, and author of a book and 
 various papers on geological and other sub- 
 jects. ]Mr. Quereau married in Syracuse, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 i;i(i:i 
 
 N. Y., February, 1902, Elizabeth F. Pack- 
 ard, and lias three children. Address: Bo.\ 
 182, Bay City, Texas. 
 
 ftlTIGG, Lemuel E.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Cecil County, j\ld., Feb. 
 13, 1S()3. He received a common school ed- 
 ucation, at the completion of which he re- 
 moved to New York City and' engaged in 
 journalism. He was for ten years writer 
 on the New York Tribune, later editor-in- 
 chief of the New York Press. Mr. Quigg 
 was a Republican member of Congress, 
 1893-1899; chairman of the Republican 
 Committee of New York, 189G-1900; since 
 hisi retirement from Congress has been 
 actively engaged in business and in promot- 
 ing the interests of his party in city and 
 State. Residence: 435 West End Avenue. 
 Address: 32 Liberty Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 QUIGLEY, James Edward: 
 
 Catholic archbishop; born in Oshawa, 
 Canada, Oct. 15, 1854. His parents re- 
 moved in 1856 to Lima, N. Y. He was 
 educated in St. Joseph's College of the 
 Christian Brothers, in Buffalo, and in the 
 Seminary of Our Lady of the Angels, Niag- 
 ara Falls, thence going to the University 
 of Innsbruck. Austria, and the College of 
 the Propaganda, Rome, where he was grad- 
 uated in 1879, and ordained priest. He 
 returned to the Diocese of Buffalo and took 
 up parochial duties as pastor of St. Vin- 
 cent's Church, Attica N. Y., 1879-1884; St. 
 Joseph's Cathedral, Buffalo, 1884-1890; St. 
 Bridget's Church, Buffalo, 1896-1897; con- 
 secrated bishop of Buffalo, 1897, serving 
 until March 10, 1903, when he was in- 
 stalled as archbishop of Chicago. Address: 
 623 North State Street, Chicago. 
 
 QUINBY, Frank H.: 
 
 Architect ; born in North Castle, West- 
 chester County, N. Y., Nov. 24, 1868; son 
 of John Jay and Hannah Griffen (Havi- 
 land) Quinby. He is a director of the New 
 York and New Jersey Terminal Under- 
 ground Railroad Company. He is a Demo- 
 crat and a member of the Society of Friends 
 (Quaker). Fellow of the American Insti- 
 
 tute of Architects and president of the 
 Brooklyn Chapter; member of tiie Brooklyn 
 Institute of Arts and Sciences; cliairman 
 of tlie Board of ^Managers, Cliappaipia 
 Mountain Institute; nuMuhcr of the Crescent 
 and jNlidwood Clubs. He married at Port 
 Chester, N. Y., Elizabeth Mathews Purdy, 
 and they have three children. Residence: 7 
 Tennis Court, Brooklyn. Address: 99 Nas- 
 sau Street, New Yoik City. 
 
 QUINBY, Henry B: 
 
 Governor of New Hampshire; elected on 
 the Republican ticket in November, 1908, for 
 the two-year term expiring in January, 1911. 
 Address: Concord, N. II. 
 
 QUINBY, Henry Cole: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Laconia, N. 11.; son of 
 Henry B. and Octavia Cole, (Quinby. He 
 was graduated from Harvard College, A.B., 
 and Harvard Law School, LL.B., and has 
 since been engaged in the practice of law in 
 New York City. Mr. Quinby is a Republi- 
 can in politics; is a member of the Society 
 of Mayflower Descendants; the New York 
 Genealogical and Biographical Society, New 
 England Historic-Genealogical Society, New 
 England Society of New York, New Hamp- 
 shire Society of New York, and the Union 
 League, Harvard, Players, and Collectors 
 Clubs of New York City. Mr. Quinby mar- 
 ried Florence A. Cole. Address: 165 
 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 QUINN, Arthur Hobson: 
 
 Professor of English at the University 
 of Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Feb. 
 9, 1875; son of Michael A. and Mary (Mac- 
 Donough) Quinn. He was graduated' from 
 the University of Pennsylvania, B.S.. 1894, 
 Ph.D., 1899 and pursued graduate study at 
 the University of Munich, Bavaria. 1897- 
 1898. He was instructor in mathematics, 
 University of Pennsylvania, 1894-1895; in- 
 structor in English, 1895-1904: assistant 
 professor of English, 1904-1908, and profes- 
 sor since 1908. Director of Summer School, 
 1904-1907 inclusive, and secretary of the 
 Association of Colleges and Preparatory 
 Schools of Middle States and Maryland 
 since 1903. He was editor of: Faire Maide 
 
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 of Bristowe, a comedy of 1605, 1902; 
 George Eliot's Silas Marner, 1900, and au- 
 thor of Pcnnsj'lvania Stories, 1899. He is 
 a member of the IModcrn Language Associa- 
 tion of America, Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
 Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and the Write- 
 about Club of Philadelphia. He married 
 in Philadelphia, May 31, 1904, Helen Mc- 
 Kee, and they have two cliildrcn. Resi- 
 dence: 4415 Sansom Street. Business ad- 
 dress: University of Pennsylvania, Phila- 
 delphia. 
 
 QUINT, Wilder Dwight: 
 
 Journalist, author; born in Salem, Mass., 
 Nov. 15, 1863; son of Alonzo Hall and Re- 
 becca (Putnam) Quint. He was gradu- 
 ated from Phillips Exeter Academy and 
 Dartmouth College, A.B., 1887. He was 
 night editor of the Boston Advertiser; night 
 editor of the Boston News, and tele- 
 graph, literary and managing editor of the 
 Boston Traveler; musical and dramatic edi- 
 tor and chief editorial writer for the Boston 
 Journal. He is author (under joint nom 
 d'e plume " Dwight Tilton") of novels: 
 Miss Petticoats, On Satan's Mount, My 
 Lady Laughter; The Golden Greyhound and 
 Meyer and Son. Mr. Quint is also a writer 
 of short stories and essays. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Psi 
 Upsilon and Casque and Gauntlet fraterni- 
 ties, and of the Darmouth and City Clubs 
 of Boston. He married in Boston, June 19, 
 1902, Alice A. Hutchings. Residence: River- 
 bank Court, Cambridge, Mass. Office : Jour- 
 nnl Building, Boston. 
 
 QUINTARD, George W.: 
 
 Iron manufacturer; born in Stamford, 
 Conn., April 22, 1822. Ho was educated 
 in the common schools. He removed to 
 New York when a lad of fifteen and en- 
 gaged in a mercantile business. In 1847 
 he was one of the proprietors of the Am- 
 erican Iron Works, in New York City; and 
 a few years later became a partner with 
 Charles Morgan in the Morgan Iron Works, 
 a notable establishment from which many 
 of the foremost engineers of the U. S. Navy 
 were graduated into Ihe service, including 
 the explorer and later enginccr-in-chief of 
 
 the Ignited States Navy, Rear-Admiral 
 George U. Melville, and others. He was 
 the sole manager of the IMorgan Iron Works 
 from 1852, and' retired in 1867. He was 
 the principal owner of the New York and 
 Charleston Steamship Company and in 1869 
 became connected with the Quintard Iron 
 Works. Mr. Quintard was vice-president of 
 the Eleventh Ward Bank; director of the 
 Lorillard and Adriatic Fire Insurance Com- 
 pany, Metropolitan Savings Bank, South- 
 ern Steamship Company and Butchers' and 
 Drovers' Bank and' trustee of the Eastern 
 Dispensary. He is a member of the Metro- 
 ]3olitan. New York Y'acht and American 
 Yacht Clubs. Address: 66 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
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 RADFORD, Harry Vincent: 
 
 Journalist and author; born in New \''ork 
 City, Jan. 8, 1881; son of Charles A. 
 and Leila Radford (Higgins). He received 
 his early education in public and private 
 schools in city and country, Avas graduated 
 from De La Salle Institute, New York City, 
 and afterward from Manhattan College 
 as B.S. in 1901, M.S. in 1902, and C.E. in 
 1906. He began writing for publication at 
 twelve years of age, and contributed to 
 school journals, serving as associate editor. 
 He established in 1898 Woods and Waters, 
 a quarterly magazine of national circulation 
 devoted to out-door sports, natural history 
 and forestry, and owned, edited and pub- 
 lished it until 1906. He was associate edi- 
 tor of Field and Stream from 1901 to 1904, 
 conducting an Adirondack Department in 
 that periodical. Correspondent of the Asso- 
 ciated Press, 1908. He has contributed to 
 various magazines and newspapers — chiefly 
 in relation to sports and natural history, 
 particularly with reference to the Adiron- 
 dacks, concerning which he is accepted au- 
 tliority. He is author of: Adirondack 
 Murray, a Biographical Appreciation (two 
 edilions, 1905, 1900), History of the Adi- 
 rondack Beaver (1908), Artificial Preserva- 
 tioin of Timber (1908), and of various sci- 
 entific theses, tracts, and addresses; and he 
 
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 has also published some verse. Mr. Radford 
 has been constructively active in game, fish 
 and forest protective legislation and in the 
 organization of clubs and associations de- 
 voted to this object. He originated the 
 plan for restocking the Adirondack region 
 with moose, wapiti and beaver, and has 
 obtained several appropriations from the 
 State Legislature for this purpose. He 
 has also been active for years in the in- 
 terest of American bison perpetuation, and 
 in protecting forests of the Adirondack 
 State Park. He has delivered addresses 
 before various clubs, societies and associa- 
 tions. His recreations are field sports 
 (chiefly hunting and fishing) and travel; 
 and he has traveled extensively in North 
 America and Europe. He is independent 
 in politics, and a Roman Catholic in re- 
 ligion. Mr. Radford' is founder, patron 
 and trustee of the Adirondack jMurray 
 Memorial Association, is a life member of 
 the Sons of the Revolution, and of the 
 Society of the War of 1812; charter mem- 
 ber of the League of American Sportsmen, 
 Association for the Protection of the Ad- 
 irondacks, and American Bison Society; 
 founder and secretary of the Association 
 for restoring Moose to the Adirondacks ; 
 associate member of the Adirondack Guides' 
 Association and of Brown's Tract Guides' 
 Association ; he is life fellow of the Amer- 
 ican Geographical Society and a member 
 of the New York Zoological Society ; mem- 
 ber of the Alumni Society of Manhat- 
 tan College, Alumni Society of De La Salle 
 Institute, Alpha Sigma Beta (local college 
 fraternity of which he was founder and first 
 regent) ; member of the Arctic and New 
 York Press Clubs. Mr. Radford is at pres- 
 ent engaged in a series of extensive foreign 
 travels. Address: North Creek, Warren 
 County, N. Y. 
 
 RAGSDALE, James W.: 
 
 Consul-general; born in Monroe County, 
 Ind., Feb. 12, 1848; son of Daniel S. and 
 Louisa (Lindsay) Ragsdale. He was ed- 
 ucated in public schools and two years at 
 Cornell College, Iowa. When only fifteen 
 years old he enlisted, in 1863, in Company 
 C, of the Thirteenth Iowa Infantry, in 
 
 wliicli he served for two years, iintil the end 
 of the war, with Sherman in (ieorgia and 
 on the march to the sea.* After tlie war lie 
 engaged' in. nowspai)er lifr in Iowa and 
 later in California, where lie lias his home 
 at SantiX Rosa. He became active in poli- 
 tics in California as a Republican and was 
 elected to the General Assembly of Cali- 
 fornia in 1888 and to the California Senate 
 in 1890. In 18!)7 he was appointed by Pres- 
 ident McKinley as consul to Tientsin, Chi- 
 na. He was one of the besieged party at 
 Tientsin during the Boxer troubles of 1000, 
 and rendered efficient service to the allied 
 troops during the subsequent military re- 
 lief operations. He was promoted Feb. 2, 
 1903, to consul-general of the United' States 
 at Tientsin, and in 1908 transferred to St. 
 Petersburg as consul. Mr. Ragsdale mar- 
 ried, at Chariton, Iowa, Feb. 3, 1870, Eflie 
 L. Hines. Address: American Consulate, 
 St. Petersburg, Russia. 
 
 RAINES, John: 
 
 State senator and lawyer; born at Canan- 
 daigua, N. Y., May 0,1840; son of Rev. 
 John Raines, ]\Iethodist clergyman, and 
 Mary (Remington) Raines. He was grad- 
 uated from the Albany Law School of 
 Union University, and his present busi- 
 ness is that of an insurance agent and 
 lawyer. Mr. Raines began the practice 
 of law in Geneva soon after graduating, 
 but in the fall of 1861 he raised a company 
 of volunteers and was commissioned captain 
 of Company G, of the Eighty-fifth Regiment 
 of New York Volunteers. He served in the 
 Army of the Potomac and in North Caro- 
 lina until July 1863, when he returned to 
 Geneva and resumed the practice of law. 
 In 1867 he removed to Canandaigna. He 
 early joined the Republican party; was 
 elected to the General Assembly of 1881- 
 1882 and 1885, and to the Senate 1886, and 
 continued a member of that body until 
 1890. While a member of the Senate he 
 was elected to the Fifty-first Congress and 
 was afterward elected to the Fifty-second 
 Congress. Mr. Raines, in December, 1894, 
 was elected a State senator from the Twen- 
 ty-sixth district to fill a vacancy caused by 
 the resignation of Charles T. Saxton, who 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 had been elected lieutenant-goveinor. Mr. 
 Raines wa.s reelected to the Senate in 1895, 
 and has had continuous service in the Sen- 
 ate since. Mr. Haines' chief legislative 
 achievnients have been the ^jassage of the 
 present Election Law of the State and the 
 well-known Kaines Liquor Tax Law. Mr. 
 Raines was elected president pro teni, and 
 Republican leader of the Senate in 1903, 
 and every session since. He is chairman 
 of the Committee on Rules and a member 
 of the Finance, Cities Committee, and Ju- 
 diciary Committees. Address: Canan- 
 daigua, N. Y. 
 
 RAINEY, Henry T.: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; horn in Car- 
 rollton. 111.. Aug. 20, 1860; son of John 
 and' Kate (Thomas) Rainey. He was grad- 
 uated from Amherst College, A.B., 1883, 
 A.M., 1886, and from the Union College of 
 Law, LL.B., 1885; was admitted to the bar 
 soon afterward and has since practised law 
 at Carrollton, 111. He is a member of the 
 Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen, and 
 the Elks. He was elected, as a Democrat, 
 to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixti- 
 eth Congresses from the Twentieth Illinois 
 District, and reelected in 1908 to the Sixty- 
 first Congress. He married, June 27, 1888, 
 Ella McBride of Howard, Neb. Address: 
 Carrollton, 111. 
 
 RAIRDEN, Bradstreet S.: 
 
 Consular oniecr; born in Louisiana. He 
 was appointed consul at Batavia, Aug. 18, 
 1892; retired Sept. 1, 1897; was apponited 
 vice and deputy-consul, Oct. 5, 1898 ; and 
 reappointed consul, Oct. 10, 1900. Address: 
 Batavia, Java. 
 
 RALSTON, Jackson Harvey: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Sacramento, Calif., Feb. 
 6, 1857; son of James IT. and Harriet N. 
 (Jackson) Ralston. He was graduated 
 from Georgetown University, LL.B., 1876, 
 and from the National University Law 
 School, LL.D., 1897. He was American 
 agent of the Pious Fund case before the 
 Hague Court of Arbitration, 1902; umpire, 
 
 Italian-Venezvielan Commission, 1903, and 
 represented the American Federation of La- 
 bor in the Buck's Stove and Range litiga- 
 tion. Mr. Ralston is president of the First 
 National Bank of Hyattsville, director in 
 the National Metropolitan Bank, and a 
 member of the law tirm of Ralston, Siddons 
 and Richardson. He was editor of The Ven- 
 ezuelan Arbitrations of 1903. and of The 
 Report of French-Venezuelan Arbitration 
 under the Protocol of 1902. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Cosmos Club of Washington. He 
 married in Keokuk, Iowa, June 1, 1887, 
 Sara B. R. Rankin. Residence: Hyatts- 
 ville, Md. Office: Bond Building, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 RAMALEY, Francis: 
 
 Botanist; born in St. Paul, }»linn., Nov. 
 16, 1870; son of David and Louisa M. (De 
 Graw) Ramaley. He was graduated from 
 the University" of IMinnesota, B.S., 1895, 
 M.S., 1896, Ph.D., 1899, and has also stud- 
 ied in Buitenzorg. Java, in the Botanical 
 Institute, also studied three months in the 
 Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya, Cey- 
 lon. He was instructor in botany in the 
 University of Minnesota, 1896-1898; and 
 has been professor of biology at University 
 of Colorado since 1899. He has now in 
 preparation a book giving a popular ac- 
 count of Rocky Mountain vegetation. He 
 traveled around the world in 1903 and 
 1904. Dr. Ramaley is a fellow of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science, member of the American Society 
 of Naturalists, National Geographic So- 
 ciety, and the Society of Botanists of the 
 Central States; member of Theta Delta 
 Chi, Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. He 
 has made special researches in plant anat- 
 omy and ecology; and is author of articles 
 dealing with forests and forest trees of 
 Colorado, and plant geography of the Rocky 
 Mountains. Mr. Ivamaloy married in Den- 
 ver, Colo., June 14. 1906, Ethel Jackson, 
 and they have one child. Address: 972 
 Pleasant Street, Boulder, Colo. 
 
 RAMSAY, George Junkin: 
 
 Educatoi'; lioni in Virginia in June, 
 1855; son "f Riv. James Beverlcn and 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 I :w, 
 
 Sabia (Tracy) Ramsay. Tic was yradualcd 
 from Hampd'en-Sidney College, Va., A.]\I., 
 1878, took a post-graduaatc course in the 
 University of Virginia, 1871)- 1880. and re- 
 ceived the degree of LL.D. from the South- 
 western Presbyterian University, 1898. lie 
 was professor of Latin in Ogdcn College, 
 Kentucky. 1880- 1884; president of the Silli- 
 nian Institute, Louisiana, 1884-1899; edi- 
 tor-in-chief for the B. F. Johnson Publish- 
 ing Company of Kichmond, Va., 1899-1903; 
 president of Sayre Institute, Kentucky, 
 1904-1900; i)rofessor of education in the 
 Central University of Kentucky since 1906. 
 Dr. Ramsay has been secretary of the Ken- 
 tucky Educational Commission since 1908. 
 He is a member, vice-president and director 
 of the National Educational Association; 
 member of the Southern Educational Asso- 
 ciation (president 1897-1898) ; member of 
 the Executive Committee of the Conference 
 for Education in the Southern States since 
 1906; director of the Kentucky Educational 
 Association ; member of Beta Theta Pi, and 
 a Knight Templar. He married in Bowling 
 Green, Ky., July 1, 1884, Annie Stevens, 
 and tliey have two sons and a daughter. 
 Address 203 North Third Street, Danville, 
 Ky. 
 
 RAND, Charles Frederic: 
 
 Mine owner ; born at Canaan, Me., Aug. 
 17, 18.56; son of Frank C. Rand and Ade- 
 line (Smith) Rand. He was for some years 
 financial officer of a railway corporation 
 at JNIilwaukee, afterward engaged in min- 
 ing in the Lake Superior district and now 
 owns and operates extensive iron mines and 
 manganese mines in Cuba. He is presi- 
 dent of The Spanish-American Iron Com- 
 pany, Ponupo ]\Ianganese Company and vice- 
 president of the Pleasant Land Company. 
 He is a Republican in politics; and is a 
 member of the Chamber of Commerce of 
 New York, the Metropolitan Museum of 
 Art, Municipal Art Society, National Geo- 
 graphic Society, American Historical So- 
 ciety, New England Historical-Genealogical 
 Society, and is also a member of the Engi- 
 neers', Lawyers', Down Town, and Jolly 
 ]\Iariners' Clubs of New York; Essex Coun- 
 
 ty Country Clul), Riding and Driving Club 
 of Orange, X. .1. ; Art Clnh of I'hiladclphia, 
 Union Club of Clcvehuul. Milwaukee Club 
 of Milwaukee. I'liidn and San Carlos Clubs 
 of Santiago dc ( iiiin ; jlavami Yacht and 
 American ( luijs of Havana. He married at 
 Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 21, 1885, Mary E. 
 Burnham, and they have four children. 
 Residence : 347 \N'est End Avenue, New 
 York, and West Orange, N. J. Office: 71 
 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 RAND, John Prentice: 
 
 Physician ; born in Francestown. N. II.. 
 Nov. 8, 1857; .son of Thomas P. and Lydia 
 (Wheeler) Rand. He was graduated from 
 Francestown Academy, 1880. received his 
 M.D. at New York Homeopathic Medical 
 College, 1883. He began the practice of 
 medicine at Monson, Mass., where he re- 
 mained for five years; then moved to Wor- 
 cester, Mass., and practised for ten years, 
 when he was called back to ]Monson by the 
 death of his brother. Dr. N. W. Rand. He 
 returned in 1905 to Worcester, where he 
 now resides. He is a member of the ^lon- 
 son Savings Bank Corporation, and was 
 formerly a member of the ^lonson School 
 Committee and of the ]\Ionson Library 
 Association. In 1897, with his brother, N. 
 W. Rand, he published a book of verse call- 
 ed Random Rimes, three editions of which 
 have been issued. He is ex-president of the 
 Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical So- 
 cietj'^, ex-president of the Massachusetts 
 Surgical and Gynecological Society, mem- 
 ber of the American Institute of Homeo- 
 pathy and of the American Health League; 
 also the National Society for the 
 Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis; con- 
 sulting physician to the Westborough In- 
 sane Hospital; secretary of the Board of 
 Trustees of the Massachusetts State San- 
 atorium ; lecturer at Boston University 
 School of Medicine; and ex-president of 
 the Alumni Association of the New York 
 Homeopathic iledical College and Flower 
 Hospital. He married, first. Jan. 17, 1889, 
 Harriet M. Anderson, and second, Sept. 3, 
 1904. Lena M. Adams, and has one son, 
 Frank P. Address: Worcester, Mass. 
 
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 RANDALL, Otis Everett: 
 
 Professor of mechanics and mechanical 
 drawing; born in North Stonington, Conn.. 
 Feb. 28. 1860; son of Darius H. and Abby 
 P. (Frink) Randall. He was educated at 
 Brown University, and the Technische 
 Hochschule, Berlin, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. He 
 has been instructor and professor at Brown 
 University since 1892, and is now professor 
 of mechanics and mechanical drawing of 
 that institution. He is a recognized national 
 authority on technical work of the charac- 
 ter indicated, and has published the follow- 
 ing text-books: Directions in Regard to 
 the Construction of Plates in Mechanical 
 Drawing, (1805) ; Directions in Regard to 
 the Construction of Plates in ]\Iechanical 
 Drawing and in Descriptive Geometry, 
 1902; Shades and Shadows and Perspective, 
 1902; and' Elements of Descriptive Geome- 
 try. He is a member of the Society for the 
 Promotion of Engineering Education and 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science. He is also director of the 
 Congregational Brotherhood of America; 
 member of the Sigma Chapter of Psi Up- 
 silorr Fraternity, and the Rhode Island 
 Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa. He married in 
 Providence, R. I.. June 19, 1889, Mabel Her- 
 bert Gofl["e, and has a son and a daughter. 
 Residence : 100 Alumni Avenue. Office : 
 Brown University. Providence, R. I. 
 
 RANDELL, Choice Boswell: 
 
 Congressman; born in Georgia, Jan. 1. 
 1857. He received his education at the 
 North Georgia Agricultural College; was 
 admitted to the bar in 1878; removed to 
 Texas in January, 1879; was elected to the 
 Fifty-seven(l), Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth, 
 and Sixtieth Congresses, and reelected to 
 the Sixty-first Congress, from the Fourth 
 Texas District. He married, Oct. 29, 1879, 
 Anna Marschalk. of Natchez, Miss. Ad- 
 dress: Slu'rman, Texas. 
 
 RANDOLPH, Alfred Magill: 
 
 J'>ishop of Soutlurii N'irginia; born at 
 Winchester, Va., Aug. :H, 1830; son of 
 R()l)ert Lee and ]\Iray ii. T. Randolph. He 
 was graduated from tlie academic course 
 at William and Mary College in 1855 and 
 
 from the Virginia Theological Seminary in 
 ISoS. The degree of D.D. was conferred 
 upon liim by William and ]\Iary College 
 in 1876. Following his graduation from 
 the seminary, he took orders as deacon of 
 the Episeopnl Church, and was ordained 
 priest by Bishop Johns in 1860. He was 
 rector of St. George's Church, Fredericks- 
 burg, Va., and Emmanuel Church, Balti- 
 more, 1858-1883. In 1883 he became bishop 
 coadjutor of Virginia, being consecrated by 
 Bishops Lee, W. B. W. Howe, Dudley, 
 Perry, Burgess and Peterkin. In 1894, on 
 the subdivision of the Diocese of Virginia, 
 he was elected bishop of Southern Virginia, 
 filling the bishopric since then. Address: 
 (summer) Casanova, Va.; (winter) Nor- 
 folk, Va. 
 
 RANDOLPH, Edmund D.: 
 
 Treasurer. New York Life Insurance Com- 
 pany; born in Philadelphia, in 1838. He 
 is of American colonial ancestry, his fam- 
 ily having been among the early English 
 settlers of the seventeenth century, and his 
 grandfather an officer of the Continental 
 Army in the Revolutionary War. He be- 
 gan business life in the Philadelphia Bank, 
 becoming a member of the banking firm of 
 Smith, Randolph and Company, of Phila- 
 delphia, in 18G2, and came to New York 
 in 1866, as resident partner in charge of 
 his firm's branch office. In 1877 he was 
 elected president of the Continental Na- 
 tional Bank (since consolidated with the 
 Hanover National Bank), which office he 
 iiekl for twenty-one years, resigning in 1898 
 to become an officer of the New York Life 
 Insurance Company (of which he had been 
 a trustee from February, 1892), and was 
 successively elected chairman of the Execu- 
 tive Committee, chairman of the Finance 
 Committee, and treasurer. Mr. Randolph 
 is also connected with several other promi- 
 nent corporate interests, as director and 
 trustee, including the Liverpool and Lon- 
 don and Globe Insurance Company, Manhat- 
 tan Trust Company, New York Trust Com- 
 pany, Southern Railway Company, Trinity 
 Corporation and Society of the New York 
 Hospital. He is a member of the Metropoli- 
 tan Museum of Art, New Y^ork Zoological 
 
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 Society and New York Botanical Society. He 
 is also a ineiiibcr of tlie Union, Knicker- 
 bocker, Metropolitan, Merchants', Church 
 (New York City), Country (Westchester), 
 Phihxdelphia (Philadelphia) Clubs. Resi- 
 dence: Brookwood, [Mount Saint Yincent- 
 on-Hudson. Address : 3-46 Broadway, New 
 Y'ork City. 
 
 RANDOLPH, Harold: 
 
 Musician ; born in Richmond, Va., Oct. 
 31, 1801; son of Innes and Anna Clare 
 (King) Randolph. He was educated in 
 Richmond and Baltimore. He is a con- 
 cert pianist, church organist and' choir- 
 master, and is at present director of the 
 Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore. 
 He was a soloist with the Thomas Orchestra, 
 Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Symphony, 
 and the Kneisel Quartet. Mr. Randolph 
 is a member of the Maryland, Baltimore, 
 Bachelors Cotillon, Baltimore Country, and 
 the Municipal Art Clubs. He married in 
 Catonsville, Md., June 4, 1896, Emma L. 
 Gary. Residence: Roland Park. Office: 
 Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore. 
 
 RANDOLPH, Lewis Van Syckle Fitz: 
 
 Banker, author; born in Somerville, N. 
 J., May 16, 1838. He was educated in 
 schools of Plainfield, N. J. He began busi- 
 ness life in New Y^ork City, 1854, commenc- 
 ing as clerk in the American Exchange 
 Bank and filling advancing positions un- 
 til, early in 1863, he left to serve in the 
 Union Army. Returning after the battle 
 of Gettysburg, he became connected, in 1864, 
 with the Illinois Central Railroad Com- 
 pany, of which he was at first assistant 
 treasurer and then treasurer and director 
 for over twenty years, in all, until 1885. 
 He is an executor and trustee of the 
 estate of Samuel J. Tilden, and of other 
 considerable estates ; became president of 
 the Atlantic Trust Company, 1894 and' after 
 a successful administration retired at the 
 end of 1902. On his return from a visit 
 to the West Indies in 1903 he was unani- 
 mously elected president of the Consolidated 
 Stock and Petroleum Exchange; reelected' 
 without opposition, 1904 and 1905; declined 
 further election 1900, and' retired from ac- 
 
 tive business. Mi-. Iwiiidolpli lias managed 
 various railways, coal anil iron mines and 
 other enterprises, as well as philantinopic 
 and religious as.socialions. He is a past 
 commander of the Grand Army of the Re- 
 public lie has contributed poems to maga- 
 zines and is author of a volume of poems: 
 Survivals (published by Putnams) . He also 
 published, ( 1907 ) under the auspices of the 
 New Jersey Historical Society a volume en- 
 titled: Fitz Randolph Traditions, A Story 
 of a Thousand Y'^ears. As a recreation, Mr. 
 Randolph has devoted much attention to 
 Gardening and the breeding of Jersey, Here- 
 ford and other fine cattle. He served two 
 years as mayor of Plainfield, N. J. Mr. 
 Randolph has been a very extensive traveler. 
 He married. May 16, 1867, Emily Caroline, 
 daughter of Matthias Price, of Newark, N. 
 J., and has five daughters. Address: Plain- 
 field, N. J. 
 
 RANDOLPH, Tom: 
 
 Banker; born in Tennessee, Nov. 13, 
 1854; son of J. L. and Mary B. (Bradley) 
 Randolph. He was educated in common 
 and private schools, and engaged' in banking 
 as messenger, advancing to casliier and 
 since 1886 president of the Merchants' and 
 Planters' National Bank of Sherman, Texas. 
 He is also vice-president of the National 
 Bank of Conunerce and of the Common- 
 wealth Trust Company of St. Louis. Mo.; 
 a director of the Equitable Life Assurance 
 Society of New Y'ork, the St. Louis South- 
 western Railway Company of St. Louis, the 
 Hamilton Investment Company of St. Louis 
 and various other corporations. Mr. Ran- 
 dolph has traveled extensively in Europe 
 and America. He is a Democrat and' a 
 Methodist, and is a member of the St. Louis, 
 Noonday, Racquet, and Glen Echo Clubs of 
 St. Louis and the Maine Hunting and Fish- 
 ing Club. Residence: 4386 Lindell Boule- 
 vard. Office: National Bank of Commerce, 
 St. Louis. 
 
 RANEY, Richard Beverley: 
 
 Retired underwriter; born in Granville 
 County, N. C, Feb. 7, 1860; son of Thomas 
 Hull and Eliza Partridge (Baird) R iney. 
 lie was educated in local academies, then 
 
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 engaged in business, and was afterward 
 general agent for a life insurance company 
 for fifteen years until he retired. In 1899 
 he built and in January, 1900, presented to 
 the City of Raleigh, N. C, the Olivia Raney 
 Librar}-, costing $50,000, in memory of his 
 deceased wife. Since retirement from busi- 
 ness Mr. Raney has occupied himself with 
 farming. He is also a director of the Com- 
 mercial National Bank of Raleigh ; is a 
 trustee of the 01i\ia Raney Library, mem- 
 ber of the National Geographic Society of 
 Washington, D. C, North Carolina Literary 
 Society, North Carolina Audubon Society, 
 and the Capital Club of Raleigh. Mr. 
 Ranej- has made several trips across the 
 American continent and to Europe, and in 
 1892-1893 made a tour of the world, visiting 
 its most important countries. He is a 
 Democrat and an Episcopalian. He mar- 
 ried first, in Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 5, 1894, 
 Olivia Blount Cowper, who died May 4, 
 189G; married second, Raleigh, N. C, April 
 28, 1903, Kate Whiting Denson. by whom 
 he has two daughters and a son. Resi- 
 dence: Capitol Square. Ollice: llillsboro 
 and Salisbury Streets, Raleigh, N. C. 
 
 RANGER, Henry Ward: 
 
 Artist; born in ^^'estern New York, Jan. 
 1858; son of V. and M. M. Ranger. He 
 was educated in the public scvhools and in 
 Syracuse University to the sophomore year, 
 studied art at home and spent several years 
 abroad in study, mostly in France and Hol- 
 land. He has been awarded medals for ex- 
 hil)i1s. in I'aris. Buffalo, Charleston and 
 otbi'i- cxliibitions; is represented in the 
 Aletropolitan i\hiseum, Corcoran Art Gal- 
 lery (Washington) and in numerous public 
 and private collections in America and Eu- 
 rope. Mr. Ranger is a director of the Six- 
 ty-seventh Street Studio Building and presi- 
 dent of the Sixty-seventh Street Atelier 
 Association. He is an academician of the 
 National Academy of Design and a member 
 of the American Water Color Society and 
 of tlie Lotos Club. Mr. Ranger married in 
 1SH4 Helen E. Jennnigs. Address: Studio 
 B\ii]diiig, 51 West G7th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 RANGER, Walter Eugene: 
 
 Commissioner of public schools for Rhode 
 Island; born at Wilton, Me., Nov. 22, 1855; 
 son of Peter and Eliza Smith Ranger. On 
 his father's side he is descended from Nehe- 
 miah Ranger, who settled at Wilton, ]\Ie., 
 in 1800, and his maternal grandfather 
 served the United States in the War of 
 1812. He was reared on a farm, was edu- 
 cated at Wilton Academy and Bates Col- 
 lege, A.B., 1879, with special honors in 
 psychology, philosophy and ethics. He im- 
 mediately entered upon his life work as an 
 educator, becoming principal of the Nichols 
 Latin School at Lewiston, Me., for a year, 
 then principal of the high school at Lenox, 
 Mass., three years, and after that principal 
 of the Lyndon (Vt.) Institute, 1883-1896, 
 and after that principal of the State Nor- 
 mal School at Johnson, Vt., 1896-1900. He 
 was elected by the Vermont Legislature in 
 1900. State superintendent of education 
 for the State of Vermont, and' was twice re- 
 elected, serving until 1905, when he was 
 called to fill a similar position as commis- 
 sioner of Public Schools for the State of 
 Rhode Island, which he is now administer- 
 ing. He is ex-officio secretary of the State 
 Board of Education, trustee of the Rhode 
 Island Normal School, and member of tho 
 Executive Conunittee of the Rhode Island 
 School of Design, and one of the managers 
 of the Rhode Island State College. The 
 degree of M.A., pro merito, was conferred 
 upon him in 1883, and that of LL.D. in 
 1907, l)y Bates College, and M.A. by the 
 I'niversity of Vermont, 1904. His record 
 as an educator and educational adminis- 
 trator is one of high usefulness and distinc- 
 tion, and each of his successive appoint- 
 ments has led him to higlicr work. He is 
 a member and ex-president of the American 
 Institute of Instruction, and a member, re- 
 spectively, of the National I'ducational As- 
 sociation, the Rhode Island Institute of In- 
 struction, and was formerly a member and 
 president of tlie Vermont State Teachers' 
 Association and Die Vermont Sclioolmas- 
 ters' Club. He is a member of the Ameri- 
 can Historical Association, Rhode Island 
 Historical Society and the University Club 
 
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 of Providence, R. I.; and of the Odd Fel- 
 lows and Masonic orders and in the latter 
 has a place of special prominence and dis- 
 tinction, having attained to tlie thirty-third 
 degree in Scottish Rite Masonry, and be- 
 ing past grand master of the Grand Lodge 
 of Vermont, and commander-in-chief of Ver- 
 mont Consistory. Mr. Ranger has twice 
 married, first, to Mary M. Snowman, of 
 Portland, Me., who died in 1885, by whom 
 he had two children who also died. In 1889 
 he married Mabel C. Bemis, of Lyndbn- 
 ville, Vt., a teacher of ability and an ac- 
 complished musician, and they have three 
 children. Address : Providence, R. I. 
 
 RANSDELL, Joseph Eugene: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Alex- 
 andria, La., Oct. 7, 1858; son of John H. 
 and Amanda (Terrell) Ransdell. He was 
 educated in the public schools and Union 
 College, A.B., 1882. He was admitted to 
 the bar in June, 1883, and has been en- 
 gaged in the active practice of his profes- 
 sion since. He was elected district at- 
 torney of the Eighth Judicial District of 
 Louisiana in April, 1884, which place he 
 held for twelve years. He was a member 
 of the Levee Board of the Fifth Louisiana 
 Levee district from May, 1896, until after 
 his election to Congress, Aug. 29, 1899; 
 was a prominent member of the State Con- 
 stitutional Convention of Louisiana, in the 
 spring of 1898, which framed a new con- 
 stitution for the State. Mr. Ransdell is 
 interested in cotton planting as well as law. 
 and has taken a most active interest in 
 levee building on the Mississippi River for 
 iwany years. He was elected as a Democrat 
 to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the un- 
 expired term of Hon. S. T. Baird, and to 
 the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, 
 and Sixtieth Congresses, and was reelected 
 to the Sixty- first Congress from the Fiftli 
 Louisiana District. He married at Lake 
 Providence, La,, Nov. 15, 1885, Olive Irene 
 Powell, Address: Lake Providence, La. 
 
 RATSHESKY, Abraham C: 
 
 President of the L'nited States Trust Com- 
 pany of Boston; born in Boston in 1864; 
 son of Asher and Fannie Ratshesky. He 
 
 was educated in the Boston public schools 
 and then engaged in business with his fath- 
 er, a prosperous Boston merchant. He was 
 a member of the Boston Common (Jouncil 
 two years and JNIassachusetts State Senator; 
 was secretary of the Republican State Com- 
 mittee under the chairmansiiip of Fben S. 
 Draper and Samuel E. Winslow, and in 1892 
 and 1004 was a delegate to the Republican 
 National Conventions, serving in the former 
 as secretary of the Massaciiusetts delegation. 
 He is president of the United States Trust 
 Company; niember of the Massachusetts 
 State Board of Charities; president of the 
 Boston Limited Partnership Company, of 
 the George W. Armstrong News Comi)any, 
 and a director of the Massachusetts Brew- 
 eries Company. He is a member of the Chel- 
 sea Commission; and is president of the Fed- 
 eration of Jewish Charities and treasurer 
 of the Boston Branch of tlie Baron de 
 Hirsch Fund. Residence: Hotel Touraine, 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 RAUTENSTRAUCH, Walter: 
 
 Professor of mechanical engineering; 
 born in Sedalia, Mo., Sept. 7, 1880; son of 
 Juilus and Anna (Nichter) Rautenstraucli. 
 He was graduated from tlie University of 
 Missouri, B.S., 1902, University of Maine, 
 M.S., 1903, and graduate student at Cornell 
 University, 1903-1904. He was formerly 
 engineer of the Standard Steel Car Com- 
 pany, Pittsburgh ; instructor in mechanical 
 engineering, LTniversity of Slaine; assistant 
 professor of machine design, Cornell Uni- 
 versity; consulting engineer to the Crescent 
 Burner Manufacturing Com])any. and Man- 
 hattan Cork Specialty Company, and is at 
 the present professor of mechanical engi- 
 neering in Columbia University, and a con- 
 sulting and mechanical engineer. Mr. 
 Rautenstraucli is a member of the Society 
 for the Promotion of Engineering Educa- 
 tion, American Society of ^Mechanical Engi- 
 neers, Society of Engineers of Germany, 
 Theta Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi fraternities. 
 IJe married in Wichita. Kan., Sept. 7, 
 1904, Minnie May Babb. and has two chil- 
 dren. Residence: Yonkers, N. Y. Busi- 
 ness address: Columbia Lhiiversity, New 
 York City. 
 
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 RAVENEL, Mazyck P.: 
 
 Pliysicinn; born in Pendleton, S. C. ; son 
 of Henry Edmund and Selina E. (Porcher) 
 Eavenel. He was educated in private 
 schools, Charleston, S. C, University of the 
 South, Sewanee, Tenn., Medical College of 
 the State of South Carolina, University of 
 Pennsylvania, Pasteur Institute, Paris, and 
 the University of Halle, Germany. He was 
 instructor in bacteriology. Medical Depart- 
 ment of the University of Pennsylvania, 
 Scott fellow in hygiene, bacteriologist of 
 the State Line Stock Sanitary Board of 
 Pennsylvania, assistant demonstrator of 
 anatomy in the INIedical College of the State 
 of South Carolina, and is now professor 
 of bacteriology in the University of Wis- 
 consin, and director of the State Hygiene 
 Laboratory of Wisconsin. He is a member 
 of the American Philosophical Society; 
 College of Physicians of Philadelphia; 
 American Association of Pathologists and 
 Bacteriologists, Chicago Pathological Soci- 
 ety, Philadelphia Pathological Society, 
 American Association for the Study and 
 Prevention of Tuberculosis; honorary mem- 
 ber of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, 
 and Philadelphia Pediatric Society; and a 
 member of the Huguenot Society of South 
 Carolina; president of the Wisconsin 
 Anti-Tuberculosis Association; member of 
 the Alpha Tau Omega, Sigma Xi, and 
 Alpha Nu Pi Omega fraternities, and the 
 University Club of Madison, Wis. He mar- 
 ried in Philadelphia, 1898, Jennie Carlile 
 Boyd. Residence: 419 Sterling Court. 
 Oflice: University of Wisconsin, Madison, 
 Wis. 
 
 RAVNDAL, Gabriel Bie: 
 
 Cunsular ollicter; born in Norway. Ap- 
 pointed consul at Beirut, Jan. 22, 1898; 
 ajjpointed consul at Dawson City, June 5, 
 1905; appointed consul-general at Beirut, 
 June 22, 190G. Address: Beirut, Syria. 
 
 RAWLE, William Brooke: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadclpliia, Aug. 29, 
 184.3; eldest son of Charles Wallace Brooke 
 and his first wife, Elizabeth Tilghman 
 Pvuwlc' (daughter of William Ravvle, well- 
 known lawyer; granddaughter of Edward 
 'J'ilghman, distinguished lawyer, and great- 
 
 granddaughter of Benjamin Chew, chief 
 justice of Pennsylvania before the Revolu- 
 tion). His father, Charles Wallace Brooke, 
 who was a prominent member of the Phil- 
 adelphia bar, died in 1849; and his pa- 
 ternal grandfather, Robert Brooke, son of 
 Captain John Brooke of the Revolutionary 
 Army, was a well-known surveyor and 
 civil engineer in Philadelphia; his paternal 
 grandmother was a daughter of Colonel 
 (afterward General) Andrew Porter of the 
 Revolutionary Army. He was graduated 
 from the University of Pennsylvania as 
 A.B., 18G3, A.M., 1866; received leave of 
 absence from college during hia senior year 
 and received his bachelor's degree July 3, 
 1863, while actively engaged in the battle 
 of Gettysburg. His war service extended 
 from early in 1SG3 until some time after 
 the close of the war, entering as second 
 lieutenant, Tliird Pennsylvania Volunteer 
 Cavalry, and' serving with tlie Army of 
 the Potomac and attaining the rank of 
 captain, and receiving brevets of major 
 and lieutenant-colonel for gallant and meri- 
 torioiis services in the battle at Hatcher's 
 Run, and in the campaign terminating with 
 Lee's surrender at Appomattox, respect- 
 ively. When his war service closed he 
 declined a commission in the Seventh U. 
 S. Cavalry, studied law with his uncle, the 
 late William Henry Rawle, and by legal 
 authority assumed the name of William 
 Brooke Rawle in lieu of WMlliam Rawle 
 Brooke. He was admitted to the bar May 
 18, 1867; practised with William Henry 
 Rawle until his death in 1889, and then 
 succeeded him at the head of the law office 
 established by his great-grandfather, Wil- 
 liam Rawle (the elder) in 1783. Colonel 
 Rawle is a member fo the Military Order 
 of the Loyal Legion, Colonial Society of 
 Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania Society of 
 Sons of the Revolution. He married in 
 Philadelphia, Feb. 7, 1872, Elizabeth Norris 
 Pepper. Address: 211 South 6th Street, 
 Pliiladelphia. 
 
 RAWSON, Edward Kirk: 
 
 I'rofessor, U. S. Navy, retired; born in 
 Albany, N. Y., Feb. 21, 1846; son of 
 Rev. Thomas Reed and Louisa W. (Dawes) 
 Rawson. He was educated in Albany 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Academy, Yale ITniversity, A.B., and An- 
 dover Theological Seminary, and ordained 
 in the ministry of the Congregational 
 Church. He was chaplain in the U. S. 
 Navy, 1871-1890; commissioned professor, 
 U. S. Navy, 1800; superintendent of Naval 
 War Records, 1897-1902; head of the de- 
 partment of English and Law, U. S. Naval 
 Academy, 1902-1907; retired Feb. 21, 1908. 
 Professor Rawson is a member of the Alpha 
 Delta Phi fraternity, the Naval Academy 
 Club at Annapolis, and the Chevy Chase 
 and University Clubs of Washington, D. 
 C. He married in Philadelphia, April 10, 
 1888, Eleanor Wade (deceased) and' has 
 two daughters. Address: Care of Navy 
 Department, Washington, D. C. 
 
 RAY, Anna Chapin: 
 
 Author; born in Westfield, Mass., Jan. 
 3, 18G5; daughter of Edward Addison and 
 Helen M. (Chapin) Ray. She was grad- 
 uated from Smith College, A.B., 1885, A. 
 M., 1888, the latter degree in modern Eu- 
 ropean history taken under John Bates 
 Clark, now of Columbia. Miss Ray was 
 one of the first three women students 
 to take as test the Yale entrance exam- 
 inations in 1881. She has been continu- 
 ously writing since 1889, and since 1903 
 has spent much time in and near Quebec 
 studying social and political conditions 
 existing between the two races there. She 
 is author of: Half a Dozen Boys, 1890; 
 Half a Dozen Girls, 1891; The Cadets of 
 'Flemming Hall, 1892; In Blue Creek 
 Canon, 1892; Margaret Davis, Tutor, 1893; 
 Dick, 1896; Playground Tony, 1900; Sheba, 
 1903; Teddy: Her Book, 1898; Phebe: Her 
 Profession. 1899; Teddy: Her Daughter, 
 1900; Nathalie's Chum, 1906; Ursula's 
 Freshman, 1902; Nathalie's Sister, 1903; 
 Sidney: Her Summer on the Saint Law- 
 rence, 1905; Janet: Her Winter in Que- 
 bec, 1906; Day: Her Year in New York, 
 1907; Each Life Unfulfilled, 1899; The 
 Dominant Strain. 1903; By the Good 
 Sainte Anne, 1904; On the Firing Line 
 (in collaboration with Hamilton Brock 
 Fuller), 1905; Hearts and Creeds, 1906; 
 Ackroyd of the Faculty, 1907; Quicksand, 
 1908; Sidney at College, 1908; Janet at 
 
 Odds, 1909; Tlie Bridge Huildcrs, 1909; as 
 well as much fugitive work. She is a 
 member of the Association of Collegiate 
 Alunma?, treasurer of the Connecticut 
 Branch of that organization, 1893-1903; 
 member and active worker of the Vacation 
 School and Playground Committee of New 
 Haven, charter member of Smith College 
 Biological Society, and a member of the 
 Civic Federation, the New Haven Colony 
 Historical Society and Connecticut Humane 
 Society of New Haven, and Lyceum Club 
 of London. Address : Tremont, West Haven, 
 Conn. 
 
 RAY, George W.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Otselie, N. Y., Feb. 3, 
 1844; son of Asher Minor and IMelissa P. 
 (Gay) Ray. He was graduated from the 
 Norwich (N. Y. ) Academy in 1806; and 
 he received the degree of LL.D. from Col- 
 gate University in 1905. He was admitted 
 to the bar in Sept., 1867; was elected in 
 1880 to the Forty-eighth Congress from the 
 Twenty-sixth New York District, and was 
 afterward elected to the Fifty-second, 
 Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty- 
 sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses. He 
 resigned from Congress, Sept., 1902, to 
 accept the position of U. S. district judge 
 of the Northern District of New York, 
 which he now holds. He serevd in the 
 War of the Rebellion as private in Com- 
 pany B, Ninetieth New York Volunteers, 
 and as brigade clerk in the First Brigade, 
 First Division, Nineteenth Army Corps. 
 He is a director of the Norwich Furniture 
 Company. Judge Ray is a member of the 
 American Society of International Law, 
 Grand Army of the Republic, the Masons, 
 Red Men, Knights of Pythias and Odd 
 Fellows. He is president of the Board of 
 Education of Norwich, N.Y. ; and manager 
 of the New York State Woman's Relief 
 Corps Home, at Oxford, N. Y. Mr. Ray 
 married in Pitcher, N. Y., June 26, 1871, 
 Mary Johnson, and they have one son. 
 x^ddress : Norwich, N. Y. 
 
 RAY, John A.: 
 
 Banker; born in Grcensburg, Pa., Jiuie 
 2, 1805; son of James Ray and Elizabeth 
 (Smith) Ray. He was educated in Greens- 
 
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 burg public schools. He was telegraph 
 operator for seven years, train despatcher 
 for seven j'ears chief train despatcher 
 and division operator for four years for 
 the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; real 
 estate agent for Pittsburgh, Buffalo Com- 
 pany for eight years. He is president of 
 the Washington National Bank of Burgets- 
 town. Pa.; Farmers' National Bank of 
 Hickory, Pa., and Lincoln National Bank, 
 Millsboro, Pa.; director of the Sharpsville 
 National Bank of Sharpsville, Pa.; First 
 National Bank of Scenery Hill, Pa., and 
 vice-president of the Dexter Coal Com- 
 pany. Mr. Ray is a Republican in politics, 
 and an Episcopalian in religious faith. 
 He is a member of the Americus Republi- 
 can Club and of the Elks order. Mr. 
 Ray married in Mt. Pleasant, Pa., Jan. 
 9, " 1888. Delia M. Morrison. Address: 
 Frick Building. Pittsburgh. 
 
 RAY, Patrick Henry: 
 
 Brigadier-general, U. S. Army, retired; 
 born in Waukesha County, Wis., May 8, 
 1842; son of Adam E. and Eliza (Breas- 
 tid) Ray. He enlisted as a private in the 
 Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, May 
 7, 1861, served in the Civil War as private, 
 corporal, sergeant and first sergeant, until 
 July 12, 1863; commissioned second lieu- 
 tenant First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, 
 July 13, 1803; captain, Sept. 13, 1864; 
 lionorably mustered out, June 26, 1865; 
 eajitain, Sixth U. S. Veteran Infantry, 
 Aug. 9, ISO.l; honorably mustered out. 
 April 12, lS(i6. He was commissioned in 
 the Regular Service as second lieutenant 
 in the Thirty-third Infantry, March 7, 
 1867; transferred to tlie Eighth Infantry, 
 May 3, 1869; first lieutenant, Dec. 31, 
 1875; captain, INfay 27, 1889; major, March 
 2, 1899; lieutenant-colonel. Dec. 8, 1902, 
 and colonel, Aug. 12, 1903. He served, 
 after the Civil War, in campaigns against 
 the Sioux Indians, under Cenerals Stanley 
 and J. E. Smith, 1872-1875; against the 
 Apaches in Arizona under Generals Crook 
 and Kautz, 1874-1878; in command of the 
 International Polar Expedition to Point 
 Barrow, Alaska, 1881-18S3. He was sent 
 on a special mission, by oidcr of the Pres- 
 
 ident, to Fort Yukon and along the Yukon 
 River, to investigate and report on condi- 
 tions in the Alaska gold-field' at the time 
 of the Klondike rush, starting in Oct., 
 1897, and returning in April, 1898. He 
 was commissioned colonel. Third U. S. Vol- 
 unteer Infantry, May 20, 1898, and was 
 honorably mustered out, May 2, 1899, after 
 service at Macon, Ga., and in Cuba. After 
 the Spanish War he was in command of 
 the District of North Alaska, from May, 
 1899, to October, 1900, and placed the first 
 troops in North Alaska at Nome, St. 
 Michael, Fort Gibbon and Egbert; seized 
 the supplies of trading companies and fed 
 the destitute fleeing from Dawson; then 
 commanded Fort Snelling, Minn., to Sept., 
 
 1901, Fort Harrison, Mont., to March, 
 
 1902, then in the Philippines until May, 
 1905, as regimental and brigade com- 
 mander. After his return to the United 
 States, he commanded the regiment and 
 post at Fort Thomas, Ky., July, 1905, 
 until promoted May 8, 1906, to brigadier- 
 general. U. S. Army, and retired. He is 
 a member of the Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion of the United States, Royal 
 Geographical Society of England, Society 
 of Foreign Wars and the National Geo- 
 graphic Society. He married in Omaha, 
 Neb., April 22, 1889, Adah Blackman. Ad- 
 dress: Youngstown, Ohio. 
 
 RAYMOND, Andrew Van Vranken. 
 
 Clergyman and college president; born 
 at Visscher's Ferry, Saratoga County, N. 
 Y. ; son of Henry A. and Catharine Maria 
 (IMiller) Raymond. He was graduated 
 from Union College, A.B., 1875; New 
 Brunswick Theological Seminary, 1878; 
 and received the degrees of D.D. from 
 Union College in 1887. and LL.D. from 
 Williams College, in 1894, and South Caro- 
 lina College in 1905. He was pastor of 
 the First Reformed Church at Paterson, 
 N. J.. 1878-1881 ; Trinity Reformed Church, 
 I'laiiifield, N. J., 1881-1887; Fourth Pres- 
 byterian Church, Albany, N. Y., 1887-1894; 
 president of ITnion College. 1894-1907; and 
 since .Inly, IHilT, pastor of the First Pres- 
 byterian (luircli of BufTalo, N. Y. He 
 served as one of the iiianagers of the New 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1375 
 
 York State Hospital at Utica, by appoint- 
 ment of Governor Higgins. and was jjres- 
 ident of the Schenectady Chamber of Com- 
 merce, 1906-1907. He is a member of the 
 University, Century, Alpha Delta Phi and 
 Union University Clubs of New York City; 
 the Adirondack League Club, and the Uni- 
 versity, Buflfalo, Ellicott and Country Clubs 
 of Buflfalo, N. Y. He married at Middle- 
 ville, Herkimer County, N. Y., Sept. 24, 
 1879, Margaret Morris Thomas, who died 
 in Schenectady, June 11, 1907, and has 
 tliree children. Address: 268 North Street, 
 Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 RAYMOND, Jerome Hall: 
 
 President of Toledo University; born in 
 Clinton, Iowa, March 10, 1809; son of 
 Henry Wilbur and Virginia (Hall) Ray- 
 mond. He was graduated from Northwei^t- 
 ern Academy, Evanston, 111., 1888, and 
 Northwestern University, A.B., 1892, and 
 A.M., 1893; also from the University of 
 Chicago, Ph.D., 1895. He was .professor of 
 history and political science, Lawrence 
 University, Appleton, \Yis., 1893-1894; lec- 
 turer in sociology, LTniversity of Cliicago, 
 1894-1895; professor of sociology, Univer- 
 sity of Wisconsin. 1895-1897; president of 
 West Virginia LTniversity, 1897-1901; asso- 
 ciate professor of sociology at the Univer- 
 sity of Chicago, 1901-1909, resigning to ac- 
 cept the presidency of the Toledo LTniver- 
 sity. He is a member of the Beta Theta Pi 
 •fraternity. He married at Aurora, 111., 
 Aug. 15, 1895, Josephine Hunt. Address: 
 329 Melrose Avenue, Toledo, Ohio. 
 
 RAYMOND, Percy Edward: 
 
 Paleontologist ; born in New Canaan, 
 Conn., May 30, 1879; son of George Ed- 
 ward and Harriet F. (Beers) Raymond. 
 He was graduated from New Canaan In- 
 stitute, Cornell University, A.B., 1902, and 
 Yale University, Ph.D., 1905. He has been 
 assistant curator in charge of Invertebrate 
 Paleontology, Carnegie Museum, since 1904. 
 He is a fellow of the Geological Society 
 of America, fellow of the Paleontological 
 Society, member of the American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science, Amer- 
 ican Association of Museums, National 
 
 Geographic Society, and the Gaiiuiia Aljiha 
 and Sigma Xi fraternities. Mr. Raymond 
 is autlior of iiiiincrous papers on geologj' 
 and paleontology. He married in \\orces- 
 ter, N. Y., Aug. 3. 1904, Eva Grace May- 
 ham Goodenougii. Residence: 11 Ifi Prince- 
 ton Road, Allegheny. Ollicc: Carnegie 
 Museum, Pitls1)ingli. 
 
 RAYNOR, Isidor: 
 
 United States senator; born in Baltimore, 
 Md., April 11, 1850. He was educated at 
 the University of Maryland and at the 
 University of Virginia, where he took the 
 academic and law courses. Upon his re- 
 tuin to Baltimore he was admitted to the 
 bar in 1870, and has been jjractising law 
 in that city since that time. In 1878 he 
 was elected to the Maryland Legislature 
 for two years, served on the Judiciary 
 Committee and was chairman of the Balti- 
 more city delegation; in 1885 he was 
 elected to the State Senate for four years, 
 serving on the Judiciary Committee. He 
 resigned his place in the State Senate in 
 the middle of his term and became the 
 Democratic candidate for Congress, and in 
 1886 was elected to the Fiftieth Congress. 
 He was afterward elected to tiie Fifty-sec- 
 ond and Fifty-third Congresses; declined a 
 reelection for a fourth term, and was 
 elected attornej'-general of Maryland, serv- 
 ing 1899-1903. In 1904 he was elected to 
 the U. S. Senate to succeed the Hon. Louis 
 E. McComas, Republican, for the term be- 
 ginning March 4, 1905. His term will 
 expire Marcli 3, 1911. Address: Balti- 
 more, Md. 
 
 REA, Paul Marshall: 
 
 Educator and nuiseum administrator: 
 born in Cotuit, Mass., Feb 13, 1878; son of 
 Rev. John T. and S. Helen Rea. He was 
 graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, 
 Williams College, A.B., 1899. A.M., 1901. 
 Cohnnbiu L'niversity Graduate School, and 
 Marine Biological Laboratory, Wood's Hole, 
 Mass. He was assistant in biology, Wil- 
 liams College, 1900-1902. i)rofessor of biol- 
 ogy and geology. College of Charleston, 
 since 1903; director of the Charleston 
 Museum since 1903; instructor in zoologj', 
 
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 Marine Biological Laboratory, since 1906, 
 and secretary of the American Association 
 of Museums since 1907. He is the editor 
 of: Bulletin of the Charleston Museum, 
 Contributions from the Charleston Mu- 
 seum ; Proceedings of the American Asso- 
 ciation of Museums; Directory of Amer- 
 ican Museums (in preparation). He is a 
 member of the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science. He married 
 in Medford, Mass., Jime 28, 1904, Carolyn 
 Morse. Residence: 2 Aslimead Place. Of- 
 fice: The Charleston Museum, Charleston, 
 S. C. 
 
 REA, Samuel: 
 
 Civil engineer; second vice-president and 
 director of Pennsylvania Railroad Company; 
 born in Hollidaysburg, Pa., Sept. 21, 1855; 
 son of James D. and Ruth (Moore) Rea. 
 In 1871 he entered the Engineering Depart- 
 ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. as 
 a chainman and rodman. From 1875 to 
 1877, assistant engineer in construction of 
 chain suspension bridge over Monongahela 
 River in Pittsburgh, and upon its comple- 
 tion was appointed assistant engineer of 
 Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Co. In 
 1879, he reentered the service of the Penn- 
 sylvania Railroad Co. as assistant engineer; 
 appointed principal assistant engineer, 1883, 
 and assistant to second vice-president in 1888. 
 He resigned in 1889 and was appointed 
 vice-president of the Maryland Central Rail- 
 way Co. and chief engineer of the Baltimore 
 Belt Railroad Co. On May 25, 1892, he 
 again entered tlie service of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad Co. as assistant to president. 
 On Feb. 10. 1897, he was appointed first 
 assistant to jiresident; on June 14, 1899, 
 elected fourth vice-president and director; 
 on Oct. 10. 1905, third' vice-president, and 
 on March 24. 1909, second vice-president. 
 He is also second vice-president of the 
 Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington 
 Railroad Co., Northern Central Railway Co. 
 and West Jersey & Seashore Railroad Co. 
 He is president of nearly all branch line 
 companies in the Pennsylvania system east 
 of Pittsburgh, and is in direct charge of the 
 important work of constructing tunnels into 
 and tlirough New York City for Pennsyl- 
 
 vania Railroad Co and its large station in 
 that city. Mr. Rea is director in many 
 other railroad companies and financial insti- 
 tutions; for twelve years a member of 
 New York Stock Exchange; member of the 
 American Society of Civil Engineers, and the 
 Institution of Civil Engineers of London. 
 Author of: The Railways Terminating in 
 London. Mr. Rea married Sept. 11, 1879, 
 Maiy M. Black, of Pittsburgh. Residence: 
 Bryn MaM'r, Pa. Address: Broad Street 
 Station, Philadelphia. 
 
 REDE, Wyllys: 
 
 Clergyman and editor; born in Mon- 
 mouth, 111., 1859; son of Alvin Hart and 
 Miriam (Ballard) Rede. He was gradu- 
 ated from Williams College, A.B., 1882, 
 General Theological Seminary, 1884, St. 
 John's College, Annapolis, D.D., 1895. He 
 was ordered deacon by Bishop Neely, 1884, 
 and ordained priest, 1885; rector of 
 churches at Westminster, Md'., Rockford, 
 111., Atlanta and Brunswick, Ga., and dean 
 of the cathedral at Quincy, 111. He is the 
 editor of: The Church in Georgia, At- 
 lanta, and of The Cathedral Chimes, 
 Quincy. Author of: The Communion of 
 Saints, 1893, and Striving for the Mastery, 
 1895. He is a member of the Delta Kappa 
 Epsilon fraternity, and is a Mason. He 
 married in Baltimore, Md., 1895, Carolyn 
 Potter, and they have five children. Ad- 
 dress: Trappe, Md. 
 
 REDFIELD, Edward Willis: 
 
 Artist; born in Bridgoville, Del., in 1808. 
 He was a pupil of the Pennsylvania Acad- 
 emy of Fine Arts and under Bouguereau 
 and Fleury in Paris. He was the winner 
 of the gold medal of the Art Club of Phila- 
 delphia. 1890; also, from Pennsylvania 
 Academy of Fine Arts the Temple gold 
 medal, 1903, Jenny Sesnan gold medal. 1905, 
 gold Medal of Honor, 1907; from the Na- 
 tional Academy of Design. New York, 1904; 
 from the Society of American Artists the 
 Shaw Fund prize, 1904; also bronze medals 
 from the Paris Exposition of 1900 and the 
 Pan-American Exposition, 1901, Ivouisiana 
 I^urchase Exposition, St. Louis. 1904, Car- 
 negie Institute, Pittsburgh, silver medal, 
 
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 1905, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 
 1). C, 1907. He was elected a member of 
 llie National Academy of Design in 1900. 
 Mv. Rcdficld is a member of the Art and 
 Sketch Clul)s of Philadelphia. Address: 
 Cciitro ]5ri(l<;c, I'ucks County, Pa. 
 
 REDMOND, Granville: 
 
 Artist; born in Philadelphia, March 9, 
 1871; son of Charles C. and Elizabeth 
 (Buck) Redmond. He was graduated from 
 the California Institution for Education of 
 Deaf and Dumb, 1890. He received honor- 
 able mention and' the W. E. Brown gold 
 medal for best study from life at San 
 Francisco Art Association; entered Julian 
 Academy, Paris, and studied under Benja- 
 min Constant, and Jean Paul Laurens; 
 exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1894, Lou- 
 isiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 
 1904, the Alaska-Yukon Exposition, Seat- 
 tle, 1909 (the governor of Washington 
 bought the picture). He married in Robin- 
 son, 111., Nov. 1, 1899, Carrie Annabel Jean, 
 and they have two children. Address : 2843 
 North Sickel Street, Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 REED, George Edward: 
 
 President of Dickinson College; born at 
 Brownville, Me., March 28, 1846; son of 
 the Rev. George Reed and Ann (Hellyer) 
 Reed. He received his prepatory education 
 at the high school of Lowell, Mass., and at 
 Wilbraham (Mass.) Academy. Thence he 
 entered Wesleyan University at IMiddle- 
 tovvn, Conn., graduating, A.B., 1869, and 
 receiving later the degree of A.M. He con- 
 tinued his studies at Boston University 
 Theological School, but did not remain for 
 graduation. The honorary degree of LL.D. 
 was conferred upon him by Lafayette Col- 
 lege in 1889, and S.T.D. by the Wesleyan 
 University in 1885. After being ordained 
 to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, he officiated successively as pastor 
 of churches in Willimantic, Conn., Fall 
 River, Mass., Brooklyn, N. Y., Stamford, 
 Conn., Brooklyn, N. Y., and New Haven, 
 Conn. In 1889 he was elected to the pres- 
 idency of Dickinson College, which position 
 he now is holding. He is ex-officio pres- 
 ident of the Board of Trustees of Dickinson 
 87 
 
 College; also president of the trustees of 
 Todd Hospital at Carlisle. Pa., and of the 
 Anti-Saloon League of Pennsylvania. Dr. 
 Reed was State librarian of Pennsylvania, 
 1899-1903, and has been before the public 
 for many years as lecturer and orator on 
 various occasions. He has made extensive 
 travels in Europe and the United States. 
 In politics he is a Republican. He is a 
 member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
 of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, of the Re- 
 ligious Education Society, and many 
 others, and is also a Mason. He married 
 at Norwich, Conn., June 20, 1870, to Ella 
 Frances LefTingwell, and has one son, 
 George Leffingwell. Address: Carlisle, Pa. 
 
 REED, Henry Thomas: 
 
 United States judge; was actively en- 
 gaged in the practice of law in Iowa, un- 
 til his appointment by President Roosevelt, 
 March 4, 1904, to his present office as judge 
 of the U, S. District Court for the North- 
 ern District of Iowa. Address: Cresco, 
 Iowa. 
 
 REEDER, Frank: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Easton, Pa., May 22, 
 1845; son of AndrcAV H. Reeder (governor 
 of Kansas Territory, 1854-1856) and Fred- 
 ericka Amalia (Hutter) Reeder. His 
 father's original American ancestor came 
 from England to Springfield, Mass., in 
 1636, removing to New Jersey, near Tren- 
 ton, toward the end of the Seventeenth 
 Century, and his paternal grandfather, a 
 soldier of the Revolution, settled in Easton, 
 Pa., near the close of the Eighteenth Cen- 
 tury. His maternal grandfather was a 
 lieutenant-colonel in the War of 1812. Mr. 
 Reeder was educated in private schools in 
 Allentown, Pa., the Lawrenceville (N. J.) 
 School, the Edge Hill School, Princeton, 
 N. J., and Princeton College, where he 
 remained until his senior year, and from 
 which he received, later, the degrees of 
 A.B. and A.M.. as of the class of 1863. 
 In 1862 he entered the Union Army in the 
 5th Pennsylvania regiment, afterward he- 
 coming adjutant of the 174th Pennsylvania 
 regiment, and later captain, and lieutenant- 
 colonel of the 19th Pennsvlvania Cavalry. 
 
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 He was graduated from the Albany Law- 
 School in 1SG8, and practised law in New 
 York City until 1870, being for one year 
 associated with Hon. Chester A. Arthur 
 (afterward President of the United States). 
 Since 1870 he has practised law at Easton, 
 Pa. He was collector of internal revenue, 
 1873-1876; was secretary of State of Penn- 
 sylvania, 1895-1897; and commissioner of 
 Banking of Pennsylvania, 1901-1903. He 
 is prominent in the Republican party of 
 the Keystone State, was chairman of the 
 Republican State Committee, 1891-1892, 
 and again in 1899, 1900 and 1901, and 
 lias been several times delegate to the Na- 
 tional Conventions of the party. He was 
 appointed in 1874, by Governor Hartranft, 
 brigadier-general of the National Guard of 
 Pennsylvania, and commanded the Fifth 
 Brigade, Second Division, during the Rail- 
 road Riots of 1877. He married, Oct. 21, 
 1868, Grace E. Thompson, of Boston, and 
 they have three children. Address: 
 Easton, Pa. 
 
 REEDER, William Augustus: 
 
 Congressman; born in Cumberland Coun- 
 ty, Pa., Aug. 28, 1849. When four years 
 of age he emigrated with his parents to 
 Ipava, Fulton County, 111., where, at the 
 age of fourteen years, he began teaching in 
 the public schools, a vocation he followed 
 until thirty years of age, the last ten years 
 of his work being in Kansas, where he 
 was principal of the Beloit public schools. 
 He moved to Kansas and took a claim in 
 Mitchell County in 1871, and has resided 
 continuously since in this Congressional 
 district. In 1876 he engaged in the bank- 
 ing business in the city of Logan, Kan., 
 where he at present resides. In 1890, in 
 ])artnership with A. H. Ellis and J. J. 
 Wiltrout, he purchased an extensive tract 
 of land on the Solomon River and estab- 
 lished the largest irrigation farm in the 
 State of Kansas. He was elected, as a 
 Republican, to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-sev- 
 enth, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth 
 Congresses, and was reelected in 1908 to the 
 Sixty-finst Congress, from the Sixth Kansas 
 District. He married, Aug. 18, 1876, Miss 
 Eunice H. Andrews. Address: I^gan, Kan. 
 
 REES, Thomas: 
 
 Journalist; born in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 
 1850. He went West when three years of 
 age; learned the printer's trade, and 
 worked as a jovirneyman. He became man- 
 ager and part owner of the Keokuk Con- 
 stitution in 1876; and has been manager 
 of the Illinois State Register since 1881. 
 IMr. Reese has served as president of the 
 Illinois Press Association; chairman of the 
 advisory committee of the Associated Press, 
 and' has been prominently identified with 
 many public matters in Springfield, notably 
 with promoting the building of the State 
 Arsenal and the Temple of Justice. He 
 is author of: Spain's Lost Jewels, a book 
 on Cuba and Mexico. He has traveled 
 in several foreign countries, writing let- 
 ters from points visited for publication. 
 Mr. Rees is a Mason. He was elected to 
 the Illinois State Senate in 1902 as a Dem- 
 ocrat. Address: Springfield, 111. 
 
 REESE, Frederick F.: 
 
 Bishop of Savannah. He was rector of 
 Christ Episcopal Church in Nashville, Tenn., 
 for several years, was elected bishop of 
 Wyoming in 1907, but declined; elected in 
 1908 and consecrated bishop of Savannah. 
 Address : Savannah, Ga. 
 
 REESE, Stanley Chester: 
 
 ^Mathematician and mechanical engineer; 
 born in Pittsburgh, May 4, 1874; son of 
 Abram and Mary (Godwin) Reese. He was 
 graduated from Princeton University A.B. 
 in class of 1896, A.M. in 1897, Ph.D. in 
 1899; fellow in mathematics, 1896-1897; 
 Thaw fellow in astronomy, 1897-1898. He 
 was research assistant at Yerkes Observa- 
 tory, University of Chicago, 1899-1901; in 
 the Engineering Department, Carnegie Steel 
 Company, 1901-1902; mechanical engineer 
 Ritter-Conley Manufacturing Company, 
 1902-1907; mechanical engineer of Jones & 
 Laughlin, 1907-1909; mechanical engineer 
 of the United States Steel Corporation since 
 1909. Mr. Reese is an Episcopalian in his 
 religious views. He is a fellow of the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science, charter member of the Americiin 
 Astronomical and Astrophysical Society, 
 
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 member of the Engineers' Society of West- 
 ern Pennsylvania, and is a past master Ma- 
 son and' Kniylit Templar. Residence: 216 
 North Lang Avenue. Odice: 1220 Frick 
 Building, Pittsburgh. 
 
 REEVES, Francis Brewster: 
 
 Banker and merchant; born at Bridgeton, 
 N. J., Oct. 10, 1836; son of Johnson and 
 Elizabeth (Riley) Reeves. He became a 
 partner in the firm of N. B. Thompson & 
 Company, wliolesale grocers of Philadel- 
 phia, in 1859; since 1865 widely known as 
 Reeves, Parvin & Company. He was di- 
 rector of the Girard National Bank, 1881- 
 1898, becoming vice-president in 1896 and 
 president in 1899. He became president 
 of the Clearing House Association of the 
 National Banks of Philadelphia in 1907. 
 He is also president of the Philadelphia 
 Belt Line Railroad; first vice-president of 
 the Philadelphia Bourse; director of the 
 Philadelphia Mortgage and Trust Com- 
 pany; Bell Telephone Company of Phila- 
 delphia, Delaware Insurance Company, 
 Audit and Appraisement Company of 
 America, and Lake Superior Corporation; 
 manager of Merchants' Fund and the Mer- 
 cantile Beneficial Association, and of the 
 Germantown Savings Fund Society ; mem- 
 ber of the Advisory Board of the German- 
 town Trust Company. He is a trustee of 
 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian 
 Church in the United States of America, 
 and of the Presbyterian Board of Publi- 
 cation and Sabbath School Work; was 
 chairman of the Executive Committee of 
 the noted municipal reform Committee of 
 One Hundred of Philadelphia, 1881-1883; 
 member of the Board of Public Education in 
 1888. and in 1889 was appointed a member 
 of Citizens' Permanent Relief Committee of 
 Philadelpliia on the occasion of the Johns- 
 town Flood, and chairman of Committee 
 on Annuities to Johnstown Flood Orphans 
 of the State Relief Committee. In 1892 he 
 was commissioned to visit Russia to de- 
 liver and distribute a cargo of food sup- 
 plies sent on the Conemaugh, for relief of 
 famine suflferers, and the Emperor, Alex- 
 ander III., recognized Mr. Reeves's personal 
 service by the presentation to him of a 
 
 costly silver and golil punch set of seven 
 pieces. Address: (Jirard National Bank, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 REHN, Frank Knox Morton: 
 
 Artist; born in Philadelphia, April 12, 
 1848; son of Professor Isaac and Abigail 
 Francis (Zelly) Rehn. He was educated in 
 the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. 
 He is a painter of marines, landscapes and 
 portraits. Mr. Rehn is an academician of 
 the National Academy of Design, a member 
 of the American Water Color Society and 
 of the Lotus and Salmagundi Clubs of New 
 York. He married in 1881, Margaret Selby, 
 daughter of George C. Bower of Philadel- 
 phia. Address: The Chelsea, West 23d 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 REICH, Jacques: 
 
 Etcher; born in Hungary, Aug. 10, 1852. 
 He was educated in Budapest, Paris, Phil- 
 adeljjhia and New York, and came into 
 prominence as an illustrator of pen por- 
 traits for Scribner's Cyclopaedia of Painters 
 and Paintings and Appleton's Cyclopaedia 
 if American Biography. He was the origi- 
 nator and creator of the series of etchings 
 of famous Americans constituting the most 
 important national portrait gallery yet un- 
 dertaken. A considerable number of these 
 portraits have already been completed. He 
 married in Moline, 111., Jan. 3, 1892, to 
 Lina Bellinger, and has three sons. Resi- 
 dence: New Dorp, Richmond Borough. 
 Studio : 1 IMadison Avenue, New York 
 City. 
 
 REID, Charles Chester: 
 
 Congressman and lawj-er; born in Clarks- 
 ville, Ark., June 15, 1868; son of Charles 
 Coleman and Sarah (Robinson) Reid. He 
 entered the State University of Arkansas 
 at Fayetteville in 1883, at the age of fif- 
 teen, he remained three years, and in 1885 
 entered the Law Department of Vanderbilt 
 University, from which he was graduated 
 LL.B., 1887; he also won the University's 
 medal for oratory. At the age of nineteen 
 he began the practice of law at Morrillton, 
 and has remained there ever since. He was 
 elected prosecuting attorney of his judicial 
 
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 district in 1894. and reelected without op- 
 position in 1896. In 1898 he voluntarily 
 retired from ollice. He was elected as a 
 Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty- 
 eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses 
 and reelected to the Sixty-first Congress 
 from the Fifth Arkansas District. He mar- 
 ried in 1890, Dine Crozier, daughter of a 
 prominent merchant of Morrillton. Ad- 
 dress: Clarksville, Johnson County, Ark. 
 
 REID, Daniel Gray: 
 
 Banker, manufacturer and railroad of- 
 ficial; born at Richmond. Ind., Aug. 1, 
 18o8. He was educated in the public 
 chools of his native town. He began his 
 business career as a clerk in the Second 
 National Bank of Richmond, and later be- 
 came a director and vice-president of the 
 same; became interested' in the manufacture 
 of tin plate, 1892, and was made president 
 of the American Tin Plate Company in 
 1898, and removed to Chicago. He assisted 
 in the organization of the United States 
 Steel Corporation and removed to New York 
 City, 1900; and is now a director of that 
 corporation. He became interested in the 
 Chicago. Rock Island and' Pacific Railway 
 Company in 1900, and is now chairman of 
 the Board of Directors and actively engaged 
 in promoting the interests of that com- 
 pany; also vice-president of two national 
 banks and a director in several others. 
 Residence: 875 Fifth Avenue. Address: 
 115 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 REID, Robert: 
 
 Artist : born in Stockbridge, Mass, in 
 1862; son of Jared and Louise (Dwight) 
 Reid. He was educated at the Museum 
 of Fine Arts, Boston, was student and as- 
 sistant instructor, 1880-1884; in the Art 
 Students' League in 1885; at Paris four 
 years to 1889; since then in New York 
 City for several years instructor at the 
 Art Students' League and the Cooper In- 
 stitute. He executed mural paintings at the 
 World's Columbian Exjjosilion, Chicago, in 
 189."5, the Congressional Library at Wash- 
 ington, lioston State House, Appellate 
 Court of New York City, Paulist Fathers' 
 Church, and many other public and private 
 
 buildings. Mr. Reid was awarded medals 
 at Chicago, 1893, Buflfalo, 1901, and St. 
 Ijouis, 1904; a gold medal for decoration, 
 Paris, 1900, silver, 1900; Clark Prize at 
 the National Academy of Design in 1897, 
 first Hallgarten Prize, National Academy 
 of Design, 1898. He is a member of the Ten 
 American Painters; academician of the 
 National Academy of Design ; also a mem- 
 ber of The Players', Fencers', and Lambs 
 Clubs. Address: 142 East 33d Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 REID, Whitelaw: 
 
 Editor, diplomat; born Oct. 27. 18.37, near 
 Xenia, Ohio, of which town his father was 
 one of the founders. He was graduated 
 from Miami University, A.B., 1856, receiv- 
 ing from it the degree of A.M., 1859, LL.D., 
 1890; also degrees of A.M. from the Univer- 
 sity of the City of New York, 1872, and 
 Dartmouth College, 1873; LL.D. from 
 Princeton, 1899, Yale, 1901, University of 
 Cambridge, England, 1902, St. Andrew's, 
 Scotland,^ 1905; D.C.L. from the University 
 of Oxford, 1907. Mr. Reid made speeches 
 for the Republican Party in the Fremont 
 Campaign, when not twenty years of age, 
 and became editor of the Xenia News, and 
 soon after became a correspondent of the 
 Cincinnati Gazette, in letters signed 
 " Agate," which at the opening of the Civil 
 "War attracted wide attention because of 
 their vigorous style and trustworthy infor- 
 mation. He took part in the War as a 
 volunteer aide-de-camp to General Morris, 
 and afterward to General Rosecrans in the 
 West Virginia campaigns. Later he was a 
 war correspondent with the Army of the 
 Cumberland and the Army of the Potomac, 
 and was present at the battles of Shiloh 
 and Gettysburg. He was librarian of the 
 House of Representatives at Washington, 
 1863-1806, and at the same time Washington 
 correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, 
 of which he became one of the proprietors. 
 After the war he accompanied Chief Justice 
 Chase on a journey through the South, and 
 afterward tried cotton-planting in Louis- 
 iana. In 1868, on the invitalinn of lloi-ace 
 Greeley, he took an editoiial position on 
 the New York Tribune, was quickly ad- 
 vanced to managing editor, aud when in 
 
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 1872, Mr. Greeley accepted the nomination 
 for the Presidency, he placed the whole con- 
 trol of the paper in Mr. Keid's hands, where 
 it has remained ever since. After Mr. Oree- 
 ley's death he became editor-in-chief and 
 principal owner of the New York Tribune. 
 Mr. IJeid became in 1873, one of the pion- 
 eers in the movement for tall buildings in 
 New York, erecting on the site of the old 
 Tribune Building a new structure higher 
 than any then existing in the city. It was 
 at first an object of ridicule, and for years 
 some of his newspaper rivals habitually al- 
 luded to him as " the young man in the tall 
 tower/' but Avithin a little over thirty years 
 he found this tall tower absolutely squat 
 compared with the structures all around 
 him, and doubled the height as well as the 
 space occupied on the ground — making 
 even then a building barelj' in proportion 
 with its neighbors. He was the first to 
 experiment with the imperfect linotype ma- 
 chine and introduce it in a daily newspaper 
 office. He organized a syndicate to pur- 
 chase the control while it was still unde- 
 veloped, organized the Linotype Company, 
 became its first President, and established 
 its manufactories in Brooklyn. Mr. Reid 
 was elected, by the Legislature of New York, 
 a regent for life of the University of the 
 State of New Y'^ork. He was offered the 
 post of minister to Germany bj'^ Presidents 
 Hayes and Garfield, declining in both in- 
 stances. He was appointed, in 1889, Amer- 
 ican minister to France, serving until 1892. 
 The public appreciation of his services 
 abroad was expressed in dinners given by 
 the Chamber of Commerce of New York, the 
 Ohio Society, the Lotos Club and other or- 
 ganizations. The Chamber of Commerce 
 elected him an honorary member, a mark 
 of re-pect which, up to that time, had been 
 bestowed on only fifteen other men during 
 the century of the Chamber's existence. On 
 his return to France Mr. Reid was nomi- 
 nated for vice-president of the United States 
 on the ticket with President Harrison by the 
 Republican National Convention of 1892. 
 He was appointed by President ilcKinley 
 special ambassador of the United States 
 to Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897; was 
 a member of the Peace Commission to Paris 
 for the negotiation of a Peace Treaty with 
 
 Spain, securing Porto Rico, Guam and the 
 Philippines, in 1898; was special ambas- 
 sador to the coronation of Edward Vll. in 
 1902; elected chancellor of the University 
 of the State of New York in 1904, and in 
 March, 1905, was appointed to his present 
 ])ost as ambassador extraordinary and pleni- 
 potentiary to the Court of St. James. Mr. 
 Reid is author of: After the War, 18G7; 
 Ohio in the War, 1868; Memorial of Horace 
 Greeley, 1873; Newspaper Tendencies, 1874; 
 Town Hall Suggestions, 1881; Our New 
 Duties, 1899; Our New Interests, 1900; 
 Problems of Expansion. 1900; The Monroe 
 Doctrine, the Polk Doctrine and Anarchism, 
 1903; The Thing To Do, a Phi Beta Kappa 
 address, 1903. During his residence in 
 Great Britain as ambassador, Mr. Reid has 
 been called upon constantly to make 
 ^peeches on all sorts of occasions. On the 
 invitation of the University of Cambridge, 
 in 1906, he delivered the opening address in 
 the Senate House, for tlieir Summer Meet- 
 ing, on " The Rise of the United States in 
 the Eighteenth Century," subsequently pub- 
 lislied under the title '" The Greatest Fact 
 in Modern History." On the occasion of 
 receiving the freedom of Dundee, the same 
 autumn, he delivered an address there, en- 
 titled " How the United States Faced Its 
 Educational Problem." Before the Univer- 
 sity College Colston Society at Bristol he 
 discussed in more detail the condition of 
 scientific and technological education in the 
 United States. At the dedication of the 
 John Bright Memorial School at Llandudno, 
 North Wales, he paid a tribute to John 
 Bright's services to America in the Civil 
 War. Before the Luton Chamber of Com- 
 merce he described the destruction by earth- 
 quake and fire and the rapid recuperation of 
 San Francisco. In the autumn of 1908, in 
 unveiling a tablet on Burke's old residence 
 in Bath, he delivered an address on Ed- 
 numd Burke as America's foremost friend 
 in Great Britain. He has also delivered 
 many addresses in London and throughout 
 the United Kingdom, like tliose before the 
 Nottingham Chamber of Commerce, under 
 the presidency of the Duke of Portlaml. 
 about the interdependence conuuercially of 
 England and America, before the London 
 Chamber on the same subject, and again to 
 
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 the commercial schools under its direction, 
 in distributing the prizes to St. Olave's 
 Grammar School, and to the Metropolitan 
 School in the Royal Albert Hall, in presid- 
 iiiii at dinners of the Royal Literary Fund, 
 tlie Newspaper Press Fund, and for various 
 liospitals, in receiving a bust of their foun- 
 der for the Yoinig Glen's Christian Associa- 
 tions of America, in receiving a medal for 
 an American astronomer from the Royal 
 Astronomical Society, and in conferring one 
 on a British explorer befoie the Royal 
 Geographical Society; at tlic Clirist Church 
 dinner after receiving tlu' degree of D.C.L. 
 from Oxford, and again at Oxford to the 
 Rhodes scholars ; at the Lord Mayor i' an- 
 nual banquets in the Guildhall ; in opening 
 the Lord Mayor's fete for little cripples at 
 the ]\Iansion House, unveiling a tablet in 
 W'are Church to the memory of the second 
 President of Harvard, dedicating the Har 
 vard Memorial Cliajiel in Southwark Ca- 
 thedral, unveiling a memorial tablet in 
 Salisbury Cathedral to the victims of the 
 disaster to the American boat train, at the 
 Independence day and Thanksgiving day 
 dinners of the American Society in London, 
 dinners of tiie Pilgrims, Atlantic Union, 
 and I'nited States Navy League ; and at a 
 multitude of other dinners for [)atriotic or 
 cliaritable oljjects. Mr. Reiil married, April 
 2(). 1881, EJisabetli, daugluer of J). O. Mills; 
 and has two gro\AU children, a son and a 
 daughter. Residences: 4.51 Madison Ave- 
 nue, Xew York City, and Ophir >lall. Pur- 
 chase, Westchester County, N. V. Present 
 addresses: American lOnibassy. London, 
 l)oi-ch("sler House. Park Line, WC t, Lon- 
 don; and Wrest I'ark, A iiipt liill. I'rdford 
 ^'liic. England. 
 
 REILLY, John Liguori: 
 
 Clergyman; liom in All)any, N. Y., May 
 25, 1853; son of dolui and Rose (O'Neill) 
 Reilly. He attended the Christian Broth- 
 ers' Academy, Albany, N. Y., 1801-1808; 
 Niagara University, 1868-1874; received the 
 A.B., and A.:\l. degrees; also that of LL.D. 
 in 1000; and lie attended St. Joseph's 
 Provincial Seminary, Troy. N. Y., 1874- 
 1870, and was ordained priest there, June 
 10, 1870. He was successively assistant 
 
 priest in the Adirondacks in 1870, St. John's 
 Church, Syracuse, N. Y., 1870-1877; assist- 
 ant priest at the Cathedral, Albany, bish- 
 op's secretary and chancellor, Albany Dio- 
 cese ; pastor of St, James' Church, Caze- 
 novia, N. Y., 1882-1885; and has been pas- 
 tor of St, John's Church, Schenectady, N, 
 Y., since January, 1880. He was made dean 
 of Schenectady, INIontgomery, Fulton and 
 Schoharie Counties in the Diocese of Al- 
 bany, in 1904 ; made domestic prelate, with 
 title of Rt. Rev. Monsignor, by Pope Pius 
 X, on petition of Rt, Rev. Bishop Burke, 
 in 1904. He is trustee of the Hospital As- 
 sociation of the City of Schenectady; chap- 
 lain of the Schenectady Police and Fire 
 Departments and member of the Board of 
 Trade of the City of Schenectady ; also of 
 the Knights of Columbus, Humane Society, 
 Schenectady Charities Association, (chair- 
 man, committee on Dependent Children). 
 Address: Schencctad}', N. Y. 
 
 REINHARDT, Charles William: 
 
 Illustrator; born in Besigheim, Germany, 
 March 21, 1858; sou of Simon Friedrich 
 and Karoline (Wucherer) Reinhardt. He 
 was educated at Teachers' College in Es- 
 slingen, Germany, He landed in New Or- 
 leans in 1881, and after following various 
 callings in the southwest entered the busi- 
 ness of technical illustration. In 1892 he 
 became connected with the Engineering 
 News, and since that time has been chief 
 draughtsman and editor of illustration of 
 the same. He is the author of a large num- 
 ber of works and articles on technical il- 
 lustration, including: Lettering for 
 Draughtsmen, Engineers and Students; 
 The Technic of Mechanical Drawing, and 
 The Preparation of Drawings and Other 
 Illustrations for Photo-Reproduction, He 
 married in San Antonio, Texas, Feb, 13, 
 1888, Frances Dennler, and has three sons 
 and two daughters. Residence: 02 Grand 
 Avenue. Arlington, N. J, Office: 220 
 Bi-oad\\ay, New York City, 
 
 REMENSNYDER, Junius B,: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Staunton, Va,, Feb, 
 24, 1844; son of Hon, John J, and Susan 
 M. (Bryan) Pcmensnydcr, Ho was gradu- 
 
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 ated from Pennsylvania College, A.B., 1863 
 and later A.M., from Gettysburg Tlieolo- 
 gical Seminary in 1865; and received from 
 Newberry College, S. C, the degree of D.D. 
 in 1880 and from New York University the 
 LL.D. degree in 1902. He was pastor at 
 Lewiston, Pa., 1866-1868; at Philadelphia, 
 1868-1874, Savannah, Ga., 1874-1880, and 
 has been pastor of St. James Lutheran 
 Church since 1881. He is president of the 
 New York Lutheran Synod. He is author 
 of: Heavenward, 1874; Doom Eternal, 
 1880; Six Creative Days, 1886; Work and 
 Personality of Luther, 1888; Lutheran 
 INIanual, 1892; The Atonement and ^Modern 
 Thought, 1905 (now in third edition). 
 Mysticism, 1907 and The Past Apostolic 
 Age, 1909. He served eleven months in 
 the Army of the Potomac, in the 131st Penn- 
 sylvania Volunteers, Company B, from 
 July, 1861, to May, 1862, and took part in 
 the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and 
 Chancellorsville. He is president of the 
 Sigma Chi, a clerical interdenominational 
 organization. Dr. Remensnyder married in 
 Philadelphia, June 28, 1870, E. Louise Wag- 
 ner, and they have two children: Address: 
 900 ]Madison Avenue, New York City. 
 
 REMEY, George Collier: 
 
 Rcar-Adniiral, U. S. Navy, retired; born 
 in Burlington, Iowa, Aug. 10, 1841; son of 
 William Butler and Eliza Smith (Howland) 
 Remey, the former a native of Kentucky, 
 the latter a native of Vermont; grandson of 
 Nathaniel and Mathilda (Grigsby) Remey 
 and of Seth and Harriet (Emmons) How- 
 land, and a descendant of the Pilgrim, John 
 Howland, who came to this country on the 
 Mayflower, and landed at Plymouth, Mass., 
 December, 1620. He was graduated from 
 the U. S. Naval Academy in 1859. He 
 served on the gunboat Marblehead at the 
 siege of Yorktown, and operations on the 
 Y^ork and the Pamunkey rivers succeeding; 
 was on the blockade and engaged in the 
 siege of Battery Wagner, August and Sep- 
 tember, 1863; for a time during this period 
 commanded the Marblehead; commanded 
 the Naval battery on Morris Island; took 
 part in the bombardment of Fort Sumpter, 
 where he commanded the second division 
 
 of boats in a night assault on the fort on 
 the niglit of Sept. 8, 1863, antl was taken 
 prisoner; was exchanged Nov. 15, l.S(14. 
 After service in the various grades of liis 
 profession lie commancU'd tlic crui-er 
 Charleston, 188!) 1892; was c;iptain of tlie 
 Navy Yard, Portsmoutli, N. II.. 1892-18!)5, 
 and commandant of same yard, 1896-1898. 
 He was promoted commodore June 19, 1897; 
 commanded the naval base, Key West, Flor- 
 ida, during the Spanisli war; afterwards 
 connnanded tlie Navy Yard, Portsmoutli, 
 X. H., 1898 1900. He was promoted rear 
 admiral Nov. 22, 1898; was commander-in- 
 cliiel of the Asiatic station, April, 1900, to 
 March, 1902. He was Senior Rear-Admiral 
 of the active list of the Navy from Marcli, 
 1902, to Aug. 10, 1903, and was chairman 
 of the Light House Board from May, 1902 
 to Aug. 10, 1903, when he was by operation 
 of law retired from active service, 62 years 
 of age. Admiral Remey took an important 
 part in the Civil War, tlie war with Spain, 
 the expedition to Pekin, China, in 1900, and 
 in the insurrection in the Philipjjines, April, 
 1900 to March, 1902. He was present at 
 the bombardment of Valparaiso, Chile, by 
 the Spanish fleet, April, 1866, and at the 
 bombardment of Alexandria, Egypt, by the 
 English fleet, July, 1882. He commanded 
 the Naval force on the Rio Grande, Novem- 
 ber and December, 1875, and January, 1876, 
 at a time when aff'airs on that border were 
 critical. He took a conspicuous part when 
 in command of the U. S. Cruiser Charleston 
 in the Itata incident in the Pacific in 1891. 
 He married July 8, 1873, Mary Josephine, 
 daughter of Charles Mason, the fir.-^t chief 
 justice of Iowa. Address: 1527 New Hamp- 
 shire Avenue. Washington, D. C. 
 
 REMINGTON, Frederic: 
 
 Painter and sculptor; born in Canton, N. 
 Y., Oct. 4, 1861; son of Colonel S. P. Rem- 
 ington. He is self taught at Yale Art 
 School and the New Y^'ork Art Students' 
 League; and for several years lived on ranch 
 in the West. He has been connected as 
 western correspondent and illustrator of 
 magazines and writer of short stories; 
 painter of pictures illustrative of Western 
 American Life; sculptor of the Fairmount 
 
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 Park " Cow-Boy," in Philadelphia ; and of 
 the " Bioneho-Bustei'," " Kattlesnake," 
 *' Mountain Man " and others. He is a mem- 
 ber of the American Institute; and a mem- 
 ber of the United States Cavalry Associa- 
 tion. He is also a member of the Players' 
 Club. He married Eva Adelle Caton, 
 painter, sculptor and author. Address: 
 Kidgefield, Conn. 
 
 REMSEN, Ira: 
 
 President of Johns Hopkins University; 
 born in New York City, Feb. 10, 1846; son 
 of James Vanderbilt Remsen and Eosanna 
 (iSecor) Remsen, and descendant of Rem 
 Jansen Vanderbeeck, who came to this coun- 
 try from the Netherlands in 1642, settling 
 first at Albany, N. Y., and soon afterward 
 at Wallabout (or Flatbush) Long Island. 
 He was graduated from the College of the 
 City of New York as A.B., 1865, and 
 from the College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons of Columbia University as M.D., 1867. 
 He began the practice of medicine, but soon 
 gave it up for the study of chemistry; went 
 to Germany in 1867 studied' at Munich un- 
 der Liebig and under Volhard, and in 1868 
 went to GiJttingen and studied under Woh- 
 ler and Fittig, and received the degree of 
 Ph.D. in 1870. He was assistant in chem- 
 istry at the University of Tubingen under 
 Fittig, 1870-1872, professor of chemistry at 
 Williams College, 1872-1876; at Johns Hop- 
 kins University, 1876-1901. He was acting 
 president in 1889 and 1890, and upon the 
 resignation of President C4ilman in 1901. he 
 became president of Johns Hopkins Univer- 
 sity. President Remsen received the degree 
 of LL.D. from Columbia, 1893, Princeton, 
 1890, Yale, 1901, and University of Toronto, 
 1902, and D.C.L. from tlie University of the 
 South, 1907. He was vice-president in 1903 
 and was elected in 1907 president of the Na- 
 tional Academy of Sciences, is a fellow of 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science (president, 1903); was 
 president of the American Chemical Society 
 in 1902; is a member of the American Acad- 
 emy of Arts and Sciences, American Phil- 
 osopliical Society; corresponding member of 
 the British Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science; foreign member of the Lon- 
 
 don Chemical Society; honorary member of 
 the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Brit- 
 ain. President Remsen is the author of sev- 
 eral chemical treatises and text-books, and 
 many memoirs upon original researches in 
 chemistrjr. He married in New York, April 
 5, 1875, Bessie H. Mallory. Address: Johns 
 Hopkins University, Baltimore. 
 
 RESTARICK, Henry Bond: 
 
 Bishop of Honolulu ; born in Somerset, 
 England, Dec. 26, 1854; son of Edwin and 
 Amelia Riall (Webb) Restarick. He was 
 graduated from Griswold College, Daven- 
 port, Iowa, A.B., 1882 and later received the 
 honorary degree of D.D. from King's Col- 
 lege, Nova Scotia. In 1881 he was ordered 
 deacon of the Episcopal Church and the fol- 
 lowing year- was ordained priest by Bishop 
 Perry of Iowa. He was in charge of Trin- 
 ity Church, Muscatine, Iowa, lSSl-1882, and 
 of St. Paul's Church, San Diego, Calif., 
 1882-1902; consecrated bishop of Honolulu, 
 1902. He is author of: Lay Readers: 
 Their History, Organization, and Work; 
 The Love of God; also addresses on the 
 Seven Last Words. Bishop Restarick mar- 
 ried in 1882, May L. Baker. Address: 
 Honolulu, T. H. 
 
 REUTER, Ludwig: 
 
 Technical and chemical expert; born in 
 Nuremberg, Germany, July 30, 1862; son 
 of E. C. H. Renter, and Maria (Volck) 
 Renter. He was educated in the Gymna- 
 sium Humanisticum, Nuremberg, Germany, 
 the Polytechnic School and Eckhart Labor- 
 atories, Nuremburg, the Universities of Kiel 
 and Erlangen, where he received the de- 
 grees of D.S., A.C. and P.C. and Ph. D. from 
 the Universities of Berne and Heidelberg. 
 From 1879 to 1887, he studied at the Uni- 
 versities of Kiel, Heidelberg and Erlangen, 
 and was chemical assistant in the labora- 
 tories at Lausanne, Switzerland, and at 
 Nuremberg. Wiesbaden and Dresden, Ger- 
 many. In 1888 he was volunteer military 
 chemist, Gcrmersheim-on-Rhine, Royal Ba- 
 varian Second Army Corps; and 1889-1891 
 he was iirst assistant to the University-Hos- 
 pital Laboratories at Heidelberg; thesis 
 
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 inaiiguralis at the University Laboratory of 
 Professor Dr. Kraflft, Heidelberg. TTc was 
 managing chemist of the Union of Chem- 
 ical Worivs, Manheim, 1802-1895; expert 
 chemist with E. Mercl< at Darmstadt, Ger- 
 many, (1895-1900) and chief chemist and 
 director of the laboratories of Mercic and 
 Company, New Yorlc, 181)5-1900; explored 
 in Nicaragua and Mexico in 1901 and 1902; 
 made technical investigations and did syn- 
 thetic research work at Philadelphia in 1903 
 and 1904; 1905-1907 he was manager of 
 the technical department and manufactur- 
 ing of the New York Laboratories of Vero- 
 form Hj'gienic Company, of Berlin and New 
 York City; 1907-1908 works manager of 
 Magnesia Products Company, Berkeley, 
 Calif.; 1908, investigations on cement, 
 Eayolith, Radiolith materials. His trav- 
 els have been entensive in the investigation 
 of the development of industry and of new 
 industries in Belgium, Italy, Austria, Rus- 
 sia, United States, Canada and Mexico. He 
 was chief chemist to the Reserve and Land- 
 wehr, in the Royal Bavarian Second Army 
 Corps. Dr. Renter is a Republican in poli- 
 tics in the United States, a member of the 
 National-Liberal party in Germany. In 
 his religious denomination he is a German 
 Lutheran. He was a member of the Board 
 of Directors of the National Liberal party 
 of Manheim, Germany. He is a member 
 of the American Chemical Society, Societe 
 Chimique de Paris, Deutsche Chemische 
 Gesellschaft, the New York Academy of Sci- 
 ences, the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, American Society for 
 Testing Materials, American Institute of 
 Chemical Engineers, International Associa- 
 tion for Testing Materials, the Historical 
 Society, Chevalier de I'Ordre de Merite 
 Civil, 1895; and commandeur de I'Ordre 
 pour le Merite, 1900. He has made sci- 
 entific and technical investigations and re- 
 search work, covering many branches of 
 industrial chemistry, and he has written 
 and published technical papers on manu- 
 facturing, calculations, and patent matters', 
 in German and American journals and ex- 
 hibition of new synthetic products at num- 
 erous exhibitions. Temporary address: 
 Syracuse, N. Y., P. 0. Box G92. 
 
 REYBURN, John Edgar: 
 
 Mayor of Philadelphia; born at New 
 Cailisle, Clark County, Ohio, Feb. 7, 1845. 
 He was educated at Saunders' Institute, 
 West Philadelphia; studied law, and was 
 admitted to the bar in Pliiladelpiiia in 1870. 
 He was a member of the House of Represen- 
 tatives of Pennsylvania, sessions of 1871, 
 1874, 1875, and 187G; was elected a mem- 
 ber of the Senate of Pennsylvania in 1870, 
 and reelected in 1880, 1884 and 1888, and 
 was president pro tempore for the sessions 
 of 1883, and was a Presidential elector in 
 1904. He was elected in tlie former Fourth 
 District to serve out the unexj)ired term of 
 lion. William D. Kelley in the Fifty-first 
 Congress, Feb. 18, lS9o", and to the Fifty- 
 second, Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Con- 
 gresses; was reelected in the Second Dis- 
 trict to the Fifty-ninth and to the Sixtieth 
 Congresses, as a Republican; but resigned 
 upon his election as mayor of Pliiladelpiiia, 
 upon the duties of which office he entered, 
 Apiil 1, 1907. Residence: 1S22 Spring 
 Garden Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 REYNOLDS, D, A.: 
 
 President of the Great Eastern Telephone 
 Company; born in Isabella County, Mich., 
 April 21, 1854; son of John and Catherine 
 (Grove) Reynolds. His parents were the 
 first white family to settle in that part of 
 the country. Mr. Reynolds engaged in farm- 
 ing until 1882; then spent fourteen years 
 editing newspapers and also conducting ex- 
 tensive job-printing and real estate busi- 
 ness. He, with eleven townsmen, represent- 
 ed the Lansing (Mich.) Board of Trade. 
 1S9G-1897; he organized a telephone and 
 built the Lansing Telephone E.xchange, of 
 which he made a notable success, after- 
 ward organizing a company at Ja.skson, 
 Mich., and subsequently others, and has as- 
 sisted in securing nineteen franchises for 
 independent companies, and is a stockholder 
 in twenty-one independent companies. He 
 is president and director of the Great East- 
 ern Telephone Company; vice-president and 
 manager of the State Line Telephone Com- 
 pany; president and director of the Coast 
 Line Telephone Company; treasurer of the 
 New York Electric Lines Company and Iron 
 
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 Telephone Company. He had charge of the 
 first Bryan campaign in Michigan. He mar- 
 ried in 1874, Seruah E. Vincent, and they 
 have three children. Address: 2460 Sev- 
 enth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 REYNOLDS, James Bronson: 
 
 Lawyer, expert in social statistics; born 
 in Kiantone, N. Y., March 17, 1861; son 
 of William T. and Sarah M. (Painter) 
 Reynolds, both descendants of old New Eng- 
 land families. He was educated in village 
 schools at New Haven, Conn., Hopkins 
 Grammar School. New Haven, and Yale, 
 A.B., 1884, Yale Divinity School, 1888, and 
 did post-graduate work in Paris and Ber- 
 lin, fellow of sociology, in Columbia, and 
 graduate in law course of New York Uni- 
 versity. As official representative of the 
 College Young Men's Christian Association 
 of America, he visited Great Britain and 
 the European Continent, 1889-1893, at the 
 same time studying the problems of so- 
 cial reform; returned to the United States 
 in 1893, and in 1894 became head worker 
 of the University Settlement, in New York 
 City. He was an active worker on the 
 Committee of Seventy in 1893, and served 
 on many of its working committees; one of 
 the committee of City Club, appointed in 
 the fall of 1896 to prepare for the cam- 
 paign of 1897, and chairman of the Execu- 
 tive Committee of Citizen's Union campaign 
 of 1897; member of the State Tenement 
 House Commission appointed by Governor 
 Roosevelt, 1898; secretary to Mayor Low, 
 1902-1903; special adviser to the Presi- 
 dent on municipal affairs of the District 
 of Columbia; member of Special Presiden- 
 tial Commission to Investigate the Chicago 
 Stock Yards in 1906; chairman of the 
 special commission a])pointed by the Presi- 
 dent to investigate labor and building con- 
 ditions in the Isthmus of Panama, and 
 made numerous reports in connection with 
 important executive policies and acts of the 
 Roosevelt administration. Mr. Reynolds is 
 a member of the Municipal Art Society. 
 National Municipal Reform League, and a 
 member of the Century, City, National Arts, 
 and Republican Clubs. He married in Ix)n- 
 don, England, 1898, Florence Blanchard 
 
 Dike of New York City. Address: The 
 Century Association, 7 West 43d Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 REYNOLDS, John Butler: 
 
 La\vyer; born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Aug. 
 5, 1850. He was educated at Wyoming Sem- 
 inary, Kingston, Pa., and Lafayette College. 
 He studied law and was admitted to the bar 
 in 1875, and practised his profession until 
 1887. In 1888 he was presidential elector 
 on the Cleveland and Thurman ticket, and 
 in 1890 candidate for Congress, but was de- 
 feated. In 1896 he was a delegate from his 
 district to the National Democratic Con- 
 vention which nominated Palmer and Buck- 
 ner. In 1887 Mr. Reynolds organized the 
 Wilkes-Barre and Kingston Bridge Com- 
 pany, and as its president and general man- 
 ager was the leading spirit in building the 
 three iron bridges across the Susquehanna 
 River at Wilkes-Barre and the lowlands op- 
 posite and connecting the same with a ma- 
 cadamized road. In 1888 he organized the 
 West Side Water Company, since absorbed 
 by the Spring Brook Water Supply Com- 
 pany, and in 1889 he organized and built 
 tiie'West Side Electric Railway and was 
 its president until its absorption by the Wy- 
 oming Valley Traction Company; organ- 
 ized and buiit the Wilkes-Barre & Harveys 
 Lake Railroad (electric), and is prominent- 
 ly identified with a number of local enter- 
 prises. Mr. Reynolds married Emily Brad- 
 ley Dain of Peekskill, New York. Ad- 
 dress: Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
 
 REYNOLDS, John Hugh: 
 
 Educator; born in Enola, Ark., Jan. 3, 
 1869; son of Jesse M. and Eliza (Grimes) 
 Reynolds. He was graduated from Hen- 
 dri'x College, Conway, Ark., A.B., 1893; the 
 University of Chicago, A.^I., 1897, and 
 special student in Columbia University, 
 New York City. He was principal of the 
 high school. Rover, Ark., 1893-1896. county 
 examiner of Yell County, 1895-1896; pro- 
 fessor of history and political science, Hen- 
 drix College, ' 1897-1902; vice-president, 
 1899-1902, professor of history and political 
 science, University of Arkansas, since 1902, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 and president of the Aikiuisus Teaelicrs As- 
 sociation in 1005. He is author of: lyfakers 
 of Arkansas History, Educational pamph- 
 lets, and historical articles for magazines, 
 and editor of volumes 1 and 2 of Publica- 
 tions of Arkansas Historical Association, 
 and contributor to the (South in the Build- 
 ing of the Nation. Mr. Reynolds organized 
 in 1903, and since then secretary of the 
 Arkansas Historical Association; author of 
 laws of 1905, 1907, and 1909 creating and 
 continuing the Arkansas History Commis- 
 sion, its secretary since its organization, 
 and' member of the American Historical 
 Association, American Archives Commission, 
 Xational Educational Association, secretary 
 for the Arkansas National Conference of 
 Charities and Corrections, and member of 
 the Mississippi Valley Historical Asso- 
 ciation. He married in Brookfield. Mo., 
 June 27, 1895, Margaret Harwood, and has 
 four children. Address 814 West Maple 
 Stiect. Fayetteville, Ark. 
 
 REYNOLDS, John Merriam: 
 
 Congressman, lawyer and banker ; born 
 in Lancaster County, Pa. He was gradu- 
 ated from the First Pennsylvania State Nor- 
 mal .School, and received the degree of A. 
 M. from Columbian University. He is en- 
 gaged in the practice of law and in bank- 
 ing, and is associated with the Colonial 
 Iron Company in the mining of coal and 
 manufacture of pig iron at Riddlesburg, 
 Pa. He represented the district of Bedford 
 and Fulton Counties in the Legislature of 
 Pennsylvania, 1873-1874; and was elected 
 prosecuting attorney of his county in 1875. 
 In 1892 he was appointed by Governor Pat- 
 tison one of the five commissioners author- 
 ized by an act of Legislature to select a 
 site and' build an asylum for the chronic 
 insane at Wernersville, Pa.; was a dele- 
 gate to the conventions that nominated Mr. 
 Cleveland at St. Louis in 1888, and at Chi- 
 cago in 1892. In 1893 he was tendered by 
 President Cleveland the office of assistant 
 secretary of the interior, and entered upon 
 its duties April 15, 1893. He tendered his 
 resignation ilarch 5, 1897, which was ac 
 cepted June 1, following. In 189G he sup 
 ported Mr. McKinley for the Presidency 
 
 and has since i>ccii idcniiticd with Ihc Kc- 
 l)ublican party; in 1904 he was nominated 
 for Congress without opposition at the |)ri- 
 mary clcclioiis uf iUv thicc counties of Bed- 
 ford, Blair, and Cambria, composing the 
 Nineteentli Congressional District, and was 
 elected to the Fifty-ninth and Si.\tieth (Jon- 
 gresses and reelected to the Sixty-first Con- 
 gress from the Nineteenth Pennsylvania 
 District. ]\lr. Reynolds is married and has 
 three children. Address: Bedford, Pa. 
 
 RHINOCK, Joseph Lafayette: 
 
 Congressman and oil rctiner; l)orn in 
 Owenton, Owen County. Ky.. Jan. 4, 18(13; 
 son of Joseph and Kliza A. (Short) Rhi- 
 nock. He served in the City Council 
 of Covington, and was twice elected as chief 
 executive of that city, serving as mayor 
 from 1893 to 1900. He was the organizer 
 and first president of the Jefferson Demo- 
 cratic Club, of Covington, now the largest 
 and most infiuential political club in the 
 State of Kentucky, and he is at present the 
 executive head of this organization. When 
 a Carnegie library was proposed for the 
 city. Mr. Rhinock took the matter in charge, 
 and it was through his efforts that the pres- 
 ent handsome $100,000 edifice was secured, 
 Mr. Rhinock is the present president of the 
 Public Library Board in Covington. He 
 is a director in two national banks, and 
 holds important business interests in the 
 city of Covingion. He was elected to the 
 Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, and re- 
 elected to the Sixty-first Congress from the 
 Sixth Kentucky District. He married in 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. Nov. 1, 1883, Emma Mc- 
 Kain, and they have four children. Resi- 
 dence: Covington. Ky. Office: Cincinnati 
 Trust Company, Cineiniiati. 
 
 RHODES, Bradford: 
 
 Banker; born in Beaver County. Pa., 
 Feb. 25. 1849. He enlisted, 1863, as drum- 
 mer in the 134th Pennsylvania Volunteers 
 (Col. M. S. Quay's Regiment), and spent 
 some time in Camp Curtin, at Harrisburg. 
 Init was not allowed to go to the front on 
 account of youthful appearance and deli- 
 cate health. Early in life he was ])rincipal 
 of the Darlington Aeademv in Western Penu- 
 
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 sylvania ; in 1872 he came to New York 
 City and entered upon journalism; in 1877, 
 started Rhoades' Journal of Banking, and 
 in 1895, he bought the Bankers' Magazine, 
 and merged into it his first journal. In 
 1903 he sold the publishing business, and 
 now gives his entire time to banking. He 
 was elected to the New York Assembly 
 in 1887, serving three successive terms, and 
 was chairman of Committee on Banks and 
 Banking during his entire service in Legis- 
 lature; in 1892 received unanimous nomi- 
 nation for Congress by his Congressional 
 district, but declined the honor. He is pres- 
 ident of the Union Savings Bank of West- 
 chester County, also of the First National 
 Bank of Mamaroneck, N. Y. ; founder and 
 first president of the Thirty-fourth Street 
 National Bank of New York, and is head of 
 the banking firm of Bradford Rhodes & Com- 
 pany. He served two terms as a member 
 of the Executive Council of the American 
 Bankers' Association; and was vice-presi- 
 dent for the State of New York of that As- 
 sociation, 1907-1908. Residence: Quaker 
 Ridge Farm, near Mamaroneck, N. Y. Of- 
 fice: 76 William Street, New York City. 
 
 RHODES, Stephen H.: 
 
 President of the John Hancock Mutual 
 Life Insurance Company of Boston; born 
 in Franklin, Mass., Nov. 7, 182.5; son of 
 Stephen and Betsey (Bird) Rhodes. He 
 was engaged in manufacturing and mercan- 
 tile business, until he became interested in 
 life insurance. He was mayor of Taunton, 
 Mass., three years; a inember of the Massa- 
 chusetts Senate, 1870-1871, and the follow- 
 ing year he was appointed deputy insurance 
 commissioner of Massachusetts. He suc- 
 ceeded Mr. Clark as insurance commissioner 
 in 1874, and was appointed in 1877. iMr. 
 Rhodes resigned in 1879 to accept the pres- 
 idency of the John Hancock Mutual Life 
 Insurance. He married in Taunton, Mass., 
 Nov. 27, 1847, E. M. Godfrey. Residence: 
 81 Harvard Avenue, Brookline, Mass. Of- 
 fice: 178 Devonshire Street, Boston. 
 
 RHODES, Thomas D.: 
 
 Railway ofiicial; born in Pennsylvania, 
 April 27, 1858; son of Rev. Daniel and 
 
 Louisa Marian (Cunard) Rhodes. He was 
 educated in the public schools of Ohio. He 
 was officially connected successively with 
 the Cincinnati Southern, Baltimore and 
 Ohio Southwestern, South Carolina and 
 Georgia Extension, Northern Alabama, Cin- 
 cinnati, Portsmouth and Virginia, and De- 
 troit Southern railroads, (and was receiver 
 of the latter company ) , He is receiver of 
 the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railway; 
 president of the Railways Company General, 
 Louisburg, Milton and Watsontown Street 
 Railway and of the Montoursville Street 
 Railway; vice-president of the New York 
 Westchester & Boston Raiboad Company, 
 and the City and County Contract Com- 
 pany; director of the Ann Arbor Railroad 
 Company; Detroit, Toledo and Ironton 
 Railwa3% New York-Westchester Townsite 
 Company and of New York, Westchester and 
 Boston Railroad Company. He is a member 
 of the Ohio Society, Sons of the Revolution, 
 and Ohio Society of Sons of the American 
 Revolution, and Republican Club. 'Sir. 
 Rhodes married in Glendale (a suburb of 
 Cincinnati), Ohio, Nov. 22, 1882, Laura 
 May Lovell, and they have two children 
 Residence: East Orange, N. J. Address: 
 30 Broad Street, New York City. 
 
 RICE, Alice (Caldwell) Hegan: 
 
 Author; born in Slielbyville, Ky., Jan. 
 11, 1870; daughter of Samuel Watson and 
 Sallie (Caldwell) Hegan. She was educated 
 in Hampton College, a large private school 
 in Louisville, Ky. She married in Louis- 
 ville, Dec. 18, 1902, Cale Young Rice, au- 
 thor and dramatist. From her childliood 
 she has delighted in the writing of stories, 
 but never attempted anything more than oc- 
 casional contributions to the comic papers 
 until 1901, when she published' ]\Irs. Wiggs 
 of the Cabbage Patch; and in 1903 its se- 
 quel, Lovey Mary, was published. From 
 these two books the play, Mrs. Wiggs of 
 the Cabbage Patch was made, and this ])lay 
 has been running ever since, both in the 
 United States and Europe. Her other books 
 are: Sandy, 1905: Captain Jane, 1907; 
 Mr. Opp, 1908; and she has also written 
 a few short stories published in various 
 magazines. Her books have been widely 
 
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 translated. Two of them appeared serially 
 in the Bibliotheque Universelle, and have 
 been translated into French, German, 
 Swedish and Norwegian, and " Mrs. Wiggs " 
 is also published in raised type for the 
 blind. With her husband she spends much 
 of her time in travel in Europe and the Far 
 East, enjoys the London season, and usual- 
 ly spends part of each winter in New York, 
 but retains her home in Louisville. She is 
 a member of the Church of the Disciples, 
 is a member of many local and' several na- 
 tional societies (mostly philanthropic), of 
 the Lyceum Club of London and the 
 Woman's Club of Louisville. Address : St. 
 James Court, Louisville, Ky. 
 
 RICE, Cale Young: 
 
 Poet and dramatist; born in Dixon, Ky., 
 Dec. 7, 1872; son of Laban M. and Martha 
 (Lacy) Rice. He was graduated from Cum- 
 berland University., A.B., 1893, Harvard, 
 A.B.. 1895', A.M., 1896, both with honor- 
 able mention; then became professor of Eng- 
 lish literature at Cumberland, resigning to 
 write poetry. He is author of: From Dusk 
 to Dusk (poem) ; ISong-Surf (poems) ; 
 Charles di Tocca, David, Yolanda of Cyprus, 
 and A Night in Avignon (poetic dramas), 
 the latter successfully produced in 1906 ; 
 Nirvana-Days (poems). Mr. Rice is con- 
 nected with various business, literary and 
 social interests. He married in Louisville, 
 Ky., Dec. 18, 1902, Alice Caldwell Hegan. 
 the distinguished authoress. Address: 33 
 St. James Court, Louisville, Ky. 
 
 RICE, Calvin W.: 
 
 Secretary of the American Society of 
 Mechanical Engineers; born in Winchester, 
 Mass., Nov. 4, 1868; son of Edward H. and 
 Lucy J. (Staples) Rice. He was gradu- 
 ated from the ^Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology, B.S., 1890. Mr. Rice was with 
 the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, 
 1889-1895; engineer of the Silver Lake 
 Mines in 1896; consulting engineer of the 
 Anaconda Copper Mining Company, 1897- 
 1898; engineer of the Kings County Electric 
 Light and Power Company of Brooklyn, 
 1899; New York Edison Company, 1889- 
 1902; second vice-president of the Nernst 
 
 Lamp Company, 1902-1903; consulting en- 
 gineer of the General Electric Company, 
 1905-1006, and has been secretary of the 
 American Society of Mechanical Engineers 
 since 1900, lie is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Society of Meciianical Engineers, 
 American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 
 Institution of Electrical Engineers of Lon- 
 don, Engineers' Club, and the Society of Co- 
 lonial Wars. Mr. Rice married in \\ inches- 
 ter, Mass., Aug. 6, 1904, Ellen M. Weibe- 
 zahn, and they have one son. Address: 
 29 West 29th Street, New York City. 
 
 RICE, Isaac Leopold: 
 
 Financier; born in Wachenheiiii, Bavaria, 
 Feb. 22, 1850; son of Maier and Fanny 
 (Sohn) Rice. He was educated at the 
 Central High School at Philadelphia, and 
 was graduated from Columbia Law School, 
 LL.B., 1880 and received from Bates Col- 
 lege the degree of LL.D. in 1902. He was 
 an instructor at Columbia Law School and 
 lecturer at School of Political Science until 
 1886, when he resigned and devoted himself 
 exclusively to the practice of railroad law, 
 and in that specialty has been identified 
 with many important negotiations, reorgani- 
 zations and litigations, in which he has been 
 eminently successful. He was virtually the 
 founder of the storage battery industry of 
 the United' States and was president of the 
 Electric Storage Battery Company; found- 
 ed the electric automobile industry by or- 
 ganizing the Electric Vehicle Company, of 
 which he was the first president; organized 
 and became president of the Electric Boat 
 Company, which purchased the Holland Tor- 
 pedo Boat Company; also organized the 
 Car Lighting and Power Company, of 
 which he is president; organized the Casein 
 Company of America and the Forum Pub- 
 lishing Company. He is president and di- 
 rector of all these companies, and also of 
 the Electric I^aunch Company, Industrial 
 Oxygen Company, New Jersey Development 
 Company, Society Francaise de Sousmarin, 
 of Paris, France, International Trade De- 
 velopment Com])any, National Torpedo Com- 
 pany; Consolidated Railway Lighting and 
 Refrigerating Company. Consolidated Rail- 
 way Electric Lighting and Etpiipment Com- 
 
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 ])any, Railway Stationary & Refrigerating 
 Company. Lindstrom Brake Company, pres- 
 ident, treasurer and director of the Casein 
 Company. National Milk Sugar Company, 
 Dry Milk Company, the Rosemary Cream- 
 cry Company, the Quaker City Chemical 
 Company, Casein jSIanufacturing Company; 
 chairman of the Board of Directors of the 
 Consolidated Rubber Tire Company; di- 
 rector of the Buckeye Rubber Company, and 
 Chicago Electric Traction Company. He 
 is a member of the Franklin Institute of 
 Pennsylvania and of the Association of the 
 Bar of the City of New York. His recrea- 
 tion is chess. He invented an opening 
 known as the Rice Gambit and presented 
 a handsome silver trophy for Internationa! 
 Universities Chess Matches between Amer- 
 ica and England, and two handsome trophies 
 to the Triangular Chess League. Has con- 
 tributed many articles to the North Amer- 
 ican Review, the Forum and the Century. 
 He is a member of the St. George's Chess 
 Club (London), the Manhattan and Rice 
 Chess Clubs of New York City, Brooklyn 
 Chess Club and New York State Chess As- 
 sociation, also a member of the Lawyers', 
 Harmonic, Automobile, Lotos (New York 
 City), Union League (Chicago). City Lib- 
 eral (London). He married. New York 
 City, in 1885, Julia Hyneman Barnett, and 
 they have six children. Residence: River- 
 side Drive and 89th Street. Office: 5 
 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 KICE, William North: 
 
 Geologist; born in Marblchead, Mass., 
 Nov. 21, 1845; son of William and Caro- 
 line Laura (North) Rice. He was gradu- 
 ated from Wesleyan University, B.A., 1865, 
 Yale University (Sheffield Scientific School), 
 Ph.D., 18(57, and received from Syracuse Uni- 
 versity, LL.D.,' 1880. He was professor 
 of natural history and geology, Wesleyan 
 University, 1867-1884; professor of geology 
 since 1884; acting president, 1907-15)09; as- 
 sistant geologist of the U. S. Geological 
 Survey, 1891-1892; superintendent of the 
 Connecticut Geological and Natural History 
 Survey, since 190.S. He is author of: Ge- 
 ology of Bermuda ; Science Teaching in the 
 Schools, Twenty-five Years of Scientific 
 
 Progress and other essays. Christian Faith 
 in an Age of Science; (edited) Dana's 
 Text-book of Geology; jNIanual of the Ge- 
 ology of Connecticut (with H. C. Gregory), 
 and numerous articles in scientific, educa- 
 tional, and religious journals. He is a mem- 
 ber of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science (fellow, vice-pres- 
 ident, 1905), the Geological Society of 
 America; American Society of Naturalists 
 (president, 1891), Connecticut Academy of 
 Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa and 
 Sigma Xi Societies and Phi Nu Theta fra- 
 ternity and is a member of the New York 
 East Conference, Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. He married in Worcester, ]\Iass.. 
 April 12, 1870, Elizabeth Wing Crowell, and 
 they have had two children, one living. Ad- 
 dress: Middletown, Conn. 
 
 RICHARD, Oscar L.: 
 
 Banker and steamship agent ; born in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., June 2, 1855; son of 
 Charles B. and' Julia (Hiller) Richard. 
 He was graduated from Charlier French 
 Institute, New York, in 1872. He is the 
 senior member of the firm of C. B. Richard 
 & Company, bankers which his father found- 
 ed in 1847 ; also general agents of the Rus- 
 sian Volunteer Fleet; Lloyd Italiano Steam- 
 ship Company; Prince Line; and the New 
 York and Connecticut Line. Mr. Richard is 
 president of The State Bank. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Produce Exchange, the Chamber 
 of Commerce of the State of New York, 
 Italian Chamber of Commerce, New York, 
 American Chamber of Commerce, Paris, 
 and American Chamber of Commerce, Na- 
 ples. In politics he is a Republican. He 
 is a member of the Veterans' Association, 
 New York Athletic, Automobile of America, 
 Atlantic Yacht and Baltusrol Golf Clubs. 
 iMr. Richard' married in New York, Dec. 
 20, 188."}, Alice Littauer, sister of Congress- 
 man Lucius N. Littauer, and they have 
 three children: Harold C, Walter L., and 
 George N. Residence: 40 East 72d Street. 
 Address: ;U-33 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 RICHARDS, Harry Sanger: 
 
 Dean of the Law School of the Univer- 
 sity of Wisconsin; l)()ru in Osceola, Iowa, 
 
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 1868; son of John W. and Anna IM. (Cur- 
 rier) Richards. He was graduated from 
 Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, State Uni- 
 versity of Iowa, Ph.B., 1802, Harvard Law 
 School, LL.B., 1895 cum laude; and the 
 State University of Iowa, LL.D., 1904. He 
 practised law in Ottumwa, Iowa, 1895- 
 1898; professor of law University of Iowa, 
 1898-1903, and dean of the University of 
 Wisconsin, Law School since 1903. He is 
 a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
 Theta Kappa Nu and Phi Delta Phi fratern- 
 ities; Executive Committee, American Law 
 School Association, 1903-1906; chairman of 
 the Section on Legal Education, since 1909, 
 and member of the American Bar Associa- 
 tion. He is author of papers on legal edu- 
 cation before the American Bar Association, 
 and of articles in law magazines. Profes- 
 sor Eichards married in Janesville, Wis., 
 1901, Mary C. Holt, and has one son. Ad- 
 dress : ^Madison, Wis. 
 
 RICHARDS, Joseph William: 
 
 Professor of metallurgy; born in England, 
 July 28, 1864; son of Joseph and Bridgett 
 (Harvey) Richards. He was graduated 
 from the Philadelphia Central High School, 
 A.B., 1882, Lehigh University, A.C., 1886, 
 M.S., 1889, Ph.D., 1893; Heidelberg, Ger- 
 many, 1897-1898; Bergakademie, Freiburg, 
 Saxony. He was assistant superintendent 
 of the Delaware Metal Refinery, 1886-1887, 
 instructor in mineralogy and metallurgj^, Le- 
 high Lfniversity. 1887-1897; assistant pro- 
 fessor, 1897-1905, and professor of metal- 
 lurgy since 1905. He is jiresident of the 
 Electrochemical Publishing Company, N. 
 Y. City; secretary (first president) of the 
 American Electrochemical Society, member 
 of the Franklin Institute, American Insti- 
 tute of Mining Engineers, American Chem- 
 ical Society, the Iron and Steel Institute 
 of Great Britain, Faraday Society of Great 
 Britain, Bunsen Society of Germany, Na- 
 tional Geological Congress, International 
 Electrical Congress, International Congress 
 of Applied Chemistry. International So- 
 ciety of Testing Materials, American Brass 
 Founders Association, and the Chemists' 
 Club of New York City. Professor Richards 
 is a patent and legal expert in chemical and 
 
 metallurgical cases, particularly in electro- 
 chemistry and electrometallurgy, and is 
 autlior of: Aluminium, 3rd edition; Metal- 
 lurgical Calculations, part 1, 21, 3, and 
 translator of four Electrochemical Mono- 
 graphs from the German. Ho married in 
 Philadelpliia, March 12, 1887, Annamarie 
 Gadd (second cousin), and tlu-y have three 
 children. Residence: University Park. 
 Oifice: Lehigh University, South Bethle- 
 hem, Pa. 
 
 RICHARDSON, Clifford: 
 
 Chemical engineer; born in Worcester, 
 Mass., March 6, 1856; son of George Wash- 
 ington and Lucy Dana (White) Richards. 
 He was graduated from Harvard University, 
 1877; and student at Bonn, Germany, 1878. 
 In 1878 he was appointed an assistant in 
 the U. S. Geological Survey, and was later 
 under the Department of Agriculture, serv- 
 ing until 1887 as principal assistant chem- 
 ist, when he resigned and became cliemist 
 of the Engineer Department of the District 
 of Columbia. This work involved extensive 
 examinations into the characteristics of as- 
 phalt pavement, and he became a nationally 
 known expert on this subject. He resigned 
 from the service of the District of Columbia 
 in 1894, and after two jears of private prac- 
 tice in Washington and London was appoint- 
 ed superintendent of tests of the Barber 
 Asphalt Paving Companj'. He retired from 
 that position in 1900, and is now pi-oprie- 
 tor of the New York Testing Laboratory, 
 carrying out tests and investigations in 
 asphalt, Portland Cement and bitumen. He 
 is a member of the American Society of 
 Chemical Engineers; American Chemical So- 
 ciety; Chemical Society of London; Ger- 
 man Chemical Society; Society of Chemi- 
 cal Industry, London ; and associate member 
 of American Society of Mechanical F.ngi- 
 neers, and many other technical societies, 
 and of the University, Century and Chem- 
 ists' Clubs of New York. He is the author 
 of: On American Cereals, 1883, 1884, 18S6; 
 Adulterations of Spices and Condiments, 
 1887; On the Nature and Origin of Asphalt, 
 1898; The Constitution of Portland Cement 
 from a Physico-Cliemical Standpoint. 1904; 
 the Modern Asphalt Pavement, 1905. He 
 
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 has been a member of the Committee of 
 Overseers of Harvard, to visit the Chemical 
 Laboratory since 1904. He married in 
 Washington, 1894, Teresa Stoughton. Resi- 
 dence: 122 East 34th Street. Office: 30 
 Church Street, New York Citj'. 
 
 RICHARDSON, Henry Alden: 
 
 U. S. senator; born in Camden, Del.. 
 Jan. 1, 1853; son of Alden B. and Lucy 
 Richardson; resident of Dover, Del., from 
 the age of three. He was educated in the 
 schools there and at East Greenwich, R. I. 
 He entered his father's packing and can- 
 ning establishment at the age of 16, became 
 a partner in 1876, and sole owner on the 
 death of his father, in 1894. He was Re- 
 publican nominee for governor of Delaware 
 in 1890, but defeated in the election. He 
 was voted for as a candidate for U. S. 
 senator at each session of the Delaware 
 Legislature from 1895 to 1907, and in the 
 later year was elected for the term ex- 
 piring March 3, 1913. He is president of 
 the First National Bank of Dover, Del., 
 of the Dover Gas Light Company, Diamond 
 State Telephone Company, and the Dela- 
 ware Fire Insurance Company. He is a 
 member of the Society of Colonial Wars, 
 the Society of [Mayflower Descendants, 
 Union League Club of Philadelphia, and 
 the Kent Club of Dover. He married in 
 Dover, Del., in 1876, Priscilla Walker. Ad- 
 dress : Dover, Del. 
 
 RICHARDSON, Leander: 
 
 Journalist, autlior; born in Cincinnati, 
 Feb. 28, 1856; son of Albert D. and ]\Iary 
 Louise Richardson. He was educated in 
 common schools; has written as correspond- 
 ent and staff member for nearly all lead- 
 ing newspapers. He was editor of the 
 Dramatic News, 1891-1896; on editorial 
 staff of the New York Morning Telegraph, 
 1896-1900, and during that period his signed 
 articles were a very popular feature of that 
 publication. He is also author of various 
 volumes of sketches, novels and plays, and 
 adapter of various plays from the French 
 for New York production. He is now 
 editor of the New York Inquirer. Address: 
 116 West 39th Street, New York City. 
 
 RICHARDSON, William: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer ; born in Athens, 
 Ala. ; entered the Confederate Army when 
 sixteen years old, and fought until totally 
 disabled from wounds received at Chicka- 
 mauga; was paroled at Marietta, Ga., in 
 1865. He was elected from Limestone 
 County to the House of Representatives of 
 Alabama in 1800; was. admitted to the bar 
 in 1867; and located in the practice of law 
 at Huntsville, Ala. He was judge of the 
 Court of Probate and County Court of 
 Madison County, Ala., 1875-1886; Demo- 
 cratic elector from the State at large in 
 1888-. When General Joseph Wheeler, who 
 was member of Congress from the Eighth 
 Alabama District, was appointed to the 
 Regular Army, in 1900, and resigned his 
 seat, Mr. Richardson was elected to suc- 
 ceed him in the second session of the Fif- 
 ty-Sixth Congress, and he was afterward 
 reelected to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, 
 Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first Con- 
 gresses, as a Democrat. Address: Hunts- 
 ville, Ala. 
 RICHMOND, Charles Alexander: 
 
 President of Union University; born in 
 New York, 1863; son of Archibald Murray 
 and Margaret (Law) Richmond. He was 
 graduated from Princeton University, A.B., 
 1883, A.M., 1880, and Hamilton College, 
 D.D., 1905. He is author of: Tlie Four 
 Winds (musical). He is a member of the 
 Buffalo Historical Society, Albany Histori- 
 cal Society, trustee of the Elmira College, 
 Albany Girls Academy, Albany Guild for 
 the Sick; president of the Albany Musical 
 Association, St. Andrew's Society, Burns 
 Club, and |f. member of the Fort Orange 
 and Country Clubs of Albany, and the 
 Centurv and Princeton Clubs of New York 
 City. He married in Buffalo, N. Y., 1891, 
 Sarah Cooper Locke, and they have three 
 children. Address: Union College, Schenec- 
 tady, N. Y. 
 
 RICHTER, Henry Joseph: 
 
 Catholic bishop; born in Neuei]kirchen, 
 Oldenburg,, Germany, April 9, 1838; son 
 of John Henry and Anna Maria Elizabeth 
 (Albers) Ricliter. He received his prelim- 
 
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 inary education in Germany, came to the 
 United States in 1854, and attended the 
 College of St. Xavier in Cincinnati, and 
 afterward the Seminary of Mt. St. Mary's, 
 in that city, going thence to the American 
 College in Rome, irom which he was grad- 
 uated, D.D., and ordained priest in 1865. 
 He returned to the Mt. St. IMary's Sem- 
 inary in Cincinnati, as its vice-president 
 and professor of dogmatic theology, philos- 
 ophy and liturgies, for five years; then 
 rector of St. Lawrence and chaplain of the 
 Academy of Mt. St. Vincent from 1870 
 until consecrated, in 1883, the first bishop 
 of Grand Rapids. Address: Grand Rapids, 
 Mich. 
 
 RICKARDS, John Ezra: 
 
 Government official, ex-governor; born in 
 Delaware City, Del., July 23, 1848; son of 
 David Townsend and Mary (Burris) Rick- 
 ards. He has served as a member of the 
 Upper House of the Montana Territorial 
 Legislature; member of the Montana Con- 
 stitutional Convention which framed the 
 present State Constitution. He was first 
 lieutenant-governor of Montana, 1889-1893, 
 and the second governor, 1893-1897; super- 
 visor of Census for Montana, 1900, and 
 special agent. Bureau of Statistics, U. S. 
 Department of Agriculture, since 1903. 
 Mr. Rickards has also held the position of 
 ald'eriuan of Butte, and senator of the Ter- 
 ritory of Montana. He married, June 18, 
 1883, Eliza A. B. Ellis, and has five chil- 
 dren. Residence: 2719 Derby Street, Berk- 
 eley. Office: 85 Bacon Block, Oakland, 
 Calif. 
 
 RICKETTS, Palmer Chamberlaine: 
 
 President Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- 
 tute; born in Elkton, Md., Jan. 17, 1856; 
 son of Palmer C. and Eliza (Getty) Rick- 
 etts. He was graduated from Rensselaer 
 Polytechnic Institute, C.E., 1875, receiving 
 the degree of Doctor of Engineering (E.D.) 
 from Stevens Institute of Technology in 
 1905. He was instructor in mathematics 
 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1875- 
 1882; assistant professor, 1882-1884; pro- 
 fessor of rational and technical mechanics 
 in 1884; director since 1892 to date; pres- 
 
 ident and director since Feb., 190L lie 
 has also been engaged for railway and 
 other corporations for the design and con- 
 struction of bridges and hydraulic works, 
 lie is consulting bridge engineer for the 
 Troy and Boston Railroad', and Rome, 
 Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad; en- 
 gineer for Public Improvements Commission 
 of Troy, N. Y., etc. He is a member of the 
 American Society of Civil Engineers, the 
 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 
 and Institution of Civil Engineers of Great 
 Britain. He is the author of: The His- 
 tory of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 
 1895, and contributor to many technical 
 journals and transactions of societies. He 
 is a member of the Troy (Troy) and Union 
 (New York City) Clubs. He married, Nov. 
 12, 1902, V. C. Renshaw, of Baltimore. 
 Address : Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 
 Troy, N. Y. 
 
 RICKETTS, Robert Bruce: 
 
 Soldier; born at Orangeville, Columbia 
 County, Pa., April 29, 1839, of Scotch and 
 English descent. He was educated at the 
 Wyoming Seminary, and- was reading law 
 when the war began. He promptly entered 
 the Union service, and, having assisted in 
 recruiting a battery, was commissioned 
 first lieutenant of Battery F, First Penn- 
 sylvania Artillery, Forty-third Regiment, 
 Jul}^ 8, 1861; promoted to captain. May 8, 
 1863; to major, Dec. 4, 1864; and to col- 
 onel, March 15, 1865. The battery was 
 furnished during the month of Aug., 1861, 
 with horses and equipments and four 
 smooth-bore guns. On Sept. 12, the batteiy 
 was ordered to join Banks's command at 
 Dorranceton, Md., and was from that date 
 in active service to the close of the war. 
 Colonel Ricketts had his first engagement 
 Dec. 20, 1861, with a body of the enemy's 
 artillery and cavalry, which was attempt- 
 ing the destruction of Dam Number Five, 
 on the Upper Potomac. For more than 
 three years from that time on he was 
 constantly at the front, and his battery 
 became one of the most famous in tlie Union 
 Army. In almost every one of the engage- 
 ments of 1862, 1863 and 1864, in Mary- 
 land and Virginia, it was prominently en- 
 
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 gajjod. and at Gettysburg, especially, it did 
 brilliant service in assisting to repel the 
 invasion of the Confederates on the right 
 of the Union lines at Cemetery Ridge. 
 When promoted major he left his battery 
 and was assigned to the command of the 
 Second Army Corps batteries in the Ninth 
 Corps line; alterward as inspector of Ar- 
 tillery for the Ninth Corps. This last 
 position he held during most of the winter 
 of 1864-1865, and while the army was in 
 front of Petersburg, and he retained it until 
 after Lee's surrcndei-. He was then in- 
 spector of the Artillery Reserve under Gen- 
 eral William Hayes. After the war he was 
 urged to join the regular service, but re- 
 turned to private life. Colonel Ricketts was 
 a Hancock delegate to the Cincinnati Con- 
 vention, where the Democracy named the 
 great General for the Presidency, and' in 
 1886 he was nominated as Democratic can- 
 didate for lieutenant-governor of Pennsyl- 
 vania. Colonel Ricketts was a National 
 Commissioner from Pennsylvania to the 
 World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago 
 in 1893; and was a delegate-at-large from 
 Pennsylvania to .the Indianapolis Conven- 
 tion, at which Palmer and Buckner were 
 nominated by the Gold Democrats in 1896. 
 Address: Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
 
 RIDDER, Henry: 
 
 I'ublisher of the American Home Monthly 
 and The Catholic News; born in New York 
 City, Nov. 18, 1863. He was educated at 
 De'La Salle College, New York City. Mr. 
 Ridder has always been in the publishing 
 business, and is proprietor and publisher 
 of the American Home Monthly ; president 
 and treasurer of the Catholic News. He is 
 a m(!mber of the Catholic, New York Press, 
 and German Press Clubs. Address: 27 
 Spruce Street, New York City. 
 
 RIDDER, Herman: 
 
 Journalist; born in New York City, 
 March 5, 1851. At the age of eleven years 
 he obtained employment in a hat store and 
 shortly afterwards secured a position as 
 messenger with a Wall Street firm, where 
 he remained until thirteen years of age, 
 when he entered the employ of the Trades- 
 
 men's Fire Insurance Company. He left the 
 insurance business to take up newspaper 
 work and founded the Katholisches Volks- 
 blatt in 1878. In 1886 he established the 
 Catholic News. Mr. Ridder became a stock- 
 holder in the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung 
 in 1890 and was elected' a director and the 
 treasurer and manager. These offices he 
 filled until he became the president of the 
 corporation, which oflice he now holds. Mr. 
 Ridder has taken a"ii active part in politics, 
 as an Independent Democrat. He was a 
 prominent participant in the Cleveland cam- 
 paigns and in the various Reform move- 
 ments in New York. During the Bryan 
 campaign of 1908 he was appointed treas- 
 urer of the Democratic National Committee, 
 upon the resignation of Governor Haskell of 
 Oklahoma. He is a trustee of the Emigrant 
 Industrial Savings Bank, Mutual Life In- 
 surance Company, and the German Hos- 
 pital; director and the treasurer of the 
 New York City Publishers' Association, the 
 Associated Press, and president of the 
 American Newspaper Publishers' Associa- 
 tion. Mr. Ridder is a member of the Cham- 
 ber of Commerce and of the Manhattan, 
 Liederkranz, Arion, Catholic, Reform, Dem- 
 ocratic, City, New York Press. German 
 Press and Hardware Clubs, and the 
 Deutscher Verein. He is also a member of 
 the Charity Organization Society, the Isa- 
 bella Heimath, the German Society, the St. 
 Vincent d'e Paul Society, the Legal Aid 
 Society and a large number of similar 
 organizations. He is a member of the 
 American Natural History Society and of 
 the Metropolitan Museum of Art Society 
 and other societies of a like character. Ad- 
 dress: The Staats-Zeitung, New York City. 
 
 RIDDLE, John Wallace: 
 
 Ambassador; born in Philadelphia, July 
 12, 1864; son of John Wallace and Rebecca 
 Blair (McClure) Riddle. He was grad- 
 uated from Harvard, A.B., 1887; studied 
 law at the Law School of Columbia Uni- 
 versity, 1888-1891, but desiring to especially 
 fit himself for a diplomatic career he went 
 to Paris in 1891, where he entered the 
 ficole des Sciences Politiques, remaining 
 there for two \ears and taking the courses 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 in international law, history and diplo- 
 macy, and he also received from the College 
 de France, in 1893, a certificate of pro- 
 ficiency in the Russian language. He 
 entered the diplomatic service of the United 
 iStates in 1803, as secretary of tlie Legation 
 to Turkey, in wiiich position he remained 
 until 1900; then was secretary of the 
 American Embassy to Russia, 1901-1903, 
 was diplomatic agent and consul-general to 
 Egypt, 1903-1905, and he was appointed, 
 in March, 1905, envoy extraordinary and 
 minister plenijjotentiary of the United 
 States to Roumania and Servia, maintain- 
 ing his official residence at Bucharest until 
 Dec, 1906, when he was appointed Amer- 
 ican ambassador to Russia, which impor- 
 tant post he is now filling. Mr. Riddle is 
 a member of the Union Club of New York, 
 Metropolitan Club of Washington, Ritten- 
 house Club of Philadelphia, and the Min- 
 nesota Club of St. Paul. Address: Amer- 
 ican Embassy, St. Petersburg, Russia. 
 
 RIDEING, William Henry: 
 
 Associate editor of the Youth's Com- 
 panion ; born in Liverpool, England, in 
 1853, of a line of seafaring men, his great- 
 uncle having been Sir Edward Walpole 
 Browne, Royal Navy, and his father a well- 
 known Cunard officer. He was educated 
 privately; came to the United States in 
 1869 ; and at the age of nineteen became an 
 assistant editor of the New York Tribune; 
 and afterwards special corresi^ondent of 
 New York Times. He was with the U. S. 
 Geographical Survey for three years; a 
 frequent contributor of Harper's publica- 
 tions, The Century, Scribner's Magazine, 
 etc. ; attached to the staff of the Youth's 
 Companion since 1881 ; appointed managing 
 editor of the North American Review, 1888; 
 resigned, 1899. He is the author of thirteen 
 volumes of fiction, travel, and criticism, 
 including: A Ijttle Upstart; A-saddle in 
 the Wild West; Thackery's London; In 
 the Land of Lorna Doone; The Boyhood of 
 Living Authors; How Tyson Came Home; 
 and others. He is a member of The Play- 
 ers' Club of New York. Mr. Rideing mar- 
 ried Margaret Elinor, daughter of C. E. 
 
 Bockus, editor of llic Boston Herald. Of- 
 fice address: Care IMic ^■oulh's Companion, 
 Boston. 
 
 RIDGELY, William Barrett: 
 
 Financier; born in Springfield, 111., July 
 19, 1858; .son of Cliarles and Jane N. 
 (Barret) Hidgely. lie was graduated from 
 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, C.E., 1879. 
 He became vice-president of the Ridgely 
 National Bank of Springfield, 111., and 
 1884-1899 was vice-president and general 
 manager of the Springfield Iron Company, 
 and president of the Wilmington and 
 Springfield Coal Comjjany. In 1899 he left 
 Springfield to become secretary of the Re- 
 public Iron and Steel Company of Cliicago. 
 In Oct., 1901, he was appointed Comptrol- 
 ler of the Currency of tlie United States, 
 and served witli marked ability in that 
 responsible position, resigning ^larch 30, 
 1908, to become president of the National 
 Bank of Commerce of Kansas City, Mo., 
 one of the leading financial institutions of 
 the southwest. He is also president of the 
 Witherbee Ignite Company of New York 
 City. Mr. Ridgely was postmaster of 
 Springfield, 111.. 1897-1899, and is a prom- 
 inent member of the Republican party, hav- 
 ing been a delegate to the National Repub- 
 lican Convention in 1908 from tlie 21st 
 Illinois District. He is a member of the 
 Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain, 
 American Institute of Mining Engineers, 
 American Society of ^lechanical Engineers, 
 National Geographic Society, and the Chi 
 Phi fraternity. He is also a member of 
 the Metropolitan (Jul) and Chevj- Chase 
 Club of Washington, J). C. ; Chicago and 
 University Clubs of Chicago; Republican 
 Club of New York ; Kansas City Country, 
 Kansas Cit}', University, and Mid-Day 
 Clubs of Kansas City: and the Sangamo 
 Club of Springfield, ill. He married at 
 Springfield. Ill, in 188J. Miss Ella ]M. Cul- 
 lom. daughter of Senator Culloni. She died 
 in 1902 and ]Mr. Ridgely married at Wash- 
 ington. D. C, Dec. 30. 1905, Kate Deering. 
 He has two daughters. Residence: 46th 
 and Walnut Streets. Office: National Bank 
 of Connnerce, Kansas Citv. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 RIDGWAY, Robert: 
 
 Curator, Division of Birds, U. S. Na- 
 tional Museum ; born at Mt. Carniel, 111., 
 July 2, 1850; son of David and Henrietta 
 J. (Reed) Ridgway. He was educated in 
 the common schools of INIount Carmel, and 
 received the honorary ]\I.S. from the Uni- 
 versity of Indiana, 1884. He was zoologist 
 of the U. S. Geological Exploration of 
 Fortieth Parallel, 1867-1869, and has been 
 curator of the Division of Bird's of the 
 U. S. National Musevim, since 1876. Dr. 
 Ridgway was a member of Advisory Coun- 
 cil of World's Congresses, at the World's 
 Columbian Exposition, 1893; member of 
 the International Permanent Ornithological 
 Committee, Vienna, 1885, and second In- 
 ternational Ornithological Congress, Buda- 
 pest, 1891. He has traveled very exten- 
 sively in North America; went from New 
 York City to Alaska with the Harriman 
 Expedition, May-Aug., 1899, and in Costa 
 Rica, as guest of Seuor Jose C. Zele- 
 dow, Dec, 1904. to May, 1905. He 
 is author of: Birds of North and Mid- 
 dle America (eight volumes) ; joint author, 
 with Professor Spencer F. Baird and Dr. 
 Thomas M. Brewer, of the five- volume work: 
 History of North American Birds; author 
 of a two-volume work on : Birds of Illi- 
 nois, and many other works and papers on 
 American avifauna. He is a fellow of the 
 American Ornithologists' Union (twice vice- 
 president, and president, 1899-1900) ; mem- 
 ber of the American Forestry Association, 
 Washington Biological Society, Washington 
 Academy of Sciences; corresponding mem- 
 ber of the New York Academy of Science; 
 member of the Philadelphia Academy of 
 Science; corresponding member of the Bos- 
 ton Zoological Society; member of the 
 Boston Society of Natural History ; cor- 
 responding member of the Chicago Academy 
 of Sciences, Michigan Ornithological Club, 
 Davenport Academy of Science, Washington 
 Pliiloso])hioal Society, honorary member of 
 Nultali Ornithological Club, ]5ritish Orni- 
 thologists' Union; corresponding member of 
 London Zoological Society, Manchester 
 (England) Literary and Philosophical So- 
 ciety, and Australian Ornithologists' Union. 
 Mr. Ridgway married in Washington, D. C, 
 
 Oct. 12, 1875, Julia Evelyn Perkins, and 
 they had one son, now deceased. Residence: 
 3353 Eighteenth Street, N. W. Address: 
 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 
 
 RIDLON, John: 
 
 Orthopedic surgeon; born in Clarendon, Vt., 
 Nov. 24, i852; son of Noel P. and Nancy B. 
 (Hulett) Ridlon. He was educated in 
 Tufts College, and the University of Chi- 
 cago, A.B. ; the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons of New York, M.D. ; and re- 
 ceived an honorary A.M. from Tufts Col- 
 lege. Dr. Ridlon's record of orthopedic 
 surgery covers many years of successful 
 treatment and of notable lecture courses in 
 this special branch of surgery, in which 
 the increase of the possiblity of restoring 
 movement and self-helpfulness to the crip- 
 pled has been among the most brilliant of 
 the surgical achievements of the present 
 generation. In this advance Dr. Ridlon has 
 taken a brilliant part. He is orthopedic 
 surgeon to Michael Reese, Mercy, Presby- 
 terian and Evanston Hospitals; surgeon in 
 charge of Home for Destitute Crippled Chil- 
 dren ; was orthopedic surgeon to St. Luke's 
 Hospital, and Wesley, Chicago; assistant and 
 attending orthopedic surgeon to St. Luke's 
 Hospital, New York, for eight years; as- 
 sistant surgeon to the New York Ortho- 
 pedic Hospital and Dispensarj' for seven 
 years; assistant surgeon in charge of ortho- 
 pedic cases at Vanderbilt Clinic for three 
 and a half years; attending orthopedic sur- 
 geon to out patients, Bellevue Hospital, 
 New York, two years ; lecturer on ortho- 
 pedic surgery, medical department of the 
 University of the City of New York, five 
 years; and house physician and house sur- 
 geon (Interne) at St. Luke's Hospital, New 
 York, two years. He is a member of the 
 American Orthopedic Association, the 
 American Medical Association, Illinois Med- 
 ical Society, Cook County Medical Society; 
 director of Home for Destitute Crippled 
 Children, Chicago. He is a member of the 
 Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and the 
 Alpha Kappa Kappa and Alpha Omega 
 Alpha medical fraternities; also of the Uni- 
 versity Club of Chicago and the Glen View 
 (111.) Golf Club, lie was married in New- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 port, R. I., June 4. 1879, Emily Caroline 
 Robinson, and has three sons and' three 
 daughters. Residence: 1717 Chicago Ave- 
 nue, Evanston, 111. Oflice: 72 Madison 
 Street, Chicago. 
 
 RIES, Ellas Elkan: 
 
 Inventor, electrical and mechanical en- 
 gineer; born in Randegg, Baden, Germany, 
 Jan. 16, 1862; son of Elkan Ellas and 
 Rertha (Weil) Ries. He came to the 
 United States in 1865, was educated in 
 New York and Baltimore public schools, 
 the Cooper Institute, New York City, Mary- 
 land Institute, Baltimore, and was a stu- 
 dent in physical science in Johns Hopkins 
 University. He began work, as a telegraph 
 operator with the Gold and Stock and the 
 Western Union Telegraph Companies. He 
 removed to New York City in 1880, becom- 
 ing identified with the development of the 
 electric light industry in the employ of The 
 Edison Company, the United States Elec- 
 tric Illuminating Company, Fuller Alanu- 
 facturing Company and others, and returned 
 to Baltimore in 1884 to devote his atten- 
 tion to developing his inventions in electric 
 signalling, railroading controlling appara- 
 tus and illumination, organizing various 
 companies to push these inventions ; among 
 these being his well-known regulating sock- 
 et, which was the first practicable device 
 for " turning down " or controlling the 
 light or candle-power of incandescent elec- 
 tric lamps without the use of wasteful 
 resistance, thereby placing the incandescent 
 lamp on a par with gas. Also inventor and 
 patentee of the modern alternating current 
 of " converter '' electric railway system, by 
 which the limitations and restrictions of 
 the 500-volt trolley systems were for the 
 first time successfully overcome. The un- 
 derlying principle of electric generation, 
 transmission, conversion and distribution 
 disclosed in these patents made possible the 
 various rapid transit subways and tunnels 
 now operating in New York City, and the 
 electrification of suburban and long-distance 
 steam railways now going on in the United 
 States and other countries. His basic pat- 
 ents on this invention were finally adjudged 
 in his favor after nearly fourteen years' 
 
 litigation, and were purchased by the West- 
 inghouse Electric and Manufacturing Com- 
 pany in 1903. Has taken out over 150 
 patents on various pioneer inventions, 
 many of which are in extenive u.se, some of 
 the more notable being his method of elec- 
 trically welding track-rails, new processes 
 of riveting by electricity, underground elec- 
 tric railway conduit of sub-trolley system 
 now used in New York and otlier large 
 cities, methods and appliances for electric 
 heating and cooking, telephone and tele- 
 phonograph systems and apparatus, etc., 
 among others in general use are his basic 
 patents of Feb 1, 1887 (lately expired), 
 on electric elevator controllers, etc., cover- 
 ing the method and apparatus adopted by 
 the Atis Elevator Co. and others on their 
 electric elevators, and for general motor- 
 starting and braking purposes. Mr. Ries 
 is president and general manager of the 
 U. S. Automatic Telephone Company. He 
 is a member of the American Institute of 
 Electrical Engineers, American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science, American 
 Electrochemical Society, New York Elec- 
 trical Society, American Association of In- 
 ventors and INIanufacturers; and was a 
 member of the International Electrical Con- 
 gress in 1904. He is a registered patent 
 attorney of the United States Patent Office. 
 Mr. Ries married in Baltimore, April 21, 
 1895, Helen, second daughter of Lewis H. 
 and Rebecca Hirshberg, and they have one 
 daughter. Address: 110-116 Nassau Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 RIGGS, John Davis Seaton: 
 
 President of SiiurtlefY College; born in 
 Washington, Pa., Jan. 29, 1851; son of 
 Edward R. and Charlotte A. (Seaton) 
 Riggs. He was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago, A.B., with Phi Beta 
 Kappa honors, 1878, A.M., 1881. He also 
 received the degree of Ph.D. (pro merito) 
 from the University of South Dakota in 
 1891. and L.H.D. (ex honore) from Ewing 
 College in 1901. He was principal of the 
 preparatory department of the old Uni- 
 versity of Cliicago, 1878- 1886, joint prin- 
 cipal of the University Academy of Chi- 
 cago, 1886-1887; organizer and principal 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 of Granville Aoadeiny, Dcnison University, 
 1887-1896. He was president of Ottawa 
 I'niversity, Kansas, 1896-1905, and in 1905 
 he became president of SluirtlefT College. 
 Upper Alton, 111. He is a member of the 
 National Geographic Society; the American 
 Historical League ; corresponding member 
 of the Kansas State Historical Society; 
 was president of the Kansas College Pres- 
 idents' Association. 1899-1905; member of 
 the State Board of Education. 1900-1903; 
 and president of the Kansas College Athletic 
 Conference, 1903-1905. He is also trustee 
 of Shurtleff College, and' a member of the 
 Board of IManagers. American Baptist !Mis- 
 sionary Union of Boston, Mass. He is also 
 a life member of the American Baptist 
 Home Missionary Society, and is a member 
 of the Ohio and Illinois Baptist Conventions. 
 He is the author of: In Latinum (Caesar), 
 1890; and In Latinum (Cicero), 1892. He 
 married in Rockford', 111., Sept. 2, 1879, 
 Mary E. Chaney. Residence: 426 Leverett 
 Avenue. Olllco: Shurtleff College. Upper 
 Alton. 111. 
 
 EIIS, Jacob August: 
 
 Journalist; born in Ribe. Denmark, May 
 3, 1849, emigrated to America in 1870. He 
 Avas reporter on the New York Tribune and 
 Evening Sun : became i\ctive reformer, lec- 
 turer and author of many articles and' books 
 on tenement liouse and poverty conditions; 
 executive ofhecr of Good Government Clubs. 
 1896-1897; secretary of the Small Park 
 Committee, etc. He is the author of: How 
 the Other Half Lives ; The Children of the 
 Poor; The Battle with the Slum; The Mak- 
 ing of an American ; Children of the Ten- 
 ements; Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen; 
 Is Tliere a Santa Clans? etc. He married 
 Elizabeth Nielson, of Ribe, Denmark, in 
 1876. Address: 524 North Beech Street. 
 Richmond Hill, L. L. N. Y. 
 
 RIKER, Albert Burdsall: 
 
 President of Mount Inion College; born 
 in New Albany, Ohio, Oct. 19, 1852; son of 
 Rev. Samuel G. and Amanda (Cochran) 
 Rikcr. He was graduated from the Ohio 
 Wesleyan University, A.B. and A.M., and 
 received from Ohio University the degree of 
 
 D.D. He taught school four years at Lock- 
 bourne and Plain City, Ohio; was pastor 
 of Methodist Episcopal Churches at \Vorth- 
 ington, Ohio, 1879-1881; at Columbus, 1881- 
 1884; at Athens, 1884-1887; Chattanooga, 
 Tenn., 1887-1891; Wheeling, W. Va., 1891.- 
 1896; Charleston, W. Va., 1896-1898; and 
 since then president of Mount Union Col- 
 lege. Dr. Riker married in Dublin, Ohio, 
 Aug. 18, 1881, Mary Edith Davis, and has 
 three sons and a daughter. Residence: 
 1511 Union Avenue. Office: Mount Union 
 College, Alliance, Ohio. 
 
 RILEY, James Whitcomb: 
 
 Poet; born at Greenfield, Ind., in 1854. 
 He began life as a journeyman sign writer; 
 joined a theatrical troupe, re-wrote their 
 plays and improvised songs for them ; in 
 1875 began to publish in local papers poems 
 in the Hoosier dialect; for some years trav- 
 eled about giving readings with the late 
 Bill Nye. He is author of: The Old 
 Swimmin'-Hole and 'Leven More Poems, 
 1881; The Boss Girl, and Other Sketches, 
 1886; Afterwhiles, 1887: Pipes o' Pan at 
 Zekesbury, 1887; The Flying Island of the 
 Xight. 1888; Rhymes of Childhood. 1889; 
 Old Fashioned Roses (in England, 1891); 
 Neighborly Poems, on Friendship, Grief, 
 and Farm Life, 1891; Green Field's and 
 Running Brooks, 1893; Poems Here at 
 Home, 1893; Armazindy. 1894; A Child 
 World, 1896; Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers, 1897; 
 Home Folks, 1900; An Old Sweetheart of 
 Mine, 1902; The Book of Joyous Children, 
 1902; Out to Old Aunt Mary's, 1903; His 
 Pa's Romance, 1903; A Defective Santa 
 Clans, 1904; Songs o' Cheer, 1905; Home 
 Again With Me, 1905; While the Heart 
 Beats Young, 1906; Morning. 1907. Ad- 
 dress: Care Union Trust Company, Indian- 
 apolis, Ind. 
 
 RINER, John A.: 
 
 r. S. judge; born in I'reble County. Ohio, 
 in 1850. After being graduated from the 
 University of Michigan, he went to Wyom- 
 ing, establishing in the practice of law 
 at Cheyenne. He became active in politics, 
 as a Republican; was elected city attorney 
 of Cheyenne in 1881, and U. S. district 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1399 
 
 attorney of Wyoming Territory, under ap- 
 pointment by President Arthur, in 1884. 
 He was elected to the Territorial Council 
 in 1886; was a member of the Constitu- 
 tional Convention of Wyoming in 1889; 
 then elected to the State Senate of Wyom- 
 ing, resigning that office upon his appoint- 
 ment by President Harrison, Sept. 22, 1890, 
 to his present office as U. S. district judge 
 for the District of Wyoming. Addi-ess: 
 Cheyenne, Wyo. 
 
 RIORDAN, Patrick William: 
 
 Archbisliop of San Francisco ; born in 
 New Brunswick, Aug. 27, 1842; went to 
 Chicago in boyhood' and was educated in 
 a private school there, at the University 
 of Notre Dame, Ind. ; and at the Univer- 
 sity of Louvain, Belgium, whence he was 
 graduated in 1864. He became professor 
 of theology in the Seminary of St. IMary's 
 of the Lake until 1868, when he entered on 
 tlie duties of a parish priest at Woodstock, 
 McHenry County, 111., for a short time, 
 then for three years at St. Mary's Church, 
 Joliet. He became rector of St. James' 
 Cliurch, Cliicago, about the time of the 
 Chicago Fire, and continued in those duties 
 for twelve years until consecrated in that 
 church, Sept. 16, 1883, titular bishop of 
 Cabesa. He was appointed coadjutor, with 
 tlie right of succession to the Metropolitan 
 see of San Francisco, and succeeded as 
 archbishop, Dec. 28, 1884. Address: San 
 Francisco, Calif. 
 
 RIVES, George L.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, May 1, 
 1849; son of Francis R. and Matilda (Bar- 
 clay) Rives. He was graduated from Co- 
 lumbia, A.B., 1868, A.M., 1884, and from 
 Columbia Law School. LL.B., 1873. He 
 served as assistant secretary of state of the 
 United States, 1887-1889; chairman of the 
 Charter Revision Committee of the City of 
 New York, 1900; corporation counsel of 
 New York, 1902-1903; director of the Bank 
 of New York, Lawyers' Mortgage Company, 
 Mortgage Bond Company, Mercantile Trust 
 Company, United States Trust Company, 
 Lawyers' Title Insurance and Trust Com- 
 pany; and was formerly and for many years 
 
 a member of the law firm of Olin and Hives. 
 He is a Democrat in politics; is a member of 
 the Delta Psi fraternity; trustee of Colum- 
 bia University, Cooper Union, New York 
 Hospital. Now York Public Library, Burke 
 Memorial Fund, and he is also a member of 
 the Century Association and the Metropoli- 
 tan, Knickerbocker, Down Town, Columbia 
 University, New York Yacht, Seawanhaka- 
 Corinthian Yacht and Tuxedo Clubs. He 
 married, first, in Elizabeth, N. J., May 21, 
 1873, Carolina Morris Kean, who died 
 March 29, 1887; and second, March 20, 
 1889, Sara Swan Whiting, and he has three 
 children. Address: 32 Nassau Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 RIVES-WHEELER, Hallie Erminie: 
 
 Novelist; born in Christian County. Ky., 
 May 2, 1876; daughter of Col. Stephen T. 
 and Mary (Ragsdale) Rives. On her 
 father's side she is descended from Sir .John 
 Rives, of Damory Court, Dorsetshire, Eng- 
 land, and on her mother's side from John 
 Tillotson, archbishoj) of Canterbury. She 
 is a cousin of Amelia, Princess Troubetskoy. 
 She was educated by governesses. She 
 married in the American Embassy at Tokyo, 
 Japan, Dec. 29, 1907, Po.st Wheeler, secre- 
 tary of the American Embassy there. ^Irs. 
 Rives-Wheeler is author of: Smoking Flax; 
 A Furnace of Earth; Hearts Courageous; 
 Tlie Castaway; Tales from Dickens; Satan 
 Sanderson, etc.; and she retains her maiden 
 name of Hallie Erminie Rives as a pen- 
 name. She has traveled in Europe, includ- 
 ing Greece and the jNIediterranean, and in 
 the Orient, particularly Japan. In 1907 
 slie was one of the party accompanying 
 Secretary of War Taft across Siberia. 
 through Russia, Germany, France, etc. Her 
 favorite recreations are horseback riding. 
 shooting, and dogs. Address: Care of Post 
 Wheeler, Department of State, Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 RIXEY, Presley Marion: 
 
 Surgeon-general of the United States 
 Navy; born in Culpeper County, Va.. July 
 14, 1852; son of Presley Morehead and 
 ]\Iary F. (.Tones) Rixey. He was graduated 
 M.D., from the University of Virginia, in 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1873, and attended clinics and hospitals in 
 Philadelphia until early in 1874, when he 
 took the examination before the Naval 
 Examining Board, and was commissioned 
 assistant surgeon in the Xavy, Jan. 28, 
 
 1874. He was first assigned to duty with 
 the receiving ship Sabine, but soon trans- 
 ferred to the Congress, and served on vari- 
 ous otlier vessels until April, 1896, when he 
 was assigned to special duty at Washington. 
 He became physician to the White House 
 in 1898, and accompanied the President on 
 all his journeys and was in Buffalo when 
 President McKinley was assassinated. He 
 had been detailed by the President to ac- 
 company Mrs. McKinley to the Milburn 
 residence, so that he was not immediately 
 on hand when the President was shot, but 
 was promptly summoned, so that he was 
 present and assisted at the operation, and 
 took official charge of the case. He was 
 promoted to surgeon-general, with the rank 
 of rear-admiral, Feb. 5, 1902. He is a 
 member of the American IMedical Associa- 
 tion, the Washington Medical Society and 
 
 . the Association of Military Surgeons. On 
 the occasion of an explosion on the Spanish 
 Caravel, Santa Maria, in the Harbor of 
 New York, in 1893. he rendered prompt 
 and generous assistance to the officers and 
 crew of the vessel, a courtesy which was 
 recognized by the King, who conferred 
 upon him the Order of Naval Merit. Dur- 
 ing, his service as surgeon-general the Med- 
 ical Corps of the Navy has not only been 
 brought to a high point of efficiency as to 
 its personnel, but the naval hospitals have 
 luulergone a change that is practically a 
 revolution, and from a condition of very 
 little credit to the nation, have, by the 
 untiring efTorts of Admiral Rixey, been 
 brought up to the requirements of modern 
 medical science. Address: 909 Sixteenth 
 Street, N. W.. Wasliing-ton, D. C. 
 
 ROACH, Abby Meguire: 
 
 \\ liter; born in IMiilndclpliia, jMarch 5, 
 187G; daughter of Charles A. and Emma E. 
 (Geiselman) Meguire. She was educated in 
 Wellesley Preparatory School, Louisville, 
 Ky., and Wellesley College, class of 1897. 
 She married in Ix)uisville, Ky., June 1, 1899, 
 
 Neill Roach of Louisville. Mrs. Roach 
 wrote stories and poems for children at the 
 age of nine, and at thirteen, wrote an epic 
 (never published), and a novel which ap- 
 peared in a Woman's Magazine in Phila- 
 delphia, and has received several short 
 story prizes. She is author of: Some Suc- 
 cessful Marriages, 1907, and of a series of 
 stories: Their Husbands' Wives, Southern 
 Lights and Shadows, and Life at High Tide ; 
 one in each volume of Harper's Novelettes; 
 and quantities of short and long stories in 
 the Criterion, Cosmopolitan, McClure, Cen- 
 tury and Harpers, also in local papers. She 
 is a member of the Kentucky Humane So- 
 ciety, Authors, Woman's, Musical, Woman's 
 Suffrage, and Art Clubs of Louisville. Ad- 
 dress: 226 East Ormsby Avenue, Louis- 
 ville, Ky. 
 
 ROACH, John B.: 
 
 Shipbuilder; born in New York City, 
 Dec. 7, 1839 ; son of the famous ship- 
 builder, John Roach. He was educated in 
 the Ashland Collegiate Institute, Green 
 County, New York. Mr. Roach began his 
 business life in a wholesale coffee establish- 
 ment, but later entered his father's office, 
 leaving it for a time on account of ill- 
 health. The elder Roach conducted' an ex- 
 tensive engine building business, and had 
 developed an immense trade in the Etna 
 Iron Works. He purchased the Morgan 
 Iron Works in 1867, and took in his son 
 as partner, the firm name being John Roach 
 and Son. A very large shipbuilding busi- 
 ness grew up under the new firm, over one 
 tliousand hands being employed. In 1871, 
 when a large shipyard was purchased at 
 Chester, Pa., the son, John B., was placed 
 in charge of this, which was run under the 
 title of the Delaware River Iron Shipbuild- 
 ing and Engine Works. Here, at times, 
 more than two thousand hands were em- 
 ployed, and a great sliipbuilding plant was 
 developed under Mr. Roach's supervision. 
 .Many large iron vessels were built for the 
 Pacific Mail, the Mallory and various other 
 sloamsliip companies, and in 1883 the firm 
 contracted to build the cruisers Chicago, 
 Boston, Atlanta and Dolphin, the pioneer 
 ships of the New American Navy. A hos- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1401 
 
 tile Naval Board refused to accept the Dol- 
 phin in 1885, on the plea that the contract 
 was not binding, the result being tiie ruin 
 of John Roach's business and his deatii. 
 The company was reorganized by Jolin B. 
 Roach becoming i)residcnt of the Delaware 
 River Works, and vice-president of tlie Mor- 
 gan Iron Company, and the business has 
 grown to be very prosperous, many large 
 vessels having been built. Address: Ches- 
 ter, Pa. 
 
 ROBBINS, Alfred A.: 
 
 jNIerchant, miner; born in Harvard, Mass., 
 July, 1837; son of Dr. Augustus and Julian- 
 na W. Robbins; great-grandson of Lieut. 
 Jacob Robbins who fought in the battles of 
 Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill. He 
 was educated in the Brooklyn public school 
 and by a private tutor. Since 1857 he has 
 conducted' a cracker and flour business; and 
 for thirtA'-five years he has been a miner 
 and dealer in minerals and clays. He was 
 a candidate for Congress; one of the original 
 members of the Twenty-third Regiment of 
 the National Guard of New York, in which 
 he served in the Gettysburg campaign; pres- 
 ident of the A. A. Robbins Mining Com- 
 pany. In politics Mr. Robbins is a Repub- 
 lican, and in his religious faith a Presby- 
 terian. He has been a member of the Board 
 of National Temperance Society since its 
 organization in 1866 and of the Board' of 
 the American Sabbath Union, since 1898; 
 was for several years president of the Tem- 
 perance Society of Dr. Cuyler's Lafayette 
 Avenue Presbyterian Church, and was presi- 
 dent of the Central Temperance Association 
 of Kings County, N. Y., for six years; New 
 York State Sabbath Association from the 
 date of its organization in 1890, and for 
 some years its president ; president of the 
 Kings County Sunday Observance Associa- 
 tion for eighteen years, and member of vari- 
 ous other benevolent and philanthropic so- 
 cieties. He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 Oct. 27, 1881, Anna Barnes. Address: 037 
 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 ROBERTS, Ernest W.: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in East 
 Madison, Maine, Nov. 22, 1858; was edu- 
 
 cated at the lliglilaiid Military Academy 
 of Worcester, Mass.; graduated from Bos- 
 ton University Law School, and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1881, and has since 
 practised law in Boston. He was a member 
 of the City Council of Chelsea, 1887-1888; 
 was elected a member of the Massachusetts 
 House of Representatives of 1894, 18!)5, and 
 18!)(!; was elected a member of the Massa- 
 chusetts Senate of 1897 and 1898; and was 
 elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, 
 Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty- 
 first Congresses from the Seventh Massa- 
 chusetts District. ^Fr. Roberts is a Repub- 
 lican in politics, and during his service in 
 Congress has been a prominent member of 
 the House Committee on Naval Affairs. Ad- 
 dress: Chelsea, Mass. 
 
 ROBERTS, George H., Jr.: 
 
 Postmaster of Brooklyn; born in Roches- 
 ter, N. Y., 1852. At the age of ten he went 
 with his family to St. Louis, and he was 
 educated' there, until fourteen years old, 
 when he removed to Brooklyn, then becom- 
 ing a student in the Brooklyn Polytechnic 
 Institute and one year at Dresden, Ger- 
 many. In 1873 he entered the employ of 
 Roberts and Colin, flour merchants of New 
 York City, and later succeeded his uncle, 
 George H. Roberts, as a member of the firm. 
 For years he has been a member of the New 
 York Produce Exchange. He is also a 
 member and a trustee of the Emmanuel 
 Baptist Church, and a charter member of 
 the old Franklin Literary Society. He is 
 a Repiiblican; was delegate to the St. Louis 
 and Philadelphia conventions which nom- 
 inated McKinley, who. before going on that 
 fatal trip to Buffalo, had promised, not 
 only on the score of party service, but also 
 on that of personal friendship, to appoint 
 Mr. Roberts to the postmastership. Ap- 
 pointed by President Roosevelt, and his 
 nomination readily confirmed by the Sen- 
 ate, in Dec, 1901. At that time he was 
 chairman of the Republican City Committee 
 of the Greater New Y'ork, a position which 
 he resigned. He is a member of the Union 
 LeagTie of Brooklyn, N. Y., and the Marine 
 and Field Club of New Y'ork. Address: 
 Post Office, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
1402 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ROBERTS, Henry: 
 
 Former governor of Connecticut; born in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1853; son of 
 George and Elvira (Evans) Roberts. 
 He was educated in Yale College and 
 Yale and Columbia Law Schools. He was 
 alderman of Hartford, 1897-1899; chairman 
 of the Republican State Committee, 1897- 
 1901 ; State representative from Hartford, 
 1899-1901; State senator of the First Con- 
 necticut District, 1901-1903; lieutenant-gov- 
 ernor, 1903-1905: and governor of Con- 
 necticut, 1905-1907. He is president of the 
 Hartford Woven Wire Mattress Company, 
 and of the Hartford Bedstead Company ; 
 also director of the Phoenix National Bank, 
 the Hartford Trust Company, the State Sav- 
 ings Bank, the Hartford Electric Light 
 Company, the Farmington River Power 
 Company, and the West Side Medicine Com- 
 pany of New York; and is trustee of the 
 States Academy, of Winston, North Caro- 
 lina, and of the Young Men's Christian As- 
 sociation Training School of Springfield, 
 Mass. He is a member of the Sons of the 
 Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Guild 
 of Organists of New York City, the Psi 
 Upsilon Beta and Theta Psi fraternities. 
 He married in Bridgeport, Conn., Oct. 4, 
 1880, Carrie E. Smith, and has two sons. 
 Residence: 129 Lafayette Street, Hartford, 
 Office: 618 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 ROBERTS, Ina Brevoort: 
 
 Writer and editor; born in Yonkcrs, 1874; 
 daughter of ^\'ellard and Frances J. (Haw- 
 kins) Roberts. She was educated in Maple- 
 wood Institute, Concordsville, Pa., and Eliz- 
 abeth Grammar School, also Newark High 
 School. She married in New York, 1895, 
 James Edwards Roberts. Mrs. Roberts is 
 author of: The Lifting of a Finger, and 
 short stories in Lippincott's, Ladies' Home 
 Journal, Munsey's, and the Success; editor 
 of: The Club Woman's Weekly, and Club 
 Women of New York. She is a member of 
 the Woman's Press, Pen and Brush, Miner- 
 va, Post Parliament, Woman's Republican, 
 The Rainy Day, Century Theatre Clubs, and 
 the New York City Federation of Women's 
 Clubs. Address: 289 Fourth Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 ROBERTSON, Harrison: 
 
 Editor and author; born in Murfreesboro, 
 Tenn., Jan. 16, 1856; son of Thomas and 
 Elizabeth (Elliott) Robertson. He was ed- 
 ucated in Union University, Tenn., and Uni- 
 versity of Virginia. He is author of: If I 
 Were a Man, Red Blood and Blue, The In- 
 lander, The Opponents, The Pink Typhoon, 
 How the Derby Was Won, etc.; is associate 
 editor of the Louisville Courier Journal. 
 Mr. Robertson married in Louisville, Ky., 
 1906, Marion Richardson. Address: Louis- 
 ville, Ky. 
 
 ROBERTSON, James Alexander: 
 
 Editor; born in Corry, Pa., Aug. 19, 1873; 
 son of John McGregor and Elizabeth (Bor- 
 rowman) Robertson. He was graduated 
 from Adelbert College of Western Reserve 
 University, from which he received the 
 degree of Ph.B., 1896, and received its hon- 
 orary degree of L.H.D. in 1908. Mr. Rob- 
 ertson was proof reader of Thwaites edition 
 of Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, 
 1896-1901 ; assistant compiler of the index 
 of the same series; assistant to the editor of 
 the Iron Trade Review, 1900; co-editor with 
 Miss E. H. Blair on the series The Philip- 
 pine Islands: 1493-1898, 1902-1908; trans- 
 lator and editor of JNIagellan's Voyage 
 Around the World, by Antonio Pigafetta, 
 1906; and Bibliography of the Philippine 
 Islands, 1908. He has traveled extensively 
 in Europe for archival research. He is a 
 member of the American Historical Asso- 
 ciation, the American Modern Language As- 
 sociation, and the National Geographic So- 
 ciety. Address: Madison, Wis. 
 
 ROBERTSON, Morgan: 
 
 Author; born at Oswego, N. Y., Sept. 30, 
 1861; son of Andrew and Ruth (Glassford) 
 Robertson. He was educated in the public 
 schools and Cooper Union, and is a well 
 known author of short stories and novels of 
 the life of the sea. Mr. Robertson is author 
 of: Spun Yarn; Futility; A Tale of a 
 Halo; ^\'llere Angels Fear to Tread; Mas- 
 ters of Men; Shipmates; Sinful Peck; Down 
 to the Sea; Land Ho; Finnegan. He mar- 
 ried, May 27, 1894, Alice M. Doyle. Ad- 
 dress: 41 West 24th Street, New York City. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1403 
 
 ROBINSON, Beverley Randolph: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, June 
 24, 1876; son of Beverley and Anna E. 
 (Foster) Robinson. He was ^I'^^fl^ii-ted 
 from Harvard, A.B., 1898, Columbia Kiw 
 School. LL.B., 1901. He was admitted to 
 the bar in October, 1900, and has since been 
 engao-ed in law practice in New York City. 
 Mr. Robinson was elected to the Board of 
 Aldermen, of New York City, serving, 1904- 
 1900. and as a member of the General As- 
 sembly of the State of New Y'ork, 1907, 
 1908 and 1909. He is vice-president of 
 the Twenty-seventh Assembly District Re- 
 publican Club; corporator of the Five 
 Points House of Industry; member and sec- 
 retary of the Board of Managers of the 
 New York Infant Asylum. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Phi 
 Delta Phi fraternity. Association of the 
 Bar of the City of New Y'ork, Sons of 
 the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, 
 St. Nicholas Society, and of the Knicker- 
 bockei-. Union, University, Century, Down 
 Town, Harvard, Seawanhaka-Corinthian 
 Yacht (trustee), and Republican Clubs of 
 New York and Fort Orange Club of Al- 
 bany. N. Y. Resience: 42 West 37th Street. 
 Office: 49 Wall street. New Y^ork City. 
 
 ROBINSON, Charles Mulford: 
 
 Author, and specialist in municipal a;s- 
 thetics and town planning; born in Ramajjo, 
 N. Y., April 30, 1869. He was graduated 
 from the University of Rochester, A.B., 1891, 
 and A. M. (honoris causa), 1905. Mr. Rob- 
 inson has made a life study of civic condi- 
 tions and the possibilities of improvement 
 in numicipal government. He is author of 
 Tile Improvement of Towns and Cities, now 
 in the fifth reprint (1903); Modern Civic 
 Art (1905); and The Call of the City. 
 Since 1903 he has been constantly employed 
 in making improvement reports and plan- 
 ning for town and city improvements, 
 among the municipalities which have availed 
 themselves of his services being Buffalo, De- 
 troit, Columbus. Syracuse, Denver, Colorado 
 Springs, Honolulu, Oakland, Watertown, 
 Jamestown (N. Y".), Ogdensburg, Pitts- 
 burg. Dubuque, Cedar Rapids, Ridgewood 
 ( N. J. ) ; Los Angeles, San Jose and Santa 
 
 Barbara, Calif.. Fort Wayne, hid., and 
 otlier cities. He is a member of tiie Archi- 
 tectural League of America; the American 
 Civic Association; an lionorary member of 
 the Public Paik Association of Providence; 
 tiie Outdoor Art League of San Francisco; 
 " Scapa " of England; the Psi Upsilon fra- 
 ternity; a eorresiionding member of the 
 20th Century Chil) of Boston; a member of 
 the executive committee. Chamber of Com- 
 merce, Rochester, N. Y^,' a director of the 
 Children's Playground League of Rochester, 
 and a member of tiie State Committee on 
 Congestion of Poimlatioii ; incmlicr of Na- 
 tional Arts Club of New ^Oik. He was 
 married in Albany, New York, April 8, 
 1890, to Eliza Ten Eycke Pruyn, and re- 
 sides at 05 South Washington Street, 
 Rochester, New York. 
 
 ROBINSON, De Lorme Wilson: 
 
 Physician and surgeon; born in Pulaski, 
 Pa., Oct. 26, 1854; son of William Miller 
 and Adeline (Stuart) Robinson. He was 
 educated in Allegheny College, Mead- 
 ville. Pa., Medical Department of Wooster 
 University, Cleveland, Ohio, and Kentucky 
 School of Medicine, M.D., 1882. He was 
 president, 1893-1896, and superintendent and 
 ex officio secretary, 1903-1907, of the South 
 Dakota State Board of Health : surgeon to 
 St. Mary's Hospital, Pierre, S. D. ; surgeon 
 to the Chicago and Northwestern Railway 
 Company; district surgeon to the Pierre, 
 Rapid City and Northwestern Railway; 
 member of the American ^ledical Associa- 
 tion, National Association of Railway Sur- 
 geons, American Anti-Tuberculosis Society, 
 South Dakota State Medical Society, pres- 
 ident of the South Dakot.a Historical So- 
 ciety ; and member of the National Geo- 
 graphical Society. He is a ilason and 
 Knight Teni])lar. He edited : History of 
 Dakota Territory in the Collections of South 
 Dakota History, 1902, and has written on 
 otlier historical and archaeological sub- 
 jects; contributor on medical subjects: Tu- 
 berculosis Among the Sioux Indians; Me- 
 teriological Conditions and Public Health, 
 etc. He married in Pierre. S. D.. Dec. 29, 
 1886. Kate M. Blackburn, and has three 
 children. Address: Pierre, South Dakota. 
 
1404 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ROBINSON, Douglas: 
 
 Cajntalist. He was graduated from Uni- 
 versity of Oxford in 1876; is president and 
 director of the Douglas Robinson, Charles 
 S. Brown and Company, and the Dough\s 
 Land Company; trustee of the Atlantic ]\Iu- 
 tual Insurance Company, and the Real Es- 
 tate Trust Company; director of the Amer- 
 ican Insurance Company, Astor National 
 Bank, Realty Associates, and Stuyvesan 
 Real Estate Company. He is a member of 
 the University, Down Town, Church, Essex 
 County and Country Clubs. He married 
 Corinne Roosevelt (sister of ex-President 
 Roosevelt), and they have three children. 
 Residence: 422 Madison Avenue. Address: 
 ICO Broadway, New York City. 
 
 ROBINSON, Edward: 
 
 Museum official; born in Boston, Nov. 1, 
 1858; son of Edwin A. and Ellen (Coburn) 
 Robinson. He was graduated from Harvard 
 A.B., 1879; attended the University of Ber- 
 lin, 1883-1885; and received from the Uni- 
 versity of Aberdeen, Scotland, the degree of 
 L.L.D. in 1905. He traveled and studied in 
 Europe, 1881-1885, and at subsequent pe- 
 riods. He was curator of classical antiqui- 
 ties of the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, 
 1885-1902, director 1902-1905; lecturer on 
 classical archaeology in Harvard University, 
 1893-1894, and 1898-1902; honorary pro- 
 fessor of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Colum- 
 bia University, since 1906. He has been as- 
 sistant director of the Metropolitan Museum 
 of Art, New York City, since 1906; is vice- 
 president of the Archaeological Institute of 
 America ; member of the Council of the 
 American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 
 and trustee of the American Academy of 
 Rome. He married in Boston, February 21, 
 1881, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Gould, 
 and they have one son. Address: Metro- 
 politan Museum of Art, New York City. 
 
 ROBINSON, Henry Douglas: 
 
 .Mi--ioiiaiy bishop of Nevada; born in 
 I^weli, Mass., March 15, 18G0; son of Alex- 
 ander Douglas and Clara (Boate) Robin- 
 son. He was graduated from Racine (Wis.) 
 College, B.A.. 1884, M.A., 1887, and was a 
 student in the University of Chicago, 1885. 
 
 In 1886 he received deacon's orders and in 
 1888 was ordained priest in the ministry 
 of the Episcopal Church. He taught math- 
 ematics in the Military Academy at San 
 Mateo, Calif., 1885-1889; became head mas- 
 ter of the grammar school of Racine Col- 
 lege, 1889-1900, then warden of Racine Col- 
 lege until consecrated in 1907 missionary 
 bishop of Nevada. He married in Racine, 
 Wis., July 12, 1883, Florence Bruce. Ad- 
 dress: Reno, Nev. 
 
 ROBINSON, James Harvey: 
 
 Professor of liistory; born in Blooming- 
 ton, 111., June 29, 1863; son of James Har- 
 vey and Latricia Maria (Drake) Robinson. 
 He was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 
 1887; A.M., 1888; Freiberg, Ph.D., 1890. 
 He was lecturer in European History, Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, 1891-1892; asso- 
 ciate professor, 1892-1895; professor of his- 
 tory, at Columbia University since 1895; 
 was acting dean of Barnard College, 1900- 
 1901. He is author (with Professor H. W. 
 Roffe) of: Petrarch the First Modern 
 Scholar, 1898; History of Western Europe, 
 1903; Readings in European History, 2 vol- 
 umes, 1904-1905, and, collaborating with 
 Professor C. A. Beard, Development of 
 Modern Europe, two volumes, 1907, and 
 accompanying Readings in Modern Euro- 
 pean History, two volumes, 1908-1909. He 
 is a member of the Century Association of 
 New York City. He married in Blooming- 
 ton, 111., 1887, Grace Woodville Read. Resi- 
 dence: 567 West 113th Street. Office: 
 Columbia University, New York City. 
 
 ROBINSON, Joseph Taylor: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born August 
 26, 1872. He was educated in the Uni- 
 versity of Arkansas, and began the practice 
 of law in 1895. Mr. Robinson was elected 
 to the General Assembly of the State of 
 Arkansas in 1894 and served in the session 
 of 1895; was nominated presidential elector 
 on the Democratic ticket in 1896, but was 
 retired under the direction of the National 
 Democratic Connnittee when the fusion 
 ticket was formed in order to make room 
 for the fusionists; was presidential elector 
 for the Sixth Congressional District of Ar- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1406 
 
 kansas in 1000; and selected as electoral 
 messenger, which duty was performed in 
 January, 1901. He was elected as a Demo- 
 crat to tlie Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth, 
 Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses from 
 the Sixtli Arkansas District. He mar- 
 ried, December 15, 1896, Ewilda Gertrude 
 INIillcr. Address: I.onoke, Ark. 
 
 ROBSON, James A.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Gorhani, Ontario County, 
 N. Y., Jan. 1., 1861; son of John and Isa- 
 bella (Tclfar) Robson. He was graduated 
 from Canandaigua Academy, from Yale, 
 B.A., 1873, and from Columbia, LL.B., 1876. 
 On Oct. 19, 1903, he was appointed justice 
 of the Supreme Court of the State of New 
 York; and he was elected in Nov., 1904, 
 for the term expiring Dec. 31, 1918. He 
 was appointed associate justice of the Ap- 
 pellate Division of the Fourth Department, 
 Jan. 1, 1907. He is trustee of the Clifton 
 Springs Sanitarium. Address: Canandai- 
 gua, N. Y. 
 
 ROCKEFELLER, John Davison: 
 
 Capitalist; born in Richford, Tioga Coun- 
 ty, N. Y., July 8, 1839; son of William 
 Avery and Eliza (Davison) Rockefeller. 
 He was educated in the public schools. He 
 went to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853 and in 1855 
 obtained employment in the commission 
 house of Hewett & Tuttle. In 1858 he be- 
 came partner in commission firm of Clark 
 & Rockefeller; in 1862 became associated 
 with Samuel Andrews , an expert oil re- 
 finer, and under firm name of Andrews, 
 Clark & Company engaged extensively in 
 the oil business. William Rockefeller, a 
 brother, was admitted, and a new company, 
 William Rockefeller & Company, was 
 formed, which, in 1865, built at Cleveland 
 a large refinery, known as the Standard 
 Oil Refinery; later an eastern branch was 
 established at New York City with Henry 
 M. Flagler as an additional partner; in 
 1870 the several firms were combined as 
 the Standard Oil Company, with a capital 
 of $1,000,000 with John D. Rockefeller as 
 president; subsequently other organizations 
 were formed practically controlling the en- 
 tire oil business of the country. He organ- 
 
 ized in 1882 the Standard Oil Trust, but it 
 was dissolved in 1892, and since then vari- 
 ous companies have been operated sepa- 
 rately, but under identical control. Mr. 
 Rockefeller's benefactions have been large. 
 In 1892 he founded and endowed the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago, to which he has since 
 made many gifts, the total aggregating 
 nearly $15,000,000. To the General Educa- 
 tion Board, incorporated in 1903, he gave 
 first $1,000,000, then in 1905, $10,000,000, 
 and in February, 1907, $32,000,000 for the 
 purposes of education; has given also $1,- 
 000,000 to Yale, large sums to Vassar, Mount 
 Holyoke and Barnard colleges; endowed the 
 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in 
 New York City, and other institutions ; and 
 has been a generous benefactor to Baptist in- 
 stitutions. He is a member of the Fifth 
 Avenue Baptist Church, New York City, and 
 of the Sons of the American Revolution. 
 He is also a member of the Union League 
 Club. He married in Cleveland, Ohio, Sept 
 8, 1864, Laura C. Spelman, and they had 
 four children: Bessie, born in 1866, mar- 
 ried, in 1889, Professor Charles A. Strong, 
 and died in 1900; Alta, born in 1871 and 
 married E. Parmalee Prentice; Edith, born 
 in 1872 and married, in 1895, Harold F. Mc- 
 Cormick; and John D., Jr., born in 1874. 
 He has a large estate at Tarrytown, New 
 York, and a home at Cleveland, Ohio. Res- 
 idence: 4 West 54th Street. Address: 26 
 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 ROCKEFELLER, John Davison, Jr.: 
 
 Capitalist; born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 
 1874; son of John Davison and Laura C. 
 (Spelman) Rockefeller. He was graduated 
 from Brown University, A.B., in 1877. 
 Since leaving college associated with his 
 father in his business enterprises; he is di- 
 rector of various business corporations. He 
 is a member of the General Education 
 Board: also a member of the University, 
 Alpha Delta Phi, City, :VIidday and City 
 Clubs. He married in Providence, R. I., 
 in 1901, Abby Greene Aldrich, daughter of 
 U. S. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode 
 Island. They have a daughter and a son. 
 Residence: 13 West 54th Street. Address: 
 26 Broadway, New York City. 
 
1406 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 ROCKEFELLER, William: 
 
 Capitalist; born in Richford, Tioga 
 County, New York. May 31, 1841; son of 
 William Avery and Eliza (Davison) Rocke- 
 feller. He was educated in the schools of 
 Oswego, N. Y., and Cleveland, Ohio, becom- 
 ing a resident of the latter city in 1853. 
 He began his business career as bookkeeper 
 and later was a partner of a firm in the 
 produce commission trade; afterward be- 
 came associated with the oil firm of An- 
 drews, Clark and Company (of which his 
 brother, John D. Rockefeller, was a mem- 
 ber), and subsequently a new firm was 
 formed under the name of William Rocke- 
 feller and Company, which built in 1865 
 the Standard Oil Refinery, and was later 
 reorganized as the Standard Oil Company, 
 and has ever since been connected with that 
 company, its successors and associated in- 
 terests. He is now president of the Stan- 
 dard Oil Company of New Y'ork, and officer 
 and director in many other corporations. 
 He is a member of the Union League, Metro- 
 politan, Automobile of America, Riding, 
 Ardsley, New Y'ork Y'acht, and Jekyl Clubs. 
 He married in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1864, 
 Almira Geraldine Goodsell, and they have 
 four children. Residence: 689 Fifth Ave- 
 nue, New Y'ork City. 
 
 ROCKEFELLER, William Goodsell: 
 
 Capitalist; born in New York City, in 
 1870; son of William and Almira G. (Good- 
 sell) Rockefeller; he was graduated from 
 Yale, A.B. in 1892. Since leaving college 
 he has associated with the Standard Oil 
 Company and its allied interests ; now treas- 
 urer of the Standard Oil Company of New 
 Y'ork and director in various corporations. 
 He is a member of the Union, Metropolitan. 
 Apawamis Golf, Calumet, Riding, Knoll- 
 wood, University, Alpha Delta Phi and the 
 Yale Clubs. He married in 1896, Elsie Still- 
 man. Residence: 292 Madison Avenue. Ad- 
 dress: 26 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 ROCKHILL, William Woodville: 
 
 Diplomat; born in Pliiladelphia, in 1854; 
 son of Thomas Cadwalader and Dorothy 
 Anna (Woodville) Rockhill. He was edu- 
 
 cated in the schools of Paris (France), 
 and in 1884 began his diplomatic ca- 
 reer upon his appointment as second sec- 
 retary of the American Legation at Peking. 
 He was appointed secretary of that lega- 
 tion in 1885, and was charge d'afTaires in 
 Korea, 1886-1887. He was occupied with 
 two journeys of exploration in China, 
 Mongolia and Thibet between 1888 and 
 1892, was chief clerk of the. State Depart- 
 ment of the United States, 1893-1894, was 
 third assistant secretary of State of the 
 United States in 1894-1895, and in 1896 
 was promoted to first assistant secretary of 
 State. In 1897 he was appointed envoy 
 extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary 
 of the United States to Greece, Roumania 
 and Servia, resigning that post in May, 
 1899, and became director of the Bureau of 
 the American Republic, 1899-1905. He was 
 appointed commissioner of the United 
 States to China in July, 1900, and was pleni- 
 potentiary of the United States to the Con- 
 gress of Peking, Feb. to Sept., 1901, and 
 in that capacity signed the final protocol on 
 Sept. 7, 1901. In 1905 he resigned his posi- 
 tion as director of the Bureau of American 
 Republics, upon being appointed by Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt to his present position as 
 envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo- 
 tentiary of the United States to the Chi- 
 nese Empire. ]Mr. Rockhill is distinguished 
 not only as a skilful diplomat, but also for 
 his thorough familiarity with Oriental af- 
 fairs. He is the author of several works 
 and contributions to periodical literature 
 on Oriental travel, history and religion. 
 He married at Litchfield, Conn., in April, 
 1900, Edith H. Perkins. Address: Ameri- 
 can Legation, Peking, China. 
 
 ROCKWELL, Alfonso D.: 
 
 Physician; born in New Canaan, Conn., 
 May 18, 1840; son of David S. and 
 Betty (Comstock) Rockwell. He was grad- 
 uated from Kenyon College. Ohio, as 
 A.B. and from Bellevue Hospital Medical 
 College, New York, as M.D. He is author 
 of works on medical and surgical electricity, 
 neurasthenia or nervous exhaustion and 
 numerous monographs on electro-therapeu- 
 tics and neurological subjects. He is neu- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1407 
 
 rologist to the Flushing Hospital; formerly 
 professor of the New York Post-Graduate 
 Medical School and Hospital; electro-thera- 
 peutist to the Woman's Hospital in the 
 State of New York; and during the Civil 
 War was surgeon of the Sixth Ohio Volun- 
 teer Cavalry. He is a member of the Mili- 
 tary Order of the Loyal Legion and of the 
 Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Dr. Eockwell 
 married' in New York City, 1868, Susie Lan- 
 don, and they have four children. Address: 
 The Sydenham, 610 Madison Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 ROCKWELL, Henry Noyes: 
 
 New York State railroad commissioner; 
 born in Utica. N. Y., July 4, 1849; son of 
 Henry and Margaret (Noyes) Rockwell. 
 He was graduated from the Utica (N. Y.) 
 Academy. He was connected with the New 
 York Central Railroad from 1865 to 1905, 
 as telegraph operator, superintendent, chief 
 clerk, train dispatcher and passenger train 
 conductor. After a service of forty years 
 with the New York Central Railroad, he 
 was chosen from a list of seventy-three ap- 
 plicants and appointed by Governor Higgins 
 as State railroad commissioner, to repre- 
 sent the railroad men of the State of New 
 York, Dec. 4, 1905. He married at Hyde 
 Park, N. J., Nov. 12, 1870, Marion Stuart 
 Cutwater, and they have three children. 
 Address: 36 Saint Andrew's Place, Yon- 
 kers, N. Y. 
 
 RODENBECK, Adolph J.: 
 
 Jurist; he was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of Rochester in 1885; law student, 
 Rochester, N. Y., 1885-1887; resided in 
 New York City in 1887; in Europe in 1888; 
 practised law in Rochester, N. Y., 1888; sec- 
 ond assistant city attorney in 1892 ; first 
 assistant, 1892-1894; member of the State 
 Assembly from the Second District of Mon- 
 roe County, 1899-1901; mayor of the City of 
 Rochester, 1902-1903; judge of the Court of 
 Claims of the State of New York, since 
 1903; chairman of the Board of Statutory 
 Consolidation, State of New York, 1904. 
 Address : 728 Powers Building, Rochester, 
 N. Y. 
 
 RODENBERG, William A.: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born near 
 Chester, Randolpii County, 111., Oct. 30, 
 1865. He was educated in the public schools, 
 and was graduated from Central Wesleyan 
 College, Warrenton, Mo., in 1884. He was 
 engaged in the profession of teacliing for 
 seven years; attended the St. Louis Law 
 School, and was admitted to the bar in 1890. 
 He was a delegate to the National Republi- 
 can Convention in 1896, and in 1898 was 
 elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress from the 
 Twenty-first Illinois District, serving 1899- 
 1901; was appointed by President McKin- 
 ley, March 25, 1901, a United States civil 
 service commissioner, and resigned April 1, 
 1902, in order to become a candidate for 
 Congress in the new Twenty-second Dis- 
 trict of Illinois; and he was elected to the 
 Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Six- 
 ty-first Congresses. Address: East St. 
 Louis, 111. 
 
 RODGERS, James Linn: 
 
 Consular officer; born in Columbus, Ohio, 
 Sept. 10, 1801; son of Andrew D. and Eliza 
 (Sullivant) Rodgers. He was educated in 
 various schools and the Ohio State Univer- 
 sity, engaged in newspaper work as editor 
 of the Columbus Despatch, 1889-1895; be- 
 came secretary to the Governor of Ohio, 
 1896-1900, then engaged in business life un- 
 til he was appointed consul-general at 
 Shanghai, March 8, 1905; appointed consul- 
 general at Habana, April 15, 1907. He 
 married in Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 25, 1893, 
 Frances C. Fay. Address: American Con- 
 sulate General, Habana, Cuba. 
 
 RODGERS, Raymond P.: 
 
 Rear Admiral, U. S. Navj'; born in the 
 District of Columbia; son of the late Rear- 
 Admiral C. R. P. Rodgers, one of the most 
 distinguished officers in the navj*. He en- 
 tered the Naval Academy, July 25, 1864; 
 graduated, 1868; promoted ensign, 1869; 
 commissioned' lieutenant, 1872, lieutenant 
 commander. He served in various stations 
 and assignments of sea and shore duty; be- 
 came Naval attache at Paris, St. Petersburg 
 and Madrid, 1892-1897; served on the bat- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 tleship Iowa, 1897-1899; took part in the 
 blockade of Cuba and the engagements off 
 San Juan and Santiago, and in the battle 
 of the third of July, 1898; promoted com- 
 mander, March 3, 1899; advanced five num- 
 bers for meritorious service in the battle of 
 third of July off Santiago; commanding 
 Nashville, 1899-1900, in Cuba, Philippines 
 and in China; aid to the Admiral of the 
 Navy, and member of General Board, 1901 ; 
 Na^y Yard, New York, 1901-1904; with 
 North Atlantic Fleet, 1904 and 1905. Pro- 
 moted to captain, March 21, 1903. Chief 
 intelligence officer, April 6, 190G. Promoted 
 to Rear Admiral, July 4, 1908. Address: 
 Navy Department, Washington, D. C. 
 
 ROEBLING, Ferdinand W.: 
 
 Capitalist; born in Saxonburgh, Butler 
 County, Pa., Feb. 27, 1842; son of John A. 
 and Johanna (Herting) Roebling. He was 
 educated at the Polytechnic College, Phila- 
 delphia. He is president and director of 
 the Trenton Brass and Machine Company, 
 Union Mills Paper Manufacturing Com- 
 pany; secretary and director of John A. 
 Roebling's Sons Company of New York; 
 treasurer and' director of the New Jersey 
 Wire Cloth Company; director of the Equi- 
 table Life Assurance Society of the United 
 States, Interstate Railways Company, Me- 
 chanics' National Bank (Trenton, New Jer- 
 sey), ]Mercer County Traction Company, 
 Otis Elevator Company, Public Service Cor- 
 poration, Standard Fire Insurance Company, 
 Trenton Flint and Spar Company, Trenton 
 Potteries Company, Trenton Street Railway 
 Company, Wilkes-Barre and Wyoming Trac- 
 tion Company, Rochester, Syracuse and 
 Eastern Railroad, United Power and Trans- 
 portation Company, Trenton Transportation 
 Company, Trenton, Hamilton and Ewing 
 Traction Company. Ho married in Trenton, 
 N. J., March 14, 1867, Margaret G. Allison. 
 Residence: Trenton, N. J. Address: 117 
 Liberty Street, New York City. 
 
 ROGERS, Alfred Thomas: 
 
 Lawyer; lioni in St. .Tosppli, Mo., IMay 18, 
 1873; son of John and Martha (McBride) 
 Rogers. He attended the University of 
 South Dakota, and was graduated from the 
 
 University of Wisconsin, LL.B. He is of 
 the law firm of La Follette and Rogers of 
 Madison, Wis. He v/as a delegate to the Re- 
 publican National Convention, Chicago, 
 1908, Second Congressional District of Wis- 
 consin; elected member of the Republican 
 National Committee, Chicago, 1908. He is 
 a member of the Delta Tau Delta and Phi 
 Delta Phi fraternities. Address: 119 West 
 Main Street. Madison, Wis. 
 
 ROGERS, Arthur: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Providence, R. L, Oct. 
 26, 1864; son of Horatio and Lucia (Water- 
 man) Rogers. He was graduated from 
 Brown University, B.A., 1886, the Episcopal 
 Theological School, Cambridge, B.D., 1889, 
 D.D. from Brown LTniversity in 1909. He j 
 was rector of St. George's Church, Central 
 Falls, R. I., 1892-1899, rector of Holy Trin- 
 ity Church, West Chester, Pa., since 1899; 
 Bohlen lecturer in Philadelphia, 1909. He 
 is author of: Men and Movements in the 
 English Church, 1898, Prophecy and Poetry; 
 Studies in Isaiah and Browning, 1909; is a 
 member of the Psi Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, 
 and the Rhode Island Society of the Cincin- 
 nati. Dr. Rogers married' in Newport, R. I., 
 June 16, 1892, Cornelia Arnold, and they 
 have four children. Address : The Rectory, 
 West Chester, Pa. 
 
 ROGERS, Charlotte Boardman: 
 
 Author and editor; born in Bridgeton, N. 
 J., Dec. 24, 1878 ; daughter of .John Brown 
 and Sara Chester (Jones) Rogers. She 
 was educated in Dearborn-Morgan School, 
 Orange, N. J., and by governesses. She 
 was instructor of journalism and' English 
 branches in the United Correspondence 
 School ; editor of Literary Life, and con- 
 nected with editorial staff of Toilettes, Jun- 
 ior Toilettes, and Dry Goods ; associate edi- 
 tor of the Bookseller, Newsdealer and Sta- 
 tioner; author of: A Mistress of Many 
 IMoods translated from the French of Andre 
 Theuriet; How to Play Chess; and co-author 
 of: Foolish Etiquette and Foolish Almanac. 
 She is a member of the Descendants of Co- 
 lonial Governors, and the New York Criti- 
 cism Club. Address: 65 West 70th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
.MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 ROGERS, Eustace B.: 
 
 Payniastei-geucral, U. S. Navy. He en- 
 tered the Navj', appointed from California 
 to tlie Pay Corps, Marcli 3, 1879. He served 
 successfully through the various grades until 
 commissioned pay director, March 13, 1905, 
 and from that, Nov. 1, 1906, to paymaster- 
 genernl of the U. S. Navy, and chief of 
 the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, with 
 the rank of rear-admiral. Pay-Director 
 Eogers was not an applicant for the oirice 
 of paymaster-general of the Navy, and his 
 appointment was made wholly as the result 
 of the consideration of the recommending 
 and appointing officers of the persons best 
 calculated to meet the situation then exist- 
 ing. The appointment of Pay-Director Rog- 
 ers has had a good influence on the morale 
 of the service, inspiring confidence and be- 
 lief that good work would be the criterion 
 of advancement, and has been fully justified 
 by his record of efficiency in administration. 
 Address : Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 
 Navy Department, Washington, D. C. 
 
 ROGERS, Henry Wade: 
 
 Professor of law in Yale University; born 
 in Holland Patent, N. Y., Oct. 10, 1853. He 
 was educated at the University of Michigan, 
 from which he was graduated in 1874, and 
 received the degrees of A.M. and LL.D. from 
 Wesleyan University. He was admitted to 
 the bar in 1877; professor in Michigan Uni- 
 versity Law School in 1883; dean 1885- 
 1890; was president of Northwestern Uni- 
 versity, Evanston-Chicago, 111., 1890-1900; 
 dean of the Yale Law School since 1903. He 
 is author of a treatise on Expert Testimony. 
 Dr. Rogers is a member of the Graduates' 
 Club. He married, in 1876, Emma Ferdon 
 Winner. Address: New Haven, Conn. 
 
 ROGERS, James Hotchkiss: 
 
 Composer, organist and pianist; born in 
 Fair Haven, Conn., Feb. 7, 1857; son of 
 INIartin Lorenzo and Harriet (Hotchkiss) 
 Rogers. He was educated in Lake Forest, 
 111., and Berlin and' Paris, He is the com- 
 poser of one hundred and fifty or more pub- 
 lished musical works, including songs, piano 
 pieces, organ pieces, anthems and part- 
 songs; also the cantatas: The Man of 
 
 Na/.arelli, and Tlic New I.ife. Mr, Rogers 
 married in Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 20, 1891, 
 Alice Hall, and they have three children. 
 Residence: 2071 East 83d Street. Olliee: 
 942 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland. 
 
 ROGERS, John Henry: 
 
 United States judge; born in Bertie Coun- 
 ty, N. C, Oct. 9, 1845; son of Absolom and 
 Harriet Rogers. His early education wa.s 
 received in the local schools, and in 18G2, 
 he enlisted as a private in the Ninth ^Slissis- 
 sippi Infantry Regiment in the Confederate 
 States Army, of which he became first lieu- 
 tenant, serving until the surrender. After the 
 war he entered the University of Mississippi, 
 from which he was graduated in 1868. He 
 taught school for a year, was admitted to 
 the Mississippi bar, and in 1869 he located 
 in the practice of law at Fort Smith, Ark, 
 He was elected a circuit judge of the State 
 of Arkansas, serving 1877-1882; was elected 
 to the Forty-eighth Congress in 1882 and 
 was reelected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth 
 and Fifty-first Congresses ; was chairman of 
 the Arkansas delegation to the National 
 Democratic Convention at Chicago in 1892, 
 and in 1896 was appointed' by President 
 Cleveland to his present office as U. S. dis- 
 trict judge for the Western District of Ar- 
 kansas. The degree of LL.D. was conferred 
 upon Judge Rogers in 1895 by Centre Col- 
 lege, Danville, Ky. Address: Fort Smith, 
 Ark. 
 
 ROGERS, Watson M.: 
 
 Jurist. He was formerly engaged in prac- 
 tice as a lawyer at the bar of Jefi"erson 
 County, until nominated by the Republican 
 convention and elected in 1900 as a justice 
 of the Supreme Court of New York for the 
 term expiring Dec. 31. 1914. Address: 
 Watertown, N. Y. 
 
 ROGERS. William Arthur: 
 
 Iron manufacturer; born at Berkshire, 
 N, Y,, Sept. 8, 1851; son of Melancthon 
 and" Mary Elizabeth (Leonard) Rogers. He 
 was graduated fnmi Yale, Scientific Depart- 
 ment. Ph.B., 1874. 'Mr. Rogers is senior 
 member of tlie firm of Rogers, Brown and 
 
1410 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Coiujuuiy, presidont of the Buffalo and Sus- 
 quoliannu Iron Company. Tonawanda Iron 
 and Steel Company, Punxsvitawney Iron 
 Company, Rofi;ers Iron ]\Iining Company, 
 Xiaj^ara Iron Mining Companj' and Mun- 
 ro Iron Mining Company; vice-presi- 
 dent of tlie Iroquois Iron Company; di- 
 rector of the Cleveland Furnace Company ; 
 vice-president of the Cascade Coal and Coke 
 Company, vice-president of the Buffalo and 
 Susquehanna Steamship Company ; trustee 
 of the Erie County Savings Bank, and the 
 Young Men's Christian Association of Bufl'a- 
 lo. He is also a member of the Buffalo, 
 University, Country and Ellicott Clubs of 
 Buffalo, and the Century Club of New York 
 City. He mairied in New Haven, Conn., 
 1884, Eleanor Root Silliman, and they have 
 tliree children. Address: 309 North Street, 
 Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 ROGER'S, William Evans: 
 
 Engineer and lawyer ; born in Philadel- 
 phia, April 11, 1846; son of William Evans 
 Rogers and Harriette Phcebe (Ruggles) 
 Rogers. He was educated in Paris, France, 
 and in the University of Pennsylvania. He 
 was private of First Troops of Philadelphia 
 City Cavalry during the emergency of 18G3; 
 and was graduated from the United States 
 ^Military Academy, West Point, in 1867. He 
 was stationed at the United States IMilitary 
 Academy, West Point, in 1867, and was lieu- 
 tenant of the U. S. Engineer Corps, 1867- 
 1H69, surveying the north shore of Lake 
 Superior and Lake St. Clair. He was civil 
 ciigiiiecr in charge of the l)uilding of the 
 New York, Lackawanna and Western Rail 
 road; was a lawyer in Michigan, and organ- 
 ized the County of Presque Isle; member 
 and chairman of Board of Railroad Com- 
 missioners of New York from 1883 to 1889, 
 since which time lie has practised as a law- 
 yer in New York City. He wrote many of 
 ihe i;e])orts of the New York Railroad Com- 
 mission and was joint author of the Re- 
 |)ort of the Board on Bridge Strains. He is 
 a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, 
 tlie Sons of the Revolution and the Union, 
 Metropolitan, Union League and' minor 
 clubs. Mr. Rogers married in New York, 
 Feb. 13. 1868, Susan L. It. i-^ish, and thev 
 
 liave four children. Residence: Garrison. 
 
 Putnam County, N. Y., and 56 East 78tli 
 
 Sti'eet. Office: 37 Liberty Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 ROHLFS, Charles: 
 
 Designer; born in New York City, Feb. 1.3, 
 18.')3; son of Peter and Wilhelmina F. D. 
 (Hunte) Rohlfs. He was educated in the 
 public schools and at Cooper Union in 
 New York City, and began work as 
 a designer of metals. He went on the stage i 
 and acted in support of Booth, Barrett, Mc- I 
 Cullough, Mary Anderson and' other lead- 
 ing American actors and actresses, and was 
 starred in his wife's, " The Leavenworth 
 Case." He left the stage to take up the , 
 profession of designer again, being origi- 
 nator of a distinctive class of furniture 
 known as the " Rohlfs " style, which he be- 
 gan in 1896, making the first piece of fur- 
 niture in his own home and producing arti- 
 cles of distinct characteristics which have 
 an international reputation. He exhibited 
 at the Pan-American Exposition and in the 
 exposition at Turin, Italy, being the only 
 American invited to exhibit furniture at the 
 latter. He is a member of the Royal Society 
 of Arts, London, England, and of the Saturn 
 and Park Clubs and a director of the Man- 
 ufacturing Club of Buffalo. He married in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 24, 1884, Anna Kath- 
 arine Green, the authoress, and has two sons 
 and' one daughter. Residence: 105 Nor- 
 wood Avenue. Office: 'rZO Ellicott Street, 
 Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 ROLFE, John Carew: 
 
 Professor of Latin language and litera- 
 ture; born in Lawrence. ^lass., Oct. \n. 
 18r)9; son of William James and Eliza 
 (Carew) Rolfe. He was gi-aduated from 
 Harvard. A.B., 1881. Cornell. A.M.. 1S84, 
 and Ph.D., 1885, and in the American 
 School of Classical Studies in Athens. 1889. 
 He was instructor in Latin in Cornell Uni- 
 versity. 1882-1885, Harvard I'niversity, 
 1889-is90; ])rofessor in Cnivcrsity of Mich- 
 igan, 1890-1902, and in tlie University of 
 Pennsylvania since 1902; professor in the 
 American School in Rome. 1907-1908. He 
 is a meiiiber of the American I'liilosophical 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1411 
 
 Society, American Pliiloijical Association, 
 Archaeological Institute of America, and the 
 Phi Beta Kappa Society. He married in 
 Ann Arbor, Mich., Aug. 29, 1900, Alice 
 Griswold Bailey, and they have one daugh- 
 ter. Residence : 4400 Chestnut Street. Of- 
 fice: College Hall, University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, Philadelphia. 
 
 ROLFE, William James: 
 
 Shakespearian author; born at Newbury- 
 port, Mass., Dec. 10, 1827. He was educated 
 at the Lowell High School and Amherst 
 College. He followed the profession of 
 teaching, 1852-1868, and has since been 
 largely engaged in his internationally fa- 
 mous annotations and editions of the works 
 of Shakespeare, and in other literary works. 
 He is the author of: Shakespeare the Boy; 
 The Elementary Study of English; The 
 Satchel Guide to Europe, and' others; and 
 edited: Students' Series of Standard 
 Poems; A Series of English Classics; com- 
 plete editions of Shakespeare, Scott and 
 Tennyson, with notes ; Life of Shakespeare 
 (for the Twentieth Century edition of 
 Shakespeare; also published separately); 
 and (in collaboration with J. H. Hanson) 
 Handbook of Latin Poetrj'; and, with J. A. 
 Gillet, The Cambridge Physics. He mar- 
 ried, in 1856, Eliza J. Carew, of Dorchester, 
 Mass., and they have three sons. Address: 
 C-ambridge, Mass. 
 
 ROLLINS, Jordan Jackson: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Portland, Me., Dec. 20, 
 1869; son of Franklin J. and Arabella C. 
 (Jordan) Rollins. He was graduated from 
 Dartmouth College, A.B., 1892, and from 
 Harvard Law School. He came to New 
 York City, and studied law with Hon. Dan- 
 iel G. Rollins, was admitted to the bar in 
 November, 1894. and formed the partnership 
 of Rollins and Rollins, counsel for various 
 financial and other corporations. He is di- 
 rector of the Acker. Merrill and Condit Com- 
 pany, McDonald Electrolytic Company, New- 
 York City Interborough Railway Company, 
 and Windsor Trust Company; secretary of 
 the New Y'ork Law Institute. Mr. Rollins 
 is a member of the Association of the Bar 
 of the City of New Y''ork, and of the Amer- 
 
 ican 'S'achl, Scawanliaka-( (iriiit hian ^'acht. 
 University, Harvard, Manhattan. Kaccjnet 
 and Tennis, New York Athletic, Union 
 League, Rockaway Hunting, Psi Upsilon and 
 Dartmouth Clubs of Xew York City. Res- 
 idence: 2 East 45th Street. Address: :{2 
 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 ROOK, Charles Alexander: 
 
 Journalist; born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 
 II, I8GI; son of Alexander W. and Harriett 
 L. (Beck) Rook. He was educated in the 
 Ayers Latin School, Schmidt Academy and 
 \^'estern University of Pennsylvania. He en- 
 tered the office of The Pittsburg DispatcJi 
 in 1880 following tlie death of his father, 
 who had been for many years the senior 
 member of the firm of Rook & O'Neill ; lie- 
 came secretary of The Dispatch Publisliing 
 Company in 1888, treasurer in 189G, and 
 since 1902 has been president, editor-in- 
 chief and manager. Colonel Rook is a Re- 
 publican in National politics, but Independ- 
 ent in city, countj^ and state politics. He 
 was endorsed by every labor union in Pitts- 
 burgh in 1905, for mayor of the city, but 
 declined the nomination on account of great 
 business pressure. In 1907 Colonel Rook 
 was urged to become a candidate for one of 
 the most important offices in tlie Pennsyl- 
 vania State Government, but. as in the case 
 of the mayoralty, was com])elled to decline 
 the honor. He was appointed, Feb. 14. 1907. 
 on the military staff of Edwin S. Stuart. 
 Governor of Pennsylvania, with the rank of 
 lieutenant-colonel. Jan. 17, 1008, he was 
 elected a member of the Board of Inspectors 
 of the Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary. 
 He was elected as a delegate-at-large to the 
 Republican National Convention in 1908, 
 after which he was chosen by the delegation 
 to represent Pennsylvania on the lommittee 
 to notify the Rei)ul)lican nominee (Taft) 
 for President, lie is an Episcopalian in his 
 church relations, and a member of the Ves- 
 tiy of the Church of the Ascension of Pitts- 
 burgli ; he is on the board of the Newsboys 
 Home of Pittsburgh ; and is a member of the 
 Duquesne, Union and Country Clubs of 
 Pittsl)urgh. He married in Pittsburgh, Sept. 
 9, 1884, Aiuia B. Wilson, and they have 
 three children. Residence: Ellsworth and 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Aiken Avenues, Pittsbui'gh. OfTice: The 
 ])is])alcli. Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 
 ROONEY, John Jerome: 
 
 Lawyer and verse writer; born in Bing- 
 hampton, N. Y., March 19, 1866; son of 
 John Jerome and Ellen T. (Shanahan) 
 Rooney. He was educated at Mt. St. Mary's 
 College, Emmitsburg, Md., with first honors 
 of class, A.B., A.M., 1884, received the Mc- 
 Sweeney Special Prize in Philadelphia and 
 LL.D. from Mt. St. Mary's, 1908. Mr. 
 Rooney was engaged for several years, on 
 the staff of the Philadelphia Record. He 
 was admitted to the bar and practises in 
 New York, chiefly in mercantile customs 
 and revenue cases, and is regarded as an 
 expert on the Tariff. He is nationally 
 known as a verse writer, and during 
 the war with Spain wrote " The Men 
 Behind the Guns" (the first use of 
 that phrase) ; " Hobson of Santiago; " " Vic- 
 tor Blue;" "McElrath, of Malate," and 
 other verse on the war, which were widely 
 copied and later published in book form un- 
 der title " The ]\Ien Behind the Guns," He 
 also wrote " Right Makes Might," official 
 hymn of the City of New York, sung first 
 by the public school children at the 250th 
 anniversary of the foundation of the city. 
 ]\Ir. Roonej' is a member of the Association 
 of the Bar of the C'ity of New York, Bar 
 Association of the State of New York, Na- 
 tional Geographic Society, the New York 
 County Lawyers' Association, National Bar 
 Association, the St. Vincent de Paul Society, 
 the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and the 
 Catholic National Democratic and Pleiades 
 Clubs. He is a second' lieutenant in the 
 Albany Burgesses Corps, in which he is 
 also assistant judge advocate. He married 
 in 1903, Marie Collins, of Minnesota, and 
 has three sons. Residence: 227 Riverside 
 Drive. Office: 24 State Street, New York City. 
 
 ROOSEVELT, Theodore: 
 
 K,\.-Prfsi(lont of tlie United States; born in 
 New York City, Oct. 27, 1858; son of Theo- 
 dore Roosevelt (merchant and philanthro- 
 pist) and Martha (Bulloch) Roosevelt. He 
 prepared for college imder a tutor; was 
 graduated from Harvard as A.B. in 1880, 
 
 and received the degree of LL.D. from Co- 
 lumbia in 1889, from Hope College, Holland', 
 Mich., in 1901, from Yale in 1901, from 
 Harvard in 1902, from tlie University of 
 Pennsylvania in 1905 and from Clark Uni- 
 versity in 1905. He was elected in 1881, 
 and reelected ih 1882 and 1883, member of 
 the New York Assembly; in the session of 
 1883 (in which the Democrats had a ma- 
 jority), he was a candidate for the speaker- 
 ship; and in the session of 1884 was chair- 
 man of Committee on Cities, and of the 
 special committee which investigated abuses 
 in the conduct of the government of New 
 York City. In 1884 Mr. Roosevelt was dele- 
 gate to New Y^ork State Republican Con- 
 vention, and later in the same year delegate- 
 at-large, and chairman of the New York 
 delegation to the National Republican Con- 
 vention at Chicago. He supported Senator 
 Edmunds for the presidential nomination, 
 but when Blaine was nominated, entered 
 actively into the campaign in his behalf. 
 He bought a ranch in North Dakota and 
 lived on it for two years, studying the Far 
 West and its people thoroughly and be- 
 coming an adept as ranchman and hunter. 
 He returned to New York City in 1886, and 
 was made Republican nominee for mayor, 
 but was defeated by Abram S. Hewitt ; was 
 appointed member of the United States 
 Civil Service Commission in 1889, and 
 served as its president, but resigned that 
 office in 1895 to accept the presidency of the 
 Police Commission under the administration 
 of Mayor Strong, which office he held until 
 April 5, 1897, when he was appointed by 
 President ^IcKinley assistant secretary of 
 the Navy. When war with Spain was de- 
 clared he resigned his position in the Navy 
 Department, and with Dr. Leonard Wood, 
 an army surgeon, organized the First Regi- 
 ment of United States Volunteer Cavalry, 
 recruited' from the ranches of the West and 
 popularly known as the Rough Riders, Sur- 
 geon Wood, because of his superior tactical 
 knowledge, becoming colonel and Mr. Roose- 
 velt lieutenant-colonel. The regiment went 
 to the front, to Cuba, and ])articipated in 
 the fighting in front of Santiago de Cuba, 
 and Mr. Roosevelt was promoted to the 
 colonelcy of the regiment for gallantry at 
 
Theodore Roosevelt 
 Ex -Presidont of the United States 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Las Guasinms. At the close of the war he 
 returned with liis regiment to Montauk 
 Point, where he was mustered out of serv- 
 ice; and shortly afterward was nominated 
 for, and in November, 1898, was elected, 
 governor of New York; in 1900 he was nom- 
 inated for vice-president of the United 
 States by the Republican National Conven- 
 tion at Philadelphia, and elected, and en- 
 tered on the duties of that office March 4, 
 1901; on the death of President McKinley, 
 Sept. 14, 1901, he was sworn in as Presi- 
 dent. In the National Convention of 1904, 
 ]\Ir. Roosevelt was nominated for President, 
 and in the November election was elected 
 by a plurality of the popular vote of 
 2,512,417, and 'a majority of 1,692,142, for 
 the term beginning March 4, 1905, and ex- 
 ])iring March 4, 1909. His administration 
 was marked by the inauguration of great 
 works of public improvement, notably the 
 Panama Canal ; by measures for the orderly 
 government and advancement of the people 
 of our insular possessions, by the prosecu- 
 tion of faithless officials, the curbing of law- 
 breaking corporations, the making of laws 
 for proper inspection of the packing and 
 meat-dressing industries, the prevention of 
 frauds and impurities in food products and 
 other salutary measures inaugurated in re- 
 sponse to the President's initiative. In for- 
 eign policy Mr. Roosevelt has taken the 
 part of a peacemaker, and through his 
 initiative Russia and Japan, by the treaty 
 of Portsmouth, were brought to the con- 
 clusion of an honorable peace, in recognition 
 of which the Board of Directors of the Nobel 
 Institute of Stockholm conferred upon him, 
 in 190G, the Nobel Peace Prize. Although 
 for twenty-five years past almost contin- 
 uously occupied with the public service he 
 has earned distinction also in the profes- 
 sion of letters. He is author of: History 
 of the Naval War of 1812, 1882; Hunting 
 Trips of a Ranchman, 1885; Life of Thom- 
 as Hart Benton, 1886; and Life of Gouver- 
 neur Morris. 1887 (in the American States- 
 man series) ; Ranch Life and Hunting "Frail, 
 1888; The Winning of the West, 1889, 1896; 
 History of New York (in Historic Towns 
 series), 1890; The Wilderness Hunter, 1891; 
 Essays on Practical Politics, 1892; Ameri- 
 
 can Ideals and Other Essays, 1897; The 
 Rough Riders, 1899; Life of Oliver 
 Cromwell, 1900; The Strenuous Life, 1900. 
 During his incumbency of the Presidential 
 odice, besides his State papers, he has writ- 
 ten occasional articles and introductions for 
 books and compilations. Upon the expira- 
 tion of his term of office he organized and 
 headed his internationally famous liunting 
 and zoological expedition to East and Cen- 
 tral Africa. He also collaborated in writ- 
 ing The Deer Family, published by ]\lae- 
 millan in 1902. Mr. Roosevelt has married 
 twice; first, in 1880, Alice Lee, who died in 
 1884, leaving one daughter, Alice, wlio mar- 
 ried in 1906, Hon. Nicholas Longworth. Mr. 
 Roosevelt married', second, in 1886, Edith 
 Kermit Carow, and they have five children; 
 Theodore, Jr., Kermit, Ethel, Archie and 
 Quentin. Address: Oyster Bay, L. I., New 
 York. 
 
 ROOSEVELT, W. Emlen: 
 
 Banker; born in New I'ork City, April 
 30, 1857 ; son of James A. and Elizabeth 
 Norris (Emlen Roosevelt. He was educated 
 in private schools in America and by tu- 
 tors in Europe. He was sixteen years in 
 service in the National Guard of the State of 
 New Y^ork, with rank of major. He is a 
 partner in the firm of Roosevelt and Son, 
 and a trustee of the Roosevelt Hospital, 
 New York Dispensary, and" New York Eye 
 and Ear Infirmary. He is a member of the 
 ^Metropolitan. Century, Riding, Seawanhaka- 
 Corinthian Yacht, City, Down Town (New 
 York City), and Metropolitan (Washing- 
 ton) Clubs. Mr. Roosevelt married in Ur- 
 sino, N. J., Oct. 4, 188.3, Christine Gritfin 
 Kean. Address: 804 Fifth Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 ROOT, Elihu: 
 
 U. S. senator; born in Clinton, N. Y., 
 Fob. 1.1, 1845; in 1864 was graduated from 
 Hamilton College, where his father was 
 professor of mathematics. After graduation 
 from the L'niversity Law School in the City 
 of New York in 1867 he was admitted to 
 the bar and engaged in active practice of 
 his profession in New York City; in a few 
 years he became prominent both as a law- 
 
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 yer and as a leader of the reform element 
 of the Republican Party; he has held the 
 office of president of the New England As- 
 sociation, of the Union League Club, of the 
 llepublican Club, and of the Association of 
 the Bar of the City of New York. Devoting 
 liimself closely to his chosen work, he rapid- 
 \y acquired an extensive practice, particu- 
 larly in corporation cases, being the counsel 
 in many of the most famous cases in the an- 
 nals of New York City. He was leading 
 counsel in the celebrated contest growing 
 out of the will of the late A. T. Stewart; 
 he was counsel in the Broadway surface rail- 
 road litigation, the Sugar Trust contest, 
 the Aqueduct litigation, and, while serving 
 as a U. S. district-attorney he convicted 
 Joseph D. Fish, president of the Marine 
 Bank, of criminal complicity in connection 
 with the celebrated Grant-Ward frauds. He 
 participated with much distinction as chair- 
 man of the Judiciary Committee and leader 
 on the floor of the Bepublican majority dur- 
 ing the Constitutional Convention of New 
 York in 1894. Subsequent to the close of 
 the Spanish- American \\ar, the condition of 
 afl'airs demanded that the office of secretary 
 of war should be filled by a lawyer of great 
 administrative ability and one in the full 
 possession of his mental and physical pow- 
 ers; the duties of the office were most in- 
 tricate and complicated, and called for phys- 
 ical self-sacrifice that few men are able to 
 give to the work; no secretary of war since 
 the day of Edwin M. Stanton lias had any- 
 tliing like tlie difficulties to adjust, the op- 
 ])(jsition to overcome and the new systems 
 to inaugurate. Called suddenly from his 
 legal pn)f<'ssi()u in the City of New York, 
 Mr. Boot found himself confronted with 
 the task of placing an army of 70,000 men 
 in the rhilip])ine Islands to put down an 
 insurrection attended with almost universal 
 sympathy, if not the active support of the 
 inhabitants of those islands. In the midst 
 of this great work the secretary was, early 
 in his official career, compelled to take up 
 the great burden of .sending the Chinese Ex- 
 pedition to re.scue our minister and his 
 household. This expedition was conducted 
 under instructions j)repared by the secretary 
 of war; many of the most important ques- 
 
 tions arising during that trying period were 
 left to his decision. To the untiring and 
 painstaking efforts of Mr. Root is greatly 
 due the establishment of civil government 
 in Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands. 
 Notwithstanding the demands of this great 
 work he was able to reorganize the Army, to 
 change the staff system and to build up a 
 system of education and training for the 
 Army which will long stand as a monument 
 to his masterly ability. He resigned from 
 the Cabinet of President Roosevelt in 1904, 
 and resumed the practice of his profession, 
 but on July 7, 1905, at the earnest solicita- 
 tion of the President, reentered the cabinet 
 as Secretary of State and has won equal 
 honors in direction of the foreign affairs 
 of the nation to those which he achieved as 
 Secretary of War. Secretary Root has re- 
 ceived the LL.D. degree from Hamilton, 
 1894; Yale, 1900; Columbia, 1904; New 
 York University, 1904; Williams, 1905; 
 Princeton, 190G; and Harvard, 1907. He 
 was a member of Alaska Boundary Tri- 
 bunal which sat in London in September and 
 October, 1903, and settled the disputed 
 boundary between Alaska and Canada. In 
 February, 1906, he was elected U. S. Senator 
 from New York for the term expiring March 
 3, 1915. He married in New York City, 
 Jan. 8, 1878, Clara, daughter of Samuel H. 
 Wales. Residence: 733 Park Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 ROOT, Frederic Woodman: 
 
 Author and teacher of music ; born in 
 Boston, June 13, 1846; son of Dr. George 
 Frederick and Mary Olive (Woodman) Root. 
 His father was a celebrated nmsician and 
 composer, and at the age of sixteen Mr. 
 Root became a pupil of Dr. William Ma- 
 son. He studied under other eminent mu- 
 sicians, and took a position as organist in 
 Chicago in 1863. ISIr. Root has studied with 
 oiiiiiient musieians abroad and since his 
 first year in Europe has devoted himself 
 mainly to the department of voice culture, 
 allh(jugh he has also undertaken a consid- 
 erable amount of writing on musical topics. 
 In 1885 he became musical critic of the Chi- 
 cago Herald for two seasons, is the author 
 of luuiierous addresses and articles on 
 
Elihu Root 
 Scnutor of the United States 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 church music, methods of voice culture, and 
 simihir subjects. He is one of the cliartor 
 members of the American College of ]\Iusi- 
 cians. His principal work is in connection 
 with the teaching of singing, to which he has 
 added a very successful career as a lecturer. 
 He has been active in the annual meetings 
 of the various associations, musical and 
 educational, having occupied many official 
 positions in these. Mr. Root's versatility 
 is well known among musical people. Be- 
 sides his playing, teaching and lecturing 
 he has edited a musical paper and has de- 
 voted himself largely to musical authorship. 
 His principal achievement in the latter de- 
 partment is a series of works for the study 
 and teaching of singing, entitled Technic 
 and Art of Singing. He is a member 
 of the Chicago Literary Club (president 
 1904-1905), The Cliff Dwellers, Illinois Ath- 
 letic, The Little Room and Homewood Coun- 
 try Clubs of Chicago. Mr. Root married in 
 Cincinnati, Oliio, April 30, 1874, Fanny 
 Smith, and has one daughter and two sons. 
 Residence: 5333 Cornell Avenue. Office: 
 715-243 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 ROOT, Oren, Jr.: 
 
 Street railroad manager; born in Colum- 
 bia, Mo., June 20, 1873; son of Oren and 
 Ida (Gorfion) Root. He was graduated 
 from Hamilton College, A.B., (Phi Beta 
 Kappa) in 1894. He has been engaged in 
 active management of railroads since leav- 
 ing college, and at the age of thirty was in 
 active charge of the surface lines of New 
 York City. He is now vice-president, gen- 
 eral manager and director of the New York 
 City Railway Company ; director of the Met- 
 ropolitan Securities Company; president 
 and director of the Jerome Park Railroad 
 Compan3% Second Avenue Railroad Com- 
 pany, Broadway and Seventh Avenue Rail- 
 road Company, Central Park, North and 
 East River Railway Company, Forty-second 
 Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad 
 Company, Central Crosstown Railway Com- 
 pany; general manager and director of tlie 
 Forty-second Street, Manhattanville and 
 Saint Nicholas Avenue Railway Company, 
 and other corporations. Mr. Root is a 
 member of tlie Cniversity and Suburban 
 
 Clubs of New \i,rk City. Addr.-,.: 021 
 Hroiidway. New \ork City. 
 
 ROOTS, Logan Herbert: 
 
 Missionary l'>i-lin|) df Ilunkow; tiorii in 
 Perry County. 111.. July 27, 1870; son of 
 P. K. and Frances Maria (Blakcslee) Roots. 
 He was graduated from Harvard College 
 B.A., 1891 and going thence to the Episco- 
 pal Theological School at Cambridge, studied 
 for the ministry and took the degree of B.D. 
 in 189G. He was ordered deacon of the 
 Episcopal Church by the Bishop of Massa- 
 chusetts in 1896 and two years later was 
 ordained priest by the Bishop of Slianghai. 
 Following this, he was for several years 
 missionary in China, and in 1904 was made 
 Bishop of Hankow, being consecrated by 
 Bishops Graves, McKim, McVicar, Lawrence, 
 Partridge and Vinton. Bishop Roots mar- 
 ried at Hankow, China, April 17, 1902, 
 Eliza Lydia McCook. Address: Hankow, 
 China. 
 
 ROPES, James Hardy: 
 
 Clergyman, professor in Harvard Divinity 
 School; born in Salem, Mass., Sept. 3, 1806; 
 son of William Ladd and Harriet Law- 
 rence (Peirson) Ropes. He was educated 
 in Phillips Andover Academy, 1881-1885; 
 graduated from Harvard College, A.B., 1889 
 summa cum laude; Andover Theological 
 Seminary, S.T.B., 1893; studied at Universi- 
 ties of Kiel, Halle, and Berlin (Germany), 
 1893-1895. received the degree of D.D. from 
 Western Reserve University in 1905. He 
 was instructor in New Testament criticism 
 and interpretation. Harvard I'niversity, 
 1895-1898: assistant professor, 189S-1903, 
 and Bussey professor of New Testament 
 criticism and interpretation since 1903. Dr. 
 Ropes is a member of the American Oriental 
 Society, Society of Biblical Literature and 
 Exegesis, American institute of Archa-ology, 
 American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 
 director of Cand)ridge Associated Charities, 
 trustee of Phillips Academy. Andover, 
 Mass., associate of Radcliffe College, mem- 
 ber of the Colonial Society of Massachu- 
 setts; also a member of the Oakley Coun- 
 try Club. He married in Boston. Mass., Nov. 
 23, 1S97, Alice Lowell, and they have two 
 
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 children. Address: 13 Follen Street, Cam- 
 bridge, Mass. 
 
 ROSE, John B.: 
 
 Manufacturer, senator; born in Haver- 
 straw, N. Y., April 14, 1875; son of John 
 Clark and Martha (Bailey) Eose. He was 
 graduated from Yale, Ph.B. in 1897, and 
 attended New York Law School in 1898. 
 From the age of twelve he worked at his 
 father's brick manufacturing plant in sum- 
 mer vacations, learning the business; and 
 on his father's death, he succeeded to the 
 principal ownership of the Rose Brick Com- 
 pajiy, of Roseton, N. Y"., and soon after be- 
 came president, treasurer and general mana- 
 ger of that company, which position he still 
 holds. He is also president of the John B. 
 Rose Company, brick brokers; vice-presi- 
 dent of the Bartlett Brick Company; vice- 
 president of the Toledo Computing Scale 
 Company. He is treasurer of the Associa- 
 tion of Brick jSIanufacturers. and director 
 of tlie Association of Dealers in Mason's 
 Building Material. He was a Republican 
 presidential elector in 1904, and in Novem- 
 ber, 1908, was elected to the State Senate of 
 New York from the "ZStli Senate District. 
 He is a member of the Hudson River Lodge 
 and Highland Chapter of ]\Iasons, Hudson 
 River Commandery, Knights Templar, New 
 York Consistory and Mecca Temple (Mystic 
 Shrine) ; is a member of the Newburgh Boat- 
 ing Association, Brookside Grange, Law- 
 son Hose Company, Newburgh, N. Y., Pa- 
 vonia Grange, Patrons of Husbandry; cap- 
 tain in the National Guard of the State of 
 New York; member of the Board of Man- 
 agers of St. Luke's Hospital and trustee of 
 the Masonic Hall Association at Newburgh, 
 N. Y. He is a member of the Union League, 
 Yale, Republican, Transportation and Co- 
 lumbian Yacht Clubs of New York City, the 
 Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn, the 
 Newburgh City and Povvelton Clubs of 
 Newburgh ; the Fort Orange Club of Albany, 
 the Haverstraw Club of Haverstraw, N. Y., 
 and the Roseton Club of Roseton, N. Y. 
 Mr. Rose married in Newburgh, Oct. 5, 1898, 
 Maude Moir Barclay, and they have one 
 son. Address: 640 West 52d Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 ROSENAU, Milton Joseph: 
 
 Physician and sanitarian; born in Phil- 
 adelphia, Jan. 1, 1869; son of Nathan and 
 Mathilda (Blitz) Rosenau. He was gradu- 
 ated from the University of Pennsylvania, 
 M.D., 1890; Hygienic Institute, Berlin, Ger- 
 many, 1892; Pasteur Institute, Paris, 1900; 
 Pathologic Institute, Vienna. He was ap- 
 pointed assistant surgeon- in the U. S. Ma- 
 rine Hospital Service, 1890 and has ever 
 since remained in that service, being pro- 
 moted passed assistant surgeon in 1895 and 
 surgeon in 1907. He was quarantine officer 
 in San Francisco, 1896-1898, and in later 
 years was appointed to similar positions in 
 Santiago and other Cuban ports. Upon his 
 return from Cuba he was detailed as di- 
 rector of the Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. 
 Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, 
 in which position he has continued until the 
 present time, taking a leading part in the 
 investigations undertaken by the service J 
 into the characteristics of the plague and ^ 
 other infectious diseases in reference to trop- 
 ical diseases and their prevention. He was 
 sanitary attache at the International Confer- 
 ence of American States, 1902; delegate to 
 the 10th International Congress of Hygiene 
 and Demography and the 13th International 
 Congress of ]\Iedicine and Surgery, Paris, 
 1900; member of the International Com- 
 mission to revise the nomenclature of caus- 
 es of death, Paris 1900; delegate to Interna- 
 tional Sanitary Conference, Washington, 
 1902; delegate on part of the U. S. Govern- 
 ment to a large number of medic.il and sci- 
 entific meetings and congresses. Dr. Rose- 
 nau has lectured before numerous scientific 
 schools and organizations, and is one of the 
 leading bacteriologists of the United States 
 from the point of view of sanitation. He is 
 a member of the Association of Pathologists 
 and Bacteriologists, Society of Bacteriolo- 
 gists, American Medical Association, 
 American Public Health Association, Anti- 
 Tul)erculosis League, Association of Military 
 Surgeons, Society of American Physicians, 
 American Society of Tropical Medicine, So- 
 ciety for Experimental Biology and Medi- 
 cine, American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, and the Cosmos Club of 
 Washington, D. C. He married in Alle- 
 
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 gheny. Pa., July 10, li)00, i\lyra Blitz Frank, 
 and lias one son and one dauohter. Resi- 
 dence: 1311 13tli Street, N. W. Odiee: 
 25th and E Streets, N. W., Washin-ton, 
 U. C. 
 
 ROSENDALE, Simon W.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Albany, N. Y., June 23, 
 1842; son of Sampson R. and Fannie 
 (Sachs) Rosendale. He was educated in 
 the Albany public schools and Barre (Ver- 
 mont ) Academy, and received the LL.D. 
 degree from Union University in 1908. 
 Mr. Rosendale practised law at Albany, 
 N. Y. since his admission to the bar in 1863. 
 He was formerly of the firm of Peckham 
 & Rosendale (with Rufus W. Peckham, Jus- 
 tice U. S. Supreme Court) ; now of Rosen- 
 dale & Hessberg. He has served as assistant 
 district attorney of Albany Company, as 
 recorder and corporation counsel of the 
 City of Albany, and was attorney-general 
 of the State of New York, 1891-1893. He is 
 tru.stee of the National Savings Bank; di- 
 rector of the Commerce Insurance Company 
 of Albnnj'; and he is now a commissioner 
 of the New York State Board of Charities; 
 jircsident of tlie Board of Governors of 
 Union University; president of the Board 
 of Trustees of Albany Medical College; pres- 
 ident of the Ninth (1908) New York State 
 Conference of Charities and Correction, vice- 
 president of the American Jewish History 
 Society. He is honorary vice-president of 
 the American Jewish Publication Society. 
 He is a member of the Bar Association; now 
 director of the Albany Institute and His- 
 torical Society; member of the American 
 Historical Society, Society of International 
 Laws, American Academy of Political and 
 Social Science, National Municipal League, 
 Fort Orange, Adelplii, and Albany Country 
 Clubs and the Megantic Fish and Game Cor- 
 ])oration. He was former president of the 
 New Yoik State Bar Association. Mr. 
 Rosendale married in Albany, N. Y., Feb. 
 9. 1870, Helen Cone. Address: 57 State 
 Street, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 ROSENFELD, Sydney: 
 
 Dramatist; born in Richmond, Va., Oct. 
 26, 1855, He received his education in the 
 
 schools of Uiclimond and New ^'ork City, 
 engaged in journnli-m :iiMi wa^^ for some 
 time editor of I'uck mil 11 he Ijccame ii writer 
 of plays in wliidi profession lie lias taken 
 a leading phicc in America, l»eing author of 
 many successes. Address: 308 West 95th 
 Street. New York City. 
 
 ROSENTHAL, Herman: 
 
 Autlior, editor. lil)rariaii; born in Fried- 
 riclistadt, Russia, Oct. 6, 1843. He was 
 educated at Bau.ske and Jacobstadt; trans- 
 lated from the Russian Nekrassos's poems; 
 published collection of poems, Gediclite, 
 1870; served in the Red Cross Society in 
 the Russo-Turkish War, receiving the so- 
 ciety's medal for distinguished service, 1877- 
 1878; master printer in Smela, government 
 of Kiev, and in the city of Kiev until 1881. 
 He assisted in founding the Zarya (Dawn), 
 a daily paper appearing at Kiev, 1878; waa 
 corresponding member of the St. Petersburg 
 Society for the Promotion of Culture among 
 the Russian Jews; sailed for the United 
 States in 1881. He established agricultural 
 colonies for Russian Jewish immigrants in 
 T^uisiana and South Dakota, in 1881 and 
 1882; took ])art in the Woodhine Colony, 
 1891; engaged in the book trade in 1887 
 and 1888; was chief statistician of the 
 Edison General Electric Company from 
 1888 to 1891 ; was sent by the Great North- 
 ern Railroad Company to investigate the 
 economic conditions and trade of China, 
 Korea and Japan. 1892. ^\r. Rosenthal 
 was elected secretary of the German-Amer- 
 ican Reform Union, New York City, ami a 
 member of tlie Press Bureau of the Com- 
 mittee of Seventy. lie was chief of the 
 Discharging Department of the Immigration 
 Bureau on Ellis Island, New York, from 
 1894 to 1896, and has been chief of the 
 Slavonic Department of the New York Pub- 
 lic Library since 1S9G. He joined tlie Edi- 
 torial Board of the Jewish Encyclopedia as 
 cliief of the Russian Department in Decem- 
 ber, 1900. In tlie United States lie edited 
 and published tlie Hebrew monthly. Ha 
 Modia La-Hadasim. 1901; founded the So- 
 ciety of Oliole Sliem, of which lie is presi- 
 dent; translated into (lerman verse, Eccle- 
 siastes, 1895, and the Song of Songs, 1893; 
 
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 MEN OF AAIERICA. 
 
 trailslatpfl from the German, Hugo Ganz's 
 Land of Riddles. 1!)04. He is author of 
 SpUtherbstnebel. H)06 ; also Das Neue Russ- 
 land. a series of articles on Russia in the 
 New York Staats-Zeitung ; and he is editor 
 of the Year Book, published l)y the Verband 
 Deutscher Sehriftsteller in Amerika. Ad- 
 dress: Astor IJbrary. 425 Lafayette Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 ROSEWATER, Victor: 
 
 Editor of the Omaha Bee; born in Omaha, 
 Xeb.. Feb. 13, 1871; son of the late Ed- 
 ward Rosewater; He was educated in Johns 
 Hopkins L'uiversity and Columbia Univer- 
 sity. Ph.B., 1S91, A.M., 1892, University fel- 
 low 1892-1893, Ph.D., 1893. Mr. Rosewater 
 was a regent of the University of Nebraska, 
 1896-1897 ; special lecturer on municipal fi- 
 nance. University of \Yisconsin. 1904; mem- 
 ber of the Omaha Public Library Board, 
 1894-1905; delegate to the National Con- 
 ference on Conservation of Natural Re- 
 sources, 1908; delegate-at-large for Ne- 
 braska to the Republican National Conven- 
 tion, 1908; and he is a member of the Re- 
 publican National Committee and of its 
 Executive Committee; member of the Na- 
 tional Civic Federation, American Eco- 
 nomic Association, Nebraska Historical So- 
 ciety. He is author of: Laissez-faire (in 
 Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Econ- 
 omy) ; Special Assessments, a Study in Mu- 
 nicipal Finances; Omaha (Encyclopedia 
 Britannica) ; and Omaha, in "Historic 
 Towns of the \Yest."' He is a member of the 
 Omaha, and Sons of the Omaha Clubs of 
 Omaha, the City Club of New York City, 
 and the Society of the U. S. Telegraph 
 Corjjs. Mr. Rosewater married in 1904, 
 Katie Katz. of Baltimore, and they liave 
 one daughter and one son. Address: The 
 Dec, Omaha. Xeb. 
 
 ROSS, Albert: 
 
 Rear-admiral V. S. Navy; Uoi ii in Clar- 
 ion. Pa., Jan. 3, 1840; son of .James Ross, 
 M.D., and Mary Ann (Wilson) Ross. He 
 was graduated from the U. S. Naval Acad- 
 emy in 1807, but was retired from the 
 navy in 1871. He was restored to active 
 dutv in 1874 and served on the various sta- 
 
 tions of the navy and on liglit-house and 
 other shore duty until 1904, when he was 
 appointed inspector of the naval colliers, 
 having cliarge of the transportation of the 
 coal sup))ly of the navy. Upon the inception 
 of the plan of establishing a training station 
 for enlisted men of the navy on the Great 
 Lakes, Captain Ross was selected to develop 
 the proposed station and was made com- 
 mandant of the location selected near Chica- 
 go and superintendent of construction and 
 installation of the equipment therefor. He 
 was promoted to be rear admiral in October, 
 1907, and was retired Jan. 3, 1908, but has 
 been continued as commandant of the train- 
 ing station. He married in Annapolis, Md., 
 March 15, 1870, Alice Brewer, and has one 
 daughter and one son. Home : Clarion, 
 Pa. Office address: Naval Training Sta- 
 tion. Groat Lakes. North Chicago, 111. 
 
 ROSS, Albert Randolph: 
 
 Architect; born in Westfield, Mass., Oct. 
 20, 18G8; son of John \Yesley and Clara 
 Louise (Scarlett) Ross. He was educated 
 in the public schools; studied sculpture at 
 the Metropolitan ]Museum of Art Schools; 
 studied architecture in the offices of McKim, 
 Meade and \Miite, and in Greece, Italy and 
 France. He was the architect of the Car- 
 negie Library at \Yashington, D. C. ; Union 
 County Court House, Elizabeth, N. J.; the 
 public libraries of Columbus, Ohio, Denver, 
 Colo., and many others. He is a member of 
 the Architectural League, the National 
 Sculpture Society, the ]\Iilitary Order of 
 the Loyal Legion, and the Arts Club. He 
 married in Brookline, Mass., Oct. 30, 1901, 
 Susan Chadwick Husted. Address; 16 
 East 42d Street. New York City. 
 
 ROSS, Edward Alsworth: 
 
 Professor of sociology; born in Virden, 
 111., Dec. 12, 1866; son of William Carpen- 
 ter and Rachel (Alsworth) Ross. He was 
 graduated from Coe College, A.B., 1886; 
 studied at Berlin University, and graduated 
 from Johns Hopkins, Ph.D.", 1891; Phi Beta 
 Kappa honors. He was professor in Indiana 
 University, 1891-1892; associate professor, 
 Cornell I'niversity. 1892-1893; professor in 
 the Leland Stanford, Jr., University of Call- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1419 
 
 fornia. 189.3-inOO; the University of Nebras- 
 ka. 190M90G, and in the University of Wis- 
 consin since 190G. He is a member of the 
 Institut International de Sociologie, and 
 vice-president of the American Institute of 
 Criminal Law and Criminology. He is au- 
 thor of: Sinking- Funds; Social Control; 
 Foundations of Sociology; Sin and Society; 
 Social Psychology; and a lecturer in Har- 
 vard University, 1909. and in the University 
 of Chicago, 189G and 1905. He married in 
 Washington. D. C. June 16, 1892, Rosa- 
 mund C. Simons, and they have three chil- 
 dren. Address: Madison, Wis. 
 
 ROSS, Erskine Mayo: 
 
 U. S. circuit judge; born at Bell Pre, 
 Culpepper County, Va., June 30. 184.5; 
 son of William Buckner and' Elizabeth 
 (Mayo) Eoss. After graduation from the 
 Viiginia IVIilitary Institute in 1865 he stud- 
 ied law. went to California and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar of that State in 1869,' 
 engaging in practice at Los Angeles, Calif. 
 He became a justice of the Supreme Court 
 of California in 1869 and held that office 
 until appointed by President Cleveland in 
 1886 to the office of U. S. judge for the 
 Southern District of California, serving as 
 district judge until his appointment by 
 President Cleveland, Feb. 22, 1895, U. S. 
 judge for tlie Ninth Circuit. He married 
 in Los Angeles, jNIay 7, 1874. Inez H. Bettis. 
 Address: Los Angeles, Calif. 
 
 ROSSITER, Stealy B.: 
 
 Clergyman ; born in Berne, Albany 
 County, N. Y.. INIay 22. 1842 ; son of -John 
 and Eva (Ball) Rossiter. He was edu- 
 cated in the Preparatory School, Kinder- 
 hook. N. Y., and graduated from Union 
 College, class of 1865, with Phi Beta 
 Kappa honors, and Union Theological 
 Seminary, N. Y. ; received the degree of 
 D.D. from Union. He was pastor of the 
 ■Congregational Church, Elizabeth, N. J., 
 for four years, the North Presbyterian 
 Church, New York City, for over twenty- 
 seven years, was for three years secretary 
 of McCalls Mission, and pastor of the First 
 Presbyterian Church in Manila for the past 
 six years. He is a member of the Chi 
 
 •Alpha fralcrnily. lie in:iiiicd in Eliza- 
 beth, X. .1., .July Id. is;;!, MMry Augusta 
 Ropes, anil lias two children. Residence: 
 532 Calle Real, .Manila, P. 1. 
 
 ROSSITER, Van Wyck: 
 
 Hanker; born in BKxjklyii. ,May 12, 1871; 
 son of \VilIiam Wiokes and Emma (Rich- 
 mond) Rossiter. He was educated in the 
 Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Rossi- 
 ter is president and director of the Rock- 
 land County Trust Company, Nyack, N. Y. ; 
 director and ex-jjresident of Rossiter, Mc- 
 Govern and' Company. New York City; pro- 
 prietor of Gregory and Sherman (lumber 
 merchants). Nyack; and president of the 
 Braeburn As.sociation (real estate). Nyack, 
 N. Y. He is a member of the American 
 Scenic-Historic Preservation Society; vice- 
 president of the Palisades Stony Point 
 Driveway Association, and of the New York, 
 Nyack Country-, and Tappan Zee Yacht 
 Clubs. He married at Livermore, Calif., in 
 Oct., 1895, Mabel Fuller, and they have four 
 children. Address: Nvack-on-IIud'son, 
 
 N. Y. 
 
 ROTCH, Abbott Lawrence: 
 
 Director of Blue Hill Meteorological Ob- 
 servatory and professor of meteorology at 
 Harvard University; born in Boston, Jan. 
 6, 1861. He was graduated from the Mas- 
 sachusetts Institute of Technology with the 
 degree of S.B. in mechanical engineering, 
 in 1884. and received the degree of A.M. 
 (Harvard) honoris causa, in 1891. Mr. 
 Rotch has traveled extensively for scientific 
 purposes. He was a juror for instruments 
 of precision at the Universal Exposition at 
 Paris, in 1889; established in 1885 and has 
 since maintained Blue Hill Meteorological 
 Observatory near Boston, noted for its in- 
 vestigations of the upper air by means of 
 cloud observations and the earliest self- 
 recording instruments lifted by kites: ob- 
 tained first meteorological records with kites 
 over the Atlantic Ocean, and witii balloons 
 at givat heights in America. He is librarian 
 of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 
 ences and trustee of several educational in- 
 stitutions of Boston. For ten years he 
 was associate editor of the Americ:\n Me- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 leorological Journal; is corresponding mem- 
 ber of the British Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, and' of the Berlin 
 Aeronautical Society; lionorary member of 
 the Royal (London), Austrian and Ger- 
 man JNIeteorologieal Societies, and of the 
 French Alpine Club, etc. Chevalier Legion 
 of Honor; Prussian Orders of Crown and 
 lied Eagle. His publications are: Obser- 
 vations and Investigations made at the 
 Blue Hill Observatory, in Annals of Har- 
 vard College Observatory; Sounding the 
 Ocean of Air (Romance of Science Series) 
 in 1900; The Conquest of the Air, in 1909; 
 and numerous articles in scientific jour- 
 nals. He is a member of these clubs: St. 
 Botolph and Somerset of Boston; Univer- 
 sity and Century of New York; Cosmos, 
 of Washington. Address: 235 Common- 
 wealth Avenue, Boston ; Blue Hill Observa- 
 tory. Hyde Park, Mass. 
 
 ROTCH, Thomas Morgan: 
 
 Physician and surgeon ; born in New Bed- 
 ford, Mass., Dec. 9, 1849; son of Rodman 
 and Helen (Morgan) Rotch. His ancestor 
 in the generation, five removes, was Thomas 
 ]\Iacy, who married Deborah Cofiin. Mr. 
 Retell was graduated from Harvard as A. 
 B., 1870, and M.D., 1874. He was medical 
 house officer of Massachusetts General Hos- 
 pital, 1873-1874; studied in the Universities 
 of Berlin, Vienna and Heidelberg, 1875- 
 1876; was physician to the Boston Dispen- 
 sary in 1876 ; visiting physician to Chan- 
 ning Home for Consumptives from 1878; 
 clinical lecturer on diseases of children in 
 Harvard Medical School, 1878-1885, and lec- 
 turer, 1885-1888; assistant professor of dis- 
 eases of children, 1888-1893, and full pro- 
 fessor since 1893, the title being changed 
 to professor of pediatrics in 1903. He is 
 secretary of the Suffolk District Medical 
 Society; served as visiting physician of 
 Boston City Hospital for ten j^ears, when 
 he was made consulting' physician and sur- 
 geon. He was made censor of the Suffolk 
 IDistrict IMedical Society and councilor of 
 tlie Massachusetts Medical Society. He has 
 served as president of the American Pedi- 
 atric Society since 1891 and of the Suffolk 
 District Medical Society since 1902. The 
 
 Thomas Morgan Rotch, Jr., Hospital for 
 Infants was founded by friends of Dr. Rotch 
 in memory of his son and' he served the 
 institution from its foundation as visiting 
 physician. He has been largelj^ instrumental 
 in establishing milk laboratories, both in 
 America and Europe, and he was made con- 
 sulting physician to the St. Francis Hos- 
 pital for Infants in London in 1903. He is 
 autlior of: Pediatrics, the Hygienic and 
 iVIedical Treatment of Children, used in 
 Harvard and' other medical schools as a 
 text-book. He married, June 4, 1874, Helen, 
 daughter of William J. and Emily (Mor- 
 gan) Rotch of New Bedford, and their only 
 child, •Thomas Morgan Rotch, Jr., died 
 March 13, 1902. Residence: 197 Common- 
 wealth Aveiuic, Boston. 
 
 ROTH, Frederick G. R.: 
 
 Sculptor; born in Brooklyn, April 28, 
 1872; son of Johannis and Jane Grey | 
 (Beau) Roth. He studied art at the Acad- l 
 emy of Fine Arts in Vienna. 1893-1895, 
 Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin. 1895-1897. 
 He is an academician of the National Acad- 
 emy of Design; member of the National 
 Sculpture Society, and Architectural League 
 of New York. He is also a member of the 
 Salmagundi Club. He married in New 
 York City, April, 1905, Madeleine E. G. 
 Foster. Address: Salmagundi Club, New 
 York City. 
 
 ROTHROCK, Joseph Trimble: 
 
 Former commissioner of forestry; born 
 April 9, 1839, at McVeytown, Mifflin Coun- 
 ty, Pa.; son of Dr. Abraham and Pliebe 
 B. Rothrock. He was graduated from Har- 
 vard, B.S., 18G4, and from the University 
 of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1868. He enlisted, 
 Aug. 7, 1862, as a j^rivate in Company D, 
 131st Pennsylvania Infantry, for nine 
 months; was severely wounded in tliigh at 
 the battle of Fredericksburg in Dec, 1862; 
 commissioned" captain of Com])any E, 20th 
 Pennsylvania Cavalry, serving for six 
 months; and 1805-1860 was exploring in 
 British Columbia. He practised medicine 
 in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 1870-1873, and was 
 then made surgeon to the Wlieeler Explor- 
 ing Expedition, U. S. Engineers, operating 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 west of the One Hundrodtli meridian, serv- 
 ing until 1875, in Colorado, Arizona, New 
 Mexico and California. In 1876 he estab- 
 lished a camp for physical culture for boys; 
 was elected' to the chair of botany in the 
 University of Pennsylvania, 1877. In 1896 
 he Avas made general secretary of the Penn- 
 sj'lvania Forestry Association, which posi- 
 tion he still holds; was made commissioner 
 of forestry in the Department of Agricul- 
 ture in 1897, and the head of a division in 
 the new department. In 1901 he was made 
 head of State Department of Forestry, and 
 resigned that position on June 1, 190-1:. He 
 has served under four successive governors 
 as commissioner of forestry, and ha-s estab- 
 lished a consumptive camp on South ]\Ioun- 
 tain, in Franklin County, also the Moun- 
 tain Side Sanatorium for Consumptives. 
 As member of Pennsylvania Conservation 
 Commission he represents the State in Na- 
 tional Conservation Commission in Wash- 
 ington. He is a writer on scientific sub- 
 jects. Dr. Rothrock is a member of the 
 Pennsylvania Commandery of Military Or- 
 der of the Loyal Legion. He married, May 
 
 27, 1869, Martha E. May. Address: 428 
 North Church Street, West Chester, Pa. 
 
 ROTHSCHILD, Alonzo: 
 
 Authoi-; born in New York, Oct. 30, 1862; 
 son of John and Katherine (Meyer) Roths- 
 child. He received his education in public 
 schools, College of the City of New York, 
 and Harvard College. He is author of: 
 Lincoln, Master of Men. He married in 
 New York, Sept. 11, 1895, Meta Robitscheck, 
 and they have three children. Address: 
 Brook Farm, East Foxboro, Mass. 
 
 ROUNDS, Arthur Charles: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 
 
 28, 1862; son of Dr. Charles Collins and 
 Kate Nixon (Stowell) Rounds. He was 
 graduated from Hallowell (Me.) Classical 
 Academy, and State Normal School, Farm- 
 ington, "^Me., Amherst College, A.B., 1887, 
 Harvard Law School, LL.B., A.:\I., 1890, 
 and the honorary degree of LL.il. from 
 New York University. He was professor of 
 law in the Metropolis Evening Law School, 
 New York, 1893-1895; professor of law in 
 
 New York University, 1895-1901; lecturer 
 at the Harvard Law School, 1898-1899, 
 1900-1901. II.. is a director of llie I'ninn 
 Buffalo iMill.s Company, and tiie American 
 Deli Tobacco Com])any, also a member of 
 the law firm of Rounds and Schurman, 
 trustee of Amherst College; member of the 
 Chi Psi and Plii Delta Phi fraternities, and 
 the LTniversity, Harvard, Lawyers, Barnard, 
 Nassau Country, and I'armachenee Clubs, 
 and the Association of the Bar of New York. 
 Residence: 256 West lOOtli Street. Office: 
 96 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 ROWE, Basil W.: 
 
 E.xpress oflicial ; vice-president, treasurer, 
 trustee and member of the Board of Man- 
 agers of The Adams Express Company; vice- 
 president and director of The Adams Land 
 and Building Company; vice-president, 
 treasurer and director of The Adams Ve- 
 liicle Company; president and director of 
 Hollywood Hotel and Cottage Company; 
 director of Dunlap's Express Company; 
 ]\Iorris European and American Express 
 Company, Limited; Standard Trust Com- 
 pany of New York. Mr. Romc is a member 
 of the Ohio Society of New York, ^letro- 
 politan Museum of Art, American ^luseum 
 of Natural History, jNIonmouth County 
 Horse Show Association, and of the New 
 York Club, Railroad Club, Automobile Club 
 of America, and New Jersey Automobile and 
 Motor Club. Residence: 47 East 58lh 
 Street. Olhce: 71 Broadway, New York 
 City. 
 
 ROWE, Leo S.: 
 
 Economist; born in ^IcCregor, Iowa, Sept. 
 17, 1871; son of Louis Rowe. He was edu- 
 cated in the Philadelphia Central High 
 School, the University of Pennsylvania. 
 Ph. B., 1890, LL.B., 1895, and is a Ph.D. of 
 the University of Halle, Germany, and an 
 LL.D. of the National LTniversity of L;i 
 Plata, Argentine, L'niversity of San Mar- 
 cos. Lima, Peru, and the University of 
 Chile, Santiago. He was admitted to the 
 bar of Pennsylvania, and in 1903 was ap- 
 pointed head' of the department of political 
 science of the I^niversity of Pennsylvania, 
 which position he holds at the present 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 time. Professor Rowe has been one of the 
 chief factors in formulating the laws under 
 ■which a portion of the island possessions 
 of tlie United States are now governed. In 
 1900 he was a member of the Commission 
 to Revise and Compile the Laws of Porto 
 Rico, and in 1901-1902 he was chairman of 
 the Insular Code Commission which reported 
 codes, which, with some modifications, have 
 been adopted as the law under which Porto 
 Rico is now governed. He was United States 
 delegate to the Third International Con- 
 ference of American States at Rio Janeiro 
 in 1906, and chairman of the delegation of 
 the United States to the First Pan-Amer- 
 ican Scientific Congress at Santiago, Chile, 
 Dec, 1908-Jan.. 1909. Dr. Rowe is presi- 
 dent of the American Academy of Po- 
 litical and Social Science; member of the 
 American International Law Association, 
 American Economic Association, American 
 Political Science Association; corresponding- 
 member of the Societe d'Anthropologie, 
 Paris; and in July, 1909, was made hon- 
 orary member of the Mexican National 
 Geographic and Statistical Society. He is 
 the author of: The Finances of Berlin and 
 Paris; Report of the United States Com- 
 mission to Revise the Laws of Porto Rico 
 (with Judge Daly and Hon. Juan Hernan- 
 dez-Lopez), 2 volumes, 1901; Report of the 
 Insular Code Commission (with Hon. J. M. 
 Keedy), 8 volumes, 1902; The United States 
 and Vorto Rico, 1904; Problems of City 
 Government, 1908, and also of many reports, 
 monographs, and articles in economic jour- 
 nals, reviews, and Annals of American Acad- 
 emy of Political and Social Science. His 
 address is University of Pennsylvania, Phil- 
 ailclphia. Pa. 
 
 ROWE, Peter Trimble: 
 
 JJisho]) of Alaska; lioni in Canada in 
 IBoG. He was graduated from Trinity Col- 
 lege, Toronto, with the degree of B.A. and 
 later taking that of M.A. He received, in 
 1895, an honorary degree of D.D. from 
 Hobart College and from his alma mater. 
 He was ordained deacon of the Church of 
 England in Canada, later becoming priest 
 and, in 1878, was missionary at Garden 
 River, Ontario. In 1887 he accepted the 
 
 rectorate of St. James' Church in Sault 
 Sainte Marie, Mich., remaining here until 
 his advancement to the episcopate. He be- 
 came bishop of Alaska in 1895, being con- 
 secrated by Bishops Doane, Potter and 
 Davis. Bishop Rowe was married, June 5, 
 1882, to Dora H. Carry. Address: Sitka, 
 Alaska. 
 
 ROWELL, John W.: 
 
 Chief judge of Vermont Supreme Court; 
 born in Lebanon, N. H., June 9, 1835. He 
 was educated in the common schools and at 
 West Randolph (Vt.) Academy, read law 
 and was admitted to the bar of Orange 
 County, Vt., in 1858, and engaged in prac- 
 tice at Randolph. He served as State's 
 attorney for Orange County, 1862-1863; rep- 
 resented the town of Randolph in the House 
 of Representatives of Vermont, 1861-1862; 
 was a member of the Vermont Senate from 
 Orange County, in 1874. He was elected 
 reporter of the decisions of the Supreme 
 Court in 1872, and held the office by con- 
 tinuous reelections and appointment until 
 Dec, 1880, when he declined another ap- 
 pointment. He was appointed sixth asso- 
 ciate judge of the Supreme Court by 
 Governor Farnham, receiving his commission 
 Jan. 11, 1882; was elected fifth associate 
 judge in 1884, and promoted to fourth asso- 
 ciate judge by Governor Dillingham; elected 
 second associate judge in 1890 and on the 
 death of Judge Russell S. Taft, March 22, 
 1902, was appointed chief judge. The Uni- 
 versity of Vermont conferred upon Judge 
 Rowell the degree of LL.D. in 1893. He 
 married, Aug. 1, 1858, Mary L. Wheeler. 
 Address: Randolph, Vt. 
 
 ROWLAND, Eugene A.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Boonville, X. Y., Feb. 
 29, 1864; son of Samuel S. and Alice J. 
 (Barton) Rowland. He was educated in 
 Rome public schools, and Madison (now 
 Colgate) University, class of 1884, saluta- 
 torian. He was admitted to the bar, Jan., 
 1887, and has been engaged in general prac- 
 tice since then; U. S. commissioner since 
 1890. He is a director of the Rome and 
 Clinton Railroad, and trustee of the Church 
 Insurance Association of Rochester; was 
 
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 conuuissionor of the Rome City Board of 
 Charity, 1904-1908. Mr. Rowland is a mem- 
 ber of the Oneida County Bar Association, 
 the Bar x4ssociation of the Htate of New 
 York, and the Bar Association of the City 
 of New York ; trustee of the Central New 
 York Institution for Deaf Mutes, member of 
 the Delta Kai)i)a Epsilon fraternity, Phi 
 Beta Kappa 8ociety, Sons of the Revolution, 
 the University, Teugega Golf, Lake Placid, 
 Rome Country Clubs, and president of the 
 Rome Republican Club. He married in 
 Rome, N. Y., April 8, 189G, Jeanie M. Bar- 
 ton, and they have one daughter. Resi- 
 dence: 304 North George Street. Office: 
 Farmers' National Bank Building, Rome, 
 N. Y. 
 
 ROWLEY, Richard: 
 
 Clergyman ; born in Burslem, Stafford- 
 shire, England, March 2, 1872; son of 
 Thomas Rowley and Jane (Yoxall) Rowley. 
 After attending the local national school, 
 he was educated at St. Paul's Missionary 
 College, Burgh, Lines (in connection with 
 the University of Durham), England, 1894; 
 Queen's Theological College, Newfoundland. 
 1897, was graduated as M.A. in 1900, and 
 received the honorary degree of D.D. in 1903 
 from the Northern Illinois College. He was 
 ordered deacon in May, 1898, and ordained 
 priest in Dec. of the same year by Bishop 
 Nicholson of j\lilwaukee. For some three 
 years he was engaged in missionary work 
 in Wisconsin; in 1901 was appointed priest- 
 in-charge of Trinity Church, Wheaton, 111., 
 by Bishop Anderson, and since Dec, 1903, 
 has been rector of St. Paul's-by-the-Lake, 
 Rogers Park, Chicago. He married in Bara- 
 boo, 1901, Cornelia, daughter of Walworth 
 D. and Ellen Porter of Baraboo, Wis. Ad- 
 dress: St. Paul's Rectory, Rogers Park, 
 Chicago. 111. 
 
 ROYAL, George: 
 
 Physician and surgeon; born in Alfred, 
 Mass., July 15, 18.53; son of Ambrose and 
 Adelaide (Buchner) Royal. He studied one 
 year at Amherst College, and was graduated 
 from the New Y^ork Homeopathic Medical 
 College and Hospital, INI.D., 1882. Dl-. 
 Royal practised medicine in Rockville, 
 
 Conn., 1882-1883; tlien removed to Des 
 Moines, Iowa, wliere he lias liecn practising 
 since 1883. lie lias linii professor of ma- 
 teria medica. since IS'.).;, inid dean of the 
 College of Homeopathic Medicine, since 
 1S99. of the Slate Ciiiversity of Iowa. Dr. 
 Royal is a member of tlie .\nierican Insti- 
 tute of Homeoiialhy. of wliicli lie wa.s pres- 
 ident, 1904-1905, tlie Hahnemann Medical 
 Society of Iowa, tiie Des .Moines Homeo- 
 pathic Society, and is honorary vice-pres- 
 ident of the British ll()meoi)atliie Me<lical 
 Society. He is a director of the Roadside 
 Settlement, Des Moines, and a trustee of 
 the Institute of Drug Proving, of the Amer- 
 ican Institute of Homeopathy. He married 
 at Coventry, Conn., Nov. 27, 1879, Ella J. 
 Kingsbury, and they have four children. 
 Address: Des ]\Ioines, Iowa. 
 
 RUBLEE, William Alvah: 
 
 Consul-general; born at Madison, Wis., 
 in 1801 ; after a thorough preparation in 
 the best Wisconsin schools he entered Har- 
 vard University, from which he was grad- 
 uated as A.B. in 1883, and after leaving 
 college engaged in newspaper work. He 
 was appointed U. S. consul to Prague, Bo- 
 hemia, in 1890, serving there until 1894, 
 then became editorial writer on the Daily 
 Sentinel, at Milwaukee, Wis., until 1901, 
 when he was appointed consul-general of 
 the United States to Hong Kong, China. 
 He was transferred to Havana, Cuba, in 
 1902, and in 1903 to his present post as 
 consul-general of the United States at 
 Vienna. Address: American Consulate, 
 Vienna, Austria. 
 
 RUCKER, William Waller: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born near Cov- 
 ington, Va., Feb. 1, 1855; son of William 
 P. and Margaret A. (Scott) Rucker. At 
 the beginning of the war he moved with his 
 parents to West Virginia, in which State 
 he attended the common schools, and in 
 1873 removed to Chariton County, :Mo.. 
 where he taught school until 1875. studied 
 law. and was admitted to the bar in 1876. 
 He was elected i)rosecuting attorney of 
 Chariton County in 1886 and served until 
 1892. when he was elected circuit judge of 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 the INvelfth Judicial Circuit, serving until 
 1899. He was elected, as a Democrat, in 
 1898, to the Fifty-sixth Congress from the 
 Second jNlissouri District, has since been 
 biennially reelected, and is now serving in 
 the Sixty-first Congress. He married at 
 Keytesville, Mo., May 20, 1880. to Fannie 
 Applegate, Address: Keytesville, Mo. 
 
 RUCKSTUHL, Frederick Wellington: 
 
 Sculptor; born in Brcitenbach, Alsace, 
 France, May 22, 1853; son of John and 
 Jeannette (Steeb) Ruckstuhl. He was edu- 
 cated in the art schools of Paris. Mr. 
 Ruckstuhl has executed many notable works 
 in sculpture, among which is the marble 
 figure. Evening, in the Metropolitan Mu- 
 seum of Art, New York ; the colossal granite 
 heads of Franklin, Goethe and' Macaulay 
 on the facade and the heroic bronze statute 
 of Solon in the interior of the Library of 
 Congress in Washington; equestrian statue 
 of General Ilartranft on the Capitol Hill 
 at Harrisburg, Pa., the idealized heroic 
 statues of Wisdom and Force in marble at 
 the entrance of the Appellate Court Build- 
 ing of New York City; equestrian statue 
 of General Wade Hampton, at Columbia, 
 S. C. ; Confederate monuments at Baltimore 
 and Little Rock, heroic marble statue of 
 John C. Calhoun in Statuary Hall, Wash- 
 ington, and many others. Mr. Ruckstuhl 
 has traveled extensively and studied in Eu- 
 rope, Egyjit, and in Greece. He received 
 honorable mention in the Paris Salon of 
 1888, and a grand medal from the World's 
 Columbian Exposition, Chicago. Mr. Ruck- 
 stuhl is a member of the National Institute 
 of Arts and Letters, the National Sculpture 
 Society, Municipal Art Societ}', the Archi- 
 tectural League of New York, and the 
 Lambs' and National Art Clubs. He mar- 
 ried Adelaide Pohlman, and they have a 
 son. Address: The Arts Chili, Gramercy 
 Paik, Now York City. 
 
 RUFFIN, Margaret Ellen Henry: 
 
 W'litcr. lecturer; born in i)a])line, Ala.; 
 daughter of Thomas and Mary (Nugent) 
 Henry; was educated in the Immaculate 
 Conception School, Mobile, St. Josu])irs Col- 
 
 lege, Emmitsburg, receiving the degree of 
 LL.D., 1907 ; and receivetl' a letter from the 
 King and t^ueen of Norway for Norwegian 
 history. She . was asked for her jiic- 
 ture to place in the great Library 
 of Paris, as a writer of distinction; re- 
 ceived the " acclaim " and was admitted as 
 an honored confrere by the Sorbonne, and 
 by Dublin t'niversity. She wiote the Cen- 
 tennial Ode for St. Joseph's College at Em- 
 mitsburg, Md'., and also the Centennial 
 Song, which was sung at the Centenary in 
 June, 1909. She is author of: Drifting 
 Leaves, 1884; John Gildart, 1900. and the 
 North Star, 1904. She married in Mobile, 
 Ala., April 20, 1887, Francis G. Ruffin, Jr., 
 of Richmond, Va. (died 1902), and has six 
 children. Address: 404 Church Street, 
 Mobile. Ala. 
 
 RU6G, Arthur Prentice: 
 
 Associate justice of the Supreme Judicial 
 Court of INIassachusetts ; born in Sterling, 
 Mass., Aug. 20, 1862; son of Prentice Mason 
 and Cynthia (Ross) Rugg. He was grad- 
 uated from Andierst College, A.B., 1883, 
 Boston University Law School, LL.B., 188(3, 
 and received the degree of LL.D. from Am- 
 herst, 1908. He was admitted to the bai-, 
 1880, in co-partnership with the Hon. John 
 R. Meyer, 1888-1906, assistant district at- 
 torney, 1895-1897, city solicitor of Worces- 
 ter, 1897-1906; appointed associate justice 
 of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial 
 Court of Mas.sachusetts, Sept., 1906. He is 
 trustee of the Worcester Mechanics' Sav- 
 ings Bank since 1897, and vice-president 
 since 1907. Lie is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Antiquarian Society, trustee of the 
 School of Expression, Boston, and a member 
 of the Union Club of Boston and the Wor- 
 cester Club of W^orcester. He married in 
 Worcester, Mass., April 10, 1889, Florence 
 May Belcher, and they have three children. 
 Residence: 488 Pleasant Street, Worcester. 
 Ofiice: Court House, Boston. 
 
 RUHRAH, John: 
 
 Physician; born in Chillicothe, Ohio, 
 Sept.' 20, 1872; .sun of D. C. and Mary 
 ( FincknaikT) Ruliriili. lie was graduated 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1425 
 
 from tlie College of rhy.sicians and Sur- 
 geons, Baltimore, M.B., 1894. He is 
 visiting physician of j\Iorey, IJobert Garrett 
 Hospital for Children, Nursery and Child 
 Hospital, and consulting physician to the 
 Church Home and Infirmary. He is au- 
 thor of : A IManual of the Diseases of 
 Infants and Children (with J. Frieden- 
 fvald); Diet in Health and Disease, and 
 Dietetics for Nurses. Dr. Ruhriih is a 
 member of the American Pediatric Society, 
 secretary of the Medical and Chirurgical 
 Faculty of INIaryland, and a member of the 
 Universitj' and Baltimore Clubs. Address: 
 839 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore. 
 
 RUOFF, Henry Woldmar: 
 
 Author and journalist; boin in German- 
 town, Pa., Nov. 3, 1867; of Austro-Ger- 
 man ancestry. He was graduated from In- 
 diana University, 1890; was a graduate 
 student in Harvard University two years; 
 student in the Law Department of Colum- 
 bian University, Washington, D. C, three 
 years, and received its degree of D.C.L., 
 1901, also D.C.L. George Washington Uni- 
 versity, 1901 ; and he was auditor in the 
 University of Oxford, England, the Uni- 
 versity of Berlin, and the Ecole d'es Sci- 
 ences Politiques, -Paris, 1901-1902. He 
 was successively assistant in ethnology to 
 the World's Columbian Exposition, 1891- 
 1892; lecturer in philosophy and history 
 in Pennsylvania State College, 1892-1893; 
 engaged in literary work and publishing, 
 1895-1904; editor "and adviser with The 
 King-Richardson Company, Springfield', 
 Mass., 1898-1904; on editorial staff of the 
 American Spectator, Ridgeway's, and The 
 Nashville Tennessean, 1904-1908. He has 
 traveled very extensively in Europe, Asia 
 and Northern Africa. Mr. Ruoflf is a 
 member of the American Academy of Po- 
 litical and Social Science, the National 
 Geographic Society, and the Phi Delta Phi 
 fraternity. He' is author and editor of 
 several volumes, including The Century 
 Book of Facts ; Leaders of Men ; The Cap- 
 itals of the World; Syllabus of American 
 Politics; The Standard Dictionary of 
 Facts; and has been a prolific contributor 
 to other publications of a popular charac- 
 90 
 
 ter. .Ml-. I'iUolV is an independent llepub- 
 lican and a Unitarian. Kcsidencc: 225 
 I^orwood Avenue. Ollice: 800 Mutual 
 Life Building. BufValo, N. Y. 
 
 RUSSELL, Charles Edward: 
 
 Author: bitrn in Davenport, Iowa, Sept. 
 25, 1800; son of Edward and Lydia (Rut- 
 ledge) Russell. He received his education 
 in the Davenport High School and the St. 
 Jolmsbury (Vt.) Academy. He began work 
 on his father's newspaper, the Davenport 
 Daily Gazette, and was subsequently night 
 editor of the Minneapolis Tribune, man- 
 aging editor of the Minneapolis Journal ; 
 managing editor of the Detj-oit Tribune; 
 reporter on the New York Herald; city 
 editor of the New York World', managing 
 editor of the New Y'ork American, and 
 ]niblisher of the Chicago American, He 
 traveled all through Europe and around 
 the world, for Everybody's Magazine, Mr. 
 Russell is author of: Such Stuff as 
 Dreams (verse), 1902; The Twin Immor- 
 talities (verse), 1904; The Greatest Trust 
 in the World, 1905; The Uprising of the 
 Many, 1907; Thomas Chatterton: the Mar- 
 velous Boy, 1908; Lawless Wealth, 1908. 
 Mr. Russell is a member of the Authors' 
 Club and Liberal Club of New York. He 
 is a member of the Socialist party. He 
 married at St. Johnsbury, Vt., March 12, 
 1884, Abby Osborne Rust, who died Jan. 
 12. 1901, and he has one son. Address: 
 Wiiulermere Hotel, Chicago, 111. 
 
 RUSSELL, Charles Wells: 
 
 Assistant attorney -general ; born Wheel- 
 ing, ^^■. Va., March 16, 1856; son of C. W. 
 and :\Iargaret Wilson (Moore) Russell. 
 He was educated in Georgetown University; 
 Academic and Law Departnu'uts, and' in 
 1880 entered the Department of Justice and 
 thereafter argued many French Spoliation 
 i and other cases. In 1895 he was legal 
 adviser of the Dockery Joint Congressional 
 Commission to reform the Government, and 
 especially Treasury methods. in 1897 he 
 investigated and Jan., 1898. reported on 
 the reconcentrado starvation and military 
 situation in Cuba, which country he re- 
 visited in 1905 in preparing the defense of 
 
1426 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 General Brooke, ex-governor of Cuba, 
 against the Countess O'Reilly de Buena 
 Vista (209 U. S. 45). In Aug., 1898, he 
 was sent as legal adviser of the Porto Rico 
 ^Military Evacuation Commission. He used 
 his influence in favor of Cuban independence 
 w lien forcible annexation was much in 
 favor. In 1901 he argued the Maine ex- 
 plosion eases before the Spanish Treaty 
 Claims Commission. In 1902 he was sent 
 by Attorney-General Knox to Paris to re- 
 port on the validity of the title the 
 Panama Canal Company could transfer to 
 United States and in 1904 was sent back 
 to Paris to effect the transfer of the Pan- 
 ama Canal Company's title and property. 
 He arranged with J. P. Morgan to convey 
 the price to Paris, forty million dollars in 
 gold. From Paris he was sent to Panama 
 as legal adviser of the first Canal Zone 
 Government ; assisted in delimiting the Zone, 
 and organizing the government. From 1902 
 to 190(5 he was special assistant attorney- 
 general in charge of Insular and Territorial 
 Affairs, including the Pacific Cables. Since 
 Oct., 1906, he has been investigating and 
 prosecuting peon slavery and like offenses 
 in the Southern States. In Nov., 1907, and 
 July, 1908, argued the Bettie Ligon and 
 Fleming cases and instituted at INIuskogee 
 suits against several thousand defendants; 
 all in the interest of the Five Civilized 
 Tribes. He married, first, in 1879, Lucy 
 Floyd Mosby; and second, in 1885, Lelia 
 James Mosby (her sister). Address: De- 
 ]iart)iicnt of Justice, \A'ashington, D. C. 
 
 KUSSELL, Gordon: 
 
 Congressman; born in lliints\ille, Ala.; 
 son of Henry A. and' Mary (Gordon) Rus- 
 sell. He was graduated from the University 
 of Georgia, A.B., and was a member of the 
 Phi Delta Theta fraternity while in college. 
 He tauglit school at Dalton, Ga., and dur- 
 ing that time read law and was admitted 
 to the bar by the superior court for Whit- 
 field County; removed to Texas in the lat- 
 ter part of 1879 and located in Van Zandt 
 County; removed to Tyler, Smith County, 
 in 1895; was elected county judge of Van 
 Zandt County in 1884. and at the end of 
 one term reliiiijuislicd tliat ollice to >esume 
 
 the practice of his profession. In 1892 he 
 was elected district attorirey of the Seventh 
 Judicial District of Texas. Upon the death 
 of Hon. R. C. De Graffenreid' was elected 
 as a Democrat from the Third Texas Dis- 
 trict to till out the remainder of his term 
 in the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Con- 
 gresses. He was reelected to the Fifty-ninth, 
 Sixtieth and Sixty- first Congresses. Ad- 
 dress: Tyler, Texas. 
 
 RUSSELL, Harry Luman: 
 
 Dean of the College of Agriculture in the 
 University of Wisconsin; born at Poynette, 
 Wis., AlaVch 12, 1866; son of E. Fred and 
 Lucinda E. (Waldron) Russell. He was 
 graduated from the University of Wisconsin, 
 B.S., 1888, M.S., 1890, and from Johns Hop- 
 kins University, Ph.D., 1892. He was as- 
 sistant professor of bacteriology at the Uni- 
 versity of Wisconsin, 1893; professor of 
 bacteriology in 1896; director of the State 
 Hygienic Laboratory, in 1903; dean of the 
 College of Agriculture and director of the 
 Wisconsin Experimental Station since 1907. 
 Dr. Russell is a member of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science, 
 the Society of American Bacteriologists, 
 Washington Academy of Science, and the 
 American Public Health Association; pres- 
 ident of the Advisory Board of the State 
 Tuberculosis Sanatorium, trustee of^ the 
 Poynette Presbyterian Academy, member of 
 the Plii Beta Kappa Society, Alpha Zeta, 
 and Signuv Xi fraternities, and of the Uni- 
 versity Club of Madison. He married at 
 Poynette, Dec. 20, 1893, H. May Russell, 
 and they have two children. Address : Mad- 
 ison, Wis. 
 
 RUSSELL, Horace: 
 
 Jurist; born in Bombay, N. Y., June 19, 
 1843; son of Charles and Hannah (Wright) 
 Russell. He was graduated from Dart- 
 month College, A.B., 1865. and from Har- 
 vard Law School, LL.B., 1867, and received 
 the LL.D. degree from Dartmouth in 1893. 
 He engaged in the practice of law in New 
 York City in 1867; was appointed assistant 
 district attorney of New York County in 
 1873; judge advocate-general of New York, 
 1879-1882; judge of the Superior Court of 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1427 
 
 New York, 1880-1883. He was receiver for 
 the West Shore Railway Company, 1884- 
 1886; general counsel for the Stewart 
 Estate, 1880-1889. He is a member of tlie 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, Law Institute, Metro|)olitan Museum 
 of Art; member and ex-president of the New 
 England Society, and president of the Met- 
 ropolitan Golf Association. He is a member 
 of the Union League, University, Metropol- 
 itan, Republican, Garden City Golf, and 
 Shinnecock Golf Clubs. He married, Fob. 
 2G, 1878, Josephine Hilton, and they have 
 three daugbters. Residence: 47 Park Ave- 
 nue. Address: 280 Broadway, New York 
 City. 
 
 RUSSELL, Joseph Ballister: 
 
 Merchant; born in Boston, Oct. 24, 1852; 
 son of Charles Theodore and Sarah E. (Bal- 
 lister) Russell. He was educated in public 
 and private schools in Boston and Cam- 
 bridge. He is president and director of the 
 West End Street Railway Company; vice- 
 president and director of the State Street 
 Trust Company; treasvirer and director of 
 tlie Boston Wharf Company ; director of 
 the Boston Consolidated Gas Company, Bos- 
 ton Steamship Company, Boston & Phila- 
 delphia Steamship Company, Cambridge 
 Trust Company, Conveyancers Title Insur- 
 ance Company, Fitchburg Railroad Com- 
 pany, National Shawmut Bank; trustee 
 Lovejoy's Wharf Trust, Massachusetts Gas 
 Comjianies, New England Coal and Coke 
 Company, New England Gas and Coke Com- 
 jjany and of Quincy INIarket Real Estate 
 Trust. He is director of the Boston Mer- 
 chants Association, Boston Cliamber of Com- 
 merce and of the Boston Real Estate and 
 Auction Board of which he is president; 
 trustee of Mount Aidjurn Cemetery Corpora- 
 tion and of Cambridge Hospital; is a mem- 
 l)er of the Somerset, Union, Exchange, New 
 Riding, Papyrus, Commercial and Boston 
 City Clubs of Boston, of the Country Club 
 of Brookline, Mass., Oakley Country Club 
 of Watcrtown, ]\Iass., of which he is presi- 
 dent, and of the Strollers' Club of New York 
 City. Mr. Russell married in Wilmington, 
 Del., May 20, 1880. Lilian Ilillyard Tenney, 
 and they have five children. Residence : U9 
 
 Sparks Strei-l, Cambridge, Mass. Address: 
 114 Slate Street, l',<.-,f on. 
 
 RUSSELL, Robert Howard: 
 
 I'ublislicr; bdiii ill St lilt tdiil. Cuiiii.. in 
 18U0; son of llobeit II. and .Mary K. llus- 
 sell. He is tlie autlior of many articles and 
 a book of travel in the East, and publisher 
 of C. D. Gib.son's, Frederick Remington's 
 and many other artists' drawings and of 
 fine art books generally, lie is publislier 
 and editor, also president of The Metropoli- 
 tan Magazine Company and |)ro|xietor of 
 the business of R. H. Ru.ssell, Publisher. 
 He is a mendier of the Union, Racquet and 
 Tennis, The Brook, and Turf and' Field 
 Clubs of New York City, and als(^ of Th(? 
 National and Prince's Clubs of London, 
 England. Address: 3 West 2!)th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 RUTHERFORD, Mildred Lewis: 
 
 Author and teacher; born in Athens, 
 Ga., July 16, 1851; daughter of Williams 
 and Laura Battaile Rootes (Cobb) Ruther- 
 ford. She was graduated from the Lucy 
 Cobb Institute, Athens, Ga., with first 
 honor in a class of twenty-seven members. 
 She has been teacher of literature for 
 twenty-eight years and principal for seven- 
 teen years of the Lucy Cobb Institute; 
 president of the Bessie jNIell Industrial 
 Home (an organized charity) for fourteen 
 years; director of Athens Night School, 
 eight years; president of the Georgia Di- 
 vision of United Daughters of the Con- 
 federacy, four years, and is State historian 
 for life of the same division; historian of 
 the Elijah Clarke Chapter of the Daugh- 
 ters of the American Revolution ; member 
 of the American Committee of the Young 
 Women's Christian Association for years 
 and president of the Ladies Auxiliary of 
 the Young Men's Christian Association. 
 She is author of several volumes, includ- 
 ing: English Authors; American Au- 
 thors ; French Authors ; The South in His- 
 tory and Literature (a concise but com- 
 plete compendium ) ; !Mamie Brown and 
 Susan Kennedy ; farces and school plays, 
 and several books still in manuscript. Ad- 
 dress: The Villa. Athens, Ga. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 RYAN, James: 
 
 C'atliolic Jii>slioi); born in Thurles, County 
 Tippcrary, Ireland, 1848. He came to the 
 United States as a boy and was educated iu 
 this country. His ecclesiastical studies were 
 made in St. Joseph's Seminary, Bard'stown, 
 Ky., was ordained priest and remained for 
 some time as professor, was afterward pas- 
 tor in Kentucky until 1878, and afterward 
 parish priest in Wataga, Danville and Ot- 
 tawa, 111., until consecrated, in 1888, bishop 
 of Alton^ 111., which see he has since ad- 
 ministered. Address: Alton, 111. 
 
 RYAN, Patrick John: 
 
 Roman Catholic Archbishop of Philadel- 
 phia; born in Thurles, County Tipperary, 
 Ireland, Feb. 20, 1831. He was sent to St. 
 Vincent's College, Castlenock, four miles 
 northwest of Dublin, which he left in his 
 sixteenth year, in 1847, to enter Carlow Col- 
 lege. He left Carlow College in 1852, just 
 after receiving the holy order of deacon- 
 ship, and emigrated to the United States, 
 becoming affiliated with the Archdiocese of 
 St. Louis. Though not yet a priest, being 
 too young to be ordained, for the first three 
 months after his arrival he was assigned 
 to preach in St. Patrick's Church, and also 
 ])prformed' the same office in the Catliedral 
 He was soon afterward appointed professor 
 of English literature and elocution in the 
 Theological Seminary at Carondelet, Mo. 
 His first mission as a priest was as an as- 
 sistant at the Cathedral. He became rector 
 of the Cathedral, and remained as such until 
 18()0, when he was chosen to take charge of 
 the Annunciation parish, whose church and 
 school he built. In addition to his parochial 
 duties here he also performed' those of 
 chaplain of the Gratiot Street Military Pris- 
 on, where many Confederate prisoners were 
 confined during the Civil \\'ar. Soon after 
 the war he was transferred from the An- 
 nunciation Churcli to SI. John's Church, 
 St. Louis, which lie rclii'vcd of a debt of 
 thirty thousand dollars. In 1866 he was 
 called upon to attend the Second Plenary 
 Council of Baltimore in an offical capacity, 
 and' the same year he recr'ived the degree of 
 Doctor of Laws from Columbia University 
 
 of New York. The following years he ac- 
 companied Archbishop Kenrick to Rome, to 
 attend the celebration of the eighteenth cen- 
 tenary of the martyrdom of St. Peter. 
 While in Rome he preached, upon the direct 
 invitation of the Pope, a Lenten course of 
 sermons in English. Father Ryan returned 
 to St. Louis in 1868, where he was ap- 
 pointed Vicar-General of the Diocese. In 
 1871, Archbishop Kenrick having applied 
 for a coadjutor, and his request being 
 granted, the choice fell upon the Very Rev- 
 erend Patrick John Ryan, Vicar-General, 
 who was assigned to the titular See of 
 Tricomia. The silver jubilee of this event 
 was celebrated by the Catholics of Phila- 
 adelphia and St. Louis jointly on April 14, 
 1897, at St. Louis, in the church of which 
 he was the rector, St. John the Evangelist. 
 In the fall of 1883 he visited Rome for the 
 second time, on this occasion as the repre- 
 sentative of Archbishop Kenrick at the con- 
 ference assembled at the invitaton of the 
 Pope to make preparations for the Tliird 
 Plenary Council at Baltimore. He had ar- 
 rived home but a short time when he re- 
 ceived notice of his promotion to an arch- 
 episcopal titular see, that of Salamis. The 
 Metropolitan See of Philadelphia had been 
 vacant for some time, and he was appointed 
 thereto June 9, 1884. Among the new 
 charitable institutions founded in the arch- 
 bishopric under Archbishop Ryan are the 
 St. Vincent's Home and INlaternity Hospi- 
 tal, St. Joseph's Home for Industrious Boys, 
 St. Fancis de Sales' Industrial School at 
 Eddington, the religious order of the 
 Blessed Sacrament and its school at Corn- 
 wells, Houses of the Good Shepherd in Nor- 
 ristown, Reading and Germantown, a Home 
 for Catholic \Vorking Girls under the care 
 of the Sisters of ]Mercy, and the Catholic 
 Piotectory for Boys, erected' at Flatlands, 
 in Montgomery County, near Philadelphia. 
 He delivered' several addresses before the 
 Congress of Religions at the World's Co- 
 lumbian Exposition, and many of his lec- 
 tures and sermons have been published. 
 He is author of: What Catholics Do Not 
 Believe, The Causes of Modern Relgious 
 Skepticism, etc. Address: 225 North 
 Eighteenth Street, Philadelphia. 
 
Patrick Joiix Ryan 
 Catholic Archbishop Phihidelphia 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1420 
 
 RYAN, Thomas Fortune: 
 
 Financier; born in Nelson County, Va., 
 Oct. 17, 1851. He was educated in the 
 schools of that county. Ho went to Balti- 
 more at the age of 17 and worked in tlie 
 dry goods commission house of John S. 
 Barry until 1870 ,when he went to New 
 York City and became connected with a 
 house in Wall Street. He became a mem- 
 ber of the New York Stock Exchange in 
 1874, and soon became identified with cor- 
 poration interests and securities and especi- 
 ally with consolidating and extending the 
 street railway and lighting systems of New 
 York City, Chicago and other large cities, 
 being associated in and having active charge 
 of the enterprises of the late William C. 
 Whitney for nearly thirty years; notably 
 in effecting the consolidation of the various 
 street railway systems of New York City 
 for a combination of capitalists, in 1886; 
 went to London, in 1902, to take charge of 
 the fight which the American Tobacco Com- 
 pany was then making against the Imperial 
 Tobacco Company, for a division of the world 
 territory for the tobacco trade, and in a few 
 weeks won the fight completely', established 
 harmonious relations with the British cor- 
 poration, and greatly enhancing the value 
 of the American company's business. He 
 was a leader in the reorganization of the 
 Richmond & Danville System into the pres- 
 ent Southern Railway; formed and executed 
 the plans for the Central of Georgia Railroad, 
 and Banking Co. ; secured control of the 
 Seaboard Air Line Railway after an 8-year 
 contest; arranged the merging of the street 
 railways with the elevated railways and the 
 subways system in such a way as to give 
 to him and his associates practical control of 
 the entire rapid transit system of New 
 York City; purchased a controlling inter- 
 est in the stock of the Equitable Life As- 
 surance Society of the United States, in 
 1905; and is interested in and practically 
 controls many important interests, domestic 
 and foreign. Mr. Ryan is vice-president of 
 the Morton Trust Company, vice-president 
 and director of the National Bank of Com- 
 merce; director of the Carolina, Clinch- 
 field and Ohio Railway Company, the Amer- 
 ican Congo Company, American Tobacco 
 
 CoMipany. Conmiercial 'J'liist ('(jiiipaiiy of 
 LMiihidelpliia, Fifth Avenue Trust Company 
 of New York, Industrial Tru>t ('omi)any uf 
 Providence, R. I., ^Mercantile Trust Com- 
 pany of New York and the Seabord Air 
 J>iue Railway. His legal residence is in \'^ir- 
 ginia, and he represented that Stale in the 
 Democratic National Convention of 1904, 
 where he was largely instrumental in recon- 
 ciling tlie delegates to the acceptance of Mr. 
 Parker's telegram declaring for tiie gold 
 standard. 'Sir. Ryan is a member of tlie 
 Ciiamber of Commerce, of the Southern 
 Society in New Y'ork; is a meml)er of the 
 Army and Navy, Catholic. City Midday, 
 Lawyers', Manhattan-, Metropolitan. New 
 York Athletic, National Democratic. Riding, 
 Tuxedo, and Union Clubs and The Virginian^, 
 of New York; Country Club of Westchester, 
 Knollwood Country Club, New York ; tlie 
 Columbus Club of Columbus, Ohio, and !Met- 
 ropolitan Club of Washington. D. C. Mr. 
 Ryan married, Nov. 25, 1873, Ida M. Barry, 
 of Baltimore, and has five sons. He has 
 a home called Oak Ridge, on the site of his 
 birthplace in Virginia ; another in Washing- 
 ton, a country place at SufTern, N. Y., and 
 in the winter time lives in his beautiful 
 ivy-covered mansion on lower Fifth Avenue. 
 Residence: 60 Fifth Avenue. Office: .'^8 
 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 RYDER, Albert Pinkham: 
 
 Artist; born in New Bedford. Mass., 
 IVIarch 19, 1847; son of Alexander Cage 
 and Elizabeth (Cobb) Ryder. He received 
 his art educaton under Wlliam Edgar Mar- 
 shall, and at the National Academy of De- 
 sign. He toured Europe for the inirpose of 
 viewing the nniseiuns. Mr. Ryder has been 
 academician! of the National Academy of 
 Design since 1906. Address: ,308 West 
 15tli Street, New York Citv. 
 
 SAAR, louis Victor: 
 
 Composer; born in Rotterdam. Dec. 10, 
 1868; son of Lous and Fannie (.Taquemar) 
 Saar. He was graduated from Realgym- 
 nasium, Strassburg, 1886 with great dis- 
 
1430 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 tinction from the Royal Academy of Music 
 Munich, 1889. He received the Mendelsshon 
 prize, Vienna, 1892; was awarded the 
 Kaiser Prize in Baltimore. 1903, and many 
 minor prizes. He lived in New York for 
 ten years as comi^oser and teacher, con- 
 nected with leading musical schools (Insti- 
 tute of Musical Art under Frank Dam- 
 rosch), and critic at G. Schirmer's, and is 
 now principal of the Theory Department, 
 and conductor of College Chorus at the Cin- 
 cinnati College of Music. He married in 
 New York, Oct. G, 1898, Emilie Scholl and 
 lias three children. Residence: 2126 Al- 
 pine Place. Office: Cincinnati College of 
 Music, Cincinnati. Ohio. 
 
 SABIN, Alvah Horton: 
 
 Chemical engineer; born in Norfolk, N. 
 Y., April 1, 1851 ; son of Henry S. and 
 Zaida (Vernal) Sabin. He was graduated 
 from Bowdoin College, B.S., 1876, M.S.. 
 1879. He was professor of chemistry and 
 physics, at Ripon, 1876-1880, at the Univer- 
 sity of Vermont, 1880-1886; state chemist 
 of Vermont from 1882 to 1886; chemist 
 and director of Edward Smith and Company 
 (varnishes and paints), 1888-1905; lecturer 
 on paints and varnishes at the University 
 of New York since 1897. at the Massachu- 
 setts Institute of Technology'. 1898-1904, 
 1907, University of Michigan, 1898-1902, 
 Purdue University. 1899-1902, University 
 of Wisconsin, 1901-1902; president and 
 mfinager of the American Milk Sugar Com- 
 pany, 1885-1886. He is author of: Tech- 
 nology of Paint and Varnish, 1905, Paint- 
 ing. 1908 : is the inventor and patenter of 
 modern process by which all sugar of milk 
 is made, the inventor of processes and mate- 
 rials for preventing corrosion of iron and 
 steel. Professor Sabin is a member of the 
 American Chemical Society, Society of 
 Chemical Industry, American Society for 
 Testing Materials, American Society of 
 Civil Engineers. American Society of Me- 
 chanical Engineers, Society of Naval Ar- 
 chitects and ^larine Engineers, National 
 Geographic Society, the Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society, American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, Society of Arts of 
 ],ondon; fellow and member of Council of 
 
 tlie North British Academy of Arts and 
 Science; member of the Chemists Club of 
 New l^ork, and the Fireside Club of Flush- 
 ing, N. Y. He married in Chicago, 1880, 
 Mary Ellen Barden, and has two children. 
 Address: 432 Sanford Avenue. Flushing, 
 N. Y. 
 
 SABIN, Elbridge Hosmer: 
 
 Lawyer; born in ]\IiddIetown Point, N. 
 J., Jan. 10, 1865; son of Henry and Esther 
 Frances (Hotchkiss) Sabin. He was gradu- 
 ated from Clinton, Iowa High School, 1882, 
 and the University of Iowa, A.B., 1880. 
 He is author of: Early American History 
 for Young Americans, Stella's Adventures 
 in Starland, The Magical Man of Mirth 
 (to be published in 1910). Mr. Sabin 
 served in Troop C, First Texas Volunteer 
 Cavahy of the Spanish-American War. He 
 is a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, 
 and Phi Beta Kappa Society. Residence: 
 1300 Seventh Street. Office: Manhattan 
 Building, Des Moines, la. 
 
 SABINE, William Tufnell: 
 
 Bishop of the Synod of New York and 
 Philadelphia, of the Reformed Episcopal 
 Church; born in New York City. Oct. 16, 
 1838; son of Dr. Gvistavus A. and Julia H. 
 (Tufnell) Sabine. He was educated in the 
 New York University School, the Thayer 
 School, and Columbia University, A.B.. 
 1859, A.M., 1862, and was graduated from 
 the General Theological Seminary, 1862; 
 and the degree of D.D. was conferred upon 
 him by the University of New York in 1890. 
 He was ordained in the ministry of the 
 Episcopal Church in 1862; became assistant 
 pastor of St. George's Church, New York 
 City, 1863, and later in the same year rector 
 of the Church of the Covenant, Philadelphia. 
 He became rector, in 1866, of the Chui'ch of 
 the Atonement, New York City, and, left in 
 1874 to accept the pastorate of the First 
 Reformed Episcopal Church of New York 
 City, which he held until 1907. In 1902 
 Dr. Sabine was elected bishop of the Synod 
 of New York and Philadelphia. Bishop 
 Sabine is member of the American Bible 
 Society, American Tract Society, American 
 Sunday School Union, and National Tem- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1431 
 
 perancp Society. Tie married in Xew York 
 City. Oct. G, 1868, to Maria Tliercsa ShicfTel- 
 in. and by tliis union there liave lieen ten 
 children. Address: !)60 Madison Avenue, 
 New York City. 
 
 SACKETT, Henry Woodward: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Enfield. N. Y., Aug. 31, 
 1853 ; son of Solon P. and Lovedy K. 
 (Woodward) Sackett, and a lineal descend- 
 ant of John Sackett, who came to Massa- 
 chusetts ]5ay from England with Roger 
 Williams in 1030. He was educated in 
 Ithaca Academy, and Cornell University, 
 A.B., 1875 (class essayist and elected to 
 Phi Beta Kappa). In 1879 he was ad- 
 mitted to the New York Bar. He early be- 
 came a law writer and later editorial 
 writer and counsel for the New Y^ork Tri- 
 bune; and he is now a member of the firm 
 of Sackett, Chapman and Stevens. He was 
 for six years a member of Troop A and 
 Squadron A, National Guard of New York, 
 holding various positions, and in 1897 was 
 appointed aide on the military staflF of 
 Governor Black, with the rank of colonel. 
 During the Spanish-American War he did 
 recruiting service and also served as assist- 
 ant paymaster-general of New York in the 
 Southern States. Colonel Sackett is a trus- 
 tee and secretary of the Hudson-Fulton Cel- 
 ebration Commission ; trustee and vice-pres- 
 ident of the American Scenic and Historic 
 Preservation Society ; trustee of Cornell Uni- 
 versity; trustee and counsel of the Clark- 
 son Home for Children; member of the 
 American, New I'ork State and City Bar 
 Associations, Municipal Art Society, Found- 
 ers and Patriots of America, Sons of the 
 American Revolution. St. Nichols Society 
 and St. George's Society. He is a freqiient 
 contributor to the editorial columns of the 
 New York Tribune and other publications 
 on legal topics; also a lecturer at the Cor- 
 nell University Uaw School. He is a warden 
 of St. Thomas' Church, Mamaroneck, N. Y. 
 Colonel Sackett is a member of the Univer- 
 sity, Union League. Republican. Cornell 
 University, National Arts, Barnard, Garden 
 City Golf, Apawamis Golf, and Hardware 
 Clubs. He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 
 1866, Elizabeth Titus, daughter of the late 
 
 Kduuind Titus, one of (he fciuiidcr-; of (he 
 New Yoik Produce JvKchange. Uesidenee: 
 Quaker Ridge, Mamaroneck. X. \. Ollice: 
 Tribune Building and .")!.') Madi^mi Avenue, 
 New York City. 
 
 SAGE, Agnes Carolyn: 
 
 Autlior; born in Brooklyn, N. Y. ; daugh- 
 ter of Robert Francis and Caroline O. (Tis- 
 dale) Sage. She was educated in j)ublic and 
 private schools of Oswego, N. Y., and Dear- 
 born Seminary, Chicago. She is author of: 
 Christmas Elves, The Jolly Ten. A Little 
 Colonial Dame, A Little Daughter of the 
 Revolutio7i, The Boys and (Jirls of the White 
 House, and of numerous magazine articles, 
 stories, essays, and ])oems ; received two 
 prizes for short story contests. Miss Sage 
 was a director of the Kings Daugliters Day 
 Nursery in Brooklyn; is honorary pre-ident, 
 and for twelve years president of the Brook- 
 lyn Shakespeare Club, and is member of the 
 kit Kat Literary Club of Hackensack, N. 
 J. Address: 294 Union Street, Hacken- 
 sack, N. J. 
 
 SAGE, Eben Charles: 
 
 Clergyman; horn in Yirden. 111.. Nov, 14, 
 1855; son of Charles T. and Sophia E. 
 (Gunnison) Sage. He was graduated from 
 Shurtleff College, A.B., later receiving its 
 degrees of A.M. and D.D. ; from Chicago 
 University, Divinity School, B,D., and re- 
 ceived from Yale University the Ph.D. de- 
 gree. He was pastor of Baptist churches 
 in Illinois and Connecticut ; at New Haven, 
 Conn., 1886-1904, and of the First Baptist 
 Church there, 1901-1904. Since tlien he 
 has been office secretary of the General 
 Education Board. Dr. Sage is a director 
 of the Charity Organization Society of New 
 Haven, trustee of the Connecticut Baptist 
 Education Society, and the Connecticut Lit- 
 erary Institution. He married in Virden, 
 111,, in 1879, Nora Amanda Cowen, and they 
 have three cliildren. Residence: 425 West 
 118th Street. Office: 2 Rector Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 SAGE, William H.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Xew York, April 28, 
 1852; son of Francis P. S. and Mary F. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 (Robson) Sage. lie was giaduated from 
 Columbia, A.B., 1871, A.M., 1874, and Co- 
 lumbia Law School, LL.B., 1874. lie luis 
 Ijractised in New York City since 1874; 
 studied law in the office of Burrill Davison 
 and Burrill ; in partnership with Francis 
 Forbes, 1876-1884, and since 1884 prac- 
 tised alone. He is a trustee of the North 
 Kiver Savings Bank, and director of the 
 Vogue Co. ; ex-member of the New York 
 County Eepublican Committee, member of 
 the Republican Town Committee of Scars- 
 dale, and a. frequent delegate to the Assem- 
 bly District Committees. He is a member of 
 the Bar Association of the City of New 
 York, New York County Lawyers Associa- 
 tion, Seventh Regiment Veteran Association, 
 Columbia College Alumni Association ; war- 
 den of St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal 
 Church, director of the New York Sunday 
 School Association, director and chairman 
 of the Executive Committee of the Yovmg 
 Men's Christian Association; ex-member of 
 the Grand Lodge of INlasons, and past mas- 
 ter of the St. Nicholas Lodge of Masons ; di- 
 rector of the Aldine Club, and a member 
 of the Scarsdale Coif Club, and is a trustee 
 of Scarsdale Public School. He married in 
 New York, Jiine 20, 18!t3, Amelia G. Whit- 
 ney, and they have two children. Residence: 
 Hartsdale, Westchester County, N. Y. Of- 
 fice: loG Broadway, New York City. 
 
 SALTER, William Mackintire: 
 
 i.cdurci and writer; honi in I'urlington. 
 Iowa. .I:ui. ."'.0, 18i)li; son of l!ov. William 
 Saltf]-. D.D. and Mary Ami (Machintire) 
 Sail IT. lie was educated at Knox College, 
 A. 15., 1871, Yale Divinity School, Harvard 
 Divinity School, B.D., 1876; GfJttingen Uni- 
 versity, 1876-1877, and Columbia University 
 School of Political Science, 1881-1883. Mr. 
 Salter was the lecturer of the Society of 
 Ethical Cnlturc from 1883 to 1907. His 
 service includes two ])eriods in Chicago, 
 1883-1892, and 1897-1907, the intervening 
 years being spent as lecturer of the Society 
 for Ethical Culture in IMiiladelphia. He 
 retired from the lectureshii) of the Chicago 
 Society for Ethical Culture to devote him- 
 self to philosftphieal study and is now lec- 
 tui'ei' in the l)e|iart iiieiit of l'hil()S()|)hy of 
 
 the University of Chicago. He is the author 
 of: On a Foundation for Religion, 1879; 
 Die Religion der Moral (Leipzig), 1885; 
 ^Nloralische Reden (Leipzig), 1889; Ethical 
 Religion, 1889; First Steps in Philosophy, 
 1892; Anarchy or Government? An Inquiry 
 in Fundamental Politics, 1895; Walt Whit- 
 man, 1900. He married in Cambridge, 
 Mass., Dec. 2, 1885, Mary Sherwin Gibbens. 
 Residence: 107 Irving Street, Cambridge, 
 Mass. (winter) ; and Silver Lake, N. H. 
 ( summer ) . 
 
 SALTUS, Edgar Evertson: 
 
 Writer; born in New York, Oct. 8, 1858; 
 son of Francis Henry and Elizabeth (Evert- 
 son) Saltus. He was educated in the Bib- 
 liotheque Nationale, British Museum and 
 other libraries. He is author of a dozen 
 novels and various works on history, re- 
 ligion and philosophy, the important ones 
 being: The Lords of the Ghostland, Im- 
 perial Purijle. Historia Amoris, Anatomy 
 of Negation. He is a member of the Capu- 
 cines Club of Paris, the Blenheim Club of 
 London, and the Manhattan Club of New 
 York. He married in Paris, France, Oct. 
 8. 1895, Elsie Welsh Smith, and they have 
 one datighter. Address: Manhattan Club, 
 City. 
 
 SAMMONS, Thomas: 
 
 i\meriean consul-general ; born in New 
 York City, Feb. 7, 1863; son of John and 
 Julia (Flynn) Sammons. He was educated 
 in the Albany Law School and later in Co- 
 lumbian (now George Washington) Univer- 
 sity. He was a telegraph operator, 1879- 
 1885; engaged in newspaper work as re- 
 porter and editor, 1886-1898; private secre- 
 tary to a United States senator, 1898-1905; 
 apiJointed consul-general at Niuchwang, 
 jNIarch 8, 1905; assigned to Mukden and 
 Antung in May, 1906, in connection with 
 the negotiations for the opening of these 
 ports under the Treaty of 1903; appointed 
 consul-general at Seoul, IVfarch 30, 1907. 
 Address: Seoul, Korea, Japan. 
 
 SAMPSON. Archibald: 
 
 L;i\\yer: lioin in llairisnn County. Ohio, 
 • lune 21. 1S39; son of Francis and Mar- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1433 
 
 garet. Grinith (Evans) Sani])soii. Ho was 
 educated in Ilageistown Aeadoniy, ]Mt. 
 Union College, Alliance. O., Cleveland 
 Law School, and received the degrees of 
 A.B., A.M.," LL.D. He served in the Civil 
 War as lieutenant, adjutant and captain. 
 1861-1865; was superintendent of Union 
 schools in Oliio, County superintendent of 
 schools in Pettis County, Mo., city attorney, 
 county attorney, district attorney, and at- 
 torney-general of Colorado; was appointed 
 by President Grant, U. S. consul to Jerusa- 
 lem, but declined, and by President Harri- 
 son, consul to Acapulco, Mexico, but de- 
 clined; was American consul to Paso del 
 Norte, Mexico, 1889-1893, American envoy 
 extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary 
 to tlie Republic of Ecuador, South America, 
 1897-1905. He is a director of the Phcenix 
 Board of Trade, member of the Bar Associa- 
 tion, trustee of Denver University for eight 
 years, member of the C4rand Army of the 
 Republic, Loyal Legion, Masonic Lodg«, 
 and the Maricopa Club of Phoenix, and the 
 Loyal Legion Club of Chicago. He mar- 
 ried iirst in Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio. 
 Oct. 12, 1866, Katherine I. Turner, and 
 second in Atlanta, Ga., March 19, 1892, 
 Frances S. Wood, and has four children. 
 Address: 650 North Third Avenue, 
 Phoenix, Ariz. 
 
 SANBORN, Arthur Loomis: 
 
 U. S. district judge; born at Brasher 
 Falls, N. Y., Nov. 17, 1850; son of Simpson 
 E. and Harriet (Blount) Sanborn. He re- 
 moved to Wisconsin in early boyhood, was 
 educated in the public schools of Geneva, 
 Wis. He engaged in business pursuits at 
 Elkhorn, Wis. ; was register of deeds of Wal- 
 worth County, Wis., 1875-1879, was gradu- 
 ated from the Law School of the University 
 of Wisconsin, LL.B., 1880, then engaged in 
 the practice of law imtil appointed by 
 President Roosevelt, Jan. 10, 1905, U. S. 
 district judge for the Western District of 
 Wisconsin. Address: 210 Langdon Street, 
 Madison, Wis. 
 
 SANBORN, Frank Berry: 
 
 Professor of engineering: born in Hamp- 
 ton Falls, N. H., Jan. 15, 1865; son of 
 
 All)crt James and Sarah Aim (.lohnson) 
 Sanborn. lie was educated in tlie high 
 school of Newburyport, ]\Iass.. D.irtniouth 
 College, B.S., 1887. Thayer School of Civil 
 Engineering, C.E., 1889, and Harvard Uni- 
 versity, ]M.S., 1898. He was nuinicipal en- 
 gineer, Brookline, Mass., 1889-1890; lire pro- 
 tection engineer. Eastern States and Canada, 
 the main ofllee being at Boston, 1890-1899; 
 assistant professor and professor of engi- 
 neering at Tufts College, since 1899, except 
 the year of 1908, when he was substitute 
 professor at the University of Illinois. Pro- 
 fessor Sanborn is the inventor of Nozzle 
 Piezometer, V-P shaft-speed counter, and 
 hydraulic devices, and is author of: Me- 
 chanics-Problems. He is a member of the 
 Boston Society of Civil Engineers, Ameri- 
 can Society of Civil Engineers, Sigma Chi 
 fraternity, and the University Club of Ur- 
 bana. He married in Boston, Sept. 21, 1892, 
 Grace Adelaide Cobb, and they have three 
 children. Residence: 8 Buena Vista Park, 
 Cambridge, Mass. Office: Tufts College, 
 Mass. 
 
 SANBORN, Walter Henry: 
 
 U. S. circuit judge; born on Sanborn's 
 Hill, Epsom, N. H., Oct. 19, 1845: son of 
 Henry F. aiid Eunice (Davis) Sanborn; 
 and a lineal descendant of Eliphalet San- 
 born of Epsom, wdio served in the French 
 and Indian wars and the Continental Army, 
 and of William Sanborn, who came from 
 England to Hampton, N. H., about 1632. 
 He was graduated from Dartmouth Col- 
 lege, A.B., 1867, A.M., 1870, and received 
 the honorary degree of LL.D. from the same 
 college in 1893. He was principal of the 
 High School at :Milford. 1867-1870. and dur- 
 ing" the saiue period studied law with 
 Bainbridge Wadleigh (afterward U. S. Sena- 
 tor from New Hampshire), and in Febru- 
 ary, 1870. removed' to St. Paul. Minn.; con- 
 tinuing his studies in the office of his uncle. 
 Gencial John B. Sanborn, with whom, after 
 his admission to the bar of ^Minnesota in 
 1871, he practised until 1892. He was ap- 
 pointed by President Ifarrison. March 17, 
 1892. U. S. circuit judge for the Eighth 
 Judicial Circuit, which office he still holds. 
 He was a mend)er of the City Council of 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 St. Paul for nine years, and is a prominent 
 :\lason, and was grand connnander of 
 Knights Temijlar of :Minnesota in 1889. 
 Judge Sanborn married at iMilford, N. H., 
 Nov. 10, 1874, Emily Frances Bruce. Ad- 
 dress: St. Paul, :Minn. 
 
 SANDERS, Dallas: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Jan. 
 
 13, 
 
 1848. He was a student at the University 
 of Western Pennsylvania (now University 
 of Pittsburgh), for three years, and studied 
 law with Judge George M. Dallas, in Phila- 
 delphia. He was admitted to the bar Jan. 
 10, ISU'J; was editor of the Legal Intelli- 
 gencer for several years; and assistant dis- 
 trict attorney of Philadelphia County, 1878- 
 188 1. He was a member of Common Coun- 
 cils, 1882-1884, and chairman of the Survey 
 Committee; delegate to many Democratic 
 city and State conventions; national dele- 
 gate, 1880; State chairman, 1887. He was 
 appointed, practically for life, by the judges 
 of Philadelpliia County, member of the 
 Board of City Trusts on March 6, 1893, 
 which has charge of all becpicsts and chari- 
 ties of the City of Pliiladelphia, especially 
 of Girard College and the Wills Eye Hos- 
 pital. He married Anita Watts, daughter 
 of Clarke [Merchant. Address: (309 Land 
 Title BuiUling, Philadelphia. 
 
 SANDERS, Jared Y.: 
 
 Governor of Louisiana ; elected on 
 Democratic licl<et in November, 1908, 
 the four-year term expiring in 1912. 
 dress: Baton Itouge. 
 
 SANDER'S, Thomas. 
 
 Pounder of the telephone business 
 
 the 
 for 
 Ad- 
 
 born 
 in South Danvers, iMass., Aug. IG, 1839; son 
 of George Tliomas and Mary Ann (Jirowne) 
 Sanders; grand.son of Thomas and Eliza- 
 beth (Elkins) Sanders and of Samuel and 
 Nancy (Twiss) Browne, and a descendant 
 of Thomas Sanders, who came from England 
 to Gloucester, Cape Ann, Mass.. in 1G40. 
 :\Ir. Sanders is the sixth in the direct line 
 bearing the name of Thomas. He was 
 brouglit up in Salem, siiending liis summers 
 on a farm and attending studies in the win- 
 ter months, directed by private tutors and 
 
 at private schools. He took up farming as 
 a profession when eighteen years of age at 
 East Brookfield, Vt. In 1870 he added the 
 business of manufacturing leather to that 
 of farming, and he was sole ownter and pres- 
 ident of the Sanders Leather Company of 
 Haverhill, 1870-1890. He was the organ- 
 izer and first president of the Haverhill 
 Board of Trade, and he joined Charles E. 
 Adams in organizing the Massachusetts 
 State Board of Trade. In 1885 he estab- 
 lished the Vermont Live Stock Company, 
 for the purpose of systematically improving 
 the live stock of Vermont and incidentally 
 of New England. He promoted the patents 
 of Alexander Graham Bell, and placed his 
 telephone before business men as a com- 
 mercial and social necessity, and risked 
 his entire fortune in manufacturing tele- 
 phones and introducing the same, and this 
 before he had secured the rights of Mr. 
 Bell, under his patent of Feb 14, 187G, and 
 without help from anj' other capitalist. His 
 foresight and energy were rewarded by the 
 acquirement of a large fortune which he 
 has administered in many ways to the bene- 
 fit of the communities in which he is inter- 
 ested. He is a Mason and Knight Templar; 
 member of the Pentucket and Fortnightly 
 Clubs of Haverhill; senior warden of Trinity 
 Protestant Episcopal Church of Haverhill, 
 and with the exception of voting for Abra- 
 ham Lincoln in 18G4, has always voted the 
 Democratic ticket. He married, June 6, 
 18GG, Susan Bradley, daughter of Nathan- 
 iel Saltonstall and Sarah (Bradley) Howe 
 of Haverhill, and tliey have eight children, 
 of whom seven are living. He has a fine es- 
 tate, " Birchbrow," at Haverhill, where he 
 resides, and a farm at East Brookfield, Vt. 
 Address: Haverhill, Mass. 
 
 SANDO, Michael Francis: 
 
 Jurist; born in Scranton, Pa., May 8, 
 1863. He was educated at the Scranton 
 High School, and after his graduation took 
 up tlic study of law in the office of W. H. 
 Gearhart and was admitted to practice at 
 the bar in Lackawanna County in 1884. He 
 is a Democrat in politics, and active in the 
 interests in his party; served on the city 
 and county committees for about fourteen 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1435 
 
 years, was a delegate to the State conven- 
 tions, and from 18S2 to 1885, was deputy 
 collector of Internal Revenue. He was twice 
 elected to the State Legislature, serving 
 from 1888 to 1892. In 1898 he was a can- 
 didate for Congress from the Eleventh Dis- 
 trict, but failed of election; in 1902 he was 
 nominated for judge of the Orphans' Court 
 of Lackawanna County, and in November 
 of that year was elected for a ten years' 
 term. Judge Sando married in Scranton, 
 Aug. 28, 1885, Anna L. Blair, and they have 
 two childien. Residence: 505 Quincy Ave- 
 nue. Office: 522 Cornell Building, Scran- 
 ton. 
 
 SANER, Robert E. Lee: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Washington, Ark., Aug. 
 9, 1871; son of John Franklin and Susan 
 Crawford (Webb) Saner. He was edu- 
 cated in tlio Hope (Ark.) High School, Sear- 
 cy (Ark.) College, Vanderbilt University, 
 Nashville, Tenn., and the L^niversity of 
 Texas, whence he was graduated B.L., 189G. 
 He won several medals in oratory while in 
 college and university. He began the prac- 
 tice of law in Dallas, Texas, in 1896, and is 
 senior member of the law firm of Saner and 
 Saner; attorneys for the Landed Endowment 
 of the LTniversity of Texas, since 1900. He 
 is president of the United Securities Com- 
 pany ; general counsel of the Caro Northern 
 Railway Companj', and director of the Com- 
 monwealth National Bank of Dallas. His 
 practice is confined to civil business, with 
 specialties in corporation, commercial 
 and land litigation. Mr. Saner has been a 
 member since 1901 and chairman since 1904 
 of the Board of Directors of the Texas Bar 
 Association ; vice-president of the American 
 Bar x\ssociation for Texas since 1904; dele- 
 gate to the International Congress of Law- 
 yers and Jurists, St. Louis, 1904; member 
 of the International Law Association. He 
 was a director of the Dallas Commercial 
 Club, 1808-1901; is a member of the Alpha 
 Tau Omega fraternit\' (member of High 
 Council, 1904-1900), and of the Knights 
 of Pythias. Mr. Saner was campaign secre- 
 tary of the Sayers (gubernatorial) Cam- 
 paign Committee, 1898; secretary of the 
 Democratic State Executive Committee of 
 
 Texas, 1900-1901; mhuiImt for Texas of the 
 Democratic National Conimitteo of College 
 Democratic Clubs, 1908. He married in 
 Brenham, Texas, March 31, 1903, lleaine 
 Sniilli, and has one daughter. Residence: 
 217 Annex Avenue. Office: Commonwealth 
 National Bank Building, Dallas, Texas. 
 
 SANFORD, Edward Terry: 
 
 U. S. district judge; born in Knoxville, 
 Tenn., July 23, 18G5. He was graduated 
 froAi the University of Tennessee, Ph.B., 
 1883, Harvard, A.B., 1885, A.M., LL.B., 
 1889; received LL.D. from University of 
 Cincinnati, 1908. He was admitted to the 
 Tennessee Bar in 1889, and practised in 
 Knoxville, Tenn., luitil 1907, when he was 
 appointed assistant attorney-general of the 
 United States. In 1908 he was appointed 
 to his present office of judge of the U. S. 
 District Court for the Eastern and Middle 
 Districts of Tennessee. Judge Sanford' has 
 been a mtmber of the General Council of the 
 American Bar Association since 1905; was a 
 member of the Universal Congress of Law- 
 yers and Jurists held in St. Louis, 1904, 
 and president of the Tennessee Bar Associa- 
 tion 1905. He is a trustee of tlie University 
 of Tennessee, the East Tennessee Female 
 Institute and is a member of the Board of 
 Governors of the Knoxville City Hos])ital. 
 He is a vice-president of the Harvard Law 
 School Association; recently selected as one 
 of the trustees of the George Peabody Col- 
 lege for Teachers. Address: .'Knoxville, 
 Tenn. 
 
 SANFORD, John: 
 
 Maiuifacturer : lioni in Amsterdam, N. 
 Y. ; Son of Hon. Stephen Sanford (mem- 
 ber of the Forty-first Congress). He was 
 graduated from Yale, A.B., 1872. On leav- 
 ing college, he became associated with his 
 father, Steplien Sanford, in the carpet man- 
 ufacturing industry, at Amsterdam, N. Y., 
 established by his grandfather, Joiin San- 
 ford, in 1842, and has since been connected 
 witli that enterprise, which is now one of 
 the most important of its kind in the coun- 
 try, employing over tliree thousand people. 
 He was a member of the Fifty-first and 
 Fifty-second Congresses, elected on the Re- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 piibliean ticket. The firm of S. Saiiford & 
 Sons owns a celebrated stable of race horses 
 at Amsterdam. j\Ir. Sanford is a member 
 of the State Racing Commission, of the 
 ^letropolitan. University, Eepiiblican, he 
 Brook, and Turf and Field Clubs of New 
 York City, and the Metropolitan Club of 
 Washington; Meadowbrook, Racquet, and 
 Jockey Clubs. He married Etliel Sanford 
 in 1892. Residence: Amsterdam, N. Y., 
 and B-.ivonette Cottage, Aitken, S. C. 
 
 SANFORD, Stephen: 
 
 ^Manufacturer, ex-congressman ; born at 
 Mayfield, N. Y^, May 26, 1826; son of John 
 Sanford, a descendant of Thomas, son of 
 Anthony and Jane Sanford of Stowe, Eng- 
 land, who came to Boston with the John 
 Winthrop Colony in 1031, received a grant 
 of land near Dorchester, in 1634, and after- 
 ward removed to Connecticut, where he be- 
 came high sheriff of the town of Milford. 
 Besides this first American Sanford, there 
 are in his paternal line others who attained 
 prominence, and his father, John Sanford, 
 who removed from Connecticut to New York 
 in 1820, was a State senator and a member 
 of Congress. Mr. Sanford was educated in 
 the public schools, at the academy at Pough- 
 keepsie, N. Y., and Georgetown College, D. 
 C, and the U. S. Military Academy, from 
 which, after two years, he was called home 
 by his father to assist in the large carpet 
 manufacturing business which he had es- 
 tablished in 1842. Under his intelligent 
 management Ihe business begun by his 
 father grew from a cmoparatively small 
 beginning, employing only about 100 persons 
 to one affording work and livelihood for over 
 3,000 people, and one of the largest of its 
 kind in the country. In 1808 he was elected 
 on the Republican ticket to the Forty-first 
 Congress, and he was appointed by Mr. 
 Blaine, then speaker, to serve on several 
 important committees. He declined a re- 
 nnminatioin in 1870 because his business 
 affairs demanded his personal presence. He 
 has been prominent in movements for the 
 betterment of his town; instituted the move- 
 ment for new waterworks; has been instru- 
 mental in the erection of many of the finest 
 business structures and public buildings 
 
 of Amsterdam, notably the Homestead 
 Block; owns two farms in the A'icinity of 
 Amsterdam, which are the best exemplars 
 in that region of improved farming and 
 stockraising; has been liberal in his aid of 
 the churches, charities and benevolent or- 
 ganizations of his city, and on the occa- 
 sion of the fiftieth anniversary of his en- 
 tering upon his business career he was hon- 
 ored by his townsmen with a public cele- 
 bration, when he was the recipient of testi- 
 monials in English, German, French and 
 Italian from the various church committees, 
 all containing warm expressions of gratitude 
 for generous assistance in their church work. 
 Address : Amsterdam^ N. Y. 
 
 SANGER, William Gary: 
 
 Born in New Y'ork, May 21, 1853; son 
 of Henry and Mary E. (Requa) Sanger. 
 He was graduated from Harvard Univer- 
 sity, A.B., 1874, A.M., 1875, Columbia Law 
 School, LL.B., 1878, and Hamilton, 
 LL.D.. 1902. He was a member of the 
 State Assembly, 1895-1897; lieutenant- 
 colonel of the 203d Regiment, New Y^ork 
 Volunteers in the Spanish- American War; 
 was assistant secretary of war, 1901-1903; 
 president of the American delegation to the 
 International Conference, 1906, to revise 
 the Treaty of Geneva. He was a member 
 of the American' Delegation to Interna- 
 tional Red Cross Conference, London, 1907; 
 chairman of the National Guard Commis- 
 sion appointed by Governor Hughes, 1907. 
 Colonel Sanger is author of: The Reserve 
 and Auxiliary Forces of England and the 
 Militia of Switzerland (a report prepared 
 for the U. S. Government), 1903, and is 
 a contributor to military journals on coast 
 defenses. He married in New York City, 
 Feb. 23, 1892, Mary Ethel Cleveland Dodge, 
 and has five children. Address: Sanger- 
 fiold, N. Y. 
 
 SARGENT, Franklin Haven: 
 
 Dramatic (cachcr; born in Boston, March 
 31. 1S.")6; son of Rev. John Turner and 
 Mary Elizabeth (Fiske) Sargent. He was 
 graduated from Harvard' College. A.B., 1877. 
 He was a private teacher in Boston and 
 London, 1878-1880; instructor in elocution, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1437 
 
 Harvard University, 1881-1882; dramatic di- 
 rector of iladison Square Theatre, New 
 Yorl<, 1883-1884, and president of the Amer- 
 ican Academy of Dramatic Arts, (chartered 
 by the Board of Regents, of tlie University 
 of the. State of New York), since 1885. 
 Mv. Sargent is a member of the Players' 
 Club of New York City. Residence: 24 
 West 60th Street. Office: Carnegie Hall, 
 New York City. 
 
 SARGENT, John G.: 
 
 La\v\'er; born in Ludlow, ^'t.. Oct. 13, 
 1860; son of John Henman and Ann Eliza 
 (Hanley) Sargent. He was graduated from 
 Black River, Academy, Ludlow, Vt., 1883, 
 and from Tufts College, 1887 as A.B. He 
 is a member of the firm of Stickney, Sar- 
 gent and Skeels, lawyers; states attorney 
 of Windsor County, 1898-1900; and attor- 
 ney general of Vermont since 1908. He is 
 a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity. Kappa 
 Chapter; trustee of Black River Academy, 
 and member of the Arctic Club. He mar- 
 ried in Ludlow, Vt., Aug. 4, 1887, Mary L. 
 Garden, and they have one daughter, Gladys 
 Gordon Sargent. Residence : 67 Main 
 Street, Ludlow. Office : State House, Mont- 
 pelier, Vt. 
 
 SARGENT, Porter Edward: 
 
 Teacher; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 
 6, 1872, son of Francis Porter and Roslyn 
 (Hitchcock) Sargent. He was graduated 
 from Harvard University, A.B., 1896, and 
 A.M., 1897. He was assistant in zoology 
 at Harvard University, 1895-1896, assistant 
 in botany, 1895-1896, research student in 
 comparative neurology, Harvard University, 
 1896-1900, master of science, Browne and 
 Nichols School, Cambridge, Mass., 1896- 
 
 1904, and director and proprietor of the 
 Mr. Sargent's Travel School for Boys since 
 
 1905. Mr. Sargent is the discoverer of the 
 optic reflex apparatus in nervous system 
 of vertebrates; inaugurator of the College 
 Preparatory' Travel School, and author of 
 many papers and monographs on subjects 
 in comparative neurology. He is a mem- 
 ber of the American Morphological Society, 
 Association of American Zoologists, and 
 the University Club of Boston. He married 
 
 in Rome, Italy, March 9, 1907, iSIargarct 
 Upliam. Residence: 233 Bay State Road. 
 Offices: Cambridge, ^lass.. iind 50 Con- 
 gress Street, Boston. 
 
 SATTERLEE, Eugene: 
 
 Lawyer and banker; born at (Jlens Palls, 
 N. Y., July 11, 1847; son of Leroy and 
 Harriet (Hudnut) Satterlee. He prepared 
 for college at the Rochester Collegiate In- 
 stitute, of which his father was principal; 
 graduated from the University of Rochester 
 in 1867; was a student at Heidleberg and 
 Berlin; and was graduated from the Albany 
 Law School and admitted to the bar in 
 1872. He practised his profession in Roches- 
 ter 1874-1905; member of the law firms of 
 Satterlee & Yeoman, Satterlee, Yeoman & 
 Taylor, and Satterlee, Bissell, Taylor & 
 French; and is now president of The Na- 
 tional Bank of Rochester, formed Jan. 1, 
 1906, by the consolidation of the German- 
 American Bank and the Flour City National 
 Bank, and the merger in May, 1906, of the 
 Commercial Bank of Rochester. He was 
 also, in 1905," elected president of The 
 Rochester German Insurance Company. Mr. 
 Satterlee is also a director of the Rochester 
 Trust & Safe Deposit Company and of the 
 Fidelity Trust Company and has been an 
 officer and director of a number of other 
 corporations, from most of which he with- 
 drew upon his election to the presidency 
 of the Bank and the insurance company. 
 In 1905 he was President of the Village of 
 Pittsford, where he resides and in 1907 
 President of the Ahunni Association of the 
 University of Rochester. He is an Episco- 
 palian in his church relations; is a mem- 
 oer of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and 
 the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and of the 
 Genesee Valley and Rochester Country 
 Clubs. He married, April 17. 1879, Olivia 
 Sanger ^foore, and they have two children: 
 Hugli and Mildred. Residence: Pittsford. 
 N. Y. Office: The National Bank of 
 Rochester. Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 SATTERLEE, George Reese: 
 
 Physician: born in Dobbs Ferry. N. Y., 
 Nov. 2, 1873; son of Edward Rathbone and 
 Joanna Mesier (Reese) Satterlee. He was 
 
1438 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 graduated from ('oliinil)ia College, A.B., 
 1894, M.A.. 1898, and the College of Physi- 
 cians and Surgeons, 1898. He was a grad- 
 uate of the J. Hood Wright Memorial Hos- 
 pital, 1900, Sloane Maternity Hospital, 
 1900; instructor in histology and embryol- 
 ogy. New York University and Bellevue 
 Hospital :\Iedical College, 1903-1909; path- 
 ologist of Goiiverneur Hospital. 1906-1908; 
 attending physician and pathologist of 
 Washington Heights Hospital since 1906, 
 assistant pathologist of St. Vincent's Hos- 
 pital since 1905. He is author of: Out- 
 lines of Human Embryology, 1906. Dr. Sat- 
 terlee was private of Company K, Seventh 
 Regiment, Dec. 13, 1893, in private Hospital 
 Corps, May 16, 1900, corporal Sept. 28, 
 
 1900, assistant hospital steward, June 21, 
 
 1901, and assistant surgeon of the Seventh 
 Regiment, grade of captain Nov. 29, 1907. 
 He is a member of the New York Academy 
 of Medicine, fellow of the Pathological So- 
 ciety, member of the Greater New York 
 Medical Association, Alumni Association of 
 the J. Hood Wright Memorial Hospital, 
 Alumni ssociation of the 'Sloane Alumni 
 Hospital, Psi Upsilon fraternity. Society 
 of Engineers Corps of the Seventh Regi- 
 ment, and a member of the Columbia Lr»ni- 
 versity, and University Clubs of New York 
 City. Address: 117 Wes 58th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 SATTERLEE, Herbert Livingston: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, Oct. 31, 
 1863; son of George B. and Sarah Satterlee. 
 He was graduated from Columbia, B.S.. 
 1883, A.M., 1884. Ph.D., LL.B., 1885, and 
 was admitted to tlie bar in the latter year. 
 In 1886 and 1887 lie was private secretary 
 to Senator William M. Evarts, 1886-1887. 
 Mr. Satterlee was navigator of the First 
 Naval Battalion of New York, 1891-1895; 
 colonel and aide-de-camp to (Jovernor ISlor- 
 ton, and naval aide to Governor Black; lieu- 
 tenant in the U. S. Navy in the Spanish- 
 American War and chief of staff to Captain 
 J. R. Bartlett. Mr. Satterlee is author of: 
 Political History of the Province of New 
 York. He is a founder of the Navy League, 
 and master of the missionary yacht Senti- 
 nel. He is also a member of the .Associa- 
 
 tion of the Bar of the City of New York, 
 the Society of Naval Architects and Marine 
 Engineers, Municipal Art Society, Society of 
 Colonial Wars, Naval Order of the United 
 States, and a member of the St. Anthony, 
 Union League, New York Yacht, Univer- 
 sity, Lawyers' and Columbia University 
 Clubs. Mr. Satterlee married, in 1900, 
 Louisa Pierpont Morgan. Residence: 37 
 East 36th Street. Office: 120 Broadway, 
 New York City. 
 
 SAUNDERS, Edward Watts: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Frank- 
 lin County, Va., Oct. 25, 1860, and has al- 
 ways resided in that county. He was edu- 
 cated at home, at the Bellevue High School 
 of Bedford County, and at the University 
 of Virginia, from which he was graduated 
 as Bachelor of Laws in 1882, and he has 
 since been engaged in the practice of law 
 in his native county. He was elected as a 
 Democrat in 1905 to fill the vacancy in Con- 
 gress from the Fifth Virginia. District, 
 caused' by the resignation of Hon. Claude 
 M. Swanson, who had been elected gover- 
 nor of Virginia; and in 1906 and 1908 he 
 was reelected to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first 
 Congresses. Address : Rockyniount, Va. 
 
 SAUNDERS, Eugene Davis: 
 
 U. S. district judge; born in Campbell 
 County, Va., July 25, 1853; son of Robert 
 and Caryetta (Davis) Saunders. He was 
 educated in the University of Virginia, be- 
 ing graduated LL.B., 1874. He was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1876, practised in New 
 Orleans, and became professor of conunon 
 hiw and equity jurisprudence in the Tulane 
 University of Louisiana. He was appointed 
 in 1907 judge of the U. S. District Court 
 for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He 
 is a Democrat in polities. Judge Saunders 
 is author of Saunders on Taxation, and of 
 the Saunders edition of the Civil Code of 
 Louisiana. Residence: 2925 Coliseum 
 Street, New Orleans, La. 
 
 SAVAGE, Albert R.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Ryegate Vt., Dec. 8, 
 1847; son of Charles W. and Eliza M. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1430 
 
 (Clnugli) Savage. Tie was educated in 
 Dartmouth College, in the class of 1871, 
 and received the degree of LL.D. from Bates 
 College in 1897. He was a practising law- 
 yer from 1875; county attorney 1881-1885; 
 judge of probate 1885-1889; mayor of Au- 
 burn, Me., 1889-1891; representative to the 
 IMaine Legislature, 1891-1893, speaker of the 
 Jtouse, 1893; member of the Maine Senate, 
 1895-1897, and has been associate justice of 
 the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine since 
 1897. He is a trustee of Bates College, a 
 32-d degree Mason. Odd Fellow and Knight 
 of Pythias, and a member of the Calumet 
 Club of Lewiston. Judge Savage married 
 at Lunenburgh, Vt., Aug. 17, 1871, Nellie 
 H. Hale, and they have had three children, 
 (two now deceased). Address: Auburn, 
 Me. 
 
 SAVILLE, Marshall Howard: 
 
 Professor of American archaeology; born 
 in Rockport, Mass., June 24, 1867. He was 
 a fellow in Harvard University, 1889-1893. 
 He is professor of American archaeology in 
 Columbia University, and is an honorary 
 curator in the American Museum of Nat- 
 ural History. He is a corresponding 
 n;ember or member of many scientific soci- 
 eties in America and abroad, Officier d'Aca- 
 demie of France ; secretary of the Amer- 
 ican Ethnological Society, first vice-president 
 of the Explorers' Club, and member of the 
 Century Club. He married in Salem, Jinie 
 14, 1893, Annie W. Lyon, and they have two 
 children. Address: 292 West 92d Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 SAWYER, Samul N.: 
 
 •lust ice of the Supreme Court of New 
 York; practised law in Palmj^ra, N. Y., 
 until elected on the Republican ticket, in 
 1907, a justice of the Supreme Court for 
 tile Seventh Judicial District of New York 
 for the term expiring Dec. 31, 1921. Ad- 
 dress: Palmyra, N. Y. 
 
 SAYRE, Reginald Hall: 
 
 Surgeon; born in New York City, Oct. 
 18, 1859; son of Lewis Albert and P^liza 
 Ann (Hall) Sayre. He was educated in 
 
 Cliuichill ami .Maury's Scliool ; was grad- 
 uated from Cniuml)ia College, A.B., in 1881, 
 and Bellevuc Hospital Medical f!ollege, M. 
 D., 18S4. Ho was assisiaut In the chair of 
 surgery at licllevue Hospital Medical Col- 
 lege, 1885-1890; the chair of orthopedic 
 surgery, 1890-1897; and adjunct professor, 
 1897; clinical professor of orthopedic sur- 
 gery of New York University and Bellevue 
 Hospital Medical College since 1898; con- 
 sulting surgeon of Hackcnsack (N. J.) Hos- 
 pital, the Home for Crippled Children of 
 Newark, N. J., Mountainside Hospital of 
 Montclair, N. J., Englewood (N. J.) Hos- 
 pital, and New York State Orthopedic 
 Hospital, Haverstraw, N. Y. ; first lieuten- 
 ant of Squadron A of the National Guard 
 of New York, and inspector of small arms 
 practice. He was president of the American 
 Orthopaidic Association, 1904 ; treasurer of 
 the New York Academy of Medicine ; mem- 
 ber of the Pathological Society (vice-pres- 
 ident, 1893), County Medical Society, State 
 Medical Society, American Medical Associ- 
 ation, Phi Beta Kappa Society, and of the 
 University, City. Columbia University, and 
 New York Athletic Clubs. Address: 9 
 East 45th Street, New York City. 
 
 SAYRES, Edward Stalker: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Philadelpliia, July 30, 
 1850; son of Edward Smith and Jane 
 (Hume) Sayres. His father was a prom- 
 inent Pliiladelphia merchant; honorary con- 
 sul for Brazil; vice-consul of Sweden and 
 Norway, vice-consul of Denmark and vice- 
 consul of Portugal, and at the date of his 
 death dean of the consular corps at Phil- 
 adelphia. He was educated in the Friends' 
 Central School in Philadeljdiia, read law 
 with .John Hill Martin, and was admitted 
 to the hai- in 1873, and his practice is 
 confined to Orphans' Court, real e.state, 
 conveyancing and mercantile law. He is 
 an honorary member of the Law Academy 
 of Pliiladeli)hia ; member of the Law Asso- 
 ciation of Philadelphia, Historical Society 
 of Pennsylvania. He entered Company D 
 of the First Regiment Infantry, National 
 Guard of Pennsylvania, in 1874; served dur- 
 ing the coal riots of 1875 and labor riots 
 of 1877, an<l was first lieutenant of his 
 
1440 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 company, 1879-1880. He was one of the 
 founders in 1805, and secretary of the 
 ^lerion Cricket Club; an original member 
 and former treasurer of the Civil Service 
 Keform Association of Pennsylvania; a 
 vice-president of the Board of Trustees of 
 the Northern Home for Friendless Children 
 and Associated Institute for Soldiers' and 
 Sailors' Orphans; secretary of the Board of 
 Managers of the Children's Hospital of 
 Pliiladelphia; vice-president of the Mer- 
 chants' Trust Company; life member and 
 manager and one of the counselors of the 
 Mercantile Beneficial Association; he was 
 interested in the formation of the Land 
 Title and Trust Company, and for a brief 
 period its secretary; a. director and counsel 
 for the Delaware Insurance Company of 
 Philadelpliia ; a founder and' recording sec- 
 retary of the Genealogical Society of Penn- 
 sylvania ; member of the Geographical So- 
 ciety of Pennsylvania, and of the National 
 Geographic Society; secretary of the Society 
 of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of 
 Pennsylvania; one of the founders of the 
 Colonial Society of Pennsylvania; a member 
 of the Board of Managers of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, 
 and several times a delegate; treasurer of 
 the Society of the War of 1812, and a 
 delegate to the General Society, and a 
 member of tlie Rittenhouse Club, Radnor 
 Hunt, and Bryn Mawr Polo Club. He was 
 for several years treasurer-general of the 
 National Commandery of the Military Or- 
 der of Foreign Wars of the United States. 
 Residences: 1825 Spruce Street, Philadel- 
 phia, and Black Rocks, Haverford, Pa. 
 Address: 217 South Third Street. Phila- 
 delphia. 
 
 SAYRES, William Seaman: 
 
 Clergyman: born in Jamaica, N. Y., 
 Oct. Hi, 1851 : son of Gilbert and Ann^ 
 T^ah (Seaman) Sayres. He was grad- 
 uated from Dartmouth College, A.B., 1876, 
 and D.D., 1906, Berkeley Divinity School, 
 1878. He was a missionary in China, 1878- 
 1885, at St. John's College, Shanghai, and 
 Boone College, Wuchang, China, and arch- 
 deacon of the Diocese of iMichigan since 
 1899. He is a member of the Theta Delta 
 
 Clii fraternity, is a Consistory and Knight 
 Templar Mason and Shriner, He married 
 in Shanghai, April 13, 1882, Anna Stevens, 
 and has six children. Address: 163 
 Willis Avenue West, Detroit, Mich. 
 
 SCABBING, Charles: 
 
 Bishop of Oregon; born at Toronto, Ont., 
 Canada, Nov. 25, 1861; son of Henry Sim- 
 coe and Elizabeth Windner Scadding. He 
 was educated at Trinity College, Toronto, 
 Canada, from which he received the D,D. 
 degree in 1906; in 1885 was ordered deacon 
 of the Church of England, and in 1886 was 
 ordained priest by the Bishop of Toronto. 
 He became assistant at St. George's Epis- 
 copal Church, New York City, and after 
 four years was made rector of Grace Church 
 at Middletown, N. Y. In 1891 he went to 
 fill the rectorship of Trinity Church, To- 
 ledo, Ohio, and in 1896 that of Emmanuel 
 Church, La Grange, 111. After ten years 
 of activity in this locality, he became bishop 
 of Oregon in 1906. Bishop Scadding has 
 been deputation lecturer for the Society 
 for the Propagation of the Gospel, London, 
 England, on The Church in America. He 
 is author of: Dost Thou Believe? What 
 Can We Do? (Brotherhood Manual) ; Direct 
 Answers to Plain Questions (Handbook for 
 American Churchmen) ; and a workable 
 graded system of Sunday School instruc- 
 tion. He married, in May, 1896, Mary R. 
 Pomeroy of Toledo, Ohio, great-granddaugh- 
 ter of General Seth Pomeroy of Colonial 
 fame. Address: Bishopcroft, Portland, Ore. 
 
 SCANLAN, Lawrence: 
 
 Catholic bishop; born in County Tip- 
 perary, Ireland, Sept. 29, 1843; son of 
 Patrick and' Catherine (Ryan) Scanlan. 
 He was educated in Ireland, was graduated 
 from All Hallows College, Dublin, in 1868, 
 was ordained in 1808 and went to San 
 Francisco, where he began his ministry as 
 assistant pastor of St. Patrick's Church, 
 1868-1870, and of St. Mary's Cathedral, 
 1870-1871; became pastor of Woodland, 
 Calif., and later of Pioche, Nev., 1871-1872, 
 and' for a short time in Petaluma, Calif. 
 He was sent to Utah, in Aug., 1873, as 
 pastor of Salt Lake City and the whole of 
 
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 Utah. He was consecrated June 29, 1887, 
 titular bishop of Laranda in Asia Minor, 
 and appointed, in 1891, first bishop of the 
 newly created diocese of Salt Lake. Ad- 
 dress : Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 
 SCANNELL, Richard: 
 
 Catholic bishop; born in County Cork, 
 May 12, 1845. He was educated in Ireland, 
 being graduated from All Hallows College, 
 Dublin, and ordained priest in 1871. He 
 went direct to the diocese of Nashville, 
 Tenn., where he was pastor of St. Columba's 
 Church in East Nashville, and afterward 
 rector of Nashville Cathedral. He became 
 administrator of the Diocese of Nashville, 
 1880-1883, and after that rector of St. 
 Joseph's Church, Nashville, until conse- 
 crated, Nov. 30, 1887, first bishop of the 
 newly created Diocese of Concordia, Kan., 
 wlience he was transferred to the Diocese of 
 Omaha, of which he has been bishop since 
 1891. Address: Omaha, Neb. 
 
 SCARBOROUGH, John: 
 
 Bishop of New Jersey; born at Castle- 
 Wellan, Ireland, April 25, 1831; son of 
 John and Anna Bella Hannah Scarborough. 
 He was graduated from Trinity College, 
 Hartford, Conn., B.A., 1854, M.A., 1857, 
 and receivGjd the honorary degrees of D.D.. 
 1872, and LL.D., 1904. He was ordered 
 deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1857 and 
 ordained priest in 1858, by Bishop Horatio 
 Potter. He was assistant of St. Paul's 
 Church, Troy, N. Y., 1857-1860, then be- 
 came rector of the Church of the Holy Com- 
 forter, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. until in 1867 
 he accepted a call to the rectorship of 
 Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, and remained 
 until, in 1875, he was consecrated bishop 
 of New Jersey by Bishops H. Potter, 
 Stevens, Kerfoot, Littlejohn, Doane, M. A. 
 De Wolf, Howe and Paddock. Address: 
 Trenton, N. J. 
 
 SCHAUFFLER, Adolf Frederick: 
 
 Clergyman ; born in Constantinople. 
 
 Turkey, Nov. 7, 1845; son of William G. 
 
 and Mary (Reynolds) Schauffler. He was 
 
 graduated tfrom Williams College, 1867, 
 
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 an<l received the honorary degree of D.D. 
 from \\'illiams College, 1909, and from the 
 Univefsity of the City of New York, 1887. 
 lie is president of the New York City 
 Mission, and cliairnian of the lntern:itioiial 
 Sunday School Lesion ( 'onnnitlee. He is 
 trustee of tlic riiilcil ( liaiitif- I'.oaid. 
 member of tiic Delta I'si fraternity, and 
 Century Club. He married in St. Mority, 
 Engasline, Aug. 24, 1884, Julia Baker. 
 Residence: 515 Madison Avenue. Olhee: 
 105 East 22d Street, New York City. 
 
 SCHELLING, Felix Emanuel: 
 
 Professor of English literature; born in 
 New Albany, Ind.. Sept. 3, 1858; son of 
 Felix and Rose (White) Schelling. He 
 was graduated from the University of 
 Pennsylvania, B.A., LSSl. LL.li.. 1883, 
 M.A., 1884; Ph.D. from Franklin and 
 Marshall, 1898, Litt.D. from Pennsylvania, 
 1904, LL.D., 1909. He was admitted to 
 the Philadelphia bar in 1883, law orator 
 in the class of 1883 ; instructor of English, 
 University of Pennsylvania, 1886; assist- 
 ant professor of English literature, 1889; 
 John Welsh Centennial professor of Eng- 
 lish literature since 1893; professor of the 
 Summer School, University of Chicago, 
 1904; lecturer at Johns Hopkins Univer- 
 sity, winters of 1908-1909, and 1909-1910. 
 He is a member of the Philosophical So- 
 ciety, Modern Language Association, Phi 
 Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Psi, and the 
 University and Franklin Inn Clubs of Phil- 
 adelphia. He married in Philadelphia, 
 lilarch 7, 1887, Caroline Derbyshire, and 
 has two children. Residence: 4211 San- 
 son Street. Office: College Hall, Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania, Philadelpliia. 
 
 SCHENCK, Frederick Brett: 
 
 Banker; born in New York City, June 9, 
 1851; son of Oscar and Cornelia A. Schenek. 
 He was educated in Brooklyn. N. Y. He is 
 president and director of the Liberty Na- 
 tional Bank; director of the Brunswick 
 City Dock and Improvement Comjiany. He 
 is treasurer of the International Committee 
 of the Young ]Men's Christian Association, 
 and is a member of the Holland Society 
 of New York and of tlie Union league. 
 
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 ^lEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Railroad and Lawyers' Clubs of New York 
 City. Kesidence: Englewood, N. J. Ad- 
 dress: Care of the Liberty National 'Bank, 
 New York City. 
 
 SCHERER, James Augustin Brown: 
 
 President of Throop Polytechnic Insti- 
 tute, Pasadena, Calif. ; born in Salisbury, 
 N. C, May 22, 1870; son of Rev. Simeon 
 and Harriet Isabella (Brown) Scherer. He 
 was graduated from Roanoke College, A.B., 
 1890, A.M., 1895, and Pennsylvania College, 
 Ph.D. (English literature) ,' 1897. He has 
 also received the honorary degree of LL.D. 
 from the University of South Carolina. He 
 began preaching at the age of seventeen 
 years as a missionary worker in the Vir- 
 ginia mountains. At twenty-one he was 
 sent to Japan to found a Lutheran mission, 
 and accomplislied this end by entering the 
 educational employ of the Japanese govern- 
 ment. Owing to a breakdown in health he 
 returned to the United States in 1897 and 
 held pastorates until 1904, when he became 
 president of Newberry College. In 1908 he 
 accepted his present position. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Asiatic Society of Japan, and 
 of many academic associations ; and of the 
 Annandale, Gnome, and Twilight Clubs of 
 Pasadena ; Schoolmasters and Sunset Clubs 
 of Los Angeles, and Sierra Club of San 
 Francisco. He is author of: Four Princes 
 of the Church, 1903; Japan To-Day, 1904; 
 Young Japan, 1905; The Holy Grail, 190G; 
 and What is Japanese Morality, 1906. He 
 is also a contributor to the magazines, and 
 a lecturer. He married in Kobe, Japan, 
 .July 5, 1894, Bessie Brown, and has one 
 son and one daughter. Address: 415 
 South Kl ^Moliiio .\venue, Pasadena, Calif. 
 
 SCHIEREN, Charles Adolph: 
 
 Manufacturer and ex-mayor; born in 
 Diisseldorf, Rhenish Prussia/Feb. 28, 1842; 
 educated in public schools in Germany until 
 1850, when, at the age of fourteen, he 
 came to the United States. He learned 
 the cigar-maker's trade and afterward as- 
 sisted his father in the business in Brook- 
 lyn until 1804, when lie began as a clerk 
 in the leather l)elting factory of Philip F. 
 Pasquay, in New York City. In 1868 he 
 
 established for himself in the belting bus- 
 iness with an original capital of two thou- 
 sand dollars, and from that the enterprise 
 has grown until the firm of Charles A. 
 Schieren and Company now has, besides 
 its New York headquarters and factory, 
 branch houses in Philadelphia, Boston and 
 Chicago, Pittsburgh, Denver, and Hamburg, 
 to supply the European trade, and large 
 tanneries in Brooklyn and Bristol, Tenn. 
 JNluch of the success of the business is due 
 to Mr. Schieren's inventions, including the 
 Electric Belt, the American Joint Leather 
 Link Belt, and other improvements in belt- 
 ing for swift running machinery. From his 
 first vote Mr. Schieren has been a Republi- 
 can, and was for three years president of 
 the Young Men's Republican Club of Brook- 
 lyn. In 1893 he receivec^ the nomination 
 of the Republican party for mayor of Brook- 
 lyn, and was elected by a very large 
 majority, and gave the city a wise and con- 
 servative administration, declining a renom- 
 ination. He is a member of the Lutheran 
 Church, and he was actively concerned in 
 the erection of the beautiful bronze statue 
 of Martin Luther at Washington, D. C. 
 He has for many years served as a trus- 
 tee of the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion. He was a member of tlie Committee 
 appointed for the erection of a statue of 
 Henry Ward Beecher, and of that of J. S. 
 T. Stranahan. He is a member of the 
 Chamber of Commerce, the Metropolitan 
 Museum of Art, Brooklyn Institute of Arts 
 and Sciences, Long Island Historical So- 
 ciety, the Germania and Hamilton Clubs 
 of Brooklyn, and the Down Town, Ding 
 Trade, Fulton and Union League Clubs of 
 New York City. Residence: 405 Clinton 
 Avenue, Brooklyn. Office: Schieren Build- 
 ing, Ferry and Cliff Streets, New York City. 
 
 SCHIFF, Jacob Henry: 
 
 Banker; born in Frankfort-on-the-]\Iain, 
 in 1847. He was educated in the schools 
 of Germany until lie was eighteen years 
 old, when he came to New York and en- 
 tered u])on his business career as a bank 
 clerk, and a few years later became a part- 
 ner in the firm of Budge, Schiff and Com- 
 jiany, bankers and brokers, in which he 
 
Jacob He.xry Schiff 
 Banker 
 

MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 continued until ISTT), when that liini went 
 out of business and JSlr. Schitl" became 
 junior member of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb 
 and Company, of which his father-in-hiw, 
 Solomon Loeb, was then the senior part- 
 ner; and when the latter retired in 1885, 
 Mr. SchitY became the head of the firm, 
 and has so continued ever since. The 
 firm are private bankers constantly identi- 
 fied with the largest operations ; financed 
 and were largely interested in the reorgan- 
 ization of the Union Pacific in 1897, and 
 the subsequent transactions by which the 
 control of the Southern Pacific and other 
 railroads were acquired; placed the large 
 Japanese loan in this country during the 
 war with Russia, and have been identified 
 constantly with practically every financial 
 operation of national importance. Mr. SchifT 
 is a director of the National City Bank, the 
 ^lorton Trust Company, Title Guarantee 
 and Trust Company, the Bond and ]\Iort- 
 gage C4uarantee Company, Union Pacific 
 Railway Company, and numerous other 
 financial corporations. Mr. SchifT was a 
 conspicuous member of the second Com- 
 mittee of Seventy, and of the later 
 committees of Fifteen and Nine, which 
 were similarly employed in work for civic 
 betterment. He has labored for tlie inter- 
 ests of the Chamber of Commerce of New 
 York, as its vice-president and as a mem- 
 ber of its principal committees. He is also 
 prominent in charitable work, is vice-pres- 
 ident of the Baron de Hirsch Fund, and 
 president of the Montefiore Home for 
 Chronic Invalids. Mr. Schiff has encour- 
 aged particularly the study of Semitic lit- 
 erature, a subject in which he is himself 
 deeply versed. In this connection he 
 founded the Semitic INIuseum at Harvard, 
 and the Jewish Theological Seminary of New 
 York, besides giving a fund of ten thousand 
 dollars to the New Y^'ork Library toward 
 the purchase of a Semitic library. He is 
 a member of tlie Metropolitan Museum of 
 Art, the American INIuseum of Natural His- 
 tory and the Lawyers' and Republican Clubs 
 of New York City. He married, in 1875, 
 Therese Loeb. Residence: 965 Fifth Ave- 
 nue. Office address: 52 William Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 SCHIFF, Mortimer L: 
 
 Banker; born in New York City, June 
 5, 1877; son of Jacob II. and Therese 
 Sell ill. He was graduated from Amherst 
 College, 189G, and received the honorary 
 M.A. degree in 190(5. He is a member of 
 the firm of Kulm, Loeb and Company; 
 secretary and trustee of the Provident Loan 
 Society of New York; director of the Fidel- 
 ity Bank, IMercantile Trust Conqiany, United 
 States Mortgage and Trust Company, Social 
 Halls x\ssocialion, and of the New York 
 Yacht, Whist, Republican, Lotos and City 
 Midday Clubs, the Automobile Club of 
 America, Lawyers' and St. Andrew's Golf 
 Clubs. He married in New York City, April 
 30, 1901, Adele G. Newstedt. Address: 52 
 William Street, New York City. 
 
 SCHLEY, Grant Barney: 
 
 Banker; born at Chapinville, N. Y., Feb. 
 25, 1845. He was educated in the Canan- 
 daigua Academy until 1861, when he be- 
 came an express clerk at Syracuse. He was 
 appointed express agent at Suspension 
 Bridge, N. Y^, in 1863, and in 1866 removed 
 to New York City, where he was connected 
 with the money department of the Amer- 
 ican Express Company until 1874; then with 
 the First National Bank of New York until 
 1880; member of the firm of Groesbeck and 
 Schley, bankers and brokers, until 1885, 
 and since then of Moore and Schley, of 
 which he has been for years senior member. 
 Mr. Schley is connected as officer or director 
 with many large manufacturing, financial 
 and mining corporations. He is a member 
 of the Union League, IManhattan, Metropol- 
 itan, New York Y'acht and other clubs, and 
 of the American Fine Arts Society. Mr. 
 Schley married in New York City, in 1879, 
 Elizabeth Baker. He has a sununer resi- 
 dence at Far Hills, N. J. Residence: 845 
 Fifth Avenue. Office: 80 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 SCHLEY. Winfield Scott: 
 
 Rear-admiral. I'. S. Navy; was born near 
 Frederick, Md., Oct. 9, 1839; being son of 
 John Thomas and Gcorgiana Virginia 
 Schley. He was appointed acting midship- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 man in tlie U. S. Navy in 1856, and was 
 graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy 
 ill 1860; promoted to master in 1861; com- 
 missioned lieutenant, July 18, 1802; lieu- 
 tenant-commander, July 25, 1S6G; com- 
 mander, June 10, 1874; captain, March 31, 
 1888; commodore, Feb., 1898; rear-admiral, 
 March 3, 1899; retired, Oct. 9, 1901. He 
 served through the Civil War, and after- 
 ward on various duties and stations. He 
 took charge of the Greely Relief Expedition 
 and rescued Lieutenant (now ]\Iajor-Gen- 
 eral) A. W. Greely and six other survivors 
 at Cape Sabine. After the declaration of 
 war with Spain, he was ordered to com- 
 mand the Flying Squadron, on duty in 
 Cuban waters; he was the senior officer 
 present and in immediate command at the 
 destruction of Cervera's Fleet, off Santiago 
 de Cuba, July 3, 1898. He was presented 
 with a gold sword by the people of Penn- 
 sylvania, and a silver sword by the Royal 
 Arcanum, a gold and jeweled medal by the 
 Legislature of the State of Maryland, a 
 silver service and various other gifts, for 
 his services at the Battle of Santiago. He 
 was promoted to rear-admiral, March 3, 
 1899, and from Nov. 9, 1899, was in com- 
 mand of the South Atlantic Station until 
 Oct. 9, 1901, wlien he was placed upon the 
 retired list, having attained the age of 
 sixty-two years. He is author of: The 
 Rescue of Greely, 188G; and of Forty-five 
 Years Under the Flag, 1904. He married. 
 Sept. 10, 1863, Annie R. Franklin, of An- 
 napolis, Md. He is a member of the Mili- 
 tary Order of Foreign Wars, and of the 
 New York, New York Yacht, Seawanhaka- 
 Corinthian Yacht, and of the Army and 
 Navy Clubs, New York City, and the Met- 
 ropolitan Club of Washington. Address: 
 1826 I Street, Washington, D. C. 
 
 SCHMIDT, Max Eberhardt: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in IJerlin, Germany, 
 Oct. 18, 1848; son of Albert and' Angelica 
 (Hoefer) Schmidt. He was graduated from 
 the Prussian Military Academy, Berlin, in 
 1866, and from the Prussian Academy of 
 Engineers' Officers in 1869. He served dur- 
 ing the Franco-Prussian War, 1871-1872; 
 
 was engineer of tlie U. S. Government Sur- 
 veys, West of the One Hundredth Meridian, 
 and the U. S. Geodetic Survey and' Gov- 
 ernment Works in Minnesota and Dakota, 
 until 1875; was chief assistant engineer on 
 the construction of the jetties at the mouth 
 of the Mississippi under Captain James B. 
 Eads until 1879; in charge of Government 
 works for the improvement of the Missis- 
 sippi River at Memphis and St. Louis until 
 1881; chief engineer of the Mexican Cen- 
 tral Railroad, 1881-1889; engaged in bus- 
 iness as general consulting engineer in 
 Chicago and New York until 1896; and was 
 president of Electric Axle Light and Power 
 Company until 1900. He invented and con- 
 structed the first moving "platform, which 
 operated at the World's Columbian Expo- 
 sition. Mr. Schmidt is president, general 
 manager and cliief engineer of the Continu- 
 ous Transit Securities Company, and di- 
 rector of the Multiple Speed and Traction 
 Company; and is a member of the American 
 Society of Civil Engineers. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Down Town and WHiist Clubs of 
 New York City, the WTiippany River and' 
 Morris County Golf Clubs of Morristown, 
 N. J., and the Chicago Club of Chicago. 
 jMr. Schmidt married in Winona, Minn., 
 Sept. 22, 1875, Mary Everhart, and they 
 have two children. Residence: Madison 
 Avenue, Convent, N. J. Office: 45 Broad- 
 way, New York City. 
 
 SCHMUCKER, Samuel D.: 
 
 Jurist; born in Gettysburg. Pa., Feb. 26, 
 1844; son of Rev. Samuel S. Schmucker, 
 president of the Evangelical Lutheran 
 Theological Seminary and' Mary Catherine 
 ( Steenbergen ) Sciimucker. He was grad- 
 uated from Pennsylvania College, Gettys- 
 burg, A.B. in 1863, from the law school 
 of New York University, LL.B. in 1865, 
 and received his LL.D. from Pennsylvania 
 College in 1898, and also from St. John's 
 College, Annapolis. He served in the 
 Union Army as sergeant in Hie Twenty- 
 sixth Pennsylvania Regiment, in 1863. 
 He practised law in Baltimore, 1866-1898, 
 and in the latter year was elected on the 
 Republican ticket as one of the associate 
 
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 justices of the Court of Appeals of Mary- 
 land, in wliich oflRce he is still serving. 
 Judge Schmuckor attained an enviable 
 place at the bar, and has served as pres- 
 ident of the Bar Association of Baltimore ; 
 and he was a member of the commission 
 which prepared the charter under which 
 the City of Baltimore is now governed. 
 He married Nov. .., 18G9, Helen J. 
 Bridges. Residence : ... Park Avenue, 
 Baltimore. Office address: Court of Ap- 
 peals. Annapolis. ]Md. 
 
 SCHOFF, Hannah Kent: 
 
 Philanthropist; born in Upper Darby, 
 Pa.; daughter of Thomas and' Fanny 
 (Leonard) Kent. She was educated in 
 the Mary Anna Langstreth School, Phil- 
 adelphia, Waltham (Mass.) School, and 
 by private tutors. She married in Clifton 
 Heights, Pa., Oct. 23, 1873, Frederic 
 Schoff, and has seven children. She 
 ])lanned and' led the work' of securing 
 Juvenile Court and Probation laws in 
 Pennsylvania in 1900, also detention 
 houses for children awaiting trial; organ- 
 ized the probation work for Philadelphia 
 in 1901, aided in the effort to secure these 
 laws in Canada, Great Britain, Hungary, 
 and many of the States; compiled the 
 statutes of every State in the U. S., con- 
 cerning children, in 1900, organized, in 
 1899, the Pennsylvania Congress of Moth- 
 ers, which first established the Parents' 
 Association in Pennsylvania schools, being 
 president since 1902. Mrs. Schoff is vice- 
 president of the National Congress of 
 Mothers, under whose auspices the first 
 International Congress in America on the 
 Welfare of the Child was held in Washing- 
 ton. March, 1908; every nation being in- 
 vited to participate. She is a member of 
 the Daughters of the Revolution and pres- 
 ident of the Philadelphia Jiivenile Court 
 and Probation Association, and member of 
 the New Century Club of Philadelphia. 
 She is author of magazine articles and 
 Juvenile Court pamphlets and editorials, 
 and is editor of the National Congress of 
 Mothers Magazine for the Welfare of the 
 Child. Address: 3418 Baring Street, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 SCHOULER, James: 
 
 Lawyer and author; born in Arlington, 
 Mass., March 20, 1839; son of William 
 Schouler (adjutant-general of Massachu- 
 setts, 1860-1806) and Frances (Warren) 
 Schouler, and grandson of James Schouler 
 of Kilbarciian, near Paisley, Scotland, who 
 came to the United States in 1816. Mr. 
 Schouler was graduated from Harvard as 
 A.B., in 1859, and he received the degree 
 of LL.D. from the National University at 
 Washington in 1891, and from Johns Hop- 
 kins University in 1902. After his gradua- 
 tion from Harvard he taught school one 
 year, studied law, and was admitted to the 
 Suffolk bar in 1862. He served a year in 
 the Union Army, as a lieutenant in the 
 Forty-third Massachusetts Volunteer In- 
 fantry and in the Signal Corps, and after 
 the war practiced in Boston and Wash- 
 ington. He was a lecturer and professor 
 in the Boston University Law School from 
 1885 to 1903; non-resident professor in the 
 National University Law School at Wash- 
 ington from 1887, and from 1891 to 1908, 
 lecturer on American History in Johns Hop- 
 kins University. Professor Schouler is au- 
 thor of legal text-books and treatises of high 
 authority, including: The Law of Domestic 
 Relations, 1870; The Law of Personal Prop- 
 erty, 1873; The Law of Bailments, 1880; 
 The Law of Husband and Wife, 1882; Law 
 of Executors and Administrators, 1883; 
 and Law of WilLs, 1887; all of which have 
 passed through several editions. He is also 
 prominent as a historian, his principal his- 
 torical work being his History of the United 
 States from 1783 to 1865 (six volumes), 
 and he is also author of Lives of JefTerson 
 and Hamilton; Americans of 1776; Ideals 
 of the Republic; and other books. He is a 
 member and corresponding member of the 
 Massachusetts Historical Society, and is an 
 ex-president of the American Historical As- 
 sociation. Professor Schouler married in 
 Boston, in 1870, Emily F. Cochran, who 
 died in 1904. Address: 2 Newbury Street, 
 Boston; or Intervale, X. H. 
 
 SCHRADER, Frank Charles: 
 
 (ioolouist; born in Sterling. 111., Oct. 6, 
 1860; son of C. C. and Angelinc Marie 
 
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 (Piepo) Schrader. He was educated in 
 the University of Kansas, 1886-1891, grad- 
 uating B.S., M.S., and Harvard University, 
 1892-1896. He was assistant in entomo- 
 logical work for the State of Kansas, 1888- 
 1891, and for the Massachusetts Bo^ird of 
 Agriculture, 1893-189.5; teacher in geology 
 in Harvard, 1895-1896, and, since 1896, 
 with the U. S. Geological Survey, doing 
 economic geologic work, mainly in various 
 parts of Alaska and the Western United 
 States, and in the New England and 
 middle States. He is a contributor to 
 reports of the U. S. Geological Survey 
 and geographic magazines. He has trav- 
 eled widely on professional work in nearly 
 all parts of Alaska, including the Arctic 
 Ocean, Behring Sea and Pacific coasts, 
 British Columbia, Canada, the United 
 States, including the Atlantic and Pacific 
 coasts, and ^Mexico. He is a fellow of the 
 Geological Society of America (life), mem- 
 ber of the American Institute of Mining 
 Engineers, Mining and' Metallurgical Soci- 
 ety of America, National Geographic So- 
 ciety, American Forestry Association, 
 Washington Academy of Sciences, Geolog- 
 ical Society of Washington, Cosmos Club 
 of Washington. Washington Harvard Club, 
 and Washington Kansas University Club. 
 Besidence: 1327 R Street, Washington. 
 Office: U. S. Geological Survey, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 SCHRADER, Frederick Franklin: 
 
 Playwrigiit ; l)orn in Hamburg, Germany, 
 Oct. 27, 1857; son of George Frederick and 
 Sophia (Hcmmicke) Schrader. Mr. Schrader 
 is a newspaper man by profession, but has 
 had a wide experience in many lines of ac- 
 tivity. He managed Pope's Theater in St. 
 Louis, 1885-1886; was secretary of the 
 Board of Trade at St. Joseph, Mo., 1887- 
 1891, and for many years has been con- 
 nected with the Wasliington Post and' tiie 
 New York Globe as dramatic editor. He 
 is the author of several successful jilays. 
 including: At the French Ball (Fanny 
 Rice) ; A Modern Lady Godiva (Amelia 
 Bingham); The Man from Texas; the 
 novel, "Jose," from the German ; and 
 Paris Sketches. fioiii llic (Iciinan of 
 
 Max Nordau. He has also been prominent 
 in political ati'airs, having been acting and 
 assistant secretary of the Republican Con- J 
 gressional Committee, 1896-1900, and editor " 
 of the Republican Campaign Textbook of 
 1898. He married, first, June G, 1879, 
 Anna McNulty, who died Feb. 16, 1894, and 
 second, at Washington, D. C, Nov. 6, 1895, 
 jNIarie R. Bailey, a well-known writer, and 
 has one son. Residence: Hotel Orleans, 
 100 ^V. SOth Street, New York City. 
 
 SCHREITER, Henry: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Freiwaldau, Austrian 
 Silesia, 1858; son of Franz Ferdinand 
 Schreiter R. von Schwarzenfcld and Antoi- 
 nette Louise C. (Janowenski) Schreiter von 
 Schwartzenfeld. He was educated in the 
 Military Academy at W^iener Neustadt, 
 Lower Austria, Teresianum and the Poly- 
 technic School at Vienna; Law School and 
 School of Political Science, Columbia LTni- 
 versity. He is engaged in the practice of 
 law as a member of the firm of Schreiter 
 & Mathews ; almost exclusively as counsel 
 in patent, trade-marks, copyright and in 
 corporation cases. He is president of the 
 New York Asbestos ]\Ianufacturing Com- 
 pany; president and treasurer of Ravens- 
 wood Paper Mills Company; treasurer of 
 the Panzl Digester Lining Company. Mr. 
 Schreiter married in Yonkers, N. Y., Sept. 
 14, 1894, Harriett A. Baker, and they have 
 two children. Country home : Avon-by-the- 
 Sea, N. J. Residence: 59 West 87th Street. 
 Odice: 20 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 SCHROEDER, Seaton: 
 
 I'car-aduiii'al. U. S. Navy; born in 
 Wasliington. 1). C.. Aug. 17, 1849; son of 
 Francis and Caroline (Seaton) Schroeder. 
 He was appointed from South Carolina to 
 the U. S. Naval Academy in 1864, and was 
 graduated with tlie class of 1868. He was 
 promoted to ensign, April 19, 1869; 
 master, July 12, 1870; lieutenant. Oct. 29. 
 1872; lieutenant-commander, Sept. 27, 
 1893; comnunidcr. ]\Iarch 3, 1899; cap- 
 tain, .\ug. 10, 1903; rear-admiral. July 
 11. 1908.. He served in various sea 
 and shore duties as a nnal olliccr, and, 
 187!)-18S0, was on leave and engaged, in 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 association with H. H. Gorings, in remov- 
 ing the Obelisk from Egypt to New York. 
 He was executive otliccr of the Massachu- 
 setts, 1897-1899; was advanced three num- 
 bers in rank for eminent and conspicuous 
 conduct in the War with Spain, in 1898; 
 he was naval governor of the Island of 
 (iuam, and commander of the Yosemite, 
 1900-1903; chief intelligence officer, Navy 
 Department, 1903-190G; commanded U. S. 
 8. Virginia, 1906; commanding Tliird Di- 
 vision Atlantic Fleet, 1906-1909; and 1909 
 became commander-in-chief of the Atlantic 
 Fleet, on the flagship Connecticut. Ad- 
 dress: Care of Navy Department, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 SCHULTZ, Alfred Reginald: 
 
 Geologist; born in Tomah, Wis.; son of 
 John Frederick and Ida May (Kirst) 
 Schultz. After graduation from the Tomah 
 High School in 1896, he pursued the scien- 
 tific course in the University of Wisconsin, 
 whence he was graduated, B.S., 1900, and 
 graduate work in the University of Wiscon- 
 sin and in the University of Chicago, where 
 he received the degree of Ph.D., 1905. He 
 was professor of sciences in the Wausau 
 (Wis.) High School, 1900-1902; associate 
 editor of the Wisconsin Handbook of Track 
 and Field Athletics, 1902; research assistant 
 in the University of Wisconsin, 1902-1904; 
 resident hydrologist of the United States 
 Geological Survey in Wisconsin, 1903; chief 
 of an exploration party in the Province of 
 Ontario, Canada, svimmer of 1904, and a 
 fellow of the University of Chicago, 1904- 
 1905. Since 1905 he has been engaged as a 
 geologist in the United States Geological 
 Survey. He is a Republican in politics, and 
 a Lutheran in religion. Dr. Sclmltz has 
 traveled extensively in North America. He 
 is a member of the Chicago chapter of the 
 Sigma Xi Society, the National Geographic 
 Society, Washington Geological Society, the 
 Pick and Hammers (geological society) and 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science. His published papers in- 
 clude: Underground Waters of Wisconsin: 
 Water Supply and Irrigation Paper (U. S. 
 Geological Survey No. 214), 1904; Under- 
 o-round Waters of Wisconsin: ^^■isconsin Ge- 
 
 ological and Natural History Survey (in 
 press) ; Some Observations on the Move- 
 ment of Underground Waters in Confined 
 Basins (Journal of (icology. Vol." XV, No. 
 2), 1907; Coal and' Oil Maps of southern 
 Uinta County, Wyoming: bull. (U. S. Ge- 
 ological Survey No. 285), 1905; Profes- 
 sional Paper U. S. Geological Survey (No. 
 56), 1907; also imlletins of the U. S. Geo- 
 logical Survey on (iold Developments in 
 Central Uinta County, Wyoming, and Other 
 Points on Snake Eiver (No. 315), 1906; 
 Coal Fields in a Portion of Central Uinta 
 County, Wyoming (No. 316). 1906; Geol- 
 ogy and Geography of Central Uinta County, 
 Wyoming (in press) ; Labarge Oil Field, 
 Central Uinta County, Wyoming No. 340), 
 1907; Northern Part of the Rock Springs 
 Coal Field (No. 341-B), 1907; Southern 
 Part of the Rock Springs Coal Field: Sur- 
 vey, 1909. Home: Tomah, Wis. Ofiicial 
 address: Care of U. S. Geological Survey, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 SCHUMANN, Walter: 
 
 U. S. consul ; born in New York City, 
 July 1, 1870. He was graduated from 
 Columbia Grammar School; was with an 
 importing house of New York City, having 
 a large trade in China, Japan and Italy, 
 from 1888 to 1891, with structural iron and 
 steel works, 1891-1893, and, when the com- 
 pany failed, with former superintendent of 
 works, bought out the business, stock and 
 unfinished contracts and continued until 
 Feb. 1, 1898, when he sold his interest to 
 his partner. He was appointed, June 23, 
 1897, U. S. consul to Mainz, Germany; and 
 transferred March 30, 1907, to Odessa. He 
 is author of: The Law of Marriage and 
 Divorce of the German Empire; Outline 
 History of the City of Mainz, Germany; 
 also a History of American Literature (in 
 the German language). Address: Ameri- 
 can Consulate, Odessa, Russia. 
 
 SCHURMAN, Jacob Gould: 
 
 President of Cornell University; born at 
 Freetown, Prince Edward Island. May 22, 
 1854; son of Robert Schurman. and grand- 
 son of Caleb Schurman, who was born at 
 New Rochelle. N. Y.. and whose ancestors 
 
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 caiiio from Holland in the Seventeenth Cen- 
 tury. He won in 1875 the Canadian Gil- 
 christ Scholarship to the University of 
 London, where he was graduated in 1877 
 with the degree of A.B. and received that 
 of A.M. in 1878. At the same time he took 
 graduate work in Paris and at the Uni- 
 versity of Edinburgh during the years 1877 
 and 1878, receiving from the latter univer- 
 sity the degree of D.Sc. Having won the 
 Hibbert Traveling Fellowship, which was 
 open to all graduates of British universities, 
 he studied from 1878 to 1880 at Heidel- 
 berg, Berlin, and Gottingen, and in Italy. 
 The degree of LL.D. was conferred' upon 
 him by Columbia University in 1892, by 
 Yale in 1901, and the University of Edin- 
 burgh in 1902. After holding professorship 
 in Acadia College and in Dalhousi Col- 
 lege, he was, in 1886, appointed Sage 
 professor of jihilosophy at Cornell Uni- 
 versity, becoming some years later head 
 of the Sage School of Philosophy. In 
 1892 he was elected to the presidency of 
 Cornell University, which office he still 
 holds. In 1899 he was appointed by Pres- 
 ident McKinley chairman of the United 
 States Philippine Commission, for the pur- 
 pose of investigating the conditions of those 
 islands. He is a life member of the Amer- 
 ican Academy in Rome, and also member of 
 the University and Union League Clubs of 
 New Yoi'k, and the Town and Gown Club 
 of Ithaca. He is fond of out-door sports, 
 and spends his leisure hours in walking, 
 golfing, skating or tobogganing. President 
 Schurman is a prolific writer and is author 
 of many philosopliical works, among them 
 being: Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of 
 Evolution, 1881 ; The Ethical Import of 
 Darwinism, 1888; Belief in God, 1890; and 
 others. He is also author of: A Generation 
 of Cornell, 1898 ; and Philippine Affairs — 
 A Retrospect and Outlook, 1902. He mar- 
 ried, Oct. 1, 1884, Barbara Forrest Munro, 
 and by tliis union there have been eight 
 cliildren. Residence: 41 East Avenue. Ad- 
 dress: Cornell Uuivcrsijy. Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 SCHUYLER, Montgomery, Jr.: 
 
 I)i|>luiiia1 ic and consular ollicer; born in 
 Stamford, Conn., Sept. 2, 1877; son of Mont- 
 
 gomery Schuyler and Katherine Beeckman 
 (Livingston) Schuyler, and grandson of 
 Rev. Anthony Schuyler, for many years rec- 
 tor of Grace Church, Orange, N. J. After 
 being graduated from Columbia College, A. | 
 B., 1899, he remained as university scholar a 
 one year and university fellow two years 
 in Indo-Iranian languages, receiving his A. 
 M. degree in 1900. He began a diplomatic 
 career in 1902 as second secretary of the 
 American Embassy at St. Petersburg, and 
 in 1904 became secretary of the American 
 Legation and consul-general at Bangkok, 
 Siam, remaining there until 1906, when he , 
 was appointed to his present post as secre- I 
 tary of tlie American Legation and Amer- ^ 
 ican consul-general at Bucharest, Roumania. 
 Mr. Schuyler is avithor of: an Index Ver- 
 borvim of the Fragments of the Avesta, 
 1901; and of a Bibliography of the Sanskrit 
 Drama ; and he has contributed to various 
 publications on Oriental and philological 
 subjects. He is a member of the American 
 Oriental and other learned societies, the 
 Society of Mayflower Descendants, Society 
 of Descendants of Colonial Governors, and 
 others. Residence : 1025 Park Avenue, New 
 York City. Official address : American Le- 
 gation, Bucharest, Roumania. 
 
 SCHWAB, Charles M: 
 
 Capitalist; born in Williamsburg, Blair 
 County, Pa., Feb. 18, 1862. The family 
 removed to Loretto, Cambria County, Pa., 
 in 1872. He was graduated from St. Fran- 
 cis College at sixteen. As a boy he worked 
 for neighboring farmers, and drove a coach 
 to and from Cresson, Pa., his father having, 
 at one time, a contract for carrying the 
 mails between Loretto and Cresson. After 
 leaving school he became clerk in a grocery 
 store at Braddock, Pa. He Avas anxious to 
 become a civil engineer, and in 1881 made 
 his ambition known to Captain Jones, one 
 of tile sujK'rintendents in the Edgar Thom- 
 son Steel Works, of the Carnegie Company, 
 whom he asked for employment. He began 
 I)y driving stakes at a dollar a day, but in 
 less than a year he was Captain Jones' 
 chief assistant, and in seven years was chief 
 of the engineer department, and it was prin- 
 cipally nndci- his direction that the Home- 
 
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 stead plant was erected. On the death of 
 Captain Jones, in 1889, he was made super- 
 intendent of the Edgar Thomson ^^■orks, 
 and in 1892 tlie Homestead Works was also 
 ])lacfir in his charge. He was elected a 
 member of the Board of Tklanagers of the 
 Carnegie Company in 189G. and its pres- 
 ident in 1897, and when the Carnegie inter- 
 ests were merged in the larger United States 
 Steel Corporation, in 1901, he became the 
 first president of the corporation, remaining 
 until 1904, when he resigned the presidency. 
 He is now president of the Betlilehem Steel 
 Corporation, a trustee of the New York 
 Trust Company, and a director in the Car- 
 negie Steel 'Company and many other iron, 
 .steel, coke and coal corporations. Mr. Schwab 
 built a magnificent Catholic church at Lo- 
 retto. Pa., and established a complete electric 
 lighting plant there; built a convent house 
 at Cresson, Pa., a thoroughly equipped in- 
 dustrial school at Homestead, Pa., and fitted 
 up on the southern shore of Staten Island, 
 New York, a sanitarium for the benefit of 
 sick and crippled children during the sum- 
 mer months. He has a fine summer resi- 
 dence at Braddock, Pa., and a house in 
 Pittsburgh, besides the magnificent residence 
 which he has built on Eiverside Drive at 
 Seventy-fourth Street, in New York. Mr. 
 Schwab married at I.oretto, Pa., in 1883, 
 Ennna Dinkey. Residence: 323 West 74th 
 Street. Office: 111 Broadway, New York 
 City. 
 
 SCHWAB, Gustav H.: 
 
 Mcrcliant ; horn in New York City, May 
 30, 1851; son of Gustav Schwab and Cathe- 
 rine Elizabeth (von Post) Schwab. He 
 was sent to Europe when thirteen years 
 old to be educated in the gymnasium (Latin 
 School) at Stuttgart, Germany, and at sev- 
 enteen he entered the office of a firm in 
 Bremen for a mercantile training and af- 
 ter that spent six months in Liverpool. Mr. 
 Schwab on July 1, 1870. entered the firm 
 of Oelrichs and Company (founded by his 
 gi-eat-grandfather in 1798), and took charge 
 of the steamship business of the firm, which 
 had held the agency of North German Lloyd 
 Steamship Company since 18G1, relieving 
 his father of that duty. He is chairman of 
 
 the Coniniillcc on Foreign Conmu-rce and 
 tlic Revenue Jyaws of the Cliamber of Coni- 
 iiicice of the State of New York; conducted 
 llie sound money campaign of the Chamber 
 of Couniicicc against free .silver, and was 
 prominent in the work of agitation for the 
 enlargement of the Canal System of New 
 York Stale. He is first vice-president of 
 the ^Merchants' Association of New York; 
 a partner in the firm of Oelrichs & Com- 
 pany; a director of the United' Slates Trust 
 Company, the Merchants' National Bank, 
 the I'roduce Exchange Safe Deposit Com- 
 pany, and the Atlantic Mutual insurance 
 Company. He is senior warden of All Souls' 
 Church, New Yoik City and vestryman of 
 St. Mary's Church, Scarborough, New York. 
 Mr. Schwab is a director of the German So- 
 ciety of thq City of New York; chairman of 
 the Canal Connnittee of the New York Prod- 
 uce Exchange ; director of St. John's Guild. 
 He received the Prussian decoration of the 
 Red Eagle of the tliird class and the Italian 
 decoration of SS. 'Maurizio e Lazaro 
 (cavaliere), the Oldenburg Decoration of 
 Ritterkranz. Mr. Schwab married at Ford- 
 ham, N. Y., Oct. 25, 1876, Caroline Wheeler, 
 and they have two children. Country home: 
 Scarboro. Residence: 31 West 47th Street. 
 Office: 5 Broadway. New York City. 
 
 SCHWAB, John Christopher: 
 
 Librarian; born in New York City. April 
 1, 18()5; son of Gustav and Catherine Eliza- 
 beth (von Post) Schwab. He was graduated 
 from Yale in 18S(i with the degree of B.A. 
 and received the INI. A. degree in 1888, also 
 receiving the degree of Ph.D. from the Uni- 
 versity of C.ottingen, in 1889. He was pro- 
 fessor of political science in Yale University 
 from 1898 to 1905 and is now librarian of 
 Yale University Library. Since 1892 editor 
 of the Yale Review. Dr. Scliwab is corre- 
 s]jonding nu-mber of the Massachusetts His- 
 torical Society; a member of the American 
 Economic Association; the British Royal 
 Economic Society and a director of the Low- 
 ell House. He is a member of the Century 
 Association and the Graduates' Club of New 
 Haven. Mr. Schwab married in New Haven, 
 Conn., Oct. 5. 1893, Edith Aurelia Fi.sher 
 and has a son and a daughter. Residence: 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 310 Prospect Street. New Haven, Conn. Ad- 
 dress: Yale University Library, New Ha- 
 ven. Conn. 
 
 SCHWARTZ, Julia Augusta: 
 
 Author: born in Albany, N. Y., Feb. 
 3, 1873; daugliter of George and Emma 
 G. (Idling) Schwartz. She was graduated 
 from Albany Academy, and Vassar College, 
 A.B.. 1896," and A.M., 1898. She is au- 
 tlior of: Vassar Studies; Five Little 
 Strangers; Famous Pictures of Children; 
 Beatrfce Leigh at College; Wilderness 
 Babies; Elinor's College Career; and Won- 
 derful Little Lives. She is a member of 
 the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Vassar 
 Alumna? Association, and the Association 
 of Collegiate Alumnw. Address: 911 
 Soutli 2(ltli Street, Omaha. Neb. * 
 
 SCHWEBACH, James: 
 
 Catholic bishoi>: born in the Duchy of 
 Luxemburg, Aug. 15. 1847. He received 
 a classical education under private instruc- 
 tion and in the College of Diekirch ; came 
 to the United States in 1864, and took 
 philosophical and theological courses in 
 St. Francis' Seminary, near Milwaukee, 
 Wis., becoming a priest in 1870. He was 
 pastor of St. Mary's Church, La Crosse, 
 Wis., for twenty-two years, became vicar- 
 gcncral and later administrator of the 
 diocese of La Crosse, of which he was 
 consecrated bishop, Feb. 24, 1892. Ad- 
 dress: La Crosse. Wis. 
 
 SCIDMORE, George H.: 
 
 Consuhir otlicer; born in Iowa. He was 
 ai)i)()inted consular clerk May 6, 1876; ap- 
 pointed vice-consul at Dunfermline, Scot- 
 land, Au'T. 24, 1S77; ap|)ointed vice-consul 
 at Osaka and Hioga, .Japan, Sept. 13, 1884; 
 vice-consul-general at Shanghai, China, June 
 24. 188.); vice and deputy cons\il-general at 
 Kanagawa, .Japan. Dec. 23, 188.5; appointed 
 s])ecial agent to investigate the claims of 
 American citizens to lands in the Fiji Is- 
 lands. Sept. 7. 1891; ap])ointcd deputy con- 
 sul-general at Kanagawa .Tune 1. 1894; 
 deputy consul-general at Yokohama, Nov. .5, 
 1902; detailed a legal adviser to the Ameri- 
 
 can Legation at Tokyo March 17. 1904; ap- 
 pointed consul at Nagasaki. Tklarch 30, 1907. 
 Addrass: Nagasaki. .Japan. 
 
 SCOLLAE.D, Clinton: 
 
 Author; born in Clinton, N. Y^., Sept. 
 18, I860; son of .James I. and Elisabeth 
 (Stephens) Scollard. He was graduated 
 from Hamilton College, class of 1881. A.B., 
 A.M., 1884, L.H.D.. 1906, and took post- 
 graduated course in Harvard, and Cam- 
 bridge, England. He was for eight years 
 professor of English literature in Hamil- 
 ton College, and is president of the Rome 
 and Clinton Railroad Company, and di- 
 rector in the Utica, Clinton and Bingham- 
 ton Railroad Company. He is author of: 
 Pictures in Song, 1884; With Reed and 
 Lyre, 1886; Old and New World Lyrics, 
 1888; Giovio and Giulia, 1891; Songs of 
 the Sunrise Lands, 1892; Under the Sum- 
 mer Skies, 1892; On Sunny Shores, 1893; 
 The Hills of Sons, 1895; Skenandoa, 1896; 
 A Boy's Book of Rhyme, 1896; A Man-at- 
 Arms, 1898; The Son of a Tory, 1900; 
 A Knight of the Highway, 1901; The Lutes 
 of Morn, 1901; The Cloistering of LTrsula, 
 1902; Lyrics of the Dawn, 1902; Count 
 Falcon of the Eyrie, 1903; Footfarings, 
 1904; The Lyric Bough, 1904; Ballads of 
 Valor and Victory (with Wallace Rice). 
 1904; Lyrics and Legends of Christmas- 
 Tide, 1904; Odes and Elegies, 1905; A 
 Southern Flight (with Frank Dempster 
 Sherman), 1905; Easter Song. 1906; 
 Blank Verse Pastels, 1907; Voices and 
 Visions, 1908; Pro Patria, 1909, and a 
 contributor of poems to leading magazines. 
 Mr. Scollard is a member of the Century, 
 Authors', and Chi Psi Clubs of New York 
 City. He married in Jackson, Mich.. July 
 3, 1890, Georgia Brown, and has a daugh- 
 ter. Address: Clinton, N. Y. 
 
 SCOTT, Austin: 
 
 President of Rutgers College; born at 
 Maumee, Lucas County, Ohio, Aug. 10. 1848; 
 son of J. Austin and Sarah (Ranney) Scott. 
 The family removed to Toledo, Ohio, in 1859. 
 He went to Yale where he edited the College 
 Courant. and was graduated as A.B. in 
 18(!9; was a student in the University of 
 
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 ^Michigan. 1S()!)-1870. icfciviiig llio degree 
 of A.M., and fonlimied Fiis studies at the 
 Universities of i?('rlin and Leipzig, receiving 
 from the latter the degree of Ph.D. in 187:^; 
 and the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon 
 liim by Princeton in 1801. While engaged 
 in his studies abroad he was private secre- 
 tary to George Bancroft, the historian, who 
 was then United States minister to Ger- 
 many. Dr. Scott was an instructor in Ger- 
 man in the University of Michigan, 187."^ 
 1875; then became associate in history at 
 Johns Hopkins University until 1881. estab- 
 lishing there the Seminar of American His- 
 tory, and while so engaged aiding ^Ir. Ban- 
 croft in the collection of materials for his 
 History of the Constitution of the United 
 States. He became connected with Rutger.s 
 College as acting professor of history in 
 1883, and later in the same years became 
 \'oorhees professor of history, ])olitical econ- 
 omy and constitutional law, which chair he 
 retained' until elected, in 1890. to his present 
 otlice as president of Rutgers College. He is 
 author of the volume. New Jersey, in the 
 American Connnonwealths Series. He mar- 
 ried at Newark, N. J., Feb. 21, 1882, Anna 
 Prestiss Stearns. Address: New Bruns- 
 wick, N. J. 
 
 SCOTT, Charles Fredrick: 
 
 Congressman and editor ; born on a farm 
 in Allen County. Kan., Sept. 7, 18fl0; son 
 of John W. Scott and ]\Iaria (Protsman) 
 Scott. He was educated in the State Uni- 
 versity of Kansas, from which he was grad- 
 uated with the B.S. degree in 1881, receiving 
 the M.S. degree some years later. Immedi- 
 ately after leaving the university he went 
 West and' spent the next year and a half in 
 Colorado, New ^lexico, and Arizona, engag- 
 ing chiefly in clerical work. In the latter 
 l)art of 1882 he returned to lola, the county- 
 seat of his native county, and bought a small 
 interest in the lola Register, a weekly news- 
 ])aper, and in the course of five years he ac- 
 (piired entire control of the paper which he 
 has ever since owned, published and edited. 
 In 1891, he was appointed regent of the 
 State University of Kansas for a terra of 
 four years, and was twice reappointed. He 
 is a Republican in politics; was elected to 
 
 the Slate Senate of Kansas in 1892 and 
 served four years; he was a Hepiiblican jjres- 
 idential elector in 18!)(); was elected in 1900 
 to the Fifty-seventh Congress from the State 
 of Kansas at large, and was reelected to tlie 
 Fifty-eiglith, Fifty-ninth. Si.xtieth and Sixty- 
 first Congresses from the Second Kansas Dis- 
 trict. Mr. Scott has served as [jicsident of 
 the State Editorial Association of Kansa.s; 
 president of the Kansas League of Republi- 
 can Clubs, and president of the Kansas Day 
 Club, an organization of the young Repub- 
 licans of tlie State. He married in 1893, 
 May Bevard Ewiiig. .Xddress; lola, Kan. 
 
 SCOTT, Francis Markoe: 
 
 Jurist; born in New \<nk City. .Maich 14. 
 1848; son of Thomas Scott and Eleanor 
 A. Scott. He received his early education 
 in the public schools, was graduated from 
 the College of the City of New York as 
 A.B. in 1807, and from Columbia Law 
 School as LL.B. in 1809; and' he received 
 the A.M. degree from tlii' City College. 
 He was admitted to the bar of New York 
 in 1809; was appointed assistant corpora- 
 tion counsel of New York City in Febru- 
 ary, 1885; aqueduct commissioner of New 
 York City in August, 1888; corporation 
 counsel of the City of New York in Febru- 
 ary, 1895, and in 1897 was elected a jus- 
 tice of the Supreme Court of New York for 
 the term expiring Dec. 31. 1911. Judge 
 Scott is a Democrat in politics. He is a 
 member of the Century Association, and of 
 the University, ^Manhattan, Larchmont 
 Yacht, Oakland Golf, and Garden City Golf 
 Clubs. He married, at Perth Amboy, N. J., 
 in 1878, Lucy Parkman Higgins, and they 
 have three children. Residence: 42 Park 
 Avenue. Office: County Courthouse, New 
 York City. 
 
 SCOTT, Frank Hall: 
 
 Publisher; born in Tcrre Haute, Ind., 
 .April 7. 1848; son of William Clement and 
 .Maria Frances (Crawford) Scott. He was 
 educated in the Pennsylvania Military Acad- 
 emy, and received the degree of L.H.D. from 
 Marietta College, Ohio, in 1894. After a 
 slight business experience in Indiana he 
 came to New York Citv in 1870, and entered 
 
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 the employ of Scribnei- & Company; helped 
 launch the first number of Scribner's Month- 
 ly and when the name of magazine was 
 changed to Tlie Century, in 1881, he became 
 treasurer and since 1892 has been president 
 of The Century Company. He is active in 
 all general movements affecting the publish- 
 ing world. He was one of the founders 
 and later president of Aldine Club; direc- 
 tor and president from 1904 to 1906 of the 
 American Publishers' Association, and is a 
 member of the Aldine, City, Century and 
 Players' Clubs. Mr. Scott married in New 
 York City, 1878, Julia Drai)er Davis, and 
 they have two children. Address: 33 East 
 17th Street, New York City. 
 
 SCOTT, Hugh Lenox: 
 
 Officer, United States Army; born at 
 Danville, Ky., Sept. 22, 1853; 'son of Wil- 
 liam M. and Mary (Hodge) Scott. He was 
 graduated from the U. S. Military Acad- 
 emy, June 14, 1876; commissioned first 
 lieutenant Seventh Cavalry, June 28, 1878, 
 captain Seventh Cavalry, Jan. 24, 1895; 
 major and assistant adjutant-general, U. S. 
 Volunteers, May 12, 1898; lieutenant-colo- 
 nel and assistant adjutant-general of Vol- 
 unteers, Aiig. 17, 1899; major Fourteenth 
 Cavalry, Feb. 25, 1903. He served in the 
 Sioux Expedition, 1876; Nez Perces Ex- 
 pedition, 1877 ; Camp Robinson, Neb., and 
 the Cheyenne Expedition, 1878; on routine 
 duty, principally with Indians of the Plains, 
 1878-1891; i-eceived honorable mention from 
 the War Department, for services in Okla- 
 homa, 1891; in charge of investigation of 
 the Ghost Dance disturbances, 1890-1891; 
 enlisted and commanded the Kiowa, Co- 
 manche and Apache Indians, Troop L, 
 Seventh Cavalry, 1892, until mustered out 
 after five years' enlistment (the last Indian 
 troop mustered out) ; in charge of Geron- 
 imo's band of Chiricahua Apaches, 1894- 
 1897. He was on duty at the Bureau of 
 Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, writ- 
 ing a work on the sign language of the 
 Plains Indians of North America, from 
 Nov., 1897, until the beginning of the 
 Spanish War. He served as adjutant- 
 general of the Second and Third Divisions 
 of the First Army Corps, May, 1898, to 
 
 Feb., 1899 ; adjutant-general of the De- 
 partment of Havana, under General Lud- 
 low, March, 1899, to May, 1900; adjutant- 
 general of the Division of Cuba until Nov. 
 15, when the Division of Cuba was changed 
 to the Department of Cuba; adjutant-gen- 
 eral of the Department of Cuba, 1900- 
 1902, and acting governor-general of Cuba; 
 took part in turning over the Government 
 of Cuba to the Cubans, May 20, 1902; was 
 on duty with General Wood winding up 
 the affairs of the Military Government of 
 Intervention in Cuba, 1902; served' in the 
 Philippines, 1903-1906, in the establish- 
 ment of civil government, as governor and 
 commander of the troops of the Sulu Arch- 
 ipelago ; the conquest and pacification of 
 the Sulu Archipelago and brought about 
 the abolishment of slavery, and the slave 
 trade therein. Since Sept. 1, 1906, he has 
 been on duty as superintendent of the 
 United States Military Academy with the 
 rank of colonel. Colonel Scott is a mem- 
 ber of the Geological Society of America, 
 American Anthropological Association, 
 Historical Society of Texas, Society of 
 JNIoro Campaigns, Society of Foreign Wars, 
 Society of the Spanish-American W^ar. He 
 is author of various monographs and' re- 
 ports relating to the Plains Indians. Colo- 
 nel Scott is a member of the Metropolitan 
 Club of Washington, D. C, Army and 
 Navy and Union League Clubs of New 
 York City, the Boone and Crockett Club 
 and the Ends of the Earth Club. He mar- 
 ried at Standing Rock, Dakota, in June, 
 1880, Mary INlerrill, and they have five 
 children. Address: U. S. Military Acad- 
 emy, West Point, N. Y. 
 
 SCOTT, John, Jr.: 
 
 Lawyer: born in Huntington, Pa., June 
 28, 1857; son of John and Annie E. (Ey- 
 ster ) Scott. He was graduated from Prince- 
 ton University with the degree of A.B. in 
 1877 and A.M. in 1880. and was graduated 
 from the University of Pennsylvania as B.L. 
 in 1880. He was assistant city solicitor of 
 Philadelphia, 1881-1884, and he has been in 
 general practice ever since. He is director 
 of the Centennial National Bank, and of 
 sundry coal companies; also is trustee of the 
 
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 Polytechnic Hospital, and has been its pres- 
 ident since 1902. In politics he is a Republi- 
 can and he is a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church. Mr. Scott is member of the Union 
 League and Lawyers' Clubs of Philadelphia. 
 Mr. Scott married at Chestnut Hill, Phila- 
 delphia, Jul}' 17, 1884, Mary Lane Landis, 
 and' they have one son. Residence: The 
 Gladstone, Eleventh and Pine Streets. Of- 
 fice: 1(U2 Stephen Girard Building, Phil- 
 adelphia. 
 
 SCOTT, Nathan Bay: 
 
 United States senator; born Dec. 18, 1842, 
 in Guernsey County, Ohio ; received a com- 
 mon school education ; enlisted in the Army 
 in 18G2 and was mustered out in 1865. Af- 
 ter the war he engaged in the manufacture 
 of glass at Wheeling, West Virginia, where 
 he has resided ever since; is president of 
 the Central GHass W^orks and president of 
 the Dollar Savings Bank of that city. He 
 was elected to the city council in 1880, and 
 served two years as president of the sec- 
 ond branch ; was elected in 1882 to serve 
 four years in the State Senate, and reelected 
 in 1886 ; was selected as a member of the 
 Republican National Committee in 1888, and 
 has served continuously since, and has been 
 a member of the Executive Committee a 
 greater portion of the time. He was ap- 
 pointed Commissioner of Internal Revenue 
 by President McKinley, and entered that 
 office Jan. 1, 1898; was elected to the U. S. 
 Senate on Jan. 25, 1899, and reelected in 
 1905. His term of service will expire March 
 3,1911. Address: Wheeling, W. Va. 
 
 SCOVILLE, Wilbur Lincoln: 
 
 Chemist ; born in Bridgeport, Conn., Jan. 
 22, 1865; son of Lemuel and Augusta C. 
 (Fuller) Scoville. He was graduated 
 from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, 
 Ph.G. He was professor of pharmacy in 
 the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, 
 Boston, 1892-1904, analytical chemist, 1904- 
 1907, and research chemist with Parke 
 Davis and Company, Detroit, Mich., since 
 1907. He is a member of the Committee 
 of Revision of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia, 
 member of the Committee of Revision of 
 the National Formulary, third and fourth 
 
 revisions. He married in Wollaston, Mass., 
 Sept. 1, 1891, Cora B. Upham, and they 
 have two daughters. Residence: 73 
 Brainard Street. Office : Care Parke Davis 
 and Company, Detroit. 
 
 SCREWS, William Wallace: 
 
 Publisher of Montgomery Advertiser; born 
 in Barbour County, Ala., Feb. 25, 1839 ; son 
 of Benjamin and Mourning Jones (Drake) 
 Screws. He studied law at Montgomery, 
 Ala., and was admitted to the bar in 1859 
 at the age of twenty. He enlisted on the 
 Confederate side in the Civil War, and took 
 part in the capture of the Navy Yard at 
 Fort Barancas, Fla. He was with Bragg's 
 army at Chickamauga and Knoxville, and 
 during the last twelve months of war was 
 with Lee in Virginia. During the war he 
 wrote letters to the Montgomery Advertiser, 
 and since 1865 he has been connected with 
 the editorial department, and is now presi- 
 dent and editor-in-chief of the paper. He 
 was secretary of State of Alabama, 1878- 
 1882; postmaster of Montgomery, 1893-1897. 
 He is a prominent member of the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church, and was a delegate to the 
 General Convention in Boston in 1904 and 
 Richmond in 1907. He was formerly trustee 
 of the Alabama School for Deaf and Blind. 
 He married in Montgomery, Ala., April 25, 
 1867, Emily Frances Holt, and has three 
 sons. Residence: 115 Gi'ave Street. Office: 
 ^lontgomery Advertiser, Montgomery, Ala. 
 
 SCRIBNER, Arthur Hawley: 
 
 Publisher; born in New York City, March 
 15, 1859; son of the famous publisher, 
 Charles Scribner and of Emma L. (Blair) 
 Scribner. Mr. Scribner was graduated from 
 Princeton University, A.B., 1881; then en- 
 tered the publishing business of his father, 
 founded in 1846, and is how treasurer and 
 vice-president of Charles Scribner's Sons. 
 He is a director of the New York City Mis- 
 sion and Tract Society, and a member of the 
 Century, University, Grolier, Riding, Rac- 
 quet and Tennis, Ardsley, and Princeton 
 clubs. Mr. Scribner married in New York 
 City, January, 1900, Helen C. Annon. Resi- 
 dence: 39 East 67th Street. Office: 157 
 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
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 SCRIBNER, Charles: 
 
 Publisher; born in New York City, Oct. 
 18, 1854; son of Charles Scribner (founder 
 of the Scribner publishing house) and of 
 Emma E. (Blair) Scribner. He was gradu- 
 ated from Princeton in 1875. He has been 
 connected with the publishing house since 
 his graduation in 1875. He is a director 
 of the National Park Bank, the Bank of the 
 Metropolis and the Plaza Bank. Mr. Scrib- 
 ner is a member of the National Academy 
 of Design, of the Century Association and 
 of the University, Union, Morristown, Rid- 
 ing, Racquet and Tennis, ^lorris County 
 Golf, and Princeton Clubs. He married 
 Louise, daughter of Rev. Jared B. Flagg, 
 D.D. Residence: 12 East 38th Street. Ad- 
 dress: 155 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 SCRIPTURE, Edward Wheeler: 
 
 Physician and psychologist; born in Ma- 
 son N. H., May 21, 1864; son of Orin M. 
 and Mary (Wheeler) Scripture. He was 
 graduated' from the College of City of New 
 York, A.B., 1884, A.M., 1890, and has stud- 
 ied at the universities of Leipzig (Ph.D. 
 1891), Berlin, Zurich and Munich, M.D., 
 1906. In 1892 he became director of the 
 psychological laboratory of Yale University, 
 serving until 1902, later becoming investi- 
 gator on the voice for the Carnegie Insti- 
 tution at Washington, and lecturer in experi- 
 mental phonetics at the University of Mar- 
 l)urg, Germany. He is now director of the 
 psychiatrical laboratory of Columbia Uni- 
 versity; and is practising as physician 
 specialist in neurology and speech defects 
 in New York Citv- Amorii; his important 
 contributions to psychology and medicine are 
 his discovery of the law of " mediate asso- 
 ciation of ideas," of a method of measuring 
 hallucinations and imaginations, of the ex- 
 istence of a special epileptic voice, of the 
 melody cure for stuttering, and' of a method 
 of producing aniesthesia by electricity. He 
 is the inventor of a color-sight tester for 
 detecting color-blind and color-weak em- 
 ployees in railroad and marine service, 
 etc., and is especially known for work on 
 the voice. He has been awarded numerous 
 medals for scientific research ; notably 
 1901. William II, the German Emperor. 
 
 by the Franklin Institute, 1894; the gold 
 medal from the Paris Exposition in 1900 
 and medal from the Buffalo Exposition in 
 permitted Prof. Scri])ture to make records 
 of his voice, which are preserved in the form 
 of metal molds in the National Aluseum and 
 the Congressional Library at Washington 
 and at Harvard University. Tliese are the 
 only records of his voice that exist. Dr. 
 Scripture is a member of the Circolo Na- 
 zionale Italiano. He is the author of Think- 
 ing, Feeling, Doing, 1895; The New Psychol- 
 ogy, 1897; Elements of Experimental Pho- 
 netics, 1901 ; and Researches in Experi- 
 mental Phonetics, 1906. He married in 
 Leipzig, in 1890, May Kirk, the author, and 
 has three choildren. Address: 87 ]\Iadison 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
 SCRIPTURE, William Ellis: 
 
 Jurist; born in Westmoreland, N. Y., 
 Nov. 2, 1843 ; son of Parker A. and Har- 
 riet Standish (Snow) Scripture. He was 
 educated in Hamilton College and Albany 
 Law School. He was admitted to the New 
 York bar, 1807, and engaged in the general 
 l)ractice of law in Oneida County, N. Y'., 
 until 1895, when he was nominated on the 
 Republican ticket and elected justice of 
 the Supreme Court of the State of New 
 York for the Fifth Judicial District for 
 the term expiring Dec. 31, 1909. Mr. 
 Scripture married, in 1867, Emma C. 
 (loodwin. Address: Rome, N. Y. 
 
 SCRUGGS, William Lindsay: 
 
 Lawyer, journalist, diplomat; born near 
 Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 14, 1834; son of 
 Frederick and Margaret (Kimbrough) 
 Scruggs. He was educated in private 
 school and Strawberry Plains College, and 
 received the honorary degree of LL.D. from 
 Furman University, Greenville, S. C. He 
 was a college professor, journalist, and 
 lawyer, was consul-general to Cliina, envoy 
 extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary 
 of the United States to Colombia and 
 to 'Yenezuela ; was legal adviser of 'Ven- 
 ezuela at Washington, D. C., and assessor 
 of internal revenue in 1872. He was the 
 arbitrator for Great Britain in the Cotes- 
 worth-Powell Case, against Colond)ia, coun- 
 
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 seller for Venezuela in the boundary case 
 with Great Britain, and is author of sev- 
 eral works. Mr. Scruggs is a member of 
 the National Geographic Society, Wash- 
 ington, D. C, member of the International 
 Peace Society; vice-president and director 
 of the International Cotton Exposition in 
 1895. He married in Chattanooga, Aug., 
 1858, Judith A. Potts (now deceased), and 
 has five children. Address: 445 Peachtree 
 Street, Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 SCRYMSER, James A.: 
 
 Telegraph company official; born in New 
 York, July 18, 1839; grandson of James 
 Scrymgeour, of Dundee, Scotland, and eldest 
 son of James Scrymser and Ann (Thomp- 
 son) Scrymser. He graduated from College 
 Hill Academy, Poughkeepsie, in 1856. He 
 projected and organized in 1865, the Interna- 
 tional Ocean Telegraph Company, operating 
 a cable line between the United States and 
 Cuba, West Indies and South America; also 
 the Mexican Telegraph Company, 1879, and 
 the Central and South American Telegraph 
 Company, in 1880. These three companies 
 established 12,000 miles of cable and 2,500 
 miles land line connecting the United States 
 with Mexico, Central and South America; 
 and he is now president of the Mexican Tele- 
 graph Company. He is a veteran of the 
 Civil War; enlisted in the Twelfth New 
 York Militia, April 19, 1861 ; later appoint- 
 ed lieutenant of the Forty-third New York 
 Volunteers; was detailed as aide-de-camp to 
 Major-General Baldy Smith's Division, 
 Army of the Potomac ; captain and aide- 
 de-camp of the Sixth Army Corps; also the 
 Left Grand Division. Army of the Potomac, 
 Army of the James, of the Eighteenth x\rmy 
 Corps. He was a vice-president of the New 
 Y^ork Association for Improving the Condi- 
 tion of the Poor; ])romoted and established 
 the first vacation schools in the City of New 
 Y'ork, the system of vacation schools later 
 extending throughout the United States. 
 Canada, Australia, England, Wales and 
 Scotland ; promoted the Constitutional 
 Amendment of the State of New York, 
 prohibiting the use of public funds for sec- 
 tarian education; promoted and obtained 
 from the New Y^ork Legislature the School 
 
 Census Bill; promoted and organized the 
 first public meeting respecting the enlarge- 
 ment of school accommodations in the 
 City of New York, since which time over 
 $50,000,000 has been expended by Greater 
 New York for this purpose. He promoted 
 and provided for the first public meeting 
 calling upon the public to sustain Dr. Park- 
 hurst in his reform movement ; obtained 
 subscriptions amounting to $30,000 for the 
 Dr. Parkhurst Fund in behalf of the City 
 Vigilance League; original promoter and 
 contributor to the United Charities Build- 
 ing, which was subsequently completed 
 through the liberality of John S. Kennedy, 
 and established at a cost of about one mil- 
 lion dollars. He is a member of the Military 
 Order of the Loyal Legion; director of 
 the New York Botanical Garden; fellow 
 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and 
 of the Century Association and Metropoli- 
 tan. Riding, Army and Navy and Jekyl Is- 
 land Clubs of which he is vice-president. 
 He married in New York City, 1869, Mary 
 C. Prime. Residence: 107 East 21st Street. 
 Address : 66 Broadway, New Y^ork City. 
 
 SCUDDER, Doremus: 
 
 Clergyman; born in New York, Dec. 15, 
 1858. He was graduated from Yale Col- 
 lege, as A.B., in 1880, studied at College 
 of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 
 I88I and 1882; graduated from Northwest- 
 ern University Medical College, Chicago, 
 M.D., in 1884; studied in Union Seminary, 
 New York, 1880-1882; D.D., Whitman Col- 
 lege, 1898. He was medical missionary of 
 the American Board of Commissioners for 
 Foreign Missions, Niigata, Japan, from 
 1884 to 1889; ordained to the ministry in 
 1885. He was pastor of Doremus Church, 
 Chicago, 1890-1892, and of East Congrega- 
 tional Church, Brooklyn, N, Y., from 1892 
 to 1895; pastor of the First Church, Wo- 
 burn, Mass., from 1895 to I90I; superin- 
 tendent of Japanese Department of the 
 Hawaiian Board of Missions, Honolulu, from 
 1902 to 1904; corresponding secretary and 
 general su])erintendent from 1904 to 1907; 
 pastor of the Central Union Church, Hon- 
 olulu, since 1907. He is editor-in-chief of 
 The Friend, Honolulu; is a life member of 
 
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 the American Economic Association, and 
 Royal Economic Association ; trustee of the 
 Mid Pacific Institute, Honolulu; second 
 vice-president and' member of the Execu- 
 tive Committee of Civic Federation of Hon- 
 olulu. He married in Niigata, Japan, June 
 21, 1888, Eliza Canfield Kendall. Address: 
 910 Prospect Street, Honolulu., T. H. 
 
 SCUDDEIl, Henry Townsnd: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Xew York City, Sept. 
 7, 1854; son of Henry J. Scudder and Louisa 
 Henrietta (Davics) Scudder. He received' his 
 preparatoiy education in Columbia Gram- 
 mar School ; was graduated from Columbia 
 College with the degrees of B.A. in 1874, 
 and M.A. in 1877; studied in the Berkeley 
 Divinity School, Middletown, Conn., and re- 
 ceived from Trinity College, Hartford, the 
 degree of M.A. He was assistant of Grace 
 Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., and for almost 
 eighteen years rector of St. Stephen's 
 Church, Brooklyn. He is rector of Christ 
 Church, Tarrytown, N. Y. Mr. Scudder is 
 a member of the Long Island Historical So- 
 ciety, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 
 Sciences, the Order of Foreign \^'ars. Co- 
 lonial Wars, Sons of Revolution, Phi Kappa 
 Psi fraternity. New York Alumni Associa- 
 tion, Phi Kappa Psi, and Columbia College 
 Alumni Association. His favorite recrea- 
 tions are sailing and boating. Mr. Scudder 
 is author of: Fairy Tales for Children; 
 Alcuin, in Church Eclectic; Clerical Sup- 
 port ; Clerical Pensions ; and other Essays ; 
 and short stories. Mr. Scudder is a member 
 of the University, Grolier, Columbia Uni- 
 versity, and St. Nicholas Clubs, and the 
 Bibliophile Society. He married in Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., June 5, 1889, Margaret Mott 
 Weeks, and they have three children: Edna 
 Hewlett, Henry Holloway and Dorothy 
 Weeks. Address : Christ Church, Tarry- 
 iowii. X. Y. 
 
 SCUDDER, Townsend: 
 
 Jurist; born in Northport, Suffolk Coun- 
 ty, N. Y., July 26, 1855; son of Townsend 
 and Sarah Marie (Frost) Scudder. He 
 was educated in Switzerland, Germany, 
 France, Italy, and the United States; 
 Flushing (N. Y.) Institute, Columbia 
 College Law School, LL.B., 1888. He was 
 
 a member of Congress from the First New 
 York District, two terms, serving in the 
 56th and 58th Congresses; elected, Nov., 
 1906, justice of the Supreme Court of the 
 State of New York, 2d District, for the 
 term expiring Dec. 31, 1920. He is a 
 grand master of Masons, State of New 
 York; director of the Nassau County Bank, 
 and member of the Association Bar of the 
 City of New York, New York Law Insti- 
 tute, Society of Colonial Wars: director of 
 Nassau Hospital; member of the Standing 
 Committee and trustee of the Fund for 
 Aged and Infirm Clergy of the Diocese of 
 Long Island, also a member of the Hamil- 
 ton Club of Brooklyn, the Seawanhaka 
 Yacht, Lotos, Nassau Country, and Demo- 
 cratic Clubs. He married in Brooklyn, N. 
 Y., June 3, 1891, Mary Dannat, daughter 
 of George A. Thayer, and they have three 
 children. Address: Glen Head, Nassau 
 County, L. I. 
 
 SEABROOK, Harry Hartshorne: 
 
 Physician, opthalmologist and now also 
 engaged in business; born at Keyport, 
 N. J., Oct. 23, 1859: son of Henry 
 Hendrickson and Theresa (Walling) Sea- 
 brook. He was educated in district and pri- 
 vate schools and at Peddie Institute, Hights- 
 town, N. J., and graduated from the College 
 of Physicians and Surgeons as M.D. in 1881. 
 He was lieutenant in the Third Regiment, 
 National Guard of New Jersey, from 1878 to 
 1881. Dr. Seabrook was interne in the Belle- 
 vue Hospital from 1881 to 1883, and after- 
 wards spent six months in Europe. He 
 was instructor in optlmlmology in the Uni- 
 versity of the City of New York, and had 
 eye and ear clinics in the Presbyterian, 
 Bellevue and other dispensaries from 1884 
 to 1890; attending opthalmological surgeon 
 of St. Luke's Hospital from 1894 to 1897 
 and an opthalmological surgeon of the New 
 York Eye and Ear Infirmary from 1891 to 
 1907. Among otlier writings he published 
 a book on Heteraphorias and Insufficiencies 
 in 1901, in 1903 a paper on the protection 
 of strained and diseased ej^es from injury 
 from chemical light by means of amber yel- 
 low glasses, and in 1908 another on effect 
 of light ujDon the eye for the Illuminating 
 
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 Engineering Society. Dr. Seabrooki was 
 formerly a vice-president New York County 
 Branch State Medical Association; is a 
 member of the New York Academy of Medi- 
 cine, New York County Medical Society, 
 New York State Medical Society, American 
 Medical Association, Alumni of Bellevue 
 Hospital, the Society of Medical Jurispru- 
 dence; and the Lenox Medical and Surgical 
 Society of which he was formerly president 
 and director, and is president of the Nason 
 Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of 
 and dealers in engineering specialties. He 
 is a director of the Water Wi*ch Club, mem- 
 ber of the Sons of the Revolution, the Ma- 
 chinery Club, the American Physical Edu- 
 cation Society, Illuminating Engineering So- 
 ciety, National Geographic Society, president 
 of Plaza-Central Park Republican Club and 
 Twenty-ninth Assembly District Republican 
 Clubs. He married at Montclair, N. J., 
 Nov. 2, 1881, May Nason, and they have 
 two children. Residence: 118 East 72d 
 Street. Summer residence: Water Witch 
 Park, Highlands, N. J. Address: 71 Ful- 
 ton Street, New York City. 
 
 SEABROOKE, Thomas Quigley: 
 
 Actor; born in iMovuit Vernon, N. Y., Oct. 
 20, I860; he was educated in the public 
 schools there. He made his first appearance 
 on the stage in 1880 and his first New York 
 appearance in 1882. He made his first 
 great success in the Isle of Champagne in 
 May, 1892, which ran for nearly three years. 
 In the season of 1906 he played in vaude- 
 ville with Pauline Hall. He married, in 
 1883, Elvia Crox, an actress. Ad'dress: 
 102 West 85th Street, New York City. 
 
 SEABURY, Samuel: 
 
 Jurist ; was engaged in the practice of 
 law in New York City until nominated on 
 the Independence League ticket, in 1906, 
 and elected a justice of the Supreme Court 
 of New Y'ork for the First District for the 
 term expiring Dec. 31, 1920. Address: 
 County Court House, New York City. 
 
 SEAMAN, Alfred P. W.: 
 
 Justice of the Municipal Court of New 
 York City; born in Winsted, Conn.j Sept, 
 92 
 
 7, 1850; son of Rev. Samuel A. Seaman. 
 He was graduated from Columbia in 1879, 
 Mr. Seaman was admitted to the bar in 
 1880, and from then was actively engaged 
 in practice in the City of New York. He 
 was elected Municipal Court Justice in 
 1903, upon an independent Reform nomina- 
 tion. He is one of the founders of the 
 Tenement House Building Company, one of 
 the first to build model tenements in New 
 York City. He has been an active official 
 of the Citizens' Union from its organization 
 and of the Committee of One Hundred on 
 Transit Reform. He is a member of the 
 Sons of tlie Revolution and of the Columbia 
 College Alumni Association. Psi Upsilon fra- 
 ternity and of the Universitv. City, Psi Up- 
 silon and Fencers' Clubs of New York. 
 Summer residence: New Canaan, Conn. 
 Address: 147 West 87th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 SEAMAN, Henry Bowman: 
 
 Civil engineer; born in New York, Jan. 
 20, 1801 ; son of Valentine H. and Rebecca 
 C. Seaman. He was graduated from Swarth- 
 more College, C.E., 1881. He was assistant 
 engineer of Kings County Elevated Railway 
 Brooklyn, bridge engineer Erie Railway Sys- 
 tem, resident engineer of construction of 
 the New York, New Haven and Hartford 
 Railroad, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; chief of en- 
 gineers of Audit Company of New York; 
 engineer of the Abolition of Grade Crossings, 
 Syracuse, N. Y., 1898; consulting engineer 
 of the Department of Bridges, New York, 
 and chief engineer of Public Service Commis- 
 sion, New York. He is a member of the New 
 York Bar Association, American Society of 
 Civil, Mechanical and Mining Engineers, the 
 University and Engineers Clubs of New 
 York, and the Engineers and riding and 
 Driving Clubs of Brooklyn. He married in 
 East Orange, N. J., 1904, Grace Dutton, and 
 they have two children. Residence: 140 
 Clinton Street, Brooklyn. Office: 154 Nas- 
 sau Street, New York City. 
 
 SEAMAN, William Henry: 
 
 LT. S. circuit judge; born at New Berlin, 
 Wis., Nov. 15, 1842. He was educated in the 
 public schools of Sheboygan, Wis., and after- 
 
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 ward worked at the printer's trade until 
 1801, when he enlisted as a private in the 
 First Wisconsin Infantry, U. S. Volunteers, 
 serving until 1864, when upon the expiration 
 of liis term of service he took up the study 
 of law at Sheboygan, and was admitted to 
 the bar there, and was engaged in the prac- 
 tice of law until he was appointed United 
 States judge for the Eastern District of Wis- 
 consin in 1893. He served in that office 
 until he was appointed by President Roose- 
 velt, May I, 1905, judge of the Circuit Court 
 for the Seventh Circuit. He was i^resident 
 of the Wisconsin State Bar Association 1893- 
 1898. Residence: Sheboygan, Wis. Office: 
 Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 SEARS, Clinton Brooks: 
 
 Brigadier-General, U. S. A., retired; born 
 at Pcnn Yan N. Y., June 2, 1844; son of 
 Rev. Clinton W. and Angeline (Brooks) 
 Sears. He enlisted as a private in Com- 
 pany G. of the Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer 
 Infantry, July 24, 1802; served as a corpo- 
 ral during the campaign in Kentucky and 
 Tennessee, in battles in Richmond, Ky., 
 Perryville, Ky., and Stone River, Tenn., and 
 acting color sergeant in the Vicksburg cam- 
 paign ; was in both assaults on Vicksburg 
 and the two attacks on Jafckson, Miss. He 
 was appointed by President Lincoln, upon 
 the nomination of Generals Sherman and 
 Grant, as a cadet at the United States Mil- 
 itary Academy, Sept. 15, 1863, and was 
 graduated in 1867 ; and he received the hon- 
 orary degrees of A.B., and A.M. from the 
 Ohio Wesleyan University. On graduation 
 he was commissioned second and first lieu- 
 tenant, and assigned to the Engineer Corps 
 of the United States Army, in which he has 
 since served continuously, being commis- 
 sioned captain, April 9, 1880; major, Sept. 
 20, 1892; lieutenant-colonel, April 21, 1903, 
 and colonel, Jan. II, 1907, retired with 
 rank of brigadier-general, June 2, 1908. 
 He has served as engineer officer on the At- 
 lantic and Pacific Coasts, the Northern 
 Lakes, the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, 
 in the Yellowstone National Park, on South- 
 ern rivers and in the Philippine Islands, 
 lia\ing had charge of various important 
 works of river and harbor improvement and 
 
 of fortifications. Has been a member of many 
 Boards of Engineering on river and harbor 
 improvements, and for several years was 
 member and president of the Mississippi 
 River Commission. He is a member of the 
 Society of Mayflower Descendants, Society of 
 Colonial Wars, Society of Foreign Wars, the 
 Sons of the Revolution, and Military Or- 
 der of the Loyal Legion; and a fellow of the 
 National Academy of Desisrn of New Y'ork 
 City. General Sears is author of: Ransom 
 Genealogy; Tidal Harbor Improvements, 
 and other publications. He is a member of 
 the St. Nicholas, University and Army and 
 Navy Clubs of New York City. Address: 
 Bradford Court, Newton Centre, Mass. 
 
 SEARS, George Gray: 
 
 Physician; born in Boston, Oct. 22, 1859; 
 son of George 0. and Sarah G. (Richards) 
 Sears. He was graduated from Amherst 
 College, A.B., 1880, and from Harvard, M.D., 
 1885. He was physician to the Out-Patients 
 Carney Hospital, 1889-1892, Boston City 
 Hospital, 1892-1896, assistant visiting physi- 
 cian to the Boston City Hospital, 1896- 1903, 
 and visiting physician since 1903; assist- 
 ant in clinical medicine at the Harvard Med- 
 ical School, 1893-1897, instructor 1897- 
 1901, and assistant professor since 1901. He 
 is a member of the American Medical As- 
 sociation, Massachusetts Medical Society. 
 Association of American Physicians, Boston 
 Society for Medical Improvement, the St. 
 Botolph and Brookline Country Clubs. He 
 is author of numerous papers dealing with 
 the clinical manifestations of disease. He 
 married in Boston, Feb. 1904, Ruth Wil- 
 liams, and has two children. Address: 420 
 Beacon Street, Boston. 
 
 SEAVERNS, Joel Herbert: 
 
 ^Merchant; born in Boston, 1860; son of 
 Joel Seaverns, M.D., and J. M. (Swain) 
 Seaverns. He was graduated from Har- 
 vard, A.B., 1881 magna cum laude. He 
 has been European partner in Henry W. 
 Peabody and Company of New York, 
 and elsewhere since 1887. Mr. Seav- 
 erns has been a member of Parliament for 
 the Brixton Division of Lambeth, London, 
 since 1900, and is the first American born 
 
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 graduate of Harvard University to hold a 
 seat in the House of Commons. He is a 
 member of the National Liberal, and City 
 Liberal Clubs of London. He married in 
 Portland, Me., 1892, Helen G. Brown, and 
 they have one son. Residence: 25 Grosve- 
 nor Road, Westminster. Office: 16 East- 
 cheap, London, England. 
 
 SEAWELL, Molly Elliot: 
 
 Novelist ; born in Gloucester County, 
 Va.; daughter of John Tyler and Frances 
 (Jackson) Seawell. She was educated pri- 
 vately at home. She became a writer of 
 stories in 1890, when her first book, entitled 
 Throckmorton, was published; took a prize 
 oiTered by the Youth's Companion for the 
 best story in 1890, the story being: Little 
 Jarvis, and took the New York Herald 
 prize of $3,000 for the best novelette in 
 1895, entitled The Sprightly Romance of 
 Marsac. She is author of: Midshipman 
 Spaulding, 1891; Paul Jones, 1892; Maid 
 Marian, Decatur and Somers, 1894; A 
 Strange Sad Comedy, 1895; A Virginia 
 Cavalier, 1890; The Rock of the Lion, 1897; 
 Gavin Hamilton, 1899; The House of Egre- 
 mont, 1901; Papa Bouchard. 1901; Fran- 
 cezka, 1902; Children of Destiny, 1903; 
 Fifi. 1903; The Chateau of Monplaisir, 
 1905; The Victory, 1900; The Secret of 
 Toni, 1907, and author of the plays: Maid 
 Marian. 1894; Sprightly Romance of Mar- 
 sac, 1900. Miss Seawell is a member of 
 the Chevy Chase Club of Washington. She 
 has a home in Washington, near Dupont 
 Circle, and spends her summers in Europe. 
 Address: 1767 P Street. Washington, D. C. 
 
 SEE, Horace: 
 
 Engineer and naval architect; born in 
 Philadelphia, in 1835; son of Richard Cal- 
 houn and ^largaretta (Hilyard) See. He 
 received a classical and mathematical edu- 
 cation in private schools. Mr. See began 
 his professional career with I. P. Morris 
 and Company, Philadelphia, passing through 
 their shops and office; later M'ith Neafie 
 and Levy, Philadelphia, the National Iron 
 Armor and Sliii)building Company, Cam- 
 den, N. J., George W. Snyder, Pottsville, 
 Pa., and W'illiam Cramp and Sons, Phil- 
 
 adelphia, becoming superintending engineer 
 for the latter firm in 1879, and introducing 
 methods by which the standard of work in 
 that establishment was raised to an envi- 
 able success, designing vessels and ma- 
 chineiy of greatly improved construction 
 and performance. He came to New York 
 City in 1889, and became consulting engi- 
 neer of the Newport News Shipbuilding 
 and Dry Dock Company; superintending 
 engineer of tlie vSouthern Pacific Company; 
 superintendent of the Cromwell Steamship 
 Company; superintending engineer of the 
 Pacific Mail Steamship Company; also con- 
 sulting engineer for various other parties. 
 He has designed many vessels and intro- 
 duced many improvements in hull and 
 machinery which have come into interna- 
 tional use. Mr. See is a member of the 
 British Institute of Naval Architects, 
 American Society of Naval Architects and 
 Marine Engineers, North-East Coast Insti- 
 tute of Engineers and Shijjbuilders (Eng- 
 land) ; associate member of the American 
 Society of Naval Engineers. LTnited States 
 Naval Institute; past president of the 
 American Society of ^lechanical Engineers ; 
 fellow of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science ; the American Ge- 
 ographical Society, Chamber of Commerce 
 of New York, Maritime Exchange, Colonial 
 Society of Pennsylvania, Sons of the Revo- 
 lution. He was a private in the Gray 
 Reserves in the early part of the Civil 
 War ; and corporal of the Seventh Reg- 
 iment. Pennsylvania Militia in Maryland, 
 1862; adjutant of the Twentieth Pennsyl- 
 vania Regiment during the July riots of 
 1877. and later captain of the First Penn- 
 sylvania Regiment ; and he is a member 
 of the Century Association and the New 
 York Yacht Club. ]Mr. See married, Feb. 
 20, 1879, Ruth Ross, daughter of William 
 Ross Maft'ett of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Res- 
 idence: Glen Summit Springs, Pa. Of- 
 fice: 1 Broadway. New York City. 
 
 SEE. Thomas Jefferson Jackson: 
 
 Astronomer, mathematician and physicist ; 
 born near Montgomery City, ]\Io., Feb. 19, 
 1866; son of Noah and Mary A. (Sailor) 
 See; lineal descendant of Adam See, Vir- 
 
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 ginia planter, who came from Silesia with 
 the Schwenkf elders in 1734. Mr. See was 
 graduated' from the University of Missouri, 
 A.B., L.B., and S.B., 1889; A.M., L.M., and 
 S.M., 1892 ; and from the University of 
 Berlin, A.M.. Ph.D., 1892. He was in 
 charge of the observatory of the Univer- 
 sity of Missouri, 1887-1889; volunteer ob- 
 server at the Royal Observatory, Berlin, 
 in 1891; traveled in Italy, Egypt, Greece, 
 Germany and England, 1890-1892; organ- 
 ized and had charge of the Department of 
 Astronomy, and aided in the organization 
 of the Yerkes Observatory of the Univer- 
 sity of Chicago, 1893-1896. He was astron- 
 omer of Lowell Observatory, in charge of 
 a survey of the Southern heavens, 1896- 
 1898; with a 24-inch Clark refractor at 
 Flagstaff, Ariz., and' the City of Mexico, 
 he examined about two hundred thousand 
 fixed stars, in the zone between 1.5 and 65 
 degrees south declination, which led to the 
 discovery and measurement of about six 
 hundred new double stars and the remeas- 
 urement of about fourteen hundred double 
 stars, previously recognized by Sir John 
 Herschel and other southern observers. 
 Dr. See was lecturer on sidereal astronomy 
 in Lowell Institute, Boston, in 1899 ; since 
 then professor of mathematics, U. S. Navy; 
 in chaige of the 26-inch equatorial tele- 
 scope of the U. S. Naval Observatory, 1899- 
 1902 ; pi'ofessor of matliematics at the U. 
 S. Naval Academy, 1902-1903; in charge 
 of the Naval Observatory, at Mare Island, 
 Calif., since 1903. During 1901-1902, he 
 investigated the diameters of planets and 
 satellites by daylight, deducing their con- 
 stants of irradiation and absolute densities. 
 He has published researches on Laplace's 
 Invariable Plane, and on the internal den- 
 sities, pressures, temperatures and moments 
 of inertia of principal bodies of the j^lan- 
 etary system, 1903-190.5. In 1905 he de- 
 veloped the monatomic theory of the 
 j)liysical constitution, and in 1900 the grav- 
 itational metliod for determining the rigid- 
 ity of the heavenly bodies, generalizing 
 researches of Lord Kelvin and Sir G. H. 
 Darwin; confirming their conclusions that 
 the rigidity of the earth exceeds that of 
 steel and showing that the average rigidity 
 
 of the sun is over two thousand times that 
 of nickel steel used in armor plate; and 
 lias also published many other original and 
 important astronomical discoveries. Pro- 
 fessor See has computed about forty-five 
 orbits of double stars and published about 
 two hundred scientific papers in technical 
 journals and the proceedings of learned so- 
 cieties, including also several important 
 works in German and English on the evo- 
 lution of stellar systems, extending to the 
 double stars the researches of Darwin and 
 Poincare, on the figures of equilibrium, and 
 the theory of tidal evolution first developed 
 by Darwin in his work on the origin of the 
 moon ; on the cause of earthquakes, vol- 
 canoes, mountain formations, seismic sea- 
 waves, and the like, which he holds to be 
 caused by imprisoned steam resulting from 
 the leakage of the ocean bottoms into the 
 heated layers just beneath the earth's crust. 
 In 1907-1908 he showed that not only the 
 mountains, but also the plateaus and the 
 continents themselves have been viplifted 
 by the expulsion of lava from beneath the 
 sea and its injection under the land. Here- 
 tofore, geologists have erroneously attrib- 
 uted these phenomena to the secular cooling 
 of the globe. In 1908-1909 Professor See 
 greatly extended the Theory of Universal 
 Cosmical Evolution, on which he has been 
 occupied for a quarter of a century, and 
 discovered and definitely proved with all 
 mathematical vigor (July 14, 1908) that 
 our solar system originated from the auto- 
 matic coiling up of a spiral nebula of such 
 extreme tenuity that it was essentially free 
 from hydrostatic pressure between its 
 parts; that the planets and satellites were 
 not detached from the sun and planets 
 which now govern their motions, as sup- 
 posed by Laplace in the nebular hypotliesis, 
 and since accepted by astronomers for more 
 than a century ; but, on the contrary, that 
 the planets and satellites are all captured 
 bodies whose orbits have been reduced in 
 size and rounded up into almost perfect 
 circles under the secular action of the re- 
 sisting medium formerly pervading the 
 solar system. The ancient geometers, such 
 as Aristarchus, Apollonius and Archimedes, 
 had remarked on nature's apparent prefer- 
 
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 ence for the circle, and the same tendency 
 was noticed by Galileo, Kepler and New- 
 ton, but modern mathematicians remained 
 without an explanation of the roundness 
 of the planetary paths till Laplace, in 
 1796, imagined that these bodies had been 
 detached by gentle rotation and thus set 
 revolving in orbits of small eccentricity. 
 The remarkable discovery and proof that 
 the circularity of these orbits is dvie to 
 the action of a resisting medium, and not 
 to detachment from the central bodies 
 which now govern their motions, throws 
 an unexpected light on the development of 
 our .system, explains and harmonizes all 
 known phenomena, and indicates that the 
 solar system does not terminate at Neptune, 
 but that there are other unseen planets 
 beyond still to be discovered. This discov- 
 ery and others in the second volume of his 
 Eesearches on the Evolution of the Stellar 
 Systems (1909) has enabled' Dr. See to 
 reduce cosmogony to the basis of an exact 
 science, and to formulate definite laws of 
 cosmical evolution which will be of great 
 value in interpreting the phenomena of 
 the starry heavens. Dr. See is a fellow 
 of the Royal Astronomical Society, the 
 Deutsche Astronomische Gesellschaft, the 
 American Philosophical Society, Washing- 
 ton Academy of Sciences, Philosophical So- 
 ciety of Washington, Academy of Sciences 
 of St. Louis, the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science, British As- 
 sociation for the Advancement of Science, 
 British Astronomical Association, Societe 
 Astronomiqvie de France, Astronomical So- 
 ciety of the Pacific, honorary member of 
 the Sociedad Astronomico de Mexico, Amer- 
 ican Mathematical Society, London ]Math- 
 ematical Society, Deutseher Mathematiker 
 Vereinigung, Societe Mathematique de 
 France, Circulo Matematico d'i Palermo, 
 American Physical Society, Societe Fran- 
 gaise de Physique, Seismological Society 
 of America, Phi Beta Kappa Society, and 
 other academic and scientific societi&s. 
 On June 18, 1907, Mr. See married Frances, 
 daughter of Dr. James F. and Fannie (Jef- 
 ferson) Graves of Montgomery City, Mo. 
 Address : Naval Observatory, Mare Island, 
 Calif. 
 
 SEELYE, Laurenus Clark: 
 
 President of Smith College; born in 
 Bethel, Conn., Sept. 20, 1837. He was grad- 
 uated from Union College, A.B., 1857, and 
 received from it the degree of D.D. 1875, 
 and from Amherst College, LL.D., 1894. He 
 also studied in Andover Theological Semi- 
 nary, 1858, and in the Universities of Ber- 
 lin and Heidelberg, 18G1-1862. He was pas- 
 tor of the North Church at Springfield, 
 Mass., 1863-1865; jirofessor of rhetoric and 
 English literature in Amherst College, 1865- 
 1873; and' has been president of Smith Col- 
 lege since 1873, when he was elected the first 
 president of that institution. He mai'ried 
 in Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 17, 1863, Henrietta 
 Sheldon Chapin, and had four sons and 
 three daughters. Residence: Elm Street. 
 Office : Smith College, Northampton, Mass. 
 
 SEITZ, Don Carlos: 
 
 Business manager of the New York 
 World; born in Portage, Ohio, Oct. 24. 1862; 
 son of Rev. J. A. and Rebecca J. (Brown) 
 Seitz. He was educated in the Liberal In- 
 stitute, Norway, Me., and received the hon- 
 orary degree of A.M. from St. Lawrence 
 University in 1906. In 1887 he became Al- 
 bany correspondent of the Brooklyn Daily 
 Eagle, serving for three years. During 
 this time he exposed the famous State Cap- 
 itol ceiling scandal. He was appointed city 
 editor of the Eagle in 1889, and went with 
 the New York Recorder in 1891 as city edi- 
 tor and assistant publisher. He was manag- 
 ing editor of the Brooklyn World, 1893- 
 1894, and has been business manager of the 
 New York World from 1898 to date. Mr. 
 Seitz is the author of Discoveries in Every 
 Day Europe. He married in East Deering, 
 Me'., April 15, 1890, Mildred E. Blake, and 
 has two daughters. Residence 310 Stuyve- 
 sant Avenue, Brooklyn. OflSce: 61-63 Park 
 Row, New York City. 
 
 SELIGMAN, Isaac Newton: 
 
 Banker; born in Staten Island, N. Y., 
 July 10, 18.55; son of Joseph Seligman, a 
 well-known New York banker and Babette 
 (Steinhart) Seligman. He was educated in 
 Columbia Grammar School and was grad- 
 
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 iiated from Columbia College as A.B. in 
 1876 (he was one of the famous univer- 
 sity crew that won the intercollegiate races 
 in 1874). On leaving college he became con- 
 nected ^^■ith the banking firm of J. & W. 
 Seligman & Company (founded by his fath- 
 er), at their New Orleans branch, from 1876 
 to 1878, and in 1878 was called to the New 
 York house; became a partner on the deatli 
 of his father, and since the death of his un- 
 cle, Jesse Seligman, in 1895, has been active 
 head of the house. This firm reorganized the 
 American Steel and Wire Company (now 
 part of the United States Steel Corpora- 
 tion), the Cramp Steamship Company and 
 other huge corporations. He was member 
 of the Republican National Finance Com- 
 mittee; trustee of Manhattan State Hospi- 
 tal for Insane (appointed by Governor Mor- 
 ton, and reappointed by Governor Roose- 
 velt) ; He is a director of the United States 
 Savings Bank, ]\lunich Fire Insiirance Com- 
 pany; trustee of Rossia Insurance Com- 
 pany ; director of W estern New York and 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Company (now part 
 of the Pennsylvania system) ; trustee of the 
 Mount ]\Iorris National Rank, Lincoln 
 Trust Company, and trustee of the United 
 Hebrew Charities. He is a director of Co- 
 lumbia University; and of the New York 
 Forest Preserve Association ; trustee and 
 treasurer of St. John's Guild; director of 
 General Grant Tomb Committee; trustee of 
 the McKinley Memorial Association ; was 
 treasurer and member of the Executive Com- 
 mittee of the Hudson- Fulton Celebration 
 Commission; treasurer and member of the 
 Executive Committee of the Carl Schurz 
 ]\Ien.orial Connnittee; vice president and 
 treasurer of the Andrew Green IMemorial 
 Committee; trustee of the United Hebrew 
 Charities. People's Institute, Cooperative 
 Committee on Playgrounds, Hebrew Chari- 
 ties l?uilding (founded by his father-in- 
 law); Legal Aid' Society, University of 
 Wichita, Kan.; trustee, treasurer and mem- 
 ber of the Finance Committee of the Na- 
 tional Child Labor Association; member of 
 the Chamber of Commerce ( and member of 
 its Committee on Ta.xation). He is a mem- 
 ber of the Lotos, University, New York Ath- 
 letic. City (trustee and treasurer), National 
 
 Arts, Columbia LTniversity, City, Midday, 
 Lawyers', St. Andrews, Lakcwood Country, 
 Garden City Golf, Seabright and Republican 
 Clubs. Mr. Seligman married, in Frankfort, 
 Germany, 1883, Guta, daughter of Solomon 
 Loeb of Kuhn, Loeb & Company of New 
 York City, and they have two children ; 
 Residence; ,36 West 54th Street. Address: 
 Mills Building. New York City. 
 
 SeMNCOURT, Anne di (Anne Douglas 
 Sedgwick) : 
 
 Novelist; born in Englewood, N. J., 
 March 28, 1873; daughter of George Stan- 
 ley and Mary (Douglas) Sedgwick. She 
 married in I^ndon. England. Dec. 11, 1908, 
 Basil di Selincourt. She left America at 
 the age of 9, lived in England and Paris, 
 where she was educated, and studied paint- 
 ing in Paris, exhibiting in the Salon. She 
 began writing in 1898, and is author of: 
 The Dull Miss Archinard, The Confound- 
 ing of Camilia. The Rescue, Paths of Judg- 
 ment, The Shadow of Life, Valerie Upton, 
 and x\mabel, and writer of short stories. 
 Address: Far End, Kingham, Chipping 
 Norton, Oxfordshire. England. 
 
 SELL, Edward Herman Miller: 
 
 Physician ; born in Ujiper Saucon Town- 
 ship, Lehigh County, Pa.. Aug. 16, 1832; 
 son of Sanuiel and Mary (Miller) Sell. He 
 was educated in Muhlenberg College and 
 Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg. A.B., 
 1850. A.M., 1859. He also "attended the 
 Gettysburg Theological Seminary, and was 
 five years in the ministry. He then studied 
 medicine in the Bellevue Hospital ^ledical 
 College and other medical schools in New 
 York, receiving the degree of M.D. in 1866 
 from the institution named. He also stud- 
 ied in the LTniversity of Vienna, receiving 
 the degree of master of obstetrics in 1872. 
 In 1871 he organized the first practical 
 gynecological operative course at the Uni- 
 versity of Vienna. He was one of the seven 
 organizers of the American Academy of ]Med- 
 icine in 1870, and has been a frequent con- 
 tributor to medical literature. He has been 
 an extensive traveler, has been around the 
 world and has traveled more than fifteen 
 
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 hundred miles in Africa and from five to 
 six thousand miles in East India alone. He 
 is a fellow of the American Academy of Med- 
 icine and the New York Academy of Med- 
 icine; and a life member of the Huguenot 
 Society of America. For several years he 
 was trustee of the Medico-Legal Society of 
 New York ; formerly a censor of the New 
 York County Medical Society; chairman of 
 the section on Theory and Practice of Med- 
 icine of the New York Academy of Medi- 
 cine ; is a member and first president of the 
 Gettysburg Club of New York, and has been 
 vice-president and treasurer of the American 
 Academy of Medicine. He married in Del- 
 phos, Ohio, Jan. 17, 1894, Anna J. Lloyd, 
 and has two sons. Residence: Craig Mawr 
 Villa. Office Woodcrest Avenue, White 
 Plains, N. Y. 
 
 SELLERS, Coleman, Jr.: 
 
 Mechanical engineer; born in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, Sept. 5, 1852; son of Coleman and Cor- 
 nelia (Wells) Sellers. He was graduated 
 from the University of Pennsylvania, B.S.. 
 1875. M.S., 1876. He started in the firm of 
 William Sellers and Company, in 1873, later 
 became chief draftsman, assistant manager, 
 engineer, and is now engineer and president. 
 He is a member of the Franklin Institute, 
 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 
 Society of Naval Architects, and INIarine En- 
 gineers, and the American Philosophical So- 
 ciety; and he is also a member of the Uni- 
 versity and City Clubs of Philadelphia. He 
 married in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 3, 1880, 
 Helen Graham Jackson, and they have four 
 children. Residence: 410 33d Street. Of- 
 fice: 1600 Hamilton Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 SELLEW, Walter Ashbel: 
 
 Bishop of the Free Methodist Church ; 
 born in Gowanda, N. Y., Feb. 27, 1844. He 
 was graduated from Dartmovith College with 
 Phi Beta Kappa honors. He entered the 
 ministry of the Free Methodist Church in 
 1874, and filled a number of important pas- 
 torates, most of them in Western New York. 
 From 1888 to 1898 he was presiding elder, 
 and he was elected bishop in 1898. In 1905- 
 1906 he made a tour of the world, visiting 
 extensively the mission work of the Free 
 
 Methodist Church in Africa, India, China 
 and Japan. He is president and treasurer 
 of the " Gerry Homes " at Gerry, N. Y., pres- 
 ident and treasurer of The A. M. Chesbrough 
 Seminary at North Chili, N. Y., president of 
 the General Missionary Board of the Free 
 Methodist Church ; and several other govern- 
 ing bodies in the same denomination. He 
 was married in Mechanicsville, N. Y., June 
 1, 1873, Jennie R. Peters, and has two 
 daughters. Residence : 68 Falconer Street, 
 Jamestown, N. Y. 
 
 SENTER, Charles Parsons: 
 
 Cotton merchant; born in Trenton, Tenn., 
 Feb. 14, 1870; son of William M. and Lucy 
 Jane (Wilkins) Senter. He was educated 
 in Smith Academy, St. Louis, and the LTni- 
 versity of Virginia, and after leaving the 
 university was engaged in banking and real 
 estate offices in St. Louis imtil 1893, when he 
 entered the house of Senter & Co., engaged 
 as cotton commission merchants. This busi- 
 ness, which his father established in 1804, 
 was incorporated in 1900 as the Senter Com- 
 mission Company, of which he is president, 
 and which is a leading factor in the cotton 
 trade of St. Louis. Mr. Senter is a member 
 and was president of the St. Louis Cotton 
 Exchange two terms, 1907-1908, a member of 
 the Merchants' Exchange of St. Louis, and 
 of other organizations of that city. He is a 
 prominent Baptist layman, and president of 
 the Baptist State Mission Board as well as 
 of the Baptist City Mission Board of St. 
 Louis. Residence : Beverly Place. Office : 
 Third and Walnut Streets, St. Louis. 
 
 SESSUMS, Davis: 
 
 Bishop of Louisiana ; born at Houston, 
 Texas, July 7, 1858; son of Alexander and 
 Mary (Runnels) Sessums. He studied at 
 the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., 
 and was graduated with the degree of M.A. 
 in 1878. receiving from same university and 
 from Griswold College the degree of D.D. 
 in 1891. He was ordered deacon of the 
 Episcopal church in 1882; and was ordained 
 to the priesthood the same year by Bish- 
 op Gregg. He was curate of Grace Church, 
 Galveston, Texas, in 1883, and assistant and 
 then rector, of the Cathedral at Memphis, 
 
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 Tenn., 1883-1887. In the latter year he be- 
 came rector of Christ Church, New Orleans, 
 La., officiating until 1891, when he became 
 bishop-coadjutor, and the same year, bishop 
 of Louisiana. He was consecrated by Bish- 
 ops Quintard, Tuttle, Garrett, Gallaher, 
 Thompson and Watson. Bishop Sessums 
 married at New Orleans, Dec. IS, 1890, 
 Alice C. Gallaher, daughter of Bishop J. 
 N. Gallaher. Address 2919 St. Charles Ave- 
 nue, New Orleans, La. 
 
 SETON, Ernest Thompson: 
 
 \\'iitc'r, illustrator and lecturer; born at 
 South Shiekls. Durham, England, Aug. 14, 
 1860. He was educated in Canada, Eng- 
 land, and France. He went to Canada at 
 the age of five, and after that lived in the 
 backwoods until 1870, then went to Toronto 
 to be educated at the public schools and at 
 the Collegiate Institute; went to London 
 for art training, 1879-1881; went to Manito- 
 ba to follow natural history; and became 
 naturalist to the Government of Manitoba. 
 He published his Wild Animals I Have 
 Known, the biographies of eiglit wild ani- 
 mals, in 1898. This went through ten edi- 
 tions in one year. He is author of: Birds 
 of Manitoba; Mammals of Manitoba; Anat- 
 omy of Animals; Trail of the Sandhill 
 Stag; Biography of a Grizzly; Lives of the 
 Hunted, i901 ; ' Two Little " Savages ; Pic- 
 tures of Wild Animals; Monarch, the Big 
 Bear; Woodinyth and Fable; The Birch- 
 bark Eoll of the Woodcraft Indians; Ani- 
 mal Heroes; Biography of a Silver Fox, 
 1909. President of the Camp-fire Club, 
 1909. He is the founder of a society for 
 outdoor life, known as the Woodcraft In- 
 dians. He has lectured extensively and be- 
 fore large audiences in America and Eng- 
 land. His favorite recreations are hunting 
 with the camera, natural history, and wood- 
 craft. He married in New York City, 1896, 
 Grace Gallatin, and they have one daughter, 
 Ann, born in 1904. Address : Wyndygoul 
 Park, Coscob, Conn. 
 
 SETON, Grace Gallatin: 
 
 Writer, book designer; born in Sacramen- 
 to, Calif. ; daughter of Albert and Nemie 
 (Rhodes) Gallatin. She was educated in 
 
 the Chicago Female College, Packer College 
 Institute of Brooklyn, and privately. She 
 married in New York City, June 1, 1896, 
 Ernest ThomjJson Seton, and has one daugh- 
 ter. Mrs. Seton is autlior of: A Woman 
 Tenderfoot, Nimrod's Wife, and magazine 
 articles; of songs: If You Were I and I 
 Were You, Sweetheart, and' others. She de- 
 signed the cover, title page, and several 
 make-ups of the following books; Art Anat- 
 omy of Animals; Wild Animals I Have 
 Known; The Trail of the Sandhill Stag; 
 the Biography of a Grizzly; The Wild Ani- 
 mal play; A Woman Tenderfoot; Lives of 
 the Hunted; Pictures of Wild Animals; 
 Two Little Savages; Wood Myth and Fa- 
 ble; Animal Heroes; Nimrod's Wife. She 
 is a member of the Advisory and' Library 
 Committees of the School of Applied De- 
 sign for Women, New Y'ork delegate of the 
 League of the American Pen-Women ; coun- 
 cillor of the American Civic Association, 
 president for ten years of the Pen and 
 Brush Club, member of the Woman's Press, 
 Wednesday Afternoon, and National Arts 
 Clubs, and the MacDowell Association. Ad- 
 dress: "Wyndygoul," Coscob, Conn., and 
 30 West 44th Street. New York City. 
 
 SEVERENS, Henry Franklin: 
 
 U. S. circuit judge; born in Pockingliam. 
 Vt., May 11, 1835; son of Franklin and 
 Elizabeth (Pulsifer) Severens. He was 
 graduated from Middlebury College, A.B., 
 18.57; studied law for two years, and was 
 admitted to the 'S^ermont bar in 1859. The 
 following year he located in practice at 
 Kalamazoo, Mich., where he has ever since 
 made his home. He Avas appointed, May 
 25, 1886, United States district judge for 
 the Western District of Michigan, which 
 office he held vmtil appointed, Feb. 20. 1900, 
 United' States Circuit judge for the Sixth 
 Circuit. He received the honorary degree 
 of LL.D. from tlie University of Michigan 
 in 1897, and from Middlebury College in 
 1901. Judge Severens married at Medina, 
 N. Y., Dec. 1, 1863, Sarah Clarissa Ryan. 
 Address : Kalamazoo, Mich. 
 
 SEVIER, Clara Driscoll: 
 
 Author; born in St. jNIary's, Texas, April 
 2, 1881; daughter of Robert and Julia 
 
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 (Fox) Driscoll. She was educated in Mrs. 
 Gregory's School, San Antonio, Texas, 
 Misses Peebles and Thompson's School, New 
 York City, Chateau Dieudonne, France, 
 She married' in New York City, July 31, 
 1906, H. H. Sevier. For years, Mrs. 
 Sevier had her home on her father's exten- 
 sive 500,000-acre Palo Alto Ranch, in 
 Nueces County, Texas, but spent consider- 
 able time in travel, at various times, over 
 Europe and Oriental countries. She be- 
 came interested in preserving the site of 
 the historic Alamo Mission for the organ- 
 ization of the Daughters of the Republic 
 of Texas, and when the money for its pur- 
 chase could not be raised otherwise, put up 
 the money for the property, $75,000, her- 
 self; Avas afterward reimbursed by a special 
 act of the Twenty-ninth Texas Legislature, 
 and was made honorary custodian of the 
 Alamo by the organization. Mrs. Sevier 
 is author of: Letters of Travel, Girl of 
 La Gloria, Mexicana (comic opera), In the 
 Shadow of the Alamo. She is a member 
 of the Texas Woman's Press Association, 
 Pen and' Brush Club of New York, Texas 
 Historical Association, and Daughters of 
 the Confederacy. Address : 37 Madison 
 Avenue. New York City. , 
 
 SEWALL, Henry: 
 
 Physician; born in Winchester, "Va., May 
 25, 1855; son of Thomas and Julia Eliza- 
 beth (Waters) Sewall. He was graduated 
 from Wesleyan University, B.S., 1876, 
 Johns Hopkins L^niversity, Ph.D., 1879, 
 University of Michigan, M.D. (honorary), 
 
 1888, and the University of Denver, M.D., 
 
 1889. He was assistant, fellow and asso- 
 ciate in biology, at the Johns Hopkins Uni- 
 versity, 1876-1881; research student in the 
 Physiological Laboratories of Foster, Cam- 
 bridge, England, Ludwig in Leipzig, and 
 Ktihne in Heidelberg, 1879-1880; professor 
 of physiology in the University of Alicli- 
 igan, 1882-1889; professor of physiology. 
 University of Denver, 1890-1909. He is^ a 
 member of the Association of American 
 Physicians, American Physiological Society, 
 American Climatological Association, Amer- 
 ican Medical Association, Colorado State 
 Medical Society, and the University Club 
 
 of Denver. He is author of numerous re- 
 searches in physiology and medicine since 
 1878. He married in Toronto, Canada, 
 Sept. 21, 1887, Isabel Josephine Vickers. 
 Residence: 1360 Vine Street. Office: 433 
 Majestic Building, Denver, Colo. 
 
 SE^WARD, Fredrick W.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Auburn, N. Y'., July 8, 
 1830; son of William H. Seward and Fran- 
 ces A. (Miller) Seward. He was grad- 
 uated from Union College, in 1849. He 
 studied law with Judges Kent and Davies 
 in New Y'ork City; was admitted to the 
 New Y^ork City bar in 1851; became asso- 
 ciate editor and later one of the proprietors 
 of the Albanj' Evening Journal. In 1861 
 he was sent from Washington to Philadel- 
 phia to warn President Lincoln of a plot 
 to assassinate him in Baltimore; was ap- 
 pointed assistant secretary of State, and 
 held the office during the administrations 
 of Presidents Lincoln and Johnson. His 
 assassination was attempted on the same 
 night that President Lincoln was murdered 
 by Booth. His chief diplomatic work was 
 during Johnson's administration ; he was 
 instrumental in carrying through the pur- 
 chase of Alaska and negotiating a new 
 treaty with China; retired from office in 
 1869; was elected to New Y^ork Legisla- 
 ture, in 1874, and had charge of the bill 
 for the first elevated railroad in New Y'ork 
 City. He returned to the State Department 
 in 1877; introduced reforms in the Con- 
 sular Service ; conducted negotiations secur- 
 in a Samoan harbor for United States 
 vessels, and aided in developing commer- 
 cial and diplomatic relations with Oriental 
 powers. He was a member of the Interna- 
 tional Arbitration Conference at Washing- 
 ton, 1904; presided at the Semi-Centennial 
 of the Republican party at Saratoga, 1904. 
 He is author of a biography of William H. 
 Seward; and Journal of a West Indian 
 Cruise. He married in Albany, Nov. 9, 
 1854, Anna M. Wharton. Address: Mon- 
 trose, N. Y. 
 
 SE"WARD, George Fredrick: 
 
 Insurance president; born in Florida, N. 
 Y., Nov. 8, 1840. He was educated in 
 
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 Seward Institute uiid Union College, from 
 which he received the degree of LL.D. He 
 was consul at Shanghai, 1861-1863; consul- 
 general, 1863-1876; minister to Corea, 
 1869; minister to China, 1876-1880; on a 
 special mission to Siam, 1867 ; president 
 of the North China branch of the Royal 
 Asiatic Society, 1865-1867; since 1893, 
 president of the Fidelity and Casualty 
 Company of New York City, and president 
 of Virginia Electrolytic Company. He is 
 member of the American Geographical So- 
 ciety, American Academy of Political and 
 Social Science, American Institute . of 
 Civics, American Electro-Chemical Society, 
 American Peace Society, Chamber of Com- 
 merce (chairman of Committee on Taxa- 
 tion). Civil Service Reform Association, 
 New England' Society of Orange, N. J., 
 Historical Society of New Jersey, National 
 Municipal League, Sons of the Revolution, 
 Union College Alumni Association of New 
 York; trustee of Union College. He holds 
 the decoration of Danish Government (com- 
 mander of Danebrog) and of the French 
 Government (connnander of the Dragon of 
 Annam), vice-president of Chamber of 
 Commerce of the State of New Y'ork. He 
 is author of: Chinese Immigration in 
 Its Social and Economic Aspects, 1881 
 (Scribner) ; Digest of Taxation System, 
 New York; Rapid Transit in New Y'ork 
 and Other Great Cities, 1900. He is a 
 mendjer of the Authors', Lawyers', and 
 Reform Clubs. Mr. Seward married, in 
 1870, Kate Sherman, daughter of Isaac 
 Sherman of Ohio and California. Address: 
 99 Cedar Street, New York City. 
 
 SEWARD, John Perry: 
 
 Pliysician; bmu in Philad(li)hia. Dec. 20, 
 1868; son of Rev. Samuel S. and Chrissie 
 F. (Kimber) Seward. He was educated 
 ill public scliools, Gibbens and Beach School, 
 and was graduated from Columbia, A.B., 
 1890, New York Homeopathic Medical Col- 
 lege, M.D., 1893. He was house physician 
 Id llie National Homeopathic Hospital, 
 Wasliiiigton, 1893-1894; demonstrator and 
 lecturer on anatomy, New York Homeo- 
 pathic Medical College, 1894-1900; profes- 
 sor of liygiene and dietetics, New Y'ork 
 
 Medical College for Women, 1899-1901; 
 professor of materia medica. New York 
 Homeopathic Medical College, 1901-1903. 
 He is a member of the American Institute 
 of Homeopathy, New York State and Coun- 
 ty Homeopathic Medical Societies, Academy 
 of Pathological Science, New Y'ork Homeo- 
 pathic Materia Medica Society, Columbia 
 College Alumni Association, Phi Beta Kap- 
 pa Society, and' the Dunham and Columbia 
 University Clubs. He married in New 
 York City, June 2, 1900, Edith de Charms 
 Hibbard, and they have four children. Ad- 
 dress: 200 West 70th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 SEWELL, Albert Henry : 
 
 Jurist ; born in Haniden, N. Y"., Oct. 30, 
 1847 ; son of William H. and Celinda 
 Sewell. He was graduated from Cornell, 
 A.B., 1871. and from the Albany Law 
 School, LL.B., in 1873. He engaged in the 
 practice of law at Delhi, N. Y., 1873-1888; 
 was a member of the General Assembly of 
 New Y'^ork, county judge and surrogate of 
 Delaware County in 1878; and county 
 judge and surrogate of Delaware County, 
 1889-1899. In 1899 he was nominated by 
 the Republican party, and elected justice 
 of the Supreme Court for the Sixth Judi- 
 cial District of New York, for the term 
 expiring in 1913. He is a Republican in 
 politics. Judge Sewell married, in 1889, 
 Mary E. Wriglit. Address: Delhi, N. Y. 
 
 SE"WELL, Robert van Vorst: 
 
 Artist, mural painter; born in New York 
 City, 1860; son of Robert and Sarah (van 
 Vorst) Sewell. He was graduated from 
 Columbia in 1883; art student under Le- 
 febvre and Boulanger in Paris. His work 
 includes the mural paintings in many pri- 
 vate residences and public buildings, not- 
 ably that in the residence of George Gould, 
 at Georgian Court, Lakewood, and in the 
 St. Regis Hotel, New York. He was 
 awarded tlie first Hallgarten prize of the 
 National Academy of Design, 1888; silver 
 medal at tlie Pan-American and other ex- 
 positions. He is a member of the Archi- 
 tectural League; associate of the National 
 Academy of Design; member of the So- 
 
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 ciety. Mural Painters, the Municipal Art 
 iSociety, and of the Century Association and 
 the Union League and Lotos Clubs. He 
 married Lydia Amanda Brewster. Address : 
 25 West Sixty-seventh Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 SEYMOUR, Edmund: 
 
 I^anker, broker; born in St. Albans, Vt., 
 Oct. 3. LS58 ; son of Henry Edmund and 
 Susan K. (Hubbell) Seymour. He was 
 educated in St. Albans Academy, and Phil- 
 lips Academy, Andover, Mass., and was 
 graduated from Williams College, B.A., in 
 1882 (Alpha Delta Phi. captain of football 
 team and president of Athletic Associa- 
 tion). He Mas engaged in the cattle busi- 
 ness for eight years ; banker and broker at 
 Tacoma, ^^'ash. ; in firm of Seymour, Barto 
 & Com])any, 1889; Seymour Brotliers & 
 Company, 1898; now Edmvmd Seymour & 
 Company, New York City; deals jirinci- 
 pally in municipal and corporate bonds. 
 He is vice-president and director of the 
 Orleans County Quarry Company ; pres- 
 ident and director of the Washington State 
 Land Company and of the Ellensburgh 
 Water Supply Company; director of St. 
 Albans Furniture Manufacturing Company, 
 and Nebraska Land and Feeding Company. 
 In politics he is a Republican and in re- 
 ligion a Congregationalist. Mr. Seymour 
 is a member of the Board of Governors of 
 the American Bison Society. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Alpha Delta Phi Club of New 
 York City; president of The Manor Club 
 of Pelham ^Manor ; member of the Wykagyl 
 Country Club of New Rochelle ; treasurer 
 of the Camp Fire Club of New York City. 
 Mr. Seymour married in Plattsburg, N. Y.. 
 Sept. 2, 1891, Anne Spraguc Bcckwith, 
 and they have three children. Summer 
 home : " Bord-de-l'Eau," Chasy, Lake Cham- 
 plain. Residence: Pelham Manor, N. Y. 
 OHice: 45 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 SHACKFORD, Martha Hale: 
 
 Educator ; born in Dover, N. H., Aug. 
 25. 1875; daughter of Charles Burnham 
 and Caroline (Cartland) Shackford. She 
 was graduated from public school of Dover, 
 N. H., Wellesley College, B.A., and Yale 
 
 University, Ph.D., 1901. She was awarded 
 the Cook Poetry Prize at Yale, 1898; 
 taught English at Vassar College, 1898- 
 1899, i:ng]ish literature at Wellesley Col- 
 lege since 1901, now being associate pro- 
 fessor. She edited : Spenser's Faerie 
 Qucene, Book I, Macaulay's Lays of Ancient 
 Rome; author of: A First Book of Poetics, 
 European Literature, and English Litera- 
 ture of the Nineteenth Century (jointly 
 with ^Margaret Judson, of Composition. 
 Rhetoric, and Literature. She is a member 
 of IModern Language Association of i\mer- 
 ica, and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Ad- 
 dress : Wellesley, Mass. 
 
 SHACKLEFORD, Dorsey W. : 
 
 Congressman and jurist; born in Saline 
 County, Mo., Aug. 27, 1853. He was a 
 teacher in 1877. 1878 and 1879, during 
 which period he carried on the study of 
 law. He began the practice of that pro- 
 fession at Booneville, Mo., May 9, 1879, 
 served as prosecuting attorney of Cooper 
 County for two terms, 1882-1886. and 1890- 
 1892; was elected and served as judge of 
 the Fourteenth Judicial District of Mis- 
 souri, June 1, 1892, to Sept. 9, 1899, re- 
 signing that office to take his place in the 
 Fifty-sixth Congress, to which he was 
 elected, as a Democrat, Aug. 29, 1899, to 
 fill the vacancy caused by the death of 
 Hon. Richard P. Bland. He was elected 
 to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty- 
 ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses, 
 from the Eighth Missouri District. Judge 
 Shackleford married, Dec. 7, 1887, Florida 
 Hall, of Saline County, Mo., and tliey have 
 a son and a daughter. Address : Jefferson 
 City, Mo, 
 
 SHAFER, Sara Andrew: 
 
 Author; born in La Porte, Intl.; daugh- 
 ter of Dr. George Lafferty and Catherine 
 (Piatt) Andrew. She married in La Porte, 
 Nov. 10. 1884, Carlton Shafer, of Fred- 
 erick, Md., who died in 1906. Mrs. Shafer 
 is the author of: The Day Before 
 Yesterday, 1904; Beyond Chance of 
 Change, 1905; A White Paper Garden, 
 1910; three chapters in Historic Towns 
 of the United States, 1901-1902. and is 
 
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 a contributor to The Outlook, The Dial, 
 and other first-class periodicals. She is 
 a member of the La Porte Historical So- 
 ciety, charter manager of the Home for 
 Aged, of Frederick, Md., and a member 
 of tlie Civic Improvement Association, La 
 Porte. Address: 1250 Monroe Street, La 
 Porte, Ind. 
 
 SHAFFER, Newton Melman: 
 
 Orthopedic surgeon and phihuithropist; 
 born in Kinderhook, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1846; 
 son of Rev. James Newton and Jane Em- 
 eline Nielman (Hale) Shaffer. Dr. Shaffer 
 commenced his professional career, in his 
 seventeenth year, leaving the Free Academy, 
 N. Y., to enter as a medical student of 
 the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crip- 
 pled, on the day it opened its doors to 
 the public. May 1, 1863. He performed 
 the duties of an acting assistant surgeon 
 to tlie hospital while still an under-grad- 
 uate, under Dr. James Knight, the founder 
 of the hospital, up to his graduation from 
 the New Y^ork University jNIedical College, 
 March 1, 1867. He was then made the 
 assistant resident surgeon, resigning from 
 this position, Nov. 1, 1868. While per- 
 forming this work in the hospital he was 
 also associated with his father, the eminent 
 missionary, in the work of the Five Points 
 (old Bowery) Mission. He spent much of 
 his afternoons and evenings in conducting a 
 dispensary in connection with the mission, 
 while still an undergraduate. His experi- 
 ence in this work, during the Civil War 
 from 186.3 to 1865, was unique in many 
 respects — a medical service in the midst 
 of crime, misery and squalor at a period 
 when the Five Points was at its worst. 
 Upon leaving the hospital, in 1868, being 
 without capital and wishing a further 
 experience, he associated himself with a 
 younger brother in a drug store enterprise 
 in the Hth Ward, with borrowed money, 
 and at the end of three years' work he 
 had acquired a capital of $5,000. While 
 engaged in this work he was approached 
 by Dr. Charles Fayette Taylor, and Theo- 
 dore' Roosevelt (the father of President 
 Roosevelt), and asked to become an assist- 
 
 ant surgeon to the New Y'ork Orthopedic 
 Dispensary and Hospital. He accepted this 
 position in 1871. In 1876, upon the resig- 
 nation of Dr. Taylor, he was made surgeon- 
 in-chief to the hospital, serving as such 
 until 1808, bringing the hospital to a high 
 state of etficiency and reputation, saving 
 the hospital during many critical periods 
 from dissolution, and continuing the great 
 work which was founded by Theodore Roose- 
 velt and Howard Potter. In 1872 he was 
 selected by the authorities of St. Luke's 
 Hospital to inaugurate the methods so suc- 
 cessful in the Orthopedic Hospital in this 
 larger and more important institution. 
 His appointment as orthopedic surgeon to 
 St. Luke's Hospital was the first of the 
 kind made in a large general hospital. He 
 resigned in 1884. Dr. Shaffer married, 
 Oct. 15, 1873, Margaret H. Perkins, of 
 Gardiner, Me. Address: 28 East 38th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 SHAFROTH, John F.: 
 
 Governor of Colorado; born in Fayette, 
 Mo., June 9, 1854; son of John F. Shaf- 
 roth. He was graduated from the Univer- 
 sity of Michigan, B.S., 1875, was admitted 
 to the Missouri bar in 1876, and practised 
 law in Fayette, Mo., until Oct., 1879, when 
 he removed to Denver, where he soon took 
 a prominent jdace at the bar. He was 
 city attorney of Denver, 1887-1891, and 
 afterward continued in general practice, 
 now being of the law firm of Rogers, Shaf- 
 roth and Gregg. He also became prominent 
 in politics as a Democrat, and in 1894 he 
 was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress 
 from the First Colorado District. He was 
 reelected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, 
 Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses, 
 but an investigation into the election of 
 1902 disclosing a taint of fraud, Mr. Shaf- 
 roth declined to be the beneficiary of a 
 questionable election and resigned his seat. 
 In 1908 he was elected governor of Colo- 
 rado for the two-year term expiring in 
 Jan., 1909. He married in Fayette^ Mo., 
 Oct. 26, 1881, Virginia Marrison. Resi- 
 dence: 1537 York Street. Olfice: Mc- 
 Pliee Building. Denver, Colo. 
 
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 SHAINWALD, Ralph Louis: 
 
 Manufacturer; born at Great Falls, N. 
 II., Feb. S. 1851; son of Nathan and Minna 
 Sliainwald. He was educated in New York 
 City public and private schools. Mr. Shain- 
 wald began business life in the private 
 bank of Culver, Penn and Company; was 
 later with the Importers' and Traders' Na- 
 tional Bank of New York, then removed 
 to San Francisco, Calif., where he remained 
 eleven years, organizing and managing the 
 Vulcan Powder Company, the Tonite 
 Powder Company, the Western Chemical 
 Company, the California Explosive Cap 
 Company, the Paraffine Paint Company. 
 He returned to New York City in 1886 
 and organized The Standard Paint Com- 
 pany and later the Ruberoid-Gesellschaft 
 of Hamburg, the Ruberoid Company, Lim- 
 ited, of England, and the Compagnie Fran- 
 caise du Ruberoid' of France. All these 
 organizations have been successful, and the 
 business interests under Mr. Shainwald's 
 executive charge are of international scope 
 and importance. He is president of the 
 Standard Paint Company of New Jersey, 
 Standard Paint Company *of Canada, Lim- 
 ited, and chairman of the Ruberoid Com- 
 pany, Limited, of England. Mr. Shainwald 
 is an Independent in politics. He is a 
 member of the Society for' Ethical Culture, 
 the jMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
 Chamber of Commerce; trustee of the Pack- 
 ard Commercial School. His favorite 
 recreations are golf and motoring. He is 
 a member of the Lotos, Patria, and Draw- 
 ing Room Clubs of New York City and the 
 Automobile Club of America. He married 
 in New York City, in 1881, Riette Hart, 
 and they have three children: Ralph L., 
 Jr., Maisie and Marion Dorothy. Resi- 
 dence: 667 Madison Avenue, New York 
 City. OiTice address: 100 William Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 SHALLENBERGER, A. C: 
 
 Governor of Nebraska; elected in Nov., 
 1908, on the Democratic ticket, for the two- 
 year term expiring in Jan., 1911. Address: 
 Lincoln. Neb. 
 
 SHANK, Samuel Herbert : 
 
 American consul; born in Indianapolis, 
 Ind., Feb. 4, 1871; son of William H. 
 Harrison and Mary E. (Kuhn) Shank. He 
 was graduated from Butler College, Indian- 
 apolis, A.B., and from the Indiana Law 
 School, Indianapolis, B.L. Mr. Shank was 
 clerk of the Superior Court of Marion 
 County, Ind., 1899-1903. He was ap- 
 pointed vice and deputy consul at Winni- 
 peg, Nov. 7, 1903, consul there in 1904 and 
 March 30, 1907 American consul at Mann- 
 heim, Germany. He married in Minneapo- 
 lis, Feb. 28, 1907, Norma Romano. Ad- 
 dress: American Consulate, Mannheim, Ger- 
 many. 
 
 SHANKLIN, Arnold: 
 
 American consul-general to Panama; 
 born in Carrollton, Mo., Jan. 29, 1866; son 
 of Wesley D. and Locke (Arnold) Shanklin. 
 He was gi-aduated from the Law Depart- 
 ment of Washington University, St. Louis, 
 LL.B., practised law in Kansas City, Mo., 
 for nine years, and was a St. Louis World's 
 Fair commissioner to the Republic of 
 Mexico. Mr. Shanklin is a member of the 
 American Society of International Law and 
 the National Geographic Society; is a thir- 
 ty-second degree Mason ; is a member of the 
 St. Louis, University and Missouri Athletic 
 Clubs of St. Louis and University and 
 Commercial Clubs of Panama. Address: 
 American Consulate-General, Panama, Pan- 
 ama. 
 
 SHANTZ, Homer LeRoy: 
 
 Botanist ; born in Kent County, Mich., 
 Jan. 24, 1876; son of A. K. and "Mary E. 
 (Ankney) Shantz. He was educated in 
 Kent County public grammar schools, in 
 Colorado City Grammar School, in Cutler 
 Academy, was graduated from Colorado 
 College, B.Sc, 1901, and received the de- 
 gree of Ph.D., in 1905, from the University 
 of Nebraska; and he was fellow in botany 
 at the University of Nebraska, in 1903 and 
 1904. He was instructor in biology in 
 1901 and instructor, in charge of biology, 
 in 1902 at Colorado College; instructor in 
 botany at the University of Nebraska, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 School of Agriculture. 1903-1'J04; actiug 
 instructor in botany, in 1905. instructor 
 in botany. 1!)0(M!)07, in the University of 
 Missouri; professor of botany and bacteri- 
 ology, University of Louisiana, 1908. He 
 was special field agent of the Alkali and 
 Drought — Resistant Plant Breeding Inves- 
 tigations of the U. S. Department of Agri- 
 culture. June-Sept.. 1907, and collaborator 
 on those investigations, 1907-1908. He was 
 instructor in science at the Colorado Teach- 
 ers' Institute, Colorado Springs, in 1902, 
 and instructor of botany at the Summer 
 School of the University of Missouri in 
 1906. He is now expert in alkali and 
 drought-resistant plant breeding investiga- 
 tions. Bureau of Plant Industry of U. S. 
 Department of Agriculture. His chief lines 
 of investigation have been in relation to 
 the vegetation of the Great Plains, the 
 relation of the natural vegetation to crop 
 pioduction. economic botany, and the rela- 
 tion of the plant to the physical factors of 
 its habitat. He is author of: A Study 
 of the Vegetation of the Mesa Region East 
 of Pike's Peak; The Bouteloua Formation, 
 1906; Notes on the North American Species 
 of Branchinecta and Their Habitats, 1905, 
 and a Biological Study of the Lakes of the 
 Pike's Peak Region, 1907. He is an asso- 
 ciate meml)er of the Botanical Society of 
 America ; fellow of the American Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science; mem- 
 ber of the Sigma Xi Society, American 
 Microscopical Society. Society of Botanists 
 of the Central States, of the Botanical So- 
 ciety of Wasjiington. and of the American 
 Society of Agronomy. Mr. Shantz married 
 in Oshkosh, Wis.. ' Dtc. 25, 1901, Lucia 
 INIoore Soper. and they have two children. 
 Address: Bureau of Plant Industry, V. 
 S. Department of Agriculture, Washington. 
 D. C. 
 
 SHARPLESS, Isaac: 
 
 President of liaveiford College; born at 
 Chester County, Fa.. Dec. 16, 1848; son of 
 Aaron and Susanna (Forsyth) Sharpless. 
 He was graduated from the Lawrence 
 Scientific School of Harvard University, 
 S.B., 187.S ; and the degree of Sc.D. was con- 
 ferred upon liim by the University of Penn- 
 
 sylvania, that of LL.D. by Swarthmore 
 College, and that of L.H.D. by Hobart Col- 
 lege. He was instructor at Westtown 
 School, 1873-1875, resigning in the latter 
 year to take a similar position at Haver- 
 ford College. In 1879 he was appointed 
 to the chair of mathematics at Haverford 
 College, five years later becoming dean. 
 In 1887 he was appointed to the presi- 
 dency of that college, which office he still 
 holds. Dr. Sliarpless is a member of the 
 Society of Friends. He is author of text- 
 books in geometry and astronomy and also 
 of the vohmies: Quaker Experiment in 
 Government; Two Centuries of Pennsyl- 
 vania History; Quakerism and Politics; 
 and English Education. He married at 
 West Chester, Pa., Aug. 10. 1876, Lydia T. 
 Cope, and has six children. Address: 
 Haverford, Pa. 
 
 SHARTS, Joseph William: 
 
 Lawyer and novelist; born in Hamilton, 
 Ohio. Sept. 14, 1875; son of Joseph Wil- 
 liam and Sarah Belle (Ealy) Sharts. He 
 was graduated from Harvard College with 
 the degree of A.B., 1897, magna cum 
 laude. He is author of: Ezra Caine, The 
 Romance of a Rogue, the Hills of Freedom, 
 Tlie Black Sheep, and other novels. He was 
 a corporal in Company C, First Ohio In- 
 fantry, \J. S. Volunteers, in the \\'ar with 
 Spain; afterward engaging in the practice 
 of law in California. Address: Escondido, 
 San Diego County, Calif. 
 
 SHATTirCK, Aaron Draper: 
 
 Artist; born in Francetown, N. H., March 
 9, 1832. He received his general education 
 in the schools of Lowell, Mass., and his 
 art education in the National Academy of 
 Design. The principal subjects of his pic- 
 tures are landscapes and pastoral scenes. 
 Mr. Shattuck became an academician of 
 the National Academy in 1861, and shares 
 with one other, elected the same year, the 
 distinction of being the oldest living Na- 
 tional academician. He is, in addition to 
 his prominence as a painter, well known 
 as the inventor of the standard and con- 
 venient " Shattuck " stretcher frames for 
 artists' canvases. Address: Granby, Conn. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 SHAW, Albert: 
 
 Editor; born in Shandon, Ohio, July 23, 
 1857; son of Griffin and Susan Shaw. He 
 was graduated from Iowa College in 1879; 
 took a post-graduate course in constitu- 
 tional history, and a course in history and 
 political science at Johns Hopkins Uni- 
 versity, receiving the degree of Ph.D. in 
 1884; and received the degree of LL.D. 
 from the University of Wisconsin in 1904. 
 Mr. Shaw was editorial writer on the Min- 
 neapolis Tribune, 1883-1890; student fin 
 Europe, 1888-1889; established the Amer- 
 ican Review of Reviews, in 1891; is pres- 
 ident of the Review of Reviews Publishing 
 Company. ^Nlr. Shaw is a member of the 
 Academy of Political and Social Science, 
 American Association of Political Science, 
 Civil Service Reform Association, American 
 Statistical Association, American Historical 
 Association, American Society of Interna- 
 tional Law, National Municipal League, 
 and other societies, and' associations. He is 
 trustee of the General Education Board, the 
 Southern Education Board, and of Iowa 
 College; and was president of the Jury of 
 Awards, Jamestown Exposition, 1907. Mr. 
 Shaw is author of: Icaria, A Chapter in 
 the History of Communism, 1S84; Local 
 Government in Illinois, 1883; Cooperation 
 in the Northwest, 1888; Municipal Govern- 
 ment in Great Britain, 1895; Municipal 
 Government in Continental Europe, 1895; 
 The Business Career, 1904; Political Prob- 
 lems in American Development, 1907; The 
 Outlook for the Average Man, 1907; and 
 is editor of The National Revenues, 1888; 
 also numerous articles in American and 
 foreign periodicals. He is a member of 
 the Aldine, Authors', City, Century, Quill, 
 Barnard and National Arts Clubs, the Ohio 
 Society of New York, the Minnesota So- 
 ciety of New York, and the Iowa Society 
 of New York. Mr. Shaw married in Read- 
 ing, Elizabeth Bacon, and they have two 
 sons. Address: 13 Astor Place, New York 
 City. 
 
 SHAW, Charles A.: 
 
 Commissioner of the Board of Water 
 Supply of New York City; born at New 
 Y^ork Mills, Whitestown, Oneida County, 
 
 N. Y., Nov. 8, 1839; son of Charles and 
 Isabella Hutchison (Ure) Shaw. He was 
 educated in Whitestown Seminary. After 
 leaving school he became a teacher; then 
 entered the Union Army as private in the 
 Fourteenth New Y^ork Heavy Artillery, 
 and served till the end of the war. He 
 entered the office of the Hanover Fire In- 
 surance Company in 18GG, passing through 
 various positions of trust, and being ap- 
 pointed assistant secretary in April, 1884; 
 second vice-president, Jan., 1896; vice-pres- 
 ident, Jan. 19, 1899, and secretary, Feb. 
 16, 1899; elected president, May, 1900, 
 which position he resigned in April, 1906, 
 to devote the entire time to his duties as 
 commissioner of the Board of Water Supply 
 of the City of New Y^ork, having been ap- 
 pointed to that non-partisan board, June 
 9, 1905, by Mayor McClellan, as representa- 
 tive of the New York Board of Fire Under- 
 writers. He was secretary of the National 
 Board of Fire Underwriters, from 1902 to 
 1906; and is a director of the Hanover 
 Fire Insurance Company. He is a member 
 of the Chamber of Commerce, of the State 
 of New York; fellow of the American Geo- 
 graphical Society; National Geographic So- 
 ciety of Washington, D. C, Prince Society 
 of Boston, Society of Old Brooklyuites, 
 Brooklyn Masonic Veterans, Rankin Post, 
 Grand Army of the Republic; member of 
 Mistletoe Lodge, Brooklyn, and representa- 
 tive of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Wis- 
 consin. He is also a member of the Ma- 
 sonic Club of New York City, and the 
 Masonic Club of Brooklyn. He married in 
 New York Mills, Aug. 23, 1864, Sarah E. 
 Forsey, who died in Feb., 1901 ; and they 
 had one son. Residence: The Touraine, 
 Brooklyn. Address: 299 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 SHAW, Charles Gray: 
 
 Educator; born in Elizabeth, N. J., June 
 23, 1871; son of Horace Gray and Emma 
 Catherine (Gouge) Shaw. He was grad- 
 uated from Cornell University, B.L., 1894, 
 from New York University, Ph.D., in 1897, 
 and from Drew Theological Seminary, B.D., 
 1897. The next two years were spent 
 abroad, when Dr. Shaw pursued studies in 
 
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 philosopliy at Jena and Berlin. He has 
 been professor of philosophy in New York 
 University since 1899; and in addition to 
 his academic work he is constantly engaged 
 in the work of public lecturing. He is 
 author of: Christianity and Modern Cul- 
 ture, 1900. He is a member of the Phi 
 Ganuua Delta fraternity and the Sphinx 
 Head (Cornell), the American Philosoph- 
 ical Association, Religious Education Asso- 
 ciation, Society of Mayflower Descendants, 
 Society of Colonial Wars, and the Sons of 
 the Revolution. He married in Ocean 
 f4rove. N. J., Sept. 21, 1897, E. Belle Clarke, 
 and they have a daughter. Residence: 
 Morris Heights. Office: New York Uni- 
 versity, University Heights, New York City. 
 
 SHAW, Leslie Mortier: 
 
 Financier; born in Morristown, Vt., Nov. 
 2, 1848; son of Beardman 0. and Louisa 
 Shaw. When he was four years of age 
 his people moved to Stowe, Vt., where he 
 received a common school education, with 
 a few terms in the village high school 
 and in People's Academy, at Morrisville. 
 When twenty-one years of age he went to 
 Iowa, was graduated from Cornell College, 
 1874, and from the Iowa College of Law in 
 1876, having earned the means with which 
 to educate himself. After graduation he 
 located in Dension, county seat of Craw- 
 ford County, Iowa, and engaged in the 
 practice of law. He was led by the de- 
 mands of the community into the negoti- 
 ation of farm loans, and from that into 
 general banking at Dension, at INIanilla. 
 and at Charter Oak, in the same county. 
 While keeping the practice of law in the 
 foreground, he was thus kept in touch with 
 financial matters, both East and West. 
 I'ntil 1890 he took no active part in pol- 
 itics, excepting in national campaigns, when 
 he frequently made speeches in defense of 
 the principles of the Republican party. In 
 1890, at the request of the State Central 
 Committee, he placed his entire time at 
 its disposal. This led to his nomination 
 and election as governor, in 1897, and his 
 reelection in 1899, in which he doubled 
 his ))revious ])lurality and quadrupled his 
 l)rc\ i(jus iiuijorily. He peremptorily de- 
 
 clined a third term, and planned to return 
 to his law practice and business interests. 
 A few days before the close of his term, 
 iiowcver, without solicitation or suggestion 
 fiom himself or friends, he was tendered 
 the position of secretary of the Treasury, 
 and assumed the duties of that office, Feb. 
 1, 1902. This latter official position he 
 resigned March 4, 1907, to resume a busi- 
 ness career, and is now president of the 
 First Mortgage Guarantee and Trust Com- 
 pany of Philadelphia. Governor Shaw is a 
 prominent layman of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church, was a delegate to the General 
 Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church in 1884, 1888, 1892 and 1896, and 
 has been a trustee of Cornell College, Iowa, 
 since 1890. He married, Dec. 6, 1877, Alice, 
 daughter of James Cranshaw, of Clinton 
 County, Iowa. Residence: Dension, Iowa, 
 and 340 West 72d Street, New York City. 
 Office: 111 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 SHEA, Daniel William: 
 
 Professor of physics; born in Ports- 
 mouth, N, H., Nov." 27, 1859; son of Tim- 
 othy and Margaret (McCarthy) Shea.. He 
 was educated in public schools of Green- 
 land, N. H., in Brackett Academy, Green- 
 land, N. H., and was graduated from 
 Harvard University, A.B., magna cum 
 laude, 1886, A.M., 1888, and from Fried- 
 rich-Wilhelms Universitiit, Berlin, Ger- 
 many, Ph.D., 1892. He was assistant in 
 physics. Harvard University, 1889-1892; 
 assistant professor of physics. University of 
 Illinois, 1892-1893; professor of physics in 
 the same institution, 1893-1895; and has 
 been professor of physics in the Catholic 
 University of America, Washington, D. C, 
 since 1895. He was director of the School 
 of Technological Sciences, the Catholic Uni- 
 versity of America, 1897-1906, secretary- 
 general of the Catholic University of 
 America, 1897-1904; and has been dean of 
 the Faculty of Science of the Catholic Uni- 
 versity of America since 1900. He has 
 traveled in Ireland, England, Wales, Hol- 
 land, German}', Austria, Switzerland, Italy 
 and Canada. He was a member of the New 
 Hampshire General Court, from the town 
 of Greenhind, 188G-1888, and is a Demo- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 crat in politics. He is a membei' of the 
 American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 
 American Physical Society, American As- 
 sociation for the Advancement of Science, 
 National Geographic Society, Phi Beta 
 Kappa, Knights of Columbus, Ameiican- 
 Irish Historical Society, the University 
 Club of Washington, D. C, and the Math- 
 ematical and Physical Club of Boston, Mass. 
 He has iniblished several articles on Elec- 
 tricity and Light in American and German 
 scientific journals. Address: The Catholic 
 University of America, Washington, D. C. 
 
 SHEDD, John Graves: 
 
 ]\Ierchant; born in Alstead, N. H., July 
 20, 1850; son of William and Abigail 
 (Wallace) Shedd. He was educated in the 
 common schools of Alstead and Langdon, 
 N. H. ; began his business career at the age 
 of seventeen, and' from that time to 'the 
 present has been continuously connected 
 Avith the dry-goods trade, first in Bellows 
 Falls, Vt., for one year, then at Alstead, 
 N. H., 1869-1870, then for two years in a 
 retail dry-goods establishment at Rutland, 
 Vt. In Aug., 1872, he entered the employ 
 of Field, Leiter & Company, in Chicago, 
 remaining with that firm and its successor, 
 Marshall Field and Company, in which he 
 advanced steadily and of which he was vice- 
 president until the death of Mr. Marshall 
 Field, in Jan., 1906, following which he 
 was elected to the presidency of the com- 
 pany, which he now fills. Residence: 4515 
 Drexel Boulevard. Office: Marshall Field 
 and Company, Adams Street and Fifth Ave- 
 nue, Chicago. 
 
 SHEEDY, Morgan M.: 
 
 Catholic clergyman; born in Ireland, Oct. 
 8, 1853; son of Michael and Mary (Mad- 
 den) Sheed'y. He was educated in St. 
 Colnian's College, and Maynooth College, in 
 Dublin, Ireland, 1867-1876, and received the 
 degree of LL.D. from Notre Dame Univer- 
 sity^ in 190'6. He was ordained in the 
 Pittsburgh Cathedral by Bishop Tuigg, 
 Sept. 22, 1876. Father Sheedy on his ordi- 
 nation was immediately assigned as pro- 
 fessor of theology and history in St. 
 Michael's Seminary, where he continued 
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 until the closing of that institution. He 
 has been most successful in pastoral work 
 and in Pittsburgh became widely known 
 through his work along educational lines 
 with young men, establishing there a school 
 hall and free library. He has been one of 
 the leaders in the temperance movement; 
 was four years vice-president of the Cath- 
 olic Total Abstinence Union of America; 
 and has taken an active part in the de- 
 velopment of reading circles and the Cath- 
 olic Summer School, of which he was first 
 president. He is the author of: Christian 
 Unity; Social Problems; Briefs for Our 
 Times, and a large number of articles on 
 labor and education, and is editor of the 
 Quarterly, a church publication. Father 
 Sheedy is now permanent rector of St. 
 John's Church, Altoona Pa. He is a mem- 
 ber of the American Academy of Political 
 and Social Science, the Pittsburgh Acad- 
 emy of Science, the Western Pennsylvania 
 Historical and Philadelphia Historical So- 
 cieties, and was the founder of the Pitts- 
 burgh Polytechnic Society. Address: Al- 
 toona, Pa. 
 
 SHEEN, Daniel Robinson: 
 
 Lawj'er ; born in Radnor Township, Pe- 
 oria County, 111., Nov. 29, 1852; son of 
 Peter and Melissa Sheen. He received a 
 common school and business education, and 
 attended the Normal School for one term. 
 He read law with Ingersoll, Puterbaugh 
 Brothers and McCune, was admitted to the 
 bar in 1874, and has practised at Peoria 
 ever since. He was elected to the House of 
 Representatives of Illinois in 1904, on the 
 Prohibition ticket, and as a candidate in 
 1907 for mayor of Peoria and on Independ- 
 ent ticket, and with Democrat, Republican 
 and Socialist competing, he held second 
 place. He has served as delegate to several 
 National Prohibition conventions and has 
 taken active part as a speaker in many 
 campaigns. Mr. Sheen is also a popular 
 lecturer. He married at Peoria, 111., June 
 28, 1876, Sarah A. Stiehl. Address: Pe- 
 oria, 111. 
 
 SHEFFIELD, James Rockwell: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Dubuque, Iowa, Aug. 13, 
 1864; son of Frederick W. H. and Sarah 
 
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 (Kellogg) Sheffield. He was educated in 
 Williston Seminary, was graduated from 
 Yale University, A.B., and from Harvard 
 Law School. He was a member of the State 
 Assembly, 1893-1894; president of the Board 
 of Fire Commissioners of New York City, 
 1895-1898; and was appointed president of 
 the Gas Commission by Governor Higgins, 
 but declined. He is a member of the law 
 firm of Betts, Sheffield & Betts. In politics 
 he is a Republican and in religion a Presby- 
 terian. M. Sheffield is a member of the 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, and trustee of Chestnut Hill Acad- 
 emy. He has been an occasional contribu- 
 tor of articles to magazines. He is a mem- 
 ber of the University, Yale, Union League, 
 Republican and Lawyers' Clubs. Mr. Shef- 
 field married, in Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 2, 
 1898, Edith Todd, and they have one son. 
 Address: 5 William Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 SHELBY, David D.: 
 
 United States circuit judge; born in Mad- 
 ison County, Ala., Oct. 24, 1847; son of Dr. 
 David and Mary (Boulding) Shelby. He 
 studied law in Cumberland University, Leb- 
 anon, Tenn., was admitted to the bar in 
 1870, and practised at Huntsville, Ala., un- 
 til appointed by President McKinley, March 
 2, 1899, judge of the U. S. Circuit Court 
 for the Fifth Judicial Circuit, in which office 
 . he is still serving. Judge Shelby was for- 
 merly active in politics as a Republican 
 leader, was a member of the Alabama Sen- 
 ate, 1882-1884, and was the Republican nom- 
 inee for chief justice of Alabama in 1886. 
 He married in Huntsville, Ala., in 1872, 
 Annie Davis. Address: Huntsville, Ala. 
 
 SHELDON, John Lewis: 
 
 Professor of botany and' bacteriology; 
 born in Volumtown, Conn., Nov. 10, 1865; 
 son of Samuel H. and Lucy A. (Lewis) 
 Slieklon. He was graduated from Ohio 
 Northern University, B.Pd., B.Sc, 1895; 
 University of Nebraska, B.Sc, 1899, A.M., 
 1901, and Ph.D., 1903. He was instructor 
 in mathematics, Mt. Hermon School, 1892- 
 1894; instructor in botany. Preparatory 
 School to the State University (Nebraska), 
 
 1898-1899; acting head of the Department 
 of Biology, Nebraska State Normal School, 
 1899-1900; instructor in botany. University 
 of Nebraska, 1900-1903; fellow in botany, 
 1900-1903; professor of bacteriology and 
 bacteriologist of the West Virginia Agri- 
 cultural Experiment Station, 1903-1907, and 
 professor of botany and bacteriology at the 
 University of West Virginia since 1907, also 
 collaborator to the U. S. Department of Ag- 
 riculture. Professor Sheldon is a member 
 of the Sigma Xi fraternity, fellow of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science, associate member of the Botan- 
 ical Society of America; honorary member 
 of the Kappa Psi fraternity, Monongalia 
 County Medical Society, and the American 
 Health League. He married in Hopkins, 
 Mo., Aug. 21, 1907, Clara Adams Fleming, 
 and they have one son. Address: Morgan- 
 town, W. Va. 
 
 SHEPARD, Charles Sidney: 
 
 Capitalist, manufacturer; born in Bufi"alo, 
 N. Y., July 29, 1856; son of Sidney and 
 Elizabeth DeAngelis (Wells) Shepard. He 
 was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1878, and 
 Hamilton College, LL.B., 1879. After Ad- 
 mission to the New York State Bar in 1879, 
 was in the law oifice of INlarshall, Clinton 
 and Wilson, Buffalo; then became a partner 
 in Sidney Shepard and Company of Buffalo, 
 niaiuifacturers, taking active interest in the 
 management. He was relieved of this in 
 1891, but was partner until 1905, when the 
 firm became The Republic Metalware Com- 
 pany. After his father's death in 1893, 
 he succeeded to many of the latter's posi- 
 tions of trust, and to the care of his estate 
 he has since devoted his time. Mr. Shepard 
 is a special partner of S. D. Loring and Son, 
 bankers, of Boston; director and chairman 
 of The Republic Metalware Company of Buf- 
 falo, and director of the Western Union 
 Telegraph Company; Mobile and Ohio Rail- 
 road Company; Continental Trust Company 
 of Baltimore; International Trust Company 
 of Maryland, Baltimore; the Savannah 
 Trust Company, Savannah, Ga. ; the Cum- 
 berland Corporation; Carolina, Clinchfield 
 and Ohio Railway; the Electric Properties 
 I Company; United Railways Investment 
 
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 Company, and the Seaboard Air Line Rail- 
 way. He is a trustee of Cornell University, 
 member of the Delta Kappa, Phi Theta Psi, 
 Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternities, the Phi 
 Beta Kappa Society, the Buffalo and Saturn 
 Clubs of Buffalo, the Fortnightly Club of 
 Oswego, and' the University and Lawyers' 
 Clubs of New York City. Address : New 
 Haven, Oswego County, N. Y. 
 
 SHEPARD, Edward Martin: 
 
 Geologist and educator; born in West 
 Winsted, Conn., May 15, 1854; son of 
 Samuel and Mary Isabella (Dennis) Shep- 
 ard. He was educated in Xlussell's Col- 
 legiate and Military Institute, New Haven, 
 Conn., Williams College, Mass., A.B., 1878, 
 A.M., 1881; Peabod'y Academy of Science, 
 Salem, Mass.; and he received the degree 
 of Sc.D. from Waynesburg College in 1902. 
 He was curator of the Museum of Roanoke 
 College, Va., 1877-1878; professor of natu- 
 ral history in Waynesburg College, Pa., 
 1878. He then went to Drury College, 
 Springfield, Mo., in which he was professor 
 of biology and geology, 1878-1907, professor 
 of geology and mineralogy, 1907-1908; act- 
 ing president of Drury College, 1893-1894, 
 and in the summer of 1907, and dean of 
 the college faculty, 1903-1908, following 
 which service he took a trip around the 
 world, having also, ten years before, trav- 
 eled extensively among the Pacific Island's 
 and to Australia, Tasmania and New Zeal- 
 and. He is editor of the Bulletin of the 
 Geological Field, and is author of: Sys- 
 tematic Mineral Record (A. S. Barnes & 
 Co., New York) ; Table for Plant Analysis, 
 Springfield, Mo. ; Report on the Geology of 
 Greene and Portions of Polk, Dallas and 
 Webster Counties, Mo., Volume XII, Mis- 
 souri Geological Survey; papers in Bul- 
 letins of the U. S. Geological Survey — 
 notably Bulletin 190 on The Underground 
 Waters of Missouri ; article on The New 
 Madrid Earthquake, in the Journal of Ge- 
 ology, Jan., 1905; and" geological papers in 
 various journals. Professor Shepard is a 
 member of the American Institute of Min- 
 ing Engineers; fellow of the Geological 
 Society of America; member of the Amer- 
 ican Mining Congress, and National Geo- 
 
 graphic Society; member and delegate to 
 the Tenth International Congress of Geol- 
 ogists, Mexico. He is an assistant geol- 
 ogist of the Missouri Geological Survey; 
 was a member of the Board of Managers, 
 1893, vice-president, 1901-1906, secretary, 
 1906, and acting State geologist, 1901. He 
 was field assistant of the U. S. Geological 
 Survey, Department of Hydrolog;^^ in 
 charge of Missouri, 1903-1907. Professor 
 Shepard is also consulting geologist to the 
 Sphalerite Mining Company of Aurora, 
 Mo. He is historian of the Missouri So- 
 ciety of Sons of the Revolution; lieutenant- 
 governor of the Missouri Society of Colon- 
 ial Wars, and a member of the Missouri 
 Historical Society, the Springfield Club and 
 the Springfield Country Club (vice-pres- 
 ident). He married in Madison, N. J., 
 June 28, 1881, Harriett Elma Ohlen, and 
 they have two children. Address: 1403 
 Benton Avenue, Springfield, Mo. 
 
 SHEPARD, Edward Morse: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, July 23, 
 1850; son of Lorenzo B. and Lucy (Morse) 
 Shepard. He was educated in public 
 schools, the preparatory school of Oberlin 
 (Ohio) College, the College of the City of 
 New York, A.B., 1869; and he has received 
 the degree of LL.D. from Washington and 
 Lee University, Williams' College and Tu- 
 lane University. As special attorney-gen- 
 eral he directed' the prosecution of the 
 famous boss, John Y. McKane, and twenty 
 other offenders, for ballot-box stuffing at 
 Gravesend, Coney Island, in 1893. He is 
 active in Democratic and reform politics ; 
 was chairman of the Civil Service Board of 
 Brooklyn; was a leader in the Democratic 
 Reform Party, Brooklyn, 1892-1893; was 
 Democratic candidate for mayor of New 
 York in 1901 ; and is a promoter of tariff 
 reform, civil service reform, ballot reform, 
 tax reform, and other reforms. Mr. Shepard 
 is president and director of the Berkshire 
 Apartment Association; director of the Al- 
 varez Land and Timber Company. Brooklyn 
 Academy of Music, Brooklyn Trust Com- 
 pany, Coahuila Coal Railroad Company; 
 Compania Metallurgical Mexicana, Mexican 
 Coal and Coke Company, Mexican Mineral 
 
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 Railway Company, IMexican Northern Rail- 
 way Company, Montezuma Lead Company, 
 Morristown and Erie Railroad Company; 
 Patterson, the Gottfried and Hunter 
 Company, Potosi and Rio Verde Railway 
 Company; Sombrerete Mininff Company; 
 Teziutlan Copper Company, and the Tetziut- 
 lan Copper Mining and Smelting Company. 
 He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of 
 the College of the City of New York; vice- 
 president of the Winifred Masterson Burke 
 Relief Foundation, and' trustee of the Packer 
 Collegiate Institute. Mr. Shepard is author 
 of: A Life of INIartin Van Buren, and mon- 
 ographs, articles and addresses on social, 
 economic, political and historiciil subjects. 
 He is vice-president of the Association of 
 the Bar of the City of New York, a mem- 
 ber of the Century, University, Alpha Delta 
 Phi, and Reform Clubs of New York City 
 and the Hamilton and University Clubs of 
 Brooklyn. Residence: 44 Pierrepont Street, 
 Brooklyn. Office: 128 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 SHEPARD, Frederick M. : 
 
 Manufacturer, merchant ; born in Norfolk, 
 Conn., Sept. 24, 1827; son of John A. and 
 Margaret (Mills) Shepard. He was educat- 
 ed in the public schools and Norfolk Acad- 
 emy. He is president of the Goodyear Rub- 
 ber Company, Rubber Clothing Company, 
 Lambertville Rubber Company, Orange 
 Water Company, Norfolk Water Company; 
 director of the United States Rubber Com- 
 pany, Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com- 
 pany of Newark, N. J. ; president of the 
 East Orange Safe Deposit and' Trust Com- 
 pany; member of the New England So- 
 ciety of Orange, N. J. ; Metropolitan Mu- 
 seum of Art; president of the Essex County 
 Park Commission and the Advisory Board 
 of Orange Memorial Hospital. He married 
 at Colebrook, Conn., Sept. 28, 1854, Annie 
 C. Rockwell, and' they have three sons and 
 two daugliters. Residence: I'ast Orange, 
 N. J. Address: 787 Broadway, New York 
 City. 
 
 SHEPARD, Seth: 
 
 Jurist; born in Washington County, 
 Texas, April 23, 1847; son of Chauncey 
 
 Berkeley Shepard, who was one of the 
 early settlers of Texas, and of Mary 
 Hester (Andrews) Shepard. After attend- 
 ing private schools, and a short time in the 
 Texas Military Institute at Bastrop, he en- 
 listed July 4, 1804, in the Fifth Texas 
 Alounted Volunteers, in tlie Confederate 
 States Army, and served until the surren- 
 der. He then entered Washington College 
 in Virginia (now Washington and Lee Uni- 
 versity), and was graduated, B.L., 1868. 
 He practised law at Brenhara, Galveston 
 and Dallas, Texas, from admission in 1869, 
 and held a leading place at the Texas 
 bar until appointed by President Cleveland 
 in 1893, as one of the associate justices of 
 the Court of Appeals of the District of 
 Columbia, from which position he was pro- 
 moted Jan. 5, 1905, to his present office 
 as chief justice of that court. Judge Shep- 
 ard is a Democrat, and in 1874 Avas elected 
 to the State Senate of Texas; and was a 
 member of the Board of Regents of the 
 University of Texas, 1883-1891. George- 
 town University conferred upon Judge Shep- 
 ard the degree of LL.D. in 1895, and in the 
 same year he was appointed a lecturer on 
 constitutional law, equity jurisprudence, 
 and the law of corporations in the School of 
 Law of Georgetown University, in which 
 connection he continues. Judge Shepard is 
 a fellow of the Texas Historical Association, 
 the Southern Historical Association, LTnited 
 Confederate Veterans, Sons of the American 
 Revolution, Society of Mayflower, Descend- 
 ants, and the American Bar Association, and 
 is president of the Southern Industrial Edu- 
 cational Association. He married, first, 
 Jan. 18, 1882, Caroline Nelson Goree, and 
 second, March 25, 1890, Etta K. Jarvis. 
 Address: 1447 Massachusetts Avenue, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 SHEPPARD, John Evans: 
 
 Physician; born in Greenwich, N. J., June 
 1, 1859 ; son of George Wood and Ruth 
 (Bacon) Shepard. He was educated in 
 Yardley Warner Private School, German- 
 town, Pa., 1868-1871, Westtown Boarding 
 School, 1872-1874; graduated from Harvard 
 College, A.B., 1879, and University of Penn- 
 sylvania, M.D., 1882. He was interne at 
 
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 the Pennsylvania and University Hospitals, 
 Philadelphia, 18S2-1883, in general prac- 
 tice in Atlantic City, N. J., 1883-1888, and 
 while there attending physician to Mercer 
 Memorial Home, and the Sea Shore Annex 
 of Friends Insane Asylum of Frankford, 
 Pa., also a term as health olHcer, and in 
 si^ecial practice of the ear, nose and throat 
 in Brooklyn, since 1889. He is a director of 
 the Borough Bank of Brooklyn, and the 
 Brooklyn Development Company. He is a 
 member of the American Otological Society, 
 American Laryngological, Rhinological and 
 Otological Society, American Academy of 
 Medicine, American Medical Association, 
 New York Otological Society, New York 
 State Medical Society, Kings County Medical 
 Society, Kings County Pathological Society, 
 the Associated Physicians of Long Is- 
 land, trustee of the Kings County Medi- 
 cal Society (president in 1904, 1905) ; mem- 
 ber of the Hamilton, Dyker Meadow Golf, 
 Long Island Automobile, and the Winter's 
 Night Clubs. He married in Brooklyn, Aug. 
 11, 1894, Janet A. Campbell, and they have 
 a daughter. Residence: 37 Pierrepont 
 Street. Ollice : 130 Montague Street, 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 SHEPPARD, Morris: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born at Wheat- 
 ville, Morris County, Texas, May 28, 187o; 
 son of John Levi and Alice ( Eddins ) . He 
 was graduated from the University of 
 Texas, A.B., 1895, LL.B., 1897; entered the 
 University of Texas in 1891, taking the de- 
 grees of A.B. in 1895, and LL.B. in 1897; 
 was commencement orator in the academic 
 department. University of Texas, 1895 ; en- 
 tered Yale University in 1897, taking the 
 degree of LL.]\I., 1898, winning Wayland 
 prize debate, Yale Law School, 1898 and de- 
 livering the master's oration at the com- 
 mencement of Y'ale Law School, 1898 and 
 was elected a member of the Phi Beta 
 Kappa (Alpha of Texas) in 1904. He has 
 been sovereigTi banker, or national treasurer 
 of the Woodmen of the World since 1899, 
 and' was elected the first president of the 
 Texas Fraternal Congress at Dallas, 1901. 
 He began the practice of law at Pittsburg, 
 Texas, in 1898, and moved to Texarkana in 
 
 1899. He has been a National campaign 
 speaker for Democratic nominees since 1903. 
 He was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress 
 to fill out the unexpired term of his father, 
 the Hon. John L. Shepard, deceased ; also 
 elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and 
 Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses from the 
 First Texas District. Address: Texarkana, 
 Texas. 
 
 SHEPPARD, William B.: 
 
 U. S. district judge; born in Liberty 
 County, Fla., Oct. 4, 18G0; son of Joseph 
 and' Cynthia (McAlily) Sheppard. After 
 pursuing literary and law courses in the 
 University of North Carolina he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar and practised law at Apa- 
 lachicola, Fla. He became prominent in 
 politics as a Republican, served as collector 
 of customs through the Benjamin Harison 
 administration, 1889-1894, and the first Mc- 
 Kinley administration, 1897-1901; was may- 
 or of Apalachicola, Fla., 1894; was appoint- 
 ed by President Roosevelt \J. S. district at- 
 torney for the Northern District of Florida, 
 serving, 1903-1907, and was appointed Sept. 
 5, 1907, to his present office as judge of 
 the United States District Court for 
 the Northern District of Florida. Address: 
 Pensacola, Fla. 
 
 SHERXEY, Swagar: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Louis- 
 ville, ky., Nov. 28, 1871; son of Thomas H. 
 and Ella (Swagar) Sherley. He studied 
 law in the University of Virginia, and was 
 graduated, B.L., 1891; was admitted to the 
 practice of law, September, 1891, at the 
 Louisville bar, and' has practised continu- 
 ously in State and Federal courts since. 
 He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme 
 Court of the United States, 1898. Mr. Sher- 
 ley was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty- 
 ninth and Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congress- 
 es from the Fifth Kentucky District, as a 
 Democrat. Residence: 207 West Brecken- 
 ridge Street. Office : Louisville Trust Build- 
 ing, Louisville, Ky. 
 
 SHERMAN, Elijah Bernis: 
 
 IMaster in chancery of the U. S. Circuit 
 Court; born in Fairfield, Vt., June 18, 1832 j 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 son of Elias Huntington and Clarissa (Wel- 
 niarth) Sherman; descendant of Samuel 
 Sherman of Dedham, England, who settled 
 in Stratford, Conn., in 1G34, and on the ma- 
 ternal side from the Welsh pioneer, patriot 
 and preacher, Peter Worden. He was grad- 
 uated from the Middlebury College, Vt., A. 
 B., with honors, 18G0, A.M., and later re- 
 ceiving its degree of LL.D. ; and was after- 
 ward engaged in teaching for two years, 
 enlisting in the spring of 1862 in Company 
 C, Ninth Vermont Infantrj^, of which he 
 was elected second lieutenant. The regiment 
 cajjtured at Harper's Ferry, paroled and 
 sent to Camp Douglas, Chicago. Weary of 
 enforced idleness he resigned in Jan. 1863, 
 began the study of the Law and was gradu- 
 ated from the Law Department of the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago, LL.B., 1864. He was 
 admitted to the Illinois bar, 1864, and to 
 the bar of the Supreme Court of the United 
 States in 1880; was attorney for the audi- 
 tor of Hlinois, 1877-1889; and since 1879 
 has been master in chancery of the U. S. 
 Circuit Court. He was a member of the 
 Illinois Legislature, 1876-1880; and served 
 eight years as lieutenant-colonel and judge 
 advocate of the First Brigade, Illinois Na- 
 tional Guard. He has been president of the 
 Illinois State Bar Association, vice-presi- 
 dent of the American Bar Association; is 
 a. member of the Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion, and the Grand Army of the 
 Republic; a 32d-degree INIason, and a past 
 grand master of the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows. Mr. Sherman was the presi- 
 dent from 1893 to 1900, and' ever since that 
 time he has been honorary ])resideiit of the 
 Delta Upsilon fraternity; is a member of 
 the Union League and Delta Upsilon Clubs 
 of Chicago, and has been president of the 
 New England Society of Chicago, the Illi- 
 nois Association of the Sons of Vermont, 
 the Saracen Club, Alliance Club, and the 
 Oakland Culture Club of Chicago; and he 
 is a trustee of Middlebury College, Vt. Mr. 
 Sherman married in Chicago, Sept. 7, 1866, 
 Harriet Gertrude Lovering, of Iowa Falls, 
 Iowa, and they have one son. Residence: 
 3985 Drexel Boulevard. Office: Federal 
 Building, Chicago. 
 
 SHERMAN, Frank Dempster: 
 
 Professor of graphics; born in Peekskill, 
 N. Y., May 6, 1860; son of John Dempster 
 .'md Lucy (MacFarland) Sherman. He 
 was graduated from the School of Mines, 
 Columbia LTniversity, Ph.B., 1884, post-grad- 
 uate 1884-1885, Harvard University. He is 
 author of: Madrigals and Catches; Lyrics 
 for a Lute, Little-folk Lyrics, Lyrics of Joy, 
 New Waggings of Old Tales (with John 
 Kendrick Bangs), and a Southern Flight 
 (with Clinton Scotland). He is a member 
 of the Century Club of New York, National 
 Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Psi 
 Upsilon fraternity of Columbia. He mar- 
 ried in Peekskill, N. Y., Nov. 16, 1887, 
 Juliet Mersereau Durand, and they have one 
 son. Residence: 158 West 105th Street. 
 Office: Columbia University, New York 
 City. 
 
 SHERMAN, Gordon Edward: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Morristown, N. J., Aug. 
 11, 1854; son of Byron and Julia A. (Burn- 
 ham) Sherman; his lineal ancestor on his 
 father's side was a graduate of Emanuel 
 College, Bainbridge, England; and on that 
 of his mother of Oxford University. He be- 
 gan his education in College Gillard, Lau- 
 sanne, Switzerland; and was graduated 
 from the Sheffield Scientific School ( Yale ) , 
 Ph.B., 1876 and from Washing-ton Univer- 
 sity Law School, St. Louis, LL.B. 1878. He 
 was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1879, 
 and the New York bar in 1885. Mr. Sher- 
 man was instructor at Yale University in 
 comparative constitution of law and the 
 German imperial code, 1906-1907. He served 
 for some years as secretary of a local im- 
 provement society at Morris Plains, where 
 lie owns extensive real estate interests. He 
 brought to light in the Yale Law Journal, 
 in 1905, the case of Chandler vs. The Secre- 
 tary of War, the first case in which the U. 
 S. Supreme Court ever held an act of Con- 
 gress void, because repugnant to the United 
 States Constitution. This case was known 
 to Chief Justice Marshall, but had remained 
 lost to the legal profession for a century. 
 He has also contributed other articles on 
 comjjarative constitutional law, citizenship, 
 
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 etc., to the Yale Law Journal. Mr. Sher- 
 man is a member of the Morristown Civic 
 Association, of the New Jersey Historical 
 Society, the American Historical Associa- 
 tion the American Political Science Associa- 
 tion, the American Society of International 
 Law, the New York State Bar Association, 
 the Association of the Bar of the City of 
 New York, the American Bar Association (of 
 whose Comparative Law Bureau he is the 
 editor for Switzerland), the International 
 Association of Comparative Jurisprudence 
 and Political Economy of Berlin, Prussia. 
 In politics he is a Republican, and he be- 
 longs to the Presbyterian Church. He has 
 sailed twice around the Cape of Good Hope, 
 and has traveled extensively in Switzerland, 
 France, Germany and England. He is a 
 trustee of the Morris County Bar Associa- 
 tion, of the South Street Presbyterian 
 Church of Morristown, and is a director 
 of the ]\Iorristown Memorial Hospital. He 
 married in Morristown, N. J., June 12, 1894, 
 Harriet E. Shelton. Residence: Ogden 
 Place. Office: Morristown, N. J. 
 
 SHERMAN, Henry Handrick: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Lynn, Pa., Jan. 4, 1860; 
 son of Henry N. and Estella Theresa (Hand- 
 rick) Sherman. He was graduated from 
 the College of the City of New York and the 
 Law School of Columbia College; and was 
 admitted to the bar in New York City, in 
 1883. For several years he was a clerk 
 in the law office of Governor Samuel J. 
 Tilden, and he has practised in the New 
 York Courts since 1883. Mr. Sherman was 
 associated in law practice for many years 
 with Hon. Charles F. MacLean, now 
 justice of the Supreme Court of New 
 York. He was private secretary to Mayor 
 Abram S. Hewitt, 1887-1888, under sheriff, 
 189.5-1897, deputy register, 1903-1905, and 
 member of the Board of Education, 1906- 
 1907. Mr. Sherman is trustee of the Nor- 
 mal College of the City of New York; 
 treasurer of the General Church Club of 
 the Bronx; member of the Association of 
 the Bar of the City of New York, Asso- 
 ciation of the Bar of the Borough of the 
 Bronx, Royal Arcanum, and of the Schnorer 
 and Bronx Clubs, being secretary of the lat- 
 
 ter. He married in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 
 March 31, 1888, Jessie Wheaton Rhodes, and 
 they have three children. Address: 1000 
 Trinity Avenue, New York City. 
 
 SHERMAN, James Schoolcraft: 
 
 Vice-President of the United States; born 
 in Utica, N. Y., Oct. 24, 1855; son of Rich- 
 ard W. and Mary Francis Sherman. He 
 was graduated from Hamilton College in 
 the class of 1878; was admitted to the bar 
 in 1880, and has since been engaged in the 
 practice of law. He is president of the 
 Utica Trust and Deposit Company, and 
 president of the New Hartford Canning 
 Company. Mr. Sherman was mayor of 
 Utica, 1884; delegate to the Republican 
 National Convention in 1892; chairman of 
 New York State Republican Convention in 
 1895 and again in 1900. He was elected 
 to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-third, Fif- 
 ty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-sev- 
 enth, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth 
 Congresses from the Twenty-seventh New 
 York District. In 1908 he was nominated 
 for the vice-presidency on the Republican 
 ticket and took an active part in the cam- 
 paign, and elected for the term ending 
 March 3, 1913. Residence: Utica, N. Y. 
 Oflicial address: Washington, D. C. 
 
 Sherman Philemon Tecumseh: 
 
 Lawyer; born in St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 9, 
 1867; son of General William T. and Ellen 
 (Ewing) Sherman. He was graduated from 
 St. Louis University, A.B., 1886, from Yale, 
 Ph.B., 1888, and studied in the Columbia 
 Law School until 1890. That year he was 
 admitted to the bar in New York and is 
 now a member of the law firm of Taft and 
 Sherman. He was alderman of New York 
 City, 1898-1899, and. he was commissioner 
 of "labor of the State of New York, 1905 
 to 1907. Mr. Sherman is author of: In- 
 side the Machine. He is a member of the 
 Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, the ISIilitary Order of the Loyal Le- 
 gion, the Ohio Society; a member of the 
 Board of INIanagers of the State Charities 
 Aid Association; treasurer of the Anti-poli- 
 cy Society, and' a member of the Union 
 League of New York City, the Metropolitan 
 
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 Club of Wasliington, and the Fort Orange 
 and University Clubs of Albany. Address: 
 15 ^^■illianl Street, New York City. 
 
 SHERRILL, Charles Hitchcock: 
 
 American minister to the Argentine Re- 
 jjublic; born in Washington, D. C, April 
 13, 1807; son of Charles Hitchcock and 
 Sarah Fulton (Wynkoop) Sherrill. He 
 was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1889, LL.B., 
 1891, A.M., 1892. He engaged in the gen- 
 eral practice of law in New Y'ork City, but 
 chiefly corporation j^ractice. He Avas colonel 
 and aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor 
 Higgins, also for four years aide-de-camp on 
 the staff of Governor Odell. He has always 
 been interested in politics. In the two Mc- 
 Kinley campaigns he organized the Law- 
 yers' Sound Money Club, and was one of 
 the committee of five that conducted the 
 monster business pai'ades of those two cam- 
 jjaigns. He was also, during the Roosevelt 
 camiiaign, one of the committee of five in 
 charge of the Business Men's Eepublican 
 Association, and its third vice-president. 
 He was appointed by President Taft, March 
 2.3, 1900, envoy extraordinary and minister 
 plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic. 
 Colonel Sherrill is a member of the Asso- 
 ciation of the Bar of the City of New York, 
 Sons of the Revolution, Colonial Wars, 
 Founders and Patriots, War of 1812, and 
 the Delta Kappa Epsilon Association. He 
 is much interested in athletic sports, being- 
 chairman of Yale Graduate Advisory Com- 
 mittee on Track Athletics. He was the 
 originator of the idea of international inter- 
 university track athletic meetings, having 
 arranged the Yale-Oxford match in Lon- 
 don in 1894, and the Yale-Cambridge match 
 in New York City in 1895. He won the 
 intercollegiate championship for 100-yards 
 four years; 220-yards three years, and the 
 American 100-yard championship in 1887. 
 He is a member of the University, Union 
 League, Yale, Army and Navy, and New 
 York Athletic Clubs; Luncheon Club of 
 New York; Metropolitan Club of Wash- 
 ington; Graduates' Club of New Haven, 
 and the Sports, Isthmian, and Leander 
 Clubs of London. He married, Feb. 8, 1906, 
 G. B. Gibbs. Home: 20 East Sixty-fifth 
 
 Street. Official address : American Lega- 
 tion, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
 
 SHERWOOD, Bradford Wyckoff: 
 
 Physician and surgeon; born in Jamesville, 
 N. Y., April 18, 1859; son of Bradford and 
 Adelaide (Wyckoff) Sherwood. He was 
 graduated from the Syracuse Classical 
 School, 1877, Hamilton College, A.B., 1882, 
 A.M., 1885, Hahnemann Medical College of 
 Philadelphia, M.D., 1890, and the Philadel- 
 phia Lying In Charity. He has been prac- 
 tising medicine in Syracuse since 1890, his 
 specialty being general surgery; also prom- 
 inent in public health questions; chairman 
 of the Health Committee, Syracuse Chamber 
 of Commerce, 1907-1908, and vice-president 
 of the New York State Homeopathic Med- 
 ical Society, 1905-190G; ex-president of the 
 Medico Chirurgical Society, member of the 
 Onondaga County Medical Society, Medico- 
 Chirurgical Society, New York State Hom- 
 eopathic Medical Society, American Insti- 
 tute of Homeopathy; director of Syracuse 
 Chamber of Commerce, 1907-1908, 1909- 
 1910; member of the Theta Delta Chi fra- 
 ternity; is a Mason and a member of the 
 University Club of Syracuse. He married 
 in Syracuse, Nov. 1, 1883, Cora L. Poland, 
 and they have three children. Address: 
 1117 South Salina Street, Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 SHERWOOD, Isaac R.: 
 
 Journalist and congressman ; born in 
 Stanford, Dutchess County, N. Y., Aug. 13, 
 1835; son of Aaron and Maria (Yeomans) 
 Sherwood, and descendant of Dr. Thomas 
 Sherwood, who sailed from Ipswich, Eng- 
 land, in 1634, and settled at Fairfield, Conn. 
 General Sherwood was educated at the 
 Hudson River Institute, Claversack, N. Y., 
 Antioch College, Ohio, and Ohio Law Col- 
 lege, Poland, Ohio. He bought the W'illiams 
 County Gazette, Bryan, Ohio, and was elect- 
 ed probate judge of Williams County in 1860. 
 On April 1(3, 1801, the day following Presi- 
 dent Lincoln's call for volunteers, he enlisted 
 as a private in the 14th Ohio Volunteer Cav- 
 ah-y, in which he served in the first battles 
 of the war: Philippi, Laurel Mountain, 
 and Carrick's Ford. He recruited the 11th 
 Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered 
 
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 in with liis rogimcnt at Toledo, and made 
 adjutant, Sept. 11, 18(12. He was promoted 
 major, Feb. 14, 18G3; lieutenant-colonel, 
 Feb. 2, 1864; colonel, Sept. 8, 1864. Owing 
 to detail or sickness of ranking officers he 
 commanded the regiment throughout its 
 entire field service, beginning with the John 
 Morgan campaign in Kentucky, in 1863, to 
 the muster out in July, 1865, embracing 
 over thirty battles and engagements, and, 
 Feb. 16, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier- 
 general by President Lincoln for long and 
 faithful service and conspicuous gallantry 
 at the battles of Resaca, Franklin and Nash- 
 ville. After the war he was editor of the 
 Toledo Commercial, and later editorial 
 writer for the Cleveland Leader. He was 
 elected in 1868, and reelected 1870, secretary 
 of State of Ohio, serving four years; and 
 he was elected in 1872 to the Forty-third 
 Congress, from the Sixth Ohio District. 
 He bought the Toledo Journal and edited 
 it for nine years. He was elected probate 
 judge of Lucas County, Ohio, in 1878, on 
 the National ticket, and was reelected in 
 1881, as a Democrat and Independent, serv- 
 ing six years. He was elected to the Six- 
 tieth Congress in 1906, as an independent 
 Democrat, and reelected in 1908 to the 
 Sixty-first Congress. General Sherwood has 
 been a continuous contributor of i^olitical 
 and historic articles to newspapers and 
 magazines, and his Army Gray Back (illus- 
 trated poem) was published in book form 
 and ran through three editions. He is a 
 member of the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion, Grand Army of the Republic, So- 
 ciety of the Army of the Ohio, and Society 
 of the Army of the Cumberland. He mar- 
 ried in Roland, Ohio, Sept. 1, 1859, Kate 
 M. Brownlee. Address: 2123 Ashland Ave- 
 nue, Toledo, Ohio. 
 
 SHERWOOD, Kate Brownlee: 
 
 Editor; born in Poland, Ohio, Sept. 24, 
 1841; daughter of Judge James and' Re- 
 becca (Mullen) Brownlee. She was edu- 
 cated in the Poland Union Seminary, and 
 married in Poland, Ohio, Sept. 1, 1859, 
 Isaac R. Sherwood, by whom she has a son 
 and a daughter. Mrs. Sherwood has been 
 a constant contributor to magazines and 
 
 newspapers, and is especially well known 
 as a poet and song-writer. Her verse has 
 appeared in many of the magazines and in 
 several standard antliologies, and she has 
 also published two volumes: Camp Fire 
 and Memorial Poems; and Dream of the 
 Ages, a Poem of Columbia. Mrs. Sherwood 
 has also made numerous translations from 
 the French and German. She has taken 
 an active part in the Woman's Relief Corps 
 of the Grand Army of the Republic, in 
 which she has served' as national organ- 
 izer and as the second national president. 
 Slie is honorary president of the Ohio News- 
 paper Women's Association; is chairman of 
 the committee on citizensJiip of the Na- 
 tional Council of Women of the United 
 States. She is active in women's clubs 
 and the Daughters of the American Revo- 
 lution. Address: 2133 Ashland Avenue, 
 Toledo, Ohio. 
 
 SHERWOOD, Margaret Pollock: 
 
 Author and college professor; born in 
 Ballston, N. Y., Nov. 1, 1864; daughter 
 of Thomas Burr and ]\Iary Frances (Be- 
 attie) Sherwood'. She was graduated from 
 Vassar College, B.A., 1886, University of 
 Zurich and Oxford, 1888, and Yale Univer- 
 sity, Ph.D., 1898. She is author of: An 
 Experiment in Altruism, Henry Worthing- 
 ton, Story of King Sylvain and Queen 
 Aimee, Daphene, The Coming of the Tide, 
 and the Princess Pourquai, and contribu- 
 tions to magazines : Scribner's, the At- 
 lantic, and McClure's. She is a member of 
 the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Address: 
 Wellesley, Mass. 
 
 SHERWOOD-DUNN, Berkeley: 
 
 Banker; born at Rushford, Allegheny 
 County, N. Y. ; son of William Erwin and 
 Harriet Isabella (Peterson) Dunn. He was 
 educated in New York University, the 
 University of France, Paris, graduating 
 as bachelier-es-lettres, 1887; bachelier-es- 
 scienees, 1888. He practised medicine in 
 Paris, France, 1888-1895; and traveled over 
 continental Europe and all over the LTnited 
 States. He was appointed American mem- 
 ber of the committee to revise the laAvs 
 governing foreign students admitted to the 
 
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 University of France, in 1892; was one of 
 the founders and director of the Society 
 for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 
 Paris; delegate from the U. S. Government 
 to the International ]\Iedical Congress, Am- 
 sterdam, Holland, 1897; reentered business, 
 1898; was part owner and editor of Annals 
 of Gynecology and Pediatry, Boston, 1898. 
 He is author of: Medical Educiition in 
 France; How I Married in France; Mothers 
 and Daughters; The Sociological Aspect of 
 the Dreyfus Case; Gynecic Surgery in Its 
 Pielation to Nervous Diseases; From Ob- 
 scurity to Fame in One Day. He is now 
 president and a director of the New 
 Jersey and Delaware Pvailroad Com- 
 pany; director of the Delaware and North- 
 ampton Railroad, Bankers' Life Insurance 
 Company, Quaker Portland Cement Com- 
 pany, Lehigh Construction Company; vice- 
 president and director of the First National 
 Bank of Aiken, S. C, and director of the 
 Aiken Savings Bank and of the Bank of 
 Wagner, S. C. He was elected for- 
 eign corresponding member of the So- 
 cietg Obstetrique et Gynecologique de 
 Paris, 1895; member of the Societe Clinique 
 des Praticiens de France; member of the 
 American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science, American Geographical Society, 
 American Association of Obstetricians and 
 Gynecologists, American Forestry Associa- 
 tion, Alumni Society of New York Univer- 
 sity, Societe de I'Alliance Frangaise de New 
 York. He was decorated by the French 
 Government, 1893, with the cross of Officier 
 dAcademie Francaise. Dr. Sherwood-Dunn 
 is a member of the Automobile Club of 
 America, Lawyers', and the New York Ath- 
 letic Clubs. He married at Nice, France, 
 1892, Louise Lacy Kna])p, daughter of 
 Royal C. Knapp of Rochester, N. Y., and 
 they have four children. Residence: Mont- 
 clair, N. J.; winter, Aiken, S. C. 
 
 SHINN, Florence Scovel: 
 
 Illustrator; born in Camden, N. J.; 
 daughter of Alden Cortlandt and Emily 
 (Hopkinson) Scovel. She married in Phil- 
 adelphia, 1898, Everett Shinn. Among the 
 books she illustrated are: Tlie Autobiog- 
 raphy of a Tom-boy, The Tom-boy at Work, 
 
 ]\Irs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Lovey 
 jNIary, The Mennonite ]\Iaid, Coniston, The 
 Van Dwellers, The Talking Woman. Ad- 
 dross: 112 Waverly Place, New Y^ork City. 
 
 SHIPLEY, George: 
 
 Editor of the Baltimore American; born 
 in Baltimore, March 13, 18C7; son of Rev. 
 J. Lester and Elizabeth Augusta (Gere) 
 Shipley. He was graduated from Ran- 
 dolph-Macon College, A.B., 1887, A.M., 1888, 
 Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, 1897, 
 received the mathematical prize from Ran- 
 dolph-Macon in 1887, and prizes in English 
 in 1888. He taught in various schools, 
 1888-1891 and 1894-1897, and editor of The 
 American since 1897. He is a member of 
 the Modern Language Association, of the 
 Advisory Council of the Simplified Spelling 
 Board, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and 
 Beta Theta Pi fraternity, also a member 
 of the University Club of Baltimore, and 
 the Baltimore Country, and Johns Hopkins 
 Clubs. Address: 801 North Charles Street, 
 Baltimore. 
 
 SHIPP, Scott: 
 
 Soldier, educator; born in Warrenton, 
 Va., Aug. 2, 1839; son of John and Lucy 
 Blackwell (Scott) Shipp. He was educated 
 in Westminster College, the Virginia IVIili- 
 tary Institute, and Lexington Law School, 
 and received the LL.D. degree from Wash- 
 ington and Lee University. He was a civil 
 engineer for one year; assistant professor 
 of Latin at the Virginia Military Institute; 
 was commandant and superintendent of 
 the Virginia Military Institute. He is a 
 director of the Bank of Lexington, Va., 
 trustee of the Ann Smith Academy; was 
 member of the Board of Visitors of the 
 U. S. ]\Iilitary Academy, in 1890, and pres- 
 ident of the Board of Visitors of the U. S. 
 Naval Academy in 1894. He is a Demo- 
 crat and an Episcopalian. General Shipp 
 married in Warrenton, Va., Aug. 19, 1869, 
 Anne Alexander ]\Iorson, and they have 
 three children.' Address: Virginia INIilitary 
 Institute, Lexington, Va. 
 
 SHIPPEN, Hush Rhees: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Meadville, Pa., Jan. 
 18, 1828; son of Henry Shippen, a judge, 
 
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 and Elizabeth Wallis (Evans) Shippen. 
 He was graduated from Meadville, Pa., 
 private school, Allegheny College as A.M., 
 and Meadville Tlieological School. He 
 taught school one year and eight months; 
 minister of the First Unitarian Church of 
 Chicago, 1849-1857; preached a year at 
 Meadville, minister of Unity Church, Wor- 
 cester, Mass., 1858-1871; secretary of Amer- 
 ican Unitarian Association of Boston, 1871- 
 1881; minister of All Souls Church, Wash- 
 ington, 1881-1895; minister of Unity 
 Church. Broeton, Mass., 1895-1905, and 
 since 1905 has been retired, spending most 
 of his time in Europe. He married in 
 Oriskany Falls, N. Y., Oct. 10, 1855, Zoe 
 Rodman, and they have two children. Ad- 
 dress: 295 Ash Street, Broeton, Mass. 
 
 SHIRLAW, Walter: 
 
 Artist; born in Paisley, Scotland, Aug. 
 G, 1838, and was brought to the United 
 States when two years old. After com- 
 pleting his courses in the public schools, 
 he was apprenticed to a bank-note engraver, 
 and worked at that occupation imtil 1861. 
 He studied painting, making his first ex- 
 hibit at the exhibition of the National 
 Academy of Design in 1861, since which 
 time he has been professionally engaged as 
 an artist. Mr. Shirlaw studied and worked 
 in Munich, Bavaria, 1870-1877. He makes 
 a sijecialty of genre paintings and has also 
 done much illustration, and has executed 
 many important commissions for decora- 
 tive work. He was elected associate in 
 1887, and academician since 1888, of the 
 National Academy of Design; and was one 
 of the organizers and first president of the 
 Society of American Artists. Address : 39 
 West 25th Street, New York City. 
 
 SHIVELY, Benjamin F.: 
 
 U. S. senator from Indiana; born in St. 
 Joseph, Ind., March 20, 1857. He was 
 graduated from the University of Michigan, 
 LL.B., 1886, afterward taught school, and 
 later engaged in journalism. He was 
 elected to the Forty-eighth Congress to fill 
 a vacancy, and was afterward elected to 
 the Fiftieth, Fifty-first and Fifty-second 
 Congresses, serving 1887-1893. Mr. Shively 
 
 has long been a leader of the Indiana 
 Democracy; was the Democratic nominee 
 for governor in 1896, and received the Dem- 
 ocratic vote for United States senator in 
 the Indiana Legislature, in 1903, 1905 and 
 1909, being elected in the latter session 
 for the term expiring March 3, 1915. Ad- 
 dress : South Bend, Ind. 
 
 SHOEMAKER, Henry Francis: 
 
 Capitalist; born at Orwigsburg, Pa., 
 March 28, 1845; son of John Wise and 
 Mary A. (Brock) Shoemaker. He was 
 graduated from the Genesee Seminary, 
 Lima, N. Y., in 1801, and' received an ap- 
 pointment to the v. S. Naval Academy, 
 but entered the Army instead, at the open- 
 ing of the Civil War ; was on the staff 
 of General McClernand, 1861-1862, and 
 commissioned first lieutenant of the Twenty- 
 sixth Pennsylvania Regiment in 1863. He 
 was engaged in the anthracite coal business, 
 1805-1881; was interested in railroads for 
 many years; chairman of the Cincinnati, 
 Hamilton and Dayton Railway, 1887-1904; 
 chairman of the Cincinnati, New Orleans 
 and Texas Pacific Railway, 1899-1904; and 
 is now a director of the Trust Company of 
 America, the Chatham National Bank, 
 Night and Day Bank, and Battery Park 
 National Bank, all of New York ; the Cin- 
 cinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway 
 Company, Pere Marquette Railway Con- 
 pany. New River Coal Company of Ohio, 
 the People's Bank and Trust Company of 
 New Jersey, and other corporations. He is 
 a director of the Good Samaritan Dispen- 
 sary of New York, a member of the Metro- 
 politan Museum of Art, and also a member 
 of the IMetropolitan, LTnion League, Law- 
 yers', New York Yacht, Automobile of 
 America, Riding, Army and Navy, and 
 other New York clubs. ]\Ir. Shoemaker 
 married, April 22, 1874, Blanche Quiggle, 
 and has three children. Mr. Shoemaker has 
 country seats at Lititz, Pa., and Riverside, 
 Conn. Address: 20 West 53d Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 SHONTS, Theodore Perry: 
 
 Railway onicial; born in Crawford 
 County, Pa., May 5, 1856; son of Dr. Henry 
 
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 Daniels and Margaret Nevin (Marshall) 
 Shonts. He went with his parents, in boy- 
 hood', to Appanoose County, Iowa, and he 
 was graduated from Monmouth (HI.) Col- 
 lege, in 1870. After graduation he became 
 an accountant, and in a very short time 
 was employed by national banks in Iowa 
 to standardize and simplify their methods 
 of bookkeeping. While so engaged he stud- 
 ied' law and practised a short time at 
 Centerville, Iowa. He became associated 
 with General Drake, who had large finan- 
 cial and railroad interests, and who 
 placed much of the work of management 
 and construction in his hand's; and he 
 had charge of the construction of the 
 Iowa Central Railroad, and afterward 
 built the Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska 
 Eailroad, and later the Indiana, Illinois 
 and Iowa. Railroad, and its controlling 
 owner, later selling it to the Lake Shore 
 and ^Michigan Southern Railroad Com- 
 pany; then, after a few months of rest 
 and travel, he returned to the railroad 
 business, and with associates secured the 
 control of the Toledo. St. Louis and West- 
 ern Railroad (Clover Leaf Road), which 
 he rehabilitated and made successful. He 
 was selected in the spring of 1905, by 
 President Roosevelt, as chairman of the 
 Isthmian Canal Commission, formulating 
 the plans for that great work, and he 
 continued at its head until Feb., 1907, when 
 he took his present position as president 
 of the Interborough-Metropolitan Company. 
 in charge of the surface car and rapid 
 transit systems of New York City; also 
 president of the Chicago and Alton, To- 
 ledo, St. Louis and Western, Detroit and 
 Toledo Shore Line, IMinneapolis and St. 
 Louis and Iowa Central Railway compa- 
 nies. Mr. Shonts married at Centerville, 
 Iowa, in 1882, Harriet Amelia Drake, 
 daughter of General (afterward governor) 
 Francis M. Drake of Iowa, and they have 
 two daughters. Address: 115 Broadway, 
 New \'ork City. 
 
 SHRIVER, Alfred Jenkins: 
 
 Lawyer and author; born in Baltimore, 
 
 Jniie 5, 1807; son of Albert and Anne 
 
 (Jenlvins) Shriver. He was graduated 
 
 from Johns Hopkins University, A.B., 
 1891, University of Maryland, LL.B., 1893, 
 winner of the Hopkins and University 
 scholarships; and he received the degree 
 of A.M. from Loyola College, 1894. He 
 has been engaged in the practice of law 
 in Baltimore since 1893, is counsel to sev- 
 eral corporations and sole trustee of prop- 
 erty descended from Charles Carroll of 
 Carrol Iton. He is author of various legal 
 publications, is a member of the Phi Beta 
 Kappa ; secretaiy for past ten years 
 of the General Alumni Association of Johns 
 Hopkins University; director of St. Mary's 
 Female Orphan Asylum of Roland Park, 
 jMd., and the School of Expression of Bos- 
 ton. He is a member of the INIaryland 
 State Bar Association, Bar Association of 
 Baltimore City, Baltimore Reform League, 
 University Clubs, Johns Hopkins Club (one 
 of the founders ) , Baltimore Country, Bach- 
 elors' Cotillion, Junior Cotillion and Balti- 
 more Assembly Club. Residence: Univer- 
 sity Club. Office: 700-705 Equitable Build- 
 ing, Baltimore. 
 
 SHUBERT, Lee: 
 
 Theatrical manager; born in Syracuse, 
 N. Y., March 15, 1875; son of David and 
 Catherine Shubert. He was educated in 
 public schools of Syracuse, N. Y. He is 
 president and director of the Babes in the 
 Woods Company, Baker Theater Company, 
 Casino Theater Company, De Wolf Hopper 
 Company, Grand Opera House Company, 
 Henry Miller and Company, Hyperion The- 
 ater Company, Lyric Tlieater Company, 
 Majestic Theater Company, Princess The- 
 ater Company, Sam S. and Lee Shubert, 
 Incorporated; the Shubert Theatrical Com- 
 pany, the Shubert-Anderson Company, the 
 Wilbur-Shubert Theater Company, the Shu- 
 bert Realty Company, the Lew Fields-Shu- 
 bert Company, and the Greenwich Bank; 
 vice-president and director of the Garrick 
 Theater Company of Chicago, Garrick Tlie- 
 ater Company of St. Louis, S. S. Shubert 
 Amusement Company, Washington Theater 
 Company; secretary, treasurer and director 
 of the Broadway and Thirty-ninth Street; 
 ])resident of Shubert-Anderson Company, 
 which manages and controls the Hippo- 
 
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 drome; vicc-inesident of the United States 
 Amusement Company, and director of the 
 Mutual Bank. Address: 141G Broadway, 
 New York City. 
 
 ■SHUMWAY, Edgar Solomon: 
 
 Educator ; born in Belchertown, Mass., 
 June 6, 1850; son of Solomon and Susan 
 A. (Perry) Shumway. He was graduated 
 from Amherst College, 1879, Universities of 
 Berlin and' Marburg, Archieologische Insti- 
 tut, Athens and Rome, M.A., Ph.D. He 
 was principal of High School, Granby, 
 Mass. ; professor of Latin and Greek, Pots- 
 dam, N. Y., State Normal School; profes- 
 sor of Latin, Rutgers College, N. J., 1883- 
 1900 ; lecturer on Roman Law and in charge 
 of graduate instruction in Latin, Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania; head of the Depart- 
 ment of Classics, Manual Training High 
 School, of New Y^ork City. Mr. Shumway 
 was the editor of Latine, 1882-1880, and 
 is author of: Latin Synonyms, A Day in 
 Ancient Rome, Syllabus of Greek, and 
 Roman Art, Synopsis of Roman Law, and 
 of numerous articles and papers on scholas- 
 tic and' pedagogical subjects. He is a mem- 
 ber of the American Philological Asso- 
 ciation, American Institute of Archaeology, 
 Academy of Political and Social Science, 
 Phi Beta Kappa Society, member of the 
 managing committee of the American School 
 at Rome ; president New York Association 
 of Men Teachers and Principals, and INIale 
 High School Teachers' Association, member 
 Delta Kappa Epsilon, Brooklyn League, 
 Flatbush Taxpayers' Association, and the 
 Republican Club of the Eighteenth Assem- 
 bly District of Kings County. He married 
 in Worcester, Mass., Florence Snow, and 
 they have four children. Address: 472 
 East 18th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y^ 
 
 SHURTLEFF, Roswell Morse: 
 
 Artist; born in Rind'ge, N. H., June 14, 
 1838 ; son of Asaliel Dewey and Eliza 
 (Morse) Shurtleff. He was educated in 
 Dartmouth College. B.S., 1857; worked as 
 a lithographer at Buflfalo, 1858-1859, draw- 
 ing on wood for the engraver, Boston and 
 studying in evening classes at Lowell In- 
 
 stitution, 1859. He worked as illustrator 
 in New York City, and student of the 
 National Academy of Desigii, 1860-1801. 
 He enlisted as a private in the 99th New 
 York Volunteers, April 16, 1861. He was 
 promoted first lieutenant and adjutant; 
 wounded and taken prisoner July 19, 1861, 
 and spent eight months in the Southern 
 hospitals and prisons before being released 
 on parole. He continued as illustrator of 
 magazines and books in New York City, 
 since 1870 painter in oils and water colors 
 of animal pictures and landscapes and has 
 specialized in recent years on scenes in the 
 Adirondacks. He was elected associate in 
 and has been academician since 1890, of the 
 National Academy of Design, and is a mem- 
 ber of the American Water Color Society. 
 He married in Hartford, Conn., June 14, 
 18G7, Clara. E. Halliday. Address: 44 
 West 22d Street, New Y^ork City. 
 
 SIBLEY, Frank J. : 
 
 Mining engineer and. president; born in 
 Niagara County, N. Y., Aug. 11, 1847; son 
 of Jonathan and Ruhamah (James) Sibley. 
 He received his education in high schools 
 of New York, and the University of Arizona. 
 He is engaged extensively in real estate 
 and' mining. He established and founded 
 the town of Demorest, Ga., 1889 ; opened 
 and developed the great Copper Creek cop- 
 per mines in Arizona, and has been pres- 
 ident and general manager of the corpora- 
 tion from the beginning; president of the 
 Pioneer Auto and Manufacturing Company 
 of Tucson, Ariz., first vice-president and gen- 
 eral manager of the Minnesota-Arizona 
 Copper Company, and president and general 
 manager of the Great Southwest Land and 
 Mining Company. Mr. Sibley was depvity 
 collector, U. S. Customs, 1872, and since 
 1876 has been identified with the Prohibi- 
 tion party, serving on its National Commit- 
 tee for the past twenty years ; served as 
 State chairman and campaign manager of 
 the Prohibition party in Nebraska, 1884, 
 and California, 1900; managed the cam- 
 paign of Alonzo E. Wilson of Illinois, in 
 1904, the first straight Prohibition party 
 member ever elected to a State legislature. 
 He was the founder, editor and publisher 
 
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 of the New Eepublic, 1884; The Georgian, 
 1890; Motive, 1895; and author of: Prohibi- 
 tion in Kansas, 1882; The Templar at Work, 
 1884; Life of John B. Finch, 1887, and 
 numerous political pamphlets. He is a 
 member of the International Order of Good 
 Temjjlars. He married in Akron, N. Y., 
 Oct. 11, 18GG, Alice F. Barney; married, 
 second, in Oakland, Calif., Sept. 28, 1905, 
 Mary Charlton Edholm, and he has two 
 children. Address: Tucson, Ariz. 
 
 SIEBECKER, Robert G.: 
 
 Jurist ; born in Sauk County, Wis., Oct. 
 17, 1854. He was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of Wisconsin, A.B., 1878, LL.B., 
 1880. He was admitted to the bar on 
 examination in Sept., 1879, and in Oct. of 
 that year began the practice of law at 
 Madison, and this he continued until ap- 
 pointed judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit, 
 Jan. 7, 1890. In March, 1886, he was 
 elected city attorney of ]\Iadison and was 
 annually reelected until he went on the 
 circuit bench. In April, 1891, he was 
 elected judge of the Circuit Court, for the 
 unexpired term and for the ensuing term. 
 He was twice thereafter reelected to this 
 position without opposition, and' April 7, 
 1903, he was elected a justice of the Su- 
 preme Court, for the term beginning in 
 Jan., 1904, and on April 9 was apirointed 
 for the unexpired term in this office, to fill 
 the vacancy caused by the death of Justice 
 C. V. Bardeen. Address: Madison, Wis. 
 
 SIEGEI, Henry: 
 
 Merchant; born in Eubigheim, Germany, 
 March 17, 1852; son of Lazarus Siegel 
 (burgomaster of Eubigheim) and Zerlina 
 (Koch) Siegel. He was educated in Ger- 
 many, and came to the United States in 
 1867. His first business experience was 
 gained in Washington, D. C, Parkersburg, 
 Va., and Lanceburg, Pa. He established 
 tlie firm of Siegel, Hartsfield and Com- 
 any in Chicago, in 1876; and ten years 
 later he established the department store 
 of Siegel, Cooper and Company, Chicago. 
 In 1896 ho established' Siegel, Cooper and 
 Company in New York City; purchased the 
 Simpson-Crawford Company in Jan., 1902; 
 
 opened the Fourteenth Street Store, New 
 York City, April, 1904, and Henry Siegel 
 and Company, Boston, 1905 ; and he con- 
 trols the largest department stores in the 
 world, as in 1909 he consolidated his New 
 York and Chicago department stores under 
 the name of the " Siegel Stores Corpora- 
 tion." He is also a director of several 
 banks. He is a member of the American 
 Geographical Society, New York Historical 
 Society, the National Museum of Art, and 
 the Westchester Hunt Club. He married, 
 first, in 1885, Julia Rosenbaum, who died 
 in 1886, and married, second, Marie 
 Vaughan Wilde, widow of George Wilde, 
 and daughter of Judge J. G. and Isabella 
 Oliver (Peters) Vaughan; and he has one 
 daughter, Jvilia, wife of Tyrell W. Caven- 
 dish of England. Address: Westchester 
 County, N. Y. Office : Care of Simpson- 
 Crawford Company, New York City. 
 
 SIGSBEE, Charles Dwight: 
 
 Rear-admiral, United States Navy, re- 
 tired; born in Albany, N. Y., Jan. 16, 1845; 
 son of Nicholas and Agnes (Orr) Sigsbee. 
 He entered the Naval Academy in 1859 ; 
 served in the Civil War, 1863-1865; has 
 been head' of several departments of the 
 Naval Academy; has commanded the Kear- 
 sarge, Dale (twice), Constellation, Ports- 
 mouth, Maine, St. Paul, and Texas, and 
 commanded the Maine, when she was de- 
 stroyed in Havana, Feb. 15, 1898. From 
 1874 to 1878, he engaged in deep sea ex- 
 ploration in command of the U. S. Coast 
 Survey Steamer Blake (won a gold medal 
 and two diplomas of honor for deep sea 
 inventions at the International Fisheries 
 Exhibition, London; and Red Eagle of 
 Prussia, in 1880) ; in charge of the U. S. 
 Hydrographic Office, 1893-1897; commanded 
 the St. Paul in the war with Spain in 1898; 
 and was advanced for extraordinary hero- 
 ism, Feb. 11, 1901; promoted rear-admiral, 
 Aug. 10, 1903. From 1903 to 1906 he was 
 successively commandant of the League Is- 
 land Navy Yard and Station, commander- 
 in-chief of the South Atlantic Station, com- 
 mander of the Caribbean Squadron and of 
 the Second Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet. 
 In June-July, 1905, he commanded the John 
 
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 Paul Jones Expedition to France, and was 
 then made commander of the Legion of 
 Honor of France. In the winter of 1905- 
 1906 he cruised in the Mediterranean in 
 command of a division of vessels. He has 
 been cliief intelligence officer of the Navy 
 Department, member of the General Board, 
 and the Board of Construction, and is a 
 member of various naval, military and sci- 
 entitic societies. He retired, Jan. 16, 1907. 
 He is author of: Deep Sea Sovmdings and 
 Dredging (U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur- 
 vey), 1880; The Story of the Maine, 1898; 
 Graphical Method for Navigators (U. S. 
 Hydrographic Office). He married, in 1870, 
 Eliza Rogers Lockwood, daughter of Gen- 
 eral Henry H. Lockwood. Address: Navy 
 Department, Washington, D. C. 
 
 SILVER, Edgar Oscar: 
 
 Publisher; born in Bloomfield, Vt., April 
 17, 1860; son of Albert A. and Sarah W. 
 (Jenne) Silver. He was educated in the 
 common schools and in Derby Academy, Vt., 
 Waterville Classical Institute, Me., Colby 
 College, Waterville, Me., and was graduated 
 from Brown University, A.B., 1883, A.M., 
 1886. He was with D. Appleton & Com- 
 pany, publishers, 1883-1885; and founded, 
 April 21, 1885, the business of the present 
 house of Silver, Burdett & Company, of 
 which he has been president since its incor- 
 poration in 1892, the firm being publishers 
 of school and college text-books, musical 
 instruction books, and standard literature, 
 and liaving offices in New York, Boston, 
 Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dallas, San 
 Francisco and London, England'. He is a 
 director of The Century Bank of New York. 
 Mr. Silver has made investigations in eco- 
 nomics and has made addresses on The 
 Ethics of Business, before the students of 
 Dartmouth College in 1905, and the New 
 England Society of the Oranges, and on 
 other kindred subjects before other institu- 
 tions and societies. He traveled in Europe 
 in 1891 and 1899, in the Hawaiian Islands, 
 1901, and through every State and Terri- 
 tory of the Union, save Alaska. He was 
 appointed by Governor Proctor, a commis- 
 sioner from the State of Vermont to the 
 Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition in 
 
 1907. In politics he is a Republican and in 
 religion a Baptist. He is a member of the 
 visiting committee of the Department of 
 Economics in Brown University; has been a 
 trustee of Brown University since 1896; is 
 trustee of Shaw University (chairman of 
 board since 1892), Storer College, Derby 
 Academy, Vt., and of Peddie Institute, 
 Hightstown, N. J. (chairman of board) ; 
 and has been a member of the Executive 
 Board' of the American Baptist Home Mis- 
 sions Society since 1901. Mr. Silver is a 
 member of the Aldine Association, New Eng- 
 land Society^ Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Kappa 
 Epsilon, The Laurentian Club of Canada, 
 and is a INIason. He is a member of the 
 University Club of Boston, of the Brown 
 University Club of New York, and of nu- 
 merous other associations and societies. 
 Mr. Silver married in Providence, R. L, 
 Jan. 4, 1888, Susan Florence Maine, and 
 they have seven children. Summer home: 
 Derby, Vermont. Residence: East Orange, 
 N. J. Office: 239 West 39th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 SIMKHOVITCH, Mary Kingsbury: 
 
 Head resident of Greenwich House, and 
 adjunct professor of social economy, Bar- 
 nard College ; born in Chestnut Hill, Mass. ; 
 daughter of Isaac Franklin and Laura D. 
 (Holmes) Kingsbury. She was graduated 
 from Boston University, B.A., one year 
 graduate work in Radcliffe, Berlin, Germany, 
 and in Columbia University. She married 
 in New York, Jan. 7, 1899, Professor 
 Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, and' they have 
 two children. She is a member of the 
 American Association for Labor Legislation, 
 National Consumers League; director of the 
 Playground Association of America, Metro- 
 politan Parks Association; member of the 
 council for the Association of Neighborhood 
 Workers, director of the Greenwich House, 
 member of National Board of Woman's 
 Trades Union League, Kappa Kappa Gamma 
 fraternity. Church Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Interests of Labor, Public 
 Education Association, Woman's Municipal 
 League, College Equal Suffrage League, and 
 the Woman's University Club. She is au- 
 thor of articles for Political Science Quar- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 terly, The Commons, Charities and the Com- 
 mons, and the Ethical Record. Address: 
 Greenwich House, 20-28 Jones Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 SIMMONS, Purnifold McLendel: 
 
 United States senator; born in Jones 
 County, N. C, Jan. 20 18.54; son of Furni- 
 fold Greene and Mary (McLendel) Sim- 
 mons. He was graduated from Trinity 
 College, N. C, A.B., 1873; was admitted to 
 the bar in 1875, and has since then been 
 engaged in the practice of law. He was 
 elected to the Fiftieth Congress in 1880 
 from the Second Congressional District of 
 Xorth Carolina. He was appointed by 
 President Cleveland, in 1893, collector of 
 internal revenue for the Fourth Collection 
 District of North Carolina, and served 
 until 1897. In the campaigns of 1892, 1898 
 and 1900 he was the chairman of the Demo- 
 cratic Executive Committee of North Caro- 
 lina. He was elected to the U. S. Senate in 
 1901 to succeed Hon. Marion Butler, Pop- 
 ulist, and was. nominated by the Democratic 
 State Convention in 1900, and elected by 
 the Legislature in 1907 for a second term 
 expiring March 4, 1913. Trinity College, 
 N. C, conferred upon him. in June, 1901, 
 the degree of LL.D. Address : Ealeigh, 
 N. C. 
 
 SIMMONS, George H.: 
 
 Physician; born in iloreton, England, 
 Jan. 2, 1853. He was educated in public 
 schools, Tabor College, Iowa, and the Uni- 
 versity of Nebraska, and he was grad- 
 uated from Hahnemann Medical College, 
 Chicago, 1882; Rush Medical College, 1892, 
 and received the degree of LL.D. from 
 Northwestern LTniversity, and tlie degree of 
 il.A. from Tabor College. He has been edi- 
 tor for the Journal of the American Med- 
 ical Association, and general secretary since 
 1899. Residence: 4217 Kenmore Avenue. 
 (Jllice: 535 Dearborn Avenue, Cliicago. 
 
 SIMMONS, J. Edward: 
 
 Ranker; born in Troy, N. Y., Sept. 9, 
 1841; son of Josepli Ferris and Mary So- 
 ]iliia. (Gleason) Simmons. He was grad- 
 
 uated from Williams College, A.B., 1802, 
 from the Albany Law School, LL.B., 1803; 
 and later received the degree of A.M. and 
 in 1888, the degree of LL.D. from the Uni- 
 versity of Norwich, Vt. He was admitted 
 to the bar in 1803 and practised at Troy 
 until 1867; then went to New York City, 
 and engaged there in banking and brokerage. 
 He was elected president of the Stock Ex- 
 change in 1884 and 1885. Mr. Simmons 
 rendered important assistance in the presi- 
 dential campaign of Grover Cleveland in 
 1892; accepted in 1880 the presidency of the 
 Board of Education of New York City, of 
 which he had been appointed commissioner 
 in 1881; and served as president five years. 
 Mainly through his iniluence, a bill was 
 passed through the Legislature in 1888, con- 
 ferring collegiate rank and powers on the 
 New York Normal College; and he success- 
 fully worked for the development of the 
 College of the City of New York. He has 
 been president of the Fourth National Bank 
 since 1888; served as a receiver of the 
 American Loan and Trust Company of New 
 York; was president of the Clearing House 
 in 1898; and of the Panama Railroad Com- 
 pany for ten years, and he is a trustee of 
 the Metropolitan Trust Company; and a 
 director of the Bank for Savings, the Ann 
 Arbor Railroad Company, National Surety 
 Company, United State Casualty Company 
 and the Standard Milling Company. He is 
 president of the Chamber of Conuneree, 
 ex-president of the New Y'ork Infant Asy- 
 lum ; governor and treasurer of tlie New 
 York Hospital and life trustee of Williams 
 College. He is a member of the Univer- 
 sity, Metropolitan, New York Athletic, Law- 
 yers', Tuxedo and National Democratic Clubs 
 of New York City. Mr. Simmons married 
 in New York City, April 12, 1800, Julia 
 Greer, and has a son and a daughter. Ad- 
 dress: 28 West 52d Street, New York City. 
 
 SIMMONS, James S.: 
 
 Congressman; Ixtrn in Frederick County, 
 Md., Nov. 25, 1801; son of R. E. Simmons 
 and Sarah E. (Urner) Simmons. He was 
 educated in Liberty Academy and Freder- 
 ick College. He has been engaged in real 
 estate business e^■cr since he left college. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1489 
 
 Mr. Simmons is president of The James S. 
 Simmons Real Estate Company, Interna- 
 tional Bnilding Company, Homestead Build- 
 ing Company, Insides Property Company, 
 Electric City Building Company, Cataract 
 Building Company; treasurer of The Sim- 
 mons and Baker Company, and director of 
 the Niagara Falls Trust Company. He is a 
 Mason. He was elected as a Republican in 
 1908 as a member of the Sixty-first Con- 
 gress from the Thirty-fourth New York Dis- 
 trict. Mr. Simmons married in Union 
 Bridge, Md., Feb. 26, 1890, Agnes Mc- 
 Kinstry, and they have two children. Resi- 
 dence: 054 Chilton Avenue. Office: 335 
 Third' Street, Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
 
 SIMMS, Joseph Milburn: 
 
 Retired senior captain of the U. S. Reve- 
 nue Cutter Service; born in Patuxent, Md., 
 Feb. 19, 1841; son of Joseph Milburn and 
 Ann (Craig) Simnis. He was educated in 
 the public schools of the District of Colum- 
 bia; served three months in Company F, 
 Sixth Battalion, District of Columbia Vol- 
 unteers, from April 22, to July 22, 1861 ; 
 was master's mate in the U. S. Navy, Aug. 
 27, 1863; promoted to acting ensign, June 
 13, 1866; served on the U. S. Steamer Day- 
 light, and the frigate Minnesota, of the 
 North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and 
 the Wateree in the South Pacific. He was 
 wounded in the land attack upon Fort Fish- 
 er, Jan. 15, 1865; resigned from the Na\y, 
 July 31, 1868, and was granted an honorable 
 discharge in lieu thereof, as certificate of 
 meritorious service, having been appointed 
 third lieutenant in the U. S. Revenue Cutter 
 Service, July 30, 1868. He has served upon 
 stations from the coast of Maine to the Gulf 
 of jNlcxico, having command, as first lieu- 
 tenant, of several revenue cutters. He was 
 ejxecutive offi'cer of the schoolship upon 
 two foreign voyages, and he retired May 
 3, 1895, as first lieutenant, on account of 
 physical disability, resulting from wound's 
 received in the Civil War. By an act of 
 Congress approved, March 11, 1902, he was 
 advanced to captain on the retired list, of 
 the U. S. Revenue Cutter Service, for meri- 
 torious acts of public service and wounds 
 received in the United States service as ap- 
 9i 
 
 pears upon the public records of the U. S. 
 Army, Navy and Revenue Cutter Service. 
 He is a member of the Military Order of 
 the Loyal Legion of the United States 
 Army and Navy Club of New York, Grand 
 Army of the Republic, Knights of Honor 
 and Royal Arcanum. Captain Simms mar- 
 ried, first, in Portland, Me., in 1870 Belle 
 D. Haskell, iind second, in New Bedford, 
 Mass., March 17, 1892, Catherine J. Sea- 
 bury, and he has one daughter. Address: 
 New Bedford, Mass. 
 
 SIMONS, Algie Martin: 
 
 Editor of the Chicago Dail}^ Socialist; 
 born in North Freedom, Wis., Oct. 9, 1870; 
 son of Horace B. and Linda (Blackmun) 
 Simons. He was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of Wisconsin, B.L., 1895, receiving 
 special honors in economics for thesis. He 
 was with the Cincinnati Associated Chari- 
 ties from September to December, 1895; 
 agent for the Chicago Bureau of Charities 
 to March, 1898, and resident of the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago Social Settlement; edi- 
 tor of: Workers Call, International Social- 
 ist; reviewing editor to the Daily Social- 
 ist since 1907. He is author of: Tlie 
 American Farmer, Class Struggles in Amer- 
 ica, and numerous small pamphlets, and 
 translator of several German works. He is 
 a director of the W^orkers Publishing So- 
 ciety; member of the National Executive 
 Committee of the Socialist Party, and dele- 
 gate to the International Socialist Congress 
 in 1908, and is a member of the American 
 Peace Society. He married in Baraboo, 
 Wis., June 15, 1896, Eleanor May Wood, 
 and they have a daughter. Residence: 2319 
 Sherman Avenue. Office: 180 Washing- 
 ton Street, Evanston, 111. 
 
 SIMONS, George Albert: 
 
 Clergyman ; born in La' Porte, Ind., March 
 19, 1874; son of Rev. George Henry and 
 Ottilie (Schulz) Simons. He was educated 
 in AdeliJhi College, Brookljni, N. Y., Ger- 
 man Wallace College Berea, Ohio, A.B., and 
 INI.A., New York University, A.B. Drew 
 Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J., B.D. 
 and has received the degree of D.D. from 
 German Wallace College, Berea, Ohio. He 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 became a member of the East German Con- 
 ference of the jMethoclist Episcopal Church ; 
 pastor of the Wycoff Street Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church Brooklyn, 1899-1902. having 
 succeeded his father on latter's decease; 
 transferred to the New York East Confer- 
 ence, 1903, and appointed associate pastor 
 of the Sixty-first Street Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church, New York City, remaining two 
 years, from April, 1905 to August, 1907. 
 He was pastor of the Bayside Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, Bayside Borough of 
 Queens, New York City. Dr. Simons was 
 appointed superintendent of the Finland 
 and St. Petersburg INIission Conference of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church in August, 
 1907. He published a memorial edition of 
 Uer Lebens-Compass (by Rev. George H. 
 Simons, his father) a year after his father's 
 decease. Dr. Simons is editor of the quar- 
 terly Methodism in Russia and Associate 
 editor of the Continental quarterly; Metho- 
 dism in Europe. Address: 9th Line, 18, 
 W. 0., St. Petersburg, Russia. 
 
 SIMPSON, Charles Torrey: 
 
 Retired; born in Tiskilwa, 111., June 3, 
 1846; son of Jabez and Matilda H. (Cook) 
 Simpson. He was educated in common 
 schools of Tiskilwa. He was a member of 
 the scientific staff of the United States Na- 
 tional Museum, 1889-1902, and lecturer on 
 zoology in Georgetown University. He is 
 corresponding member of Davenport Acad- 
 emy of Natural Sciences, member of the 
 Biological Society of Washington. He mar- 
 ried in Revere, Mass., Sept. 17, 1902, Flora 
 G. Roper, and he has a son. Address Lit- 
 tle River, Fla. 
 
 SIMS, Edwin W.: 
 
 U. S. district attorney for the Northern 
 District of Illinois; born in 1871; son of 
 Walter and Elizabeth (Knowles) Sims; 
 brought up in Bay City, INlicli. ; resident of 
 Chicago since 1894; graduate of the law de- 
 partment of the University of Michigan, 
 class of 1894. Previous to 1892 he served at 
 different times as reporter, editor and spec- 
 ial correspondent on the staff of Bay City 
 (Mich.) newspapers. He was admitted to 
 the bar in 1894, and engaged in the practice 
 
 of law in Chicago in the same year; was 
 appointed county attorney of Cook County, 
 Chicago, June 4, 1900, reappointed Dec. 
 1, 1902; resigned to accept position as spec- 
 ial attorney of the Bureau of Corporations 
 under Commissioner of Corporations Gar- 
 field, Sept. 15, 1903; was appointed solicitor 
 of the Department of Commerce and Labor 
 by President Roosevelt March 4, 1905; sent 
 by the Government to make special investi- 
 gations of the Alaskan Fur Seal Fisheries 
 on the Pribilof Islands in Behring Sea in 
 June, 1906. He was appointed U. S. attor- 
 ney for the Northern District of Illinois, 
 Sept. 1, 1906. As U. S. Attorney he has 
 had charge of a large number of important 
 suits involving violations of the Interstate 
 Commerce and Anti-Trust law. Notable 
 among these is the case against the Stand- 
 ard' Oil Company which resulted in the con- 
 viction of the company and the imposition 
 of a fine by Judge Landis of $29,240,000. 
 Mr. Sims is a Republican; is a member of 
 the American, Illinois and Chicago Bar As- 
 sociations ; and member of the Union League, 
 South Shore Country, Chicago Press, Ham- 
 ilton, Law and Woodlawn Park Clubs. He 
 married in 1898, Charlotte, daughter of the 
 late Frank J. Smith, and he has five chil- 
 dren. Residence : 6520 Kimbark Avenue. 
 Office: 826 Federal Building, Chicago. 
 
 SIMS, Thetus Willrette: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born April 25, 
 1852, in Wayne County, Tenn. He was edu- 
 cated at Savannah College, Savannah, Tenn. ; 
 was graduated from the Law Department 
 of Cumberland LTniversity.at Lebanon, Tenn., 
 in June, 1870; located at Linden, Tenn., 
 where he has resided ever since in the 
 practice of his profession; was elected 
 county superintendent of public instruction 
 for Perry County, Tenn., in 1882, and held 
 that office for two years; was chosen an 
 elector on the Cleveland and Stevenson tick- 
 et in 1892; and was elected as a Democrat 
 to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, 
 Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Six- 
 ty-first Congresses, in the latter of which 
 he is now serving. He married, Dec. 26, 
 1877, Nannie H. Kittrell of Maury Coun- 
 ty, Tenn. Address: Linden, Tenn. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 SIMS, William Sowden: 
 
 Gonimaiuler, U. S. Navy; born in Canada. 
 He was appointed from Pennsylvania to the 
 Naval Academy, June 24, 1876; was ap- 
 jwinted midshipman, June 22, 1882; ensign 
 (junior grade), March 3, 1883; ensign, June 
 20, 1884; lieutenant (junior grade). May 9, 
 1893; lieutenant, Jan. 1, 1897. He served 
 on the Tennessee, North Atlantic Station, 
 1880-1882; Colorado, 1882, New York Navy 
 Yard; Swatara, 1883-1885, North Atlantic 
 Station; Yantie, North Atlantic Station, 
 1885-1887; nautical school-ship Saratoga, 
 Dec. 1889-1893; Philadelphia, Pacific Sta- 
 tion, 1893-1894; Charleston, China Station, 
 1894-189G; Richmond, League Island, 1896- 
 1897; naval attache, U. S. Embassies of 
 Paris and St. Petersburg, IMarch, 1897, to 
 November, 1900; Kentucky, China, 1900- 
 1901, Monterey, China, 1901-1902; lieuten- 
 ant-commander, Nov. 21, 1902; inspector of 
 target practice, 1902-1909; promoted com- 
 mander, July 1907. Commander Sims is 
 regarded here and in the services as the best 
 gunnery officer in the world', and in appre- 
 ciation of his invaluable services for seven 
 years in building up a system of gunnery in 
 the U. S. Navy which has greatly increased 
 our fighting efficiency as a sea-power, Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt, March 1, 1909, assigned 
 Commander Sims to the command of the 
 battleship Minnesota. Address: Care Navy 
 Department, Washington, D. C. 
 
 SINGER, Isidor: 
 
 Publisher, editor; born in Weisskirchen, 
 Moravia, Austria, Nov. 10, 1859. He was 
 educated in high schools, Ung. Hradisch, 
 Troppau, and Kremsier; the University of 
 Vienna (where he received the Ph.D. de- 
 gree ) , and the University of Berlin. He 
 founded and published the Allgemeine 
 Oesterreichische Literaturzeitung, Vienna, 
 1884-1885; went as seci'etary and librarian 
 to tlie late French ambassador at Vienna, 
 Count Alexander Foucher de Careil (editor 
 of Leibnitz's works), to Paris in 1887; be- 
 came employee of the French Foreign Of- 
 fice in the Bureau de la Presse; founder 
 and editor-in-chief of La Vraie Parole (pa- 
 per founded to counteract Ed. Drumont's 
 anti-semitic La Libre Parole) ; went to Italy 
 
 in 1891, and came to New York City in 1895, 
 to carry out his life work of The Jewish 
 Encyclopedia, of which he was managing 
 editor, and whose twelfth and final vol- 
 ume was issued Dec. 30, 1905. He is liter- 
 ary manager of the American Encyclopedia 
 Library Association and managing editor 
 of Tlie International Insurance Encyclope- 
 dia, 4 volumes, (if you wish to have addi- 
 tional information on this score see my let- 
 terheads). He has taken active part in 
 the East Side campaigns in favor of the 
 Republican party and in 1905 in the Jerome 
 campaign. He was president of Justice 
 Lodge, No. 536 of the Independent Order of 
 B'nai B'rith. He is author of: Berlin, 
 Wien und der Antisemitismus, 1882; Presse 
 und Judenthum, second edition, 1882; Sollen 
 die Juden Christian werd'en? (with prefa- 
 tory letter by Ernest Renan), second edition, 
 1884; Briefe Beriihmter Christlicher Zeitge- 
 nossen liber die Judenfrage, 1884; Die Bei- 
 den Elektren-Humanistische Bildung und 
 der Klassische Unterricht, 1884; Auf dem 
 Grabe Meiner Mutter (translated into He- 
 brew by Dr. Solomon Fuchs), 1888; Le 
 Prestige de la France en Europe, 1889 ; 
 La Question Juive, 1893; Anarchic et An- 
 tisemitisme, 1894 ; Der Juden Kampf ums 
 Recht, 1902; Russia at the Bar of the Amer- 
 ican People, 1904; Mr. Jacob H. Schiff and 
 the Zionists; Rabbi and Pope, 1907; Who 
 is W^ho in Insurance (1908) ; Christ or 
 God (1908) ; also numerous translations of 
 French works into German. Residence: 
 571 East 140th Street. Office address: 22 
 Thames Street, New York City. 
 
 SIOUSSAT, St. George Leakin: 
 
 Professor of history; born in Baltimore, 
 March 13, 1878; son of Albert W. and An- 
 nie Middleton (Leakin) Sioussat. He was 
 graduated from University School, Balti- 
 more, Johns Hopkins University, B.A., 1896, 
 Ph.D., 1899, and' Tomkins University scholar 
 in history. He was assistant and instructor' 
 in history. Smith College, Northampton, 
 Mass., 1899-1904, professor of history, Uni- 
 versity of the South since 1904, and dean 
 since 1909 ; lecturer on economics, Biltmore 
 (N. C.) Forest School since 1904; lecturer 
 in history at the University of Michigan, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 summer sessions, 1908 and 1909; secretary 
 of the Conference of the State and Local 
 Historical Societies of the American His- 
 torical Association, 1908, and chairman, 
 1909; secretary of the Committee on Uni- 
 form Entrance Examinations, of the Associ- 
 ations of Colleges and Preparatory Schools 
 of Southern States since 1909. Professor 
 Sioussat is a member of the American His- 
 torical Association, American Political Sci- 
 ence Association, National Geographic So- 
 ciety, American Academy of Political and 
 Social Science, Tennessee Historical Society, 
 and various educational and' literary asso- 
 ciations; member of the Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society, Delta Phi fraternity, the E. Q. B. 
 Club of Sewanee, and the Baltimore Coun- 
 try Club. He married in Houston, Texas, 
 Dec. 19, 1906, Alma (Cleveland) Dailey. 
 Residence : Sewanee. Office : University 
 of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. 
 
 5IVITER, Anna Pierpont: 
 
 Writer; born in Fairmont, Va.; daugh- 
 ter of Francis Harrison, loyal war governor 
 of Virginia, and Julia (Robertson) Pierpont. 
 She was educated by governesses and tutors. 
 She married in Fairmont, W. Va., June 24. 
 188G, William Henry Siviter, and she has 
 one daughter. Mrs. Siviter comes of a line 
 of ancestors on her father's side extending 
 back to William the Conqueror, who have 
 given the world many reformers, statesmen 
 and writers. The State of West Virginia 
 has lately placed in the capitol at Washing- 
 ton, a statue of Governor Pierpont, who 
 was called " the father of West Virginia," 
 having been largely instrumental in the 
 formation of that State. On her mother's 
 side she is of distinguished ancestry, coming 
 from the old Piatt family of New York 
 State. Mrs. Siviter was for several years 
 associate editor of Our Young People, and 
 later editor of the Sunday School publica- 
 tions of the Methodist Protestant Church. 
 Slic is author of: Nehe, a Tale of the 
 Times of Artaxcrxes; The Statue, and Oth- 
 er Poems; Songs of Hope, and many poems 
 and stories in the leading magazines and 
 weeklies. She is a member of the Daugh- 
 ters of 1812; director of the Pittsburgh Hos- 
 pital for Children, Pittsburgh and Allegheny 
 
 Free Kindergarten Association, and member 
 of the Civic Club of Pittsburgh, and the 
 Tuesday Music Club. Address: 132 North 
 Dithridge Street, Pittsburgh. 
 
 SKELTON, William B.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Bowdoin, Me., Aug. 9, 
 1871; son of Thomas W. and Mary L. (Hol- 
 brook) Skclton. He was graduated from 
 Bates College, Lewiston in 1892. Mr. Skel- 
 ton was county attorney for Androscoggin 
 County, 1901-1905; mayor of Lewiston, 
 1903-1905; judge advocate-general, with the 
 rank of colonel, on Governor Cobb's staflf, 
 1905-1909; and he has been banlc examiner 
 for the the State of Maine since July 20, 
 190G. He is a member of the firm of New- 
 ell and Skelton. He is a member of the 
 American Bar Association, and of its Local 
 Council for the State of Maine; also a 
 tliirty-second degree Mason, and a member 
 of the Calumet Club. INIr. Skelton married 
 in Auburn, Me., May 21, 1894, Florence L. 
 Larrabee, and they have six children. Res- 
 idence: 491 Main Street. Office: 228 Lis- 
 bon Street, Lewiston, Me. 
 
 SKINNER, Henrietta Channing Dana: 
 
 Author; Ixirn in Cambridge, ^lass. ; 
 daughter of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., the 
 author, and Sarah (Watson) Dana'. She 
 is of a distinguished literary familj', her 
 grandfather, Richard Henry Dana, Sr., hav- 
 ing been a poet and essayist, and her 
 great-grandfather, Francis Dana, was many 
 years chief justice of Massachusetts, a 
 member of the Continental Congress, where 
 he served on many important committees, 
 and was sent by Congress on diplomatic 
 missions to France and Russia. He mar- 
 ried a daughter of William Ellery of Rhode 
 Island, a signer of the Declaration of In- 
 dependence. The father of Francis Dana, 
 a prominent patriot, barrister and orator 
 in Boston, just befoi'e the Revolution, mar- 
 ried the sister of Judge Trowbridge and 
 granddaughter of Judge Jonathan Reming- 
 ton, and through her Mrs.- Skinner is des- 
 cended from Anne Dudley Bradstreet, the 
 first American woman of letters. Mrs. 
 Skinner's early youth was spent chiefly in 
 Camlu'idge and Boston, where her father 
 
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 and mother were intimate ^Yith Lowell, 
 Longfellow, Holmes, Agassiz, Bryant, Sum- 
 ner, Fields and the literary ' set of that 
 day, all of whom she met frequently in 
 her girlhood. From her seventh to her 
 twelfth year she shared the studies of INIr. 
 Longfellow's youngest daughters, with an 
 English governess; was two years in school 
 in Stuttgart, Germany, one year in the 
 convent of Assumption, Paris, three years 
 in private schools in Boston and two years 
 at Radcliflfe College. She studied music 
 two years in the Artist School of Stuttgart 
 under Professor Priickner ; studied eleven 
 months under Cesar Franck in Paris; and 
 harmony and counterpoint under Professor 
 Faisst in Stuttgart and one year with Pro- 
 fessor John K. Paine, of Harvard. She 
 entered the Catholic Church in Chicago, 
 March 27, 1878. She lived seven years in 
 Europe, chiefly France, Italy and South 
 Germany. She was married in Cambridge, 
 Mass., June 25, 1892, to Henry Whipple 
 Skinner, of Detroit, Mich., of which place 
 she has since been a resident, and she has 
 a son, Richard' Dana Skinner. She is au- 
 thor of the novels: Espiritu Santo, 1899 
 (Harper) ; Heart and Soul, 1901 (Har- 
 per) ; also of the contributions: A Queen 
 at School, Scribner's, April, 1878; What 
 French Girls Siudy, Atlantic Monthly, Feb., 
 1892; Love Songs of the Tuscan Peasantry, 
 Italian Harvest Scenes, Don Jaime's Honey- 
 moon, A Montauk Incident, and poem to 
 the Catholic World Magazine, 1894, 1898; 
 Poncho's Happy Family, Harper's Magazine, 
 Nov., 1898; Our Revolutionary Diplomacy, 
 Harper's ]\Iagazine, 1902; also several arti- 
 cles in the Sacred Heart Review of Boston. 
 ]\lrs. Skinner was governor-general (national 
 president) of the Order of Descendants of 
 Colonial Governors; is a Colonial Dame of 
 ]\Iassachusetts, a Daughter of the American 
 Revolution, and an active member of the 
 Tuesday Musicale Society of Detroit. Ad- 
 dress: 360 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 
 
 SKINNER, Henry Whipple: 
 
 Land owner; born in Detroit, Mich., 
 June 8, 1852; son of Edwin Adolphus and 
 Catherine Sophia (Whipple) Skinner; of 
 an old Virginia family on his father's side, 
 
 and of a prominent Massachusetts family 
 on his mother's side. He was educated in 
 public and private schools in Detroit, at 
 Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, and' for two and one-half years at- 
 tended the Harvard Law School, and while 
 there was a member of the Institute of 
 1770, the Varsity Glee Club and the Hasty 
 Pudding Club. Mr. Skinner is a large land- 
 owner; and Avas also interested as director 
 and stockholder in various corporations and 
 business enterprises of his home city. Mr. 
 Skinner has been identified with the Mich- 
 igan State Militia, serving six years as an 
 active member and as vice-president of the 
 Detroit Light Guard Veteran Corps, Com- 
 pany A, Third Regiment. He is a member, 
 by inheritance, of the Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion ; member of the Order of 
 Founders and Patriots of America of New 
 York, Order of Descendants of Colonial 
 Governors, Society of Colonial Wars, Sons 
 of the American Revolution, Society of the 
 War of 1812 of New Jersey, and the Uni- 
 versity Club of Detroit. Mr. Skinner mar- 
 ried in Cambridge, Mass., June 25, 1892, 
 Henrietta Channing Dana, daughter of 
 Richard Henry Dana. 2d, and they have one 
 son, Richard Dana Skinner. Address: 3G0 
 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, INIich. 
 
 SKINNER, Robert P.: 
 
 Consul-general ; born at Massillon, Ohio, 
 Feb. 24, 1806; son of Augustus T. and 
 Cecelia (Van Rensselaer) Skinner. He was 
 educated in the public schools of Massilon, 
 Ohio, and at the Woodward High School at 
 Cincinnati. In 1897 he was appointed con- 
 sul at Marseilles by President McKinley, 
 and in 1901 was promoted to the grade of 
 consul-general at the same place. In 1903, 
 Mr. Skinner was temporarily relieved by 
 President Roosevelt from his consular du- 
 ties, and appointed commissioner and pleni- 
 potentiary with orders to proceed to Abys- 
 sinia. He organized the first official Ameri- 
 can expedition to Etheopia with five officers 
 and twenty-five U. S. marines and sailors 
 in the autumn of 1903, and he negotiated the 
 first treaty, subsequently ratified, between 
 the United States and Etheopia. He was pro- 
 moted consul-general at Hamburg, Germany, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 in 1908. He is author of: Abyssinia of 
 To-day, published by Longmans, Green & 
 Company. Mr. Skinner is an honorary 
 member of the Society of the Felibrige, a 
 fellow of the American Geographical So- 
 ciety, and a member of the American So- 
 ciety of International Law. He married' at 
 Massillon, Ohio, June 17, 1897, Helen Wales. 
 Residence: 11 Alsternfer. Consular office: 
 2 Alsterglaeio, Hamburg. 
 
 SLATER, Jennie E.: 
 
 Singer and teacher; born in Battle Creek, 
 Mich., daughter of Zophar Thiers Slater, 
 M.D., and E. Elvira (Packer) Slater. She 
 received her education in Chicago, and in 
 Europe Miss Slater was a pupil of Phelps 
 of Chicago, of Vannuccini of Florence, 
 Italy, Randegger of London, and Reinhold 
 L. Herman, Berlin. She was decorated by 
 the Societa Filarmonica Florentina, and is 
 a member of the JNIcDowell Association of 
 New York. Address: 152 West 49th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 SLATER, John E.: 
 
 U. S. district judge; appointed by Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt in 1908, judge of the U. S. 
 District Court for the Southern District of 
 Ohio. Address: Columbus, Ohio. 
 
 SLAYDEN, James L.: 
 
 Congressman ; born in Graves County, 
 Ky., June 1, 1853; son of Thomas A. and 
 Letitia E. Slayden. He was educated in 
 Washington and Lee University, Virginia; 
 was a cotton merchant; now engaged in min- 
 ing in ]\Iexico; was a member of the Twenty- 
 third Legislature of Texas in 1892 and de- 
 clined reelection; was elected as a Democrat 
 to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, 
 Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Six- 
 ty-first Congresses from the Fourteenth 
 Texas District. He married in Charlottes- 
 ville, Va., June 12, 1883, Ellen Mauray. 
 Address : San Antonio, Texas. 
 
 SLEDD, Andrew: 
 
 President of the University of the State 
 of Florida; born in Lyncliburg, Va., Nov. 7, 
 1870. He was educated in the Randoljih- 
 
 Macon College, Ashland, Va., A.B., A.M., 
 1894, Harvard, 1895-1897, A.M., 1896, Uni- 
 versity Scholar, 1896-1897, Yale Univer- 
 sity, University Scholar, 1902-1903, and re- 
 ceived the degrees of LL.D. from South Caro- 
 lina University, 1905. He was professor of 
 Latin and Greek at Emory College, 1898- 
 1902, professor of Greek in Southern Uni- 
 versity, Greensboro, Ala., 1903-1904, presi-. 
 dent of the University of Florida, 1904-1905, 
 and president of the University of the State 
 of Florida since 1905. He is a member of 
 the American Philological Association, the 
 Southern Historical Society, National Edu- 
 cational Association, Florida Educational 
 Association and the Phi Delta Tlaeta fra- 
 ternity. Professor Sledd married in Oxford, 
 Ga., March 1899, Annie Florence Candler, 
 daughter of Bishop W. A. Candler, and thev 
 have four children. Address : Gainesville, 
 Fla. 
 
 SLEDD, Benjamin: 
 
 Teacher and writer; born in Bedford 
 County, Va., Aug. 27, 1864; son of William 
 E. and Arabella (Hobson) Sledd. He was 
 educated in Washing-ton and Lee Univer- 
 sity, 1881-1886, receiving the degree of M.A., 
 1880; and Litt.D., 1907; Johns Hopkins 
 University, 1886-1887. He has been profes- 
 sor of English, Wake Forest College, N. C, 
 since 1888. He is author of: From Clifi" 
 and Scaur, 1898; The Watchers of the 
 Hearth, 1902; and La Princess de Cleves, 
 1897. He married in Wake Forest, N. C, 
 June, 1889, Neda Purefoy, and they have 
 three children. Address: Wake Forest, 
 N. C. 
 
 gLEEPER, Henry Dike: 
 
 Professor of music ; born in Patten, Me., 
 Oct. 9, 1865; son of Rev. W. T. and Emily 
 (Taylor) Sleeper. He was educated at 
 Worcester Academy, Harvard, class of 1889, 
 Hartford Theological Seminary, 1891, and 
 studied music in Worcester and Boston. 
 He was ordained in the Congregational min- 
 istry, in 1891, as a church musician 
 and from that year until 1894, was 
 instructor of music at Beloit College, 
 Wis. He was professor of music at 
 Georgetown College, Ky., 1894-1895, and 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 in 1895 became instructor in music at the 
 University of Wisconsin. Since 1898 he 
 has been connected with Smith College, 
 Northampton, Mass., having been first in- 
 structor, second, associate professor, and 
 since 1904, professor of harmony, composi- 
 tion. Mr. Sleeper is a fellow of the Amer- 
 ican Guild of Organists and held many 
 prominent positions as organist, in Madison, 
 Wis., Worcester, Mass., and Hartford, Conn., 
 and has composed music for choirs, the organ 
 and for other instruments. He married at 
 Good Hope, 111., Aug. 28, 1894, Mary Peet, 
 and they have three children. Address: 
 Northampton, Mass. 
 
 SLOAN, Benson Bennett: 
 
 Banker and stock broker; born in New 
 York City, March 29, 18G7; son of Samuel 
 and JNIargaret (Elmendorf) Sloan. He was 
 graduated from Columbia College, A.B., 
 1888. He was a member of the Seventh 
 Regiment of the National Guard of the 
 State of New York, 1884-1889. Mr. Sloan 
 is a member of the firm of Post and Flagg, 
 and of the New York Stock Exchange; di- 
 rector of the Fort Wayne and Jackson Eail- 
 road, and the Valley Railroad Company. 
 He is a member of the South Reformed 
 Church; member of the Committee of Man- 
 agement of the Young Men's Christian As- 
 sociation, Twenty-third Street Branch; life 
 member of the New York Zoological So- 
 ciety; member of the Metropolitan Museum 
 of Art, American Museum of Natural His- 
 tory, Delta Psi fraternity, and of the So- 
 ciety of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. 
 He is also a member of the University, Rac- 
 quet and Tennis, St. Anthony, Knollwood 
 Country, and Baltusrol Golf Clubs, and the 
 Automobile Club of America. He married 
 in New York City, Nov. 27, 1889, Anna L. 
 Worth. Address": 141 36th Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 SLOANE, William: 
 
 ^lerchant; born in New York City, Feb. 
 18, 1873; son of John and Ad'ele (Berry) 
 Sloane. He was graduated from Yale Uni- 
 versity in 1895. Mr. Sloane is president 
 and director of W. and J. Sloane, Oldham 
 Mills, Philadelphia; vice-president and di- 
 
 rector of the Nairn Linoleum Company, 
 Kearny, N. J. ; trustee of the Bank for 
 Savings in the City of New York, Atlantic 
 Mutual Insurance Company, and the Provi- 
 dent Loan Society; director of Alexander 
 Smith and Sons' Carpet Company, Hudson 
 Trust Company of New Jersey, Knicker- 
 bocker Trust Company, Bank of Manhattan 
 County, New Amsterdam Gas Company, 
 Northern Pacific Railway Company, North- 
 ern Securities Company, Second National 
 Bank, Westchester Trust Company; treas- 
 urer of the Archaeological Institute of Amer- 
 ica, member of the International Committee 
 of the Young Men's Christian x\ssociation, 
 Society of Colonial W^ars, Delta Kappa Ep- 
 silon fraternity, and of the University, Met- 
 ropolitan, Union League, Republican, and 
 Yale Clubs. He married in New York City, 
 1904, Francis G. Crocker. Residence: 
 Mount Kisco. N. Y. Address: 884 Broad- 
 way, New York City. 
 
 SLOCUM, Clarence Rice: 
 
 Consular officer; born in Brooklyn, June 
 22, 1868; son of Henry Warner and Clara 
 (Rice) Slocum. He was educated in the 
 Adelphi College, Brooklyn, and in William 
 College, A.B. He was appointed consul at 
 Warsaw, March 9, 1903; consul at Weimar, 
 March 8, 1905; consul-general at Boma, 
 June 28, 1906; consul at Zittau since May 
 6, 1907. Mr. Slocum is a member of the 
 Republican Club of New York. He mar- 
 ried in Brooklyn, April 6, 1893, Anne Louise 
 Boyle. Address: Zittau, Saxony, Germany. 
 
 SLOCUM, William F.: 
 
 President of Colorado College; born at 
 Grafton, Mass., July 29, 1851; son of Wil- 
 liam F. and Margaret (Tinker) Slocum. 
 He was graduated from Amherst College, 
 A.B., 1874, studied in Germany, 1874-1875; 
 was graduated from Andover Theological 
 Seminary, B.D., 1898; and received his LK 
 D. from Amherst in 1893. He was pastor 
 of Amesbury, Mass., 1878-1883; Baltimore, 
 1883-1888; and in 1888 became president 
 of Colorado College. He was organizer of 
 the State Board of Charities and' Correc- 
 tions, and was its president for five years, 
 also of the State Board of Pardons of Colo- 
 
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 rado ; iiiiJ he doclinod to accept tlie nomina- 
 tion for o-overnov on Republican ticket. 
 President Slocum is a lecturer and' writer 
 on educational subjects, and is author of 
 various articles on educational, sociological, 
 and ethical themes in leading periodicals. 
 He is a member of the University Club of 
 Denver, and the Tavern Club of Boston. He 
 married in 1880, Mary Goodall Montgomery. 
 Address: Colorado Springs, Colo. 
 
 SMALL, John Humphrey: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Wash- 
 ington, N. C, Aug. 29, 1858 ; son of John 
 Humphrey Small. He was educated in Ti-in- 
 ity College, North Carolina ; and is a law- 
 yer in active practice. He left college in 
 1870 and taught school 187G-1880; was 
 licensed to practise law in January, 1881. 
 He was elected reading clerk of the State 
 Senate in 1881; was elected superintendent 
 of ])ublic instruction of Beaufort County 
 in the latter part of 1881 ; elected' and con- 
 tinued to serve as solicitor of the interior 
 court of Beaufort County, 1882-1885; pro- 
 prietor and editor of the Washington Ga- 
 zette, 1883-188G; attorney of the Board of 
 Commissioners of Beaufort County, 1888- 
 1896; a member of the City Council, 1887- 
 1890, and for one year during that period 
 was mayor of Washington. He was elected 
 presidential elector on the Democratic ticket 
 in the First Congressional District of North 
 Carolina, 1896; and was elected to the Fif- 
 ty-sixth, Fifty-seventh. Fifty-eighth, Fifty- 
 ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses. 
 He married, June, 1890, Isabella C. Whar- 
 ton. Address: \\'ashington, N. C. 
 
 SMART, Isahelle Thompson: 
 
 Physician; born in Jersey City. N. J.; 
 daughter of James Frazer and Catherine 
 Louisa (Green) Smart. She is a direct de- 
 scendant (maternal) from Ca])tain Francois 
 Jansen Blood'good, chief military officer and 
 privy councillor to the Governor of New 
 Amsterdam, 1635-1676, and a descendant 
 from the Scotch clans of Campbell, Frazer 
 and Leslie, and from the Covenanters of 
 Scotland; her mothers family were among 
 ilie early settlers of Monmouth County, N. 
 J. She received her education in private 
 
 and public schools of Jersey City, and Mon- 
 mouth County, N. J., College Preparatory, 
 West Chester, Pa., graduate diploma, honor 
 student and Diploma of ]\Ierit from the New 
 York School of Expression ; Columbia LTni- 
 versity and Teachers College ; the University 
 of the State of New York, M.D. ; New York 
 Medical College for Women, honor student 
 in medical jurisprudence; and took post- 
 graduate medical work in Europe and New 
 Y'ork City. Dr. Smart was a teacher of 
 science in college preparatory schools 
 for girls, sometimes supervisor of physical 
 training in schools of New Y^ork; lecturer 
 in the New York training School for 
 Nurses; special lecturer at the New Y^ork 
 Normal School of Physical Education, and 
 in the New Y^ork Medical College for Wom- 
 en on i^hysical diagnosis, medical ex- 
 aminer for women and lecturer in Y^ale 
 University Summer School from 1905 
 to 1906; examiner in lunacy. State of 
 New York, and medical examiner of men- 
 tally defective children to the Department 
 of Education, New Y''ork City. She is a 
 member of the American Medical Associa- 
 tion, fellow of the New Y'ork Academy of 
 Medicine, member of The Women's ]Medical 
 Society of the State of New Y^ork, State 
 and County Medical Societies, New Y'ork, 
 American Association for the Study of the 
 Feeble-Minded, American Physical Educa- 
 tion Association, Playground' Association of 
 America, International Congress of Tubercu- 
 losis, Society of Moral and Sanitary Prophy- 
 laxis. American Hygiene Association, Amer- 
 ican Red Cross, American Academy of Po- 
 litical and Social Science, National Associa- 
 tion for the Feeble-]\linded of England, 
 National Educational Association, Interna- 
 tional Congress of School Hygiene and the 
 Epsilon Tau fraternity. She is author of 
 miscellaneous articles on medical subjects. 
 Address: 101 West 80th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 SMEDLEY, William Thomas: 
 
 Artist; born, in Chester County, Pa., 
 March 26, 1858; son of Peter and Amy A. 
 Smedley. After completing the courses in 
 the public schools he entered a newspaper 
 office in Philadelpliia, studied engraving. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 took an art course in the Pennsylvania 
 Academy of Fine Arts; later studied in 
 New York, and in Paris under Jean Paul 
 Laurens. Since 1880 he has been profession- 
 ally engaged as an artist in New York City 
 and has done much illustration work for 
 Harpers and other periodicals. He has ex- 
 hibited in the Paris Salon and other exhi- 
 bitions and was elected an academician of 
 the National Academy of Design in 1905. 
 He is also a member of the American Water 
 Color Society, New York City. Mr. Smedley 
 married in 1892, May Putter Darling, of 
 Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Address: Carnegie Hall, 
 New York City. 
 
 SMILLIE, Charles Francis: 
 
 Banker, merchant; born in New York 
 City, June 4, 1848; son of James Smillie, 
 the noted landscape engraver, and Cath- 
 arine (Van Valkenburgh) Smillie. He 
 was prepared for college in the New York 
 schools, but entered business instead. x\fter 
 leaving school he spent two years in the 
 rudimentary study of architecture, but 
 finally decided ujion a mercantile course. 
 When eighteen j-ears of age he enlisted in 
 the Seventli Eegiment of the National Guard 
 of the State of New York, serving five 
 years ; he became a commissioned officer in 
 the Seventy-first Regiment, resigning after 
 two years' service. For twelve years, 1884- 
 1896, he was largely identified with the cat- 
 tle industry on the Western Plains, being 
 president of one of the very few successful 
 cattle companies of Wyoming; has traveled 
 very extensively, including cruises in Arctic 
 Ocean up to the 80th degree North latitude. 
 He is a member of the firm of Winter and 
 Smillie ; director and incorporating member 
 of the Standard Trust Company; and an 
 incorporating member and director of the 
 Gerard Ozone Process Compan3^ He is a 
 fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 
 and a member of the Museum of Natural 
 History, American Geographical Society, 
 New York Zoological Society, New York 
 Botanical Gardens. His favorite recreations 
 are travel, music, art, books, and he is very 
 extensively interested in the artistic side of 
 photography, his photographic work having 
 been well and' favorably known in artistic 
 circles since 1882. He is a member of the 
 
 Century Association and' the Union League, 
 and several other clubs in New York and 
 Boston. Address: 64 Wall Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 SMILLIE, George Henry: 
 
 Artist; born in New York City, Dec. 
 29, 1840; son of James and Catherine (Van 
 Valkenburgh) Smillie. His father, a na- 
 tive of Edinburgh, Scotland, who came to 
 the United States when young, was an emi- 
 nent engraver on steel, and a member of 
 the National Academy of Design. After 
 an education in the schools of New York 
 City, Mr. Smillie entered a business house 
 before his majority, but soon gave that up 
 and entered the studio of James M. Hart, 
 under whom he studied art. He soon be- 
 came so successful that he exhibited in 1862 
 at the National Academy of Design. In 
 1864 he was made associate member of the 
 Academy and in i882 was elected academi- 
 cian. He has specialized in landscape paint- 
 ing and has made many pictures now in 
 public galleries and private collections in 
 Europe and America. He has traveled ex- 
 tensively for the purpose of study both in 
 Europe and ,the United States. Mr. Smillie 
 is a member and has been treasurer for four 
 years of the American Water Color Society, 
 has been recording secretary for ten years 
 and on the council of the National Academy 
 of Design, and is a member of the Century 
 and Lotos Clubs. He married in New Y^ork 
 City in June, 1881, to Nellie Sheldon Jacobs, 
 and has three sons. Address: 156 East 
 36th Street, New York City. Country ad- 
 dress : Pidgefield, Conn. 
 
 SMILLIE, Helen (Nellie) T. J.: 
 
 Artist ; born in New York ; daughter of 
 Samuel J. and Helen (Sheldon) Smillie. 
 She received her education in Cooper Union 
 School, then entered the studio of J. O. 
 Eaton, and later that of James D. Smillie. 
 She married in New York, June 28, 1881, 
 George H. Smillie, artist, and has three 
 sons. Mrs. Smillie is one of the only three 
 women who was elected to the full mem- 
 bership in the American Water Color So- 
 ciety. Address: 156 East 30th Street, 
 New Y^ork City. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 SMITH, Alexander: 
 
 Professor of chemistry; born in Edin- 
 burgh, Sept. 11, 1865; son of Alexander 
 W. and Isabella (Carter) Smith. He was 
 graduated from Edinburgh University, B.Sc., 
 1880 and from Munich University, Ph.D., 
 1889. He was assistant chemist at Edin- 
 burgh University, 1889-1890; professor of 
 chemistry and mineralogy at Wabash Col- 
 lege, 1890-1894; assistant professor of chem- 
 istry, University of Chicago, 1894-1898; 
 associate professor, 1898-1903, has been dean 
 in the junior College since 1899, and' pro- 
 fessor of chemistry and director of the 
 Laboratories of general and physical chem- 
 istry since 1904 in the University of Chi- 
 cago. He has made researches on amor- 
 l^hous sulphur and has written six papers 
 on that subject; and is author of: Teaching 
 of Chemistry and Physics (Longmans), and 
 numerous addresses on teaching chemistry; 
 Introduction to General Inorganic Chemis- 
 try, 1906 (Century Company), of which 
 three editions were printed in the first six 
 months and which has been translated into 
 German; also Laboratory Outline of Gen- 
 eral Chemistry, third edition ( Century Com- 
 pany), translated into German and Russian. 
 He is fellow of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science; member 
 of the American Chemical Society, and Indi- 
 ana Academy of Science; fellow of the 
 Edinburgh Royal Society, London Chemi- 
 cal Society, and the Deutsche Chemische 
 Gesellsehaft. He is a member of the 
 Quadrangle Club of Chicago. Dr. Smith 
 married in Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 16, 1905, 
 Sara Potter Bowles. Residence: 5603 Mon- 
 roe Avenue. Address : University Avenue, 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 SMITH, Charles A.: 
 
 Lumber manufacturer; born in Sweden, 
 Dec. 11, 1852, and received his education 
 in the LTniversity of Minnesota. He is pres- 
 ident of the C. A. Smith Lumber Company, 
 ('. A. Sniitli Timber Company, C. A. 
 Smith Fir Comjiany of Oregon, C. A. 
 Smitli Redwood Comi)auy of California, C. 
 A. Smith Sugar Pine Company of California, 
 the Xorth western Compo-Board Company, 
 the Lauritzon Malt Company, Minneapolis 
 
 Red Lake and Manitoba Railway Company, 
 and other Minneapolis corporations, and a 
 few years ago incorporated the C. A. Smitli 
 Lumber and Manufacturing Company, and 
 several other subsidiary companies for the 
 operation of some of his timber holdings 
 on the Pacific Coast, which are quite large, 
 and that company, of which he is president, 
 has erected a saw mill plant at Marshfield, 
 Ore. He was a delegate to the National Re- 
 publican Convention, in 1892 and 1906, and 
 a Republican elector in 1900. Mr. Smith 
 has received from the King of Sweden the 
 decoration of commander of the Order of 
 Vasa, trustee of the Lutheran Seminary 
 at Chicago, and treasurer of the Evangelical 
 Lutheran Synod of the Northwest. In poli- 
 tics he is a Republican, and he is a member 
 of the Lutheran Church. He has traveled 
 in this country, Mexico and Europe. Mr. 
 Smith is a member of the Minneapolis, Com- 
 mercial, Odin, Lafayette and Mannikada 
 Clubs. He married in Minneapolis, Feb. 14, 
 1875, Johanna Anderson, and they have five 
 children: Nann, Adeline, Myrtle, Vernon 
 and Carroll. Residence: 2324 Emerson 
 Avenue, South. Office: 411 Andrus Build- 
 ing, ]\Iinneapolis, Minn. 
 
 SMITH, Charles Bennett: 
 
 Editor of the Buffalo Courier and the 
 Buffalo Enquirer; born in Wyoming Coun- 
 ty, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1870; son of James and 
 Mary (Barnes) Smith. He was educated at 
 the Arcade (N. Y.) Academy. He was re- 
 porter on the Buffalo Courier, 1889-1891; 
 legislative correspondent at Albany, 1892- 
 1894; editor of the Buffalo Times, 1895- 
 1896; and editor of the Buffalo Courier 
 since 1897. His favorite recreations are 
 hunting, fishing, photography and motoring. 
 Mr. Smith married in 1902, Frances G. Stan- 
 ton. Address: 392 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, 
 N. Y. 
 
 SMITH, Charles Sprague: 
 
 Educator; l)orn in Andover, Mass., 1853; 
 son of Charles and Caroline L. (Sprag-vie) 
 Smith. He was graduated from Amherst 
 College, M.A., attended Universities of Ber- 
 lin, Oxford, making a continuous study of 
 five years in Euroj^e. He was the organ- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1499 
 
 izer and head of Modern Language Depart- 
 ment in Columbia University, 1880-1891, 
 lecturer before universities and on j^ublic 
 platforms since 1888. He founded the 
 Comparative Literature Society in 1896, 
 The People's Institute, 1897, and' the Eth- 
 ical Social League, 1908, and is a member 
 of various civic committees, and member of 
 the executive boards of many civic societies, 
 the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society, and the Authors' Club, and 
 Century Association. He is author of: 
 Barbizon Days; Working with the People; 
 Poems; and various articles in magazines 
 and the daily and weekly press. He mar- 
 ried in Clinton, N. Y., 1884, Isabelle J. 
 Dwight, and has a daughter. Residence: 
 29 West 68th Street. Office: 318 East 
 15th Street, Xew York City. 
 
 SMITH, Delavan: 
 
 Journalist; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 
 28, 18G1. He was educated in Lake Forest 
 (111.) University; son of William Henry 
 and Emaline (Reynolds) Smith. After 
 service with the Associated Press and be- 
 coming assistant general manager of that 
 organization, he became proprietor of the 
 Indianapolis News, and brought that paper 
 to its present considerable success. Mr. 
 Smith is also vice-president of the Oliver 
 Typewriter Company and the Street Rail- 
 ways Advertising Company, and president 
 the Cox Multi-Mailer Company. He is a 
 member of the American Historical Society, 
 Chicago Historical Society, and Indiana His- 
 torical Society; trustee of the Winona Tech- 
 nical Institute, Indianapolis; and is a mem- 
 ber of the University and Saddle and Cycle 
 Clubs of Chicago; University and Country 
 Clubs of Indianapolis; City Club of New 
 York; and the Onwentsia Club of Lake For- 
 est, 111. Mr. Smith is an independent Re- 
 publican and a Presbyterian. Residence: 
 Lake Forest, 111. Office : Indianapolis 
 News, Indianapolis. 
 
 SMITH, Ellison DuRant: 
 
 U. S. senator; born in Lynchburg, S. C, 
 Aug. 1, 1866; son of Rev. William H. and 
 Mary Isabella (McLeod) Smith. He Avas 
 educated in the University of South Caro- 
 
 lina, W^offord College, A.B., 1889, winning 
 gold medals in debate, science and literature. 
 He is a merchant and planter, began the cot- 
 ton movement in 1901 which resulted in the 
 organization of the Farmers' Protective As- 
 sociation after the Sully failure, when cot- 
 ton dropped from 17 to 6i/^ cents; began a 
 study of the cotton movement; attended tlie 
 boll-weevil convention at Shreveport, La., 
 which resulted in plans for the New Orleans 
 Convention of Janua,ry, 1905, which culmi- 
 nated in the Southern Cotton Association, of 
 which he was field agent and general organ- 
 izer, covering the entire South, 1905-1908. 
 He was a member of the South Carolina 
 Legislature from Sumter County, 1896- 
 1900; was nominated for U. S. Senator at 
 a Democratic primary election in September, 
 1908 and elected to the U. S. Senate in Jan- 
 uary, 1909, for the six year term expiring 
 March 3, 1915. Seng,tor Smith has been 
 twice married, first May 26, 1892, to Miss 
 Mattie Moover, by whom he has one son; 
 and second, to Miss Annie Farley of Spar- 
 tanburg, S. C. Address: Florence, S. C. 
 
 SMITH, Garret: 
 
 Journalist and writer; born in Rochester, 
 N. Y., May 17, 1878; son of Hugh Alex- 
 ander and Julia Elizabeth (Garretsee) 
 Smith. His maternal grandfather, John R. 
 Garetsee, was one of the pioneer journalists 
 and educators of Western New York; and 
 his paternal grandmother "is descended from 
 the old Conde and Alexander families. He 
 was graduated from the Brockjiort, N. Y., 
 State Normal School, 1897, with life teach- 
 ers' certificate, and' from the University of 
 Rochester, A.B., 1903. He was principal 
 of Union Free School, Collins Center, N. Y., 
 1897-1898, and reorganized the school into 
 a Regents' academy; principal of Honoye 
 Falls High School, 1899-1901; private tutor 
 and instructor in English in the schools of 
 Rochester, N. Y., during his resident col- 
 lege work. Since 1896 he has been a well- 
 known and popular contributor of poems, 
 special articles, novelettes, and short stories 
 to newspapers and magazines ; and since 
 1903 he has been connected with the New 
 York Tribune in an editorial capacity. He 
 is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fra- 
 
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 ternity, Masonic fraternity, Society of the 
 Genesee, the New York Alumni Association 
 of the University of Rochester, and the New 
 York Alumni Association of Brockport Nor- 
 mal School, and Alpha Delta Phi Club of 
 New York. Residences: 130 West • 44th 
 Street, New York City, and Brockport, N. 
 Y. Office: New York Tribune, New York 
 City. 
 
 SMITH, George Carson: 
 
 Identified with the Westinghouse inter- 
 ests; born in Granville, N. Y., March 4. 
 1855; son of Harvey J. and Olivia Cordelia 
 (White) Smith. He was educated at North 
 Hebron Institute in Washington County, 
 N. Y., and at Castleton. Seminary, Vt., and 
 subsequently graduated from Adrian Col- 
 lege, Mich., in 1877. Mr. Smith filled the 
 position of private secretary to the gover- 
 nor of Jlichigan, 1)577-1881. In 1881 he 
 entered railroad service as secretary to the 
 general manager of the Texas & Pacific and 
 International and Great Northern Railways. 
 Subsequently, in 1887, he became assistant 
 to the vice-pi'esident of the Missouri-Pacific 
 System, and, 1890-1894, was assistant gen- 
 eral manager of the Missouri-Pacific and 
 general manager of the Kansas City, Wyan- 
 dotte and Northwestern Railroad; president 
 and general manager of the Atlanta and 
 West Point Railroad and The Western Rail- 
 way of Alabama, 1894-1900. He afterwards 
 became general manager of the St. Louis- 
 Louisville lines of the Southern Railway, 
 and, 1901-1908, he held the position of vice- 
 president of the Security Investment Com- 
 pany of Pittsburgh, Pa., of which George 
 Westinghouse is president. Mr. Smith is 
 president of The Lackawanna and Wyoming- 
 Valley Rapid Transit Company, Grand 
 Rapids, Grand Haven and ^luskegon Rail- 
 way Company, and Westinghouse Inter- 
 Works Railway Company, and' vice-presi- 
 dent of the Manila Electric Railroad and 
 Lighting Corporation, Electric Power Se- 
 curities Company of Niagara Falls, The 
 East Pittsburgh Improvement Company, 
 and a director of the Westinghouse Air 
 Brake Company, Westingliousc, Churcii 
 Kerr & Company, Union Switch and Signal 
 Company, Electric Properties Company, Ni- 
 
 agara, Lockport and Ontario Power Com- 
 pany, Atlanta Water and Electric Power 
 Company, Canadian W^estinghouse Com- 
 pany, Westinghouse Lamp Company, and 
 other Westinghouse companies. Mr. Smith 
 is a member of the Engineers' and Railroad 
 Clubs of New York City ; and Duquesne Club 
 of Pittsburgh. He married, in 1878, Miss 
 Jennie Prosser of Pittsburgh, and they 
 have four children: A daughter, Olivia, 
 now Mrs. H. A. Cornelius of Pittsburgh, 
 and three sons, Somers Hayes, George C, 
 Jr., and Warren Prosser Smith. Address: 
 105 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 SMITH, Herbert Knox: 
 
 U. S. commissioner of Corporations; 
 born in Chester, Mass., Nov. 17, 1809; son 
 of Edward Alfred and Melissa E. (Knox) 
 Smith. He was graduated from Yale Uni- 
 versity, A.B., and from Yale Law School. 
 He practised law in Hartford, Conn., 1895- 
 1903, and was a member of the Connecticut 
 Legislature, 1903-1905. Mr. Smith was 
 deputy commissioner of corporations of the 
 Department of Commerce and Labor, 1903- 
 
 1907, and since March, 1907, has been com- 
 missioner of corporations. He was a mem- 
 ber of the U. S. Commission investigating 
 the Slocum disaster, which was in session 
 from June to Oct., 1904. He is a director 
 of the Farmington (Conn.) Savings Bank, 
 the American School for the Deaf, and vice- 
 president of the Hartford Young Men's 
 Christian Association. Mr. Smith is a 
 member of the Hartford Club, Conn., Yale 
 Club of New York, and the Metropolitan 
 and Chevy Chase Clubs of Washington. He 
 married at Farmington, Conn., Sept. 29, 
 
 1908, Gertrude E. Dietrich. Residence: 
 The Highlands. Office: Bureau of Cor- 
 joorations, Washington, D. C. 
 
 SMITH, Hoke: 
 
 Former governor of Geoigia ; born at 
 Newton, N. C, Sept. 2, 1855. He was 
 educated at home, by his father, moved 
 to Georgia when lie was seventeen years 
 old; engaged in teaching school. He stud- 
 ied law and engaged in practice at Atlanta; 
 became proprietor of the Atlanta Journal in 
 
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 1887, and' conducted it until 1898, Avlien, on 
 account of the tax placed by it upon his time, 
 sold tlie paper to give his entire time to prac- 
 tising law. He has been actively identified 
 for years M'ith the politics of Georgia, as 
 a Democratic leader, and upon the begin- 
 ning of the second Cleveland administration, 
 in 1893, he was called to the cabinet as 
 secretary of the Interior, resigning from 
 that office, Aug. 22, 1896. He was nomi- 
 nated by the Democratic party for •gover- 
 nor, and elected in Oct., 1906, for the two- 
 year term beginning in June, 1907, which 
 he served. Address : Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 SMITH, Jane Luella Dowd: 
 
 Teacher and author; born in Sheffield, 
 Mass., June 16, 1847; daugliter of Almeron 
 and Emily (Curtiss) Dowd. She attended 
 \Yestfield (Mass.) High School, and was 
 graduated from the Westfield State Normal 
 School (essayist), and' from North Gran- 
 ville Ladies' Seminary (valedictorian). 
 She married in Westfield, Mass., 'May 18, 
 1875, Henry Hadley Smith, M.D. She 
 taught school for ten years, being princi- 
 pal of public schools for six years and of 
 South Egremont Academy for four years. 
 Mrs. S)nitli has written for many years for 
 temperance papers and for the National 
 Temperance Publication House, and has 
 edited tempei'ance suffrage and' humane col- 
 umns in city and county papers. She is 
 author of the books: Wayside Leaves 
 (verse) ; Wind Flowers (verse) ; Flowers 
 from Foreign Fields (translations of 
 poetry) ; Ways to Win (prose) ; also of 
 the pamphlets: The Church from a 
 Woman's Standpoint; In Memoriam — Mrs. 
 Ella Roys Gore; and various Temperance 
 tracts. She formerly used various pen- 
 names, but now publishes over the signa- 
 ture Luella D. Smith. Mrs. Smith has been 
 superintendent of the Universalist Sunday 
 School in Hudson, N. Y., for nine years, 
 and gives much of her time to the work 
 of temperance and' philanthropy, and occa- 
 sionally gives temperance addresses. She 
 is State Superintendent of a department of 
 the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; 
 director of the Needlework Guild; director 
 of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to 
 
 Children and of the Society for the Pre- 
 vention of Cruelty to Animals; member of 
 tlie Daughters of the American Revolution, 
 Independent Order of Good' Templars, La- 
 dies of the Maccabees and the New York 
 State Woman's Suffrage Association. Ad- 
 dress: 533 Warren street, Hudson, N. Y. 
 
 SMITH, John Walter: 
 
 U. S. senator; born at Snow Hill, Wor- 
 cester County, Md., Feb. 5, 1845; son of 
 John Walter and Charlotte (W^nttington) 
 Smith; and in 1850 his father died. He 
 was educated at private schools and the 
 Union Academy at Snow Hill, receiving a 
 classical education and excelling in math- 
 ematics. At the age of eighteen he took 
 a position with the mercantile house of 
 George S. Richardson &■ Brother, in which 
 he later became a jiartner. In 1887 he 
 assisted in organizing the First National 
 Bank of Snow Hill, of which he has ever 
 since been president; and he has been very 
 successful in that and other business lines, 
 and has accumulated a large fortune. He 
 was elected to the State Senate, serving 
 1889-1899, and was president of the Mary- 
 land Senate in 1894; chairman of the State 
 Democratic Committee, 1895; Democratic 
 nominee for U. S. senator, 1896; elected 
 in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress, but 
 resigned upon his election as governor of 
 Maryland, in which office he served', 1900- 
 1904. In the election of Nov., 1907, ex-Gov- 
 ernor Smith received the Democratic nomi- 
 nation for the U. S. senatorship for term 
 beginning March 4, 1909, and ending March 
 3, 1915, to which, in regular course, he was 
 elected by the Maryland Legislature of 
 1908, and at the same session was elected 
 to fill the luiexpired term of the late Hon. 
 William Pinkney W^hyte, who died March 
 17, 1908. He married at Snow Hill, Md., 
 in 1869, Mary Frances Richardson, a sister 
 of his former partner, the late George S. 
 Richardson. Address: Snow Hill, Md. 
 
 SMITH, Mabell Shippie Clarke: 
 
 Writer ; born in Boston ; daughter of 
 Edward Augustus May and Frances Dexter 
 (Young) Clarke. She was graduated from 
 the Girls' Latin School, Boston, 1883, Bos- 
 
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 ton University, A.B., 1887, and' the Uni- 
 versity of North Carolina, A.JNI., 1905. She 
 married in Boston, Oct. 17, 1891, F. Alaric 
 Pelton; second, Oct. 22, 1907, James Rav- 
 enel Smith of Charleston, S. C. Mrs. Smith 
 was member of the School Committee of 
 Dedham, Mass., 1893; secretary of the Mas- 
 sachusetts Society for the University Edu- 
 cation of Women, 1893; president of the 
 Boston Branch of the Association of Col- 
 legiate Alumnae, 1892; third vice-president 
 of the Southern Association of College 
 Women, 1904; acting dean of women. Uni- 
 versity of Tennessee, 1904. She is a mem- 
 ber of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, 
 Daughters of the American Revolution, 
 North Carolina Society of Colonial Dames, 
 the Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity, and 
 the Lyceum Club of London. Address: 
 Arden, N. C. 
 
 SMITH, Merritt Haviland: 
 
 Civil engineer ; born in Xew York City, 
 May 21, 1862; son of Merritt Haviland 
 and Mary Adelia (Howard) Smith. He 
 was educated in common schools and by 
 private tutors, at the Military School, 
 Yonkers, N. Y., and the Pennsylvania Mili- 
 tary College, where he was graduated', C.E., 
 1880. He studied law, 1880-1881; was 
 engineer with the Pittsburgh and Western 
 Railroad, 1881-1884, at Pittsburgh, engaged 
 on the location and construction of the 
 Pittsburgh Junction Railroad. He was en- 
 gineer with the New York City Department 
 of Public Works on the New York Croton 
 Aqueduct, 1884-1889;, engineer with the 
 comptroller of New York City, 1894-1900; 
 and department engineer of the New York 
 Board of Water Supply since ]\Iarch, 190G, 
 in charge of the South Aqueduct Depart- 
 ment of the Catskill Aqueduct. He is a 
 director of the Underbill Land and Im- 
 provement Company; was Park commis- 
 sioner of the City of Yonkers, 1900-1903; 
 police commissioner of the city of Yonkers; 
 and secretary and treasurer of the depart- 
 ment, 1905-190G. He was member of Com- 
 pany F of the Seventh Regiment of the 
 National Guard of New York, 1880-1889; 
 member of Squadron A, National Guard of 
 New York, 1895 to 1907, 1st lieutenant, 
 
 1901-1906; captain, 1906-1907, in the First 
 Troop of that organization, and he was 
 captain and major of the First United 
 States Volunteer Engineers from June 18, 
 1898, to Jan. 24, 1899, and during the 
 Spanish-American War, served in Porto 
 Rico with General Miles. He is a member 
 of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 
 the Military Service Institution, the New 
 York State Rifle Association, and member 
 of the. Chamber of Commerce. He married 
 in Yonkers, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1890, Maude 
 M. Underbill, daughter of Edward and Ann 
 Underbill, and they have had two children: 
 Merritt Haviland, Jr., born in 1892, and 
 Roderick Wray, deceased. Address : Realty 
 Building, White Plains, N. Y. 
 
 SMITH, Minna Caroline: 
 
 Author, journalist; born in ^Tonterey, 
 Calif. ; daughter of William Nelson and 
 Jane (Letts) Smith. She was educated at 
 Harvard . Annex. She removed with her 
 father in early childhood, after the death 
 of her mother in California, to Illinois; 
 and after a journey of a year in Europe, 
 went to college, and also attended lectures 
 at the College of France. She became a 
 member of the editorial staff of the Boston 
 Transcript, in which position she was active 
 for nearly nine years. Miss Smith is 
 author of: Mary Paget, A Romance of 
 Old Bermiula; Red Top Ranch; and of 
 verse, In Fruitful Lands. She translated: 
 Saragossa from the Spanish of Galdos; 
 Jose and the Joy of Captain Ribot, from 
 the Spanish of 'Valdes; Trilby the Fairy of 
 Argyle, from the French of Charles Nodier. 
 ^Nliss Smith is also a contributor to the 
 International Studio on work of American 
 artists. Address : Care of the Interna- 
 tional Studio, New York City. 
 
 SMITH, Nicholas: 
 
 Journalist and author; born in Black- 
 burn, England, Oct. 31, 1836; son of Wil- 
 liam and Sarah (Bailey) Smith. He is 
 self-educated; worked on the farm and in 
 the coal mines, 1844-1800, in Southern Wis- 
 consin, having come to the United States 
 in 1841. He studied law in 1861, and was 
 
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 admitted to the Lafayette county (Wis.) 
 Bar in 1862. He enlisted as a private in 
 the Thirty-third Wisconsin Infantry in 
 August, 1862; was commissioned second 
 lieutenant in October, 1862, first lieuten- 
 ant. May, 1863; captain, August, 1863; 
 participated in the expedition through Cen- 
 tral Mississippi, 1862-1863; the siege of 
 Vicksburg, 1863; capture of Jackson, Miss., 
 1863 ; the ill-fated Red River expedition in 
 the spring of 1864; the expedition against 
 Marniaduke in Arkansas and Missouri in 
 the latter part of 1864; resigned by special 
 order, on account of disability, Jan. 10, 
 1865. He was commissioned colonel by Gov- 
 ernor Smith, 1880. In 1869 he abandoned 
 the i^raetice of law and began his newspa- 
 per career on the Waukesha (Wis.) Free- 
 man, and' from 1874 to 1891 was editor of 
 the Janesville (Wis.) Daily Gazette. He 
 was press secretary of the Republican State 
 Central Committee, 1891-1894, and for the 
 following four years and a half was editor 
 of the Fond du Lac Daily Commonwealth. 
 He is author of: Stories of Great National 
 Songs, 1899; Hymns Historically Famous, 
 1901; Songs from the Hearts of Women, 
 1903; Our Nation's Flag in History and In- 
 cident, 1903; Masters of Old Age, 1905; 
 Grant, the Man of Mystery, 1909; and he 
 has contributed historical articles to vari- 
 ous i^ublications. Colonel Smith was seven 
 years member of tlie State Board of Super- 
 vision, having in charge all the charitable, 
 reformatory and penal institutions of the 
 State. He is a member of the Masonic fra- 
 ternity; of the Wisconsin Commandery of 
 the ]\Iilitary Order of the Loyal Legion of 
 the United States, and of the Grand Army 
 of the Rejjublie. He married at Meeker's 
 Grove, Wis., Aug. 14, 1862, Julia Clara 
 Meeker, and has two daughters and a son. 
 Address: The Belvedere, Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 SMITH, Walter Lloyd: 
 
 Judge of the Appellate Division of the 
 Supreme Court of New York; born in El- 
 mira, N. Y., April 18, 1856; son of H. 
 Boardman and Ellen H. Smith. He was 
 graduated from Princeton, A.B., 1877; 
 studied law in offices in Elmira, 1877-1879 j 
 
 was admitted to the bar and practised, 1879- 
 1888; and he was elected in 1888 and re- 
 elected in 1902, on the Republican ticket, 
 as justice of the Supreme Court of New 
 York, from the Sixth Judicial District, the 
 present term expiring Dec. 31, 1910. He 
 is now serving as presiding justice of the 
 Appellate Division of the Supreme Court 
 in the Third Department. Judge Smith is 
 a member of Fort Orange Club of Albany, 
 the Elmira City, University, and Princeton 
 Clubs. He married in Elmira, N. Y., in 
 1893, Jessie Gonzales. Address: Elmira, 
 N. Y. 
 
 SMOCK, John Conover: 
 
 Geologist ; born near Ilolmd'el, Monmouth 
 County, N. J., Sept. 1, 1842. He was 
 graduated from Rutgers College, A.B., 1862; 
 tutor in chemistry there, 1805-1867, and 
 studied in Berlin, 1869-1870. He was as- 
 sistant geologist in the New Jersey Geologi- 
 cal Sul'vey, 18G4-1885; assistant in charge 
 of the New York State Museum, 1885-1890; 
 State geologist of New Jersey, 1890-1901. 
 He is a member of the Board of Managers 
 of the New Jersey Geological Survey; of the 
 New Jersey Forest Reservation Commission ; 
 fellow of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science; a member of the 
 Geological Society, the American Institute 
 of Mining Engineers, the Forestry Asso- 
 ciation, and the American Philosophical 
 Association. Address: Trenton, N. J. 
 
 SMOOT, Reed: 
 
 U. S. senator; born Jan. 10, 1862, at 
 Salt Lake City, Utah. He was educated 
 at the State University and Brigham Young 
 Academy, being a graduate of the latter 
 institution; is a banker and woolen manu- 
 facturer. He was elected to the United 
 States Senate to succeed Joseph L. Rawlins, 
 Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1903. 
 His term of service expired March 3, 
 1909. An effort to deprive Senator Smoot 
 of his seat on an allegation of polygamy 
 ran through several sessions of Congress 
 and' was unsuccessful because of the non- 
 proof of the statements made. He married, 
 Sept. 17, 1884, Alpha M. Eldredge. Ad- 
 dress; Provo, Utah. 
 
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 SNELL, Henry Bayley: 
 
 Artist; born in Richmond, Surrey, Eng- 
 land, Sept. 29, 1858; son of Edward and 
 Elizabeth Snell. He studied art in the Art 
 Students' League, New Yoik City, and en- 
 gaged in professional work as artist. He 
 was elected associate and, in 190G, acad- 
 emician of the National Academy of De- 
 sign, and was assistant director of fine arts 
 to the U. S. Commission to the Paris 
 Exposition of 1900, receiving there the 
 decoration of Oiticier de rAcademie and 
 Officier de I'lnstrviction publique; and 
 his works exhibited in various exposi- 
 tions have received many favorable awards, 
 including the gold medal of the Philadel- 
 phia Art Club, honorable mention at the 
 Paris Exposition of 1900, silver medals at 
 the Pan-American Exposition of 1901 and 
 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. 
 Mr. Snell is a member and was president 
 of the New York Water Color Club, ,and is 
 a member of the American Water Color 
 Society. Ad'dress: 37 West 22d Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 SNOWDEN, Archibald Loudon: 
 
 President of Board of Commissioners of 
 Fairmount Park; son of Dr. Isaac Wayne 
 Snowden, surgeon under General Jackson 
 (descendant of Judge John Snowden, an 
 early settler of Philadelphia) ; grandson, on 
 maternal side, of Archibald Loudon of Cum- 
 berland County, Pa. He was educated in 
 JefTerson College, which afterward gave him 
 the A.M. and LL.D. degrees, and studied 
 in the Law Department of the LTniversity 
 of Pennsylvania. Mr. Snowden was admit- 
 ted to the Philadelphia bar. At the re- 
 quest of his uncle, Hon. James Ross Snow- 
 den, then director of the LTnited States Mint, 
 he entered that institution as registrar, and 
 then was promoted to chief coiner. He was 
 appointed postmaster 'of Philadelphia in 
 1877, and afterward, by President Hayes, 
 superintendent of the Mint. In 1889 he 
 was appointed minister resident and con- 
 sul-general of the United States to Greece, 
 Roumania and" Servia, and the grade was 
 soon after raised to envoy extraordinary 
 and minister pleiii2)otcntiary, and later he 
 
 was transferred from Athens to IMadrid. 
 At the beginning of the Civil War he 
 organized, partly clothed, and fed for weeks 
 a regiment, and was commissioned its lieu- 
 tenant-colonel, and later particii)ated in the 
 skirmishes prelminary to the battle of Get- 
 tysburg, as a member of the First City 
 Troop of Philadelpliia, and was commis- 
 sioned its commanding officer in 1877. He 
 organized the great parade, Dec. 6, 1879, 
 in honor of General Grant's return from his 
 journey around the world, and the great 
 civic i^arade in 1889 under the auspices of 
 the Constitution Centennial Commission. 
 Colonel Snowden received from the King of 
 Greece the Grand' Cordon of the Saviour ; 
 from the King of Roumania, the Grand 
 Cordon of the Crown of Roumania, and 
 from the Queen Regent of Spain, the Grand 
 Cordon of the Order of Isabella the Catholic. 
 He is a member of the American Philosophi- 
 cal Society, St. Andrew's Society, and the 
 L^nion League of Philadelphia. He married 
 Elizabeth Robinson Smith, daughter of 
 Isaac Robinson Smith of Philadelphia. Ad- 
 dress: 1812 Spruce Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 SOLEY, James Russell: 
 
 Lawyi'r; born in Boston, Oct. 1, IS.iO; 
 son of John J. Soley. He was graduated 
 from Harvard University^ A.B., 1870, and 
 from Columbian (now George Washington) 
 University, LL.B. He studied law in the 
 office of Juuge A. B. Hagner, of Washington, 
 D. C. ; and was admitted to the bar of the 
 Supreme Court of the District of Colvmibia. 
 He was appointed professor, with the rank 
 of lieutenant commander in the U. S. Navy, 
 and head of the Department of History and 
 Law in the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapo- 
 lis; lecturer on International Law in the 
 Naval War College at New Port, R. I.; on 
 special duty under the Commission General, 
 Paris Exposition, 1878; on special duty in 
 the Bureau of Navigation and office of the 
 Secretary, Navy Department, with rank of 
 commander, 18S2-1S90. In 1890 he was 
 ap])ointed assistant secretary of the Na^y, 
 which position he filled with marked abil- 
 ity, but resigned in 1893 to engage in the 
 ])ractice of law in New Y^'ork City. Hq was 
 
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 a member of tJie firm of Boardinan, Piatt 
 and Soley until 1906. As counsel for the 
 Brooklyn Ti-action Company he conducted 
 the reorganization of the company and the 
 lease and sale of the Atlantic Avenue and 
 Brooklyn, Bath and West End Railroads. 
 He was counsel for Venezuela at the Paris 
 Arbitration in 1899, of the Venezuela-Bri- 
 tish Guiana Boundary; counsel for the At- 
 lantic, Gulf and Pacific Company, Union 
 Bridge Company, Harvey Steel Company, 
 San Francisco Bridge Company and other 
 Corporations. He conducted the mandamus 
 proceedings of the Empire City Racing Asso- 
 ciation against the Stella Racing Commission 
 in 1907; and was counsel for the Resumption 
 Committee of the Knickerbocker Trust Com- 
 pany in 1908, and in the organization of the 
 Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railway Com- 
 pany in 1908. Mr. Soley is author of: His- 
 tory of the Naval Academy; Foreign Sys- 
 tems of Naval Education; The Blockade and 
 the Cruisers; Boys of 1812; Sailor Boys 
 of 1861; The Rescue of Greeley (with Win- 
 field S. Schley); Life of Admiral Porter; 
 and many magazine and other articles. Mr. 
 Soley is a trustee of the New York Institu- 
 tion for the Blind, a member of the Delta 
 Kappa Epsilon fraternity ; the Association 
 of the Bar of the City of New York, the 
 Union, University, The Brook, and Harvard 
 Clubs of New York, and the Alibi and Met- 
 ropolitan Clubs of Washingion, D. C. He 
 married in New York City, Dec. 1, 1875, 
 I\Iary Woolsey Howland, and has two daugh- 
 ters. Residence: 22 East 50th Street. Of- 
 fice : Hanover Bank Building, 5 Nassau 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 SOMERVILLE, Henderson Middleton: 
 
 United States general appraiser; born in 
 Madison County,"Va., March 23, 1837. He 
 was graduated from the University of Ala- 
 bama, A.B., 1856, A.M., 1859, LL.D. in 1887; 
 from the Cumberland Law School, Tenn., 
 LL.B., 1859, and he received the LL.D. de- 
 gree from Georgetown College, Ky., 1886, 
 and from Southwestern University, Tenn., 
 1887. After leaving the law school in 1859, 
 he became editor of the Memphis Appeal un- 
 til 1862; then engaged in teaching as associ- 
 ate professor of mathematics and languages 
 
 at the University of Alabama, until 1865. He 
 then engaged in the general practice of law 
 at Tuscaloosa, Ala., and while so engaged 
 founded the Law School of the University 
 of Alabama, in 1873, holding the chair of 
 constitutional, statutory and common law 
 there until 1890. He was a member of the 
 Democratic State Executive Committee of 
 Alaoama, from 1872 imtil elected in 1880, 
 associate justice of the Supreme Court of 
 Alabama, in which position he served until 
 appointed in 1890 member of the Board of 
 the United States General Appraisers, in 
 which position he has continued ever since, 
 serving as chairman until 1904. He is 
 one of the trustees of the Peabody Education 
 Fund; was trustee of the Alabama Insane 
 Hospital, 1874-1892; was a member of the 
 Medico-Legal Society of New York, and its 
 president, 1892 1893, and is a member of 
 tlie Southern Society of New York, and 
 the Alpha Delta Phi Society. Residence: 
 265 Central Park West. Office: 641 Wash- 
 ington Street, New York City. 
 
 SONNE, Otto: 
 
 Civil and landscape engineer ; born in 
 Denmark. Dec. 2, 1855; son of H. C. and 
 Margaret (Rothe) Sonne. He was gi-adu- 
 ated from the Polytechnic Institute at Co- 
 penhagen, Denmark, C.E., 1877. He was 
 engaged on Government engineering work 
 in Denmark, 1877-1884; served in the 
 Danish Army and Navy, 1879; on the U. 
 S. improvement of the Missouri River, 1885- 
 1886; the Sibley Bridge over the Missouri, 
 1886-1887; various bridge work and surveys 
 in Colorado and Tennessee, 1887-1891; pri- 
 vate office in Boston, 1891-1906, and in New 
 York City since 1906. Since 1891 Mr. 
 Sonne has been principally devoted to land- 
 scape work on private country places, 
 among which U. S. Senator Nelson W. Al- 
 drich's estate at Warwick, R. I., is promi- 
 nent ; also public grounds, cemeteries, etc. 
 He has been a member of the American 
 Society of Civil Engineers since 1887, and 
 is a member of the St. Botolph Club of Bos- 
 ton. He married in New York City, Aug. 
 12, 1894, Harriet Rothe, and they have four 
 children. Address: 134 Nassau Street, 
 New York City. 
 
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 SOPER, Erastus Burrows: 
 
 Lawyer and bunk president; born in 
 Pitcher, Chenango County, N. Y., Sept. 15, 
 1841; son of Jacob and Celinda (Harvey) 
 Soper. He attended Western College from 
 1857 to 1861, was graduated from Cornell 
 College, Iowa, A.B., 18G8, A.M., 1871, 
 (LL.D., 1904). He taught in Cornell Col- 
 lege, 18G8-1869; studied law at Marion, 
 Iowa, 1869-1871. and located at Esther- 
 ville, as a practising attorney, 1871-1879. 
 He removed to Emmetsburg, and kept of- 
 fices in both places, and engaged in all im- 
 portant litigation in the adjacent counties 
 for thirty-five years. He is now retired and 
 devotes his attention to the management 
 of his jiersonal fortune, invested in land 
 and bank stock. He served in the Civil War 
 as a private in Company K, First Regiment, 
 Iowa Infantry Volunteers, April-Aug., 1861; 
 second and first lieutenant and captain of 
 Company D. Twelfth Regiment, Iowa In 
 fantry Volunteers, Sept., 1861, to Jan., 
 1865; was engaged in battles at Wilson's 
 Creek, Mo., in 1861; at Fort Henry, Fort 
 Donelson and Shiloh, Tenn., in 1862; and 
 in Corinth, Miss., in 1862 (May-Oct.) ; at 
 Vieksburg and Jackson, Miss., in 1863; 
 Tupelo, Miss., in 1864; the campaign 
 against Price in Missouri, Oct.-Nov., 1864, 
 and at Nashville, Tenn., Dec, 1864. He was 
 a lay delegate to the General Conference of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church at Los An- 
 gelos, 1904; chairman of the Iowa Shiloh 
 Monument Association, and built monu- 
 ments in Shiloh Park; and is past com- 
 mander of the Iowa Commandery of the 
 Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and 
 vice-president of the Society of the Army of 
 Tennessee. He has traveled in all the 
 States and Territories, except five; over 
 British America from the Atlantic to the 
 Pacific; also around the Mediterranean Sea 
 and through Europe. He is president of the 
 First National Bank of Emmetsburg, the 
 First National Bank and the Provident 
 Savings Bank, both of Estherville, the First 
 National Bank of Titonka, the State Bank 
 of Armstrong (all in Iowa) ; the Faribault 
 County State Bank of Winnebago, Minn., 
 the Savings Bank of Doliver, Iowa, Savings 
 Bank of Iluntingion, Iowa, and the Savings 
 
 Bank of Gruver, Iowa. Mr. Soper is a 
 member of the Iowa State Bar Association ; 
 member of the Board of Trustees of Cornell 
 College, since 1877, and of the Executive 
 Committee of the Board for twenty years. 
 He is also a member of the Grand Army of 
 the Republic, Sons of American Revolution 
 (Iowa Society), and a member of Grant 
 Club of Des Moines, Iowa. He married in 
 Mt. Vernon, Iowa, Nov. 19, 1867, Elizabeth 
 A. Corey, and they have three children. 
 Address: Emmetsburg, Iowa. 
 
 SOTHERN, Edward H.: 
 
 Actor; born in 'New Orleans, Dec. fi, 
 1859; second son of Edward A. Sothern the 
 famous actor. For several years after his 
 father's death, he played in England in 
 his brother's company. He returned to the 
 United States in 1883; his first great suc- 
 cess was in Lord Chumley; several years 
 ago he took up Shakespearean and other 
 classical roles in connection with Julia ]\Tar- 
 lowe, and together they scored tremendoTis 
 success here and abroad. He married, Dec. 
 3, 1896, Virginia Harned, a leading actress: 
 Address: 34 West 69th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 SOUSA, John Philip: 
 
 Bandmaster, composer and author; born 
 in Washington, D. C, Nov. 6, 1854; son of 
 Antonio and Elizabeth Sousa. At the age 
 of eleven he appeared in public as a violin 
 soloist, at fifteen he was teaching harmony, 
 and in 1876 he became one of the first vio- 
 lins in the orchestra conducted by Ofi"en- 
 bach, when the latter visited America. 
 Later he became conductor for various thea- 
 trical and operatic companies, among them 
 the Church Choir Pinafore Company. In 
 1880 he was appointed leader of the band of 
 the U. S. Marine Corps, the National Band, 
 serving under Presidents Hayes, Garfield, 
 Arthur, Cleveland and Harrison, imtil Aug. 
 1, 1892, when he resigned from United 
 States service to organize the Sousa Band, 
 which, up to Jan. 1, 1909 had made thirty- 
 three semi-annual tours through the United 
 States, and has four times visited Europe, 
 giving a total of 7947 concerts in 930 cities 
 and covering 319,298 miles of travel. As a 
 
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 music composer he has originated a 
 " march " style that is recognized the world 
 over, his productions in this field including, 
 as best known and most popular: The 
 \vashington Post; Liberty Bell; Manhattan 
 Beach; High School Cadets; Semper Fi- 
 delis; The C41adiator; The Stars and Stripes 
 Forever; The Invincible Eagle; Hail to the 
 Spirit of Liberty; Hands Across the Sea; 
 The Charlatan; The Bride-Elect; El Capi- 
 tan; King Cotton; Imperial Edward; Jack 
 Tar; The Diplomat; The Free Lance, 
 marches. He has also written several 
 suites, including Three Quotations; Looking 
 Upward; At the King's Court; Last Days of 
 Pompeii, and Sheridan's Ride; also a sym- 
 phonic poem. The Chariot Race; a long list 
 of songs and miscellaneous compositions 
 and the comic operas: The Smugglers; 
 Desiree; The Queen of Hearts; El Capitan; 
 The Bride-Elect; The Charlatan; Chris and 
 the Wonderful Lamj:), and The Free Lance. 
 As author he compiled imder the avispices of 
 the Government: National Patriotic and 
 Typical Airs of all Countries; wrote the 
 book and lyrics for his opera, The Bride- 
 Elect ; also numerous verses and magazine 
 articles, and has produced two novels : The 
 Fifth String, and Pipetown Sandy. With 
 his band he has appeared twice by command 
 before King Edward and Queen Alexandra, 
 once at Sandringham, then at Windsor, and 
 on the first occasion was honored by His 
 Majesty with the decoration of the Vic- 
 torian order. He also received the Grand 
 Diploma of Honor at the Academy of 
 Hainaut, Belgium, and was decorated by the 
 French Government with the Palms of the 
 Academy, besides being made an Officer of 
 Public Instruction. Mr. Sousa is a member 
 of various Masonic bodies, the Sons of Vet- 
 erans, and the National Geographic Society. 
 He is a member of the Gridiron Club of 
 Washington, and the Republican, Salma- 
 gundi, Players, Baton and Dramatists Clubs 
 of New York City. Address: Astor Court, 
 18-20 West 34th Street, New York City, 
 
 SPEAR, Lawrence York: 
 
 Naval architect; born in Warren, Ohio, 
 Oct. 23, 1870; son of Judge W. T. and Fran- 
 cis (York) Spear. He was graduated from 
 
 the U. S. Naval Academy in 1890, and 
 as B.Sc, from the University of Glasgow, 
 Scotland, in 1893. In 1890 he was attached 
 to the Pensacola, flagship of the South 
 American Squadron. He was present dur- 
 ing the Balmaceda revolution in Chili, and 
 transferred to the Charleston ; he brought 
 home the captured Itata; was detached 
 from the Charleston in 1891, and ordered 
 to the University of Glasgow for a special 
 course in naval architecture. He was com- 
 missioned assistant constructor in 1892. 
 He took the first prizes at Glasgow, includ- 
 ing the Harvey prize; returned to the 
 United States in 1893; was on duty at va- 
 rious places on the Pacific Coast in connec- 
 tion with the build of the Oregon, Olympia, 
 and other vessels. He was commissioned 
 naval constructor in 1898; ordered in 
 charge of the post-graduate school at Anna- 
 polis; and later on duty in Washington and 
 as sujierintendent of vessel building in and 
 arour d New York City. He resigned in 
 1902. to take a position as naval architect 
 and general manager of Holland, and vice- 
 president of the Electric Boat Company, in 
 which position he is in charge of the design 
 and construction of all Holland submarines. 
 He is a member of the Society of Naval 
 Architects and Marine Engineers, and the 
 American Society of Naval Engineers. Mr. 
 Spear is a member of The Lambs and The 
 Strollers Clubs. He married in New York 
 City, June 12, 1902, Lilian, daughter of the 
 late Charles Tudor Wing. Address: 11 
 Pine Street, New Y^ork City. 
 
 SPEED, John Gilmer: 
 
 Journalist and author; born in Kentucky, 
 Sept. 21, 1863; son of Philip and Emnia 
 (Kets) Speed. He was graduated from the 
 University of Louisville, A.B. and C.E. He 
 began his career as civil engineer and was 
 for a time city engineer of Louisville, Ken- 
 tucky. He became managing editor of the 
 New York World and went to London in 
 1877 as secretary of the American Exhibi- 
 tion. He is one of the best known of Amer- 
 ican editors having edited the American 
 Magazine and Leslie's Weekly, and is au- 
 thor of: Life and Letters of John Keats; 
 The Gilmers in America; A Deal in Denver; 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 A Fall River Incident; The Horse in Amer- 
 ica; and is a contributor to various maga- 
 zines and periodicals, and a lecturer before 
 many societies and lyceunis. Mr. Speed has 
 served as commissioner to buy horses to 
 improve the breed of stock in the Phillip- 
 pine Islands. He married in Kentucky, 
 Jan. 14, 1881, Mary C. Pondexter, and has 
 one daughter. Residence : Mendham, N. J. 
 Office: 139 East 19th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 SPEER, Emory: 
 
 Jurist ; born in Culloden, Ga., Sejjt. 3, 
 1848; son of Rev. Eustace W. and Annie E. 
 Speer. He served in the Fifth Kentucky 
 Regiment in the Confederate Army, 1864- 
 1865, then entered the University of Geor- 
 gia, from which he was graduated A.B. in 
 1869. He began the j^ractice of law in 
 Athens, Ga., 1869, and was solicitor-general 
 of Georgia, 18731876. He was elected to 
 the Forty-fifth Congress as an Independent 
 Democrat, but disagreeing with his party 
 he affiliated with the Republicans on pro- 
 tection and other issvies, and was reelected 
 to the Forty-sixth Congress as an Independ- 
 ent. He was appointed U. S. attorney for 
 the Northern District of Georgia, 1883- 
 1885; and in Feb., 1885, was appointed 
 U. S. judge of the Southern District of 
 Georgia. He is distinguished as an orator 
 and has made many addresses on important 
 national occasions ; was trvistee of the Uni- 
 versity of Georgia, 1877-1885; and president 
 of the law department of Mercer University. 
 Judge Speer is author of a work on the Re- 
 moval of Causes from the State to the 
 United States Courts, and of Lectures on 
 the Constitution of the United States. Ad- 
 dress: Macon, Ga. 
 
 SPENCER, Edgar A.: 
 
 Justice of the Supreme Court of New 
 York; born in Cherry Valley, N. Y., Nov. 
 23, 1847; son of William D. and Mahitable 
 P. (Glazier) Spencer. He received his ed- 
 ucation in Cooperstown Seminary. He was 
 admitted to the bar in 1875, and was en- 
 gaged in the general practice of law until 
 1901 ; was city clerk and city attorney of 
 Gloversville, and in Nov. 1894, was elected 
 
 as a Republican to the Constitutional Con- 
 vention of the State of New York. In 1901 
 he was elected for a full term of fourteen 
 years as justice of the Supreme Court of 
 New York; and is now serving as such in 
 the Fourth District. He married in Glo- 
 versville, N. Y., Sept., 1879, Frances B. 
 Hosmer. Address : Gloversville, N. Y. 
 
 SPERRY, Charles Stillman: 
 
 Rear-admiral, U.S. Navy, retired; born 
 in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept.^3, 1847; son of 
 Corydon Stillman and Catherine Elizabeth 
 (Leavenworth) Sperry. He attended the 
 public schools of Waterbury, Conn., entered 
 the Naval Academy, Sept. 27, 1862. He 
 served on the U. S. Steamship Sacramento 
 in 1866-1867; was promoted to master 
 March 26, 1869; commissioned lieutenant 
 March 21, 1870; lieutenant-commander 
 INLarch, 1885; commander July, 1894; cap- 
 tain, July 1, 1900, and rear-admiral May 
 20, 1906; retired by operation of law, Sept. 
 3, 1909. He served on many vessels and 
 stations, was in the Bureau of Ordnance, 
 1893-1895; in the New York Navy Yard, 
 1895-1898; commanded the Yorktown, 1898- 
 1900; commanded the New Orleans, 1901- 
 1903; president of the Naval War College, 
 1903-1906; naval member of the National 
 Coast Defence Board, 1906; delegate to the 
 Conference at Geneva in Jime, 1906, to re- 
 vise the Convention of 1864 for the treat- 
 ment of the sick and wounded in war, and 
 to the Second Conference at The Hague in 
 1907. He was ordered in Nov. 1907 to com- 
 mand a division of the U. S. Atlantic 
 Fleet, then about to sail on its cruise around 
 the world. Succeeded to the command in 
 chief May 15, 1908, made the cruise through 
 the Pacific and homeward, arriving at 
 Hampton Boards, Va., Feb. 22, 1909 where 
 the fleet was reviewed by the president. He 
 was relieved by Rear-Admiral Seaton 
 Schroeder, U. S. N., March 8, 1909. , Ad- 
 dress : Navy Department Washington, D. C. 
 
 SPEYER, James: 
 
 Banker; born in New York City in 1861. 
 He received his education at Frankfort-on- 
 Main. Mr. Speycr began business in his 
 
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 father's banking house in Frankfort. He 
 went to London and Paris and in 1885 re- 
 turned to New York. He is now senior 
 partner of the New York banking house of 
 Speyer and Company; also partner in 
 Frankfort and London houses, and Euro- 
 pean branches. He is treasurer and trustee 
 of the Provident Loan Society of New York ; 
 vice-president and director of the Society 
 Financiere Franco-Aniericaine; a member of 
 the Board of Managers of tlie Girard Trust 
 Company, Philadelphia; trustee of the Cen- 
 tral Trust Company, the German Savings 
 Bank, the Title Guarantee and Trust Com- 
 pany, the Union Trust Company, of New 
 York, the Rock Island Company of New 
 York; director of the Baltimore and Ohio 
 Railroad Company, Banco Mexicano de 
 Comercio e Industria, Bank of the Manhat- 
 tan Company, Citizens Saving and Trust 
 Company, Cleveland; General Chemical 
 Company, Guaranty Trust Company of 
 New York, Lakawanna Steel Company, 
 Maryland Trust Company, Baltimore; Na- 
 tional Railways of Mexico, North British 
 and Mercantile Insurance Company of New 
 York, the Underground Electric Railways 
 Company of London, Limited. Mr. Speyer 
 is a member of the Board of Managers of the 
 Isabella Heimath, trustee of Mt. Sinai Hos- 
 l^ital; Hospital Saturday and Sunday As- 
 sociation; a member of the Executive Com- 
 mittee of the National Civic Federation, The 
 Pilgrims; treasurer of People's Symphony 
 Concerts; chairman of the Finance Com- 
 mittee of Teachers College; treasurer and 
 member of council of the University Settle- 
 ment Society; member of the Finance Com- 
 mittee of the State Charities Aid Associa- 
 tion; treasurer and member of Executive 
 Committee of the American Committee on 
 Moral Training , Inquiry ; director of the 
 Peace Society of New York; honorary vice- 
 president of the Navy League of the United 
 States; member of the Executive Committee 
 of the Economic Club of New York; member 
 of the City, Players', Lotos, Reform, 
 Lawyers', Whist, Racquet, City, Midday, 
 New York Yacht and Deutscher Verein 
 Clubs. He married, Nov., 1897, Ellin L. 
 Prince (Mrs. John A. Lowery). Address: 
 257 Madison Avenue, New York City. 
 
 SPINNEY, George Franklin: 
 
 President and manager of the St. Paul 
 Daily and Sunday Globe; born at Great 
 Falls, N. H., July 9, 1852. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of Lawrence, 
 Mass. He was successively printer, proof- 
 reader, foreman, reporter, political corre- 
 spondent, and managing editor and pub- 
 lisher of the New York Times, New Y'ork 
 City. Mr. Spinney is a member of the 
 Lotus, Press and New York Clubs of New 
 York. Address: Globe Office, St. Paul, 
 Minn. 
 
 SPOFFORD, Paul N.: 
 
 Merchant; successor and surviving part- 
 ner of Spofford, Tileston Company; born 
 in New York City; son of Paul and Sarah 
 Spofford. He received his education in the 
 select school of Daniel P. Bacon. Among 
 his schoolmates were Theodore Roosevelt, 
 father of President Roosevelt, and Charles 
 Carow, father of President Roosevelt's wife. 
 He has been a director in banks, railroads, 
 insurances and other companies; was presi- 
 dent of the Grocer's Steam Sugar Refining 
 Company, his immediate successor being 
 Hon. Moses H. Grinnell; of the Texas Land 
 Company, his immediate successor being 
 Hon. William Walter Phelps; and vice- 
 president and later president of the Samana 
 Bay Company, his predecessor being Wil- 
 liam G. Fargo, of the Wells-Fargo Express. 
 He was on the staff of Governors Young 
 and Hamilton Fish as engineer-in-chief of 
 the State of New York, with the rank of 
 brigadier-general; and as first engineer, 
 organized that department, his immediate 
 successor being General James Watson 
 Webb. In politics he is a Republican and 
 in his religious affiliations a Presbyterian. 
 Mr. Spofford is a member of the Society of 
 Colonial Wars, the New York Historical 
 Society, the American Geographical So- 
 ciety, the National Geographic Society, the 
 Conservation (formerly the Forestry and 
 Irrigation) Society, the American Bible So- 
 ciety, tne Society for the Prevention of 
 Cruelty to Children, the Metropolitan Mu- 
 seum of Art, the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science, the Charity 
 Organization Society, the Presbyterian 
 
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 Hospital, the New York Botanical Gardens, 
 the Essex Institute of jMassachusetts, the 
 New York Chamber of Commerce, and is a 
 member of the Union and Union League 
 Clubs. Address: 29 BroadwaVj New York 
 City. 
 
 SPOONER, John Coit: 
 
 Ex-U. S. senator; born at Lawrence 
 burg. Dearborn County, Ind., Jan. 6., 1843. 
 He moved with his father's family to Wis- 
 consin and settled at Madison, June 1, 
 1859. He Avas gTaduated from the State 
 University in 1864; was " private in Com- 
 pany D, Fortieth Eegiment, and captain of 
 Company A, Fiftieth Eegiment, Wisconsin 
 Infantry Volunteers; was brevetted major 
 at the close of service, and was private 
 and military secretary of Governor Lucius 
 Fairchild, of Wisconsin. He was admitted 
 to the bar in 1867, and served as assistant 
 attorney-general of the State until 1870, 
 when he moved to Hudson, Wis., where he 
 practised law, 1870-1884. He was member 
 of the Assembly from St. Croix County in 
 1872; member of the Board of Eegents of 
 the Wisconsin University; was elected U. 
 S. senator to succeed Angus Cameron, Ee- 
 publican, for the term beginning March 4, 
 1885. He was succeeded as U. S. senator 
 March. 4, 1891, by William F. Vilas, Demo- 
 crat. He was unanimously nominated as 
 Eepublican candidate for governor of Wis- 
 consin in 1892, but was defeated; moved 
 from Hudson to Madison in 1893; was ac- 
 tively engaged in the practice of his pro- 
 fession, 1892-1897; unanimously nominated 
 in Eepublican caucus, Jan. 13, 1897, and 
 duly elected, Jan. 27, 1897, U. S. senator 
 for the term beginning Marcli 4, 1897, to 
 succeed William F. Vilas, Democrat. He 
 Avas tendered by President McKinley, De- 
 cember, 1898, a position in his cabinet, as 
 secretary of the interior, vice Cornelius N. 
 Bliss, resigned, and declined it; was also 
 tendered in 1898 by President McKinley 
 membersliip of the United States and Brit- 
 ish Joint High Commission, and declined 
 it; was tendered by President McKinley, 
 Jan. 3, 1901, position of attorney-general 
 to take office March 4, 1901, and declined 
 it; on July G, 1900, in a communication 
 
 to Eepublicans of Wisconsin announced his 
 purpose not be a candidate for reelection; 
 but on Jan. 27, 1903, was, notwithstanding, 
 elected for another term, beginning March 
 4, 1903; and resigned in 1907, engaging 
 in the practice of law in connection with a 
 number of important litigations. Address: 
 150 Langdon Street, Madison, Wis. 
 
 SPRAGUE, Frank Julian: 
 
 Electrical engineer and inventor; born at 
 :\Iilford, Conn., July 25, 1857. In 1874 
 he won a competitive appointment to the 
 U. S. Naval Academy, from which he was 
 graduated in 1878. He took a special 
 course in electrical matters and developed 
 strong inventive faculties; was ordered to 
 the U. S. Steamship Eichmond, bound for 
 the Chinese Station, and was special corre- 
 spondent of the Boston Herald during this 
 cruise and General Grant's visit to China 
 and Japan; returned in 1880 and carried 
 on electrical experiments at the Stevens 
 Institute shops and the Brooklyn Navy 
 Yard; ordered to duty on the training ship 
 Minnesota, where he made the first attempt 
 to introduce the incandescent electric light; 
 later continued experiments at the Torpedo 
 Station at Newport. He was ordered to 
 the U. S. Steamship Lancaster, Mediter- 
 ranean Squadron, and subsequently assigned 
 to the Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition, 
 Sydenham, England. He was the youngest 
 member and only American on the jury, 
 his associates on which included Horace 
 Darwin, Captain de Abney, and Professors 
 Frankland, W. Gryll Adams and Fleming 
 Jenkin, all famous scientists. He was made 
 secretary of his section, and oi'ganized and 
 conducted experiments on dynamo machines, 
 electric lights and gas engines. He later 
 resigned from the Navy to become assist- 
 ant to Mr. Edison, during wnich connec- 
 tion he made important improvements in 
 matters connected with electric light distri- 
 bution. Becoming interested in the electric 
 transmission of power, he resigned a year 
 afterward, and, with E. H. Johnson, or- 
 ganized the Sprague Electric Eailway and 
 Motor Company, and began the develop- 
 ment of electric motors. In 1884, he ex- 
 hibited several of these at the Philadelphia 
 
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 Electrical Exhibition, which wore soon af- 
 terward endorsed by the parent Edison 
 Electric Light Company, for use by its li- 
 censed companies. In May, 1887, he took 
 the contract for the equipment of the Un- 
 ion Passenger Railway of Richmond, Vir- 
 ginia, with eighty motors for forty cars, 
 complete overhead system and a central 
 station, the first commercial electric road 
 on a large scale, and the foundation of the 
 •modem electric trolley development. The 
 Sprague Company was absorbed about 1890 
 by the Edison General Electric Company, 
 with which Mr. Sprague remained for a 
 time as consulting engineer. He then took 
 up the development of electric elevators, 
 organized the Sprague Electric Elevator 
 Company, and developed the high speed 
 screw elevator, automatic house elevator, 
 and double-motor drum elevator; and 
 meanwhile, in 1892, with Drs. Louis Dun- 
 can and Cary Hutchinson, he designed one 
 of the earliest large electric locomotives. 
 In 1897 he took a contract for carrying 
 out the nuiltiple unit system of train equip- 
 ment on the South Side Elevated Railway 
 in Chicago, which was the beginning of a 
 train system which has now become uni- 
 versal with electric train operation on 
 rinderground, elevated and other roads. 
 Mr. Sprague was selected as a member of 
 the Electric Traction Commission of the 
 New York Central Railway, and for four 
 years has been active in the inauguration 
 of the electric system on that road, col- 
 laborating with its chairman, Vice-Presi- 
 dent W. J. VVilgus, in the development of 
 the protected under-contact third rail. He 
 was awarded a medal at the Philadelphia 
 Electrical Exhibition; gold medal at the 
 Paris Exposition, 1889; the Elliott Cres- 
 son medal of the Franklin Institute, 1902; 
 and grand j^rize by the Louisiana Purchase 
 Exposition for his inventions and develop- 
 ments in electric motors and electric rail- 
 ways. He is past i^resident and member 
 of the American Institute of Electrical En- 
 gineers, and the New York Electrical So- 
 ciety ; member of the American Society of 
 Civil Engineers, English Institutions of 
 Civil and Electrical Engineers, and United 
 States Naval Institute; associate member 
 
 of the Society of Naval Architects and Ma- 
 rine Engineers. He is consulting engineer 
 of the Sprague Electric, General Electric 
 and the Otis Elevator Companies, and has 
 been selected by the Southern Pacific Com- 
 pany to prepare, in collaboration with its 
 officers, a report on the possibility and 
 practicability of electrifying the Sierra Ne- 
 vada Mountain section of the Sacramento 
 Division of that Company, to increase its 
 capacity. Residence: 116 Riverside Drive, 
 New York City. Office: 20 Broad Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 SPRECKELS, John Diedrich: 
 
 jNIerchant ; born at Charleston, S. C, 
 Aug. 16, 1853; son of Claus Spreckels. He 
 was educated at Oakland College, Calif., 
 and the Polytechnic School at Hanover, 
 Germany. He founded the J. D. Spreckels 
 and Brothers Company, shipping and com- 
 mission merchants, owning a large fleet of 
 tugs and vessels trading with Ha- 
 waii, Australia, and New Zealand; the 
 Beaver Hill Coal Company; the Western 
 Sugar Refining Company ; and is proprietor 
 of the San Francisco Morning Call. He 
 took the leading part in the eff"ort for civic 
 reform in San Francisco, which led to the 
 exposure of many corrupt methods and 
 prosecution of violators of the laws. Ad- 
 dress: 327 Market Street, San Francisco. 
 
 SPRING, Alfred: 
 
 Jurist; born in Franklinville, N. Y., Feb. 
 19, 1851; son of Samuel S. and Ellen 
 (Hogg) Spring. He was graduated from 
 the Ten Broeck Free Academy in 1870; at- 
 tended the University of Michigan for two 
 years; read law in his father's office for 
 three years and during that time taught 
 district school two winters. He received 
 from the University of Michigan the degree 
 of LL.D. in 1901. He was admitted to 
 the bar Oct., 1875, and practised law at 
 Franklinville, N. Y. He was elected su- 
 pervisor of Franklinville in 1876; surro- 
 gate of Cattaraugus County in 1879, and 
 was reelected in 1885, holding the office 
 twelve years. In January, 1895, he was 
 appointed justice of the Supreme Court 
 by Governor Morton, and was elected, Nov., 
 
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 1895, on the Eeijublican ticket for the full 
 term expiring Dec. 31, 1909. In Jan., 1899, 
 he was transferred to the Appellate Divi- 
 sion of the Supreme Court in the Fourth 
 Department in which he has since contin- 
 ued. Judge Spring is author of articles on 
 The Monroe Doctrine, the Revolution in 
 Panama, and Hamilton Fish, published in 
 the American Law Review. He is a mem- 
 ber of the University and Saturn Clubs 
 of Buffalo and the Genesee Valley Club of 
 Rocliester. He married in 1877, Anna Tar- 
 bell, and they have three children. Ad- 
 dress: Franklinville, N. Y. 
 
 SPROUL, William C: 
 
 State senator, publisher, president; born 
 in Octoraro, Lancaster County, Pa., Sept. 
 IG, 1870; son of William Hall and Deborah 
 Dickinson (Slokom) Sproul. He was pre- 
 pared in public high schools in Negaunee, 
 Mich., and Chester, Pa., and was gradu- 
 ated from Swarthmore College as B.S. in 
 1891. He purchased a one-half interest in 
 the Chester Daily Times in 1892; was 
 elected vice-president of Roach's Shipyard 
 in 1898; and organized, in 1900, the Sea- 
 board Steel Casting Company of Chester, 
 of which he is president; also organized 
 the Chester Shipping Company, of which 
 he is president, in 1900. He became in- 
 terested in coal and timber properties in 
 West Virginia in 1901, and has since given 
 much attention to these and railroad in- 
 terests in that State. He is president of 
 the Coal River Railway of West Virginia, 
 the Ohio Valley Electric Railway Company, 
 of West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio; 
 Kanawha VaMey Traction Company, 
 Charleston and Southside Bridge Company, 
 and the Coal River Land Company; treas- 
 urer of the Kanawha Bridge and Terminal 
 Company; director of the Commercial 
 Trust Company of Philadelphia, Delaware 
 County Trust Company of Chester, of the 
 First National Bank, and Delaware County 
 National Bank of Chester. He has traveled 
 in Europe, Mexico and Alaska. Mr. Sproul 
 entered politics early in life; was elected in 
 189G to the Senate of Pennsylvania by the 
 Republicans of the Ninth Senatorial Dis- 
 trict and reelected in 1900, 190-4 and 1908. 
 
 In 1903 he was chosen president pro tem- 
 pore of the Senate and reelected in 1905. 
 He has been a member of the most imjDort- 
 ant committees of the Senate and of several 
 State commissions. Senator Sproul is prob- 
 ably best known as the author of the 
 Sproul Road Bill, passed by the Legisla- 
 ture in 1903, imder which a comprehensive 
 system of road improvement has been in- 
 augurated in Pennsylvania; and he is also 
 the author of the bills providing for the 
 Congress to consider the quetsion of uni- 
 form divorce laws. In March, 1907, he 
 gave Swarthmore College funds for build- 
 ing and equipping an observatory to con- 
 tain one of the largest telescopes in the 
 world. In religion he is a member of the 
 Religious Society of Friends. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Pennsylvania Historical Society; 
 trustee of Swarthmore College; trustee of 
 the Pennsylvania Training School for 
 Feeble-Minded Children; member of the 
 Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Book and Key 
 ibooiety. Masonic fraternity, Benevolent 
 Protective Order of Elks and Patrons of 
 Husbandry. He is a member and director 
 of the Lnion League of Philadelphia, and 
 is also a member of the University, Corin- 
 thian Yacht, Bachelor's Barge and Pen 
 and Pencil Clubs of Philadelphia; Manhat- 
 tan and Engineers' Clubs of New York; 
 Penn Club of Chester; Harrisburg Club, 
 Rose Tree Fox Hunting and Springhaven 
 Cbuaity Clubs. Mr. Sproul married in 
 Chester, Pa., Jan. 21, 1892, Emeline W. 
 Roach, daughter of John Roach, Ship- 
 builder, and they have two children. Ad- 
 dress : Chester, Pa. 
 
 SPRY, William: 
 
 Governor ; elected on the Republican 
 ticket in November, 1908, to the office of 
 governor of the State of Utah for the four- 
 year term expiring in January, 1913. Ad- 
 dress: Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 
 SQUIRES, Herbert Goldsmith: 
 
 Diplomat; born at Madoe, Canada, April 
 20, 1859; son of John T. and Elizabeth J. 
 Squiers. He was educated in the public 
 schools, the Canadaigiia, (N. Y.) Academy, 
 Minnesota Military Academy and the Mary- 
 
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 land Agricultural College. He was ap- 
 pointed from civil life as second lieutenant 
 of the First Regiment of U. S. Infantry, 
 Oct. 12, 1877, and was graduated from the 
 U. S. Artillery School in 1880. He was 
 transferred, Aug. 31, 1880, to the Seventh 
 Regiment of U. S. Cavalry, was promoted 
 to lieutenant of cavalry, Dec. 17, 1890, and 
 resigned from the Army, Nov. 28, 1891. 
 He was on duty as professor of military 
 science and tactics at St. John's College, 
 Fordham, N. Y., 1885-1890, and that col- 
 lege conferred upon him the honorary de- 
 grees of M.A., 1889, and Ph.D., 1907. He 
 was appointed second secretary of the U. S. 
 Embassy at Berlin, Nov. 15, 1894, and re- 
 tired from that position in May, 1897. He 
 was appointed secretary of the American 
 Legation at Peking, Jan. 10, 1898, and dur- 
 ing the siege of Peking, 1900-1901 served 
 as chief of staff to Sir Claude Macdonald, 
 and for his services in that capacity re- 
 ceived the thanks of the British Govern- 
 ment. He was appointed in May, 1902, en- 
 voy extraordinary and minister plenipoten- 
 tiary of the United States to Cuba, serving 
 until 1905, when he resigned, and in 1906 
 he was appointed envoy extraordinary and 
 minister plenipotentiary of the United 
 States to the Republic of Panama ; in 
 which position he continues. Mr. Squiers 
 married, first, at Hampton, Va., Oct. 11, 
 1881, Helen L. Fargo (daughter of W. G. 
 Fargo), who died Jan. 14, 1886; and sec- 
 ond, at Ossinning, N. Y., Nov. 12, 1889, to 
 Harriet Bird Woodcock, daughter Dr. Wil- 
 liam P. Woodcock. Address: American 
 Legation, Panama, Panama. 
 
 STANCHFIELD, John B.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Elmira, N. Y., March 
 30, 1855; son of John K. and Glovina S. 
 Stanchfield. He was graduated from 
 Elmira Academy, 1872, Amherst College, 
 A.B., 187G; was a law student in Harvard 
 Law School and in the office of David B. 
 Hill at Elmira, N. Y. He was admitted 
 to the New York Bar, 1878; was a law 
 partner of David B. Hill until 1885; dis- 
 trict attorney of Chemung County, 1880- 
 1885; mayor of Elmira, N. Y., 1886-1888; 
 member of the Assembly of New York, 
 
 1895-1896; Democratic candidate for gov- 
 ernor of New York 1900; Democratic nom- 
 inee for United States senator, 1901; and 
 lie is now senior member of the law firm of 
 Reynolds, Stanchfield & Collin, having of- 
 fices at Elmira, N. Y. Mr. Stanchfield 
 is a member of the Association of the Bar 
 of the City of New York, New York County 
 Lawyers' Association and the University, 
 Manhattan, and Psi Upsilon Clubs of New 
 York City. He married in Elmira, N. Y., 
 Sept. 2, 188G, Clara Spaulding. Resi- 
 dence: Elmira, N. Y. and 36 West 86th 
 Street. Office: 5 Nassau Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 STAPLETON, luke D.: 
 
 Jurist; was engaged in the practice of 
 law in Brooklyn until elected in November, 
 1908, on the Democratic ticket a justice of 
 the Supreme Court of the State of New 
 York for the Second District for the term 
 expiring Dec. 31, 1922. Address: County 
 Court House, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 STARR, louis: 
 
 Plij^sician, pediatrist; born in Philadel- 
 phia ; son of Isaac and Lydia Starr. He 
 was prepared in Philadelphia schools and 
 entered Haverford College, from which he 
 was graduated A.B., 1868, (LL.D, 1908) ; 
 and was graduated from the Medical De- 
 partment of the University of Pennsylvania, 
 M.D., 1871. He was an interne at the 
 Episcopal Hospital of Philadelphia for two 
 years, assistant physician in the same in- 
 stitution, 1873-1874, and visiting physician 
 for ten years. He was appointed assistant 
 physician in the Children's Hospital in 
 1874, and visiting physician in 1879. He 
 is a specialist in the diseases of children, 
 consulting pediatrist to the Maternity Hos- 
 pital since 1879; lecturer on diseases of 
 children, 1880-1884, and clinical professor 
 of diseases of children, 1884-1890, in the 
 Medical Department of the University of 
 Pennsylvania. Dr. Starr is author of: 
 Diseases of the Digestive Organs in In- 
 fancy and Childhood; Hygiene of the 
 Nursery; Diet for Infants and Children in 
 Health and in Disease. He was assistant 
 editor of Pepper's System of Medicine; 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 American editor of Goodhart's Diseases of 
 Children; editor American Text Book of 
 the Diseases of Children; and editor of the 
 department of diseases of children in The 
 American Year Book of Medicine and Sur- 
 gerjf. Dr. Starr married in 1882, Mary 
 Parrish, of Philadelphia. Address: 1818 
 South Rittenhouse S(iiiare, Philadelphia. 
 
 STARRETT, Theodore: 
 
 Engineer and building constructor; born 
 in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kan., Jan. 
 21, 18G5; son of William Aiken and Helen 
 (Ekin) Starrett. He began his collegiate 
 education in the University of Kansas, and 
 was graduated from Lake Forest Univer- 
 sity, 111., A.B., 1884. Since leaving college 
 he has been engaged solely in the study 
 of methods of construction of buildings, es- 
 pecially skyscrapers. He began as a stu- 
 dent in the office of Burnham and Root, 
 architects, of Chicago; became engineer of 
 the firm, and designed the construction of 
 a number of the first skyscrapers of the 
 country, notably the San Francisco Chron- 
 icle Building, the Society for Savings Build- 
 ing, Cleveland, 0., where steel columns were 
 first nsed in a building; and left the firm 
 to go into a business of his own. He con- 
 structed the Isabella Building, Chicago, 
 1892-1893; and the Fisher Buiiding, 1895- 
 189G, in record time; and has since con- 
 structed over one hundred skyscrapers. He 
 is a member of the Engineers' Club of New 
 York, and the Chicago Athletic Association. 
 Mr. Starrett married in Chicago, in 1889, 
 Belle Ostrander, and they have two sons. 
 Address: 103 Park Ave., New York City. 
 
 STEINHART, Frank Maximilian: 
 
 Transportation oflici'al ; born in Munich, 
 Germany, May 12, 1864; son of Simon and 
 Regina (Levinger) Stein. He was edu- 
 cated in public and high schools of Mu- 
 nich, Germany, also took special studies 
 in foreign languages and a course in law. 
 He came to the United States and in 1882 
 enlisted as a private in the United States 
 Army, serving as enlisted man until 1889. 
 He was transferred to the headquarters of 
 the Division of the Missouri, at Chicago, as 
 
 clerk, and later becoming assistant chief 
 clerk at that headquarters, where he served 
 consecutively under Generals Schofield, 
 Crook, Terry, Niles, Ruger, Merritt and 
 Brooke. He was appointed chief clerk of 
 the First Army Corps in May, 1898, and 
 accompanied General Brooke to Porto Rico, 
 whence he was transferred to Cuba as chief 
 clerk of the military government, serving 
 in that capacity under General Wood, until 
 ^lay 20, 1902, when he was appointed agent 
 of the War Department of the United States, 
 with residence in Cuba, and in charge of 
 the archives of the military government. 
 jNIr. Steinhart was appointed, March 26, 
 1903, American consul-general at Havana, 
 Cuba, in which position he continued until 
 1908, when he resigned to take the manage- 
 ment of the electric car service of Havana 
 controlled by American capital. Mr. Stein- 
 hart married at Racine, Wis., Feb. 8, 1890, 
 Alice Florence Ledder. Address: Havana, 
 Cuba. 
 
 STEPHENS, Alice Barber: 
 
 Artist, illustrator; born near Salem, N. 
 J.; daughter of Samuel C. and Mary 
 (Owen) Barber. She was educated in Phil- 
 adelphia public school. School of Design 
 for Women, the Pennsylvania Academy of 
 Fine Arts (Academic Julien and Carlo 
 Rossi, Paris). She married in Philadel- 
 phia, 1890, Charles Hallowell Stephens, 
 and she has one son. She received tlie 
 Mary Smith prize and also honorable men- 
 tion for portraits at the Annual Academy 
 exhibitions, gold medal from Earle's Court, 
 London, for series of illustrations; a 
 bronze medal from Atlanta Exhibition, 
 member of the Jury of Awards, St. Louis, 
 Woman's Auxiliary Committee of tlie 
 World's Fair, Chicago, and illustrator in 
 leading magazines and' for books. Address : 
 Moylan, Pa. 
 
 STETSON, Francis Lynde: 
 
 Lawyer; born at Keeseville, Clinton 
 County, N. Y., April 23', 1846; son of Hon. 
 Lemuel Stetson, member of the Twenty- 
 eigiith Congress, and Helen (Hascall) Stet- 
 aon. He was graduated from Williams Col- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 lege, A.B., with honors, 18G7, from Co- 
 lumbia Law School, LL.B., 1869, and also 
 received from Williams College the degree 
 of A.M. Mr. Stetson has been engaged in 
 the practice of law in New York City since 
 1869, and is now senior member of the law 
 firm of Stetson, Jennings and Russell. He 
 is general counsel of the United States 
 Steel Corporation, the United States Rub- 
 ber Company, International Mercantile Ma- 
 rine Company, and other large corpora- 
 tions, and a director and vice-president of 
 the Cataract Construction Company, and a 
 director of the Niagara Development Com- 
 pany, Niagara Falls Power Comjiany, Erie 
 and Jersey Railroad Company, Chicago and 
 Erie Railroad Company, Alabama Great 
 Southern Railway Company, New York, 
 Susquehanna and Western Railroad Com- 
 pany, United States Express Company, 
 United States Rubber Company, and other 
 corporations. Mr. Stetson is a member of 
 the Board of Trustees of Williams College, 
 a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
 and the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He is 
 a member of the Century Association, and 
 of the Metropolitan, University, Down 
 Town, National Arts, Tuxedo, Riding, Gro- 
 lier. Alpha Delta Phi and Church Clubs of 
 New York City. Mr. Stetson married at 
 Rah way, N. J., June 26, 1873, Elizabeth 
 Ruff. Residence: 4 East 74th Street, New 
 York City. Office: 15 Broad Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 STETSON, Willis Kimball: 
 
 Librarian; born in Natick, Mass., May 
 8, 1858; son of Daniel Kimball and Mary 
 Weeks (Sanborn) Stetson. He was grad- 
 uated from Wesleyan University, A.B., 
 A.M., 1881. He was librarian of Russell 
 Library, Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity Librarj', and to the Free Public Li- 
 brary since 1887. He is a member of the 
 American Library Association, Phi Nu 
 Theta fraternity, and Phi Beta Kappa vSo- 
 ciety, also the Congregational Club of New 
 Haven. He married in Middletown, Conn., 
 Nov. ,25, 1886. Lillian A. Miner, and they 
 have three children. Residence: 76 Mans- 
 field Street. Office: Free Pul)lic Library, 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
 STEVENS, Frederick C: 
 
 Superintendent of public works of the 
 State of New York; born at Attica, N. Y., 
 1856; son of Hon. Robert S. Stevens and 
 grandson of Judge Alden S. Stevens. He 
 was graduated from Cornell University. 
 Mr. Stevens has been actively engaged in 
 business enterprises in various parts of the 
 country, especially in Washington, D. C, 
 where he is president of the Commercial 
 National Bank. He first established the 
 West End National Bank, subsequently 
 merged it with the Citizens', becoming pres- 
 ident of that institution, and afterward 
 selling it to the National Metropolitan and 
 later withdrew from the concern, establish- 
 ing the Commercial. He arranged the 
 consolidation of all the city and siiburban 
 street railroad lines of Washington, with 
 the single exception of the Capital Trac- 
 tion, and withdrew after placing the amal- 
 gamated lines on a good foundation. At 
 one time he was largely interested in the 
 Potomac Electric Lighting Company, and 
 effected its consolidation with the United 
 States Electric Lighting Company. He 
 maintains a residence in Washington, but 
 has his home in Attica, N. Y. He was 
 elected and served as State senator from 
 the Forty-sixth Senate District of New 
 York, and was chairman of the New York 
 Legislature Committee to investigate city 
 lighting. He was appointed, January, 1907, 
 by Governor Hughes as superintendent of 
 public works of the State of New York. 
 Address: Albany, N. Y. 
 
 STEVENS, George Thomas: 
 
 Physician; born in Essex Coiinty, N. Y., 
 July 25, 1832; son of Rev. Chauncey Coe 
 and Lucinda (Hoadley) Stevens, both de- 
 scended from early settlers of New Eng- 
 land, and both children Of soldiers who 
 served through the Revolutionary AVar. 
 He was graduated from Castleton Medical 
 College, Vermont, M.D., 1857, and received 
 his Ph.D. from Union College. He began 
 the practice of medicine in Northern New 
 York in 1857; was commissioned in 1861 
 assistant surgeon of the Seventy-seventh 
 New York Volunteers, and soon promoted 
 to surgeon; was operating surgeon of Ins 
 
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 division two and one-half years, and for 
 some time medical inspector of the Sixth 
 Army Corps, Avith which he served in all 
 the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, 
 and in the Shenandoah campaign under 
 Sheridan. He practised at Albany, N. Y., 
 1865-1880; was professor of physiology and 
 diseases of the eye in Union University 
 Medical College, 1870-1876 and surgeon to 
 Albany Hospital. Since 1880 he has been 
 practising in New York City. He received 
 the highest prize from the Royal Academy 
 of Medicine of Belgium for a treatise on 
 Functional Diseases of the Nervous System 
 in 1883; has devised many instruments 
 for surgical, philosophical and optical pur- 
 poses, which are standard in America and 
 Europe; and is well known among oculists 
 for his researches on anomalies of the ocu- 
 lar muscles. Dr. Stevens is author of: 
 Three Years in the Sixth Corps, 1866; 
 Flora of the Adirondacks, 1868; Maladies 
 des Centres Nerveux, 1883; Functional Ner- 
 vous Diseases, 1884; Coaching in North 
 Wales, 1875; Le Muscles Moteurs de L'Oeil 
 et Expression du Visage, 1892; Treatise 
 on the Motor Apparatus of the Eye, 1906; 
 and many articles on ophthalmological sub- 
 jects. He is a member of the American 
 Medical Association; the American Oph- 
 thalmological Society; the American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science; 
 Academy of Sciences; Torrey Botanical 
 Club, Phi Beta Kappa Alumni of New 
 York, and a member of several interna- 
 tional congresses of medical or other sci- 
 ences. Dr. Stevens is a member of the 
 Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the 
 National Sculpture Society, and a member 
 of the National Arts, Grolier and Republi- 
 can Clubs. He married, April 17, 1861, 
 Harried W., daughter of William L. Wad- 
 hams, and their children are: Frances Vir- 
 ginia (Mrs. George T. Ladd), and Dr. 
 Charles W. Address: 22 East 46th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 STEVENS, Thomas Holdup: 
 
 Rear-Admiral, United States Navy; born 
 in Honolulu, Sandwich Islands; son of the 
 late Rear-Admiral Thomas Holdup Ste- 
 vens, 2d, and grandson of Commodore Thom- 
 
 as Holdup Stevens, who died in command 
 of the Washington Navy Yard in 1841, and 
 who was one of Perry's captains in the 
 Battle of Lake Erie. He was appoint- 
 ed to the Naval Academy in 1863, 
 by President Lincoln, from among sons 
 of officers. He was graduated in 1868, and 
 then for a year was attached to the steam- 
 er Resaca, of the Pacific Fleet, on the Mexi- 
 can and Lower California coasts, and on 
 the Mohican, on a scientific expedition to 
 Siberia for observation of a total eclipse of 
 the sun. He was promoted to ensign, July 
 22, 1869, and served on the Michigan and 
 Colorado, 1869-1870. He was promoted to 
 master in 1870; on duty in the Pacific 
 Squadron, 1870-1873, on the fiagship Ossi- 
 pee and the sloop Cyane, and while at- 
 tached to the latter ship, participated in 
 the survey of the Isthmus of Tehauntepec 
 for the construction of the Interoceanic Ca- 
 nal; on the flagship Pensacola, 1872-1873, 
 in the South Pacific. In May, 1873, he 
 commanded a company of blue jackets dur- 
 ing the temporary occupation of Panama 
 by armed forces from the Pensacola and 
 the Tuscarora, for the protection of Ameri- 
 can interests in time of rebellion; and lat- 
 er the same year was on duty at the Nor- 
 folk Navy Yard. In November, 1873, he 
 was navigator of the torpedo-boat May- 
 flower,* at the time of the Spanish-American 
 complications. He was commissioned lieu- 
 tenant Jan. 23, 1874, and served on varied 
 duties and stations in that rank until pro- 
 moted lieutenant-commander, Feb. 2, 1896, 
 In 1898-1899 1ie was executive officer of the 
 flagship Philadelphia, and commanded the 
 combined naval battalion and Hawaiian 
 National Guard on the occasion of the sub- 
 stitution of the United States for the Ha- 
 waiian flag, a singular coincidence, as he 
 was at the time the only native of Honolulu 
 who was a commissioned officer of the 
 United States Navy. He was promoted 
 commander March 29, 1899; was at the 
 Navy Yard at Norfolk, Nov. 2, 1899, and 
 July 16, 1900, was placed in command of 
 the gunboat Manila, with which he served 
 for eighteen montlis during the Philippine 
 Insurrection; then after service at the Mare 
 Ishind and Puget Sound Navy Yards (cap- 
 
Thomas H. Stevens 
 Rear Admiral U. S. Navy 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 tain of the yard at the latter), he attended 
 the course at the Naval War College in the 
 summer of 1903, then was captain of the 
 Yard at Pensacola Navy Yard. He was 
 promoted to captain in 1904, and Feb. 11, 
 1905, at his own reqiiest was retired with 
 the rank of rear-admiral. Address: Me- 
 tropolitan Club, Washington, D. C. 
 
 STEVENSON, Eugene: 
 
 Jurist; born at Williamsburg, N. Y. 
 (now the Eastern District of Brooklyn), 
 June 28, 1849. He was carefully prepared 
 for college and he entered the New York 
 University, from which he was graduated 
 as A.B., 1870, and was also graduated from 
 the Law School of the same university with 
 the degree of LL.B. He was engaged in 
 the practice of law at Paterson, N. J., 
 served a term as prosecutor of the Pleas 
 for Passaic County, and continued prac- 
 tice until he was appointed to his present 
 office of vice-chancellor of New Jersey. Ad- 
 dress : Paterson, N. J. 
 
 STEWART, John Aikman: 
 
 Chairman of the Board of Trustees of 
 the United States Trust Company; born in 
 New York City, Aug. 22, 1822; son of 
 John Stewart, who emigrated when quite 
 young, and settled in New York City, where 
 he was for many years ward assessor, and 
 afterward receiver of taxes. He was grad- 
 uated from Columbia College in 1840. Mr. 
 Stewart was clerk of the Board of Educa- 
 tion of New York City, 1842-1850; actuary 
 of the United States Life Insurance Com- 
 pany, 1850-1853'; and in 1853 he became 
 secretary of the United States Trust Com- 
 pany, which had been chartered by the 
 New York Legislature chiefly through his 
 efforts. He was assistant treasurer of the 
 United States at New York City in 1864 
 and served until the end of the war, when 
 he resigned to become president of the 
 United States Trust Company, on the re- 
 signation of Mr. Lawrence, the former pres- 
 ident; and under his control the company 
 became the largest institution of the kind 
 in America. He resigned the presidency 
 in 1902, but continues president of the 
 Board of Trustees of the Company, also 
 
 director of the Merchants' National Bank, 
 and of the Liverpool and London and 
 Globe Insurance Company. He is a trus- 
 tee of Princeton University; a director of 
 the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary; 
 trustee of the John F. Slater Fund, and 
 member of the Metropolitan and Union 
 League Clubs. He married, first, in New 
 York City, in 1845, Sarah Y. Johnson, who 
 died in 188G, and second, in 1890, Mary O. 
 Capron, of Baltimore. Residences: 125 
 East 37th Street, and Morristown, N. J. 
 Address: 45 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 STEWART, John Appleton: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in Morrisville, N. 
 Y., Nov. 8, 18G8; son of James Stephen 
 and Emeline Elizabeth (Tucker) Stewart. 
 He was educated at Cazenovia Seminary 
 and Fort Edward Collegiate Institute. He 
 is president Carbonating Company ol 
 America; director and secretary Reynolds 
 Ice Machine Company; president Interna- 
 tional League for Highway Improvement; 
 president Republican League of Clubs of the 
 State of New York. Mr. Stewart is a trus- 
 tee of the State School of Agriculture at 
 Morrisville, N. Y.; trustee Colonial Society 
 of America (an educational organization 
 especially devoted to ths preservation of 
 noted scenes in art and literature; ; mem- 
 ber of the American Museum or Natural 
 History; the National Civic Federation; the 
 National Child Labor Committee; the Na- 
 tional Geographic Society; the Manufac- 
 turers' Association and a member of the 
 First Class, Loyal Legion of the United 
 States. He is also a member of the Law- 
 yers', Entertainment, Press and Republican 
 Clubs of New York; the Cosmos, Wash- 
 ington, D. C; the Fortnightly, Oswego, N. 
 Y., and the Abbeycroff Hunt Club, Quebec, 
 Canada. He married in Oswego, N. Y., 
 Feb. 22, 1900, Alice Josephine Collins. Ad- 
 dress: 135 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 STEWART, Thomas J.: 
 
 Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania; born 
 near Belfast, Ireland, Sept. 11, 1848, and 
 was brought by his parents to Norristown, 
 Pa., in 1849. He was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools, and at the Quaker City Busi- 
 
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 ness College in Pliiladelpliia ; and at six- 
 teen years of age he enlisted as a private in 
 tlie 138th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volun- 
 teers. Mr. .Stewart was engaged as a 
 manufacturer and dealer in window glass, 
 1870-1882; was assistant adjutant-general 
 of the Department of Pennsylvania, Grand 
 Army of the Pvepublic, 1882-1.888; and was 
 elected Department Commander in 1890. 
 In 1883 he was appointed assistant adju- 
 tant-general and in September, 1897, adju- 
 tant-general of the Grand Army of the Re- 
 public in the United States by Commander- 
 in-Chief J. P. S. Gobin; reappointed Sep- 
 tember, 1898, by Commander-in-Chief James 
 A. Sexton, and in September, 1899, by Com- 
 mander-in-Chief Albert D. Shaw; and was 
 elected commander-in-chief of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic, Oct. 8, 1892. He 
 was a member of the House of Representa- 
 tives of Pennsylvania, in 1885 and 1886; 
 has been connected with the National 
 Guard of Pennsylvauia since 1808; was ap- 
 pointed adjutant of the Sixth Regiment, 
 National Guard of Pennsylvania, in 1877; 
 and Sept. 20, 1889, was appointed assistant 
 adjutant-general of the First Brigade, and 
 reappointed in 1894. He was appointed on 
 the part of the House of Representatives a 
 member of the commission to locate and 
 establish the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and 
 Sailors' Home, and afterward as a member 
 of the Board of Trustees of the same in- 
 stitution on the part of the Grand Army 
 of the Republic, and acted as secretary of 
 both the commission and Board of Trus- 
 tees; in 1890 was appointed a member of 
 the commission in charge of the Soldiers' 
 Orphan Schools; elected secretary of In- 
 ternal Aft'airs, 1880, and reelected in 1890; 
 was appointed adjutant-general by Gover- 
 nor Hastings, Jan. 15, 1895, reappointed 
 by (jovernor Stone in 1899, by Governor 
 Pennypacker in 1903, and again in 1907 by 
 Governor Stuart. Address: Harrisburg, 
 Pa. 
 
 STICKLE, Charles Waldo: 
 
 Pliysicians and surgeon ; born in Elba, 
 Genesee Co., N. Y., Nov. 2, 1870; son of 
 Cliarles Wesley and Emily Anna (Waldo) 
 Stickle. He took a classical course in Ba- 
 
 tavia, N. Y., 1880, and was graduated from 
 the University of New York, ]\I.D., 1893. 
 Dr. Stickle was engaged in general practice 
 for eleven years, and since 1904 has limited 
 his work to the special branches of otology, 
 rhinology and laryngology. He is surgeon 
 to the Methodist Episcopal Hospital. Jew- 
 ish Hospital, and Angel Guardian Home. 
 He is a Mason; a member of the Medi- 
 cal Society of Kings County, and associate 
 sections, and Associated Physicians of Long 
 Island, New York State Medical Society, 
 Medical Society of Greater New York, Sons 
 of the Revolution, and the Hamilton and 
 Republican Clubs of Brooklyn, and trustee 
 and director of the Brooklyn Development 
 Company. He married in Inverness, Liv- 
 ingston County, N. Y., April 3, 1895, Anna 
 Densmore MacVean, who died Jan. 3, 
 1900, and he has a daughter. Residence: 
 Hamilton Club, 146 Remsen Street. Of- 
 fice: 130 Montague Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 STILLMAN, James: 
 
 Merchant and banker; born in Browns- 
 ville, Texas, June 9, 1850. He comes of an 
 old English family, which emigrated to 
 America, and settled at Hadley, Mass. The 
 family was prominent in the Revolutionary 
 \\'ar, two of his great grandfathers having 
 been officers in the Continental Army, and 
 his father, Charles Stillman, was a ship- 
 ping merchant in New York City, in the 
 first half of the nineteenth century. His 
 parents returned from the South, to Hart- 
 ford, Conn., shortly after his birth and he 
 was brought up in that city, but obtained 
 his education principally at Churchill's 
 School at Sing Sing, N. Y. On attaining 
 his majority he entered the firm of Smith, 
 Woodward and Stillman, cotton merchants 
 of New York City, and has maintained an 
 unbroken connection with that house ever 
 since, becoming a partner, in 1873, of the 
 firm of Woodward and Stillman, which 
 succeeded the earlier firm. From 1891 he 
 was president of the National City Bank 
 of New York, which under his management 
 has become by far the largest bank in capi- 
 tal, resources and business in the United 
 States, until he retired Jan. 1, 1909. He 
 was also president of the Second National 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Bank, the Bowery Savings Bank, Fifth Ave- 
 nue Safe Deposit Company, Consolidated 
 Gas Company of New York, trustee of the 
 American Surety Comijany; director of the 
 Audit Company of New York, the Baltimore 
 and Ohio Bailroad, Central Realty, Bond 
 and Trust Company, Deer Hill Company, 
 Northern Pacific Railway Company, Queens 
 Insurance Company, Southern Pine Com- 
 pany, Terminal Warehouse Company, West- 
 ern Union Telegraph Company ; a member 
 of the Executive Committee of the Chicago 
 and Northwestern Railroad Company; di- 
 rector of the Delaware and Lackawanna 
 Railroad Company; Hanover National 
 Bank, Mobile Street Railway; a member of 
 the Executive Committee and trustee of the 
 United States Trust Company, and a mem- 
 ber of the Chamber of Commerce, and 
 Cotton Exchange. Mr. Stillman is a mem- 
 ber of the Centviry, Metropolitan, Union 
 League, Reform, New York Yacht, Seawan- 
 haka-Corinthian Yacht, Eastern iacht, St. 
 Augustine Yacht, Jekyl Island, Storm King, 
 Tuxedo, Riding and Lawyers' Club. He 
 married Elizabeth Rumrill, and their chil- 
 dren are: Elsie, now Mrs. William G. 
 Rockefeller; James A., Isabel Goodrich, 
 Charles Chauncey, and Ernest Goodrich. 
 Residence: 8 East 73d Street. Office: 54 
 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 STIRES, Ernest Milmore: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Norfolk, Va., May 
 20, 1866; son of Van Renssalaer and Letty 
 M. (Milmore) Stires. He was graduated 
 from the University of Virginia, LL.B., 
 1888; from the Theological Seminary of 
 Virginia, 1891; and received from Trinity 
 College, Hartford, the honorary degree of 
 D.D. in 1901; and the degree of LL.D. from 
 Kenj'on College in 1902. He was rector of 
 St. John's Church, West Point, Va., 1891; 
 the Church of the Good Shepherd, Augusta, 
 Ga., 1893; Grace Church, Chicago, 1893- 
 1901, and since 1901 rector of St. Thomas' 
 Church, New York City. He is trustee of 
 the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, a 
 member of the Board of Missions ; and is 
 a director of various church institutions. 
 Dr. Stires is also a member of the Pilgrims, 
 The Virginians, the Phi Kappa Psi frater- 
 
 nity (ex-president) ; the Southern Society 
 and the University Club. He married in 
 Augusta, Ga., Jan. 11, 1894, Sarah Mc- 
 Kinnie Hardwick, and they have four sons. 
 Summer Home: Brook Hill Farm, Lake 
 George, N. Y. Office: St. Thomas's Rec- 
 tory, 1 West 53d Street, New York City. 
 
 STODDARD, William Osborn: 
 
 Author and journalist; born in Homer, 
 N. Y., Sept. 24, 1835; son of Prentice S. 
 and Sarah A. (Osborn) Stoddard. He was 
 educated in the Courtland Homer Academy, 
 private schools and the University of Ro- 
 chester, from which he was graduated A.B. 
 and A.M., with Phi Beta Kappa honors. 
 Mr. Stoddard went to Illinois, and was en- 
 gaged in newspaper work and farming in 
 Chicago and Champaign, 111., the most nota- 
 ble item in this part of his career 
 being the first editorial advocacy of 
 Abraham Lincoln for the Presiden- 
 tial nomination, written and printed 
 in his own paper, the Central Illi- 
 nois Gazette, in April, 1859. He was in 
 the first company of U. S. volunteers for 
 three months in 1861, then was appointed 
 secretary to sign land patents and assistant 
 private secretary to President Lincoln, serv- 
 ing 1861-1864; was U. S. marshal for the 
 District of Arkansas, 1864-1866; then re- 
 moved to New York, where he has been 
 connected with many periodicals and pub- 
 lishing houses. Mr. Stoddard is author of 
 more than seventy bound volumes of all 
 sorts, many of which are now out of print. 
 Among them are several of the most popu- 
 lar juveniles, a Life of Lincoln and other 
 books in prose and verse. He served as 
 chief clerk of the Engineers' Bureau, De- 
 partment of Docks, New York City, 1871- 
 1873. He is a Reimblican in politics and 
 an ordained deacon of the Baptist Church. 
 Mr. Stoddard is a member of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic, the Alpha Delta Phi 
 Association, L^^niversity of Rochester Alumni 
 Association, Society of the Genesee, Na- 
 tional Geographic Society, National Peace 
 Society, National Forestry Association, 
 American Civic Association. He has taken 
 an interest in mechanics as well as litera- 
 ture, and lias taken out nine patents for 
 
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 inventions of various kinds. Mr. Stoddard 
 married in New York City, July 25, 1870, 
 Susan E. Cooper, who died in 1896. Of 
 their seven children four are deceased, and 
 two sons and one daughter survive. Ad- 
 dress: 131 Central Avenue, Madison, N. J. 
 
 STOKES, Anson Phelps: 
 
 Eetired banker and merchant; born in 
 New York City, Feb. 22, 1838; son of 
 James and Caroline (Phelps) Stokes. His 
 education was received under tutors and 
 in private schools, and he became a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Com- 
 pany, merchants, and subsequently of 
 Phelps, Stokes & Company, bankers, and 
 is connected as officer and director with 
 various corporations. Mr. Stokes has been 
 active in the civil service reform and free 
 trade movements, was the first president of 
 the Reform Club of New York City; and 
 he was president of the National Associa- 
 tion of Anti-Imperialist Clubs at Chicago 
 in 1900. He is a director of the New York 
 Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Home for In- 
 curables and other charities. Mr. Stokes 
 is a prominent yachtsman, formerly vice- 
 commodore of the New York Yacht Club, 
 and owner of several yachts, with Avhich he 
 has cruised around the world. He is a 
 member of the Society of Colonial Wars, 
 the Century Association, and of the Knick- 
 erbocker, Metropolitan, New York Yacht, 
 Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, Riding, City, 
 and Church Clubs. He married Oct. 17, 
 1865, Helen Louisa, daughter of Isaac New- 
 ton Phelps of New York City. Residence: 
 230 Madison Avenue. Office: 100 Wil- 
 liam Street, New York City. 
 
 STOKES, Anson Phelps, Jr.: 
 
 Clergyman, secretary of Yale University; 
 born in New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y., 
 April 13, 1874; son of Anson Phelps and 
 Helen Louise (Phelps) Stokes. He was 
 graduated from Yale, B.A., 1896, was win- 
 ner of the Junior Exhibition, and the De- 
 Forest Medal, was chairman of the Board 
 of Editors of tlie Yale Daily News in his 
 senior year and member of the Yale Debat- 
 ing Team which won the inter-university 
 
 debate with Harvard in 1896; and he was 
 graduated from the Episcopal Theological 
 School at Cambridge, Mass., in 1900, receiv- 
 ing from Yale, the same year, the degree of 
 M.A. He was ordained in the ministry of 
 the Episcopal Church in 1900, and is as- 
 sistant minister of St. Paul's Church, at 
 New Haven, Conn. He was elected secre- 
 tary of Yale University in June, 1899, and 
 has since edited the triennial Directory of 
 Living Graduates of Yale University, as 
 well as other Yale publications. He is a 
 director of Wellesley College, the New Ha- 
 ven Young Men's Christian Association, 
 Lowell House (social settlement), the New 
 Haven Hospital and other benevolent or- 
 ganizations. Mr. Stokes married in New 
 York City, Dec. 30, 1903, Caroline Green 
 Mitchell. Address: 73 Elm Street, New 
 Haven, Conn. 
 
 STOKES, Edward Casper: 
 
 Banker and former governor; born in 
 Philadelphia, Dec. 22, ISGO; son of Edward 
 H. and Matilda G. (Kemble) Stokes; de- 
 scendant in the seventh generation from 
 j-homas Stokes of Lower Shanwell, Eng- 
 land, who emigrated to New Castle, Del., 
 in 1677. His father is president of the 
 Millville National Bank, Millville, N. J., 
 and the son was educated in the public 
 schools there, and later in the Friends 
 School at Providence, R. I., and at Brown 
 University, whence he was graduated as 
 A.B., 1883. He was reveiving teller of the 
 Millville National Bank, 1883-1889, was 
 superintendent of the Millville public 
 schools, 1889-1895, became a member of the 
 State Assembly of New Jersey, 1891 ; State 
 senator, 1892-1900 (president of the Sen- 
 ate, 1895), clerk in chancery, 1900-1904, 
 and in 1904 was elected as governor of 
 New Jersey, serving the three-year term. 
 He has been president of the Mechanics 
 National Bank of Trenton, N. J., since 
 1899. Governor Stokes has always been 
 an active Republican, and since 1896 has 
 been vice-chairman of the New Jersey State 
 Republican Committee. He was the first 
 president of the New Jersey Bankers' As- 
 sociation. Address: Trenton, N. J. 
 
]\Ielville Elijah ^Stone 
 General .Maiiaper Associated Press 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 STOKES, Frederick Abbot: 
 
 Publisher; born iii Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 
 4, 1857; son of Frederick Abbott and Caro- 
 line (Allen) Stokes. He was graduated 
 from Cheshire Academy, salutatorian, 1875, 
 and from Yale College, B.A. in 1879. He 
 founded, in 1881, the business now known 
 as Frederick A. Stokes Company. He suc- 
 ceeded Irving Bachollor as editor of the 
 Pocket Magazine, in 1898; and has edited 
 The Poems of Sir John Suckling, 1886. 
 Mr. Stokes is author of: College Tramps, 
 1880. He is president of Frederick A. 
 Stokes Company; secretary of the American 
 Publishers' Association; trustee of the Ed- 
 ward MacDowell Memorial Association, and 
 a member of Psi Upsilon and Wolf Head 
 Societies. He is also a member of the 
 University Club, the Yale Club (secretary 
 1902-1903), the Mendelssohn Club (presi- 
 dent three years), and was secretary of the 
 Aldine Club, 1895-1897. He married, in 
 Detroit, Mich., May 10, 1883, Ellen R. Col- 
 by, and they have two sons. Residence: 
 307 West 98th Street. Office: 334-341 
 Fourth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 STOKES, Henry B.: 
 
 President of the Manhattan Life Insur- 
 ance Company; born in New York City, 
 Dec. 23, 1847; son of Henry and Mary A. 
 (Stiles) Stokes. He was educated in the 
 Columbia Grammar School. Mr. Stokes is 
 vice-president and trustee of the Manhattan 
 Savings Bank; trustee of Mechanics' Na- 
 tional Bank, and of the Citizens' Central 
 National Bank. He is a member of Union 
 League, Riding and Larchmont Yacht Clubs. 
 He married in New Rochelle, N. Y., Oct. 
 7, 1874, Sophia I. Lockwood, and they have 
 two daughters. Address: 66 Broadway, 
 New York City. 
 
 STONE, I. Frank: 
 
 President of the National Aniline and 
 Chemical Company; born in Chicago, 
 IMarch 2, 1867; son of Theodore and Mary 
 (Owen) Stone. He was educated in public 
 schools, Chicago. He was a member of the 
 firm of I. F. Stone, 1888; Stone and Ware, 
 1890; Stone and Ware, 1897; president of 
 the National Aniline and Chemical Com- 
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 pany, 1906; vice-president of Schoellkopf, 
 Hartford and Hanna Company, 1900; di- 
 rector of the Contact Process Company, 
 South Nevada Company, and Board of 
 Trade and Transportation, New York. He 
 is a member of the Society of Chemical 
 Industry, College of Pharmacy, Chamber of 
 Commerce (New York), the Advisory Com- 
 mittee of the Metropolitan Bank, Palestine 
 Commandery of Knights Templar, and of 
 the New York Athletic, Chemists', City and 
 Lotos Clubs, and the Drug and Chemical 
 Clubs. He married in Chicago, June 5, 
 1889, Mary L. Peck, and they have two 
 children: Grace H., and Truman. Ad- 
 dress: 100 William Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 STONE, Melville Eliah: 
 
 General manager of the Associated 
 Press; born at Hudson, 111., Aug. 22, 1848; 
 son of Rev. Elijah Stone, a Methodist min- 
 ister; removed with parents to Chicago in 
 1860, and was educated in the high school 
 there, beginning his newspaper career by 
 reporting for the Chicago Tribune while 
 still a student in the high school, and 
 graduating from there in 1867. After 
 graduation he turned his attention to me- 
 chanics, and he conducted a machine-shop 
 from 1869 to 1871, when, in the great fire 
 of October 8-9 his pi-operty was all de- 
 stroyed. He then became an editor on the 
 Chicago Inter-Ocean, later a special cor- 
 respondent at Washing-ton. While engaged 
 in newspaper work he became impressed 
 with the idea that a daily newspaper of 
 independent views, which should stand for 
 all that was best, and which would give 
 all the news for a cent, would be a success 
 in Chicago, and in 1875 he, with partners, 
 established the Daily News, soon afterward 
 buying out the other interests and selling 
 them to Victor F. Lawson. A morning 
 edition was started in 1881, which a few 
 years later became the Chicago Record. 
 Mr. Stone started the News with the idea 
 that the work of the reporter was the foun- 
 dation of the success of the newspaper, 
 and his force of local newsgatherers and 
 of correspondents included men and women 
 many of whom have since made themselves 
 
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 famous in joiirnalism aiul literature. The 
 ])apcr scored many brilliant coups in pub- 
 lishing the first news of important events, 
 and while thus distinguished for its enter- 
 prise, the paper became also a great moral 
 and civic force in its absolutely independ- 
 ent stand for civic righteousness in Chicago. 
 The Daily News was a great success, but in 
 18S8, his health being seriously impairea 
 by overwork, he sold his entire interest in 
 the two newspapers to Mr. Lawson, and 
 for two or three years traveled abroad, 
 On his return to Chicago he organized the 
 Globe National Bank and conducted it as 
 president until 1898, when it was consoli- 
 dated with the Continental National Bank 
 of Chicago. He became general managei 
 of the Associated Press in 1893, and has 
 since filled that office and he has made 
 it the most effective news-gathering agency 
 in the world, with organized divisions cov- 
 ering every section of the country, and with 
 foreign connections of the most widely 
 ramified character. The modern newspaper 
 in our larger American cities represents 
 the most complete and accurate statement 
 of daily history the world has ever seen, 
 and this completeness is largely due to 
 the fact that Mr. Stone has brought to his 
 task a knowledge of news values and a 
 genius for news gathering which is probably 
 greater than that of any other man. 
 Mr. Stone has, during the past few years, 
 received the following foreign decorations : 
 Otricer of the Legion d'Honneur of France; 
 officer of the Order of the Prussian Crown 
 (2d class) ; grand officer of the Crown of 
 Italy; Imperial Order of the Sacred Treas- 
 ure of Japan (2d class) ; Order of the St. 
 Stanislaus of Russia-cordon; Knight Com- 
 mander of the First Class of the Order of 
 the Polar Star, of Sweden. Address : 
 Western Union Building, New York City. 
 
 STOOKEY, Lyman Brumbaugh: 
 
 Physiologist; born in Bellviile, 111., July 
 30, 1878; son of Dr. Lyman Polk and 
 Louise (Brundmugh) Stookey; great-grand- 
 son of Daniel Stookey, who settled in 
 Southern Illinois at the close of the War 
 of the Revolution. Ho was educated in the 
 Bellviile High School, Yale, A.B., 1900, 
 
 held a graduate scholarship in psychology 
 at Yale, 1900-1902, A.M., Ph.D, 1902; and 
 did graduate work in the University of 
 Strassburg. He was associate in physiol- 
 ogy and physiological chemistry in the New 
 lork State Pathological Laboratory, 1903, 
 1904; professor of physiology and medical 
 chemistry in the New York State Path- 
 ological Laboratory, 1902-1904; professor 
 of physiology and medical chemistry in 
 tile University of Southern California 
 since 1905. Dr. Stookey has published 
 more than thirty original contributions 
 to medicine, chiefly physiology, in Ameri- 
 can and European journals of research. 
 He was American contributor to the 
 International Year Book of Chemical Phy- 
 siology and Pathology, 1905; fellow of 
 the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, 190C; is a member of the 
 American Physiological Society, American 
 Chemical Society, New York Society of 
 Physiological Chemistry, Society of Biolo- 
 gical Chemists, Society of Experimental 
 Biology and Medicine, Nu Sigma Nu (medi- 
 cal fraternity), and the University Club of 
 Los Angeles. He married, Dec. 31, 1903, 
 jMargaret Powell, granddaughter of the 
 late Brevet Major-Ceneral William H. Pow- 
 ell. Address: Hermosa Beach, Los An- 
 geles, Calif. 
 
 STOUGHTON, Arthur Alexander: 
 
 Architect; born in New York City, son 
 of Charles Stoughton and Sarah J. War- 
 ren, seventh in descent from Ensign Thomas 
 Stoughton, who came from England to 
 Dorchester Mass., in 1638. He was grad- 
 uated from Columbia LTniversity School of 
 Architecture, Ph.B., 1888, and was the first 
 holder of the Columbia Fellowship in 
 Architecture (for foreign study), becoming 
 a pupil of M. Redon at the Ecole des Beaux 
 Arts in Paris. Mr. Stoughton has been 
 in professional practice since 1894, in part- 
 nership with his brother Charles W. 
 Stoughton, as Stoughton & Stoughton. 
 They were architects of the Soldiers' and 
 Sailors' Memorial Monument in Riverside 
 Park, New York City, the Canton Christian 
 College, China; the American College in 
 Madura, India, etc. Mr. Stoughton is a 
 
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 member of the Society of Beaux Arts 
 Architects, member of the Board of Gov- 
 ernors of the Society of Columbia Uni- 
 versity Architects (formerly president), 
 member of the Council of the Fine Arts 
 Federation of New York, founder and direc- 
 tor of the Former Bronx Free Library and 
 of the present Bronx Society of Arts and 
 Sciences. Office: 96 Fifth Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 STRAUS, Adolph D.: 
 
 Consul-general of Nicaragua. He has 
 represented Nicaragua for many years as 
 consul-general in the United States, and in 
 other diplomatic capacities, and is the only 
 citizen of the United States holding a mili- 
 tary position in the Army of Nicaragua. 
 He was formerly one of the best known 
 war correspondents in the Civil War, and 
 later in Mexico, being the only journalist 
 who witnessed the execution of Emperor 
 Maximilian, and for years was the repre- 
 sentative of the New York Associated Press 
 and correspondent of the New York Times. 
 On leaving the newspaper field, he engaged 
 in the export business, and is now senior 
 partner of A. D. Straus Company, export 
 commission merchants, whose trade is large- 
 ly with Nicaragua and Central America 
 -generally. Address: 18 Broadway, New 
 York City. 
 
 STRAUS, Nathan: 
 
 Merchant; l)orn in Rhenish Bavaria, Jan. 
 31, 1848; son of Lazarus and Sara Straus. 
 He came to the United States in 1854, with 
 the family and settled in Talbotton, Ga. 
 He received his education in the schools 
 there, and later in the public and business 
 schools of New Y'ork City. He joined his 
 father in importing pottery and glassware, 
 as the firm of L. Straus and Sons, in which 
 he has retained an interest; has been a 
 partner in the department store of R. H. 
 Macy and Company since 1888, and is a 
 member of the firm of Abraham and Straus, 
 department store in Brooklyn. In politics 
 he is identified with the Democratic party, 
 and in 1894, received the nomination for 
 mayor, but declined it. In 1893 he was 
 appointed by Mayor Grant, as park com- 
 
 missioner of New Y^ork City, and estab- 
 lished many' improvements in the park sys- 
 tem of the city; and in 1898 was president 
 of the Board of Health of New Y'ork City. 
 Mr. Straus has been identified with many 
 practical charities, notably that of the dis- 
 tribution of Pasteurized milk to the poor 
 people of New York City, maintaining the 
 dispensaries at his own expense, with re- 
 sults, as shown by the Health Department 
 statistics, of the saving of the lives of many 
 thousands of babies. This initial experi- 
 ment has been copied in other cities at home 
 and abroad. During the panic period of 
 1893-1896 he provided lodging houses for 
 the poor and homeless, and for many win- 
 ters past has maintained depots for the 
 distribution of coal at cost to the poor. 
 During the campaign of 1908 Mr. Straus 
 was a prominent member of the committee 
 in charge of the Bryan campaign. He 
 married in 1875, Lina Gutherz. Residence: 
 27 West 72d Street. Office: R. H. Macy 
 & Company, Broadway and 34th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 STRAUS, Oscar Solomon: 
 
 Former secretary of Commerce and La- 
 bor; born Dec. 23, 1850; son of Lazarus 
 and Sara Straus. He was educated in the 
 schools of Georgia until 1865; was grad- 
 uated from Columbia, A.B., 1871, A.M., 
 1873, LL.B., 1873; received the degree of 
 L.H.D., from Brown University, 1878; 
 LL.D., from Washington and Lee Uni- 
 versity, the University of Pennsylvania, 
 and Columbia University. While in the 
 Law School of Columbia he also studied 
 law in the office of Charles O'Connor. In 
 1873, he fori»ed the law firm of Hudson 
 and Straus, later Sterne, Hudson and 
 Straus, and afterward known as Sterne, 
 Straus and Thompson, and continued in 
 practice of law until 1881, when he joined 
 the importing pottery and glassware house 
 of L. Straus and Sons, in which he con- 
 tinued until Jan. 1, 1907. He was United 
 States minister to Turkey under appoint- 
 ment of President Cleveland, 1887-1889, 
 and of President McKinley, 1897-1900; ren- 
 dered especially valuable service in estab- 
 lishing the right of Christian missionaries 
 
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 and Cliristian colleges in Turkey, and in 
 securing the right for the selling of bibles 
 and tracts by American colporteurs; also 
 secured for American universities the right 
 to excavate on the site of ancient Babylon; 
 and after the Spanish-American War, he 
 secured the aid of the Sultan in inducing 
 the Mohammedan sultans of Mindanao to 
 accept protection of the United States, 
 rather than join hands with Aguinaldo. 
 He was appointed, Jan. 14, 1902, member 
 of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at 
 The Hague, to fill the place made vacant 
 by the death of ex-President Harrison; 
 appointed and confirmed secretary of com- 
 merce and labor of the United States, tak- 
 ing office Dec. 17, 1906. He has served as 
 presiaent of the New York Board of Trade 
 and Transportation, and vice-president of 
 the National Civic Federation, vice-presi- 
 dent of the International Law Association, 
 Columbia Alumni Association. Mr. Straus 
 is author of: The Origin of the Republi- 
 can Form of Government in the United 
 States, 1886; Roger Williams, the Pioneer 
 of Religious Liberty, 1894; The Develop- 
 ment of Religious Liberty in the United 
 States, 1896; Reform in the Consular Ser- 
 vice, 1897. He is a member of the Law- 
 yers' Club of New York. Address: 2600 
 Sixteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 
 
 STRONG, Mason Romeyn: 
 
 Civil engineer and architect; born in Pas- 
 saic, N. J. ; son of J. Paschal and Cornelia 
 Whitney (Heyer) Strong. He was pre- 
 pared in the Albany Academy and was 
 graduated from Columbia University, A.B., 
 1889, and afterward spent a year in the 
 School of Architecture. He ^s a consulting 
 engineer, and was formerly engineer of 
 bridges and buildings, with jurisdiction ex- 
 tending over the entire Erie Railroad sys- 
 tem. In 1896, and subsequent years, he 
 was in charge for the railroad company of 
 the design and execution of the great Grade 
 Crossing Revision in the City of Buffalo, 
 N. Y., and has been connected with numer- 
 ous kindred undertakings. In 1908, he suc- 
 ceeded to the architectural business of the 
 late W. Wheeler Smith, which he is con- 
 tinuing in connection with his engineering 
 
 practice. Mr. Strong is a member of the 
 Dutch Reformed Church. He is a com- 
 missioner of the Board of Health of Passaic, 
 N. J., and has membership in the Ameri- « 
 can Society of Civil Engineers, the Co- I 
 lumbia University Club, and the Delta ^ 
 Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He married in 
 Racine, Wis., in 1901, Nina Colville, and 
 they have three children: Elizabeth Grier, 
 Nina Colville, and Nathaneal Olcott. Ad- 
 dress: 7 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 STRYKER, Melancthon Woolsey: 
 
 President of Hamilton College; born at 
 Vernon, N. Y., Jan. 7, 1851; son of Isaac 
 Pierson and Alida (Woolsey) Stryker. He 
 was graduated from Hamilton College, A.B., 
 1872. He thence entered the Auburn Theo- 
 logical Seminary where he was graduated 
 in 1876. The degree of D.D. was conferred 
 upon him in 1889 by Plamilton and Lafay- 
 ette Colleges, and that of LL.D. by Lafay- 
 ette College in 1892. After being ordained 
 to the ministry of the Presbyterian Church 
 in 1876, he became pastor of the Presbyte- 
 rian Church at Auburn, and there preached 
 for two years. In 1878 he accepted the 
 pastorate of the church at Ithaca, N. Y., 
 and five years later was called to fill the 
 pulpit of the Second Congregational Church 
 at Holyoke, Mass. After two years of ser- 
 vice there, he became pastor of the Fourth 
 Presbyterian Church of Chicago, where he 
 remained until 1892. In the latter year 
 he was elected to the presidency of Hamil- 
 ton College. Dr. Stryker is also trustee of 
 this college and of the Auburn Theological 
 Seminary. He is a member of the Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society and the Sigma Phi frater- 
 nity. He finds diversion in fishing, riding 
 and tennis. Dr. Stryker is author of var- 
 ious volumes of verse, sermons and ad- 
 dresses, and is the editor of several hym- 
 nals. He married at Auburn, N. Y., Sept. 
 27, 1876, Elizabeth Goss, and has had six 
 children. Address: Clinton, N. Y. 
 
 STUART, Edwin Sidney: 
 
 Governor of Pennsylvania; born in Phil- 
 adelphia, Dec. 28, 1853; son of Hugh and 
 Anna (Newman) Stewart. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools until, at 14 years 
 
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 of age he became an errand boy in Leary's 
 old book store, then at Fifth and Walnut 
 Streets. Mr. Leary died in 1874, and Mr. 
 Stuart, who had long had mvich of the 
 care of the business, conducted it for two 
 years for the benefit of the estate. At the 
 end of that time he purchased it, removed 
 it soon after to 9 South Ninth Street, and 
 has there built it up to the largest estab- 
 lishment of its kind in the United States. 
 The most important of the works pub- 
 lished by him has been Watson's Annals 
 of Philadelphia. Mr. Stuart has always 
 taken a warm interest in political matters; 
 as a member of the Republican Party he 
 was treasurer of the Young Republican 
 Club during the Garfield campaign of 1880, 
 and in 1882 was elected its president. He 
 was a delegate to the National Conventions 
 of Republican League Clubs at New York 
 in 1887, and at Baltimore in 1889; was an 
 elector on the Blaine ticket in 1884, a dele- 
 gate to the National Convention of 1888, 
 and was president of the Electoral College 
 of Pennsylvania in 1901. In 1886 he was 
 elected by a very large majority to the 
 Select Council of Philadelphia and was re- 
 elected in 1889. An effort was made to 
 nominate him for mayor in 1886, and in 
 1890 he received the nomination and was 
 elected for the four years' term by the 
 largest majority known to that time for 
 a mayor of Philadelphia. In 1906 he was 
 nominated and elected governor of Penn- 
 sylvania, for the four-year term expiring 
 Jan. 17, 1911. He is one of the trustees of 
 the Girard Estate. Residence: 1,5.38 South 
 Broad Street, Philadelphia. Official ad- 
 dress : Harrisburg, Pa. 
 
 STUART, Ruth McEnery: 
 
 Writer; born in Avoyelles Parish, La.; 
 daughter of James and Mary Routh (Stir- 
 ling) Stuart. She received her education 
 in New Orleans. She married in Hempstead 
 County, Arkansas, Aug. 6, 1879, Alfred 
 Oden Stuart, and has had one son, now 
 deceased. Mrs. Stuart has for some years 
 done considerable platform work, reading 
 her own stories for literary and other clubs 
 and societies. She is author of: Sonny, 
 Holly and Pizen, Moriah's Mourning, In 
 
 Simpkinsville, A Golden Wedding, Carlot- 
 ta's Intended, Solomon Crow's Christmas 
 Pockets, The Story of Babette, George 
 Washington Jones, The Second Wooing of 
 Salina-Sue, The River's Children, and Aunt 
 Amity's Silver Wedding and Other Tales. 
 She is a member of the Barnard, Wednes- 
 day Afternoon, and MacDowell Clubs. 
 Residence: 220 Central Park South. Ad- 
 dress : Care of Century Company, Union 
 Square, New York City. 
 
 STUBBS, Walter R.: 
 
 Governor of Kansas; elected on the Re- 
 publican ticket, in November, 1908, to serve 
 for the two-year term expiring Jan. 10, 
 1911. Address: Topeka, Kan. 
 
 STURDEVANT, James Warner: 
 
 President of the Densmore Typewriter 
 Company ; born in Chautauqua County, N. 
 Y., Dec. 9, 1850. He was graduated from 
 Cornell University as B.S. in 1876, and was 
 senior editor of The Cornell Era. He was 
 superintendent of schools for several years, 
 advocated the New Education and obtained 
 for the improvement of his teachers such 
 advanced lecturers as Colonel Francis Park- 
 er and Prof. Thomas Balliett. He organ- 
 ized the Densmore Typewriter Company in 
 1891, and has ever since been an officer of 
 the company. He married at Philadelphia, 
 Dec. 21, 1878, Austa Densmore and they 
 have t\vo daughters. Address: Cragsmoor, 
 Ulster County, N. Y. 
 
 SULLIVAN, Andrew T.: 
 
 President of the Nassau Trust Company ; 
 born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 11, 1854; 
 son of Andrew and Ann E. (Harrington) 
 Sullivan. He was graduated from St. 
 Francis Xavier's College, New York City, 
 A.B., 1872. He was appointed by Presi- 
 dent Cleveland, April, 1893, postmaster of 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. ; and held the office imtil 
 October, 1897. He was a member of the 
 Board of Education of the City of Brook- 
 lyn, during the four years previous to con- 
 solidation; chairman of the Committee on 
 Sites; and chairman of the Finance Com- 
 mittee of the board to the expiration of 
 
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 his torm. He is pi'esident and trustee of 
 The Nassau Trust Company; and the 
 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 
 Mr. Sullivan is a member of the Alumni 
 Association of St. Francis Xavier's Col- 
 lege, of the Knights of Columbus, Catholic 
 Benevolent Legion, the Roman Catholic Or- 
 phan Asylum Society, Brooklyn League, 
 and the Brooklyn, Hanover, Bushwick, and 
 Bayswater Yacht Clubs. He married in 
 Brooklyn, 1884, Mary E. Kavanah, and they 
 have four children. Eesidence: 933 St. 
 Mark's Avenue. Address: 356 Fulton 
 Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 SULZBERGER, Ferdinand: 
 
 President of Schwarzschild & Sulzberger 
 Company, one of the oldest and largest 
 packing firms in the United States; born in 
 Obergrombach, Germany; son of Moses 
 and Theresa (Schrag) Sulzberger. He is 
 president of Schwarzschild & Sulzberger 
 Company, Cold Blast Transportation Com- 
 pany and the Lackawanna Live Stock 
 Transportation Company. He is a director 
 of the Montefiore Home and is interested 
 in many other charitable organizations. 
 Residence No. 21 East 67th Street, New 
 York City. Address : Care Schwarzschild 
 & Sulzberger Company, 45th Street and 
 First Avenue, New York City. 
 
 SULZER, Willam: 
 
 Congressman and lawyer; born in Eliza- 
 beth, N. J., March 18, 1803; son of Thomas 
 Sulzer — one of the heroes of Germany in 
 the struggle of 1848 for Constitutional Gov- 
 ernment. William Sulzer is the second of 
 seven children. He was educated in the 
 ])ul)iic schools and Columbia Law School, 
 and he was admitted to the bar in 1884, 
 and has practised in New York ever since. 
 He early gained prominence as a political 
 s|)eaker, and has been on the stump in 
 eveiy caiupaign since 1884. He was elected 
 to the (General Assembly of New York, from 
 the Fourteenth District in November, 1889, 
 and was four times reelected, and was 
 speaker of the Assembly in 1893. He was 
 ch.cled in 1S94 to llie Fifty-fourth Con- 
 gress, and he lias been biennially reelected 
 and is now ser\ing in tlie Si.xty-lir.st Con 
 
 gress. He was a delegate to the National 
 Democratic Conventions of 1896, 1900, 1904 
 and 1908. Residence: 175 Second Avenue. 
 Office: 115 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 SUTHERLAND, Arthur Eugene: 
 
 Jurist ; boin in Geneva, N. Y., Sept. 20, 
 1862; son of Andrew and Mary (McLean) 
 Sutherland. He was graduated fiom Wes- 
 leyan Universitj', A. B., 1885. He was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1887, was engaged in 
 general law practice. He was elected county 
 jiulge of ]\Ionroe County, serving 1894-1905; 
 was elected in November, 1905, on the Re- 
 publican ticket; justice of the Supreme 
 Court of New York for the Seventh District 
 for the term expiring Dec. 31, 1919. Judge 
 Sutherland is a director of the Union Trust 
 Co., of Rochester. He is a member of the 
 Genesee Valley and Oak Hill Country Clubs 
 of Rochester, N. Y. He married in Nunda, 
 N. Y., June 30, 1888, Nellie Reed. Resi- 
 dence: 406 Lake Avenue. Office: Court 
 House, Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 SUTRO, Theodore: 
 
 Lawyer, author; born at Aix-la-Chapelle, 
 Prussia, March 14, 1845; son of Emanuel 
 Sutro and Rosa (Warendorff) Sutro. He 
 was graduated from Baltimore City Col- 
 lege, 1863; from Phillips-Exeter Academy, 
 New Hampshire, in 1864; and from Har- 
 vard, A.B., in 1871; and from Columbia 
 University Law School, as LL.B., in 1874. 
 While a student at Harvard he established 
 and conducted a commission business in 
 Boston. He was admitted to the bar in 
 1874, and from 1887 to 1892 conducted 
 large litigations in Nevada, involving the 
 interests of the Sutro Tunnel Company. 
 He reoiganized the company into the Com- 
 stock Tunnel Company, by buying the 
 pioperty in on mortgage foreclosure for 
 the stockholders for $1,000,000 cash, which 
 he raised from a syndicate of bankers, and 
 was its president from 1887 to 1894. He 
 is engaged in general practice but of late 
 years has made a specialty of questions 
 and litigations relating to taxation. He is 
 a member of the law firm of Sutro and 
 Wright. INIr. Sutro is an indejiendent 
 J>!mocrat in politics, and was one of tlie 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1527 
 
 organizers and second president of the Ger- 
 man-American Reform Union, which played 
 an important part in the anti-Tammany 
 movement of 1894, and in the election of 
 Mayor Strong; a commissioner of taxes and 
 assessments for the City of New York, from 
 1895 to 1898, under appointment; delegate 
 in 189G to the National Democratic Con- 
 vention, at Indianapolis, which nominated 
 Palmer and Buckner. He was appointed by 
 Mayor Van Wyck as a member of the com- 
 mittee on the Dewey Reception in 1899, and 
 by appointment of Mayor McClellan is a 
 member of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
 Commission. In his religious connection he 
 is a German Lutheran. INIr. Sutro was a 
 delegate to the International Congress of 
 Lawyers and Jurists, St. Louis, 1904 ;_ is a 
 member of the Association of Bar of the 
 City of New York, the New York State, and 
 the American Bar Associations and the 
 New York Covmty Lawyers' Association, In- 
 ternational Law Association, International 
 Tax Association, American Political Science 
 Association ; former president and chairman 
 of the Board of Trustees of the Society of 
 Medical Jurisprudence. He is a member 
 of the Phillips-Exeter Academy Alumni, 
 Phi Beta Kappa Alumni, Columbia Univer- 
 sity Alumni, Harvard Club, Genealogical 
 and Biographical Society and many others. 
 He is president of the United German So- 
 cieties of the City of New York, of the 
 German American Alliance of the State of 
 New York, and is a member of many other 
 German Societies, literary, educational, 
 scientific and social. Mr. Sutro has writ- 
 ten works and articles on various subjects, 
 including taxation, medical jurisprudence, 
 and other legal topics, and art, and many 
 poems. He is an art collector, and his col- 
 lection of the Edward Moran thirteen his- 
 torical marine paintings has attracted at- 
 tention throughout the United States. He 
 exhibited them for over a year at the Metro- 
 politan Museum of Art, and is exhibiting 
 them at the Smithsonian Institution (Na- 
 tional Museum) Washington, D. C. He 
 married in Jersey City, N. J., Oct. 1, 1884, 
 the beautiful Florence Edith Clinton, musi- 
 cian, painter, speaker, and social leader, 
 who died April 27, 1906. Residence: 320 
 
 West 102d Street. Address: 280 Broad- 
 way, New York City. 
 
 SWAIN, Joseph: 
 
 President of Swarthmore College; born 
 in Pendleton, Ind., June 16, 1857; son of 
 Woolston and Mary Ann (Thomas) Swain. 
 He was graduated from Indiana University 
 in 1883 as B.L. and M.S. in 1885, and re- 
 ceived from Wabash College the degree of 
 LL.D. in 1893; and he was a student in 
 Edinburgh, 1885-1886. He was professor 
 of mathematics in the Indiana University, 
 1880-1891; professor of mathematics in Le- 
 land Stanford University, 1891-1893; presi- 
 dent of Indiana University, 1893-1902, and 
 since then president of Swarthmore College. 
 He has been a member of the National 
 Council of Education from 1900; a mem- 
 ber of the National Council of Religious 
 Education from 1904, and has been a mem- 
 ber of the State Board of Education in 
 Indiana for nine years. He married in 
 Knightstown, Ind.. Sept. 22, 1885, Frances 
 Morgan. Address : Swarthmore, Pa. 
 
 SWAN, Henry Harrison: 
 
 United States judge; born in Detroit, 
 Mich., Oct. 2, 1840; son of Joseph G. and 
 Mary C. Swain. He was prepared in the 
 public schools and educated in the Univer- 
 sity of Michigan; studied law and practiced 
 at Detroit until appointed by President 
 Harrison, Jan. 19, 1891, to his present of- 
 fice as U. S. judge of the District of Michi- 
 gan. Address: Detroit, Mich. 
 
 SWANK, James Moore: 
 
 General manager of the American Iron 
 and Steel Association; born in Westmore- 
 land County, Pa., July 12, 1832; son of 
 George W. Swank and Nancy (Moore) 
 moved with his parents in 1838 to Johns- 
 Swank. On both the paternal and ma- 
 ternal sides his ancestors have been Penn- 
 sylvanians for four generations. He re- 
 town. Pa., and there he received a careful 
 common school and academic education. 
 Washington and Jefferson College con- 
 ferred upon him the degree of Ph.D. in 
 1900. In 1852 he was asked to take charge 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 of the local Whig newspaper and in 1853 
 he founded the Johnstown Tribune and 
 with brief intervals was its editor and pub- 
 lisher until 1870 when he became clerk of 
 the Committee on Manufactures of the 
 House of Representatives, and in 1871 and 
 1872 he filled the office of chief clerk of the 
 Department of Agriculture. In December, 
 1872, he took charge of the work of the 
 American Iron and Steel Association in 
 Philadelphia as its secretary, and as secre- 
 tary and general manager he has devoted 
 thirty-five years to the service of the asso- 
 ciation, the success of which is in the larg- 
 est measure due to his efforts; and he is 
 still its general manager. In 1878 ]\Ir. 
 Swank published, in book form, an Intro- 
 duction to a History of Iron Making and 
 Coal Mining in Pennsylvania. He was 
 selected by General Francis A. Walker to 
 collect the statistics of iron and steel for 
 the Tenth Census of the United States, in 
 1880, and in 1881 he accompanied his final 
 report with a historical sketch of the manu- 
 facture of iron and steel in all countries, 
 and particularly in the United States, giv- 
 ing special attention to the work of colonial 
 and other pioneers in the manufacture of 
 iron and steel. He afterwards enlarged the 
 historical part of his report and published 
 it in book form in 1884, under the title of: 
 History of the Manufacture of Iron in All 
 Ages, of which a second edition appeared 
 in 1902. In December, 1897, ne published 
 for the members of the American Iron and 
 Steel Association a souvenir volume of 228 
 pages under the title of: Notes and Com- 
 ments on Industrial, Economic, Political, 
 and Historical Subjects. While chief clerk 
 of the Department of Agriculture he pre- 
 pared a history of that department. He 
 has now in preparation a work entitled: 
 History of Western Pennsylvania, with 
 Special Reference to Its Industrial Devel- 
 opment. Mr. Swank is known throughout 
 the country as one of the ablest advocates 
 of the protective tariff. Address: 261 
 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 SW ANSON, Claude Augustus: 
 
 Governor of Virginia; born at Swanson- 
 ville, Pittsylvania County, Va., March 31, 
 
 1862; son of John M. Swanson. He was 
 educated in the public schools until he was 
 sixteen years old, then taught public school 
 for one year; attended for one session the 
 Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 
 lege; clerked for two years in a grocery 
 store in Danville, Va., then entered Ran- 
 dolph-Macon College, from which he was 
 graduated, A.B., 1885; and was graduated 
 from the University of Virginia as B.L. in 
 1886. He practised law from 1886 at Chat- 
 ham, Va. He was elected from the Fifth 
 Virginia District in 1892 to the Fifty-third 
 Congress, and after that to the Fifty-fourth, 
 I'lity-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh and 
 Fifty-eightTi* Congresses, resigning from the 
 latter upon his election in 1905 as governor 
 of Virginia, for the four-year term from 
 February, 190G, to February, 1910. Resi- 
 dence: Chatham, Va. Official address: 
 Richmond, Va. 
 
 SWARTZ, William Paley: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Circleville, Ohio, 
 Dec. 24, 1858; son of Rev. Joel D.D., and 
 Adelia (Rosencrans) Swartz. He was grad- 
 uated from Pennsylvania College, Gettys- 
 burg, A.B., 1881, with first honors of his 
 class, having received also a number of otli- 
 er honors, prizes and distinctions, also the 
 degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. He spent five 
 years as a book and job printer before go- 
 ing to college. Mr. Swartz was principal 
 of the High School at Hazelton, Pa., 1881- 
 1882, tutor at Pennsylvania College, 1882- 
 1883; missionary to Guntur, India, 1883- 
 1887; pastor of the Fifth Presbyterian 
 Church of Trenton, N. J., 1887-1888; and 
 of the Central Church of Wilmington, Dela- 
 ware, 1888-1890; and since then of the First 
 Presbyterian Church of Poughkeepsie, N. 
 Y. He has been an extensive traveler in 
 Europe, Asia and Africa, as well as in all 
 parts of the United States and Alaska. He 
 is a member of Vassar Brothers Institute, 
 of the American Bible League; life member 
 of the American Bible Society, American 
 Tract Society, Dutchess New England So- 
 ciety, and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity; 
 and is a member of the Controlling Board 
 of the New York Sabbath Association, the 
 International Missionary Union, the Pringle 
 
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 Home for Aged Literary Men. He has pub- 
 lished essays upon important religious and 
 social topics, among which are: Is the 
 Bible Trustworthy?; In or Out; The Young 
 Men and the Churches; The Authority of 
 the Sunday Sabbath; The Financial Prob- 
 lem; The Gospel for the Times; The Tem- 
 perance Question; the Family and Religion; 
 Economic Consumption and The Social Wel- 
 fare. He is an honorary member of the 
 Poughkeejisie Yacht Club and the Central 
 Labor Council. Dr. Swartz married in Fra- 
 zer, Pa., May 9, 1888, Florence Allen Pveed; 
 and they have four sons: Philip Allen, 
 Charles Benjamin, Howard Villeroy, and 
 William Crosby. Address: Poughkeepsie, 
 N. Y. 
 
 SWIFT, Fletcher Harper: 
 
 Educator; born in New York City, May 
 20, 1876; son of Rev. Judson and Julia 
 Elizabeth (Peters) Swift. He was edu- 
 cated in Dartmouth College, A.B., 1898; 
 Union Theological Seminary, D.D., 1903; 
 Columbia University, A.M., 1904; Colum- 
 bia University, Ph.D., 1905. He won the 
 Dartmouth college prizes in English and 
 Latin. He also received honors in philos- 
 ophy; Phi Beta Kappa. He was Teaching 
 Fellow, Teachers' College, Columbia Uni- 
 versity. Professor Swift was assistant in 
 History of Education, Teachers' College, 
 Columbia University, New York, 1904-1905. 
 Assistant Professor of Education, Univer- 
 sity of Washington, 1905-1907. Assistant 
 Professor of Education, University of Min- 
 nesota, 1907-1909. Professor of Education, 
 University of Minnesota, 1909. He was 
 lecturer in History of Education, Institute 
 of Arts & Sciences, St. Paul, Minnesota, 
 1907-1908. Lecturer in Principles and His- 
 tory of Religious Education, Chicago Theo- 
 logical Seminary, 1908-1909. Lecturer in 
 History and Theory of Education, Dart- 
 mouth College Summer School, 1909. Pro- 
 fessor Swift is author of: The Most Beau- 
 tiful Thing in the World, 1905; Joseph, a 
 Play for Children, 1907; The History of 
 Permanent Public Common School Funds 
 in the United States, 1795-1905, 1909. Pro- 
 fessor Swift is an Insurgent Republican 
 and Congregationalist. He is a member of 
 
 the National Educational Association ; Re- 
 ligious Educational Association; Minnesota 
 Educational Association and Alpha Delta 
 Phi. Address: College of Education, Uni- 
 versity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 SYLVESTER, Herbert Milton: 
 
 Author; born in Lowell, Mass., Feb. 20, 
 1849; son of Ezekicl J. and Miriam T. 
 (Sargent) Sylvester. He was educated at 
 Bridgeton Academy; studied law in 
 the office of U. S. Senator William Pitt 
 Fessenden, at Portland, Maine, and was ad- 
 mitted to the Cumberland bar, Maine, in 
 1872, and the Suffolk bar, Boston, 1885, 
 also to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. 
 He practised law in Portland, 1872-1885, 
 and in Boston, 1885-1900, then retired from 
 law practice. Mr. Sylvester has made for 
 himself a notable place as writer of essays, 
 illustrator, historian, also as a writer of 
 fiction and contributor to magazines. He 
 is author of: Prose Pastorals; Homestead 
 Highways; Maine Pioneer Settlements (five 
 volumes — ^ Olde Cascoe, Old York, Sokoki 
 Trail, Ancient Pemaquid, Land of St. Cas- 
 tin) ; Old Kitterie and the "Scarlet Let- 
 ter " ; Last of the Wawennocks, a Penobscot 
 Romance ( fiction ) ; Red Gables ( fiction ) in 
 press; Early Voyages to New England (in 
 press) ; A Relation of the Pioneer Settle- 
 ments of Maine, 1607 to 1690; Indian Wars 
 of New England (two volumes). Mr. Syl- 
 vester is president and general manager of 
 the Aleppo Book Company of Boston. He 
 is a member of the Bostoniaii Society; one 
 of the founders of tlie Woman's Rescue 
 Mission, Boston; Knight Templar and 
 Shriner; member of the Authors Club of 
 London, Maine Sportsmen's Fish and Game 
 Club. He married in Portland, Maine, Aug. 
 5, 1872, Clara Marie Elder, and has one son. 
 Residence: Harrison, Maine (summer) ; 
 Boston (winter). 
 
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 TAFT, Oren Edwin: 
 
 Investment banker; born in Paxton, 111., 
 Oct. 28, 1868; son of Oren Byron and Fran- 
 ces (Schlosser) Taft. He was graduated 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 from Yale University as Ph.B., 1889. Mr. 
 Taft is president of the Illinois Land Com- 
 pany; and vice-president of the Pearsons- 
 Taft Land Credit Company and of the Wy- 
 oming Sulpliur Company. He is a member 
 of the Book and Snake of Yale University, 
 and of the University, Chicago, Bankers' 
 and Chicago Boat Clubs of Chicago. Mr. 
 Taft married in New York City, April 25, 
 1894, Josephine Stewart, and they have two 
 children. Residence: 06 Cedar Street. Of- 
 fice: 181 La Salle Street, Chicago. 
 
 TAFT, William Howard: 
 
 President of the United States; born in 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1857; son of Hon. 
 Alphonso Taft, attorney-general of the 
 United States in the cabinet of President 
 Grant, and Louise M. (Torrey) Taft. He 
 received his primary and preparatory edu- 
 cation in the public schools and Woodward 
 High School in Cincinnati, and was grad- 
 uated from Yale, A.B., 1878, and from 
 the Cincinnati College of Law, LL.B., 
 1880. He was salutatorian and second in 
 his class at Yale, with Phi Beta Kappa 
 honors, and' divided the first prize on his 
 graduation in law. In 1880 he was admitted 
 to the bar of the Supreme Court of Ohio, 
 in 1881 he was appointed assistant prose- 
 cuting attorney of Hamilton County, Ohio, 
 and in 1882 was appointed a collector of 
 internal revenue under President Arthur. 
 After holding this position for a year, he 
 resigned to resume the practice of law, and 
 in four years' time had attained so consid- 
 erable a place in his profession that in 1887 
 he was appointed judge of the Superior 
 Court of Cincinnati. In 1890 he was ap- 
 pointed solicitor-general of the United 
 States, taking the second place in the De- 
 partment of Justice, where his father had 
 been attorney-general in years before his 
 son had grown to manhood. In 1892 Secre- 
 tary Taft was appointed a United States 
 circuit judge for the Sixth Judicial Circuit, 
 and in 1896 became dean of the Law De- 
 partment of the University of Cincinnati. 
 In 1901, Judge Taft was appointed by Pres- 
 ident McKinley the first civil governor of 
 the Pliilipi)ine Islands under American rule, 
 facing many problems entirely new in Amer- 
 
 ican administration, and meeting them with 
 a degree of wisdom and courage which won 
 him the respect of the people of those is- 
 lands and the admiration and confidence of 
 the people and government of the United 
 States. Upon the retirement of Secretary 
 Root from the War Department in 1904, 
 Mr. Taft Succeeded him as Secretary of 
 War in which, in addition to the usual du- 
 ties devolving upon that Department he had 
 the added duties of the administration of 
 the Philippines, and the construction of the 
 Panama Canal. He undertook and success- 
 fully completed many important missions 
 of diplomacy and administration; conferred 
 with Pope Leo XIII. concerning the pur- 
 chase of agricultural lands of religious or- 
 ders in the Philippines in 1902, with the re- 
 sult of a favorable settlement of that im- 
 portant question; went to Panama and con- 
 ducted the negotiations with the Panama 
 authorities in connection with the govern- 
 ment of the Canal Zone; adjusted the politi- 
 cal disputes between the parties in Panama 
 which were reaching the stage of anarchy, 
 and inaugurated the administration of 
 pacification, personally acting as governor 
 until a sviitable governor was found to con- 
 tinue that work. In 1905, with a Congres- 
 sional delegation, he went on a tour of in- 
 spection to the Philippines, and in Septem- 
 ber, 1907, he again started on another of- 
 ficial visit to Manila. Secretary Taft re- 
 ceived the Presidential nomination of the 
 Republican party in 1908; was elected by a 
 popular vote of 7,061,875, a plurality of 
 1,045,715 votes; and by an electoral vote of 
 321 to 162, and inaugurated March 4, 1909, 
 for the term expiring March 4, 1913. He 
 has received honorary degrees of LL.D. from 
 the University of Pennsylvania, 1902, Yale, 
 1903, Harvard, 1905, Miami University, 
 1905, and the University of Iowa. 1907. He 
 married in Cincinnati, in 1886, Helen 
 Herron, and they have three children. 
 Home: Cincinnati. Summer home: Bev- 
 erly, Mass. Official residence and address: 
 The White House, Washington, D. C. 
 
 TALBOT, Ethelbert: 
 
 Bishop of Central Pennsylvania; born at 
 Fayette, Mo., Oct. 9, 1848; son of John A. 
 
William Howard Taft 
 President of the United States 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1531 
 
 and Alice (Daly) Talbot. He received in 
 1887 the degree of D.D. from Dartmouth Col- 
 lege and from the General Theological Semi- 
 nary, and' that of LL.D. from the University 
 of Missouri. He was ordered deacon of the 
 Episcopal Church in 1873, and ordained to 
 the priesthood by Bishop Robertson in 1874. 
 Following his entry to the ministry he was 
 rector of St. James' Church, Macon City, 
 Mo., and rector also of the Military Acad- 
 emy in that city, 1873-1887. In 1887 he 
 was consecrated bishop by Bishops Whipple, 
 Quintard, Tuttle, Spalding, Perry, Burgess 
 and Seymour, becoming bishop of Wyoming 
 and Idaho, remaining in this diocese until 
 1898, where he was made bishop of Central 
 Pennsylvania. Address: South Bethlehem, 
 Pa. 
 
 TALIAFERRO, James Piper: 
 
 U. S. senator; born at Orange, Va., Sept. 
 30, 1847. He was educated in Virginia, 
 leaving the school of William Dinwiddle, at 
 Greenwood, in 1864, to volunteer in the 
 Confederate Army, in which he served un- 
 til the war ended. He returned to his 
 home after the war and" resumed his studies, 
 removing later to Jacksonville, Fla., where 
 he engaged in business; was elected April 
 19, 1899, on the first joint ballot of the 
 Florida Legislature to the U. S. Senate to 
 succeed Hon. Samuel Pasco, and reelected 
 in 1905. His term of service will expire 
 March 3, 1911. Address: Jacksonville, 
 Fla. 
 
 TAPPAN, John Butler Coles: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Dosoris, Oyster Bay, N". 
 Y., April 4, 1860; son of DeWitt and Mar- 
 garet (Coles) Tappan. He was graduated 
 from Yale University, B.A., 1880, Colum- 
 bia University Law School, LL.B., 1882. 
 He was admitted to the bar in 1882, and 
 has practised continually in New York 
 since then, now being head of the firm of 
 Tappan and Bennett. He is a frequent 
 counsel and referee on cases affecting ripa- 
 rian rights and water fronts, and is regarded 
 as an expert in these subjects ; also a fre- 
 quent speaker on questions of public in- 
 terest. Mr. Tappan was president of the 
 Board of Education, Glen Cove, N. Y.; is 
 
 a director of the Legal Aid Society, member 
 of the Sons of the Revolution, Bar Associa- 
 tion of New York City, New York State Bar 
 Association, American Bar Association, 
 New York County Bar Association, Nassau 
 County Bar Association, of which he is pres- 
 ident, the Long Island Farmers Club, and 
 Civil Service League ; vice-president of the 
 Navy League; president of the Republican 
 Club of Glen Cove, and member of the Yale, 
 City, Republican, Psi Upsilon, and Eco- 
 nomic Clubs, director of the Nassau Coun- 
 try Club, and member of the Graduates 
 Club of New Haven. He married in Glen 
 Cove, L. L, May 21, 1885, Caroline Alice 
 Titus. Residence: The Buckingham, Fifth 
 Avenue and 50th Street. Office: 49 W'all 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 TARKINGTON, (Newton) Booth: 
 
 Author; born in Indianapolis, Ind., July 
 29, 1809; son of John Slosson and Elizabeth 
 (Booth) Tarkington. He was graduated 
 from Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., in 
 1889, and from Princeton, as A.B. in 1893. 
 He is aixthor of: The Gentleman from Indi- 
 ana, 1899; Monsieur Beaucaire, 1900; The 
 Two Vanrevels, 1902; Cherry, 1903; In the 
 Arena, 1904; The Conquest of Canaan, 
 1905; The Beautiful Lady, 1905; The Guest 
 of Quesnay. Also plays: Monsieur Beau- 
 caire, 1901 (in collaboration with E. G. 
 Sutherland) ; The Man on Horseback, four- 
 act drama, 1903. He is a member of the 
 Players' Club of New York City. Mr. Tark- 
 ington is a Republican in politics, and was 
 elected to the Indianapolis Legislature in 
 November, 1908. He married, June 18, 
 1902, Laurel Louisa, daughter of Stough- 
 ton Joseph and Laurel (Locke) Fletcher, of 
 Indianapolis. Address: Indianapolis, Ind.; 
 or 265 West 81st Street,- New York City. 
 
 TATLOCK, John: 
 
 President of the Washington Life Insur- 
 ance Company; born in W^illiamstown, 
 Mass., March 12, 1860; son of John Tatlock, 
 D.D. and Lucy Beman (Whitman) Tatlock. 
 He was graduated from Williams College 
 B.A., 1882, M.A., 1887. Mr. Tatlock was 
 assistant astronomer in the Washburn Ob- 
 servatory of the University of Wisconsin, 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1883-1884; professor of astronomy in Beloit 
 College, 1884-1885; actuary in the Pruden- 
 tial Insurance Company of Newai'k, N. J., 
 in 1888; assistant actuary in the Mutual 
 Life Insurance Company of New York, 1889- 
 1904; and since 1905 has been president of 
 the Washington Life Insurance Company 
 of New York. He is a fellow of the Royal 
 Astronomical Society of London, the New 
 York Academy of Sciences, the Actuarial 
 Society of America and was secretary of the 
 latter, and editor of its Transactions, 1889- 
 1904. He is a member of the Century As- 
 sociation. Mr. Tatlock married, Marcli 2, 
 1886, Kate Chamberlain. Residence : 376 
 West End Avenue. Office: 141 Broadway, 
 New York City. 
 
 TATNALL, Henry: 
 
 Railway official; born in Wilmington, Del., 
 April 30," 1855; son of William Tatnall, and 
 a grandson of Edward Tatnall, one of the 
 organizers and first trustees of the Phila- 
 delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail- 
 road Company, predecessor of the Philadel- 
 phia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad 
 Company. His early education was received 
 at private schools of Wilmington and at 
 Westtown Boarding School. He began his 
 business career as a clerk in a real estate of- 
 fice in Wilmington. In 1879, Mr. Tatnall 
 entered the services of the Girard Trust 
 Company, Philadelphia, and became its 
 treasui-er in 1881. He was elected its vice- 
 president in 1885, which position he re- 
 signed in 1900 to accept the presidency of 
 the Franklin National Bank of Philadelphia. 
 In 1901 he was appointed by the United 
 States Circuit Court, one of the receivers 
 of the Asphalt Company of America. On 
 June 1, 1904, he was elected sixth vice- 
 president and treasurer of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Company lines East of Pittsburgh 
 and Erie; Oct. 10, 1905, became fifth vice- 
 president and treasurer, and March, 1909, 
 its fourth vice-president in charge of its 
 financial department. Mr. Tatnall is also 
 a director of the Girard Trust Company, 
 Franklin National Bank, Commercial Trust 
 Company, Philadelphia; Guarantee Com- 
 pany of North America, and treasurer of 
 
 the Society for Organizing Charity. Ad- 
 dress: Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. 
 
 TAYLER, Robert Walker: 
 
 U. S. district judge; born in Y^'oungstown, 
 Ohio, Nov. 26, 1852; son of Hon. Robert 
 W. T. Tayler, comptroller of the United 
 States Treasury. He was graduated from 
 the Western Reserve College, A.B. in 1872. 
 After graduation he was a high school teach- 
 er and school superintendent; edited a news- 
 paper at Lisbon, Ohio; studied law and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1877. He was prose- 
 cuting attorney of Columbiana County, 
 1880-1886. He was elected as a Republi- 
 can to the Fifty-fourth Congress in 1894, 
 and reelected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth 
 and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and declined 
 the nomination to the Fifty-eighth Congress. 
 In January, 1905, he was appointed by Pres- 
 ident Roosevelt to his present office as judge 
 of the U. S. District Court for the Northern 
 District of Ohio. He married. May 18, 1876, 
 Helen Vance. Address: Youngstown, Ohio. 
 
 TAYLOR, C. Bryson: 
 
 Author; born in Washington, D. C, 1880; 
 daughter of John Yeatman and Sabella Barr 
 (Bryson) Taylor. She was educated in pri- 
 vate schools in Washington, D. C, and in 
 New Milford, Conn. She was with the 
 Frank A. Munsey Company in 1905, and in 
 1900 became a member of the staff of Every- 
 body's Magazine. During her period of res- 
 idence in Washington, she was identified 
 with naval society, and' what is known as 
 the " old residential set," being the grand- 
 daughter of the late Rear Admiral Andrew 
 Bryson, U. S. N. Her latest book: Nica- 
 nor. Teller of Tales, has been ranked with 
 Beii Hur and Quo Vadis, her other book 
 being: In the Dwellings of the Wilderness. 
 She is author of short stories, articles and 
 sketches in leading magazines, and a serial 
 Story: The Wooing of Ah-te, in Everybody's 
 Magazine, 1903. She is a member of the 
 Washington Society of the Archaeological 
 Institute of America, National Geographic 
 Society, National Society of Colonial Dames 
 in the District of Columbia, the Travelers' 
 Club of Athens, Washington Club of Wash- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 ington, D. C, and the Woman's Club of 
 New York. Home address: 1727 Q Street, 
 Washington, D. C. Present residence: 42 
 East 28th Street, New York City. 
 
 TAYLOR, Charles Jay: 
 
 Artist; born in New York City, Aug. 11, 
 1855; son of C. J. and Elizabeth (MacDon- 
 ald) Taylor. He was educated in the 
 College of the City of New York, and 
 graduated from the Columbia Law School, 
 LL.B., 1874. He studied art at the Art 
 Students' League and the National Acad- 
 emy of Design in New York, and in the 
 London and Paris art schools. Besides 
 being an exhibitor of notable paintings 
 at the Paris Salon, the Carnegie Insti- 
 tute, the National Academy of Design 
 and other exhibitions, he has illustrated 
 many books, including H. C. Bunner's 
 works ("Short Sixes," "More Short Sixes," 
 "Made in France," etc.), Stewart's "Part- 
 ners of Providence," etc.; and' is the author 
 of Tlie Tailor Made Girl. He is a member 
 of the Players' Club, New York City, Na- 
 tional Geographic Society, American Fed- 
 eration of Arts, and the Boothbay 
 Yacht Club, Maine. Mr. Taylor was mar- 
 }ied at New York City, Feb. 23, 1876, to 
 Mary Adelaide Levison, and they have two 
 daughters. Eesidence: Montrose Park, 
 South Orange, N. J. Address: 16 Gramer- 
 cy Park, New York City. 
 
 TAYLOR, Fielding Lewis: 
 
 Physician and surgeon; born in Martins- 
 ville, Va., May 24, 1868; son of Archibald 
 and Martha (Fauntleroy) Taylor. He at- 
 tended McGuire's School, Richmond, Va., 
 1879-1885; was graduated from University 
 of Virginia, M.A., 1889, and M.D., 1891. He 
 was a member of the house staff of the City 
 Hospital, New York City, 1891-1893; the 
 house staff of the House of Relief, Hudson 
 Street Hospital, New York, 1893-1895; chief 
 of the surgical clinic of the Out-Patient De- 
 partment of the Hudson Street Hospital. 
 1896-1905. He is author of several papers 
 on medical subjects, especially on the pre- 
 vention of lock-jaw by prophylactic injec- 
 tions of tetanus antitoxin, on the percent- 
 age modification of milk in infant feeding. 
 
 and on intubation of the larynx in diph- 
 theria. He is a member of the American 
 Medical Association, Medical Society of the 
 State of New York, New York County Medi- 
 cal Society, New York Academy of Medi- 
 cine, Society of the Alumni of New York 
 Hospital, Society of the Alumni of the City 
 Hospital (president, 1907) ; West End Med- 
 ical Society, New York Externe Club, New 
 York Southern Society, the Virginians in 
 New York, Virginia Historical Society, Eli 
 Banana (University of Virginia), and Phi 
 Delta Theta fraternity, and is also a mem- 
 ber of the West Side Tennis and University 
 Clubs of New York City. Address: 173 
 West 73d Street, New York City. 
 
 TAYLOR, Frederic William: 
 
 Irrigationist; born in Weepingwater, Neb., 
 April 13, 1860. He was trained in horti- 
 culture under his father, and was later em- 
 ployed in leading nurseries. He has been 
 professor of horticulture at the University 
 of Nebraska, and since 1893 has been chief- 
 ly engaged in preparing and directing hor- 
 ticultviral and agricultural exhibitions at 
 the various world's fairs and expositions 
 in the United States, having achieved a very 
 considerable success in this work and at- 
 tracting international attention. Upon the 
 completion of his work at the Louisiana 
 Purchase Exposition he became interested 
 in irrigation matters, and he is now vice- 
 president and general manager of the Tri- 
 State Land Company, a corporation owning 
 a canal seventy-five miles in length and 
 watering 80,000 acres of land in Scottsbluff 
 and' INIorrill Counties, Nebraska. Mr. Taylor 
 is a member of the American Geographical 
 Society, and all prominent agricultural, hor- 
 ticultural, pomological and forestry socie- 
 ties; was decorated officer of the Legion of 
 Honor by the French Government in 1904; 
 Chevalier Order of the Red Eagle of the 
 Emperor of Germany; Knight of the Order 
 of Jesus Christ by the King of Portugal; 
 Order of the Rising Sun by the Mikado of 
 Japan; and Order of the Crown by the King 
 of Italy. He has traveled extensively in 
 Europe for the purpose of studying agri- 
 cultural and horticultural conditions, and 
 has written a number of monographs on the 
 
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 culture of fruits. He was married, first, 
 at Crestoii, Iowa, in 1885 to Stella Arnold, 
 who died July 9, 1891, and second, at Chica- 
 go, 111., in 1898, to Marion Treat, and has 
 three sons and two daughters. He main- 
 tains an office for carrying on irrigation 
 engineering and construction in Denver, 
 Colo. Residence: 1500 C Street, Lincoln, 
 Xeb. 
 
 TAYLOR, Henry Ling: 
 
 Surgeon ; born in New York City, March 
 17, 1857; son of Charles Fayette and Mary 
 Selina (Skinner) Taylor. He was gradu- 
 ated from the Sheffield Scientific School of 
 Yale, Ph.B., 1877, and from the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons (New York), M. 
 D., 1881. He is professor of orthopedic 
 surgery at New York Post-Graduate Med- 
 ical School and Hospital; assistant surgeon 
 to Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled. 
 He gives exclusive attention to orthopedic 
 surgery, actively interested' in educational 
 and fresh air work for cripples, and in 
 physical education. He is author of about 
 fifty papers on orthopedic surgery. Dr. 
 Taylor is manager of the Guild for Crip- 
 pled Children of the Poor of New York 
 City. He is a member of the American Med- 
 ical Association, New York County and 
 State Medical Societies, American Ortho- 
 pedic Association (president), American 
 Physical Education Society, and the Alumni 
 of Roosevelt Hospital. He is a member of 
 the Yale Club of New York City. Dr. 
 Taylor married in Geneseo, N. Y., Dec. 30, 
 1890, Daisy Louise Brodt, and they have 
 four children. Address: 125 West 58th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 TAYLOR, John Madison: 
 
 Physician; born in Lancaster County, 
 Pa., July 4, 1855; son of William Johnson 
 and Mary (Bearden) Taylor; and descend- 
 ant of William Taylor, who emigrated from 
 England to Virginia in 1634. He was edu- 
 cated in Rugby Academy, Philadelphia; 
 was graduated from Princeton University, 
 A.B., 187G, A.M., 1879, and from the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, M.D.. 1878. He 
 was resident physician, 1878-1879, and as- 
 
 sistant physician in 1880 of the Children's 
 Hospital; chief of the Children's Clinic in 
 the University of Pennsylvania. 1879-1883; 
 assistant physician of the Orthopedic Hos- 
 pital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, 
 1882-1892; neurologist to Howard Hospital, J 
 1884-1901; professor of Diseases of Chil- I 
 dren in the Philadelphia Polyclinic Col- 
 lege for Medical Graduates, 1895-1901, and 
 in 1900 he was appointed pediatrist to the 
 Philadelphia Hospital; personal assistant 
 to Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, 1882-1896; and in 
 1891 he was private physician to Joseph 
 Pulitzer of New York, and also to James J 
 
 G. Blaine, in the summers of 1891 and | 
 
 1892. In his professional capacity he ac- 
 companied many prominent men on hunting 
 expeditions (e. g., Theodore Roosevelt, J 
 
 1886), and is an ardent sportsman. Since * 
 
 1879 he has practised his profession in 
 Philadelphia, and in the summer months 
 at Bar Harbor, Me. Dr. Taylor was pres- j 
 
 ident of the University of Pennsylvania l 
 
 ]\Iedical Alumni Association, 1900-1901, and 
 member of the Council of the Philadelphia 
 College of Physicians, 1894-1900. He has J 
 illustrated fifteen or twenty medical books, 1 
 is author of many essays on medical topics; 
 is joint author, with Dr. William H. Wells, 
 of: Manual of Diseases of Children, 1898, 
 and 1901, now translated into Italian; is 
 editor (with Dr. Charles E. de M. Sajous) 
 of the Monthly Cyclopaedia of Practical 
 Medicine, and also associated with Dr. 
 Sajous in literary and scientific work. Dr. 
 Taylor is a fellow of the College of Physi- 
 cians, of the Academy of Medicine; hon- 
 orary fellow of the Atlantic City County 
 Medical Society; member of the American 
 Medical Association, Climatological Society, 
 American Therapeutic Society, and the As- 
 sociation of American Medical Editors, cor- 
 responding member of the Societe Hygien- 
 ique de France. He is a companion of the 
 Military Order of the Loyal Legion and 
 member of the Society of the Sons of the 
 American Revolution. He is, or was, a . 
 member of the Philadelphia Country, Uni- 
 versity, Southern, Princeton, Bar Harbor 
 Swimming, Medical, Philadelphia Fencing 
 and Sparring, and Philadelphia Sketch 
 Clubs. His professional tastes or special- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 ization may be described as a scientific 
 application of all rational, hygienic and 
 educational agencies which make for ampli- 
 fying the inherent reparative poAvers of 
 body and mind capable of raising the 
 status of the individual to a higher plane 
 of permanent efficiency. Dr. Taylor mar- 
 ried in Philadelphia, bet. 15, 1879, Emily 
 Heyward, daughter of Henry E. and Mary 
 (Brady) Drayton, and they have three chil- 
 dren: Edith (Mrs. A. M. Patterson), Per- 
 cival Drayton and Mabel (Mrs. Gilford A. 
 Cochran). Summer home: Bar Harbor, 
 Me. Address: 1504 Pine Street, Phila- 
 delphia. 
 
 TAYLOR, Nelson: 
 
 Lawyer, publisher; born in Stockton, 
 Calif., June 9, 1854; son of Nelson Taylor 
 and Mary Ann (Bruen) Taylor. He was 
 graduated from Harvard College, A.B., 
 1875. Mr. Taylor spent a year in foreign 
 travel after graduation; studied law and 
 was admitted to practice at the Fairfield 
 County (Conn.) bar in 1878, and continued 
 piactice until 1885, when he formed the 
 publishing and wholesale book house of 
 Baker and Taylor, which, in 1886, became 
 The Baker and Taylor Company, New York. 
 He held various municipal offices at South 
 Norwalk, Conn., where he was mayor in 
 1885. He is president of The Baker and 
 Taylor Company; secretary and director of 
 the American Publishers' Association ; di- 
 rector of the Lockwood Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, and the Sovith Norwalk Trust Com- 
 pany. He is a member of the Fairfield 
 County Bar Association. Mr. Taylor mar- 
 ried in London, England, July 26, 1906, 
 Aliette de Carriere. Address: 33 East 
 17th Street, New York City. 
 
 TAYLOR, Robert Love: 
 
 U. S. Senator; born at Happy Valley, 
 Carter County, in East Tennessee, at the 
 place on the Watauga River where the first 
 fort was established by John Sevier; son 
 of Nathaniel G. Taylor, member of Con- 
 gress and commissioner of Indian affairs 
 under President Johnson, and of Emily 
 (Haynes) Taylor, sister of Landon C. 
 Haynes, Confederate senator from Tennes- 
 
 see. He was educated in the Pennington 
 (N. J.) Seminary. He was admitted to 
 the bar of Tennessee in 1878 and has prac- 
 tised law since. He was elected to the 
 Forty-sixth Congress from the First Ten- 
 nessee District in 1878 ; was an elector-at- 
 large on the Cleveland ticket in 1884; pen- 
 sion agent at Knoxville, Tenn., 1885; 
 elected governor of Tennessee, 1886 and 
 reelected 1888; Cleveland elector-at-large 
 again in 1892 ; elected governor for third 
 term, 1896. He represented in the district 
 in Congress rej^resented before him by his 
 father, Nathaniel G. Taylor, and by his 
 brother, Alfred A. Taylor, the latter of 
 whom he defeated for governor in 1886. 
 He was nominated for the U. S. Senate in 
 the Democratic primary election in May, 
 1906, and elected in January, 1907, by the 
 Legislature for the term expiring March 
 3, 1913. He married at Asheville, N. C, in 
 1878, Sarah L. Baird. Address: Nash- 
 ville, Tenn. 
 
 TAYLOR, Roland Leslie: 
 
 Banker; born in Philadelphia, July 3, 
 1868; son of I. J. Taylor and Elizabeth 
 Ann (Alkins) Taylor. He finished his pub- 
 lic school education with the class of 1888 
 of the Philadelphia High School. He spent 
 five years with a large banking and broker- 
 age house, gaining a thorough foundation 
 in secvirities and financial customs. He 
 went into the Trust Department of the Real 
 Estate Trust Company in 1891, was elected 
 assistant secretary, Feb., 1901; elected vice- 
 president of The Philadelphia Trust, Safe 
 Deposit and Insurance Company, June 13, 
 1906, which office he now occupies. He in 
 director and chairman of the Finance Com- 
 mittee of the Young, Smyth, Field Company. 
 Mr. Taylor served' eleven years with the 
 Pennsylvania State Naval Militia, first as 
 a seaman, then through the successive 
 grades of petty officers and warrant officers 
 and for the last six or seven years as a 
 commissioned officer. He is a member of 
 the Germantown Cricket Club, and the City 
 Club of Philadelphia. He married in Phil- 
 adelphia, Jan. 27, 1897, Anita May Stein- 
 metz, and they have three children. Res- 
 idence: 5906 Wayne Avenue, Germantown. 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Office: 413-417 Cliestnut Street, Philadel- 
 phia. 
 
 TAYLOR, Samuel M.: 
 
 American consul-general; born in Cham- 
 paign County, Ohio, July 24, 1856; son of 
 John Taylor and Miriam (Daniel) Taylor. 
 He was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan 
 University, A.B., 1882, and from the Cin- 
 cinnati Law School, LL.B., 1884. He was 
 admitted to the bar the same year and 
 engaged in practice at Urbana, Ohio, in 
 1884. He is a Republican in politics, was 
 a member of the General Assembly of the 
 State of Ohio, 1887-1893, and secretary of 
 State of Ohio, 1893-1897, during the ad- 
 ministration of Governor William McKin- 
 ley. In July, 1897, he was appointed by 
 President McKinley as American consul at 
 Glasgow, Scotland, remaining there until 
 1906, when he was promoted by President 
 Roosevelt to the ranlc of consul-general and 
 transferred to Callao, Peru, at which post 
 he is now serving. Mr. Taylor married in 
 Franklin County, Ohio, Oct. 16, 1884, Myrta 
 B. Bradrick. Address : American Consu- 
 late-General, Callao, Peru. 
 
 TAYLOR, William Watts: 
 
 Manufacturer; born at Opelousas, La., 
 March 19, 1847; son of Reuben Miles Whit- 
 ney and Frances Ann (Menefee) Taylor. 
 His paternal grandfather, Ralph Taylor, 
 was a Montreal merchant and a member of 
 the Provincial Parliament of the Province 
 of Quebec; and on his mother's side he is 
 descended, in the fourth generation, from 
 Hon. Seth Lewis, who was chief justice of 
 the Territorial Supreme Court of Missis- 
 sippi from 1800 to 1804. Mr. Taylor was 
 educated in Kenyon College and at Harvard 
 University, and received from Harvard the 
 lionorary degree of A.M. in 1904. In 1870 
 he became a member of the mercantile firm 
 of Taylor and Brother in Cincinnati, and in 
 1883 manager of the Rookwood Pottery at 
 Cincinnati, which had been started three 
 years before. This business he incorporated 
 in 1890 as the Rookwood Pottery Company, 
 of which he has since been president, and 
 under Mr. Taylor's management the com- 
 pany has maintained its position as the 
 
 foremost American exponent of art in ce- 
 ramics, winning for its exhibit at the Paris 
 Exposition in 1900 the Grand Prix, and 
 similar awards at Turin and St. Peters- 
 burg in 1902 and St. Louis in 1904. In 
 connection with the Paris exhibit Mr. Taylor 
 received from the French Government, in 
 1901, the decoration of chevalier of the 
 Legion d'Honneur. Mr. Taylor has been 
 president of the Municipal Art Society of 
 Cincinnati from its organization in 1895, 
 is treasurer of the Cincinnati Art Museum, 
 one of the vice-presidents of the National 
 Arts Club of New York, and was formerly 
 president of the Commercial Club of Cin- 
 cinnati, and served as secretary of the Cin- 
 cinnati Musical Festival. Besides achieving 
 commercial success, Mr. Taylor has borne a 
 leading part in the promotion of artistic 
 development in the ceramic arts of the 
 United States. Address: Rookwood Pot- 
 tery Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 TEGGART, Frederick John: 
 
 Librarian; born in Belfast, Ireland, 1870. 
 He was educated in Trinity College, Dub- 
 lin, and in Leland Stanford, Jr., Univer- 
 sity, where he was graduated as B.A. He 
 served as assistant and acting librarian of 
 Leland Stanford University, 1893-1898; 
 librarian of Mechanics' Institute, San Fran- 
 cisco, 1898-1906; and has been librarian of 
 the Mechanics-Mercantile Library of San 
 Francisco since 1906. He is honorary cus- 
 todian of the Bancroft Library of the Uni- 
 versity of California, Berkeley, and hon- 
 orary librarian of the Bohemian Club of 
 San Francisco. Mr. Teggart is a Democrat 
 in politics and an Episcopalian in religion. 
 He is a member of the American Library 
 Association, and the American Historical 
 Association, of the Bohemian Club, the 
 Amaurot Club of San Francisco, and the 
 Faculty Club of the University of Cali- 
 fornia. He married in San Mateo, Calif., 
 in 1894, Adelaide Barnes, and they have 
 two sons. Address: 99 Grove Street, San 
 Francisco. 
 
 TELLER, Henry Moore: 
 
 Former U. S. senator; born in the town 
 of Granger, Allegany County, N. Y., May 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1537 
 
 23, 1830. He was educated at Rusliford 
 Academy, and Alfred University; taught 
 school several years; studied' lavs^ at An- 
 gelico, Allegany County; and was admitted 
 to practice at Binghamton, N. Y. In Jan., 
 1858, he removed to Illinois, and practised 
 law there until April, 1861, when he re- 
 moved to Colorado and resumed the prac- 
 tice of law. He received the degree of LL. 
 D. from Alfred University in 1886, and from 
 Colorado State University in 1903. He was 
 elected to the U. S. Senate from Colorado 
 on the admittance of that State; took his 
 seat in the U. S. Senate, Dec. 4, 1876, and 
 drew the term ending March 3, 1877; was 
 reelected Dee. 11, for the full term, and 
 served until April 17, 1882, when he re- 
 signed to enter the cabinet of President 
 Arthur, as secretary of the interior, and 
 served until March 3, 1885; was reelected 
 to the Senate in Jan., 1885, for the term 
 beginning March 4, 1885; was reelected 
 in 1891, a Republican in politics, but with- 
 drew from the National Republican Con- 
 vention at St. Louis in June, 1896, because 
 of dissatisfaction with the financial plank 
 of the platform; was reelected in Jan., 
 1897, as an Independent Silver Republican, 
 receiving 94 votes out of a total of 100, 
 for the term beginning March 4, 1897; and 
 reelected as a Democrat in 1903, for the 
 term which expired March 3, 1909. Ad- 
 dress: Central City, Colo. 
 
 TERHUNE, Albert Payson: 
 
 Editor; born in Newark, N. J., Dec. 21, 
 1872; son of Rev. Edward Payson Terhune 
 and Mary Virginia (Hawes) Terhune 
 (•'Marion Harland"). He was educated 
 in Europe, and graduated with the degree 
 of B.A. from Columbia University in 1893. 
 He has traveled extensively in little known 
 parts of Asia and Africa, living among the 
 Bedouins of the Desert, investigating leper 
 settlements, penetrating Mohammed Shrines 
 and other interesting aspects of foreign life 
 generally barred to usual travelers. Since 
 1895 he has been on the editorial staff of 
 the New York World, and is an authority 
 on physical culture and a writer of books, 
 articles, etc., on the subject. Among other 
 literary material he is the author of the 
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 following books : Syria from the Saddle ; 
 Caleb Conover, Railroader; The Fighter; 
 Columbia Stories; The World's Great 
 Events; and Dr. Dale (this last in collab- 
 oration with Marion Harland). He is a 
 member of the Authors and Barnard Clubs 
 of New York. He was married on Sept. 
 2, 1901, to Alice Morris Stockton, and has 
 one son. Residence: 200 West 78th Street. 
 Oflice: 61 Park Row, New York City. 
 
 TERRY, Charles Thaddeus: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Albany, N. Y., Sept. 
 16, 1867; son of Griffith Pritchard and 
 Eleanor (Lasher) Terry; of old English 
 colonial ancestry. He was educated in 
 private and public schools of Albany, Wil- 
 liams College, A.B., 1889; Columbia Uni- 
 versity Law School, LL.B., 1893; the Uni- 
 versity of Berlin, 1890. He began the prac- 
 tice of law as a junior partner of the old 
 established firm of New York City, after 
 two years became junior member of a law 
 partnership of three, remaining in this firm 
 for six years, after which time he has 
 practiced alone. He was prize lecturer on 
 Practice and Pleading under the New York 
 Code of Civil Procedure, Columbia Univer- 
 sity Law School, 1893-1895; regular lec- 
 turer, 1896-1901 ; professor of law since 
 1901. As counsel for the National Associa- 
 tion of Automobile Manufacturers in 1903, 
 he conducted various test cases on the New 
 York State restriction law and succeeded 
 in having it declared unconstitutional. He 
 was appointed by Governor Higgins a com- 
 missioner of New York State on Uniformity 
 of Laws in the United States; secretary of 
 the National Conference of Uniform Law 
 Commissioners in 1905-1909; chairman of 
 the Legislative Board of the American Auto- 
 mobile Association. Mr. Terry is chairman 
 of the Tenement Shade Tree Committee of 
 the Tree Planting Association of New York 
 City ; member of the New York State Bar 
 Association, American Bar Association, As- 
 sociation of the Bar of the City of New 
 York; vice-president of the Albany Society 
 of New York; member of Phi Beta Kappa: 
 Phi Delta Phi (ex-president of National 
 Council) ; and a member of the University 
 and Lawyers' Clubs; Graduates' Club (vice- 
 
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 president) ; Plii Delta Tlieta Club (ex- 
 president) ; Phi Delta Plii Club (ex-pres- 
 ident). Mr. Terry married in New Scot- 
 land, N. Y., June 22, 1898, Katharine Les- 
 sing Hendrick, and has four children. Ad- 
 dress : 100 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 TERRY, Marshall Orlando: 
 
 Physician and surgeon; born in Water- 
 vliet Centre, Albany County, N. Y., June 
 21, 1848; son of William Henry and' Sarah 
 (Burke) Terry. He was educated in the 
 Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, and the 
 Manhattan Eye and Ear Infirmary; has 
 special instruction under Heitzmann on 
 pathologj', histology and microscopy; phys- 
 ical diagnosis under Janeway at Bellevue 
 Hospital, and surgery under Bryant; also 
 studied abroad; and he was graduated from 
 the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital Col- 
 lege in 1872. He was appointed surgeon 
 with the rank of major of National Guard 
 of the State of New York, March 18. 1880, 
 by Governor Cornell ; surgeon-general with 
 the rank of brigadier-general, Jan. 1, 1895, 
 by Governor Levi P. Morton; reappointed 
 by Governor Black, Jan. 1, 1897; appointed 
 by President Cleveland as U. S. pension 
 examiner, of which board he was president 
 four years; declined a position as chief 
 surgeon of division during the Spanish- 
 American War, offered by President Mc- 
 Kinley, because of his duties as surgeon- 
 general of New York. He was largely the 
 inventor of the entire medical and surgical 
 equipment of the National Guard of New 
 York, the Terry stretcher and field case 
 (taking his name by administrative sugges- 
 tion) ; the New York ambulance, now man- 
 ufactured' in Philadelphia; also the raw 
 hide perforated corset for spinal curvature, 
 invented about 1880, but patented by the 
 Morrisville Raw Hide Surgical Splint Com- 
 pany. While resident in Utica he was sur- 
 geon-in-chief of Utica Homeopathic Hospital 
 for ten years and of the Commercial Trav- 
 elers' Mutual Accident Association of 
 America for several years, and for two 
 years on the surgical staff of the General 
 Hospital, at Utica, N. Y. He is a member 
 of the Association of Military Surgeons of 
 the United States; president of the Asso- 
 
 ciation of Medical Officers of the National 
 Guard' and Naval Militia of New York; 
 member of the American Institute of Hom- 
 eopathy; ex-president of the Homeopathic 
 Medical Society of the State of New York. 
 He was decorated with a bronze medal, 
 given by Oneida County War Committee, 
 in recognition of his patriotic services dur- 
 ing the war between the United States and 
 Spain. He is honorary member of the Mas- 
 sachusetts Surgical and Gynecological So- 
 ciety. He is a member of the Ohio Society 
 of New York; and also a member of the 
 Automobile Club of America. Dr. Terry 
 was the originator of the Sea Wall project 
 now under construction at Fort Myers, ' 
 Fla., which, as manager, he is building, and 
 at the same time superintending dredging j 
 and filling in. The work began April 15, 1 
 1908, and will probably be completed in 
 one year. Dr. Terry is author of: Bro- 
 mine as an Antiseptic in Surgery; The Oil 
 Treatment in Appendicitis ; The Single Com- 
 munion Cup; The Medicated Galvanic 
 Treatment for Cervical (Tubercular) Gland 
 Enlargements; Terry's Manual of Rotary 
 Dilatation ; Can Women Escape Pain at 
 Child-birth? He is a member of the Larch- 
 mont, American and New York Yacht 
 Clubs. Dr. Terry married in Mamaroneck, 
 N. Y., Dec. 12, 1905, Mrs. Ambrose M. Mc- 
 Gregor, widow of the former president of 
 the Standard Oil Company of Ohio. Sum- 
 mer address: Mamaroneck, N. Y. Winter j 
 address: Fort INIyers, Fla. } 
 
 THACHER, Sherman Day: 
 
 Headmaster of Thacher School; born in 
 New Haven, Conn., Nov. 6, 1861; son of 
 Thomas Anthony and Elizabeth Baldwin 
 (Sherman) Thacher. He was educated in 
 Hopkins Grammar School, Yale College, 
 A.B., 1883, Yale Law School, LL.B., 1886. 
 He was with W. and J. Sloane of New York, 
 1883-1884; with the law firm of Lathrop 
 and Smith in Kansas City, Mo., 1886-1887, 
 went to California in Oct., 1887, and estab- 
 lished the Thacher School in 1889. Mr. 
 Thacher is an Independent in politics. He 
 is director and president of the Boyd Club, 
 chairman of the Committee of Fifteen. He 
 is member of the National Committee for 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1539 
 
 Mental Hygiene and of the Advisory Board 
 of the California branch of the George 
 Junior Republic. He is also a member of 
 tlie University Club of San Francisco, and 
 of the Faculty Club of the University of 
 California, Berkeley. He married in Berk- 
 eley, Calif., June 24, 1896, Eliza Seely 
 Blake, and' they have four children: Eliza- 
 beth, George Blake, Anson Stiles, and Helen 
 Sherman. Address: Nordhoff, Ventura 
 County, Calif. 
 
 THACKARA, Alexander Montgomery: 
 
 Consul-general; born in Philadelphia, 
 Sept. 24, 1848; son of Benjamin and M. A. 
 (Enyard) Thackara. After a common and 
 high school education he entered the U. S. 
 Naval Academy at Annapolis, in 1865; and 
 was graduated in 1869. After seventeen 
 and one-half years' service ashore and in 
 the European, Asiatic, Pacific and home 
 lleets, he resigned in 1882 to engage in a 
 manufacturing business in Philadelphia. 
 He remained in civil life until 1897, v^hen 
 he was appointed by President McKinley as 
 consul of the United States at Havre. In 
 1899 he received the thanks of the Navy 
 and State Departments for special services 
 rendered during the war between the United 
 States and Spain. On March 13, 1905, he 
 was promoted to his present office as Amer- 
 ican consul-general at Berlin. Mr. Thackara 
 married in Washington, D. C, May 5, 1880, 
 Eleanor Sherman, daughter of General Wil- 
 liam T. Sherman, and has two sons and two 
 daughters. Address : American Consulate- 
 General, Berlin, Germany. 
 
 THAYER, Abbott Handerson: 
 
 Artist; born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 12, 
 1849; son of William Henry Thayer, M.D., 
 and Ellen (Handerson) Thayer. He was 
 educated in the common schools of Keene, 
 N. H., at the Chauncy Hall School, Boston, 
 and studied art for four years at the ficole 
 des Beaux Arts in Paris. His early life 
 was devoted mainly to the study and paint- 
 ing of animals, and after his twenty-fifth 
 year, he commenced painting portraits and 
 ideal figures. He discovered the principles 
 of the protective coloration of animals, and, 
 
 in 1896, published an article concerning it 
 in The Auk. Mr. Thayer devotes his leisure 
 hours to the study of natural history. He 
 is an academician of the National Academy 
 of Design; member of the National Associ- 
 ation of Arts and Letters, and LTnsigne 
 Reale Accademia Romana delle Belle Arti 
 Denominata di San Luca, and was president 
 for two years of the Society of American 
 Artists. Mr. Thayer married, first, at 
 Brooklyn, June 5, 1875, Kate Bloede; sec- 
 ond, at Nantucket, Mass., Sept. 3, 1891, 
 Emeline B. Beach, and he has three children. 
 Address : Monadnock, N. H. 
 
 THAYER, John B.: 
 
 Third vice-president of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Company; born in Philadelphia, 
 April 21, 1862; son of John Borland and 
 Mary Randolph (Chapman) Thayer. He 
 was educated in the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania; entered railway service in 1881, as 
 clerk in auditor's office of Empire Fast 
 Freight Line; in 1883 became clerk in the 
 freight department of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
 road Company, since which he has been chief 
 clerk in freight department, division freight 
 agent at Baltimore, Md. ; assistant general 
 freight agent and general freight agent, and 
 from June, 1903, to October, 1905, fifth vice- 
 president; October, 1905, to March, 1909, 
 fourth vice-president and since third 
 vice-president and director of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad Company; the Philadelphia, 
 Baltimore and Washington Railroad; North- 
 ern Central Railway; West Jersey and Sea- 
 shore Railroad. He is also a director 
 of the Susquehanna Coal Company; 
 Mineral Railroad and Mining Com- 
 pany; Summit Branch Mining Company; 
 Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway Company; 
 Rosslyn Connecting Railroad; Pittsburgh 
 Joint Stock Yards Company; Cumberland 
 Valley Railroad; Brookville Railroad; Long 
 Island Railroad; Long Island Consolidated 
 Electrical Companies ; Erie and Western 
 Transportation Company; Keystone Hotel 
 Company; New York Connecting Railroad; 
 Girard Point Storage Company; Lytle Coal 
 Company, and Allegheny Valley Railroad, 
 and Franklin National Bank. Address: 
 Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. 
 
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 THELBERG, Elizabeth Burr: 
 
 Professor, physician; born in Bangor, 
 Me., Oct. 29, 1860; daughter of Joseph J. 
 and Sarah Buck (Morrill) Burr. She was 
 graduated from the Woman's Medical Col- 
 lege of the New York Infirmary, New York, 
 1884. She married in New York, Dec. 25, 
 1883, P. J. N. H. Thelburg, and has had two 
 children, one still living. She was resident 
 phj^sician to the New York Infant Asylum, 
 physician to the Nursery and Child's Hospi- 
 tal, West New Brighton, Staten Island; 
 appointed resident physician and professor of 
 physiology and hygiene at Vassar College, 
 Poughkeepsie in 1887, which position she 
 still holds. She is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of 
 Science, American ]\Iedical Association, 
 New York State Medical Society, Dutchess 
 County Medical Society, Woman's Medical 
 Association of New York State, Woman's 
 Medical Association of New York City, Na- 
 tional Federation for the Control of Child 
 Labor, National Geographic Society, Soci- 
 ety of Social and Moral Prophylaxis, and 
 member of the Tuesday Club of Poughkeep- 
 sie and the Dutchess County Medical Club. 
 Address: Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, 
 N. Y. 
 THIRKIELD, Wilbur Patterson: 
 
 President of Howard University; born in 
 Franklin, Ohio, Sept. 25, 1854; son of E. 
 B., and Amanda- (Ballentine) Tliirkield. 
 He was graduated from Ohio W^esleyan 
 University, A.B., 1876, A.M., 1879, and 
 from Boston University, S.T.B., 1881. The 
 honorary degree of D.D. was given to him 
 by Emory College and by Ohio Wesleyan 
 University, and that of LL.D. by the latter 
 university in 1906. Upon his ordination to 
 the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church in 1881, he became pastor in Cin- 
 cinnati, resigiiing in 1883 to go to Atlanta, 
 Ga., where he opened the Gammon Theolog- 
 ical Seminary, later securing six hundred 
 tliousand dollars for equipment and endow- 
 ment. He became the first president of this 
 institution and remained in that office until 
 1899, when he was appointed general sec- 
 retary of the Epworth League of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church. A year later he 
 
 was elected by the General Conference, sec- 
 retary of the Freedman's Aid and Southern 
 Education Societj^, holding that position 
 until 1906, when he was elected to the pres- 
 idency of Howard University at Washington, 
 D. C. He married at Maiden, Mass., Oct. 
 27, 1881, Mary Haven, and has five chil- 
 dren. Address : Howard University, Wash- 
 ingion, D. C. 
 
 THOMAS, Augustus: 
 
 Dramatist; born in St. Louis, Jan. 8, 
 1859; son of Dr. E. B. and Imogen (Gar- 
 rettson) Thomas. He was educated in the 
 St. Louis public schools; served as page 
 in the Forty-first Congress, 1869-1871 ; was 
 six years employed in the freight depart- 
 ment of railroads ; studied law for two 
 years ; engaged in newspaper work, and was 
 for a time editor and proprietor of the Kan- 
 sas City Mirror. He is one of the foremost 
 of American playrights, author of: Ala- 
 bama; In Mizzoura; Arizona; Tlie Educa- 
 tion of Mr. Pipp; Oliver Goldsmith; Mrs. 
 Leffingwell's Boots ; The Witching Hour, and 
 many other well known successes. Mr, 
 Thomas is a Democrat in politics and has 
 been a candidate for the Legislature; is a 
 personal and political friend of William J. 
 Bryan, and presided over the great Madison 
 Square Garden meeting which welcomed Mr. 
 Bryan on his return from his world tour 
 in the fall of 1906; and also took an active 
 part as campaign speaker in the campaign 
 of 1908. He is a member of the Century 
 Association and the Players', Lambs', and 
 American Dramatists' Clubs of New York 
 City. He married in New York City, in 
 1890, Lisle Colby. Address: New Rochelle, 
 N. Y. 
 
 THOMAS, Edward Beers: 
 
 Jurist; born in Cortland'ville, N. Y., Aug. 
 4, 1848; son of John H. and Mary (Stiles) 
 Thomas. He was graduated from Yale Col- 
 lege, A.B., 1870, and admitted to the bar 
 the same year. He was a member of the 
 New York Senate from the Twenty-fourth 
 Senate District of 1882-1885; and candi- 
 date for attorney-general in 1885. He re- 
 moved to New York City in 1885, and in 
 1886 to Brooklyn, where he has since re- 
 
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 sided. He was judge of the U. S. District 
 Court for the Eastern District of New York, 
 1898-1906; elected justice of the Supreme 
 Court of the State of New York, Second 
 District, 1906, and took office Jan. 1, 1907. 
 Judge Thomas is trustee of the Brooklyn 
 Historical Society. He is author of a treatise 
 on Negligence and Estates Created by Will. 
 He married in Brooklyn, May 21, 1873, 
 JNIary E. Babcock, and they have a son and 
 daughter. Residence: 83 Remsen Street. 
 Office: Court House, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 THOMAS, E. H.: 
 
 Automobile manufacturer; born in Web- 
 ster, Westmoreland County, Pa., in 1850; 
 son of Joseph Batty and Elizabeth Van 
 Hook Thomas. He was educated in the 
 high schools of Evansville, Ind., and Duff's 
 College, Pa. For forty years Mr. Thomas 
 was in the transportation and coal mining 
 business in Indiana and Tennessee. Dur- 
 ing this time he was intimately associated 
 with the late G. J. Grammer, vice-president 
 of the New York Central Lines, West and 
 Darius Miller, first vice-president of the 
 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. 
 Mr. Thomas was the managing partner of 
 H. A. Lozier & Company, of Toronto, manu- 
 facturers of Cleveland bicycles, 1898-1899; 
 and in 1899 he became vice-president of the 
 Canada Cycle and Motor Company, Toronto. 
 At the present time he is president and 
 owner of the E. R. Thomas Motor Company, 
 manufacturers of the Thomas Flyer auto- 
 mobiles, at Bviffalo, New York; he is also 
 a director in the Chalmers Detroit Motor 
 Co., of Detroit, Mich.; president of the E. 
 R. Thomas Realty Company and director 
 of the Central National Bank of Buffalo, 
 and director of the Iron Elevator and Trans- 
 fer Company of Buffalo. Mr. Thomas is 
 a member of the Buffalo, the Country, the 
 Park, the Ellicott, the Royal Canadian 
 Yacht (Toronto), Buffalo Motor Boat and 
 Niagara Golf Clubs. He married in Au- 
 rora, Ind., Flora Lozier, and they have three 
 children. Town residence: 125 North 
 Street, Buffalo, N. Y. Summer home: Ni- 
 agara-on-the-Lake. Office: 1190 Niagara 
 Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 THOMAS, Flavel Shurtleff: 
 
 Physician, author and educator; born in 
 Hanson, Mass., Sept. 7, 1852; son of Isaac 
 and Abby (Shurtleff) Thomas. He was edu- 
 cated in Syracuse University, B.Sc, M.Sc; 
 McGill University, Montreal, D.Sc, Harvard 
 University, M.D., and received the degrees 
 of M.A. and LL.D. from Shurtleff College. 
 He is a physician to the Gordon Rest Sanita- 
 rium and to Maquan Sanitorium; and he is 
 also school physician and town physician to 
 the town of Hanson. His life has been large- 
 ly devoted to studying in many universities, 
 studying university education and degrees, 
 and writing upon medical education and 
 general university education; and he was 
 formerly professor and dean in the National 
 University. He is one of the editors of 
 The Standard Dictionary of the English 
 Language, and is author of A Dictionary of 
 (200) University Degrees; and of many 
 pamphlets and magazine articles on medical 
 and educational subjects. He was president 
 of the Hanson Old Home Week, 1902 ; presi- 
 dent of the Dedication of the Hanson Sol- 
 diers" Monument, 1906; president at the 
 dedication of Rev. Frederick 0. MacCartney 
 Monument at Rockland, Mass., 1908; is 
 secretary-treasurer of the Fern Hill Ceme- 
 tery Corporation, and secretary of the Han- 
 son Improvement Society. He find's his rec- 
 reation in farming and owns three farms. 
 Dr. Thomas is a Christian Socialist and a 
 member of the Socialist Party, by which he 
 has been three times nominated for senator ; 
 was president of the Socialist Convention at 
 Mayflower Grove, Mass., Oct. 15, 1905, and 
 has presided at many large Socialist meet- 
 ings in Plymovith County. He is a member 
 of the Authors' League of the American As- 
 sociation for the Advancement of Science; 
 and of the Harvard Union, Syracuse Univer- 
 sity, Cornell and Hatherly Medical Clubs. 
 He married in Hanson, Mass., July 9, 1879, 
 Caroline Moore Smith, and they have two 
 children. Address: Maquan Sanitorium, 
 South Hanson, Mass. 
 
 THOMAS, M. Carey: 
 
 President of Bryn Mawr College; born in 
 Baltimore, Md., Jan. 2, 1857; daughter of 
 James Carey and Mary (Whitall) Thomas. 
 
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 Her father was a prominent j^hysician and 
 philanthropist of Baltimore, and a descend- 
 ant of Philip Thomas, who emigrated in 
 1631 from Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales, 
 to Maryland; her mother was descended 
 from James Whitall, who emigrated from 
 Litchfield, England, in 1G88. and jiurchased 
 Ked Bank, N. J., which remained in the 
 possession of the family for 160 years. Miss 
 Thomas was educated in private schools and 
 Cornell University, graduating in 1877; 
 Johns Hopkins University, 1877-1878, and 
 the University of Leipzig, 1879-1882; the 
 degree she had earned was refused on ac- 
 count of her sex, and also at the University 
 of Gottingen; at the University of Zurich, 
 after an exceedingly severe examination, she 
 obtained the degree of Ph.D., summa cum 
 laude, the highest degree ever awarded to 
 a woman up to that time; studied, 1882- 
 1883, at the Sorbonne, Paris. Since 1884 
 she has been professor of English at Bryn 
 Mawr College, and she was dean of the col- 
 lege, 1885-1894, and since 1894 has been 
 president of Bryn Mawr College. The de- 
 gree of LL.D. was conferred upon her by 
 the Western University of Pennsylvania in 
 1896. In association with the first pres- 
 ident, Dr. James E. Rhoads, she prepared 
 the educational plans, organizing the college 
 on the group system, with an undergraduate 
 and complete course leading to the degree 
 of Ph.D.; in 1903 was elected one of the 
 thirteen life trustees of tlie college. At the 
 request of the United' States Department of 
 Education, Dr. Thomas prepared the mono- 
 graph on the Education of Women, which 
 received a medal at the Paris Exposition 
 of 1900; in the establishment of the Johns 
 Hopkins Medical School, in 1893, she was a 
 powerful factor in obtaining its endowment 
 of $500,000, upon the agreement that women 
 should be admitted on equal terms with men. 
 She was the first woman to be elected an 
 alumni trustee of Cornell University and 
 served for four years. Dr. Thomas is a 
 member of the College, Acorn, Contempo- 
 rary, New Century and Civic Clubs of Phil- 
 adelphia; Women's University Club of New 
 York, College Club of Boston, and the Ly- 
 ceum Club, London, and is a member of the 
 
 Society of Friends. Address: Bryn Mawr 
 College, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
 
 THOMPSON, Albert Clifton: 
 
 U. S. district judge; born at Brookville, 
 Pa., Jan. 23, 1842. After serving from 
 private to captain in the Union Army, 1861- 
 1805, he studied law and engaged in prac- 
 tice at Portsmouth, Ohio, at the close of 
 the war. He was judge of the Probate 
 Court of Scioto County, 1869-1872; judge 
 of common pleas in the Seventh Judicial 
 District of Ohio, 1882-1885. He was elected 
 to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican 
 in 1884, and was reelected to the Fiftieth 
 and Fifty-first Congresses. He was ap- 
 pointed by President JNIcKinley, Sept. 16, 
 1898, judge of the District Court for the 
 Southern District of Ohio, in which office 
 he is now serving. Address: 2038 Auburn 
 Avenue, Cincinnati. 
 
 THOMPSON, Charles Munson: 
 
 Chief engineer of the Cape Cod Ship 
 Canal; born in Unadilla, N. Y., Oct. 15, 
 1844; son of William J. and Elizabeth 
 (Betts) Thompson. His ancestors removed 
 from Northumberland, England, to Ulster, 
 Ireland, about 1609 to 1611, and his grand- 
 father, Samuel Thompson, came from An- 
 trim, Ireland, to America in 1798 and set- 
 tled in Otego, N. Y. Mr. Thompson was 
 graduated at the Delaware Institute, Frank- 
 lin, N. Y., in 1861, and was employed' in 
 the engineer corps laying out the route of 
 the Susquehanna Railroad from 1861 to 
 1804. He was with the West Shore Rail- 
 road, the Schoharie Valley Railroad, and the 
 Evansville, Henderson and Nashville Rail- 
 road, after the Civil War. He was assistant 
 engineer on the State Canal, with headquar- 
 ters at Albany, for six years, and assistant 
 engineer on the Denver and Rio Grande 
 Railroad, locating the new lines. In 1883 he 
 removed to Sandwich, Mass., as assistant 
 engineer on the Cape Cod Ship Canal, and 
 on retiring as chief engineer in 1886 he 
 removed to Winchester, Mass., taking up 
 general engineering, returning to Sandwich 
 in 1902 as resident engineer of the Cape 
 Cod Canal. He married, Dec. 25, 1866, 
 
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 Olivia Lee of Unadilla, N. Y., and has one 
 son. Address: Sandwich, Mass. 
 
 THOMPSON, David E.: 
 
 Ambassador; born in Michigan in 1854; 
 son of John H. and Rhoda (Bennett) 
 Thompson. He was educated in public 
 schools in Michigan until he was thirteen 
 years old, when he began to work. He 
 became a truckman, and in 1872 a railway 
 brakeman, advancing in railway service un- 
 til he became a superintendent in 1882. 
 Since 1891 he has been manager of various 
 industrial institutions, and president of the 
 Lincoln Daily Star of Lincoln, Neb., pres- 
 ident of the Columbia Fire Insurance Com- 
 any, and of the Aurora (Neb.) State Bank. 
 Mr. Thompson is a Republican in politics 
 and has been identified actively with party 
 management in Nebraska. He began his 
 diplomatic career on his appointment by 
 President Roosevelt, in 1902, as envoy ex- 
 traordinary and' minister plenipotentiary of 
 the United States to Brazil in 1905. His 
 rank was raised to ambassador, Jan. 10, 
 1905, and he continued at 'Rio de Janeiro 
 until Sept., 1905, when he was transferred 
 as ambassador to Mexico, in which position 
 he continues. Mr. Thompson married at 
 Chicago, in Jan., 1892, Jeannette Miller. 
 Address: American Embassy, City of Mex- 
 ico, Mexico. 
 
 THOMPSON, Henry S.: 
 
 Builder and real estate dealer; born in 
 New York City, Aug. 10, 1873; son of 
 Richard' J. and Helen (Soflfe) Thompson. 
 He was graduated from Princeton, A.B., 
 1894. He was first employed by the Stand- 
 ard Oil Company and traveled while in its 
 employ through Europe, Asia and Africa; 
 later entered building business and organ- 
 ized the Thompson-Starrett Company. He 
 was superintendent of buildings of the 
 Borough of Manhattan, New York City, 
 during Mayor Low's administration, and 
 remained under Mayor McClellan a short 
 time; was a member of the New York Im- 
 provement Committee and commander of 
 public works of the Borough of Manhattan, 
 1907-1908. Mr. Thompson is president and 
 director of the Boulevard Realty Company, 
 
 Reinforced Concrete Construction Company, 
 Birmingham and Gulf Railway and Navi- 
 gation Company, Golden Hill Building Com- 
 jjany. National Vacuum Company; vice- 
 president and director of the Globe and 
 Rutgers Fire Insurance Company, director 
 and treasurer of the Improved Property 
 Holding Company of New York and Safety 
 Benzine Company; director of the Union 
 Exchange Bank, Continental Finance Com- 
 pany; Eagle Fire Company; City Investing 
 Company; member of the Reorganization 
 Company of the Delaware & Northampton 
 Railroad Company; owner of Hotel Marie 
 Antoinette, New York City; president and 
 director of Belnerd Realty Company. Mr. 
 Thompson is a director of the Golden Hill 
 Building Company. He is a Presbyterian 
 and a trustee of the Manhattan Maternity 
 Hospital. He is a member of the New 
 York Yacht, New York Athletic, Princeton, 
 Automobile of America, Down Town, Fair- 
 field County Golf and City Lunch Clubs. 
 He married in New York City, April 19, 
 1900, Mabel Potter, and they have three 
 children. Residence: Summer, Greenwich, 
 Conn.; city. Hotel Marie Antoinette, New 
 York City. Address: 165 Broadway, New 
 York City, 
 
 THOMPSON, Eobert William, Jr.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, May 20, 
 1874; son of Robert W. and Martha (Mac- 
 f^lan) Thompson. He was graduated from 
 the College of the City of New York, A.B., 
 1893, Columbia University, A.M., 1894, and 
 Columbia University Law School, LL.B., 
 1896. He is a member of the firm of 
 Thompson and Warren, and engaged in the 
 active practice of law. Mr. Thompson is 
 general counsel for several corporations and 
 makes a specialty of corporation and real 
 estate law. He has served as master of 
 Albion Lodge of Masons, is a member of 
 the New York Bar Association, the Alpha 
 Delta Phi and Phi Delta Phi fraternities, 
 Columbia University Club, Englewood Golf 
 Club, Republican Club of the City of New 
 York, Albion Lodge Club, and the Associa- 
 tion of the Bar of the City of New York. 
 Residence: 166 West 97th Street. Office: 
 49 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
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 THOMSON, John: 
 
 Librarian ; born in England. After re- 
 ceiving his education in London, he became 
 private librarian to Clarence H. Clark of 
 Philadelphia, for eight years, to Jay Gould 
 of Irvingion-on-Hudson for three years, and 
 has been librarian to the Free Library of 
 Philadelphia since its opening in 1894. He 
 is author of: Descriptive Catalogue of the 
 Library of C. H. Clark; Catalogue of the 
 Irvington Library of Jay Gould; Descriptive 
 Catalogue of the Works of Sir Walter Scott 
 and Library of Old Authors printed for the 
 Free Library; and of Hither and Thither, 
 1906. He is a member of the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church, vice-president of the 
 Home Teaching Society for the Blind; mem- 
 ber of the American Library Association, 
 Historical Society of Philadelphia; and 
 member and officer of the St. George's So- 
 ciety. He is also a member of the Art Club, 
 curator of The Philobiblon Club; member of 
 the Franklin Inn Club, and the Rowfant 
 Club of Cleveland. He married in London, 
 and he has seven children living. Residence : 
 2101 North Camac Street. Office: 1217-1221 
 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 THURBER, Caroline: 
 
 Artist, portrait painter; born in Oberlin, 
 Ohio; daughter of General Alvred B. and 
 Melissa (Tenney) Nettleton. She was edu- 
 cated in Philadelphia and received her art 
 studies in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens 
 and Benjamin Constant. She married in 
 Minneapolis, 1885, Dexter Thurber, and she 
 has two children. Mrs. Tliurber has exhibi- 
 ted pictures in the Paris Salon, London 
 Royal Academy and New Gallery, Walker's 
 Gallery, Liverpool, Gallery of the Prince of 
 Monaco, etc. ; also many pictures in Amer- 
 ica. Summer address: Ferry Hill, Bristol, 
 R. I. Winter address: Fine Arts Build- 
 ing, Chicago. 
 
 TIERNAN, Charles Bernard: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Baltimore, Sept. 4, 1840; 
 son of Charles and Gay Robertson (Ber- 
 nard) Tiernan. He was graduated from 
 St. Mai-y's and Loyola Colleges, A.B. and 
 A.M., and took post-graduate course in 
 
 modern literature, Johns Hopkins Univer- 
 sity; studied law and was admitted to 
 the bar in Baltimore City in 1862, and be- 
 came a member of the Baltimore Bar Asso- 
 ciation and the Maryland State Bar Asso- 
 ciation. He is a counsel for the Hibernian 
 Society, member of the Clan Robertson in 
 Scotland, Son of the American Revolution, 
 Society of Colonial Wars, president of the 
 Cathedral Branch of the St. Vincent of 
 Paul Society, Cathedral Branch of the 
 Young Catholic Friends Society; superin- 
 tendent of the Cathedral Svmday School ; 
 trustee of the Cathedral, vice-president of 
 the Alumni of Loyola College. Mr. Tier- 
 nan was a member of the 53d Regiment, 
 IMaryland National Guard, at the beginning 
 of the Civil War, until the Maryland Na- 
 tional Guard was disbanded, and the State 
 of Maryland occupied by United States 
 troops; was ordnance sergeant of the 7th 
 Regiment during the riots of 1877. He is 
 autlior of the: Tiernan Family in Mary- 
 land, 1898, and The Tiernan and Other 
 Families, 1901. He is a member of the 
 Maryland and .Catholic Clubs, and secre- 
 tary and treasurer of the Ariel Rowing 
 Chib. Address: 405 St. Paul Street, Bal- 
 timore. 
 
 TIFFANY, Louis Comfort: 
 
 Artist; born in New York City, Feb. IS, 
 1848; son of Charles Lewis and' Harriet 
 Olivia (Young) Tiffany; grandson of Com- 
 fort and Chloe (Draper) Tiffany, and of 
 Ebenezer and Anna (Burnett) Young; and 
 descendant of Squire Humphreys Tiffany. 
 He studied art in New Y'ork under George 
 Inness and Samuel Coleman, and in Paris, 
 under Leon Bailly; and received the hon- j 
 orary degree of A. M. from Y^'ale. ^ He I 
 painted in oil and water colors, making a 
 specialty of Oriental scenes. His principal 
 canvasses are: The Dock Scene, 1869; J 
 Street Scene in Tangiers, 1876; Study of I 
 Quimper, Brittany, 1877; Duane Street, New 
 York, 1878; The Cobbler at Boufarick, 1888; 
 Feeding the Flamingoes, 1888; Market Day 
 at Nuremburg, 1892. His other important 
 art works include the Tiffany Chapel ex- 
 hibited at the World's Columbian Exposi- 
 
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 tion at Cliicago in 1893, now in the Crypt 
 of the New York Cathedral of St. John 
 the Divine ; the Electric Fountain in the 
 Grand Court of the Manufactures and Fine 
 Arts Building at the Pan-American Expo- 
 sition at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1901. He dis- 
 covered a new formula for making deco- 
 rative glass, which is known as Tiffany 
 Favrile Glass. In 1879 he established and 
 became president and art director of the 
 Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, now 
 widely known as the Tiffany Studios, man- 
 ufacturers of favrile glass windows, deco- 
 rators and general art workers ; and he 
 established and controls the Tiffany Fur- 
 naces at Corona, L. T., and the Allied Arts 
 Company of New York City; is vice-pres- 
 ident, trustee and art director of Tiffany 
 and Company, the New York jewelry house 
 founded by his father, Charles L. Tiffany, 
 deceased. He was elected associate member 
 in 1871, and academician in 1888 of the 
 National Academy of Design; is a member 
 of the Society of American Artists, Amer- 
 ican Water Color Society, JSTew York, So- 
 ciety of Fine Arts, Architectural League, 
 Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts, and' the 
 Imperial Society of Fine Arts, Tokio, Japan. 
 In 1890 he received the gold medal and 
 decoration of the Chevalier of the Legion 
 d'Honneur, and he is a member of the Cen- 
 tury, Grolier, Union League, National Arts, 
 Barnard and City Clubs. Mr. Tiffany has 
 been twice married; first, May 15, 1872, to 
 Mary, daughter of Levi Hart and' Mary 
 Woodbridge (Perkins) Goddard, of Norwich, 
 Conn., who died Jan. 22, 1884; and, second, 
 Nov. 9, 1886, to Louise Wakeman, daughter 
 of Rev. J. H. Mason and Louise (Wakeman) 
 Knox, of Philadelphia, who died May 8, 
 1904. Residence: 27 East 72d Street. Of- 
 fice: 401 Fifth Avenue, and 347 Madison 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
 TILLETT, Wilbur Fisk: 
 
 Clergyman, educator; born in Henderson, 
 N. C, Aug. 25, 1854; son of Rev. John and 
 Eliza Jenkins (Wyche) Tillett. He was 
 educated in Horner School, Oxford, N. C, 
 1SG7-18G9; Trinity College, N. C, 1871- 
 1873; Randolph-Macon College, Va., 1873- 
 
 1877, graduating A.B.; Princeton Univer- 
 sity, M.A., 1879; Princeton Tlieological 
 Seminary, 1877-1880, and received the hon- 
 orary degrees of D.D. from Randolph-Macon 
 College and Wesleyan University; S.T.D. 
 from Northwestern University, and LL.D. 
 from Southwestern University. He was li- 
 censed to preach. May 1878, at Ashland, 
 Va. ; joined the Virginia Conference of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at 
 Danville, Va., 1880; ordained deacon, 1883, 
 at Richmond, Va., by Bishop H. H. Kav- 
 anaugh, and ordained elder in 1885 at 
 Petersburg, Va., by Bishop J. C. Keener. 
 He was pastor of Lynn Street Methodist 
 Church. Danville, Va., 1880-1882; chaplain 
 and assistant instructor of theology in Van- 
 derbilt University, 1882-1883; adjunct pro- 
 fessor of systematic theology in Vanderbilt 
 University, 1883-1884; full professor since 
 1884, dean of the Biblical Department since 
 1886, and is vice-chancellor of Vanderbilt 
 University. He is author of: Our Hymns 
 and Their Authors, 1889; Discussions in 
 Theology, 1899; Personal Salvation — 
 Stvidies in Christian Doctrine Pertaining to 
 the Spiritual Life, 1902 ; the Doctrines of 
 Methodism, 1903; A Statement of The 
 Faith of Worldwide Methodism, 1906. Dr. 
 Tillett was a member of the Quadrennial 
 General Conference of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, Sovith, 1902 and 1906; mem- 
 ber of the Tennessee Annual Conference 
 since 1898 ; member of the Commission that 
 compiled the Methodist Hymnal; president 
 of the Board of Trustees of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, South, and of the Board 
 of Trustees of Martin College for Women. 
 He married in Danville, Va., Nov. 15, 1888, 
 Kate O. Schoolfield, who died Sept. 28, 
 1889, and married, second, at Spartenburg, 
 S. C, Jan. 25, 1894, Laura E. McLoud. He 
 has one child, a daughter. Address: Van- 
 derbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 TILLMAN, Benjamin Ryan: 
 
 United States senator; born in Edge- 
 field County, S. C, Aug. 11, 1847. He re- 
 ceived an academic education under the in- 
 struction of George Galphin. at Bethany, in 
 the same county; quit school in July, 1804, 
 
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 to join the Confederate Army, but was 
 stricken with a severe illness, which caused 
 the loss of his left eye and kept him an in- 
 valid for two years. He followed farming 
 as a pursuit and took no active part in poli- 
 tics till he began the agitation in 1886 for 
 industrial and' technical education which 
 culminated in the establishment of the Clem- 
 son Agricultural and Mechanical College, 
 at Calhoun's old home, Fort Hill. The de- 
 mand for educational reform broadened into 
 a demand for other changes in State af- 
 fairs, and he was put forward' by the farm- 
 ers as a candidate for governor in 1890. 
 After an exciting and heated canvass he 
 received the nomination in the Democratic 
 Convention by a vote of 270 to 50 for his 
 opponent, and was elected in November fol- 
 lowing. This was his first political office, 
 and he was reelected in 1892 by an over- 
 whelming vote. His term as governor was 
 signalized by the passage of the dispensary 
 law for the control of tlie liquor traffic by 
 the State and by the establishment of an- 
 other college, the Winthrop Normal and In- 
 dustrial College for Women, at Eock Hill. 
 He entered the race for the Senate against 
 General Butler and the two canvassed the 
 State, county by county, with the result that 
 Tillman was elected by the General Assem- 
 bly, and was reelected in 1901 and 1907. 
 His term of service will expire March 3, 
 1913. He married, in 1868. Sallie Starke. 
 Address: Trenton, S. C. 
 
 TILTON, Frederic W.: 
 
 Capitalist and educator; born in Cam- 
 bridge, Mass., May 14, 1839; son of Benja- 
 min and Lucinda (Newell) Tilton. He was 
 graduated from Harvard College, A.B., 1862, 
 A.M., 1865; and studied at the University 
 of Gottingen, 1802-1863. He was instructor 
 in Latin at the Highland Military Academy, 
 ■Worcester, 1863-1866; superintendent of 
 public schools, Newport, R. I., 1867-1871; 
 principal of Phillips Academy, Andover, 
 Mass., 1871-1873; headmaster of Rogers 
 School, Newport, R. I., 1873-1890. He has 
 served as trustee and president of Newport 
 Hospital, trustee of Redwood Library, New- 
 port, R. I. ; member of the Rhode Island 
 State Board of Education; director of Peo- 
 
 ple's Library, of Newport, as trustee of 
 Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and is 
 now trustee of the Rogers School of New- 
 port, R. I. He lived in Europe, 1885-1886 
 and 1890-1894, and since then in Cambridge, 
 Mass. He is vice-president, trustee and 
 member of the Investment Committee of the 
 Cambridgeport Savings Bank and' director 
 of the Harvard Trust Company; and has 
 been a member of the Newport Reading 
 Room, and of the Harvard Union and Oak- 
 ley Clubs, and is a member of the Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society. Mr. Tilton married, in Cam- 
 bridge, July 21, 1864, Ellen Trowbridge, and 
 they have four children. Address : 86 
 Sparks Street, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 TITHERINGTON, Richard Handfield: 
 
 Managing editor of Munsey's Magazine 
 and secretary of the Frank A. Munsey 
 Company; born in Chester, England, Oct. 
 2, 1861; son of the late William Tithering- 
 ton, of Dee Hills, Chester. He attended 
 Winchester College, 1875-1880, and Magda- 
 len College, Oxford, 1880-1884. He came to 
 the United States in August, 1884, and has 
 been with the publishing house of Frank A. 
 Munsey since 1886. He is author of: His- 
 tory of the Spanish-American War, 1900 
 (Appleton) ; and many magazine and news- 
 paper articles. Mr. Titherington is a mem- 
 ber of the St. George's Society and of the 
 National Arts Clubs of New York. Ad- 
 dress: 175 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 TOPAKYAN, H. H.: 
 
 Persian consul-genei'al ; is a native of Ar- 
 menia, but long resident in New York City, 
 where he is the world's largest importer of 
 costly rvigs. Mr. Topakyan has represented 
 Persia in New York City for many years, 
 and in 1909 was appointed consul-general to 
 New York as a deserved tribute to the 
 efficiency of his services in behalf of His Im- 
 perial Majesty, the Shah of Persia, in this 
 country. During the World's Columbian 
 Exposition at Chicago, 1892-1893, Mr. 
 Topakyan acted as Imperial Persian commis- 
 sioner, and director-general of the Persian 
 and Ottoman exhibits, and in connection 
 with that appointment he built, at his own 
 
H. H. TOPAKYAN 
 
 Persian Consul General 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1547 
 
 expense the Persian and Ottoman Pavilions, 
 wliich were numbered with the foremost of 
 the many attractions of that memorable 
 White City. Mr. Topakyan received forty- 
 eight diplomas and forty-eight medals for 
 the unique and most attractive exliibits of 
 both countries which he collected there, and 
 received the personal thanks of President 
 Grover Cleveland' in recognition of his serv- 
 ices in connection with that exposition. He 
 lias for his distinguished services received 
 decorations from the Sultan of Turkey, the 
 Shah of Persia and the Venezuelan and 
 other governments, but prizes none of them 
 more than he does the photograph of Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt, and another autographed 
 photograph presented to him by President 
 Taf t, both bearing the conscriptions : " Best 
 Wishes," and has also received an auto- 
 graphed photograph of J. Pierpont Morgan. 
 After the World's Fair at Chicago, Mr. 
 Topakyan presented a valuable antique car- 
 pet to the Field Columbian Museum in Chi- 
 cago. It was Mr. Topakyan's privilege and 
 pleasure to make his adopted country, 
 through Mr. Roosevelt, a most beautiful and 
 valuable present. This gift was a marvelous- 
 ly beautiful Persian rug, pronounced by con- 
 noisseurs to be the finest of its kind in the 
 world, the result of years of artistic labor 
 and worth by the most conservative esti- 
 mate^ more than fifty thousand dollars. 
 This rug is of imperial silken texture, and 
 pearls, torquoise, rubies and other valuable 
 oriental stones are woven in attractive pro- 
 fusion. For this gift Mr. Topakyan received 
 the enthusiastic thanks of President Roose- 
 velt, and the rug, handsomely framed in Ma- 
 hogany, remains in the White House as a 
 permanent tribute to Persian art in rug 
 weaving. Mr. Topakyan is not only distin- 
 guished as a successful merchant, an able 
 consular official and a profoundly loyal and 
 devoted adopted son of America, but he re- 
 tains his interest in his native land, is one 
 of tlie chief directors of the American Ar- 
 menian colony and always ready to help his 
 countrymen. His own home life is past 
 amid ideal surroundings at his summer 
 home, " Persian Court," a typical Oriental 
 mansion of white marble at Morristown, N. 
 J. The estate comprises about forty acres, 
 
 the grounds and terraces made attractive by 
 the arts of the sculptor and landscape archi- 
 tect, and the interior a treasury of Oriental 
 beauty and art. This beautiful home has 
 been the scene of many gatherings of not- 
 ables. In his own country Mr. Topakyan is 
 looked upon as a statesman of great ability. 
 Mr. Topakyan comes from an old Armenian 
 family of high standing and was born Nov. 
 0, 18G4. Address: 501 Fifth Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 TOWER, Charlemagne: 
 
 Ambassador; born in Philadelphia, April 
 17, 1848; son of Charlemagne and Amelia 
 (Bartle) Tower, eighth in descent from John 
 Tower, who emigrated from Hingham, Nor- 
 folk, England, to Massachusetts, in 1637. 
 He was educated in the Military Academy 
 at New Haven, Conn., at Phillips' Academy 
 at Exeter, N. H., and Harvard University, 
 A.B., 1872 ; he pursued graduate studies in 
 history, foreign languages and literature in 
 Europe, 1872-1876, and afterward studied 
 law in the office of William Henry Rawle 
 in Philadelpliia. He has received the hon- 
 orary degree of LL.D. from Lafayette Col- 
 lege, Pa., the University of Chicago, and the 
 Universities of Glasgow and St. Andrew's. 
 Air. Tower was admitted to the Philadelphia 
 bar in 1878, and in 1882 removed to Duluth, 
 Minn., where he was president of the Duluth 
 and Iron Range Railroad and managing di- 
 rector of the Minnesota Iron Company. He 
 returned to Philadelphia in 1887, and has 
 since made his home there, owning large in- 
 terests and being officer and director in va- 
 rious large corporations. He began his 
 diplomatic career in 1897, upon his appoint- 
 ment by President McKinley as envoy extra- 
 ordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the 
 United States to Austria-Hungary, remain- 
 ing at Vienna until 1899, when he was ad- 
 vanced to ambassadorial rank as American 
 ambassador to Russia, at which court he re- 
 mained until his appointment in 1902 Amer- 
 ican ambassador to Germany, serving until 
 June, 1909. Mr. Tower has devoted much 
 attention to historical research and his two- 
 volume work on The Marquis de LaFayette 
 in the American Revolution, published in 
 1895 (Lippincott), is one of the most im- 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 Ijortant contributions to Revolutionary his- 
 tory. He received from the French Govern- 
 ment, in recognition of this work, the deco- 
 ration of grand officer of the Legion of Hon- 
 or. He was for several years a trustee of 
 the University of Pennsylvania, and he is a 
 jnember of the American Philosophical So- 
 ciety, of Philadelphia; the American Insti- 
 tute of INIining Engineers, and of the Acad- 
 emy of Natural Sciences. Mr. Tower mar- 
 ried, in 1888, Helen Smith, daughter of G. 
 Frank Smith, of Oakland, Calif. Office: 
 228 South Seventh Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 TRACY, Benjamin Franklin: 
 
 Lawyer, soldier, cabinet official; born in 
 Owego, Tioga County, N. Y., April 26, 1830; 
 son of Benjamin Franklin Tracy, who was a 
 pioneer settler of that county. He was edu- 
 cated in the common schools and Owego 
 Academy, studied law at Owego, was admit- 
 ted to the bar in May, 1851, and engaged 
 in practice. He was elected district attorney 
 of Tioga County in 1853, as a Whig candi- 
 date in a strongly Democratic county, and 
 was reelected in 185G. He was an organizer 
 of the Republican party in Tioga County, 
 was elected as a member of the General As- 
 sembly of New York, serving in 1861 and 
 1862 ; recruited the One Hundreth and Ninth 
 and One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Regi- 
 ments of New York Volunteers, and was 
 commissioned colonel of tlie former in 1862. 
 With it he went to Washington and w^as on 
 duty there until the spring of 1864, when 
 the regiment was attached to Hartranffs 
 First Brigade, Wilcox's Third' Division, 
 Burnside's Ninth Corps of the Army of the 
 Potomac, and took a j^art in the battles of 
 the Wilderness. His health failed and he re- 
 signed but later was made colonel of the One 
 Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regiment of 
 United States Colored Troops, and was as- 
 signed to command the military post at El- 
 mira, N. Y., where tliere was a prison camp 
 (at one time containing ten thousand priso- 
 ners), and the draft rendezvous for Western 
 New York. In March, 1865, he was bre- 
 votted brigadier-general of volunteers for 
 gallant and meritorious services during the 
 war. He established in practice in New 
 York City, and' in 1866 was appointed 
 
 United States district attorney for the Eas- 
 tern District of New York. While in that 
 office he drafted an internal revenue bill that 
 more than trebled the revenue of the United 
 States. General Tracy resigned his district 
 attorneyship in 1873, to return to private 
 practice. He was appointed in December, 
 1881, an associate justice of the State Court 
 of Appeals of New York, but resigned two 
 years later. In the Benjamin Harrison ad- 
 ministration he was a member of the cabinet 
 as secretary of the Navy, 1889-1893; since 
 then he has again been in j^ractice in New 
 York and is one of the leaders at the bar. 
 General Tracy was chairman of the commis- 
 sion which drafted the new charter for 
 Greater New York. He was the Republican 
 candidate for mayor of New York City in 
 1897. General Tracy is a Companion of 
 the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and 
 a comrade of the Grand Army of the Repub- 
 lic. Address: 71 Broadway, New York 
 City. 
 
 TRASK, Spencer: 
 
 Banker; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 
 18, 1844; son of Alanson Trask and' Sarah 
 (Marquand) Trask. He was educated at 
 the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and 
 at Princeton College, as A.B., 1866, later 
 of A.M. After leaving college he engaged 
 in the banking business, and in 1869 estab- 
 lished the house of Spencer Trask. In April, 
 1870, he became a member of the New York 
 Stock Exchange, the firm being then known 
 as Trask and Stone, and after some other 
 changes it took, in 1881, its present name 
 of Spencer Trask & Company. Mr. Trask 
 has been largely interested' in the promotion 
 of industrial enterprises, notably the Edi- 
 son Electric Illuminating Company, of 
 which he was president for fifteen years. 
 He is also interested as a stockholder and 
 director in several railroads, is president of 
 the Morningsid'e Realty Company and the 
 Broadway Realty Company, and was the 
 organizer of the Brooklyn and New York 
 Illuminating Company, becoming its presi- 
 dent. He is chairman of the Board of Trus- 
 tees of Teachers' College, and a trustee of 
 the General Theological Seminary. He has 
 a country home near the village of Yeddo, 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 on the avenue leading to Saratoga Lake, 
 with an estate of about five hundred acres; 
 and some years ago he established at Sar- 
 atoga and presented to the Diocese of Al- 
 bany a Convalescent Home for Children. 
 Mr. Trask is a member of the Metropolitan, 
 Union League, City Reform, National Arts 
 and Lawyers' Clubs of New York City. He 
 married at Brooklyn, in 1874, Katrina Nich- 
 ols, daughter of George L. Nichols, and they 
 have had' four children, all now deceased. 
 Residence: Saratoga, N. Y. Office: 54 
 William Street, New York City. 
 
 TULLER, Edward Pratt: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Hartford', Conn., 
 1859; son of George Warren and Abby Love- 
 land (James) Tuller. He was graduated 
 from Brown University, A.B., 1884, A.M., 
 1887, and Newton Theological Institution, 
 1887; received the degree of D.D. from 
 Kalamazoo College, 1904. He was ordained 
 to the Baptist ministry, 1886; pastor of 
 Providence, R. I., 1886-1887, First Baptist 
 Church, Newport, R. I., 1887-1892; Second 
 Baptist Church, Lawrence, Mass., 1892- 
 1901; First Baptist Church, Detroit, Mich., 
 1901-1904; Memorial Baptist Church, Chi- 
 cago, 1904-1906; and the Blighton Avenue 
 Baptist Church, Boston, since 1906. He is 
 a member of various ministerial organiza- 
 tions, member of the Board of Managers 
 of the American Baptist Missionary Union 
 since 1888^ and secretary of the Board, 
 1901-1906; trustee of Kalamazoo College, 
 1902-1905, Boston School of Expression 
 since 1904, Newton Theological Institution 
 since 1907, member of the Executive Com- 
 mittee of Newton Theological Institution 
 since 1908, also a member of the Delta Up- 
 silon Society, and the C. C. Club of Boston. 
 Lecturer at Newton Theological Institution 
 in the academic year, 1909-1910, on Re- 
 ligious Psychology. Dr. Tuller married in 
 Providence, R. I., 1884, Ella E. Lawton, and 
 he has two children. Address: 15 Farring- 
 ton Avenue, Allston, Boston. 
 
 TURNER, Charles Yardley: 
 
 Mural painter (figure) ; born in Balti- 
 more, Md., Nov. 25, 1850; son of John C. 
 and Hannah B. Turner. He was graduated 
 
 from the Maryland Institute, and was a 
 pupil at the National Academy of Design 
 and Art Students' League, New York City; 
 also under J. P. Laurens, M. Munkacsy, 
 and L. Bonnat, Paris, 1878-1881. He was 
 made academician of the National Acad- 
 emy of Design in 1886. Mr. Turner was 
 assistant director of decoration at the 
 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 
 in 1892 and 1893; director of color at the 
 Pan-American Exposition in 1901. He has 
 been a member of Council for many years, 
 and was formerly vice-president for two 
 years of the National Academy of Design ; 
 was vice-president two years of the Arch- 
 itectural League of New York; president 
 six years of the Art Students' League of 
 New York; many times officer of Ameri- 
 can Water Color Society; four years mem- 
 ber and now president of National Society 
 of Mural Painters; member of the 
 Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission by 
 appointment of mayor of New York City. 
 He was awarded medals and mentioned at 
 the expositions at Chicago in 1893, Paris, 
 in 1900, Buffalo, in 1901, and St. Louis, in 
 1904. He is a member of the Century 
 Association of New York. Address: 35 
 West 14th Street, New York City. 
 
 TUTTLE, Daniel Sylvester: 
 
 Bishop of Missouri ; born at Windham, 
 Greene County, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1837; son 
 of Daniel B. and Abigail C. (Stimson) 
 Tuttle. He was graduated from Columbia 
 College, A.B., 1857, A.M., 1860, D.D., in 
 1867. The degree of D.D. was conferred 
 upon him by the University of the South, 
 Sewanee, Tenn., in 1887, that of LL.D. by 
 Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., in 
 1890. He took orders as deacon of the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church in 1862 and 
 was ordained priest the following year by 
 Bishop H. Potter. In 1862 he became as- 
 sistant of Zion Church, Morris, N. Y., and 
 upon his ordination to the priesthood, was 
 made its rector. After four years of 
 activity, he was elected' bishop, being con- 
 secrated by Bishops Hopkins, H. Potter, 
 Odenheimer, Randall, Kerfoot and Neely. 
 He was made bishop of Montana in 1867, 
 with jurisdiction in Utah and Idaho, then 
 
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 bishop of Utah, with jurisdiction in Idaho, 
 1881-1886. In 1886 he was elected' bishop 
 of Missouri. In 1903 he became presiding 
 bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 
 Bishop Tuttle married at Morris, N. Y., 
 Sept. 12, 1865, to Harriet M. Foote. Ad- 
 dress : 74 Vandcventer Place, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 TUTTLE, Dell Leland: 
 
 Sales agent; born in East Otto, Cattarau- 
 gus County, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1855; son of 
 Samuel Ayres and Elizabeth A. (Arm- 
 strong) Tuttle. He was educated in the 
 Dunkirk (N. Y.) High School and Acad- 
 emy. He was a member of the firm of S. 
 A. Tuttle and Sons, Little Valley, N. Y., 
 1874-1885. In the latter year he entered 
 the railway service; was connected with 
 Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway 
 as private secretary, chief clerk to the 
 general superintendent and traveling car 
 agent, 1885-1889; was superintendent of 
 transportation of the Cincinnati, Saginaw 
 & Mackinaw Railroad, at Saginaw, Mich., 
 1890-1891; and since 1892 has been with 
 the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron 
 Company, at Buffalo; and since 1898 sales 
 agent of the Buffalo District, embracing 
 States of Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, 
 northern Kentucky, New York west of Buf- 
 falo and western Pennsylvania. He was 
 corporation clerk of Little Valley, N. Y., 
 1877-1884, and its president, 1884-1885. 
 He is a director of the Central Dock and 
 Terminal Railway Company; vice-president 
 of the Citizens' National Bank of Spring- 
 ville, and of the University Printing Com- 
 pany ; director of the Yale Transit Company, 
 Kensington Steamship Company, Rochester 
 Steamboat Company,^ American Steamship 
 Company, York Transit Company, Pennsyl- 
 vania Steamship Company; president and 
 director of Gowand'a Sand and Gravel Com- 
 pany. In polities he is a Republican and 
 in religion a Methodist Episcopalian. He 
 was a lay delegate to the General Confer- 
 ence of Methodist Episcopal Church, Los 
 Angeles, Calif., in 1904; and formerly pres- 
 ■ ident of the Genesee Conference Epworth 
 League; trustee of Silver Lake Assembly; 
 member of Board of Genesee Conference 
 Deaconesses' Home, Buffalo, N. Y. ; chair- 
 
 man of the Union Terminal Department of 
 Railroad Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion, Buffalo, for several terms. He is 
 national vice-president of the Laymen's 
 Missionary Movement of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and a member of the 
 National Board of Management of the 
 Methodist Brotherhood. He delivered the 
 address at St. Louis World's Fair on Coal- 
 men's Day, Sept., 1904. Mr. Tuttle is a 
 member of the Cattaraugus, Chautauqua 
 and Allegheny Cotmty Associations of Buf- 
 falo, a Free and Accepted Mason, Royal 
 Arcanum, Ko Koal. His favorite recrea- 
 tions are literary work and research, boat- 
 ing and fishing. He is a member of the 
 Ellicott, Transportation, Equality (former 
 president), Richmond and Central Railway 
 Clubs. Mr. Tuttle married in Little Valley, 
 N. Y., Oct. 3, 1878, Abbie J. Whitcomb, 
 and they have two children. Residence: 
 356 Norwood Avenue. Office: 914 Pru- 
 dential Building, Bufl'alo, N. Y. 
 
 TUTTLE, George Montgomery: 
 
 Physician; born in Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 
 2, 1856; son of Rev. James H. Tuttle, D.D., 
 and Harriet (Merriman) Tuttle. He was 
 educated in Dresden, Germany, and at Phil- 
 lijis Academy, Andover; was graduated 
 from Yale as B.A. in 1877 and from the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons (Med- 
 ical Department of Columbia University), 
 as M.D., in 1880. He has been engaged in 
 the practice of medicine from 1880; was 
 interne of New York Hospital, 1880-1881; 
 physician-in-chief of the New York State 
 Emigrant Hospital, 1881-1883; and has been 
 attending gynecologist at Roosevelt Hospi- 
 tal since 1888. He is a director of the 
 North Star Woolen Mill Company of Min- 
 neapolis, Minn.; professor of gynecology at 
 the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
 Columbia University, since 1888. He is a 
 member of the New York Academy of Med- 
 icine, New York County Medical Society, 
 New York IMedical and Surgical Society, 
 New York Clinical Society, Society of 
 Alumni of New York Hospital, Society 
 of American Wars, American Museum of 
 Natural History. Dr. Tuttle is a contrib- 
 utor to the American Text-Book of Gyne- 
 
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 cology, New York Medical Record, and New 
 York Medical Journal. He is a member of 
 the University, Century, Yale, New York 
 Yacht, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht and 
 Barnard Clubs. Dr. Tuttle married in Pa- 
 lazzo, Vecchio, Florence, Italy, April 5, 
 1906, Mrs. T. Story Kirkbride, Jr. Ad- 
 dress : 38 West 52d Street, New York City. 
 
 TUTTLE, Lucius: 
 
 Railway president; born in Hartford, 
 Conn., March 11, 1846; son of George and 
 Mary (Loomis) Tuttle. He was educated 
 in the public and high schools of Hartford, 
 Conn., and in 1865 he began a railroad 
 career which, in its development, has made 
 Mr. Tuttle one of the recognized masters of 
 modern railroading. He served in various 
 railroad positions until, in 1889, he became 
 commissioner of the Trunk Line Association. 
 In the following year he was appointed 
 general manager of the New York, New 
 Haven and Hartford Railroad, serving in 
 that position for two years, when he was 
 elected vice-president of that railroad. In 
 1893, which was the real beginning of the 
 movement for the consolidation of the rail- 
 roads north and east of Boston, Mr. Tuttle 
 was elected president of the Boston and 
 Maine Railroad. The nucleus of the system 
 which he now heads was the original road 
 with certain leased lines and an agreement 
 with the powerful Maine Central Railroad 
 corporation. Since that time, by mutual 
 and ijacific agreement with the representa- 
 tives of the different corporations involved, 
 road after road has been added to the parent 
 system, until the entire section east and 
 north of Boston comes under the direction 
 and management of Mr. Tuttle, who has 
 also, since 1896, been president of the Maine 
 Central Railroad. He is a director of the 
 Old Colony Trust Company, the Second Na- 
 tional Bank of Boston, and the St. Johns- 
 bury and Lake Champlain Railroad Com- 
 pany, and is a member of the corporation 
 of the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 
 ogy. Mr. Tuttle married at Norwich, Conn., 
 Oct. 14, 1875, Estelle Hazen Martin. Res- 
 idence: 318 Commonwealth Avenue. Of- 
 fice: 3 North Station, Boston. 
 
 TYLER, Bayard H.: 
 
 Portrait painter; born in Oneida, N. Y., 
 1855; son of Henry H. and Elizabeth 
 (Stevens) Tyler. He attended Whitestown 
 Seminary, 1875-1876; Syracuse University, 
 Fine Arts College, under Dean George F. 
 Comfort, in 1878; was graduated from the 
 National Academy of Design, New York, in 
 1882, with medals in 1878 and 1882; pupil 
 of Theodore Kaufman; pvipil at Art Stu- 
 dents' League, New York, under William 
 M. Chase, 1879. He was exhibitor at the 
 National Academy of Design, Society of 
 American Artists, Pennsylvania Academy of 
 Fine Arts, Paris Exposition, Columbian Ex- 
 position, Chicago, in 1893; Gibbs Memorial 
 Charleston, S. C, and others; and is 
 represented in several private collections. 
 Among portraits painted by him are those 
 of President Theodore Roosevelt, for the 
 Municipal Gallery, Albany; Hon. B. B. 
 Odell, Sr. ; Admiral Wlllard H. Brownson 
 of the United States Navy; Hon. N, P. 
 Otis ; Colonel Henry M. Boles ; E. L. Fuller, 
 William F. Cochran, Mrs. F. A. Hackley; 
 J. J. Albright, in the Scranton Public Li- 
 brary; F. T. Holder, in the Holder Memo- 
 rial, Clinton, Mass.; Rev. Dr. Charles E. 
 Allison, and others. He is a member of the 
 Lotos and Salmagundi Clubs of New York 
 City. Mr. Tyler married, in 1883, Charlotte 
 E. Wiltsie. Address: 23 Dudley Place, 
 Yonkers, N. Y. 
 
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 UNDERWOOD, Frederick Douglass: 
 
 President of the Erie Railroad Company; 
 born at Wauwatosa, Wis., Feb. 1, 1862; 
 son of Enoch Downs and Harriet (Flint) 
 Underwood. He was educated at Maryland 
 Academy, Beaver Dam, Wis. He entered 
 the service of the Chicago, Milwaukee and 
 St. Paul Railway, and served', 1870-1886, as 
 clerk, brakeman, foreman of elevators, con- 
 ductor, yardmaster, assistant division super- 
 intendent, and superintendent. In June, 
 1886, he was appointed general superin- 
 tendent in charge of the construction of 
 the Minneapolis and Pacific Railway, 
 and in September, 1886, its general man- 
 
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 ager. Upon the consolidation of the Min- 
 neapolis and Pacific Railway, with the Min- 
 neapolis, Sault Sainte Marie and Atlantic 
 Ilailway, under the name of the Minneapolis, 
 St. Paul and Sault Sainte Marie Railway, 
 he was made general manager of the consoli- 
 dated lines until January, 1899, when he re- 
 signed to enter the services of the Baltimore 
 and Ohio Railroad as general manager. He 
 became second vice-president of the Balti- 
 more and Ohio Railroad in June, 1889, and 
 lield that office until he was elected to his 
 ])resent position as jjresident of the Erie 
 Railroad and its allied lines. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Metropolitan, New York Yacht, 
 City Midday, Tuxedo, Seawanhaka-Corin- 
 thian Yacht and New York Athletic Clubs. 
 He married Alice N. Stafford. Residence: 
 303 West 72d Street. Address: 11 Broad- 
 way, New York City. 
 
 UPHAM, Warren: 
 
 Geologist and librarian; born in Amherst, 
 N. H., March 8, 1850; son of Jacob and 
 Sarah (Hayward) Upham. He was grad- 
 uated from Dartmouth College, A.B., 1871, 
 A.M., 1894, D.Sc, 1906. He was civil en- 
 gineer of Concord, N. H., 1872-1875; assist- 
 ant on the Geological Survey of New Hamp- 
 shire, 1876-1878, of Minnesota, 1879-1885 
 and 1893-1894; of the United States, on the 
 Glacial Lake Agassiz, 1885-1895; librarian 
 of the Western Reserve Historical Society, 
 Cleveland, Ohio, April-October, 1895; secre- 
 tary and librarian of the Minnesota His- 
 torical Society, St. Paul, Minn., since 1895. 
 He has traveled extensively in the United 
 States, and in 1897 in Europe, writing 
 eleven articles in tlie American Geologist, 
 during 1898, on his geological observations 
 in Europe. Mr. Upham was associate editor 
 of the American Geologist, 1893-1905, and 
 now of the Records of the Past. He is au- 
 thor of geological reports, and about two 
 hundred geological papers, mostly on glacial 
 subjects, and also of: Groseilliers and 
 Radisson, the First Wliite Men in Minnesota, 
 1905; and Minnesota in Three Centuries, 
 Volume I, Description and Explorations, 
 1908. He has edited six volumes of the 
 Minnesota Historical Society Collections, 
 and is now preparing a further volume of 
 
 that series, on the origin and meanings of 
 Minnesota Geographic Names. He is a fel- 
 low of the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science, and of the Geological 
 Society of America ; corresponding member 
 of the Boston Society of Natural History, 
 the Appalachian Mountain Club, Victoria 
 Institute of London, the Western Reserve 
 Historical Society, and the Missouri, Kansas 
 and South Dakota Historical Societies; 
 member of the Minnesota Historical Society, 
 Minnesota Academy of Sciences, and the 
 Minnesota Geographical Society. Dr. Up- 
 ham married in Minneapolis, 1885, Addie 
 M. Bixby of Aurora, Minn. Address: Min- 
 nesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 UTLEY, Henry Munson: 
 
 Librarian of the Detroit Public Library; 
 born in Plymouth, Mich., Aug. 5, 1836; son 
 of Hiram and Jane (Sands) Utley. He was 
 graduated from the University of Michigan 
 A.B., 1861, A.M., 1870. He was on the edi- 
 torial staff of the Detroit Post, 1866-1881; 
 secretary of the Detroit Board of Education, 
 1881-1885; and librarian of the Public Li- 
 brary since 1885. Mr. Utley was president 
 of the American Library Association, 1895; 
 president of the Michigan Library Associa- 
 tion, 1891-1905; Detroit Association of Char- 
 ities, 1905-1906 (trustee since 1880). He is 
 also a member of the American Historical 
 Society, Michigan Pioneer Historical So- 
 ciety, Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and the 
 Deti'oit Press Club; president of the Acan- 
 thus Club for twenty-two years, and of the 
 Prismatic Club in 1907. He married in 
 Pontiac, Mich., 1804, Kate Lilly Burr, and 
 they have three daugliters. Residence: 195 
 Charlotte Avenue. Office: Public Library, 
 Detroit, Mich. 
 
 V 
 
 VAGG, Harry A.: 
 
 Merchant ; born in Somersetshire, Eng- 
 land, Dec. 14, 1868; son of William and Su- 
 san (Manley) Vagg. He worked on a farm 
 at Lockport, N. Y., until August, 1885, when 
 he removed to Niagara, N. Dak., and worked 
 on a farm there, until 1887, when he went 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 to Montana, and worked for the Great 
 Northern Railway Company, on railroad 
 construction work. He has been engaged in 
 the mercantile business at Saco, Mont., since 
 1893. He was a member of the State Legis- 
 lature of Montana, 1900-1902; attended one 
 regular session and two special sessions 
 during that time; appointed notary public 
 in 1887, which position he still holds. He 
 was appointed U. S. Commissioner in Decem- 
 ber, 1901, for four years, and reappointed in 
 December, 1905, which position he still 
 holds. Mr. Vagg is a Republican in poli- 
 tics, and an Episcopalian in religion. He 
 married in Saco, Mont., June 28, 1879, Bettie 
 Wilson, and they have two children; Roland 
 and Vivian Vagg. Address: Saco, Mont. 
 
 VAN BOSKERCK, Robert W.: 
 
 Artist, landscape painter; born in Ho- 
 boken, N. J., 1855; son of L. J. and' Katha- 
 rine Zoberosky (Anderson) Van Boskerck. 
 He was graduated from the school of Mines 
 of Columbia University, C.E., 1877 and was 
 a pupil of A. W. Wyant and of Swain Clif- 
 ford for still life and with A. H. Wyant 
 for landscape painting. He painted in Hol- 
 land in 1885, in U. S. for many years, Hack- 
 ensack, N. J., Wakefield, R. I., Orange Co., 
 N. Y., and East Lynne, Conn, (had a sum- 
 mer studio there for two years). He has 
 painted in England for five summers and in 
 France for seven summers. Mr. Van Bos- 
 kerck was chairman of the Art Committee 
 of the Union League Club of New York at 
 one time and was on the committee for five 
 years before. He was awarded a silver 
 medal for the painting at the Pan-American 
 Exposition, Bufl'alo, and silver medal at the 
 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. He is a 
 member of the Society of American Artists 
 and an academician of the National Acad- 
 emy of Design, New York City; member of 
 the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the 
 Union Leagvie, Lotos, Fencers and Delta 
 Kappa Epsilon Clubs of New York City. 
 Address: 58 West 57th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 VANDERBILT Cornelius: 
 
 Capitalist and mechanical engineer; born 
 in New Y^ork City, Sept. 5, 1873; son of | 
 93 
 
 Cornelius Vanderbilt and Alice (Gwynnc) 
 Vanderbilt. He was prepared for college 
 at St. Paul's School, Concord, from which 
 he went to Yale, and was graduated B.A., 
 1895. He took special courses in the Shef- 
 field Scientific School of Yale, after gradua- 
 tion from the college, receiving the degrees 
 of Ph.B., 1898, and M.E., 1899. Upon the 
 conclusion of his studies he set to work prac- 
 tically to master the details of mechanical 
 engineering, and during recent years has 
 given attention to the motive power and 
 civil engineering departments of the New 
 York Central and Hudson River Railroad. 
 Mr. Vanderbilt served as a civil service com- 
 missioner during the administration of 
 Maj'or Low, but resigned near the end of 
 his term ; and he is a captain in the Twelfth 
 Regiment of the National Guard of New 
 York. He is a director of the New York 
 Life Insurance and Trust Company, the 
 United States Mortgage and Trust Com- 
 pany, Windsor Trust Company, Mutual Life 
 Insurance Company, National Park Bank, 
 Mutual Bank, Marine National Bank of 
 Bufl'alo, Illinois Central Railway Company, 
 Allis-Chalmers Company, Lackawanna Steel 
 Company, Interborough Rapid Transit 
 Company, Rapid Transit Subway Construc- 
 tion Company, Subway Realty Company, 
 The Audit Company of New York, the 
 Hudson Companies, Intei'borough-lNIetropoli- 
 tan Comjiany, Commercial Trust Company 
 of New Jersey, Mexican Telegraph Com- 
 pany, New York City Interborough Rail- 
 way Company, and Provident Loan Society. 
 Mr. Vanderbilt is an a-ssociate member of 
 the American Society of Mechanical En- 
 gineers' and of the Saratoga Association. 
 He is a member of the Century Association, 
 the Union League, Knickerbocker, Metropoli- 
 tan, Brook, City, Midday, Down Town, Uni- 
 versity and Y^ale Clubs, commodore of the 
 New York Yacht Club, and a member of the 
 Larchmont Yacht, Atlantic Yacht, Seawan- 
 haka-Corinthian Yacht, and Turf and Field 
 Clubs. Mr. Vanderbilt married in New 
 York City, Aug. 3, 1896, Grace Wilson, and 
 they have two children: Cornelius, Jr., 
 and Grace. Residence: 677 Fifth Avenue. 
 Office : 30 Pine Street, New York City. 
 
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 VANDERBILT, Frederick William: 
 
 Capitalist; born in 1855; son of William 
 Henry and Maria Louisa (Kissam) Vander- 
 bilt. He was graduated from the Sheffield 
 Scientific School, Yale, in 1876. He ob- 
 tained his business training education in his 
 father's office, going through every depart- 
 ment in the railroad service and mastering 
 the general details of the whole business. 
 He is now director in the New York Central 
 and Hudson River Railroad Company; Lake 
 Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Com- 
 pany; Michigan Central Railroad Company; 
 West Shore Railroad Company; New York, 
 Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company; 
 Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Com- 
 pany; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and 
 Omaha Railroad Company; Lake Erie and 
 Western Railroad Company; member of 
 the Board of Managers of the Delaware, 
 Lackawanna and Western Railroad Com- 
 pany, and director of numerous other rail- 
 road and other corporations. He is the 
 owner of the steam yacht Warrior. Mr. 
 Vanderbilt is a member of the Sons of the 
 American Revolution, and of the Knicker- 
 bocker, University, Metropolitan, Larchmont 
 Yacht Clubs, New York Yacht, Tuxedo, Rac- 
 quet and Tennis, South Side and Yale Clubs. 
 He married in 1880, Mrs. Alfred Torrance 
 (nee Anthony). Address: 459 Fifth Ave- 
 nue. New York City. 
 
 VANDERBILT, George Washington: 
 
 Capitalist; born in New Dorp, Staten Is- 
 land, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1862; son of William 
 Henry Vanderbilt and Maria' Louisa (Kis- 
 sam) Vanderbilt. He was educated by pri- 
 vate tutors and in private schools. He gave 
 to the Teachers' College its site on Morning- 
 side Heights; built and equipped the Thir- 
 teenth Street Branch of the New York Pub- 
 lie Library, and gave the American Society 
 of Fine Arts the room in their building 
 known as the Vanderbilt Gallery. He pur- 
 chased one hundred and twenty-five thou- 
 sand' acres of mountain land on French Broad 
 River, near Asheville, N. C, which he has 
 improved and beautified by scientific fores- 
 try into what is probably the finest park in 
 America, building there a mansion and sta- 
 
 bles, and stocking the estate with great care. 
 He is a member of the Sons of the American 
 Revolution, and of the Century Association, 
 the Metropolitan, National Arts, and Play- 
 ers' Clubs. Mr. Vanderbilt married in 1898, 
 Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, and they have 
 one daughter, Cornelia Stuyvesant. Ad- 
 dress : Biltmore House, Biltmore, N. C, 
 and 1707 New Hampshire Avenue, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 VANDERBILT, William Kissam: 
 
 Capitalist; born at New Dorp, Staten Is- 
 land, N. Y., Dec. 12, 1849. He was educated 
 privately in New York City, and Geneva, 
 Switzerland. He learned the railroad busi- 
 ness, beginning in the office of C. C. Clarke, 
 treasurer of the Hudson River Railroad, and 
 passing through various grades. He became 
 second vice-president of the New York Cen- 
 tral and Hudson River Railroad Company, 
 1877-1883; president and chairman of the 
 Board of Directors of the New York, Chi- 
 cago and St. Louis Railroad, 1882-1898; 
 chairman of the Board of Directors of 
 the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern 
 Railway Company, 1883-1898; and since 
 September, 1899, president and director of 
 the New York and Harlem Railroad; also 
 director of the New York Central and Hud- 
 son River Railroad; Lake Shore and Michi- 
 gan Southern Railroad; Michigan Central 
 Railroad; New York, Chicago and St. Louis 
 Railroad; Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Rail- 
 road; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. 
 Louis Railroad; Lake Erie and Western 
 Railroad; Chicago, Indiana and Southern 
 Railroad; Chicago and Northwestern Rail- 
 road; Rutland Railroad; New York and Ot- 
 tawa Railway; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapo- 
 lis and Omaha Railroad; Lake Erie, Alli- 
 ance and Wheeling Railroad; and the Dun- 
 kirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Rail- 
 road. Mr. Vanderbilt, together with his 
 brothers, founded the Vanderbilt Clinic. He 
 is a member of the Knickerbocker, Union, 
 Racquet and Tennis, Jockey, Metropolitan, 
 South Side, New York Yacht, Knoll wood. 
 Meadow Brook, Players, Turf, County, and 
 Larchmont Yacht Clubs. He married, first, 
 in 1874, Alva Murray Smith (now Mrs. O. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1555 
 
 H. P. Belmont) ; and second, in 1903, Mrs. 
 Ann Hartman Sands Rutherford', and he 
 has three children: Consuelo (married in 
 1895, the Duke of Marlborough), William K. 
 Jr., and Harold S. Address: GGO Fifth 
 Aveiuu^ New York City. 
 
 VANDERSAAL, S. W.: 
 
 President of the Fourth National Bank 
 of Pittsburgh; born in Lancaster County, 
 Pa., in 1845. He attended the State Nor- 
 mal School at Millersville, and Academy at 
 Parkersburg, Pa., and Crintenden's Business 
 College in Philadelphia. He went to Oil 
 Creek, in 18G8 and in 1883 moved to Pitts- 
 burgh. He took charge of the Grafton Blast 
 Furnaces for the late firm of Graff, Bennett 
 and Company, until 1888, when they retired 
 from business; then became associated with 
 the late Judge Bailey in the settlement of 
 their affairs. After this he again became in- 
 terested in the oil and gas business, acting 
 as secretary, treasurer and general manager 
 of the West Penn Gas Company; vice-presi- 
 dent and general manager of the Fayette 
 Gas Fuel Company of Uniontown, Pennsyl- 
 vania, and treasurer and general manager 
 of the Appollo Oil and Gas Company. He 
 is also president of the Pittsburgh and Deer 
 Park Connecting Railway, and president of 
 the Sylacauga Improvement Company of 
 Alabama and a director of the Pittsburgh 
 Ice Company. In 1903 was elected president 
 of the Fourth National Bank of Pittsburgh. 
 He married, in 1872, Louisa McCloskey of 
 Clarion, Pa., and they have one daughter. 
 Address: Farmers' Bank Building, Pitts- 
 burgh, Pa. 
 
 VAN DER VEER, Albert: 
 
 Physician and surgeon; born in Root, 
 Montgomery County, N. Y., July 10, 1841; 
 son of Abraham H. and Sarah (Martin) 
 Van der Veer. He was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Canajoharie, N. Y., Union Free 
 School, Palatine, N. Y., Canajoharie (N. Y.) 
 Academy; was a student of medicine in Al- 
 bany Medical College, 1861, and National 
 Medical College (Medical Department of Co- 
 lumbian University) Washington, M.D., 
 Dee. 23, 1862. He served as assistant sur- 
 geon and surgeon, Sixty-sixth New York 
 
 Volunteers, 1862-1865; was one of the sur- 
 geons in charge of the First Division Second 
 Army Corps, 1863-1864, and 1865. Since the 
 war Dr. Van der Veer has been engaged in 
 the i^ractice of medicine and surgery in Al- 
 bany, N. Y. He is professor of surgery 
 in Albany Medical College, surgeon-in-chief 
 of Albany Hospital, attending surgeon of the 
 South End Dispensary, Albany; consulting 
 surgeon of the New York State Hospital for 
 Crippled' and Deformed Children at West 
 Haverstraw, N. Y. ; dean of the Albany Med- 
 ical College, 1896-1904. He is a member of 
 the American Surgical Association, Ameri- 
 can Medical Association, Medical Society of 
 the State of New York, Medical Society of 
 the County of Albany, American Association 
 of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, South- 
 ern Surgical and Gynecological Association, 
 x\lbany Institute and Historical and Art So- 
 ciety, New York Historical Society, Holland 
 Society, and he has received the decoration 
 of the Order of Orange-Nassau from the 
 Queen of Holland. He is a governor of the 
 Albany Hospital; trustee of the Bender 
 Hygienic Laboratory, the National Saving's 
 Bank and Albany Cemetery Association. 
 Dr. Vander Veer is a regent of the Univer- 
 sity of the State of New York. He is a 
 member of the Nu Sigma Nu Medical fra- 
 ternity and of the Fort Orange and Univer- 
 sity Clubs of Albany. He married in Curry- 
 to.vn, N. Y., June 5, 1867, Margaret E. 
 Snow, and they have had six children, three 
 of whom are now deceased. Residences : 145 
 State Street, Albany; and (summer) Camp 
 Atkinaar, Big Moose Lake, N. Y. Office: 
 28 Eagle Street, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 VAN DEVANTER, Willis: 
 
 U. S. Circuit Judge; born in Marion, Ind., 
 April 17, 1859; son of Isaac and Violetto 
 M. (Spencer) Van Devanter. He was edu- 
 cated in Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) 
 University and the Cincinnati Law School, 
 from which he was graduated in 1881. Af- 
 ter practising at Marion for three years, 
 he removed to Cheyenne, Wyo., and engaged 
 in practice. He served as city attorney of 
 Cheyenne, as member of the Territorial Leg- 
 islature, member of the Territorial Revision 
 Commission, as chief justice of the Territo- 
 
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 rial Supreme Court, and as the first chief jus- 
 tice of the State. Afterwards he was chair- 
 man of the State Republican Committee, del- 
 egate to the National Eepublican Conven- 
 tion at St. Louis in 1896, and member of 
 the National Republican Committee. In 
 1897 he was appointed by President Mc- 
 Kinley, assistant attorney-general of the 
 United States, and assigned to the Interior 
 Department, serving in that position imtil 
 appointed by President Roosevelt United 
 States circuit judge for the Eighth Circuit, 
 Feb. 18, 1903. Residence: Cheyenne, Wyo. 
 
 VAN DE WATER, George Roe: 
 
 Clergyman, author; born in Flushing, N. 
 Y., April 25, 1854; son of John Titus and 
 Ellen Burnetta (Doughty) Van de Water. 
 He was educated in Flushing Institute, Cor- 
 nell University, 1870-1874; General Theo- 
 logical Seminary, 1874-1877. The Nashotah 
 Theological Seminary conferred upon him 
 the degree of D.D. in 1885. He was rector 
 of Christ Church, Oyster Bay, 187G-1880; 
 St. Luke's Church, "Brooklyn, 1880-1887; 
 parochial missioner for the United States, 
 1887-1888; rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal 
 Church, New York City since 1888. He was 
 chajjlain of Columbia LTniversity, 1893-1905; 
 grand chaplain of Masons of the State of 
 New York, 1896, 1898, and from 1900 to 
 1902; chaplain of the Twenty-third Regi- 
 ment, 1877-1880, and of the Seventy-first 
 Regiment, 1882-1898, of the National Guard 
 of New York, and of the Seventy-first Reg- 
 iment U. S. Volunteers, in the Spanish- 
 American War, Fifth Army Corps, May- 
 October, 1898. He served in the battles of 
 Las Guasimas and San Juan; was detailed 
 for duty in hospitals in the field and at Fer- 
 niosa and Siboney, back of the entrench- 
 ments at San Juan, and at Montauk. He is 
 trustee of the Executive Committee of the 
 New York Protestant Episcopal City Mis- 
 sion society; trustee of the General Theolog- 
 ical Seminary, the Youngs' Memorial Ceme- 
 tery at Oyster Bay, and the Home for In- 
 curables, New York. Dr. Van de Water is 
 author of: Two Notable Rulers; The Mis- 
 sion Hymnal ; Church History, two volumes ; 
 also published sermons. He is a member of 
 the Military Order of Foreign Wars, the So- 
 
 ciety of Santiago, Veteran Association of the 
 Twenty-third Regiment of the National 
 Guard, New York Churchman's Association, 
 and of the Century Association and the St. 
 Nicholas, Union League, Seawanhaka Yacht, 
 and Ardsley Clubs. He married at Oyster 
 Bay, N. Y., April 24, 1879, Cornelia Town- 
 send Youngs, and they have one adopted son. 
 Address: St. Andrew's Church, 2067 Fifth 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
 VAN DYKE, Henry: 
 
 Clergyman and author; born in German- 
 town, Pa., Nov. 10, 1852; son of Rev. Henry 
 Jackson Van Dyke, D.D., and Henrietta 
 (Ashmead) Van Dyke, descendant of John 
 Van Dyke, a patriot soldier who was killed 
 at the battle of Monmouth, in 1778, and of 
 Jan Thomasse Van Dijk, who emigrated 
 from Holland in 1652, and became the first 
 magistrate of New Utrecht, Long Island. 
 He was graduated from the Polytechnic In- 
 stitute in Brooklyn, 1869, and from Prince- 
 ton, A.B., 1873, A.M., 1876, and from the 
 Princeton Theological Seminary in 1877. 
 His ordination to the Presbyterian minis- 
 try took place in 1876, and after leaving the 
 seminary he took a post-graduate course 
 in the University of Berlin, 1877-1878. He 
 was pastor of the United Congregational 
 Church at Newport, R. I., 18794882, and 
 of the Brick Presbyterian Church of New 
 York City, 1882-1900, when he was called 
 to the chair of English literature at Prince- 
 ton, which he has held ever since. He re- 
 ceived the degree of D.D. from Princeton, 
 1884, Harvard, 1893, and Yale, 1896; and 
 that of LL.D. from Union College, 1898, 
 Washington and Jeff'erson College, 1902, and 
 Wesleyan LTniversity, 1903. He is a trustee 
 of Princeton LTniversity, has been preacher 
 to Harvard University and the Universities 
 of Pennsylvania and Chicago, and Lyman 
 Beecher lecturer at Yale ; and he was elect- 
 ed moderator of the Presbyterian Church in 
 the United States in 1902. Dr. Van Dyke 
 is author of: The Reality of Religion, 
 1884; The Story of the Psalms, 1887; The 
 Poetry of Tennyson, 1889, 1895; The Christ 
 Child in Art, 1894; Little Rivers, 1895; 
 The Gospel for an Age of Doubt, 1896; 
 The Other Wise Man, 1896; The Builders 
 
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 and Other Poems, 1897; The Gospel for a 
 World of Sin, 1890; The Toiling of Felix 
 and Other Poems, 1900; The Ruling Passion, 
 1901; The Blue Flower, 1902; The Open 
 Door, 1903; Music, and Other Poems, 1904; 
 The School of Life, 1905; Essays in Appli- 
 cation, 1905; The Spirit of Christmas, 1906; 
 Days Oflf, 1907; and other books on reli- 
 gious and literary svibjects which have made 
 him one of the most prominent literary fig- 
 ures of the English-speaking world, and has 
 edited several series and editions of Eng- 
 lish poets. He is a member and has been 
 president of the Holland Society. He mar- 
 ried in Baltimore, Dec. 13, 1881, Ellen Reid. 
 Address : Avalon, Princeton, N. J. 
 
 VAN DYKE, Joseph Smith: 
 
 Clergyman; born in Bound Brook, N. J., 
 Nov. 2, 1832; son of Benjamin and Eliza- 
 beth (Smith) Van Dyke. He was prepared 
 for college at Somerville, N. J., was grad- 
 uated from Princeton, 1857, Theological 
 Seminary of Princeton, A.B., A.M. and D.D. 
 from Alma Mater. He was pastor of the 
 Presbyterian Church, Bloomsburg, N. J., 
 and of the Presbyterian Church, Cranberry, 
 N. J., which church became strong under 
 his twenty-seven years of service. He or- 
 ganized the State Temperance Society, and 
 has lectured extensively on temperance. 
 He is author of: Popery the Foe of the 
 Church and the Republic (fifteen editions) ; 
 Through the Prison to the Throne, Illus- 
 trations of Life from the Biography of 
 Joseph; From Gloom to Gladness, Illustra- 
 tions of Life from the Biography of Esther; 
 Theism and Evolution; and Giving or En- 
 tertainment — Which ?, a pamphlet, calling 
 attention to the evils of church fairs. Dr. 
 Van Dyke married in Bridgeton, N. J., May 
 4, 1801, Sarah J. Swine, an they have four 
 children. Address: Hightstown, N. J. 
 
 VEDDER, Harmon A.: 
 
 Physician; born in Flushing, Long 
 Island, N. Y., Jan. 10, 18G8; son of Mans 
 R. and Sarah (Cutwater) Vedder. He 
 was educated in private schools of New 
 York City; was graduated from Columbia 
 College, B.A., 1888; the College of Physi- 
 cians and Surgeons, M.D., 1891. After an 
 
 interneship of eighteen months^ in New 
 York Hospital, and three months at Sloane 
 JNIaternity Hospital. Dr. Vedder went 
 abroad and pursued a course of study at 
 Edinburgh University and Royal Infirmary, 
 Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1893 he began 
 the practice of medicine in New York City. 
 He is a member of the Alumni Association 
 of Columbia College, Alumni Association 
 of New York Hospital, Alumni Association 
 of Sloane Maternity Hospital, Greater New 
 York Medical Society, Holland Society, and 
 the Delta Phi fraternity, and Quiz Club. 
 He married Dec. 12, 1894, Effie Turner 
 Boultbee, of Toronto^ Canada, and by that 
 marriage, there are three children. Ad- 
 dress: 44 East 76th Street, New York City. 
 
 VINCENT, Boyd: 
 
 Bishop of Southern Ohio; born in Erie, 
 Pa., May 18, 1845. He was graduated from 
 Yale University, B.A., 1867, M.A., 1870; 
 and from Berkeley Divinity School in 1871. 
 In 1889 the degree of S.T.D. was conferred 
 upon him by Trinity College, Hartford, 
 Conn., and that of D.D. by Kenyon College. 
 He was ordered deacon of the Episcopal 
 Church in 1871, and the following year 
 was ordained priest by Bishop Kerfoot. He 
 was .assistant of St. Paul's Church, Erie, 
 Pa., until 1872, rector of the Church of 
 the Cross and Crown, Erie, 1872-1874; rec- 
 tor of the Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, 1874- 
 1889, resigning in 1889 to become bishop 
 coadjutor of Southern Ohio. He was conse- 
 crated by Bishops Spalding, Dudley, Penick, 
 Whitehead and Knickerbocker. In 1904 he 
 was made Bishop of Southern Ohio. He 
 is author of: Lectures on God and Prayer, 
 1897, and has also written various pamph- 
 lets and sermons. Address: Cathedral 
 House, 223 West Seventh Street, Cincinnati. 
 
 VINTON, Frederic Porter: 
 
 Artist; bornSn Bangor, Me., Jan. 29, 
 1846; son of William Henry and Sarah 
 Ward (Goodhue) Vinton, and on both sides 
 of old New England ancestry. He was edu- 
 cated in the common schools of Chicago, 
 where his parents had moved when he was 
 a child, later finishing his education at Bos- 
 ton. He engaged in business pursuits until 
 
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 1875, in the meantime employing his leis- 
 ure hours in painting and the study of art, 
 being greatly encouraged in this by the late 
 William M. Hunt, who found merit in his 
 early work, and studied for some time at 
 the Lowell Institute, and later under Dr. 
 William Rimme. In 1875 he went abroad 
 and became a pupil of Leon Bonnat in Paris. 
 The following year he was a pupil at the 
 Royal Academy in Munich, Bavaria, and 
 in 1877 returned to Paris and studied under 
 Jean Paul Laurens until 1878. While in 
 Paris he exhibited in the Salon, one of 
 his pictures being purchased by the French 
 Government. Returning to the United 
 States in 1878, he opened a studio in Bos- 
 ton and there painted the portraits of some 
 of the most prominent men in Boston. In 
 1880 he was elected member of the So- 
 ciety of American Artists and in 1882 was 
 made associate of the National Academy 
 of Design, becoming academician in 1891. 
 He spent several long periods in Europe, and 
 in 1890 he exhibited at the Paris Salon a 
 portrait of his wife, which was painted' in 
 Paris, receiving honorable mention. He was 
 awarded a silver medal in the Paris Expo- 
 sition, 1900. He also received gold medals 
 at the World's Columbian Exposition in 
 1893, at the Pan American Exposition, Buf- 
 falo, in 1901, and the St. Louis Exhibition 
 in 1904 and was awarded the Temple gold 
 medal by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine 
 Arts, Philadelphia, in 1909. He is a mem- 
 ber of the National Academy of Arts and 
 Letters, the Thursday Evening Club, Ex- 
 aminer Club, St. Botolph Club (charter 
 member), and the Tavei'n Club (charter 
 member), all of Boston. He married at 
 Newport, R. I., June 27, 1883, Annie M. 
 Pierce. Address : 247 Newbury Street, Bos- 
 ton. 
 
 VOLK, Douglas: 
 
 Artist; born in Pittsfield, Mass., Feb. 23, 
 1856; son of Leonard W. and Emily C. 
 (Barlow) Vollv. He studied art at Rome, 
 Italy, 1870-1873, and at the Ecole des Beaux 
 Arts, Paris, under GerOrae, 1873-1879, exhib- 
 iting at the Paris Salon, 1875-1878. Re- 
 turning to the United States in 1879, he 
 became instructor at the Cooper Institute, 
 
 until 1885 and again, 1894-1898 and 1900- 
 1904. He founded in 1886 the Minneapolis 
 School of Fine Arts and was its director 
 until 1893, when he was appointed in- 
 structor at the Art Students' League in 
 New York City, which position he held until 
 1901, filling also a similar position at Coop- 
 er Institute. He was member of the Na- 
 tional Jury of Fine Arts at the Columbian 
 and the St. Louis Expositions and was the 
 recipient of various medals from the Chi- 
 cago, Buffalo, Charleston, Boston, and St. 
 Louis Expositions. He also was awarded 
 the Shaw prize of $1,500 by the Society of 
 American Artists in 1899; and' the Carne- 
 gie prize by the same society in 1901. His 
 pictures have been purchased by the Car- 
 negie Institute at Pittsburgh, Corcoran Gal- 
 lery at Washington, Pittsfield ISIuseum, the 
 State of Minnesota for tlie new Capitol 
 building, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 
 New York City, and for the National Gal- 
 lery at Washington. Mr. Volk is a member 
 of the National Academy of Design, of the 
 Society of American Artists (secretary, 
 1899-1900), of the Artists' Aid Society and 
 of the Artists' Fund Society of New York 
 City, and the National Arts Club. He mar- 
 ried, at Chicago, June 25, 1881, Marion Lar- 
 rabee, and has had four children. Address : 
 Care of National Academy of Design, New 
 York City. 
 
 VONNOH, Bessie Potter: 
 
 Sculptor; born in St. Louis, 1872; daugh- 
 ter of Alexander C. and ]\Iary E. (Mc- 
 Kenney) Potter. She was educated in the 
 Art Institution of Chicago and married at 
 Rockland Lake, N. Y., September, 1899, 
 Robert W. Vonnoh (painter). Traveled 
 abroad in 1895-1897 and 1900. Mrs. Von- 
 noh has received the second prize for sculp- 
 ture, Tennessee, Centennial, 1896; a bronze 
 medal from the Paris Exposition, 1900; 
 Julia G. Shaw prize. Society American Art- 
 ists 1904; gold medal St. Louis Exposition, 
 1904. Specialty, statuettes of women and 
 of children. Her work is included in the 
 collections of the Art Institutions of Chi- 
 cago, of the Cincinnati Museum, the Imper- 
 ial Museum, Tokio, Japan and the Metro- 
 politan Museum of Art, New York City. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1559 
 
 Mrs. Vonnoli is an associate of the National 
 Academy of Design and a member of the 
 National Sculpture Society and the Society 
 of American Artists. Address: 33 West 
 67th Street, New York City. 
 
 VONNOH, Robert: 
 
 Artist; born in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 17, 
 1858. He was educated in the Boston pub- 
 lic schools ; became a pupil and instructor 
 in the Normal Art School, 1875-1879; in- 
 structor of drawing, Roxbury Evening 
 Drawing School, Boston and Thayer Acad- 
 emy; student of the Academic Julian, in the 
 painting Cowles Art School, Boston, 1884- 
 1885; principal of the East Boston Evening 
 Drawing School, 1883-1885; principal in- 
 structor in portrait and' figure painting, 
 Boston Museum of Fine Arts. 1885-1887; 
 painted and studied abroad 1887-1891; prin- 
 cipal instructor in portrait and figure paint- 
 ing, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 
 Philadelphia, 1891-1896. Mr. Vonnoh has 
 been an exhibitor at the Paris Salon, Mu- 
 nich and London Exhibitions, Exposition 
 Universelle, Paris, 1889 and 1900; World's 
 Fair, Ccicago, 1893; Stockholm, 1896; Buf- 
 falo. 1901 ; St. Louis. 1904 and others. He 
 is an academician of the National Academy 
 of Design ; a painter of portrait figure and 
 landscape. Mr. Vonnoh is a member of the 
 National Jury for American Section of the 
 Paris Exposition of 1900; International 
 Juries, Carnegie Expositions at Pittsburgh, 
 International Jury of Awards, St. Louis, 
 1904. He received medals at Boston, Paris, 
 Chicago, Buffalo, Charlestown, St. Louis, 
 Thomas R. Proctor prize for portraiture, 
 National Academy of Design; member of the 
 Secession, Mvmich Society American Artists 
 Society, and the Portrait Painters, and Na- 
 tional Arts, Lotos Salmagundi Clubs of New 
 York. He married, first, Boston, July 7, 
 1886, Grace D. Farrell, who died, and he 
 married, second, at Rockland Lake, N. Y., 
 Sept. 19, 1899, Bessie O. Potter. Residence: 
 Rockland Lake, Rockland County, N. Y. 
 Address: 33 W^est 67th Street. 
 
 VOORHEES, Willard Penfield: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New Brunswick. N. J.. 
 July 28, 1851; son of Abraham and Jane 
 
 (Jarvis) Voorhees. He was graduated from 
 Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., 
 A.B. and A.M., class of 1871. He was ad- 
 mitted as an attorney in 1874, counsellor in 
 1878, appointed a justice of the Supreme 
 Court of New Jersey in 1908. He is also a 
 director of the New Brunswick Trust Com- 
 pany. Mr. Voorliees is .trustee of the 
 Francis E. Parker Memorial Home of New 
 Brunswick, N. J., member of the Delta Kap- 
 pa Epsilon fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa So- 
 ciety, Holland Society, and the Union Club 
 of New Brunswick, and the New York Ath- 
 letic Club. He married in New Brunswick, 
 N. J.. March 15, 1877, Sarah Rutgers Neil- 
 son, and they have had two children, one liv- 
 ing. Address : New Brunswick, N. J. 
 
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 WADDILL, Edmund, Jr.: 
 
 V. S. district ju(lg(>; born in Charles 
 City County, Va., May 22, 1855. He was 
 educated in the schools of Richmond, Va., 
 studied law, and was admitted to the bar. 
 He was judge of the County Court of Hen- 
 rico County, 1880-1883; was appointed by 
 President Arthur, in 1883, U. S. attorney 
 for the Eastern District of Virginia, serv- 
 ing until 1885; was a member of the Vir- 
 ginia Legislature. 18851889, and was elect- 
 ed in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress, as 
 a Republican, serving until 1891. He re- 
 sumed the practice of law in Richmond, 
 until March 22, 1898, when he was ap- 
 pointed by President McKinley to his pres- 
 ent office as U. S. district judge for the 
 Eastern District of Virginia. Address: 
 Riehn.ond, Va. 
 
 WADSWORTH, Augustus: 
 
 Physician; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 
 25, 1872; son of Charles Davis and Clara 
 (Blanchard) Wadsworth. He was grad- 
 uated from the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology. S.B., 1893, and from the Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons (Colum- 
 bia), M.D., 1890. He was interne at St. 
 Luke's Hospital, 1897-1899, and studied at 
 Berlin and Vienna, 1899. He was an Alum- 
 ni fellow in pathology and assistant in bac- 
 
1560 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 teriology and hygiene, in the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia Uni- 
 versity, 1899-1904; and since 1904 has been 
 Alonzo Clark scholar in pathology and in- 
 structor in bacteriology and hygiene in that 
 institution. He is assistant physician to 
 Roosevelt Hospital, Out-Patient Depart- 
 ment. Dr. Wadsworth is a contributor of 
 professional papers on medical, bacteriologi- 
 cal and hygienic subjects to leading medi- 
 cal journals. He is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Association of Pathologists and Bac- 
 teriologists, the Society for Experimental 
 Medicine and Biology, American Medical 
 Association, New York Academy of Medi- 
 cine, Medical Society of the County of New 
 York, Medical Society of the State of 
 New Yoi'k, New York Pathological So- 
 ciety, Society of the Alumni of St. Luke's 
 Hospital, and the University and Technol- 
 ogy Clubs of New York City. Address : 
 ISO West 59th Street, New York City. 
 
 WADSWORTH, James Wolcott, Jr.: 
 
 l"'ariiier and speaker of the New York 
 Assembly; born in Geneseo, N. Y., Aug. 12, 
 1877; son of James Wolcott and Louisa 
 (Travers) W^adsworth. He was graduated 
 from Yale University, B.A., 1898. He has 
 been engaged in farming since 1899, and 
 is a director of the Geneseo Valley Na- 
 tional Bank. Mr. Wadsworth served as a 
 private in Battery A, Pennsylvania Field 
 Artillery, in Porto Rico, 1898. He was 
 • elected member of the Assembly from Liv- 
 ingston County, in 1904; reelected annually 
 since; elected speaker of the Assembly, 
 Jan. 3, 1900, and reelected each year to 
 date. In polities he is a Republican. Mr. 
 Wadswoi'th is trustee of the New York 
 State Public Buildings; commissioner of 
 the Land Office of New York State, 
 and trustee of C!ornell University. He is 
 aiso a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fra- 
 ternity, and of the University, Racquet and 
 Tennis, and Yale Clubs of New York City, 
 the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D. 
 C, and the Fort Orange Club of Albany. 
 Mr. Wadsworth married in Newberry, N. 
 IL, Sept. 30, 1902, Alice Hay, and has a 
 son and a duiigliter. Address: Mount 
 Moriis, N. Y, 
 
 WAGNALLS, Adam Willis: 
 
 Publisher, clergyman; born in Lithopolis, 
 O., Sept. 24, 1843. He was graduated from 
 Wittenberg College, Springfield, 0., in 1866; 
 studied theology in Wittenberg Seminary. 
 In 1867 he was. ordained, organized and be- 
 came pastor of the First Lutheran Church 
 in Kansas City, Mo. He moved to Kan- 
 sas, and was city clerk of Atchison, 
 1871 1873; removing to New York City he 
 entered the publishing business in 1876, 
 and was one of the founders of the publish- 
 ing house of Funk & Wagnalls Company, 
 publishers of the Standard Dictionary, the 
 Jewish Encyclopedia, and many other im- 
 portant works. He married in 1868 Anna 
 \Mllis. Address: 40-60 East 23d Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 WAINWRIGHT, Richard: 
 
 Roar admiral, U. S. Navy; 1)orn in Wash- 
 ington, D. C, Dec. 17, 1849; son of Com- 
 mander Richard W^ainwright (who died on 
 the Mississippi, Aug. 10, 1862, while com- 
 manding Farragut's flagship, the Hart- 
 ford). He entered the Naval Academy, 
 then at Newport, R. L, Sept. 28, 1864, and 
 was graduated from the Academy at An- 
 napolis in 1868. He served through the 
 various grades and as lieutenant-commander 
 became chief intelligence officer, 1896 1897; 
 and in December, 1897, he became executive 
 officer of the battleship Maine, then under 
 command of Captain" Sigsbee, and was on 
 that vessel when it was destroyed in Ha- 
 vana harbor, Feb. 15, 1908. When war 
 began, Lieutenant-Commander Wainwright 
 commanded the Gloucester, J. P. Morgan's 
 yacht which had been converted into a gun- 
 boat. On July 3, 1898, when Admiral Cer- 
 vera's squadron of four cruisers and two 
 torpedo-boat-destroyers made their dash for 
 freedom out of Santiago harbor, the Glou- 
 cester was boldly driven at the two boats 
 with such driving force and rapid and 
 accurate firing that both boats went quick- 
 ly down with more than one hundred of 
 their men. When he had finished this 
 work, Lieutenant-Commander Wainwright 
 turned down the coast, and was the first 
 to reach the Infanta Maria Teresa, Admiral 
 Corvera's flagshiji, which the hot fire of the 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1561 
 
 American fleet had driven ashore, and 
 Wainwright therefore had the honor to ac- 
 cept the surrender of the Spanish Admiral. 
 In November, 1898, Wainwright was as- 
 signed to duty at the Naval Academy and 
 from 1900 to 1902, he was superintend- 
 ent of the Academy, then took command 
 of the cruiser Newark, 1902-1904. He was 
 promoted commander, March 3, 1900, and 
 captain, Aug. 10, 1903; was on the General 
 Board from Oct. 27, 1904, until June 20, 
 1907, when he was ordered to command the 
 battleship Louisiana. He took part in the 
 great fleet movement to the Pacific, and 
 being promoted to rear admiral, was placed 
 in command of the second division on the 
 return voyage. Address: 1264 New Hamp- 
 shire Avenue, Washington, D. C. 
 
 WAIT, John Cassan: 
 
 Lawyer and civil engineer; born in Isor- 
 wich, N. Y., June 4, 1860; son of Andrew 
 Marcellus and Ambrosia Jane (Sergeant) 
 Wait. He was educated in the Norwich 
 (N. Y. ) Academy, Cornell University, 
 B.C.E., 1882; M.C.E., 1891, Norwich (Vt.) 
 University, M.S., 1887, and Harvard Law 
 School, LL.B., 1891. He was a civil engi- 
 neer in the employ of the Standard Oil 
 Company, 1883, of the Vanderbilt S3^stem 
 of Railroads, 1882-1883, of the Pullman Al- 
 lied Companies, 1884-1885; Gould System 
 of railroads, 1885; at Harvard College, as 
 a student and as a teacher of engineer- 
 ing, 1887-1894; assistant engineer New 
 York State Canal, 1896-1897; editor of the 
 Pwiilroad Gazette, 1893-1895. He is a 
 pioneer in engineering and architectural 
 jurisprudence, representing as attorney, 
 contractors and builders, and is counsel for 
 very large interests in the building line and 
 has numerous disciples in same specialty. 
 He is head of the law firm of Wait & 
 Foster; and was assistant and acting cor- 
 poration counsel, 1900-1904. He is a di- 
 rector of the Upland Realty Company; 
 Chenango Drug Company; Hanover Realty 
 Company, and other corporations. Mr. 
 Wait is a director of the American So- 
 ciety, Refrigerating Engineers; member of 
 the American Society Civil Engineers, Mu- 
 nicipal Engineers of the City of New Yoi'k; 
 
 Cornell Association of Civil Engineers; So- 
 ciety for the Promotion of Engineering 
 Education, the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science, and the New 
 York Historical Association. He is au- 
 thor of: Engineering and Architectural 
 Jurisprudence; Operations Preliminary to 
 Instruction in Engineering and Architec- 
 ture ; Law of Contracts ; Family Records 
 of Thomas Wait of Rhode Island ; Genea- 
 logical Records of the Wait Families of 
 New England. He is a Democrat and Epis- 
 copalian. He was captain of Artillery 
 Vermont National Guard, 1886-1887; com- 
 mandant and superintendent of the Norwich 
 University, Vermont Military Institution, 
 1886-1887. Mr. Wait married at Ironton, 
 Ohio, in June, 1886, Ginevra C. Westlake, 
 and has four children. Address: 38 Park 
 Row, New York City. 
 
 WALBRIDGE, Cyrus Packard: 
 
 ^Merchant and ex-mayor; born in Madrid, 
 N. Y., July 20, 1849; son of Arlo Judson 
 and Althea Maria (Packard) Walbridge. 
 His boyhood was passed and his public 
 school education acquired in DeKalb Coun- 
 ty, 111., and Stanton, Minn., then attended 
 Carleton College, at Northfield, Minn., and 
 was graduated from the University of 
 Michigan as LL.B., in 1874. He practised 
 law in St. Louis until 1879, when he be- 
 came interested in the Merrell Drug Co., 
 of which he has for 23 years been president; 
 and he is also president of the Bell Tele- 
 phone Company of Missouri. He served 
 from 1877 to 1885 in the 1st Regiment, 
 Missouri National Guard, retiring as its 
 lieutenant-colonel. He has for years been 
 a prominent factor in Republican politics 
 in the city and State. He was elected 
 to the St. Louis House of Delegates, serv- 
 ing in 1881-1883, was president of the City 
 Council, 1889-1893, and mayor of St. Louis, 
 1893-1897; and he was Republican nomi- 
 nee for governor of Missouri in 1904. He 
 has served as president of the National 
 Wholesale Druggists Association, president 
 of the Business Men's League of St. Louis, 
 president of the St. Louis College of Phar- 
 macy, president of New England Society 
 of St. Louis, president of the Congrega- 
 
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 tiona.l Club of St. Louis. Mr. Wallbvidge 
 married in St. Louis in October, 1879, Liz- 
 zie Merrell, and they have one son. Resi- 
 den(e: 3714 Westminster Phice. Office: 
 Fourth and Market Streets, St. Louis. 
 
 WALCOTT, Charles Doolittle: 
 
 Secretary of the Smitlisonian Institution; 
 born at New York Mills, N. Y., March 31. 
 1850; son of Charles D. and Mary (Lane) 
 Walcott. He was educated in the public 
 schools of Utica, N. Y., became interested 
 in geology and in 1876 was appointed- an 
 assistant in the New York State Survey. 
 He entered the Government service in 1879 
 as assistant geologist of the United States 
 Geological Survey, became paleontologist, 
 1888-1893, and geologist, 1893-1894, of the 
 same survey, of which he was appointed 
 director in 1894, serving in that capacity 
 until appointed in 1907, to his present po- 
 sition as secretary of the Smithsonian In- 
 stitution. He has received the honorary 
 degree of LL.D. from Hamilton College, 
 1898, the University of Chicago, 1901, 
 Jonns Hopkins University, 1902, and the 
 University of Pennsylvania, 1903, and the 
 honorary degree of Sc.D. from Cambridge, 
 1909. He was formerly honorary curator 
 ot the Department of Paleontology, 1892- 
 1897, and again, 1898-1907, and acting as- 
 sistant secretary in charge of the National 
 Museum from January, 1897, to July, 1898, 
 in the Smithsonian Institution; secretary of 
 the Carnegie Institution, 1902-1905; and 
 director of the U. S. Reclamation Service, 
 1902-1907. Dr. Walcott has made special 
 researches in the stratigraphy and paleon- 
 tology of the lower Paleozoic formations, 
 and notably in the Cambrian rocks of the 
 Ignited Slates. He presented his research- 
 es in relation to the Cambrian faunas be- 
 fore the International Geological Congres.i 
 in London in 1888, :ind received the Bigsby 
 medal of the London Geological Society. 
 He has recently been awarded the Hayden 
 medal of the Philadelphia Academy of Sci- 
 ences. He is a member and vice-president 
 since 1907 of the National Academy of Sci- 
 ences; fellow (and was vice-president, 1893) 
 of the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science ; member of the Ameri- 
 
 can Society of Naturalists, Geological So- 
 ciety of America ; associate fellow of the 
 American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 
 member of the American Philosophical So- 
 ciety, Washington Academy of Sciences 
 (president since 1899), honorary member of 
 the American Institute of ]Mining Engineers ; 
 correspondent of the Academy of Natural 
 Sciences of Philadelphia ; member of the 
 London Geological Society, foreign mem- 
 ber of the Accademia dei Lincei ; fellow 
 of the Christiania Scientific Society. Resi- 
 dence: 1743 Twenty-second Street, N. W. 
 Office: Smithsonian Institution, Washing- 
 ton, D. C. 
 
 WALKER, Emma Elizabeth: 
 
 Physician; born in Springfield, Mass., 
 daughter of Worthington Henry and Eliza- 
 beth (Crossette) Walker. She was grad- 
 uated from Smith College, A.B., 1887, and 
 Johns Hopkins Medical School. M.D., 1898. 
 She is author of: Beauty Through Hy- 
 giene, Pretty Girl Papers, in the Ladies' 
 Home Journal, Monographs on Absinthe 
 published in the Medical Record, Stereopti- 
 con Lectures on Hygiene (unpublished). 
 Lectures on Protective Hygiene for the 
 Family (unpublished), and numerous arti- 
 cles in medical and secular magazines. 
 Lecturer for the American Society of Sani- 
 tary and Moral Prophylaxis, and for the 
 Department of Education of the City of New 
 York. She is a clinical assistant in the 
 Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, 
 New Y^ork, member of the New Y^ork Acad- 
 emy of Medicine, American Medical Asso- 
 ciation, Women's INIedical Society of New - 
 York State, American Society of Sanitary '■ 
 and Moral Prophylaxis, American Associa- ■ 
 tion for the Advancement of Science, Med- 
 ical Society of the County of New York, 
 Health Education League, Public Health 
 Defense League, Public Education Associa- 
 tion, Association of Collegiate Alumnae, 
 New Y^ork Society Opposed to the Exten- 
 sion of the Suffrage to Women, Alumna; 
 Association of Smith College, Alumni Asso- 
 ciation of Johns Hopkins University, also 
 the Pen and Brush, the Women's Univer- 
 sity, and the Smith College Clubs of New 
 York. Address: 165 Madison Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 WALKER, Guy Morrison: 
 
 Jjuwyer, tinancial expert, author; born in 
 Fort Wayne, Ind., Jan. 24, 1870; son of 
 Rev. Wilbur F. and Mary F. (Morrison) 
 Walker. He was graduated from De-Pauw 
 Univeroity, A.B., 1890, A.M., 1893, and 
 LL.B.; and during his college life he was 
 major of cadets and caj^tain of the 'Varsity 
 Football Team. He organized the Terre 
 Haute Tiiist Company in 1894; organized 
 the Security Trust Company, Toledo, Ohio, 
 in 1898; was general counsel of the Ever- 
 ett-Moore Railroad Syndicate; reorganized 
 the Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Rail- 
 road, the Columbus, Delaware and INIarion 
 Railway Company, tlie Pittsburgh Railway 
 and Light Company, and many others. He 
 has traveled over China and Japan, North 
 America and Europe; was offered in 1900 a 
 commission in the United States Army and 
 appointment on General Chaffee's staff in 
 China, but declined. In 1907 he was chair- 
 man of the Depositors Re-organization Com- 
 mittee of the Knickerbocker Trust Com- 
 pany in New York. He is author of: Rail- 
 roads and Wages; What Shall W^e Buy; 
 Interurban Railways; also contributions to 
 financial and economic journals. He is a 
 member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. 
 Mr. Walker married at Terre Haute, Ind., 
 Dec. 15, 1891, Minnie L. Royse, and they 
 have two children. Address: 15 Wall 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 WALLACE, William James: 
 
 \J. S. circuit judge; born in Syracuse, N. 
 Y., April 14, 1837; son of E. Fuller and 
 Lydia (Wheelwright) Wallace. He was 
 graduated from Hamilton College as A.B., 
 and received the degree of LL.D. from that 
 college, and also from Syracuse Univer- 
 sity. He was mayor of Syracuse in 1873. 
 He was appointed by President Grant U. 
 S. district judge for the Northern District 
 of New York, serving. 1874-1882, and was 
 appointed April 6, 1882, by President Ar- 
 thur, U. S. circuit judge for the Second 
 Judicial Circuit, in which office he is still 
 serving. He is a member of the Alpha 
 Delta Phi fraternity, and also a member 
 of the Metropolitan, Union League, and 
 New I'ork Yacht Clubs of New York City, 
 
 Century Club of Syracuse and the Fort 
 Orange Club of Albany. He married in 
 New York City in 1878, Alice Heyward 
 X'VHi eel Wright. Residence: Albany, N. Y. 
 Country residence: Cazenovia, N. Y. Of- 
 fice: 148 State Street, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 WANAMAKER, John: 
 
 Merchant; born in Philadelphia, July 11, 
 1837; descended on his father's side from 
 the Palatines who left Germany during the 
 religious persecution of 1730-1740, and, on 
 his mother's side from the Huguenot who 
 left Fiance for the same reason. He at- 
 tended the public schools of Philadelphia. 
 His father was a brickmaker, and during 
 his school days he had his share of work 
 in the brickyard, but at the age of fourteen 
 he left school and became an errand boy 
 in a book store, then became salesman in a 
 clothing house. While still a boy he be- 
 came an attendant at the Presbyterian 
 Church on Broad Street in Philadelphia, 
 of which Dr. John Cliambers was pastor, 
 and later took a personal interest in the 
 work of the Sunday School and tlie Church 
 which has continued ever since. In 1857 
 he became secretary of the Philadelphia 
 Young Men's Christian Association. He re- 
 signed in 1861, and with his brother-in-law, 
 Nathan Brown, founded at Sixth and 
 Market streets, in Philadelphia, the cloth- 
 ing business which is still known as Wana- 
 maker & Brown. It liad very modest be- 
 ginnings, but the new methods introduced 
 by Mr. Wanamaker into the lousiness proved 
 popular, and in 1868, when Mr. Brown died, 
 the house had taken a leading place in the 
 trade and was widely known for its liberal 
 advei'tising on a scale which few houses in 
 the country equalled at that time. In 1869 
 a new store was opened in Chestnut street 
 under the title of John Wanamaker & Com- 
 pany. In 1876 Mr. Wanamaker purchased 
 the old Pennsylvania Freight Depot at 
 Thirteenth and Market Street and estab- 
 lished there a clothing, hat and shoe store, 
 but in a year or two the building was ex- 
 tended to Chestnut street and its scope en- 
 larged to embrace a general dry goods 
 store. The Philadelphia store was followed 
 several years later, by the purchase of the 
 
1564 
 
 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 A. T. Stewart concern in New York at 
 Ninth Street and Broadway. In 1904 Mr. 
 Wananiaker began to rebuikl his Phikx- 
 dclphia .store on a large scale, replacing the 
 l)uikling with one twelve stories kigh, and 
 covering an entire block. He kas also 
 added largely to tke dimensions of kis New 
 York store by tke erection of a magnifi- 
 cent sixteen-story structure on the adjoin- 
 ing block. Mr. Wanamaker kas been al- 
 ways active in tke duties of citizenskip, 
 religion and pkilantkropy. He lent import- 
 ant aid to tke war-time Sanitary Fair in 
 Logan Square in Philadelphia ; was one 
 of the organizers of the Christian Com- 
 mission, and took part in various ckaritable 
 movements; he seived efficiently on the Fi- 
 nance Committee of the Centennial Exposi- 
 tion of 1876j lent his aid to the William 
 Penn Anniversary Celebration of 1882, and 
 was promir;ent in the movement for a pure 
 water supply in 1886 and 1887. A member 
 of the Presbyterian Church, his talent for 
 organization showed itself strikingly in the 
 Bethany Sunday School, of which he has 
 been superintendent since 1858, when it 
 began with twenty seven scholars, but 
 which rapidly outgrew its accommodations, 
 and in time became one of the largest in 
 the country, with over two thousand six 
 hundred students; he aided the Young 
 Men's Christian Association in erecting its 
 new building and became its president, and 
 is connected with the Williamson Trade 
 School and other associations. He de- 
 clined to become a candidate for mayor 
 and representative on the Republican ticket 
 wlien offered him, but he took an active 
 part in tke 1888 Presidential campaign, 
 and accepted tke position of Postmaster- 
 General in President Harrison's Cabinet. 
 Residence: 2032 Walnut Street, Philadel- 
 phia, Pa. 
 
 WARD, George Morgan: 
 
 President of Wells College; born in Low- 
 ell, Mass., May 23, 1859 ; son of Sullivan L. 
 and Mary (Morgan) Ward. He was a stu- 
 dent at Harvard, two years in the class of 
 
 1881, was graduated, A.B., Dartmouth, 
 
 1882, A.M., 1884; Boston University Law 
 School, LL.B., 1885; B.D., Andover Theo- 
 
 logical Seminary; was post-graduate of 
 Johns Hopkins (D.D., Dartmouth, 1900; 
 LL.D., Rollins College, 1903) ; admitted to 
 Massachusetts bar; secretary International 
 Society of Christian Endeavor, 1885-1889; 
 president Rollins College, Winter Park, 
 Fla., 1895-1903; pastor in ckarge of Royal 
 Poinciana Ckapel, Palm Beack, Fla., win- 
 ters since 1900; president W^ells College, 
 Aurora, New York, since November, 1903. 
 He is vice-president of tke American Hu- 
 mane Society. Dr. Ward married, June 15, 
 189G, Emma Marriam Sprague. Address : 
 Aurora, N. Y. 
 
 WARD, Henry Galbraith: 
 
 Jurist; born in New York City, April 
 19, 1851; son of Henry Dana and Ckarlotte 
 (Galbraitk) Ward. He was graduated 
 from tke University of Pennsylvania in 
 1870, and engaged in tke practice of law 
 until appointed in 1907 to present office of 
 judge of tke Circuit Court of tke U. S. for 
 the Second Circuit. Judge Ward is a trus- 
 tee of the University of Pennsylvania and 
 a member of the University, City, Century, 
 and Down Town Clubs of New York City. 
 He married in Newport, R. I., Aug. 13, 
 1891, Mabel Marquand, and tkey kave two 
 sons. Address: 816 Madison Avenue, New 
 York City. 
 
 WARDMAN, Ervin: 
 
 Editor-in-ckief of the New York Press; 
 born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 25, 
 1865; son of George and Mary Virginia 
 (Ervin) Wardman. He was educated in 
 Phillips Exeter (N. H.) Academy and Har- 
 vard, A.B., 1888. Mr. Wardman was on the 
 editorial staff of the New \ork Tribune, 
 1888-1895; managing editor of tke New 
 York Press, 1895-1896, editor and publisker 
 same and vice-president and director of the 
 New York Press Company, Limited. He 
 served in tke Spanisk-American War as first 
 lieutenant of the 202d Infantry New York 
 Volunteers and aid-decamp to Major Gen- 
 eral Brooke, U. S. S., in tke Porto Rico 
 campaign. He is author of: The Princess 
 Olga, novel (Harper's), etc. Mr. Ward- 
 man is a member of the Harvard and Uni- 
 versity Clubs of New York and the Hugue- 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1565 
 
 not Yacht Club of New York, President of 
 the Pelhani Country Club. He married in 
 Washington, D. C, May 14, 1902, Caroline 
 Klink, who died Sept. 19, 1908, and they 
 had one son who died Sept. 19, 1906. Ad- 
 dress: New York Press, New York City. 
 
 WARE, Eugene F. ("Ironquill ") : 
 
 Lawyer and author; born in Hartford, 
 Conn., May 29, 1841; son of Hiram B. and 
 A. M. (Holbrook) Ware. He was educated 
 in the public schools of Burlington, Iowa. 
 He entered the Union Army at the begin- 
 ning of the Civil War in Company E of the 
 First Iowa Volunteer Infantry, afterward 
 serving in Company L of the Fourth Iowa 
 Volunteer Cavalry, and was mustered out 
 as captain of Company F, Seventh Iowa 
 Cavalry. He was admitted to the Kansas 
 Bar at Fort Scott, June 18, 1871, and for 
 many years has held a place of distinction 
 in his profession, now being senior member 
 of the law firm of Ware, Nelson & Ware in 
 Kansas City, Kansas. He served five years 
 as a, member of the Kansas State Senate, 
 and was a delegate from that State to two 
 National Republican Conventions. He was 
 appointed U. S. pension commissioner May 
 10, 1902, and served until Jan. 1, 1905, 
 when he returned to his practice. He has 
 been an extensive contributor of both verse 
 and prose to literary periodicals and of 
 articles on law subjects to legal publica- 
 tions, his poems under the pen-name of 
 " Ironquill " having reached special popu- 
 larity, the collected poems having, under 
 the title of Rhymes of Ironquill, reached 
 their Thirteenth Edition in 1908. He is 
 also author of: Coronado's March (a prose 
 translation, from the French of Ternaux- 
 Compans, of Castaneda's Account, 1596), 
 1895 ; Roman Water Law, translation from 
 the Latin of Justinian ; From Court to 
 Court (four editions) ; The Lyon Campaign 
 and History of the First Iowa Infantry; 
 The Indian Campaign of 1864; The Rise 
 and Fall of the Salvon. Mr. Ware mar- 
 ried in Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 22, 1874, 
 Jeanette P. Huntington. Residence: 650 
 Oakland Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. 
 Office: Portsmouth Buildinir. 
 
 WARNER, Fred Maltby: 
 
 Governor of Michigan; born at Hickling, 
 Nottinghamshire, England, July 21, 1865. 
 he was brought by his parents to the 
 United States, when he was three months 
 old, and a few months later his mother 
 died. He was adopted by Hon. P. Dean 
 Warner, of Farmington, Mich. After one 
 year at the Michigan State Agricultural 
 College he engaged in business pursuits. 
 In 1889 he established a large cheese fac- 
 tory at Farmington, afterward adding oth- 
 ers at surrounding places, now operating 
 seven, as well as a large cold-storage plant. 
 He is also a director of the Farmington 
 Exchange Bank. While achieving marked 
 success in business he also became active 
 in political affairs as a Republican; was a 
 member of the Michigan Senate from the 
 Twelfth District from 1895 to 1898; elected 
 secretary of State of Michigan in 1900 and 
 again in 1902; elected governor of Michigan 
 in 1904 and again in 1906 for the term 
 expiring January, 1909. He married at 
 Farming-ton, Mich., Sept. 19, 1888, Martha 
 M. Davis. Residence: Farmington, Mich. 
 Official residence: Lansing, Mich. 
 
 WARREN, Charles: 
 
 Chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Ser- 
 vice Commission; born in Boston, March 
 9, 1868; son of Hon. Winslow and Mary 
 Lincoln (Tinkham) Warren. He was grad- 
 uated from Harvard College, with honors 
 in 1889, and entered Harvard Law School 
 in 1890. He became editor of the Harvard 
 Law Review, and completed his law course 
 in 1892. He then became associated with 
 Moorfield Storey and at once began the 
 practice of law as a member of the Suffolk 
 bar. In 189.3 he received a call to official 
 duty from Governor William E. Russell, 
 whom he served as private secretary to the 
 Governor during the last six months of his 
 term, and with whom he was associated in 
 law practice until Governor Russell's death 
 in 1896. He was appointed a member of 
 the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission 
 in July, 1905; reappointed for three years 
 in July, 1908; chairman, since October, 
 1905. Mr. Warren is also a trustee of the 
 New England Conservatory of Music and 
 
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 jji-esident of the Keene Electric Street Rail- 
 way. He is head of the law firm of War- 
 ren, Perry and Codman, director of the 
 American Soda Fountain Company, Egerton 
 Tramway Company, and several other cor- 
 porations. Mr. Warren is author of: The 
 Girl and the Governor; also of History of 
 the Jrtarvard Law School and of Early Le- 
 gal Conditions in America, 1908, and of 
 short stories in MeClure's, Atlantic Month- 
 ly, Scribner's, Collier's, and the American 
 Magazine. He is a Democrat in politics, 
 and a Unitarian in religion. He married 
 in New York, Jan. 6, 1904, Annie Louise 
 Bliss. Residence: Dedham, Mass. Office: 
 2G2 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 WARREN, Charles Howard: 
 
 Treasurer of the Mutual Life Insurance 
 Company of New York; born in Carlton, 
 N. Y., Oct. 21, 1856. He entered railway 
 service in 1876 as clerk with the Chicago 
 and Northwestern Railway and held var- 
 ious positions with that road from 1876 to 
 1888; was comptroller of the St. Paul, 
 Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway, and its 
 successor, the Great Northern Railway, 
 1888-1894; general manager of the same 
 road, 1894-1896; general manager of the 
 Montana Central Railway, 1894-1896; as- 
 sistant to the president of the Central Rail- 
 road of New Jersey, 1897-1899; first vice- 
 president, 1899-1902; first vice-president of 
 the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Rail- 
 way, 1902-1904. Mr. Warren is a member 
 of the Lawyers' and Lotos Clubs. Address: 
 32 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 WARREN, William Fairfield: 
 
 President of Boston University, 1873- 
 1903, and now dean of the Theological 
 Faculty; born in Williamsburgh, Mass., 
 March 13, 1833; son of Martha and Ann 
 (Fairfield) Warren. He received his edu- 
 cation in Wesleya^ University and the 
 Universities of Berlin and Halle. He re- 
 ceived the degree of LL.D. from Wesleyan 
 University, Connecticut, and of D.D. from 
 Ohio Wesleyan University. He was head- 
 master in schools in Watertown, Conn.; 
 Hopkinton, Mass.; and Mobile, Ala.; pastor 
 in Andover, Wilbraham and Boston, Mass.; 
 
 editorial contributor to various periodicals ; 
 professor in Bremen, Germany, from 1861 
 to 1866; acting-president of the Boston The- 
 ological Seminary, 1866-1873; a member 
 of the governing corporation of Wellesley 
 College, from its founding; corporate mem- 
 ber of the American Oriental Society. He 
 is author of: The Quest of the Perfect Re- 
 ligion was translated into Chinese, Japan- 
 ese. Spanish, and German, and suggested tlie 
 Chicago Parliament of Religions; The Story 
 of Gottlieb was translated into German and 
 Arabic; Paradise Found, the Cradle of the 
 Human Race at the North Pole, has reached 
 its eleventh edition; he is also author of 
 articles on Babylonian and Indo-Aryan Cos- 
 mology in Journal of American Oriental 
 Society, 1901-190.5, and of a very large num- 
 ber of other writings. Married Harriet Cor- 
 nelia Merrick, of Wilbraham; and has one 
 son and three daughters. Address: Boston 
 University, Boston. 
 
 WASHINGTON, Booker Taliaferro: 
 
 Principal of Tuskegee Normal and In- 
 dustrial Institute; born a slave, near Hale's 
 Ford, Va., about 18.57 or 1858. After the 
 war removed with his mother and stepfather 
 to Maiden, W. Va., where he attended the 
 common schools and was employed for a 
 time in the household of General Lewis 
 RuiTner until 1872; worked in the mines 
 near Charleston, W. Va., and finally en- 
 tered the Hampton Normal and Agricul- 
 tural Institute of Virginia, from wliich he 
 was graduated in 1875. He taught school 
 at Maiden, W. Va., 1875-1878, and was a 
 student at Wayland Seminary, Washington, 
 D. C, 1878-1880. In 1881 "he was chosen 
 principal of the Tuskegee Normal and In- 
 dustrial Institute, at Tuskegee, Ala. The 
 school was opened by Mr. Washington, July 
 4, 1881, with thirty pupils in an abandoned 
 Negro church. At the quarto-centennial in 
 1906 the Institute had 2,400 acres of land, 
 something over $2,000,000 worth of pro))er- 
 ty in the form of endowment, buildings, and 
 equipment, and 1.598 pu]iils enrolled. For 
 his services in building up this school, in 
 promoting industrial education and in the 
 uplifting of the Negro race. Harvard Uni- 
 versity conferred on him the honorary de- 
 
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 gree of A.M. in ISOG, Dartmouth that of 
 LL.D. in 1902. Andrew Carnegie added to 
 the endowment fund of the institute six 
 liundred thousand dollars, with the sole con- 
 dition that the founder and director of the 
 institute, Principal Washington, and his 
 family shall always be assured support from 
 the income. In June, 1903, Dr. Washing- 
 ton was invited by the British South Afri- 
 can Company to visit South Africa and 
 make a study of the racial conditions in 
 the British territory, and report to the 
 (ompany and to the British Government 
 liis plans for the better educational, indus- 
 trial and moral condition of the people; 
 but he declined the invitation. He has 
 made many addresses on racial and educa- 
 tional subjects, and is author of: Future 
 of the American Negro, 1899; Sowing and 
 Reaping, 1900; Up from Slavery, 1901; 
 Character Building, 1902; Story of My Life 
 and Work, 1903; Working with Hands, 
 1904; Tuskegee and Its People, 1905. Ad- 
 dress: Tuskegee, Ala. 
 
 WATERMAN, Charles Winfield: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Waitsfield, Vt., Nov. 2, 
 1861; son of John and Mary A. (Leach) 
 Waterman. He was graduated from the 
 University of Vermont as A.B. in 1885, 
 and from Michigan University as LL.B. 
 in 1889. He was admitted to the bar of 
 Michigan in 1889, and of Colorado in- 1889, 
 entered the office of Woleott and Vaile in 
 1891 ; and became a member of the firm 
 of Woleott, Vaile and Waterman in 1902; 
 member of the firm of Vaile and Waterman 
 from 1906 until January, 1908; since has 
 practised alone with aid of several assist- 
 ants. During the last ten years he has 
 been engaged in most of the important cor- 
 ])oration cases in Colorado. He is a direc- 
 tor and the general counsel of Great West- 
 ern Sugar Company, Great Western Rail- 
 Avay Company, and attorney in Colorado of 
 the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail- 
 way Company. He is a Republican in poli- 
 tics. Mr. Waterman is a member of the 
 American Bar Association, Colorado Bar 
 Association, and was a delegate to the 
 Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists 
 at St. Louis in 1904. He is a member 
 
 of the University Club, and the Denver 
 County Club. He married in Burlington, 
 Vt., June 18, 1890, Anna R. Cook. Resi- 
 dence: Savoy Hotel. Office address: 414 
 Equitable Building, Denver, Colo. 
 
 WATKINS, Edgar: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Georgia, July 31, 1868; 
 son of Moses D. and Divine Howard (Word) 
 Watkins. He received his preparatory edu- 
 cation in the public and private schools of 
 Georgia and was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of Georgia as LL.B. He has had a 
 lucrative law practice in Georgia, Oklaho- 
 ma and Texas. Mr. Watkins was solicitor 
 for the City Court at Carrollton, Ga.; al- 
 derman at Houston, Texas, and president 
 of the Board of School Trustees of Hous- 
 ton. He was a law partner of the late ex- 
 Governor James S. Hogg of Texas, and is a 
 member of the Texas Bar Association and 
 the Atlanta Bar Association. He contin- 
 ued practice at Houston. Texas, until Aug. 
 1, 1907, when he became a partner in the 
 law firm of Wimbish, Watkins and Ellis, 
 of Atlanta, Ga. He is author of a law 
 book: Shippers and Carriers of Interstate 
 Freight. Mr. Watkins is a Democrat and 
 a Presbyterian. Mr. Watkins is a Scottish 
 Rite Mason, Knight Templar and a Shrin- 
 er; also a member of the Phi Gamma Delta 
 fraternity, Knight of Pythias, and is an 
 Elk and Odd Fellow. He is a member of 
 the Thalian Club, of Houston, Texas, and 
 of the Piedmont Driving and Capital City 
 Clubs of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Watkins mar- 
 ried, in Oklahoma, March 12, 1894, Belle 
 Cameron, and they have four children. 
 Residence: 602 West Peachtree Street. 
 Office: Prudential Building, Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 WATKINS, Susan: 
 
 Painter; born in California; daughter of 
 James Thomas and Susan Ella (Owens) 
 Watkins. She received her education at the 
 E. L. Munson School in California and the 
 Gibbons School in New York, and her art 
 education in Paris, receiving a medal for 
 drawing at the Accadimia Vitti, and hon- 
 orable mention and a gold medal at the 
 Paris Salon. She lived in California till 
 she was thirteen, when she went to New 
 
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 York; six years later she went to Paris, 
 where she studied painting for twelve years 
 under Raphael Collin, exhibiting at the 
 Paris Salon in 1899, sending La Petite 
 Hollandaise which was awarded honorable 
 mention; in 1901 she received a gold medal 
 for a portrait of a young girl in a cos- 
 tume of 1830. This picture won a silver 
 medal at the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 
 tion. Miss Watkins continued to exhibit 
 at the Paris Salon, until 1908, portraits, 
 interiors and landscapes with figures; also 
 exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, 
 the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 
 the Art Institute of Chicago, the Society 
 of American Artists; one of her interiors 
 is owned by Edward H. Johnson of Phila- 
 delphia, a landscape is owned by the 
 Princess de Sagan, an interior by Booth 
 Tarkington; one painting entitled: In the 
 Window, was sold in Chicago, her other 
 paintings being portraits of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Booth Tarkington, Mrs. William Hodge (re- 
 cently exhibited at Knoedler's), the chil- 
 dren of Mr. Augustus Thomas, Mr. and 
 Mrs. E. M. Bulkley, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar 
 Sewall, Mrs. George Dearborn. Mrs. Easton 
 of California (sister of Mr. D. 0. Mills), 
 Walter Hobart of California, INIr. Julius 
 Gerson (father-in-law of William M. 
 Chase), Mr. Ellis Parker Butler, and Mr. 
 John Porsell, the pianist. Miss Watkins is 
 a member of the Lyceum Club. Address: 
 58 Westi 12th Street, New York City. 
 
 WATTERSON, Henry: 
 
 Editor; born in Washington, D. C, Feb- 
 ruary IG, 1840; son of Hon. Harvey Wat- 
 terson, member of Congress. He received 
 his education chiefly by private tutors. He 
 was a Confederate stall' officer and chief 
 of scouts from 18G1-1SG5; a member of Con- 
 gress, 1875-1877; of the Democratic Na- 
 tional Convention, 1872-1892; president of 
 the Convention of 1876; chairman of the 
 Platform Committee in 1880-1888, and has 
 repeatedly declined office. He is author of: 
 Orations; Oddities of Southern Life, 1881; 
 History of the War with Spain, 1898; The 
 Compromises of Life, 1903. His favorite 
 recreations are music, yachting and out- 
 
 door sports. Mr. Watterson is a member 
 of the Manhattan and Lotos Clubs of New 
 York, Pendennis Club of Louisville, the Pen 
 and Pencil Club of Philadelphia; Press 
 Club, Chicago; Press Club, New York, and 
 the Boston Press Club. He married, in 
 18G5, Rebecca Ewing, and they have three 
 sons and two daughters. Address: Cour- 
 ier Journal, Louisville, Ky. 
 
 WATTS, Ethelbert: 
 
 Consular official; born in Philadelphia, 
 Feb. 25, 1845; son of Hon. Henry M. Watts, 
 U. S. minister to Austria more tlian thirty 
 years ago. He entered the University of 
 Pennsylvania in 18G1, but left at the end 
 of his third year, and, after serving as a 
 piivate in the Union Army, studied at the 
 School of Mines at Freiburg, Saxony, before 
 having been engaged in the manufacture of 
 pig iron for several years. He acted as 
 cashier of the Centennial Board of Finance 
 at the Exhibition Grounds in Philadelphia, 
 in 187G, and subsequently became Secretary 
 and afterward treasurer of the Investment 
 Company of Philadelphia. In 1896 he en- 
 tered the Consular Service, and, after a 
 year spent in Switzerland, became vice-con- 
 sul general at Cairo, Egypt, where he re- 
 mained for two years and a half. He was 
 acting as consul-general in the absence 
 of his superior at the time Admiral 
 Camara attempted to obtain coal and other 
 supplies for the Spanish fleet; with the view 
 of proceeding to the Philippines, but was 
 prevented by Mr. Watts' energetic action. 
 In November, 1899, he was transferred to 
 Kingston, Jamaica, as consul, and then to 
 the position of consul at Prague; consul- 
 general at St. Petersburg, Russia, 1903- 
 1907, since then consul-general at Brus- 
 sels. He has had conferred upon him the 
 Imperial Order of the Osmanieh of the 
 third class in recognition of services while 
 on the stafl' of the United States consul- 
 general in Egypt. In 1909 the degree of 
 B.A. was specially conferred upon him by 
 the University of Pennsylvania. His pres- 
 ent wife is the daughter of the late Wil- 
 liam H. Gregg of Philadelphia. Address; 
 Brussels, Belgium. 
 
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 WAUGH, Ida: 
 
 Artist; born in Philadelphia; daughter 
 of Samuel Bell and Mary (Mendenhall) 
 Waugh. She was educat6d in Philadelphia 
 and Paris, in the I'Academie Julien and 
 in 1891-1892 at I'Academie Delecluse under 
 Paul de Lance and Georges Callot, at the 
 I'Academie Julien under Jules Lefevre and 
 Benjamin Constant. She exhibited the pic- 
 ture: Hagar and Ishmael in the Desert, 
 in the Paris Salon in 1888. Miss Waugh 
 took the Norman Dodge prize of $300 in 
 1896 at the Exhibition of the New York 
 Academy of Design, for the portrait of Dr. 
 Paul J. Sartain. She is a member of the 
 Historical Society of Pennsylvania and fel- 
 low of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine 
 Arts. Address: American Express Com- 
 pany, 11 rue Scribe, Paris, France. Sum- 
 mer residence: Bailey Island, Casco Bay, 
 Maine. 
 
 WEAVER, George M.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Deerfield, N. Y., Aug. 5, 
 1840; son of Jacob George and Caroline 
 Matilda (Wells) Weaver. He was edu- 
 cated in Utica Academy, graduated from 
 Hamilton College, 1860 (valedictorian). He 
 was admitted to the bar in Syracuse, N. Y., 
 1866; and has been practicing law in Utica, 
 N. Y., since 1866; chiefly equity practice 
 and trust estates. He traveled in Europe 
 in 1903. He served in the army of the 
 Confederate States during the Civil War; 
 afterward was commissary of Subsistance, 
 with rank of major, on the Brigade Stall', 
 National Guard of the StatB of New York. 
 He is director and treasurer of the Italian 
 Macaroni Company; director of the Utica 
 Stone and Construction Company. He is 
 a trustee and former president of St. Luke's 
 Hospital, Utica; trustee and secretary of 
 the House of the Good Shepherd, Utica; 
 trustee of the General Theological Semin- 
 ary, New York City; trustee and treasurer 
 of the Episcopate Fund of the Diocese of 
 Central New York. He is a member of the 
 Oneida Historical Society (formerly vice- 
 president ) , Utica Bar Association ( former- 
 ly president), Victoria Institute of London, 
 England; Sigma Phi fraternity and Camp 
 of Confederate Veterans of New York City. 
 99 
 
 Mr. Weaver married in Booneville, Mo., 
 Nov. 24, 1868, Anna Barnett Cope, and 
 they have two sons and three daughters. 
 Summer residence: Springbank, Deerfield, 
 New York and Irondiquoit Club, Piseco 
 Lake, Adirondacks. Residence: 1.53 Park 
 Avenue, Utica. Office: 69 Genesee Street, 
 Utica, N. Y. 
 
 WEBB, William Seward: 
 
 Capitalist; born in New Y'ork City, Jan., 
 31, 1851; son of General James Watson 
 Webb, and grandson of General Samuel B. 
 Webb, Revolutionary officer of distinction 
 and intimate friend of General Washington. 
 He received his education by private tutors 
 and five years at Churchill's Military 
 School, Sing Sing; two years at Columbia 
 College, and was graduated from the Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons as M.D.. 
 in 1875. He afterwards spent two years in 
 study in the medical schools of Vienna. He 
 became connected with tlie Vanderbilt rail- 
 road system and was president many years 
 of the Wagner Palace Car Campany; con- 
 structed find since 1890 has been president 
 of the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Rail- 
 road, a line which extends through the Adi- 
 rondack wilderness from Herkimer, N. Y., 
 to the St. Lawrence River, a distance of 233 
 miles, and is also officer, or director, in 
 numerous railroad and other corporations. 
 He was three years president-general of the 
 National Society of Sons of the American 
 Revolution, and vice-president of the Ver- 
 mont Society of Sons of the American Revo- 
 lution. To his Shelbourne Farms in Ver- 
 mont, he adds a large preserve in the Adi- 
 rondacks, which is known by the title of 
 Ne-ha-sa-ne Park. It is made up of forest, 
 hill and lake, its woods being well stocked 
 with game and the waters with fish. Mr. 
 Webb is a member of the Metropolitan, Rid- 
 ing, University, Church, Turf and Field, and 
 the New York Yacht Clubs. He married in 
 1881, Lila Osgood, daughter of William H. 
 Vanderbilt. Residence: 680 Fifth Ave- 
 nue. Office address: 51 East Forty-fourth 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 WELLMAN, rrancis Lewis: 
 
 Lawyer born in Brookline, Mass., Jvily 
 29, 1854; son of William A. Wellman, a 
 
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 prominent Boston banker and American rep- 
 resentative of Baring Brothers. He was 
 graduated from Harvard as A.B. in 1870, 
 and from Harvard Law School as LL.B., 
 and valedictorian of the class in 1878. He 
 was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 
 1878, and was simultaneously appointed in- 
 structor at the Boston Law School and later 
 lecturer both at the Boston Law School and 
 the Harvard Law School. He also was en- 
 gaged to some extent in practice, chiefly 
 in association with ex-United States Senator 
 Bainbridge Wadleigh. In 1883 he removed 
 to New York City, where he accepted the 
 position of assistant in the office of the 
 Corporation Counsel and was given charge 
 of all jury trials in which the City of 
 New York was defendant, and during the 
 seven years of his incumbancy of that office 
 defended the interests of the city with such 
 ability that the recoveries against the city 
 are said to have been less than one-half 
 of one per cent of the amounts claimed by 
 the litigants. At the end of that time he 
 was appointed first assistant district at- 
 torney and for four years conducted the 
 prosecution of all the principal criminal 
 trials of New York County, including the 
 prosecution and conviction of such noted 
 criminals as Dr. Carlyle W. Harris and Dr. 
 Robert Buchanan, Ben Ali alias Frenchy, 
 Fanshawe, Stroud ; Stephanie, Gardner, 
 Frank Ellison and many others. Since 
 1894 Mr. Wellman has been general counsel 
 for the Metropolitan Street Railway Com- 
 pany, and has personally conducted all the 
 more important damage litigations of that 
 company in the courts. In addition he has 
 had a large corporation practice in part- 
 nership with William W. Gooch, under the 
 firm name of Wellman, Gooch & Smyth. 
 He is a member of the Harvard Alumni 
 Association, the University, Manhattan and 
 New York Y'acht Clubs, and other organ- 
 izations, and is nationally known as an 
 authority on cross-examination and an ex- 
 pert in that branch of the court world. He 
 married, June 26, 1894, Emma Juch, the 
 ])rima doiuia. Residence: 247 Fifth Ave- 
 nue. Office: 15 Wall Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 WELLS, Thomas Tileston: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, 1865; 
 son of John and Grace (Tileston) Wells. 
 His father's family has been prominent in 
 New Y^ork City for several generations, 
 especially as lawyers. John Wells, who 
 was his great-grandfather and whose mon- 
 ument is in St. Paul's Chapel, was the only 
 survivor of his family; all other members 
 of which were massacred at Cherry Valley 
 in 1778, and his own life was saved only 
 because he had been sent off to Schenectady 
 for school a few days before the massacre; 
 he became the leader of the Bar in his time, 
 and founded the firm of Wells & Strong 
 (Now Strong and Cadwalader) ; his son, 
 Thomas Lawrence Wells (grandfather of T. 
 Tileston Wells) was also a distinguished 
 lawyer in his day. On the maternal side 
 Mr. Wells is grandson of Thomas Tileston 
 of the well-known shipping house of 
 Spoffard & Tileston, who was pres- 
 ident of the Plienix Bank and one of the 
 founders of the New Y'ork Clearing House. 
 Mr. W^ells acquired his early education 
 abroad, and he afterward attended St. 
 Mark's School, Southborough, Mass., and 
 Columbia and Harvard Universities, and 
 was graduated from Columbia Law School, 
 LL.B., 1888. He was admitted to the New 
 York Bar in 1890, and since 1892 has been 
 a member of the law firm of Lexow, Mac- 
 keller & Wells, engaged in general practice. 
 Mr. Wells is the vice-president of Five 
 Points House of Industry in New York 
 City, trustee of the Children's Aid Society 
 of New Y'ork alid trustee and director of 
 several other institutions. He has been 
 especially active and prominent in the Alli- 
 ance Frangaise movement; is vice-president 
 of the Alliance Francaise of New York, 
 ])resident of the Alliance Frangaise of New 
 Brunswick, N. J., and is treasurer of the 
 Federation of the Alliance Frangaise in 
 the United States and Canada. He is a 
 member of the Union, City Midday and St. 
 Anthony Clubs of New York City and is 
 an officier d'Academie (France), and a 
 member of the Delta Psi fraternity. Mr. 
 Wells married in New York City, April 18, 
 1894, Georgina, daughter of Colonel George 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 F. Betts, for many years clerk of the United 
 States Dii^triet Court in New York City, 
 and granddaugliter of Hon. Samuel Rossiter 
 Betts, for over fifty years United States 
 district judge in New York City. Resi- 
 dences: " Sommariva," near New Bruns- 
 wick, N. J., and 52 East 76th Street, New 
 York City. Office: 43 Cedar Street, New 
 York City. 
 
 WESTINGHOUSE, George: 
 
 Inventor of the celebrated Westing- 
 house air brake; was born at Central 
 Bridge, Schoharie County, N. Y., on the 
 Gth of Oct., 1846; his parents were George 
 and Emeline Vedder Westing-house. The 
 father's ancestors came from Germany and 
 settled in Massachusetts and Vermont before 
 the Revolution; the mother's were Dutch 
 English. Mr. Westing-house's father was an 
 inventor; who, in 1856. removed with his 
 family to Schenectady, N. Y., where he es- 
 tablished the Schenectady Agricultural 
 Works. Mr. Westing-house was educated in 
 the public and high schools of Schenectady, 
 and he spent much time in his father's ma- 
 chine shop, invented and made a rotary 
 engine before he was fifteen; passed the ex- 
 amination for the position of assistant en- 
 gineer in the United States Navy. From 
 June, 1863, to June, 1865, he served, first 
 in the army, and afterward in the navy, 
 and was honorably discharged August 1, 
 1865. On his return he entered Union Col- 
 lege, where he remained till the close of his 
 sophomore year, when he entered upon act- 
 ive life, he invented a device for replacing 
 railroad cars upon the track. Going to 
 Troy one day, a delay, caused by a collision 
 between two freight trains, suggested to Mr. 
 Westinghouse the idea that a brake under 
 the control of the engineer might have pre- 
 vented the accident, and after several trials 
 his first patent was issued April 13, 1869, 
 and The Westinghouse Air-Brake Company 
 was formed on the 20th of July following. 
 In 1883, Mr. Westinghouse became inter- 
 ested in the operation of railway signals 
 and switches by compressed air, and devel- 
 oped and patented the system now manu- 
 factured by the Union Switch and Signal 
 Company. The ' Pneumatic Interlocking 
 
 Switch and Signal Apparatus," whereby all 
 the signals and switches are operated from 
 a given point, using compressed air as the 
 motive power, and electricity to bring that 
 power into operation, has been successfully 
 introduced. Mr. Westinghouse was among 
 the first to foresee the advantages of alter- 
 nating current as a means of transmitting 
 electricity over long distances, and the 
 fight to introduce this system was carried 
 on by him single-handed. The induction 
 motor, the invention of which was the out- 
 come of the genius of Nikola Tesla, was 
 put on a commercial footing by Mr. West- 
 inghouse. Among his accomplishments in 
 the electrical field may be mentioned the 
 unit switch system of multiple control for 
 the simultaneous operation and control 
 from one common point of all the motors 
 in a train; and the new single-phase motor 
 for street railway service, this use of elec- 
 tricity being heretofore confined to direct 
 current. The Westinghouse Electric and 
 jNIanufacturing Company was organized in 
 1886 for the manufacture of electrical ap- 
 paratus. Mr. Westinghouse has taken a 
 foremost part in the development of the gas 
 engine and the steam turbine. The Sawyer- 
 Man incandescent lamp, the Nernst lamp 
 and the Cooper-Hewitt mercury vapor lamp 
 were all put on a commercial basis by Mr. 
 Westinghouse. He was also the moving 
 spirit in the exploitation of natural gas in 
 the Pittsburg district, his special merit 
 coming from working out its piping over 
 long distances. He was married, August 
 8, 1867, at Brooklyn, N. Y., to Marguerite 
 Erskine Walker, they have one son, George 
 Westinghouse, Jr., who is an assistant to 
 the manager of the Westinghouse Air Brake 
 Company. Mr. Westinghouse has residences 
 at Pittsburg, Washington, D. C, and Lenox, 
 Mass. 
 
 WETMORE, George Peabody: 
 
 United States senator; born in London, 
 England, August 2, 1846; son of William 
 Shepard and Anstiss Derby (Rogers) Wet- 
 more. He was gradxiated from Yale College 
 in 1867, receiving the degree of A.B., and 
 that of A.M. in 1871; studied law at Co- 
 lumbia College Law School, and was grad- 
 
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 iiated in 1869, receiving the degree of LL.B. 
 He was admitted to the Bar of Rhode 
 Island and of New York in 1869; is a trus- 
 tee of the Peabody Museum of Natural His- 
 tory in Yale University, and was nominated 
 a fellow of the university in 1888, but de- 
 clined; is a trustee of the Peabody Educa- 
 tion Fund, and a director of other associa- 
 tions. He was first presidential elector of 
 Rhode Island in 1880 and in 1884; was a 
 member of the State committee to receive 
 the representatives of France on the occa- 
 sion of their visit to Rhode Island in 1881 ; 
 was governor of Rhode Island in 1885-1886, 
 1886-1887, and was defeated for a third 
 term in 1887, receiving, however, a greater 
 number of votes than at either of the two 
 preceding elections, when successful. He 
 was defeated on the eighth ballot for United 
 States senator in 1889; was elected to the 
 U. S. Senate to succeed Nathan F. Dixon 
 June 13, 1894, receiving the unanimous vote 
 of the General Assembly in the Senate, 
 House, and Joint Assembly, and reelected 
 in 1900 and 1907. His term of service will 
 expire March 3, 1913. Address: Newport, 
 R. I. 
 
 WHARTON, Edith: 
 
 Novelist; born in New York City in 1862; 
 davighter of George Frederic and Lucretia 
 Stevens (Rhinelander) Jones. She was ed- 
 ucated at home, and in 1885 she married 
 Edward Wliarton, of Boston. Mrs. Whar- 
 ton has attained distinction among Ameri- 
 can authors by the careful and discrim- 
 inating psychological analysis which char- 
 acterizes the delineation of human charac- 
 ter and motives in her novels, which are, 
 moreover, of exceptional literary excellence. 
 Her books are: The Greater Inclination, 
 1899; The Touchstone, 1900; Crucial In- 
 stances, 1901; The Valley of Decision, 1902; 
 Sanctuary, 1903; The Descent of Man and 
 Other Stories, 1904; Italian Villas and 
 Their Gardens, 1904; Italian Backgrounds, 
 1905; The House of Mirth, 1905; Madame 
 de Treymes, 1907; The Fruit of the Tree, 
 1907; The Hermit and the Wild Woman. 
 Address : Care of Charles Scribner's Sons, 
 New York City. 
 
 WHEELER, Everett P.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in New York City, March 
 10, 1840. He received his preparatoiy edu- 
 cation in the public schools of New York 
 City and was graduated from the College of 
 the City of New York, in 1856, and from 
 the Harvard Law School, in 1859, and was 
 admitted to practice in New York City in 
 1861. He was a member of the Board 
 of Education, 1877-1879; one of the foun- 
 ders of the Bar Association of the City of 
 New York; and served on its Executive 
 Committee, and as vice-president, was for 
 five years president of the New York Free 
 Trade Club, and one of the first to take an 
 active part in the renewal in 1880 of the 
 movement for Civil Service Reform, which 
 finally resulted in the adoption of the Fed- 
 eral Civil Service Act and in the New York 
 Civil Service Act, now in force. He was 
 for seventeen years, chairman of the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee of the New York Civil 
 Service Reform Association, and chairman 
 of the City Civil Service Commission for 
 seven years. In 1893 he was a member of 
 the Committee of Seventy, and took an 
 active part in the campaign for the election- 
 of Mayor Strong. In 1894 he was a candi- 
 date for the Democratic Party Reform Or- 
 ganization for Governor of the State of New 
 York; and in 1891 took an active part, in 
 founding, and was until 1909 president of 
 the East side House, one of the Social Set- 
 tlements in this city. Mr. Wheeler is a 
 member of the International Law Associa- 
 tion, the Maritime Law Association, the 
 New York Historical Society, and the So- 
 ciety of Colonial Wars. He is author of: 
 ^Modern Law of Carriers; Harter Act; The 
 Tariff and Wages; Real Bimetallism; 
 Knowledge of Faith; and Daniel Webster, 
 Expounder of the Constitution. He was 
 for ten years chairman of the Committee of 
 International Law of the American Bar 
 Association, and is now one of its General 
 Council and chairman of its special Com- 
 mittee on Law Reform; was one of the 
 founders of the Citizens LTnion. He is a 
 member of the Century Association, the 
 Reform Club, of which he was president for 
 two years. City Club, Down Town Club, 
 Church (president for two years), Alpha 
 
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 Delta Phi, City, City College, and Barnard 
 Clubs. Residence: 735 Park Avenue. Of- 
 fice: 21 State Street J New York City. 
 
 WHEELER, Mary Sparkes: 
 
 Author and lecturer; born at Tintern 
 Abbey, England, June 21, 1835; daughter 
 of Samuel and Elizabeth (Tratt) Sparkes. 
 She came to America when six years of age, 
 was educated in the public schools of Bing- 
 hampton, N. Y., and became a teacher and 
 school principal there until her marriage, 
 in Binghamton, N. Y., April 13, 1858 to 
 Rev. Henry Wheeler, by whom she has had 
 seven children, of whom two survive; Mrs. 
 M. \V. Newberry, professor of English and 
 dean of Monnctt Hall in Ohio Wesleyan 
 University, and Post Wheeler, Secretary of 
 the American Embassy at Tokyo, Japan. 
 Mrs. Wheeler was president of the Philadel- 
 phia branch of the women's Foreign Mis- 
 sionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Churches in Pennsylvania and Delaware, 
 1883-1898; was many years a member of 
 the National Lecture Bureau, Chicago del- 
 ivering lectures in all sections of the coun- 
 try, and was appointed in 1889 National 
 evangelist of the Woman's Christian Tem- 
 perance Union, and in 1891, superintendent 
 of the World's Woman's Christian Tem- 
 perance Union Mission, in which capacity 
 she led and preached in many evangelistic 
 services. She began writing poems for the 
 press at an early age, and later prose also; 
 and many of her poems have been set to 
 music by the late P. P. Bliss, Professor 
 Sweeney and Kirkpatrick and others, in- 
 cluding the well-known Soldiers' Decoration 
 hymvis : " Peacefully Rest " and " Scatter 
 Love's Beautiful Garlands Above Them." 
 Her books are: Modern Cosmogony and 
 the Bible, 1880; The First Decade of the 
 W^oman's Foreign Missionary Society, 1884; 
 Poems for the Fireside, 1888; and As It Is 
 in Heaven, 1906. Mrs. Wheeler, has been 
 president of the Home for the Aged Ocean 
 Grove, N. J. since 1908; is a member of 
 the Woman's Foreign and Home Missionary 
 Societies of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, the Woman's Christian Temperance 
 Union, The King's Daughters, Sunshine 
 Society, Woman's Suffrage Association and 
 
 Woman's Christian Association. Address: 
 102 Mt. Hermon Way, Ocean Grove, N. J. 
 
 WHITAKER, Herbert Coleman: 
 
 Professor of mathematics; born in Cape 
 May, N. J., Oct. 31, 1862; son of Franklin 
 and Lydia L. (Ross) Whitaker. He re- 
 ceived his preparatory education in the pub- 
 lic schools of Camden, N. J.; was graduated 
 from the University of Pennsylvania, with 
 the degrees of B.S. and M.E. in 1886, and 
 Ph.D., 1896. For two years he was lecturer 
 on economics and politics with the Philadel- 
 phia Ethical Society; for four years lec- 
 turer on mathematics and economics in the 
 Evening High School of Philadelphia; for 
 twenty years professor of mathematics in 
 the Central Manual Training High School. 
 He is now head' of the department of mathe- 
 matics at the Southern Manual Training 
 High School; he is a frequent contributor 
 to various mathematical, scientific and eco- 
 nomic magazines. He is author of a text- 
 book on trigonometry and introduced Rie- 
 mannian numbers into elementary algebra to 
 solve in-ational equations. Professor Whit- 
 aker is a member of the Camden Astronomi- 
 cal Society, of the Franklin Chess Club; and 
 secretary of the Pennsylvania Whist Club. 
 He married, in Swedesborough, N. J., Dec. 
 22, 1887, Agnes Tweed, and their children 
 are: Norman Tweed (expert chess player). 
 Hazel, Dorothy, and Roland' Tweed. Resi- 
 dence: 776 North 26th Street. Office ad- 
 dress: Broad and Jackson Street, Philadel- 
 l^hia. Pa. 
 
 WHITAKER, Ozi William: 
 
 Bishop of Pennsylvania; born at New 
 Salem, Mass., May 10, 1830. He was grad- 
 uated from Middlebury College, Vt., B.A., 
 1856. He soon after became principal of the 
 High School in Northbrookfield, Mass., 
 which position he resigned in 1860, and en- 
 tered the General Theological Seminary in 
 New York. He was ordained to the diaco- 
 nate and to the priesthood in 1863, by Bish- 
 op Eastburn of Massachusetts, and began 
 the exercise of his ministry in the same year 
 in Gold Hill, Nev. In 1867 he became rector 
 of St. Paul's Church, Virginia City and in 
 
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 1869 was elected missionary bishop of Ne- 
 vada. The same year he received the de- 
 gree of D.D. from Kenyon College. In 1886 
 he was elected" assistant bishop of Pennsyl- 
 vania and became bishop the following year 
 upon the death of Bishop Stevens. In 1898 
 he received the degree of LL.D. from the 
 University of Pennsylvania. Address: The 
 Church House, Twelfth and Walnut Streets, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 WHITE, Frank: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Deposit, N. Y., July 27, 
 1858; son of Adolph and Henrietta (Alex- 
 ader) White. He was educated in Glens 
 Falls Academy. He is author of several 
 law books, including: White on Corpora- 
 tions, 1600 pages, which is the recognized 
 authority in New York State; writer of 
 many articles on corporate taxation and cor- 
 poration law. Mr. White has been a member 
 of the Faculty of Albany Law School since 
 1905, as lecturer on corporation law; took 
 a leading part in having the corporation 
 laws of the State liberalized in 1901. Has 
 frequently made arguments before legisla- 
 tive committees on matters relating to taxa- 
 tion and corporation law; was chief of 
 corporation division of the secretary of 
 State's office for thirteen years. He has 
 been first deputy attorney-general of New 
 York State; was receiver of the Hamilton 
 Bank of New York, during tlie panic of 
 1907, and in two months enabled the stock- 
 holders to reopen the institution with more 
 than $1,000,000 cash on hand. He has been 
 a public speaker in many important politi- 
 cal campaigns since 1888; for several years 
 past has been practising as a corporation 
 law specialist with offices in New York City 
 and Albany, N. Y. Mr. White is a mem- 
 ber of the New York State Bar Association, 
 New York County Lawyers' Association, 
 Albany County Bar Association, the Society 
 of the Delaware Valley of New York State, 
 Alumni Association of Albany Law School, 
 King Solomon's Lodge, and Apollo Chapter 
 of Masons, Troy, N. Y., also a member of 
 the Albany Club, and National Democratic 
 Club of New York City. Address: 32 Lib- 
 erty Street, New York City. 
 
 WHITE, Henry: 
 
 American ambassador to France; born in 
 Baltimore, March 29, 1850; son of Jolin 
 Campbell and Eliza (Ridgely) White. He 
 received his education from tutors and pri- 
 vate schools in the United States and 
 France, and the degree of LL.D. has been 
 conferred upon him by the University of St. 
 Andrew's, Scotland. He began his diplomatic 
 career as secretary of the American Lega- 
 tion at Vienna, 1883-1884, then became 
 second secretary of the American Lega- 
 tion in London, 1884, and was promoted to 
 secretary, 1886, and after that frequently 
 acted as charge d'affaires. President Cleve- 
 land recalled him in 1893, but in 1897 
 President McKinley again appointed him 
 secretary of the American Embassy at Lon- 
 don, in which post he remained until March, 
 1905, when he was appointed, by President 
 Roosevelt, American ambassador to Italy, 
 remaining there until appointed in March, 
 1907, ambassador to France, where he con- 
 tinues. Mr. White represented the United 
 States at the International Conference for 
 the abolition of sugar bounties, London, 
 1887-1888, and as senior delegate in the 
 Algeciras International Conference on Mo- 
 roccan affairs. Ambassador White is a 
 member of the LTnion Club at the Cercle de 
 la Rue Royale, Paris; Metropolitan Club, 
 Washington ; Knickerbocker Club, New York 
 City; the Marlborough, Bachelors, Athenae- 
 um, Automobile and Beefsteak Clubs, Lon- 
 don, and the Maryland Club of Baltimore. 
 He is a citizen of Newport, II. I. He mar- 
 ried in New York City, Dec. 3, 1879, Mar- 
 garet Stujwesant Rutherfurd. Address: 
 American Embassy, Paris, France. 
 
 WHITE, Israel C: 
 
 State geologist of West Virginia; born 
 in Monongalia County, W. Va., Nov. 1, 1848. 
 He was graduated from the West Virginia 
 University in 1872, with the degree of A.M., 
 and received the degree of Ph.D. from the 
 University of Arkansas. He took a post- 
 graduate course in geology at Columbia, 
 and was assistant geologist of the Second 
 Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, 1875- 
 1884, being the author of eight reports of 
 
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 the same. Mr. White was professor of ge- 
 ology at the West Virginia University, 1877- 
 1892, and was assistant geologist of the 
 U. S. Geological Survey, 1884-1888. He re- 
 signed his position with the university to 
 take charge of a large petroleum business, 
 and since 1897 has been State geologist of 
 W^est Virginia. He is a specialist in coal, 
 petroleum, and natural gas, and has made 
 valuable discoveries in connection with those 
 products. Mr. White was treasurer of the 
 Geological Society of America, 1892-1907; 
 vice-president of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science, 1896-1897, 
 and was a delegate to the International 
 Geological Congress, held in St. Petersburg, 
 in 1897, and in Paris, 1900. Mr. White was 
 chief of the Brazilian Coal Commission, 
 1904-1906, and was one of the speakers at 
 the Conference of the Governors, held at the 
 White House, May 13, 1908. Address: 
 Morgantown, W. Va. 
 
 WHITE, John Williams: 
 
 Professor of Greek; born in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, March 5, 1849; son of Rev. John 
 Whitney White and Anna Catherine (Wil- 
 liams) White. He was graduated from Ohio 
 Wesleyan University, A.B., 1868, A.M., 
 1871; studied three years in Germany and 
 later in Harvard University, where he took 
 the degree of Ph.D. in 1877. He received 
 the honorary degrees of LL.D. from Wes- 
 leyan" University in 189G, and Ohio Wesleyan 
 University in 1905, and Litt.D. from the 
 University of Cambridge, England, in 1900. 
 He is a fellow of the American Academy of 
 Arts and Sciences; honorary member of 
 the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic 
 Studies, and a member of the Kaiserlich 
 Deutsches Archaologisches Institut; hono- 
 rary president of the Arclieological Institute 
 of America ; first chairman of the Managing 
 Committee of the American School of Clas- 
 sical Studies at Athens from 1881 to 1887; 
 editor of the Harvard Studies in Classical 
 Philosophy, and associate editor of Classical 
 Philology, and of The Classical Quarterly 
 (England). He has been professor of Greek 
 at Harvard University since 1884. Profes- 
 sor White is author of school and college 
 text-books; senior editor of the College 
 
 Series of Greek Authors (thirty volumes), 
 and author of monographs on philological 
 and Archaeological subjects. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Royal Societies Club of London. 
 He married, in 1871, Alice Hillyer, and they 
 have one son and three daughters. Address: 
 Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 WHITNEY, Henry Melville: 
 
 Financier; born in Boston; son of Brig- 
 adier-General James M. Whitney, and 
 brother of the late William C. Whitney, 
 former Secretary of the Navy. After com- 
 pleting his education in the Boston schools 
 he entered business life as clerk in a bank 
 in Boston, but later went to New York 
 and was in the shipping business there im- 
 til 1866, when he was sent back to Boston 
 as agent of the Metropolitan Steamship 
 Company, which was largely engaged in the 
 carrying of freight between Boston and 
 New. York, and in later years became the 
 president of that company. He planned the 
 reclamation of the marshes of the Back 
 Bay, and the construction of a boulevard 
 across it to prepare the way for the rapid 
 transit system which he organized, by the 
 consolidation of the surface traction inter- 
 ests of Boston in the West End Railroad 
 Company, of which he is the head, and the 
 change from horse to electric motive power, 
 and also the financing and creation of the 
 subway and elevated lines that enter into 
 Boston's traction system. Mr. Whitney has 
 also large interests in coal and iron prop- 
 erties in Canada, and has been a deep stu- 
 dent of the trade relations of the United 
 States, and especially the New England 
 States with Canada, and has been very 
 prominent as an advocate of trade reci- 
 procity with the Dominion. He was the 
 candidate of the Democratic party of Mas- 
 sachusetts for lieutenant-governor in 1905 
 and for governor in 1907. Address: Bos- 
 ton, Mass. 
 
 WIDENER, Peter A. B.: 
 
 Street railway promoter; born in Phil- 
 adelphia, Nov. 13, 1834. He was graduated 
 from the Central High School, Philadelphia. 
 He learned the meat business and carried on 
 a butchering establishment. Mr. Widener 
 
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 MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 became actively interested in municipal pol- 
 itics and grew prominent in Eepublican 
 party movements. He was appointed in 
 1873 to complete the term of John F. Mer- 
 cer in the office of city treasurer. He was 
 elected to this profitable office in 1874 and 
 served one term; in 1875 he became asso- 
 ciated with William L. Elkins and other 
 capitalists in street railway interests in 
 Philadelphia, they obtaining control of the 
 most important railways, and eventually 
 combining them with the Philadelphia Trac- 
 tion Company. The process of organization 
 went on in their hands till all the railways 
 were consolidated under the Union Traction 
 Company and its successor, the Rapid 
 Transit Company; he also acquired large in- 
 terests in the street railways of New York, 
 Chicago, Baltimore and Pittsburgh. Mr. 
 Widener became concerned in the United 
 Gas Improvement Company and other 
 profitable business associations and has ac- 
 quired large wealth. Having built a man- 
 sion in the northern environs of Philadel- 
 phia, he presented his large city residence 
 at Broad Street and Girard Avenue to the 
 city as a branch of the free' library of Phil- 
 adelphia, making it a memorial of his de- 
 ceased wife. He married, in 1858, H. 
 Josephine Dunton, now deceased, and he has 
 one son. Residence: Ashbourne, Pa. Of- 
 fice: Land Title Building, Philadelphia. 
 
 WIEDERSEIM, Grace Gebbie: 
 
 Illustrator; born in Philadelphia, 1877; 
 daughter of George and Mary (Fitz-Gerald) 
 Gebbie. She received her education in the 
 Convent of the Notre Dame, West Ritten- 
 house Square, Philadelphia, and Eden Hall, 
 Torresdale, Pa. She married in Philadel- 
 phia, April 18, 1900, Theodore E. Wieder- 
 seim, Jr. She was on the staff of the New 
 York Journal, 1901-1903; comic supple- 
 ment. Pussy Pumpkin and Toodles; on the 
 staff of the Philadelphia Press, being the 
 originator of Bobby Blake and Dolly Drake, 
 running 1904-1906; the New York Journal, 
 Sancy Sissy, written by Carolyn Wells, and 
 the Angel Child, and Just Supposin'; the 
 New York Herald, 1908, Undiscovered Beau- 
 ties; and 1909 illustrated comic series writ- 
 ten by Margaret G. Hays, entitled: Turri- 
 
 ble Tales of Kaptin Kiddo, in the North 
 American, Philadelphia. Mrs. Wiederseim 
 is an illustrator of children's verses appear- 
 ing in the Associated Magazine by Margaret 
 G. Hays, illustrates the covers on the Satur- 
 day Post, Ladies Home Journal, Munsey, 
 McClures, and Associated' Magazine; origi- 
 nator and illustrator of Campbell Soup 
 Kids, and the designer of posters, box-tops 
 and show cards for lithographic purposes. 
 She illustrated the Mother Goose Book, and 
 prints entitled: Kid Cartoons, Blow, Hap- 
 py Days, Stung, Skidoo, Nothing Doing, 
 Everybody Loves Me, and Dirty Doggie, as 
 well as a number of picture and cut out 
 books for children. Address: Overbrook, 
 Pa. 
 
 WIGGIN, Frederick Holme: 
 
 Physician; born at Kingston-on-Thames, 
 England, Dec. 24, 1853; son of Frederick 
 and Elizabeth Sumner (Gerard) Wiggin, 
 who were temporarily residing abroad. He 
 is descendant of an old Norman English 
 family to whom was granted by Henry I, 
 the manor of Severford, near Wigginton, 
 Oxford; also descended in the sixth genera- 
 tion, from Captain Thomas Wiggin, one of 
 the founders of New Hampshire and its first 
 colonial governor (1G31-1636); also on his 
 mother's side a grandson of James Watson 
 Gerard, the distinguished New York lawyer. 
 Dr. Wiggin's early life was largely spent 
 abroad, and he was partially educated in 
 Europe, but afterward attended General 
 Russell's Military School at New Haven, 
 Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., the 
 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. 
 Y., and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 
 whence he was graduated M.D., 1877. After 
 competitive examination he was appointed 
 first junior assistant surgeon to Bellevue 
 Hospital where he served successively as 
 senior assistant and house surgeon until 
 1878 ; then became attending surgeon to the 
 Nortlieastern Dispensary. He practised 
 medicine in Litchfield, Conn., 1880-1890, 
 and while living there organized the Litch- 
 field Water Company and was its president, 
 1888-1897. He removed to New York City 
 in 1890, chiefly because of his desire to 
 give special attention to abdominal and 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
 1577 
 
 gynecological surgery, in which branches 
 he has performed some of the most original 
 and successful operations ever made in this 
 field. Dr. Wiggin was examining physician 
 to the New York Board of Education, 1893- 
 1895; visiting gynecologist and later visit- 
 ing surgeon to the City Hospital, Black- 
 well's Island, New York City; assistant vis- 
 iting surgeon to Bellevue Hospital, 1897, 
 and is now consulting surgeon to the City 
 Hospital, Metropolitan Throat Hospital, 
 and the Litchfield County (Conn.) Hospital 
 at Winchester. He has been a trustee of 
 the Mott Memorial INIedical and Surgical 
 Library since 1897. Dr. Wiggin has written 
 numerous articles on abdominal surgery, 
 gynecology and other medical subjects 
 which have been read before medical so- 
 cieties and published in medical journals. 
 He was formerly president of the Litchfield 
 County Medical Association, the Alumni 
 Society of Bellevue Hospital, the New York 
 County Medical Association and the New 
 York State Medical Association; is a mem- 
 ber and was formerly a vice-president of the 
 American Medical Association ; is an hon- 
 orary member of the Litchfield County Med- 
 ical Association, Connecticut Medical Soci- 
 ety, Vermont Medical Association and the 
 Congress of German Surgeons, Berlin. He 
 is a member of the Delta Phi fraternity, 
 Civil Service Reform Association, New York 
 Zoological Society, Metropolitan Museum of 
 Art, New York Academy of Sciences, the 
 New York Academy of Medicine and the 
 Union League Club. He married, first, 
 June 12, 1878, Abby Fiske Merriam, by 
 whom he has two sons and two daughters; 
 and married', second, March 14, 1907, Chris- 
 tina Orr, of Glasgow, Scotland, by whom he 
 has one daughter. Address: 55 West 36th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 WIGGIN, Kate Douglas (Mrs. George C. 
 Riggs) : 
 
 Author; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 
 28, 1859; daughter of Robert N. Smith, a 
 lawyer. She was educated in the common 
 schools and Abbott Academy, Andover, 
 Mass. She married, first, 1880, Samuel B. 
 Wiggin, lawyer of San Francisco (died 
 1889) and second, in 1895 George C. Riggs 
 
 of New York City. In 1876 she went to 
 California to study kindergarten methods; 
 and in 1878 organized the Silver Street 
 Kindergarten in San Francisco. In 1880, or- 
 ganized (with her sister Nora A. Smith ) the 
 California Kindergarten Training School, 
 but after marriage gave up teaching and re- 
 moved to the East. In 1878 she produced 
 her first literary work, a short story, called 
 Half a Dozen Housekeepers. She is also au- 
 thor of: The Birds' Christmas Carol, 1888; 
 The Story of Patsy, 1889; Timothy's Quest, 
 1890; Children's Rights, 1892; A Cathedral 
 Courtship, 1893; Marm Lisa, 1894; Village 
 Watch Tower, 1895; Nine Love Songs and 
 a Carol, 1896; Penelope's Experiences in 
 England, Ireland and Scotland, 1893; The 
 Diary of a Goose Girl, 1902; Rebecca, 1903; 
 Rose o' the River, 1905; New Chronicles of 
 Rebecca, 1907; The Old Peabody Pew, 1907; 
 Susanna and Sue, 1909. She also wrote, 
 in collaboration with sister, Nora A. 
 Smith; Golden Numbers; The Posy Ring; 
 Pinafore Palace Poems; The Fairy Ring; 
 Magic Casements; Tales of Wonder, and 
 Tales of Laughter, for Tlie Library of 
 Children's Classics. Bowdoin College con- 
 ferred upon her the honorary degree of Doc- 
 tor of Letters, borne only by one other wom- 
 an, Sarah Orne Jewett. Address: 165 
 West 58th Street, New York City, and 
 Quillcote, Hollis, Me. 
 
 WIGGINS, J. Carleton: 
 
 Artist; born in Turners, N. Y., March 4, 
 1848; son of Guy Carleton and Adelaide 
 (Ludlum) Wiggins. He studied in the 
 schools of the National Academy of Design 
 in New York City, in 1870, and afterward 
 in Paris, and was a pupil of George Inness. 
 He has exhibited paintings in the Paris 
 Salon, the Royal Academy Exhibition in 
 London, etc., and many other exhibitions in 
 Europe as well as in the United States, and 
 is distinguished for his painting of cattle 
 pieces and pastoral landscapes. He was 
 made an associate of the National Academy 
 of Design, in 1892, and an academician in 
 1906. He is a member of the American 
 Water Color Society. Address: 1091 Dean 
 Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
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 WIGHTMAN, Charles Addison: 
 
 Real estate; born in Kenosha, Wis., Oct. 
 11, 1861; son of Addison Porter and Sarah 
 Jane (Richards) Wightman. He was pre- 
 pared in Evanston High School and was 
 graduated from Northwestern University 
 Evanston, 111., Ph.B. He was editor of the 
 Northwestern, May- June, 1885 ; has been en- 
 gaged in the real estate and loan business 
 in Evanston since graduation; and was al- 
 derman of City of Evanston, 1896-1898. He 
 is president of the Lincoln Consolidated Min- 
 ing Company of Arizona; treasurer of Uni- 
 versity Art Shop, Incorporated. In politics 
 he is a Democrat, and he is a member of 
 the Presbyterian Church. He is a Mason 
 and Knight Templar; a member of the Illi- 
 nois Athletic Club of Chicago, and the 
 Evanston Club of Evanston. Mr. Wight- 
 man married in Evanston, 111., March 28, 
 1894, Cecilia Agnes Daley, and they have 
 four children: Catherine Sarah, Margaret 
 Mary, Alice Cecilia, and Rosemary Caroline. 
 Residence: 1725 Wesley Avenue. Office: 
 1606 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, 111. 
 
 WILCOX, Reynold Webb: 
 
 Physician ; born in jNladison, Conn., ]\larch 
 29, 1856; son of Colonel Vincent Meigs of 
 the 132 Pennsylvania Volunteers, and Cath- 
 erine Millicent (Webb) Wilcox. He is de- 
 scended on the paternal side, from William 
 Wilcoxson, one of the original settlers of 
 Stratford, Conn., who came to this country 
 in 1635, and on the maternal side from 
 Richard Webb, of Stamford, Conn., who em- 
 igrated in 1626; and both of his grand- 
 7nothers were descendants of Vincent Meigs, 
 who, in 1640, settled in East Guilford (now 
 Madison) Conn. Dr. Wilcox was graduated 
 from Yale College, B.A., 1878, pursued grad- 
 Tiate studies at Hobart College, receiving the 
 M.A. degree, 1881, was graduated from Har- 
 vard Medical School, M.D., 1881, and re- 
 ceived the degree of LL.D., pro merito, from 
 Maryville College, in 1892. During his sen- 
 ior year at Harvard he was house physician 
 in various Boston hospitals, and he took 
 ]iost-graduate courses in Vienna, Heidelberg, 
 Paris and Edinburgh, 1881-1882. Since 
 then he has practised medicine in New York 
 
 City, served as house sui'geon at the Wom- 
 an's Hospital for a term, and has since been 
 in private practice. He has been professor 
 of medicine in the New York Post Gradu- 
 ate School and Hospital, 1890-1908; is pres- 
 ident of the Medical Board and visiting phy- 
 sician to St. Mark's Hospital and consulting 
 physician to the Nassau Hospital. He is 
 author of standard text-books on Llateria 
 Medica and on Therapeutics, both of which 
 are now in their Seventh editions; The 
 Treatment of Disease, a Manual of Practical 
 Medicine (two editions) ; Fever Nursing 
 (two editions) ; and many papers and' mon- 
 ographs, and for several _ years has been 
 therapeutic editor of The American Jour- 
 nal of the Medical Sciences. He is also au- 
 thor of a genealogical work entitled: The 
 Descendants of William Wilcoxson, Vincent 
 Meigs and Richard Webb, and of a histor- 
 ical volume entitled: Madison; Her Sol- 
 diers. Dr. Wilcox is a member of the Amer- 
 ican Academy of Medicine, American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science; 
 American Therapeutic Society (past presi- 
 dent). Society of Medical Jurisprudence, 
 the Medical Association of the Greater City 
 of New York, Harvard Medical Society 
 (past president) ; honorary member of the 
 Connecticut State Medical Society, Aca- 
 demia Fisico-Chimica Italiana, District of 
 Columbia Therapeutic Society and the Tri- 
 County Medical Society and a life member 
 of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association. 
 He is president of the American Pharmaco- 
 logic Society; and is a member of the So- 
 ciety of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolu- 
 tion, Society of the War of 1812 (vice-pres- 
 ident general of the General Society and 
 vice-president of the Pennsylvania Society), 
 the Sons of Veterans, of which he was for- 
 merly surgeon-general, and the Metropolitan 
 Club of New York City. Address: 679 
 ]\Iadison Avenue, New York City. 
 
 WILDER, Amos Parker: 
 
 Consul-general ; born at Calais, Me., Feb. 
 15, 1862; son of Dr. Amos and Charlotte 
 (Porter) Wilder. He entered Yale College, 
 from which he was graduated in the class 
 of 1884, and he received from Yale Uni- 
 versity, in 1891, the honorary degree of 
 
Reyxold Webb T^'ilcox, ]\I. D. 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 Ph.D. After leaving college he entered 
 upon newspaper life, and he became the edi- 
 tor of Tlie Palladium, at New Haven, Conn., 
 1888-1892, and after that was editorial 
 writer. In 1894 he removed to Madison, 
 Wis., where he was editor of the Wisconsin 
 State Journal, 1894-1906, then appointed by 
 President Roosevelt consul-general of the 
 United States at Hong Kong, China. He 
 married, Dec. 3, 1894, Isabel T. Niven, of 
 Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. Address: American 
 Consulate-General, Hong Kong, China. 
 
 WIILETS, Elmore Abram: 
 
 Farmer, banker, oil producer; born in 
 Bradford, Pa., Sept. 8, 1861;. son of Isaac 
 and Harriet (Ayres) Willets; grandson of 
 Abram and Henrietta (Frost) Willets, who 
 emigrated from Long Island to Aurora, N. 
 Y., in 1825. He was educated in the 
 Phillips Andover Academy; was graduated 
 from Yale University in 1884. He was 
 president of the Citizens' National Bank of 
 Wellsville, N. Y., for ten years, resigning 
 in 1905; was vice-president of the Gardner 
 Convertible Steam and Gas Engine Com- 
 jtany, Washington, Pa., resigning in 1906; 
 is administrator of the Isaac Willets Es- 
 tate, which is one of the largest land hold- 
 ing estates in New York State. He is presi- 
 dent of the State Bank of Belmont; director 
 of the Citizens' National Bank, of Wells- 
 ville, N. Y., the Real Estate Trust Company 
 of Washington, Pennsylvania; Gardner Con- 
 vertible Steam and Gas Engine Company, 
 and the Commercial Insurance Company, of 
 Buffalo. He is a member of the Willets Oil 
 Company, the National Geographic Society, 
 National Municipal League, of the Ameri- 
 can Civic Association, the Pennsylvania For- 
 estry Association; American Academy of 
 Political and Social Science, American For- 
 estry Association; trustee of the Western 
 New York Society for the Protection of 
 Homeless and Dependent Children, and a 
 member of the Civic Club of Pittsburgh, 
 Pa.; the Pittsburgh Club of Pittsburgh, 
 Pittsburgh Country Club, and the Univer- 
 sity and St. Anthony Clubs of New York 
 City. Address: Belmont, N. Y, 
 
 WILLIAMS, Francis Churchill: 
 
 Writer and' editor; born in Philadelphia, 
 1869; son of Francis Howard and Mary 
 B. (Houston) Williams. He was educated 
 in Germantown Academy, University of 
 Pennsylvania, 1887-1891, receiving various 
 honors as an vindergraduate in English lit- 
 erature, philosophy and oratory. He was 
 a reporter to the Philadelphia Times, 1888- 
 1891; assistant editor of the University 
 Extension Movement, 1891-1892, news edi- 
 tor and editorial writer of the Philadelphia 
 Evening Bulletin, 1891-1901; literary ad- 
 visor of J. B. Lippincott Company, 1901- 
 1906; associate editor of the Saturday Even- 
 ing Post since 1906 ; correspondent of Har- 
 per's Weekly, and the New York Evening 
 Post, and a contributor of stories, articles 
 and criticisms to Scribner's Magazine, 
 World's Work, Nation, the Saturday Even- 
 ing Post, and leading magazines and re- 
 views. He is author of : J. Devlin — Boss 
 (a novel), Stories of the Colleges, and The 
 Captain (a novel). Mr. Williams was the 
 founder, and for several years one of the 
 officers of the Franklin Inn Club, member 
 of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 
 Welcome Society, Sons of the Revolution, 
 Delta Phi fraternity, and the Players' Club 
 of New York, and the Germantown Cricket 
 Club, He married in San Francisco, Calif., 
 May 5, 1897, Grace Y^oung of San Fran- 
 cisco, and they have one son. Residence: 
 158 West Coulter Street, Germantown, 
 Philadelphia. Office: Saturday Evening 
 425 Arch Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 WILLIAMS, Roger Butler: 
 
 Manufacturer; born in Ithaca, N. Y., 
 May 8, 1848; son of Josiah B. and Mary 
 (Hardy) Williams. He was graduated 
 from Yale College, A.M., 1868. He is pro- 
 prietor of the business of Williams Broth- 
 ers, manufacturers of machinery; also pres- 
 ident of the First National Bank and the 
 Ithaca Savings Bank. He is a trustee of 
 Cornell University; president of the Cornell 
 Library Association; manager of the State 
 Agiicultural and Industrial Scliool of Roch- 
 ester, N. Y. ; trustee of the Ithaca City 
 
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 Hospital Association; president of the 
 Board of Education of Ithaca, N. Y. Mr. 
 Williams is a Republican and a Presby- 
 terian. He is a member of the Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society and the Alpha Delta Phi fra- 
 ternity; of the Alpha Delta Phi Club of 
 New York City and the Town and Gtown 
 and' Country Clubs of Ithaca, N. Y. He 
 married in Brooklyn, X. Y., Dec. 17, 1874, 
 Caroline L. Romer, and they have one son. 
 Address: Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 WILLIS, Henry Augustus: 
 
 Banker; born in Pitchburg, Mass., Nov. 
 26, 1830; son of Samuel and Cynthia (Meri- 
 am ) Willis ; grandson Hopestill and Olive 
 Smith Willis, and of John and Dinah 
 (Hudson) Meriam, and a descendant from 
 Joseph Meriam, Concord, 1636, and from 
 George Willis, New Towne ( Cambridge ) , 
 1626. He was brought up in Fitchburg, 
 where he attended the public scliools. His 
 father died in 1843, and he completed his 
 school training in Lawrence Academy and 
 at Groton. In 1852 he became a clerk in 
 the Rollstone Bank in Fitchburg and serv- 
 ing as such for several years, he was elected 
 cashier and in 1878 became its president, 
 holding that office luitil 1904. He is also 
 treasurer of the Worcester North Savings 
 Institution, having held that office from 
 its organization in 18G8. He is president 
 of the Fitchburg and Leominster Street 
 Railway Company, and a director in sev- 
 eral successful manufacturing concerns. He 
 represented his district in the General 
 Court of Massachusetts in 1866; was first 
 president of the Common Council of Fitch- 
 burg in 1873, and he served' as treasurer of 
 the city for seventeen years up to 1890. He 
 assisted in organizing the Burbank Hos- 
 pital in 1891, and has been treasurer from 
 its organization. He was made a trustee 
 of the Public Library in 1863, was chairman 
 of its board from 1892, and was president 
 of the Fitchburg Historical Society from 
 its organization in 1892 to 1902, wlien he 
 resigned. He has served as justice of the 
 peace from 1861 up to the present time. 
 He was adjutant of the Fifty-third Regi- 
 ment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 
 1862-1863, taking an active part in the 
 
 Battle of Port Hudson, and other engage- 
 ments, and after the close of the Civil War 
 he served in the State Militia, on the 
 staff of General R. H. Chamberlain with 
 the rank of captain. He is author 
 of: Fitchburg in the War of the Re- 
 bellion, 1866; and the History of the 
 53d Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, 
 1889, and also various historical papers; 
 is a member of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic, comjianion in the Military Order 
 of the Loyal Legion; member of the Gen- 
 eral Society of Colonial Wars, and the 
 Society of the Sons of the American Eevo- 
 lution. Address: 138 Pritchard Street, 
 Fitchburg, ]\Iass. 
 
 WILLSON, August Everett: 
 
 Governor of Kentucky; born in Maysville, 
 Ky., Oct. 13, 1846; son of Hiram and Ann 
 Colvin (Ennis) Willson. He was educated 
 in Alfred (N. Y.) University and Harvard, 
 A.B., 1869, A.M., 1872; was a student in 
 Harvard Law School and also studied law 
 in offices. He was chief clerk of the Treas- 
 ury Department, 1875-1876; four times Re- 
 publican nominee for Congress from the 
 Fifth District of Kentucky. He frequently 
 represented Kentucky in National and 
 other Republican conventions, and was 
 elected on the Republican ticket, in 1907, 
 governor of Kentucky for the four-year 
 term expiring in Dec, 1911. He married, 
 July 23, Mary Elizabeth Ekin. Home ad- 
 dress : Louisville, Ky. Office : Frank- 
 fort, Ky. 
 
 WILSON, Alonzo Edes: 
 
 Editor and lecturer; born in Madison, 
 Wis., Feb. 5, 1868; son of James Voorhis 
 and Charlotte A. (Plantz) Wilson. He re- 
 ceived his education in Chicago scliools. 
 He engaged in newspaper business and edi- 
 torial work on the St. Paul Times, 1886; 
 Chicago Lever, 1890-1895; secretaiy and 
 treasiirer, 1891-1903, and chairman, 1903- 
 1910 of the Illinois Prohibition State Com- 
 mittee, and is president of the Lincoln Tem- 
 perance Press, general manager of the Lin- 
 coln Temperance Chautauquas; was secre- 
 tary of six State and three national con- 
 ventions, candidate for clerk of the Appel- 
 
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 late Court of Cook County, Chicago, 1890, 
 receiving the largest vote ever given; was 
 candidate for Secretary of State, 1896, and 
 in 1904 elected a member of the house of 
 representatives of the Illinois General As- 
 sembly. Mr. Wilson is author of: Pro- 
 hibition Handbook, 1900, and the American 
 Pro-Year Book, 1901, 1902, 1904, 1905, 
 1907, 1908, 1909-1910. He is treas- 
 urer of the Methodist Temperance Society, 
 member of the National Geographical So- 
 ciety, and the City Club of Chicago'. He 
 married in Rockford, 111., June 14, 1897, 
 Anna Marie Nelson, and has two daughters 
 and a son. Residence: Wheaton, 111. Of- 
 fice: 92 La Salle Street, Chicago. 
 
 WILSON, H. Augustus: 
 
 Physician; born in Philadelphia, in 1853; 
 son of Henry H. and Mary E. (Lewis) 
 Wilson. Dr. Wilson was educated in pri- 
 vate schools in Philadelphia, and received 
 the degree of M.D. from Jefferson Medical 
 College, in 1879, and the honorary degree 
 of A.M. from Ursinus College. He is pro- 
 fessor of orthopedic surgery in Jefferson 
 Medical College, emeritus professor of orth- 
 opedic surgery in the Philadelphia Poly- 
 clinic, orthopedic surgeon to Jefferson, St. 
 Agnes, and Philadelphia General Hospitals, 
 and is consulting orthopedic surgeon to 
 the Philadelphia Lying-in and Charity Hos- 
 pitals, Kensington Hospital for Women, and 
 the House of Refuge for Girls. He is a 
 member of the Philadelphia County Medical 
 Society, the Medical Society of the State of 
 Pennsylvania, the American Medical Asso- 
 ciation, and a fellow of the Philadelphia 
 Academy of Surgery, the College of Physi- 
 cians, and the American Orthopedic Asso- 
 ciation. ; and a member of the University 
 Club of Philadelphia. Dr. Wilson married 
 in Philadelphia, in 1882, Judith Stouten- 
 berg Davids, and they have two children. 
 Address: ICll Spruce Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 WILSON, Harry R.: 
 
 Jurist; born at Clarion, Pa., Sept. 3, 
 1864; son of Theophilus S. and Amanda 
 (Lowry) Wilson. He was graduated from 
 Lafayette College in the class of 1884; ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1886, and practised 
 
 his profession at Clarion vmtil he was 
 elected president judge of the Eighteenth 
 Judicial District of Pennsylvania in 1901. 
 He was a delegate to the Republican Na- 
 tional Convention at St. Louis, 1896, and' a 
 Presidential elector in 1900. Since 1890 he 
 has been interested with Mr. George \Vag- 
 ner (who has had the active management 
 of the business) in manufacturing and disr 
 tributing lumber in Pennsylvania, Wash- 
 ington and Nova Scotia. He married at 
 Elmira, N. Y., in 1894, Hattie D. Critch- 
 low. New Y^'ork; and they have had four 
 children, one now deceased. Address: 
 Clarion, Pa. 
 
 WILSON, James: 
 
 U. S. Secretary of Agriculture; born in 
 Ayrshire, Scotland, Aug. 16, 1835. In 1852 
 he came to the United States with his par- 
 ents who settled in Connecticut, and three 
 years later went to Tama, Iowa. He was 
 educated in the public schools and in Iowa 
 College, and he received the degree of LL.D. 
 from the University of Wisconsin, 1904, and 
 from the University of Missouri, 1902. He 
 served three terms as member and one 
 term as speaker of the Iowa Legislature. 
 He was a member of the Iowa State Rail- 
 way Commission, 1877-1883; member of the 
 Fifty-third and Fifty- fourth Congresses; re- 
 gent of the State University of Iowa, 1870- 
 1874; and he was director of the Agricul- 
 tural Experiment Station and professor of 
 Agriculture in Iowa Agricultural College 
 at Ames, Iowa, 1890-1897; appointed, March 
 5, 1897, Secretary of Agriculture of the 
 United States, in which office he has been 
 continued by successive quadrennial ap- 
 pointments. Home: Traer, Tama County, 
 Iowa. Official address: Department of 
 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
 
 WILSON, James Grant: 
 
 Author, editor ; born in Edinburgh, April 
 28, 1832; son of William and Jane (Sib- 
 bald) Wilson. He was educated in College 
 Hill, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and private tu- 
 tors. He traveled in Europe and in 1857 
 established The Chicago Record, a literary 
 journal which was discontinued in 1864. 
 He entered the Union Army as major of the 
 
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 lotli Illinois Cavalry serving in the Vicks- 
 biirg and other campaigns until July, 1865, 
 when he resigned with the rank of briga- 
 dier-general. Since 1865 General Wilson 
 has been engaged in literary pursuits in 
 New York City. He edited the Memorial 
 History of the City of New York, Apple- 
 tons Cyclopaedia of America Biography, and 
 the Great Commanders Series. He is au- 
 thor of various works including The Life 
 of General Grant, Brj'ant and His Friends, 
 Thackery in the United States as well as 
 many other books on historical literary and 
 biographical svibjects and articles in maga- 
 zines and is a lecturer and public speaker. 
 He is president of the American Ethnolog- 
 ical Society, vice-president of the Society for 
 the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ; mem- 
 ber of the Military Order of the Loyal Leg- 
 ion and Athenaeum Club of London. Gen- 
 eral Wilson married in 1869, Miss Cogs- 
 well, who died in 1904, and married in 
 1907 Mrs. Mary H. Nicholson. Address: 
 157 West 72d Street, New York City. 
 
 WILSON, Thomas Emmet: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Putnam Valley, N. Y., 
 Oct. 1, 1847; son of Hugh C. Wilson and 
 Mary F. (Wardell) Wilson. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools and at the Peek- 
 skill Military Academy of Peekskill, N. Y. 
 He was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., in December, 1868, and has since 
 then been actively engaged in the prac- 
 tice of law in Florida. He was State's at- 
 torney for the Seventh Judicial District of 
 Florida, 1873-1877, county solicitor for Or- 
 ange County, Florida, 1873-1877, for Vo- 
 lusia County, Florida, 1874-1877, and for 
 Brevard County, Florida, from 1875 to 1877. 
 He procured the charter for and became at- 
 torney, 1879, of the South Florida Railroad, 
 then the most Southern railroad in the 
 United States, and General U. S. Grant 
 turned the first shovel of earth on its con- 
 struction in March, 1880; procured the char- 
 ter for and became attorney of the Florida 
 Midland Railway in March, 1883. He be- 
 came attorney for the Orange Belt Rail- 
 way in June, 1886, and procured an exten- 
 sion of the charter to build to St. Peters- 
 burg, Fla., and to Sanford, Fla., and pro- 
 
 cured a charter for the Sanford and St. 
 Petersburg Railroad; was vice-president and 
 general counsel and a director of the Or- 
 ange Belt Railway, from 1889 to 1893, and 
 general counsel and a director of the San- 
 ford and St. Petersburg Railroad from 1893 
 to 1895. He procured charters of incorpo- 
 ration for Sanford, Fla., and St. Petersburg, 
 Fla., both thriving towns and at difl'erent 
 times has been their attorney; and he was 
 postmaster at Sanford, 1877-1880. Mr. Wil- 
 son has traveled around the world, and 
 in 1870 went to Australia and New Zealand 
 and to the borders of the Antarctic Ocean, 
 sailing around the Cape of Good Hope, Cape 
 Lennvin and islands south of New Zealand. 
 He is a. Republican in politics. He is a 
 charter member of the Orange County 
 (Florida) Bar Association; and he was 
 vice-president of the Florida Bar Associa- 
 tion. He married at Sylvan Lake, Fla., July 
 9, 1900, Lizzie Anna Fox. Since his mar- 
 riage he has devoted his time to the gen- 
 eral practice of his profession and to real 
 estate, and is one of the largest individual 
 property owners in Sanford, and in Orange 
 County, Florida. Address: Sanford, Fla. 
 
 WILSON, Woodrow: 
 
 President of Princeton University; born 
 at Staunton, Va., Dec. 28, 1856; son of 
 Joseph Ruggles and Jessie (Woodrow) Wil- 
 son. He received his preparatory education 
 in the private schools of Augusta, Ga., and 
 Columbia, S. C, later studying for a time 
 at Davidson (North Carolina) College. In 
 1875 he entered Princeton University, grad- 
 uating four years later with the degree 
 of A.B. Thence he continued his studies 
 at the University of Virginia, studying 
 law, and passed the bar examinations in 
 1883. He received the degree of Ph.D. 
 from Johns Hopkins University in 1886, 
 and the honorary degree of LL.D. from 
 Wake Forest College in 1887, Tnlane Uni- 
 versity in 1898, Johns Hopkins Universitj' 
 in 1901, Rutgers College in 1902, the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania in 1903, Brown Uni- 
 versity, 1903; Harvard University, 1907; 
 and the honorary degree of Litt.D. was con- 
 ferred upon him by Yale University in 1901. 
 In 1882 he went to Atlanta Ga., where 
 

 Louis Windmuller 
 Merchant 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 he practised law for a year, and in 1885 be- 
 came professor of history and political econ- 
 omy at Bryn Mawr College. In 1888 he re- 
 signed from this position to accept a simi- 
 lar one in Wesleyan University, Middle- 
 town, Conn., where he remained for two 
 years. He was lectnrer at Jolms Hopkins 
 University, 1887-1898. In 1890 he resigned 
 his position at Wesleyan University to ac- 
 cept the chair of jurisprudence and politics 
 in Princeton University, which he held until 
 his election to the presidency of that univer- 
 sity in 1902. He is also ex-officio trustee 
 of Princeton. In politics Dr. Wilson Is af- 
 filiated with the Democratic party and was 
 urged for the Presidential nomination in 
 1908. He is a member of the American 
 Historical Association, the American Eco- 
 nomic Association, the American Academy 
 of Political and Social Science, the Ameri- 
 can Political Science Association, the Amer- 
 ican Philosophical Society, honorary mem- 
 ber of the Massachusetts Historical Society; 
 also a member of the Century and Univer- 
 sity Clubs of New York. He married at 
 Savannah, Ga., June 24, 1885, Ellen Louise 
 Axson, and has three daughters. Address: 
 Princeton, N. J. 
 
 WINDMULLER, Louis: 
 
 Merchant; born in Westphalia, 1835. 
 He was educated in the Gymnasium Caro- 
 linura of Munster; emigrated to the United 
 States in 1853; since then a resident of 
 New York City, where he became a suc- 
 cessful merchant. He has been associated 
 with, and took part in founding the Title 
 Guarantee and Trust Company, Bond and 
 Mortgage Guarantee Company, the German 
 American Insurance Company, the Ger- 
 man Alliance Insurance Company, and the 
 South Manhattan Realty Company and 
 is director of most of these; is president 
 of the Maiden Lane Savings Bank; one of 
 the founders and since 1889 treasurer of the 
 Reform Club. He arranged in 1888 for the 
 benefit of the German Hospital an exhibi- 
 tion of paintings which was greatly appre- 
 ciated and became highly remvmerative. As 
 chairman of the German American Clommit- 
 tee he formed, assisted by Joseph Keppler, 
 in 1889 a successful industrial parade for 
 
 tlic Centennial Celebration of Washington's 
 Inauguration. Mr. Windmuller took an ac- 
 tive part in tlie election of William L. 
 Strong fis reform mayor. As treasurer of 
 the German American Cleveland Union he 
 furthered Cleveland's election to his second 
 term of office. His article in the North 
 American Review, " A Strike for lower 
 Wages," a convincing plea for sound cur- 
 rency became an effective argument for 
 McKinley's first election. 1908 he helped as 
 Chairman of the German American Hughes 
 Alliance to elect Mr. Hughes as Governor of 
 the State of New York. He has been in- 
 defatigable in advocacy of a sound cur- 
 rency, a revenue tariff and civil service re- 
 form. He is a managing director of the 
 Board of Trade and Transportation; mem- 
 ber of the Chamber of Commerce and 
 formerly chairman of its Committee on In- 
 ternal Trade and Improvements, and of the 
 executive committee for widening the State 
 Canals, as a member of which he agitated 
 successfully for the amendment of the Con- 
 stitution which authorizes the Legislature 
 to make the necessary appropriations. He 
 was an active member of the Business 
 Men's Relief Committee, and belongs to 
 numerous charitable institutions, notably 
 the Legal Aid Society. This society of 
 which he is treasurer helps gratuitously 
 the wronged poor to their rights. He has 
 arranged for its benefit several musical en- 
 tertainments, of which a concert, given by 
 Ignace Paderewski and JNIadame Sembrich 
 in May, 1908, was the most successful. As 
 vice-president of the Heine Monument So- 
 ciety, he helped to secure for the Loreley 
 fountain a suitable place in Bronx Park. 
 In 1909 the 150 citizens of Queens Borough 
 who were appointed to assist in the Hudson- 
 Fulton celebration, elected him cliairman 
 and he chartered the Steamer Montauk to 
 take part in the Naval Parade. Mr. Wind- 
 muller is a frequent contributor to maga- 
 zines and newspapers on various topics. 
 He is a member of the Germanistic So- 
 ciety, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New 
 York Historical Society (life member), 
 Arion Society, St. Mark's Hospital, German 
 Society, American Scenic Preservation So- 
 ciety and the Merchants, Loto,^^, Underwrit- 
 
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 ers, Press, National Arts and New York 
 Athletic Club. An indefatigable pedestrian, 
 he walks several hours a day for the benefit 
 of his health. Residence: Woodside, Bor- 
 ough of Queens, where he enjoys, in a com- 
 modious home, the possession of a fine art 
 collection and a well-selected library. Ad- 
 dress : 20 Reade Street, New York City. 
 
 WINDSOR, Phineas Lawrence: 
 
 Librarian; born in Illinois in 1871; son 
 of John Alexander and Amy (Arnold) 
 Windsor. He was graduated from North- 
 western University, Ph.B., 1895; studied 
 at the New York State Library School, Al- 
 bany, N. Y., 1897-1898 and in 1898-1899 and 
 at the Albany Law School, 1899-1900. He 
 was assistant in the New York State Li- 
 brary, 1899-1900; of the Library of Con- 
 gress, 1900-1903; librarian of the Univer- 
 sity of Texas, at Austin, 1903-1909; and li- 
 brarian and director of the library school 
 of the University of Illinois, since the sum- 
 mer of 1909. He is editor of the Handbook 
 of Texas Libraries, 1904. Mr. Windsor is a 
 member of the Texas Academy of Science, 
 Texas State Historical Association, Amer- 
 ican Library Association, Bibliographical 
 Society of America, the Delta Tan Delta 
 fraternity, and of the University Club of 
 Austin, Texas. He married, in Lockport, 
 N. Y., Jan. 1, 1901, Margaret Fursman 
 Boynton, and they have two hcildren: Mar- 
 garet and Mary Frances. Residence: 704 
 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, 111. Office: Uni- 
 versity of Illinois Library, Urbana, 111. 
 
 WING, Asa S.: 
 
 President of the Provident Life and Trust 
 Company of Philadelphia. He lias been con- 
 nected with this company since 18G7 and is 
 one of the best known bank officials in Phil- 
 adelphia. Address: Fourth and Chestnut 
 Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 WINTER, William: 
 
 Author and dramatic reviewer ; born in 
 Gloucester, Mass., July 15, 1836; son of 
 Captain Charles and Louisa (Wharff) Win- 
 ter. He was educated in Boston and Cam- 
 bridge Schools and Harvard Law School, 
 
 and received from Harvard University the 
 degree of LL.B. and Litt. Doc. from Brown 
 Unversity. He was lecturer and political 
 speaker in 1856; writer for the press, poet, 
 essayist, traveler, editor and biographer, and 
 first visited England in 1877. He founded 
 the Arthur Winter Memorial Library in 
 1886. His favorite recreations are the study 
 of Shakespeare, antiquarian research and 
 travel. He was dramatic reviewer for the 
 New York Tribune from 1865 until lie re- 
 signed the position in August, 1909. He 
 is author of: Shakespeare's England; Gray 
 Days and Gold; Old Shrines and Ivy; 
 Brown Heath and Blue Bells; Wanderers, 
 being the poems of William Winter; Shad- 
 ows of the Stage; Life and Art of Edwin 
 Booth; Life and Art of Joseph JefTerson; 
 Orations by William Winter; Life of John 
 Gilbert; Brief Chronicles; Tlie Actor and 
 other Speeches; The Stage and the Press; 
 The Stage Life of Mary Anderson; Henry 
 Irving ; A Wreath of Laurel ; George William 
 Curtis; Life of John McCullough; Life of 
 Ada Rehan. Mr. Winter is a member of the 
 Lotos Club, New York, and Bohemian Club, 
 San Francisco. He married, in 1860, Eliz- 
 abeth Campbell, of the the Campbells, for- 
 merly of Ederline, Loch Awe, North Britain, 
 and they have two sons and one daughter. 
 He has a winter home, Ederline Cottage at 
 Mentone, Calif. Address: 17 Third Ave- 
 nue, Fort Hill, New Brighton, N. Y. 
 
 WINTHROP, Beekman: 
 
 Assistant secretary of the Navy; born in 
 Orange, N. J., Sept. 18, 1874; son of Robert 
 and Kate W^ilson (Taylor) Winthrop. He 
 was graduated from Harvard University, 
 A.B., 1897, and Harvard Law School, LL.B., 
 1900, (cum laude). He was private secre- 
 tary to Hon. William H. Taft, president of 
 the Philippine Commission in 1900; assist- 
 ant executive secretary of the Philippine Is- 
 lands, 1900-1903; judge of the Court of First 
 Instance, Philippine Islands, 1903-1904; 
 governor of Porto Rico, from July 4, 1904, 
 to April 18, 1907; assistant secretary of 
 the Treasury April 23, 1907 to March, 1909, 
 when upon the incoming of the Taft Admin- 
 istration he was appointed assistant secre- 
 tary of the Navy. He is corresponding mem- 
 
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 ber of the Massachusetts historical Society, 
 and a member of the Knickerbocker, Uni- 
 versity, and Harvard Clubs of New York 
 City. He married, in New York City, Oct. 
 3, 1903, Melza Riggs Wood. Address Navy 
 Department, Washington, D. C. 
 
 WISTER, Owen: 
 
 Author; born in Philadelphia, July 14, 
 1860; son of Owen Jones Wister and a de- 
 scendant of Thomas Wynne, who emigrated 
 to Pennsylvania as one of the companions 
 of William Penn. He was educated at St. 
 Paul's School, Concord, N. H., 1873-1878, 
 and subsequently at Harvard University, 
 where he was graduated, A.B., 1882, and 
 receiving A.M. and LL.B. in 1888. He was 
 admitted to practise at the Philadelpliia 
 bar in 1889; his practice continued only 
 until 1891, when he left the law to engage 
 in the pursuit of literature, which he has 
 since followed. Author of: The Dragon 
 of Wantley; His Tail, 1892; Red Men and 
 White, 1896; Lin McLean, 1898; The Jimmy 
 John Boss, 1900; U. S. Grant, a Biography, 
 1900; The Virginian, 1902; Philosophy 
 Four, 1903; Lady Baltimore, 1906; The 
 Simple Spelling Bee, 1907; also many mag- 
 azine contributions in prose and verse. He 
 married, in 1898, Mary, daughter of Wil- 
 liam Wister. Address: 913 Pine Street, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 WOLF, Henry: 
 
 Artist engraver; born in Eckwersheim, 
 Alsace, Aug. 3, 1852; son of Simon and 
 Pauline (Ettinger) Wolf. He was educated 
 in the schools of Eckwersheim and Stras- 
 bourg, Alsace; and at the age of fifteen he 
 began his apprenticeship to mechanical en- 
 gineering, but later took up drawing and 
 engraving on wood', and studied in the atelier 
 of Jacques Levy, an artist engraver. He 
 came to the United States in 1871; practised 
 first in Albany and then worked in New 
 York City; attended the life class at the 
 evening art school at Cooper Union, 1873- 
 1875; and in 1877 began work on his own 
 account and contributed to Harper's Mag- 
 azine and the Century Magazine. He has 
 engraved paintings by Gerome, Breton, 
 Cazin, Morot, Dagnan-Bouveret, Benjamin- 
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 constant, Meissonier, Israels, Diaz, Corot, 
 Gilbert, Stuart, Cecilia Beaux, Wyant, Sar- 
 gent, Wiles, Thayer, Eastman Johnson, Har- 
 rison, Homer, Ranger, Inness, Giffard, Mar- 
 tin, Whistler, Low, Brush, Alexander, 
 Weir, Mcnzel, Lenbach, and many others. 
 He has published original engravings: The 
 Morning Star, 1897; The Evening Star, 
 1903; A Duck Pond, 1906, Morning Mists, 
 1908 (edition of one hundred proofs on 
 Japan paper). He also published a por- 
 trait of Thomas Jefferson, after the painting 
 by Charles Wilson Peale, in the Independ- 
 ence Hall, Philadelphia; Portrait of Thomas 
 Carlyle, after Whistler; My Mother, from 
 the Luxembourg Gallery, Paris, after Whis- 
 tler; Miss Alexander, after Whistler, 1907; 
 Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1909. 
 Engraved from the Metropolitan Museum of 
 Art five masterpieces : " Young Women at 
 the Window," after Jan van der Meer of 
 Delft, 1907; "Boy with a Sword," after 
 Edouard Manet, 1908; "Don Balthazar 
 Carlos," after Velasquez, 1908; "Portrait 
 of a Girl," after Ambrozio de Predis, 1908; 
 " The Idle Student," after Thomas Couture, 
 1908. He engraved for private use por- 
 traits of William T. Evans, Louis Stern, 
 Joseph Pulitzer, Mr. Hearn, R. A. Canfield, 
 Esq., after painting by Whistler, of each 
 of which a limited edition of proofs on 
 Japan paper were jninted for presenta- 
 tion to friends of the subjects; for several 
 years he has been engraving a Series of 
 Women for Harper's Magazine, and execut- 
 ing private orders, reproducing paintings for 
 collectors and family portraits. He received 
 honorable mention in 1888, and a gold medal 
 in 1895 from Paris Salon; honorable men- 
 tion at the Paris Exposition in 1889, silver 
 medal from the Paris Exposition in 1900; 
 silver medal from the Exposition des Beaux 
 Arts, Rouen, France, 1903 ; medal from 
 the World's Columbian Exposition, in 1893; 
 diploma and grand prize awarded by the 
 International Superior Jury, Louisiana Pur- 
 chase Exposition, in 1904. He was a mem- 
 ber of the jury for the Paris Expositions 
 of 1889 and 1900; the jury of admissions 
 and awards, Pan-American Exposition, Buf- 
 falo, 1901; member of Advisory Committtee 
 and of International Jury of Awards, Lou- 
 
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 isiana Purchase Exposition, 1904; associate 
 academician of the National Academy of 
 Design, 1905; academician, 1908; member 
 of the International Society of Sculptors, 
 Painters and Gravers of London, England; 
 Alliance Frangaise; artist member of Lotus 
 Club; member of the Union des Beaux Arts 
 et des Lettres, Paris, France. Mr. Wolf 
 married in New York City, Sept. 25, 1875, 
 Rose Massee, and they have two children: 
 Hamilton Aehille and Austin Massee. Ad- 
 dress: 14 East 87th Street, New York City. 
 
 WOOD, Leonard: 
 
 Major-general, U. S. Army; born at Win- 
 chester, N. H., Oct. 9, 1860; son of Charles 
 Jewett and Caroline H. (Hagar) Wood. 
 He was graduated from Harvard Medical 
 School, M.D., 1884. On Jan. 5, 1886, he 
 received appointment as first lieutenant and 
 assistant surgeon, U. S. Army, and was 
 with the campaign in Arizona, under Gen- 
 eral Miles, against the Apaches under 
 Geronimo and Natchez. In this campaign, 
 during the first summer of his army service, 
 and a few months after his appointment, 
 he combined the duties of medical and 
 line officer and was awarded the Congres- 
 sional Medal of Honor. On the breaking 
 out of the War with Spain, he recruited 
 and organized the First Regiment of the 
 United States Volunteer Cavalry (the cele- 
 brated "Rough Riders" regiment), of 
 which he was commissioned colonel, serv- 
 ing with the regiment in Cuba, and being 
 promoted brigadier-general, U. S. Volun- 
 teers, June 8, 1898, for gallant and meri- 
 torious services at the battles of Las 
 Guasimas and San Juan Hill. He was pro- 
 moted major-general, U. S. Volunteers, Dec. 
 8, 1898. He served' as such to April 13, 
 1899, when he was mustered out and again 
 appointed brigadier-general. He served as 
 military governor of Santiago de Cuba, in 
 the province of the same name, and Puerto 
 Principe until Dec, 1899, when he was ap- 
 pointed major-general, U. S. Volunteers, and 
 assigned to duty, Dec. 14, 1899, as military 
 governor of Cuba. The conditions called' 
 for careful and at the same time resourceful 
 administration, and involved many questions 
 that were without jirecedent in the estab- 
 
 lishing of an orderly government. The 
 duties devolving upon General Wood were 
 ably performed and culminated in the turn- 
 ing over of the government of Cuba to 
 the elected President of that Republic in 
 May 20, 1902. During this time the island 
 was put in a thoroughly sanitary condition 
 and the great work in connection with yel- 
 low fever begun and accomplished. In the 
 meantime General Wood had been appointed 
 brigadier-general, U. S. Army, Feb. 4, 1901, 
 and on June 30, 1901, was honorably dis- 
 charged from the Volunteer Service. After 
 leaving Cuba, and some special duties in 
 Washington, General Wood was sent to 
 the Philippine Islands, and July 15, 1903, 
 was appointed governor of Moro Province, 
 and Aug. 6, 1903, to command of the De- 
 partment of INIindanao, and his promotion 
 to major-general. United States Army, fol- 
 lowed, Aug. 8, 1903. Under his command 
 the work of pacification of the turbulent 
 Moros was successfully accomplished, and 
 in 1906 he was assigned to duty as major- 
 general commanding the Philippines Divi- 
 sion, with headquarters at Manila. In 1908 
 he returned to the United States and was 
 assigned to the command of the Department 
 of the East with headquarters in New 
 York. General Wood received the honorary 
 degree of LL.D. from Harvard University 
 in 1899, from Williams College in 1902, 
 and from the University of Pennsylvania 
 in 1903. He married in Washington, D. C, 
 Nov. 18, 1890, Miss Louise A. Condit Smith. 
 Address: Governor's Island, New York. 
 
 WOOLLEY, Mary Emma: 
 
 President of ^Mt. Holyoke College; born 
 in South Norwalk, Conn., July 13, 1803; 
 daughter of Joseph J. and Mary Augusta 
 (Ferris) Woolley. She is a graduate of 
 Wheaton Seminary, Norton, Mass., 1884, 
 Brown University,*^ A.B., 1894, and A.M., 
 1895 ; received the honorary degree of Lift. 
 D. in 1900, and L.H.D. from Amherst Col- 
 lege in 1900. She was instructor in math- 
 ematics. Latin and history at Wheaton Sem- 
 inary, 1886-1891; instructor at Wellesley 
 College in biblical history, 1895-1896; asso- 
 ciate professor, 1896-1899; professor, 1899- 
 1900; and president of Mt. Holyoke College 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 since 1000. She is author of: The History 
 of the Passover Scandal, 1893; The Early 
 History of the Colonial Post Office, 1894; 
 Development of the Love of Romantic Scen- 
 ery in America, 189G; also many articles. 
 Dr. Woollley is a member of the American 
 Association for Maintaining a Woman's 
 Table at the Zoological Station at Naples, 
 Rhode Island' Society for Collegiate Educa- 
 tion of Women, College Entrance Examina- 
 tion Board, Society of Biblical Literature 
 and Exegesis ; is a senator of the United 
 Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, Board of 
 Electors of the Hall of Fame, Northeastern 
 Territorial Committee, National Board of 
 the Young Women's Christian Association ; 
 vice-president of the Araei'ican Peace Soci- 
 ety; trustee American International Col- 
 lege, Pawtucket Chapter, Daughters of the 
 American Revolution, and a member of the 
 Boston College, New England Wheaton Sem- 
 inary, Pawtucket Woman's Hellenic Trav- 
 elers' Lyceum (London), and the Sprinrr- 
 field College Clubs. She is a corporate 
 member of the American Board ; a Director 
 of the Women's Educational and Industrial 
 Union, Boston; member of Advisoiy Board 
 of Vocation Bureau ; Advisory Committee 
 of American-Scandinavian Society ; Hon- 
 orary Vice President of IMassachusetts Wom- 
 an's Suffrage League; Honorary Vice Pres- 
 ident of National Consumer's League; a 
 Vice President of the Third National Con- 
 gress of the Play Ground Association of 
 America; member of the Honorary Council 
 of the Auxiliary Association of the Ameri- 
 can College for Girls at Constantinople; 
 honorary member of the Salem Society for 
 the Higher Education of Women and of 
 " Sorosis." Address: Mt. Holyoke College, 
 South Hadley, Mass. 
 
 WRIGHT, Charles Fred: 
 
 Banker and manufacturer; born at Forest 
 Lake, Susquehanna County, Pa., May 3, 
 1856; son of Chester and Julia A. (Nicker- 
 son ) Wright. He was educated' in Montrose 
 Academy, at Montrose, Pa. He became cash- 
 ier of the First National Bank of Susque- 
 hanna Depot, Pa., and later became identi- 
 fied with manufacturing interests. He was 
 a delegate to the National Republican Con- 
 
 vention at St. Louis in 1896. He was 
 elected in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress 
 and reelected in 1900 and 1902 to the Fifty- 
 seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses. Ho 
 married ]\Iinnie M. IMiller, and' has two chil- 
 dren: Florence and Miller. Address: Sus- 
 quehanna, Pa. 
 
 WRIGHT, Francis Marion: 
 
 U. S. district judge; born at Brier Ridge, 
 Adams County, Ohio, Aug. 5, 1844; son 
 of James and' Eliza (Copples) Wright. He 
 served in the Thirty-ninth Ohio Volunteers 
 as private and second lieutenant from 
 1861 to 1865. He was graduated from the 
 Cincinnati College Law School, LL.B., 1867, 
 and was admitted to the bar; practised at 
 Georgetown, Ohio, until 1868, and then re- 
 moved' to LTrbana, 111., where he practised 
 law. He was elected judge of the Fourth 
 Judicial Circuit of Illinois, 1891-1897, was 
 assigned' to the Appellate Court in 1897, 
 serving in that court until 1903, when he 
 was appointed by President Roosevelt 
 judge of the LTnited States Court of Claims. 
 He continued in that office until appointed, 
 by President Roosevelt, to his present office 
 as judge of the District Court for the 
 Eastern District of Illinois. He is presi- 
 dent of the First National Bank of Urbana, 
 111., and' is member of the Military Order 
 of the Loyal Legion. Judge Wright mar- 
 ried at Decatur, "ojiio, July 15, 1868, Eliz- 
 abeth West. Address: LTrbana, Ohio. 
 
 WRIGHT, Henry John: 
 
 Journalist ; born in Glasgow, Scotland, 
 April 5, 1866; son of John and Mary (Hall) 
 Wright. He was educated in private schools 
 and New York University, graduating B.S., 
 1885, with second honors, English Saluta- 
 to7-y. He was city editor of the Commercial 
 Advertiser, 1889-1894; city editor of the 
 Evening Post, 1894-1899; editor-in-chief of 
 the Commercial Advertiser, and Globe and 
 Commercial Advertiser since 1899. He is 
 treasurer and director of the Comiuercial 
 Advertiser Association, and member of the 
 Phi Beta Kappa and Psi Upsilon, also the 
 LTnivcrsity Club. He married first in 
 Suison, Calif., 1894, Claire Le Franc, and 
 second in Meriden, Conn., 1906, Margaret 
 
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 Elizabeth Beacliam, and has two children. 
 Eesidence: 2 West 80th Street. Office: 7 
 Dey Street, New York City. 
 
 WYER, James Ingersoll: 
 
 Librarian; born in Red Wing, Minn., 
 1869; son of James Ingersoll and Rosabel 
 E. (Shear) Wyer. He was educated in 
 the Universities of Minnesota and Nebras- 
 ka, New York State Library School, B.L.S., 
 1898, M.L.S., 1905. He engaged in banking 
 in Minnesota and Kansas, 1884-1895, libra- 
 rian in the University of Nebraska, 1898- 
 1905, vice-director of New York State 
 Library School, 1905-1908, and director of 
 the New York State Library and Library 
 School since 1908. He is author of numer- 
 ous titles in bibliography and library work, 
 member of the American Library Associa- 
 tion, life member and secretary since 1902, 
 and the Aurania Club of Albany. He mar- 
 ried in Concordia, Kansas, May 3, 1894, 
 May Tyner, and they have two children. 
 Residence: 399 Western Avenue. Office: 
 State Librarian Albany, N. Y. 
 
 WYMAN, Walter: 
 
 Surgeon-general of the Public Health and 
 Marine-Hospital Service; born in St. Louis, 
 Mo., Aug. 17, 1848; son of Edward and 
 Elizabeth (Hadley) Wyman. He was grad- 
 uated from the City University of St. Louis, 
 1866, Amherst College, A.B., 1870 (A.M., 
 1889), St. Louis Medical College, M.D., 
 1873, and received' the honorary LL.D. de- 
 gree from the Western University of Penn- 
 sylvania, 1897, and University of Maryland, 
 1907. He was assistant physician in St. 
 Louis hospitals, 1873-1875, surgeon in the 
 Marine Hospital Service, 1876-1891, in 
 charge successively of the IVIarine Hos- 
 pitals in St. Louis, Cincinnati, Baltimore 
 and New York, and of the Quarantine 
 and Purveying Divisions at the Ma- 
 rine IJ^?^ital Bureau in Washington; was 
 supervl'i^ surgeon-general. Marine Hospi- 
 tal Servi^ 1891-1902, and since 1902 has 
 been surgeon-general of the Public Health 
 and Marine-Hospital Service. He adminis- 
 ters the quarantine laws and establishments 
 in the Continental United States, Alaska, 
 Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines; 
 
 and has officers stationed in many foreign 
 ports to enforce there the Treasury quaran- 
 tine regulations. He has charge of 22 Ma- 
 rine Hospitals and 120 other relief stations, 
 giving relief to more than 55,000 sailors of 
 the American merchant marine, annually; 
 has charge of the medical examination of 
 immigrants, and prepares regulations for 
 the same. He has been instrumental in the 
 passage by Congress of seventeen laws now 
 on the statute books, among which are Na- 
 tional laws relating to quarantine; proper 
 provision for quarters and food for seamen; 
 governmental inspection of establishments 
 manufacturing vaccine, serums, toxins, etc.; 
 for the investigation of leprosy, and the es- 
 tablishment of a Leprosy Investigation Sta- 
 tion on the Island of Molokai, Hawaii; the 
 building at Washington of a Hygiene Lab- 
 oratory; and for the establishment of a Bu- 
 reau of Public Health, bringing the Public 
 Health and Marine-Hospital Service into 
 close affiliation with the scientific laborator- 
 ies of the country, and with the State 
 Boards of Health, in matters of hygiene and 
 sanitation. Surgeon-General Wyman has 
 given special attention to the physical con- 
 ditions affecting seamen of the merchant 
 marine, and was instrumental in having 
 laws i^assed for their benefit, notably one 
 for the relief of deck-hands on Western 
 rivers, and brought to notice cruelties im- 
 posed on crews of oyster vessels in Chesa- 
 peake Bay, and established a hospital for 
 the latter. He originated and established 
 the Sanatorium for onsumptive Sailors at 
 Fort Stanton, N. Mex.; and wliile surgeon 
 in charge of the New York Marine Hospital, 
 in 1885, established, with consent of the 
 then surgeon-general a hygienic laboratory 
 at that station, which was later removed to 
 Washington, and declared by Congress to 
 be for the investigation of infections and 
 contagious diseases and matters relating to 
 the public health. He established and is 
 chairman of the Yellow Fever Institute of 
 the Public Health and Marine Hospital 
 Service. He had charge of the Government 
 measures to ward off cholera in 1893, and to 
 suppress epidemics of yellow fever in Bruns- 
 wick, 1893, New Orleans, 1897-1898 and 
 1905, of smallpox in Birmingham, Ala., 
 
MEN OF AMERICA. 
 
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 1897, and plague in San Francisco, 1900- 
 1901, and' 1907-1908. Surgeon-General Wy- 
 man is interested in international sanitation 
 of cities, especially seaports, with a view to 
 rendering rigid quarantine unnecessary, and 
 is author of a plan for an international 
 agreement by the republics of the Western 
 Hemisphere to bring this about. Through 
 influence upon the Conference of American 
 States held in Mexico in 1901, and resolu- 
 tions passed by that Conference he was 
 largely instrumental in bringing about the 
 International Sanitary Conventions of Amer- 
 ican Republics, of which three have been held 
 and over the first two of which he pre- 
 sided, and at the Second of these conven- 
 tions, held in Washington, he was largely 
 instrumental in framing a treaty relating 
 to quarantine management of cholera, 
 plague and yellow fever, which treaty has 
 been officially confirmed by practically all 
 the American republics; and he is chairman 
 of the International Sanitary Bureau of the 
 American Republics. Dr. Wyman is author 
 of ninety or more articles on public health 
 and sanitation, including scientific treatises 
 on the bubonic plague and yellow fever, and 
 text-book articles on quarantine. In the 
 Ninth International Medical Congress, Wash- 
 ington, 1887, he was secretary of the Sec- 
 tion on Public and International Hygiene; 
 chairman Committee on International Quar- 
 antine, Pan-American Medical Congress, 
 Mexico, 1896; chairman of Section on Public 
 Health, International Congress of Arts and 
 Sciences, St. Louis, 1904; president Section 
 on State and Municipal Control, Interna- 
 tional Congress on Tuberculosis, Washing- 
 ton, 1908. He is a member of the American 
 Public Health Association (president 1902- 
 1903), Association of Military Surgeons, 
 (president, 1904-1905), American Medical 
 Association (first vice-president, 1905- 
 1906) ; American National Red Cross (vice- 
 president and acting president, 1904,) and 
 now member of Board of Consultation; 
 member of Board of Visitors of the 
 Government Hospital for Insane, and of the 
 Medical Board of Providence Hospital; di- 
 rector of National Association for the Study 
 and Prevention of Tuberculosis, and of the 
 National Association for Mental Hygiene; 
 
 honorary member of the Imperial Society of 
 Medicine of Constantinople; honorary fel- 
 low of the American Association of Obstetri- 
 cians and Gynecologists; member of the 
 American Academy of Medicine, American 
 Medical Editors' Association, American As- 
 sociation for the Advancement of Science, 
 American Climatological Association, Na- 
 tional Geographic Society, Society for Psy- 
 chical Research, American Society of Tropi- 
 cal Medicine, District of Columbia Medical 
 Society, District of Columbia Medical and 
 Surgical Society, Washington Academy of 
 Sciences and Columbia Historical Society. 
 Dr. Wyman is also a member of the Society 
 of Colonial Wars in the District of Colum- 
 bia (governor, 1894-1895), District of Co- 
 lumbia Society of Sons of the Revolution 
 (president 1899-1900), Alpha Delta Phi fra- 
 ternity and the Metropolitan, Cosmos, Uni- 
 versity, and Chevy Chase Clubs of Wash- 
 ington. Residence: Stoneleigh Court. Of- 
 fice: Bureau of Public Health and Marine- 
 Hospital Service, Washington, D. 0. 
 
 YOUNG, George Washington: 
 
 Banker; born in Jersey City, N. J., July 
 1, 1804; son of Peter and Mary (Crosby) 
 Young. He received his education in the 
 public schools of Jersey City, and the scien- 
 tific department of Coo])er Union. He was 
 receiving teller in the Hudson County Na- 
 tional Bank of Jersey City; secretary 
 and treasurer of the New Jersey Title Gua- 
 rantee and Trust Company. At the age 
 of twenty-eight he was elected vice-presi- 
 dent and treasurer of the United States 
 Mortgage and Trust Company, and within 
 two years was elected president and re- 
 signed April 1, 1905, to take up private 
 banlving, the firm name being George W. 
 Young Company. He is director and chair- 
 man of the Executive Committee of the 
 Windsor Trust Company; director, secre- 
 tary and treasurer of the O'Rourke Engin- 
 eering and Construction Company; vice- 
 president and director of the Audit Com- 
 pany of New York; director of Acker, Mer- 
 
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 rill and Condit Company,- InterLorougli- 
 ]\letropolitan Company, the National Bank 
 of Commerce, the City and Suburban 
 Homes Company, etc. He is a member of 
 the New York Stock Exchange and' Cham- 
 ber of Commerce; of the Metropolitan Mu- 
 seum of Art, the National Geographic So- 
 ciety, the National Historical and' Biolog- 
 ical Society; the Cooper Union Alumni; 
 a member of the Pilgrims' and the New 
 York Zoological Society. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Manhattan, Players', Racquet 
 and Tennis, Metropolitan, Oj^era, National 
 Democratic, Turf and Field, City Midday, 
 Down Town, Automobile Clubs, the Coun- 
 try Club of Lakewood, N. J.; Rockaway, 
 Hunting, Deal Golf, Parmachenee, Larch- 
 mont Y'icht and Jersey City Clubs. Ad- 
 dress: 59 Cedar Street, New York City. 
 
 YOUNG, James Thomas: 
 
 Director of Wharton School of Finance 
 and ( 'oiiimerce, University of Pennsylva- 
 nia; born in Philadelphia, 1873; son of 
 Andrew J. Young and Louisa A. (Adams) 
 Young. He was educated in the Philadel- 
 phia public schools, Central High School, 
 University of Pennsylvania, whence he was 
 graduated as Ph.B., 189.3, and the Uni- 
 versities of Berlin, Halle, Paris and Berne, 
 receiving the degree of Ph.D. from the Uni- 
 versity of Halle, 1895. He was appointed 
 instructor in the University of Pennsylva- 
 nia, 1896; director of the Wharton School 
 of Finance, 1904, and professor of public 
 administration since 190G. He is a director 
 in the American Academy of Political and 
 Social Science; member of the American 
 Political Science Association, and Philadel- 
 ])hia Society for the Prevention of Social 
 Disease; member and trustee of the Taber- 
 nacle Presbyterian Church. Dr. Young 
 traveled through Europe, 1893-1896. He 
 is a Republican in politics. He is a mem- 
 ber of the University Club of Philadelphia 
 and tlie Merion Cricket Club, and non- 
 resident member of the City Club of New 
 York City. Residence: 3719 Locust 
 Street, Philadelphia. Address: Wharton 
 School University of Pennsylvania, Phila- 
 delphia. 
 
 YOUNG, Thomas Crane: 
 
 Architect; born at Sheboygan, Wis., Feb. 
 28, 1858; son of Van Epps and Arelisle 
 (Seaman) Young. After graduating from 
 the high school at Grand Rapids, Mich., in 
 1876, he studied at Washington LTniversity, 
 St. Louis, the University of Heidelberg, 
 Germany, and the ficole des Beaux Arts in 
 Paris, and after leaving the last named 
 school, became connected with the office of 
 E. M. Wheelwright, Boston, Mass. Since 
 1885 he has been a partner with William 
 S. Fames, in the firm of Fames & Yovmg, 
 whose work has included many of the most 
 important office buildings and finest dwell- 
 ings in St. Louis, the Art Building at the 
 Trans-Continental Exposition in Omaha, in 
 1897, the Educational Building at the 
 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904,, 
 and the Federal prisons at Leavenworth, 
 Kan., and Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Young is also 
 the architect of the U. S. Custom House 
 Building in San Francisco, the Alaska 
 Building at Seattle, Wash., and other im- 
 portant buildings on the Pacific Coast and 
 elsewhere. He is an active member of the 
 American Institute of Architects; also a 
 member (by inheritance) of the Military 
 Order of the Loyal Legion and the Sons of 
 the American Revolution. He married in 
 St. Louis, June 12, 1887, Ruth Hodgman, 
 and they have three daughters. Address : 
 Wright Building, St. Louis. 
 
 ZALINSKI, Edmund Louis: 
 
 Major U. S. Army, retired; born in Kur- 
 nieh Prussian Poland, Dec. 13, 1848; son 
 of Michael Zalinski. He was educated in 
 schools at Seneca Falls, N. Y., Syracure, 
 N. Y., Fort Monroe, Va.. Willets Points, 
 N. Y., and the Mass. Institution of Technol- 
 ogy. He was commissioned lieutenant in 
 the Second New York Heavy Artillery in 
 Feb., 1865 aid on the staff of Major Gen- 
 eral, N. A. Miles, 1st Division, second 
 Army Corps until the close of the Civil 
 War; appointed second lieutenant, 5th 
 U. S. Artillery, Feb. 23, 1866; 1st lieuten- 
 
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 ant Jan., 1867; Captain Dec, 1887; retired 
 1894; major April 1904. He was on duty 
 as professor of military science at the 
 Massachusetts Institution of Technology, 
 1873-1876; Artillery School, Fort Monroe, 
 Va., 1878-1880; School of Submarine Min- 
 ing Willets Point, N. Y., 1880-1881. He 
 was an officer of artillery, actively engaged 
 in experimental and professional work un- 
 til his retirement; in the development of 
 the pneumatic torpedo gun ( called " dy- 
 namite gun"), 1883-1889; on one year's 
 official trip through Europe, 1889-1890, vis- 
 iting England, France, Germany, Italy, 
 
 Spain, Russia, Sweden, Norway, Holland, 
 and Belgium. He traveled in Brazil, the 
 Argentine Eepublic, Chili, Japan and 
 China, 1894-1896. Major Zalinski is a 
 member of the American Association for 
 the advancement of Science; the 
 American Institution of Electrical En- 
 gineers' and of the Centiiry, Union League, 
 Engineers' and Lotos Clubs of New York 
 City. Major Zalinski married in Boston, 
 Oct. 18, 1877, Anna Hall, and has one son. 
 Address: 437 Fifth Avenue, New York 
 City. 
 
 ADDENDA 
 
 AUGUR, George Jacob: 
 
 Physician; born at West Haven, Conn., 
 Oct. 1, 1853; son of Abraham and' Ellen 
 (Morris) Augur. He was graduated from 
 Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, 
 Conn., in 1876; entered Yale Academic De- 
 partment, and Yale Medical College, and 
 was graduated M.D., 1879. In 1881 he 
 was appointed resident physician and sur- 
 geon at the State Hospital in New Haven, 
 and in 1894 he resigned from the Alameda 
 County (Calif.), Allopathic Medical So- 
 ciety, and adopted the practice of Homcep- 
 athy. He was made a member of the 
 Alameda County Homcepathic Medical So- 
 ciety, and later served as president and 
 vice-president of that society. He was at- 
 tending physician of the Faboila Hospital 
 at Oakland, Calif., 1882-1898, and in 1905 
 was elected to active membership in the 
 International Habneraannian Association, 
 and he is non-resident member of the Cali- 
 fornia State Homcepathic Association. Dr. 
 Augur has traveled in the United States 
 and also through Japan. He is a Repub- 
 ican in politics and an Episcopalian in re- 
 ligion. His favorite recreations are those 
 of an aquatic nature. Dr. Augur is a mem- 
 ber of the University Club of Honolulu. 
 He married in Oakland, Calif., June 16, 
 1892, Ruth Barstow Dyer, and they have a 
 son, Morris Curtis Augur. Residence: 435 
 
 Beretania Avenue, Honolulu. Office: 431 
 Beretania Avenue, Honolulu, T. H. 
 
 BIDDLE, Craig: 
 
 Correction of sketch on page 151: 
 i\Ir. Nicholas Biddle was president of the 
 Bank of the United States from 1823 to 
 1836, when the charter expired; later under 
 a state charter became president of the 
 bank known as the United States Bank, 
 from which he resigned in 1839. Mr. 
 Craig Biddle was appointed Judge of the 
 Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia in 
 1875, and after thirty-two years of service 
 on the bench, retired from judicial service, 
 and was elected Prothonotary of the Court 
 of Common Pleas. 
 
 BLISS, Cornelius Newton: 
 
 Correction of sketch on page 179. The 
 clubs of which Mr. Bliss is a member are. 
 The Metropolitan, Century, Lotos and Re- 
 publican clubs of New York, the Metro- 
 politan club of Washington, and the Jekyl 
 Island Club of Georgia. Address: 29 East 
 37th Street, New York City. 
 
 BRIESEN, Arthur von: 
 
 Correction of sketch on page 218. In 
 1907-1908 Mr. Briesen was a member of 
 the Satterlee Committee which restored 
 the Knickerbockers Trust Company to re- 
 newed life after it had gone into the hands 
 
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 of receivers during the panic. Residence: 
 IGO West oOtli Street, Xew Yorlv City. 
 
 BRTINDAGE, Albert Harrison: 
 
 Correction of sketch on page 242. Ad- 
 dress: 375 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 HARLAN, John Marshall: 
 
 Correction of sketch on page 784. The 
 institutions that have conferred the de- 
 gree of LL.D. upon Justice Harlan are 
 Bowd'oin College, 1883, Center College, Ken- 
 tucky, 1884; Princeton, 1884, and the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, 1900. Address: 
 1401 Euclid Street, N. W., Washington. 
 D. C. 
 
 MAYER, William G.: 
 
 Lawyer; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Au- 
 gust 15, 1850; son of Frederick J. Mayer 
 and Pauline C. Mayer. He was graduated 
 from Woodward High School, Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, from the United' States Naval Acad- 
 emy in 1870, and from the College of Cin- 
 cinnati as LL.B. He was in the Naval 
 Service of United States as midshipman, 
 ensign and master until 1875 when he re- 
 signed. Mr. Mayer was admitted to the 
 bar of Ohio in 1875, and practised law in 
 Cincinnati until 1890, since which time he 
 has been without speciiic profession. He 
 moved to Waterville, New York, where he 
 has been living since; was commissioned 
 as lieutenant in the United States Navy 
 at the outbreak of the Spanish-American 
 War and served as navigating officer of 
 the United States Steamship Siren on the 
 North Cuban blockade until the close of 
 the War; was honorably discharged Sep- 
 tember 24, 1898, returning to Waterville, 
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